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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Smut" has gotten into the wheat,
according to crop report. And we
suppose grain is about the last arti-
Gle to become contaminated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

1t is not surprising to have the story
of Won Hertling's resignation confirm
ed. Why should he want to stay?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Our idea of the most non-essential
Ion-essential we ever heard Of is the
Dublin candidate who says he will
run for the United States Senate be-
cause he lost some money specializing
in cotton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Germania, Ark, has changed its
name to Vimy Ridge, and thus the
process Of making America 100 per
cent America goes steadily on!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

When a girl turns a fellow down
she ought to be in style and make
herself as plain as President Wilson S
reply to a German peace note.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

The fact that goldfish require no
washing seems to have sunk home
With some e5iks. who fail to appre' i
ate the refreshing plunge.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Now it = said that the desertion OF
Bulgaria caused Germany no aston
ishment. She withdrew to a carefully
prepared position.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

The Kaiser says he understands the
reasons why Won Hertling is resign
ing We think we do, too!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Hindenburg is beginning to be re-
garded by the Germans as quite a
humbug.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

Women Win Praise as Gum In
spectors. Headline
This is an obvious misprint Yet
many women are undoubtedly experts
il the great national habit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03
PaRAGRAPRICALLY SPEAKING

There is one convincing argument
for the Liberty loan-the news from
the front.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

6 room house on Lee street large
lot, $4,000.
5 room house on Jackson avenue.
easy payments.
room house on College street
8 room house on Furlow street.
Several vacant lots, on easy pay
ments
200 acres, Level land, rent 8 bales
cotton. $50 acre.
965 acres, 8 1-2 miles of railroad.
400 acres under wire fence, 6 room
house, plenty of out houses, 600 acres
cleared, 100000 feet pine saw tim
Der, only SIT acre.
If you want to buy or sell come to
see me. no use waiting, you will pay
more later on.
P. B. WILLIFORD
Office windsor Hotel
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03
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FOUND-The place to have shoes
repaired, promptly, neatly, substan-
TALLY. Singleton & Son, SingletoHs
Electric Shoe Shope 21O N. Jackson
street, next to Bakery. 8-3Odays
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-Five burner Gas Stove.
406 Laamr. 1-6t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-My home, 724 S. Lee
street, furnished complete. Possession
October Isl. Phone 451. Mrs. c. P.
Payne. 26-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Few barrels Keystone
lime, barrels not good shape to stand
shipping, will close out at half price
or $10O to $1.25 per barrel. W. W.
McNeill.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-SOme beautiful ported
plants, palms and ferns, Apply to
MRS. Thos. Harold. Phone 3. 30-3t
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26

No shipments of fruit can be madt
from Hawaii to the Pacfic coast OF
unloaded there unless they have firsi
received federal approval. The fed
eral horticultural board also maintain.
fruit-fy specialist whose duty 1t is ts
gather available information regarding
this pest either by travel In foreign
lands or by correspondence with spe
cialists serving foreign governments.
Aid From the Public.
Travellers from foreign lands have
been called upon to help to She ut
most In seeing that they do not be-
come the carriers of insect pests.
Printed matter calling attention to the
serious consequences that may follow
the careless and unintcntional intro
ductiOn of fruit flies from Hawaii Is
distributed to all persons entering Pa
cific ports from the Hawaiian islands.
Each passenger must sign an affidavit
stating that he has In his baggage no
fruit subject to fruit-fy attack. In
spectors who search the baggage of in
coming travellers for fruits carrying
fruit flies or their maggots find infest-
ed fruit every month. Any one of
these instances if not, dealt with
promptly and properly might mean the
loss of thousands or millions Of dol
lars to American farmers and fruit
growers.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
CHICKENS, BROKEN GLASS AND
LIQUOR.

Arrests for permitting chickens to
run at large and for throwing broken
glass in the streets outnumbered the
arrests for drunkenness during the
year 1917 in the city of Eugene, with
a population of $4,000. says the Morn
ing Oregonian. The arrests for drunk
enness were only eight for the entire
year. The score against chickens rum
ming at large and against broken glass
was ten. The total number of offend
ers on the city's records for the year
was smaller than that reported for
many single days when the city had
saloons, or when the liquor traffic
flourished at Springfield three miles
away. Under the law permitting two
quart shipments every twenty-eight
days there were Is arrests during 1916.
The last year With the open saloons at
Springfield 266 arrests were made.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
IN OUR TOWN.

