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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
Vragedy IN xyneIua. uenn

CHATTANOOGA, July 25.-W. N. Par
rott, prominent merchant of Oneida,
Tenn, was shot and killed last night, it
is alleged, by James West. The tragedy
took place while the two men were
alone in a back room of Mr.. Parrott's
store and the cause is unknown. The
dead man bore an excellent reputation
and was Mason of high degree.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

The NewYork Journal takes the view
that the issue OF reducing the south's
representation in congress because OF
the disfranehisement of the negro has
been disposed of by the census figures
on race and education.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Although Be, 0s3 names were dropped
from the Federal pension rolls during
the fiscal year ending with June, there
was . net increase In the number of
pensioners Of 1905 names, bringing
the total number up to S97, 1894.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
Fatal Quarrel Over a Debt.

I1oN, N. Y, July %. George Young.
barber of this city. was shot dead to.
day by Henry Brown, also of this place.
as a result of a quarrel over debt of
$l6, which Young alleged was flowed
him by Brown. Both men bore excellent
regulations in the community. Brown
was arrested.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Georgia farmers are iingling good
deal of coin in their pockets these
days, the outcome OF sales of fruits,
vegetables and various minor farm and
garden products not formerly consider
cd money crops.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
Forest Fires In Sweden.

STOCKHOLM, July 25.-The crops are
seriously suffering as result of the
continued hot weather Fires have de-
stroyed the forests of Jentland, Western
Cottland and the Smalland and Upland
districts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

POpulist calamity howiers in the
West are contemplating the drouth
with ill-cOncealed Joy. The farmers
refuse to listen to their dolorous har-
rsngusa so long 40 the crops are good.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
AMERICUs, Ca, JULY %. 1901.

The Augusta Chronicle ask that if
tbs, chief end Of q governors staff Is to
be ornamented, why not put women on
the staff?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

The Wsyoross Journal rises to re-
mark that ''a host Of people in South
Georgia would delight TO cast their
ballots for Hon. W. G. BrantIey for
governor"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

II Schley was coward and kept out
OF danger with his ship, how did he
manage to innict So per cent of the
damage received by the Spanish ships
and receive 81 per cent Of the damage
to the entire American fleet?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

4 man has iast died ct Syracuse, at
the age Of 1Os years, who never tasted
liquor in his life. ANY KentuckIan
Oouid have told him that such blamed
foolishness would eventually kill him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

The meeting of the State Horticul-
tuTal society to be held In MIlledgeville
will probably be largely attended, az it
should be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Editor Hook speaks parable when
he says that the navy clerk who wrote
Mselay's history il not the only man
who has ridden into prominence on
s3chlsy's coat-taiIs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

AXE is candidate for alderman of
Little Rock, and the Louisville Post
presumes that ne will be on the same
ticket with old man Lum Bago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Six additional rooms ct the Confeder-
ate Soldiers Home have just been fur
nlshed, this being found necessary on
account of the frequent additions to
the number of inmates.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Now that the bottle makers have
combined, there are certain Americans
who begin TO realize the enormity of
the trusts
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Benny @. Turner ia being urged to
announce for governor He would
make strong candidate, and, if elect
ed . great governor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

They have been having race riots up
Ut Indianapolis. Negroes have to be
barred from the parks there to keep
down trouble.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
VIRGINIA COLLEGE


Opens Sept. 21st, 1901 One of the leading
Schools for Young Ladies in the south. New
buildings, pianos and equipment. Campus
ten acres. Grand mountain scenery in Val
ley OF Va, famed for health. European and
American teachers. Full course, Conserva-
tory advantages in Art, Music and Elocution.
Students from thirty States For catalogue
address MATTE +. HARRIS, President.
lows Roanoke, Va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

Monroe, Ga, claims to have the old
est man in the country. He 10 negro
who will be ia years of age if he lives
TO see next December.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26

