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THE AMICUS WEEKLY nittES-RECURDER, FRIDAY, f O) THE TIMES-RECORDER -—. BEING THANKFUL DAILY AND WEEKLY The Amerlcus Recorder, Established 1879. The Amerlcus Times, Established 1S90 Consolidated April, 1891. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR„ Editor and Proprietor. C. W. CORNFORTII, Associate Editor. J. W. FL’RLOW, City Editor. Editorial Room Telephone 99. The Times.Recorder Is the Official Organ of the City of Amerlcus Official Organ of Sumter County. Official Organ of Webster County. Official Organ of Railroad Commis sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congres sional District. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily,, one. year $G.OO Daily, one month 50c Weekly, one year 11.00 Weekly, six months 50c Address ail letters and make remit tance payable to THE TIMES-RECORDER. Amerlcus, Ga. Amerlcus, Ca,, Nov. 29, 1907. For the first time In history, eggs are being imported from England This may be intended merely as l. warning to members of the theatrical profession. it has remained for a Chicago school teacher to suggest a new subject for the class room—that of courtship. lie will next be wanting to teach a duck how to swim. In a New Orleans paper's headline is the statement “Big Delegation Go ing to Wash." That such an incident should be worthy of special notice Is rather remarkable when there is so much water at hand. Gov. Comer, in his Thanksgiving proclamation, prays for “the passage of the financial brainstorm, creating a dementia of business." There was once a Pharisee who uttered a prayer -along the same lines. The Central of Georgia has cut down Its forces at the Savannah, Ma con and Columbus shops 10 per cent. The attitude of the faction in power in Georgia towards railroads Is win ning supporters every day. Kaiser Wilhelm left a little tip of $10,000 to be divided among those who served him Nit Windsor Castle during his visit to King Edward. ■Even kings and emperors cannot es- ••cape the malignant "open palm.” Tills Thanksgiving Day will differ in many respects from its predecessors. While there are numerous things for the American people, the people of the South, of Georgia, of Sumter county and of Amerlcus, to be thank- r ful for, a feeling of anger also is abroad. The thanksgiving is for large crops, freedom from great disas ter and for the blessings of peace and prosperity guaranteed by the Constitution and obtainable when you can. The anger—or more properly speaking, Indignation—which the American people feel is towards the system and men In Wall street which made the recent disturbances pos sible. It is not that Roosevelt set in motion the machinery which re sulted in the alarming disclosures of rottenness in financial dealings which hurts, but that these conditions were able to grow unchecked. The South has been particularly hit by the re sults which followed in not being able to move the cotton crop, which meant that lower prices also had to be accepted for distress cotlon. But the situation has Improved suf ficiently to justify the feeling of thanksgiviug so appropriate for to day. While meditating on the boun ty of God in so generously providing an unusually rich year, the mind will naturally turn to consider the causes which have led up to the nullifying in a measure of these bright pros pects which nature held out. If from the recent panic are derived some valuable lessons for the fu ture—and to thinking men there cer tainly will be such—then it will not have been an unmixed evil. Specu lators, with their demands for mon ey at rates higher than legitimate industry can pay, should be scourg ed from the temple. They toil not, neither do they spin, and In the world of business there is no use for them. Its something for which to be thankful that the eyes of the people have been opened and that such dis turlmnces as the recent one will not be present to cast its shadow over another Thanksgiving Day. ' WOMAN OU I LIED i mortality table Has Drawn $13,000 <J ; Investment of $3,300. II A food to sing on— Energy and good-nature in every package. The most nutritious wheat fosd. In moist: f .re and dust proof packages. NATIONAL BISCUIT .COMPANY THE FARMER’S DAY. OF TRIUMPH Prices are falling. It is announced that radium can now be made for $1,000,000 an ounce, instead of three times that sum, which has been the current quotation. Consumers of rad ium will no doubt be rejoiced af the heavy cut. Reform Is reaching out after preach -era who use tobacco. A law has been passed by a Reformed Presby terian synod forbidding their preach era the luxury of a cigar or pipe. A -fiery debate is said to have ensued I Over the proposition. Mobile threatens to secede from A1 abamn since the passage of the state prohibition law. Florida or Mlssl- aippl are suggested as desirable con nections. What If those states should go dry too? Mobile may have move out beyond the three-mile line Into the Gulf. Prohibitionists In New York state ~are agitating for a temperance cru- sade by which the sale of Intoxicating 'liquors shall be made unlawful. Ins- -Plratlon has been gathered from the action of Georgia and Alabama. ,, ticket is to be put out pledged to pass a prohibition law. Flipping a coin Is the lastcst way for President Roosevelt to make his appointments. This plan was pur sued In the case of the South Dakota patronage, where the Senators were unable to agree on the men. Roose velt must have had such scenes as this in mind when he darided to or der the removal of "In God We Trust” from the coins. Cotton growers in Sumter county who are so fortunate as to have cotton still on hand, are viewing the reaction from recent low prices with pleasure. Prices are yet considerably below the views of holders, but tilings are coming their way with more