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Americus. Ga., January 12. 1916
And we would remind you of the
termers' exchange.
One day it's cold and the next it's
AoL But we can't please everybody.
A man with “tireless energy,” could
be one who was running on the rim.
And if they’re going to make us
a consul, please send us via land to
«ur post.
Aud it is true that “all the world’s a
stage,” with sime mighty bum actors
Acre and there.
In view of the fact that this is Leap
Year, there should be more talking
than we have heard.
It is with reverence that we suggest
a monument to the memory of the man
who has found away to beat a gas
■eter.
And it is not quite due, but we want
to toe on time: “In spring a young
wan’s fancy lightl yturns to louder
«lothes.”
The guy who pulled that bogus check
«n Billy Sunday for $2,000 was lower
than some of Billy’s hells —so Billy
thinks.
Please, oh, please, don’t begin the
discussion about the birthplace of
Joe Cannon. Sounds like a Youngs
town, Ohio, product.
England needs a lot of things besides
conscription, and among these is softie
body to run the war for her. But we’re
too busy right now.
Sir Hank Ford alleges that it was
Jane Addams w-ho persuaded him to
take the peace jaunt. Laying it on a
woman is not permissible.
They are going to place a New Jer
sey’s girl’s face on new Canadian coins.
All of which goes to show she’s not on
ly "a devil in her own home town.”
Wha.t became of the girl who made
the New Wear's resolution not to paint
ter face any more? (And the office
boy has yelled out—there ain’t no
inch thing.)
Our diary on Professor Snider, of
©riffin, has been lost, and we’ve for
gotten whether he predicted all this
zero weather on the same day with
the torrai ozne stuff.
We hand the following without com
ment from the Macon News, and may
4 sot always be thus: “Some addi
tional reasons why newspaper men fin
ally become stark, raving maniac®
‘Kow do you think of something differ
ent every day?’ ‘lt must be awfully
nice, just writing paragraphs and edi
torials/ ‘ls it true that your wife
‘ for you?’ ‘I know a lot qf
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THE VICTORY OF WILSON.
AVhatever may be said of the appar
ently vascillating course of President
Wilson in his dealings with Germany,
it cannot be denied that he has won a
complete victory over the Teutonic na
tion in the announcement of the set
tlement of the Lusitania incident.
The victory was won through the
channels of diplomacy, a thing in the
affairs of the world which seemed t o
have been lost. Germany has torn up
“scraps of paper,” and it appeared to
be a forlorn hope so far as our en
treaties were concerned.
It does look hard for human life to
be paid in dollars and cents. It ap
pears inhuman that mankind should
suffer, and a price be paid which any
one could pay.
But with it all, President Wilson has
accomplished what he set out to do
although to the patriotic nation it
seemed as if he went all around the
world to do it. War may be brought
anout in a day, but the results of war
will cause years of endless wrangling.
The one incident concerning the
sinking of the Lusitanaiia lias been set
tled. But there is the Frye case, and
a general case against Germany on
humane principles.
From press dispatches it would be
believed that the sinking of the Persia
hen been made a closed book. Austria
is playing her own game over the
sinking of the Ancona.
In the short time which the Euro
pean has been under way the United
States has had enough crisises, .either
one of which could provoke’ war. All
c.f these storms have been weathered
by the United States, and we are none
the worse —except, possibly, in eyes of
other nations.
But it can’t be discredited —Presi-
dent Wilson has won a great victory.
A ('OLLIER’S TRIER.
The hand of the enemy is at work.
Carefully plans are being laid,
which if they are carried through may
mean defeat for the Democratic party
ir. the fall of 1916.
The would-be great forces in Ameri
can government who disagree with the
party in power are making trouble
They are stirring up the waters, and
adding discontent to the stormy sea of
public affairs.
The anti-Democratic newspapers c
the country are beginning their quaff
rennial battle against the party of
Wilson.
Collier's Weekly in its issue of Jan
uary 15th, lead off the editorial page
with an article, “The Muzzle of Jose
phus.” The “Josephus” in question is
Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina,
secretary of the navy.
To the eyes of the enemy, the weak
est line in the fabric of President Wil
son’s cabinet is Secretary Daniels.
Since the day of the announcement of
that choice, the anti-Democratic press
of the country has kept up a continual
bombardment.
But Collier’s is just keeping the wa
ter warm after it died low. “Gussie”
Gardner, that representative from Mas
sachusetts, seems to have found other
pastimes.
But Collier's has taken up the cry.
When things are moving along bet
ter some of these days, and the Euro
pean war history has been written and
carefully filed away, we want the Unit
ed States government turned over to
one of those northern publications for '
a time and let them run it to their
heart’s content. They are wiser than '
the prophets, and more foolish than '
any fool.
But we must always have something
like that.
IN W HIRING Rl SSI A.
“Kaminiets Podolsk, the city upon
which the latest large-scale Russian
offensive was based, that against the
Auctro-German lines in eastern Galicia
and Bukowina, was at one time the
greatest fortress in the Kingdom <
Poland, the stronghold that held back
the wild hordes of Asia through many
years of battle,” says a war geography
statement just given out by the Na
tional Geographic society. “The Tar
tars struck time after time against its
high, rocky bluff in vain, and many
skirmishing parties of Poles and Rus
sians left the fortress to carry terror
into the Steppe around the southern
Dneiper.
“The town lies but a few miles from
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the Austrian frontier, and is built over
a peninsula formed by the Smotritch
river, an affluent of the Dneister.
Odessa is 235 miles in the southeast,
and Kief about an equal distance in
the northeast. Kaminiets is the seat
of the administration of the Podolian
government, and, since the war, it
has become important as one of the
larger supply depots just Lack of the
Russian front. It is divided into two
parts, one, the old town, spreading
over the hill, while the other nestles
around the base. Across the river, the
ancient castle still frowns defiance
upon the country, though its war-worn
vails could offer but little resistance
to the power of modern guns.
“Batu, the cruel leader of one o f
the waves of Mongol buccaneering
against Europe, laid Kaminiets waste
in 1240. In the 15th and 16th cen
turies, storm after storm of Tartar,
1 urk and Moldavian invasion broke
upon its walls, and the principal in
dustry of the people of this outpost
became that of fighting and weapon
forging. The adventuresome from all
parts of Europe found their way into
garrison there, and took part in the
great drama, in which the east was
finally turned back upon itself. The
city passed to Russia in 1897.”
THE WORLD’S DEEPEST MINE.
Where is the deepest mine in the
v.orld? That is a question very few
people in this country can answer cor
rectly. Even most mining experts
would probably make a wrong guess—
unless they had made rather exhaus
tive inquiries anent the subject—for it
l is located in a section of the world
'■ here you would least expect to find
it. In the forests which cover the hills
that cluster about the mouth of the
mine wild monkeys are chattering and
jumping about from limb to limb of
the graceful palms which afford.' them
food as well as shelter, while a&ong
the bright-hued flowers exquisite orch
ids waft their perfume and display
their beauty for the benefit of these
shadows and the gorgeous red-blue
yellow macaws add their racous voices
to the medley of sounds, while splendid
butterflies wave their large wings of
irridescent blue and graen and gold to
enmance the riot of color in these
tropic realms.
Tropic realms? Verily, for the deep
est mine—gold or of any other metal—
is located in Brazil. It is near a place
bearing the euphonious name of Villa
Nova de Lima, in the State of Minas
Geraes, about 330 miles north of Rio
de Janeiro. It has been worked, more
or less systematically, for something
over 80 years, and yet few of us in the
United States have ever heard of the
place, much less of the mine, which is
known as the Morro Velho and is own
ed and operated by an English com
pan.
Last year two young professors of
geology, Benjamin Le Roy Miller, of
Lehigh University, and Joseph T. Sing
ewald, Jr., of John Hopkins, struck
out for foreign parts and wended their
way even into the hidden recesses of
South America with the view of find
ing out something in regard to the
mineral resources of the western hem
isphere. They investigated almost all
of the known mining districts of the
southern continent and brought back
with them a vast store of information
relative to the mineral wealth of the
I
i various countries visited, and it was in
Brazil that they found this unusual
. and in some respects unrivalled gold
mine. They tell about it in an article
in the December number of the Bul
letin of the Pan American Union
(Washington, D. C.) from which the
following facts are taken.
The Morro Velho mine is located in
the gold belt of Brazil, where the Por
tuguese were first induced to settle by
the discovery of the yellow metal. The
fit st gold was discovered in 1699 near
iti e preesnt city of Ouro Preto. The
gold was coated with a black substance
ai:d hence was called “ouro preto’’—
Hack gold. The city which they found
ed was long called Villa Rica de Ouro
Preto—the Rich City of Black Gold—a
name which was somewhat cumber
some even for the Portuguese, so they
I finally shortened it to just Ouro Preto.
' the name by which it is known today.
I Once upon a time it was about the
most important city in Brazil. gold
| working surrounding it and the valu- (
able metal being obtained from the
graval of almost every stream in the
region. Not only the stream gravels
yielded gold, but many gold-bearing
quartz veins were worked.
Just when the Morro Velho mine
v. as first opened it is not known, but it
was being operated tow-ard the close of
the 18th century, and considerable
work had been done when the present
company obtained control of it in 1834.
Ihe ore body consists of a great vein
of unusual persistence and regularity
that dips into the earth at an angle of
about 45 degrees. It may be likened to
a gigantic knife blade, held vertically
and thrust into the earth at this angle
with the point still low-er than the
present deepest workings. And it is
these workings that make the mine re
markable. The combined depth of the
connected shafts give a total of 5,824
feet. In other words, here is a gold
mine that is being worked at a depth of
more than a mile below the surface of
the .earth. Now be it remembered that
the rock temperature increases as the
earth's crust is penetrated, in some
regions the increase being as much as
1 degree F. for each 50 to 60 feet in
crease in depth. At this rate the tem
perature at the bottom of this mine
would beover 100 degrees higher than
at the surface, and fried ham and eggs
might be prepared for the miners
without any other heating apparatus
than the loose rocks lying about. In
cidentally the miners would be going
through the frying process too. By
forcing cooled air down into the mine
by means of fans the temperature is
lowered to a little less than 100 de
grees. Even at that it is rather snug,
and the miners usually wear only
shoes, donning trousers when company
is expected. Still, the mine has pro
duced a total of about $55,000,000 worth
cf gold, and is being worked now at a
profit of something over $700,000 an
nually.
I Hl NEWSPIPEB TUI
Up to the hour of going to press
The Citizen has been unable to con
firm the rumor that President Wilson
I.
is contemplating the appointment of
that able and affable Georgia jurist,
Judge Augustus W. Fite to the vacan
cy now- existing on the United States
supreme bench.—Dalton Citizen.
In an official report issued by Dr.
Peter H. Bahnsen, state veterinarian,
we note that Wilkes county has more
cattle that have been inspected and
disinfected during 1915, than any other
county in the state, the number being
placed at 6.664, and that there there
remains in the county but six ticky
herds. How can you help feeling
proud of such a showing as this?—.
Washington Reporter.
There is no better crop for build
ing up land and putting dollars into
the farmers’ pocket than the velvet
bean. It bids defiance to the boll w-ee
vil, and the thrifty farmer does not
have much to do but sit on the fence
and watch it grow. The velvet bean
has made good where the boll weevil
put the cotton crop to the bad.—Val
dosta Times.
Now, all of us know the proposed
division has brought a certain amount
of ill feelings and animosity among
too many- of our people. W.e don’t
stand right. One side is inclined to
pull against the other, and the rent
is kept open. This is not as it should
be, every citizen of the county should
feel that he is for his county, for the
public good and for all her citizens. So
long as this “bone of contention” ex
ists there will be always this division.
—Pike County Journal.
Will there or will there not be a
presidential primary in Georgia this
year, and if there is not, how will dele
gates to the national democratic con
vention be chosen? These are ques
tions which are puzzling politicians
and which are being discussed quite
generally without any- conclusion hav
ing yet been reached. The regular
Georgia primaries are not until Au
gust, while the national convention
meets in St. Louis in June, and in or
d-.r for Georgia to have representa
tion some manner of choosing a dele
gate from each congressional district
and four from the state-at-large must
be provided.—Macon County Citizen.
Decatqc Street
Is Likely Spot
For Scenes
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ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 12.—1 f Shakes
paare of Balzac lived in Atlanta they
would pick Decatur street and not
I‘eachtree as the city’s most interest
ing and characteristic thoroughfare,
according to August Kampe. a well
known French author who has been
gazing with keen interest on the capi
tal of Georgia, before going to Palm
Beach for the winter.
He says that Atlantians, perhaps, do
not realize it because they have been
accustomed to seeing it all their lives,
tut that Decatur street, with its hun
dreds of negro types ,its pawnshops,
fried-fish stands, its Syrian grocers
and Asiatic peddlers, is as full of color
and human interest as the Bowery in
New York ,the water front at Naples,
or the quai at Marseilles.
“If you Georgians ever produce a
great literature or a great author,” he
said, “the inspiration will probably
come from Decatur street, and what it
stands for.”
About the only kind of literature that
has yet come from it, however, is
from the typewriters of the police
court reporters, one of whom has been
inspired to weekly verse. One of his
choice items is:
■ Nigger, am yo’ ready fo’ de Potlicker
Ball?
Razzur in yo’ pocker in case yo’ strak
er squall?
One eye towa’d de front do’, one eye
down de hall,
An er beer bottle handy,
At de Potlicker Ball?”
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S. A. HAMMOND, W. M.
CLOYD BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
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LODGE, F. and A. M.
< meets ever y First a»*
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filed to attend.
W. F. SMITH, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMKJ
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in th»
Wheatley Bldg., Windsor Ave. AH ▼!*
king Sovereigns invited to meet with
m. J. M. TOBIN, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
» ASHINGION CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets on Thursday nights, Wheat
ley Building, at 7:30 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to attend. Visitors
welcomed. E. F. WILDER, Pres’t.
O. D. REESE, Recording Sec y.
NAT LrMASTER, Financial Sec’y.
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Meets every Tuesday night at ’
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ways welcome. R. W. BUCHANAN.
S. H. EDGE, Noble Grand.
Secretary.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t Inc. 1891 H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier,
C. M. COUNCIL, Yke-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst Cashier.
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here. The general conditions of our country
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food stuff as possible. Your garden should be
your pride and it means much at the end of the
month on the balance sheet when you can even
things up.
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glad to render any assistance possible. All mail
orders will receive our special attention.
We thank you for your splenuid patronage
in 1915, c.nd hope that we have thecontinued pleas
ure of serving you.
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t W. C. GARDNER, Manager
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