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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
INDULGE IN JOYOUS "MgxUP"
People of Villages of the Ukraine Hold
Peculiar Celebration on Resur-
rection Sunday.

The Ukraine is the richest and
most thickly settled district of Rus
STA. Travellers will remember it as
a plain of never-ending wheat fields, a
land of silent, friendly peasants, OF
colorful dress and curious folk Gus
toms. Large cities are few, but there
is a village every few miles.
The people of the villages, and even
the more enlightened folk of the CIT
les, have retained some traditional OBJ
servances peculiar to the land. One
of the most curious of these was part
of the celebration of the Greek churcn
holiday, Resurrection Sunday. This
date was up to a few years ago the
occasion for a municipal free-for-all
fight in many Ukrainian cities.
The people of the city were divided
into two camps. Sometimes the city
was divided into halves; more often
the division was made into the true
urban dwellers on the one hand, ana
the suburbanites on the other. All the
abIe-hodied men, and still more en-
Enthusiastically, all the small boys
poured into the streets for battle. NO
weapons of any kind were used; even
sticks and clubs were barred. Fists
were employed freely, however, and
any man could get literally all the
fight he wanted.
The combat sometimes raged all
day. Any time some combatant had
"enouch." he needed only to indicate
rs much. and the crowd was bound to
part and let him through. He was
then barred from further participation.
The battle sometimes ended with one
party or the other driven from the
field, but usually the decision was
draw and nothing but collection OF
bruised knuckles and sore heads re-
NAMED to show for 1t.
The origin of this custom has given
rise to considerable speculation. 1t is
probably due to the fact that the Uk'
rainians were for centuries fighting
people. In the middle. ages they were
continually involved in petty warfare
with the Cossacks and the Tartars.
When the balance of power peace
descended upon Europe, they seem to
have turned instinctively to warlike
sports to keep alive the fighting spirit
among the people. In view of recent
DEVELOPMENTS, the recourse would hard
~ appear to have been a success
Chicago Daily News.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
WEARY or ROUTINE:
Eternal Protest Against Same
ness of Things.
Act of Man Who Died Rather IMAM
Submit to the Wearisome Common
pIaceness of Life Causes Inter-
esting Comment.

A newspaper item reports the sui
eide of man who declared that he
was tired of everlastingly lacing ms
shoes and then unlacing them again.
Petty enough the act appears IN the
grist of the days news, but the report
of 1t (be 1t fact or tictOn) fingers III
the mind till against larger DacK-
ground of time it begins to take on
significance, even to find place De-
side immortal acts of legend and ia
nhliar attitudes of art. Here was d
man who found the master knot OF MS
fate in his shoe lacings. Was he
fool or a hero? Alexander has fame
for an act which as a symbol might
have much the same significance,
resolute blow of the sword through
the Gordian knot, which dlSposes Vi
the difficulty without solving the prop
lem. For himself the suicide had dlS-
missed routine with a suave gesture
and with superb finality, but he leaves
mankind in the attitude OF Laocooh'
agonizingly entangled in shoe laclngs'
the serpent routine, huge, fnsensate'
unrelaxing. In its grip man wrlthes
forever, hopeless of escape. To TINS
group the suicide waves jaunty fare
well-"The best of luck to you," ne
says. I'm out of it, anyway y
Whatever our scorn for him, we
must admit that he voices unmistak-
ably the eternal human protest against
routine; that it is really only in the
suavity of his gesture and the supreme
finality of the rejection that he goes
beyond the rest of us. The feellng
that commanded his act is nearly the
most universal of human impulses.
We all rebel bitterly in the days when
heaven lies about us, and the later
shades of the prison house are nothing
more than the creeping paralysis OF
hopeless submission. Only those OF us
who have trodden the mill so long
that we are almost irreclaimably sub
dued to what we work in prefer in
such times as these when we have the
choice, counters and ledgers to
trenches and barbed wire. The lad
who with whoop of joy filings behind
him his columns of figures or vaults
the counter in his eagerness to rush
into poison gas and machinegun fire,
though his gesture Is one of bravery
rather than suavity, is that of Alan
Breck, rather than of Beau Brummel,
makes his rejection of routine no whit
less final than does the hero of the
newspaper item. And he is not the
one in q million who makes the Ma
tional army.-Robert 2. Utter in Har-
per's Magazine.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
industrious Youth"

