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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
Silk Skirts.

The sale on these goods has
been phenomenal so far, and
as our stock Is being cut
down low, we offer the follow
ing concessions in price to
clear out the remainder of
what we have:
Our SIP. so. Tafeta skirts,
applique flounces, accordion
plated ruffles, we offer for
IS 90
Our $1,000 skirts we offer
for $I2 SO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
OBTAINED VIEWS OF PAGEANT.
Knights are Photographed in Line Of
March.

Will Dudley exhibited yesterday
in his windows on Jackson street some
very good instantaneous views of the
Templar parade of the day previous.
The pictures are nicely executed and
show the splendid lire of Templars on
Forsyth street before the parade be-
gan and also on Lee, where the line
was dismissed. 1t is good piece of
Photographic work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
WHEN NATURE

Needs assistance it may be best to rem
der it promptly, but one should rem
ember to use even the most perfect
remedies only when needed. The best
and most simple and gentle remedy is
the Syrup of Figs, manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
GEO D. WHEATLEY. IGEO. D. WHEATLEY.
Exploiting May Merchandise.

Much of your outfitting for summer will be done
in MAY. A backward season is in a measure reSpOns'
ible for this You'll find much to interest you a
purchaser in this store at this time. Never better
fortified for doing business to our mutual
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10

Summer Zoo much emphasis
ITnderwear cannot be given this fsa-
ture of our summer BUSH
ness. Just the underwear you want here,
at just the prices you want to pay.
% Dozen Ladies' Swiss Ribbed Vests,
tapped neck, worth 15c, at ........ 10c.
Ladies' Fine Swiss Ribbed Vest,
sleeveless, all sizes, regular price 200,
t...........................2f for csc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10

Soc for $125 White Bed Spreads, Marseilles pat
tern, full size, hemmed, ready for use.
DC for ladies' loo White Lawn hemstitched Hand
kerchiefs, made of fine lawn.
Ice for ladies' SOC Belts some good styles, others
not so good
Acc for mems 75c Overall Pants double front and
made of strong S-oz. denim
75c for mems $1.OO Union made Overall Pants
apron front.
loo per doz. for mems White Lawn Ties, full regu-
lar lengths
25c pair for mems 81 LIE Bleached Jeans Drawers
stockinet bottoms, double seat.
s 1-3c pair for mems II lie Fast Black Hose high
spliced heels and toes.
II 1-2c for 25c and 35c all silk Taffeta Ribbons.
black and colors, from 2 to inches wide.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
Chain of Hearts Inst

Three gold hearts, one with diamond
and two with ruby settings. Finder
please return to this office.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10

Early Selling There's been active
of wash waist selling for
Wei Xu.;,Az two weeks past SThese
wash ""iSIS things are bought early
by those who enjoy selecting while the
stock is fresh and crisp. There'll be
increased activity in this section when
these items are exploited.
Ladies' ColOred, Madras and Percale
Waists, fast colors, bishop sleeves, soft
cuffs, worth 81 % to $3.50, at. -. CSC.
Ladies' Fine White Lawn Waist, en-
broidered and tucked down front and
back, Bishop sleeves and soft cuffs,
regular price $1.25, at. ...... 80. $50.
Ladies' Lace Stripe Madras and fine
white P. K, waists, beautifully made
and perfectly fast colors, regular price
$S.0O, at. ..... .................. 81, 10.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
Lost Money,

A $40 bill, by visiting Knight. Find
er please return same to this office.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
Never in better shape

Vour Never in better shape
XUoeL Goods to supply them. As
matter of facr, we've
wants. never before been in
such shape as right now; all owing
to some excellent buying opportunities
taken advantage of.
so Pieces Fine Dimities and French
Batiste in smrll dainty figures, stripes
and foulard designs. Sold anywhere for
l5c, at. ................... 1Uc.
90 Pieces Fine Dotted Swiss and Dr.
mites in plain colors and stripes, regu-
lar price zoe, at. Observation-Disclosures. 15c.
Only few of those fine striped linens
left; about 4 short lengths; beautiful
patterns, at. .............25 c. I'd.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10

Some Silk Not special in price
Specials. alone' put SPecla IN
richness at little cost. These specials
are for waists, "and no two alike" and
you can hardly afford to ignore them.
We hint at early choosing; have former
ly sold at So and Sc pattern.
This week. so pattern.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10
0lmeIy Suggestions
tits 2Ileek

The change in the weather necessitates change
i'm your wearing apparel, and you can not afford to
hang on to those winter clothes longer. We call your
attention this week to few of the many important
needfus, and invite your inspection of the same,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-05-10

Always Using Yes, and we might
Handkerchiefs, add, always losing
them. Well, You
can afford to lose them at these prices.
so Dozen Ladies' Fine FL. S. Hand
kerchiefs, narrow and wide borders.
worth anywhere 10c, at. .............5c sc.
Ladies' Fine Linen FL. s. Handker-
chiefs, all size borders, very sheer,
regular price 15c, at. ..............1 0c.
% Dozen Ladies' Sheer Fine Linen
Embroidered Handkerchiefs, very hand
some and worth from 4Oc to SOC, for this
week only, at. ..................,. .25c,
Children's very fine sheer Linen Hand
kerchiefs at 10c, 15c, 20, and %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
MERCHANT MARINE.
President Pronounces in Favor of
Government Aid.

