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.THE TIMES RECORDER.
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THE AMERICAS RECORDER
Established 1879.
THE AMERICUS TIMES
Established April, 1891.
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O Q. MELTON Editor
J. W. FURLOW City Editor
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W. L. DUPREE.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
D. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Ga„ September 9, 1913
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♦ LITTLE THINGS ♦
A little word of kindness, isn't much,
but now and then
Twill make some man who’s down
and out oftimes brace up again.
A little Smile from one you love when
you are blind with tears,
A little clasping of the hand, will j
banish all the fears.
A lttle song to brighten up the aours
at clos • of day
When our toil is over—how it lightens
up the way.
A little home, a little wife, a little ba - 'p
—and —oh
A little love and life is worth its lit.'a
span 1 know.
—P H. A., in Jacksonville Times-
Union.
Truth is stronger than fiction. Ex
change. It is also scarcer.
Yesterday is gone, today is partially
past, but we have the future to count
on.
“Many a fellow rises in his own es
timation without really elevating him
self.” —Exchange.
A man who runs away from hs op- I
prrtunlties demonstrates that “The
race is not always to the swift.”
Many a man makes a failure in life ;
because he is a slave to the old saying J
“A bad beginning makes a good end
ing”
The world is full of knockers and
the average man is looking for some
other fellow to be the anvil. —Philadel-
phia Record.
Sentiments expresses at an Inde
pendent rally in New York the other
night point either to a great Gaynor
or a hard loser. —Washington Post.
The secrecy observed in connection
with the investigation of the New
Haven wreck probably arise from the
fact that "Dead men tell no tales.”
Lots of folks get credit for being
good and they never get a chance to
be otherwise. The man who deserves
Ite credit is the fellow who iB able to
say No to temptation.
“What’s the difference between spec
ulation and investment?” “When you
lose, it is speculation: when you win,
it is investment.” —Judge.
“I should think it was a pity Noah
and his sons didn't know anything
about poker It w-ould have been such
a diversion in the ark.” “They couldn't
have played it with any success, be
cause they never had more than two
of a kind.”—Baltimore American.
CONGRATULATE BILLY SMITH
The Times-Recorder is not like a
certain. paper published in a tow l
about the size of Americus. That pa
per. stated about a pipnth ago “They
hoped Atlanta would finish last in the
pennant race.” Well we didn't. When
the news came over the wires Sunday
that Billy Smith had piloted his team
l to another rag the whole town grinns.l
| and even though it was Sunday a
few yells of approval went up.
The Atlanta bunch is to be con
gratulated on the game fight they put
up. If ever a team had an alibi thati
they could have produced it was the I
Crackers. But did they? No. In spi’ej
of injuries, etc., they put their should
ers to the wheel and won the old bun;
ing.
Anything Atlanta does that at
tracts the attention of the world s
good for Georgia. Americus isn’t
jealous of the Gate City of the Sout.i
like the town we mentioned in the
opening paragraph. It is time for All
Georgia to pull together. Petty quar
rels should be forgotten and everyone
pull for the state. ”A house divid< .I
against itself,” etc. Is too well known
for comment.
WE PAY FOR WHAT WE GET
The Birmingham Ledger hits the
nail when it says: “When a man
talks about free water, free electric
ity, free street cars or free anything,
he is making fun of his audience tr
considering them too foolish to thinis
I
at all.
“No city, no county, no state, has
any money except what is paid to it
in taxes. All the utilities given the
public would have to be paid for out
of the public money.”
Nothing truer was ever spoken.
Every candidate who launches a
campaign feels that it is his duty to j
stand for lower taxes. And we all do, J
but at the same time, experience of!
!
I the past will teach us that we wi.lj
never have lower taxation.
Take Dothan as an illustration.
We have people who think the city
taxes are too high, the county an i
state taxes are too high, and they
may be, hut they will never be lower.
Not hardly. This isn’t a people to
stand for poorer service, and it is but
natural to have to pay for what we
Ret.
What good does it do the town, as
a whole, if street taxes were remitted,
and an equal amount placed upon
property tax?
What good would it do to do away
with the ad valorem tax and then as
sess an equal amount as a business
tax?
And as to the school, some would
say the city hasn’t any business put
! tmg up so much money for the school.
