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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-17

FOR SALE-7-room house. equip
ped with water and lights. Good To-
cation. Apalv to Mrs. S. c. Attawav.
405 North Main street. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-17
FOR SALE

One dining room suit, one oil stove
and one baby carriage for sale cheap.
Call 4o4-J quick.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-17

FOR SALE-Burlap Sacks. all
sizes, all grades and for all purposes.
Sacks can be seen at Casper Hide &
Skin Company, East Central avenue.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

disturbed the ordinary routine Of Ro-
man life.
Scene Of Rare Beauty.
The beauty of the snOw-cOvered city
is thing Romans will not forget The
panorama, from the Pincian Hill, it.
self carpeted with a 5-inch covering
Of white, its, palm trees picturesque
and curious sentinels in the winter
setting, was Incompatible. Saint
Peters dome, ermined, with the ball, a
white world symbol. as ever dominated
die picture. Nearer, the Pantheon,
now white, shone in it's new garment.
Far away over white powdered roofs
and terraces through twisted, irregu-
lar streets, rose the Whitened Japicu-
lum, the watchful figure of Garibaldi,
mantled in snow.
From the ghOstlike WhiteneSs of the
Palatine, an -undisturbed shrOud lay
upon the 'campagna. in early morning,
through which Specter-like Appian
Wdy stretched toward the truly named
Alban Hills.
In the heart of ancient Rome, the
miracle of the snow brought umbrel-'
las and OvershOes out of American and
English closets to go forth on wonder
ing admirers thrilled by the startling
transformation of Rome's antiquities.
Forum Clad In Snow.
All the year round vines and plants
grow in the Forum. while lizards sun
themselves on the fallen columns. The
Forum, snow covered, and covered for
three days until noon, was a sight of
which the young generation will boast
of seeing "back in 1917, the third year
of the war;
Up on the Capitoline Hill, the noble
statue of Marcus AureIius,
rising from the center Of the historic
square, wore a new mantle of snow.
while his horse was white with fresh
and unforeseen trappings.
But like the SHOWS of Villon-the
Eternal city's ermine disappeared be-
meath sun and squads of street clean
ers, among whom the now common
sight of women "white wings" told of
a wartime world.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
immense Concrete BRIDGE.

Plans are now practically completed
for the construction in Stockholm of
what is claimed will be the largest
concrete bridge in the world. The new
structure, which will join ROpsten and
Herserud, will be called the Lidingo
bridge. after the island where Herse-
rud is located, and will be 845 meters
(2.772 feet) in length, with So arches
supported by massive concrete col
umns Sc meters (183 feet) in length.
The columns will be hollow, with an
intersection of about So centimeters
ga inches). A few OF the columns
will be provided with concrete "rings,"
three meters (9.S4 feet) in height, each
"ring" having an expansion OF about
one meter go inches).
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Value of Sense of Smell
Proved in Discovery of
the Substance Selenium

| Have you an ambition to found a
new science? Why not measure
smell? Can you tell whether one smell
| is just twice as strong as another?
| Can you measure the difference be-
| tween one kind of smell and another!
1t is obvious that we have very many
| different kinds of smells, from the Odor
| of violets down to asafetida, but until
! you can measure their ikeneSSeS and
differences you can have no science
| of odor, writes Alexander Graham Bell
In Youths Companion.
! In the first place we have to define
an odor. Is it an emanation Of mate
| rial particles into the air or is it
form Of Vibration, like sound? If you
| can decide that question, You will have
the starting point for an entirely new
investigation. If odor is an emanation,
it could be reflected from a mirror.
Light and sound and heat can be re-
fected. have even warmed my hands
at the reflection of a fire in a mirror
of polished metal.
l. That a cultivation Of the sense of
smell may be very valuable was proved
in the discovery of the substance
selenium. In experimenting with the
waste products obtained in manufac-
turing sulphuric acid, distinguished
chemist noticed the characteristic
smell of tellurium-an OdOr that has
no counterpart on earth or in heaven.
sBut the smell was the only indication
of the presence of the substance; ali
the chemical reactions declared that
there was no tellurium present in the
powder. The chemist therefore con-
cluded that, if no tellurium was pres
ent there must be new substance
there, as yet undiscovered, which re-
selnbled tellurium. When he had eX-
tracted from the mass all the materials
that he knew were present, he found
residue, which proved to be, as he aaG
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

