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GRADY
^COUNTY
PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA
IN
CONDITION
Restored To Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta
ble Compound.
Montpelier, Vt. — ** We have great
faith in your remedies. I was very ir
regular and was
tired and sleepy all
the time, would have
cold chills, and my
hands and feet would
||bloat. My stomach
" bothered me, I had
pain in my side and
a bad headache most
of the time. Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound has
done me lots of good
end I now feel fine. I am regular, my
stomach is better and my pains have all
left me. You can use my name if you
like. I am proud of what your reme
dies have done for me.” —Mrs. Mary
Gauthier, 21 Ridge St, Montpelier,Vt
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GETS AT THE JOINTS
FROM THE INSIDE.
RHEUMACIDE
The Old Reliable Remedy
for acuto, chronlo or muscular
RHEUMATISM
Bhoumatlo Gout or Lumbago
RHKUMTAOIDE la Dot a preparation
uircs only temporary relief, but It la
signed to remove the cause and drives
poison from Iho system.
At All Druggists
n that
la de«
Ives the
Gay Old Dogs.
“You can't teach an old dog new
tricks." ’
“Oh, I don’t know. They all want to
try the tango and the maxlxe."
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR >
A CHILD'S JOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the “dose” mother insisted'
on — castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you (ought
against taking them.
With our children It’s different.
Mothers who cling to the old torm ot
physic simply don’t realize what they
do.'The children’s revolt is well-found
ed. Their tender little “insides" are
injured by them.
It your child’s stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only dell
clous “California Syrup o£ Figs." Its
action 1b positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless “fruit
laxative” handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never falls to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a GO-cent bottle
of “California Syrup of Figs," which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Trouble is a sprinter. If you don’t
believe it, soo how he overtakes those
who travel at the fastest clip.
To Coo! a Burn
and Take
the Fire Out
Be Prepared (
For
.Accidents
A Household Remedy
HANFORD’S
Balsam ofMyrrh
For Cuts, Bums,
Bruises, Sprains,
Strains, Stiff Neck,
Chilblains, Lame Back,
OldSores, Open Wounds, v
and all external Injuries.
Made Since 1846.
Price 25c, 50o and $1.00 - 1
Jill Dealers
MONEY IN MUNICIPAL PLANT
Cleveland Has Greatly Reduced Coat
of Public Utilities Supplied to
Its' Citizens.
Cleveland has done better than most
cities In the application of the com
munal or municipal idea to public serv
ices or utilities. It has a municipal
cold storage, in connection with a
market, which cost $2,000,000, and is
doing well on the investment. It has
achieved a three-cent car fare. It
now sets out for three-cent electricity.
It was paying $90 to $100 a year for
street arc lights and the price for pow
er use was eight cents a kilowatt
Two small electrical plants were es
tablished. The cost of street arc
light’s dropped about hair. The cur
rent wbb Bold by the city from its
small plants at three cents. A heavy
loss was predicted. Instead ot that,
the plants more than paid expenses.
Mayor Baker proposed u sale of $2,-
000,000 worth of bonds with which to
build a plant to sell electricity at three
cents. The bond Issue was passed by
the people and the operation of the
new plant began last July. In Aug
ust there was a profit of $500 on the
three-cent price. In September the
profit was $1,700, and on the basis of
business how In band and contracted
for the superintendent estimates the
profit for the first year at $100,000,
which would about cover interest
charges, depreciation and taxes If it
were a private concern. When the
plant is completed and running at full
capacity the superintendent estimates
that there will be a not profit of $500,-
000 annually.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
SHOW CHILDREN CIVIC NEEDS
Birmingham (Ala.) Women's Clubs
Forming Leagues In All School
Grades of the City.
The women's clubs of Birmingham,
Ala., have been the means of forming
junior civic leagues in every school
grade in the busy city.
The women, feeling that the chil
dren were growing up without knowl
edge of city needs, decided to edu
cate for good citizenship.
First, they cleaned up the school
yardB, then the parks and the streets.
Today every young citizen who joins
league in his or her school grade
signs this pledge:
"I. will not Injure nny tree, shrub or
lawn.
