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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Battle Cry of Peace" tomorrow re-
turn date. Prices reduced Adults.
Csc; balcony 15c and children 1Oc.
Three shows, $3.50, 5:45 and 8 o'clock.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Lasco Harvey, Of Leslie was in the
eoty for a short while Monday morn
ing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Mr.. and Mrs. r. n Chapman, Of
Schley county, were in Americas shop
ping Monday morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

We have the latest and most attract
i've styles in Fall Millinery. WALK
YRS. Paw us a visit. 2S-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

d. Clarence Jones, of Rift, Lee coun-
~, as in the cit for a few hours Mon
day on business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Will Davenport, a former Americas
boy, who travels out of Macon was Il
business visitor in Americas today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

J. S. Matthews was a planter from
Smithville transacting business i'll
Americas today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Floyd Jones was a business visitor
in Americas today from Leslie.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-10-23

Miss Emma Chapman left today for
Cordele where she was called to the
bedside of her sister, Mrs. Perry Clegg,
who is reported quite i'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
THE BIGGEST CAT

From the Boston Globe.
 Brownie is supposed to be the biggest pet house eat in New England.
 Brownie weighs 40 pounds and he is as big as a man around the waist. that is, he's as big as some men and whole lot bigger than the ordinary cat. Brownies exact waist mea sure is 90 inches, and within that vast feline circumference beats a great big feline heart that is true blue to Mrs. Alice Corriveau of Roxbury.
 Brownie is a coon cat and his tremen- dous avoirdupois was not built up on too much food. He eats lightly twice a day with drink of warmed milk night and morning He refuses cold milk or water.
 This winter while his mistress was visit ing several weeks in New York. Brownie boarded at the Angel Memorial Animal hospital of the s. P. c. A. Mrs. Marion P Frost, who has charge of the pets boarding department of the hospital, says Brownie is positively the biggest cat she has ever seen-and one of the best.
 Mrs. Corriveau intends to enter her Brownie who is years old, in the next cat show in Boston. If they have any heavy weight class in a cat show, the management might just as well mail the blue ribbon to Brownie Corriveau now and have that much off their minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Politics in St. Clair

The people of St. Clair county are get ting plenty of politics now" said Horace Afford of Riverside, who was at the Morris yesterday. "We have in our coun- ty five candidates for probate judge in the democratic primary, in addition to the re- publicans There are also number of hot fights on for the other county of- if es.
 Then we have a warm race for Con- gress in which Watt T. Brown of St. Clair and L, E. Rainey of Gadsden are op- posing Congressman Burnett for re-elec- ticn.
 "The race for court of appeals is also attracting much interest in St. Clair county I find that General Bricken, who has just been in several places of the county is very strong, as are also Judge Thomas D. Knight of Greensboro and Judge John Pelham of Anniston. l have not been in any other counties in the state, but these three candidates for the three places on the court of appeals seem to have big lead over their oppo- nents in St. Clair"
 Mir Afford is a candidate for delegate to the national convention from the Sev- enth district. q am confident I will be elected as one of the representatives from my district to the St. Louis convention,' v said Mir Afford 'I am in favor of Pres ident Wilson, of course, and also believe the delegates should be guided by his wishes in drafting the platform"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Selma to Have Rotary Club

Selma is going to have a Rotary club, according to Morgan Richards secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the Gen. tral City, who was in Birmingham yes- terday Mr. Richards came here at the instance Of a number of prominent Sel- ma men to confer with local Rotarians regarding the matter.
 Selma wants a Rotary club. and we expect to get it. said MT. Richards after lengthy conference with officials of that organization. 'The local officers with whom I conferred were very much sur prised at some of the things l told them regarding Selmas claims for this organ ization. We have the requisite number of eligible men and the necessary number of professions and businesses to entltle us to a club. I was much encouraged by the reception the local officers gave the proposition, and I think Selma will soon join the ranks of the other progress sive cities which boast of Rotary clubs. Selma can afford such a club, and we will certainly maintain it up to the high standard of the other cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Another Investigation Made

