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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
LEGAL NOTICES.
UNION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Annual Meetings of stockholders and
nIFertOra

NWTUdI WesUHY OF ot0CkH0IutTB and
Directors,
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting Of stockholders OF
the Union Railway company will be held
at the office OF the company, room 80,
Union station building, Memphis, Tenn,
on Monday, the sixth day of October,
1919, at 4 O'Clock D.. M, for the purpose
of electing directors for the ensuing
year and for the TRANSACTION of such
other business as may come before the
meeting.
The annual meeting of the board of
directors Of the company will be held
at the same office on the same day
Immediately after adjournment of the
stockholders meeting.
J. 6. DREW, President.
10. III, LYCETT, Secretary.
Dated Sant LIZ 1910
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
ANNOUNCEMENTS.


PiAGGf0-At st. Joseph's hospital,
Monday Sept. 20, 1919, at IL O'Clock
noon, John. husband Of Mary Tedro
Piaggio. father Of Annie Louise. John
]. and George Piaggio. brother of Mrs.
I. Wenzler, Mrs. J. Hilstrom and Mrs.
E.. Buffa. Aged Al years.
Funeral will take place from resi-
dence, 654 Jackson venue, tomorrow
"Wednesday morning at $40 o'clock.
Requiem mass at st. Brigld's church
at 3 O'Clock. Friends invited. Interment
in Calvary cemetery.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
BIRTHS.

William and Alice Swope Jarboe. 1895
Monroe, Sept. 10; girl.
Marshall II. and Dorothy Wilson Den.
lley, 1871 Lawrence, Sept. 10: girl.
James A. and Velva Angleton Alex
ander, 55 North Seventh, Sept. II;
boy.
NJ. and Ruth Kerby Hammer, 1898
Indiana, Sept, "a; boy,
eliza and Virginia Smith Jones, Cen
eral hospital, Sept. is; hoy.
Eugene and Hazel Williams Myers,
5S2 Exchange. Sept, 10; boy.
Harmon and Ruth Lockhart Nest,
Binghamton, Sept. 10; boy.
George and Lucy James, Summer and
Scott, Sept. O: girl.
Haywood and Nancy Scott Glenn,
rear 4l4 Beale, Sept. IA; girl.
Arthur and Matte Bowser, 500
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
TRusTEEIs SALE.

Default having been made In the pay
ment OF the debts and obligations Sc
cured to be paid in a certain deed Of
trust, executed the 2Sth day of Febru-
airy, 1918, by Henry c; Humphreys and
wife, Jessie A. Humphreys to the un-
dersigned as trustee, as same appears
or record in the office Of the register
Of Shelby county, Tennessee, in Book
$50, page so, and the owner of the
debt secured having requested the un-
dersigned to advertise and sell the
property secured by said deed of trust,
all Of said Indebtedness having matured
by default In the payment of a part
thereof, this is to give notice, that we
will on
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER Is, 1919,
southwest corner of the courthouse,
Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee,
and at the Adams avenue entrance
thereof. proceed to sell at public out
cry to the highest and best bidder for
cash, the following described property,
to-wtt:
Situated in Shelby county, Tennessee,
as follows.
That certain lot or parcel of ground
known and designated as Lots Sevens
teen 40 and Eighteen GS) and the
north 6+,25 feet OF Lots Twenty-three
(2S) and Twenty-four (24) on the plan
OF the A, Warren subdivision as shown
ON plat Of record in Book Al. part 1,
page G26, In the registers office OF
Shelby county. Tennessee, TO which
reference is here made. Said property
Is further described as follows: Begin
ming at a stake at the northwest corr
ner of Lot II In the east line of a
thirty 600 foot avenue; thence south
with said east line two hundred, sixty
one and twenty-five hundredths
(26i.2 5) feet: thence east four hundred,
fifty (450) feet; thence north two hun
bred, sixty-one and twenty-five hun
dredths (26t.25) feet to the northeast
| corner of Lot Eighteen Q9; thence
| west with the north line OF Lots Eight
cen CiS) and Seventeen 40 four hun.
bred, fifty t45O) feet 70 the point OF
beginning, containing 81 acres more or
lefs.
All right and equity OF redemption.
homestead and dover waived In said
deed OF trust, and the title Is believed
10 be good. but we viii sell and convey
| BANK OF COMMERCE & TRUST Co,
Trustee.
BY S. ]. SHEPHERD, Trust officer.
NJ, {. Ketchum. Attorney.
This, Sept. 20, 1919.
BKfNu your sewing troubles TO Mrs.
y. Manners, sks s. Speedway. suburban.
south Meinphis cat,
BRATpfNG. Mrs, r.. A. Hunt. So
| Linden Ave. Phone NJ. s74s-J.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23

