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New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
A Mint Tulep Retracted
he Editor of The Tribune.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Do you remcmber the skunk let
ters, Mr.. Johnson's and mine? At last
some one has come to Mr. Johnson S
defense, a tribe late. but none The less
delightfully."-. / hasten to rctract the
odious suggestion that Mr.. Johnson ever
gazed through the bottom Of mint
iulep tumbler. | am assured by his
friend that if I did not correct this
implication it might cause incalculable
harm to his standing In New Hampshire
Can't you see. if the SANDER was unrc-
tracted, how his nciGhbors would point
him out with whispers as the man who
saw skunks through mint julep tum-
bier?
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG.
New York, Dec. 12, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

The 9th North Carolina Congress
sional District, where, on full vote,
the usual Democratic majority Of
1900 or more is cut to 1000, fur
nishes further evidence of the just
ness of White House appraisals of
public opinion. Kentucky, Okla
homa and now North Carolina all
point to common conclusion.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
Indecent Haste
From Tho Toledo BladeJ

Governor Allen is precipitant He
proceeded in an undignifed manner to
dig coal out Of the bowels OF The earth
to relieve suffering, while Washington
dilly y-dallied, hemmed and hawed and
viewed with alarm. The Kansas Gov
ernor will be written down an upstart.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
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ass. IN THE UNITED srATxs AND
GUARANTEE

saa surshass msrehandise advertised In THE
UNE with absolute safety-fer II dlssatlsfac.
fssuIts In any case THE TRIBUNE guarantees
" your money back upon request. No red tape.
suIbbiIns. W. make good promptH II the
srtisef dses not.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

70 Associated Press IS exclusively entitled to the
! " republication OF all news dispatches credited
on not otherwise credited In this paper. and
the local news OF spon aneous origin published
rights Of republication OF all other matter
"a are also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
The One Exception
(From This Philadelphia Erening Public
Ledger

An English visitor in town says, "You
Americans have so much money you
don't know wha. to do with it," And
each and every one of us cheerfuly ad-
mits the truth of the assertion-with
mental reservation concerning one par
ticular case.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
The Coming 7ower
TO RUTH


Until / read your contribution.
Never having been entered In beauty
have no idea Of my rating ~ an
Adonis.
And although never featured in street
car collar advertisements
My nose does not get red in cold
weather,
Nor in Park Row shops.
(But my. cheeks may, tonight, when
look across at the workshop Of
L. p. A.
From the ramparts OF q rival sheet, and
see him deposit this In the nav OF
his waste baskct)
Lest I, for thirty years, read his
Tower, underneath the bough,
(Elm, if she be from MassachuscttsO
With the other requisites mentioned
by Omar, favorably,
And by Volstead, otherwise.
And Ruth! TOMMY.
sue for your hand, Ruth.
You are Irresistible,
And l fall for the first time,
But once or twice,
In my short life Of twenty-seven years.
What little have is yours,
And half Of all hereafter acquire.
If you're content to come up state,
Where. really, the people are regular,
And whore you have the paper by noon.
l'll promise to stake you
TO trip to New York
Every once in while,
And more often after the old fares
are restored.
Here is my only proviso:
Will you concedc me the right
OF Sunday morning for golf?
And, say, one night in a month
To meet with my friends
In game with very low limit?
Perhaps l should say Pm not handsome
And give other specifications,
But know you will have many suitors
And I want an even chance with them
BARKIS.
am a salesman.
am twenty-six years old.
Pm a blond but ! never bothered
about the color Of my eyes.
My checks, too, ret red in cold weather,
but my nose hasn't been that color
in months.
Life looked mighty sweet to me till
the other day l was called to an
swer many questions which the
head of the firm made note of, and
yesterday l was handed q life
policy for a years salary.
You may not have to teach thirty years
to get that pension, and may
change my beneficiary.
Oh, Ruth. sweet Ruth,
The portrait you have made
OF your dear self has filled
One lonesome heart with longing.
That this poor soul is mice"
Has been acknowledged
He may most justly claim
And put no strain upon his ego
BY black eyed maidens
From quaint New Orleans
Clear up to old Quebec.
And in the journey
OF those long distances
He has kept
This, too, with Justice ne may say
The clean and wholesome vision
OF fair womanhood that is
The birthrght Of the Southron.
But, then, alas. he may not
Lay at your feet
His aching heart.
For those thirty years
That you are signing to
Spend in some Joint appreciation
Of Old f. p. A., alas
Are nearly all behind him.
This victory you may,
However,. hold:
That while he has written verses
To many maidens' charms
In many climes.
This is the first time
He ever wrote
This kind Of poetry
Fog anybody. 6. R. 8.
Sir: I have decided to go to the
Contribs' Dinner. Surely, Ruth can't
talk to all those men at once.
VIRGINIA.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

