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The Press., 1917-10-04

This day she sold enough to make her eyes bright and to drive away some Of the despair which had been stealing into them.
 The next morning they came earlier hut she was already there On the cor. her as before, with dark circles under her eyes, but hopeful. Evidently she had come almost before 1t grew light.
 Again they tried to divert her sales with their clamOr. but incidentally Her position was too good and her fruit too clean and nicely arranged and the very appeal of her silence too ire sistible. But before night when not making sales she spent most of her time leaning against the cart for sup port.
 The next day this exhaustion be- came more apparent. so that even the most callOus of the push cart men mo- ticed 1t. The animosity in the eyes of some of them sOftened little, but it was precedent at stake. so even these vied with the most brutal in their ef. forts to drive the girl away. And as the hours wore on 1t became evideD1 t-.ut tIs~ desire would Ee accomplished The girl was verr near the EOilft of breaking down.
 Just opposite the c0guer was the shop Of a candy maker. much Of whose time was spent in the l,9ck yard of his store working great masses of candy dOugl at first with his hIuds, then by throw mg the mass over a strong iron hook ia the wall and drawing 1t out into di- minlshing yellow white strings. When it was of the proper consistency he placed 1t upon lCng marble slab where he drew 1t out aud rolled it into sticks, which were cut or broken i..to right lengths by the slight touch of shear points. Sometimes he would add tiny balls of colOred candy dough to the mass. and when drawn out these would make the stripes in stick candy and candy balls and shaped objects.
 An this was plainly visible through the windows of the shop. and from her position at the cart the girl watched the candy maker much of the time when not engaged with customers, at first Idly and then with increasing in- terest. Apparently the operation was a novelty to her. And on his part, aft er the first tlay. the old candy maker got in the habit of sIli.ing and nodding an acknowledgmsnt of her interest.
The Press., 1917-10-04
The PeddIer's Daughter  An Episode From the Life
 of Q Great City.
By LOTHIAN KINGSLEY

On Elizabeth street girls can run peanut rOaster. sell tape and needles and such things from a basket or a bundle upon their shoulders, cry flow CTS. canvass for anything, and even sell oranges and nuts from a basket. but when they step behind a push cart the cOmplaisance of the street vanlshes.
 It Is not that the girls are desired to abstain from work. for n father will sit in his doorway and sm @a' while his daughter trudSes past him bent nearly double under the burden of merchant disc strapped to her shoulders. and q husband will he equally moderate to- ward his wife. No; Elizabeth street iS indulgent toward its women folk as regards work
 So that morning. when a slip of a girl came from an alley pushing n cart before her that was we'll stocked with fruit and looked timidly along the curbs for good place to stop. the other push cart vendors scowled and nodded meaningly among themselves. It was not the competition, for she was only one and of the backward kind that did not grasp much trade, but it was an infringement on custom. SD they moved their carts a little faster or little slower, according to her progress, keeping between her and the curbs and the crossings and other desirable places. until at last she stopped, con fused. at point where it would be .,NNk
 Few of them had seen the girl he fore. but they recognized the cart. It had been among them several weeks. pushed by a frail little man with white hair. Perhaps he had sold out tu this girl, or perhaps she was h.s daughter and was trying the cart for few days to see if she would like the business. We'll. the first day would tell If that discouraged her she would leave. A girl should be in the sweatshOps sew Ing or selling tapes and needles, Push carts were for the men. So whenever any one looked toward them as though with an idea of buying their gesticula- tions and clamOr precluded any pOSSi- bility of the customer noticing the wistful. anxious face i'm the back ground.
 But instead of being discouraged, Rl- though the day had not brought her single sale. the girl was there again the next morning. so early that when the first competitor arrived he found her cart in the best place on the cor ner, with her standing beside 1t. weary but hopeful
 They crowded as near as they could and by their clamOr tried to divert trade. but with only indifferent success.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Humor Found Everxwhers.

