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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
PARTY IN MACON FOR
MISS NELL HAMILTON

Miss Nell Hamilton is being de-
lightfully entertained in Macon as
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Paul
Sanford. Today's Macon Telegraph
says: MRS. Paul Sanford will be
hostess this evening at her home on
College street, when she will enter
tain with a prom dance in honor of
her house guest, Miss Nell Hamilton,
of Americas.
'Cut flowers will be used in vases
to decorate the rooms where the
guests will be received by Mrs. San
ford and Miss Hamilton. On the We
randa punch will be served by Misses
Hattie Tracy King and Katherine
Craig.
"The guest list includes: Misses
Susan Barden, Virginia Taylor, Flo
Use Craig, Pauline Ellis, Mildred
Payne, Martha Guttenberger, Marion
Elliott, Elizabeth Mercer, Margaret
Brown, Margaret Condor, Emily
Lawton, jamie Frierson, Elsie Hart
Viola Anderson, Martha Lowe,
Messrs. Franklin Haley, Alfred vii.
bingham, Bayard Mercer, Harry
Sloan, Paul Watson, Joe Taylor, Jack
Van Houten, Luther Power, Dan La
mon, Allen Smith, Bridges Smith
Hugh Poe, Warren Oliver, Robert
Hatcher, Charles Cooper Little, Sam
Pair, Jack Baker, Harry Allan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
MISS WILLIFORD ENTERTAINS
FOR MISS DAVENPORT.

Miss Louise Williford's bridge this
morning was lovely compliment to
Miss Mary Ella Davenport, a much
feted bride-to-be of next week. Roses
and golden glow decorated the rooms
and a pack of playing cards was Civ
en- for top score. The honor guest
was presented with a pretty piece of
lingerie.
The guest list included Mrs. Heys
McMath, Mrs. Carl Hawkins, Mrs.
Glenn Hooks, Mrs. Franc Mangum,
Mrs. Harry Hawkins, Mrs. Furlow
Gatewood, Mrs. E. J. Eldridge, Mrs.
j. D. Hooks, Mrs. E. B. Everettc,
Miss Louise Marshall, Miss Annie
Bailey, Mrs H. o. Jones, Miss Ruth
Hodges, Miss Mary Glover, Mrs. Viii
liam Randolph, Mrs. John Council,
Mrs. 7. B. Hooks, Jr., Miss Maud
Sherlock, Mrs. Emmett Sherlock, Miss
Vera Foy, Mrs. L. L. McCleskey, Mrs.
L. G. Council, Mrs. w. D. Moreland,
Mrs. Middleton Mcdonald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
SCRIPT DANCE is GIVEN
AT MONACO CLUB

A merry crowd of young people
enjoyed the dance at the Monaco
club last night which was chaperon-
ed by Mrs. Macon Dudley, Mrs. Pu-
laski Holt and Mr.. and Mrs. G. D.
Head. Wheatleys orchestra furnish
ed delightful program of music.
Among the dancers were Miss Ger
trude Davenport, Miss Mary Dudley,
Miss Ruth Council, Miss Anne Ellis,
Miss Mary Glover, Miss Mabel Ellis,
Miss Clara Glover, Miss Mary Shelf
field, Miss Anna Murray, Miss Lois
McMath, Miss Mary Walker, Miss
Katherine Hamilton, Miss Annie
Ivey, Miss Thelma Easterlin, Miss
Kittie Birdsey, Miss Eugenia Barker,
James Davenport, Henry and George
Lumpkin, Joe McMath, Theron Jen-
nings, Milton Riley, James Seig,, Bill
Ivey, Junior and Frank Easterlin,
frank Sheffield, Bill Dodson, John
Taylor, Arthur Rylander ana others.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
EDWARDS AND
UPSHAW JOIN
COTTON BODY

ATLANTA, Sept. 3.-Charles G.
Edwards, of Savannah, formerly for
many years member of congress
from the First Georgia district, and
more recently the president of the
Savannah Board of Trade, has hear
tily endorsed the campaign which the
American Cotton Association is about
to begin for the protection of cotton
growers in the South in the cotton
markets of the world.
In a letter written to Secretary
Treasurer j. A. Davis, of the Georgia
division of the association, enclosing
his check for a hundred dollars for
charter membership in the organiza-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03

Miss Naomi Wright and Miss Mel
lie Worthy left Tuesday morning for
their studies at the State Normal, at
Athens.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
TWO POPULAR AMERICUS
GIRLS BRIDES OF SOLDIERS

