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Washington telegraph., 1919-04-11

Mr.. Chas. F. Wood, aged
about 20 years, died at the FAM
lily home in old Wallaceburg,
near Blevins, Monday night. In
terment was made at Macedonia
cemetery Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Wood was born and rear
ed on the farm on which he
died and he is well known over
the county. He was clerk of
the Masonic lodge at Wallace
burg for many years and up to
the time of his death. He also
served as postmaster for a num-
ber of years.
Mr.. Wood is survived by his
wife, one son, r. E. Wood of
Blevins, and two daughters,
Mrs. w. C. Spears and Mrs. B.
F. Spears. Two brothers, DR..
V. A. Wood and Hon. R. E.
Wood, both of Oklahoma, also
survive him.
The Telegraph extends SYM
pathy to the bereaved relatives.
Washington telegraph., 1919-04-11
Cut This Quilts Worth Money.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with 5 cents to Foley &
Co., 1885 Sheffield Ave, Chicago, Ill,
writing your name and address clear
ly. You will receive in return a trial
package containing Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and
Group, Foley Kidney Pills and Foley
Cathartic Tablets.
Sold here at COLDS CASH STORE
Washington telegraph., 1919-04-11

Blevins, Apr. TO- Robbers
entered the general mercantile
store of H. M. Stephens at this
place Monday night, securing a
total of $6,675.00 in Liberty
bonds, War Savings stamps and
cash belonging to Mr.. Stephens
and $1,000 in cash from the
postoffice funds. About $685.
10000 in notes which were the
property of Mr.. Stephens were
also taken by the robbers, but as
duplicates of all of them are in
his possession, they will not
represent loss.
The robbers entered the build
ing by breaking through a win
dow and the loot was secrued
from a safe on which the COM
bination was successfully work
ed.
The work of the robbers did
not attract any attention and
their visitation was not known
until the store was opened up
| Tuesday morning.
The haul made by the robbers
included one 100000 bond OF
the 3rd issue, one of the End is
: sue for 100000, one 5000 bond
: and one $3.50 bond of the 4th
, issue and $50 bond of the 3rd
5 issue, totaling $6,350. Besides
the bonds, $500 in unregistered
War Savings stamps, $25 in
money and $4,000 worth of
| notes belonging to Mr.. Stephens
and the $40 in postoffice mon-
ey was secured.
= Investigations made by the Of
ficers in connection with the
case are said to have caused
suspicion to rest on man by
the name of Dan Smith, aged
35 years, who was recently dis
charged from military service
at Camp Sherman. Smith be-
came acquainted with the Fry
erberger youth who was re-
Gently released from service,
while the two were overseas.
Smith went to Freyerberger's
home at Blevins and spent sew
eral weeks in the vicinity. A
lob was secured for him, but
on his refusal to work he was
told to leave. He was not seen
/ in the vicinity for several days
/ but on the evening before the
robbery parties are alleged to
have seen him on the railroad
track a short distance north of
town. An investigation showed
that he purchased a ticket to
! st. Louis Tuesday and the Of
ficials there were wired to be
on the lookout for him. They
located him in a house there
but he made his getaway by
going down a fire escape and
has not yet been apprehended.
Suspicion was directed to the
man Smith because of his re
fusal to work, connected with
the fact of his reappearance at
Blevins Just before the robbery
and his hurried flight to st.
Louis afterwards.
Washington telegraph., 1919-04-11
BURGLAR ENTERS
STEPHENS STORE
MAKE HAUL AT BLEVINS
MONDAY NIGHT.
SUSPECT DODGES OFFICERS
Thousands of Dollars In Lib
erty Bonds Include din the
Loot.

Evidence submitted to the
Grand Jury in connection
with the Blevins robbery was
deemed of sufficient import
ance to warrant the indict-
ment of Dan Smith yester-
day.
Washington telegraph., 1919-04-11
JUDGMENT FOR
FALSE ARREST
HERMAN WRAY, WHO WAS
HELD FOR WRECKING
sunshine SPECIAL TRAIN
GiUen Verdict for $3.50 By Jury
In Circuit COurt-BuSiHesS
for the Week.

