davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25
ARE FRIGHTENED BY SNAKES
1T HOMES IN AMERICUs
TWO LADIES HERE HAVE ADyEN.
TURE WITH REPTILES.

The Americas snakelet is busy upon
the job here just now, and various
reptiles of varied length and ferocity
have been unearthed. Yesterday
lady residing on College street found
a huge rat snake coiled behind the
flour barrel in her pantry, and did not
recover from the shock until sunset.
Another lady residing on Church
street, while picking grapes in her
vineyard, almost put her hands upon
a large green snake coiled in the
vines. Fortunately. neither of the rep
tiles We're venomous and only severe
fright resulted in each instance.
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Especial to Times-Recorder.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 25-Witn
the greatest wholesale destruction OF
treasure in all history taking place,
with warwrought economic losses pill
ing up in such stupendous aggregates
as no panic ever caused, the question
as to how long each of the belligerents
can stand the fearful strain upon its
resources is becoming as important
and fully as interesting as are any Of
those more stirring questions growing
out of the purely military phase of
the world-war. In a bulletin issued
the National Geographic society
sketches the pre-war economic condi
ton of Russia, which, having expend-
ed $3,500,000, having lost hundreds of
millions of dollars in foreign trade and
cities and provinces worth hundreds
of millions more, is facing an indefi-
mite future of warfare undismayed,
confident. The bulletin reads
Commercial and industrial revolu-
tons were stirring in Russia before
the war; the work of opening it's mag
nificent domain was being rapidly
carried forward; plans for develop
ing its almost unlimited resources were
in process of confident organization,
modern cities were springing up like
mushrooms in rich Siberia; textile
metal and other industries were laying
firm foundations, and foreign trade had
been brought up to about $1,500000,-
900. What has been called the most
powerful country of the future was
f ding itself, was preparing to ente-
upon the centuries of expansion that
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25


her tasks. There remain hundreds d
millions of acres of fat lands to be
brought under the pillow; tens oil
thousands of factory plants to build;
rich mines to be opened; great railway
and canal systems to be built; millions
of home-seekers to be moved into ST.
IBERIA, the Silver East of the Cars en-
pire, and many millions of illiterate1
to be educated to a higher standard O!
life and efficiency.
Russia is vast storehouse of raw
materials, and must for many years
remain purchaser of machinery and
manufactured goods in increasing
quantities. Yet the mills of Russia
consume $13O,OOO,OOO worth of raw
cotton annually, and Russian iron and
steel rails have already found Their
way into competition in the markets
of the world.
Germany bought more from Russia
than any other three countries, and
sold to the Russians about half of all
their imports. These two empires did
a tremendous, thriving business with
one another before the war, and a
great stream of German capital flow
ed into the Northern Empire for in
vestment. England, Holland, Austria
Hungary and Italy in the order nam
ed, followed Germany in business with
the Russians. German trade promo
ton was thoroughly organized
throughout the land, and in Riga, Pet
rograd and Moscow names of thous
ands of Germans could be seen.
Foodstuffs formed about 65 per cent.
of Russia's total export trade; raw
materials and partly manufactured
goods about 30 per cent, and manu-
features, about 3 per cent. Russia i'm
ports all those things that highly de
veloped and specialized countries have
for sale. Therefore, Russian trade
has been most valuable one for the
older nations.
Russia, as are but few other grea:
nations, is self-sustaining in the mat
ter of raw materials; but the Musco-
vite Empire is dependent upon the fac
tories of other lands for every step
that it may take in the upward scale:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25
NEW MEMBERS FOR
CHAMBER Of COMMERCE

Several new members have been
elected to membership in the Ameri-
Gus and Sumter County Chamber of
Commerce. They were voted and act
ed favorably upon at the meeting of
the commissioners yesterday after
noon. The new boosters are:
Americas Sanitary Ice Cream Co.
R. B. Stackhouse.
D. F. Davenport, Postmaster.
T. NJ. Lowery of Plains, Ga.
Atlantic Ice & Coal Corporation, as
a sustaining member.
All of the commissioners were given
application cards, and they are eX-
pected to bring in many new members
at their next meeting.
If you are not a member of this live
business and boosting body become at
filiated Immediately, and assist in the
great work being done to push Amer
icus and Sumter county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

it is even dependent upon foreign
manufactures to maintain standards in
its wide-sweeping territory as high as
they are today. There is fabulous
riches awaiting transmution by Rus
sian industry, but Russian industry
has hardly passed the birth"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

