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THE AMERIOUS RECORDER
Established 1879.
THE AMERICUS TIMES
Established 1890.
Consolidated April 1891.
Editors:
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
FRANK T. I-ONG.
W. L. DUPREE,
Advertising aud Subscription Manager.
J. W. FURLOW,
City Editor.
OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga* April 28, 1911.
♦ A DREAM. *
(Jessie Lee McHann.)
1 was dreaming one day of the Master,
As oft I had dreamed before,
When suddenly thru the gateway
And up to my cottage door
Came the light bf His matchless glory,
The joy of His wondrous grace,
And a rapture thrilled my being
That time can never efface.
The Master passed o’er my threshold,
And still thru the years I see
The halo touching His forehead,
The smile meant only for me,
As He talked of the beauty of service,
And told of the narrow' way
That leads thru the falling shadows
To daw'ning of endless day.
And kneeling there in His presence,
And kissing the tender feet,
Whose touch made thorniest pathways
Forevermore to be sweet,
•1 prayed to be always with Him,
To go from the cottage door
And down thru the open gateway
Across to the golden shore.
But He answered nay to my pleading,
And bade me linger aw'hile,
Where the little ones follow' shadows,
Astray for want of a smile;
Then passing over the threshold,
He went thru the cottage gate,
While 1 turned to neglected duties
In haste, for Che hour was late.
And whenever the darkness deepens
In the land where shadows are,
And I look in vain thru the purple
gloom
For the gleaming of a star,
lake a beautiful garment about me
I feel the joy of His love,
And know He will come thru the cot
tage door
To lead to the light above.
♦ CONQUEST. ♦
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(K. C. St. G. Spiers, in Fortnight Re
view.)
Tell me not, love, that Ram fair,
And that no woman’s eyes
With mine compare;
Hold me not in thy fond arms' lair,
Arid temporize.
But as thou hast a lion's might.
Bring me thy journey's prize,
When falls the night;
Twere easier then in that love’s light,
To idolize.
Or. forge me words that kings obey,
And nations, hearing, rise
To nobler sway;
"Tis thus that love lives on for aye,
Or, lacking, dies.
This is—weather.
Is Easter coming again? .
Get a copy of “A-meri-klan.”
The woman’s cvlub idea has come to
stay.
We may substitute April “chills" for
showers.
•New York will soon try for a 55-
story building.
(Even million dollar damage suits
are growing common.
(Strange to say, lobsters are plenti
ful once more in Boston.
Ix)rimer and Illinois should have a
permanent bribery commission.
The fame of Sumter county real
estate agents is as broad as the land
The commercial future of Americus
is as large as one can contemplate.
The lemonade barrel and the sum
mer barbecue will soon be the daily
order.
The Republican minority is as hope
lessly divided as the ‘Democratic ma
jority.
Give us something new —the riots
over the appearance of harem skirts
seems to have died.
How is it that motion picture men
haven’t visited Breathitt county, Ky,
to photograph a feud
The farther it goes the more it seems
that the lame ducks will all be given
places as ambassadors.
How can those (Massachusetts towns
that have both baseball and a circus
at the same time manage to stand .t?
Os course the Mint Julep Association
takes very little interest in political
straws.—Valdosta Times. •
“Waterproof coffins are now on sale,
hut some people would prefer a fire
prooff casket,” says the Rochelle New
Era. ]
THE SCHEDULE MIGHT WELL BE
CHANGED.
The movement that is under way to
liave a change made in the time of de
parture of the night train on the Cen
tral, leaving Atlanta for southw'est
Georgia, should certainly commend it
self to the officials of the railroad in
question. If it can possibly be provid
ed for it is a concesion that the people
over a distance of one hundred to two
hundred miles of territory traversed
by the Central would appreciate.
As the schedule now is, a person in
Atlanta on business for a day is de
prived of the privilege of attending
the theatre or any amusement, and is
compelled to cut short business or
social affairs to rush to the station.
The detention of the train for another
hour in Atlanta would in all likeli
hood, work no hardships on anyone,
would not interfere with the mails or
connections, and would prove a decided
and highly appreciated advantage to
the hundreds of visitors to the capital
from all the territory between Macon
and the Florida line.
The Americus Board of Trade has
taken theis mater up in the proper
spirit and no doubt will receive the
hearty support of the various business
bodies south of Macon. The Central
has show’n a decided willingness in
the past to meet the people in all reas
onable requests and there is no reason
to believe that in this instance it will
not show' a similar spirit. If there is
any way that the change in the Atlanta
leaving time can be made we have no
doubt that the railroad officials will
meet public requirements as speedily
as possible.
