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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
REMEDIES OF THE DAYS PAST
Plants, Berries, Weeds and Roots
Among Ancient Remedies Used
for Cure of Ailments.

Quaint malady remedies Of the past,
many of which led to wealth on the
part Of the inventors, we're nearly all
made of berry plants and many Of
common weeds. Pokeberries, years
ago, were used to make plaster for
a cancer, and grapevine sap was pre-
pared for hair tonics. To produce a
sweat, tea was made from magnolia
leaves and the berry Of this plant was
often mentioned as cure for con-
sumption.
For toothache, the veteran prac-
titiOner used the bayberry root. Ber-
ries of the cedar tree were supposed
to stiffen the spine. and a purge was
made Of alder buds or of elderberries.
The gOldenrod. the mullen plant, the
burdock, and common weeds were also
held forth as cures for various all
merits.
'"Tuscarora rice" invented by Phil
adelphia woman, and held forth as a
cure for tuberculosis. enabled the prac-
titioner to secure fortune for her.
self. 1t was nothing more than hon.
my made from Indian corn.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
NEW LIFE FOR HOLY LAND
With Abundant Supply Of Water, the
Desert Promises Again to Bios
som Like the Rose.

"The desert shall rejoice and bios
som like the rose" old Isaiah prophe-
sled.
The reclamation Of Palestineeby the
British has at last opened the Holy
land to the enterprise Of the West, re-
marks the Journal Of the American
Medical Association.
Captain Carson of the American Red
Cross commission, which followed Cen
eral Allenby, tells us that the first
problem of improvement encountered
was that of water supply. That part
Of Palestine south Of Beersheba has
been piped with water from the Nile
by British engineers with American
equipment-the realization, 1t is said,
Of dream thousands Of years old.
Several million gallons day are
pumped from the canal near Kantara
across the Suez canal into Palestine.
At Kantara rapid sand filters are used.
The pipes are laid at least eighteen
inches deep in the soil or sand Of the
desert in order to protect them and
the water from heat. North of Beer
sheba there is plenty of water under
the surface, though very little, owing
TO the geologic formation and meteoro-
logic conditions of Palestine, remains
easily available. On the western slopes,
however, the valleys form excellent
reservoir sites for collecting the win
ter rains, though they would often
have to be treated to prevent loss by
percolation.
The problem of the water supply Of
Jerusalem has been attacked by such
noted men as HeZekiah-who con-
structed tunnel which is today an al
most unexplainable engineering feat
Solomon, POntius PLATE and Herod.
In the spring of 1918 the British, u.s.
ing much of the Roman work, installed
a six-inch line from the springs of
Wady-el-Arab, about sixteen miles
south of Jerusalem, through which
more than 100000 gallons a day are
now flowing into the city.
II is said that Jerusalem could he
furnished with more than 20,O00.0O0
gallons day of pure water. Almost
every house in the city has its rain
water cistern, and these, with proper
inspection by the newly organized
health department, are being filed
with safe water.
1t is to be expected that the disap-
pearance of the picturesque water ven
T. l. "A
by the passing Of the terrible water
borne diseases prevalent under Turk
ish rule.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
Twin Brides,

The strangest wedding ceremony l
ever witnessed was a double wedding
of twin sisters. 1t was not only out
of the ordinary but a little uncanny
to see the father walking up the aisle
of the church with two brides, one on
each arm, both dressed exactly alike
In white satin trailing robes. They
were so much alike that In the excite
ment of the moment the future hus-
bands could not tell them apart and
claimed the wrong brides at the foot
of the altar where they stood with the
father. The two young women al
lowed their future husbands to be
fooled until the preacher asked the
fatal question, and then the mistake
was made known. much to the embar-
rassment of the men.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
TO Extinguish Fires in Coal Mines

The mud-iet seems to have been
Nund especially adapted to extinguish-
ing fires in coal mines, but it Is liable
to be ineficiently applied. A recent
Investigation shows that lime and clay
should be included in the mud. The
usual success of the mud-jet in con-
trolling fire is largely due to the ac-
dion of these cement materials in con-
sOlidating loose particles, and closing
gas-emitting openings by forming a
cake over them. The refuse dust from
the cleaning Of blast-furnace gas. boil
er ash, slfted earth. and even cOmbus-
tible products like the refuse of coal
washing, may make up the bulk of the
mud. A tank ,of mud with gravity
discharge Is suggested as the ordinary
fire-fghting plant, though steam or
compressed air may be used.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
Advance Of Japanese Women.

