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n THE BANNER-HERALD ,Lli V\ v - The Tail That Wags the Dog ATHENS, GA. Published Every Evening Daring the Week Except Saturday Sander end en Sonde/ Homing by Ike Athene Fablilhisg Compeer, Athene, Ge. -i- KARL B. BRASWELL . U. 1. ROWE CHARLES & MARTIN Pnblieher end Cenerel Meneger Editor Managing Editor Entered at the Athene Postoffice ei Second Clou Mail Hatter ua3*r the Act ot Congress March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Effective Nov. 12. U2J) By city carrier delivery, One Week, 13 cents; Two Weeks, 26 cents; One Month, 55 cents; Three Months, 31.85; Six Months, 33.26; One Year, 36.60. Mail Subscription Rate. 36.00 per year. ' MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub- licatioa of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published therein. All rights tion of special dispatches are also reserved. Address ail Business Commuications direct to the Athens Publishing Company, not to individuals. News articles Intended for publication should be addressed to The Banner-Herald. TRAVELING ON WATER SAFE Statistics show that the steamboat is the safest way : in which to travel. Certainly it is a delightful way and gives to the passenger every opportunity of im proving health and enjoying the refreshing and ex hilarating whiffs of salt air . In speaking of the total accidents occurring from other forms of travel, the Moultrie Observer makes this statement: Total accidents during the year involving loss of life were 107, and the aggregate loss of life • was 247^ of which but 59 were passengers; 116 of the fatalities were due to suicide, falling over board, and other acts, of the deceased leaving ,* only 81 directly chargeable to collisions, explo sions, founderings, etc. The ratio of passengers lost through such accidents to total passengers carried was 1 to 6,476,785. A splendid record for steamboat travel. In this day and time the steamboat is as comfortable as is one’s home and every facility imaginable is placed at the disposal of the passengers. The small per cent- age of mortality is less than those killed on the streets . from accidents, which goes to show what modern in ventions have done to make comfortable 'and safe those who use the steamboat for travel. INCREASED MARKETING FACILITIES p"' Marketing facilities throughout the state and es pecially in this immediate section have shown a won derful improvement during the past few years. There was a time when farmers would bring in a load of potatoes, vegetables, chicken eggs and butter and find the market so glutted that much of their produce would have to be returned, there being no demand for the supply. That condition has changed, however, as has been demonstrated by the. curb market here for the past year. The farmers in this section have increased their productions of country produce and ■a ready market at profitable' prices is found for it. The consumption in Athens has shown a wonder ful increase besides the demand elsewhere for shipping. Much of the produce brought to this mar- i ket is shipped to points all over the country where a ready market is found and at staple prices. It is now a question-of producing more foodstuff in order ' to supply the demand which is growing yearly. The Albany Herald in commenting on conditions during recent years has the following to say; It U becoming easier every year for South Georgia fanners to convert tha products of their [ acres into cash. The way to market is a good deal easier than it was a few years ago, and no longer docs the farmer who drives to town with a load of stuff from his field, garden, orchard ’ or poultry yard to sell have to take part of his ’ ' load back to tho farm. With tho building of good roads the farmer is * enabled to haul much larger amounts and with the use of the automobile he can make several trips a day in less time than it used to require to make one. The day of bad roads, ox carts and stock teams has ’ passed. The automobile has supplanted them and the farmer living out twenty-five to thirty miles is near enough for the market Our farmers are learning to pack their products ’ in uniform and standard form, properly graded and selected. With this condition a ready market is found and a standard price paid for the produce without cutting or bickering over the price. Conditions have improved and they will continue to improve and the farmer will come into his own and become the most independent