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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22
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Autumn Reflections The persimmon in it's glory, The pawpaw sure is fine; The redhaw's on the bushes, The grape is on the vine. But what gets me is whether, When wintry days begin I've got to face the icy winds With trousers that are thin. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant l kin remember when man wink ed at a pretty girl instead of at a bootlegger.
 Needed to Hook His Make the most of your time young man. admonished the Gray headed Man.
 "Ah, can that stuff and tell me where I can get the most on mine, replied the F1ippant Youth. Who Says Prices Are Not Coming
 Down? Classified Ad. in St Louis Post Dis
 patch.)
 FOR SALE GIRI1S-Two, size IA and 16, $8 for both.
 He Was a Client of the Bootleggers What caused the downfall of so prominent an attorney as Jones?" He had too many cases.'
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22

Now that Marshal Foch has agreed to drink noth- ing but water while in this country perhaps Wayne B. Wheeler might condescend to shake him by the hand Cincinnati Enqurer.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22

Kindly Forward Her Address A girl seek
 Is Mabel Drew; She knows just how To make home brew.
 M. J., Richmond, Ky.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22

One of the consoling things about public life is that matter what kind of a spectacular a may make of himself in public matters he will all ways receive stack of letters commenting his
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22
Maybe 1t Is Twins

Washington (Ark) Telegraph)
 MT. and Mrs Judge Hembree have a new addition to their family. This writer doesn't know the gender.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22

| There may be in argument, but. like man fother useless things there is lot of fun in it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22
Quips by Bob Edwards.

Winning your enemy beats winning over your enemy.
 You cant always tell what thinks of you by what he says.
 Nowadays it takes a regular bloody plutocrat to fiji a drunkard's grave
 Be careful of your thoughts for they liable to break out into words at any time.
 The average hasn't enough courage to ap- piaud until other fellow starts it.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-22
He Was a Client of the Bootegsers

What caused the downfall of so He had too many cases"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14
New Year Period In Pekino.

The New Year period in Picking re.
minds one of the three Sundays that
came together in week, for 1t has
three celebrations of the new year IN
little less time than month. FIRST
comes that one with which all Amer
leans, the people of England and those
on the continent are familiar. 1t IL
ushered in in much the same way Of
In any other part of the world, per,
hapH but there is the oriental settins
to the scene, which is so picturesque
that having gazed upon 1t you close
your eyes, thinking thus to forever
keep the vision.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14

ed for days previous 10 the ceremony,
that they might be in a pleasing CON
dition upon their last and the war
gods first great day. In other cere-
monies human beings were killed and
tayed, and the participants in the sac
rlflce enVelOped themselves In the
bloody skins of the victims. while they
took part in a frenzied dance.
-
Across the Pacific ocean, the Aims
Of Japan, are celebrating an exceed
ingiy curious New Years custom. For
thousand known years the Anus
have stood still in their civilization,
following all their primitive customs
and ceremonies generation after gen.
GRAFTON and century after century,
practically without change. New, Year
with them Is the day of their great
est feasting and merry-making, con.
slsting largely of an extravagant use
of saki, or rice beer.
The principal ceremony is the great
bear feast, called Omsa, In which
huge bear Is slain and sacrificed az
a special offering to the god Kanul.
who Is the guardian and protector of
their homes throughout the year. II
is necessary to conciliate this god by
the special donation of bears meat
that their lives may be free from the
persecution of the unseen, intangible
spirit demons who seek to do them
harm.
1t is said that the bear for this
feast is raised from cub, sucked BY
an Ainu woman. AS the end of the |
year draws nigh they fatten the feast
bear for the coming celebration with
prepared foods. The kill
ing Of the bear is done in a curious
way. Two fair-sized logs are dashed,
one above another, to a standing tree.
md extend horizontally resting upon
he ground. The entire clan takes
BART in the killing, which Is accomplish
ID by putting the head of the animal
'etween the logs and squeezing out
Is life.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14

