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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24
Father Youngest Of Family.

Age Is trying to get back to youth
and 1t is resenting the semi-contempt-
uous respect Of the younger genera
ton. There Is one eminent artist in
London who absolutely refuses to adj
NIT that he is any older than HIS
youngest child-and he has MANY chill
dren. The boys and girls do not call
him "sir" or even father" They
all call him George" And George"
remains the youngest and the most
popular Of the family.-London Chron.
icle.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24

S THIS to be a Cyclone summer" Which Is
to say, is the Mississippi valley to be visited
this season by an unusual number of these terri
flying tornadoes so destructive to life and prop
erty and as freaksh as destructive? The early
returns seem to indicate that the "twister" Is
bent on a busy summer.
The proper phrase to be used in putting this
question is tornado summer" According to the
dictionaries, our American twster Is not cyclone,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24
tents. By an act of the Continental

ments. BY an act Of the Continental
congress of September 20, ITS. the
treasury was organized with an au-
ditor, comptroller and treasurer. and
the same officers still run the treas
ury under the secretary and his as
sistants, and all paper money and
bonds have the seal, not of the
United States Of America, but Of
the treasury Of North America. 1t
was the United States Of North Amer
lea which made treaties with France
and Spain In ITS, Benjamin Franklin
acting as commissioner for Congress.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24

The chief wiped his brow. stopped
the engine, and got out.
He cut a switch from a campus
maple. He flicked Lucy lightly on
the withers. She arose. Another
fick. She walked In front Of the car.
The chief transferred the rope from
the rear to the front axle. He short
ened it just sufficiently for Lucy's
rear feet to clear the car.
Then, without starting the engine,
he climbed aboard. flicked Lucy snap
PLY and commanded:
eli, boss! HIP
Their progress was slow but sure.
From the campus to the station is
three miles. They started at noon
and got there at 6-six hours fiat.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24

storm, often Of vast extent,
characterized by high winds rotating about calm
center of low atmospheric pressure which moves
onward with a velocity of from 20 to 80 miles an
hour"
The tornado, on the other hand, is a "funnel-
shaped cloud like water-spout, sand-column or
dust-whirl, with very violent and destructive ed
dies and whirls of wind, progressing on narrow
path for many miles land. The wind Is too
violent to be measured and the barOmetrc pres
sure falls so rapidly that wooden structures are
often lifted and burst open by the air within
them"
But Kansas calls them cyclones. So cyclones
they shall be here. For once upon a time not
very long ago, the east thought Kansas grew cy-
clones made them produced them-whatever
the right word is.
ITO the early settlers of Kansas coming as
they did from distant eastern states where such
phenomena almost unknown these storms
of the wonders of new country, to be
told over and over to visitors and sent as special
items of news to papers that gave them wide pub
licity," says s. d. Flora Kansas meteorological
"The result has been that the expression Kansas
cyclone has become almost an idOm of the Ian
guage, and the reputation of the state for vista
tons of these storms Is greater than that of any
other part of the country, when, matter Of
fact there Is no reason to believe, in the light Of
available data, they are any more numerous here
area considered, than in any other states In this
part of the country"
Anyway Kansas became "the cyclone state"
and the thing eventually became such scandal
that, soon after the Civil war Uncle Sam decided
to investigate and sent out army officer to trail
the cyclone to its lair. The report of this investi-
gator is still among the dusty archives of the
United States weather bureau 1t contains facts
both of scientific and popular interest.
For example, he tells about the woman who lost
her hair. He says she was a woman with eXcep-
tionally long hair; that the storm cut or tore
most of this hair from her head, twisted 1t into
rope and left it lying her, while the hair left
upon her head tightly curled into many little
wisps filled with sand.
1t was tie same cyclone, according 10 this Off
cial report, tilat bore down upon large house
exceptionally well built Of logs and heavy native
timbers, hit of it rcsounding whack
veered off, whirled out around the barn and at
tackled the house from the opposite side dissipat
ing 1t over the landscape so thoroughly that much
of it was never again.
He describes trees in which sand had been driv-
en- entirely through the bark Into the wood of the
tree And this not merely on one side of the
trunk, but around its entire circumference In
another place he found trees still standing, but
stripped of every particle of their bark.
SO you see, for beginner, this official invest-
gator did pretty well.
Of course, the weather bureau has accumulated
a mass of Cyclone literature" Here's an inter-
esting bit:
"They nay form after several hours Of light
wind or during violent thunder storm. Persons
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24
KILLED BY DASH ON LIGHT
Hundreds of Birds, sewIIdered b
Glare Of Lighthouse, Perish
ut Racine.