japan is making remarkable prog
ress in all lines of industry and in the
development of modern ideas and
thought. declared an officer of
the Young Women's Christian assoc
citation, who returned from the Flowery
Kingdom short time ago.
Particularly interesting she said. is
he changed attitude toward the Jap
inese woman who is now being ad-
nitted to the biz universities in Japan
and given freedom to develop her.
self along educational lines that has
heretofore been rigidly denied her.
This new attitude toward the
Japanese woman is the most revolu-
.ionary thing in the change of thought
and serves to illustrate the progress
mat is being made.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
Shoes Worth More Than Pigs.

A shoe manufacturer. so this story
Is told, raises pigs on the side. He sold
one the other day. file got 800 for IL.
The buyer paid him % cents a pound
for ii, and 1t weighed over 400 pounds.
"A good price YOU got for that pig"
remarked friend.
mot so very much So" replied the
shoe manufacturer.
well. 500 for one pig looks like a
good price to me-" answered the
critic. 1T Is more than you get for
Shoes"
THAT is not So" responded the
manufactures. II sell my shoes at the
rate of So a pound, and for 400 pounds
of shoes, l would get $1,000. So, you
see. shoes are worth a lot more than
pigs."-Brockton Enterprise.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12

tween grades of mental power is not
so great, but it's the training and the
knowledge and application that makes
the great differences between men.
When a mans ready to do his own
rough work he isn't likely to have
things put across on him." The ten
derfoOt has always been joke among
his fellows. He is common bait. Let
him show a little aggressiveness and
the regulars will respect him more.
Blunders he will make, but he will re-
deem them and himself by his at.
tempts.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
GOOD WORK IN CANAL ZONE
Archdeacon Carson Tells of Religious
Activities Among Those EN-
pIoyed on the "sig Ditch"

Few men perhaps have so intimate
made In the canal zone as the Rev.
Henry Roberts Carson, archdeacOn of
the Protestant Episcopal church there.
From those days when the canal was
vet a great doubt until the present.
Mr.. Carson has been labOring among
the employees of the canal that they
might have comfort of body and well
fare of soul. White and black. the
men there know him well and have
come 10 love him. for Archdeacon Car
son was with them in the now almost
forgotten days when fever ragged upon
the isthmus and each noon struck men
to the death.
Those early days Archdeacon Carson
recalled in the missions house Of the
Protestant Episcopal church at New
York the other day before returning
TO the canal zone.
1--WE were few in number then and
the work was more than enough for
many" he said. "The employees, most
of them natives of the British West
Indies, were housed in labor camps
here and there. for the channel was
not cut through from one end to the
other; but activities were everywhere
along its path.
"And in these camps We started
churches and the church moved when
the camp moved, for when the work
in that immediate vicinity was COM
pleted the camp went elsewhere. When
the water was turned into the canal 1t
submerged these places where we had
held divine service"
While the work stretches from one
ocean to the other, with churches at
dozen places, some of the most unself-
ish labor is among lepers in the mis-
sion of the Holy Comfort on the west
coast. There are to be found some 50
patients, including about a dozen chill
dren, and not week passes without
services being held for them.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
MAHUA TREE GROWS ALCOHOL
Blossom Produced, When Sun Dried,
Contains 90 Per Cent Of its Weight
In FermentabIe Sugar.

Alcohol in these days has attention
from government in diverse ways.
England has had a committee studying
the possibilities of increasing the pro-
duction Of alcohol to be used In gen.
Grating power.
The opportunities discussed by the
committee are interesting. OF course.
potatoes. artichokes and cereals came
IN for attention. But it seems there
are less known sources of alcohol. For
example, there Is the flower of the
mahua tree, which fourishes in Hydcr-
ahad and the central part Of India.
This flower. when sun dried, contains
60 per cent of its weight In ferment-
able sugar, and apparently Is to he
gathered by the ton. Then there are
They are so rich in surprises to the
everyday man that II Is not very
startling to learn they contain ethyl
enc, which by synthetic processes
somewhat developed under the stress
Of war may be converted into ethyl
alcohol.
With the coal beds about to pro-
duce alcohol, and the trees of India
fairly blossoming with 1t, the man with
motOrcar may quiet the fears arous-
ed by the scientists figures which
show that we are within sight of the
end of petroleum and gasoline. There
is nothing like being easy in ones
mind.-The Nations Business.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
In Memory OF James Watt.