The condition of the American mer-
chant marine is such as to call for i'm
mediate remedial action by the con-
gress. 1t is discreditable to us as a
nation that our merchant marine should
be utterly insignificant in comparison
to that of other nations which we over
top lin other forms of business We
should not longer submit to conditions
under which only a trifling portion OF
our great commerce is carried in our
own ships. To remedy this state of
things would not merely serve to build
up our shipping interests, but it would
also result in benefit to all who are in
terested in the permanent establishment
of wider market for American prod
ucts, and would provide an auxiliary
force for the navy. Ships work for their
own countries just as railroads work
for their terminal points Shipping
lines, if established to the principal
countries with which we have dealings,
would be of political as well as COM
mercial benefit. From every standpoint
it is unwise for the United States to
continue to rely upon the ships of COM
peting nations for the distribution of
our goods. 1t should be made advan-
tageous to carry American goods in
American-built ships.
AT A DISADVANTAGE.
AT present American shipping is I'M
der certain great disadvantages when
put in competition with the shipping
of foreign countries. Many of the fast
foreign steamships, at a speed of IA
knots or above, are subsidized; and all
our ships, sailing vessels and steamers
alike, cargo carriers OIL slow speed and
mail carriers of high speed, have to
meet the fact that the original cost of
building American ships is greater tnan
is the case abroad; that the wages paid
American officers and seamen are very
much higher than those paid the Off
GERS and seamen of foreign competing
countries; and that the standard of liv-
ing on our ships is far superior to the
standard of living on the ships of our
commercial rivals.
Our government should take such ac-
tion as will remedy these inequalities.
The American merchant marine should
he restored to the ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Is the Proper Solution of Water Sup
ply Question.

Whoever controls a stream practical
ly controls the land it renders produce
ship of water apart from land cannot
prevail without causing enduring
wrong. The recognition of such owner
ship. which has been permitted to
grow up in the arid regions, should
give way to a more enlightened and
larger recognition of the rights of the
public in the control and disposal of the
public water supplies. Laws founded
upon conditions obtaining in humid
regions where water is too abundant
to justify boarding it, have no proper
application in a dry country.
In the arid states the only right to
water which should be recognized is
that of use. In irrigation this right
should attach to the land reclaimed
and be inseparable therefrom. Grant
ing perpetual water rights to others
than users, without compensation to
the public, is open to all the objections
which apply to giving. away perpetual
cities. A few of the western states
have already recognized this, and have
Incorporated in their constitutions the
doctrine of perpetual state ownership
NATIONS AID JUSTIFIED.
The benefits which have followed the
unaided development of the past justify
the nations aid and cooperation in the
more difficult and important work yet
to be accomplished Laws so vitality
affecting homes those which control
the water supply will only be effective
when they have the sanction of the ir-
rigators; reforms can only be final and
satisfactory when they come through
the enlightenment of the people most
concerned. The larger development
which national aid insures should how
ever, awaken in every arid state the
determination to make it's irrigation
system equal in justice and effective
ness that of any country in the civilized
world. Nothing could be more unwise
than for isolated communities to con-
tinue to learn everything experimental
1y instead of profiting by what is al
ready known elsewhere. We are deal
ing with a new and momentous ques-
ton, in the pregnant years while in
situations are forming, and what we do
will affect not only the present but fu-
ture generations.
Our aim should be not simply to re-
claim the largest area of land and pro-
vide homes for the largest number of
people, but to create for this new in
dustry the best possible social and in
dustrial conditions; and this requires
that not only understand the exist
ing situation, but avail ourselves of the
best experience of the time in the sOlu-
ton of its problems. A careful study
should be n ade, both by the nation and
the states, of the irrigation laws and
conditions here and abroad. Ultimately
it will probably be necessary for the
nation to cooperate with the several
arid states in proportion these states
by their legislation and administra ton
show themselves fit to receive it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03

