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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
And withal they learn to be idle, wan-
1
' dering about from house to house; and
not only idle, but tattlers also and busy
bodies, speaking things which they ought
not. —Timothy 5:13. Thou shalt not go up
and doivn as a tale-bearer among thy peo
ple.—Leviticus 19:16. A tale-bearer re
vealeth secrets; but he that is of a faith
ful spirit concealeth the matter.—Proverbs.
' Increasing Water Power
THE development of hydro-electric re
sources has entered upon what the
"Power” magazine calls an "era of un
precedented expansion.” A survey of the
last three years shows applications for In
stalling an aggregate of twenty-one million
five hundred thousand horsepower, whereas
at the beginning of that period the installa
tion of all such plants in the United States
totalled only some nine million horsepower.
Within the same three years, according to
the federal water power commission, there
have been permits and licenses for seven
million five hundred thousand horsepower,
while two million four hundred thousand Is
recorded as built or building. It appears
further that the general tendency is toward
"larger and larger units.” Thus: "A unit
of seventy thousand horsepower was put in
service at Niagara Falls; plans for one
hundred thousand horsepower units are on
the drawing boards. It has been shown
that workmen who direct the greatest
amount of power receive the largest wages,
the greatest average daily wage being In
the United States, where the per capita
production of horsepower Is greatest. To
produce seventy thousand horsepower by
steam would require the continuous work
of one thousand five hundred men from
the time the coal was mined until it was
fired under the boilers.”
Though America leads the world in wa
ter power development, fifty-three per cent
of the total having taken place within her
bounds, the most abundant resources are
In Africa. That continent is credited with
potentially two hundred million horse
power, compared with seventy-flro million
in Asia, forty-five million in Europe, and
about sixty million in the United States and
Canada. These figures give range for much
speculation as to the center of the world’s
Industrial activity two or three centuries
hence. If hydro-electric power holds Its
present pace of Importance, Africa may well
become of as much consequence to business
history as It was in the days of the rha
raohs or of the Carthaginians.
Georgia’s Industrial future rests largely
upon her water power resources. The de
veloped power of the entire South Is esti
mated at two million two hundred and fifty
thousand. Georgia’s portion, in 1921, was
little more than two hundred and eighty
one thousand—some sixty thousand less than
either of the Carolinas. Georgia’s potential
minimum horsepower is estimated at three
hundred and seventy-four thousand, and
her potential maximum at six hundred and
twenty-seven. This again Is below the rating
of her two richly-endowed neighbors. En
gineers maintain, however, that the pecu
liarly favorable situation of her water power
sites with reference to the larger move
ments of industry and trade insure Geor
gia a great manufacturing future. The
truth Is she has enough undeveloped power
sufficient to whirl the wheels of an indus
trial empire.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
The Ultimate Blame
GRITICISM of Congress, though for the
most part well deserved, is too often
merely negative. The reactionaries
who have flourished at Washington, since
March the 4th, 1921, could not in the nature
of things have produced results very differ
ent from those against which the country
now rails. Figs are not to be gathered of
! thistles, nor grapes of bramble bushes. The
| people are but reaping as they sowed. This
' in no wise excuses Congress and the Admin
istration for such oppressive acts as the
Fordney-McCumber tariff or for such inanity
as has prevailed in place of a constructive
foreign policy. But the harm will not be
undone by simply condemning visionless pol
iticians, and then forgetting the electorate’s
responsibility.
Particularly apt at this juncture is the
comment of that thoughtful business news
paper, the New York Journal of Commerce.
Touching the continual complaints of manu
facturers, farmers and traders, it asks:
“Whose votes but theirs sent so many in
competents to Washington? Whose influ
ence but theirs drives one legislator Inces
santly to endeavor to attack wealth by
means of tax burdens, and another to hurt
the consumer by excessive tariff duties?
