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The record., 1912-03-14

ITALY was the first country which
had occasion TO use aeroplanes in
actual war in Tripoli, and the result
was interesting The aerial feet
rs ooly forty aeropldnes and pilots
r. eA,, buI there will soon b,
many more added, and owing to d
& BOD organiZI'ioa the gu stiun OF
army aeropianes is 10 be rapid }
developed. At present there are
three military grounds in Italy, one
on The Ticino River, one at Avdnio,
and a third at Pordenone Three
oeIs are sooa TO be Installed. As
,sgards sirships, 1t may be men
,ioned that two small airships of
5000 cubic yards were used at
Tnpolia. Italy now has three air
ships of this size, and is soon to
have three others of IS. coo cubic
yards. While the airstips are built
at the military shops the aeroplanes
have TO be ordered from France, but
il is hoped TO build them at home
in the near future.
The record., 1912-03-14

A GEORGIA dispatch says that a
great deal of cotton is abandoned
in the helds because plckers are so
hard to get and the ground is so wet
that 1t is almost impossible to
travel over the cotton fields. In
view of the enormous amount Of
last seasons cotton which has been
ginned, if any considerable amount
still remains unpicked the crop must
have been very much in excess OF
the estimates of the Department of
Agriculture. As to the labor supply,
the agricultural districts of the
South may find il TO their advantage
10 guarantee complete personal pro-
lection TO The negroes whose pro-
oession toward the big towns has
been stimulated by lanchyings and
race wars.
The record., 1912-03-14

THE total of canal excavation to
February Ist was 100, 59I,ISo cubic
yards. leaving S4.732,I99 cubic
yards to be completed. This shows
that about one fifth of the entire
work of excavation yet remains to
be done. On the same date rs per
cent of the concrete work on the
locks was in place, Ga;un locks
being 90 per cent completed, the
Pedro Miguel lock over 90 per cent,
and the twin locks at Mirailores
over 4S per cent completed.
The record., 1912-03-14

ful ancestors has ended his days a
piiiable invIlid; many another, born
TO physical poverty, has by wise
thrift bui!t up little capital OF
health and vigor that has carried
him to a comfortable old age.
The whole question is, uWhat do
you want, and what will you give
for it?' An inveterale smoker,
perishing mIserably with cancer of
the throat, said boldly that he would
risk II again rather than so without
his tobacco; woman whose dietary
erIors brought her terrifying and
agoniLing attacks OF acute Indiges-
ton averred that she would rather
die than diet. AT least, such per-
sons know what they want al d
intend 10 have II.
Unfortunately, they never stop to
consider the effect OF their folly and
self-Indulgence on others. We are
ali 50 bound together tor good or
al that the man who MS no ones
enemy but his own" is yet to be
discovered. 10 live within our
income, physically, Is a duty we
owe not only 10 ourselves but to
each other. a man may squander
his little capital of health gaily in
midnight dissipation, but then he
is bankrupt, with not SO much as a
kind word or smile for his family.
Stevenson said that one way of duty
and happiness was uto earn a little,
and spend little leSs"-and 1t is a
good rule in whatever terms it Is
interpreted
The record., 1912-03-14

TRULY, tic Atlantic Ocean Is
becoming pond, as some globe
trotiers are pleased TO call II. The
sailing lime Of the Lusi,ania and the
Mauretania from New York has now
been fixed at I A. NJ, so that pass
engers may enjoy Tuesday night
at the theatre or opera before going
aboard, and Will reach London on
the following Monday in lime for
luncheon. This is looked upon AS a
great saving IN time at both ends.
Travellers now so aboard In
evening clothes, find a buffet lunch
ready for them, and when they wake
up are far out at sea. Big ocean
stea mships are now almost as reg
ular IN their ssiIings and arrivals as
railroad trains.
The record., 1912-03-14
Hear the Victrola at Roark's.
No. 1856.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,

