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THE TIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Americus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americus Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, IS9I.
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
. Editor and Manager.
C. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
J. W. FURLOW, City Editor.
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Americus, Ga„ February 15, 190 S.
Eastern democrats are hoping that
the dark horse at Denver will be of a
Gray color.
Miss Shonts has got her license, to
day she gets her husband, later on
she gets her (?)
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The New York Sun says Taft has
been reduced to the position of mere
ly saying “Ditto, ditto.”
Gov. Glenn has telegraphed to a
North Carolina sheriff to “allow no
lynching.” The sheriffs usually ob
ject anyhow.
Representative Clayton says Roose
velt is “beyond classification.” Pre
datory magnates might be inclined to
say that his initials mean “terribly
rough.”
As an evidence of what self-sacri
fice really is, we quote the following
news item: “The President will make
no more speeches before the end of
the national campaign.”
The New York Sun says that Theo
dore Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers
are agreed on the 'infinite iniquity of
the Supreme Court, which has shat
tered their plans and put them to open
shame.”
Oklahoma has provided for nine
foot sheets for hotel beds. The clean
sheet, clean towel, campaign seems
to be spreading. Perhaps it may
get in the next national platform. It’s
a vote getter.
The Chaplain of the House in LL
opening prayer the other day said:
“He who is a law' unto himself is not
well calculated to frame laws for
others.” This ought to shut Roose
velt out of the- Senate.
The New York Sun continues to
hammer away at. the administration.
It maintains that the “i>olicy of the
square deal is a sham in comparison
with which the other political frauds
of history are insignificant.”
Taft told his hearers at Kansas
City that “we were pasing into the
realm of an irresponsible plutocracy”
when Roosevelt, like St. George of
old, came to the rescue and scotched,
if he did not kill, the terrible dragon.
The Cincinnati Methodist preachers
have been thanked by the President
for saying that “he is a greater force
for righteousness than all the minis
ters in the world. ’’ Strange how some
clergymen can boil over on the
slightest provocation.
The attorneys for the defence moved
to dismiss the charges against the
Pennsylvania capitol grafters on the
ground that the cases had not been
made out. It would be interesting to
know what it takes to make out a
case in Pennsylvania.
Only one Republican is going to
speak against the Aldrich currency
bill. Senator Clay took a shot at it
yesterday, and o her Democr .:s will
do likewise. It is not to be expected
that the majority will be convinced,
however sound the reasoning.
The social department of the At
lanta Georgian advises its female
readers to avoid mental collapse by
“reading something light and frivo
lous.” If this is the correct antidote
the great bulk of American women
are not in much danger of breaking
down.
In London during the rush hours
special cars are to be run for women,
who have heretofore got the worst of
It in the scramble for places. Brit
ish chivalry is not equal to the sur
render of tram car space to the gent
ler sex when the males are anxious
to get to their destinations.
It is now said that the reason Taft
carried Ohio unanimously is because
the opposition refrained from voting
but will have an election and conven
tion of their own and contesting dele
gates at Chicago. All in all Ohio
promises to wind up with the liveliest
row the Republicans have ever had.
The next president of the United
States will probably have it in his
liower to reconstitute the United
States Supreme Court. The advanc
ing age and not too robust health of
Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brew
er, Harlan and Peckham, it is point
ed out, will doubtless lead to their
retirement during the next four
years. Whoever is the next president
can accordingly constitute the court
so that its decisions will confirm or
repudiate his policies. This accen
tuates more than ever the importance
of a wise choice for president.
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THE SILVER LINING HAS COME
The silver lining has come to the
clouds of business doubt and de
pression. Slow though they may
have been, the evidences of revival in
industrial life are accumulating and
have become sufficiently impressive
to convince even the doubter that the
turn has come in the tide, that the
vast power for progress and prosper
ity inherent in the nation has shaken
off the uncertainty that temporarily t
benumbered it, and is asserting its old
time force.
It is almost impossible to hold back
a nation like this for any great length
of time. Within the bounds of the
United States there are nigh on to
one hundred millions of people, whose
demands for the necessities and com
forts and luxuries of life create what
is recognized as the greatest market
the world has ever known. With
enormous crops, with a diversity of
industrial life that is not excelled in
any country, if it is equalled else
where on the globe, and with a stand
ard of living that for the average man
and woman has never before been
reached in the history of the world,
it could not be any great time before
the wheels that had ceased to run
would be started and the hive would
once more teem with busy workers.