Whose Interests but theirs leads figurehead
Congressmen . . . obdurately to insist up
on the collection of debts from hopelessly in
solvent debtors? . . . What we need Is a
much better type of thought on the part of
men of light and leading in the community
and a greatly improved brand of statesman
ship in the business community itself.. What
we need is more men who have foresight
enough to see that their legitimate interests
are best served in the long run by policies
which best promote the welfare of the coun
try as a whole.” This condition once at
tained, "Less trouble would be experienced
in sending to Washington the sort of Con
gress which would not spend Its time' won
dering how it can remain in power.”
There will be higher ideals in legislative
hails when there are higher Ideals at the
ballot box. There will be less of selfishness
and more of workmanly patriotism among
politicians, when there are less and more
among voters. The people will have the
sort of government service which they de
: sire, whenever the majority so wills. They
' get, for the most part, what they deserve.
Certainly, they will not get better govern
ment without thinking of it, working toward
it and voting for it.
QUIZ
Any Tri-Weekly Journal reader can
get the answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin, director, Washington, D. C., and in
closing a two-cent stamp for return
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. What is the meaning of the inscrip
tion on the walls of the Amphitheater at
i Arlington, "When we assumed the soldier
we did not lay aside the citizen?” L. L.
A. They were the words of George Wash
i ington, and were uttered for the purpose of
, reassuring the New York provincial congress
in 1775 that the people of the country of
! those days should have no fear lest he and
his army would act otherwise than to secure
and to preserve the liberties of the people.
And it was Sir William Blackstone some
time later' who expressed much the same
i thought as Washington, but in these words:
i "He puts not off the citizen when he enters
i the camp, but it is because he is a citizen
and would wish to continue so that he
makes of himself for a while a soldier.”
Q. Why is March 17 St. Patrick's day?
S. F. S.
A. The 17th of March is called St. Pat
rick’s day because of its being the anniver
sary of the day of this saint's death. It is
celebrated by the Irish all over the world.
I Green is worn on this day in memory of the
Emerald Isle.
Q. What is the flag of Afghanistan?
B. G.
A. The Afghan flag consists of the follow
ing design: A mosque between two triangu
lar pennants, over a five-pointed star and
enclosed within a combination of a circle
and hexagon, all in flat white upon a black
I background.
Q. What people belong to the Xanthocroi
1 and Melanchroi races and what color are
i they? A. M. P.
A. Prof. Huxley forty-five years ago used
these terms to designate, by the former the
blond, and by the latter, the brunette por
tion of the Caucasian race.
Q- Where is the shortest railroad in the
United States? A. F.
A. Tlie shortest railroad reporting to the
interstate commerce commission is the Dur
ham (North Carolina) Union Station com
pany. This road is sixteen-one-hundredths
of a mile in length.
Q. Do all the Florida Seminoles speak
the same language? A. G. S.
A. There are two distinct languages
spoken by these Florida Indians. The speech
of the North Glade Indians differ from that
of the South Glade red men to such an ex-
I tent that an interpreter is necessary between
; them.
Q. Please give some information about
’ the dead letter office. M. N.
I A. The dead letter office is a division ot'
I the postoffice department under the con
; 1 10 lof the fourth assistant postmaster gen-
I eral to which unclaimed letters, parcels, etc.,
i are sent from local postoffices. It receives
| about 16.500,000 dead letters and parcels a
i year, and 9,000,000 postcards and postals.
I The loss to the general public through the
| careless directing of such matter is about
i $500,000 annually. No letters or packages
1 are sent to the dead letter office until they
I have been given a directory service at the
j postoffice to which they are addressed, and
'all available methods’ to locate the ad
| dressees have been exhausted.
Q. Why is there a b in the word debt”
I W. R. B.
! A. The word debt Is derived from Middle
England det, dette and from Old French
| dette. In an effort to make the English
spelling suggest more directly the original
Latin debita the b was inserted. The s was
inserted in island for the same reason, and
th» I in fault, although in the latter case it
j came in time to be sounded.
SLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR "
What has gone before. —Miriam Fol
will, a young business woman, has an
episode in her life which, although inno
cent, has caused scandal. She has almost
forgotten it, when a year later she )>e
cc "s engaged to Anthony Breen, and
, comes out of the past comes a
woman who knows all about this hap
pening, and proceeds to make trouble.
