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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
HARD FIGHTIN3 ON IN
D0BRUDJA COUNTRY
British Open Fire
On The Sonne
Front Now

LONDON, Nov. 13-Russian troops
have crossed the river Danube into the
Rumanian province of Dobrudja at two
places south of Tchernovoda, and the
Russian fleet has renewed its bonn
bardment of Constanza, according to
Petrograd advices received via Rome
today. Teutonic forces in that region
are reported as thoroughly demoraliz-
ed and retreating with one-third of
their fighting effectives lost.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
MISS BELL SUSTAINS BROKEN
ANKLE VISITING IN THE WEST

The many friends of Miss Callie
Bell will regret to learn of her misfor-
tune on last Tuesday at the home of
her aunt, Mrs. j. w. Furlow, at Ell
Paso, Texas.
Miss Bell, who has been on an ex-
tended trip through the West was
planning to return home when she
happened to an accident and was So
unfortunate as to sustain a broken
ankle.
Miss Bell expects to return home in
about three or four weeks, and her
many friends wish for her early re-
coyery
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
NO CELEBRATION FOR
VICTORY OF WILSON

At a meeting Monday of several
members of the democratic campaign
fund committee it was decided not to
have celebration as planned, and at
any rate to take the matter up later
Only few members of the committee
met after the call for 8 o'clock at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
SEATS, ARE ON SALE At
HOOKS FgR "skuLE"

Reserved seats for the "Deestrick
Skule," which will be given at the OPP
era House, Wednesday night, Nov. Is,
went on sale at Hooks Pharmacy this
mornin..
The members of the Music Study
club are pushing the sale of the tick
cts, and the indications are that their
friends will pack the house for them
Wednesday night.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
SECRETARY FENIM0RE is
BACK FROM STATE FAIR

Secretary P. A. Fenfmore, of the
Chamber of Commerce, has returned
from Macon, where he attended the
State fair and had charge of the
grounds. 1t was great occasion and
big success, according to Mr.. Fenimore.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
DIR. PRATHER GOES TO
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

DR.. w. S. Prather, former president
of the Third District Medical associa-
tion, is in Atlanta, attending the meet
ing of the Southern Medical associa-
tion, where a large number of physi-
ians are present.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
NAVAL AIRPLAINS HIT
THE GERMAN WORKS

LONDON, Nov. 13-British naval
airplanes during Sunday bombarded
German naval works and war vessels
at Ostend, Belgium, says the war Office
today.
The damage wrought or losses sus-
tanned by the British are not stated in
the announcement of the raid.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
British Taken Beaumont HameIet.

LONDON, Nov. 13.-The British have
taken eaumont-Hamelet and st.
Pierre, divisions in the new offensive
north of the Ancre rived, according to
news agency despatch late today. The
despatch says the British advanced a
maximum of one mile and two thous"
and prisoners have been taken.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
LOWELL, NOTED ASTRONOMER,
VICTIM OF APOPLEXY, AGED 81

FLAGSTAFF. Ariz, Nov. 13.-Dr,
percival Lowell, noted astronomer and
founder and director of Lowell OBJ
servatory here, died last night of
apoplexy, having been stricken Sun
day morning. He was sixty-one years
old, and an authority on astronomical
subjects.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
MAY FUTURES BREAK
HIGH RECORD TODAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-May cotton
futures sold up to 20 S-1OO on the cot
ton market here. The price attained
marks new high record for the sea-
son.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
He Gets The Glad Hand

The Amercus Democratic
following congauaory to President Woodrow Wilson;
1t makes congratulate
eforsin behalf
"AMERICUS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE,
"Cranson Williams Secretary"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
Compliments Officers.

