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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-11
PRC SSIAN GENTLEMEN
Roughness in dress clothes. "
Editor Times-Recorder

"Boughness in dress clothes"
Such is the description that best
fits the accredited agents of Imperial
Germany, who for years, made the
United States the American front, "
as they called it, of the European
war. And in case of doubt regarding
that expression. one needs only to
glance through the letters found in
the portfolio of DR.. Albert. forgotten
by him on an 81" train, the afternoon
of July "a. 1915:
Things are going exceedingly we'll
for us on the American front. "
A battlefield, just as much as France
was battlefeld-such was America
in the eyes of Germany during the
days of neutrality. Every explosion
every catastrophe, every assault upon
life or. property, was heralded in
Germany as a victory. And the men
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-11-11
Keep Bees and Need No Sugar.


The United States department of
agriculture has started campaign to
stimulate Bookkeeping, this as real
war economy measure, for honey can
take the place of sugar, and there are
absolutely unlimited supplies of honey
in the flowers that grow wild all over
the land.
Bookkeeping is very easy, and any
man who goes about it carefully and
with such elementary instructions as
he can get from the department Of
agriculture can have a good crop of
honey the first year and be able to
laugh at the scarcity of sugar. besides
making a profit by the sale of the
product of his bees.
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undetected.

"N0w sneak on as a burglar. The
stage is dark. l must not be discov.
cred"
''All right"
''Be sure to keep me In the spot
light. Courier-Journal.
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10 nehtors OF /. ]. Bullock.

You are hereby requested to call
ana pay me at once such accounts as
were due MIR. BIalock. at MY Mayo
street home. or mail checks to post
Office box AIS, Americas, Ga. wish
TO straighten up all matters at once.
and prefer to deal direct with each
debtor and expect your prompt pay
ment.
(MRS.1 !. J. BLALOCK.
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r. and A. N.
COMMANDERY MEETING.

DeMolay, Commandery, No. 5,
Knights TempIar, meets every third
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. All
visiting Sir Knights have cordial
Invitation to meet with US.
w. F. Smith. Eminent Commander.
FRANK ]. PAYNE. Recorder. 20 II
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(8TRS) J. J. BLALOCK.
Notice of Leave to Sell Land.

GEODGIA-Sumter County.
Notice is hereby given that Mrs.
Alice Barrow, administrators of Mrs.
c. A. Hand. deceased, has applied for
leave to sell the lands belonging to the
estate of said deceased, located in
Sumter County, Georgia. If no OBJ
iectfons are filed. leave to sell will be
granted at the December term of this
court
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Warm Climate.

"What is this picture2"
''Fall of Babylon"
''U-m. Judging from the costumes
they had q warm fall in those parta |"
louisville Courier Journal
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Please mail statements of your ac-
count 10 me at once, post office box
40.
(MRS.) l.. J. Bullock.
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SeaDoard Air Line.

Leave Americas for Savannah and
intermediate stations and points east
1881 p. IN. 1:2O a HI.
Leave Amerlcus for Helena and ir
5ermediate points
5:E pm
Leave Amecr'rs for Colu qbua
Montgomery and points West
sos p m.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES.

Arrival and departure of passenger
trains, Americas, Ga
Central OF Georgia Railway.
Trains Arrive,
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JONI A COBB,

Ordinary Sumter County, Ga.
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FROST. LANDS AND KOHN.
Advertising Representatives in
New Yory, Chicago and Atlanta.
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Subscription Rates.
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c70uth.
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9ss!iahsd avery afternoon. 4xcegt
o. gerdAv. every SUNDAY mnrrins an"
weeA.y teysry Thursday.
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s..tered a. seco1d class matter &C
wssofses ,, AInerlca&. Ga. andsr act
arch j, 1873.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
MEAT-EATTNG

(From the Ohio State JournaD
1T is the opinion of many wise OBJ
servers that the restrictions the food
administration is making on the eat
ing of meat will make a stronger
and better nation of this country. A
noted writer says beef might be
withdrawn altogether and we in
America would still be the most for
tunate people in the world. He fur
ther says:
1T is not gracious to think or talk
of beef rations as If they represent
ed war sacrifice. When we begin
to give up the things that are really
needed-the so-called indispensable
things-then we may talk of sacri-
fice."
One might think that the high
price of meat would greatly limit it's
consumption, but it is not doing it.
A person will pay so cents a pound
for a round steak just as freely as
he used to pay 20 cents. 1t is strange
that it should be SO, and yet it might
be attributed to the widespread be-
lief that meat is a great necessity. II
probably is for one who is used to it,
but let him abandon the use and he
will soon find out how happy he is
without it. BY limiting the use OF
meat, Mr.. Hoover will not only find
out that he is helping to end the
war; but is establishing his fame as
a great benefactor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
A CALL TO PRAYER

