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THh AMERICA UEEKM TIMES.RECORDER. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER Q. |007 THE riMES-ftECGROEfi SOUTHERNERS ROBBED OF FAME. 0« Cy «NO Wt. Vas i'- <.<oouh t,.i*oltaSeu hi ■o AunioosTuns. Kiubllsbed Ifiw. Consolidated. April, im. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; •AILY, on* year ...$6.00 DAILY, one month SO WEEKLY, one year SI.00 WEEKLY, eta month* SO address all loiters and: make remlfancea oayable to TBI TIME8-BK0OKDEB1 THOMAS GAMBLE, JR. Editor and Proprietor. J. W. FURLOW, city Editor, editorial Boom Telephone » The Times-Recorder is the JRdalOrgan ot tie City of Americas, OCciil O.-yan of Sumter County. Oman Or ran of Webster County, emcla] Organ of Railroad Commission ol ■eorgla for the Id Congressional District. AMERICUS. GA., SEPT. 6. 1907. A DAILY ^THOUGHT. The dawn is not far distant, iSor is the night starless; Love is eternal. * God is still God, and His faith shall not fall us; Christ is eternal. —Longfellow. r "Ti; South made history, but It left it to the North to write if Th.s was Champ Clark's explanation some time ago as to why certain 1 I tv:..i events in American history were allowed to fail Into obscurity, while other minor events were lauded to the skies and their participants magnified J into heroes of the firft magnitude. Paul Reveres ride was a pretty tame performance beside the ride the mountaineers of Carolina who came swooping down on the British and annihilated them at King's Mountain, the turning point in the Revolutionary war. Yet every child, through the magic of Longfellow's pen, has heard of Revere's ride, while many have forgotten that there ever was a battle Kings Mountain, and that the men who fought there on the American side had been In the saddle for two or three days coming from their homes at the alarm. Paul Revere loped along several hours and then went home to breakfast and to bed. The men of Carolina were in the saddle for days, fought bloody and triumphant battle and then rode back through the wilds to their homes. Yet Revere, who probably never saw a battle, is the hero and the others are unknown. If Nancy Hart had been a New England woman monuments would dot the country to her memory, novels and poems without number would have her for centrul figure, her name wOuid be a household word aud her heroic deeds the heritage of every child. How many people outside of Georgia know anything of Nancy Hart, and how many people in Georgia can tell any- thing about her life and career? We are reminded of such facts as these by the recent celebration of the centennial of Fulton’s first steamer's voyage on the Hudson. Every boy in -Ur. Grundy has been aDpointed •Social secretary” for the Jamestown exposition. What a target his name will be for Irreverent newspaper pun sters! “What do we really get out of . when Mr. Ryan or Mr. Belmont chis •Is a great fortune from one of our labile utilities?" asks the New York American. Carrie Nation proposes to reform Pittsburg or die in the attempt her own little hatchet has been lost she might borrow Hoke 8mith’s and Seep it from getting rusty. A‘ New England doctor has died as a-result of exqprimenting on himself. 86 record is kept of those outside of tte profession who die as a result of being, experimented on by doctors. Judge Roddenberry has begun his •ampalgn for Jim Griggs' seat Congress. The boys say that before the Judge Is through Griggs will know that there has been a fight, on tn his vicinity. The public is gradually learning a great deal about its railroad mag nates. Stuyvcsnnt Fish says J, T, Harahan is a "Jiar and a skunk/’ A nod many people think Fish ■.first-class snob. Sect Taft is getting more rampant as the desire for the presidency grows •pon him. He Is now ardehtly advo cating imprisonment rather than Anes for violators' of the anti-trust laws. Taft tries hard to plant his feet in Roosevelt's tracks. Hearst announces that the Indepen