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fHE AMERICDS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1902,
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THE TIMES-RECORDER
Daily and Weekly.
Tub Amskicos Rbooiidek. Euablnhel-lO
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MARIE LOUISE MfRICK,
KDITOIt AM> lirsiNKSS MANACJEK.
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The TIme«-Recorder is the
Offlcial Organ ot the City of Amerlcus
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Offlcial Organ of Webster County.
Official Orgaii of Railroad Commission
Georgia for the *1 Congressional District
AMERICDS, GA„ OCT. 3,1902.
Eight hundred dead soldiers will he
brought home from.the Philippines
This is doubtless what is called “com
ing home in a body.”
THIS FARMER IS A SUCCESS.
Is it not strange that in every county
and in almost every precinct that you
may visit there is at least one farmer
known as a corn grower, lie rarely or
never fails. The dry and the wet.sea-
Bous comonnd go blithe “makes corn"
and “sell corn.” So in every county
there is found tho man “who grows his
own meat" ond regardless 'cholera
and bad crops keeps his smoke house
on his farm. This peculiar mail is
■some times a successful truck grower
or fruit raiser. Ho may assume one of
several forms, but wo mayjiafoly call
him Mr. Know How.” The avera
farmer often looks upon him as somc-
whatof a conjurer,but at the bottom we
find his success due to intelligent cf«
fort. Intelligence can insure crops in
tho fuco of disease, chinch bug, boll
weevil, boll worm, drouth—yes, and
floods, too, This is tho principle on
which our Agricultural colleges we're
founded by the fathers, the purpose of
all experiment station investigation,
and makes up the warp and woof of
tho Agricultural colleges in the south,
BUSINESS IN POLITICS.
The greatest bane of politics in
America is the tendency on the part of
those who are busy with commercial,
professional and industrial enterprises
to consider politics as apart from bll
iness interests. Yet politics is busi
ness.
Polities is the science of government
nnd government is orderly, legal regu
lation of the common rights, interest;
and welfare of the community. I’oli-
ies hns to do with the care nnd securi
ty of the public health. Politics hns to
do with the supply of police and fire
protection for life nnd property. Poli
ties has to do with theedueution of the
children of the people. Polities hns to
do with local enterprises of lighting,
water supply and street transportation
—and scores of other interests for the
public good.
Above all these nnd vitally affecting
them, politics has to do with taxes. The
merchant who is so busy that he can
not attend the ward meeting nnd go to
the polls to vote may be sure he will
have to find tijue to go to the tax col
lector's office and pay the score that
good or bad government has run u]
niust him. Then,'.if not sooner, he
ill get a practical lesson as to how in
timately, even inseparably, business
FROM WEALTH TO POVERTY.
THE STATE PENSION BURDEN.
During the campaign for the guber
natorial nomination the Morning News
called attention frequently to the
steady increase in the ponsion charge,
and expressed the opinion that unless
steps were taken to confine pensions to
Confederate veterans and widows of
veterans who were in indigent circuit
stances it would not bo long before it
would take 91,000,000 or more a year
for pensions. The report soon to be
mado by the Pension Commissioner
will show that in 1001 9033,043 was
paid for pensions and that for this year
9137,400 more will bo-needed. It will
be seen therefore that this year a little
more than 9050,000 will be required for
pensions.
Did the Governor and tho Controller
General take this iucreaso in the pern
sion charge into account when they
fixed the rate for this yoar 1 If not,
is it not probablo that tho revenues
will not be sufficient to meet the ox-
penditures that will have to be made?
There is no public property fund to
draw upon as there was this year.
Notwithstanding the fact that a large
amount was transferred from that fund
this year it was necessary to borrow
money with which to pay the school
teachers.
The press of the state ought to take
up this pension question and insist
upon thorough overhauling of the pen
sion list. It has been stated many
times in the puklio prints and, if we
are not mistaken, on tho iloor of both
houses of the Legislature, that many
persons who are lu comfortable cir
cumstances are drawing pensions.
It is probably withiu tho bounds of
truth to say that Georgia is paying
more in liensions than aU tho other
Southern states combined, it is w ell
enough to be liberal in the matter of
pensions, hut the liberality should be
shown to those who are in needy cir
cumstances. There is no liberality in
giving pensions to those who are better
off financially than the great majority
of those who are taxed to pay pensions.
—Savannah News.
and politics are associated.
Polities has business in it when'it
comes to expending the people’s mom
Had politics and bad politicians
can spend it to their individual advan-
e anil that of their favorites. Good
politics would insure that it should be
expended impartially for the greatest
number of the citizens.
Piditics has to do with contracts,
franchises and other important public
privileges. Contractors and corpora
tion promoters who need franchises
understand that “politics is businoss
nnd they are prone to try business
methods to attnin their ends. Hun
dreds of cities have been scandalized
by combines of tho “addition, division
and silence” order and by tho blowing
of boodle disgraces like that now sham
ing St. Louis boforo tho country.
Businoss men in every enterprise of
tho city—the merchant, tho lawyer,
tho banker, the workingman, the snla
ried man and tho daily wage-earner—
should keep in mind steadily that to
neglect politics is to neglect au essen
tial part of the “business” about which
he is so eagor and occupied. Bad
government affects tho entiro body
politio, increases taxes, wastes roven
ues, increases debts and disgraces the
community. The only preventure ot
thoso evils is the strict discharge of
political duty on election day by every
business man in the city.—Atlanta
Constitution.
It is stated in Wall street that the
L. Sc N. railway system is to be merged
with tho Atlantic Coast liine. How
will the merger affect Savannah,
Georgia's great seaport city, is what is
interesting the iieople in these parts,
BEAUTY TRIUMPHS,
'Tim a Prlctlmma Traaaura.
Beauty is woman's greatest charm. Th«
world adores beautiful women. A prettj
woman dreads materuityforfesrof losing
this power. What can be done to perpetu
ate the race and keep women beautiful!
There is a balm used by cultured and urn
cultured women in the crisis. Husbands
should investigate this remedy in order
to reassure their wives as to the ease
with which children con be bom and
beauty of form and figure retained.
Mother’s Friend
is the name by which this preparation is
known. It diminishes the pain allied to
motherhood. Used throughout pregnancy
it relieves morning sickness, cures sore
breasts, makes clastic all tendons called
upon to hold the expanding burden.
Muscles soften and relax under its influ
ence and the paticat anticipates favorably
the issue, in the comfort thus bestowed.
Mother’s Friend is a liniment for ex
ternal application. It is gently nibbed
over the parts so severely taxed, and being
absorbed lubricates all the muscles. •
One Time Banker of Vienna Ending
Days In Almshouse.
New York, Sept. 29.—Ending his
days as an Inmate of the almshouse
on Blackwell's Island, there has been
Identified til Adolph Boedesch, says
The Times, a one tlm.e banker of Vi
enna, whom the Austrian polleo have
been hunting for years. In VIenu
Boedesch is said to have been- known
as Adolph Bettelheim, a banker, ami
he Is alleged to have disappeared with
upward of 1230,000.
The Identification was made by a
city detective, but it Is not likely that
Boedesch will be deported for his al
leged crime. The man Is now over
Co years old, and is absolutely penni
less. There would be little to lnducr
the Austrian authorities to request his
extradition.
It was In 1894 that Bettelheim dis
appeared from Vienna. A few days
after he had been reported missing
bis hat and various parts ot clothiug
which had belonged to him were dis
covered beside the Danube, on the
outskirts of the city. A body found
a few days afterward In the river was
identified by Mrs. Bettelheim as that
of her husband. A week or so later
Mrs. Bettelheim herself disappeared.
Now both husband and wife are In tho
almshouse together.
In the four years In which the Bet-
telhelms have been in this city their
career has been checkered. For a
while they prospered as a banker and
broker In lower Broadway, but tho
shadow of the cloud under which they
had fled from the Austrian capital
seems to have been always over them,
and after getting Into trouble writfi
the local police Boedesch lost money
rapidly until last January, when ho
was stricken with paralysis and had
to go to a hospital and his wife went
to tho almshouse. When Boedesch
left the hospital he followed his wife
there.
STRANGLED A8 SHE SLEPT.
Mobile Woman Is Killed by Unknown
Person.
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 29.—In a little
cottage on the south side of Savannah
between Broad and Marine streets,
about 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning,
Mrs. Helen Dickson was foully mur
dered by some unknown person, sup
posed to be a negro fiend bent on as
sault Death was due to strangula
tion.
Miss Helen Robinson, her niece,
and her 3-year-old son, Albert, were in
the bed with her at the time.
The murderer climbed Into the room
through a window. J. B. Robertson,
father of Miss Heleu, occupied an
adjoining room, the door of which was
left open when the family retired, but
which the murderer closed and braced
with a chair. He also carried int-j
the house with him an ax from the
woodshed.
Miss Helen Robertson gave tho
alarm, waking her father. He found
Mrs. Dickson gasping for breath and
devoted all his attention to her resus
citation without avail, for she died at
7 o'clock. Dr. J. G. Thomas was called
but found Mrs. Dickson beyond medi
cal aid. He pronounced death duo
to strangulation.
Miss Robertson says she was first
aroused by some one at her throat,
but she pushed him away when ho
struck her with something she could
not determine the nature of by tho
dim light
THE AVERTISING SPACE WE DE
VOTE TO THIS WEEK’S DOINGS IS
BY NO MEANS LARGE ENOUGH.
FROM A STORE FULL OF ATTRAC
TIVE OFFERINGS OF;WORTHY MER
CHANDISE WE CHOOSE THE FOL
LOWING FOR PARTICULAR MEN
TION.
On Dressing The Boys.
Dress them serviceably, suitably,
stylishly. Dress them with due
regard to your own pocket. A happy
combination is found here, whatever
is the price. For high priced is never
dear—when low priced it is never poor
You’re safe either way.
Boys double-breasted suits in
various shades of Cheviots, Serges,
etc., 8 to 16 years $2 to $5
Blankets and Bed Spreads.
There’ll be cold days coming bye-
and-bye. White and gray cotton
Blapkets, full regular size... .49c. pr.