81 wish to add further that much of
the success of the fair is due to the
character of the officers. julius Otto
is a genius, and he has done more for
the fair, and for Georgia, than any
other one man. He has given his per-
sonal attention to the association, be-
sides keeping up with his other du-
ties.
THE people of Georgia have valua-
Bile man in him and should appreciate
the fact.
In speaking of the officers, l wish
to say that Harry Robert has done
wonderful work and is model secre-
tary and general manager
Capt. Cobb is now IS years old and
can remember since the organization of
the first association in Macon. He has
done much work for the society of
which he is a member and from ap-
pearance is good for many years more
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-13
CAP PT.COBB HAPPY
OVER SUCCESS Of
THE STATE FAIR

Captain John A. Cobb, of Americus,
president of the Georgia Agricultural
society, has returned from Macon,
where he was consp cuous at the Geor-
gia State fair, as it was held under the
auspices of the Georgia Agricultural
society. Captain Cobb is enthused
with the great success of the event,
and he had the following to say, which
was carried in the Macon Telegraph:
Before saying good bye, Capt. John
A. Cobb, president of the Georgia Agri-
cultural soc ETY., and the oldest member
of the organization, had a few words to
say regarding the fair.
Capt. CObb's Tribute.
Il have been attending the fairs in
Macon since 1868, having joined the
first fair association ever organized in
Macon" he said From that time I
have seen it grow slowly but surely
until today Georgia boasts a fair wor-
thy of the Empire State of the South,
and to which the people can justly
point with pride
up to a few years ago the majority
Of the live stock come from outside the
state, but this year over rs per cent.
of it is Georgia-raised and is as good
as that found in any other state the
country. Now the people who want to
buy blooded cattle will not have to go
cut of Georgia for Il.
"There has been a wonderful i'm
provement in the agricultural depart
ment, and it is nothing short of mar
velous when person sees just what
can be raised in Georgia. The dis
plays have an educational value and
tend to do away with the fear of the
boil weevil.
with personal care by the farmer,
cotton can still be raised profitably and
it has got to be raised, for this is a
product that the world needs, and the
South is the only section that can
laies it.
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Exaggerated.

MFRS LANGTRY mentioned at
G01 luncheon in Washington that she
intends to write a book of impressions
gathered during her recent American
tour.
zone feature of American life which
intrigues me-. said the actress, lis the
relation between parents and children.
The Independence almost said indif-
ference-of American children toward
their parents shocks the European
mind. l believe the young Frenchman
of twenty-five is more under the thumb
of his father and mother than is the
American girl of sixteen. Your children
desert their parents long before they
should, but American parents accept
this desertion as naturally as the hen
accepts the desertion of her brood"
Mrs Langtry laughed.
81 hope. though" she continued, that
the story a New York broker told me
is exaggerated.
Where have you been lately, Mary?
this chap once said to young lady
friend of his whom he had not seen for
some time.
~ have been to Rochester to see my
father and mother the girl replied.
by Jove" the broker exclaimed.
And how did you find them?
"'Oh. | knew where they lived said
the girl
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attacked by a tiger and to escape the
beast was compelled to- slide down the
rocky side of a mountain. He sent "a
message for help to the CONSUL who
said the message read:
Attacked by tiger. Send me some
trousers"
However that may be. every bearer in
Mr. Meyers party fled for life. leav-
ing the explorer to his fate. Just how
he managed to escape from the tiger
he will not say, declaring, however.
that that was his closest approach TO
death or injury during the ten years
he has been an agricultural explorer.
The threat of hostile Tibetans to boil
him and his bearers in oil he does not
consider: he didn't believe the Tibetans
really would have carried the threat
into execution. The bearers believed,
however, and between sunset and sun
rise put as many miles as possible be-
tween themselves and the Tibetan
frontier. .-.
The Department of Agriculture is the
only governmental department in the
world that is now making systematic
agricultural explorations. though some
of the other governments have such
explorers who work internationally. OF
the explorers. regularly working for
the department. Mr. Meyer is recog-
nized as the first, and this means the
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as that of what the scientists call
Prunus persica.. IT.. ,.....
Darwin commended that the peach
and the almond were from the same
stock, and, quoted the nectarine. as a
modification of the peach to prove his
contention. Many years ago a wild
almond was found in Afghanistan that
partook of some characteristics of the
peach but it remained for Mr.. Meyer
to discover the true prototype of the
peach on the arid mountainsides of
China's wilds. Scientists had main
tanned that the peach had been tended
by man so long that If this kindly help
were withdrawn the peach would per-
ish from the earth. dying out in one
generation of trees. Such is the case
with all highly cultivated plants. The
discovery of the wild peach, amazingly
hardy, persistent in the face of ap-
palling natural hardships. and resistant
to an almost unbelievable degree to
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TED PEACHES COMPARED AS TO FRUIT AND STONE