A number of Political Equality club women of Chicago, who have been in- vestigating the relations of hunger to vice for the past year, have decided that shopgirl can get meal in one of the penny cafes of the Chicago 'loop' which is ample for all her needs. After eating 20-cent meals in a department store they are reported to have exclaimed, Delightful! Suf- ficiency, assure youl"
 One of the investigators, who re- sides at the Chicago Beach hotel, where money is spent freely and lux uries are not wanting, and where, in cidentally, the newspaper reporters occasionally run to earth a ''rattling good story,' which calls for picture of at least one beauteous female in the papers, ate meal which cost her 8 cents. It consisted of a cup of tea, for 3 cents, and an order of corned beef and cabbage, costing cents. There was neither bread nor butter to supplement this gastronornic feast. q had all a girl needs and for only s cents," said this earnest Investigator. "Well cooked food and companionship are a happy combination for lunch hour. My tea was delicious!"
 Another woman, who presumably moves in the same circle, bought corned beef and cabbage, cake and tea, for which she paid 13 cents. Her re- marks also indicated that the poor working girl has no excuse for blam- ing her downfall on hunger.
 The clubwomen declare that work ing girls suffer because they don't know what to order. Perhaps they are unwise in this particular and spend their pennies for something that tastes good, rather than nourishing food, but it is impossible to take the sapient conclusions of the clubwom- en seriously. Almost anybody can stand an Scent meal once, or 20- cent meal twice. but shoppirls have to subsist on this sort of fare week in and week out and the menu is none too varied
 Despite their fulsome praise of the penny lunchroom, it is quite probable that the investigators solaced them selves at the close of hard day with a substantial dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01


 From "The Story of Atalapha-A Winged
 provnie" by Ernest Thompson Seton,
 in the April Scribner.
 The beavers had settled on the little brook that runs easterly from Mount Marcy. and built a series of dams that held a succession of ponds like wet stairway down the valley, making break ii, the forest that gave the sky chance to see it's own sweet face in the pools below.
 The Rose Moon was queen of the olue' and was glowing on the pinerooed noun tain. The baby beaver were learnps to slap with their tails, and already the chirping in high places told Of young birds grown and lusty. The peace or the forest was abroad for it was calm and cool in the waning light.
 And now the winged Brownies of the Woods. the hush people of Shadowland, ca me trooping down the open aisle above the beaver ponds. Skimming and circling on lightning wing, catching the butterflies of the night or pursuing each other with shouts that to them seemed loud ana boisterous, though to us they would be merely SQueakS ana tWlllers, loo liiii and fine for any but the sharpest ears.
 Somewhat in order of size they came; the smallest first, the larger as the shad- ows deepened. Then almost at the tWi- lights end appeared the last and royalest of them all. Clad in it's frosted sable furs, it swooped into view on ample wings, biggest, strongest, rarest of the folk of Shadowland, the king of it's kind, the chief of the winged Brownies, and yet for which we blind ones have no bet ter name than Great North Hoary Bat. Darting up and down the waterway, chasing the fat moths and big game of the night, noctua, samia, lachnosterna, or stripping their bodies of legs and wings to devour the soft parts in air, the great bat flew, first of the royal house to come. Sometimes skimming low over the waters. sometimes shooting skyward above the trees, sometimes spinning up and down, faster than any of it's lesser kin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
The School Bond Issue

