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THE BANNER, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1915.
THE ATHENS BANNER
1832 Established 1832
H. J. ROWE, Editor.
The ATHENS DAILY BANNER Is
delivered by carriers in the city, or
mailed, postage free, to any address,
at the following rates: $5.00 per year;
82.50 for “six months; $1.25 for three
months, or 10 cents a week.
Remittance may be made by ex
press, postoffice money order, regis
tered letter or cheque.
Subscribers are requested to notify
promptly the business office of late
delivery, failure to carry papers to
porches or failure to deliver with ab
solute regularity on the part of the
carriers. Such notification is the only
source of knowing of the existence of
any cause for complaint, and we will
appreciate^ it accordingly.
A SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS
From facts that are being steadily unearthed, it is apparent that there
are in this country a number of citizens whose sympathies are leaning to the
belligerent nations in Europe, who do not hesitate to violate law lir plotting
tor the destruction of property that is intended for shipment to nations that
the plotters do' not wish to see successful on the field of battle.
It is not bringing any wholesale charge of disloyalty against any class of
foreign-born citizens, for there are comparatively few who will* go to the
extreme of .law violation in their sympathies.
Nevertheless the recurrence of accidents, so-called, in munition factories
and aboard ships plying between this country and Europe and carrying
goods for belligerent nations cannot but mean that there is more or less con
spiracy abroad in this country. *
President Wilson and his advisers are to be commended for the strict
steps they are taking to unearth all this kind of work -and to make the guilty
sufTer.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
Subscribers will please take note
that no carrier boy is authorized to
collect subscriptions from any one, or
to sell papers under any .circum
stances.
The C.
work.
C. C. C. is doing a great
Only four more days to shop with
the tax collector at the courthouse.
4
Chicago has gotten the republican
convention for 1916. We hope she’s
satisfied.
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Buy Red Cross Seals—and put them
on your letters and on your holiday
packages.
4
The time of year is upon -us for ex
tra precautions in the matter of fire
protection.
4
They are trying very hard indeed
to work up an excitement on the L
& N. and the W. & A. matter.
4
Christmas, a honeymoon, and a va
cation all at once is a little more than
his share for even a president.
A GREAT AID TO COUNTIES
Some of the counties of this state have learned through experience that
the Civil Engineering department of the University of Georgia is doing ex
tension work that is of great help to any county that will avail itself of the
help offered.
More than thirty counties in the state have received help from this de
partment in a number of ways in the past two years and the work of the
extension director is growing every week now.
This department sends an expert to the county calling for help and the
best advice is given as to road and bridge construction or any problem In
volved at a cost of the county of simply the expenses of the expert to and
from the place. '
This work has been especially successful in the building of bridges
Complete plans and specifications for bridges are furnished on request,
Counties in this state have been saved splendid sums of money in this line
of work and have secured the best bridges thereby.
This extension work is not done in competition with any civil engineers,
it is the desire of the department not to interfere in any case where a com
petent engineer is available. The work is done more to impress upon coun
ties the value of good engineering work and thus make more positions for
competent engineers in the future.
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The next great battle in Europe will
Mkely be fought on Greek soil—but
it will not be a case of “Greek meets
Greek."
i 4-
There Is still time enough left for
a good many of us to do all the
Christmas shopping we can afford.
But do it early.
The W. & A. commission will not
have any fat Job to hand out Don’
know whether they will be as popular
as might-be, on that account
4
Don’t kick on the weather. It
doesn’t do a bit of good. There’s go
ing to be weather right along of one
sort or another whether you kick or
mot
4
Congress will hardly do more than
to re-pass the war tax measure before
the body adjourns for the holidays
The present law expires with the
year.
4
In his forthcoming report for the
year Secretary Lane suggests the
need for a national campaign for
better rural school. He speaks of
Young America, ouir 22,000,000 school
girls and boys, as^ the chief resource
of the nation, and asks, “Are we doing
all possible to develop this resource?”