nj AYoR KEIsrER' following
M the suggestion of this news
paper, has proclaimed the two
minutes Immediately following II
o'clock noon on the Fourth Of July
a period especially set apart in
which the whole city will unite in
prayer for divine aid and guidance
in the war.
Bells will proclaim the hour and
wherever the marchers in the great
parade, which will be part of the
days celebration, happen to be at
the time prescribed. they will halt,
the bands will cease to play and pa
raiders and spectators will bow their
heads in silent devotion. 1t promises
to be the most impressive feature of
a red letter day in the history of
Harrisburg.
But it will be more than that. 1t
will be a public admission of our
helplessness in this or any other
great trial without the help and
guiding hand of God.
In proclaiming this period of
prayer Mayor Keister has set an ex-
ample which other cities very likely
will follow. The Mayor evidently be-
lieves, as many millions of Ameri-
cans have come to believe, that the
hour has struck when we as nation
must take our stand on the high
ground of Christian teaching or
turn to the foe content to face his
frightfulness armed only with the
poor weapons of our own making.
ASK and ye shall receive; knock and
it shall be opened unto you" These
are no idle promises.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
RIGHT, MIR. KREIDER

DOLITICS is adjourned except in
districts where Democrats see
some chance of Democratic
success at the polls" said Congress
man Kreider, speaking before the
Dauphin County Republican Com
mittee at its annual meeting Satur-
day and referring to the recent
statement of President Wilson.
Right. Mr.. Kreider. Politics is
adjourned, but only for Republicans
who are supposed to stand idly by
twiddling their thumbs while Demo-
Gratis run home with the bacon.
But in Pennsylvania the President
will find that Republicans have their
own notions as to the definition of
this phrase, which they take to mean
that men of all parties shall place
patriotism above politics and shall
give the administration wholehearted
support in its war measures, as Re-
publicans have always done in the
past and will do again.
That is what they mean to do. but
they know that they can serve the
country better under their own party
standards than beneath the flag of
a party whose fundamentals so fal
differ from their own that they have
been at constant variance since Civi
War days, and before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
Water Damage to Flour

IFrom the Northwestern Miller.l
It is a widely known fact among
sailors that -four will not only float
after immersion in sea water, but
suffer very little damage. To ascer-
tain the actual damage a baker in
New South Wales submerged bag
of -four in the ocean and left 1t in
the water sixty-seven hours. A 9s-
pound weight was necessary to sink
a 150-pound bag. which would have
supported seventy-five pounds on top
of the water. 1t is estimated, or half
its own weight. When lifted and
weighed. the bag scaled 155 pounds.
1t was dried for four days and
yielded 100 pounds of perfectly dry
flour, the bag and waste weighing
twenty-eight pounds. Baked into
bread. It gave perfect results,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24

(E. II. Tostevin, 164th U. S. In
fantry, in a letter from France pub
lished in the Mandan, n. D.,
Pioneer.)
NT ALL had not ben received for
M a couple of weeks. Yesterday
AVA a small percentage of the boys
received letters, and to-day the flood
came. Everyone received three or
four letters and packages containing
everything from eats to silk pajamas.
Then, Shut up. you poor booos!
Hire a hall! Give us a chance to
read letters" from the crowd. All
but one.
Sitting over on his bunk. head
bowed over a single envelope, which
the mails had brought him; motion
less, giving no heed to anything
around him, sat lad of 10. He is
one of those shy boys, has no girls
on the string sending him things,
and his envelope had brought be-
lated Christmas card.
Suddenly he sat up, jumped off his
bunk, and shuffled his way outside
of the barracks.
1 was not the only one watching
him, for one of the other boys looked
at me.
Hell amt that too bad. Poor
kid" and turning to his own pile
of mail he selected a package which
from it's size and shape apparently
was a carton of cigarets, ripped
off the original wrapper, pasted can
celed stamps on it, and addressed it
to this boy. adding a return card
from a girl the good fellow" knew
was friend in the little town back
home.
Hey you-come here and get
your MALL"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
Electrically Welded Ships

[From the Scientific Americana
In place of using rivets to fasten
the plates and the framing of a ship
together, a test is being made by the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, at the
Federal Shipbuilding Company's
yard in Kearney, n. J., in the use of
electric welding This test is to be
conducted on a 40-foot length of a
9,6OO-ton cargo steamship. Both
spot welding and continuous arc
welding will be used, the spot weld
ing for connecting the frames and
plates, and the arc welding for join
ing the seams of the plates. The hull
to be tested will be fil1ed with water
and subjected to various strains in
order to judge of the strength of
the joints. Should the test prove
successful, it will result not only in
the saving of 10 per cent of weight,
but also in a great economy of time.
1t will eliminate a great deal of work
in marking out punching. and fitting
of the members, as we'll as a reduc-
ton in the railroad transportation
from the rolling mill to the fabricat-
ing plant. 1t is believed that the
total saving will amount to about
$40 per ton of the steel structure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
PENNSYLVANIA, A GIVER