at Grecnville. in the State of Kentucky,
at the close of business Feb. 20, 1912.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts S2a6. $50, ~
Over,lrafts. secured and uns. l.g64. II
u. ). Bonds to secure circ'tn 10000. 90
US. Bonds to secure Postal
savings 1000
Premiums on L. ). Bonds $1,000
Bonds. securities. etc. 10,a2417
Banking house, fur. and fixt. IL 900. 90
Due from State and Private
Banks * Bankers, Trust
Co. s and Savings Banks ?.07995
Due from approved res. agts. 10990.11
Checks and other cash items 65o.6I
Notes of other National Banks $500. 90
Fractional paper currency,
--- nickels- and cents leila
Lawful Money Reserve in Fank, viz:
Specie 100000
Legal-tcnder notes 2,525.OO 2l,6a1. 90
Redemption fund with u. :.
Treasurer q per cent. cir
culati on, l,500. 90
TOTAL. Sii7, ,5s2. 50
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in 10000 90
surplus fund ?0,0Jo. 20
Cndivilei profits, less expenses
aud taxes paid ESP. SO
NATL Bank nuies outstandg 10000. 90
Due to other National Banks
Due 20 State aud Private
Banks and Bankers i,l03.s3
Due to approved res. ag.s.
Dividends unpaid =! 90
Ind'l deposits sub. to check 2a5. .559. OF
Time certificates of deposit l32, ,214. 20
Certified Checks 1000 90
Cashiers checks outstanding 2.06l. 90
Total Si47, ,5S2.59
state Of Kentucky. County of Muhienberg, IS:
i, Juo. I. Reynolds, Jr., cashier Of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true TO the best of my knowledr e
and belief. JNo. T. REYNOLDS, JR., Cashier.
W. 4. WIcKLFFE,
c. T.. MARTIN. Directors.
L. j. PURIEAR,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ssth
day of Feb, 1912. .
J. 7. CHATHAM, Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. IA, 1911.
The record., 1912-03-14
FOR HEN HOUSES
Excellent Plan to Treat Building Once
Every Year-oovernmsnt For
muia is Given.

Each year many prefer to white
wash their poultry houses both inside
and out This 10 q good plan; 1t ef.
fectually destroys mites and purifes
the premises. The following is a for
mula used by the government on light
houses, etc. Stake one peck Of quick.
lime with boiling water. covering
closely as soon as the water Is sup
piled. When It 10 slaked strain and
add one gallon OF salt dissolved in
hot water. two pounds of powdered
rice previously boiled to a thin paste.
q quarter Of pound of Spanish whit
Ing, half pound Of clean glue dis
solved In warm water. Thoroughly
mix these Ingredients, cover. and let
the mixture set for q few days to
ripen. 1t may be applied with a white
wash brush or made thin enough to
be sprayed on with a spray pump. In
the latter case give two or even three
coats. one after another, as soon as
dry. Every nest. coop, fence. and
wood trough should receive the spray
On all sides. No lice. mites or vermin
can live where this whitewash has
been well applied. 1t should be put
on while warm. This will last as long
as paint. they say.
The record., 1912-03-14
50 GNTS PR VAR. IN kDYkk0.
TER NiS

rae subscription price OF the paper T. raya-
bic m advance, aud when the time has expired
to whica it IS paid, the paper will I've storped.
Cards uf thanks. obituary notices, etc, II not
longer than ten lines. will be publ shed free. A
charge OF Sc per line will 5c rlade for succce d.
ing lines. No variation of this rule to anyone.
Free sample copies will be mailed.
Advertisements will be inserted. A rate card
viii be furnished on request.
Address all communications and make all re-
uittancsa pnNnb'c ~ RECORD PRESS,
Grssuvile, Ky.
The record., 1912-03-14
Total
Si47,5S2.59
THE LINE OF THE SPINE

Shown above is the curved line which truthfully
presents to your eye the condition of your
spine if you use sewing machine.
The reason for this is the family sewing
machine as ordinarily constructed, is altogether
wrong. You cannot sit straight in your chair
while operating your machine-try IL, sit
straight and square as you should, and see II
you can sew on your machine; you can't. The
needle is AZ inches from the center where it
twist twist your sS body to the left. This twist calls
for a wrench and strain of all the delicate
chords and lgaments, affecting stomach,
spleen, liver, kidneys, bowels and nerves, and
resulting in SIDE NEEDLE SPINE.
II It were possible for a growing child to
operate an ordinary sewing nachine, it would
be injured for life. The soft cartilage of its
spine would twist and warp, its vital organs
would be injured to such an extent as to pro-
duce nervous disorders.
In schools, as you know, desks and chairs
are specially constructed to avoid spinal cury-
ature.
In factories where sewing machines are used,
the work is always directly central with the
strain of the twist Of the body and continue to
work.
THE STANDARD CENTRAL NEEDLE
machine IS a new type of family sewing ma
chine designed as health saver and preventer
of doctors bills.
In this machine the needl. Is central with
the worlser-directly over the center Of the
treadle. To use il calls for no twist of the
spine. II causes no strain on the internal organs
and consequent torture Of the nerves.
With THE STANDARD CENTRAL
NEEDLE machine a woman is safe in using
ii all day and every day; without it she is not
Compare the two pictures-positions taken
from life-and de.ide which you will have :
THE SIDE NEEDLE SPINE or THE
CENTRAL NEEDLE SPINE.
We have printed a valuable book. "a
STITCH IN THE SIDE" which is yours
FREE for the asking-and every intelligent
woman will want il and will thank US for
bringing 1t to her attention.
II goes into the subject of sewing machine
construction thoroughly and explains how
and why the STANDARD CENTRAL
NEEDLE SEWING MACHINE Is vital to
the health of woman and growing girls, and
how easy It is TO buy. If you value your health
and the health of your daughters-you will
send for copy at once-no obligation. II is
FREE. postal viii bring it by return mail
ROARK, Agent, Greenville, Ky.
The record., 1912-03-14
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HEN HOUSE IN COLD CLIMATE
Warm In Winter and Moderately Cool
In Summer-Easlly Construct
ed and inexpensive.

Last fall / built a chicken house
With double walls. The inside WAS
tar-papered and the roof covered with
rubber roofing, says writer in Mis-
souri Valley Farmer. Three whole
windows were put in the south side
and a half window at each end, with
no windows on the north. The door
The record., 1912-03-14
Floor Plan Of House.

was put IN the southeast corner. There
is a vsntllator. and the windows can
be opened to permit free circulation
CT air. This house 10 warm In winter
and moderately cool in summer. Our
chickens we're not bothered this sum.
mer with lice. while a year ago, In the
old quarters. we could not rid then,
Of the pests.
The record., 1912-03-14

Old Sol appeared yesterday, and
after week of rain, snow, sleet and
cloudiaess, his visit was most well
come.
The record., 1912-03-14

ne5~ McCracken has the largest
stock Of dials for timepieces ever
carried in the county, and can fl,
anything from the court house clock
to a toy watch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
DO YOU WEAR THEMs

From the Chicago Post
 Five men undressing for Turkish bath were found to be wearing underwear of summer weight, without sleeves and not reaching to the knees-this on the codest day of the year. The coincidence made them compare notes, and it developed that two of them had dressed this way the year round for 10 years, while the other two were converts of the last two or three seasons.
 A great many more men dress this way than is generally understood. Some of tlen make it known in their talk much as the man we all know does when he brags about his cold bath of a morning.
 Without any desire or authority to go into the matter technically it may be said that the individual who is rugged enough to stand it becomes pretty well hardened to cold weather. His arms have plenty of protection with his shirt and two coats, and while the breeze hits his legs and with some precision and persistence they become calloused to it and a body glow results.
 Dealers in mems furnishings find an in oreasing sale for summer underwear in winter, where few years ago there was scarcely a call for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03

club 250 strong. It started out to
 render immortal all the magazine edi-
 tors in sight and it has done it's duty nobly, or at any rate generously. Far
 be it from us to complain. No salary goes with the new dignity, and Phila- delphia is waiting until seven of the immortals die so that it's list of inn mortals can be put on a strictly French basis. The duty of the Acad- emie Frcncaise is "to labor with, all care and diligence to give certain rules to the language, to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the arts and sciences" One at least of the AT Philadelphia immortals splits infinities with ease and dispatch, and one other is a promoter of the An anias club, and still another is a ma chine senator from Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
Men and Religion

'We have had Torrey and many other great eyangelists in Montgomery" said F. T. lfchols, chairman of the Men and Religion Forward Movement campaign in the capital city, who was in Bir- mingham yesterday, but never has that city been so aroused as now. The thing moves powerfully, and men who were ever before negligent of their re- ligious lives, are lining up and giving the movement their best.
 We called for committee of 100 any trouble. All of them attend our meetings, and give us the advantage of their experience without any coach ing. Our committee is thoroughly or ganized, with every committeeman in the harness
 ,"Sunday we hold a mass meeting to raise our budget, and you can say that it will be raised. Our people can do anything under the present inspiration. We wanted your secretary, MT. Barton, or your boy work man, John Taylor to make the principal speech, but since they will be busy here, we had to SC to Atlanta to get man.
 We will have full hedged cam paign about five weeks from now, and seryation work, but with a general re- vival for the salvation of souls in every part of Montgomery. We are already in the midst of a good old fashioned spiritual revival in our town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
County Affairs Officially Criticized