The whereabouts of General Tribe,
the Columbian reYelutionist leader,
are unknown. PerhAps he 10 search
ing for Pat Orows.-Enaairer San.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-26
statesmen WANTED 2 2ss. 59s z

calendar novelties for the season Of 1901 and
1862 Is now ready. Send Us 10 cents IN stamps
for sample catalogue aad terms. Taylor
Bros. Co, Rochester, n. 4.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Names Suggested by
the Forth c coming
Old Home Week.

of people who lived 5000 years ago
than is known in the case of our own
countrymen 1000 years ago. Such was
the opinion expressed by Mr.. W. st.
Chad Boscawen when he explained
these relics to an interested audience
yesterday afternoon. The clay bricks
and cylinders beneath the glass cases
were covered with characters testify
ing to a completely organized system
of justice, marriage, divorce and COM
merce. The bookkeeping Of 5000
years ago was wonderfully accurate.
A curious form Of record is that pre-
served in the form of baked clay tab
let's, which were enclosed in clay en-
velopes also inscribed with the terms
of the transaction, SO that double
record provided against the possibili-
ties of damage. The "open and closed
evidence' spoken of by jeremiah is
supposed to refer to this system. The
practice Of recording on a brick the
name of the king, Of the building, and
of the city in which 1t was erected has
had the advantage In modern days that
an odd brick may be the means Of dis
interring city hitherto unknown.
A bank failure naturally upsets thu
depositor who loses his bslauee.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
League
for Its
Suppression on
the Liners.

ing the leading Atlantic lines, and
appeals are being sent to travellers to
join the league and through it, make
an irresistible demand upon the steam
ship companies to stop gambling ON
their vessels.
The thing can be done, and 1t must
be done. II a great section of the trav-
cling public calls for a reform in liner
management it will get it. When the
Atlantic companies have been reform
ed the lines running to the east will be
taken in hand. Anti-gambling cru
sades will hardly go far on the high
SEAS" the manager of one line Is quot
ed as saying "If our passengers want
to gamble a bit we certainly are not
going to stop them. We do all we can
to keep sharpers off our boats. but
they appear often in a disguise that
would deceive the very elect. l
think that deep-sea gaming will be
with us yet little while" The gam
bler's side of the affair is stated thus
by one of them: "They can't keep US
off. We buy our tickets and have the
same rights and privileges as other
passengers. If we want to gamble we
will. The boys are pretty honest and
in the ordinary game are on the
square. No man will risk exposure
for small stake. In the case OF what
is technically known as sucker we
win. If some fellow with lot of cash
is willing to bet heavily we are there
to get his money. Again. so long as the
officers get their commissions there
will be heavy losing on ocean liners.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
South Carolina Has
the Most Remark
able Plant in the
World

the south, and the medical attendance
and the nursing are free. The manage
ment furnishes free Sunday concerts
and vaudeville entertainments several
evenings each month for the opera
tiyes and free school for the mill chill
dren.
But the mill itself is the great at
traction, and manufacturers come from
all over the world to inspect it as a
novelty as well as model. Every
thing is done by electricity. The
switchboard is the largest in the
south and is connected with more
than thirty motors, which represent
5000 horse power, and light the
buildings, the cottages, the city,
and run the cars of the Columbus
Street Railway Company. Electricity
brings in the coal and takes away the
ashes from the furnace rooms; it fills
an 100000 gallon reservoir that sup
plies the boilers and the village with
water: it runs the elevators, brings the
cotton from the warehouse to the spin
ming machines, carries away the fin
isned product and operates hot air fans
in summer.
All this is not done as luxury. but
for economical reasons, although it
cost $1,S00,000. The ordinary expense
of building and equipping New Eng
land steam mill is about SIS spindle,
but the Olympia mill cost only $13.54 .
spindle; the annual expense for repairs
is about one-half those Of the ordi-
nary New England mills Of the same
size, and the uniform speed of electric
machinery produces an average of four
per cent more goods to the machine.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
A Model
" Mill

