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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECQRDER, FRIDAY JANUARY 23 1903.
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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
Daily and Weekly.
TngiAMBiuoos rbc mDKii. Established 1879
Thb AMBHrc.;s Tinbs. Ku mushed 1899,
ConsoUciaud, April/1-pi.
Incorporated. jAou*r» , I-94.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
DAILY, one year
...$6.00
DAILY, one month
.... SO
WEEKLY, one year
... 1.00
WEEKLY, six months. ..
.... 50
TILLMAN GONZALES TRAGEDY. ,
Adtlro** all letters ami make remit'
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TUK TI.Hfc8-HECOHOKIl
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MARIE LOUISE MYRICK
L EDITOR ANd IIU81NKSS MANAGER.
Editorial Room Tnlepnone 99.
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The I’ltne*—Recorder l» the
Official Oi**an of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster county.
Official Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia for the 3d Congressional District
AMERICUS. GA.. JAN. 23,1903
FRUIT TREES.
Many”' farmers bare an orchard.
Some kind of ono at least. If tho var
ieties are good although the yield may
he poor there is a chance of improve
ment. Many a man thinks [When he
has set one a frujt tree he has done his
share and it is incumbent on the tree
to do the rest. There is about As
much sense in this as when tho man
brings his cotton to a stand and expects
a full crop without any more cultiva
tion. .
There are a few men in this world
"who appear to get something for noth
ingbntthe farmer isn’t in that class.
Ho needn't think the care of tho fruit
troes is an oxception; if he does noth iug
for the fruit trees it will do nothing for
him.
Fruit trees demand plenty of avail
able food, and the weeds and grass
* should be kept down and the surface
soil loose as well as in any other crop.
Now what the farmer should do who
has an orchard is to soo if the fruit is
of a good kind. If not every tree ought
to bo out down and burned. Then you
start afresh with trees from nursery.
Rut if the fruit is worth keeping cut
■ ont all tho dead wood, trim in tho live
wood leaving the new now sprouts and
make a good head, lid this before the
bnds swell. Plough around your
trees, not deep enough to break tho
roots, and top dress with some good
potash fertilizer. There is nothing
better than wood asliep. If plenty of
leaves are within reach, spread them
thickly around the trees. If a muleli is
not to bo had keep tho weeds down
with a ilisc harrow; it does much quick
er work than a plow. In Juno sow
down cow peas; they will rnako a line
fertilizer for the orchard. You will be
surprised to see the fruit these timers
will bear.
Don’t turn cattle and horsey into
the orchard. Calves will do otxjiarm
and pigs will benefit it by uating the
fallen fruit and rooting up tho ground,
and destroying tlie insects, which arc
waiting their turn to come out.(
Half an acre will set 50 fruit trees,
30 peaches, 10 early, 10 medium and 10
late varieties, 15 apples and 5 quince
will give fruit In sell in market and
without a great deal of work, either.
Oct some good varieties from a re
liable nurseryman who will tell you
the best kinds for your locality. N^’-
er buy from a traveling salesman, lie
may bo all right but very often your
fruit will conje all wrong. The safest
way is to write direct to the nursery.
>A friend of ours onco bought a “scup-
pernong tree” from'an agent which
would shade the whole yard and re
quire no support. Of course she never
got the tree. In making your selection
get the very best varieties. The kind
that sell best are the best for homo use
nlBO and it is as easy to grow fruit of
fine size and quality as the poorer
kind. ‘ 7
.This month is the best time you will
have to set out fruit trees until, next
November. You will gain a year by
* doing it now.
for days the desperate condition of
Editor Gonzales has enlisted the pro
found Kj-mpatby of the entire country
and now that death has severed the
silver cq^d which hound this distin
guished man of letters to life, his coun
try and family, all will bow with grief
and thousands of beautiful tributes
will be paid to him whose life has been
sacrificed for a supposed principle.
Hut there is auother figure ill this
awful tragedy, Lieut. Goxcrnur James
Tillman sitting silently in his cell suf
fering doubtless for his rashness and
being branded fjrom Jiaine to Mexico
a savage murderer. “The heinous
ness of tho offense is aggravated
by tho fact that the offender is
high official of the state and was
armed.” Those who are so seemingly
anxious iu criticising Tillman should
bear in mind thgt Editor Gonzales was
at times fierce and bitter in his edito
rial criticisms, and he had often, yes
repeatedly stung and exasperated Till
man by his attacks, and it was natural
that Tillman should have cherished a
deep feeling of resentment against tlie
man who had so vigorously assailed
him.