"I promise not to spit upon the
floor in a street car, schoolhouse or
any public building, or upon the side
walk.
"I pledge myself not to deface any
fence or public building.
"I will not scatter paper or throw
rubbish in public places.
“I will not use profane language at
any time.
“I will always protect birds.
“I will protect the property of oth-
s as I would my. own.
“I will promise to be a true and
loyal- citizen.”
School Gardening an Asset.
School gardens, embellishment of
school grounds, is an important fac
tor in the reputation of a city, enhanc
ing the beauty and value of the vari
ous points where situated and in these
days of rapid travel in automobiles,
of great Interest to residents and vis
itors alike. Such beautification cannot
fall to make lasting Impressions upon
travelers and visitors, who almost in
variably judge of cities and other
communities by the public improve
ments and embellishments, while the
satisfaction and delight of pupils-and
parents is still of greater Importance
than all other considerations.
Gives Hornet Luncheons.
H. E. Coles of the engineering staff
of the state highway commission has
learned not to bo too friendly with
hornets. A few days ago when he was
eating his -luncheon a hornet came
along. He gave him something to eat.
The visitor called his mate: The fol
lowing day four hornets ate luncheon
with him, and on the next day as Mr.
Coles 9pened his pail a whole swarm
of hornets came lighting on him and
his luncheon. He took to the tall and
unhewn, leaving the hornets In full
possession.— Carpenterta (Cal.) Dis
patch to the San Francisco Exemlner.
The Polish Race.
Mr. Brandes says In his history of
Poland: "Individualism was the death
ot Poland. It was on enlhusiastlc and
unpractical people, noble-minded and
untrustworthy, jiomp-lovtng and vola
tile, vivacious and thoughtless, a peo
ple who despised severe and fatiguing
labor, and loved all intense and deli
cate, sensuous and Intellectual enjoy
ments, but, above all, who worshiped
Independence to the point of Insanity
freedom to the extent of the liberum
veto, and who, when they had lost in
dependence and freedom,' remained
faithful to their old love."
Ruinous.
Crawford—Why do our officials will
fully destroy every natural beauty the
city possesses?
. Crabshaw—-That gives them
chance in a few years to ask for mil
lions to make the city beautiful.—
Puck.
INDIAN TROOPS WEIGHING RATIONS
- /aSS&L
One of the great problems of the allied armies is the feeding of the
troops from India. Several of them are here shown in a camp near Ypres.
weighing out their rations.
IY OF
READY FOR
Amazons Are Carefully Drilled
and Trained in Use of
the Rifle.
TO HELP REGULAR MILITARY
In Case of German Invasion the Re
serve Will Direct Flight of Women
and Children From Scene of
Fighting and If Necessary
Shoulder Rifles.
By PHILLIP EVERETT.
(International News ^jrvlce)
London.—We read in dispatches
that at least fifty German women,
fighting In the trenches in men’s cloth
ing, have been taken captive by the
Russians near Warsaw. If the Ger
mans ever Invade Great Britain and
the situation becomes desperate they
will be faced by an army of English
Amazons, carefully drilled and
trained to the, use of the rifle com
pared to which these Teutonic women
warriors arc a mere bagatelle.
When I ffitst heard of the Women’s
Volunteer reserve, I thought it was a
joke or rather a new ebullition of the
suffragette class, but after a visit to
Old Bedford college and a,view of
the determined Women perspiring
through their military drills, I must
confess that my feelings have
changed.
It is not to be concluded, that the
women will rush to the coast and fight
the moment the Germans make a
landing. They will take up the rifle
only when Great Britain is in desper
ate straits. Till such an unhappy
time the reserve will simply' adt as' a
disciplined body of women, skilled In
first aid, cooking, dispatch riding on
motorcycles, signaling and the care-
of horseB.
“At the same time the rifle is not
being neglected," said Viscountess
Castlereagh, the colonel in chief of
the women’s emergency corps. “All
the women are spending time in the
private rifle ranges and there are some
astonishingly good shots among them.