Seaboard Buffet Parlor-Sleeping Car
IN Trains 13 and IA, arriving Americas
from Savannah 11:25 p. m, and leav-
ing Americas for Savannah 2:30 a. m
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah al
.:30 a. M, will be open for passen-
gers at 11:25 p. II.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

/ or further information apply to H.
p. Everett, Local Agent, Americas,
Ga; U w. Small, Div. Pass, Agt.,
,!svs nnak, Ga, c. B. MyaR. G. P. A,
Norfolk. Va
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

Leave Americas for Richland, At
anita, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
yDmery and points West and Northwest
$40 p m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25
+. and A. MI.

N. B. COUNCIL
~ LODGE, F. and A. M,
~ 1ETSA - meets every First ant
X% Third Friday nights
fVA Visiting brothersc In
vited to attend.
W. F. SMITH, w. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

now sit in the state house will have to
give an account of their attitude before
an eager and expectant public in 1915.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,

p. 0. 8. OF A.
Meets on Thursday nights, Wheat
ley Building, at 1880 o'clock. ALI mem
hers are urged to attend. Visitors
welcomed. E. F. WILDER, Pres't.
O. D. REESE, Recording Sec'y.
NAT LeMASTER, Financial Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

Leave Americas for Richland, Col
Gmbus, Dawson, Albany and interme-
liate points
1896 IN
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/. O. O. F
AMERICUS CAMP, 2O2, WOODMEN
OLE THE WORLD.

Meets every Wednesday night in the
Wheatley Bldg, Windsor Ave. All Wis
sting Sovereigns invited to meet With
us. ]. M. TOBIN, c. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25

Leave Americas for Cordele. Able
vfiie, Helena and intermediate points
5:15 p m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-25
SeabOard Air Line
be Progressive Railway Of The South

Leave Americas for Cordele. Ro-
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
Inns, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond.
Portsmouth and points East and South.
1881 p IN
$3.50 a m
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
spain's Arbitration Court.

THE most unique and interesting In.
st1tutiOn for the settlement of civil
suits in Spain." writes Thomas W. Pal
mer. IT.. in Case and Comment, lis the
arbitration court All contentious or
disputes before or after the commence
ment OF litigation. no matter how far
advanced, can be submitted to an arbi-
tratton tribunal by agreement of all
the interested parties. The exceptions
to this are those suits involving polit-
hai and civil rights. ETC.. or those mat
ters in which the state is especially
concerned The arbitra tors, whose
number must not exceed Eve. are law
yers OF twenty-five or more years of
age and In full enjoyment of civil
rights. In some instances the arbitra.
tors may be Iaymen .amigables compo
nedores,. Appeal Is made from the ar
bitration direct to the territorial appeal
court This method of deciding claims
has proved successful and Is employed
considerably"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
WASHINGTON FOR EXPANSION
Urged Acquisition Of Western Territory
to Keep Foreiuners From Gettino IT,

