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GRADY CGUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In the South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
European War
England baa suffered (still .another
severe loss in the Dardanelles when
the battleship Majestic was sunk by
a Turkish or German submarine Im
mediately following the sinking of the
battleship Triumph. The entire crew
of the Majestic was saved.
Germany’s note to the United States
has been framed by Baron von Jagow,
the imperial foreign minister, and
banded to Ambassador Gerard for
transmittal, to Secretary Bryan at
■Washington. Germany offers to tem
porise with America regarding the Lu
sitania, asking if that vessel carried
a cargo of war munitions.
Speeches bitter with invective have
been uttered in the reichstag denounc
ing Italy as a traitor among nations.
Admiral Jhckson has succeeded Lord
PiBher as first sea lord of the Brit
ish admiralty in the new cabinet.
Pisher resigned because, of differences
with WinBton Churchill, former first
lord of the admiralty.
Another British battleship, the Tri
umph, has been sunk in the Darda
nelles by a German or. Turkish sub
marine. All but six of the crew were
saved. This makes England’s fourth
loss In the straights and the fifth to
the Anglo-French fleet storming the
Turkish forts. The other sunken war
ships were the British men-of-war
Ocean, Irresistible and Goliath, and
the French warship, Bouvet.
The Italian campaign in southwest
Austria is continuing uninterrupted,
according to advices from the Roman
war office. The Austrians have been
retreating before the advance of their
new enemy.
The Nebraskan,, an American own
ed steamship recently chartered to the
"White Star line for several ocean
voyages between New York and Liv
erpool, was disabled off the Irish coast
by a mine. The steamer was empty
and carried no cargo. The entire crew
was saved and the ship towed into
port at FaBtneL
England's new coalition war cabinet
has been announced by Premier As
quith. Lord Kitchener retains hiB
post as secretary of state for war, with
!tbe assistance of David Lloyd-George
as minister of munitions. Winston
Spencer Churchill has been succeeded
by Arthur J. Balfour as first lord of the
admiralty. Churchill takes the post
of chancellor of the duchy of Lancas-
ter. ^
Italy has suspended the parcel post
with all countries and notified the Uni
ted States that all parcels sent.to that
country will be returned to the send
ers.
Dispatches from Bucharest state the
Russian battleship Panteleimon, with
a crew of 1,400, has beqn sunk in the
Black sea off the Roumanian coast by
a Turkish gunboat itt a naval engage
ment near the mouth of the Danube.
The entire crew is reported as lost.
Constantinople advices report
land battle at the southern extremity
of the Gallipoli peninsula between the
Moslem and allied troops, in which
the French and English were routed,
leaving 2,000 dead on the field. There
is great rejoicing in Constantinople,
Germany is now busied with at
tempting to keep Roumania out of the
war. Bulgaria has declared she will
in no way Interfere unless her own in
terests demand her entrance into the.
struggle.
The Vienna press denounces Italy,
Austria's former ally, as treacherous.
A bitter feeling against the Italians
has spread throughout the dual mon
archy.
i
Domestic
j New York police in evening clothes
are watching the cabaret shows in all
the restaurants and cafes.
The diocesan convention of the Epis
copal church of the United States,
adopted resolutions indorsing the ad
ministration of President Wilson and
pledging its support of his peace poli
cies.
The United States warship, South
Carolina, put into port in New York
carrying seventy-seven survivors pick
ed up from the wrecked Holland-Am-
erican steamer, Ryndam, which was
jammed at sea by a tramp steamer off
Nan-to.
Former President Taft, in a speech
in New York, denounced in bitter
terms the leaders of the American
Federation of Labor for exercising
power which he says has become ex
cessive and detrimental to the. public
weal and the good of society.
Mexican bandits are reported to
have killed two Americans, TexaB
rangers, on the Texas plains near the
Rio Grande.
The deep waterway bill of Governor
Dunne of Illinois has passed the legis
lature at Springfield after a bitter
fight. This now insures a canal con
necting the Chicago and Illinois rivers,
which will make a direct water route
between Lake Michigan and the gulf.
