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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
RED AND PINK LEAD
TO MONKEY SHINES
Miss Hess Declares that Blue and
Dark Green Should be the COlOrS
in SchOOlrOOms.

chicago, May 11-Blue, dark blue
ana dark green are the colors in with
al schoolrooms should be painted or
United This is the expert opinion OF
Marie J. Hesse to the congress of Illi-
Hols Mothers and the Chicago School
Board. Reds, pinks and blended light
UNITS develop monkey shines" in the
children.
There is no question about the NOR
al effect of colors," declared Miss
HeSse, who is Chairman of the School
Improvement Committee of the con
sress. The colors that are put on the
walls of the Chicago schools, as well
as others in the state, might please a
PlJi Islander, but they have no place
IN the educational plans of civiIiz'
auon, Horrible mixtures Of pink
green and red, with variations, are
seen, and they demoralize the children
and prevent successful discipline.
Dark blue and dark green tend tt
Soothe them. The other colors | have
named excite and irritate them"
Miss Hesse is against STACEY pic
lures in schoolrooms. "The picture o
Washington Crossing the Delawar'
mas stacy effect" she said. "He wa
ever in any such position as tha
nut was undoubtedly helping the 9th
er men fight the ice in the rive
pont put STACEY pictures on school
room walls"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
100000 ACRE
FARM WANTED
BY n. Y. firm
WOULD FARM EXTENSIVELY
Tract Will Likely Be Secured
For Them

Forty thousand acres Sumter county
land in body, or any portion thereof
down to $4,000 acres minimum, is the
demand made upon an Americus real
estate firm by a New York syndicate
which proposes to go to farming down
here in south Georgia if enabled to
secure a body of land sufficiently
large upon which to exploit their
talents.
These prospective buyers are farm
ers, not land spectators, and they
propose to do some stunts in the way
of raising cotton, according to state
ments made in their correspondence
Forty thousand acres land in one body
is rather large proposition, even in
Sumter county, where the largest in
dividual farm contains only 10000
acres, but the local agency feels equal
to the demand made upon it and has
notified the New Workers that a snug
little farm of probably 10000 acres
can be secured for them.
The local dealers will solve the
problem by taking options upon half
dozen plantations, located in one COM
pact body, and aggregating $4,000 to
10000 acres. If this land pleases the
prospective cotton raisers of Gotham
they will have the opportunity of buy
ing it and showing the farmers here
what they know, theoretically, about
negroes, mules and cotton. Despite
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
QUITS CHURCH
TO JOIN THE NAVY
Small Opportunity Led Rev. Grice to
Seek Other Fields.

Boston, May 11.-Desiring to try life
in the navy and its opportunities for
travel as a change from pastoral du-
ties in a rural parish, man who said
he was Rev Luther B. Grice, minis
ter of the Free Baptist church at
Shady Rill, Middlesex, VT, applied
for enlistment as an ordinary seaman
at the naval station on Hanover street
here. The applicant is twenty-ona
years old.
Members of the Shady Rill church
have asked Montpelier, VT, papers to
aid them in seeking trace of their
pastor, who disappeared on Sunday
before the time of the usual morning
service.
To the recruiting officer the appli-
cant said that his salary at the YER
mont church was small, and that he
believed life in the navy offered more
advantages than that of the ministry,
particularly in the opportunity to stu
dy language and to view foreign
countries.
When physical examination devel-
oped no objection to the ministerial
candidate he was told to report Thurs
day to take the enlistment oath.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
SOMEBODY BEING FOOLED
ABOUT THIS INDIANA BABY

Jeffersonville, Ind, May 1O.-Appll-
cation made in court here yesterday
for the adoption of a 2-year-old child
developed an unusual situation ia
which woman claims the infant as
her own, while her husband declares
1t is not, and that she is the victim of
an hallucination. The applicants for
the infant are the parents of the wo-
man, Mrs. George Mcintyre.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
AT SIXTY-THREE WEDS
OWN DAUGHTER-IN.LAW