and prosperous citizens of ail lines cf industries. Hh IS CRIME ON THE DECREASE? Wm From statistics it is shown that crimes of all char- actcr are on the 1 increase and especially that of mur der. The courts are too lax and the various pleas ’ through which many criminals secure their freedom has grown to an alarming extent Insanity in its va rious forms seem* to be the popular defense of the average murderer. If murder ia committed in cold ’ blood and without provocation, the murderer sets up a plea of insanity and the depraved criminal acts the.part while his lawyers interpret hia form of 'in sanity to the juries. Unless such criminals are tried on the merit of their crimes and punishment in keep- * r ing with the crime is meted to them, such violations of the law will continue and grow in number. The Charleston News and Courier in commenting on the wave of crime sweeping the country says: "The fear of punishment no longer deters as once it did. Why is this the case? The answer is prob ably somewhat complex. The potential criminal per ceives that many actual criminals escape uncaught He perceives that many who are caught manage to > elude justice, that many others contrive to postpone and'postpone and postpone the reckoning until at last, when it comes, if it comes at ail, it is not so serious a matter. Moreover, many states have abol ished the gallows, while the movement for the aboli tion of capital punishment is gaining. Prisons, too, are not what they once were. The potential criminal is aware that, while they havp their drawbacks,' prisons are now comparatively comfortable. "Sentimentalism, loose morals which condone criminality, coddling of criminals, inefficiencies and delays of the law—these things have all helped to bring it about that the fear of punishment no longer deters to the same extent as formerly. Meanwhile, society suffers. ■ - A ” J A lL._. ned around 1,600 bales ot cotton. Around Ainens Mr*. C. A. Notion ot Greoniboro .With CoL T. Larry Gaatt Ed Clark, ot Cornell*, m in tho city this week, on hie return from Oglethorpe county, where he mat to look after hie farms. Mr. Clark •ays. that the peach crop waa a partial failure end there ie a alow •alp for applee which are being kept In cold storage until the mar ket Improves. He says he had an unexpectedly, good crop on hie Oglethorpe farms and bet them ell rented lor next year. _Htin.VT. DECEMBER 21 T5: died after a continued Illness. Charles Hughey waa eerlouely scalded by tho steam pipe at a Tom Porterfield,''of Oconee this week caught a mammoth owl that measured 64 Inches from tip to tip of wings, and* which bird li now exhibited at the Clarke Stor. age Battery. It in being fed on pigeons and English sparrows and •wallows a sparrow at one gulp. It Is the largest owl ever seen In our city end is very vicious. The owl caught a grown rooster for Mr. Porterfield end after eating a part of the fowl left the rest on a ter. race near the house. Mr. Porter. Held halted a steel trap with a part of the roocter left and when the Owl returned that night to flnleh Its feet were caught In the trap, and was captured alive. It attncti much attention. Alec Yancey le the name ot a worthy colored farmer near HulL Last fell when be planted his tur nip pitch be (Owed some cabbage eeed with them. The dry weather ktUed the turnips but the csbhate came up end he Is now supplying not only hie neighbors but the curb market with plants. This shows whet can be accomplished by an Industrious darkey in this section. Alex will get about as much ror his cabbage plants as hie cotton brought. Berton Braley’s Daily Poems SOME TIME SINCE By Berton Braley (If it isn't pronounced this way. heir prya- then the verses are all wrong.) In the days of Tut-ankomen Excavations seem to show men Lived a life not greatly differ ent from ours; And from reading the inscriptions, We deduce that the Egypt! Were quite busy, mid the mlds and towers, In acquiring worldly treasure, While they spent their hours of leisure .... In pursuit of love and laughter; ' so .wo know All those people Intimately, Who lived gaily or sedately In the days of Tut-ankomen, some four thousand yean ago! DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU? I , A Little of Everything And Not Mach «f Anything. ■X HUGH ROWE, Ladles from Oconee ere bring ing beautiful red berried holly to our curb market for Christmas decorations, and find tor It ready sale. One lady told me that the supply of holly was