Other blankets up to $10.
Honey comb Bed Spreads, full
size, Marseills patterns,regularly sold
at $ 1.25 for 85c each.
One hundred gross fine pure white
Paari Buttons, all sizes, no extra
charge for large size. No less than
two dozen will be sold to a customer
Honday and Tuesday, regular 10c
buttons at.-. 5c per doz.
PROSPERITY OF ALABAMA.
Great Gain. In Southeastern Portion
of the 8tato.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept 29.—All but
a few of the abstracts ot assessment
for the current year are now In hand
at the auditor', office, and thoso art
quite enough to make It plain that lot
general prosperity of southeast Ala
bama still hold, the lead. While Jef
ferson makes a great gain. Walker, the
next most Important mining county,
has a loss of over half a million In tax
values as compared with last year,
Calhoun shows a gain ot $189,354, but
this Is exceeded by Dallas, with a gain
of $266,377.
Two of the Tennessee valley coun
ties, Jackson and Lawrence, show
slight losses, the former of $7,841, and
the latter of $3,284. The gains In
the southeastern counties are uniform,
being In Henry, for Instance, $241,691,
In Covington $236,612 and In Geneva
$370,791. It la somewhat of a sur
prise to find Geneva cutgrowing Hen
ry. Montgomery's gain is over hall
a million, and Mobile pulls up nearly
million. In aggregate values Jef
ferson Is more than doable the next
highest, which Is Mobile. Montgom
ery makes a good third, being about
a million short of Mobile, while Dal
las holds her old place ot fourth.
» Druggist, sell it for ti per bottle. You
may have our book “riotherhood” free.
IHe BBADFIELD REGULATOR CO., AtLAkTA.GA.
It’s an'easy matter to get into the
habit of mooting trouble half way.
Was Work of an Assassin.
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 29.—About
o'clock Sunday morning William On.
dcau, a cotton handler, living at Cot
tage Hill, 10 miles west of Mobile,
was shot and killed by a person un
known. Hearing a disturbance In
his yard, he went out to Investigate,
taking his shotgun. A few moments
later two gunshots were heard. Godea'u
was lying dead with two pistol bullet
holes In his head. A negro namod
Thomas ‘Williams, with whom Go-
deau had trouble recently. Is suspect
ed.
Hops Crop It Short
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 29.—Hop pick
ing In Washington Is now practically
over. The yield la one-fifth below
what was expected. Dry weather pre
vented the crop ripening.
Fifty dozen Men’s Winter Bal-
briggan Underwear, ail sizes, shirts
and drawers. Never before offered for
less than 75c per garment, will be
sold on Monday and Tuesday only
at... 38c per garment.
Fifty dozen Children’s fleeced lin
ed Winter Underwear, regular 25c
goods. Not over one dozen to one
customer Monday and Tuesday at
per garment 10c
ioo Dozen ladle’s fast black Hose,
full regular length, perfectly seam
less, regularly sold at i2j£c. Here
Monday and Tuesday at... .6>4c pair.
Seventy-five dozen Swiss Em
broidered Handkerchiefs, regular sold
from iaj£c to 20c. Here Monday and
Tuesday take your pick for... .9c each
One thousand yards good grade
check Nainsook, not over 20 yards to
one customer at the price Monday and
Tuesday only at 4 l / 2 c yd.
100 Yards standard Percales, re
gularly sold at,ioc, here Monday and
Tuesday at 7}£c yd.
Embroideries at Half Price.
We have piaced on special coun
ters over fifteen hundred yards of Em
broidery in short lengths and slightly
soiled pieces 1 ranging in value from
roc to 25c yd. They are priced for
Monday and Tuesday’s siting at 5c,
7&c and 10c yd.
R. $. G. Empire Corset 50c.
We have just received another lot
of the fomous R. & Q. Empire 75c
Corsets, strictly first quality and new
styles Monday and Tuesday at 50c
each
Amoskeag i2%c Outing at
8J£c Yard.
Two cases of Amoskeag Outing in
light and dark shades, full regular
width, regularly i2j£c. Here Monday
and Tuesday at 8Jc per yard.
Dress Goods Remnants-
Many new additions make this
collection of dress goods remnants
powerfully attractive. There is an
answer it it for practically every dress
goods need, including Cheviots, Pop
lins, Prunellas, Granite Suitings in
black and colors in desirable lengths
for women’s waists and skirts or
children’s school dresses.
New Waist Flannels at* 63c
Pattern.
Over five hundred pntterns in
this collection, plain colors and fig
ures. We will sell them In i\ yard
patterns. Price for the pattern 63c.
Men’s $5 Shoes Vice Shoes
For $3.50.
Here are excellent shoes made to
sell for $5, and they are worth every
cent of that price if any pair of shoes
you ever bought was worth $5. New
fresh goods just from the factory,
$3.50 pair.
10 Yd Dress Pattern 25c.
We will place on sale Monday morning
200 fall Wrapper patterns; not over one to
a customer; 10 yds Monday and Tuosday
for 25c
A. G. DUNCAN.
ii5>nd. 117 Forsyth.Street/John.R/Shaw’s Old.Stand.