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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
, - - ESTABLISHED 1879
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Presidetit; Lovelace Eve, Secretary; W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.—Proverbs 16:32.
He that hath gained an entile conquest over himself will find
no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.
-THOMAS a' KEMPJS.
NOTHING IS ETERNAL
EXCEPT CHANGE
you meet an old friend—possibly on a trip back to tie old
home town and find that he has "changed
tremendously."
Time has gotten in its work. His face has changed strik
ngly. though you still might be able to pick Hrn out in a strange
crowd.
But the change that impresses you most is in his manner,
.his temperament, his character, his philosophy.
1 hus the town drunkard may have become pious. Ihe
man who in the old days was the life of the party now is quiet
and reflective. The bright schoolboy has matured into a
mediocrity. The dunce has evolved into success.
How do you explain all this?
Some philosopher has said that nothing is eternal, except
change.
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In physiology, you were taught that the human skin
changes entirely every seven years—that a new skin is formed
in that period, as old cells die and are replaced by new ones.
There is an even more startling change in the real being, the
inner self—character, temperament, spiritual nature and
philosophy or intellect.
Tou go back to former friends, pastimes and environ
ments —and are disillusioned. The old-time glamour is gone.
You ponder. "Things that used to appeal to me bore me now.”
If you follow up this line of reasoning, you come to the
rather uncanny decision that you are an entirely different being
from what you were years ago.
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l ortunate for us. that we have this constant change. It is
what enables good to overcome evil. It leads failure into
success. It permits us to develop our strength to overcome
obstacles.
Ihe possibilities of the human being are unlimited. The
inner self is as plastic as putty, forever ( hanging.
But there is no such thing as standing still. Every instant
we are either progressing or deteriorating—physically, mentally
and spiritually.
Human nature DOES change.
JOKING AN ELEPHANT
WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR
M EET HAT I IE, the elephant with a sense ol humor. Hatlie
is the star attraction at Central Park Zoo, New York.
Ihe day being hot, it occurs to Hattig that the kiddies
around her cage might like a cold shower bath. So she fills
her trunk at the drinking tank and sprays her young spectators
again and again.
The kids like it. They stage a young riot.
Jule, a younger elephant, watches the performance, lum
bers to the. water supply and joins in the lun. When’the’keeper
comes rushing up, it appears that the elephants are having
more sport than the youngsters. They drench the keeper, head
to foot.
A sense of 1 urnor involves high mentality.
It makes you wonder, "Do animals think?" Aesop, the
Greek slave, thought so when he wrote his afables some 2500
years ago.
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When Pelissori was a prisoner in the Bastille, he amused
himself by feeding a spider which had spun a web near the cell
window.
Pelisson, being a privileged guest, had his valeet with him.
The valet played a bagpipe as soon as Pelisson caught' a fly
and placed it on an outer strand of the spider’s web.
Soon the spider was trained to come hurrying forth at the
iirst sound of music. Eventually Pelisson had the spider edu
cated to travel.across the cell and climb his knee to get the fly.
Unquestionably the spider had the faculty of memory, also ■
the rudiments of reasoning. Both are intellectual powers.
You have observed the same sort of intelligence in pet dogs
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In a good many ways, ants and bees have a higher form of
civilization than man. measuring civilization in terms of com
munity co-operation with delegation of work to individuals best
fitted to handle certain tasks.
Professor Hatchet Souplet, director of the F rench Institute
of Zoological Psychology, a decade ago decided, after studying
animals for years, that they have no reasoning powers.
His theory was that animals sometimes act intelligently
- because they are susceptible to the projection of human will
power. He even applied this theory to Herr Krall’s horse, Mu
hammed, which was said to be able to extract cube root, and to
Heir Mockel s dog, Rolf, which, answered questions by tapping
letters of the alphabet with its paws.
Tetwe ve all seen dogs that know more than some
people.”
