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The age-herald., 1901-12-19
Congressional and Cabinet Pay.

"Congressmen are beginning to agitate for increased congressional pay" said a former member of the House of Rep resentatives.
 Nothing may come of this talk about larger salaries. but s5oo0 a year Is not sufficient to support Congressman with family. He must have a private income take retainer for corpora ton, or run in debt.
 "The agitation seems to be for s10 coo. It might be well to split the difference and frame a bill for $7500. Years ago the salary of a Congressman was only $SsOO But s36O0 had more purchasing power in the earlier days perhaps than $5O0O has today. At any rate there were fewer demands on the purse then than now. Soon after the Civil war bill was passed increasing the pay from s5Oo0 to s75o0 but 1t provided for back pay at the rate of s750O. This provision proved fatal to the measure. Public opinion was aroused and there was such row about the back pay grab that Congress got scared into repeating the act before the ink on it was dry. Had the bill provided simply for $750O as the annual salary of a Congressman and said noth- ing about back pay there would have been little or no objection on the part of the public.
 Senators always receive the same pay as members of the House of Represent tatives Many persons think that Sena- tors get more than Representatives.
 ''While the question of increasing Con- sressional pay is up. Congress should pass a bill increasing the salaries of cabinet officers and ambassadors. Eight thousand dollars for a member of the cabinet is entirely inadequate for his living It is niggardly pay for a great and rich nation like the United States. No Secretary of State can live and en- certain in a manner in Keeping with the dignity of his office on less than $40, 900 a year. The practical effect of the sS000 salary is that many we'll equipped man would be forced to decline a cabinet position because of a lack of private fortune. Only men of large means can be comfortable In the cabinet. Practi- cally then the President has to look around for men of wealth, especially in choosing his Secretary of State and ann bassadors. This Is certainly un-American and the evil should be remedied and the sooner the better. Even when a man happens to be rich. he should not be called upon to use his private income. The government pays its clerks. me- chanics and laborers literally. Many a Sl6OO clerk in a department would con- slider himself fortunate to fall into a s12oO job, were he retired to private life. But the high officials, the men of intellectual breadth and attachments and force of character, get less pay than fourth vice presidents of railroads and other corporations.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
Senator Norman and inc Canal.

Now that the Clayton-Bulwer ob. stacle has been removed by the al. most unanimous vote in the Senate
 and the right of way treaties are about to be negotiated, as they readily can be, and bill will soon be passed looking to contracts and actual con. struction of the Nicaragua canal, it must be a comfort to Senator Morgan to know that the Republicans have decided to let him remain at the head of the interoceanic canal, committee, He has been chairman of it ever since
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
DOES NOT KNOW THE NEGRO.

From the Selma Times.
 A northern gentleman, who owns large plantation in the Black Belt, near Selma, and who makes annual visits of week or so to look after his property, on his recent visit remarked to a gentle man that he had made fla rule upon every visit to investigate and inquire as to how his negro tenants were progress ing in education and good citizenship. and to his astonishment he has found ir retrograding. In fact, he states that this year their moral characteristics were notedly on the wane and virtue the ex- ception and not the rule The enigma to him was why this should be when they had the same advantages of schooling in the country as the whites The gentle- man would not be so astonished if he would live down here a year or two sliid learn to know the negro as We do.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
United States Regulars.

"A wIde-awake city must consider it. self fortunate to have in it's suburbs United States army post" said G. A. R. man.
 "A post nowadays quarters full regi- ment or more, and a regiment requires between forty-ive and fifty commissioned officers. Soldiers are well fed, and butch CTS and market men in general who have contracts for supplying rations catch large sums of Uncle Sam's money, Be- sides the Item of food, individual soldiers spend their pocket money freely, and the local merchants find army trade profit able. In other words, a military post in- creases the circulation of money very considerably, and Birmingham should spare no effort to induce the War De- partInent to locate post here.
 'T can remember the time, however, when regulars were not desirable; when cities. instead of inviting the government to establish barracks or posts in their vicinities, did all they could to keep them away. It was just after the civil war, say in the latter part of the sixties and
 
