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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Jn the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was
God. In Him was life; and the life was ,
the light of men. And the light shineth
in the darkness, and the darkness compre
hended it not. And the Word was made
flesh and dwelt among us; and we beheld !
iHs glory, the glory as of the only begot
ten of the Father, full of grace and truth. \
And of His fullness have all we received,
and grace for grace.—From the First Chap- \
ter of the Gospel of John.
W elcome to the Conference
ATLANTA heartily welcomes all and
each of the ministers and laymen
gathered within her gates for the
fifty-eighth annual session of the North
Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South. They come as represent
atives of the happiest and highest Interests
of their several communities, to counsel to
gether on matters of utmost concern to the
common weal. Education, philanthropy, so
cial service, world progress and world peace
are all within the compass of their liberal
plans, while the burden of their song is
•Good will ..ward men.” Naturally, a warm
greeting goes out to them.
It was seven and fifty year- 'go that the
first of these conferences met in Atlanta, on
which occasion Bishop George F. Pierce pre
sided, while Dr. Atticus G. Haygood served
as secretary. Historic names, ever and ever
to be cherished by Georgians and by South
rons all! Somet-ing of the growth which
has marked the ensuing decades may be in
ferred from this, that whereas n 1867 there
were stationed in Fulton county four minis
ters of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, today there are o er forty. Within
this period, moreover, the churches in the
Conference have increased in number from
fiva hundred and thirty-ninq to eight hun
dred and twenty-nine; the parsonages from
forty-two to two hundred and forty-eight;
th* members from forty-four thousand,
eight hundred and ninety-six to one hundred
L forty thousand, two hundred and four;
th* Sunday schools from four hundred and
seventy-oi’. to eight hundred and forty,
three; and their pupils from twenty-three
thousand, eight hundred and ten to one hun
dred thousand and ninety-two. Striking as
the figures are, they tell of the work done
and of the harvests gathered, only as the
symbols in an almanac tell of the wide
heavens’ constellations. (
To Bishop Darlington who presides over
th* present conference, to the members of
his cabinet, and all other officials and to the
attending rank and file, The Journal extends
greetings and the best of good wishes.
Friendly Gestures
IT IS APPARENT from the speeches of the
new British premier. Mr. Stanley Bald
win, that there is to be no essential
change in his predecessor's foreign policy, at
least so far as France and Germany are con
cerned. Indeed, he blithely appropriates the
major part of that policy as being originally
his own. “We stand on the peace treaties,”
he says, '‘and on their basis will cultivate
good relations with all countries. That this
Is no course of stagnation is shown by the ac
tion taken by the last Unionist administra
tion, that led directly to the Dawes report
and the London conference, which, under the
able direction of Ramsay MacDonald, proved
so successful.” <
The canny Scot to whom this deft trib
ute is paid would hardly agree, we imagine,
that as the Labor party prime minister he
took his cue in foreign affairs entirely from
Unionist sources. The fact is. Mr. MacDon
old. by methods as frank and simple and
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
kindly as those of one man of good will deal
ing with another, brought about, the friend
liest and altogether most satisfactory Anglo-
French relations known since the signing of
the peace of Versailles, jt is not to be gain
said. however, that Mr. Baldwin himself, dur
ing the latter stages of his premiership, was
moving toward those adjustments which at
length found official sanction in the accept
ance of the Dawes report.
Nor is it to be doubted that he will steer
for still happier understandings in the
! months ahead. Particularly welcome on this
side of the water is that part of his most re
cent address in which he declared: ‘‘Not
only was the London conference valuable in
itself, but it had special significance, in that
[ it marked the re-entry of the United States
into European affairs. His Majesty’s gov
ernment, while fully understanding the pe
culiar circumstances which render difficult
'continuous co-operation of America in Eu
ropean affairs can but express their apprecia
tion and gratitude for the leading part, played
! by America in the negotiations which culmi
nated in the London protocol, now in a fair
way toward execution.”