An industrious youngster has been
busy at Palo Alto, Cal, during the
past season with war garden 1t is
about 70 feet square. On that patch
of ground he planted variety of gar
den truck, cared for it all summer long
and did the selling. He realized some
thing like 500. which he invested in
Liberty bonds and War Savings
stamps. Besides this he stored away
in the cellar fair quantity of squash
and other vegetables for winter use
The youngster is Rev. f. ]. Gillespie,
retired, eighty-three years old.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16

One of the first men young ser.
geant ran into after having been trans.
ferred from one camp to another was
a fraternity brother from his home
town. During the conversation the
sergeant spoke of having met another
fraternity brother at his former camp
and asked his friend If he knew him.
''Know hint Well, should say dol
He owes me 1925" Another soldier
standing near whom neither of them
knew said: II know him better than
that. He owes me $780,"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
Remarkable einsx Funeral.

Jazz funeral music and three mourn
ers signalized the funeral procession
of gypsy at Adelaide, Australia, re
Gently. In front of a photographers
the cOrtege halted while the body was
snapped in its coffin. Then the march
was resumed with a crowd supple,
menting the three fearful ones. The
high cost of wines prevented the
sprinkling of champagne and wines
into the grave, but perfume was sub,
stItuted to conform, as nearly as pos,
slble, with the gypsy custom. Fingers
of the body were literally covered
with diamond rings, and several hun.
dred dollars in coins and bills was
tossed into the coffin.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
war Activities of Geological Survey.

var fNSbtNlhiSS W OSS'SS'~'
The special training of the geological
survey engineers made them available
for effective war service both overseas
and in this country. The large amount
of technical data collected through the
years by the geological survey was
found to possess a value not antict
pated, and the official machinery or
ganized for scientific investigation OF
the subjects within the geological sur
yey's province was also utilized in the
more intensive inquiries required as
each industrial or military need arose.
The increase in the geological surveys
representation in the army from 81
men at the beginning of the fiscal yeaI
1918 to- 800 at the end of the year (462
on November IL, 1919 necessarily in
volved serious reduction in the man
power available for other contributions
TO war work. Yet it is believed that
both in variety of scope and in vol
ume of results the war activities I'M
der direction of the geological survey,
department of the interior, were more
important during the closing months
of the year than ever before.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
HAS 800 STORM PHOTOGRAPH
State MeteoroIogist of Kansas HH|
Largest Collection Outside
Weather Bureau in Washington

Topeka, Kan.-S. d. Flora, sIai
meteorological of Kansas, has what
said to be the largest collection q
photographs of tornadoes, cyclCna
and dust storms of any weather br
reau in the United States, outside q
the Washington ID. O. office. liz
has some 300 photographs in his COLI
lection, most of them of Kansaa
storms.
Among them are the Omaha (Neb)
storm of March, 1913; the Elmot
(Kan.) tornado of June, 1917; the
Great Bend (Kan.) cyclone Of Noven'
Der, 1915; the Coffeyville cyclone o
1917, and the tornado at Garfield pari
here in June, 1917. One OF the photd
shows 1000 dead sheep, another tni
side of a house blown away and nd
a single thing missing from the rooms
and a church completely destroyed en-
cept the steeple.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16

