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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
WHEN LINCOLN WAS ASSASSIN

WHEN LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED
THE AppomattON surrender occurred
April Q, 1865. President Lincoln met
T. his fate April IA, 1865 less than a
week after the surrender. The president
and his wife, with an army officer and his
wife, occupied box in Ford's theater, and
all were in the best Of spirits.
The bloody carnage had ended.
The soldiers were going home to peaceful
pursuits once more The worn and anxious
president felt such relief that he gratifed
his family by going to the theater to see a
very amusing American play, and his mind
was at rest Wilkes booth, brother of the
great Edwin Booth, understood the presi-
dent would attend that night He had made
up his mind to kill Lincoln somewhere and
somehow. His mind was obsessed with rage
and hatred. He insane.
He came over from Baltimore, where his
mother and brother lived, took a room on
the third floor Of the National hotel and
waited for the time to arrive when he could
get near enough to shoot He determined
10 make a big thing of it. Possibly he ex-
pected to die himself but he had a horse
sadded and bridled at a back door of
the theater. He had some accomplices.
While the gay crowd were enjoying the
play Booth, who was entirely familiar with
the building and we'll known to the play
managers, quietly secreted himself in the
rear Of the presidents box, and placing the
muzzle of the pistol within few feet of Mr..
LlnCOIn'S ear, he nfed the fatal shot.
Then he jumped from the front of the
box to the stage, shouting, sic semper ty-
ranns" (Eyer thus to tyrants.)
He had spurs on his riding boots and one
foot caught in the decorative flags, and he
fell violently, breaking a leg. But he es-
capped on the horse, and although the search
for him was thorough and rigid, it was some
days before any trace of him was discovered.
But for the broken leg he might have really
escaped.
The story of his death was a feature in a
Washington newspaper few days ago. 1t
has just been fifty-nne years ago.
I went to see the place where Lincoln was
killed in 1876. The building was then
changed to a museum filled with war relics,
mostly Lincoln relics. My chambermaid at
the National hotel, where we boarded for
good part of six years, was chambermaid
at the time of Mr.. LincOlns death. She said
the mob went through the hotel hunting for
Booth. One day she piloted me to Booth s
room, and if they had found him it would
have ended right then and there in mob VIC
lenCe. The hotel had several hundred rooms
and the enraged multitude searched every
place. They got his trunk and extra wear
ing apparel. She said there was no sleep in
the city that night The mob roared in the
streets.
I, in turn, told her how 1 heard of the
presidents death in our refugee shack few
miles out of Macon. We were aroused early
in the morning of April Is by horses galIop-
ping through the yard. Directly my trusted
house boy, who belonged to me, got into
the house to tell me that the soldiers were
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
Confederate Memorial Coins

HEN President Taft appointed q
M Confederate veteran chief justice
w Of the United States supreme court
while the four corners of the nauon ap-
plauded, the world Locked on with admirin3
amazement. Where else, men asked, in all
the circle of the sun would there have come
such proof Of reunitedness within the life
span of a generation that fought so grim
conflict as the War Between the States?
Impressive as the appointment WAS. how
ever, it now yields the palm for gracious
wisdom to the bill passed by the national
Senate and House of Representatives au-
thorizing the issuance of five million fifty
cent silver coins to commemorate the be-
ginning of the Stone Mountain Confederate
Memorial. That the measure has passed
without one dissenting vote and is assured
Of the Presidents speedy approval, bears
witness to a spirit of brotherly understand
ing that augurs most happily for America
The memorial coins will bear on one side
images of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee
and Stonewau Jackson, and on the other a
likeness of the Iamented President Harding,
In providing for their issue the Congress
has honored itself and the country, as well
as the South and in thus paying tribute to
Confederate heroism has exalted American
ideals.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
Georgia Manifold Debt to
Scientific Research

