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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-03
Berg and His German
Prize Furnish Bond
To Stay on Appam

Washington. Feb. g. - Lieut.. Hans
Berg and his German prize crew were
removed from the liner Appam at
Newport News. Va. today by coast
guard cutters under direction OF q
United States marshal. The ship IL
In h custody OF the federal court
pending appeal TO the supreme court
from a decision awarding her to her
English owners.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-03
Movements of War
Vessels of America
To be Kept Secret
IN, Evening Herald Leased wir.J

Washington, Feb. 3.-Crdefs were
issued late today BY the navy depart
ment %forbidding any navy officials d.
vulging movements OF American war
vessels.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-03

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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-03

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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-03
LINER AORIATIC IS
Off ON VOYAGE TO
LIVERPOOL TODAY

New York. Feb. 3.-Announcemont
az the postponemcnt of the sailing Of
the steamer ~ Louis ~ made Just
! cfore receipt Of the news that diplo-
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
WOMEN WILL RUN THIS BANK
Great English Financial institution
Violates Long, Established Tradl-
lions Because Of the War.

One of the greatest British banks,
the London City and Midland, has APP
pointed woman to O branch mana
gership. The branch is in a remote
country district, but the bank is cred
tied with the intention of going further
in the matter, and apparently 30 or 40
women are now being trained in readi-
ness to take up positions.
An exceptionally large percentage of
the employees of the institution have
Joined the colors, and the shortage Of
men is likely to be even more serious
In the new year, when. the exemption
period of many Of the remaining men,
bers of the staff expires.
Il do not like the idea" said an off,
cial Of the bank, ''but 1t may be neces-
sary to extend the sphere of useful
ness In connection with our staff of
women, who have done and are doing
excellent work. Nothing is settled at
present, but we may find it expedlent,
In view of the shortage Of men, to put
women In control Of some of our coun-
try branches.
II appreciate" he added, "the diff
Guilty of getting men to serve under
the control Of women, and as a solu-
ton to that awkward problem we
should see to it that In these branches
the staff would all be women" Lon
don Chronicle. q,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
WEST TENNESSEE'S AGRI-
CULTURAL ADVANTAGES

Anyone who knows Tennessee recog-
nizes the agricultural advantage that
West Tennessee has. Soils that have
grown wonderful crops of high priced
cotton this year have made many a
man feel wealthy-and many one
has, in truth, been made richer.
Such soils should be maintained in
their productive power. On this basis
alone can farming be permanently
prosperous. If only one crop, or if
only money crops are produced, then
the farmers and their families must
buy a great deal of feedstuffs for
live stock and food for the family.
Because Of this practice in West
Tennessee-that is, growing one crop
to the exclusion of varied lot of
crOps-West Tennessee buys forage
and feed for her work stock, and
meat, breadstuffs and vegetables for
her people.
Why should not West Tennessee
feed herself?
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
The Rubber Eye.

Few persons have any conception of
the discomfort caused by glass substi-
tutes for eyes. The hard-boiled eye
frequently irritates the socket and does
not easily respond to the muscular
changes In this neighb0rhood, some
times giving the owner an eerie appear
ance Of being twisted along his peri
meter. But relief is at hand.
Thanks to the war with its numer-
Gus gougeG-out eyes, two French work
men have evolved a new method Of re-
placing the lost organ Of vision. They
aimed at producing a substance of suf.
ficient elasticity and softness to re-
spOnd to the changes of the eye sock
ct, and at the same time of sufficient
hardness to present smooth, nat
ural effect. They have solved the
difficulty of consistency by making
the front of the new eye of hard rub
Der vulcanized and enameled to pre-
sent a natural appearance. The back
of the eye is of soft rubber, followed
out to form a ball which becomes filed
with air.
These hollow eyes respond easily
to ocular movements, they do not ir-
ritate the socket, nor the onlooker, and
they are unbreakable. A man may
drop his eye on the pavement without
its costing him S..
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
PUTTING wheeIs Under workmen.

The problem of interior and exterior
transportation in one Of the largest
and busiest ammunition plants In this
country-a plant, by the way, which
was constructed in II months-has
been solved by the adoption of automo-
biles, motorcycles, motor trucks, hand
trucks, roller skates and bicycles. The
plant Is worked at high pressure for
"a hours a day, and consists of 10
main units and IL service buildings,
each with a main corridor one-half
mile long. To inspect the various
shops entails walk Of nearly ten
miles, exclusive of the stairways. The
combined floor area is 100000
square feet. Between 1900 and 49,
600 employees are on its pay ROLL
Popular Science Monthly.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
WHY FEW WOMEN OF GENIUS
Sex Has Been Too Long Handicapped
for Real Development Of
Natural Gifts.