OSDSrs4t la
H. M. S. Melampus-the officers ( y
over the sides, saluted and tberss
ceremony ended. The guard
mounted forward and aft to nrr,.
intercourse with the British crew 4 (
that was hardly necessary. The i.
ments Of the crew were very unfs,s
able and chiefly turned on Lewis n,
and bombs. w
Look at them Iron Crosses NIX
did they get them Iron Crosses n
For dom down sailor men and woas!
and children-the Belgian prnaid
Landovery Castle! That's the sort
thing for the Iron Crosses they're WI
ging about. Look at them" NJ
Very Strange Sight.
When some Of the men LOOKED vs
an attempt at superciliousness at h, 1
crew that had clustered aft enc n
our men replied by pointing meaaIDa}
to a depth charge on the side. NH
German submarine men knew NH
what that meant in the past. 1t M
very strange sight, the German os|
GERS and men on the British destroH|
gazing across a few yards of space u
the British seamen gazing at thesI
What waves of will and heart mpy|
have passed back and forward in It'll
crowded boat, what pages of rad
history!
There was no sign of any change u
German discipline. The officers wnl
as one expected and the men were d
one expected; everything the Officer
commanded was Immediately obeya
There was no sign of civilian commit
tees, except that there were two Md
in civilian clothes on the bridge Of I'd
Titania. Strangely enough, there wal
two similar figures on the bridge
the British Melampus, two shabby
looking journalists. And so again il
Wolff bureau can lift its witchilI
voice and tell the Respondent Hun
the British sailors soviet was in con
mand of the boarding operations.
The last event of the day was ss
ing the German submarines, no
purged of their crews, lying in bunch
of three securely moored in the INN
harbor of Harwich.
1t was growing dark and their GU
Gus CHASTITY shapes recalled OH
ghosts-ghosts of women and childr
and merchant seamen-pallid, bloc
less human faces floating onto
lift of the water in the gray desert
wastes of the Atlantic.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16

improving the milk supply. This as
sistance may mean the making OF
general survey lasting only few days
or a very intensive inspection lasting
two or three months.
During the last year personal aid
was given to Sc cities in IA states. In
addition to this, assistance was given
the United States public health serv.
ice by conducting sanitary milk sur
veys and in improving the milk supply
of Is extra cantonment zones.
All phases of city milk supply are
covered. Inspection of diaries, milk
plants and other distributing centers
are made, samples of the products are
taken and analyzed, both chemically
and bacteriologically. When neces-
sary, help is given in the installation
Of laboratories and technique and in
the Interpretation of the results Of
chemical and bacterial analyses.
Special meetings may be held
among both producers and consumers
of milk in order to arouse interest in
the local milk supply. Advice in franz
ing ordinances to cover dairy and milk
conditions is also offered.
An important feature is the milk
content work, in which specialists as
sist in instituting these contests and
act as judges in scoring the product to
determine the relative standing of
milk producers. These contests en-
courage rivalry among dairymen and,
in consequence, tend to improve the
milk supply of city.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
SUPPLYING WATER TO COWS
During Winter Season Temperature
Should Be Kept is to 20 Degrees
Above Freezing.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
During the winter, when cows are
stabbed the greater part of the time
and unless arrangements have been
made to keep water before them all
the time, they should be watered two
Or three times day. If possible, the
water should be Is to 20 degrees above
the freezing point, and should be sup
piled at practically the came tempera-
!ure every day.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
70\-.A l-l[0N\T
I'LL THE ny
lD9AluSU
IMPROVE CITY MILK SUPPLY
important Factor Given Attention by
Dairy Division of Department
of Agriculture.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
Sanitary milk control-an Important
factor in city welfare and big prop
lem Of the city health department
receives personal attention from the
dairy division of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. Specialists
In sanitary production and handling
of milk are usually available, and
upon request of the city health de;
partments they are sent to assist IT
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16