"HE work-a-day value of scientific eX-
pertinent to all sorts and conditions of
men IS happily illustrated in Georgia's
present conflict with the boil weeyil and
other farm pests Time was when the COM
monwealth would have been hopeless In such
struggle. Though our yearly production of
cotton has been reduced by nearly one and
a half million bales it would have been al
most blotted out but for the light which
science has thrown upon the peril Had
there been no organized study Of the ravag-
ing weevil, research with view to COM
batting it, no discovery Of methods for has
tening the maturity Of cotton, no readjust-
ment of agriculture to changed conditions
and needs Georgia might now be a broken
bankrupt instead OF strlding prosperously
forward.
What we owe to scientific agencies in this
one matter is TYPICAL of thousand others.
The wondrous development of all sides of
farm interests during the last fifty years, the
increased yield of crops, the Improvement in
animal husbandry, the prevention of infer
tile soil, the control of hazards and misfor-
tunes once regarded as predestned and in
escapahle, for these and a. multitude of
other safeguarding and enriching services,
we have the scientist to thank Thus hun
for Georgia, and hundreds OF millions more
added to her wealth.
1t Is not the farmer alone who benefits
from such science, but the rank and file in
every field of endeavor, economic, social, and
personal. This is aptly illustrated by a
paragraph from the annual report of the
Georgia Experiment Station. We are asked
to imagine IAN average citizen, John Doe
waking up one morning in a world which
had forgotten or had never made use of the
knowledge gained through agricultural re-
search" The picture which follows is as
true as it is graphic:
He sits down to breakfast and finds no
fruit on the table, as the citrus canker has
destroyed the orange groves of Florida and
California. the San Jose scale, coddling moth,
and bitter rot, the apple orchards; and
brown rot and scab the peaches and plums.
If he asks for bacon and ham he is told
that hos cholera has destroyed so many hogs
that bacon and ham is unobtanable by the
average man. When he calls for bread he is
told that smuts and trusts have destroyed
the greater part of the wheat crops and that
-four is very scarce Rising from the break
fast table, John Doe starts downtown TO buy
himself an overcoat. Here he finds the price
of clothes prohibitive because anthrax has
destroyed large numbers of sheen, and that
lack OF feed makes the keeping of those
which remain expensive. Cold and hungry,
he decides to visit farmer friend. Passing
along the road he notices that field after
field had been abandoned, The soil is so
poor that even the weeds are stunted and
dwarfed. John Doe asks the farmer why he
doesn't fertiize these fields and plant them
in iegumes. The farmer tells him that he
knows nothing of fertilizers nor legumes.
The only way he knows is to farm a field
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
ISLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before.-Miriam Fol
we'll, a young business woman, has an
episode in her life which, although in
nOcent, has caused scandal. She has al
most forgotten it when she becomes en-
gagged to Anthony Breen, a suclller for
convention, and at a tea given by his
mother to introduce her to society she is
introduced to a Miss Oyerton, who
knows all about the esCapade and pro
ceeds to make trouble. Miriam's one
idea is fight.-Now go on with the
story.
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AuuTSSS,
LITTLE MISS FIXIT,
Care Tri-Weekly Journal,
Atlanta, Georgia.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Warn them that are unruIy, comfort
the feebIe-minded, support the weak, be
patient toward all men. See that none
render epH for epil unto any man, but
eper follow that which is good, both among
yourselves and to all men. Rejoice ever
more. Pray Without ceasing. Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good. Alb
stain from all appearance Of epiI.-Fron1
the First Epistle to the TheSsa1oHianS
5:14-17; 22:22.
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SOLITUDE THE BEST TEACHER
RV DR.. Frank Crane