Miss Lily Grace McEihenny ana
Thelma Virgins, of Lithonia, and
Miss Laura Adams and George Rot
taree, Of Atlanta, were married in
Americas this week and both sou-
pies will make their homes in Amer
icus, to the drhg t OF their may
friends
Miss McElhenny and Miss Adams
have been popular and efficient mem
bers of the telephone force and have
9 wide circle of friends in the city.
Mr.. Virgins and Mr. Rottaree are
stationed at Souther Field for the
present, where they have made splen-
did records and are very popular.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03

Miss Alice Oliver spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives in Balm
bridge, going in the car with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Smithwick.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
nroteet their greatest industry"

protect their greatest industry"
The Georgia division is also in re-
ceipt of message from Congressman
w. D. Upshaw, representing the Fifth
district, in which he states that he is
in hearty sympathy with the aims OF
the organization and desires to be en-
rolled at once as a charter member.
The new headquarters of the state
campaign committee are now fully
organized in the state senate cham
Der at the capitol, and preparations
for the membership drive are being
fastened to completion by Campaign
Director D. f. McClatchey.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
MRS. CASTLEBERRY
HOSTESS AT PRETTY PARTY

The Neighborhood 500 club was
prettily entertained Tuesday after
noon at Che rome Of Mrs. Will Cas-
tleberry On Fast Church street. The
living Ioy''s v're attrac.iyelr decor
ated with garden flowers and potted
plants, and four tables of play ers en-
joyed the game. The top score prize
vas wnn Nv Miss Eir.; Monohan. a
box Of correspondence cards, and the
second prize, a pretty set of lingerie
clasps went to Mrs. Grover Scott. At
the conclusion of the game salad
course was served. The members and
invited guests were Miss Matte Lou
Horne, Miss Julia Larkin, who is the
guest of Miss Horne; Miss Lois bev-
ers, Miss Sara Horne, Mrs. Reese
Horton, Mrs. S. J. Clarke, Mrs. Rob
ert Mcleod, Miss Beauford Harvey.
Miss Alice Oliver, Mrs. G. c. Scott.
Mrs. W. c. Sullivan, Miss Julia Cor
don, Mrs. Hugh Martin, Mrs. Emmett
Sherlock, Miss Maude Sherlock, Mrs.
I. j. Fay, Mrs. Gordon Heys and
Miss Maude Beavers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Martin, of
Montgomery, who have been the
guests of Mrs, w. NJ Castleberry at
her home on Church street, returned
to their home in Montgomery We'd
nesdays accompanied by Miss An4
gellna Gallatis, a sister of Mrs. Cas-
tleberry.
Miss Naomi Wright and Miss Mel
he Worthy left Tuesday morning for
their studies at the State Normal, at
Miss Alice Oliver spent Saturday
and Sunday with relatives in Balm
bridge, going in the car with Mr..
and Mrs, Henry Smithwick.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
Finds Unexpected Sometimes
Happen.

81 suffered for 10 years with stom-
ach trouble and doctored away a lot
of money before found medicine
that was real benefit to me. Since
taking one dose of Mayr's Wonder
fl. Remedy Ia weeks ago I have had
more real joy of living than had in
10 years before" 1t is simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the intesti-
nal tract and allays the Inflammation
which causes practically all stomach,
liver and intestinal ailments, includ-
ing appendicitis. One dose will con-
vince or money refunded. HoweIl's
Pharmacy and druggists everywhere.
adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
coLuMRus. o. walks.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Septembe

COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 3.
by Associated Press.) Citizens
of Columbus faced an unexpected
strike of motormen and conductors
on the street car line here when they
awoke this morning, and thousands
were late to work.
Union carmen said the strike was
called to obtain increased pay and
better working conditions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
SHEWG-JOLF CLUB TO
DANCE FRIDAY EVENING

The Shewg-Jolf club will enter
tain at their September dance on
Friday evening in their club rooms
and a number of out-of-town visitors
will be present from Macon, Albany,
and Monteuma. Kaplan's orchestra
has been secured and dancing will be-
gin at $50 O'Clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03

Miss Elizabeth Dubois, eldest daugh-
ter of former Senator and Mrs. Fred
I. Dubois, has just graduated from
college and is to be a debutante in
Washington society next season. She
is also an active member of the Big
Sister movement at Walter Reed Mill
tary hospital in the national capital.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
PAGE THREE.
Some coIun Of van4ana

From the Metropolitan tower, New
York, OF clear day can be seen the
homes of one-sixteenth Of the entire
population q the United States
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-03
Steal Two Story Brick.

