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penalty of judgment by some Vehm-
gericht. The Sparticides, on the other
hand, are endeavoring 70 retaliate by
means of Vehmgerichts' of their own,
and thus it happens that the officers
of noble birth who in Difference to the
orders of their own Vehmgerichts were
responsible for the killing Of Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxembourg have
themselves been overtaken by a SINH
lar fate.
The Vehmgerichts spare no one. II
is no secret any longer in Germany
that the Sovereign Grand Duke Adolf
Frederick VI. OF Mecklenburg- Strelitz,
who was found a couple OF years ago
in a canal near Neu-Strelitz torty-
eight hours after his mysterious dis
appearance, with bullet hole at the
back of his head that could not pos
sibly have been self-inflicted, was the
victim of q Vehmgericht. 1t was COM
posed of German army officers Of the
highest nobility and military rank who
were enraged by his intensely pro-
English proclivities and by his per-
sonal pronounced prejudice against
the Kaiser and everything Prussian.
He had been brought up to a great
extent by his English grandmother
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Electricity in the Office

culars and write letters are also used.
The two machines are used, one to
print letterheads and the other large
circulars. When printed the letter.
heads are transferred to another auto
and signs it in ink of different color
all in one operation.
After the letterheads are printed
and filled with writing they are in
serted in envelopes and sent to a seal
ing machine. This device works at
the rate OF 1000 envelopes an hour.
An electrically operated typewriter
that will turn out as many typewrit-
ten letters as can be written on six
ordinary machines in the same period
of time illustrates a convenient way
In which to give circular the appear
.ance and Influence" of a personal, in
dividual letter The average letter
multiplied on a Monograph or some
like machine is so patiently a form"
that IT seldom receives any attention
at the hands of busy man.
The letter writing machine is a
combination OF operator and cabinet,
perforator, an automatic device for
feeding letterheads and a typewriter
The letter is first written on the per-
forator which is operated like a type
writer. AS the keys are struck 8 hole
Is punched on a sheet OF paper.
The roll of paper is placed in posi-
ton in the operator" and it is un.
reeled like the rolls of player piano:
the keys of the typewriter are made
TO strike in correspondence with the
holes, the result being a perfect re-
production OF the letter. An electric
motor of one-tenth of a horse power
furnishes the power.
There is also motor driven machine
which seals and stamps letters at the
rate of $50 a minute. 1t, automatical.
ly counts the stamps as they are used,
thereby preventing theft. An electric
addressograph Is also used in some
large offices for mailing papers and
circulars.
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some influential secret envoy OF FOR
eign government enjoying the good
will of their pro-German King and
Queen. The plenipotentiaries OF
Lenine, of Trotzky and Of the ignooie
Bella Kun, also of Enver and Talaat
Pasha, have literally swarmed at
Stockholm. Bolshevist gold has
flowed like water, mainly In the direc-
ton Of the demi-monde; and so far
as an impartial observer could gather,
the various secret agents have been
all engaged in betraying their various
employers and in squandering the
latters' money.
At least couple Of dozen murders
have taken place in and around Stock
holm during the last four weeks, thu
victims in a, number Of instances beirg
Bolshevist agents who had been put
to death either by Boishevist Vehm-
gerichts on the ground Of fraud and
treachery or by Vehmgerichts COM
posed of Muscovite, German and LII
lithuanian morarchists, mainly men OF
noble birth. Yielding to pressure or
the Entente Legations, the Swedish
Government has at length moved with
view to bringing to justice the re-
puted perpetrators Of some Of these
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TT is surprising what large num-
Der of electrical devices are en-.
Il .ployed in the modern business
once. OF course. nearly every office
now has : electric lights, electric
fans, electric call bells and buzzers, to
say nothing OF the telephone; but
there are a number Of important Office
appliances recently developed which
operate by electric power.
One Of the most important office
machines of to-day is the adding ma
chine. Once upon a time an adding
machine would do nothing but add,
but Snow they will subtract, divide
and multiply as we'll The operator OF
one Of these machines in an account
ing department begins by listing a
customers old balance, registering
the amount by touching the electric
operating bar instead Of pulling the
lever, as would be necessary on hand
machines. The carriage automatically
shifts under electric impulse to the
next column and subtracts the checks
as they are listed. This wonder worker
will only subtract in the "checks"
column and only add in the deposit"
column, so that the operator can
hardly make a mistake. An overdraft
10 plainly indicated Us such by the
machine. which designates it 20. d."