Equally cordial was Mr. Baldwin's tribute
to Premier Herriot, whose ‘‘statesmanlike
moderation and loyalty,” he said, ‘‘merited
Europe's gratitude.” The British govern
ment. is to “continue to furnish M, Herirot
with the most friendly and consistent sup
port in the execution of the policy which he
himself has so largely facilitated.” This is
indeed significant, for it augurs full co
operation in plans to bring Germany fairly
into the march of forces that will make for
stability and peace. That she will enter the
League of Nations at no distant day is now
highly probable, if not indeed foregone. A
new era iin international affairs appears to
be almost upon us.
Let There Be Light
__,HE greates. sentence in present-day
I medicine is “Let there be light.” The
sun cures as well as creates. Years
ago experiment showed that a disease mi
crobe which would live a year between the
leaves of a closed book, would not survive
a month if exposed in a well-windowed room,
and would die in an hour under the clear
noontide heavens.
Now comes a distinguished physician, head
of the welfare work of a large industrial life
insurance company, declaring: “Sunlight is
the cure for rickets in babies. Doctors have
been recommending it for years, but many
mothers do not take such a prescription se
riously because the sun is free. That it was
good for babies to get plenty of air and light
they readily understood. But that the actual
touch of the sun's rays on the skin would
work a specific cure of rickets, as good or
better than any medicine could buy, has not
been generally believed.”
Men will search afar and pour out their
treasure for empty marvels, all the while
ignoring that mighty miracle which shines
upon their daily path.
Here is a bit of news from the University
of Maine worth pondering. Scientists at
that institution experimented with three
groups of chicks. “One group,” runs the
story, “received the sunlight, through quartz
which filtered out all the rays except the
ultra violet. These chicks had remarkably
rapid growth. The second growth received
the sunlight direct, and grew normally. The
third group received the sunlight through
panes of glass and were stunted in thier
growth. They developed a disease which
corresponds exactly to rickets in children.”
The moral of so plain a tale needs no urg
ing, except perhaps,a reminder that the light
which is good for little ones is good for all—
and free. Merrily the milkmaid can say of
the king—
The self-same sun that shines upon his
court
Hides not its visage from our cottage.
Millions who mope and ail could be happy
if they would but give the sun a chance with
them. “Let there be light.”
FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irvin S. Cobb
SIGHT UNSEEN
PROBABLY this story has been told at
the expense of every great American
lawyer. In the version I heard, the
central figure was the late Joseph Choate,
who afterwards, as will be recalled, became
one of America’s most distinguished barris
ters and served his country as Ambassador
at the Court of St. James.
The story dates back to the time when he
was a very young man. newly admitted to
the bar and very much in need of what all
lawyers need —and that is clients.
On an indiement for a serious felony a
shabby-looking person was arraigned for
trial in one of the high courts of the state.
“Who represents you?” asked the judge.
“Nobody, your honor.”
“Can you afford to hire a lawyer to de
fend you?”
“No, your honor.”
“Well. then, in that case,” stated the
justice, “it d 9gc.lv es upon me to assign you
counsel in order that all your rights may be
protected. I shall name some younger prac
titioner as your attorney.
He pointed to three callow-looking youths
sitting in an expectant group within the bar.
“Yonder.” he added, “are Mr. Jones. Mr.
Robertson and Mr. Brown. And.” he added.
I “Mr. Choate is just outside in the corridor.
I believe. Which one will you choose?”
The defendant eyed the three present crit
ically.
"I'll take the one that’s outside.” he said.
(Copyright. 1924.)
When an optimist gets the worst of it he
makes the best of it.
What, a lot of stitches men drop when
jthex attemnt to mend their ways.
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
(Published by Arrangement With First National Pictures,
Inc. Copyrighted by Houghton-Mifflin Company.)
