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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

Our friends are generally willing to
take our part, and theirs. too.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

Love eoR1aefs all things, said vir-
gu But he forgot the tight shoe with
a corn inside it.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

Monday was washday in Uncle Sans
treasury, and we sent in couple Of
dollar bills to be "degermed."
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

lronical, indeed, is the dentists com.
ment that it's a pleasant day, when
you go to get a tooth pulled
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

Two women fought a duel with
shears in Oakland. Cal. Is there
law against hatpins out there?
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

Our daily pleasure: Trying to keep
tne same umbrella in our possession
Tor two consecutive hours.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18

For certain kinds Of lassitude q
nshing trip is not so bad.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-07-18
Memphis Directory

LAX-ANAs "Hure Chill Killer" KIN-kA1. best t0nie
known for liver ana hesdaehss-with0at esiesael.
R Bsaglas Wns TsslafsE Weaesfresh and streng Bold
By all druggis4 THTeae nrE Msg c.. Hs, ,AensAn 1eaA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
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NO MORE WILD OYSTERS.
Not One Bushel in a Thousand Is Now
Found Growing Naturally.

The popular idea of the source ~
oysters is that they grow wild iii
creeks, estuaries, etc, and that men so
cut in little boats and catch them, a
bushel or two at Il time. Not one
bushel in one thousand of mature oys-
tiers ready FOR market is found growing
naturally. Instead of growing natur-
ally. the artificial propagation cult
walton and planting of oysters ON a
large scale now produces more than
one thousand bushels of mature oys-
tiers, against one bushel of mature oys-
tiers growing wild.
oyster farming is now a productive
Industry, as completely as is grain
forming on the enormous grain fields
Of the West. 1t is Well compared TO
grain farming. except that the growing
q; oysters is Il farm more complicated,
expensive and hazardous.
\ large oyster farm comprises many
thousands of acres of land under from
Is to IS feet of water in the great bod
les of salt water. Often these farms
are situated several miles from the
shore. The small boats used in the
catching of wild oysters would be use
less in the propagation, placing or
catching of the crops on these great
oyster farms. Steamers and gasoline
boats are employed. Some of TIE large
steamers are more than $50 feet IN
length, 30 feet wide, and catching 5000
bushels of oysters per day, in water
30 to 60 feet deep-in other words, as
deep as a six-story building is high
Leslie's Magazine.
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SEMINOLES OF FLORIDA.
Chief Billy Bowlees, IN Holiday Garb,
Fair representative of His Tribe.

Among the visitors to the gala week
festivities at Jacksonville, Fla. was
Billy Bowlegs, Seminole Indian,
whose home is in the Everglades of
Florida.
70 say that Billy attracted much az
tention would not be an exaggeration.
He was dressed in the holiday garb of
his race, his large red turban was
ornamented with real ostrich plumes
and cireled by band of beaten silver
He wore a tunie of brilliant colors and
leggings made OF deer skins, orna-
mented with delicately cut thongs,
forming a fringe to the ankle, where il
was met by the moccasin, which Gov
cred foot shapely and small Billy
is a shrewd observer. He has keen
business sense. His pockets bulge
with letters from New York buyers of
skins and otter hides. He has a mer-
camille mind. too buying, for instance,
four shawls for $1.75 that would retail
at 50 cents each. He will sell out to
the tribe with the satisfactory remark,
Twenty five cents me make EN-
Around the campfires these winter
evenings the men, as we'll as squaWs
and pappooses, will listent to his ac-
count of the Jacksonville trip. and
many a laugh will go around at the
expense of the paleface. Each mem
Der will get an adequate idea of what
the printing press IS, for Billy WAS
shown all the workings of the large
daily=Forest and Stream.
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En- Pressure in Tunnels.