Urged Acquisition Of Western Territory
to Keep Foreigners From Getting It.
Very interesting to all students of
American history is letter from
George Washington to Jacob Read OF
South Carolina. who served as major
Of volunteers during the Revolution.
was taken prisoner and was confined
for four years at st. Augustine. Fla
He was afterWard member of the
Continental congress and United States
senator
The letter is dated Mount Vernon.
Nov. 3. 1874. and deals with various
matters intimately connected with the
future prosperity of this country
Washington complains that specula
tors are recklessly Selling lands on
the northwest side of the Ohio and
thereby making war with the Indians
He then proposes remedy:
Purchase, if possible. as much land OF
them Immediately back Of US as would
make one or two states. according to the
extent congress would design or woulo
wish to have them Of and which may be
fully adequate to all our present purposes
Fix such a price upon the lands so pur-
chased as would not be too exorbitant and
Durthensome for real occupiers. but high
enough to discourage mOnOpoliZers. De-
clare all steps heretofore taken to pro-
cure lands on the N. W. side of the Ohio
contrary to the prohibition of congress
to be null and void. and that any person
thereafter who shall presume to mark.
survey or settle lands beyond the limits
0Y NAM L.
shall not only be considered an outlaw
but fit subject for Indian vengeance
He then discusses with vtgor the
vital importance OF opening mp the
western territories IT, American enter
prise and colonization by means Of wa
terways and roads He adds:
1t is to prevent the trade OF the west
ern territory from settling in the hands
either OF the Spaniards or British-if
either or these happen there is line OF
separation at once drawn between the
eastern and western country. the conse-
quences of which may be fatal To tell
any man of information now fast the lat
ter is settling. how mucn more rapidly 1t
will settle by means of foreign emlgrants
who can have no particular predilection
for US. OF the vast fertility of the soil and
the population the country is competent
TO. would be futile and equally nugatory
TO observe that IT Is py the cement OF
interest only we can be held together IT,
then. the trade Of that country should
How through the Mississippi or st Law
renee. u the inhabitants thereof should
form commercial connections which lead
we know. to intercourse OF other Kinds
they would in few years bt as uncon-
necfed with us. indeed more 50. than we
are with South America ana would soon
be aiienated from us.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
MYSTERY OF MATTER.
Endless Routine of the Material That
Forms Our Bodies.

Endless Routine of the Material That
Forms Our Bodies.
Mr.. Godfrey Martin has written a
treatise on chemistry from which is
taken this paragraph from the chapter
on MATTER
'"The endless circulation of matter
in the universe is perhaps one of the
chemistry has to deal. 1t is this end
less change that causes the history OF
the most common and insignificant OBJ
jectS about US to be more astonishing
than any fairy tale.
what wonderful story, for exam
pie. could be written of the material
that forms our bodies! 1t came into
existence in the immense depth of
space millions upon millions Of years
ago and wandered for ages through
darkness and void until it reached our
earth. Perhaps it fell upon the earth
in fiery meteorite, or perhaps it mere
ly Joined the huge fire mist from which
our solid world condensed. Since then
it has run round age after age in an
endless circle of change
"First it formed part of that vast
primeval atmosphere that surrounded
,Athe globe and blew in mighty winds
around our planet; then it was absorb
ed into the body of some humble living
being, and when this being died and
its body decayed the matter passed
into the rich mother earth. Thence it
passed into some plant by means of
its roots. and from the plant it passed
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
Washington's Good Work.

George Washington's surveying done
In 1851. when as lad of nineteen he
ran lines through the Virginia wilder
ness for Lord Fairfax. was checked up
recently by government surveyors,
who found the work perfect Washing
ton. running his lines with primitive
instruments and bonfires on hilltops,
left monuments and boundaries to
which technically educated surveyors.
using accurate modern methods, have
been able to find no variation.
From the top of Middle mountain. in
the Massanutten range, the old Fair.
fax line may be distinguished without
the use of instruments and can be fol-
lowed by boundary fences dating from
the earliest days and by blocks of tim
Der. Washington survey blazes, cut
into the trunks of trees and long grown
over. have been rediscovered, and all
are several feet higher from the ground
than those woodsmen of today make.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
ANCIENT GREEK TRAINING.
What Il 0id For the Boy Physically
and intellectual

What u DID For the Boy Physically
and intellectually.
The manner In which the Athenians
brought up their children is worth re.
Numbering.
. AT seven years OF age the Athentan
lad entered the palestra. which was
essentially playground, All the tirst
and better half Of the day was spent
III gymnastics. dancing. games and
play. In the afternoon there were
singing. some writing. some reading,
all III the open air. and then came 4
long period OF play again. Such was
tue schooling OF the Greek lad up to
the age OF ten or eleven. and 1t did
not differ essentially up to the age OF
sixteen. except In the severity OF the
exercises.
And yet the world has not ceased to
marvel at the results OF the Greek
education. 1t produced the highest
type OF man. physically and tnteilectu.
ally. that the world has ever seen.
which Cation says was as far In ad
vance OF the modern Engltshman as
the modern Englishman is IN advance
of the native African.
In physical beauty. courage and pa
triotism. in philosophy. literature.
architecture and art the Greeks have
been the unsurpassed models of the
ages and are still the inspiration OF our
schools today But they placed the
emphasis upon hygiene. exercise. games
and play. which are too much neg.
,'ted III these days. Kansas City
stat.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17