The centenary of James Watt. the
inventor of the modern condensing
steam engine, who died on August 10,
1919. was celebrated in Scotland by the
raising OF fund Of S250,000 to fur
ther endow the engineering depart
ment of Glasgow university. to pro-
vide additional facilities for the train
ing of engineers.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
earned Music Lures Seals.

Seal hunters of the Pacific are said
TO be meeting with great success
through the use Of the phonograph In
Turing seals 20 their death. A large
instrument Is employed and is set up
near the rendezvous OF the seals.
They gather In the vicinity and re-
main with their heads out of the
water listening TO the music, thus
giving the hunters opportunities to
shoot Wishing Gazette.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
Get Necessary Knowledge.

Most of life's great mistakes are due
TO insufficient knowledge. In the early
days of the great war battles ragged
on the eastern front. There are the
great lakes and marshes. Victory as
rule came to the man who knew the
ground best. One Of the great gener-
ais made It his program to lure his
opponents into the lake region and then
deliver swift blows In the time Of his
foes bewtlderment. The di6erenee be-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12

people PERU-NA did"
that Of Mrs. Friche Inspiration sick AID suffering
you catar-h ncs threat stomach,
is
experiment.
coughs colds and Influenza and hasten
there is nothing better.
PERUNA will improve appetite digestion purify blood
rtad Innings
corruption II will
the living Mary
Frke and thousands have donetry PERUNA will
glad happy, thankful
Tablet Liquid. Sold Everywhere
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
Doctor Was q Comfort.

Patient (after operation)-Doctor
they say you are getting better and bet
ter on these appendix operations every
day"
Doctor-That's a fact. The man l
operated on yesterday lived twelve
hours. and I'm In hopes you'll live
twice as long. II you don't worry -
Life.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
How They Rank In Thrift.

These figures represent the number
of savings bank depositors thousand
of population; Switzerland, 552; Den
mark, 462; Norway, 426; Sweden, 404 !;
Belgium, 391; France, 1862; Germany.
s48; England. $40; Italy. 232. and
United States 116.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12

"A woman can never come to the
point"
"How can you prove such an asser-
tion?"
"Prove II yourself; just watch her
ry to sharpen q lead pencil"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-12
VIII! Not be One Day Without
SE e: Z: .-RsJ-NA
Yi,is Aady TELLS fscr FRIENDS

Mrs Harry Ericke, 507 Bornman ST., Bellevillc,
ILL.,, !s iust one Of the many thousands OF ladies
throughout the county who, after agony CT
years. have at last found health, strength and
vigor in PE-RU-NA.
Her words tell OF her sufcrir- and recovery
better than We can 90 1t: 81 sutrered with my
stomach, mad awful cramps and headaches so
often could not lay pillow. saw yoCr book,
tried PE-RU-NA and got good results from the
first bottle. 10 be sure of a cure / took twelve
bottles. I have recommended pE-iiU-NA to my
friends and all well pleased WIKI reEa'ts I
will not he one day without fE-RU-SA. Have not
had doctor since stated with PE-IeU-NA, which
was about fifteen years aSo. am now sixty-thrce
years old hale. hearty and we'll Can do as much
work as my daughters. l feel strong and healthy
and weigh two hundred pounds Before, I
weighed little hundred 1 hope lots of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15

