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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-06
Alabama's Illiteracy

At present there are 641, ,16S persons in Alabama between the ages of 10 and 20 years, and 15 per cent, or 96, ,4Ob, are H. literate. From 21 years and over there are 1,ol5,070 persons and 26 per ccnt. or 266,273, of them cannot read nor write There are ,66l white men of voting age and 33765 mature white women who are unable to read or to write, either of these numbers approximating the com bned adult white male population of the three largest cities. Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery. The 1910 census shows that only 3S74 of our native white illt,rates are city dwellers, while S0,894 of them live in the country. This makes the town rate 2.5 per cent and the country ratt 11.5 per cent. but the rate for tle city of over 100000 is higher than any other southern cities of the same class except Atlanta. Louisville Richmond and Nash ville Birmingham, Mobile and Montsom- cry have, respectively 1S6 39 and $ native white men of voting age who are unable to cast their ballots without assistance from some one who can write and read.
 The lowest rate of illiteracy among native whites is in Montgomery county. but even there there are 122 men of vot- ing age who cannot inteIligenuy trans act any business requiring ability to read and write. Montgomery has, also, the lowest per cent of illiterates over 10 years of age; Sumter county is second; Jefferson is eighth. Jefferson is sixth in the number of iliterate native white men of voting age having 1150.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22
GOVERNMENT ISSUES
CROP REPORT FOR 1911.
Special to Daily Light.


Washington, Feb. 22.---The crop
reporting board of the Federal De
partment Of Agriculture has just
made public its estimate of the
1914 farm crops of the United
States. Fourteen crops, covering
300, 1882, 900 acres or 50 per cent Of
the nations cultivated area are in
cludcd in the report and the COM
bined farm value Of all products Is
estimated at $4,94G. 900, 600.
Although the 1914 production Of
crops is 10 per cent greater than
the previous year the aggregate
farm value is $40, o0o,o 900 less.
Both the wheat and the cotton
crops OF the nation in 1914 were
the largest on record. The cotton
crop was nearly 1900, Geo bales,
and the wheat production was ap-
proximately S9i 100000 bushels,
While the 1914 cotton crop was ap
proximately 1900, 900 bales more
than the one of 1913 the value was
$306, zoe, coo less. Cation in 1879
averaged $22.20 per acre against
$14.14 in 1914. The yield per acre
in 1914 was - poun Is more than
i'll 1913 but the price per pound i'll
1914 was IS cents anG l24 cents
in 1915
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22
III HACkACHl OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat also take glass q
Salts before eatin. breakfast.

salts before eating breakfast.
Uric acid in meat excites the kid
neys, they become overworked; get
sluggish, ache, and feel like humps
OF lead. The urine becomes cloudy;
the bladder is irritated, and you
may be Obliged to seek relief two
or three times during the night.
When the kidneys clog you must
help them flush off the bodys URN
Gus waste orr you'll be "a real sick
person shortly. At first you feel a
dull misery in the kidney region,
you suffer from backache, sick
sour, tongue coated and you feel
rheumatic twinges when the wealth
er Is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots OF
water, also get from any pharma'
cisi four ounces of Jad Salts; take
tablespoonful in glass OF water
before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys viii then act Inc. This
famous salts Is made from the acid
Of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia. ami has been
used for generations to clean clog
ged kidneys and stimulate them to
normal activity, also TO neutralize
the acids In urine, SO 1t no longer Is
source OF irritation, thus ending
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot
iniure; makes a delightful effer-
veseent Whitewater drink which ey-
eryone should take nos and then TO
keep the kidneys clean and active.
Druggists here say they sell lots of
Jad Salts to folks who believe in
overcoming kidney trouble while II
Is only trouble. Curlin's Two Drug
stores. adv.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22
WEATHER CONDITIONS IN
TEX.iS AND OkLAHOMt

