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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
IS BEING RESUMED

HoPkINSNlLLE, Ky, Jan, 2l.-Wire
communication with the outside world
was resumed late this afternoon. Tele.
graph lines belonging to railroads had
been broken and trains we're operating
without telegraphic instructions.
MaNield. Ky, reported that the light
and water plant had promised TO fur.
nish light and power at once
Newbern, Tenn, also reported all
communication except train service cut
off.
Reports from the northern part OF
Tennessee and the southern part of Ken
lucky today indicated that communities
ton both by telephone and telegraph
are being resumed after nearly three
days and two nights OF silence as re-
suit OF sleet and rain storm.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
PLAN NEW PASSENGER
TRAIN INTO JACKSON

JACKSON. Tenn. Jan "a. tSpll-
President l. b, Tigrett, General Manager
+, D. Hogan, Superintendent of Motive
Power h, II. Gray. Traffic Manager T.
u. Goohegan and Chief Engineer l. W
Duffee, OF the G. NJ. 4 n. railroad, were
in jackson yesterday for q conference
relative to increasing the train faCili-
ties OF this road into jackson and max
ing other improvements of mutual in
terest TO the city and the g. NJ & y,
railroad
II is understood that plans are being
perfected to install another passenger
train into Jackson over the G. NJ & ~
road In the near future, other changes
are being discussed which viii probably
be announced later. local officials stated
today. The installation OF another
train on this road would allow the pres
cut schedule to be changed so that
the convenience OF the travelling public
would be greatly increased
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
IRRELEVANT MAN CUTS
THROAT WITH RAZOR

IRRELEVANT, Tenn. Jan. q. tSpl)
Thomas Hardy, prominent citizen
OF the Seventh district OF this county,
attempted TO commit suicide few DAYS
ago by drawing razor across his
throat, cutting too large gashes almost
TO the jugular Vein. His attempt did
not prove fatal aud he was later found
TO be insane and has since been car
ried to The asylum at Bolivar.
A few years ago Mr., Hardy attempted
to take his own life and was then sent
TO the asylum, but later released, as
he was thought to have been cured. liz
has a wife and several small children
TO support.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
BUILDING 100000
ADDITION TO PLANT

KNOXVILLE Tenn, Jan. et,-Wor,
on the new 81 600 GOO addition to the
southern Extract comrany's plant here
Is under way. The plant win manufac-
ture fannie acid from wood pulp and
tho pulp which heretofore has been dis,
carded viii be mixed with the PUN of
other varieties of wood and viii he
used In the manufacture OF magazine
paper and artificial silk
A large French corporation has joined
the Southern Extract company In this
expansion OF the business and en-
gineers from France are here looking
after the details Of the huildlng.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
JACKSON METH0DISTS
FAVOR CHURCH MERGER

JACKSON. Tenn, Jan. "a tSplN
That Jackson Methodists indorsC the
movement TO merge the Methodist
church of the North and the Methodist
Episcopal church. South was tho ex-
preston voiced today by local Meth
odSt leaders.
BY virtue Of action taken by the com.
mittee Of unification Of Methodist
churches in joint session at Louisville.
4 union Of the Northern aid Southern
branches under "a new constitution was
agreed upon
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24

CHICAGO. Jan. 24--Miss Helen Pratt
.IIdd. Chicago school teacher, indicted
b. special grand jury Wednesday for
alleged radical activities directed to-
ward the overthrow Of the government.
has been suspended until there has
been a thorough investigation Of the
matter" Peter A. Mortensen. superin-
tendent Of schools. announced today
Robert G Moore. secretary Of the MI
nois State Teachers association, ad-
dressing $50 Chicago teachers, said low
wages were responsible for radicalism
in the public schools,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
What You Bun
When Investing
in Seven States

A pro rata interest in:
Profits from producing wells.
2Profits from prospective production
of wells now being drilled. w..
3-Profits from a 2,OOO-barrel refinery
and lubricating plant, located and
managed IN MEMPHIS.
4-Profits from sale of $4,000 acres of
leases.
5-Ownership of drilling outfits and 9TH
er oil equipment.
6-Ownership of proven acreage in the
Burkburnett and Desdemona fields.
. 7-Ownership of large funds IN BANK.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
DIVIDENDS