round and tried to stop me yesterday
afternoon.
1.-The doctor?" / said at this unlock
editor information. How do you
know he was a doctor?"
well, he sure wasn't no plumber"
asserted Toosey as she stood juggling
her perambulator up and down on its
slender "S' springs. HE looked like
a doctor. and he smelt like a doctor
and he carried little black bag like
a doctor. But, O. course, he may
have been a steamfitter, or a mat
tressmaker with an hour off firm the
factory. You never can tell in the
sloothin' business Young woman
he says to me as he tries to squirt
young woman. you oughtta give
that infant more air!' Just like
that, straight out, same as Sloan him
self would Say it. You mind your
own business and leave a lady alone
or I'll call cop quicker n hell can
scorch a feather told him, right
or the bat. And he kind O. backed
away sideways, as though he'd been
stung by a rattlesnake."
But was no longer interested in
Toosey Attrill and her petty little
sidewalk romances. could see some-
what bigger issues looming family
up along the line Of the horizon.
"You say you saw this man who
looked like a doctor come out Of the
Holshaw house," l demanded.
HE comes out of the Holshaw
house twice day, reg'ler," announced
Toosey. And guess mebbe that one
best bet O. mine about him bein' a
doctor amt SO far wrong. For !
sure seen him leadin' back a trained
nurse" -u5
How do you know she was a
trained nurse?"
For one thing. because lampt d
her wearin' her uniform"
"When?"
when she come to the door while
that doctor guy was helpin' truck
driver carry in two tanks Of oxygen"
Oxygen" 1 echoed. ...-
Eyes, oxygen, Missus District At
torney. For i drifted by with my
squeal cart just close enough to see
the label on the second tank as they
were carryin' it in"
"Have you reported this to Sloan?"
I promptly inquired. For it was plain
that a very i'll person was being har-
bored in that house Of mystery.
"Nope," retorted the diffident Too
sey. Seem / was posted here to To-
cate a couple Of gem thieves. / kind
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o thought the Alliance Office wouldn't
Keep awake ali night over KNOWN
I'd barked my shin on a pneumonia
case. And. what's more, I don't be-
lieve there's any more mystery about
that HolshawS house than there is
about peantt stand 1t may look
kind O. blank and leery to the street
front, but any house s likely to be
blank lookin' when there's sick folks
inside. And Sloan's turned me into
cross between a suff-picket and a
merry go-round to watch dump that
nothin's happenin' in and nothin's
ever goin' to happen"
Then you've told me practically
everything that's come to your notice?"
Toosey, as she bent over her peram-
tulator, pondered this question.
You've. had the whole program, /
guess, except that a couple O. mornin's
ago parcel was delivered there. had
good look at that parcel, and it wasn't
anything more than two or three dozen
ord nary hemp bags. They were tied
together without bein' wrapped up and
covered And the butler was even set
on not lettin' 'em in, until the boy who
brought 'em seemed able to show the
address was right
What did the butler look like?"
He looked like Jesse Willard who'd
gone into the undertaken business and
got so dignified he felt his faced crack
If he forgot himself and smiled. He
was so stff in the neck. Of course, he'd
never in the world lamp himself in
them kneepants O. his, or he'd sure
have LATED himself to DEATH"
Was that the only time you ever saw
him?"'
Il saw him speak to the nurse before
she left the door last night And the
night before, too At exactly she
melts on the map for an hour or two.
She beats 1t down to the 42d street SUBJ
way station"
you're sure of this?"
Dead sure. l even hmped her as
she Hoped back last night"
did she ring?" ! asked, remember
ing that Toosey's information had to be
picked out of her. like bones out Of
shad.
'She had her own key" Toosey re.
piled, after moment or two Of thought,
"And that's everything?" I persisted.
after moment or two Of thought on
my own part.
Toosey replied that it was everything.
And me leggin' 1t up and down this
dead-eyed slice O. the island until I've
got writer's cramp in the kneecaps and
not enough happenin' to keep a traffic
cop from fallin asleep on fixed mat
What I like to see, now and then, is a
little ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dom, But
this quietude sure takes me back 10
the old days on the Schuykin. II
makes me think O. Brooklyn on a rainy
Sunday. I tell you. Balmy, IL this 90.
go-wagon plant amt took away from
me inside another six hours I'm goin'
to go starry starn' mad and bite the
corners off'n that grand new grocery
O. Charles :"
"Sloan, Of course, gave you his in.
structions?"
1t was said more as reminder than
as an Interrogation.
HE gimme instructions, all right
But what want is a little seasonin' of
explanation. Why doesn't he tell me
why I'm watchin' that house? Why Ia
he leavin' me to amble up and down
here without even KNOWN what I'm
perambulatin' for? Why Id he 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15
THE BUG IN THE RUG

me nature. It's crabbin' my Joy in
life. It's warpin' me. 1t amt leavin'
me enough self-respeck to slip into
United and buy box O. Turks. Why,
even that doctor In the whisperettes
from the Holshaw house turned
The Washington herald., 1919-09-15
CAPPER BACKS
GROUP BUYING
Senator Frames Bill Author
zing Cooperative Stores
h In The District.