Oklahoma -- Generally cloudy,
raining.
Texas Dallas, raining, So; Fort
Worth. raining hard; Big Springs,
clear, A; Amarillo, cloudy, 20; ri
Paso, clear, 49, Abilene. clear, A.,
Wichita Falls, cloudy, raining, SO;
sherman, cloudy, Al, raining all
night. Grecnyillc, cloudy. pleasant,
light shower; Corpus Christi, Sd,
foggy; Jacksonville. cloudy, Ga, no
rain; Tyler, cloudy, a.; San An
tonic, cloudy, 90; Galveston, light
rain; Paris, cloudy, showers, 50;
Palestine, cloudy Sc; Pine Bluff,
Ark, cloudy, Is.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22

lroposit on OF securing farm Of
one hundred acres al wh;ca to carry
III demonstration work.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22

friendship, sympathy and wise coun-
sell
Resolved, Third. that a copy OF
these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of the Chamber OF Commerce
and that copy be furnished To the
bereaVed family
S. l.. IiORNBEAK,
WILL MOORE,
c. \. PETTY,
r A. FERRIS,
LYNN LASSWELI,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22
THE PURCHASING POWER
OF FARM CROPS HWiNDIINt,
Special TO Daily Light.

Washington, Feb. 22.-The Fea-
eral Department of Agriculture has
just issued a statement showing
the purchasing power OF an acre of
farm crops in 1913 compared with
1903. While the price per acre OF
several farm crops is shown TO have
increased to some extent within
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22
COMB SAGE TEA
INTO GRAY HAIR
Darkens Beautifully and Restores
It's Thickness and LuStre at
Once.


Common garden sage brewed into
heavy tea, with sulphur and al
cohol added, will turn gray. streak
ed and faded hair beautifully dark
and luXuriant; remove every bit of
dandruH, stop scalp itching and
falling hair. Mixing the Sage Tea
and sulphur recipe at home,
though, is troublesome. An easier
way is to get the ready-to-uSe ton
ic, costing about so cents Il large
bottle at drug stores, known as
"Wyeth'a Sage and Sulphur Com
pound thus avoiding lot of
muss.
While wispy. gray, faded hair is
not sinful. We all desire to retain
! our youthful appearance and at
Effectiveness. BY darkening your
hair with Wyeth's Sage and Sui
plur, no one can tell, because il
does it so naturally, so evenly. You
just dampen q sponge or soft brush
I with it and draw this through your
/ hair, taking one small strang at a
time; by morning all gray hairs
have disappeared. After another ap-
! plication or two your hair becomes
| beautifully dark, glossy. soft and
| luXuriant and yon appear years
younger. Curtin: Two Drue
! Stores. adv
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22

Fact is. not only stranger than
fiction; when some men are talking
it is much SCarcer.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-02-22

II Is not, however, The noisy boy
who gets into the most mischief.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
HIGH RUSSIAN COLONEL
EXECUTED FOR TREASON

PETROGRAD, Sept 49, Colonel
Masoyedoff, who has just been execut-
ed for his part in plot to betray mil
itary secrets to the enemy, was an
officer of the gendarmerie and prom
inently connected with the famous
secret police. He had been close
friend of General Sukhomlinoff, who
recommended him highly to the gov
ernment for use as a confidential
aegnt. The retirement of General
sukhomlinoff was mainly due to his
connection with the traitor.
ALI the men associated with Colonel
Masoyedoff, according to the Petrograd
Newspapers, occupied at one time OF
another responsible posts in the see
ret police.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
UNWR|T1Eh LAW" IS
LOSING ITS PRESTIGE

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 18.-That the
"unwritten law" in Georgia, as an
exclusive defense in murder trial is
losing its prestige, seems to be indi-
Gated by the verdict and sentence of
fifteen years Imprisonment in the cass
of Ezra Chewing, convicted in De
Kal bcounty of killing Cosby Bishop
The defense based its entire case in
substance upon the so-called ''unwrit-
ten law" and endeavored to paint the
slain man as home breaker. The
state contended that Bishop had not
been intimate with Mrs. Chewing
and that the defense was unjustified,
not only by the law, but by the facts
as we'll.
Chewning's attorneys have an
nounced that they will appeal the case
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
M|Nsk IS SOUGHT
BY GERMAN FORCES

