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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
What Has Occurred During the Week
Throughout This Country
and Abroad. '
Imes Simplified for Names of Places
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
l»N.—The bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution
lly completed work on the tabulation of Indian names to meet
(mand for post offices, j uries, villa sites and outing organiza
tions. Tills compilation gives simpli
fied forms In Dakota, Onnmn, Osage,
Rlackfoet, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Chip
pewa and other Indian languages.
Many of the names are especially in
teresting.find musical.
In connection with the work of
this bureau, officials there say that
they are bombarded with requests
for “the Indian word” for this or that.
It apparently is not generally known
that there is no one American In
dian language. On the contrary, the
’ this bureau say that there are about 1,000 languages* in the
lid practically 600 distinct Indian languages north of Mexico,
lb impossible to give “the” Indian word for any English
ponsetfiiently It is usually chosen from the language of the
bits, or once Inhabited, the particular section of the country
request comes.
lus and difficult are the Indian languages that a committee has
lajipointed to devise a standard method for transcribing them.
It to the many variations from nation to nation, there are the
Jin speech of the Individual, of the family proper and of the
111 of which tends to intrude transient forms.
Gathered From All Part* of
Globe and Told In Short
Paragraph!.
Mexican
One more appeal for modification of
the protocol providing for the with
drawal of American troops from Mex
ico is made by General Carranza in a
message delivered to Secretary Lane
by Luis Cabrera, chairman of the Mex
ican members of the joint commis
sion.
Carranza’s chief insistence in his
latest utterance is that the American
troops shall be withdrawn uncondi
tionally.
Leaders for Washington Due Next March
■election bus overturned all of the old social circles and there
■tost eutirely now social lenders for the next two years at least,
[life always plays an important part In the doings of official
nd the Sixty-fifth con-
yiny prominent society
; to Washington, after
■replace n number of
111 he retired March 4,
wits of the recent elce-
k more prominent of the
ll be Senator-elect and
Jrielet Gerry of Rhode
fere extensive entertain-
sessions of the Sixty-
i; Representative and
IlcCormick of Chicago; Senator-elect and Mrs. Philander C. Knox
fiia* who are well known to Washingtonians; Sen at-, select Calder
Lahcl'ii** family; Representative-elect and Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller
Jsetts, and Senator-elect Johnson and his family of California,
(rity of these have already been included in the social register
Mrs. Gerry was formerly Mathilda Townsend of the capital,
Rirt of each season here, oven when nor husband is root engaged
■ol. Mrs. Med 111 McCormick, who is a daughter of Mark Hanna,
fly had a prominent niche In local social activities through her
pFeBtrirr suffrage. The Knoxs are more or less familiar through
cabinet service, and they have always maintained a winter
e. Sennlor-elcct Calder of New York had n long career in the
Ih makes him thoroughly familiar in capital society, ant^-Iovernc-*
Id Representative-elect Fuller will lie among the venViy new faces
ossing will he noted with* regret are Senator and
node Island. Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania. Senn-
■tor ‘Sutherland of Utah and Senator du Pont of
tullies have long been identified with tlie social life
i/s Cling to Their Favorite Tree
is celebrated for its fondness for human habitation
£rdin»: to Webster. Also, for its occupation of a
{District building, according to Washingtonians.
For passer domestieus is just a polite
cognomen for what human beings call
the English sparrow.
Why should the passer domestieus
Wnshingtonli choose that particular
tree in front of the District building.
