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The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
NEW LANGUAGE IN A LESSON
Little Girl Is Taught to Converse In Boston Latin in Remarkably Short
 Time.

How long, Pop" Ethel asked, does 1t take to learn strange language?"
 Tut hash a tut dud pup e nun dud sus." pop replied
 Stop your joking and tell me- Ethel pleaded.
 "Dud yuv tut hash nun kuk 1 mum juj kuk nun gug?" pop asked.
 ''Why will you make fun of me- asked Ethel, pouting. "I'n go and ask mama"
 Wait a minute. daughter" said pop. Did you understand what I was saying to you?"
 "Of course not"
 Well, can teach you in an hour to understand everything I say to you in that tongue and to answer me in the same language"
 Now you're joking again"
 'No, I'm not. I was only speaking boy or girl, within .50 miles of the Hub spoke fiuently along in the early '7Os.
 Now, pay attention: Every word barring a few abbreviations, is spell ed out in English in disguised alpha bet That makes it rather slow speaking, but it is blind enough to everybody who doesn't know the trick.
 ''In this alphabet all the vowels are pronounced and written naturally. Most of the consonants are sounded and written with the initial letter, 'u' and the initial letter repeated. Thus a is a. be is 'bub' and so on.
 But there are some consonants that do not work well that way. For ex- ample, is cause" Another such let ter is h. Huh would not be euphoni- ous, so we call b hash The other letters of similar difficulty are q, W, X, y. They are made 'quuv, 'wuv,' 'xuv' (pronounced zuv) and yuv.'
 Now, do you understand my cause hash lul dud?" Pop asked.
 Surely; my child,'" Ethel replied. Ethel had her lesson in mind all day and maybe she lay awake until late in the evening studying it over. In the morning she surprised her mother by saying to her father at the break fast table:
 Pup pup, lul tut tut lul e mum 0 TUT hash sus hash pup lul sus e."
 And Pop replied as he gave her sec ond helping:
 '.Yux sus, mum yuv dud e a rur."
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
CLOCKS AFFECTED BY COLD
Change In Weather Causes OH In
 Bearings to Get Dummy and

Two or three times in the course of a month this mans clock had stopped with no apparent reason. for when he swung the pendulum it would start on again and run all right But 1t also now began to dis play another eccentricity; occasional IY 1t would strike once about 15 min utes before the hour and then strike the rest of the strokes for that hour ct the regular time. So he thought be had better take it to the clock maker.
 There on shelf behind the counter he saw ranged along a dozen or more clocks of almost as many styles
 ~An patients" said the clockmaker. land most of them with slight all ments like yours. We always have many clocks brought in with colds They run along all right, but when nasty weather comes the oil on the bearings gets hard and gummy and then the clock is liable to stop. It needs cleaning and reoiling
 Tt is always SO; we have more clocks brought in to us when the weather Is bad than at any other sea son"
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
CHANGES IN SPORT OF BOYS
Veteran Recalls Days When They Did Not Have Modern Advantages
 Tennis Was Woman's Game.


 Boys sports are undergoing as great revolution as those of their elders" said a veteran sportsman re- gently at a luncheon where several "old-timers" were at the board When l was a boy" he continued, i've played games that the youngsters of today would sheer at. We had shin ney, baseball, of course; a sort of variation of football, played with a round ball, more like the seeker game of today; rinking, played like polo, on the ice; foot races of any distance and never timed. and several other out door sports. We had slight chance for indoor games, as we did not have the wonderful gymnasiums the younger set has today Basket ball was un- known on that account and we would have laughed at the person who said baseball could be played indoors.
 To-day the boy has golf, baseball. football, tennis, track meets, outdoor basket ball. field hockey, swimming meets, bowling, fencing, and all sorts of gymnastics I can imagine a boy of my day playing golf. The first
 
