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OFFICIAL ORGAN
City of Aniericus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia Fjr
Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americas, Gm, April •>, 1913
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♦ THE WOMAN HEART 4
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(Theodosia Garrison.)
She never said “I love you not,” but
when
She was all fearful that she loved
too much:
She never took, her hand from yours
but. then
When most she craved its touch.
She never laughed at you but when
she fain
Would be too tender. Never turned
away,
Save when each impulse urged her
once again
To listen and to stay.
A woman's heart is like a witch’s
prayer—
To be read backward and its craft
defied.
Ah, judge us not by those poor lies
we dare.
But by the truths we hide.
What is. needed here is a farmer
who will not rock, his financial boat.
Watch the old town wake up iu I
earnest when the ball season be
gins.
With some people an automobile
torms the shortest and quickest route
to bankruptcy.
With all the simplification of our
spelling the school boys get spifflicat
ed over it just as easily.
As is usual with Colonel Roosevelt’s
effusions there is no room in his aute-j
biography for anything else other than j
himself.
The new spring hats with the rud
der in the back will enable many a
fellow to spot his girl a block a wav
from the rear.
Some disciples of Isaac Walton art
so enamored of the rod and reel that
they are sitting up over night at
Wells’ mill pond.
The Englishman who has invented
a talking machine that can be hear t
a mile away is not ahead of some of
the lusty-funged women with serpents’
tongues.
With motion pictures in the Sunday
school the day may soon come when
youngsters' may view at Sunday
*• bool Pharcft fading Moses in Mie
bulrushes and Jonah being swallowed
by the whale. ,i
A riME OF VITAL INFLUENCES
There is a truth which the people
of Americus, especially the parents,
cannot have impressed upon them too
strongly nor too often. Youth is a
p riod of vital influences, and many of
the boys and youths of Americus are
blighting their possibilities of future
success by present idleness and
worthlessness.
The boy who spends his youthful
days in nothing but idle, curious, vic
ious lounging and shiftlenesses*,
■stands but little chance of winning m
the great game'of life a worthy name
and career. YOUTH IS A TIME OF
VITAL INFLUENCES. Every parert;
should remember that, and every par
ent should see that his boy is spend
ing his time at night in some other oc
cupation than Ailing and lounging oil
the streets in vicious company.
Every boy has within himself pent
up energies that may serve to wreck
or to save him. The hoy who spends
his evenings out on the streets is a3
surely being influenced by the life of
the streets as a youthful mind can be
impressed. It is the formative period
of life. Energies and ambitions may
be directed into unworthy channels,
on they may be directed into activities
that will fashion a character that is
righteous and noble and beautiful to
behold.
What is there for your boy to pick
up on the streets at night, if he is in
had company, but vicious habits? May
you not awaken to the realization
some day that your boy even in his
tender years has acquired the vicious
cigarette habit, a habit that is extrav
agant and paralyzing to every phys
ical and moral energy? Do you want
your boy to participate in the lewd and
»ulgar gossip of the streeth at night?
Do you want him to gain unholy
knowledge of vicious habits that may
lead him to the very gates of hell
while he is yet on earth?
There is an ordinance in the city of
Americus which forbids the presence
es children on the streets at night, un
less they are in the care of those who
have authority over them. Why is
not this ordinance enforced? The
need of it has been recognized, or it
would not be in the municipal cod?.
There is need of its enforcement to
day. The parents of Americus should
be glad that such an ordinance exists,
and each one of them, as well as the
members of the police force, should
see that it is enforced.
Hail to the straw lid, acme of sum
mer discomfort.
WHAT CONSERVATION MEANS
Every citizen and resident of the
United States should have a coneep
t.on of what conservation means. They
Ehould not look upon this vital policy
in modern government as -something
strange and unintelligible, it is but
the application of simple economic
I'iws to the national resources. A fa'r
and just management of the .natural
resources still remaining so that the
people of to-day and those of tomo’-
row may both have their dues, is
what conservation means.
There is a good and bad method of
applying the principle of conservation,
but what the country needs is a ra
tional method, as the Washington
l Dost’observes:
j There is hope for rational conserva-
I tion, which means the fullest develop
! meat and fair use of the natural re
sources of the country in such .manner
as to give the people of today their
chance and posterity its chance, sine l
the National Conservation Congress
ihns at last awakened to the fact that
within recent years conservation has
been translated into disuse and reser
vation. In a formal statement, which
is the result of the growing opposition
to false conservation, Charles l-athrop
I’ack, the president of the conserva
tion congress, said:
Conservation is in danger of get ing
in bad if the erroneous impression
should gain ground that the conserva
tion congress stands for that whiih
tr.-nns the closing of any avenu l for
the l cjifst development of the natural
resoun es of the country. False con
Jer nation and disuse is in danger of
-doing greater barm to the present or
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
GOOD PHYSICIAN TO CONSULT.
