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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
SARAH BERNHARDT UNDER THE
KNIFE


At this writing the most renowned
actress in the world has just been under
surgical treatment and the chances are
against her recovery. When you read
this article she may be dead In her
death the great none-such of the tragic
STAGE the world is the loser, as her
gifts and her genius are Incompatible.
There is nobody to measure her by
Like the great Siddons, and Rachel
she stands on the top round of the
theatrical ladder. with no rival
She has travelled over the civilized
world-the admired of all beholders,
wherever she went Age did not wither
her charms, she was alive I'm every
nerve and muscle. and she is now over
seventy, and has been acting all win
ter despite i'll health.
Like all truly great people she has
had her enemies. There have been
those who spared her. nothing-as to
reputation or morals, but she has done
her best under any and all circum-
stances and conditions-and the intel
ligent and cultured of all civilized ma
tions will hasten to acclaim her great
ness.
l was in New York City in 1911
standing in the seventh story of a giant
skyscraper building, looking out at the
Statue of Liberty. and the sparkling
waves of the beautiful bay. magni-
ficent ocean Hner-"La France was
going out under full steam, and carry
ing Sarah Bernhard, after the magni-
ficent success of her life, in New York
City.
She gave a farewell performance the
evening before. Dressed in her fine
robes. she left the stage at II o'clock
and drove to the wharf, where La
France" would start. at 10, next day
Her worshippers followed her to the
vessel bearing loads of finest flowers
and begging for still one more glimpse
of the Divine Sarah" as they called
her. No queen on a throne ever had
more rapturous plaudits. Where she
reigned-she was supreme.
But age has its limitations. Death is
no respecter of persons Doubtless
Sarah is also a philosopher!
THE Road TO LAUGHTERTowN.
Oh, show me the road to Laughtertown,
For I have lost the way!
wandered out of the path one day,
When my heart was broken, my hair
turned gray.
And 1 can't remember how to play!
I've quite forgotten how to be gay,
It's all through signing and weeping,
they say.
Oh, show me the road to Laughtertown,
For I have lost the way.
Would ye learn the road to Laughter
town,
oh. We who have lost the way?
Would We have young heart though
your hair be gray?
Go learn from the little child each day,
And catch the Tilt of his laughter gay
Go serve his wants and play each day,
And follow his dancing feet as they
stray;
For he knows the road to Laughter
town,
oh, We who have lost the way!
British Weekly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia and the Letter Box: VIII
vou admit an Alabama boy in your happy
band. I am twelve years old, and am five feet
high. have brown eyes, light complexion and
en- studying the seventh grade. ! live on
farm. and like farm life fine.
One Of my brothers has Joined the United
states navy. and the other and myself have
10 make the farm by ourselves. I am not 10
write so much, as 70 crowd the other boy or
,eirl but viii write sgain II this escapes the
Wastebasket. So I will hush. hoping 10 see
this In print. HARVEY FULLER.
HIsco1s. Ala. r. T. n. No. !.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Desr Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes a
boy from central Georgia 70 fall into the letter
box. I am twelve years 81 age and have blue
ewes. black hair and fair complexion. live
in Forsyth, 20 miles from Macon, and n miles
from Atlantis, on the Central OF Georgia rail
road. with my grandparents. ] have little
vegetable garden, also a flower garden. which
/ am cultivating myself. ! am writing
Remington typewriter that merchant here
loaned to me tin he got a chance TO sell it,.
II is No. Z. I have the whOcping cough
but hope to. get over il soon. ! am crippled
with rheumatism and have to 60 81 clutches.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
Free Book About Cancer.

The Indianapolis csueer Hospital Indianapolis Indiana
has published booklet which Fves facts about
the cause of CsnoeE also tells what pain bleeding
odor valuable Euide in the management of av case.
Write for il today. mentiOnnR this paper.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia: As i have not seen any
letters from Florida ! thought I would write
Nv father takes The Atlanta Semi-WeeEly
Journal 7 am a farmers hoy. I have three
nizs ard three chickens. I like O feed the
Il ickenS the pigs and the calf. 7 like TO go
winning in the lake near my home. / am
nearly ten years old and am in the sixth grade.
I walk three miles to school. Ny teacher is
named Prof. George e. LOoney. like 10 read
books ami Mutt and JEFF.
RrankIvn Fla CLIFFORD TABOR.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
AUDREY wEsTBROOK.

