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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25

An entire night on trains, or waiting
for them at stations, brought me, long
before daylight, to the nearest point
by rail, when two government officials
took charge of me and | was conveyed
to the site, where / was to camp in
government tents until l could see
something of the reservation.
Set In the Foothills.
Eight miles over good roads led t.
the foothills that form a setting for
the new city. The valley is backed by
the more distant range of mountains,
which change their garb of color be-
tween daylight and darkness, so fire.
uuently as to throw almost a spell OF
witchery over the landscape. From
this area of 900 square miles, II
square miles have been surveyed as
the actual site of the city. The spot
will certainly become of intense inter-
est to those who watch the daily build
ing of a new and modern city, spring
ing from the very mountains of this
oldest of old lands. /
In five days we drove 100 miles over
the reservation. Viewed from every
point, beauty increased and possibili-
ties enlarged with each hour of driv-
ing. The secretary of the department
CHANGED to be on the spot, also the
urveyor-in-chief of the common
wealth. Maps, books, designs, litera-
ture, explanations and details were
all on such large scale as to almost
bewilder the mind of a mere woman.
An immense gorge in the mountains
will form a water supply of such vast
extent and capacity that the water
question of the city, should the ~opu-
lation reach unheard-of numbers, is
settled at the very outset. This is the
great advantage of the whole situation
the certainty of a water supply will
strike note of security. The district
will be governed something after the
methods of the District of Columbia.
The people who dwell within the boun-
daries will, practically, be disfran-
chised. No land will be sold and the
government will manufacture all ma
terial to be used in building the city
at various places under the supervi-
sion of that body.
Two hundred miles of splendidly
built roads are now completed. and
work will progress probably slowly,
for lack of funds, but the completion
of the city is an assured fact. The
present generation of builders will not
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25

future city and supervisor OF
its erection is an American. Jessie
Alderman, F. R. G. s., thus tells
Of the great project and her visit to
the chosen site, in the Pittsburgh Dis
patch:
When the colonies of Australia fed
Grated and the country established a
commonwealth government, they nat
urally bethought themselves as to
what they should do with it. From
the day of federation, for almost ten
years, the matter of the locality OF
the capital was vexed question,
which hinged entirely upon sectional
jealousy and ambition. The bitter
fight waxed fierce between the states
of Victoria and New South Wales as
to whether Sydney or Melbourne
should have the honor and advantage.
In order to bring harmony out OF
chaos, it was determined to found a
city In some new place where Aus
tralian building ideas and characters
tics could be nodded and fashioned in
to monument of local coloring. The
country in general aspect fairly pull
stated with possibilities of originality
The great soul of Australia breathes
an atmosphere all it's own. Still there
is nothing whatever purely Australian
in type OF character which the people
have produced-neither in art, litera-
ture, architecture or poetry. OF course,
the country is young, but, even so,
there are no evidences of originality,
with the exception of the idea of build
ing a great city in waste places
Yass-Canbarra Valley Chosen.
The question Of a national capital
somewhere at sometime having been
settled, the struggle Of where" be-
came positively bitter. AS New South
Wales was the oldest colony, a sense
of fitness led the government to agree
that the Mother State was justly en-
titled to the city, provided the state
donated the territory on which it was
to stand, specifying that sovereign
rights should be vested in the federal
government.
At last majority vote selected the
valley of Yass-Canbarra district. as
the spot where the unborn city should
be built. BY strange irony which
often weaves itself about the individ
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25

ual, one of the members who most
bitterly denounced the situation of the
site by exclaiming, THE wastes are so
bleak, the spot so barren and dry, that
a crow never flies across the place
without carrying water bottle" be-
came head of the department under
which the city will be built.
The report of the commission ap-
pointed to visit various sites, says this
of Yass- Canbarra: ut forms a per-
feet amphitheater in which the city
would be surrounded by glorious hills"
It was decided the world should
have a chance to compete in a plan
to lay out the city. Descriptions of
the area were worked out to the most
minute detail. They were drawn by
the surveyor general to the common
wealth and sent to the British consuls
of the world, with the result that hun
dreds of plans from many countries
poured into the department before the
time limit expired. These were stud
led and sorted out by a committee,
which reduced the real competing
number to about half dozen. There
were three prizes offered. The first
was carried off by an enterprising
young architect from Chicago, Walter
Burley Griffin, who is under three
years engagement to the Australian
government to put his plans into exc
cution.
In order to see something of this
greatly discussed place, l decided to
pay a visit to the territory and look
over the very beginning of things for
myself.
The site is still rather cut off from
the most speedy communications by
travel; but when the railway connects
the place with other lines, it will form
the trunk between Sydney and Mel
bourne, shortening the present dis
lance by some eighty miles.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25
CHAPTER II.
Julia Redmond.