Anthony believes the v. c ■ t, but offers
to marry her anyway. Miriam, with her
dream of love over, refuses, and, al
thc, ■ t Anthony tries to get in touch
with/her later, she succeeds in avoiding
him. She has accepted an offer from
her firm to go abroad, and on the steam
er meets Warren Holmes, the man who
is responsible for everything.—Now go
on with the story.
CHAPTER NLVIL
Building Anew
IN spite of the ominous good-by between
them, it was almost for Miriam
and Warren Holmes to avoid seeing each
other. They met constantly on deck, in the
dining saloon. If she happened to go below
for a book or a handkerchief, she was sure to
meet him, and all the while the giant ship,
with the American flag floating in the breeze,
plowed its way through the mountains of
billowing, greensh-blue water.
The ship was a constant fascination to Mi
riam. Everything was so beautifully devised
lor the comfort or. the passengers that it was
a joy to be living on it. The food was deli
cious and plentiful, but luxurious. There was
always some form of amusement going on,
games were always in progress, dancing was
popular, and wrapped in her huge woolly
coat, Miriam spent hours on the broad decks,
walking up and down, or curled up in a
steamer chair, a book in her lap which she
rarely opened.
Warren Holmes did not seek her out. He
was considerate enough to leave her to her
self, but after two days had passed, two days
of the marvelous healing of sea and sky, than
which there is no better cure for heartache
and mind turbulence, Miriam felt more se
rene, more as if she had left a part of her
life behind her, and was proceeding to re
construct hei- life anew.
On the third day of her trip she found her
self unbending toward her fellow passengers;
she caught herself laughing at the ridiculous
sallies of some of her dining saloon compan
ions. She realized that she no longer wanted
to cut herself off from the world, and she
was thankful beyond anything for this trip,
that was already doing so much for her.
Once a journey to Europe had seemed a
misty dream; now she wondered why she had
put off going for so long. On board were all
kinds of people, from the very rich to those
who possessed only moderate means, and she
early discovered that it was not th eexpense
that made going to Europe a dream rather
than a reality, but habit that chains the im
agination and makes a trip across the ocean
seem difficult to
It was on the third night of her trip, that
for long moments sh ewas almost mappy. She
was standing on deck with a man who had
just been her partner in a dance, and because
he was young and naive and treated her with
a mixture of deference and audaciousness
she was enjoying him.
"Honestly, you don’t know what a relief it
is to meet a woman who has some object in
life,” he had told her. “You must have some
head qn your shoulders to be sent on a trip
for your firm.”
Miriam had just made him a laughing re
joinder, when Warren Holmes passed them.
He was with a beautiful girl in pale pink
velvet, and Miriam found her eyes following
the two as they strolled down the deck. Foi'
some reason her gaiety evaporated, conversa
tion suddenly became an ....,ort.
“Are you tired?” the boy at her side was
saying. “Shall we go inside now? Would
you like to sit down?”
Miriam was about to acquiesce, when War
ren Holmes came back toward them. He was
alone this time, and as he came abreast of
them he stopped.
“I wonder if you will give me a dance,
Miss Folwell?”
To her amazement, Miriam found herself
consenting, and as the boy at her side bowed,
an expression of irritation spreading over his
face, Miriam found herself alone with
Holmes.
At f. v she felt absurdly shy, but very
quickly he put her at her ease. He told her
of his reason for crossing just now, and she
found herself answering him. She gradually
realized that she enjoyed talking to him. She
found him an interesting companion, a broad
minded, tolerant man, and later when she
was alone in her stateroom, preparing to take
a hot bath in clear green* salt water, she
mentally contrasted him with Anthony. War
ren Holmes was willing to talk on all sides
of a subject, while Anthony had a one-track
mind, and was perverse and narrow, where
his beliefs were challenged. Why should An
thony draw her so, while Warren Holmes left
her cold? It was a strange problem ,the
strangest in the world.