Dear Aunt Julia. Please admit Tennessee
tor IN your letter box. I am fifteen years
Old and am five feet one inch tall. ] live
O. IA farm Of 100 sores and 20 to school most
Of the tine. I am in the eighth grade. MY
school is out now. I have set ont 100. fruit
trees this spring.
am recovering from an operation now.
had nv tnnsiIs and adenoids taken out ! be
long 20 the Liberty Bell Bird club and think
an hovS and girls should belong 10 II. / viii
tel Won about the club For pets I have
dog AMI seven cats. 7 also have a horse and
hr= I ike 70 read good books NV favorites
q ~ ben Hur'- and Daniel Boone
live in the mountains OF east Tennessee. We
are having much rain now.
would Ike 70 exchange cards with the
cousins I will answer every one received.
will close FOR this time.
waSkburn. Tenn. 7. VERLIN WADE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Druggists eFeyyZAEs SaL d. GSiA-
Wells Syrup Pepsin ror hTry cents q
p-,Ne. A. void limitations and inef-
feceT~> substrtmls be sure you get DIR.
Caldwefrs Syrup Pepsin. See that
facsimile of DR.. Caldwelrs signature
and his portrait appear on the yellow
carton in which the bottle Is packed,
A trial bottle, free of charge, can ba
obtained by writing TO DR.. w. b. Cald-
we'll, AS Washington ST, Monticello.
Illinois, for whom this advertisements
is published.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
rs FOR L1E- RfffRM
Yd<io,!2!!i:fiy iSfiS2Bs&k

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: As I have Just
finished reading the cousins letters and enjoyed
them 80 much. / decided I would write one.
I 80 70 school and I like II fine. My teachers
name IS Miss Addie Donagan. Our school viii
nice time. I am a little girl ten years old.
an in the fourth grade. am learning 20
crochet aud I like II fine. As this is my first
letter. guess had better 80. .
SwaiusbOro. Ga. LOIS PEBBLES.
Dear Aunt Julis and cousins: May join
ycur circles I enjoy reading the cousins letters
vety much. I am very fond OF playing doll
much. ] am in the fifth grade and am ten
years old. We live about three miles from
West Point. Ga.. on a farm. like farm life.
Tor my pets I have dog and two Kittens.
We'll. as my letter is rather long will close.
II this letter escapes the wastebasket | viii
come again. With vest wishes 70 Aunt Julia
end the cousins. GLADYS TONEn.
West Point, Ga, r. K. 4.
Dear Aunt Julia: As I haven't seen letter
from this part 81 eInnessee, thought
would write. I am twelve years old. do
not 20 TO school now. l went 10 school at Big
sandy. hut our school Is out l go 20 Sunday
mountain near Grand view. 1 will close
before my letter gets no long. Hope this
will escape the wssteossket-
Grand View, Tenn. ROSE SHARP.
Dear Aunt julia: We have been taking The
Journal for a long time. I enjoy reading the
been out playing this morning. Ny school is out
I am glad. for I like to work. l am in the
sixth grade Ny age Is twelve years. have
been going TO school every day this winter, but
two when i WIS sick I live near Pembroke.
I have one brother. Malvin. NOu see, when l
said 7 wanted to write 20 Aunt Julia he began
70 do the same. l am glad that Easter Is here,
for I want % bring my eggs In. Boys often
hide out eggs here week before Easter and
bring them in on Saturday and get mama 10
make some red ones, then on Easter morning
We boys fight eggs. If | can break his get
10th.
ike 10 read all your letters. BE glad II
YOU would allow me- 10 Join your happy circle.
MARCUS WHITE.
Pembroke. Giles County. Va, R.-F. r. No. ].
Dear Aunt Julia: For some time have been
reading the letters written you by the southern
bows and girls. So I. a little southwest Virgin
ian want TO say hello TO all you little boys
and girls
am small boy OF seven summers; have
inst finished my first winter in school and am
Slad that school is over, and you would be
tickled too il you had had all the lessons that
/ had to do
help mamma feed the little chickens. for
she has no little girl TO help her. ! wish ] had
nv little chickens down south for few weeks
as il is growing here now; they may get their
toes frosted.
would like TO exchange cards with you
hovs and girls II / see my letter in print
will tell you more next time. Good luck TO
all. MALNlN NJ. WHITE.
Pembroke. Giles County. Va.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit a little
Cherokee girl into your happy band Of cousins?
live on a sarm Of $50 acres. l will be seven
years old the sixth Of May. ] would enjoy q
card shower from the cousins. 1 am in the
third grade. I have four pets, two kittens,
one dog and q calf.
/ have one grandpa snd grandma living IN
California. ! spent seven months with them
in 1al3-la14. ! will tell you about my visit
later on.
Beula Thornton. 7 have cousin in your
town that visited last summer, Jennie Nae
Right.
Hoping Aunt Julia and all the cousins
pleasant year ---
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

