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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irving S. Cobb

lnls story hrst became popular I believe
IN the old local option days 1t is quite a.
applicable, though, now that prohibition ia
a nationwide proposition, as it was when
the various states and counties commended
Win the drink problem each in it's own wav
According to the earlier version. green-
norm landed in dry town out west and set
forth to find the wherewithal for the curin q
or a great thirst. After he had made tha
painful discovery that it was impossible to
ootalh req llquor unless the buyer was
known personally to the vendors he having
no acquaintance in the community, besough
compassonate-looking citizen to give him
AID. The native advised him to consult a
physician professionally
Inc suppl1ant invaded the nearest doctors
office.
Doc" he began, with no delaying pre-
amble, I'D like to get prescription for a bot
tie of whisky"
can't serve you, my friend, unless you
need the stuff" stated the medico. "To do
otherwise would be against the law" r.
Well, don't | look like l need it?"
mat may be, but according to the
statutes l can only minister to your health.
not to your appetite. Now, for instance. II
you had just been bitten by poisonous
snake-say a rattlesnake-I could HELM Won
out because that would constitute an emer-
gency-your life, so to speak, would be at
stake Have you ever been bitten by rat
tIesnake?"
mo" e
well, go and get bitten".
'Where'll l go?"
you'll find snake right back OF the
drug store across the street. A lot of my
patrons patronize him"
Filled with hope, the tourist hurried away.
In half hour he returned, shaking his
head despondently and with grief written
large upon his face.
mo. use," he moaned.
whats the matter?" inquired the phv-
stefan.
''Nothing's the matter with me-" explained
the other, "but the snake Is too derned tired
to bite stranger"
Copyright, 1924) .@i
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
The So1Oers

IN the death of Ferdinand Won Lochow
! Germany has lost her greatest agricul-
turistl He lived and died in the little
town Of Petkus, whose name he gave to his
major achievement-Petkus rye, which, 1t
s said, revolutionized German grain culture.
The yield Of this variety of rye on the thin
sandy German soil is so superior to earlier
varieties that eighty per cent of the rye
acreage in Germany is now planted with it
The world knows Of this man only through
a few paragraphs. He planted Ger
many in rye, and kept the poor alive. Oh
the Kaiser thousand volumes have been
written and today his every movement Is
noted and every sentence quoted He
planted Germany with dead mems bones
and burdened their widows and orphans
with half a century of debt.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
THE ATLANTA rRl,whElLY JOURNAL

as wise as it is true. Columbus, We are told,
has reserved one thousand square feet Of the
seven thousand allotted to Georgia in the
taken liberal areas. Savannah stands pledg
ed to her full part. Others are moving into
line. What will Atlanta do? Her business
leaders will see to it, we doubt not, that she
does all which may be expected Of the capital
of the commonwealth and the metropolis of
the southeast. But the demand Is urgent,
Commerce be given prompt and liberal sup
port in it's efforts in this admirable under
taking.
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QUIZ
ina ination