disappearing and she would set out ft number of bushes or plant the seed In their woods; We see that an effort Is being made to preserve the holly growing w|ld In our woods. . Col. Kendrick, who will bo pleasantly remembered at com mandant of the University of Osergtft now statiened in At lanta, la ependle n few daya here. Col. Kendrick mnde many friends while here and hla visit la a source of much pleasure to them. In the daya of VTut-ankomen There were bluffs they used throw. Men Tried to seem much more im portant than they were; The Egyptian politicians Had them little cheap ambition. And Jn public lift groat scandals would occur. Women had a fervid passion To bo dressed In latest fashion And the ladles’ huabanda grum bled as they saw expenses Another popular and unlvor tally like military officer la Col. D. W. Ryther, recently transferred from the university to Port Banning and now to Fort McPherson. Col. Ryther waa com mandant for a number of years at tho University of Qeorala and waa beloved not only by the student body and members of tho faculty, but by tho entire cltlsenshlp. Hlf COUCHS DISTURB SCHOOL WORK same advice to children who have coughs aa did this Florida teacher. I recommend FOLEY’S ' HONEY [ AND TAR to the children In my High society divorces Ran their brief caloric courses, In the daya of Tut-ankomen, some ft ago! four thousand yean In the day. of Tut-ankomen Old folks held It aa an omen Of the terrible decadence of the diy, That the flappers of the nation Mocked the elder generation— (Which “could never. never hap- , pen In our day”) Though no movias gave them shivers, , And there were no chugging fliv- Yet in all our dally living Arch eology will show That we haven't got them faded And a re acting much aa they did In tho days of Tut-ankomen, some four thousand yean ago I DOLL CARRIAGES GINS, 31.25 to 37.00. school who had the *flu’ and gool result* came whenever ,lt was used,** write* Mrs. L. Armstrong, Okeechobee, Florida. Foley's Money and Tar contalha no opi ates. Ingredient* printed on the wrapper. Quickly relieves colds* coughs and croup. Sold where.—Advertisement. Drives out Vermin Don’t forgot Mothor. In these day. and timao whan th. rush of .vary day matters la upon u. and everyone (a going in high gear and thinking of thl. and that and many more thlg. for the gift .oaaon, pause long enough to remember Mothor and aoe to It that she ia thought of and a remem brance is purchased for her. Mho Is absorbed In the children thoso who are near and dear to her and self la the last thought which enters her mind, but whai th. hurly-burly .hopping houro are over and In the quietude of tha llVlng or bod\room she enters Into a reminiscence of the past ysar and her love and affection .for tho children rl.es up In her very soul and her heart goe. out to them and their toy and happiness lo eu promo with her. Mother Is the on* dho I. responsible for tho happl ness In the household and tin burden of all tho Christmas rests upon her. Before tha children came, ehe wae the pet. Now aho should not bo forgotten, a small gift, costing only a. row dollars, satisfies rid cause, bar to be happy, the mere fact that It comes from Dad and tho children nnu that .he has been ramemberod make, for h.r a Joyous and happy Christ mas. It la surprising the number of farmers who are holding their cot ton with the expectation of the price reaching forty cents or bet ter. Lest Tuesday we met on the street a half dozen large farmers and all stated that they had not oold a bole as yet, but would hold imtU spring aa they felt assured the price would not gat any lower, but advanco when the distress cot ton was bought up. When cotton roaches forty cents It Invades the domain of flax. planing mill at Thurston bursting. A negro man was also blowA sev eral feet by tbe explosion. Several outfits for making booze and 18,000 gallons of beer were destroyed on tbo Oconee river bot tom*. i The Greene banka say all the Carmen they helped last year are paying their notes promptly. Mrs. Josephine Ellington, aged 64, a beloved .Union Point lady, baa passed away. Mrs. Lillian. Beau, a lady well known In Oreene le practicing law in Washington. D. C, Mias Effle Lee Ruark. of BUoam and Ralph Moon are married. There Is every promise of the finest hunting aessoa for, many yean In Oreene. MADISON COUNTY DAN1ELSVILLE.