 laughed and, together with a crowd of youngsters, followed him around his course. He was an old Scotch man and had introduced the game in my town to several other citizens of the daring sort. since have become an enthusiastic golfer, and both my boys play. but it was impossible to associate golf with pleasure then.
 Tennis was a woman's game no boy would play unless his sister compelled him so she could become proficient in the net contest and beat her sisters. Shinney was our big game during the summer and fall months. We did not have the ornate sticks that are used by boys today in their games of polo, but they were made of old canes, hickory roots or any old piece of wood that happened to have a crook in the end of it. We had swimming a great part of the time. We would go in the water as early as March and it would have to be a cold day in the fall that would not find us padding about
 With all this improvement in sports for the younger American, believe they are becoming more ath- letic. In fact. the only drawback about the whole business is that my boys, both of them, can beat me at golf, and pride myself somewhat on my game, too"
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29

driven. The whirligig part of the merry-go-round is long plank or scantling with a hole in the middle just large enough to fit over the bolt or spike. When this is in place the merry-go-round is complete. Before it is used, however, it is well to grease the top of the post and bolt so that the plank will slip around easily.
 Any number of exciting games may be played with the sled merry-go- round. Perhaps the best of these is the sled contest. Two stout sleds are at tached to the ends of the plank by long ropes. A boy sits on each of them. Then half dozen other boys stand near the post and set the plank to turning, exactly as in a whirligig. Of course the sleds travel at exhilar- ating speed, swinging out at the ends of the ropes and slipping and sliding over the smooth ice faster and faster,
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
Nervousnesa and ExereIse.

When there is a lack of sufficient exercise there is a general weakening of the organs of digestion. All food needs a certain amount of oxygen mixed with 1t during the process of digestion, and oxygen is deficient in the blood of inactive persons.
 The nerves suffer from want of pure oxygen. They run like a network all through the skin, and when they are overWrought the skin Is apt to be dry and colorless. Walking is an excellent tonic for the nerves. It gives them strength to control themselves.
 Exercise combined with fresh air may be obtained in regular daily walking, for 1t is the good friend, as 1t were, of all those organs of the body that have to do directly with making a good. clear skin and a rosy complexion.
 If one has means of leisure, there are plenty of other more enjoyable exercises. But few forms are so bene- hcial as the regular daily jaunt of -four or five miles for obtaining good complexion
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
WHY CHINESE JUNK HAS EYE
Cantonese Legend Explains Origin Of That Custom In Way Suggestive
 of AngIo-Saxon Humor.

Few people know why Chinese junks have an eye painted on the port side of the bow. A Cantonese legend ex- plains the origin of that singular GUS tom in a way that is suggestive of An glo-Saxon humor.
 A Chinese mandarin who lived cen turies before the Christian era, finding himself in need of navy, sent for the royal boat builder and ordered him to build a certain number of ships So the builder drew up plans and presented them to the mandarin But the plans evidently did not suit his majesty, for he flew into a violent rage and ordered the boat builder from his presence.
 Then how shall build them, your celestial highness?" he pleaded.
 Whereupon the mandarin drew off one of his slippers and threw 1t at the boat builder, who fled from the room At the door he turned for mo ment, just in time to catch the man. darin winking at his minister.
 The boat builder picked up the roy al slipper and used 1t as model, and then painted one eye on its bow to represent the royal masters wink.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
PASTIME OF ONE SYLLABLE Game to Be Conducted Properly Re quIres That Company Be Seated
 In circIe-How Played.