A two-story brick structure at Al
bany, N. Y, with fixtures, bricks and
everything, was carried away by
thieves.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

than here with me. Later, when
you shall be my wife,
The reader stopped, either because
the fragment of the letter ended
there, OF because his own emotion
prevented him from con6nuing. All
initiated his silence. This vivid evo-
cation of the capitulation of Metz
left them stunned and speechless.
They no longer felt the cold. 1t was
as if they had suddenly been turned
to steel.
1T seemed to them as if some one
had just died before their eyes after
committing to them sacred me-
mortal. They thought of the officer
of the 1st Grenadiers of the Guard
who had written the letter. What
had become of him? He had died.
no doubt, before being able to rejoin
his dear Aline," since she had re-
manned Mile. Ragonet.
1T is lucky that we found this"
some one finally exclaimed.
Then at the thought that the
enemy had had this relic in his pos
session, that he had written his mark
on the prie-dieu and that he might
have penetrated its secret, all of
them stood erect and their eyes
flashed menacingly.
The captain took the piece of silk
and pinned it on his breast, along
side the ribbon of his Croix de
Guerre.
All rushed out excitedly to find the
men and communicate to them their
own martial enthusiasm. The cadet
religiously gathered up the remnants
of the prie-dieu and carried them
off, shouting:
Heavens! What won't we do to
the Boches tomorrow"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

"Now, these two men, in spite of an
pearances, do have something in com
mon. Behind each of their minds there
is a great chamber, an immense re-
sounding cavern of thought, and it is
the size Of this sound chamber that
gives their words such power. Each of
them has, at one time or another,
thought of almost everything that
human mind can imagine; and in each
of them the cavern is clear, it echoes.
it is free of obstacles; and every point
IN 1t responds antiphonally to every
other point AS they write the whole
chamber rings all the time. 1t is vocal
with complexities of modulation that
never interfere with one another be-
cause they are allowed for in the i'm
petus of their flight. Thus the ideas
as they issue from the cave can no
more go wrong than the laws of the
higher mathematics can 90 wrong.
"With Shakespeare this tuning Of
the cavern has been unconscious. He
cannot go wrong because he is
completely harmonized being. His
thoughts, feelings, experiences, specu-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
nANTE, on the other hand, is all

hAN T., on the other hand, is all
dogma and method, an implac-
able teacher, full of purpose and cal
culation. He uncoils like deadly
machine, glares, prowls, smites, ana
is so personal that he turns the very
heavens and theology itself into his
tools for private vengeance. He has
never laughed in his life, except as
tlends laugh, and his great work is the
record of the blackest passions and
the most damnable ill-fecling that ever
darkencd a human heart. The whole
complex cathedral of his poem is one
single structure of logic and idea.
Every stone of it has been weirhed.
poised, cut, polished and placed with
the nicely Of the goldsmith's art, and
its facets reflect downward and onward.
making part of gigantic pyramid that
rises out of the most thoroughly or
ganlzed human intellect that ever lived.
Dante's work is all intention-how.
then, can it be poetry? And yet it
must be poetry, because it is success
full. For sheer power of uttcrance
Dante is Shakespcare's equal.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
How to Keep Ris-
ing Authors
From Starving

mans Judgment. honored OBren
more than can say, from the fact that
he'd published three books and still
lived, but longed for the old days
when l had my own head So l began
all over again.
"And at last l think I may say that
l have solved the problem. 1t is SO
simple that I marvel that I never
thought of it before. l read the biog
raphies of all the short story writer's
what correspondence school they were
graduated from, whether they were
married or single and where they had
lived. was thus enabled to tell in
advance what kind Of stories they were
going to write, and save an endless
amount Of trouble. ! read one story
for the atmosphere and style and by
adding the authors biography, I've got
him"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

