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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21
VETERANS ALMOST HERE.

The Confederate Veterans have al
most invaded welcome procession
Trey will be.
Americas will entertain the state re-
union on Thursday and Friday, August
oath and 25th Just few days re-
main before the occasion. Everybody
must fall in-and assist in the plans
for their coming.
The committee is still short on
homes for the veterans. Did you see
the list of people in our Sunday edi-
ton who would entertain them? Look
Up that paper up-and read them. We
want more people like those-citizens
of Americas who are proud that their
fought in defense of the
home and country, proud that they
bear the blood which stained the fields
CT Appomattox and Gettysburg.
Some things must remain unsaid by
us today-but we wish they could be
known to every patriotic person who
are proud that their ancestors wor-
shipped the Stars and Bars.
We are Southerners-even if we are
Americans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

letter to Admiral Won Tirpitz through
the German Consul-General at the
Hague, setting forth the idea of break
ing the British blockade by this
means and recommending its execu-
ton. A copy of the letter was a few
days later brought to the notice Of
Herr Balm, the Managing Director of
the Hamburg-American line. The lat
ter was much taken with the plan, and
consulted with the competent author
tiles regarding its execution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21
DUTCH ARMY OFFICER
CLAIMS HONOR OF U.BOAT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Aug. 81.
A retired Dutch army officer claims
the fatherhood of the transatlantic
submarine service recently inauguer-
ated by the Deutschland" Jonkheer
j. Sandberg, formerly of the Neither
lands East Indian Army, says that
more than year ago he addressed a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21
WE SAY YOU ARE.

The Griffin and Sun ARE" always
loud in its claims for the dollar to stay
at home, and we are with you always.
Americas TimeszRecorder.
Thanks, but it isn't necessary to be-
lieve that we are so many.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Governor Harris did the right thing
Just in the nick of time with that Neill
bill He wasn't afraid to face the
natter, and the house gave him a pat
on the back.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

A newspapers business is to tell the
truth as it can be found in its news
columns, and not color them up to suit
the likes and dislikes of some petty
aims or jealousies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Ben Tillman says that the place
which bred the "pitchfork" is now
sprouting olive branches. Loving
kindness, like the kind which the AL
bAny Herald and the Darien Gazette
preach.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Speaker Champ Clark has opened the
campaign for Wilson. He's man
who can lose and then help his oppon-
ent But, that was four years ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

The old straw ballot has been resur-
rected by the Atlanta Constitution, all
of which points to last resorts in the
prediction plans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Tom Watson has fallen out with
Congressman vinson over in the Tenth,
and just tell us one fellow who hasn't
fell out sometimes in their lives. And
the happy part about it is that Tom
will have to fall out some day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

The Macon News continues to harp
on the fact that Editor Volney Will
liams, of the Waycross Journal Herald.
must have gone to work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

The Camp Harris boys say that life
is fine where they are corralled, ex-
cepting all the things they don't like.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

August 31st is the last day on which
you can enter the Sumter county
races-so prepare the bee to buzz.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Hard luck for the Macon News para
grapher. He can't take vacation be-
cause of the high price of paper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

All the congressional races give
promise of picking up with the ap-
proach of September 18th.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

These storms come, regardless of
the war; the high price of cotton, or
hughes being in the race.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Funston says bring EN- back, and we
are willing-all of which makes it
partly unanimous
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

It's been so long since we said any,
thing about women's wearing apparel
that we now hesitate.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Americas will soon have a city cleo
ton, and we suppose you know about
it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21
REMEMBER

That we make the best in the mat
tress line, we make our Mattresses out
of clean cotton, they are made in 9
SANITARY" way, and you will note
that SANITARY" is the slogan of the
day.
If you need new Mattress, or have
one that needs repairing, see us or
Phone us at 100, before you make your
decision.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21
Americas, Ca, August 81, 1916.

You can smell the fumes from the
political pot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-21