CH \ ITER XII
The Raid
IN the estuary of the Biver Hal a splendid
ship, on the building of which the most
cunning engineers had been employed
and no money spared, rode proudly at anchor
just off Smit hick under the very shadow of
the heights crowned by the fine house of
Arwenack. She was tilting out for a distant
voyage, and for days the work of bringing
states and munitions aboard had been in.
progress, so that there was an unwonted
bustle about the little forge and the huddle
of cottages that went to make up the fishing
village, as if in earnest of the great traffic
that in future days was to be seen about
that spot. For Sir John Killigrew seemed
at last to be on the eve of prevailing .and of
laying there the foundations of the fine port
ot his dreams.
To this state of things his friendship with
Master Lionel Tressilian had contributed not
a little. The opposition made to his project
by Sir Oliver—and supported, largely at Sir
Oliver's suggestion, by Truro and Helston—
had been entirely withdrawn by Lionel;
more, indeed Lionel had actually gone so far
in the opposite direction as to support Sir
John in his representations to Parliament
and the Queen. It followed naturally
enough that, just as Sir Oliver’s opposition of
that cherished project had been the seed of
the hostility between Arwenack and Penar
row, so Lionel's support of it became the
root of the stanch friendship that sprang up
between himself and Sir John.
What Lionel lacked of his brother's keen
intelligence he made up for in cunning.
He realized that all hough at some future
time it was possible that Helston and Truro
and the 'tressilian property there might
come to suffer as a consequence of the de
velopment of a port so much more advan
tageously situated y<. t that could not be in
his own lifetime; ard meanwhile he must
tarn in return Sir John's suppot '. for his
suit of P. satuund Godolphin and thus find
'.he Godclphin estates merged with his own.
This certain immediate gain was to Master
Lionel well worth the other future possible
loss.
It must not, however, be supposed that
Lionel's courtship had thenceforward run a
smooth and easy course. The mistress of
Godolphin Court showed him no favor, and
it was mainly that she might abstract her
self from the importunities of his suit that
she had sought and obtained Sir John Killi
grew's permission to accompany the latter's
sister to France when she went there with
her husband, who was appointed English
ambassador to the Louvre. Sir John’s au
thority as her guardian had come into force
again with the decease of her brother.
Master Lionel moped awhile in her ab
sence; but cheered by Sir John’s assurance
that in the end he should prevail, he qiutted
Cornwall in his turn and went forth to see
the world. He spent some time in London
about the Court, where, however, he seems
to have prospered little, and then he crossed
to France to pay his devoirs to the lady of
his longings.
His constancy, the humility with which he
made his suit, the obvious intensity of his
devotion began at last to wear away that
gentlewoman’s opposition, as dripping water
wears away a stone. Yet she could not
bring herself to forget that he was Sir Oli
ver's brother—-the brother of the man she
had loved, and the brother of the man who
had killed her own brother. Between them
stood two things—the ghost of that old love
of hers and the blood of Peter Godolphin.
Os this she reminded Sir John on her re
turn to Cornwall after an absence of some
two years, urging these matters as reasons
why an alliance between herself and Lionel
Tressilian must be impossible.
Sir John did not at all agree with her.
“My dear,” he said, “there is your future
to be thought of. You are now of full age
und mistress of your own actions. Yet it is
not well for a woman and a gentlewoman
to dwell alone. As long as I live, or as long
as I remain in England, all will be well.
You may continue indefinitely your residence
here at Arwenack, and you have been wise,
I think, in quitting the loneliness of Godol
phin Court. Yet consider that that loneli
ness may be yours again when I am not
here.”
“I should prefer that loneliness to the
company you would thrust upon me,” she
answered him.
“Ungracious speech!” he protested. “Is
this your gratitude for that, lad’s burning
devotion, for his patience, his gentleness,
xnd all the rest?”
“He is Oliver Tressilian’s brother,” she
replied.
“And has he not suffered enough for that
already? Is there to be no end to the price
that, he must pay for his brother’s sins?
Besides, consider that when all is said they
are not even brothers. They are but half
brothers.”
“Yet too closely kin,” she said. “If you
must have me wed I beg you’ll find me an
other husband.”
