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Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21
iT TOOK uNpENiAGLE LOVE
TO cAuUSE REJUVENATioN

st Elmo, the Augusta Evans hero
of the popular novel of that name,
will be shown at the Peerless theatre
on next Wednesday and Thursday
nights, according to Mr.. Guild, with
John Gilbert in the title role.
st. Elmo considered his life wreck
ed because of the perfidy of the wo-
man he had loved. His temper, for
merly the neuter trait in his char
acter. became the flaming. ascendant
force. He brooked no argument with
his orders He distrusted every wo-
man. He dispised all his old friends
His life was an inferno of his own
diabolic creation which, in turn, dis
turbed the lives of those around him.
Yet st. Elmo, while laughing at
those who hated him, shrank from the
idea of being pitied. He turned his
eyes away from sincerity and faith
fulness. But all these characteristics
he found in Edna Earle (played by
Bessie Love- the wistful girl from
the country who lived with his moth
er. Unconscious of the power she
welded over him, Edna Earle lived
her life according to the uprighteous
code. And in the end-the story is
worked out with dramatic irtensity.
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21
EcKLEY EDITOR TAKES
OWN LIFE WITH REVOLVER

Monday afternoon the little Swear
old daughter of Editor Albert Whit
ney OF the Eckley Tribune hurried
home from school to take her music
lesson. When she opened the door
to the bedroom she discovered her
father lying across the bed with a
bullet through HIS brain and the gun
lying on the bed beside him.
II seems that Mr.. Whitney has for
several years been town clerk and
treasurer OF the town OF Eckley and
while the auditing committee was go
ing owe rhis books this year they dis
covered a shortage OF about $4,000.
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21

The Julesburg high school basket,
ball team won from the Haxtun high
school Bulldogs" on the Haytun
floor last Friday evening by score
of 26 to 81. The game was one of
the cleanest seen on Haxtun floor for
long time, but it was full of action
from beginning to end. The Jules,
burg five is a good one and they car
ried of, the long end of the score
simply by out-playing the Bulldogs,
They were especially effective in the
basket shooting department and their
forwards often were successful in
caging the ball fro mthe most difIi-
cnlt angles.-Haxtun Harvest.
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21
ApoIoaized for the Fish.

Pollteness has developed among the
orlentals to Il degree of extravaganza
that Is intensely amusing to visitors.
oftIimes TO the people themselves, as
was the case when the popular Prince
kuni NJ japan was fishing al lsitsurin
koen and twice lost big fish from
his line and the governor Of the prov
ine appeared and made profuse apollo
giles for the unfrendly and inconsid-
crate behavior of the iish.-ohio State
journal.
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21
Steel Maunetjsm.

The United States bureau of stand
ards says: "place the steel within
II solcnoid or between the poles of a
direct-current electromagnet and sub
lect 1t to the influence of gradually
decreasing magnetic field which is be-
Ing reversed at comparatively low
frequency, approximately one or two
cycles per second being most satisfac-
tory"
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHeoRS AS
TOLD BY THEIR EDITORS

Frank Tuthill, HaXtun painter and
plasterer, who just recently finished
40-day contract at Fort Morgan as
the result of being found in posses
sion of quantity of moonshine some
six weeks ago. returned to Haxtun
Sunday Harvest.
Phillips County herald., 1924-02-21

