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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
RECORD Of HOG CHOLERA
SERUM APPLIED IN
GEORGIA
Ninety-Five Per Cent. of Hogs Treated
Saved From ChOlera-Serums Not
Applied Except in Herds Where Dis
ease Had Already Broken Out.

Reports recently collected show that
So per cent of the hogs treated with
hog cholera serum in Georgia by the
farm demonstration agents, have been
saved from the disease. No records 9TH
er than those of the farm demonstra-
ton agents have been received, but a
good many more hogs were treated
than the number attended by these
agents whose reports are made to the
college.
The actual figures are as follows:
Number of herds of hogs treated by
the demonstration agents in Georgia
1912; hogs died before treatment, 410;
hogs sick when treated, 447; total
sick and well hogs treated, $500; died
after treatment 1856. Percentage lost
500. Percentage saved 9491.
The serum used was made by the
state at the College of Agriculture
and sent out through the Office of the
State Veterinarian at Atlanta and
reached the farmers at cost of manu-
facture. On account of the increased
demand for the serum and the conse-
quent cheapening OF cost of produc-
ton, is now offered at 16 2-3 per cent.
Jess than it was during the year 1914.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
Administration Leaders
Hold Conference And
Discuss National Defense
(By Associated Press. J

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 6-Sec-
retaries Daniels and Garrison today de-
clined to discuss a reported discussion
of the military preparedness of the
United States, said to have taken place
last night at the home of Secretary
Garrison. Prominent leaders of both
parties in congress are said to have
attended the conference, at which the
entire question of this nations readi-
ness to repell invasion by a foreign
government was gone over.
Details Of the discussion are lack
ing and it is altogether improbable that
definite conclusions We're reached, but
it is generally reported today that sew
eral propositions looking to a more
thorough rganization of the military
and naval forces Of the United States
are ready to be sprung in congress,
and that last nights conference was
held with the idea of forestalling any
premature move in that direction.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
ALABAMA GRAND JURY FAILS
To FIX BLAME LYN"HIhG
(By Associated Press.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 6.-Infor-
nation reaching here from Hayneville,
in Lowndes county, says the special
grand jury recently empaneled to in
vestigate the alleged lynching of Will
Jones and another negro recently near
Wetumpka, has adjourned without re-
turning indictments.
Following the alleged lynching, Gov.
O'Neil ordered a special session of the
Lowndes county circuit court for the
purpose of investigating the affair and
many witnesses testified before the
grand jury which sifted the affair. No
evidence being adduced to show the
identity of any of the members of the
alleged mob, it was found impossible
to return indictments.
Jones and the other negro were
hanged near Wetumpka recently, fol-
lowing their arrest for the assassina-
ton of R. S. Stillwell, a we'll known
farmer of the county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
DECEMBER HONOR
ROLL FOR SUMTER
PUBLIC SCHOOL

The following honor roll of the
Sumter school has been furnished US
by the efficient principal, c. H. Shuler
In order to be enrolled on this list OF
honor one must be present every school
day during the month and make not
less than IS per cent. on class work
and examinations. Department not
less than 80 per cent.
The Honor Roll.
First Grade-Sarah Foster, Eliza
beth Wise
Second Grade-None.
Third Grade-Lewill Mcdonald,
Christine Webb, Dewitt Webb.
Fourth Grade-Elise Chappell, An
ma Israel.
Fifth Grade-Varinia Webb.
Sixth Grade-Alma Webb, Theone
Wctb.
Eighth Grade-Margaret Mcdonald,
LIZZIE Holley, Lila Webb.
Tenth Grade-Catharin Mcdonald,
Bessie Israel.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
WHOLESALE GRAIN DEALER
FEARS THE CHAMBER
COMMERCE
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

