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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
VIEWS AND REVIE WS
OF CURRENT FICTION
Tales by Irwin S Cobb, James Montgomery Fagg and
Henry Irving Dodge-Mrs. Gyms New Story
"Cecilv and the Wide World A Clever Clew

poriority Of the British sristocracy
and she begins 20 fashion her speech
and manners after them. she reads
much gradually she develops an am
bition. a purpose; she trains her clever
head 20 rule her heart, and when al
last she consents to accompany young
Cuardsman 20 Paris - is 20 acquire a
knowledge of life. She goes delib-
crately. for her own purpose. Passion
sways her for n moment: II assumes
the guise Of love, but she remains firm.
Her lover has served her purpose. she
Gismisscs him, better equipped now ~
Their association for her upward cllmD
by legitimate paths.
Mrs. Glyn tricks out her tale with
many reflections uDon the dccadence OF
the British aristocracy, its loss OF Dig
nitv. its indifference 10 such duties "a
went with its great privileges before
the war She believes. IN the case o.
ner heroine at least, in new blood 70
ccurtcract overbrecdirg in fact, sne
secs. by the side of the sristocraey oil
inherited rank. a sporadic aristocracy
Ct birth, OF instinct, among the lo"ly'
Her social philosophy does not go very
dozen or see very Far. but Il serves the
uurpose Of Katherine Bush very. we'll
throughout the story curiously suS.
ocqts Mrs. Humphry Wards worship OF
the peerage. This is. indeed, exelp-
sivencss for the English middle
classes and not for those Of England
alone. The book is most interesting as
an example Of how the oldest Of plots
dear TO feminine readers that OF the
humble, pretty companion or governesS,
and the heir 20 the title may be trieked
ont i'm ultra-modern habiliments al
but the seduction and patient Griselds
interlude. Katherine Bush IS new
woman. She does not follow, she leads
purposefully and far from unwortniIy'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
Dornn Books
| JUST PUBLISHED AND
! or ESPECIAL INTEREST

When the English critic. Sir ". Rob
ertson Nicoll, pronounced this his
tory "sure to be permanent--neyer
to be superseded" he stated the i'm
portant reason why so many will
Immediately possess themselves OF
this book. Conan Doyle has had the
genius to attain a true perspective.
Other volumes will follow shortly.
Maps, diagrams and plans.
Octave. Net $500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
By Sir OiiOer Lodge
RAYMOND: Or Life q Death

Undoubtedly orc Of the outstanding
publications Of the year. In this de-
tailed record Of communications be
lieved to have come from his dead
son. Sir Oliver Lodge presents what
is perhaps the most impressive evi-
dence Of life after death yet given
to the world. Illustrated.
Octave. Net $500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
By Lord NorthcHfe
By the Countess.of Warwick
A WOMAN AND THE WAR

A leader Of democracy among wo-
men, Lady Wrw.ck speaks out. -
The crime of this war; prohibition:
suffrage;-these and other topics
are set in new and bold relief With
portrait. Octave. Net SI.OO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
By Dixon Scott
MEN OF LETTERS

The death Of Dixon Scott al the
front was quite as great loss 70
letters as the death of Rupert
Brooke. These astonishing essays
on Barrie, Kipling, Shaw, Wells, and
others, easily demonstrate the truth
of this strong statement. With por-
trait. Octave. Net 500
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
AN ARGUMENT FOR BONDS.

The raising of the tax rate by the
county commissioners is another ar
gument in favor of bonds.
With bond issue in force, this coun,
ty could pay off all current indebted
ness, construct permanent bridges, i'm
prove its roads to a maximum, and
Indulge in other public improvements
and-it would not then be necessary to
apply a tax rate as high as the one
now to be enforced.
There need not be any misunder-
standing as to The Times Recorder
position on the question of bonds. IL
believes in 'em-believes in bonds,
mors bonds, and then bonds again.
Americas is bonded nearly to its
limit, and is better for it.
Sumter county, too, would be enjoy
ing more roads and bridges and better
roads and bridges and other improve
ments as well, including a lower tax
rate, if it would only give the bond
proposition a fair trial. Bonds are
neither tax on the present generation
nor burden to be shifted to posterity,
ard sooner or later the intelligence of
this splendid county is going to assert
itself in favor of them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
Where We Come In.

The facts are brought out in the
memoirs of former Ambassador Gerard
now running in the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. He tells US that the Ger
man crown prince is half dippy on the
subject of Napoleon and has gathered
about him a collection of Napoleonic
relics which are the joy of his life.
And notwithstanding his shallow mind
which makes him all the more dan
| gerous-he has always hoped to be a
second and more successful Napoleon.
He wanted to dominate the world.
Early in 1914-six months before the
great war broke out-the crown prince
was exhibiting his Napoleonic collec-
ton to an American woman of Mr.. Ge-
rard's acquaintance, The crown prince
said he hoped war would come while
his father was yet alive but, if not, he
orld start a war the moment he came
to the throne
While Mr. Gerard as writing his
memoirs he secured from this Ameri-
can woman the exact conversation in
her own words. Here it is:
Il had given him Norman Angen's
book The Great Illusion, which seeks
tn prove that wa ris Improbable. He
(the crown prince said whether was
as profitable or not, that when he came
to the throne there would be war-if
not before-just for the fun of it.
"On a previous occasion he had said
that the plan as to attack and conquer
France, then England, and after that
my country (the United States of
America Russia was also to be con-
querer and Gtrmany would be master
of the world"
So there you have it upon the wora
of this clustering crown prince him
self that he intended to crush America
when France and England had been de-
stroyed The war he threatened in the
early part of 1914 came to pass in Au-
gust, 1914 and is going on now.
And yet there are people who ask
what has America go to do with it
Macon News
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
THIS DESERVES GOOD CHEER

The Womans Club has undertaken
a project which every other public
spirited organization and, in truth, the
city officially, if it is financially able,
should lend helping hand.
1t is an enterprise which appeals
peculiarly to every parent, and to every
lover Of children-it is the idea of
establishing public playground
1t is really singular that city as
enterprising and progressive as Ameri-
Gus should have waited this long before
considering the playground proposition.
Other cities, smaller and less up-to-
date, have them, and are daily reap
ing a manifest benefit from them.
1t is a recognized fact now that play
ground recreation has a place in a
child's life just as essential as school
study and home training.
Americas is going to have playg-
round for it's little ones. That goes
without argument, of course, now that
the matter has been seriously ap-
preached. But there should not be
any delay. Let there be rallying re-
Spouse to the efforts of the Woman's
Club to raise sufficient funds for the
purpose Of establishing a playground.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

ualty and mortality list is really
greater in several trades than it is
in trench-fghting.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that for every one hundred men now
sent to to the front, fully eigthy-nine
or ninety return. uniniured and IN
scathed.
And only twenty-five out Of a hum
dred-one out of every four are
wounded.
When the war reports read that the
French today lost seven thousand
men," they do not mean that that many
were actually slain. A soldier dis
abled is a soldier no more in the esti-
mate of battle experts, and he is there
fore, lost" so far as present service
is concerned. Ten thousand men may
be lost" in days strife, by being
wounded or taken prisoners, the death
rate being entirely negligible.
There is no occasion for weeping
and wailing over the sailing Of our
soldier lads across the seas. Their
health will be better protected, their
moral environments more carefully
chosen, their comforts more amply
guaranteed, than if they were at home.
They will not be used as cannon fod-
der at all. The chances are that nine
out of every ten who cross the waters
will come back home better man,
morally, mentally, and physically
and a hero!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
THE CHANCES FOR COMING BACK.


The Dooly County Rustler, published
at Unadilla, takes the Telfair Enter
prise sternly to task because the lat
ter published an editorial which sug-
gested that for the American troops
sent to France there awaited only
death or torture
The publication was, in truth an
exag2 eration, by fancy" writer with
a vivid and excited imagination, of
the destructiveness of German gunfre
Of course, if any troops, American
or otherwise, were openly exposed to
it, a wholesale slaughter would re,
suit but there will be nothing like that.
AS matter of fact, as dubious IS
! may seem, war today, even in an
era unprecedented for frightfulness. is
hardly more hazardous than the aver,
age way Of living at home. The cas-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
500 Reward, $10O

The readers of this paper viii be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative powers of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & co. Toledo
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
Higll-Liying Oysters

The increase in the price of oysters,
we suppose, is due to the war The
assumption is that oysters find it a
great deal more expensive ii live and
grow large enough for market during
war times than in time of peace
Columbus Enquirerer-Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

We've changed our opinion about e.
Car Nick. Since learning that he
smokes a pipe and hoes in a cabbage
patch, we believe he must be a rathes
good sort, after all-the kind of man
you'd have over in the evenings play
checkers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

When General Pershing was kissed
%1y the French war minister, he burst
Inf0 tears. Can't say as we blame
aim, but we believe we'd fight, rather
chan cry, under such circumstances.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
Kisses are a compound of chemioa

Kisses are a compound of chemical
Z elements" says a college professor.
sSs refer this to Editor Duke of the
Griffin News and SUM- who says that
while he may not be entirely up on
all new, stylish, so-called military
hlszes@ he still guarantees satisfaction,
EGYprtheless.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
They Hit From Behind.

