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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
Triple Tone Electric Bell.

Three separate and distinct sounds
are given by an electric bell which OPP
crates on ordinary lighting current by
means of transformer. In the home
the bell can be connected with push
buttons Installed at three different
doors-front. kitchen and side. for ex-
ample. When one button is pressed
a clear ring results. when the second
is operated n buzz is produced, and
when the third button Is pushed
combination buzz and ring results. In
the Office or shop this bell will prove
most useful. since II can be used to
call three different persons without
necessitating them TO count the num-
Der of rings. as must often be done
when the customary signaling Is EN-
nloyed. This bell has no contact
paints to burn out and no batteries
to replace.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
Binds Have RIaht Of WAY.

Fowl have the right of way in air,
warns the director Of military aero
nautics. This is justice indeed, since
birds flew first.
But this Is not all. Recently many
towns along the Atlantic coast have
been visited with dead bird showers.
Ayiators flying by town would see
flock Of wild fowl coming their way.
They would set their machine guns
and let the bullets fly.
Presently prominent citizen walk
Ing below would be hit with large,
bloody bird. He complained to the
town, and tho town complained to the
department Of agriculture. Then the
federal migratory bird law between
the United States and Great Britain
was referred to, and 1t was found that
shooting birds from alrplanes Is un-
lawful.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
WOMAN FINDS REMEDY
WORTH FABULOUS FORTUNE

81 wouldn't take million dollars
for the good that Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy has done for me. ! have
finished the course AID can say ! am
entirely cured of very severe indi-
gestion, bloating and collie attacks |
suffered from for many years 1t
is a simple, harmless preparation that
removes the catarrhal mucus from the
intestinal tract and allays the inflam-
nation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and Intestinal ailments.
including appendicitis One dose will
convince or money refunded. Sold by
Weaver and Harrington and good
druggists everywhere. Adv.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
The Wrono Nan.

When was an eighteen-yeap>eld
girl / was keeping house In my moth
er's absence and received word from
an old friend OF the family, OF whom
/ was very fond, that he was to be our
guest for day or two. Toward eve
ming when the doorbell rang l told
our little colored maid to answer it
and show Mr.. Blank into the living
room.
rushed into the room which was
half dark, some minutes later and
threw my arms around the gentleman
who rose to greet me and kissed him
soundly only to hear a strange voice
say, 81 called to see II could interest
you I'm a wonderful set of books am
showing today"
l backed to the light and turned II
on to view a perfect stranger-a book
agent. But Mr.. Blanks timely arrival
1ust then saved a little Of my embar-
RAISING explanatlcn.-Chlcago Tribune.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
LOno.Llved Superstition.

We. wonder whether the Turkish
prisoner who foretold the end of the
war by means of the shoulder blade Of
a sheep had ever read "Giraldus Cam
brensls' Itinerary Through Wales"
made In the year 1iSS.
If so, he would have read In Chap
ter NJ that these people (the Flem-
ings of Pembrokeshlre), from the In
spectIon Of the right shoulders of rams
which have been stripped of their
flesh, and not roasted but boiled, can
discover future events, or those which
have passed and remained long un-
known"
A footnote tells us that this curl
Gus superstition is still preserved in
a debased form among the descend
ants OF the Flemish population of this
district, where the young women prac-
tlce sort Of dlvinatiOn with the blade
bone Of a shoulder OF mutton to dis
cover who will be their sweetheart.
1T Is still more curious that William
de Rubruquis, IN the thirteenth CEN
fury, found the same superstition ex-
listing among the Tartsrs." Now. in
the twentieth century. we find Il
among the Turks.--LOndon Chronicle.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02
TOWNS NOT FATED TO LIVE
Communities East and West, Founded
In High Hopes, Are Now Praeti-
cally Things Forgotten.

