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THE AMERICUS WEEKi-Y TIMES-RECORDER. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907
THE. TIMES-RECOROER WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE SO CRUEL
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
TM AMItUOUS RBOOROKR, EaUHUdtieu
To* amkuiousTimes, EetabllHheti ibk».
Consolidated. April, 18JI.
Janta Aunanias represented, ex-
isted simply because the public I
was nut awaie of them Once
brought to the public attention it
was inevitable that thevshonld be
immediately stopped. Outside of I
1 Yesterday an Americas business
.man received a clipping of the
j Washington Post. It came from a
j friend Xjrth . It told of barbarous a few Atlanta correspondents the
I cruelties inflicted on the convicts consciences of the people of Geor-
‘ ~ inSumterCounty.lt had doubtless gia areas quick to respond to the
. SUBSCRIPTION KAreS: j been sent out from Atlanta by one call of duty as those of people
DAILY, one year so.OO, of the monumental liars who dis- north, or anywhere else
DAILY, one month 50 J K race the newspaper profession in The’ le3SOU of our recent experI .
WEEKLY, one year j | 00 ; that ci.y, journalistic hyenas who encej though, should suffice for
WEEKLY, six months ^0! many years to come ' The chain "
... sake of a dollar, to villify their gang should be so watched that no
to ‘ “ r ' mll ’ lnce ” j owu city > Stat « or sectiou.and who J practices of this kind can
tbb tiues-bkookdrii ) never fail .when an opportunity creep in again.
Am.ncut, mi ofTers, to distort and magnify news |
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.
Editor and Proprietor.
J. W. FURLOW, City Editor.
C. H. LOWE, Asst. Business Mgr.
Editorial Room Telephone 00.
The Times-Recorder is the
-‘Official Organ of tfce City of Americus,
Official Organ of Sumter County.
‘Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia for the 3d Congressional District
AMERICUS. GA„ APRIL 18, 1907.
Gin dodging frosts the Georgia
.peach reminds one of the Georgia
politician getting out of the way
• of a real live issue.
Ben Bussell, of the Bainbridge
Searchlight, says that Jim Griggs
is in Congress to stay there “just
.as long as he darn pleases.”
Thank heayens the blackberry
crop is still safe and bait promises
to be abundant. Bummer has not
been shorn of all its happiness.
“What is an expert!” asks the
Augusta Herald. That’s easy.
An expert is a man yon pay to tea
tify as you want him to testify.
They don’t do things over in At
lanta with the same unanimity as
in Americus. Their water bond
■•issue -was only errried by <>2 votes.
They say that Bryan winked
'When he said he would consider
•the matter of nominating Boose
welt. Graves will never believe it.
The Waycross Herald says it is
proud of the farmer boys of that
vicinity. Tf they are what the
Herald claims the future of that
section is assured.
■“South Georgia is the God
favored section,” says Editor
Shipp, of Cordele. He is right.
This portion of the State will soon
leave all the rest behind.
Asked about bis ancestry Sena
tor Tillman replied, “The women
•were vl.tuous and the men were
not cowards.” Bo king ever had
-a better pedigree than that.
It will not be many years, sajs
the Athens Banner before country
boys will find a more pleasant and
more profitable life on the farm,
and Georgia will be in every way
the gainer.
A lady barber, just deceased,
with a sharp razor could shave a
man in a minute. That’s nothing.
Many women still living with sharp
tongues “skin a mau alive” in less
£ime than that.
Dur exports of cotton manu
factured goodsjare said to have fall-
en off twenty four per cent last
year. Prosperity brings its own
punishmont, it would seem. We
can’t compete with Knglaml.
It was the >’ew York World
whose reporter hid in the grand
jury room. It was the same paper
dhat bought the letter from Harri-
man’s discharged stenographer.
The World doesn’t stop at little
things like that.
