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THE 4MERICUS WEEKLY TIMES--RECORDER: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2h 1898.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
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THE TIMES-KECORDER.
American, Ga.
MARIE LOUISE MYRICK,
EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER.
Editorial Room Telephone M).
The Times-Recorder Is the
Cfilrial Organ oi the City of Americus,
Official Organ of SumterCounty.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia tor the 3d Congressional District.
“ia ERICUS. GA.. OCT. 20.1898/
JSx-Skcbetabv of the Navy William
C. Whitney is now talking horse talk at
the rate of it, 000 a pace.
As between Howard Gould and his
aister Anna, we are inclined to the
opinion that the former made tbo best
eelection.
The annual fair of Wnycross, the
progressive citypf the wiregrass, be
gins on Nov. 1st and wilt continue
until the 5th. The Times-Becobder
returns thanks for an invitation, and
wishes President Johnson and his en
terprise much success.
The white-washing committee ex
eludes rep orters on the flimsy pretext
that the room in which its sessions ore
held is too small. By the by, the evi
dent pol icy of the whitewashes is to
take only snch negative testimony as
that of Geaerais Wheeler and Lee prior
to making a tour o' the camps, which
. will not have beta completed before
the November elections.—New Or
leans States.
GIVE AMEBICUS ONE CHANCE.
Many tenant farmers of Texas have
surrendered their cotton crops to the
landlords, and have gone out to pick
cotton for wages, and some are picking
for wages the cotton they made and
turned iu to the proprietor of the farm.
The fact is, the production of cotton
has increased so much more rapidly
than population that the supply largely
exceeds the demand, and every year
sees a still larger snrplus left over to
depress prices the succeeding year.
The impression may provait that the
Span iso troops are not being rapidly
removed from Western Cuba, and the
recent Havana dispatches seem to
bear ont this idea. The contrary, how
ever, is the fact. Since the signing of
the protocol 40,000 officers and men
have left Western Culm for Spain, The
firm stand concerning the evacuation
of the island taken by the United States
government will soon bring abont the
departure of the last Spanish soldier.
The New York Sun is making war on
every candidate who voted for Bryan.
The Son is no longep a Democratic pa
per. Here is the sentiment of tbo
Snn editorially or pressed;
William McKinley, president and
commander-in-chief of the army and
navy of the United States, now travel
ing in the west, represents today hon
est money amt the credit, prosperity
and progress of the conntry as much
and more than he did in the, memorial
campaign of 1811)1
Stand by the president in every state
in the union! Vote for Republican
candidates for congress, and for Ke-
publican members of legislature that
will, elect Unitiil States senators!
Vote for Roosevelt in New York, for
Eonnsburg in Connecticut, for Voor-
bees in New Jersey, and for every
candidate for governor identified with
the president’s party!
“REFUSED."
One day a follow married, and we wrote a
notice neat.
We said “Lbc groom was handsome, and the
bride i
We Advertised the baby anti \
was proud.
said his dad
And when the Heapertouk him and sorrow
like a clotfl.
Hung over him, we tendered our sympathy
sincere,
And sent the paper io him each Thursday
for a year:
We spoke of all Ids fortunes
that befell,
We wept when lie \t
laughed with him as wen:
We took him un a credit—he look the paper
nd misfortunes
eping, anti we
*Twa*but a little matter—he'd
noon —
He never paid for three yeara-
ecQllect it
we kindly
We Kent It through December, and we went it
on through June:
At last we needed money and we gently hint
ed th at
A wheel or two would help us to buy a win
ter hat;
lie took the hint—unkindly, and said he was
abased, , _ ,
He swore and sent his paper back, and had
it marked ••Reftwea.’
Bo here’s a toast to such a man, a benedic
tion breathe,
**Andmay he never lack a fire and never
freeze to death."
—D. G. Hlckers.