@ OLITUDE is bitter medicine, but whole
some. And We can learn to like it.
We are afraid to be alone. But like
most other bugaboos this, too, vanishes
when we approach and handle It,
Solitude consists of me and myself. The
reason we fear 1t is that ourself is the one
person we know the least.
Get acquainted. Practice being aIo1
Our modern life is too cIuttered. We are
everIastngIy doing something. We chatter,
work, play, and if we have a half hour Of
leisure we must fill it with the rattle Of a
newspaper. We are prone and helpless
when we have no story 10 read, no one to
talk to, nothing to do. We can not do that
rarest and most fruitful of things-nothing
Basking is a lost art
And yet it is in these moments Of silent
brewing of the mind, when we simply stand
still and let our thoughts rise as they will
that the deep creative ideas come to us
For our best ideas are not those we have
read or heard, but those that have come to
us in quiet, out Of the infinite.
The greatest things any man says are
those that have behind them great hours Of
silence
I am the only person I can not get away
from. 1t stands me in stead to make my
self as agreeable as possible
1t is a false and ignorant humility that
says, Il hate myself, that is why l do not
want to be alone" For one hates himself
for precisely the same reason he hates 9TH
ers; because he is not acquainted.
Learn yourself. Don't expect impossible
excellence. You are made up Of good and
bad, much as are other folks. Be charitable
to yourself. The Golden Rule works both
ways. Love yourself as your neighbor."
can not tell you all you win learn from
the practice Of solitude. If I could, you
would not need to go to solitude to learn it.
But YOU viii learn much, many profound
things that can not be told Wordsworth
speaks Of
"that inward eye
which is the bliss Of solitude"
And he even goes so far as to say:
"Ono impulse from the vernal wood
Nav teach YOU more Of man,
OF moral evil and OF good,
Than all the sages can"
Copyright, 1920
Sparks was arrested for causing a disturb
ance in the street during which he struck a
constable and gave him a black eye.
He was promptly arrested and the next
day he appeared before the magistrate.
What is Your nance asked his worship.
"Sparks." replied the prisoner.
"And YOUR occupaton2'
AN electrician. sir"
And what is he chareed~ wIth?" asked
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They are heredity, environment and
habit.
They might be called three flying but
tresses; one rising from the past, heredIty;
another from the future, habit; and the
third, environment, from the present; all to
stay the soul
They are, I believe, popularity considered
as evil things. Naturally! When a man
himself is wrong it is the very best things
in life that seem to harm him most
When we think of heredity, it is usually OF
some cOntorted form of it, as scrOfula, al
coholism, prodigality and the like; when en-
vironment is mentioned it suggests only hin
dering, warping, degrading circumstances;
and the habits most talked of are the bad
ones.
But this is all Of a piece with the same
human nature that makes newspapers collect
crimes and call it record of humanity's
dOings, and that makes us read them and
Wag our heads over the fact that the world
is 2Oing to the dOss.
No newspaper could contain the simple list
OF the noble, worthy deeds done daily, nei-
Their could nor would We read it.
Even so these three guardians do a vast
amount Of work that We are not aware of;
because, like all good work, it is unseen.
Take heredity, for instance. Do you real
lie that for centuries il has been piIing up
moral force to put into your blood? The
very best and largest part of whatever good
ness, high ideals, and nobIeness of mind you
have, came from your ancestors. 1t is easy
for you to be decent because for a thousand
years your fOrefathers strove to be decent
And the good is tougher than the bad
The greatest power in righteousness is it's
power to outpOpulate vice
Also large portion Of your rectitude is
due to your environment. There are more
good Influences, surroundings, customs and
institutions, than bad.
And as for habit, good HABIT is as hard
to break as a bad one
If it were not for our ability to form hab-
its, goodness would have no cumulative
force We should be eternauv beginning.
stumbling, fumbling. But because We can. by
effort. get ourselves into the rut of doing
right We can 20 on in seIf-imprOyement.
For the perverted, weak-wiIed and self
plying these three laws Of moral fxity may
be three demons; but for a man that is a
man they are three guardians Of the soul.
Copyright, 1924)
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY IrVln S. COhh


Honey" said the loving wife, '1f I should
die before you do will you promise to keep my
grave green?'
Don't be morbid" answered her husband.
Whats the use Of talking about anybodys
dying? You look pretty husky to me-"
He buried his again In his paper He
was reading something very interesting and
he didn't want to be disturbed
Yes, / know, dear" she Interrupted again
after minute or two, taking III, the thread
Of the conversation where it had been broken
off, but | want to be sure that nv last rest
ing place will not be neglected You might
get married again or something, and forget
me-"
"Huh?" he grunted absentmindedly, without
looking up.
Il say, I don't want to be forgotten.
couldn't bear the thought of that. sup
pose It's because I'm 50 nsttr,a-because
have so much temperament. Daring. you
are positive you'll keep my grave green"
"Uh huh"
well, that's a great consolation Only, I'd
like to have you say it with more feeling
Precious, are you absolutely certain you'll keep
my"
Hannah" shouted the pestered man, cast
ing his paper from him, 'Il keep that dad
gummed grave Of yours green if | have to
plant it,"
Copyright, 1924)
the magistrate, turning to the constable
Battery, your worship was the answer.
The magistrate looked rather astonisbed
but nevertheless he commanded in stern
tones
Officer put this prisoner in a dry CELL
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ly and cheerfully see
that things are made
right
We want every sub
scriber to get The Tri-
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ularly and punctual-
ly. We want all or
them to receive what
they have. paid for.
We want only salts
fled subscribers. A
small percentage of
errors are unavoid-
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correct them quickly.
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The Tri-Weekly Journal let us know
Send letter or postcard to Little Miss
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The Three Guardians of the Soul
By DR.. Frank Crane