Commissioner Hornady is right ln assuming that the proposed bond issue of $2OOO,00 for school buildings will prove so popular as to meet with prac- tically no opposition when the matter is submitted to the people. President Commissioner Ward advocated a $2,o0O,O 900 proposition when the ques- tion first came before the commission, but Mir. Hornady expressed the opin- ion that we might make out with Sl,- 300 900. After thorough survey of the situation, however, he has come to be an enthusiastic champion of the larger amount.
 The need for additional school build ings has been pressing for several wears. The school housing facilities are not only woefully inadequate, but in many cases conditions are so in sanitary as to be serious menace to the public health.
 Of the s2,O0O,O00 about $40O,0oO will be used in the erection of two high school buildings-one on the Southside and one between Woodlawn and East Lake. After making eX- te- i've repairs on certain of the old buildings there would be enough money left for the erection of at least a dozen handsome structures for ele- mentary schools, properly distributed throughout Birmingham.
 It is the purpose of Commissioner Hornady, who has the bond issue proposition in charge, to have the de- tails ready to submit to the commits sion next week for their action. 1t IS believed that the election for ratifica- tion by the qualified voters will be called in June.
 The expenditure of $2,0OO,OOO on school buildings during the current year will have unquestionably stim- ulating effect on the real estate mar ket and it should be the beginning of . great volume of construction work in and around Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
HOTEL LOBBIES
After Auto Thieves

A jail sentence is little enough for a boy or man who steals an automobile" '" said Commissioner J. D. Truss, and l therefore favor anything that MT. Ward advocates in the matter of punishing this class of lawbreaker.
 Some say it is only lark to borrow an automobile-but I say that it is a. theft. man pays about 5000 for an automobile and some of these youngsters borrow it and run up against the side of Shades mountain and leave it wreck. The car is ruined and who gets the sym- pathy? The man whose automobile is all broken up? No. It is the boy who is arrested and convicted. His parents and friends sniff1e around for another chance for the youngster to wreck an- other car.
 ''There is only one way to stop this practice of borrowing automobiles, and that is to place the boys who do it in jail-and keep them there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
THE GAY LIFE.
THE ROMANCE OF QUININE
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 TN London recently an aged man, read
 ing in bed, upset his candle, set the = bed afire and was burned to death. This accident reminded the world that it had forgotten the aged gentleman and the great service he did for humanity some half century ago. But now the med ical journals of the world are paying tardy justice to the memory of this man, Sir Clements R. Markham. traveller, ex- plorer, historian, writer, late president of the Royal Geographical society.
 Civilization owes much to him. He saved from extinction the tree from which quinine is obtained, planted it in vast groves and thus increased the supply of quinine and lowered the cost to few cents an ounce. This put it within reach of everyone.
 How important a thing that was is pointed out by a great London newspaper which said, commenting upon the death of Markham: "Quinine won India to civilization, because, without quinine to allay levers, British troops could not have conquered that vast empire. Quinine was almost the food of Kitchener's army on the toilsome march to khartoum With out quinine Egypt could not have been won.''
 Qunine had it's great part in the win- ming of the American west, too. The pio- neer carried with him a bottle of quinine with which to fight malarial levers. He did not know then, as we know now, that IL J quito carrying the germs from one per- son to another, and that quinine, taken into the blood, kills those germs.
 Nearly 300 years ago the Countess Chin chon, wife of the Spanish viceroy in Peru,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Brother Is in Mexico

q am in receipt of a letter from my brother, l.. A. Woods, who is boss black smith for the Federal and South Pacific railroad of Mexico, at Guaymas, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, who states that everything in that part of the country is quiet and they are having baseball games daily" said F.. J. Woods, assist ant county treasurer. Friday.
 My brother has been in Mexico so long that he seems to have forgotten that everybody can't read or speak Spanish. He says he presumes I have read the accounts of the Villa chase, and fac-simile of the circulars that are being distributed by Villa and Carranza throughout Mex ico but in the event have not he will enclose me one of the original, so l can read it for myself. I have the circular, but am still as much in the dark as to it's contents as I was before it ever left it's native borders. It is printed in Span-
 sh, which is all Greek to me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Tomorrow's Age-Herald