He was persistent, and his persistence
was increased when he came to conceive his
notion to take the seas again. His con
science would not permit him to heave
anchor until he had bestowed her safely in
wedlock. Lionel, too, was persistent, in a
quiet, almost self-effacing way that never
set a strain upon her patience, and was
therefore the more difficult to combat.
Tn the end she gave way under the pres
sure of these men's wills, and did so with
the best grace she could summon, resolved
to drive from her heart and mind the one
real obstacle of which, for very shame, she
had made no mention to Sir John. The’ fact
is that in spite of all. her love for Sir Oliver
was not dead. It was stricken down, it is
true, until she herself failed to recognize it
for what it really was. But she caught her
self thinking of him frequently and wistful
ly; she found herself comparing him with
his brother; and for all that she had bidden
Sir John find her some other husband than
Lionel, she knew full well that any suitor
brought before her must be submitted to
that same comparison to his inevitable un
doing.
All this she accounted evil in herself. It
was in vain that she lashed her mind with
the reminder that Sir Oliver was Peters
murderer. As time went on she found her
self actually making excuses for her some
time lover; she would admit that Peter had
driven him to the step, that for her sake Sir
Oliver had suffered insult upon insult from
Peter, until, being but human, the cup of his
endurance had overflowed in the end. and
weary of submitting to the other's blows he
had risen up in his anger and smitten in his
turn.
She would scorn herself for such thoughts
as these, yet she could not dismiss them.
In act she could he strong—as witness how
she had dealt with that letter which Oliver
sent her out of Barbary by the hand of Pitt
—but her thoughts she could not govern,
and her thoughts were full often traitors to
her will. There were longings in her heart
for Oliver which she could not stifle, and
there was ever the hope that he would one
day return, although she realized that from
such a return she might look for nothing.
When Sir John finally slew the hope of
that return he did a wiser thing than he
conceived. Never since Oliver's disappear
ance had they heard any news of him until
Pitt came to Arwenack with that letter and
his story. They had heard, as had al! the
■ world, of the corsair Snk r-?l-B?hr. but th-j
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
< O.XGRESS MEETS I X TWO WEEKS
I AM hoping we shall have some attention
to public business when the gavel falls
in both house and senate on the first
Monday in December, 1924. If there was
ever a time needed to quit boisterousness
and behave in decent order that time has ar
rived in the history of the United States.
The people of this country are. weary beyond
expression with noisy politics, and anxious
(even to praying for it) that there may be
an interlude of peace and business pros
perity.
I remember the meeting of 1 the forty
fourth congress, after Tilden and Hayes
politics had held the floor for a solid year of
rancorous oratory and sectional hatred, and
I saw the continuation of strife and furious
debating in Washington City. 1 remember
the unhealthy political atmosphere which be
clouded the situation, and I believe, as I
believe anything 1 never saw with mortal
vision, that the "sell out” in South Carolina,
where Hayes was counted in as president and
Wade Hampton was counted in as governor,
placed the south in an unenviable position
from which it has never been able to en
tirely fling off in forty-eight long years. It
was abnormal, and thoroughly understood
where and when the people were given the
facts in the public press. That “sell out”
occurred before the meeting of congress on
the first Monday in December, 18 76. It will
be written into United States history some
day, for telegrams were finally captured and
finally exposed, where Tilden was “offered
the state” for a certain amount of money
(and his nephew, Pelton, went to Baltimore
with the promised money), when certain
agreements were entered into by certain
men in the north and some certain men in
tiie south, which put South Carolina in the
Hayes column and which made it essential
to put Hayes in the White House or make
such “treason odious,” from the lakes to the
gulf and from ocean to ocean. I was, I re
peat, in Washington City when congress as
sembled on the first Monday in December,
1876, and heard the mutterings of thunder
and listened to the debates in the house of
representatives, when Henry Watterson de
livered his manifesto that one hundred thou
sand unarmed Democrats could save the
country if the traders and traitors could be
brought to face the music and declare Til
den elected when the latter had only to
secure one electoral vote to become presi
dent of the. United States!
