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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879
Published by THE TIMES-RECORDER CO.. (Inc.) Arthur Lucas.
President; Lovelace Eve. Secretary; W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
WM, S. KIRKPATRICK. Editor; LOVELACE EVE, Business Manager
Published every afternoon, except Saturday; every Sunday morn
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"THE TIMES-RECORDER is in receipt of the following letter, the
spirit of which it appreciates, from a merchant of Waverly Hall,
Ga., commenting upon a recent editorial appearing in this column:
WAVERLY HALL, Ga., Jan’y. 31.
Editor Times-Recorder: I am just writing you a line as a full
blooded 100 per cent Protestant American to commend your article
written about the Enquirer-Sun, of Columbus, anent the Ku Klux
Klan and Roman Catholicism lam entirely with you in the position
you take. There is entirely too much pussy-footing in these United
States about the chicanery and scheming the Roman Catholics and
Knights of Columbus are trying to put over on we docile, and some
times foolish, Protestants, and if it takes the Ku Klux Klan to combat
the secret order of Knights of Columbus, I say go to it, and let us
be prepared to do our duty to this Protestant country of ours, if it
ever becomes necessary.
This Irish trouble you areTeading about in papers is nothing but
a scheme of the Catholics to do some dirty work against England, a
Protestant country. The Catholics haven’t got near as many people
fooled as they may think. I have just hastily written you these
lines to let you know I appreciate your stand. Yours
W. H. PITTS
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IT is pleasing to receive approval and commendation of honest ef
* fort, but in this case the approval goes just a bit too far to be as
pleasing as it might otherwise be. For the correspondent has taken
it for granted that the Times-Recorder is making a fight on the
Knights of Columbus and Catholicism. Which it is not, and which
it has no intention of doing.
The Times-Recorder believes in complete religious freedom,
and it has no quarrel with any man for his honest beliefs. In the mat
ter which occasioned the comment which Mr. Pitts’ let
ter, there were certain strong indications, according to our judgment,
that an invisible force in which a church interest was largely con
cerned, was at work insidiously, and it was the hope of establishing
this or disproving it thpt occasioned the Times-Recorder s remarks.
The effort failed; it did not establish the existence of this force, al
though neither did it bring proof of its non-existence. In fact, the
indications remain as strong as before.
However, the Times-Recorder prefers facts to suspicions, and
it prefers to seek the good in an organization—either religious or
secular—instead of its possible bad. And so it is forgetting these
suspicions until some proof is produced.
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A DISTRICT JUDGE in Atlantic City, N. J., has issued instructions
** to the bailiff that women juries shall contain:
"No busy wives of workingmen,
“No mothers of children,
“No admixture of men, x •
"No immature women who giggle, rouge and powder, but do
not think-’’
Excellent! Especially the last. But—
Logically carried out such a rule would disrupt the jury system.
Why pick on women? How many men accepted for jury service
show any visible signs of thinking? Would it not be wise also to re
fuse jury service to men who:
Take chances on bootleg whisky.
Allow barbers to scent their hair,
Believe “woman’s place is in the home.’
Think the country is “going to the dogs.
Are affacted by oratory rather than facts.
Weep when a hired lawyer is working up his case,
Serve on juries out of a bawdy curiosity, f
Concentrate on ankles rather than on evidence.
Are susceptible to the charms of pretty murderesses.
Are—?—but fill out the list. It is exceedingly long.
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AFTER having allowed our temper to run riot for 40 years, can it
* * be brought into subjection and made to serve us instead of our
serving it? Mary Garden thinks it can be done, and has set out to
prbve it.
It has lately leaked out that the Incomparable Mary is endowed
not only with a silver voice, but with a volatile temper as well.
When she became manager of the Chicago Opera Company re
cently, she sensed danger ahead and had the good sense to recog
nize her shortcoming and decide that she must to manage
herself if she was to manage others.
The bigness of the task she fully realizes, but declares she is a
good fighter and will do the thing she has set out to do, emphasizing
her determination by throwing out to the skeptical this challenge:
Watch me win!"
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Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is sequestered at Eberbach, Ger
many. Neverback is the right name for that town.
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Wellesley students are to have a “sneezing room." Remember
the “swearing room" in one of Charley Hoyt's farces?
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Congresses are all alike—as far as free garden seeds are con
cerned.
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Malefactors may well be intrigued by the fact that juress is
very much like duress.
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Bombay had a riot because boys killed two pigeons. Maybe
they were peace doves.
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Miss Anne Morgan’s boxing .enterprise seems to have made a
function of fisticuffs.
