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UJ—’’ ADVENTURES OF THE By Olive Roberts Barton E FOR BETTER GAS IS 10 JOKE” m HEW CUE (Continued from page one) “HI, yl!” he shouted “I must look In the postofflcn | fix and I'll do something for you and see If there Is any mail for me,** said Mr. Gallop, the cowtny fairy. “Come along, kiddles,” he called Over his shoulder ub ho touched his pony with his spurs (not enough to hurt Mm) and gnlloped along the read toward rome cot tonwood’ trees. Nancy and nick follower on their ponies and arrivod just In time to see their friend s him self out of Ills saddle a d flatten out on the ground. Then he r. 1 ach ed his arm down into a deep hole and what snould* he pull out but a letter! s - “HI, yl!” he shouted. Jumping to his feet and unfolding his mis sive. “I ktnda thought I’d get one nyl today. Let’s see who It’s from Why, It’s from Penny Prairie Dog For goodness sake! Do you sup* poso he’s in trouble again? Here, you read It, Nancy, I’m kind (hard of seeing.” So Nancy took the letter and read: “Dear Mlstor Gallop: “I hate to bo such n nuisance, hut honest to goodness, .1 can’t help gome day. •‘Yours In trouble, “Penny Prji+rlo Dog.” “Poor .Fcnnyf** s«.!d Mister Gal lop. “Sure, 1*11 help him. Come along, kid Idso.but bt quiet. Sh!. Hero we are at Penny's house now. He ready to grab If anyt ling comes pushing the Investigate. “We iray not get a lower rate but we’ll get better gas by keeping our Should-’ ers to the wheel,” he said. “I am not against tho Gas Company bo- cause it Is a corporation. I only want better service than It Is now cfvfnir" he Council, upon Introduction of a resolution by Alderman H. B. Hey- wood, empowered tho City Kngln- ee* to proceed with getting the right of way for widening, grading and paving Broad street from Lumpkin street to Mlllcdgo avenue. BUILD 8PUR TRACK Eye Witness Tells Of Tokio Horrors Dead Clog Streets. Three- Fourths of City Burned. More Mild Shocks Are Felt. a. “I left my house tody a tor n min ute to ask Johnnie Jack Habit something, and when I came hack I was told to move out. “Three leggy looking things who who call themselves owls were sitting on my front porch and hoot ing at me. They *a*d they had Just moved in and intended to tsay, as they had been toM that mice were plentiful thereabouts. “When I told flora all tho trou ble \ had taken to dig out my house 'n everything, they Jus; blinked their silly eyes and 1 said wns so good at It, 1 ally irskr. i*nother one. :% air, help me out of this out.” Then he squeaked llkt a little mouse. Sudden 1 / out popped a tiny brown head. It was Branty burrow Owl looking for his dinner. Before you could nay boo, -Nancy, grabbed him. Mister Gallop squeaked again and out came another brown head. That was Buffy Burrow O vL Nick got him. \ And the last on Mister Gallop grabbed himself. “Come on, Pen- ailed. “Your he use lr. empty. No”, you threo owls march off am! lo.;k for a “For Rent' sign next time before you mako yourselves so much at home.' (To Be Continued.) POSTAL CAMPAIGN DIRECTEr AGAINST ILLEGIBLE WRITING WASHINGTON—Postmaster Oer oral New, who !s working on a new chapter In the great drama, "Why Moll Goes Wrong.*’ has- announced that a special campaign Is being conducted to direct the attention of postal workers and the public tc the frequent mlscarrrlage of let ters because of the similarity lr the names of townf In varlout states. • NIP IMIGRATION PLOT WARSAW*.—The Polish govern ment Is taking energetic measures to prevent tho sale of tickets to would-be polish emigrants to the United States who are encouraged to book passage to Cuba, with a promise that transportation from that country to the United States be »rrsr.d win make their entry Into America assured. Council granted R. C. Campbell — permission on behalf of the rail- • new 8H0CKB road he represents. Including the * N0 T SEVERE Georgia Railroad, to build a spur track, requiring an overhead tres tle. to the Atlhens Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2, formerly the Check factory. Council authorized that citizens on Woodlawn avenue be repaid money §pent for a sewer line on that street as it is now giving the city adequate revenue. Councilman R. T. Do Li cry, mayor pro-tem, presided over the session of Council in the absence of Ma nt George C. Thomas. IWAKA.—A courier returning from Tokio today described the disaster there as unspeakable. He said* the city wa» three-fourths burned. In the pom>rin parks he found charred unidentified bodies float ing like fishes. WIVMn certain areas all things haVe been reduced to ashes except the Iron frames of brick pillars. The burned re mains on street cars and automo biles clogged tho streets. Suffer- rs gathered In public squares and parks lying under seats on mat# living on a scanty food supply furnished by the authorities. Tho relief which was mobilised was restoring means of communi cation. =■“- ADAM AND EVA In Search of a Nest —By Cap Higgins WINS IN FIELD OF THIRTY - TWO OTHER CITIE SIN SOUTHEAST (Continued from page one.) clinic amounts to $250,000. A fuller explanation of the pur poses of the clinic la given In a statement Issued Thursday by the Atheds committee in charge of urging ttiffi city, as the alte for the demonstration. Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company The Western Railway of Alabama The Georgia Railroad Tbo Summer Tourist season Is now on and vacations ara In order. You will be (lad to know that condition! surround ing Summer Tourist travel are mors liberal this season than la almost pny previous year. Reduced, rate! are In effect to practically every state In U>* Union as wall as to some point, In Canada, tbo various tours tncludlnc delightful trips on tlio Atlantic and Pacific oceans, tbs Orest Lakes, 8t Law- renco IUver, Hudson IUvor, through the Yellowstone and other National Parks, to the Grand Canyon, ato. Btop.ovara niny he made at any' point on olther going or return trip, within final limit of ticket, which Is, In most cases, Octo. nor 31, 19:3. serve and any Information dcalred will be gladly furnished by ticket agent In your town or by the undersigned. . 1. P. BILLUPS. General Passenger Agent, 1. ' ,, Atlanta, Os. Ill SEPTEMBER 191 (Continued From Pago One) SCHOOL THURSDAY (Continued From Page One) dents beglp. arriving. Professor E. u. Griggs of the eq>necrlng de partment, in charge, has an nounced. It la believed that every county In the state and every town and every city of any sice, will he rep resented In the enrollment of tho forthcoming year. Reports received In Athen* this week say that there will be more than 100 from Atlan ta tn attendance, sixty from Au gusta, about GO from Macon, Savan nah and Columbus each, and a dozen from Griffin, the same num-_. her from Valdosta, and good rep resentation from Rome, Cartori- vlllo, Tlfton. Cordclo, Brunswick, Klbcrton, and many ether towns and, cities In the state. Laat year then were atudenta attending the Unlveraity from several foreign countries. This will be the situation again thsl year, It Is said. Altogether, officials de clare that the 113rd session prom ises to be one of the beat In iiie history xif tho Institution, tho old est state university In Amorlca. ITALY’S SCORN OF TOKIO. — Twenty-soven earthquake shocks (have been felt during the night but the authorities have expressed the view that no further destructive ones are like ly. Occasional outbreaks of fire light the sky but they are not dangerous, plendld order Is being maintained In the affected* area. Temporary lighting systems hava been esUhlldhed In tho parka where thousands are encamped unde rrudo shelter. The weather rcihalna warm and bright. Rati communication has been re* established from Om!y* westward with hardly an Interruption. Many entertainment features arc being planned for the new studentr during the next several days ant’ Thursday evening tho Y. W. C. A will compliment the faculty with- band concert. Receptions and ral lies will follow. BIENNIAL SESSION Governor “Heartily in Accord” For' Securing Biennial Session of Ga. General Assembly. (Contlnusd From Pass One) follow the established principle ot diplomacy and 'do nothing today that could bo postponed until to* merrf w. GREEKS OFFER REPARATIONS The ambassadors examined the Greek reply th its note at theli meeting 1 nthe foreign office Thurs day morning and paid _ parttculai attention to th«* Greek "stipulatlor that the Athens government wai prepared to tnako any reparatlonr the council -*f ambassadors re garded as Just and another stlpu* lation proposing that a commissfor of Inquiry be appolnetd composed of the Jhree powers on the Alban ian boundary mission. T:t the meeting were Lord Crewe the British ambassador. Jules Cam- bon, general secretary to the French foreign office; Baron Korranr Avezsano, the Italian ambassadoi dthe Japanese charge d'affaires AMERICAN OFFICER PRESENT (By the Associated Press) ATLANTA ' •— Governor Cliford Winker Is "heartily In accord” with the movement to ecJcuro the pasuge of a bill providing for biennial ses sion* of the Georgia' general attpein- bly, he told the Associated Press to day . In hla first tnesage to the 1923 leg- (stature, tho chief executive urged this step in the interest of ecouumy and better legislation. Hie predecct- • eor, Governor Thomas W. Hardwick took the same position. Now that the recent session of ths assembly Is a matter of history, Governor Walker said he was mode strongly convinced than ever that the regular Icglitla- ture should meet only once every two years. •If the biennial session law had la ready boon on tho statute books of the state when I came Into office" hi remarked, “ f could have called ai extroardfnary session for tho consld. cratlou of tax reform measures only —and we would hare had tax reform measures enacted. “The sessions of the assembly are expensive to hte state and while leg islation Is being considered It has a distinct efect on^the business life. The uncertainty of the sltuati. slackens and holds business In su pen*? “Bennlal sessions also would t**> to crowd out much unnecessary leg islation.