He remembered all his life the first
dinner at the Chateau d'Esclignac,
where from the terrace he saw the
Rhone lying under the early moon
light and the shadows falling around
the castle of good King Rene
AS he passed in, his sword clanking
for he went in full dress uniform to
dine with the Marquise d'Esclignac-
he saw the picture the two ladies made
in their drawing-room: the marquise
in a very splendid dress (Which he
never could remember) and her niece,
young lady from a country whose
name it took him long to learn to pro
nounce, in dress so simple that of
course he never could forget it! He
remembered for a great many years
the fall of the ribbon at her pretty
waist, the bunch of sweet peas at her
girdle, and he always remembered the
face that made the charm of the pic
ture.
Their welcome to him was gracious
The American girl spoke French with
an accent that Sabron thought be-
W'AoCA AhoA1 NhoA MN 81 anu hC pul dolOC
some of his reserve and laughed and
talked at his ease. After dinner (this
he remembered with peculiar distinct
ness) Miss Redmond sang for him, and
although he understood none of the
words OF the English ballad, he learned
the melody by heart and it followed
with him when he left II went with
him as he crossed the terrace into the
moonlight to mount his horse; 1t went
home with hsn; he hummed it, and
when he got up to his room he hummed
it again as he bent over the little roll
OF flannel in the corner and fed the
puppy hot milk from a quill
This was a painstaking operation
and required patience and delicacy,
both Of which the big man had at his
finger-tips. The tune of Miss Red
mond's song did for a lullaby and the
puppy fell comfortably to sleep while
Sabron kept the picture of his eve
niAg's outing contentedly in his mind.
BuS later he discovered that he was
not so contented, and counted the
hours when he might return.
He shortly made a call at the Cha
teau d'Esclignac with the result that
he had a new picture to add to his col
lection. This time it was the picture
Of lady alone; the Marquise DIES
clignac doing tapestry While Sabron
found that =" had grown reticent
again, he listened for another step and
another voice and heard nothing; but
before he took leave there was a hint
Of a second invitation to dinner.
The marquise was very handsome
that afternoon and wore yet another
bewildering dress. Sabro~'s simple
taste was dazzled. Nevertheless. she
made a graceful picture. one of beau
ty and refinement, and the young sol
der took it away with him. AS his
horse began to trot, at the end of the
alley, near the poplars at the lower
end Of the rose terrace he caught a
glimpse of white dress Qua aubtsoly
simpler dress than that VIZ by
Madame d'Esclignac).
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25
CHAPTER M.
A Second Invitation.

Il don't think, mon Capitaine, that II
is any USE Brunei told his master
Sabron. in his shirt-sleeves, sat be-
fore table on which, in a basket, lay
Michettes only surviving puppy. 1t
was month old. Sabron already knew
how bright ito eyes were and how al
Turing its young ways.
BE still, Brunei" commanded the
officer You do not come from the
south or you would be more sanguine.
Pitchoune has got to live"
The puppy's clumsy adventuresome
feet had taken him as far as the high
road, and on this day, as it were in
order that he should understand the
struggle for existence, a bicycle had
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25
GENERAL VIEW OF THE NEW CITY


live to see the city in any sense COM
pleted. 1t must be the labor of many
years, but it is the hope of Australia
that gradually there will appear upon
those hills one master-stroke of srchi-
lecture after another until a world-tri-
umph will stand in the form of mod
ern city, suited to the climate, Of
which the oncoming generations will
be proud.
Prosperity Is Astounding.
Australia is a great land, country
of sunshine, fruit and flowers; an
island so rich in natural resources as
to astound the world with its recent
years of unprecedented prosperity.
Wealth abounds. 1t is the natural
home of the working man, the field Of
opportunity for women, reeking in
spirit of undirected democracy, ex-
perimenting in impossible and wild
legislation, for which the people must
pay in one way or another.
The intention is to make it work
ing mans paradise; not bad idea at
all. No reason why the toiler should
not have his just share OF production
he should; but unframed. inexperi-
enced men cannot hop from unsuc-
cessful ventures of his own into
skillful management of the business Of
the nation. There is a great lack of
leaders. There are plenty of clever men
in the country, but politics has a bad
reputation. Able, capable men decline
to become mixed up in it.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25
Reciprocal.