To conduct this game properly the company should be seated in circle. a lady and gentleman alternately. A lady begins by asking a question of her right-hand neighbor, to which he must reply by a word of ONE SYLLA- BILE, or he incurs a forfeit for each extra syllable.
 First Lady-Permit me. sir. to ask if you love music?
 First Gent.-Yes. Gle then ques- lions the next person on his right-) Pray, madam. what wood do you think the best for making chairs?
 Second Lady-Oak Please tell me, sir, who thinks himself the best and wittiest man in the world7
 Second Gent-L Tell me, Mary, do you like hot weather?
 Third Lady-No. What kind of people do you think prosper most in the world?
 Third Gent.-Fools. Have you much sand in your composition?
 Fourth Lady-None. Are you very romantic?
 Fourth Gent-No. But which is the handsomer. you or me?
 Fifth Lady-L What sort of a girl do you think ami
 Fifth Gent-Mad. Do you like red or white wine best?
 Sixth Lady-Red- Now. Edward, are you fond of sugar-plums7
 Sixth Gent--Rather
 This is a word of two syllables and subects the speaker to forfeit
 forfeit is also incurred when a question or answer once made is re- peated-
 The game may be continued as long az the interest keeps up.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
BOX FOR PRINTING PICTURES
Handy Device for Amateur or Fro fessIonaI Photographer Who Wants
 Home Made Apparatus.

A very handy device for the anna teur or professional photographer who wants a homemade and simple apparatus for printing pictures can be made in a few minutes time.
 The drawing shows the scheme. which consists of a small store box about 12 inches square and an cleo tric light of any candlepower desired attached to a drop cord running through the end of the box. says the Popular Electricity.
 The hole should be made in the top of the box a little larger than the plate or film which is to be used.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29

until the rider rolls of like the end boy in cracking the whip. The boy who can stick to his sled longest is the winner of the game.
 Another exciting game is played without sleds. Skaters take hold of the ropes. and see how long they can hold on after the merry-go-round is started. And sometimes, when they let go, they are whirled rods away across the ice.
 Any boy who is getting up a skat- ing rink for the winter should not fail to have sled merry-go-round as one of its attractions.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
Had Marriage License But No Bride

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-An elderly ID negro walked into the forum pre-. sided over by Judge H. B. Abernethy the other day and after looking around in a stealthy manner, waddled up to the judges desk and said: "'Cuse me, sah, is yo' de jedge of dis yere cote?'
 T reckon so, uncle What can do for you?" replied Judge Alb.
 Docs yo' marry folkes?"
 Sure; do you desire to enter the state of connubial bliss and felicity"
 Hedge. what yo' says is so, but ah 'clar ain't done hit What ah wants is ter get married.'
 Have you secured the Hcense?"
 "Yessah, jedge, yere hit are," said the old man, as he produced the pink envelope that contained the document by authority of which bachelors are changed into benedicts.
 "This seems all right. Where's the feminine part of this contract?"
 "Sey which, jedge?"
 Where is the woman you are to marry?"
 Oats what An wants yo' ter do, git de ooman. Yo' see, jedge, dat Milindy pusson what has her name writ on dat we're license promises ter marry me, an An goes ter git de pa per. While An was gone she done tux up wid a trifin' yaller nigger an
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
SOME VERY QUEER MANNERS.
Aged EngIlshman Says Boys Are Not What They Used to Be-HoW
 Moors Greet Strangers.

Mourning the loss of old time man. ners, an aged Englishman said the oth- CT day: Boys are not like they used to be. If they do not like a school master they show 1t nowadays by treating him with studiously cold DO liteness. Why, I remember when l was at Eton lot of us getting hold of a master who taught us mathemat- les and whom we all cordially detest- ed, and holding him by his heels over Barnes pool bridge until we saw in the distance another master coming In our direction, when we gladly loosed our victim and let him slide headforemost into the water"
 A New York man writes: 'I was taught to offer my seat to ladies when travelling. I foolishly did so a few days ago in the subway. All got in return from the lady was a glassy stare, a devilish grin and oh, sit down, my boy. I don't want your seat. And am just thirtyi"
 In the Society islands two persons on meeting salute by rubbing the ends of their noses together, and the salu- tation is followed by each taking the hand of the other and rubbing 1t upon his own nose and mouth
 Moors of Morocco ride at full speed toward a stranger as if they intended to run him down, and as soon as they have approached near they suddenly stop and fire a pistol over his head.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29

In the primary schools all is un- rest The younger children have caught the strike fever. They are in general charge of Miss Carrie Atkin- son, whom the board of education named as temporary superintendent when MT. Smith Friday refused to take the position pending the settle ment of trouble following the re- moval of Village Superintendent Barnes on charges that he was seen with a teacher on his lap kissing him.
 Barnes alleged the kiss was due to hysterical gratitude because he had assisted the teacher in passing an examination. Various petitions are in circulation asking the board to re- consider his dismissal.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
Practical School for the Housewife

the lessening of milliners' and dress makers bills, will help some. But the item of well cooked food is generally considered the most important of all
 Miss Dorothy B. Scott, assistant registrar of the school, explains that newlyweds will be taught all the diet, ary and culinary frills calculated to make young men forget the cooking of their mothers.
 She also says the hours of instruc- tion will be so arranged that they will not interfere with the home life or encroach upon the evening hours when husband and wife want, or should want, to be together, but probably will take place in the after noon, after the morning housework is completed and when many young wives attend the matinees.
 Cooking, from the boiling of eggs to making of pastry, may be learned in ten lessons at SIS; theory of dress making and shirtwaist making, each $10 for ten lessons; millinery, 15 les sons for $10, and garment design, 20 lessons for $15. Thus the entire course may be taken for $63, but any and the time 1essened. They are also to be taught how to launder clothes. Women must work out their education al salvation through the fundamental occupations for women; they lead di- rectly into form of artistic expres- sion.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
What Ia the Anawerf

What kind of medicine does a fath~ take for a wayward daughter1 He takes an elixir Che takes and he Hicks her).
 When may a man be said to break fast before he gets up7
 When he takes roll in bed What is the difference between a tunnel and a speaking tube?
 One is hollowed in. the other is hal lowed out
 When is sick man contradiction When he is an impatient patient. What is taken from you before you get 1t?
 Your portrait
 When is a horse victim of the h. Quisition?
 When 1t is fastened to the rack.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
NEW SPORT IN SWITZERLAND
Running Bob Has Been Substituted for We'll Known BobsIeigh-Is
 Three-Wheeled Vehicle.

In Klosters, Switzerland. a place celebrated for the winter sports which attract thousands of people every year, a new kind of summer sport has been introduced, the well known bob
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29
Take Chances With ncompany."

Take Chances With "Company."
 Little Lola-I think it's a shame for mamma to put us out of the room just because company came.
 Little Bobby-Well. perhaps there will be some cake left
 Little Lola-Pm afraid not Ycg can't trust company with cake.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29

This hole should be covered with a piece of glass. The negative can then be laid on the glass face upward, and the printing carried on in the usual way. A fiat weight should be placed on the print and plate to hold them securely in place while printing
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-29

sleigh being substituted by a running bob, a three-wheeled vehicle. The wheels are covered with rubber tires. The wagon is steered by means of a lever, and the brake is worked by the feet.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06
The Panama Canal.

"A work of the people, for the peo-
PIE, and by the people The building
of the Chinese wall is the only engi-
neering feat in history approaching
IL. The French are supposed to lead
the world as civil engineers. They
made their plans for Panama canal.
They spent their treasure and twenty
years time and then abandoned the
attempt as impossible.
The Panama canal will be the &C
tuRl realization of the short passage
to India sought by sailors and naviga-
tors for centuries. Columbus, Balboa,
Maghellan, Sir Francis Drake, Henry
HudsOn-all lived and died in igno-
rance of the fact that when the north
west passage was realized, it would
shave to be made by the hand of man.
You can see this great work as it is
today by means of motion pictures.
$1,000 people at work, steam shovels
at work, carrying dynamite, track
Shutters, cement mixers, Gatun and Pc
dro Miguel locks, labor trains, the
dredges, etc, etc. Mr.. Lyman V. Cole
will lecture the pictures. Mr.. Cole
has spent years as a superintendent
ON this work and is thoroughly con
xersant with the subject Opera House
matinee and night, February 7th.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06
NOSE STOPPED UP
WITH CATARRH
A Common Sense Treatment for Colds
and Catarrh, Gives Instant Relief

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06
WITH The PLAYERS
AT The OPERA HOUSI

1.-The Lion and the Mouse which
xhe United Flay Company will pre-
sent in this city at the Opera House
tonight is an American play essential
IL and conspicuously such and baseo
upon theme which has not been be
fore exploited dramatically. 1t deals
directly with a subject which at the
present moment is very much in tn
public mind-the corruption of poll
tics and legislation by the power OF
combined money making organiza-
tions and the dominance of unscrupu-
&ous kings of finance.
To Charles Klein who wrote the
play and Henry B. Harris, who had
foresight to appreciate the timeliness
of it. is due credit for undoubtedly onc
OF the best draas that has been seen in
America in many years. The an
EOHncement of the production here is
causing much comment The seat
sale indicates a large audience.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06
Minutes of Meeting of Democratic
Executive Committee of Sumter
County.

Called Meeting of Democratic Exec
utive Committee of Sumter County, at
Americas, Ga, February Bird, 1912.
Present. A. w. Buchanan, w. A.
I Webb, j. c. Methvin, j. j. Wilson, w.
NJ. McGarTah, W. B. Heys and w. NJ.
Harper.
The chairman having stated that
this being a political year in which
County Officers we're to be nominated,
on motion and unanimous vote of the
COMMITTEES, Thursday. March 21st,
1912, was named as the date for hold
ing the primary for the nomination Of
such officers.
The Committee also unanimously
adopted the rule that all candidates
for any of the county Offices should,
not later than Monday, March II, 1912,
pay over to w. B. Heys, as Secretary
of the Committee for the various re-
spective Offices and that any and all
payments thereafter rendered should
be refused, and that the name of no
candidate offering such assessment
later than said 18th day of March, 1912,
would be entered on the official ballot,
The Committee also unanimously
levied and fixed assessments, to he
paid not later than March 18th, 1912,
as aforesaid. upon and by candidates
for the respective Offices as follows;
Candidates for Sheriff ... $1,000
Candidates for Clerk of Court 2O.o1
Candidates for Tax Collector d.. 20.09
Candidates for Tax Receiver e. 1000
Candidates for Treasurer =. 1000
Candidates for Judge City Court
of Americas . ....:..... 20,o)
Candidates for Solicitor City
Court . e. zVV
Candidates for Ordinary e.. .... 100
Candidates for County Surveyor so
Candidates for Coroner ........ lVJ |
Candidates for County Commits
stone g.. -. e.. ... 500
Further, the Committee provide
that all white Democratic elector
who qualify prior to the closing of the
polls on said 21st day of March, 1871
(the polls being opened at sev@r
o'clock a. m. and closing at six O'CLOCK
p. m.) shall be allowed to vote.
The Committee further provided
that of the candidates appearing or
the official ballot, electors should he
at liberty to scratch 'as suited their
tastes. and that where more candidates
than one to be nominated to a given
office, electors could vote for one or
more as they saw proper
The Committee imposed upon Mr..
W. B. Heys, its Secretary, the details
Of having tickets prepared, collecting
and employing managers,
clerks, ETC., and cordially invites man
ayers, clerks, etc, who could assist ia
holding the primary to confer with
him.
There being no further business, the
Committee adjourned until the 22nd
day of March, 1912, at which time it
will consolidate the vote of the prirn-
airy.
The foregoing are true minutes Q!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06

A girl who marries for ideals can
manage to find consolation in clothes
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-06
MRS. LARAM0RE
TELLS TROUBLES
Lady in GOodwater Describes Her
Distressing Experience and
Tells How She Vas
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took two small packages in all, and
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