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The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
4 Sure Remedy.

A certain young doctor will have to improve his methods or he will never have enough patients to maintain him self. A woman came in to see him a few days ago. She looked haggartl and pale.
 "Well. madam" he said, 'what Is it?"
 "I'm troubled with insomnia" sha sighed. What shall do for it2''
 "Sleep it off, madam; sleep it of, '" he advised.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
She Knew.

A. capable housewife was trying to impress upon her maid the need of system in her work.
 After carefully explaining her own methods in her work, she asked {: "Now, Olga, just what do I mean by system? Do you understand what sys- tenn means?"
 "Ja, ja," giggled Olga; "seesteem means dOin' theengs the hardest way" Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
WASHINGTON


 Approval of 154 advances for agri- cultural and live stock purposes, az gregating $4,O21 ,OOO, distributed be tween twenty-seven states, has been announced by the War Finance Cor pOratiOn.
 Secretary Hughes has sailed from New York to Bermuda, where he will visit a daughter and incidentally recu- perate from the strenuous work of the arms conference.
 Uncle Joe Cannon, oldest member of the House, announced he would not be a candidate for reelection as repre- sentative from the Eighteenth Illinois district. The former speaker an nOunced his intention to retire from politics in an eleven-wOrd statement, which read: q am not a candidate for election to the Sixty-eighth Con- greSs." The Illinois representative. one of the most picturesque and widely known figures in Congress, will be 86 years old next May 2.
 Approval has been given by Presi- dent Harding to the bill authorizing an appropriation of S16,OOO,OOO for the construction of additional hospitals for war veterans, Chairman Langley of the House public buildings and grounds committee, author of the measure, announced recently. Passage of the bill also is advocated by the Federal Board of disqualification, with the recommendation that a clause pro- viding that $500,0OO be expended in enlarging Mount Alto hospital, Wash ingtOn, D. C., be eliminated.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
Rapid ThinkIno.

"When you find something that meets your approval in a magazine or book do you read it aloud to Mrs. PecktOn?'
 "NOt always" said MT. Peckton. ''FOr instance, last night, was read ing an article in magazine in which the writer stated that woman's place is in the home. l exclaimed, That's good! Mrs. PecktOn wanted to know what was good. The result was had to think rapidly and quote an old joke from memory"
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
WANTED
SUBSTANTIAL INVESTORS

CO0SIANV1AL INVESTORS
 to assist me in exercising option on wonder Iui oil deal. My bankers and friends arc Joining me in deal to purchase acreage ncg4 well in Mexia- -WOrtham district which nas been drilled six feet in the sand. Casing has been set in cement and will be drilled in as soon as cement sets. Based on my experience Tor past five years, and oil and gas showing this will be tremendously large we'll
 The Sun company, a Standard oil s0bsfn iary, has drilled in well two days ago, juss north or us, near the Humphreys-M MaaSioS well. This practically proves the WOrthamA Mexia district, eliminating the known haz- ards and risks, making profits CERTAIN
 The Magnolia company paid $500, GOO for 1S acres and one we'll near us. The U. B. TEX. company paid over $1 coo 900 for 4s acres known as the Anderson tract and got a good 22,00O barrel a day we'll just last week. Magnolia Petroleum paid $1 100, GOO Tor the DeEenberg we'll and AS acres which has produced over 1000, 900 barrels of oil in the past three months. l paid my own cash for the option, and need substantial investors to help me complete the payments whIek must be made quickly.
 Refer by permission to A. M. Beeman cashier of the Security State Bank and A. E Thomas. vice president of the Continental National Bank this city, as to my integrity and ability to do things. I was formerly vice president and treasurer of the EdmOnds OH Refining company, which paid 18 con secutive cash dividends during the dulIest months. l know the oil business from top to bottom, with knowledge derived from tho hard knocks of actual experience. HaVo drilled the largest producers in BurkbuFnett and El Dorado Arkansas fields.
 invite the closest investig ation.
 Wire reservation and mail check care nf Security State Bank, Fort Worth, Texas
 Y. E. HLDRETH
 1910 W. IT, WaggOner Bldg, Ft. Worth, Ton
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
FOREIGN