Read the Herald-more news and
more ads.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Sealed bids will be received by the
Common Council of the City of Pleasant
vile, New Jersey, at the City Hail. Pleas
antyille, New Jersey, on Monday, October
g. 1924, until the hour of nine o'clock in
the evening, standard time, for the fur-
nishing of all materials and the perform
ance of all work required for the electri-
cal system necessary in the erection and
construction of a public comfort station
in the City of Pleasantville. in accord
ance with the plans and specifications
therefor prepared by Bertram Ireland,
Architect
Each proposal must be accompanied by
certified check made payable to the
order of Nehemiah Andrews, City Clerk
in the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars which check shall be pinned to
the outside of the envelope containing
the proposal An indemnifcation bond
will be required with a reliable Surety
Company, satisfactory to Common Coun-
ell in a sum equal to 100eo of the con-
tract price. Plans and specifications may
be obtained from the Architect, Bertram
Ireland No. GAS Guarantee Trust Build
ing, Atlantic City. New Jersey. and form
of bond and contract may be examined
at the office of the Solicitor, l.. ID. Cham
pion, 511 Guarantee Trust Building, At
antic City, New Jersey.
The Common Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
BY order of Common Council of the
City of Pleasantville. .
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Sealed bids will be received by the
Common Council of the City of Pleasant
viile New Jersey, at the City Hall, Pleas
antville. New Jersey. on Monday. October
g. 1924 until the hour of nine o'clock in
the evening. standard time, for the fur
nishing of all materials and the perform
ance of all work required for the install
lation of the plumbing system necessary
in the erection and construction of q
public comfort station in the City of
Pleasantville in accordance with the
plans and specifications therefor prepared
by Bertram Ireland. Architect.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
a certified check made payable to the
order of Nehemiah Andrews. City Clerk,
in the sum of Three Hundred Dollars,
which check shall be pinned to the out
side of the envelope containing the pro-
posal An indemnification bond will be
required with reliable Surety Company,
satisfactory to Common Council in sum
equal to 1909 of the contract price.
Plans and specifications may be obtained
from the Architect Bertram Ireland, No.
GAS Guarantee Trust Building. Atlantic
CITY. New Jersey, and form of bond and
contract may be examined at the office of
the Solicitor, L. ID. Champion, 511 Guar
antee Trust Building, Atlantic City, New
Jersey.
The Common Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
BY order of Common Council of the
City of Pleasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Sealed bids will be received by the
Common Council of the City of Pleasant
vile, New Jersey, at the City Hall, Pleas
antville New Jersey, on Monday, october
6. 1924 until the hour of nine o'clock in
the evening, standard time, for the fur
nishing of all materials and the perform
ance of all work required for the erection
and completion in the City of Pleasant
vile of a public comfort station in accor-
dance with the plans and specifications
therefor prepared by Bertram Ireland,
Architect.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
certified check made payable to the
order of Nehemiah Andrews, City Clerk,
in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars,
which check shall be pinned to the out
side of the envelope containing the pro-
posal An indemnification bond will be
required with reliable Surety Company,
satisfactory to Common Council in sum
equal to 100 % of the contract price Plans
and specifications may be obtained from
the Architect, Bertram Ireland, NO. 64S
Guarantee Trust Building, Atlantic City.
New Jersey. and form of bond and con-
tract may be examined at the office OF
the Solicitor, L. D. Champion, 511 Guar
antee Trust Building, Atlantic City, New
Jersey.
The Common Council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
BY order of Common Council of the
City of Pleasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

Advertise in The Pleasantville Press
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

Sc per 90 lbs less in 5-bag lots.
l0c per 90 lbs above list for de-
livery. Ton lots delivered as per
list.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

When man has clear conscience
he doesn't mind if people do see
through him.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

Liberty Bonds accepted for deposit
the same as cash at Pleasantvllle
Trust Co. advertisement.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

Some men only tell the truth when
it is more trouble to lie about it.
The Pleasantville press., 1924-10-04

New portrait Of the beautiful crown
Crown Prince Rupprecht, has long
been planning to make the family of
Wittesbach what the family of Ho-
henzollern used to be and to become
he next kaiser He is tifty-tiye; she,
his second wife. twenty-five. They
were married in 1921 and have two
children. Before marriage she was
Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg
aud Nassau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIS SWIFT