Toledo. o., May 11.-John c. Baird,
sixty three, of GAINESVILLE, a telegraph
operator, married today the widow of
his own son, Mrs. Mary H. Baird
thirty-six. The laws of Ohio do not
prohibit such a union.
"We shall be happy" says Baird
and in these words justifies his viola
ton of Biblical laws.
Both of them shall surely be put
to death. They have wrought confus.
ion, their blood shall be upon them,
says the Bible.
! John c. Bair says: I'VE can see No
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
com. DAVENPORT PLEASED
WITH THE MACON REUNION
Camp Sumter Had Banner Attendance Commander Dav
export FaVOFs Gettysburg Reunion

OF the many Americus people who
attended the recent U. c. V. reunion
in Macon not one is more enthusias-
tic over the complete success of that
occasion than is Commander H. T
Davenport, of Camp Sumter 642, which
had larger membership present
than did any camp in attendance,
though all did not enter the great pa
rade.
Commander Davenport has never
missed a reunion, nor will he ever
miss one, he says, so long as health
and strength will permit him to at
tend these annual gatherings.
For several years Commander Dav-
export was brigade commander for the
Western division of Georgia U. C. v.
and from Richmond to Dallas, Tex,
he has gone every year to the vete:-
ans reunion. The Macon meeting was
one of the very best, he declares, de-
spite the fact that the attendance was
less than on some other occasions.
Regarding the proposed reunion of
veterans of the gray and the blue at
Gettysburg, Commander Davenport
spoke as follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
FurIow Lawn Baptist .burch.

Rev R. L. Bivins, pastor Morning
sermon at IL o'clock; evening sermon
at o'clock; Sunday school at $3.50
o'clock, R. L. Maynard, superinteni-
ent Prayer meeting on "Wednesday
evening at o'clock
Morning service conducted by the
pastor; evening service by DR.. K. V.
Millard, of New York
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
First Baptist Church.

Rev. Lansing Burrows, pastor. Nor
ming sermon at IL o'clock; evening
sermon at 8 o'clock. Sunday school
at 99O o'clock, T. F. Gatewood, super-
intendent Prayer meeting on Thurs"
day evening at o'clock
No services at this church today
on account of the pastors absence
from the city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
.ELLAVILLE SCHOOL TO
PILNIC At PROSPECT
Will Come 10 AmGFiCuS Next
Thursday

The members of the Methodist Sun
day school at Ellaville. with large
number of friends, will come to Pros
pect Park next Thursday for the
schools annual picnic and will be
ioined there by Americus friends, who
will accord the visitors a welcome
The school first named Friday last as
the date for the picnic, but later de-
ferred it until this week instead.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12

at the exercises.
The program of exercises for the
day is as follows:
9 o'clock, a. m.-Opening of State
Camp.
Address of Welcome-Mayor ]. Il
Mathis.
National President F. A
Pope.
Annual Address of State President
Hon. ]. E. Sheppard
1O;3O a. m.-Form parade at K. P.
hall and march to Furlow school. Ia
rade headed by A. L. l. and Agricui-
tural College Cadets.
II a. m.-Invocation Rev R L Biv-
ins
Authorizations President F 4.
Pope
12 Noon-Raising of U. S. flag.
Ode, 'My Country 'Tis of Thee
School Children and P o. S. of A.
Firing Salute-A. L. I. and Agri-
cultural Cadets.
2 p. m.-Reconvening of State Camp
for transaction of business.
8 p. m.-Banquet to visitors ami
members P. o. S. of A. at A. L. ].
Armory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
First Methodist Church.

Rev. O. B. Chester, pastor Morn
ing sermon at II o'clock; evening SER
men at o'clock. Sunday school AZ
$50 o'clock, T. M. Furlow, superin-
tendent Prayer meeting on Wedncs-
day evening at s o'clock
BY snecial request the music given
last Easter will be reproduced at this
church today. DR.. J. A. Smith, of
Macon will preach at the morning
service, and Rev. R. E. Bailey, of
Ellaville, at the evening service.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
SPECIAL
MUSIC WAS
POSTPONED

On account of illness that prevented
the reproduction of the special Easter
music at the First Methodist church
TODAY. as had been announced, 1t has
been indefinitely postponed. 1t will
be- given later, however, as numerous
requests have been made for its re-
petition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Catholic Church.

