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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
jßfciiv-, Pe r Annum 35.09
WeeSuf, Per Annum SI.OO .
THE AMERICUS RECORDER 1
Established 1879. ]
THE AMERICUS TIMES
Established 1890.
Consolidated April JS9I.
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, W. L. DUPREE,
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OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County. (
Eailruad Commission of Georgia For j
Third Congressional District.
CL S. Court Southern District of 1
Georgia. I
Americus, Gm, June 25, 1911.
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♦ AT THE RAY'S ( LOSE. ♦
(Pall Mall Gazette.)
ft. is too late, dear, for the hour hath <
past, l
Dawn, with its high desire, and ,
thirsty noon
Have brought a weariness that deep
ens fast;
It will be twilight soon. I
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j-tnd yet our love hath not deluded us; 1
its pains and hunger still have been
res crowns
3fat in regretful cloud, but luminous
The sun sinks slowly down.
'We need not say that life was all de
ceit;
We may not say that all was want
and doubt;
See, the low rays are still around our
feet
While the first star comes out.
'Files fill the cemetery. Keep them
■»ut o€ the house.
Advertising Americus is simply ad
vertising a good thing.
Wake tip and join the Board of
Trade. Don’t be a clam.
Wonted, houses to rent, A good
investment for some one.
Merchants smile as they think of
Jihe fall and winter harvest.
Deliver us from the boll weevil,
should be our daily prayer.
If you must knock, please knock the
fellow who knocks Americus.
Ameriens is getting to toe the best
iidv-ectised small city in the South.
The city administration seems to be
making good. But it should hasten
the street paving.
Land values have advanced greatly
mi every section of the state but the
tax returns don’t show it.
The other aspirants for senator are
all hoping Tom Watson can give Hoke
SSmith a solar plexus blow.
The Macon Telegraph, it is said, in
tends to defeat any man Hoke Smith
pats in the field for his successor.
It looks as though Congress would
stay in session long enough to wel
■corne Georgia’s new senator, after all.
There will be more political maneuv
ering in Atlanta in the next three
weeks than the capital has known in
years.
Never did the country roundabout
<l\snerfcas look more pleasing than it
does just now. Bountiful harvests
sewn assured.
Corky, the Russian writer, says
London is a city of dreams. The Amer
icas visitors will not think so when
they get their bills.
Hoke Smith’s friends claim his in
tngnration address and his farewell
address to the legislature will be al
most of the same date.
The day of hand bills Is over. The
money they cost will do ten times as
ranch good invested in the Times-Re
eorder' advertising columns.
The English will now get down to
finainess again. It costs something
to support a monarchy and the people
Inert the hills —coronation and other
wise.
“Wear a smile and look like you
were clothed In your right mind,” is
of the mid-summer recommends
tfona of the Willmlngton Star. Think
If an ice cold watermelon and the
tactile won't come off.
COMMISSIONS REQUIRE HIGH
GRADE MEN.
A commission form of government
is the thing, but the most important
pari of it is the class of men who com
pose the commission,—Brunswick
Times.
This is cfne important thing that is
not to be overlooked when there is a
change from the present system of
governing a city to the commission
form of government. Unless a high
gralle of ability and integrity and de
votion to the public interests are to
be found in the commission that
system of government will be just as
lamentable a failure as the present
system has proven in so many cities.
In fact the power of a commission to
do harm would be immeasurably
greater than that of Mayor and Aider
men if the members are inclined to
be negligent or corrupt. The only con
solation is that the people can put
their fingers directly on those respon
sible under the commission system
while as it now is there are possibil
ities of evasion of responsibility.
In electing a commission, though,
the public is more apt to feel its
responsibility and proceed cautiously
in the selection of the men in whose
hands so much power is to be entrust
ed. That appears to be one of the re
deeming features of the Commission
system, that a greater interest is
aroused among the voters and a higher
sense of their personal responsibility
is awakened, resulting in the selection
of men of a much higher calibre than
have generally been made aldermen n
the various cities. As long as this de
gree of public interest is maintained,
and men of undoubted character and
ability chosen, the commission system
of government will doubtless make
good. But when the time comes of
indifference and neglect on the part of
the mass of voters—if it ever d oes
come—and men of an inferior stripe
secure the commissionerships, the;
conditions resulting would be no im
provement on the rpesent system, if
not positively worse.