times, accompanied by the unearthl,
ana diScordant Wailing of the concl
shell. The priest directly In front o
the screen takes a little sacred mea
In his hand, holds it to his mouth, ut
tering Il deeply significant invocation
10 The serpent, and then casts the inca
on the head of the ettigy.
One by one all the members present
make their prayers to the hostile ser
pent god. So ends the first half OF
the drama, and on the morrow, or the
New Year, begins the grea: sun Ounce
On opposite sides of the chamber there
stand rows Of men, bearing shields
with elaborate symbolic designs, AT
the end of the room, all alone and uu-
supported, stands the sunbearer,
awaiting the onslaught OF his horde of
enemies. A signal and the song be-
gins, and the lines of warriors on each
side of the room surge against the
sunbearer In attack. Eventually he
Scatters and vanquishes his many foes.
New Years day finishes with feasting
anu JOlIlHcaLlOn.
The Aztecs of Mexico and Central
America had bloody and complicated
ritual for their celebration of the re.
turn Of their masterful war-god. the
sun. We find scattered through the
tangled jungles of Yucatan many hinge
ruins of the wonderful pyramid cere-
mOnial edifices upon which horrible
sacrificial atrocities were practiced In
heralding the New Year. The Aztec
has vanished from the face of the
earth. The jungle has swallowed I'D
the Sun-gOd's affairs.
The ceremonies occupied a period of
several days. The initiatory rites be-
gan before daylight of the first morn
ing, when the chief high priest and his
wendell their wav in
solemn procession to the top of their
lyramidaf sanctuary. Here the high
priest retired alone to small temple,
whose doorway opened toward the
'aSt' and as the rising sun crimsoned
ne Sky he knelt and sprinkled thickly
lpon the marble floor the sacred meal.
AS the first rays of the sun strike
Iantingly across the floor of the tiny
empIe, the Bonded priest behuIds q
llracle. Faintly, at first, then strong
; and stronger. grows an imprint In
ne meal of the naked foot of their
ar god. Upon this miraculous mani
astation the high priest announces to
ne assembled couriers that their god
ad returned to them, and that the
rand festive occasion is inaugurated. !
The first feast rites were of a grew :
'me and horrible nature, consisting I
ainly of sacrificing youths to the ,
DDS, 1t is said that they were feast.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14

Dut Wien lHe "UTiu
was younger and it's people were closer
to nature 1t was day of Significance
we'll worth celebrating.
Among primitive peoples the year
is marked off in seasons, usually the
planting, the growing, the harvesting
and the season of rest, or it even may
be by moons and suns. But let the
division be what 1t WILL 1t is based on
those marked physical changes which
appeal TO the senses as light and dark
ness, heat and cold, the lengthenng
and shortening of the day.
Think how deeply must the short
ening of the days, as fall comes on
apace, affect the Imagination of the
primitive. The sun, their all power
full deity who gives them warmth and
growth, and life, wanes and grows
sluggish and sick until daylight be-
comes so short that the terror-strcken
primitive hearts pray and plead and
invoke the malign and baneful gods
TO remove their pernciOus influence
from their dearly beloved sun-god.
How great Is the joy and feasting on
the first day, the New Year. when he
starts slowly back to them, to gain day
ny day a greater vigOr and beauty, I'm.
til In June he reaches the elimination
Of his power.
SO 1t Is seen that the shortest day
In the year, December q, In our cal |
endar, Is quite properly the last day |
In the year. And it is equally fitting
that the succeeding day, when tie sun
commences his return march, should
be hailed by glad and happy hearts.
The MOqui Indians, the communal
pueblo people Of the American South.
west, watch the shortening days with
dread and celebrate with elaborate
ceremony the turning point In the
suns course. The MOqui New Years
celebration, called So-yal-u-na. is large.
~ a presentation of singular and
elaborate inythic drama, divided into
two parts, IN which offerings are made
to ettigieS of the Great Plume Headpd
serpent, the enemy Of the sun, fol-
lowed by sun dance. in which the
conflict between the sun and the in
lerlOr hostile gods is admirably nor I
trayed by M0qui men personifyiug the I
various deities. ,
1t Is hoped that the suns worst en-. S
snake demOn-will be ampIy |
placated; SO rich will be the tribute |
that for one entire year the sun shall e
be free from his prosecutions. and [
the clouds which the snake wickedlv
WaltOWS shall gather and tbofr r,,ivt G.
ire freely descend upon the parched E
md blighted land until 1t is once more il
'lOthed In verdure. S
In dimly-lighted underground room 81
here is erected. at its west end, a y
screen prOfusely decorated with corn .
lusks, cut cleyerly in imitation Of W
lowers. Near the middle Of the e;
Green there is an opening and behind ii
stands man who manipulates the VI
ifigy snake. By his side stands
who has large conch ST.
hell In front of the screen sit three te
r four solemn priests and the audi m
nee, consisting Of members of all the er
ans and their families, and behind tn
lem Is row of men who net as w;
lorus. fe
When the rites begin the chorus tn
to sing, at first q low. ha
aird chant, then gradually rises to gr
ercing intensity. Then the man be-
nd the screen takes up the effigy of sol
e great snake and thrusts 1t rapidly ms
rough the opening a number of go
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14

