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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17
BILLS ALIKE,

"The kaiser's future uncertain? Oh,
no! There's a certainty about his flu
ture which delights US. The kaiser's
future Is as certain as Bill Scragg's."
The speaker was Representative Tess,
of Ohio. He went on;
IAN Ohio hired girl said one day to
her mistress:
Can l have the afternoon off next
Monday three weeks, ma'am7"
"T don't know, Mary" said the mis-
tress. What do you want to get off
fof?'
at want to attend Bill Scragg's fu-
neral, ma'am,' said the hired girl. Bills
my fiance.'
what nonsense Ia this?' said the
mistress. Bill Scragg's funeral! Mon
day three weeks! Why, you don't even
know that he's going to die. That is
something, Mary, that we can't any Of
us be sur of-the date of our W
death
Nom said the hired airl, firmly.
Nom. Mavbe. I'm sure about Bill.
though, You see, he's goin' to be
hung"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17
TwiceToldTale
10 Years Ago Today In Memphis.
FEBRUARY II, 1909,


Bandits black lacked" Louis Fritz,
2Ol Market avenue, hurting him badly,
and tore diamonds valued at $500 from
his fingers and shirt bosom. He was
assaulted near Third street and Market
avenue.
Sensational allegations were regis
tered by Mrs. Anna s. Hill, Of Nash
Vile, who filed suit against Or. G. w.
Hi, Of Memphis, asking for divorce.
The Memphis Veneer and Lumber
company, a newly organized firm, pur-
chased the plant and properties Of the
Memphis Rim and Bow company.
The palatial excursion steamer, Queen
city, carrying Mardi Gras visitors from
Pittsburgh to New Orleans, arrived at
Memphis. and the passengers were the
guests of the city.
Positive evidence was shown that
real estate in Memphis. despite re-
ports to the contrary, were steadily in
~creasing.
p. J. Tate, Of Kansas City, Mo, COM
mercial agent Of the Southern railroad,
was in Memphis IN business.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

a year and succeeded in getting a leg
broken when ! was shot down in north
ern France. After the hospital l went
back to England, learned to use my
wings and went Yep chasing around
London during the air raids. But, alas.
| never got a Yep"
In the early spring of 1917 he went
out as a fighting pilot, with a commits
sion as a lieutenant in The royal flying
corps. BY August that year he had
nahhed ~ and the British government
ordered him on a furlough.
After a visit to the states and to
Canada, | went back to active ~servteeF
where | was given command of a
squadron-all picked men-who were
called my circus, said Bishop re-
Gently, THAT is, all We're picked COM
bat aristors except three, who were
American boys; Elliott Springs, of
New York Mac Order. from some city
| don't remember, and Larry Callahan,
OF Chicago. I insisted on their being
admitted to my squadron, for thought
I knew cream when | saw il.
wv hen these Yankees went up to
| practice. as | afterward found out, they
would sneak away over the German
lines and rehearse with machine gun
bullets on the Heinies, TRNH were
game and they played for keeps
Springs got 10 Germans. by official
count, Callahan shot down 10 and Girl
der WIS killed in a gallant air fight.
So they proved my Judgment of Amer
! leans was pretty good"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

