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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
RULES ON XMAS MAIL.

Packages containing Christmas gifts
only may be mailed to points in Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France,
Italy and France and English colonies
and protectorates without the payment
OF an export tax, according to a rul-
ing Of the postal department received at
the Memphis postoffice Saturday.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
TheeDead w
Stanley Patterson.

PONTOTOC, Miss. Dec. Z. (spI)-
Stanley Patterson, son Of Mr.. and Mrs,
{: NJ. Patterson, Of Randolph, died
Thursday, after II few days attack OF
influenza. serious from the first. His
heart was weak, which went against
Burial was made in oak Forest,
where three generations OF his family
are Inferred. The deceased was A
bright, promising boy Of IL years, a stu
dent OF the Pontotoo high school.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
CRACKSMEN BUSY.

CAMDEN, Ark, Dec. I. (Spl.)-Bur-
glars blew the safe Of the Moline Lum-
her company, at Kent, obtaining about
$40 In cash, Night Watchman r. +,
pullman had visited the office about
10 minutes before the burglary and was
the time the safe was blown. No clew
Mns Left
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Mrs. Willie Delap.

MILAN, Tenn, Dec, T.. (Spl)-Mrs,
Willie Delap, daughter Of Mrs. Mary
Williams, died at her mothers home
here Friday, after a brief illness OF in
fluensa. She was about 30 years OF
age and leaves a mother, two sisters
and r husband Burial was made in
lakewood cemetery.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
FLU STOPS CHURCH.

CONWAY. Ark, Dec. I. (Spl)-
Services on Sunday at the First Metho-
dist church have been Cancelled on ac-
count Of the prevalence Of Influenza
in the family OF the pastor, Rev. Fl. f.
Wheeler, No general quarantine, how
ever, has yet been thought necessary
on account of an apparent recurrence
OF the epidemic In this city.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
PLANT SITE SOLD.

CAMDEN, Ark, Dec, Z. (Spl 1.-THE
Coca Cola Bottling works has purchased
the building known as the Block Opera
house, and is remodeling 1t for use as
a b~ottling works, The new plant will
represent an investment Of some $50
nOA
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
"NOt Understood"

We move asunder; our paths grow
As the seasons creep along the years;
We marvel and we wonder while life
Is life,
And then we go to sleep.
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false i'm
And hue them closer as the years
20 by.
Til virtne often seems to us transgres-
siona.
And thus men rise and fall, and live
Not understood.
Not understood, Poor souls with
stunted vision
OFT measure giants by their narrow
gauge:
The poisoned shafts of fslsehood and
derision
Are oft impelled 'gainst those who
mold the a~e,
Not understood.
Not urHc~s'ood. The secret springs Of
Which No beneath the surface and
the show.
Ave disreearded; with self satisfaction
We iudce our n~eighbors, and they
OItcE no,
Not understood.
Not gnnssrsto 90, How trines often
The thou~htless sentence or the fan
cied slight
Destroy long years of friendship and
estrange US,
And on oTr souls there falls a freez-
ing blight.
Not understood.
Not understood. How many breasts
are aching
For lick Of sympathy! All, day by
day.
How many cheerless, lonely hearts are
breaking
How many noble spirits pass away
Not understood.
O God, II NOR could see a little clearer.
Or Judge less harshly when they ean
not see
0 God, II men could draw a little nearer
To one another. they'd be nearer.
then. to Thee,
And understood.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
O CLOSED AGAIN

MILAN. Tenn, Dec. Z. (SplD-The
Milan schools, after having been closed
for several weeks on account Of infu.
enza, opened again last week. but on
account OF so many new cases the board
OF health again has dismissed them.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
CITY MARSHAL RESIGNS,

RIsoN, Ark, Dec, I. (Sp)-Cfty
Marshal w, A, Fore has resigned and
rison TO succeed him, Fore, who has
served Rison as marshal for more than
a year, will nov near Grady Jeffer.
son county. to manage a plantation.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
SERGT. LATHAM killed

Sergt, James A, Latham, Of Company
Killed In action Oct I, according TO
word from Washington. received by his
cousin. Mrs. =. B, Brady, OF Buntyn.
He had been made a sergeant last Au-
rnlsi
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
PAYS PRICE.

