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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
MYSTERIES OF THE PLAGUE
Its Appearance and Disappearance
Have Never Been Satisfactorily
Explained
(Pall Mall Gazette

Why did the plague disappear from
England? Mr.. Bernard Shaw Incl
dentally asks this deeply interesting
question in a letter to the Nation and
we cannot say that we are satisfied
with his answer He says he knows"
that plague has been "eXtirpated" by
common sanitation" Until the recent
sporadic imported cases, the last rec
orded cases of plague in England oc-
Cured at Nottingham in 1867. In that
year plague vanished utterly from
England for two and a half centuries.
No one who has examined the records
of the seventeenth century can believe
that it was "extirpated" by sanitation.
Very gradually in the succeeding CEN
tury and a half plague withdrew from
Europe also. The date of its disap-
pearance from Cons ,antinople has been
fixed at about the year 1S41. 1t re-
NAMED endemic only in few lonely
places in the world, such as the nigh
lands of western Arabia, Yunnan in
China, and Mesopotamia Sanitation
though an excellent palliative, certain
Ily never drove the plague from Siam
boul and Cairo and the Southern Med
iterranean. any more than it did from
England The shrinkage of plague is
as great mystery as the recent fresh
outburst which is injecting the whole
world. Perhaps the explanation is that
in a few years bacteria may go through
the myriad Transforming processes OF
evolution which in the case of hum
anity take cons to complete
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
EUROPE'S NEW CAPITAL
london WORLDLY

Fifty years ago Berlin was the seat
of government of poor, disconnected
agricultural state, a North European
counterpart of Turin. 1t was a garrl-
son town and place of some political
importance, but it did not rank high
among the historical cities of Germany
Munich, Frankfort, Hamburg, to name
no other surpassed it in wealth, cul-
tune and interest, while in Prussia it,
self Koenigsburg robbed it of the his
torical association that should apper-
tain to the chief city of a state. The
Berlin of the sixties is a clear memory
to men still living, but the visitor viii
look in vain for traces of it. Fifty
years have wiped it out Modern
Berlin is the exact opposite of modern
Paris. Paris, after all, is very much
what Napoleon III left it. Berlin dates
from Sedan. Its interest lies in its
endeavor to embody the spirit of mod
ern Germany 1t is the outward ex-
preston of a tumult of SOIL.
Berlin's aim was to borrow all that
was best from other cities, shops and
palaces, and improve on them and fuse
them into something Enthusiastically
German. 1t has made its borrowings,
but it has failed to improve, it has
failed to fuse and it has failed to Ger
mamie. Berlin is a servant in his
masters clothes-a servant who has
put on an evening waistcoat, morn
ing coat and wedding tie. Every
where in Berlin you get the sense Of
ornament deliberately attempted by
people who do not understand it's real
nature, but believe that size and show
ness will compensate for lack of in
stinct. That is the note of Berlin, from
the series of plastic spasms in the
Siegesallee to the latest villa residence
beyond the Kurfurstemhamn. That is
why Americans like Berlin.
But in spite OF all, Berlin is great
city. What is more, it is an individual
city. It's life shows through it's tawdry
trappings. But only in one respect has
that life shaped itself into definite ex-
preston Berlin is the best organized
city in Europe. 1t runs on clockwork.
It's streets are straight and clean, its
trans swift and ubiquitous, it's great
shops miracles of concentration under
a single roof. Live in Berlin long en-
ough to get below its artificial surface
and you will understand whythe Ger
man finds in it the spirit which has
made his empire
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

