GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE HEWsi^THE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In the South-
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
European War
Very little change Is noted In the
European war situation, excepting the
Russians are drcdltoU with being on
the offensive nil along the Polish and
Austrian borders.
It Ip reported from London that
England will lift the embargo on cot
ton as contraband.
According to reportB from Athens
Greece Is contemplating to aid the al
lies In the attack on Constantinople
and the forcing of the Dardanelles,
which Is being rigorously continued
by the Anglo-French fleet.
The Russians have, been repulsed
in a number of places along the Aus
trian border, and the German troops
have been beaten back In Poland.
England refuses to concede the
rights of neutral powers on the high
seas In her retaliatory measure
against Germany.
Tnko Jonescu, Roumanian minister
of the Interior, has announced In
Bucharest that a formal agreement
has just been concluded .between his
country and the triple entente by
which Roumanla Is bound to enter the
war In the near future. Bucharest dis
patches declare preparations are be
ing made to tail all classes of reserves
for the army, which it Is expected will
move on Turkey.
It Is announced In Paris that an
agreement has been reached between
England and France on one side and
Russia on the other regarding the
future status of the Dardanelles,
which will give Russia free passage of
the straits, over which the other two
nations will claim control. This Is
the important step and crux of the
whole European war situation and
was the underlying cause of the en
tire conflict, precipitated some six
years ago during the first Bulgarian
outbreak against the Turks In 1908.
Russia's eye has always been on the
Bosphorus and the Dardanelles and
has always been held In check by Na
poleon, by Bismarck, by England,
France and Germany, and by England
and France,4ogether In the Crimean
wnr. English and French troops have
been landed from the Anglo-French
fleet, which is forcing Its way up the
straits. Several more Turkish forts
have been demolished and the Mos
lem troops are hastily giving way be
fore the allied invaders.
The American steamer. Dacia, re
cently purchased from its German
owners, has been captured by
French warship and taken to Brest,
where an investigation w’lll be held,
regarding the nationality of the boat.
The Dacia sailed from Galveston in
January expecting at the time it
would be seized.
Foreign
William Graves Sharp, American
ambassador to France, has begun the
promulgation of the peace treaties
between the United States and France
which were negotiated by Secretary of
State Bryan last year and which met
with cordial response by President
Poincare and the Frencli people. This
treaty was the nucleus of the secre
tary’s plan for peace treaties between
twenty nations which was started be
fore the outbreak of the present Eu
ropean crisis. It is believed by Pres
ident Poincare and Ambassador Sharp
that the Bryan peace plan will soon
meet with tlie consideration of all the
mftions which first agreed to take
part. Representatives of Holland and
the three Scandinavian nations In Par
is are assisting the American ambas
sador in his promulgation of the proj
ect.
A large delegation of Americans
and Parisians headed by Ambassador
Sharp of the United States and Pres
ident Poincare of France, paid a great
tribute to Georgd Washington and
held a patriotic demonstration and pa
rade in Paris, which closed with Am
bassador Sharp, placing a wreath at
the foot of the Washington statue in
PariB. The wreath was tied with the
American stars and stripes and the
French tri-colors.
Germany is reported to have favor
ed President Wilson’s vigorous note
regarding the English water war zone
declaration and the admiralty office In
Berlin will send word that the kaiser
is willing to life the ban provided Eng
land. will cease the contraband
foodstuffs. England’s attitude is
, doubtful, but It is believed she will
. obstinately maintain her present posi
tion.
The steamer Dacia, recently pur
chased by Edward N. Breltung from
its German owners and captured oil
the high seas by a French warship and
taken to Brest, has been stripped of
the American colors and the American
crew shipped back to New York. The
French foreign office, however, has
not been officially apprised of this
act.
Queen Wilhelmina has informed Dr.
Henry Van Dyke, American ambassa
dor to Holland, that her nation will
continue its present course of neu
trality, but that she will stoutly maiu-
tain lfcr rights on the high seas.
Mexico again takes the center of
the singe so far as commanding the
world's Interest. Residents of the
Mexican capital entertain grave fears
of starvation and the city Is being pil
laged. Some of the foreign embassies
have proposed an expedition against
the rovolotioiilsts. General Cararnza
lias publicly stated foreign Interfer
ence Is unnecessary and will not be
tolerated. He has received a caution
from American Consul Sllllhtaii repre
senting President Wilson.
The condition of Sarah Bernhardt,
who suffered a relapse after her recent
operation, is now said to be Improved.
Tlie Democratic party of Portugal
In session in Lisbon denounced the
Portuguese president, who is one of
their pnrty leaders, as an outlaw and
his administration officials as a band
of public brigands.
