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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-09-29
Arabs Use opIum Bait.

A novel way of catching fish by
Arabs was described by Lieutenant
Commander A. 3. Elwell-Sutton In de.
scrlblng the work Of the British gun
boats on the river Tigris above Bagdad.
The natives, there, he said, laid u
ground bait Of Jumps of dough con
tanning a small quantity Of opium. The
fish swallowed that and, becoming stu
pefied, hoated about with their white
bellies uppermost. Arabs went In pur-
suit Of them on blown-out sheepsklns
which they Unanswered with their feet
while the hands were free to hold the
landing net.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-09-29
To Make Scientific Investigations.

Mountain miners In the Andes do
heavy labor In rarefled atmosphere
that makes the slightest effort fa-
tiguing 10 newcomers, says the Sci
entlhc American. and Canadian sci
entlsts are In Peru to discover
whether this immunity Of the miners
Is due to changes In the blood or
to other functions. The scientists will
yield their own blood, both at sea
level and at three-mlles altitude, and
the samples will 20 to our universities
for analysis.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-09-29
ROCK CREEK NURSERY,
ROCKVILLE, MD.

Growers and planters. all kinds and sizes
Of trees. shrubs, evergreens and plants
Two-year apple. 85 cents.
California privet hedging from SO per
hundred up 9 evergreens. 10 inches to 3
feet. for SIS.
We replace at half price all stock that
fails to grow.
mar 12-3m
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-09-29

raaE LIBERTY MILLING CO.,
Germantown Maryland.
silver Leaf Flour
: str;ct,v the highest grade of Patent flour IT'S
m.s, hich in price, but we'll worth its cost IN soou
baking returns.
Dron Flour
+ hieh-grade Family -four, much above the
average so-caIled Straight -four
FEEDS.
We are headquarters for feeds the Voiuihe OIL
food nroduced With feeds in any quantties al
Uo u on hand assures our patrons Oh goo" scr
vice at lowest prices
Wheat
Wa .re the largest buyers of wheat in Monfgom-
ery county; we do not buy wheat TO snip; we o"y
Fly o"r own milling needs; hence high standard
of prices are maintained
we sUNsst yOsss' t1'~Ne'
The Liberty Milling Co.,
Germantown, Maryland
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-09-29

"John the cook has gone"
Does she expect to returnf'
II don't know, but she's the rotating
kind. She may pass through dozen
families and get back 10 us In year"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
No Flies in Alaska.

Everybody knows that mosquitoes
are frightful pest in Alaska; but it
is news to learn that housefiies do
not exist there.
This interesting fact was definitely
sscertained by DR.. ]. NJ. Aldrich OF
the Lifted States National museum,
in the course of a recent expedition
which he made for the purpose OF
studying Alaskan insects
He found two entirely new species
of mosquitoes. Horse flies were abund-
ant everywhere. But there were no
.housefies. In vain did he explore gro
Gerry stores, restaurants, cannerieS.
garbage dumps and other likely places
for them.
The fact is that the heusehy is by
origin a tropical insect. 1t cannot en-
dure cold weather. In temperate lati-
tudes a few houseflies manage to live
over the winter in heated houses
enough of them, that is to say, to start
q fresh crop in the following SPRING
Philadelphia Ledger.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
suttermiIk "spr~-, Is New.

The buttermilk spree IS late spes'
There are several places downtown
where a person can drink butterm'ik
TO repietion upon payment of 9 nickel:
a perfectly safe, venture for the ven
dor SO far as the writer is concerned,
by the way. This has been the am-
pulse for a daring wager during the
lest. few weeks. ??
Two neigh5or ladies recently en-
gased IN a sewing match. each con
coeting IA shirt for her husband, the
Hast to fnls8 her task to buy the but
ternak ffof- Both =,
Truly these he degenerate days
when respectable matroiis can dissl-
pate ike that, unnoticed and unre-
proved. But, Of course, the lnoeent
husbands have to suffer the r>al pen
atty. .They have TO wear the shirts
Portland Oregonian.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
PERSECUTION OF NO AVAIL
oIdtimer Tells Of Efforts to Externi.
nate SparroWs. Which Were
Worse Than Useless.

Watching an elderly man scattering
cracked corn to City Hall park spar
rows the other day stirred a reminis'
cent vein in one of the bench occu-
pants.
"They treat sparrows differently
than they did twenty-five years ago"
he said. "Guess they discovered they
couldn't get rid Of them and decided
20 make them comfortable.
"a quarter Of a century ago many
communities made determined efforts
to kill off sparrows. State and county
authorities offered bounties OF one
cent a head for the birds. Boys made
considerable pocket money shooting
the creatures and in places men made
a business of trapping them. They q
spread great nets over the roofs of
barns and then rout the birds from
their roosts.
"But it was no use. Organized war
fare on the birds made inroads only
n the county treasures and the
bounty was declared off. Now they
feed the sparrows. Times sure do
change."-New York Sun.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
WHERE GREAT EXPLORER LIES
South Georgia Island, Tomb OF
Shackleton, Lonely Spot in the
Great Antarctic Region.

An interesting picture of life In
South Georgia island, the Gateway
OF the Antarctic" where Shackleton
was buried, was given by an explorer
who made a research expedition there
a few years ago. At that time there
was only one woman OF the lsiand,
and she was the domestic in the house
hold of Capt. c. A. Larsen, q former
Antarctic explorer who had settled
down as head OF Norwegian whaling
station on the island. Below my soil
tarv tent" the correspondent writes,
"the grassy bank sloped sharply to
milk-colored glacial stream entering
an inlet of the sea only 90 yards away.
A quarter of a mile across the inlet
stood the perpendicular front OF
beautiful valley glacier, coming down
between peaked hills from the lifelesS,
silent interior. Penguins bobbed out
of the sea below the glacier and were
my most interesting callers, for their
curiosity could not resist human De
inc. Sea elephants crawled uncon-
cerned!y up the stream below me and
went to sleep among the hummucks
on the beach. Above the tent. On the
plateau of the little promontory, seven
nairs of albatrosses carried Oh their
courtship and nesting, along with
giant petrels, skuas, kelp gulls and the
pretty little antarctic titlarks, the only
land bird of the Far South, whose
cheerful song was almost the sole
homelike sound
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
BOYS DON'T NaMT THRlLi.ERS
Tales Of Wild Adventure Seemingly
Only Interest the Midsie-Aged
Man of Today.

Nc longer do the tales of little
Sure Shot" ''Deadwood Dick" aud
other old-time terrors of the prairies
interest the youth o7 the rising genera
ton, observes the New York World.
EhiS has been demonstrated since the
collection Of Beadles dime novels was
placed In the public library. 1t had
been expected that there would be
rush Of young people to see the old
thrillers. and at least one society that
takes upon itself the care and Supervl-
sion Of public morals was moved to
rise in protest against de3auchinS the
mind of youth. However. In the month
in which these books have been on
show, less than 10 per cent Of the Wis
itors has been under the age OF SIX
teen.
Attendants keep tally, and during
the time the Beadle books have Deen
displayed there have been 1.42I per
sons in to see them. While the tally as
to ages is not kept, it is the consensus
of attendants that hardly more than
100 have been minors. IN the next
room. however, where the baseball
collection has been displayed, more
than half the visitors are children.
During July there were 9,643 who Wis
tied the display.
The Beadle collection has been at
tractive chiefly to the middle aged.
Men of dign;fied bearing. often in
pairs, have gone the rounds of the
showcases. chuckiing over the titles.
CTS like renewing youth" is fire.
quent comment.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
MADE BUSINESS OF MURDER
William Burke, Infamous lr;shman,
Also instrumental in Adding
Significant Verb to Language.

Burke and Hare were two notorious
hody-snatchers. or reSurrect;oniSts,
who carried Oh their infamous trade
in Edinburgh. William Burke was
born in ireland in 1892. and went to
Scotland as Il laborer about 1877. IN
1877 he was living in cheap lodging
house Kept by another Irish laborcr
named William Hare. About the end
OF 1927 one OF IIarc'S dodgers, an army
nensioner. died. and Burke and Hare
sold the body to Dr. Robert Knox,
an Edinburgh anatomist. Hare there
upon suggested body-snatchinS as
business and Burke agreed. The two
men then started in to entice poor
travellers to Hare's or some other
cheap lodging house. The victims
were piled with liquor and then Suf-
focated under mattresses, without
marks of violence. Doctor Knox took
the bodies and paid up to I'll (sGe)
for them. At least 10 people had
been murdered in this way before
Burke &nds Hare were arrested. Hare
turned kings evidence, and Burke
was found guilty and hanged in Edin-
burgh on January 2S, 1929. Hare
found Scotland too hot for him and
went to England. where he is believed
to have died under an assumed name.
The verb "to burke" meaning to suf-
focate. to strange, to suppress, or TO
out out of the way secretly, had its
origin in Burke's method of doing
away with his victims.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Details Needed.

A woman. blessed with masterful
disposition and considerable property.
died, leaving behind her a will in
which her husband was cut Off with
dollar, on the ground that he had
deserted her year before
The lawyer finally located the man
and broke the news gently by telling
him that he had received only a small
bequest.
How much?" carelessly asked the
man.
cone dollar"
With the same carelessness, the man
turned toward the door. Just as he
reached it, however, d sudden thought
struck him.
Say" he called back anxiously. Did
She specify what l was to do with this
doilar:'
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10

to render the nation a service that
10 other body Of people has in their
oowar to render. And This oppor-
tunity lays upon the public schooi
teacher responsibility tha. does not
stop with the text book. The glory
CT the teaching profession is that II
affords rare opportunity Of being
a moral guide and Of laying thc foun-
dat;ons Of character while impartlng
the lessons of the text boks. and We
can wish our public school teachers
nothing better than that they make
the most of their opportunities for
teaching and living the Christian life
among their pupils.
Ard i the teachers responsibility
be great. We raise the question whe-
ther there be any JOY on earth, save
:, mothers, comparable to the teach
er's Joy in watching day by day the
development Of child's mind and
soul. Nowhere have We seen the IL
comparable Joy OF faithful teacher
in watching the transfguratlon that
comes over the faces of developing
children more aptly stated thar IN
recent editorial utterance Of the
Newberry Observer, "It must be g.
thrilling experience br painter Or
a sculptor transform a dull canvass
or stone into "the likeness Of the h%-
man form divine;" it seems 70 Us that
q teacher, if he is an artist in his
work, would experience an even fin
er and greater thrill when he sees his
work and skill and patience develop
ing in the speaking countenances OF
his pupils day after day-"somethlng
there today that was not there yester-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Dates From Fifteenth Century.

Interesting discoveries have been
made at 'Ye Oide Griffin hotel, Am,
ersham, England, coaching house dat
Ing back TO the Fifteenth century. The
digging out of a leaking water pipe
has brought to light perfect example
Of an early Georgian fireplace. 1t has
wide seats on either side and an I'M
mense hearthstone in the center, with
m ol,i-fasiiioned spit above it. On the
hearth were some old coins. one with
the date 1857. High up in the Chin
ney IS & recess which tradition says
was used as a hiding place during the
political. prosecutions Of two hundred
years ago.-Montreal Family Herald.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Land Reclaimed From Lake.

Montenegro will gain a navigabse
outlet TO the sea and nearly 30,We
acres of rich new land, by negotiations
pending between Jugo-Slavia and AL
bania, Ytich have as their objective
'fhe lowering to sea level Of the ancient
lake of Scntari. -.
The project involves a cost OF
so.Coo,Gc0 and will lower the level OF
Scutari lake by eight feet through the
deepening OF the River Bojana, from
Sc:atari to the Adriattc.
rhe draining Of the lake shores will
Increase. Montenegro's territory 20 500
acres Of rich land. This addition Will
make Montenegro self-supporting fol
the first time in its history.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Sarcasm From the Grave.

The VIII of Alexander Louis TEX
eira de Mat,os. the English tranSla-
tor of Fabre, M&eterlinck, Couperus,
Zo!a and many other continental
writer's. contains one bequest that will
interest a good many bookloyerS who
have loaned their fayorite volumes
not wisely but too well-at any rate,
700 generously. says the Living Age.
The estate of Mr.. de MattaS was not
large. its gross value amounting TO
less than $1,000 (S15.o0o), and many
of his beQueSts take the fern OF books,
He leaves books TO many .: his
friends. One volume in particular is
left to Il certain friend and is de-
scrihed rs one which he borrowed
many years ago and has not returned
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Liehtest Of Liquids.

Many experiments here and abroad
hsve shown that liquid hydrogen is
by far the lightest OF all known
lorlds. Its density is one-fourteenth
ttat Of water. aad, curiously enough.
this happens to be she same ratio OF
density that hydrogen in The gaseous
state bears air. For long the light
est lioIid known was liQuitie6 marsh
gas. which possesses anout two-hfths
of the density o. Observation-Disclosures
Star.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Q, . 9 6. 8 o 9 9 . . . 9 9 .
KIWANIS NOTES

O. q, q, o :, . (. e. 8, (. o 8 9 9 e g (.
The regular semi-monthiy meeting
cf the Kiwanis club was held n the
private dining room Of the Hotel Ma
t;onal - |: 80 p. n. on Thursday.
As il is education week in kiwanis
it was very appropriate that Olin Can
non. who IS superintendent Of the
city schools, was in charge Of The
program, having as our quests Pres
jdent Derrick Of our college, and
Hon. {. H. Aull, county supar!nt"nd,
ent of schools.
One verse of America" was sung
before being seated, John Settler, the
official tune ''h'ister" being IN form
John Carlson returned thanks.
An appetizing three course dinner
was served by the hotel management
after which Sid Derrick made 9
forceful talk on education. Elber'
Aull spoke on the same suh;ecs, from
the viewpoint of the interests OF the
country schools. Both talks |ef<
listened to attentive}y and enjoyed
Gene Blease furnished Tho favors
and Jack Bowers the attendance rTize
which was won by Oswald Copeland
Marion stated that Mrs. A&Ti'
would not let him 60 n CO ny HIM
self, so he had quite q nunlbn1' CT vol
unteers for The district conEcnaoh Al
Asheviile. He does not expect &c
pay hotel expenses too, 50 Don eV-
erybody speak at once.
The committee on equipment 1oi
the football team of the high scnoo
made report.
Secretary Mac made several impor-
tant announcements. (He has never
been known to fail YETI
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Mails for the Far North.

! Post Office regulations, stamps and
g. new imprint bearing the name "Ak-
layick" are now on their way to the
Arctic circle, where the Dominion gov
,srnment soon will open the most north
:erly post office in Canada. Aklavick
is a trading post on the delta at the
mouth of the Mackenzie river. Two
mails will leave the new post Office by
steamer during the season Of open wa
ter. and one mail by dog team during
the winter, the latter being the long
est and most lonely postal route on the
continent.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Increased Tractor Power.

A new attachment designed to give
the small tractor greater bearing area
and increased pulling power, re-
places the round wheels with two
large sprockets, according to an illus.
trated article in Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Outside Of each sproc&et
is q cast-Steel arm which projects for
ward and downward, carrying at its
front end a smaller idler wheel. 4
track tread passes around the sprock-
ef ana iller wheed. giving the tractor
increased bearing area.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
THE TEACHERS OPPORTUNITY
AND RESPONSIBILITY

Southern Christian Advocate.
The beginning of another school
wear. the call to books Of something
like twenty million children, and the
return to their transcendently M
portant tasks of several hundred
thousand public school teachers-all
serve. to remind US CT the golden op-
portunity that is the teachers. NO
other similar number Of people
among US influence the life OF the
nation so profoundly, no other set OF
men and women hold the future OF
the country so completely in their
keeping, and there is no other class
Of public servants to whom the coun-
try at large owes debt of gratitude.
It is often said that in country
like ours, under our plan Of separat-
ing state and church, there is no way
of getting the Bible and its ideals
iato the public schools, and that
therefore our school sys stem can not
be used as a positive force to Chris
t;anize the education of, our children,
the most that we can hope being in a
negative way to prevenr it from be-
ing used as was the system in Ger
many.
But when man says fhat the Bible
and the Christian. religion are not IN
the public schools of A America today
he, is not stating a fact. 1t is true
that they are not here sdirectly-not
there by virtue of legislative enact
ment, but the Bible and the religion
it teaches are in our public schols
in the most elective sort of way IN
the personalities of tens Of thousands
Of Christian teachers, and we state
the simple fact when we say that
whatever legislatures and courts de-
cree. the only way to get the Bible
out of our schools is to put alt OF
them the teachers whose lives incar-
nate it. And had not the Bible been
in the public school system Of Amer
lea all along in this indirect way, the
nation long ere this had parished.
And as in tens of thousands OF
school rooms hundreds of thousands
Of teachers begin to touch again the
child life Of the nation in those subtle
and sacred personal intimaeies that
the relation Of teacher to pupil make
possible, we wish to remind the
teachers once more that they hold IN
their hands the key to continuing TO
keep the public school Christian by
continuing to teach religion iii the
schools by living it, and thus continue
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
rel, Criticism.

An unusually caustic critic was be
inc shown through one of the Paris
art sai0us by an enthusiastic friend
They stopoed before some Of the most
modern Of modern art.
II was the handiwork OF woman.
and might have been lifelike portrait
of ANYTHING from q sandstorm to a
steam IOl!er.
"She mus: be welded to her arr,
tho enthusiast declared, enraptured.
Eyes. and every picture she has
naintee is sufficient reason for q di
yorce," was the reply.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
Where the Sparrow Justified Himself.


News dispatches inform us that the
English sparrow invaded Alaska this
spring for the first time" Arriving in
America about 1850, it ''has been grad
ually working westward ever since"
driving out most other small birds as
1t goes. 1t has already spread over
nearly the whole Of Europe, and in
spite of everything seems likely to
make. "a place for itself all the way
round the world.
Because Of its fecundity, its inabil,
ity to live peaceably with other birds.
and the .depredatiens it has been acs
cused of making on brick chimneys
and buildings. some people-even birS
loyers-haye greatly deplored It's
coming to this country.
But il can be a useful bird. as It
proved to South Caroline farmers in
1917, writes correspondent of Penn
sylvania Grit. In the spring Of that
year the army worms started an inva-
sion OF our fields, devourins everything
as they went. The farmers were in
despair, when they saw how bare the
worms were leaving the earth. Then
the English sparroWs swarming in the
fields in greater and greater numbers
daily, began to devour the worms with
a voracity truly gratifying. The num-
Der of worms which one sparrow would
deyn,,r in day was incredible, farm
er told me. And the poisonous mix
ture. with which the worms were
finally exterminated, before they had
Injured the crops irreparably, had no
i'll effects on the sparrows. They ate
worms so long as there were any dead
or alive, to be found.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-10
PROBABLY SAVED MANY LIVES
Lighthouse Keeper Proved Han OF
Resource and Courage in Time
Of Emergency.

The Indians called the island Natls-
cotte-the country of waiiing, and un-
der the modern corruption Of Anticos-
ii it has added to its terrible renown.
Its whole history, from the day it was
discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1884,
to the present, is q record Of human
suffering.
In August, 1869, the family of Ed
ward Pope, keeper Of the Ellis Bay
lighthouse, was stricken down by ty-
phoid fever, and to add to his misfor-
tunes the revolving apparatus OF his
light broke The government steamer
had gone. and Pope had no means OF
communicating with the marine de
Sartment at Quebec or elsewhere.
The light revolyed or flashed, as the
technical phrase is, every minute and
half; and if it flashed no more 1t
would probably be mistaken by pass
ing vessels in that region Of fog for
the stationary light at the west point
OF the island, and thus lead to dire
loss of life. Pope found that with a
little exertion he could turn it and
make it fash, and at once determined
20 fill the place of the automatic gear.
Accordingly, this humble hero sat in
the turret, with his watch by his side,
turning the light regularly at the al
lotted time every night, from I p. m.,
until z a. M, from the middle Of Au-
gust until the first OF December and
from the first of April until the end Of
June when, the government steamer
came to his relief with new appar-
etuS.
Al through the first season, Pope's
daughter and grandchildren were Ill
unto death, with nobody save him to
nurse them. He waited on them ten
derly through the day, but as night fell
on the iron-bound coast he fastened
to his vigil in the turret, doing his
duty to the Canadian government and
to humanity with unfiinching devo-
tion.
In the second season his daughter,
who had lived through the fever, took
turns with him in the light room,
This man may have saved thousand
lives. He died in 1872, and his deed
well deserves to be chronicled, for Of
the heroes of Anticosti, as Of the long
roll of her victims, the world knows
nothing. Family Herald.