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. Dec. Z.
(Spll-The casualty list OF Thursday
included the name Of Virgil A. Clay.
ton, OF Nildo. Tenn Clayton Is the
first white man from Haywood county
reported killed.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
REAPpEARS

RISON. Ark, Dec. I. (SplO~Reports
from city physicians show the Influenza
epidemic has returned, There appears
to be a larger number OF cases this time
than hnforA
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
MILAN IS BACK.

Former Police Commissioner w. T.
NcLain, who recently was a lieutenant
In the United States army, has returned
to Memphis and will resume the prac-
tice of law,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
NEGRO SPEAKERS TO MEET

Negro nj -minute men will meet ct
s O'Clock Saturday night at Howe
branch OF the Cossitt library to discuss
a number of important matters pertain
ing to their organization
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
LOWER RIVER RATE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ito stimulate
traffic on the mississippi river,
pirector-General McAdoo today author
lied the establishment of reduced joint
and river rates between the North
ern mississippi valley and New Orleans.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Why Hesitate?

You know he wants Samelson'a fine
Havana cigars Nmas, Julia Marlowe,
Tadema or Extra. order them now adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Soldiers. Sailors, Civilians

viii all expect a Nmas box OF Sam
good Tadema. Julia Marlowe or
Extra cigars. Order them before it is
too late. adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
WILL SPEAK SUNDAY.

Rev, J. W, Wilton, pastor Of Mount
Vernon Baptist church, 4S2 South We'll
lington street, will preach at II o'clock
Sunday morning on the subject Mems
Mission in the World"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Ladies, Xmas Cigars Ready

At Samelson's, in Xmas boxes. His
name and address, all necessary. Sam
elson knows their favorite brands, adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Saw! Mr.. Boss

Send or phone Samelson your order for
Xmas cigars, He knows the kind the
men and boys want, Don't DELAY adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-07
Still Their Favorite

Cigars, Samelson's Tadema, Extra or
Julia Marlowe, In Xmas boxes. all sizes
and prices. adv
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06

An Amsterdam despatch says that decree has been
signed by Gen Vonginsigen commandant of the Bran
denburg province according to the Cologne zeitung that
places Berlin and Brandenburg province under the law
relating to the state of siege This provides for fine
Imprisonment for persons nventng circulating I'M
true calculated to dsquiet the populace The no
tce accompanying the decree calls attention the cir
cuation Of frivolous and sometimes maevoIent gossip
the exaggerang of the transory of the enemy
and the casting Of any doubt upon Germanys resisting
power. vatg 0f t-ee
despatch from the American troops in France says
that the Americans have reached the south bank of the
Aisne, between Conds and Velracy eight mile
'front.' The Americans Thursday afternoon occupied the
towns of Dhuize and Barbona virtually without oppo-
sition.
A Paris despatch says that the French last night
continued to push forward the entire front between
Somme and the Vesle.
Southof Peronne the French have made furthercross
ing of the Somme in region Of Epanan Court further
south of Ham, The Peronne road has been reached at
several points.
South of Ham several towns have been captured The
Americans advancing from the Nesle~have captured the
towns of Vilers en- Pfayeres on the Aisne.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
BRITAIN PROVES
ITS SUBMARINE
TOLL In THE WAR
Gives Names of Command
ers Of $50 Lloyd George
Said Had Been
Sunk
WORST OFFENDERS
ON EXPIATION LIST
Majority of the Command
ers Are Now Dead