Among those pre-eminently gifted with humor were Abraham Lincoln, Disraeli, Goethe and Heine, the late Lord Salisbury, Arthur BafOur, Dick ems, Thackeray, Fielding. Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIII., Charles IT,. Dr. Johnson. Charles Lamb. Elmer son and Byron. The only persons who lack it altogether are madmen. Crimi- nals as a whole are never without it. There is the case of one murderer at the bar in London who on being asked If there were any reason why sentence of death should not be passed upon him replied. No; am disgusted with the whole proceedings" Another in a similar situation on being asked wheth. CT he had last request to make said, "Well, | should like to learn to play the piano."-Sir Herbert BeerbOhm FFPoo
The Press., 1917-10-04
TORPEDO BOAT DESTRoYERS
They Are Unarmored and Are Helpless
 Against Gunfira.

Every one is familiar, of course, with the ordinary torpedo boat, swift vessel of from 400 to 600 tons in dis placement, carrying no defensive ar nor. but armed with tubes for dis charging the deadly tOrpedOeS.
 To counteract these wasps of the sea, according to the Popular Science Monthly, a type of vessel was design ed of about double the size of torpedo boats, a little greater speed and in ad- ditiOn to torpedo tubes. armed with rapid fire six to twelve pOunder guns, for the avOwed purpose of destroying torpedo boats. Lately all the great nations have stopped building torpedo boats as originally designated and are building torpedo boat destroyers.
 Recent engagements have developed the fact that torpedo boat destrOyers are used almost wholly as torpedo boats. So they arc really battleshlp destroyers. To defend the capital ships from torpedo attack the dread naughts and battle cruisers are armed with secondary batteries of rapid fire guns from four to six inches in diame ter. One we'll placed shell from gun of that size will ordinarily put a de strOyer out of business, as the destroy CTS have no defensive armor whatever.
The Press., 1917-10-04
HAITI CLEANS HOUSE.
Changes That Were Brought About by
 the American Occupation.

Changes That Were Brought About by
 the American Occupation.
 Five years ago in Haiti there was on the whole island not more than one mile of macadamized roadway. and the new streets. taking the place of cOmbi- nation trails and sewers, are the most noticeable changes brought about by the American occupation.
 But more remarkable than the streets is the astonishing sight of squads of Haitians actually cleaning the streets. Under the old regime the chief Occupa- tiOns of the male citizens of Haiti were cOckfighting and politics.
 The refuse and smells have departed, and, better still, most of the children have disappeared from the streets. They are actually at school. where by Haitian law they are supposed to be, but where by Haitian lawlessness only about 10 per cent of them ever used to be.
 About o'clock every week day you will see this newly mObiIized infantry coming home in squads clean and. un- fortunately for the picturesque value of Haitian highways and byways, now thoroughly provided with clothes Worlds Work.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Patents.

Application for a patent must be made in writing to the commissioner of patents at Washington. The applicant must also file ill the patent office q written description of the invention or discovery and of the manner and proc. ess of making 1t in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable those skilled in the arts and sciences to which it appertains or with which it is most nearly concerned to construct and use the same. When the nature Of the case admits of drawings the appli- cant must furnish them of the required size. Tn all cases which admit of rep rescntatioA by model the applicant. if required by the patent office. must fur ni&h d model
The Press., 1917-10-04

