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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
PETE HERMAN STARTS WITH
THE RIGHT REPUTATION
BY H. c. HAMILTON.

NEW YORK, March 13.-Peter Gulat-
to, otherwise known as Pete Herman
the new bantamweight champion, is of
II a running start in the defense OF
his acquired title. He is one of the
boys to whom the newspaper writer's
point with pride as a youth who isn't
assuming. wants to fight, and is other
wise an ideal chap.
Whether he'll be able to live a life
o. fame without getting the sweilei
head and consequent reputation for
using dollars as a bed is somewhat to
be developed in the spring Of old man
Time Right now he has it. 1t is to
be hoped he sticks by it.
Pete began this life as a bOOtblack.
Being native of Italy, he has nothing
on several thousand of his cOuntrymen
who are shining their way to fame in
the land of the free and the home Of
the brave.
There was a bad, though bold char
scter in New Orleans. where Pete
gathered in the nickles, who used to
come around about once week and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
Queen Sophie is a New Idol
OfGreek People Under Stress

ATHENS, Greece, March 1S.-The
blockade of the ports of Greece by
the Allied Powers has furnished
Queen Sophie her opportunity to en-
dear herself to the Greek people. She
was already the head of all the more
important charities of Athens, but her
work has always been very quiet and
generally very little known or appre-
ciated. During the twenty-eight years
that she has been first Crown Prin-
cess of Greece and then Queen OF the
Hellenes. she has been rather a mega
tive figure.
On the declaration of the blockade,
however, she took up the active org
anization of the relief work among
the blockade sufferers. To do this
she had at command the committees
of all the numerous charities she has
established in the Greek capital as
well as the central committee of the
National League of Reservists, the
mutual benefit organization of the
veterans of the two late Balkan wars.
The committee of the Reservists'
League set about collecting subscrip-
lions under the patronage of the
queen, tapping every well-to-do Ath-
enian family and even approaching the
neutral diplomatists for funds to as
sist the blockade sufferers The dis
tribution of the funds so collected is
bein conducted by the hospital COM
mittls to the sick and by the com
mittee for the assistance of working
women to the needy. Queen Sophie
hers II personally follows and directs
all the work and makes large contri-
buttons to it from her private purse
Occupies New Place.
Outside of her little known charities,
the Kaiser's sister has never before
occupied much of place in the
hearts of the Greek people The king,
as personal commander in chief of the
army, the victor in two successful
wars and man of great personal
magnetism, has completely overshad
owed his royal consort While in every
shop, cafe and Office in Greece there
har gs a portrait of King Constantine,
uortraits of Queen Sophie have hith-
erto been rare. 1t has only been
since her active work in behalf of the
blockade sufferers that there have
appeared generally in the Athens
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

make collection of nickles and dimes
off the bootblacks. They all paid up
like little men-Pete included.
One day Pete decided he wanted all
the money he made for his very own,
and he laid for the youth who came
around after the dimes. He refused to
shell out, with the result that the
youth caught Pete one on the chin and
nearly pulverized him. When Pete
came to he brushed his clothes, start
ed down the street, and when he found
said youth he commenced to fight. The
youth of the dime and nickel collection
was sent to hospital From that
time on Pete had his nickles and dimes
and a fighting reputation. The latter
was so good he decided to put it TO
use, which he did with such success
that he has lowered over the others in
his class to the extent that he now is
champion.
Herman is just 81. He has been
fighting six years. He stands weet 2
inches and weighs 116 pounds right
along. Some day-off in the future
Pete is going to have a cafe in New
Orleans. Also, on top is going to be a
gymnasium. He wants to fight just
row-fght 'em all A champion he
believes, should prove it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash away all the stomach, liver,
and bowel poisons before
breakfast.

