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The Times-Recorder is the
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. O Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
OB :1a! Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia for;tbe 8d Congressional District
GA„ OCT. 20 1907
HON. JOHN W. AKIN.
In the death of lion. John W. Akin
the whole state has suffered a loss,
whether as a lawyer, author, speaker
or leader of the state’s lawmakers,
lie at all times maintained the high
standard which characterized his
public and private life.
As an example to the rising gener
ation the career of Judge Akin is
a most inspiring one. Declining any
ol the petty turns of the small poli
tician, his advancement was a result
of the recognition of those high qual
ities which were well illustrated in
Ms own life. In his last race for the
State Senate he was elected without
opposition, and doubtless would have
held the place for many years more
on the sam eterms. His selection
to the position of presiding officer was
the natural compliment paid him by
his associates.
in his home life Judge Akin was
said to have been a model husband
and father. It is also worthy of note
that he was able to lay aside a com
fortable competance for his family
iron) the proceeds of his law practice
: and the sales of his books. In the list
-of Georgia’s distinguished sons, fu
ture historians will write the name of
Judge John W. Akin well up towards
.the top.
England is also doing something
in the mobilizing line with her fleet.
Jn the North Sea she has assembled
a, total of 110 penants, and that too,
without drawing on her Mediterran
ean fleet or Devonport and Portmouth
divisions. When it comes to a float
ing armory, England is there with
warships every tipie. It has a
-good effect on Europe for other coun
tries to get a sight, mental or other
wise, of a part of the fighting strength
)f the mistress of the seas.
President E. Benjamin Andrews, of
the University of Nebraska, advocates
hanging for those who maliciously
misrepresent public men. Why,
Benny!
GEORGIA JINGLES.
An Eastern congressman, after a
trip West, declares that he was sur
prised at the sentiment for Knox for
president.” Sentiment for Knox for
president is cause for surprise where
- ever it exists.—Augusta Chronicle.
Knock(s)ing again.
You are driving nails into the cof
xin of "Get-your-Reforms-in-side-the-
Democratic Party.”—Watson’s Jeffer
sonian Magazine.
its a safe bet that Thos. E. Watson
< will not be inside the box.
The Columbia State calls it “Mr.
Roosevelt's spectacular and oracular
trip down the Mississippi river.—Col
umbus Enquirer-Sun.
In the South Carolina vernacular,
as it were.
If you don't like Rome, roam out.
-—Rome Herald.
This doesn't sound like the ‘glad
hand.”
A Georgia parson says there is a
concrete hell. Here’s a good founda
tion for new pavement in Macon.—
Macon News.
There’s also a place said to be paved
with good intentions. Macon can
get further particulars by applying
to the Georgia parson.
John Sharp Williams has announc
ed that he intends to devote one solid
year to study in order to fit himself
for the United States senate. It was
mean in John Sharp to cast his re
flection on the house as soon as he
got out of it. —Augusta Herald.
It would be interesting to get a |
list of the “studies” which a Senator |
:ieeds. Would you mind giving a list, |
Mr. Williams?
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1907.
SERVICES TODAY OE
INTEREST AS USUAL
Able Sermons In Americus
Churches.
At Calvary Episcopal church there
will be holy communion at 7:30
o'clock this morning, prayer and lit
any and sermon at 11, and evening
prayer as usual at 7:30 o’clock.
The rector, Rev. J. B. Lawrence,
will officiate at these services.
The usual morning and evening
services today at First Church of
Christ, Scientist. Subject of discourse
this morning “Probation after death.”
Golden Text: “So all these things
worketh God oftimes with men, to
bring back his soul from the pit, to
be enlightened with the light of the
living.”—Job, 33:29-80.
Rev. J. P. Wardlaw will fill his
pulpit as usual at First Methodist,
morning and evening.
Rev. J. L. Irvin still being out of
the city there •will be no service at
the Presbyterian church today. Mr.
Irvin returns from Kentucky on Wed
nesday.