sAitF0Ap ADMINISTRATION
CONSOLIDATED TICKET OTFIcn
90 n. Main ST. PAess nain 500.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
LOST AND FOUND.

LOST. STRAYED OR sToLEN-very
small, white puppy, brown ears and
face. brown spot on back. Answers
name OF Beauty" Lost lear Bellevue
and SiedGc Ave. Reward for return to
1850 vinton Ave. or phone Hem. 25O7.
SToLEN-Black and tan hound dog;
front legs white: part of right ear torn
Off. Stolen at Arlington Tuesday. Re
ward OF SIS for return TO John Hayes.
Arlington, Tenn.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23

LoST-Femaio Boston bull dog;
brindlc, with white neck and face; an-
swera TO "Micky." For reward call
wal aIis-x Z, or S9t McLemore Ave,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23

BRING your sewing troubles 20 Mrs.
y. Manners, sss s, Speedway. Suburbnn.
south Memphis a
BRArnfNG. Ms y. 4. HUNT. So
LLndcn Ave. Phone NJ. sfls-J.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23

could have survived such strain had not its
component parts been operated and directed by
men OF character ard experience willing and
able to rise to the supreme demands of the
hour.
Through these trials and tests" says he,
the national banks of the country and our
federal reserve system have passed triumph
antly. Their resources have risen steadily
during this period of stress and strain to the
highest figures ever attained, the national bank
resources on Nov. 1. 1918, being $19,S21, 404, 900
During the past Is months this country has
raised through bond issues amount more
than six times as great as was raised during
the four years of the Civil war and largely az
rates of interest not one-half as high as those
raid during that period.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23

Mrs. Warden became garrulous
I'm cleaning out all the old rub
bish," she said, because I've got
to move. We owned the house, but
there was an eight hundred dollar
mortgage on it. It's due and I've
got to give up my home. The day
my husband died he drew fifteen
hundred dollars we had saved up,
from the bank. He talked about a
great investment he was going to
make and went downtown. 1t was
boiling hot day, June 10ths-how
we'll recall it, just a year ago. He
must have got overcome by the
heat, for just as he got home he
collapsed, and died before morning.
From that time to this we haven't
been able to find a single trace of
the money"
Maybe he lost it, or was robbed
or maybe he invested it," suggest
ed Ben. IT'S too bad, anyway.
Now, ma'am, let me cart out and
burn the stuff as pay for the hat
Wish you were going to stay here;
wish l could camp right down and
help you, for I've got no home and
you remind me of my dear old
mother"
Ben worked about the place for
two hours and his kind-hearted
hostess gave him q famous meal
and a quarter of a dollar for his
help. She became interested in his
story and told him he could come
back and sleep in the kitchen and
have his meals until he found
work
The day was warm and as Ben
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
The Cause of Cancer.


