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THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1915.
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For information telephone
PAUL PINKERTON, Commercial Agt.
Phone 81.
E. SHELTON, Ticket Agent, .
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Effective July 11th, 1915.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE
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I WILL sell at auction to the highest bidder on Tuesday, De
cember 21st, at the office of F. L. Upson, Referee, the J. N.
Webb house and lot on Prince Avenue, adjoining lot of Mrs.
Beacham. This lot fronts ninety feet -90- on Prince Avenue
and runs back to the depth of Three Hundred feet -300--. The
dwelling on this lot contains twelve rooms besides bath rooms.
There is on the lot a servant house, barn and other out houses. .
The terms of the sale are one-third of the purchase price to be
paid on January 1st, 1916 and remaining two thirds to be paid on
July 1st, 1916. Deferred payments to bear interest at the rate
of 8 per cent, per annum. The sale will be made subject to con
firmation of the Court. A payment of Two Hundred Fifty Dol
lars will be required when the property is bid off, which will be
credited on the first payment if the sale is confirmed by the
Court and if the bid be rejected to be returned to purchaser.
This is one of the most desirable homes in the City of Athens and
it is an opportunity of a life time to buy a home complete in
every particular, on easy terms and at a reasonable price.
If You Had Written a Classic
Would YothLet It be Filmed?
F. C. Shackelford, Trustee.
FRANK LOSEE and LOUISE HUFF
Dream of Son and Lover Far Away in the Famous Players-Paramount Picture 1
“The Old Homestead.-
UNCLE SAM’S RECORDS ON
PREPAREDNESS PROTECTED
With almost all Europe at war and
this country in danger of being involv
ed at a moments notice, what is the
army doing 1 Hug sway- of prepara
tion? While little has been written
on this subject the answer can be
found at the Army War College.
This building is located on the his
toric banks of the Potomac at Wash
ington and there some of the finest
statisticians in our army are busily
engaged In secret work, so that,
should the United States be suddenly
confronted by war with any country
every move made would be in accord
ance with well laid plans. Right in
this connection a few words relative
to this college, about which the gen
eral public knows so little, might not
come amiss.
While army officers for years had
advocated such an institution it re
mained for Elihu Root, while Secre
tary ot War in 1901, to obtain an ap
propriation from congress for a suit
able building, and in the meantime to
organize tho college. Work on the
structure itself was started in 1902
and it was completed in 1907. In con
nection with the college building pro
per are barracks and officers quarters
where are stationed army engineers.
The whole covers many acres of
ground. The buildings were designed
and laid out by the well known arch
itectural firm of McKim, Mead &
White.
The outlay of buildings cost the
government more than $2,000,000
while the war college building cost
$700,000. The latter is built of red
Pompeiian brick, and is a structure
of massive and purely classic design.
It is 250 feet long and 125 feet deep.
The brick is laid in Flemish bond,
and the whole is tilmmed with lime
stone, making a most pleasing ap
pearance. In fact it has been said
that the building, in its beauty, is
second only to the Congressional LI.
brary.
The main entrance has huge Ionio
columns and a large American eagle
surmounting it.' The building has a
remarkable approach which adds
greatly to its appearance. In front
is the statute of Frederick the Great
presented to this country a few years
ago by Emperor William.
The interior of the building is qulto
as wonderful as the exterior. Here
each year twenty-five of the best offi
cers are given the highest course ot
military instruction and added to the
General Staff of the army. Here also
are located' the secrets of the War
Department for carrying on wars. In
the record rooms, in the map room,
where invaluable war maps are kept,
as well as in $he rooms where books
are stored and lists indexed, the cases
are of steel, supplied in great part
by the Art Metal Construction Com
pany of Jam'estown, N. Y. As a mat
ter of fact in the very “holy of holies,”
the vadlt where the most important
war secrets arer'filcff^th-itf-'Baine com
pany has built to government specifi
cation a cabinet for papers. An offi
cial ol the college said that the metal
furniture was selected for its fire
proof qualities, its sanitariness, and
its compactness.
Here also is housed the finest army
library in this country and one of the
finest in the world. A large lecture
hall, seating several hundred, where
the foremost army officers of the
country lecture to the class is also
provided, as well as smaller class
rooms, laboratories and offices.
Should the United States go to war
activities would be directed largely
from this beautiful and well equipped
Y,'ar College.
ENGLISH AND AMER
ICAN TRAP-SHOOT
ERS ARE COMPARED
War Upon Pain!
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 rubbing
required—It drives the pain away. II
is really wonderful.
Mervin H. Soister, Berkeley, Cal,
writes: "Last Saturday, after tramp
ing 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 and
went to bed. To my surprise, next
morning the stiffness had almost dis
appeared, four hours after the second
application I was as good as new.’
March, 1915. At Druggists, 25c
adv.
