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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
Twice Told
10 Years AGO Today In MemphlA



The Tri-State Fair association will
exhibit the greatest cattle shows ever
seen in this part of the country, as the
result of the raising Of the cattle quar-
antine from Shelby county. n two or
three counties In Mississippi.
The Memphis Cotton exchange has
placed 1,165 barrels Of coal at the dis
posal OF the United Charities for dis
tribution among the city's poor.
The Flfty-sixth general assembly Of
Tennessee has passed into state his
tory with the passage Of two important
bills. The first Is the statewide pro-
hibition bill and the second is a bill
a~ppropriating for the third time $780,
900 for the Peabody College for
Teachers.
Charged with having kept hooking
birds In a cage, contrary to one of the
game laws Of the state, Mrs. X. f.
Hamilton, one of the wealthiest women
Of the state, is scheduled to appear in
the Second criminal court before Judge
Palmer on Wednesday.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
NO HOPE!

May I ask what is going on in the
village?" inquired the stranger.
We're celebrating the birthday of
the oldest inhabitant. SIR" replied the
native. "She Is 104 today"
And tell me, pray, why does that
little man by the old lady's side wear
such a dreadful sad c~ountenance or
such an suspicious occasion?
That little man, sir, is the old lady's
son-in-law. He's been keeping up her
life insurance for the last 30 years"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31

dear Reader-You will forgive me
for running this old one again, but I'M
my way West on a railroad train n
I'll have to run W or three old ones 10
keep even Yours Il T. b.
DID YOU ever.
IN ALL your life.
MEET ANY onS-
WHO WOULD admit.
THAT HE couldn't sing.
THAT GOOD old cong.
ABOUT SILVER Threads"
AND THE other night.
WENT uptown
TO THE Walton hotel,
WITH D. Scott Chisholm.
AND WAS introduced
TO SANDY Mclean.
AND B; G: Cobb.
AND >. Napier.
AND JOHN Fife.
WHOEVER THEY are.
AND THEY'RE all Scotch
AND LIKE all Scotchmen.
ALONG ABOUT eleven.
THEY HAVE to sing.
OR CRY.
AND suggested
SILVER THREADS"
AND THEY liked the idea
AND ALL sang bass.
EXCEPT SANDY Mclean.
AND WHEN I heard him.
TAKING 4 high nots-
SORT Of shivered.
AND WHEN I looked.
HIS FACE was in a knot
AND 1 couldn't see his eyes.
AND HIS face was red.
AND THE cords Of his neck.
LOOKED LIKE the cross pieces.
OF A raspberry tart.
AND I whispered to Napier.
T THINK we'd better stop.
SANDY MLEAN's dying"
AND SANDY got sore.
AND WE started again.
AND SANDY went back.
INTO A CONFUSION.
AND I stopped them again.
AND SAID.
LISTEN TO me. fellas,
BEFORE WE start again.
~
YOU'VE GOT to understand.
"IF SANDY dieM
at ISN'T my fault"
AND THEY all agreed.
Ss
AND WE started again.
AND THERE was . knock.
|
ON THE hotel room door.
AND SOMEBODY said.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
IMPROPERLY FED CHILD.

DR.. e, v. McCollum, Of Johns Hop
kins university, says:
Bow legs and knock knees are an
infallible Indication Of malnutrition.
They never come from too early walk
ing. Milk. eggs and the leafy vege-
tables should be called the productive
foods. 1t is not logical to compare
them to any others because their nutri-
tive value cannot be duplicated any
where else In our dietary system" In
other words, the child that gets all the
milk and eggs he needs Is not going to
develop weak limbs or deformed joints,
Southern Agriculturist.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
INDOOR SPoRVA

BRINGING SOUVENIRS
TO NE GALS ~ TAE 0eElCe
WHERE Aou WORKED BGTORE
GO ~ s. AcRoSS 10 me-
Bic QUARREL
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
The Public Be SerUed
- REe.u .a RET~
81 K.c.p.

DON'T GET any blood.
ION THE hardwood noorA
"oR ON the walls.
'TF YOU have to kin ~
WHATEVER IT is.
TAKE IT in the bathroom.
AND PUT it in the tub
AND AFTER that.
ALL THE scotchmen got sore.
AND WOULDN'T sing any more.
NOT IN that hotel
ON THAT night.
I THANK you.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
WHAT HE WANTED.