Lleut'-Coi' WlHlam avery bishop,
II is difficult TO believe that a blue
eyed, blond, beardless 2i-year-older,
weighing slightly more than 100 pounds
ana onIy five feet seven inches tail,
was the terror of the German airmen,
with a price set on his mead and the
victor OF IL battles,
But the German aviators--those that
are left-can verify the record of
Lieut.. Col, william Avery Bishop, Can
ada's premier ace, now visiting In the
United States,
The young Canadians decorations
won but not worn-a the distin-
guished service order ttwice conferred
the cross of the Legion of Honor, first
class, of which he was a chevalier. the
French Croix de Guerre, with PAIN; the
British military cross, the special war
medal of the Aero club OF America,
the medal of gold OF the Aero club Of
France, the distinguished flying cross
OF the British army, the special medal
lion of the air fleet committee Of Great
Britain, and that most coveted OF hon
ors (of which less than 900 have been
conferred since its foundation during
the Crimean war;, the Victoria cross.
Col Bishop. very much alive n UNI
Scathed, according to official count,
brought down 70 planes in less han
one year OF air fighting and by fellow
NAlAlNtN ~ fNhNN ~ Ahf AAA'o NAAAAl'A
that record in victories not officially
credited,
Col, Bishop is literally next to being
American as he was born and raised
al owen Sound, Ontario, directly across
Georgian bay from the states, and has
spent much Of his life here, He grad
uated from the Royal Military college
West Point. receiving the degree Of
OF Canada, which compares with our
civil engineer.
Then along came the war, and early
In 1915 he went overseas with the Sec
ond divisional cavalry Of Canada. After
some service with that unit he secured
pernission-with the greatest difficulty
to enter the air service, and late in
the summer began training in England.
Toward the end Of the year he was
sent I'd France as an aerial observer.
THAT sort Of work In those days
a v Col Bishop, was. most precari-
Gus. the observer was 'nobody's child :
he could not fly himself, in most cases.
and II his pilot WAS shot II was good
night 4 stuck to the work for about
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17
.OKt@5PaT
~ Qu K.NouNm:


e,t. .u o.ho. av, cha, sbs Never quite reaching il,
~ Because ambition keeps
lhad painted y h"erl" 'N'"'e The picture incomplete
Wonderful to her and fascinating For that is Life -
With . mental brush To paint and paint
And c00re drawn rom mi Upon the same old canvas
Deep fount of Imagination. And find it the same
1t was the picture ot her future Old canvas still
AS she would fashion 1t. Yet dearer far than the
II might not attract a glance Most wonderful masterpiece
From any other in the world, In the realm of intrinsic art
But to this woman u was Stands your own amateurish effort.
A little glimpse of heaven, Crude and unfnshed-the picture
This picture was the one thing OF your own future
That made life worth the living, As you think 1t should be.
Yet" she sighed, II know, Happy indeed was Omar,
Deep down in my heart, Who lived in the Today
A woman friend Of mine And let the Tomorrow go hang.
That 1t will never matertalze.' For Omar never painted
And we are artists all, A picture OF his future.
Drawing our pictures And he died at a ripe old age
And asking them to come true, Without knowing what n moor
laboring with palette and brush, painter
Striving for the perfect ensemble He might have been.
Max Harden says "me Hohenzonern Is a born Snowman"
Looks like it. His company had to walk home.
Our esteemed contemporary says that in recitng "Sheridan's Ride"
at the Methodist church festival last week we looked and acted like n
jackass We could retort in a way that would embiter the mans whole
future, but We have learned to pass such things by. Suffice II is 10 saw
that he is an Internal liar and a crawling seoundrel -Ieesvile Col
Light. N"'
OF milk. u ought TO he cheaper nov.
ton WElI-EouIrPED GENTS.
Ad in New York paper:
WANTED - Gentlemen roomers; heated and furnished"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

They ordered things differently in the olden time. When
Nespssian launched the building of the Colosseum he did not
issue any bonds or institute a tag day. or organize drives or
completed and seated $1,000 people. Nowadays il we 60 to chop
down a tree, instead Of grinding the AK we first issue bonds
and hire a night Waterman.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

The Lord redeemeth the soul OF His
servants, and none of them that trust
In Him shall be desolate.-Ps. xxxiv, 20.
Mourning souls, dry up your tears,
Danish all your guilty fears;
See your guilt and curse remove
Cancelled by redeeming love.
Being justified freely by His grace,
through the redemption that is in
Christ Rsus.-Rom. Ii, A.-From
Daily Food If
Dayton, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

George Bernard Shaw might mislead Americans with his
description of conditions in England except for the fact that he
attempted to describe the situation in America for the misin.
formation OF his English readers and thereby nulliied his CT
forts with both.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