Racine, Wis.-Hundreds Of birds,
embracing every species known In this
climate, were killed by flying against
the Wind Point light north Of the city.
The bright glare through the fog
apparently bewildered the birds, caus-
ing them to dart against 1t.
The lighthouse grounds were liter
ally covered with the brilliant colored
little corpses.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24

who have witnessed their formation usually report
great commOtion In threatening cloud or, more
commonly, two clouds come together From this
whirlng mass the characteristic cloud descends
UNTIL in the case of damaging storms it touches
the earth. Sometimes the cloud is really funnel
shaped more commonly it Is described as resen1-
bling an elephants trunk gigantic snake 1t
wrthes and sways back and forth in it's progress.
Other observers have stated that it reminded them
of rope swinging back and forth from the clouds.
Usually in the case OF slender cloud the color ia
milky white except near the ground, where 1t is
dark from flying dust and debris. Clouds Of large
diameter are usually much darker
A still better smile, 1t would seem, is that Of a
gigantic balloon, scudding low across country be
fore the wind and dragging enormous cable
which trails along the ground, twisting and
turning and creating fantastic destruction.
1t seems to be established that west of the
Rockies and east Of the Alleghenies there isn't
much danger from cyclones. But anywhere in the
Mississippi Valley it's keep your eye open. Chi
cago has thought itself immune, owing to some
peculiar influence exerted by the Great Lakes, but
this spring real twister visited Its suburbs to the
northwest
1t is estimated by the weather experts that 'for
any specific farm of one square mile the
probability of being visited by tornado Is less
than 1-16 Of per cent per century"
There is popular feeling that cyclones, like
lightning, do not strike the same spot twice. New
ertheess 1t is of record that Codeil, Rocks county,
Kan., hit three years in succession on May
rs at the hour of the day.
The crop of Cyclone stories" is very large every
year. The plain truth is that almost anything that
is told may as well be believed There seems to be
limit to the fantastic vagarieS of these twist
ers. For example, here's what official weather
bureau record says in part:
"The freaksh occurrences that result\ from
these storms will tax the credulity of person who
has never seen them. The often rected instances
of straws being blown with such violence that they
are left sticking in the bark and the wood of a
GATED Chickens are sometimes stripped Of their
feathers and left alive though more often they
killed.
IAN instance has been related credible
thority of dresser being smashed to kindling and
its mirror being carried some distance and set
down against fence without being cracked; also,
of window sash being blown from railway de-
pot, which was demolished, and laid down
adjoining lawn with heavy iron scale weight on
it without the glass being broken.
"One of the remarkable features noted is the
number of almost miraculous escapes"
1t is easy enough to understand that house
may be "exploded;" the passing twister creates a
partial vacuum and the house, If tightly closed Is
blown to pieces by the pressure of the air inside
it. This vacuum also explains why feathers
pulled off chickens since the quilts contain air.
But when wheat straws are driven into a green
tree-then it's time to wonder
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-24
United States
Treasury Notes

The words ''Thesaur: Amer: Sep
tent: Sigil," on every treasury note is
sued by the government are abbrevi-
ated words for Seal Of the Treasury
of North America" The Revolution
airy government Of tie United States
was continued under the Constitution
without any change in some depart
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Real Estate Sa'es