" imperial Rome clothed in ermine
was the vision the vanishing year
OF 1917 gave to a surprised pOpu-
| lace. The Eternal city mantled
In snow was the unusual and almost
unheard Of spectacle which greeted the
Romans ON the morning after Christ
! mas, writes Alice Robe in the Kansas
City Star.
Those who woke to find the city
chastened with it's white vestments,
lying peaceful and mysterious, felt the
spell of the unusual and wondered if
1t could be sign of peace.
Whatever private emotions surged
through an astonished people, the an
Gent chroniclers announced that for
the first time in thirty years heavy
snow storm had descended upon Rome.
There are those who record more re-
cent snow, but not Of a similar heavy
fall. And snOwstOrms in Rome, gen.
orally occur in January or February.
This time for three days snow fell
upon the sleeping city and then diSap-
peared with the suns rays at noon.
Not only the people regarded the phe-
nOmenOn with WOnderment but the
tram lines and telephone wires were
50 overcome by the strain that they
refused to operate
city's Routine Upset.
The public conveyances were
stunned into helplessness. Roman cab
horses know nothing of snow and Ro-
man cabmen are likewise afflicted.
Consequently the intrepid pedestrians
found themselves wading through deep
slush by noon in a cabless town. The
Piazza Colonna was, with the thawing,
like a lake of sherbet across which
few venturesOme scOuts-generally for
eigners-were wading.
In the forenoon a group of Ameri-
can boys from the aviation camp at
Foggia-up for hoiday-hired a car
to take q trip out the Appian Way
but the chauffeur, despite the protests
and stronger arguments Of the avia-
tors, that little dampness wouldn't
hurt a machine, had to renOunce the
trip at the Catacombs. To such an
extent had the unheard Of snowfall
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

suspected, a new elementary sub
stance.
This new substance, which was
named selenium, resembled black seal
ing wax in appearance. In it's vitreOus
form it was a nOnconductor Of cleo
tricity, but when heated almost to the
fusing point and allowed to cool very
slowly it completely changed it's ap-
pearance. It acquired dull, metallic
look, like lead; and in that, it's crystal
line condition, 1t was conductor of
electricity, but Of extremely high re-
sistance. A little pencil of crystalline
selenium, not much more than an inch
long, offered as much resistance to
the passage of the electrical current as
96,OOO,OOO miles Of wire, enough to
reach from here to the sun. Yet it was
q conductor.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Football in the Holy Land.

There is a desert football league
now, and it's season" is in full swing.
There is also a Sinai team-a regret
to say at the bottom of the list. In
towns with quite famous Biblical
names you can hear now shouts of
"Well played p and "Off side" won
der what the Jebnsites and the Perez
zites, the Invites and the Hittites, and
Amorites would think Of it all, if they
could hear it.-From the London Daily
News.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Earth'e Temperature,

The temperature Of the earth ap-
pears to increase from the outer sur
face downward at the rate of one de-
gree Fahrenheit for every so to 60
feet, and at the relatively short lis
tance of few miles the temperature
must be exceedingly high.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
New Thermometer.

Thermometers have been invented
by Kentucky physician on which the
scale begins with zero at the freezing
point and is divided into 100 parts I'M
til the normal human body tempera-
ture is reached.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Cautious SpecuIator.

It is announced that the eggs of the
crocodile are good to eat. But will
crocodiles quit laying as soon as the
price of eggs goes up the way hens
do? We must know this before we or
der fOck.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Start Buying Them
at Your Post
office Today
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY
Southern Harness COMPANY
As Wise as ANYBODY.

