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PREHISTORIC AILMENTS
Nv n AddinptOn Bruce

W NOWLEDGE of the diseases affecting
~ prehistoric man and his animal pred
u ecessors is, Of course, confined to the
Observation-Disclosures visible in bone and fossil
remains. Of the presence and extent of
maladies not affecting the skeletal structure,
no information is obtainable at this distance
of time.
But it may warrantably be inferred that
many among those that now of common
occurrence were more or less in evidence
in long remote epochs. For this has been
shown to be true of sundry bone-affecting
diseases widespread at the present day.
Even some diseases popularity supposed to
be comparatively modern bark back in
reality to the dawn of mankind. Among
such, for example, may be cited the related
diseases of dental decay, dental assesses,
and .pyOrrhea.
Such diseases may be, and in all proba-
bility are, far more common than in early
antiquity. But the fact remains that proof
of their presence in antiquity has been OBJ
tanned from skulls of men of the old stone
age also from remains of cave bears,
cave lions, and other caYe-1nhabiting ami
mails.
Dental decay has even been found in a
Florida mastodon and signs of dental abb
scess in a tooth of the COhoes mastodon
preserved in the state museum at Albany.
More than this, according to paleopatholo-
gists, dental disease was fairly frequent
among fossil in vertebrates of still earlier
geological epochs. Commoner, though, both
among men and animals, were various types
of arthritis, causing PAIN swelling and
sometimes marked deformity.
At least one kind of ancient swimming
reptile, the mosasaur, experienced the misery
of arthritic pains, suffering in some cases
from a multiple arthritis with joint swell
ngs. And though the reptiles in due course
! vanished, arthritis persisted to afflict the
| earths later inhabitants.
1t brought misery to both the men of the
old stone age and those of the new stone
! age. The cave animals likewise knew it's
spondylitis deformans was extremely COM
| mon among the cave bears of Europe Nor
| was arthritis, with kindred maladies con-
| fined to Europe. Evidence of it is seen in
the so-called Lansing man, of Kansas
| tuberculosis is another disease of ancient
! lineage, tubercular LESSONS having been de-
| tected in the bones of cave animals AS
far back as the cretaceous age osteomye-
| lits was known. Scolosis was malady OF
men of the new stone age, and marks OF
| the ravages of syphilis have been discovered
in bones of the Mound Builders.
Space prohibits the citation of further in
teresting discoveries by the paleopatholo-
| gists all Of them going to emphasize the
| antiquity of many of the chief diseases that
| harry modern civilized man.
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QUIZ

Any Tri-Weellly Journal reader can
get the answer to any question pulling
him by writing to The Atlanta journal
Information Bureau, Frederic j. Has
kin, director, Washington, ID. O., and
inclosing q two-cent stamp for return
hostage DO NOT SEND 1T TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
@ What does an aardvark look like!
A. The aardyark is small animal pc
longing to the anteater family ana IS
native of South Africa. It's legs are like a
kangaroo's its ears are similar to those OF
a burro and its head resembles wolf. Its
diet is a muciaginoNs dish, the chief IN
gradients of which are ants and graSshop-
pers Specimens are very rare in America,
but the Bronx Zoo in New York possesses
one of the few in this country. 1t is 1uII
grown and cost thousand dollars.
Q. How large is the throat OF whale!
w. E. G.
alive today, reaching a length in excess oil
so feet with mouth so large that 10 to
u men could stand therein has throat
but about s inches in diameter.
Q. Is it true that some savage tribes
file their teeth? c. S.
A. 1t is one of the many forms of mu-
tilaton which primitive peoples adopt, and
is referred to by many travellers. J.; II.
Weeks in his book on Congo cannlbals
written in 1913, describes their chiselling
of the upper incisors to Y shaped points.
Some only had two cut, while others had
all Of the upper fncisors ground away; They
believed that this operation made them look
more beautiful. Calder, who describes the
customs of the Madineoes, who live in Cen
trail Africa, says that when man and
woman are about to be married a smith is
called in to sharpen the teeth OF the per
sons betrothed.
Q. What kind of a book is the Book
Of the Dead?" f. A.
A. The title Book of the Dead" is re
garded as an unsatisfactory translation Of
the original for the reason that the book
is not a single book dealing exclusively
with funeral rites, but it is a collection OF
books and chapters treating OF psychostasia
in the Double Hall" before Osiris; the
peregrinations Of the Ka in the VALLEY Of
the Shadow Of Death" and the Osirian doe
trne OF resurrection, etc Sir Peter lie Page
Renouf said: 1T is not a book in the
usual sense Of the word; it is not a literary
whole, with q beginning, middle and end: it
is a mere unmethodical collection of re
Igjous compositions ~tchapters) as indie
pendent of each other as the Hebrew
Psalms"
Q. Are any of the seven wonders Of the
world StIl in existence? T. &.
A. Only one Of them remains today, the
Great Pyrmid OF Cheops at Gizeh
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
For he that Mill lore life and see good
DAYS, let him refrain his tongue from evil
and his lips that they speak no guile;
let him eschew evil and do good; let him
seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of
the Lord are oper the righteous and His
: ears are open. unto their prayers; but the
face of the Lord is against theme that do
epiI And who is he that Mill harm you
if We be followers of that which is good'
But if ye suffer for righteousness sake,
happy are ye; and be not afraid of their
terror, neither be troubIed.-Frst EpiStle
of Peter 3:1O-14
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QUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

Two artists were wandering about Spain.
one Gay, after a long walk, they arrived at
Shabby little house in village near big
town. o
They could not talk a word of Spanish
and were half dead with thirst. The sun
was so hot that they did not dare to drink
VINE so they decided to get some milk. One
OF them drew on sheet of paper the picture
of COW. The other jingled some coins in
his pocket.
Inc proprietor went out making signs that
he understood
He returned later with two tickets for
Inc soldiers marched TO the church and
matted IN the square outside. One wing OF
the edltce was undergoing repairs, so there
was room for only half the regiment
sergeant" ordered the major, tell the
men who don't want to go to church to fall
out"
large number quickly awaited themselves
of the opportunity.
Now, sergeant" said the major, dismiss
all the men who did not fall out and march
the others in-1they need it most"
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
Bv Irving 6. Cobb

They tell me this is an old one, but so
far as l am concerned it's new. I heard it
for the first time only the other day.
a millionaire was addressing his Sunday
school class. You may have noticed that
quite good many Of our millonaires, in
their maturer years. do teach Sunday school
classes.
Now this particular millionaire was re-
ported in his earlier days to have been
something Of a financial freebooter. But
all that was in the past. At present he
fairly dripped with the concentrated es-
sences of piety.
Young gentlemen" he was saying, 81
am going to give you the secret of my own
success as a pattern to you. 1t may be
summed up in single short word. All that
have been, all that l am today-my posi-
ton in the business world, my prestige in
industrial circles, my affuence-I owe to
one thing ard one thing alone-pIuck.
Pluck, pluck, pluck-Iet that be your motto"
new member of the class raised hand.
But how" he asked, .fhow will we find
the right ones to pluck?"
Copyright, 1924)
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GENERATE OWN GAS

PARIS.-The high cost Of gasoline is drv-
ing French firms operating large fleets OF
trucks and buses to seek other types of fuel.
One response to this need has been the de-
yelopment of portable gas plants using such
materials as powdered coal, sawdust and
powdered charcoal for the production of a
gaseous fuel which may be used instead of
the costly liquid kinds
One or two types of "gazogene," as the
new apparatus is called, utilize low grade
gasoline and crack it by heat, but the ma
jority of them use the powdered solids So
far no type of ''gazogene" has been evolved
suitable for pleasure cars, for the apparatus
is comparatively bulky and has no more
beauty about it than an olL-fashioned air.
tight stove but for the larger vehicles its
use is becoming increasingly popular. About
seventeen firms have placed "gazogene' mod
els on the market.-Science Service
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Z Just Amonq Ourselves

TIN HE Rome (Ga,) News-Tribune said
what the young folks call a mouth
full the other day in the following
short paragraph:
"Co-operative cotton marketing has
been established on a sound business
basis and as long it is kept that
way it will be successful. Lack, of or
ganization puts the farm producer at
a disadvantage in dealing with other
lines of business that are organized. To
maintain an organization it is neces-
sary for the farmers to surrender what &
they have regarded as form of in
dependence in marketing their own
products, but it is baneful sort of in
dependence that brings no benefit"
This paper will never make so bold as to
try to advise the farmer how to farm. The
farmer knows more about that than we ever
could learn. But it is manifest that the
Southern farmers main trouble is not in
growing his products, but is in getting a
fair and profitable price for these products
That is because as a rule he does his
own selling. He is not a salesman. He
cannot be-
Further, in selling he completes with his
neighbor and his neighborr completes with
him. The result of this competition is that
the price is lower than it would otherwise
be.
In the business world, every man buys as
low as he can and sells for the highest
prjn nh
rule of business.
In round numbers there are 100000
cotton farmers in America 1t is to be
doubted that there are l 200 firms of cotton
merchants.
The cotton merchants have their buy
ers out every fall, but do they scramble and
bid against each other to set what they
want? They do not
They let the producers bid against each
other, forcing the price down. When you
take load of cotton to town, do you fix the
price you set? You do not
You find out what the buyers are will
ms to give If you don't take that, you Ell
Their haul your cotton back home or put it
in a~warehouse. SO it is with everything
else YOU raise,
You take what is offered, or keep your
stuff
This paragraph from the Dahlonega (Ga.)
Nugget tells the story:
lone of our farmers was telling us
last week about the sale of cotton He
said upon hearing that cotton had some
up TO twenty-five cents a pound he car
ried down bale the next day and
found that it had dropped two cents a
pound since the previous day. They can
afford to pay big price for it oc-
casionally in order to cause a rush by
the farmers, then drop few cents and
make thousands of dollars in a day or
two. And when the sale sets slow
make another short raise"
No other man in the world except the
farmer has so little to say about what he
shall set Merchants set their own prices
on their goods They meet competition but
both they and their competitors always fig
ure to sell at profit. The farmer doesn' t
figure at ALL He takes what he is told
And yet, with this awful fact as true as
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If it won't put you out any, we will
greatly appreciate receiving the renewal of
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time is not out until January, February or
March.
During those months, our office force is
worked almost beyond human endurance.
They are the big subscription months of the
year.
If you will renew now, before the rush
starts, you will do big favor to the lovely
young women who keep our subscription
books.
And, by way Of showing they appreciate
it, they will give you thirteen months of
The Tri-Weekly Journal instead of twelve.
in all yearly subscriptions except Combina-
tons B-1 and B-3.
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anything in Gospel, we run across farmers
who say "None of this cooperative bust
ness for me. I always have sold my own
cotton and I'm a-going to keep on selling
it,"
The men who say this have never SOLD
a bale of cotton in their lives They've let it
all go at a price set by the buyer
Now put that in your pipe and smoke it
for while
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We in The Tri-Weekl yJournal office are
always cheered by the fine letters we get
daily from our readers. We would refer to
them more often but it seems it worries
some readers who think we are praising our
selves when we quote compliments from
our friends. Take the following:
Dear Editor: I am sorry that 1 neg
lected sending my subscription last month
l can't do without the best paper in Geor-
gia. I have been subscriber for much
longer time than Mrs. FELTON, has been writ
ing for it. I hope she will live a long time
to do good with her pen. l am in my S0th
year and enjoy good writings.
with good wishes to you,
AUGUSTUS LONGSTREET GATHER,
MilledgeyiHe, Ca
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that things are made
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ecriber to get The Tri-
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-09

One of Georgia's distinguished Superior
court jurists, Judge J. l. SummeraH died
while in the pulpit Of the Telmore Baptist
church near Waycross, Sunday, November
80, and he could not himself have chosen
more fitting end. He was at the point of
closing his sermon, when he hesitated, turn
ed to friends near him and requested a
glass Of water. He fell to the floor and
died within few moments.
Judge Summerall was one of the great
est friends of the rural churches of South
Georgia He was strong exponent of
what he termed 1.-The country religion"
where the people of the whole countryside
united to worship; where the women came
wearing their large bonnets, and many of
the men wore oyeralls and where the pure,
simple doctrines were taught. 1t was in the
pulpit of one of these churches that he
died.
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Society novels seldom make hit A novel
in order to succeed must be bright enough
to be already entertaining.
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northern climes, that more attention should
be paid to illumination. Science Service.
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across the ship in order to move it forward,
the rotor ship is like the sailing vessel in
that it cannot SAL directly into head wind,
but must tack across it, The sailing vessel
has the advantage when the wind is directly
astern, for then it can sail directly before it,
whereas stern wind is almost as useless to
the rotor as is a head wind.
Herr FIettner claims that this slight adj
vantage is offset by the greater speed of his
vessel, by it's greater cheapness of construc-
ton, and above all by the very small crew
required as compared with the men on
sailing ship. He states that operating costs
for rotor ship should be eighty per cent
lower than those for a sailing ship of the
same tonnage.
The ship used in the demonstrations of
the new device is the yacht "Buckau," of 900
registered tons, built by the Krupp-Germania
shipyard at Hamburg. The rotors are tall
cylinders of sheet iron, approximately nine
feet in diameter by sixty in height, one To-
Gated forward and the other aft, and geared
to turn on a central shaft by electric motor
drive. The trial trip, which Herr Flettner
claims was full success, was made from
Hamburg to Eckernfoerde. He states that a
speed was attained, with the rotors running
on 20 horsepower, equivalent to that of a
screw driven ship of the same size running
on 1000 horsepower.
Herr FIettnGr IS an engineer WITH at GeaSt
one successful invention to his credit
already. During the World war he devised
type of balanced rudder for aircraft, which
by employing small auxiliary vanes caused
the main rudder surface to turn itself by
the force of the air current as it streamed
past This device, which required but little
muscular force on the part of the pilot to
operate it, has since been widely adopted in
atrplane obstruction, and has also been
modified for on ships. 1t was in en-
deaYor to adapt the same idea to the han
ding of sailing vessels that Herr FIettner
was led to the application of the Magnus
principle and the invention Of the 'rotor."
The inventor is now raising funds for the
construction of a 10,000-ton ship which he
states will make the pioneer voyage to Amer
lea.
WASHINGTON Dec. 4.-Government sci
entists in the Bureau of Standards, the
Weather Bureau, and the Navy Department,
have adopted an attitude regarding the Flett-
ner invention, which though not entirely
skeptical is distinctly cautious. The Magnus
or Bernouli principle, they say is common
place and perfectly well known; but pre-
liminary calculations based on formulas
known at present, do not seem to indicate
the development of very large amounts of
power. They are for the most part adopting
''watchfully waiting" attitude.-Science
Service.
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Rev W. G. Duke, of East, Tallahassee,
Ala, dropped into our office last week to
pay his respects to our force. He likes The
Tri-Weel1ly Journal and has taken it for
years. We are always glad to see our sub
scribers and are never too busy to stop to
shake hands and pass the time of day.
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THE SEA HAWK

BY RAFAEL SNBAIINI
published by Arrangement With First National Pictures,
Inc Copyrighted by Houghton-MiIfhn CompahyD
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Tell It to- Little Miss Fixit
If anything is wrong in service from
The Tri-Weekly Journal, let us know.
Send letter or postcard to Little Miss
Fixit, who will quick
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Continued Thursday. Renew your sub
scription now to avoid missing chapter.
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' ONE, say this with me- Let US Join
hands, face the tempest and repeat our
creed, the Greed Of Power.
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TIN HE Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune said
what the young folks call mouth
full the other day in the following
Evening star., 1924-06-19
HARDING MEMORIAL =.
? PLANNED IN CANADA
Z
Kiwanis Clubs Propose Bronze and
h Granite Tablet in Stanley
Park, Vancouver.
BY the Associated Press.

