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The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been a household remedy all over
the civilized world for more than half
a century for constipation, intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t is a most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming up of food, palpita-
ton of heart, and many other symp-
toms. A few doses of August Flower
will relieve you. 1t is gentle laxa-
tive. Ask your druggist. Sold in all
civilized countries.-Adv.
No man can choose his own father,
but he can use little judgment pick
ing his father-in-law.
If a man never makes mistakes he
never makes anything else.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
DoINes OF THE BOY SCOUTS.

Forty-eight of the f1fty-nine boy
scout troops under the Jurisdiction of
the Indianapolis local council are op-
Grated in connection with churches.
One of the loyal supporters of the
10000 boy scouts in Siam is Governor
Panomnaquaranuraksha of Nagura
PanOm.
A war history of Denver boy scouts
will be written by members of the
State Historical society, who have re-
q1ested a complete, itemized statement
of every scouts war service.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
WHO PUT SCOUTS TO WORK?

The sea scouts of England have a
varied and happy time while on coast
service. Some $4,000 of them have
been through the experience since the
war began, and though the watch
keeping may be long and arduous, there
is always the excitement underlying it
Of some unexpected happening.
Many of the boys have in the course
Of their service had opportunities
TO distinguish acknowledgements
ties which they have not failed to
geize-
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
a Smart Lot of Boys.

Within the last few years boys or
japan, none of them over fifteen years
old, have turned out typewriters. tele-
nhones, pianos, door locks and some OF
the most ingenious mechanical toys
ever placed on the market. Most Jap
anese boys have great natural skill
with tools and there is now shop at
Tokyo. run by boy, in which so boys
are constantly at work. A young Jap
is as sharp as a razor. He works dur
ing the day aud goes to school at
niEht
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

damp because you were watered lit
tie while ago. And we're strong. We
are not hard to look after. We just
are so happy and proud that we CAN
hold water that we grow stronger all
the time. And the greatest honor of
all is our name-the pitcher plants
because we are like pitchers-far timer
than cups and saucers or plates!
"And none of the shrubs could think
of q thing to say!
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Accidental French.

An American lady in Paris wantel
some water, but could not make the
maid understand she wanted it hot
After several vain. attempts she ex-
CLAIMED in disgust: ''Sho." The maid
frightened up suddenly. went of and
returned with a pitcher of hot water.
IT was not until some time afterward
that the lady learned from a friend
that the girl had evidently misunder-
stood "Sho!" for "chaud," which In
the French for hot.
Times-Dispatch.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Ss-ortB n, the E1ead'S

% an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per-
sons who are subject to frequent colds
An the head. will ind that the use OF
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
build up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them legB liable to colds.
Repeated attacks Of Acute Catarrh may
lead TO Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is tax.
en- Internally and acts through the Blood
On the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
All Druggists 76c Testimonials free.
$1,000 for any case Of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE viii not
r .. Cheney q Co. Toledo. Ohio.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

cuticura soothes Itching Scalp
On retiring gently rub spots Of dam
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Make
them your everyday toilet preparations
and have a clear skin and soft, white
hands-Adv
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Why Is q Kitchen Cabinet.

, They had just passed the display
window Of a furniture store in which
a nationally advertised kitchen cabi-
net was exhibited. In front of them
walked young woman attfred in one
OF the latest style skirts.
why is a kitchen cabinet" he
asked, like the new skirt?"
"Why?"
Because they both shorten steps,"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
SCOUT ANNIVERSARY IN ALASKA

