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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-15
PERSONALS

Miss Annie Ivey has gone to Bir-
mingham where she will visit her
brothers, Douglas and William Ivey.
While there she will attend a dance
at the Tutwiler Hotel.
Mrs. f. W. Strange and Misses
Sarah Strange were visitors here
Tuesday from Ellaville.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-15
Benson And Harding
In Long Conference

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Rear
Admiral Benson, chairman of the
U. S. Shipping board, had a long con-
ference with President Harding to-
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-15
YORK FUTURE.
WE ATH E r i.

Forecast for Georgia-Showers
late tonight or Wednesday, not
much change in temperature.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
FURNISHED by Rexall Store.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-15
Butchers Union Officer
Named For Conference

CHICAGO, March 15.-Dennfs
Lane. secretary and treasurer of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen's Union and an
other labor representative not yet
named will represent the packing
house workers at conference in
Washington on March 21 with repre-.
sentatives of the packers and the
secretaries. of labor, commerce and
agriculture, it was announced today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-15
NJ A r K E S.

AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling IL lie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
INDIANS ARE MAKING
 CANOES OF GAS BAG LOST BY AMERICANS
From Fabric They Make Ca noes That Ride the Waves Likes ThistledoWn-Care <
 Nothing for Uncle Sam
By Associated Press


 Cochrane Ont, May 21.-Some won derful canoes appeared mysteriously recently in the James bay region They were constructed not of birchbark but of a strange material the north had never seen. AS light and swift as swallows on the wing, they skinned the water. Moose Factory Indians from the Happy Hunting Grounds 10 teach his red children new medicine?
 The big balloon that carried three of Uncle Sans naval aviators into the wilderness several months ago has since lain collapsed on the spot where it descended. Officials of Moose Fac tory, one of the earliest posts estab- lished on American shores by the Hud- sons Bay company, had given orders to all Indians who own allegiance to the ancient fur company to leave the great gas bag undisturbed, These 'ders had been strictly observed
 band of outlaw Indians, whose home village is 50 miles orthwest of Moose Factory, found the balloon. Old Hudson's Bay company's order meant nothing to them As for Uncle Sam. they had never heard of him. But they knew good canoe material when they saw it and straightaway with their hunting knives they sliced great blanket pieces from the sides of the fallen monster and from the magic fab Tic fashioned canoes that rode the waves like thistiedown. The air had siven the Northland their most mar velous craft.
 The Indians who wrecked Uncle Sam's gas bag are known as pluto crats of the wilderness. While on a recent visit. the chief of the outlaws was asked if he were not afraid of getting into trouble for cutting tip a balloon belonging to the great repub- lie across the border. With 8 sthrug, he drew from his pocket roll of money that would have made a rent hog jealous. He was ready to deal with Uncle Sam as one man with an- ether.
 How much cost for big bagT' he asked indifferenty. Me buy the tam thing now and pay spot cash"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
"sIsTERs-IN-LAw"

By Gertrude Atherton. Frederick A.
 Stokes Company Publishers, New York
 City.
 If coteries in Main street" are def. hitely aristocratic. if The Age of Inno- cence" and The House of Mirth" are much more so, "The Sisters-n-Law'' shows us that in San Francisco the aris- tocrat. whose position has been soIid1y fixing itself for over 60 years is mucn more conscious of position, which he does not hesitate to talk about contiu- ually, than the quieter noblesse who carefully guard the portals of the Phil hdelphia assembly or that equally eXclu- sive circle of Saint Cecelia in Charles ton.
 In May Calfirnia womens clubs, with a membership of 50,O00 women a great pageant of California history in the Yosemite valley. The historic glories and artistic achievements of the state are to be followed era by era in colorful pa Reantry. Mrs. Atherton's studies of Call fornia history have been chosen as the basis of material for the pageant and. Mrs. Atherton herself has arranged the scenes and episodes Her books, Before the Gringo Game and "The Splendid Idle Forties.P are famous for their pictures of California at it's most romantic pe- riods.
 Mrs. Atherton new novel "Sisters-ln- Law" is quite as remarkable a DOT trayal of modern California life
 The conversation of Mrs. Groome and of young Dwight, who uses the earth quake as ladder on which to climb socially, is used deftly as a contrast to the horror of the moment The entrance of Gathbroke, the young Englishnan with his dead sister, is so carefully man. aged that ones interest is at once greatly aroused. and this is a fine point in novel which in it's first pages would have hardly held the attention of the reader through what seems to normal persons the conversation of a rather stupid group. But Mrs. Atherten knows her art and her public.
 When Cora Dwight, the sister of the snob who becomes the first husband of the charming Alexina, enters, not as an accessory to Gathbroke but in her own proper person, we have an intensified tion of the interest She has inherited .blood," her ancestors were of the first families of Utica N. Y. and her ann bilious brother proves this to the satis- faction of the aristocratic Mrs. Groome. She has character and a touch of genius, and fire and temperament and vcacity besides downright honesty and courage which make her the most important per son in the novel and she is well delineat- ed In fact she lives. Outside of these qualities she has weakness. It is for democratic social condition, which Mrs Atherton describes.
 She was almost fanatically democratic and could see no reason for differences of degree in the aspiring classes. To her mind the only line of cleavage be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

murderous horrors of Voodoo worship, the cult that at one time so fascina ted Lafcadio Hearn. In the orgy of ven- geance and rescue that ensues, the Pres ident falls and the lovers are sundered. They appoint meeting many thousand miles away, and 1t comes to nothing. Sestrina drifts into worse adventures still until the ship that carries her IS driven ashore under typhoon and she is the only person left to release the cargo of lepers in the hold. The rest Of the story is of a desert island peopled by these outcasts, derelict in a double sense, until one alone survives to serve her and to love her as she deserves. The end crowns with a touch of elemental majesty story which, as one reviewer says, has a greatness in it that Is all but monumental.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
rMARY QUEEN OF SCOTS"
REVIEWED BY MARTHA YOUNG
 GREENSBORO, ALA)


 REvIEwED BY MARTHA YOUNG,
 GREENSBORO, ALA.)
 By Oda Sterling The Oxford Press.
 American Branch, Publishers New
 York City.
 It is noteworthy that play by Drink water should have been preceded by pub lcation of a much longer drama, strong, brilliant drama upon the same character of history Mary Queen of Scots," by Ada Sterling. It is remark able that so noble, thrilling and exquisite a piece of work as Mary Queen of Seots' should make it's appearance first in book form. That drama should be brought before the world in that shape is the ultimate aim of every playwright. Only thus can a dramatic work attain the immortality due a truly artistic ere atlon. The usual procedure, however, is for a play to be first produce on the stage and then out of the aggregate or many and all productions of the seasons those plays entitled to a longer life are put before the world in the permanent and ever enduring form of books.
 But in these rushing and upheaving times many old procedures are supersed- ed by new.
 One of the most remarkable superses- sions being the unique spectacle of q drama built on artistic lines, done with exquisite finish with characterization vivid and virile as life itself, escaping the theatrical producers and making it's first appearance from the press of the pub fishers. The publishers in this instance are that most discerning and discrimnat- ing house. the American branch of the oxford Press, of England. Mary Queen of Scots" by Ada Sterling springs at first step into the lordly company of the classics.
 The scenes through which the charac- ters speak and move like living, breath ing beings are the magnificent palaces and castles of the world when royalty was at it's acme of regality. The play opens in a salon in the Chateau St. Ger main. Thence moves to the Queens cab met at Holyrood, where the quick thrill of tragedy breaks Into the lightsome grace of royal and innocent pleasuring. Proceeds to I4achleven castle, to Fother- ingay, to Westminster, to the tender and idylic scene in the garden of Fotheringay, a scene with it's sudden thrill of quick display of queenly wrath. Then to the great hall of Fotheringay. where is en- acted the culmination of one of the great est judicial crimes of the ages, the execu- tion of Mary Queen of Scots
 More magnificent setting for drama was never chosen. No drama of our day out reaches--few reach-to the splendid com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

