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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
ONLY WOMAN RURAL
MAIL CARRIER HERE
MISS ELIZABETH TUCKER HOLDS
THAT DISTINCTION IN
TENNESSEE.

Columbia has the distinction of be-
ing the home of the only woman
rural free delivery mail carrier in Ten
nessee and probably the only one in
the South. Miss Elizabeth Tucker has
been carrying Route No. on the
Nashville pike since about October |
who she was appointed to fill the
vacancy created by the resignation of
]. J. Underwood.
Miss Tucker had been in the postal
service for ten years and had become
weary of the monotonous task of
standing at the stamp window and
answering millions OF foolish ques-
tions, SO she stood the examination
and made application for position as
rural mail carrier so that she could
get out into the open.
Every morning Miss Tucker is in
line at the Columbia postoffice with
her horse and buggy to receive as
heavy load of mail as any of the other
carriers and residents on the Nash
vile pike say that she is giving most
efficient service.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
few MARRIED men
WERE IN CLASS
STATISTICS ON MARRIED AND
SINGLE REGtsTRANTS SHOWN
BY LOCAL BOARD.

Statistics at the headquarters of the
Local Board show the following facts
concerning the number of married and
single men of the June and August
registration of 1918.
Glass |, 207, married 26, single 1871;
deferred class 1870, married 81, single
&C..
The same statistics regarding the
registration of June 5, 1917, follow.
Class !, $50, married 46, single SD;
deferred classes, 1867, married 1473,
single 494. The ages of these men
are divided as follows: Single III,
age 81; 147, age %; 122, age 90; 100,
age 81; 81 age 25; 81, age 26; 70, age
81; So, age %; AZ, age 80, As, age 30.
Married 25S, age 81; III, age 90;
176, age 23; $50, age "a; 1893, age 25;
16S, age 26; 219, age 81, 1879, age %;
205, age 20; 207, age 80.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
YOU'RE. .B||uJ!Ql|Q||'s!!. / LEI. J.
CASCARETS uvtN
LIVER AND BOWELS
DON'T STAY HEADAcHy, CoNSTI-
PATED, SICK, WITH BREATH
BAD AND STOMACH SOUR.
Get a tan.cent box now.

Get ten-cent box now.
You men and women who can't get
feeling right-who have headache,
coated tongue, bad taste and foul
breath, 3Ilizziness, can't sleep, are bill
ious, nervous and upset, bothered
with sick, gassy, disordered stomach,
or have bad cold.
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil?
Cascarets work while you sleep;
cleanse the stomach. remove the sour,
undigested, fermenting food and foul
gases: take the excess bile from the
liver and carry out of the system all
the constipated waste matter and
poison in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will straighten
you out by morning. 10-cent box
from any drug store will keep your
stomach sweet. liver and bowels regu-
lar, and head clear for months. Don't
forget the children. They love Cas-
carets because they taste good-never
grippe or sicken.--(Advt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
GIRLS! WHITEN SKIN
With LEMON JUICE
MAKE A BEAUTY LOTION FOR A
FEW CENTS TO REMOVE TAN,
FREckLES, SALLOWNESS

Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup
ply you with three ounces of orchard
white for few cents. Squeeze the
juice Of two fresh lemons into a bot
tie, then put in the orchard white and
shake well. This makes quarter
pint of the very best lemon skin
whitener and complexion beautifier
known. Massage this fragrant,
creamy lotion daily into the face,
neck. arms and hands and just see
how freckles, tan. sallowness, red
ness and roughness disappear and
how smooth, soft and clear the skin
becomes Yes! II is harmless, and
the beautiful results will surprise
you.-(Advt) 4
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
HENRY GULLEY GIVES
HIS LIFE FOR COUNTRY
YOUNG MAN FROM MT. JOY CON-
MuNlTY KILLED IN ACTION
OCTOBER II.