Everyone knows that Fourteenth
and Pennsylvania avenue and Its vi
cinity are about the busiest part of
Washington. Street cars rumble by
every half minute or so, automobiles
and wagons are continually passing up
and down, and policemen, commission-
■ the District building go to and fro along the side-
J sparrow chooses thnt particular tree out of the
|treets of Washington are bordered.
given at the “tree department” in the District
[•urlosity there ns anywhere else. It’s not the partlc-
are planted every few feet down the avenue,
been made to get rid of the English sparrows,
jeeman, "there wasn’t a thing doing.”
was chief he tried the experiment of shooting
|nt night. A few angry, discontented and sleepy
i a flutter of wings, the sparrows left—and came
agriculture, the expert on birds, and especially
■of a sparrow are many, and if he (the sparrow)
|n that particular tree, there was no known reason,
L was one, too, to cut the top of the tree off, bogin-
Jmnd^hit'-wthnt cate the sparrow would take up
|xt
explanaTvon of the wants of ‘the English spnr-
, and in thnt tree he will stay, and if predictions
It, in that tree his children will live and flourish
pld age.
Domestic
Success in obtaining pledges for $4,-
000,000 toward the $5,000,000 church
pension fund being raised for Protest
ant Episcopal clergymen and their de
pendent families were announced in
New York City by Bishop William
Lawrence of Massachusetts.
The new South Carolina child labor
law prohibiting the employment of
children under 14 years of age in the
textile establishments of the state be
came effective January 1 and auto
matically about twenty-four hundred
children ceased to be employed in the
cotton mills of the Rtate, according
to figures furnished by the state de
partment. of agriculture.
Three young boys were killed at
Newport News, Va., by the cave-in of
a tunnel they were digging into a
bluff on the.Janies river. The boys
did not return home in time for the
evening meal and a search disclosed
the cave-in. Twenty men were em
ployed more than an hour recovering
the bodies.
Thomas E. Campbell (Rer>.) was in
augurated governor of Ariibna at the
capital, Phoenix, January 1. There
were no inaugural ceremonifs for Gov.
G. W. P. yunt, incumbent, Alio claims
the office, but when Governor Camp
bell went to the executive Viffices he
found them locked. TherflP was no
disturbance. Scores of arrived depu
ties were scattered throughout the as
semblage. Mandamus proceeding
ready have been commenced in tiie
supreme court to compel Governor
Hunt to relinquish the.oificeof chief
executive. The only stnti!ni!?Ji|
istrat 1 on^ydyul f l TOgko was that
igxiVSThor Hunt.'hfln* been elected and
would hold <he office. \
December, 1016,. is set J down in
weather history as the stormiest month
since February and March, 1913, when
the big floods occurred in the Ohio
valley. The weather bureau report
ed that six severe storms had swept
in rapid succession across the country,
bringing copious rains early in the
month and heavy snows nearly every
where later, setting new December
records for heat and cold.
"“An* Amarillo, Texas, dispatch says
that reports concerning the Panhandle
of Texas jack rabbit drives held in a
united effort to reduce the cost of
meat indicate that not less than ten
thousand jack rabbits have been kill
ed in the various drives.
A Savannah, Ga., reports is to the
effect that the December exports to
tals were swelled to more than seven
million dollars by the sailing of two
vessels from that port with cargo val
ued at approximately two million dol
lars.
At Minden, La., two negroes held
as suspects in connection with the kill
ing of John Nelson Reeves, nine miles
north of that city, on Christmas eve,
have confessed, implicating Henry
Waller, a farmer and neighbor of
Reeves, and John Long, a 20-year-old-
youth.
The jury in the case of eleven de
fendants charged with the use of the
mails to defraud in sales of wild
horses in Coconino county, Arizona, re
turned a verdict of guilty against eight
defendants and founty two not guilty.
One defendant was dismissed by* the
judge.
David Caplan. last of the alleged dy
namiters brought to trial for the de
struction of the Los Angeles Times
building in 1910, was sentenced to
ten years in San Quentin penitentiary
on a charge of manslaughter.
President Wilson pasesd liis sixtieth
milestone cn December 28.
President Wilsoti went to the capitol
and discussed the country’s affairs
with Senator Stone, chairman of the
foreign relations committee. Their
talk covered a wide range, but it is un
derstood that much of the time was
devoted to the situation growing out
of the unfavorable entente reply to
the peace proposals of the central
powers, which the president had been
studying during the day.
