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The Nome nugget., 1922-01-21
POPE DOWN WITH GRIPPE

Rome, Italy. Jan. 19-The Pope is afflicted with the grip and has q relatively high temperature, it was announced by the Vatican today.
The Nome nugget., 1922-01-21
SWEDISH KING ILL WITH FLU.

Stockholm. Sweden. Jan. 20th-- King Gustave of Sweden is down with the influenza. it was announced by the royal physician today.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

slmperng beauty of canine creation;
for the littlc J dogs and the swift
hunting hound; and the out-bounding
snappy Pekcs ani p;ince Charlies for the
little bundles OF .Inguid fluff nesting in
dangerous laps, Mrs. Barrett has her tags
all ready.
"The Russian wolf hound always be-
longs to a self-conscious beauty or near
beauty" says Mrs. Barrett. "The wo-
man who-herself--elects to be the mis-
tress of Russian wolf hound does it
with an ulterior purpose.
"Such woman is probably after man.
No woman who wants good dog to love
and comfort ever took this lank shoe string
of silly haired white 1irt of s.dog to her
heart from pure Affection She had
hidden purpose. This dog is the dog of
moody woman who roams, seeking the will
O. the wisp of her affections"
Now Mrs. Barrett has her philosophy
of the small dog.
more little dogs of the spaniel type
belong to oozing, luscious, unctious ladies
of generous proportions than to the lank
limousine lizards of beauties about town."
says Mrs. Barrett "The idle fat woman
likes the petulance of the little Prince
Charlie, curly, barkish, tempest in tea
pot canine.
1.-The fat woman of this type, again, is
never cdTHeSI dDOul llClNiOiS
she likes something that will be earnest
to wit, the little dog, who barks sincerely,
but never disagrees with her"
Like master, like dog, says Mrs. Bar
rett, is the rule in most cases. But, says
she,, from her lifelong association with
dogs and men, she has exploded two or
three venerable, mossy gown, ancient
ones. That most ancient of all, for ex-
ample: Good to his dog" that one runs,
"he surely beats his wife"
"Take the hound dog, for instance.
They are used mostly for hunting. Ap-
proach one of these dogs. They run,
mostly, and hide under the table, their tail
between their legs. What does that mean?
Cruel master. Cruel training.
"The hound owner is the wife beater,
among husbands. The hound owner,
many times, is the man who cheats at
cards. Few women own hounds. This
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

dog is the canine who, strikingly, por-
trays and betrays the failings of his
master.
"Take your Irish terrier, gain. Your
little, wiry-haired, shrill-barking, perky
cared, swapping at all the world but his
mistress sort of dog. Show me this small
beastie and I'll show you an active, ener-
getic clubwoman. I'll show you woman
who requires precise loyalty from her dog
and from her husband.
"'Now, John. You took that little
Kitty Jones to dinner. You are at liberty
to take your stenographer to dinner for
the rest of your natural life-and hers
if you wish to. But, John, I'll just say
this pleasantly to you and be done:
"T'll never mention the subject again
after tonight. But if / ever hear of your
just go home to mother. Because, you
see, while I'm living with you Pm not
going to have you making a fool of me
with the neighbors.'
"This is just about the way the woman
who has chosen an Irish terrier manages
her husband Such a woman demands
singleness of affection in man or beast.
"The Boston terrier belongs to the
woman who has a celibate disposition.
She may be married at that, but, despite
the fact, she would have made a fine
trained nurse, or an excellent school
teacher. She is thorough, and she knows
a good thing when she sees it. She pre-
fers quality to beauty.
"The French poodle will, generally seek
out the mother to be her ally among all
the women of the family. But if, again,
Aunt Sarah is more given to the little
coddling attentions, to children and ami
mails, then dear mamma; if mamma, on
the other hand, is more devoted to teas
and politics, then the French poodle will
align itself with Aunt Sarah.
"Police dogs were hardly heard of in
this country till the war. But since the
war they have sprung up in our country
increasingly. And now show me the wo-
man who glowed with fervor of war knit
ting and special aid and Red Cross ac-
tivities. The woman, whoever she is,
who owns one of these superb creatures
is always there in a pinch. She is
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

TT you're woman and bit of hypo-
crite-and have dog-there's lady
in the city of Rochester, N. Y, Mrs.
Edward L. Barrett, chairman of the
Rochester Dog Protective Society, who
can read your hypocrisy like a book
provided you have dog.
If you're nagging wife and object to
your husbands paper at the breakfast
table and his bass voice all day long Mrs.
Barrett can tell that you're nagging
wife, objecting to those qualities in your
poor old husband which Nature herself
provided him with. Mrs. Barrett can
track down your last, piffling scolding
of your husband and your last good-by
wall as he goes down the path to the Office
provided you have a dog.
If you are of the great sisterhood Of
and a-plucking of your eyebrows, a-roug-
ing of your fngernails and a-clay-mud
packing of your countenance, Mrs. Bar
rett can tell you that you're vain, con-
ceited, loving of outward show, archly
coy and coyly arch-if, perchance, once,
not knowing, you gave away the combina-
ton to your inward hidden self by taking
unto yourself some sort or make or breed
of dog.
"By their dogs We shall know them,"
says Mrs Barrett. Most any person can
make some estimate of a woman by the
husband she chooses to eat her break
fast with for the years till death, or its
modern forestaller, divorce, do them part.
But, bless you, when it comes to reading
a woman's very innermost soul the hus-
band of her bosom isn't half as dead
givcaway as the dog she elects to shed
his hairs all over her best carpet, or
the pup she leads by the long leash when
she takes her walks abroad"
First of ALL" says Mrs. Barrett, "look
at your collie dog. Now tell me what
kind of a woman has been mistress of the
collie from the beginning of time. Why,
of course, the mothers of men and the
wives of men. The stocking darning,
pie-baking, rug-braiding, butter>churning
domestic, thorough going housewives and
coniforters among the female sex. Show
me a collie-and if he belongs to a wo-
man, and that woman has chosen him for
her own, I'll show you a woman who isn't
afraid to tie up her little boys hand when
he comes home after the accident with his
poor little red blood all dripping from the
place where the tiny fist got cut against
the neighbor's newly sharpened lawn
mower.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

college woman VINO has Just won her
doctors degree for the very
learned essay ON the futuristic uses in
the Greek grammar of the aoristic particle
an
"On the other hand, the Pomeranan,
with its small head and tapping ears and
long silky red hair, is an old lady's dog.
He's a dog that needs to be interpreted
through the fond eyes of extreme love.
Such. an affection, totally regardless of
the worth of the object, do grandmothers
bring to their favorite grandsons and their
pet Poms.
This, in short, is a bit of the wisdom
lifetime's observation has taught me as
to women from looking at their dogs.
There are, of course, generalizations.
Good to your dog, good to your hus-
band; good to your little boys and girls.
That's an unfailing axiom Show me the
dog who has his bath regularly, when he
needs it, and I'll show you the small son
and daughter who are sent regularly to
school and Sunday school; whose stock
lngs are all darned nicely, and whose
buttons arc well sewed on to their small
rompers.
"Take your mongrels. The woman
who can't appreciate nice, lively cross
between a Police and an ordinary
'yeller dawg,' is the woman without a
sense of humor and an appreciation of
the fine, alert qualities in a crossed dog"
Yes, there's a philosophy of the ca
nine which Mrs. Barrett has settled with
precision. Summing it all up, in one
short sentence, "Choose for your friend
the woman who has shown wisdom when
she chose her dog. Bullock out for the
woman who wouldn't be bothered with a
dog For she's often the wife who, also,
wouldn't be bothered with baby"
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

contemplate, trembling, sore
eyed poodle betrays usually her
smallncss of being.
"The woman who wears a
Hula Hula costume, not because
it is lovely, but because it is
novel, is the woman who takes
unto herself a Chow dog. This
woman likes the futurist art; she
bobs her hair at present. Ex-
treme-is the Chow's mistress;
loving the unique, beyond reason,
and past logic.
"Show me the woman who in
this day of grace owns a pug
dog and I will show you the
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

woman who loves the old things. The
woman to-day who so unmodernly pos
sesses the fast-vanishing pub is the
woman who has hidden away in her
top drawer, boxed and cherished, that
dress with the Leg -o-mutton sleeves which
she wore the day she became a sweet girl
graduate. And, also, she has saved her
love for old things enough to be the mis-
tress of that ugly, little sensible, ludicrous
joke of dog-the pug.
"The St. Bernard is the dog of the
woman of the generous heart and soul and
imagination. The St. Bernard is the dog
of the woman who is the applause of
strangers on a bathing beach; she may
never have jumped her horse across six
bars, but where the roads run long into
the country and the hill winds sweeps
sweet over wide acres this woman, with
the huge dog she adores, tramps or rides
side saddle, never astride, and with her
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

The Owner of a Chow
N Is Usually a Rather
|f43A Extreme and Artificial
~. Creature.
And on the Left
~ Unlike the Broad
Minded Woman Who
Loves a St. Bernard,
Collie or a Police Dog,
the Woman Who
Lavishes Her Affection on
the Rather Contemplate,
Trembling, Sore-Eyed
Poodle Betrays Usually
Smallness of Being.
Now" and Mrs. Barrett
smiles, the assured smile of the
connoisseur, "now, among all
women, I have always particu-
larly liked the mistress of the
Airedale. For she is the brisk
woman who can do a number
of things well. Brisk, like her
dog. She may be a millionaire
sportswoman who can outplay
half the champions at tennis,
or, again, she NAV be the Young
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

goes her St. Bernard dog of the great
open country.
"The fox terrier, the Skye terrier, both
belong to women of a different complex
ion. For the woman who owns either
of these smaller dogs likes a companion,
not too large nor yet too small. Such
a woman Graves company-and the two
terriers just supply the sociable need of
her soul. The woman who chooses these
is sensible and practical, and not over
feminine. She's no amazon, and she
knows enough about dogs to scratch them
behind the ears in the right place, and
enough about men to rub 'cm the right
way.
"The Scottish terrier is another ami
NAL and another terrier entirely. This
dog, to be sure, is rare in our country.
In England they are more common. But
it has been proved again and again that
the woman whose dog is a Scottish ter
rier is a woman who is devoted to the
exclusive. She imports her terrier, as
she does her Paris hat, so she may have
something all the other women do not
have. She loves her dog as she loves her
husband, more because each is a costly
specimen of dog or man than for sheer
affection.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23

generous, and she
has imagination.
AS she was in
the crisis of the
war, so would she
be in crisis of any
kind - right there,
and no Mysteries.
" U Ike t h e
broad-mindcd, big
hearted woman who
loves a St. Bernard,
collie or a police
dog, the W o m a n
who lavishes her af-
fection on the rather
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-05-11
REGISTRATION NOTICE

The office of the Supervisor OF
Registration will be open on the lst
Monday in each month for the pur
pose Of registering any person who
Is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident
Of the State for two years, and OF
the county one year, and Of the
poll: :; precinct in which the elector
offers to vote four months before
the day of elction, and shall have
paid, six months before, any poll
tax then due and payable, and who
can both read and write any section
to him by the Supervisors of Regis
tration, or who can show that he
owns, and has maid all taxes collecti.
BILE on during the present year, prop
erty in this State assessed at three
hundred dollars or IRE.
r. E. CT 'RKSON,
Clerk of Board.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-05-11

q steady advance because it deliver
ed the goods.
But mary thoughtful breeders saw
great possibilities in the Reds and
set themselves to the task Of improv-
ing the breed iE show characteristics.
Rapid progress was made in the mat
! ter of improving type and color along
suggested lines laid down by the
Rhode Island Red Club, to which ref
erence was made above. In 1904 the
Single Como Rhode Island Reds were
recognized by the American Poultry
! Association and given place in the
standard OF perfection. The rose
comb variety of the breed was Off
cially recognized the following year.
The Reds occupy leading position
among the general purpose breeds of
fowls. AID they deserve this. They
are unexcelled in vigor and hardness,
inheriting these highly valuable char
acteristics from fifty generations of
ancestors kept under plain and rugged
conditions where the weak perished
end only the strong survived. They
are excellent layers and under reason
able conditions produce eggs steadily
and bring big prices. They are really
fine table birds whether used as broil-
erS, roasters or stewing fowls. They
ere active and mature early, are
equally ct home in the poultry yard
or on open farm range. The hens
make dependable settlers and careful
mothers. All in all, the Reds are
mighty good chickens.
Because of the work of careful
breeders it is now a simple matter
to produce focks of Reds which are
satisfactory in color and quite uni
form, but perfection in the beautiful
even shade of plumage demanded in
the show room is still difficult to
secure. The breeder who can con-
sistently produce stock ravlng this
depth and purity of exhibition color
need not worry about financial re-
turns. He can sell at mighty good
prices all such birds that he can
grow.
The desired shcw room Weights are
as follows: cock 81 lbs. . cockerel,
TX lbs.; hen 6k lbs.; pulSst, 5 LBS.
In utility flocks these weights are
usually exceeded. It might be well
to caution the beginner against choos-
ing extra large, coarse birds because
activity and early maturity, most
valuable points, may be lost through
breeding for great size.
Words cannot describe the color of
the Rhode Island Red. Ore must see
a good specimen in order to secure
an idea of proper color. Generally
speaking, the plumage is a rich, even
red throughout. set off by black
markings in certain sections.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
WILD CREATURES HATE SNOW
Means Time Of Misery and Hunger to
Both Bird and Beast, and
Thousands Starve.

Most wild creatures abhor snow.
For the rabbits and hares it means
that they must scratch down through
the dull, frozen stuff before they can
find their usual food. If the snow Is
really hard the rabbits are reduced to
eating the bark of the fences near the
warrens.
All the smaller birds are cut off
from their food supplies. Those that
live OH worms or insects are particu-
larly hard hit and if the snow lies
long the death roll among such birds
as robins is really terrible. In that
winter of 1911, when there were a
hundred days of snow and frost in
England it is estimated that the Brit
sh isles lost about one third of their
sinall-bird population.
Water rats. shrews and others all
dislike frost and snow because such
weather makes food more difficult to
obtain. Offers as rule, make straight
for the coast in hard frost. and live
on dabs and founders in the unfrozen
estuarieS.
Even rats, which can generally look
after them selves. dislike snow because
it makes their dark bodies too con
Spicuous 70 their enemies and pre-
vents them from moving about as
freely as they otherwise would.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
"BIood Money"

Flood Money" was the name ap-
piled in the Middle ages and well into
the more modern period to the money
paid for bloodshed. 1t might be either
the compensation paid by a manslayer
to the nearest relatives of the victim
to secure himself and his kin frpm
vengeance, or the money paid as IL
reward for bringing about the death
of another, directly or through evil
dence. Ii was once common among
the Scandinavian and Teutonic peo-
pies, who called this money payment
wergild. The price varied with the
nature of the crime and the rank Of
the victim. Certain crimes, such as
the Staying of sleeping person. could
not be compensated by money pay
ment; such criminals We're declared
outlaws and could be slain with i'm
punity The term Is now often applied
to the reward or bribe paid for giving
up criminal 10 justice.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
OrlalnaI PLAYING Cards.

The original pack of cards was
quiver of arrows. Playing cards are
regarded us derived from tn. divina-
tory use of the arrow away back In
the cradle of civilization--China or
India, says Stewart Culin, the archae-
ologist. The ancients played games
with marked arrows, and the
Museum of Archaeology, University of
Pennsylvania. has several specimens
of these primitive playing cards.
Ancient Chinese and Corean cards
are longl and narrow, and by their
design and name show Enthusiastically
that they are conventionalized shaft
ments Of arrows, retaining In their
suit marks the same symbolism as that
of the quiver of arrows from which they
were derived. The old Corean and
Chinese name for playing cards Is
lighting tablets"
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
FEW KNOW FACE OF WATCH
Remarkable Fact That Can Be Verified
oy Casual Inquiry Among Ones
Acquaintances.

Something about the queer way IN
which most of us use-or rather do
not use--Our powers of observation
can be learned in very simple way.
Ask the next person met whether .
o'clock on his watch is marked by
Roman or an Arabic numeral. If ne
does not admit that he does not know,
he can be set down as really excep-
tfonal person--one in about thousand
or so--and after he looks at his watch
to see just how that figure is made
he will have the further surprise of
finding that it is marked with neither
"6'' nor wi"
This test recently was applied at a
meeting of high railway officials in
st. Louis and one Of them passed It,,
though they, if anybody, might have
been expected to know just how their
watches were made. The railroaders
laughed at each other and seemed to
be little humiliated, but really there
was not much need, if any, for feeling
that emotion.
None Of them knew how o'clock was
marked, for the excellent reason that
knowledge would have been quite
worthless in their business and only
would have taken up room In their
minds better filed with other infornia-
ton. They all could "tell time" and
that was enough.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
SMALL BIRDS FALCONS PREY
Peregrine, Like the Pirate He Is,
Takes Toll From Weaker Crea-
lures of the Air.

1t was reported recently that In the
eyrie Of a peregrne, vicious bird, the
rings of % racing pigeons We're found
The peregrine falcon often kills birds
which are unfortunate enough to cross
its path. Peewits and other birds that
frequent the coast are relentlessly pur-
sued by this hawk, and another prey
Is the golden plover, but this bird af-
fords the hawk a good chase before 1t
is caught.
The peregtne catches its prey by
protruding Its strong legs and talons
to their fullest extent when witltn Il
few feet of the quarry. Then for a
moment its wings are almost closed.
and the next the prize Is seized and
carried OF. If, however, the object Is
too heavy to he lifted from the ground
1t is forced along sometimes a hundred
yards on the ground, and killed and
devoured on the spot. The nest Of the
peregrine is usually placed on the face
Of some precipitous cliff, resting on a
shelf of rock or tuft of vegetation, and
consists of a mass of sticks and coarse
stems of grass and ferns.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
NEW YORK HINT OF VENICE
Reservoir 10 Beautiful spot, VIII
Stately Homes That Seem to
Arise From the Water.

What the Brooklyn bridge Is to the
resident Of Brooklyn the reservoir is
to the middle uptown New Workers.
refreshing and beautiful place for q
brisk walk, says the New York Sun.
The reservoir, particularly the up
per one, with path on the brink, is
place of romance. Across the water
rise stately houses they seem almost
on the edge of the water, like the
water is q sheet Of ice. One day IL
seemed like a stretch Of gray taffeta,
with inserts Of blue crepe where tho
wind rippled the patches Of water that
remained. Close to the shore broken
bits of ice tinkled continually against
q stretch Of solid ice, with the sound
of sleigh bells.
But In summer there is another
aspect to the reservoir. Horseback
riders gallop around In fetching cos
tunes, while the water sparkles in the
sun.
But there is one point at certain
hour that lifts you out of New York.
out Of America, out of the world. The
point Is the western stretch Of the
southern side The hour Is sunset The
magic is produced by the fountain,
thin, high sweep of spray painted
with rainbow shades by the setting
sun. Up goes the stream, swirllng into
n gigantic feather in the gentle hands
Of the breeze. Suddenly the rainbow
appears to vanish as the wind swings
the spray In another direction, to re-
appear again for a few breath-catch-
ing seconds. The spray sweeps here
and there, covering you for an instant
The sun leaves it for moment and
the fountain becomes bridal veil
flashes into glory.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
,rees' SLOW Development.

The slow development of the trunks
of certain trees at once calls up I'm
ages of ilnmobility and eternity. The
dragons blood tree Of the Canarles
awakenS such thoughts. Thrice ia
nous for its strange looks, its vast
size and its antiquity, this dragons
blood tree is equally SO for the sta
tionary condition of its growth. In
the legend of Teneriffe we are told
that this singular tree was worShiped
by the Guanches, its original inhabi-
tauts: and it is related that in the
Fifteenth century mass was celebrat-
ed in the interior of its trunk, Il fact
even lately attested by the vestges
which were seen of little altar.
This tree grows so slowly that af
ter ii tolerably long interval of time
it was not possible to verify any
change in lis circumference.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
NOTICES!

l wish to announce myself as candi-
date for County Commissioner for the
Democratic Party of the 9Th Senatorial
District. If elected l will serve the
best interests of the party.
ALBERT nUMPEL,
Port Penn, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1922-09-23
Starboard and Port.

The ancient rule of the road was
to keep to the right and drive from
the left, because the first animals
driven In civilized countries were cat
tie and the driver, walking beside his
oxen, piled his gad with the right hand.
Italian sailors made starboard the
right side of ship in their earliest
voyages. The term was evolved by
the British from "esta borde," mean.
ing this side, while larboard came. from
the helmsman. first probably with
gestures of the hand accompanying
the call.
In heavy weather. and under other
adverse conditions, the two terms be-
came confounded frequently in speech.
Larboard was dropped and in its place
port was employed, for port meant
port wine, which is red, and red is the
color of the light on that side of the
ship.