There is no reason in the world why
a woman cannot be as good a marks
man as a man."
It was also pointed out to mo by one
of the officers of the women’s reserve
that women bear certain forms of
hardship better than men. It is a well
known physiological fact that women’!
are less suspectible to' cold and wet
than the stronger sex. Their bodies
are better protected by fatty tissue.
This 1b seen on the bathing beaoli
where women are able to enjoy them
selves on chilly days when most of
the men seek the clubhouse. The
same condition should be true in wet.
damp trenches. It is also accepted
that n woman, once her nervousness
is over, and her determination Is in
spired, can stand more physical. pain
than man.
“In fact,” said my woman informer,
"the'only way the women would .be
inferior to man soldiers would be . in
tlie long marches."
At Old Bedford college, which is the
headquarters of the Women’s emer
gency corpB. I found Col. Viscountess
Castlereagh and Hon. Evellno Haver-
field, honorary colonel, hard at work
with - their recruits. Mrs. Haverfield
is remembered for lier carefully or
ganized remount camp, which she
built up at the time of the Boer war.
Go Through Infantry Drill.
Nearly a hundred women were go
ing through the regular army’ infan
try drill. They were not women of
leisure either. Most of them had put
through a day’s toll already in an of
fice or along ..ome professional line.
Several regular army officer:, in uni
form were presOnt to assist In the
work. The war officers at first took a
contemptuous attitude towards this
movement but they have come'to see
the value of it just ns the usefulness
USE THEIR SPEECH BUS, HEAOAGHY,
SICK “GASCARETS"
Many Soldiers in Hospitals Un
able to.Talk.
of the Boy Scouts Is now generally
recognized.
I had an interview with Capt, Adair-
Roberts, the woman .drill offi?qr,
“We are following the.’regular army
rules throughout,".she said. “No cbm-
missions are granted except for merit.
When women are adjudged cq-cipetent
to teach the drill the regular army
officers drop out in their favor. •
“The reserve Is strictly nonpartisan
arid- nonsectarian. No women of
wealth are permitted to buy Commis
sions, although there have been many
attempts of this sort. .
"I can show you a titled woman and
one of her servants drilling here Bide
by side. This Is not an” isolated in
stance either, there, are several such.”
At first the fear was expressed that
if woman were taught the -use of a
rifle, the Germans would charge “Bnip-
.ing" and ferocious reprisals would be
the result, but now it is realized that
the organizing of the women will pre
vent, instead of encourage, foolish in
dividual action, such as is certain to
take place in moments of great dan
ger among an unorganized populace.
The helpless rabble of Belgium, wom
en and children refugees fleeing they
knew not whither, will not be repeat
ed in Great Britain.
No woman is permitted to enter the
reserve without a careful physical ex
amination. Woman doctors from the
city hospitals see to this in their hour
off. The women of the reserve must
be over eighteen and under forty
years of age.
Special attention has beeh paid to
signaling practice, as this is an -. im
portant branch of warfare In which it
is unanimously agreed that the female
sex may be of service.: There are
many' professional woman telegraph
ers In the reserve. Instruction is
given in Morse and semaphore signal
ing by flags and nlso by sound. :
Other branches of Instruction in
clude open air cooking, dispatch rid
ing, carpentering, fencing and Swed
ish drills.
The movement is spreading all
over the islands, rapidly overcoming
the indifference which it generally
met at first. A vivid description of
the condition of women In the war dis
tricts of Belgium and France and an
explanation of how their sufferings
might have been mitigated by proper
preparation and organization is usual
ly sufficient to convert ever^ “doubt
ing Thomas.”’
Suffragettes in It.
Branches are especially active in
centers where there is a large popula
tion of working girls. . Of course,
there is a large portion of the militant
suffragettes. The' latter have trans
ferred their energy-in this direction.
The suffragettes believe they can, by
their conduct in case of an invasion
of Britain, present an unanswerable
argument fob the ballot.
The sight of womeh drilling may be
seen at many big halls in London.
The majority of the women, are
clothed In khalri. Their suits consist
of skirt, coat, brown shoes; spats.'piit-
tees and hats'. The cost of this uni:
form Is $12.50. Mpst of- the women
buy their own suits.. The reserve is
so far entirely’self-supporting.
The government has not as yet
given permission to the women to
carry rifles. Tho women do not antici
pate trouble in this direction; how
ever. They say they hope the neces
sity for their shouldering the musket
will never come,- but if it floes they
will be allowed to take their places on
the firing line just as wives and
sweethearts of British •’ colonists in
many quarters of the earth have
stoqij. behind the stockade and fired
with their men folk against the at
tacks of savages. . i
As a result of this movement a. Ger
man invasion will find ready at hand
an organization of wotnen who will
keep their heads and who will have
good -health and calm norves," These
women will havo learned the value of
organization, self-dependence, com
radeship: and self-control, They will
co-operate with the military and civil
authorities. They will direct the
flight of women and children from the
scene of fighting and so take this bur
den off' the government.
It is hoped that after tlm war the
Women’s Volui^feeV reserve will be
come a great recreation club. With
this end in view a wealthy woman has
offered a large tract of land fer a per
manent camp gqd it is believed other
gifts of this character will be made.
Men Recoverlhj) From Severe Woundi
Must Be Taught to Talk as Chil
dren—Can't Frame Words—
Physicians Explain Work.
By KARL H. VON WIEGAND.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
' Laon, France.—Today I saw men
.being, taught to talk again. In the
’"human repair shops," the great Ger
man field; hospitals, these men wqre
learning.' anew the use of. brains,
tongue, hands and feet. They had re
ceived their baptism of fire. Bullet,
Bhrapuel, broken shell, all bad done
their work. And now medical science
was dpiug its utmost to restore the
victims to partial normality.
This is the third time that Laon has
been In possession 'of the Germans,
first .in. 1814 and again in 1870, but
this time'only was the city taken with
out fearful bloodshed. The main hos
pital is improvised, a large roomy
school building, well lighted and aired.
In front is a large bronze monument
ereetpd to three young Frenchmen—
francs-tireurs—executed, by, the Ger
mans in.1870 for sniping. Singularly
enough this monument is unscathed.
Professor Brockenhelmer, In charge,
and Doctor Luetkenmueller, chief sur
geon, explained the work. They care
for 2,100 severe cases, but the light
wounded'are given first aid treatment
and sent baok to the home bases, as
this is too. close to the actual front
to permit keeping any wounded ; that
can be moved. More than a score of
cases, French and German alike, where
trephining operations had been nec-
cessary, were shown. It was a singu
lar ' picture. ThrSugh the windows
came tho deep, low bass note of dis
tant guns killing, smashing, tearing,
maiming the human “tenpins." Here
they Avete being patched up. Nurses
sat by bedsides of friend and foe alike,
bathing fevered brows and teaching
pale-faced bearded men to speak the
most simple words, telling them the
names of objects and putting words
together into sentences.
“What is this?" asked Professor
Brockenhelmer, holding a pencil be
fore a bearded warrior from whose
skull he had cut a splinter of steel.
The tips trembled. Then came the
feeble answer: “Pencil."
I held out a cigaretto and asked
what it waB. The man's lips moved
and a. look came on his face which
seemed to say that he knew what it
was but couldn’t say. . Then Professor
Bockenhelmer came to the rescue.
Wtat do wo do with this?” he asked.
An apparent tremendous mental effort
and then tlie reply: “Smoke.”
Correct,’* said the professor; “now
what is it?" This time the brain and
tongue worked and the answer was
correct.
"Hours have to be spent by the
nurses teaching these men all over
again," explained the professor. “It
requires unending' patience and per
severance.”
Many cases of plastic surgery v.ere
shown. Men with most of their faces
smashed away were being brought
back to life with parts of their bodies
being grafted on to covpr the terrible
gaping holos. Many would be much
better dead, but the doctors feel it is
their duty to save all they can.
“We ' do not ask the wounded
whether they want to live or die,"
explained. Professor B.ockenhelmer.