muuce her to help me in my business.
 But suppose we go into the shop. We can talk better there"
 Without waiting for their consent he crossed the sidewalk to his store, and after little hesitation they followed
 At the door he turned.
 Say, you cutthroat men," he called
 waningly to the push cart owners, don't you touch thing In this young lady's cart! If you do Tll-I'll run you i m."
 You think us thlevesw called back
 one of the men indignantly. We will not harm the signorlna, only she has no right with a push cart. And we never knew she was hungry"
 As the three disappeared in the sl0p this man turned to his companions with few eager words and gesticula- tions, and they repeated the words and gesticulations to other cart owners far ther along who had not heard the con- versatiOn. In few minutes a dozen men had left their own carts and were crowding about that of the girl. Once inside, the candy maker mo- tioned the old man to a chair, but wise ly ignored the girls weariness.
 Do you know how to make coffee, Giuseppina?" he asked briskly. Yes. sir" she answered wonder ingly.
 Well, it's just this way" he went on. "I hate cooking and don't know anything about 1t, and yet I do my own housekeeping. I've got nice lit tic kitchen behind the shop and three or four rooms beyond, and supper's all ready except just the finishing. Sup pose you make the coffee while I finish rolling this candy dough. Then we'll do the talking while we eat supper. An, well, it doesn't matter" as the girl cOlOred and looked at him suspiciOusly. 1T can do it after finish this. Only I thought you wouldn't mind. You could do in five minutes what my clumsy fin gers would take half an hour, and it would be a rare treat to have friends sit at tahle with me. I get very lone some sometimes. That's right" as the girl started suddenly toward the kitch- an. "You'll find everything nearly ready. with most of the victuals on the table. leave them that way to save time. Your father and will talk till fin ish this. Then I'll wash the candy off my hands and we'll eat"
 It was much longer meal than usual with the candy maker, and he forced himself to eat twice his usual allow ance in order to keep his guests at the table. When at la"t they rose he was smiling genially.
 ''SO that's all settled" he exclaimed with much evident satisfaction, ad- dressing the old man. "Giuseppina will start in as shopkeeper in the morning. and you will help me with the mixing and cutting. You can make all the loZenges. And, as I said, it will be better for you to move right in here with me. There is plenty of room and it will give me Giuseppina within call all the time. Often have to keep open as late as 10 o'clock. Hello, who's that?" at a heavy tramp ing into the shop. ..
 It was the push cart men in a body, with one of them extending handful of coins. "It iG the signorina' S." he said as he advanced and jingled the coins into the girls hand "We have sold out all the fruit. We are hard man, perhaps, but all hard man have good spots some time. somewhere"
 As they tramped out again nOisily the girls lips quivered in an i'll re- pressed sob.
 "The world is so good, so good," she
The Press., 1917-10-04
ei,nan PInnna.

Of all candies perhaps the sugar .Dlum boasts the most ancient lineage. It was the invention of one Julius Dragatus, noted Roman baker and confectioner, member of the family of the Fabii. Dragatus put forth the first specimen of this confection in the year TIT B. c. The bonbons of this variety were called dragati. after their Inventor (dragees is French), and their manufacture constituted a monopoly enjoyed exclusively by the Fabian family. Whenever there was a birth or a marriage in that family a great distribution of dragati took place as an evidence of rejoicing. This custom is stiIl retained by certain of the OlG families of Europe.
The Press., 1917-10-04
The PIusser.

A word of praise is here addressed to him of whom one seldom hears-the lad who always does his best and doesn't look for cheers. While others stand around and spout and tell him how for evermore he's busy getting orders out, he's hustling at his chore. The world will never want for those who like to gab and tell us how. It never has, and, goodness knows. there's plenty of them now. In every land, on every pike, from Alabama to Peru, the world is filled with those who like to tell us what to do. We praise the one who plugs away. unheeding those who fill the woods and while the others bleat and bray he's turning out the goods Syracuse Journal.
The Press., 1917-10-04
A Minister of Manic.

In the course of an address delivered In London Canon Parfit of Bagdad said that what impressed native rulers in the east was the scrupulous honesty of the English officials. The sultan of Turkey on one occasion was watching a conjurer. The British ambassador, who was present, remarked that it was wonderful"
 "No,' said the sultan, mot so won- derful as all that. once had min ister of marine who swallowed bat tleship-at least he had the money for it., and I've never seen the money or the ship!'
The Press., 1917-10-04
How the Condor Is Caught.


 Many birds cannot fly straight up They must rise at very gentle incline They must get onward motion before their wings can get full effect of the air. It is said that the mode of taking the condor is to build pen, say, forty of fifty feet in diameter and six feet high and put a carcass in the middle of it. The condor alights, but cannot again rise at an angle which will take him over the fence.
 Many heavy bodied, short winged ducks rise from the water at so small an angle that they must use both feet and wings for thirty or forty feet in order to get onward motion enough to give effectiveness to their wings by meeting larger masses of still air.
The Press., 1917-10-04
RraakfasA aa ninnar

Tn France they take q cup of coffee and roll on rising. Their hearty break fast is eaten at 1:3O or 12 and dinner at about 7:3O. Professor Bergonie is urging them 10 eat hearty breakfast at 7:3O q. m. and nothing more until dinner at C. He advises that the prin- cipal meal of the day be taken on ris ing and that the evening meal be only q light repast.
 When he put these suggestions before the Academy of Sciences recently other members asked who would cook a hearty meal before 7:30 a. m. and ob- iected that no one had any appetite on getting out of bed and that appetite was necessary to good digestion.
The Press., 1917-10-04
LleArEN YOUR CARES.
"sufficient unto the day is the

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
 Quick is the succession of hu. man events. The cares of today are seldom the cares of tomor- row, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall meet no nore."-Cowper.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Danqerous Assertion.