The Macon Telegraph had the
3xst editorial on the Thaw verdict
that we have read in a Georgia
paper. The Telegraph was not
carried away by the verbose sill-
Incss of Dclmas. There’s too much
mandlin sentiment indhis country
-and the newspaper press is. large
ly responsible for it by* its hand
ling of such a case as the Thaw
•trial.
items to the prejudice of fheSouth
Atlanta,to its shame be it said, has OUR BUSINESS MEN WILL SUP-
more of these ghouls workiug in it
than any other city in the South.
The telegram in question stated
that the convicts in Snmter were
thrown across logs and beat across
the bare backs with trace chains
until their baqks were cat into
pieces. Underneath the clipping
the party who sent it to the Ameri
eus man had written: “Why are
you people so cruel!”
While one naturally feels a sense
of indignation at the asking of a
question that seems to hold the
people of this city and of Sumter
county responsible for any cruelties
that may have been inflicted upon
the convicts on the county chain-
gang, the man who asked it is
hardly to be blamed.
Ho had accepted the dispatch
as partly telling the troth, and
doubtless felt that much worse
conditions existed than were really
allowed to be wired from Georgia.
If convicts were beaten on the
back with trace chains until their
backs were cat to pieces he would
have been justified*in the opinion
that the people of this city and
county were, at least, indifferent
to the cruelties practiced on help
less prisoners. He could not be
expected to know that the story
was a gross distortion of the facts,
bad enough as they were, that
the correspondent thought of noth
ing but the fifty cents or dollar
that came to him as his reward for
such work.
There was not a word to indi
cate that the people of Sumter
county, as soon as they became a-
ware of improper treatment of
convicts, bad taken steps to pot an
immediate stop to sneb practices.
There was not a sentence in the
telegram that would inform the
great northern public that an
investigation had been at once
Jl FEW LUCE!) TIT ARE FINE AND PRE1TY ANR NOT REAR.
That they may secure this season, while they are so much wanted. Hand
some val. laces at lower prices will be good news for women planning Sprint
ar.d Summer dresses. We offer this week a LITTLE lot of 11,000 yards on an
average of half price, there are all widths 01 both edgings and insertings to
match. s
Regular 8c to 10c quality val. laces at Sc yard.
Regular 10c to 15c quality val laces at 8c yard.
Regular ISc to 20c quality val. laces at 10c yard.
Regular 20c to 25c quality val. laces at 12J£c yard. 7
Beautiful Waist Silks 59c Yard.
PORT IT.
The Americus Times-Becorder I
is having more bouquets thrown it |
these days than any other news
paper in Georgia, and the nice I
part abont it is the Times-Becorder
deserves all the nice things that are
said about it. Americas should _
be very proud of the Times-Becor- One thousand yards new Wxlsts
der and give it even a more liberal silks in great variety of this season’s
support than its > advertisment . — ,,-
columns now indicate.—Columbus newest patterns, never before offered
Ledger. for less than 75c, now our pricefper
A’erymany pleasant things have yard g<j c>
been said about the Times-Becor-1
der, all of which are appreciated.
There is one point in the above
clipping from our Columbus con-
held and measures instituted to
prevent any repetition of such
offences. The telegram had sim
ply gone out to confirm in the
minds of countless thousands of
men and woman in the national
capital, and elsewhere, the im
pression that the people oi Georgia
are barbarously Brutal, to make
them ask the same quest ion that
the man asked of his Americus ac
quaintance when he wrote on the
margin of the Washington Post:
‘Why are you people so cruel!”
Cases of New Cinghams at 121-2 Cts.
temporary.. wttet attention „.y|„ recelved one case of the pret-
be properly directed, it is the I‘l? 1 ginghams that we have seen
allusion to the advertisement sui>-1 season, over fifty patterns to se-
port given to the Times-Becorder. lect from, colors guaranteed fast at
Many of the-merchants of the pe r yard C
city are now, and have been for
White Dimities afts 3-4c Yard.
advertisements have been carried Twenty pieces sheer white diml-
in its columns for years and they Ues jn stripes and che cks,full regular
have never wavered in their pat- . . .. r . . .
ronage of the paper. There are width Not over 20 y ards to one CUS ‘
other merchants who occasionally I tomer at the price, regularly sold for
advertise. There are still others 10c, very special for this sale only at
who never advertise.
