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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
NOBILITY
TO CO ON BLOCK
Sales on Southern Duroc Cir
cult Occupy All of
Next Week.

A grand circuit Of five Duroc-Jersey
hog sales has been arranged by five OF
the leading breeders of this stock in
the South. The sales viii take place in
Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi,
and are expected to attract buyers not
only from the South but from the
North. Buyers will be given the oppor-
tunity OF acquiring some of the finest
pure-bred hogs in the entire country.
The sales will be held in the follow
ing order between July Is and Aug. I:
Eastern Arkansas demonstration farm
at Brinkley, Ark, July %; Duntreath
farm, at Forest Hill, Tenn, July 20;
Pine Crest farm, at Charleston, Miss,
July 30; Whites Duroc farm, at Column
bia, Miss, July 81, and Enochs farm,
at Fernwood, Miss, Aug. l..
The Northern and other buyers will
be carried over the entire circuit in a
special Pullman car, which will leave
Memphis early July %.
Each of h breeders will offer 40 Ia
As pure-bred sows and gifts. The East
ern Arkansas demonstration farm will
offer a splendid lot Of animals bred to
such sires as Cherry Bob, American
Top Col, Top Orion Cherry King and
Great Orion, Jr.
prietor of Duntreath farm, at Forest
Hill, will attract the strongest local in
terest, His sale will AXE place July
20, and he has arranged an automobile
service to take buyers from the Pea
body hotel to his farm. Lunch will be
served at the farm and the sale will be-
gin at l pm.
Mr.. Goodbar will offer A sows bred
to his $40, 500 boar, Jacks TOP King,
He is assured of good bidding because
~ sows bred to Jacks Top King aver
aged $l,065 in Jackson's world record
sale.
Fifty sows bred to Scissors, the in
ternational grand champion boar, will
be offered by T. G.. James at Pine
Crest farm. The buying party will &c
out from Memphis to this sale, and
thence to White and Enochs' sales.
The sales on this circuit last spring
made records one day only to break
them the next. The hog world was
astounded at the class of stock offered
and at the prices that they brought.
Mr.. Goodbar Joined the circuit Just
at the close of the former sales.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
LUM SMITH BOUND OVER

Lum Smith. a negro, giving Browns
Spur, Ark, as his home. was held ITO
the state by Judge Fitzhugh in city
court Tuesday morning, charged with
larceny from the person. usky Bar
field, a ~iO-year-old negro boy, en- route
from Newport, ILL.,. to Newport, Ark.
was the prosecuting witness and de-
clared In court that Smith had choked
him and forced him to hand over $50
which he had at the time. Barfteld
stated that the robbery occurred Mon
day night on an Illinois Central train
as they were coming into Memphis.
Smith was arrested by Officers Moon
and Vincent shortly after the train
reached the station, and was positively
identified by Barfield. The money was
not recovered.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22

strange parallel which the ingenious
Voltaire draws between Moses ana
Bacchus in his philosophical Diction"
ary.'" ,
Thus upon the tongues Of men and
women and the stones Of the monument
builders this great talisman Travelled
down through the ancient II the me
dieval world, and even unto the mod
ern, with its story 1t came to the ears
of Joseph Semmes, the Norman gem
tleman, and he ultimately brought 1t to
the shores of the new world, It's magic
guarded the destinies Of the house OF
Semmes for 100 years. But, alas, 1t did
not prevail against the march OF pro-
hibition.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
MRS. HARVEY IS BOUND
OVER ON BOOZE CHARGE

Mrs. p. Harvey, Fourth street and
Poplar avenue. was held to the state
by Judge FtZhugh in police court
Tuesday morning as a result of a search
Saturday by officers from the United
States marshal's office.
The officers, It was stated In court,
were searching for homemade whisky,
Their search revealed tire pints OF
whisky and some wine, but no evidence
of Illicit distilling, The CASE was turned
over to the police department and the
arrest made by Officers Berryhill and
Gaskins Monday.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
In Memphis Sixty Years.