To feel your best day in and day out,
to feel clean inside; no sour bile TO
coat your tongue and. sicken your
breath or dull your head; no cOnstipa-
ton, bilious attacks, sick headache,
colds. rheumatism or gassy, acid stOm-
ach. you must battle on the inside like
you battle outside. This is vastly more
important, because the sikh pores do
not absorb impurities into the blood,
while the bowel pores do, says we'll
known physician.
To keep these poisons and toxins
well flushed from the stomach. liver.
kidneys and bowels. drink before
breakfast each day, a glass of hot
water with a teaspoonful of limeston"
phosphate in it. This will cleanse,
purify and freshen the entire alimen-
tary tract, before putting more food in
to the stomach.
Get a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from your pharmacist. 1t
is inexpensive and almost tasteless,
except a souriSh twinge which is not
unpleasant. Drink phosphated hot
water every morning to rid your sys-
TEN of these vile poisons and toxins;
also to prevent their formation.
To fool like vOung folks feel. Iik,,
YOU felt before your blood, nerves and
become saturated with an sc-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
FRENCH TROOPS ARE
MANY IN ALGERIA

ORAN, Algeria, March 13.-There
are more French soldiers to be seen in
Oran than in any town in France.
Those in France are at the front or in
the points of concentration near the
front. They are there right enough,
but one does not see them-at the
front because they are in the erenches.
But in Algeria it is different. The
streets are full of soldiers; so are the
cafes, the street cars, the stores, the
docks, the public gardens. The offic-
ial figures give the population OF Oran
at 10000. To the casual visitor,
there seems to be at least half as
many soldiers besides
And they are all French-French or
French colonial, not allied troops. Be
sides the casual. familiar army types,
there is every kind of exotic fighting
man, including native troops from
Indo-China, looking more like Jap
anese than anything else, uniformed
as ordinary French colonials of the
line. There are the ZOuaves, with
their baggy red breeches and khaki
puttees, now o'days, instead of the
white CATERS of the old days before
the war. Their short, black-braide1
Jackets, sashes and blouses, however,
are unchanged. There are the Chas-
seurs dAfrique-the African light
cavalry-with sky-blue uniforms and
red fezes, the most elegant of French
military horsemen. More gorgeous,
however, are the 'tirailleurs." the
sharpshooters, equally in sky-blue I'M
forms, faced with yellow, and also
wearers of fezes. On active service
this magnifcence is supplanted by
khaki fezes upon which a star and
crescent indicate that the wearer is a
followerer of the prophet. More
characteristic of the country are the
"spahis"- mohammedan troops, offi2-
cred by Frenchmen. They wear flow
ing scarlet cloaks and the soldiers
wear turbans and native costumes;
the officers, unequal to coping with
the turban, content themselves with
fezes, but sacrifice nothing of the re-
splendent scarlet cloak. The most
picturesque, and the most numerous,
are tf~ "goums," the Arab cavalry
res iments raised by the Arabs them
selves. They wear the flowing white
garments the "bournous" of the des-
eTt.
At tea time any sunny afternoon the
Boulevard Seguin, the principal street
of Oran, is crowded with these uni
forms and more besides. The terasses
of the Cafe Continental hasn't vac
ant table, and the tables cover the
sidewalks almost to the curb. There
are no regulations about the hours at
which drinks may be served in AL
geria. for the war is far away and the
garden of Africa is for those who are
sent to rest, to forget the war for n
while, for the convalescents and for
those who stop few days or few
weeks between service in France and
service in Macedonia or Egypt o:
wherever else in the world of war may
may send them.
There are French sailors in Grin
too, for Oran is Frances neraest naval
port to the Straits of Gibralter, and
the gerat amphitheatre harbor, so
full of ships of commerce, whose con-
structed wharves are piled with stacks
of grain and acres of wine casks, is
al also an important naval base.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
SUFFERED 80 YEARs--sAYS K, R,
IS GREATEST RHEUMATISM REMEDY

about it. He then told me all about it,
so | sent down and got it, and | want
to say it was the best days work
ever did. | can't recommend it too
highly to all rheumatic sufferers
b. Summons, Warsaw, KY.
Mr.. Summons says in another letter:
81 am honest in believing it the great
est Rheumatic Remedy in the world"
Surely any sufferer who reads such
letter from a venerable man like Mr..
summons will try X. r. r. for rheuma-
tism, lumbago, govt and kindred uric
acid troubles. Get a bottle today and
cure yourself. You'll be surprised at
the quick relief K. r. r. will give you.
~Kampfmuellers Rheumatic Remedy,
called X. r. r.. is only 81 at your drug
gist's. Free sample if you write
Kampfmueller Rheumatic Remedy Co.,
Inc, Louisville, Ky.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

