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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-18
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irving S. Cobb

1t is only fair that once in awhile story
having frugality it's theme should be told
on member of some other race than the
Scotch. For one, l tired Of hearing tales
such as one | heard the other day. -
A man describing what happened
when an Aberdonan was by the plantive
plea a mendicant moved to- practice phan-e
thropy.
"He listened" said the narrator, to the
pitiable story of the beggar and then he
slowly reached for his pocketbook and
opened it, But I Judge he hadn't practiced
much charity lately. Because, as he opened
it, two moths flew out"
From such lbels as this | turn with relief
to the little yarn of the Vermont country
boy who took his best girl for "a ride past
where a street carnival was showing they
neared booth at which fresh, hot buttery
popcorn was being sold 80,
'Mv. my! Ezra, don't that smell good?''
said the young lady.
Ezra checked his horse.
Don't whut smell good?" he asked.
''Whv. that popcorn they've got yonder,,
well yes" admitted Ezra, 1T does smen
kind of nice III drive up a little closer
SOS YOU kin cit a better smell.
Copyright, 1920
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fered Hamlet Thou wilt give another
twenty?"
mot another asper'
''They are thine, then o Ali, for two hun
dred and thirty. Give thanks to Allah for
so good bargain
The Nubians were surrendered to Airs
followers, whilst the dalal's two assistants
advanced to settle accounts with the corsair.
Wait, watt said he, sis not the name of
Sakr-el-Bahr good warranty?'
The inyiolable law is that the purchase
money be paid ere a slave leaves the market
O valiant Ali"
ut sail be observed" was the impatient
answer, land | will so pay before they leave
But want others yet. and will make one
account and it please thee. That fellow yon-
der now. | have orders to buy him for my
captain And he indicated Lionel, who
stood at Rosamund's side, the very incarna-
ton of Woefuness and debility.
Contemptuous surprise fickered an in
slant in the eyes of the dalai But this he
made haste to dissemble
Bring forth that yellow-haired inidel
he commanded.
Ayoub-el-Samn across the quadrangle, a jest
this that evoked a general laugh.
What else?' quOth Ali. He should be
cheap at least"
Cheap" quoth the dalai in an affection
of surprise Nay, now. IT'S a comedy fell
q give,
now? A hundred philips?"
"A hundred phiips?" cried Ali derisively.
"A hundred philips for that skinful of
bones Mash allah. Five philips is my
price, O dalai"
Again laughter cracked through the mob.
But the dalai stiffened with an increasing
dignity. Some of that laughter seemed to
touch himself and he was not a person to
be made the butt of mirth
p" ,Tis jest, my master" said he with a
for2lving yet contemptuOus wave. Behold
how sound he is.
He signed to one of the corsairs and
LionelS doublet slit from neck to Cir
die and wrenched away from his body, leav-
ing him naked TO the waist, and displaying
better proportions than might have been
expected. In a passion at that indignity
Lionel writhed in the grip of his guards un-
til one of the cOrsairs struck him a light
blow with whip in earnest of what to ex-
pect if he continued to be troublesome
Consider him now" said the dalai point
ing 10 that white torso. And behold how
sound he is. See how excellent are his
teeth.
He seized Lioners head and forced the
jaws apart.
Aye" said Ali. but consider me those
lean shanks and that woman's arm"
lis fault the oar will mend" the
dalai insisted.
You filthy blackamoors." burst from
Lionel in sob of rage.
He is muttering curses in his infide
tongue" said Ali. His temper is none too
good, you see. I have said five philips
I'll say more"
With shrug tho dalai hesan MS circuit
Of the we'll. the corsairs thrusting Lionel
after him. Here one rose to handle him.
/ there another. but none seemed disposed TO
/ purchase.
! Five philips is the foolish price offered
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

And one of the company said unto Him
Master, speak to my brother that he
divide the inheritance with me-" And He
said unto him, 'Man, who made me a
Judge or dipider oper you" And he
said INTO them, "Take heed, and beware
of copetouSness, for a mans life consist
eth not in the abundance of things which
he possesseth. From the Twebth Chap
ter of the Gospel of St. Luke, thirteenth to
Sixteenth perSeS.
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The straight and narrow path IS not
adapted to the requirements or the lholvlu-
nal who is inclined to spread himself.
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LONG age though it has been since
ShakesEeare's merry forester went
caroling, "Heigh no! sing heigh no
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While she struggles with her problem, consider the other people in this little drama.
 They were MT. and Mrs. Chris Anderson and their two children. Ten years ago the father and mother had come over from Denmark, a bride and bridegroom. From a helper in a grocery store, Chris soon rose to ownership of a small delicatessen which the two started in a new and growing neighborhood. They did not get rich in those ten years, but they prospered and the end of the time found them with a good sized bank account. @
 Just a little while ago had come a letter from Denmark from Chris brother, telling him that his mother would never see another Christmas and that her only desire was
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 ham and of Lot, and the city of Sodon, the great torrent of Jordan has, flled in a delta. at the upper end of the sea, equal to one-seventh of the eyap- orating surface of the sea. This caused. the sea to rise until it could run over at the southern end and sub merge the plain where the ruined cities stoods st
 For { loAs time the sea rose but little more, because it could still run over and spread out at the southern plain. About a hundred years. age. or less, 1t reached the higher ground around that edge and so the sea be- gan to rise again and, the delta still filling in, it has submerged the forest along the edges of the sea on the plain, as we have. seen.
 There the cities destroyed by the fire are now hidden in their fallen estate by the merciful waters. Why, just there? Because the metropolises of the world are at the junction of water coufSess 1Is it common sense to suppose it, different here on the plain? There at the heart of the. devastation the water courses meet, and there the cities stood. Yonder on the edge of the mountain desert they buried their. dead and worshiped their gods and built their great fortress to guard the frontier, north and east, ',
 That which, will impress all who. read this account, as it impressed all engaged in the; researches, is the trust. worthiness of the Biblical record in, all that pertains to the cities of the plain. Moreover, this is but single, instance of the general course of such discoveries during the last hundred years. Archaeologists do not find that the ancients falsified their documents nor were they indifferent to the ae- curacy of their record.
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tablished for many other investigators authentic data concerning various pc riods of history. Articles of iron and textile fabrics have rusteC and routed, but the potsherds have not perished.@
 Old pots in Palestine indicate the ages from which they come as posi- lively as do Dolton and Limoges indi- cate the ages and stage of modern ceramic art in Europe. In the past twenty years the science of pottery has been carefully worked out in con- nection with archaeological exploita- tions. Now there is known very defi- nitely the pottery which belonged to the Early Bronze Age, 2500-1800 B. C., the Middle Bronze Age, 1S00-1600, and the late Bronze Age, from 1900 to more indefinite date. It was because of this recent development of the sci ence of potsherds that the Xenia Sem mary expedition was able to make the first really archaeological survey of the region of the civilization of Sodom and Gomorrah.
 But our objective was in the plain, not at Kerak We changed to mule I teer pack and started down-5, ,000 feet in a few miles. ,s l We had literally combed the plain for information. ~ -'e " Y I Water Is Clew to. Cities
 An identification of the ancient city l of Zoar made by General Kitchener in the foothills of the mountains of Moab, we found to be inaccurate. A mountain fortress such as that at oiohk ka tain, to guard the caravan road, but the inhabitants of the plain dwelt near the water. All the heaps of ancient ruins are along the water course.
 But what might not be at the bot tom of these' heaps of ruins dotting the plain? We had to find out. Our Bedouin diggers went down to the virgin sand and gravel. We found not trace of anything that went back within two thousand years of the time of Sodom. Here was an exact paral- Tel to the silence of Scripture concern ing this region from the time of Abra- ham on.
 When our excavations, however, had led us as far as the shore of the sea real discovery awaited us. On the east side of the sea was a submerged forest extending in places about a mile out from the shore Another sub merged forest was along the western side of this lower end of the sea. These trees grew on dry land; cer- tainly within hundred years, prob ably less.
 Does it need an archaeolosist to tell the reader what this means :? The sea has been rising. There are other evidences. I have myself been making observations on the Dead Sea for thirty-two years. When l first saw the sea there was a beautiful island in the north end. In 1924 passed over that island in eight feet of water.
 Salt Mountain Cleans
 We traversed the shore and came m
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eff it only was not so near Christmas" said Minna, the wife, i've could sell easy and be in Copenhagen by Christ mas Eve. But no one wants to buy a delicatessen store at this time of the year, for all they are thinking of is Christmas presents"
 ''Well, we will try a Want Ad," said Chris, and the same instinct of salesman ship he had exhibited in his business, inspired him to write the complete G1tnott1tce- 1,se1st above that told the whole story. '' .s,. ,....-...
 But that will cost too much" said Minna when he read it aloud to her. Cant you get it in three lines?"
 "Yes, and cut down the prospects to maybe nobody, while if 1 put in a big ad that attracts attention, I may get
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 of the gods by the people of the plain in the days of Abraham and before that time. The sparkling fresh water. fer tile fields and fig trees attest the rich, ness of the plain in which the cities stood. The extensiveness of the ceme- -tery at Bab ed-Drd and the size and strength of the fortress give a guaran. tee that more than sustains the Biblical references to the greatness of the metropolis of Sodcm.
 The precisely typical character of the shrine with its seven, sacred pillars puts this civilization exactly alongside the civilization of that age elsewhere in Palestine. For the date of all this we have the distinct pottery of the Early Bronze Age, as conclusive as printed books are of the modern age of printing. it
 The geologista, as we have seen, show us exactly what took. place here in It the elements of naturezt the bed of rock salt mixed with free sulphur, rent and torn and upiifteds They have shown us the oil field with its by-product of asphalt and the source of the gasses that .ruptured the stratum and carried salt and sulphur into the heavens, and let them descend, red hot, sending ur such a column of smoke as only hot asphalt can generate. The geologist cannot tell us the time of these events but the Bible tells us that, and the pottery substantiates the Bible records
 How Sea Covered Ruins
 We know also the curious hydro. graphic history of the sea during the last four thousand years. Water runs into the Dead sea, but does Aot run out. Its only escape is evaporation But evaporation depends upon the ex. tent of evaporating surface. A broad basin sends up more steam than a narrow one. Since the days of Abra
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b a- . :. s|--+ Itt, at any subsequent date--was actually here.
 Besides the evidence of the. pot tery we also found the High Place, with its stone circle and seven sacred standing stones. There were also the remains of great fort ress that guarded this frontier, the sacred place, and the cemetery. This was at least one of the ceme- teries and High Place of the Cities known as Bad ed-Dra, and seems to have been place. of pilgrimage similar to Gilgal for Israel.
 We had found everything we hoped for; the evidence for the Cities of the Plain was complete, but still more was in store for us. In 1908 I excavated around the base of statute of Ram. eses the Great at the Temple of Luxor, and found an inscription in which he boasted of having made conquest of Moab. This certified the existence of the civilization in Moab as carly. as thetime of the Exodus. Thei Bible represents that civilization to have be- gun with the flight of Lot to the noun tains of Moab, when he was afraid to stay longer in Zoar.
 A few days after the discovery at Bab ed-Dra, a Moabite temple was found at Alder in the mountains east of the Dead Sea. It is similar in con struction to Solomon's temple only smaller and ruder.~ The pottery here dated this temple at the latter part of the Early Bronze Age, 1S00-1600 B. c. Thus are confirmed both the Biblical date for the rise of Moabite civilization and Rameses' claim for it's importance in his day, just before the Exodus.
 Coming down over the long centuries, of silence to the present, we now know the burial of the dead and the worship
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Romances of the W.antAds.

'-1 @ '. -+ @ 'A half a dozen people interest sl ed and sos get my price. Aren't you willing to spend a couple of dollars more to, make $200". .i
 And Minna was convinced,
 s4 .-, e,.
 On her way home from the lawyers; where she had signed the papers disposing of her home, Mrs. Blaine read the Want Ad in The Age-Herald. The familiar address caught her eye, for it was her own neighborhood where she had many, many friends; Then the word "delicatessen" held her; it connoted pies and pickles and homemade salads and :. big shanks of pink ham meat all the things she loved. to make a fuss over and evolve. The detail of the rent being provided for, by the bread and milk sales appealed to her practical instinct. and that detail she could easily investigate by looking at the books. All the Want Ad told. her instantly quickened and stirred her interest.S........ So the inspiration was born.
 ''Why, Icould run such a store! It is the only thing l can do. Of course I never cooked on a large scale, ex- cept at church suppers, but surely they will tell me how to do it," were her thoughts. ;
 That is why a motherly woman in d crisp white apron now waits, on the growing line of customerslin this delicatessen store and has. to take orders ahead for her lemon meringue pie and potato salad. s
 And that is. why an. old ;. bed-ridder mother in far-offs Copenhagen clung to her son on Christmas Eve as though she would never let him go while he, telling about his business to his brother, showed the tiny clipping that had made the ocean trip pos sible before it was too late.
 That's the way they do things in the new country" , he said, "You decide you want to sell your store. Here, you might await months there you print this Want Ad in a newspaper, and a few days later you have your money in your hand"
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TrGgedy of SOdOn And Gqn'orrah ah As
 ReL1ted In Bible

THE HISTORY of the destruc-
 tion of Sodom and Gomorrah
 and Lots wife who was turned into a pillar of salt, was an old story in ancient times. Nearly two thousand years ago the author of St I,nke wrote: Remember Lots Wife" And at that time Lots wife was already as remote in the past as the author of St. Luke is distant from us.
 The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis XIX, 24-2S, as follows:
 Then Jehovah rained upon SOdom and Gomorrah brim- stone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven. And He Over' threw those cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But z lots wife looked back from behind him and she became Q pillar of salt. < =
 And Abraham got up early q C in the morning to the place = where 1t had stood before
 Jehovah. And he looked to. -' ward Sodom and GonOrrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld. and To, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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Only a few lines of cold type, yet they changed pro- foundly the .destinies of half a dozen people, bridged the Atlantic ocean and brought Christmas happiness to 8 dying bedside. .
 How did they do it?
 There was Mrs. John Blaine. The quintessence of domesticity-her three chief interests in life, her home, her church and her lodge she might have been like scores of other women in her neighborhood, but for her marvellous gift as a cook.
 Did she offer you the ordi- nary pie for dessert? No, it was an intricate puff paste, light as angels wings, flaky as new fallen snow. Did. her cake taste like the simple kinds the average housewife attempts? It was always some esoteric varie- ty, calling for all the unusual ingredients, requiring a delft, experienced hand to mix and measure and stir and bake-the result a subli- mated confection fit to serve with celestial ambrosia. As for her jellies and conserves, she had more rich, syrupy connections of fruit and sugar and spices than the originator of the 57 varie- ties,
 The; members of her lodge never left her home after the meeting without taking a sheaf of new recipes. She had been on the refreshment committee of the ladies' aid society of her church for 12. years.
 Then her husband died. Even before his death, the home had seemed too big for the two of them, as the children one by one deserted to start homes of their own. So when an offer came to buy it, she sold immediately. And then she found herself confronted with the problem that scores of women in such
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to see her oldest son and his family, and was it possible for him to bring them all for a visit? Since thes mother could not live long, Sthere would be a littlessmon to divide after her death and 1t might be, if Chris wanted to return to this country, that he, the brother, would sell out his business and they would take their savings and joint inheritance and start the biggest delicatessen in the city.
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By MRS. LEROY J:a BOU YER


 crises have had to face what to do?
 She must <be active and useful she must be inde- pendent, So living with any of her children was out of the question; she coundn't live on the interest from her principal. Her sheltered, do- mestic life had unfitted her for contact with the business world. What did these ..'hoi1le bodies" like herself do when there was no longer a home ?
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lion which he led into the regiO4 of the Dead Sea. The party discovered the first scientific evidence of the ac- tual existence of the ancient cities which were destroyed by a rain of birthstone and fire at the time Lots wife, looking back, was turned into. pillar. of 'salt@ -. s,.. =. The expAdition, according to Dr. Kyle, showed fhat the two cities were, destroyed as descrihsd,s and Dr. Kyle says the fate of Lorssr'wife is, scien- l ti6cally possible. rs1'
 The investigations of Dr. Kyle and his fellow explorers, accomplished in association with the American School of Oriental Research .,at Jerusalem investigations of outstanding historical importance-me with a success de- nied to previous. seafcherS because. of recent. developments in the study of ancient pottery: It. is now possible to determine the date of ruins from fragments of pottery. Dr. Kyle, found corroboration of the Biblical story in pottery of the Early Bronze Age, 25OO- 1900 B. tC. + S6dorn was destroyed at least 300. years before the death of the Egyptian kings ,Tutankhamen, and possibly much earlier. Lot was the nephew of Abraham, and according to some authorities the latter entered into this region about 23O0 B. C. more than a thousand years before the Trojan war and eighteen centuries be- fore the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon.
 Dr. Kyle thoroughly explored the region of the Dead Sea, the lowest sheet of water in the world-a region in which civilization is said to have been established by Lot. In this vicinity drilling for oil is now being carried on. According to Dr. Kyle the site of the cities which were destroyed by fire now lies under the rising waters of the Dead Sea. '>t F,''
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Destruction Of SOdom And GOmOrrah
 Confirmed

Science has at last conquered in it's long search for the sites of the wicked biblical cities of Sodom and Go- morrah, says Dr. Melvin Grove Kyle, eminent archaeolo- gist. In the follow ing article he sets forth the results of the recent expedi-
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By MELVIN GROVE KYLE, D. D., lTID

: President of Xenia Theological Sem mary, St. Louis; Egyptologist; mem Der, society for Biblical literature and exegesis, Archaeological Institute of Al America American Oriental society; and Victoria Institute, London.
 Searching for .Sodom is not as simple a matter as it sounds. It is not enough to find some old ruin supposed to be
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For SGIe = dekcGtessen 4ip( good location meGr [ stdtiom and moUie the- :, dtre. SdIe Of milk and
 breed pGys rent. Nee0 store fi&tMres.. Ot0ners ? :lDnSt to return to old ; country and must sell. $1,600 W tII handle. H1J1
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morrow. It doesn't cramp or overact. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs.
 Ask your druggist for genuine Cali fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup.-Adv.
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CHARGED WITH EVAPORATION

X CHICAGO, June 20-Charged with attempting to extort $10,0O0 from the Rev. Louis Grudlnski, pastor of a Polish Catholic church, Harry Kochan- owski, 43, is held at the county jail, pending investigation.
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ls a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bil. ious Fever. It kills the germs.