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THE BREA KING POINT
BY MARY ROBERTS, eRLMEHART
r ATE in November Elizabeth went away
for visit, and it gave him a breathing

r ATE, in November Elizabeth went away
for visit, and it gave him breathing
- spell
She came home shortly before Christmas,
undeniably glad to be back and very gentle
with them all. She set to work almost i'm
mediately on the gifts, wrapping them and
tying them with methodical exactness, stick
ing tiny spring of holly through the ribbon
bow, and writing cards with neatness and
care. She hung up wreaths and decorated
the house, and when she was through with
her work she went to her room and sat with
her hands folded, not thinking. She did not
think any more.
Wallie had sent her a flexible diamond
bracelet as a Christmas gift, and it lay on
her table in its box. She was very grateful,
but she had not tried it on.
On the morning before Christmas, Nina
came in her arms full of packages, and her
eyes shining and little frightened. She had
some news for them. She hadn't been so
keen about it at first, but Leslie was like a
mailman. He was so pleased that he was
ordering her that sable cape she had wanted
so. He was like a different man. And it
would be July.
Elizabeth kissed her. 1t seemed very
unreal, like everything else. She wondered
why Leslie should be so excited, or her
brother crying. She wondered if there was
something strange about her, that it should
seem so small and unimportant. But then,
what was important? That one got I'D in
the morning, and ate at intervals and went
to bed at night? That children came and
had to be fed and washed and tended and
cried a great deal, and were sick now and
then?
She wished she could feel something,
could think it vital whether Nina should
choose pink or blue for her layette, and how
far she should walk each day. and If Harry
drove the car carefully enough. She wished
she cared whether 1t was going to rain to-
morrow not, or whether some one was
coming, or not coming. And she wished ter
ribly that she could care for Wallie, or get
over the feeling that she had saved her
pride at cost to him she could not con-
template.
After a time she went upstairs and put on
the bracelet. And late in the afternoon she
went out and bought some wool, to make an
afghan. 1t eased her conscience toward
Nina. She commenced it that evening while
she waited for Waffle and she wondered If
some time she would be making an afghan
for a coming child Of her own. Hers and
Wallace Sayre's.
Suddenly she knew that she would never
marry him. She faced the future, with all
that it implied, and she knew she could not
do it. 1t was horrible that she ever contem-
plated it. 1t would be terrible to tell Wallie,
but not as terrible as the other thing She
saw herself then with the same lclearness
with which she had judged Dick. She, too
leaving her havoc of wrecked lives behind
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-26
The Ne1O Prime Minister

r1 HE new British prime minister, Mr..
Stanley Baldwin, Is cordially remem-
bered on this side of the water as head
of the mission with which the Washington
government negotiated so satisfactorily over
the Anglo-American war debt When he
visited this country last January as chancel-
lor Of the exchequer it was widely remarked
that never before had SO important an Off
cial In British ministry gone abroad to take
up such piece of business in person. His
manner, as well as utterance, commended
him to the audiences, for the most part of
business men, before whom he appeared, and
also to his scores of newspaper interviewers
He was direct plain-spoken, liberal-minded
unpretentious, with all the evidences of a
man accustomed to strike into the heart Of
issues and to march straight forward for
results. Certainly, the settlement of Britain's
debt to the United States did much to i'm
prove international economic relations, not
simply between the principals, but through
out the world The attitude and policy of
the London government for which Mr.. Bald
win was in large measure responsible, served
to shed abroad reinsurance and moral invig-
Grafton at a time when they were sorely
needed.
During his CHARACTERISTIC, moreover,
there has been notable reduction of taxes
and a general betterment Of his country's
fiscal condition. In this record, together
with his freedom from the political and tenn
peramental handicaps of Curzon, appears
the why of his selection as Mr.. Bonar Laws
successor. If like-minded men of business
were at the head of all European govern
ments would not the international problems
of the day begin speedily to untangle?
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her; she, too, going along her headstrong
way, raising hopes not to be fulfilled and
passing on. She too.
That evening, Christmas eve, she told
him she would not marry him. Told him very
gently, but finally and Immediately after he
tried to take her in his arms. She would not
let him do it.
81 don't know what's come over you," he
said mOrosely But I'll let you alone, II
that's the way you feel?
I'm sorry, WalIie. lit makes me
SILVER"
In way he was prepared for it, but never
theless he took his congo very hard. He
begged for time, for less unequivocal rejec-
patient with his pleadings
81 don't want to go over and over 1t, Wal
lie. I'll take the blame l should have done
it long ago."
She was gentle, almost tender with him,
but when he said she had spoiled his life for
him, she smiled family.
"You think that now And don't believe l. m
not sorry. I am. hate not playing the game,
as you say. But l don't think for a moment.
that you'll go on caring when you know that
don't. That doesn't happen. That's all"
Accusation
"Dou you know what Think" he burst
out. II think you're still mad about Living
stone. think you are so mad about him that
you don't know it yourself"
But she only smiled her cold smile and
went on with her knitting. After that he got
himself in hand, and--perhaps he still had
some hope 1t was certain that she had not
flinched at Dicks name-told her very ear
nestly that he only wanted her happiness. He
didn't want her unless she wanted him. He
would always love her.
mot always she said with tragically
cold certainty. MEN are like women; they
forget
She wondered, after he had gone, what
had made her say that.
She did not tell the family that night. They
were full of their own concerns; Nina's com.
ing maternity, the wrapping of packages be-
hind closed doors the final trimming of the
tree in the library. Leslie was playing.
"Stille Nacht HeiIige Nacht."
Still night, holy night and only in her WA
there stiffness that was not holy.
They hung up their stockings valiantly az
usual, making little ceremony of it, and be-
ing careful not to think about Jim's missing
one. Indeed, they made rather function OF
it. and Leslie demanded one of Ninas baby
socks and pinned it up.
"I'm starting a bank account for the little
beggar" he said, and dropped gold piece
into the toe. Next year, old girl"
He put his arms around Nina. 1t seemed to
him that life was doing considerably better
than he deserved by him, and he felt very
humble and contrite. He felt in his pocket for
the square jewelers. box that lay there.
Concluded Tuesday, @,ysgs
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THE LOOK OF FREEDOM
By DR.. Frank Crane