These dividends are paid from the net profits
Of the company's producing wells at Burkburnett
There is a sufficient amount of earnings remain
ing in the treasury for the company to assure its
stockholders that dividends will continue
through 1920.
1t is the declared purpose of the company to
sell sufficient amount of the Amarillo leases
during the coming year to justify return to the
stockholders of 1909 on their investment
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24

convincing element of strength of the
Seven States Oil Company is the regularity with
which it has paid dividends.
Dividend No. l was promised for October
LIST. 1t was paid September 1st The company
promised / % per month from this date. Div-
aends Nos 8, and 5 have been at the rate of
IL %. ..-...'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
Memphis
Refinery
Built Soon

be Duccker Memphis concern
to
builders with guarantee the part OF
Mr. abonc president the city experimenting the ayns
beginning CONSTRUCTION
plants be ready May 1st, 1920
representative of the National Re
contract effective
Manager the Seven states OH company
andy, havoc charge Of marketing the products
oil pitched high plane. financially speaking
president of company and who is also president OF
the estimate of the net profits from
in
rcturnon capitalization the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
RED TEACHER SUSPENDED

Nhoo? WhoO? has a live owl to sell ?
Apply Owl Auto Service club adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24

gyEESW HE measure of safety required by every
"a = careful conservative investor lies in the
EI company's three producing wells at
So" Burkburnett, and in the refinery and
lubricating plant to be built Immediately In
Memphis.
A suitable site on the Hollywood car line
bas b..en purchased and orders have been placed
e rennired. Including two
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24

Yrl HREE wells are now being
ID drilled on our "A, 900 acres
near to and adjoining
Amarillo, Texas. More than rs
wells are now being drilled by
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
Millions
at
Amarillo

the larger companies in this field. Fifteen wells
have produced "wet" gas, one Of which is the larg
est in the world yielding 1o7o00,00O cubic feet of
gas per day "Wet" gas indicates the presence of
OIL and it is known that three of the wells are now
on oil sand These Amarillo leases are increasing in
value by leaps and bounds, and if the increase in
value continues as for the past sixty days they will
be worth many millions of dollars.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-24
TODAY LAST CHANCE


AL
application APPLICATIONS
niles oversubSTbed
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
No Flying Dutchman

e. Joe King, ten years of experience
on the open sea, as careful an OBJ
server as ever slept in a hammock
with salt water swattng him in the
face, has watched for St. Elmo's
Fire, for the Phantom Ship, for
terrible effects from the harboring
of a cat on board ship, and for
many other things that have gone to
make up the superstitions of the
sea, and he has failed to find them.
There isn't any such thing,' he
declares. "No sailor believes in
them"
And il he knows what he is talk
ing about, who Will not admit that
here is food for thought? | dare
say few will fail to remember the
tales of the strange doings of the
silent deep, its Inhabitants who
never speak, its gray mists of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Continued from page four

ested in me any more, but 1 want
to tell you that I found you were
right about getting mothers kind of
girl"
The general manager of the East
ern Railroad laid down his cigar
and silently gripped his sons hand.
I've got her, too," Dick added.
You know, you told me it didn't
matter if she cursed or swore or ate
with her knife or drank coffee out
of her saucer or never saw the in
side Of a school day in her life
just so she'd 60 through hell for
me, you said"
His father did not finch.
Nothing else matters very much.
son." he said steadily. "You can
help make the other things right"
shes out here now," declared
Dick softly. "I'll bring her in. You
won't be ashamed, no matter how
she dresses or talks?"
'If you're sure she would 60
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Modern Sailors Scott at Old Superstiti0ns
In IheseDays Not Even the Presence
j. OF Women or Cats Annoys
the Old Salt