as poor politics as it would be poor
patriotism to justify the charge that
between White House and Senate
there is little to choose.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18
Ruth, it appears, like her American
League numesakc, leads in home runs.

Miss Eleanor lIallowell Abbott, In
peace on Earth Good Will to Dogs"
in Golfers, appears to have run out of
synonyms for "sad." There was d
time as ancient readers Of this dc
partment may recall, when Miss Ab-
bott's ingenuity in pid-transitives
was so great that she went through
whole stories without using as primi-
tive a word as said for direct quo
tation. Once, we believe, she went
ten thousand words without a puncture.
SO infrequently did Miss Abbctt's char
acters use "said' that the acetic-penned
among us often doubted whether they
said anything. But in this story there
are seven "said"s, and Miss Abbott
hereby is cited for egregious valor. In
addition to these there are, Of course
Gall as transtives taking direct quo
tations): considered, persisted cues
toned, protested, cried, frightened,
scolded. argued, laughed, decided, rail-
lied, conceded, stammered. repeated,
thrilled, shivered. announced, affirmed,
gloated, quickened. sighed, deprecated,
reflected. whispered jerked. triumphcd,
ga9pcd. apologized, painted, reasoned,
jumped, reproached, shifted. suggested,
queried, tclephoned, confded, inter
rupted, frowned, urged, admitted, cor
rected, accepted, encouraged, mused,
implored, murmured, vecred back, de-
manded, screamed, asserted, echoed,
insisted, puzzled, and twinkled. IN
genious? We'll twinkle so.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

When Abraham Lincoln, in the play,
reads a piece of Artemus Wards to
the Cabinet it is evident that no secret
was made in those days of what
President reads. And so, in 1880, when
the play "Woodrow Wilson" is staged,
it may be that Mr.. Wilson will regale
the Cabinet with bits from that obso-
lete curiosity, The Coming Tower.
Still, The New York Tribune is the
only newspaper mentioned in "Abra-
ham Lincoln"
It will take less time to say cone in"
than Fifteen love-" so the new system
of scoring will enable man to play
more tennis In given time. The to-
tai of sets played in the United States
under the new system will increase
The more tennis, the moro demands
for racquets. So, when the price ad-
vances next summer, don't be as
tonished.
AS a sort of prophylaxis against the
end Of the world, in last nights mail
we received Merry Christmas card
from DR.. Berthold A. .Baer.
Well, the world didn't come to an
end, did it?
There's no luck for some Of us.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

There's no luck for some of US.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

Wnsd and published dsily BY New York Tribune
|. New York Corporation. Ogden Reid. Fres.-
p q. Vernon Rogers. vice -Prsadent: Helen
Pre- Reid, Secretary: T. A. sutsr. Treasurer.
(fses Tribune Building. l5s Nassau Street. Hsw
3 Telephone. Beekman ssoo
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

Well, the world didn't come to an
end, did it?
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

Sir: have decided to go to the
Contribs' Dinner. Surely, Ruth can't
talk to all those men at once.
VIRGINIA.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-18

Still, The New York Tribune is the
only newspaper mentioned in "Abra-
ham Lincoln"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
PREJUDICE LEADS TO WRONG
Warps Our Judgment and Breeds In
justice, Unkindness and Even
Cruelty, Says Writer.