A prominent editor has been threat
eaed with death, in an anonymous let
ter, because he condemned the draft
resisters. He should protect his rear
no danger in front.-Griffin News &
Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

A three-cents piece is proposed, bit
We put the world on record right nof
that it will ne 'cr be popular. There
isn't single self-respecting Pullman
porter or horel ya'er who wo'4o ac-
cept ii as a tiG
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

An Ohio man is suing for one hum
sfred thousand dollars for alienation
nj Sis wife's affections. Seems to US
rslsa& abe price of affection is going up,
doubtless on account of the war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
A COLlI N or CLIPPINGS
4 Mild Statement.

A Belgian woman has been given a
sentence of four months in a prison
for saying that Germans were pigs. If
she had really expressed her mind, no
doubt she would have been shot.-Sa>
yannah Morning News,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
TH0S. L. WATSON.

Just beyond the little town Of Thorn
son, in a magnificent, old-fashioned
southern home, there lives a man
whose very name should, by all rights,
be blazing brightly on the halls of
time.
Today this man is in the depths Of
despair, burdened with woes unex-
tmguishabIe, eating the bitter fruit Of
remorse and tasting the dregs Of grer
To him, as it were,
when sorrows came, they came not
single spies,
uBt in battalions"
Born with an innate pride which
dashed his ambition like tn ewhip of a
task-master and spurred him on and
on to heights which the average coun-
try youth would not dare to scale,
this man cultivated himself, developed
his talents, and made himself a
man among men.
He became as good a lawyer, in at
least one particular branch of the pro-
fession, as there was in Georgia.
He exhibited qualities of statesman
ship seldom seen in these shallow
times.
With his pen he employed
Choice words and measured phrase
above the reach
Of ordinary men"
His essays rank with those of Lamb
and Macaulay.
His histories are the 9blest ev~
written in this country-his STORY
of France" being classic and his
Napoleon" the most comprehensive
one-volume study of the most famous
man of history. His Jeffersonian" and
Jackson" his Mexico his "The
Hohenzollens," even his Roman
Catholic Hierarchy" are works which
prove him an historical writer of the
highest order
His editorial expression burns with
the fire of a Marat and the powerful
.eloquence of Brann or may soothe like
the tender gentleness of woman
Forensically, he is even yet, with
the possible exception of Judge Speer
the most superb orator in the South
Certain it is, he is without peer in
this state as a political stump-speaker
Yet this man has
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his own blood"
However, it may be said that
"Twas no foeman's arms that felled
him.
Twas his own that struck the blow. >
Today, instead of being honored by
his people, an inspiration to the youth
of the land, his name the proud boast
of his countrymen, he is despised by
decent-thinking citizens, practically
prescribed by his government, a pariat
.among patriots.
While others less gifted but more
devoted to democracy are giving theil
Iunselfsh services to their nation, this
man is sowing the seeds {. sedlton
His writings are denied the mails, an(
a prosecution for an offense akin t.
treason hangs heavy, heavy over his
head.
Some day, if he does not soon desist
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
A Very Cosby Crowd.

The Georgia legislature might not
be able to whip the German army,
but we'll wager a ginger cake to a
dcughnut that it can out-talk any
thing ON earth except woman S
sewing society.-Rome Tribune Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

Ogw society page today states that
this fall skirts would be shorter and
tighter" Thus, we see more and more
shy boys leave home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
At Least That Much.

1t is getting to be so it takes a dol
lar to buy fifty cents worth of almost
anything that one has to have.-Albany
Herald
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

What Senator Hardwick said about
Ghe Georgia newspapers was fairly in
gsrgsting But it will be even more
Interesting to read what the Georgia
newspapers are going to say about him
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
4 SUNDAY Diversion.

