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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—A gifoss
deficiency in national fiscal transac
tions of $2,100,000,000 this fiscal and
$1,500,000,000 for the next fiscal
year, was forecast today by Secre
tary Houston in testimony before the
senate finance committee, which is
considering the soldier bonus bill.
The secretary said federal finances
were in such shape that new sources
of revenue must be found and no
■ new burdens added to the treasury.
In 1923, Mr. Houston said, SBOO,-
of war savings certificates
■ and bonds mature, and must either
■ be refunded or paid. In addition, the
» cost of running the government must
■ be met and the floating debt amounts
V to $2,300,000,000.
r Face $1,500,000,000 Deficit
"In brief,” said Mr. Houston, “we
| have to take care of $7,500,000,000
I worth obligations within the next
■ two yeSs in addition to financing the
■ ordinary activities of the govern-
J ment.
■ "At the same time, some sources
B of revenue are gradually drying up,
9 notably the income and profits taxes.
® “We will approach 1923 with a defi-
M Oit of at least $1,500,000,000 at the
!■ present rate.
Hjj "Obviously, therefore, we must
Either cut down our expenditures or
y find new sources of revenue, even if
►-we do not take on any new obliga
-9 tions. This will be difficult, because
■ there is growing in the public mind
I opposition to paying high taxes any
I longer.”
g Opposes German Credit
■ Mr. Houston said he strongly op
-1 posed any plan to have the govern-
I ment give Germany a credit of a bil
| lion dollars, as some farm organiza
| tions are demanding.
I “That would just be transferring
I to the government the bad debts or
| poor security which private capital
I refuses to assume,” said Mr. Hous-
I tO He declared that if such a credit
were granted Germany, he would not
know where the money would come
* r “With all the burdens that con
front us, it doesn’t seem to me that
we ought to throwz-on the govern
i ment further burdens of that sort,
said Mr. Houston.
Some of the chief advocates of the
credit to Germany are vociferously
demanding, he said, that the _ debt
owed us by the allies be cancelled.
Efforts to Obtain
Large German Credit
V Made by American
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2?. —Efforts
to obtain a large credit for Germany
in the United States are being made
by an American. William Wallace
Brauer, of New York, it was learned
at the state department today.
Brauer, who is said to represent
German interests, has the backing
of farming elements in the United
States and representatives of farm
ers organizations have called at the
state department to inquire whether
an advance to Germany would re
<jfijve the approval of this govern
" ment. , . , ,
! The proposed credits, which have,
l< been mentioned in a figure as high as
I a billion dollars, are desired by Ger
; many to purchase raw materials,
mainly food products.
While it is not believed that any
'definite understanding has been
reached, it is understood Brauer is
attempting to work through New
York bankers and hopes that the pro
k posed revival of the war finance cor-
I poration will facilitate the advance
■ to Germany.
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Old, Old Story, Love of Woman,
Explains Romance of Monk Who
Renounced Solemn VoWs to Wed
MARGUERITE MOOERS MAR
SHALL
Copyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co.
(The New York Evening World.)
That the love of woman led him
to break finally and forever the sol
emn vows he took and kept for twen
ty years, is the explanation of the
recent marriage and return to the
world of James Cornell Biddle, mem
ber of the famous Philadelphia fam
ily and one-time Trappist monk, ob
tained by The Evening World from
a friend and former associate of
Biddle’s in the Trappist Monastery
in Kentucky known as the Abbey of
Gethsemane. This friend, who him
self spent a year at the abbey as
postulant and novice, entering the
day after Christmas. 1913, is P. C.
Caulfield, of No. 305 Bedford Park
Boulevard, now a stock and bond
salesman in New York.
“After twenty years of that peace,
that protection, that soul-discipline
which obtains in a Trappist monas
tery,” Mr. Caulfield told me, “I know
how Mr. Biddle—or Father Alberic.
as we called him in the Abbey of
Gethsemane must have suffered
when he returned to the rough, hus
tling world, where no one shows con
sideration for any other.
“Then he met a gentfe and sympa
thetic woman, the Miss Mary Gaines
whom he has just married. She was
about his own age. She was nursing
her brother. Her tenderness and
sympathy undoubtedly aroused the
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love of Mr. Biddle and for her sake
he broke definitely his most solemn
and sacred vows—something I be
lieve he is sure to regret. For, what
ever your religion may be, the vow
you take in its name is a vow! If
it had not been for his romance, for
the fact that he fell in love. I feel
sure that this man would have gone
back to his monastery in the end.”