On high sandy ridge between Tarrytown and Elmsford, N. Y, from which the Indians watched Henry Hudson's progress up the river, the Torrey Botanical Club and New York Microscopical Society, out for the study of fungi, came upon the frostweed of the rockrose family. The mystical little plant was in blossom rather early. Helimthemum canadense is its classical name, and the blos- soms do suggest flower of the sun, all the more remarkable when it is remembered that it gets it's common name from the fall crys- tals of ice in the cracked bark of the root that shoot out like tiny knifeblades.
 The small oblong lanceolate leaves with white hairs beneath are found alternately on the stem, foot to seventeen inches high Typifying many very excellent people whose heads are dominated by the warm sun but are saved from impulsive actions by their cold feet, it grows in dry soil from Mime sota to Maine and southward.
 Early solitary flowers an inch across, with sunny petals and many stamens, disappear early, followed by small blossoms with few stamens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
PSychodnaLysis
By JOHN CARLYLE

Are you taking interest in this subject of psychoanalysis that we hear so much about these days?
 It is worth reading about and knowing about and thinking about. It is a very prac- tical study and it can be made to, do a great many people a great deal of good.
 Not many of us have taken time to read very much of Freud, a great Austrian physi- elan, and Jung and Beatrice Hinkle, and thus find out about this new science which has within it the possibility of doing so much to help people adjust themselves to the difficult circumstances of their lives.
 For that is what psychoanalysis does. It seeks out the cause of unhappiness and dis content in people and sets them on a new way to a new peace of mind.
 The psychoanalysts have discovered that our reactions to life, our thoughts and habits and general behavior grow out of the cir cumstances of our early days on the earth which did not impress us as important at the time, and which have passed from our conscious memory, for the most part, and yet are very important.
 The secret of the thing is that an expert ence which has passed from memory is not gone. It is not wiped out. It remains alive in the unconscious part of our mind
 And that unconscious part of our mind is the more important part It retains every thing-and every thought and every act is written down there.
 Our feelings and our habits, our fears and our strange impulses grow out of those for gotten but yet ever-present things
 The psychoanalyst uncovers the experiences that are recorded in the unconscious mind He accounts for things that we never could account for.
 He explains us to ourselves. ss It can be uncovered.
 You are unhappy under circumstances that make another person happy. There is a req son for that, too. The psychoanalyst un- covers the reason
 And the curative value of this science lies in the interesting fact that when the uncon. scious mind is si}exposed and we come to under stand the basis for our hitherto inexplicable reactions, Vi Eataa1h of our fears. l We begi to adjust ourselves tc l life. Wi ind a new contentmeni and ne
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
Look For The Good
By H. ADDINGToN BRUCE

For many, many years the story has been told of an old lady who so insistently found pleasant things to say to other people as to irritate a less charitable niece In a mo. ment of exasperation. the niece one day ex. claimed:
 "Auntie, do believe you would see noth. ing to praise in Satan himself"
 To which came the old lady's response with twinkling eyes: Well, my dear, am sure you will at least have to acknowledge that he is very in. dustrious."
 Of the multitudes who have smiled at this ancient tale, how many, wonder, have ap. preciated that, after all, the philosophy un. deriving the nunts insistent seeking for the good is an exceedingly wise and helpful philosophy.
 It does not mean-certainly it should never mean-a wilful blinding of oneself to the bad--to the false, the ignoble, the painful and the unpleasant.
 But it does mean recognition of the fact that always it is possible to find some re- qeeming feature, and that to dwell on this rather than on the disagreeable is both kinder to others and makes for ones greater peace of mind.
 Making for one's peace of mind it likewise
 
 of the repeated glow of cheerfulness that il brings with it, there is a repeated quickenine of all the bodily processes. This we know for certainty, thanks to modern scientific researches into the effects of various mental states on the physical organism. And, for that matter, everyday observation leaves no doubt that your kindly seeker for the good tends to outlive by far cynical pro- chalmers of the faults in people. The latter never can know abounding health, if merely by reason of their pessimistic harping ona the unpleasant.
 Nor is 1t only the good in persons that should be sought. Equally desirable is it to look for the good in things. Pascars affirma- tion as as true todayas the day he penned it
 Al things can be looked at from some particular viewpoint so that they will seem to us good. We should know how to regard them so that they will seem to be to our advantage"
 r There are bound to come occasions and situations in which the maxim, Hook for the good," may seem to have the hollow ring of mockery. Yet these are precisely the mo- ments when the effort should most earnestly be made to act in accordance with it.
 The making of such effort may result and for many people has resulted-in giving power to endure the seemingly uncomfortable, to escape the seemingly unacceptable, to achieve the seemingly impossible. Whereas mournfully to envisage the unpleasant occa- sion or situation means inevitably a lessen ing instead of an augmenting of power.
 In more senses than one, Mliton's saying holds true, Good the more communicated more abundant grows"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