 freely then. as they do now, but the en- listed men in the army were, as a rule, below par morally and were decidedly ob- jectionable as members of an orderly community. The ranks were recruited largely from the scum of great cities, and included manysthieyes and cutthroats and toughs who had a passion for paint ing the town red The officers found 1t difficult, almost impossible.to enforce dis cipline outside of barracks. This condi- tion was easily explained. Sober respect able men who had served in the war were thoroughly tired of military life and would not enlist In the regular army Tor garrison duty. The government there ore, was forced to accept any man who ,ffered for enlistment. No questions were ,sked. From 1869 until recently the maxi
 mum strength of the United States army l1lowed by law was twenty-five thousand, put 1t was impossible to keep it up to he limit The total enlisted number -arely ever reached twenty-two thousand in those early days after the war.
 "The conditions have been altogether different in the last ten or twelve years. The rank and file today, more than ever, is made up of picked men. No man of in- temperate habits can get in the army.
 Every would-be soldier is required to
 present to the recruiting officer cer- tifcate of good character signed by a clergyman, judge. banker or some other citizen of high standing. He must have certain degree of education must
 write legible hand and must know something of arithmetic, geography and l American history. And one of the most striking differences between the regular of today and twenty-five years ago Is in the matter of personal appearance out side of his post. The soldier of the sev- enties usually looked ralxish. He was 1 never tidy or decorus when off duty. Now the enlisted men are required to be just as neat and soldieriy outside of barracks as when on duty. Americans have every | reason to be proud of the twentieth cen tury regulars"
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 He who fights and runs away can have absence of body and yet presence of mind.
 Crooked legs can't walk straight but straight legs can be tempted to walk crooked.
 When a woman really wants to marry man she can do 1t without eyer get ting engaged to him.
 No heroine on the stage cen hope to get applause from the women of the au- dience when her virtue triumps unless she shows her happiness by crying in gurgling way.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
November:

Cotton, petroleum and provisions made good the losses in exports of corn and wheat, and something be- sides. While exports go on at this pace times cannot be very hard in this country, for we are literally feeding and clothing the world and when the world pays it's bills there will be money enough here for all useful and laudable purposes.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Those Oak Grove persons think young Marx should have been glad to receive coat of Virginia tar and feathers, but he was not, and he said mo- with a good deal of emphasis.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The voiceless anarchist and the chipless poker game are problems that the twentieth century can tackle at any time.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The armies of the world, if massed and marched against given point, would make a column 24,000 miles long.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

President Cassatt of the Pennsyl. vania Railroad is now a bigger man in New York than even Seth Low.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

A Chicago professor now says a thousand dollars year is better in a family than fifteen cents a day.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The Pacific cable should await the wireless developments of the next three or four months.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Jerry Simpson is grandfather, and, so great is the influence of heredity, the child was born sockless.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

MT. Carnegie should make it cash, and then no one will look gift horse in the mouth.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Chicago declines the I'll" as super. fiuous and wholly unnecessary.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

General Kitchener is gathering the Boers in on the installment plan.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The Dewey view of the Schley case is the prevailing and popular view.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Russia also has bill against Fur key and she may have to collect it French fashion.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
A CORDIAL INVITATION.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Te1egraph
 Let's take a resignation together" said Senator Tillman to Senator McLaur-
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The fireside will supplant Congress for while, beginning today.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The Dry Tortugas is an island that seems to fit the anarchists.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Pick your Christmas presents in this Christmas weather.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The two most popular persons in the realm are Schley and Santa Claus.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19
TRIccs INFLUENCE.

From the Des Moines Leader.
 An Athens, Ga, literary club debated last week: "Longfellow-is he a poet?'
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Senator Morgan dealt the Panama canal q solar plexus blow.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The Steel Trust and Uncle Sam can not become partners. ~
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Marconi is commercial master of the winds.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

Chili and Argentine talk war too much to mean 1t.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

This is to be century of huge projects.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19

The circulation of the Congressional Record is we'll maintained.
The age-herald., 1901-12-19


 ness, Alabama afforded the President a good laugh yesterday and greatly amused the numerous callers in his reception room. as you have been already briefly informed At il o'clock Congressman Richardson of Alabama called and was cordially received with the habitual.
 "Congressman, I am glad to see you
 Now it so happened that Congressman Underwood Clayton. Wiley and Thomp- son had preceded Judge Richardson in "seeing' the President in respect to Ala bama appointments. and when the oig- nified and amiable member from the Huntsville district began his priet re- marks with the exceedingly familiar phrase. Alabama appointments the President ejaculated:
 SO much about Alabama appointments that I am almost prepared to say to you in good fellowship. I am sick and tired of Alabama appointments
 Everybody present heard the speech and everybody laughed.
 But, Mir. President" argued Judge richardson, who, to the Presidents quick perception, was greatly amused q have got a new man!'
 By George, Congressman, is that so? Where did you find him? Why hasn't he been here before with the rest of them Who is he?
 MT. Charles P. Lane, the editor of the official Republican newspaper of Alabama and a good man. He would like to be ap- pointed marshal of the northern district of Alabama
 That's all right responded the Pres- ident. Write him up-write him up!'
 The President smiled in good humor, and Judge Richardson and everybody else
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
EDUCATION AND CHARITY.