Saturday—The Old Fever
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
For years this tale has been one of Sam
Blythe’s standbys.
Sam was born and reared in western New
York, on the lower fringe of the Adirondack
region. He says there used to be a guide
over in the mountains who, being reckless by'
nature, made a specialty of escorting city
sportsmen into the wilderness during the
hunting season. Any North Woods veteran
will tell you this is a hazardous calling.
Moreover, the mortality figures prove it.
Green sportsmen invade the tall timber
carrying high-powered rifles and shoot at
everything they see moving in the bushes.
The result is that a few of them kill one
another but the majority destroy their
guides, even though the latter for self-pro
tection wear red shirts and red hats and
white neckerchiefs.
This particular guide, so graphically re
called by Sam, had several close calls. Final
ly, when a bullet had ripped his shoulder
and another had blown his cap off, he had
an inspiration. He made himself a suit of
awning cloth of broad alternative stripes of
white and blue.
But the first time he wore this costume
abroad they brought him home again, bored
through and through. As he emerged from
a thicket a city gunner stationed across a
clearing had plugged him.
At the inquest the remorseful slayer was
introduced as a witness.
"Now look here,” said the coroner, "of
course nobody accused you of killing poor
old Jim intentionally. But it does seem curi
ous to me—and I imagine it strikes the
members of the jury the same way—win Jim
was in striped clothes which you could make
out a mile away, that you, standing not a
hundred yards distant, should mistake him
for a deer.”
"I didn’t mistake him for a deer,” said
the city chap: "I thought he was a zebra.”
(Copyright, 1924.)
WAVE after wave of crime continues to
sweep over the country.
Robberies and homicides seem to
predominate, especially homicides inspired,
by love of money and characterized by the
purpose to get it by all means.
Judges of the criminal
courts are reported as re
marking that an increas
ing number of tlie crim
inals appearing before
(hem are young and in
telligent. Youths but re
cently* out of school are
falling into crime.
The scandals and in
vestigations at Washing
ton point in tlie same di
rection. Men of the
■highest intelligence are
accused of the most enor
/ nous and s h a in <> 1 e s s
it hefts. If they are
! guilty, they are a dis
grace to the nation. If
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they are not guilty, their accusers are
brazen perjurers. Whether, therefore, it be
theft or perjury, that is so prevalent at the
national capital, the revelations of abound
ing criminality there are alarming.
The matter which should arrest most seri
ous attention is not any particular case of
crime, or number of cases, but it is the
fact that so many criminals have grown up
under our elaborate and expensive system of
education. Evidently mere education alone
does not prevent crime or promote good citi
zenship. The educated classes are as much
disposed to crime as are the illiterate.
The States which compose the American
Union expend annually above a billion dol
lars on their public school systems in addi
tion to the vast sums expended for the pri
vate schools and the colleges and universi
ties in the laud. Nevertheless the waves of
crime roll on and mount higher day by day.
Manifestly we can not depend upon mere
education to arrest moral evil. This we
might have known by a little study of his
tory. Nations have risen despite ignorance
and poverty, and they have perished when
most enlightened and wealthy. The Greeks
and Romans, when most cultured and opu
lent, were subjugated by uncouth and savage
forces sprung from a fresher and nobler
race. While they were gazing daily on the
most impressive forms of architecture, walk
ing amid the noblest statues, boasting of
their unparalleled refinement, and prating of
their progress, their morals were becoming
more and more corrupt and their characters
more foul andjeeble. All their cultures did
not enable them to resist the attacks of
the unlettered barbarians under Aflaric and
Attila. All their literature and art and edu
cation did not eradicate one evil passion
from their souls or extinguish one polluting
propensity from their natures.
Such has been the case in all subsequent
times among modern nations. Remarking i
upon this fact Sir Archibald Alison said near
ly a hundred years ago, “With the spread of
knowledge and the growth of every species of
social improvement, genuine depravity has
gone on increasing with an accelerated pace i
and every increase of knowledge seems but an ■
addition to the length of the lever by which
vice dissolves the fabric of society.”