WASHINGTON. D. c., Sept. 49,
Minsk, following Riga and Duena-
burg, is the third most important city
toward which German forces are mov-
ing, and one of the very few cities of
any consequence in West Russia. The
following description of Minsk is
contained in today's National Geo
graphic Society war primer;
Warsaw, Minsk, SmoIensk, Mos
cow are the important points along
the great eastern railway whose line
beyond Brest Litovsk the Teutonic
armies are endeavoring to dominate.
There is little value in the 220-mile
stretch of country between Brest
Litovsk and Minsk, in the northeast,
but beyond the latter city the indus
trial and agricultural development of
the country becomes rapidly more
significant.
Large manufactures of leather, ag-
ricultural machinery and tobacco are
produced in Minsk, and these indus
tries are of quite recent growth. The
commerce of the city is of consider
able Importance ,and is mostly in
grains, potatoes, leather and in pro-
ducts from the vast surrounding for
ests. Without the wonderful water
way advantages enjoyed by most
Russian cities, Minsk owes it's increase
in prosperity and significance entirely
to the railroads. Before its connec-
tion east and west and north and
south by rail lines, the town was of
no standing and was very poor.
"Minsk lies about 110 miles south
east of Duenaburg, and about 100 miles
east-southeast on the Svislotch, trib-
utary of the Berezina, and upon the
junction of the Warsaw-Moscow and
the Libau-Kharkov railways. The reg
ion around is hilly and well-wooded.
The town is old, haphazardly built,
and houses a population of $4,000
About one-third of the inhabitants are
Jews, and most of them are very
poor"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
CANNOT SUPPRESS A
LITTLE BELGIAN PAPER

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1S.-Notwith
standing all efforts of the German an
thorities in Brussels, there still ap
pears at frequent intervals little
newspaper called La Libre Belgique
Nobody knows who edits it or where il
is published. The publishers address
according to the inscription beneath
the title, is "Kommandatur" Ger
man headquarters, which is the edt.
tors little joke, of course. A copy
is always delivered to each of the
leading German officials.
The aim of the paper, according to
its own statement, is "to sustain the
spirit and patriotism" of the Belgian
people. Events of the war are dealt
with in airy fashion and the people
are shown why they need not be dis
couraged.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Choking Ties Up Fortune.

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 1S.-one al
legged choking administered to Mrs.
Bertie Lou Reeves, has tied up the
$4,000 fortune of Alexander Reeves.
well known contractor, until it can
De ascertained by the courts whether
Reeves really did choke his pretty
wife, and if so. whether he was iusti-
fed in choking her or not.
The injunction tying up all Reeves
property was filed along with a biz
for divorce in the superior court.
The Reeves separated only last Mon
day night, following scene in which
it is alleged Reeves slapped his wife
and otherwise mistreated her.
The case is of unusual interest here
because of the business and social
prominence of the principals.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
STEALING AUTOS
TO find Them

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 1S.--That q
systematic stealing of automobiles for
the purpose of finding" them for tae
owners and collecting rewards, has
been organized in Atlanta, IS the be-
lief of the city detective department,
and yesterday campaign was launch
ed to break up the practice.
W. B. Purtell, who conducts an
office in the Austell Building, under
the name of the Georgia Good Road
company, and who is said by the
police to have collected numerous
rewards for finding stolen cars, was
arrested by two detectives who shad-
owned him and one of his employees
when they went to an old garage and
took out an automobile belonging to
G. o. Hunt, of Fort Valley, Ca, the
car having been stolen from Hunt i'll
Atlanta on August 80.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
ATTEMPTING To HAVE
HARRIS PUT LOCAL
MATTER IN CALL

CONYERS, Ga, Sept. 18.-A dele
cation of citizens from Conyers have
appeared before Governor Nat Z
Harris urging him to allow the con-
sideration of a local bill affecting Only
Conyers, in the special session of
the general assembly which will be
held in November. =
The past legislature adjourned
without disposing of the local biz
which provided change in the char
ter of the city, and now the authort-
ties are in the peculiar predicament of
having issued bonds for the erection
of school building and the money has
been used, without legal rights.
To permit the matter to wait until
next June would be inconvenient aad
embarrassing, and the people of Con-
yers are anxious that Governor Har-
ris allow the matter to be considered
in the special session.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
THREE SIDES OF WILMA
IN THE KAISER'S HANDS
Serbia is Withstanding Efforts to In
wade Her Country and Reports
Says Forts Destroyed

