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The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16

WASHINGTON. Shoestrlngs, a
~ biting dog and a human skeleton
were used as texts for an economy ser
mon by Director of the Budget Lord
in his address before the third semi
annual business meeting of the gov
eminent which last January saw Gen.
Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, the first
budget director, wave aloft a brace of
navy brooms as he stamped the floor
to emphasize his demands for federal
thrift.
A shipment of hospital supplies was
made. General Lord said. which con-
tanned one human skeleton, as well as
laundry bags, instrument tables and
other articles, but because of failure
to classify properly the shipment sthe
rate of the skeleton which was three
times first-class rate, vas applied to
the entire lot, which was shipped at a
minimum Of 10000 pounds.
Describing the workings of the
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16
New National Arboretum at Washington

Y VERY state in the Union Will De
- represented in the new national
arboretum in Washington. Seeds
from trees in the hall of fame for
trees with a history are being collected
by the American Forestry association
from every state.
The Botanic Gardens or the Mall
are to be moved, probably to Mount
Hamilton. a 50O-acre tract just out
side Washington. There a large ar
boretum will be established.
The first state to send tree seeds
IS Indiana. Dumont Kennedy of
Charlottesville has sent In a box OF
seeds from the famous Dumont Ken
nedy elm.
Many other famous trees will send
children to Washington for a home
in the nations capital. There is the
famous Lincoln blackberry at DEBORAH,
Iowa, planted by John Finn.
Another tree is the Washington
horse chestnut at Bath, Pa.
In the list of famous trees from
which seeds will come are the Sir
Joseph Hooker oak at Chico, Cal;
the wye Mills oak at Easton, Md;
the washington walnut at Maplewood,
N T.: the Weathersfeld elm at Mid
dletown. Conn; the oaks from Eng
land at Milford. Va; the mulberry
tree at Spartansburg, S. G.; nj AGA
Gin tree at Dayton; the RathDone
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16

elm at Marietta, Ohio; the Bartram
cypress at Philadelphia; DeSoto oak
at Tampa, Fla; the Lafayette poplar
near Geneva, N. Y; Stratford on
Avon oak in Central park, New York
city Whittier elm at Haverhill, Mass;
the McDonough oak, New Orleans; the
sycamore at Fort Ball, now Tifin,
Ohio: Kingston oak at Kingston,
Tenn; Hilgard chestnut at the
University Of California; Basking
Ridge oak, Basking Ridge, N. j.;
Teddy's Delight at Phelps, N. Y; Gen
eral Grants tree, Chicago; Wesley
oak. st. Simon's island, Georgia;
Shakespeare tree at University Of
Rochester, N. Y; Webster tree at
Franklin, N. H.; Battle Ground oak
and New Garden oak, Guilford coli
lege, North Carolina. and Treaty oak.
Washington.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16
Il NATIONALS
CAplIAL AFTAIQS
Skeleton, Biting Dog and Shoestrings

budget bureau, he declared that while
| formerly an expenditure for a pair or
| shoestrings out of the wrong appro-
priation could not have been made
without the error being detected, un-
wise disbursements Of millions out OF
authorized appropriations could have
gone undisturbed before the Inaugural
ton of the budget system.
Asking for honest estimates, Gen
eral Lord describes his own expert
ence:
1.-The first estimate I submitted to
congress-" he said, was an honest,
minimum estimate without one penny
of padding. | was new at the busi-
ness and went before the house ap-
preparations committee as ~innocently
and as guilelessly as a dove. | shud-
der now when I recall what they did
to that carefully drawn, unpadded
estimate.
81 can illustrate it perhaps by the
experience of the man who was ac-
customed to arrive home late from
his club in a highly inebriated condI-
ton. The first night he went home
sober his dog bit him. And that was
what congress did.
"In submitting honest estimates you
may get bitten, buL it is worth it II
the executive bureaus succeed by such
a policy in rehabilitating themselves
in the estimation of congressional
committees"
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16

park, and in the mountains OF the
Teton, Bridger, Wyoming and Washa-
kie national forests. With the first
heavy snowfall they descend to lower
levels, where their winter range mas
become more and more restricted by
the coming of settlers. Thousands OF
elk congregate in the path of their
former migration in the vicinity OF the
winter refuge maintained by the bio
logical survey at Jackson, Wye.
Within the last ten years several
thousand head Of elk have been trans
ferred from the Yellowstone park re-
gion to localities in many states for re-
stocking purposes.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-16
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

= -1OU'VE often heard of Eddie Ricken-
hacker, our American ace-of-aces. Well.
he started recently on an aerial tour Of
the United States. He was to visit all
- the states and to report to the federal
government on the condition and avail
H,t ability of landing fields and on other
k..(l aviation matters. Probably he had q
86AA1 good machine; it is to be presumed that
fSsTy1 he had the best available. And what
-.aJ did Eddie Rickenbacker report? Moth
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
RED cow UNDER SUSPICION
Silly English Superstition That Her
Milk Would Make the Hair
Of Baby Red.

A director of London dairy COM
pany told a correspondent recently at
dairy show circumstance illustrat-
Ing belief that existed not long ago
In connection with cows milk.
1t was in the days when many Lon
don dairles kept a few cows at the
back of the establishment. partly to
give the impression that the daily milk
supply was all derived from these
COWS. or to enable the proprietor to
meet the wants of his customers in
special cases for infant feeding. The
shop had been closed for the day, when
woman called to ask for new milk
for a baby. This was supplied.
Shortly after the woman called again
and asked: "Can you tell me the color
of the cow you took that milk from?"
phe owner of the establishment said
he was not quite sure, but would go
and see. He went and returned say
ing: at was black COW, but why
do you want to know?"
"Well, sir" she replied, "if it had
been a red COW my mistress would have
asked you to change the milk, as the
baby would then have had red hair,
and she does not want that."-London
Morning Post
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
MANY LEGENDS OF THE oAX
Trees Grandeur and Beauty Seem ts
Have Impressed Each Ancient
Race in Turn.

The ancient races, struck with the
noble aspect of the oak, have in ak
ages enveloped it in the clouds of theI
legends and carried 1t back to the re-
motest antiquity. OF this class was
the holm oak, which in the days o4
Pliny still existed near Rome, on the
trunk of which was an Etruscan in
scription in letters of brass stating
that before the existence of the Eternal
city 1t was already the object of popu,
lar veneration. The Roman naturalist
also asserts that in the environs of
lleracles. in the kingdom of Pontus,
there was a tradition that two oaks
which overShadowed the altar of Jupl-
ter Stragius had been planted by Her
cules. The origin of certain trees is
lost in even remote antiquity.
The imposing terror of the Her
cynian forest has deeply impressed all
those who have described Germany,
and Pliny and Tacitus especially The
aged oaks of its somber Wales, where
wandered the elk and the aurochs. es-
pecially aroused the admiration of the
Roman historian. "The majestic gran
deur of the oak in this forest" he says.
">urpasSeS all imaginable belief; this
tree has never been touched with the
AK: 1t rs contemporary with the crea-
tion of the world and appears to be the
symbol of Immortality"
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Mardi Gras at New Orleans.

The New Orleans observance of the
Mardi Gras has been growing steadily
since its establishment in 1890, and is
now numbered among t4le most bril-
liant of the public and social festivi-
ties of the United States. His Ma
icsty Rex, the king of the carnival,
first rode at the head of body OF
Arabic troops in honor of the Russian
Grand Duke Alexis in 1872. The ex-
pertinent was success, and Rex be-
came an established favorite. The
"Mystic Crewe of Conus," however,
antedates this portion of the carnival
by some 10 years, for it was in 1857
that the first Mystic Crewe' appeared
in ii fantastic night parade of gor-
geous floats, manned by masked rev.
elers. But so many additions have
been made to the Mardi Gras that now
Rex and Comus are only two features
of magnificent celebration which aIn-
braces the entire city.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
a Yankee Samson.

For long time Grandfather Higgins
insisted that he was a very light Sleep
er and that a slight noise would al
ways waken him. ON the other hand,
grandmother was sure that he could
sleep sounder than the ordinary per-
Son-so sure, indeed, that she declared
she could cut off his whiskers some
night without his knowing it until
morning. Grandfather retorted that,
II she could succeed in doing it, he
would go with her to visit their son
In Idaho.
For IA few days grandmother said
no more about it: apparently both had
forgotten the conversation. But one
morning when grandfather awoke his
throat and the lower part of his face
felt unusually cold He sat up in bed,
put his hand to his face, and utter
ing little cry, jumped up and hur-
ried to the mirror. Sure enough, his
whskerS were gone. He looked round
in bewilderment and saw mass of
grayiSh-white hair and pair of grand
mothers shears on Il chair beside the
bed Grandmother was right -
Youths Companion.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
TRUE DA VlNCI IN LOUVRE?
Museum Director SCOTS at Theory
That Famous Painting Has Been
Brought to America.

Artists and friends of the Louvre
museum may rcassure themselves,
The original of Leonardo ia Vinci's
painting. La Belle Ferronnicre, =
hangs in the museum and is not in
America. This ON the authority of
D'Estournollcs de Constant, director
of national museums.
"l'his is an old story" said the di-
rector. 1T is not the first time that
the authenticity of our masterpieces
has been questioned by foreign collcc-
tors. There seems To he no way of
putting II stop to the habit.
"'rhe painting entered among our
collections under the title of La Belle
Fcrrunnierc' WAS certaialy from the
brush of leonardo da Nimci himself,
Ii was among the art treasures Of
Francis | and, in 1912. Pcre Dan, the
kings minister of finances identified
1t MS the portrait of the duchess Of
Mantau. Certain historians, on the
other hand have maintained that it
was that of LucrcZia trivell. 1t Is
generally conceded today that the pie
ture represents La Belle Fcrronicre,
one of Francis Is favoritcS.
"Whocvcr It may represent, how
ever. the painting had always hung III
the private apartments of the king
until it was transferred to the Louvre.
It's authenticity might possibly have
been questioned had it been stolen at
amy time. But no such miSadvcnture
ever occurred to it."-From lie Petit
Paris. (Trunslatcd for the Kansas
city Star.)
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Good Whistler Story.

zone of Whistler's stories was Of
Burne- jones, and himself going to
country fair and wandering into a
si;leshow to see tattooed lady-and
he was afraid 10 say how many sub
1ects were tattooed on heron one knee
the American Eagle, on the other, the
Union Jack, and on her back Leonar-
dos Last Supper. And she really was
amazing. and they enjoyed it hugely.
Some four or five years afterward, in
London, Burne-Jones burst in upon
Whistler, and told him. the same tat
tooed lady was at the Aquarium, and
they went and she had grown very
stout in the meanwhile and when they
looked at the Last Supper, all tho
apostles wore broad grin" FROM
''The Whistler Journal" by e. r. and
j. Pennell.
Cooking Chicken.
Old saying is, no one can eat quan
day for 80 days. ii. ]. Jalmar, Bap-
tist missionary in the Kongo, hasn't
tested the quail theory. But he ate
chicken three times day for two
years.
Don't pity Jalmar for monotony Of
| diet.
Pity his wife, who had to plan the
meals to make them attractive. She
evolved % ways Of preparing chicken.
| No man has task as difficult as
his wife has, In planning meals. Doubt
VI ASK her.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
JAP GIRLS GET INTO LINE
Increasing Physical Activity and Inde-
pendence Are Regarded as Of
Particular Significance.

A new freedom in physical move
ment is discernible if not obvious in
feminine Japan. 1t can be noted on
the street in the little girls play. Al
ways they have had the most varied
line of games and We're fairly active,
but nothing so unladylike as jumping
over a stick, sort of pole vault with
ont the pole. Now this is not unusual
in the larger towns, and surprisingly
high do these wooden clogged, XII
monoed. pig-tailed Youngsters jump.
and with much abandon.
In the girls schools there is much
more activity than even three years
ago of the kind that past generations
of American mothers called tomboy-
ishness. and increasing interest in ten
mis- and basketball. Also il is not un-
becoming now for maiden or matron
to hold up her head in line with her
spine. and frankly look on ut this
world and all its incumhrances. For
merly it was almost the great unpar-
donnble not to carry the head slightly
forward, with eyes doWncast. This
attitude of humiliation is now becom-
ing fearfully old-fashioned.
Foreign teachers of long experience
say that the change In this respect is
striking in the classroom. Students
when recitiug now look rp squarely at
the instructor instead of ut their knees
as formerly. AS this is not a taught
thing but the reflex Of Il change with
in vital enough to overcome teaching
and inherited tendency. it is signiii-
can't
Another change. triling, but a
straw that shows the direction and We
locity Of the cure t. Is the growing
habit Of man and wife to walk side by
side on the street instead of my lady
pig"un-toring along "hout pace in the
rear of her lords ribncr's Magazine.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Playful Horse Races Train.

NewburypOrt, Mass.-A horse that
broke out of the barn Of Charles Rolfe
early one morning headed for the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad and reached
the tracks just as a Boston-bound
freight train rounded a curve. The
playful horse galloped over two open
work bridges crossing the Parker river
and several culverts keeping ahead
of the train for about three miles.
When the Town of ROwley was
reached the horse left the tracks and
surrendered to q farmer.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Secret Board Revealed.

Pottstown, Pa.-When Auctioneel
W. II. RhoadS was selling an old stand
the other day at public sale he was
bid 10 cents. He held it up TO induce
more spirited and liberal bidding and
secret drawer became opened. Fifty
dollars in gold and a check for So in
dorsed but never cashed, dropped out.
The owner himself said that he never
knew there was money in the stand
The check had been drawn and In
dorsed about fifty years age and is
still good. the interest. of course. not
being collectible.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
TO SHELVE MORE SHIPS
Orders Issued to Put Hundred More
Vessels Out of Commission,

Fifty additional destroyers and al
most three score auxiliary naval craft
have been ordered put out of commits
sion to save fuel, according to an an
nouncement by Secretary of the Navy
DENLY. The destroyers are in addi'
ton to the 100 ordered out of com
mission some time ago, and will leave
the navy with 76 destroyers in full
commission.
Two gunboats, the Albany and the
New Orleans, now on Asiatic duty, al
SO will be placed out of commission
and sold so soon as they can be
brought home. They will be replaced
abroad by the gunboats Sacramento
and Asheville.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Relic of California
Gold Rush lmperiled

Coloma, Cal.-The historic
Weimar oak here Is in peril. Be
cause 1t endangers his farm
home, Homer Metcalf may cut
down The oak. 1t was under
this tree that Mr.. and Mrs. Pc
ter Weimar constructed their
home when they came to Coloma
with James w. Marshall, the dis
coverer of gold, in 1913, and part
of the historic old home still
stands on the spot. 1t was in :
this house that Mrs. Weimar
boiled the nuggets in soap suds
and discovered their precious
ness, and ii was this discovery
that sent the news round the
world which brought the gold
rush to California.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
Make Two-cent Motor Fuel.

Fuel for motorcars, manufactured
at a cost of cents gallon, is TO be
tested by a syndicate of Chicago and
Detroit men. The new oil will be
sold at a price considerably less than
that of gasoline, the manufacturers
announce,
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
stop Blasting Until Eggs Are Hatched

Ninety three eggs IN an incubator
caused the suspension of blasting ir
connection with work on two resi-
dences In Des Moines, Ia. The owner
of the eggs requested police to stor
she work until the eggs were hatched.
The workmen agreed to suspend op.
eratiOns.
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19
TRUSTEES SALE
Noted EIdridge Farm
Near FrederiCktown, Cecil County, Md.

Under and by virtue the
will offer public
Town of Ekton, Cecil County of MARYLAND,
Middletown transcript., 1922-08-19

aSfGaS1alsta. :.
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26
A Good Negro Story.

The first thing you know some
body's liable to fess up in the
Murray normal school affair. 1t
will be like the Alabama darkey
the Nashville Tennessean tells
about who went to a revival
meeting with a stolen ham in
the bib Of his overalls.
The preacher was well launch
ed on burning discourse on the
certainty of hell fire for all evil
doers. AS he spoke the old ne
gro became more and more ner-
vous as he thought of the ham,
bone concealed in his bosom.
Finally the minister reached
the climax of his discourse.
''Brudder, Use preached to you
for three weeks. Dis here is my
last night, Dis here is your last
chance. Take dat sin outen
your buzzum and throw it away,
else you is in danger of hell fire.
Take dat sin outen your buzzum
="
At this point the old sinner in
overalls could stand it no longer.
He drew the offending ham bone
out Of his overalIs and fairly
threw fiat the pulpit. as he ex-
claimed:
''Tek it, tex it. Iain't never
in my life seed so much he'll
raised bout a little Of piece O.
meat. /"
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26

When one reflects upon the
ease with which men of ordinary
business prudence can be swim
died out of their hard earned
money by a plausible scamp, it
is scarcelv surprising to US that
the scamp fourishes as he or she
does. The slang proverb says
that "a sucker is born ever min
ute, " but it seems that thelbirth-
rate must be somewhat more
rapid than that, judging from
the number of people who are
duped every day and the number
of sharpers who get a living by
duping them.
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26

Course of Study-Sanford hurt, Hen
ry Hancock.
Methods Of teaching Agriculture
Lewis Coffey.
Methods of teaching Writing-Myr-
tie Huddleston.
What Books should be in the Dis
trict Library-J. L. Hatfield, Mrs. W.
B HoVious.
How to assign Reading Lessons
AFRO Hadley, Mrs. Mamie Roach.
Who Shall Use the Teachers Libra
ry--Association.
]. Y. Dudley, Chairman,
by F. E. w.
Henry Hancock, Sec
Noah 10y,
AFRO Hadley,
by Ii. Il.
Mrs. Allys Cundif,
byN.L.
Every teacher is required to attend
this association or teach an extra day.
f. E. Webb,
Supt. Adair County Public Schools.
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26
Adalr County, Teachers AssOcla.
ton.

To be held at Adair County Court
House, on Saturday, October IA, 1922,
beginning at $50 O'Clock, a. M. All
patrons cordially invited.
Singing Independence Choir.
Devotional Exercise-Rev. R. ".
Bennett.
Address-Supt. f. E. Webb.
The Duty of the Teacher. v.
Dudley.
How to deal with the older pupil
who is behind in his work-Noah 10y.
Primary MethOds-Mrs. W. J. Gun
diff and Corrinne Rippetoe.
The duty of the Parent-L, Atin
to lead.
The necessity OF fo,.Owing ne
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26

The home of the l. c. shop
master at Paducah has been dy-
namited. 1t is supposed to be
the work of strikers.
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26

A Japanese wsrship with all
hands on board. numbering 300,
was sunk when hit by "a typhooa.
The Adair County news., 1922-09-26
FaIrpIay.

Mr. ]. v. Bennett and family
were visiting the family Of Mr..
Francis Darnell Sunday.
Mesdames Mamie B. Samuels
and Callie Chapman, Glensfork. |
were at the bedside of Mrs. 0.
M. Tabor, who is very low with
typhoid fever, Sunday.
Mr.. z. L. Bennett and family |
spent Sunday with MIR, James
Frankum, OF Gadberry..
Mr.. L. >DarneIl and family mo.
tored to Gsdberry Sunday.
Mrs. Rosa Garrett returned
from Breeding Sunday, where
she has been visiting relatives
for several days.
Mr.. Parvin Hoover and family
spent Sunday with Mr.. Dan
Coomer. ..
Mr.. ]. E. Willis, wife and baby
of Nelson Ridge spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives at this
place.
Mr.. Monford Lewis and wife
Mr.. James Lewis and Mrs E.
N. Lewis. of JeffersonVille, were
visiting their relatives here last
week.
Mr.. Willard Corbin, of near
this place, died last Thursday
night with typhoid fever. He
had been sick for some time. Mr..
Corbin was an upright Christian
gentleman, a member of the
Methodist church this place. He
leaves q wife and several child
rem. Internment at Antioch
Friday afternoon at 8 where
large number of friends gathered
to pay the last sad rites. We ex-
tend a hand of sympathy to the
bereaved family.
Mr.. Leslie Bryant has just re-
turned home from Chicago, Ill.
| Our boys who go to other
states to work and sickness
claims them as their victims, it
is hard blow for the parents;
the boys that died in Flanders
field were harder still; but when
a man is stabbed to death by his
own companion is hard for par
ents to undergo. This was
the case of Mr.. G.Ga Bennett
and wife. of this place. who re-
ceived telegram Monday morn.
ing stating that their darling
son. Walter, of JeffersonviIle,
Ind, had been stabbed to death
by his wife, LuelIa BeDhett, the
night before. Walter vas liked
by everybody in this peighbor-
hood and was as goodkearted a
boy as Adair county affords, His
remains reached his old home
) Tuesday morning and Burial will
be to-day; Wednesday; at the
McClister Graveyard this place.
His brother, Wallace;and Mr..
Owen Pulliam, of JeffFsonville,
accompanied the remains home
Another brother, Clifford of Fort
Wayne, Ind, reached home
Tuesday afternoon. Besides
; the two brothers mentioned he
leaves two smaller brothers, one
. sister, father and mother to
! mourn his death. All1Tuesday
friends were calling at fhe Ben
nett home to pay the last sac
, rites to a schoolmate,4 relative
or friend, who had met death 81
: unexpected, His friends of JEFF.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-08
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