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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31
HON. MARTIN Y. CALVIN

Our sister city, Waycross, is to be
congratulated on having Hon. Martin
V. Calvin as resident and as secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce.
In the list of Alumni of Emory Col
lege, Martin V. Calvin's name is to be
found in the class of 1862, along with
the names of twenty-six other students
who were in the Confederate army and
at the front the year they were to
have graduated. (The college con-
ferred their degrees later) 1t was at
the suggestion of Mr.. Calvin that the
president of Emory had a Confederate
flag beautifully engraved, and publish
ed in the catalogue along with the
names of the members of the class.
While Mr.. Calvin wears the Cross O.;
Honor he is yet one of the youngest
and most energetic men in the state.
In the business of publicity agent, he
is in no new work. For years he has
been effectively telling the world,
through magazines and newspapers,
that Georgia is on the map.
Recently Editor Clark Howell, in
The Constitution, pays Mr. Calvin the
following deserved compliment.
A Pioneer Publicist.
The Constitution congratulates the
Chamber of Commerce of Waycross, Ga.
upon having enlisted the services IF
Martin V. Calvin as its secretary.
Mr.. Calvin enjoys me unique distinc-
ton of being a pioneer in Georgia ia
the matters of organized publicity TO.
cities. Many years ago, in cooperation
with the late Patrick Walsh, Mr.. Cal
vim conducted a publicity bureau for
Augusta and the territory contiguous.
He pitched and maintained that work
on a scale that set a precedent for all
Georgia, and that undoubtedly gave an
impetus to propaganda Of this nature
in every part of the South.
Today Mr.. Calvin is better equipped
than ever. No man in Georgia exceeds
him in command of statistics and acts
bearing on commercial, agricultural
and industrial Georgia. He is a hard
worker, enjoys a large acquaintance
with public men, and should be of in
valuable service in the development
work for which the wiregrass is justly
famous. No better selection could
have been made by Waycross.
Americas friends extend congratula.
tons to Mr. Calvin in his chosen field
of work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

Sleeping cars between Americas and
Atlanta on trains leaving Americas
10:49 p. M, arriving Atlanta CPS a. m.
Connects at Macon with sleeping cars
to and from Savannah.
Pullman sleeping cars between Chi
cago, St Louis and Jacksonville on
Seminole Limited" leaving Americas
for Jacksonville 1890 a. m. Leaves
Americas for St. Louis and Chicago,
via Columbus and Birmingham at 1855
q. m.
For further information apply to s..
B. Ellis, Ticket Agent Americas, or
John w. Blount, District Passenger
Agent, Macon, Ga. adyt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

A Chicago professor claims TO have
discovered that love is a disease sim
liar to indigestion. We have known
that all along-the only trouble is
telling 'tother from which.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31
RAT BITE IMPERILS LIFE

Evansville, Ind, May 30.-Bitten on
one toe by rat while she slept, Mrs.
Earl Moser is suffering from blood
poisoning. Physicians say death Is
probable.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

Americas, Ga May 81, 1914
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

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There are things to remember and
things to forget;
There are things to be glad of and
things to regret.
Could we only remember the things
that are good,
And forget all the evil, as, plainly, we
should;
Then, instead of repining we'd always
be glad,
And would only regret there was once
" that word B AD.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31
Which Is 1t; House or Home
CBv Wightman F. Meltonl

Home is not place; home is
folks" says Thomas Whipple Connally
We do not even live at our house"
said the young recluse, Nathinel
Hawthorne.
The difference is between the Con-
nallys and the Hawthornes. After the
death Of her husband, HAWTHORNE
mother did not even take her meals
with her children.
We often think the loneliest place in
all the world is the old home, after the
loved ones have died or moved away,
and no one is left to give a word or a
kiss Of welcome. Such a place, how
ever, is a seventh heaven compared
with the place where an unharmful
mother allows perpetual loneliness
among her children. A new home, in
a distant and unfamiliar city, or even
in a strange country. is home, if the
right kind of mother, or wife, or sis
ter, or daughter be there, with an eye
to mark our coming and look bright
er when we come"
Possible the most widely known and
most popular Of the songs of senti-
ment is John Howard Payne's Home,
Sfeet Home" Home has been, is YET,
and will ever be, the most universally
appealing theme of song and story.
The human heart rebels at the mere
suggestion, House, Sweet House"
To be courteous. forbearing, and pa
tient, away from home, is studied as
carefully as fine art. There are those
who expect peace and pleasure at
home to come by chance, and without
/ systematic cultivation. That which
becomes second nature away from
home, can become second nature at
home. There is no courtesy of social
/ life that hasn't place in the home as
well as elsewhere.
Shylock Jessica said to Launcellot
Cubic, Our house is hell" Her say
ing it was hell, however, did not nee
essarily make it So 1t was not hell 10
Shylock. The inside of a Sunday
school would be as big a hell to a
Iseoundrel as bowery dive would be to
a snow-white virgin.
The point is this: Shylock's house
was hell to his daughter. She had
grown up without mother-possibIy
without remembering her mother. Did
she not give her mothers engagement
ring in exchange for monkey? Jes-
! sica was reared in a house, not HON
Her father was more concerned with
ducats than with daughter. While he
boarded his lucate he neglected TO
teach his daughter the traditions OF
her race; she eloped with frivolous
gentle, carelessly putting by the
thought of the heinous sin that made
her ashamed to be her fathers child.
| The Issac of York and the Rebessa,
iof SCOTS Iyanhoe, are big improve
ments upon Shylock and Jessica, their
/ prototypes, but they cannot make US
forget that Jessica said, Our house is
he'll"
Since the chief purpose of all human
endeavor is to get, or keep, home,
and be happy is it not worth
3 y
hold to ask himself, or herself, rs our
house helH If it is hell, am 1 the
devil, withal?"
O. the house may pot be stately and
the windows may be small;
The yard may be quite scanty, with no
fountain there at all;
There may not be a lowered path
front front door to gate;
The place may not be large enough to
call it an Estate"
But if within that quiet realm there is
no petty strife,
Nor any of the taunts and jeers that
! crush and cripple life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