Former Premier Orlando has re- ported to King Victor Emmanuel that he was unable to form a cabinet and declined to continue further efforts.
 Seven thousand new cases of influ- enza have been reported in Vienna. All private and public schools have been closed.
 The Irish situation, since the raids over the Ulster border, has steadily be- come worse and no secret is made of the grave alarm with which it is viewed in official circles in London.
 LOndOn's women police are mot a necessity and are too costly to main- tain as a luxury" Sir William Hor- wood, commissioner of the metrOpOli- tan police, has found, and as a result the wOmen's patrols will be disbanded at the earliest possible moment.
 Fire gutted the Standard Life Insur- ance building in Montreal, Canada, and threatened to spread to the Montreal Standard and Star building and other surrounding properties. Immense clouds of smoke prevented spectators accurately estimating the spread of the cOnflagration, which is the worst the downtown district has known in years.
 Transfer on Feb. 2S of ownership of the Figaro, an influential morning newspaper of Paris, to NJ. Coty, a per fume manufacturer, and a group of as- sociates, is announced. This step is taken, the announcement says in an- swer to a legal notice served by the new owners on NJ. Calmett, secretary of the corporation, fOrbidding all edi- tOrial discussion in the newspaper un- til they take possession.
 The All-Russian central committee at Moscow has decided to take over immediately the valuables in all the churches and sell them for the bene- fit of the famine sufferers. The value of the silver and gold candlesticks, the gold-cOvered and bejeweled ikOns, the chalices and salvers involved is va riOusly estimated, but in the weight of the precious metals and jewels alone is reported to total hundreds of millions of dollars.
 Two hundred fifty thousand children are starving in the Chuvash region of eastern Russia, to say nothing of a half million adults who have lost all hope of help, according to telegram from the Russian Famine Relief Com mission of the International Fedora tiOn of Trades Unions received in London by Arthur Henderson, promi nent member of the House of Com mons. The telegram says 30,OOO,OOO workers and peasants in all Russia are starving to a state of pitiful weak ness.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
Same Symptoms.

Simpson (greeting his old friend)- Why, Jones, it's ages since I saw you last. Married now, aren't you7
 JOnes-No, no, old man, it's not that. Just business worry and nerves.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02

The man who takes unto himself better half should be prepared for bet ter or for worse.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
[xEl!254I IIIEST7ylH

Retail RAwleigh's Good Health Spices, Flavora Cocoa, Household Medicines. Toilet Preparations Etc. 1G0 useful, everyday necessities sold on time lowest wholesalepriee. Onmarket88 years; used by millions. Favorably known all over America. Larg- steompany in the world. Easy to build permanent. big-paying business; no experience practically no capital needed. Pleasant healthfui, outdoor work S1OOO. $5O00 or more year. Free advertising and sales helps. Ask for particulars; give age occupa- tion. references.
 ., THE ". T. RAwLEIcH COMPANY Sz1 Liberty St. FreeporR. m.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02

No AstigmatIsm There. "Helen thinks the Oculist is just about perfect" ''Her eye-deal man, I suppose"
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
GENERAL