In this, as in other transportation
matters, the Americus Board of Trade
has show'll its deep interest in public
affairs and i‘s desire to promote the
public welfare in every way. Every
step that it makes in this or other di
rections should attach the public more
strongly to it and win for it a larger
meed of support from the business in
terests of the community, some of
whom, it is sad to say, have not shown
the spirit of appreciation toward this
body that they should have done. How
ever, with all Americus drawing closer
together day by day that is a thing of
the past now, and what we want is a
continuance of the spirit of union and
the upholding of the hands of those
W'ho are seeking to do things for the
good of Americus and Sumter county.
♦ SOME ♦
♦ MORNING SMILES. ♦
Site Married One.
A woman lecturer was talking at a
woman’s meeting. She spoke of mat
rimony, its success and failures. “It is
true that some girls marry men to re
form them,” she said, “and succeed —
because they join in the pleasures of
their husbands. Now take a husband
who likes sports.” IShe turned to a
beautiful sad-eyed woman in the audi
ence. “Are you fond of sports, Mrs.
De Smythe?” she asked. Mrs. De
Smythe’s face remained blank for a
moment Then she smiled and her
eyes twinkled. “1 ought to be,” she
said, “I married one.”
“Mamma, won’t you please put on
your old dress again?" pleaded Bobby.
“Why, my son?” asked the up-to-date
mamma.
“’Cause I can’t lay in your lap
worth a cent when you have those
i divide skirts on,” complained the
three-year-old.
No Man Rnoweth.
Hubbubs—Has your wife a good cook
now?
i Subbubs—l don’t know’. I haven't
been home since morning.
1 Keeping His Eye On It.
“There's no danger,’’ said the doctor.
"It's only a carbuncle coming on the
s back of your neck. But you must keep
your eye on it.”
Too Great a Risk.
' “Henry won't let me buy my tea
and coffee at that department store."
“Why not?”
"He is afraid they will throw in a
• piano.”
Hasty Judgment.
i "I can never consent,” she was saying,
i “To my daughter’s becoming your
bride,”
“Then sad is my fate;.! am doubly
i Forsaken,” the young man replied.
i
“For the goal of my twofold desire
I foolishly fancied I saw—
, A bride with the grace of an angel,
And a young-looking mother-in
law.”
Then her voice, it was sweet with
emotion;
"I'm oftimeg hasty, r find,
And here if I have erred, 1 should do ,
you
But justice—in changing my mind."
—Eugene C. Dolson. in Woman's Home
Companion for March.
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Feared She Was Outprajed.
'Miss Edith Ogden Harison, the 15-
year-old daughter of Carter H. Har
rison, has been taking an active in
terest in her father’s candidacy for
mayor since the beginning of the cam
paign and in the primary in which he
defeated Edward F. Dunne, says a
Chicago dispatch in the Washington
Post. Ai few days bafore the primaries
she asked her mother: “Do you pray
for father's nomination, mother?”
“Yes,” said her mother. “I pray ev
ery night and every morning that he
may be nominated, and I think about
him all day and hope for it, don’t
you?”
“Well, no,” said Miss Edith, doubt
fully. “I did start in to pray, but
every time I began to pray that father
would be nominated I thought of all
those ten lit*le Dunnes doing the same
thing, and I thought I had no chance.”
I’iano Could Not Play It.
At one of the Yorkshire inns there
is a pianist w r ho can vamp to any song
that any singer wishes to sing, says
the London Tit-Bits. He cannot read
a note of music, yet in the local ver
nacular, he “can play owt.”
Recently, however, he met with an
unexpected check. A man hummed
over an atr, but the pianist failed to
get the key.
“Let’s try it again,” he said; and
they tried it again.
Still it was of no use.
A third trial brought no better re
sult.
Then the pianist turned to the singer
in anger and said: “Sitha, Aw’ve tried
tha on t’ white 'uns, Aw’ve tried tha
on t’ black ’uns, and Aw’ve tried tha
on t’ black and white 'uns mixed. It's
no use; tha’s singing between t’
cracks!”
Total Abstainers.
A dear old lady who was lately stay
ing near Dartmoor was very exercised
in her mind as to the physical and
spiritual health of the convicts con
fined in the prison, says the London
Telegraph. Meeting a squad one day,
she akred the warden in charge if she
might present them with some delica
cies she had with her and a few tracts.
The warden, as was his duty, replied
in the negative. Then she pleaded to
be allowed to speak a word of admoni
tion and comfort.
“No, ma'am,” said the warder, “it's
against the regulations.”
“Oh, dear, dear!” sighed the old
lady. “But tell me, do you think they
are all converted?”