many cases be action by the govern
ment in order to safeguard the rights
and interests of ALL Under our con-
stitutien there is much more scope for
such action by the state and the mu-
nicipality than by the nation. But on
points such as those touched on above
the national government can act.
RULE OF BROTHERHOOD.
When all is said and done, the rule
of brotherhood remains as the indis-
pensable prerequisite to success in the
kind of national life for which we
strive. Each man must work for him
self, and unless he so works no outside
help can avail him; but each man must
remember also that he is indeed his
brothers keeper, and that while no
man who refuses to walk can be car
ried with advantage to himself or any
one else, yet that each at times STUN
bles halts, that each at times needs
to have the helping hand outstretched
to him. To be permanently effective,
aid must always take the form of help
ing a man to help himself, and we can
all best help ourselves by joining to-
gether in the work that is of common
interest to all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03

men who themselves till the farms they
own. All our legislation for the islands
should be shaped with this end in view;
the well-being of the average home
maker must afford the true test of the
healthy development of the islands The
land policy should as nearly as posi-
bic be modelled on our homestead sys-
tenn.
1t is a pleasure to say that it is hard
ly more necessary to report as to Porto
Rico than as to any state or territory
within our continental limits. The ISL
and is thriving as never before, and it is
being administered efficiently and hon
estly. Its people are now enjoying lib
erty and order under the protection of
the United States, and upon this fact
We congratulate them and ourselves.
Their material welfare must be as care
fully and jealousy considered as the
welfare of any other portion of our
gift of free access for their products
to the markets of the United States.
ask the attention of the congress to the
need of legislation concerning the pub
lie lands of Porto Rico.
AS TO CUBA.
In Cuba such progress has been made
toward putting the independent govern
ment of the island upon a firm footing
that before the present session of the
congress closes this will be- an accom-
plished fact. Cuba will then start as
her own mistress; and to the beautiful
Queen of the Antilles. as she unfolds
this new page of her destiny, we extend
our heartiest greetings and good wishes.
Elsewhere have discussed the question
of reciprocity. In the case of Cuba.
however, there are weighty reasons OF
morality and of national interest why
the policy should be held to have a pc
culiar application. and l most earnest
ly ask your attention to the wisdom.
indeed to the vital need, of providing
for a substantial reduction in the tariff
duties on Cuban imports into the Uni
ted States. Cuba has in her constitii-
ton affirmed what we desired. that she
should stand. in international matters.
in closer and more friendly relations
with us than with any other power; and
we are bound by every consideration of
honor and expediency to pass CONNER
cial measures in the interest of her ma
terial Well-being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
MONETARY MATTERS.
Advises Care in Making Reduction
of the Surplus.

The act of March IA. 1900, intended
unequivocally to establish gold as the
standard money and to maintain at a
parity Herewith all forms of money
medium in use with us, has been shown
to be timely and judicious- The price
of our government bonds in the worlds
market, when compared with the price
of similar obligations issued by other
nations, is a hattering tribute to our
public credit. This condition it is evil
IDENTIFY desirable to maintain.
In many respects the national bank
ing law furnishes sufficient liberty for
the proper exercise of the banking func-
ton; but there seems to be need of bet
ter safeguards against the deranging
financial panics. Moreover, the cur
rency of the country should be made
responsive to the demands of our do
nestle trade and commerce.
AVOID A DEFICIT.
The collections from duties on i'm
ports and internal taxes continue to
exceed the ordinary expenditures of the
government, thanks mainly to the re-
duced army expenditures. The utmost
care should be taken not to reduce the
revenues SO that there will be any pos
sibility of a deficit; but, after provid-
ing against any such contingency,
means should be adopted which will
bring the revenues more nearly within
the limit of our actual needs. In his
report to the congress the secretary of
the treasury considers all these queS-
lions at length, and Iaskyou attention
to the report and recommendations.
call special attention to the need of
strict economy in expenditures. The
fact that our national needs forbid us
to be niggardly in providing whatever
is actually necessary to our well-being,
should make us doubly careful to hus
band our national resources as each
of us husbands his private resources, by
scrupulous avoidance af anything like
wasteful or reckless expenditure. Only
by avoidance OF spending money on
what is needles or unjustifia BILE can we
legitimately keep our income to the
point required to meet our needs that
are genuine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
ANOTHER CABINET OFFICER.
To Be Known as Secretary of Oom-
MERGE and Industries.

When the constitution was adopted,
at the end of the eighteenth century, no
human wisdom could foretell the sweep
ing changes, alike in industrial and po-
place by the beginning of the twentieth
century. At that time it was accepted
as matter of course that the several
states were the proper authorities to
the comparatively insignificant and
strictly localized corporate bodies of the
day. The conditions are now wholly
different and wholly different action is
framed which will enable the national
government to exercise control along
the lines above indicated; profiting by
the experience gained through the pas
state commerce act. If, however, the
judgment of the congress is that it
lacks the constitutional power to pass
such an act. then a constitutional
amendment should be submitted to con-
fer the power.
There should be created a cabinet Of
ficer, to be known as secretary of COM
merce and industries as provided in the
bill introduced at the last session of the
congress. 1t should be his province to
deal with commerce in its broadcast
sense; including among many other
things whatever concerns labor and all
matters affecting the great business
corporations and our merchant marine.
TO SECURE EQUITY
The course proposed is one phase of
what should be a comprehensive and
far-reaching scheme of constructive
craftsmanship for the purpose of broad
ening our markets, securing our bust
ness interests on a safe basis, and max
ing firm our new position in the inter-
national industrial world; while Scrup-
ulously safeguarding the rights of
wage-worker and capitalist, of investor
and private citizen, so to secure
equity as between man and man in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Our Best Interests Demand Exclus-
ion of Several Glasses.