What would he the difference, if the
city didn’t help the school, and the
patrons had to pay the school fees
,direct?
j It is all a form of taxation and it
must be met. If the city as a munici
pality didn’t help, then individuals
would be assessed to make up for the
defi V.
Figure it as you may, the money
comes out of the people, and will con
tinue to come from them. Those who
have most will have to pay most, as
they have always done, which is right.
Taxation, like the poor, will be
with us always, doesn't matter whnt
deceptive laws might be passed that
would seem to better equalize it.
And whenever a candidate or any
I other person gets up and begins to
! tell you about how this tax could be
j lowered, you might ask him wha*
j tax will be raised to make up for it.
—Dothan Eagle.
In the opinion of the joy-rider it is
taking the general public a long time
to learn to keep out of the way.—Chi
cago Tribune.
The Record Breaker
“There's the justice of the peace.
Old Lem Hardy, who has a record
i around these parts, stranger.”
: “A record at what, may I ask.”
i "At tying matrimonial knots.”
t “About what iu his speed?”
“Waal, I should say about twenty
> knots an hour.” —Jacksonville Times-
Union.' ‘
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
FASHIONS CHANGE-FEWER STRIPES WORN |
Fashions are going to change in the
state convict camps. Stripes are not
going to he worn as much as here-to
fore. The Georgia Prison commission
appears in the role of Dame Fashion
in making this decree. And their
steps is one in the right direction.
The purpose of our penal system hs
not only to protect the law abiding
citizens but to reform the criminals
rather than punish them. From now
on a prisoner that conducts himself or
herself, for even the women were com
jpelled to wear the disgusting stripes,
• in a satisfactory manner will be allow
jed to don a suit of clothes different
from the old uniform.
In the federal penitentiary the
WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, AND
THE SOUTH.
The publication o£ the latest report
cf the government as to the condition
of the cotton crop of the United States
is serving as the basis of a bull cam
paign in that staple.
Private advices, to a marked degree,
confirm the crop losses in northern
Texas and Oklahoma, but from the
Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida those advices are much better
than those of the government report.
The losses in the Southwest are suf
ficient to produce higher prices for
cotton the world over, and the realiza
tion that it will require a total croo
jut nearly 15,000,000 bales to fully care
for the actual consumption goes far
toward securing early demand and
good prices for every bale of cotton
that the South will produce in 1913.
It will be found that the monetary
results will approximate in the total
fully as much as the South realized
irom the record-breaking crop of 1911,
j but the returns of cash to planters of
j the State of the South Atlantic coa t
| will be much greater in 1913 than in
the year 1911.
Cotton, tobacco, and corn in the
States or that region are all in prime
condition, and th.e prices are such as
to yield large and munificent profits
to the agriculturists of the state to
the immediate south of Washington.
Net in any year since our national
history was commenced have the pros
pects of financial profit to the farmers
and planters of those states seemed
so great or so certain as they do at
this writing, and if no unexpected cli
matic disaster occurs between no v
and October 15, there will be a mar
velous accretion of wealth in the
states referred to during the coming
eight months.
Foreign cash, by the hundreds of
millions of dollars, will be added to
the movement cf money from all sec
tions of our country to pay for the ag
ricultural products of Virginia, the
two Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Tennessee, and that means
an immense trade not only to the lo
cal merchants of those stat s, but to
cities such as New York. Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and Washington, all direct
ly on the short lines of communica
tion with the states named.
These millions of dollas poured in
to the South stand for a great activity
jin building in every one of the states;
;
, these millions of cash, mean more fac
' j tories, more shops, more school
k '
houses, more churches, larger areas
.in cultivation next year, more new
’ j
settlers, and general development
along every material line of enterprise
and business.
This prosperity means greater da
i
mand and higher prices for the profit
producing acres of the Southern
lands, increase in immigration to the
South-eastern States, additional rail
vav construction and increased rev
enues to the railways already in op
eration in that section of the republic.
No two cities in the country will
■ gather a larger share of the commer
cial results of this Southern business
j activity than will Washington and
1 Baltimore, and it will, without daub - .
| show very speedily in the Increased
business of the merchants in each
place.—Washington Post.
r We have much to be thankful for,
- but then there are so many other
ithings to think about. —Puck.
stripes were abolished some time ago.
It has been found that an inmate of
the national hoarding house will be
have himself in order to get rid of the
disgrace of being a “zebra.”
