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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20

1t hurts her vanity. Let her ask her
self these questions:
Am I unattractive looking so that
a man would not be proud to be seen
out with me? Then l will enhance my
looks by getting my hair combed in the
latest wrinkle, and patroniEing a dress
maker and milliner who will turn me
out a living fashion plate, for / have
observed that 1t flatters a man to ap-
pear In public with what he calls "a
swell-looking DOLL
DO | bore men with my converse
ton? Do afflict them with prattIe
about my family? DO | scare them by
making sharp speeches7 Do Try 70.
hand out "a line of high browed opin-
ions on Maeterlinck and Ibsen to men
who never read anything but the news
paper headlines and the sporting page?
II I do will learn to follow whore a
mar leads In talk, and become a gifted
listener.
"Do / dance we'll enough to make
a man seek me as a partner. or is
dancing with me as hard labor as
trucking around a load OF dry goods?
DO play q good game OF golf, ten
mis- and cards? II don't, why should
any man wish to play with me? 1t is
up 10 me TO make myself a cracker
Then I should advise the girl who
Is not personally attractive to men to
remember that in catching flies we
must bait the trap with sugar. A rood
way to do this is with a popular girl,
Beau-less girls make the mistake OF
flocking with other wall flowers, They
should never do this. They should al
ways choose as companions girls who
possess the power that they lack to
c~onjure men with.
Also the unattractlve girl must bait
her trap with. food, Any girl can en-
terrain herself into a sort OF belledom
because In common decency A man can
not accept hospitality without making
some return for II, This Is where
mother m In. 1t is mothers place
to make her house so attractive that
young men will like to come to 1t, and
In this way she gives her daughter
her chance, for many a girl who seems
unattractive to a man at first finds
her to be a charmer when he gets
acquainted with her. Likewise many
n girl who isn't snowy in company il
seen to her best advantage against the
background Of home, and with the
aroma OF mothers pies floating about
her,
Finally, ! would remind the beau-
less girl Of tho wisdom OF striking out
into new pastures and fresh fields II
she Is not admired and appreciated In
her own home town. Many a girl, like
the prophet, merely lacks honor in her
own country, and she finds in another
environment the attentions from mon
she has always crAved and never had
The moral of all OF which Is, never
give up the ship, and set sail for for
eign waters, II the fishing Is poor at
home.
Copyright. 1918. by the Wheeler SYM
dictate, lncD
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20

OUT IN the desert
OF COLORADO.
IN A little town.
THAT THEY call 1ndio.
is A friend Of mine.
NAMED w. L, r."
AND NEAR where he lives.
is ANOTHER man.
IN A neat little house.
AND A srsat big yard.
AND WHERE this Is.
IT USED to be sand.
THAT BURNED in the sun.
AND THEN grew cold.
WITH THE chill of night.
AND IN all the place.
WHERE THE yard now lies.
THERE WAS no life.
AND SO it ran.
IN THE memory of man.
AND THE neighbor came.
AND A house was built.
AND A fence grew UP.
AND FROM up on the hills.
WHENCE THE water came.
TO THE little town.
CAME THE life of the hills.
AND IT tempered the heat.
OF THE MONDAY sun.
AND TEMPERED the chill.
OF THE desert night.
AND THE sun.
AND THE night.
AND THE melted SHOWS.
AND THE neighbor man.
HELD COUNSEL there
AND A seed vas set.
AND ANOTHER seed.
$50
AND THE life Of the hills.
WENT INTO them.
AND THEY crowded their way.
THROUGH THE blistered sand.
AND DRANK of the hills.
AND SEARCHED for the sun.
AND SO they. grew.
TILL THE square Of sand.
THAT THE fence held in.
HAD ALI. grown green.
EXCEPT FOR spots.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20
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M Abu xNou6oS:

GOODBYE.
Goodbye, o pumpkin pie,
With thee l have communed
For 10, these many years, y
And now, in bitters tears, go.
With voice to grief attuned,
l say goodbye. .-45
Since youth / have drawn nigh
u.. Thy brown and luscious sell. ~ tAf-S -
Ny inmost soul has yearned,
s But, far as I'm concerned,
You're now upon the shelf
For good and aye.
You used to be a jH. H.
Say, l don't run a bank.
.@Ht . 4 AT 20 cents ahunk, kr
~ Which / think Is the bunk,
...,. ,,-s You're Ear above my rank,
.t SO beat i-fNt.
When other food got high
l banked a lot on you.
Somehow l had no fear
That you'd turn profteer.
! thought you'd see me through.
Goodbye, false pie.
One of the most important news items of today is that Grand
Nicholas of Russia, who was executed by the Bolsheviki on Oct.
u.s. is living quietly on his estate in the crimeaa
A scientist has discovered that parsnips are nutritious. 1t Is a
good thing they are, for they have nothing else to recommend them.
The price of rauors has gone up because the soldiers need them"
Didn't these boys ever shave before they entered the army?
Randolph. let me smell your breath" said Mrs, Jaggs as her hs.
band rolled home at 1 am.
rules are very stricksh during the inflennsher ephidemmick"
A recent ad. says: THE greatest floor enamel ever made. You
can put it on yourself"
In other words, don't take It internally: :"
Economy is the watchword in England. and. as a result, they are
considering seriously a plan to pay the poet laureate by piecework in
stead OF a straight salary. f-
And now they say the spanish flu is nothing but the oldfashioned
grip with the scare thrown in.
Which, by the way, is not far from the truth.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20

Hooverize time by doing your Christmas shopping earlv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20
The ubIicBe SerUed
Twice Told Tales
News Of Memphis
Is Years Ago.
NOVEMBER 20, 1898,

More than 1000 Japanese were
drowned and S. 900, 900 damage was
lone to property in Japan by a storm
and flood on Oct. IL. advices say.
No decision has BEEN reached by the
government relative to the annexation
OF Hawaii to the United States against
the wishes Of the deposed queen,
Miss Florence Gage. talented soprano,
is stopping a few days at Mrs. Fray
ser Holst's, arranging for a concert.
Rev. James Vernon, Of Kentucky,
who Is assisting Rev. J. A. Brooks In
a revival at the First Christian church,
preached yesterday on "a Secular
Study Of Jesus"
The Church Orphans home, badly in
need Of money. will start a campaign
soon for finances.
The entertainment to raise money
for John Mahoney, manager of the
burned Lyceum theater, will be held
tonight at the Auditorium.
The wedding Of Miss Beulah Jackson
and Lewis Baker is announced to take
place on the 23d inst.
Col l. L, Baker has returned after
an absence Of four months.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20
News Of Memphis
10 Years Ago.
NOVEMBER 20, 1903.

Chancellor Won Buelow, of Germany,
is reported as greatly depressed oyer
his clash with the kaiser, and probably
viii resign shortly.
A train bearing the private car Of
William Rockefeller was purposely de-
rallied near Utiac, N. Y, but no one
was hurt.
John D. Rockefeller is on the stand
in the trial Of the government against
the Standard OIL company, in an ef-
fort to dissolve 1t.
Mrs. james P. Chase, Of IT'S Adams
avenue, is entertaining her sister, Miss
Anna Evans George, of University,
Miss.
Russia has decided to send u spe-
cial agents to develop trade in the re-
gion in which Turkey and Servia have
boycotted Austrian goods.
Gov. Malcolm r. Patterson will re-
turn Friday to Nashville, after having
spent several days In Memphis with
the hardware mems convention.
Beale avenue, from South Third to
Orleans streets, will be opened this
week to the public with a new pave
ment.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20
(NGe. GARGI eGE
By K.c.H 3.

