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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-26
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON,

naticism. False prophets have emphasized
"sins against the Holy Ghost until many
people have been overcome by the threats
and not reminded of the promises of the
gospel, until they become insane, and there
are as many kinds of insanity as there are
unreasonable children to be frightened and
misled.
The burning of the Salem witches is a
case in point. Those Salem preachers were
as cruel as the infamous Jeffries in Bloody
Mary's time When children are young their
minds are like putty to receive and like mar
BILE to harden. A young childs life in the
church should be carefully protected from
continual threats as to damnation for the
sin against the Holy Ghost. This goes with
out saying.
This Mcdowell murderer had been the re-
cipient of too much fanatical attention The
parents should have taken him in hand
when he burned up his lovely sisters, if they
had suspicion, which it is claimed they did
have and thus saved their own lives. That
oversight makes it plain that too much at
tention was given to shielding this murderer
and too little to the constant watch over the
youth, and they have paid dearly for their
pride in the concealment of their suspicious.
The question is, what shall be done with
this parricide and fratricide? He is not fit
for the penitentiary, for he might kill his
roommate or stab his keeper 1t Will do no
good to punish him as common murderers
are punished He is an exception to rules
even in the horrible situation which prevails
in the Georgia penitentiary.
To hang him would be like Staying
mad dog-one of the big terrors of dogdom
are mad dogs.
He is unfit for the insane asylum because
he would be too near other people who are
a menace to themselves as well as all who
are not on watch for violence, night OF
day. How many poor creatures are walking
around terrorzed by the "unpardonable
sin" against the Holy Ghost, we know
not, who are ripe for murder, also self
destruction.
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DISCRETION AND LIES
BY DR.. Frank Crane

II ONT tell it all.
The love of truth Is a most worthy
49, sentiment, but even it can be carried
to hurtful extremes
Initiate Nature. She is full of wise con-
treatments. She is a famous keeper of Sc
crets.
In fact, one of the most striking traits of
Nature is her way of covering her tracks,
hiding her laws, and misleading us as to
her aims.
How long is was before guessed that
she really revolving the earth around
the sun, or that the solid land and level
sea were on the surface of ball spinning
like top.
How long she kept mum about steam,
COAL and electricity.
Instead of being open, frank, and simple,
Nature is all symbols and wells What you
see, ten to one, is not so. Only the trained,
wise, skilled and patient can come at her
secret.
Hence it is we'll to be truthful, but you
must distinguish between lying and discre-
ton.
To lie, it is essential that there should be
wrong intent A statement that deceyes
the nearer is not necessarily false
The wrong in the case is always in the
mind of the teller, in the normal condition,
from which the statement springs.
Your confessions may be more wicked
than your silence. Perhaps the most merc-
lul LnlnSS ABOUT you are your FeLlCeuceS. I'll
you understood, perhaps you would consider
your friends silence is the greatest kindness
to you.)
See how He who rules this earthly ball
hides His purposes
If He should tell it all, who could endure
to live?
Let us thank our stars that
Heaven hides from all the book of fate
All but the page prescribed, the
present date"
There are terrible secrets Well, let them
be. They would be more terrible revelations.
If you have anything that is gnawing
within your bosom and which you must
needs confess, tell it to God. Or to some
soul that you are quite sure has some of
the largeness, charity, and understanding
that God has.
For it takes a very, very wise and strong
person to endure being told the whole truth
Don't you know that all the little dear
elements in life spring from Illusions?
And you might call illusions lies; but you
would be wrong.
Copyright, 1920 -pg,
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THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before.-After two
year engagement in a small town, Gail
Martin is Tilted by her fiance, George
Hartley. Shortly afterWard Calls Aunt
Debbe dies and leaves her niece S.
900. Gail has but one desire, to leave
town, and, taking her money, she goes
to New York. Here she succeeds in
stepping in between Arch Kennerley,
scion of the idle rich, and Fay Morrison,
who in Dalesburg played the vamp with
George Hartley. The tables are turned
and Gail, with the knowledge that her
money is fast slipping away from her,
promises to marry Arch Kennerley.
Right after this she is introduced to
Jeffry Arnold the one man IN New
York who has interested her and whom
she has despaired of meeting.-Now go
ON with the story.
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THE MCDOWELL TRAGEDY