Incidentally, if this strange story
in real life shoulfl follow the course
of a similar narrative in fiction, Mr.
Biddle may yet turn from “Paradise,”
to Gethsemane, from the Eden-named
country home of his bride in Warren
ton, Va., where he now plans to live,
to the severe.^ -Rd cheerless life of the
Trfpr’.;t at Gethsemane,
Garden of Allah,”
the and play by Robert
Hichens, tne Trappist monk, Boris,
who flees from his monastery and
meets, woos and weds Domini, the
woman of his love, is led back to the
door of the monastery by Domini her
self, who watches its door close for
ever on her earthly happiness.
As Mr. Biddle has pointed out,
however, his own story differs from
“The Garden of Allah” in that Boris
always was tortured by doubts and
remorse about his course and that
Mr. Biddle feels himself at peace
with his conscience. Also, of course,
his wife knew of his past life when
she married him, instead of learn
ing of it after becoming a wife and
a mother, as in the case of the
Hichens heroine.
It is only after hearing fron\ Mr.
Caulfield a detailed and accurate de
scription of the life lei for twenty
years by the son of a former
United States minister and one of
America’s richest and most socially
prominent families, that one fully
realizes the enormous strength of
will which must have been back of
even the sincerest love for a wom
an, if Mr. Biddle were to tear his
life up by the roots as he has done.
“I went to the monastery to make
a retreat, arriving the day after
Christmas in 1913,” Mr. Caulfield
explained. He is a tall, dark-haired
vigorous young man, apparently in
the early thirties., “After I had been
there a week,” he continued, “I de
cided to enter the order and be
came a postulant. Three months
later I was a novice, Father Aebre
dus. I would, have taken my first
vows at the end of the second year,
but I only remained a year alto
gether. The life was too severe for
BURGLARS STRIP
CHRISTMAS TREE
AT ALL SAINTS’
A beautifully decorated Christmas
tree, bearing gifts fqr the children,
was completely stripped by burg
lars who entered the All Saints’ x-?is
copal church at 256 West Peachtree
street, Wednesday night. The tree
was ready for the children’s Christ
mas entertainment to be held Thurs
day morning, and it was ornamented
with colored candles, ribbons and tin
sel. At the foot of it were more
than 100 little gifts for the Sunday
school boys and girls, arranged in
dainty packages. There was candy
thebe, in little boxes, with oranges
and other goodies. The Sunday
school workers had spent the whole
day in making the tree attractive for
the young folks.
When the sexton came in Thursday
mroning. everything was wrecked.
The decorations had been torn from
the tree, the gift boxes and candy
were gone; the beautiful evergreens
and wreaths in the room had been
stripped of their ribbons and orna
ments. Muddy footprints of the in
truders had trampled what they did
not steal. It seemed as though the
robbers were angry at not having
found more money in the church,
and were venting their spite upon
the children’s tree.
They broke into every room in the
church, and took everything which
had the slightest value, and could be
moved Even the rdbe case of Rev.
W. W. Memminger, the rector, had
been rudely broken open, and the
vestments scattered over the floor.
Even the janitor’s razor was stolen.
Besides the Christmas gifts, and the
other minor objects, the burglars did
not find anything of great value dur
ing their raid.
During the same night the North
Avenue Presbyterian church, at the
corner of Peachtree street and North
avenue, was robbed by burglars who
showed a similarity of method to the
operators in the All Saints’ church.
The church linen chests were forc
ed open and their contents taken; the
study of Rev. Richard Orme Flinn,
the pastor, was plundered, the desk
being opened and the file cases strip
ped. A silk-covered sofa pillow, a
desk clock, postage stamps and a
pair of scissors were among the oth
er things missed. No money was
found by the robbers.
Both churches suffered consider
able property damage from the hands
of the plunderers. The workers were
busy Thursday morning preparing
for the Christmas entertainments,
handicapped by the work of the rob
bers.
Two pictures of Mr. Biddle when he was Father Alberic —As
che left he is in choir garb; at the right in working clotnes.
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who are pledged to it.
“I had heard before entering that
a member of the Biddle family was
in the monastery, x and soon I no
ticed him —a mofet distinguished
looking man, who had taken his
name of Father Alberic from the
saint who originally founded the
Cictercian order, of which the Trap
pist order is the latest reform.
Father Alberic stood six feet and a
half in height, had gray hair and
close-cropped beard and dark blue
eyes.