—The * farmers of Madlsou are taking great In terest In poultry raising. Mrs. J. P. Wright, aged 76. died at her home near DanteUvUle Funeral eervlcea at Union Baptisi church. The death of Miss Monteen Kel lum was a shock to her many friends. She was In Commerce when taken ill. 8he has relatives in Athens. With the nearing of the holi days, singings are held nil over the Free State. OCONEE COUNTY WATKINSVILLE.—The aim of tho Civic League of Watkfnsvllld Is to make bf tbs place a town heenflfnl * beautiful. Mrs. H. B. WblUker, of Wmtklns- ville, received a telegram stating that her residence at El Paso, Texas, was burned-. Tbe ladlee of ‘Watklnsville ask that tbo Sunday laws be more stringently enforced. Samuel, the little eon of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Walker, of High Sbolas, died last week. Robust Men Like BAKER’S COCOA The cocoa, of high quality. Baker’s Cocoa is invigorating, stimulating only in the sense that pure food is stimu lating, it has a delicious flavor •»»»*““• and aromg, b a great addition to meals and a wonderful between meals stay. MADE ONLY BY Walter Baker & Co.LfA mills at dokchestes, mass. AND MONTREAL, CANADA HMH of Chain KnUaiSmtTru Miss McOInley, the tuberculosis nurse. Owe placed on exhibition at the drug store of H. R. Palmer A Sons, a chart that la attreating a great deal or attention. It la a map of Athena with every ease' of tn- Hercnloala in the county marked by n black dot It la really dis tressing to Inspect this map and see the number of razes ot tbe White Plague h> our city, and bow they are scattered. On some blocks there are a halt dozen or more cases, and they seem more numer- one In some localities than In oth er!. There le not • section of Ath- and few squares, that are ex empt from thla dread disease. It . fearful showing but Athena Is no exception amosg Georgia towns end rltlee. BANKS COUNTY HOMER.—Case ot diptheris In Maysvllle, but It will be kept under control. A white convict last week es caped from the Banks county gang end la still at largo . Cheap llqour In Banka has al most run the lemon extract sellers out of business. Coon Ward was seriously injured In Alabama when {he was ran through a big rock-crnsbhig ma chine. Messrs. Furr and Hill drove a fllwor through from Homer to W*et Palm Beach. Fin., In two day* and one night. Ki-woiDS QUICK RELIEF' For INDIGESTION T WO TO-NIGHT for loss of apt* tit*. had breath, coated ton sue. btiiouinci. Withoot griping Ot CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS Set your liver right—only 2So 666 Is a Proscription prepared for Cold, Fever and Grippe It is the most speedy remedy we know, Preventing Pneumonia Just as a filler to wind up a busy day of the humdrum ootthon when everybody ia up- Mt and on the ge purchasing Santa Claua for nil the llttla ones and aom. of th. grown ups ns well anecdote on the wife of n ^Mrs. Evhne, the vicar’s wlfbl was always Interested In ths well being of those under her hus- band', care. She knew every family In the village and moat ol their Illnesses, as wt.ll, which Is saying a good deal. One morning she met Mrs. Fog arty in the main street. Well, and how le your husband getting on now?” asked Mro Evano with a kindly amllo at the old woman. "Well.’’ replied Mro. Fogarty, ohaklng her head, "oometlmeo he’s bolter and sometime, he’s worse, but from tho way ho growls end takes on when he’s better Ol tbtnk he’s 1 better when he> worse.’ Mr. Cofer says be Is buying a treat many cow peaa .and they bring from 33 to 32.15 per bushel. A much better pea crop was made in thIA section that expected. Mr. cofer says If our farmro would ■tandardlse their peas and not mix them so they would bring a better price. He says tbe beet peas era the WblppowIU, the New Era and Babham. Tbe latter Is n a nail pea but very pro’IOc with a long pod. Mr. Cofer baa ready demand for cow peaa and mneb land plant ed In small grain will be sowed down. Chronic roughs and pontrient cold* ■Ion, an « pleasant V ntw medic flamed mtmbranas and Of all known drugs, ereoaote recognized by tha medical frater nity aa tha greatest healing agency for th* treatment of chronic cough* and colds and other forma off throat S v The cleanest house in the world may suddenly devel op all aorta of unwelcome inhabitants. ^ ^ Their visit will be term!