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u. > E. H. MitLER, ED. & PUB. VOL. EC. LANIER COMPANY If a stranger were to ask one of our, local citizens which was the most en¬ terprising mercantile establishment in our .little town, one would point out with pride at d much satisfaction toe chain of stores conducted by the E. C. Lanier Company. Mr. E. C. Lanier the head on this enterprising establishment take more than a mere passing interest in conducting these stores in a manner satisfactory and entirely pleasing to the trade. He aims to carry what the people really need and when occasion requires add a new lino or opens a new store. The stores arc nuinbereu I, 2 and 3 re¬ spectively. STORK NO. 1. In store No. 1. we will And Shoes and Men’s Clothing. Lanier says “the public requires shoes, good Shoes, well made, perfect fitting' holiest leather Shoes. You who walk, who stand still even, need to be well shod or your work suiters as well as your comfort and health. In our store, you may be sure of finding shoes, fitted to your own feet, with courteous care.” In the clothing d. - partment everything will be lound to suit your own personal needs. ' When you fe“I Hint you MUST save and economize, you are asked to look over their large And well s fleet¬ ed T stock of Groceries. Their aiork has been carefully se¬ lected anJ economically bought, with a view to meeting the needs of those who feej the need of economy. Don’t ymy fancy prices for groceries when yon can help it. You can help it by going to th. m. STORE NO. 2. This store comprises the Ladies Ready-to-Wear Department, cotr stating of dresses for the women and girls, hats and underwear for al'. Cloaks, sweaters, dfetuses, silk skirts and novelty garments. This line is extensive enough to permit a wide range of choice, while Y. as usual, is of the Lard.. ■ t‘,% / i'lXh BARGAINS HERE, TOO, careful buying an«k~ ing it possible tar them to off, r many attractive styles at ANTE-WAR PRICES ! YOUR money talks there—talks LOUD. CAREFUL DRESSERS WEAR CLOTHES FROM THERE. Thom¬ son, Dealing, Wrens and Blythe have bought from them. TOY LAIVD. Any little old tiling you need mav need may be fenind in their large and varied as ortment of TOYS. The lit! le tilings of lile—the odd tilings of life-— the beautiful and artistic are there or will he Christinas Week— the things hard to find at other stores-THEY HAVE ’EM. STORE NO. 3. FUKNITUKE MAKES A HOME. It makes it pleasing or disagreeable to the eye of the comfort. HOME is inau s most personal possession and good FURNITURE makes for an id* at Home. In this JTepartment writhe found Furniture, Stoves and Ranges for the man of moderate means. They ask the honor of par¬ ticipating in the making of four HOME. Their motto is Low Prices, Fair Dealing, Quick and Poli e Service, by this and advertising] ti e .< have established a fine business for whii h they thank tne public. 1 d tons are Unfashionable But we have a large assortment of unique gold ware and siiver ware this IS superbly FASHIONABLE Wedding presents, Birthday gifts, Variety of stones, Diamonds and Watches. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY ON PIECES WHICH POSSESS QUALITY AND WORTH. W. O. WHITE, The Quality Jeweler, 814 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ♦ if [U ll ■ / fe¬ } 1 Entered as Second Class Matter Every Friday at the Post-Office at Harlem. Ga. HARLEM, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, |9f«. RABBIT RAISING PAYS IN UTAH. In Utah many boy and girl club members are going into the rabbit raising business, flat.ing it most profitable, according to word re¬ ceived by the States Relations Ser¬ vice, Unified States Department of Agriculture. They have found that it costs about 25 con is to raise a rabbit to the age of three months, and that at that time it may he marketed at 35or 40 cents a pound. The Delts bring from 15 to 75 cents, depending on the kind of rabbit and its size. Compared with poultry, rabbit raising in Utah has proved much more economical, as rabbits are very hardy and require no ex¬ pensive feed. For example, one club boy reports that lie feeds only oats, cabbage, and water. In some places in the State the demand ex needs the supply. Hotels and 1C- taurants, which serve rabbit as often as they do chicken, are the chief buyers. The Bureau of Biological Survey and iho Bureau of Marke S it re co-operating actively in ing interest in the production marketing of domesticated rabbits and in standardizing methods of handling these animals and the wild rabbits which aro killed for sport or to project crops from their depre datlons. .<* IF IGNQRAN3E If AS A STATE OFFENSE? If ignorance was a crime half of the members of the Georgia legisla¬ tors would never get out of jail. They consumed a whole-lot of time, and submitted a constitutional amendment to the people to be voted on, went to the expense of publishing it- in every paper in the State that tooted the Hugh Dorse} ’s bom, and now it is null and void aB far as the effect is concerned. 