celerity thau has been in evi dence since the financial crisis gave the hears a change to sound the an vil chorus with renewed fury. Some very hnrd knots have been tied In the tail of the bear kite by the recent ginners' report, which show ed that the amount ginned thus far indicated a crop of around 12,000,000 bales. This Is on the basis that less than 5,000,000 bales remain to be ginned, which has held good up ti date In the history of the trade. Be sides the Government figures, private estimates have been made of the same tenor. Texas, which was the bulwark of the big crop last season, showed 1,709,000 bales, which Is cer tainly discouraging for the bears who have been seeing a 4,000,000 bale crop from the Ixme Star state. Some good Judges cannot find proof for a crop larger than 11,000,000 bales. The present situation Is n great triumph for the farms who have held back their cotton, selling only enough to meet necessary de mands. The bucket shop advocates declared that the farmer was ruined when Georgia abolished the wire houses, and that the producers had cut off their beBt friend and their only hope In carrying the crop. Well, the farmer Is still alive, with some good cotton on hand, which It does not bring 15 cents wilt be n great deal nearer that It Is now. The hears are on the run and It will be a case of "curses come home to roost." The worst has passed and farmers who did not turn loose at low prices during the financial crisis will certainly not do so now, so that those who have merrily sold ahead something that didn’t have, will reap a full harvest when they are called on to fill (heir paper contracts. The Southern farmer has declined to let speculators fix the price of his great staple. No tears will lie shed In tills section over the plight of the gamblers who joined Issue—and lost. The Georgia Railroad has thrown down the gauntlet to the Railroad Commission, declining to obey an ord er Issued on an anonymous investiga tion and directing extraordinary haste In repair work. The company de clares that “It is a thing unprecedent ed in a country where despotic pro cedures and methods are abhorred ^that a person accused should not be lfronted with nls accuser or should called ou to answer to an anony- — publication.’' EARLY SHOPPERS 6ET PICK 0E XMAS GOODS MILLS OF JUSTICE IN WHIRL AT THE TEMPLE Don't Put Off Buying Until Very Last. This year Americus merchants de sire to encourage the buying of Christmas goods early. In fact, their reasons are so good that they will doubtless appeal to a large number of buyers, especially for their more important purchases. The candy and fireworks can bo laid in almost on the eve of the festivities. Session of Court Begins Monday. 'With Judge 52.' A. J.itllcjohn pres iding, and Solicitor General Hooper representing Interests of tile State, the November term of Sumter super ior court began yesterday. The bus iness at this term Is lighter than in several years and the session, there fore, may not be a very lengthy one, Mobile's threat to secede from Ala bama Is not even a good bluff.—Phil adelphia Inquirer. ) NKW YORK, Nov. 27—(Speclal). Mrs. Betsy Gage of Brooklyn, celebrated her 100th birthday- week, received from the EouiMhil life Assurance Society on the i 0 versary day a present of $121.80 an.i i a k 0 , u< l u et of roses In honor of heJ ■ distinction as the most successful investor in life Insurance on record! Mrs. Gage has set at naught all th«f calculations of learned actuaries hi outliving the expectation of mortal life and has made useless to her owd case any application of the America! experience tables, which calculatl that the age of 95 is the present Hmil of human existence. " Mrs. Gage began her experiment life Insuranco In 1880, when she i 72 years of age. She purchased i $2000 an annuity of $275, payable long as she lived. The expectancl tables at that time gave her el eh years’ time on earth. , six years later she Invested $1: In another life annuity of $211.00 that time the mortality tables ga her a little more than. five years life. But Mrs. Gage outlived the ealeu lations. with the result thnt she ha drawn more than $12,000 on an lit vestment of $3300. The Insurant! company officers were so Intereste IB her achievement that they sen her a quarterly Instalment on hi) birthday. Paul Morton, president - the society, sent a letter, In wl lie said: “I take pleasure In extending „ you our respectful and cordial said tattons on your 100th birthday. 1 hope that for many a day you wil continue to enjoy healtlj, strengtl and comfort. "You occupy a unique position, you are the only member of the Eq table Life Assurance Society y has lived a full century. We had had pleasant business relations wit) you for 27 1-2 years, and there many In this office who hold In respectful esteem.” WARUCK’S STORE, Shoes, Shoes, Shoes] “There are many advantages to possibly consuming not more than the early shopper,” said a prominent ten days, or two weeks at best. tuprpll nt vociosiln f ••T’l, A l Tim 4..... > merchat yesterday. "They get the pick of the goods, and moreover have time to select with deliberation and with less of the feeling of rush which Is inevitable later. “So many people wait until the last week or two to do all their buying. The natural result is that the stores are crowded and at the best the clerks cannot get around as fast as Is desirable, no matter how .large Is the force. There Is no good reason In most Instances for defer ring .these purchases, except the nat ural procrastination in making up one's mind ns to what shall be bought. "Then It Is the part of unselfish ness to come early. The clerks and all employes arc enabled to get through the holiday trade with less strain. They can also give more undivided attention to their customers and give their best advice In the selection of presents. "The merchants will be highly pleas ed to see the Christmas trade start early In December, though the vol ume will not he more than If crowd ed Into the last two weeks, or v.