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THURSDAY DECEMBER 20. 1023 the TIMES-RECORDER DAILY STORY u ished in Installments of Two Columns Each. Copies of Back Installment Available On Application at This Office. -TJ- - L . T 77“ , Atherton _ t .. n.crt Mssuci.ica rust ~a>>vnal c ores, lnc - Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Meyd with Corinne Griffith at Countes* Zattlany. X CowrUht liu br Qurttuds Athsrtoa "j • XXXII (Continued) Clavering returned to his seat With no sense of tho old chair’s comfort, and she went on In a mo ment. "The unfairness of It as I looked at that old witch In the glass that had reflected my magnificent youth, seemed to me unendurable. I had lived a virtuous and upright life. I knew damned welt she hadn't I had done my duty by the race and my own and my husband's people, and I had brought up my sons to be honorable and self-respecting men, whatever their l fallings, and my daughters in the best traditions of Amer: lean womanhood. They are model' wives and mothers, and they have made no weak-kneed concessions to these degenerate times. They bore me but I'd rather they did than disgrace me. Mary never even had one child, although her husband must have wanted an heir 1 have lived a life of duty duty to my family traditions, my husband, my children, my country, and to Society; she one of self-ln dhlgi-me and pleasure and excite ment, although I'm not belittling the work she did during the war. But noblesse oblige What e!sA could she do'. 1 And now, she'll at it again She'll have the pick of our young men—l don't know whether it's all tragic or grotesque. She'll waste no time on those men who loved het in tier youth—small blame to her. Who wants to cod’ die old men'.’ They've ail got some thing the matter with 'em . . . But she'll have love —love—if not Jihere —and thank God. she's not re imainlng long —then elsewhere and -■'wherever she chooses. Love! I too once took a tierce delight in making men love me It seenjsf a thousand years ago What if I should try to make a man fall in love with me today? I'd be rushed , off by my terrified family to a pad- ' * '.'Well—Jape ” "Don't 'well .Line' me! You’d lump out of the window if I sudden-, ly began to make eyes at you. I could rely on your manners. You wouldn't laugh tintil you stfuqk ’ the grass .and'then you’d be- ar resti d for/disturbing the peace- Well—don’t worry. I'm not an old ass.’ But I'm a terribly bewildered old woman. It seems to me there has been a crashing in the air ever since she sat In that chair. . . . Growing old always seemed to me a natural process that no arts or i 11 1 © ‘“l’d give my immortal soul to be thirty again—or look it.'” dodges could interrupt, and any attempt to arrest the processes of nature was an irreverent gesture.' in the face of Almighty God. It was immoral and irreverent, n-u ab'ove*all it showed a lack of 1. mor and of sound common se - The world, my candid grand tells me, laughs at the worn- i my generation for their qj ioned 'eut.' But we have oui ; - and we have the courage to live up to it. That is one reason; perhaps, why growing old has never meanti anything to me but reading spec-: taeles, two false teeth, and weak' ankles. It had seemed to me that; my life had been pretty full— V never had much Imagination—what ; with being as good a wife as ever lived— although James was pompous bora if there ever one—bringing eight childre the world and not makin" of one. cl' them, neve .g my charities or mv >• .ties or my establishment I have grown older I haw «-• reflected upon a life well nt and looked forward to dying when my time came with no qualms whatever, particularly as there was precious little left for me to do except give parties for my grandchildren and blow them up occasionally. I never labored under the delusion that I had an angelic disposition or • perfect character, but I had al ways had, and maintained, certain standards; and, according to my, lirhts it seemed to me that when I arrived at the foot of the throne the Lord would say to me Well done, thou good and faithful eerv» ant.' The only thing I ever reg'-- ted was that I wasn't a man.' She paused and then wuni >. a voice that grew more rani oiis <•' ery moment. "That was later it .