It begins to look like the expedition
ary force sent to the Balkans by the
Allies was hardly a drop in the bucket
—against the million men of the Ger
mans, Austrians, Turks, and Bulgars
Almost any of us would have retired
in these circumstances—if there was
a back door left open by accident any
where.
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Dr. Haiselden has been fired from
the Chicago Medical Society. It was
not, however, for the part he played
in the Bollinger baby incident—but
for allowing the use of his name to
the sensational “Story of the Bollinger
Baby” appearing in many of the pa
pers and the alleged unethical con
duct in that respect.
—4—
The proposed night school for
adults who have had no chances to
obtain the elements of an education
in childhood should appeal to many
in Athens. There are numbers who
are compelled to work in the day and
would welcome the opportunity to get
the courses in the evening. The city
schools are doing a great service in
the proposed night courses at the
high school which are to begin after
the holidays.
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The papers are taking quite a little
scope and time and pains to print the
letters to Santa Claus which the chil
dren by the hundred are writing from
homes of all classes over the country.
It would be a cynic indeed who would
:,-i begrudge the space thus taken. Every
Id will look for that letter he has
en the good saint and there will
and mothers, grandparents
d uncles and aunts reading them
ig accordingly.
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FOR BRONCHITIS, SEVERE COUGHS
COLOS ANH
Make the Best Medicine at Home-
Money spent for the old style,
ready-made medicine usually sold in
bottles holding only 2 to 2% ounces
(16 to 20 teaspoonsful) is largely
wasted, because most of them are
composed principally of sugar and
water. Yet you have to pay the
same price as if it were all medicine.
Stop wasting this money. You can
e a better remedy for bronchial
affections, at home at one-fifth the
cost. Merely go to The Warren J.
Smith Drug Co. and ask for 2 ounces
(50c worth) of Schiffmann’s-New Con
centrated Expectorant, which they
guarantee will give perfect satisfac
tion or money will >be refunded. Mix
this with one pint of granulated sugar
and' one-half pint of boiling water
which makes a full pint (128 tea-
spoonsful). This new, simple, pleas
ant remedy Is guaranteed to relieve
CHRISTMAS PARDONS
The season is approaching when the governor of Georgia will be be
sieged with applications for pardons. Scores of prisoners in the penitentiary
are looking to the governor for a Christmas gift.
The people have placed in the hands of the governor the right to pardon
offenders and some governors have exercised it too much and others too
little. It ie a good thing when not abused.
A pardon from a governor is a nice Christmas present for anyone and
Governor Harris will, no doubt, hand around a few of these pleasant gifts
this Christmas season. We trust and believe, however, that he will he gov
erned in the issuing of his pardons by the real merits of the cases and not
by sentiment
There are some prisoners in the penitentiary who, no doubt, deserve par*
dons aj^d there are others who do not In this matter of pardons there is a
considerable mawkish sentiment exhibited on behalf of some who do not
deserve leniency. Society has to be protected as well as prisoners made
happy.
In vo far as the governor may give out pardons without turning loose
upon the state criminals who will go to work at their nefarious tiade as
soon as they get out, we hope the governor will grant leniency to a number
of the inmates of the penitentiary, but not without the most thorough con
sideration and with the end always in view of the protection of the state ana
its peace and good order, as well as the exhibition of mercy and kindness
to the unfortunates who are in the penitentiary.
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Happy" Chi istmas on ti e Farm
BASEBALL WAR ENDS; FEDERALS
ARE COMBINER WITH NATIONALS
This is the Farmers’ Christmas, the best he has had in many years, and
everybody is wishing him a merry, happy day. We all rejoic? with him, be
cause the “Farmer is the man who feeds ns all” sausage and spareribs, big
hominy and roasted sweet potatoes, head cheese and chittlings, backbone
turnips, pig jole and cabbage,, to say nothing of the pig feet In batter and the
curly pig tail. You can’t heat Buch food as this anywhere in the world and
the Farmer has got lots of it this Christmas.
Cotton is bringing, sixty to sixty-five dollars per bale; cotton' seed forty
to fifty dollars per ton. With plenty of com and fodder in the bam to carry
him through another year and a good crop of oats and wheat planted in the
ground for the coming Spring, surely this te a time for rejoicing on the farm,
Those who pay their debts now will find themselves at the beginning of
the most promising Spring within twenty years. The one dark cloud In the
sky Is that a great many farmers will be unable to take advantage of tne
good times. While prices have gone upward, credit has gone downward, and
many farmers will be nnable to run themselves, because they are behind
with merchants, bankers and fertilizer dealers.
A farmer with good'credit now, will be riding on the crest of the Ocean,
while many of those who have damaged their credit will sink under the
wave. Merchants, bankers and fertilizer manufacturers strained themselves
to the limit last season to carry over the fanners who were unable to pay
out, because of the war and the low price of cotton. Those who have paid
np this Fall will find help again in the Spring, while those who have not paid
will have a hard row to weed.
Many farmers may be able to get land to rent bat will be nnable to get
fertilizer and supplies. Fertilizer material Is scarce and blgh. No potash
is to be found at any price; the demand for Sulphuric Acid has curtailed tne
supply of Acid Phosphate in many quarters. It takes two years to assemble
the materials for the manufacture of fertilizers in times of peace. In times
of war the assembling of materials becomes very uncertain and thus it willl
appear that many manufacturers will be short the coming season and guano _i _ TV / . I
will be higher and the supply limited. tlVSt KstiTlStlTlCiS 1 TBC Of the
Those farmers who have saved up a supply of homo-made stable manure
will see plainer than ever, the wisdom of taking care of their cattle and
saving np every particle of manure.
This will he a great year for the thrifty farmer hut ft will be a hard
lesson to those who have not paid their debts and saved their credit.
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THE SIN AGAINST LOVE.
The Man sinned against Law.
And Love, which had made the laws, forgave him.
Then Man sinned against-Love.
And there was small chance for pardon.
—D. G. B.
COUGH
128 Teaspoonsful for 50 Cents,
the worst cough or cold. Bronchial
Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, Hoarse
ness and Whopping Cough. One bot
tle will make enough home-made med
icine to probably last the whole fam
ily the entire winter. Children like
It, it is so pleasant to take It is un-
likp any other. medicine, and posi
tively contains no chloroform, opium,
morphine.or other narcotics, as do
most cough mixtures. Keep it on
hand in case of emergency and stop
each cough before it gets a firm hold.
The above druggists, in fact any drug
gist in this city, will return the money
(just the same as is done with Schiff
mann’s famous Asthmador) in every
single case where it does not give
perfect satisfaction or is> not found
the best remedy ever used. Abso
lutely no risk is run in buying this
remedy—under this positive guaran
tee. ' adv
One-Cent Letter
Postage Proposed
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 16.^-(Representa
tive Stedman of North Carolina, in
troduced a bill today providing for
one cent postage within postoffice
limit.
Representative Sparkman of Flop
ida, introduced one to appropriate
$5,000 to erect a monument on the
site of Dade’s Massacre, in Sumner
county, Florida.
News of the Markets
NEW YORK COTTON.
The following were the _ ruling
prices in the exchange today:
Prev.
Open High Low Close Close
Jan.. .. 12.06 12.17 12.05 12.10 12.04
Feb 12.21 12.15
Mar.. .. 12.30 12.41 12.28 12.35 12.28
Apr.. 12.45 12.38
May.. .. 12.53 12.64 12.50 12.58 12.49
June. ... ... 12.61 12.52
July.. .. 12.64 12.75 12.61 12.70 12.61
Aug 12.58 12.49
Sept. 12.30 12.17
Oct... .. 12.23 12.33 12.20 12.30 12.17
Dec.. .. 12.04 12.05 12.04 12.05 12.00
Dec.. .. 12.04 12.05 12.04 12.05 12.00
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
The following were the ruling
prices in the exchange today:
Prev.