History will also write of that. 1 876 period
as the beginning of a new campaign for
1880, when Blaine intended to make himself
president and joined forces with the far
west, where Stephen J. Field was to be
made the Democratic nominee for 1880, and
in the event that Blaine was defeated for the
nomination Field was to get the vote of the
Blaine following in certain western states
which could be controlled by a powerful
Blaine syndicate.
The Solid South, which latter then count
ed Missouri and Indiana as Democratic as
TWO PROBLEM BOYS
By H. Addington Bruce
THOMAS BANELY. aged nine, had been
brought to the clinic on the recommen
dation of his school teacher. His rec
ord was not merely one of backwardness
but. of sundry nervous symptoms and an ad
normal timidity.
It seemed impossible for Thomas to sit
quietly, and he had a curious trick of sud
denly turning his head sidewise every once
in a while. As to his timidity, it was so
extreme that he did not dare to go to or
from school alone.
Not surprisingly, he was the subject of
considerable teasing from older boys, which
did not mend matters any. And the teasing
was provoked not only by Thomas's super
timidity but by the uncommon stupidity he
displayed in schoolwork, a stupidity so ex
treme as to lead to a suspicion that he was
weak minded.
This suspicion was soon dispelled by psy
chological testing. The clinician who ex
amined him found that, if anything he was
a little above the average boy of his age in
point of intelligence. Similarly the suspicion
that his nervous symptoms were associated
with some physical defect proved to be
groundless.
Thus the problem presented by the stupid,
nervous, timid Thomas remained unsolved
—till close inquiry was made into the
manner of his home upbringing.
Then it developed that, while he came
from a so-called good home, he had parents
who perpetually took occasion to exercise
their parental authority. It was “Do this.
Thomas,” and. “Don’t do this, Thomas,”
through all his wakihg hours at home. The
result had been to overstrain his nerves, and
to imbue him with a sense of inferiority so
profound as to cripple the development of
his mind and personality.
As was demonstrated by the fact that,
after a sojourn away from home and some
“re-education” of his parents leading them
to adopt a less repressive policy, the little
Thomas soon was free of the nervousness,
the timidity, and the dullness that had
threatened to ruin his life.
To the same clinic, at about the same
time, came Robert Random.
Robert's outstanding trouble was the re
verse of timidity. He was over-bold, and
besides keeping the schoolroom in a per
petual turmoil had developed an unpleas
ant habit of bullying young children. Like
Thomas he was backward in schoolwork,
but his teacher felt that this was due, not
to lack of intelligence, but to unwillingness
to apply himself.
Again psychological and medical exami
nations failed to disclose any mental or
physical cause for Robert’s misbehavior.
Again inquiry was made into home condi
tions. And again the outstanding fact dis
covered was a long-continued parental pol
icy of rearing by prohibitions and repres
sion.
Again, too. a change in this policy suf
ficed to effect a great change for the better
in the boy's demeanor.
That a similar cause should have had
such dissimilar effects in these two cases, ■
was owing entirely to the different natures
of the two lads involved. One belonged to ■
the type termed by William James the “ten
der-minded.” The other was of the “tough
minded” type, and consequently reacted by ‘
rebellion in contrast to the other s reaction
by collapse.
In both cases, however, upbringing hy
habitual coercion had worked great harm.
That, it always works harm in one way or
another is a truth which should be appre
ciated by every parent.
(Copyright, 1 924.)
had been far indeed from connecting him
with Oliver Tressilian. Now that his identi
ty was established by Pitt's testimony, it was
an easy matter to induce the courts to ac
count him dead and give Lionel the coveted
inheritance.
This to Rosamund was a small matter.
But a great one was that Sir Oliver was
dead at law. and must be so in fact, should
he ever again set foot in England. It extin
guished finally that curiously hopeless and
almost subconscious hope of hers that one
day he would return. Thus it helped her
perhaps to face and accept the future which
Sir John was resolved to thrust upon her.