It is true that this spring and
summer -will probably be marked by
a more cautious policy in business
ilan has characterized it for the past
two or three years. There will not
be the tendency to spread out, to
take on new risks, to assume that the
sun must shine forever. But the leg
itimate and pressing needs of the
nation, and of the world that draws
upon us for supplies, must be met,
and in the meeting of them there
will be adequate business to give
every man sufficient to do and to re
tire the panic of 1907-08 into the
rea’’ - jf things that have been.
The Griffin News and Sun replies
to a contemporary’s criticism of the
former's criticism of Gov. Smith and
his senatorial aspirations by saying:
“Those who think the News and
Sun cares whether Hoke Smith en
ters the senatorial race or not, are
barking up the wrong tree. He has
now and has had all the time, our
full permission to do as he pleases
about it, and if he should be ‘goaded’
into making the race and be elected,
there will be no tears shed in this of
fice. He could do little harm in the
senate—and we should have another
governor, as we presume he would
not attempt to hold both offices at
one? ”
The leaders of the Union printers
in New York have been sentenced to
jail ,as well as fines, for encouraging
strikers in the past to violence, in
defiance of a court injunction. The
labor unions have been getting some
pretty hard digs the past fortnight,
but out of it all will probably come
a clearer understanding of their
exact rights and privileges. Anyway,
the day of disorder, violence and boy
cotts is probably over. Better ways
than these can be found to win a
strike that deserves to win.
Postmaster General Myers is Ly-
I::g to rob the Senate of one of its
prerogatives. He has been keeping in
office the postmaster at Pensacola,
who was turned down by the Senate
His excuse is that the law’ provides
that the postmaster shall not quit
hi soffice until a successor has quali
fied. Just why Myers did not appoint
a successor he did not state, but
the Senate is going to find out.
The Southern Railway has offered a
reduction on that road in Mississippi
from 3 to 2 1-2 cents per mile for
passenger fare, the experiment to
last for twelve months. The Illinois
Central appeared before the legis
lative committee and opposed the
plan. The Southern is getting very
liberal since it was caught napping
in Alabama and almost lost its right
to do business in that state.
Swathmore College, which was lef<
coal mines worth a million on the
condition that intercollegiate athletic
sports be abandoned, may be convert
ed into a girl’s school in order to
make the acceptance of the gift
easy. In that case it would be use
less to challenge Sw r athmore for a
game of football.
It is claimed that the “reactionaries”
are using large sums of money in
the South to organize the opposition
to Taft at the state conventions. If
there is any money being used the
brother in black has a pretty keen
scent and can be relied on to line
up behind the barrel with remarkable
unanimity.
A KEEN RECEPTION COMMITTEE
Rivalry as to who shall be the
There is some comfort to the corn
steps from the Etruria Sunday morn
ing is spirited between the state
and Federal officers. Their eager
ness to meet him will not give Morse
any exaggerated notions of his own
importance. Both the New York and
the United States officers have scores
laid up for the discredited financier.
A few months ago Morse was a
shining light. His efforts to con
solidate big steamship lines brought
him into the public eye and things
seemed to be coming his way. But
in an evil hour his foot slipped and
he quickly stepped from a high posi
tion to a quagmire whose depth he
has not yet found.
There is some comfort to the com
mon people in the fact that public
sentiment has been arousejl to such
an extent that the rich can be stripped
of their ill-gotten gains. But it is
not so comforting to consider that it
is only after the predatory rich have
lost their money that they can be
reached by a jail sentence.
If some of the “high financiers”
could be put in jail for their unlawful
deeds, instead of being: able to pay
out with a fine it would not be so
hard to inculcate obedience to law.
As long as wealth abides the jail can
be staved off. There is not so much
credit in rounding up the penniless
man, while others equally as guilty
but with a better grip on their money,
escape with fines, or by the liberal
expenditure of gold.
It is a pretty safe assertion that the
national prohibition party will have
no votes to its credit in the electoral
college. Voting for prohibition in a
state contest and voting for it in a
national campaign are two very differ
ent procedures, as has been demon
started time and again in the past.
