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The Era-leader., 1919-07-03
Gold Medal Contest.

AS ulOSL Va Jul AShS NA'S"s
the Interstate Trust and Banking
Go. of New Orleans, each year
offers a gold medal in each High
School in the states of Louisiana
and Mississippi for the best paper
on some subject of general inter-
est and educational Importance.
The subject for this year was
"Vital Statistics" and was so ably
handled by Miss Minnie Miller,
the prize winner from the Mt.
Hermon High School, that her
thesis was forwarded US here from
the authorities at New Orleans
and we take pleasure in present.
ing it to our readers. all of whom
will be interested and helped by
the reading.
VITAL STATISTICS.
We have at last come to the
crossroads and as we decide so
will the curve of health rise or
fall perhaps for the next fifty
years. We can take the line of
least resistance that is 10 let the
world 60 on as it has, or we can
make the readjustment necessary
to prolong life and protect health.
The year just passed was mo-
mentous in human history and
marks the end, we hope of mans
destruction Of man. 1t reveals the
solidity of nations in their convic-
ton that right and not might
must prevail. The brotherhood
established by it will be a factor
in an immediate change of gov
ernmentaf order. It will also
change mans views in relation to
the social activities which mean
so much in the alleviation of suf.
fering and prevention of those
conditions that bring poverty
and other evils.
There are numerous problems
that need to be solved and public
health is the most important of all.
No one who has considered the
situation can be other than dis
couraged at the indifference of the
many citizens to the efforts of the
Health Board to prevent disease.
The influenza epidemic is as good
an illustration as we need. Almost
Immediately all public places were
quarantined and no sooner than
this was done there arose cry of
discomfort. Everywhere there
was state of confusion, but this
like all other good, was realized
when it was nearly too late.
Society plays an important part
in this measure and should turn
its whole might toward combating
disease. Millions are being spent
each day for medicine and medi-
cal attention when if the cause
had been eliminated there would
have been fewer lives lost and
less money spent. We of today
have the greatest opportunity of
the ages. Shall we let it pass un-
needed? 1t would be we'll worth
our efforts to use the scientific
equipment in combating diseases,
Not just those which disable for
awhile and those which are dead
ly but all. This means, if sensibly
and wisely carried out, the pract-
ical elimination Of insane asylums,
detention homes and many other
institutions which under the'pres-
ent conditions are absolutely nee
essary. Fifty years ago modern
preventive medicine did not exist
and the relation of governmental
activities to public health was
unknown. But facts in medicine
and sanitation recently discovered
and proved have changed the at.
titude of the scientist and to a
degree, that of the average man
toward health as a community
The Era-leader., 1919-07-03

the better. That was six years ago
and I am still here and am a we'll,
strong woman, and I owe my life to
Cardui. I had only taken half the
bottle when I began to feel better.
The misery in my side got less... I
continued right on taking the Cardu
until I had taken three bottles and
did not need any more for I was well
and never felt better in my life... I
have never had any trouble from that
day to this"
Do you suffer from headache, back.
ache, pains in sides. or other discom.
forts, each month? Or do you feel
weak, nervous and fagged-out? II so,
give Cardui, the woman's tonic, a
trial. J.
The Era-leader., 1919-07-03
Sheriff Sale.-No. 1929.
First State Bank

VS..
Mrs. Bertha H. Stewart, q
Notice is hereby given thatD
tue of an order of seizure sno
issued out of the 26th Jn
District Court of La, in and fol y
ington Parish, in above entitled Y
and to me directed, will proces1|
sell at public auction to the ~
highest bidder, on
Saturday, July 10, lNs
at the principal front door OF tnys| y,
house at Franklinton, La, Dss.
the legal sale hours for judlcla
the following described prope,y|
ing and situated in Washington 4
ish, Louisiana, to-Wit: ii
Lot nine (9) in block ten
Richardson's Addition to bos
Washington Parish, as per pa'~, g,
in the clerk Of courts Office ID "
ington parish, at Franklinton'
ana, together with the bullo'Ds'
improvements thereon.
Terms of sale-.Cash withou1 8
of appraisement. .o,a
This the nth day Of June, IVY
J.E. Bstemsn, 81
The Era-leader., 1919-07-03
FOrds! Fords!

We have on hand a carload of
latest model Ford Cars. Place
your order now.
Motor Sales & Service Go.
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constabIe's Sale.