Why not kill a worthless dog in
stead of a hog when you are running
too fast on your Sunday afternoon
spin ?-Thomasville Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

Twenty years from now all the Of
ziee-hOlders in Georgia will be one
armed, one-legged, or one-eyed men
8h9 fought in the war in France.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

6Fe read where an author says that
writing for living is as uncertain
ae gambling. It's not uncertain at all.
rs Won enclose stamps, you get your
manuscript back
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

The French papers cannot under
stand why Texas soldier slapped the
Iace Of a Frenchman who flirted with
che Americans lady friend But we
'7Azz3ErEtand it perfectly It's simply a
Elrtle way we southerners have of do
Eng
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

a Virginia man read poem on the
war and then shot himself. Why
3idnT he shoot the man that -,rote
Tx poem?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,
z, O, ), OF A,

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. o. S. Of A. Hall, No. 21S
Lamar st. All members in good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi-
fcates from $250.0O to 100000 issued
to members of this camp.
S. A. JENNINGS, Prest.
0. D. REESE. Recd'g. Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

The oyster season being four days
old it's about time to read where
somebody found a pearl worth a
thousand dollars while eating fifteen
cents stew in a Greek restaurant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

"H0w To Get married On $1)9.'
7Ti1a1s easy But what most men want
eI know is how to stay married on
thai
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

81lh wheat at 1920 bushel we
y7als713f1n'1 mind if you were to pass
-Ehusas potato biscuits once more, please.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

There never was a BOY who wanted
I'd be man half as badly as most
19eu would like to be boys again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

Some day, if he does not soon desist,
a squad of federal officers, or troops,
are going to march up the broad,
shaded pathway that leads to his door
and, if they take him alive, Thomas
E. Watson will either spend the declin-
ing years if his life behind stone walls
and iron bars or, some Friday, desig-
mated by the court he will be led
to trap and with arms bound and eyes
bandaged, will plunge downward to
eternal darkness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

The price of peroxide is going up
1u sc1ount of the war Oh, well, all
al us cane be blondes, anyhow!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING

WIN the falling of Riga, rigor NOR
.eas seems TO have set in in Russia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-04

Eg451e a number of our well-known
yU9ng men will spend the coming
1slnfnr season in France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-27
WILL PETITION CONGRESS
TO AMEND THE DRAFT LAW
Association for Universal Military
Training Wants Additions to
Army Eligible List.

The National Association for Univer-
sal Military Training. headed by Lieut..
Cen S. B. NJ. Young, U. s. A, retired.
has begun a movement for an amend
ment by Congress to the draft law
whereby youths of nineteen and twenty
years. and those who have reached the
age of twenty-one since June 5. would
be called TO the colors.
The proposed amendment reads:
Al male persons resident in the
United States who are nineteen years
of age and not more than thirty-one
years Of age CON the date when this
amendment shall GO into effecO. and
who are not registered in pursuance to
the act of May S. 1917. shall be regis
tered at such time and place as the
President may by proclamation direct"
Gen. Young quotes figures to show
that the Union Army in the civil war
was composed Of 2.159.79S men of
twenty-one years and under against
1i5.137 over twenty-one. He estimates
that while out OF the 9.600.000 men be-
tween twenty-one and thirty-one who
have registered only 100000 will be
found available for military service,
out of the 100000 who would be
brought up under his amendment L.
100000 would be available.
The general suggests that the new
registration day be not before June 5.
1918. and that none of the youths
brought in under such a registration be
sent to the front before attaining the
age of twenty-one years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-27
DIVISION NO. 6.

Four additional names today were
added TO the list Of men certified for
military service from division Nc. S.
The accepted registrants whose ap-
peals for exemption were denied are:
George William Holt. 62e a street
northeast; Halford Ambush, 646 CAL
Ian street northeast. Archie Mills
Murray. 1929 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, and Percy Lee Tiller, $40
18th street northeast.
Additional exemptions reported from
this division are as follows: Saul Hoff-
man, 535 I street northeast. wife and
child; William Arthur Escofery. 12I3E
Duncan street northeast, Wife: Alfred
Jerome Burnin CHAM, jr., lola 18th street
northeast, wife and two children;
James William Stephen WEIGH, 1l20 c
Hartman Miller, 7o6 18th street north
east. navy yard employe; William wal
ter Roberts. 6o532 X street northeast.
wife and child, George William Jen-
kins. SIS 18th street northeast, wife
aud widowed mother: Leroy Robertus
Sydney. 1852 kraemer street northeast,
wife and two children; James Henson,
1921 Wylie court northeast, wife and
three children; Antonio Vincino. sos
9Th street northeast, alien: Clarence
Raymond Swain, SAT l. street northeast
wife and child, Ambrose Patrick
Byrne. z15 X street northeast, wild
owed mother; James Joseph OBrien.
s919 I'd street northeast, widosEe d
trnother: William Wallace WheeIcck,
child. Hazen Hurst Witt. SIT Tonnes
see avenue northeast, wife and two
children: Frederick Glen Proudfoot,
III I'd street northeast, wife and three
children: William Gary Fielding. 1903
ID street northeast, wife.