The truth of the matter is, the fail
ure of the existing system of municipal
government is directly chargeable to
the average citizen, who has blindly
\oted from partisan or factional feel
ings, rather than from an intelligent
view of the city's needs. Give as high
a grade of men as the commission
system seems to toe getting and the re
sults under existing methods would
have been immeasurably better. While
the commission form of administration
Is undoubtedly an Improvement on
that which has so long prevailed in
American cities, it is nevertheless not
to be overlooked that rings can secure
control under a commission just r.s
well as under a mayor and council,
that corrupt men as commissioners
can graft even more widely than un
der the existing system, and that the
price of good government under a
commission must be eternal vigilance
on the part of the citizens at large.
Once they go to sleep, become lethar
gic or indifferent, the old evils will
once more creep in and the last state
is apt to be worse than the first. The
mass of citizens in any city are t o
blame for any evils that exist, on that
crop out in the future, regardless as
to what system of government pre
vails.
♦ THE DAISY. ♦
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(James Montgomery.)
There is a flower, a little flower
With a silver crest and a golden eye
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.
The prouder beauties of the field
In gay but quick succession shine;
Race after race their honors yield.
They flourish and decline.
But this small flower, to Nature dear,
While moons and stars their cours
es run,
Enwreathes the circle of the year,
Companion of the sun.
It smiles upon the lap of May,
To sultry August spreads its charm,
Lights pale October on bis way,
■And twines December’s arm.
The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale;
O’er lawns the lily sheds perfume, .
The violet in the vale.
But this bold floweret climbs the hill,
Hides in the forest, haunts the glen,
Plays on the margin of the rill,
Peeps round the fox’s den.
Within the garden’s cultured round
It shares the sweet carnation’s toed;
And blooms on consecrated ground
In honor of the dead.
The lambkin crops its crimson gem;
The wild bee murmurs on its breast;
The blue-fly bends its pensile stem
Light o’er the skylark's nest.
’Tis Flora’s page—in every place—
In every season, fresh and fair;
It opens with perennial grace,
And blossoms everywhere.
On waste 'and woodland, rock and
plain,
Its humble buds unheeded rise;
The rose has but a summer reign;
The daisy never dies.
The Tampa Tribune thinks Uncle
I3am will get back all the money he
puts in the Panama canal with inter
est. There is, at least, no suggestion
of graft attaching to the big ditch,
which is more than can be said of
many great enterprises in the past.
Joe Brown has not yet stated wheth
er he would run for governor in the
event, that Hoke is elected to the sen
ate. A statement that he would run
would be an admission that he ex
pected Smith to be elected Senator
and the governor is not making any
admissions of that sort.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
♦ STORIES ♦
♦ WORTH READING. ♦
What He tarried With Him.
A traveling man, who was a cigar
ette smoker, reached town on an ear;y
train. He wanted a smoke, but none
of the stores were open. Near t he
station he saw a newsboy smoking and
approached him with;
“Say, son, got another cigarette
“No, sir,” said the boy, "but I’ve got
makings.”
“All right,” the traveling man said.
“But I can’t roll ’em very well. Will
you fix one for me?”
The boy did.
‘(Don’t believe I've got a match,”
said the man after a search through
his pockets.
The boy handed him a match. “Say,
captain,” he said, “you haven’t got a
thing but the habit, have you?”
Miss Taft's Wit.
Washington is smiling discreetly ov
er a witticism of EVliss Helen Taft, who
inherits her wit from her mother.
Miss Taft, at a ball, was accosted by
a matron, who gushed:
“So you have just been dancing with
Baron Blank! Isn’t he brilliant?”
“Is he? I don’t know,” Miss Tuft
hesitated.
“Why, of course he is! He is the
most brilliant light in the legation.”
“Well,” said Miss Taft, with a smile,
“his light flickered when he was with
me, and I rather set him down as a tal
low diplomat.”
He Had an Appetite.
It was at a recent Friars’ dinner In
New York that Augustus Thomas told
the story of a newspaper man’s lauda
ble appetite. There had arisen a con
troversy over the ability of a man to
eat two quails a day for 30 consecu
tive days. A Park Row reporter was
asked if he would undertake the task.
“Say, Bill,” he replied, “make it tur
key.”
A Scotch Spinster’s Retort.
A good reply was once given by Miss
Mary Moncrieff, an elderly spinster
without any pretensions to good looks.
She was at a dinner party in Perth
and the late Thomas Duncan, procura
tor-fiscal, who was sitting opposite
her, addressed her:
“Now, JVliss Mary, I’ll give you a
toast —‘Honest men and bonnie las
sies!’ ”
I can drink that without any com
punctions,” the old lady replied, for it
applies to neither you nor me.”