Commandment has one advantage over
wealth; people don't try to borrow 1t
from you.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14
important to Mothers

Dissipation IS one of the lessons Of
experience; one'that never seems to be
entirely learned. ,..
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14

Granulated Eyellds. Sites. Infamed Eyes
renewed overnight by Roman Ego BaIskm
One trial proves its merit.-AdV
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14
Hard on Him

"Whats your idea of eternal retrl.
bution?" "A profiteer worrying over
his income tax"
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14
~ z0QLU kAlZD

EW YEARS DAY-or at
least the coming of the
New Year-is greeted
by all the world. In
this very much civilized
Twentieth century most
Of us celebrate the New
Year by the almanac.
We have forgotten-or
do not take time to re-
melnber-the original
significance of the day.
hut Wbnn tho world
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-14
IMPROVED UNlfoRM INTERNATIONAL
SUNlYSQlOOL
LESSON
tby REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
l9. 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
LESSON FOR JANUARY 2
THE CHILD AND THE KINGDOM.

LESSON TEXT-Matt. 1S:1-14
GOLDEN TEXT-Whosoever therefore
shali humble himself as this little child,
the same shall be greatest in the king
dom of heaven.-Matt 1874.
REFERENCE MATERIAL--Mark 9:3S;
Luke 9:364S; l7:l-2
Urinary TOPIC-God's Care for Little
Children.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Gods Care for Us
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Responsibility for the Younger and
Weaker.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
Our Responsibility for Childhood.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
OLD sDAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.

(From the Times-Recorder De-
cember 5, 1919
A MERICUS warehouses have
handled already a full crop of
cotton in the receipt of $4,000 bales
to this date, and with an additional
1000 of 5000 yet to be marketed
all previous records here in the re-
ceipts of cotton will be broken
Each with a perfect score to his
credit, the three Americas entrants
in the recent "round-the-state" auto
mobile trip arrived at home Sunday
evening from Atlanta, completing
here the long run of 900 miles, by
far the most successful motoring
event of its kind and a success in
every way.
November showed a highly graft
flying increase over the same month
last year." said Chas L. Ansley, yes
terday when questioned as to how
business had been found this fall.
when we checked up our business
for the month, we found that it was
over 20 per cent above the total
for November, 1910.
A meeting of the citizens of Am
CIRCUS was held at the Young Mems
Christian association building Sunday
afternoon, for the purpose of form
ing Juvenile Protective association
for Sumter county, the object of
which is to put in force a system by
which youthful offenders may be
handled in more humane manner.
Mary Americas friends will feel
deep personal interest in the we'd
ding at Albany tomorrow of Miss
Dora Belle Gilbert, sister of Mrs.
Henry Lanier, of this city, and Mr..
Thomas Hamilton Miner, which will
take place at the Baptist church,
with Rev. w. L. Richards, of Union
Springs, Ala, assisted by Rev. Sims,
of Albany, officiating at the pretty
ceremony.
Miss Belle Ansley returned to
Americas yesterday from visit to
Miss Stella Rodgers at her pretty
home in Sumter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
CONFESSIONS
OF A MOVIE
STAR
CHAPTER XIII
MOTHERDEAR DISCUSSES
HUTCHINSON.