"T don't care what the newspapers say about me-" exclaimed the reckless statesman.
 'I regret to hear you say that" re- piled Senator Sorghum. That decla- ration is always an indication that some private opinion is more important to your interests than public opinion"
 Washington Star.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Knew Value of Money.

That young chap you are going around with is a regular pinhead!' stOrmed Bertha'S father. He dOeSn't even know the value of money!'
 ''Oh, yes. he does!" said Bertha. He says that he wouldn't give plugged nickel for your opinion on anything. - p11ck
The Press., 1917-10-04
Disease CarrIerS.

There are numbers of people who are what is called carriers" of disease i. e.. they have always the germs of typhoid, diphtheria, infantile paralysis or other communicable diseases in their systems in such numbers that they cause infection in people around them. They are not themselves sick, and they generally do not themselves know of the peculiar condition in which they are, but they do carry the infection to persons around them, and they are therefore veritable menace to the health and life of the community.
 Since these cases are curable under proper treatment, it is only fair that the community demand them to se- cure such treatment.-Exchange
The Press., 1917-10-04
The Lesser Evil,

"Lushman declared he would rather go to jail than pay his divorced wife alimony."
 Did she let him?"
 Yes: she said she'd much rather see him save his money behind bars than spend it over them."- Pittsburgh Dis hatch
The Press., 1917-10-04
The Spirit of the Times.

It is an age of artificial devices. Rare, indeed. is the man and rarer still the woman in whose physical makeup there is not something false. either eyes or teeth or hair.-Atlantic.
The Press., 1917-10-04
GEAR AND KAISER.
Both Titles Mean the Same and Ara
 Derived From Caesar.

Both Titles Mean the Same and Are
 Derived From Caesar.
 It seems strange that two words so different in sound and spelling as czar and kaiser are the same. Both are but changes made in the course of nearly 2,0O0 years in the word caesar.
 All the Roman emperOrs took their title from the first emperor-Our old friend of schoolboy days-Julius Cae- sar When CharIemagne founded the holy Roman empire and was crowned emperor. he took the name caesar Ors in the frankish form, kaiser. When the modern German empire was estab- lishe1 in 1871 the German emperor, William l., grandfather of the present kaiser, took the same title-kaiser.
 Similarly the rulers of the eastern empire nt COnstantinOple, successors to the old Roman empire. called them selves caesar. Every petty chieftain or prince fin the territory surrounding the eastern empire copied the custom and called himself caesar or czar. In the course of time, however, the greatest of these, the ear of MuskOvy, conquer ed the other czars until he was the sole or practically the sole ruler called czar. However the king of Bulgaria, when few years ngo he had himself crowned as king. took the title of czar.-Pitts burgh Dispatch.
 Why He Sees Double.
 The reason that a man sees double who has gaZed too long on the wine when 1t is red is that the nerve cen ters are changed by the action of the alcohol. There is n want of harmony in the action of the muscles which move the eyeballs. Consequently in- stead of both eyes being focused si- simultaneously on an object one eye re- ceives an impression independently of the other. The two impressions are communicated to- the brain, and the object is therefore seen twice. The iniamed condition and loss of energy in the brain centers from Overdoses of alcohol also account for the staggering gait of an intoxicated man.
 Many a man punctures his tire on the road to wealth.
 The demand for good advice Is not
The Press., 1917-10-04
No Chance

Mrs. Jones-It's queer that baby doesn't talk. She's almost two years old and hasn't spoken a word yet. Mr. JOnes--I know, dear, but do you ever give baby chance?
The Press., 1917-10-04
Boy Posts.