That face is the most beautiful which
gives expression to the strongest, most whole
some, and most human instincts
One of our deepest instincts is the i'm
pulse toward individuality. This is the love
Of freedom.
We are all confined more or less, end
such thing as absolute personal liberty
cannot be realized in civilized society. But
the intelligent soul can find means for
the right expression of its personality.
The Lady Swaythling, a prominent social
figure in England, recently said 81 have
often studied the faces Of lovely feminine So
magnificent portraits. Poise, assurance, cul-
ture, beauty; figure seated erectly on soft
divan or standing in queenly elegance.
Typical society leaders in typical society por-
traits. But I can't help thinking how much
they evidence the element of restraint. They
look, many of them, like captives, beautiful
slaves to conventional society"
Freedom has its dangers just as life has
it's dangers. There is no advantage and little
joy where there is danger.
OF course, unrestrained indulgence in ones
desires results in disorder and eventually in
tragedy. Too often the cry Live your own
life!" is made the excuse for excess and
folly. But there is something to be said in
favor of living ones own life for all that.
All happiness, or the best kind of hapEf-
ness consists in the forthputting of ones
energies, and to live life where one is con
tinually hampered must cripple the soul.
The best rule is to live ones own life, but
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Concluded Tuesday,
WINGED WARNINGS
BY JOHN BROCK

| d. JOf1N
GET% EEP your eye on the BIRDS" wood
~ side hunter once advised me. ''It
bird comes scootin' your way,
scared like, when you drive these twisty
mountain trails, look out for trouble ahead"
Now that's tip well worth following. It'll
show dividends. every time. Twas the birds
warned me, too it was going to rain. Not
| yet, but soon. The swallows and woodpeck-
| ers didn't know it. but the divers did: they
were stocking up their crops for storm.
Roily water makes hungry fishers, wherefore
they are mighty prompt to take the hint
So was l. That road was the kind you
take ''for better Or for worse" and its "bet-
ter" was nothing to brag Of Never more
than eight feet wide, in some spots, where
the outer edge had given way, only a wat.
! tlework of branches held up by a stake or
two, kept Lizzie's wheels from skidding down
the slide into the treetops below; in others
this first aid was badly needed, but not yet
applied. Let a rain make it any worse and
we'd be stuck till the mud dried so could
try my hand at roadbuilding.
The sky was not yet really overcast but
rather half obscured by turgid, mudcolored
haze, with clothed coudlets floating in it, like
porrldge before 1t boils. I had sense Of
myriad dusky blurs, mere fitting ghosts Of
birds, all pouring past me. But what was
there to meet on that pcsky trail? The ma
t1ves, If there were any hereabouts, would
know better than to use it.
1t dipped and dove; it stood up on end and
over crest-and then didn't wish I'd paid
heed to those warning wings! For the cam
yOn below was filled with flames They came
leaping up it's walls. A mans voice hailed
me- but it's words were lost in the cracking
roar. And I had no choice but to race past
the flank of the fire before it climbed to the
edge Of the road ahead.
Race! With gusts of acrid wood-smoke in
my eyes, when one wrong twist of the steer
ing wheel meant auto-da-fe among the
laurel and the pine! Snakes streamed across
our path, toads laboriously strobe, squirrels
leaped, and tan flash might have been a
bobcat or a doe. On, on, we crawled,
through hail of sparks, while the singed
smell of tires and paint reminded me I sat
over our gas tank. A long flame 1eaped out
to lick it as we shot by to safety, and a Gin
der-faced gang of firefighters.
Couldn't turn round back there"
stopped to explain. anyhow, couldn't have
kept ahead of the blaze. Not on this rail"
"Eh?" queried one. ooh, that wasn't what
I was yellin' about I wanted you to start
a backfire. Then mebbe it wouldn't a
jumped the road. But it don't matter much.
The rainll stop it,
True. But s'posing ! had "back-fred?"
And s'posing the fire had jumped the road2
1t would most certainly have stopped me. But
that didn't seem to matter at all. Not to
him. Nor to the birds, either All the same,
their advice was ever so much the better of
the two.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-26
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