- a long time since I've admitted even to myself that there was « period—after my husband's death I —when I hated growing old with the best of them I was.fifty arid found myself wltth complete l b erty for the first time in my lite, for the elder children were all mar Tied, and the younger in Europe at school. I had already begun to look upon myself as an old woman : . . . But I soon made the terrible discovery that the heart never grows old. I fell in love four .times. They were all years young er than myself and I'd have opened bne of my veins before I'd have let I tfhem find it out. Even then I had .as little use for old men as old men have for old women. Whatever it may be in men, it's the young heart in women. 1 had no illu sions. Fifty is fifty. My complex lon was gone, my stomach high, and I had the face of an old war horse. But —and here is the damn ■ ed trick that nature- plays on us— I hoped—'hoped I dreamed - and as ardently as I ever had dreamed In my youth, when I was on the look-out for the perfect knlgh' and before 8 compromised on Janies Oglethorpe, who was handsome tie fore he grew those whiskers and got fat —yes. as ardently as tn mv Youth I dreamed,that those cle'-ar intelligent men would look through the old husk and see only the young heart and the wise brain — I knew that I could give them mare dhan many a younger woman But If beauty is only skin deep the sk'n ,1s all any man wants, the best of ,'em. They treated me with th-' most Impeccable respect—for tin first time tn my life I hated the word —and liked my society be cause I was an amusing caustic old woman. Os course they drifted off. ' either to marry, or because I terri fled them with my sharp tonguoir i when I loved them most and felt as i If I had poison in my veins- Well ■ 1 saved my pride, at all even's “By the time you came along I ' had sworn at myself once for ajl aa an old fool, and. in anv case. I i would hardly have been equal to falling in love with a brat of twen i ty-two.” She seized the stick that always : rested against her chair and thumped the floor with it. "Never ! theless,” she exclaimed with sav | age contempt, "my heart Is as - young today as Mary Ogden's That is the appalling discovery I have i made this week. I'd give my im mortal soul to bo thirty again—or ■ look it. Why in heaven's name did | nature play us this appalling dirty I trick?” “But Jane!" He felt like tearing ! his hair. What was Mary Zat | tiany's tragedy to this? Banalities ! -were the only'refuge. "Remember I that at thirty you were in love with ' your husband and bent on having a family " "1 meant thirty and all 1 know now. ... I'm not so damn sure I'd have tried to make myself think I was in love with James —who had ; about as much imagination as a grasshopper and the most infernal mannerisms. I'd have found out what love and life meant, that’s what! And when I did I'd have sent I codes and traditions to the devil." “Oh, no, you would not. If you’d had it in you you’d have done it. anyhow. All women of your day were not virtuous —not by a long sight. I’ll admit that your best pos sibilities have been wasted; I’ve al ways thought that. You have a terrific personality and If you were at your maturity in this tradition less era you’d be a great national figure, not a mere social power. But nature in a fit of spite launched •'u too soon and the cast-iron tra ins were too strong for you it 'he epoch of the submerged lary Ogden was brought up In tuuse same cast-iron traditions.’’ “Yes, but Madame Zattiany be longs to a class of women that de ; rive less from immediate ancestors I Vhan from a I—"ndary race of si re-fis — n ot so rely legendary. 1 perhap® we t-i-iik. Convention j, O r- • “ilo I'-irness for such I v ,;,,i p'sys no part’whatever I ' secret lives." You’re in love with Mary." Don’t come back to me. I won’t ,ave it. For the moment I don’t foel- as if I had an atom of per- I sonality left, I’m so utterly absorb j od in you; and I’d give my immor ’ tai soul to help you.” "Yes, I know that I wouldn’t be j turning myself inside out If I | didn’t. I've never talked to a liv | ing soul as I've talked to you to ! night and 1 never shall again." She starefl at him for a moment, I -and then she hurst into a loud laugh. I It was awe-inspiring, that laugh. I Lucifer in hell, holding his sides at I tho futilities of mankind, could not i have surpassed it. “What a mess! I What a mess! Life! Begins no where, ends nowhere." She went i on muttering to herself, and then. I abruptly, she broke into the sap : castic speech which her friends i knew best. (Te Be Continued) j-Li