“Life a trust” will be the theme of
Rev. Robt. L. Bivins at Furlow Lawn
Baptist this morning, while at 7:30
o'clock this evening he will speak
upon “Some reasons for seeking sal
vation now.’
Rev. O. P. Gilbert will preach at
First Baptist church this morning and
again at 7:30 this evening.
BAPTISTS ARE GOING TO
A MEETING ON TUESDAY
Americus To Be Represent
ed There.
Americus’ Baptists, representing
Furlow Lawn and First Baptist
churches, will leave tomorrow for
Butler to attend the annual fall ses
sion of Friendship Association, con
vening there on Tuesday and contin
uing through three or four days.
Rev. Robert L. Bivins, pastor of Fur
low Lawn church and for several
years moderator of this large associ
ation, and Rev. O. P. Gilbert, pastor
of First Baptist church, will both at
tend, with members of their respect
ive churches, both ministers having
important places upon the program.
Fifty churches are included in the
Friendship Association, and the con
vention at Butler this week will be
an occasion of greatest interest.
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED
CASES FOR TRIAL
At Session of City Court
This Week
The rattle of the hopper will break
upon the silence of the temple this
week as the mill of justice whirs
merrily and the black brother hikes
to the chaingang. Judge Chas. R.
Crisp called the docket yesterday, and
there are nearly one hundred cases
set for trial, including the usual stock
charges of wife whipping, crap shoot
ing, pistol lugging, hog stealing, razor
slashing and various other little ec
centricities of unbleached nature com
mon at this season of Indian sum
mer. The list is a formidable one,
and Judge Crisp may be engaged for
two weeks in holding aloft the scales
of justice. A host of witnesses and
litigants will add color and aroma
to the temple, and the session gives
promise of being a strenuous one to
the finish.
IRON SOUVENIRS
FOR PRESS VISITORS
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., October 19.
The delegates to the convention of
the international League of Press
clubs next week will receive half a
dozen souvenir badges to carry back
with them in addition to a number
of mementoes of the south. Steel
and cast iron souvenir badges will
be presented at Ensley and Bessemer
respectively. The Birmingham Press
Club has had manufactured neat
badges for distribution. The steel
and cast iron pipe concerns of the
Birmingham district propose not only
to show the vistors how their prod
ucts are manufactured but will man-:
ufacture the souvenir hades right in
their sight. Old fashioned barbecues
and other entertainments are being
prepared.
Our line of Boys’ School Suits
win great admiration from every
parent who knows what's needed.
Prices $3 to SIO.OO. TV. D. BAILEY.
NOTABLE GATHERING
TO DISCUSS TRUSTS
Under Auspices National
Civic Tederation.
CHICAGO, October 19.—(Special)
What gives promise of being the
most important conference on the sub
ject of trusts and combinations of
capital and labor ever held in any
•country, will be inaugurated here
Tuesday under the auspices of the
National Civic federation. The open
ing session will be devoted to con
sideration of problems involved in
the controversy between the federal
and state governments respecting jur
isdiction over insterstate commerce
now pending in several western and
southwestern states.
Representatives appointed by the
governors of forty-two states and
territories, from Maine to California,
are expected to attend. Nearly all
national labor, agricultural, commer
cial, financial, economic and trade
organizations and many chambers of
commence bar associations and ship
pers organizations will also send
delegates. Herbert Knox Smith, com
missioner of corporations, Commis
sioner E. E. Clark, of the interstate
commerce commission, and other rep
resentatives of the government
will present the case of the federal
regulation of railroads and corpora
tions.
Being held at a time when the en
tire country is aroused in regard to
the control of trusts and the many
problems arising from the enforce
ment of the Sherman anti-trust law
and the amended interstate commerce
act, the conference is likely to have
a notable and far-reaching effect in
giving direction to public entiment.
The subjects outlined for discussion
during the three days of the confer
ence are as follows:
Governmental power over corpora
tions engaged in interstate . com
merce; the division of power under
the Constitution between the Nation
and the State; power concurrent in
Nation and State.
How should the corporation be
constructed? Should there be Nat
ional corporations as well as State?
The basis of capitalization of corpora
tions; their internal control; provis
ions looking to the protection of in
vestors and the stockholders, as well
as fair dealing with the public, dis
tinction between public service and
other corporations.
The just and practicable limits of
th restriction and regulation, Federal
and State, of combinations in trans
portation, production, distribution and
labor. ‘ls the Tariff the Mother of
Trusts?”
The alleged covert attempt to muz
zle the freedom of the press by rais
ing the price of white paper to a
point where profitable publication of
newspapers will soon be rendered
impossible will be discussed by offi
cials and members of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ assicoation.
It is likely that the subject of the
$29,000,000 fine imposed by Judge
Landis on the Standard Oil Company
will become a subject for discussion
at future sessions of the conference.
KIPLING’S SOLUTION
OF YELLOW PERIL
TORONTO, October 19.—(Special)
Pump in the immigrants from the
old country; pump them in.”
That is the solution Rudyard Kip
ling suggests for the Asiatic problem
on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Kipling,
accompanied by his wife, arrived here
last night from a tour of the Cana
dian Northwest.
"Immigration is what Canada wants
in the west,” said Mr. Kipling. “You
must have laborers there. You want
immigration, and the way to keep
the yellow man out is to get the white
man. If you keep out the white then
you will have the yellow man, for you
must have labor. Work must be
done and there is certain work a
white men won’t do so long as he can
get a yellow man to do it. Pump the
immigrants from the old country.
Pump them in. England has five mil
lions of people to spare.”
LETTER TO .1. H. POOLE & SON,
Americas, Georgia.
Dear Sirs: Here’s the concentrat
ed fact:
Every job painted Devoe takes less
gallons than of any other paint.
And the pain that takes least gal
lons, wears longest; always. We
can’t help it. Yours truly,
47 F. W. DEVOE & CO.
Americus Construction Co. sell our
paint.
See Ansley’s clothing before you
buy if you want Hie best made, best
fitting, most reasonably jirieed iner
chant tailored clobtes in Americus.
TALES OF THE TOWN
TOLD IN TEW LINES
Pencil Stubs Picked Up Al
Random
Waterman’s Ideal automatic self
filling Fountain Pens, with points to
suit all who write. M. S. HOLLIDAY.
“The Light that failed” was the old
electric light, which flickered last
night when merchants were in a
rush.
Mr. Steve R. Johnson left last night
for northern Alabama, where he
takes a place as conductor on the A.
B. & A. Railway.
The white man who snatched a
valise at the Central depot Friday
had ten dollars snatched from him in
court yesterday.-
Three Saturdays in succession now
the wagon receipts in Americus have
exceeded 1,000 bales. What town can
beat it?
Already an average crop of cotton
has been marketed in Americus, and
yetthe crop here is really less than
half gathered.
The “harvest moon” will be at its
best tonight, and luny luna gazer*
can go into raptures over the beauti
ful spectacle.
The dust yesterday, stirred up by
the thousands of people thronging
the streets, was something fierce. Rain
is much needed.
It was the banner day of the fall
season, was yesterday, and Americus
merchants had by far the best bus
iness of the entire year.
Such was the unprecedented rush
yesterday that in many of the Ameri
cus stores it was utterly impossible
to wait upon the people.
This is the final week of the Atlan
ta fair, and a quite a number of Ameri
cus people will go up to see the spie
ers and the pumpkins.
Mr. J. W. Hargrove, a prosperous
young farmer from the 28th district,
was in the city yesterday, and re
ports prosperity out there.
‘This reminds one of Chritmas
eve” said an admiring onlooker yes
terday as he beheld the crowded
stores and jammed streets.
GLOOMY VIEW OF
RATE REDUCTIOM
Taken By President Mur
ray of B. 0.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., October 19.
(Special)—Serious consequences
threaten the railroads of the country
as a result of the legislation adopted
by mai?y States, according to OScar
G. Murray, president of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company,
eighty-first annual report was mail
ed to stockholders Thursday. While
the best record for gross earnings of
this company was again broken Mr.