The Hampstead Circuit Court
convened Monday, with Judge
G. R. Haynie on the bench and
Hon. Luke F. Monroe prose-
cutting attorney, on hand to look
after the interest of the state.
The time up to the noon hour
was taken in charging the grand
jury. S. F. Leslie was appoint
ed foreman of that body and
they repaired to the grand jury
room and began their delibera-
tions. In the afternoon the pet
it jury was sworn in and imme-
diately got busy. A large num-
ber of cases were continued, a
few dismissed and a number of
court orders were entered.
There were quite a number of
pleas of guilty entered on the
criminal docket and the only
jury trial of Importance this
week was the case OF Herman
Wray VS.. Walker d. Hines, Di-
rector General of the railroads
of the United States. This was
suit against the railroad for
damages for false imprison-
ment, growing out of the ar
rest of the plaintiff last year
on a charge of having wrecked
the Sunshine Special" a train
on the Missolri-Pacific railroad
during 1918 The plaintiff
brought suit for $4,000 dana.
ges. He was awarded a judg-
ment for $3.50 by the triskSJlrys
we .ss......rs,yisiana at the time I'D
wreck oeurred, and that therk
: was not probable cause for hi
! arrest.
: The tran wreck which brougb 4
] on thissuit occurred at ChepOf
sea staon, when the train rata
n into aiopen switch. A similak
wreck ccurred about the samel
s time BAR Guernsey, in this
U count,
Thenly other case tried by
e. a iurShis week was that of C. !
II w. Rte VS. j. J. Battle, I'M
lie whicfhe plaintiff recovered
1e a iudhent for $34.11.
IL Thiury was discharged on
ne Weekday afternoon until
MonF morning, when the
at crimll docket will be taken
te up. b cases are being set over
en- for third week, as the court
IN exps to wind up the business
as of tterm next week.
Fbwing is the docket of the
. civind criminal business dis
posof this week:
II The Docket.
Ii. H. Sandborn VS. J. j..
Bs, continued.
II w. Cobb & Co. VS. w. S.
Dftt, continued.
ID L. Stephens VS. w. O..
Shy, continued.
A. Thomas VS. G.. w. Akin,
chued.
s. Mathews VS. w. G.. Foss,
dnued.
ossett Lumber Co. VS. T. H.
is, continued.
lid, Anderson VS. DR.. w. G..
erson, answer filed.
E. Powell VS. A. c. Monts,
inued.
L. Jones VS. Frisco railroad,
hissed.
lash Hutson VS. Hampstead
hty, judgment for $24.33.
ID. Reed ct al VS. Paul Gar
ct al, judgment for S595.
LATHE B. Draper VS. o. M.
tile, continued.
Silver Burdett & Co. VS. j.
Battle, dismissed.
". M. Sutton ct al VS. j. N.
sap, continued.
&. W. Brummell VS. NJ c..
lrns, continued.
Easterling & Hendricks VS. w.
Atkins, judgment for cost.
c. w. Battle VS. j. j. Battle,
dgment for $34.11.
A. M. Key and jeff Russell VS.
P. Chamberlain, judgment
default for $500.
A. M. Stroud VS. Missouri
acific railway, continued.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17

70 come back to decency and right
living, TO return to the wife to whom
he has been faithless, and to the chill
dren whose belief in. him he has be-
trayed.
No woman can have any claim upon
q married man comparable with that
which his wife has. When a man Sc
lects one woman out of all the world
Tor his own and takes her life into
ms keeping he lays upon himself an
obligation that supersedes every other
obligation in his life,
MOI should a mans pity for any
other woman compare with his pity for
his wife. The sufferings Of n discarded
q love are as nothing to those of
the wife who knows herself dishonored.
f%orsaken by her husband.
Neither Is any mans responsibility
ior any other woman comparable with
mat which he owes to the wife whom
he has sworn before God and man to
cherish and protect.
IL Is what a man yves to his wife
and his children, eve more than what
he owes to his own soul, that should
give the one who has done wrong the
strength and courage TO come back and
try to atone for his misstep.
And II he has to pay for this with
suffering and with making another suf-
fer, II is the inevitable price of wrong
doing and a debt that lone may evade
htNllllk.
1t is the custom to think that only
the woman sinner pays. and that men
flout the laws Of morality and the con
ventions Of society and go scot free.
Never was there a greater mistake.
The man sinner pays, even as the
woman sinner pays, and no youth sows
a wild oats crop that he does not har-
vest In tears and anguish.
Disease and death, doddering senility.
~lunatics raving in padded cells, these
are the price that thousands upon thou
sands pay for their youthful follies.
Thousand s Of other men are drained
Of their money by blackmailers. who
make them pay through the years for
the weakness OF a moment. Still thou
sands Of other men go staggering
through life with some harp. fastened,
like an old woman OF the sea, mon
their shoulders whom they can not
shake off.
Many men stumble along the road,
Wise and happy those who have the
courage 10 turn back and seek the
right way nee more.
Copyright, 1919. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate. Incl
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
CLOSING IN

