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THE AMKRICUS RECORDER
Established 1870.
THE AMERICUS TIMES
Established April, 1891.
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). W. TURLOW City Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
C. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus Gsu, September 17, 1913
-f THE FLOATER’S NAME ♦
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(Robert Browning.)
Here’s the garden she walked across,
Arm in arm, such a short while 1
since;
Hark! now I push its wicket, the
moss
Hinders the hinges, and makes them
wince.
She must have reached this shrub ere ■
she turned, I
As back with that murmur the ,
wicket swung;
For she laid the poor snail by chance
spurned.
To feed and forget it the leaves
among.
Down this side of the gravel walk
She went while her robe’s edge
brushed the box;
And here she paused in her gracious
talk
To point me a moth on the milk
white phlox.
Roses, ranged in valiant row,
1 will never think that she passed
you by!
She loves you, noble roses, I know;
But >onder see where the rock
plantc lie!
This flower she stopped at, finger on
lip,
Stooped over, in doubt, as settling
its claim;
Till she gave me, with pride to make
no slip.
Its soft meandering Spanish name.
What a ntyne! Was it love or praise!
Speech half asleep, or song half
awake
I must learn Spanish one of these
days,
Only for the slow sweet name’s sake
Roses, if I live and do well,
1 may bring her one of these days,
To fix you fast with as fine a spell,
Fit you each with his Spanisn
phrase.
But do not detain me now, fQr she
lingers
There like sunshine over the ground;
And ever I see her soft white fingers
Searching after the bud she found.
Flower, you Spaniard! look that you
grow not,
Stay as you are, and be loved for
ever!
Bud, if I kiss you, 'tis that you blow
• not,
Mind! the pink shut mouth opens
never!
For while thus it pouts, her fingers
wrestle,
Twinkling the audacious leaves be
tween,
Till round they turn and down they
nestle,
Is not the dear mark still to D 3
seen?
Vhe-e I find her not beauties vanish,
T , ~vtber ■ follow her beauties flee.
Is there no method to tell her in Span
ish
June's twice June since she breath
ed it with me?
C:me bud, show me the least of her
graces;
"measure mv lady’s lightest footfall
. Ah, you may flout and turn up your
faces,
.Roses, you are not so fair after all.
TIME TO RAISE CATTLE
The following bulletin issued by the
Department of Commerce shows the
absolute necessity of the South wak
ing up to it’s opportunities in the live
stock field. Georgia farmers can raise
cattle and make money doing it.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 15, 1913.
Fresh beef from the South Temper
ate Zone is now an established factor
in the import trade cf the United
States. Between 2 million and 3 mil
lion pounds of fresh beef, practically
all of it from Australia and Argen
tina, has entered parts of the United
States in the past three months, indi
cating that the imports of the current
fiscal year will amount to more than 8
million pounds.
Prior to 1912 the importation of
Iresh beef averaged about one- third of
a million pounds a year. In 1912, how- i
ever, there was a sharp increase, the i
total for that year being a little over
1 million pounds, while in 1913 the :
total was over 4 million pounds.
This increase, coupled with the au- i
nouncement that refrigerator shi?3
had been put on to bring Australian
and Argentine meats to the United 1
States, led the Bureau of Foreign and !
Domestic Commerce of the Department
of Commerce to instruct the collectors ;
of customs at the various ports to re- i
port from month to month the quan
tity of fresh beef received and the
countries from which it was brought. ,
These detailed figures are now in <
hand for the months of June, July and
August and are interesting. They
show that the imports of fresh beef P
June amounted to 567,205 pounds, of
which 396,913 pounds entered at the
port of San Francisco, 26,947 poun l 3
at Seattle, and 143,013 pounds at New
York. The entrance at San Francisco
were from Australia, those at Seattle
from Canada, and those at New York
from England, but understood to be
Argentina beef, which had been sent
from Argentina to England and thence
to the United States. In July the
total was larger than in June, being
642,333 pounds, of which 201,317
pounds coming from Australia entered
at San Francisco and 30,784 pounds
from Australia entered at Seattle,
while 410,232 pounds direct from Eng
land, but probably originating in Ar
gentina, entered at New York. In
August the total still grew, being for
that month 824,342 pounds, of which
404.138 pounds were from Australia
and entered by the Pacific ports and
397,355 pounds entering at New York
were from England, but probably orig
inated in Argentina.
The import prices of this foreign
beef range from approximately 7 cents
to 10 cents per pound, the average
valuation of the meats received during
the three months *or which these de
tails are available having been, from
Australia, 6.9 cents per pound; from
England, 9.6 cents per pound. It must
be remembered, however, that these
are the figures of value in the country
which the beef is sent to the United
States and do not, therefore, include
the cost of transportation or the tariff
! of 1 1-2 cents per pound.
Industry is the progenitor of suc
cess. !
Did you like* our booster edition"
We hope so.
The man doesn’t live who pleases
everybody.
Did we have a big time in Macon?
Just ask anyone that went along.
Now don’t stop boosting. Keep it
up. After you get a thing started it iu
easier to keep it going than to have
to start it again.
He sat in the hammock and sipped her
lips
And said they were mighty sweet,
And through her openwork forty
mosquitoes
Thought the same thing of her feet.
—Florida Times-l'nion.
‘‘Cholly and Alby participated in a
■ 1 disgraceful affair in a case.” “Any-
Ibody hurt?" “No." “Then what was
disgraceful about it?" “Why, a coupie
of waitresses held 'em apart."—Was
ington Herald.
“A LITTLE FARM WELL TILLED’;
IS THE SECRET
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper pub-,
lished at Springfield, Ohio, W. F. Wil-j
cox writes an article entitled, "An :
Acre’s Possibilities." Mr. Wilcox is a
former New York newspaper man who
went to Colorado for his health. H.*
is now a successful farmer. Tl)e fol
lowing is an extract from his article: :
“'A little farm well tilled’; ay.-.'
that’s the secret. We must wake up
and not trail so woefully in the wake
of the European farmers. Is it any
wonder that the best farms in every
locality of our country are coming in
to the ownership of the foreign-born?
“Arriving from a country where
land is prohibitive in price, with
their strong bodies, frugal habits anl
intelligence for intensive farming,
they are rapidly assuming control of
American soil where our native sons
failed to make good, either througi
indolence, ignorance or desire to live
in the city.
“There is the solution to the whole
problem of low crop averages as main
tained by the native-born American
farmer, in the arrival of the foreigner.
Look about you wherever you live,
and you will find farms in the pos
session of Russians, Germans, Swedes,
Japs, Poles and every other race under
the sun. Bringing knowledge from
countries where land is made to pro
duce its highest bounty, they are mak
ing good here and bringing to shame
the work, or is it, rather, indolence, of
the native-born? Perhaps, if enough
of them get scattered around among
the natives, we shall be able to learn
from them,to do a little better, which
with the bountiful harvests secured by
them, will cause our average yields
and average farm value of crops per
acre to take a decided step forward
within the near future.’’
ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED FARMS
IN DENMARK
The following is taken from the cur
rent issue of Farm and Fireside:
“Denmark has among its many co- 1
operative institutions twenty-one rural j
electrical substations which supply
light and power to farms, and rural
communities. The stock in the com
pany is apportioned, according to tli3
amount oif electrical fixtures on each
farm or in each village home. One j
share of stock is alloted for every el
ectric light, and ten shares for every j
horse-power in motors. The regular
central-station rate is charged for the
electricity, and the co-operative plants
earn over nine per cent, on the capital
invested."
Better Conditions in The South.
(Washington Post.)
It is gratifying to note that the bet
er class of Southern papers are becom
ing very much disgusted with that pro
pensi y for murder which has long
marked that section cf the country.
Georgia, especially, has been reveling
in crime, and Fulton county there is
said to have broken its homicide record
during the past month. Fourteen per
sons, charged with murder, now await
(trial. This condition of affairs is due
to the ever-handy pistol. The only
remedy, says the Savannah Moning
News, “is the creation of a public sen
timent that will cause everybody to
leave his pistol at home, or better
| never buy it. Fulton county's record.