The name B. j. Semmes began to
lead the firm style of the House OF
Semmes with the death Of the first
Raphael Semmes, and the succession
of B. J. Semmes, his son, who was
given his majority at the age Of IS
by a special bill in chancery upon his
fathers application.
In 1859 the firm of B. j. Semmes &
Co. moved to Memphis from Maryland
and established the Yannissee distillery
In Tennessee.
From this date on until 1909 when
Memphis went dry, Memphis was the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
MISSIONARY FIGHTS
KOREAN COURT VERDICT

SEOUL, Korea, July 22.-The Rev.
Eugene Bell. of ~Shelbyville, Ky, has
appealed from the judgment Of the local
court whereby he was fined the equiva-
lent OF s25 for criminal carelessness in
accidentally causing the death Of his
wife and a friend in an automobile az
cident. The judgment stipulated that
in default of payment Mr.. Bell must
serve ten days Imprisonment.
1t is understood that the friends of
Mr.. Bell, who is engaged in nilsson
airy work, urged him 10 fight the case.
The accident occurred March rs at
an unguarded grade crossing when the
Seoul express a down the automobile
which MIR. Bell was driving. Mrs. Bell
and the Rev. Paul s.. Crane. of Yazoo
City, Miss, were instantly killed and
the Rev. Robert Knox, Of Galveston,
Tex. a third passenger, was injured
finally losing an eye as a result.
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
REV r W. LEWIS ILL.

The Rev. T. w. Lewis, pastor Of the
Madison Heights Methodist church, is
seriously i'll at his home. He was
taken Ill Sunday with what is supposed
to have been ptomaine poisoning.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
DENTISTS TO REGISTER.

The county court clerk has received
the state dentists registration book and
Is now ready to register all local dan
lists. The fee Is 81. A recent act OF
the legislature requires members of
this profession throughout the state, to
register
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
POLITICAL PICNIC.

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, July, %.
(Spl)-There will be a political picnic
at Laws Hill Thursday, July a. Every
one is invited to attend and bring a
basket Of dinner.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
Romance in Trade Mark.

The trademark Of the House of
Semmes is a thing of wonder and ro-
nance. Its history dates back to the
creation of man. The exact origin of
the sign, most like UCUQ. so familiar
to thousands of the devotees of the
cup which used to cheer, is lost In the
twilight OF fable" According to r.
IL. Semmes "tt first appeared on n fig
the Euphrates, where learned arch
| biologists have located the Garden OF
Eden. 1t is supposed to have been
borne away from Paradise by Adam, as
a sacred memento Of the honeymoon
he spent there so happily with the
lovely, but too tempting Eve" The
sign Is so entirely unique that II Is
difficult to find mediums by which to
visualize 1t, About all that can he said
is that ii resembles "U. c. L. @"
Later" 80 runs the story Mr..
Semmes tells, ut Is seen in the ancient
ruins of Babylon and Nineveh, on the
| walls of tho temples and upon the terra
Gotta books, which composed the once
| famous libraries Of these cities, relat-
ing the loves and the romances OF some
5000 years ago.
again the magical sign evidenced
its charmed existence upon the gate
| way of Henoch, the city built by the
descendants of Tubal Cain. that first
| artist in bronze, protecting by its magic
| or welcoming the weary traveller to
| enter peacefully, enjoy the, juice of the
| grape and a loaf of bread under the
Towering arbutus' witt some pretty
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
Died on June 80, 1919.

AFTER that ages rolled on, empires
rose, faded and fell; China and Egypt
were, perhaps, but young republics.
| The kingdom Of Egypt was az yet un-
born. But ever and anon the magical
sign was revealed to men to make them
think deeper and look farther and
higher-into the infinite realms Of the
| distant stars.
Then next to possess its secret were
Cleopatra's learned priests who re-
newed the obelisks scuiptured by the
children of Seth and placed a parch-
ment under the foundation stone relat-
ing the story of Egypt's deafness love,
when the learned Hebrew, Moses,
studied in Egypt, the priests Of Osiris
initiated him into the mysteries Of tho
order and taught him the use OF this
magic philter or d%istillation. This later
misled Voltalre, who found some traces
Of the lore possessed by the Hebrew
scholar and attributed to him the pow
ers Of the Greek Bacchus, the god Of
inspiration and wine. Hence the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
G. U. O. Crowned Gain.