You can draw person out and
make him interesting-but a sermon
seldom.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-05-31

The Sweetness of low price seldom
equals the bitterness Of poor quality"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

From the Charleston News and Courier
 Metchnlkoff belongs to Russia, but he Is now resident of France. There are some very great scientists in France, but since Pasteur died Metchnikoff has been regarded as the most notable scien- tific figure in that country. When, there- fore, Metchnikoff expresses the opinion that before long tuberculosis is going to disappear from civilized lands and ulti- mately from the whole earth. the proph- ecy is not to be pooh-poohed.
 Yet it will be. One of the character istics of this age and probably of every other-is to praise and glorify the ex- perts and then discredit and disregard what they say. Man insists on thinking for himself. He will not let others think for him, even when those others are better qualified than he to think about certain things because they have given special study to those things. Therein man is foolish and illogical and unscien- tific Metchnikoff is not infallible. but lie knows a great deal more about tuber- culosis than the average man knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Regarding scientific Farming

"Gf%at credit is due the United States government for the farm demonstra- ton work of its agricultural depart ment, and here in Alabama much credit also is due the state department of az riculture; but we must not fail in our appreciation of the efficient service rem dered by the Alabama Polytechnic in- stitute at Auburn said man who keeps up with husbandry
 Every branch of agricultural chem istry has been pushed at Auburn, and not only so, but the farm demonstra-
 tion work there has been of unques- tionable benefit to Alabama's S great az ricultural interests. Auburn has cer-
 tainly stimulated intensive farming and 1t is this progressive method that accounts in large measure for Ala bama's increased production per acre. Tt used to be that third of a bale of cotton to the acre was the rule Today he is poor farmer who does not make half bale of cotton to the acre, and scores and scores of farm CTS are now producing a bale to ths lacre. Few applied sciences have don, so much to add to the wealth of the state as agricultural chemistry and en ltomology"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Next Annual Meeting

As many inquiries have been made of the date of the next annual meeting of the United States Good Roads associa- ton, l will state that the association was invited to meet in Tulsa, Okla, by an enthusiastic majority at it's last annual convention" said Secretary J. A. Roun- tree. ''The invitation was accepted and the naming of the date was left to the president, Senator John Fl Bankhead, and the Tulsa Commercial club Now in- formation has been received that it will be convenient for the association to meet in that city after the first of Novem- Der.
 Just as soon as an exact date that will suit the people of Tulsa is settled upe..,,,s President Bankhead will issue af,.roo,a nation and active proyotion, and adver- Using of the meetisa .,, - -, aHe @e'e ., the greatest cops VIII start. one, one Q, Q, Tplsa IF ,a '''a, ,MeaYerprising southwestern city, t,,,o,,,,.,~ Any good roads advocates .e. ,:ssf5ut the country are quite eager Eo attend this convention and also to have an opportunity to visit the state or Oklahoma, and especially Tuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
RICE INSTITUTES PLIGHT

From the Boston Transcript.
 The endowment fund of @10,000000 which
 the murdered millionaire, William Rice,
 left for the establishment of a great edu-
 cational institution at Houston, Texas,
 is bringing in a large annual revenue.
 The fund now amounts to $10,670.SH. ac-
 cording to recent audit of the property of which it is composed. The William
 M. Rice institute has been constructed
 on an elaborate scale, big staff of high priced instructors employed. and all is in readiness for teaching several thousand students. But the sessions las year were attended by a mere handful Of youths and the magnificent buildings had de- presslve emptiness. The revenue from the endowment fund during the F months ending April 30, 1914. reached total of $l7s.l while the expenditures during l the same period aggregated $14.7o6. The l Sl0O00,000 fund is invested in farm lands flown lots. bonds notes. stocks and bank ! aertificates of deposit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

