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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
KEEP old CuRIOs
British Business Houses Have
Their Own Museums.
Interesting Relics and Samples That
Have In Some Cases Been Pre-
served for More Than
a Century

The curlosities preserved by various
business houses In Britain and else
where would make museum of great
size and unparalleled interest, observes
London Answers.
The Worcester chipa works, for In
stance, possess samples of all the va
riods kinds Of china which they have
manufactured for nearly $50 years
past, including examples of dinner
services made for many celebrities,
such as Lord Nelson and George ~.
Another Worcester firm preserves
with tender care little faded slip of
yellowish paper. On 1t is written the
recipe, now some two centuries old,
which was purchased by a former
head Of the firm from a butler, and
has been the means of creating large
business and several large fortunes.
More than one firm cherishes some
similar recipe. The Sprules, who sup
ply lavender water to half the royal
families in the world; the Nanis, who
hold the original recipe for maraschi-
no. Both these carefully preserve the
writings which founded their fortunes.
The famous firm of Sheffield cutters,
Joseph Rodgers & Sons, show visitors
knife with 1900 blades. Ten fresh
blades are added to 1t every tenth
year. A second curiosity of which the
firm is proud consists of three pairs
Of scissors so minute that all three can
be covered by an ordinary lady's thin
Bile. Another Sheffield firm possesses
a knife which, though only an inch in
length when closed, has seventy
blades, all of different shapes.
A London firm of ported meat man.
ufacturers possesses an interesting
collection of the covers of the large
china pots In which potted meat used
to be sold some forty years ago. These
are daintlly printed in color from de-
signs by some Of the best known Dutch
and English artists of the time. Each
is framed, and probably no other house
can show prettier or quainter collec-
ton.
Shipping firms of old standing often
accumulate wonderful stories of inter-
esting relics. One Liverpool firm pos
sesses a huge bone taken from a whale
which good many years ago deliber-
ately charged a ship of theirs in the
north Atlantic. The steamer was bad
ly damaged but the whale was killed.
A good many firms preserve historic
machinery Of one kind or another.
Richard Arkwright's own spinning
frame is still to be seen at the Crom-
ford mills. 1t looks clumsy enough
compared with the complicated and
highly finished machinery Of today, but
1t was practically the source of Ian
cashire's great cotton trade and unex-
ampled prosperity.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
Lizards House Psta In Siam.

Lizards live in houses In Siam, Just
as rats and mice do here. Some In
teresting facts are told by George Pratt
Ingersoll, former United States min
lister to Slam. Among the Siamese
lizards is a large one known as the
"toh-ke," or tokay, about a foot long,
having black body, sometimes with
white stripes, ugly. bullying eyes, and
short, clumsy legs.
The tokay is not pleasant to look
upon, but is In no way dangerous, and
will run away when disturbed, as rap
idly as his uncanny body and legs will
allow him. The tokay crows with a
hoarse, Internal voice quite loud some
five or six times, followed by a rattle
or fiendish chuckle. These large liz
ards are found throughout Siam in the
thickly inhabited cities as well as in
the uncultivated districts.
The lizards are harmless, but no
one rejoices in their company, even
the Siamese, who, from their Buddhist
training and teaching are kind to all
living things. So when tokay is dis
covered in a house the Chinese serv-
ants are called, and they fly, with
sticks and with glee, to the attack, and
usually succeed in dispatching the
reptile.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
Clty's Many Expenses.