AS Wise as Anybody.
After Aunt Fanny had vainly striven
to convince Walter that he was in the
wrong she exclaimed: "Walter, guess
/ know q few things! !" $50 do T." was
his answer. ~ know as few things as
anybody"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

and much better results obtained It is
a good plan to place plenty of well,rot-
ted manure in the hills, which should
be about six feet apart. Sufficient seed
should be planted so that four good,
strong plants may be had in each hill.
Another plan is to SOW in drills in rows
six or seven feet apert, thinning the
plants until they are from Is inches to
two feet apart in the rows.
Cultivation should be frequent and
thorough until the vines begin to run.
After this the only cultivation required
is to keep weeds down.
Muskmelons are liable to be attacked
by several diseases and have at least
one serious insect enemy. For informa-
ton on the control of insects and dis
eases affecting the muskmelon, refer 10
| Farmers Bulletin S56, entitled Control
I of Diseases and Insect Enemies of the
Home Vegetable Gardcn.-U. S. Depart
mcnt of Agriculture.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
This $3.50 Six
Is This Years Supreme Value

TT IS not small car. The wheel
/ base is 120 inches - the motor is
IL 40 horsepower.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Hou 1t Is Done

The more you know of present-day
cars the more you will wonder how
we sell such a car at this price.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Cs~pEPr. or AGRICULTURE
HoWIoaGR0W n5
SAl MUSKMELONS D

y sandy loan with plenty of well-rot
ted manure incorporated in the soil is
well adapted to the production of musk
melons. The muskmelon is heat loving
crop, requiring long growing season,
about four months, and cannot be
planted until the ground has become
warm. For this reason it is useless to
attempt to grow the muskmclon in see
/ tons where the growing season is not
sufficiently long or where the tempera-
ture is not uniformly high. The north
crn portion of the United States is not
suited to the growing of this crop fol
the reasons cited above.
1t is advisable to start the plants in
berry boxes, or on sods in the hotbed
transferring these to the open GROUND
latter the ground has become warm. Ii
this way considerable time can be saved
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

The reason lies in factory efficiency.
The Mitchell is built in mammoth,
model plant.
The entire factory was built and
equipped under famous efficiency ex-
perts. Years have been spent to elm
mate every waste.
Mitchell builds the whole car
chassis and body = under these ideal
methods. And the savings are enor-
nous.
Those savings pay for this extra
strength, these unusual standards,
this unique equipment and this match
less luxury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10

Let us be loyal. Let US support
our boys in France. While they
FIGHT for US, let us save for them.
You cannot beat the kaiser by be-
ing a miser. If you can't dig in
the trenches, dig in your pockets.
Buy thrift stamp today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-10
Every Ne.U- Type Body

The new Mitchell line embraces 10
new-style bodies-the largest line
that is built. So it exhibits every at
traction known to 1918 cars.
Come and see how many rare at
fractions this new Mitchell line in
cludes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06
A BIG LAND SALE

The sale in partition of 100 acres
of land in st. Francois county, of
which DR.. E. c. Mccormick and James
E.. Mccormick were joint owners,
was disposed of Tuesday afternoon
by Sheriff Adams, DR.. Mccormick
being the successful bidder, the pur-
chase price being $45,600. The sale
was consumated owing to the fact
that the joint owners were unable to
agree on what the land was worth
to either of them, hence the partit-
ion sale to clear up the matter.
All the bidding was done by the
two owners of the land, and it was fast
and furious. First the different
tracts were auctioned separately, as
was provided in the notice of sale, af-
ter which the entire land, aggregat-
ing 100 acres, was offered as a whole,
when the real bidding was carried
forward. The sale excited consid-
cradle interest, and quite a crowd of
spectators were in attendance. Each
bidder was well able to pay the price,
hence the bidding was run up to sat
isfactory figure. But the land is
worth the price that was paid for it.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06