l also have curvature of the spine. Although
being a boy. l received Sl.JO prize for some
crochet work which | exhibited at the county
fair here last fall. Well. my letter is get
ting too long. l will close, hoping to see my
letter in print in next weeks issue, / remain,
wM. 4. ASERCROMBIE, JR.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia VIII you admit north
Georgia girl I'm your happy band? ] have never
seen q letter from this part. so ] thought
would write I live on the farm with my pa
rents hive four brothers and five sisters
They are all married except one brother and
ore sister ] am n cripple and ] get lonesome
souet'nes ! woud like to yet card shower
OF nv birthday June 90 How many Of you
ike flowers. 7 do. We have some. although
can't work with them much. What do you
lIl 10 for pastiIne. 7 nick the banjo and play
the organ 7 am learning to make tatting.
ran read snd write some. hut ] never went to
SCHOOL a day in my life. The farmers are get
ting badly behind wit their work on account
- ~ much rain. I would he glad II Aunt
Julia you'll write q niece each week, and
think the rest would like il well as !. As
my letter is getting long ] guess 7 had hotter
- With love and hest wishes to Aunt Julia
aud he COUSINS. J am, IEARLlE HYDE,
Talking Rock Ca, n. +. u. 2, Box so. ,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia: Will Won adm ITO LITTLE
Alabama twin girls in your band 81 Cousins =?
paps takes the Semi-Weeklv Journal and we
like n read those letters IN the Letter BOX.
We live on farm two miles from Boaz and
three miles from Albertville two nice ur-to-
ia 70 towns We work In the field. chop cot
ton nick cotton milk cows. wash dishes. sweep
the floors for rnamma. and all such light work.
We 60 to school some IN winter. Our school
viii soon be out. We are eleven years old. As
for pets haven't any except the broom,
dish rag cotton hoo. and nick sack. We like
them fine We Hike all kinds If books we
have ever read. We will saw. look ont Mt
Waste Basket. for are coming. Yours truly,
KATE AND SARAH STTTFN.
Alhn-tr5Iln Ala z 2 BOY 40
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
hAIII N.NU 0ENIN.AII - T T T
Alhertville. Ala, r. 2, BOX 80.

Dear Aunt Julia: am a little girl. 10
years old. md enjoy reading the Cousins lot
terS I would certainly enjoy seeing my letter
in The Journal I live in the mountains ~
north Georgia on a farm. I go to country
school. Am entering the fifth grade. ] am
learning 10 play the piano, and can WRITE on
the TYPEWRITER cen crochet. 7 have been
helping mamma in the garden this week. NY
nets ere little white poodle dog. named Bfllv
Sunday for the great prea cher. and some little
chickens I would IKE tn exchange letters or
most card views with some Of the cousins 7
have lot I would like write about hut fear
nv letter will be too long. The Journal and
fine Comfort the papers We like best Your
friend. ENORREE BEAll,
Tu-rvvFTga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

Dear Aunt Julia: Here we come To Join your
hanuy band We do NOT many letters
from Virginia cousins. I. Mae, eleven years
old and Daisy IL twelve years old. We are
nIaymates We both have light brown hHtr,
blue eyes and fair complexion. We nre both
in the fourth grade ~ school. We Ike our
teacher fine.
Da'sv can crochet and am anxious 10 lenrr.
We live on the farm and Ike to feed chickens
and milk the COWS. We also help our mothers
with the homework Well letter is
getting too long. will close, with best wishes
10 Aunt Julia and the cousins.
MAE SOUTH and DAISY VANCE.
CranndaIp Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24

pear Aunt Julia and Cousins VIII you adj
nit another Alabama girl to your circle?
am n farmers daughter, nine years of age.
am going TO school and like to go. am In the
third grade. My teachers name is Miss Kath-
eryne LAWYER. / have two brothers, William
and James Edward, ages u and 1l2 years.
help mother with her work, such wash
dishes. make beds and sweep. ! have Just
earned 10 crochet. Would like to exchange
some patterns with some Of the cousins. Hurry
up. Alabama boys and girls, don't let the others
beat us. I'll ring off for fear Of the waste
basket ALICE SIBLETT.
Rrownsbo Ala.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-08
Know the Wars Real Cause