WHERE FLOWERS came.
AND THE sum-.
AND THE snow *
THAT HAD run away.
AND THE desert chill.
PAINTED woNDRoUs hues,
WHERE THE flowers grew.
AND THE town went by.
AND STOPPED on It's way.
AND STOOD at the fence.
AND RREATHED Of the life.
AND FEAsTED its eyes.
AND INSIDE Of the fence.
THE NEIGHBoR man .:t....
$50
WENT ON his way.
AND m al! Of the town.
THERE WAS but one.
WHO COULDN'T see.
WHERE THE sand had been.
AND HE was the neighbor man him
self.
AND HIS eyes were blind. .
BUT HIS was the Joy.
AND THE greatest Joy.
FOR HIS was the work.
THAT HAD been wrought.
I THANK you.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20
ONE ON DOC.

This story was told by a soldier after
a two weeks stay at a base hospital
with an attack of the measles.
A nurse went around and took the
temperature of the sick soldiers, and
while her back was turned one soldier.
instead Of putting the thermometer into
his mouth, inserted 1t into a cup OF hot
coffee standing near He handed the
thermometer to a passing doctor, who
first looked at. 1t and then at the
patient.
my boy" he exclaimed, ''you are
not dead, but ought to be-"
The thermometer registered 100 de-
grees.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20

Chairman Hurley is planning a mighty fleet that will fly
one that must be fought with the agencies of peace "' "'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-20

There is considerable fear that the German procacandst
as fighting for them. " go"
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
A KANSAS TEACHER KILLED
w. H. Mccartney of Overlook Shot
Down by Motor Ca Bandits
While Leading Posse.

The chase for the murderers of H.
W.. Mccartney, an Overlook school
teacher, who was shot by robbers
early the other morning, was aban-
doned after the posse had searched
the territory to the southeast in the
neighborhood Of Baldwin. Many of
the possemen returned to their homes
at night.
Mr.. Mccartney was slain while lead,
ing posse which was surrounding a
store the robbers had entered in Over
brook.
1t is feared by officials that the rob-
bers have made good their escape, or
are so well concealed that they will
be able to get out of that section and
leave the state.
The murderers escaped from Over
brook on foot and il is believed that
they proceeded south and east. Two
men, believed to be those sought, were
observed by several farmers in that
section cutting across cornfields and
pastures and apparently avoiding trav-
elcd roads.
Immediately after the murder, a
posse was organized in Overbrook
and was rapidly recruited with men
from adjoining farms. They were
armed with shotguTs, rifles and re-
volvers and were led by county and
city peace officers.
There was much talk that If caught
the murderers would be lynched.
A reward of 800 for the capture
and conviction of the guilty men was
offered by the Overlook commercial
club.
Mr.. Mccartney was teaching ir the
Overlook high school while wGiting
for call to join the army as chap
lain. He was formerly pastor Of the
United Presbyterian Church ut Lyn-
don and was temporarily released last
June in order that he might volunteer.
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
BUILDING coBsLEsroNE WALL OF RESERVOIR.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Many small reservoirs have been
Quilt in the grazing districts of the
West to furnish water for range stock
and household purposes, the irrigation
Of land from such supplies being Of
secondary Importance. These are dis
cussed in this article.
In the Great Plains area and more
particularly in the eastern portions Of
Wyoming and Montana and the west
ern portions of the Dakotas, there is
little stream flow during the greater
part of the year and the well water
often is so impregnated with mineral
salts as to be unfit for drinking pur-
poses. On the other hand, the native
grasses are abundant and nutritious
but the cattle and sheep which Craze
thereon are not permitted to feed be-
yond easy reach Of the nearest water
hole. Thus without the use Of reser-
voirs or other means of providing wa
ter, the public range can be only par
TALLY utilized and too often the big
stock companies, in acquiring posses
sion of the land bordering springs and
streams, become the sole benehciarles
of the use of such lands.
Water for Stock.
Other reservoirs Of this class have
been built by transportation companies
in order to provide water for cattle
and sheep en- route from the range to
the nearest railway station.
The dams for reservoirs Of this type
are of earth built for the most part in
the beds Of streams. Before the en-
bankment is begun the surface Of the
ground under the entire base Of the
dam, as well as the borrow pit, is
stripped for depth Of at least six
inches so as to get rid Of all sod and
other light, porous material which
would prevent the earth in the dam
from settling in a solid and compact
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
FACTORS IMPORTANT
IN FIXING PROFITS
Size, Diversity and Productive
ness Are Essential to Sue
'CeSSfuI Farm Business.