The effects of air resistance are well
shown in the twelve and a half mile
Simplan tunnel. where an exceptionally
high amount OF energy is required for
running the electric trains. The tunnel,
which is fifteen feet wide and eighteen
feet nigh. with a sectional area of $50
square feet, has a ventilating current
of $500 cubic feet of air per second,
maintained by two blast fans at the
Rrigne end and two exhaust fans at
Iselle Trains going with this current
encounter less resistance than in open
air up To fifteen and q half miles an
hour. but at higher speeds or IN the
opposite direction the resistance IS
much greater than outside. Goasting
by gravity down the seven per l,O0o
maximum gradient Il train, even
though eoine with the current cannot
exceed thirty-fve miles an hour on ac-
count of the braking by the air.-The
Argus
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
WORSHIP OF A TOOTH.
Where 400,ooo,00o People Pay Rev
erence to the Great Buddha Molar.

At Randy, in Ceylon, is kept Buddha's
tooth which is the object of the un-
bounded reverence of more than 4o0000,o00
people.
When the holy molar was brought to
Ceylon in the 18th century. Randy was
only mountain village. Now thousands
of pilgrims go every year to the gor-
geous temple where the tooth reposes,
bringing gifts of every kind, gold and
silver ornaments, coins, jewelry, and
even fruit and flowers. The king of
Burma and Siam send annual contribu-
lions toward the support of this temple
that holds the sacred relic, which has a
rather strange history.
1t is said to have been the left eye
tooth of Buddha, and to have been TAX
en- from his ashes $50 years ago. For
centuries it was the marriage dover
going with certain favored princes.
In the fourth century after Christ ii
was taken from India, then the Malabars
secured it. 1t was afterward captured
by the Portuguese, who took it to Goa,
where it was burned in 1850 by the arch
bishop in the presence of the viceroy of
India London It'd Bits
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First Skyscraper To Go.

New York's first skyscraper is to be
torn down. Its owners have decided
TO raze the Tower" building, which,
when erected, marked the beginning
of the modern steel structure. The
city has outgrown the building which
is famous among architects as the
earliest example Of the skeleton con-
struction, in which the entire weight
of the walls and floors is borne and
transmitted to the foundation by a
framework of metallic posts and
beams The reason for the destruc-
ton of the first skyscraper is simple.
1t is not earning its tax assessments.
IT is built upon ground valued at ST.
295, 600. and the building is assessed
at only $4,000. The advent of the
fifty-story skyscraper has destroyed
the earning power of the eleyen-story
one. Where land is measured by the
usefulness of fifty story pile, the
pigmy can not be permitted to take
up room. New York has witnessed
one transformation in the change from
stone 10 steel. Apparently another,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20

weight, first class drafters were more
plentiful and sold well, at $2256350;
heavy horses for city teaming and de-
livery at $170@225: farm chunks, at
$150@200; light weight horses, from
$125 upward.
At the City Sale Wheeler.
McElveen & Co, no green horses were
offered, this week, but about 70 head
of acclimated horses We're on sale.
Trade was quiet, with fair values re-
ceived.
At j. C. Keith & Co.'S. sale stables
there We're carloads of fresh country
horses received and 80 second were
entered. Sales were dull, with bids
low and backward. Buyers We're about
the stables in goodly numbers, but
seemed Indifferent to actual trading,
and the sellers put in the slowest mar
ket for horses for any time, this fail.
At the other various sale stables
through the city and suburbs, the gem
eral offerings of the week averaged
heavy and at most stables there We're
horses left unsold at the close of the
week, many being too good to let go
at the low figures offered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
Spectacular Gun
Battle in New York.

New York, Nov. 19-One of the
most spectacular gun battles among
gangsters in this city in recent year,
was fought at the doors of n CLUB
house on the lower East Side, late
Tuesday night. Three men were Sc
riously shot, many others were
wounded and seven arrested after
police reserves finally dared to break
up the fight.
Gangsters crouching behind trees,
ash barrels and other distractions,
urened fire ON the clubhouse. Men
within sprang to the doors and win
doWs and answered the attack. FIFTY
shots were exchanged while detectives
blew their whistles for aid. When the
revelvers We're emptied the police
charged the clubhouse. They met with
no resistance. TIE gangsters in the
street fed.
one man had an eve shot out. An
other is dying from bullet wounds IN
his back A third was shot in the
legs, one of which amputated in an
effort to save his life Many men es-
capped over the roofs, carrying their
wounded with them. Six reVolNefs
were found in the club house and SIX
more in the streets. The men ar
rested refuse to tell the cause OF the
trouble 1t was apparent to the po-
lice that those in the club house had
expected and prepared fer the attack.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
EDISON DENIES GENIUS.
Tells Reviser of Latin Bible Pm Only
Mechanic and Couldn't Do Your
Work"

