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and leading the beast. The streets are VT
 vertically clogged with man-pOwer at work. There is an epidemic of bicycles. Not even in Bermuda, where all motor transport is prohibited by law, do you see in proportion half so many bicycles. And every wheel in Tokyo has some carrying device attached to it, either built on the mud-guards and frame or trailed behind on wheels of its own. No one seems to be going anywhere either on foot or on wheels for the fun of it, but everyone, men, women and children, in dead earnest are going about the days work more cheerfully than grimly and with that courageous, faith fm expression in their eyes which is characteristic of Japan. The labor of occidental cities is hidden away in huge office buildings out of sight, under ground or high in the air. People go to and fro in the streets on their way to work or to buy or to play. Japan works in and through the streets and all over the outsides of buildings in such a swarming way that one can actually feel the expenditure of energy going on about them.
 The matter of traffic is becoming a serious one. The streets of Tokyo were never made for motor cars, but eleven thousand of them are already licensed in the city and new ones coming in at the rate of from forty to fifty day. All of them blow their horns and fret along on How" as their drivers. with varying degree of efficiency, try to navigate the human and mechanical streams flowing through streets without sidewalks. Reducing ones bicycle im- pressions to facts, the chief of the traffic bureau says there are more than two hundred and seventy five thousand being used in Tokyo right now, with the bicycle vendors disposing of their stocks as fast as they import them from the manufacturers. Add to that thir- teen thousand man and horse and bull drawn drays and fourteen thousand six hundred hand carts-in addition to the ricksha, now slowly dying in it's few thousands-all of them going earnestly somewhere, and sprinkle this traffic with thousands of university students and school children, thousands more of little children straddling the patient backs of their mothers on their way to market or playing in the roadways, and you have some idea of the physical difficulty of doing much wandering in Tokyo theSt1pOst-quake days.-George Marvin in Japan.
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wanted to do and to do this, they had told the little fat sailor that the house belonged to them.
 When the fat sailor found that Wal, ter's mama and daddy had locked the door he sat down to rest, then when he had rested he walked up and knocked upon the door: What do you want ?'' the Wizard asked through the key hole.
 "Iwant to punish Walters daddy for humping this poor old man upon the head and for taking this nice little house away from him and Mrs. Sanky !''
 'Then you had better run away !" the Wizard said. "For Mir. and Mrs. Sanky are two very wicked people and they have fibbed to you! This house does not belong to them any more than it does to you and they tried to take lit tie Walter home with them to make him work for nothing! They are too lazy to do their own work and are too stingy to pay any One for working!'
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taining him in school for year, have him looked over by competent medical doctor and a psychologist who knows enough to consider the results of any mental test as only part of the data to be taken into account. These are the days of intelligence tests," you know, and there are many psychologists who swear by them-instead of at them, as in some cases at least they might more reasonably do.
 Just a word about these so-called "intelligence tests," because you are sure to run up against them when ever your child enters school; they are designed to test the normal abilities of the average child, and just remember that there is no such thing as an "aver- age" child. The normal or average child is a product of the statistician's s imagination, and does not exist in reality. Your child may approximate in more or less respects this purely imag- mary creature, and in so far as he does, the results are of value. But let any one of a large ntimber of conditions De varied and the interpretations of this test may likewise be varied.
 In conclusion If you want your boy or girl to become lonely, or spoiled. or restless, don't send him to kinder garten. He may pick up a. brogue from the nurse, or a few choice ex- pressions seldom heard in sedate so- ciety on the street; but these are still not convincing arguments for keeping him out of school. Better consult the directory, and phone the head of the school you believe to be the best. You may reach the conclusion that children are at least as valuable as motor cars and that it pays in the end to let only the expert handle them.
 Think it over.
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could Marian explain that her desire to see Frederic had moved her to dis. guise this desire by an indifference she was far from feeling.
 She was alone in her room when Parker's card was brought to her. She was wearing an afternoon dress of diaphanous black that accentuated her pallor. As she saw her reflection in the glass, she implusively took from the vase at her elbow one of the great damask roses. When she had pinned this on her breast she went slowly down the stairs. The beating of her heart made her feel as if her feet dragged.
 (To be. continued
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BICYCLE POPULAR IN TOKYO