Tills able and famous historian went on to :
give the philosophical explanation of the faci
as follows: “It is not simple knowledge, it is
knowledge detached from religion that pro
duces this fatal result, and unhappily that is
precisely the species of knowledge which is
the present object of fervent popular desire.
The reason of its corrupting tendency on mor
als is evident —where so detached, it multiplies
the desires and passions of the heart, without
any increase to its regulating principles; it
augments the attacking without strengthening
the resisting powers, and, thence, the disorder
and license it spreads through society.
The invariable characteristic of a declining
and corrupt state of society is a progressive
increase in the force of passion, and a pro
gressive decline in the influence of duty, and
this tendency is increased by nothing so much ,
Warmer Ocean May Change
HALIFAX, N. S. —The ocean is warming
up. The International Ice Patrol, op
erating from this port, reports that
the temperature of the sea covering the 3 3,-
000 square miles of the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland is 7 degrees higher than nor
mal for the time of year. Similar conditions
are found in neighboring waters, icebergs
and ice-floes are almost non-existent south of
Newfoundland, and widespread though tem
porary changes in the climate of eastern
America and western Europe are thought
likely to occur in the near future by Lieu
tenant Edward H. Smith, of the United
States coast guard service, ’who reports these
phenomenal conditions.
His report is based upon the reports of
the coast guard cutters maintaining tlie ice
patrol. Ju it he says:
"The early reports from the patrol this
spring are of more than passing interest due
to the relatively high temperatures which
are being encountered over practically the
entire continental shelf south of Newfound
land. The Grand Bank, a submerged prom
ontory of 35,000 square miles, is normally :
covered by a reservoir of water that is free 1
from outside intrusions, such as ocean cur- '
rents, from September to March every year. |
This reservoir has a mean depth of 35 J
fathoms, or 210 feet. It is cooled by the j
end of winter to a uniform temperature |
from surface to bottom. This .water mass '
in March constitutes one of Nature’s largest i
and most accurate thermometers, which ,
registers the severity or mildness of the pre- !
ceding winter season. Normally this ther- :
mometer is chilled by the’cold blasts from
Canada to a temperature of 30-32 degrees
Fahrenheit, but this year the spring tem
peratures are 3Y-38 degrees; 7 degrees above
normal. When we stop to consider that it
takes approximately 3,300 times as much
heat to raise a given volume of water one
degree as it does a similar quantity of air,
we can realize the tremendous amount of
heat reserve the Grand Banks possess this
year. This also records the passage of one j
of the warmest winters this region has ex- !
perieneed in the past ten years.
“The patrol vessel has visited several fish- |
ing hamlets along the south coast of New
foundland and all these places state that the ■
winter of 1923-24 was one of the mildest
within the record of their oldest inhabitants. j
There has been very little Arctic field ice |
drifting south of Newfoundland this spring.
The Grand Banks and off-lying banks to the .
westward are normally covered by fields dur- I
ing March and April, while this year there !
were no fields south of Newfoundland during j
this period. Furthermore, during the months j
of Agril, May and June there is an average of
350 bergs totaled south of Newfoundland.
This spring there have been only seven bergs
and at the present writing, May 4, there is
not one. We have no year like it on record.” ;
Commenting on these observations, Lieu- !
tenant Smith says that such vast bodies of j
relatively warm water may be traced across
the Atlantic for months and have been .
known to have immense effect upon the gen- I
eral distribution of atmospheric pressure and
so upon weather conditions on both sides of
the Atlantic.
"That great heat regulator, the North
Atlantic,” he concludes, “is passing this
sprin? through an unusual thermal process, !
undoubtedly o’s a temporary nature. Its»
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP IK A. CANDLER
THURSDAY, MAY IS, 1924.
as that speed of education without religion,
which is tlie manifest tendency of the present
times.”
Since these wise words were written by tlie
great Scotchman the tendency to which he
referred has grown stronger and the results
of it have been such as he foretold would be
its consequences. Culture and crime have in
creased together. Eating the fruit of the tree
of knowledge has not nourished moral life, but
has resulted in despoiled Edens and lost Par
adises.