TO distinguish It from the balance
totals.
BY way of test. one OF these cleo
trio machines, with nine keys locked
together and down and the touchbar
fastened down with a cord, was run
for stwenty-four hours a day for
eighteen days. Its speed was 100
strokes TO the minute, adding and
listing s,s9s,s9s.99 at each stroke. The
motor bearings were not even heated
and the machine was ready TO repeat
the feat
Electric multigraphs that print cir
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less than 800 nuns were found who
had been murdered after being sub
jected to the most terrible atrocities
by the Bolshevists, one can readily
understand why SUCH justice as that
of these Vehmgerichts should have
become not only salutary but useful
in the absence of the operation Of the
ordinary courts of law.
. 1t may be added that the Vehm-
gerichts are particularly bitter against
those mobiles, who have in any way
lent themselves to the policies of the
Bolshevist leaders and are determined
to exact retribution from them, no
matter to what country they may flee.
Is Count Karolyi safeI
Under the circumstances It does not
seem as If Count Michael Karolyi, who
was one Of the heads or the first two
revolutionary Governments at Buda-
pest and who endeavored to propitiate
the Bolsheviks by offering to divide up
his hereditary territorial possessions
among them, is likely to find much
more safety in the United States, for
which he is said to be bound, than in
Switzerland, where he was when last
heard of.
But 1t is not only in the former Dual
Empire that the Vehmgerichts are
busy. They are likewise active in
Germany, and it is well known that
Matthias Erzberger. Karl Helfferich
and other statesmen OF the present
regime who are held by the German
aristocracy to have been responsible
for the final collapse of the defence
Of the Central Powers against the En-
tente and for the overthrow of the
monarchy are literally walking In the
valley of the shadow of death and
are generally understood to be doomed
by the Vehmgericht for alleged treason
to the vaterland.
Erzberger, through his Intentional
or unintentional betrayal of the con-
tents Of certain extremely confidential
letters that passed between Count
Czernin, the Austrian Chancellor; ex-
Emperor Charles and the Kaiser in
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and lasting stigma of a judicial con-
viction for felony.
In Hungary and also in certain parts
of Austria the scions of the historic
houses of the great territorial nobility,
such as the Counts Esterhazy, the
Counts Batthyany, the Counts Palffy,
the Counts Kalnoky and the Counts
Erdoedy have organized themselves
into a number of "Vehmgerichts" for
the summary punishment not only of
those revolutionary leaders who have
been most active in the massacre of
the aristocracy, of the clergy, Of the
great merchants and bankers and in
the plundering of palaces, sacred edi-
fees and religious institutions; but
also of the members Of their own
caste, who in the early stages of the
revolt associated themselves with its
leaders in the selfish hope of pre-
serving their own property and in
order to save their own lives. These
Magyar Magnates-Magnate is the
name given from time immemorial to
the members Of Hungary's House Of
Lords--are securing all over the coun-
try, like the Ku Klux riders in the
Southern States.
II they put in a public appearance
anywhere it is unheralded and their
justice is Of the most summary order.
And then they vanish. Hanging and
shooting constitute the usual forms of
punishment which they employ. Those
convicted of Bolshevism receive no
mercy, while in 1.-The case of those
revolutionists who have been guilty
Of massacre. the death is preceded by
terrible fioggings. When it is borne
in mind that in one convent alone, not
far from Budapest, the remains of no
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dicating the critical nature Of the
situation of the Central Powers, pre-
cipitated their defeat by the Entente
and the armistice. This has been pub
licly established. His impeachment
has been demanded by popular senti-
ment in Germany. AS it has not been
forthcoming the Vehmgericht has re-
solved to assume charge Of the matter.
The vehmgerichts Of Germany are
composed in the main of members OF
the territorial aristocracy and of off,
GERS of the army and Of the navy who
have blue blood in their veins. Their
activities are creating a positive reign
of terror among the so-called Sparti-
cides. Not a day passes without bodies
by the score being taken from the
waters Of the Spree and Of the various
lakes and canals around Berlin, from
the waters of the Elbe at Dresden and
Hamburg, and from those of the
weser at Bremen. They usually have
a rope around the neck to show that
their death has been due to strangula-
ton rather than drowning, and a card
to show that they have paid the
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had acted within their legal rights.