Murray does not take an optimistic
view of the future, and holds that the
outlook is entirely problematical.
Legislation particularly affecting
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
mainly confined to a reduction of
the charge for passenger transporta
tion to a maximum rate of two cents
per mile per passenger. Every state
through which the company’s lines
pass, with the exception of Mary
land, adopted such a law. As to its
effect Mr. Murray says in his report
that “it cannot be said at this time
with any postiveness the extent your
passenger earnings wall be affected;
that it will be considerable admits of
no reasonable doubt. In some sec
tions the incentive to travel may af
ford some possible compensation, but
in others nothing of this character
can be looked for, and the result as
a whole is problematical.”*
EFFORT FOR DIRECT
SALE TO SPINNERS
ANDERSON, S. C., October 19.
(Special)—Business Manager Moore,
of the Farmers’ Union, will leave in
a few days for Germany for the pur
pose of conferring with European
spinners with reference to the direct
sales of cotton to them.
Steve Clay has done more for the
state than any man w r ho has occupied
the office of United States senate in j
many years, and now to turn him off
for a straddler on the prohibition
question is more than could be ex
pected from the people of Geor
gia.—Ex.
Hon. John W. Akin, " ' J'
President Slate Senate who died Friday morning at his home
at Cartervilles.
THE QUOTATIONS
IN AMERICUS
Cotton Market as Reported Daily
by L. G. Council.
Americus, Ga., Oct. 19. —We quote
the local cotton market quiet, as fol
lows: Day
Yesterday Before
(iood Middling 11 } . 11}
M ddiing 11J 11
Low Middling 10$ 101
NEW.YORK FUTURES.
New York,Oct. 19, —Spots: Middling
steady at 11.75. Contracts opened
steady and closed quiet.
Open Close
Dec 11.03 11.02
Jan 11.18 11.17
March . H 10.88 10.77
SAVANNAH.
Savannah,Ga.Oct. 19, —Steady. Spots
middling 11 3-16 cents.
NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleaus, La. Oct. 19. —Spots;
middling ll| cents.
LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool, Oct. 19. —The cotton mar
ket opened quiet and closed quiet
Spots: Middling uplands 6.49
WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS.
Received yesterday by wagon 1,118
Received previously by wagon 17,760
Total to date 18,976
NEW YORK, .October 19.—Liver
pool's course was a distinct surprise
“Bearsfoot”
For all Blood Taints.
PRICE SI OR 3 FIR $250
Made only by
Davenport Drug Co.
Americus, Ga.
to the talent on this side who had be
gun to expect the foreign, market to
support the market regardless of the
bear craze on this side. Futures
there were weak and unsettled, while
private advices held out little hope
of a sustained advance. The usual
Saturday dullness prevailed on this
side. Again the weather was favor
able for the crop. Price brokers were
corispicious by their absence during
the session and the hammer brigade
were not so much in evidence. A
surprising feature has developed in
the change of positions, March and
May now selling at a discount com
pared with January. France and
Germany sent strong orders for prac
tically unlimited amounts of cotton
to Southern buyers. Like Tennyson’s
Brook, futures may come and futures
may go, but in the spot trade, the
trade -that eventually tells the story,
there is no weakness and will not be
during the life of this crop. The Aer
ator who buys on a scale down and
sticks the game to the finish will
find he has ‘discovered acres of dia
monds.”
CLARK & CO.
New syrup at Buchanan’s. It
WINDING UP SOUTH
CAROLINA DISPENSARY
COLUMBIA, S. C., October 19.
(Special)—Affairs of the defunct state
dispensary are being wound up as
rapidly as possible. Dr. W. J. Mur
ray is chairman of the board having
the matter in hand. Proceeds from
the sales of stocks on hand have been
placed at interest.
Regarding the injunction of Gar
ret & Co., which sought to
$750,000, to collect their alleged c’iaim
it is probable that a sum equal to
the claim will be set aside pending the
disposition of the suit.