■ Man is averse to crediting animals with intelligence because
it doesn t please his vanity, basis of most of his troubles.
lEDII Advehture-s > |t?T
U Cj OF THE TWINS
ly Otiv» Rob—Barba* |
LIGHT FIN GERS HIDES
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Light Fingers was hiding be hind a queer little board bouse.
RJANt Y and Nick were having the
•* ' finest ride ever. It was better
than riding on a merry-go-round
and getting the brass ring.
They were in the Fairy Queen’s
magic automobile, rolling along the
nice, smooth, white Milky Way up
in the sky. And let me tell you
my dears, the Milky Way is the very
nicest place to ride you can imagine.
It is made of star-dust mixed with
cloud vapor and then rolled fiat arid
smooth by the Moon.
Os course, some books say it’s
made- up of stars, great big ones,
but it certainly doesn’t look it.
But anyway, that’s where Nancy
and Nick were riding.
Some wonderful things grow
alongside of the Milky Way. There's
the Dreamland Tree, and a Christ- ,
ma-, Tree, and a Wishing Tree, and
a Peppermint Tree, and a Peanut
Tree, and a Balloop Tree, and a lot
of others.
No wonder Nancy and Nick were
happy.
‘‘We’ll soon have to go down out
I OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS j
’
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. .
(From the Times-Recorder Sept )
25, 1912.) »
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Gammage at |
their pretty bungalow home on South |
Lee street were "at home” Sunday
to pelite Miss Gammage and Master
Gammake, the dual arrival providing
an event of moment in the family
circle and among their many friends.
Miss Irma Martin, after a pleas
ant visit here with her mother, Mr-.
Marshall Martin has returned to
Weston, where she is a teacher in the I
schoo'ls. j
Frank Cato, Jr., will leave Wed- |
nesday for Madison, ;Wis., (where j
he will enter the Wisconsin Universi
ty tor the full four years course.
Miss Lynn Mathis has returned i
from a delightful visit 'to friends |
in Albany.
/Miss Brownie Hodges has come I
from her home in Umatille, Fla., and I
will attend school here.
Miss Rebecca Hodges has gone to
Winston-Salem -to enter', upon a
full course at that well known fe- I
male college.
F.. G. Simmons has returned to
Dublin after a visit to relatives in
Americus, his former home.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. .
(From the Times-Recorder Sept. '
25, 1902.)
With a hundred teams untied and
unattended upon the crowded streets
of Americus every day, the wonder
is that there are not more accidents.
Rapid progress with the work upon
the new Methodist church is now be
ing made and the buildiitg- will soon
show up very handsomely,
Wallis Mott is iil with typhoid
TOM SIMS SAYS
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Talk about optimists, buggy
makers will hold a convention.
A sailor tells us the girls are los
ing their see legs.
Approaching prosperity siw-ms to
be perpetual motion.
Wall climbing was not a feature
of Sing Sing’s athletic meet,.
The ' unspeakable Turk” is doing
quite a bit of speaking.
A brisk demand for ladies silver
lox coats is causing a serious house
cat shortage.
Some think our coast line is three
miles too far inland.
A rolling stone may gather no
moss; but one gathered a Pennsyl
vania freight train.
Our idea of a girl marrying soy
money is she isri’t worth it.
The gardener who planted fried
potatoes has given up hope.
The cook book tells you how; but
the bank book tells you what.
A boy tells us he is afraid his
school has enough coal.
It comes to him who waits; but
don’t be a dumb waiter.
* Epidemic of baby stealing reported
IHE AMERICUS T IMES-RECORDER.
of the sky,” sighed Nancy. ‘‘The :
Fairy Queen will be wanting her I
automobile and- she’ll think we ar-:; ■
never coming."
Little did Nancy suspect., and little,
did Nick dream, that a pair of < yes
were watching them. A pair of
bright, mischievous eyes, belonging
■to a bad little faliy called Light
Fingers.
Yes, sir! Light Fingers was hid
ing behind a queer little board house
and peeping out at them. He had
a noektful of sharp tacks and he
was going to sprinkle them on the
; road before the Twins got there.