As soon as l reached home told
Motherdear what HUTCHINSON
Coleridge had said to me in the
moonlight by the river.
81 felt so sorry for the poor man, .
l concluded, "but somehow couldn't
let him come near me afterward. he
does work hard, you know he does,
Motherdear. Isn't it a shame that
his wife is so horrid to himw
Tim not sure she is 'horrid,
May You've seen her, you know
she's o sweet, mild little woman
quite the madonna type"
"He says she doesn't understand
his temperament at all. That she's
Jelly icy and splendidly null. And
that's what's spelling his career"
Goodness gracious! Did hutche-
son Coleridgc dare to spin that stuff
to my little girl?"
81 don't know what you mean by
stuff Motherdear. He was awfully
in earnest. He said he was sick for
young woman's tender sympathy.
Now isn't it pity, Motherdear, for a
wife to neglect her husband like
that?"
'No! No! 1t is not!" Motherdear
was certainly wrought up about
something. did that man-say
much more?"
"He said he'd often been sorry
about his marriage. 1t was a sad
mistake. He told me I was not like
other girls. Pm so different"
"The - the = the old" Mother
dear closed her lips tightly, then
changed the subject abruptly:
"Cissy has been to see me. He
has told me about his proposals. Poor
boy! He has certain instinct for
character-reading. he said to me
that my small daughter simply can
not see sin anywherew
THAT sounds like criticism, not
compliment. / must be stupidv'
said |.
That Recamier quotation made me
feel as Polly Anderson so often does,
as if there were a life going on
around me-which | was missing. 1t
made me feel as if | were unable to
| perceive what was perfectly obvious
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
MARKET FOR GEORGIA CORN.

WHILE we are complaining about
" having no market for our corn,
the state bureau of markets comes
along with the statement that it is
having no difficulty in selling all the
Georgia shelled corn offered at a
price in line with the Western corn.
The last number of the Market Bulle-
tin, published by the state bureau of
markets, Atlanta, says:
1--WE are having no difficulty in sell
ing all Georgia shelled corn that is of
fered and at price in line with
Western corn. In our last issue we
sketched the history of the grain
elevator at Dublin, Ca, realizing,
however, that there are many COM
munities that are not financially able
to undertake thepromotion of grain
elevator just now, we call attention
to the fact that a practical corn
shucker and shelter with capacity
of seventy-five bushels an hour can
be had comlpete, motor and all, for
around six hundred dollars, with a
year or more in which to pay for it.
This machine is simple and practical.
The selling value of the shucks will
more than pay the operating expense.
Until grain elevators can be had
there should be one of these shuckers
and shelters installed in every coun-
ty where there is any surplus corn.
1t can be made a paying enterprise.
Shuck and shell your corn and send
US a sample and we will sell your
corn at the market price. You lead
ers of your community think of this
and write US so that we can inform
you in detail"
The chief trouble with marketing
Georgia corn is the fact that it is
not put in marketable condition as
a rule. Corn in the shuck is not fit
for the open market. Corn to COM
mand the current market price must
be shelled and graded. That is why
every side track in the great corn
country has from one to three ele-
vators, just as, in the South every
small town has its cotton warehouses
where the cotton is graded, sampled
and sold under recognized standards.
A system of elevators must come
in the South before diversification
becomes reality. And we may as
well start as wait, for we are losing
while we wait.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
WHILE you SLEEP.