In our small town there Is no bar:
no booze is sold. in flask or Jar; no
signs announcing ice-cold beer upon
our long main street appear. When
we'd assuage our thirst, we quote the
motto, Safety First" and to the near
est hydrant trail, and drink three
quarts of Adams ale. Ten thousand
people, good and bad, are dwelling in
our lovely grad, and when the week of
toll is done, and they set forth to
have some fun, not one Of all that
cheerful throng goes seeking liquor,
red and strong; there is no liquor here
to seek, and so the seeker'd be freak.
OF course, it makes strong man
groan, to have some money, all his
own, and find he cannot blow 1t in for
cool, refreshing, square-faced gin; and
often-times, in his despair, he buys his
children shoes to wear, or gives his
wife large green bill, which should
be in the brewers till. Or, driven
frantic by the law which bars the bug
juice from his-maw--a law devised by
some fool crank--he puts his money
IN the bank, or buys himself house
and lot, while he's with indignation
hot. The news our papers print is
stale; there are no doings at the jail;
our people lead eventless lives; our
husbands seldom beat their wives; not
once year are prison hunks engaged
by plain and fancy drunks 1t is
stupid life we lead, and much fear
Wen go to seed; we ought to have a
boozlng ken, and put our Jail in use
again walt Mason.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
DOORS CLOSING TO DRINKING
EMPLOYEES.

These scientific findings are illum-
mating: 'Tt requires Is men indulg-
ing in one glass of beer daily to do the
work which should properly be done
by II abstainers." "a drinking man
cannot stand extremes of temperature
as well; he cannot hear or see or smell
as well; he cannot lift as much or lift
1t as often. He cannot walk as far, dig
as much or carry as endurlngly as
though he were an abstinent." Plain
iy 1t is for the mutual interests of
the workman and employer that drink
Ing shall cease. More than a million
responsible positions In the United
States, 1t is reliably computed, are
now closed to the man who uses alco-
holic liquors. "There is as much place
In business for alcohol" affirms Mr..
Edison, "as for sand in an engine-"-
Anna A. Gordon.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
FRUIT FLIES SPREAD

The Bermudas probably would
not now be infested by the Med
iterranean fruit fly had not a
sailing vessel bound for New
York from the Mediterranean re-
gion during the Civil war times.
been blown from her course and
forced to unload her cargo
containing infester fruits at
st George. The Mediterra-
mean fruit fly did not become es-
tablished in Australia until
steamships and cold storage
made it possible for the infested
Mediterranean countries to ship
oranges to Perth and Sydney.
With the pest established In
eastern Australia the ships ply
ing between Australia and Ha-
waii carried the nagg0ts to Hon
olulu, and today the inspectors
of the state Of California and
the United States are intercept
ing infested fruits on ships ar
riving at San Francisco and San
Pedro from Honolulu and Hllo.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Halt of Insect Pests Could Have
Been Kept Out of Country
by Quarantine.
FRUIT FLIES ARE BEAUTIFUL
Immense Losses Caused Annually to
Fruits and Vegetables of United
States Could Be Prevented
Precautions Being Taken.

More than half of the insect pests
that annually cause immense losses
in fruits and vegetables of the United
States could have been kept out Of
this country by thorough quarantine
against them, according to officials Of
the United States department of agrl-
culture. To guard against more in
furious insects being brought in from
other countries is the object of the
federal plant quarantine act of 1912
which, with the development of knowl-
edge of insects throughout the world,
has resulted in the bars being put up
wherever the pests are likely to enter.
Among the insects of other lands
that have not yet become established
In this country are the serious pests
known popularity as fruit flies. They
resemble ordinary house flies but are
far more beautiful, inasmuch as their
wings are prettily spotted and band
ed and their bodies are usually more
brightly colored. They are like house
flies also in that they lay small, white
eggs that hatch into whitish maggots
However, the maggots do not develop
In refuse or decaying matter as do
those of the house fly, but they feed
upon the living tissues of fruits. nuts
and vegetables. Eggs are laid just
under the skin Of the host plant or
fruit and these hatch into the mag
gots which burrow in all directions
through the pulp. y As the maggots
tunnel about they cause decays to
develop and these rotting areas often
produce greater injury than the mag
gots themselves.
Where Danger Lies.
Increasing imports from the coun-
tries where fruit flies now abound, ex-
tension of trade to remote corners
Of the earth, increasing density of
population In the warmer portions of
this country, are making greater each
year the danger that fruit flies may
become firmly established in the Unit
ed States.
To intercept and destroy fruit flies
as well as other pests. the federal
horticultural board of the department
Of agriculture, charged with the en-
forcement of the plant quarantine act,
prohibits the entry of all horticultural
products likely to carry insect pestS
unless they have been rendered free
from danger as pest carriers. either
by federal inspection or by treatment
by approved methods under federal su-
pervislon.
The department also has estab-
lished In the Hawaiian islands sys-
tenn of inspection that Is heartily sup
ported by fruit growers and transpor-
tation companies. whereby all planta-
tions and packing houses from which
fruit is shipped are kept from becom-
Ing sources of fruit-fly dissemination.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Fertilizers From Wastes.