It is the poliey of the Times-Re
corder to give to the people of
Americus just as good a paper as
its revenues can possibly stand. To
the end that the paper may be iin
proved, a linotype machine ahd
other material aggregating a cost
per yard • 534c
Ladles White Parasols at 98 Cents.
Ladies’ and -misses’ white para
sols, plain and embroidered, regula
tion size, beautiful line of handles.
of oyer #4,000 have been ordered | Never before offered for I*?ss than
and will be in readiness for the fall $1.50, verv special here at each • • • 98c
trade. At that time a telegraphic
Men’s Elastic Seam Drawers at 39c Pair.
Fifty dozen men’s patent elastic
seam drawers made of the best Per-
perel bleached jeans. Waists meas
ures from 28 to 46, lengths 28 to 36.
The I west price ever known for this
quality 50c, reduced for this sale only
Per pair 3 6C
Printed Batiste at 53-4o Yard.
Think of buying new printed ba
tiste here in the first of the season at
this is*a good sheer quality and
the printing is perfect looks like some
of the l2$£c grades, reduced especial
ly for this sale to peryard 5}£c
Ladies 75c Night Can at 38c.
Hade of riuslin and well made
too, trimmed with embroidery and
lace, they are just as fine as the dol
lar grades, .'ome may be slightly
spiled from display, nothing more
serious. ’ ow at each 38c
service will be put in,and arrange
ments made for a special state I
correspondence service. All this |
entails a heavy monthly expendi
ture, an expenditure not justified I
by the income of the paper in |
the past.
We are preparing for this in
creased expense on the ground that I
Americas is large enough to carry
a paper of this character. We
have faith in its business men, and
its citizens generally, and believe |
DUNCAN MERCANTILE CO,
115 and 1.7 Forsyth Street John R. Shaw’s Old 5tana.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
.. . .. 111 1 , . 1 [Notig* — All legal advertisement* must be
that they will give AD adequate brought to the business office not later than
support for such a paper. MrUon^accompantttJ'wSS n thc°fec. Ur TiU
A paper reflects the conditions 1
existing in the town where it
published. A dead town has.-, To all whomIt n ay concern. MU. .or.
dead paper; a live town sends out a tenaeTlnjlcy Bavins arplled for uuardlan-
\ „ ship of the person and property o Thomas
live paper that is an advertisement tnuicr, minor child of pr. w. c. tinsiey,
. r 1 _ . late of haid county, deceased, notice la given
for Its people wherever it goes, that said replication will be heard ai. my
- —, .- . . r 1 B oBceatlO o’clock a m . on tne ttrat Monday
It is u grots outiage that such j The Times Becorder aspires to be11* May, next. ' caViTo .unary
telegrams should be sent broadcast * D * ast class.
We expect a more liberal support
than the Times Recorder has ever
received, ami we intend to de
serve it by giving a greatly im
proved paper. The Times-Becor
A PPWCATION FOR GUARDIANSHIP
A Guenon:— sokteii codktt
with no qualifying statements,
giviug a distorted idea of condi
tions in this section. But iu a
measure we hare ourselves to
blame for it Public opinion is
not sufficiently on the alert, not
only to punish correspondents who
have so reckless a disregard for
the facts and the consequences of
such publications, but to supervise
the chaitigaug system and prevent
the creeping into it of abuses such
as are about to be corrected in
Sumter county. Left to itself,
without vigilant and constant
supervision, a chaugaug inevitably
retrogrades iniii an inferno.
When the public conscience is
quickened, and the eyes of the
people are awake to the conditions,
thatprevail, there is no fear oi /P
abuses creeping into the adminis-'
tration of convict affairs.