Open High Low 1 p. m. Close
Jan.. ... 11.95 12.03 11.91 11.96 11.91
Feb.., .. 12.06 12.00
Mar., .. 1226 12.35 1220 1227 1221
Apr 12.37 12.31
May*. .. l£49 12.67 12.43 12.49 12.43
June. .. ..... .....12.63 12.47
July 12.58 12.70 12.58 12.62 12.56
Aug 12.47 12.40
Sept.. .. v . 1225 12.15
Dallas, steady, 11 60-100c.
Boston, steady, 12 30-100c.
Galveston, steady, 12 20-100c.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
The following were the ruling
prices in‘the exchange today:
Prev.
Opening Range Close Close
JanHFeb. 7.26 @7.31% 7.36% 728
Feh.Mar. 7.26 ..... 7.35% 727%
MarkApr. 724%@729 7.35 7.26%
Apr.-May 7.31% 723'
May-June 7.18 @7.22% 7.28 7A9%
June-July 7.24% 7.16
July-Aug. 7.11 @7.15 7.21 7.12%
Aug.-Sep. 7.00 @6.99 7.03 6.97%
SCp.Oct. 6.90% 6.80%
Oct.-Nov. 6.72 @6.77% 6.84 6.74%
Dec ..... 7.37% 7.29
Dec.-Jan. 6.7* .... 7.37 728%
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling
prices in.the exchange today:
Prev.
Open High Low Close Close
WHEAT
Dec. . 116% 117% 116% M.6 116%
May . 117% 118% 116% 117% 117%
July . 110 110% 109 109% 109%
CORN
THIS OLD SOLDIER
IS STILL IN LINE
WAS WOUNDED FOUR TIMES BUT
GOES TO MEMPHIS REUNION
AND MARCHES THREE
MILES IN PARADE.
COUNCIL WBESTLEDWITBf IRE
WORKS AND SUNDAY
PICTURES
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(Continued from Page One.)
Dec.. .. 11.91 11.91 11.91 11.88 11.81
Dec. .
67% 69% 67% 69%
67%
May .
71% 72% 71% 72
70%
SPOT COTTON MARKET.
Athens, steady, 11%c.
OATS
Dec. .
42% 42% 41% 42
42
Atlanta, Steady, l?.%e.
May .
45 45% 44% 45
45
. New York, quiet, 12 30-100c..
New Orleans, steady, il 82-100c.
PORK
Dec.. .
16.25
1625
Liverpool, steady, 7 50-100d. '
Jan.. .
. 18.40 18.50 18.25 18.45
18.55
Savannah; middling, 12- 25-100c.
May.. .
. 18.47 18.47 18.25 18.40
18.60
Norfolk, steady, 11 63-lOOc.
LARD
Augusta, steady, U 63-100c.
Dec.. .
9.60
9.60
Hoouston, middling, 12 20-100e.
Jan..
. 9.70 9.70 9)6(2 9.65
9.75
Memphis, steady, 12 12-100c,
May..
.. 9.97 10.00 9.90 9.95
10.00
-Charleston, middling, 12c.
St Louis, steady, 12%c.
RIBS
Dec.. .
9.75
9.80
(Philadelphia, steady, 12 5-109c.
Jan..
. 9.75 9.80 9.70 ,9.75
9.80
Little Rock, steady, 12 25-lOOc.
May.. .
. 10.10 10.15 10.02 10.12
10.12
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, Dec. 15—American League
magnates late today agreed to the
peaco terms recently arranged in New
York between the National and Fed
eral Leagues and the end of the big
baseball war Is now in sighL Al
though details of the peace proposals
are not given out, it is understood
that the Federals are to be combined
with the Nationals.
President Ban Johnson of the Am
erican League said tonight that there
will be only two leagues, the Ameri
can and National.
At si later session of the American
magnates a committee will be ap-
appointed to meet with a committee
of the other two leagues and the joint
peace session probably will be held
within a week In New York or Chi
cago.
Barney Deyfuss, Pittsburg National,
acting for the Federate and Nationals,
urged the plan before the American
directors.
Trade talks, rife today, subsided to
night when the magnates announced
that the baseball players market was
“easier.”