There is a town called Cordova,
Alaska, on the Copper river and North
western railway, which is the home of
a live-wire troop of scouts.
After celebrating the ninth scout an
niversary in approved fashion, they
went out and erected food shelters for
the birds. contributed half a dollar
each toward some destitute Indians
and took supplies to a needy family.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

q n IS, m y Oock
ached all the time.
I was tired and had
no ambition for any
thing. / had taken
q number Of medi-
cines which did me
no good. One day
I read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compounds and
what it had done for
women, so I tried
it. Ny nervousness
and hackacha and
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

asked the others,
. little GROSSLY.
81" p oint in
deed!' said the
pit ch er plants
rou d. Y. You
might. as well go
and ask a pitcher
what is the point
of being able to
hold anything. We
can hold water.
All the rest of you
have to let the
water run right
off. We can hold
it, and have our
own little supply.
We are a private.
S p e cial dining
room for fresh
w err drinking.
See? We are still
full of water and
Won are all only
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

SMITH understand .Jebbs is learn
ing to run typewriter. What system
is he using, the touch system?
Brown-No; he says it's the hunt
and poke system; mostly poke.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

Betty. who had been to kindergarten
for the first time, came home crying.
She was asked what the trouble was,
and replied: 1.-THE teacher makes me
sit beside a red-haired girl"
f'Well, what difference does that
make, Betty?'
''Well, nin't red hair catching?"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Character Main REQUISITE.

The first requisite of success in
business is character, a word which
includes temperance, fairness, polite
ness. industry and as much intelli-
gence as can be accumulated.-E. w.
Howe.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

q
"Oh. Daddy ,
said the children
laughing. please
tell us what DO.
tanica1 means
And what hard
work it was for
them to say "bO.
tanical I"
Botany" saiG
Daddy, "is the
study of plants
and flowers, and
botanical houses
are where the
plants and flow.
ers are K e p [
that belong to
the city park. All
winter long there
Z
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Pessimism Is Wrong.

It is wicked to go around with face
which indicates that life has been
disappointment of glorious Joy.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
Common Lack.

HE certainly is wonderful lin
gust. Is there a tongue he hasn't
mastered?"
"Oh, yes: his wife's."
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

Ever notice how much more noise
a little loose change can make than a
wad of greenbacks?
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

Woman may be the weaker vessel
but she sometimes contains the strong
err spirit. 81 T.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

At that, the fellow who shutters has
time enough to figure out what he's
saving
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

We all like the man who "sticks
through thick and thin
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
OADDY,}EvEN|NQD
FAIRY TALE FL
THE PITCHER PLANTS.
6y ftary Graham Bonner u,a..et

eft was rainy day" said Daddy,
land inside the botanical houses it
uaS raininu fnoi,
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03
HOW TO AVOID
bACkACHE and
NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
Own Experience.

Providence, r. I.-"I was all run
down in health, was nervous, had head
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-03

The Cause of II.
"What a ringing voice yonder girl
has" well, isn't that the right kind
of a voice for belle?'
The sun., 1919-07-27
Smell Smith, author of Americas Tomorrow"
R. R. Yarns for r. r. Men
Smell Smith, author of

\ TEITHER those who travel day after
l Y day, week after week, and month
after month, across the country on fast
trains, nor for that matter, those >who
travel daily to and from their homes
commuters we calls 'em)- often stop to
think even for moment of the man who
pulls the throttle or the man who feeds the
fires behind the boiler. But these are
human beings like the rest of US, and are
men to an exceptional degree
Thus we learn from Frank L. Packards
latest book, The Night Operator. Mr..
Packard has written many detective
yarns, but this Is not one of them This
volume contains ten fnside" stories Of
railroading. 1t pictures the life, ambi-
tons, love, hatred, friendship, courage
and heroism of the railroad man--from
the loneliest night operator at the little
signal station of Angel Forks all the way
up to the master mechanic and the super
and then beyond.
And Mr.. Packard, who had a crack at
civil engineering, even if he didn't get his
c. E., surely deserves the honorary c. E.
in fiction, on the merits of The Wirs
Devils and this latest, The Night Oper-
Gtor.
The title story IS a very good one.
Toodles is newspaper, candy and maya
zine vender Of vendors. He'd never even
refuse a lead quarter, for if he took one
it always managed to move along. So
Toodle's story begins to get really in
teresting about the time he passes one on
Hawkeye, the conductor. Hawkeye was
sore, not because he had had a lead
quarter gently slipped to him, but because
Toodles, the little stunted paper boy, had
done it. Enemies they had been, and if
it were not for the big hearted, good ma
tured Bob Donkin, Toodles would have
suffered. But Donkin took Toodles IN
hand and at the end of the story we find
Toodles already station telegrapher, and
grinding hard for despatcheTs pay.
The ApotheoSis of Sammy DTgan,
The Wrecking Boss and The Age Limit
are three more stories worth note, In par
ticular The Age Limit. In this we read Of
the broken hearted old timer-62 years Of
age is Dan MacCaffery-who was to lose
his job on the first Of the month, Of
course because of his age. After forty
years Of raihoading it had come to this.
So Dan, good old Dan, never even lost
smile over it, and on the last day, before
The sun., 1919-07-27

