About The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1915)
GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA, GERMAN BATTLESHIP BREAKS THE BLOCKADE The German battleship Von dor Tnun, which ts said to have broken through the blockade established In the Uorth sea by the British fleet, and started across the Atlantic to Join the cruiser Karlsruhe; ARE BEST OF FORTS United States Defenses, How ever, Are Short of Men. Works on Corregldor Almost as Im pregnable as Gibraltar or Helgoland —Great Fortifications Which Guard National Capital. By EDWARD B. CLARK. <Staft Correspondent Western Newspaper Union.) Washington.—Since the war broke out In EuVope much has been heard about Helgoland as an impregnable Yortress. In dome statements It has been said that next to Gibraltar, Hel goland is the hardest fortress nut to crack In the whole world. How comes the United States to maintain that It has a fortress that Is not only not second to Helgoland In strength, but perhaps not even to Oibraltar itself. Army and navy men seem to think that the fortress of Corregldor which guards the entrance to Manila In the Philippines can hold oft any of the. world’s forces and ab solutely prevent any possibility of successful attack on Manila by way of Its immediate front. Corregldor only recently has been ®ut Into trim. Now It is understood that its big guhs are all manned and that soon it will have a trained force of men equal to the occasion of ■working the weapons of offense for a period as protracted as any war Is likely to be. In ^othe respects It Is -said Corregldor resembles Gibraltar. (Much has been written, recently -about the fortifications on the sea ■ coasts of the ' continental United ■ States. During the discussions In the -.committees of'Congress on-the sub- . Ject of the military preparedness of ( the United States It , has been said 'that our forts and our .guns are all right, but that we ' have not men enough to mail them. From the re port of the chief of coast artillery, (General Weaver,. It Is apparent that what has been said just about sums op the situation,' ’ Cdhgress it is ex pected will provide - men enough to man our guns, for otherwise we will be In a position of having spent a lot of money for tools which we cannot use. '‘A';-. In the year 18,14 the British at tacked Washington. In order to reach this city today a foreign foe, unless It can land an army, will be compelled to run by the. fortifications at the mouth of Chesapeake bay and by oth er fortifications which protect the reaches of the ;,lower Potomac. Fortress Monroe, which Is one of the guards to the entrance of'the Chesa peake, ,is an old post and the layman ■who looks at It and sees the old par apets with their granite facings can- mot conceive that-It would withstand the shots from modern, guns. The truth is that old-Fortress Monroe is occupied only for.show purposes and Jtor the uses of. peaceful garrison life Connected with the old fort are the mew fortlflcatlohs' with their big dis appearing guns. •. Fortress Monroe commands not only the , entrance to the Chesapeake but 'the entrance to the James river." In Hampton Roads, whose waters are at the mouth of the-James and mingle with those of the ocean, there ts a low-lying , American fort with ^powerful guns. It Is an aid to For tress Monroe, and between the two any fleet, no matter how powerful, would bavo a hard time of It-trying to break an entrance, either-; into the James river or Chesapeake bay.. Recently the government purchased land on Cape Henry and .there another fort Is to be built. Ships trying to get Into Chesapeake or to the James wo,uld find themselves under fire from the Cape Henry guns befo- they get within range/of the Fortress Monroe or the Hampton RoadB guns. It Is believed by military expertB that no fleet In the world ever can force its way into Chesapeake bay or the James river thence to go with its lighter draft vessels by the water route either to Baltimore, Washington or Richmond. ARTIST HONORED BY FRENCH "Jiansl" Who Ridiculed German Con trol of Alsace-Lorraine, Gets Decoration. Paris.—The Alsatian caricaturist M. Waltz, who Is known ae “Hanal," has been decorated with the Legion of Honor. Some time before the war broke out "Hansi" was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment at Leipzig for cartoons he drew ridiculing everything German in Alsace-Lorraine. He es caped, however, and volunteered as an Interpreter In the French army. He has been mentioned In dispatches for his courage and as being a splendid example for his comrades., iiTpj Performs Daring Exploit With Homemade Bombs. IS NOW CALLED KAISERBERG Germans Give New Name to Town of Czenstochowa In Russian Poland. Petrograd.—You will look In vain for the city of Katserberg on the map of Russian Poland, and little will you suspect that this name stands with the Germans for the ancient city of Czenstochowa, but Kalserberg It' Is, at present, and the Inhabitants are forced, under threat of severe penal ties, to speak of It as such.’ This Is another proof of the Ger mans' tactful policy toward the Poles whom the invaders are supposed to win over to their side, for Czenstocho wa to the Poles Is what Mecca Is to the Mussulmans, and no greater In sult to the national pride and faith could be Imagined than the renaming of the ancient fortress. "Kalserberg now, Kalsergrab (kaiser’s grave) in a few weeks lienee," Is the prophecy of the refu gees from the Invaded part of Rus sian Poland. . BOMBS HURLED LIKE A BALL French Devise Scheme Whereby Fuse Is Set After the Grenade'Is Thrown. Pi.rls.—The hand grenade devised by the French fo throw Into the. en emy’s trenches when they are within .reach Is about as large ae'a baseball. &. string, tied to the wrist of the throw er, pulls out a plug from the ball af ter it has left the hand. A spring le [released, whlch eets the fuse tor the •explosive charge going. This fuse -may be regulated from one second to 'two or three seconds, or Intermediate fractions, and thus adjusted to explode when it reaches the hostile trench. Approves the Princess. Berlin.—While’ distributing gifts at Camnez, the German crown princess -was approached by a soldier of the landsturm battalion, who, unaware of her Identity, said:- "You’re a mighty nice girl. When I get back from the war I’nl going to marry you." After completing ills task, the officer wriggled back to hfs-own lines un- BRITAIN'S GREAT AVlfliTpR. Crawls In Dark to German Trenches,. Destroys Machine Gun and kills Enemy’s Soldiers With Hand Grenades Made by.Himself.. By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK. International News Service Correspondent. Paris—With three bombs made by himself, an officer of engineers of the British army has Just performed an exploit worthy .of chronicling. He crept up to the German trenches and killed 15 Germans, besides destroying a machine gun... , . This sapper was. stationed at a point of the battle line where the British and German trenches are near to each other, He fitted up a.laboratory In a; farm house In which he was. quartered, and here he began to manufacture’ hand grenades. These he decided to test personally. , . A. few dozen yards before the first British line was ’ a German trench in which was posted a machine gun that had killed many English. The trench was cleverly : hullt In. sections, so that the British could not capture one. point and (hen- fire down the trench. It waB like a row of old- fashioned church pews, each pew ea.v six yards,ilong with about five Ger : mans. In It. The machine gun waB posted In a pew so ’Situated that if could Sweep the whole front for a long distance. Before It was a shield and a parapet, The British officer selected a time when, it was quite dark apd crawled■ carefully to within about a dozen, yards of the machine gun’s position. He carried one of his homemade bombs In each side pocket and another in his hand. He hurled the first right In next to the machine gun. There #gs; a terrfflo explosion’ and the single man In the trench -to -re- main alive screamed, with pain. The machine gun .waS hopelessly wrecked The Germans along the iihe did not realize-what had happened. The bold sapper, was not content, With ,the dam-, age ,lje had wrought, so Instead of crawling back to safety, lie leaped Into the trench with the machine gun and the dead anfl ■ dying Germans* The compartments of the trench were,con nected by passageways; making- an angle. The Germans in the compart ment next to that of the machine gun were in an uproar, firing In’the direc tion of the British lines and evidently believing the allies were, delivering a general, attack.. ' The • Englishman hurled hts second'bomb among them. Five or six Germans were torn to shreds. Into the second compartment, the Bapper crawled and cast this third and last bomb Into the next group alotig the line. The effect was as great as before. To clear out the three compart ments of the trbnch had been the. work of not more than, three minutes, Home Towi Helps STREETS OF MANY LEVELS Time May Come When Multiple Road ways Will Be Matter of Nesesslty. Fifty years ago 1 the notion of a 20- story building would have seemed ex travagant., Now It Is commohplace. We have wjth.us .some prophptB who talk about - the city of the future as a place of many stories. We have now but one level of .Btreete, They fore tell many levelB, the Portland Ore gonian states. Perhaps there will he a' plane of streets for every floor In the big buildings. The etreets will be laid on concrete arches and lighted by electricity. Keeping them clean will not be much of a task because no horses .will be permitted upon them, nothing but gasoline trucks. The horse, amiable and useful creature that he Is, must be blamed as the great deflier ;bf the streets. When he has taken his final farewell of the world, dirt and files will vanish too. ’ The need of some such modification in municipal architecture has become apparent. In a. few years It will be pressing. Few single streets are wide enough to accommodate the popula tion of the big buildings which border them in the busy quarters of our clt- There Is always congestion, tur moil and delay when the cave dwell ers pour out In a body. In case of a great fire there would be terrible panic and destruction of life. Besides all that, there