During the year 1900 persons of
wealth and charitable inclinations con-
tributed 1874, 932, 900 to educational in
situations in the United States, only
little more than 81 900, 900 of which was
given to Southern schools. OF the
amount given to Southern institutions
the Philadelphia Record says:
"This amount includes donations for
institutions intended for the exclusive
instruction of both whites and blacks,
and but small part of 1t came from
the hands of Northern givers. When
the great need of the Southern people
for adequate home opportunity OF IN
struction is taken into consideration,
it seems a pity that so little OF this OPP
ulent stream of gift and bequest should
find its way oyer Mason and Dixon
| line"
The South has no lament to make.
1t is not begging anybody to give 1t
money. The mendicant spirit was
never strong among Southerners. 1t
does not refuse wise and voluntary en-
dowments or requests for educational
institutions, but it has no sympathy
for those beggars, seldom native South
erners, who go North and solicit con-
tributions for obscure educational in
stitutIons on the plea of the pitiable ig-
norance and great need of the South
ern people, This has been done in
many instances, especially in reference
to the mountain regions of Tennessee,
North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia
and Georgia and other sections Some
marvellous stories have been related to
credulous Northern audiences by Pc
regrinating pedagogues and remark
able reports made by impressionable
colporteurs with an eye to employment
by Northern philanthropists and altru-
lists, concerning the deplorable igno-
rance and sinfulness existing in the
"South" Southern people have little
knowledge of how their section has
been slandered in this way The meek
person with a pious face, long black
coat and sad voice knows how to harrow
the feelings of an audience that is as
ignorant of some sections of this coun-
try as it is of the interior of the planet
Mars, and to induce them to produce,
for the poor benighted heather "down
South The South is doing fairly well IN
the matter of education without the aid
of large requests from Northern phil
anthropists, and it Is steadily improv-
ing 1t is not so wealthy as the East;
it has no Rockefellers or Morgans or
Carnegies, and it has large colored
population on which it is unbegrudg-
ingly spending millions, but it is forg-
ing along Nashville American.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
AGGIE NOT AN APRIL FOOL.

1t is now quite evident that the over
hauling of Aguinaldo by the Kansas
cyclone, Funston, is not the perpetra-
ton of an April fool joke or sell, though
some are inclined to believe there is a
"sell OUT in the transaction some
where. Ag has delivered the goods
before and got the money all right. In
the past year or two he has also been
CHILLED" three times in battle and cap
tured five times. Six times, also, has his
dead body been found, and thirty five
times he has just barely escaped cap
ture. Bravo Americana; exit Aguinaldo.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
HOW TO GAIN FLESH

Persons have been known to
gain a pound a day by taking
an ounce of SCOTS emulsion
1t is strange, but it often
happens.
Somehow the ounce pro
duces the pound; it seems to
start the digestive machinery
going properly, so that the
patient is able to digest and
absorb his ordinary food, which
he could not do before, and
that is the way the gain is made,
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health; if you
have not got it you can get it
by taking SCOTS Emulsion.
You will find it just as use,
full in summer as in winter, and
if you are thriving upon it don't
stop because the weather is
warm.
If you have not tried it, send for free sanpl
its agreeable taste will surprise you.
SCOTT < BOVINE, Chemists
4oo-4I5 Pearl Street, New Yo.I.,
soc. and $500; all L. iegis;s.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30

Many people, especially in the north,
have an idea that large percentage OF
the capital invested IN southern mills
is owned by northern people. The per
cent is less than fifteen IN North Caro-
lima, and but little more in Georgia.
In Alabama possibly twenty per cent is
about the proportion Until last year
it was only eight per cent IN North
Carolina. But the percentage of north
ern investments in cotton mills of the
south is rapidly increasing-double
as you see, in two years-and northern
investors are seeking investments of
this character.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
Books of Postage STAMPS.

WASHINGTON, March 20 Reports re,
ceived by Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden shows that the books
of the 2-cent postage stamps issued bv
the government are averaging a sale of
IS. 500 books a day throughout the
United States. The fraction of a cent
which the government earns on the sale
of the books has amounted to a NET
profit of $33, 627 in the / months during
which they have been on sale at all
postoffices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30

Hon. John Temple Graves has fig
ured out that if old Adam could have
lived on to the present day he would
now be 5,905 years old; and if, during
all this time he had saved 800 each
day Sundays included he would still
be only half as rich as John D. Rookie
Teller. -Savannah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
FAR-sEEING BENEVOLENCE

1t is reported that wealthy South
ern woman, who owns large plantations
near the lines of the Plant System, has
written to the superintendent of the
poor of New York asking him to select
fifty families from among the unem-
ployed of that city and send them to
her at her expense in order that she
may give each family a small farm
and good start toward self support.
OF course the selections are not to
be made from the idle and vicious
classes, but from honest people whose
only misfortune Is to be poor Accord
ing to Superintendent Blair, the benev-
client Southerner can get what she
wants, there being many poor people
within his knowledge who need only a
start and fair field in order to be-
come prosperous and respected.
Whether they are suited to farm life is
another question which experiment
only can answer
The presence of the negro has made
it very difficult to induce immigrants
of the right sort to come to the South,
but the method of this wealthy South
ern woman is too enticing not to sue
ceed, and if tried by others who own
large tracts of idle lands may result
in a considerable influx and the build
ing up of many communities filled with
thrifty and industrious families. The
motive in the present instance is no
doubt pure benevolence, but it will pay
In the end throught the inevitable in
crease in the value of lands adjacent
to those donated to the settlers Ma
con Telegraph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30

