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twenty-ninth year AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 2, 1907, NUMBER 14. 25 Per Cent Off Here’s Your Chance Men! Men, you know that you have to wait a whole year to get 4 per cent, in a Savings Bank. We’re going to beat the Bank’s time. We are going to give you an opportunity to malrc 25 per cent in a single day. You can do it by simply investing at our Clearance Sale. All our Men’s, Boys’, and Children’s Suits, Trousers and Clothing of all sorts we shall now offer for a short period only at the tremendous discount of— One Fourth Off the Regular Price Our chief work now is getting ready for Fall and Winter business and we’ll hammer away until everything is sold. Come expecting great value. There’s no juggling with the truth here. The old price tickets are on the goods—take off one*fourth —that’s all there is to it. $30.00 SUITS NOW $22.50. 25.00 SUITS NOW 18.75. 22.50 SUITS NOW 16.90. 20.00 SUITS NOW 15.00. 12.50 SUITS NOW 9.40. 10.00 SUITS NOW 7.50. ANTIS TELL THE TACTICS Employed By the Plucky Minority in Conducting Lit ibuster Recognized Hopelessness of Effort But Preferred Defeat to a Knock' down. 100 Suits at 50 Cents on the Dollar. This includes all the Odds and Ends and broken sizes in the store. Don’t miss this greatest of all opportunities. W. D. BAILEY. Outfitter for Men and Boys. Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave. Americus. Ga. PURE GOOD Our Drugs Are Pure The / Finest Quality Our Methods are Good The Most . Approved We Invite Your Trade. REM BERT’S DRUGSTORE 113 FORSYTH ST, The masterly manner In which the recent filibuster In the House was conducted aroused admiration even among the opponents of the “hopeless minority" and many have wondered at the excellent display of general ship. With little hope of success the minority battled on, preferring bon. orable defeat to a square out back down and surrender. One of the minority filibusters, who Is well known in Americus, thus tells of the tactics employed: “Very little hope was entertained that the .filibuster would be success ful. Mr. Hall of Bibb, while admit ting that there was nothing to be lost by making the effort, predicted that it would not last three hours. But fo rthe fact that the filibuster wap conducted with great skill by the ml nority and was marked by very poor management on the part of the pro hibitionists, this would have been the result “The chief credit for the filibuster belongs to Dunbar of Richmond, Hines of Baldwin, Blackburn of Fulton, Barrow and Adams of Chatham. Joe Hill Hall of Bibb la ah opponent of prohibition, but except when an effort was made to depart from the rules or overrule the speaker of the house took no part In the filibuster. Could Hove Held On. Under the tactics adopted the fill- buster could have lasted for weeks, provided the one-fifth continued to vote with us, and provided the house abided by its rules. But the prohibitionists, on the theory that the end Justified thp means, had determined to overrule the speaker, which requires only majority vote, and had determined to then set aside all rules of the house and vote Immediately on the bill. A filibuster is only possible by theuSe of dilatory tactics allowed under these rules of the house, but when these rules are set aside this sends the mat ter. It requires a three-fourths vote of the house to set aside the rules and could the antis have mustered forty- i votes they could have prevented 3 being done.' But we were unable do so; the ayes and naya would 'o been called and while we got as many as forty-four votes on holding hands, thirty-three was the larg est number we obtained on gn aye and nay vote. The prohibitionists, having the nec essary three-fourths vote to apt aside ( Bat One Coarse. .“But with the rules set wide, the only dilatory tactics left to the ml nority was the Introduction of sev eral hundred frivolous amendments to the bill. But with the rules set aside, the right of a member to ex plain hia vote and the right to cay for the ‘ayes and nays' on every qeus- tlon were gone, and therefore a delay of more than two days, and probably not this long, was the most of the minority could hope for. And by the Candler resolution more time than this was secured. “In addition to this, where there was no hope of defeating the bill'. It was a serious question In the minds of many of the minority whether, un der their oaths aa legislators, for the purpose of delay only, they had the right to hold up important legis lation and cause the state great ex pense. ‘Among the main purposes of the minority In going Into the filibuster Were: To enter their protest in un mistakable terms against the bill; to secure a guarantee of a full and fair hearing of the views of the minority; to demonstrate that the majority could not run over them rough shod, as there was an evident purpose to do. To delay a vote until the majority had “cooling time” and there was some opportunity for sober second thought to assert Itself, and to se cure time to argue with the prohibi tionists as to the desirability of amending the bill In Important parti culars. All of these results were accomplished by the filibuster. 