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The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-05-26
NOTICE
To ALL PLANTATION OWNERS

To ALL PLANTATION OWNERS
AND EMPLOYERS OF LABOR.
You are hereby notified that
June Sth, 1917. has been designat-
ed by the President of the United
States as the date tor the registra-
ton of all male persons between
the sges of FL and 80 inclusive.
This registration will be held at
each voting precinct in the county
and it is your duty to see that
each person emplol ed by you, who
is liable to registration. goes to the
polls and registers, or his name be
reported to the registrars.
Every person liable to registra
tion failing to register as direct
ed, will be imprisoned as di-
rected by law.
L. G. DEAN, Sheriff.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-05-26

Abe Reuf and his gang took ad
vantage Of the earthquake calamity
in San Francisco number of years
ago to place dollars in their own
pockets. The law delt with them
as they deserved-as robbers. The
food spectators and manipulators
in America now who would place
the necessaries of life beyond the
reach Of the consumers. that they
may place dishonest dollars in their
own pockets are in the same class
as Reuf and should be dealt with
ccofdinely. y.-Gieenville Democrat.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-05-26
cVERY SAYING DEPOSITOR
Is INTERESTED

Edetal Reserve Banking System established by the United
ptn rrernueut which we member, because
the country safer and soundr than ever before
mas .n more makes practically impossible another OF
pnics which the have business depres-
iD' hut downs and lack of employment
n If every dollar you deposit this bank directly this
sten makes stronger and adds the security of your
money deposited
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-05-26

Jacobs and Whitman's Candies,
big assortment, fresh and ice
cold. Prices soc and 81 90 per
pound. Brown" the Druggist. :.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1917-05-26
MEMBER
FEDERAL RESERVE
SYSTEM

ahe BoLiDar County Osmotrn
Entered at the Postatfice at Rosedale.
Miss. rs second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION. 81 so.
A. D, LINNELL. EDITOR
AND 1ESSE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
NOT A MATTER OF STYLE.

Says the Griffin News and Sun:
The Americas Times Recorder
is pleading for fair for Ameri-
Gus. If Americas proposes to be
in style, it must have one
1t is not matter of being in style
1t is simply that Americas has start
ed something that, in the eternal fit
ness of things, it should finish.
Americas organized a fair associa-
-tion, raised funds even to the extent
of securing subscriptions from school
children secured grounds and erected
buildings, and then-stopped!
The fair enterprise, having been car
ried that far, almost to the goal line,
is now dead in its tracks.
Americas is entitled to a fair. 1t
needs one. The Third district should
have one, and it should be held in
Americas. The agricultural re-
sources of this county and district de-
mand such exploitation The business
interests of the city ought to have the
benefits that fair would bring.
Americas is not jealous Of Albany,
nor of any other city. If Albany wants
a fair. Americas extends best wishes
and would, if it could. give assistance.
Americas is simply concerned wiJa It's
own needs, and the fair is one of them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
There's Money In Tobacco.

Judge ]. B. Clements, Irwinville,
Ga, has just sold his tobacco crop
for the year at auction, receiving 20
cents a pound or total Of more than
$1,000. Judge Clements grew ten
tobacco on about 10 acres, from which
he gathered approximately 900 pounds
of tobacco and acre. The yield per
acre brought about 1851 On the land
which the tobacco was grown hay
crop is now maturing, this crop be.
ing worth almost as much, it is stat
ed, as was tht tobacco crop.-Dublin
Courier-Herald:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Who Said He Was?

Hardwick still says any man who
disputes his loyalty is plain, com
mon ordinary liar" If he doesn't
mind he is going to have to lick ev-
cry man in Georgia Americas Times,
Recorder You reckon the senator
means that these fellows, whom he
calls Just plain, common, ordinary
liars" are not in his class? You know
the senator is not a plain, common,
ordinary liar" imself.-CoIumbu
Enquirer-Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
OUR PART IN THE WAR.