The grand jury found much to com mend in the county business and much to condemn, and the courthouse and jail are in the latter category. The jail is pronounced an unfit place for the confinement of human beings. The courthouse is overcrowded and IS also firetrap, and the county records are in danger of destruction.
 We recommend" say the grand jurymen, that the Board of Revenue begin at once to plan for a combina- tion building of the modern skyscraper type to meet the county's needs for the next 50 years"
 The grand jury uses the phrase combination building" to designate a courthouse and jail combined in one tall building, the jail to be at the top, and the courts and offices below it. This is the latest form of county
 
 buildings, and is believed by many to be the best that can be devised. The expense of transporting prisoners is in this way avoided, and the room needed in the course of 50 years of growth provided.
 Let no one be troubled about the present courthouse. The county needs a county library, one that will supply every school district with books. Every inch of the space in the present courthouse can in time be filled with books, and this great county will in that respect stand abreast of the most progressive in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
Another Year of Adulterated Food

The agricultural appropriation bill avoids all mention of the Remsen board by inserting an appropriation of S625 1000 to carry into effect during the coming year the pure food and drugs act. It is understood that an item of $30,000 was included to cover the expenses of the Remsen board.
 Those who attempted to weed out the Remsen board found that they not only had to contend with the canners who use benzoate of soda, but also with the California fruit interests that use sulphur as a preservatiye.
 The dishonest canners, Tn other words, will continue to use harmful chemicals in preserving the odds and ends of their factories while the Rem sen board is retained to protect them. The big canning interests stand be- hind the Remsen board, and the agri- cultural appropriation bill about to be reported will carry an appropriation for the Remsen board during the com ing fiscal year.
 The proposition will be attacked in the House, but the California fruit in- terests and the benzoate crowd are ready for the fray, and the chances are that poisonous chemicals will be placed in food articles and the gov ernment and Tama Jim Wilson will, knowingly, sanction the entire busi- ness. The fruit and canning inter- ests are stronger, or at least more efficient and better organized than the consumers in this broad country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
SNOW

From Harpei's Weekly.
 If in the Nigils of the long dark you tegin to hear a spreading silence. a quite unwonted hush. you may be sure that the white veil is falling; and if you go to the window thele it is g,immeringly visible. ;he stiles. of natures toys. A great white veil dropping and crumpling itself up in crunched white folds of roof and pavement and the arms of trees. It lights though it sails apparently from a bleak sky. Something in its hushed mystery or Us persistent, unbroken descent seems to enlarge space. Across the street. the houses which yesterday seemed so press ingly near ere wan and ghostly and far away. With stiffness and inaccessibillty space is strangely extended, and the worl l seems infinitely large
 Even the morning sun that sets the snow tp sparkling and glstening does no. cutie rob 1t of this mystery of lonely largeness. in vain the children run and shout and throw it up in balls and fiirs the white stars over their caps and coats: the snow still has the mysterious gran deur of the sea. With all it's beauty it is ,nimiQal to nan and reminds him of dan ger and of death What, so hot, my little man Around all your vociferods workings spreads the shroud. and death s ouite-hear, quite near. Never hurry su nueh. Tor however you run the lolg vLite stiffness will oVertake you even as !. the snow, have overtaken and buried inc earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03