THERE are three guardians Of the soul
They are heredity, environment and
hoh
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Continued Thursday. You will find this
new story by Miss BeeCher to be even better
than "A Woman Obscssed" or Her Money
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
TWO HELD ON CHARGE OF
ASSAULT WITH BOTTLE

Charged with making, an assault
with dangerous weapon, a bottle
F. F. Clancy, Solomon N. Cheese
voir and George M. King were
given preliminary hearing before
Judge Schuldt in Police Court to.
day upon the complaint of Police
man Edward M. Gore.
1t was testified that while max.
ing an arrest at Twelfth and E
streets northwest, Gore was struck
in the back Of the head. It was
necessary to take seventeen stitches
in Cores head at the hospital.
King was identified by Franklin
Early as the man who struck the
blow. The cases against Chesevoir
and Clancy were dismissed. King
was held for the action Of the
grand jury.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
REMOVES PAPER FASTENER
FROM SCHOOLGIRLS LUNG

SHENANDOAH, Pa. Aug. g.
One Of the most delicate operations
in the history of this region was
performed at the State Hospital at
Ashland, when a paper fastener was
removed from lung of seven
year.old schoolboy by Doctor r. D.
Spencer.
The fastener, one inch long, with
a head the size of an upholsterer's
tack. and two sharp prongs, was
swallowed by Joseph Gobrick, of
this city, two months ago while at
school.
The boy, afraid to say anything
to his mother, kept the secret until
symptoms Of tuberculosis developed
in the left lung.
Doctor Walter Luschinsky, of this
city, found something in the lung,
and had the child rushed to the
hospital. where an X-ray showed
the fastener.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
ROANOKE COLLEGE LEADS
WITH 1o2A-25 STUDENTS

SALEM. Va. Aus, 6. Fifteen
States and two foreign countries
will bet represented In the student
body of Roanoke College for the
session OF 19242h, The States are
Virginia. West Virginia. North
Carolina. South Carolina. Mary
land, Georgia. Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee. Missouri. Ohio, Indiana,
New Jersey, New York, and Maine.
Students will also he present from
the District of Columbia. The two
foreign countries are Japan and
Korea.
Roanoke City leads all other COM
munities of Virginia in number of
students who have been admitted
for the 1924.25 term. Besides those
who are already members of the
three upper classes, nineteen grad
yates of the 1924 class OF Jeffer-
son High School will be members
of the incoming freshman class.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
D. C. WOMEN ORGANIZE
CLUB TO AID COOLIDGE

Miss Eva A. Chase, local club or.
ganizer of the District of Columbia
Political Organizations, called a
meeting of representative organiza-
ton women at the home Of Mrs.
Thomas L. Jones. 1901 Vermont av.
enue yesterday, and formed feder.
alton voting to cooperate with the
Coolidge-Dawes League of which
Thomas Jones Is president.
Officers elected were Mrs. Julia
NJ. Layton. president; Mrs. Mildred
Coleman, first vice president; Mrs.
jamie Blunt. second vice president;
Mrs. Thomas Jones, treasurer; Mrs.
M. NJ. Marshall, recording secretary:
DIR. C. S. Taliferro, corresponding
secretary: and Miss Eva A. Chase,
organizer.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
.REscUEs BERRY PICKER, -.
FROM DEEP MINE CHASM

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Aug. g.
While picking huckleberries in the
mountains back of Sugar Notch.
Chester Stavinski, fourteen. fell
into a mine cave in the workings
Of the Lehigh and Wilkes. Barre
Coal Company, and was rescued
through the efforts of Joseph
Riley, an employee of the company,
who slid on a rope to the bottom
of the chasm. a distance of 200
feet.
Unconscious and badly lacerated
and bruised, the lad was taken
to a local hospital, where he
lowered between life and death.
1t Is believed he is suffering from
a fracture of the skull.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
More Movies In Sing Sing