More Of Them In Japanese Capital
 Than Are Found Elsewhere.
 Practically every community in the world is industrious by virtue of neces- sity, but few communities produce the impression of industry that Japan does, because in Japan so much of the work is obvious and manual. A Japanese city seems like beehive or an ant-hil with every member of the population ab- sorbingly busy about the days work. Men do the work of labor saving devices, they do the work of animals elsewhere, hitching themselves singly or in pairs or gangs to all kinds of wheeled vehicles from rickshas to drays, pulling and or horse is dragging load the man never rides but walks ahead exhorting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
REFORESTATION BY TOWNS. Athol And Birmingham, Mass. Plant
 Thousands Of Pine Trees.

The spirit of natural resource con. servation is gripping many just now and reforesting is being undertaken not only by private owners of land, but also by towns and cities of our, common wealths.
 In Athol and Birmingham, Mass, town property is being reforsted; in the former town ten thousand white pine seedlings will be put in on the town farm this year, and the same num- Der of pine and spruce seedlings next year, and the following year ten thou. sand white pine seedlings, thirty thou, sand in all. In addition. five days will be spent in reforesting the Newton res.
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No Titles in British DominiOns.

Five years ago Canada asked the British crown not to confer any more titles on Canadian citizens and asked further that hereditary titles already conferred should expire with the pres- ent holders. Two years ago South Africa made a similar request, and now Australia expresses the same wish. Decorative titles are seldom popular in a republic; and when, as sometimes happens, the persons honored by them are chosen with little wisdom or dis criminatiop the ordinary citizen looks on them {gith amused contempt Youths C6lnpanion. ,4..
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TINNlE TWINKLE
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See '" Raggedy Ann cried as she looked from the win dows of the little house the Wizard had built with his magic c h a r m s, Here are the Sankls again ! And they have brought a fat man with them I wonder who he can be '"
 Maybe it is a po- liceman and the
 Sankys have fibbed to him and told him that we have mis- treated them !" Wal ter's mama said.
 "'No, sir !" Rag gedy Andy said, Ut isn't a policeman. it is a little fat sailor, but I suppose that MT. and Mrs. Sanky have been telling him fibs so that he will help them !! I am sure that they would like to take this cum ming little house away from you and have it for their very own Y
 Of course you and I know that this was just what the two m q q n creatures
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Potatoes In The Furnace

OHt MOIntr SHyS.
 Our children are fond of baked po- tatoes. but the baking process is expen- sive for gas range, 80 I devised the plan of baking them in the furnace in winter use deep pan with top, or two shallow pie pans. After the po- tatoes are washed and dried they are covered closely with the pans, placed on the inside ledge of the furnace door, and baked for forty or sixty minutes, according to the intensity of the heat. I never put them in right after put ting fresh coal on the furnace fire, as the smoke affects the flavor use old pans, for they get hopelessly black.
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BACK AT LAST.

The seIf-made man marched proudly into the office of the great financier with whom he had an appointment. "I don't suppose you remember me-" he began, ''but twenty years ago, when l was a poor messenger boy, you gave me a message to carry"
 "Yes, yesr' cried the financier. "And now you've come with tbe answer?"- Kentish Observer.
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Operated by electricity, a machine has been invented in England that literally smokes pipes at various speeds to test the burning qualities of tobaccos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
GAINED EIGHT
 POUNDS IN
 THREE WEEKS

MT. Jack Arlington of Ashe- vile Tells Us That Taylor's Blood Medicine Gets All the Credit. He Has a Good Ap- petite, Eats Anything He Wants, Gained Eight Pounds in Three Weeks and Feels Fine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

A Freachman claims to have in- vented a gas heater for rooms that prevents the formation of poisonous carbon monoxide gas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

A new office convenience elects let ter heads, carbon paper and paper for copies of letters in the proper or der for insertion in a typewriter when a lever is pressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

A shallow drawer in a new desk telephone holder is intended to contain memorandum paper and lead pencil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