Cable reports from Paris announc
ing that the entente answer to Presi
dent Wilson had been prepared and
would be the same in effect as that
to the belligerents did not increase
hope in Washington for a favorable
outcome of the negotiations.
A Paris dispatch, in reply to the prof
fer of Germany and her allies for a
peace conference with the entente al
lies, in a collective not-, declares that
they “refuse to consider a proposal
which is empty and insincere.”
It is known in Washington that the
entente allied governments insist that
no peace is possible so long as they
have not secured reparation for violat
ed rights and liberties and the free
existence of small states and have not
brought about a settlement for the fu
ture security of the world.
A dispatch from Brisbane, Australia,
says one hundred persons are believ
ed to have been drowned in Clermont,
Queensland, by a flood wflich washed
away the main street and all the
houses in low-lying places.
Tentative approval having been giv
en by President Wilson to plans for
a bond issue to meet a part of the
prospective deficit at the end of the
next fiscal year, administration lead
ers in congress are preparing to bring
in their revenue bills as soon as possi
ble after the holiday recess.
In a circular sent out by the mili
tia bureau, it is stated that every able-
bodied male citizen between the ages
of 18 and 45 is liable for military serv
ice in case of war.
A policy of absolute silence regard
ing the pence negotiations for the war
ring Europeans and Asiatics has been
adopted by President Wilson and Sec
retary Lansing.
Resources of national banks of the
United States, Comptroller Williams
announced, have increased more than
four billion dollars during the past
two years.
Farm* loan banks will be located in
Springfield, Mass.; Baltimore, Md.;
Columbia, S. C.; New Orleans, La.;
Houston, Texas; St. Paul, Minn.; St.
Louis, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Omaha,
Neb.; Wichita, Kans.; Spokane,
Wash., and Berkeley, Cal.
It is expected that the government
will have to supply most of the $9,000,-
000 capital for the farm loan banks,
but stock subscription books will be
GERMANY DEFENDS
BELGIAN INVASION
Teutons Claim That Woes Of The tittle
Kingdom Are Due To Her Own
Actions Before The War
SHOULD NOT HAVE RESISTED
Semi-Official Reply Is Made To The
Charges In The Entente Note
By Doctor Hammann
opeped nevertheless.
In spite ofilSe^vifr!. between
is Now Are Properly Displayed
been made recently in the White House col
lies, a collection which since 1003 has been one
Tnanslon. From its inception under Mrs. Roose-
• and his-
Ich
kept in
have
corridor,
er.s who
l.v have
heir in-
Washington
A joint session of the Mexican-
American commission will be held
early in January, at which the Ameri
cans will give the Mexicans their an
swer, and on its nature depends the
future course of the commissioners,
who have beeh trying for four months
to adjust questions at issue between
the two countries.
Miss Julia Williams, daughter of
Senator John Sharp Williams married
Thomas Rives Boykin of Savannah
December 28.
It is learned in Washing!)^ that
Carranza has raised no insuperable
barriers to an adjustment oj
the insistence of the ce*?t ra l powers
for an immediate peace col
the forecast of a unanimo’
by the entente allies to entel
conference without knowing
terms in advance, the
government believes thnt the negc
tions in progress are resulting in
House leaders predict that the
posed increase in postage rate on sec
ond class matter never will be enact*
ed into law.
Berlin.—The German impression of
the entente’s reply to the peace pro
posals of the central powers was re
flected in a statement made by Doc
tor Hanunann, who until the turn of
the year was director of the intelli
gence depnilment of the foreign of
fice. This comment was not based on
the official text of the entente’s note.
Doctor Hammann, who collaborated
in the important work of the foreign
office in December, 1916, said that
consideration by. Germany and her al
lies of a peace offer dated back as
far as October. At that time the in
tention was entertained of making an
honest^and sincere attempt to prevent
further useless bloodshed. Being ask
ed as to the general impression cre
ated by the entente reply, he said:
“If 1 were to express an opinion in
a few words, it is this:- Instead of
taking place around a peace table,-the
entente's deliberations took place on a
judge’s chair. Apparently the entente
forgot nothing that could possibly in
fluence neutrals against us.