-, nated quickly by proper! ’use of RED SEAL Lye, used according to directions. Rata, 1 mice, roaches, fleas and their like just naturally cannot live with red Seal Lye. er healing elements which sooth* and heal the inflamed meaibranea and stop ths Irritation and Inflam mation. while the creosote ~ the stomach; I* absorbed blood, attacks the seat of tbe trouble and destroys ths germs that lead to Booklet of uses on request. Full directions in each can. Be sure and buy only the( genuine Red Seal Lye. ATHENS TWELVE YEARS AGO Friday, December 22, 1911 Cotton: 91-4 to 9 5-19 cents. Weather: Cold and rain. On account of Christmas. Post master Fleming has ordered ths general delivery window to be kept open from 19 to ! o’clock on Sunday. Dr. T. B. Jago waa elected prdaf- ■dent of the Georgia Veternarians association. , Governor Slaton appointed J H. Pottle of. Blakely to succeed Judge Arthur Powell, on the court of ap- peals | Judge J. J. Strickland war slightly hurt in wreck on Seaboard near Ltlbum. Dr. C. O. Heidi er of the T. M, C. A. le suffering from blood poison. le guaranteed satis* excellent tot and lung diseases, and h !'‘wcdb r arlSjSJr led If anv cough or cold, no mat- bow. long »ta«rfng is not tiered after taking according to ynir drum. © L Ga.—/ mahSou/ cu* Atlanta. , Ussmtac. Every fanner we have seen de nies that ha will increase bis cot ton acreage next year, and sev eral said they would substitute peanut* for the gtaple. We hope they will hold to thla resolve, foi under boll -weevil conditions cot ton is a very uncertain crop to plant. Athens’ Neighbors ELBERT COUNTY ELBERTON.yJ. T. Bui-rough,, one of Elbqrt’a successful firmer,, milks E cows. Next year he will plant 30 acres In ueta. 40 acres In core and 6 or 7 la cotton. Elbert this year made a bigger co(lon crop by a thousand bales than list year. The flue residence of H. A. Hall near RuckenvlUe, was burned. Fully covered by Ineunnce. A. B. Walker, who dldd In At- anta. was brought lb bla old borne, . Jlberton, tor Interment. Mian Ollle Nelms and Riley Blachln are married. Dr. A. W. Chase’s, E-L Pills For kltfney and liver troubles, constipation, intestinal indigestion and kindred ills. If you have coated tongue, fickle appetite, pale, muddy complexion, pains under the left shoulder blade, or attacks of headache, your liver prob ably is affected. Read below and act today: Mrs. C. Mehnke, 5128. Sheridan Su, Bay City, Michigan, writes: C, G. Dewey, Watsonville, Cal- _ **} hats seed Dr. A. W. fhws wsa saaBws.tssabf«wSri sari sf A Chase’a Jf-t/nu* , I seed them for mtwiI yean •* lavodoos * sad th«y have done wonder* for no apd^ay Uope this will Too am hay these K-L Pills at all Drag Stereo To be erne of Chris, ths genuine, see that portrait end elgneum of A. W. Cheeft M. IX, ere CO each bo*—poor protection against Or. A. W. CHASE MEDICINE CO. E37 Washington 8treat, BaOtlo, K Y. Money on Central City Property - —Five and Half Per Cent—5^% Simple Interest HUBERT M. RYLEE, LAW OFFICES 404-5 Holman Building Telephone 1576 SUFFERED FIVE YEARS FROM KIDNEYS 1 suffered with kidney Iroubls [tor five years or more. I could not ifktp at night and I waa always I tired after coming boms from work, and my back ached,’* writes John R. Gordon. Danville, m. ”1 sscurad soma FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS and after a few treatments I felt better and could work w(th more ease, became stronger Rev. 3. H. Fowler who was bora and raised lu El&ert died in Car- teravllle. Elbert farmers are anxious to Save calcium SreOnatc on the iror TODAY ONLY! • Today is the only day. Insurance in the only wey you can protect rouraelf against the possible destruction of your homo or the po«\ »IM* lo*a of your valuables. Tomorrow hlways'hold the possibility n loss. Today alwajrs offers the protection of insurance. See an insurance agent today. Our office in open or we will call upon you •D YequaaL Wa can furniah you all forms of Property Protection THE HINTON SECURITIES CO.. Athens, Ga. list Adrsr GREENE COUNTY GREENSBORO—Charlie Walls, wife and two children had a nar row czeapo when he lost control i of a Studcbaker car. that plunged down an embankment ten feet. All i received painful Injuries. | _ J A new feed grinding mUl has 1 m.aap ueuer.- For quick re- i.b< on started la Greensboro by par-1 lief from Backache, Rheumatic, Hes front North Carolina. I Ins. and Kidney and Btaddcrj Chief of Police W. T. Cooper FOLEY KIDNEY | will {m a candidate for sheriff, everywhere.—Adver- J Up to November 8th, Greene ’ __ [county la estlmated-to hare glu-J STORE FOR RENT Now occupied by Athens Truck Co., No. 383 OCCUDH _ ^ __ East Washington Street Excellent location for Automobile, Tire, Battery or Community Grocery Business. Apply to: • * E. D. SLEDGE lUgumUBE?