My adult male cousin came in to see me this morning. He said that he wanted to break the news to me. He proposes to get married.
 "Now," said he, bitterly, Ego up in the air. Every one else has,"
 Always happy to oblige," said the pride of the Pilgrims, "but why should go up in the air? Go get married, son. Become bigamist if you want to. It's your funeral Not mine.
 Whereupon the young male cousin, being Somewhat softened in temper, told me the story. He owns two parents and a sister. Not long ago the sister eloped The young man in the case was a highly desirable party to every one but her parents. They did not want her to get married because-when all their talk was boiled down-it was more comfortable for them to have her at home.
 "She was half housekeeper and half slavey,' said my male cousin, angrily. "She never went out that she did not have to tell why where and who. She hardly had penny to spend and that penny was extOrted by force almost, from my old man. Yet they talked of her selfishness in leaving them.
 Children they said, are not what they were in our days. This younger generation is undutiful. They do not honor their fath. CTS and their mothers'
 Father and mother objected to my male cousins marriage because-of course, they did not put it quite so bluntly-he had be. come an asset. His monthly contribution to the exchecquer was a very welcome one. Not that it was precisely necessary, but it en. abled father to ease off little more each year and still have luxuries. It is precisely that attitude of mind that keeps some-not all--of the weazened children at work in fac. tories.
 "You know" said my male cousin, "my old man talks about the selfishness of chil. dren toward their parents I tell you it isn't patch on the selfishness of parents to chil. dren."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
RURAL ADULT SCHOOLS

Young men and young women of Ala bama who have unlimited educational opportunities to fit themselves for life may get additional inspiration from the rural adult schools that will begin in Alabama next month for a few weeks work. These are not numerous. Their resources are narrowly restricted. In many cases they depend on the gene rosity of local organizations or indi- viduals who contribute to their main- tenance for the pleasure in seeing men and women benefit by these belated op- portunities. Some of them are elderly people who realize what they have missed and who want to round out their remaining years in the joy of reading from the printed page.
 Commenting on the adult rural schools the Anniston Star says: Already aged people in rural districts, especially in remote sections where adult rural schools have been held in the past, are looking forward to the opening again of the adult schools, and planning again to take advantage of the opportunity the schools offer to gain in limited way the knowl- edge that was denied them in their youth"
 Perhaps no other educational work done in Alabama is so genuinely appre- ciated as that of the these adult schools In rural districts where the rudiments of education mean so much to the ben eficiaries. It is an inspiration to note the pleasure men and women derive from these schools. They ale thirsty for the Ettle advantages offered. Some of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
The Great Master
By pR. FRANR CnANE

The great masters are they who help you to find yourself. The others simply find you Perhaps you have wondered why the al- legged classics have such authority. Why should one study Michaelangelo, or Bach, or Homer, or the Elgin Marbles? Why not strike out in new path for ones self? Why be a slave to the past? Simply be- cause contact with the really great works of human genius does stimulate independent effort, while association with second-class talent only produces cheap imitation.
 This goes back to the gist of teaching. The real teacher is the one who puts into you the desire to know and to do.
 Anything is great in proportion to the amount of greatness it kindIes in you.
 A great book is not one that rouses your admiration, but one that rouses your inven- tion.
 A great man is not one who calls forth your praise, but one who opens new foun- tains of energy and feeling within your soul. The really great never enslave us, they liberate us
 They never oppress; they inspire
 It was this consciousness of real mastery that led Jesus to say that if He should make you free you would 'be free indeed"
 Don't fool yourself into fancying that the "great masters" are fakers It was not by any sort of electioneering, jockeying nor
 