Western papers tell their readers
that the town Of Emerson, Okla, Is
shortly to be a thing forgotten, re-
marks the Hartford COurant. 1t was
mapped out as q town site shortly
after the territory was opened for set
Element, and the promoters had
dreams OF metropolis. In 1907 the
plan was abandoned, and now the dis
trict court has been asked to vacate
the land for town site purposes, when
what might have been a, town will be-
come farm land.
The story of Emerson suggests what
came near happening to Connecticut
town in the beginnings Of the colony.
Those interested in 1t showed rare
sense in their choice Of site, and in
their dreams planned not for a town
but for city. Hampden and Crom-
Well were to be among its citizens; the
cream OF England, so Its promoters
hoped, were to become its citizens.
Fate ordered otherwise, and the early
days of this dream town are remem-
bered now largely through Lion Gardi-
ner's account of his struggle to hold
the site against the attacks Of the In
dams.
Other states, notably the mining
commemorative Of the West can du-
plicate the story from Oklahoma, but
few can equal the romance of the Con-
necticut settlement.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02

organization Of the great Taber-
nacle in that city, a work which re-
quired executive ability and leader
ship of the highest order. After he
completed his work he was called
to one Of the largest churches in
London, where he preached for five
years.
He is now pastor of the large
Baptist church at Knoxville. Tenn.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02

county next Sunday, at New Salem
and Rural Hill Speakers from Co
lumbus will attend these meetings. At
Rural Hill the arrangements are be-
ing directed by Mr.. Sam Wells and
dinner wiz he served on the grounds.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02

Dispatch ads are wlnrers.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02

The demand for Real Estate both city and farm pro-
perty, is increasing rather than diminishing People
here making money every day in buying and selling
city property-you do the We have the larg-
est list in all this sectOn-let know what
want and what have to offer If you want to
SELL We sell it for you Look this list of
real opportunities.
48O valuable farm land next to corporate limits
OF Columbus You subdivde sell in small tracts and
double your money on it. Cheap and terms
good store house, ground floor rented and second
floor divided to little repair will enable you
to vent every and the investment will net yau 20
per cent on the price Store houses few Get this
while you can.
desirable two story home; new and well located.
Possession in thirty days Upstairs be rented for
$25 month, reserving the ground floor for the pro-
petor $500 cash and per cent balance will get it,
60 of fine prairie land miles from Columbus on
the Robertson Mayhem road Will be sold for $3.50
acre. 1-3 cash. balance at per cent Take for an
investment Rents easily.
200 of fine prairie land miles from Columbus,
on the jackson Highway. A bargain.
$50 sandy land farm best piece of sandy land in
county. Well improved. See the crop on it and you
will buy. A fine purchase and good chance to make
money.
The Trinity place of 76O acres of prairie land Price
$4,000 an acre.
modern, beautiful home close in best neighborhood
all improvements cost $4,000 to build Price $1O-
000 Part cash.
Large antebeum home and large lot; stable and
servants rooms garage; beautiful location Price and
terms upon APPLICATION. Possession at once.
Cottage, close to NJ o. depot Possession in 80 days
Price $780, $500 cash. balance time Also desirable
cottage and also vacant lot Price $1450 Small
payment down gets it. Balance on easy terms.
Mrs. Wade Lynch's property, Southern shops lot
165 165. Good house and all improvements big
bargain is offered in this. Get it while you
cottage on End Avenue North, $4,000 cottage
in North 9th Avenue $4,000; another $500; another
Sl7OO. Small payment down gets it.
Desirable cottage on College street. Buy now for
next year.
$50 acres 5 miles from Columbus on Tuscaloosa road
Price $4,000 an acre. w"
22O acres miles of Columbus new Jackson High
way-cheap. as'
&C acres, miles from Columbus, well improved Price
$3.50. $500 cash, balance at per cent.
The John Nelson place of 22O right at the water
works-a bargain.
43 acres IL miles from Caledonia, ID miles from
Columbus. Well improved; bargan-cheap. Get the
price, then get the land
80 acres miles of Columbus on Tuscaloosa road All
improvements Price and terms upon APPLICATION.
45 acres, suburban property. Price $4,000.
2 stores $4,000.
See us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
Pennsylvania Legislature