the people of that municipality
seem to like it. At least 1.-The Man
chester Guardian" of which its fell
low townsmen are proud as the
"greatest English newspaper is
much enthused, and that counts for
more than half victory in the Lam
cashire metropolis. Commenting on
the celebration, an editorial Of "The
Guardian says, in part:
"Barnard's Lincoln will ce~
shock any one whose ideals of
ure are based upon the smooth, ca
and vaDid attempts at a good likeness
which came to infest our open spaces
IN such refrigcrative abundance dur
ing the Victorian age. Like Rodn and
Epstein, Barnard has put complete
study and understanding of the meth
DDS Of the Greeks and Florentines into
the service of passionate vision dif-
ferent from theirs in everything except
IN being passionate No artist of to-
day can ever be, with any real energy
of spirit, pre- Christian Greek or
fifteenth century Italian. The effort 10
be one can only result in cold, half
hearted studies, things which have so OBJ
viously not excited their authors shat
it would be absurd to expect them to
excite anybody else.
when You see even photograph Of
,~.I' .t.,t
the heart and mind of the sculptor
have been deeply moved by the idea
of Lincoln's character; that, while he
modelled. he was feeling kind of
impassioned awe at his own vision Of
Lincoln's austerely grave and noble
soul shining out through all that may
have been commonplace in its envelope.
Every one who cares about sculpt-
ure, and also every patriotic Ameri-
can who comes in future to England,
will want to see our Lincoln"
The statue was presented at the
Town Hall by John A. Stewart.
chairman Of the board of governors
q the Sulgrave Institution of Amer
ica, on behalf of committee Of
which President Wilson was honor
cry chairman, and the late Colonel
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft were MEM
bers, with other prominent Ameri-
cans. In his address Mr.. Stewart,
as quoted by "The Guardian re-
ferred to the friendship of England
and America, sealed by comradeship
in arms for ages to come.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

Peau had sent for all the officers of
the regiment. | run to his tent. I
find before the door my comrades
all agitated and distressed The
colonel advances into our midst and
reads a circular letter from Marshal
Bazaine, directing all the heads of
units to send their flags to the ar
scnal, where they are to be burned.
'Messieurs,' the colonel contin-
ued, I have answered that the 1st
Regiment Of Grenaders of the
Guard confides to nobody else the
mission of destroying it's fagv
cat the same time he orders the
assembly called. The grenadiers
surround US, pressing upon US from
all sides. Sub-Lieutenant Standard
Bearer Rueff comes from the ,en-
unfolds the flag and hands it to the
colonel.
"He grasps it. For the last time
he presents 1T to the grenadiers, who
salute it without cry, without a
word. Then, with the aid of a sap
per's knife, he cuts the flag into lit
tie pieces and distributes them.
II am sending you, my dear
Aline, through safe channel.
the portion which came to me.
These few inches of a glorious fabric
which no enemy has ever touched
will be moro secure in your hands
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
The Cedar
By Maurice Hewlett

IN Vc17,ditch Bottom stands tree.
L Lord of an open place
The like of Uhich you might not see
The length of Cranborne Chace.
Der hazel brake and sopling oaks
He lifts his lofty head,
Like some old sea-bird on the rocks
With lonely acimgs outspreod.
HIS floating cans do call hush
Over the quiet hoUow-
1t IS as # the gorse and brush
Heard him, but durst not foUow:
As If they guess'd 1Uhere he began
To open IN the sun,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

They made some kindling out of
a couple of boxes. But soon it was
necessary to make more.
BAH" said the captain, getting
up. Tonight we might as we'll
burn Mile. Ragonet."
And he added, speaking to him
self:
Tomorrow stretcher or a coffin
will serve us better than STOOL"
He upset the prie-dieu and with
a kick broke off the tablet at which
the plous demoiselle had knelt in
meditation. Then they saw in the
box which formerly served as book
case an envelope bearing a stamp
with the effigy of Napoleon III on
it. Slipping from between the leaves
of a Book of Hours, it had fallen
into a crack between the bottom and
the side of the box and had re-
mained there unnoticed.
The cadet picked it up and drew
from it the fragment of letter and
a small piece of blue silk.
"Ah!" he said, ironically, "we are
on the track of a secret"
He unfolded the paper and read
aloud these lines, tvaced in a large.
masculine hand:
This morning, October 81, they
came to me to tell me that Colonel
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

general. AS for the three "Hochs"
which were added, they doubtless
expressed the gratitude of pillagers
and vandals to the chief of their
band. However that was, these bar
barrie words, written on the prie
dieu, gave it grotesque and irri-
tating air. They made one think of
a German freebooter overawing a
nun.
One winter evening, in the dugout,
five officers were grouped about an
improvised tablc-a board on four
stakes. The captain sat on the prize
dieu, on which they had piled some
squares of tent canvas. Three lieu
tenants and a cadet sat on cartridge
cases.
They were playing poker, putting
into the game the mechanical inter-
est and frozen excitement Of men
who see death approaching, and who
strive to escape it's implacable
fascination. Early the next morn
ing they were to attack some formi-
dable enemy positions, which were
to be taken at any cost.
The customary phrases of the card
table were exchanged, yet without
any gayety.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Meynell
Takes a Whack
At VerS Libre