Industrial wastes furnished about 40
per cent of the potash, per cent of
the phosphoric acid. and S5 per cent
of the nitrogen used In this country
in 1916, according to a recent United
States department of agriculture pub
lication, Fertilizers From Industrial
Wastes
The potash was obtained from such
wastes as tobacco stems, cottonseed
hulls, hardwood ashes, wool washings
blast-furnace flue dust, cement fiue
dust and sugar residues; the phos-
phoric acid from bones, shells, fish
scrap. basic Stag and other materials;
and the nitrogen from wastes in the
manufacture of castor, linsced and fish
oils; from animal wastes, as blood.
hair, horns, hoofs and hides; from
leather and wool wastes. coke and
many other substances.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Empey tells Of narrow es-
cape in the next installment.
(To BE coNTINUED.)


Among the Chinese there has exist
ed for ages passion for fireworks and
lanterns. In every city, at every port
and on every river and canal, as soon
as night comes on, the lanterns make
their appearance. They are hung out
at the door of every dwelling; the9
swing as pendants to the angles Of thu
pagoda; they form the fiery crown al
every shop front; they cluster round
the houses of the rich and light up
the novels of the poor; they are borns
with the carriage of the traveller. and
they swing from the yards and mas,s
of his vessel.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
WHAT INSURANCE MEN SAY.

A New York paper recently sent to
large life insurance companies this
question:
"As a rule. other things being equal,
do you consider the habitual user of
Intoxicating beverages as good an in
surance risk as the total abstalner
If not, why not?' The replies were:
Aetna Life: "No. Drink diseases
the system"
Bankers Life: mo. For habit is
likely to grow"
Berkshire Life: "No. Drink de-
structive to health"
Fidelity Mutual Life Association:
mo. Less vitality and recuperative
powers"
Hartford Life: mo. Moderate use
lays foundation for disease"
Massachusetts Mutual Life: "No.
Drink causes organic changes. Re-
duces expectation of life nearly two
thirds"
Michigan Mutual: "No. Drink
dangerous to health and longevity"
Mutual Life: "No."
New York Life: "No."
Pacific Mutual Life: "No. Predis-
poses to disease"
Provident Savings Life Assurance
Society: "No. Drink cuts short life
expectation"
Security Mutual Life: mo. Drink
Shortens life"
Union Central Life: "No. Use tends
to shorten life"
United States: "No. Use affects
heart, stomach, liver and kidneys"
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
First sprinqs Used on RAILWAYS.

The first record of the use of sprirgs
on railways is George Stephensonf
patent of September. 1916. The first
locomotive with steel springs was the
Agenoria. built by Foster and Rastrick
In 1920. and now In South Kenslngton
museum. London. This had laminatod
springs on the leading wheels.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
sammy Fixed WiIlie's Face.

''Why, Wilhelm, what's the matter
with your face?" queried the anxious
mother OF small boy whose courte-
nance looked like railroad map.
"Oh," answered Wilhelm, Sammy
Smith said he didn't like the looks Of
my face, so he fixed it for me-"
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Hide Picture Wires.

Never, IL you can help it. hang pio
lures SO that the wires will show. and
do let the pictures hang against tha
wall as II they were really and hsin
decoration.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Wea Pond 81 EractIons.

"EIow old are your" asked the inquis
itiye caller of little Katherine.
I'm seven and five-twelfths years.
answered Katherine, who has a great
liking for fractions,
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
Mating Guinea Fowls.

Guinea fowls have a tendency to
mate In pairs but one male may bc
mated successfully with three or four
females.
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26

synopsis-Fired sinking Lustana
Empey Jersey City,
to England and enists private the British After
short experience recruiting officer London,
of
his while the bullets whiz
distinguishes himself
a
Exciting
citing work observation post duty
Greene County herald., 1918-07-26
|OgalpetanCe
q NoteS .

conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.l
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-02-01
Hioh Cost of Courtino.