(From the Scranton Republican,
Pennsylvania's greatest part in the
world war, industrially as we'll as In
the valor of its sons on the historic
battlefields of France, furnishes a
powerful incentive to the work of
reconstruction with which the peo-
Bile of this and every other state in
the Union are now confronted and
should stimulate at Harrisburg to-
morrow, to devote its energies to
high service for the welfare of the
commonwealth.
History has been written large
since the last meeting of the Gener-
al Assembly at the State Capitol, and
men have learned to take broader
view of their public duties than in
former years. There are great ques-
uons demanding attention, and the
spirit of the age requires that they
shall be dealt with from the view
point OF progressive statesmanship.
Among the problems to be consid-
cred, in accordance with advanced
ideas, are education, municipal gov
ernment. apportionment. good roads.
prohibition, suffrage and various
other matters of timely interest
which will doubtless be set forth in
the message of Governor-elect Sproul
when he enters upon the duties of
his office on the 21st of this month.
The session of the General Assem-
bly, will concern ITSELF Immediately
with the organization of House and
Senate. After the election of a
Speaker of the House, and President
pro tenn of the Senate, a recess will
be taken to afford the presiding Of
ficers an opportunity to appoint the
committees essential to the work of
legislation. No bill can be consider
ed without reference to committee,
therefore, the appointment of COM
mittees is a necessary preliminary
to the actual business of the session,
but it is hoped this will not occasion
much delay so that the work OF the
Legislature may be expedited.
With a preponderant Republican
majority in both branches of the
Legislature, and a Republican GOV
ernor, who was elected by q great
majority. the responsibilities for
wise legislation rests with the party
that has long been pre-eminent in
Pennsylvania, and they deserve to
be met in a way that will best serve
the interests of the state and meet
with the approval of the people dur
ing the days of construction and de-
velopment that are ahead.
Lackawanna county is well rep
resented in the next Legislature
The Senator and members of the
House are men of experience in law
making, and the interests of this
city and county should be well cared
for in such measures as may be con-
sidered during the session.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07

chimes the like of which the world
can show no equal.
Drawn Into the Net
Men who themselves rode" the
whirlwind of the barrage only can
describe their experience. Machines
in the rush of the bursting shells
were thrown over on their backs, to
dive and turn and be buffeted again.
Propel!ers were split, engines fired,
and crews mutilated while cringing
on the floor of their compartments.
This much we know for fact. Then
came the terror of the unknown. All
the world knows now of the balloon
nets-the silent sentinels which, on
the first raid warning, mounted
guard thousands of feet above Lon
don's suburban homes. The Ger
mans who saw these things and
lived to tell it say that the nets
formed complete ring round Lon
don; that their, position was con-
stantly changed, and future raids,
except in small, high flying scouts,
were futile. 1t was then they mu-
tinted.
The way they came it took the
Gothas around two and half hours
to reach the city. Lightened of
bombs and petrol and flying as the
crow, they could make the home
run in two hours or under.
The crews say it was the worst
part of the journey. For one thing
it was always 'scrape" with shor-
tening petrol and power to reach
their airdromes, and at the back of
their minds was the dread of the
mist of low lying Belgium having
in the meantime enyeloped their
airdromes and blotted out the land
marks. In the last raid of May 19-
20, when seven machines were shot
down. no fewer than three were
completely wrecked on landing.
1t was on the return trip also that
they were pounced upon by the
scouts. Something worse than in
cendiary bullets" was used, they
said. One British pilot was in such
close grips with his Gotha oppo-
nent that his face was scorched by
the flames which leaped up. when
the Huns petrol tank exploded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
H0tU He Lost His Leg

Nothing is more irritating to a
real fighting man than to be in
terrogated about himself. There was
sailor in railway carriage. AS
he had only one leg, he excited the
interest of two elderly ladies. who in
a roundabout way began endeavor-
ing to find out how he lost his leg.
For some time he sheered them off.
He did not like being cross-exam-
ined. but neither did he like to be
rude. So at last he said:
We'll, NUNS. If l tell you how
lost my leg will you stop asking
me questions about it?"
"of course welwill." they prom
ised.
We'll, NUNS" he answered. slyly,
''it was bitten off. f."-Sir John Foster
Fraser in Harper's, Magazine for
January, M ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
mterned Germans
(From the New York Sum-