How old are you? Divide it by
three and you have the num-
Der of years you have spent in bed.
A 60-year-old person, becoming
philosophical, can look back and say;
Twenty years of my life have been
devoted to sleep. Isn't that shame ?
Life is too short?"
Be not deceived. Sleep is not a
waste of time.
Sleep is natures way Of preventing
US from killing ourselves by exhaus.
ton. 1t is the system of relaxing
our muscles SO the body can rid itself
of poisons that have accumulated dur
ing wide-awake hours.
Sleep rests the body and the
brain. DR.. Boris Sidis decided that
sleep is caused by monotony, that
we do not sleep until wakefulness
becomes uninteresting, boresome.
You give much thought to show
to live correctly"
But how much thought do you give
to sleeping correctly?
You are awake two hours out of
every three. Those two hours you
provide for carefully, striving for
comfort, trying to devote them wise.
ly.
The third hour-sleep--is taken as
a matter of course. You make little
provision for it-just tumble into bed
and go into a near-cataleptic state
Sleep should be science, as much
care and study given to it as tc
the hours you spend awake.
First of all, your bed should be
eomfortable-just as comfortable as
possible, regardless of price.
Your mattress and springs should
be soft enough to make sinking into
bed delight, yet stiff enough to
support evenly the body in all its
curves.
If your pillow doesn't "set" just
right, something is wrong with it
too many feathers or not enough
| and your health is suffering.
Use just enough covers to keer
you comfortable, adding to or taking
from them, in line with the weather
not the seasons.
Most important of all, open every
bedroom window to provide plenty OF
fresh air. Place the bed out of a
draft.
If you awaken tagged out in the
morning, something is wrong with
your way of sleeping. Either that,
or you are following the perilous
road of not enough sleep.
Your efficiency will be doubled if
you get sufficient sleep in a COM
Portable bed with plenty of fresh air.
It's IKE recharging batteries and al
lowing an over-heated engine to
cool. =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
EDITORIAL.
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

GUARD YOUR THOUGHTS: -
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are hon
est, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatso-
ever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report; if there
be any virtue, and if there be any
praise, think on these things.-Philip-
plans 4 IS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05

to others.
And if Motherdear were imply
ing that there was something in
Hutcheson Coleridge's talk which
had not taken in.
1t convinced me that |, myself.
had been taken in!
So far in my ownfexperience the
morals of the movies hadn't worried
me at all. l had been concerned al
together with the morale.
Motherdear said that morale is the
spirit with which one meets the diff
culties of life and ovelcomes them.
1t applied to everybody, everywhere.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05

Some persons have a high moral.
They stand up strong and bras'
whatever they may have to enJr.v
They do not have to be bolstered ~
Tested SO, Hutchinson ColeriSas'
was man Of little morale.
He couldn't endure existence ,,.,,
the wife he had picked out for E %,.'
self. He complained about 4a
mother of his children! And n y
came to me. a girl not sevents y
years old, for the sympathy he !
ne couldn't get from Mrs. Colerido
Ito be eontinued.)
Copyright, 1921 =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-05
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-R Recorder De-
cember 5, 1901.)
A house on Forrest street belong
ing to James Russell and occupied by
a negro family, caught fire yester-
day morning, causing much commo-
ton in that locality. The fire de-
partment was quickly on the scene
and the fire resulted in very little
damage.
The new through passenger service
on the Seaboard, via Americas, is
proving quite satisfactory. The trains
were put on Sunday night, and car
ry good list of passengers every
night. Certain sections of the Pull
man sleepers are assigned to Ameri-
Gus people.
The Seaboard Railway company is
rapidly repairing the bridge over its
tracts at Barlow street. The delay
was caused by the shipment of the
proper material from the concern ne
gotiated with, and work will be
pushed to completion.
Retrenchment in the municipal ex-
penditure is the slogan of the city
council and its rates with the govern
ing boards of the three departments,
council, the police COMMON and
board of education, as to the best
methods to be employed for this end.
While not a complete fertilizer
plant, as formerly, the property of
the Virginia-Carolina company is still
utilized and employs a considerable
force there under the management of
Supt. Mckenzie. Ingredients from