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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
MERCHANTS TAX
MAY Be REVISED
BY EQUAL|ZERS
Board Takes Recess Until AS
SeSSment Is Turned in--City
Administration Will Fix Tax
Rate at $500.

Tho city board of equalization took
a recess Wednesday, after completing
its work on the\ assessments Of realty
and personally, nv made by T. q. Scar
brough, city tax assessor.
The totals OF the revised assessment
have not yet been completed, although
half q dozen clerks are working on the
made In the realty assessments, but
comparatively few changes were noted
In the personally lists. Last years
personality assessment was SIS, 06S, 9S7.
Representatives of u few of the larger
banks appeared before the board Wed.
nesday to ask a change In their assess
ment, because OF holdings In other cor
porations, which were assessed sep
arately.
The city budget and tax rate will
not be fixed until the final assessment
figures are reported, but there is nc
question that tho rate will be fixed NJ
$2.20. an Increase over last year Of 40
cents, unless the protests from the
clty's business interests are made SO
strongly that the city commissioned
cannot ignore them.
The board will meet later to inspect
the lists of merchants ad valoren'
and capital assessments, which will be
completed within two or three weeks
This will be the first time in a num-
her Of years that the equalization board
has investigated this particular Assess.
ment, which has heretofore always beer
turned owe by the tax assessor direct
to the city treasurer,
Last year this assessment was heavier
than for many years, due to the high
cost OF merchandise OF all kinds, tn,
figures being 50, sbt, $50.
For 1917 the merchants capital ant
ad Nalorem assessment was more thar
two millions smaller, or a total OF g.,
400, 1856, The indications are that III,
total this year will fall considerable,
below that for 1918, as merchants gen
orally have been reducing stocks as Low
as possible, due TO tho fluctuations |,
the market and the belief that price
would probably go lower.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
Here Before City
Was, Negro Claims
III Years Of Age

Uncle d. Bowman, wrinkled. bent and
on crutches hobbled TO tho witness
stand IN Second criminal court late
Tuesday TO testify in an assault to
murder case,
How old are you, unclep' said John
Elxhy, assistant states attorney.
Use Ill wears old; ~ here TO de
stars drapped and long TO- white folks
started dis Memfis,' the aged negro re-
piled, And he looked every minute OF
the Ill years he claims to have passed
over his sllvery kinks,
How do you make your living, Uncle
Bowman" Mr.. Exby Inquired,
IBIS here" he said pointing to 9
badge on the lapel OF his coat,
What's thatf" he was asked,
Oats the Grand Army, All gifts SIT
ehy three months from this Crane
army"
Bowman was a witness in the cast
OF the state against AbrRn Harper
charged with shooting at his wife with
intent to commit murder, The defend
ant pleaded the unwritten law and wa,
acquitted. Luther II, Graves was hi
attorney.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
BURLES0N ONCE MORE
URGES WIRE RETENTION

WASHINGTON, May 2s,-Postmas-
ter-General Burleson in q letter today
to Chairman Sims Of the house COM
meree committee, declared that the
present situation with respect to the
telegraph and telephone systems re-
quired the determination at this time
Of a broad government policy rather
than tho immediate return Of the lines
to their wne as provided for In the
resolution by Chairman Steenerson, Of
the house postoffice committee.
Mr.. Burleson's letter was in reply TO
n from Mr., Sims relative to the
statement sent TO members Of congress
by Clarence ", Mackay, president OF
the Postal Telegraph-Cahle company,
who referred 20 immediate passage Of
the STEVENSON resolution and offered
to reduce the telegraph rates for his
company 90 per cent.
The postmaster-general said a casual
examination Of telegraph operation
disclosed that this company In 1915
carried only Sll,s3o, Ss6 out Of a teal
of $50, oo0, 900 Of the telegraph business
and that the saving 10 the public
which Mr., Mackay asserts he can &C,
complish by a 30 per cent reduction
would necessarily be limited to 50. 600 0OC
annually instead Of SlZ, 600, 600
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
BEGINS BIG MEETING

CHICAGO. May 2s,-The Democratic
session hero today at which plans OF or
ganiEation for tho campaign OF 1920
were to be mapped out, After the close
Of the meeting here Chairman Cum
mings and a party expect to spend two
months In states west. OF the Missis-
sippi for tho purpose OF communicating
TO Democratic leaders In the various
states details Of tho preliminary plans
which are TO DO adopted at the sessions
OF the committee here today and to-
morrow. st, Louis Is to DO the first
stop OF the party,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
TO CLEAR HEAD
AND CLEAN LIVER
TAKE A CAL0TAB
The Nausealess Calomel Tab
let That Is Purified and Re-
fined From the Sickening
Effects.