-orse still, the last few days. It Is to the Interest of the shopper as' welLas of the merchant that purchases be made as early as possible." All over the country a systematic effort is being made to get Christ mas buying started early, especially In the larger cities. Department stores have been asked to Insert their advertisements the following: "Buy your presents early—early In the day and early in December. That will be your biggest gift of the holi days to the workers behind the counters and on the delivery wag ons.” NEGROES ARE HELD ON CHARGE 0E KILLING Crime is Committed on Cannon Place. CANDIDATES CAUGHT AT COURTHOUSE The able candidate for honors al- dermanic fell u|k>ii hard lines yes terday., When court convened not less than four of the half dozen who are striving for the«lleshpots were hauled up for jury duty, and only one or two were excused from serving. With the election only a week off, and most of the other jurors, being from the country and therefore not open to his convincing argument for votes, the able candidate is up against It real hard. Mr. Bryan appears In a new role as the banker*’ friend—Baltimore Sun. Kate Slappey and Sum Ware, two young negroes, were hrougfiht to Americus yesterday by Deputy Sher iff Fuller and jailed as the result of the killing of Jewell Davis, another negro, on the Cannon place. Little Is known of the tragedy beyond the fact that the woman and two men were In a house together Saturday night, it is said, when Davis was killed by a gunshot wound. It is said that the entire top of his head was shot away ami death was probably instantan eous. The Slappy woman and Sam Ware, tho only known witnesses to the killing, assert that death was due to the accidental discharge of the gun, but Coroner Duckworth ordered that both be held. Ware os principal and the woman as accessory to the crime. The grand jury was organized with Mr. G. M. Eldrldge as foreman. This grand jury Is one of the best that has ever served the county, and Is made uu of the following well known citi zens of town and county: G. M.‘ Eldrldge, J. J. Wilson, W. K, Bell, W. M. McMath, G. D. Hayes, R R. Stewart. J. P. Cannon, A. B. Con nors, G. W. Riley, C. A. Chambliss, J. L. Johnson, II. C. Mitchell. John Sheffield, J. S. Johnson, John Sims ' G. E. Buchanan, T. Wheatley. C. N Griffin. J. H. Daniel, H. L. Mize, D. M Borum, J. J. Dupree, J. L. Sparks. The charge of the court to the grand jury was clear and forceful, as are all charges delivered by Judge Little John. After explaining fully their duties as jurors, regarding the Investigation of affairs of the county and of the various crimes presented, the court charged especially upon violation of the liquor laws, even as applied to so cial clubs, where Intoxicants nre dispensed to minor*. This feature of the charge wns listened to with more than usual Interest by the Jury and spectators. Judge Littlejohn also touched upon the flagrant violation of the game laws In the county and instructed the grand Jury to investigate such charges and Indict the violators of the law. This applies to the dynamiting of streams by pot fishermen, which It Is said to have been done here to great extent In recent yearB. After the grand Jury had proceeded to business Judge Littlejohn entered u 1*011 the trial of civil cases, and the entire week will be devoted thereto. The civil docket is n very light one, none of the cases entered thereupon being of great interest, and those ready for trial will be disposed of In a few days. The criminal docket will be taken up next Monday, December t. And Patent leather shoes that are guarantc not to break, if they do you get a new pair. We are sole agents for the Burt & Packartj shoes for men, the only Patent Leather She where you run no risk in buying, as every pair c, them is strictly guaranteed not to break; if thej do we will replace them with a new pair. All $4.0( Drop in and see the pretty styles we are showing We also carry a pretty line of shoes foj women and children. Agent for New Idea Pattern, the Best 1< Pattern on the Market. Store, Warlick’s PLANTERS BANK _ THE STORE THAT SELLS THE SAMEJGOODS FOR LESS MONEY We lead the sale'in J SANITOL. | Special sale of the A choice as sortment of 10 Preparations Factory through us till Sin every day use January 1st, 1908! * or * $1.00. RECEIPTS AT COMPRESS REELECT BIG CROP $2.70 Value for $1.00* Running Well Ahead of Last Year. Senator Platt's declaration for Taft appears like an attempt to work the forward pa** on the Administra tion.—New York World. The Americus plant of the Atlan tic Compress Co., Is having a prosper ous season, as evidenced by the In creased receipts over last year, and shipments will yet continue for several months. Up to this date the Amerlcus press has handled 33,000 bales of cotton, against about 27,000 at this date last Bcason, or an In crease of probably 6,000 bales. Supt Tobin has kept pace with tho heavy receipts and at no time this season has the press been ‘ Jammed'” though at times the yard was full of bales to the overflow point. Labor ha* been scarce at times, as was the case with all industrial plants here, but ship ments were little delayed thereby. At this date the press Is well up with receipts and la ready and waiting for the cotton held In warehouses and which-advancing price* will bring to an early sale. Place your order with us at our store, or ’phone us for one of the cards to be signed by you for them, and we will see that you get every item delivered to your door. Out of town customers can mail us $1 direct and secure them. Davenport Drug Co. Call Upon, Phone or No. 410 LAMAR ST, Write Americus, Ga.