Our present immigration laws are I'M
satisfactory. We need every honest and
efficient immigrant fitted to become an
American citizen, every immigrant who
comes here to stay, who brings here
strong body, a stout heart, a good head,
and resolute purpose to do his duty
well in every way and to bring up his
children as law-abiding and sGOd-fear-
ing members of the community. But
there should be a comprehensive law
enacted with the object of working a
threefold Improvement over our pres
ent system. First, we should aim to
exclude absolutely not only all persons
who are known to be believers in an
archistic principles or members of an
archistic societies, but also all persons
who are of low moral tendency or of
unsavory reputation. This means that
we should require more thorough sys-
tenn OF inspection abroad and more
rigid system of examination at our i'm
migration ports, the former being espe-
cially necessary.
EDUCATIONAL TEST.
The second object of a proper immi-
grafton law ought to be to secure by a
careful and not merely perfunctory ed
ucation test some intelligent capacity to
appreciate American institutions and
act sanely as American citizens. This
would not keep out all anarchists, for
many of them belong to the intelligent
criminal class. But it would do what
is also in point, that is, tend to decrease
the sum of ignorance, so potent in pro-
ducing the envy, suspicion, malignant
passion and hatred of order, out of
which anarchisuic sentiment inevitably
springs. Finally. all persons should be
excluded who are below a certain
standard of economic fitness to enter
our industrial field as competitors with
American labor. There should be proper
proof of personal capacity to earn an
American living and enough money to
insure a decent start under American
conditions. This would stop the influx
of cheap labor, and the resulting COM
nQrifiOn
bitterness in American Industrial life;
and it would dry up the springs of the
pestilential social conditions in our
great cities, where anarchistic organi-
cations have their greatest possibility
of growth.
Both the educational and economic
tests in wise immigration law should
be designed to protect and elevate the
general body polite and social. A very
close supervision should be exercised
over the steamship companies which
mainly bring over the immigrants, and
they should be held to a strict account
ability for any infractiOn of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03

der our jurisdiction, whose people must
look to agriculture as livelihood. 1t is
searching the world for grains; grasses,
fruits. and vegetables specially fitted
for introduction into localities in the
several states and territories where
they may add materially to our re-
sources. BY scientific attention to soil
survey and possible new crops to breed
ing of new varieties of plants, to exper-
mental shipn ents, to animal industry
and applied chemistry, very practical
stock growing interests. The products
of the farm have taken an unprecedent-
ed place in our export trade during the
year that has just closed.
FOREST PROTECTION.
Public opinion throughout the United
States has moved steadily toward a
just appreciation of the value of forests,
whether of wood, water, or grass, from
fare of the people, but, on the contrary,
gives the assurance of larger and more
certain supplies. The fundamental idea
of forestry is the perpetuatiOn of for
eStS by use. Forest protection is not an
end of itself: it is q means to increase
and sustain the resources of our coun-
try and the industries which depend
upon them. The preservation of our
forests is an imperative business neces-
sity We have come to see clearly that
whatever destroys the forest, except to
make way for agriculture, threatens
our we'll being
The practical usefulness of the ma
tional forest reserves to the mining.
grazing, irrigation, and other interests
of the regions in which the reserves lie
has led to widespread demand by the
people of the west for their protection
and extension. The forest reserves will
inevitably be of still greater use in the
future than in the past. Additions
should be made to them whenever prac-
ticable, and their usefulness should be
increased by thoroughly business like
management.
BUREAU OF FORESTRY.
At present the protection of the forest
reserves rests with the general land
office, the mapping and description of
their timber with the United States geo.
logical survey, and the preparation of
plans for their conservative use with
charged with the general advancement
States. These various functions should
be united in the bureau of forestry, to
which they properly belong. The pres
ent diffusion of responsibility is bad
from every standpoint. 1t prevents
that effective cooperation between the
government and the men who utilize
the resources of the reserves, without
which the interests of both must suffer
The scientific bureaus generally should
be put under the departn ent of agri-
culture. The president should have by
law the power of transferring lands for
use as forest reserves to the depart
ment of agriculture. He already has
such power in the case of lands needed
by the departments of war and navy.