"Well, ma’am, I shouldn't take upon
myself to say that,” he answered. Then
seeing her distressed face, he added:
“But there’s one thing I will say for
them—they’re all teetotalers and non
smokers.” And the old lady departed
much comforted.
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♦ THE DIFFERENCE. ♦
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There was a young fellow named Fred,
In an aeroplane sailed overhead;
His biograph showed that he’d been
where it snowed,
But his epitaph shows
That he’s dead.
♦ A DREAM. ♦
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♦ VOICES. ♦
The swaying trees,
i The passing breeze,
r Make music of the spring;
, The mocker’s song,
The robin throng,
In gladsome chorus sing.
i The lilies sway,
And nod all day.
As spring’s sweet notes they hear;
The roses' dew
Steeps fragrance through,
[) The angels hover near.
A
, The azure sky.
Its clouds on high,
Smiles on the lovely r earth;
In in cue’s heart,
At least a part
l Os nature's hymns have birth.
Now let the little fices of iwar break
L loose once more in Mexico.
If there be nobility of descent, all
the more indispensable is it that there
■ should be nobility of ascent—a char
acter in them that bear rule so fine
1 and high and pure that as men come
within the circle of its influence they
involuntarily pay homage to that
which is the one pre-eminent distine
-1 tion, the royalty of virtue.
—Bishop Henry C. Potter.
1 V Hath!uli Mystery.
Uncle Hiram (looking at bathtubs
in a plumber’s window) —Well, I’ll
swan! I’ve heard these here New
■ Workers are pretty nervy, but I never
supposed they had the cheek to tak»
a bath in the front window!—Judge's
Library.
Taking No Chances.
Two hunters, returning from the
| 'Catskills, thought they would try
I some New York humor on the old man
who was agent of the little railroad
station in the foothills.
"When does the 3:49 train get in?”
asked one.
The old man regarded him serious
ly, and at leng.h "Wall,” said he, “she
generally gets in just a leetle behind
the engine.”
Later they approached him respect
fully.
"About time that train is due, isn't
it, uncle?”
"Yes,” said the agent. “There comes
the conductor’s dog.”—Everybody's
Magazine.
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♦ MAN* ATTITUDE TOWARD WO- ♦
♦ MAN’S SUFFRAGE. ♦
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♦ Injustice of Woman’s Position C
♦ * As Looked Upon By Man. ♦
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(By’lfcrbara Boyd.)
A correspondent writes that the law
in enumerating those who shall not
vote puts women in the class of non
voters, together with most undesirable
associates, and the writer concluded
with the sentence: "What are men
thinking of anyway?” But did it ever
strike the writer of this letter and
many other women also, that upon this
and kindred subjects, a vast number
of men do not think? They think about
their business. They think about
their pleasures. They think hard how
to make more money. But upon the
social conditions about them, they do
not think. They accept these condi
tions as they are. Here and there are
men who do think upon these matters.
And these thinkers are the reformers
of the world. But the average man is
not of this class, it is easiest for him
to accept things as they are. He can
sca'rcely be induced to think upon his
own vote. How then can he be ex
pected to think upon woman’s vote? It
would be too hard work for him. He
wants to be let alone. Inertia has him
fast in its grip. Then, too, if women
voted, things might be changed. And
he hates change, just as he does house
cleaning. He has got things running
to suit himself. He has set himself up
as lord of creation, and the world is
being managed on this basis. It would
be most disturbing to have it ups?t.
Let well enough alone.
The work ahead of women, then, f
they want to see this movement suc
ceed is to wake men up and start them
to thinking. If they can once be made
jto see the injustice of woman's posi
tion, if they can be brought to realize
that she is no longer a doll, a play
thing, or a being created merely to
serve them, but an individual with
capacities the same as their own, they
will not deny her rights. Man has a
sense of justice once it is aroused. The
trouble now is that ho is standing witn
his face to the past. He accepts with
out thinking the attitude of the past
toward women. He does not think for
himself in this matter.
The work should be done in an earn
est, dignified, convincing way. Once
men are started to thinking upon it,
the rest will follow, for as has been
said, the men of this country are
square. Right and justice are on the
woman’s side. Once get the men to
think honestly about the question, and
they will admit this: and once admitted
1
they must concede women’s demands,
or else occupy a position so exceeding
ly folish that most men would not
endure it. u
And if women can come to their own
in the mater of wages, of legal rights,
and the many other things women are
contending for, surely this world is go
ing to be a happier place for our
daughters and granddaughters to live
in. And when man once fully under
stands the situation, he will be glad to
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