The surprising range Of modern
city government is revealed by some
Of the items in the municipal budget
Of Philadelphia. Music for afternoon
and evening concerts cost the city
$4,000; meats and groceries for the
municipal court, $1,000; celebrating the
Fourth Of July and Memorial day, $14.-
750; removing ashes from the city
hall, 5000. To tide observer the
city pays every year $1,000: to piano
players and swimming teachers, $10,-
600; to a shoemaker, $500; to a col
lector of biological specimens, $1,000 ;
to barber, $500; to masseuse, $3.50 F;
to dairyman. 5000; to several
plumbers, $1,000 apiece; to an ento-
mologist, $1,000; to q sheet-iron work
er, $500; and to an expert pole
climber, $3.50 a day.-Youth's Com.
panion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
NOTICE.
Office Board County Commissioners,
Rockville Nd I,,l,, 0 fQfS

Oftice Board County Commissioners,
Rockville, Nd, July 2, 1918.
Ordered this day by the Board Of County
commissioners that the road leading from
Woodside to the Linden road. and running
over the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. be closed to public
travel until further notice. The object Of
closing this road is to repair the bridge
over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
tracks on said road. and all persons are
hereby warned that they travel this road
at their own risk
. JOHN R. LEWIS, Prest.
BERRY E. CLARK. Clerk.
july 5-tf
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
Prlnta.

do you think these socialists will
by any chance leave footprints on the
sands Of timer"
I'm not concerned about their foot
prints" replied Senator Sorghum.
"what we need from them now is a
reliable collection Of thumb prints"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
A Lonn WaN OFF.

Jud Tunkins says that If they ever
get the singin' school running half
way amlcable, mebbe he'll begin think.
ing about trying a soviet.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-07
J. B. DORSEY,
ROCKVILLE. MD. RIM

experienced auctioneer, will sell real estate
personal property at reasonable prices
anywhere in Montgomery county or NARY
and.
lajan 9-3m
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
TO RESTORE HISTORIC SPOT
City Of New Orleans Taking steps 70
Preserve and Beautify Hienville's
Landing Place.

An effort is being made. In New Or
leans to restore the old historic spots
around the city. With the restoration
of the old Place dsArmes, the rehabili-
tation OF the Cabildo and the Pontalba
apartments which surround it, and the
preservation of all as an artistic cen
ter for the old French and Spanish
quarter, an effort is being made to re7
store and preserve the landing place
of Bienville, where ne first set foot on
the high land in 1870, at the place he
was destined to convert into Nouvelle
Orleans. This landing place, which
lies on the river directly facing the
Place d'Armes, which is now Jackson
square, is covered with the switch
tracks of the Southern: Pacific and
public Belt railroads, and with part
Of the large steel warehouse belonging
to the board of commissioners OF the
port of New Orleans.
Supporters of the Louisiana State
museum have appealed to the mayor
and the various civic organizations TO
have these sheds and railroad tracks,
removed at once, inasmuch as the
land, clear from the Cabildc to the
river itself, was appropriated some
time ago to be put in historical and
artistic reserve AS all the water
front of New Orleans and the east
bank of the river belongs TO the city
and state forever, the completion OF
the artistic center Is sure OF escom-
plishrnent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
FoR SALE

Improved 40 acres. good house. fair
barn, about SO bearing apple trees. g
cherry trees; fenced. some timber. near
school, telephone and delivery. Price
$3.50. cash $3.50. balance FIVE years.
6 per cent. Write Knapp Realty Co..
Knapp. Wis.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29

Chicago women took similar correct
i've steps at about the same time.
The writer recalls how the women of
Brooklyn refused to buy either meat
or butter, and in week they had
the prices down to where they be-
longed With respect to the first
proposition of Mr. Palmer it is mat
ter of very recent history that the
fair-price committees regulated the
retailers throughout the county dur
a period of the war
theoretically Mr.. Palmer's plan is
doubtless almost all alright" And
If the people in the different COM
munitiesswonld accept the response
bility of protecting themselves they
would be able to work out cost prices
and stop the profteering that exists
everywhere. But the history of the
community spirit is that when it
seeks to regulate the method of liv-
ing that it usually graduates into
community politics, and in the
end bumps into disaster.
Nevertheless the Palmer plan has
little init except merit; and it is
susceptible Of being tried cut any
where without the need of waiting
on some other community.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29