they would acknowledge, but not "a
much. Accordingly, Paul Clauders
verses are generally written approx;-
mately in so much rule of metre and
rhyme as English requires of English
poets.
6GTF F, then, it is the French whom
Il our rebels are following, their
following is corrupt and quite un-
necessary. If it is Walt Whitman.
may quote Rossetti's words: I've read
Leaves of Grass Of course. to cal,
1t poetry, in any sense, would he O
mere abuse of language. Poetry
without form is, what shlll ! say,
proportion seems to ME the most in
allenable quality of a poem. From tho
chaos of incident and reflection ar;s.
the rounded words of poetry. and %
singing on their way Fine. Cher.
seem to be two kinds of bad form in
prose-one that swings into blan.
verse unintentionally, missing therehv
that right rhythm of prose whereof
Samuel johnson was a master. ana
the other that lounges under the nam.
OF poetry and thus, after different
fashion, also denies the periods of
right prose.
NJ. Jourdain was delighted to hear
that he had been talking prose everv
night about his nightcap. but thar
dear man, though he did not think
he had been talking prose, never
thought he had been talking poetry!
That is the difference between NJ.
Jourdain and Walt Whitman.
"Albeit the date of that writer is 50
lar past, it is to be presumed that the
vers libre now very popular in America
is of his suggestion. Surely it is of
the false wildness that comes after
and not before order; it has no inno-
cence, it has no ignorance Will the
new poets of America SO forsake their
past and ours? They cannot. The
poetry of our language is our nature.
cur history and our difference. What
q olA6 uldi iHdil. SdlO french OBJ
server of Browning. His middle is not
IN the centre If we may take Brown
ing as just an English poet, this
Frenchman discovered a racial fact.
The middle of an English poet is not in
the centre; it is one focus of an
eclipse, like the sun. The national
imagination takes long absences and
adventures and unequal velocities. 1t
was once thought that carths orbit
must be circular because the circle is
perfect And this is the kind of per-
fection that the French mind long
cherished.
"lnfiexion, not infraction, this is pure
ly English. And yet even for infrac-
ton, under the dispensation of great
emotion, there might be most rare
cause. But in vers .ibrc, as | see i.
now written in America, there is not
even infraction. Where there is no
law there is no breaking of the law.
Did | say but now that this move
ment' was a revolt? 1t is not a revolu-
ton, it is not a revolt, it is not move
ment, it is not even protest. In rela-
tion to poetry, the heavenly art that Is
the vie complementaire' of men on
earth, it is nothing. Nay, how difficult
| find it to be negative enough.-it has
no relation thereto"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

lie and The kindred of his clan
S1ghing on Lebanon.
A great house stood hereubouts,
The Warden of the Walk,
Where noaV of all its ans and outs
Remai'1s grassy balh.
A bout him once q velvet ld1yn
Shoa0'd mony a good tree groaving
But he acas first to hail the do1Un
And last to see day going.
No'0 all the pleasantness and peace
Are ended like story;
1he aooodland creeps about his Knees
But cannot hide his glory.
From Land and Water.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

"There's the buck"
"I pass
Il open for hundred sous"
"I'm going to see you"
In moments Of intermission, when
the cards were being dealt or the
chips stacked up, an exclamation cs-
capes involuntarily, showing the pre-
occupation of all of them.
"f only the artillery preparation
isn't bunglcd, as it was the last
timc!"
Or perhaps hope is expressed,
more or less furtively:
"Well, we'll get through this, too"
Then they set to playing again
noisily, as if to stihe the voice or
experience, which cried out within
them:
"No! Not all of us. 1t is impos-
slblc. Tomorrow at this hour two
or three of US, perhaps four, perhaps
all five, will be dead or prisoners.
blind or mutilated."
1t happened that the stock of fire
wood gave out. The furious blaze
in the stove sank low. The cold of
the night penetrated insidiously into
the underground chamber. They
looked at one another with inquict
ude. 1t would be too much if physi-
cal discomfort were added to the
torments Of tho spirit.