Prejudice is an insidious thing. 1t
creeps into the soul unaware. 1t leads
us to say and do wrong things; 1t
warps our judgment and leads to In
Justice, unkindness and even cruelty,
says a writer in the Milwaukee Jour-
nal. 1t paves the way for hatred and
malice. In proportion as we learn to
clear our minds Of prejudice we be-
come better men and women; we win
friends and dissolve enmities; we are
more worthy of respect and confidence.
No one wants to be judged by false
standards that prejudice sets up. Be
ware Of judging others in such light
Prejudice cramps the mind and the
heart; it stands in the way Of right
full growth of character.
1t is wise to search your heart, and
If you find prejudice there to set about
to root it out wholly. Do not be sure
you of all men are unprecedented. That
is the danger; for prejudice is guarded
by vanity. Seek to be just in all things,
small as we'll as great. In all the re-
lations of life be sure you are not tudg-
ing another, not for his error but from
your prejudice. For the worst thing
about this weakness is that it breeds
injustice and unkindness and malice.
It hurts innocent folk and makes no
one happier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
Lizards and SUGAR.

The chief menace to sugar cane in
the West Indies is the froghopper
(Thomaspis saccharina), an insect
that sucks the sap from the roots and
leaves of the sugar cane and that owes
its name to its ability to take pro-
digiOus leaps. In recent years the in
sects have multiplied enormously, es-
pecially in Trinidad, where their nat
ural enemies, frogs. toads and lizards,
have been nearly exterminated by the
mOngOoSe, originally brought from In
dia to kill the rats and snakes. Wher-
ever the mOngOOses were plentiful
the lizards disappeared and the
froghoppers f1ourished. Five years
ago a leading planter, after exter-
minatlng as many mongoOses as pos
sible, placed thousands of ground liz
ards in his cane fields, with the result
that the froghOppers have almost dis
appeared, and the sugar yield is great
ly increased and improved. Other
large sugar cane growers have since
started lizard farm, where the liz
ards are brought in hundreds and en-
couraged to thrive and multiply for
the sole object of combating the frog
hopper pest. Thousands of bats. too,
are kept for the same work.-Youth's
Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
TRAVELLED OVER APPIAN WAY
Paul and His Companions Evidently
Used Famous Highway on Adven-
turous Journey to Rome.

| "All roads lead to Rome" said
Latin proverb When Paul and his
companions, after the adventurous
journey in which they suffered ship
wreck on the island of Malta, landed in
Italy they found brethren in Puteoli,
now called Pozzuoli, near Naples, and
"Were desired to tarry with them
seven days. and then the narrator of
the journey says, ''we went toward
Rome"
Luke does not tell us by what road
they Travelled, but we can be sure that
it was by the great Appian way, al
ready three hundred years old, which
was built by Appius Claudius, a
Roman censor, from Rome TO Capua,
a point not very far from the port
where the prisoners landed.
From Capua to Rome was dis
| lance of 125 miles. Paul and his com
panions probably walked the whole dis
lance, but were met at the Three
Taverns, II miles from Rome. and
at Appii Forum, or the market OF
| Appius, ten miles from Rome, by dele
| cations from the infant church in
Rome.
| This great highway was built of
| hewn stones laid in cement, and aver
| aged about 20 feet wide. Parts of the
road are still in excellent preserva-
| ton.
The Three Taverns is identified by
| some ruins, which are pointed out to
the modern tourists as the remains of
the station at which Paul was met by
his loving brethren from Rome, who
had received news of his coming
probably by the system of posts which
penetrated to all parts of the empire
| and resembled the modern post office,
and through the Acta Diurna, or pub
lie bulletins which were prototype
of the modern Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
NO BEST MONTH
Time of Birth Has Little to Do
With Genius.
Statistics Show That Nature Practical.
Iy Plays No Favorites in Her
Production of the Gifted
Ones of the Earth.
Astrologers believe that the pIane