The bill carries an appropriation of
05,000,000 for the undertaking, and will
probably equal in importance the Ft.
Wayne canal in Indiana which will'
connect Lakes Michigan and Erie.
Domestic
The Arir.iimi board of pardons com
muted the sentence of five Mexicans
sentenced to hang at the same time
and recommendation was' made to
Governor Hunt that each hang sepa
rately.
Leo Frank, Atlanta manufacturer
convicted of the murder of little Mary
Phngnn, and Jim Conley, the negro
who confessed he was Frank’s accom
plice in the crime, were brought face
to face to testify in the suit brought
by the murdered girl’s mother to re
cover damages from the National Pen
cil company 'for her child’s loss. Con
ley's liberation came on the date the
testimony was taken. Frank is sen
tenced. to hang.
Mrs. Arthur H. Noyes of Cranston,
R. I„ waB electrocuted while holding a
telephone receiver in one hand and
the handle of a vacuum cleaner In the
other, a short circuit being completed.
Eruptions of the Lassen Peak vol
cano in Hat Creek valley, California,
have greatly disturbed the peace of
the settlers in that section in. recent
weeks. Large lava flows have poured
down the mountain sides and destroy
ed the farming lands.
TEXT OF GERMANY’S REPLY UNSATISFACTORY
In Reply To Demand For Reparation For Rilling Over One Hun
dred Americans Germany Alleges She Was Acting In “Justi
fied Self-Defense”—German R eply States Attacks On The
American Ships Cushing And Gulflight Are Being Investigat
ed—Full Text Of Note.
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Washington
Following his conference with Du
val West, his pergonal representative
to Mexico, President Wilson has an
nounced that he will serve notice on
the warring factions in that republic
that, his patience Is exhausted and
that peace must come, as the fighting
now is no longer for a principle, but
merely a teBt of supremacy between
leaders who wish to gain control of
the Mexican government.
Secretary Bryan has expressed
great gratification over the recently
signed triple peace treaties between
Argentine, Chile and Brazil, and says
It 1b a step in the accomplishment of
his policy for a greater unity of the
western hemisphere.
President Wilson is deeply concern
ed over the reported disabling of the
American steamer Nebraskan off the
Irish coast His, course has not yet
.been determined until he received
full details and official information.
President Wilson has shown a sign
of restlessness over Germany’s delay
in answering the American note re
garding the Lusitania incident.
"The Americas for the Americans,"
was the onthusisastic cry that domi
nated the Pan-American financial con
ference held in Washington between
the representatives of the twenty-one
American republics. The leading spir
its of the conference were President
Wilson and Dr. Santiago Perez Triana,
the delegate from Columbia, who main
tained that the western world shall he
entirely independent of Europe here
after.
After a conference with Duval
West, his personal representative to
Mexico, President Wilson announced
there would be no immediate change in
the Mexican policy.' •
President, Wilson denied the rumor
that he. intends calling an extra ses
sion of congress in’ October. He said
he was crossing no bridges until they
were reached, and the rumor was pre
mature. .
Secretary Garrison has appointed
Walter A. Harris of Georgia to mem
bership on the national military board,
to succeed Major Harry S. Berry of
Tennessee.
President Wilson has' received, Sher
wood Eddy, general Y. M. C. A:, secre--
tary for Asia, who reported -shine of
the prevailing conditions in the pres
ent Jap-Ciilnese crisis. Mr., Eddy 1
states that Christianity is making
great, gains throughout the Chinese
republic and that nation is . rapidly
awakening tb play an important part
in the wdrld’s future history.
GRAVE SITUATION CREATED.
Washington.—Germany’s reply to the American note concerning
the sinking of the Lusitania with a loss of more than 100 American
lives produced a feeling of profound disappointment here. Dissatis
faction at the failure of Germany to answer the demands of the
United States was reflected In government circles generally.