“He was a model monk all the
time I was at the monastery, and
no one heard of any doubts he may
have had—although, of course, the
monks are never allowed to talk to
each other. It is not true that there
is a rule of absolute silence, since
they chant the offices, preach in
English on the feast days and take
part in the confession of faults —
about which I will speak later. Fath
er Alberic was particularly noted
for the eloquence of his preach
ing.”
“Will you tell me just what was
the daily life of Mr. Biddle, or Fath
er Alberic?” I requested.
“He rose with the other monks
—there were about forty—at 2 a.
m., except on Sunday and the ten
or fifteen most important feast days
of the year, when the rising time'
was 1 a. m.,” explained Mr. Caul
field.
“From rising time until uarter
past five was spent in the church
chanting the offices. There was nev
er any heat in the church, and you
can judge how cold it must have
been when I tell you that I wore
heavy underwear, all my outer cloth
ing, a heavy overcoat, gloves and
a muffler, yet I suffered from the
cold. The monks wore heavy woollen
underwear, heavy shoes, a long
straight white gown called a habit;
over that a black scapular reaching
just below the waist and over ev
erything else the white cowl with
hood and long sleeves.
“I think that Father Alberic suf
fered especially from the cold, for 1
used to hear him rubbing his hands
morning after morning in an effort
to keep warm.
“At 5:15, he and the other monks
went to the chapter room for the
reading of the rule of St. Benedict,
the patron of the Trappist order.
Then came the confession of faults.
The Abbot asked for it. in Latin, and
the monks accused each other of
Draws Lot for Charge
And Pleads Guilty
To the Heaviest One
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Assistant
District Attorney Sullivan, in gen
eral sessions court today, held five
slips of paper in his hand —five
charges against Lawrence Haw
thorne, 22-year-old youth held un
der $100,500 bail for his part in the
Hotel Astor holdup last week. Be
side him sat the prisoner, waiting
to plead to them.
“I’ll draw one ‘card’ and plead
guilty to the indictment on it,” Haw
thorne said.
“Which one?” asked the assistant
district attorney.
He held the slips as he would a
poker hand. The indictments rang
ed from assault to burglary in the
first degree, punishable by “not less
than ten. years in state prison.”
“Any one will do.”
Hawthorne drew at random. He
picked “burglary in the first de
gree,” the severest of the lot.”
“Guilty to the charge, your hon
or,” he said.
Then he was led back to the
Tombs. He will be sentenced Christ
mas eve. «
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HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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derelictions noticed —such as banging
the door, for example, or not getting
up on time. No defense was permitted
to the map accused. He had to con
fess his fault publicly and fall at
full length on the cold stone floor,
staying there until he received his
penance from the Abbot. I never
heard of any sins committed by
Father Alberic—-as I said, he was a
model monk.
“At 7 the monks took off z their
cowls and went out to work cutting
down trees, chopping or other rough
labor, carrying their picks or axes
over the left shoulder, walking in the
order of seniority and holding their
rosaries in their right hand. Father
Alberic was favored by the Abbot to
the extent that he was not, so far as
I know, given the rough outside work
performed by the other monks. In
stead, he stayed at work in the li
brary, cataloguing the books and
writing sermons.
“At 9:30 he went with the other
monks to the church for the office of
sext and solemn high mass. At 11:30
they all took their first meal of the
day in the refectory. They never ate
fish, eggs or meat, and a typical din
ner would be a bowl of vegetable
soup, a dish of beans, a thick slice of
whole wheat bread and a pot of
liquid made from berries grown on
the Abbey grounds and tasting like a
coffee substitute.
"After dinner they were allowed a
siesta for one hour in the summer. In
winter they spent this time in the
church. They worked in the fields
from 2 to 3:30, and had supper, con
sisting' of a hunk of whole wheat
bread, an inch thick, and a cup of the
liquid made from berries. Then they
wefe allowed to read a little. At
six the compline was read in the
church and the monks sang the Salve
Regina. After that came the “great
silence” in the cloister. Father Al
beric and all the monks had to retire
at 8 in the summer, at 7 in the win
ter. His bed and pillow were of
straw pack<»J so tight that they were
of the consistency of -<<cod, and on
retiring only the shoes were removed.
“But the Abbot was too lenient with
Father Alberic,” young Mr. Caulfield
added, seriously. “Besides not hav
ing to do the rough work he was al
lowed on several occasions to
the abbey. He went home when his
mother was sick, and afterward he
went to Philadelphia to see a spe
cialist. That wasn’t necessary, and
I do not think he should ever have
been allowed to go into the world. I
think the abbot went contrary to dis
cipline. In the monastery, you know,
women are never allowed to come.