tween the classes was that which di- vided people of education, refinement of mind. manners and habits, certain in7 herited traditions and the mental effort, no matter how small, to win place in this difficult world, from commonness ignorance, indifference to dirt coarse pleasures and habits. and manual labor. She respected lab1r as the solid founda- ton stones which civilization upheld itself, and believed it to have been bio- logically chosen if she had been born in it's class she would have had the am bition to work her way out of it. but without resentment.
 One of Mrs Atherin's critics, Maurice Francis Eagan, says of her "Sister-in- law"
 Tn the early days when Mrs. Atherton began to write, and she achieved that amazingly vivid scene in which the girl in pink is killed in nerd of buffalo-a scene which remains in the memory even after the name of the novel 1t contains is forgotten, a scene which has probably been translated into every modern Ian guage-she was called by certain indis- criminatng critics "The American Ouida" It would be unjust to deny that great adventures of the md-Victorian time certain high qualities, and the best of these Mrs Atherton possessed; put the Comparison is very unjust, and those sur face characteristics which made some cf the high and mighty critics of literaturs accept it at the time have almost en- trely gone.
 The audacity which shocked the con, servatists some years ago, and which seemed to be audacity for the sake of audacity, has either moderated or the standard of more modern time makes it seem an accepted part of life. Her style is no longer so fervid, and, though the purist in words sometimes feels slight shock, these shocks are fewer than they formerly were"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES
 HOLD MEETING MONDAY

Tuscaloosa. May A.--Cspecial) )-Presi- dent Denny stated today that the time of the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the University of Alabama will be Monday, May 23, at o'clock. It is expected that the members of the board throughout the state will observe this notice and meet promptly at the time screduIed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
Mrs. Hilliard Laid to Ras+

Troy, May M.-(Special. )-The remains of Mrs. Mary Hilliard, former resident of Troy, were brought here Friday after noon on the Central of Georgia train. The funeral procession formed at the union station and proceeded to Oakwood cem- tery, where burial occurred. Dr. J. E. Northcutt of the Methodist church con- ducted the services.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

A curious grass in Cuba bristles with tiny sharp-pointed spikelets which impale multitudes of insects. the wings of the victims being pierced and entangled. them to perish miserably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
An Invitation
 To Drink

En. ss.;s n.,. We have kind of compass sion for those who live down town and have to inhae the sordid calculations of brick and stone and dead wood in the spring and good old summer time.
 In Norwood and Forest Park, for instance, it is different There the breath of nature is more than sweet and clean. It is saturated with the aromatic distillations of flower and tree and grass and old earth and draught of it is better than any that ever gurgled from flagon fes- tooned with cobwebs. You LIVE while it is in your lungs
 This wondrous elixir is free to all Go to Nor wood Boulevard or Forest Park and drink your full of it.
 F. S-It planned operate the street railway on Norood Boulevard of the Norwood ne and the will and from the city, and not shuttlet service.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
..rtrn sprRiT OF THE TIMD.'

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME By Robert Kitchens. George H. Doran
 Company, Publishers, New York Clty.
 ''The Spirit of The Time" is written in the same charming style that charac- terized "The Garden of Allah, Bella Donna. and other delightful books from the pen of Robert Hichens.
 In fact, 'The Spirit of The Time. is a striking novel of mystery in MT. Hlch- en's best style An Englishman goes to Switzerland and meets there strangely fascinating Russian Princess who has fled from Russia during the revolution She is the possessor of a remarkable string of pearls, but apparently of little else. The Englishman is strongly at- tracted to her. wants to marry her AL length she permits him to purchase rom her the pearls On having them valued in Paris he finds to his horror that they are fake.
 Did she know this? Did she sell them in ignorance of the hoax? MT. Hichens has created an extraordinary character in this nomadic Russian Princess With her air of inpenetrable mystery. ldke the famous Lady or The Tiger, he ends his story with question mark to when every reader may we'll imagine differ ent answer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

lS Hople III conception, winning III ltS SA- ouisite human sympathy understanding and tenderness. quick with recurring and sudden climax of high dramatic thrill.
 TOP O. THE MoRNIN'
 By Seumas MacManus Frederick A.
 Stokes Company, Publishers, New York
 City.
 the glens of Donegal, with a few about the lads and lasses who came adventur- ing to far New York bringing with them their home-bred wit and spirit
 Good Father Pat, the Widow Meehan, Kitty Kildea and that irresistible rogue Barney Brian, are folk who will live in the heart of the reader for the memory of many chuckle and perhaps tear or two Humor and human nature of the inimitable Irish sort; pathetic life episodes or rollicking adventures, told with MT. MacManus rich fancy and in dividual turn of phrase, make the oook rare treat These modern tales have all the charm of the authors well-loyed Irish folk tales.
 THE ENCHANTED CANYON" By Honore Willsie. Frederick A. Stokes
 Company, Publishers, New York City
 The first novel by an author of recos- nized standing that has staged its crucial scenes within the stupendous walls Of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Mrs Willsie always approaches the vast out doors of her beloved West in a spirit akin to that of the great Psalmist praising the handiwork of God; and in the soaring heights of the Rockies and the aWesome depths of Arizona canyons she finds a regenerative power. a spiritual cure Tor the blind selfishnesss and the waverins faith of blundering humanity.
 The time of the story is vaguely the present but for those who seek it there is more than a glimpse of prophetic vision. Enoch Huntingdon, who domi- mates the book as Still Jim did the earlier novel suggests several pubic characters, but the best of him is sheer creation drawn from human proto- type Yet many a reader will see some thing Rooseveltian in his fearless dl- rectness, his intrepid handling of dipio- matic high explosives We first meet Enoch in Minetta Lane, headed straight toward crime and prison we see the can yon work it's miracle upon him; and we leave him a commanding figure in na- tional politics. With his political ca reer is blended a personal romance, ut terly satisfying, because utterly uncon- .ventional.
 There is more than thread Of humor in the book The reader will enjoy many a chuckle at the heros inimltable body guard. the negro Jonas, while no one can fail to yield to the charm of Diana, the desert heroine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
Attends Board Meeting

Selma. May 2L-(Special) )-L. M. Hoop CT, member of the board of trustees of the Alabama Technical institute, is at tending the annual commencement exer- eises, now in progress at Montevallo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
"oUR LITTLE LIFE"
TOP O. THE MoRNIN' .

By J. G. Slime. Frederick A. Stokes Com
 pany Publishers New York City.
 "Our Little Lifer' What is it? A thing of tears and laughter, and rounded with a restless sleep.
 A bit of this little life of ours is Pene- lcpe's buildngs-full from topmost flat to basement with poor humanity. Some times it Is a humanity this, that threat- ems to become all-too-human; and then Katie McGee's laugh comes along ana sweetens the air.
 Katie McGee is only little seamstrees who goes out working by the day, but her heart Is as big the world almost. Into her heart she welcomes the world round about her. the strayed, the lost, the suffering-Robert. fastidious and in articulate amongst the rest. Right out from the core of Penelope's buildings grows the story of Robert Fulton, aloor and apart and his relation to Katie MeGee, of the people. Theirs Is story that. told from the heart, takes hold of the heart
 Sometimes, looking through and past the printed page that tells of them- yoc seem to catch echoes of more than just the voices of this man and woman. Life -humanity-seems passing by Tnt shadow of a great presence Is behind And close by you, along the printed nne' YOU mark the beat of something qulcK- alive-pulsating. It Is woman,s heart; and it feels warm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
"SnNS OF THE SEA"


 By Raymond Mcfarland. G. F. Put nam's Sons. Publishers, New York City. A King of Kingport proves himself a worthy descendant of his seafaring fore fathers In this stirring story of the fish ing bands, by Raymond Mcfarland en- titled. "Sons of The Sea- There \ is romance and truth and high adventure in this book, shipwreck and storm and the courage of men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

pleteness of this. Mary Queen of Scots is noble in conception. winning in its ex- ouisite human sympathy, understanding and tenderness. quick with recurring and sudden climax of high dramatic thrill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
THE vAGRANT DUKE"


 pv George Gibbs D. Appleton & Co.,,
 Publishers, New York City.
 A romance of surpassing spirit anu thrills. Driven from Red Russia, Grand Duke Peter Nicholaevitch leaves the old world and comes to America. founS and handsome, he faces the necessity of making his own way, and ms career commences by his waiting at the steamers table, thus earning his pas sage across the Atlantic. Ips New York he at once comes up against dis honest but tempting chance of money getting offered by pal he had known on shipboard. But Peter decides on making his way clean handed, with only his own personality, cosmo- politan Knowledge of the world. and an ability to speak English. learned from his English mother, to help him.
 Fortune leads him, now plain Peter Nichols, to Black Rock, the estate. Of Jonathan K. Mcclure, a multi-million- aire. Here he finds mystery, mex plicable and sinister, which haunts Mcclure. Peter heads the bodygpard which the old millionaire keeps about himself and strange events make real the fears that hang over the place.
 To lovely Beth Cameron, niece or McGuires housekeeper, Peter is drawn and as events uifold their love takes form in the midst of the dangers which flock about Black Rock" from out of McGuires past. A mysterious fellow named Hawk" is at the heart of the trouble and Peter, aiding McGuire, gradually learns the truth of the sit- uation from series of thrilling and dangerous happenings. He battles now not only for Mcclure. but for Beth. and 1t is In the mids. of a forest fire, whose flames bring not only destruc- tion, but also solution of this absorb ing romance of mystery, that the final reckoning comes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
"SESTRINAn

By A. Safroni- Middleton George H.
 Doran Company, Publishers, New York
 City
 A strange and adventurous story by the author of South Sea Foam" MT. Sa- oni-Middleton. is now delighting those who became acquainted with the isles of romance through Robert Louis Stevenson and w. Somerset Vaughan. After bring ing us through chapters of strange and thrilling adventure. touched with eccen- trio figures and scenes of wild beauty, he leads us up to finish which is halr .dyn and half tragedy Royal Clensy, the English youngster, who lands among scallywags at Port-au-Prince and wins the love of the Presidents daughter by teaching her music. enters on a mad in vsstigation into her fathers share in the
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or life - craftsmanship. invention.
science, letters, philanthropy. as well
as war. II is the same with Pere La
Chaise. while the Pyramids were tombs
FOR kings and queens only. But not -
with Arlington cemetery. Here equality
Of service and sacrifice dominates.
Commanding general and humble prt-
yaie are on the same level. the simple
rule OF eligibility for burial Is the
same; yet II Is iron-clad. Wealth.
birth, social station and political emf
nence. without military service. try for
admission In vain.
At Arlington have gathered during
the past generation the greatest OF the
nations military heroes 10 listen 10 aud
to participate In eulogIes and tributes
TO their silent comrades all encamped
about, and here each year In ever-In-
creasinE number are laid TO their final
rest many OF these same heroes OF the
wars, Every year sees multitude Of
new graves In Arlington and every
Memorial day witnesses the thinned
ranks Of IN" participants In the tre-
mendous conflict OF half century ago
which has contributed the great ma
tority of the members of this Silent
City.