Prisoners hate the stripes as much
as anything else connected with a
sentence. They feel that everyone
knows “He use to wear stripes” eve.i
after he has gotten out and is attempt
ing to live a straight life.
There is no justice in making a
boy guilty of his first offense wear .t
uniform that stamps him as the com
panion of a hardened criminal who
may be serving a life term for murder.
We congratulate the prison, commis
sion on it's action.
SUCCESS ATTAINED
An Americus “grouch” has ended hie
work
And is carried to Oakgrove with a
gentle jerk;
He worked all day and he worked all
night;
He shattered his nerves and he ruined
his sight;
He scolded the children and railed at
his wife,
He lost his friends and he bartered his
life;
For a “pile ; ’ in the hank and a block
of bricks
And he now makes his home in a hole
two by six.
DRUGGISTS ENDORSE
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It Is a Guaranteed Harmless Vegeta
ble Remedy That Regulates The
Liver Without Stopping Your
Work or Play.
A dose of calomel may knock you
completely out for a day—sometimes
two or three days. Dodson’s Liver-
Tone relieves attacks of constipation,
biliousness and lazy liver headaches,
and you stay on your feet.
Howell-Prather Pharmacy sells
Dodson’s Liver-Tone and guarantees
it to give perfect satisfaction. If you
buy a bottle of Dodson’s Liver-Tone
and do not find it the safest, most
pleasant and successful liver remedy
you ever took this store will give you
back the 50 cents you paid for it with
out a question.
This guarantee that a trustworthy
druggist is glad to give on Dodson's
Liver-Tone is as safe and reliable as
the medicine, and that is saying a lot.
When a girl is known to have a
fighting man for a father she doesn’t
need much of a chaperon.—Galveston
News.
WRONG -HEADEDNESS
(By Wightman F. Melton.)
Hard-headedness may sometimes be
a virtue, wrong headedness never is
The hard-headed man may be selfish
and at the same time right. The wrong
headed man is always selfish and al
ways wrong.
Wrong-headedness expresses itself
in misunderstandings, contradictions,
quarrels, prejudices, feuds, frivolous
litigations, remembering evil, etc.
Wrong-headedness begins to mani
fest itself early. A child declines *to
play unless it can be “mamma.”
Unless wrong-headedness is over
come—and it can he —it will continue
to crop out all through life. Brutus
wanted Cicero to join the conspirators.
His gray hair. Brutus thought, would
give dignity to their business. Cassius,
• '/e. better judge of men than Brutus was
j objected to Cicero on the ground thai
■ he was wrong-headed; he would never
jjoin in an enterprise that was origin
ated by some one else. He wanted to
• be It.
The wrong-headed man willfully
1 misunderstands. If a thing may be
' interpreted as being either pleasant or
■ unpleasant, he is sure to take the
' wrong view.
Wrong-headedness, conceit, and ig
norance often go together. The wron*,-
1 headed man thinks he is right. The
• conceited man thinks everybody else is
> wrong. The ignorant man is cock-
I sure, although he may not be able to
• give a reason. The man afflicted witn
1 this complaint would contradict Solo
-1 mon on wives, Edison on eleetricitv.
and Burbank on potatoes.
The wrong-headed man’s chip is big
. ger than his shoulder. He has no bea
• titude. His malediction reads: "Be
hold, such a one hath lifted up his heel
HELP FOR
WORKING OIRLS
Two Girls Tell Story of Their
Illness and How They
Found Relief.
New Orleans, La.—“l take pleasure
.... in writing these lines
a to express my grati- '
tude to you. lam 1
only 16 years old and
work in a tobacco
factory. I have
been a very sick girl !
but I have improved
wonderfully since
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegeta-
IfJj g i. ble Compound and
am now looking fine
and feeling a thousand times better.”
—Miss Amelia Jaquillard, 613 Sev
enth Street, New Orleans, La.
St. Clair, Pa. “My mother was
alarmed because my periods were sup
pressed and I had pains in my back and
side, and severe headaches. I had pim- j
pies on my face, my complexion was sal
low, my sleep was disturbed, I had ner
vous spells, was very tired and had no
ambition. Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compound has worked a charm in
my case and has regulated me. I worked
in a mill among hundreds of girls and
have recommended your medicine to
many of them.” Miss Estella Ma- ;
guire, 110 Thwing St., Saint Clair, Pa.
