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The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
81. La 10 rr,xeI On water.

A UNIQUE device produced by a Jet4
sey City inventor is a water bicycle,
At first sight the machine looks like 6
bicycle, with sleigh runners instead OF
wheels; but 1t carries, also, two largo
air tanks to support both machine and
rider, It Is said to be nonsinkable. !
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14

OdlNdllOu TtlIsy W LuC OHllCu OhdlCSs
the East End Of London disguised in
rags that she might help the unfor-
tunate. When her father stood erect
amid storm of abuse and even physi-
cal violence she stood beside him.
She knows how the poor suffer be-
cause she has suffered with them. She
knows there still remains in the wreck
Of dissolute man a spark of man
hood that will kindle a redeemlng
fame, because she has famed many
Pickering sparks until her patient has
regalned his feet. She now heads the
Salvation Army in the United States
at the great moment Of its career. The
old time slurs and doubts have been
banished. During the week of May
1925 the Salvation Army viii appeal
TO the people of the United States for
thirteen million dollars TO carry out
It's after-the-war program. Contribute
to the Salvation Army Home Service
Fund Campaign. Renspber, to the
Salvation Army "a Man May Bav
Down, but Hes Never OUT
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-14
MISS BOOTH, IN RAGS,
AIDED LONDON POOR
Salvation Army Commander, Dis
guised, Roamed Through Sums
to Study Intimate Problems Of
East End UnfOrtunateS.

Miss Evangeline Booth, daughter Of
the late General William Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army, has
given her life to the service of the
poor and the unfortunate. Few per-
sons, If any, know she went about in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08

succession Of lightning strokes, and
partly from neglect. Wine cellars and
workshops were to be found beneath
its lengthy corridors. The old build
ing was nearly as long as the Union
station at Washington, D. c.. Tie
nave became 'Paurs walk promen-
ade.
Two towers, as well as the dome,
make the new st. Paurs conspicuous.
In one tower Great Paul. a 17-ton
bell booms daily at one p. m. A
small bell tolls when there is a death
in the royal family.
"Tombs of Wellington and Nelson,
Turner and Reynolds, and of other
famous men are to be found In st.
PauPs. Over Wren's grave is a plain
tablet bearing a Latin inscription
counseling the visitor to look about
him If rs would find the architects
monument.
Sir Christopher should have be-
come renowned as city planner as
well as a church builder. After the
fire he prepared a plan that would
have made London a city of wide
streets and radiating avenues. But
Londoners had become reluctant to re-
linquish property in family tenure for
years, unlike citizens of such newer
cities as Baltimore and Chicago.
st. Paul's itself has owned a farm In
Essex since the seventh century,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
sented.
Reduction Pct,

The association has not only had
pledges on reduction carefully tabu-
lated and checked" says the report
"but has had a personal investigation
made in each section for the purpose
of being as near accurate as 1t is hum
anly possible to be In this estimate
The association report is certainly the
most accurate report ever issued for
South Carolina, the same being the
result Of practically personal can
vass Of the farmers of the state. II
is also probably the most accurate re-
port on all conditions covered in the
report ever issued"
Addresses were made by United
States Senator E. D. Smith, of South
Carolina; Congressman ]. Thomas
Heflin, Of Alabama, and Asbury F.
Lever, of South Carolina; Governor
Robert A. Cooper. and w. B. Thomp-
son, of New Orleans. The convention
elected 10 delegates to the cotton con-
vention scheduled for Memphis, Apri!
10, and 20 delegates to the New Or
leans convention May /. The conven-
tion ended today.-Columbia special
of Thursday to Charlotte Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
The AFFAIR was traced to a. foreign