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Llovd George seems to have found that the French premier is
a fire Briand.
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Truck gardeners doubled their orders for cabbage plants when
they heard the Kentucky tobacco growers had decided to make no
crop this year.
SOLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
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'T’HE Times-Recorder today begins
* publication of a feature which it
believes will become of first inter
est to a large number of its read
ers. It" will be a daily resume of
the files of the Times-Recorder or
its predecessors for the same days of
the month thirty, twenty and ten
years ago. Many old and familiar
names, faces, events and incidents
will pass in review from day to day’
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Times-Recorder
(Thursday morning, Feb. 2, 1911) ■
Exceding in number of pupils the
combined attendance of four other
district agricultural colleges, those of
Atlanta, Barnesville, Augusta and
Athens districts, the Third District
Agricultural college at Americus is
riding on the top wave of greater
prosperity.
It will be of great interest to all
Americus people to know that Rev.
Allen Fort, an old Americus boy, is
rapidly developing into one of the
strongest evangelists in the Southern
Baptist church. He is now holding
a series of meetings at Spartanburg,
S. C.
Americus clothiers are having the
cut price sale of their lives just now.
Pretty soon a man who accepts a
suit gratis gets a premium.
Americus is going to give a great
welcome to the “College on Wheels’’
when Tom Hudson steers the train
here on the 22d.
So long as the Americus plumbers
and coal barons do not kick on the
weather there is no need for the
common herd to protest.
The distressing news comes from
Atlanta that state pensioners must \
wait a fortnight longer, or until
about February 15, for their money.
Evidently having in mind the purg
ing and scouring of the temples in f
the days of old, a bunch of holiness;
Salvationists consisting of three [
men, a boy and two women, laid
seige to the local city hall yester
day and well nigh shook its founda
tion with earnest supplications for
the general redemption of Americus.
Josh Simmons, his brother, Eph
Walker and Denny Barnum were a
trio on trial before Mayor Mathis
as the result of a fight at the Sea
board depot here for the possession
of the body of Allen Brown, shipped
The Piece Cut Out of the Paper
BY DR. WILLIA M. E. BARTON.
IT is a dangerous thing for a man ■
* to bring home a daily paper with 1
an item clipped j
out. His wife will ;
notice that column ;
and that spot in '
the column imme- |
diately.
"What was it i
that you cut out
here?” she asks.
“Oh, it wasn’t '
nuch of anything!
Just a little item ;
that caught my |
eye. I cut it out '
and left it on my j
desk in the office.” •
That does not
BARTON
satisfy her. She wants to know
what the item was about. She is not :■
easily satisfied. That item must |
have been a particularly good one, i
or it would not have interested you
so much; and now, and you can i
hardly give an intelligent idea of ’
what it was about! Men are very |
stupid.
There are, as I take it, two good
reasons behind this interest which we i
must all confess in the little squarte
hole in the paper where a clipping ’
has been cut out. In the first place ;
the mind demands completeness and ;
the hole is direct evidence of va- j
cully. Nature abhors a vacuum. If I
the paper were complete we might I
skim over the page and never notice '
that item; but we cannot fail to see
the hole.
The other reason is that we have a
right to be interested in what mani
festly has interested someone else.
Someone must have thought that a
good item, or he would not have gone
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' from Douglas. Both undertakers
' hankered for the internment job.
Simmons was fined S2O and Eph
Walker, who -.put Barnum to sleep
with a brick, was touched for two
tenners as well.
Frank Joyner, of Olar, S. C.,
; bought the “Moonshine” farm on the
Myrtle Springs road from C. N. Wil
liamson. He paid $6,500 spot cash
for the 435 acres. The farm form
erly belonged to Crawford Wheat
ley.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Americus Times-Recorder
(Saturday morning, Feb. 2, 1901.)
City Marshal W. H. Fegain an
nounces several pieces of property
for his March sales. Very little prop
erty was thus sold in Americus last
year.
Sheriff E. L. Bell was in Milledge
ville yesterday in charge of R. C.
Harris, who was adjudged insane
here several days ago and ordered
sent to the State Sanitarium.
The recent cold weather has caused
the fruit growers aboul Americus
to feel apprehensive for the safety
of the peach crop, as thousands of
dollars are now realized annually
therefrom.
Though established only two or
three months ago and largely ex
perimental the rural mail service in
Sumter county has already reached
large proportions and its popularity
is evidenced the rapid increase
in the amount of mail matter han
dled. Postmaster Smith sent in yes
terday the reports of the four car
riers.