CANCER DEATH TOLL ! IS W 8 IM 922 Slight Increase in Death Rate of Dread Disease Shown In Census Reports WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The Department of Commerce an- Jiounues that compilations made by lhe Bureau of Census show that 80,938 deaths were due to cancer in the death .registration area in 1922, which comprised about 85.3 per cent of the total population of the United and if the rest of the United States had as many deaths from this cause in proportion to the population the total number of deaths from cancer in the entire United States was 95,000 for 1922 against a corresponding estimate of 93,000 for 1921. The death rate from cancer in the registration area in 1922 was 86.8 per 100.000 population as against 86 in 1921. Only five states, show lower rates fj>i- 1922 than for 1921. In comparing the death rate from cancer in one state with that in -another, the Bureau uses “adjusted” rates in vrder to make allowance for differences in the age and sex distribution of the population, because, generally speaking, only persons in middle life and old age have cancer, so that a state with many old persons may be expected to have more deaths from cancer than a state with compara tively old persons. CHARLOTTE HAS BIG MILLION DOLLAR FIRE CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 20. Damage done by fire °f Sunday night which destroyed a number of ’ buildings and damaged others in the East Trade street retail district here will reach if not exceed, one million dollars, according to re vi. ed estimate made today. Mer chants whose stocks were damaged oy water and smoke today Were ta,> ;ng stock of their losses ana it was ; aui this would prove . much heav ier than a first thought, especially! ,in the five-story building of Belk brothers' department store, which 'was next door to the Smith-Wads worth company. State Fire Marshall Sherwood Brockwell, in a preliminary re port made'to his chief, State In surance Commissioner Stacy Wade at Raleigh, said that .the damage would be about $1,000,009. The stock of the Smith-Wades worth company, both in its retail and wholesale department, was found today to be a total loss ex cept for some goods in the show windows of the retail department. This firm hak a stock of goods val- 11 jilll i INTEGR.ITYO k j g A SERVICE New Low Prices I on Studebaker Closed Cars I Light-Six two-pass. Coupe-Roadster $1195 Light-Six five-passenger Coupe $1395 Light-Six five-passenger Sedan $1485 Special-Six five-passenger Coupe $1895 Special-Six five-passenger Sedan $1385 Big-Six five-passenger Coupe $2495 Big-Six seven-passenger Sedan $2685 All prices f. o. b. factory It With SB,OOO, OOOinvested exclusively in body plants and facilities, Studebaker is rble to build bodies of highest quality, in large volume, and thus make im portant savings. - It is a Studebaker policy not to wait for any par ticular time to announce lower prices but to give the customer the advantage of manufacturing savings as soon as they become effective. These savings are reflected in the new !~w trices of all Studebaker Closed Cars. Phone —or ca i— a demonstration. GATEWOOD MOTOR CO STUDEBAKER EXCLUSIVELY THIS IS A STUDEBAKER YE I THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ I tied at more than $250,000. Water today stood several ihches I deep in the basement of Belk brothers’ store and goods on virtu ally every floor was damaged by water. ALL G#ULD CHILDREN TO GET BIG LEGACY NEW YORK, Dee. 20.—Supreme Court Justice Davis Wednesday de cided that each of the seven children of the lase George J. Gouljl by his first wife was entitled to $582,- 872.35 from the trust established byh Jay Gould in his will ffeg the ' benefit of George J. Gould dnj, h:s i other children. AUTOMOBILE MAN; MURDER LAID TO DRIVER GRIFFIN, Dec. 20. —A warrant charging murder was sworn out Tuesday morning against G. R. Manley, a white man, in connection with the death of John David As lan, 57, who was run down and kill ed by an automobile truck Satur day afternoon shortly after 5 o’clock on the Experiment road near the cross roads leading to the Rush ton mill, just north of Griffin. Deputy Sheriff Cliff Brannon, Lwho has been investigating the case found, according- to his statement,' that Manley delivered some gasoline ‘ to a store on Experiment street Saturday afternoon shortly after 5 . o’clock and that one of the con tainers on the truck was