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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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Americus, Ga., January 7, 1916
* UNCLE JOHN SAYS— ♦
Es there’s anything that makes my
aid hert sick it's to see a shuck-fed
yearlin’, after bein’ pestered by ticks
all summer, a-standin’ doubled up in
•s cold winter rain.
Opportunity may not knock but
once on our doors, but when it comes
lo courtin’ such a fine young lady any
young feller with any spunk an’ grit
in his craw is a-gona do the callin’
Siteself.
One o’ the truest Christians I know
is a fellow who c’n plow all day in a
rooty new ground an' then come home
an’ brag on his wife’s cookin'.
They’re somethin’ about money in
the bank that makes a feller feel like
hr's as good as the best of ’em, an’ I
guess he is.
It may not be no sin to buy whiskey,
tut once in a while I see a feller
Those family looks like he might in
vest his money with a little more
sense.
Bill Jones says they ain’t no sense
ir cover crops; but then I’ve alius no
ticed that when it’s rainin’ Bill's gen
erally in twon whittlin' an’ don’t know
whether his land’s stayin’ at home or
not.—The Progressive Farmer.
WHADDYE MEAN RUN?
Cranston Williams, on the Americus
Times-Recorder, is giving Johnnie
Spencer a run for his money. We
knew he was a chip off the old block.
--Covington News.
But Johnnie can run—too.
RIGHT, THOUGH, AT TH AT.
Awful; yes, horrible; for listen at
that J. D. S. on The Macon Telegraph.
"Now you can put ’em back again.”—
Americus Times-Recorder.
MEMORIES.
Atlanta is alll “het” up over freight
rates. Better hurry that navigable
river. And, by the way, back in the
days of 1907 seems as we remember
one certain Hoke Smith and those
“port rates.” Ah! the skeleton.—Am
ericus Times-Recorder.
Ah, me. Hand it to Hoke in t hose
gt-od old “port rates” days. He knew
what Atlanta needed, even of the rest
the State, it was contemplated,
should have to pay the bill.—Macon
Telegraph.
AIN’T IT THE TRUTH?
Any one who has ever worked in a
newspaper office knows that the men i
■ft* write poetry are greatly out-|
I V mbered by those who try it.—Amer-
Times-Recorder. .’
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THE VANISHED HYPHEN.
One of the most remarkable chang
es in the political life of America is
seen in the disappearance of the “by-'
phen” since the baleful day that saw
the sinking of the Lusitania!
Always our foreign-born citizens —
tlie Germans and Irish particularly—,
l.ad proudly coupled the parent land ,
of their adoption. The European war,
with its fanning of race prejudice, bad
strengthened this tendency until the
■'hyphen” was almost a national issue. ■
It came to represent a lamentable
cleavage in the sentiment of a nation (
which, despite the diverse elements,
has nearly always been unanimous in
its foreign policy. The German espec
ially seemed divided from the other
Americans, and there was some tend
ency of the same sort among the Irish.
But suddenly all that has passed
away. The attack on the Lusitania,
and the resulting action of our gov
ernment, with the attacks finally cul
minating with the Persia a day or two
ago, in which an American consul lost
hie life, has acted as a sort of solvent
in the melting pot of American cit
izenship. Every alien element is dis
solved out, and there remains pure
Americans. Foreign statesmen and
publicists who predicted division, and
even civil war, in this country i fever
the question of German and Irish
loyalty came to an issue, have been
disillusioned with amazing sudden
ness. Our editors of German newspa
pers haev almost without exception
subdued their tone, changed their
viewpoint and supported the president.
They have given assurance that the
readers they represent are Americans,
even to the bitter test, if that test
should come, of bearing arms for their
adopted country against the Father
land. The same assurance has been
given by the very citizens whom al
armists have professed to fear most —
the members of German-American
“shooting societies.” These organiza
t
tions, jerhaps the nearest prepared for
war of any body of citizens outside our
regular army, have made it very plain
that if they ever do any “shooting” in
I a public cause, it will be under the
j Stars and Stripes.