There are few who realize to what
extent the United States is lin the
war"
Just how deep this country really is
in the maelstrom is shown by the fact
that our participation is costing the
nited States forty million dollars a
day.
This is one-fourth of the entire daily
expensee of the war, Germany's share
included.
In the words Of the Associated Press,
it truly is "a staggering outlay but
it brings home to the mind of the man
not thoroughly awake to our critical
position how much at war this nation
actually is.
Although we have been one of the
belligerents for only few months, yet
on so enormous a scale has our plan
Of entry been pitched that at once,
we surpass Great Britain, France and
all other countries at war in the sum
total of expenditures.
There never was more vivid show
ing made of the great necessity for a
whohle-hearted rally to the support Of
the Liberty Bond issue
Forty million dollars day is tre-
mendous sum of money, a vast amount
almost beyond conception. 1t is more
than billion month--It is a stu
pendous draft on the financial re-
sources of the country.
France has weathered the war; and
Sc has England, because the people
have supported it by contributing di-
rectly from their pockets. And that
i; what the people of the United States
must do. Yet for them it will be a
sacrifice, because they have the priv
lege of lending their money to the
government through the medium of
purchasing Liberty bonds. Buying a
bond is no sacrifice, but on the con-
trary it is an investment, as safe as
one can possibly make.
The men who can help :he govern
ment bear its part in the war and
who doesn't do so is-it is hard to say,
but nevertheless, he is-a Stacker!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Are You a Stacker?

The government isn't asking you
to take gun and go fight in the
trenches, but it is asking you to take
your dollars and go buy Liberty Bonds
in support of those who are fighting
in the trenches, and if you fail to do
so you will be slacker.-Columbus
Enquirer-Sun
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
SKULKING IN ARMOR.

Senator Hardwick has been more
guarded in his unpatriotic utterances
than Senator LaFollette was.
Hardwick has done all of his talk
ing on the floor of the Senate, or in
the committee room, in either of which
what he says is privileged because o.
the position he holds.
But it does seem that even a Unit
ed States Senator should be reached
directly for such disloyalty OF course,
he will be reached in time, just as soon
as the people get chance to express
themselves at the polls But it does
seem bit unfair for an Iowa speaker
to be sentenced to twenty years in the
pennitentiary for saying practically
the same things that senator has
spoken In his opposition to conscrip,
ton, and to sending American troops
to France, the Iowa orator was 10
more free in his speech than Senator
Hardwick has been
The New York World aptly draws a
comparison, it says;
There is no opposition to the
war in this country that is not
grounded in deliberate falsehood
Every stage of our wrongs, our
resentments, our warnings and
our humiliations leading UP to our
final resolution to enter the con-
flict with autocracy as a neces-
sary measure of self-protection
has been mis-represented, evil
IDENTIFY with design. There is no
right of speech justifying the Will
fication of a nation in arms, eX-
cusing ISLANDERS intended to weak
en- its power, or giving privilege to
sneaking innuendoes contrived to
deliver it into the hands of its
enemies. In time of war, men who
defame their country do their best
to destroy their country. This
doctrine ought to apply to Unit
ed States Senators as we'll as to
such humble citizens as the man
in Iowa who on conviction the
other day was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for twenty years.
The Iowa unfortunate at least had
the temerity to publicly declare him
self Senators like Hardwick have
protected themselves by getting be-
hind their constitutional bulwark q
privileged speech" and from that
vantage have assailed their own gov
eminent.
However, the people will not forget!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
OUR MODERN WRITERS.