The County Board of Equalization
met Monday to consider the Merchants
and Manufacturers assessment as
handed in by County Assessor. Some
property values were changed, which
are:
Bonne Terre Pharmacy, from $1,000
to $500.
West End Pharmacy, from $1,000
to $1400.
A. Gordon & Co., from $45OO to
$5500
S. Dabusky, from $7OO to $1,000.
Frank Richardson, from $500 to
$1,000.
Fred Twomey, from 5000 to $1,000.
Henry Oehler, from $100 to 5000.
Fred Oehler, from $100 to 5000.
Lucy & Lucy, from $2250 to $2500.
o. E. Hansbrough, from $500 to
$500.
M. Bisplinghoff, from $500 to $1,000.
Steel Hardware & Lumber Co.,
from $500 to $4,000.
Sawyer Bros, from $500 to $500.
Geo. H. Matkin, from $1,000 to
$500.
r. T. Johnson, from 90 to $50.
Fred Thai, from $3.50 to $700.
Stretesky-Stapp Lumber Co., from
$1,000 to $500.
Ezra Francis & Son, from $100 to
5000.
Karsch Mere. Co., from $4,000 to
$2500.
B. A. Rhea, from $1,000 to $500.
N. Levy, from $4,000 to $4500.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06
Why Should Not Convicts
Be Made to Work or Fight ?

of these have clamored for an oppor-
tunity to enlist to fight the nations
and worlds enemy. Two objections
to this have been advanced, both of
them sentimental. One is that our
soldiers should not be compelled to as
sociate on an equality with convicts
in the army, and the other is that men
who are condemned to punishment
ought not to be released. The first
sentiment has more to commend it
than the second, yet both are senti-
ment and not practicalities.
Probably the most effective thing We
could do just now to reduce crime in
this country would be to empty our
jails and give their inmates the ben
eft Of the discipline and constructive
value of army life under present con-
ditions, with a great war for high
prineipis rs the Incentive to good con-
duct. Thousands of men who under
present conditions are condemned to
life or crime might in that way be
redeemed to good citizenship, to the
promotion of their own welfare and
that of the nation. A regiment or
brigade composed entirely of paroled
men would not necessarily contami-
nate other regiments and might by its
conduct even gain the respect of the
rest of the army. AS for the senti-
ment that their punishment should not
in this way be remitted, the sooner
this country progresses beyond the
purely primitive idea in handling
crime the better.
But, if the natural desire of these
men to fight for their country can
not be gratified, we should at least
make available this man-power by
utilizing it in industry, particularly in
the construction of roads. This mat
ter of working convicts on the roads
has been threshed over many times,
but the need of their labor has never
/! been so great as now. Our roads are
threatened with decadence because of
the scarcity of labor to keep them in
repair or to construct the new ones
the State so badly needs. Missouri
could we'll afford to try the honor sys-
tenn of road work by putting the men
at work on the roads without guards
and chains and in ordinary working
clothing. 1t has been a success else
where and ought to be so here. 1t all
, depends upon the spirit of the man.
agement. The men would have the
added inducement to make good in
the thought that they were contribut-
ing in this way what they could to
/ the defense of the nation. They would
be in essential employment. There is
no time better than the present for
| Missouri to take an advance step in
/ this matter of outdoor work and the
honor system for convicts.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06
Beard Of Equalization
Transacted Business Monday