President Wilson had retired early — before the text arrived—
but from a reading of Ambassador Gerard's forecast, he had an
accurate impression of what It contained. Secretary .Bryan would
make no comment. Other cabinet officers were reticent, but there
was little concealment anywhere that the answer from Berlin had
produced a grave situation in the relations between the United
States and Germany. Just what course of action the United States
will pursue is undetermined. '
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Foreign
King Constantine's qqntUUon is re-i
ported somewhat improy.ee), though he,
is considered by ho ihearis but of
danger. A special ; arrived tin'Athens
from Berlin who feels that, an ,opera
tion may not be necessary. ' •
President Arriaga of Portugal" has
resigned. For soipe- lime .grave fears
have been entertained of an attempt'
oh his life. ’
Two of the many treaties pending
between China and Japan have at last
been signed by the Chinese republic’s
officials at Pekin. Great contention
will be noted, ,in the next treaty, called
Group No. 5. The signed treaties are
said to be acknowledgments of Japan’s
withdrawal from certain demands
which excited the Japanese crowds to
rage in Tokyo who called Baron-kato,
the foreign minister, a traitor.
Forty persons were drowned in (lie
shipwreck of tftte Chilean steamer,
Maximaimo, off the coast of Santia
go, Chile. ' ’ V
Holland has'protected to Germany
about the sinking of (Be Lus'taola.
A triple peace treaty between the
three South American republics of Ar
gentine, Brazil and Chile has been
signed at Buenos Aires.
American Ambassador Penfield at
Vienna will be the Italian representa
tive at the court of Franz Josef from
now on.
■William Graves Sharp, American
ambassador to France, has been hon
ored by the French nation who ten
dered him a public celebration in rec
ognition of his splendid services dur
ing the present war, in furthering
peace proposals among thq European
nations and for his relief work among
the Belgians.
James Gerard, American' ambassa
dor to Berlip, will act (or Italy at the
kaiser’s court since thje severing of
relations between Italy and Germany.
Ambassador Gerard iB already acting
for France, England and Russia and
Japan,
Berlin.—Germany withholds its
final decision on the demands ad
vanced by the United States govern
ment in connection with the sinking
of the Lusitania, until the receipt of
an answer from the United States, to
the note which Herr von Jagow, the
foreign minister, has delivered to Am
bassador Gerard, in reply to the Amer
ican note received by the German gov
ernment on May 15.
‘The undersigned has the honor to
submit to Ambassador Gerard the fol
lowing answer to the communication
of May 16, regarding the injury to
American interests through German
submarine warfare.
’’The imperial government has sub
jected the communication of the
American government to a tborougli
investigation. It entertains also a keen
'wish to co-operate in a frank and
friendly way in clearing up a possible
misunderstanding which may have
arisen in the relations between the
two governments through the events
mentioned by the American govern :
ment.
“Regarding, firstly, the cases of the
American steamers Cushing and Gulf-
iiglit, the American embassy has al
ready been informed that the German
government has no intention of sub
mitting neutral ships in the war zone,
which are guilty of no hostile acts; to
attacks by a submarine or submarines
of aviators. On the contrary, the Ger
man, forces have repeatedly been in-
instructed most specifically to avoid
attacks on such ships.
If neutral ships in recent months
have suffered through the German
submarine warfare, owing to mistakes
in identification, it is a question only
of quite isolated and exceptional cases
which can be attributed to the British
governments abuse of flags, together
•with the suspicious or culpable be
havior of the masters of the ships.
The German government, in all
cases in which it has been shown by
its ’-investigations that a neutral ship,
not itself at fault, was damaged by
German submarines or aviators, has
expressed regret over the unfortunate
accident,and, if justified by conditions,,
hasoffered indemnification.
Probe Is In Progress.
’ “The .cases of the Cushing and the
.Gulflightwill be treated on the same
principles. An investigation of both
case's lain progress, the result of
which: (rill: .presently be communi
cated to. the .embassy. The investiga-
'tioii'can, if necessary, be supplement
ed by an 'feteVhatio'nal, call on the in
ternational comnjiBsion of inquiry as
proyided by, article 111 of The Hague
‘aglrddment’ of October 18, 1907.