 were elected to their present positions as thought rulers.
 Beethoven, Mendelssohn anI Wagner rose as the stars rise. No pushing helped them. No hampering hindered them.
 All the leagued malice of the entire body of earthly critics could not dethrone the Ve- nus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Sam othrace.
 When you come to the genuinely great men and things that time and the world bow down to you are in the presence of actual cosmic forces.
 So be still, listen, wonder and you shall learn you shall find out what is in you. Mir. Bernard Shaw isr not going to upset Shakespeare, any sooner than Chinese gun boat will upset Gibraltar.
 You must believe in the great masters, study them, learn to love them for the req. son that it is they who are to you the lib- orators of the soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
MAGNUs GOES BACK IN

The nomination of Magnus Johnson, Minnesota's dirt farmer, on the farmer labor ticket to succeed himself in the United States senate, was not surprising. Neither was his defeat of two opponents by a large plurality. MT. Johnson has quite a following in that state, though upon just what basis is uncertain. When he was sent to the senate before, he promised all kinds of reforms and ben efits for the farmers of his section, none of which he made any headway to- wards obtaining. Senator Johnson went to Washington with an apparent deter imitation to turn things upside down. He possesses a penetrating voice and a bit of dramatic force of its kind. But he was not taken seriously at the cap ital, and soon there were reports of his entering milking contests, man-handling reporters, denouncing the existing order of things, and so conducting himself as to receive more than his share of per sonal, but not constructive, publicity.
 This attracted attention out Minne- sota way, and convinced some of the statesman's staunch supporters that all he needed was a reasonable time to make his influence felt at law-making head quarters. Hence their continued en- dorsement of him as a source of future relief. It does not seem to have oc- cured to many of Johnson's farmer friends that much of the trouble for which they seek relief is the result of their failure to adopt and pursue more business-like methods in the making and marketing of their crops. Perhaps, however, they are taking a wise course in returning Johnson, who has proved his harmlessness by his failure to secure the mischievous legislation he promised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
BIRMINGHAM AS FOOD MART

Some idea of the opportunities for marketing at profitable prices in the Bir- mingham district immense quantities of vegetables, dairy products, poultry and eggs produced in neighboring territory may be obtained from several recent re- ports published in The Age-Herald. For instance, citizen of Roanoke, Alabama, gathered sixty-five and half bushels of Irish potatoes from a quarter of an acre of common sandy land, using two hundred pounds of guano and fifty pounds of nitrate of soda. Even at the low prices of the product prevailing at this season, the yield brought him one hundred dollars, or at the rate of four hundred dollars per acre.
 Alabama consumes seven million dozen eggs more than are produced in this state annually. Of this immense total the Birmingham district is con- sun1ing approximately three million dozen eggs shipped from Missouri, Mis- sissippi, Tennessee and other distant points at much larger transportation costs than if these eggs were produced in nearby territory. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of butter annually are brought from a distance which could be produced within few miles of Bir- mingham at lower cost to the consumer and with larger profits to the producers because of smaller production costs and economy in transportation rates. Im- Smense quantities of milk and cream con- sumed in this district come from afar under similar conditions. Millions of dollars are spent in the district for veg etables and fruits, brought hundreds of miles at high transportation costs, which could be produced in territory an hour or two by truck from the point of con- sumption. The trucking, dairy and poul- try industries in Jefferson and adjacent counties could be greatly extended more nearly to supply the demands of this dis trict with saving to the consumer and profits to producers, while keeping in Alabama millions of dollars year which are leaving the state never to return. :
 With these inviting opportunities dem onstrated year after year by reliable facts atd figures, the wonder is why there f-e not greater efforts to expand the field of food production within this immediate territory. The opportunities are here in abundance. Necessary work ing capital would not be large. Soil and climatic conditions are highly favorable, and the demand is large and constantly increasing.