London, Sept. 5-(British Wire
less Press)-Although the British
government does not intend to adopt
the practice of giving proof of off
cial utterances made by its ministers
it has been thought desirable to
print in tomorrow's newspapers the
names of the commanding officers of
$50 German submarines which have
been disposed of in order to substan-
tiate the statement of Premier Lloyd
George i'll the House of Commons
that "at least $50 of these ocean
pests have been destroyed"
The statement to be published to-
morrow does not include the names
of officers commanding Austrian
submarines put out of action.
| A majority of the $50 officers
mentioned are dead. Some of them
are prisoners of war and a few are
interned in neutral countries, where
they took refuge.
Among the officers named are:
Kapitan-lieutenant Schweiger, who,
while in command of the U-20, tor
tpedoed the Lasitania in May, 1915.
The U-20 was lost on the Danish
coast in 1916, but Schweiger sur
lvived and was in command of the
/ U-80, which was lost with all hands
lin September, 1917.
| Kapitan-lieutenant Paul Wagen-
fuker, who sank the steamer Belgian
Prince July 81, 1917, and drowned 40
of the crew, whom he had ordered
to line up on the submarines deck
when the U-boat was about to sub
merge. His submarine, the U-44
was sunk with all hands, about g
fortnight later. = p
Kapitan-lieutenant Rudolph Sch
meider, who torpedoed the steamer
Arabic in August, 1915.
The statement says it is significant
that the authors of particularly afro
cious crimes have expiated then
speedily after their commission. Il
Isays the names of such men arc
carefully noted by the British ad.
n1iralty, and that special endeavors
are made to bring their active ca
jreers swiftly to an end. Severa
commanders, it is added. have es
capped retribution by finding refuge
in shore appointments.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
Ordered to Wreck Stations, Trains
and Bridges

An American Aerodrome Some
where in France, August 20-Twelve
pilots stood in sepni-circle around
a desk on which was spread a large
map.
.'The push starts tomorrow" said
the Colonel. "We have allotted to
US this zone. 1t is our job to wreck
stations, trains and bridges in
there"
The pilots saluted and filed out.
By nine o'clock the next morning
ammunition train was on fire and
two trains had been sderailed, one
ammunition train was on fire and
still exploding, and two railway sta
tons lay in ruins. The infantry,
thanks, in part, to the work of the
airmen ina hampering the movements
of the German reserves, had advanced
a mile on ten-mile front.
The official aviation report for the
day said: "One of our machines is
missing; two German machines were
destroyed"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
NO RAIN FOR THIRTY
SIX MONTHS
Texas Depopulated by Discouraged
~ Ranchers

Dallas, Texas, Sept. ga strange
procession of canvas-covered wag-
ons, drawn by mules, for more than
month has been creeping out of
west Texas with farmers and
ranchers who have despaired of try
ing to make livelihood on the land
that has been parched under a blaz-
ing sun and has seen virtually no
rain for 36 months.
The emigrants from this particu-
lar section have turned their faces
toward the cotton fields of eastern
Texas and Oklahoma, where work
for all can easily be obtained. In
some parts of the west Texas district
dusk finds as many as a dozen of
these emigrant camps in a single
mile.
Frons the Panhandle and the
northern section of the state come re-
ports that similar caravans, remin-
iscent of half a century ago, mar the
exodus of farmers from those dis
tricts who are moving toward Col
orado and farther west.
The war has played its part with
the departing homesteader, but lack
of rain has been the real factor,
Most of the settlers have been on
land rented from the state. Some
have spent years of labor building
up their herds and others have been
working the land into profitable
state of cultivation.
But. the drought came and the
cattle died in numbers and those that
did not die were too weak to bea1
young. Livestock men said the calf
crop in west Texas this year was 9
failure.
Some settlers had accumulated
enough money to travel while others
| borrowed money with which to make
their departure. In many cases the
war added to the tragedy by taking
Sway young lnen whqse istrengtf
might have made it possible fol
farmers to hold on until rain came
The country which the settlers art
leaving is that west and north Of
fort. Worth and Dallas, ranging a!
far west as the state boundary ant
south of the Panhandle counties. II
the Panhandle there were rains il
the spring and occasional shower!
later that kept grass with which t.
feed the cattle
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
SHATTERED MEN
GIVEN NEW FACES
Marvellous Work of the Plastic Sur
geon Anazes Canadian Editors