J when the difference in population is
considered, it not much worse than the
records of .a number of other counties,
j There isn’t a county in the state that
hasn’t room for improvement in its rec
ord of crimes. A healthy public senti
ment against pistol-toting is the one
(thing sure to wipe out the deplorable
practice."
Notice to Tresspassers.
All persons other than members,
are hereby warned under penalty o r '
the law, not to tresspass upon the
ground or premises cf the Sumter
County Country club, and are prohib
Bed under penalty of law from driv
ing within the enclosure or using the
driveway, and all persons violating
1 same will be prosecuted.
' This the 13th day of Sept., 1913.
SUMTER COUNTY COUNTRY CLUB,
i.. Per Crawford Wheatley, President.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECCRDER.
While there is danger of the boil
weevil, the farmer should give more
attention to other crops besides cot
ton. It is believed that alfalfa is
about one of the best crops that can
be produced and this information
comes from those who have tried it.
The farmers of Alabama should give
this subject their serious considera
tion. If the alfalfa crop is as valuable
as is stated by those who should know
more farmers should take up its culti
vation.
Alfalfa increases farm values be
cause it enriches the soil instead of
depleting it as grain crops do. Corn,
wheat or any other grain crop grown
on alfalfa sod yields much more ab
undantly than the same crops grown 1
'
the same field before alfalfa was
grown there.
Alfalfa is the premier crop—because
it excels every ether crop in yield per
acre—in feeding value —as a drouth
resister —and as a soil enricher.
i “To say that the lands of the Blacu
I Belt are adapted to alfalfa is to allude
| to what has been dMhonstrated," savs
the Geiger Times. “There are in this
!♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ WHAT A PREACHER ♦
♦ THINKS OF AMERICUS. ♦
♦ ♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦
Seated upon her seven hills, Rome
looked upon a bowed world as the pro
! lihet named her the Eternal City.
i
Athens erected her universities, sought
out the hidden things of philosophy,
sent trembling down the ages her
poems, and thus entrenched, laughe 1
at the ravages of time.
| So every prophet thinks his city eter
, nal. So Americus lays claim to the
i ichest fields of agriculture, widespread
I and golden with abundant harvests.
I She rejoices in an ever-widening com
' merce, as with one hand she touches
historic Montgomery, and with the
ether caresses Savannah by the sea.
Her children find all doors open to
the highest intellectual achievements,
what time they rejoice amid the halls
.of the best grammar and high schools
|of Georgia. But above the noise of
the market place and the hum of man
v'actories sounds the church bell, pen
entrating every corner of this splen
*
did city. Her church buildings rank
with the state's best. Her people bow
reverently Sunday after Sunday at the
altars of our fathers—-altars undis
turbed bv ruthless innovations of th»
changing years, and uncorrupted by
the wanton practices of a thoughtless
1 generation.
Her churches, therefore, with their
large membership composed of so
spendid a citizenry, girt about with a
moral tone so uncompromising, are the
basis of our evar-widening commerce
I and increasing wealth, the guardians
| of our youth and the prophets of our
future greatness.
REV. J. A. THOMAS.
THE BETTER PART OF VALOR.
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—Donnell in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
SHOULD GROW ALFALFA ,
section some 25,000 acres in alfalfa
that is bringing large profits to the
farmers who cultivate it. These 25.-
000 acres are distributed over a suffi
ciently large area to show that the
acreage might easily be 500,000 acres.
The reason this is not the case is be
cause the owners of these lands are
ignorant of the value of alfalfa and
consequently do not believe what is
w’rftten about the plant. Content :d
with piddling with patches of cotton
many farmers are unwilling to go to
the trouble of experimenting with
alfalfa. They had rather stick to some
thing they half know about and live
miserably than to try to learn about
something thoroughly and that would
make them rich.”