Of standard size when opened, a new umbrella can be folded into a package ten inches long and two and a half inches in diameter.
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ervoir property this year. In Framing ham fifty-seven acres or to be refor- ested. Five thousand red pine and five thousand Norway spruce will go in on the town farm this year, and each fol- lowing year fifteen thousond white pine will be set until the entire acreage is covered. Pride in the coming forests is being exhibited by these communi- ties, and this augurs well for such en- terprises in the future.
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A new dish washing machine for home use can be raised to any con venient level and is mounted on cas- ters for easy moving.
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FOR BUSINESS WOMENS OFFICE
 An office set consisting of broad flat desk and chairs of walnut com- bined with leather of deep rich shade of blue is handsome and decorative without in any way detracting from its utilitarian purpose.
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Hearts Of TUo
CHAPTER 24O

PARKER did not call until the following afternoon at time.
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AIIVI:nIJ,IE::IvIENT5

FOR RENT-Complete unfurnish-
ed apartment; one furnished
apartment. Pc. Box 257-24-3t
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WOMAN OF TIE STREETS
CAUSES PATHETIC SCENE

ATLANTA, March rs. -, In
front Of one of Atlanta's offic
buildings sits a blind boy plaintive
ly playing familiar tunes on a
guitar. The crowd was unusually
large, made up mostly of people
from the country and poorer sec
lions of the city,. He played My Old
Kentucky Home, Garry Me back to
Old Virginia and Home Sweet Home
All were moved by the boys music
and there were tears in the eyes
OF many Of his listeners.
AS the last strains OF Home, Sweet
Home, died, a woman stepped from
the crowd. Although the day was
cold she wore no hat Her unkempt
hair WASH odded her cheeks had been
rouged; Her black eyes had long
since lost their luster. The short
skirt, fawn colored silk hose
carelessly mended with black thread
and badly run down French heel
shoes told of a pitiful effort to meet
the prevailing style. She was eviden-
tlv one Of hfe's discords. With a
pitiful boldness she walked up and
and in a voice showing the hunger
Of starved heart said, please play
Call Me Back Pal Of Mine.
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MRS. EDWARDS GIVES
TANLAC FULL CREDIT
"F'or 8 Years Tanlac Has Been
My Only Medicine" Says
Prominent Southern Woman.

''For three years now Tanlac has
been my only medicine and it is to
that, more than anything else that
I attribute my present good
health" is the striking statement
of Mrs. w. ]. Edwards, 265 Mer-
ton St., (Binghamton), Memphis,
Tenn.
stomach trouble, loss of appe-
tite and lack of sleep had me so
rundown, weak and dizzy that
often had to hold on to something
to keep from falling. Indigestion
and gas on my stomach made my
heart act so strange that l feared
l had heart trouble.
''Since taking Tanlac I eat and
sleep like a child and have gained
all of ten pounds. Tanlac keeps
/ me with energy and strength to
meet all my needs. In fact, Tan.
lac means health to me and / an
seldom without bottle of it in
the house,
Tanlac is for sale by all goot
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Safe Fat Reduction

Reduce, reduce, reduce, is the
slogan of all fat people. Get thin,
be slim, is the cry of fashion and
society. And the overfat wiring
their hands in modification and
helplessness; revolving at nauseat-
ing drugs, afraid of violent eXer-
else, dreading the unwelcome and
unsatisfying diet, until they MT
upon the harmless Marmola Pre-
scription and learn through it that
they may safely reduce steadily
and easily without one change IN
their mode of life, but harmless
ly, secretly, and quickly reaching
their ideal of figure, with a
smoother skin, better appetite and
health than they have ever known
And now comes Marmola Prescrip-
ton Tablets from the same fam
ously harmless formula as the
Marmola Prescription. 1t be-
hooves you to learn the satisfac-
tory, beneficial effects of this
great, safe, fat reducer by giving
to your druggist one dollar for a
box, or sending a like amount to
the Marmola company, 1912 Wood
ward avenue, Detroit, Mich, with
a request that they mail to you a
box of Marmola Prescription Tab
lets (adv.}
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Finds KeIIogg's Bran EASY way 10 avoid
constellation" after SUFFERING for years