Private Henry Gulley, son of A. j.
Gulley residing near Mt. Joy. was kill
ed in action October II, according to
an official telegram received this
morning. He left Columbia last Au-
gust in a draft contingent and was
sent to France in September. since
which time his family had not heard
from him. 1t could not be ascertain
ed this morning to what regiment he
belonged.
Private Gulley was about 26 years
old and was fine type of American
manhood. That he made good sol
der and died heroically is the belief
of all who knew him. He is survived
by his father, A. ]. Gulley, one broth
or. John Guiley. and three sisters. Mrs.
Ella Drake. Ct Summertown, Mrs. Rem
fro and Miss Lessie Gulley, OF Mt
Joy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
RED CROSS REPORTS
HAROLD HICKMAN DEAD
w. G. HICKMAN UNTIRINGlY TRY.
ING TO LOCATE w. J. HlCk-
MAN IN MAuRY COUNTY.

W. G.. Hickman, of this county living
ten miles from Columbia on the
Campbellsyille pike, who has received
several letters announcing the death
of Private Hickman in France, is in
receipt of the following telegram from
the Red Cross in Washington:
Washington, d. c., Nov. %, 1918.
'W. G. Hickman, Columbia, Tenn
In answering your wire of Goth. Pri-
vate Hickman, whom reported dead,
was Harold Hickman, not Horace
Hickman. Writing.
"W. r. CASTLE, JR.
RED Cross, Washington, D. c."
Mr. Hickman has son named Hor-
ace Hickman in France. The letters
have all been addressed to w. J..
Hickman, but so far, w. J. Hickman
cannot be located. w. G. Hickman is
doing all he can to locate w. j. Hick-
man.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
ANOTHER CHECK FOR
UNITED WAR WORK

Another $50 was added to the fund
for the United War Work. when the
following letter came today from w.
p. Woodbridge to John M. Burns, chalr-
man of his division:
Il left home Unexpectedly ana DC
fore your committee started out On
the war Work drive SO it is with
nleasrIe am enclosing my check Tor
$50 for this splendid organization
I thank God that the horrible war is
over and trust that our boys may nave
n safe return to their dear homes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29
FORMER DIMPLIAn
IS HERE ON VISIT

Ma. W wilburn, of New Orleans, is
here to visit the scenes of his boy
hood Although Mr.. wiIburn has been
away from here for many years and
has achieved great business success
in bis adopted city he always regards
Maury county as his home ana vista
here two OF three times year.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29

Observations in the war showed
conclusively that shells increase in
destructiveness more than in proper
ton to their inches. A 12-inch shell is
estimated to be eight times more dan
gsrous than a 6-inch one,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29

The failure of the Germans TO take
petrograd left to that city the dlstlhc-
tion Of being one of the two great cap,
,,,,s which have never been occupied
by enemy armies in modern ''i"
The other is London.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29

Miss Lillian Thomas is confined
to her room with influenza.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29

Tho record Tor hand-grenade throw
ing in the late war was IS yards.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-11-29

Herald cheap eemwn 40 ~ !.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

before the war Brazil had imported large
quantities of shoes and boots from Aus
tria, France and Switzerland, but that at
the present time none are being obtained
from these countries, and that, conse-
quently, most Of Brazil's footwear is now
imported from the United States. Mean
while local manufacture is steadily ad-
vancing, but after the war large quanti-
ties of shoes will again be imported from
Europe, since neither the Brazilian nor
the Yankee styles seem to fit the South
American taste.
Somewhat different is the situation with
regard to printing and bookbinding
machinery, which was formerly almost ex-
clusively imported from Germany and
Italy. Here the Brazilians rather incline
toward the American article, which is ia
vored by the largest printing and book
binding plants of the country. The same
can be said concerning the electrical
goods, for which Germany appears to have
held monopoly before the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