On an American transport two days
out from Liverpool:
First Sambo, who Is really enjoying
the sea, to his dark companion who has
gone below-Nigger! Come up here!
We're passing a ship!
Voice from below don't want to see
no ship. You jes' call me when we're
passing a tree.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
KILL TT

The house judiciary committee of the Tennessee Legislature
should never report the bill requiring the contracting parties to
a marriage to present a physicians certificate that they are not
afflicted with some loathsome disease before a license can be
issued.
Only one state in the union has such a law, and it does not
take it seriously. If reputable physicians would not issue GER
tifieates without strict examination the disposition would be to
patronize the physician who regarded the law as a formalty and
the fee as the ultimate object.
There is no use in passing a law that would be so gcner-
ally unpopular that it would be universally disregarded, and
besides it is one OF those Germanc tendencies to bring the indi-
vidual under complete subserviency to the state, which will
always encounter opposition in this country,
No state bordering on Tennessee has any such law, and as
they are sane there is no likelihood Of any such law. There is
nothing that can be accomplished by such legislation that can
not better be achieved through education and in an inofensivc
manner.
From the way the New York World walls over the pro-
hibition amendment one might think it a saloon instead OF =
newspaper.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-31
GOOD REASONS.

do you believe Bacon wrote Shake
speare?" asked the critic
IF l did" replied Mr.. Stormington
Barnes, "Id never admit It. Not with
all the show printing I've got on my
hands with Shakespeare's name on 1t"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
fnfe. Steel Industry of
 Belgium Hampered

Brussels, Nov. S.-The Belgian steel industry is greatly handicapped bv lack of transportation. About 20 blast furnaces, which have been re- paired since the withdrawal of the German forces, could start work within the next six weeks if the necessary coke could be obtained. The taking over of 400 American locomo- tives is being negotiated with a view to relieving the situation.
 Belgium is supplying Rumania and Switzerland with coal in exchange for food and is arranging with Ar gentina for the shipment of 5O,OOO tons of coal to that country monthly against returns of wheat cargoes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
When Girl Says lDeleted by Censol She's Fined One Cent; But kitty in Vaulx's Office
 Says That 1t Is Deleted by Censor1 of a Life

the yonng ladies yesterday, "bnt since then there hasn't been much added to the fund We could have had, oh, a whole lot. though, "she continued, "because MT. Blank Gan outsider who frequently consults re2- ords in the office) became impatient at something the other day and wanted to put in a dollar so he could go outside and say what he felt like saying"
 Since all have reformed their speech to such an extent that noth- ing more harsh than "pshaw" or "shucks" is heard when thm@s % wrong, the young ladies are begin hing to calculate how long it will re. quire at the rate of six cents week in fines to accumulate enough to buy a real dinner at present Ii. C. l. prices Circuit Clerk Vaulx. who is something of lightning calculator. figures that at the present rate of imposition of fines there will be enough in the "kittv" to provide an S5-cent dinner for five people on February 14, 1921.
 The possible and probable contin- gencv that may delay the date of the dinner is that suck restraint will be exercised and such cheerfulness cultivated that the "kitty" will cease to grow In that case, it was int- mated, it may become necessary to impose fines upon some of the attor- neys who visit the office.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

Apprehending some week ago that they were becoming careless in their speech, not exercising sufficient re- straint and becoming in danger of using too many "cuss words" when tvpe-writers fail to onerate perfectly or any of numerous happeninGs oc- cur. taxing the patience of sweet tenn pered folks. the youn% ladies employ ed as recording clerks in the office of Circuit Clerk s. r Vaulx devised and agreed upon plan of "fines" to be imposed whenever one of them be- came impatient and used such an aw- ful cuss word as "dopgoue' or "ding bust" It was agreed that whane""r such word was used, the offendeI was to be fined cent, the money 70 go into a pool eventually to Do ex- rended for 2 "sumptuous dinner' for the office force A nroviso of the agreement was that if any should so far forget herself as to declare "darn it." that one should be fined not less than two cents nor more than five cents, depending upon the manner m which the word was used.
 That was three weeks ago. Yester- day the enormous sum of 19 cents was the total accumulated in the "kittv" as the result of fines inn posed.
 During the first week we had to pay good many fines," said one of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

the mouth speaketh. As a man think eth in his heart, so is he, and so he speaks
 Il have not tried to make a decla- nation out of this sermon. I want results. l want some signs of con- fession and repentance and renum- clatlon and reformation.
 "The supreme law is the law of Love. Love toward God, and Love toward man. An evil tongue which is set on fire of hell oftener violates that law than any other organ of man. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, not taketh up a reproach against his neighbor shall never be moved'
 "Let the law of your tongue be the law of kindness toward men, and the law of reverence and worship to- ward God
 'If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth himself, that mans religion is vain"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Young Women Will
 Control Censorship
 for Mexican Rulers