he went out on the run, he prayed to God,
and that night his prayer was answered
Dan never lived to be fred.
In others the lighter and darker side of
railroading Is pictured in an easy,
straight to the heart fashion, but we'd
probably spoil good thing by mention
ing them here At any rate Mr.. Packard
has done something very fine in The Night
Operator, and we hope for more Of this
type.
THE NIGHT OPERATOR. BY FRANK L
PACKARD. George II. Doran Company.
The sun., 1919-07-27
Fernando"

THROUGH its first eight chapters
Il John Ayseough's Fsrna'sdo ap-
pears to be the beginning Of very de-
hghtful novel Of manners graeed by some
thing we often hear about but not 50 often
chance upon-real Irish humor. And
then the actual purpose Of the story APP
pears in its true light, as being another
part of the autobiography Of the ns7eilst
and essayist who uses the above nom de
plume for his title -pageS although as the
reading world knows very well by this
time his name is Bickerstaff Drew, 3 Nom
signor Of the Catholic Church. John
Ayscough has given Us one part OF his
life as boy In Graeeehsrcb, tale that
took its title from an English village be
lived in when a Lad. Now he tells his
readers Of what his parents and their peo-
pie were like before he came upon the
scene, and in the last part Of Fernando
how that male child grew up and found
the goal Of his spiritual nature in the
Catholic Church.
The English world that Hubert Burseough
introduced his pretty Irish bride into, be-
fore Fernando Burseough was born, OF
course, was the sort Of Miles, that re-
minds one of the Crawford style Of novel
if one could imagine such story told with
Irish wit. Mrs. Burscough. HubGfs
mother, is the type of British dowsger
Bernard Shaw delights in painting at her
worst, and that worst is displayed in her
treatment of Sheila. Even the admiration
for Sheila displayed by the BurseoughS
titled Irish neighbors, Lord and Lady
Drumshambo, helped poor Sheila little
And when Hubert died the Burscoughs
took one Of his three young sons to care
for, leaving the widowed Mrs. Burscough
to bring up the others con three pounds
month";" feat in domestic economy that
arouses the wonderment Of Fernando's
biographer fifty years afterward.
From this point in the story the hero's
biography is the burden Of the tale,
story Of solitary childhood for the most
part with school and college days follow
ing on, eliminating IN Fernando's becom-
ing Catholic while at Oxford. For this
portion Of Fernando's biography has no
ending, as the writer says in his dediea-
ton, it is merely "a preface preface 10
a book never 30 be written" We have
spoken Of Ayscough's delightful humor
in the opening chapters. Of the charm
Of his style it is scarcely necessary to
speak at this late day. But we note here
something that we never remarked before
and curious quality for prelate Of the
Church to own, his extraordinary facility
for describing wouen's costumes, particu-
lar cases in point being the picture Of Miss
Prince at the Christmas party in the
Gracechurch workhouse and also of Hessy
Thrush's mother.
FERNANDO. BY JOHN AYscoUGH. P. J.
Kennedy & Sons.
The sun., 1919-07-27
An Unpleasant Story,
By cHEEvoR MCKEE.