dence League will put a full ticket in fee field in New York. The League Is evidently going to do its best to pre vent the old-line Democracy frfim winning in that or any other State where the League has a foothold. Speaker Cannon says he will not allow tariff revision at the next ses sion of Congress. Hearst’s papers de ■ounce Joe as "a type of the most Bin frier tools of special interests." Every fihdy thought Joe was an innocent bucolic granger who loved hard aider and a bandana handkerchief. Searst has shattered another idol. The opinion In Savannah Is that if the Atlanta Journal does not know anymore about the status of the se aurities of other railroads than it has shown Itself to know of those of the Central of Georgia It had better re tire from its assumed position as chief official endorser and agitator for the Smith administration. The Inter-State Commerce Commls sion fears that the car shortage the titt eight months will be worse than •ver before. If better relations are aot established between the railroads and the State governments this con dition Is likely to become more acute. As things now are corporations must ®>d it exceedingly difficult to either make or borrow money. The Savannah papers insist so strenuously and so persistently that tfeeir city is not going to be damag- •4» oeriously by prohibition, but is gplng speedily forward to Increasing prosperity, that one is forced {o the that Savannah is still h afraid that the public took school is taught that Fulton was the inventor of the steam boat Yet it has been shown time after time that Fulton was not such, that two people, at least, had demonstrated that a boatoperated by steam power was practicable' long before Fulton began his work. Up In Trenton they are preparing now to honor the memory of a citizen there who some years before the Clermont floated on the Hudson had successfully operated a steamboat on the Dela ware. Down here in Georgia we have an equal opportunity to do honor to a Georgian, who likewise anticipated by many years the work done by Ful ton. New Jersey will probably push her celebration to a success. A monu- uentwillnodoubtgo up to her son sou his claims will contest those of Ful ton. But the Georgian, who was unfortunate in the selection of his home so far as fame Is concerned, will soon again be forgotten. William Longstreet Invented a steamboat in Georgia seventeen years before Fulton operated the Clermont, and a few years before it is claimed the Trenton man brought his invention to a head. Longstreet is said to have operated his boat on the Savannah river near Augusta in 1790 suffleent ly to demonstrate Its success. Lack of funds and public support lead to the abandonment of the invention. But tardy justice should be done to his memory. In the school histories of Georgia and of the South, at least, when children read of the Clermont a foot note should tell them that seventeen years before its trial on the Hudson a Georgia man had Invented and operated a similar boat. ' It would be interesting to know how many such great events in the history of the South have been forgotten while the North has been permitted to lay claim to similar events of later date aud magnify them into occurrences of national importance. It has only been recently that the world has been forced to acknowledge a Georgian’s right to the fame of first using anes thetics in surgery. The North still la loath to surrender its claim in that direction. Why does not some enthusiastic son of Dixie investigate and give the South a full meed of credit for all that,it has done for which it has not been credited, and rescue from oblivion the names and the deeds ot Its sons who were gredt but have been overlooked through the failure of Southerners to preserve records and write history. Piece Goods Sale Extraordinary. Dress goods, white goods, silks laces, embroideries, damasks, sheeting pillow casing every fabric you buy by the yard Involved in this undfr-’ not nnlv