Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-04
AUGUST 1914.

thought of giving to August place II
the worlds history of more than ordin-
ary Importance. The month at thai
time seemed of but little significance
as it related to the affairs of the
world. To most of us August was
simply the time of midsummer heat
OF deep skies, shifting and dangerous
clouds, sun-mellowed fruits and gold
en- harvests. But alas for the changes
time brings. Since 1914 August has
come to be the master month for
tragedy and blood, and in the light OF
such a new meaning other dates
in August come trooping back remind
ing us of other tragedies, causing the
mind to bark back into the dim past
bringing out other tragedies in the
history of the world.
In August of the year 1916 was
fought the battle of Crecy, in which
the sturdy archers of the English
proved what yeoman blood could do
even in the face of the finest flowers of
Frances chivalry. 1t was in this bat
tie that Edward the Black Prince for
! ever hid what personality he may have
possessed in a valorous suit of dusky
ermor 1t was here, too, that cannon
were first used in battle, and with
such terrifying effect that men said
that God himself spoke in their thun-
der.
Some of the great saints days of the
church come in August, first among
them being August Is, the day of the
Assumption of the Virgin, who, as the
Mother of God, was received into
heaven without waiting for general
resurrection.
The Massacre of st. Bartholomew,
political horror long laid at the door
of religion, began on Sunday, August
%, 1872, on the feast day of the apos-
tie of whom the Bible makes no record
except that he was one of the twelve
August % is the feast of St. Louis,
king who was in good faith a saint
also, and who died on that day in 1870,
just twenty-five years from another
August day on which he had set sail
from France on his first crusade. st.
Louis. in history, was Louis TX of
France, and the most lasting monu-
ent of this devotion is the exquisite
little chapel built by him to hold the
Crown Of Thorns and still standing in
Paris in all its medieval wonder of
stained glass and stone
In August were born Goethe, Scott,
Tolstoy, and Tennyson, and, on a GER
tain sad day in August in the unfriend-
~ city of London, the boy Chatterton
killed himself in hunger and despair.
In August, in our own country, were
born Francis Scott Key and Father
Ryan, and in August also David Crock
EFT, our ideal pioneer and patriot, and
Virginia Dare, the Inflated baby of
the Roanoke colony, the first English
child born in America.
On fearful 10th Of August in 1892,
the people of Paris stormei the Tuil-
cries, murdered the Swiss guard, and
took the royal family prisoners, thus
forever ending the old regime.
And now comes in our own time
August 1914" the date OF dates in th1
worlds history of bloodshed, carnage
and sorrow. '<4< s~k
The great world holds its breath III
horror at the carnage, the blood-shet
and the ruin that has come as a THE
in the night to rob the world of it:
peace and contentment, but down deer
in our hearts we feel a wonder ant
awe at selfness and the heroism o.
the people of the war, and we find Il
a tragic compensation for our grief tt
know that the soul of mankind can Sc
nightly triumph over fear anC
even death in the midst of unspeaka
BILE woe and pain.
Thus August becomes a month o
horrible Importance in the annals o