By cHEEVoR MCKEE.
nRMSBEE took my last story but one.
~ from a box labelled Read and Re-
jected.
As rule do not play Peri at maya
zine editors gates. Enclosing stamps is
quicker and saves self-respect. But Orms-
bee was friend of mine before his trans
fguration; and when he has explained
why my last story is unavailable and my
next one probably will be, we lunch to-
gether.
"Sit down and put your head back" he
said. "If / hurt so you can't bear it,
squeeze the bulb. This thing is carefully
written, and you do get certain effect
But I've told you fifty times that we're not
in the market for unpleasantness"
"You had one by Kipling last month"
"When you get to be Kpling, bring
that in again and well talk. Meanwhile
write us love stories. Nice little love sto-
ries, under 5000 words"
An office girl came with card.
"Oh, Lord-show him In" said Orms-
bee. 'No, You needn't go'-to me; "this
won't take two minutes"
The big chairs leathern arms were COM
forting as mothers. / had been writing
all night, an evening paper mans only
49, Co. Got,or Pt,f ouan at
risk of rudeness Ormsbee's caller made
me stare; slight man, Of any age you
pleased, with broad waxen black mus
tached face that was somehow familiar.
Bowling, he laid manuscript on the cor
ner of Ormsbee's desk. 0rmsbee took an
other from the box labelled Read and Re-
jected.
HSorry," he said. "Your stories are
well written, and you do get strong eff
fects. But as I have told you, this maya
zine has no use for the unpleasant. Our
readers get too much depression in life to
want any more in fiction. Frankly
Drmsbee looked OVER HE tortoise shell
rims as Rhadamantl 8, if he wears them,
may be supposed to ook-"frankly, I'm
berry to see writer Of your ability turn
ing out line of stuff 30 very hard TO
SELL"
The callers bow was family sardonic, I
thought.
"This another of the same natureT
The caller inclined his dark head.
"In that case can give you no encour-
agement. For one thing, your persistent
introductions Of the Occulf-Oh, no;
please don't; please leave it here. want
to read it myself if you don't mind"
The callers bow was still deeper than
his last.
any dear sir" said Ornsbee impulsive-
E, "why not try your hand at love stories,
nice little love stories, under 5,000-well,
good morning"
For the caller, with final bow worthy
of Voltaire, had gone away.
"All right! Come top Ormsbee
slapped my knee. ''Thats over, thank
heaven! Come along to lunch. Oh, hold
on-got treasure here to show you"
And he handed me the manuscript from
the corner of his desk.
"Touch that with reverence. That's the
original! We're going to make a fac
simile for the January number. Greatest
short story in English, if you ask me-"
1t was hand written, In the kind Of hand
people speak of as copper plate: The
Fall Of the House Of Usher. =.
EdOar lanes Swift's Psucboloou and
The sun., 1919-07-27

Edgar James Swift's Psychology and
the Days Work (Scribner's) already in
its sixth American printing, is being
brought out in an English edition by
Allen & Unwin. 3D.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-05
CLAIMS HONOR FOR GEORGIAN
Savannah Newspaper Asserts That
Elias Howe Was Not Inventor
Of the Sewing Machine.

The centenary of the birth of elias
Howe, the modest Yankee who invent
ed the sewing machine, took place on
June 9. There was no extended Of
servance of the day, observes Hart
ford Courant, yet II was Howe who
took a good deal Of the drudgery out
of the lives of millions of American
women. He also increased the power
of his fellow men to produce garments
and other material that formerly
needed the patient handwork Of indi-
viduals.
But It is interesting to observe, IN
connection with the anniversary, that
the Savannah News undertakes the
rather hopeless task Of trying to con-
vince its readers that II was not Howe,
but a Georgian, Francis r. Goulding,
who constructed and operated the first
sewing machine. This paper says
that this man, Presbyterian preach
er living In Liberty county, married
Savannah girl and then began work on
q sewing machine in order that ne
might save his fair wife much hard
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-05
Americans Eat Little Mutton.

In Great Britain about ~ per cen'
of all meat consumed is mutton. IN
France 1t Is about II per cent. LID
Canada 1t is not quite z, and in the
United States is only about 315 per
cent. Last year (191S) the consump-
ton of dressed meat Clard excluded
In the United States averaged LOO
pounds per person, Of which only
were mutton and lamb.
The British, the Canadians. and the
French-all similar types OF people
and having habits Of life similar TO
Americans-use less meat than Amer
leans do, but a much larger proportion
comes from sheep. The United States
gets its meat principally from cattle
and hogs. Pork consumption is about
IA times, and beef consumption about
10 times, as great as our use OF NUT
ton and lamb. These are the annual
averages for last year.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-05
WHEAT, TENN.
Crowded out last week

Having some rain now days.
Crops look good.
Sam McGill is now operating his
saw mill ON Popular Creek at the
Wilson set, he is turning out con-
siderable lumber.
Old Uncle Charley Bennecker an
old resident Of Roane County has
sold his farm on Popular Creek.
DIR. T. w. Nash now resides at
Dyllis having his Office in the low
er part of the Junior Hall on the
half way between Oliver Springs
and Hartman.
Singing School is going on at
Jonesville.
Spot Herley, our rural mail carl
or rocked his car last Monday even
ing, he struck calf and bending a
a radius rod he lost control OF the
car and run of of fill about six
feet high, and jarring his wife up
considerably.
Mrs. Emma Adams and daughter
Jessie, and Mrs. Sarah Branstetter
and SON Pearly all from Deer Lodge
visited DR.. Nash last week.
School at Wheat and Dyllis are
progressing fine.
M. NJ. Goad and wife and son
Ray from Deer Lodge visited NJ. H.
Bilbrey this week on the Brewder
farm.
Mrs Vestie Scarborough from
Scarborough Town is visiting rela-
tives in this part of the country.
w. D. BeasIey was painting signs
for DIR. Nash this week,
Sunday School is progressing
fine here at DyIlis, average attend
ance so.
I Old Grand Pa Shelton as he il
called is improving now. He hs'
been very low with csTbuncle'un
der his arm.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-05
Texas, wednesday. Mrs. Mitchell

Texas, Wednesday. Mrs. Mitchell
has been a guest at the Central
Hotel all summer,
Mrs. Sarah Cundif and baby OF
North Terre Honte, Ind. is the guest
of her sister Mrs w. M. Neil.
Gatewood Pcmberton will leave
Wednesday for Hinton, Ky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Shannon held a
family reunion at their home Sun.
day Thirty members of the family
were present.
Carrot Black left Sunday for S. Q.
Leon Neil will leave for Maryville
this week where he will attend
College this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Jestes spent
Sunday night with friends at Pilot,
Mt.
Mrs. Thompson Of Atlanta, Ga.
was the guest of her son, Charles
Thompson, here last week.
Robert Stewart was on the sick
list last week,
Mrs. VIM. Neil and sister, Mrs,
Sara Cundif spent Monday with
friends in Glenmary.
Mrs. Imam Terry was visiting
relatives at Robbins last week.
Mr.. and Mrs r. Freels attended
church at Pilot Mt, Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Thompson left. Fri
day, for the hospital in Knoxville,
where she underwent an operation
for appendicitis.
Mrs. Martin Galloway and baby
left, Sunday, to visit relatives at
Warthutg.
r. Costello arrived home, Satur-
day after spending several days in
Atlanta Ga.
J. M. Wood of Bristol was here
on business, Monday.
d. II. Harris spent Sunday with
friends at annadel.
Henry Summer of Wartburg was
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Summer, Monday.
Mike Costello left, Sunday, for
Lexington, Ky. where he will spend
several days on business.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-09-05

work. Alleging this was long before
Howe patented his machine. and also
that GouIding never patented his they
try to show his motives were purely
altruIstic and not commercial.
1t all sounds good, but 1t will take
considerable "space" in the Georgia
newspapers to convince the world thai
Goulding takes the prize.