"Ilvery rheumatic patient in the
IN ed States should know about it,"
sal Mr.. J. b. Summons, of Warsaw,
Ky. in a letter telling how wonderfully
n Z. r. helped him. 81 will be 60
years old the 18th of May and have
been bothered with the rheumatism
mo or less for 80 years, and have
tar n 40 different things in that time,
and | have never taken anything that
is a. good as your remedy.
81 work in a furniture factory here,
ana our foreman came here from Lou
ls' lie. | went to the factory one morn
ing with one of my hands all swollen
up and he asked me what was the mat
ter with it, and I told him I had Rheu-
mt m in it, and he said to me. why
c NJ YOU send down to Louisville and
& lthat Rheumatic Remedy and get
Sd Of it. l told him l knew nothing
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

cumulation of body poisons, begin this
treatment and above all, keep it up
AS soap and hot water act on the skin,
cleansing. sweetening and purifying,
so limestone phosphate and hot water
before breakfast, act on the stomach,
liver. kidneys and bowels. advt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
YOUR FRECKLES
Need Attention in March or Face May
Stay Covered.

Now is the time to take special care
Of the complexion if you wish it to
look we'll the rest of the year. The
March winds have a strong tendency
to bring out freckles that may stay all
summer unless removed. Now is the
time to use othine-double strength.
This prescription for the removal Of
freckles was written by prominent
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

You have read, maybe, about fair winds
always favoring the ablest sailor But, say
friend-the able sailor can navigate in any
kind of wind!
So it's been pretty smooth sailing for me
because | have about everythinga Southern
gentleman has, although it took lot of
time and care to get it.
No Sir!-it is merit, true merit, through
and through, backed by good breeding and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

careful raising. In me-SOVEREIGN-
you have the best blood in all the South,
the finest stock that grows in Old Virginia
and the Carolinas, the smoothest, mellow
est tobacco in the world!
And | was raised in a model factory, where
Cigarette-making is an art. You always
find me the same always good and sweet
and clean and pure.
Yes, quality does tell, friends, and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
The Secret.

What is an amateur?" is still one
of the raging queries of the hour. But,
in spite of all the recent discussion,
we haven't changed the answer we
evolved four years ago, viz, Anyone
who can get away With it."-New York
Tribune. .-.......
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

physician and is usually so successful
that it is sold by druggists under guar
antee to refund the money if it fails
Get an ounce of othine-doubla
strength, and even a few applications
should show a wonderful improvement,
some of the smaller freckles even.
vanishing entirely advt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
Whenever You Need q general TehiC
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as q
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties OF QUIN-
me and IRON. SOC Advt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

shops calendars with the queens pic
ture on them, as we'll as the familiar
ones bearing the kings picture.
Nor does the Kaiser's sister take a
very active part in the social life of
Athens. The king and queen dine
once a week regularly with the kings
brother, Prince Nicholas, and his wife
the Princess Helen. After dinner
there is usually party at which the
diplomatic corps and the best Athen-
ian society are gathered. The king re-
mains all evening, even in the busiest
times; but the queen rarely stops
after dinner or takes any part in the
gaities She receives no one, save
where official etiquette renders an aud
fence imperative. Her last formal
audience was given to the German
minister and his staff. just before
their leaving Greece on November %,
last. When they had departed she
wept as the German diplomatic mis-
sion in Athens constituted the sole
remaining link connecting her with
her brother, Emperor William of
Germany.
Family Very Clannish.
The royal family of Greece is very
clannish, and there are frequent fam
lily reunions at the houses of the king s
numerous brothers. Queen Sophie sell
dom attends these. Her pet charity is
her shop in which the home work Of
Greek women is sold. But her sister
in-law, the Princess Alice of Batten-
berg the wife of the kings brother
Prince Andrew, runs shop of the
same character, in competition with
the queens just across Constitution
square from Queen Sophie's.
In the Princess Alices' shop all the
models are American-for hats, fine
womens underclothing, dresses and
other feminine nick-nacks. The
American fashion papers set all the
Princess Alice styles, and it is a
source of great pride to her that every
article sold in her shop that is not a
reproduction of characteristic Greek
costumes or peasant women's embroid-
cries. is made after American designs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13