The ultimate results were the con-
struction of the two artificial islands
(Swinburne and Hoffman) in the
lower bay, outside the Narrows, on
which the quarantine establishment
was installed, and the abandonment
and sale OF property at Tompkinsville.
On part OF the property was a ceme-
terry where those who had died in
the hospital or on shipboard were
buried, and 1t was necessary that provi-
sion be made for the removal of the
bodies to some other location. The
State secured a little tract of land
about two miles away in the interior OF
the island. almost out Of sight of any
highway, and to that place about fifty
years ago the bodies with their ac-
bmpanying gravestones were re-
moved.
During the past Ave years or SO
the city of New York acquired cor
siderable land in and around the Silver
Lake region for reservoir and park
purposes, within which area the little
burial tract was included. II ia on
the southeastern slope of a broad de-
preston extending from the recently
constructed Silver Lake reservoir TO
the Glove valley and several hundred
feet distant from the Richmond turn
pike.
A few of the stones are upright, but
most Of them are either inclined at
various angles or lying on the ground.
The most pretentious one is a large
slab Of white marble lying fiat upon
the ground, apparently in the position
In which 1t had been originally placed
The inscription reads:
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yellow fever had caused the death Of
residents of the island.
Repeated efforts. by peaceful means,
had failed to secure the abatement of
the nuisance, which had become an
unbearable. constant menace to life
and property near Quarantine as well
as the entire port of New York.
The drastic method finally adopted by
the citizens to assure their future
safety proved effective, and although
the ringleaders were prosecuted none
was convicted of any offence against
the law the court declaring that they
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murders, among them a Cossack Colo
mel known as Mohammed Beck Hadje-
Lache, who was entrusted with the ex-
ecution of the DEGREES of death against
those who had betrayed the Bolshevist
cause. His victims included Col.
Ardaschef. Capt Kalve and a Swedish
Lieutenant Of the name of Engstrom.
Others arrested are the members of a
so-called international League for the
Reestablishment of the Russian Mon
archy," who are charged with inflict-
ing Vehmgericht justice on several
Bolshevik agents in Sweden. The vic
TINS included an American citizen Of
the name of Legros. Among their al
legged executioners now behind the bars
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q NTY-oNE years ago. during the
nights OF September l and 2,
~ 1858. the citizens Of Staten
Island, acting under authority OF the
local board of health. set fire ITO the
New York State Quarantine Hospital
and other buildings at Tompkinsville
and burned them to the ground-the
quarantine establishment having been
legally declared to be a public nui-
sance after several epidemics and nu-
merous sporadic cases Of typhus and
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redress. The druggist was sorry tat
took the attitude that he could not .
blamed for the imperfections of a me-
chanicai instrument. Such is the view
taken by many others in whose places
OF BUSINESS are scales into which are
poured hundreds of cents a day the
customers being regularly cheated.
The individual sums lost in this
form of petty graft are not large bit
in the aggregate they amount to con-
siderable Some dealers will admit
their scales are "out of whack" when
appealed to, but in most cases they
VIII continue to allow people to put IN
their cents, we'll knowing the condi-
tons. Very seldom is the "Out q
order" sign placed on a weighing ma
chine, no matter in what condition
1t is.
Free Scales Wrong Too.
One company in the city that makes
n speciality OF the sale OF scales placed
recently in front of its place of busi-
ness a large scale where one could
obtain ones weight for nothing, The
line of persons waiting their turns 10
get weighed looked like the box Office
queue for a popular theatrical produC-
ton.
One man finally got on the scale and
was mystified when he found APP
parently that he weighed seven pounds
below his avoirdupois Of the day be-
fore. He went into the store to make
inquiries and was told coolly that no
wonder the machine was out of order
as 1t was used by so many persons
daily and had to be moved in every
evening and taken out every mornIuS
which operations were highly injurious
to such a complicated piece of meChan-
ism in which the weighing IS auto
matte.
The inquirer was invited TO try ono
OF the scales inside. which he did, find
ing that his surmise in regard to tho
seven pounds had not been WronS'
But 1t never occurred to the store
clerk to remove the machine, he falling
to realize the effect on prospective
buyers OF scales.