Whether women will ever rise to ge.
MUS of the first rank cannot be known
till they have enjoyed several gen.
erations of equal opportunity with men
for development.
1.-THE attitude toward woman in the
past has made the development of ge-
MUS in her very difficult, If not alto
gether impossible" says a prominent
woman lecturer, "but now she is be-
ginning to enjoy larger opportunity
and the sympathy Of men In her en-
deavOr for the development of her
gifts, and the inventions of modern
times have relieved her of many Of
the arduOus duties of the home.
"Those who discuss the woman ques-
ton from the standpoint of sex, indus
try or politics take too narrow view
Of the subject, for the woman ques-
ton Of today is broader than that
and her outward activities are but the
result of her intellectual awakening.
The woman question is a natural
growth of evolution and cannot be
either forced or held back. Granting
her the ballot is but a small part Of
her advancement; it is but a means to
an end. The reason the woman ques-
ton is so misunderstood today is be-
cause many do not care to study 1t
at all, some bring the accumulated
prejudice Of ages to the study, and
others are actively opposed to it."
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

A new method of utilizing coal In
.competition with oil fuel is being tried
at Vancouver. Those conducting the
experiments say that crushed coal can
be supplied to steam-producing fur
naces by the same method that oil is
utilized. The new process is of spe-
cial interest to British Columbia, as it
Is proposed to apply 1t for smelling
purposes In the big mining plants Of
the province. It. is asserted that seven
tons of copper ore can be smelted with
one ton Of coal by this process, where
as formerly the ratio was a ton Of coal
to a ton Of On.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
ARTIFICIAL EYES OF RUBBER
Experiments Recently Made In France
Show That They Are Superior
TO Glass Ones.

Glass eyes are always more or less
uncomfortable, and frequently insight
", and 1t Is interesting, therefore,
when the deformities Of war are so
serious a subject of consideration, to
learn that two French workers, NM.
Lemaitre and Teulllieres, have evolved
an etlrely new method of replacing a
lost eye. They aimed at producing a
substance Of sufficient elasticity and
softness to respond to the changes in
the eye-socket, and at the same time of
sufficient hardness to present a smooth,
natural effect between the eyelids.
Experiment led them to take careful
casts Of the socket in plaster and to
make from these casts the body of an
artificial eye which should exactly fit
the socket. They solved the difficulty
of cOnsistence by making the front of
the new eye of hard rubber, vulcanized
and enameleti to represent the natural
appearance, and the back of the eye of
soft rubber, followed out In the form
of ballland filed with air.
These hollow eyes have been found
to answer the purpose very well. They
are soft and elastic; they respond ip
a remarkable manner to the ocular
movements; they do not irritate the
socket, and they have the great addi-
tlonal advantage of being unbreakable
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
Book by Mark Twain.

"The Mysterious Stranger" d new
book by Mark Twain, recently brought
to light, will soon be published. 1t is
"a story Of the supernatural. Against
the Gothic background Of small Aus
trian village, at the end of the six
-teenth century-with a halo of the
4ewn's benefactor- stands the Mys-
'terious Stranger, one of the most ex-
,traordinary figures Mark Twain ever
drew.
He makes friends with three boys
and shows them many marvels. At
times he Is invisible, but his presence,
seen or unseen, always brings to those
about Quickened feeling, and his
magic causes lives to run into new
and unexpected channels.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
Measuring Natural Gas.

Errors In the measurement of nat
Nfral gases from the application Of
Boyle's law have been found by the
United States bureau of mines to
reach as high as 10 per cent. The
volume of a gas is stated by this old
law Of physics to vary inversely as
the pressure applied to 1t, but this
proves to hold good only for pressures
near that Of the atmosphere. Billions
of cubic feet Of natural gas yearly are
measured at pressures up to 300
pounds or more per square inch. The
tests show that at 100 pounds the err
ror often rises to 8 per cent: at 200
pounds, 8 per cent; at 875 pounds, II
per cent, and at $40 pounds, Is per
cent. Natural gas is more compressl-
bic than a perfect gas.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
OAK GROVE NOTES

Uncle George Harris got scared the
other day and thought it was going
to snow, so hitched up his 25-year-old
colt to his slide and pulled up some
wood.
Mrs. Mary Liza Hadley, of Mem
phis, came up Sunday ona visit to her
father, Mr.. Jim Cage, and other rela-
tives.
Mr.. Bear Thompson and family, of
the Garland vicinity, paid a visit, Sat
urday, to Mr. Will Hopkins.
Mr.. Morgan Terrell, who has been
quite sick, is able to be out again.
Mr.. L, L. Whitley has moved to Mr..
McWilliams' place.
Little Miss Maggie Sue Fleming, of
Covington, is visiting the family Of
Rev. N. F. Fleming.
: Messrs. John Cage and ]. L. Elem
ing have about completed the new
house of DR.. Currie, of Burlison.
Mr. Henry Hopkins and wife, who
have been married as years, have
quite a good many interesting relics.
Mrs. Hopkins has her wedding hand
kerchief and some hose. She finger
picked the cotton and spun and knit
the latter 80 years ago, She also has
a pair of scissors 80 years old, still in
use, and homespun coverlid made by
her mother AZ years ago and dyed
with colors from Scotland, which
looks as good as new.
Mrs. J. L. Fleming has a set of
silver spoons and dessert forks, at
least SIS years old; look to last the
hundred years out. They were we'd
ding present.
The pastor, Rev. 7. Riley Davis,
preached on "Christian Education.
There was a good attendance for the
weather and roads.
Mr.. Jim Glass and family attend
church often, lately. We are glad to
see them come.
Mr.. P. D. Sims has girl, born Sat
urday, weighing 10 pounds.
COUNTRY JAKE. ]
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
Relief May Come From Mars.