broken old hulks that cry out for
company and for breaking of the
silence within them.
Joe King says sailors no longer
t adhere to these strange things. The
superstitions Of the sea are no
more. Like the story they tried to
palm off on Columbus, wise gentle
man that he was, to the effect that
the earth was square, or fiat, and
like the early Indians mythical gods
and symbols, the belief of sailors
that certain signs and certain things
meant death and disaster has
flown.
Just like in Oklahoma to-day the
Indian worships his Creator in the
modern church building alongside
his white-skinned neighbor, so does
the 1920 seaman f1out the idea that
rising above the mists Of the blue
sea there are fairy hordes and
sparkling castles to which all brave
and honest shippers go at last.
away with it," says Joe. "Away
with it.' say 1920 mariners every
where.
THIS reminds, as we dwell upon
the thought, Of the words of J. D.
Jerrold Kelley, who, writing in The
Century Magazine twenty-five years
ago, said:
"In earlier days superstition was
as much part of every ship as
the water she was to float in; for it
entered with the wood scarfed into
her keel, and climbed to tie flags
and garlands waving at her mast
heads; it ran riotously at her
launching, controlled her name, her
crew and cargoes; it timed her days
of sailing, and conveyed her cargoes.
1t summoned apparitions for her i'll
fortune, and evoked signs and por-
tents for her prosperity; it made
winds blow foul or fair, governed
her successful ventures and arri-
walls, and, when her work was done,
promised port Of rest somewhere
off the shores of Fiddlers' Green,
where all good sailors rest eternally,
or threatened foul moorings deep in
the uncanny locker of Davy Jones
of ballad memory"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
One in Every Port

AS rosy-cheeked Joe clasped my
hand in his all those pictures of the
days when Josie and Rosie and
Marguerite went staggering away
beside this Adonis with the yellow
curls came back, and just as quickly
as the customary Happy to see
you" and "How are you, Joe?" were
delivered I shot at him:
"You demon. l suppose you've a
score or more of mermaids with
broken hearts strewn all the way
from the coast Of Callao to the Arc
tic Circle? What?"
"Mermaids, hell" said Joe. "There
isn't any such thing BY the way,
remember how we used to hear about
the green-bearded old gentlemen Of
the sea who wrap you in their wiry
whiskers and carry you away to the
bottom Of the sea, there to entertain
you in golden palaces and amber
4iShCtN pdl 4OIS ana all.
"Yes."
well, that's bunk. All bunk.
There isn't any such belief. There's
no bewitching lady Of the sea, and
there isn't any phantom ship float
ing about out there. And, what's
more, they've taught US lot of rot
about things you'll find in the ocean,
and on it and above it, and the only
thing I've found in my ten years on
the rolling deep is a lot of broken
orange crates and occasionally a
devil of a twister something on the
order of the old Kansas cyclone af
fairs that used to send US scamper-
ing to Charley Lanes storm cellar
to eat peach preserves and sing
Abide With Me- while cur mothers
prayed for our deliverance."
And herein is our story.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
LONDON, October Is.


ENGLlSH slang and "cuss"
A. words usually need defining.
An undergraduate Of Cam
bridge has recently tabulated a list
Of localisms current in Cambridge.
Here they are:
An undergraduate in residence at
Cambridge never lodges anywhere,
he keeps either in or out Of col
lege. If he keeps in," his rooms
are actually in the college building.
If he keeps out" he occupies one of
the many sets of rooms in houses adj
jacent to the college which are
termed university lodgings
All colleges close their gates in
term time at 10 o'clock. Full term
is eight weeks, and there are three
terms in the university year; they
are the October, Lent and Nav
terms. Any night in term time you
may hear people running to keep
a ten" Failure to keep twelve"
usually means hauling" before a
tutor and the demanding of an ex-
planation.
A meeting of any society or club
is usually termed a squash Hall"
is the name given to dinner, which is
held in the college dining hall. In
most colleges there are two halls"
one for freshmen, or "freshers," as
they are called, and one to which
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
\ Cambridge Dictionary
OF English Sian g