Thomas A. Edison listened intently at
his home at Llewelyn Park. in Orange,
n. j., as the Abbot Francis Gasquet
president of the English Benedictine
Monks. unfolded to him the gigantic task
In which the commission appointed by
Pope Plus X, of which he is the head, is
engaged in revising the Latin Bible
The inventor, accounted an agnostic,
had asked the abbot to dinner to near
of the work he has undertaken. When
the abbot had finished telling of the
tremendous scope of the task, involving
as it does the minute analysis of ancient
manuscripts wherever they may be found
in Europe, Mr.. Edison turned to him,
saying:
Father Gasquet, l want to tell you
that 1 wouldn't like your job. It's more
than / could do
"But you, Mr.. Edison. are the genius
of the age" protester Abbot asquet.
my work does not compare with yours =
oh replied Mr. Edison, with wave
of the hand, 81 am only mechanic"
After dinner Abbot Gasquet, in the
Edison library, heard operate arias.
I'm feeling like a boy" said Mn Edi-
son. when asked if he had fully recov-
cred from his recent illness. 'I'll never
take another vacation. New York
American.
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II Sailors Held
On Mutiny Charge

Wilmington, Del, Nov. 1a.-Twenty-
sailors. members of the crew of the
bark Manga Reva, were held in $1,000 bail
each TO answer charges of mutiny, after
a hearing here. Tuesday. before Gmte1
states Commissioner Mehaffy. Samuel
Smobohn. second mate, and otto Tan
CERT, cook. were held in $500 bail each to
appear as witnesses.
Smobohn testified, Tuesday, that cruelty
and scarcity of food and water had caus-
ed the men to rebel, on Oct. %, while the
vessel was several hundred miles at sea
en- route from Philadelphia to san Fran
cisco. Only two buckets of drinking wa
ter were supplied the crew each day, he
said a cup of coffee at o'clock in the
morning and two crackers apiece in the
afternoon was the entire food supply for
the day, he averred. The witness said
that when the men complained he had
advised them against mutiny and had
been tied up at the same time as was
the captain and first mate.
The cook testified that the men had
been furnished with three meals day
and coffee in the morning at o'clock.
The menu. he said, consisted of stew
twice a week, porridge twice week,
pork and beans on Saturday and salt
horse" and potatoes on Wednesday.
Christian Moe Norwegian vice consul
here, and Hugh Alexander Ford, British
vice consul, attended the hearing in the
interests of the Norwegian and English
sailors
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20
A Darinu Escape.

General de Negrier Was one of me
French officers who succeeded in es-
Gaping from German custody in 1919.
He was in MetZ-and in hospital-at
the time of the eapitulation, but in
stead Of constituting himself a prison
er he put on his uniform. mounted his
horse and rode off rs an Independent
gentleman. Before long he was stop
ned by sentinel who demanded his Ia
pers, and, as he had no papers, he
handed up his ticket of admission to
the hospital. While the German was
slowly spelling it out Negrier shot him
through the head and ealloped 1ff,
crossing the Belgian frontier, and re-
crossing it, after rest, to take part
in the operations of Faidherbe's army
of the north. 1t is not surprising that
so resoureeful a soldier got quick pro-
motion and was successfully the
youngest colonel, youngest general OF
brigade and the youngest general OF
division in the French army.-West-
minister Gazette.
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Break in Dealings
Between the United
States andInsurgents