Washington
President Wilson has abandoned
hls trip .to San Francisco to attend
the Panama-Pacific exposition, at least
for tlie present, on account of the Eu
ropean war situation. Ho says he
feels it Tils duty to remain In Washing
ton on the job during the grave cHbIs
In International affairs. The presi
dent's determination has been highly
praised as an act of much patriotism.
Vice President Marshall has accepted
the president's invitation to go to San
Francisco to be tlie chief executive’s
personal representative at the exposi
tion.
Senntor Gore of Oklahoma, the first
chairman of the new federal rural
credits commission, has announced
the other members, who comprise Sen
ator Hoke Smith of Georgia, Senator
Owen of Oklahoma (Dem.), Senator
Hollis of New Hampshire (Dem.), Sen
ator Nelson of Minnesota (Rep.), Con
gressman Lever of South Carolina
(Dem.), Congressman Mosb of India
na (Dem.), Congressman Hawley of
Oregon (Rep.), Congressman Glass of
Virginia (Dem.), Congressman Phelan
of Massachusetts (Dem.), and Con
gressman Hay of Virginia (Dem.).
Congressman Joseph T. Johnston of
Spartanburg, S. C„ has been appoint
ed by President Wilson as federal
judge of the new United States bench
in South Carolina created by the last
congress.
Tlie Sixty-third congress, perhaps
the greatest and most eventuful con
gress-since the adoption of the Amer
ican Constitution, came to a close
on Thursday noon, March 4.
President Wilson has been voted the
power to preserve the neutrality of
the United States and the enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine In the absence
of congress being in session by a joint
congressional resolution introduced by
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin.
President Wilson and his cabinet
held a prolonged conference
In discussion of the English blockade
of Germany. The president declared
England was openly and defiantly In
terfering with the rights of the Unit
ed States pn the high seas and that it
must be stopped. The- situation- be
tween the nations is graver today than
ever before.
President Wilson has signed the
pensions appropriation bill which calls
for $164,000,000.
The rural credits reform legisla
tion, which was one of the Baltimore
platform pledges, has been redeemed
by the W'iUon administration just be
fore the adjournment of tho present
congress. The house passed the farm
loan law by a vote of 237 to 89 votes.
The amendment offered by Senator
McCumber of North Dakota In the up
per house was voted down in the low
er branch and the Bulkley-Hollls plan
was adopted as originally intended.
In addition to the tariff, currency, ship
tolls and other great measures put
through by the Wilson administration,
this is one of the important bits of
legislation that will make the pres
ent term memorable.
Congress has passed an act incorpo
rating the Ellen Axson Wilson Memo
rial Home Association for the District
of Columbia, which is the permanent
memorial to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and will be in the nature of dwelling
houses for families . in the tenement
districts of the Capital City.
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
TRACTS CLEARED OF MALARIA
Domestic
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature at Oklahoma City has im
peached two state officials, State Cor
poration ' Commissioner Watson and
Insurance Commissioner Welch
charges of accepting money from rail
road officials, riding on free transpor
tation and charging mileage and ex
pense accounts to the state. The two
officials will now be tried by the state
senate.
The minstrel comedian, known as
"Honey Boy" Evans, died just as the
curtain fell on a performance at Bir
mingham, Ala.
Over one hundred and sixty-five men
were entombed In a West Virginia
coal mine by a mine explosion at Hin
ton. W. Va.
President Wilson has ordered a
probe of the alleged passport frauds,
which have grown out of the Stegler
Incident.
Another Pittsburg millionaire
springs into the divorce court lime
light In tho person of Edward B. Al-
sop, one of the steel magnates, 80
years old, who seeks separation' from
hls youthful Southern wife, Mrs. Effle
Pope Alsop, aged 23, formerly a Geor
gia girl. Desertion is the plaintiffs
charge. The case has caused wide
spread gossip in Pittsburg social cir
cles.
The Mississippi Suprgme court has
upheld tbe constitutionality of a law
recently passed by the legislature
barring tbe use of whiskey in all so
cial clubs.
Ellavllle.—The election for sohool
bonds here was carried by a big ma
jority, only six votes being cast
against the bonds. Ellavllle will soon
have a modern school building.
Thomasvllle.—The sugar cane crop
of South Georgia in being planted and
the acreage will be a good one. A
smaller crop than usual was planted
last year, but the yield was so fine
that It evened things up In a measure.
Forsyth.—-Dr. M. U. Brittain, state
superintendent of schools, delivered
a lecture In the Bessie Tift college
auditorium, hls subject being "The
School Teacher and Her Patrons."
Quite n crowd heard him as he pic
tured tlie vnrious types of people that
the school teacher would have to meet
and tlie problems that confront a
school teacher.