A falling off in influenza and pneu- mOnia cases has been reported by the Board of Health in New York.
 John Mccormack, tenor, whose con- cert tour was temporarily suspended because of an attack of laryngitis, has fully recovered, it has been announced.
 H. G. Twyman, formerly an instruc- tor at the state training school for boys, at Fort Worth, Texas, was found guilty by jury at Gatesville, Texas, of killing Dell Thames, a boy inmate at the institution. He was sentenced to prison for ten years.
 Three men were taken into custody by the police at Chicago after a raid on suite of offices occupied by the American NOvaOulite Company. The concern was declared by the police to have offered large profits to small in- veStOrS and the belief was expressed that the losses may total $1,000OO0. According to the police, the concern was interested in the making of road way materials.
 Capt. J. Allan Brooks, who two years ago gained entry into Cincin- plausible stories of his adventures while serving in the Royal flying corps of England in the World War, must serve three years in the Ohio state prison. He pleaded guilty in the Grim inal Court at Cincinnati recently to tha cho r0o of icc,1ino n cbooIy oro;Dc+, insufficient funds.
 The soldiers bonus would cost the federal government approximately $2,50O000,000 on the basis of esti- mates prepared for the House ways and means committee by fiscal off, cers of the army, navy and marine corps.
 Diners at one of the large down. town hotels in Kansas City waited i'm patiently and loudly demanded service recently while the management start ed a city-wide search for a crew of missing walters. The search ended at police headquarters. Thirty-five of them, negroes, had been arrested in a craps game in nearby house. A call | to police headquarters brought wait CTS racing back through the downtown 1 section on foot.
 Organized operatives in cotton mills, | employing about 21,000 hands in New and Massachusetts, have | gone on strike in protest against a 1 wage reduction of 20 per cent. Off | cials of the textile unions with which | the locals are affiliated ossert that the mills are well organized. Reductions, accompanied by restoration of the if ty-fOur-hOur week, will cut the wages | of nearly 50,000 operatives in the four northern New England states l
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02

WESTERN
 Loss estimated between $450,000 and $5OO,0O0 was caused by stubborn fire at San Francisco, which endangered for time the lives of POO employees of the Thomas Day Company, manu- lecturers of electrical supplies.
 The Isthmian liner CrastOn Hall, when she departs from Los Angeles soon, will be loaded with 75,000 cases of canned apricOts and peaches, said to be the largest single canned fruit shipment ever assembled in Los An geles. The CraStOn Hall will take the fruit to London, Bristol aIfi Liverpool.
 Twelve members of the Mazamas, POrtland's mountain climbing club, were swept by a snow slide 300 feet down the side of Mary's peak, ten miles west of Corvallis, recently. One wOm- an was hurt seriously and two men were injured. The climbers, after reaching the peak in a blizzard, were sliding on the snow when the ava lanche gave way, carrying them. down with terrific speed and landing them in a ravine buried in snow.
 The business of rObbing stores was so profitable that Carl SorrensOn and two other youths purchased an autOmO- bile to assist them in their operations, according to a statement to the police of Spokane, Wash, by SOrrenson fol- lowing his arrest on charge of burg lary. Police lay thefts tOtaling over $12,0OO to the trio. SOrrensOn, a stu dent at a Spokane high school, and the other two boys were taken into GUS tOdy by police at Great Falls, Mont.
 Chinese tOngmen throughout the West are reported under cover or on their guard as the result of an appar- ent outbreak of a tong war recently, when two Chinese were killed and a third wounded in Seattle, Wash, one slain in Butte, Mont, and one shot probably fatally in San Jose, Calif. In every instance the shOOtings were car ried out in characteristic tong war fashion, police reports indicated. In Dullc anu III OCdIllC lilS CIlIlSSS, SdlQ to have belonged to tOngs, were shot down on the street Seattle police made five arrests in connection with the shooting.
 Maurice P. COdd, medical student in Northwestern University of Chicago and holder of the Barret medal for athletic prOwess at Gonzaga Univer- sity of Spokane, Wash, was charged with first-degree murder following the death at the post hospital at Fort George Wright, near Spokane, of | Frank P. BrintOn of New York city, a soldier of the medical corps of the Eff | ty-eighth infantry. BrintOn died as the | result of injuries sustained, it is | charged, when Codd threw him over the third floor bannister of a Spokane | business building following an alter cation. He sustained a fractured skull | when he alighted on his head on the ground floor.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
WESTERN

CWestern Newspaper Union News seriOsl
The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-02