i Mexico City, Nov. 8.-Two young
 Mexican women have been placed in
 control of the censorship and dea ! ivelopment of motion picture films in Mexico. They are Miss Adriana s. Ehlers, who will act as chief censor, and Miss Dolores L. Ehlers, who will have charge of the work of produc- ing Mexican films to be distributed in the United States, Europe and LatinAmerican countries. The pur- pose of this widespread distribution of the Mexican films is announced to be clear away many of the misunder- standings that are said to exist re- garding Mexico.
 In addition the two young women are to have charge of the making of educational films to be exhibited free of cost to natives of Mexico to teach Mexicans modern methods of living. The two young women will act under the direction of the de- partment of the Interior.
 Films showing the life and indus tries of Mexico are being prepared under the direction of Miss Dolores U. AIAiCIo Wilo Iioo oCdll CdhlIS pictures in different parts of the re- public. These are to be distributed by cooperation of the United States bureau of commercial economics in virtually every country in the west ern hemisphere. Censorship is to be rigorous. All undesirable films, such as gruesome murders and immoral pictures, now widely shown and pat ronized by the poorer people, are to be barred from the public by Miss Adriana s. Ehlers. The smuggling of films across the American border is to be stopped. Az eighty-five per cent of the population of Mexico is illiterate, films have been adopted as the only means of educating people who cannot read or write.
 The Misses Ehlers were selected by President Carranza through means of motion picture scholarship and sent three years ago to the United States to study the possibilities of motion picture business from na- tional standpoint. They first took a course in the mechanics of motion picture work at Boston, later studied the work of large film companies in New York and subsequently, were permitted to work in the photogra- phic section of the War department, at Washington. It is announced thas beginning Nov. 1, they will have complete charge of the entire film industry in Mexico.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Red Cross Supplies
 Given to Russians

Archangel, Nov. 8.-American Red Cross supplies valued at four and a half million rubles have been turned over to the Russian Red Cross for use and distribution in Northern Rus sia. The goods consist principally of food. clothing, medical and hospital supplies.
 This stock was on hand at the time of the withdrawal of the American mission, following the departure of the American forces from the Arch angel area. In making this gift, Mai. D. o. Lively of San Francisco, Red Cross commissioner for North Russia, directed that the Russians follow the same reoulations of dis tribution as observed by the Ameri- cans who spent one year in this dis trict.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
NEW INDUSTRIES IN SOUTH.

Several industrial enterprises of large size and importance are refer red to in the information about new enterprises in the south published in the current issue of tn Manufacture CTS Record. One of these, tractor company formed at New Orleans with $6.000000 capital, will manufac- ture four -wheel-drive motor tractors i;
 at Little Rock, Ark, a S2 900 .000 mo- tor company will manufacture auto mobiles of 4 and 6-cylinder type, also trucks and tractors. and at San An tonic. Tex, a recently organized S2,- 100000 company will manufacture
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Woman Treasurer
 of Texas County

Billings, Mo-, Nov. 8-There is
 Down in the Tarrant county court house in Fort Worth, Texas, there is a black-haired vivacious young wo man who holds the office of county treasurer. When she was elected re- gently by large majority, the treas urer's office had a woman in charge for the first time in it's history and the stationery had to be printed with a Miss on it.
 (Miss) Effie Redmond, county tres ured, is the way the letterhead reads. Miss Redmond, who was born and raised in Texas, started out for her self when she was very young. She took a short stenographic course and lawyers. She was ambitious and she believed that women could do things as we'll as men and so she studied law during all her spare moment. In her own words she believed that there were many opportunities for women in public life and so she made the race for county treasurer. She was elected but continued her study of law and was admitted to the bar last summer.
 Now Miss Redmond intends when her public career is ended, to take up the practice of law.
 "From my experience and obser- vation in law office I have found that the field is one that is not only fascinating because of the work it. self, but is appealing in that there lis so much opportunity to do good and to bring sunshine where shadows have prevailed. This is what has appealed largely to me and has served to determine my course in choosing this profession" said Miss Redmond in speaking of her plans for the fu- ture.
 Miss Redmond is also a firm be- liever in the good that women can do in politics and in public offices, and believes that the prejudice against them will soon be overcome.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

motor cars and trucks with an mi tlal investment of $550,000. A train control corporation has chartered pt Baltimore for $2,00O,O0O and will build plant to manufacture auto. matte train control system A $400.- 900 foundry and machine shop will be built at Rome, Ga, for the manu- fracture of disc blows, daily canacitv 250 At Morgan City, La. a $250.o0O company will be incorporated to build an assembling plant for spring steel wheels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Southern Delegation
 Arrives at Brussels

Brussels, Nov 8,-A delegation from the Southern Commercial con- gress has arrived here headed by A. F. Taft, of Highpoint, N C., on tour of investigation into the econo- mic situation of Europe, particularly with regard to extension of southern trade abroad. The party has been in England and Holland and will go to France after visiting Flanders, the devastated regions and Louvain
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Gold Seekers Go
 to the Far North