College on new ways and better WAYS
of farming-a fact which proves that
this institution is not only instructinS
and inspiring the young men OF its
immediate student body but is also
bearing the light and power of educa-
ton directly to the masses of farmers
in every corner of the state. Equally
significant of it's work and purpose are
the Boys Corn Clubs, the Girls Can
ming clubs, and the farm demonstra-
ton agencies through which thousands
of people are reached and organized
for their own benefit and for the cause
of agricultural progress.
In addition to all these lines of pub
lie endeavor, the college is continually
issuing bulletins on subjects of timely
interest
specific information on all manner of
farm problems. In this field alone the
value of it's service is beyond reckon
ing.
What the College is doing for it's
enrolled students is indicated in the
fact that its attendance has increased
from a mere handful five years ago to
three hundred and fifty students in
the scholastic year now ending. 1T
has, indeed, established for this state
new ideal of agricultural education
and has exemplified the truth that
farming demands of the young men
who would follow it as high a degree
of culture and equipment as does
the law, engineering or any
other profession.
The State cannot deal too generous
ly with an institution that is doing
work so splendid and so practical as
this. The Legislature should bear in
mind the fact that every dollar appro-
priated to the College of Agriculture
yields vital return to all the people
of Georgia and that an institution
which is growing so rapidly as this
one and which is meeting so wide
range of demands naturally requires
increased facilities and increased fin
ancial means.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
CORPORATIONS STRONG HOLD on
ENGLAND
Springfield Republican,


The tremendous scale upon which
cooperative effort is carried on n
England is indicated in the figures
which have just been issued as blue
book analyzing the returns for the
year 1911. Cooperation, as represent
ed by the societies carrying on indus
tries or trades, by small societies Gin
GLIDING small holding associations en-
rolled at he end of 1911 a membership
of 1882 $50 A dispatch to the New
York Times states that the total ac-
counts of the societies dealt with in
the report aggregated $340, 445, 2S5, rep
an increase of approximately
s24 900 900 during 1911 1t is added
that the aggregate sales Of the ordin-
airy cooperative societies included in
the returns amounted to $3.50, l06,45G,
The figures are impressive as showing
how firmly the cooperative idea has
taken hold in England and become a
factor in the economic and social or
gani2aion. t b,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
THE SENATE'S SILLY SEASON,
(NeW York WORLDLY

To do Senator Charles e. Townsend
full justice, he perhaps did not realize
how infamous was the charge he was
making against the President of the
United States when he accused Mr..
Wilson of the coercion of Senators"
to support the policy of the admins
tration by the withholding of patron
age"
To a man brought up in Michigan
politics it probably seems the most
natural thing in the world that Pres
tdent should try to secure legislation
by bribing Senators with patronage to
vote as he thinks they should. To
Michigan, lumber and beet sugar are
Senate and House, Supreme Court and
Constitution They are the super-GoV-
eminent, the oversoul, the great two
headed joss; and he who does not daily
bow down and make his morning ORR
sons to them is hereto and an out
cast. Lumber and beet sugar would
use patronage or any other weapon to
club recalcitrants into subsection; why
should a mere President be more
scrupulous?
Of course Senator Townsend failed
to make his charge good No senator
had complained to him of being coerc-
ed. No reputable person had told him
that Senators were being coerced. He
spoke from common report" but cit
ed newspaper publication thereof, but
he would find it difficult to quote any
reputable newspaper which had made
the damaging assertion.
Yet on the strength of such unsup-
ported gossip. Senators who have al
ready testified are to be recalled at
the request of any single member of
the Senate Committee and asked
whether the President has tried to CO.
cree them! Truly the silly season has
begun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
THE TROUBLE IN WALL STREET
New York Sum-