ANY Tri-WeekIy journal reader can
get the answer to any question puZzlng
him by writing to The Atlanta journal
Information Bureau, Frederic j. Has
kim director, Washington, ID. g., and
inclosing a two-cent stamp for return
postage. DO NOT SEND TT TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
@. Do elephants breed in captivity?
l.. A
that elephants do breed in captivity. In
fact, Princess Alice Can elephant in the
City park at Salt Lake City, gave birth to
baby elephant in 1918. Within recent
years several elephants have been born in
Copenhagen, Denmark. The period of ges-
taton is twenty-five months.
Q. Has Princeton university always been
so-called? ]. P. H.
A. When chartered in 1746 this school
was known as the College Of New Jersey, and
was located at Elzabethtown. 1t was moved
to Princeton in 1856, but it not until
October %, 1895, that the corporate title
changed to Princeton university.
Q. How many Irishmen fought for Eng
land in the World war? E. T.
A. A total of 1852 Irishmen from Ire
land served in the British army and navy,
according to the Irish National bureau This
was 6.5 per cent of Ireland's total popula-
ton.
Q. What are the requirements for jury
service? NJ. NJ. S.
A. To serve on a grand jury a man must
be twenty-one years of age but under sixty
five, must be able to read. write, and under
stand English, must be citizen of the United
States and resident Of the county within
which the jury is to act, and must not have
been convicted of any crime involving moral
turpitude.
Q. From what part of the tree is figured
walnut made? l. H.
A. In the average tree the only place
where a decided figure is found is in the
stump. Figured walnut is also made from
large growths, known burls, which may
be found occasionally the trees. All
these pieces of wood are used yeneers.
Q. Is it true that a rattlesnake's rattles
are noiseless when wet? n. V.
A. The Biological Survey says that the
idea that rattlesnake can not rattle when
its rattles are wet from swimming, or being
in wet grass or rain storms, is incorrect.
Q. In how many states must the Bible
be read in the public schools? V. B. S.
A. Seven states provide by law for Bible
reading in the public schools. There are II
states which prohibit Bible reading in the
schools. while in so states the Bible may
be read In the schools
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were always in accord from carly manhood
until death made separation. General
Toombs was always the center Of every group
when he present Mr. Stephens once told
me that General Toombs in his prime was
the most impressive figure he ever saw, at
home or in the national capital. HE was
as handsome as picture" said Uncle Aleck.'
| made an address in Washington, Ga, in a
meeting called Farmers Institute which
meetings Hon. Harvie Jordan conducted in
many Georgia towns-maybe twenty years ago.
Before the time set for my departure | went to
the cemetery and stood by the tomb of the
great Georgian, also Of his wife that he loved
so dearly. 1t will be remembered that long
time elapsed after the Civa1 War was over be-
fore General Toombs had his disabilities" re-
moved by Federal action. Perhaps he never
did perform in such manner until the General
Amnesty Bill was carried through the National
Congress. His integrity political leader
was never questioned, | now recOllect, and
when he made stump speech he fairly Bills
tered his opponents.
There was never any lodging compro-
mises-he struck from the shoulder-and with
out any APOLOGIES Like all of mortal kind he
had some weaknesses, but he was exactly and
emphatically politician who spoke his con-
victions without fear favor in any cam
paign | wonder what he would say If he
could came back to US and could discuss the
present condition of Georgia politics.
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S there an attic in your house? And is
4 it messed up with old furniture?
n Are there dust-coyered \chairs with
broken legs? Is that an ancient trunk over
there half full of things that you have for
gotten why you are keeping?
They are no good. They never will be.
Here is three Quarters of bed and yon-
der are two pictureless frames. Just here is
a mirror which you can look through but
which doesn't reflect.
Well-thats an attic, a garnet, limbo.
But it Is not the only attic 1t is not the
only limbo.
There is in so many OF us an attic of the
mind. It's bad place. 1t has excuse for
being
Into it We stuff broken ambitions, out
WORN ideals mean thoughts which we ought
to destroy utterly, but which we cling to and
thrust into the attic.
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atlanta $ and Georgia s Part
In the Southern EXPOSITION

