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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Jamaica Women Get Vote.

Under a new law the women of Ja-
maica, British West Indies, are to
have a vote in the elections for the
parochial boards and the legislature.
Every woman is entitled to vote If
she is twenty-five years of age or
more, can read and write, and is of
British nationality, but she must have
also certain salary or property quail
ficatiOns. The salary designated is
to per annum, or she may pay
flo in rent or f2 rates on house, lands
or personal property.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Restrictions on FLYERS.

In the BOurnemouth (England) po-
lice court recently an air pilot was
fined $3.50 for flying at a dangerously
low altitude and for trick flying over
Bournemouth, contrary to the air navi-
CATION regulations Of 1919. The de-
fendant executed two Immelmann
turns at an altitude of 500 to 600 feet.
Had the engine failed he would have
had no place to land without danger
to the public. The defense was that
the Immelmann turn was not trick
flying, but merely a quick way Of
turning. The defendant said he did
two Immelmann turns over the sea,
and During his flight he was never
under 800 Feet. This is the first
prosecution Of the kind in England.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
COMMUNITY LIFE N B0RNE0
Sometimes as Many as Four Hundred
Persons Will Be Found Dwelling
Under One Roof.

The DyaK women are chiefly occu-
pied with weaving, dyeing, cooking,
planting the seed and taking care Of
the children and the house, says Ger
trude Emerson, writing in Asia.
Housekeeping in BOrneO has its own
complications. As a rule a large num-
Der of families live under one roof
On an average there may be 40, but
instances have been known in which
as many as 400 persons were living to-
gether in a single community house.
The houses are constructed on piles,
with ladders leading to the outer un-
covered veranda which runs the en-
tire length Of the house. This veranda
Is used more or less as a public high
way. Any one passing through the
village may climb up the ladder at
one end, walk along it and climb down
the other end in the most casual man
Der. Just behind it lies a covered
portion of the house and here most of
the work is carried on. The men may
be seen building a small boat or max
Ing brass jewelry; the women weaving
or dyeing or pounding rice into flour
for baking,
Opening from the veranda is a Sc
ries of doors leading into separate
rooms, one belonging to each family.
Here the Dyaks do their cooking, eat
ing and sleeping, except tnat unmar-
ried girls usually sleep In a loft
reached from the rooms, while the
boys occupy the inner yeranda. A
Dyak has but one wife, and either
husband or wife, if found guilty
of improper conduct, is subject to Sc
we're punishment by the community.
A pleasant trait among the Dyaks
is their fondness for their children,
whom they nave been seldom known
to treat with anything but kindness
and indulgence. They are slso kind
to old people--uriike other tribes in
Borneo, who formerly followed the
custom of killing or burning alive
those whose usefulness to the 3ommu-
nifty has been exhausted.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15

Eight -year-old Charles always at,
tended the devotional and prayer
services with his parents, and showed
great interest in them. He always
made his own little testimony. A
friend once told him that he should
be a minister.
Charles DOndered over this advice
long, but never said a word to any
body concerning it until he surprised
his audience at recent meeting by
arising the second time and delivering
the following:
'Tve zen thinking that I never
could VIZ any more sermons than
would do, for three weeks, so I've
decided =. I'll have to be travel
ing preacr :"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Better Not Change Left Handlers.

If child be naturally left handed,
1t should be allowed to remain so, for
an attempt to train it to right-hand-
edness may easily result in making it
mentally inferior. DR.. H. Griesbach
emphasizes this in an article in the
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
(Berlin), explaining that in Ieft-hand-
ed persons the speech center is in the
right hemisphere of the brain instead
of in the left hemisphere, as is the
case in right-handed persons.
The result of persistent efforts to
make them right-handed may be
speech center that is not predomi-
nantly situated on either side, which
condition Griesbach says interferes
with the differentiation of the hemi-
spheres throughout childhood and
adolescence.
He says that once the unilateral
hemishnero differentiation is COM
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15

An interesting experiment in library
cO-operatiO is being worked ont in
the Long Beach public library, Long
Beach, Cal. Forty or so attorneys of
the city OF Long Eeach have sent law
books from their private libraries to
the public library for the purpose Of
forming a cO-ope rative law library
Those contributing books in this way
are entitled 10 take books from the CO.
operative library, keeping them for a
period of five days, and the general
public is allowed 10 consult the books
at the library. The books are marked,
Loaned to the Long Beach Public IL
brary" Some Of the attorneys join
ing in the plan have each contributed
as many as 200 books to the co-Opera-
tive law library. 1t would seem that
this idea might b. worked out success
fully in other lines Of endeavor, thus
making the resources found in books
available to the largest possible num-
ber of people.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
siamese Funeral Custom.

The king Of siam recent'v put the
torch to the pyre at the cremation of
his mother, who died in October This
Is the custom in Siam after ne pc
riOd of mourning is over. Tlere was
a long Buddhist ceremony and an Cffi-
Ger handed the king lighte torch.
This he applied to the foot of I pyT },
and The actual cremation beg NeE
morning the king and the rovaI fam
lily went back TO find the ChaI%2l pyre
still surrounded by the guards 1t is
the kings duty and privlegy to earch
for the first material part .)t the de-
parted royalty. His family Help him
to collect others unttl all the ashes in
the cashat are gathered togetEc' They
are then put in q golden ur, which
is conveyed TO their last resting place
In the upper story Of the middle tur-
ret of the palace in Bangkok Such
has been the custom since the days of
the king who built the present royal
palace about $50 years ago.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
IN ODD MISAAP3 DEVIL OF BRAZIL
Many and Varied Accidents Be-
fall Humanity.
Files of Insurance Companies Are
Full of Cases Where Injuries Have
Been the Result of Most
Trivial Happenings.

Accident insurance, or insurance
which pays benefits in case of TEN
+ porary disability, is carried by a great
/ many people. The claim agent whose
/ business it is to investigate reported
/ injuries often meets with amusing in
/ cidents The following were furnished
by an agent of a large insurance
| company:
Some captive rattlesnakes fin a
restaurant escaped from a box in
which they were confined and sc
| frightened one of the patrons that in
his haste to get out he fell in front
of me, and in getting up, came up un,
derneath me, tossing me over his
| head"
Il was in bed and dreamed that a
at him so hard that ] was thrown on
the floor with arm extended and broke
my collarbOne."
Assisting q lady who had an UNI
brela under her arm, to board a car,
the point of the umbrella was thrust
into my left eye"
81 placed an electric fan beside my
bed on a hot night. While asleep
stuck my foot in it,"
"In a playful mood I kicked at my
wife while baretooted and accidentally
struck her on the knee, thereby
spraining the bic toe of my left foot"
"My arm encircIed the neck of q
young lady. 7 suddenly withdrew II
and the thumb If my left hand came
in contact with a brooch, penetrating
the thumb almost tc The bone"
''My wife was cus'iitgTher hair
ran against her and the hair curler
struck my eye"
"T was embraced by friend who
playfully said thai he could make me
cry-fractured my rib"
"On a private yacht, 1 had just had
4 hiChball, got up, the boat gave
iurch and / sat down on the glass"
Looking for a leak in a natural
cas- pipe with a lighted match-eX-
posiOn followed"
81 missed my train and while walk
ing on the country road I fell over
COW lying in the road. AS l fell the
COW got up, striking me and also step
ping on my foot"
"Sitting in a chair in barber shop
and billiard Darlor. a ball from a pool
table nearby struck me on the nose,
breaking nose and injuring one eye"
II had been talking with another
man, and as ! started to walk along
didn't notice a woman had pushed |
baby carriage directly in front of me
fell over IT,"
81 was going down the walk in |
front Of my house when an automobile |
wheel which had come off two blocks .
away rolled down the hill and struck
me, fracturing both bones of the right
leg"
81 was riding in an automobile
when it struck a hole in the road,
my teeth to come together
with such force that the lower jaw
vas fractured"
81 was looking for burglars, and was
accidentally mistaken by one Of my
leighb0rs for the man we were look
ng for, and he shot me in the arm"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Sweden Given Priced Relic.

The generals collar worn by Gus
tavus Adolphus ing Of Sweden, when
he was killed atstfe battle of Lutzen
in 1882, has been presented to the
Scandinavian government by the Aus
trian government IN recognition of
charity to Austria, The insignia was
taken from his body by soldiers Of
the Austrian guard and has been In
O military museum ever since.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
RATING OF CITIES
Investigation Shows Their Good
and Bad Qualities.
Portland {Ore.) College Professor Pub
lisnes the Result of Exhaustive
Inquiry He Has Recently Made
Into the Subject.

comparisons are odiOus but did you
kn0W that Seattle, Wash, is The best
large city in the United States and
Birmingham, Ala, the worst? asks a
writer in the New York In6epenrd ent.
Such is indeed the case, for no less
an authority than the professor of So
clology at Reed college, Portland, Ore,
has just directed a statistical inquiry
INTO the 36 largest cities of the United
States and finds this to be the case.
lie divides the subjects by which the
cities are to be judged into IS cate
! g0rles and finds that all the western
cites are in the first quarter, the
southern cities in the last quarter and
the east betwixt and between.
AS to separate categories:
Seattle pays the highest wages per
hour, Charleston, S. Co. the lowest.
The cost of living is lowest in Min
neapolis, highest in Birmingham.
The death rate is lowest in Seattle,
highest in Charleston.
The proportion of population mar
fied is highest in Cleveland, lowest in
San Francisco.
Louisville heads the list in church
membership, Portland, Ore, foots it.
Minneapolis has the lowest percent
age OF child labor, Atlanta the high
est.
providence has the largest park area
per inhabitant, Atlanta the smallest.
Baltimore is the best-paved city,
Salt Lake City the worst.
The destruction by fire is less in Bal
tlmore and more in Birmingham than
elsewhere.
New York city owns the most valua-
BILE public properties per inhabitant,
Birmingham the least.
More people draw books out of the
public library in Cincinnati and fewer
IN birmingham than elsewhere.
AS might be expected, Boston has
the best school attendance Charles
ton has the worst.
Kansas City has the most school
per child attendance, Jack
Sonville the least.
New York pays the public school
teachers the most, Jacksonville the
least.
In the lowest number of pupils per
teacher Los Angeles leads, Atlanta
brings up the rear.
Seattle is the most literate city,
Charleston the most illiterate.
Jacksonville has the fewest foreign
'orn people unable to speak English,
Milwaukee the most
Here they all are in their proper Or
er: Seattle, Salt Lake City, Den
er, Los Angeles, Washington, Port
md, Ore; Minneapolis, Cincinnati,
an Francisco, st. Paul, Omaha, Cleve-
md, Boston, Buffalo, st. Louis Kan
as City, Milwaukee, Newark, New
ork, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Indianap-
lis, Louisville, Detroit, Springfield,
ew Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
-emphis, Providence, New Orleans,
cranton, Jacksonville, Atlanta,
harleston, Birmingham.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
When His Luck Turned.

An extraordinary case of good for
tune, eliminating in the completely
unexpected, was that in which a Dur
ham miner escaped death twice in pit
disasters, and finally came into a
chancery fortune of $500,000. At the
time of the receipt of the news Of
this astonishing windfalI he was actu-
ally on his way to apply for parish re-
lief for himself and his family.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15

There are two unfailing signs Of
fatigue, says DR.. Halford Ross, the
home office factory inspector for Lon
don, England. When the mind is tired
people cape, and when the body is
tired they fidget. There is an idea that
gaping is Catching" but this is only
true if many people are tired together.
Doctor Ross has watched children in
London schools, and he finds that dur
ing the morning II one gapes the 9TH
ers do not follow suit, but towards the
end of the afternoon, when one gapes
the others do the same. When in In
dia Doctor Ross stood one morning on
The staircase Of the yiceregal palace at
Calcutta and watched men and women
going up ard down past a statue of a
yawning man. Nobody gaped. That
night there was a ball at the palace;
and at five o'clock in the morning Doc
tor Ross again stood by the statue and
watched the people going home Ev-
eryone gaped and this was simply be-
cause they were fatigued; when they
were fresh, they could pass the yawn-
ing figure with immunity.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
CRossVILLE TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER is, 1920


with the girl | took
His mother smiled. After all, it
was his first dance and he would learn
some day that there were sometimes
reasons besides kindness which
caused Eoung men not to offer to trade
danees.-Indianapo News.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Go i Opinion Of Himself.

My you 2 son had been naughty
and'receiy-d scoding. After ST.
lence Of some w0lnents he asked: /:
'Mother. how much did you pay the
doctor for meY' said, tEnough." He
promptly auS,Sere, "Oh, we'll I don't
think you got stung."-EXchange
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
1 ,other dickens ORIGINAL"

One by one the little band of re.
naming "Dickens originals" are being
gathered to their fathers. The Lon.
don Morning Post chronicles the death
In Strood infirmary Of Mrs. Regden,
the Betty Higden of ''Our Mutual
Friend" She was one of the lesser
characters of the great nOvelist's Gre
alton, but as Gilbert Chesterton so
truly says: "Dickens not only con-
quered the world; he conquered it
with minor characters, They appear
only for a fragment Of time, but they
belong to eternity. We have them
only for an instant Qke the young
man with the lumpy forehead, who on
ly says 'Esker' to Mr. Podsnap's for
eign gentleman), but they have us for
ever" How great Dickens really was
Is seen from, the fact that not more
than one or two men have been found
capable of creating even a single
character In their books of equal vi
tality and individuality. Perhaps the
two most outstanding instances are
Sherlock Holmes and Captain Kettle.
But where Conan Doyle and Cutcliffe
Hyne created one famous character of
that disciple Dickens created fifty.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15

plete, as 1t is in adults, re-education
from left to right or from right to
left-handedness will do no harm to
the brain.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-15
Satisfied ANYWAY.

An Indianapolis youth recently took
"a girl to Il dance. He was exceedingly
1bashful as it was both his first dance
and his first gil. And the latter was
exceedingly homely. Really to be
truthful he took her because she had
asked him to &C.
That night he described il to his
mother. at was not half SO bad As
/ thought it would be-" he told her.
II didn't have to have anything to do
with any Of the other girls but my
own. i guess that other fellows sort
OF liked me and wanted to be kind be-
cause they let me have all the dances
FOR SALE-One registered
red Poll bull, two years and five
months old, weight about 1850
pounds. Call on or address En-
nest Bell, Crossville, Tenn.
9-15-4t.
Mrs. F. w. Wallace of Cleve-
land, Ohio is at Howard Springs
this week as the guest of Mrs.
Ernest Bell.
Miss Nancy Morrow spent
two weeks vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jere Nor
row, Creston. Miss Morrow is
now living in Cleveland, Ohio,
where she has a position with
the Standard Oil Company.
Perry Boyer brought a very
handsome apple to this office
last week. 1t is what is known
as the Pound Pippin and tipped
the scales at just one pound.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-11-12
THE TEST

Doubt attacked him in the lonely road
Then Presumption faced him in the crowd
And he defeated them both
To fall victim to dishonesty in his daily work
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-11-12
NEWSPAPER SERVICE

he junction of newspaper the complicated organization of
modern civilized community generally recognized three
told service to its readerso tell them happening ia tell
as pest can why things are happening and help spend
their money to best advantage.
The first lines Of generally understood T.
an EDITORS business to keep posted happening and tell
IL MS business to study the why The average
time to the effects The editor is Maid + ta
time and study conditions and the things effect them and TO
tell the result OF his study through the editorial columns
But the third service which in this world
fully important other twohepng spend their
to best advantages
reader frequently looks akance the advertising columns of news
paper Some few fortunately think that newspaper
treating them ialry by devotng much space Advertising
Did think to notice who adveriscs the columns of
assured in advertised goods either quality The aue
price advertising to the reader is self evident Advertisers
ways business whose printed promises newspaper
are good Business don't lie advertisements When
IS quoted advertisement the article advertised always
found the merchants shelf the advertised price
TO the reader OF quality advertising equally apparent
would indeed be fool to tell his product
II he did not know he could TO by cNpem
You can't go wrong advertised goods If they lnt have
some advantage Others they wouldn't be advert
they have advantage Others the newspaper
ers service by opening its columns the with the goods
Reading better than rummagng asserts the Dublin Courier
When you go to buy pair of boots, peas or
pot luck? r =
You can many dollar and many an hours time" con
tnues the writer IF you beforehand what your money IS
70 get you--and where it.
Merchants with established regulations be with whom
10 deal Merchandise with established reputation ALWAYS the
best II it's clothing you know well will wear and What
Ste should De II ITS musical instrument know what
KIND oil service is should give
David Crockett said, BE sure you're right then 90 ahead ~
The way to be OF the goods you buy read ader.sem
regularly hen won't wrong Reading vertis ,ents
Is lar better than rummaging aimessly."
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-11-12
FOR STRICKEN POLAND

Twice IN modern history have the brave and women of
roland thrown an impossible barrier the plains Central
Europe between Western Civilization emtattd hosts m ar
baans Poland stopped the Tarta when Western Civilization
was IN its infancy and when successful Monaghan invasion wold
have changed the entire complexion of the world of En-
rope and America.
For four past Poland has thrown
lice between the Western World powerful armies d the
oheV and stopped the Russian cions soldiers FIGHT
with the reckcness and sublime of inspired faith IN
cause Reactionay Russians under Wrangel cannot sion
them French and British troops the ablest
the forces that defeated Germany stop them Poland did
And Poland paying the price six years the armies Of
all the world have made battle ground Poland From
sly 10 warsaw ana back and around the egons of Gar Ka
ser and King and Revouion marched and fooh and m
ned and masacrcd Crops grow and steel the
only seed that has been fortified with proia
of human blood.
Po1sh winters are hard and cold Millions of men and women
and little children will freeze before Spring unless America
aid The good women OF Fitzgerald asking you to help them
Can you refuse?
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-11-12

Text, 2 King II g. "Jehoida the Priest Commanded"
Lesson: Kings 1:1-2Ot
"The priest Why the soldier2the statesman? These
would have been fitting But they at the
Lords Hand, responsive His "Ihe Priest willing
spirit His heart hot in him to do Gods work The
that fit for the wall will be left by the roadside Ah
God will lift into place in the walls of that Living Temple
which He is building from and which shall be His
praise before wondering Universe all eternity willing
hotheaed will be seized upon by God for His work
x
He devoted to Godwas "the priest" His cheek had
with the blush of shame he Gods house neglected
dishonored His spirit had famed with stied fires be-
of nsoent heather anes that dehed Gods fair land What
sort of life for God it that not find burning hate for
its heart What of chuchmember that
for the decline of Zions
He loyal to his kng"was the priest Loyalty! How
beautiful how hearenng how strengthnprng Here
tmeservng pleasing forgotten of his country and his
try Such citizens he the saving salt every
monwea who keep from otng down with sehshness COM
promise and corruption.
He had organizing genius toohad the priest His daring
initiative oolhadinessa blind fury He keen
great clock of Providence he noted the atefu instant
lightning strikesterrbe and splendid the eyeash of Dety
Above ALL he had the Goddea had the priest For him
to liveit Of he Lord the Sabbath the altar
"the temple of God and God the king! Majestic
peend He whose life resounds with will have good success
did-"he priest.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-11-12
PROGRAM AT FIRST
METHODIST CHURCH

Mr.. Burr Stokoe has returned from
the Annual Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church which was
held at Rossville, Georgia. He re-
ports a very interesting and profta-
Bile session. Rev. DR.. J. Elder has
been appointed to this charge, and
as he and his wife are very amiable
people and very earnest workers in
the church the members of the
church are very much elated. AS
Rev. and Mrs. Elder will not be able
to take up the work here until next
week, the services of the church will
be conducted by Laymen Sunday.
Morning, HIS: Subject 1.-THE
Christians Platform"
Throughout Methodism the Ep-
worthians observe annually in Nov
ember win My Chum Week" at
which time special efforts are made
to interest and win their chums and
friends to God and the Church.
The following program has been
arranged:
Sunday, Nov 18th, 7 p. m, "The
Devout Soul", Leader Mr.: A. G.
Brown, John L: ASH.
Monday, November IS; 8 p. m.
For an Inquiring Soul, John III
l-l3, Leader Mrs r. Stokoe.
Tuesday November 10. For the
Sinful SOUP John ": 5-42, Leader
Mrs I. N. Frey.
Wednesday, Nov 17-"For the
Importunate Soul", Mark x: 4n-52,
Leader, Albert Matthias.
Thursday, Nov 1S-"For the Dis
tressed Sour Luke XIII: 39-45-
Leader, Burr Stokoe.
Friday, Nov. 19-"For the Violent
SOUP, Act XVI 1-23-Leader,
Ranald Burke
Sunday, November 21, ZOO p. m.
"The Investment of Life" John V:
IS, XII: 24-25-Leader j. H. Burke.
Every Epworthian is expected to
be present. A cordial invitation is
extended to everybody. Special
Music.