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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

partnership between them in cases where
either one Is so unreasonable that IT Is
impossible to discuss any matter dispas-
%sionately with him or her. In such
cases the unfortunate victims of the
h"igh-tempered learn that peace Is the
price Of silence, and in the family circle
they take refuge in dumbness as in Il
cyclone cellar.
1t Is bad enough, heaven knows, when
a man gets n virago for a wife of whose
ebulitions Of temper he lives In con-
slant dread and to whom he dares not
tell the truth about things for fear OF
letting himself in for a hysterical scene,
and with whom he can not reason, but
1t Is far worse when a woman is mar
ried to a a with a temper Of which
she goes in fea and trembling, and
which builds Il bar to any condolences
between them.
For the woman needs her husbands
advice and counsel. She needs to be
able TO talk over with him the prob-
lens that the children present, yet how
can she do this II she knows that at
the first word OF revelation Of any
! childish misdemeanor her husband will
fly into a rage that makes him incapa-
BILE Of seeing the matter straight, or
judging it fairly.
Temper has wrecked more homes
than drunkenness. infidelity or. gam.
bling because we can overlook an occa-
slplldl lhpbt IlpHi Nv Ihol hilllCo VI lilunc
who are pleasant and agreeable to live
with, but the irritable, the grouchy, the
argumentative, the cross sand surly are
a daily and hourly affliction that only
the heroic can endure, And temper is
the death blow to love. The high tenn
pered forget the bitter things they say
lto us In their anger, but we remember
them and come to hate them for 1t.
Furthermore be assured OF this: The
man or woman who has not learned to
control his or her temper before mar
riage will never learn to do 1t afterward.
Instead, he or she will regard wife or
husband as a legitimate object upon
whom it may be expended, and for this
reason every sensible man or woman
should avoid marrying a high-tempered
individual as he or she would a leper.
Copyright. 1918, by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06
Questions and Answers

Muslc-What was the origin OF the
name piano, and why was 1t given that
name?
A.-The name piano is a shortened
form of pianoforte, from Italian words
meaning soft and loud, given to the in
strument because the notes can be
made soft and loud.
G. E.-Kindly tell me the average OF
the human life. A claims it 40 years,
b says 35, Who is right?
A.-The average human life is SO
years,
Dan-Who was the originator Of
laughing gas? When was it first intro
A.-Slr Humphrey Davy was the first
to bring laughing gas to general notice
in 1900.
F. A. M.-Do the French ever use
Versailles in any of their government
uses, or is it from the past only that
It is so well known?
A.-Both, the elections of the French
presidents are held at Versailles.
|. N.-Can you tell me what the
figures are for the dead of France and
Italy are?
A.-The French report the loss of Of
ficers and men to Nov. l, 1918, at
about 1,07l, 900, divided as follows: Of
ficers. 81 800; men, 1910 900. The mum
her of dead, prisoners and men missing
was given as 1880 officers n l,7S9,-
900 men. (2) An unofficial report says
that Italy lost in dead, wounded and
died OF disease, $500, 900. Disease took
800, 900, killed in action 500, 900 and
wounded and taken prisoners 1000, 900.
{. L. A.-Wnl you please tell me In
what division is the 18th supply train,
Company B, and has it been ordered
home?
is in the 41st division. II has not heen
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

Joe Develin, who spoke in Memphis at the Lyric theater
a few years ago, had a close call, and came near defeat in the
late English elections, when the nationalist, to which party he
belongs, were swept out of power and nearly out of existence.
Develin represents a section of Belfast, but is a Canadian from
Arnpr1or, a little town on the railroad between Kingston and
Pembroke, Ontario. He is a great orator, and was John Red
monds chief dependence during that leaders lifetime. George
Bernard Shaw it was who said Develns voice is the sweetest
musical instrument in the British empire, He is a great debater
and always ready and in condition to meet any adversary. He
is true to his former chief, and will never join the Sim Feners,
who are too radical for him, radical as he is.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06
News Of Memphis
Is Years AGO.
JANUARY G, 1894.