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events which led up to the War-a summary of its
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special maps showing the various theatres of war
in Europe, and the details of the great war are in
condensed form for quick and comprehensive read
ing.
the vast amount of material contained in this big
atlas. The double page map of the Western Battle
front and the splendid map of the North Sea are
alone worth more than the price of the entire atlas.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-08
The Best Weekly Paper in Eastern South Dakota
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Some Big Features in This Atlas

Large double page map of the western battle front, Newport
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Large scale map North Sea, showing naval bases of England,
Germany, Holland, Belgium and Scandinavian countries.
Special map Austria Italian Theatre of War.
Latest and Best maps Balkan States.
Special maps of the German ustrO- Russian Theatre of War
and the Northwestern Theatre of war in Russia.
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Large map of Mexico, showing all Steamship lines from Mexi-
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Map of Turkey in Asia, with special maps of Japan, Korea
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Portraits of all the Rulers at war. And many other features.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
GERMANS HANDLED
CHINESE TRADE At
A POSITIVE Loss

LONDON, July 3-When the war
began nearly thirty per cent of the
trade of Hong Kong, excluding Chln-
csc native trade, was in the hands OF
Germans whose business methods were
considered by many to be most pro-
gressive and worthy of emulation. II
now appears from the investigation OF
enemy firms that the methods employ
ed by the Teutons were, despite the
great volume of trade, unsound and
improbable, according to the PERIOD
ical Truth which publishes an article
based on a book just written by Den
mis- K. Moss, a man of long experience
in Chinese trade and one of the llqul-
dators of enemy firms in Hong Kong
"The knowledge gained from the liz
uidations is summed up by Mr.. MOSS
as being, mainly, "a more complete
knowledge of how not to do business
says Truth. Instead of the valuable
lessons in trading methods which some
people expected, the merchants ana
accountants in charge of the windings
up discovered practically nothing but
evidence -unmistakable, conclusive eV-
idence-of the unsoundness and I'M
profitableness of the lines on which the
Germans did business Nearly thirty
per cent of the trade of Hong Kong
: Excluding Chinese native trade) was
in their hands. but they did not make
one-twentieth of the profits of the Brit
ish-indeed, more than one British
firm there makes for itself net profits
equal to those of all the German firms
Jumped together The great aim OF
the latter was to have big turnover,
no matter whether there was any profit
or not
LAS an instance Of this on the eX-
port side, one firm had built up a
, turnover of $4,000,000 year in silk,
but only covered the cost of runnins
the department. All engaged in cut
throat competition, not merely against
British rivals. BUT against one another,
and even in the handling of their own
German and Austrian manufactures. In
the main, however, the goods they sold
to the Chinese-giving dangerously
! lopo orodifc oOncictod of NTaOphoctar
and Bradford goods, for, though the
plums of that trade in Hong Kong
were retained by British firms, the
Germans had captured substantial
portion of it by taking business-as
their books showed-on miserably in
adequate terms, sometimes even at loss.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
VOLUNTARY BREAD SAVING
BUREAUS" IN SWEDISH CITIES

STOCKHOLM, July 3.-"voluntary
Bread Saving Bureaus" have been es-
tablished in many of the Swedish cit
les. People who find it possible to get
along with less bread than the amount
allowed are asked to send the unused
coupons of their +9readcards to these
bureaus. supplementary bread cards to
the value of the coupons received are
issued to the poorer inhabitants. Cou
pons thus far received by the Stock
holm bureau alone have made possible
the issuance of additional supplement
tary cards for four tons of bread
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
Cabinet Ohicers Pool Salaries.