The factors most important in de-
termining the profits in farming are
size, diversity, and productivity of the
business, according to w. u. Grimes,
assistant professor Of farm manage
ment In the Kansas State Agricultural
college.
"of these factors, the one which
confronts farmers is diversity of busl-
ness" said Mr.. Grimes. "Too many
farmers derive the greater part of
their income from one enterprise,
which If 1t fails leaves them without
resources.
Seasons vary while the require
ments Of different crops are constant.
Seasons which are unfavorable for one
crop are often favorable for another.
The farmer who is following diversI-
fed farming methods usually has a
good yield Of some crop.
another difficulty of Importance
to the farmer who grows only one
crop is that he has an abundance of
work during rush seasons and has lit
tie to do at other times. Under pres
ent conditions labor is scarce. Often
by growing a combination of crops he
can distribute his labor throughout the
summer season.
"In the wheat growing sections
farmers should plant part Of their
ground to crops for feed and keep suf-
ficient live stock to utilize them. Live
stock furnish work throughout the
winter and often enable the farmer
to hire farm hand for the year.
"Feed crops usually do not conflict
seriously with wheat harvests and
distribute farm labor throughout the
summer season more uniformly. They
will yield q profit when fed to live
stock. Roughage which is Of little
value otherwise may also be fed. Keep
ing live stock is the most economical
method of maintaining the fertility of
the soil and only practical meth
cd for nearly all sections Of the state.
Better diversity in business Of the
average farmer will increase the
profits, establish farming on a safer
business basis and enable the farmer
to safeguard against the danger Of
complete failure in any year and aid
in overcoming the present scarcity Of
labor"
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
Another Puzzle.

"Is 1t possible for a person to say
something that will be a lie If IL is
true"
eyes. If a liar should say 4 never
told the truth in my life,' 1t would be
lie If 1t was true"
"How so?"
Because that statement would be
one instance Of his telling the truth,
and thus it would be false on the face
of 1t. And If he should say the exact
opposite, that would of course be a
lie, too. But leave that suppositlon
out of the question, for 1t may confuse
you. Just remember this-that If a
fellow says he never told the truth,
he must be lying"
"But If he's lying, then he's telling
the truth, because his statement would
merely be another lie. So his record
wouldn't be broken after ALL"
eyes, that's true, too. You see, that
proves that it's impossible"
"Shut upl Don't tell me any more
about it-Pm going to worry all day
as 1t isl"-Exchange.
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
sAw%

water from the reservoir is pumped.
The reservoir is IA by 18 feet in area,
Z feet deep and has a removable cover
in order that the silt may be cleaned
out periodically. The walls are 6 inches
thick throughout and the bottom 3
inches thick. The tank has capacity
Of $3.50 gallons and this quantity Of
water serves 100 head of cattle and
also provides for all domestic uses for
Il period of three days. A wooden der
rick supports the tank at an elevation
of q feet above the ground and pipes
of black iron IL inches in diameter
distribute the water contained in the
Meade County news., 1918-01-17