Is great loss of time In continually going from the top to the bottom of high buildings. The eleva tor service is usually exemplary, but it cannot work miracles. With streets connecting all the tenth stories of the-same city with one another the dwellera at that alti tude would constitute an Independent community. There would be another set of streets at the fifteenth story and still others higher up and lower down. Business would naturally tend to segregate Its departments- bn differ ent leyels and an endlesB saving of time and toil would ensue. Martins and Bluebirds Should Have Houses Provided for Them-Near, the Orchard, The'American Bird House Journal says that farmers and orchardlsts can avoid ,the cost of spraying fruit trees by providing the purple martins with a residence in or near, the’ orchard and encouraging these intelligent birds to keep down the Insect pests. The pa per produces evidence to show that the martins protected a' Certain or chard to such an extent that great crops of fruit were raised without any spraying-at all. It may be too much to assume that the birds will take care of all tree pests; .the San Jose scale, for instance, must be beyond the reach of any bird. But there is no doubt about the activity and the value of martins and bluebirds in fight ing insect pests, nor any doubt at all' of the readlneps .of,these birds to oc cupy and take advantage of the nice little houseB provided for them, pro vided the English sparrows are kept at their distance. Flight Commander Claude Graham- White, at the right, In conversation with .’British army officers and French., -aviator ; . "somewhere : la France." - (Name deleted by censor.) fL ‘WIDOW’S MITE’FOR WOUNDED French Servant Earning Ten Cents • an Hour Gives $50 to' Red Cross. , , Paris.—A Paris woman servant oi the numerous class, which works out at ten cents an hour, has given no Te&s a 'sum- than $50 for the French ■wounded. Her employer' had’ difficulty in makipg her confess (t When she did own up to It, she explained that though the Red Cross agent , had ad vised her. strongly, to Tteetf her sav ings for a'rainy- dpy she had got round his objections by showing certificates for further, savings of $2,000. HONOR GRANT’S SON-IN-LAW by Prince Cantacuzene. Decorated ' Czar for Bravery In. Cam- ' palgni In Galicia; Washington. —. Prince Cantacuzene, husband of Jiilin Debt Grant, h'aa been decorated by the czar'for heroism in the Gallolan campaign, and Wilhelm, von Rath has received thp lr.on ei tor .dlstiufeuislied sen-ice on " French and Russian frontiers-:- -’Vtoh Ra(h...)vho is engaged to be married to Cecilia May,,has been invalided to his home in Frankfort, wh.Bfe Miss May is'.A guest.' He was formerly.‘at tached-to the German embassy here. SAVE THE COST OF SPRAYING .Best Not to Copy' Toa.Closely. - After the general' change. of the political situation In th6’ middle ages that took away the city-planning actlv-y Itles from the princes', and either an nihilated them or put them In- the’ hands of the citizens,: .those- citizens in yfery many cases, turned out to,he very ordinary, short-sighted, and un educated. -bourgeois.” Ther'bfof'e, con tinues- Dr: Werner Hegemann, German expert, IV behooves pity-,planners of today not to take too seriously, the work pf city planners of yesterday. Beauty is all very well, but there are other -.thing's- to be c'pnsLd,ered. French Market Coffee Southern' Through and Through is Shipped from the coffee countries through Orleans, no coJd "cl: l warm seas to* the Southern port of New OrleansTno cdd'"ciimates affect,-lnjurlousIy, the 'delicate‘coffee beans. Roasted and blended by South erners, especially for use in the Southern climate. Sold to Southern merchants for Southern trade, blended, roasted, packed and shipped in the South, Southern Through and Through. No wonder it outsells all other brands in the South. The Wonderful Old Secret Blend for those who have not yet tried French Market Coffee. Buy a can today. Send lO cents for 12 cup sample and booklet of the Story of French Market 1 Pound Cans - - - » $ .25 4 Pound Pails - » - - 1.00 French Market Mills, New Orleans, La. New Orleans Coffee Co., Ltd., Props. Parson Knew Better. Uncle Jim Sugarfoot killed a fine rabbit for the entertainment of Parson Heavegrace, who was expected to din ner, but as rabbits were out of season he thought to avoid what might prove an embarrassing situation by making the parson think it was chicken .he was eating. “Brother Heavegrace," said Uriels Jim, when It came time for a second helping, "what part of the bird would you like now?" With a merry twinkle in his'half- closed eyes, Parson Heavegrace re plied: “If you all don’ mind, Ah think All'll take de gizzard.”—Pittsburgh Chron icle-Telegraph. SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR Look Years Younger! Try Grandma's Recipe of Saga and Sulphur and Nobody Will Know. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur properly compound ed, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling-hair. Years ago the only way to get this mixture waB to make It at home, which IS mussy and troublesome. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sul phur Hair Remedy." You will get a large bottle for about 50 cents. Every body uses this old, famous recipe, be cause no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as It does It so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with It and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morn ing the gray hair disappears* - and after another application or two, your hair becomes. beautifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger. Adv. The Better Method.. The deacons of a church were dis cussing possible .ways of ridding them selves of an undesirable pastor who paid no heed to pointed suggestions that his resignation would be accept able. Finally one.of the deacons said: "If we make a large reduction in 'his salary it would probably have the effect of making him resign.” “I know a surer way than that,” said the other deacon. "Let us double his salary and he will fall .dead.” Young Wife Had Done Her Best, But Probably the Cook Book Was at Fault. Reginald loved hie wife tenderly and devotedly, but he had to acknowl edge In the inmost recesses of his heart that the hand that wielded the powder puff lost Its art in the pud ding basin. What pudding would you' like for' nigh't, love?" she cooed at breakfast time. “Oh, anything!” he whispered des perately. “Anything?” she reiterated, in a. pained tone. “Well, you know, old girl; anything light—only don’t tire yourself but.” "You shall have your favorite—cus tard, dear," she promised. Toward seven o’clock Reginald re turned, but the sound of weeping and gnashing of teeth greeted his trained ear. “Whatever is It, my dear girl?" he Implored, as he rushed Into the kitchen. ‘O-o-o-oh!” she sniveled on his waistcoat, “I’ve been making you cus tards all the afternoon and—” “And what, pet?” "They all t-t-turned out sponge cakes!” : A Wide Range. A. young woman (with an-; aspiration to ehibe In the chorus applied to An^ dreas -Dlppel, who has.mahaged opera singers all his life, for a position in his contpany. “To sing. In p -chorus of- mine” said Mr. Dlppel, “you .must have a -good voice." ; “Oh, but I' have one,” replied the girl. Mr. Dippel led her to the. piano and asked, her t0 dem onstrate her vocal powers. Sitting at the. instrument and then swinging around; she smiled sweetly and asked; “Shall I slng ‘The Chalrsjn the Parlor All MIbs You,’ or s6'qae^hlng : light?” , American .Surgeons-In-.the’ .War. 1 The satisfactory worlr done at American hospitals In two German cit ies has Induced the German govern ment to ask for moj-e American sur geons of whose Bklll their German fel low 1 surgeons “speak in terms pf the highest appreciation ” ' That Is praise from a high source,, and it is matched by the recognition given the work of American 'surgeons in French, hos pitals. ’ . ’’ E Refugees Prove Relatives, . ■Belgian refugees, a boy and girl, were adopted by a man: and his' wife of Aberoynon, Wales. The children now prove to fee those pf .the, wife’s dead sister, wlitf went to’Belgium as a governOSs some-year's ago. A locket which waa .found on the.little girl led to the discovery. If cross, feverish, constipated, give “California Syrup of Figs” A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with .waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach soilr. • Lo'ok at the tongue, mother! It coat ed; or your ohlld is listless, cross, fev erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat ’heartily-, full of cold- or lias Sore throat ■or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of “ddllfornta Syrup of Figs”’ then don’t worry, because it.is perfectly harmless, and Ib.a few hours all this constipation poison,, sour 'bile and fermenting- waste wilt’' gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor ough “inside cleanBlng" Is nfttimes all. that 1b necessary. It should^ Be the’ first treatment given in any sickneks.' Beware ol! counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at Jhe store for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has lull directions for babies, children of. all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. What ha3 become of the old-fash ioned mail who used to predict the weather with a goose quill? NO CUSTARD FOR REGINALD RUB-MY-TISM Will, cure your Rheumatism and all kinds of aches and pains—Neuralgia, Gramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Buts, Old Sores,, Burns, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne. Price 2Sc.—Adv. Limited Dissipation. A email, henpecked littlft man wa^ about to take an examination for life insurance. ’ '■ “You don't dissipate, do you?" asked the physician, as he made ready for tests. “Not a fast liver, or anything . of that sort?” The little man hesitated a moment, looked a bit frightened, then replied a small, piping Voice; “I some times chew a little gum."—Collier's Weekly. Man is made of dust—which may ac count for his wanting the earth. True Economy Every man who is seeking to save by smoking 5c cigarettes, should see how much more satisfaction in better value he can get by paying . 1 for 20 FATIMAS. 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