Through the purchase of the Bren.
neman farm, a mile and a-half south
OF Nippon, Thomas ]. West becomes
the owner of lis acres more of good
kaoletown district land. The sale
was made by Mr.. Brenneman's ex-
ecutor, Marshall Melvin, of Baltimore,
VINO came up Thursday TO close I'D the
transaction. Mr.. West paid 500 an
acre Tor il. The addition of this farm
TO Mr.. Vests already extensive do
main gives him title to considerably
over 500 acreS-every acre of il is a
oine ribbon crop producer.-Advocat
b. F. Langdon, of Myerstown, has
bought the remaining half of the
Witherspoon real estate in that Sec
ton of the county. Two tracts were
transferred 10 the purchaser, one be-
ing farm of l79 acres. directly south
OF MyerStown, and the other, II acres
OF mountain land. Mr.. Langdon paid
$500 in cash for the interest he
bought and assumes certain deeds of
trust. Mr.. Langdon had bought the
interest OF the only other heir in the
land some time ago.
J.. W. and Walter c. RELY have sold
their farm known as the Ashwood
place, three miles southwest of Sum-
init Point, TO William NJ. Allen, of this
county, for SIPS an acre. The farm
mas 2lo acres in it and lies part in
JEFFERSON and part in Clarke county.
Charles Town Banks Elect Officers.
c. Kearsley Wysong has purchased
from X. S. Venning and the estate of
Dr. II. E. Venning their farm of l4O
acres lying about mile and a-half
west of Charles Town, which was for
merry a part of the Piedmont" farm.
MT. Wysong intends to plant part of
this land in orchard.
W. {, Carroll has purchased of
II. Z. RELY tract of land containing
about 80 acres, lying about three miles
south of Charles Town, along the
Shenandoah river, formerly the Van
NaSter farm, at the price of $500
h. S. Venning has sold to w. H.
LaBoyteauX, of New York, the old
Kennedy property, situated in Charles
Town, near the old Academy grounds,
At the price of $1,000.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Compliment For Mrs. Philli-,

Mrs. James S. Phillips, Of 5.e9.
herdstown, has been put on the 90,
for national officers for the DauCnto7s
of the American Revolution as a co.
didate for Registrar General, hea - :
by Mrs. George Maynard Minor, G;
Connecticut for President-Gca IT,
This honor came to Mrs. Phil : ~
solicited, and is in recognize &c hor
remarkably efficient work ir '''-
Virginia Chapter of the D. r. Mrs
Phillips organized the e. . 70.
Ford Chapter of this organ. l,.cl, IN 8,
so thoroughly satisfactory 't@
credentials Of the ninety mcrl
bers whose papers she pr,-cT.j, no;
one was rejected. She has p,cu!'a.
talents for the Office she has been j.
vited TO stand for, and w d-uJti ~
be elected. This is the fl ~ -
West Virginian has been iyi'cd - ?
place on the national tick 49,
hope that Mrs. Philips ~ brir.
honor to this State.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
The KearneysvilIe Tragedy.

Magistrate Herbert c. Miller con-
Quoted an inquest at Kearneysville
last thursday over the death of Boyd
: RamSburg, who had been killed the
previously night on the b. & O. Rail
road at that place. The evidence in
dicated that young Ramsburg had
been struck and killed by a helper
engine running backward on the east
bound track, and it is likely that four
other trains passed over the body be-
fore il was found. The jury returned
verdict to the effect that Rams burg
mad been killed by locomotive of the
Is. & y. Railroad, and passed resolu-
non strongly urging that the railroad
company equip its helper engines with
proper lights on the rear end as we'll
as on the front. These engines after
helping to push the freight trains
eastward over the kearneysville grade
return running backward swiftly and
silently, showing only a small lantern
light. The" are a dreadful mehace
and have been the cause of many
deaths between Kearneysville and
Martinsburg
The Kearneysville people and those
who use the railroad crossing are
strong in the demand that subway be
ouilt under the tracks there. This
could readily be done, as there is a
high fill which could be tunneled
through without unusual expense.
The Kearneysville crossing is perhaps
the most dangerous in this county, as
1t is not possible to see in either direc-
ton until one is practically upon the
tracks. Our county authorities ought
to take UP the matter of a subway
with the railroad people if possible.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Mr.. Wall Gives Advice.