A school teacher was disCUssing the
way she had been changed from one
building 10 another. THE manual train
ing supervisor was with the superiR-
tendent when / went in to see where
he was going to send me-" she said,
"and / just asked them If was TO
sweep shayings up in that depart
ment."
Her listeners smiled; they smiled
again when she continued: "The1
the superintendent told me to 60 to
the high school and sweep shavings
up in the history department there"
why" mildly put In one of them.
''are they blockheads down tbereY
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
T0. PREVENT STOMACH WORMS
Shepherd Who Feeds Well, Drenches
siis Flock and Rotates Pastures
Avoids Trouble.

prepared by the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture.)
1.-THE stomach worm need not be 9
serious trouble for a good shepherd
who has his lambs come early, feeds
well, drenches the flock as a measure
Of prevention and provides rotation
Of pastures or pasture crops"
That is the judgment of the United
States department of agriculture on
one of the most serious problems for
owners Of farm sheep. Definite infor-
nation concerning the essential things
is embodied in Circular No. AZ, "Stom-
ach Worms in Sheep-Prevention and
Treatment" prepared in the bureau OF
animal industry. The whole subject
is summarized in five questions and
answers to them. Condensed, it is
this:
How can one tell when sheep have
stomach worms?
Dizziness and lack Of thrift are
among the first indications. Securing
is often noticeable. These conditions
might result from other causes, but
when due to stomach worms, are ac-
companied by a pale, bloodless appear
ance Of the skin and the mucous mem
branes OF eyes and moth. Sometimes
there is watery swelling under the
jaws.
How do the worms injure sheep?
These very small worms live in the
alimentary tract, principally in the
fourth stomach" and injure sheep by
consuming blood, and by secreting a
poisonous fluid which destroys red
blood corpuscles. The injury is often
fatal to lambs. Adult sheep are better
able to withstand 1t.
How should infested sheep or lambs
be treated?
Make drench by dissolving one
fourth pound of powdered bluestone In
pint of boiling water, and add suffi-
cient cold water to make total of
three gallons of solution. The dose
for an adult sheep is three and half
fluid ounces, for lambs under year
old, one and tbree-quarters fluid ounces
K cf this solution. 1t is better to use
this early before serious trouble de-
'velops than to wait untile the lambs
begin to die.
Care. however, is necessary in
drenching, and improper dosing may
cause serious damage. While the
lambs are with the ewes, change pas
ture every two weeks IL possible and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29

do not return the flock to the old pas
lures until the lambs are sold.
How do sheep become infested by
stomach worms?
The stomach worm lays its eggs in
the stomach Of the sheep. They are
passed out with sthe feces and hatch
on the ground. In the last larval or
infectious stage, the young worms
climb up ON grass blades and are taken
into the stomach of the sheep and
lambs with their food. They will live
for long time in the pasture. For
all practical purposes it may be con-
sidered that pasture will not remain
infested longer than yea, In the
absence Of sheep or other ruminants,
Another way of freeing pasture Of
it's infection is to pillow it up. 1t is not
Of much consequence whether every
larval stomach worm in the pasture
is dead or not. The object is to keep
the number so reduced that they are
not likely to prove injurious to sheep.
What methods can be employed TO
prevent loss, from stomach worms?
Prevention when 1t is possible to
take the necessary precautions is more
satisfactory and economical than treat
ment. The most effective measures OF
prevention are
Have the lambs dropped early, and
feed to develop them as much as posi-
BILE before they go on pasture. Rotate
pastures. Where feasible, plow up In
tested land and put it in forage crops
that will make good grazing for sheep.
Where sufficient changes of pasture
cannot be provided, drench with blue
stone as a preventive and curative
measure. Many successful shepherds
dose all the ewes before turning them
on pastures with the lambs, and after
weaving time, dose all the lambs that
are to be kept.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
What She Desired.