| rcnt's inability to secure enough to serve
the growing merchant marine:
"Directly responsible for sending and re-
celvng all messages thc signal quarter
masters and the signal boys. Their station
is on the signal bridge, a part of the ship
designated for the purpose and equipped with
all the required apparatus. Several sets of
international signal flags, special navy signal
flags, small semaphore flags, large mechanical
s2maphores keyboards and circuits for the
electric night signal lights, portable wireless
sets, long and high powered telescopes, hal
yards running to the signal yard high up the
mast placed on this bridge.
ga message to a ship near at hand is
usually sent by semaphore. In this method
each word is spelled out letter by letter.
The sender takes a position facing the re-
teiver. The position of the arms relative
to tho body indicates the letter. For each arm
here seven positions-the horizontal on
either side, forty-fvo degrees above, the
fory-fve degrees below the horizontal on
either side, and the vertical position. This
arrangement gives twenty ght positions for
the arms twenty of them being used for
letters of the alphabet. To aid the one re-
oeiving, small flags are carried in each hand
as an extension to the arms. An expert sig
nal man can semaphore messages to another
ship at rate of thirty words minute.
when the distance between ships Is
greater the mechanical semaphore is substi-
tuted. This consists of a pole of square
section about fourteen feet high, with pivot
rear the top on which two arms are sus-
pended. Near the base are two handles con-
nected to the arms through two sprocket
wheels and a sprocket chain The operator
turns the handles into any required positions
Ct the semaphore code, the arms at all times
paralleling the handles. This method is not
ss fast as the former, although twenty to
twenty-five words be sent a minute. At
light the arms are fitted with electric lamps,
rows Of lights showing the position of the
semaphore.
Flag hoists are used for general signals
TO the fleet hoist may consist Of any
number Of flags, depending on the message
t represents. On the signal bridge flags are
lung in specially prepared slots in racks and
mapped on to each other by means Of a ring
nd snap hook.
CAT night, besides the semaphore, system
- colored electric lights is used called the
Ardos.' There are four globes in vertical
ne, each globe capable of showing either a
ed or white light. Each display represents
spelled out with the semaphore
"The telegraph code is also used at night
by means Of white light that is flashed FOR
long or short interval, depending on
whether dot or dash is intended
"Powerful telescopes or binoculars are used
by all Quartermasters and signal boys when
receiving messages. These rivet attention on
the message being sent"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Keeping Pace With the U-B0at Menace
(.THOUCH tho S,1hrn;

A THOUGH the submarine situation
"A has materially improved, the
- matter of protecting ships against
U-boats is still of pressing Importance.
"The Popular Science Monthly" asks
straight question, and follows it up with
a new theory. Thus:
"How many ships could be saved for the
worlds commerce if there were means i'm
mediately available to- plug ugly holes in
their hulls, caused by torpedoes, mines, ex-
plosive shells and collisions? This is the
question which confronted Wisconsin in
ventor and he straightway set about to an
swcr it by inventing a metal apron which
can be rolled up and carried on the ships
deck and Immediately lowered to plug hole
torn in the hull.
"The apron consists of a series of bulb tee
irons such as are used for deck beams in
ships or as part of the steel framework in
large buildings. The irons are held together
by means of flexible metal strips bolted to
their fanges. Between the metal strips and
the angle aangcs strips of heavy tar
paper or rubber compound, to make the
apron waterproof when it is placed over the
hole
"The flexible metal strips which hold the
bulbs together permit the entire apron to
be rolled up like carpet and to be carried
on the ships deck on small wheeled car
riagc When a mole is stove in the ships
side, the apron is rolled to the nearest der
rick, which may be the mast boom or small
steam winch placed along the side for the
purpose. The apron is unrolled and lowered
into the water and down to the hole, where
the inrushng water sucks it into contact
with the hull. A flexible rubber or canvas
pipe about eight inches in diameter is at
tached TO the side of the apron. 1t comes
into contact with the ships hull and extends
clear around the contour of the apron. This
pipe is filled with air pumped from ma.
chinery on board, so that the apron fits the
side of ragged hole snugly that water
cannot rush in around the edges.
ITO locate the hole in the side, two heav.
hooks are first lowered by hand and caught
in the front and rear projecting sides of the
hole. A third and heavier hook is then low
cred midway between the first two and II
is made fast to the top edge of the hole. Tho
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Guam

I'll ERE'S a history of Guam 1t is so
concise that even very busy read
crs may peruse it from cover to cover, as
one might say. The account comes from
"The Guam News Letter." Then:
Guam is the largest and southernmost
island of the Mariana group. The harbor of
Apra is in latitude 13 deg. 26 min. north
longitude 144 deg 43 min. east. The island
is about thirty miles long and from four to
nine miles wide; it comprises an area of 21O
square miles.
"Capital, Agana, situated in the north
central part, on the west coast; estimated
population, 5000.
"The island of Guam was discovered by
Hcrnando de Magallancs on March 6, 1921
No settlement was made on it by Europeans
until June 16, 1868, when a mission was
established by Padre Diego Luis de Sanvi-
torres, a Spanish Jesuit, by order of Philip "
of Spain. For the next thirty years fierce
religious campaign, backed by the soldery,
was carried on to convert the natives to
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
A Sermon on Sunday Golf

no YOU play golf on Sunday? Or,
- weather permitting, quiet game Of
tennis? If so, you will be interested in
what the Rev Charles L. Kloss has to say
on the subject in "The Congregationalist
and Advance:
ing to keep up with the procession. Tho
high cost of living is partly in the extras
the dspensable superfcials.
Another gets his fun, but paws for it in
health. Oliver Wendell Holmes sccus-
toned to say that it is less risky to lose .
quart of blood than to tap a nerve. Many
Of our modern ways of entertainment are
keyed to nerve exhaustion.
ITO die at the top is too high a price to
pay for Sunday golf tennis. There is no
real recreation at the expense Of worship
an animal. He has other needs than physi-
CAL
1--WE are entitled to pleasures II We have
earned them, II they are pure, have wheIe-
some reactions and not at the expense
of others rights, health and morals.
"Many Eastern clubs have shut out Sum
day golf entirely, and, if not, still do net
permit any caddies the Lords Day, and
are careful to that none are neglectine
school or other duties.
jerome d. Travers, one Of our expere
golfers, strikes this note IN a magazine
article. 1t is the sensitive recognition that
pleasures too costly if inconsiderata IT
others. Here is the paragraph: Golfers
| should be careful of their general behaviex.
meaning both in deed and word in the pxea.
ence OF their caddies, who being 80 snueA
younger. are SO much more easily 1na
Aueueed.'"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
A Scale Which Tells Your
Exact Hei6ht

WEIGHING machines that operate on
w the penny-n-the-slot principle have
oddity, however. This new scale, which
will doubtless win a great deal of favor
among boys and girls in the growing years
Of life, has movable cap at the end of
vertical rod, which is released by the ex-
penditure of one cent.
The candidate fits the cap to his head,
thereby pushing up or pulling down the
vertical rod. This actuates dial showing
him in figures his exact height.-Ilius-
trate0 World.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Are the Prehistoric Colossi
In Hiding?

TN ONE of Henry James's "Transat-
l. lantc Sketches" occurs an allusion
to the possibility that the old pagan
gods may not have been actually ban
ished, but may be in hiding somewhere,
awaiting time when they shall again be-
come a la mode. The following tale, which
appeared in "The Pathfinder" suggests
that even the prehistoric monsters, traces
of which have given naturalists SO much
employment and which may be called
really the backbone of many respectable
museums, may be also in hiding along
with those hapless gods of olden times:
"Some two years ago a Chinese peasant
found sticking in the bank of the Yellow
River, in the province of Honan, China, a
monster egg. This was declared by the ma
tives to be an egg of the ho-ho bird, or
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