The Times-Recorder ia a friend to
every business interest in this city,
and it is always and at all times ready
to give them every aid in its power,
but without attacking any interest or
anybody, it feels it wonld be recreant
to its duty as a public jonrnsl if it did
not call attention to and condemn in
the strongest terms the disposition on
the part of one or more of the citizens
of the city whose only aim, it seems, is
to throw stumbling blocks in the way
of the progress of Amencus and her
people. They attack any enterprise
started, nnd threaten injunctions if the
dost is even laid.
It would stand to reason that if spite
is the motive which inspires these kiea-
ers and their know nothing and do
nothing followers, that their spleen
has long ago been enjoyed to the fullest
extent, for those who know have only
to look aronnd and count the fortunes
wrecked by this same element of com
mcrcial discord. Surely their greed
should be satiated they have caused
trouble and sorrow cnongh to mer
chants and business men of every pro
fession, not to mention the innumer
able widows and orphans whose all
they have engulfed in their wild and
unholy speculative investment com
panies.
The Times-Recorder thinks it time
for these dogs in the manger to cease
their snarliog and let people alone who
are trying to bnild up their lost for
tunes, and aro helping at the same
time to advance the commercial pros
perity of Americus and this section.
It is a positive shame to tolerate
these public and private meddlers any
longer. They should be silonced and
asked to emigrate if they don’t like
the way sane people are managing onr
city affairs.
JUDGE SPEER IN CHICAGO.
MERIT NO LONGER A WINNER.
If right and justice conld once more
be inaugurated m affairs of state, Maj.
It. E. Spence, a Georgian by birth and
a scholarly gentleman who is by edu
cation and profession a soldier, wonld
lie appointed to sneceed Colonel Jndge
Candler, in command of the Third
Georgia regiment. Bnt this will not
l>e so, for things don’t move that right-
eons way in these days of political
chicanery.
Governor Atkinson wilt certainly
appoint to this responsible military
position the wonld be governor and
statesman ont of a job, Col. Robert L.
Berner, who wears a uniform for reve
nue only, and who has no more of the
reqisites of a commanding military
officer than has the plainest private he
rules over. Mr. Berner has always
dominated Governor Atkinson, and
whatever he said has been a go with
the present administration. Governor
Atkinson has ever been Berner's true
and steadfast friend. The governor
must, of course, bo totally unselfish in
hi6 loyalty to Mr. Berner, for he un
derstands, certainly, the statesman out
of a job well enough alter a long asso
ciation with him to know that no mark
of kindness ever extended Berner by
him as governor will be remembered
after be vacates the office of chief exe
cutive. A Georgian who has won his
spurs in military affairs should have
the honor of commanding the Third
regiment, but The Times-Recorder
knows it will not be as it should.
PRESIDENT BROWN ON FARMING
THE PRODIGAL RETURNING.
Eioht thousand people listened to
the eloquence of Hon. Emory Speer in
Chioago Tuesday last. The occasion
was the great National Peace Jubilee.
President McKinley, Mayor Harrison
and a number of prominent men from
all over the country were pre eat and
made addresses. The press dispatches
gave ont the information that the
greatest] speech of the day was that of
Jndgo Speer, of Georgia. A perusal
of this masteily oration will oronso
the pride and give pleasure to all Geor
gians. It was replete with historic rem
iniscence couched in eloquence which
must have thrilled every patriotic
American soul who listened to the
brilliant speaker from Georgia. Judgo
Emory Speer has a national reputa
tion as one of the most brilliant ora
tors in tbo conntry. He also ranks as
the most gifted and eloqnent jurist in
the South.
Hon. \V. A. Dodson will be the next
president of the senate. Col. Dodson
is a man of all-round sterling worth, a
good lawyer, a statesman and eminent
ly fitted to fill that position with credit
to the state.—Abbeville Chronicle.