The request of the German Gov
ernment, transmitted to the armis-
tice commission at Spa, for the lib
Grafton of all interned Germans
raises questions not only of military
expediency, but of domestic policy.
In this country the utmost consid-
Grafton has been shown to enemy
aliens, and only those considered ac-
tually dangerous to the United
States have been interned. So lib
eral has the Government been that
there has been a great deal of dis
satisfaction with it's handling of this
matter.
Already there is a demand that
some of the aliens now under con-
finement shall be deported. If this
course is to be adopted new legisla-
ton may be necessary, and it should
be enacted before the individuals 1t
will affect are set free. Should the
Government decide, on the other
hand, that we have nothing to fear
from these once dangerous persons,
they should not be thrown on their
own resources possibly to become
the cause of disorder.
1t will not help an alien to have
1t known that he was regarded as q
dangerous enemy during the period
of active hostilities. The liberated
men will surely find many difhcul-
ties in their paths here for long
time to come. What their lot would
be in Germany it is now impossible
to tell, but it is we'll known that
many men, and women of German
antecedents who two years ago were
proclaiming their intention to make
Germany their home after the war
now talk in another fashion.
The future of the interned enemy
aliens is not to be decided offhand,
but for their good and our good
must have careful study.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

How about Hibernia Irredenta?-
Chicago Tribune.
Holland is convinced that a Big
Bill is a ability.-Columb Rec
ord.
The Huns expect us to go without
bread SO they can have cake.-Wor-
cester Gazette.
Bielaski is merely showing us
how many geese can be caught by
the propaganda.-Col Record.
Germany needed none of her we'll
known dyes to make the flag that
she finally hoisted.-Little Rock
Arkansas Gazette.
Germany acts as If she meant to
rely on the plea of insanity when
finally arraigned in court.-Louis-
Vile Courier Citizen.
"You are still unbeaten," Ebert
is quoted as informing the Prussian
Guard. Boy, page the Marines!-
New York Tribune.
There are places in Europe where
the fourteen points appear to
scratch painfully. - Philadelphia
Evening Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
Politics a Dead Language
(From the London Post1

(From the London Post)
Most of the politicians and most
of the newspapers. are talking poll
tics again just as If there had never
been war. But they do not seem
to realize that they are talking
dead language. They ought to be
reminded that for more than four
years the public has not cared
straw for party politics, and that we
are now dealing with people who
only dimly remember what a gener-
al election means. We should be-
gin at the very beginning and tell
them what a parliament is, and what
q party is, and what party funds are,
and what a politician is, and what
party loyalty means, and why can
didates should be elected at all. For
people have forgotten all that. If
they are not told they may fall into
all sorts of error.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
TOMMY-ROT

10 the Third Glass City League
is organizing to resist any at
tempt to change the Clark
Act!" What a foolish attitude! The
poor old Clark Act is so rotten that
it ought to be revamped before 1t
falls to pieces. 1t never was any,
thing but hastily concocted ex-
perimental makeshift and its opera
tions have been grossly expensive to
the cities that must operate under
1t.
1. Harrisburg, for one, would be glad
to see the whole law repealed and
something better framed TO take It's
place. But as to resisting any at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07

during his life and in his will.
This is a proper attitude. The
man who has made fortune in
Harrisburg ought to turn part of
his money back to the uses of the
community which made his rise in
life possible. Every man or wom-
an who has means above the needs
of his heirs should think seriously
of following Mr.. Kunkels lead in
Harrisburg. There have been in the
past all too many will-makers with
absolutely no conception of their
duties to the city and its institu-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
SOLDIERS SONG

[ shall return, my lass, my lass;
l shall be with you in the
spring.
War, like winter, will pass, will
pass.
/ shall return!
This Is no final kiss I give:
There will be more in months
to come.
Courage! Droop not gray and
dumb!
shall live on--as you will live.
How do know? I cannot say.
Ask of the robbins southwark
bound
Love, we too shall both be
Here with song this coming May.
I shall return, my lass, my lass;
I shall be with you in the
spring.
War like 'winter, will pass. will
~. .s.k pass.
shall return!
Richard Butler. Glaenzer in Bos-
Son Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
Bearers Greater Crime