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—F>tz m Chicago News.
cupants of this fair landjOf ours than
it will de good to those who will oc
cupy it after we are gone.
False conservation has already
done great harm. It has completely
halted the development of Alaska, re
duced the supply of cattle by restrict
ing the grazing lands, raised the
price of lumber, permitted valuable
water power to go to waste, and driven
millions of dollars of capital out of
the United States.
This false conservation has shackled
individual enterprise. It has played
into the hands of the men of vast for
tunes because it has prevented poorer
men from competing with them on the
rigorous terms of the conservationists.
Only recently the country had an ex
ample of the way this kind of conser
vation works when the people of Ala
bama begged the government to build
a dam to provide water power on the
Coosa River, and at the same time
make that river navigable. They were
told that the government- did not feel
that the expense was warranted, and
they finally interested private capital.
Then the conservationists ruled that
the people of Alabama could not do
for themselves what the government
refused to do for them. This is the
kind of conservation which has twist
ed the word from its benevolent mean
ing to a symbol of despotism.
The National Conservation Congress
has taken higher ground none too
soon. The whole conservation move
ment has been in danger of collapse.
Some of the more fanatical conserva
tionists will probably keep on raising
a din and ignoring the facts and th >
i law, dangling their scarecrows before
| the public gaze, but the National Con
j serration Congress seems to be headed
I in the right direction at last.
HUNTING “SNATPEir TURTLE
Big Loggerheads Hibernate Until
Spring
(Celarville, N. J., Dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Record.)
One of the oldest, most successful
of hunters of the toothsome and pop-'
ular “snapper” or "loggerlr ad,” the
big and vicious turtle that graces the
soup kettle so fittingly is Henry
Duffield, of this place. Duffield, who
is a civil war veteran, seems to have
been born with an instinct for discov
ering the aggressive denizen of the
mud. Already this season he has land
ed two big prizes, one weighing ;5
and the other more than 18 pounds.
Duffield's method of capture is like
that employed by most of the hunters,
but he has more success than most of
them. At this season of the year the
"snappers" are imbedded deep In the
mud of the marshes and along creeks
where they have hibernated all win
ter. In the early spring they leave
their winter quarters, coming out fat
most of them. The femals seeks a
sand bank, where she digs a hole and
deposits her eggs, sometimes as many
as 2 dozen. They are white, nearly
round, and as large as a small English
walnut. After carefully covering them
she leaves them, and the heat of the
sun hatches them out late in the
summer. Duffield's method in locat
ing the “snapper” is to sound the
muddy places with a prod about 5
feet in length, and he can tell in an
instant when he strikes. The real
work comes when he raises the alert
and pugnacious prize out of the mud.
At present he has about 50 turtles in
his cellar, ranging in size from 5
pounds up. At night a stranger would
think the house haunted, as they get
to fighting and falling over each other
“D YER HEAR! A
SQUIRREL BIT ME/
Church, Thrice Attacked, Took It For
A Mountain Lion and Called
The Police.
Chicago, 111., April 4. —The perils
of life in the wild suburbs of Clii
-1 cago are indicated by the adventure
that sent M. H. Church, of No. 315
South Francisco avenue, Austin, rush
ing up to a policeman in Parke ave
( nue today, yelling as he came;
| “Call out the reserves; look what'e
; happened to me!”
The policeman saw that Church was
bleeding from cuts in both ears and
he held up a hand that also bore a
crimson stain.
“While walking peacefully on the
Boulevard I’ve just been attacked by
a ferocious, savage, fierce, murderous
blood-thirsty—”
“For heaven's sake, what?” de
manded the ccp.
“Huh? Squirrel!” hotly retort* -.1
Church. "D’ye hear! Squirrel!”
”Say”—began the cop, gently.
“Now, see here,” said Church, hot
ter than ever, "don’t you go acting
like that blamed squirrel; don’t you
go taking me for a nut. I’m nut —not,
I mean. I was walking under the
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trees and the blamed thing jumped
right off a limb, landed on my head,
bit me on the right ear and jumped
back into the tree. I gave a yell and
clapped my hand to my right ear and
the blamed thing pounced on me off
the tree and bit me on the left ear.