Low Mass first and third Sundays
in each month at 10 o'clock, a. m,
celebrated by Rev. Father Schonhardt.
of Albany. Low mass each Monday
morning at Z o'clock, following the
Sundays upon which services are held
in this edifice.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
Y. M. c. A.

Mr.. Murray Dunn, Secretary. Sun.
day afternoon services regularly at
$3.50 o'clock.
DR.. w. E. Staley will speak at the
regular afternoon service today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
Calvary Episcopal Church.

Rev. James B. Lawrence, rector
Sunday school at GAS o'clock.
Holy Communion, 1880 a. M; morn
ing praper, ltany and sermon, IL a.
M; evening prayer, 500 p. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
Presbyterian Church.

Rev. ]. w. Stokes, pastor. Morning
sermon at II o'clock; evening sermon
at 8 o'clock. Sunday school at $3.50
o'clock. L. P. Gartner, superintend-
ent. Prayer meeting on Thursday
evening at o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12
Christian Science Church.

Morning services today at IL
o'clock; evening services ON Wednes-
dag only.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12

the threatened invasion of South
Georgia by the boil weevil a year or
two hence Americus realty dealers
have orders daily for cotton lands in
Sumter county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-12

harm in 1t. / always liked my sons
wife, and since his death and the de-
mise of my first wife the affection has
ripened into love-"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
ABS|NTH IS
PROHIBITED

(Food-inspection decision AZ by
United States Board Of Food and Drug
1nSpectiOn.)
1t is generally recognized in coUn.
tries which have had experience with
the sale and consumption of absinth
that this beverage is dangerous to
health. Belgium, Switzerland, and Hol-
land have forbidden it's manufacture
sale, and Importation; absinth is also
condemned by the laws of Brazil and
its importation forbidden.
The food and drugs act Of June 30,
1906. section IL, fOrbids the impOrta-
ton of any food or drug which is "Of
kind forbidden entry into, or for
hidden to be sold or restricted In sale
in the country in which it is made, or
from which it is exported and also
o. any food or drug which is "other-
wise dangerous to the health of the
people of the United States"
Importations of absinth into the
United States, therefore, are prohibit
eG, 10th because they come from coun-
tries which forbid or restrict its manu-
facture and sale. and because these
products are injurious to the health
OF the people of the United States.
Section 7, paragraph 5, in the case
of foods, of the food and drugs act,
June SO, 1905, provides further that
an article shall be deemed to be adul-
te,ated within the meaning of the act
"if it contains any added poisonous or
other added deleteriou3 ingredi '1t
furious to health" The beverage COM
monty known as absinth is a manu-
featured product containing worm
wood, or absinth (Artemisia agsinE-
ium), an added deleterious Ingredient
The interstate shipment Of this pro-
duct is, therefore, prohibited under
this provision of the food and drugs
act,
The Secretary of Agriculture. there
fore, will regard as adulterated under
the food and drugs act absinth which,
on and after October l, 1912. is manu-
featured or offered for sale in the Dis
trict Of Columbia or the Territories. or
shipped in interstate commerce or of
fered for importation into the United
States.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

