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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
DISCUSS COUNTY FIGHT
AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS

AS a result Of n conference held Tues
day afternoon In the office OF DR., Rob
inson Bosworth, superintendent OF the
Cakville Memorial sRnitarium, provision
was made for a more thorough inten-
svs fight In Shelby county this year
q gatnst tuberculosis. Experts on tu-
tsrculosis were present and took part
81 the discussion,
II was decided 10 allow the Asso-
cIated Charities to furnish material re-
lief necessary in cases OF tuberculosis,
bat the relief for families OF soldiers
n nlcted with the disease was left again
n the hands Of the Red Cross
Another meeting will be called by
rir. Bosworth In the near future to
discuss further details.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
INJURIES PROVE Fatal.

BRISTOL, Tcnn., May 26-Roter
Groseclose, a freight conductor ~ ne
Norfolk & Wes!ern railway Is dead -
Abingdon. merit here. as the rrgl' 90
injuries sustained last SATURDAY 10
Glade Spring. Va. His train wac o.
the siding IN n" yards az Ead
Spring. and was moving some cars ah"n
one Of the cylinder heads blow au' 80
struck him in the abdomen ~" wa
rushed to hosl al at AhinEi"" IT,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
MORGAN OFFERS HOME
FOR u. S. EMBASSY

WASHINGTON, May A--Prcsident
wilson yesterday transmitted to con-
Rresa without recommendation an Of
far OF j. Pierpont Morgan OF the gift
az his London residence as an Ameri-
can embassy building Mr.. Morgan
asked for prompt decision by the gov
eminent, saying he did not want a rest
dsnce TO stand unoccupicd while there
was ouch scarcity OF housing in Lon
don
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
TRAIN SUSPEN DED BY
HIGH WATER PUT BACK

Fsst train N Mar anna cutoff run
rs hstsc"R Memphis and Natchez at
q gf.ufk. suspended In April on ac-
p7zf q the high water in that sec
t.tfs Was 90 be resun ed Wednesday. ac-
HuTasug 20 an annou lcement made late
Taesday by Harry -. Wilson, division
stsstnger ag' mt for the Missouri Pa
gEf abroad
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
60 CARS sugar ON TRACKS

CHICAGO. ! ay % -sixty-two cars
Of sugar tots ling nearly 1000. 900
pounds. are lyrg itIe on the Illinois
Central ra lroad tracSs in Chicago ac-
cordinJ to "A re loTt made yesterday to
Distric, kttorn, Y Ciga9 by Edward ].
Brennan OF the department OF Justice
There Is 10 ev iencr Of boarding, ac-
cording e. the 'eporl the freight tie
up being respo sible for the inability
10 move .he sun ar
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
PLANE FAL Is TWO KILLED

SIOUX CITY. Ia, May 26-Arthur
Strimpe. g. yea old theater owner,
ar 4 Tho SON SC ,sberr. 81 years old,
blacksmith. bot single. were killed
'nstant" vsstert ay when their airplane
IN which hoy ' ere Tiaing fell 800 feet
at Paulina la, rs miles northeast of
hare. Both live in paulina.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
EIsHcP WILL PREACH.

~uU~ IN the city to attend the dedl-
cation II the Cripple Children's hospi-
igl Sphop Troy Realty viii deliver
a se-u1n at ST. Adams chapel, Frank
HV@tua a"d Florida street, Wednesday
rlEht - o'clock
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26
SQUIRE NEVIS OFFICE.

| sluus sessA -. 1slsef mas moved his
| ofnc. 6ua SIZE a9 thW est corner OF
~. gaa srenei an' Wilmington avenue
fta 10 Seeond treet across the
siresf fFW hls former office. The
| l'iiF - gfah Squire Makers court
p,sUgi- i1E beta iasnd and will be
; re- ssGr "a
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26

LONDON. M VeniEelos, the GrsrE
premier, gave assurance at a meeting 81
the League Of Womcn'S rights that
women IL Greece would be given frf
vote aite- the next munlCipa' eIsrsa.a
sayy a dispatch TO the IcB3nu Tass
Z fran Athens.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-26

CHIcAGO,-Between 7b and 100
picked detectives from other cities will
aid the Chicago police department dur
ing the Republican national convention.
Chi,if Of Police Clarity said last night.
in announcing he would ask the city
council to appropriate $751; 00 70 pay the
expenses of the visiting seuths.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
TIRE KNOWN BY MANY NAMES
Not Including What 1t Is Called by
Impatient -Autoist When 1t
Punctures.