Keats wrote his famous ''Ode to Au- tnmn' in his sixteenth year and, in- deed, all his five great odes, among the greatest in any language, before he at tained legal manhood. He died at twenty-five. Robert Burns wrote that scathing satire. Holy Willie's Prayer" when he had barely passed his youth. and. indeed. the whole of the poems in the famous Kilmarnock edition were written before he was twenty-five But even the prccOcity of Burns was put in the shade by that of Chatterton, who committed suicide in fit of despair fin A London garret when he was seven teen. He wrote the whole huge yOl- ume of the Rowley poems when he was schOolbOy at Bristol.
The Press., 1917-10-04

A sharp tongue is the only edged too that grows keener with constant use. irving.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Queer Peta.

Probably the oldest passenger ever seen in public vehicle was the pet bear that Frank Suckland would ire quently take for drives in a four wheel er. Quite recently the present writer saw lady passenger in an omnibus fondling chimpanzee, a man in train with a large pet rat peeping out of his side pocket, while a parrot en- toying a free tram ride perched on his masters shoulder is not at all an un. common sight in northern suburb London Chronicle.
The Press., 1917-10-04
Why He Sees Double.

Many q man punctures his tire on the road to wealth
The Press., 1917-10-04

The demand for good advice Is not equal to the supply.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-23
JOHN PATTERSON

John Patterson, age 70, a high
ly respected citizen of Free
State, died last Wednesday at A
P. M. He had been a sufferes
from rheumatism for the past
ten years.
The deceased was a member
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, and during his long con-
finement bore his Affections with
christian fortitude.
Besides his wife he is survived
by one brother, one son and two
daughters; Dinah Patterson, OF
Free State. Ebby Patterson, OF
Monterey. Mrs. Andy Pew, OF
Monterey, Mrs. Daisy Poison,
of Free State.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-23
Modern Agricultural Mach
inery.

1t is an age of mechanical pow
er. A few years ago we had a
following of politicians who open
ly and loudly decried the extern
sive manufacture of farm ma
chinery. They insisted that it
would result eventually in de-
priving the laboring man of his
right to work on the farms.
Their sincerity was evident e.
nough, but their powers of prog
nostication were woefully out of
kilter. Dependable farm labor
was never so scarce and hard to
obtain in the south as it is today.
and if it were not for the num-
berless labor-saving devices of
every sort the farmers of the
country would be up against it
right. Each year labor seems to
grow scarcer and the farmer
compelled to depend upon ma
chinery to take the place of it.
Just what the future has in
store no man can say.
The machinery department OF
the Fair will be a wonderful
place to the man who loves the
intrincacies of wheels, levers.
and applied power, A man can
acquire much knowledge of me-
chanics by reading books, but he
can gain vastly more practical
information by spending a few
days at the Tennessee State Fair
and watching the multitude of
machines in actual operation.
The farmer who aims to keep up
to-date in such matters attends
the Fair to post himself. Incl
dentally he buys much machine
ry-tractors, engines. elevators,
trucks, ditchers,, threshers and
labor-saving appliances of a
thousand different kinds.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-23
AGED CITIZENS GO TO
THEIR REWARD.
Father and Son Buried in
Same Grave.
] c. RAY

]. C. Ray. age II, died at his
home near Haydenburg, last
Monday morning at Z O'Clock, Of
tuberculosis.
The deceased is survived by
his wife and z children, Cort Ray
and Mrs. Henry Richmond. of
Wanette, Okla, Mrs. Will For
kun, Mrs. Zina Webb, of Hay
denburg, Mrs. Buck jenkins, Mrs.
Charlie Pyron of Gainesboro R a,
and Mrs. w. II. Sadler, of Gaines
boro.
Mr.. Ray was elected Trustee
of this county in 1890, and serv-
ed two terms. During the civil
war he served in the union army.
!. Funeral services were held
Tuesday at the residence, con-
Quoted by Rev. w. A. Dycus.
lnterment in the Forkum grave
yard on Indian creek, with Mason
ic honors.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-23

night, and crops are looking fine
in this section of the country.
Everything is looking green, cot.
ton is blooming, and the people
are looking forward for a fine
crop this season. 1t wont do to
pick before October. We are
thru chopping cotton.
1t is SO hot here you can't
hardly live. We are all well and
going to the Holiness meeting
almost every night.
like Oklahoma just fine. Far.
mers have big wind mills to
pump the water from the wells.
There isn't any where we live
now. The kids are trying to kill
a mad dog.
We all like this country fine.
Wish some more of the Tennes-
see people would move out here.
Snomy Spurlock.