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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVltLE, GEORGIA
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Chinese Books Now in Congressional Library
fllfNGTON.—There Is n Chinese library In Washington which ranks
Ihlrd among the Chinese libraries of the Western world, a library which
[las more than 40,000 volumes of Chinese printed books, and 10,000
iu other Asiatic tongues, ac-
,g to Dr. Walter T. Swingle of
Jbrary of Congress.
'he.Chinese library In question is
of the Library of Congress, and
nown ns the Chinese collection of
institution.
have not only one of the largest,
probably the best arranged collec-
In Western countries, but are
lunate In possessing many very rare
very valuable works which would
highly prized even in China,” de
ll Doctor Swingle. “An exhibition recently prepared at the library shows
King, und Yuan dynasty prints, and two early Ming prints, printed
1450 A. D. Some of these works are of great interest, being editions
(wed to huve been lost even in the Orient.
besides these early works dating from the twelfth century, the same
jhlt contains material Illustrating the three largest books in the world.
hire: ‘The Great; Ming Encyclopedia,’ which took the equivalent of
ycarfl work in compilation; the ‘Imperial Encyclopedia,’ the largest
ried wonc made up by order of the Matichu emperor, Ch’ien Lung, from
! to 1782, aud Including ail the principal works in the Chinese language.”
alw PrbsidenJ/Wilson Obtains Wanted Relaxation
■st Tew/^nonths there has been n groat mystery about tho White
Vlflhus to do with one of the means which the president employs
his presidential duties. This form of amusement is nothing
more than the good old game of pool,
or, speaking in more polite terms,
pocket billiards.
When tlie conditions are normal
at the White House the president has
two means of relaxation, other than
playing billiards. He takes great de
light in reading poetry aloud. The
other form of amusement is the read
ing of detective stories. There is a
government employee in Washington
who considers it ids especial duty to
keep the president supplied with tin*
• stories. President Wilson does not believe it wise to keep tlie
Imtaing. Therefore, the hours of 11 o’clock usually finds him In
jften it is before II o’clock that lie retires. This is necessary
early rising.
bwlng sign could properly he posted upon the door of tlie Will to
lairs, 5 o’clock in tin* morning until 10:30 o’clock at night.”
%ie president’s afternoons have been given over to recreation,
nhgolf, or motor rides. Mrs. Wilson is generally his companion
Motor trips are usually over by 0 o’clock, so there is ample time
f 7 o’clock dinner. Most of tlie president’s evenings have been
ie to Treat “Postmastering” as a Business
PwlUch the present method of presidential appointment of post-
|wlll be abolished and appointments made instead under the civil
finder ^ju^lderatlon by the post olllee department. If Mr. Burle-
delaw it will take
[members of congress their
the selection of postmas-
■iqVe from politics a subject
lo the country over. Among
Jtiers of congress there is a
|iment for the law.
apartment, it is said, lias
nped in some of its pro-
Wes because postmasters
pr their popularity rath-
belr business ability,
inn proposed would make
rshlp u business which a man must first qualify for before recetv-
Fi appointment. It would make possible the promotion of a postmaster
j;n s’linll office to a larger one, and instead of installing a postmaster l’or
jfotf-,v nr term to remain in one place he would be installed in tlie office he
>:ttt! Ifed for. If it were found that a postmaster serving in an office with
liptk* $10,(XX) was qualified to serve iu an otlice with receipts of $100,000
jroulfPbe in line for promotion to such an office.
|ty tiftjs method the service, it is declared, would he improved ami at tlie
tli' v would be placed on a business basis and economics realized.
roposed change would affect 0,192 postmasters, tlie number now
j>y the president. Of these 507 are first class, 2,212 second class,
n N
[Tented Sculptress Makes Bugs for Government
[ISlOZtfALITY nnd achievement unite to make of Mrs. Mien Zcsta Heble-
onn one of the most interesting figures in the galaxy of gifted women of
kpltal city. Of Danish birth, she studied sculpture under the ablest raas-
| tors of Europe, and has created some
remarkably skillful portraits in bronzo
nnd marble.
Kut it is not for her art statues
and portrait busts that Mrs. Heide-
mann has achieved distinction in gov
ernmental circles, but for her wonder
ful models of bugs, of which she lias
made so many that she has forgotten
the names of half of them.
Under her talented fingers the
hugs are marvels of art. They aro
made on a gigantic scale. Some are
beautiful, while others, in their magnified ugliness, are hideous
Bare.
In the extreme, Mrs. Ileidemann refused to see anything exlraor-
t unusual and clever samples of her urt that are everywhere In
J r charming home at Forest Glen.
|[ make only the bad bugs, ’ Mrs. Heidemnnn explained, “the ones
|lous to health and to the crops of the farmer and fruit grower.
made for just their beauty or their good qualities. And they
Ity made so scientifically ns to be of value educationally. Those
Jed very largely In the agit uiltural colleges to impress upon the
fliaracter of the insects and bugs of various kinds that prey upon
Tits and vegetables and cause destruction of crops. Sometime
|:ts that combat such posts, and I make them, too.
; of the bugs must be large enough so that the tiniest insect
|£n In as much detail ns if it were being observed in life
is.”
material she made hei? bugs, Mrs. Heidemnnn replied:
ytliing. Of course, I have a composition which Is my real
that guides me in choosing materials is to make them
of materials are used. 11 study the bug, and anything
£el look just as it [looks in life, I use. After the
{must be made for p^jimanency
ay things, according tf> the.
thread, silk, celluloid, felass,
dal kinds of gauzes, sil
■ you know the bug Is doi
|tlmes months, are required
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The Business Asset
By MARY GRACE LEE
“1 regret to say it to you, Ward,
but tilings can’t go on as they have.”
“You mean, Mr. Fletcher—?”
"That I’m about to give up business
—reason, no capital. There have
been a few encouraging commissions,
blit they came far between, and I
don’t care to venture tlie big ones,
where It takes money nnd time to
work out a profit.”
“I see, 1 see,” nodded .lohn Ward,
thoughtfully, “und you can’t keep me
here; Is that it?”
“I’m afraid it’s true," replied
Fletcher reluctantly. “I’m going
down home to see my folks and—and
tlie Indy I expected to marry. That
will have to wait now. I’m a failure,
and I’ve got to begin nil over again.”
“See here, Mr. Fletcher,” spoke
Ward bluntly, “don’t look at the dark
est side. You say you haven’t capital.
Mistake—you’ve got your honesty and
your ability and record. They’re fa
mous assets, in your case. I'll will
ingly drop from tlie salary roll, but
I won’t close the oifice while you’re
gone. When you come back, if you
say so, all right, but a dozen good
tilings may turn up In the meantime.
You take a rest, and maybe you’ll
come back with your old ambition."
Ezra Fletcher bad come to the city
a year previous, from tlie little in
land town of Moundville. Tlie incent-
tlve for “spreading out," as his fam
ily termed it, was tils love for Dru-
silla Ashton. There seemed little
chance of getting ahead in tlie slow,
humdrum village, nnd Fletcher was
ambitious. Besides, as a matter of
pride, lie wanted to own a home be
fore lie took Drusllla for Ills bride.
Fletcher had opened a small, ob
scure otlice as a broker. It was still
small and obscure. From tiie start
“Are You Mr. Fletcher?"
li«* had refused to dabble in Insipid
stocks and cheat bis clients. The re
sult was, his specious business rivals
outstripped him. One tiling lie con
gratulated himself on—lie was loyal
and honest with bis. clients. His com
petitors sneered at lit in. tmt they bail
to acknowledge that lie bore tlie clean
est record among them all.
One night Fletcher ran across a
wretched, staggering wreck of a man.
It was John Ward, lie pitied tlie
forlorn follow, took him to liis office,
sobered him, let him sleep there
nights, bought him a decent suit of
clothes and got to liking him. As to
Ward, lie turned out true-blue. He
appreciated fully the friendly interest
of Fletcher, turned Ills back on strong
drink, and insisted on helping bis ben
efactor. Fletcher finally paid him a
few dollars a week salary, and when
lie made a commission, divided It with
him. I
Now the crisis had come. Business
had turned exceedingly bad. Fletch
er was worn with anxiety and work.
He was forced to announce bis reso
lution to abandon the unequal fight.
But staunch John Ward stuck to
his post manfully. It was the second
day after the departure of his employ
er that two odd visitors eutered the
oifice. One was a bronzed, plain-faced
man, suggesting tlie typical western
er. With him was a young girl, evi
dently his daughter, petite, smiling
eyes nnd infused with a natural vi
vacity born of the free air of the
mountain plains.
“1 like this,’’ observed the odd lit
tle man. taking in the office and its
furntshment in a comprehensive sweep
of liis peering, intelligent eyes. “I
say, Nancy, quite a contrast to the
big office with plate glass and gild
ing, where they promise a fellow ev
erything and do nothing for him ex
cept to collect an advance fee, hey?’”
“It seems,” chirped dimpled
companion, settling hers;
rocker with greo
seems like horm^T'
“Thank you,” bowed Ward, br
“It’s a compliment, miss, I value.
I be of service to you, sir?” he
quired of the father.
‘Are you Mr. Fletcher?" questio:
the little ma<
“No, but this Is his office.”
“Ezra Fletcher, the honest broker?”
observed the visitor.
“Where did you get that? It’s true,
but you are a stranger, nnd—’’
“I’m David Moore, from Colorado,”
announced the little man. “I lived
where Tom Ward used to live, one of
Fletcher’s customers, who sold his
ranch for him and got him out of the
clutches of some real estate sharks.”
“I remember,” nodded Ward.
“And cliurged tlie poor fellow a mere
tritle for all of his good work."
“Seeing he was poor, yes. Why uot?
That’s Mr. Fletcher’s way.”
“I understood that,” replied the
westerner promptly, “and I’ve come to
put my belongings into ids iinnds for
sale. You see, since my wife died
Nancy and me are lonely, away out
there. I’ve got a thousand-acre ranch
and five hundred acres of timber. I’m
ready to sacrifice for the ready cash,
for I want to settle down in the city
here, where Nancy can enjoy civili
zation.” ,
“Because, you see,” put In the Irre
pressible Naucy, drolly, “I'm uncivil
ized.’’
Ward directed a full admiring
glance at her which she could not
mistake, and she Hushed deliciously.
Ills ardent eyes said plainly: "You
are the sweetest wild prairie rose, and
you know 1 think so.”
Wurd explained tlie absence of
Fletcher, whom he termed “my part
ner," for reasons of business policy.
Then tlie little man unfolded his plans.
Ward analyzed them with Interest.
Moore was shrewd, but outspoken. He
bluntly stated that be would take ten
thousand dollars for tlie “timber lot."
“But It’s worth twenty,” insisted
Ward.
“Then take off your Jacket nnd make
tlie difference for yourself,” advised
his client. “Won’t you sort of get
Nancy and me located somewhere re
spectable, till we get our money and
our bearings?"
Delightful task! John Ward passed
some time with the interesting couple,
domiciling them in a comfortable fam
ily hotel, directing them generally, nnd
within the week selling tin* timber
tract at an advance that gave him $4,-
000 commission.
He asked Moore for n 30-days’ op
tion on tlie ranch at bis own figure,
readily granted. Then the excited,
big-hearted follow had two sole ob
jects in life—to prepare a vast sur
prise for Fletcher, and to win the love
of the enchanting little creature who
had brought sunshine and ambition
Into his life.
It was at the end of two weeks that
Ward received a letter from Fletcher.
The latter was coming back to sell out
bis few office traps, return to Mound
ville and settle down into a clerkship
position. Ward met him at the train
win'll it arrived in tlie city.
“Moved the oifice since you went
away,” be reported.
“What was that for?”
"Business demands,” responded '
Ward coolly. “Look there," and In* !
pointed to the second story of a cen
tral business building, across tlie pinto
glass windows of which \yns the name
in great gold letters:
“Fletcher & Company, Brokers.”
“See hero!” gasped Fletcher.
“No. see there,’’ and Ward proudly
exhibited a hank book showing $8,000
in tlie name of ids self-constituted
firm. “Luck has come our way, Mr.
Fletcher, and what brought it was
what I told you were valuable assets
—honesty and ability.”
There was a double wedding. Ezra
Fletcher went back to Moundville, but
only to wed nnd bring back his charm
ing fiancee to the city, where Ward and
happy-hearted Nancy Moore were
awaiting them.
Suffered Several
Years. PERUNA
MADE ME WELLH^T
Mrs. Elizabeth Beuther, 1002 11th
6t., N. W., Washington, D. C.,
writes: *1 am pleased to erfdorse
Peruna as a splendid medicine for
•catarrh and stomach trouble, from
which I suffered for several years. I
took it for several months, and at
the and of that time found my health
was restored and have felt splendidly
ever since, I now take It when I con
tract a cold, and It soon rids the sys
tem of any catarrhal tendencies/’
Those whs object to liquid medi
cines can now procure Peruna Tab*
lets.
One Best Bet.
‘Top!”
“Yes, my son."
“They get coal out of tlie earth,
don’t they?”
“Yes, my boy."
"And they get gold out of.the earth,
too. don’t they, pop?"
"Sure thing.”
"Well, from the present outlook it
would appear that we’ve got to get
the gold out first. What?”
END STOMACH TROUBLE,
GASES OR DYSPEPSIA
‘Pape's Diapepsin'' makes Sick, Sour,
Gassy Stomachs surely feel fine
In five minutes.
If what you Just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like a lump of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and eructate sour, undigested
food, or have a feeling of dizziness,
heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste
in mouth and stomach-headache, you
can got blessed relief in five minutes.
Put an end to stomach trouble forever
by getting a large fifty-cent case of
Pape’s Diapepsin from any drug store.
You realize in five minutes how need
less it is to suffer from indigestion,
dyspepsia or any stomach disorder.
It’s the quickest, surest stomach doc
tor in the world. It’s wonderful.—Adv.
What About the Eggs?
A country store in Delaware county,
until the proprietor was made to see
tlie point, bore this sign designated to
catch the eye of the farmer bound
Muneiewnrd with liis produce: “If you
want to trade your eggs and butter for
something good, come in here.”—Indi
anapolis News.
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole" Hair Dressing—
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, hut contains no dye.
Price $1.00.—Adv.
The Perfect Taboo.
The ton commandments, as appre
hended by the white man in their eth
ical splendor, are not so apprehended
by tlie black man when God “ties him
with ten tying" in tlie "early morn
ing" of ids Christian day. They are
not then to him tlie expression of
ideals; they are facts, definite laws of
abstain!ngs, of omission and commis
sion. They are the Eldorado of ta
boo. They replace with a great calm
the agitations of the experimental ef
forts of tlie past, when everything was
at stake and nothing was sure; when
man was exhausted in his effort to fill
liis side of the contract, but might
never count upon the party of the sec
ond part.
In tills they are emancipating; they
are tlie way of escape from a man
made yoke. Given a Father-God, there
is no greater benefit that he could have
conferred upon our pragmatic Bulu
than ten explicit tyings. Tlie prac
tice of tlie law promises at first to be
an exact science—the perfect taboo
for which our Bulu has blindly
searched and which is here given him
with tlie marks of divine authority.—
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie in the At
lantic.
The Oracle at Home.
They bad been engaged a week.
“Do you believe in dreams?” tlie
young man asked.
“Sure,” she replied.
"Well, I had an awful one last night.
I dreamed of a coffin and—”
“Oil, Jim,” she exclaimed, “that’s a
sign you are' going to he married.”
Tlie young man looked a her in be
wilderment.
“If that’s the case,” lie responded,
gallantly, “I wish 1 would dream it a
dozen times.”
“I think you’re moan,” lie exclaimed.
“Pd like to know wlmt on earth you
would do with a dozen wives. I bet
you couldn't manage one—by yourself.”
—Indianapolis News.
An Apparent Loiterer.
“Yes,” said Mr. Meekton. “I’ll go
shopping with you nnd carry the bun
dles. But, Henrietta, I shall insist on
one thing."
“What do you mean?”
“When you leave me waiting for
you for an hour or so on the corner in
front of a department store, you must
take tlie trouble to explain to the po
liceman who I am."
Statistics on Electricity.
The electricity output of the various
power plants of the United States re
clamation service operated in 1914
was over GG,000,000 kw.-lir. The total
capacity of the 12 plants in operation
was 27,134 kw., nnd tlie first cost of
the plants $2,542,000.- Of the total
output, 30 per cent was sold to cus
tomers, 32 per cent was used for irri
gallon pumping, 17 per cent for con
struction purposes, 4 per cent for
drainage, the remaining S per cent rep
resenting losses. It was estimated
Hint tlie power remaining undeveloped
on all the different projects amounted
to a total of 4S9.000 horsepower. Of
tliis 3G0.000 horsepower consisted of
• lie estimated capacity on the Flathead
liver, in Montana, the remainder be
ing distributed through 21 other pow
er sites.
Not That Kind.
“I understand your husband is some- i
tiling of u valetudinarian, Mrs. Come-1
up.”
“Oh, dear me, no! He eats meat
regularly three times a day."
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
is her hair. If yours Is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change it In
the natural way. Price $1.00.—AdY.
In some quarters It Is held that Rus
sia is the greatest single field in the
world for new business.
No self-respecting man cares to make
love to a girl who makes love to a pug
dog.
Even a poor man who hasn’t a dollar
may be well oil as long as he remains
single.
A torpid liver condition prevent*
Many Filipino women catch and sell
fish for a living.
WHAT IS
LAX-FOS
LAX-FOS is an improved Gascara
(a tonlc-lautlve) Pleasant to take
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.
Have you
RHEUMATISM
Lumbago or Gout?
TakoRHEUMACIDE to remove tbonauso
nnd drive the poison from tlie system.
"UHKl'IUCIDK OS TIIK ISSI1IK
ri'TS BiiKisunan os the octsidk"
At All Druggist*
Jas. Bail/ & Son, Wholesale Distributors
Baltimore, Md.
COLORED people
can have nice, long, straight hair by
using Exelento Quinine Pomade,
which is a Hair Grower, not a Kinky
Hair remover. You can see the results
by using several times. Try a package.
I’rice 25c at all drug stores or by mail
on receipt of stamps or coin. Agents
wanted everywhere. Write for par
ticulars. Exelento Medicine Co., At
lanta. Ga.
mHMM
MAKES PAIN VANISH
No liniment so quickly warms, glows
~nd penotratos tho surface, bringing
1 muscles,
I neuralgia,
drug .
or sent prepaid on re
ceipt of price. Got a
» bruises, cuts, burns.
nedy. Sold In nearly all
Instead o£
Worrying
about the high cost of
living, just buy a pack
age of
Grape-Nuts
—still sold at the same
fair price.
. CO.
Sold for 47 years. For Malaria, Chills
and Fever. Also a Fine General
Strengthening Tonic* ®° c u?2/«2Si!
To Kill Rats and Mice
ALWAYS USB
STEARNS’
ELECTRIC PASTE
U. S. Government Buys It
SOLD EVERYWHERE — 25c and $1.00
Shorthorn Bulls
A few fine, young registered Short
horn bulls ready for service. Write
at once for prices, etc. .,
Shedden Farms, Raymond, Ga.