"Why, Norah," said her mistress,
"how nice you look in your new dress
and hat. Ihope you will meet all your
friends this afternoon so that they
may see you in your fne Clothes
ME friends, NUM- returned Norah.
"What'll be wantin' to see them for?
Sure don't care tc make me friends
Jealous. IFS me enemies l want to
meet when I'm all dressed up,'-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29

Zone would think those women were
rushing to get husband" growled
the man In the department. store.
no, said his wife sweetly, they're
after hairpins at 2 cents paper.
Something usefnl."-Louisyille COur.
er-JpJrnal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
The National Capital
By j. E Jones.
Washington, D. c. Jan. "a

There's eNiggcr" in the Sugar
The American people have mol
fully made up their minds as to
whether they are being robbed by
the sugar trust, but most of them
have q suspicion that such is the case
The way local dealers are parceling
out the sweet stuff indicates that
the supply is being juggled somehow.
Alfred w. Mccain, the pure food
expert, asserts that sugar prohteers
have gougea $94o, 900, 900 from the
American people in the past few
months. He brings the Sugar
Equalization Board, created as q
part of the Food Administration un-
der Mr.. Hoover, to his support.
This Board, still in existence, had
OpportuniiS to buy the Cuban sugar
crop ct six and half cents a
pound. President Wilson would
not authorize the purchase. Then,
explains Mr.. Mccain, the Louisiana
crep came into the market at seven
teen cents I pound wholesale, where
upon our Cuban understudies prompt
u boosted their prices, and perfected
their little corners, with the re-
suits that are found every time a
pound Of sugar is purchased by the
consumer.
Mr.. McCann's theory is noticeably
incomplete with reference to the
sugar rcfiners trust, as well as it re-
lates to the domestic sugar beet crop.
de supports the attempt to fssten
che blame for present high prices OF
sugar, and the shortage of it, upon
the CnbAns aud Louisiana planters.
1t is short memory that cannot
recall The sugar investigation in the
Senate year ago last winter, when
the Spreckels interests exposed the
American Sugar Re6ners, and accused
the latter with having juggled the
ALLEGATION OF sugar under the Food
ADMINISTRATION, and manipulated
the Arnerican market. According to
Mr.. Spreckels the trust succeeded in
shutting out their competitors i'm
elndins Of course Mr.. Spreckels-
the Ess who hollered!
AZ that time Mr.. SPreckels insist
ed that if the Cuban markets had
been left open to free competition
that the law of supply and demand
would have made sugar plentifni and
cheap, whereas, uisdcs the system OF
Goveramenk purchase there was
nothing but confusion in the midst of
which the suger trust manipulated
the situation. The Spreckels doctrine
was carried ont this year when the
President kept Hands off and let
the Cuban sugar supply find its
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
Married at Five.

Infant marriages are still prevalent
In India. Che latest returns show
that in 1911 there were 151,51S mar.
ried men" under five years Oh az and
3O2, 425 married women of the same
tender age. OF husbands be ween
the ages of five and ten there were
nearly million, while wives" be ween
these ages numbered well over tive
million.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
BARLEY is GOOD SWINE FEED
When Fed With Tankage Il IL Eth
cient and Almost Equal to Corn
for Fatteninu.

Barley is an eGicient feed for hogs
when fed with tankage. and is almost
equal to corn In fattening hogs for
market according to results obtained
in two feeding trials. the second Of
which has jIst been completed at the
Purdue experiment station in Indiana.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29