ness of the parent stock will insure the
gratis against succumbing TO their in
herited weaknesses brought about by
long continued culture and overrefine-
ment u
The chestnut trees found by Mr. Mey-
err in his explorations are hardly to be
distinguished from our own variety ex-
cept for the fact that the blight that
has proved so destructive of chestnut
trees in the United States affects the
Chinese tree not at all. The disease
exists. Mr.. Meyer found, and the Chi
nese trees are attacked by it: but the
trees, he found. appear to have devel-
oped powers of resistance that enable
them 10 grow. thrive and produce an
nual crops of chestnuts.. notwithstand-
ing the presence of the blight, which
does no damage either to wood leaf or
nut.
Describing the travels and the .labors
Of Mr.. Meyer, the Far Eastern Review,
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Annual Distribution Of Plants From Botanic

pect plans which are adapted to divers
environments, and their expectation is
satisfied.
Another point which ranks high in
Importance in this matter of plant dis
tribution is that of quantity In an
ever increasing Congress, which at
present numbers more than four num-
bred members. each of whom receives
al least eighty plants. the question OF
how many plants to prepare for dis
tribution becomes serious one. Supt.
Hess must take into consideration the
fact that plants sometimes die in spite
of perfect care and that certain
varieties are apt to be in greater de-
mand at the last moment than others.
Continual safeguard against shortage
of supply is imperative.
Both utilitarian and ornamental spe-
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the greenhouses on the outside are the
glass-covered hot beds. where the young
shrubs get their start in the outside
world. In an open lot to the rear are
set out the evergreens, which require
considera BILE time before they mature,
and the other hardy shrubs not ready
to be tranSplanted until they are two
or three years old.
Perhaps the most fascinating spec
tacle of all is the interior of the propa-
eating rooms, where the delicate and
difficult work of breeding new plants
from slips" of old ones is done. Some
times the young plants are rooted from
cuts of the leaves. but more often from
cuts of budded stems.
All of the propa gating is done in clean
sand - stream or bank sand. 1t is
hauled from nearby creeks to the gar
dens. where it is thoroughly washed
in tubs to remove all foreign matter.
1t is then carefully sifted to eliminate
the bits of dead leaves or broken twigs
that encourage fungous growth. Into
this carefully prepared sand, which is
kept continually moist. the slips are
placed. Hundreds of them. looking like
mere twigS, stand erect in systematic,
regular rows. Beneath the surface the
dainty little root tendrils are develop
ing, and in some tiny leaves are shoot
ing out, giving evidence of the pres
ence of the mysterious life force.
When the first leaves put out each
plant is removed to place of its own.
II IL De a plant lot DeCulnS, IL is given
a little pot: if it be shrub, it is placed
in the hot bed for cultivation. Thou
sands of plants are propagated yearly
and the process extends over the yearly
range of months.
The garden grows few so-called cut
flowers. but this year there is a very
promising bed of carnations. The
orchid house is also thing of beauty
at the present time. Many varieties of
these exquisite flowers are grown. and
some of the rarer species unknown to
milady, who cares only for the delicat e
heliotrope flowers for her corsage bou-
quet are also cultivated.
Wandering through some other green
houses, where the public does not have
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From Tibet and China With Valuable Specimens