TN HE youth who has sent his parents and
both his sisters to violent deaths was
not ignorant or illiterate. He is nine
teen years old 1t would have been more
fortunate for the murdered ones if the muir
derer had been illiterate and engaged at
steady labor at some occupation which kept
him busy from dawn until dark.
Education for such degenerates is fatal to
the safety of those who were obliged to live
with him. His mind was occupied with doe
trinal books, of which there are great
number too many. The wretched creature
will be adjudged insane, of course, but he
is no more so than many others who have
been hung.
There are numbers living who will re-
member the Voolfolk tragedy where q
maniac nearly wiped out his entire family
perhaps seven in all. 1t happened near Ma
con, nearly thirty years ago. The murderer
in this case would receive no education he
was besotted with hate for his own people,
The Mcdowell tragedy will recall the Wool
folk case, and with dates and particulars
AS a rule, idleness is the cause of much
OF such degeneracy. Idleness is the mother
of many troubles. When idle people are left
to themselves their thinkers get tangled with
evil or lustful or criminal suggestions Hard
work and rigid discipline in the home might
have saved Mcdowell and Voolfolk from
themselves. great many people should get
away from themselves as safety precaution,
by hard work, with rigid discipline This
Mcdowell youth was talked to and advised
religiously when his inner part his mind,
was faltering on unhealthy things. Like
Dupre he was degenerate, and the world
would be in better fix if the Dupres the
Woolfolks and Frank McDowells had never
been born Education for these degenerates
is a school for Villainy.
A great many people have been sent to the
insane asylum because they were fanatically
trained and there have been many suicides
because they could not understand the limit
between sound religion and unhealthy IA
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Copyright, 1920

diameter. The weight Of the flag is $50
pounds. This flag was carried in the G. A. r.
parade in Washington, d. c., in 1915, and
was hung from the dome of the capitol.
@. Whence does the plumber derive, his
name? Y. F. S.
A. The plumber was first of all worker
in lead The Latin word for lead was
plumbum.
Q. Please quote what Charles Frohman
said when he knew that he would drown on
the Lusitania? D. w. r.
A. Isaac MarcOsson, in his biography af
Charles Frohman, says that Froh1nan loved
Peter Pan" the best of all the Barrie plays
which he produced. Cautiously enough it
was little Peter who gave him the cue for
his now historic farewell as he stood on the
slOshing deck of the Lusitania. At the end
of one of the acts the little boy says: To
die will be awfully big adventure These
words had always made deep impression on
Frohman. They came to his mind as he
stood on that fateful deck and said: why
fear death? 1t is the most beautiful adven.
ture in life 3"
Q. Has one right to reproduce a Gov
eminent bulletin? A. V. F.
A. Government bulletins are not copy
righted. and may therefore he. reproduced at
Will. 1t is not safe to take liberties with
them. however, that might lead to misrepre-
sentatiOn. If a dealer reproduced a seed bull
letin. for instance and inserted his own adj
vertisement in such way TO give the
impression that the Government indorsed
him, he would be violating the law.
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Here are a couple OF nice letters:

Here are couple OF nice letters:
Just word in praise of your paper. The
Tri-Weekly Journal is always first with ne.
I think your stories, Her Money and The
Love Trap are fine and I especially admire
Mrs. Felton's department. | think your Col
orado subscriber who says you should cut out
Mrs. FELTON, is biased or little bit narrow
between the eyes.
LET Mrs. FELTON, have her say and let Mr..
Colorado catch her in the wrong If he can.
l wish Georgia had thousand like her."
L. C. White, Route 2, vineland, N. c.,
writes: 81 am sending my renewal. have
been taking your paper for some time and
already feel that 1 can't get along without it.
81 especially like Dorothy Dix's discussions
of life, DR.. Hull's articles on the Sunday
Schol lesson, Bishop Gamblers 'Old-time
Religion your editorials and then, there is
Mrs. Felton's Country Home department.
while have to differ with her on some
of her ideas, still I think she is wonderful
old lady Here's wishing The Tri-Weekly
Journal and it's readers many happy and Iros-
porous years."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-26