City officials exercise strict superN-
sion over weights and measures IN
places OF business, and many are inc
cheaters they nah, The automatic 'ent
in the slot weighing machines, though
never appear to get official attention
Pick your scale" therefore, is an
admonition to be needed by persons
who are or have been i'll, those Wh'
have taken measures to reduce then
weight or the lean and tanks Whe
want TO put on more flesh.
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In certain Of the Inscriptions words
are misspelled and in several instances
attempts at correction, by overcutting,
may be noted, and hence 1t may be
reasonable to assume that any ap-
parent discrepancy in figures recording
dates and ages may merely represent
carelessness on the part OF the stone
cutter. Possibly some such explana-
ton may account for the otherwise
precocious youth, Capt. Anthony ROD
ericks, who. so the inscription reads,
departed this life September n, 1911,
aged 16 years." which record is fol-
lowed by tho lines
Weep not for me. my wife and children
dear.
My spirit rests above all care.
This little burial plot should be rem
ovated and preserved II for no other
reason than as a reminder OF one of
the most dramatic events in Staten
Islands civic history. and 1t Is rumored
that a move is already on foot with
that end In view.
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Getting On the Scales

TEW of the thousands in New
r York that daily and gayly step
on the numerous cent in the
slot weighing machines realize the
pathos back of many messages flashed
by the dial to overconf1ding persons
who have faith in the accuracy Of the
scales. AS groups of merrymakers
jump on the platforms one after an
other lust to see whether 1 am gain
ing or losing" as many put 1t, the dis
crepancy of pound or several pounds
either way compared with the normal
weight is dismissed with a laugh and
such a remark as: 1T appear to be
gaining" or ~ must be losing flesh"
However, to many others the APP
parently simple act Of getting weighed
is one Of the greatest Importance. The
decisions in cases Of persons who have
been in i'll health may cause exultant
feelings and renew fading hopes, or it
may result In a corresponding depres-
sion in spirit that will further affect
the health or even result in tragedy.
One case of suicide in New York
recently was traced directly to an i'm
perfect Weighing machine. The VIC
tim had just returned from the noun
tains, where he had gone on the ad-
vice of a physician because of an af-
lection OF the lungs. When he left the
mountain sanitarium the scales there
told him he had gained ten pounds in
a sojourn of eleven weeks. Arriving
in the city the former invalid was
buoyed by the improvement felt and
by the remarks OF his friends, who
said he had not looked 30 robust in
years.
After three weeks in the city,
though, the man in an unlucky mo-
ment, spying a scale, decided to dis
cover II he was retaining the weight
gained In the mountains. It was a
shock to him when the scale hands
pointed to the mark to which he had
fallen before being sent away to re-
cuperate.
Scales inaccurate.
This began to prey upon his mind,
the feeling being intensified by the
fact that no Improvement was regis
tered by subsequent weighings. His
mistake was that he used the same
scale each time, one In a drug store
near his home. Finally he was found
dead In his room, having taken his life.
Investigation by relatives showed
that the drug store scale was eight
pounds off" registering that amount
below what it should have flashed on
the dial. OF course, the family had no
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THIS TOMB
is erected to the Memory Of

THIS TOMB
is erected to the Memory of
JOHN GIBBONS Esqr
Native Of Newport Pratt in ireland,
which he left in the 18th Year of his
Age
for Jamaica, where he lived II Years,
equally loved and respected by his
Acquaintance there as by his Friends
and Relatives in his Native Country.
On the 18th OF August 1900
he arrived on this Island unable to
proceed to New York, where he was
destined for the benefit OF his Health,
and departed this Life
on the LIST OF September following,
In the 3Sth Year OF his Age;
leaving behind him his disconsolate wife
ROSETTA,
who has caused this to be
erected as a small Testimony of her
Affection.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-02-22
Program Opera House.
Week Commencing Sunday.

Sunday, Feb. 23-Madge Kennedy
ia "Friend Husband. The story of
girl who laughed at her marriage
VOWS. Here was a girl who thought
she could marry without love.
Village Chestnut.
Two-reel Mack Sennett Comedy.
Monday, Feb. 24-Charley Chaplain
10 "Shoulder Arms" A riot of fun
Louise Huff in The Sea Waif.' 1t
will be a real treat because THE Sea
Waif' IS the sort of picture that is
thoroughly pleasing from start to fin
ish. It has sentiment, young love,
thrills, beautiful scenes, charming
star and splendid acting.