Woman" says DR.. Anna Shaw.
Fever has been mans companion.
sharing his exile, espousing his cause
and buckling on his armor." And man
ever has been womans companion,
sharing her happiness, espousing her
when she would have him, and button
ing her up the back
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To prevent postage stamps from
sticking together. rub them over tho
hair before putting them away
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-25

USTRALIA is building for it.
self a wonderful capital city
in a region hitherto uninhab-
tied, and the designer of this
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
CAMBRIDGE JOINS
SEEING GEORGIA"

CAMBRIDGE, Ca, Sept. 2S-Bain-
bridge Boosters, in six automobiles,
will join the Seeing Georgia" tour.
lists in Macon on next Thursday and
tour the northern part of the stat
with the other cars gathered for the
rum by the state chamber of com
merce.
The cambridge cavalcade will be
headed by Mayor Callahan's big Pack
ard which has been designated the Of
fetal Board of Trade car. President
Joe" Wheeler, and secretary Quimby
Melton will travel in this car. The
five other automobiles entered will
carry prominent citizens to Macon
and from then ON through the north
ern part of the state.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28

our land will remain free forever from
ruinous wars and almost equally cost
ly and ruinous competition in build
up and maintaining great armies and
military establishments which have so
wrecked and devastated Europe. The
headquarters of the Navy League are
situated in the Southern Building,
Washington, D. C. and information
concerning the League will be gladly
furnished to anyone interested.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28

Sign and send to the Membership
Secretary, Womau's Section of the
Navy League, Southern Building
Washington, D. c.
The Navy League is a non partisan
patriotic organization composed o.
private citizens ganded together to
work for navy which will be suffici-
etnly large to render invasion and wa
I'M this country impossible. They
believe that if the American Navy is
sufficiently powerful to guard the
sea at all times no foreign foe can ev-
er seriously menace this country and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28

every other country, the fountain
head of true patriotism, true couragg
and true Nationalism. The spirit Of
Dolly Madison, Martha Washington
and Nancy Hanks still lives in the
land When the test comes American
women will tell their husbands and
sens to so serve their country and
come back with the shields on llem
just as bravely and just as cheerfLlly
as did the Spartan women ages ago.
am with the new woman's movement
for patriotism and National Defense
heart and soul, and think that such a
movement should have been started
long ago."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
AMER|CUS WILL
SEND RECRUITS
ASSIST GREECE
RESERyISTS HERE IN READINESS
ANSWER CALL.

In Americas colony of Greeks ara
several reservists of the national
guard of their native land, as we'll as
several others who, while perhaps not
subject to military duty, are ready to
respond quickly to the call of their
fatherland, if Germanized Bulgaria
starts trouble, as it is expected she
will do, if not cowed by fear by the
armed attitude of her plucky neigh
bors, Greece and Roumania.
More than a dozen Greeks here
could leave at short notice to fight the
Germans and Bulgars, vile from ev-
cry Georgia town and city there are
ready to shut up cafes, close down fruit
stands and go home to fight for Greece
During the war in which Greece
trimmed the wings of the sick man of
the orient-Turkey- and then, with
Servia and Roumania, gave Bulgaria
thrashing which she still recalls
several Americas Greeks shut UP shop
here and went home to fight, serving
we'll Their country throughout the war.
And they Will do it again, if called
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
Mrs. f. A. Hawkins Named
On National Committee
For The Many League

number Of patriotic women in Wash
ington whose husbands were members
of the mems Navy League who thought
that women ought to have some part
in the National Defense movement
exclusively their own. The Sections
call to the women of America to rally
to the cause of patriotism instantly
struck responsive keynote in the
hearts and imignations of tie patri-
otto women all over the country, anC
the Section has spread like wild-flre
Letters have been received from prom
inent women all over the country, en-.
Enthusiastically endorsing the League.
and memberships have been pouring
in at the rate of several thousand 2
day. At present, although the work
has been in progress only a little
more than two weeks, the Section has
over ten thousand active working
members and enthusiasm runs high
ut is time that the women of this
country freed themselves from the
sigma Of standing for peace at any
price, lack of preparedness and ma
tional cowardice, and rallied to the
standard of patriotism and American
ISM as did their mothers and grand.
mothers in 1776 and 1872" gays a typ
ical letter from Miss Grace NJ. Pierce,
Registrar of the D. A. R. American
women today are like the women o.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28