~ JUST where is the Teapot Dome oil
[ field? A. B.
A. 1t is an extension of the Salt
Creek field about 40 miles north of Casper
Wyoming.
Q. Why is New York City called Gotham?
NJ. f.
A Gotham" was the name of town in
Nottinghamshire, England, the inhabitants of
which, about 1900, were ridiculed for sim
plicity and short sightedness and were later
termed in derison the wise men of Gotham
Washington Irving in his book Solomon
Gundy," applies the name Gotham" to New
York, satirizng the shortsightedness of many
of the inhabitants
Q. Was the Dxmude larger than the
Shenandoah? A r. W.
A. The Dixmude was the larger 1t had n
gas capacity of about 100000 cubic feet.
while the Shenandoah has a gas capacity Of
2,ig2,4o0 cubic feet
=. What is TIE per capita wea tn of Cana
dams? J. NJ.
A. The per capita national wealth of
Canada amounts to about $4,000 In the
United States the estimated per capita wealth
is about s2700
q. Where is the longest stretch of railroad
without curve? E. L. c.
A The longest straightawav is stretch
Oh 10o miles on the Australian Transcontfneu-
TAI railway, crossing the Nularbor plain.
a. How does the knot comLare with the
mile? X. D. S.
A. The statute knot contains 60S266 feet,
the British admiralty knot $3.50, while the
mile contains $3.50 feet. The statute knot is
determined as follows: The circumference of
the earth is divided into $50 degrees. each
degree containing so knots; therefore, there
are 56ox60 or 21,600 knots to the circumfer-
ence; 2l.600 divided into 131 1856. 456. the mum.
Der OF feet in the earths circumference gives
6,0S2.66 feet
Q. Where is the largest flag in the world ?
A. Several claims have been made of a
largest flag, but the largest one that we
know of is the one owned by the City of
Canton. Ohio. This one is So u feet wide and
12o feet long. The stripes measure 4 feet -
inches in width and the stars are ) feet in
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Continued Thursday
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irwin 5. Cobb

company commander of one of the COLI
0red regiments serving in France during the
Big War brought his men to a position in
the first-line trenches during the advance
through the Argonne forest. Presently he
dawned upon him that his outfit had lost
contact with the supporting forces the
left. 1t was necessary to establish liaison.
He beckoned to him a strapping black;
private and babe the latter carry the word
to the main body Of troops. The prospect
for the messenger was not a pleasant one.
He must distance of two hundred
yards in the open under fire of enemy sharp
shooters.
Il don't need to tell you" counseled the
captain, that the Germans will try to wing
you. If you run in a straight line they're
likely to get you, but If you ziszag | don't
believe they can hit you Good luck to you.
Late that evening, the Germans having
fallen back the captain found his messenger /.
in a forward dressing station. The latter
was awaiting removal to a field hospital. He ].
had been punctured, painfully but not seri- Z
ously in three separate places, by three sep
arate bullets x
The commander stopped down by this
wounded man:
'I'm glad to see you alive" he said but
sorry "a find you shot up this way. Why
didn't you zigzag as / told you to do?"
"Cap'n. sub, OATS percisely whut | did
do" answered the soldier. But I rekin de
trouble wuz dat l zigged Wen l should q
been zaggin.'
A gentleman who had been imbibing heav-
lily of the forbidden stuff bumped into another
gentleman who also, it was plain, had had
recent dealings With bootlegger. Each felt
congenally inclined toward the other. They
fell into a somewhat hiccoughy conversation.
Seems like to me, I've seen you some-
where BEFORE" said number one between
puffs, as he vanly endeayored to light the
sodden stump of cigar with dead MATCH.
du't cd al M, her
two. lurchng slightly. -
Didn't / see you one time in Chicago?" es-
"Not me. never was in Chicago.
Neither was /. Well, then. the question
is who the hell was them twq guys that met
out in Chicago" -
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The views Of the Colorado subscriber who
wanted us to muzzle Mrs FELTON, have brought
in number of amusing letters The Col
orado Democrat sort O. riled some of our
friends who have been reading after Mrs.
said few mouthfuls.
There Is no use of getting sore about It,
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Fixit, who will quick
ly and cheerfully see
that things are made
right.
We want every SUBJ
scriher to get The Tri-
Weekly Journal reg
ularly and punctual-
ly. We want all OF
them to receive what
they have paid for.
We want only salts
fled subscribers. A
small percentage of
errors are unayofd-
able, but we want to
correct them quickly.
Address,
MISS FIXIT,
eekly Journal,
!, Georgia.
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

There is that scattereth, and yet in
cYeaseth; and there is that Withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to pop
srty-Properbs 11!24.
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Just Among Ourselves