A thing which ties is a tire-say
makers of the dictionary The first
purpose of the tire was TO tie or band
the wheel together. AS time passed,
the original meaning of the word has
been lost sight of and now the tire
is the part of the wheel which touches
the road and stands the wear and tear
of travel.
England and her possessions, ex-
cept Canada, spells the word "tyre,"
No less an authority than England's
own Encyclopedia Britannica is on rec
ord with the opinion that "this SPELL
ing is not now accepted by the best
English authorities" yet "tyre" per-
sists.
In some of the Spanish-speaking
countries, such as Chile and the Ar
gentine, tires are known as "neumati
CO.'S" In Mexico they are 'llanias."
In other places where Spanish is the
language, notably Cuba, the correct
word is "gomas." In Brazil, whlre
Portuguese is spoken, the name is
'pneumaticos"
The French have the short name
"pneus" for tires. This is a contrac-
ton Of pneumatiques. In practically
all the Scandinavian countries the
Danish word ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ring-is used.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20

against Venezuelan citizens when
Roosevelt succeeded in dissuading Eng
land from such step, but he failed
to induce Germany to arbitrate the
matter. Thereupon. he told the Ger.
man ambassador that unless the Berlin
government consented to arbitration
in ten days, he would send Admiral
Dewey to stop the Germans from land
ing in Venezuela. The ambassador
protesting that the kaiser could not
back down now, Roosevelt replied that
he was not arguing with him but was
simply telling him what would happen
After waiting q week without al
answer from Berlin, he told the am
bassador that he was going to cut the
limit to nine days and that unless
Germany agreed in 48 hours to arbi'
trate, Dewey would sail. In SO hours
the ambassador came back with a
message announcing that Germany con-
sented,
In good time, Roosevelt employed
the influence of his unique position
before the world to bring to an end
the Russo-Japanese war. ShreWdly
choosing the right moment to step in,
he appealed to the two belligerents'
with common sense and simple
directness that a friend would use in
bringing together two quarreling neigh
hors. Afterward he steered the peace
conference at Portsmouth against its
will steadily toward peace of recon,
Citation, an impatient Russian declar.
ing that his "steel wrist" hammered
out treaty that neither of the powers
wanted at that time and that "the ter
rible American president-H StrenuosC
was capable of locking the conferees
into a room and starving them into
submission"
Instead of starting a war, the "big
stick" stopped the only great war that
broke out in the period of its sway.
While the Roosevelts were it's ten
ants, the White House was an ex-
ample and the center of the simple
family life of America mot
second-rate palace" the president said,.
"but the home of a self-respecting
American citizen" A few months af-
ter graduating at Harvard, Roosevelt
married Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of
Boston, whom he had met in his col
lege days. This bride of his youth
passed from life as her daughter
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth-en-
tered it.
Nearly three years afterward he
sailed from New York, directly follow.
ing. an unsuccessful campaign for
mayor to marry a friend and neighbor
of his childhood, Miss Edith Kermit
Carow, who was sojourning in Europe.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
MAKING a Citizen.

You make the citizen by giving him
intelligence. He must learn to see
things as they are. He must also learn
to see the possibilities and rise in
power to put them to the test. There
is no place for the coward in the march
of progress. We need men, "brave
men, who dare while others fly" And
this means they must have brains and
Drawn with which to fight life's battles
and hold their own in the world. And
to intelligence we must add constancy.
1t avails little to be brilliant if you
haven't the power to stick to your job
until you make a success of 1t. Per
sistence will help you win,I when you
put your head to work. These are the
ilrst things in the making of citizens.
The home and the school must work
'ogetEer to produce it.-Grit.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
Clerical Expedient.