South Carolina may be slow in some
respects, but in others she is in the
front rank of progress and particular
" in the use of electricity as motive
power. The Columbia mill, NAM
moth institution for manufacturing
cotton duck, was the first in the world
to adopt electricity, and within the
last three years four other big mills
have been similarly equipped, making
Columbia the most important center
of electrical textile factories. writes
William E. Curtin in the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Olympia mill is probably the
most complete cotton factory in exist
ence. There is nothing in New Eng
land to compare with it from any point
of view. The machinery and appara-
tus are perfect. The buildings are
models with the same sort Of plumb
ing. heating and ventilating apparatus
that is found in the most luxurious
hotels, The engine room is laid with
tiles. wainscoted with Tennessee mar
BILE and has an artistic ceiling of steel.
The floors Of the mill are Of marble;
the walls wainscoted with hard wood;
the sanitary arrangements, the toilet
rooms and porcelain bath tubs are
good enough for palace. Every con-
venience is provided for the benefit OF
the operatives and every precaution
for the protection of their health. The
houses they occupy in the village
around the mill are all built on artis-
tic plans and finished in the most per-
feet manner. There is hospital for
the sick that is said to be the best in
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Gambling on
Ocean,.

A league for the suppression of
ocean gambling has been formed with
branches on both sides Of the Atlantic
and a concerted effort is to be made
to drive from the ocean the gangs OF
sharpers that have for so long infested
the passenger boats plying between
the United States and European ports.
1t promises to be three -cornered fight
and may become decidedly Interesting
before long. The agents Of the steam
ship lines are not all in sympathy with
the movement and some laugh at it
and pronounce 1t visionary and i'm
practical, probably for the reason that
they are interested in the profits of the
gamblers either as sharers in their
winnings or in profits of the custom
they bring to the lines. James Wilson
of New York is at the he.,d of the cru
sade. He is now in LONDON collecting
evidence showing the nature and ex-
tent of the gambling evil on liners.
The purpose of the league is to drive
card sharpers from the ocean by max
ing it against the rules of all the big
steamer lines to gamble for any sum
their vessels. Mr.. Wilson is reported
as saying:
"It is true that a league to prevent
ocean gambling is being formed, and
it is also a gratifying fact that it is
going to be very popular with the tour
lists and travelling public. Gambling
has grown to be great evil on the
ocean. Thousands first learn to gam
BILE while killing time on the ocean
passage, and other thousands lose
money that they might have used in
good works. The gambling spirit is,
am sorry to say, infectious on all the
big liners. There are pools and sweep
stakes and games of chance daily, and
the fever of the gamester seems to
seize the most contained. Sharp
ers flourish on the vice, and many
young man has been ruined by losing
heavily to a professional player who
inveigled him into games on ship
board l believe that these sharpers
divide gains with the officers. for des-
pite the frequent scandals the same
scoundrels appear in the smoking
rooms voyage after voyage. The league
purposes to stop gambling altogether
on shipboard. Bishop Potter of New
York, Andrew Carnegie, Mr.. Morgan
and many others as prominent have
promised their aid. We have copies of
passenger lists for years back, cover
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Notable ~
VernOnters

Vermont is preparing to have an
Old Home Week in August, which will
be attended by many notable men. In
vitations have been sent out to all
men Of distinction born in the Green
Mountain state and 1t is thought that
may of the 100000 native Vermonters
who reside outside that state will be
present. The list includes Hon. Levi p.
Morton, former governor of New York,
vice president, minister to France and
financier, who was born at Shoreham;
Admiral Dewey, native Of Montpelier;
Hon. George M. Thurston, long sena-
tor from Nebraska, who also was born
at the capital; Capt. Charles E. Clark.
commander of the Oregon. born in Or
ange county; Hon. William F. Villas
4 of Wisconsin, former senator and post
master general. whose birthplace is
Chelsea; Gov. Leslie M Shaw of Iowa,
who was born In Morristown; Hon.
George F. Edmunds, now Of Philadel-
phia, and President James B. Angel
Of Michigan University, former min
lister to Turkey.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
BUCHANAN NEVER MARRIED.
First Bachelor Elected to the Pre.I-