LONDON, Sept. 18.-The Germans
have invested Wilma on three sides,
and the troops of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen are thirty-seven miles to
the southeast of wilma.
The fall of wilma would give the
Germans considerable transportation
facilities by railroad to Petrograd.
On the southern end of the battle
line the Russians continue to gain
their latest achievement was the cap
ture of 1900 men along the river
s. pa with little activity along tho
center.
The reports that the Teutonic pow
ers have decided to initiate a new
offensive are multiplying There is
little evidence concerning the direc-
tion of these drives.
Several correspondents cabling
from Rotterdam assert that they have
reason to believe that the central pow
ers have decided to strike another
heavy blow Already they have under
way the preliminary movements. The
objective Of the new campaign is be
lieved to be either Italy or Serbia. Ap,
parently, there has been no great
concentration of troops along the
Save or Danube rivers. There has
been considerable there recently.
Nish claims that the Serbians have
destroyed the Austrian Notifications
on the river banks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18

be the presentation of a bunch OF
carnations to the eldest member o:
the Sunday school who is present, and
also one to the youngest.
The cradle roll members are invit-
ed to be present tomorrow, which
means special invitation to mama
and papa" aunt" and uncle"
Every member of every class is ex-
pected tomorrow, which with the Wis,
itors, will mean a large, enthusiastic
crowd. Many delightful things viii,
be ready for you, and everybody, ex-
cept the primary beginners and baby
roll, is urged to stay to preaching at
IL o'clock, when the revival services
conducted by Rev. Arthur Moore will
begin
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Bread and Water Cure.

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 1S.-The bread
and water cure for drunkards is be-
ing tried at police headquarters
where G. I. Clay has been put into a
solitary cell, with nothing but the
classic crust and pitcher to starve
off his hunger.
This unusual sentence was begun
to be carried out yesterday, following
Clay's conviction on charge Of drum.
kenness, in which the young mans
own mother appeared to testify against
him.
She said he had been drunk for
three months, and that she had no
longer any influence on him, and that
she hoped the police would do some.
thing to break him of the habit. but
that she didn't want to see him sent
to the stockade or chaingang.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
GEORGIA SHOULD
FOLIO PALMETTO
STATE ON LIQUOR

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept 1S.-That
Georgia would follow South Carolina Is
example if statewide prohibition were
put up to the people at the polls is
declared by Thomas B. Fielder, who
is taking an active part in the fight
to strengthen Georgia's prohibition
laws.
THE opponents of the legislation
pending in the general assembly are
fond of claiming that prohibition is a
political football" he says in state
ment given out today, "and that the
people should be allowed to settle it
once and for all.
"As a matter of fact the one thing
the liquor interests fear worst of all.
the one proposition they would fight
with more desperation than any other,
is a reference of the prohibition issue
direct to the people of Georgia.
They know that the people of Geor-
gia are Overwhelmingly in favor OF
prohibition, just as the people of
South Carolina are overwhelmingly
for it. And they know that if it ever
comes to vote at the polls the liquor
interests will be showed under for all
time.
"The liquor traffic is being crowded
off the map, and the liquor interests
know it, and are fighting desperately
to postpone the inevitable.
Wherever the people are given ar
opportunity to speak at the polls
wherever legislature is responsive to
the peoples will. the sale of whiskey
is being outlawed, and this will con-
tinue with ever increasing rapidity un-
til prohibition becomes nation wide
and worldwide"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
REBEL LEADER HANGED
IN CHINESE REPUBLIC

PEKING, Sept. 18.-Wang Lung, a
rebel leader who formerly commanded
the Sungkiang troops and was re.
sponsible for mnay disturbances in
spired by Huang Hsing and other
prominent agitators, was executed in
Peking recently, while three of his
accomplices were sentenced to impris-
onment for long terms.
Wang Shun, former financial COM
missioner of Kiangsi, has also been
sentenced to death for having re.
ceived bribes and for selling offices
His trial was long and hard fought. 1t
was impossible at first to prove the
charges, but it happened that during
the trial policemen noticed much
smoke coming from the accused man S
house. They rushed it and discovered
the former commissioner burning Of
fetal papers. Among the papers seiz-
ed by the officers were documents
which are said to have established his
guilt.
Death sentences are not infrequent
in China for dishonesty and theft, In
fact law has been passed under
President Yuan Shi-kai's direction
which makes the theft of as small an
object as q rickshaw punishable by
death.
Such severe punishment is regard
ed as necessary to restrain bandits
and outlaws who terriorize remote
districts and to check the grating
spirit among officials,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
JAPAN AND CHINA
AGREE ON Ts|NGTAU