“He will regret what he has done.
If anything happened to me I would
go back to spend the rest of my days
at Gethsemane, and in the end be laid
in a grave without a coffin, the same
grave in which lay other monks who
had borne my name; above us all one
tablet with only the different death
dates to tell one Father John from
another.”
CHEERLESS XMAS
IS BEING FACED
BY GERMAN FOLK
BY GECKGE WITTE
Special Cable to the Chicago Daily Newa
Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to
The Atlanta Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.)
BERLIN. Germany, Dec. 23.—Like
the United States, Santa Claus has
not ye<. made peace with Germany
and for that reason Christmas will
be a rather cheerless affair for the
larger part of the German people—
more cheerless even than it was
last year.
Well stocked shops with gaily
trimmed windows and the crowds
of people to be seen everywhere
'would seem to indicate the opposite.
But it is a homely truth that only
a few among the crowds are laden
with the parcels that bring joy to
the children’s hearts. Most of them
are just looking and not buying.
Only those who know with what
devotion the Germans before the
war celebrated Christmas, which was
the biggest holiday for all classes
will appreciate what the loss of
ability, on account of the sky-high
prices properly to celebrate the oc
casion means to the average German.
But even the poorest of them are
clinging to the tirhe-honored custom
of having a Christmas tree and those
who cannot afford to buy one go out
into the snow and sleet after night
fall to the nearest woods and take
one. Thus, even though the times
are extremely hard there will J>e a
Christmas tree with a few candles
burning in almost every home in
Germany.
The usual roast goose will, how
ever, be missing, as geese of good
quality cost eighteen marks (nor
mally $4.50) a pound. There will
be only a little cake and candy, as
the government restrictions are so
rigid that it is possible to get flour
and sugar only with the greatest
difficulty and expense.
Taken all around conditions are
far worse this year than they were
a year ■-o. The Christmas crowds
one se. everywhere look shabbier
and re. e down-hearted than they
did then. The number of beggars
and unemployed has also increased.
The American relief societies are do
ing a good deal to alleviate the
misery of the poorest children. Their
activity is to some extent taking
the place of the philanthropic work
which the kaiserin and the imperial
court used to do among the poor
around Christmas time before and
during the war.
No German societies are now doing
any work of this kind, so the Ameri
cans have the field to themselves.
But their funds are quite insufficient
to reach a large percentage of the
poor of whom there are now ten
times as msny as before the war.
CATTLE TICK IS
BEING RAPIDLY
BEATEN IN SOUTH
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.—The cat
tle tick is fast being eliminated
\hrough the work of the department
cf agriculture and the co-operation of
tlje states. Os the fifteen states
which were tick-infested when the
work of eradication systematically
began on July 1, 1906, six of them
have been completely freed of the
pest. These states are California,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri,
South Carolina and TennesseA
During the year ending December
1, 1920, more than 50,000 square
miles were freed of ticks and since
the work began in 1906, the area re
leased has been 510,091 square miles.
That is 70 per cent of the 728,565
square miles Infested with the tick
when the eradication campaign be
gan. The area remaining to be clear
ed comprises 218,474 square miles,
all of which is in the southern states.
Progress of the work as announc
ed by the department of agricul
ture shows the total area infested
July 1, 1906, and the area remaining
December 1, 1920, with the percent
age of area released, by states, as
follows: \
Alabama: 51,279 square miles in
fested; 3,252 square miles remain
ing; 94 per cent of infested area re
leased.
Arkansas: 32,525 square miles in
fested; 19,362 remaining; 63 per cent
released.
California: 79,824 square miles in
fested; completely released.
Florida: 54,861 square miles in
fested; 47,980 remaining; 13 per cent
released
Georgia: 57,438 square miles in
fested; 15,694 remaining; 73 per cent
released.
Kentucky: 841 square miles infest
ed: completely released.
Louisiana: 45,409 square miles
infested; 15,490 remaining; 66 per
cent released.
Mississippi: 46.362 square miles in
fested: completely released.
-Missouri: 1,286 square miles in
fested; completely released.
North Carolina: 37,365 square
miles infested: 10,087 remaining; 73
per cent released. •
Oklahoma: 47,890 square miles in
fested; 4,047 remaining; 92 per cent
released.
South Carolina: 30,495 square
miles infested; completely released.
Tennessee: 16,98-7 square miles in
fested; completely released.
Texas: 191,885 square miles infest
ed; 100,606 remaining; 48 per cent
released.
Virginia: 13,918 square miles in
fested; 1,686 remaining; 88 per cent
"Too Much Water”
Cause of Diseases,
Wrote Pilgrim Father
BOSTON, Dec. 23. —“Much drink
ing of water” was considered by Gov
ernor William Bradford, of Plymouth,
a contributory cause of the ravages
of disease and the shortness of life
that afflicted the Pilgrims in the
early days, Horace H. head of
the historical department at Mount
Hermon school, told the Bostonian
society at a meeting last night.
He quoted largely from the diary
of Governor Bradford.
The speaker also pointed put as
a fact of cufious historic interest
that Pastor John Robinson, who led
the Pilgrims into Holland, but did
not accompany them to New Eng
land, had taxes remitted on one-half
a case of beer a month and one hogs
head of wine every three months be
cause he held a professorship in the
University of Ley-ien
Whisky Guard Shot •
By Auto Bandits
CINCINNATI. Dec. 23.—Joseph
Kline, of New York city, a guard of
a truck loaded with whisky, bound
from Frankfort, Ky., to New York
city, was probably fatally wounded
when several shots were fired late
last night on Reading road, this
city, in what police believe was an
unsuccessful attempt to steal the
whisky.
The shooting, police were told,
was done by six men in a touring
car, who had followed the truck
from Kentucky. No shots were fired
by the guards, the police were in
formed. Immediately after firing
the men in the automobile speeded
up their machine and disappeared in
the darkness.
The truck carried 250 cases of
whiskey, valued at SIO,OOO. It was
in charge of George M. Warden, a
New York wholesale whisky deal
er. Others on the truck were Wil
liam Quinn, chauffeur, John Troy
and Joseph Grady, all of New York.
Ante-Bellum Romance
Is Recalled by Will
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 23.—Melvin
T. Nichols, formerly of Savannah
but now of Gordon, Ga., is one of the
beneficiaries under the will of Miss
Sarah Marsh Kelly, of Haverhill,
Mass., whose recent death recalls a
Civil war romance which has re
sulted in the ante-bellum belle leav
ing her money to relatives of her
fiance who was killed in the war. ■
The war hero was Major Henry
Jackson How, and he was in love
with Miss Kelly and she with him.
He marched to war and when the
news of his death came back to Ha
verhill in August, 1862, his sweet
heart went into mourning for him.
She remained single until her death.
Succeeds (McSwiney
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This is the first picture received in
America of Donald O’Callaghan, who
succeeded the late Terrence Mac-
Swiney as lord mayor of Cork, after
MacSwiney’s death from his hunger
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NEW YORK. —Last call for—
Leap Year, girls!
Or perhaps you consider every
year Leap Year, now that you have
won emancipation through the vote!
In any event, when you set out to
get you a husband, use discretion.
Find one who will make you a good
housekeeper!
rind One Trained
Well, why not? Suppose you are
a successful milliner, making be
tween $15,000 and $20,000 a year,
let’s say, and you fall in love with
a man making not more than $3,000
or $4,000 a year. What more logi
cal than to train him into the house
hold duties, that you may be re
leased to bring in the larger in
come? Or better still, fall in love
with one who is already trained.
Find a man like Jack Dempsey,
for instance. Not that you need have
any designs upon the heavyweight
champion himself-r—just take him as
an example. Jack‘has been batching]
CENTENNIAL IS
CELEBRATED BY
r- BAPTIST'PAPER
f
The one hundredth anniversary
number of the Christian Index, the
organ and property of the Baptists
of Georgia, which is edited by Louie
D. Newton, was mailed to sub
scribers Wednesday.
This edition, whiqh is handsome
ly bound, profusely illustrated and
replete with valuable historical rec
ords and other articles, is being sent
to practically every center in the
United States and throughout Eu
rope, in addition to the 30,000 that
will be distributed in Georgia.
On the editorial page Mr. Newton
has the following interesting com
ment on the one hundred years of
Baptist growth:
“It was just a century ago that
Baptist life in America semed to
find rootage. The illuminating paper
by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, emphasizes
the forces which account for this
fact.
“In this span of one hundred years,
there has been one constant agent in
every step of progress—the religious
press. Our own denomination is but
typical of the vital relation which all
forward programs have enjoyed
from the papers devoted to the
spread of information and inspira
tion.