c. F. Wall, who is one of the
largest and most successful live stock
dealers in this whole section of the
country, is a very close observer or
the situation in regard to the produc-
ton Of live stock and the probable
trend of the live stock market. Mr..
Wall says there is a serious curtaiI-
ment in production, and that in his
opinion it is country wide. That
corn-fed live stock another year will
be a luxury on account of farmers
producing at loss. That it takes 20
cents to produce a pound of fat that is
selling at IL and Is cents, and that
few farmers will repeat He says
that grass cattle can be grown at =
profit, but men that own coolers are
afraid to put down any more, on &C,
count of being prosecuted for hoard
ing.-Charles Town Spirit.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Louis Folk Wins State Championshir

VIM. H. Hendrick, State Club Lead
er for Boys, announces that Louis
Folk, of Berkeley county, president of
the Fairview Boys and Girls Club,
has won the State Corn Club cham
pionship for West Virginia, with a
yield of ll3 bushels per acre, and al
so receives first place as all-round
State Champion club member. Ac-
cording TO the rules governing the
awards, Louis will have choice CT
either a 500 scholarship or an Angus.
Guernsey or Hereford heifer calf.
Not only does the championship in
corn club work go to Berkeley county
Tor the first time, but the State Cham
pionship as all-round club member
likewise goes to Berkeley Shis is
the first year in the history of club
work in Berkeley county that
a club member has carried off Stat
honors. We congratulate Louis @.
his success. He is a son of N. r.
Mrs. Geo. w. D. Folk, well-knov7 RS
ident of Berkeley county, living :. q
Swan Pond.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Mr.. Price Resigns.

]. E. Price, for many years agent
Tor the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at
shenandoah Junction, and also serv-
ing as agent for the Norfolk &
western Railway, has resigned, to
take effect the first of February He
VIII take the position of third trick
operator for the ~. & w. at the Juno
tion. Mr.. Price resigns because af-
Ter the first of March, when the rail-
roaos are to be returned to the COM
panieS that own them, the old methods
OF billing and rebilling at the June.
non VIII be again put in effect, and
VIII make mountaip of work that he
does not care to undertake. His sue.
ceSsor has not yet been appointed.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Pay Your Taxes

Deputy Sheriff Geo. G. Link asks us
to make announcement that the new
tax bills, covering the item for roads
that was accidentally omitted in the
original tax books for Shepherdstown
and Harper's Ferry districts, are now
ready. Taxpayers will please call at
the sheriff's Office and settle. Mr..
Link also asks those who have not yet
paid their taxes for 1920 10 note the
fact that taxes are now drawing in
terest at the rate of ten per cent.
Better settle up and save money.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22

ANOTHER controversy is raging
IN The Navy Department, and Admiral
sims has created more than national
interest by repeating to the public
some alleged remarks that were made
oy nigh officials to him when he was
sent on an important mission to
Europe al the beginning of the war.
We blame the Navy Department for
having given confidential instructions
TO Admiral Sims. if it did so, for he
was not worthy to receive them and
the department ought to have known
the sort of man he seems to be.
We confess that we haven't very
much patience with those superior
minds who are now so free TO criti
else the Navy for its part in the sreat
war. II carried millions of our SOL
diers safely to Europe through sub
marine infested waters and stormy
seas and brought them home again
with remarkable efficiency and free
dom from accident and death. What
more could be desired?
Secretary Daniels has the gratitude
OF hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
can parents whose boys he guarded
so carefully, and these same parents
have equally little regard for the cap
tious critics who are now yapping at
his heels.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Income Tax and Farm Account Round
Table.