Had a Reason.
A well-known actor, while In a tailor
shop one day, happened to notice a
man come in, pick up a suit, pay tor It
and go out again. “At last,” he said,
“there’s one fellow I will never imi
tate.”
Timely Hint on Over-Eating.
Big dinners cause disturbed diges
tions. The stomach and bowels should
not be clogged with undigested poi
sonous waste matter. Foley Cathartic
Tablets relieve distress after eating,
stop belching, banish bloating and gas
on stomach, regulate the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and tone up the
liver. H. R. Palmer & Sons. adv
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(By W. P. Grosvenor, Prominent Eng
lish Trap-Shooter.)
tAt the conclusion of a short visit
to New York, I am gitad of 'he oppor
tunity to give you some impiessions
of your American trapshooting sys
tem and point out the differences be
tween the usual English club proced
ure and those of the various clubs
have shot at during my recent visit
to your country and which i take to
be common on this s.de.
I would first like to say that owing
to the wonderful rims of kills made by
your shooters, which we near- of Tn
England rrom time to time, many of
us Clay Bird shooters have the im
pression that your general conditions
are much easier than ours, otherwise
the runs of two and three hundred
kills would not be made. IMy own
opinion, however, now is that your
cbnditions are at least equally diffi
cult, and that the long rans are to
be accounted for to a great extent by
the fact that the sance and methods
of your scratch men have been devel
oped to such a high degree that, given
standard ammunition, the <Jlay Bird
has been mastered very much as the
decimal target has been conquered I
by the miniature shooters of both'
countries these last few years.
Your average trap throw is less
than ours by some 20 yards, and the
birds, by reason of your rigid auto
matic traps, maintain a more constant
level, but on the other hand the con
ditions, while reading as easy, are
not so in practice, as the birds are
more easily affected by the wind and
also get down quicker.
Your birds are thrown lower than
In England, so that under average
conditions I found it necessary to see
the bird if anything above the gun
Instead of covering it up as we have
to do in England. / The Standard
English practice permits the use ot
two shots at each bird if necessary,
using shells with a maximum load of
1%-oz. shot. t The use of only one
barrel even when using your usual
1-4-oz. load has so far had a par
ticularly daunting effect on my shoot
ing, as I miss the confidence afforded
by the second shot permitted under
pur conditions, and in consequence I
have been possibly two-fifths of a sec
ond slower than I am with a second
shot in reserve. I simply dare not
take chances I do under our own con
ditions.
This is, of course, only an individ
ual opinion, and we have shooters on
out side who would make better show
ing than I have done, but even then
1 do not think we can at present find
a man within 5 per cent of your best
form.
In short, my opinion is that under
your conditions your best men are
superior to ours, and under our con
ditions I think the r suit would also
be In favor of your men.
(By Frank Thompson.)
(“Editor's Note.—Prompted by the
I new interest awakened In his father’s
| immortal play, “The Old Homestead,”
1 by the forthcoming Famous Players-
Paramount Picture which marks its
transmission to the screen, Frank
Thompson, son and heir of Denman
Thompson, has written a few person
al reminiscences which by special ar-
| rangement, have been secured by this
paper. They contain facts never be
fore published, and Mr. Thompson’s
article should be of great interest to
all who have heard' the name, “The
Old Homestead.”)
It was some time before I could see
my way clear to consent to the con
verting of “The Old Homestead” in
to a motion picture, as it seemed best
from sentimental and business rea
sons to preserve its unique status as
play. It scarcely seems possible
that any play ever written could have
quite the same sentimental value to
the family of the author as Denman
Thompson’s has had for his heirs.
Particularly is this true in niy own
case, as I also had the pleasure of
appearing in the production with.him.
The very nature of the subject, its
association with the old home in,
Swanzey and the fact that some of
the characters depicited in it were
actually prototypes of my father’s
own neighbors, makes the play much
more than a mere successful theatri
cal enterprise and gives it a truly hal
lowed association. The present old
"The Right Way"
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home on the New Hampshire farm
was granted to the Thompson family
as one of the sixty to whom the town
ship of Swanzey was deeded by the
Massachusetts authorities in May,
1735, and though my father was bom
near Girard, Pa., he returned to the
old family seat so early in his life
that he was essentially a New Hamp
shire youth. My grandfather, in
whom the love of old New England
was ever alive, despite the fact that
the paths of opportunity seemed to
point to the then newer country, nev
er failed to inculcate into his hoy th'e
sturdy and old-fashioned nobility of
mind and heart that were traditional
among the people of New England.
I have every reason to believe that
the film will be Invested to the great
est possible extent with the atmos
phere of the original production as
I have supplied the company with
all the information possible concern
ing the traditions which clung to the
play, and have furnished pictures of
all the stage characters from which
the silent interpreters were able to
model their respective make-ups.