Mrs. e. A. Hawkins, of Americas,
has been appointed a member of the
National Committee of the Woman s
Section of the Navy League of the
United States to oragnize the loca'
work of that body is arousing the wo
men of the United States to the neces-
sity in the present days stress anG
peril to work for the ends of patriotism
and National Defense. She will act in
conjunction with body of over one
thousand of the most prominent wo.
men in every section of the United
States, numbering among them Mrs
William Cunning Story, President Gen
eral of the D. A. R., Mrs. Daisy Nc.
Lourin Stevens, President General OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy
Mrs. George Dewey, Miss Anne Nor
gan, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Mrs
Phoebe A. Hearst, Mrs. Alexander Vall
Rensselaer,, Mrs. Lauder Carnegie
Miss Grace M. Pierce Registrar, D. A
R., Mrs Augustus P. Gardner, Mrs
Medill Mccormick, Mrs. Ralph Beaver
Strassburger, Mrs. George Harvey
Miss Julia NARROW and a host oil
others.
Tho Woman's Section of the Navy
League is the first and only woman:
organization in this country workine
for the cause of patriotism and Nation
al Defense. 1t was organized by {
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Sumter County:

STATE OF GEORGlA,
Sumter County:
Before me came R. E. McNulty,
cashier of Commercial City Bank, who
being duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is true con.
dition of said bank, as shown by the
books of file in said bank.
R. e. M'NULTY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
this 25th day of September, 1915.
E II. MURRAY, N. P, S. Co., Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
Liabilities.


Capital stock paid in zoos 100000
Undivided profits, less cur
rent expenses, interest
and taxes paid .......L. 905.72
Individual deposits. subject
to check ................ 1S,oSSO5
Demand certificates ..... 100000
Time certificates ......... 1886
Cashiers checks ..l........ 1876
Bills payable, including time
certificates, representing
borrowed money .I...... 100000
Total $69, 42S.O9
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
STATE OF GEORGIA,

Webster County:
Before me came w. E. Jenkins
cashier of Bank of Preston, who being
duly sworn, says that the above and
foregoing statement is true condi-
ton of said bank, as shown by the
books Of file in said bank.
w. E. JENKINS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 25th day of Sept. 1915.
GEO. E. THORNTON,
Clerk, S. C.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
MEMBERSHIP PLEDGE

Women's Section of the Navy League.
| pledge myself to think, talk and
work for patriotism Americanism and
sufficient national defenses to keep
the horrors of war from Americas
homes and shores forever.
In these days of world strife and
peril will strive to do my share to
awaken our nation and our lawmakers
to the dangers of our present unde-
Tended condition so that we may con
tinue to dwell in peace and prosperity
and may not have to mourn states des-
olated by war within our own borders
In so far as am able, l will make
my home a center of American ideals
and patriotism, and endeavor to teach
the children in my care to cherish and
revere Our Country and it's history
and to uphold its honor and fai"
repute in their generation.
Name ................
Address .................
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
Statement of the Condition of the
BANK OF PRESTON.

Located at Preston, Ca, at the Close
of Business, Sept. Il, 1915.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
Statement of the Condition of the
COMMERCIAL CITY BANK

Located at Americas, Ca, at the
Close of Business Sept. 81, 1916.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-28
Other Women Aid.

VtutT WOLutU Alus
Among others from whom enthus-
iastic letters have been received are
Mrs. George Dewey, Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan, wife of Gen. Logan, of Civil War
fame, Mrs. Mary A. Lockwood, founder
of the d. A. R., Mrs. Douglas Robin
son, sister of Theodore Roosevelt, and
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie. The
Woman's Section hopes before autnm1i
to pledge one hundred thousand wo-
men to think, talk and work patrio-
tism, Americanism and National De-
Tense. To that end it is sending out
printed pledges to women all over the
United States. When these pledges
are returned signed they will be at
tached to a monster petition to Con
gress for National Defense. By the
time Congress assemblies the Section
hopes to be able to present in the
neighborhood of half million signed
pledges from women for National De-
Tense.
The woman's Section also intends to
give a gigantic, patriotic national
pageant in Washington in the Fall,
and has offered cash prize of 500
for the most acceptable scenario, the
scenarios to be judged by committee
consisting of David Belasco, Julia
Marlowe, Col. George Harvey, Mrs.
William Cunning Story and Mrs. Daisy
McLaurin Stevens. Several thousand
women and children will take part in
the pageant in the Capital City, and no
effort will be spared to make it the
most impressive affair of it's kind ever
given in the Nations Capital In the
various localities in which the Sec
ton builds up strong organizations
other pageants will be held. Boards
of Trade and Commercial and Polit-
ical bodies of all sorts will be visited
and no effort will be spared to point
out to the lawmakers of the country
the necessity Of providing National
Defense, and of adopting such meas
ures as shall encourage the growth of
true patriotism throughout the land.
The pledge of the Woman's Section
of the Navy League is as follows:
Patriotic Homes Are the Safety of the
State.