What will human ingenuity do next?
hnokelees powder, wireless biography,
horsaless carriages, oolorless iodine,
tastaless quinine--now comes nausea
less calomel, The new improvement
called "Calotabs'' Is now on sale at
drug stores,
For %biliousnesS. constipation and indi-
Eestion the new oalomel tablet Is a
practically perfect remedy, as evidenced
by the fact that the manufacturers have
authorized all druggists to refund the
price II the customer Ia not perfectly
delighted" with calotabs, One tablet
at bedtime with n swallow Of water
that's all. No taste, no nausea, no grip
Ing, no salts, BY morning your liver
is thoroughly oleansed and you are feel
ing fine. with n hearty appetite. Eat
what you pleAse~-no dRngor-~go about
your business,
Calotabs are not sold in bulk. Get
an original package, sealed, Price,
thirty-five cents. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
MAN DENIES KNOWLEDGE
OF IL MISSING GIRLS

PARIS, May as tHavns .l-Henri
Lsndru, who was arrested In April In
connection with the disappearance of
II IN whom no had either married
or promised 10 marry, was given a pre-
limlnary hearing yesterday. He said
he did not know anything about the
whereabouts Of the women,
ports had reached the conclusion that
the bones found in Iandru's village al
Gamhaix were human bones, LANDRY
replied by protesting against the au-
thorlties searching his villa without hil
being permitted 10 be present.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
MEMPHIS BANNER
DISTRICT IN DRIVE
Practically Half Million In
Guiding Credits With Only
100000 Quota.

The mission centepary subscriptions
of the Methodists Of the At churches
of the Memphis district aggregated
s4a4, $50, only lacking the small sum
OF S0,S4o Of reaching the half-million-
dollar mark, according to the official
figures OF. the subscription with credits
announced by DR.. T. e. Sharp, pre-
siding elder OF the district, "Wednesday.
rms sum represents 1865 per cent Of
the 100000 quota assigned the district.
Bishop Atkins told DR., sharp Wednes-
day morning that to date the Mem
pills district was the banner district
Of tho entire church.
Delayed reports are expected to come
u which will raise tho amount over
In assigning. the quotas, allowance
were regularly contributing to the mis-
sions OF the church, but the Memphis
district determined to raise Its quota
IN addition to the regular contribu-
tions, which were TO be known as
credits. After the campaign was COM
scribed tho credits TO which the
churches Of the district were entitled
were added, making the total an
First Church Leads.
inV rhsN. MotIluuibb CnuTCn SUD-
seribed the largest amount, With o
quota OF $4,000, the membership
pledged, with credits, tho sum OF $751;
icy, giving the church a percentage Of
176 per cent.
DR.. Sharp sent out letters of con-
graduation to all the pastors, campaign
directors, team captains and workers,
thanking them for their cooperation
faithful work which made such d
glorious success possible.
Great credit for the SUCCESS of the
campaign is due to Joseph A. Fowler,
district director, who built UP the dis
trict organization that put the district
"over the top the first half day OF
the drive, John II. Pepper, conference
director, also lent great assistance In
the local campaign.
But 1t was to the enthusiasm of Or.
Sharp, who for months preceding the
campaign spent almost his whole time
and energy In implanting the centenary
spirit among the congregations, pastors
and leading laymen Of the various
churches, that perhaps the greatest In
dtvldual credit Is due for the success
Of tho campaign, Every detail of the
drive was t~houghtfully and prayerfuily
gone over by DIR. Sharp before the
actual campaign organization was
formed.
How They Stand.
! The official statement given out b,
! DR., Sharp, showing the apportionmen
and subscriptions with credits for eacf
: church or circuit, follows:
subscribat
R IrFlAk
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
Trust Me! Try Dodson's Liver Tone!
CaIome| Harms Liver and Bowels
Read my guarantee! Liven your liver and bowels
and get Strengthened up without taking sicken-
ing calomel. Don't lose a days work!