The Texas Farm and Ranch, an in
fiuential weekly paper devoted to the
farming interests of the Sonth, hits
some of the wonld-be farming editors
hard. The editor of the great Texas
weekly must certainly have gotten
hold of a recent issue of Editor Charlie
Pendleton’s Macon Telegraph. Here’s
the roast as it comes frosh from the
Toxas Farm:
"The prodigal son did well to return
t) his father’s honso, after his money
gave out and he had experienced "pot-
lack” with the swine of his adopted
master. Bnt would it not have been
better if be had not gone away at all,
but remained with those who had
nnrsed his infancy, forgivon his faults,
and fed him aud clothed him, and put
spending money in his pocket? Some
of onr great dailies are trying to imi
tate the Biblical truant. They have
gone far from the people in many dif
ferent directions; have been worship
ing strange gods and dallying with
decorated and bedizzened Delilabs,
until thoy have become fatigued, or
disgusted, or hungry for the flesh-pots
of the poople, but don’t know the way
back. Some of them are Bonding ont
pioneors to spy ont the route, who,
themselves, have wandered so long and
so far that they are as badly lost as
their masters. These harbingers of
prodigal papers, who know the soil
only ns a foundation for brick and mor.
tar, or as containing coal or iron, aro
preaching diversified farming to thoso
who follow tbo plow. It is said that
“the d—1 can qnote scripture” when it
snits his purpose. Then why cannot a
sensational political newspapor corres
pondent write on subjects ho knows no
more about than tbo d—1 knows of
righteousness? “Old Scrntch,"
anybody else, may know the words of
the law while a stranger to its spirit.
So it is when the peripatetic polities!
newspaper correspondent undertakes
to teach farmers how to farm.”
Woman’s Mysterious Ills.
Explanation of Heir nature by Dr. Hartman, who tells how to cure them.
women are constantly pua-
zlcd about their health. In
deed female troubles puzzle all
women. Olilcr women have
experience, but few possess
knowledge of the subject. The
periodical suffering is painful.
It is aceoidpanied by many
varying sensations that distress.
How much of this is necessary
is a matter of guesswork. The
Whole question is shrouded in
professional mystery.
’/ Dr. Hartman's hook for women,
I called " Health and Beauty,” treats
' these matters with delicacy, and nt
the same time with clearness. Write
to the Pe-ru-na Medicine Company, Oolnmbus, O.. for it: it is mailed free. It
is a practical printed talk Jp women. Dr. Hartman deliucs women’s diseases as
catarrh and tells how I’e-ru-na cures them.
Mrs. C. C. Naeve, 380 Morrison St., Portland, Ore., writes as follows:
Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus. O.
Dear Sms:—“I began to take Pe-m-na v her I liv
and have used it and the Mnn-a-lin ever s c -
have never found an equal to Pe-ru-na fo: : ■
began to take it X was never regular and a ' ll; ,
tried many different medicines before Isa’. 1 m-mv
There is nothing mysterious abont tl > -sc;tor.
" cure-all,’’ hut it cures catarrh W’hercver loect. j, Jt
any organ of the body, as all are lined with mucous
Mr*. M. C. Mebl. 504 Walnut St., Columb! i. Pa . sa.
with catarrh and a soreness 'll my bowels I
ambus. 0.,in 1887
'eded medicine.
i-un. It is r.ot a
may be catarrh in
severalt
l have been troubled
ars. 1 tried everything
now
that was recommended. I tried Pe-ru-na and aas happy u> say that 1
entirely well.”
Dr. Hartman's advice may be had with rat charge by any woman who will
write for it. Ills book on Chronic Catarrh is also mailed free. It explains the
danger of local treatment. All druggists sell Pe-ru-na.
Somehow Col Roosevelt is unable to
a trike the pace which won him *o
much glory at San Juan Hill. But,
then, the men behind him are differed t' Aak any druggist foTo free Pe-ru-na Alma'-ac let the year 1899.
Hon. Pope Brown, President of the
State Agricultural Sooiety, and one of
the beet farmers in the state, as well as
one of the most level-headed business
men, gives this advice to the farmers
which they will do well to heed. Mr.
Brown says:
"I have no desire to dictate, but I
firmly believe that if I could enforce
the planting of crops in the South on
the following plain for five years’ time
the farmers of this section would be
independent. I would cultivate fifty
acies to tbo mule. This I would di
vide ns follows: Seventeen acres in
corn, with old Bed Ripper peas in the
drill and ground peas in the middle of
the rows, seventeen acres in wheat, rye
and oats, three acres in ground peas
solid, one acre in cane, one acre in
melons and truck, one acre iu potatoes
nnd tun acres iu cotton. After the oats
and other grain, that land couid be
planted in earn nnd pea?, nsed as a
pasture or in make hay as desired
In commenting upon the above The
Macon Telegraph says:
"This, in our judgement, is tho for
mula of prosperity.
“This formnla should be clipped out
of these columus'and put in a scrap-
book iu every farm bonso m Georgia.
“More than that, it should be carved
in imperishable letters above the
hearthstone in every farmer’s home, in
perpetuum, a veritable handwriting
upon tho wall for guidance and deliv-
eranco. And under it the legion of old:
“ ‘Here I’ll raise my Ebenezer.’
“Here we will plant the stone of help
as a memorial of onr deliveranoe from
the bondage of king cotton.
“If there is anything in the experi
ence of practical farmers—if there is
anything in the knowledge of experi
ouced scientists—then the light thrown
on the subject of farming in general,
aud wheat culture in particular, at the
wheat growers convention is iuvalu
able. The practical men—the men of
aflairs in agriculture—and the practi
cal scientists, did the perfect work of
pointing the way out of the wilderness
of doubt, confusion and uncertainty.
"More than that, these men are go
ing to lead tho way.
“Now, the momentous question is,
how many Georgia farmers—Southern
farmers, will follow? If half of them
will take tho cue and follow the lead,
the movement will be a half success.
If all of them will do it. the perfect
transformation will be made in a single
season, and the waste places will be
made to blossom as tbe rose.
“Of course there is no Eden on
earth. There aro no flowery paths to
affluence and wealth. Man must cat
bread in the sweat of his brow, as sure
ly as Holy Writ is true. But tbe aver
age farmer expects to labor, and to
sweat, that ho may eat and be clad.
Wo are relatively prosperous and hap
py when the eating, and the clothing,
and the shelter, comes ns a reward of
labor. For this cause we are enlisted.
And in this cause, under existing con
ditions, there is imperative need for
concerted action. A little in wheat, a
little in oats, a little in com, a little in
potatoes, a little in peas, a little in cot
ton, a iittle in vegetables, trnok and
melons, a little in fruit, a little in milk
and butter and cheese, a little in poul
try, a little stock raising, a little in
this and that and the other that can be
raised on tho farm, make a grand di
versified aggregate which no storm, no
pestilence, no financial panics—nor all
of these thingB combined—can entirely
sweep awav.
‘A business house—a manufacturing
plant—a bank—can be swept away in n
night. Bnt a diversified farm will yield
• living every year, and all the year.
If one crop fails another succeeds.
“If this is not so, then wears deceiv
ed as to onr soil and climate in Geor
gia.”
You’ll Never Know
how comfortable a side-bar 1
you ride in one that has the Thomas Coil Springs. „ wv
ride easier, bang more evenly and lqok neater. You can easily and cheanlv >
replace any style of side-bar springs with | | i } •
Tbe THOMAS
r can be made until ’
hey make the bug KV ]
COIL SPRINGS
The best carriage makers in the country now use them on
their best work. If your carriage maker or wheelwright
won’t supply you, write for ftill description and prices.
The Buffalo Mprlnar Sc Gear Co., Buffalo, New York. 4
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SPECIAL THINGS
BARGAIN PUCES
Lee Allen’s
New Store
THIS WEEK
Full line of Ladies’ Underwear cheaper than the
raw material.
Special values in Hosiery—all prices from xoc up.
The best 20c and 25c goods in the city.
One lot Ladies’ Ready-made Skirts from $i.oo to
$7.50 each.
Linen Table Damask, 2 yards wide, at 49c, worth
75c anywhere.
One lot of Ladies’ Linen Cuffs at 10c, or 3 pair for
25c, worth 25c per pair.
Good yd. wide Sheeting, cheap at*5c, our price 3^c
Good Checked Homespun at 3>£c yd.
Choice selection of Calicoes, including Turkey reds
with black figures and fancy, at 3c yd, worth 5c.