"The historian Josephus tells US of
the children of Seth, who seem to have
possessed the learning and to have been
the masters of arts and crafts in those
days. They built two monuments or
ohelisks, which still existed In hiss time,
though buried in the sands, n OF
bronze and the other of stone, and upon
them engraved OF inscribed the history
of the human race up to their own era.
These previous monoliths should be
tain a wealth of lost knowledge which
would throw much light upon the prim-
| alive history of our race, perhaps they
| contain the bas- reliefs of Adam and
| Eve with their authentic history after
the exile from Eden; or, written there,
| may be the story Of the Daughters Of
| Mem one Of whom, Lilith, Of the
moon, from whence she came. married
the hayward Cain.
There is a legend that tells how this
| star-maid met and pitied the wanderer,
who may have been wronged by his
| brother In Paradise, and feeling gentle
charity in her heart married and con
soled him. Who else but she could have
| been chosen as a messenger to place
upon his brow that mysterious mark,
| L. G.. L. O., which should protect him
from ~avenging mem A mark, not as a
| badge Of dishonor, as some suppose, but
that men might not kin him. as the
Hebrew Scriptures relate. This tails
| man was no other than the astrological
sign L. G. Y. Q. which Lilith brought
| from the Hellenic race In the land OF the
| AZ that time nODllouq moon
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
River Bulletin.
Memphis, Tenn. July %, 1919.
Flood Rain.

sRise. Fall.
The river in the Memphis district viii
fall.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22

headquarters Of the firm. 1t was then
moved to St Louis TO DO a wholesale
liquor business.
In 1912 the firm returned to Mem
phis to carry on an interstate shipping
trade in YanniSsee and other liquors,
out again moved away-this time 60
ing to Cairo-wheu legislation made Il
unlawful to hold intoNicants IN a dry
state or to ship into dry states
When prohibition gave the firm its
death blow, there was held in Cairo,
beside the 1892 YannisSee, several other
priceless heirlooms OF the family. Among
these was the last Of a butt OF How
ard March Madeira won by Senator
Robert ToomhS and y. ]. Semmes from
Senator Dawson and Senator Alexander
X. stephens through a bet on William
Henry Harrison in 1870, The bet was
that Harrison would be elected presi-
dent.
Century Old Wine.
At that time, 1870, this wlne was
esteemed as the oldest in Washington
and II must now be over 100 years old
Another heirloom Is some 1890 white
port, called Tears OF the Duruo," made
in OPorto, There are also three or
four dozen bottles of lannissee which
was aged in wood 20 years before ~be-
ing bottled, A bottle of Scotch whisky
given TO President jefferson Davis by
the duke of Argyle when the presi-
dent of thh Confederacy visited Europe
after the war, Is also in the collection.
Mr.. Davis presented the bottle of h.
J. Semmes, the father Of the present
Semmes brothers, in 1859,
Another much priced lot consists Of
a few bottles Of Spanish Bucellas wine
OF the vintage of 1887 and a bottle Of
Old Harmony sherry Of the vintage Of
at va THIRSTY, ,,,,,,r,t Nh o,t,a, ~
Evening star., 1919-09-28
SAN FRANCISCO MEN
COMMEND U. S. SENATOR

sAN FRANc1sco. September s7-
Tsaegrams commanding his stand on
the peace treaty and the league Of
nations covenant. and urging him to
keep up a vigorous campaign for his
demands concerning reservations,
were sent to United States Senator
Hiram w. johnson today by repre-
sentatives Of banking. labor and mer-
camille interests and the judiciary
here.
coincidentally. a proclamation was
issued by Mayor James Roiph asking
rhe citizens Of San Francisco to well
come Senator johnson and to accord
him the same attentive hearing that
you gave the President"
The kilograms were signed By
Frank B. Anderson. ]. W. Heliman
and ". II. Crocker. bankers; r. H Nc
Casthy. president Of the State Build
ing Trades Council: Frank Devlin.
railroad commissioner: Meyer Lissner
OF Los Angeles. prominent progressive
republican; United States Circuit
Judge Morrow and q number Of
others. Judge Morrow, Anderson and
Crocker sent separate kilograms. but
the remainder sent a joint message.
The kilograms followed a telegram
OF protest sent to Senator johnson
by thirty-eight prominent residents Of
Ealifornia last Wednesday.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
PIANO PROFITEERINC
Is COMPLAINT MADE
BY PEOPLE OF LONDON

LONDON. September Is (cor-
respondence of the Associated
Press). - Profiteering in pia-
nos is the latest complaint Of
the people Of London, the claim
being made that Q piano which
before the war sold for $3.50
now costs $275. One firm, ac.
cordtng to leader in the re-
tall trade. has advanced its
prices fully 100 per cent, while
others have added 50 per cent
TO the selling price Of their best
Instruments.
We are charging $500 for
nondescript pianos" said one
dealer, which before the war
we sold for $3.50. The cheapest
upright piano made by one
hrm now sells for $500, before
the war II brought $225. A baby
grand 10 today. Sl.050; before
the war 1t was 1920. Another
model OF q grand Is $l,175 and
in pre-war days 1t was 3476.
retailer Is $575.
"Any order that give 10 &C.
cepted according to the fluctua-
uons In. the wage rate, and,
moreover, whether wages 70
up o. not. the price Ut pianos
goes up every month"
Evening star., 1919-09-28
HYPNOTISM CLAIMED
TO HAVE BEEN USED IN
POST OFFICE ROBBERY
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fre89.
GULFPORT. Miss, September
77.-Hypnotism was employed
in the robbery OF the post Of
,fice at Lyman, Miss. several
days ago. according to a state
ment made by T. R Jervey.
United States post Office inspec-
tor. who 10 here investigating
the robbery.
According to the story Of Miss
Thelma Taylor, clerk in the
Lyman Office, woman giving
her name as Mrs. Nikols. walk
ed into the Office and asked for
her mail. The girl told her that
there was none for her, but the
woman, with several passes Of
her hands, walked behind the
delivery window and took
$1s.75 from the cash drawer
while the clerk was in q stu.
por. The girl later stated tAat
she believed that she had been
hypnotized. The woman has been
arrested.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

change In the number Of men 1t work,
either in the plants OF the Dnited
States Steel Corporation or in the
mills Of the independents. The en-
ployers continued to make announce
ments of small gains. but tho strike
that the situation from their stand
point remained satisfactory.
"Wait until Monday" was the word
that came from the steel companies
everywhere in the Pittsburgh strike
zone The companies expect that the
strikers fiocking back to the mills.
They claim that thousands of men are
willing and ready to return, but re-
Trained from fear Of violence. The
strike district, under heavy guard OF
state police, deputies sworn in by the
sheritfs Of the several counties miA
guards and detectives, has been com.
paratively quiet for several days. and
this, company oficials say. encourage
them in the belief that there will be
. big return on Monday.
Mass meetings will be held tomor-
row wherever the authorities Will per-
NIT them for the purpose OF increas-
ing the ranks Of the strikers. A large
force Of additional organizers Is in the
field to handle the meetings.
Foreigners kssailed. e
The Allegheny Steel cempsny has
posted placards in TarAntum. Brock
inridge and Natrona inSwhichf 1t ZAP
peals to Americans to take Np jobs
formerly held by foreigt-born work
ers. Polish and Slavishs iaborers in
Natrona were bitter in Il cir denunci-
alton of the company for what they
term race distinction" 4 committee
OF foreign born asked the Harrison
township commissioners to suppress a
Tarentum newspaper which contained
an editorial attack headed .The For
J0HNsToWN, Pa. Sepsember 27.--
fields in this vicinity who. have been
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Mr.. Baker Powerless.
Youngstown Works Will
Not Attempt Reopening
Tomorrow; Rumor Denied

By the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. September ~.
tonight by J. a
Crosse, superintendent Of the Ohio
works Of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, that the plant will not try to
operate on Monday made 1t certain
that no attempt will be made at pres-
ent to break the Industrial paralysis
which has tied up all plants here for
week.
The announcement cleared up an un-
certain situation in regard to the
Ohio works. due to a statement at the
plant this morning that the mill would
run on Monday. and q later statement
by high employe that Official orders
for the opening had not yet been re-
ceived.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Asserts Senators cabIed
U. S: Sentiment Opposed
Presidents Fiume Stand

LINCOLN. Neb.. September 37.-
Speaking here today on the peace
treaty. Prot. Fred Morrow Fling. one
Of the two ofiicial War Department
historians At the peace conference at
Versailles. asserted that at the time
the Fiume problem was being debated
at the conference certain" United
States senator's cabled italian states
men that sentiment in this country
was opposed to President Wilson's
attitude on the Fiume question.
Prof. Fling supported the peace
treaty with its league of nations
covenant and lauded President Will
sons efforts at the peace conference.
The professor. who is head OF the
European history department Of the
University Of Nebraska. was making
his first address since he returned
from France. He spoke before meet
ing Of the City Teachers Institute.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Excitement at Spalato.