The English preacher, Stephen Jenk-
ms, was not a highly educated man,
but he had a native wit which often
helped him out of difficulties. One
Sunday while reading as the Scripture
lesson the third chapter of Daniel, he
came to batch of words that gave
him trouble. "At what. time We hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer," etc. Now
this list of instruments is repeated sew
eral times in the chapter, and the sec
ond time he stumbled through it with
even greater difficulty than the first.
Before he reached it again, however,
he had discovered way of escape. So
the third time he relieved both him
self and his listeners by reading with
the utmost gravity, "And the band
played as before. Boston Transcript.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20

A T the cracking of twig in the
N still depths of the Adirondack
mountains Roosevelt turned to see a
guide coming out of the woods with
the unexpected news that McKinley's
condition was worse. Although he
fastened to Buffalo, the president had
died Is hours before the vice president
arrived.
Att the outset Of Roosevelts adj
ministration a fearful citizen begged
the rough rider not to permit his fight
ing spirit to plunge the country into an
international war. "What" the pres
ident exclaimed. "a war, and rooped
up here in the White House? Never"
Many forgot the first half of the
old motto that Roosevelt made his own.
"Speak softly and carry a big stick"
No man ever had a simpler faith in
the efficacy of first talking it over
man fashion, with an adversary,
whether q senator or an ambassador.
The meddlesome German kaiser was
the earliest to feel the "big stick" to
see if it was only stuffed with straw.
Germany and a Tory government OF
England were on the point of Selling
territory as security for some claims
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
BEAR MOST POWERFUL BEAST
Easily King of Them All, as Far as
His Physical Strength Can
Be Estimated.

A man rowing does one-third as
much work as an OK blowing.
An OK blowing does little more
than half the work OF an average cart
horse hauling a ton Of coal.
A camel carrying 500 pounds on its
back is nearly equal to two average
horses, while an elephant, which will
bear a load of half ton or lift a log
of teak of the same weight, is worth
in muscular power rather more than
three good camels.
The lion, usually known as the king
Of beasts, is by no means the strongest.
Its strength is estimated as that of six
men only, while that Of full-grown
Indian tiger is third greater.
Neither Of these animals is equal in
muscular power to the bear tribe, of
which the polar and the grizzly are
the strongest. A grizzly weighing about
1000 pounds has been seen to carry
steer weighing 800 pounds up a
steep mountain-side for over half a
mile. It's strength is at least twice
that of lion.
A gorilla four feet six inches in
height has the strength of four strong
men. 1t can bend double pair of
12-bore gun barrels in its paw.
The African buffalo and the Indian
gaur-or wild oX-are the two largest
and most powerful of the buffalo
tribe. 1t is doubtful if II men could
hold a gaur, which stands as much as
six feet high, and is over eight feet
in length.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20

over again, in strange world, with
entirely different. standards for meas
uring men.
Roosevelt cut his eye teeth in polit-
ical leadership in the corrupt ma
chine-run legislature of New York. He
could not have chosen a more thor
ough school for instruction in the hid
don, muddy springs Of parties and pol
itics. His experience at Albany put
realism into his idealism and made
the academic reformer over into the
most intensely practical politician we
have had in the presidency.
He decided at the outset to act in
each office as if it was to be the last
that ne ever would get, and for nearly
Is years after he left the legislature,
Roosevelt could not have been
elected to anything in the boss-ridden
state of New York. For long time
he was "shelved" on the civil service
commission at Washington, until a re-
form mayor of New York appointed
him on the four-headed police commits
sion; but it was soon single-headed so
far as the public could see, and that
head was full of teeth for police graft
>ers and lawbreakers. At thirty-eight-
the most he could ask Of the Repub-
lican politicians, with any hope of get
ting it, was the assistant secretarysh1p
of the navy. The entire administration
sighed with relief when at last he went
off to lead his Rough Riders.
In five months he was back from
Cuba in the far more troublesome role
of a popular hero. The New York ma
chine was in such sore need of good
name to pull it through the pending
election that it met him at the wharf
and humbly laid at his feet the Repub-
lican nomination for governor. But in
the governorship, he realized the worst
fears of Boss Plat that he harbOred
as the boss naively wrote him, "vari-
GUS altruistic IDEAS" and that he was
"a little loose on the relations of CAPT
tai and labor, on trusts and combina-
tons and +. the right of a man
to run his own business in his own
way"
The only thing to do with this wild
engine was to turn the switch and
shunt it on to the side track of the
vice presidency. Roosevelt loudly pro
tested that he wanted to be reelected
governor. And while Plat was trying
to push him on to the national ticket,
Mckinley and Hanna just as earnestly
tried to push him back on to .Platt.
The Republican national convention
rose up and roared his nomination,
linging him. in spite of himself, upon
he tide that led to fortune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20