Tuesday, Feb. 25-Charles Ray in
The Law of thu North A story of
the country where it's five shirts cold.
A piping photoplay for these warm
oights. Plenty of excitement.
One-reel Photograph.
Wednesday. Feb. 26-Wallace Reid
10 1.-The Man from Funeral Range"
It's one thing to be innocent, but it's
quite another to prove it. particularly
when a rascally lawyer finds 1t profit
able to get your scalp. In this thrill
ing picture Wallace Reid is entenced
to death, makes sensational escape
from a train en- route to prison, lives
10 Funeral Range" awhile, grows
beard and eventually gets back to
civilization aud makes it hot for Mr..
Lawyer.
Universal Weekly.
Thursday, Feb. 27-Constance Tai
madge, the girl you love, in THE
Lesson" A picture you'll never for.
get. A clean, livable, loyable tale of
the folks we see about US every day 10
the year.
War Review.
Friday, Feb. 2S-Billie Burke in
''The Make Believe Wife" If you
ever saw Billie Burke On the screen
before. you are surely coming to see
her in this sparkling Paramount pic.
ture. We don't have to tell you why
its Billie Burke, that's all.
Universal Weekly.
Saturday. March 1--Emmy Wehlen
in Sylvia on a Spree A breezy
story of little girl who wanted to
see things.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-02-22
Fourth Ward Willing To
Join In.

In connection with the present
good road agitation We recall that
the minutes Of the Police Jury
show that at the meeting at which
the petition of the citizens of tn"
Fourth Ward was presented. ask
ing that that ward be orgauiz d
into a separate road district. Mr.
Isaac s. Wooster N ade the follow
ing statement to the Jury:
"In presenting this petition We
wish the Police Jury to under
stand that the citizens of the
Fourth ward do not wish to havf
their ward remain a separate dis
trict If it be found possible in the
future to make a district OF the
whole parish, but stand ready to
join with the parish any time thi
is possible"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-02-22

purpose OF and as subscription list, the
undersigned organizers of this corporation
nave. respectively, subscribed for stock
therein for the number of shares and
amounts respectively Sc. opposite to their
signatures hereto, and the subscription tn :
said capital stock of E. G. Taylor consist
ing, in whole, Of property transferred or
to be transferred by hm to this CORPORA
| ton. there is annexed to this act Of ineor-
poration and to be read in connection
herewith. an accurate, detailed and item. ;
tzeG description Of such property. as to
tmount, location. extent. character aud
| state OF improvement together with a
statement of its value as appraised by the
directors.
Thus done and passed at Frankiiu, Par
| ish OF st Mary. State OF Louisiana, on the
day and date irst above written, In the
| presence ct Mrs. Alice b.. Darnall and
Immet Alpha, competent, witnesses. who
| have hereunto slbacribed theisnames with
the said appearers and nae. Notary, after
iue reading OF the whole. e.
Signed) Eugene.C. Taylor, 600 shares
Franklin. Louisiana. a
Warren Lyman Taylor, 1share
Franklin, Louisiana.
| George ID. Palfrey, 80 sharea
| Franklin, Louisiana.
I ALICE B. DARSALL,
| EMMETT ALPHA.
RENE H. HIMEL, Notary Public.
| STATE OF I.OUISIANA,l
| PARISH OF ST. MARI.}
| i, the undersigned. Wilbur Il Kramer, Clerk
OF the 23rd Judicial District Court of Louisiana,
| in and for the Parish of st. Mary, and ex-of-
| fcio Recorder of Mortgages In and for tho said
st. Mary Parish, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is true and correct copy
| OF the Act OF lncor poration of the G. Tayirr
| company, Incorporated, and that the original
Act of Incorporation of said company was this
lay duly filed and recorded in my Office in
| Book No. l.. Of Acts OF Incorporation, at foli.,
! $50, under Entry No s..
In evidence whereof, witness nv official six.
| nature and the impress Of the seal of my Oilleo
| at franklin, ST. Mary Pan III State 1t Lpuisi
| ana, oil this i7th day Of February, Iaia
WILBUR II. KRiHER.
Clerk OF Court ana ex.tlHicio Recorder II
I Mortgages in and for st. Mary tsrish.