JANUARY s, 1894.
Miss Lillian Lee Stratton, 2l2 Carroil
avenue, was married to Frank 3:
Fowlkes, of birmingham, last night py
the Rev. Z. NJ. Ramsey.
The weather at Memphis today was
unduly warm, the thermometer regis
tering So degrees with .ll-inch OF rain
The Chattanooga grand jury today
revived an old law of 1859 when 1t re-
turned a "Ku-Klux" indictment, mean
ing assault while masked.
Bitter cold weather Is prevailing IN
Austria and Hungary, with the tenn
perature in Vienna showing. IL de-
grees below and the Danube river
frozen.
Two thousand insurgents are laying
siege to the city of Bage, in the state
Of Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil, which
Is defended by 1900 troops.
Threatened anarchists operations in
Sicily have caused the Italian govern.
ment to place the island in a state oil
siege.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06
Twice Told Tales ' 10 W .
JANUARY 6, 1909.

~ W ~"
Revolutionary outbreaks in Man
churia result in Chinese federal troops
burning seven insurgent villages.
Battleships Connecticut, Kansas, MIN,
nesota and Vermont leave Port Sald
en- route to the scene of the Messiha
disaster.
Memphis Lee Line company and the
Arkansas River Packet company order
two new wharf boats FOR local harbor.
Memphis contribution to Italian
relief FUND totals more
than $4,000 with a goal Of $4,000.
B. NJ. c. solicited by wholesale mer-
chants for better river transportation
from Memphis to VicksDurg.
The fate of eight nightriders of the
Reelfoot lake district paced in hands
of jury by Judge Jones, at Union City,
Tenn.
Yuan Shi&Kai, deposed Chinese states
man and army chief, is charged by a
Chinese exile with paying $4,000 to
poison the late emperor.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06
The Public Be SerUed
6REe.uaRET. ~
K.c.B.

AND I regret to say it.
TO A lady. press agent,
THERE RISES a doubt.
IN MY mind,
AS TO whether or not.
YOU REALLY have a goat.
AND IF you have one.
I REFUSE to believe,
THAT HE ever ate the things.
YOU SAY he ate.
HE NIGHT have eaten the stockings.
BUT THE rqffles and feathers.
HE COULDN'T eat them.
AND ANYWAY.
IT'S QUITE clear to me,
THAT THE reason for your letter
is TO let people know.
WHEN YOUR show begins.
AND I'M very much surprised.
YOU DIDN'T mention Frank Tinney.
AS THE star of the play.
IT MUST have been.
THAT YOUR nerve ran out
AND IN answer to your letter.
WANT to tell you
THAT WE have regular columns.
FOR ADVERTISING shows.
AND FOR running the stuff,
THAT THE press agents write
AND TT won't do you any good
TO KEEP writing to me-
BECAUSE MY column.
ISN'T AN advertising column.
I THANK you.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

MY DEAR Mary.
WHEN I ran the letter.
&c
OF THE soldier press agent.
OF THE soldier show.
ABOUT THE general.
WHO VA: offered a bite
OF A buck" soldiers apple
AND WHO took the bite.
I WAS assured.
BY THE soldier press agent
THAT THE story was true
AND SINCE that time.
I HAVE discovered.
THAT THE press agent lied
AND THAT the general.
GOT SORE a! the soldier
AND NEVER bit the apple,
OR ANYTHING.
AND LEARNING this.
IT CAME to me clearly
THAT ALL the press agent wanted.
WAS TO get the name of his show
IN THIS column.
AND FOR that reason.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

of tk@M9rMoKt
II Au K.Wouton.
soNNET-THE LASTING LYRIC.

SONNET-THE LASTING LYRIC.
For every word that you can name
There's always one that rhymes with it.
The sound may hardly be the same,
And yet it somehow chimes with it.
Some rhymes are but a syllable,
And some sesquipedalian;
Still our art unsuitable,
Immortal, bacchanalian,
Pursues the tenor Of its way,
Joyous in spite of interference,
Confident, since it lives today,
That there will be no final clearance
Until the planets all decay
In universal disappearance.
G -JOTIJE
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

Col Rienzi M. Johnston, after a service of IS wears, has re-
tired from the %editorship of the Houston Post. During the time
IN which he was connected with the Post, that newspaper grew
from a hazardous experiment to a splendid realization and has
long been one of the most prosperous and influential newspa,
pers in the Southwest. Col, Johnston has earned a rest and
the newspaper fraternity hopes that he may long enjoy it.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

If the peace conference is adequately reported we will learn
much Of European diplomacy; how nations other than Germany
LOOK upon treaties as scraps OF paper how they lie to each
other and doublecross each other. We will learn to be wary
of them.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

Michigan is the sixteenth state that has ratified the prohibi.
ton amendment and the Others will fall in line as soon as they
are reached.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