the Islands. Tn" story Of the ship
wreck which has never been publish
I'd IL especially interesting, because
The nam" Of prominent Chinese in
the person Of Ho FOn Of Bishop & CO..
is 'invOlved.
- came TO the islands over thirty
five years ago with my nephew, no
FOn. who was then a little bit Of a
chap" SAID HO Wah Chan "This
was the dav Of the sailing vessels
and schOOners. Our Inflated ship ran
up against certain big rocks off the
MOlOkai shores and was soon smash
ed. The water there was not very
deep, but We managed TO do the hest
We could until We were rescued welye
hours later by some H2WaiIans in a
little boat. Previous to our rescuing.
and my brother had our hands full
in taking cars of our little nephew.
For over forty hours we had nothing
TO drink or eat, except some brown
sugar. We surely leaped with JOY
when we finally reached Honolulu"
Ho FOn, verified the story and add
ed, Il owe my life to my two uncles
who were very kind to me. | can
remember how they took relays in
carrying me on their backs, similar to
what my mother and grandma used
to do"
Ho Wah will soon retro. He has
toiled diligently for years. He intends
to make a trip to his early bOyhood
home in China.
Il am glad that | have lived to see
China transformed into republic"
he said. This is TIE age for the
young generations to do things.
shall not return to the islands. What
is the use? My brothers, sisters, and
relatives cannot come on account of
the unjust exclusion law. I do not
care to be subjected to the unusual
amount of red tape should I return to
the islands. | hope to be able to live
to the day when no harsh restrictions
vii! be imposed by any notion to re-
tard the movement of the desirable
classes"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
|RW|NSOLD
PLACE SOLD
Three Separate Purchases at
Rate of SIPS a Front
Foot

In three. s"purat" sales the Old
homestead Of William &. Irwin az ku
piOIani Park. which he occupied be-
fore his great mansion nearby was
built has passed into the hands OF
new owners The price Of the land
was at the rate Of $l2l front foot on
the beach. the aggregate amount real
ICED being about $4,000.
Through the agency Of Percy NJ.
Pond two subdivisions of the property
were purchased. Rev. and Mrs. W. -.
Westervelt bought the portion next TO
George p. Castles place, having $50
feet of frontage and containing the
dwelling house, for $22,00". Miss
Cross bought the adjoining or middle
lot. with 100 feet of frontage for
about 5000.
The third portion, adjoining the
premises of General Davis, was
bought by Mrs. David Center through
the Henry Warehouse Trust Co.. Ltd
1t has a frontage of 1870 feet and the
price was around $4,000.
These sales indicate an advance in
Waikiki beach property.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

Idaho consists of number of hope
full but lonesome communities D0uhd
together by a state election. 1t is one
of the largest states in area. but is so
sparsely settled by railroad depotS
that when a statesman in northern
-county wishes to visit his COnSutu-
ents in the southern part of the state
he has to change cars four times and
borrow a right of way through two
neighboring states to get there.
Thanks to the telegraph and the mag
azines, however, all Idahens speak the
same dialect, eat the same kinds OF
breakfast food, and get mad at the
same varieties of oppression by Wall
street
Idaho has $4,000 square, but by no
means flat miles, and has 320 900 peO-
pie, or one for each quarter section.
However, over ten thousand of these
people are crowded together in
Boise, the capital and metropolis, and
other thousands have massed together
in Pocatello, Lewiston, Cour dAlene
and other BIB towns with howitZer
voices. mus great mdny Squire
miles in Idaho are deprived of their
rightful four inhabitants and it is pos
sible to wander for hundreds of miles
in the central part ofethe state with
out meeting a candidate with a petit
ton or a man who wants to borrow a
match.
Idaho is the last stopping place on
transcontinental trains before the re-
call is reached. It is 400 miles long
and two miles high in spots and most
of it is only rained on biennially. In
its virgin state it is so dry that even
the telegraph poles have to be water
ed to keep them from willing. How
ever, irrigation is being applied in the
valleys with much success and Idaho
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 20.-They call
her the Joan of Arc of West Ham
mond."
II sounds like joke, but it wasn't
anything like that when she started to
clean out the grafters.
No, no. 1t was no joke.
Miss Virginia Brooks, a Chicago
girl, who has dedicated her life to
the uplifting of the Polish women-a
little twenty-three-year-old girl-a girl
with no previous training in politics,
is this Joan OF Arc"
Her father, on his death, left her
$4,000 worth Of property in this Hi
pois town. She received letter from
the assessor of West Hammond, as
sessing her $1,000 for some vacant
lots, and she scented graft. She had
received Information that all was not
what it should be there. This helped
to confirm her suspicious, 1t also
gave ner resolution.
once Gay Society Girl.
Mind you, Virginia Brooks was at
that time, a year and a half ago, a
society girl-parties. music, interpreted
tive dances and all, that sort of thing.
She turned her lack on all friVolity
and became a reforrner. She and her
mother closed up their house in Chi
cago and moved to a cottage in Ham
mond--a town with a voting popula
ton of $50, with 55 saloons and un-
speakable vice.
The town was largely Polish. She
set to work to learn the language. FL
nally, having mastered the tongue, she
called a meeting of the people-the
graft-ridden people who, almost en-
tirely, occupied mortgage covered
homes. The Poles are an emotional,
impulsiVe people. She stirred them in
their own language. In the ensuing
election, Miss Brooks won.
The surprised politicians, bestirred
TO action, tried to reverse the vote,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