Contiiiuecl Tuesday. Renew vonr subscrip
tion now to avoid missing a chapter, i
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 22. H»24
surely as are Tennessee and Kentucky today,
as Dixie states in 1924.
I was again in Washington City after the
1 880 election, and heard the whisperings of
i the crowd which had defeated General Han
i cock, the Democrat, and which defeat was
compassed after General Garfield had been
nominated by the Blaine people and Gen
eral Grant had been defeated in a Repub
i lican convention. In old Georgia, during
1 the year 1880, Stephen J. Field, of Califor
nia, was nominated for president by the
Democrats more easily than A. Mitchell
Palmer was acclaimed at the. Frisco conven
: tion as the choice of Georgia for the chief
' executive of the nation! I have no wisdom
to brag about, but 1 have had experience,
i which is a reliable teacher. 1 say here,
• whenever the Solid South puts in an ap
pearance as an ally of Pacific coast politics,
or makes a political alliance with north
western Republicans, the country wakes up
to examine the why and the wherefore, and
remembers past campaigns, for the south
, gets nothing, anywhere, or from anybody,
and always appears pn the map as owned by
northern or western politicians at the close
of struggle in national politics.
The Solid South is become a sort of scare-
1 crow to the rest of the forty-eight, states. We
have one appreciable value in national poli
tics, we can be counted as easily in ana
l tional election as so many beef cattle are
i counted in the cattle yards of Chicago and
1 Kansas City, it has made our Georgia pri
mary elections the real elections not only
for state officers, but national representa
i fives, and we will learn after awhile that
such primary elections will disgust the plain
voters of the south and a revolt will come
as certainly as it did in Oklahoma, and new
1 methods and new officials will be signed up,
as in Texas and Missouri, in 1924.
There were some egregious mistakes made
when Candidate Davis called Calvin Cool
; idge a “myth,” and when he openly advo
cated the League of Nations as his own
party platform for the White House.
There are two things this nation has
adopted as an accepted plan or purpose in
national legislation, namely: an ingrained
determination not to participate in foreign
wars again by command or direction of a
president, and second, not to overturn this
republic by the aid of so-called hybrid farm
blocs in the United States senate, or by em
ploying little two by four so-called Protes
tant preachers to advocate a government
using mayhem and murder in secret punish
ment for all the people they dislike who are
still taxpaying citizens in a country which
boasts of its freedom and protection to the
lives and property of its citizens.
In my own county the election returns
show that while nearly fourteen hundred
votes were cast for governor and United
States senator. Mr. Davis had something over
eight hundred. Add the Davis vote to the
Coolidge vote and you see they about equal
the other vote here mentioned. I was too
; ill to go to the polls.
The Crystallization of Mankind
By Dr. Frank Crane
A T a moving picture show the other day
AX I saw thrown upon the screen an ll
lustration of how crystals , are formed.
First we were shown a colorless liquid, then
a bit of crystallization began to form at one
side. It spread by rapid growth, in a suc
cession of jerking adjustments, developing
like a tree throwing out branches, until the
whole surface was composed of sparkling
crystals instead of clear liquid.
That is a good figure of tbe growth of
the coming state, into which Sill citizens of
the world shall be organized.
It begins by forming email groups; these
unite, become larger and larger, as drops
of rain upon the window, until finally they
are all one.
The unity of the world, the World-State,
is not a dreamer’s fancy. It is a logical
conclusion. It is aq. e. d. from which there
is no escape.
Better, it has its argument in the Inetincts
of the race. Reason may go astray; in
stinct persists from generation to generation,
and lives as long as human progeny.
One of the primal instincts of human be
ings is to form groups. The “gang” impulse
is just as dominant in your school yard to
day as it was in the stone age. Boy* love
“our crowd” and girls “our set.”