The people of Americus and of
Sumter county, with very few
exceptions we believe, are God- j
fearing people who love justice
and humanity, and who would.
scorn to treat prisoners with (
cruelty. The conditions that ex-1
isted on the chaingang, althongh
by no means so horrible as the At- '
. Dartlen owing debt* to Ue es
tate of M tUle J ackson,deceased are notified
to make payment to tre nnderslgQd and
all parties holding claims against said estate
der will do its part ami it hopes
and believes that the people of | EilliufSi ihute I Jid£Si?DjESS£a.
Americus will do theirs.
i* irivr iin 1111 equipment
iM»Mirp;»KM <1 anywhere j
qdyinjr tlio seed* I
Lilt*. Our trade in seeds \
r the CJ
rden and Farm ^
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grounds—and large warehouse
capacity irivr us 1111 equipment
that is* LMjsiirpusK «1 unywhere
for Hupplyi
obtainable.
l»oth for 1
Garden and Farm
s one of the largest in this country.
We are headquarters for
Grass and Clover Seeds. Seed
Oats, Seed Potatoes. Cow
Peas, Soja Beans and
other Farm Seeds.
Wood's Descriptive Catalog
give* fuller hiuI more copiplele Infor
mation about ImiUi liardcti nud Farm
H-edii than any other »imllur publtea-
■otd In this country. Mailed
request. Write for It.
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RICHMOND, - VA.
I PHONE 551.
WHITE HACKMAN.
G. B. Suggs,
Attends all calls except Sunday.
Walt on regular customers for Fun
! orals, Marriages or Sickness free gratis
I on Sunday.
NO DOUBT EXISTS
ABOUmUM CROP.
Were Killed By the Recent
Ereeze.
FRUIT FALLS FROM THE TREES.
No Green Plums and Salt Await Girls
With Fondness for This Diet-
Blackberry Crop Consid
ered Safe.
r. s. ROSE
Practical and Scientific
Horse Shoer.
With Oliver & Harper.' Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded.
Beginning Mon-
| day, April 1, the
City Ice Co.’s
1 yellow wagons will
I furnish yon solid
•crysta' ice, made
I fromgdlatilled water.
Americus bravely withstood the
half dozen complete "killings'’ of the
peach crop and refusoi! to quake at
tho knees when the canteloupe crop
w as blatterod out u week ago and even
the biockberrv crop was endangered,
but yuaterday she was struck a stag
gering blow nmidsliips in the announ
cement of tho utter annihilation of tho
plum Orop. liiriival Americus will
pr-reoi to snivel hysterically at this
d. cad tidings, for what encompasseth
her soul so much as docs green plums
and salt? Dut the fact remains that,
plumetlcally, wo are out of business
this summer. The crop is not an im
portant *ne, but tho girls love them,
and it helps out the doctors and the
druggists during the dull period by
stimulating the sale of salts and pare,
goric. But the plum crop Is wiped out
along with tho peaches and other joy
promoters.
Indigestion Causes
Catarrh of the
Stomach.
For many years It has been supposed that
Catarrh of tte Stomach caused indigestion
and dyspepsia, but the truth Is exactly the
opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re
peated attacks of indigestion inflames the
muceus membranes lining the stomach aid
exposes the aerves of the stomach, thus caus
ing the glands to secrete mucin Instead oi
the Juices of natural digestion.' This is
called Catarrh oi the Stomach.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
relieves all Inflammation of the mucou
membranes lining the stomach, protects the
nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings,*
sense of fullness after eating, Indigestion,
dyspepsia and all stomaoh troubles.
Kodol Digests What Ypu Eat
Make tbe Stomach Sweet.
Bottles cniy. Retuiar size. S1.00. boldine 2Vi tbosa
the trial size, which tells for SO cents.
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Mica Axle Grease
Best lubricant (or axled in thfi
world—long wearing and very ad
hesive.
Makes a heavy load draw like S
light one. Saves half the weat.on
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Ask your dealer (or Mica Axlt
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I* prepared to serve
tbe ladies ns
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