There's no reason why a person should
take sickenins. s~aiiysting calomel when
a few cents buys q large bottle OF bod
sons Liver Tone--a perfect substitute
for ealomei,
II ID a pleasant, vegetable iiauid which
ealpmei, but II doesn't make YOU sick
avid can not Ralivate,
Children and grown folks can take
Dotson's LIVER Tone. because II y pcs-
fecfly harmless. Il
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28

CAlomel 10 o dangerous drug. II 10
mercury and attacks your bones, Taxa
a dose of nasty calomel today and you
viii feel weak, sick and nauseated to-
morrow, Don't lose q days work. Take
a spoonful OF Dodson's LAYER Tone In
stead and you will wake up feeling
tion, sluggishness, headache, coated
tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist
says II you don't find Dcdson's Liver
Tone acts better than horrible calomsl
your meney Ia waiting FOR you. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
NICARAGUA DENIES AID
GIVEN TO REBEL FORCE

WARRINGTON. May 2s,--The Mica.
raguan legation In a statement issued
today charged that Costa Rican troops
mobilixed on the border OF Nicaragua
were commanded by Julian Irias, who
"a premier. OF Nicaragua under Presf.
dent Zelaya. ordered the execution Of
two American citizens, Cannon and
Groee, without trial, more than . de-
cade ago. The statement r~eiterstes the
contention OF Nicaragua that no assist
anee has been given the Costa Rican
raynlntlnnAriAS.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
4.227 YANKs BACK.

NEW YORK, May 2s,-Fffty- eight Of
ficers and 1866 men Of the ssth diyt-
sion western troops) arrived here to-
day from lBrsst o. the cruiser Hunt
deaux. brought a,als troops, including
one officer and 90 men Of Battery G
ssist field artillery, AID tAil-Amertca)
division.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
LAKE WITH NO OUTLET,

Lake Chad, In the heart OF Fast Az
rica, has no known outlet for the many
rivers pouring into It, Its waters rise
and fall with great rapidity, The
Alexander expedition records that FIRE.
ouently spaces over which. they had
sailed In the morning g py evening
become stretches OF dry mud.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
Chance for Every Member.

Mr., Pepper issued the following stated
ment 20 the pastors, local church and
district directors OF the conference
Wednesday;
"on account Of the continued rain
during the whole period Of the scen-
tenary drive very many charges could
not reach their people. Therefore
beg to ask that all pastors, local church
and district directors continue their
work until the last member has been
c~anvassed and q report made to the
district director.
when this IL done persistently and
faithfully | feel SURF that the Menu
phis conference will complete the small
amount yet necessary to meet its en-
tire quota, and nothing short OF this
| can be satisfactory"
Four churches reached their appor-
tionment Tuesday--Ftrst church. jack.
| son, Tenn. Whiteville circuit. Kenton
' and Rutherford circuit and Fulton cir
cut
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
ASK FAMINE REPORT.

PARIS, May ga request by Ger
man-AustriA that the faculties of medi-
cine Of various Spanish universities
send delegates to report tho effects Of
famine due to the allied blockade, has
met mainly with q negative response.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28

Total ..,,,,.,,,,,. $500, 900 s494,66O
Subscriptions a~ggrcEating SOS, Ts6 were
reported by the eight districts Of the
Memphis conference Tuesday, raising
the total 10 al. ana o6A.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
How They Stand,

The official statement given out by
and subscriptions with credits for each
church or circuit, follows:
Subscribed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05

Itasca county is setting st. Louis
county an example on water power
conservation that it would be well
for US to look into and to emulate.
Over there they are Harvesting lit
tie stream called the Prairie River
that looks like toy sprinkler along
side the city's motor driven truck as
compared with our own Kawishiwi
Falls. But they are doing it and
will wire the power to Grand Rapids,
their county seat for use in their
paper mill. Grand Rapids has no
mines, no factories, save the paper
mill, but they see great possibility
for a cheap power for their city and
are putting the harness on it and are
saying to it "giddap." While out
Kawishiwi way the waters boil and
toss and plunge down the great in
cline day and night and forever with
out hinder or pause. Here we have
the city and the mines, Winton along
the way with sawmills and machinery
to be turned and the waters still boil
and toss and plunge day and night
with the hundreds of horsepower
going to waste and the coal smoke
Of the city light plant and the mines
floating over the city's clotheslines
forever and aye. S'matter?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05
A RED CROSS, NURSE.