The affair was traced to foreign
Office clerk named Marvin, who had
secretly made copy Of the document
which he sold to The Globe. He was
arrested, but as the official secrets act
had not been then passed, it was held
that no charge could lie against him,
and he was discharged
An earlier case Of the kind occurred
in 1927, when The Times published the
text of a secret treaty signed in July
Of that year between Great Britain,
France, and Russia The mystery of
how the newspapers in question OBJ
tanned possession of the text of this
highly confidential document has never
been cleared up to this day. AS how
ever, the original of the treaties were
at that time stored in cuppoards with
glass doors, and fitted with ordinary
common locks, in a private house in
White hall, used as an annex Of the
war Office, it is not difficult to see how
an unscrupulous person might have OBJ
tanned access to them.
In days gone by the signing Of the
peace treaty would have been hailed
with glee by the higher officials and
clerks Of our foreign Office, since it
was then customary to mark sucfr aus
picious occasions by wholesale dis
tribution Of money gifts among those
most nearly concerned.
These gifts came from the govern
ments Of the foreign states with whom
the treaties were made, and were fire.
quently Of considerable value. Thus,
in 1898, sum Of e1,0O0 was received
from the Russian government for dis
tribution among the under secretaries
and chief clerks of the British foreign
office on the occasion Of the ratification
Of two treaties between our King
George III and the empress of Russia
The king Of Sardinia, in the same
year, sent $500 to be similarly
distributed, and like sums ALSO for
warded by the Spanish, Prussian, Aus
trian, and Sicilian governments
These good old times" must indeed
have been '"good" ones for the officials
concerned, since the whole Of these
large sums was divided between about
ten or twelve people. In 1881, how
ever, the practise was discontinued.
In conclusion, the writer states that
the first signature to the new treaty
Of Paris should be that of the repres-
entatives Of Germany; for,
This is because precedent demands
that the original copy Of peace treaty
shall be signed in the alphabetical or
der of the various countries names,
and the official title Of Germany.
Deutsches Reich, comes first on the
list America will sign under her Of
fetal title Of United States of Ameri-
ca, Austria as Osterreich, and Brazil
as Estados Unidos do Brazil.
Even after all the representatives Of
the contracting powers have affixed
their signatures and seals to the treaty,
however, it has to be ratified by the
actual rules of the countries, who also
sign and seal it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
ACREAGE REDUCTION FIGURES.
Conference in Columbia Learns tina
South Will cut a. per Cant

Conference in Columbia Learns tina,
South Will Cut 81 Per. Cent.
The south's cotton acreage in 1915
will be 31.0S per cent less than in the
previous year, according to a report
on acreage reduction estimates from,
all the cotton growing states sub
mitted by the South Carolina cotton
association here today. The report
presented before. cotton reduction
convention, at which 1t was an
.ounced 500 delegates were present,
.epresenting every county in the state,
also announced unfavorable weather
for planting 80 per cent of the cot
ton belt.
That so per cent less commercial
fertilizer will be used this year that
there is a market labor shortage, and
"inroads Of the boil weevil will be
more serious than for years past
were other statements made in the
report, which gave detailed figures OF
estimated reductions in each state
showing the big cotton producing
states Of Texas, Georgia, Mississippi
and Oklahoma by these figures pledg-
ed to raise one-third less cotton this
year than last.
The following table Of acreage re-
duction percentage by states was pre-
oarfaI
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
SOUTH'S NEW DAY.
Hog and Hominy Doctrine of Henr,
Grady Recalled.