Navasota, Texas.-Mrs. w. M. Peden,
ofthis place, relates the following interest
ing account of how she recovered her
strength, having realized that she was
actually losing her health:
"Health is the greatest thing in the
world, and when you feel that gradually
slipping away from you, you certainly sit
no and take notice. That is what | did
some time ago when found myself in a
very nervous, rundown condition of
health. | was so fired and felt so lifeless
| could hardly 60 at all.
81 was just no account for work. |
would get a bucket of water and would
feel so weak | would have TO set it down
before felt like could lift it to the shelf.
In this condition. of course, to do even
nv homework was task almost i'm
possible 10 accomplish.
81 was :. nervous and easily upset.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
How Spiders Travel.

Spinning webs is second nature with
spiders After they are Matched from
the eggs in a cocoon, they cling to-
gether for about week. Then they
separate, but their legs do not carry
them very far. Facing the wind, and
standing on the tips of their legs, the
baby spiders raise their abdolnensand
emit a silken thread. The faintest
current watts the gossamer in the air,
and when enough is let out to permit
Of aerial flight the insect drifts away.
When it wishes to land it hauls in
The thread. Wherever it lands it can
spin webs without the slightest in
structions from older spiders. Older
male spiders seem to lose this gift.
There are about $50 species of spi-
ders in America, but only two, the
house and garden spiders, are well
known.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
Names.

Most men Of high destinies have
high sounding names. Pym and Haba-
kuk may be pretty well, but they must
not think to cope with the CrOmwells
and IsaiahS. And YOU could not find
better case in point than that of the
English admiralS. Drake and Rookie
and Hawke are picked names for men
of execution. Frobisher, Rodney, Bos-
cawen, FOul-Wather, Jack Byron are
all good to catch the eye in a page of
a naval history. Cloudesley Shovel
is mouthfu of quaint and sounding
syllables. Benbow has a bulldog quail
fty that suits the mans character, and
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
JULY.

July was originally the fifth month
Of the Roman year In the Alban call
endar it had a complement of 36 days,
which was reduced to 81 and then to
so, and it stood thus for many centu-
ries.
At length Julius Caesar restored 1t
to 81. He felt personal interest In
July, as it was his natal month. Aftes
the death of this great laW-glver AMI
reformer Marc Antony changed the
name from Quintilis to July, in honor
of Caesars family name, in order to
note that as the sun was most potent
at this time so was Caesar the most
powerful potentate who had ever lived.
Our Saxon ancestors called July "Hey
Monath" because they usually moved
their hay at that period of the year..
Chicago Journal.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
HAS FOUND CRADLE OF EEL
Scientist Tells the World All About
the Habits of That Migratory
Aquatic Creature.

The eel has been tracked to his era
die.
1t has taken us 1000 years to learn
that cells, living in ponds and rivers
climb out when full grown, crawl over
the land, find river running to the
ocean, go out to sea, and lay eggs
which produce offspring that come
back in billions up the rivers from
which their parents descended, says
London Tit-Bits.
a scientist has now tracked down
these elusive marvels to the spawn
ing grounds. 1t is the SargaSso sea,
that enormous sea garden through
which Columbus first sailed to the
terror of his crews, from September
to October. 1892. Of course, that is
not the only nursery.
Upon Matching, the eel larvae drift
with the current, undergo a marvel
Gus transformation, reach Europe,
swarm up the river, climb the banks,
cross dusty fields and parched mead
ows to inland ponds and bitches, and
then settle there for the next seven
or eight years, when they swim back
30 the S&rgasso to lay their eggs and
die.
Is not that browning marvel of
the migratory instinct? Across the
Atlantic in infancy, to fatten in a
wayside English pond, and back
again, grown UP, across the wide
ocean.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
The Tbr;ce-a-Week Edition of
The New York World
IN 1919 and 1920