The patriotic ladies of Americus
who undertook the task of rearing
the beautiful Confederate monument
in Americus are very anxious to pay
the balance due thereon, but they
will scarcely risk any more concerts
or like entertainments unless it is a
strictly home affair.
The New York cotton market
opened at 9:36 for February and
closed at 9:35. Spot cotton closed
dull and irregularly 1 cent lower.
Middling uplands 10c, middling gulf
10 l-4c. Sales 100 bales.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
From Americus Daily Times
(Feb. 2, 1891, Monday morning;
no paper published.)
to the trouble of cutting it out. It
is a fair assumption that that item
was the best thing there was in the
paper.
There is in Springfield, 111., a sin
gle file of a paper which has been
published continuously in that city
since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
It was originally the office file, and
now it is in the State Historical Li
brary. On a certain page an item is
missing. There is reason to believe
that Lincoln himself wrote than item,
for he was a close friend of the edi
tor, Mr. Francis, and a frequent con
tributor of signed and unsigned ar
ticles in the journal. It is believed,
also, that Lincoln himself cut the
article out.
A great many people have specu
lated about that article, which was a
short one, and why Lincoln was sor
ry he wrote it; for it is assumed that
he changed his mind and wished he
had not written it. But no one can
be’ quite certain. All that lies be
hind these opinions is a vague ru
more and a hole.
A hole in the center of a news
paper page can be the ground of a
good deal of speculation.
U. S. Fleet Noisily
Welcomed At Peru
CALLAO, Peru, Feb. 2. —Seven
Atlantic fleet battleships, led by the
flagship Pennsylvania, arrived here
early this afternoon and received a
noisy welcome from large crowds
along the shores and small craft in
the harbor. Eighteen destroyers and
several supply ships reached Callao
ahead of the main fleet.
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THE BOOK OR MARTHA.
Ann Turns Out a Real Heroine.
U A FTER the matron left me, I
**■ was listenening to the talk of
those queer girls in the cell next to
me, when I heard the bolts of my
cell slide, and a gong rang, and a
man ran along the corridor and yell
ed, ‘All out!’ just as if he were a
conductor at the end of a trolley
line!”
Thus Ann went on with her recital.
“I pushed open the door of my cell
and ran down to the cage with the
others. The smoke was pretty bad.
but I couldn’t tell where it came
from. Funny way smoke has, isn’t
it? I was among the last to reach
the cage, and I just happened to no
ticce that all the girls in it were
young and most were pretty, and
there wasn’t anybody at all like a
drunk old lady who had been there
too many times to count. So nat
urally I backed out of the cage to
hunt her up. I ran to the first floor
tier of cells where the matron said
old woman was.
“Say, girls, the smoke was getting
awful disagreetable, it made me
cough and cry and the cells were so
murky I could hardly see into ’em.
But half way down the row I found
her—anl listen! She was asleep on
her bunk! I shook her—raised up
her head and let it drop, and finally
I rolled her off onto the floor. That
waked her, but only to swear - at me.
She wouldn’t budge—until I thought
of my purse, girls! I jingled that
before her—she reached for it—and
so I coaxed her along—and the
smoke got thicker—and, gee, girls'! I
was glad when I met old Morry!”
In the netft edition of the papers
which reached our house almost as
soon as we did, appeared the pic
ture of Ann Lorimer and the poor
old creature she had rescued! The
young society girl beside the hag
with the champion workhouse rec
ord. Ann was a heroine, although
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she hardly took her part seriously,
as the camera-man had snapped her,
emerging from the jail. Her expen
sive hat was awry, but. jaunty, be
coming and coquettish, and her “go’
lashes” were conspicuously unbut
toned, but chic, and the smudges of
soot on her cheeks had been care
wully painted out by the staff artist.
Our silly Ann was a real heroine.
That was the important news in the
Lorimer family, but the city in gen
eral found interest in the fact that
the work of the mob had been fu
tile.
Morrison, coming to ask about
Ann that evenftig, told us that the
hunted man had never been p_t in a
cell at all. He had been spirited
down to the furnace room of the jail,
clad in a coa’. heaver’s overalls, and
with two deputies dressed in th j same
way, had escaped in an empty coal
wagon!
And thus the city had been spared
the disgrace which a few erratic and
unbalanced persons would have
brought down upon it .
The jail had been stormed and
the women’s wing destroyed for
nothing except, as Ann insisted, “to
provide a dance theme for the play
she was going to write with Van’!’
(To Be Continued.)
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