Sixth Ward Justice Court, Washing.
ton Parish, La.
Moore Handley Hardware Go.
vs..
Thompson Bros. Lumber Co., ct
ais.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
of writ of fieri facias issued out of
the above entitled court in the above
entitled cause, to me directed and de-
livered for execution, l have seized
and taken into my possession and will
offer same for sale and sell to the
highest bidder for cash, during the
legal sale hours on
Saturday, July 5, 1919
at the residence of ]. P. Parker in 9Th
Ward of Washington Parish, Louisi-
ana, where the Boiler to be sold is
now located, the following described
property, situated in 9Th Ward of
Washington Parish, Louisiana, to-wit:
One Boiler, the property of defend
ants.
Terms of sale, cash with benefit of
appraisement.
This the 10th day of June, 1919.
w. ]. CORKERN,
Constable 9Th Ward Justice Court.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
800 Saloons Open With Il
Rush as Judge Pollock
Signs Order Against En-
forcement of Prohibition
Revenue Stamps Issued
Brewers Rush Deliveries;
Federal Attorney Acts TO
jam the Lid Down Again
Special Corresnondenco


ST louis, Nov 22.-Thc ban on
beer was formally removed in St.
Louis and the eastern district of
Missouri at noon to- day.
At that hour United States District
Judge Pollock, sitting in Kansas City
Kans., signed the formal restraining
order which was granted St Louis
brewers yesterday.
Saloons have re-opcncd and tbs
thirsty are at ease once more.
The order enjoins Federal authori
ties from enforcing sections Of the
Volstead wartime prohibition enforce
ment law relating to the sale anc
manufacture of beer containing one
half of one per cent or more alcohol
While the order does not specif,
the amount of alcohol to be containct
in beer sold by virtue of the injunc
ton, brewers will init the alcoholic
contents to 2.75 per cent.
News that Judge Pollocks signatur,
had been affixed to the order which
Attorney Charles NJ. IIouts, represent
ing the brewers. took to Kansas CITY
kans., to- day--was contained in tcle
gram rom Judge Pollock, received a
I p. M. by Collector of Interna
Revenue Moore
The telegram follows:
IL have this morning signed the or
der in the sonsol olidatcd beer cases an,
same is now effective"
Collector Moore Immediately gave in
structions- to his deputies to issu,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

signed and the Federal ban lifted. To-
night approximately 800 saloons are
running full blast.
Brewers who throughout the morn
ing had been awaiting word that the
order had been signed Immediately
started the delivery of 2.75 per cent
beer to saloons throughout the city.
Trucks had been loaded and delivery
slips given to drivers early this morn
ing and everything was in readiness
for the order that would formally lift
the ban.
While brewers, saloonkeepers and
customers are rejoicing in the lifting
of the ban, Assistant District Attorney
White is preparing to frustrate the
provisions Of the restraining order and
again clamp the lid on St. Louis. White
announced that the government would
plead no further in the present case.
but just as soon as Judge Pollock made
the decree final, it would file an ap-
peal and ask for a writ of supcrsedeas.
A writ of supersedeas would make the
temporary injunction imperative until
fnal adjudication OF the case. Should
the District Attorney fail to obtain a
superscdeas from Judge Pollock, he
will apply direct to tho United States
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
German Assembly Plans
General Labor Statutes

BERLIN, Oct. 1G.-Scvcnteen com
mittces have been creted by the gov
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
First Book Without
Printers Is Produced

The first attempt in the history of
book publishing to produce a cloth
bound volume without the aid Of COM
positors,: pressmen or feeders, has
Just been made by D. Appleton and
Company, of this city. The move was
made because Of the strike Of the
printing trades and to prove that it
could be DONE" the publishers said
yesterday.
"piggic," new book from the pen
Of Eleanor Gates, author Of "The Poor
Little Rich Girl" is this newest con-
tribution to literature, and it was pro-
duced by different process from that
used in the publication of several
magazines. which have been run off
the press without the aid of the print
ing trades. The Appleton Company
describes the operation as follows:
"The first step in the printing pro-
cess is setting up Usually this is
done on linotype machine, but in the
new Appleton process it was done by
land on n typewriter. An expert
cypist, writing on machine which
flowed her to use II variety Of type
aces for purposes of emphasis, type
wrote every page, allowing space for
wide margins and for the black and
white drawings, which were to be
SN"tNSASN thIOuSlIOuI lIlc DOOk. nc
pages were then proof-read, and the
Illustrations were pasted into place.
The pages were then photographed on
glass negatives.
"Unlikc those New York magazines
which have come out durin gthe print
ers' strike in typewritten form, the
Photographic page plates of 'Piggie'
were not cast into regular printing
plates and then run off on regular
press. Instead, the page photographs
ere transferred to zinc plates which
could be stamped onto special rub
Der roll. From this rubber roll and
by the use Of an art press, not regu-
ar printing press, the book pages were
printed on regular book paper. TIE
pages were then cut and bound with
the usual cloth covers and 'Peggie-
the first typewriter book ever printed
without the aid of single regular
printing press or pressman-was ready
or the public"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
M0onsI,iners Cache Huge
Stocks of Sugar for Stills

NcU forh Tribune
WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.--~Quanti
ties Of sugar that would go long
way in relieving the present famine
are cached in the mountains Of East
Tennessee, Georgia. Alabama and
North Carolina, where it is being
used in the distillation Of illicit
whisky, according to internal revenue
officers at work in those districts.
Two deputy collectors, r. B. Irvine
and w. 7. Crew, operating in the
mountains east of Chattanooga, re-
Gently contiscated more than one
thousand barrels of granulatcd sugar
from one still in the Smoky Noun
tains.
The deputies cxplains that it re-
quires ten pounds of sugar to make
one gallon Of whisky under the M oon
sinners recipe. The stills from
which this sugar was taken arc in u
mountainous country more than
thirty miles from railroad. How
it was transported without detection
is a mystery the deputies arc trying
to unraVel.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
English Hospital Will
Honor American Hero..

DARTF0RD, England. Oct. IA
Plans are under way for the build;,s
Of chapel az an annex TO Chr;se
Church here to serve as q rnemor al T.,
those fighting men of the United STAT.
who died in the American Hospital d.
Dartford.
The vicar, the Rev. Rowland W.
NELL. in announcing the project ssassa
that "the name of every American w.
died in hartford would be insorih.d
upon the walls Of the chapel, so tn.
all who enter may be reminded OF H.
gallant sacrifices made in the cau.e -
civilization"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Influenza Epidemic LIS
Killing Cats of London

LONDON, Oct. 2o-The outbreak Of
a disease, which has many symptoms
common to influenza. is causing the
death of cats by the hundred here.
The disease is not thought to be
communicable to human beings, but
distinguished surgeons arc unable to
confirm the exact nature. 1t spreads
with amazing rapidity and the symp-
toms are said to resemble closely that
of poisoning, except that death usually
takes place within tw' days.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
German Forts at Mayence,
Dismantled, To BE Factor;,

MAYFNCE, Oct %. Apar- ro..
houses. private homes and in SOM ~ ~
stances factories and other institrt;o-,
OF commercial nature are planned fos
The future on the ground in and no.,
Mayence. occupied at present b. "a
German Notifications.
The task of dismantlng and destror.
ir0 the twrlve Iorts IN the vlcinjsv -
Mayencc began several weeks ago. tss
work being done by Germans md,
supervision of the French army Of oce,.
patton. The work viii require yesr
or more.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Russian Soviets Reported
Convoking National Assembly

According to cable received yester-
day by the Jewish Daily Forward"
rom its Copenhagen correspondent the
Russian Congress of Soviets has given
up its its radical program and has
agreed to convoke q constituent as
embly to decide on the form of gov
rnment. The report said power had
oeen given over to the more conscrva-
tive Right Social Revolutionarics and
Mensheviki.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

ernmcnt to work out the details of q
national labor law that it is planned
to pass either by the present National
Assembly or through the coming
Reichstag.
The committee will be so dividede up
as to deal with every kind Of labor
and every phase Of the problem. The
German government hopes to nave an
ideal system, with countless improve
ments over the past.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Prepare for Epidemic

LONDON, Oct 22-Medical opinion
seems to be divided here as to whether
English people will experience an
other outbreak of influenza, but the
Ministry Of Health has taken active
steps in preparation for possible re-
currencc Of the plague.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

with the outlawed pressmen and feed
crs, as we'll as with the vacation ist"
mpositors, granting their demands
for the forty-four-hour week and a
s14 increase in wages. The Allied
Printing Trades Council considers this
action as an affront to the bona fde
unions of the printing trades, and for
this reason seeks to enjoin the COM
pany from use of the council label.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

revenue stamps to brewrs applying for
them. Moore also directed that brew
crs be notified that the order had been
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-31
HEARTBURN
Caused by
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That bitter heartburn. belcht.s. food
repeating. indig estion. bloat after eating
all are caused by acid stomach But they
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Headache. biliousness. rheumatism. sciA,ica.
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OF the intestines and many other ailments
are traceable to ACID-STOMACH.
Thousands--yes millions-of people who
ought to be- we'll and strong are mere weak
lings because OF acid stomach. They really
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cALyPsol