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 1S.-
The re-opening of the Chinese mari
time customs office at Tsingtgau is
reported to the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce at Washington by
Mr.. Post Wheeler, the American
charge d'affaires at Tokyo. The agree
ment was signed by the Japanese min
lister to China and the director of the
Chinese customs service, and came
into force September 1, 1915. The
Japanese government, after deducting
twenty per cent. of the import duty, as
provided in the revised agreement be-
tween Germany and China, out of the
custom receipts levied up to the date
of the re-opening of customs by the
japanese authorities at Tsingtau, is to
turn the remainder over to the Chinese
customs authorities. Imports at
Tsingtau normally exceed $6,000,000
per annum in value. Full particulars
concerning the trade at Tsingtau were
recently issued by the Bureau of For.
eign and Domestic Commerce in a
supplement to Commerce Reports dat
ed July II, 1915.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
BRITISH WAR OFFICES
STOPS LEATHER RISE

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-After protract-
ed negotiations, the British War Of
fice has concluded an agreement to
prevent further increases in the price
of leather. The agreement is signed
by the United Tanners Federation and
provides that maximum prices for
the preesnt year shall not exceeded an
advance of ten per cent on the whole
hide On prices current in May.
The War Office in a circular ex-
planning the agreement, announces to
contractors having army orders that
"the departemnt expects to be given
by manufacturers the full benefit OF
this deruction on present prices, and
looks to manufacturers to see tina.
they themselves get it from tanners
or dealers"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
BRITISH RENAME SHIPS
WITH PREFIX HUM

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The British ad-
miralty has directed that all ex Ger.
man merchant ships taken over for ad.
miralty use as golfers or supply ships
shall be renamed with a title having
the prefit Hun" to associate their
names with the original owners. Sew
en- captured steamers have already
been SO named, as follows:
Hungerford, $500 tons, formerly the
Lautenfels.
Hunstanton, 45OO tons, formerly the
Werdenfels.
Huntley, 1900 tons, formerly the
Ophelia.
Huntsdon, 29oo tons, formerly the
Arnfried
Huntress, 5000 tons, formerly the
Frisia.
Hunsgate, 1900 tons, formerly the
Affair.
Huntsend, $500 tons, formerly thc
Lutzow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
NEWS ITEMS FROM
THE GATE CITY IN
SEPARATE STORIES

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 1S.-The in
dividual speed record for divorces was
made by Mrs. Cora L. Lee yesterday,
when Judge Pendleton granted her
second divorce in period of less
than four years.
She was divorced less than four
years ago from J. ]. Lee, following
domestic discord and incompatibility.
Following their divorce, Mr.. and Mrs
Lee fell in love- again and were re
married.
The rub through the courts, how
ever, failed to take off the rough spots
and discord arose again. They went
back into the courts with bills and
cross bills, and again were divorced
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Crooks Fire SAINT Anna.

LONDON, Sept. 18.-The Lloyd's
agent at st. Michael, Azores. cables
that the captain of the liner Saint
Anna attributes the fire on his vessel
to the work of propagandists of tile
enemy country. The reports say that
many explosions occurred on the yes
sci on September 18th.
After the vessel put into the Azores
the fire was extinguished and many
unexploded fuses were found.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Day of AtOnemen,,

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 18.-The cs.e-
bration of the Day of Atonement. the
most solemn festival on the Jewisa
calendar, began yesterday at sunse,
and will continue until sunset TO-DAY.
Many stores are closed, but will be
opened tonight after sunset
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Movement Against Serbia.

NISH, Sept. 1S.-A new Austrian
movement against Serbia is increas-
ing. An official statement has been
issued today which says that several
attempts to invade Serbia have been
repulsed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-18
Lunacy Commission Named.

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 1S.-A luna.
cy commission may be asked to sit on
the case ofsS. B. Burnett, who talked
Of anarchy and tried to intimidate Mrs.
w. D. Owens into giving him a sum
of money.