J. E. Buck, writing to the Home and
Farm, of Louisville, calls attention to
the 1910 census of the hay crop of
Wisconsin, which grew 18,000 acres of
alfalfa which averaged 2.88 tons per
acre for the entire state and the aver
age acre value of the crop was s3l.
If this can be done in Wisconsin it
can be done in Alabama where the
lands are much better adapted to the
growing of alfalfa.
The Medicinal Qualities of Weeds
The following is taken from the cur
rent issue of Farm and Fireside:
“Analysis of our edible weeds shows
that they possess powerful medicine I
qualities. The dandelion, for example,
is replete with tonic salts and is ap
erient, besides being a natural liver
medicine; the milkweed is a perfect
tonic for the kidneys and a general
cleanser of the system; the common
yarrow is a good spring tonic for
I
• children; while hed clover is one of
the richest of all nitragenous plants,
and nitrogen is one of the mos;
strengthening elements.”
DOUBLY PROVEN.
• ———————
Americas Fenders Can No Longer
Doubt The Evidence.
This Americus citizen testified long
I ago.
I Told ,of quick relief—of undoubted
benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is complete—the
evidence conclusive.
; It forms convincing proof of merit.
A. C. Alexander, grocer, 182 Spring
St., Americus, Ga., says: “My back
caused me much suffering and I was
hardly able to work. The passages of
ithe kidney secretions were irregular
and caused me no end of annoyance at
night. Hearing Doan’s Kidney Pil's
highly spoken of. 1 decided to try
them. They soon relieved the pain ir.
my back and gradually the other symp
toms of the trouble left. I always rec
ommend Doan’s Kidney Pills and I can
say that they are unequaled for curing
I kidney trouble. That complaint has
never returned in my case.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 5 ; 1
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
take no other. i
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t, Ine. 18*1. C. M. COUNCIL, Vice Pre»
H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier.
Planters Bank of Americus
Capital, Surplus and Profits
$200,000
With twenty years’ experience in sue
essful banking, and with our larg«
resources, and close personal atten
tion to every interest consistent with
sound banking, we solicit your patron
interest allowed on time certificate*
and in our department for savings.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS, LARGE OR SMALL
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK
- .....
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 Georgia.
BRING US YOUR COTTON
HARROLD BROS.
| Americus Undertaking Co., 1
! FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND 1
MR. NAT LeM ASTER, - - Manager, j
AGENTS FOR ROSEMONT GARDENS
DAY PHONES 88 and 231. NIGHT 661 and 136. I
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Feeds and Heavy Groceries
Are Our Specialty
Get our prices on Oats Corn, Hay and Datiy
Feeds. We guarantee to save you money.
Don’t forget that we are now local agents for
the famous “RICHLAND LILY FLOUR”
None better and few cheaper
J. H. Poole & Sons Americus, Ga.
TIMMERMAN & WISE !
Cotton Warehousemen
We wish to announce to our friends, pa
:( trons and punlic generally, that we will be 1 ca- j(
ted in our new brick warehouse about Septem
ber Ist, where we will be pleased to greet you.
Eighteen Years cl Practical
Experience
j! We have been actively in tne cotton busi- ;j
;; ness for eighteen years, and have acquired ::
knowledge that money cannot buy. We solicit
|i your business, promising to give our personal ;(
■; attention to all business intrusted to us. i;
j| Mi. E. Timmerman, Sr., will give his per- j;
sonal attention to the sales department, wh’le
i; Mr. L. D. Wise will give his personal attention
to the weighing. We want your business, and
will guarantee ;o 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 approximately 1.200
acres, 2 t-2 miles from Americus, together with all fsr®*
ing implements, corn, fodder, hay, cotton seed enough
to plan*, cows, hogs, 22 mules, wagons and etc., at an
attractive price and on EASY TERMS.
Here is your chance to get the best farm in SuintjT
county. It is ideal for farming as a whole or as a sun*
division proposition. Be quick or you will miss this
g eat bargain.
LEE ALLEN, Dealer in Real Estate
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 191*