The duchy OF Luxembourg wants to become a republic. She
has an area OF 98 square miles, a little more than double the
size OF Shelby county. This is hardly room enough for the yari-
Gus campaign orators TIC view with alarm" or point with
pride"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17
The Public Be Served

YOU DON'T know it.
BUT FOR the past week.
OUT HERE in the west
I'VE HAD something.
THAT THE doctor told me.
WAS NEARLY the hu.
AND I couldn't work.
AND ALL that saved me.
FROM HAVING failed.
TO SEND back the bacon.
WAS THE two a day.
THAT ! hsd written.
DURING THE week before.
AND THE way I date them.
IT MAKES you think.
I WRITE one each day.
AND THE only reason.
I'M TELLING you this.
is THE doctor says.
I'M NOT well yet.
AND I'VE got to be careful,
AND NOT do anything.
FOR THE next few days.
AND I think he's right.
BECAUSE THE way I feel
I'M NOT very happy.
AND MY mind doesn't work.
AND I'M a little wabbly.
AND I want to tell you.
THAT IF it should happen.
YOU DON'T hear from me.
FOR THE next few days.
YOU'LL KNOW I'm resting.
AND WHERE I'm going,
THEY HAVE lots of cows.
AND SCORES of hens.
AND IT'S all outdoors.
FOR MILES and miles.
AND DRINKING fresh milk.
AND EATING fresh eggs.
AND BREATHING fresh air.
THE DOCTOR says.
THAT IN less than a week.
I CAN drive q. pillow.
BUT, OF course. l won't.
AND ANYWAY.
1T WILL be the first time.
IN THE past five years. w
THAT I'VE quit for a day,
AND l hate to do it.
BUT THE way feel.
THIS VERY minute.
WHILE I'M sitting here.
AND WRITING this.
I'VE GOT to do it.
AND THEN, besides.
I WANT to ask you.
If 1T wouldn't be foolish.
TO PAY a doctor,
FOR TELLING you something.
THAT YOU ought to do.
AND THEN not do it.
AND PARTICULARLY so.
IF YOU wanted to do.
WHAT THE doctor tod you.
YOU OUGHT to do.
IF YoU'set what I mean,
AND If you'il excuse me.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17

The republic OF Switzerland should extend the right hand
OF fellowship to its next-door n~eighbor, the republic OF Germany,
and lend it every assistance until it learns to walk alone.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-17
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by john G. Quinlus. the
Sunshine Man.

Many are the Affections of the right
of them all.-Ps. xxXiv, 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

No matter what aiIs your child. gen. tie, thorough laxative should always be The first treatment given.
 If your little one is out-of-sorts ha,f- sick, isn't. resting, eating and acting nat u-ally-look, Mother; sec if tongue IS coated. This is sure sign that the lit tie stomach, liver and bowels are clogged ] with waste. When cross, irritable, fever ! ish, stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach ache, diafrhoea, sore throat full of cold, give a teaspoonful of Cal ifornias Syrup of Figs" and i'll few hours all the constipated poison, undi- gested food and sour bile gently moves out of the little bowels without gripping, and you have we'll, playful child again.
 Mothers can rest easy after giving this harmless fruit laxative" because it never fails to cleanse the little ones liver and bowels and sweeten the stomae h, and they dearly love it's pleasant taste. Full directions for babies. children of all ages and for grown-ups printed on each bottle.
 Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for bottle of California Syrup of Figs then see that it is made by the '.California Fig Syrup Company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02
MRS. WILSON GOT
 FUN OUT OF EVERY
 MINUTE 0F TRIP
Everyone Aboard George Washington Enjoyed Pres ident's HumOr and
 Good Nature