missing after his return. The container had not been accounted for Tuesday morning, he stated. Witnesses of the accident report ed that the truck which killed A - did not stop after the acicdent, ; but sped on down the road towards the Gulf Refining company. Officer Brannon arrested Manley Tuesday morning about 9 o’clock after serving the murder warrant. •Manley was given a committment trial Wednesday morning -before Judge Taylor. He has employed Beck and Beck to represent him. NEW BROOKS COUNTY AGENT NOW ON JOB QUITMAN, Dec. 20—R. A. Strat ford, the newly elected county agent, has arrived for his permanent residence in Quitman and lias as sumed his new duties of leading the ■ county cut of the wilderness of con fusion and anxiety that has marked I the recent past. I Mr. Stratford is spending the - first few days in meeting as many ; of his new friends' as possible and I arranging permanent office ’ quar | ters. In a few days he will be! giv en an advisory board and a program will be decided upon for immediate work. He is very much pleased with conditions as he finds them • new existing in the county and has been assured of wide co-operation. SfIIfTHERN ARTISTS PUS BIG MIT. Fourth Annual Exhibition To Be Held At Telfair Academy In Savannah NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 20. The fourth annual exhibition of southern artists will be held at the Telfair Academy of arts and science, Savannah, next March, ac cording to announcement by Miss Florence M. Mclntyre, of Memphis, £ehm. chairman, of arts of the, Teftnessee Federation of „ Women’s clubs and first vice-presiuent’ of the Southern States Art league. The league expects a large num ber of southern artists to furnish exhibits for the display. Entry cards will be issued by the secretary of the league, Dr. Roy Van Ware, •150 Audubon Place, New Orleans. All work submitted for exhibi tion will be passed on upon the 1 , in dividual merits by a jury and only those favorably passed upon will be I hung, as the purpose of the»exhi i bition is to raise the standard of work in this section, in order to I make southern artists eligible to I the mure, important exhibits in the East and West,, it is announced. Elsworth Woodward, of New Or leans, is president, and W. C. Mill er, second vice president of the league. I PLAN TOBACCO FTING - FOR SPAxii A NEAT M "TH SPARTA, Dec. 20. —Announce- I meet of a tobacco meeting to be -held here on Thursday, January 3, 1924, has aroused interest in the culture of the “weed” in this section. . The principal speaker on the program will be C. VV. West brook, of tl'.e State College of Agri culture. He is an expert tobt-.eeo man and is said to be the first to I introduce tobacco raising into Geor gia on the present scale? L. M Squires, Burlington, N. C., a practical tobacco raiser was in ■ Sparta several days last week rmik- I ing c:-'.tracts with farmers to 1 et j him a. ..ist them in raising a certain I acreage of tobacco. ? r -. Squires I has contracted several i... 'ci I acres and expects to get 'fivb huu dred acres by February when h, will come down to help the farmers plan their seed’beds. He states that , the lands of Hancock county are as well adapted to the culture of to bacco as any he has ever seen in North Carolina. He has the best , recommendations and stakes his . money and judgment against the i farmer's labor and lands. SLAYER OF FRIEND IS INDICTED IN DUBLIN, DUBLIN, Dec. 20,—At a hearing I Here Monday Joseph Dixon, a- youth ' j Who shot and killed Scab Donald-! son, early Saturday night, at Dud-j ley, was bound over for involuntary manslaughter. At first the shoot-: ing was considered an accident, but I an uncle of Donaldson swore oul a I Warrant for Dixon’s arrest. Dixon surrendered just after the warrant was issued. He explained at the trial that he. was examining the gun, that he I thought he took all the cartridges from, but that as he snapped the gun several times it went off kill ing Donaldson. Two witnesses at Uhe hearing said that the shooting pas accidental, but a 12-year-oid I noy testified that Dixon uttered an oath as he turned and shot Donald son. Dixon and Donaldson had been friends for several years and there was no difference between them. Dixon made bdnd and returned to his horiie. Donaldson is survived by nis widow. — PROHIBITION FORCES TAKE RUM CARS IN DEKALB DECATUR, Dec. 20.