Photo by American Press Association
BY Nile rise the pyramids. wrapped ~
the shades
Of ages that passed as the waves on
the shore.
And karnak majestic. whose vast colon
nades
A god might have fashioned for man to
adore;
And Baalbek uplifts. like a VISION divine,
Its wonder of beauty by Lebanon's wall;
But captive and slave reared in sorrow
the shrine.
The palace the temple. the pyramid tall
To freedom Potomac's proud obelisk
towers.
And karnak and Baaibek in beauty
outvies!
FOR Washineton's glory ITS grandeur en-
powers,
And freemen with Joy piled its stones
to the skies.
O symbol Of liberty. matchless. sublime.
Still soar from the meadows to mate
with the sun.
And see thy republic. to uppermost time.
The noble. the peerless. the many in one!
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
THE PLANET MERCURY.
It Is Difficult to Weigh. and It's Orbit
Is Very Eccentric.

It Is Difficult to Weigh. and It's Orbit
Is Very Eccentric.
Though Mercury Is one of the small.
est OF the planets. it is perhaps the
most troublesome of all to the astron-
oLner
1t lies so close to the sun that it ia
seen but seldom in comparison with
THE other great planets. Its orbit is
very eccentric. and it experiences dis
turbances by the attraction Of other
bodies in way not yet fully under.
stood
special difficulty has also been
found in the attempt to place Mercury
in the weighing scales. We can weigh
the whole earth. we can weigh the sun,
the moon and even Jupiter and other
planets, but Mercury presents difficult
ties Of a peculiar character LIE Yer
rier. however. succeeded in dev1sing
method OF weighing it.
He demonstrated that our earth is
attracted by this planet, and he showed
how the amount of attraction may be
disclosed by observations of the sun,
so that from an examination of the
observations he made an approximate
determination of the mass of Mercury.
lie Verrier's result indicated that the
weight of the planet was about the flf.
teenth part of the weight of the earth.
In other words. If our earth was placed
IN balance and fifteen globes. each
equal to Mercury. were laid In the
other the scales would hang evenly
STORY of the Heavens"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
FOR RECITAL ON WASHING
TOMS BIRTHDAY.


First BOy-The brave, the wise,
the good.
Second Boy-Supreme in war.
in council and in peace.
Third Boy - Valiant without
ambition. discreet without fear.
confident without presumption.
Fourth Boy-In disaster calm,
in success moderate, in all him
self.
Fifth Boy-The patriot, the
Christian. the father of nations.
the friend of mankind. who.
when he had won all, renowned
all and sought in the bosom Of
his family and of nature retire
ment. and in the hope of religion
Immortality.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
she Knew II,

she Knew II.
he. tndn I u ever occur to Won that
was In love with you' She Certainly:
haven't you ever noticed NE laughing
to myself:--l'opeka journal IA.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
Speculative Life Insurance,


A mania for speculative assurances
on the lives OF public personages pre-.
vailed In England during the eight
zenith century. Warren Hastings. the
pretender. the rebel lord or the unfor-
tunate Admiral Byng answered equal
~ the purpose OF speculate and there
were also regular quotations on the
lives OF notorious highwaymen Sir
Robert Waipole at one period of MS
career, when his life was endangered
by popular tnmnIts. was insured for
many thousands. and when George II.
fought at Dett1ngen 25 per cent was
paid against his return Such specu-
lativG assurances were. however. large
~ checked by the gambling act OF
l774. which made ,nsurable interest u
necessary condition for valid policy.
He Knew.
The professor of the class in English
history was telling nis young men OF
the lmpressioDa BILE age about the Eliza
pett1an era when. suddenly turning to
he In dream, with faraway gaze.
he said.
AND how Old was Elizabeth. Mr..
Ca>eY
Eighteen last birthday" came the
instant reply
The Largest Reptile.
Thr largest existent reptile is the
imam eatine sal, water crocodile Of
southern Asia and Australia. which,
when fun grown meas ,,res thirty feet
IN length from emo OF nose to tin Of
tall. tine man makes hardly more than
II mouthfuI for This fearsome creature.
She Knew It,
He. lidn II ever occur to Won that /
was In love with you' She Certainly:
haven you ever noticed me laughing
tO myself:--lOptkA journal. a.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17
The Washington
/. Monument
BY EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