“When" Sinking the; British steamer
Ealaba (he commander of the German
submarine had the intention'of alloy-.
ih'g.'thB passengers-arid orew a full op-,
portunity foe a safe escape. .Only
when, the master did not obey the or
der tcf h'dave-td; but fled and sum
moned help by rocket signals, did. the
German commander, order the crew
and- pafe&engers by signals and mega
phone to Jeave the ship within ten,
minutes. He, actually allowed them
twenty-three minutes’ time and fired
the torpedo only when suspicious craft
were hastening to the assistance of
the Ealaba.
■ ■ Sinking Of The Lusitania
“Regarding the loss of life by«the
sinking of, the British, passenger
steamer Lusitania, the German gov
ernment has alreday expressed to the
neutral governments concerned its
keen regret that citizens of their:
states lost their liv.es.
“On this occasion the imperial gov
ernment, hpwever, cannotj escope the
impression that certain] important
facts having a direct beiring on the
sinking of the LuBitania may have
escaped the attention of the. Ameri
can government.
“The government of the United
States proceeds on' the assumption
that the Lusitania could be regarded
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
OF STATJE INTEREST
as an ordinary unarmed merchant
man. The imperial government allows
itself in )this connection to point out
that the Lusitania was one of the
largest and fastest British merchant
ships, built with government funds
as an auxiliary cruiser, and carried
expressly as such in the ’navy list’
Issued by the British admiralty.
Guns Alleged On British Ships
“It is further known to the imperial
government, from trustworthy reports
from its agents and neutral passen
gers, that for a considerable time prac
tically all the . more valuable British
merchantmen have been equipped with
camion and ammunition and other
weapons and manned with persons
who have been specially trained In
serving guns. The Lusitania, too, ac
cording to information received here,
had cannon aboard, which were
mounted and concealed below decks.
“The imperial government, further,
has the honor to direct the particular
attention of the American government
to the fact that the British admiralty,
in a confidential instruction issued
February, 1915, recommended its mer
cantile shipping not only to seek pro
tection under neutral flags, and dis
tinguishing marks, but also, while thus
disguised, to attack German subma-.
rines by ramming. As a special incita
tion to merchantmen to destroy sub
marines the British government also
offered high prizes and has already
paid such rewards.
Canadian Troops On The Lusitania
“Finally the imperial government
must point out particularly that the
Lusitania on its last trip, as on earlier
occasions, carried Canadian troops and
\Var material, including ho less than
5,400 caseB of ammunition intended for
the destruction of the brave German
soldiers who are'fulfilling their duty
with self-sacrifice and devotion in the
fatherland’s service.
“The German government, believes
it was acting in justified self-defense
in seeking With all the means of war
fare at its disposition to protect the
lives of its soldiers by destroying am
munition intended for the enemy. '
"The British shipping company must
have been aware of the danger to
■vyhich the passengers aboard the Lusi
tania were exposed' under these con
ditions. The company iri embarking
them, notwithstanding this, attempted
deliberately to use the .lives of Ameri
can citizens as protection for the am
munition aboard and acted against the
clear provisions of the American law'
which expressly prohibits the forward
ing of'passengers on. ships-carrying
ammunition and" provides a penalty
therefor.. The. company, therefore, fs
wantonly, guilty of.- the death of so
many passengers.