No patriotic society is more sincere or more devoted to cherishing and fos- tering the traditions that have made America great than the Daughters of the American Revolution.
 The Sunday Age-Herald is the of ficial medium through which the ac- tivities of the daughters in Alabama are chronicled. In tomorrow's issue these chronicles will contain some in- teresting Alabama historical facts, the appeal of which should be much broad CT than the circle of the daughters themselves.
 The feature sections of tomorrow's issue are such as to appeal to every member of the family all over the southland.
 The Rotogravure Section will have la fine collection of Birmingham pie lures and a notable array of views from the various dominions of the British empire which are contributing so much to the mother country's cause. There are also some striking German scenes.
 Dependable news is Associated Press news. The Sunday Age-Heralc is the only newspaper in this section which publishes Associated Press dis. patches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
THERE LIES MT. ATHos

From "The Holy Mountain of Thrace'
 by H. G. Dwight, in the April Scrlpner'
 Three long promontories, projecting trl- dentwise from that southwestern corner of Thrace known as the Chclcidice, prick the north edge of the Aegean like little Greece. The westernmost reaches past Olympus and makes the lower part of the Gulf of Salonika. The easternmost. point ing toward Lemnos and the Dardanelles, is of great renown in the Greek world. Mt. Athos is steep wooded ridge i've to 10 miles wide, terminating some 4o miles seaward in the peak that gives the peninsular it's name This solitary marble cone. rearing abruptly from the sea to a height of 1000 feet and capped three parts of the year with snow, has always inn pressed the imagination of its beholders. Pllny makes it throw its sunset shadow on Lemnos, 100 miles away. Aeschylus names it as one of the heights from which the fall of Troy was signalled to Mycenae. Xerxes so redoubted it's windy humors, having lost fleet by them, as t(, cut a canal across the low neck unit ing it to the mainland. The sculptor Stasicrates, proposed to Alexander the Great to carve the peak into a colossal statue of the conquering Macedonian, with a city in one hand and river pour ing from the other. And an early Chris tian legend hallowed it as the high moun- tain from which Christ was shown the kindness of the earth and the glory or them Losing it's ancient name of Acte, it thereupon became known as the Monte Santo of mediaeval of travellers, in sane tity second only to Jerusalem, a refuge from the world as famous as the The bald.
 Local tradition dates its status as community set apart for men of God from the reign of Constantine the Great, and connects several of the monasteries with the earlier emperors of Constanti- nople. The authentic history of Mt. Athos, however, does not begin before the tenth century, when Nichephorus Phocas found- ed the monastery of the Great Lavra. From that time it became the fashion among the princes of the east to patron ize the monasteries of the Holy Mountain. Indeed, there still exist on the east side of the peninsula the rc<rs of an abbey built by Latin monks from Amalfi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01

l lay at deaths door with fever, and was cured by a bitter decoction of the bark of a tree given her by an Indian. She took some of the bark to Spain. Gradually the use of it as medicine spread throughout Europe, and Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist, named the tree from which 1t came, Cinchona, in her honor.
 In 1859, Markham, a professional trave- Ter, went to Peru and saw how the Cin- chona trees were being destroyed for their bark. They were nearing extinction Soon the world would be without quinine unless something was done to save the trees. He induced the British government to plant the tree in India. It commits stoned him to do it. He set out vast groves. and quinine, before so costly that only the rich could have it, was cheapened. Markham told all about it in book he wrote, Travels in Peru and India" which is well worth reading even, at this late day.
 We wonder now how the world got along without quinine, it is so generally used today. The United States alone im-, ported nearly 4,0oO, GOO pounds of cinchona bark and nearly 3,000O0O ounces of quinine, alkaloids in 1914. The war greatly in creased the price, but after peace it will go down again. thanks. mostly. to the groves of Cinchona trees planted by Markham.
 If you should get a touch of malaria this spring, and should send to the drug store for some quinine capsules, you may think of how much you owe to the Span ish Countess Chinchon, and to the Eng lishman, Markham, who was burned in his bed, and of the romance of the bitter white powder, only glimpse of which has been given here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
HoUsEwoRK oBsoLEscrNT