Thomasvllle.—A new power compa
ny has secured a site for a plant on
the Withlacoochee river about four
miles from Valdosta, and that wishes
to furnish electric power to Thomas
vllle, Quitman, Valdosta, Camilla and
a number of other towns in this sec
tion of the state. A representative
of the company appeared before Thom-
asville city council last week in re
gard to the matter and it was referred
to the water and light committee with
power to act.
Athens.—The State Normal school
held Its second field day program-
three field days a year being celebrat
ed in the holding of various athletic
contests and games, the class winning
the greatest number of points in tlie
three days altogether winning the
handsome silver loving cup. The se
niors were successful in taking more
points than any other class, as they
were in the first day in the fall seme
ster. The last day will be late in
May.
Thomasville.—The monument to
Capt. John Triplett, veteran editor and
citizen of Thomasville, who died last
fall, has been placed in position on
the court house square and will be
unveiled at an early date. This monu
ment was erected by popular subscrip
tions and is a tribute from the citi
zens of Thomasville to the man who
has done so much in his long service
as editor of tlie Times-Enterprise to
build up and help the town in every
way.
Atlanta.—Six thousand men—assent
bled In a great mass meeting at the
revival tabernacle—raised their voices
in a great appeal for universal peace
and the banishment of war from the
face of the earth. With every seat In
the big Peachtree auditorium filled
with men, who nad marched in Bible
classes from churches in all parts of
Atlanta, and of practically every de
nomination, the demonstration for
world peace was indeed spectacular.
Washington.—Secretary of Agrlcul
ture Houston has ordered more than
28,000 square miles of territory in
counties of eight states released from
Texas cattle fever quarantine on
March 1, but has reimposed the quar
antine on' Smith county, Mississippi.
He has released the following Georgia
counties: Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield,
Murray, Gilmer, Dawson, Forsyth,
Milton, Cobb, Madison.
Jackson.—Undaunted by the contin-
ed rains which set in about last
Thanksgiving and prevented the farm
ers from sowing hundreds of acres of
oats and wheat, Butts county farmers
are preparing to put in a large acre
age In spring oats. During the few dry
days that have prevailed recently
much plowing has been done and
there seems to be a determination to
plant oats even it they are not put In
before March. While there is some
complaint of the condition of oats and
wheat caused by too much raic, these
crops, as a rule, are said to be most
promising throughout the county. D!
versification is the sloggan of hun
dreds of farmers in the county and
there seems to be no disposition to
plant a large acreage In cotton this
year.
Athens.—In a recent interview from
Mrs. Corra. Harris indicating that
there is no need for the products of
the gray knitters among the soldiers
of France and Belgium, has been
found the cause of a decided slump In
interest in tho knitters for the soldiers
among Athens women — fully fifty of
the most prominent women of Athens
having been engaged In this work of
aid. Madame Lustrat, wife of (he pro
fessor of French and other languages
at the University of Georgia, bas writ
ten to the Red Cpass officials of
France, received a reply stating that
every nrticlo that can be made by
the hands of the “good gray knit
ters” is needed—indeed, more than
can possibly be expected. Madame
Lustrat has been enthusiastic in her
work for the sufferers In her old homo
land, and Just before the recent death
of her father . In Algiers, she had of
fered her services as a Red Cross
nurse—to be denied the privilege In
favor of unmarried young women and
tliose having hospital experience.
Douglas.—Professor G. B. Eunice,
using hog cholera serum, is fighting
the epidemic In Coffee county. Last
year he lost only 50 hogs out of
2,260 Inoculated. He is doing good
worlj also among the boys and girls,
Pig clubs have been organized in
every rural school. There is much in
terest In these as well as In the corn
clubs. W. W. Croxton, agent of the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railway, and Professor J. W. Firor,
from the Agricultural college in Ath
ens, have been with Mr. Eunice this
week looking after these Interests and
helping him with the work.
Gratifying Progress Has Been Made
by Those Interested In Conquer
ing the Disease.
Malaria, to which children are sus-
septlble, has been made largely a pre
ventable disease by a study of the
mosquito carrier, its breeding places
and natural hiBtory, and by Inocula
tion experiments on animals and man.
It was proved by Italian observers
that the moBquito disseminates bird
malaria in the same manner as In the
human subject.
The final upshot of these Investiga
tions haB been that large tracts of
hitherto wastb and dangerouB land
have been rendered safe and produc
tive. A widespread cause of debilitat
ing sickness, and even of death, haB
thUB beeh removed.
In such areas the saddest sight lias
been the stunted, anemlo children,
with enlarged livers and spleens, the
evidences of chronic malarial poison
ing. that can now be obviated by put
ting modern knowledge into effect.
SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY
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Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark,
Glossy and Thick With Garden
Sage and Sulphur.
