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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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the americus recorder
Established 1879.
THE AMERICUS TIMES i
Established 1890. t
Consolidated April 1891.
Editors:
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., 1
Y t>.A.\K T. LONG. | c
W. L. DUPREE,
\dvertising and Subscription Manager.
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J. W. FURLOW, ii
City Editor. J ,
OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus. i
Sumter County. ; i
Webster County. | ]
Railroad Commission of Georg.a For
Third Congressional Dis'rict.
U. S. Court Southern District of <
Georgia. ;
Americas, Ciu, April 27. 1911.
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♦ THE AUTOMATIC ALARM. ♦ ,
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■♦■ ,
(Ted Robinson, in Cleveland Plain ,
Dealer.) ,
Lights out, the house is dark and still, (
The windows have a vacant stare;
The night is black, the wind is chill— 1
Lights out!
And noiselessly he climbs to where l
The porch roof looms —he mounts j
the sill.
Forces the casing! Then, beware — <
j i
A flood of light springs up! A shrill j.
Voice sounds! He's touched some.
button, there,
Then, with a curse. Porch Climber Bill j 1
Lights out! j!
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦•♦♦♦♦ <
♦ FORGOTTEN. ♦ l
(Nellie Richmond Eberhart.) i
I asked of thee when thou didst start
that day
Alone, yet brave, upon the star
marked trail,
If possible thou wouldst come back to
say i
That life and love avail. (
So here within the twilight hush I '
bow;
Heart-wrung, I listen with strain
ed, sharpened ear;
If thou art calling me, if thou are call- j
ing now',
I do not, cannot hear. <
Dear heart, am I forgotten in that
land ?
Or led the trail where fated waters
flow
Or is my sense too gross to under
stand?
Ah, shall I ever know?
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦.♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ WHEN POVERTY KEEPS THE ♦
♦ DOOR. ♦
(Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Con
stitution.)
How - shall w r e sing the life-way? Trou
ble, you know, in sight!
AVhen poverty keeps the door, my
dear, shall love take the window
flight?
But the spring is here, and love, I
know,
Finds joy where the rose is smiling so.
How shall we sing the life-iway? When
the shadow blights the beam
Will love, with tears for the lonely
years, sigh, “ Twas a dream —uj
dream?”
But the spring is here, and love, you
know,
Finds joy where the rose is smiling so.
lAmerieue will soon have a new
bank building.
After all the Stripling publicity was'
in vain.
Even Taft has gotten to making
whirlwind trips.
Andersonville leads the name of the
new highw-ay.
Will Colonel Roosevelt land In the
pulpit finally?
Sumter is justly termed the ‘ model
county of Georgia.”
Americus lingers in the center of
the state's spotlight.
The kidnapping brigade is certainly
on the job once again.
Oiled roadways and paved streets
will soon transform Americus.
Well, Mexico is one of those Centra!
American republics anyway.
How- could the Andersonville-Thom
asville highway possibly fail?
The best mahogany furniture ob
tainable is now made in the (South.
Why can’t we have another new fac
tory to build up our business?
Before a Mexican armistice can be
signed they are scrapping again.
How terribly ignorant some of those
Lorimer witnesses seem to be.
Why shouldn’t Americus be one of
the best woman's club cities in the
state.
Governor Brown gained a popular
response when he refused to pardon
(Stripling.
Americus teachers will attend the
Georgia Educational 'Association in a
body.
The average man is far more pleased
over winning tend dollars on a base
ball bet than over his whole month's
salary.— Atlanta Journal.
RECOGNITION FOR SUMTER.
The action of the highway conven
tion that met in Albany Tuesday in
recognizing the high prestige of Sum
ter county among the counties of Geor
gia with reference to good roads and
the selection of the name of Ander
sonville to head the name of the pro
posed highway, should afford much’
gratification to every citizen of the
county.
The fact that the link of the new j
highway included in Sumter county is
even now practically finished should
no: cause the people of .Sumter to rest
on their laurels. Sumter's good roads
should be maintained and additional j
mileage should be added until there is
not a section of the county, no matter!
haw small, that is not supplied with
as perfect and as durable roads as|
could be desired.