Z Thou shalt not copet.-Exodus 2OI7.
Nor thieves, nor copetoHS, nor drHHkdrdS,
nor revilerS, nor extortionerS, shall inherit
the kingdom of Cod Corinthians 6:10.
: He that hateth copetouSness shall pro-
long his days.-Proverbs 28:16. And He
IChnst) said unto them "Take heed, and
beware of copetousneSs; for mans life
CONSISTENT not in the abundance of the
things which he posSeSSeth."-Luke 1915.
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WILL 1T WORK?

BY BERTON BRALEY
CPEAK Your piece without restriction,
am open to conviction,
~ Spill your theory, your hobby or your
scheme;
If you've any new invention
Which you'd bring to my attention,
In my eyes you'll find a sympathetic
CLEAN.
I will never show derision,
Of the man who has vision,
l won't greet him with a pharasaic
smirk;
All I'm asking you to show Is,
All I clearly want to know is,
Will it work?
~ ANACEAS socialistic,
Bolshevist, anarchistic,
Revolutionary doctrines
which you spout,
I am glad to hearken to them
And with friendliness I'll view them
If you'll show me how you plan to
work 'em out;
Heaven knows the worlds your debtor
If your scheme will make it better
And will lead us out of chaos and of
murk
But whatever your suggestion,
I must ask my little question,
Twill it work."
VIZ ILL 1t work?
w That's the query which
you cannot rightly
shirk!
I'll be glad to aid your mission
In improving your condition
If you'll brush away the doubts that
in me Turk;
For the people are the jury
And-like me-they're from Missouri,
And the chorus which they chant is,
will it work?'"
Copyright, 1929
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THE AT1ANTA TRI.wEEKLY JoURNA1

ton by gamblers who are betting on the out
come of this springs planting
| Now there is no way in the world to pre-
vent such gambling. You couldn't leglslate
it out of existence, and If you were to close
the New York and New Orleans cotton ex-
changes we would all be worse off than at
present.
But there is one way in which farmers can
make such speculation of no more conse-
quence to themselves than the temperature in
the Figi Islands.
That way is to Soin the cooperative mar
keting associations and obtain an average
price for the season.
An average price for the season is ALWAYS
more than the price prevailing when the crop
is being dumped on the market in the fall.
When you sell your cotton independently
now, you gamble, and the chances are you get
one of the low prices of the year. When you
sell through your cooperative, you know you
are going to get price at least halfway be-
tween the low and the high.
AS it is now, the farmers get the low price
and the cotton merchants and gamblers sell
TO the mills at the high prices.
Mrs j. W. Gurley, Route 1, Box FL, Ramer
Tenn, writes: 1--WE have been reading The
Tri-Weekly Journal for twelve years and
think It is the best paper we ever read"
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Tuesday-Mother and Daughter.

SHAKESPEARE SAYS
those that much copet are with gain so
fond
That what they have not, that which they
possess
They scatter and unEoose it from their
bond,
And so, by hoping more, they hare but
less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to Snrfeit, and such griefs sustain
That they prove bankrupt in this poor
rich gain.-Lucrece.
There are times when the brave deserve
immunity from the fair.
Selfishness is the only thing that stands
between some people and happiness
Just because man is no better than he
ought to be is no sign that he is not worse
to live it so as not harm others. In the
higher reaches of enjoyment our greatest
satisfaction is found in bringing joy to 9TH
ers Yet there are many slaves to conven-
ton, the artificial demands of ones station in
life, who little better than animals con-
demned to a treadmiIl.
Of all looks that flash forth from human
faces to signal their message to other souls,
there is no look so inspiring as the look of
freedom
Copyright 1929
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MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