The altered viewpoint of such Irish-
Americans as had been led by their
old anti-English grudge to favor the
German cause is clearly indicated by
a New York man who points out that
it was an Irish jury that charged the
German emperor and government with
“wilfu] murder” in the Lusitania case,
and who adds:
“The Irish question is purely a do
mestic one for the Irish and English
people to decide, just as the tariff is
sue is here. We bring no treason with
r.s across the seas, despite the foolish
vaporing of a few unsavory ones
among us to the contrary.”
It’s the old story, the moral of which
has been drawn a thousand times:
The members of a family may quar
rel among themselves (as some
“groups” of us were doing lately), but
let any outside friends or relative
jump in to take a hand, and instantly
the whole afmily turns on the intrud
er, and in the task of making him
mind his own business recovers its
domestic unity.—Brunswick News.
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
Recent statistics show that auto
mobile accidents have been reduced
the past year or two when reckoned
In proportion to the number of cars in
use. While this is true, the large in
crease in the number of automobiles
ir. service runs the list of fatalities
higher and higher each year.
It may be expected that the increase
will continue for some time, though
the public is being awakened by the
alarming number of accidents and
fatalities and already steps are be
ing taken to reduce the danger from
automobiles.
When we consider the number of
f
automobiles that are used, over roads
and streets of all kinds, run by driv
ers of all kinds—many inexperienced
and many drunk—and considering
that these cars run on rough country
roads at the same speed that rail
roads trains make on steel tracks and
j good road bed .it is not to be wonder
ed that there are many fatalities. The
i wonder is that more deaths do not i
result.
Legislation so far, has done very
little to check the speed madness.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TlMfc-S-RECORDER
The law regulating the age of chauf- |
fours is not observed in this section,
and the light regulations are treated
with contempt. In cities there is a
chance to regulate the speed and con
duct of th? automobile, but in the
country the autoist has a free hand,
usually.
In the course of years there will be
a better understanding of the dan
ger and weaknesses of the automobile.
I; may re expected that in the course
of time this speed madness which is
often nothing more than a disposition
of some autoist to try out his car, will
settle down of itself and the danger
to autoist and innocent by-standers
' vvill be reduced.
Legislation will do its part.
Agitation will do its part.
Time will do its part.
And the fearful accidents and
heavy losses of life will do their part
l in giving us an automobile traffic
more safe and sane.—Moultrie
Observer.
PARTY PREPAREDNESS.
“The Democrats got into power, ’
says Congressman McKinley, “in the
last Presidential election through the
big split among the Republicans. Now
that this is healed we will go to the
polls with a bigger vote than exer be
fore.” But the trouble is that Roose
velt, Perkins, Murdock and hundreds
of thousands of former Republicans
do not know that the breach Is healed.
-Americus Times-Recorder.
;Don’t know about that; ,t strikes us
a mighty good time for Democratic
warriors to be sleeping in their ar
mor.—Macon Telegraph.
| THE NEWSPAPER TALK
We would appreciate the favor if
Dr. Jim Williams, of The Greensboro
Herald-Journal, would perform an op
eration on the fellows that insist on
sending us bills on the first of every
month.—Griffin News.
So wrought up over the fact that
Mayor Pierpont, of Savannah, is going
to enforce the prohibition law in May,
it is said that the Savannah delegation
in the legislature is going to legislate
him out of office. hTe policy is a bad
one and Savannah will do well to
pluck the little scheme right now. The
truth of the matted is that the great
city of Savannah ought to obey the law
and thus set the rest of the cities in
the state a wholesome .example.—
Brunswick News.
Sandersville is preparing to have a
gerat white way, which will make the
public square much more attractive at
night. The cast iron posts have been
received and will soon be placed in po
sition and fired.—Sandersville Georg
ian.