All the world may love a lover, but
the trainers of the new war tax bill
adopted a roundabout way Of showing
their affection, asserts T. f. Logan in
Leslie's. The congressional measure
to raise additional revenue makes
particularly .affectionate assault
on the bankroll of the young man
who wishes to I demonstrate his
devotion to a maid. If the object of
the youths passion lives reasonably
near him. he may escape the new
tax on kilograms and telephone mes
sages that cost less than 10 cents.
Every love letter he writes will cost
him an additional penny, however,
even If he incloses only a single burn
ing poem. If trip to the theater
is planned, committing lovers who live
more than 80 miles from the play
house must give financial assistance
to the war on the Hohenzollerns. Ac-
tual admission to the theater demands
an additional ten per cent on the cost
of the tickets. Naturally, the dear
girl will wish to make herself par
ticularly alluring to her ardent swain.
To do so. she must pay two per cent
tax on the perfume essence, toilet wa
ter, lip rouge or face powder that to
her seems the most effective device.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-02-01

the breakfast table Steward, will you
shirred eggs-and small steakT
swell, Pm glad you can still joke,
Mr.. Macdonald, after such terrible
experience. All l can say is that l
hope Wally isn't permanently injured"
Mrs. Selfrldge sighed and passed to
her place.
The eyes of the big man twinkled.
sour little fracas has been godsend
to Mrs. Selfridge. Wally and 1 will
both emerge as heroes of desperate
struggle. You won't even get men
ton. But it's pity about Wally's
injuries-and his singing voice"
The younger man agreed with a
gravity back of which his amusement
was apparent. The share of Selfridge
in the battle had been limited to leg
work only, but this had not been good
enough to keep him from being over
hauled and having his throat squeezed.
Elliot finished breakfast and left
Macdonald looking over long type
writtep document. The paper was a
report Selfridge had brought in to him
from clerk in the general land Of
flee. The big Canadian and the men
he represented were dealing directly
with the heads of the government de-
partments, but they thought it the part
of wisdom to keep in their employ sub
ordinates in the capacity of secret
service agents to spy upon the higher
ups.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-02-01
Old BattIefieIds Will Have to Be
Worked With Care to Avoid Count
less UnexpIoded Shells.

A great deal of carefsl spade work
will be required in the northern part Of
France. Old battlefields covered with
wild flowers, as / have seen them, OBJ
serves a Paris correspondent, are in
wide stretches q slumbering menace.
Months after the war is over, naval
men have told me, mines will still
make voyages perilOus in certain sea
areas. For perhaps many months more
it would be equally as perilOus for a
farmer to pillow these once fertile fields
in the great wars battle swept areas.
Here and there are danger signals
indicating unexploded mines. And the
immense power of these mines is cas-
lily gagged by looking at the enormous
craterS where some of them have been
"blown." The war has gone on its
way and left these souvenirs of its
intensity and deadliness. Here, there
and everywhere are uneXploded shells,
German "minnies," or BOche 'jam-
potts."
What can a Siam pot" do? / was
talking with an officer who was in a
first line trench early in the war
when one of these Internal machines
was lobbed over from the German
lines. 1t stuck its>nose in some soft
mud and did not explode. 1t was per-
mitted to rest in peace by the battalion
then in that part Of the line. Another
battalion came, and one man decided
to fire into it with his pistol to explode
it and thus remove the ever present
menace. The bullet pierced it, but 1t
did not explode. He moved closer and
fired another shot, and they found
nothing of him after the second shot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-02-01

into space suspended by one wrist. The
muscles of Elliot hardened into steel as
they responded to the strain. His body
began to slide very slowly down the
incline.
In moment the acute danger was
past. Sheba had found hold with
her feet and relieved somewhat the
dead pull upon Elliot.
She had not voiced cry, but the
face that looked up into his was very
white
stake your time" he said in a quiet,
matter-Of-fact way.
With his help she came close enough
for him to reach her hand. After that
it was only moment before she knelt
on the plateau beside him.
Touch and go, wasn't it?" Sheba
tried to smile, but the colorless lips
told the young man she was still faint
from the shock.
He knew he was going to reproach
himself bitterly for having led her into
such a risk, but he could not just now
afford to waste his energies on regrets.
"You might have sprained your wrist, .
he said lightly as he rose to examine
the cliff still to be negotiated.
Her dark eyes looked at him with
quick surprise. $50 I might" she
answered dryly.
But his Indifferent tone had the eff
feet upon her of a plunge into cold
water. 1t braced and stiffened hel
will. If he wanted to ignore the ter
| rible danger through which she ha6
passed. certainly she was not going tt
remind him of it.
| Gordon was mountaineer enough t.
| know that the climb up is safer thar
the one back. The only possible wa!
for them to go down the trough wa!
for him to lower her by the belt unit
she found footing enough to go alone
He did not quite admit it to himself
but in his heart he doubted whethe
she could make it safely.
The alternative was the cliff face.