- OES Georgia need to participate in the
held next January in New York City,
with the certainty of attracting visitors from
all regions of America? And should Atlanta
take leading part in that important enter
prise?
We have seen nothing by way OF answer
more cogent than these lines in recent let
ter to Mr.. B. S. Barker, secretary of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce, from Off
cial of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Exchange, of New York: II sent, this morn
ing, to- the consolidated offices of all the
railroads to get some descriptive literature
about Georgia. but there was none to be had
There was plenty about Florida. New York
ers know very little about Gsorgia's manu-
features or it's agricultural development,
outside of cotton Upwards of six million
persons reside in Greater New York, while
some two hundred and fifty thousand visit
ors from every corner of the continent and
from QlStanC SHORES are daily tnrOnSlnS 1tS
streets. Surely, it behooves the Souths EN-
pire State, with products to sell and with re-
sources to develop to seize an opportunity
Of making them better known to these null
titudes!
Such an opportunity, and one of rarest
worth, is afforded by the Southern EXPOSE
ton, to be staged in the nations metropolis.
Through that novel and sagacous enterprise
come hither and see, will so herself to the
greatest world-market of America and there
set forth in highly appealing exhibits The
resources that enrich and the achievements
that distinguish her. Regrettable as it is that
the Legislature of Georgia did not emulate
those of neighbor commonwealth in provid-
ing funds for State exhibit, that very TACT
becomes an especial challenge to the patriot
ism OF our people The deficiency must be
and will be made up by private interest and
public spirit. Where the Carolinas and Flor
Ida and Alabama and Tennessee and all the
rest OF Dixie are to be represented in IN
stinted measure Georgit can not afford t. be
conspicuous by her absence.
The cities OF the State are rallying TO the
opportunity and the need with patrio tism
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
Ten Years OF the Canal

HE tenth anniversary OF the opening
of the Panama canal to world traffic
has found the great waterway, which
visionless men were wont to call a dream .
more serviceable than even its ardent build
ers thought it would become in so brief a
time. Every hour brings ship to its
gates. Flags of all seafaring nations flutter
above it's tides-British, Norwegian, Danish,
Spanish, CHILEAN, Peruvian, japanese. Its
revenue for the decade has been approx
mateIy one hundred million dollars, while
it's annual income from tolls now suffices
both for it's upkeep and for interest on the
investment. At the present rate of traffic
growth, say the authorities, the canal will
have to be enlarged greatly by 1850. And
this was the enterprise to which folk with
out imagination opposed their blind "imnes-
sibles" Faith Is the world s master builder.
The usefulness of the Panama canal both
to the United States and to other nations
appears In the commerce it has developed
In the fiscal year 1919 it afforded passage
to two thousand and twenty-four ocean
going vessels, and in the fiscal year 1928 to
three thousand nine hundred and sixty
seven such vessels. Still more remarkable
the volume of merchandise thus transported
increased during that period from six mil
h,Ird md al vt
cargo tons to nineteen million, five hundred
and sixty-seven thousand. Except for the
canal much of this commerce would not
have been; certainly hundreds Of vessels
that found transit from ocean to ocean by
forty placid miles would never have ven
tured the weary leagues to Cape Horn and
the perilous waters of Magellan.
Between our own Atlantic and Pacific
shores the canal has created new and ex-
ceedingly important lines of water-borne
trade; and for our navy has reduced to a
few hours a voyage that formerly consumed
weeks For steamers New York has been
brought nearer to San Francisco by some
eight thousand miles, ana LlNerpool nearer
to the chief port of Peru by fortnight.
From New York to Yokohama the saving in
distance is thirty hundred miles; to
Shanghai more than sixteen hundred, and to
hundred miles. Moreover, Yokohama is
brought eighteen hundred miles nearer to
New York than to Liverpool, and Sydney,
twenty three hundred nearer to New YORK
than to Liverpool.
Looking back over these first ten years
of the canals wondrous service and for
ward to it's still greater probabilities, we
marvel anew at the glory and the power for
which the world has to thank it's thinkers,
it's darers, it's minds Of courage and of
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25

Into the garnet of the mind we put ideas
and schemes and sordid aspirations that we
know are unworthy. But we are not quite
strong enough to cast them out forever.
So the attic OF the mind clogs up and be-
comes mean and dusty place.
1t is healthy thing for minds and our
souls to keep everlasting!y eliminating the
old furniture of the head and heart.
Instead of thrusting them into the dust
hole check off and throw out every un-
worthy thing. Check them off for life.
Leave no garrets for unhappy rummagers.
Memory is a wondrous servant but you
can keep the memory-serYant at work upon
tasks that are not worth while.
To be able to forget things that are I'M
worthy is a great and good art. 1t smooths
the path. 1t adds sweetness to life.
Copyright, 1924.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
THE COUNTRY HOME
| GENERAL TOOMBS AND HIS DEVOTION
TO HIS WIFE
BY MRS. W Il. EE