A man wanted for padding a payroll
of a powder mill in Virginia has been
arrested in Milledgeville. A man who
would do such a thing as that in these
days of prosperity in powder mills
naturally drifted to Milledgeville, be
cause he must be daffy.—Savannah
Press.
Farmers who receive one hundred
I dollars a head for their mules several
I months ago may now have to pay
I twice as much to get a good mule in
j the place of the one sold repres.?nta
' fives of the waring nations.—Dublin
Courier-Herald.
I
If the dead year failed to leave you
a legacy, get off to yourself and take
stock. By holding an honest, consci
entious self-examination you may fin I
the fault was not so much with the old
year as with yourself. But it will do
r.o good to have this little review of
the old year unless you emerge from
it with a firm determination to make
amends and avoid during the new
year the mistakes of the past.—Al
bany Herald.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days.
Your druesrist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days.
The first application gives Rase and Rest. 50c.
SUNDAY’S TIMES-RECORDER IS
AN ADVERTISING FEATURE. Read
every line of the advertising.
SAVANNAH HIS BIG
FIGHT ON WITH THE
PHOHIBITI LIW
Savannah has a fight on, which is a
light.
The prohibition question seems to be
the main contention, and as the Times-
Recorder is endeavoring to publish all
news concerning the situation which
they deem of interest, the following
article has been furnished us with re
quest to publish. It is from the Savan
nah Morning News, of December 30th:
“Something of a sensation appears
to have been created by the publication
of statements to the effect that Mayor
Poerpont is preparing to rigidly en
force the new prohibition law when it
becomes operative May 1.
Newspapers throughout the state
haev given wide publicity to what
purports to be the Mayor’s contemplat
ed policy in this respect. Some of the
papers have announced that his atti
tude toward the prohibition law prom
ises to result in the introduction in
the Legislature at the next session of a
bill to terminate his term cf office a
year from this January.
“Persons closely associated with
Mayor Pierpont see nothing odd in
his views concerning the liquor busi
ness in Savannah. They have been
quite satisfied all along that he would
not countenance anything short of
strict compliance with the law. That
the near beer saloons would go out of
business on May 1 they have entertain
ed no doubt
“Mayor Pirepont has refrained from
discussing for publication his propos
ed policy toward the prohibition law,
’ but members of Council and others in
his confidence have been working on
the theory that the liquor business in
Savannah would cease to exist on May
1 It is seriously doubted by Mayor
Pierpont and other members of Coun
cil that there will be anything like a
general disposition to evade the new
liquor laws.
Reports Not Credited.
“Reports that Mayor Pierpont’s pro
hibition views and his policy toward
the liquor business may cause his term
of office to be shortened are not cred
ited by persons identified with the city
administration. Should any effort be
made to reduce the terms of the Mayor
and aidermen it will be actuated by
other motives, they point out.
“Recently the fact that there wkas
friction between Council and the
Chatham county delegation in the
General Assembly became generally
known. The trouble, however, was
not the result of Mayor Pierpont’s po
sition on the liquor question.
“It is not doubted that a bill will be
introduced at the next session of the
Legislature to reduce the terms of the
Mayor and aidermen. In the event
such legislation is introduced it may
be expected that the friends of the
administration will not sit idly by.
Steps have already been taken, in afet,
to thwart a move of that kind should
it be made.
HARD COLDS
Cause Weak Lungs. Americus Druggist
Suggests a Reliable Remedy.
We have a constitutional remedy for
hard colds and weak lungs which we
guarantee. Such letters as this prove
its efficiency:
Wickatunk, N. J. “I suffered from
weak lungs, pains in my chest and
very short of breath. I am an agent
for the C. R. R. of New Jersey. 1 had
a very bad cough and lost fifteen
pounds in weight ,and my trouble in
terferred with my occupation so that I
had to stop work last July. I had doc
tored for sometime without benefit, but
when I learned of Vinol, through a
friend I decided to try it, and soon
commenced to improve. My cough has
gone, the soreness from my chest dis
appeared, I am working again, and
have regained the fifteen pounds In
flesh which I lost.” Victor Walden,
Dickatunk, N. J.