Our vacation will come after Sep
TENDER 18th, thank you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

the trick. The aunty-saloon leegue knows that it is up to it the country and prevent it frum fill ing drunkereds grave if the country refuses theere plee then the finnish of sed country is waiting round the in the form of the deemun rum reddy to whack old country the bean, take its tobacco away frum it and kick it's sodden and intoxicated carcass ovver the brink of the opaque and specua- tive hence. On the uther hand the wholesale liquor deelers air anxious to the country and to pre- liberties. They say fought and bed for libbery and cannot sit supnely by and it taken frum us They want to preserve our bberty that's theere long sut-and while they air not perticuer how they preserve it. they prefer to so in alcohol
 Also we have got to be saved frum the pacifists- the folks who want to arbtrate-and got to be saved frum the militerists and the munsions manu- lecturers and those who dote the wild alarmurs of war. We have got to be saved frum annexasion- sts who want to go down and mop up with poor lit tie old crippled and illfterate Mexico, and we have got to be saved rum the mollycoddles who air per fectly willing to take enny old kind of an insult frum
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saved rum the munny kings who wanted to assass mate the old and reiabull silver doller of our dad dies. Menny of peerless and frenzed feeders de- clared the silver dollar should not perish exsept ovver theere ded bodies.
 They opined that if the silver doller go they would go rte on down to oblivion with it. Sum of them did, tho they maid awful struggle to hold on to the ragged edge of oblivion Still quite few grate feeders survived little crippled perhaps but still abu to wadde along, the overwhelming refusal Of the country to be saved along with the silver plunk
 Then came the trust craze, We just must save the country rum the trusts, and the champion long dis tance trust regulatur abroad in the land with pair of leether lungs and willing disposition In those days we had plain and fansy trust regua- turs than was permitted at large in enny coln
 try pefore, all bent upon the laudibull object to save the country and incidentally the peepui rm srlndlng and hairless trusts who weer organized by all the secund-story men not actuelly confined in penltensares within borders. So in sum mirac- ulus way the trusts have far failed to get our
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goats-thc. according to runner, they have close to it-and the country for the nounse is safe
 Then we had to be saved frum the high tariff and the low tariff. We had to be saved frum imperiel ism and anty-mperielism. We had to be saved frum subsidy and anti-subsidy; had to be saved frum extravviganse and then extravviganse. In short, the list of things had to be saved frum could not be crowded on theese pages and makes the
 list of diseases to which growing child heir to ap pear insignificant. Nevertheless, the country had bundered rite on refusing to be saved frum most of them and has florrished amazingly.
 But things this yeer air far moor seerus-they air that way evvery four yeersbut this is on the levvel Theere air such mutipssity of things we just must be saved rum this yeer that the outlook is exreemly gloomy. If we dodge one of them air to get stung by sum uther. On evvery theere is a tall gent in frock coat who stands reddy to pluck the country on the sleeve and invite it to be saved at his hands, free of cost if it refuses then heere is nutfing in the future for sed country to live for The suffrasettes air anxious to the country frum the anty-sufferagetts, and nuthing but gen. nerel ead holesae dose of votes for wimmin will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

These things are cold, business-l like facts but to look upon residence in this city as a special privilege is, insofar as the general acceptance of that view is concerned, rather novelty. The more one analyses the situation, however, the more one thinks that it is a privilege-a privilege which no other American or foreign city can duplicate
 It is not tactfu', nor is it wise for the visitor to come here, and, after a brief and cursory glance at things, say: "Oh. New York is too big; it is deformity." When the man from Squeedunk says that, it is merely because he can't ad- just himself to it's magnitude. It is too bg-for him. But it is by no means a deformty-it is a magnificent, natural growth.
 It would be just as tactful for the New Yorker to visit Squeedunk and tell the natives that it was miserable little wart'' of a town. But does he do that? On the contrary, he generally tells the Squeedunker. with smile. that it is one of the most attractive and thriving will lages he has ever visited The only mis- take, he generally makes is to tell them what wonderful place his own city is while he is in their midst
 It is accepted here as a fact which hme and tests have proved that if man can't succeed in New York city he can't succeed anywhere; that if he can't find his opportunity here it is not to be found anywhere. And, on the other hand if he does succeed here his success is al ready more. than local. To be recog- nized even by the Borough of Manhattan IS to be recognized by the nation if not by the civilized world.
 That cannot be true of the smaller city. In many of them a man may be a success, yet prove a failure here He may be able to lord 1t over the small
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