The nature of cancer, and hence
its cause, is unknown. All sorts
of theories have been proposed TO
explain the great and apparently
increasing prevalence of this dis
ease. Most of the theories fail to
apply when considered in conneC-
ton with any considerable number
of cancer cases.
That cancer consists of an alb
normal, irregular or unrestrained
growth of the ordinary tissue cells
of the structure or organ involved.
1t is an anarchy of growth, and
anarchy in any body must be de-
stroyed or it will eventually destroy
the body.
Constant irritation and unfair
treatment, ill-usage, damage done
by injury, congenital defects, and
the application of poisons of vari-
Gus kinds seem to be the predispos-
ing factors of anarchy in the body.
Eighty-five per cent of all can
GERS of the lips, tongue and throat
occur in tobacco smokers.
Good dentistry, as opposed to the
bargain kind, is recognized as one
the mouth.
One-third of all cancers in civil
lized men occur in the stomach,
and a man has to be pretty thor
oughly civilized in order to know
how to abuse his stomach as a
regular habit. The eating of very
hot food, of food too highly seas
oned with condiments, and the
drinking of stimulating or irritat-
ing beverages such as whisky, gin
ger ale, carbonated water, includ-
ing plain soda water, must be in
cluded among the predisposing
causes of cancer of the stomach.
Overeating and hasty swallowing
of incompletely masticated food
are also predisposing causes of
cancer of the stomach.
The irritation of excessive scar
tissues about the seat of decorations
unrepaired or incompletely repair
ed after childbirth has always been
considered an important predispos-
ing cause of the most frequent and
most tragic of all cancers, cancer
of the womb in mothers of large
families.
The irritation OF frequent shaw
ing over a trifling wart or pimple
on the cheek, or of frequent pinch
ing or picking at such a lesion, ap-
pears to be a common predispos-
ing cause of the skin cancer which
is prone to develop in such site
after middle age.
Cancer may occur in children,
youths, or at any age, though it is
most common at or after middle
age.
Cancer is not inherited, and
there is no evidence that it is a
communicable disease.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
Fish Dishes.


Lobster a la Newburg - Two
pounds lobster, one-Quarter cup
butter, one-half teaspoon salt, few
grains cayenne, slight grating nut
meg, one tablespoon sherry, one
tablespoon brandy, one-half cup
thin cream, two egg yolks.
Remove lobster meat from shell
and cut in slices. Melt butter, add
lobster and cook three minutes
Add salt, cayenne, nutmeg, sherry
and brandy; cook one minute, then
add cream and yolks slightly beat
en-. and stir until thickened. Serve
with toast.
Clans a la Newburg-One pint
clans, two tablespoons butter. one
half teaspoon salt, few grains cay
enne, three tablespoons sherry or
Madeira wine, one-half cup cream,
three egg yolks.
Clean clans, remove soft parts
and finely chop hard parts. Melt
butter, and chopped clans. salt
cayenne and wine. Cook two min
utes, then add egg yolks slightly
beaten, diluted with some of the
hot sauce.
Chrimps la Newburg pint
shrimps, three tablespoons butter,
one-half teaspoon salt, few grains
cayenne, one teaspoon lemon juice,
one teaspoon flour, one-half cup
cream, two egg yolks, two table
spoons sherry.
Clean shrimps and cook three
minutes in two tablespoons butter.
Add salt, cayenne and lemon juice,
and salt one minute. Remove
shrimps and put remaining butter
in chatting dish, add flour and
cream; when thickened add yolks
of eggs slightly beaten, shrimps
and sherry. Serve with toast.
Fish a la ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ter cup butter, two and one-half
tablespoons flour, two cups milk,
yolks of four hard-boiled eggs, one
teaspoon anchovy essence, two cups
cold boiled flaked fish.
Make a sauce of butter, flour and
milk. Mash yolks of eggs and mix
with anchovy essence. then add fish.
Serve as soon as heated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
Household Hints
Try These.

Try IDPSe.
To Get the Meats of Pecans out
whole soak them over night in wa
ter. Next morning crack them OH
end and the meats will come out
without breaking.
If you have an old WORKOUT rug
don't throw it away. Instead re-
verse it, clean and apply two coats
OF flour paste, two of any good floor
paint and one or two of varnish.
letting each coat dry before apply
ing the next. The result will sur
prise you.
Worn out bath towels-There
are always some good parts left in
every towel. Cut these out: piece
together until you have a strip
about two and one-half feet long.
Gather the ends into a crocheted
ring. These make splendid dry nv
backs" Embroider initials on each
one and present to each member of
your family. They will like them.
To keep cold Starch from stick
ing-Rub a little white soap Canv
kind in the starch until it suds:
then starch as usual and it will
never stick.
Popping CORRUPT one-third
cupful of cooking oil into a frying
pan; when hot add almost enough
unpopped corn to cover bottom.
Cover pan and shake occasionally
while corn is popping.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23