The reason Vinol is superior to any
other remedy is because it contains in
deliciously palatable form the healing,
body-building and strengthening ele
ments of fresh cod livers, tonic iron
and beef peptone —the oldest and most
famous tonics known to medicine. Try
jit on our guarantee. Hooks’ Phar
macy, Americus, Ga.
MRS. O'CDNNER j
GAINS H POUNDS
IN ONE! 10 DAVS
Mrs. Jno. O. Connor, who lives at
338 East Oldham St re. r Knoxville,
Tenn., called up the Kuhlman-Cham
bliss Drug Co. recently and said she
wanted to speak to tli Tanlac” man.
When Mr. Willis answered the tele
phone, Mrs. O’Connor made the fol
lowing remarkable statement:
“I just wanted you to know, and
everybody else to know, what that
Tanlac medicine has done for me.
Why, I have gained eight pounds al
ready, and have only been taking it
for ten days. I have just finished
taking the first bottle and have sent
Mr. O’Connor back to the store this
morning for another bottle. This Tan
lac certainly does just what yo'u say
it will do. I began to eat better, sleep
better and feel better from the very
first dose, and the change in my con
dition has just been wonderful. I had
a good doctor before I began using
Tanlac, bfut he didn’t seem to under
stand my case, and his medicine did
not seem to do me any good, so I just
set it aside and quit using it.
“For the past five or six years I
have been in a run-down condition—
nervous headache and indigestion per
fectly awful. My stomach was so
weak I couldn’t digest the lightest
kind of food. I was nervous and de
pressed and slept very well. I had
become so despondent over my condi
tion I thought nothing could help pie.
It certainly was lucky for me when I
heard of Tanlac. It is not like any
other medicine I have tried—it seems
to soothe my stomach, and is a fine
tonic, too,'because my appetite is
good now, and I digest what I eat. If
any one had told me there was a med
icine on earth that would make me
gain eight pounds in ten days, I
would have thought them crazy.
“I don’t believe there is another
medicine on earth like Tanlac. My
catarrh is also a great deal better—in
fact, I hardly notice it any more.”
Tanlac, the wonderful medicine that
accomplished such remarkable results
in Mrs. O’Conner’s case, is sold by
leading druggists in all principal
towns of the south.
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Ameri
cus by Allen’s Drug & Seed Store; in
Leslie by Leslie Drug Company, and
ir. Plains, Ga., by Plains Pharmacy.
Atlanta Was
Hot —The Day
After Sure
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 7. —It was so
hot in Atlanta yesterday afternoon that
people shed their overcoats and cests,
and. mopped their brows and talked
about baseball and going swimming.
It was .61 before noon and seventy in
the shade later in the day .which is
getting close to the January record for
heat. The warmest day tlanta has ever
had in January was when the ther
mometer went to .75.
Seaboard Air Line
he Progressive Railway of the SiiaW
Leave Americus for Cordele, Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond.
Portsmouth and points East and South.
12:81 p in
2:30 a m
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
rille. Helena and intermediate point*
5:15 p m
Leave Americus for Richland, At
anta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont.
I ornery and points West and Northwest
8:10 p m
Leave Americus for Richland, Col
»mbus, Dawson, Albany and interme
diate points
10:05 i* m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor-Sleeping Cat
>n Trains 13 and 14, arriving America*
from Savannah 11:25 p. m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 2:30 a. m
Steeping car leaving for Savannah at
8:30 a. m., will be open fcr passen
gers at 11:25 p. _i.
For further information apply to H.
P. Everett, Local Agent, Americus,
la.; C. W. SmaL, Div. Pass., Agent,
’avannah, Ga.; C. B. Rvan, G P. A_
/cifolk, Va.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’L Inc. 1891 H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier.
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