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lK)Hf»l,AS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA IN CITY BRIEF NEWS NOTES it* Army of II > Cli ill fill! war, nml " iiiniIi* iiho of ilifin In lil .iiwf lo coiuimiml Him Itriiiirli. Mlfmlfrnlf balloon nun umlir Mu* command of «l«*n. M. I*. Ariu> of Northern Virginia, li made but mn* n*<cmdon rn r.hful, Tills balloon was towed ilowu llu* .tunics river wiir raptured, li whs turned ou r to Professor Lowi* for >p«rttnf*nl might iiiiilit* of ii. Being of Impruetlrnl mu on, li wns ml up mol piece* given iih souvenirs to proml* drty. itist Puts Potato Through Its Paces ears past llu* 1 Tnit«*«| State* ill purliio'iif of ngrleiilhire itf flit* pul ii lo mol Hclmtlflciilly selecting mid breeding III hrli»>r It up lo tlio highest sinndiinl of ellleieney In Iih duly to iiiuidMiid. In its later offoriH imvfiul llu* lmprovt*uo*nl of I lo* it ho* ful tuber, II 11iih cnHud in llio assis tance of u womiin Unit she limy bring lo*r woman's knowledge of home economics lo lionr upon llo* Mludy of I llu VfffOtJlIllc. It Ih llo* province of Miss Marga ret Connor, scientific assistant in po mology, Ho* youngest womiin scientist Jn flu* government employ, lo put Hit* potatoes through lliulr puces from llo* standpoint of tlo* homo economist. i n large scale In (lo* United Stales has It centralized espondlng roughly lo (he various geographical |iuir.v. This speeliillzuUon has created a deuuuol for coudltloiiH In particular localities, or for varieties pos- |nhlc qualities, such ns heal mol drought resistance, re- MiKlt curl y or late maturity. Iilgh-stnrch content, etc. years of selection ami breeding literally thousands of I'O been secured. These are grown in all parts of the hie oflloo of horllciillure and pomology has experiment ill |lnlu, North Carolina. Colorado mol Idaho—and complete ery phase of Iheir development. [disease or drought: reslslmil a potato vine may he, the It' little practical Importance If llo* potatoes have a dls- |tor, If their llesh turns black alter cooking, or if they I 'minds of the housewife," said Miss Connor In 1 tubers from each seedling which Is thought cd to a cooking test, and If this is unfavorable > Homo very desirable culture characterists to save eneral tests which wc apply to each potato—boiling, Film. The Ill's! two methods cf cooking are the fmulation In which potatoes are served li* the household." Hits When the President Is Present |>N and several of Ids predecessors have been very Riding many of the balls, receptions, and other soitil- ilch the chief executive is Invited, and certainly the Adds ImmeuBur- Jthe function. Ill with the la- ^ parked by some - | ceremony, and, ht, by some ccr- hls hosts, as to roecdure. ptlngs are over rd moments for jmlly the presl- !tbo nature J hr Instance, the 111 at the Pan-American building. The first 111 tlo In- lu the president met the guests of honor, the diplomats |very pleasant, the supper for the distinguished guests |tr. when the notables were seated In even rows in a [jml the other guests crowded around Tor a glimpse of Jif nothing but Mrs. Jnrlc.v's wax works. hull the president and his party were half way l|r way out, when It was suddenly decided that some taken of their departure and the hand struck up Atier.” Maud at attention In the middle of the room until it 'thing will continue to happen until there la some bf the etiquette which should attend the arrival of lure, and the time which he spends at a social func- [osition of States in the Capital V*a of the establishment in Washington of u permanent ■lutes Is revived and advocated on a comprehensive Jn of Citizens’ Associations* In conjunction with its plans for holding a government edu cational exhibit In Washington during the week of February 20 to March 1. This announcement was made by Charles S. Shrevo, president of the federation who declared that exhibit week, winch is to he arranged pri marily for the entertainment and In struct l-at »*f prc-lnaugaral visitors, will ho utilized as the first step toward the carrying nut of tho larger proposition. Ti e dliiii, Mr. Shrove nuhh Is to Invito the governors of the states and eprcHcnluth’cfl to intend a mass meeting to be “|eh 8, for the purpose of iposltlda. bore. . Has Occuned During the Week Throughout This Country end Abroad. EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE Qatharatf From All Part* of tho Glob* and Told In Short Paragraph*. | Washington mums W Lawson, haled before tho c rules commlticc to tell whit! ho v or had hoard about a stork mar- | ket leak on President Wilson's |<tacc note or he punished, named the chair man of tlie committee, ItepresentatIve | Henry. Then before the hearers had Mine to recover from the shock Lawson j r prang one sensation after the other i by declaring the cabinet officer refer red to was Hccretary McAdoo, that the hanker wan It. Pliny Fisk of Now York ami Mint he knew the senator ' only hy Mm Initial "O." To complete i the explosion, I jin* noi i wont on to ! charge that Paul M. Warburg of the I federal reservo board had knowledge I of (he leak machinery, and repealed a rumor Mist Count Von Bernstorff, the j Mi rinan ambassador, Imd made two ' millions in the stock market, and to j mention it list of well-known men he thought should la* questioned. Congress will ho asked to authorize $18,500,000 for tho construction cf the four proposed hilt tlo cruisers in pri vate shipyards. A Merlin dispatch announces that Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, tho