Mrs. Upton Bud had her sweet tooth
yanked this mornin' on account O. the out
rageous price o sugar Why do they call 'em
brief cases when tn fellers that carry EN- are
liable t. hang around an talk fer couple o.
hours?
Copyright, 192S.)
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Some great thinker has said that If you
make a better mouse trap than any one else
the world will beat path to your door. A
young college graduate was dilating on this.
1t was, he said majestic philosophy. He pro-
posed to mold his career accordingly.
Everything depends on circumstances,
boy" responded his old uncle. ga man in the
mouse trap business might well let the world
beat path to his door. But man with a
filing station had better go where the road
is"
The girl plainly admired him. And, like
Desdemona, she wished him to tell her of
hairbreadth escapes in the imminent deadly
breach of moving accidents by flood and field
She knew he had been in the army and asked
him where he served during the big war.
This gave him palpable> pause. However.
he cleared his throat several times and spoke
up as bravely as he could:
RI was buying mules on the Missouri
front"
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NEGRO FINDS NEW YORK
EQUALITY TALK IS BAIT
Tells Court He WAS Lured
From Southern Home


George Johnson, twenty-four, of 319
West Thirty-ninth street, who admits he
came to this city recently from a large
plantation in Louisiana on the strength
of glowing reports of conditions in New
York, confessed yesterday in General
Sessions that he has changed his views.
At the same time he made it plain his
advice to Southern negroes who feel
that they are "underpaid and underfed"
would be to stay down home"
Not long after he had landed in New
York, according to the story he told the
court, Johnson and another negro,
Julius Brooks, also lately from the
South, found themselves without work
or money or prospect of either.
That explains why they were boring
hole from the hallway at asa Seventh
avenue into the clothing store of Hyman
Bernstein when Patrolman William L.
Rode of the West Thirtieth street sta
ton, happened along. Both pleaded
guilty and were sent to Elmira for indie
terminate periods.
Before they were sentenced, they eX-
planned that down South" they had
n6arQ WOnu6rIuI stories ABOUT NSW
York being place where whites and
blacks were on a common social and in
dustrial footing.
Those negroes in the South who are looking
for social equality will not be interested In
this article. Let them go in search of tha+
thing which, so far as we know, cannot be
found anywhere on earth.
But those who are thinking of leaving In
the hope that they will better their condition
might we'll ponder over the facts as told in
the New York Herald.
Spot cotton brought only 24.S5 cents in the
Atlanta market on Friday, May II. Clever
days later, that is, on May %, the price was
,2S.15. Those figures would indicate that cot
ton was worth $16.5O bale more last Tues
dag than eleven days before.
But such thing could not be true. Cot
ton was worth just as much on May II as i
was on May %.
The difference in price was due to specula
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to Little Miss FlXtt, who
will quickly and cheer
fully see that things are
made right.
We want every sub
scriber to get his Tri-
Weekly Journal regular
ly ano punctually. We
want all of them to re-
ceive what they haze
paid for. And if you
are not getting that,
write it to Little Miss
FiXit.
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fled subscribers. A
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There are times when the brave deserve
immunity from the fair.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-26

Selfishness is the only thing that stands
between some people and happiness.
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Just Among Ourselves

T1HIS newspaper, as you may have gather
ed, is not free with editorial advice 1t
belieYes it better to print facts and let
its readers form their own judgments. Opin-
ions are nothing but opinions, after all.
The Tri-Weekly Journal has had nothing to
say about the migration of negroes to thF
north and west, except to print such news as
seemed reliable.
However, here is clipping of a news ar
.ticle published in the New York Herald on
May 6. which we think ought to be brought to
the attention of Woodworking, self-respecting
negroes who may be contemplating leaving
their homes and iourneying to strange felds
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but we want to correct them quickly.
Address,
LITTLE MISS FIXIT,
Care Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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A WOMAN OBSESSED
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER XXXVI

THOR a moment in the dim light Bruce
II thought 1t was Lulu Hammond. But it
. - was Muriel
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Just because a man is no better than he
ought to be is no sign that he is not worse.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1923-08-24
EAST THOMPSON

Mrs. H. Soper is entertaining
relatives for few weeks.
E. Huntington. Barton Jacobs, Silas
Joslin, George Munyan were among
those who attended the field day on
Thursday.
There will be no service at the
Methodist church Sunday, August 20.
Rev. and Mrs. Miller will spend the
week at camp meeting in Willimantic.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Rhodes are receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth of a
son. Burton Lionel, at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. c. Ross.
Both mother and son are doing nicely.
Mrs. ]. r. Miller attended the re-
ception given Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Mariners at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Jones, in
Eastford Tuesday night. Mr.. Miller
also attended the Ashford Bible meet
ing held at Bucks Grove, Wednesday.