1 the organization has been on an army footing. The government furnishes the volunteer with his uniform and all his equipment, and as a result of the application of the regular army dis cipline to the guard, these soldiers belong to all intents and purposes to the regular establishment. While they are still without pay except when in actual service, it is thought the time is not far distant when every guardsman will receive small sum every month. Of course, the very fact that the national guard is closely connected with the regulars makes for efficiency. Before the volunteers became so highly organized 1000, ,000 men would not have been as effective for war duty as the 100000 or 110,- 900 national guardsmen of today.
 General Wood was cordially greeted In Montgomery yesterday. No officer of his rank ever before went out on a tour of national guard inspection. A man of attractive personality and long experience, in addition to his high po- sition, must have impressed the Ala bama infantry brigade now holding its annual encampment. Every guards man was on his mettle, and General Wood will doubtless be able to make a good report to the department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Park Concert Tonight

Memolis band will play at Capitol park tonight instead of Friday night, as here- tofore. The next Sunday afternoon con cert will be given at Fairfield, and as the days are growing appreciably shorter it will begin at o'clock instead of 4:30.
 If we have fair weather next Sun day there will be an enormous crowd at Fairfield to hear Memoli's band" said a prominent citizen. Fairfield itself has grown large enough in population to pro- vide an audience of considerable size, but in addition to the inhabitants of that industrial city, Ensley will be large ly represented, and so will central Bir- mingham. All the programmes arranged by MT. Memoli contain various styles of music, and understand that his Fair field offering will be exceptionally attrac- tive"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ANNE AsKEw

his vengeance. Upon receiving re- fusal he threw off his gown and Exercised himself the office of executioner.
 When Anne was released from the rack very limb was dislocated and she tainted through pain. After she recovered she remained sitting on the ground for two hours calmly reasoning with her ter mentors. She was carried back to her confinement, and pardon and life were of fered to her if she would recant; but she refused, and was condemned to the stake.
 A report having been circulated that the prisoner had. yielded. Anne wrote let ter to John Lascelles, her former tutor. and to the public, justifying herself on the charge She also drew up confession of her faith and an attestation of her in- nocence, which she concluded by a prayer for fortitude al d perseverance gentle man who saw her the day previous to her execution observes that amidst all her pains ard weaknesses, being unable to arise or stand without assistance, her ex- ignatson showed a sweetness and serenity inexpressibly affecting.
 At the stake letters were brought to her from the chancellor exhorting her to recant and promising her pardon. Avert ing her eyes from the paper she replied that .I came not hither to deny my Lord and Master" The same proposition was made to the four prisoners who were to suffer with her, but without success. While Shaxton, an apostate from his prin- ciples, harangned the prisoners, she lis tened attentively. nicely. distinguishing even at that terrible moment, between what she thought true and what erron- eous.
 Anne Askew suffered martyrdom on July 16, 1546, in the e6th year of her age. She was so weak that she had to be car ried in a chair to the stake at which she was burned. She was tied to the stake with a chain around Ter waist which sup ported her body On bench under St. Bartlfolomew's church sat Lord Chancellor yrlothesley, the Dukes of Norfolk and Bedford the lord mayor and others, r. witness the shameful tragedy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Fears GrOundless

In passionate opposition to the idea of transferring the technical depart ment of the University of Alabama to Birmingham, the Tuscaloosa News prints long and controversial edi- torial.
 It is apparent that the News is poisoned by suspicion that Birming- ham is coveting the ancient institu- tion of learning as whole, and that it is shrewdly preparing to acquire it, department by department. Such fears are groundless. The Tuscaloosa editor should have remem- bered that Birmingham declined the capitol of the state because its re- moval from Montgomery would have destroyed. Montgomery. On account of similar regard for Tuscaloosa, Birmingham will continue to deny it. self possession of the university.
 The News, in support of it's argue ment that the technical ,deysss = - =. of the university shouls pa'.n.sn' p .ra ferred to Birmingf NV Tuscaloosa is ase efnam' declares that # toaS,,;oopsf sfN ideal spot for study ho w;E subjects as is Birming- STth pardonable pride it points os,fzs coal mine, and to it's furnace. mn course, in his patriotic fervor, the | editor of the News, in comparing Tus- caloosa to Birmingham, committed a Imaginable blunder. He might as well have based contention that the medi- cal department of the university should be removed from Mobile to Tuscaloosa on the ground that Tusca- loosa has neglected spot" where "souls once pregnant with celestial fire," are laid.
 Seriously, Birmingham's thought in suggesting the transferrence of the engineering department of the uni versity to this city where abundant and incomparable opportunities are
 offered for the study of technical sub-
 jects, was entirely unselfish. Bir-
 mingham would not for any considera-
 ton do injury to the university,
 Therefore the shapeless fears which
 infest the soul of the editor of the
 News have reason to Hay them.
 selves' Birmingham will ever be ready to aid-never to injure-Tusca- loosa in its every worthy effort, anc 7 will continue so to be even when that period in the 'far and distant future is reached in which the Druid City may be an industrial rival of this : Magic City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF RICHARD SAVAGE
THE HEROIC sHAMAN,s WHISTLE