What is going ON in Wall street is
simply this: The whole world has
come to understand that the facility
with which credit can be created and
expanded has been abused and that the
perfection of capitalizing process has
lent itself to an overdiscounting of the
future. Money is very tight. 1t may
be that the accident of war in Europe
and the war scare which spread from
it have caused a boarding of cash
which will return in time to the money
markets, but there are tokens that the
situation is more fundamental and far
reaching. In any case, it has been
signalized by a rapid spread of appre-
citation in the last few weeks, both
here and abroad of the limitations Of
money for the near future, and in ord
er to assist borrowers who had to be
accommodated there has been great
dislocation o. funds already placed.
What is going on in Wall street S
primarily the reflection of Europe 5
need for money. 1t was European
selling of our securities which con-
verted stock market advance into de-
cline a year ago, and it has been Eu-
ropes need for money which has be-
gun to make itself felt in the field of
general business. What is going on in
Wall Street is precisely what is going
on at practically every financial center
abroad, namely, an effort to release
funds from fixed commitments in order
to make money available for the re-
quirements of new borrowing. Sooner
or later a stage will be reached, if it
has not already been reached, when
this process of liquidation will set up
certain compensations; this is the
process which is under way and it IS
that which Wall Street was foreshad-
owing last winter when the idea pre-
vailed that its troubles were altogether
its own.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
Examination Fer Teachers.

The general examination will be
held June 10 and a. Examinations for
whites will be held at Furlow School
in Americus; for colored applicants at
colored public school building Mckay
hilD.
The books on teaching to be used as
basis for this examination, Manual of
Methods for Georgia Teachers, Hodges
Mature Study and Life" and Col
graves The Teacher and School,"
Examination will open Friday morn
ing, June 10, at $50 o'clock. All ap-
plicants should be on hand promptly.
w. S. MOORE, C. S. C.
ju4 d&w-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
PROGRESS FOR THE MASSES

Forces that serve to strike home 20
the hearts and lives of the masses are
forces that of themselves are worthy.
The impetus given to farm work ana
toward helping the farmer is a force
that means advancement for the hui
man family as a whole The following
plea for the State Agricultural College
from the Atlanta Journal is timely:
THE only enduring conquests," said
French philosopher, ARE conquests
made with the pl6Ggh.' Certain it la
that the progress or safe like Geor-
gia is very largely the progress of IT'S
agricultural interests. Successful
farming means buoyant commerce >.
thriving industries Sand all those val
ues that make a prosperous common
wealth and a contented people. Any
agency or institution, therefore, which
makes for the betterment of farming
methods and farm cond. items in Geor-
gia deserves the Lslrtiest good will
and support of every citizen whether
of the town or the country. Such an
institution is the State College of AS
riculture at Athens.
The important changes which the
past five years have witnessed in thu
agricultural status of Georgia-the
adoption of scientific and economic
methods of cultivation, the tendency
toward diversified crops and toward 3
larger production of food supplies-are
due chiefly, we believe, to the efficient
and far-reaching work of this institu-
ton. 1t has been well said that the
opportunity for such work lay in the
willingness of the Georgia farmer to
grow other tlan cotton, to raise live
stock and foodstuffs and to assert the
measure of independence within his
grasp. But in order that this recep-
tive spirit might be turned to practical
account, il was necessary that it Je
given due encouragement in the right
direction; and therein has lain the
wonderful usefulness Of the State Co..
lege of Agriculture.
Statistics show that during the past
year more than one hundred and
twenty thousand Georgia farmers at
tended the lectures and demonstra-
tons given by representatives OF the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
THE CITY'S WATERWORKS

A matter of more than trivial inl-
portance is the water supply of mod :
ern city, and this is an asset in which
Americas is especially fortunate and
blessed. The water supply here is
pure and it is ample for all needs of
the city now and for many years to
come.
1t is a stimulant of civic patriotism
for any citizen or resident of Ameri-
Gus to make visit to the city water
works and to inspect the neatness ami
order which prevails there The sys-
TEN in vogue at the local water works
does not permit of haphazard methods
or practices in regard to that vital ell
ement of the city's progress, a pure
and adequate water supply.
There is no room for insanitary
methods at the local water works. Ev-
cry modern aid in preserving the
purity of the water both at the source
and in the reservoirs is employed The
springs and the artesian wells are
kept clean and pure, giving the city
water supply that is probably not
equalIed in Georgia, certainly not sur
passed.
The excellence of the water works
system here is ample justification of
the methods and prevailing system un
der which such desirable results have
been obtained To City Engineer
Ansley and to Station Engineer Stew
ems belongs much praise for the good
results that have been obtained Back
of them, of course, is the wise policy
which has brought about a municipal
ity owend and operated water works
system, which has not only been a
strong contributing factor in public
health and comfort but has also been
instrumental in contributing largely to
the filling of the municipal purse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
SOUTH AMERICAS TURN NEXT
Boston Transcript