She was in the Rex lobby chatting
with some friends the other evening.
And she looked neat and trim in
her dark blue uniform with a nifty
little cap.
And we happened to be near two
soldiers when they saw her.
And one Of the doughboys said to
the other: Gee, there's Red Cross
nurse, amt it nice to see one of them
again?"
And the other buddie said "You
betcherlife it is" -..-.
And the first lad said: Lets go
up and speak to her."
And they did.
And they were nice and courteous
to her. ~
And there was something in their
expressions that one seldom sees ex-
cept when boy is talking to his
mother.
And as we looked at the boys faces
We read more of the noble work of
the Red Cross than We had ever read
in newspapers and magazines.
And we made up our mind that
anybody who would refuse to become
a member could be found guilty of
being a prize tightwad with no ex-
tenuating circumstances.
And that he would be poor i'm.
itation of an American.-Baudet
Region.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05
CUT OVER
LAND "TIPs''
MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY ACRI.
CULTURAL DIVISION
GIVES ADVICE.

Many farmers in other parts of
the country are casting interested
eyes at the fine farm lands of north
ern Minnesota; lands where clover,
like hope in the human breast, springs
eternal. The only reason why more
interested farmers do not move to
this clover and sure crop country is
the fact that large numbers of them
are lacking in experience in handling
such lands. They are not quite GER
tain that they know just how to take
hold.
For this reason some "advice to
the settler" was recently prepared by
the department of agriculture of the
University of Minnesota. This lad.
vice" based on the practical exper-
fence of men in the field, first warns
against alarm at the use of the word
Settler" Occupying the lands of
northern Minnesota need not mean
pioneering in the old sense. 1t may
mean, on the contrary-''good lands
on roads near towns, with good
schools, in good communities, and
with good neighbors." The advice
boiled down follows:
"Try to provide for from $500 to
$500 for development work after
making the first payment on the land.
If this cannot be done, however, and
you are barely making a living, move
any way.
"See the land before buying. Elk
anime the whole tract carefully.
Locate on road and not too far
from neighbors. Good land can be
found in such locations.
Eighty acres in the cut-over re-
gion make a good farm for a man
and ap average family in which are
some boys to help. Forty acres will
be enough for a man with no such
help. If funds are available without
Gripping working capital, a farm OF
100 acres should be secured.
"Spring is the best time to move
to such piece of land. This gives
opportunity to get ready for the com,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05
Romance of SoIWay Firth.

That shallow, dreary yet romantic
stretch of waters, the SOlway firth, has
many legend of ghost ships connect
ed with it. A hundred years ago, on
the eve before Christmas a merry bril-
dial party set out in one Of the small
craft peculiar to the Solway to be fer
ried across to the Scottish side. All
went well until midstream, when a
sailing vessel came beating down the
firth and crashed into the boat, throw
ing the party into the water. Despite
their cries for help the vessel contin-
ued its course, and the bride and
bridegroom with their friends met
watery grave. 1t is said that the sail
ing vessel was manned by rival Of
the bridegroom, who so revenged him
self. Anyhow, an apparitiOn of the
boat is said to appear at times,
manned by the faShless ghost of the
murderer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05
LIGHT Unto peluded GirIhood.

The men, If questioned, all will say
the girls they hope to wed some day
must, above all, be perfect cooks-no
matter IL they are short on looks. Their
clothes must be severe and plain and
all their actions sound and sane. But
when these men pick out their wives,
each mothers son of them connives to
wed a pretty form and face who feeds
him naught but mayonnaise. He passes
up the paragons. and to dimpled chin
succumbs. So girls, If you are hunting
beaux keep lots of powder on your
nose. Your sister who is making pies
had better learn to use her eyes. "The
way to a mans heart" you hear, sis
through his stomach" but 4 fear sue
cessful ones, you will observe, have
reached 1t through the optic nerve
New York Evening Telegram.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05
Pigeons in European Cities.