From Publishers Notes.
 l The Dickens centenary was saddened
 hcth in t.lis country and in England by
 The untimely death of H. Snowden Ward, who was vice president of the Dickens Fellowship, as well a special commis-
 sioner from the Fellowship to the United States and Canada. MT Ward also had to his credit that widely known booK
 "The Real Dickens Land" Shortly be-
 fore he became i'll, he wrote for Lippin-
 cotts Magazine a notable paper on
 Charles Dickens and Women" which
 will be eagerly read by all admirers of
 Dickens.
 Tt is still fashionable to say that Dick
 ens could not draw woman; to sum Up
 his feminine characters as all smpering
 dolls or snarled grotesques,' said Mr. Ward. "One is told that Little Nell and
 Little Dorri1 and Lucie Manette are bahy angels, that Esther Summerson is self conscious prg Bella Filfer an incomplete sketch, and Lady Deadlock a tragedy
 queen from melodrama. One often hears, tco, that Dickens never drew a gentle man, and sometimes that he never drew real man. In a sense, all this is true Dickens people-when he took especial trouble with them-were sketches of quail tiles rather than complete portraits of .n-
 oividuals, end he carried his characteriza-
 tion into oarieature. As George William Curtis wisely said in one of his lectures, if man had remarkable nose, Dickens
 mentioned it. described it, dwelt upon
 it, and became possessed by 1t, until ile
 character became almost entirely nose
 If we gran. this, and come with unpre- ludiced miEds to the reading of Dickens
 we shall find in him great store of acute | observation of women as well as of men We shall find that under the playfulness and exaggeration there is a deep unds.- standing, that the characters are consist 1 cit, and tha. when brought to their test | ing they ing true.
 "In this centenary season it were a good thing to turn from scme of the problem | stories of the day to a restudying or | Betsy Trotwood, of Florence and Edith Lombey, Of the Marchioness,' of Caddy Jeluby, of the delightful Dresden shep- l lierdess, Mrs Chisparl<le. who began so | W ell in Edwin Drood, but who was never finished, Nn1 of many another deftly | sketched charaeter.p
 This the author proceeds to do in bis article-deliGhtfully
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
Great Comic oncrn

D. A. Bachelder business manager of Werba and Lueschers great comic opera success, "The Spring Mald," spent yester- day in Birmingham.
 "-"The Merry Widow The Chocolate Soldier and The Spring Maid are comic operas of the highest class said MT. Bachelder. They are as truly works of art as high comedy. Of the three operas named The Spring Maid which is coming to the Jefferson theatre for three per formances-two nights and a matinee-in the latter part of the month. is the most beautiful and the most attractive from many points of view. It is drawing packed houses everywhere, and we will play to great audiences in this city. We have in Mizzi Hajos pronounced HiyuslD, great singer and a great dancer. She is simply irresistible in the czardas, one of the ina passioned national dances of Hungary. Ours is q great company and I am sure Birmingham amusement goers will say it is the finest attraction appearing here this season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
Poll Tax Payments This Year

The payment of poll taxes by 10,839 persons in this county must mean that about 15,000 persons will be entitled to vote in the elections of the present year. In 1908 William J. Bryan re- ceived 1903 votes, William H. Taft, 2182, Debs and Watson got between them 395 votes, and Chafin and His gen between them perhaps 300 votes a total vote of 10,680. In the guber- material primary in 1910 O'Neal re- ceived 7O04 and Mallory 5140-a total of 12,144.
 The percentage of persons over 45 years of age is probably in the neigh borhood of one third, including those who are exempt from the payment of poll taxes.
 A possible vote of 15,000 would certainly be gratifying exhibit under the harsh terms of an unlimited cumu- lative poll tax.
 Some day the people will see that the disfranchisement of 100000 white men is not necessary for any purpose whatever. The trouble is not so much with the provision calling for the pay ment of a poll tax to go to the public schools, as it is with the cumulative feature of the proposition. No other state has an unlimited cumulative poll tax, and Alabama does not need one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-03
LIFE IN NICARAGUA

Peter Clark MacFarlane in Golfers.
 TT is. indeed. q medieval country, this \ of Nicaragua! And yet it is beauti- 4 full! Yes, beautiful as the woman in the pool; only there is an ugly, slimy, ir- guana like something crouching there in the trees that mars the beauty of the scene spirit of fanged rapacity that came in when the Spanish conqueror en- tered 400 years ago, sealy selfishness that has exploited the people for the ben eft of one grasping adventurer after an- other.
 Come time since, while making some street excavations in Managua, the capi- tai city, they came upon a bed of lava stamped deeply with the prints of bare, human feet. The toes were all turned to- ward the lake. Imagine plunging bare foot across hissins, molten laval That was inaamate nature at her worst in Nicaragua, and it was bad; but when, shortly after the discovery of America, the European came there was a fire in his veins more deadly and hotter burning than the lava. He plunged the fangs of h:s lust into the soft neeks of these in- dclent, docile, peace loving Carib races.
 An old monk with fine sense of most unmonkish values, had called the land 'Mahomet's Paradise" but heartless cru- city was fast making it an empty para disc. Whclo tribes were enslaved, de- Iauched, and destroyed. The souls of the murdered the groans of the enchained, the shrie&s of women violated, haunted