Goes Too Far.
Any man who can laugh at all his
troubles is too hypocritical to be a
desira BILE acquaintance
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31

trucks can be had in tho same manner.
In fact, the census is just what it was
designed for. card index Of the citi-
zens OF the State of New York. show
ing what they possess and what they
can do.
The census has furnished the United
States Navy and the United States
Army with several lists of cooks, ma
chinists. oilers. fren.en and mcchonics,
and letters on file in the Census Bureau
from officials of the army and navy
show that these census names consti-
tute the only real aid they had in get
ting the men they wanted Immediately
for government service.
Rear Admiral Usher. commanding
the Third Naval District. with head
quarters II the Brooklyn navy yard,
sent Governor Whitman the following
testimonial Of the value of the census
after the recent Of thousands of names
Of men who wanted 70 join the navy:
navy:
"i wish 10 thank YOU for your most
valuable aid in assisting with recruit
ing for the navy. The director of the
military census furnished the list of
cooks. bakers and butchers IN accord
ancc with your directions, and we
found II 20 be the most valuable IN
formation and help received from any
source"
The census registration figures for
the state and City of New York fol
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Men at Camp Upton
Enjoy Solid Comfort

CAMP UPTON, l.. l., Dec. 80. With
the coal bunkers we'll filled and hun
dreds Of big stoves and steam radiators
continually aglow, the 10000 men who
could not get away from camp for the
holidays are enjoying themselves on
four days vacation in solid comfort.
Not stroke Of work except routine
duty has been done since yesterday
morning. and activities will not be re-
sumed until Wednesday.
In the mean time the barracks are
warm. Special meals are being served.
There Is y surfcit Of reading matter.
J here are recreation centres in the
nine \. VI. {. 4. houses, the three
knights Of Columbus buildings. the
hostess house Of tho Y. W. G. A. and the
headquarters Of the Jewish Board for
Welfare Work. The only men in camp
who are actually working are the
kitchen police. who are indoors: the
military police, who have heated out.
posts, and the night guards, who are
detailed to do outdoor police duty and
who attend 10 furnaces.
The thermometer registered de-
grecs below zero here this morning,
and there were many frostbitten ears
as the troops marched TO the station
and waited TO board the trains. Alto
gether $4,000 men arc away on leave.
The 361th Infantry, colored. will hold
"A New Years Eve military ball at the
7lst Regiment Armory tomorrow
right. Colonel Moss and his staff will
attend
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
u. S. Aid Delayed,
War Dependents
Make Complaint
Letters Telling of Distress
in Soldiers Families Pour
Into Washington
Stat Correspondence