i a « _ .. . VI Ing. This event not only provides splendid economies, but presents the new ff ? nd J"® 81 attractive things In fabrics designed for Fall and Winter. Aaver" tised detolls of the event are limited chiefly to underprice offerings Imported^ b’ack Voil 50 Inches wide, firm wiry weave deep tIck black regular Ladle, cloth.SOInchMw'de and all wool block and all tho loading shares Ne * ^tarSof’s^e nCl " S " llte everj ' stnple shade beautiful newgoo'ds ^ * •••••*•••»» # * 29c Chiff °sale atl8te S ° ,nCheS WWe Crlspv ’ ,Ubtr0U8 and very durable value 98c 59c TWe,V : i h r r tg U lV r ^ c e ^^^" , “r e a <,el "^ and ln5 ' rUng ! Up t0 ,lve '"‘"g Shrer Persian Lawn 32 inches wide very smoothe perfect weave regular i5c ; Sale of Lace Curtains. • Lace curtains 3 yards long extra wide great variety of the new pretty Dat terns regular $1.50 to $1.75 sale per pair . . P „ P ?o 98c Sampte lace curtolns^not more than six pair of a kind they were used on the OUR DUMB ANIMALS. Tie thought by some that at the final day At God's tribunal, when man's wrongs are told, The silence ,of the dumb shall fall away , And they shall toil their sufferings ages old. y Office of Commissioners of Ronds and Revenues of Snmter County, Ga. But, whether this be true or but n dream, | Oh, let tby voice to-day for them arise! Be champion of those whose oniy speech Is the imploring language of tne eyes. Haste on the day when evciy heart shall be By pity's voice to deeds ol mercy stirred! Till kindness' law Bhall rule human ity, And cruelty shall be ah .mknown word. —Alice Jean Cleator in Ohio Farmer. Tho Moultrie Observer says that with three members of the railroad commission eminent lawyers, and the State enjoying the services of an at torney general, the appointment of Hines to the Commission. simply ad ded an unnecessary expense on the tax payers of Georgia. But it paid a political debt, no doubt. Clark Howell says the disfran chisement law will simply stimulate the negroes to educate their children so that they may become voters, and the negro will soon be In politics more vigorously than ever before. It only takes a few years for the negro boys now growing up and being edu cated to become adults and voters. 1 Amerlcus, Ga., Sept. 2, 1907. It is ordered that a Tpx of Nine and fifty-one hundreths mills (the same being nine dollars and fifty cents on the thousand dollars including two dollars for road purposes)’ be assesed and levied on the taxable property of Sumter County, for County purposes for the_ fiscal year 1907, and the Tax Collector is Instructed to collect said tax. It is fqrther ordered that the amount of tax so raised shall be pro rated at the following rates, for the following purposes to-wit: Fund No. 1 Legal Indebtness 10 Fund No. 2 Court House. Jail and bridges 3.75 Fund No. 3 Officers Fees .. .. 1.25 Fund No. 4 Coroner Fees 02 Fund No. 5 Fuel, Stationery and Servants hire ...13 Fund No. 6 Jury Fees .. . . .. 1.00 Fund No. 7. Poor 1.25 Fund No S Roads, Special .. ..2.00 Ladies and Misses Shoes. Ladies ( pw cut shoes In small.izes only from 2 to4 nothing larger if your size is In this lot you can get the brst bargain ever offered in this state in a pair of shoes the entire lot is from one of the best makers in the who'e ° f ,ad * e ® fine &hoe f n( t a pair Is worth a cent less than $3.00 now you can take your pick of the lot at per pair 9 SC Misses low cut shoes in every new toe shown this season patent leather, vici kid, half heels and spring heels not a pair in the lot that Is worth a cent less than $1.00 and more th«n one half of the lot ore $150 and $2.00 grades take your pick of this I t as long as they last at per pair .... 