There are few stronger passions among
men than this. The American Indian would
die for bis tribe; the fierce loyalty of Scot
tish clan*, in the days of the border war, is
well known; the
“Poor benighted Hindu
He does the best he kin do,
He sticks to his caste
I nto the last; ’’
and history and tradition are full of exam
ples of how the love of family, tribe, church,
or nation can wholly swallow up the love
of self.
So that those who make selfishness the
keynote of economics or of history are blind
to the facts. Selfish individualism gives
way every time to the force of a passionate
group instinct.
Politics is the story of the wider and con
stantly more complete crystallization of the
people into the governing machinery. This
is what is. signified by democracy, which is
not a loosening or diminution of govern
ment, but an absorption of the entire mass
of the citizens into the government.
The various religious sects have been
ramifications of the crystallizing process of
the religious feeling. They form ever new
branches. Innumerable heresies offshoot,
new prophets arise, new movements. This
does not mean the dissolution, it means the
formation of religious unity. If you want
to know how that is done look at the form
ing of crystal. One of the ancient prophets
thus spoke:
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
when 1 shall make a new covenant, not like
the old; and this is the covenant I will
make after those days; I will put my laws
into their minds and write them in their
hearts; and I will be unto them a God.
and they shall be unto me a PEOPLE.”
A People! That is the final crystalliza
tion of everything human. Perfect govern
ment is the whole People organized into a
machine of self-expression, so contrived that
every man and woman finds an interest in
the politics of the precinct, city, state and
nation. lhe perfect Church is the whole
people organized upon a basis where every
human being can find welcome and oppor
tunity for inspiration and service. The per
fect School is the whole People organized
to give every one of their children support !
and training during adolescence. Perfect'
Business is where rhe whole People are or
ganized to give every man a place to work, j
and the earnings from labor are justly dis
tributed so that the profits of the individual j
service go to the individual and the profits j
of the organization go to the whole People j
for their communal needs.
(Copyrigt. 1924.)
The average woman can detect flattery '
every time —except, of course, when it is
lavished upon her.
Why doos tho divorce suit of her friends
interest tho average woman more than her ;
owu marriage? •
The Second Mrs. Strong
BY HAZEL DEYD BACHELOR
What has gone before — Matthew
Strong marries his stenographer, Julie
Benton, and when he brings her home
after the honeymoon his daughter,
Claudia, does everything in her power
to make things unpleasant. It isn’t
long before Matthew feels that he has
i made a mistake, and this feeling is in
tensified by his knowledge that he
might have married Margaret Daven
port, a. woman in his own class. Brad-,
ford Pierce, a friend of Matthew’s, Is
kind to Julie, and later falls in love
with her. Claudia poisons her father's
mind against Julie, and then falls des
perately in love with Harris Fiske, a
married man. In the meantime Mat
thew believes that Julie is in love with
Bradford.— Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XLII
Watchful Waiting
DURING her few moments’ conversation
with Claudia. Julie had decided not to
go out that evening. Claudia’s at
titude was mysterious, her sudden return
from the house party was also strange. Then
there was the business of the latch key.
Julie knew that Matthew had taken Claudia’s
(key away from her, but, of course, it was
an easy matter to have another one made.
From the extension wire in her sitting
I room Julie telephoned the Marriotts, and
then with her door ajar so that she could
hear Claudia the minute she came out of
her own room, Julie sat down to wait.
She had no idea why she was waiting, nor
what she expected Claudia to do. But some
■ strange intuition warned her that Claudia
. was in trouble, that she needed help. There
I had been something strange and furtive
about the girl that night, and somehow Julie
was afraid for her.
As a matter of fact, while Julie waited
Claudia was in her own room hastily re
packing a larger bag. She had come to the
end of her resistance, she had fought against
Harris Fiske until it was no longer possible
to fight and tonight she had decided to go
away with him.
When she had accepted lhe Rivingtons’
invitation to spend lhe week-end with them
she had had no idea that. Fiske would be
{there. She had not seen him since that day
she had left his apartment, and during all
: that time ehe had tried to come to a de
cision.