Sumter county's reputation for good
roads is firmly established. Os that
there can be no doubt. By common
consent at the Albany convention the
position and influence of Sumter's del
egation (was recognized and reward
ed. The rank of this county in all!
natters of good roads 13 supreme and;
of long standing.
The Times-Recorder congratulates:
the people of Sumter on the large and;
representative delegation that was
sent to the Albany convention. Cit
izens from every section of the county
rallied to the call ahcTably represent
ed this section in the deliberations of
Y*
that body. Such splendid aggressive
ness and enterprise can achieve any
thing, for every delegate was in his
place and ready to work for Sumter's
good.
Such harmony and energetic endeat
or is what will make Sumter a still
greater power In the world of good j
roads and in every branch of com-;
mercial progress.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
(Dawson News.)
Editor Thos. Gamble, Jr., has asso
ciated with him in the publication of
the Americus Times-Recorder Mr
Frank T. Long, and Mr. W. I. Dupree
become 3 business manager of the:
paper. Col. J. W. Furlow, who has for!
years given the local columns of our
contemporary an individuality of their;
own, will continue as city editor. The
Times-Recorder has showed marked
improvement and one much to advance j
the interest of Americus and Sumter
county under the management of Ed
itor Gamble. To him and his co-work
ers we extend congratulations and
best wishes, hoping that the future
holds a good store of success and pros
! perity for them.
DON’T BE THIS SORT OF MEM H
ANT.
A merchant who does not advertise
believes it more profitable to sell to
people who know little about what
the things should cost.
He is content to do without the pat
ronage of the people who read adver
tisements —and who thus know prices
and values—if he can get a ‘‘lucky
share,” through location or other rea
sons, of the patronage of people who
are not educated, by advertisements,
ito “know.”
He realizes that as soon as any of
i his patrons become advertisement
readers, he loses their trade—'but he
hopes there may be always a great
percentage of shoppers who do not
read advertisements. And he knows
(that with such shoppers he stands on
!an equal footing with the enterprising
merchant.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ WHO KNOWS THE MASTER ♦
♦ MAKER’S MIN'D I ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
(Clinton Scollard, in Hampton's.)
Who knows the Master Maker’s mind,
Who knows the Master Maker’s art,
That shaped the wings that are the
wind,
And molded red the rose’s heart?
We mark new marvels every day:
New wonders every day we find;
Yet who, in all our clam of clay,
Who knows the Master Maker’s
mind?
♦ THE SAUNTERED. ♦
s Give me the life of love,
Ijet the love go by me,
Give me the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
i Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river—
There’s the life for a man like me,
There’s the life forever.
Let the blow fall soon or late,
Let what will be o'er me;
Give the face of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
. All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Or, let autumn fall on me
s Where afield I linger,
Silencing the bird on tree,
Biting the blue finger,
AVhite as meal the frosty field—
Warm the fireside heaven —
Not to autumn will 1 yield,
Not the winter even!
f
Let the blow fall soon or late,
! Let what, will be o’er me;
Give the face of earth around
And the road before me,
. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
1 All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.
■ Still the census returns come in—all
. but the correction due Americus as to
its total population.
The eclipse of the sun this week
will not interfere with the ball game
unless it happens to be an extra in
ning affair.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
♦ STORIES ♦
♦ WORTH READING. *
Stories Worth Reading .. -
Nearly Missed the Boat.
A San Francisco woman who was to
sail for Eurooe Saturday afternoon on
the Amerika lingered so long over her
luncheon that the boat nearly got
away without her, says the New York
Sun.
The Amerika was to sail at 2 o’clock
and a taxi was ordered for 1:15. The
traveller was entertaining a party of
friends in the Wolcott dining room
and when she was notified that her;
equipage was ready said, “all right” 1
and resumed her luncheon. The office;
clock moved on and the hote'l manager i
cast a nervous eye upon the minute
hand. When the latter pointed to
half past he sent in again.
“All right,” replied the woman, “it
oan wait.”
“‘But,” said the messenger, “it is
half past one.”
“Good gracious!’’ exclaimed the wo
man, jumping up. “I thought it was
only half past twelve,” and there was
considerable excitement about the lob
by until she had got into the taxi and
was headed for Hoboken. She just did
make the seeamer.