The peace conference is closing in on the Huns, and will
soon have them sealed up and deprived Of the power of doing
harm, The conference is so arranging the frontiers that Ger
many will lose large sweeps of territory and millions OF popula-
ton. She must also give up her sources of supply Of coal and
iron, her munitions and war materials, and reduce her 100000
army to a pitful 100000 Without warships and great guns she
will be comparatively harmless, In this day and time 100000
men is not considered much, but neither Caesar nor Pompey
driven into his hole and the operculum closed down, France can
sit on it and prevent him from coming out to renew hostiities'
The German high command has never yet admitted defeat,
and the German people do not know that they have been
whipped. They still believe that the German sword is lnvinclble
Throwing the kaiser overheard does not change their mental
attitude. Hindenburg is still in command and the people believe
in him. Unless the allies hold a strong hand and are prepared
for emergencies, they may find that the peace conference has
been casting up accounts without the host being present, which
will make a difference,
Nevertheless reducing the Hun to a state of harmless
impotency is an imperative necessity. In olden times the cry
was Carthage delenda est and until Carthage was DESTROYED
with France, and, in fact, with Europe; there can be no peace
or security until the Hun as a military menace is DESTROYED.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
SOLVE THIS MYSTERY

One and possibly two skirmiShes on the public streets, fol-
lowed by the killing OF one and seriously woundng Of several
other negroes, is too great an oifense against the peace of the
city and state for the officers to drop. 1t was Friday morning
that the affair eliminated on Beale avenue. No arrest has been
made, Surely there are many men on the police force who are
capable of ferreing out this affair, if only the directing head OF
the department wanted it done. But there are indications that
the prosecution of those who did the shooting would reveal a
condition which the high law officers would not like to be
known.
The most plausible theory of the shooting is that it was a
b~ootleggers' row; that whisky was shipped in by one Of the
three b~ootlegging combinations which operates wholly by river
that the automobiles of the members of the syndicate which
works by land were busy; that the negroes were engaged to haul
the cargo OF some 200 cases OF whisky from the boat landing to
the cache in the city, and that the negroes failed to account for
some 20 cases of the liquor.
Certainly il the negroes stole whisky under such circum-
stances the owners of the liquor could make no prosecution
hence for days and nights they had been on the lookout for the
negroes with guns. Finally located on Fourth street, the Skin.
mish began with a general fusinade, to close on Beale avenue
with one negro dead and three others seriously wounded. OF
course the loss of a few bootcggerS is no calamity to the com
munity; but no community can afford to have differences
between citizens, much less outlaws, settled by street battles.
Gentlemen of the police and sheriffs office, 60 to it!
Learn whether or not illegal whisky traffic is at the bottom Of
the affair. II so, go to the root of the evil. Stop the traffic.
You know the main members of the three big syndicates which
are bringing whisky in by cargo quantities. Quit grabbing up
an occasional seller OF a halfpint and trying to make people
believe that you are really breaking up the liquor traffic. Go
to the big ones. Land the cargo men, who are making thou
sands of dollars by organized crime, and debauchlng the COM
munity by the illegal traffic,
You have no better opportunity to get at the bottom of it
than unraveling the mystery Of the Beae avenue shooting. You
know and everybody else knows that you can do it.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
[OKtM5RQT. :
n Ru K,WoQNon.

A LITTLE SLICE o. LIFE.
A dear old lady friend of ours
Has taken time by the forelock
And has bought and laid away
Forty-five gallons of whisky
Against the coming drought.
You never a tell" she says,
When somebody will be bitten
BY a snake or have a tummyache;
And, while | never drink it myself
Just for an opportunity to drink,
! like to have a little of it
In the house"
We hardly know what we ought
TO think of this little old lady,
But it Is our opinion that
She Will never be very lonesome
After the 1st OF JuIv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
GETTING BACK IN THE RIGHT ROAD,

