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the meeting after that piece of dirty work.
1t was the mixture of mayorship and old age
lat did it.
MERE was a young girl who was pretty and
who attracted all the boys. And there was
youth who was so handsome and strong, the
loughts of the girls flew after him like but
rifles But the girl and boy never noticed the
st but only each other. They completed
lch other, adorned each other, were made for
Ich other & a,1
Nobody was surprised when the young man,
ruced up and smiling, went to the mayor to
* the hand of his daughter. Of course, there
juld have been better matches for her, in a
aterial sense; he was only farmer lad. But
. was healthy and hard worker.
everyone expected him to say yes, and the
ung people smiled the same smile together,
ley were so sure.
And then he said no!
He said no when it would have been so ma
ral to say yes, and when everything told him
say yes; the garden the sunshine, the
eeze even. in person whispered it to him.
The reason? Is
His first argument was. at is not to be
ought Of" And his second and his third
ere to shout it louder. ,o4-t
It seemed impossible to make him recon-
der. ALI the more because he was mayor.
The two young people were supplied and
et.. He looked at her. Happiness flew away;
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ment in New York
MARCH DIST: Saw Ben Gold lay. He is lead
ing strike of the furriers. He's just as bad as the
others and cheerful about It. He had the
nerve to offer me dollar for some grub pretended
that he thought 1 a bum at first When told
him who was he burst into hearty laughter "Glad
to meet YOU he said shaking my hand violently loft
en- heard about you, grandpa" chow dare they call
me, Jehovah, such familiar nickname0 Eyes when
was kid, Grandpa! Sit down How's business?
Say, Grandpa we could you right now Some of
our pckets are arrested and need good character
witness"
/ told him wouldn't think Of such thing
He laughed louder than ever. "thars right Grand
pa" he roared, don't lose your good old respecta-
bity, Remember you have your position to maintain
Wen, how's conditions up in heaven? Have the an
gels organized yet? What their hours and wages
nowa You lost lot of work when Russia struck
against your shop, didn't you? Well cheer up Grand
pa. Wen take of you when all your business is
gone everywhere in the world. Wen give you Job as
janitor of one of our union halls"
And SO on and on, laughing all the time My Cod
never heard such talk. He hopeless; this Ben
Gold will be Boshevik to the end of his days
MARCH BOTH: Abe Cahan is still the only friend
have He arranged banquet of socialist labor lead
ers, labor bank presidents rabbis, Zonsts passover
wine booteggers, and chorus girls from the Second
avenue theaters, each weighing 300 pounds-real old
see them. Diamonds shone, and wonderful speeches
were made Everybody praised me and said was
the cats pajamas the Americans put it. l got up
and agreed. It just like the old Bible days when
Moses was my deputy sheriff. Everyone praised me
then.
APRIL 1ST: am so weary of trying to fix up this
revolutionary mess here. think 1 will give it up and
just enjoy myself the rest of my vacation.
APRIL End: Picked up a nice chicken on Second
avenue and asked her would she like to be the Nom
mer of a little Messiah She slapped my face and
went looking for cop. God, wish l were back in
PALESTINE. hThem the days. Mary wasn't stuck
up like these Second Avenuers 81 = c,r
APRIL 5TH Drank lot of Kosher wine last night
and have got awful kosher headache Think I'll
pack my grip and beat it home They left the too
soon. No. I've lost of my power. I'm getting
old; these people in New York are too much for me-
But dear Abe Cahan, I'll never forget how good he's
BEEN If he didn't try to be such boss; but I'm afraid
l simply won't be able to let him into heaven.
APRIL 10TH: Well we're off! Choo-choo! There
goes the Staten of Liberty What a Jewish nose the
lady has. noticed it beforel I'll bet Ben Gold
has been doing something to her. the scoundrel
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Extracts from Jehovah's Diary