A party of Canadian newspaper
men are now touring the British
Isles as the guest of the Ministry of
Information and have recently in
spected the Ontario government hos
pital. Arthur Penny, editor of the
Quebec Chronicle, contributes his
impressions of the visit to the Can
adian Press which here follows:
The hospital has tive thousand
beds and personnel of corresponding
proportions, and is among the larg-
est Canadian institutions of its kind
in Great Britain. The general pub
lie knows little of the class of cas-
ualty handled there, and were it not
for the untrumpeted miracles which
the plastic surgeon is performing
every day, there would return to civ
il life out of wars maelstrom hun
dreds Of bright lads, with every hui
man instinct for fellowship and af-
fection awakened and intensified by
endless months of loneliness and mo-
notony, but with the consciousness
that their faces, torn and narrowed
out of all human semblance, must
forever make them helpless objects
of pltying aversion and must forever
shut them off from things for which
they hunger.
To speak of soldiers honorable
scars has long been part of the COM
mon currency of expression, but
some scars, despite the honor they
deserve, are so utterly gruesome as
to arouse a feeling of repulsion, if
not nausea. A quite respectable vol
ume of drama and fiction has been
built up around the tragedy of fac
ial Disagreement, and here the writ
er's art is able to make sympathy
conquer horror. When, however, the
merciful veil of romancefis torn
aside and we are confronted with
reality, whose repellance must be
seen to be conceived, then is the vic
TINS mental martyrdom complete.
Those better qualified to judge
than journalistic layman tell me
that some very wonderful dental and
surgical work is being done at the
Ontario hospital, and from what /
have seen myself this would seem
to be no more than the truth. From
the point of view of restoring the
shattered human mechanism to ap-
proximate efficiency it is probable
matter of personal impression, both
that there are other classes of work
more ugent and more vital, but as a
on account of the comparative nov
city and tragic interest the depart
ment of plastic surgery outstands
wildly, compelling wonder and adj
miration.
In the argot of "shop" this depart
ment is known as ''the beauty par
lor," but l venture to say that fol
those who pass through it's doors the
place means the whole difference be-
tween regeneration and a living
death.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
EXPECT HIGH EFFICIENCY
Local, District, Medical or Legal Ad.
visory Board Must Perform Duty

Montpelier, Sept. Gov. H. F.
Graham has received from the war
department a telegram stating that
the. man in charge of the draft reg
ulations in Vermont has been given
authority to drop any member of the
local district medical or legal advis-
ory board who is not performing his
full duty and to appoint members or
increase the number of members
when it seems best to do So The
war department recently announced
an increase in pay of the members
and now it is clear that they expect
100 per cent.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
INTENT TO KILL CHARGED
Frank Bogie Claims He Struck
Brother-in-law in Self-Defense

BrattIeboro, Sept. 6-Albert Ed
wards of Newfane became surety in
the sum of $1,000 yesterday fer the
appearance in municipal court Mon
day of Frank Boyle of West Dover
charged yith assautling Fred West
his brother-in-law, with intent to kill
Boyle then was released from the
Newfane Jail, where he went in de
fault of bail Boyle struck West
with a part of a sewing machine
and he claimed he struck in self-de-
fense.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
HAWAIIAN MUSIC
Want the Ukelele and Guitar


Honolulu, T. H., Sept. 6-Funds
have been subscribed for the pur-
chase of a number of ukeleles and
guitars which will be sent to group
of young men from Hawaii, now at
tached to- an army engineering unit
at Camp Humphrey, Virginia. The
Hawaiian soldiers wrote that they
were lonesome for Hawaiian music.
The soldiers wrote that they could
manage to get along without poi, the
national Hawaiian dish, made from
the roots of the taro plant, but they
must have ukeleles if they were to
make their comrades believe they
really were from Hawaii.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
Mosquito Nets for the Italian
Soldiers