(From the Wilkes-Barre Record.)
If Victor Berger is convicted of
violation of the Espionage Act he
will likely be sent to a penitentiary;
but If he is not convicted, will his
fellow members in Congress toler-
ate his presence in that body? By
his testimony in the trial he has con-
victed himself of greater crime
He admits that he advised the work.
ing men of the country to engage in
revolution, to have rifles and rounds
of ammunition in their homes. to
enlist under the rad flag of the /. W.
w. No anarchist ever counseled
greater menace to the government
and institutions of the United States.
Berger was a Bolshevist before that
monstrous creed appeared in Russia.
No man who advocates a violent
and bloody revolution" and the
overthrow of government is a safe
representative of the American peo-
pie and should not be permitted to
remain in Congress. A copy of the
evidence he has given in this trial
should be sufficient to warrant his
immediate election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07

Davis. Indiana; Twenty eighth. Big
Ter, Mercer; Twenty-ninth, Stadt-
lander, Allegheny; Thirtieth, Bald
ridge, Allegheny; Thirty-first, Wag-
ner, Allegheny.
The Senate caucus was brief
AT the suggestion of Senator Crow
of Fayette Senator Sproul presided
The Governor-elect was applauded
by the thirty-eight Senators present
as he took the chair. Senator Ware,
Philadelphia, nominated Senator
Clarence j. Buchanan, of Bucks
county, for reelection as president
pro tenn of the Senate. The nomi-
nation was seconded by Senator Sny-
der, of Blair, and Mr.. Buckman was
unanimously selected.
The following were named mem
bers OF the steering committee to
select the employees of the Senate:
Crow. Fayette; Ware, Philadel-
phia; Catlin, Luzerne; Eyre, Ches-
ter; Leslie Allegheny; Mcconnell.
Northumberland, and Baldwin. of
Potter.
The Republicans decided to elect
w. Harry Baker, Dauphin, as secre-
tary of the Senate; William p. Gal
lagher, LuZerne, chief clerk, and
Herman p. Miller, Senate librarian,
Senator Snyder will be the teller
on the part of the Senate to count
the vote cast for Governor, Lieu
tenant-governor and Secretary of
Internal Affairs.
The Democratic members of the
House in their caucus selected Henry
e. Lanius, of York county, as their
candidate for speaker. John M.
Flynn, of Elk county. was the eau
Gus chairman and Patrick II. Wynne.
Luzerne county, secretary.
Senator Asa K. Dewitt, Luzerne
county, is the Democratic candidate
for president pro tenn of the SEN
ate. Mr. Dewitt was named at the
end of the last session of the Legis-
lature and the Democratic senator
ial caucus merely confirmed that
action. The Democrats have six rep
resentatives in the Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
London was ringed around

TTOW London was ringed around
with great nets that rose
silently high in the heaven to
catch the raiding Zeppelins and
Gothas from Germany, and' how the
Hun pilots mutinied, after fighting
these nets. is described as follows
in a London letter to the Boston
Transcript, under the heading,
They Fought the He'll in the Air"
He'll met them at the gate of Eng
land, and fresh alarms and terrors
were encountered at every mile.
They knew, the raiders say, that the
course they were following was
being traced out minute by minute
on an operations map in some head
quarters. The wires beneath them
were humming with coded signals.
They knew that aerial barriers were
being slammed behind them. To
get in was comparatively easy-to
get out again, as Napoleon said, was
quite another matter.
The knowledge of their approach,
It we'll known now, was carried be-
fore them. One of the most Won
derful inventions of the war is the
instrument which, like some giant
stethoscope, heard with it's super
sensitive ears the faint humming
on the breeze. 1t was the noise of
the engines which gave the Gothas
away. And 1t was the skilled,
patiently trained men behind the
Kaleidoscope" which controlled the
movements of the alert searchlight
crews, who, in turn, threw the spot
light for the painting Archie" boys.
And what game they made of it!
Scarcely single Gotha came
through that outer London barrage
unscathed. Their recorded move
ments show how the more daring
of the pilots twisted and turned to
find some loophole-while the faint
hearts turned back to face, outnum-
bered four to one, the lurking night
flying scouts, aloft with the spirit
of the baited lion, and driving ma