not protested against the cOnuitlCH
which finds his refineries. and the
American Sugar re6neries. and the
whole balance of the crowd, pinching
out sugar to the dealers, who in their
turn are operating according to the
old Vanderbilt philosophy That the
people be damned at something
like 90 cents per pound.
Mr.. Mccain and George Zabriskie
chairman of the Sugar Equalization
Board, are both hot in the collar be-
cause the Government did not par-
chase the Cuban CROP, and they lay
the present high prices to that fact
and to the manipulations of the
Louisiana producers. Possibly they
are right in the adoption of these
long-distance explanations. And
then, again, possibly the dividend
sheets of the sugar trust and the
independent" Messrs. Spreckels as
we'll. will eventually record the same
old tale of successfully manipulated
market and a successfully mani
pulated public. 1t would not be
surprising.
Palmer and the Profiteers
The Attorney Generals admins
trative task in dealing with the
reds has more of spectacular
glow than his plan for handling the
profiteers But this last problem is
worthy of the fullest consideration,
and nearly everybody will sympathize
with Mr.. Palmer's advise to the
States attorney OF Illinois, whom he
advised to attack the profteers, and
to go after these devils and hang
them as high as Haman.'
The Attorney General has laid
down platform for reducing the
cost of living. 1t is simple, and
has five planks:
Filst, there should be fair-price
committee in every town and county
backed up officially. Second, an or
ganization Of women who will enforce
the figures of the fair-price COM
mittee against unwilling retailers.
Third, conservation and economy
meetings everywhere, under aus
pices of civil bodies Fourth, the
influence of prosecuting authority to
prevent industrial disturbances and
bring about peace in industry. Fifth,
"remobilization Of four-minute men
to preach the work and save doctrine
throughout the country.
There seems little doubt but what
proper community organization would
be effective along the above lines.
In rare instances women have boy
cotted local retailers who have
pro6teered upon them. This was
done most effectively one winter in
Brooklyn, before the war. and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-29
Thrifty chink.

Gen. Pao Kewiching, tuchin O. Kir.
IN. in north China, has cleared S, ,0OO,-
600 from opium revenue Ia few
years in Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
PRODUCE REASONABLE
At FARMERS MART

Housewives desiring still further to
reduce the high cost Of living had an
opportunity yesterday to purchase prod
uce far below the retail price by
patronizing the Farmers market, 10th
and Little B streets.
Many housewives went there with
their market baskets to lay in fruits and
vegetables for canning.
Perfectly good beets, young and
tender, sold at the Farmers market
for . and cents a bunch Corn
brought 10 and Is cents a dozen, and
the ears were plump and luscious. For
a crate of thirty cantaloupes the pur-
chaser paid 81. Potatoes were a bit
higher than last week, selling for
$3.50 a bushel. or % cents more than
a week ago. Cabbage sold for cents
a head: carrots were disposed of at
the rate of 81 for a "whoppin' big
box: peppers. 35 cents a crate; toma-
toes, so cents crate; apples, from
So to- Sc a barrel.
Farmers were complaining that it
really didn't pay to haul the prod
uce in and sell it at such low
rate" They averred that some one
has knocked the bottom out of the
market and that they are the ones
who are suffering most
But the average housewife. glad Of
the respite from high prices. smiled
and took advantage of the battered
market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
Boys Scalp Torn,
Body Lacerated,
By Gagged Lioness

BEACH, N. D., August IT,
Harold Eide, eleven, Of this city
had his scalp nearly torn from
his head and his body horribly
cut by the claws of n Iione.s
Mt n carnival here yesterday. He
wns taken to a hospital Mt Dick
fnsOn and more than fifty
stitches taken In his head, b1ck,
arms and chest. He is expected
to recover.
Harold crawled under the an
imal tent Mt noon while attend
ants were Mt lunch. He got too
close to the liOnesS' cage and
she reached out. and. while
holding him with one paw, claw
ed him with the other. Two
shots were fired at the liOness
before she released her hold on
the lad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27

You need have no hesitancy in
Simply select the instrument you {
amount you wish to pay down, S
you wish to pay each month, and W
credit. ship the instrument to yo1
your money if not as represented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
2O2 MADE OFFICERS.
Navy Men Worked Way Up From
Ranks to "Quarter Deck

Permanent commissions in the Navy
have been issued to 202 officers who
were promoted from the ranks to tenn
porary commissions during the war. All
but one of the commissions, which were
issued under authority Of a special act
of Congress approved last June 4. were
for the grade of lieutenant, the excep-
ton being for an ensign.
Secretary Daniels. after signing the
commissions, expressed his qualification
at thus giving naval recognition to the
slnsuiarly worthy men, who. lacking
Annapolis education. had by devotion to
duty and the exhibition of large ca
pacIty qualified to serve as commits
stoned officers