A newspaper should “he sure of its
facts before it attacks the character of
any man, and it should not assume
that because tho object erf its assaults
is a public officer ho is helpless in the
matter of defending himself. Whether
Jho editor,of the State’s criticisms were
justifiable br hot tho Times-Reeorder
cannot undertake to say. He may
have made them from a sensoof public
duty, or li8 may have boon Actuated by
personal motives. If ho felt that Till
man was a coward he should have been
on his guard against just ( silch an at
tack as laid him low, for it is from men
of this character that attacks of this
nature are most to be fearod. It is a
dangerous thing for an unarmed than
to seek to create tho improssion in the
mind of An enemy that he is armed, for
in auch a case tho enemy may prompt
ly proceed to action, which ho might
otherwise bo too bravo to employ.
Editor Gonzales ecjfhes of a fighting
family as well as does Mr. Tillman, and
tho newspaper man had the advantage,
for with his sporting blood ho was
doubly armed with a newspaper from
which hot shot was podred intovTill-
mau on every available occasion.
Whether this was deserved or not the
Times-ltecorder docs not approve of
this kind of warfare. No editor has
any right to print a line about n man
he would not willingly say to him face
to face. When any other than this
policy is pursued, the, high anil houor-
Able profession of journalism is prosti
tuted and tlieeditor becomes a poltroon
and a'coward.
If character has been assailed and an
houorablo adjustment cannot be ar
ranged there seWis no way but for the
offender und the aggrieved Unmeet in
the o|ien and tight as our honorable
forefathers have fought since the land
ing of the pilgrims at Plymouth rock..
The necessity of war, whether it bo s
civil or a porsoniilono.hnsand will ever
bo considered a calamity as long
as this country is dominated and
ruled by cliribtian civilization. But
there are times when such cannot be
averted and all who Bhoot to kill aw
not in any sense cowards. No bravo hu
man being over willingly aiid wantonly
wanted to commit muider. It iR unnat
ural and directly antagonistic to evory
written and unwritten law of God and
man, and no sane man or woman should
ever transgress these laws other than
to defend life, home and honor.
Which ?
A lean and .potash-hungry soli,
wasted seed, wasted labor and idle
gins—A MORTGAGE. Or, plenty of
Potash
in the fertilizer, many bales and a
busy gin-*A BANK ACCOUNT. |
IMPORTANCE
'of
GOOD ROADS.
The Times-Recordor will continue to
urge upon those in authority as well as
the entire people all of whom are per
sonally and'ffnancially interested, the
great importance of having good roads
leading into Americus. Such would
bo of incalculable benefit tq every lino
of business in this section. Our great
commercial advantages will amount to
naught with the adjacent country roads
impassible.
Let the country roads be worked for
tin* benefit of the county os well as for
tho city. Then another beneficial ef
fect of good roads would bo to facili
tate intercourse among neighboring
farmers. When farmers meeti they
will talk about crops and about grow
ing them, and about then stock, and
like other average mortals they will
boast a little sometimes and a great
deal at other times. Boasting is a
stimulant and the boastee is apt to
make some effort to make his boasting
good. Then the boaster, not to be out
done, will boast some himself with the
same effect as in the first case. Then
occasionally farmers, iij their neigh
borly intercourse, will get down to
hard facts and ask each other how they
may better their conditions, and all
participating will be benefited. When
roads are practically impassible, bnt
little farm work can be done, and the
farmerij^iave time that hangs heavily
on their hands. If the roads were bet
tor than the weather, farmers would
havo the same period of rest, but could
visit, meet togethor and discuss sub
jects of interest to each. Therefore
better roads means better farming.
That women are prone to love men
to excess through mistaken sympathy
That women show no sensed fitaes
in measuring men’s responsibility.
Editor Sidbey Lewis thus comments
on the proposition to sell the state
road: “Representative Moses, of
Coweta, wants to sell the state road,
and intends to introduce a bill ^o.that
end in tho legislature, next June. Thnt
would furnish a big fund for tho tllo
legislative spendthrifts to revel in, for
a couple of sessions, and leave the
state all tho worse for the debauch.
As a lawgiver, the Coweta man doesn’t
take rank with the original Moses.
His scheme is a good one to sit down
Every boy should learn a trade
whether he bo rich, well-to-do, or poor.
A trade comes in handy when every
thing else is gone. Besides, tho man
who ia master of a trade feels a spirit of
That men are annoyingly exuberant
in their display of reepeot for other*.