Education has not curbed a corrupting com
mercialism, but it has often been corrupted
by it. Educational courses and methods are
too frequently bent toward the making of
monetary profits rather than to the enrich
ment of the mind and the purification of the
heart. Elevating and ennobling knowledge is
subordinated, if not set. aside entirely, to make
room for that which is considered more gain
ful, and which can be more immediately turn
ed into money. Observation of the beginning
of these conditions in his day gave Sir Arch
ibald Alison occasion to express the fears
concerning education which he entertained.
Speaking of tendencies then, which were as
rivulets when compared with what has in our
time become a flood, he said, “The. philioso
phers’ stone is alone sought after by the al
chemists of modern days; nothing is studied
but wnat will render the human mind pro
lific of dollars.
"To purify the heart and humanize the
affections; to elevate the understanding and
dignify the manners; to provide not the
means of elevation in life, but the power
of , bearing elevation with propriety; to con
fer not the power of producing others, but
the means of conquering' one’s self; to im
press love to God and good will towards
men, are deemed the useless and antiquated
pursuits of the monks of former days. Prac
tical chemistry and sulphuric acid; decrepi
tating salts and hydraulic engines; algebraic
equations and commercial academies; mer
cantile navigation and double and single
bookkeeping, have fairly driven Cicero and
Virgil off the field.”
The final outcome of such education, he
predicted, would be to exclude from study
even the science which did not serve com
mercial ends, saying, “Amidst the shock of
so many contending interests, the calm pur
suits of science, which lead not to wealth,
will be abandoned; the institutions which
as yet maintain it will bq sacrificed to the
increasing clamor of democratic jealousy;
literature will become a mere stimulant to
the passions, or amusement of the hours;
religion, separated from its property, will
become a trade in which the prejudices and
passions of the congregations of each min
ister will be inflamed instead of being sub
dued; every generous and ennobling study
will be discarded for the mere pursuits of
sordid wealth, or animal enjoyment; ex
citement in all its forms will become the
universal object, and in the highest state
of manufacturing skill, and in the latest
stages of social regeneration, our descend
ants may sink irrevocably into the degen
eracy of Roman or Italian manners.”
That foremost of the fruit of materialis
tic education in Great Britain was publish
ed in 1 835, and the history which has fol
lowed it has fulfilled it in a most striking
degree.
In our country the commercialization of
education has run to even worse lengths.
It has put material things above the moral,
law, and made expedients for achieving
monetary ends more controlling than the
Ten Commandments.
Even the games and sports of high schools
and colleges have been commercialized.
Gate receipts and gambling gettings occupy
the most influential places in these aca
demic programs. The players play for
money and the "rooters” root for bets.
And faculties permit what they do not
approve, because they regard the games as
good advertising for the institution from
which they receive their salaries.
Thus, the high ideals ot Christian schol
arship are pulled down and physical and
materialistic conceptions of life set up in
their room.
Climate —By Science Service
direct effect will most certainly be reflected
in multitudinous ways and in far distant
lands.”
WE ATH E R B ALLO ON IST
WASHINGTON.—Loss of ball? t due to
unsuccessful efforts to keep their balloon at
a constant level forced Dr. C. L. Meisinger,
of the weather bureau, and Lieutenant James
T. Neely, of the army air service, to a prema
ture ending of tlie sixth flight undertaken
by Dr. Meisinger to investigate the ways of
storms. The landing was made at Hen
derson, Ky., about 2 o'clock in the morning
of May 8, a little less than nine hours after
these aerial explorers had ascended from
Scott field, at Belleville, 111.
The flight was one of the shortest of the
series, the total distance being only about
125 miles in a southeasterly direction. At
the beginning the balloon ascended quickly
to 7,000 feet. At this elevation the balloon
floated between two layers of cloud that ef
fectually cut off all view of the earth and
sky, and no calculation of its position waq
possible. i
Toward midnight, rain and snow began to
fall, forcing tlie balloon down, and after
much of the baUtist had been expended a
gentle and successful landing was made in
spite of rain and darkness. The feature of
the flight was the interesting cloud phe->
nomena observed.
