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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05
PERSONALS.

Master Alex Clohan, small son OF
Mrs. Louis Clohan, of Washington,
visited her grandmother, Mrs. Alex
Clohan, Porter avenue.
Masters Sherman and Allen Kline
small sons of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Kline, and Elizabeth, small daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Prince II. Dunn
CT Porter avenue, have returned
from visit to their aunt. Mrs. Elsie
Flynn, of Washington. Little Celia
Kline returned from Washington
with Mr.. and Mrs Flynn, who were
here for the Fourth.
Miss Louise Marshall, of Wash.
ington. spent the Fourth with her
aunt, Mrs. George l.. Marten, West
King street,
Mrs. R. l.. Criswell and little son
of Rochester, n. Y, have arrived tc
spend two weeks with the formers
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Gano
at Tabler's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis B. Dudrow, oil
Hyattsville, spent the Fourth Of
July with the latters parents, Mr.
piu vi q u = oaAo, at dblSI ..
Jack l.. Bogart, of Norfolk, form
erly of this city, is spending some
days with his mother, Mrs. Ida l.
Bogart. West John street.
]. Carl Fisher. of Washington
spent the holiday with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Fisher, West
Burke street.
Miss Anna Grove. Of Chambers
burg. spent the holiday as the guest
of Mrs. G. c. McKown, West King
street.
Misses Betty Chambers and Beat
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

rice Myers, of F. s. Emmer, and
Sons, are OF on their vacation.
DR.. and Mrs. G. B. Geyer, OF Seutn
Raleigh street. left to spend few
days at Westminster, Md,
Miss Margaret Seibert. Of North
High street, spent tho weekend w.t.!
the family CT MIR. J. B. Foreman. on
"Springdaie Farm near Shepherds.
town
Mrs. Isaac Mcdonald and daugh.
ter. Mrs May Sullivan. of Eas'
Burke street, spent the weekend
with the latter's daughter at Bruins
wick and took in the big Fourth OF
July celebration.
Mrs. Amos Irwin, of Faulkner
avenue. has returned from visit
to relatives at Winchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleggett Keplinger
of West King street, spent the
Fourth at Washington.
Mrs. Lula Wright, Of Berkeley
Station, was shopper in the city
today.
Miss Louise Geyer. younges;
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. James f
Geyer. South Maple avenue. is eX
peeted home this week from Swarth
more College
Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Thompson
of South Maple avenue. have return
yed from visit to Atlantic City.
Mrs. C. H. Couchman, nephew
Mr. A Meredith Wore: Mr.. anC
Mrs. John O'Conner and daughter
Virginia, and Mrs. P Heelan, OF
| West King street motored in Mrs
Couchman' car to Washington ant
spent the Fourth at Glen Echo
Park.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05
ans a. IiANks

We wish Ia this manner 70 cen?
vey oar thanks to the rany kind
friends and neighbors, for their
kindness during the Illness and
death CT our dear husband ana IA
Their, Mr.. Morgan Andersen, also
those who kindly sent cars and
for the beautiful flowers, especially
the salvation Army.
Mrs. Morgan Adycaon aad chill
dren. It I'd
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

Do you seek a clerk or a
bookkeeper, or a house
maid for your home? Do
you want an automobile
or a canary bird or a piano
or a farm?
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

Do you want a boarder or
a tenant for that furnished
room ? Would you like
the return of the watch or
pin you lost? Have you
an apartment for rent or a
house for sale?
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05
CARO- or THANKS.

We tale this method OF thanking
the many friends and rtigh0ors
who were SO Kind to our wife and
mother during her last Illness. We
wish too, 20 thank the DAUGHTERS Of
America for their thoughtfulness
and to thank those friends who
contributed the flowers and automo'
biles.
It's !. D. Blake and children
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05
SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET

The school Beard will meet in
monthly session tonight at $50 IN
the Office of Superintendent Morton
in the Court House
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

The total gate receipts for The
Dempsey-Carpentier boxing con-
test, amounted to S1.623,SS0 Tex
Richard promoter of the bout, an
nouno, 1t New York. The net re
ceip, ave not been calculated
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

If your wants are within
the bounds of reason they
can be promptly filled and
at small cost. A Journal
Want AID is the little won
der worker that will meet
your need with efficiency
and economy.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05

ACCEPTS POSITION.
Mr.. Ellis Poisal has accepted a
position with M. Cohen and Son
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-05
Make
Your
Wants
Known

You have them, of course,
because everybody wants
something, some time or
other.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
Homemade Perfumes.

Perhaps you, happy pOSsessor of a
yard with many little paths, flower
decked on either side, would like to
make your own perfume, your own
tinctures? It's very simple! And quite
pleasing are the results of home
effort
Geranium perfume is so easy to
make. Take the leaves of your sweet
smelling geranium, quantities of them,
and pack them quite closely into a
glass fruit jar. Then fill it with
alcohol and put it away to draw new
strength for several weeks, aSter which
you will squeeze out the leaves, strain
the liquid and put it in small bottles
tightly cOrked.
You can make various kinds of tine
lures i'm this way-tuberOse, jasmine,
heliOtrope. With these, however, use
the fresh blossoms instead of the
leaves.
If the odor isn't sufficiently strong
after the separation Of the blossoms
and liquid put more blossoms in and
let the mixture remain several days
or a week longer. Then squeeze the
flowers out and strain again.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
Round-Headed People.

Round-headed mid-Europeans have
very different traits from the British
and Scotch ancestors of so many
Americans. Their descendants are
long headed as they were and so dis
tinguished by initiative, capacity to
govern and colonizing ability. The
Poles, Germans and Russians who
come here in countless numbers bring
other traits which anthropologists say
must have certain effects. 1t may i'm
prove and it may harm Americans.
The round-headed peoples have a
great capacity for patient labor, but
are lacking in initiative. 1t is said
the immigration Of these people to
Great Britain in the last 200 years has
changed the cephalic index of the or
binary Britisher 2 per cent. The ce-
phalic indeS is the ratio of the breadth
of the skull to its length. Britons
thus are said to be per cent more
round headed than their fOrefathers
Of 200 years back.-New York Herald
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12

HORSE HAS PLACE OF HONOR
Massacre Is Preserved in Mu-
scum of Kansas University.

The place of honor in the natural
history museum of the University of
Kansas is held by Old Comanche, an
Indian pony. In glass case in the
center Of the museum stands all that
Is mortal or immortal of Il horse that
has Il unique place in the history of
the country. Old COmanche never
won IA race, belonged to no certain
breed, was of no celebrated ancestry.
Old COmanche was the only living
thing that survived the Custer mas
sacre of the Little Big Horn fight Of
June p. 1876 After the battle, after
the terrible massacre of Clusters troop
of soldiers, the relief expedition which
arrived the morning following the
massacre, found a saddled and bridled
pony, wounded but able to walk,
grazing on the buffalo grass near
the pony wandered across the prairies
and found his way into a camp Of
United States cavalry. But the war
record of Old COmanche states that
he was found at the scene of the mas
sacre eating grass and keeping faith
full vigil over the bodies of the SOL
diers and the horses that lay piled
about him, the victims of the bloody
fight that has been immortalized by
American historians.
Old COmanche never had a rider
after the massacre. In the fight his
rider was Capt. Miles w. Keogh,
Troop |, Seventh cavalry. After the
recovery Of Old COmanche an order
was issued that he should never have
another rider, but that in every parade
or public appearance of the Seventh
cavalry, Old COmanche should be led,
riderless, properly draped in mourning.
and with the colOrs. This order was
carried out to Old COmanche's death,
was brought from Fort Meade to Fort
Riley. AT the death Of Old COmanche
the late DIR. L. l.. Dyche, for years at
the head of the X. U. museum, was
asked to mount the horse and pre-
| serve 1t for the regiment. But the
regiment had no money and the War
| department, unmoved by sentiment
pertaining to a mere fiea-bitten pony,
would not make the appropriation. The
| agreement between the regiment and
Doctor Dyche was that the state uni
versity should meet the expenses of
the mounting. and that, the War de-
partment failing to- make the ap-
preparation, Old Comanche was to be-
come the property Of the university
museum
The saddle and bride which form
"Old COmanche's" trappings are those
that he wore when he was ridden into
the Custer massacre by Captain KeOgh.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
Adapting to Circumstances.

He was a most useful man to have
at a party, was Hugh Denicroft, for
he always had some little game up
his sleeve when the party began to
twiddle. their thumbs i'm the absence
of anything better to do.
"Now, here's a nice game" he sug-
gested, at Goldbag's party, when the
fun showed some signs of abating. "A
girls peels an apple, turning out one
long peeling. Or an orange will do"
II see!" murmured the guests, one
and nearly all.
'She throws the peeling over her
shoulder" continued Denicroft, "and
II forms the initial of the one she Is
to wed"
Feelings, eh?" queried old Cold
bags. I'VE are all very rich, here, you
know ~
"Well, what of it," asked Denicroft.
"Will diamond necklaces answer Just
as wellY' put in the profteer's daugh-
ter-LondOn AnswerA
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
National Geological Park Ac-
quires Monster Python.
Monster That Once Roamed in the Ma
lay Forests Measures rs Feet From
Tip Of Its Head to Its
Tail.

Washington.-The worlds largest
captive snake is now an inhabitant Of
the National geological park in Wash
ington.
1t is a large regal or reticulated py-
thon that once roamed in the Malay
forest. From the tip of its head to
its tail is about 25 feet long. This
species of python grows to be larger
in size than any snake in existence,
and while a specimen that measured
a little less than 80 feet long was
once killed, it is believed that the
snake now in Washington Is the
largest on exhibition.
A special cage of extra thick glass
was built to house the new python.
which came from New York in a
heavy wooden box perforated with
small holes to allow circulation of air.
The large python did not dine ON its
journey, as it only goes to dinner
once. i'm three or four weeks. But these
infrequent meals usually consist of a
large pig or even a small deer or an
telope, which Is crushed to death in
the coils of the snake and then swal-
lowed whole and digested while the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12

fly. Heretofore, it has been assumed
that the domestic fly accompanies
man wherever life is possible, but Doc
tor Aldrich's observation has thrown
a new light on the subject. The ab-
sence of horses and their manure
in large quantities may be minor
reason for the absence of the house
fly, but climate seems TO be the prin-
cipal one. Even in the southern end
of Alaska's panhandle at Ketchikan
there are salmon factories. houses
and stores. all unscreened, and with
absolutely no traces of the common
fly. A few of the rarer flies that are
found In the United States also live
in Alaska. but in Insignificant num-
bers.
Insects from the interior of Alaska
were collected by Doctor Aldrich for
the first time. The valley Of the Tan
ANA river. a tributary of the Yukon.
is very much like the northern part
oa Minnesota. and the region around
Lake Superior so far as insects are
concerned, he has found. Doctor AL.
drich's trip extended from Seward
to Fairbanks. along the route of the
partially-completed government rail-
way.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
Was Not Enough
Heliun for ZR-2

helium must be nearly 80 per cent
pure in order to be safe Similar ex-
periments in Canada showed compara-
lively small explosions when mixtures
containing only 75 per cent of helium
were ignited.
Find Helium in U. S.
The attempts to produce helium In
commercial quantities In the United
States date from 1916. The year be-
fore the English government had
sought samples of gas from America
in its search for helium for use in air
ships. The United States was not then
at war and proceeded cautiously. Dr.
X. B. Moore of the United States bu-
reau of mines, who had received the
British communication, recalled that
Doctor Cady and his assistant, d. +.
Mcfarland, had discovered the gas In
unusual quantities i'm the mid-conti-
nent natural gas, and later Doctor
Cady and G. w. Seibel, also of the Uni
versity of Kansas, were employed In
the plans for the construction later Of
three helium plants in Texas.
Two small plants were completed In
March and May, 1918, and began the
production of helium. Their output
was not great, but 100000 cubic feet
Of helium had been produced and
much of it had been compressed into
cylinders for shipment to France when
the signing Of the armistice made that
unnecessary. third plant at Petro-
liza, Texas. near Fort Worth, was COM
pleted few days before the armistice.
and experimentation was continued
there after the war until halted by
diminished appropriations.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
NO HOUSE FLIES IN ALASKA

they have to place a protective lay
er of paper underneath as an armor
plate against the mosquitoes" is one
story that he has to tell. Laborers
wear mosquito nets and heavy gloves.
Smudges are national institution
there. They are everywhere. In the
interior the Alaskan summer Is suf-
ficiently warm for swimming. But
this sport must be accompanied by a
ceremony. The boys construct a hut
of branches on the bank of the stream,
protect 1t from mosquitoes by a
smudge, and enter and exit from the
water with mosquito-defying dash.
Alaskan mosquitoes do not act as
carriers of malaria and yellow fever
as do those of the United States and
tropics, but they are very vicious.
They literally I'LL the air. In one
sweep of an insect-collecting net about
his head. Doctor Aidrich was able to
capture 110 mosquitoes by actual
count.
The absence Of house flies In Alaska
has raised the question as to whether
there II q northern limit to the house
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
Novel Idea for Player Piano.

A novel attachment for player pianos
Is to be a pictured series of grotesque
animals and human heads, which ap
pear to open their mouths when the
keys of the instrument are depressed.
The heads form a panel along one
face of a patented box containing a
music roll. When the box is laid along
the white keys the funny faces are
flush with the front edge of the latter,
and inasmuch as the lower jaws are
omitted, the animals and queer peo-
pie seem to be opening and shutting
their mouths with the fall and rise Of
the keys Just nonsense business, Of
course, but amusing. The box, 1t
should be said, is made just wide
enough to fit in front of the black
keys and lie fiat on the white Ones.-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
CONGRESSMAN a Traveller.

The "most travelled man in Con-
gress" - Representative Ernest r.
Ackerman-is off On his world ram
bles again, accompanied by his old
faithful umbrella that has already
been in every country on the face of
the globe.
Mr.. Alderman, having already
travelled more than 100000 miles be-
yond the three-mile limit off the
American shores, is abroad to study
foreign trade conditions and to
gather information that will aid him
as member of the foreign affairs COM
mittee.
Having touched at practically every
seaport of Importance, Representa-
tive Ackerman has brought home one
Of the best privately owned collec-
tions Of art treasures. His greatest
delight Is in touching shoulders with
peoples in all walks of life and in
the remotest corners of the globe
Washington Star.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
HAS THE LARGEST. LIVING SNAKE

snake passes away the time lying
partly submerged in cool water until
Its next meal time arrives.
If this great regal python were a
star attraction in circus, he would
probably be bally-hOoed as boa con-
strictOr that eats men alive" Ac-
cOrding to DR.. n. Hollister, superin-
tendent Of the National Geological
park, who was chairman of the new
python reception committee, most Of
the snakes that are shown in the
greatest shows on earth" and adver-
tised as boa constructors are pythons,
which are usually larger snakes. The
circus variety Of python is usually the
rock or black species that grows II
to Is feet long and are found in South
America. These do not compare in
size with the larger regal species that
are found in the Malay regions, parts
of Asia and the Philippines. The
Washington zoo has three specimens
Of the smaller pythons.
The new snake has been secured as
part payment for a baby hippOpota-
mus that the National Geological park
raised last year. Most of the addi-
tions to the zoo are secured by ex-
change in this way. The new python
arrived in New York from the Orient
through the regular commercial chan
nels of Gagged animal trading.
The worlds largest snake cost 81
per pound. Its exchange value was
$500, and it is estimated to weigh
close to $50 pounds.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
"MEANEST MAN" R0BS GIRL
Takes locket and IS Cents Fnom
Child on Way to Store in New
York City.

New York.-Gotham's "meanest
man" stole locket and % cents from
a five-year-Old girl.
Angelina Lempo had been intrusted
with a quarter and sent to a nearby.
grocery to purchase some butter. A
man with red mustache lureG her to
another street, telling her he knew a
place where she could get the butter
for nothing. Meanwhile he took the
% cents from her, took off her tiny
locket to have it polished free Of
charge" and then gave her a paper to
deliver to a mythical woman in near
by hallway.
When she returned after a vain
search for the woman, the man with
the red bristles had disappeared.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
MATTER OF LUCK
Odd Ways by Which Property
Has Been Disposed Of.
Distribution Left to Whim of Cards
Will Written on Shirt Cuff
Found in Books.

"The Pack of Cards Case" was re-
ferred to in Justice Bargrave Deane's
court the other week and it is one of
the most remarkable of what may be
termed haphaZard bequests, writer
in London Answers observes. The
testatrix, suffering from a paralytic
stroke, had a pack of cards dealt to
her by her solicitor bearing the names
of her relatives. On another pack
were details of her various properties.
The solicitor "dealt" her a card with
the name of a person, and she played
to it a card with an item of her estate
on 1t. The solicitor gathered the trick,
and the trick was done; but whether
everybody was satisfied that they were
lucky at cards is another matter.
A man who was found In a dying
condition, having met with gun acci-
dent while out shooting alone, had
written his last will and testament on
his shirt cuff with fountain pen. 1t
was duly signed and as its provisions
were very simple and it's intention OBJ
viously sincere, it passed muster with
out any difficulty.
Shipwrecked sailors have made their
wills upon the most strange things
empty meat-tins, the soles of their
boots, a dkerchief-anything they
could lay their hands on at the last
moment.
The great Russian novelist, Tolstoy,
wrote his will on the stump Of a tree.
In this remarkable document is the
following passage: BURY me where
die. If in town, then in the cheapest
coffin, the cheapest cemetery, like
pauper. No flowers, no wreaths, no
speeches, without priests or liturgy If
possible"
Book collectors occasionally come
bookstalls by the side of the Seine a
book-lover found two pages of an old
volume stuck together. He opened
them carefully and found three bank
notes for 1000 francs each; also a note
which read as follows:
Friend, whoever thou art, be lega-
| tee without remorse of this little for
tune. 1t is all my pen has brought
me in so years. May the muses. be
more favorable to thee, for thou art
surely a man of letters" Then fol-
lowed, the writer's initials and the
date.
But the most haphaZard will on rec
ord was the one which said: Il own
II pairs of trousers. 1t Is my desire
that they be sold by public auction,
and that the product of their sale be
distributed among the deserving poor.
They must be sold to the highest bid
ders, but no one must be allowed to
purchase two pairs"
The II pairs of pants were knocked
down to as many bidders, and the
proceeds handed over to the parOchial
authorities for distribution. A few
days after the sale one of the buyers
took 1t into his head to examine his
purchase more carefully, and he found
stitched securely in the waistband a
small canvas bag containing ten $1OO
notes.
The tidings Of this amazing discov.
cry spread like wildfire, and each
fortunate possessor of the dead mans
pants was rejoiced to find his closer
investigation rewarded by a sum equiv.
alent to f200.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-11-12
But Country Is Full of Mosquitoes
in Summer.
Ladies Forced to Wear Layer of Pa
per Under Stockings as Armor
Plate Against Vicious Attacks
of insects.

Washington.-Aiaska has millions
OF mosquitoes, but not one house fly.
This Is the Information that is brought
back from that territory by DR.. ]. NJ.
Aldrich Of the United States national
museum, who made an insect survey
there this summer.
Hordes Of mosquitoes during the
Alaskan summer In places as rar
nortn as Seward and Fairbanks, pro-
vide continual entertainment for the
innabltants' who however, do not
nave 70 contend with the ravages of
the domestic fiy.
when the ladies Of Alaska wish 70
Deas thin and nlmy am stocr,r-.