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Spreading the Christian Faith
(Philadelphia Record!
| About twenty years ago the oldest
American foreign missionary society
•in this country was convulsed over
the question whether a man who en
j tertained the hope that perhaps Divine
mercy might not consign heathen who
died in ignorance of Christ to eternal
fire was a suitable person to send as
a foreign missionary. In the end he
j was sent, and one of the secretaries
of the American Board of Commis
sioners for Foreign Missions resign
; ed because the opinion in controversy,
he declared, “would cut the nerve of
• foreign missions.” In other words,
| if the heathen might escape hell with
out the aid of the missionaries there
was no reason for dispatching them
and the churches would presently re
tire from the foreign field.
In the intervening twenty years
the beliefs of most orthodox Protest
ants have changed very materially re
garding the resources of Divine mer
cy, the nature of future punishment
and the fate of the heathen. But
has the nerve of foreign missions been
cut? The splendid convention of
Presbyterians iD the interest of for
eign missioners now in progress in
this city is one answer. A further
answer is J.he statistical compilation
of Dr. D. L. Leonard showing that be
tween 1895 and 1907 the contributions
of the home churches to the Protest
ant foreign missionary societies of
the world have increased from $13,-
600,000 to $22,400,000; the contribu
tions of the converts have increased
from $1,500,000 to $3,480,000; the mis
sionaries, from 11,700 to 18,400; the
communicants from 995,000 to 1,800,-
000; the adherents, including mem
bers of congregations who are not
members of congregations who are
not communicants from 2,700,000 to
4,300,000, and the pupils in schools
from 780,000 to 1,300,000.
The foreign missionary work repre
sents one form of that altrusim which
is so conspicuous a feature of our
present life. Whether the heathen
are in peril of hell fire or not, they
need enlightening and moral teaching
and industrial training, and medical
treatment and everything that is
comprised in our ideas of Twentieth
Century civilization. The Christian
people, Protestants and Catholics, are
responding with steadily growing en
thusiasm, with money and with per
sonal service, to the needs which
the people who sit in darkness do
not express because they are not
conscious of them, but which their very
condition addresses in trumpet tones
to all people who are enjoying the
inestimable benefits of Christian civ
ilization.
NO WOMAN ENTERED
ROOM OF RECLUSE
Until He Lay Dead by Own
Hand.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—(Special)
Henry Bergman had never spoken to
a woman for 25 years unless forced
to do so. During all that time he
lived at 221 Chrystie street, and
never had a woman crossed the thres
hold of his room.
Today a woman entered for the
first time. Bergman was dead —a
suicide by gas and a pistol wound.
She found him streached on his
bed; and it is a woman who must
bury him.
The man left Germany many years
ago, when a young man. He left be
cause of a woman, according to the
tradition of the neighborhood. In
the old country he had fallen in love.
But there was a difficulty, and he did
not marry.
Bergman found the room in the
Chrystie street house. He made one
condition—that neither the landlady
or any female servant ever should
enter his room; he would take care
of it himself.
Landladies came and landladies
went, but Bergman stayed on. Ten
years ago Mrs. Lang took charge.
Bergman was friendly in away. He
said “good morning” once in a while
when he encountered her in the hall
way.
They met yesterday afternoon. The
misanthrope apparently was becom
ing mellowed. Mrs. Lang was sur
prised to have him sit down and talk
with her.
“1 am getting tired of life,” said
he. “I’m afraid lam going mad. 1
would rather kill myself than go
mad.”
At 1 o’clock this morning the gas
was still lighted in his room. Mrs.
Lang was suspicious. At 10 o'clock
she knocked loudly, but not a sound
came. Then she sent for a police
man. The officer forced the door and
Mrs. Lang followed him into the
room.
The woman hater was stretched
upon his bed. A pistol lay on the
floor nearby, where it had dropped
from his hand, and the gas was turn
ed on full.
On the Imreau was a letter addres
sed to her. She opened it and found
$49.50.
“I’ts— all I have,” J Bergman had
written. “Twenty dollars is for rent.
The remainder is for you.”
Then she knew that the woman
hater must have been mad, as he
feared. It was the first time in 25
years that his heart had softened to
a woman.
fRICKER'S AUCTION
SALE 0E JEWELRY
An auction sale of Jewelry will be
inaugurated this evening by James
Fricker & Bro., the well known
Jackson street jewelers. Their store
is to be remodeled, necessitating a
transfer of their largw stock to ano
ther place temporarily, and the firm
has decided to cut down its stock
preparatory to the move. Diamonds,
watches, clocks, jewelry, sterling sil
ver, rich cut glass, hand-painted china
and musical instruments will be in
cluded in tne sale. The highest bid
der gets the articles offered, without
reserve. It will be a great opportun
ity to buy all kinds'of jewelry at auc
tion prices.