dons, graduates and third year
men go.
Streets in Cambridea have their
own names. kings Parade az
3reviated TX. p" In prcear days
Sidawick Avenue was et'ed
ers."
Colleges. too. have heir eaa n.ck-
names. Emmanuel "Fmmer,'
Pembroke "Pemmer.7 Ps-efhoase is
called "Pothouse. an3 IfzviI.am
Hall for non-co,ieelate -.aaoa.s 3
"Fitzbilly."
The medical disscctnr rooms are
the "meaters. Tie naes officers n
residence are spoken or as N O..
s. and the proctor s.a tIs aftera
ants are the prog and "BA
or Bulldogs
The river has It's own peculiar
slang. All the varioos portions Of
the course used for tie Lent and
May humping races have ther o"n
names, such as "Cra Corner.
The Long Reach" and "The opt
The Pike and Eel~an lna ~ .as
commencement Of the towing path
is the "P. and E.
a funny" is light, singie-scated
rowing boat, while "~rlf' is also
a single-seater Of slightly slogier
build. Newnham and Gir.on have
their own slang, much Of which
unknown to the average Undergrad
yates. Cocoa. when inau get III 4
night, is usually termed jug"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

perstition in Il. He viii stand fo-
no superstition. But it is quite
logical, he says, and If You press
him he will admit that rats ac-ua,l,,
will scramble away from sinking
vessel, and quite naturally Ra.s
like to amuse themselves generally
by doing their mischief on the dry
floors of churches and grocery stores
whore there are cheese ana other
things to their liking Ard SO when
a craft begins to sink ard water
comes through the once bore-drv
floors they race fer the nearest dry
spot. And there you have the
answer.
In the olden days they would have
told you that if You saw rat max
ing his way down the ropes ard lad
ders of a vessel, no matter how fine
the sailing might be at that tine. j.
was proof of great dangers ahead
The snip would sink. So lets be OF
Of it.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN'S phantom ship no lonqey
strikes terror to the hearts Of the men 2Uho sell before the
most or ploav the seas in d modern fyeiqbter

the curly locks, "is what you call
er-passay. Forget it! Forget it,"
Joe had read of how Dampier
had described it as small, glitter
ing light, like a star when it shines
at the masthead; like glowworm
when it appears on deck.
"Some bird smokin' a butt!"
says Joe; must set same old fossil
looney who was lonesome and didn't
have anything better to do than
scare the shirt otf'n the generation
or more Of fools who believed that
CUFF"
AS matter of fact, Dampier be-
lieved the light to be the result of
the yardarm catching some sort of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
England Is Crowded
In Spite Of War Losses

proportion, it is satisfactory to
learn, are going TO countries under
the British flag"
There is in this the keynote Of
Britain's new emigration policy.
The people who leave the home
sland are going to the various
British dominions in preference to
sabmerging their nationality under
alien flags Canada and Australia
are claiming the majority. Up to
1914 about 100000 emigrants left
the British Isles every year, and of
these, in the five years before the
war, Canada received an average Of
1871 ,430 annually. During the SIX
years following 1914, however, only
59,603 people have left Britain for
Canada, and this includes the fig
ures for the two postwar years.
Especial efforts are being made
TO stimulate female emigration to
the dominions. While the surplus
Of males in the overseas territories
is not so great as it was before the
war it is still, to some extent, ex-
stent. The women who are making
heir preparations to leave are chief
" those who engaged actively N
some form Of war work and who
lave acquired in some measure both
he urge to move on-the wander
ust-and the ability to take care
# themselves under strange sur
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
A Piece of Stolen Wood

1t is known that in many countries
stolen wood was mortised into the
keel, as it made the ship sail faster
at night.
"Rotn' says Joe King. "More oil
in her valves, believe me, is the only
stuff that'll make her pick up speed
today"
It was said in other days that if
the first blow struck in fashioning
the keel drew fire the ship was
doomed to wreck upon her maiden
voyage. Silver placed in the main
mast step meant lucky ventures; the
owner who allowed any of the un-
lucky timbers to enter into the con-
struction was doomed to great loss.
And this is not the half Of it.
If lawyer, a clergyman or
woman set foot on sailing vessel
on its maiden trip that craft would
surely sink before year bad gone;
lawyers, it was said, no doubt be-
cause of the sailors natural antip-
athy toward the class, dislike so
pronounced. it was said, that "sea
lawyer" was considered very bitter
term of reproach. Land shark" is
a synonym. Clcrgymen were unpop-
ular because of their black gowns
and their principal duty on ship
board-that of burying the dead and
consoling the dying. Women, it was
said were disfavored because of the
sailors dread of witches.
Womcn's Dark Powers
"For Of all spell workers of hu-
man form" said Mr. Kellpv "noua
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
By Quinn L. Martin
S 1T any wonder that I gasped