The high cost of living has been
solved. Anyhow there is hope. At
least there is the possibility Of hope.
Let us not despair. Great are the won
ders Of science.
Prof. Percival Lowell of the Lowell
observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., has made
the interesting discovery that the So
called canals of Mars are really not
canals at all but garden patches
truck farms, If you will. Can anything
be simpler2 Just establish a parcel
post service between Mars and the
earth and lol the high cost Of living
vanishes and all we have to do is to
forward nutmegs and hickory nuts to
the Martians and they will rain down
on US potatoes, cabbages and other
eatables, scarce on earth, but dirt
cheap on Mars. Just wait until the
parcel post is established and see.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
MANS WAR ON WILD THINGS
Many Species Of Birds That Used 70
Be Plentiful Are IL Danger Of
determination.

One Of the prettlest sights in the res
ervation was the view Of six or eight
flocks Of swans high above the marsh,
seemingly playing leapfrog under di-
rection of a leader. One Of the swans
could be heard giving a call, then 9TH
ers would take short flights and make
sOmersaults in the air. The wild swan,
whether floating on the water, or play
ing in the air, with the sun shining
on its white feathers, is the most grace
full of birds.
Owing to the draining of the marshes
and the unrestricted spring shooting
for many years. wild fowl are beeom-
ing scarce in indiana. The Calf reser-
vation has vanished as a refuge and
only few fiocks of geese and ducks
may now be seen where once the wild
fowl numbered millions. The lordly
sandhill crane, with legs three to four
feet long, that strobe about the water
covered marsh, always just keeping out
of range of the hunter, Is now merely
memory or curiosity, though 30
years ago the cranes were numerous.
The 6,00000G or more shotguns in use
in the United States and the market
hunters eight and ten-gauge guns tell
the story, mainly, of the fast-waning
flights of wild fowl, just as the game
butcher and the cutting down of mast
bearing trees, told the story of the ex-
tinction Of the wild passenger pigeons,
which, go years ago, darkened the sky
with their countless numbers.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
OFFICE BOY is UP TO DATE
Type Familiar In Old Days Gone
Modern Youth Has Full Appre-
citation Of His Value.

Der Tag" has arrived for the boy.
There was a time, to be recalled only
with difficulty, when a boy was only a
boy, says an editorial writer in the
Philadelphia Ledger. You whistled
when you wanted him and he came.
He waited in line for a place, his
pockets exuding letters Of recommen'
datlon; be doffed his cap and was
deferential and said "sir" when you
looked his way. He 'lived in your
mild and magnificent eye" Fortified
by stories Of poor boys who became
famous, he aspired to rise. His cloth
Ing was threadbare but neat. His hair
and his shoes were brushed. His
mother was a poor widow who took
washing and he took all her savings.
He came on duty with the morning
star and worked till the moon retired
His wages were $3.50 month and a
still, small voice behind his home
spun shirt kept whispering to him
that he was 0verpaid.
Vanished is the type forever. ''Twen-
ty-four Boy Wanted signs were count
ed along Chestnut street from Sixth
to Broad" Verify, these are signs
of the times The modern boy knows
his valuation In the open market He
is sophisticated and in his bright lexi-
con the terms that deal with curb
markets and shOestring speculation are
heavily underscOred. He means to
storm the heights of fame and for
tune by the jitney route. 1t is not
necessary to be deferential any more.
He can keep his feet on she desk and
his cap on his head, and he need not
stop chewing gum to return mum
bled half answer to his employers tim
Id query. If manners ever made the
man, they do not now make the ordl-
nary Office boy. Most of the extraor-
binary ones are incipient magnates in
the roaring plants where war NUM-
tons are made. Or else they are in
day school and night school stuftlng
themselves with useful information.
The American boy is dead; long live
the American boyl
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
WEST TENNEssEE's CAMPAIGN