Kellogg IS Bran relieves mild and
chronic constipation because it is ALL
bran. It brings sure results. 1t
sweeps, cleans and purifes the intes-
tine in natures own. way. Don 1t ex-
pertinent. Only ALL bran can be 100
per cent effective.
If eaten regularly, Kellogg's Bran,
cooked and krumbled, is guaranteed
to bring permanent relief-or your
grocer returns your money. You
should eat two tablespoonfuls daily
in chronic cases, with every meal.
The flavor is delicious-nut-like-
cooked and krumbled. Enjoy it with
milk or cream, sprinkled on other
cereals, cooked with hot cereals, or in
the delightful recipes on every pack
age. Made in Battle Greek. Sold by
grocers everywhere.
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TAYLOR'S SCHOOLS
SHOW IMPROVEMENT

ATLANTA, March 25-Much i'm
provement has been made in the
schools of Taylor during the past
five years, according to report of
a school survey recently made I'M
der the direction Of the state board
of education. 1t was reported that
eighteen schools have been con-
solidated and there has been some
changes for the better at all of the
rmaining schools"
Work of the county school super
intendent in building up an ade-
quate school system was commend
ed by the Investigators. 1t was al
so shown that every district in the
county, except three, has voted a
local tax of five mills for school
purposes, in addition to the county
wide tax Of five mills levied on the
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Many of the county schools ran
above the average in the matter of
efficient work, it was stated. But
Ter, the county seat, has built a
modern one-story type building,
which is well equipped, and the
school is doing good work. as the
county high school, according to the
report.
The teachers of the whole system
it was pointed out, are we'll equip
ped for their work and are constant
~ improving themselves by attend
ing summer schools.
1t was recommended that the pol
icy of consolidation be continued,
that better school buildings be con-
structed, and that the compulsory
attendance law be rigidly enforced.
The 1923 school census showed a
total enrolment of 4,247 pupils be-
tween the ages of six and eighteen
years. Of this number, $50 were
white and 2,S11 colored. Thirty
six illiterates over ten years of age
were reported, of whom seven were
white and twenty-nine were colored
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MOTORISTS MAY SOON
CO TO ST. S I'M 0NS
Construction of Causeway of
Short Highway Will Make Re-
sort Accessible

ATLANTA, Ga, March 25-With
the construction of a causeway at
Brunswick over part of the
Altamaha river and with the com
pfetion of a six mile stretch OF
highway in Wayne County between
Jesup and Brunswick, people from
Atlanta and North Georgia vail
be able to make the trip direct to
st. Simons Island without undue
difficulty, according to officials of
the State Highway Department.
For many years motorists who
endeavored to reach St.. Simons Is
land were handicapped by the almost
impossible stretch in Wayne county
The county had exhausted its funds
for this class Of work and for many
years the stretch Of road prevented
many tourists from visiting Bruins
wick and st. Simons Island.
Last year the commissioners of
Glynn county and other officials
of that section formed plan to
build a causewav connecting st.
Simons Island with the mainland,
This casewav is almost finished
When it is finished automobiles can
drive over to the island in few
minutes. The trip is now made by
boats and it requires more fhan
an hour each Wav to make the trIp.
Plans are under way in Bruins
wick for big developments on st.
Simons Island as soon as the cause
way is completed. With the road
in Wayne county finished it will
be possible for Atlanta motorists
to spend the week end on ST
Simons Island and return in time
for work the following Monday.
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Frances Bland. Annie Lucille Fay,
Elizabeth Cane Amelia Jones
Jones, Lucy Poole, Nettie Poole,
Section 2, Milton Barnes, Joe Bos-
web James Eldridge, Leonard Flet-
cher, Henry Hyatt, Clarence M
black, Verna Dean Adkins, Florence
Barefield, Lucille Barnes Brydie
Dorman.
Fouth Grade, Section Jack
Bell, Mary Elizabeth Ames, Mar
Margaret Harrell, Margaret Hooks,
Louise Peek, Helen Sheffield; sec
ton, 2, Hattie Lunsford, Ruth
Laney, Cornelia Ann Hill, Flora
Duncan, Dorothy Bradford, Willis
SILVER, Julian Gammage, James
Fort, Allen Fort; Section 8, Oscar
Bell, George Bradford, Chester
Feagin, Bessie Bell, Christine Cow
ington, Estha Jarvis, Virginia Mae
Simmons.
Fifth Grade, Section Laura
Andrews, Ruby Horn Marvin Ken
more, Section 2, Elizabeth English.
Sixth Grade, section Annie
Talent, Dean Turpin, section 2, Ann
johnson, Hazel Council, Christine
Baker; section 3, Mozart Baker,
Lucius McCleskey, Hildreth Castle
berry.
Seventh Grade, section Emma
Kate Hyatt Mildred lie Master,
Rosa Ratley, Martha Wall, Dorothy
Witt, Charles Vaughn, section 2,
Clarence Ames, Yona Bell, Thelra
Guy, LIE Dora Burton, Ruth
Schneider, Virginia Legg, Grace
Pittman, Florrie Warren; Section 8,
Mary Eva Cameron, Edith Carney,
Sue Hightower, Laura Morrell, Flor
ence Pelham, Robert English.
Prospect Heights,
First Grade-Herbert Saliba,
Third Grade-Kathlyn Tye, J. C.
Logan.
Oil in Washington is a good palm
o,.n,a e+n1.
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Oil in Washington is a good palm
greaster.
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HONOR ROLL FOR
SCHOOLS ANNOUNCED
Many Names Appear Among
Those Attaining Honors
During Period just Ended