GENERAL TOOMBS AND HIS DEVOTION
TO HIS WIFE
IT WAS my good fortune to get we'll ac-
quainted with General Robert Toombs in
his later years and read the late edi-
rial in The Daily Journal with much interest
which told of his affectionate letter to his
wife before her death, and of it's lover-like
devotion. The last time | ever saw this dis
tineuished Georgian his health had been fail
ing seriously We called to see him at the
Kmball House, in Atlanta, and found him
resting on his bed--an invalid With chiyalric
courtesy he insisted that we should go to the
parlor, and during our stay l sat beside him
on a sofa and listened to his story Of the grief
his wife's death had afflicted him. His mind
was concerned with those memories and | was
a little alarmed to hear him say "She is near
me- constantly" Would you be surprised il
should tell you I feel her presence here, at
this timer
In a short time thereafter he passed away
We were in Washington City when he adj
dressed the Supreme Court in law case about
1873 or 1879, and [ saw him quite often with
Hon Alex Stephens, who had rooms in the
old National Hotel General Toombs was with
his old friend very often, and except one mis-
understanding, which grew out of a msdi-
rected letter, which should have gone to Wash
ington, Ga, but was detained dead letter
in Washington, d. c.. these old-time friends
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CHAPTER ~
An Invitation

GOWN ILL you have dinner with me this
w EVENING" And even as he asked
the question, Matthew was struck
with the righteousness of it. Certainly it
would seem so to this girl who stood be-
fore him. What would she think? Would
she leap to the conclusion that he was try
ing to start filtration? Would she look
upon it in the light of the usual relation
ship existing between the man of affairs
and his employee? 1t would be strange if
she didn't.
You want me to have dinner with youq"
Into jules cheeks had crept faint pink
color, but she did not shipper or try to APP
pear coy
Matthew found himself enormously re-
lieved.
I'D like to have talk with you" he
went on quickly. "Of course. this must
seem absurd to you, but l assure YOU
Miss Benton, I'm quite sincere. I have no
Interior motive in mind"
Strange words for him to be saying and
after ALL wasn't he taking a chance? Sun
pose this girl misunderstood him and re-
peated his invitation to other members of
the office force What would they saw.
what would they think? And yet some
how he could not believe that this girl
would do such a thing. There some
thing about her, something different, and
now she was smiling little, and her blue
eyes twinkled with humor.
1T like that very much" Her voice was
not quite steady. Inwardly she was excited
her heart beating fast She did not un-
derstand why Mr.. Strong was asking her to
dine with him, but there was something about
the way he had put his invitation that robbed
her of any fear to his motive Furthermore.
she liked him. she respected him. From the
first he had been Kind to her. and there was
no reason why she should SUSPECT him now.
Just the same. after she had left the office and
was back at her own desk, she began to be
oppressed with faint msgivings
He had asked her to meet him at the Hotel
Maranac. She. who had never been inside one
Of the large hotels to have dinner there
with her employer. mao nf culture and breed
ing, who knew many women in his own world.
She suddenly appalled, at the situation.
She afraid. afraid of her ignorance of the
fact that she might not know what TO do. And
why did he want to talk with her. There was
something mysterious about it all. and in spite
of her longing to go she began to wish vaguely
that she had never accepted
That noon Julie ate sandwich and drank
glass of milk at a nearby drug store. After
ward she took the subway UPTOWN. and forced
herself to enter the lobby of the Hotel Mara
nae. Something told her that if she accus-
, toned herself somewhat to what entirely
strange and unusual. she might not be so
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-25
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
There Wds little city, and fen men
within it; and there came a great king
against it, and besieged it, and built great
bulwarks against It, Now there mas found
in it poor wise man, and he by his wis-
dom deliDered the city; yet no man re-
membered that same poor man. Then said
/, Wisdom is better than strength; never
theleSs the poor mans wisdom is deSpised,
and his WOrdS are not heard. Wisdom is
better than Weapons of war.-ECcleSins-
teS 9:14-18.
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overwhelmed that evening, and although she
was not at all certain herself, intuition told
her to behave as though she had come there
to meet some
At first she could hardly see for the blur
before her eyes but when after a few minutes
the pounding of her heart subsidized she walk
ed deliberately to one Of the chairs in the
famous Flamingo Alley, and sat down NO
one seemed to notice her particularly Eacn
was intent upon his or her own business, ana
Julie sat there for fifteen minutes, studying
the crowd. the dresses, furs, hats and wraps
of the women. Many of these women were
dressed quite simply, but with a charm that
was unmistakable a charm that she herself
lacked 1t struck her suddenly that she would
have to come here tonight with Mr.. Strong.
in the same clothes she wore each day to the
office her old tweed suit and the black hat
she had worn two winters. Panic seized her.
She couldn't do it. And yet dimly she realized
that she must nerve herself to go through
with it. This her first chance to talk
with man of breeding, and she must make
the most Of it.
Saturday-"The Entering Wedge" and
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The Second Mrs. Strong


BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before-Matthew
Strong, feeling that his seventeen-year-
old daughter Claudia is strongly under
the influence of the gay younger set,
decides to marry again. He is attracted
toward Margaret Davenport until. her
behavior at a dinner party disgusts
ma Now go on with the story.
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ly and cheerfuly see
that things are made
right.
We want every sub
scriber 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 unayold-
able, but we want to
correct them quickly.
A ddrnSS.
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Tell It to Little Miss Fixit

If anything is wrong in service from
The Tri-WeekIy Journal, let us know.
Send letter or postcard to Little Miss
Fiyit who will mick
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

in an influential parish church IL mad BEEN
found necessary to provide the minister with
an assistant. Some difficulty was evidently.
experienced. Ultimately it appeared that a
suitable candidate had been found
Following the Sunday on which he preach
ed, woman member of the congregation
met an office bearer, whom she proceeded to
congratulate on their having secured such a
likely young man as prospective assistant.
"Oh, WELL" he said. Cts just ease OF
Hobson's CHOICE
Indeed" was the reply, "but who IS Hob
SOM"
Smith was taking his usual Sunday after
noon stroll with his latest acquisition-a dog
that would certainly have taken no prizes
One Of Smiths acquaintance met him. He
gazed meditatively at the canine at the end
Of the leash.
That's frightful-looking mongrel," =,
said frankly.
Sab" said the owner warningly; DOM
let him hear you. He thinks he's a fox ter
rier."
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Berlins young men of fashion are nov
having their clothes cut in the latest Eng
lish style.
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England has no mountains high enough
to be perpetuaIly covered with snow.
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Flying boats are being used to sight
herring off the northeast coast Of Eng
land.
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Saturday-"The Entering W edge" and
The Unexpected Happens"
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Women comprise the ma jorty OF all work
ers in the textile industry in England,
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saturday-"A Dramatic Leavctakinr."
MS story ends next Tuesday. Renew now
to avoid missing the conclusion
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HE tenth anniversary OF the opening
of the Panama canal to world traffic
has found the great waterway, which
Phillips County herald., 1924-03-20
FARMER-BANKER
MEETING NOTES

A recent farmer-banker conference.
held at Fargo. North Dakota. as one
Of a series being held under the aus
p!ces OF the Agricultural Commission.
American Bankers Association. to aid
in developing permanently better asri-
cultural conditions. was productive OF
number OF valuable and definite
measures for program OF action.
Reduction OF wheat acreage: II was
recommended that the farmers reduce
acreage 80 per cent from that OF 1928.
Diversified farming: The conference
declared that the ultimate success OF
agriculture depends upon proper d.
versiflcation.
Orderly marketing: Financial sup
port was approved to assist the order
ly marketing OF farm products.
Encourage homeseekers: Support
was pledged to all movements de-
signed TO encourage home seekers.
Reeonnm endations for immediate re-
lief: Bankers and business men were
urged to assist in providing storage