The pigeons of London are one of
the sights to which the attention of
visitors Is always drawn. st. Paurs
churchyard iSa great place of gather
ing, and here the birds flock down for
the midday meal spread for their bene-
fit. They feed out of the hands of their
benefactors, perch on their shoulders,
and flap and glitter in the sunshine as
they fly up and down. Pigeons seem to
belong to certain places. Admiralty
arch is another favorite resort, but all
over the city the birds have small
colonies, and crowds of faithful
friends. In Venice and in Florence the
pigeons are as much a part of the
picture as the greatest buildings, a fin
lshing touch, as it were, with which
nobody can dispense.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05

friends should see to it that further indignities
are not pushed on to the "wets' these bar room
film drinking scenes in an alleged dry county.
Hear the chuckles all over the house at the
movies when the brass rail has row of feet on
it. "Good old days" can be heard from front
row to "Nigger Heaven" 1t is rubbing it in
to allow these other day shadows to fit before
and still remind of Happy Days." And
Here's Hopin and all that. Saloon signs
should be painted out. That old Book beer
sign should be split for kindlng wood. Gold
leaf ornaments of the Pabst and Schlitz coat of
arms should be removed and cast up into med
ais or for something useful. Today the movie
producers are going too far in this alleged dry
climate of ours and halt should be called.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05

ing winter.
"Only a small amount of stock
should be taken to a new farm of
this kind-from two to four good
milking cows, one team of horses, a
brood sow and few chickens.
Potatoes and vegetables of all
kinds for the home cellar, and plenty
of feed, especially roughage, for the
stock for winter should be the aim of
the first years cropping.
"a pasture should be opened by
clearing away brush and logs, disk
ing or working up the soil among the
stumps, and sowing a little clover,
timothy and blue grass seed.
IF enough land is open and mar
ket is near, a small field of potatoes
should be put in.
1T isn't necessary to wait until
stumps are removed to put in crop.
Often the brush can be cut and
burned, and good crops obtained
among the stumps-especially hay
and pasture crops"
By the adoption of such a system
the cut-over farm can be made to
yield living while being brought to
full development.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05


Legislation by injunction may or
may not be just the thing, but we pre-
fer it in thousand ways to legisla-
lation by intimidation. Dynamite
laws and bomb juries in the night
time have never appealed to us not
a little bit. The I. w. w. ways and
means of securing legislation is, hap
PLY, reacting upon them. Their
sympathisers should be dipped in
the same kettle wherever. Free
speech and free license are two wide
ly separated commodities. There is
too much of this so-called free
speech. Any man who is not FOR
America is AGAINST it. We are
coming to the point when Uncle Sam
is going to find out who his friends
are. In time there is going to be
some actual deportations and it will
behoove some people to have a brake
attached to their faces. Emma Gold
man is already on her way and the
Bill Haywoods are noticing the hand.
writing. 1t is slowly but surely ma.
terialising. The American Legion is
demanding it. One hundred PEI
cent Americanism is calling for it
Why should these red flaggers be al.
lowed to live in a country they ap,
parently wish to destroy? Speed the
day when the ship sails away with
the last of them, be they American
or foreign born.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05

Will the world come to an end between Dec
ember II and the 25th as the astronomers and
others are predicting that it will Turn over
and go to sleep. 1t won't happen Those six
great planets, the sun and the earth and the
others in this &c degrees of closeness in which
they are now said to be grouped, makes no diff
ference. They will net bump Were thew
guided by human hands or the Reds, they would
have bumped long ago. But, You and who
study our Scriptures closely have read there
that mo one knoweth when the end shall come
NOT even the angels in heaven" Let's for
get it and see how much coal there is in the bin.
It's 2x4 prophets word on one side and the
Book on the other-why worry?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-05

The City of Ely has the only system of hand
ling the snow on the sidewalks and in the
streets Promptly after storm, the city's
snow plows get busy on all the walks The
main streets leading to the schools are the first
and those the least used are last. This wait
ing for the householder to shovel off his own
walk and thus save city expense is all bunk.
Besides, many lots are owned by out of town
people or by home people who do not live on
them and they would never be cleaned. lot
of people also care DIM for your convenience
or mine and they never own snow shovel.
But when the old four horse snowplow hits
every lot alike, and the power pillow goes up
and down all streets alike, then we have clean
walks negotiable on foot or by car. And that's
the only way. Under the old way, John got
busy on his walk while it was still storming,
but Bill wades through his and the rest of us
could follow his tracks.