He hummed t< himself:
“A dicky bird sat on a jumper tree,
Turn dum, te turn dum, te turn
dum.
• There never was an’ one si ..li ter
than nie,
Oh, turn dum, te turn dum, te
turn dum.”
"Hee, hee, hee! Here goes! Now
for some fun!” Aui he reached for ,
. the ta -k'-.
(To be continued.)
, fever at his home on Forrest street.
Miss Lucile Clegg left yesterday
I for Rome to resume her studies at
Shorter college for the fall term.
Miss May Russcpi, the state or
ganizer in Missis, ippi f,, r the Geor
gia Vv. T. U., arrived in the city
today and will deliver addresses at
the city hall at ;J:;1O and 8 tonight.
She will be the guest of Mrs. Z. A.
Littlejohn while here.
The canning factory established
‘ by Col. W. P. Wallis on his farm
I outside oi Americus was operated
j successfully this year.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Titnes-Recorder Sept
| 25, 1892.)
Ought you not to have a telephone
lat your residence? The following is
a list of‘residence stations in the
I Americus Telephone Exchange: L’.
I B. Harrold 11, H. R. Johnson 4, J. B.
and A. B. Hinkle 5, S. K. Hawkins
6, R. J. Perry 7, Mrs. N. G. Prince
U. ( . Bagley 9, O. A. Coleman
I 10, D. B. Hill 13, Dr. E. T. Mathis
14, J. J. WiMiford 36, Thornton
Wheatley 45, J. C. Roney 46, C. C.
Hawkins 48, B. P. Hollis 49, Dr. G
T. Miller 55, John Windsor 61, P. C.
Clegg, 64. Dr. -C. A. Brooks 77,
Clarke & Hooper 88, C. A. Flicker
■ 89, W. R. Allen 94, Dr. McLendon
102, Dr. J. 11. Wincehster 104, E. F.
Lanier, St*. 108, G. D. Wheatley 109,
J. W. V\'heatley 91, Bloom Brown
I 13, J. B. Felder 114, W. E. Haw
kins 60,* M. B. Campbell 119, R. M.
Stewart 124, G. 0. Loving 122, Dr.
■I. B. & A. B. Hinkle 69. Cali on
the manager or send him a postal
' card and he will call on you. Albei t
E. B’-uce, Manager.
in Paris. Strange part is the babies
are under 16.
"We have too many single men,” i
says a minister. An old maid tells
us there are even more than that. 1
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The man worth while is the man |
i who can smile while his daughter I
1 is j ract icing a song.
"America," says a statesman,
“made the world what it' is today.” ;
Always blaming America,
Doctors say 10 people in Trenton,
N. J., who thought they ate some
harmless mushrooms didn’t.
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A Pittsburg, Ka., wire says the
■ sun popped corn in a field. It omits
i about cotvs thinking it was snow
and freezing to death.
Blue-nosed shark bit a bather.
| The water is chilly.
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R.E M EBY
) FOR THE RELIEF OF
Coughs,’Colds, Croup
WHOOPING COUGH, HOARSENESS
bronchitis!
, . -SOLD EVERYWHERE-
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THE OLD HOME TOWN If
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MARSHAI OTEY WALKER WHO IS ENGAGED TO THE NEW
DRY I4AKEP GOT THE SHOCK OF HIS LIFE TODAY-WHILE TAKING Y
SDYHCIOUS STRANGER AND SUPPOSED NOTORIOUS LiANDI i
To JAH- -
I THESTANDARD
2000 Yards Egyptian
Long Cloth at $1.49 Bolt
I This bargain cannot last more than I
I a week or ten days; fine lingerie fin- |
: ish and worth about $2.00 bolt. We
are going to sell this as long as it lasts J
at, Per Bolt $1.49
3000 Yards Loom Perfect
Sea Island at 12 l-2c
I Tese goods are made only from
selected high grade, long fibre cotton,
specially recommended for splendid '
wearing and sglf-bleaching qualities; ;
every yard is 38 inches wide, and the |
: retail value if bought on todays' mar-1
I ket would be about 16c. We bought '
i this lot long ago at the low price and |
will pass it on to you at the same *
rates, no matter how high the mar- ,
ket is. Plenty for everybody. !