MARCH 10TH: Well little diary here we are en-
AN route 10 New York for grand vacation combined
with a little business the side. One needs these
little excursions even if is divine get so bored
with my own heaven sometimes l could positively ex-
pIode. Some day I'm going to smash the faces Of a
few OF these stupid fat lazy respectable angels of
mine. They're too damn regular for words-lke a
lot Of cows. There's not real man or woman in
heaven. Well, little diary let's not get all
sweated up after ALL aren't we on our way to New
York to raise little He'll?
MARCH 18TH: Didn't sleep well last night The
comet on which l am riding to earth was blocked by
some enormous balloon filled with hot air. We all
turned out to investigate and the conductor, with
lantern, went up close. He came back and said the
balloon speech by Mussolini One of the guards
stuck pin in the speech and it burst with loud bang
There was horrible smell, too, like something that
I'D long time ago. l like Mussoini but why does
Rerything about him smell so bad?
MARCH 18TH: In sight of land. The Statue of
liberty and the skyscrapers on the horizon hope to
CID won't have much trouble getting past Ellis Is
smd. That quota law isSso strict, it frightens
When get back to heaven, Pm going to agitate for
aquota law against Americans.
MARCH 18TH: The inspector passed me all right
ito one of them had the to suggest that ought
y battle oftener and learn to speak English After
al these years to be insulted by jazbo in blue uni
Drm! 1 told him l bathed when l pleased, and that
1den before he was ever born and it was still good
dough for in America. He sneered Nordic sneer
hd then asked my business and what intended
= do in New York l told him l was a marriage
boxer, a matzos salesman, Rabbinical wine vendor
so few other things like undertaken heavenly real
State agent pork and ham specialist hair and beard
tnc manufacturer and consultan to Rabbs and cloth
tg BOSSES
What was going to do in New York? Little diary,
Am afraid told lie. 1 said was going to visit my
eloved son, Abe Cahan of the Forwards. This got
b. but you know the TRUTH little diary. Well, alrs
Dir in love and war. N 81
MARCH 10TH: Well, well, here we are safe the
last Side again. 1t looks about the same; the push
hrts, the tenements, and the sweat baths still
Pre, and there is just much jabberng ever. No
be can ever tame my Jews. They will always be
Organizing shouting pushing fighting worshiping me
the synagogues on Saturday and running profitable
4veatshops the rest of the week.
MARCH 17TH Little diary, I'm wrong. The Jews
4 Q not the same l had my conference today with
ose who sent for me, the Kosher Kongress of Kon-
ntional Rabbits, and the situation is bad The work
class Jews not what they used to be. They
We organized in big unions; they refuse to go to
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As Selected by Michael Gold.

synagogue and they ref6se to become millionaires
themselves help others to become mllionaires They
are rebels, Bolsheviks. l thought Russia was the
only place these things were happening I'd give up
that country long but here it breaks out in Amer
lea. And with much loose money lying around
tool I can't understand it. l must get on the job at
once.
MARCH 18TH: l went to see Sasha Zimmerman
Louis Hyman, julius Portnoy, Wortis and other
leaders of that bunch of rebel Jews who call them
selves the International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union. Would you believe it, little diary they re-
fused to take me seriously Sasha Zimmerman, raw
beardless youth, looked at quietly with his blue
eyes and smiled WELL Grandpop" he had the au
dacity to say, ARE you still toterng around? thought
you killed in the war" Someone else said, "The
last time this old faker he was scabbng" Even
Rose Wortis who is woman and should have been
at least womany and kind to my gray hairs, munched
at apple and read a paper called the Freiheit NO.
I'm too busy to listen" she said hardly looking up
The union is important than Jehovah. 1t means
life and you mean poverty, stagnation, DEATH"
1 pleaded, argued, wept, implored I talked to
them like sorrowful father. "Be good my children
and all will be forgiven" said. "Give up these dan
gerous ideas; back the taleth the pbylaceres
the matzos, the synagogue, your nation your
people Come back jehovah your poor old deserted
father"
Jehovah and the sweatshop," sneered one of them
brutally
Jehovah and the fat Jewish clothing Bosses" said
another. They did not heed my tears or my plead
ings they were hard flint. 1 must see Abe Cahan
tomorrow for consolation.
MARCH 10Th: Abe Cahan hasn't much to offer
in the way of consolation "These people are thoroy
spoiled and corrupted" he shouted. "The only way
to argue with them is with blackjack They not
Jews; they Bolshevks They should be wiped out!
They should be massacred; someone ought to start
pogrom against them; l would be glad join it! To
hell with them, kill them, down with them!" and so
and Before he was thru he was almost raw
ing. got him glass of water and driedtt6 chang e.
the subject. When he Gained down he interviewed
me for the Forwards. He got to say a Zion
list and that 1 believed in the A. F. of L. Also that
it true that he had helped me write the Bible He
is such a skllful interviewer that agreed with all
these statements, tho, really wrote the Bible myself.
WE'LL let it pass, little diary; there's enough glory to
go around and after all, a stranger in this town
and Abe Cahan is a powerful friend for even Je-
hovah to have Let whisper a secret, tho, little
diary: l am not going to let him into heaven. I'm
afraid he'll to the place claim that he made
the world, just he claims he made the radical
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REl GRDss. slgTIa EapE. RlEF W1aEERs. IsSsT
Commanding Officer Blinded Nh7e FSsAsizg FSre- Identified Dead Leut 6- V Bots Mrs Francis
 Feeney, Harry C BTowa-4sss Report Sixteen Dead

DOVER, July 12 lEa-Sevea bedles were 6isccveze5 Sunday night the area which the Lake Denmark Ns- val ammunition depot was devastated They were not brought out Of the guarded due a confirming danger from bursting shells I1 addition co the seven baseS three others known be dead Upward q . are
 missing The damage 70 the naval arsenal and adjoining f1catnIy arsenal O- the army reservation GS estimated d
 hundred million dollars The stores munitions al naval depot were Vsue6 a s million Refugees from villages surrounding the aTSeaS gathered in towns out side the Of destruction where the Red C-s the Salvation Army other relief organizations care5 ~ them At A0TT1stOVn 1z remained n h0Szfa1S 1,77z5
 Between 400 and 800 refugees Shelce-e5 aroche- large c0nIgen1 at Newfoundland bI0S1 Ot ehe sr-e- marines removed c0 the Brooklyn naval h1S-r--7 Among them Captain O- c D0wl1rc c3--rra- -s- z officer Of the naval depot Ee waS blinded while 7cf-src the ire following the first ez7l0s0l A1 ooerezsoz vii be performed n an effort 10 save lis Sich1.
 Among the ider-11e6 dead are Lieutenant Iaa-,7e Y Bots, marine corps, Mrs Francs Fe61er. Brookvr visitor at the naval and Harry C Br0El E7Z class pharmacists mate e POughkeeTsse- New York
 Late Sunday night more than = hours after xhe s- explosion shells continued buTS4 zt Ereouer1 sre-S west wind held the fire away iron large stores of an nunit10n at the Pica111Ty arsenal
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Play Benefit Ball Game
 for Matty's Memorial

NEW YORK, July 12. kP)-Christy Mathewison's old team mates and 0p ponents came out Of the past at the Polo grounds, and played three in, ming game for Matty's memorial fund before notables of baseball and off cialdom. The stars Of thirty years ago, including Joe McGinnity, Johnny Evers, and Rube MarQuard played or the old Giants team and Joe Kelley Fred Kenny, Roger Bresnahan and others played as the Senators. The Giants won, eight to six. The bene- fet netted twenty four thousand dol lars.
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Is uTE IN hRRIVING
 FROM HE SOUTH
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 esFNpcAc POINTS

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Fonck Will Attempt Hop
 N. '. to Paris in August

NEW YORK, July 12. lP)-Captain Rene Fonck, French flying ace, will attempt his trans Atlantic nonstop flight from this city to Paris during the first week in August, according to word received here today. The flight is to be made with no special pro lection from ships at sea. The re ported decision to attempt the hop was announced after Fonck and Ho- mer Barry conferred with Ribert Jack son, banker of Concord, \. H., one oi the packers Of the flight.
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EXPERIMENT SALMON OIL

ASTORIA, Ore, July 12. lP)-Ex- periments are being held here in an attempt to use salmon liver oil in place of cod liver oil, for the many purposes that it is used. Salmon Iiv- CT oil they state, is more palatable and more easily retained by infants, So if the medicinal properties are the same, a new industry may spring up on the Pacific coast.
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DOVER, Y. J. Julr E',--F-0m 50 to . persons are reported killed in the series 0f terrific explosions z1 the navy munitions depot near here which destroyed the dep01 and spread destruction turnout 1aR surrounding territory Hundreds Of persons with in the radius of a few miles 0f the depot were injured when blasts 1evBl- ed their homes. A bolt of lightning in the late afternoon struck the ar senal which exploded. The entire Be pot force of 7D were called our 10
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CONVICT MUTINEERS
 II NINE SURRENDER
rL-N c= rA1-@Er RESIST 2NcE SEEN w-EN pANcs or
 EUNsEs cNEs-ASE -EEW