He Spoke for Many.
A young Boston lawyer, who is go
ing to be married soon met another
young lawyer who was married ’way
last year on the street Thursday even
ing. They exchanged felictations and
inquiries, says the Boston Traveler.
“The only thing that bothers me,”
explained the about-to-be-happy man,
“is the subject of expense. Os course,
I’m not plugging into this thing with
ray eyes shut, but ”
“Now, look here,” interrupted life
experienced benedict. “I’ll tell you an
absolute fact. I don’t spend half the
money I did before ’I was married.”
“A r ou don’t?” exclaimed the other.
“How do you work it?”
“I don’t have it to spend.”
He Wanted to Be a Hero.
Terrible as it is to be slain in battle,
there is one thing the soldier fears
worse, declares a veteran to the
Youth’s Companion. That is to miss
the honor of taking part in a great
battle, and to die ingloriously at
home, when his country needs him.
An artilleryman from Washington ..
An artilleryman from Michigan
brought this out during the civil war.
The man had only just gone to the
front, and had seen no real fighting.
One day while on the march he fell,
and was run over by the gun carriage.
He was so badly crushed that, sorely
against his will, he had to be furlough
ed and sent home.
While he lay in bed under the doc
tor’s care the battle of Gettysburg was
fought. The man feared he would die,
and keenly regretted that since h«
must die, it could not ahve been on
that glorious field. He called upon the
doctor to hear his last request.
“Doctor, if I go, promise me this.
My stone shall bear these words:
Killed at Gettysburg' in the front of
battle.’ ”
“But you weren't,” objected the phy
sician.
“I know. But it wasn’t my fault. If
you can’t say that, then say, ‘Killed at
Gettysburg—during a temporary ab
sence at Brookfield, Mich.’ ”
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♦ SUITING THE ACTION. 4
4444444444444-44-4
(New York Telegram.)
How tiresome is the man
Who always is explaining, “Can
You beat It?"
1 hate that phrase. It makes me swear;
1 duck and dodge, but everywhere
I meet it.
“Beat it, beat it if you can!”
It's awful; but I have a plan
To meet it.
The moment some one asks me that,
For answer I put on my hat
And beat it.
Having made his triumphant entry
into Mexico City an exchange wonders
under what circumstance Madero will
quit it. The world does not expect
Madero to measure up to Diaz in
strength of character or controlling
power.
Society looks after its insane—why
not its dyspeptic
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♦ MORNING SMILES. 4
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Heard on the Links.
“That man holding out on the last
green,” said Jones, pointing out the
celebrities of the club, “is Professor
Drydust. He is a crank. He subsists
on a diet of nuts and sterilizes and
filters everything he drinks. Even
his relations with the club members
are strained.” —World of Golf.
Deliberate Torture.
Lawyer for the Plaintiff —“Gentle-
men of the jury, the defendant claims
that, when he ran over my client, his
car was going but three miles an hour.
Think of the agony endured by my
client while being run over as slowly
as that!”—Puck.
Now He knows.
“You don’t know what that’s a pic
ture of, Johnny?" said Mrs. Lapsling,
in a tone of reproof. “You ought to
read your ancient history more. That
is the temple of Dinah at Emphasis.”
—Chicago Tribune.
Eloquent Speakers.
Andrew Carnegie, at a dinner in
New York, was talking of the horrors
of war.
Once at the height of the civil war,”
he said, “two men at a rlllway station
saw a carload of wooden legs depart
for a military hospital.
“ ‘Those wooden legs,’ said the first
man, “are a rather eloquent protest
against war aren't they ”
“‘Yes,’ agreed the other, ‘they are
what you might call stump speeches.’ ”
—Los Angeles Times.
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Love of a Maid.
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead
Who never to himself has said,
“This is my own, my sweetheart
dear!”
Whose heart has not been stirred with
pride
To see this maiden by his side,
To have, to hold, forever there—•
Who will belong to him for keeps—
And search his pockets while he
sleeps? —Judge’s Library.
Pert.
W-hy do all the daily papers
Printed since the world began
Call the bridegroom at a wedding
Happy Man?
Anyone with any sense who
Some experience has had
Knows the really happy fellow
Is her dad.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Sweet Innocent.
He—“So your brother is on the col
lege baseball team. What position
does he play?”
She—“Why—er—4 think he bats.”—
■Boston Transcript.
Light Fare.
Mr. Honeymoon—Oh, Madge, you
look sweet enough to eat this morn
ing!
Waiter—And will that be all, sir?—
Life.
Mamye says she’d like to meet the
man who -could fool iher —I really
think she would.
Arc You Going To Wait?
Until prices go higher before you buy any land? Do you expect it to get cheaper? Did you ever
know farm lands to go down in price? Judge the future by the past. Farm lands are going to
increase in value in the future just as they have in the past; everything tends to carry them high
er. Increased population—increased price of farm products. Improved methods of farming and
larger crops per acre. Our lands here are going to increase in value faster than in some places
for we have advantage over most countries; mild climate, healthy, iev< 1 land, responds readily to
proper methods of farming, good road?, good schools and many things that could be mentioned.
Your Fathers could have grown rich by investing in farm lands, your opportunities are as good
now. Are you going to let it pass? You would be safe on the investment for the rents will pay
good interest qnd property wiH grow in value every year. GET BUSY and don’t wait any longer.
Now is the last time. Here are a FEW GOOD PLACES. We have many other good ones of all
sizes. Some well located farms for sale:
261 acres, three-quarters of city limits on Leslie road, good six-room dwelling, barn, deep well
pump, and tank, one gin house, six good tenant houses, 200 acres of it open and in cultivation,clear
of stumps, 61 acres in original woods, all good land, lies well and is one of the most conveniently
situated farms near town. A bargain for a quick sale. ,
40 acres three-quarters of a mile from city limits on Leslie road, all lying on one side or road,
all in cultivation, good land, lies well, one tenant house, one small barn. This property will double
in value soon; it is an ideal place for a suburban home with small farm connected.
165 acres, one-half mile of city limits on graded road, one good six-room dwelling, two tenant
houses, good barns, running water, one good well of water; most of it under wire fence in seven
or eight different enclosures; will divide this or sell as a whole. If you want a farm close to town
this is it. # , 9ftn
248 acres, five miles of Americus on graded road, two good barns, two tenant houses, zuu
acres in cultivation, clear of stumps, remainder in original and second growth pine, only about 2 o
or 30 acres rolling enough to need terracing, remainder lies about level, gray soil with a good clay
subsoil; by doing a little improving on the place it would bring twice what we are asking for it.
Price $20.00 per acre.
We have farms for sale all over Sumter and Lee counties, some in Terrell, Calhoun, Webster
and Schley counties. Don’t buy a farm until you see these. See us and let us show you.
If you want to sell any land—see us.
W. S. & G. W. Andrews.
Office 34-36 Planter, Bank Building. Telephone 656.
THE REAL ESTATE MEN.
The Rambler Spare Wheel
T)ART of the pleasure of touring in the new
J 1 Rambler lies in the satisfaction of freedom from
M the worries of the road. No need to stop to repair
K a punctured tire or pump up the new one if you
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is fitted for the Spare Wheel, which can be substituted for
front or rear wheels in three minutes’ time —done quickly 111
Spare Wheel for Rambler Fifty-five, $100; for Fifty-four,
SBS; for Fifty-three, $75, complete. K
May we explain to you such Rambler features as the offset
crank-shaft, straight-line drive, engine accessibility and the B
new expanding clutch? Rambler automobiles SI,BOO to
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Actual Results
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1910 Div. 6.59. NetJCost 28.91
1911 Div. 6.90 Net Cost 28.60
business written in
1911 Ibe Union Central pays a divi
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Get the best insurance at lower
cost from
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
A Bant accoiu l tor giving you •
feeling of prosperity, a feeling el
■elf respect, a killing that yon ars
making use of yuar opportunities la
life.
In every state la the Union mort
people are opening Savings Accounts
and increasing them weekly than
ever before.
Can you afford NOT TO share In
the general prosperity and IAVI
MONET when Dollars or mort will
start your account
The Planters Bank
of Americus.
DRAY LINE
’ 111 orders for draying and hauling
given prompt attention. Sellable ser
vice. Phone 28S.
Mrs. Maud Smith.
“Just Say”
HORLICK’S
li Means
Original and Genuine
MALTED MILK
The Food-drink for All Ages.
More healthful than Tea or Coffee.
Agrees with the weakest digestion.
Delicious, invigorating and nutritious,
Ric'n milk, malted grain, powder form.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute
Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’S.
MT Others are imitations.
When three or four women get to
gether the silence becomes so dense
that it simply can’t be heard.