Quick'Striking Of Lusitania ,
“There, can be nb ; doubt, according:
tp^(be,.definite report of the submj.-
riiie’s commander, which -is further
coh'firmed -by all other • information',’
that the' .quEck''sinking : of the Lusik
tapia. is primarily. ptfesRmiable to- the
explos)on of, the-ammunition .shipment
caused by* a- torpedo. The Lusitania
passengers-would, otherwise, in all hu
man probability,- hav.e been' saved. ’
I “The’ .imperial government, ,while
Withholding its final decision on the
demandg advanced- in connection with
tfie.stalling ofthe Lusitartia„.until re
ceipt of an. answer from the American
government;'feeis impelled, in conclu-
sionr to redallj OieYO add rfdw that it
took: cognizange with, -s&tisfkotion- - of
the mediatory, proposals submitted by
the“United States government' to Ber
lin' and London as a-'h'asis^for a modus
vivendi for! conducting: the i auaritim^
warfare between Germany-and Great
Britkin. The'imperial goyernmegt, by
its, readiness -ta ehtei , : , 'hpo'n. p Sisifus-
siqn of these, pj-oposals^then? demon
strated it|3, good, intentions ta ample
fashion. Ttid 'realisation ]qf these pro
posals was defeated, as is-well known
by the declinatory pttitude of the Brit
ish government,. •
(Signed) . . “JAGOW."
Savannah.—Notice was given that
a bill will he introduced this summer
abolishing magistrate courts in Savan
nah.
I}ome.—Henry Newman, colored,
was convicted of the murder of Ben
jamin Franklin,a young clerk of Rome
last January.
Fitzgerald.—After a most success
ful convention the grand lodge, I. O.
O. F. of Georgia adjourned to''meet-
next year in Atlanta.
Thomasvllle.—One of the few in
stances of recovery from the bite of
a rattlesnake is that of Albert Reed,
a negro living in thiB county near
Metcalfe.
Columbus.—W. J. Watkins, charged
with murdering E. C. Ballard, pleads
self-defense, saying that Ballard was
advancing on him with a weapon at
the time. -
Americus.—A half million bushels of
grain representing Sumfer’s magnifi
cent crop of wheat, oats and rye was.
harvested and every farm presents a'
scene of unusual activity.
Athens.—After serving nearly all his
sentence for alleged moonshinlng, Tom
Tuggle of Walton county walked away
from the coupty court house, where
he had been given "yard privileges.”
Americus.—The Americus board of
education in annual meeting instituted
several additional departments ta the
Americus schools, including will cul
ture, physical culture,^ art and domes
tic science.
Greenville, Texas.—Thomas J.
Brown, chief justice of the Texas su
preme court, died here after an. ill
ness of three weeks. Justice Brown,
who was 80 years old, was born- in
Jasper county, Georgia.
Atlanta.—The Georgia "peach was
placed on sale on the New York mar
ket May 28, one day. earlier than last
year, the first car of the fruit having
been rushed to the Eastern market
in a special train, leaving Atlanta at
midnight, May 26.
Hazlehurst.—A cyclone passed over
Beall, Ga., a station, five miles from
here, blowing down Elizabeth Baptist
church and another church house,
tearing away a considerable portion of
a saw mill, demolishing the engines.
Trees were uprooted and flying tim--
bers and debriB filled the air.
Talbotton.—The. commencement ex
ercises of the Talbotton public school
were highly pleasing.'
.Forsyth.— Commencement exercises
at Bessie Tift college brought to a
close the sixty-sixth year of the col-
PELLAGRA CURE
SAVES HER LIFE
Oakville, Term.—Mrs. li. B. Babb, of
thiB place, writes: "Three njonths and a
half ago when I wrote you, I didn’t think
1 would live to see ChriBtmns again, but
now it is Christmas and I am enjoying It -
fine. I cannot praise Baughn’s Pellagra
Remedy enough. I believe I could eat
most anything there iB to eat now. My:
weight waB 81 when I started your treat
ment. I now weigh 08 pounds, about my
average weight for fifteen years past*
Baughn’s Pellagra Remedy will do what it
claims to do if the patient will follow di
rections as I have done.”
There is no longer any doubt that pel
lagra can be cured. Don’t delay until it is
too late. It iB your duty to consult the»
resourceful Baughn.
The symptoms—hands red like sunburn,,
skin peeling off, sore mouth, the lips,
throat and ‘ tongue a flaming - r red, with
much mucus and choking, indigestion and
nausea, either diarrhoea or constipation.
There is hope; get Baughn’s big Free
book on Pellagra and learn About tha
remedy for Pellagra that has at last been
found. Address American - Compounding
Co., box 2091, Jasper, Ala., remembering
money is refunded in any case where the
remedy fails to cure.—Adv.
“MASON AND DIXON’S LINE"
Popular Misapprehension as to Mean
ing of Term and Just What the
Phrase Implied.
Very incorrect is the general belief
that Mason and flixon’s line, as orig
inally laid off, divided the slave-hold
ing states from the free states. Oa
the contrary, it ran for one-third of
its whole length between Maryland .
and Delaware, botfi of' which were
slave^holding states at the.time. The
line was run purely to settle a bound
ary dispute between Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware.
All the same, the actual Mason and.
Dixon’s line was as much synonym
for trouble and dissension in its day
as was the figure of speech to which
ta after years it gave rise. And the
phrase will hold bitter meaning to
some until (in that looked-for day or
charity to ail men) shall be fulfilled
Dr. John Wyeth’s recent prophecy
that "When the people of the South
and the North get together they will
forget there was ever a Mason and
Dixon’s line.”—Southern Woman’s
Magazine.
Sea Wolf Gets Tullochmoor
London.—The Tullochmoor was
stealing' off Ushnnt, when halted by
a shot froni a submarine according to
a Central News dispatch from Barry.
The uhder\vater boat, was only fifteen
yards, away. • The German commander
gave the steamer’s crew ten minutes
•to launch .their boats and the twenty^
six men rowed away with their per
sonal effects. ' The crew of the sub
marine made no attempt to hoard the
Tullochmoor, nor was the captain
asked to show his ensign or tell his
nationality.
Cargoes Increasing l?or Americans
Washington —American ships' car
ried $353,600,000 worth of the im
ports and exports of the United" States
during the eight months ending with
March 31. Figures made pubjic *»y
the department of commerce, * ghow
■that the totalfof imports and dxport:
amounted to. $2,787,000,09; of • which
12.64 per cent was transported in ves
seis under the American flag, compar
ed with 8.34 per cent of a total .of $2,-
960,200,000, handleff by American ves
sels during the same period last year
lege’s existence.'
Thomson.—The term of Thomson
High and Grammar BCbool has just
ended after one of the most successful
terms In point of attendance.
Macon.—N. Hj Ballard of Brunswick,
grand master of Georgia Masons, pata
an official visit to Mabel lodge and
made an address to the assembled Ma
sons.
Toccoa,—In the municipal bond elec
tion held here-for the purpose of vot
ing bonds for a municipal, electric
lighting plant, the vote wa§ .cast 304
for bondB and 93 against bonds.
College Park.—By conferring de
grees upon eighteen seniors, one of the
largest classes of the college, the sev
enty-second annual commencement of
Cox college was brought to a brilliant
conclusion,
Jefferson.—-While Sheriff-Collier and
all. his family excepting one young,
daughter, were away from home, six
misdemeanor prisoners dug their way
through the walls into the living apart
ment from the corridor and made their
escape. ' - .> •>
p'ecqtur.r^-I^ive. of . the twenty-five
graduates of Agnes Scott college, class
of 1916,'were elected to the Hotjor so-
.qiety, >a. special distinction accorded
only to, graduate students who make
‘a high record in their studies during
the four-year term.
...Macon,—For; the third time in lesB
than two years W. H. Taylor, a rail
road ip an from Columbus, is waging a
fight- in the-'BIbb superior court in an
effort’ to escape, serving a term at the
.state farni for assault .with intent to
ihurdey. ' . , . .
f 'skv'aiiriah'.—Two Waycross . women
were in jured, one perhaps fatally, and
several men were hurt when the driver
df' a big automobile found his brakes
would- hot' work and he had to turn
sharply to avoid going off the munici
pal dock into,-the Savannah river.