New York. March 1.-The New York World publishes the following about the recent trip of the George Washington:
 Tt was lots of fun"
 ''I enjoyed every minute of it."
 "we were on the go constantly, but did not seem to get tired"
 "The receptions everywhere were most cordial--they were wonderful"
 In these brief sentences Mrs. Wilson. wife of the President, summed up her trip to Europe while talking with others on the transport George Washington.
 Before she disembarked with the Pres ident and his party in Boston harbor Mrs. Wilson said she had thoroughly enjoyed the trip home, despite the fact that the ship became almost cantanker- ous the fourth day out of Brest during a storm.
 ON NAVIGATING DECK
 Mrs. Wilson proved a splendid sailor She was up on the navigating deck with the President watching the superdread- naught New Mexico do living stunts which Caused the escorting war vessel to trip the gears of one of her turbines. Sd one was credited with saying: '.H te the New Mexico get out of the wa and let somebody run who can." Tae Washington, plunging on alone, hereafter ran into rainbow Streak of pleasant weather and everything went we'll until fog blurred her way down the New England coast and she almost landed on Thatcher's Island, F miles north of Boston light.
 It was a closer shave for the trans port than was first supposed. When the breakers loomed up 1000 feet ahead she was going at an 1s-knot clip. Her engines were thrown from full speed ahead to full speed astern and those in the engine room said they could feel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02
Curtain Marquisettes 25c

Two hundred pieces of 36 and 40- inch Curtain Marquisettes. Comes in white, cream and ecru, has beautiful mercerized silk finish, full pieces perfect goods, plain hemstitched and fancy drawn work borders. Sold the town over at 35c to soc yard. DE
 Special =. ......... AOS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02
Children's Spring Dresses S2.9S
 to $6.98

We are showing our spring line of children's dresses, in pique, rep and linene; colors in white, blue, pink and green. Made in the middy and straight line styles. Sizes $ co co to 16 yrs, SPAS to VVsOO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02
Children's Spring Sweaters $5.98
 to $6.98

We have a beautiful line of spring sweaters; made in the coat and slip over styles. Tn the Shetland weave. Colors in rose, pink, green and yell low. Prices $5.9s CG co
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

her shafts and propellors bend. But t1e screws checked the vessel and churned her bacl. into deep water
 The transport was following a de- stroyer which almost went up on the beach in the fog and only saved her self by her agility. The destroyer rolled over on her side as her helm was forced hard over and she blasted out warning to the presidential ship
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

We have our complete line of caildren's muslin underwear,
 consisting of teddies, gowns, skirts, drawers and slips. Lace and embroidery trimmed. Sizes 6 to Is years. Prices co 60 from 69c to. .... V6sOO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

PRESIDENT TELLS SIORlES
 Sergt Floyd Kemper. a Kentuckian, said the President often stopped and chatted with the members of the guard and told them stories in negro dialect The President made no effort to suppress his mirth at the antics of comedians in the movie shows, and showed keen interest in the films of himself on his European travels.
 Aboard the George Washington is T portrait of the former Kaiser-a sou venir of the celebration on board the vessel when she arrived here; new. in 1909. The Kaiser's photograph is given erual prominence with a picture of Washington. and at the side is one of Under the Kaiser's picture is a gold ribbon with the inscription:
 Peace to all nations"
 The frame and contents were pre- sented to the ship by Mrs William Cumming Story. the new state re- gent of the D. A. R. There also is this inscription:
 "The flag of any nation in the field of white is the accepted ensign to stand for peace and prosperity to be known as the worlds flag of peace. The peace ensign of the United States of America and the peace ensign of the United States of Germany are the expression of this"
 The frame and contents now ,repose on a couch in the room of Commander Perkins. executive officer of the Washington. They once hung in the cabin.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
Rules Of Drama
Brander Matthews Tells of
The Theatre Theories