* 1 BILL INTRODUCBD AT PAtT ASSEMBLY A biennial sessions bill was intro, duccd at the past assembly but Idld not come up for final passage. Lang ley, of Floyd, was one of the repre sentatives urging the bill’s passage.. Elders, of Tattnall, who has an- nounced he probably will run for governor next year, was one of the oppment* of the bill In commute# hearings, according to Mr. Langley. Those favoring the passage of ths b!!! will urge early action on it at the wtt regular session in 1324. it !»»« ^ecn anasnccd. (Continued From Page One) the raging inferno which followed the tremble. EACH QUAKE LEFT WIDE GAPS The earthquake left great gaits fn (file pavements and wrecked most of the buildings. Fire, which started In numerous places at once, completed the destruction. The American and ritfyh real dents of Yokohama, who escaped the disaster are gathering the bod If-s of_ foreign© victim* tdr burial at sea. The remnants of the Chinese gathered under lihe bluffs, without population of tho ruined city are food and shelter. Their condition Is pitiable. As far as la known now only one American lost his life in To kio. Ho was W. T.Tllumo, of the General Electric company, who was killed In tho collaps^ of the company’s building. Americ&ns who lost their lives in Yokohama Include Captain Mnc- Donahl, of the Grand hotel; a Mrs. Root and son, recent arrivals, and Max D. KIrJasoff, American con sul. 800 PATIENT8 DIE IN HOSPPITAL SHAGHAI.—An Eastern News agency report from ITaranomachl Wednesday said 800 patients In tho Imperial University hospital at Tokio were burned to death and that the imperial palace had been opened to refugees. The report Bald some large buildings had escaped damage. In cluding tho department of Justice, navy,, supreme court and house of representatives building and the Tokio i»refectural office and .the Imperial hotel. The buildings reported totally destroyed include the Bank c.f Japan, the Mitsui bank, the Yasuda bank and the Third bank. Princesses Nagato iKunl and Hlroko Kanin and Prince Kanin are reported safe. BAPT18TS 8AFE NEW YIRK.—All of the Bap tist mission In Japan are bellevpd safe according to a cablegram re ceived by the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society from Charles B. Tenny secretary of the japan Baptist Mission. OH! MY BACK! 4*he Expression of Many a Kidney Sufferer in Athens A stubborn backache is cause to suspect kidney trouble. When the kidneys are Inflammed and swollen stooping brings a sftarp twinge In the smnll of the back, that almosl takes the breath \ away. Doan** Kidney Pills revive sluggish kid neys—relieve aching backs. Here’# Athens proof: Mrs. Rosa 8trickland, 818 E. Dougherty St., says: ‘“I felt f weak and run down and my housework became a burden to me. When I attempted to sweep the floor, t aharp twinges of pain shot through me and when I stooped I could hardly get up again as my back was so stiff. Mornings I felt just abhut a» tired a* when I had gone to bed My kidney* acted Irregularly, too Upon the udvlco of a doctor I ob tained Doan's Kidney Pills and af* ter using a box of them I was re lieved of ul Ithe misery,** Priq^ 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply afk for a kidney remedy- get Deanes Sidney Pills— the same that Mrs'. Strickland had. Foster- MUburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.- AUvcrtlsenicnt. Banner-Herald Want Ads Too Late to Classify FOR SALeT Ground Bone Good for the Chickens. National Market Phone 747 124 Thomas Street. v - FARM IMPLEMENTS SALESMAN $AM And a Quart of Taste . By Swan GftEW 5MFF, eno«-wt'u_svop us w gct 50ne. bTEftrt OH TH'-WWI ho ne_ Sheldon Whitchouse of the Amor lean embassy actC-. aa the unlffl- “V AUD ° I8H . , cial observer He took no part In nlM^f I*” ! i .h. .!Xcu»loj •“ r«narl | S*' r i.!!! amigaSmB g fgl I ailditljr beaten. Cook In n doubts 1“ Ur.I law that rtatr- were rr pan- boiler utml Ihe , flble for crimes and polltfcal at* | pour Into junall cuj.$ that have lacks upon their territory and th.v Wn riny.>«l with cold water end the method pf Inquiry In the Juuitu. j net away to chill. It makes a di»u McCormick and Deoring Mowers, $75.00. Hay Rakes, $37.50. E. D. Sledge Phone 1327-f FOR SAI.K—15 acre* ot land, houia, orchard, barn, poultry, honaca, brooder houae, one hun dred White Leghorn pullets, go with jdace. tf can’t aell at my price will aell at youra. H. E. Dunlap. Winterville, Ga. ' a'Jp FOR SALE—Almost new gaa .store (4 bnmeaa and oven), Cole's hot blast heater, kitchen cabinet and a few other house- hold articles. Phone 801-J.' a9c WANTED — To exchange organ for amall camping tent. a9p LOST—36x5 Cold tire on rim for Triad. WANTED ROOMS—Couple wif i out child wants funih-hed room,' kitchenette and bath. Answev