“The point of the accusation, how
ever, to which the largest space is al
lotted in the entente note is ‘the mar
tyrdom of Belgium.’ But if cue de
sires to pass judgment on the ‘mar
tyrdom of Belgium,’ one must speak
beforehard regarding ‘neutral and loy
al Belgium’ and this Belgium had ceas
ed to exist long before the war. I
do not want to speak about the doc
uments which we found in Brussels
and which have been published. They
can be read by everybody. I only
wish to single out one point which up
to now tyas not been sufficiently con
sidered—the report made by Baron
Grcindl, Belgian minister at Berlin,
dated December 23, 1911.
“This clear-sighted statement, then
explained forcibly that already at that
time the entente was inspired by noth
ing but the one thought of encircling
Germany from the north. As proof of
tyhis Baron Greindl quoted the outcry
started in Paris and Londdn a short
tin\e before when the Dutch plan to
fortify Flushing had become known.
The reason why they wished that
remain without defense
icealed. In this way they
eir purpose to* be able ro
English garrison to Ant-
hindrance, thus creating
. basis Cor operations ii\
the direction of the lower Rhine and
Westphalia.”
LAX-FOS is an improved Cascara
(a tonic-laxative)
In LAX-FOS the Cascara is improved by
the addition of certain harmless chem
icals which increase the efficiency of the
Cascara, making it better than ordinary
Cascara. LAX-FOS is pleasant to take
and does not gripe nor* disturb stomach.
Adapted to children as well as adults.
Just try one bottle for constipation. 50c.
Popped Out at the Popping.
Aunt—I suppose, Edith, you said
"This is so sudden!” when Mr. Slow-
boy proposed.
Niece—No; 1 fully intended to, but
I was so excited I forgot and exclaimed
"At lust!”—Boston Evening Tran
script.
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Girls! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy and
beautiful—Get a 25 cent bottle
of Danderine.
If you care for heavy hair that glls*-
tens with beauty and Is radiant with?
life; bas an incomparable softness and
is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine,
Just one application doubles the
beauty of your hair, besides It Imme
diately dissolves every particle of
dandruff. You can pot have nice
heavy, healthy hair if you have
dandruff. This destructive scurf robs-
the hair of its lustre, its strength and
its very life, and if not overcome It
produces a feverishness and itching of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die; then the hair falls out
fast. Surely get n 25-cent bottle of
Knowltou's Danderine from any drug.
6tore and Just try it.—Adv.
Or Life-Saving.
Modem military inventions, wondqr
ful as they are, cannot be classifie
as either lime-saving or labor-saving.
European War
Lloyds (London) reports the sink
ing of the Rus/f!an steamship Taiskar,
3,043 tons gross, by a German subma
rine. Three members of the crew
were drowned. The others were land
ed at Stavangre.
Pressing in upon southern Moldavia
from three sides, apparently with all
their vigor, the forces of the central
powers are making progress against
stiff resistance. On the Transylvanian-
Moldavian frontier, Berlin reports, the
Austro-Germans and Bulgarian troops
continue to advance.
new thrust has been started by
the Austro-Germans along the Molda
vian frontier, which adds to the dif
ficulties of the Russians and Rouman
ians, already hard pressed from the
south and east.
Along the river Kasino, and west of
Covesha, Petrograd says, Roumanian
troops were driven back nearly a mile.
Field Marshal von Mackensen has
reached Dumitresti, About 12 miles
northeast of that town troops under
his command liaVe captured several
villages..
The Greek government has address
ed a second note to the entente pow
ers, pointing out the growing popular
resentment against their blockade.