A married man who has been In
dulging in an underline q rose love af-
fair finds that his romance has gone
flat n stale. He no longer ever i'm
AGNES that he loves the woman he
thought he preferred to his wife, and
he doubts her sincerity, as all such
men doubt all such He repents
his wrong in sackcloth and ashes, and
he wants to know how he can break
Off this relationship that has become
a horror TO him,
This Is a problem that many another
man besides this one Is trying hope
lessly to solve, for 1t is one OF life's
bitter ironies that it is always easier
10 DO things than to undo them, and
the consequences of our acts are 40
much greater than the acts them
selves. The follies that we commit in
q moment hound our footsteps with
5heir sinister results to the day Of our
No one car tell the sinner how to
escape from his sin. lie must find
MS own way out of the mire, The
only thing that one can tell him with
absolute certainty Is that because he
has stumbled off OF the straight and
narrow path liz nc excuse for keeping
on the downward road. There is stifi
the clean firm, rock bottomed highway
OF right living, lying In the sunshine,
ana every fiber Of his manhood calls
70 him TO fight back to il and set his
feet upon II once more,
There is no easy, comfortable and
nicely graded boulevard which leads
from the lower to the upper path. II
Is. always a cruel, hard climb, a steep
climb and one that takes every par
ticle OF the strength, grit and endur-
ance Of those who make It. And when
they do reach their goal they are torn.
bleeding and bruised, body and soul
Ihe only way to reform Is to reform.
the only way TO quit SHINING is to
stop It, And do IL now. None OF us
can unite the snarls we make Of our
lives by our weaknesses, and our yield
ing to temptation II we go at II little
by, little, and filament by flament. The
only thing we a do Is to cut the
Gordian knot with one swift, sharp
blow Of the sword of determination,
This Is doubly true rs regards an
enlargement that a man has with a
woman. II he argues with her and
temporizes with her he Is lost. II he
subjects himself to her tears he Is lost
and damned, She will pun him deeper
down into the slough and bind him
hand and foot and render him powerless
70 climb out of the pit into which he
has descended.
Therefore the only salvation for the
man who has been dallylng along the
primrose path Is to make n quick, de-
cisive break with his Delilah and flee
from her for his life, without once
turning TO look back. 1t takes courage
to do this. 1t takes a certain hardness
that many men do not possess. For
I Is not easy to beat OF the %clinginE
hands or a YOU once thought
you loved or to turn a deaf ear 10
the ,p~leadings of tho lips you have
kissed.
Blu louder than the voice of the
siren should be the call Of the man
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
Questions and Answers

A. Sub: 1t is a separate unit, H.
G. II. j.: No home orders have been
issued; can not tell when.
r, D. M; Apply to the chief of police
In your town.
r. c. H: The Hath engineers are
attached to the saith artillery brigade
Of the Goth division.
L. NJ: Not announced.
L. B.; Not attached to a division
do not know the captain in charge.
NJ. s.: See answer to L.. NJ.
z. F.. D.: a. No. (2) Their location
has not been announced. (3l Maj.-Gen.
Third, Fourth, Fifth. Seventh, 2Sth, SD,
42d, 10th. Ssth and ssth divisions.
Mrs. r. c.: Yes. but no date has
been set,
Friend: Are in the ssth division, not
ordered home.
F. R.: Are in the s7th division, not
| ordered home.
L. L, T.; Not announced.
j. Il. P: Were in the 9th division,
some of whom are in New York and
others on the way home.
Reader: Can not tell when they will
return.
Subscriber; so7th infantry is in the
nth division,
NJ. S. Nc: See answer to L. L. T.
C, l.. L.; Were at Neubic In last
report,
j. w. P; Are in the Sixth division,
]. X. M: See answer to l.. NJ.
]. s.: See a local contractor. He can
furnish you more information about II
than I can.
j.. b. M: In the Second division.
Mrs. s.; No announcement made
when they will return.
J., H. p: They are in New York al
present
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
BRYAN's ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

William Jennings Bryan has lost much OF his ancient influ-
ence, but his name still retains much of its former magic, and
when he speaks he is listened to. His pronouncement in favor
of a league of nations is timely and will have good effect.
He wants some changes in it, which is very natural. He
had no hand in making the compact prepared, and it is not
perfect or as good as it might be, He does not criticize the war,
or the management Of our part in it.
This is wise, Whatever our shortcomings, they were caused
by our unpreparedness, and he and his pacHist friends are
largely responsible for unpreparedness,
One thing is certain; He has lost none of his skill as a
press agent, and knows the psychological moment when to
speak.
He waited until Republican fury had spent itself in
%impotent ranting, and caught the great wave returning TO Viii
son, while avoiding the undertow, He has made himself unpop-
ular in Milwaukee, Chicago and Berlin, but the American people
think the better of him for il.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
ToldTal
MARCH II, 1909.
10 Ysar. Ago Today In Memphis.