Especial to Times Recorder.)
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 6-Probably the
strongest endorsement ever given the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce is con-
tanned in a statement made by one of
the largest dealers in grain in At
lanta, whose name is withheld by the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce to pre-
vent injury to his business.
He said:
IF the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce keeps up its campaign for in
creased production of food and feed
crops in Georgia at the rate it is now
going, it will put me out of business.
My business consists of bringing West
ern grain and hay in here for sale, and
if Georgia raised her own supplies in
future shall be forced out of bust
ness"
Though this statement itself is a
proof of the need for home production
and strong argument for making
Georgia economically independent, the
fallacy of the fears of the grain deal
er that he will be unable to continue
in business is shown by the officers OF
the state chamber, who say that the
gentleman in question will be able to
handle grain and hay with even better
chances when Georgia is self-sustain-
ing, because there will be then more
people and more money and a greater
consumption of products, which the
grain dealers may handle, and which
they may, if there is a surplus, ship
to other sections, as is now done by
the grain shippers Of the West, who,
though in the great grain-producing
section, are yet prosperous.
The State Chamber of Commerce is
proceeding on the idea that the farm
ers will raise the grain and hay if they
are reasonably sure of being able to
sell when the crops are harvested. So
far, the chamber has found buyers for
all farmers who have written them
offering products raised in 1914, in ac-
cordance with an offer recently made
through the press; is sending copies
Of the report of committee of experts
showing the proper methods of pre-
pairing grain and hay for market &C
cording to the standards in CONNER
cial use; and is endeavoring to Sc
cure agreements from merchants
throughout the state to buy Georgia.
raised grain and hay of the 1915 crop
at equal to prices paid for Western
products, provided the Georgia-grown
product is equal in quality and prepa-
ration for market to those that come
from the West.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
BUILDING A PRETTY HOME
OUT ON PLAINS ROAD

Mr.. J. E. D. Shipp and son, Dr.
Brooks Ship, who has recently be-
come interested in farming and has
purchased a desirable farm two miles
cut of Americas on the Plains road,
are now building an attractive seven
room dwelling, and will go there short
ly to enjoy the real comforts and pleas
ures of rural life down on the farm. >
The home is located upon an emf
nence and commanding a fine view of
Americas, two miles away.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06

Since men not only fight in the
trenches, but must often eat and sleep
in them, the cave shelters have become
one of the common features of the
entertainments on both sides of the
battle field, and, crude as they are,
they furnish the one homelike touch of
the war. Here are found dishes, sim
pie cooking utensils, and the ever
present coffee or teapot, the latter be-
ing indispensable for the English SOL
der. In spite of the discomforts and
dangers Of the trenches, human nature,
with its philosophy and a grim sort Of
humor asserts itself. Much ingenuity
has been expended in naming the
shelters scattered along the trenches.
and it is not an uncommon thing to see
a crude sign above one of the caves
bearing some such name as Hotel
Cecil Ritz Hotel" Billet Doux Ho-
tel or Rue Dormir."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
lMERICUs COTTON MARKET
Americas, Ga, Jan. 6, 1915.

The cotton market is quoted today
as follows
Good middling Z lac to I lie.
Middling 1-2c to 6 SAC.
Low middling, lac to 1-2c.
The improvement in the cotton mar
ket, in the demand for the better
grades, continues and there is a good
demand for good middlings.
The futures market today is practi-
cally unchanged from yesterdays clos
ing figures.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
(From the January Number OF
r Mechanics Magazine.l

Popular Mechanics Magazine)
Lying fiat on the ground, alternately
digging with his bayonet blade and
and scooping out the loosened earth
with the top of his meat can, a soldier
hastily makes at his side a shallow
trench that extends from the head to
the knees, placing each little scoopful,
as he digs it, in a pile at his head Ev-
cry movement is made with the utmost
caution, for bullets are whistling past
only few inches above his head and
the raising of any part of his body
When this shallow trench is finished
the soldier cautiously rolls into it. I'm
der this slight cover he then begins to
dig another and deeper trench at his
side. but one that is long enough this
time to take his entire body. If he lives
to complete the task, he has made what
is known as "lying-down" trench. He
has made a cover that protects him
from rife fire but not from shrapnel
or the flying fragments of bursting
shells.
This is not an individual instance
but a typical case. 1t is one phase of
the "digging-in" process that compris-
es one of the biggest features of the
biggest war the world has ever known.
When column of soldiers has advanc-
ed until it can advance no father, and
the men are ordered to hold their ex-
posed position, they dig themselves
in" in this fashion, Perhaps they are
compelled to remain where they are,
for a retreat over exposed ground is
often as dangerous as an advance. AS
soon as night comes, intrenching tools
are brought forward, and the little
trenches made under fire are enlarged,
connected and deepened until they are
continuous and furnish cover in which
men may stand and move about safe
from rife fire, but always in danger
from shell fire and shrapnel In this
shelter that the soldier has dug for
himself he may remain for weeks, or
the trench may be abandoned in a few
minutes or a few hours for an advance
or a retreat. In the face of modern
weapons, infantry troops, fighting long
in the open, simply get themselves
slaughtered, and the first thing an
army does after its preliminary ad-
vance has been stopped is to dig itself
in.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
"DIGGING IN" ON THE FIRING LINE