—Prohibition officers and local ■ authorities have , aeen active in DeKalb county for the past few weeks and a large amount of whiskey has been cap tured from automobiles. The men arrested in these cases have been put under a heavy bond and the . cars confiscated. In some cases die bootleggers left their carjjwhen attempts to get away from the po lice proved futile and imide their escape the officers then destroying die liquor and taking possession of the automobile. More than 700 , gallons of whiskey and twelve au tomobiles have been captured in the , ast seven days in this county . i News from Paris. French women may be given the vote soon. This is me style Paris didn’t set. THE FLORIDAN DIXIE LIMITED THE SEMINOLE DIXIE FLYER THE SOUTHLAND Daily Through Trains to The NORTH AND WEST For Schedules, through Car Service, Tickets, etc., call on H. C. White, Agent* Americus. Ga. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY The Right Way TELEPHONE 137. TOILET SETS In D jer Kiss, Mary Garden and Many Other Lines NATHAN MURRAY Druggist 120 W. Forsyth St. """""" """ ""J 1 ' ■■ ■ - - ECZEMA-PRACTICALLY CONE "When I first began using WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT I was badly troubled with eczema. I have spent a lot of money and tried dozens of remedies, non e of them doing me any good. Shortly after I began using WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT the eczema began to fade away and now it is practically all gone and lam feeling fine. I have been postmaster in this town for eighteen years.” EDWARD. DUNN, Castleton, Vermont. Whole Grain Wheat This potent food is the natural wheat berry (the only sin gle food known to man which contains in balanced combina tion all the sixteen elements required each day for normal nu trition) in its whole form just as it comes from Nature’s lab oratory with nothing added and nothing taken away, and is wheat in its supreme nutritional effect, because it is the first wheat civilized man ever ate that has been cooked ready to serve without oxidation, distillation, or evaporation effects, the method of cooking being protected by the United States and Canadian Governments. It is not whole wheat flour, but is a food after the form of peas and’beans, and more potent in its nutritional effect than any cooked food ever before pro duced, because the cooking has not demineralized nor oxidiz ed its mineral constituents. It is never sold through grocery* stores but only through authorized distributor. It comes in hermetically sealed san itary 11-ounce tins (ample for four servings) and is sold in packages of not less than one dozen (a 24-day supply because regular use is essential to results) delivered for $2.00. Guaran teed to improve the user physically and mentally when used twice daily for 24 days or money refunded. Sold Only By MRS. R. T. MATHEWS Phone 862 For Delivery Come To 108 Cotton Ave. PAGE THREE .FINOmONOF i Gim ELEPHANT Perfect Specimen Is Unearthed In Florida by Amherst College Professor TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 20. I Perhaps the most complete skele ton of the elephant that roamed the i eastern section of the North Ameri ' can continent in pre-historic days, has been unearthed at Melbourne by Dr. Fred B. Loomis, professor of geology at Amherst college, '; Mass. Dr. Loomis* is making excavations 1 1 in the vicihity of Melborne at the 1 1 invitation of the Chamber of Com ’, merce of that City. The find was 'made on the property of C. P. Sing-, i feton, at whose suggestion the in i vitation was extended to Dr. Loomis. A list of bones found is contain ' ed in a letter from Dr. Loomis to ' Herman Gunter, state geologist of Florida. The letter says. “I have just completed taking up the mammoth skeleton. It has , turned out: ‘Skill; two bases of rttsks about three feet long each, four teeth and , fragments of a skull. “Vertebrae seven cervical, 18 or 19 more or less complete dorsals and lumbal’sm sacrum four tail. Ribs, eight or ten complete and 20 to 25 section, also enough for both sides. “Front limbs, two scapulae, two 1 thirds of the humerus, radius, and ’ ulna, most of one foot, other leg boneS represented by ends and ■ pieces of shafts. ' “Hind limbs, pelvis in four pieces but easily put’together, one femur, one tibia, and one foot; the other 3 leg has two-thirds of femur, the rest in ends and pieces.” ’ Preparations are being made for ‘ the mounting of the bones, Dr. ’ Loomis advised the state geologist.