The whole of the soil here and this is true also of a great part of Alaska, rests upon a bed of ice or frozen earth which has been in that state for thou sands of years. The moss on the top of the soil acts as an insulator and keeps the Ice from melting except on the surface. Indeed, you can dig down al most anywhere and strike the ice bed. There are places where the soil is so thin that you can scratch away the moss with your fingers and come to the ice. Where the earth below is glacial clay it is sound, while the moss covers it, but when that is taken away and water runs in, the clay will uphold neither man nor horse.
 The Overland trail crosses glacial clay here and/there, and the labor of keeping it in order reminds one of that of Hercules in cleaning the Augean stables. The track has had to be filled In and remade again and again The route is changed from year to year. Every now and then we pass ed an old roadbed which was so filled with boulders that man could hardly crawl over it. At places we motored cvei glacial spots where the :oadbed rose and fell under the weight of the HldCnlne. The country naQ ndQ no ram for three months. and during the day previous enough rain had fallen to change the whole face of nature. It had affected this glacial clay and turn ed parts of it to the consistency Of putty. Our automobile weighed over five tons and we had to go carefully where there was any question as to the character of the clay. At one wet spot we found ourselves down on the aXles, with the wheels tied fast in the mud. We had to dig out the wheels and make place to jack up the car We had an ax and a long handled shovel and we cut down trees and made a bed of branches in front of the car. We put pine track under the wheels and used a pine tree as lever to aid the jack in Aetting the car ou- of the mud. It took us about two hours to dig the machine out of the clay and start it on the firm roadbed After that we turned out and sought new roads through the grass, and rushed over the wet spots to prevent the car sink ing. In some places the movement of the road as we went over 1t was as though we were riding over blanket or rubber sheet. Those places were underlaid with glacial mud.
 The only salvation for a road of this kind is to keep 1t we'll drained That is what will have to be done with the track of our new railway. and, wher- ever possible. the moss will be left on
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brain of scholar. And New York offers both brain and muscle more exercise of an interesting variety than can be found elsewhere.
 Then. is it not a privilege to be able to enjoy these opportunities and possi- bilities? Is it not, too. privilege to live York has long ago outstripped London in the matter of population-to be in the heart of things; to be among the vast throng which includes the worlds best in almost every line of endeavor; to be where you can enjoy the opportunities and the pleasures as well. not of one city alone, but of many in one?
 Why, there is actually a pleasure in walking down Broadway which you couldn't possibly get on any other thor oughfare on earth You may smile at that, and doubt it, nor can I explain away the doubt One has to come here and stick around to let that sensation take hold of him-but it will do it every time, and when you get it there will come look into your eyes that every New York CT recognizes in every other and they rejoice mutually in it's possession.
 And so, the landlords will probably raise their rents in accordance with their announcement, and they will "get away" with it. They are of those who know that it is a privilege to live in New York city, and they are no doubt able to prove it, for, as certain as the rents are raised. as certain it is that the increased figures will be paid by the renters
 "Newyorkitis" used to be referred to a a sort of disease; it isn't, really, you know. No, it is a delightful kind or in- toxication, or stage thereof-you know along about the fifth or tenth coctail.- according to your capacity-when the night is yet young, and very merry, and when thee ares that infest the day seem to smile back at you, and say, How fool ish of you to have been annoyed by such mere nothings as we are" Didn't you
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community, yet find himself a mere nov ice in the lording business when he hits Manhattan And it is generally just that gusted on account of New York's mag nitude.
 Father Knickerbocker runs regular school of preparedness-no for conflict with other nations, perhaps. but indivi- dual preparedness for the conflict inci- dent to daily living. Here, one is not confined to one branch of ,ife-education applicable to certain conditions, or cer- tain environment, unless he choose to learn no other. He, at least. has the op- portunity to familiarize himself with all the branches and to equip himself so that he will be able to hold his own in any enc of them.
 It teaches one to bear the brunt of a hard and even losing fight unflinch- ingly. One would be ashamed to bear it less bravey than so many thousands of others all around him are doing daily. And it also trains one not to overestimate for instance, are doing work in New York today which would win them a city-wide reputation back in the little home town, but which wins them no prominence whatever in Manhattan. And imitation is one of the greatest dangers of the rising young. New York, as MT. Wilson might put it, makes one grow rather than swell, and if you have evidence to the contrary. in your opinion. let me ask you If the swelling of the New Yorker was not due to the influence of the small town he was in when you had evidence of it?
 Here the young man can learn self control splendidly. It will bring it out of him if 1t is in him. and if it isn't. then were 1t not best he should realize that