LONDON, July Following the
precedent set by teA Asquith govern
ment, the ministers in the Lioyd-George
government are pooling their salaries.
The salary of the prime minister is
not affected by the arrangement. Min
listers will draw from the pool" about
1900 pounds, of $4,000 each per year,
as compared with over 1000 pounds,
or $4,000 as the individual share of
cabinet ministers under Asquith. The
smaller amount is due to the increased
number of ministers, owing to the crea
ton of several new departments.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

This had temporarily benefited Man
chester and Bradford merchants, but
many of the enemy firms were getting
deeper and deeper into a state of such
chronic overtrading that very little
would have been needed to upset the
whole fabric and bring about a crash
which would have seriously injured
British mercantile and banking inter
ests.
ut is not at all surprising to learn
that Germans firms at Hong Kong
added dishonesty to their recklessness
in trading. The winding-up inquiries
disclosed the fact that the bulk of their
business as actually done ON capital
borrowed on what were virtually false
pretenses from London finance houses.
Nor is it surprising to learn that mer-
chants who treated their own letters
of lien as so many scraps of paper de-
liberately violated the conditions under
which they were allowed to continue
business in Hong Kong for two or
three months after the outbreak of
war"
The periodical says that Mr.. Moss
certainly shows that the methods OF
German traders ARE for the most part
methods I'd be avoided" and adds in
conclusion:
"And Hong Kong is not the first
place from which we have had proofs
that German commerce, about thu
growth of which we used to hear SC
much, rested on very unstable foun-
dalton"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
Sc BA5TOPOL ONCE
MORE IMPORTANT
NJ |L|TARY PO|N 7

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 3.-The
National Geographic Society, in a war
geography bulletin, gives the following
timely information concerning the
Russian Black Sea port of Sebastopol,
where Admiral Kolchak is reported to
have come in conflict with a. group of
Workmens and soldiers delegates re-
Gently:
Sebastopol, with a population of H.
600 before the outbreak of the Euro
pean war;. was one of the principal
seaports of South Russia. 1t enjoys the
advantage Of an exceptionally fine har-
Dor, the city being situated on deep
bay which cuts into the southwestern
shore of the Crimea for a distance OF
four miles. The average depth of the
water in the harbor is So feet and yes
sells of sea-going draft can anchor al
ongside the shore.
with the exception of Petrograd
and Moscow, the name of no other CITY
in the Russian empire is so familiar to
the average reader as Sebastopol, be-
cause of the great siege which it with
stood in the Crimean War of 1S54-55,
when the French, English and Sardin-
ian allies sacrificed 10000 troops be-
fore the place fell after 349 days of
heroic resistance In that memorable
eleven months the Russians lost 120,-
coo men and it is said that when the
vjctors entered the city on September
Sth, 1855, there were only fourteen
buildings which had not been seriously
damaged by the shell-fire of the 800
cannons which had been employed By
the assalants. At the beginning of the
struggle Sebastopol numbered more
than 10000 inhabitants; seven years
after the war it had only succeeded in
recovering to the extent of popula-
ton of $500
everywhere the visitor turns in
Sebastopol he finds mementoes of the
great struggle-museums, galleries,
and monuments erected to the defend
ers, most distinguished of whom was
the great engineer Todleben who de-
signed the earthwork defense and
who directed the Russian forces until
severely wounded shortly before the
city's fall.
Across the bay to the north is a
treeless plain in the midst of which is
the Russian Cemetery where 100000
soldiers are buried.
There are two famous battlefelds in
the vicinity of Sebastopol-Inkerman.
four miles to the east, and Balaklava,
eight miles to the southeast. 1t was
or these fields, immortalized in Eng
lish verse, that attempts were made by
the Russians to raise the siege early in
the conflict.
1.-TWO miles southwest of Sebastopol
are the remains of the famous Greek
city of Chersonesus, founded by a
Dorian colony in the sixth century B.
c., and the last survivor among the
Greek city states. 1t was for many
centuries the center of trade in the
Euxine AMI only began to decline wher
the Genoese traders restricted its com
merce. The Romans used the city as q
place of Punishment, st. Clement and
Justinian II being two of the most dis
tinguished Of it's exiles.
"Sebastopol was founded by Gather
inc II in 1884 on the site of the Tatar
village of Akhtiar. 1t is $50 miles by
rail south of Moscow and $50 miles in
an airline northeast of Constantinople
across the Black Sea"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
FRENCH TO BAN DEMORALIZING
MOVING PICTURE FILMS NOW

PARIS, July 3.-One by one, French
towns are taking measures against de-
moralizing moving picture films. The
municipal council of the town of
Beaune. the rich region of Burgundy
wines, has decided to prohibit the ex-
position of police films. Auxerre is
about to follow its example, since a
band of young marauders of IA to 16
years old drew inspiration from a de-
tectiye film to rob several merchants
o. the town.