Yard 12 l-2c I
Beautiful New Royal Blue
Low Shoes at $4.95
Ladies’ One-Strap Patent Leather
low shoes, flexible welted soles , cov
ered military rubber keels ;all size-;
; brand new stock. Pair $4.95
Ladies Satin Bloomers
‘ Knee Length at $1.75
Ladies’ Satin Bloomers, knee
I length, in almost every color, well
j made and of excellent material.
’ Pair , ...!L....... $1.75
SI.OO to $1,50 Grenadine Silk
i Four-In-Hand Ties at 50c
Special purchase of pure Silk Gren
adine Sill; Four-in-Hand Ties for
: men and boys; every color and worth
in the regular way from SI.OO ro
i $1.50; here, each 50c
2000 Yards Good
Percales, at 10c Yard
Dark colors suitable for fall and j
' winter wear; 28 to 30 inches wide. .A I
i chance to get you a lot of fall
< dresses for a little money.
Ladies’ All-Wool Poiret ,
Twill Dresses at $12.50
Smartly tailored with silk braids, I
long sleeves; si new fall model that '
| you will be delighted with; actual |
I value about S2O. Opening sale •
I price $12.50 I
36-lnch Shepherd
Checks at 25c Yd.
'■ Short lengths from 10 to 20-yard |
; pieces, regular price off full bolts is I
50c yard. Get all you want while it I
1 is half price. Regularly 50c, now 25c
I Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth St. Next Bank r»f Commerce
For Quick Service
And
HEAVY HAULING
PHONE 303
P. L. WOOTTEN
CLARK’S TRANSFER
F. ROY DUNCAN J
Architect and
Electrical Engineer
Exchange Bldg. Columbus, Ga
AMERICUS
UNDERTAKING CO.
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Foneral Director*
And Embalmers
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231
Night Phones 661 and 889
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1 * 1.. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier, j
* C. M. COUNCIL, Vice President and Cashier.
| The Planters Bank oe Americus
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* Conservative
* A conservative and far-see-
2 inK bank is a progressive in-
Ir ijMSFcMraBTI fluence in any community.
* Olir intimate contact with
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8 ?jl 1* ffiUOL invariable adherence to con
5 servative banking- principles,
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«■ The Bank With a Surplus .
| RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
* No Account Too Large; None Too Small
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LOANS ON COTTON ;
i Ins bank will make loans on cotton
stored in any of the Americus ware
houses protected by insurance. We do
not mean by this to advise any one to
hold cotton, but merely to offer our
services to those who desire to do so.
BANK OF COMMERCE
Americus, Ga.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Frank Sheffield I.ee Hudson
John Sheffield Charles R. Crisp
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£ For Auto, Radio and Light Plank
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£ Don’t throw away your old Willard Battery, for it is j
worth money. Wt have an unlimited order for Second- ,
Hand Batteries, and will allow you from 10 to' 30 per J
£ cent for your old battery. More for Willards than any «
* other kind. Bring your old battery to The Leslie Auto ,
Co., at Leslie, Ga., and you will be surprised at the small '
2 amount that you will have to pay out to get a WILLARD. '
* No other kind will give you Willard Service, arid service
is what you want, and your business is what we want. i
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: LESLIE , AUTO CO. . Leslie, Ga. i
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Baby’s Portrait
■ V’our family records are never complete with
out. frequent pictures of the little tots.
Make,an appointment for baby’s portrait to
d;i >- ‘
The McKinstry Studio
' “Makers of Quality Portraits”
“Be Photographed This Year On Your Birthday
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. |t ,