That men overestimate thefr , b - : | it V independence not experienced by the
through tongue flattery. | man who is not.
Does farming pay?” is not tho
question. As well ask if merchandis
ing, the practice of lav 4 , theology, or
other callings pay. Farming pays far
more than nny other, business known.
It loads tho trains and tho ships, and
pays tho freight; it tills the warehouses
and pays tho commissions; it pays most
of the taxes, and more interest than
anything. Of course farming pays.
Where it is intelligently followed it al
so payB the farmer. It ought to pay
the farmer better than it doffs, and it
will as soon as farmers And out why it
does not.
It is reported that the Seeretar j- of
Agriculture intends to resign his po
sition in tho President’s cabinet to ac
cept the Presidency of an Agricultural
and Mechanical Colloge. The whole
country, and especially the Southwest,
will lose by this change, probably more
than the college will gain. Secretary
Wilson has made a model official, qnd
has done more for the agricultural de
velopment of the Sbuthwest than all
Lis predecessors since the establish
ment of the department of Agricul
turc.
Th) Times-Eojorder wants a good
liyi correspondent in every poatoffico
town in the coun'y Won’t some of
one friends bear in mind that we
would be gled to ohrohiole the neigh
borhood beppenings if eccb news is
sent us. ,
There are more than 40,000 mud
cabins in Ireland which contain only a
single room. . ;
F
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Silberman
Bros.
Largest Fur iftuto In Amerloa.
Branches All Over Europe.
Highest cash price all hinds
of raw fare. Hold yoar shipment
until yon get our price list. Writ*
Joy it to^iay. We mail it free.
V SILBERMAN BROS.,
122 to 123 Michigan Sl. Chicago, III.
STARTLING OFFERS-MONDAY £ TUESDAY.
THE MOST WONDERFUL MONEY SAVING
.OPPORTUNITIES,THAT YOU EVER SAW! .
f Space will not permit us to men-
tion half the offers, that we have.
Let the following peerless values
We Reserve The Right to Limit Quantities.
Men’s Shoes at $1.95.
Every pair are the $3.00 and
$3.50 grade, made of soft vici
or box calf leathers, flexible
soles, all sizes 5 to 11; instead
of $3-00 and $3.50, at... $1.95
Men's 65c Underwear at 38c.
Our regular price of this Un-
* derwear was the lowest in
Americus. We’ve cut it a
notch lower; ail sizes, Shirts
and Drawers Monday and
Tuesday at per garment 38c
Ladies’. $f Kid Gloves at 67c pair.
These are the best dollar Kid
Glove soldi in Americus. We
guarantee every pair. All the
staple colors; all sizes, instead
of $1.00, at 67c
10c Pearl Buttons, 6 Doz. for 25c.
: _ .... _ i
Fifty gross pure White Pearl
Buttons, 14,16 and 18 line;
no extra charge for large sizes
worth 10c dozen everywhere;
here we will sell them in lots
of six dozen, no more or no
less, to one customer at the
price; Monday and Tuesday
only six dozen for.... . . . .. 25c
Men’s 25c Linen Cuffs at 9c Pair.
*.■ ‘Fifty dozen men’s aii Linen
Cuffs, straight link and re- /
versible: Not over one dozen
to one customer at the price,
Monday and Tuesday at per
Pair •••9C
Men’s 12 i-2c Linen Collars at 4c Each.
One hundred dozen men’s all
Linen Collars, every one new
styles and guaranteed to oe
every thread linen; only one
dozen to a customer at the
t
price Monday and Tuesday at
each... ^ 4c
25c Taffeta Silk Ribbons at 14c Yd.
All silk Taffeta Ribhpns in
wide widths, Nos. 40, 60 and
80, all the leading shades;
worth as usually sold 25c;
here Monday and .Tuesday at
per yard......a..... 14c
Over Thousand Remnants Half Price
Monday morning we will
place on sale over one thous
and remnants of ^Yool Dress
Goods, Outings, Flannels,
Calicoes.etc, and nearly every
pieceJs marked at exactly one
half regular prices.
10 Yard Dress Pattern for 25c.
Monday and Tuesday we will sell one hundred dress patterns of io
yards each. Only one will be sold to a customer at the price; Mon
day and Tuesday only the whole io yards for ; *25c
jaBEHMff
A. G. DUNCAN.
115 and 117 Forsyth Street, John R. Shaw’s Old Stand.