Beautiful line Children’s Reefer and Vestee Suits
% cheaper than you have ever bough them.
Nice line of Boys’ Knee Pants Suits, 8 to 16 years,
$1.00 to $5.00 per suit.
Good all wool Men’s Suits, in black and colored,
at $5.00, worth $7.50.
We have the best line of $7.50 Suits in the city,
ifa really worth $10.00.
At Jio,$12.50, $15 and $17.50 we show Suits that
cannot be matched at less than $2.50per suit more
See our WALLBROOK Derby Hat at $1.50, as good as
you can buy for 3.00 elsewhere.
In Underwear. Gents’ Famishing Goode, Ladies’, Gents' j png'
and Children's Shoes ws have Special Values to offer and
ask yon to seo onr's boforo baying elsewhere.
■tar
Indians Will lie Satisfied.
Walker, Minn., Oct. 19. — N. N.
Schwartz has arrived hero direct from
Washington as nu agent of the iutorior
department to make a thorough invosti-
Ration of the dead and down timber.
He says Commissioner Hern o^ho gen
eral lurid office is in earnest abdut seek
ing tbe cause of trouble oveMfcf ques
tion with a view to satiafyinB^niaiia.
Mr. Schwartz says ha is satflmod no
more timber contracts will be let until
present troubles are settled.
Missionary Society Adjourns.
Ciiattanooo^, Oct. 19.—Tho Ameri
can Christian Missionary society held
its last session this morning. Addresses
ou the work in the north, south, west
Mid east were do live red by leading
workers in the several fields and they
were followed by general discussions.
At noou the society adjourned.
No Piyg Tobacco Combine.
St. Louis, Oct. 19.—Colonel W. T.
Wetmoro of tho Liggett ami Meyers
company o: this city declares thpre is
nothing in the report* of 11 combination
piug tobacco nianuiacmrers turner
it* leadership or tos company to op-
.»!-♦* tee American Tobacco company.
The pecan groves of Texas will yield
this year fully 5,000,000 bushels, and
all nuts are carefully harvested.
It seema to be developing that Alger
it the beat secretary of war we oyer had.
Very truly yours,
LEE J\LLEN.
TEADY INCOME at HOME'
can make 125 per week. Either sex. I’ll
^^start you in the Mall Order Bust ness
day or evening No peddling- M. Young,
3d3 Benrv street, Brooklyn, N. Y,
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o housekeepers—
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MRS JANE F. GEIST,
Graduate of Michigan Stste Normal
Conservatory of Music.
For Mayor.
November’ C ° m,n *
Amendment to Charter.
GEOltGlA- -Sumter County.
To the Superior Court of Hald County:
Tbe tietitlon of J. W- Sheffield and E. D.
Sheffield, residents of said couuty and state,
respectfully .shows as follows, to wit:
1st. That on the 7th. day of January,
a charter was granted by said court t » them
selves, Lee Alten and W. R. Allen for tne
purpose of conducting a general mercan
tile business,-under the corporate name of
‘•Allen & Sheffield ” the principal place ot
business of said corporation to be in Amen-
cus, Sumter county, Georgia. .
2d. That your petitioners are now tne
sole owners of all the capital stock of saw
corporation.
3d. That on the wth. day of September.
IMrtJ. at a called meeting of the stockholders
of said corporation, all atock being repre
sented. a resolution was unanimously paw* 1
recommending that the name of said con*>
ration be changed from “Allen & Sbeflleiu
to •’£• 1>. Sheffield Company." ,*
Wherefore, your petitioners pray that*»ia
chjfter be amended and that the name oi
saw corporation be changed from “Alien*
Sheffield” to-E. D. Sheffield Company' and
that all rights, powers and privileges grant
ed in the original charter be preserved.
HOOPER A CRI'si*.
Petitioners Attorney*.
Original amendment tiled in office October
17th., 1818. J. H. A GLEN
Clerk S. C N- y
A true extract from the minutes of suinu
superior court, this October Iltu , iwf-
.1 Tl. ALLEN.
Clerk S. C.
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