50c Men’s Four-in-Hand Ties. Men’s Four-ln-Hand Ties made of heavy silks beautiful assortment of light sale ancKDark colors equal In every way to the grades offered here for 50c .25c OUNCAN MERCANTILE CO. • •5 and **7 Forsyth Street John k. Shaw’s Old Stano. JOYNER’S REMOVAL SALE. For ten days we are going to ofter tremendous values in mer chandise.' Wa must move to oar new place about Sept. 10th Our S'ook is the largest we have ever had and we must greatly reduce it , to tea days Some things we are doling out at halt what they cost; others at one-fourth below; and sc »res at cost. You cannot «ni«» this great sale co ning in these times of high prices,Tts a saving opportun ity. Will you mis i it or not? Bee circular for more prices. Sale Begins Saturday August 13th. o Every Man or Woman Total $9.50 Witness our hands and official seals, tills second day of Sept., 1907. - A. T. JOHNSON, N. A. RAY,, J. L. CHAMBLISS, R. M. ANDREWS, W. L. THOMAS, County Commissioners. The Roosevelt boys have inherited their father's highly developed In stinct for keeping in the public eye. In fact they have a positive genius in that direction. Teddy. Jr., is now being featured as a hop picker up in York state, earning $1.00 a day. Tom Watson thinks it is tltne some one besides Macon lawyers were appointed arbitrators for the State. Tom having spoken the Macon law yers now know what to expect No more Jobs for them unless Tom re moves his veto. Bonaparte intimates that the trusts would like to see him resign. Really what has Bonoparte so far done that the trusts, should greatly fear him? He has talked a good deal of late, but to be about all up to date. - An exchange expresses the beliet that Tom Watson supported Hoke Smith for governor as the easiest and' quickest way to smash the Demo cratic party Into smithereens. ,Dlck Grubb, of Darien, holds that ‘‘even a half dozen legislatures couldn’t kill prosperity In Georgia.” No, but they could give It some pret ty hard jars. And now they are saying that the majority of the members of the legis lature are membera ot cluba and that la the reason they voted for the locker bill. Poor legislators. A bad motive ia im (sited to everything they have done, or arc likely to do. who saves money! Is it com log jour way? Is not. the fault is yonis alone. Yon earn, spend and can save if yon will—why not make a begin ning at Our Savings Department today? It means 4 per interest and pros perity for you. Dry Goods at Cot Pricos FOR SALE. 4' Doom house, Cburcn at. 51,000 5 Room house, Church St.... 1,200 ( I Vacant lot. Fojsyth St; 300 7c Good. Calico, all colors per yd 5c 7c Good Qingham, now... 5c 8$o Good Glagham, n»w 7c 10c Best 28 inch percale 7Jo 12Jo Best 32 Inch percale 10e 10 Yds good 7« (lowered l«wn 39j 12J (Flowered Organ lies, 8u 15c Beautiful dotted swiss 10c 12Jc 40 inch white lawn..* 7$c 20c 40 inch white lawn lie 15c Heavy Sambesic Cloth 10c 15o Nice white linene 10c 25c Brown Polo silk i0c 25c Fancy Milano silk 19o 25c Beautiful Swiss Applique 19c 35c Swell new skirt goods 25c 25c 8vell new plaids 15c 15c Solid color worst®d 10c 2 Vacant lots for 500 2 Vacant lots through to Hampton street 800 Apply to S.R. JOHNSON, j Men’s and Boys Pants Reduced, $5.00 Men’s swell pants 83.18 54.00 Men’s swell p»nts 82 OS 88.00 Men’s swell pants 81-98 82.00 Men’s swell pants 8130 8150 Men’s swell pants.. 98c $1.00 Men’s washable pants... 75c 75c Men’s washable panto.... 50c Men’s washable pants 30o Boy’s knee pants 40c Boys knee panto 25c SLIPPERS AND SHOES. $3.50 Extra fine slippers $3 4S 83.00 Extra fine slippers $108 82.60 Lx ra fine slippers 81 t>9 82.00 Solid leather slippers... 81.48 81.50 Solid leather slippers... 98c . 60c 39c 39c 1 528,Cotton Avenue. W. A. JOYNER. Americas, Ga. FOR RENT. Two or three rooms for light housekeeping. MRS, S. R. JOHNSON. 123 Forrest Street A W. Smith, Pres. G. M. Eldrfdge, V. P. N. M. Dudley, Cashier. Fine harness earned In stock or made to order at Baglay’s, wholesale and retail. — wi» mi iuy«| *ira ni mi mhuisji -• Bank of South-Western Ga. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SECURITY, LIBERALITY AND COURTESY ACCORDED ITS PATRONS. DIRECTORS: C.IL. Analog, G. M. Eldrldge, P.JJ, Fm W, A. Dodson, Thee. Hanold A. W. Smith N. M. Dudley, H. It, Johnson.P