Editor Nation and her negro partner
have dissolved partnership. The negro
is much the more sensible of the two.
If the newspapers would cease to no
tlce this old woman of feeble mind and
strenuous action she would soon drop
into the oblivion from which she emer-
ged, and she would cease to stroll over
the country melting cranks to acts of
laWlessness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
Road Notice.
Court of Commissioners OF

ROADS and Revenues, Sumter Co. Ga.
GEORGIA---SUMTER COUNTY.
Whereas, j, T. Johnson, j, f. Frazier and
others have petitioned SAID court for pub
lie road described as follows: leading from
McAuther's place westward, terminal ting at
Boyd house in public road from DeSotO to
Americas id the 18th district of said county.
and commissioners having been appointed
make return under oath that said road is of
public utility, and have marked it off. This
is to cite all perso S that on the first Monday
in April next, said new road will be granted
if no cause is shown IS the contrary
Given under my hand this 4th day of
March, 1901. j, w WHEATLEY,
Clerk Board County Commissioners of Sum
ter county, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30

With Funston on one side of the sea
and Brandy Smash Nation on the
other, the voice of Kansas is indeed
heard around the world, especially by
the bar-keep and the Filipino
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
AMERICUs, Ca, MARCH. 80. 1901.

If the Beers hold out much longer,
they will have killed more British
soldiers than there were able bodied
men in the two Republics to start with.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
notice.!

Cards of InanKs, resolutions of respect ana
obituary notices, other than those whlcn TIE
charged for at the rate OF five cents per lne
Notices of church and society, and all otn-
er entertainments from when revenue Is
derived, will be charged for at the rate OF
five cents per line.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
Change of Election Precinct, Old 26th
istrict.
GEORGIA, SUMTER COUNTY

Notice is hereby given that petition has
been filed with the Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues of Sumter county,
Ca, to change the election precinct for the
old goth district of said county, from Harper
Blacks store, where now located, to The
Plains, an incorporated town of said district,
abolishing the election precinct at said Har-
per Blacks store and establishing the cleo
ton precinct for said district at Plains, Ga;
and that SAID application will be finally pas
ed upon by said Board of Commissioners at
its regular monthly meeting to be held on
the first Monday in April next at the court
house. Objections thereto, if any, VIII be
heard at said time. This the 18th day of
February, 1901. J. w, WHEATLEY,
Clerk Board of County Commissioners S. G.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
A PPLICATION LETTERS
"A OF GUARDIANSHIP.

S j. Hargrove has made application for
letters of guardianship of minor son of Mrs.
S, H. Summerford, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties to show cause on or before the
hprl1 ~, ter III 81 h. Iue GouIt % 0rolnafy 70
1901, why said petition should not be granted
as prayed for. Witness my hand and offcial
signature, this March 4th. 1901
Il. M. ALLEN, Ordinary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
The Tirnes-Recorder Is the

OmcIal Organ OF the City OF Americas,
Onacial Organ of Sumter County.
OmCfal Organ of Webster County
Ordcial Organ of Railroad Commission of
Georgia for the Sd Congressional District.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE All legal advertisements must be
brought to the business ONCE not later than
Wednesday noon of each month to insure in
sertiOn, accompanied with the fee, This
rule will be enforced
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30

Daily except Sunday.
Nos. and 6.-Ohicago and Florida special
solid Pullman Train Sleepers, Observation
Compartment and Dining Oars, ST. Augustine
to Chicago. Daily except Sunday.
Nos. - and 14.-Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween Brunswick and Atlanta, between Jack
sonville, Fla, and Cincinnati, Louisville, st.
Louis and Kansas City, via Jesup and Atlanta.
Nos. 10 and l6-Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween Atlanta and Cincinnati, via Chatta-
nooga; also between Chattanooga and Mem
phis.
Nos. and 8-Pullman Sleeping Cars be
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga.
Nos. and l0-Pullman Library Observation
Cars between Macon and New York.
Connection at Union Depot, Atlanta, for all
points north, east and west. Also at ,Jesup for
Jacksonville, Tampa, etc; and Savannah, Co
lumbia, Washington and the east.
FRANK s. CANNON, 5. H. HARDWICK,
Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Washington, d. G. Washington. d. G.
w. H. TAYLOE, H. F. GARY,
Asst. Gen. Pass Agt., Travelling Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga.