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Americus Population
12.000.
Sumter County
35.000.
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
Copyright 190*? by Hart Schaffner & Marx
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REMBERT’S
DRUG STORE
113 FORSYTH ST.
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, ond Investments.
li
Knhanced in value, as nearly every on< knows, more than
IPght or ten years. The opinion of those who are in a posi
[t under natural conditions the maximum price is far from
Lied to the natural conditions, such as the mines getting;
BS’rted that the Deßeers people have obtained control of
the only opes offering even slight competition. It!
in the near future you will see prices ranch in
mWLt. Tennison says in his “In Memorao," ‘ ‘Belay-
Take the hint and write us about our patinl
Vs unsurpassed in variety and beauty and the cost to
BVn- -y moderate profit.
V. Haynes Co.
37 Whitehall St Atlanta Ga
AMERICUS TIMES-REOd
EMPIRE MILLER
VALUES CENIRAL.
I
he Estimates Property at
$20,800,061.
MUCH USS THAN WRIGHT SAYS
By Arbitration Comptroller General’s
figures Were Reduced By Over
Eight Million Dollars—Slate
Gains $5,000,00().
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
ATI.ANTA, GA., September 5.
Tim umpire selected to decide the
disputed assessment of the Central
of Georgia railroad. Judge Miller, of
Macon, today handed in his decision,
placing the total valuation on the Cen
tral’s properties subject to taxation
in Georgia at $20,800,061.
The Central originally made a re
turn of $16,000,000, including its fran
chise.
Comptroller General Wright raised'
the assessment to $29,000,000, an in
crease of $13,000,000, or about eighty
per cent.
The Central resisted this and ap
pealed to arbitration, as provided by
law. The finding of the umpire in
creased the company’s original re
turn by $1,800,061, but is practically
$8,200,000 below the Comptroller Gen
eral’s assessment.
HORSEWHIPPED BY
HIS NEIGHBORS)
Artist Earle Gets Rough
Treatment at Home.
Indignant New Yorkers Don’t Stend
for Affinity Matches Made
in Heaven.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
MONROE, N. Y„ Sept. s.—When ar
tist Ferdinand P. Earle returned to
his home here this morning, from
New York, where he had gone to see
his wife sail for France to secure a
divorce at his bidding, he was met by
a large delegation Os irate neighbors,
outraged at what they deemed a gross
violation of decency. He was seized
and liberally lashed with whips be
fore he was rescued. No doubt was
left in his mond that the people of
Monroe did not countenance his pe
culiar conduct toward his wife and
that his presence in the community
was no longer desired.
Two days ago Earle announced in
the New Y'ork apers that he had in
duced his wife to leave America with
their child for France, there to se
cure a divorce from him, her father
being a resident of that county. Earle
claimed that he had ascertained that
he did not love his wife, to whom he
has been married several years, but
that he had recently discovered his
affinity- in the person of another wo
man whom he proposed marrying as
soon as he could legally do so. This
woman he had taken to visit his wife,
talked over the situation with the lat
ter, and induced her to consent to
secure a legal separation.
When Earle left Monroe yesterday
he w'as hissed at the station, and pro
bably only the presence of his wife
and child saved him from rougher
expressions of popular disapproval at
that time. Mrs. Earle and child sail
ed on Wednesday.
Shoe Sale to Continue.
The sale of men’s $5 shoes at SI.BO
at Duncan’s will continue on today.
There are yet large lines in which one
may be fitted, especially in sixes and
sevens. Large sizes as well.
COMMON SENSE f
Leads most intelligent people to use only 1
meihaines of know n composition. There
fore It is thal Dr. Pierce’s medicines, the
maketwbd w&ich print every ingredient
enteringreio them upon the bottle wrap
pers and attWl its correctness under oath,
are daily grewlng in favor. The com
position of bYll’icrce’s medicines is open
to evervbodvyi Fierce being desirous
of having the s : ~7~Ti of investiga
tion turned fully unon bis formula?, being
confident that tV‘i»’Ui‘r the coir.position
ol tli'‘se~TiTTiY~i -ies is known the more
will tlu-ir great luntTive merits W.rcjog;
mzed. Being wholly made of The active
medicinal principles extracted from na
tive forest roots, by exact processes
original with Dr Fierce, and without the
use of a drop of alcohol, triple-refined and
chemically pure-glycerine being used in
stead in extracting and preserving the
curative virtues residing in the roots
employed, these medicines are entirely
free from the i hju tion of doing harm
by creating on appetite for either al
coholic bcvi vs or habit - forming
drugs. Examive I'm formula on their
bottle wrappers -the sumo as sworn to by
Dr. Fierce, and you will iind that his
"Golden Medical Discovery,” tho great,
blood-purifier, stomach tonic and bowel
regulator—-the nu n ilie which, while not
recommended to cure consumption in its
advanced stages(no medicine will doth it)
yet docs cure all those catarrhal condi
tions of head and throat, weak stomach,
■ torpid liver and bronchial troubles, v. ealt
lungs and hang-eu-coughs, which, if neg
( looted-or I treated lead tip to amt
finally terminate in consumption.
Take the "Golden Medical Discovery*
in time and it is n »t likely to disappoint
' you if only you give it a thonn.ijh ai d
fitir trial. Don’t expect miracles. It
won’t do supernatural things. You must
exercise your patience and persevere in Its
! use for a”reasonable length of time to get
! its full benefits. Thixlngrediento of which
Dr. Pierce s medicines ere composed have
the unqualified endorsement of scores of
medical leaders—better Ilian any amount
of lay, or non-professional, testimonials.
They are not given away to hi’ experi
mented with but are sold by all dealers in
medicines at reasonable prices.
AMERICUS GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6. 1907.
HURLED TO INSTANT DEATH
GEORGE COLLINS TALES BENEATH CENIRAL TRAIN
Heart Rending Accident Occurs in Americus Station Resulting in the
Death Instantly of Thomasville Young Man.
Hurled beneath the wheels of a
rapidly moving Central Railw’ay pass
enger train, which he had attempted
to board, Mr. George Collins, a promi
nent young man of Thomasville met
instant death in Americus yesterday,
afternoon at 2:15 o’clock.
A half hundred spectators thus saw
the young man’s life ground out in
a second.
The spectacle was a most distress
ing one, especially to those who only
a moment before had observed the
handsome youth talking to a young
lady in the station.
Failed (o Grasp the Rail.
Mr. Collins was a passenger aboard
the train, No. 6, beneath which he was
cut to pieces, and was going from
Thomasville to Atlanta to meet his
brother. While the train stood in
the station here he got out to speak
to a young lady friend.
The two conversed pleasantly, and
in the meantime the train backed into
a siding at the freight depot to per
mit the passage of a southbound
freight.
The train was the northbound pas
senger, due here at 2 p. m.
The conductor had previously given
the signal for all passengers to get
aboard.
This manner of switching is oft
imes done there, owing to the crowd
ed condition of the tracks, and when
this train. No. 6. starts again it is
not customary to make a second stop
at the'depot.
Warned to Get Aboard.
It is said that young Collins was ad
vised by someone to get aboard while
the train was standing, but he laugh
ingly replied “1 have never missed one
yet’’ and, as the train swept by, lie
made ready to swing aboard it.
This sentence was the last words
TWO GREAT DEMOCRATS
_______________ \
CELEBRATE THEIR NATAL DAYS ON YESTERDAY
Senator Daniel Was Sixty-five and John G. Carlisle Was Seyenty-Two
Years Old.
Special to Times-Recorder.
LYNCHBURG, VA., Sept s.—Senator
John W. Daniel, whom a host of Sou
thern Democrats would like to see
nominated for the Presidency next
year, was sixty-five years old today
and was reminded of the fact by re
ceiving numerous congratulations
from his fellow townsmen and from 1
friends and admirers in all sections of
the country. Senator Daniel was horn
in Lynchburg and has always made
his home here.
It is now nearly forty years since
Senator Daniel began his political ca
reer as a member of the Virgina
house. In 1881 he was defeated as
Democratic candidate for governor
by W. E. Cameron, and returned to
law practice. He went to Congress
in 1886, and the following year suc
ceeded General Mahone in the United
States Senate.
There is one interesting chapter in
the life of Senator Daniel with which
the general public is not familiar. His
father was Judge Win Daniel of Lynch
bury, a man of prominence and wealth, j
Although his fortune was considera
bly impaired by the war, he still had
a lucrative practice, and during the
ten years which succeeded he was
among those who foresaw the great
commercial development of the coun
try, and interested himself in numer
ous speculative enterprises. But he
was sanguine to the point of being
visionary. Everything seemed to him
promising, and it was his habit first
to ’subscribe SIO,OOO worth of stock
and then ask what was the nature of
the enterprise. x
In 1873, when he died, it was found
that his estate was hopelessly insol
vent. There were claims by credi
itors over and above the assets
amounting to more than SIOO,OOO.
These claims the son John assumed.
He had been practicing law in his fa
ther's office, hut there was no obliga
tion on him of a moral or legal char
acter. The schemes and speculations
had been entered into without his
knowledge or advice. The bankruptcy
law afforded a wide door for escape.
He could hafe wiped the slate clean
and started the world anew. But he
chose otherwise. To him it seemed
that the only honorable course was
to pay his father's debts in full and
with interest, if it took all the earn
ings of his life to do Accordingly
he notified the creditors of his Inten
tion and began upon the herculean
task.
That was nearly thirty-five years
ago, and during almost the entire
time that has elapsed since then Sena
tor Daniel has paid over the greater
part of his income to his father’s
creditors. He has lived on less than
$2,000 a year. When i’i Washington
he has lived at the cheaper hotels,
and although crippled and dependent
on crutches he hardly knows what it
is to ride in a cab. But at sixty-five
years of age he has the satisfaction ol
knowing that he has discharged his
father’s old obligations in full.
When a woman dresses to kill it
proves that murder will out.
i; he ever spoke.
.: Stepping into the street,'Mr. Collins
j caught at the rails of a forward coach,
, but missed.
Realizing his danger, several bv
; standers called to him not to make
the attempt. This advice was un
heeded, and waving his hand to some
one on the platform of the second
coach, that next the rear one, he
clutched at the hand rails.
Hurled to Instant Dentil.
He caught the rail all right, but
the momentum of the swiftly mov
ing train jerked him to the ground
and beneath the cruel wheels.
His feet went first beneath the
train and both limbs were crushed.
The body, too,*was swept beneatli it
and both rear coaches passed over
it as it lay, apparently, in the center
of the track. There it was when the
train passed over.
Death must have been instantaneous,
as life was extinct when the horrified
spectators, fifty feet away, reached
the spot where it lay.
{The train was backed to the depot,
1 where the conductor ascertained the
facts regarding the accident.
Body Sent to His Home.
Undertaker Beard took charge of
the remains and prepared the body
for burial, and last night it was for
warded to the grief-stricken parents
at their home in Thomasville.
Voting Mr. Collins was a hand
some, manly youth, scarcely more
than twenty years of age. He was
attired in a light suit, negligee, and
as he conversed pleasantly with his
young lady acquaintance, attracted
not a little attention.
It is said that he was the idol of
his parents, as well as of two little
sisters at home, and their grief at
his sudden and tragic deatli will lie
great indeed.
Siiecial to Times-Recorder.
NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Not only front
New Y’ork and Kentucky friends, hut
from old acquaintances and political
admirers throughout the South, con
gratulations came today to ex-Sept.
of the Treasury, John G. Carlisle, on
the 72d anniversary of his birth.
John Griffin Carlisle, for many years
a Democratic leaders in Congress, was
born in Campbell county, Kentucky,
Sept. 5, 1835. He was the youngest
son in a large family, received a com
mon school education, studied law,
taught for a time in Covington, and
was admitted to the liar in 1858. He
served several terms in the Kentucky
house of represenatives, and in the
meantime acquired an extensive and
lucrative law practice. Daring the
civil w’ar he was opposed to secession.
He was lieutenant-governor of Ken
tucky from 1871 to 1875, and the fol
lowing year was a presidential elec
tor. The following year he was sent
to Congress and was six times re
elected. He soon became prominent
I as a Democratic leader, was appoint
ed a member of the committee of
ways and means, and attracted atten
tion by an able speech on revenue
reform. In 1883 he was elected Spea
ker of the House of Representatives,
to which office he was re-elected in
1885. In 1890 he was elected United
States Senator from Kentucky, and
three years later resigned his seat to
become Secretary of the Treasury
in the cabinet of President Cleveland.
Since 1890 he has taken little part in
the public life and* has devoted his
time and attention to building up a
large law practice in New York City.
BELCH OF CANNON IS
HEARD IN VERMONT
Big Gun of the G. O. P. is Heard
By Vets.
BURLINGTON, VT., Sept s.—Joseph
G. Cannon, speaker of the house of
representatives, delievered an address
here today at a reunion of civil war
veterans. Tomorrow he will make
a speech at Hotel Champlain at the
annuel banquet of the Vermont Fish
and Game League, at which Gover
nor Hughes, of New York, will also
■ deliver an address. Mr. Cannon has
been spending the summer in Ver
mont, northern New’ York and Cana
i da. He will likely return to Illinois
i before preceding to AVashin’gton to
• line up his political fences. He re
' fuses to make any definite statement
i as to his supposed presidential aspir
i ations, but admits that if the nomina
tion were offered he would not find
, it in his heart to refuse.
I.lme! Lime!
AVhy pay the Lime Trust SI.OO to
1 $1.20 per barrel when you can buy
best outside the Trust lime, (our
guarantee as to quality) at 90c to
SI.OO, acording to quality wanted,
t JOHNSON & HARROLD.
To Sept. 15th.
OLD CAPTAINS
TO THE REAR
Big Shake Up Comes in
the Navy
KID OfEICERS TO THE IRON I
Nearly Ail of the Vessels h Meet
Going to Pacific lo Be Command
ep By Young Men-Veterans Are
to Be Put on Shore Duty.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
WASHINGTON', Sept s.—Tie'
biggest shake-up in the history
of the United States navy is now' in
process of arrangement by the Secre
tary of Navy, who has the approba
tion of President Rxioeevelt in the plan
as outlined.
Os the officers now commanding tin
eighteen battle ’
the long voyage fronTCilu. tfl*
the Pacific for a world-beating criuse,
only four will make the trip. The-
President anjl the Secretary of the
Navy have agreed to forward tho
long-desired plan of advancing young
men to the fighting line and send the
elders to the rear and the eighteen
captains who will command and be
responsible for the $100,000,000 worth
of ships to he sent through the Strait
of Magellan to the Pacific will be men
younger than the captains now in
command.
These (upturns Dill Sail.
The following captains will hold
their ships and make the trip: Potter,
of the Vermont; Vreeland, of the
Kansas; Osterhaus, of the Connecti
cut, and Wainwright. of the Louisiana.
Wainwright was found to be well on
toward retirement time, but his .ser
vice during the Spanish war advanced
him to rank so rapidly that he is one
of the first in line for a rear admiral
ship and wilt escape being put ashore
during his latter years of activ ser
vice and when the flower of the nevy
is to be tested in sucli manner that
the eyes of every naval power of the
world is upon his flag.
Among naval officers of high rank
it was said today that Capi McCrea,
commanding the Georgia, might also
he kept in his command, making live
of the present captains to stay aboard
ship for this cruise. But his date
of retirement is 1913, only six_ years
hence, and it is said that his case is
in doubt.
Old Captains to the Rear.
The intention of the Navy Depart
ment to relegate elder captains to (lie
rear and put (lie younger ones ( in
command of the great, new bally
ships of the fleet became knoy?*
through an official t'j
the first of the captains to prepare for
duty ashore. This communication was
delicately, even kindly, put, and it in
formed the particular captain that his
relief from sea’ duty at this time was
no criticism of the department on Ims
capacity as the commander of a first
class battle ship’ of the United States
navy. It is said to have alJt) extend
ed in explanation so far as to give
comfort to the captain by assuring
him that the other captains, save the
ones named to retain their commands,
will also be put ashore.
Retirement Plan Discussed.
Back of the shake-up is the interest
ing fact that for years it has been a
mooted question whether there should
be a new system of retirement, a re
tirement for age in grade, as it is
technically called in the service. A
retirement for age in grade would
mean much for the younger officer
who has advanced rapidly, but for
the older officer, who has not advanc
ed so rapidly, it would mean less ac
tive duty and less chance. The sim
ple experiment of putting on shore
duty those officers who will not be
able to serve two years in advanced
grade before reaching the retirement
age is tantamount to the old proposi
tion of advancing the younger and
swifter-moving set of officers to- the
front,, where they can get the best,
chance of added rank and better ser
vice in the navy.
Just; who will taker the places
of the Captains td be sent as
hore no one knows outside of the
department. By. the time the fleet
is ready to start on its long voyage
there will he plenty of men of the rank
of captain, younger men with plenty
of eagerness to engage in the re
sponsible task of carrying the cream
of the navy on such a long test of en
durance.
MAYSON MAKES UP
HIS MIND
He Will Run Against Livingston
As A Rigid Prohi.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
ATTANTA, Sept s.—City Attorney
J. L. Mayson announced today that
he had postively decided to make the
race for congress against Lon Living
ston in this district.
Mayson will have the active support
of the prohibition element of Ful
ton county and expects to receiie the
support of the antl-shloon league
( throughout the district.
He will stand in favor of national leg
islation to prevent the shipment of
(Intoxicants Into dry states, and for
any other measures tending to pro
, mote prohibition and bring the abol-
I ishment of the liquor traffic general
ly. His friends predict that he will
' give Livingston a hard run unless the
prohibition sentiment subsides lirfoyg
the primaries take place. 1
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Our New, Home Qra
Opening Sale,
August 31st, and
days, I
Prices qualit\J|g^M
dealings
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Isi our new
HAMM?
J Proprietor^
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j afliar Street Opposite Hi
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Americus HHgar Compel
Makes the very best Cigar upon d
market today t \
“Americus Maia
is the only B and made, an all H
vana cigar, Hand made, and w<
worth a dime is but sold for 5 cenl
Patronize a Meritorious HojrjgWfl
ao : h mericufl
ait Cigar stand.-- in the cit^W
I*'PARKER WAREHOUSE^
S ELTON C. PARKER, Prop. (Successor to Council, A
S Parker & Co. .
I desire to extend thanks .<> the fanners for.their patron^M
Sin ilio past, and ask a ronlini 1 of same, promising
and prompt att.mi ni ' entrusted to me. VfflHH
M r.<'liarles ii 1 ' ■ .eigh cotton for me, and^H
jt glad to serve you. •; ■' tli . g
| ELTON C. PARKER. M