Having taking Filipechti, thirty
miles to the southwest, Field Marshal
von Mackensen’s troops have now cap
tured the railroad town of Rimnik Sa-
rat, relatively the same distance to
the east.
A Berlin dispatch to President Wil
son says that Germany and her allies
—Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur
key—replied to the note of President
Wilson in which he asked the bel
ligerent nations state the aims for
which they were fighting. The pro
posal is made by the central powers
that a conference of the delegates of
all the belligerents be held immedi
ately in a neutral city. The task of
preventing future wars, can be begun
only after the end of the present
struggle, the statement says.
Considerable fighting is again taking
ilace on the eVrdun sector around Le
me and on the eastern slopes
NINE BILLION DOLLAR
VALUE FOR U.
Georgia Ranks Fourth, While Texas
Is Firist, In Value Of
Farm Output
Washington.—Almost nine billion
dollars was the aggregate value of all
ciops of the country last year. Tn
an estimate announced by the depart
ment of agriculture the exact value
was set at $8,934,587,000. That was
an increase of $2,165,989,000 over the
value of the 1915 crops and $2,867,206,-
000 over the average of the years 1910
to 1914.
Texas held its lead as first state in
value of its crops, but Illinois as sec
ond state in 1915 was displaced by
Iowa last year. Georgia was fourth.
Except North Dakota every state
showed increase in the value of its
crops last year over 1915.
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few—a beautiful
head of hair. If yours Is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store It to its former beauty and lu«-
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dread
ing. Price $1.00.—AdT.
The Kind.
“Some children, have to be handled'
with gloves.”
“I suppose with kid gloves.”
MOTHER, ATTENTIONI
Gold Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease front
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you*,
cures Bowel Complaints and
Troubles of Babies.—Adv.
Fgggife**?*.!
He was a newcomer iff
had just reveled in one of
“It happened right near 1
of an alley,” he told the ot|
at the bar. “I’m from a ll
and nobody ever held me up]
I got a right good start inr
tions here. Just ns I passj
some fellow threw liis arnif|
arms and held. Another
one hand over my mouth!
the other to go through
First ho got my Ingersoll, j
got abput one dollar and
in silver.”
“ ‘Where’s yer froghides]
“ ‘My what?’ says I.
“ ‘Yer froghldes,’ he saysl
“ ‘What’s them?’ says I. f
“‘Greenbacks,’ says lie.I
“And then I knowed \vh|
But 1 didn’t have none.”
Throe CltinCse girls wild
rived at Vancouver are thl
stowaways to land in Cain7i(j u J
581,925 Prisoners For Allies In 1916
Paris.—During the course of last
year, according to authoritative fig
ures, 7S.500 Germans were captured
on the French front by the French
and 40,000 by the British, while in
Serbia and Macedonia the entente al
lied armies took 11,173 Bulgarians and
Turks prisoners. During the same pe
riod the Italians made prisoners of
52,250 Austrians, while the Russians
captured more than four hundred
thousand Germans and Austrians.
Tito Chilean government ],|
poned conversion of its prp PP .
to gold until January, 10"#.
Lfarii
A hundred and twenty-fl
birds nest on an average!
Northeast. \
'Tis better to live rich than to ^\
rich!
Rates Increased on Second Class Mail
Washington.—The annual postoffice
appropriation bill reported to the house
carried provisions to increase rates on
newspapers, magazines and other sec-,
ond class matter by a zone system,
establish penny postage on local let
ters and impose heavier penalties for
sending liquor through the mails. The
hill would appropriate $329,553,120,
$4,000,000 more than the current post-
office act, readjust rural carriers’ sal
aries anu increase the pay of a -num
ber of employees.
Carranza Refuses To Sign Protocol
Washington.—When the American
*(
of the Mexican-Americ
ior^fij^^^consjdj
Why Wait
Mr. Coffee Drinker, till
heart, nerves, or stom
ach "give way?"
The sure, easy way
to keep out of coffee
troubles is to use the,
pure fafed-drinU
Bette!