may become a root stock for all the
stone fruits. such as peaches, apricots.
etc. This aboriginal parent of the peach
grows in the widest and most arid
regions of China's hinterlands. 1t grows
in places where cultivated peaches, the
pampered pets of horticulture. could
not exist. 1t seems to require practi-
cally no water. but thrives in dry.
sandy, stony wastes. And il appears
to be absolutely immune to the blights
and ailments that, aside from untimely
frosts. seem to have chosen the peach
as their special victim. On roots of
this wild tree brought back from hith
erto untrodden wastes of the earth our
nurserymen may bud and graft fruit
bearing branches of desirable varie-
ties with the assurance that the hardi-
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abroad as each tree or shrub is planted
in the ground In every person who
takes an interest in these plants is
aroused pride in home grounds and
an interest in community beautif1ca-
ton. Horticulture. it is hoped. will en-
gage the attention of the masses of
people as well as that of the profess
SIGNALS, with a general resulting culti
walton of beauty in the homes and lives
of the people.
Supt Hess, who is known as one of
the most expert florists in the country
and was for many years employed in
the public garden at Boston. is deeply
interested in emphasizing the benefits
which will accrue to the people through
this branch of the work. Mr.. Hess has
devoted mis- life to Horticulture anu gar
dening: he spent seven years in Flor
ida. experimenting with citrus fruits
and growing Chinese plants. and five
years in Chicago with the park COM
mission of that city He has made
special study of Chinese and other for
eign plants. In his early work he was
among the first to enter the landscape
gardening field He set out number
of large estates in the west. The love
which he feels for the products of
Mother Earth he desires to impart to
the country at large; hence his con o.,
plant distribution. Robert Craig of
Philadelphia. an expert in the growing
of crotons, recently named one of his
new seedlings after Mr.. Hess.
Supt. Hess is also particularly anx-
ious to give assistance to schools.
classes and colleges interested in
botany, and he has been instrumental
in rearranging many of the exhibits in
the main greenhouses in such way
as to present the most information to
garden visitors in the shortest time.
The exhibit contains. is we'll known.
some rare varieties of freak plants, odd
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SNROM wanderings and explorations
In in the remote provinces of
China. up into Tibet. across the
q stretches of the Cobb desert. into
Russian Turkestan, across the Altai
mountains. and through the virgin for
ests of TIE upper Yalu and Tumen riv-
ers. Frank y. Meyer. plant explorer for
the Department of Agriculture. has re-
turned to Washington. bearing with
him. in the form OF hundreds of speci-
mems carefully assorted. Labeled and
classified. new and strange plants.
seeds, leaves. roots and cuttings that
may, after thorough investigation and
exhaustive tests, prove of incalculable
value to the farmers. fruit growers
and gardeners OF the United States.
Startling as have been the adventures
OF other explorers of the earth's un-
charted and unmapped regions, none
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
The Average Man.

VIZ LILLIAN DEAN HOWELLS was
Wv talking in Boston about the
classics.
Nobody reads the classics he said,
THE average man knows just about
as much of the classics as the squire
knew of Shakespeare.
"A school teacher said to the squire:
Funny thing happened at school to-
day. | asked the boys who wrote Ham
let and a little fellow put up his hand
and squeaked:
Teacher. it wasn't me-
The school teacher paused and
smiled. The squire looked at him. and
then gave a loud, interrogative laugh.
"'Haw. haw. haw, And l suppose tho
little rascal had done 1t after all! he
shouted"
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access, one finds the plants that are
being cultivated for outdoor bedding
in the gardens. Colorful crotons are
here, semi-tropical plants with varie-
gated red, yellow and green leaves.
which thrive indoors in the winter in
the states. The cacti house is A source
of wonder. Hundreds of varieties OF
succulent plants are propagated here
for use in the rockeries about the gar
dens.
1t is almost an unrivaled beauty spot
= this Botanic Garden. whose chief
purpose is to spread the religion of
beauty This idea is uppermost one
finds his way out of its charming limits
and passes beneath the branches of the
tree from the grave of Confucius. of
the oaks planted by Booth and Forrest.
of the graceful hornbeam tree planted
by Abraham Lincoln and of the cedar
of Leila anon.
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identical with those that grow profuse-
ly throughout the greater part of the
south and which now are wasted or
permitted to fall to the ground to be
eaten by. hogs and cattle.
!: *
Mr.. Meyer is of the opinion that many
of the fruits. flowers and nut-bearing.
trees heretofore believed to be of Eu-
ropean origin in reality came in the
first place from China. In the course
of his explorations he found, in addi-
ton to the wild peach. wild pear.
back with him. He also found wild
apple, undoubtedly a prototype of the
cultivated apple. The tree that pro-
duces the nuts known as English wal
nuts has a primitive ancestor in China
forests and, cultivated, the tree grows
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diseases and extremes of temperature
as well as. almost total aridity. is one
the value of which to horticulturalists
can scarcely be estimated.
A new industry for the south may re-
suit from another of Mr.. Meyers dis
cOveries. If this should prove true.
also, another dried fruit may he added
to the list of such edibles as dates,
figs, etc. In Sikh, in the province of
Kansu, Mr.. Meyer found people string
ing persimmonS on long cords and dry
ing the fruits in the sunshine on the
tops of their houses. The dried per-
simmons. firm. meaty. sweet and de-
licious, were transported to Picking,
where they formed staple article sold
by the fruit merchants. The persim-
mons dried by the Chinese of Siku are
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first in the world. 1t was due to these
agricultural explorers that durum
wheat was introduced into the United
States. am American consul in Russia
having heard of a peculiar drought
resisting wheat grown on the Russian
steppes. Seed of this wheat was finally
obtained by an explorer, the total cost
being less than $4,000. Grown in the
semi-ard regions OF the west. durum
wheat proved so well adapted to the
requirements of the region that few
years later the United States shipped
to Russia more than S2,000.9o0 worth
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of the wheat. the most of which went
back, to the identical Russian province
from which the original seed came.
The discovery of durum wheat. how
ever. is said to be the only big discov-
cry of agricultural explorers in recent
years for which Mr.. Meyer is not to
be given credit.
The results of Mr.. Meyers labors in
the interests of agriculture are to he
published as a part of the departmental
year book, to be issued in few weeks.
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a Ii year n force Of men has been
IN working at the National Bo-
IN TAME Garden to prepare Cor
q q the annual distribution Of
plants to senators and representativ
nov being made. During ten months
OF the year these men are actually
busy with the propa cation and care of
trees, shrubs and vines for the mem
hers Of Congress. The other two months
are spent in preparation for greenhouse
activity.
The frui; of their la bors is spread
United states has within its confines
practically every variety of tempera-
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of these have been of more interest
than have befallen Mr.. Meyer in his
wanderings about the unknown regions
that lie above and back OF China. In
deed. his fourth and latest trip was cut
snort and he was forced TO abandon his
prearrangcd program because his bear
ers were strongly disinclined TO enter
the wiids .! hitherto unprecedented
portion of Tibet in the face of declara =
tons by Tibetans that should they pro-
coed they would most certainly be
boiled alive in Oil.
Tne Ghinese- bearers, on receiving
this warning, refused TO go farther,
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in all of his explorations extending
over a period of ten years. This was
in Chosen, where tigers ten feet long
are by no means unusual
AS Mr.. Meyer tells the story it does
not sound especially thrilling, unless
the nearer allows his own imagination
sway. 1t was made the subject of a
report by former American consul at
Seoul, however. who was able to pic
ture the event much more dramatically
than would the average hearer listen
ing to Mr.. Meyers own account Ac-
cording to the consul, Mr.. Meyer was
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IA
IVY of Propagation Ten Months of the YeaEay
W. Hess Most
Country Distribution PnsEutn
ADVANTAGES Of BotancC1