/" HIS week Pennsylvania will send
to Camp Lee for the National
Army more of her sons than
there were American soldiers with
Washington when Cornwallis sur
rendered to him and the French at
Yorktown.
Last month Pennsylvania sent to
the various camps more of her boys
than there were troops commanded
by General Scott when he marched
on Mexico City.
In April Pennsylvania sent to
camps more of her youth than there
were men in both armies that fought
the decisive battle of New Orleans.
Between April l and July it is
estimated that this State will have
furnished $4,000 drafted men to the
army, which is seven times the
number of Spanish soldiers sur
rendered to Shafter at Santiago and
six times the number that laid down
arms at the capitulation of Manila.
Since the first of the year the Key
stone State has sent to the camps
under the call of the nation about
as many men as were in the army of
Napoleon at Waterloo.
These figures represent only the
men who have been drafted from
Pennsylvania. They do not include
the men who have enlisted in the
Regular Army, the Navy or the
Marine Corps. or the young men who
have become officers.
When counted with the National
Guardsmen who volunteered and the
men who went into the Regular
Army and the Navy since the war
began the drafted men make the
d. share of Pennsylvania in our armed
forces greater in number than the
two armies at Gettysburg.
And all this from a State which is
furnishing one-tenth of the NUM-
tions and giving as freely of natural
resources as of manhood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24

, The lad we sought was walking
slowly away from the camp and out
on the hills. At his name being
called he half turned, then continued
on his way until we ran after him,
calling his name the while.
The sight of the bundle and our
evident effort to attract his attention
made him pause; and his back to-
ward us we saw him take something
from his pocket. He turned and we
knew it was a handkerchief which
he was trying to stow away. He
walked slowly toward us.
Say, you poor fish. dya think I'm
goin' to follow you all over the coun-
try just to get cigaret. Here's a
package from your girl that just
come and l want a cigaret for
bringing it to you," he said.
The boy took the package. in
credulously read the return address
in the corner, then broke into smiles
that broadened into grins.
He didn't say anything, the lump
in his throat was too big and the
traces of tears in his eyes nearer
! the real thing than traces. He tore
open the package, opened a pack OF
cigarets and pressed us to take
some.
Then we left him after we saw
him pick up the paper. tear the ad-
dress from the corner and carefully
put it away in his pocketbook.
| Dammit! Now I've got my foot
! in it. I've gotta write that girl right
now and tell her what happened
But that's all right. She's a good
scout and II understand" observed
this impromptu spreader of good
cheer.
l All! But the mail helps!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
EDITORIAL CONVENT
By Briggs

While those German U-boats are on
this side. why not mark some intern
ment camps as ii they were hos
pitals?-New York Evening Sun.
Man made the city. God made the
country. and the German army trans
forms both into a place some of us no
longer believed in.-New York Even
ing Post.
Apropos of permitting the soldiers
at the front to vote, perhaps If it
were not for the soldiers there
wouldn't be any elections after a
time.-Newark News.
The Teuton blrthrate is falling off
so rapidly that I'm beginning to hope
that maybe the, as it were. respect
able Germans at home are ..shamed to
face posterity.-New York Morning
Telegraph.
If King George cries out to "lxill
the umpire" at the Fourth of July
baseball game in London, the Amer
icanization of England may be said
to have assumed the proportions of a
drive.-New York World.
One thing that illustrates the quail
ity of the reputation which Germany
has earned in the civilized world is
that when German submarine cap
tain doesn't stab a helpless prisoner
in the stomach, or at least spit in
his face, he is universally regarded
as very humane.-Columbus Ohio
State Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
Fate of HohenzoIerniSm