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
IS RE-ORGANIZED.
(By Associated Press.)
Birmingham, Dec. 15.—R. H. Baugh
was re-elected president of the South
ern Baseball League, a schedule of
140 games and a salary limit of $2800,
and fourteen men on a team provided
for at the directors’ annual meeting
today. Mobile decided to remain in
the league when the salary limit was
lowered.
their escape trying to sell liquor on
the streets.
The matter was discussed by coun
cil and ou motion of Mr. Hoke, a
committee, consisting of Messrs. Gor
don, Wright, and Dudley, with the aid
of the city attorney, was named to
prepare rules and regulations for the
government of the stockade.
Mules to Be Sold.
The public property committee and
street committee were given power to
act in the matter of disposing of one
of the city’s pairs of mules—to the
best advantage. They will purchase
another pair next spring.
Sunday Movies Discussed.
Mr. Gordon (brought up the matter
of Sunday motion pictures for Athene
He did not champion licensing Sunday
movies but called attention to the
matter—as It had bean mentioned to
him, and said that as in other cities
there are Sunday pictures (the pro
ceeds going in part or all to charity)
Athens may have to face the ques
tion very soon.
A discussion followed—(but there
was no action taken—indeed, none
suggested. Mr. Palmer favored clean
pictures for Sunday—for the benefit
of the classes who cannot see this
form of entertainment in the week.
He wanted moral and educational
pictures, properly selected and cen
sored, so that the good people of the
city could not have occasion to be
displeased with them.
- Mr. Mathews ppposed Sunday pic
tures positively. He said that he
made no pretentions to being pious
or as good as he would like to he but
that he could not feel that it was right
to exhibit pictures on Sunday, would
not feel right witrussing them, and
would not go or allow his family to
go to a movie house on the Sabbath.
He said that while some of the pic
tures were inspiring and had good
moral lespons—as much could not ba
said for a good many of them, and
he was not sure that some of the
pictures shown ought to be seen by
young people and children on any day
of the week.
Mr. Tibbetts when asked what, he
thought about the matter, said that
“he thought, but was not talking.” He
suggested, however, that a good many
who might be shocked at Sunday pic
tures even of a moral sort would
read the funny pages of the Sunday
papers to their children Sunday
morning—just before they went to
church.
Mr. Dudley moved to adjourn—but
the motion was not seconded, and
council talked some^more about Sun
day movies—pro and con, and when
it was decided -not to decide on any
thing in the matter, Dr. Palmer’s us
ual motion to adjourn carried.
If it had not been for Tanlac I
couldn’t have gone to the Confederate
Reunion at Memphis on the 8th of
October and marched afoot for nearly-
three miles in the big parade,” said
Frank B. Kendrick, who lives at 4800
Charlotte avenue, Nashville. Mr.
Kendrick is one of Nashville’s oldest
and. best known citizens.
As a member of Company I, Sec
ond Kentucky Cavalry, Basil Duke’s
regiment, General John B. Gordon’s
command,. Mr. Kendrick saw service
throughout the civil war, and was
wounded four different times.
“During the' winter,’’ said Mr. Ken
drick, “I suffered intensely with rheu
matism, and when springtime came 1
went all to pieces. I had just about
made up my mind that my end was
not very far off. It looked like I was
on the verge of a general physical
decline, and I had about despaired of
ever walking again. I am seventy
years of age, have fought a. good fight
and proven my recofd, and was ready
to go. But since I got hold of Tanlac
have set my head to round out
ninety years, and fi^om the way I feel
now I believe I will do it. Before 1
began taking this medicine I was
rapidly losing what little strength and
flesh I had, and, was so weak and de
bilitated it was all I could do to walk,
from the bed to the chair, and even
that required great exertion. It had
no appetite at all, couldn’t sleep to
do any good and was awfully nervous.
My flesh seemed to dry .and I suffered
a great deal with headache.