Gorman foreign minister, informed The Press, In his opinion, that tho entente reply to President Wilson's peace note bars the possibility for the present of fur ther German steps to bring about peace. The federal white slave law was con st rued by tho Supreme court to pro hibit. interstate transportation of worn- I on for any immoral purpose, including "private escapades," as well ns com mercialized vice. I Test cases regarded decisive of j about eight hundred railroads, claims j agninst the government for approxi- | mutely thir ty live million dollars for additional compensation for carrying the mails from 1907 to 1911 were de cided by tho Supreme court against tho railroads. The .lapanese battle cruiser Tsuku- bn, which visited the Jamestown ex position in 1907, Is reported, in a To- Uio dispatch, to have been destroyed hy an explosion In the harbor of Yoso- ka, an important naval station thir teen miles southwest of Yokohama. One hundred and fifty three members of the crew—a total of 817 men—- were killed outright and 157 injured, many of them seriously. The attitude of President Wilson to ward the replies of the warring na tions to his suggestion that, an oppor tunity be given for comparing peace terms remained undetermined up to January 13. It Is suggested In Washington that one or more European neutrals may urge Germany and her allies to make public their peace terms, and others think it possible that a voluntary statement may be forthcoming from Merlin after the text of the entente reply has been banded to the foreign office for its information by Ambassa dor Gerard. It is reported by the bureau of la bor and commerce that at least one million men have received increases in wages. Half of the raises were vol untary and the other half were won through strikes. In a separate peace note the Bel gian government expresses a desire for peace, but declares It could only ac cept a settlement which would assure it reparation and security in the fu ture. Withdrawal of the Pershing expedi tion across the American border and the sending of Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico City are the next moves that oftlcial Washington is said to be con templating. The next move to ho made by the United States in dealing with the de facto government will be announced by President Wilson shortly. Domestic A La Mesa, N. M., dispatch announc es that Gen. Bejamln J. Viljoen, who took a prominent part in the Boer war, was at one time a member of tho Boor parliament, took part in the Madero revolution in Mexico and whose son is now with Pershing’s col umn in Mexico, is dead, having suc cumbed to pneumonia. Texns reports a record-breaking snowstorm in the northern and cen tral portions of the state. Seven inch es is reported at Dallas and as far smith as Waco a fall of an inch and a half IS reported. Four thousand pounds of powder were destroyed by lire and explosions at tho Haskell, N. J., plant of the Du Pont Powder company, December 12. Only two men are reported missing. No estimate of tho loss has been made public. According to a message received at the western division army headquar ters Mi Ban Francisco from Calexico, an airplane, missing from San Diego for several days, with Col. Harry G. Bishop and Lieut. W. A. Robertson, Jr., has been traced to a pqjpt fifty miles south of Calexico, A Tallahassee, Fla., dispatch an nounces that Governor Catts has ap pointed J. 11. ChilftWnn of Tallahasseo ns adjutant general of Florida, suc ceeding Gen. J. (\ II. Foster, who has been at the head of Florida inilitaty affairs for many years. Buffalo Bill (Col. William Frederick Cody) Is dead at the homo of his sis ter la Denver, Col. Ho Is the last of the great plainsmen, and his death Is mourned hy the whole country, es pecially by the youth. Finn* Bopp, German consul at San Francisco, and four of his attaches <»r employees wore found guilty in the United mates district court of having violated American neutrality. Tho charge open which they were convict ed was that they Imd planned to blow up munition plants in America and Canada, steamships carrying anything to the entente allies, railroad bridges and ndlPiiry trains. A New York dispatch announces that a German raider was met in the Atlantic and sunk hy a British cruiser. The identity of the vessels engaged iis well as the vessel reported sunk, is not known. Mexican The Mexican-American Joint com mission which failed to effect an ad justment of Mu* questions at issue be tween Mexico and the United States after a series of conferences that be gan four months ago, bus been for mally dissolved. The Mexicans have little doubt that full diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico will soon he re-established. The latest move Is that the United Stati*s will withdraw Pershing’s ex pedition and send an ambassador to the do facto government in Mexico. It h; stated In Mexico City hy men high in the councils of the provisional government and in close touch with the International situation that the result of the conferences between tho Mexican and United States commis sioners Is most satisfactory to Mexico. The news in the City of Mexico Is to the effect that. President Wilson has taken personal charge of the ne gotiations between the de facto gov* eminent and the United States. European War In the course of a violent engage ment near the Kaslno rivey qn the northern Roumanian front, the Rou manians threw back their opponents a little distance, it is announced in Petrogrud. The Germans, under Field Marshal von Mackensen, have made a further advance toward Galatz, and the Rus sians have retreated towards the north in the vicinity of Vadenl. Under fierce attacks tho Teutonic al lies have made further progress against the Russians along the Seretli, southwest of Galatz, capturing the vil lage of Kotumikhali and also the town of Vadenl, on the railroad be tween Braila and Galaz, six miles from Galatz. Tile Austro-Geraians have been de feated north of the Sloniki river, south of the Oituz river and in the region of Raduleschi to the east of Fokshani. The Germans delivered a heavy at tack in the vicinity of Riga, but were repulsed. The Trentino front (Italian reports the usual artillery engagements, and claims the Austrians have been dis turbed by the accuracy of tho Italian artillery. The Julian front (Italian) reports that, notwithstanding the very inclem ent weatlidf, the useful activity of the patrols goes on unimpeded. The usual cannonade is going on south of the Somme and in the region of Verdun. A German aeroplane was forced to land in the French lines near Pont-a- Moussons, and the aviatr«:s made pris oners. Only artillery activity is reported at Het Sas, in the Belgian sector. South of the Somme and on the right bank of the Meuse artillery fighting is reported to be very active. A German destroyer is reported to have captured in Swedish territorial waters the Danish steamship Tyhra. Lieutenant General Bandini, com mander of the Italian Albanian expe ditionary corps, was among those lost aboard the Italian battleships Regina Margherita. The sinking of the Italian battleship Regina Margherita, of 13,00 tons, on December 11, with the loss of 675 men, is offficially announced by the Italian government. A British cruiser of the Juno type, measuring 5,600 tons, was sunk by Turkish gun fire on the Island of Kas- telorizo in the eastern Mediterranean. In the western war theater fighting is reported on the Ancre river in France between the Germans and the British. The British are reported to be mak ing successful raids north of Arras, France. The French report having captured a considerable number of prisoners in a sortie ih the Vosges sector. Greece’s reply accepting the terms of the ultimatum cf the entente allies has been delivered, according to a Lon don dispatch. One thousand yards of Turkish trenches on the Kut-el-Amara (Garden of Eden) have been captured by the British. The Turkish trezukvo at Sannayit wore bombarded by the British aAd successfully raided ir three places/ 1 lute'.nvosion of Rr ' ADMIRAL DEWEY GOES TO BEYOND Hero Of Manila And Ranking Naval Offi cer Of The World Dies At His Home In Washington WAS IN SERVICE 62 YEARS President Order* All Flags To Be Half Matted—Burial At Famous Arlington Cemetery Washington.—Admiral Dewey, the nation’s Spanish war hero and hy pri ority of grade the ranking naval offi cer of the world, died at his home here in his eightieth year. A general breakdown, accompanied by arterlo schlerosis incident to age, was Mm cause cf his death. The d I sense had been grndualy spreading its hold upon the powerful body for a year and a half, but the admiral, proud of his physical vigor, had fought it off and even kept its existence a se cret from most of his intimate and close friends. Mrs. Dewey and the admiral’s oni son, George, were at the bedside when he died. The admiral died at 5:50 o’clock President Wilson and Secretary Dan iels were notified at once, and the news was flashed by wireless to Amer ican naval vessels and stations all over the world. Tho message carried orders that nil flags be half masted. Tim admiral will be buried at the famous Arlington national cemetery, on tho Virginia shore of the Potomac river, whore many oi’ his former com rades have been laid to rest. Only two other men- -Farragut and Porter—have held tho rank of the admiral of thp American navy, and since* Civil war days no military fig ure lias bold such a place as Dewey in the affection and admiration of the American people. His death end ed 62 years of active service. His baptism of fire came in the Civil war, through all of which he served with distinction. Promotion followed promotion during the years following, and he was a commodore commanding the Asiatic fleet when the order "cap ture or "destroy the enemy's fleet" gave him (he first news of hostilities with Spain and sent him into Manila bay for the feat that won undying fame and had far-reaching effect upon the position of the United States as n world power. Immediately Dewey was advanced to rear admiral, and then congress by special act made him admiral of the navy, a grade that died with him. Since 1900 he had been on duly at the general board, constantly in touch with all activities of the navy, ad visor of secretaries and a mighty champion of a greater fleet Yeai after year the general hoard urged the building of more ships than con gress would agree to, until at the last session a great building program based upon its recommendations final ly was adopted. ALLIES PLANNING FOR BLOW ON WEST FRONT General Nivelle And Field Marshal Haig In London Conferring With British War Council London.