MANURED GRAIN
LONDON.—That grain fertilized by ma
nure produced by Jiving creatures has more
nutritive value than grain fertilized by the
best known combinations of artificial fertil
izers is indicated by experiments recently
carried out at an agricultural station in
India. Grain grown from land artificially
fertilized was found to be lacking in vitamins
as compared with grain grown from soil fer
tilized with animal manure. The report of
the work is published in a recent number of
the British Medical Journal.
The experiments were conducted with
pigeons, fed a diet of natural millet. The
birds fed with millet grown from artificially
fertilized land tended to develop the charac
teristic paralysis resulting from vitamin ue
ficiency and they also suffered loss of weight.
It was found that the efficiency of grain in
promoting nutrition and prev nting beri-beri
bore no relation to the yield per acre, for al
though land well fertilized by artificial ma
terials gave twice the yield of well-manured
soil, the grain from the latter was decidedly
the best in the content of vitamins.
EARTH TO EARTH
Fossils of prehistoric animals which lived
during the great ice ages are found in cer
tain layers of blue clay in Tennessee. Man,
it has been claimed, arrived on the scene
thousands of years after these blue-clay de
posits were made. Recently; however, geol- .
ogists working near the site of an old In-1
dian earthwork found some of this same sort’
of blue clay. Underneath this clay were
human bones. The discovery was exciting—
the geological evidence seemed to place the
first Tennesseans back with ice age fossils.
Then some kill-joy in the party discovered
that the Indians had evidently transported
this clay from some distancetand packed it
down into flat layers resembling geological
strata.—Science Service. |
MY WIFE AND I • ’
BY CAROLYN BEECHER i
What has gone before. —Robert Bruce
Henderson, young lawyer, falls victim
to the thurms of Natalie while on a .
business trip and marries her at once, ;
without knowing much about her or her
family. They begin housekeeping In a W
New York apartment. Robert's uncle, F
for whom he was named, disapproves
of tee haste of the wooing and wed- p
ding, but says nothing. Garth Holden,
handsome and wealthy college chum
Robert, dines with them. Natalie ap- i
pears not to fancy him, but shows a
decided liking for Ned Church, a friend.***
of Bruce’s, who is pretty much of a male
flirt. Bruce returns late at night from a y
trip. Natalie reaches home iater and de
clines to tell Bruce whom she was with. ►
Bruce is made a partner In his uncle’s .
firm and Natalie develops extravagant , r
tastes. —Now go on with the story. « )
CHAPTER XIV
I WAS u • perately tired, yet managed to
keep a hold upon myself and join in the
festivities. Jessie had insisted that Naty
alie and I ride to the dancing club in their
limousine.
‘You should have a car, Henderson,” NM
remarked as we rolled along swiftly the
blocks to our destination. ,
"Can’t afford it,” I replied.
"Nonsense! Natalie tells me you have
been made junior partner in the firm. Con
gratulations.”
“Really, have you, Bruce? How fine.”
Evidently Jessie had not been My
jealousy flared. Natalie had seen itofti
him—they had been alone.
Our arrival at the club interrupted my
th. -.ights and until the place closed I danced
and laughed with the best of them, deter
mined not to spoil their pleasure. 4
Ned insisted upon taking us home, al
though I protested, saying I would call a
taxi.
“If you do you’ll ride in it
Natalie said. Her tone was gay, she laughed,
yet I knew she meant it, so I forced myself to
again accept Ned’s offer as graciously as I
could.
After we reached home my heaviness of
spirit gifted somewhat. Natalie was so
happy, her party had been a success and s-.a
chattered like a magpie, declaring she wasn’t
one bit tired and- would like to commence
right th i and do it all over again. J
/ “But I’m very tired. Natalie,” I said when
she complained that I wasn’t a bit pleased
over h r success in entertaining.