, went on his way he removed his
hat and wiped his perspiring brow.
The headpiece was too small for
him a trifle, and he turned out the
inner band to remove it for the
sake of ROOM AS he did SO a slim
of paper fell out. Ben picked if
up, glanced at it's written contents
and uttered a startled and then a
gleesome cry.
Il don't want revenge on that
storekeeper who smashed my hat,
but L do justice for the dear old
soul back in yonder cottage!" he
uttered.
. What does it all mean? voiced
Mrs. Worden in amaze as Ben an
hour later informed her that he had
traced the missing fifteen hundred
dollars.
You and I are too mercifuI 10
want to down even bad, scheming
man." replied Ben, so let US saw
nothing in public. The investment
your husband made was a partner
ship with Jabez Tull. He gave
him fifteen hundred dollars. The
receipt for it l found in that old
hat, where your husband had pIac-
ed it. Tull will hand you over the
money soon as the bank opens in
the morning.
You kind, noble, helpful mani"
cried Mrs. Worden, overwhelmed
with JOY. What can I do to re-
ward you"
Just let me stay around here
and make your life easy and hap
py," responded Ben-"just let me
call you Mother"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23

pal home over the last weekend
liberty. 1t was a mistake. He
admits it himself. Mother will new
er have him in the house again.
Mother could never get him in the
house again. He fears her. The
first thing he did was to mix poor
dear grandfather drink that
caused the old gentleman to forget
his game leg which had been dam
aged in battles, ranging any
where's from the Mexican to the
Spanish wars. according to grand
fathers mood at the time he is tell
ing the story, but which | believe,
according to a private theory of
mine, was really caught in a fold
ing bed. However 1t was, grand
father forget all about this leg of
his entirely and insisted on dane
ing with Nora, our new maid. Moth
er, of course, was Mortified. But
not content with that, this friend
of mine concocted some strange
beverage for the pater which so
delighted him that he loaned my So
called pal the ten spot / had been
intending to borrow. The three of
them sat up until all hours of the
night playing cards and telling ri
bald stories. AS mother took me
upstairs to bed she gazed down on
her father-in-law and her husband
in the clutches of the demon and
remarked bitterly 10 me:
Like father, like son." and l
knew that she was thoroughly de-
termined to make both of them pay
dearly for their pleasant interIude.
Breakfast the next morning was
rather trying ordeal. Grandfather
once more resorted to his game leg
with renewed vigor, referred sew
eral times to the defense of the
Alamo, so l knew he was pretty
low in his mind. Father withdrew
at the sight of the bacon. Mother
laughed scornfully as he departed.
My friend ate a hearty breakfast
and kept a sort of happy-go-lucky
monologue throughout its entire
course. 1 took him out walking
afterward and forgot to bring him
back.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
Financial Preparedness.

Creation of the federal reserve bank during
President Wilson's first administration turned
out to be one of the most important steps in
war preparedness that this any other coun-
try ever took. The Strengthening of the inan-
cial machinery of the country vital to the
success of our recent undertaking and if it had
been delayed till war actually broke the con-
sequences might have been disastrous The
controller of the currency in his annual report
reviews the activities of the national banks
during the period of the He says the de-
mands upon the capital and banking resources
Of the country have been unparalleled, and
that the financial strain upon US would have
wrecked and crumbled any financial system not
founded on sound economic laws and governed
by conservative and established principles Of
finance, and no system, however meritorious
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23

they render wheezy are our neigh
bors in the crowd, Oh, we laugh
at care and trouble, and We say
they're but a bubble when they
come across the stubble TO our
brother down the lane; and we
talk OF matters CHEEKY and forget
the shadows dreary when some
other mortal. weary, droops, be
meath the load OF pain. "Life's eE-
actly what you make there's adj
vice If you will take it," Thus
with pompous pride we fake it TOT
the man about TO fail; for we never
stop to cavil at the pitfalls and the
gravel when it's other folks who
travel on the long ana lonely trail
We can look for joy tomorrow;
hope and peace and comfort Dor
row, we can always bear the sOr-
row. lay the glooms upon their
shelves, we can laugh at impcrfec-
ton, scorn all anguish and dejec-
ton, when they're headed a direc-
ton otherwise than toward our
selves. Glen Bradshaw
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
N&AIdT1EI TALKS
BY WILLIAM BRADY ND.