—There is a possibility that another big offensive by the entente allies in Belgium and France is in contemplation. A two days’ conference has been held in London between Pre mier Lloyd-George .and his war coun cil and the British and French com manders-in-chief. While nothing has been made public concerning the con ference from official sources, except that it is described as "important,” an unofficial dispatch asserts that it differed from the conference recently held in Rome in that military instead of diplomatic questions took prece* dence. Aside from Rouniania, quiet contin ues to prevail on all the other fighting fronts, where there have been on’y bombardments and operation*? by small detachments. No mention is made by either Berlin of Petrograd of the bat tle begun last week in the Riga re gion and which for several days had seemed to be decreasing in intensity. Berlin reports engagements south oi Smorgon, which lies between Vilna and Minsk. Danish )Vest Indies For The U. S. Washington.—Sovereignty over the Danish West Indies, after half a cen tury of negotiations, will pass to the United States, with the exchange of ratifications of the purchase treaty by Secretary Lansing and Danish Minis ter Brun. The actual physical trans fer, with the raising of the United States flag, will take place upon pay ment of the $25,000,000 purchase price, which congress wilt provide in a few weeks. During the interim the gov ernment of the islands will be admin istered by the Danish government. Faintest Sound Makes Loud Noise Binghampton, N. Y.—Fifty persons were seriously hurt, ten probably fatal ly. when half the population of the little town of Harfor/UPa., about thir ty miles from BingnMiptoi} \trap ed by Are in the of Fell? r uctu Time it! Pape’s Diapepsin ends all Stomach misery in five minutes. Do some foods you eat hit back- taste good, hut work badly; ferment into stubborn lumps and cause a sick, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. or Mrs. Dyspeptic, Jot this down: Pape’s Diapepsin digests everything, leaving nothing to sour and upset you. There never was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. No difference how badly your stomach is disordered you will get happy relief in five minutes, but what pleases you most is that it strengthens and regulates your stom ach so you can eat your favorite foods without fear. You feel different as soon as "Pape’s Diapepsin" comes In contact with the stomach—distress just vanishes—your stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belch ing, no eructations of undigested food. Go now, make the best investment you ever made, hy getting a large flfty- cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin from any store. You realize in five minutes how needless it is to suffer from indiges tion. dyspepsia or bad stomach. Adr. Few Now Care to Walk. It is hardly too much to say that tho automobile* as she is at present driven J«as made walking for pleasure or walking for hqjilth—walking of every sort, in fadt, except mere pave ment strolling or hurried, rnhbltltke dashes for the shelter of tho nenrst trolley car—practically impossible, a source of annoyance and perpetual discomfort instead of n pleasure.—Ex change. CUTICURA COMPLEXIONS Are Usually Remarkably Soft and Clear—Trial Free. Make Cuticura Soap your every-day toilet Soup, and assist it now and then as needed by touches of Cuticura Oint ment to soften, soothe and heal. Noth ing better to make the complexion clear, scalp free from dandruff and hands soft and white. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. A Private Matter. "What is that Miss Yowlcr singing?" asked father. " Tin Falling in Love With Some one,’ ’’ answered daughter. "Well, there are a lot of gossips in this neighborhood. If that’s the way she feels she ought to keep it to her self."—Birmingham Age-Herald. ACTRESS TELLS SECRET. A well known actress gives the follow ing recipe for gray hair: To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay Rum, a small box of Barbo Compound, and Vi oz. of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up or you can mix It at home at very little cost. Full directions for making and use come In each box of Barbo Compound. It will gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. It will not color the scalp, is not sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv. Interested In the Time of Day. “Is Bliggins obliged to catch a train?" “No. His wife gave him a gold watch for Christmas." MOTHER’S JOY SALVE for Colds, Croup, Pneumonia and Asthma; GOOSE GREASE LINIMENT for Neuralgia, Rheumatism and Sprains. For sale by all Druggists. GOOSE GREASE COMPANY, MFR’S., Greensboro, N. C.—Adv. Unkind Interpretation. "My fingers are all thumbs." "I guess they are, at the identifica tion bureau.” Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOltlA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and seejthat it Bears the Signature of < In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria An instrument that measures the glare of light reflected from paper has been Invented. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Greye’s Tasteless chill Tonic is equally vaiuabhs.,as a Gen eral Tonic because it contains\the well known tonic properties of QUK.ANE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Driyes out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and guilds up the Whole System. 50 cents. \ The largest meteorite stone nctuall^j^ known to have fallen to earth weighed. G40 pounds. IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money tho imita tion han not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Creole" Hair Dressing- 1 * it’s the original. -5*&fcens your hair in tho natural way,'but contains no dze. Price $1.00.—Advj.' r * JL A patent for ciktlery made p! boo has been granyed a Japare® dent of Seattle.