Practically daily at the price Of
weekly. No other newspaper in the
world gives so much at so low price
The forces are already lining up
tor The Presidential campaign of 1920.
rhe Thrice -a-Week World which is
the greatest example of tabloid jour-
nalis.n in America will give you all
the news Of it. 1t will keep you as
thoroughly Informed as daily at
I've or six times the price. Besides,
The news from Europe for long
line IT, ccme will be of overwhelm-
lrg interest and we are deeply and
vitality concerned in it. The Thrice
a-Week World will furnish you an
accurate and comprehensive report Of
everything that happens.
The Thrice-A-Week Worlds regu-
lar subscription price is only s1.00
per year. and this pays for 1856 pa
pers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and Tile HIGHLAND RE-
CORDER together for one year for
s2.35. <~--
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
IsingIa

Isinglass is the dried swimming
bladders of several varieties of fish.
The amount of gelatin in isinglass Is
from Sc to 90 per cent and even more.
It is prepared by tearing the air blad-
der or sound from the back of the fish,
from which it has been loosened by
striking several blows with wooden
club, then washing in cold water The
black outer skin is removed with a
knife, again washed and spread on
board to dry III the open air, with the
white shiny skin turned outward To
prevent shriveling or shrinking the
bladders must be fastened to drying
board. The best quality of isinglass
comes from sounds that are dried in.
the sun. After drying. the sound is
again moistened with warm water and
the interior shiny skin is removed by
hammering or rubbing. Finally it is
rolled between two polished iron roll
erS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
BIRDS HAVE VARIOUS NAAEA
Get coenonhens From Habits or Flu
mage Though Not lnfrequently
From Song or Call.


Birds are given various names In
various parts of the country; some
get these names from their habits.
others from their plumage, while the
song, or call, in other cases is .respon-
sible for the nickname of the bird, &C
rcording to London Answers.
The cuckoo has two mates. The
meadow pippit is known as the cue
koo's mate in some parts of the coun-
try, because of its habit of always &C
complaining the cuckoo from place to
place throughout its stay in this coun-
try. The wryneck gets the same name
for different reason. 1t arrives In
the country about the same time, or q
few days earlier than the cuckoo, and
therefore the name has been given it.
Little Observation-Disclosures" is per-
haps rather a mouthful, but the name
is given to the yellow bunting on ac-
count of the fact that its simple song
resembles these words more %han any
thing else in the World.
"Yaffle" is the name given to that
laughing bird of the woods, the green
woodpecker, also known by the less
cheerful cogncmen of rain bird, he
cause whenever it laughs the glass.
goes back and the. rain comes down.
In other words, the laugh of the green
woodpecker, like the ''hee-haw" of the
donkey, is considered by many to be
sure sign Of wet weather.
The whitethroat has a habit Of
creeping along the lower parts of the
hedges, where the nett1es grow, and
therefore 1t has acquired for itself the
name Of "nettle creeper."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
A Craven Sutton.

81 am convinced that could never
make you happy" wrote an abject
lover to the lady who had won his
heart. "You are Of different world
from mine You are to me as white
marble to dull red clay. The devotion
of my life would not recompense you
for the sacrifice you would make in
marrying me. know can never hope
to make you happy, but if you think
otherwise let me know By return" The
woman who could accept so craven a
lover as this can scarcely hope to be
complfmented on her judgment or on
her capture.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-20
Black Hole of Calcutta.

This name was given. to- an apart
ment in Calcutta in which a party of
English were confined on the night Of
June 20, 1856. The garrison of the
fort connected with the English fac
tory at Calcutta was captured by the
Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulu, who caused all
the prisoners taken to be confined in
a room IS by IA feet 10 inches. This
cell had only two windows, obstruct-
ed by a veranda. Of the $50 people
who spent the night in horror of
thirst heat and agony from pressure,
only % survived the experience.