trenchments and their Importance in
modern warfare. But a battle line 300
miles long, extending from the North
Sea through northern France into AL
SAGE, consisting of practically contin-
uous lines of intrenchments so secure
ly held that neither side could make
any material advance in weeks, is a
thing so big that it had apparently
never been dreamed Of Along this
battle field the country is cut up, not
by two parallel lines of intrenchments
alone, but by numerous trenches, some
of which have been occupied repeated
ly by first one army and then the other
as the fortune of battle wavered along
the battle line. There are new and
half-fnished trenches, trenches with
shrapnel-proof shelters and with zig
gag excavated approaches from the
rear, abandoned trenches and trenches
that have been wrecked by artillery
fire. So carefully are the trenches and
their occupants concealed that the bat
tie field would have, much of the time,
the appearance of a deserted country,
if it were not for the bursting shells
and shrapnel. Back of the firing line,
on both sides of the great conflict, men
have been busy for weeks constructing
trenches for the army to fall back on
in case of retreat. Since this work is
not done under fire, these trenches are
carefully made on selected ground, Of
ten motor-drawn plows being used 20
break ground for them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-06
Less Common

Wilne-"Paw, is the truth stranger
than fiction?" Paw-"Weu II ia mora
Of stranger than fiction. my SON"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
British Transport
Torpedoed in the
Aegean; 1,OOODie

London, Aug. 18.-About 1000 lives
are believed to have been lost by the
sinking of the British transport, Roy
al Edward, en- route to the Darda-
nelles, by German submarine. The
Royal Edward carried 1850 soldiers,
80 military officers and crew of 22O
men. An official statement from the
admiralty said that 900 are known to
have been saved"
The troops were mainly reinforce
ments for the Twenty-ninth division
and details of the Royal Army Medi-
cal corps, the admiralty stated. Full
details, the official announcement said,
have not been received.
This is the second transport lost by
Great Britain since the war began. In
an engagement off the Turkish Asia
Minor coast, near the Gulf of Smyrna,
a transport was sunk several weeks
ago, but without heavy loss of life, ac-
cording to the admiralty statement.
Whether the U boat that torpedoed
the Royal Edward passed through the
Dardanelles from Constantinople, elud-
ing the Allied fleet, or operated from
secret base along the Asia Minor
coast, was the subject of much spec
ulation here.
The Royal Edward was built in 1908
at Glasgow. She was 526 feet long
and had 60-foot beam. She was
modernly built throughout and
equipped. with wireless.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
U. S. DOLLAR RULES WORLD
FOREIGN EXCHANGE DROPS TO
NEW DEPTHS IN NEW YORK.
Contracts for War Supplies Call for
Payment in Dollars and Not
English Pounds.