CHURCH HAS CLINIC TO
FIGHT TUBERCULOSES
PHILADELPHIA, PENN., Feb. 14.
(Special)—The first clinic in the war
to be waged on tuberculosis by St.
Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal •
church, Tenth Street, above Chest
nut, in connection with the Pennsyl-1
vania Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis, was held yesterday in
the Parish house.
The actual clinical work was per
formed by Dr. Frank A. Craig. Each
patient was given a thorough exami
nation and then prescribed for indi
vidually. A diet was suggested and
the best means for fighting the dis
ease explained. Weekly reports must
be made by the patients and to see
that they conform strictly with the
requirements they will be visited be
tween each report by an experienced
nurse.
At the clinics the patients will be
examined and at the classes lectures
will he delivered by Dr. Craig on
how best to treat the “white plaigue”
in its various stages of development.
MRS.'SHONTSIONE
OF.SOCIAL “CUMBERS”
Daughter’s Marriage to Ti
tle Caps the Campaign.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. (Special)
The marriage of Miss Theodora Shonts
to the Due de Chaulnes tomorrow
adds another to the long list of
foreign nobles who have succeeded
in getting a job at “light family duke
ing" in the families of the American
noveaux riche. Miss Shonts was
born in Chicago. Both her father
and mother are what are known as
“climbers” and the latter has been
quite as successful in breaking into
the “best.society" of Washington,
New York and “deah old Lunnon" as
Papa Shonts has been in forming pro
fitable conections with the financial
pirates of Wall Street.
Papa Shonts, it will be remember
ed first secured a position on the
front page as the chairman of the
Isthmian Canal Commission. This
berth had in it much of honor and
fame, and it brought its possessor
into close touch with him that is at
Washington.
Wife Wanted to Shine
Mrs. Shonts, however, was not
satisfied. She had mapped out a j
career in society for herself and
daughters that was not possible of
accomplishment with the meagre sal
ary of a canal commissioner. What
powers of persuasion Mrs. Shonts us
ed on her worser -half are not known.
In any event he gave up his position
as chu ' assistant to .the pr j si lent in
the ociwtnicticn cf the big ditch and
came to Wall Street. Here he was
received with open arms and given
a profitable job os the president of the
■dnterborough-Metropolitan more pop
ularly known as the “traction steal."
Since_that time fortune has smiled
on the Shonts family. The head or
the house has become a multi-mil
lionaire, and his wife and daughters
have led a brilliant life in the society
of two continents.
MR. HOWE \ CANDIDATE
AGAIN FOR SERVE YOU.
Mr. Robert R. Howe, County Sur
veyor, announces again for re-elec
tion to that office. While the remu
neration is very small the office is an
important one and should lie filled by
a capable surveyor, as is . Mr.
Howe, who has ever discharged his
dittoes accurately and faihfully.
CLEVER SWINDLER
' DELUDED VICTIM
CHICAGO, ILL., .Feb. 14.—(Special)
—After guarding all night a small
mahogany box which he believed con
tained the secret process for making
exact copies of paper money, Jacob
Lustig discovered that he had been
cheated out of $1026.
Lustig is the owner of a fish
market. He was approached a few
days ago by a Russian, who displayed
SIOOO which he wished to give for a
share, of the market.
The man carried a small box which
he said contained a process for copy
ing paper money. Lustig put $1026
into the magic box.
“Watch it and I'll come in the
morning and take it out,” said the
Russian. “So much money takes lon
ger to print.”
Lustig could not sleep. He stayed
by the box all night. This morning
at 7 o'clock he opened it, ready to
take out $2,052, double the amount he
had invested. There was nothing in
the box but blank paper.
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"Weak, sick and ailing women
have little ambition: their own trou
bles occupy all their thoughts. They
dwell upon their pains, suffer from
nervousness and headaches; often
are extremely melancholy, and
avoid society. For thirty years
LYDIA E. PIN KH AM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
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M rs. Louise Jung, of 332 Chestnut
St., Detroit, Mich., writes:
I suffered from a very severe female
weakness for a long time. Lydia E.
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women as much good as it has me.”
Mrs. Emma ’Wheaton, of Vienna,
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made of me a very different woman.”
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For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
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standard remedy for female ills,
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Mrs. Pinklmin, at Lynn, Mass.,
invites all sick women to Avrite
her for advice.
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