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PAGE SIXTEEN. THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1915. All Points (Daily) 12:40 p m. All Points (Daily) 6:50 p. m. All Points (Daily ex. Sun.) 9:45 a. m. For information telephone PAUL PINKERTON, Commercial Agt. Phone 81. E. SHELTON, Ticket Agent, . Phone 102*. Effective July 11th, 1915. 8 ^ s *tEa'stern Time.) TRUSTEE’S SALE pymwavp»(g>vwwt»»>K»>wt«»iifrjwom i*JK«H©K©X©)(©K®X<s»*®»»r.>h..»<. <©, winarnv *t©X©X©M©n©n©)(©H.*- 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 Advertise your wants. (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" \ Central Time. TRAINS DEPART For Macon 4:46 For Macon 4:15 p. m. TRAINS ARRIVE From Macon ..11:59 a. m. From Macon 9:10 p. m. Connections made at Madison with Georgia Railroad, at Appalachee with Green County Railroad for Monroe, and at Macon for all points south. For information: Phone 640 or 16. B. R. BLOODWORTH, Commercial Agent. Seaboard Air Line South Bound. No. li Departs 5:35 a. m. No. 17 Departs 7:10 a. m. No. 5 Departs 3:46 p. m. No. 29 Departs 6:17 p. m. North Bound. No. 30 Departs 10:40 a. m. No. 6 Departs 6:17 p. m. No. 18 Departs 7:45 p. m. No. 12 Departs ..* 11:42 p. m. 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.” Georgia Railroad (Eastern Time.) Train No. 50 leaves at 8:30 a. m. Train No. 52 leaves at 4:00 p. m. Train No. 56 leaves at 4:30 p. m., Sunday only. 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 Help Your Liver—It Pays. When your liver gets torpid and your stomach acts queer, take Dr. King’s New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. They purify the blood, give you freedom from constipation biliousness, diz ziness and Indigestion. You feel fine —just like you want to feel, deer ihe complexion too. 25c at Drug gists. adv Advertise your wants. (By Associated Press.) 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 Southern Railway “ATHENS BRANCH” — Trains Depart All Points (Daily) All Points (Daily) 1:00 All Points (Sun. Only) .. 3:15 All Points (Daily ex. Bun.) 3:30 p. 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I took three bottles of these Tables and have since been in the best of health.’.’ For sale by all deal ers. adv 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.”