Astrologers believe that the planets
ern us throughout life, and that, from
a literary point of view certain months
are more favorable than others in
which to be born.
Taking the hundred best British
writer's since the day of Chaucer, no
less than forty-eight were born in the
for months February, May, August
AMI November.
In February were born Charles Dick
ems, Pepys the diarist, and Thomas
Moore, while of more modern date
and fame are George Meredith, Israel
Zangwill, Anthony Hope, Harrison
Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins.
Pope and addison were both born
in May, as also were Browning, Ross
ETH, Moore, Bulwer Lytton, Thomas
Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir
James M. Barrie.
August seems to be the birthmonth
of poets, for in that month were born
Dryden, Herrick, Scott, Shelley, South
ey and Tennyson.
Apparently November is an unlucky
month for literary people, for among
those who were born in November are
Thomas Chatterton, who, in disappoint-
ment and poverty, committed suicide
at eighteen; William Cowper, who suf-
fered from melancholia and suicidal
mania, and finally died insane; Oliver
Goldsmith, continually in prison for
debt; John Bunyan, who spent l.
years in prison, thereby giving us "Pil-
grim's Progress :" Swift, subject to fits
of passion and ill-humor, died insane
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from
almost continual ill-health, and died
at forty-four
So much for the favored months
OF the others, January saw the birth
of Bobbie Burns, Byron and Lewis
Carol, author of "Alice in Wonder
land" who was also a famous mathe-
matician.
March was the birthmonth of Smol-
lett and Steele, as also of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
In April was born the greatest
genius the English language has
known, William Shakespeare, while
among others born in this month were
Wordsworth, Keble, Heber, Swinburne
and Herbert. Charlotte Bronte and
Anthony Trollope were also born in
this month
June is not a very good month,
Charles Reade and Charles Kingsley
being the only two writer's.
July gave US Thackeray and George
Bernard Shaw, and those interested
in astrology may find a resemblance
between the two satirists.
September and October were both
poor months, Mrs. Hemans and H G.
Wells being born in September and
Coleridge, Keats and Sheridan in Oc-
tober.
Finally Milton, Gray and Matthew
Arnold were born in December, as
were also Jane Austin and Carlyle.
So there is hope for most people as
far as birthmonths are concerned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08

The two broOds due this year are brood TO-
which belongs to the 17-year family, and brood lo
which belongs to the 13-vear family.
Brood 10 has the widest distribution of any
brood. Beginning at the eastern extremity of
Long Island, it sweeps west and south to the Mis-
sissippi river at Cairo Ill., and extends far
north as central Wisconsin and as far south as
middle Georgia. with isolated colonies as far
northeast as upper Vermont, and one as far west
the boundary line between Iowa and Nebraska
The whole or portions of 20 states are included
within this range. There are three regions of
greater occurrence, one covering New jersey
Maryland and eastern Pennsylvania; another COW
ering all of Indiana, the greater part of Ohio and
southern Michigan, and third covering western
North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northern
Georgia.
Brood 49,, the 13-year brood that comes out this
year. is comparatively a small brood and is made
up of scattered colonies rather than of the dense
and compact Swarms that mark the larger broods
Five states are affected by it-Alabama, Georgia.
North Carolina. South Carolina, and Tennessee
but it touches only limited areas of these states
ccadas Will Appear in May.
Latitude does not appear to materially affect the
time of emergence from the ground, the cicada in
the lake states coming out within week or two of
the same time in the Gulf and South Atlantic
states. This data ranges from the last week in
May to the first in June, and the shrieking hosts
may be looked for throughout the whole territory
indicated at about that time Late in Nav or
early in June the under sides of leaves on prac.
tically all in dense brood areas will be
studded with the cast skins and every wooded
place will be resOunding with the shrill drums
month later the disposition of eggs in
branches will have become general.
Fear aroused by the presence of this insect in
great numbers is out of proportion to the real
damage likely to be done. People in infested sec
tons should not become unduly alarmed but
should apply such methods of control as are DOS
sble. In young orchards and nurseries, the safest
method is the hand collection of the insects at the
time of emergence or as soon afterward as pos
sble Every cicada tries TO climb some plant or
tree Immediately after coming out of the ground,
and great numbers of them can be shaken off and
collected in bags or umbrellas. This practice may
be continued for an indefinite time after emer-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
Army Animals Bought Abroad.