“It was in January, 1821, that Lu
ther Rice established the Columbian
Star, later merged into the Chris
tian Index. There was one great
reason for this master religious
statesman desiring a Baptist pape’’
—he wanted to disseminate the in
formation of the need of a dying
world for the message of Christ. He
had lately returned from his work
as a missionary, and he knew how
urgent was the task awaiting Bap
tists and all other Christians.
“The wave of awakening to the
fields of service that were so ripe
unto harvest, swept into the south
and W. T. Brantley was among the
first men to respond to the chal
lenge. He was called to the pastor
ate of the First church, Philadel
phia, and soon became the editor of
the paper. The paper was then for
the adoption of the new name—The
Christian Index. The paper was
then moved to the south, where it
has been an evangel of the several
movements of our great Baptist pro
gram looking to the salvation of the
whole world.
“It is a great tradition which gath
ers on this occasion about the cen
tury which the Index has passed. It
fills our hearts with a sense of
thanksgiving when we contemplate
the service which it has rendered.
How we wish that every man and
woman who has worked for and with
the paper for the coming of the
Kingdom, might feel our true sense
of gratitude for their wise leadership
and unselfish contribution to the
spread of Christianity.
“We have tried to assemble all
the voices, both from the present
and the past, that could say for ev
ery Georgia Baptist the things that
may worthily be put down as 1 true
records in our Baptist progress and
as prophecies for the days that are
to be. We hope that the Centennial
number starts in the direction of
this high goal, and we herewith ded
icate it to the three hundred and
fifty thousand wJiite Baptists of
Georgia as an huihble effort to com
memorate the glorious work of our
denomination.”
Commercial Treaty
With Siam Sent to
Congress by Wilson
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Presi
dent Wilson today sent to the senate
a commercial treaty with Siam and
a report of the. proceedings of the
International Dairy congress.
Mr. Wilson also announced his ap
proval of a bill providing for dis
tinguished service medals for officers
and men in the merchant marine
service.
Authority to invite officially dele
gates from foreign countries to par
ticipate in the projected world’s dairy
congress here in 1922 was requested.
- It in New York lately, with only
a couple of colored women to look
■ after his apartment.
i “Pretty good cooks,” he says,
“but every once in a while I have
i to teach ’em how to make some
thing.
He Was Too Good
“I was a cook once. Sure, and
a good one, too! Folks kept a little
store in Montrose, Col., and decided
tp add a quick lunch counter to it.
I drew the job of night manager
of the place, which meant I was
night cook and night waiter. Busi
ness was great—that is as far as
volume was concerned. But it didn’t
last long. I sort of wrecked it!
“I got it into my head that an'
order of ham and eggs meant about
six eggs and several thick slices of
ham. Made a hit with the custom
ers—but not with my dad!”
Wouldn’t it make a hit with you,
too, girls? Better find somebody
like Jack with culinary leanings!
Byron Bank Cashier
Held Up: SI,OOO Taken;
Men Reported Hemmed
MACON, Ga., Dec. 23. —The Bank
of Byron, seventeen miles from Ma
con, was robbed of SI,OOO in cash late
Wednesday afternoon by two white
men who covered the cashier with
pistols while he was counting the
money. The bandits, after securing
the cash, jumped into an automobile
which had been left by them in front
of the bank and left Bvron at a rapid
rate, going towards Perry.
It is reported that the two men
were surrounded in a swamp 'by a
posse in Houston county near the
Bibb county line and their early cap
ture is expected. The automobile
was found in a ditch and idetified as
that stolen from M. C. Nisbet, clerk
of the Bibb superior cout, about 3
o’clock in the afternoon.
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this month against yi
move was conn• ermanded -
from M Shiemann, soviet
tive here, who thought
for an offensive camapign
arrived. Hope is entertained
drive seemnigly immident at
may be postponed at the last
Independent Georgia has been
erated by the Bolshevik because
the trade advantages offered at Baß
turn, which has been regarded it 9
Moscow as a corridor which permit
ted the Bolsheviki to bring in sup
plies from Europe. Reliable Infor
mation from Batum, however, indi
cates serious disturbances, the Geor
gian garrison there having revolted
This resulted in a panic and
stormed the ships in the harhg’r
seeking to escape before the tpriva
of Bolshevik troops, which jvere re
ported in the neighborhood.
It is understood the allies regarf
the situation so serious that thej
have considered sending warships t<
insure the evacuation of allied mis
sions in Georgia.
The recent oil agreement conclude'’
between soviet Russia and Georgi
has not been carried out, and as ;
consequence train
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