At the main French hospital. Profes
sor Manasse of Stuttgart was in
charge. Here, too, nurses were teach
ing men to talk again and terrible
wrecks of humanity were being
patched up.
HIS CHRISTMAS BANQUET
A French sentry on duty enjoying a
toothsome morsel on Christmas eve.
So Are We.
New York.—Max Jacobs received a
black eye and his clothing sustained
$50 damage, when, two men tried to
take from him $15 which he had found
on the sidewalk. Jacobs escaped from
the men and gave tho money to the
police. He is wondering whether hon
esty Is tho best policy. *
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels whilp
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and'foul
breath—always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in-the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causeB con
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick-
-ening headache.
Cascarets immediately' cleanse the
stomach, remove tho sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated wasto matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will surely
Btraighten you out' by morning. They
work while you sleep—a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
Admiration.
“What do you think of my latest
series of observation’s?” asked one sci
entist.
“Wonderfully interesting,” replied'
the other. “If you had not been a
scientist you would have made a great
press agent.”
HOW TO HEAL THAT RAW,
ITCHING, SCALY SKIN
If you are suffering with eczema,
ringworm, rash or similar tormenting
skin disease, try reslnol ointment and
resinol soap. You will be surprised
how quickly the itching stops and the
skin becomes clear and healthy again.
Prescribed by doctors for 20 years.
All druggists sell resinol oinment
(50c and $1.00), 'and resinol soap
(26c).—Adv.
WRONG VIEWS OF MARRIAGE
Brooklyn Lawyer Tells,of Some Popu
lar Impressions That Are En
tirely Erroneous.
■ Some persons believe, says Mr.
Hugo Hirsh of the Brooklyn bar, in
Case and Comment, that marriage
can be entered Into by any man or
woman, regardless of age, race, re
lationship, or condition. But in this
they are mistaken, for every state has
its own peculiar laws regarding, limit
ing, and circumscribing entrance into
this relationship as the same may .on
affected by those provisions.
Some persons believe that fraud,
force, duress, coercion, used for the
purpose of bringing about marriage
botween man and woman,-do .not af
fect the legality of the relationship,
but in this they are mistaken, because
every state and territory has a-law
providing for the annulment of mar
riages caused by fraud, force, etc.
Some men believe that wives are
chattels and may be beaten into sub
mission. This is a grave error, for in
many of the states such conduct )s
cause for an absolute divorce, and in
nearly all of the states it Is cause for
a legal separation.
Formation of Opinions.
“What do you think of the presi
dent’s speech?"
“I don’t like it!”
“Have you read it?”
“No. When I disagree with a man’s
politics I don’t have to read his
speeches to know I don’t like ’em.”
Man Is of few days and full of con
densed meanness.
A man looks cheap when his wife
calls him dear In public. '
THREE REASONS
Each With Two Legs and Ten Fingers.
A Boston woman who is a fond moth
er writes an amusing artiole about her
experience feeding her boys.
Among other things she says:
“Three chubby, rosy-cheeked boys.
Bob, Jack, and Dick, respectively, are
three of our reasons for using and
recommending the food, Grape-Nuts,
for these youngsters have been fed on
Grape-Nuts since infancy, and often
between meals when other children
would have been given candy.
“I gave a package of Grape-Nuts to
d neighbor whose 3-year-old child was
a weazened little thing, ill half the
time. The little tot ate the Grape-Nuts
and cream, greedily and the mother
continued the good work, and it was
not long before a truly wonderful
change manifested itself In the child’s
face and body. The results were re
markable, even for Grape-Nuts.
“Both husband and I use Grape Nuts
every day and keep strong and well
and have three of the flnesti healthiest
boys you can find in a day’s march.”
Many mothers instead of destroying
the children's stomachs with candy
and cake give the youngsters a hand-,
ful of Grape-Nuts when'they are-beg
ging for something in. the way of
sweets. The result is soon shown in
greatly increased health, strength and
mental activity.
Name given by Postum Go., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look in pkga, for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.”
Ever rend the nbove letter? A new
one npflonrs from time to time, They
nrc Rcqulnc, true, nnd foil of- human
• Interest.