'Pressure from Home. CLEARING OUT SALE. We want to finish cleaning up and clearing out lots of summer stuffs and we e<i make extraor dinary reductions til ^eek as we leave in a few days ./Jr New York. 5c. Per Yard. We throw out this week nearly all the wash goods we have on the center counters and in order to dump them quick and give us room we will sell Muslins,Ginghams,Cal icoes, Chambrays, figured lawns and various other wash stuffs which ormeJly sold from 10c to lsc yard for the ridiculous price of 5c yard. ’There are a large number of rep resentatives who 'because of the press lire brought to bear by their constltutenta intend to vote for. the bill, but who do not believe In Ha wisdom. The filibuster decidedly strengthened the minority with these members. They recognized the right of the minority to make a reasonable pro test and enjoyed the discomfort of the prohibitionists. But a prolonged filibuster, • defeating the passage of measures, In which sucji members were personally Interested, would have so angered them as to .destroy all hope of getting them to act with us on any amendments. , “As Indicated above, there was ab solutely nothing to bo gained by an attempt to continue filibuster, and 7 l-2c PER YARD. On this counter you will find some of the best fabrics w* have in the house. Nothing on the counter less than about 12 l-2c and from that up to 15c and 20c yard but this week In order to clear them quickly we say 7 l-2c yard. SPLENDID VALUES IN LADIES SHIRT WAISTS, HOSIERY, LACES, WHITE GOODS, UNDERVESTS, RIB BONS. ETC ETC. the rules, and having determined up- on the other hand tberd was every substantial reason which demanded tho courso pursued by the minority.” on this course, the filibuster of necessity came to an ond. Special attractions in prices this week on Ladies wash skirts as we want to sell every one in the house now, while the season is on. Former prices will be no criterion during this weeks selling. Chas. L. Ansley . Successor to WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.I (See Ad on Fourth Page.) OPEN BOLLS0FG0TT0N FIRST OF NEW CROP ARE SEEN IN AMERICUS. Grown in a Dry Streak and Not a Sample of the General Crop of the County. The first open cotton bolls seen iu Americus this season were exhibited yesterday by Bolton Bros, from their farm In the Fifteenth district. Mr. J. F. Bolton stated that the crop there had suffered greatly from drouth and, despite tho general rains elsewhere over the country, his farm was still dry, and had been so for weeks past. These open bolls do not reflect crop conditions here generally, and the total number of August bales mark eted In Americus can probably, be counted upon the fingers of a one- armed mao. Endorsed By tho County. . “The moat popular remedy In Otse go county and the beat friend of my family," writes Wm. M. Dietz, editor and publisher of the Otsego Jour nal, Ollberlsvllle, N\ Y„ “is Dr. King 1 * New Discovery. It has proved to be an Infallible cure for coughs and colds, making short work of the worst of them. We always keep a bottle In the house. I believe (t to be the mos tvaluable prescription known for lung and throat diseases." Guar anteed to never disappoint the taker, by Eldrldge Drug Co. Price 60c and 01.00 Trial botUo free. im. ALABAMA TO QUIT BOOZE WILL FOLLOW THE LEAD OF GEOR GIA SHORTLY. Legislature May Attempt to Pass a Similar Law if Possible. MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 31.— Kumor Is rife hero today to th•> etfect that prohibition members of tbe Ala bama legislature, elated over the suc cess of tbe state prohibition measure In Georgia, will* attempt to put through a similar bill. The present session will end In a few days, and while It Is poslific that nothing In tho way of state prohibition can be accomplished at this time It Is cer- I fain to be an Issue In the next cam paign and with every Indication of a successful Issue. ORDERS put up and DELIVERED PROMPTLY isn’t half the story. We’ll just bipt hereof flagrant, sonl satisfy ing Coffees “tnl Teas, wholesome Flour anti Cereals, delicious jsntk • and • preserves, vegefttbVs that spell “health” Jn every curve and color. FINK G HOC K It IKS -m «*aa i-Mm not "how cheap," but "how good," warranted to clip many a round dollar off a square weekly bill. We might add a apicy tale of Gataups, Fickle*, olives, but wo refrain and await your ordo; Inategd. SPARKS-MASHBURN COMPANY, .. /: ■ J. W. rfHEEVJELU, President. FRANK SHEFFITID Vlcs-Pret E. D. 8 RE FFIELD, ‘Cashier. The Limit of Life. The most eniment medical scien tists are unanimous in tbe conclu sion that the generally accepted lim itation of the human life la many years below that attainment poastble with tbs advanced knowledge of which the race Is now possessed. The critical period, that determines Its duration, seems to be betwen 60 and 60; the proper care of the body during this decade cannot be too strongly urged; carelessness then be ing fatal to longevity. Nature’s best helper after \50 Is Electric Bitters, the scientific tonic medicine that revi talises every organ of the body. Guar anteed by Eldrldge Drug Co. S0«. , la. * Bank of Comwum AMERICUS. GEORGIA. imm| • . ,‘J' -.vSB - k . •'hj • *' Vr Ym A general banking business transacted and all consistent courtesk i extended to patrons. Certificates of deposit .issued bearing l interest A W. Smith, Prea. C. M. Eldrldge, V. P. N. M. Dudley, Cashtet. Bank of South-Western Ga. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SECURITY, LIBERALITY AND COURTESY ACCORDED ITS PATRONS. DIRECTORS:.; C.JL. Analey, Q. M. Eldrldge, R. J. Pen) — W, A. Dodeon,, Thee. Harrold, A. W. Smith N. M. Dudley. H. R, Johneen.