Gand @@
)nf8erY
Here Are Some Interesting Facts
and Figures Relative to the
Health Of Applicants
for Enlistment
for Enlistment

TINE assertion has been frequently
made that the statistics on the
4 health of Americas young men
taken in the draft will reveal interest
;og if not vital facts heretofore unrec-
osnised regarding the physical condition
# Americans. A hint of what may be
exuected is to be found in an article pub
l;shed in THE New York Medical Jour
nal" for February 2. DR.. Isaac w. Brew
or, Of the Medical Reserve Corps, has COM
niled two tables showing the percentages
# rejection among applicants for enlist
nent.
The first table shows the rejection rate
psr 1000 among 153,705 white and 1902
,olored applicants for entrance into the
sgular army from January 1, 1912, to
neeember 81, 1915:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

guy rope holding this hook is firmly attached
to the deck and the apron slides down the
rope until notches on the supporting sling
are brought up against similar notches in
the upper end of the hook bar. When these
notches meet, the aprons downward course
is halted directly over the hole and the
thrush of the water draws it securely against
the hull.
at is doubtful whether the operation
would be so simple if the vessel was moving
Moreover, if the hole torn in the hull were
Of great size, no such plugging device could
keep out the waterI"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

phoenix, legendary fowl. which is often
portrayed in Oriental decorations. Scientists
tell US, however, that it was laid by gi
gantic ostrich.
"The shell, which is now on exhibition in
the American Museum Of Natural History in
New York, was found to have an actual
pacty of more than two quarts, liquid This
is equivalent to some forty eggs of the ordi-
nary hen. The largest ostrich egg on record
is equivalent to from twenty-five to twenty
seven hens eggs. While the egg Of this pre-
historic ostrich greatly exceeds in size the
egg of the modern ostrich, it is compar rativcly
insignificant beside another egg in the mu-
scum, that of the prehistoric epyornis. This
is equivalent to about 148 ordinary hens eggs.
"Besides this shell from Honan province,
which is perfect specimen for museum pur-
poses, two others, less perfect, have been
found. These three eggs, however, consti-
tute the only relics that have come down to
US to tell the story of these extinct monster
birds"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
A Congress of Laplanders
TOW that the world may soon be
n faced by the republics of Siberia,

wv tnat INC WOTI0 may soon DC
faced by the republics of Siberia,
Turkestan and Transcaucasia,
one is ready for information of the SOL
emn opening of an Esquimau Parliament
at UpernaviK or Godhavn, recognized as
the capital of Greenland. Meanwhile, one
is invited by the famous French geog-
rapher and explorer, Charles Rabot, in
LA Geographic" (Paris), to take notice
of a recent congress held by the LAP
landlsh nomadic reindeer shepherds, who,
on account of the continuous colonization
of the northern regions Of Norway and
Sweden by the whites, are pitilessly more
and more restricted in the size of their
own habitations and hunting grounds"
He writes:
"Thc poor Laplanders, who, half century
ago, still felt that they were the dvnely
appointed lords of the polar regions, arc now
dragged before Norwegian justices of the
peace and condemned to damages for en-
croaching upon the territory of the 'sacri-
legous irtrudersn
CAT last the worm turned and, several
months ago, a congress of Laplanders met
at Trondhjem. Delegates from all
parts of Scandinavia and Swedish univer-
sity student of Laplandish origin played
first fiddle.
Among the about one hundred delegates
there were also some women. One Of them,
who was mainly responsible for the organi-
zation of the congress, delivered an eloquent
plea in behalf of her race.
"Telegrams of loyalty sent to Kings
Haakon of Norway and Gustave of Sweden
"The deliberations lasted fully three days
and terminated with the acceptance of an
order of the day urging the repeal of the
Norwegian law of 1883 restricting the rein
deer culture by the natives"
This congress will forever remain
memorable as the first manifestation of
the national spirit among a nomad tribe,
considered heretofore as standing outside
the circle of European civilization.