r. S 1T any wonder that I gasped
4 when l saw Joe King step out
h of that mass of humanity in
Battery Park, when it is con-
sidsred the last time / saw him was
ten years ago, on the day before he
became a sailor in the United States
Navy? And that | had wondered
much since what had become of the
demon with the ladies' who so
often in our school days lifted his
cap to my best girl, revealing his
yellow curls, and straightway walked
away with her while all the other
fellows giggled and sent me home
tingling for shame and remorse?
But that is not our story.
For more than a year regular
weekly pilgrimage to Battery Place
has been my record. No particular
reason. Just sort of wish to look
out there toward the great, gray
statue and beyond, toward the ocean
and the rolling waves, and to think.
Nor is that the story
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

jelly from the oceans spray, but it
is said scientific research has found
it to have been an electrified sub
stance which was brought about in
rarefied conditions Of the atmos-
phere and adhered to the iron of
spars, the metal being a good con
ductor.
Joe King has "crossed the line"
on many different occasions in lis
ten years. The equator means lit
tie more to him than the desire for
much water and yearning for his
erstwhile featherbed out in Kansas.
To those seamen of other days it
meant much more.
The observance of ceremonies.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
Neptune Came Aboard

According to Mr. Kelley's own
account Of this custom, the ship
was usually hailed from the depths
Of the sea the evening before the
line was to be reached, and the cap
tain was given the compliments Of
Neptune and was asked to muster
his novices for the sea lords inspec-
ton. The next day the ship was
hove to at the proper moment, and
Neptune, with his Amphitrite and
suite, came on board over the bow
or through the bride port.
Marryat, the English novelist and
captain in the British navy, says
Of Neptune that the sea lord ap-
pears, preceded by a young man,
dandily dressed in tights and riding
on a car made Of d gun carriage,
drawn by six nearly naked blacks,
spotted with yellow paint. He has a
long beard Of oakum, an iron crown
on his head, and carries trident
With a small dolphin between its
prongs. His attendants consist Of
a secretary, with quills Of the sea
fowl; a surgeon, with lancet and
pill box; q barber, with huge
wooden razor, with it's blade made
Of an iron hoop, and barber's
mate, with a tub for shaving box.
Amphitrite, wearing woman S
nightcap, with seaweed ribbons on
her head, and bearing an albicore on
harpoon, carries a ships boy in
her lap as baby, with marlin
spike 70 cut his teeth on. She is at
tended by three men dressed as
nygnphs, with currycombs, mirrors
and pots Of paint. The sheep pen,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17
LONDON, October 16.

n EsPlTE the loss of approx
~ mately million lives during
the war England to-day is be
ginning to voice the query:
"Have we a surplus Of popula
tion?"
That there is a surplus of womer
<s -incontestable. Conservative est
mates put the excess of females
over males at 1,25O,O00. But, al
though there are 10 official figures
TO guide one, the calculation is made
that England's population has in
creased at least q million since 1914.
and the plain fact seems to be that
there is no room in the island for
many more people--nor, indeed. in
the opinion Of many writer's, for the
present population.
'"In spite of the enormous sacrifice
Of human life made by this country
n the war, Great Britain still has a
surplus Of population, comments
The Daily Mail "The war stopped
.hc outflow, and now, after making
allowance for war losses, there must
20 two million men and women
waiting to leave our shores. They
ire going rs fast as ships can be
'ound to carry them, and large |
New-York tribune., 1920-10-17

when deep water ships crossed the
line Of the equator and when whal-
ers crossed the Arctic Circle, was
most drastically kept The details
Of the performance varied even
among ships on the same waters, bat
it is always tribute to Neptune
eXacted Of the officers, crew and
passengers new to the waters en-
tered.