Decatur.—The statements given out
by some of the supporters of* the pro
posed merger of DeKalb Cand Fulton
c>-unties to,.tpe effect that a majority
dt the, voters of Dekalb', would, favor
the iriergfe'r, were emphatically denied
by-pmany leading citizens from various
peptions of the county,
1 Ellijay.—Frank Hamby,' who was
'•Charged with murder, was found guilty
vpfismanslkughter.
, Atlanta—Mrs. W. S. Elkin, Jr.,wife
of a.prominent Atlanta druggist, died
from a gunshot wound accidentally
inflicted in her room/
Thomson.—Work 'has commenced-
on the new $9,000 jail for McDuffie,
after having been recommended by
every grand jury during the past two
years. •
Macon.—P. L. Johnston, for several
years connected with the Mafcon Tel
egraph as a reporter, -ftas named sec
retary and treasurer of the First Bap.
tist. church of Macon. ,
Augusta:—George Johnson, h, negro
hackman, is under arrest for the mur
der of Policeman J. A.’ W. Brrioak,
who was shpt while attempting to
make an arrest in January last.
Thomasvlire.—There will be an ap
plication for a new trial for T. U. Cox
of Mitchell ' county, heard ‘before
Judge W. E. Thomas at Valdosta. Cox
was convicted'of manslaughter for the
killing of Robert Booth-
Famous Feats of Archery.
In the days when the buffalo was
found In vast herds on thd western,
plains there were Indians who, while
riding at a gallop, could send an ar
row through a buffalo’s body. Re
markable as this archery was, it did:
not equal that reached by the archers-
of ancient times. It Is of record that
the MacReas of Galrlock, Scotland,
were such skilled archers that they
could bit a man at the' distance or
600 yards. In 1794 the Turkish am
bassador at London shot an arrow in
a field near that capital ’ 415 yards
against the wind, .The secretary of
the ambassador on hearing the ex
pressions of surprise ' from the Eng
lish gentlemen present, said, the Sul
tan had Bhot 600,yards. This was the
greatest performance of modern days,
but a pillar standing on a plain near
Constantinople recorded shots rang
ing up to 800 yards. Sir Robert Ains-
lie, British ambassador to the Sub
lime Porte, recorded that in 1798 he
was present when the Sultan shot an
arrow 972 yards.—Washington Star.
Unfair Advantage.
“Don’t you ever let me ; catch you
kissing my daughter again, sir!" thun
dered the irate father.
"You won’t, sir,” answered the quak
ing youth.- “You wouldn’t have caught
me thls-tlme if you haan’t been wear
ing rubber heels.”
CLEAR-HEADED. fc.
Head Bookkeeper Must Be Relia'Sft.
The chief bookkeeper in a large
business house in one of our great
Western cities spfeaks of the harm
coffee, and tea did-for him:.
“My wife and I drank our first cup
of ' Postum a little over 'two years
ago, and we have used it ;ever since,
to the entire exclusion of' tea and
coffee, it happened in this way:
“I. had an . attack of pneumonia,
which left me with dyspepsia, or neu-.
ralgla, of the stomach. My ‘cup of
cheer’ had always been coffee or tea,
but 1 became convinced, after* time;
that they aggravated my stomach
trouble. I happened to mention the
matter to my grocer one day' and he
suggested that I give Postum a trial.
"Next day It came, and we liked it
so much that we will never change
back; for I am a well man today and
have used no medicine.
“My work as chief bookkeeper ta
our- Co’S branch house here Is of a
very confining nature. During my cof
fee - drinking days I was subject to
nervousness and the ‘blues’ In addi
tion to my slok spells. These have,
left me since I began using Postum
and I can conscientiously recommend
It to those whose work confines them
to long hours of severe mental exer
tion." ,
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellvllle," in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal—the original (orm—
.must be well boiled. 16c.and 2fec pack-
.ageB.
Instant Postum—a soluble powder—
dissolves quickly in, a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream' and sugar, makes
-a-delicious beverage instantly. 30c
and 50c tins.
B&th kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
. "There's a Reason'.' for Postum.
—sold by Grocers.