There is nothing that teaches more !
than experience. Therefore, such let
ters from girls who have suffered and
were restored to health by Lydia E. !
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound should ;
be a lesson to others. The same remedy j
is within reach of all.
If you want special advice write to j
Lydia E. Finkhain Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will j
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
NOT SPRINGS WILL
REBUILD AT ONCt
Commission Form of Govern
ment Wonted
Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 8. —Gener-
ous money subserptions and supplies
are reaching Hot Springs for the re
lief of persons who were rendered
homeless by Friday night’s fire. The
task of caring for the homeless was
well in hand today. Rebuilding in the
fire swept area is to be begun imme
diately.
%
Governor Hays is expected to re
turn here to hear requests of citizens
for a special session of the legislature
to authorize the commission form of j
government for Hot Springs.
against me!”
The wrong-headed man arrives at a t
opinion and there raises his Ebenezer.
He will not be moved, although addi
tional light on the subject may con
vince ail intelligent men that he js |
i j
wrong. Prejudice has destroyed hi3j
intellectual sight
The world recognizes and approv js
of the proper defense of family, honor,
and self. Feuds and frivolous litiga
tion are the results of wrong-headed
ness. “I will kill him because his
name is Smith!” “This man’s chicken j
ate one of my mulberries, I will sue
him for $10,000!”
The wrong-headed man will not
fully forgive because he is unwilling to
forget. Twenty years ago his neigh
bor’s pig got into his cornfield. H s
neighbor is a doctor. He did not speaa
to the doctor for twenty years. On s
stormy night the doctor’s services was
needed. He came unhesitatingly and
saved the life of his neighbor’s wife
Next day the neighbor was as wrong
headed as ever.
A great general with a depleted and
starved arm£, decides that it would lie
, *
a senseless sacrifice of blood to con
tinue hostilities. He offers his sworl
to his gentlemanly antagonist. The
wrong-headed man says: “I never
would ’a’ given in. 1 would ’a’ be*.i
' fightin’ till yit!”
The world needs men, right-headed
men—men who can see and understand
the true; men who will not contradict
authority; men whose minds and
hearts are above petty quarrels, feuds,
prejudices, and litigations; men who
will work in harmony with other men.
men who, having done their best, will
submit uncomplainingly to the inevi
j table —Nashville Christian Advocate
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L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t Ine. 18il. C. M. lOUNCIL, Tice Prei
H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier.
Planters Bank ot Americus
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To All Farmers:
We will be delighted to handle your cotton
for you tnis year. We know we can give
you good service, and we have the only
compartment close storage Warehouse in
the city. Besides this, we have, at a cost of
SI,OOO, installed an
Automatic Water Sprinkling System
in these storage rooms. This gives us the
best protection known from fire, and the
cheapest insurance in feorgia.
BRING US YOUR COTTON
HARROLD BROS.
I Americus Undertaking to., I
f FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. j
| MR. N4T LcMASTER, - - Manager.!
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j! TIMMERMAN & WISE
Cotton Warehousemen
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trons and punlic generally, that we will be loca- j;
! ted in our new brick warehouse about Septem
ber Ist, where we will be pleased to greet you.
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Experience
We have been actively in the cotton busi- \\
ness for eighteen years, and have acquired j!
knowledge that money cannot buy. We solicit
your business, promising to give our personal
; attention to all business intrusted to us.
Mi. E. Timmerman, Sr., will give his per
sonal attention to the sales department, while
Mr. L. D. Wise will give his personal attention
to the weighing. We want your business, and :
will guarantee to give you the best results.
TIMMERMAN & WISE ~ Plains, Ga.
Here’s Your Chance!
Opportunities like this present them
selves only once in a life time.
I offer for sale the Eldridge farm of appioximately ls2t)o
acres, 2 1-2 miles from Americus, together with all farnr
ing implements, corn, fodder, hay, cotton seed enoug
to plant, cows, hogs, 22 mules, wagons and etc., at a
attractive price and on EASY TERMS. tpf
Here is your chance to get the best farm in Sum 1
county. It is ideal for farming as a whole or as a su
division proposition. Be quick or you will miss t
great bargain.
LEE ALLEN, Dealer Id Real Estate
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, ] 9li