West Tennessee begins, on Febru-
airy 10, ten-day campaign for more
profitable farming that will carry
to any farmer in the state a message.
Farmers from over the state are
looking to West Tennessee for this
message. M
In ten West Tennessee counties the
cotton boil weevil has done some dam.
age. History says that the weevil
keeps on moving year by year. He
gets used to colder climates each
year. In some parts of Arkansas
and Mississippi the weevil has done
great damage. 1t is this fact that has
brought the three states together in
a campaign for more profitable farm
ing, and, since West Tennessee is the
part of Tennessee most interested in
the cotton crop, the campaign is being
carried on there. d,
But the message that the campaign
has for the farmer will reach the
ears of many a man who never grew
cotton in his life.
This is the message: Every farm
er should grow crops and live stock to
sell at profit, while increasing the
fertility of his land-feed the land
with lime, phosphate and legumes.
Every person who works farm
should grow enough to feed both his
stock and his family.
In other words, one-crop farming
is improbable farming.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
FLYING FISH HARD 70 4BAe'
Shooting From Fast-Moving Boat, Il
Takes Expert Workmanship 70
Bring Them Down.

Il could stand here and shoot flying
fish If the ship was sinking" said J. G.
Duggins, musical instrument magnate
of Chicago, according to an Avalon
kSanta Catalina island) correspondent
of the Fresno Herald.
Diggins is crack rife shot, and UNI
sioubtedly the best marksman among
the millionaire spOrtsmen who come
to Catalina every season to hunt and
fish. He has bagged as many as Al
flying fish in d single day, and has
shot three straight without a single
miss.
These strange creatures Of the deep,
which both swim and fly, average IA
inches In length. 1t is said the mono
plane Is patterned after the flying fish.
They are hunted from the speediest
kind of motor craft, most famous Of
which is the huge Catalan Filler, skip
pered by Capt. Joe McAfee, veteran
sea hunter on the Catalina banks.
Captain McAfee's boat is equipped
with a 100-horse power motor, and
makes a speed Of 20 knots in the open
sea. He takes many millionaire
sportsmen out, some Of whom come
from the far corners of the earth espe-
cially to shoot fish.
With the boat pitching in heavlng
sea and the fish springlng out Of the
water at most unexpected places, any
man may well be proud Of his marks
.manshlp who tallies a dozen hits out
Of box of cartridges. A small-caliber
rifle is used in this sport, and man
must shoot with open sights.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
BERRY GROWERS ASSOCIA-
TION MET LAST SATURDAY

Several of the members of the Ber-
ry Growers association held meet
ing in the Covington Business Mems
club rooms, Saturday afternoon.
Orders were placed for 100000 ad-
ditional strawberry plants, which win
increase the acreage 40 to so acres
and will bring the acreage up to about
225 acres.
Orders were also placed for sufi-
cient pepper seed to bring the acreage
up to 20 acres and bean seed orders
were also placed, both in sufficient
quantities to admit of shipment in
carload lots.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
MIssouri,s Lead output.

The demand from Europe in 1915 for
lead to be used for war purposes
caused the output of Missouri mines
to break all previous records in the
quantity of lead ore placed on the mar
ket that year, the amount being 1885,
634 tons in smelted or refined shape,
which was worth SIS, 3S9, 500, or just
about enough to build and equip an
up-to-date dreadnaught for the United
States navy.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
Amarleana IN European War.

Twenty-eight thousand Americans
are fighting with the allies on the
western front, according to Mrs. J. j.
Thompson of New York, who returned
to this country recently after spending
five months in the British Isles. Near
ly every regiment has on its roster the
names of Americans who have distin-
guished themselves for valorOus con-
duct, and many have been awarded
special decorations for bravery.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

If we count the wealth Of North
America as it seems today, we flRd
that the discovery Of America by
Christopher Columbus has been worth
to the world $3,OOO.OOO,OOO day from
the time ne sailed from Palos in Au-
gust, 149c, down to the present time.
Likewise the man who discovered the
way of drawing tungsten wire gave
$500, 100000 worth of light yearly
Popular Science Monthly.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
A Receptive Mood.

do you favor protection or free
trader"
'Well, like what protection has &C.
complished in the past. But l must adj
NIT it isn't anything compared to what
the free traders believe they can bring
about 10 the course Of time"
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01
Hold Recerl y Breeding Stock.

The people Of Argentina annually
raise for export $40 worth Of food
stuffs per capita. The highest prices
ever paid for breeding stock have been
paid by the Argentlnes, with the re-
suit that they have the finest draft
horses, the best Of beet. cattle and the
highest type Of sheep. Argentina Is
becoming one of the worlds great
granaries.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

An Irish engineer has conceived the
idea Of laying huge pipeline under
the Atlantic, through which petroleum
could be pumped from the American
oil fields to England.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-02-01

Nice new line of the famous
Gordon hosiery for women
and misses. Ask to see it.
New slippers for spring in
all the new styles are arriv-
ing. Watch for our display