(From the Ohio State Journal)
When the horrid war is over and
we have Germany on its knees,
which will be the case, the first thing
to do is to sequester all the property,
real and personal, of the Hohenzol-
lern family and not leave so much
as a pig or a potato patch that they
can call their own. They ought not
to be allowed to own anything. They
are the origin of this war, the head
and front of the Potsdam gang
which is the cause of all the bloody
business the world is now suffering.
There mustn't be anything left of
the divine right mess, but the whole
family must be uprooted and sent
out to beg. This is only modest COM
pensation for the wrongs they have
committed. If they were taken be-
fore a magistrate and tried for their
crimes, they would be fined to death
and the rest of the penalty would
be prison for several thousand years.
Such a punishment is not suggested
in wrath, but upon consideration of
what is fair and square between
man and man. There should be moth
ing left of Hohenzollernism any
where on the ground.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. DR.. j. Ritchie Smith,
formerly of this city, has been
preaching at ordination services in
Philadelphia.
George Wharton Pepper, who is
calling on the President to declare
against the third term, is head of the
State Public Safety Committee.
Governor Brumbaugh is to
speak next Sunday in the celebration
of the semi-centennial of Third Bap-
tist Church, Germantown.
District Attorney n. A. Cort, OF
Westmoreland county, has asked the
courts to forbid barmaids in hotels
and saloons.
The Rev. DR.. j. C. Acheson,
Pittsburgh educator, says that the
Germans have been worse than the
Vandals as destroyers of property.
He is just home from France.
&C. H. Markham, the railroad
director, has been spending some
time in the Pittsburgh district.
Dan L. Hart, former Wilkes
Barre official, was one of the speak
ers at the school dedication at Sugar
Notch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
No Thought of the Public
[Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. ]

Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
A party without a candidate and
a nominee without a party, sums up
the situation that has developed be-
tween the Democratic state commit
tee and Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell.
The discord that marked the COM
mittee meeting at Harrisburg is SIM
ply a self-revelation of Democratic
party character and aims. No con-
siderations of commonwealth well
fare actuated any of those who en-
gagged in the contest for control OF
the party machinery. The "loaves
and fishes is all for which any of
them cares. And that is worthy of
contemplation not only by Democrats
honestly concerned for the public
benefit but by independent voters
who may have been meditating
throwing in their lot with the selfish
and inept outfit. Judge Bonniwell is
now lodged in the hands of the Pal
mer- -Donnelly-G -Guffey faction. The
latter are determined to retain their
clutch on the organization for the in
fluence it gives them with the Will
son administration. Let the people
go hang and let the problems of war
and OF reconstruction after the war
take care of themselves. One war
is enough for them and that is the
incessant struggle with one another
for patronage.
The spectacle would be more
shocking had there ever been the
slightest chance that the Democrats
might win the election in November
1t is shameful enough, but 1t cannot
| injure the public except as it COM
mands the attention of the leader"
at Washington and diverts his mind
from the country's business in order
| that he may concern himself with
this local conflict within his own
| party. Senator William G. Sprouts
election to the governorship is as
sured by an overwhelming majority
That without reference to the Dem
ocratic row. But it is regrettabIe that
through this new division of the
| spoilsmen the public is to be de.
MED that discussion OF questions oi
! government, so essential at this time
which we might have had in a con.
test between the Republican and
Democratic parties.- The washing Of
dirty linen by the Democratic fac.
tons cannot be edifying. But the
people will take great satisfaction II
keeping the hands of both off the
| public business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24

presiding officer there would be no
easy road to freedom for criminals"
through the Pardon Board.
So many cases came before that
body at the June meeting that two
days were required for the hearings.
The members could have been better
employed. The time is here when
court sentences should mean just
what. the judge imposes. There is
entirely too much leniency. Lieu
tenant Governor McClain has made
a good presiding officer for the board
and Senator Bendleman, with hi:
views on the subject. will be worthy
successor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
MADONNA OF THE CURB

On the curb of a city pavement,
BY the ash and garbage cans,
In the stencil and rolling thunder
OF motor TRUCKS and vans,
There sits my little lady,
With brave but troubled eyes,
And in her arms a baby
That cries and cries and cries.
She cannot be more than seven;
But years go fast in the slums,
And hard on the pains of winter
The pitiless summer comes
The wall of sickly children
She knows; she understands
The pangs of puny bodies,
The clutch of small hot hands.
In the deadly blaze of August,
That turns men faint and mad.
She quiets the peevish urchins
BY telling a dream she had
A heaven with marble counters.
And ice, and a singing fan;
And a god in white, so friendly,
Just like the drug store man,
Her ragged dress is dearer
Than the perfect robe of a queen
Poor little lass who knows not
The blessing of being clean.
And when you are giving millions
To Belgian, Pole and Serb,
Remember my pitiful lady
Madonna of the Curb!
Christopher Morley In the New
Mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-24
REST FOR THE WEARY

o weary heart. there is a rest for
thee!
o truant heart. there is a blessed
home,
An isle of gladness in life's wayward
sea,
Where storms that vex the waters
never come!
There trees perennial yield their
balmy shade;
There fiower-wreathed hills in
sunlit beauty sleep;
There meek streams murmur
through the verdant glade;
There heaven bends smiling o'er
the placid deep;
Winnowed by wings immortal that
fair isle;
Vocal it's air with music from
abovei
There meets the exile eye a welcom-
ing smile;
There ever speaks a summoning
voice of love
Unto the heavy-laden and distrest-
Come unto He, and will give
you rest!"
-Elfzabsth EiIat