A writer rises to inquire why mod
ern literature is not given more rec
cgniticn. ana he argues that some Of
our living authors have written books
end poems ami treatises just as origi-
nal ard as me1 itorious as those of the
ancient Greeks and Romans. He would
not reglcct the older authors, but
would simply give the new ones more
attention He thinks Huxley, William
James and Bergson as worthy of study
as Plato and Aristotle; that Bernard
Shaw and Ibsen have written as profit,
ably to mankind as Voltaire and Rous-
seau, and that DeMaupassant Anatole
France, Bennett, Wells, Sudermann,
Hauptman, DAnnunzio and Fogazzaro
deserving of consideration.
This raises the old question of how
lone an author must be dead before
his books may be rated as Classics.
It was DR.. Samuel Johnson who said
The great contention Of criticism is
to find the faults of the moderns and
the beauties of the ancients. While an
n,,tI,oy ic wat I;x,i,,, wa oe+;,,,o+o ~,
powers by his worst performance, ana
when he is dead we rate them by his
best. The reverence due to writ
lngs that feve long subsisted is theh
consequence of acknowledged and in
dubitable positions, that what has been
longest Known hahs been most consid-
cred, and what is most considered is
best understood"
Thoma Carlyle declared that modern
literature was in ''a diseased, self
conscious state" due to the "view-
hunters" 'naturalists," and "humor-
lists Emerson found present-day
writings of too great fineness, effem-
Tracy and melancholy" attributable, he
thought, ito the sickly habits of the
literary class"
But it was Thomas Henry Huxley
VINO hit the bull's-eye when he pointed
cut that modern literature seldom
teaches anything new. Many of the
thoughts, offered today as original, may
be traced to the intellectual kings Of
the forums of ancient Athens. THE
foundations of mathematics were so
we'll laid by the Greeks" says Huxley
in his essay on Science and Culture"
that our children learn their geom-
cry from book written for the schools
of Alexandria two thousand years ago.
Modern astronomy is the natural con
tinuation and development of the work
OF Hipparchus and Ptolemy; modern
physics of that of Democritus and of
Achmides; it was long before modern
biological science outgrew the know
ledge bequeatbed to US by Aristotle, by
Theophrastus and by Galen.'
But, nevertheless, our modern writer's
should not suffer for encouragement,
and for that matter, they don't
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
We Call For An Investigation.

The Thomasville Enterprise
editor denies that his wife writes the
editorial paragraphs. The Americas
Times-Recorder thinks she probably
gives him all that intimate, confden,
tai information about short skirts,
silk stockings, and things. Well, ii
Jerger's wife doesn't give him all this
confidential information, all we gotta
say is he is on mighty friendly terms
with some lady of the town.-Grif1ln
News and Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
We Did Enjoy 1t. But the Seats Were
Awful Hard.


They look like the same monkeys
and the same elephants, and the same
camels, and the same bears we saw
twenty-five years ago, and the pea
nuts tastey like they may have been
some of the same peanuts they sold
US twenty-five years ago.-Americus
Times-Recorder. This would indicate
that the T.-R. hahd just as good
a time at the circus time as he did
twenty-five years ago, because, you
know, he enjoyed it then, peanuts
and all-Cilumnbs Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Just Name The Day.

"Will somebody please lend us a
book giving First Lessons on How to
Behave With a Swagger Stick" pleads
the Times Recorder editor, If you will
come to Columbus we probably shall
be able to induce some of our lady
friends to give you lessons.-Columb rs
Enquirer-Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Unfortnnate Sisters.

It is a sure thing that nature never
intended for some women to wear
short skirts.-Americus Times-Re-
corder. But these unfortunate sisters
are not only the ones who endeavor
to improve on natures Conyers
Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

The Macon recorder has held that he
can tell whether a man is drunk by
the look in his eyes, Not always,
Judge. Sometimes it is because a
very short skirt has just passed, or
maybe he has squirted onion juice IN
his eyes, that makes him look thata
way
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Buy A Liberty Bond.

The farmers have made money and
have had little special taxes to bother
them. They ought to spend some OF
that money in a good investment and
make savings account out of a Liber-
ty Loan -Thomasyille Times
Enterpr'st.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Whose Editorial Do Yon Mean?

Very few people like to read long
editorial, and, in fact, the great ma
jority of them read none except they
are after some salacious, sassy para
graphs. - Townsville Times Enter
prisei
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
Wish We'd Been There.