Inspired by the example set here in
regard 10 pioneering community Co
operative stores, Senator Arthur Cap
per, Kansas, has framed a bill which
would license promotion OF such
propositions on a large scale in TIE
National Capital
AS a member Of the Senate subcom-
mittee investigating the high cost Of
living in the District, Senator Cspper
has at his finger tips a mass OF dat.
relative to this problem and ne eI-
presses the belief that the bringing
together Of the producer and con
sumer is the logical solution
Capper believes, with J. G. McGrarl
director general OF the community
buying plan OF the District, that the
Hnount Of actual prohteSrinE in
Washington has been negligible IN
proportion To the amount OF scandal
which has developed over the possi-
bility.
He believes that II the people are
TO make any genuine and substantigl
saving in buying necessary foodStuffs
they can only do so by eliminating a
few Of the middlemen whose profits
make their burden ever heavier.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-15
PASTOR LAUDS
LABOR UNIONS
Rev. Stewart Tells Workers
They Have -Four Foes
And Five Friends.

1T is not supply and demand but
supply and desire which troubles this
world in which we live from hand to
mouth" declared tie Rev. Howard 1.
Stewart. Second Baptist Church.
preaching last night on THE Labor
Union Man, His Five Friends and
His Four Foes"
THE labor union man has what
shall term his FIVE friends and his
four foes. His friends must be culti-
waited to meet the insidious attacks of
his foes. who endeavor to use tle
members of the labor union as an in
strument for furnishing industrial un-
rest.
The labor organization is the work
er's best friend. IL it is careful to
guard his interests. Another friend Of
the labor.ng man is the ballot-box. II
can be made to serve the best inter
ests of the labor union. if organized
labor will place its lobbyist in Wash
ington in the same way as the capital
ist does
The workers should be informed on
the topics OF the day. and, above all.
should be learning constantly some
thing new about the work he is do
ing"
The demagogue who harangues la
Dor meetings to cause dissatisfaction
among the men. and the strike
breaker. who cheats the laboring man
out OF his just dues. are the foes OF
the labor union man"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-15
Minister Notes Absence
Of Medals on Pershing

"OUr hearts are stirred al the home
coming OF the First Division. at the
magnificent physique and soldierly
bearing OF the commander-in-chief Of
the American Expeditionary Forces, -
said the Rev. DR.. William A. Hag-
gerty, pastor Of Wesley Chapel Meth
odist Episcopal Church. last even
ing, preaching on The Grand Re
view"
lone marvels at the humility OF
Pershing. the great man tust return
ed from Europe, where innumerable
honors were conferred upon him AT
his reception after his arrival in
Washington" DR.. Haggerty contin-
ued. there was TO be noted marked
absence of his wearing decorations
which showed those \hOnors. But
there was no need for outward show.
His record and the record OF all the
men who fought our battles over
there to a victory tell a story which
no decorations could indicate.
These brave men will pass in re
view before admiring thousands.
While we marvel at the tales Of their
heroism. we must not forget those
who contributed to their successes.
We must not forget fathers. mothers,
sisters OF sweethearts who encouraged
them in their darkest hours"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-15
ACROSS THE SALT SEAS,

tockholm-Austrian government
eNpels 10000 war refugees, includ-
ing many Galician Jews.
London-War office Announces
Gen. Denikin defeated Bolshevik
forces. capturing 5000 prisoners. II
guns and 100 machine guns.
Santiago-Entire Chilean ministry
resigns.
Paris-Austria refuses Hungarian
demand for extradition of Bella
Kun, former Bo1shevist dictator of
Budapest. who escaped with $4,000
Manchester, Eng.-Judse Alton b.
Parker speaks at unveiling of Lin
coin statue donated by Charles r.
Taft of Cincinnati.
Madrid.-Former Premier Eduardo
Dato plans visit to the United States
in January to interest American capt.
tai in Spanish Investments ass
The Washington herald., 1919-09-15
National Bank Charter
Applications Growing

Applications for chartering new
national banks and for increases of
capital are constantly increasing,
according to the report of the
Comptroller of the Currency cover
ing the first eight months of 1919,
issued yesterday.
The growth of national banks is
general, but more than half of the
applications now pending action are
from west of the Mississippi, one
fifth being from beyond the Rocky
Mountains and one-flfth from the
Southern States.
The Comptroller reports that
seven times as many new charters
were granted and capital increases
approved during the last eight
months as there were reductions
and liquidations