First Bachelor Elected to the PreaI-
dency Had Romance.
"Mr. Buchanan, who was the first
bachelor elected to the presidency, was
65 years of age when elected, and had
deliberately given himself to life OF
celibacy,' writes William Perrine in
the Ladies Home Journal. In the
days when he was young lawyer OF
Lancaster, Pa, he had loved Miss Cole
man, a beautiful daughter of a citizen
of that town. They had been engaged
to be married when one day he was
surprised to receive from her request
to release her from the promise. Ac-
cording to Mr.. George TicknoU Curtis
the separation originated in misun-
derstanding on tho part Of the lady,
who was unusually sensitive, over
some small matter exaggerated by gid
dy and indiscreet tongues. Soon after
the estrangement she was sent to
Philadelphia, and there died suddenly.
Throughout the rest of his life or near
ly half century, Mr.. Buchanan is not
known to have revealed to- anybody
the circumstances of this romantic
tragedy. He would only say that it had
changed his hopes and plans, ard had
led him more deeply than, ever into
politics as distraction from,his grief.
In his old age, long after he had re-
tired permanently to privatee life. he
called attention to package contain
ing, he said, the papers and relics
which would explain the causes of his
youthful sorrow, and which, he pre-
served evidently with the idea Of re-
vealing them before his death. But
when he died, and his will. was read,
it was found that he had directed that
the package should be burned without
being opened, and his injunction was
obeyed."
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
souArs IN THE BIG MUDDY.
Cspt. strsstsr Of Chicago Has ImitAtor
in Kansas CITY.

Cspt. strsstsr of Chicago Has Imitator
in Kansas CITY.
Captain Streeter, the famous squat
ter of the north shore. has an imi-
tator in Kansas City. For the Mis-
souri, town, as well as Chicago, has a
shifting water front, as the Missouri
river has an uncanny habit of shift
ing its course frequently, submerging
what has been dry land in the past
and creating real estate where once
there was naught but muddy water
rushing onward to the gulf. In the
channel of the river, just a stones
throw from the foot OF one Of Kansas
City's chief business streets, is an ISL
and of about 100 acres, which John H.
Mensing claims to own. His claim dates
from 1857, when he discovered the ISL
and and took up his residence upon 1t.
Later the government came along
looking for place to establish reser-
vations, and decided to take this.
Mensing resisted, and was driven at
the point of the bayonet to- one corner
of the island, where he erected a
diers. At that time the island was
much larger, but the Missouri river
seemed to resent the presence Of the
soldiers as much as did Mensing, and
from that date began to eat the land
away by slow degrees until only about
three acres remained. But the three
acres were those where Mensing had
erected his stogRade. He concluded
that Providence was with him. The
soldiers had no further use for the
island and have been withdrawn. Then
the river began industriousiy putting;
the earth back. again.. and in due
course the three acres grew to 1901
About this time the prospective value
of the land was recognized, and proa
ceedings were begun in the interior
department to have the island declared
a public reservation. This action was
defeated. Then came a mysterious
corporation called the East Kansas
City Land Company, which tried to
prove to the interior department that
the tract had been ceded to it long
while ago. The case has just been
argued, and it is confidently predict
ed that the decision will be against;the
company. So Mr.. Mensing now be-
lieves that he has the first claim, uni
der squatters' title, to land valued at
1925 ,000
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Overw h elmlnglv Cordial.