Of course it Would be preposterous
for-me to say that I am looking for
ward to the presentation of the photo
play with the same keen anticipation
which my father felt before the first
night of the stage appearance. But
I am safe in saying that I never have
been and never will he so deeply in
terested in any photoplay as I am in
“The Old Homestead.”
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Train No. 52 leaves at 4:00 p. m.
Train No. 56 leaves at 4:30 p. m.,
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Train No. 54 leaves at 9:0a a. m..
daily except Sunday.
Train No. 51 arrives at 12:30 p. m.
daily except Sunday.
Train No. 53 arrives at 9:30 p. m.
Train No. 57 arrives 12 m.
Sunday only.
Train No. 55 arrives at 8 a. m.,
except Sunday.
International Reconstruction on
A New Basis is Urged by Straus
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Charleston, S. C., Dec. 18.—Pointing
to the great war as proof that both
militarists and pacifists have failed
completely as protectors of peace,
Oscar S. Straus, former ambassador
to Turkey, declared in an address to
night before the Southern Commercial
Congress that there must be an inter
national reconstruction on an entirely
different basis.
“This world war is a distinct proof
that neither pacifism without might
nor might unless dominated by right
can be effectual in securing a perma
nent peace,” said Mr. Straus. “A war
such as this could never have engulf-
qjl the nations had the international
relationship and foundations been
rightfully constructed.”
Three distinct methods of world or
ganization have been developed, tried
and found wanting, declared Mr.
Straus. First was the dominance of
nations by great world powers such
as was Greece under Alexander. Af
ter the Napoleanic war he said the
second method of keeping the peace
was developed, the system of the bal
ance of power and of the concert of
Europe under which several nations
united together in offensive and de
fensive alliances. The third arrange
ment was the formation of group al
liances, such as the triple alliance on
the one side and the triple entente
on the other.
“This dual arrangement, dividing
Europe into tw.o vast and powerful
camps,” continued Mr. Straus, “it was
hoped would have the effect which is
epitomized in the expression that one
sword would keep the other in Its
scabbard. But this war proves that
it has had the contrary effect. It has
multiplied the swords on both sides;
It has developed militarism as never
before and has piled up those crush
ing armaments that are today clash
ing against one another in the most
frightful and bloodiest war in all his
tory.”
Mr. Straus asserted that the three
methods already tried were buiK on
false foundations. They were built,
he said, as strongholds for war and
not as strongholds for peace. The
maintenance of peace could be
achieved only by the development of
a stronger power devoted to that
cause.
“Any future plan to be lasting,
said Mr. Straus, “must take into con
sideration the conflict between the
two schools, the one holding that
might makes right, and the other
which desires to place the entire in :
ternational system upon the basis of
strictly moral conceptions, and in so
do’ng reconstruct international rela
tionship, not as heretofore exclusively
on the basis of war, but dominantly
on the basis of peace.”
Dominance of a single power and
division of power having failed, Mr.
Straus said there must he unity of
power, the uniting of the nations in
their own interest and the placing
of their united might as guardians of
the rights of each, national on the
same principle as we constitute the
power of the forty eight states as the
guardians of the rights of each state.
“Many plans have been devised,'
said Mr. Straus, “but none in my
judgment, has laid a better foundation
for international peace than has been
adopted by the “League to Enforce
Peace.” That plan, briefly stated,
consists of three provisions. First, all
justiciable questions' shall- be sub
ject to an international court; second,
all questions that are not subject to
judicial determination shall be sub
mitted to a Council of Conciliation for
hearing, consideration and recommen
dation; third, the powers shall use
their joint forces, economic and mili
tary, against any one of their number
who goes to war before submitting
its differences.
“It is a fact we would deceive our
selves in failing to recognize, that
fundamental changes in the progress
ot mankind have rarely if ever been
possible save by war and as a sequel
of war. .The history of the nations
from Armageddon to the invasion of
Belgium teaches that war will not he
banished until the leading and more
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powerful nations become civilized
enough to create an organization that
cannot only induce but can force re
sort to other means than war and that
will be able to impose necessary and
fundamental changes without war."
America, Mr. Straus said, was
equally concerned in the world’s
peace as the nations at war and must
take part in the reconstruction. He
declared the war had revealed 1 the
fact that there cannot be one stand
ard of morals within a nation and a
different and lower standard as be
tween nations. All the machinery
that has been devised in the past for
the maintenance of peace, he said,
has been left to volunteer efforts,
hereafter the nations must at least
put as much compelling force as has
heretofore been put forth for the pre
paration ot war.
"We must educate a new con
science,” declared the speaker, “which
will put no geographical limitations
upon right and justice. Civilized man
must recognize that there is some
thing more important than the indi
viduals, and that is the nation; and
that there is something more impor
tant than the nation, and that Js the
world.”