THE PRINCIPLES OF PLAYMAKINC;."
By Brander Natthe1s. Published by
Charles Scribners Sons.
Even if it were true that the laws
OF plavmaking are more honored in
the breach than in the observance,
that every notable success has made
mock Of some sacred rule, il is.
admonishes Brander Matthews in the
first chapter Of The Principles Of
Playmaking," still necessary to know
them. if only that one may thereby
break through them with a more auda-
cious flourish. There is nothing ar
btrary about Professor Matthews's
presentation OF what he calls the
bread and butter rules Of the drama
He presents them in the corciliatory,
conditional spirit of one disinclined TO
cross swords on any point.
II is this lack Of assertivencss, this
absence of any heat OF opinion, that
makes this a spiritlcss volume But,
luHewarm a. it is. II should do well
enough to indicate the road to the
novice and some Of the pitfalls tha.
beset it. He indicates the conventions
inherited from the theorists Of the
theatre, from Aristotle 70 Scribe,
quotes authorities past and present
and outlines modern tendencies. The
miscellaneous chapters on the simpli-
.cation of scenery, on the trade speech
Of the theatre and the one of rcminis-
cence are the freshest and most in
teresting of the book.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
.ianet Of koOtenaN

Janet Of Kootenay. by Evan Nc
Rowan (Doran), is series of letters
describing the experiences of mod
ern bachelor girl who deserts the
prairies to buy her ideal home in the
hill country of the Canadian North
west. A tenuous thread of romance
winds through II t~st amount OF de-
scripton OF the country, its natural
products and the neignbors, who are
both indigenous and imported.
Tale-telling through correspondence
with girl friend is slow work If
the letters are natural the action lags.
Janet's weekly report to her friend
Nan makes a good newsy letter, but
viii serve for most readers to only
carry paragraph which takes the
love affair short step further. Some
score pages of courtship are stretched
through a fuil-length book. The ma
terial Of good short story must be
spread rather thnly to cover the space
Of a novel.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18

your root OF tradition, which was not
native one, anyway Poe. who
derived from the French and Haw-
thorne, who derived from the English
and are hewing out something native.
You are still excited over youy discov-
cries. you are still objective, you can
not get away from yourselves. That Is
why you are finding your medium IN
the concentrated and intense form of
poetry. But when all this emotion has
filtered and clarified and grown more
dispassionate it will expand into the
form Of the novel. Even Sherwood An
derson's work, which Is in the form of
prose. is in the spirit and even in the
rhythm Of free verse.
There is the fellowship between Us
both-that we are both tremendously
stirred about the quality of modern
life that we want TO crystalline and in
terpret it as we see it. We have the
same vision OF it. That is why we
younger English novelists shout for
your poets as you do for US K. D.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-18
The German Spy
War Villaint of Fiction
Now a Feeble Figure

TIE MESSENGER BY Elizabeth Robins
Published b. the Century Company. New
York.
This story of German spy is far
from reaching the level of Elizabeth's
Robins best work It Is violent melo-
drama, which, however. lacks the chief
merit OF a melodrama. g sympathy
compelling hero or heroine. Nan Ellis,
the American girl. was probably de
signed by the author for the latter
role. but the reader, as we'll as Mans
hesitant English lover, cannot help be-
ing disgusted with her fatuous "crush'
on the German governess-spy, who ap-
pears throughout SO extremely repul-
sive in spite of many statements by
the author as to the extent of her
charm-and her readiness to run on
any wild goose chase that offers it.
self. IN this case, paclfst errands across
the Atlantic. The plot of the tale
IS laid in the early days Of the war,
and Greta Won Schwartzenberg' ac-
tlvlties involve the characters in des-
perate midnight encounters with spies
operating wireless on q Channel ISL
and, with Allied "diplomacy" and Ger
man propaganda as they are always
respectively called, in the United
States, with secret service men galore,
down on a torpedoed liner. and into
an English political prison. where the
most modern and refined tortures Cal
ready familiar to American readers
under the name OF the third degree ,
are shudderingly described. The gen
cral impression gained from the book,
however, is. that owing to the ex-
ceptional mildness Of the Anglo-Saxon
temperament, any LADY, with certain
amount of looks. desiring unlimited
adulation from the British aristocracy
and American miliiouaires, coupled
With the most gentlemanly treatment
from Scotland Yard, would have done
we'll to spy as obviously and with as
broad a German accent as possible, in
those first novelistic days OF the war.