OSSINING, Aug. civilian y
Anderson. former State dry lea1sT.
and 800 TRUSTEES" who are quar-
tered in the new dormitory outside
Sing Sing PRISONS walls, will not
miss the moving picture shows ~
their transfer TO the new cells. The
shows will continue in the old bul.d
ing, as usual. and Warden Lewis f.
Lawes has put in another move
outfit in the hall of one of the new
structures.
From his new cell Anderson car
zee down the river as far as NyacS
and as far north as Stony Point
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
2 CLING TO .cAPSIzE11. BOAT
FOR HOUR A MILE AT SEA

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 6.-Bat
Ting with the waves for an hour
after their small rowboat over
turned one mile off shore, Edward
Gravenstein, twenty-three, and John
Mccall, thirty, both of Philadelphia,
were rescued by members of the
Ventnor beach patrol.
A pedestrian on the boardwalk
saw the men struggling in the
water and notified the lifeguards.
The men were brought to shore in
an exhausted condition.
The Washington times., 1924-08-06
Child Burns To Death

ROANOKE, Va, Aug. Clara
Burks Ballou, aged four, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. BallOu. los
James street Virginia Heights. was
burned to death yesterday when her
Evening star., 1924-06-04
ESTATE LEAVES. $35.O 900.
Father O'Connell's Will Probated
Rich Leaves $500. 600.

Rev. Patrick J. O'ConneIi late pas
tor of st. Joseph's Catholic Church,
left an estate valued at $4,000, ac-
cording to the petition of his sister
Miss Katherine V. O'Connell OF 306
9th street northeast, for letters of
administration on his estate Father
OConnel1 also left another sister
Miss Agnes O'Connell. The property
includes the premises at 3O6 9th
street northeast and personal estate.
Louis Rich, shoe merchant, had an
estate valued in excess of $500, 900.
according to the petition of his
brother, Max NJ. Rich. and his sister,
Mrs. Bertha r. UIlman, for letters of
administration on his estate. Mr.. Rich
died May IL.
Evening star., 1924-06-04

quantity of whisky were taken, but
operators of the stills escaped.
f. H. Allen and George X. Pickett
have been chosen to represent the
Democratic committee of Mount Vernon
district. Fairfax County, at the state
De mocratic convention next week.
They will go uninstructed.
Arguments in connection with A
motion to set aside a verdict of $500
awarded James McCuen against Mrs.
Elizabeth l.. Fair will be heard in
corporation court tomorrow morning.
The alleged damages were sustained
when Mrs. Fair sold a house after it
was alleged McCuen had made an
initial payment on the property.
Marriages to Cost More.
Marriage lice nses In Alexandria in
common with the rest of Virginia
will advance in cost from 81 to SO on
June 16 This is in accordance with
Evening star., 1924-06-04

an act passed by the last legislature
Mack, for many years known as
the fastest horse in the Alexandra
fire department and last survivor
died Sunday when struck by a bolt
of tightening Mack belonged to
Samuel Detwillar, Clifton. Va, who
was entirely motorized about six
years ago. He is RENE mbered by
many of the citizens as the finest
horse of Columbia Company. No 4.
At a meeting of the Old Dominion Z
Boat Club tonight the club will con.
slider the advisability of joining the
Middle States Canoe Association. Sew
eral applications for membership are
to be received and acted upon.
Cockroaches are fond of the starch,
dextrin, flour or casein used as a filler
for cloth bookbindings.
Evening star., 1924-06-04
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. June (Spe-
ciaD.-Work of laying out the nine
hole golf course of the Belle Haven
Golf and Country club has been
started. Grading and work on the
clubhouse and tennis courts will be
under way soon.
A curious still in the shape of a
copper casket and of the same de-
sign was captured yesterday near
Pohick Church by State Prohibition
Agents z. o. Kines and J. d. East.
The still was Of sixty-gAllon capacity.
Another still Of 100-gallon capacity
also was taken. Two hundred and
fifty gallons of mash and a small