Martha Bensley Bruere in the New York Independent.
 The more women who must make housework their profession, the more backward we are in industrial organiza- ton and the less able to protect the fam ily What we do need is more and bet ter community servants.
 So far as under the guise of domestic science women are trained for restaurant keepers, laundry supervisors, pure food experts and the hundred other forms Of community service, that study Justifes itself. But then it has become com munty, not domestic science. So far as it trains them to be their own or some one elses domestic servant, 1t is not val uabIe, for housework is obsolescent.
 In perfect progression from the moun- tain cabin, where the woman has no time for anything but housework, to the city apartment hotel, where her duties consist of checking the monthly bill, the need for training in domestic science proper is vanishing away. And even when a city woman chooses to keep house, her housework has reached minimum which no one has yet presumed to call
 rreducible.
 It seems necessary to remind ourselves hat we are living under~a form of gov ernment that is trying to become a democracy, and that democracy implies that every adult human being shall put in a full time job for life of real work not merely keeping busy, and that real work is doing something that needs to be done If a girl expects to do housework in her own home, under modern conditions that should not take more than one-fifth of her time. If she plans to make house. work paid profession, then she is going into domestic service.
 If would be a great gain if the voclfer- ous advocates of universal conscription into the ranks of houseworkers would open their dictionaries and while holding the left forefinger on the definition of "education'' as Ito train for the duties Of life" would turn to the last census, which shows that nearly one-fifth of those who find their life duty in manu- factures are women; that in places 80 per cent of the teaching force are women, ana that vast numbers of women are engaged in business, commerce, the professions ana agriculture They should also LOOK up the table which shows that in the larger cities nearly one-fifth of the women who work are married
 Obviously, housework is no longer ln- evitable even if one is female and mar ried and a housekeeper. It is in fact ln- creasingly improbable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
Tllo'|.J J. N. R.

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 TO J. W. R. By Rudyard Kipling. Your trail runs to the westward, And mine to mine own place; There is water between our lodges, And have not seen your face. But since have read your verses 'Tis easy to guess the rest Because in the hearts of the children There is neither East nor West. Born to thousand fortunes
 Of good or evil hap, Once they were kings together, Throned in a mothers lap. Surely they know that secret
 Yellow and black and white When they meet as kings together, In innocent dreams at night. By moon they all can play with, Grubby and grimed and unshod- Very happy together,
 And very near to God. Your trail runs to the westward. And mine to mine own place; There is water between our lodges, And you cannot see my face. And that is well--for cryil g
 Should neither be writtei nci seeiA But if I call you Smoke-in ihe-iiyre l know you will know WI l aeall, Ia@Ns Nsau
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-01
JEAN MOUNET-SULLY

that you were coming, I thought you would not mind assisting me with your advice" With his wonted amiability De- launay consented at once, and without further ado Mounet-Sully began its resi- tation. Delaunay simply sat riveted to his chair. In it's male vigor of expression, its gesticulation, it's extraordinary bye play, he had never heard anything like it, and when. at the conclusion of the roem, the reciter, his face streaming with precipitation, fell back panting. the fam ous premier was simply speechless for . few moments. 4
 "Too much energy, my young friend" he remarked at last. You must moder- ate it. Supposing. instead of delivering this comparatively short poem. that you had to interpret long part of the reg ular repertory-let us say, for instance. The Cid.'"
 But have played The Cid.'" was, the answer.
 "At Perigueux?"
 '-No; in Paris
 'In Paris! Who, in the name of all that's good. are you?"
 Thereupon Mounet-Sully told him tho story of his developments, and of his act ual wretchedness, with the result that Delaunay promised him there and then to procure his engagement at the Come die Franchise.
 You are a born tragedian,'' he added. "and I'll make it my business to prevent your talent going by the board" Delau- ray kept his word. Six months later Mounet-Sully made his debut at the House of Moliere in the part of Ores.es Gan adaptation of Sophoces' Electra" by voltaire) and literally took the capita, by storm.