Grady Recalled.
Has it come? Is it approaching?
We hope so. Thirty-on years ago
Henry Grady of Atlanta delivered g.
speech in New England which made
a more lasting impression possibly
on the country than any one speech
ever delivered by any human being,
t marked the dawn of what was theI
termed the new south, and it contain
ed truths and statements which are
invincible, and which it would do well
to recall at this time.
There was never a greater truth
contained in the same words than
the following brief extract from that
great speech, for great speech it was
We wish every farmer who reads this,
and every other one who could hear Of
it, would make it part of his creed,
and If he would, then in fact would the
new day dawn, and until it Is made
the creed of the southern farmer there
will never dawn a new day for the
south. We wish every one would clip
this from the paper and put it up
somewhere where he could see it every
morning before he went out into the
field.
Listen:
when every farmer in the south
shall eat bread from his own field and
meat from his own pastures and dis
turbed by no creditor, and enslaved by
no debt, shall sit mid his teeming
gardens and orchards and vineyards,
and dairies and barnyards, pitching
his crop in his own wisdom and grow
ing them in independence, making cot
ton his clean surplus, and selling 1t
in his own time, and in his chosen
market, and not at masters bidding
getting his pay in cash and not In
receipted mortgage that discharges
his debt, but does not restore his free
dom-then shall be breaking the full
ness of our day."
Cotton reduction and cotton holding
is a good thing and the right thing
to do just now, but these things are
only temporary and can not be en-
during. The only way to bring new
| day for the south and commercial and
financial freedom for the southern
farmer Is to adopt and to follow the
creed contained in Henry Grady's great
speech.-Newberry Herald and News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
chelle until 4.sO next morning, pu

chelle until 4.30 next morning, 1 put
in most Of the night writing letters.
But let me say that it was not nearly
as bad as it might have been. There
were about fifty Of us. The Red Cross
furnished US room, and they gave US
plenty of good food for almost moth
ing. Some Of the boys slept, some
walked about, some put in the time
reading and some writing. wrote
about a dozen letters. The train came
in about 5 o'clock and finally we got
started along our weary way.
have said In previous letters that I
did not think much Of the French;
certainly not the class Of French /
come in contact with mostly. They
strike me as being mean, selfish prof
iteers, and then they are low and dir
ty. Maybe see them at their worst,
and it may be that our own people
would not be much better If we had
gone through what these people have
gone through; but cannot believe
that. However, lest convey the i'm
preston that 7 do not like anybody or
anything, let me say that am always
willing to hand it to the Red Cross.
They will do anything in reason for
you any and all the time. Such cheer
full usefulness as they show have
never known, unless am allowed to
say that it came from my mother. The
Red Cross is easily the biggest thing
Of the war. not excepting the break
ing of the Hindenburg line and the
signing Of the armistice.
Three days more and will be. en-
titled to gold stripe for six months
foreign service. OF course I prize
that, and shall always be proud Of 1t;
but let me be honest with the confess
sion that do not feel like staying
over here for a gold stripe. II I had
my choice about embarking today and
giving up the stripe that will belong
to me next Thursday, I would imme-
diately get on board the boat. But
then again, You know, after having
earned the stripe, would not sell 1t
for any amount Of money
The major told US a few days ago
that we would be sent to an
embarkation camp within six weeks.
That sounds good; but we do not bank
on anything Of that kind. A soldier
never knows what is going to be done
to him or what is going to happen un-
til after it has happened or been done.
If the majors promise comes good, we
will start away from here about the
first Of May and get home sometime
before the first Of June. To me that
looks like ages and ages.
BY the way, it might be Of interest
to mention that on our way back from
Romorandin we saw lots Of passenger
cars that had been taken from the
Germans. At Romorandin there were
German airplanes, motor
transports, baby tanks and cars loaded
with ammunition. The German pas
senger cars are about twice as good as
the French cars and almost everything
else the Germans make is Of superior
quality. That might not sound pleas
ant to some Of my readers over there;
but it is either state the fact or say
nothing, and here is the fact.
Lewis M. Grist.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08

industrial processes OF the United
States would profit by being Social
zed" more than they are. AS to vio-
lent upheavel in this country, I'VE have
at hand the means OF coping with
every crisis that can .impend."
Mr.. Illness first public message on
taking office was plea for better
understanding of our railroad problem.
A vigorous difference Of opinion will
not shock or disturb him. He will
meet it calmly. He will generously
and patiently examine every issue that
is raised. He will go to the very bot
tom of this problem.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08

loaical Wish.-On the outskirts OF
Philadelphia is an admirable STOCK
farm. One day last summer some poor
children were permitted 60 go over this
farm, and when their inspection was
done to each of them was given a
glass of milk The milk was excellent.
We'll, boys, how do you like it,
the farmer said, when they had drain
ed their glasses.
Fine" said one little fellow. Then
after a pause, he added" l wish our
milkman kept a cow."Journal Of the
American Medical Association.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
THE SAWED OFF SHOTGUN.
How Engineers Stopped Huns at
Chateau Thierry.