LANSING Srer 1e The mn. 5z@s 5- cEe Kansas re-Eezfa-r Ere cz-@7uls-e5 Saru~5sr nsrht and cane se tAe sErEece- s1Ee-5re r-eat,v f-s1 ku-re- Tee eusnEtv oF farher -aszs-srce h-onrht ca the ~eheuEau c8lzrse- The ce-r5ces were then rel ssseE Iron sAe nlne shatt The ceze h5ssa5 u- rroErs et 11. Shc-1v r-e Tza1s-v the cc-~5css lad sent u7 woos over sAe -1De te1enhc-e rhe~ were -ew -n su-e-e-
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AMBROSE f. GONZALES WELL KNOWN AUTHOR
 AN } EDITOR, PASSES
WRITER oFsNEGRo STORIES PUB LISHED MANY WORKS IN
 NORTH CAROLINA "GUlLAH"

COLUMBIA, s. C., July 12. (P).- Ambrose E. Gonzales, 6S years old, celebrated author and editor, died to- day.
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n0l|rDkI1D nIDEc lc 6UlClHIUl I HIITtJ lu
 DUE ARRIVE NENAll
STEAMER JEFF DAVIS PASSES TANANA MITH FEW PAS SENGERS FEN ROUTE
 SEATTLE

TANANA, July 12. (P)-The river steamer Jeff Davis passed through Friday en route to Nenana. Governor Parks was a passenger. Several per sons from the Holy Cross mission are en route. ". NJ. Miller, of the geolo- gical survey, who has been mapping lands in the Interior for suitable rein deer prazing is a passenger for Ne mana. thence tc tl-c Z R>Sn1 of '0b- servation on the Alaska Railroad.
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Ambrose Elliott Gonzales acquired a nationwide reputation thru his stories written in the strange dialect of the Negroes on the South Caro- lima coastal islands. His mastery of the dialect, known as "gullah," en- abled him to write f1uently in it, and the publication in 1922 of ''The Black Border" a collection of short stories in that dialect, was widely and favor ably commented upon in literary cir cles.
 MT. Gonzales at the age Of Is be- came a railroad telegrapher and af- ter working as such for several yes-s spent t~o yeas~sE-s farming in South Carolina He returned to the key in 1881 and became a commer- cial operator in New York. He next turned to newspaper work, which he entered in 1885 with the Charleston, s. C., News and Courier. Five years later he was appointed Secretary of the state department of agriculture. In 1891, with his brother, N. G. Con gales, he founded 'The State, the present morning newspaper of Col umbia, S. C., and has been president, treasurer and manager of that news paper since 1893.
 During the Spanish-American war MT. Gonzales served as a captain in the American army.
 Several years before his death MT. Gonzales was stricken with paralysis, which partly disabled him. However he continued the active management of his newspaper and the writing of negro dialect stories. The latter formed the bulk of his literary work, altho occasionally he wrote other stories. Tn addition to these activi- ties he operated a large farm near Columbia.
 MT. Gonzales was born in CoIleton district, now Colleton County, South Carolina, May 29, 1857. He was the eldest son of general Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, the Cuban patriot, and Har- riet Rutledge Elliott. His mother was a member of one of the histor- ical families of South Carolina The son was educated at home and at private schools in Virginia. He nev- CT married. Mr. Gonzales was a brother of William E. Gonzales, Un- tied States minister to Cuba from 1913 to 1919 and the first American Ambassador to Peru, to which post he was named in 1919.
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DOVER, July 1z. LP)-Cspg81n WI liam Say1es, commanding -he ps-E which as soon as the b0mba-7m1 aE explosions ceased rodar- entered 5r search for the dead. EE reported rD Washington the dsa6 WI u-8bab1T total 16.
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N0RRzSTCEN New gs-sev. -u.v -1 g2f-owe- a hundred uz-nAs were reported killed 3n zn explosion os magazines z1 9he Nawzz z-ssnsz zk Lake 1Enma-E near hs-e. The in hab1aau1s 0z 1sz-o- t1wns o-as-eE oas nurses, 5acr0-s and auRr1zrrss. al D1 whom + Is reported ~s~E he'd B
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-nEANE oE csEN IeENrIEIEe