The. care of governments and the
help of the public are continually
trying to fight the many discomforts
suffered by the soldier in the fighting
line. Another example of this desire
to help has been widespread
movement in Italy to furnish mos
quito net to every italian soldier on
the Piave line, where the marshy
ground is peculiarly favorable to the
breeding of mosquitoes. The public
has been informed by special COM
mittee of the Red Cross of the di-
mensions and qualities of the nets
and all over Italy individuals and
groups of nen maaa Nornen are send
ing them to the 2olsiisFs at the front.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
1000 HUN PLANES
British Have Destroyed that Number
in One Year

London, Sept 6-The British dur
ing the year ending June 80 last
brought down considerably over A.
900 German aircraft, while British
machines missing have only slightly
eceeded 1000 it is officially announe-
ed.
+ German machines refuse battle
unless they have a decided superiori-
ty in numbers" it is added. "Where
numbers are equal British victory is
assured; where numbers are with
the Germans, British victory is very
frequent"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
AMERICAN AIRMEN
Effective Work in Destroying Rail-
road Property

Paris, Sept. 5-American bombers
on Tuesday destroyed the Contains
Briez railroad bridge, and blew up
the junction of the Metz, Contains
and Briez railroads and the yards,
round house and buildings at DOM
mary and Baroncourt, all of the
American planes returning.
Ten German planes attacked the
American formation without success.
The American bombing planes shot
down one of the German attackers,
which crashed to the ground.
In the course of other air fights
American planes brought down two
German planes.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN

Place a whole cooked caulifower
in dish for serving, cove with
crumbs and butter substitute, and
place on an oven CRATE to brown the
crumbs. Reomve from the oven and
IpoGr one cup of thin white sauce
around the caulihower.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
HUNS BAR PAPERS
Newspapers from Alien Countries
Prohibited

The sale Of newspapers published
in allied countries has been prohi-
bited in Germany for some time
past. Previously English, French
and American newspapers could cas-
lily be bought at shops and bookstalls
and were allowed to- circulate freely,
but now they are obtainable only by
special permits which are issued to
privileged persons, such as members
of the Reichstag.
The prohibition apparently is in
tended to counteract the growing
pessimism of the German people and
is attributed to fear on the part of
the German military authorities
lest the truth about American effort
should become known.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
THE CASUALTY LIST
One Vermonter Among tn,
Casualties

Casualties
Washington, Sept. 6-The follow
ing casualties are reported by the
Commanding General of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action so
Missing in action 139
Wounded severely 263
Died Of wounds 26
Died from accident and other
causes 2
Wounded, degree undetermined 254
Died of disease 10
Total 744
Wounded degree undetermined, Bar
ney Rcnell, Burlington.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
BATTLESHIP GONE
Believed that 1t Was Caused by,
Powder. ExnIoSion

OWuNI I1NPIOoEOII
Toxic, July 25-Latest information
shows that 621 officers and men lost
their lives when the Japanese battle.
ship Kawachi exploded in Tokuyana
Bay July IL. The cause of the disas-
ter is still unknown, but it is attrib-
uted by some naval officers to spon-
taneous combustion of powder.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06

sitania was sunk the audience wild
ly applauded. At the close of his ad-
dress theA entire audience rose and
cheered him several minutes, showing
their appreciation of his splendid eff.
fort.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06

to keep coming, only more often if
possible.
With best wishes to you all and a
prayer that / may soon be with you
again
| remain
Sincerely yours.
DON STILES
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
AMERICANS REACH The AISNE
And Then OCCUPY TWO TOWNS
FRENCH CONTINUE ADVANCE

Berlin and Brandenburg Provinces in State of Siege
Heavy Fines for Gossip that Casts Doubt Upon Ger
manys Resisting Power
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06
BRITISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN TROOPS y
TAKE VILLAGES ON RESPECTIVE FRONTS

Successful Work of American Armen an Railroad Prop
erty Heavy Toll OF Life When Battleshp is Destroyed
by Explosion
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-06

In the argot of "shop" this depart
ment is known as '''the beauty par
lor," but l venture to say that for
those who pass through it's doors the
place means the whole difference be-
tween regeneration and a living
death.