DENVER, Col, June ia large
granite and bronze memorial to the
late President Harding is to be erect
led at Stanley Park, Vancouver. Can
ada, it was announced yesterday at
the eighth annual convention of the
%Kiwanis Club International. The late
President was a charter member of
the kiwanis Club of Marion, Ohio.
The site chosen is where the late
President made one of his last public
addresses.
The memorial will take the form
of semi circular granite seat, with
the back higher in the center, upon
(which a bronze bas-relief of the for.
.mer Presidents profile will be placed,
together with an inscription which
will contain an expression of his made
on Canadian soil shortly before his
death.
The plan for the memorial was
proposed by the board of trustees OF
the Kiwanis International in the an.
nual report presented yesterday oy
John H. Moss of Milwaukee. Ihe
memorial will be erected through
popular subscriptions from kiWan.
ians throughout the United States and
Tonight the 5000 delegates were
the guests of the local kiwanis Clup
at the staging of a pageant at the
Denver Civic Center, depicting The
Days of Fifty-Nine."
Evening star., 1924-06-19
CHINESE BANDITS REDUCE
RANSOM FOR MISSIONARY
Only $4,000 Asked for Release of
E. 81. Carne of Australia, In
stead of 100000.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CANTON, China, June 19.-Chinese
bandits holding E. H. Carne of Aus
tralia, one of four missionaries cap
tured by them late last month. now
are asking only 100000 ransom for
his release.
News of the reduction in ransom
100000 and large quantity of arms
and ammunition. was brought to
Wuchow yesterday by Rex Ray, one
of the American missionaries, who
escaped from the bandits during a
heavy storm. He reached Chaoping
the morning of June IL, and WI
chow yesterday.
Carne, according to Ray. refused
to escape, despite the excellent op-
portunity. Twenty Chinese and four
white men were captured when the
Chinese raided the motorboat Roa-
noke, but two of the white men were
released within a few days that they
might arrange ransom for the others.
Ray was obliged to travel over the
mountains all night to make good his
escape.
The first two white men released,
DR. H G. Miller and the Rev. Robert
A. Jeffray. also experienced great DIFF
nculty in returning to Wuchow.
Confirmation of the report that
the Rev. Joseph Cunningham of
Salem, Va, had been killed by stray
bullet at the seige of the kweilin
missionaries, has been received. The
siege at Kweilin was still in progrsS
at last report. several American Bap-
tist missionaries being those fighting
off the bandit attack.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
BUSYTTME SCHEDULED
FOR PERSHING IN LONDON
Will Visit Prince Of Wales, Make
Pilgrimage to War Dead and
Attend Important Dinner.
By the Associated Press,

| By the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 19: During his
ing, who is expected to arrive to-
morrow, will visit the Prince OF
Wales, the Earl of Cavan, British
chief Of staff. and the war secretary,
Stephen Walsh, in addition to max
ing a pilgrimage to the graves OF the
American soldiers at Brookwood,
Surrey, with the other members OF
the American battle monuments COM
mission.
The first act of the American COM
mander after his arrival Will be to
place a wreath on the cenotaph in
Whitehall in the presence of depu-
tation from the war Office, but the
limited time of his visit will not
permit his acceptance of the many
official invitations extended by the
British government.
He will be the guest of American
Ambassador Kellogg, who Is giving
dinner Monday evening to all the
members of the commission ana a
number of Englishmen. including
Premier Macdonald, John Robert
Clynes, war privy seal; Lord, and
Lady Astor, the Earl of Balfour and
the Earl of Cavan.
Gen. Pershing, Senator and Mrs.
David A. Reed and Ambassador and
Mrs. Kellogg will be the guests of
Lord and Lady Astor on Sunday at
Cliveden, where they will meet sew
eral prominent Anglo-Americans.