1 ...... .....- ... , ley passed an amendment ... to in crease tfie tiuiftbe" of senatorial districts, but failed to provide fc-r an increase in the membership of the Semite. lot J, isn't mere is jots of r . Show'- . -Ignorance ing up In high places.—Savannah Hawkeye. NEW SCALE OF RETAIL PRICES IN SAVANNAH. The latest retail prices 011 life ne¬ cessities is about as follows in Sa¬ vannah : Sweet potatoes eight cents each. Irish potatoes three small ones for a dime. Low peas, suitable for table pur¬ poses, nine cents per dozen. Cottonseed oil, with butter color¬ ing, eighteen cents per tablespoon fu). White meat, two and one-half ounces for twenty-nine cents. Wheat flour, four cents per ounce. proport'on.-Savannah Hawk-eye. GEORGIA BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY ANNOUNCES BOLL WEEVIL LIMIT Atlanta, Ga., December 4. —(Special.) Tlve State Entomologist announces that the State Board o£ Entomology, in co-operation with the Bureau of Entomolosy, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C<, has just completed its survey of the northern limit of the boll weevil in Georgia for 191S. The boll weevil has been found this fall as far north as in the following counties, beginning on the west side of the state and running to Augusta: Chattooga, Floyd, Bartow, Cobb, Ful¬ ton, DcKalb, Rockdale, Newton, Mor¬ gan, Greene, Taliaferro, Warren, Mc Dufile, Columbia and Richmond. In a few of these counties the boll weevil was found this year somcv.-hat further north than it was last year. This will make the boll weevil line for 1918 about the same as it was last year, For this reason there 'will be no change made in the quarantine regula¬ tions for the remainder of this year. Next spring the quarantine regulations may be changed somewhat. The slow advance of the boll weevil this year in Georgia is largely attributed by the Stato Entomologist to the hot, dry weather we had in July and August. With Us For Five Years The boll weevil has now been In Georgia five years and has not yet covered the entire cotton growing sec¬ tion of the state. It has, however, ad¬ vanced steadily each year, and if a favorable season for the development of the weevil should occur it may cover the remainder of the state In one season. The damage to the cot: ton ton cron crop in in Georgia Georgia hem nom the tne boll boa wee- wee vil this year was not as great as it was expected to be. It did, however, do considerable damage In a number of counties la the southern part of the atete, where (more rain fell ti*S other sections. In cotton variety tests conducted by the State Board of Entomology in dif - *»• *1 -»***•• aVeraKe from thrce ' tourth3 10 a bale and a half per acre under boll weevll and wilt conditions. In the tcn-acre boll weevil experiments that were conducted in over 100 counties, the yields will run from two-thirds to a bale and a half per acre. In these HOW THREE .FARM BOYS WAKENED FATHER. One of the outstanding results of boys’ agricultural club work in Tennessee has,been its effect upon ' tne parents of the members. Three sons of a Madison County farmer joined the corn club lust year. One s ill pioluced 144 bushels on (,j 8 acre, another 139 bushels, ’ and t!u , third 120 bushels, tha profit from tho , 3 acres being .>101.(H. This demon | wlthe the departul . e from Con8tjlntl . noplo of Enver Pasha, the former Turkish Se minister dtaaDPearancJTf of war and his col srasr leagues twentv funds placed in various banks was I noticed, according to the Tribune of j Geneva. It is believed, the newspa- 1 says, that the has been per money transferred to neutral banks or car ! ,-ied away. Enver Pasha has been invited by the Berlin authorities to leave the German capital. Coffee Cultivation. The British successfully introduced the cultivation of coffee on the island of Ceylon, where it became the founda Hon of the prosperity of that island and from where it passed to India where it was cultivated with success, especially in the districts of lludras and Malabar. Muscular Activity and Heat Owls and other birds which are active at night show a rise of tempera Hire during the hoursmf darkness and n fall Curing the duy. Tills is a result of the well-known fact that muscular activity means uu increased production of heat •xperiments the seed was furnished by the Georgia State Board of Ento¬ mology and instruotlonB were given in regard to fighting the boll weevil. We large yield made this year ta at¬ tributed: first, to the goed seed plant¬ ed (that 1s, pedigreed seed of a vari¬ ety adapted to that section); second, to good and thorough preparation of the land, high fertilization, and fre¬ quent cultivation of the cotton; third, the thorough and persistent fight on the bbll weevil; and, fourth, to the rather dry season in July