NEw YORK Tssr ta 2-The saz-cA ec- hozses E-em the submarine SS1 has bee1 shsnao1e8. after 1S were -ecVvs-e5 E- ss 5ec1a~es af sn sAe bo@es ia rAe submarine vesse-- Ca hut 1e were sse-HHes.
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ecNEEssEs 10 NusoEs

CHICAGO. Ea,y 12 t2-Rsbe-t Scsst pleaded gully to n9rsersaE gosA7A Nzn-er Fo~ wAase slsvarE his A-osNe~ RuSseI wzs sentenced "a hand 1crane~ $
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Scores Marines Killed
 When Bolt Lightning
 Strikes Naval Arsenal

NAVAL ANMUNTTVON DEPOT AT LAKE DEN MARX DOVER N J. DESTROYER SPREADING DESTRUCTION THRUOCT SCRROUNDTNG TERRITORY SHOCK FELT THIRTY MIIB>- DOCTORS NURSES ANBCIANCE> HELD MILE AWAY FROM BURSTING SHELLS
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me away wssdlzs Eor the explosions ~c sahssSe- -Ae explosions ecca.~e5 atee- EshHs Ass n-es Hhe bunslnrs.
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OHIO HELD PRIMARY
 ELECTION YESTERDAY

Columbus, Aug. II, P-Myers Y. Cooper. tincinatti. business man and an organization candidate, led Thad H Brown, for Secretary of State. by hundred and thirty three thousand to hundred and seven teen thousand. III the Republican nomination for Governor. three fourths of the precincts in yester- days primaries gave Governor Do haney a majority of 8 to lead over A. P. Sandles-
 C. G. Haldebrand, klu kluS Klan indorsee s four to one behind senator Willis E SepinP. for re- nomination. Former Senator's Pc merine received seventy two thou- sand six hundred, Judge Fiorenr" K. Alpen fifty three thousand five hundred, for the Democratic Sem atorial nominations. Harry c. Gib- son, former State Prohibition Agent 's seeking the Republican Fmber material nomination on q wet plat form.
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TUESDAY lTeleGRAPhit.l
pREJUDJCIAL EVIDENCE
 MAY CREEP INTO TRIAL

Seattle. Aug. 10, (R)-The Gaines trial was halted when the defense attorney sought to prevent the in troductton of evidence, which the prosecution declared would show the motive for the killing. The ar sument began when Parklin 8. Bar row, a hotel manager. was called as witness, and the jury was excused at Carmody's request. he said "i take 1t that Barrows was called in an attempt to show that relations which were alleged to have existed bet tween the defendant and the de- ceased. Such evidence. if once per mitted to creep into the minds or the fury, would form such pre1u- dicial nature that 1t could not be removed from the minds of the jury. even if order stricken" He said that Gaines would deny that he forced his attentions. Colvin said in statement that he will show that the murder was committed in car similar to Gaines here near the lake. Now I will show the motive and when deputy prosecutor. Dunn testified he said, "In the process sion from his home asked him when he started drinking. and he said in 1880. and added. I suppose that incriminates me and that pretty soon they will be arresting me- asked him what he would he arrest ed for and he said, "Oh! I'm tired and want to sleep, wish you'd leave me for twenty-four hours then I can talk"
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JOHNSON SURE IS SUPERSTITIOUS OF 13

Seattle. Aug g, R-Thomas Johnson. self accused slayer of four teen persons, learned that he had only killed thirteen. He admitted he was annoyed when he learned of the discovery, he said. "supersti- |tious?. I'll say I am. The thirteen tn man I killed was in Minneapol- ia. attorney Erdale. for whose death I suppose I'll go to trial. when I get back there. Since I shot Erdale had little shivers run up and down ny back, for he was tn, thirteenth murder, I am afraid that they will get me for 1t. then after I held up a young engineer in Minneapolis thought that had broken the jinx." ." Detective Gleason of Minneapolis ex- platned that the engineer ran and fell on the street. but was not kill led. Johnson was frightened when he was told this.