But tired as I was it was some time before
I slept. I was not much given to self-analy
sis, but —oh, well, one couldn’t expect too
much. Marriage had given me infinitely
more than I had ever dreamed it would. A
beautiful wife, a perfectly kept home. I
knew I should be satisfied; other married
men were, and with less. I asked too much
—I hadn’t talked with Natalie as freely as I
should. I expected her to know intuitively
how certain things affected me. It wasn’t
fair to her. I had so wanted her to be happy
—wanted it more than anything else in the
world. Now the matter of a car—•
At this point I fell asleep and dreamed of
Natalie. Shq had a little inexpensive c3r
and she was driving it. Strangely enough,
she was dressed in white crepe, and her
tures were thos eof the girl who had sat be
side me that night at Herndon Blackwell’s
supper party.
At breakfast she was still sparkling. I
marveled at her spirits; nothing ever tired
her.
“Don’t make any engagements for tonigl/t,
dear,” I sa id as I left her. “I’m used up and
• —I want to have a talk with you.”
"Mercy! What have I done to be talked
to? One would think I had done something
dreadful, was going to be punished. Cheer
up, that tone in your voice frightens me.”
She laughed gaily, ran around the table and
kissed me, an unusual caress seldom offered.
Not until I was in the subway did I recall
that she had not replied to my request to
make no engagement, but surely she would
heed it.
Uncle Robert was delighted with the result
of my trip. He was affectionately kind, hop
ing I hadn’t tired myself out, etc.
"You don’t look up to the mark, my
he said.
"Natalie had a dinner party on. I got
home only in time to appear.’ It was late
when I got to bed,” I explained, hating to
have him worry.
"Um—l see. I miss you, Bruce, more thati
you know. You mustn’t burn the candle at
both ends too fiercely. Take your social
pleasures in moderation. The business man,
who doesn't breaks. I never have known it
to fail. Wliy don’t you take a little place In
the country for the summer? Yop need a
change.” F .
"You never need a change,” I reminjJ
him. “You stick here month after
working, why shouldn’t I?” It was
mere thought, of the country thrilled
year before Natalie had insisted upon
jng the week's of my vacation at a fashionable
watering place, a place I hated.
“My work is all I have now to interest
me,” Uncle, replied, a bit sadly! “But
are young, married; you must conserve your
strength. And it would be good for Natalie.-
By the way, can’t you dine with me tonight?”-
"Make it tomorrow' night, Uncle Robert,”
I returned, thinking of the talk I was to have
with Natalie.
"Tomorrow' night, then, and think about
what I have Said. Get a place in the country
lor the summer.”
“I’ll have to hustle if I do,” I replied. "It’g
the last of May, you know.” >
"Yes,” rather absently. "You have been
married two years, Bruce. I had hoped you
would have children by now. I long for you
to bring them to the old house after I am.
gone.”
"Natalie doesn't want children—yet. She
is young, loves gayety. Give us time,” I said*
lightly. Not for worlds would I let the olft
man before me know that he bad touched tha
sore spot in my heaj-t.
"Yes—perhaps it is best to let her settle
down first. Now tell me, Bruce, are you still
obliged to draw from your savings to live?,
If you go do the country you will need a car.
I will contribute that to the menage.” He
had not waited for an answer.to his question;
had read it in my face.
Continued Saturday >
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS ‘
Go ahead and do the best you can and
don't worry about the consequences. *
Sunday School Teacher—And you have no
brothers and sisters?
Little Edna—No, ma'am, I’m all the ch ID
dren we’ve got.
Teacher—What is the meaning of thl
word "father,” Alden?
Little Alden—" Father” Is a man who al
ways puts gravy on my plate in th© wrong
place*
After reading the story of Jonah to
junior class, the teacher asked, ‘‘Now, Ralph,
can you tell me why Jonah's companions cast
him In the sea?”
“ 'Cause he was a Jonah,’’ was Ralphlg
reply.
Sometimes an otherwise clean record 1*
soiled by contact with filthy lucre.