virtually a Christian city. It had been
pagan and Jewish by turns, but now
1t was raised to bishopric. Fidus was
the bishop, and he was present at the
Synod of LYDIA in 415 and at the
Council of Ephesus in 431.
1t now became a place for pilgrims
from Europe. For centuries they ar
rived and made their way to the Holy
City. Many Of them landed at Ces-
area, further up the coast, but the
biblical traditions Of Jaffa caused al
most all of them to visit its pictur.
esque walls.
In the seventh century Of our era the
Arabs invaded the country and then
began the reign of the Saracens and
Turks, which has continued, with occa-
sional periods of other occupation, un-
til the present day.
In all of the eight Crusades, which
began in the eleventh century and con-
tinued intermittently for 300 years,
Jaffa was prominent figure in the ac-
counts. The Crusades were begun un-
hCL tAlO An1oolOhulJ WOLh VI L SlCI lhC
Hermit, a French monk, who, having
visited Jerusalem, found that the pill
grims were unjustly treated by being
taxed highly for admission to the city
Of their dreams, and that they were
otherwise unjustly treated by the gov
ernment.
1t was customary for most Of the
Crusaders to land at Acre, which, while
further away from Jerusalem, seemed
to offer more direct route and SAT-
er landing for the ships and galleys
which brought the Knights Templar
and Hospitallers.
Jaffa became the advanced base for
most Of the operations against the Sa-
racens and later the Turks at Jeru-
salem.
Taken by Napoleon.
Napoleon in his Egyptian campaign
took the city of Jaffa, and it was there
that it was declared that he left his
soldiers to die Of the plague, but he
had his eye on posterity and had
picture painted depicting him in the
convent Of the Armenians going SYM
pathetically among his stricken SOL
diers, whom his enemies declared he
poisoned when he was about to leave.
Mehemet Ali took the town in 1882,
and the Arabs were evicted by the
Turks, who took the town eight years
later, although in the meantime it had
been laid partly waste by an earth
quake in 1888.
The guide books will tell the modern
pilgrim that he may still see the ruins
Of the house Of Simon the tanner, now
covered by a mosque, and the pious
may make the journey to that part
Of the town where the worthy TabItha
was raised by st. Peter. He may read
on q signboard, "Tabitha's Quarter"
but the exact spot where her house
stood has not been transmitted to this
time.
From small town Of about 10000
population, the completion of the rail-
road to Jerusalem about twenty years
ago caused the city to become impor-
tant enough to boast of more than
three times that number of inhabitants
The treacherous character Of the en-
trance by se2 to the town is likely to
stand in the way Of Its future great
ness, but as one of the oldest cities in
the world 1t must always have fasci.
nation for the curious.
Meade County news., 1918-01-17
Cross Section Of Earth Dam.

manner. After the ground has been
so stripped and before the grading Is
begun, a trench IL feet wide and not
less than 18 inches In depth is dug the
entire length Of the proposed dam. The
edge of this trench from the upstream
side is not less than or more than 10
feet inside the toe Of the inner slope.
This trench is dug for the purpose of
breaking the seam that otherwise
might exist between the natural ground
and the constructed dam.
Standard Dimensions.
The dam then is built in the usual
way by placing the material In uniform
layers under the whole base of the
dam. Figure shows the standard di-
mensions used In embankments and
the position Of the intercepting trench.
1t will be noted from this sketch that
the flow line Of the wasteway Is five
feet below the top Of the embankment.
Wherever possible, natural waste
way was utilized in direct line with the
stream channel and the dam located
to one side SO as not to be subjected
to the direct force of the stream.
To protect the embankment from
waves produced by the high winds Of
the open range, the inner slope may
be covered with rock, brush and rock,
or other material. A common kind of
protection consists of sheet piling
formed Of inch boards 10 inches wide
and feet long. Each board is driven
into the embankment at the edge Of
the water of full reservoir to depth
Of 3 feet and then nailed to 2 horizon
tai ties Of by 10-inch boards. These
latter are braced to dead men buried
in the dam in the manner shown In fig
ure 1.
Smaller Reservoirs.
Small earthen reservoirs or "set-
tling basins" for the watering Of stock
are common In Imperial Valley, Cali
fornla. These are usually rectangular In
form, 20 by 30 feet being common size
and about 4 feet deep. To keep out the
stock they are fenced with the excep-
ton of drinking place about 9 feet
long, which is cribbed. The crlbbing
consists of two Pinch planks spaced
9 inches apart with the intervening
space filed with sand. Figure 2 Illus
trates this cheap method of furnishing
water for stock. In recent years a
more costly equipment to provide wa
ter for domestic purposes as well as
stock has been introduced in the val
ley. One plant in the valley comprises
a reservoir lined with concrete into
which the muddy water from the irri-
cation canal is diverted by a supply
ditch, a pumping plant, and an ele-
Vated metal tank into which the settled