Now York.-The most remarkable
e,amept of this remarkable war has
been its coincidence, says CORE
sDondent of the New York Sun who
witnessed the surrender Of the first
lot of submarines by the Germans. On
that tense November morning when
through the gray mists of the North
sea came creeping the first score o.
boats to surrender to the British navy
1 stood at the port rails of the de-
stroyer, II. M. s. Melampus.
The setting for the last act OF the
terrible sea drama of this century was
fltting-a still morning with the mists
Just breaking, forlorn silver moon
lingering, though the red sun was
beaming through In the east. Above
our heads was patch Of green and
lemon sky, and the North sea lay with
hardly ruffle, gray with q hint OF
gold, like the pulsation Of hidden
light.
A British light cruiser-one of the
'newest-with destroyers on either
flank headed in the line of surrender.
Two German hospital ships used as
transports-the Sierra Ventant and
the Titania-followed them. One af-
ter another, long low phantoms, some
white, some dappled, some black, came
out Of the mist, their crews standing
on deck like q black fence, no cOlors
showing and no sound.
I After some maneuvers the process
sion stopped and before US lay seven
submarines, with others out of vision.
The sun had grown stronger and the
light cruisers and destroyers were
picked out in white in their beautiful
subtle shapes against the grayness,
ADMIRAL Tyrwhitt's flagship, with its
yellow flag, in the chief position.
t AS one looked at the destroyer car
rying the British submarine comman-
ders and crews who were to take over
the German submarines the British
ships seemed to form a circle, and
everywhere one turned there was a
British white ensign at the peak. The
British ships, too, had stopped and
seemed to lie expectantly watching the
final event.
AS one gazed in the silence, this cir
Gle Of white ensigns and silent ships
and the sense of everything focused
on these. low, strange marine shapes,
hardly out of the sea, was thrilling
To spectator, the flags seemed as
eternal as the hills that looked down
on Childe Roland at the hour of his
fate. But when the German subma-
rine navy came to its dark tower to-
day there was no bugle blast. The
event was accomplished with English
decorum and German stolidity.
One Captain Even Wept.
One German commander protested
against navigating his vessel into har-
bOr and his protest was recorded, and
he navigated his ship into harbor. An
other commander broke down as he
left his ship and could not conceal his
tears. Another, when the British com.
mander went on board, was unable to
speak for a minute, and had to signal
to subordinate to carry on, THE
commander of the first submarine
which the British boarded took his
Iron Cross from his neck and ground
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
Geological Survey War-Map Printer.

Geological survey War-Map Printer.
The contribution to the war of the
map engraving and printing plant of
the United States geological survey,
department of the interior, has not
been limited to the reproduction of
the surveys executed by the topograph-
ic engineers, but has included the re-
printing of photographic and British
admiralty charts in large numbers for
the navy department and of various
military maps of French and Belgian
areas for the war department. Motor
truck route maps and airplane route
maps have also been compiled and
printed for the use of the army, as
we'll as special charts and maps for
use at instruction camps. An inter
esting use of this specially equipped
printing plant has been the regular is
sue of camouflage charts for the navy.
The regular geologic map work has
given place during the period of the
war to these eXigency calls for color
printing for military purposes.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
He channed the Subject.

Miss Wombat. do you think two
can live as cheaply as one?"
81 have never given the matter any
thought When get married expect
to make the money fy."-LouisvilIe
Courler7JournaI.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
Boy Convinces Father
He Can Thake Good

Oak Park, nl.-In order to
convince his father that he can
make good on a business prop
osition, Stephen I,orton, son OF
Benjamin P. Horton, wealthy
citizen of this village, has TAX
en- to shining shoes, making $40
a week. He is delivering the
Shines" too, patrons say.
SoSOs
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-01-16
"DFR TAC"FOR BRITISH FLEET
Is FULL OF HUMAN lNTEREsS|
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Chicken Thief Spends
Ten Years in hi

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Of ina !.
fourteen years Andy Past.
has spent ten of them IN 4.
workhouse because he is ,nsE.
to keep out of other peonls,
chicken coops. He appeared |.
court again the other a,
charged with chicken stealns
and was given two more ypas
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
President Urged
To Help Improve
Inland Waterways

A copy Of the appeal made by the
Mississippi Valley Waterways associa'
ton to President Wilson for develop.
ment Of interior water transportation
facilities has been received at the
Chamber Of Commerce. II bears the
names Of the following Memphians who
participated in a recent convention Of
the waterways association In the ma
tiOnal capital az representatives OF the
Memphis Chamber OF Commerce: NJ. l.
Gotshal, w, II. Hayley, II. j. M. Jor-
gensen, lumber division. S, 9. Major,
Lumbermen's club, of Memphis; b. t..
Moses, William Pope and +. q. Proutt
The appeal asks that the president
use his influence TO have the federal
government Immediately undertake the
improvements OF the nations water
ways In the same big, broad. sys-
anna canal and in which we carried on
our part in the winning OF the world
war The president is told that az
indispensable adjunct TO this program
is a separate and distinct waterways
commission, 1t Is pointed out that the
inland waterways are the natural feed
ers Of ocean traffic and that 1t will be
n great help to the efforts to create
"A great merchant marine, II the water
ways are broadly improved. Also, II
Is said that the widening and deepen
ing Of streams, the building of locks
and dams and OF equipment OF barges
and steamers would give employment
to great numbers of discharged soldiers
and sailors.
Government ownership and manage.
ment Is urged as a sine qua non to
proper development OF waterways.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
TORTURED TEXAS
WOMAN WRITES
Standing on Her Feet Torture
to This Lady-Had to Ride
Everywhere She Went,
Until Cardui Brought
Relief.