AT the following meetings Jefferson
county farmers may secure informa-
ton and ask questions relative to in
come tax. Proper forms will, be pro-
vided for collecting data. Account
forms will be gone over for keeping
records for the ensuing year.
Kearneysville, school-house, Satur-
day, January "a, at 10 a. m.
Shepherdstown, in town hall, Satur-
day, January "a. p. m.
Summit Point, school-house, Tues
day, January 9th, at p. m.
Nippon, hall, Thursday, January 20,
at p. m.
Summit Point, school-house, Friday,
January Both, at p. m.
Charles Town. courthouse, Satur-
day, January 81, at 10 a. m.
Annual election of Farm Bureau
officers at the courthouse on last
named date at 2 p. m.
G. A. HUGHES,
County Agent.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Who Saw Ii Die?

At the jail Friday afternoon 48
quarts Of applejack, gathered I'D in
the raid at the Douglas building
Christmas morning, when George Ash
was apprehended, were consigned to
oblivion. The bottles were smashed
and the contents poured out under
instructions from the prosecuting at
torney. At prevailing bootleg prices
the booze" represents loss of
something between 5000 and 500, pos
sibly SS00.-Martinsburg Journal.
Wonder if anybody really did see
Just how that liquor was poured out ?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
Expenses.

Expenses.
The following expenses are allow
able: Interest, taxes, building lex
cept own dwelling), live stock and
crop. insurance, losses by fire, storm
or theft less insurance collected
wages actually paid children above 81,
or to hired girl who solely cares for
hired help, poultry, milk, etc; rent
feed and milk; threshing; silo filling,
etc.; small tools and supplies used but
year or two; fertilizers; purchased
live stock lost by death; bad debts
Cattle.
Stock as cattle bought to feed are
reported for the year sold in case an
inventory is not kept. The original
price may be deducted as an expense.
There is no original price for stock
raised, and it will pay such farmers
20 make an inventory.
Deductions Not Allowed.
The following are not allowed: Per-
manent improvements; breeding stock
horses; farm machinery; personal
expenses of family. Only extra
groceries for hired men are allowed
when boarded in family. The whole
expense is allowed wnen boarded out
of family.
Depreciations.
Depreciations are deducted as fol-
lows; Four or five per cent on frame
tenant houses, two and one-half on
brick. Last year, 2, 3, and 4 per cent
was deducted for stone, brick and
frame buildings. Figure on the 1913
value or cost if built since then. The
'ar1lly dwelling IS not allowed. Fenc-
irG is deprecated 10 per cent, mature
horses l2H per cent, mich cows 10
per cent, 10 per cent on farm ma
chlnery and 25 per cent on tractors
and business autos Breeding stock
may be reasonably deprecated, pos
sibly l2H per cent for breeding cat
tie. Hogs would be higher Repairs
must be deducted from depreciation il
claimed. Contributions to organized
charities, educational organizations
or religious bodies, not including
ministers salaries, may be claimed to
Is per cent of the net income.
Profits on Land.
The cost of land bought since March
l, 1918, or its value then plus per-
manent improvements may be an in
come, if sold advantageously in 1919.
This includes profits on inherited land
also. Farm produce consumed by
family or exchanged must be included.
ihese rulings come from the inter-
nal revenue Office in Chicago. We
have been unable to get advice from
Parkersburg.
The county agent has nothing to do
with the income tax Office or the COL
lection of these taxes. Our only aim
is to get information about making
returns to farmers who desire it.
c. A. HUGHES, County Agent.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22

1T is not likely that Mr.. Bryan will
be candidate for President this year,
but it is certain that he will have
something TO say as to who the nom-
inees shall be. And we think that
this is very good thing for the coun-
try
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22
FARMER Y AfTEE.

Wanted, man and ! : fam'ls . g.
cupy the tenant-houc' on the y1a
place and to work on "c f'rm IRE
fer family with boy Cd 9r2Q-'i r
work. Inquire of Fl. =. yrs. ncS
Shepherdstown. .
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22

WE are asked to support Senator
Howard Sutherland's presidential as.
pirations. We'd love to do so-but he
voted against the treaty of peace and
the league of nations.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-22

For Sale-Pure- bred o. !. c. pigs,
eligible to registry, "cight about Is
pounds, at 20 cents ~ pound. Louis
and Adrian Folk (nec1 Swan Pohd}
Martinsburg, W. Va.