- RETHREN and sisters, let us once again
* say as loudly as type will permit that
we have only two expiration dates each
month. They are the list and the 18th
sS.. Whenever a subscription is received in this
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/ be it three months, six months, one year or
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i or 18th, whichever is the first following DATE
y For example, this is written on February
21st. Subscriptions for year that are re-
the 1st day of March, 1925. The subscriber
always gets several issues more than he pays
Il far Sometimes, he gets six free OF charge,
for II subscription is received on February
1s. the expiration date carries two weeks
{ from the actual period paid for.
XIX We have these two expiration dates for
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Now look at your expiration date on the
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lL
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OF March
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Help us to help you by renewing early.
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will improve service.
Two or three have written in to ask if
Mr. William Gibbs McAdoo, spoken of for the
Democratic presidential nomination, is a
Catholic in religion. He is NOT. He is an
Episcopalian, Is Mr.. Oscar Underwood of
Alabama, who is also something Of candi-
date.
Senator Walsh, the leading Democratic
member of the committee which is doing such
effective work in exposing the Teapot Dome
oil scandal, is Catholic.
Some Georgia Democrats started a boom
for Senator Walsh for the Democratic NOM
nation, on the basis Of his splendid record
for p,v@ic service and his vigorous prosecu-
ton o. the oil scandal They dropped him
quickly when they learned of his religion.
The Senator, however beat them to ii by
wiring that he would not permit his name
to be used.
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Tell It to Little Miss Flxit

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send q letter or postcard to Little Miss
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though, and most Of the letters were 80 In
temperate that it is probably better not to
print them.
Isn't life too short at best and too full of
real woes for us to wax angry over trifles
and over matters Of opinion?
Why get bitter because someone holds views
different from yours about matters of politics.
philosophy or religion?
Shall we stand up, for our convictions? Yes,
indeed.
But why should anyone want to boil in oil
others who have convictions of their own
Killing ones friends is fortunately not yet
universal practice, but this is what an ire
sponsible element Of the cotton belt popula-
ton has, unwittingly, been doing, the Wall
Street Journal points out. The fields and
woods have been ranged by those people, gun
in hand and the natural enemies Of the boil
weevil, the birds, have been slaughtered for
mere sport. 1t has been found that 66 kinds
of birds of our southeastern states feed upon
boil weeyils, the most active of which are the
orioles and swallows Over 40 boil weevils
were found In single oriole stomach. 1t Is
to the cotton farmers advantage to protect
these valuable winged friends who are helping
him to kill IN expensive pest
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Thursday. Discovery and The Folly of
Deceit" If your subscription expires in
March. renew now so as not to miss an in
Stallment of this story.
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~ JUST where is the Teapot Dome oil
1 field? A. B.
A. 1t is an extension of the Salt
Creek field about 40 miles north of CASPER
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RETHREN and sisters, let us once again
* say as loudly as type will permit that
we have only two expiration dates each
The Arvada enterprise., 1924-01-24
By
katharine Newlin Burt
Copyright by katharine N, Burt

III tell you in a moment. Did you
destroy my letter?"
lie shook his head.
'Oh, Prosper, please!"
he took 1t out, tore It up. and walk
Ing over to the open fire. burned the
papers. He came back to his tea.
well. Bctty?'
The girl" said Betty, "is the star
IN your play. The Leopardess,' the
eirl that Jasper picked up two Sep
TENDERS ago out west. He has writ
Ten TO YOU about her. She was a cook.
II you please. n hideous creature. but
Jasper saw al once what there was
IN her. She has made the play. You'll
nave to acknowledge that yourself
"hen you see her. She is wonderful.
And, partly owing to the trouble I've
taken with her. the girl is beautiful.
one wouldn't have though, it possible.
She Is not charming to me, she's not
in the least subtle. It's odd that she
should have had such an effect upon
Jasper, Of all men :"
Prosper slipped his tea and listened.
lie looked at her and was bitterly con-
scious that the excitement which had
pleased and surprised him was dying
out. That faintness again assailed his
spirit. He was feeling stitied.
ashamed, bored. Yes, that was 1t.
bored. That life Of service and bat
tle-danger in France had changed him
more than he had realized till now.
He was more simple. more serious.
more moral. in certain sense. He
was like man who, having denied the
existence Of Apollyon. hns come upon
him face to face and has been burnt
by his breath. Such a man Is in
evitably moral. All this long, intricate
intrigue with the wife of man who
called him friend, seemed to him hor-
ribly unworthy. II Betty had been n
great lover, IL she had not lost courage
at the eleventh hour and left him to
face that terrible winter In Wyoming,
then their passion might have justified
itself; but now there was staleness
in their relationship. He hated the