mShST ~ A1NaF
Lumbermen Of Memphis won a big
victory in freight rates between Mem
phis and the West on the Rock Island
and Frisco railroads at a conference,
without resorting to a legal battle.
Ten building permits had been grant
ed for new houses in Memphis before
noon. Most OF the permits were fog
substantial and costly structures.
Clark Noble Wisner filed suit against
c. R. Boyce asking SIS, 900, giving as his
for action that he had been sub
jected to false allegations resulting IN
his arrest and prosecution.
The 1856 saloon owner0 Of Memphis
we're receiving half Of their yearly city
license back, as Memphis was slated to
enter the dry list July l. About $l5,-
900 was being refunded.
j. F. HArdesty and Ben +. Foges
we're take nto Atlanta - serve . year
in the federal prison for having painted
oleOmargarine butter yellow in Vio-
lation Of the pure food law.
Hibernians OF Memphis n their
friends enjoyed q rousing time st. Pat
rick's day, and wound up the day with
q banquet at the Cordova hotel.
The members Of the Memphis South
ern baseball team. in training went
through the first practice game W
the veterans and recruits.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
SOME TEST.

Capt Joseph c. Cowell. of the Bran
dywine' who has been summarized three
times, said at a dinner in Salem:
u used TO love the sea. but the
squareheads with their filthy subma-
rines have made me hate 1t. When this
war Is over and the squareheads are
beaten. do you know what | am going
to do? Well, gentlemen. I'm going to
buy an anchor, sling il on my shoulder,
and start walking straight inland.
I'll walk and walk, and finally, when
i come TO a place where the natives
hold me up and say, What on earth is
that you're carrying I'm going 10 buy
a farm in that place and settle down
for life"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
iNo Oo4 SPo0U

LISTEN ~ g TO NtE
VILLAGE ORAcLeS DIS COSS
me NO BGEIe ntING WAtcA
GOMEZ DUe SOLH 1T
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
so DID WE.

Capt, Anderson Dana, who got mar.
ried at Plattshurg. Is a grandson OF the
journalist, Charles A. Dana, and in an
interview he said
MY grandfather believed in mar.
rage. lie thought II ~steadted a man, |
remember a story he used TO tell
IT'S a story about a chap who asked
a man
Have YOU ever heard anvthine
about a machine for telling when 4
man is lying7'
Sure said the man.
Have you ever seen one7" said the
chap. ~ NV
&c Seen one said the man. By gosh.
| married one''" 49,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
NEVER SAY DIE,

She was a four-flusher, particular ri,
as TO her ability in various sports.
DO YOU love GOLF" he asked.
on, love golf she answered, "a
And how about tennis?"
! won the woman's championship tr
our state" -
And do YOU swim"
The best ! ever did was a half mil,
straight away she replied
somewhat fatigued, he changed 10 lit
eratHTe; And how do you like Kip
ling?' he asked.
Il kippled an hour only yesterday, :
vas her unblushing reply.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
SOME job

A man hurriedly entered A rostoffice
to find an address in the telephone d.
rectory, but he found a lady studying
the book very intently, He waited pso,
tiently for a while, but she seemed no
nearer the object of her search. and
as his time was limited he finally ven.
tured:
III you are in no great hurry, madam
would you be so kind as &c allow me "a
glance In that book for just a mo.
ment?"
"oh. certainly" replied the LADY, "a
was just looking 1t over 10 find a preSt,
name for baby" Y
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
HAD BEST REASON,

The Great Man was trying a rest cure
in a small village. He was attacked
with flu symptoms and visited the local
chemist for the purpose Of obtaining a
preventive.
I've the very thing for you" *.
claimed the chemist, t%rtumphantlv,
"Thompson's Topcure, one dollar a bot.
No. no, no. said the customer, en-
ergeticChlly.
But It's the very thing for youi
case, All the doctors are recommend.
ing it, We can't sell II fast enough"
y believe you, but I'd prefer some.
thing else"
Nonsense, What's your objection? p
only that I am Thompson" And the
customer beat a hasty retreat.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-17
The Public Be SerUed
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER
Complled BY Jonn G. oulnius, tina
Sunshine Man,

Man every morning seem TO say.
There's something happy on the way
And God sends love to you.'%
Henry Van Dyke
Oh. many a heart distraught with pain
Hath longed a kindly word In vain
Along life's way, along life's way.
And many a soul in darkness drear
Awaiteth now a word Of cheer
Along life's way, along life's way.
Oh. We whose hearts glad poems sing,
Help others hear the joybells ring
Along life's way, along life's way.
Be lavish with your words OF cheer
Twill Outlines stay the rising tear
Along life's way, along life's way
Lizzie Harlan
There was once . man who smiled
Because the day was bright,
Because he slept at night,
Because God gave him sight
To case upon his child;
Because his little one
Could leap and laugh and run,
Because the distant sun
Smiled on earth, he smiled,
W. W.
Dayton, Ohio.