1910 W. T. WseEcner Bldg, It. Worth, TUu.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29
A CIVIC MATTER

Any sudden change In the conditions which have
a direct bearing upon tho lives OF all members Of
the community becomes. automatically a subject Of
ooncern 10 civic bodies and 20 public officials
Tho cost OF living and Of essentials to life IS TER
haps. the most Important factor In community life.
A sudden raise Of rents 20 sums that are beyond
the wage Garner. the in cost clothing or
food TO figures which mean hardship TO many would
DC matters be Investigated and its reasonabIoness
determined by The most impartial and searching
inquiry.
In tho city at The prcsen, time the price Of bread
is and should be the most important topic Of con
versaton.
Fair prices FOR product and for oil necessi-
ties OF ME is On frs fundamental OF orderly
society
Business. all business. depends upon fairness
rather than rower. It survives only as it is fair
Grave charges are being made by competitors in
the sale % bread accusations that are important
because they affect the family pocketbooks and the
wage envelopes Of every resident Of this city.
The increased price OF three cents loaf for bread
IN this city is defended 10y those who made it on
the ground that it necessary price if those who
bake and sell bread to continue in this most
important service TO the community.
Others Offering to sell for less. charge that the
purely artificial that it is not traceabe to
any increased cost OF material or labor that this
figure.
Comparison with prices charged in neighboring
cities, where conditions the same should furnish
some basis OF judging between these claims
In Fort wayne the loaf when now sells in this
city for thirteen is sold at varying prices Of ten
eleven and twelve cents. Down in Plymouth the
thirteen cent loaf Is sold at ten. Hammond lays
fifteen, while prices in Laporte and Elkhart do not
differ materially from the NEW price I'm this city
Quite as essential a fair price. and only a fais
price for any necessity life the feeling on the
part OF the community that paying only essen
iial costs. People rebel against any suggestion of
CvercharEe
The best thing that can happen to the baking in
dustry and TO tho community is fair and impartial
inquiry that will at rest any controversy on the
subject
The Chamber OF Commerce. womcn's organiza-
lions and the mayor have fine field for activity in
this direction.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29
LOVE SECRETS

Frequently people only love with love.
when they imagine they love q certain person They
for ideal on whom they can lavish anec-
uoua Very often, they are mistaken in believing
that given person perfectly cts that ideal
When discovery comes the disillusioned ono
sometimes grows moody occasionally insane with
disappointment Then suicide is a danger
In other cases. where mental control is better.
the person merely says. "Weu I made n mistake.
I pinned my ideal on the wrong rarity"
Nothing except from one to three years OF married
lie definitely determine whether the union is
fusion OF two ideal loves.
After the honeymoon. we begin coming down out
Of the clouds. The agate-harl side Of life roughly
elbows through the mis-s OF romance Decisions
and Illusions vanish. Lucky. then is the couple
that Ands IL hasn't made a mistake.
That's why a girls mother always is more or less
worried during the FIRST year OF her daughters
welded ife
Time IS the acid test in love. in all things and
nothing can servo as a substitute.
However. there IS one certain way by which most
Of the danger OF wedding tho wrong person can he
avoided. Tha, way is for both man and woman to
act naturally and without affectauon during court
ship. n tho romance IS cunninrly staged each
trying 60 conceal hts or her "pecularties" or
weaknesses" f-1m tho other the road IS being
paved FOR dsilIusion and disappointment after the
glamour OF the honeymoon.
The person who is always natural is not apt 20
get into situation whore he or she can be accused
OF arriving under false rrrtenses.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29

kindness int) wars. some rosrect for ordinary
uons thar revoted against pure savagery.
Now Britain sends Eve OF these sea monsters with
her battleships as they make their way 70 the
scene OF trouble
They will be used IL necessary. They Will de-
stroy many OF The enemy they can
That change OF attitude Is the result OF necessity
It tells plainly than words what will happen
when tho great next comes great will
come unless sanity and reason supplant the
present attitudes OF every nation in Europe.
The submarine as recognized means OK warfare
viii be the mildeSt weapon used. The pretense OF
civilization will be thrown aside. Airships carrying
tons q dynamite and high explosives, will be
dropped into unarned cities The poison that IS
most deadly win be tho which viii be used
The threat OF war has removed the cloak The
coming of viii revea! new saVagery.
brutality. new ,ack OF mercy in oil It's CHASTITY
hideousness
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29
CUILIZED .4RF4RE?