The year just dead was filled with horrors. Nav the new
ear be filled with happiness.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06

No use to hunt the poles, north or south, if onIv cold
weather is the quest.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-06
THE NEWS SCIMITAR

Dear X. c. B.-I don't know whether
the general was hungry or not when
he took a bite Of the buck ~private's
apple, but l do wish you would settle
this question:
Billy, the goat mascot Of the boys
from the Aberdeen proving ground whe
are presenting Alta Boy" at the, Lex
ington theater, ate three silk *
a great many ruffleS ana the Iedtnets
off two hats before he was discovered
behind the scenes. Do you suppose the
goat was hungry. or do you suppose he
was just mad because u curtain rises
at SIS and we have matinees ednes
uA'S anu '@'u' MARY SULLIVAN.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
Garry A Six-Ton Building

Carrying six-ton building, without the
aid of machinery, or other equipment. was
one of the unusual tasks performed by $50
North Dakota soldiers when they were on
the Mexican border, according to the Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine. The frame
structure that was moved housed the army
Y. M. c. A. at Mercedes, Tex, and mea-
sured - by "a feet.
Because its site was undesirable, it was
proposed to hire a contractor to move the
structure to new location, but the army
engineers devised plan by which the men
themselves could perform the task and so
save money. They estimated that with
25O soldiers helping, each would have to
carry less than so pounds. Accordingly
the building was we'll braced and its walls
provided with runners. Since there was
no floor the men were stationed along all
four walls, inside as we'll as out, each SOL
dier standing next to beam inserted be-
meath. AT the word of command they lift
ed the building from the ground and
marched away with it, to site 200 yards
distant.-Sel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
First Across Canada.

The first white mau to cross this CONT
nent by route north of Mexico, was Sir Al
exander Mackenzie, Scotchman who rose
high in the service of the old Canadian
North West Company which was amalga-
mated with the Hudson's Bay Company in
1891. Mackenzie was in the Far West
when he planned his trip across country to
the Pacific Coast. In the autumn of 1892
he led his party far up the Peace River
where they built post and wintered. On
May 9, 1913, the party set out, passing up
the Peace River, through the Rocky Noun
tains, across to the Fraser River which was
followed down stream for some distance,
and then across country through an unex-
plored region, until the party came out on
the Pacific Coast. Mixing a quantity of
Vermilion with melted grease, Mackenzie
wrote on the inland side of a high rock
rising from the shore these words to mark
his visit: Alexander Mackenzie from Can
ada by land, the twenty-second of July,
One thousand seven hundred and ninety
three. Lat. 81 degrees, twenty minutes,
48 seconds north Mackenzie then re-
traced his course and returned to the East.
-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
Ornamental Lamp-Posts

There is no feature of municipal equip
ment that adds more to the attractiveness
of city's appearance than do ornamental
street lamp-posts of artistic and appropriate
design. Just Is the effectiveness or interior
decorations aud furnishings depend in a
large measure upon lighting fixtures, so the
beauty of the street can be enhanced or
marred by its lights. In each case salts
factory solution of the lighting problem
consists not only in supplying sufficient IL
Elimination but also in providing lighting
equipment that harmonizes with its sur
roundings and possesses beauty of its own.
The old-time lamp-post in vogue before the
days of electricity, writes Thomas J. Davis,
in the House Beautiful, fulfilled the second
of these conditions, but not the first; for,
altho the post itself was often work of art,
its feeble oil or gas flame seldom was equal
to the task of Illuminating the street. On
the other hand, the modern overhead arc
lamp gives fairly satisfactory light, but
the unsightly poles, ropes, wires and other
equipment can scarcely be called beautiful.
Now comes the ornamental street lamp
post, which combines the beauty of one of
its predecessors and the utility of the other.
-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
Talk Versus Work