DO your country cousins treat you
cordially when you visit them in the
summer"
DO they? Say, the minute I get
there they make me take some elder
berry cordial as fatigue destroyer,
then l have to drink some peppermint
cordial for fear the water won't agree
with me; next day. they insist that
absorb some snakeroot cordial, to
ward off possible chills and fever, and
then l have to gulp down some liver
wort cordial for the good of my sys-
tenn generally. Do they treat me cor
daily? BY Jove, there's plenty OF cor
diality! l can taste it for months
after,"
MANY a man would starve if he had
nothing to live on but his reputation.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09

! A comprehensive plan for the work
OF the naval war college during the
summer months is being considered by
the officials of the navy department
The plan contemplated entails the dis
cussion of several problems and one oi
them, of considerable interest, con-
Germs the defense Of the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of this country through
the use of the Nicaragua canal, which
for the purpose of the problem, is te
he supposed to be in existence. An
other problem relates to the defense ol
the coasts with the Straits of Magellan
as the connecting link between the At.
lantic and Pacific oceans. The th1rd
problem concerns operations of al
American fleet against European ma
ton of superior strength.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Twins Remarkably ALIKE.

Ray and Roy Burgess are. two re-
markable twin brothers lately living
in Auburn, this state. They. are sew
enteen years old, five feet nine inches
in height, weigh 144 pounds each and
are so much alike that Roy has inn
migrated to Keene, N. HI, to, acquire
an identity: Even the Bertillon meas
urements failed to distinguish them,
except by few scarss--New York
World.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
How Figs Arc Prepared.

After figs have been collected they
are dipped in boiling brine, and then
dried on trays for from two to four
days, according to the weather. The
dipping is supposed to bring the sugar
to the surface and hasten the drying
After being dried the figs are placed
in Sweat boxes" holding 1000 pounds
each, where they remain for two
weeks. Then they are washed in cold
salt water to remove all dirt, and are
packed by women and girls in half
pound, one-pound and ten-pound box
es, in layers, being split preliminarily
with a short-bladed knife.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09

Mr.. Edison, who has been partially
deaf since childhood, was recently
told by a specialist that an operation
might restore his hearing. "Give up"
laughed the inventor, "an advantage
that enables me to think on undis-
turbed by noise or conversation? No.
indeed!" The exclamation emphasizes.
in the opinion of the Electrical Re-
view, the strong need, by the thinking
part of humanity, of earlids as well as
eyelids.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09

A bas relief Of Clodion, representing
fawns, nymphs and cupids at play, has
been discovered in a Paris nunnery.
The relief was carved for the Princess
Louise of Conde, in the eighteenth CEN
tury, and when she became nun the
figures were covered with plaster. A
Prussian cannon ball at the time of the
siege Of Paris Clipped off the plaster,
showing the sculpture beneath. A
French antiquarian society intends tc
present it to the Carnavalet Museum,
though the price asked for it is s4u, 1000.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09

A weak point in the graded school
system is that clever pupils are held
back to the general level of the class.
or dull pupils are discouraged and
crushed" by the advancement Of their
mates. The board Of education in Ba-
tavia, New York, seems to have
remedied this difficulty by providing
larger grade-rooms In which twice the
usual number of children can be as
sembled under two teachers. one teach
er to conduct the classes and the
other to give all her time to helping
the slower scholars. ."The effect of the
change was instantaneous" writes the
president Of the board, "in putting
confidence into the laggards, in max
ing them the equals Of their brighter
neighbors, In giving an onward move
ment to the grades, in relieving the
teachers Of all strain, and in ending
after-school drudgery and home work. >
TO attain any one Of these results
would warrant pretty radical meas
ures. -
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Enormous Imports. of Milk.

The total imports Of foreign rsffk
and cream for the four weeks Of April
into tife United Kingdom were $40
hundredweight of fresh milk in cans or
drums, $40 hundredweight Of cream.
397 hundredweight of condensed milk
and $3.50 hundredweight Of eonden-
sed milk. The imports OF the last
named article in 1900 were Of the val
,aa of E1,743,475.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-08-09
Population and Representation.

The population of Scotland, as re-
vealed by the new census, now exceeds
that Of Ireland by 15,411, the figures
being, for Scotland, 4,471957. and for
Ireland, 4,456.546. Nevertheless, Scot
land, which is enormously tho richer
country, has only seventy-two mem
bers, while Ireland has 10S. England
contributes so per cent OF the revenue,
and has little more than 10 per cent of
the Observation-Disclosures.