Called Lo’s Bluff.
The greatest bluffer in the state of
Minnesota, says Senator Nelson, was
an Indian up in the lumber regions,
who took great delight in walking up
to people and saying: “Uh, me heap
big Injun. You scared o’ me?”
And he was an Indian of consider
able stature, with a face about as
pleasant as a gargoyle’s, nearly every
body admitted to him that he was in
deed a big Indian, and that they were
sure enough scared of him. This
nearly tickled him to death, and he
kept up his habit of putting his stock
question to everybody who come
along, until one day he walked up to a
tall, raw-boned lumberjack, who had
just come out of the woods after six
months of log rolling.
"Me heap big Injun,” said the big
bluff. “You scared o’ me?”
The lumberjack replied by hitting
: the interrogator a lick between the
1 eyes that set him spinning for a
moment like one of those new fangled
revolving barber poles.
“That’s how scared I am of you,”
| remarked the lumberjack, as he bit off
a fresh chew of tobacco, “you blamed
bow-and-arrow son-of-a-gun.”
Bluffing a British Bore.
Arthur Oavill, swimming instructor
at Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland,
sometimes comes through with a keeu
. ly caustic remark, says the Portland
Oregonian. Recently he sat with some
friends at the Heilig, just in front of a
■ box in which some near-society foik
> were having a theatre party. A very
; talkative member of the box party was
a nasal-toned young Englishman,
. whose raucous voice was almost con
. tinuously heard in a succession of in
i ane small talk.
Cavil and hi.s friends, just in front
. of the box, were having their nerves
, worn to a frazzle, but all endured the
, ordeal in silence until the fog-horn
tones were uplifted in an insistent in
l vitation to the rest of the party to
t visit his sheep ranch and partake of
> the hospitality of the sheep camp.
L “I should be chawmed, dontelie
t know,” the Englishman was saying,
j “to have you drop in any minute, but
i send me a word ahead, dontcheknow,
; and I’ll kill the fatted calf.”
“That would be suicide,” said Cav
ill, all too audibly, and throughout the
. rest of the play there was peace.
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► ♦ TIKH UHTS FOB TO-DAY. ♦
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’Tis justly wise to talk with our past
, hours,
, And ask them what report they bore
3 to heaven. —Young.
Cove is a boy by poets siyled;
Then spare the rod and spoil the
child. —Butler.
What though the field be lost?
lAIII is not lost; the inconquerable will
s And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
—Milton.
►
► Oh, the jolly fisher’s life!
► It is the best of any;
Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And ’tis beloved by many.
—John Chalkhill.
Poets lose half the praise they should
have got,
Could it be known what they discreet
ly blot. —Waller.
There is an evening twilight of the
heart,
When its wild passion waves are lulled
to rest. —Halleck.
I care not, Fortune, what you me
deny;
You can not rob me of free Nature's
grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the
sky
Through which Aurora shows her
brightening face:
You cannot bar my constant feet to
trace
The woods and Lawns, by living
streams, at eve;
la*t health my nerves and fine fibres
brace,
And I their toys to the great children
leave:
Os fancy, reason, virtue, naught can
me bereave. Thompson.—
All the cities in the state with spare
time on their hands are indulging in
music festivals.
We abuse our stomachs until king
dom come and then wonder what's the
matter with us.
A loud brag gains more credit for a
man than a real merit.
♦ SOME ♦
♦ MORNING SMILES. ♦
“Have you any remedy for our over
crowded prisons
“Yes—lock up the honest men in
stead of the crooks. "—Chicago Post.
''What a little man be is!"
“Y'es, indeed! Just the sort of a
sawed-off that some strapping big
woman will marry some day. —De
troit Free Press.
“How do you like this grand opera
Bill?”
“I can't undersiand what they are
saying.”
“That's all right. Y'ou ain’t missing
no jokes.”—Pittsburg Post.
“Why do so many distinguished
diploma's play golf?”
“It’s good practice. It reconciles a
man to the experience of doing a lot
of work and getting back to the place
from which he started." —Washington
Star.
Smith (to member of vested choir)
—I hear youv’e got a new tenor in the
choir. What kind of a voice has he.’
: Good?
Jones—Good? 1 should say so! It’s
I so good none of the other tenors will!
speak to him. —Life.
“Last night my wife and myself had
the most foolish squabble of our mar
ried life.”
“What was the subject of your dis
pute?”
“How iwe would invest our money if
we had any.”—Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
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“Those who dance have to pay the
fiddler.”
i “Who pays the rest of the orchestra,
! pa?"—Judge.
Little Willie—What is leisure, pa?
Pa —Leisure, my son, is the two min
i utes’ rest a man gets while his wife is
| hunting up something else for him to
do. —Chicago News.
“I’ve been sent down town to buy a
taboret. What’s that?”
“Don’t you know? It’s one of those
j things that stand around about shin
;high in the dark.” —Cleveland Plain
! Dealer.
Wigg—Your young lawyer friend
3eems to carry the love of his profes
sion to a ridiculous extreme.
Wagg—Yes. I believe he is even go
ing to marry a girl named Sue. —
Philadelphia Record.
Start a lie and it will breed a thous
and.
Some men blame even their corns on
the way the government is run.
A woman tries to be better than she
seems; a man to seem better than he is
The loudest amen doesn’t always
represent the most fervent prayer.
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SSUST IIS Free Lecture and Practical Demonstration here Tuesday, Wednesday,
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The World’s Greatest Chef.
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v Prf. Becker bakes all kinds of Diiutv Pastries, mixing everything
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s i - j ■'T'’*' T'" 4 '' - Wecker roasts an eight-pound roast, two rows of Irish potator.
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Prof. Becker serves all the dainty cakes, in fact, everything, to
the ladies present.
YOU WILL REGRET IT IF YOU ARE NOT PRESENT.
FREE: With every Majestic Range sold this week will give Ab
solutely Free one set of cookingware worth $7.50.
SHEFFIELD-HUNTINGTON CO, Forsyth Street.
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
There is 1 disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
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the urine, head ache, back ache, lame
back,jriizrines 3, sleeplessness, nervous
ness, or the kidneys themselves break
down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost a'.wcys result
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When writing mention reading this gen
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Swamp-Root, and don’t let a dealer seU
you something in place of Swamp-Root-'
if you do you wi'l be disappointed.
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MNK OF SOUTH-WESTERN GEOR
GIAN SITINGS DEPARTMENT
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA —Sumter County.
Will be sold before the court house
door in the City of Americus, between
the legal hours of sale on the first
Tuesday in May, 1911, One certain
house and lot on West side of Hinkle
street, known as the Charles Cotledge
home place, same being No. 139. One
house and lot on Strife street; one
three-room house and lot, and one
two-room house and lot on Davenport
street. All of said property being
known as the Charles Cotledge prop
erty. This property to be sold pur
suant to an order from the Court of
Ordinary of said County for purpose
of fivipinn among heirs and payment
j it tha estate’s debts. 6-4 t
FLORENCE C. DAVIS,
Admx. Est. Chas. Cotledge.
Hamilton & Co.
Big Sale
Extra Specials for
Saturday and Monday.
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Saturday at 10 O’clock April 22nd.
12 l-2cts Androscoggins Bleaching 9c yard.
Saturday at 11 o’clock—Bc undervest, 4c each.
Saturday at 12 o’clock —10 yards Calico 19c.
Monday April 24th at 10 O’clock.
10 yards 8c Ginghams 19c
10c Lonsdale Cambric 5c yard
25c Gauze Lisle Hose 19c pair.
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Every Day During This Sale.
S2.OC Velvet Slippers $1.49
2.50 “ “ 1.98
3.00 “ “ 2.49
3.50 “ “ 2 98
1.50 Patent Slippers 98c
$3.00 One Piece Dresses $1.98
4.00 “ “ “ 2.98
5.00 “ “ “ 3.98
7.50 “ “ “ 4.98
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Millinery Fifty to One Hundred Per Cent
Cheaper Than Elsewhere.
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INSURANCE. Fire, Tornado, Auto,
Accident, Plate Glass and Surety Bonds.
J. A. DAVENPORT, Phone 66.