YYAvE you seen. by Potomac. thai
shaft in the skies.
III Soaring proud from the meadows
to mate with the sun.
Now misty and gray as the clouds II defies.
Now bright in the splendor ito daring
has won?
The winds are its comrades. the lightning.
the storm.
The first flush 1T dawn on ITS summit
shines far.
And the last ray Of sunshine illum,nes IT'S
form,
Towering grano and alone N the l,mn
less air
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17

by the process of being devoured INTO
the body of some animal. and from the
animal again it passed to earth and
thence to plants and animals again.
and so on through an endless cycle Of
change. coursing through the bodies of
innumerable multitudes of living
forms, which stretch far back in
dim. unending vista into the depths of
time
"Finally it reached man. Yes; the
very atoms that thrill and flash in our
brains and muscles once formed part
of a living plant or animal millions Of
years ago and will again form part Of
living plant or animal millions of
years hence. In some form or other
the matter that now forms our bodies
will exist long after the whole present
order of creation has passed away In
deed, it may well yet blow in the
winds of worlds as yet unborn and
thrill in forms of life not yet evolved"
Explaining Gravitation's Law.
If you ask scientific man why a
stone falls to the ground he will tell
you that he doesn't know Not long
ago he would have replied that it fell
to the ground because the earth and
stone attract one another. This is very
much the same as saying that an un-
supported stone falls to the ground
because. as has been ascertained by
frequent experiments. an unsupported
stone falls to the ground.-Scientific
American.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-17

Americans
~ his
Z the Gilbert
nal Stuart
scum Of Fine
of
Inc book that
portrait Washington
un was completed he took
incomplete of On
authority of William
Washington
Washington did
He
present the finished portrait his
would
finished painting only
which
declined companion portrait
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-04
TRY ALLEGED DYNAMITERs

Los Angeles, CAL, Oct. An. A.
Schmidt, alleged accomplice of j. B.
Mcnamara in the dynamiting of the
Los Angeles Times building, which
cost twenty lives, went to trial in
Judge Frank R. Willis court here to-
day on a charge of murder.
David Captain, who is also charged
with murder in the same connection,
will be tried after the Schmidt case is
DISPOSED Of .4 =
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-04
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

Brownsville, Tex.-Body of Patrick
Sullivan, American soldier, found on
river bank near Fort Brown; blow
crushed his skull.
New York. : $500, 900, 600 loan to
England and France now guaranteed;
books of syndicate handling. project
will be closed tomorrow.
Washington.-Pres. Wilson wired
for seats at second game of worlds
series between Philadelphia and Bos-
ton in Philadelphia Saturday.
Santa Monica, Cal.-Nude body of
G. A. Mcdonald, wealthy retired gro
Ger of Rock Island, H., found floating
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-04

council DIN body, said Get down
there and watch the effect our at
tendance will cause. Besides having
a curbing effect on the aldermen it
will promote our civic interest"
After the resolution was passed
Oscar F. Nelson from the Postoffice
Clerks asked the federation to put it
self on record as being opposed to
the candidacy of John Eckhart for
postmaster of Chicago.
Nelson moved that Sec'y Nockles
be directed to notify Senator Lewis
and Gov. Dunno that this federation
is opposed to the candidacy of Eek
hart.
"And that the civic morality of the
man is of such a character that it
bars him from consideration" Pres.
Fitzpatrick broke in.
]. ]. Walsh of the machinists
brought laugh when he asked the
poets and painters of the labor move
ment to hand down to posterity the
noble act of Trustee Eckhart when
he gave away $4,000 worth of prop
erty to the school children of Chi
cago when it was found he was try
ing to sell the property to the board.
Sec'y Nockels was instructed to
send night letter of encouragement
to Dave Smith and M. A. Kaplan,
whose trial starts today in Los An
geles. The men are charged with
conspiracy resulting from the explo-
sion years ago which wrecked the Los
Angeles Times bldg. in Los Angeles.
1890