and August which was detrimental to the increase of the boll weevil. Warning To Farmers As the yield of cotton has been so satisfactory this year in many sec tions of Georgia, it is feared that many of the planters will wish to increase! State Entomologist desires r at *■“ this time t 1 " tO'W&rn the farmers of the loss that may result from this, for, if the sea son should be rather rainy in June, July and August, favoring the develop meat of the boll weevil, they might not make a profitable cotton crop. He ad vises the planters not to plant more plow, depending upon labor conditions .. . so that they can light the boll weevil and cultivate and fertilize the crop as it should be under boll weevil condi tions. , The Georgia State Board of Ento- | mology conducted , . , quite an extensive series of dusting experiments at \ al dosta on the control of the boll weevil by dusting the cotton with calcium ar-. senate and other similar materials. These dusting experiments, while somewhat encouraging, did not give ' the results desired, aud hence no , ‘ ent for the control of the boll weevil by dusting. The experiments,, how ever, will be continued next year on targer scale, and it (s hoped that i| UK Beard la able to continue this work for a series of years they may be able to develop a method of con m0l 7- ° gy T 1S T bUlle ‘ r?;; “ S edi " future, giving the results «f their y* riety tests and other cotton expert nictits far 1918, and parties desiring copies of these or other bulletins should write to A. C. Lewis, State Ea tomologist, Atlanta, Ga. Piet To Roster* William To Throno London.—A plot to restore imperial Ism and secure the return of Emperor William hRs been discovered in Ber * in ' according to a dispatch from Am f to 16 ?™ the dispatch, 10 which was At »? filed r f n at ! Am8ter dam. the chief men behind the plot were Field Marshal von Macken sen. General von Born and General Count Sixt von Arnim. It is said they 'natnicted the Prussian officers' corps to carry on a pro-emperor agitation beginning Immediately after the de mobilization of the troops. reports ° f the various departments, T he principal redaction Has for the mlUtary establishment, which esti mated il neCtls *1,922.000,000 in 1920 »—«*? appropriated for .**?, this year. ! ! I *S 1 Over $500,000,000 Advanced To Roads Washington.—More than half a bil¬ lion dollars has been advanced by the government to the railroads and transportation lines under its control during the eight months since the railroad administration has been !■ I operation. Director General McAdoo announces that $515,206,536, including loans and payments made to railroad corporations to meet their needs, lias been advanced for operating deficits and payments on account of the new . standardized equipment, from A iril ! 1 to December 1. —-- ... The aniser owns a Liberty Loan bond, purchased for him by Gustavus Kern ok, Jr., Phlia Ipliin attorney. Team k "«« closing ttp n Gerninn estate and f°'md $60 due the imperial Gcjniin rnmeut He placed $00 la a Lib bond, to be used agulust its own w. PRICE ONE YEAR $1.50 REGULAR ARM\ OF 500,000 MEN CONTEMPLATED ESTIMATE GIV. E-N CONGRESS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1920 PUNNING FOR URGE NAVY, SS,644,000,009 Asked For Steady And Rapid Increase Of The Navy Washington.—A regular army of ap¬ proximately half a million men is pro vided for specifically in estimates sub mitted to congress for the fiscal year 1920, beginning next July 1. Detailed ’ toms on hie pay of the army show t,lat in the total of $1,932,000,000 asked for, exclusive of fortification esti mates, provision is made for the pay ■*•*•««* *>■»• •*>» g$7 men D f () u , jj ne and approximate ly 130,000 non-combatant troops with the requisite staff officers. The inclusion in the estimates, how ever, of five items of pay with a nomi nal appropriation of $100 each asked, shows that the whole question of the ^ength elusion of °f peace the has army been after deferred the con- and that supplemental estimates are to be expected under these headings when is | (oss u,i e to present a completed porject. The items thus held in suspen gion are those providing for the pay of reserve and national guard officers and men. The naval estimates are framed, on a nexac ti y opposite theory. Every provision is made for steady and rapid increase of the fleet, a total of ap proximately $434,000,000 being asked, Of that sum $200,000,000 is the first increment of the proposed new three year building program providing for ten additional dreadnaughts, six battle and 140 other fighting craft, The remainder of the $434,000,000 wouW gQ to complcto shlpg of the first three-year program. Secretary Daniels has renewed, the naval j emergence fund item u» which congress appropriated $100,900, 000 last year to provide for the struction of additional destroyers-, rub ss sri.sxsr . ™e total appropriation for the na Tal estaWlshraent , B estimated at $2,- 644,000.000, or an Increase of approx Imately a billion dollars over appro priations, made for the current year. The pay of the navy item stands at $59i,946,000, against $227,372,946 this year. Similarly. $155,286,000 Is asked for the marine corps against $143,- 339,000 this year. PRICE OF MEATS UNDER CONTROL OF FIVE PACKERS The Federal Trade Commission Also Charges That Five Firms Con¬ trol Sale Of Live Stock _ Washington.