THE HEROIC SEAMAN'S WHISTLE Minna Irving. in Leslie's.
 When the German bark Hera went on the rocks near Falmouth last November the mate lashed himself and seven of the surviving crew to the mast, so are ranging the positions of the men as to give the best chance for life to those of the lowest rank. The only distress sig nal was his whistle which he blew until. dying, he passed it to the next man who when his turn came passed it to the next. and so on until the fourth man received it and was up to his waist in water when rescued Press Item. With trumpets blowing down the years
 From Flodden's crimson field And bugles blown at Waterloo
 When Ney began to yield, And flies that played at Lexington
 When Freedoms hour was ripe, A seaman's whistle shrill and clear
 Uplifts it's treble pipe. It was the Hera's gallant mate
 Who blew it in the dark, When night and death and tempest seixeA
 The sinking German bark; And when above his dautless head
 Arose the seething tide,
 Reached up and gave it to the man
 Above him ere he died. A hero was the next in turn Who blew and passed it up, When at his lips he tasted too The oceans brimming cup: And heroes were the rest who sent The whistle up the mast, Until the lifeboat heard, the call And found the wreck at last They had no shrieking siren there To signal to the night, But made the tiny whistle serve To tell their tragic plight They proved it is the little things That count if we but try, And showed us how the Fatherland Has taught its sons to die Twas such intrepid spirits manned | The Viking ships of yore And left a sailors Iliad Inscribed on every shore
 So while the world delighte to praise
 Teh brave in song and story,
 seaman's whistle evermore
 Shall sopnd ncts of glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
The Home Products Show

The Birmingham Ad club which an- Nounced recently Home Products ex- position to be held under its auspices the last week in August, was about to postpone the enterprise until No- vember because of the apparent apathy of the manufacturers, but it has decided to make special effort to have large number of exhibitors listed between now and Saturday. The time which had been set for the projected exposition and which is still scheduled was regarded as particular ly propitious, as the North Alabama Merchants association will hold its annual meeting here then.
 Encouraged by last years initial exposition of home products the Ad club felt that it would be reasonable to expect a much larger and moreI varied display this year; but to m it worth while every manu3 "A in and around Birminghanz a',sie ei represented by tastef1l
 The Chamber qatis"al exhibit. ;ts nas.ss Commerce can by Oral support do much to aid the undertaking in question. President Sparrow of the Ad club hopes to have the active cooperation of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers associa tion, and it may be taken as matter of couse that the Rotary club will render valuable assistance. Wher Rotarians "get behind" any civic movement here signal enlargement k assured.
 Industrial Birmingham owes it to itself to respond promptly and ade- quately to the Ad clubs invitation tc participate in the exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
A Difference m Three Mon,n.

There was much business depression throughout the country last spring, but prosperity is much in evidence today, ' said W. s. Garthwright of Philadelphia.
 Tn April the country was full of pessi- mists who talked as if good times would never come again, and depression con tinued until about the middle of June, when bumper crop talk began to cheer the despondent men of the business world. Yet, notwithstanding the government re- ports indicating record breaking wheat crop and very large cotton crop the financial district of New York continued 10 De bearish. But now everybody seems 10 realize that an era of unprecedented prosperity is in sight. There is hardly a we'll informed banker or manufacturer who does not feel that by next October at the latest business will be more active than it has been at any time within the last few years''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
CHURCH BUILT FROM TREE rom the Christian Herald.


 In Santa Rosa, Cal, is Baptist church building, the product of single giant redwood tree which grew in the neigh borhood of Guerneville, a few miles dis 'tant from where it now stands.
 Not only is the main structure built from the one tree but the interior fin ishings-except the floor. which is of pine -are of the same wood. beams pulpit and seatings, not particle of plaster or other similar material being used in this remarkable building
 The tree when sawed yielded 7s.0OO feet of lumber. and after the building was finished in every particular enough ma terial was left to manufacture several thousand shingles. besides quantity oi scantlings. joists and other dimension stuff.
 So carefully were the details planned and so skillfully was the framework pu, together that the builders of this one. tree church declared 1t might be al enduring as the old Saxon churches of England built centuries ago out of ma. tive timber and still in use. It is Gothis in style. finished beams inside.