New York, Aug. 18-The American
dollar now rules the financial world
with an iron grip. Pounds sterling,
francs, lires, virtually all foreign ex-
change, went down to new depths in
torrent of bills that poured into the
exchange markets from American man.
ufacturers seeking pay for the big war
contracts of munitions and other sup
plies purchased here by the warning
nations of Europe.
Coincident with the startling decline
in exchange rates came the assertion
from an unimpeachable source that
every contract made by the American
manufacturers for supplies sent abroad
called for payment in American dol
lars and not English pounds sterling.
which have heretofore been the stand
ard of finance the world over The i'm
mense losses, therefore, due to the de-
cline in foreign exchange rates will be
borne, to the last penny, by the for
eign buyers and will not be sustained
by the American manufacturers-a
situation exactly the opposite Of what
had heretofore been the popular be-
lief.
The maximum depreciation in
pounds sterling was Az per cent be-
low normal; in francs, 19 per cent bs-
low normal; in Italian lires, rs per
cent. In the money markets the pound
sold for only $4.64; 6.O2 francs equalled
dollar, and dollar purchased 6.4S
lires. These were the quotations while
rates were at the lowest ebb during
the early afternoon. In the last hour
of the business day, the presence in
Wall Street of ]. P. Morgan, for the
first time since the attack on his life
six weeks ago, and an informal con-
ference of bankers to consider the ex-
change situation, sent rates upward.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
CARRANZA TO Reject PLANS
Constitutionalist Chief Will Reply to
Pan-American Appeal and Will
Offer Suggestions.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-General Car
rama within few days will reply to
the Pan-American appeal to Mexico,
it was learned here. He will reject
the peace conference proposal urged
by Secretary Lansing and Latin-Amer-
ican diplomats and, it is reported, will
suggest that the conferees use their
influence to obtain recognition for his
government from their respective re-
publics.
According to his friends here, Car
rama appreciated the friendly tone of
the Pan-American appeal and, it is de-
clared, has determined to make
courteous reply, giving in detail his
reasons for rejecting the conference
plan and advancing arguments in an
effort to convince the conferees that
recognition of the Carranza govern
ment is warranted and necessary for
the re-establishment of peace in Mex
ico
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
SLAYTON CONDEMNS HANGING
Georgia Governor, Who COMMITTED
Franks Sentence, Declares Lynch
ing Is Reflection on State.

San Francisco, Aug. 19.-Former
Governor Slayton, of Georgia, who re-
tired from the executive chair after he
had commuted Franks sentence to life
Imprisonment, will leave San Francis
co shortly for visit on a ranch with
friends.
"The act of lynching Leo Frank is
not the act of the good people of my
state he said. 1T is the act of a
few criminals. All of the power of
the state will be used to punish them.
1T is reflection on the good name
OF Georgia to suppose that I'd be
afraid to go back home. Pm going
to spend the remainder of my life
there. l would not hesitate for min
ute to return. I'll be back home by
the middle of September"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
A|RMEN FLY OVER
C0NSTANT|NOPLE
FRENCH AND BRITISH SHELL GA
LATA, SUBURB OF TURK
CAPITAL.
TO GET MUNITIONS TO TURKS
Next Austro-German Offensive Will Be
Directed Against Serbia to Allow
War Supplies to Reach Otto
mans, Is Belief.

London, Aug. 1.-THE only evidence
of activity outside of Poland and the
Baltic provinces is on the Serbian
frontier, where bombardment of Bel
grade by the Austrians and a counter
bombardment of Semlin and Panscova
by the Serbians has been resumed
According to Nish, Austrian attempts
to cross the Danube near the Serbian
and Roumanian borders have been re-
pulsed, but it is believed by the mill
tary experts here that this region will
be the scene of the next Austro- Ger
man offensive. There is some specu-
lation in military circles as to whether
Roumania, as well as Serbia, will be
attacked, because of Roumania's re-
fusal to allow munitions of war to
pass through to Turkey, which is be-
ing pressed both on her Caucasus and
Dardanelles fronts.
Turks Claim Advantage.
The Turks claim the advantage in
the battling on the Gallipoli peninsula
and in Asiatic Turkey against the al
lies, but the Russians assert that in
the latter zone the Ottoman forces
have been defeated. On the Austro-
Italian front no decided gains for Ell
ther side are chronicled.
,Artois, the forest of the Argonne
and the Vosges mountains continue
to be the scenes of activity on the
western front, but no serious battles
are in progress in any of these re-
gions.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
U. S. REJECTS AUSTR|AS VIEW
AMERICAN REPLY FLATLY DENIES
CONVENTIONS IN NOTE.
Document Made Public Declares Unit
ed States Adheres to Neutrality
in Supplying BeIIigerents.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE state de-
partment has made public the reply
of the United States rejecting views
set forth by the Austro- Hungarian
government in a recent note contend
ing that expectation of war munitions
from America to Austria's enemies
was conducted on such scale as to
be mot in consonance with the def.
milton of neutrality"
Though friendly in language and
tone, the note fatty denies the Austro-
Hungarian contentious and recalls that
that country and Germany furnished
munitions of war to Great Britain dur
ing the Boer war, when England's enc
mics could not import such supplies.
1t insists that the American govern
ment is pursuing strictly neutral
course and adhering to principle up
on which it would depend for muni-
tions in the markets of the world in
case it should be attacked by a for
eign power.
THE principles of international
law" the communication concludes,
the practice of nations, the national
safety of the United States and other
nations without great military and
naval establishments, the prevention
of increased armies and navies, the
adoption of peaceful methods for the
adjustment of international differences
and finally neutrality itself, are op-
posed to the prohibition by a neu-
trail nation of the expectation Of arms,
ammunition or other munitions of war
to belligerent powers during the prog
reSs of the war;"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
longings.

A wellknown essayist and connois-
seur of New York attended recently
an artistic tea in Washington square.
Near-artists of all sorts-near-poets,
near-sculptors, near-painters and near
novelists-attendedt the tea. The ladies
wore djibbahs of green burlap. The
gentlemen wore sandals. The collation.
was vegetarian, of course.
Looking calmly at that mass of
freaks, he said, with smile:
Artistic longings consist invariably,
it seems, Of long hair, long teeth and
long faces-everything but long
purses, in fact"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
German Prisoners Wei, Treated.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Ambassador
Sharpe at Paris has cabled the state
department full report on recent
personal inspection of several camps
for prisoners of war in France, Of
which he gave a highly favorable de-
scription.
The ambassador recommended that
his report be forwarded to Berlin, add
ing: knowledge in Germany of the
good treatment of their prisoners
ought to promote better feeling
throughout the country in this re-
gard"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
Foreigners Riot at Boston.

Boston, Aug. 1.-THE assembling
Of 1900 Italian reservists, who were
to sail on the steamer Canopic and
their friends was marked by demon
strations against the interned German
steamships Amerika and Cincinnati, as
a result of which several policemen
were severely injured. Sailors or the
German vessels we're struck by stones
and sticks. Revolver shots were ex-
changed between the crowd and the
police, but it could not be learned that
any took effect.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
Britain Warns U. S. Airmen.

Albany, n. Y, Aug. 16.-Governor
Whitman has received from Secretary
of State Lansing a copy of a letter
from the British ambassador, Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, calling attention to the
fact that American aviators were fly
ing over the international boundary
line and that he feared this practice
might give rise to regrettable Incl
dents, in view of the fact that Cana
da was in state of war. Governor
Whitman said there was nothing the
state authorities could do beyond max
ing the letter public.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
RUSSIANS STILL RETREATINQ
SIavs to Abandon New Line of Defense,
Says Berln-BaIkan Diplomats
Busy.

The retreat of the Russians from
Poland continues and it is believed
probable they will have to fall back
further than the Brest-Litovsk line, as
Berlin reported that General Litsmann
has stormed and taken the forts on the
southwest front of Kovno, capturing
4,500 prisoners and 240 guns. This
probably means the early fall of the
fortress itself, between which and the
capture of the na-Warsaw-Petro-
grad railway there cannot be much
delay.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
Cardinals DENY Peace MEETING.

New York, Aug. 16.-Cardinal Glib
bons, in a statement over his sigma
ture, gave an emphatic denial to Lon
don dispatches which stated that he
and Cardinal O'Connell of Boston had
called meeting of neutral cardinals
and bishops to be held in Switzerland
for the purpose of discussing peace
plans among the belligerents.
According to dispatches, the cardi-
nails had invited Roman Catholic au-
thorities in neutral countries to a con-
ference which had received an unofi.
cial recncnition.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
Mrs. Frank Swoons at News.

Milledgeville, Aug. 1S.-Mrs. Frank
had been at the prison farm since her
husband was wounded by William
Green last month. She was not al
lowed to sleep in the room with him
as she wished and did not know that
Frank had been kidnapped until short
time after the lynchers had left with
him. She was not gold of his danger
until it was known chat he had been
slain. Before the prison official had
finished his first sentence, she
SwOoned.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
SEES IMMUNITY FROM CANCER
covery by Two Investigators
White Lymph Cells of Blood.

New York, Aug 1.-THE Rockefel-
ler Institute has announced through
the Academy of Science at Washing.
ton a discovery by two of its investi.
gators whereby immunity from cancer,
1t is hoped, may be obtained.
The investigation was conducted by
Doctors James B. Murphy and John ].
Morton over a period of two years.
They discovered that in the white
lymph cells of the blood there are
the necessary factors in making ami
mails immune from cancer.
A decided increase in the white
lymph cells gives absolute immunity,
the physicians declare they ascer-
tained.