A message from Split (Spalato) tells
OF the excitement there when word of
the coup at Trau was received. At 2
pm. on September % Serbian troops
and amid popular enthusiasm. Four
companies OF volunteers were assem-
blede
Before the serbians reached Trau.
the message says. the Inhabitants of
that place took up arms and firing on
the Italians began"
About noon." it continues. IAN
AS soon as the Italians heard the
sound Of firing and learned Of the
coming Of the Serbian troops and the
arrival Of the American destroyer
they left the town at the double
'"The Inhabitants captured an Italian
manding the troops, who IL named
Fihbert Emanuel Tore, and three
soldiers. Both the car and the pris-
oners were handed over to the Ameri-
can marines. who surrendered them
to the commander Of the Italian war
ship Puglia."
Other Belgrade messages made pub
lie reported continued unrest in the
region about Trau. due to the activi-
ties OF Italian troops in the occupied
gone and rumors Of other impending
Italian coups Still others said the
yesterday, and that food for the
DAnnunzio forces was being requisi.
toned from Serbian Inhabitants.
''The Italian commander has taken
no steps to assure the execution Of
his orders of evacuation" the mes
sage says. "It Is now clear that a
complete accord exists between the
royal italian troops and the mutt
neers. No change Is reported in the
situation Of the French troops in
Fiume."
Evening star., 1919-09-28
PURPOSE OF HARVARD FUND.
W. r. Tuckerman Says Urgent
Need Is Increase for Teachers.

Tho purpose Of tho nationwide drive
for the raising Of q $15.ooo.0o0 en-
dowment fund for Harvard University
was explained last night by Walter R
Tuckerman. chairman Of the executive
committee in charge Of the local in
tensive campaign, which will open
Wednesday and continue for a week.
"The most urgent of the needs is an
increase in teachers salaries" said Mr..
Tuckerman. IA scale Of salaries in the
college which allows only $4,000 year
to an assistant professor throughout
the first five years of service, only
$4,000 to full professor during the
first five years and a maximum Of
$500 to any professor is obviously
insufficient.
NINETY per cent Of the teachers in
the dental school receive no salary
or q nominal fee Of $50. sixty-nye per
cent receive no salary whatever. The
salaries at the medical school. although
not SO strikingly inadequate. are still
Tar out Of proportion to the services
rendered. In these days OF increasing
living costs such small compensation
implies too great q sacrifice on the
part OF the faculty. The present sal-
ary scale was adopted in 1905. and has
not since been raised"
Evening star., 1919-09-28
CHARGES SUGAR MEN.
Wholesalers Said to Be Holding
Commodity Out Of Chicago.

CHICAGO September H.-United
States District Attorney clyne today
charged that sugar wholesalers arc
holding the commodity out Of tho Chi
cago market because Of recent federal
Investigations Of alleged profiteering
here. He called q meeting Of local
sugar dealers for Monday to discuss the
situation Mr. Clyne said the sugar
shortage in Chicago is acute.
Next week Mr.. Clyne will 70 to Wash
iugton to urge purchase OF the Cuban
sugar crop by the government
It was announced that the United
States sugar distributing committee. Of
which Henry II. Rolapp Of Denver is
chairman, 10 preparing to close It's
two years Of operation. During ~ life
the committee dis&fibuted scot, ,00o, 80
noIInds Of domestic beet sugar.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

on strike during the past week
signed a compromise scale agree
ment today and will return to work.
according to a statement issued by
Dominick Gillette, head of the United
Mine Workers of this section. 1t was
specified in the agreement that in re
turning to work no coal would be
mined for consumption in the steel
mills involved in the strike
1t was stated that the miners of
the Cambria Steel Company mines,
who have also been on strike, re-
turned to work today.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
STRIKE OF PROFESSORS
URGED BIZ MISS TAFT
IN BRYN MAWR TALK
~ The Associated Press.

ny The Associated Press.
BRYN MAWR, Pa. September
81. - Miss Helen Taft. acting
president Of the Bryn Mawr Col
lege. declared today. in an ad-
dress before the aiumnae con-
ference in the Bryn Mawr cam
paign for $1,000,000, to increase
faculty remuneration. that she
wished the professors OF the
country would organize q union
and strike for higher salaries.
She said that they had bet
ter case than the ministers.
Miss TAFT holds that the faculty
of Bryn Mawr and other COL
leges are taking the most req
sonable way possible to press
their claims. She said they are
justified in refusing to serve
the country. Miss Taft pointed
out that she would not object
to q strike as college execu-
tive because she believed it
would not be q strike against
the college executives. the college
directors or trustees, but
against the public, which ought
to. ba made to pay for its edu-
cation. Set
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Senator's to Oppose Colony.

MIAMI. Fla.., September 27-Both
Senator Fletcher and Senator Tram
NELL OF Florida today let II be known
to the chamber Of commerce here
and other civic bodies Of the state
that they will invoke congressional
rablishment Of ieper colony at Cedar
l.eye, this state.