! err undergo hardening under such
| conditions?
Answer Calomel has no known.
effect on the liver. 1t is merely a
cathartic, and a very crude one at
/ that Calomel is prescribed more
out of sympathy and reverence for
the traditions OF medicine than for
| any real benefits the drug can pro-
duce. Calomel has far less excuse
than castor oil in q doctors arma-
mentarium, and castor oii has al
most no excuse at all. These anti
quated medicines ought 10 be put
away in the medical museum along
with angleworm juice and toad's
eyes.
And Another just As Foolish.
viii you please tell me just how
to take the yeastcakes you recon-
mend for clearing the blood OF inn
purities. DO you mean the COM
mon yeastcakes such as groccrs
sell for baking? (NIrs. 5 \. b
Answer have never suggested
or recommended yeast to clear the
blood of impurities Sometimes
one ordinary yeast cake may be
taken after each meal or after two
meals daily for several weeks as
a remedy for obstinate pimples or
boils. The yeastCake should be
mixed with cool water, or fruit
Juice or beef broth TO fluid consist
ence to drink. Yes. any yeastcake
sold for baking is right Pimples
or boils or other eruptions have
nothing to do with the purity or
impurity of the blood or Of the in
dividual affected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
TIlEHI[lE5 DAILY SHORT STORY

#, storekeeper had called him a tramp
| but this was misnomer. Ben had
never associated with the genus
hobo. Until two years previous he
had worked on a farm. Its owner
sold out and Ben took to the road
He worked just enough to keep him
in pocket money. Then he got sick
was two months in a hospital and
was now just regaining his
strength.
Ben scanned ash piles and rub
bish heaps vainly for a substitute
hat. Finally, passing the rear yard
OF little cottage with quite soma
ground about it, his eyes brighten
ed.
An old lady, frail and bent, had
built fire to get rid of a lot OF
house rubbish. She had just emp
tied beside the fire a clothes basket
filled with rags, old paper and the
like. AS she tipped its contents
over the smoking cinders Ben no
ticed among them a derby hat. He
startled the lady by a sudden
spring forward.
Excuse me, ma'am," he spoke,
rescuing the hat from the blaze,
but if you don't mind, I'll take
this"
Why, surely, assented Mrs.
Worden, ''if you can use 1t. My
husband used to wear it, but now
he is dead" and she wiped the tears
from her faded eyes with the cor
ner of her apron.
II lost my hat" explained Ben.
"and I'm truly grateful for this
one"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-23
Diagnosing Bolshevism.

European Bolshevism is the outgrowth of
hunger as we'll as oppression. President Will
urges the food treatment first aid. In
this country there must be a different cause.
Bolshevists here are not hungry, at least those
who making the most noise. Probably the
speakers at the annual banquet Of the Tri-
City Manufacturers association were right in
saying education is the proper treatment and
preventive TO apply on this side of the Atlantic.
While we are educating our radicals, how
ever, and endeavoring to show them a better
way, should not neglect to point out some
of the Inconsistencies of those who are most
fearful of the consequences of radicalism. $In
other words the educational process should not
be too rigidly limited to any one class.
The Argus already has mentioned the dan
ger that lies in a too sweeping denunciation
Of what we call Bolshevism. The warning is
that may well be repeated. Speakers at
the manufacturers banquet were not without
lame.
For instance, there are a good many advo-
Gates of public ownership of certain public
utilities who are not Bolshevists, and efforts
to class them under that heading will only
confuse the issue and invest the propaganda of
destruction with dignity and a standing that
it is not entitled to. Experience in this and
other countries makes extension of public own
a
are sane well informed and of unquestioned
patriotism and devotion to the interests of
democracy.
The same line of resistance has been set
up against the Non-partisan league in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas and it has probably aid
ed, instead of retarding the movement. Nom
partisan leaguers have stood and still stand
for some genuine reforms. In recent elections
they have been attacked and their movement
denounced as bolshevistic and even pro-Ger-
man. Undoubtedly there were and are a good
many among them to whom the terms might
be truthfully applied, but that did not prevent
the league from carrying the day in most
places where it made fight The very vio-
lence Of the opposition and its obvious unfair
ness brought recruits to the standard.
There is a sort of radicalsm in this country
which is as hostile to genuine democracy as it
is to autocracy. 1t aims to pull down, with
out any thought of building on the ruins. 1t is
a political disease that attacks the ignorant
and the shiftless- Properly diagnosed the
common sense of the great body of Americans
will hold it in check and education eventually
will cure it
A very serious danger, however, lies in
hasty diagnosis in the early stages