Not all of the animals used by the
United States expeditionary forces In
overseas service were taken from this
country. More than twice as many
were bought abroad. The total num-
Der of animals purchased overseas to
January IL, 1919, is 152, 1886. Pur-
chases of horses in France amounted
to 109,S48; in Spain, 1881; and in
Great Britain, 1888. The value of
purchases in France was S43. 122. O94 :
in Spain, $3.50, 160; and Great Britain.
S5,314,711, or a total value of $40
025,965 for 1927 horses purchased
overseas. The total number of mules
purchased overseas amounted to % :
059. with value of S11, 115,S47. There
were 9,341 mules, valued at So, 1895. 92S
purchased in France; 1924 mules.
with value of S5,619,156, purchased
in Spain; and 6,777 mules, valued Mt
$500, 763, purchased in Great Britain
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08

"' y VI 'iie clcada generally an unwelqome one
o"s ago some superstition attached to the
u'iA oars Oh the himy wings. These bars are al
ways in the shape of the letter w. but few people
remember that through a period of Is or IL wears
and great significance is attached TO if at each
recurrence. Some prophet has arisen ALWAYS to
announce that the W the IOcust's wings means
war, Since this outbreak will come Just at the
conclusion of the greatest war; and when even the
imagination of the rural prophet could hardly con-
jure up the likelihood of another one some new
explanation will apparently have to be found this
time. But no doubt the cicada will, as usual be
greeted as a harbinger of disaster and as usual
there will reports of deaths caused by stings of
the ccada. belief that has persisted in spite of
positive proof that the cicada has no sting. that
only by the EXTREMIST accident could it infict
wound either with bill Ovipositor and that it
could not, in any case. inject poison.
Injury Is Usually oVerestmated.
Upon every appearance of large brOOdS of the
ccada fear is aroused that trees will be destroyed
particularly young trees of the frufting and orna-
mental species. There would seem to be some
ground for such a fear The number of the in
sects is so tremendous that one hardly under
stand how they deposit their eggs in the young
and tender branches of the trees without killing
them. Yet the fact remains that there have been
outbreaks of ciCadaS in some sections of the United
States in most of the years since this country was
discovered and that no very grave damage ever yet
has been done. Very young fruit trees sometimes
are killed seriously injured, but little or no
permanent injury is done TO forest trees or mature
trees of any kind and measures of protection can
employed that will the young and tender
stock from serious injury.
Inasmuch as the coming 1919 brood of locuSts
may be one cf the largest record. 1t is particu-
sarly important TO ailay excessive fear of destruC
ton TO timber as well as to have people on guard,
80 that the few preventive measures possible may
be applied The belief that the 1919 brood will be
exceptionally large is based on the fact that the
17-year brood coming out this year is brood 10,
perhaps the largest of the 1Tysar brOods, and that
brood Is of the 13year family comes out At the
same time The year 1868 was the greatest locust
year in history In that year brood 49, the largest
OF the 1Syear broOds, appeared in conjunction with
brood 10, the two combining TO made an unprece-
dented infestation The coincidence of the largest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
Woran's Remarkable Feat,

The American flag and the British
Jack flew side by side from the mast
of British warship for the first tine
in the history of the post of Bremen
ton, Wash, when Mrs. Bertha Saw
age, an emplOye of the industrial di
vision of the navy yard, on a dare,
climbed to the top of the mast or.
II. NJ. S. Lancaster as she lay in dock
and broke out the two ensgns.
Mrs. Savage, better known to the
yard employees as Montana Liz" has
been at the yard for several months.
She comes from the ranges in Mon
tana and is well known for her cow
boy attire and her picturesque vocab-
ulary. Her feat in climbing to the
top OF the 139-foot mast was no mean
accomplishment for a woman.
The ships crew watched the stunt
with great interest and enthusiasticaI-
ly cheered the climber
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

Has been used for all ailments that
are caused by a disordered stomach
and inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous indigestion, fermentation of
food, palpitation of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
Is a gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to Sc
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
Give Il trial.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08

burst from the ground at
almost the same moment.
Every locust year" is,
in some sort, a year of
fear and dread. 1t appears
to have been so with the
savages and has remained
so with their civilized sue
ceSSOrS, Notwithstanding
the fact that the cicada
has been under investiga-
ton for well over 200
years, and the appearance
of the Swarms are fore
told by entomolOgists as
accurately as eclipses of
moon are fOretOld by as
tronomers. People have
fancied that they could de-
tect in the cry of the
cicada a resemblance 10
the name of the monarch,
Pharaoh, that prosecuted
the Israelites, and that oc-
cult belief or fear added
TO the somewhat dOlorous
sound has served to make