The news from Europe that a new war IS about
TO break is neither surprising. nor unexpected.
with a continent seethiug with hate ambition.
greed and driven by desperation, clashes ma, be
expected.
The one significant ching about the dispatches
Is given matter Of routine news Read care
fully This description OF The British fleet which is on
SIS wa. tho Mediterranean terrIfy the Turk
giving up claims so rich Oh fields held 10y BRITAIN
Two other dreadraush,s followed the Iron Duke
and then came three laht cruisers. eleven de-
stroyers Five SUBMARINES and number OF
depot ships"
The submarine was once denounced by this coun-
Try and by England an assassin OF the sea"
waeu German brains developed it as a means OF
destruction
You remember the horror you FELT when the Ger
mans sent out these hidden dangers 20 sink rner-
chant vessels 10 strike from beneath the waves at
open foes. XIII quickly and terrify by the ruth
lessregs
The vcrc denounced then, so brief time ago
as beyond ,hc pale and mankind tried to keep up
the rre.ense chat there could be rules civilized
warfare"
These submarines were c.a~zed with the poison
thrown into wells with the dumdurn and other
atrocities which men conjurel from the depths Of
dr.al-h ingenuity DO harrass and devastate.
T.lere had been conferences OF governments so
ssree upon rules that WOULD Try TO Inject some
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29

the St. Andrews cross or the Hon
on yellow?
A Both the 81. Andrews Cross
and the red lion rampant on the
yellow background ara national
flags OF Scotland. The Royal Stan
dard OF Scotland (the lion on yell
low first appeared on the seel Of
King Alexander III about 1880 A. d.
Without modification in color and
form, II was borne by all sovereigns
Of Scotland. and on the succession
Of James VI to the throne Of Eng
land as James l. In the year 1903. II
became as integral part Of the
kings standard. and so remains to-
day. At the same time (the accession
Of james, the national flag Of the
British Empire (the Union Jack. as
il is called) was decreed by the
union of the crosses Of St. George.
the patron saint of England. and 10y
the St Andrew OF Scotland. Thus
Scotland has two flags, one the ma
t.oRa! flag, the other, the royal STAN
dard
.. How many earthquake stations
are there in the world?
4. Recent figures snow that there
are 333 stations in the world with
Instruments for recording earth
quake shocks. Japan has sc such
stations. the United States 50. and
Italy AZ.
Q. What is the established relI-
gion Of Japan and China?
A. Japan has no established reIi-
gion. The most popular religions in
that country are Shitntoism. Budd-
hism, AMI Christianity. Three reli-
glons are acknowledged by the Chi
nese as Indigenous and adopted:
Confucianism. Buddhism. and Tao
ism. Mohammedanism is found IN
every province OF China and there
are a number Of native Christians.
Q. How many Masons are there
in the United States?
A. There are 2.4O1.294 Masons in
the United States and Canada. and
according TO the last available f.
CURES.
Q. What can be done 10 keep
blonde hair light?
\. Wash the hair in plain wash
ing soda, 2 tshlespoonsfuis 10
quart of water Dissolve the soda IN
the water and give the hair thor
ough shampoo with The mixture
once a week f needed. other rene
dies for blonde hair are, half dozen
drops Of ammonia in the shampoo:
also one teaspoonfu, Of peroxide Of
hydrogen in the water Will tighten
without l1juring the hair.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-29
Just Folks
THE CHRISTMAS LETTER

THE CHRISTMAS LETTER
Last night I found upon my bed,
A letter in "a childish hand,
And opening il ], smiling. read;
Dear Dad: / want a snare drum,
and
a pair OF skates. another sled,
A wrist watch with a leather band.
"Td like 10 have an airship. too.
Get one that has a little speed;
A hashlight and a game that's new,
4 set Of books that I can read.
And anything 20 wear which you
And Mother think I really need ="
I chuckled as I read each line
Put down with such a childish
sCrawl
Yet better far than writing fine
Where never blot was known 10 fan
Better than poetry divine
For Joy was lavished through It all
Oh sad. thought I. that man must be
When once again the note I'd read
great his wealth OF luxury.
Who has no little aurly head
To leave. where he shall surely see,
a Christmas letter on his bed.