CBOStOn transcript
Jagnars of the Amafion, quake! Yes.
it's said to be quite possible that the
Colonel will go to Brazil on hunting
trip, his son, who is working for a ril-
road down in that hunters paradise,
having sent back such glowing az
counts of the game awaiting the trus-
ty. not to say rusty, rifle that Nimrod's
soul is aroused again with that fervor
which carried him post haste from the
White House to Mombasa. AS Alex
ander sighed for more worlds to con-
quer, so signs he for more jungles
When he thinks of all the floor space
in the Smithsonian Institution that
might be filled with glass cases con-
tanning stuffed specimens labeled ct.
R." the fever comes upon him again
And so. we are told, he is likely to
hit the trail again, and put South
America once and for all ON the map.
What vast stores of peccaries, ant eat
ers, sloths and armadillOs he may
bring back with him no man can tell.
The forests of the Amazon are stocked
with all sorts of strange and ferocious
beasts, who little know the fame that
awaits them in some musty museum.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
PLIGHT OF A CONGRESSMAN
portland Oregonian.)

Says the Louisville Courier Journal:
THE right to make an ass of oneself
is inalienable. But Mr.. Sisson should
bear in mind that when President Will
son asks him not to make popgun
speeches about war with japan he
merely urges him not to make an ass
of his country in the eyes of foreigners
who do not understand the unimport-
ance of such speeches as Mr.. Sisson g
capable OF making"
But what is poor Sisson to do IN
order to attract attention? If he were
to go quietly on his way, nobody would
notice him. He is incapable of any feat
of genius except in the direction oil
asinity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
SUMTER COUNTY FARMERS
WHY NOT you?

The Editor of the Cotton
and Cotton Oil News, of
Dallas, Texas, states in his
paper that he knows of a
farmer who sold ten bales
of certified cotton to the
Southern States Cotton Cor
pOratiOn when cotton was
lie. He received $45 cash
per bale and $50 in script.
He was offered 75c on the
dollar for his script, took it
and thus received $3.50 per
bale for his cotton, or 81 50
per bale more than the mar
ket price less 81 per bale for
Certification, or a net profit
over his neighbors who
sold by the old system of
$65.OO. We wish to say
that no one connected with
the corporation is permitted
to dis count script at any
time. What those who hold
scrip wish to do with it is
a matter entirely beyond
the control of the corpora
ton. Mr.. Farmer, don't
delay seeing the repreSen-
tatives of the Southern
States Cotton Corporation
in your county. List your
cotton at once.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

If the Colonel would distribute his
liquid refreshments and keep himself
in the cellar the country would be hap
pier.-Florida Times Union.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

1t is said that Mr.. Lyman Abbot
was always peaceful enough until he
met Colonel Roosevelt. So was the
republican Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
FOR SALE

4-Room Louse, comparatively new:
rent $40 month; price $1,000.
Groom house; large lot, barn; ST..
500; one-fourth cash, balance easy
payments.
5-Room house close in $1,65O
Groom house Jackson street, So
$50.
8 Vacant lots on line of sewerage,
at money making prices.
125 acres land, 6 miles of Americus:
$40 acre.
100 Acres miles of Americus, $40
acre; one-fourth cash.
500 Acres, miles of Ameriucs; 400
acres open on fine graded road; $50
acre; one-fourth cash.
500 Acres, one mile of railroad sta
ton; SO02acres open; 5-room house;
IS acre.
II you want q home, vacant lot or
farm come TO see me.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Those gents who were going to-
shoot the tariff fun Of G1oIes" don't ap.
rear to have got the range right this
time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Since ChristabeI Pankhurst left Lon.
den things there are so quiet that one
can almost hear an II drOp.-Coium-
bia State
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