Then, when 1 had a chance to see
that it wasn’t a mountain lion that
was attacking me and tried to nah
’the creature as it scurried up the
ttee trunk, it flew back and bit ms
on the hand.”
A squad of detectives with revol
vers and nets hunted vainly for the
mad squirrel of Park avenue.
WHIP IN HAND NEGRO
HACKMAN PASSED AWAY
Henry Brown, a colbred hackman.
was found dead by the roadside, neal
- home early yesterday morning,
and the fact was at once communncat
ed to the authorities and an inquei?
held at 10 o’clock by Coroner Jenkins.
There was no evidence of assault upon
the body of the old negro, and the ver
dict rendered was to the effect that
death had resulted from natural
causes. Brown held his whip in his
right hand, and was evidently getting
ready to go upon -duty for the day
when stricken by death.
POLICEMEN KEEP
PK<U E IN CHI Ki ll
Twelve of Them Separate Hostile Fac
tions—Dictagraph Tabs On
The Pastor.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 4.—Twelve po-1
licemen were stationed inside the :
Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian i
church to prevent any possible out- j
break among the warting rival factions |
of the board of trustees at this meet- j
ing this evening.
Massed on one side was the faction 1
which has been opposing the Rev. J. B.
Wilson, the pastor, and his friends on
the other side. For a time it appeared I
as if there would be a clinch, and as
soon as the hostile members began
jostling each other policemen appear
ed on the scene.
It was discovered this evening that,
dictagraphs were secreted in the
church by the pastor’s enemies so as
to keep posted on his movements.
Two elections were held, one by each
faction, and the courts will be called
upon to decide which side will con
trol. The congregation is one of the
wealthiest in the city.
ASTOR BITS MORE FARMS
FOR EXPERIMENTAL WORK
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Will Endeavor To Prove Theories Os
His Own For The Benefit of
The Farmers.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y' -April 4.—A
deal will be closed today whereoy
Vincent Astor will add hundreds of
acres to his Ferncliffe lands, which
are being turned into an experimental
farm. It is said Mr. Astor is so well
pleased with the result of his first
efforts in scientific farming that he
wishes to extend his work for the
ho efit of Duchess county farmers.
Mr. Astor asked his personal friend.
Gov. Sulzer, about buying more land,
and the governor is said to have an
swered :
“By all means invest your money
in land. It is the safest investment
irom every point of view, and will
further your plans.”
At Ferncliffs Mr. Astor is endeav
oring to prove certain theories of his
own. He will try experiments in
farming in all lines of agriculture,
growing alfalfa, clover, hay, oats, rye
corn and other -grains and also in
raising live stock.
GEORGIA GLEE CLUB WAS
HERE ON BRIEF STAY
En Route From Columbus to Albany
Organization Was Here.
The University Gl?e club of thirty
members made a stay of several hours
in Aniericus yesterday, whe-e the
members met former collage men and
other friends, who etxended them «,
welcome. The club, traveling in a
special car, was en route from Colum
bus to Albany. Ths club has been en
tour for a week, and has delighted
large and appreciative audiences in
several Georgia cities. It is a matter
of regret that Americus missed the op
portunity of hearing the college men.
“A little more grape,’’ ordered the
Geeral.
“Sorry, General,” responded the or
derly, ‘but the wine is all gone.”—
Pittsburg Post.
He who has not the cheering feel
ing of progression is half-suffocated
and lost
DAMAGED MIRRORS
V*V -A .<
Resilvered by Williams, of Chatta
nooga, Term., the expert mirror plater;
16 years experience; now located in
Aniericus; six days, April 3 to 9;
bring your old, spotted mirrors, and
I will make them- like new. Come to
see me at Allison Furniture Co., oppo
site Windsor Hotel. Phone 203. Good
work or no pay.
I BEWARE OF THE FLY
They Carry Filth and Disease
Wherever They &o.
It requires no stress of imagination to appreciate the dangerous
activity- of the fly. Time and igain has it been demonstrated that the
fly is the distributor of countless disease germs, and particularly the
germs of typhoid. The fly’s work speaks for itself and the list of
victims of its contaminating activities is unnumbered. “Fly time is
more to be feared than war time,” says one high medical authority
< —yet fly 7 time is not to be feared at all if your premises are prop
erly screened. Use the Cannon Automatic Screen for the best, results.
Screen All Your Doors and Windows Now
Don’t Wait Till the Flies Get It
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Cannon Screen Co.,
R. P. STACKHOUSE, President. FRANK SHEFFIELD, Vice Pres’t.
W. S. IVEY,, See’y. and Treas. and General Manager
Phone 784 Americus, Ga.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1913