Tolleston Nero. Co., from $2500 to
$4,000.
Hood q Shaner, from $1OO to $780,
J. Goodman, from $2250 to $4,000.
J. d. Morris, from SIS to $50.
Pat McCarrow, from $25 to $100.
J. S. Boyer, from $500 to $700.
Golf Mere. Co., from $4,000 to
$2500.
Tlapek Bros, from $500 to 5000.
Carr & Thompson, from $500 to
$500.
J. W. Laird, from $500 to $500.
Isbell Store Co., from $3.50 to
$1750.
J. N. Richards, from $225O to $4,000.
Fred Scheck, from $500 to $1,000.
Geo. Langdon, from $500 to 5000.
Harry Miller, from $1,000 to $4,000
d. L.~Dclaney, from $3.50 to $500.
w. P. Dehovitz, from $1,000 to $4,000
Manley Butcher Co., from $500 to
$1,000.
Tucker General Store, from $4,000
to $4,000.
Miners Lumber Co., from $4,000 to
$1,000.
F. w. Schlick, from $7OO to $1,000.
Schramm Grocer Co., from ss25C
to $4,000.
Pennington
Jacob Helber, from $4,000 to $4,000
E. J. Mckinney, from 5000 tc
$1,000.
M. C. Spaugh, $4O0 strike off as er.
roneous.
Pennington Marble Works, from
$500 to 5000.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06

1t appears to The Times that this is
the period in tre worlds history when
Il ere should be a clarifying and ster-
ilizing process adopted along every
possible line, in order to make the
country a better and safer place for
humanity. In this regard there ap'
pears to be- at least one very impcr-
t;nt problem that has thus far been,
in measure at least, overlooked.
The matter which we have in mind
is the proper care, treatment and dis
position of the criminal classes. 1t
does not appear that prisoners should
be kept incarcorated and away from
tic battlefields, as well as the fields
of work, while there is such an urg-
ent and ever-increasing demand for
man power. Does il not seem to be
entirely just, as well as feasible, that
those who are now incarcerated for
various crimes should be permitted, or
even compelled to shoulder their part
of the burdens that are constantly ac-
cumulating on free people.
Many prisoners would welcome the
opportunity to go into the trenches,
ard there is little doubt but that they
would there do their full duty, cs-
pecially if a merit system was put in
force that would enable them to
"work out their own salvation" This
would be equally true of those prison
ers who might be put to work on the
roads. The effort that would be nee
essary in either branch of service to
which they might be assigned would
also work wonders for their moral
and physical upbuilding. AS it is now,
perhaps hundreds of thousands of
prisoners are as a milestone about the
neck Of q war-burdened people, with
absolutely nothing to do but to try
and "frame-up" new methods of Grim
inal conduct to put into practice when
they shall have been given their lib
erty.
Now is the time to cauterize crimi-
nality, it appears to The Times, and
thus add at least one great blessing to
humanity as direct result of The
war. Incarceration has seldom, if
ever, cured one of criminal instincts.
But actual work is the strongest pos
sible safeguard against the exercise
of brutal or criminal force. In regard
to making prisoners work or fight, we
reproduce the following from the ST.
Louis Star, which is along what The
Times considers to be exactly the
right lines:
While we are going to great lengths
to utilize and preserve our man pow
er, both for fighting purposes and for
necessary industry at home, we are
neglecting very important element
of it, that element we now have con-
fined between the walls of jails. Many
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-09-06
Lightless Night.
Order in Effect

=, -,
l. Street illumination or lighting
of streets, parks or other public places
shall not be lighted before sunset and
turned off not later than sunrise.
%. Street illumination by hand
shall conform as nearly as possible to
the requirements prescribed for auto
matte lights. =.
3. The amount of public lighting
shall be only so much as may be nee
essary for safety and the use OF lights
commonly known as cluster lights
for the purpose OF display or decora-
tion shall be reduced to such as is
necessary for safety.
A. For the purpose of determining
what lights are necessary for the pub
lie safety the local fuel administration
is given ten days to arrange with the
proper municipal authorities for the
regulation of proper lighting, in &C.
cordance with the order of the Federal
Fuel Administration.
5. In case such arrangements are
not made within the ten days, salts
factorv to the State Fuel Administra-
tor, then the State Fuel Administra-
COr Will prescribe SUCH TeSuldIioHS lol
the city and they shall be valid and
binding.
6. In view of these facts the en-.
forcement of the public safety light,
ing rule shall be postponed for ter
days from July "a, 1918, in accordance
with the terms of the order, during
which time proper arrangements will
be made between the Feedral Fuel Ad-
ministration and the municipal author.