Lip battle never won a fight against an
armed foe,
For windy words but hit the air, and with
the breezes blow
Into a sea of nothingness chock full of
empty boast,
Where bubble ships loud mouthed stand
upon frothy coast.
Now bombast ne'er did drop bomb upon
submarine,
Nor bull and bunk ne'er splitted foe upon
bayonet keen,
Wind pudding never fed corps OF soldiers
fit to fight,
And muzzle loaded know it alls more
often wrong than right.
What we can dos are always late in entering
the strife,
The do-it-nows are e'er the ones who put
the pep in life,
The wait-a-while's get often lost in their
own verbose domains,
While act-at-once gets on the job and
something e'er attains.
The what-we-did's in wandering midst the
cobwebs of the past
Forget that men and times have changed
and history's making fast,
Superhuous amount OF talk will never own
the day,
While ignoran. intelligence in the aggre-
gate holds sway.
Work wins, in union there is strength, let
this our slogan be,
And not our energies waste on a blase
verbosity,
For actions louder speak than words remem-
Der all who may,
Then do your bit to make a hit for the
good old u. S. A.
John Patrick Referty
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
They Call It Home

In the middle Atlantic, about halfway
on straight line between Cape Town and
Montevideo, there was heaved up in remote
times by volcanic action huge rock. the
little island of Tristan da Cunha, bleak and
barren, the vortex of fierce storms, the CEN
ter of almost incessant rains, always envel-
oped by cloud, and summed by ships, and
yet for the last hundred years inhabited by
a strange race made up of English, Dutch,
Irish, Italians, Americans, cast ashore from
time to time in shipwreck, or driven there
by WEAKNESS of the busy world and living
on fish and spoils of the wrecks that strew
the coast.
These people, now about eighty in num-
Der, men, women and children, suffer hard
ships and deprivations almost inconceivable
to residence of favored lands.
Having no useful timber, their huts are
unmortered piles of rough stones, matched
with grass.
The isle is so infested with rats from
wrecked ships that any grain planted is
eaten In the ground; and the only source of
AouAis passing vessels, which may be in
tercepted only by rowing many miles to
sea.
There is no government of any sort, no
school, no church.
The island has no future; the people have
no prospect but of entombment there.
One would suppose that the unfortunate,
intelligent, industrious, thrifty and temper
ate, as they are described to be, would glad
ly leave their rude huts, their terrible hard
ships, their barren fields, their pitable pow
erty and hopelessness, to rejoin the COM
Portable world.
But no!
The British government has renewed its
offer to remove them and their few posses
sions from the bleak island to any British
soil they may choose and to give them
means to start life anew. Not one will con-
sent to go. There on the bleak island are
their homes, and there they will stay.
Maybe, after all, one lot in life is not much
better or worse than another, so far as real
happiness goes; but there are some things
that seem very necessary to US, and that
little corner of Gods creation we call home
is one of them.-Sel.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
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Selected
Goodbye

Sweetheart, goodbye! That Auttering sail
Is spread to watt me far from thee.
And soon before the Earth ring gale
My ship will bound upon the sea.
Perchance all des' late and forlorn,
These eyes shall miss thee many year,
But unforgotten every charm,
Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
Sweetheart, goodbye! One last embrace!
Oh, cruel fate, two souls to sever!
Yet in this hearts most sacred place
Thou, thou alone. shall dwell forever;
And still shall recollection trace
In fancy's mirror ever near,
Each smile, each tear, that form that face,
Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
Author Umknoacn
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
u. S. Fleet Fastest

Americas capital fighting ships of the
future will be superior to those of other ma
tons because of their electrically driven
machinery. Secretary Daniels told the
House naval committee January 2, in dis
closing remarkable results attained by the
new dreadnought New Mexico, equipped
with the electric drive, which is to be fea-
ture of all the big ships authorized since
1916.
The New Mexico's turbo-electric mach
inery was designed to develop 26, 500 horse.
power at full speed and to give the ship a
speed of twenty-one knots.
"She actually developed more than 81, 900
horsepower" Mr.. Daniels said, ''and
maintained for four hours speed of TWEEN
ty-one and one-fourth knots.
If she had been tried at her designed dis
placement she would have made 21.5 knots
without any trouble whatever; and what is
still better, she could have kept up this
speed as long as her fuel lasted. She is an
due to the necessity of cleaning fires
The secretary said fuel economy at
cruising speed had been one of the things
sought in substituting electric drive for the
ordinary turbine equipment.
"And am happy to say" he added,
that this requirement also was met. As a
matter of fact, the New Mexico will steam
at 10 knots on about Is per cent less fuel
than the best turbine driven ship that pre-
coded her.
"On the whole, think the country has
cause to be proud of this achievement in
engineering, not alone because of the pro-
nounced success it gives, but because of the
superiority of our capital ships to those of
foreign nations" -Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
The Boy That Was

When the hair about the temples starts to
show the signs of gray
And fellow realizes that he's wandering
far away
From the pleasures of his boyhood and his
youth and never more
Will know the Joy of laughter as he did in
days of yore,
Oh, it's then he starts to thinking af a
stubby little lad
With face as brown as berries and a soul
supremely glad.
When a gray-haired dreamer wanders down
the lanes of memory
And forgets the living present for the time
of fused to be;''
He takes off his shoes and stockings, and
he throws his coat away,
And he's free from all restrictions save the
rule of manly play.
He may be in tattered garments, but bare
headed in the sun,
He forgets his proud successes and the rich
es he has won.
Oh, there's not man that liveth but would
give his all 10 be
The stubby little fellow that in dreamland
he can see,
And the splendors that surround him and
tine joys about him spread
Only seem to rise to haunt him with the
boyhood that has fed.
When the hair about the temples starts to
show Times silver stain,
Then the richest man that's living yearns to
be boy again.
-Edaoard II. Guest, in Detroit Free Press
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
Roosevelt Dies

Theodore Roosevelt, for seven years
President of the United States, died At his
home at Sycamore Hill At AIS A. NJ,
Monday, January 6.
The famous American exponent of the
Strenuous life," who had fought 10 the
Spanish American war, and risked death in
hunting big game and exploring the jungles
of Africa and South America, passed away
peacefully while asleep. the victim of a
blood clot in the lung, resulting from in
fammatory rheumatism, traceable to an in
fected tooth from which he suffered twenty
years ago.
The Colonel was so years old last
October.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
The Sorrows of Bobby
I'll never speak a piece again,
l don't care what folks say,

I'll never speak piece again,
don't care what folks say,
Cause once l learned the incest speech
To speak at school last day;
Ny, but l studied awful hard,
An practiced maxim bows;
When was chorin' round the barn
I'd say it to the cows.
Then, when the folks all come,
An l was called to speak,
/ clean forgot to make bow,
An my knees were dreadful weak.
Std O the words / was to say
There comes great big lump
In my throat, an stuck there fast, !
An stood there like gump. 4
Jes' like gump with open mouth
An starin' eyes an achin' heart; y
Then everybody laughed but ma
(She allus takes my part),
l spect I'd be a-standin' yet,
My mind was that confused,
But teacher, speakin' jes' as kind,
Said, 'Bobby, you are 'scused."
Arthur r. O'Hds
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-01-09
N R R 0 R E 7 TES

We went to press little early last
week, stating in this column that ''our open
winter still holds On" The date of issue
was the End and the temperature dropped
during the night to % degrees below. We
do not want it understood that we were in
any way responsible for the change. Min
nesota makes good sometime during the
winter months.
Some blooded stock was added to our
piggery last week.
Last Friday was CHILLING day" on the
farm, 1896 pounds of dressed pork resulting
therefrom.
Our chicken pen has been increased by
the addition of six white Plymouth Rock
cockerels.
1t took one thousand pounds of veal
for the inmates New Years dinner. Below
we give the complete bill of fare.
Roast Veal with Dressing
Mashed Potatoes, Brown Gravy
Cream Cheese Sweet Pickles
Apple Tapioca Pudding
Cake with Frosting
Raisin Bread White Bread
Coffee with Milk and Sugar
More cars of sisal received last week.
1t looks as though there would be no short
49, for he
Our snow shovelling crew had their
first call to labor last week.
We have a splendid library of over
1000 books, but the inmate population
does not seem to appreciate it as they
should. Read more books and less maya
zines is our advice.
The New Years motion picture show
was a six-reel production entitled Gre
becca of Sunny Brook Farm" showing
Mary Pickford in one of her pleasing char
acters. Also a two-reel Mark Sennett
comedy entitled ''The Pullman Bride. -
The musical program follows:
March-The Path of Glory Woods
Selection-Cheer Up New York Hippo
drome) Golden Hubbell
One Step-On the Road to Home, Sweet
Home---------------- Alstyne
Medley Waltz-It's Never Too Late to
Be Burnett
Novelette, Frolic- Miles
Characteristic One Step-Georgia Land
Valse D Amour-Kisses- -Zamecrick
Popular One Step-Meet Me at the Sta
ton. Dear Snyder
Waltz-The Missouri Waltz--Logan
Novellette-Sweet Nots, Miles
Fox Trot-A Rainbow from the U. S. A.
March-All America -Zamecrick
Prof. R. ]. Reichkitzer, Director.