Chateau Ihierry.
The sawed off repeating shotgun,
loaded with buckshot, which was
pictured and described in our pages
a few weeks ago, appeared IN the crit
ical fighting around Chateau Thierry,
and more than won its rights to be con-
sidered a real American addition to
the horrors Of war-at least from the
German standpoint. The gun worked
to such good effect that, to quote Capt.
]. H. Hoskins. who used one, the
Kaiser would have won himself war
on June had he only pressed his ad-
vantage, and had 1t not been for those
shotguns." Captain Hoskins was IN
command Of a company OF engineers
in those terrific days; but, bad as the
Americans needed engineers, they
needed combat troops worse, so the
captains company was thrown In to as
sist the marines. By the time the
company, reduced from 246 men to 72,
was ordered to fall back to trench
where the shotguns awaited them, the
Germans seemed to be having things
much their own way in that section
of the battlefront. In q recent is
sue of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner,
Captain Hoskins tells the story Of the
turn of the battle:
On June 6, though we were engin-
eers, we got orders to go into the fight
ing in support Of the marines In Bel
leau Woods as combat troops. We
hiked twenty-seven miles in nine hours
without stopping to eat. We got into
the scrap between two regiments OF
marines and fought against overwhel-
ming odds, our opponents being the
Prussian guards. The 246 men of our
company had been reduced to seventy
two and ammunition was nearly ex-
hausted when orders came to fall back
to the first line Of trenches near by.
When we rolled into these we fought
with those automatic shotguns stack
ed up in punches of eight, with extra
ones lying on the first parapet in the
rear wall Of the trenches and plenty
of shells handy. Each gun had shell
In the chamber and five In the maga-
zines. Each shell was loaded with
twelve big buckshot and twenty-eight
grains of ballistite powder. 1t nearly
kicked us down every time, but we
didn't mind that when we saw the exc
cution done to the Germans. The way
those squirrel hunting Americans used
the weapons was thoroughly effective
Our colonel had ordered that no one
should fire until he gave the command
and It looked to me that he waited un-
til they were almost on top Of US. But
when the word came those guns open
ed up in earnest. The Germans were
advancing very confidently, for they
knew we were in desperate straits
That shotgun volley was new to them
They were advancing well punched
and every time q gun fired three OF
four Germans would go down. The
more the surprise gripped them. the
closer they would huddle, and the dead
llier was the fire. When they could stand
it no longer they began to fall back
punched in closer than ever, with cor
responding destruction from the guns
Not q German reached our lines aftel
we began using those shotguns, and
I'll tell the world that on June the
Kaiser had won himself a war had he
only pressed the advantage and had II
not been for those shotguns.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08

What Next2-Willie: II the Mis-
sissippi is the father of waters, why
don't they call it the Mistersippi?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
SPOT HOLDERS
DEAF TO MILLS
OFFERS OF FAR
ABOVE MARKET
Cotton Makes Good Recovery Satur
day, Advancing II Points at
High Point.