Synopsis-The man who tells this
story-call him the hero. for short
II visiting his friend. John Saun-
ders, British official In Nassau.
Bahama islands. Charles Webster.
local merchant. completes tho
trio of friends. Saunders produces
q written document p%urporting to
he the death-bed statement Of Hen
ry r. Tobias. q successful pirate.
made by him In 1859. 1t gives two
spots where two millions and q half
Of treasures were buried by him and
his companions. The conversation
Of the three friends is overheard by
4 pock-marked stranger. The docu-
ment disappears. Saunders. how
yer. has q copy. The hero. deter
mined to seek the buried treasure,
charters q schooner. The pock-
marked man is taken on as a pas
senger. On the voyage somebody
empties the gasoline tank. The hero
and the passenger clash. the pas
senger leaving a manifesto bearing
the signature. Henry r. Tobias.
Jr." The hero lands on Dead Mems
Shoes. There is q fight, which is
followed by several funerals. The
hero finds a ave containing the
skeletons Of two pirates and q mas
sive chest-empty save for a few
pteceS of eight scattered on the bot
tom. The hero returns to Mas
sau and by good luck learns the
location Of Short Shrift island.
Webster buys the yawl Flamingo.
ana he and the hero sail for Short
0hr1ft island. Az the Flamingo
leaves the wharf q young fellow,
':Jack Harkaway." Jumps aboard
and II allowed to remain. Jack
proves an interesting and mysteri-
U passenger. The adventures
capture Tobias. "Jack Hathaway
proves to be q girl and disappears.
The hero sails to Short Shrift is
land, sees an enhancing sirl with
q Spanish doubloon. Follows an even
moro enhancing sight Of the girl.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-31
CHAPTER ~.
Calypso.

Calypso.
OF course q glance and the dret
sound Of his voice had told me that !
had to do with a geDtleman-one Of
those vagabond English gentlemen In
exile who form q type peculiar, l think.
to the English race; men that are q
curious combination of aristOcrat and
Gypsy. soldier, scholar, and philoso-
pher: men of good family. who have
drifted everywhere, see and seen
through everything, but in all their
wanderings have lost their sense
and habit Of "form," their boyish zest
In living, their humorous stoicism, and.
above all, their lordly accent.
Now that you have found us. Sir
Ulysses" continued my eccentric
host, motionlng me. with an indie
scribably princely wave Of the hand to
accompany him-"y0u must certainly
give us the pleasure Of your company
to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as
black swans on this Ultima Thule of
ou~rs-though. by the way, the black
swan, cygnus atratus, is nothing like
so rare qs the ancients belies ed. |
have shot them myself out in Australia.
Still they are rare enough for the pur.
pose OF imagery. though really not so
rare as q human being one can talk
in~telligently to on this island"
Talk! My friend indeed. very evil
IDENTIFY was a talker-One of those fan
tastic m0nOloglsts to whom an audi
ence is little more than q symbol. !
saw that there was no need for nse
to do any Of the talking. He was more
than glad to do 1t all. Plainly his en-
counter with me was 70 him like q
spring In q thirsty land.
Solitude" he continued. lis per
hlps the Anal need Of the human soul.
After 4 while, when we have run the
gamut Of all our ardors and our
dreams, solitude comes to seem the
one excellent thing, the summum
bonum.ns
murnaered that he certainly seemed
~ have come to the right place for It.
VERY true, indeed" he assented.
With Z c0urtly INCLINATION Of his head,
~ shrYrh ! Ind said something pro.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-31

found: "very true, indeed. and yet.
wasn't 1t the great Bacon who said !:
Whoever Is delighted with solitude Is
either q beast or a ~godY-and this
particular solitude, ! confess, some
times seems to me a little too much
like that enforced solitude Of the
P0ntic marshes Of which Ovid walled
and whimpered in the deaf ears Of
Augustus"
I could not help noticing ut last
as he talked on with fantastic magnifi-
cence, the odd contrast between his
speech and the almost equally fantas-
tic poverty Of his clothing. The suit
he wore. though still preserving q
certain elegance Of cut, was so worn
and patched and stained that q negro
would hardly have accepted It as q
gift: and his almost painful emacia-
ton gave him generally the appear
n c Of an animated framework Of
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-31
CHAPTER n-Continued.
10

"Hal ha !" called q pleasant voice,
evidently belonging to q man OF an
unusually tall and lean figure who was
approaching me through the palm
trunks: $50 you have discovered my
hidden ~paradise-my Alcinous garden.
so to say" and he quoted two we'll
known lines Of Homer In the original
Greek. adding: "m II you prefer it in
POpe's translation. which I think
don't you1-remains the best:
Close to the gates . spacious garden liea,
From storms defended and Indictment
skies
"and 20 on. Alasi for an old mans
memory! It grows shorter and shorter
like his life, chr Never mind. you
are welcome, sir stranger. mysterious.
" tossed up here ike Ulysses. on ouz
island coast"
gnzed with natural wOnderment
ut this strange individual, who thus
In the heart of the wilderness had
saluted me with a meticulously pure
English accent, and welcomed me In
q quotation from Homer In the original
Greek. Who. in the DEVILS name, was
this odd character who, l saw. as ]
looked closer at him. was, as he had
limited, quite an old man, though his
unusual erectness and sprightliness Of
manner, lent him an Elusive air OF
yOuth9 Who on earth was he-and
how did he happen in the middle Of
this haunted wo0d1
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-31
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