When you darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because it's done so naturally, so
evenly. Preparing this mixture,
though, at home is mussy and trouble
some. For 60.cents you can buy at
any drug store the ready-to-use tonio
called "Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy." You just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time. By morn
ing all gray'hair disappears, and, after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
and luxuriant. You will also dis
cover dandruff is gone and hair has
Btopped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no dis
grace, is a sign of old age, and aB wo
all desire a youthful and attractive ap
pearance, get busy at once with Wy
eth's Sage and Sulphur ana look years
younger. Adv.
PUT WARFARE ON NEW BASIS
Use of Field Artillery at Crecy Marked
the End of the Mail-Clad
Fighting Man.
Of all the world's great battles
Crecy possesses a unique Interest. The
English used only three pieces of field
ordnance. They were small cannon
made of trees, bored, and bound with
iron hoops, and the missiles were of
stone, scarcely larger than baseballB.
Doubtless this rude artillery made far
more noise that it effected damage.
It was the longbow and the broad
sword that won the battle, but never
theless gunpowder was henceforth to
play an ever-increasing part in the
strife of nations.
Explosives wrought a vaBt change
in fighting methods on land, for many
of the old-time weapons were rendered
quite useless in face of death-dealing
ball and shot. Warfare afloat, too,
would be revolutionized. Hitherto the
fighting Bhips had been largely car
riers of soldiery in order to board and
fight, as on land; whereas the time
was at band when ships could be rid
dled with cannon balls without the
crews coming into actual contact.
All Hls.
much does Rogers
get
'How
week?”
“All he earns; he’s a bachelor."—
Boston Evening Transcript.
Up and Down.
Do you believe that truth crushed
to earth will rise again?”
1 do—to be floored the next min
ute.”
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BROUGHT ALL INTO COURT
Indictments Too Hostlly Issued Caused
Some Commotion When In
terested Ones Appeared.
The Green Bag reports tlie recent ef
fort of Judge Wallace of the Kan
sas City criminal court to enforce rig
idly the Sunday blue laws. He had or
dered the Indictment and arrest of all
keeper of shops, stores and parks,,as
well as all actors and other perform
ers. One of the places of amusement
was a hippodrome of wild ahlmalB,
and In its zeal the grand jury had In
dicted a number of actors at this place
on Information furniBhed by witnesses
employed there.. Warrants were Issued
and the marshal was directed to bring
the indicted ones before the bar.
"Call Mary Garden,” said the judge.
“Mary Garden!" yelled the deputy
marshal.
There was an appreciable delay, and
then suddenly the door opened and
lDto the crowded court room came two
men dragging, at tbe end of powerful
chain, an angry lioness, who ex
pressed her disapproval of tbe situa
tion by emitting a deafening roar.
When tho stampede was stopped and
order restored the overenthuslastlc
judge found that he had caused the
indictment of some hundred or more
animals, including lions, tigers, leop
ards, hyenas, dogs, cats and pigs, all
of which were at the court house
entrance creating such a disturbance
that the whole neighborhood had gone
into a state of siege.—New York Sun.
Gave Himself Away.
The general was distributing medals
for special valor. Summoning Private
Bumptious to step forward, much to
the general surprise of the ranks, he
thundered out:
“Men, look upon this hero, and Imi
tate hls bravery! All through the
long night he stood firm at hls sen
tinel’s post, although completely sur
rounded by the enemy, and there he
remained calmly.”
Private Bumptious turned deadly
pale. But before he fell in a faint to
the ground, be gasped out;
“Then they were enemies! I thought
they were our own troops.”
It isn’t heroism so much as the ac
cidental limelight upon it that makes
heroes.
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KILLED WHILE ROBBING TOMB
Plunderer of Egyptian Sarcophagus
Crushed When Roof Fell In, and
Companions Fled.
Professor Petrie,, thS eminent Egyp
tologist, while exploring about thirty-
five miles from Cairo, discovered a
tomb of the Twelfth Dynasty that
thieves bad broken into thousands of
years ago. A tragedy attended the
robbery, as Professor Petrie also dis
covered. The Sunday School Times
calls It ”a tragedy of providential
justice.”
“It appears,” says Professor Petrie,
“that the plunderers removed only a
few bricks, so that a man could crawl
Into the tomb. One of tlie men entered,
opened the. coffin, lifted the mummy
out and laid it across the coffin, so
that he could easily unwind the band
ages. - He first found a collar of beads,
which he passed out into the- Bhaft,
where we found It. Then he came to
the jewels (a beautiful work of gold
and colored gems), and took It from
the body. Before he could do anything
more the roof apparently fell In, and
crushed him and the mummy. Tho
other robbers, seeing the fate of thelf
accomplice, abandoned the tomb, and
filled In tlie shaft to hide their guilt.”
The explorers found the skeleton of
the robber beside that of the mummy.
—Youth’s Companion.
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