Nome, Alaska, Nov. S.-Gold seek CTS are leaving here in increasing numbers for mysterious rich deposits somewhere across the Bering Sea in Siberia.
 Recently the trading schooner Es- perance was purchased by several Nome residents and is being outfit ted for treasure-seeking trip across to the continent opposite Nome.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
Raids Help Cut the
 High Costs in Paris

Paris, Nov. S.-The raids of the Thigh cost of living" police on one of the largest department stores of Par IS and the numerous summons to ap- pear before the courts, which have been delivered to the staff of the store ranging from managers of de- partments, stockholders and direc-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
RATS

London, Nov. S.-In 10 years the descendants of a single pair of rats if allowed to multiply undisturbed would number 48,319, ,698, ,S43, ,O3O, ,344,- 720, according to figures pre- pared for the board of agricul- ture by wcll-known scien- list. This calculation is an incident of the country-w campaign being waged against rats which are said to do a yearly damage in the United Kingdom amounting to $200,- 100000
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
TEMP PERA M MENTAL.

In view of the ever-changing whims of Dame Fashion, a "modiste" could just as well be called "mood- ist. .'-Cartoons Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

tors to more clerks, has had salu- tary effect on the prices in the oth- CT big stores of Paris. In some cases the prices have been reduced 40 per cent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09

Big 4 Plain and Self Rising Flour, if not the best n your opinion your money refunded. Riley Feed Mfg. Co. 9-23-tf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-09
DODGE AROUND CORNER

According to bin collectors, the "all-round' good fellow usually takes longest to "square" up his accounts. Cartoon Magazine.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-21
! STAMPING OUT ILLITERACY

~ gratifying to note the energy
(which illiteracy has been attack
Chesterfield county. Teachers
Aghoit the county volunteered
services, not only to conduct
n schools, but the hardest and
Jst embarrassing task in this connec-
fon, that of inducing illiterates to
httend.
= That they have met with success is
ttested by the reports from all parts
the county. In the correspondence
ON Middendorf is & particularly in
resting paragraph, written by one
these teachers. 1t shows what can
done and is most encouraging in
roving that the adult, when once
foused to the importance and bene-
is of education, with a determina-
ion to acquire at least the rudiments
# learning, makes very rapid prog
tess. Toe. much praise cannot be be-
slowed upon these teachers who have
undertaken this task and the County
of Chesterfield as well as the State of
South Carolian is grateful to them for
their services.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-21
KEPT HER AWAKE
The Terrible Pains in Back and
Sides. Cardui Gave Relief.

Marksville, La.-Mrs. Alice Johnson,
Of this place, writes: "For one year |
suffered with an awful misery in my back
and sides. My left side was hurting me
all the time. The misery was something
awful.
| could not do anything, not even sleep
at night. 1t kept me awake most of the
night :. took different medicines, but
nothing did me any good or relieved me
unit! took Cardui :.
Twas not able to do any of my work
for one year and got worse all the time,
was confined TO my bed off and on. got
60 bad with my back that when stopped
down | was not able to straighten, up
again decided would try Cardui
=. BY time had taken the entire bottle
l was feeling pretty good and could
straiShten up and my pains were nearly
oil gone.
! shall always praise Cardui. con-
tinued taking it until ,was strong and
we'll" lfyou suffer from pains due to
female complaints, Cardui may be just
what you need. Thousands of women
who once suffered in this way now praise
cardui for their present good health.
Give II trial. M-I33
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-21
SOLDIERS NEEDN'T HIRE
LAWYER TO CUT RED TAPE

Soldiers, sailors and ex-service men
who are puzzled over the red tape
necessary to convert their war risk
insurance into longtime policies, to
straighten out their allotments or to
get back pay, don't have hire a lawyer
to help him.
The American Red Cross is glad TO
help them without any charge and TO
furnish all the necessary blanks
free, it is announced at Southern
Headquarters. 1t has come to the
attention of the Red Cross that many
men are not aware of this service, and
are spending money for assistance
which is just as efficient when obtains
ed for nothing from experts in its
Home Service Department maintain
ed by the Red Cross for this purpose.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-21
EVER SALIVATED BY
CALOMEL? HORRIBLE
Calomel is quicksilver and acts like
dynamite on your liver.

Calomel loses you a day. You
know what calomel is. It's mercury
quicksilver. Calomel is dangerous. 1t
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Gallo
mel attacks the bones and should
never be put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need dose of danger
GUS calomel just remember that your
druggist sells for few cents a large
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is perfect substitute for
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate.
Don't take calomel! 1t makes you
sick the next day; it loses you days
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right Up and you feel great.
Give it to tie children because it is
perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe.