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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21
MEMORIAL TO JOHN BIGELOW
Lecture Hall and PrOfeSsOrship in His
Honor Planned at Union College
(From Outlook


The memorials to distinguished AM
orleans which have taken the form of
life-sized of colossal portrait statues
have not, as a rule, been very happy
unless it may be said that thing
which eXcites good-natured but deris-
i've smiles is somehow or other relatetb
to happiness. Any effort, therefore, to
perpetrate the memory of a really
memorable American by some other
method than statuesque is hopeful
sign of a growing belief in this coun-
try of the fitness of things. Union Col
lege, under the presidency of DR..
Charles Alexander Richmond, has pro-
posed memorial to the late John Big
Glow which ought to be of interest not
only to the alumni of Union College,
but to the entire county.
John Bigelow, who died a little over
year ago at the ripe age of "a was
appropriately called the first citizen OF
New York, and was certainly one of
the very first citizens of the United
States. 1t is not necessary here to re,
tell his services as a writer, Journal
list, statesman, and a citizen. He was
one of the most honored of the alumni
of Union College, and was a contem-
porary of William H. Seward, the great
Secretary of State, who was also a
graduate of Union College.
1t is an interesting and singular CO.
incidence that William H. Seward
Secretary of State for the United
States, and Robert Toombs, Secretary
of State for the Confederate States,
we're graduates of Union College.
Among their fellow alumni were Co.
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania; President
Chester A. Arthur, Gov. Hoffman, of
New York; ]. Sterling Morton, Secre-
tary of Agriculture, and Senator Pres
ton King-all names distinguished i'll
the history of the United States.
Union College has, in proportion to
its size, had notable relationship to
American craftsmanship and civic life.
1t seems, therefore, to be a very happy
conception on the part of President
Richmond to embody John BigeIow9
name in connection with Union College
by the building on the campus of a
John Bigelow Memorial hail. with
lecture halls and rooms devoted to the
studies he loved-history, politics, and
the establishment
therein Of a John Bigelow professor
ship of political science" The mem
orial hall and the professorship endow-
ment will require not less than $780,,
0O0 An unusually distinguished COM
mittee has been formed to indorse and
promote the enterprise, among which
appear the names of Justice Charles
e. Hughes, of the Supreme Court; J.
Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie,
and Senator Root.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21
JACK JOHNSON'S CONVICTION.

Reports from Chicago to the effect
that Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist
is greatly discouraged as result OF
his conviction of the charge of VIC
lating the white slave" law, which
makes him liable to several years i'm
prisonment, have greater signill-
canoe than may appear on the surface.
Now that it is too late, Johnson re-
grets that he made such a poor use OF
his opportunities.
Prize-fighting is not a very elevating
profession. 1t tends to brutalize and
degrade. Nevertheless, there are thou
sands of men, especially young men,
who follow the doings of pugilists with
the greatest interest, and admire the
opponents of the manly art"
When Johnson whipped Jeffries, he
became a hero among MS race. lie
had chance to teach that race by his
example the lesson of restraint, mod
esty, decent living, temperance and q
clean, faithful home life. His aged
mother had always provided him with
a home before his success, and he
might have shown not merely the col
ored race, but the entire sporting
world, that a colored man can be as
as responsive to a mothei $
love, and as considerate of the rights
Of others as the chosen heroes of any
other race
There is little to inspire deep
thoughts of reverence in the prize
lighting game, but notoriety in this
could be made at least me-
lium for teaching the value of clean
living.
The drain man in THE Servant il
he House." furnished the moral that
10 work is so mental that it's perfect
accomplishment cannot be made of
benefit to humanity. Even a prize
lighter could have taught a lesson of
living that would have left
is effect on many yonug men.
Johnson, however, used his place to
others. His offenses were
worse than the offense of the incon-
ipicuous, because they were commit
ed in the flaming light of publicity,
giving scandal to the youth of the
He did almost everything
hat it is possible for one man to do to
retard the development and elevation
If a struggling race He should not
De used as an example of his race.
Wen of his own color have been among
he first, in fact, to condemn him
Post
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Americut, Ga, May II, 1918

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THE BRAVEST BATTLE p
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The bravest battle that ever was
fought
Shall l tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find
it not;
1t was fought by the mother of men.
Nay, not with cannone or battle shot,
With sword or nobler pen;
Nay, not with eloquent word CT
thought.
From mouths of wonderful men.
But deep in walled-up woman's
heart
Of woman that would not yield;
But patiently, silently bore her part
Lo! there in that battle field.
No marshalling troup, no bivouac
song;
No banner to CLEAN and waye
And oh! those battles they last so
long
From babyhood to the grave!
Yet. faithful still as a bridge of stars
She fights in her walled-up town
Fights on and on in the endless wars
Then silent, unseen-goes down.
Joaquin Miller.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
~ DIR. T. J. ALLEN ...
Food Specialist
PToMAINE POISONING.

Two persons died recently at
PeSbody, Kan, and "a others
were made seriously III by eat
Ing pressed chicken. II should
be we'll understood that there
10 always danger In eating flesh
Of any kind that 10 not fresh,
and that meat that has been In
cold storage 10 more dangerous
: than that which may show slans
Of decay from exposure to the
air at summer temperature.
Smoked fab and properly dried
beef are less likely to be the
cause OF ptomalne poisoning
than refrigerated meats.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

The militant suffragettes are belying
The ancient privilege exercised by wo-
men of having their own way without
resorting to violence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

The G. o. p is willing to try the
recall on the Progressives who strayei
from the fold last fall" is the playful
comment OF the New York Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

"A near-scientist maintains that life
rFy exist IN IRE human tissues four
ro9re after death That is why the z
E p won't know IL is dead until 1916,
is the observation Of the Rochester
Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

Battles actually seem to be becoming
almost as fashionable as dogs-New
York Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

The colored gentry are rejoicing
The rains may yet revive the blackberry
crop.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

Dr. Friedman gets credit for ha,-
ing landed that million dollars wheth-
er he really did so or not
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

Georgia's next governor is clever
speech maker
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

Here's to the winners-mAy they be
cur team most of the time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-21

The Japanese question has been
hanging fire too long a time to be a
very serious matter to some.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14
Bi'Iy's Ingratitude.

IA RICH man can be a Christian
while he's got his money. but he
ceases to be a Christian when his money
cts him.
The speaker was Secretary Bryan. the
occasion a Washington dinner.
''OId Billy Bones va a rich man." Mr..
Bryan continued, whose money had got
him. Billy was in the 4ua-ber trade.
One day he was bossing a lumber
rev that was guiding a lot of logs
down the river. Suddenly the log lily
stood on slipped ard rolled over. BA4y
sank in the deep and icy water.
But a young Canuck unged III from
nearby .og. and, At the risk o. his lie,
saved the old man. TIE youth natural
expected some reward tor this heroic
feat but B.IIy only nodded a q un Thank
,od' and Went his Nay.
When, the next week, he turned UP at
camp aea.n, the youne Canuek ap-
>. oat he'd mm.
Monsieur he said. L see you "a dams
eau-een &C Na&Ialre-and 1 save your
lfe. The pourboire, the reward, est &c
Jas, monsieur
= 'LooK a here. young Teller. he inter-
rupted the sUun-D4lno youth, II you q
Deen uenain' 10 business as you d orteI,
YOU Nou.dn L ha' seen me Iall in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14
Even So.

ga SIX any one you chance to meet on
"A the street what he is doing and
he will, in nine cases out OF ten, tell
you he is writing "a play" said Eugene
Water. author of several successes.
Every one has joined the play-w. itinS
handicap now | asked a motorman on
the street car the o1her day how his
play was getting on and ne said:
I've got it all finished except the
climax of the ast act. That's been
bottle ing me q great deal. Now in the
second act / have the hero
q .Forty-second street yelled the con-
ductor, and / Aad To get off the car just
as / was about to hear how the nero
saved the girl in the ond act.
All of which reminds me OF @ometnlng
/ heard an amateur novelist say one
time in CIncinnau 4 met this yong
neNspaper u4au tie. like nine-tentas OF
all other new sPape. men, !" Dug on
fiction He haQ the script OF a novel
tucked under his ar.n.
How are you making out?' / asked
him.
Rotten he answered.
"''M mats the trodb.e2
Nothing he went on. only the
trouble is nowadays that Us novelists
hatch a plot. spend lot Of time writing
il and then md that our plot has been
used as a short story by the late ..
Hen s.
And continued Walter. the young
novelist is absolutely right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

dren clamor for large portions and an
other serving buy the vast birds as
bargain for the money.
The mysterious quality to reinforce the
human body against catching cold is al
legged to be theirs fully. Yet they are not
the true Christmas goose of Paris and
north of France from. the center up.
The true Christmas goose is of a breed
long acclimated around Mans. tender.
delicate, of a family wild game perfume
due to remote far east ancestors. In
the old days of the French East India
Company breed Of oriental goose was
brought into France, as is done today
with quantities of fore gn fowl, domesti-
Gated and half-domesticated In particu-
lar the %euirv Jardin 1 ccir' alton
pushes this work. and il has a hybrid
between an African duck and Chinese
goo from whioh / expecss great r.
suits. No variety. however is 'accli-
mated" or takes it's settled French tyne
for some thirty yea s, and the Mans
goose. from six to thirteen pounds. AMI
costing from $3.50 TO $3.50, Is about the
most succulent Christmas purchase known
to Frenchmen at this moment
* X
The bird is roasted on a turning spit,
if poss bic. Families in moderate circum-
stances often patronize the public rooster
of the ware, curious surviva. of the
mluoIe ages tHat SpedhS eioqoeHtiy VI
dry beech slabs for roasting fuel The
rooster delivers in a hot drum.
Even when families use gas stoves. the
tin roasting appliance with drip pan.
long-hand ed basting spoon and turning
spit, are looked on as essentials to the
outfit.
1t is the most ancient form of cooking.
The p. ehistoric hunter held a piece of
raw horse or venison the end of a
green stick before a hot wood fire. He
naturally turned it, that all sides might
be evenly cooked. He did not know that
the turning kept in the meat its rich
juices and accompanying fiavors. Pre-
senting quickly the whole surface to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

flaming heat. it became sealed or burnt
shut.
piece of meat was thin it, was a grill.
When the piece thick, it was
roast-held long enough before the fire to
cook through, yet turned over, not TO
burn on any side. In either case the
sealing or burn ng shut of the tubes at
the surface proven the juices es APP
But does not hot oven sea u roast >
The French say that is baked meat Sup
pose you put a beefsteaK to cook in an
oven. does it come out rril ed? Trur
roasting is a long grill continually turned
and basted
Who first set a dog to turning a spit?
1t was an astonishing innovation Our
.rrehlSfof me t9rS ran ~ean bran :
through their goose and supported it be-
tween two forked ST ky stuck into the
ground before the fire. Doubtless the
children turned it.
Julian. Roman emperor in Gaul. wrote
home to describe the treadmll splits in his
palace kitchens of Lutetia. The dog
turned it, at a melancholy walk. Leather
gearing connected with three spits before
the vast stone chimney. and the Roman
emperor admired equally the ingenuity of
the invention and the patience of the
dog.
No dog has turned spit for thirty
years in France. The last. they say. was
in the Three Shirts restaurant at Be-
ziers.
Most modern spits are turned by clock
work, the small ones with a spring the
larger by system of weights. Ultra
modern Paris kitchens use dynamo, and
many hotels and all the public roasters
use aeroplane force, working backward.
In the draught of the chimney they in
stall a propeller and the rushing hot air
turns 1t, while it turns a drum to which
the spits are geared.
All. the incense of the Drowned skin,
dripping fat and sealing juices!
Christmas fare In Paris.
Perfume OF q seven-pound capon, S2.4O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

Perfume of little plump Bresse chicken,
Gu cents to $40.
Perfume Of a Nantes duckling, 81 TO
S140. The duckling sometimes weighs
over three pounds but the famous Rouen
duck. stuffed with a great deal of hashed
goose, duck and chicken livers. eschalot
and estragon. sausage meat and meat
glaze weighs from four to six pounds and
can be had. piping hot. at the public
roaster's from 81 90 to $ = 90.
\ fine big pheasant. S1.50. Plenty of
meat for four. Perdreau Qarge quail or
PARTRIDGE. 50 cents. " ii duck, three
POUNDS. 81
Sucking lamb, ten to fourteen pounds
stuffed and roasted with its gravy and
lis k dneys, S5-this al the pablc roast
er's-the liver being chopped up in the
s.ufine With foia-gras and chicken liz
ers. Sucking pig the same An en-
tire sucking abe IN smoked ham,
if you understand me a come as high
as 81 A fiVe-pound turkey. 81; but six
an seven pound turkeys often co t as
high as 81 or $50 Turkey with chest
nuts. truffies and foiegras, % cents
extra.
Yes. and a Belgian hare, entire. w thout
it's skin. $50 The loin of bigger.
weighing four pounds, and sewed with
thick ribbons OF fat bacon. si.4o. Roe
buck flet. from 60 cents to 81 per pound.
I know nothing better In its way: no
waste tho shape and size of a brick.
but so tender that IL melts in the mouth.
It has been br ned with white-wned
marnade, and it must be so continually
basted with this same marnade that IL
ought to be roasted by itse.f even in
the family oven. which does not seem
to hurt it,
The rich odors swirl out to the front
door OF the public roasters where they
perfume the game and fowl exhibit. The
holiday throng gathers, red-cheeked,
br ght-eyed. moist-mouthed, whispering
of their hearts desire. As they whisper
the incense goes to their heads.
Quail, pheasant roebuck. wild duck.
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lions that become sluggish in winter So
they are Whispering, even at the Pasteur
Institute. where the discovery did not
originated
All France eats goose in Christmas
week-although they don't know WHY
Half peasant France eats goose all win
ter, and don't know why any more than
Paris. These, particularly, are the peas
ants of Auvergne, the Bourbon district.
the Pyrenees and in between, with part of
Dauphiny and other highland districts.
where their exposed life and primitive
comforts seem to laugh at coughs colds
and groups.
Their food is goose-confit doie-pre-
served goose. The peasant kills lot of
birds in autumn. sells their down and
feathers for quilts and pillows, sells the
livers for te-de-foie- gras, sells their
breasts for smoking, and then pots down
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xrosIrIoN UNIQUE

increased FIVE pounds-and has not caught
writing,
What Is this occut bird-which all
France eats In Christmas week. as by a
pagan ceremony, which has lost its mean
ing in the ages?
How does the goose work?
The goose is truly, fat.
The goose fattens The goose warns
up. When you eat goose, it's ike the
Eskimos when they eat tallow candles
If you are a furnace, goose is fuel. And
so for number one.
Number two is like unto it. Goose fat is
peculiar fuel. In some unknown way il
digests without heaviness, embarrassment
or plethora. There is no clogging ash
read uric acid. II burns In the body, a
pure stimulant of seeming unique quality
III winter.
Number three is more SO. Goose flesh, In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14
The Answer.

A PROPOS of Senator Depew's deciara-
ton that in his young days in Pee Ks
kill, marriages We're very happy and
comfortable on SloJ0 or so year. Mil
licent NJ. Atwood, n anti-sunragist
address in Baltimore said:
The cost of living is h CHER now than
In Mr. Depew's young days. and IL is
impossib { for a Bryn Mawr or Vassar
girl 10 I've a happy married life on 81 90
a year.
week bank clerk. He groaned and said:
You wiring my heart
I'D rather wiring your heart than
wiring your Clothes the Nassar girl
calmly answered"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

talking through her nose? Il will kill
myself she said. IF this continues"
1t continued. She mad a good summer at
Luchon and B.aEritz. When this autumn
set in, SHE said: 4-f will xii myself if il
begins again. OF course, her friends
Were worried. So, a very wise friend.
close to one OF the worlds great labora-
tories of physiological research, revealed
part of secret which was not his own
and put her on goose.
1T viii make me fat.' she worried.
All the same, she ate goose. three
goose meals per week. and hearty. She
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

yet more mysterious manner builds up
human tissues in a richer manner, needed
In cold weather. Goose in summer time
is nowise profitable. Goose in summer
time is harmful Yet more they say. In
analogy to certain diverse vegetable and
animal elements-the why's and where
fores are still but glimpses-there are ele-
ments in goose meat that seem to "un-
lock" certain secretions of the human
economy, like a key. and start the whole
machine to working with new force and
facility. And these are just the secre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

Here are strange facts, not yet ssveF
out Officially by science; but all passes
as ii the holiday goose habit of old
Europe were rooted in profound mys
teries.
When America created app'e day "
knew vel why we did ito encourag
apple cn4ture and refresh the masses wit.
a Wholesome fruit that growing besid
US, ON our own soil, is particularly use
full
When old Europe, way back in tn
mists OF time. created goose week, no on
knew wsy-they just ate goose anc
warmed up on goose grease,
Goose grease.
II you want to make proper Christina
gift to die most lovely girl in all the
world. buy her a goose. Or take her to
the restaurant and feed her goose breast
Buy bottle of goose grease TO pou
some OF Il into her soup before she goe
out. skarfng. Aye. ano;nt her nose wi.
goose crease. With her tea. give HI
a slice OF fo!e-gras. For her lunch. l.
her have gri led goose drumsticks.
she shall grow in beauty, strength an
grace. She won't even have a red nose.
All. goose, Friend of man and prett
girls,
Look you. sixty Paris little children o
the workinc. cIerking classes lived. yo-
might say. practica ~ all their watkins
hours In what they cal a creche-a kind
of kindergarten 10 take care of little ones
while mamma earns a salary somewhere
The kids get one good meal daily from
the city Well. when winter came or
last year half were fed coose two times
a week. and half were not. These latter
suffered usual coughs colds groups
fever biisters. sniffies. colds in the head
sore threats. angines. quipsies. crippes
and infiuenzaS-what do / know? I'm nc
doctor. {But they had the doctorD On
the other hand. the thirty children who
ate goose Were fresh. b ithe sturdy and
resistant. untouched. intact.
know young married thing, who was
so tsyiphlike. willowy. ethereal, poetic
and uuworldly, that she could dance the
tango half. q -niSbt, onsas lettuce sandwich
and1a glass a. champagne. She caught a
cold In the head last winter. And ther
another Then another. Can you think
Of Melusine blowing and blowing. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

AT goose.
Eat e 30 S G at
Christmas. to I'M
press il on your
mind.
Then eat m o r G
z 90 $ e at New
Years, to begin
the year Alright
Eat turkey for
sentiment.
Eat g o 5 e 10.
your life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

turkey. all are self-indulgent fare for
reckless splursing.
The wise child says: "Gooser'
Cures coughs. Gods and Groups.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14
BY Herbert Kaufman

You could have done your Christmas shopping month
You had the time You could have squeezed of November
day easily wrench out of Christmas It's just
that bad habit of elethat makes
eleventh hour shopper.
December 9th will find you with uord of things demand
ing attention With the holidays ahead will have to lie the
loose ends of all of responsibilities Don't wait Buy
You better afford be rehanded than tary
Besides you'll get better ualues There larger
nowbg stocksfeh clean merchandise but in days
the baubles gega.us be and tanish the dolls
grny the toys scratched and you will have rag-tag from
which to choose.
Isn't far better get the best since the will be the
for the Oors? And don't overlook confessed thouges
until the last horn blew Half the delight of
present the which inspires the giving. Who
feel that the gift bought in the of duty expe
diency?
The girl behind the counter appreciate your considera
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

Turkey is Frivolous
nEomparison = VIM
ter Holiday Bird of
All Europe Has Mar
vefeus Qualities-Eat
Goose, Say Physicians,
and They Give Their
Arguments.
Special correspondence OF The Star.
- PARIS. December 4, 1913
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

She's looking forward to week with all the dread
that experience conjure Chm doesn't spell to
her, Claus a sLaue driuer kindly old saint to the
uuorn who drudge truge through
the lanes of pretties and paythings
You remember last year when you pushed your through
the josng jam paused threshold of the get
good gasp of clean air. Your head swimming from the fd
atmosphere you had been nha for half hour
There bruises your body where had been slammed
against and abbed by frenzied elboUs
But the girl behind the had woe day of it. clear
through till nine o'clock regularly for weeks stretch and
wondered why she and careless when
rived the last and made fuss through dozen tables
for particular thing which you had ritten your list
month BEFORE You gro.uled and fmed and called the floor
walker protest against incompetent help
But you didn't think of her side and probably won't this
year. you've learned the real meaning of Christmas
while and spare well as share.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

Special correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, December 4, 1913