Noeales. Sonora, Mex, Nov. 9-eIeh'
yenustiano Carranza, civil and military
head of the Consttutionalist revolution
left here, today. on a special train for
the south. Earlier in the day, William
Bavard Hale, who has acted as President
wilson's personal spokesman in the dip
lomatic exchanges, during the last Weeh'
departed from Nogales, Ariz., thus end
ing the dealings between the Mexican
insurgents and the American government
On entering the interior Of Sonora, Car
ranza's first visit will be to pay n social
debt. The special train which conveyed
the general his STAFF officers and news
paper correspondents stopped for the
night at Alagdaleua, midway between
NogaIes and HermosilIo, the state cap
ital There Gen. Carranza planned 70
give a ball to the townspeople in return
for the one rendered him recently. 1t
was said the train would proceed, to-
morrow, to Hermosillo
Following Minister Escudero's declara-
ton, last night, that he had asked Mr.
Hale for his formal credentials, the an
nouncement. today, was taken here to
mean virtual breaking off of exchanges
with Washington.
1t was stated that Carranza's manifes-
to regarding the internal and external
affairs of Mexico" would not be issued
before his departure.
Carranza, when he left his provisional
capital at Hermosillo more than two
weeks ago, was not accompanied to No
gales by any troops He win be accom-
panied south by his general staff and
probably by the four members of his
provisional cabinet.
President Wilson was notified. early
today, of the unexpected Developments
here. The matter it was believed would
rest until, late today. on account of the
slow transmission of messages by code
between Washington and Hale.
Mr. Hale declined to say whether he
would leave, nor would he confirm tine
termination of his dealings with General
Carranza.
1t was clear, however that there had
been a break in the dealings over the
question put by the Washington govern
ment last Sunday, and to which 1t was
asserted the Constitutionalsts had failed
TO answer directly.
Ignacio Bonillas, minister of fomento
and communications in Garranzas cabi-
nete, called on Mr.. Hale at the American
consulate. Immediately afterward Mr..
Hale left for MS hotel on the American
side. 1t was believed that Bonillas for
mally had ended the transaction in
which he had been conducting as conf
Dental Translator.
The first open disagreement occurred,
last night when EpaOaicen Era,tarodo
minister of exterior relations announced
he had requested Mr.. Hale to present
formal credentials so that the conference
might be official. This was considered
virtually a demand for full recognition
of the revolutionary party before treat
ing on the subject under discussion.
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The BlOOdieSt
Battle of the
Mexican Revolt.

Bruwnsvile, Tex, Nov. 19.-With the
loss of hundreds of lives and with great
destruction of property in what Gen
Pablo Gonzales. rebel commander, de-
scribes as the "bloodiest battle of the
revolution, Victoria, capital of the
Mexican state of Tamaulipas, was cap
tured by the Constituencies, early
Tuesday. The fall of the capital city
gives the insurrectionary movement
control of the entire state except the
important seaport. Tampico, where a
strong, force of rebels is already oper-
ating.
Gen. Luis Caballero probably will be
named military governor of Tamay-
lipas in the organization of the state
by the Constitutionalists.
Gen. Gonzales, who commanded the
besieeing Constitutionalists, made his
report by courier to Jiminez and by
telephone from there to rebel head
quarters at Matamoras. No definite
estimate was given of the loss of HE,
but it was said that bodies of the dea
Uttered the streets and lay thick in the
court yard and halls of the government
palace, where a portion of the federal
ing driven from Catholic sanctuary
where they took refuge, Monday. EV-
cry one of these defenders was slain.
The greater portion of the garrison OF
5000 men, however, evacuated the CITY,
at $50 O'Clock this morning, after 40
hours of continuous fighting. They re-
treated to Tula, several miles away
where they were overtaken by the Con
stitutionalists and again decisively de-
feated, this afternoon. They fled demon
allied into the hills. Generals Arzamen-
di and Eugenio Aguilar commanded the
Federals. The attacking Constitutional
lists were reported to number about 5000
men. Their loss was four officers ana
between 80 and 50 men, probably more,
according to Gen. Gonzales. The general
added that the F'ederals had been liter
ally slaughtered and that the total loss
of life would run into the hundreds.
Terrible destruction to property was
done in the two days battle which ragged
through the principal streets of the city,
and many handsome buildings not razed
by shell were leveled during the hand
to hand fighting
No mention was made of non-combat-
ants in the report.
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HORSE MARKET.

Boston, Nov. 1S.&A general Guinness
prevailed in the horse market during
the week, and values were off in some
cases, where there was an extra heavy
amount of horses from $l5@20 per
head This drop in the market does
not indicate lower values in horses as
a rule, but shows that at present the
demand is slow, and as horses nave
been coming into Boston In falrly
heavy shipments with the weight not
quite up to the requirements OF the
BUYERS on many of the green horses
prices necessarily suffered, in order TO
close sales. The market was over
stocked with large entries of ordinary
seconds, which sold slowly and at low
prices. Harness classes were quiet
with few special sales, most OF the
trade being at private sales stables,
where only harness types are offered.
The best heavy drafters, 165o@l9oo
lbs, were in scant supply and COM
manded from $3a5@45o; medium
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Mountain Shipbuilders.

On a recent visit to the Swiss en-
gnc-builders at Winterthur, the edi-
t0r of Power found that they had
abandoned the making of the steam
turbine and have pinned their faith,
so far as power producing apparatus
is concerned, to the Diesel engine. They
have, he writes in his journal, brought
to its development all the skill and ex-
perienoe in design and workmanship
which gave his shop in the Swiss
mountains a worlds record with its
steam engines, and have perfected
reversing gear with which the engine
is handled as positively and easily as
q steam engine.
One of the successful boats fitted
with Sulzer-Diesel engines is the Monte
PeneGo of the Hamburg South Ameri-
can Line, which has made a successful
voyage from Hamburg to Buenos Aires
and back. and has lately arrived in
New York from another South Ameri-
can port. She is 6000-ton freighter
and makes about ten knots With two
2-cylinder single-acting engines of 500
horsepower each.
The editor of Power saw upon the
floor two Diesel engines for United
states torpedo boats. 1t was some
what surprising. he comments, To see,
way up there in the mountains, miles
from any water which it would navi-
gate, n 200-foot steamer on the ways.
These boats are built in considerable
numbers, fitted with engines and boil
ers ard everything but the woodwork.
and sent to the Swiss lakes.-Indian-
apolis News.
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Mad King Otto.

1t is reported from Munich that the
Bayarian senate has voted in favor
of the reinforcement of the mad King
Otto and for the recognition of Prince
Ludwig, the regent, as ruler of Bava-
ria. If such action receives the final
approval of the court, one of the pha-
ses of Bavaria's royal tragedy will
have come to an end. Otto has reign
ed, and still has not reigned, for
twenty-seven years, for shortly after
he assembled the throne, in 1886, when
his insane elder brother Ludwig COM
mitted suicide, he was declared men,
tally unsound also, and his uncle,
Prince Luitpold, was designated as
regent. Since the days of his yorGh
Otto has been regarded as mad, and
for at least twenty-five years he has
been shut up in a gloomy castle. a
prey to his own vain and wild i'm
aginings, which sometimes assumed a
homicidal turn -
If the prince regent approves de-
thronement-as he once refused to do
it means that Otto will pass from
the throne, and that he may never
know it. A few years ago it was
mad people-Otto of Bavaria, the
Princess Carlotta, widow of Maxi
milan. who lost his life in Mexico;
the duchess of Coburg and the grand
duke of Oldenburg. But of all these
Otto is known most widely. He is
a giant in stature, being more than
six feet tall, of splendid physique and
excellent physical health. His asy-
lum is the castle of Furstenreid, and
there he spends his days. His
court" is a bare chamber, his min
listers and courtiers are house furnish
ings, and to these he is said some
times to make long and statesman
like harrangues. At other periods it
is said that he imagines himself to
he a stork, that he stands on one leg
and gathers twigs, as if to build a
nest.
Otto has tried to take his life. I'm
til the windows of his palace were
covered with wire he used to shatter
the glass. He is always dressed in
black. His beard is long and thick,
and he will not suffer it to be trim
med. He smokes cigarettes and often
walks in the park, but is unwilling
20 be taken for many drives. He has
his playful whims, and the court sees
that these are satisfied, but as rule
his mind is vacant, and he does not
seem to recognize any of his servants
except an old woman who used to
carry him when he was child. At
long intervals he is said to have had
glimpses of sanity, and 1t is probably
this that has deferred the, Bavarian
government from removing him years
ago.-Indianapolis News.