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the frozen strata and the road built upon that The Overland trail is used almost altogether during the winter, although the Canadian government keeps it in such a condition that it can be used in the summer. T. is on the whole better than most of Uncle Sam's roads in Alaska, and in the win ter it gives a regular mail service into the Klondike. The freight and mail are carried on great sleds hauled by six horses. There are relays at the various roadhouses. Each house has stables for the horses. and at certain places there are sleeping arrangements for passengers. At the Tahkeena road house I saw great stack of horse feed that had been brought up the Tah- keena river and cached there for the winter. and at the Little River road house I saw one of the sleds used for carrying eggs, oranges and otEer per- ishable articles into the KlondiEe when the thermometer may go to 70 degrees below zero. The sled was a covered one, large enough to carry three or four tons. It was so arranged that carbon heaters like those used for car riage warmers can be placed in troughs around the bed of the sled. These heat CTS keep the tightly covered load from being affected by frostS. These sled3 were drawn by four or six horses, ac- cording to the state of the roads. In the spring siX-horse wagons are used.
 The average charge for freight over the road is 10 cents per pound. Pas sengers pay from s75 to sS0 trip, but this does not include their stay at the roadhouses, where they are charged $15O meal and g a room. If nothing hap pens. the trip is made in five days, and the roadhouse expense is about $30. Tn times past the stages carried from 800 to 1000 people a month, and in March, when the people were going back to the gold mines. two or three stages left White Horse every day. Just now the traffic is light On the trip 15 teams are used and three changes of horses are made each day, each team travelling on the average ab out p miles.
 The Canadian government has already spent great deal on the road and it's upkeep costs some thousands of dollars per annum Within the past few years 1t has been made more and more fit for automobiles. The first time an automo- bile road was proposed the opponents of the measure scoffed at the idea and said that it could not be done The matter came up before the Parliament at Ottawa and it was discussed pro and con. An appropriation of $5OOO0 had been proposed for the purpose. The objections were made that automobiles could not be run in the low temperature of the Yu-
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where there is a famous Irish cook, Jimmy. The roadhouse is made of logs It is heated with stoves made of gaso- line tanks of 100 gallons capacity. The tank lies on its side. resting on four legs made of gas pipe, stovepipe is fitted into the top. and door is cut in one end The result is an excellent heating arrangement, and one that Is common in many parts of Alaska. We got snack at the roadhouse and an an excellent dinner there upon our re- turn.
 We crossed the Tahkeena rived on a ferry boat attached to a cable worked by the current; and then rode on for miles through parklike country. spotted with groves of pines as high as three estory house. as straight as an arrow, and. branches and all. no bigger around than a nail keg. They main- tained this diameter from the ground almost to their tops.
 l cannot describe the beauty of these trees. Where they were thick we rode for miles through walls of green 20 or 30 feet high, and in places where the trees had been burned by forest fires the walls were of sable silver, the dead branches having been turned to the most exquisite filigree by the death of the trees Here and there were great patches of fallen trees, making woodward of acres. above which rose the great roots in their skeleton net work
 The trees here are like those of most parts of interior Alaska. They grow in the thin soil which is underiaid by strata of earth that have been frozen for thousands of years. The roots go down to the ice and then spread out over the ground. The soil is nowhere more than half foot or so deep When a tree dies you can pull the stump out, roots and all. and throw it aside. This has been done in making the roadway. and the sides of the road are lined with brush piles of such trees thrown up like fence.
 We are accustomed to think of this part of the world as all snow and ice This is so in the winter, but in the sum- mer the whole country is like botan- ical garden and spotted with flowers During this ride we passed great beds of freweed and motored for miles be- tween hedges of pink flowers, higher than the wheels of the automobile. The woods where the forest fires had passed through were dusted with pink blos- was so much pink that it seemed as though Mother Nature had gone on a spree and painted the whole country red.
 There were so many wild flowers that
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always consider it a real privilege to feel like that?
 Do you get the idea? Well, there you hustle up the additional beans necessary to meet the landlord's next demand upon me?
 The top of the Woolworth building has long been popular spot for visitors. But recently it has developed an added asset 1t is now said to be a cure for hay fever. Yes--make trip up there once every day, sniff, snuffle and sneeze up there for half an hour or so, and the hay fever will desert you so it has re- gently been claimed. It costs 50 cents a trip, but that's nothing, if you get rid of the disease, is it?
 l thought the new Zegfeld Follies had cornered all the charming chickens on the island, but visit to the Allied Ba- gar, now iii progress at Grand Central Palace proved to the contrary. And it $ great show-everything from French war relics to flying machines. Over there Marie Tempest is presiding at one booth, nearby is Kitty Gordon at another; stage stars movie heroines, etc, are there in numbers, and though I was told one could see the bazar for 50 cents. I found that this was merely the price of admission. There is a pretty girl to every three square feet of floor space. and each one of them has something to sell you, or wants you to take chance" on some thing. They come up with flags. buttons pins and flowers; they almost nestle against you and they say, 'Oh, now. do buy one of these-see, it is all pinned and patted'-and they pin and pat it as they talk. It takes a heart of stone to turn em down, and then, too, it Is all for the war sufferers, and so delightfully."- neutral-and everything
 The bazar will close today, but it has been great success. and unique show