“I doctored and doctored, but did
not show any sign of improvement. 1
attributed my failure to get relief to
my old age and declining physical
powers. But I made a bad guess, be
cause after taking Tanlac two weeks
i felt better and younger than I had
felt in years. I am now on my ninth
bottle, and am actually thirteen
pounds heavier than I was before I
began taking Tanlac. My clothes
were too large—now they are too
small,, and I guess I will have to buy
clothes that will At me comfortably.
To make a long story short—the med
icine just seemed to fill me with new
life and energy, and put me right on
my feet. I have a fine appetite now.
’As I told you before, I can now
walk anywhere, and have thrown my
cane aside, because I don’t need it
any more, except for bad eyesight.
I . spent four days in Memphis at the
reanion, end just tramped around all
over town with the boys. All around
were men who gave out during the
parade, but at the end I was right
there, and didn’t feel the least bit
tired. I just got back a few days ago,
and am awfully glad to tell you what
Tanlac has done for me. If I had
the money I would buy every old sol
dier a bottle of Tanlac, because I be
lieve it would add years to th,elr
lives.”
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Ath
ens by the Citizens’ Pharmacy, adv
VAUDETTE
SATURDAY.
THEATER OPENS
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG IN
“TRILBY” AT COLONIAL THURS
DAY.
Season Blooms, Peoples Bank
The first Christmas tree, bearing
real fruit, bus blossomed forth at
the Peoples’ Bank—in the lobby of
that institution it gleamed yesterday,
attnactig much attention. , On the
tree real dollars grow—have been
growing since the first of the year.
The holiday savings department is
the real Santa Claus presiding over
this tree. On the tree are the certifi
cates of the savings and interest ac
cumulations of the big club which be
gan last January to save systemat
ically, setting aside a few cents a
week, for the Christmas purse. Many
members are pow being given their
accumulations—just that much picked
up—to spend on the gifts and celebra
tion of the coning holiday occasion.
VAUDETTE
SATURDAY.
THEATER OPENS
CLARA
“TRILBY”
DAY.
KIMBALL YOUNG IN
AT COLONIAL THURS-
The congregation of the First Chris
tian church of this city has builded
a lasting and beautiful monument to
its own loyalty and devotion—while
erecting a splendid temple of worship.
They have in their love for their
church much more than money and
time and work into the beautiful new
house^-they have fltat their heart and
soul and lives into the work and in
making a new. church of which the en
tire city of Athens Is proud they have
done gerat things for themselves in
the highest way.
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL.
To the voters and people of the West
ern Circuit:
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Solicitor Gen
eral for the Western Circuit I will
appreciate the votes and the support
of the people of this circuit and if
elected to this high office will do my
duty. Yours respectfully,
P. OOOLEJY.
CLARA
“TRILBY”
DAY.
KIMBALL YOUNG IN
AT COLONIAL THURS-
V
War Upon Painl
Pain is a visitor to every home and
usually it comes quite unexpectedly.
But you are prepared for every
emergency If you keep a small bottle
of Sloan’s Liniment handy. It is the
greatest pain killer ever discovered
Simply laid on the skin—no rabbins
required—it drives the pain away. I»
is really wonderful.
Mervin H. Soister, Berkeley, Cali,
writes: “Last. Saturday, after tramp
lng around the Panama Exposition-
with wet feet, I came home with my
neck so stiff that I couldn’t turn it
I applied Sloan’s .Liniment freely end
went, to bed. To my surprise, next-
morning the stiffness had almost dte
appeared, four hours after the second-'
application I was as good as new.”
March, 1915. At Druggists, 25c
adv.
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG IN'
“TRILBY" AT COLONIAL THURS
DAY.
Help thetraffle officers enforce the
law.
Why You .Should Use Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy.
Because it has an established repu
tation won by its good works.
Because It is most steemed by
those who have used it for many
years, as occasion required, and are-
best acquainted with its good qual-
ities. . _/■
Because it loosens and relieves
cold and aids nature in restoring
system to a healthy condition.
Because it does not contain opium
or any other narcotic.
Because it Is within
It only costs a quarter,
all dealers