Mckinney, Texas.-Mrs. A. B. sto-
vail, of this place, writes: Some time
age l was in a critical condition. We
only lived two squares from town, yet
1 wasn't able to walk the two squares.
l had to ride everywhere I went and
suffered at that, but not so much as
when 1 tried to walk. Standing on my
feet was torture.
My greatest suffering was in my
right side. 1t was so sore and l felt
if I stepped down or Jared myself
the least bit l could not stand it,-so
just walked mostly tlptoe. This kept
up until I was just about discouraged
and decided I had best try something
else.
Someone told me of Cardui, and
where it had benefited cases similar
to mine. I felt at least it would not
hurt to give it a trial.
After my first bottle I felt better
there was less pain and soreness in
side.
After my third bottle of Cardui I
was well and have been ever since"
Cardui may be just what you need.
Try it. ad,,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24

q little toss into the dusk. gave it its
Then he turned back to Estrelda.
Sweetheart"
He let the reins drop altogether. The
morse nosed his way to the side OF the
Foad and began comfortably to nibble
grass. Freddie drew Estrelda into his
arms. Once more in the weight OF her
body against his shoulder and in her
yielding lips he knew her to be his.
ANA once more the sense of her filled
MIN; mounted In him swiftly from
heart TO head. He kissed her now. lin
gerlhgiy, .warmly-a mans kiss. Her
arms stole up and around his neck
tlghter n tighter. She had asked for
tiihe to think" but-thIs was MOI
tnuiklng. Never had anyone so thrilled
heE! She wanted him to kiss her. 10
hold her to him, Suddenly he caught
her so close to him it hurt, She drew
a qulYerlng breath.
. h Estrelda," he WHISPERED. his
mouth close to her ear. "Oh, Estrelds
- want to marry you now! / want
10 marry you-nowi" "
extraordinary; Extraordinary hat
He mould so carry her on and-oni
she laughed wildly! WI
And yet-why not? Far hack in ber
pfalh there flashed a vision of the SEN
Satl0h such an event would create in
Mapleville. An elopement! II pever
mad been done. She laughed again and
chung to him. ""u
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
RED CROSS NOTES

Miss Mary Ann Abel, director OF the
bureau of after-care for the Southern
division, will arrive in Memphis Tues
day and speak at the Nineteenth Cen
fury club at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon
to the class of 10 volunteers who are
taking the chapter course In social serv-
ice training under the direction of Miss
Jean Latimer, also of Atlanta.
The after-care department has been
established to help reinstate into civil
life the returned discouraged sailors and
soldiers, especially those who are dis
hhled, oithet because OF wounds or dis.
ease, such as tuberculosis, Men having
contracted this need and are entitled
TO proper and necessary treatment.
either In the home or in u sanatortum.
While receiving this ARE through the
Red Cross, IN cooperation with anti
tuberculosis societies, city or state. and
also are looked after by the home serv-
ice OF the Red Cross that the standard
OF living may be maintained and others
IN the family be sa~feguarded from the
disease, Social service work by the
Red Cross has become more necessary
Since~lhe close OF the war and Is being
eNtenfed all over the country In every
section,
After the talk OF Miss Abel an infor-
NAL reception win be held by the mem
hers Of the class and all volunteers who
have taken the training in the other
two chapter courses given by this de-
partment are invited TO attend.
This last class win he issued a GER
t~iticate by Washington, showing the
completion of the course at the end OF
the month, Att volunteers Of previous
chapter courses who have not received
such a certificate win be furnished one.