II it had only gotten little colder
there would have been ice so the ice
man could have gotten in on the deal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

This Democratic administration
seems determined to develop patience
in some applicants for postOfice jobs
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Secretary Bryan will never be COM
PEELED 10 defend his temperance re-
eord-if he only sticks to grape juice.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Now let's leave off studying the crop
reports long enough to cheer the team
on to victory
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Amexicus should see that the Sea
board shops are even enlarged later
on
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

The pure faGd crusade here should
make every meal taste better
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Whoever heard OF winter here ri
green pBlnN and blackberry time?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

No frost for the crop of June brides
in Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13
OFFICIAL ORGAN
Americas, Ga. June IL, 1918

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Baltimore American.l
Now the year of work is done,
Comes a time of leisure,
Best time filled with promises
OF summer pleasure.
And on faces tired a smile
joins gentle humming
OF the good times not far off
Vacation days are coming.
In the Office, at the desk
Pens in busy fingers
Stop their scratching for a while
AS in heads there linger
Thoughts of walls transformed 10
woods.
With a brooks gay bubble,
Lolling by its messy side,
Stead of toll and trouble
In ears hardened to the sound
OF the city noise
Nay there steals cool fresh hint
OF the oceans Joys,
Of tao peace of far-off hills
Yes, all pleasures summing
Is the. thought now in the air
Vacation times are comingi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Great ease comes from little meddl-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-13

Few women adopt children for fad.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-07-01
2llberssSibinsftcns MHaire
1urd einen Ghef FIR eiuen betradlt'
lifeH Setraa erleoist.

GeItern fpurbs Is betdnnt, bnb Ger
adpitaIiIt SefferIon qipingiton, osHsn
Rome in gerbinbun8 NIT elmer off
faire nit Der 19Gbrieeu Wabeline III
bers, 1920 groaotpdp. gsnonnt por-
ben mar. nm ale gesen i'm einsuIsis
tenben S6ritie a63upsnoen, Elm aoms
promiB abeihIoFsn bdbe. Sbgleih in
Der Sade nod ssine geriht!itlen
Shriite unisrnommen tporbsu tporen,
Iol iih Serr 2ipinsTton bersit srtIdrt
boben, BEN gertreter bes Wdbtens.
benz iebigen Rifter Goserape, IN grs
lsoiguna aIIsr fsrueren aripriife eis
nsn gbed fir einen betrdttlihen Be
irag, es b<ibt $25, 900 gu iibergsbeu
Die anasIeasnbeit tuurbe bereits or
Samitng. dis 5err gosgrdoe ben Ghed
erbieIt ,snbgiiliig srleoigt uH0 ale Sc
tbeiliaten parteieH iolleu fif NIT ben
aompromib sufrieoen srtIGrt haben.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-07-01

Mu Der Court nn0 Sldce StrnBe
foIlioirte aeitern Die anlbulans Ses
5i. Sran3isfus Soipitals nit eineH
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ShaoeIbrufl uno anoere 9erIeslingen
o1pontrng. nelfe 3iueiiel on leine
3ieoerbcriteauna nuifoutmen loiien.
Our 3eit oes llnioIles mar Sinnborit
alein in Der anibu!ans. Tas aiito.
mobil. ipelhes r. s. SdlHetoer uor
Rapio Rin Rod6, 9riee 5iIl, geborte
mno BON oen csnbaber ielbit gelenfi
.uaroe. iabte Die aiiBeuadHe eines
9oroerraoes Der airtbiIlan3. fuooitrd
9inoborit bon benz Sis aeIhlelloeri
nnroe. Ter autid,er ntad)te einen re
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.uno iiel olsoann nit bem aopf an
cen fsabroanm Ter Berleete ruuroi
benz itaotiid,en aranfenhauie einaelie
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Der aRtfher 3. aino6OrIt. tpelttl
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