At first she had not thought that there
would be a decision. The fact that he was
married seemed a definite barrier between
them. a. barrier that ended everything, but
that had been only at first.
Afterward Claudia had remembered his ar
guments. Seen in the light of her love for
him they did not seem wrong, she did not
feel shocked by them as she had at first.
Somehow there was something heroic in
going away with the man one loved. Plenty
of girls did it. Novels were full of such
situations, the newspapers printed such
stories every day, and hadn’t, she herself al
ways despised conventions?
At the Rivingtons’ she had met Harris
face to face, and she had fancied that he
looked thinner. Then when at their first
opportunity to be alone he had seized her
in his arms, she had clung to him. His
■ whispered, “Sweetheart, have you missed
me?” had reduced her to quivering response.
She loved him, she loved him! And in the
light of that did anything else matter?
Would she allow her prudishness to separate
them, when if she said the word they might
go away together?
They had made hurried plans. He had
not wanted her to return home, but. she had
, insisted. There were things she needed and
there was plenty of time for them to make
the 9:30 train into town. Against his bet
ter judgment, Harris had yielded. Somehow
he felt that if he once let her go she might
change her mind, but he felt, that he could
not be too insistent with her just at this
time.
And now Claudia was getting ready to go
away. Having made up her mind, she no.
longer hesitated, but although she was
hardly aware of it, she was trying desper
; ately not to think. Somewhere in her brain
there lingered the memory of that strange
revulsion she had once experienced toward
I Harris Fiske. She wanted him, and yet she
I had never been quite able to rid herself of
that strange feeling of being charmed’
against her will. She must not thipk about 1
it, she must not allow anything to swerve
her from her determination. She had suf
fered too much during the last few days
not to know what she wanted, and she had
rome to the conclusion that she wanted
Harris Fiske more than anything in the
world. Having come to that conclusion, sh*
had decided to go away with him. That
was all there was to it.
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Q. Was there a Jewish woman corre
sponding to Joan of Arc? A. S. D,
A. Deborah, the wife of Lapodeth, was
one of the earliest judges of Israel and
urged the Israelites to rise against the Ca
naanites who had oppressed them for gen
erations. Barak, leader of the Israelites,
refused to go into battle unless accompa
nied by Deborah. With a small force she
triumphed over the Canaanites. The Song
of Deborah is considered a masterpiece ot
Hebrew literature.
Q. What is a “common scold?” E. D. R.
A. A common scold is defined as one
why by the practice of habitual scolding,,
disturbs the peace of the neighborhood. Th‘*
common law took cognizance of the offense
and resorted to various unpleasant devices
as punishment for those convicted of It.
Among the punishments were the stocks, th*
ducking stool and the brank (a form ot
bridle). The practice of punishing common,
scolds survives sporadically in the United
States, in some of which it is recognized la
the penal statutes, but the punishment iUftU
been changed to fine and imprisonment.
Q. Why are dog days so called? W. A. R.
A. Dog days comprise the hot sultry sea?.
son of summer during parts of July ants
August; so called from the fact that ths:
rising of the dog-star, Sirius, the bright e$L
star in the heavens, is coincident with th"*'
ris:ng of the sun. The ancients thought this
conjunction caused the intense heat of sum-',
mer, and the maladies which then prevailed,
hence the popular supposition that dogs ar*
specially liable to go mad at this season, it.
was by mere accident that the rising of the
star coincided with the hottest season of th*
year in the times and countries of the old
astronomers.
Q. Did the government ever coin 25 and
50-cent gold pieces? C. K. '
A. The government has never issued gold
pieces of less than sl. The 25 and S(J-cent
gold pieces were private issues. Following
are the denominations of gold coinage of th*
United States: fifty dollars, coined in 1915
to the amount of $1 05,950 as Panama-Pa
cific International Exposition coins; double
eagles, eagles, half-eagles, quarter-eagles *
and dollars.