WASHINGTON. Dec. 90 Numerous
complaints are daily being received by
the War Department from dependents
Of soldiers seeking their share of the
monthly pay of their relatives now in
the service, under the provisions of the
compulsory allotment act recently
passed by Congress. In many Of the
letters the writers assert the absence
Of government aid has caused great
misery and distress.
The War Department admits that
considerable delay had been occasioned
BY the difficulties met in establishing
the new Bureau of War Risk Insur-
ance, which is charged with determin-
ing what sums the government shall
add to the sums set aside by the men
in the service.
Efforts are being made by the de-
partment TO speed up the dispatch of
all checks due dependents, and an
nouncement was made that the first
payment had already gone forward.
Day and night shifts are employed in
the new allotment division of the de-
paltment and the work of issuing the
government aid is progressing rapidly.
Richard d. Jones, deputy commissioner
Of claims. asserted to-day.
THE bureau has already made 225.-
900 awards on the claims thus far re-
ceived.' he said, "but the absence Of
the November payrolls in some in
stances has made it impossible for the
bureau 20 figure the exact amounts
due each dependent. Why the rolls
are delayed is a matter that the COM
manding officers Of the men involved
must eXplain."
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Inquiry Ordered
In Sending Troops
To Mythical Post
Baker Directs Investigation
Of Blunder Revealed
at Raritan, N. J.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. luvcstIga-
tion has been ordered By Secretary
Baker of circumstances surrounding the
misundcrs tanding which caused en-
listed men of the ordnance corps to be
sent to Raritan. y. j.. last week for
mobilization at an ordnance base which
apparently exists only on paper.
The arrival of some two score Of the
force was reported TO Mr.. Baker yes
terday b. the state authorities and of
1icials Of Raritan, who are cooperating
in taking care of the troops. Officers
were sent promptly TO stralghten out
the tangle. and the soldiers probably
will be housed temporarily at Camp
Upton, y. \.
The troops are men % draft age. who
have been indicted into the military
service at their own request since De
cembcr 10 and assigned 20 the ord
nance department under instructions
ISSUED 10 the local boards. Nearly
a thousand Of them may be en- route
from different parts of the country.
Plans Of the ordnance bureau IL was
learned. call for the establishment of
terminal depot for export ammuni-
Raritan. on which the government
holds options. The draft men ordered
up were TO be employed at that depot,
where great storehouses are to be
erected
The trouble appears to be that some
ono believed the depot to be already
established and operating, with quar-
ters available for the force, whereas
press reports from Raritan say the
project has not advanced as vet beyond
the option stage. The adjutant gen
cral Of New Jersey was promptly APP
pealed 10 by Raritan officials when the
homeless troops began to arrive. He
got in touch with Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder and was instructed to di-
rect the local boards at Raritan to
Surnish the men with means and quar-
ter them at hotels or otherwise until
the difficulty could be Strengthened out.
The order for the mobilization of the
ordnance men was the first application
Of the new draft regulations, which
constitute local boards mobilization
agencies for men Of draft age who de
sire to enter the military service i'm
mediately. without regard TO their
draft status.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-31
Shoddy Sorting
Plant Aids u. S.,
Says Eise1nan
Defence Council Member
Explains System of Re-
claiming Uniform Waste

Charles Eisoman. yicc-chairman Of
the section OF supplies Of the Council
of National Defence. explained yester-
day the origin and purpose Of the Base
Sorting Plant. Inc. whose function has
been under the scrutiny Of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs in con-
nection with the testimony given by
General Sharpe. The latter brlstled
with uniluminative reference TO the
nlant and it's head Ira I. Kaplan, whose
brother is a member OF the Council OF
National Defence.
"Up to some four or five months
ago" said Mr. Eiseman, "the govern
ment contractors who were making
clothing for the government from ma
tcrials furnished to them by the gov
ernment retained as a gratuity all Of
the rags resulting from the cutting Of
goods. These in turn were sold by
the manufacturers Of clothing 70 the
many rag dealers in the trad" At prices
that before the war ranged from p
cents TO 2s cents q pound mp TO 10
cents a pound and above since tho
war.
"In order to stabilize the prices or
all woollen materials. it became nee
essary to stabilize the prices Of all the
fundamentals that went into the manu-
facturo Of the goods Thus it became
necessary TO stabilize the prices Of
wool substitutes and shoddies, these
for the most part being made from the
rags and clippings remaining from the
goods that were cut for government
uniforms. Since the government now
owned all Of the remnants and rags
resulting from the manufacture of uni
forms. it becomes necessary to establish
a medium whereby these rags could be
concentrated or brought together in