With an advance in March delivery
cotton of n points on the New York
exchange Saturday, local cotton hold
ers were feeling a great deal better
yesterday. March option, which clos
ed Friday at 2171 cents, opened at
2l.79, an advance of points overnight,
and scared to 22.4S just before the
close at noon, when it eased off to
22.25 cents. The close was strong.
Although local spot cotton, good
middling, was quoted at % cents, it
was stated by cotton men that there
was no way to determine what spot
is actually worth.
Mill buyers Friday in Savannah
were offering 500 points above the
March quotation for spit cotton" said
Chas. H. Burke. of the Commercial
warehouse, and they could not buy a
pound. Whether they were able to buy
it in other markets or not / do not
know. But there just isn't any cotton
for sale now.
When the mills get ready to buy
they are going to have cotton, no mat
that day must not be taken as an in
dication that the epidemic has been
crushed already. He thought it likely
that in days to come, because the dis
ease is so widespread, higher figures
will be shown at times, but he was
greatly encouraged by the apparent
benefits already being derived from the
closing and was hopeful that the con-
tagion would rapidly diminish.
The epidemic, which suddenly re-
appeared in what is recognized as a
third wave all over Georgia, has been
losing its virulence within the last
week everywhere, and some towns are
again removing the bans which were
restored widely on gatherings Of all
kinds. officials and citizens generally
are hoping that conditions here will
improve so rapidly that the restric-
tions may be lifted and life and busi-
ness return to normal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
FLU SUDDENLY
WAVES; ONLY 9
new CASES IN
COUNTY IN DAY
Improvement in Situation Taken As
Direct Result of Drastic Closing
Order.

The influenza situation both in the
city and in the county, showed a sud
den and radical improvement Saturday,
less than onefourth the number of
cases recorded the previous day be-
ing reported to DR.. Bond, commits
esioner of public health. The complete
report for the day, which covered Fri
day, shows a total of only nine new
cases, five of them in the city and
four in the county Practically all Of
the physicians were heard from. One
had no new cases at all. No new
cases were reported among the negro
population.
The decided drop in the number of
.new-cases is regarded as a direct re-
suit of the closing order which went
into effect late Wednesday afternoon.
Inasmuch as a great many cases de-
velop within "a hours after exposure,
and practically all within three days,
results were to have been expected
by Friday, and the physicians reports
speak for themselves. Previous days
have shown from 40 to go new cases,
or even more
DR.. Bond warned Saturday that the
highly encouraging report received
ter what price they have to pay for
it and from all accounts they are get
ting about to the point where they
are going to have to buy"
Although the bears have hammered
the market down to mark lower than
reached before in. the last two years,
farmers and holders of cotton gener-
ally are as optimistic as ever and as
determined to hold The recent sell
ing has created a great short interest.
There are no longs in the futures
market, and buying is bound to come.
Many are looking for rapid, even
sensational, recovery, now that the
bears have apparently gone their
limit. Following are Saturdays quo
tations:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
LOCUST COMING
THIS YEAR; Two
BROODS FOR GA.
Seventeen-Year and l3-Year Pests to
Appear in May, Says
Government.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The most
interesting insect in the world, the
periodical cicada, is going to be seen,
perhaps in very large numbers, during
the coming spring and early summer
over large regions of the United States
where this brood has not appeared be-
fore for seventeen years and over
other regions where another brood ap-
peared thirteen years ago. This is the
insect commonly referred to as the
"17-year locust" a name that is in
correct in at least two particulars. 1t
is not a locust at ALL that name be-
ing properly applied only to members
OF the grasshopper family, and while
it has 17year period it also has a
13-year period. 1t has been so long
miscalled by the name of locust, how
ever, that there is no hope of diyesting
it of that incorrect appellation. and
in the regions where there is the
longer period of recurrence, it will
continue to be known as the "17-year
locust" and in the areas of the shorter
recurrence period, as the "13-year 10
cust." The scientifically accepted
name of periodical cicada, therefore. is
the only one that exactly fits.
The statement that this is the most
interesting insect in the world will
hardly be questioned anywhere, and it
is the most interesting because it is
the most anomalous, or possibly, be-
cause it has always appeared to be so
mysterious. The fact that it appears
in countless numbers one year, then is
not seen again for half the average
life time of human beings aud then
suddenly appears again in countless
numbers has kept the popular mind
mystiged and has woven many super
stitions about the cicada. When it is
known that the insect spends the thir-
teen or seventeen years in slow devel-
opment beneath the ground. and
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