The honor roll for Furlow Gram
mar school and the other schools Of
Americas for the period just ended
is announced today, the rolls con-
tanning the names Of a number OF
students who attained the required
averages. The roll as announced
as follows:
Furlow School.
First Grade, Section Lilly Mae
Fletcher, Helen Poole, Merriwether,
Jones, Frank McLain, Section 9,
Billy Boyd, Samuel Hamrick, Her
bert Humber, Charley stephens,
TheIma Baker, Theresa Clore, Doro-
thy English Mildred Holbrook Virgi-
MIA jackson, Annie Saliba, Mary
Thayer, Martha Marshall.
Second grade, Section ken
dali Beavers, VERNE Holloway, Earl
Jackson, Ned Kiker, William Phil,
lips, Wylene Brown, Dorothy Chalk
ley, Melva Faust, Rosalye Golden,
Christine Holbrook, Elizabeth Lang
ford, Adds Martin, Ruth Matthews
Beatrice Parker, Ada Belle Sieg, Ida
Mae Tyson, Section 2, Augustus
Harris, John Edgar Ship, Jr., Eula
FELTON, Council, Katherine Dixon,
Agilee Escoe, Pauline Hill, Gather
inc johnson, Francis Parker, Eliza
beth Sheppard, Mary vi Speer Jes-.
sic Williams.
Third Grade, Section Harvey
Covington, Jr., Eldridge Ferguson,
George Kenmore, Noel Kersey, Asa
Pitthian, Jr., Carl Ryals, Morgan
Smith, Ben Hall, Frances Capian,
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Constipation is dangerous disease.
1t can lead to many others. Twenty
years suffering with constipation I'm.
dermined this man IS health. Kellogg Z
Bran restored it--as it has done fol
thousands. This is what he says:
''Gentlemen:
After eating Kellogg's Bran twice
day for one month find it not only
an Easy Way to Avoid Constipa-
tion,' but an easy and most pleasant
way to cure it. have been troubled
with constipation for more
than twenty years after
adopting the milk and bran diet find
my stomach greatly improved, and
find it specific for constipation.
/ deem it only justice that
you should know what your product
has done for me, and what it is
capable of doing for Others"
CThe original of this letter is on file
at the Kellogg Company Battle Greek,
Mieh.)
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ONION SETS JUST ARRIVED =
T. j. Wallis, Bulk Garden and
Farm Seed Department-21-tf
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STEAMER PRESIDENT
MONROE is ASHORE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 25
The Steamship President Monroe is
ashore 100 miles from Miami.
S 0 S calls were answered by the
Cutter Saukee from Key West, fol-
lowed by the wrecking of the tug
and naval tug.
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FREIGHT RATES LOWER
ON FARM PRODUCTS

ATLANTA, Ga. March 2o-'
Freight rates on farm products are
now 10 per cent less than in 1921,
except on grain and grain products
the reduction of wheat having been
IS per cent and on coarse grain
of 81 per cent, it was pointed Out
here today by freight agents of che
railroads.
On the other hand, since 1921.
the agents state, has been an in
crease of about three billions of dol
lars year in the value Of farm PRO.
ducts which is four times as great
as the total freight charges paid
on them.
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Shad and Dream at Sherlock's.
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