The editor of the Americas Times
thinks interest in the national
came is waning. He ought to have
seen our baseball matinee on Satur-
day and he would have had a differ
ent Savannah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

when is man drunk is the
question before Macon court. Well,
We should say that as long as he can
wiggle at least one finger he's not al,
together all in.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

We're glad they've raised the postal
rates, just for one thing It will now
cost the postcard fiends two cents to
send card saying: Arrived today
This is grand place"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

An enormous increase in the crops
OF onions, beans and cabbage is re-
ported. All right; pass the potatoes,
please.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

If some of the women who are knit7
ting things for the soldiers that the
soldiers won't be allowed to wear would
knit a while for their husbands AMI
children, they'd get higher rating in
the annual Good Wives contest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

Taking towns and cities and forts
and positions from the Russians APP
pears to us to resemble that very fam
GUS act of taking a peppermint stick
from baby.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. II,

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-
acates from s25OOO to 100000 issued
to members of this camp.
T. e. CASTLEBERRY, President.
o. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME.

A reader of this column submits the
following:
WHY PEPPERS PEEP.
sHer feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, peeped in and out"
So wrote the poet of the day,
When long and ampler skirts held
sway.
Bat now the cult of shorter frocks
Brings in its train transparent socks.
And little mice" ne'er peeped out half
So much as doth the "fatted calf"
She wears but little here below,
Nor wears that little long.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

Whenever Mother cannot think Of
anything else to do. she will get the
broom and sweep around the fire
place, especially if Father Is sitting
there reading the paper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17
PARAGpApHICALLY SPEAKING

Don't put off until tomorrow what
you can do today. You can BUY a
Liberty Bond today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

We Will give first prize to the first
person suggesting something that
hasn't some up "on account Of the wal y
the subscription and Advertising
rates of The Recorder excepted
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

They say that the mud in Flanders
is two feet Dope. But they ought to
see Georgia after political cam,
paign.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

Talk about "the smile on the face
of the tiger" what about the grin on
the face of the coal dealers?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

Now that they're having a beefiess
Tuesday wheatless Wednesday and
a meatless Thursday, we suggest that
they also have
A ilshless Friday,
"A soupless Saturday,
A stewless Sunday.
A hashless Monday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

Americas, Georgia, October II, 1917
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-17

She wears but little here below,
Nor wears that little long.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-14
kAISER'S LETTER TO
 WILSON GIVEN OUT
England Would Remain Inactive
 With Belgium Out of War

Washington, Aug. 14.-The com- plete text of the confidential letter sent by Kaiser Wilhelm to President Wilson on August 13. 1914, just two weeks after the German troops began pouring through Belgium. was made public by the White House last night.
 Some extracts from the letter have been printed before, but the entire text discloses a most amazing situa- ton with regard to the negotiations between Germany and England. It Is the private opinion of some diplomats here that the publication of the letter will force King George of England to make some sort of explanation of the assurances he ;s alleged to have sent the kaiser through Prince Henry, the kaisers brother.
 According to the kaiser's letter, Prince Henry was assured by King George on July 29, 1914, that Eng land would remain neutral if the con- flict were localized to Germany, France, Austria and Russia. Then the German ambassador was informed the next day by Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary of state for foreign
New Britain herald., 1917-08-14
NEW RRI rArn DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 1el7