—The federal commission in a supplemental report submitted to congress charged to five big meat-packing companies of the country with a combination in re straint of trade, and with controlling the sale of live stock and meats. one holds off the market, all hold off. So strong is the influence of the big packers buying that the market is ml made until their buyers begin bid “There exists, therefore, for each cf the big packers a centralized buy¬ ing system so simply contrived and organized that it controls the small¬ est details of live stock purchases at each of the markets and can be set in motion and directed by a single word. Only a few men in eac(i company need know that there is an agreement or understanding.” The report said the “big five” joint¬ ly employ men at markets to gather market conditions and thus check each other's operations. True and False Freedom. There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what ho W _ As the World Moves. “Lore makes the world go round,*’ quoted the Parlor Philosopher, “l'es, but inorringc generally squares things,” udded the Mere Mon.—Town Topics. t No. II. AMERICANS CROSS i i PRUSSIAN BORDER CITY OF TREVES OCCUPIED AND AMERICANS PATROLLING OTH- i ER VILLAGES AND CITIES PERSHING WATCHES ADVANCE Treves Is Fifty-Seven Miles To The Southwest Of Coble* And Is The Oldest Town In Germany With the American Army of Occu¬ pation.—American troops have cross ed the frontier into Prussia behind the German rear guards. Treves is ono of the most important cities thus far occupied. American troops also are pa trolling scores of villages, however, General Pershing is in the imraedi f. te 'ieinity to observe the operations. Pros¬ ton Brown will be military governor and General Harry A. Smith in charge of civil affairs. The advance averages twelve miles. Treves is situated on the right bank of the Moselle river, 57 miles south west of Coblenz. It is perhaps the oldest town in Germany and is rich in Roman relics. Among the main objects of interest in the town are the cathedral, which is one of the oldest in Germany, and the provincial mu seum, with a fine collection of antiqui ties. Treves became an arch-episcopal see in the ninth century and the archbish ops rose to the position of princes and occupied a place among the imperial electors. Near the close of the six teenth century it was recognized as a free imperial city and the ecclesias tical principality was wiped out in the French revolution. The city and the territory surrounding it were assign ed to Prussia by the congress of Vt enna. The population at the outbreak of the war was about sixty thousand inhabitants. Germans Retire In Goed Order Berlin. — Three million German truojw, 41 milUoa homel and great 7 quantities of baggage, withdrawing to-' wards the river Rhine from Belgium and northhern France, nre conducting troops are carrying their own pro visions. German Retreat Hard In Ruetia Paris.—German troops which havo been occcupylng Russian territory aro returning to Germany under great dif¬ ficulty, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen. One detachment of fif¬ teen hundred men marching from Lodz, seventy-five miles southwest of Warsaw, were attacked by Poles and only succeeded in reaching. the Ger¬ man border after undergoing severe hardships. The German army of five hundred thousand men is being forced to march homeward through snow and rain. The men cannot use the railroads because the Russians returning to their own country have taken over all the roll¬ ing stock. HOLLAND MOVES TO CLEAR STATUS OF THE FORMER EMPEROR C . J. Lodaer, Prof. A. A. H. Struycken Rnd A E . A! ex, Wilhelm Shifts Blame For War Copenhagen.—Further revelations showing that, former Emperor Wi'.lian of Germany is seeking to escape re¬ sponsibility for bringing on the war are containing in an article by T-. Georg Wagoner, appearing In tbe C > longne Gazette, recounting a roim1 sation which the writer had with the emperor just before the latter fle.-i In this interview the emperor attempt¬ ed to shift the blame for the work! conflict to the shoulders of Dr. The:> bald von Betlimann-Hollweg, former imperial chancellor, and Gottlieb von Jagow, former minister of foreign af¬ fairs. Frightful Dream. THIie Cilnger says the reason she Is quitting her present boarding house eill , „ i , ,,,., , ^ eating on hch-- DaHas NewR A Question. Why don't we get dimples instead cf 'vri.V.clcs?—Loulaviile Courier-Journal.