Henry Clews of New York. in LIS
special letter Of August Il, has the
following stimulating observations on
the prodigious crops promised this
season:
Nine Times The National Debt.
This is pre-emiently a crop market.
The West cannot be expected to quiet
~ sit down and ignore the value Of
$4,000, 100000 of new wealth producad
from the soil in a single year; sum
equal to nine times the national debt.
To the great agricultural sections of
the Northwest this will prove an ire
siStible stimulus. Merchants and bank
ers and manufacturers alike are pre-
pared for a good business season. Our
railroad managers anticipate heavy
traffic and are distributing their equip
ment accordingly. A month hence
we may expect to hear loud COM
plants of car shortage. Some time
ago the railroads placed liberal orders
for cars and locomotives. and a crush
of freight seems inevitable when the
crop movement Eastward reaches its
height in September and October. Two
or three months hence the Western
lines are sure to report satisfactory
gains in earnings. The railroads, how
ever, will not benefit merely from the
large crops. they will benefit incident
ally quite as much by what the crops
are turned into (meat, etc., by the
general stimulus to manufacturing in
dustries and by the vast quantities of
manufactured products sent back from
the East in return for the golden har-
vest and raw products of the West. No
serious injury can now happen to
corn, for only the northern section Of
the crop is in danger of early frosts.
Cotton is more exposed to this risk
than any other crop. and the next two
Or three weeks may prove critical
period. But at present there Is no
cause for anxiety and the outlook is
for a very large yield-14, 100000 bales
or over"
Mr. Clews gives reasons in detail
for saying that the industrial outlook
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
Hi WAH Chan, R|CEPLANTER,
Celebrates 6lST BIRTHDAY
Gives Great Feast at His Home in Wapio TO 20 CanSmen
and Friends: Tells of His Arrival in Islands Thrty-s
Years Ago, When Things Were Different

Waipio was the scene Of q big Crle-
bratiOn Sunday, for it was the sixty
first anniversary Of the birth Of a
well-knOwn Chinese rice planter, HO
Wah Chan, who for thirtysiX years
has made his home in the Islands. Ac-
cording TO an old-fashiOned tradition
which is common among the Chinese
OF all classes, the first year in every
new decade of the birth is always
more fittingly observed by M person
who has attained the age Of fifty-One,
siXty-ope or seVenty-One. Therefore,
Sundays occasion was a memorable
one, which may not be duplicated until
the venerable gentleman reaches his
seventy-first or his eighty-first ami
versary.
Ito Wah Chan invited over one hun
dred> and twenty guests to partake Of
his hospitality. Many of these were
his clansmen from the HO family.
They began to leave the city as early
as last Saturday afternoon in order
TO be present at the birthday feast.
All the relatives and close friends
within a radius of fifteen miles man.
aged to get to the little farmhouse at
Wafplo to offer their congratulations
"Koon hee chong took chong =
seu!" was the greeting, which, inter
preted, means Long years Of happi-
ness
The guests were not disappointed,
for they were treated to rare twelve
course dinner with birds'-nest soup,
sharks fins, stewed ducks, chicken
outlets, fish balls, golden pork, fancy
Holsters and other palatial dishes and
delicacies. There was no band to ser
enade the host, but the afternoon was
enliVened by the discharge of fifteen
thousand firecrackers.
The host appeared robust and was
in good humor throughout the day.
He could not speak English, but his
son, Sinf How, is an intelligent yQ1ng
man, eighteen years old, and educated
In the public schools. 1t was treat
TO hear the elder HO relate of the
good old days when he first came to