ment would naturally come under question if all the proGerman news papers are to be allowed carte blanche while papers favorable to the United States and the Entente are sup pressed.
 The view of the United States, how ever, is that the German propaganda and German threats may have been primarily responsible for the suppress sion of the newspaper. which al- though owned by German, has de- cided pro-American 1eanings.
 A message to the state department reports that the German military au- thorities have confiscated crops on German soil on the border zone be- tween Switzerland and Germany and that importation of these crops into Switzerland is prohibited.
 Meanwhile Germanys effort to force Switzerland to make a loan of $50,Q00,0O0 has stirred the people of Switzerland into two rival factions Nominally GA per cent. of the Swiss people are German speaking and as- sumed to be favorable to the German cause. But the German campaign of domination now being attempted has aroused many in Switzerland to pro- test that the honor of the nation is at stake and must not be sacrificed at Germany's dictation.
 The Lausane Gazette states with reference to the loan, first, "no loan should be contracted before entire execution of previous promises by Germany" second, ~nothing should be done to affect the after the war commerce and economic situation of Switzerland" third. nothing must be accorded to Germany which the Swiss are not ready to accord equally to the Allies;" fourth, ''the Swiss must not be intimidated by the German men,
New Britain herald., 1917-08-14
APPLES, ORANQ FIGS AND PRUl
Are The Four Fruits Us(
 Making "Fruit-a-nyo$

"FRUIT- -A-TIVES" is tho medicine in the world that is \ from the juices of fresh ripe 1 Thus, it is manifestly unfair to s4 won't take Fruit-a-tives becau1
 tried other remedies and they d no good". On the other hand. t
 that "Fruit-a-tives' is esEise!r d4 from any otAey frxpayatson fn tAs . is just why you should give it afatr in any trouble of the Stomach, I Bowels, Kidneys or Skin. "FI tives", is co,nposed oftAe actsue t,1' oftrnit and Me Ereakest He,z's torA discoOered. 5oc. . box, 6 for 2.5o size, 25c. Alta dealers or sent by ! a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N.Y
New Britain herald., 1917-08-14
affairs, that if Germany entered the

affairs, that if Germany entered the war England would take quick de- cisions and grave manoeuvres." Another curious reference in the let ter is to the British proposal. made to Prince Henry by King George, that Austria should take Belgrade, and a few other Serbian towns, with a strip of country as guarantee that Serbia would comply with all the promises made in her reply to the Austrian de-
 mands.
 Paragraph of the kaiser's letter to President Wilson takes the curious po- sition that if Russia were to war on Austria she would mobilize only the troops in the southern portion of Rus sia. To mobilize troops in the north of Germany, he assumed, could only have been intended for an attack on Germany.
 The Kaiser seemed aggrieved that Britain refused to guarantee with
 her armed forces the neutrality or France, so that the Kaiser's troops could be employed elsewhere SIT Edward Grey, he complained, never answered this, but insisted that Eng land had to defend Belgian neutral ity, which, the Kaiser says. 'hao 10 be violated by Germany on stratee1ca1 grounds, news having been recelVeu
 that France was already preparing to enter Belgium and the king or the Belgians having refused my peution for a free passage under guarantee of his country's freedom Text of Kaisers Telegram. Following is the full text of the Kaiser's telegram to President Will son given to Ambassador Gerard in the emperor's own handwriting: "Berlin, via Copenhagen (dated,) August IA, 1914, (received August 5, 7:30 p. n.)
 "secretary of State, Washington, August IA, 3 p. m. "The following was communicated personally to me by the emperor in . writing:
 ".Private and confidential. ".For the president. personally. "'One-The royal highness Prince
 Henry was received by his majesty
 King George in London, who em' powered him to transmit to me ver-
 bally that England would remain
 neutral if war broke out on the con-
 tinent involving Germany and France
 Austria and Russia. This message was telegraphed to me by my brother from London after his conversation with his majesty the king and repeat ed verbally on the twenty-ninth o1 July.
 "Two-My ambassador in London transmitted a message from Sir Ed ward Grey to Berlin that only in case France was likely to be crushed Eng land would interfere.
 "Three-On the 30th my ambassa- dor in London reported that Sir Ed ward Grey, in the court of private (Sic) conservation told him that ii the conflict remained localized be- tween Russia-not Serbia-and Aus tria, England would not move. but If we mixed in the fray she would take quick decisions and grave maneuvres.
 Tn other words, If left my ally, Aus
 tria, in the lurch. to fight alone, Eng
 land would not touch me.