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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. It's perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and it's acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get it's beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. N. z.
Forsale by all Druggists Price SOC. per bottle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
DECISION REACHED.
Draft of the Final Protocol Has Been
Agreed Upon.

hSEbtN OpUHS
WAsHINGToN, Aug. 12.-The state de.
partment has received a cablegram
from Mr.. Rockhill, at Peking, reporting
that the draft of the final protocol has
been agreed upon. A tariff of per
cent advalorem effective will be put in
force two months after the signing of
the final protocol, excepting on goods
shipped within Ten days after signing,
and will continue until the conversion
to specific rates has been effected by the
expert commission.
The Chinese free list will include rice,
foreign cereals and flour, gold and sill.
yer bullion and coin. This inclusion of
-four in the free list Is of much import.
ance, particularly to the coast shippers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
SHAMROCK II ANv,vG0.

She VIII Be Put In Trim at once For
the Great Race.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The Americas
cup challenger, Shamrock II, which lay
at anchor off Sandy Hook light ship
last night, was tof az towed up the bay
to Tompkinsville, Staten Island. She
will be taken at once to Erie basin.
where she will be stripped and her RAG
ing mast stepped. Her spars are ready
and there will be no delay in getting
her into racing trim.
She looks the fastest boat ever turned
out In. British waters, i,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14

The popular idea expressed in the
phrase, vthe art of self-defense," shows
the opinion that the chief enemies man
has to defend himself from are visible
and external. But the real danger of
every man is from minute and often in
visible foes. In the air we breathe and
the water we drink are countless minute
organisms 4eagued against the health of
the body.
The one defense against these enemies
is to keep the blood pure. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery thoroughly
purifes the blood, removing poisonous
substances and accretions. When the
blood is pure there Is no harborage for
the germs of disease which find lodg-
ing only when the blood is impure and
corrupt.
OI consider your Golden Medical Discovery
one of the best medicines the fRce Of the
EARTH" writes Mr.. VIM. tSloeter of Rsdcak,
Montgomery Co., Iowa awhile in the south
west, three years ago, l got poisoned With pol
son Ivy. The poison settled In my blood Aud
the horrors / suffered cannot be told In words
1 thought would go crazy I tried different
kinds Of medicine tried different doctors bat
all the relief they could give was to make my
pocket-book lighter. I then began taking Of
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Took four
bottles without relief Kept taking it. I took
In all ten bottles and got entirely cured"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure CON-
gtipatiOn.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
STRIKE IN SAVANNAH
CAUSES NO TROUBLE
Electric Cars Continue Their Usual
Schedules
A STRONG FORCE OF OFFICERS

Prevents Violence and Little Trouble e
is Anticipated. Threats Have Been
Made But No Trouble Has Yet
Resulted.
Savannah, Ca, August 13.-The
striking motormen and conductors of
the Savannah, Thunderbolt and Isle
of Hope railway, the consolidated sys-
tenn of street lines in Savannah, have
made no riotous demonstrations since
their strike was inaugurated last Sat
urday. There is talk of violence, but
it has not materialized. The police
seem to have the situation we'll in
hand. The company claims that it is
in no way inconvenienced by the
strike.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
Begin
Right! !!
IOHNSON'S TONIC

JOHNSONS TONIC.
The sickest is not always in bed The kind
of sickness just to be able to attend to ones duties With
rich blood your veins you perform with pleasure the work
that becomes arduOus task for half we'll people.
Why don't you take IOHNS0NS TONIC2 1t is the
Worlds Greatest Medicine The dealer makes less money on
I0HNSONS TONIC than any other kind Now remember
that your health is your business and making money is his
business
It would pay you better to drive twenty-five miles get
bottle Of J0HNSONS TONIC rather than the cheap kind
that pays profit to the dealer.
Money making and Lesavng don't very close togeth-
JONSONS TONIC is the kind that It 100 times
better than Quinne. Does in day what slow Quinne
cannot do in ten days.
Better do your thinking when your health
Insist upon having the Worlds Greatest Medicine,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14

the above are only a few brands Of the
many we carry in stock. Send for catalogue.
All other goods by the gallon, such as Corn
sold equally as low, from s1S5 gallon up
wards
We make a specially of the jug trade and
all orders by mail or telegraph Will have our
prompt attention. Special Inducements of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
Wesleyan Female College,
Macon, Georgia.

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
$3.50, PRfPaTD. PRRRzSS

We snip on approval in plain, sealed boxes.
with no marks to indicate contents. When
you receive it and test it, if 1t is not sattsfac
tory, return it at our expense and we will re.
turn your $3.50. We guarantee this brand to
be eight years old. Eight bottles for IS so,
express prepaid; II bottles for $3.50 express
prepaid gallon jug, express prepaid, $780,
gallon lug, express prepaid $3.50 NO
charges for boxing.
We handle all the leading brands of Rye
and Bourbon Whiskies in the market, and
will save you so per cent, on your purchases.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14

GUNNER is here, and those who start
~ right will go through the whole summer
season with little trouble. A taint of Mala-
rial poisoning in your blood to-day will last
until the Fall unless you drive it out now
Blood Medicines can't cure Malaria poison
ing. The antidote for Malsria poisoning is
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14
JOHNSON'S CHILL and FEVER TONIC.

It has been on the market for the
past seventeen years, and stands
higher to-day as a curative agent
than any other medicine made.
Take thorough course of JOHN
SONS TONIC and enjoy that keen
pleasure in life that only belongs TO
thoroughly well people.
Cests so cents a bettle. Get it
today
q. 3. CIRARDEAU,
SAVANNAH; GA.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-08-14

Extract from a Letter dated
0raakvilIe. S. G., August rs, 1889.
- she age Of 50, with Is years Of active
practice am careful Observer and eau
ESua Ia endorsing proprietary medicines, bus
lean conScientiOUsly endorse your JOHNsoN's
0Rnk AND FEVER TONIC as enc OF the best
examination remedies for Chins and Fever
have ever used Is corrsets tbs vitsated Sc
SESeaOns Of the Hv0E, relieves eogt*veRssa, and
promotes &hsOEpe1OR and a&EAH81Ataon OF feed,
tkaa fulaEng al tha tzd&casaoms Ssaamsa fer 81
Yo@rs tERly,
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
A STRANGE SPECTACLE.

w. f. Lyle, a professional jointkeep-
er. is finally convicted, sentenced and is
on the threshold of the jail. Those most
active in prosecuting ask a judge, whom
they have criticised for leniency, to In
terpose and to save the criminal from
his just punishment If Judge Hazen
has suspended the commitment in absence
of any petition it is safe to assume
that the signers to the petition would
have assailed him bitterly for his inter-
ference. and successful effort to annul
the work of the law and order" league.
Sheep Lyle is well named. He pulled
the wool over the eyes of his arch enc
mies-but the old ram on the bench
could not be fooled: he saved the lambs
from the little black sheep" who will
bleat behind bars that do not enclose
green pastures.
One of the surprising things that will
happen in community where the law
and order" forces succeed, after terrific
effort, in convicting a persistent joint
keeper is the reversal of the batteries.
A sentiment most pronounced for con-
viction, upon the successful prosecution,
turns as remarkably into a sentiment
for release from punishment.
1t is most difficult to understand. 1t is
another illustration of the ease with
which petitions are secured and tends to
brand petitions in general as almost
valueless, as insincere. 1t shows that
the petitioner in signing does not ex-
press his real sentiments, but rather his
readiness to be rid of the persistence of
the applicant.
Citizens of integrity, reputation, high
standing, will sign a petition regardless
of what it really means They seem to
~.
to the man who circulates a paper that
does not call for money. Men are
known to sign petition favoring an
applicant and Immediately. verbally or
by letter, express an entirely different
opinion to the power petitioned-
The petition here considered is not to
be taken altogether on this understand
ing. Rev Mr.. Emerson, Attorney r. B.
WEIGH, Rev. DIR. Mcfarland, H G. Lari-
mer, Frank Foster and others must
have hesitated, and lost, when they
signed that paper Perhaps they dis
liked to kick a man when he is down.
Yet do they not know that they thus
offset their efforts to drive out the joint
list? What does the latter care for a
bond? What does he care for a fine?
How easy to secure one, and to pay the
other out of the large illegitmate profits
accruing to himself or to a syndicate
which he represents.
The commitment is what the jointist
dislikes. The Jail sentence is what
scares Lyle to death. The actual inn
prisonment is what counts. The ninety
days in jail'' is what raises the hair on
the otherwise bald headed old reprobates
who run the doggeries and laugh at the
law and order people on all occasions,
except the one which finds them really
in ''durance vile,'' behind bars of iron,
instead of back of those of cherry, or
mahogany or yellow pine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
ROOSEVELT AS woRKmAN,


FROM Edarper'S weekly
When Theodore Roosevelt was grad
uated from Harvard university he at
| once devoted himself to public affairs.
| He intended, so far as it is possible in
| the United States, to pursue a public
career. He was student of history
and politics, and he trained himself for
| the profession of statecraft- 1t is not
to be understood that Mr.. Roosevelt
was possessed of any illusions to the
| possibility of q. political career in this
| country He knew that such careers
| are infrequent in the republic, and that
his own state of New York is especially
unpropitious soil for the planting OF
seed that produces perennial official
blooms. He never permitted himself to
think of office as the end and object of
his life. He has never held an Office
which he was not prepared to consider
his last. This is not to say that he did
not want office; he was possessed of an
honorable ambition, and he realized
that the best public service can be rem
dered in public station. 1t was his ex-
pectation, however, that his career
would be that of writer on politics,
and this doubtless was also the expec-
tation of his friends, or of most of them
at all events, for his individuality was
too intense and too insistent to war
rant any other conclusion. The point
which we wish to make, however, is,
that whether the epeople employed him
or not it was Mr.. Roosevelt'S purpose
to devote his talents and his energies
to their service. If he had not been
called upon to perform their daily
tasks, he would nevertheless have
given to them the benefit of his intel
ligence his training, and his remark
able industry.
This devotion of himself to the pub
lie good must be remembered when we
Judge Mr.. Roosevelt's character, and
when we are conjecturing of his work
as president This is the truth of him,
that the service he is about to render
the country will give him the greatest
pleasure that life has for him. He will
delve and labor; no man in the country
will work more persistently, more con-
scientiously, more willingly, and more
intelligently be his occupation what 1t
may And there is this difference be-
tween the president and the head of
great corporation-the former would
work with all his force for no pecu-
mary reward the latter could not be
induced to work at all except for an
annual fortune. It is true, of course,
that our own history has shown that
money reward is not the chief attrac-
ton of public office; but 1T is neverthe-
less true that most men in this coun-
try who hold office do not render pub
lie service out of Office, but retire from
office to the conduct of their own
affairs The professional publicist in
office is rare with US, and of the few we
have had, President Roosevelt is the
most conspicuous example.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
GOOD ROADS.

Members of the Topeka Commercial
club should be given every possible en-
couragement in the effort which they
have started for better roads. Some
body has said that the civilizati ton of a
country is to be judged by the class of
highways which it maintains. Perhaps
the Romans authorized that saying.
Whether or not, they verified it. The
ways of that nation constructed CEN
turtles ago are still models of road
building. But since then as a rule but
little attention has been given to this
phase of national developn ent
Of late years, however, the need of
better roads has forced itself upon the
attention of those alive to the best in
terests of the United States. and in
many of the states, organizations have
been perfected for active work to Sc
cure this end The number of macad-
amized highways, or indeed those COR
structed of any material requiring
greater time and outlay than earth at
hand are very rare Municipalities go
on voting bonds in aid of railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
SUCCESS AND COLLEGE MEN.

The latest edition of who's Who in
America refutes the doubts expressed
by few successful men as to the value
of college educa ton as a factor in sue
cess. says the Leavenworth Chronicle
Tribune. In this volume are brief BIZ
ographies of IL ISL Americans, living on
last August I, who had, in some way,
won success. All the notable figures
in public life, in the professions, in the
worlds of commerce, industry, finance,
art, and letters, are here. Probably
some names are in that should be out
and some out should be in. But, taken
all in all, this is evidently a fair poll
list of Americans in some way dis
tinguished.
Out of these II ISL men and women of
note $3.50 gave some educational data
about themselves. Of these 5,775 went
to college and 4,S1O were graduated.
Only about one in 100 of the able
bodied males OF this country is col
1ege man. The percentage of college
women is far smaller. Yet out Of the
Il, 551 men and women who have won
the distinction implied by their enroll
ment in this volume more than one
half attended college OF those giving
educational data, SO per cent were col
Iegians.
The case may be stated in another
way: If all the men in this country
could be shaken up in a box and one
drawn out at random, the odds against
drawing a college man would be 100 to
l. But if all the men who have done
something of note in the various walks
of life could be shaken up the odds on
drawing a college man would be more
than even. If there be omitted from
the calculation those who furnished de-
tails as to technical education only,
and those educated at foreign institu-
lions, the result is even more striking
Out of S,141 which furnished details as
to general education, nearly IL per
cent. were collegians.
The old adage knowledge is power -
was never more strikingly demon
strated than by these figures. The men
who are making the United States to-
day, and those who are determining its
future, are largely the products of its
colleges The young men and women
who are now entering college are those
who will rule the republic a generation
hence.
1t is true that a man is a man, what
run he counts just what he is worth as
a man. Nevertheless, in the battle of
life the man who counts nowadays is
evidently the collegian- His chances
for visible success as against the man
without his equipment are plainly at
least so to 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
AN ODD HONEYMOON.

Perhaps the most thrilling effort to
gain notoriety that has been exhibited
In years is the attempt of Captain
Andrews and his bride of a month to
cross the Atlantic in a fourteen foot
boat with a small sail and canvas cover.
The little vessels-at best is a frail affair
and sits dangerously deep in the water
as a result of being heavily provisioned
and much ballast.
A trip of this sort across 5000 miles of
water to the Azores and coast of Spain
at this season of the year is not the
kind many women would select or their
husbands care to furnish and there are
many chances that this wedding voyage
will never be ended.
At this season of the years storms are
fierce and frequent on the seas and if
the gallant little boat survives engulf-
ment it will be almost a miracle.
Captain Andrews expects to reach the
Azore islands in two months. with no
adverse winds, restoek his larder and
continue his destination to Spain
Then, of course, the Dark Secret" as
the boat has been styled, will be shown
throughout Europe and the captain will
give lectures in connection at a good
admittance fee.
To be sure this old sea dog has made
three successful trips across the ocean
in boats equally as small but only his
own life was in peril where in this case
a tender woman's existence is also at
stake. And it SHOULD ee remembered
in this connection the fate of the pitcher
that goes to the well too often.
When two adult persons of apparently
sound mind decide upon such a voyage
of course there is no means of prevent
ing their att, but it is certainly not one
to be emulated.
Captain Andrews idea of the respon-
sibility of a husband and the route Sc
lected for a honeymoon voyage are. to
say the least, very odd However, there
is a passing chance for the Dark
Secret" The undertaking is fearfully
hazardous but not entirely hopeless.
And there will be no doubt many a
wish that this brave but foolhardy cou-
pie may be heard from again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
THE LYLE CASE.

The most startling thing that has hap
pened in the annals of the never ceas-
ing crusade upon the illegal liquor sell
ers was the petition presented to Judge
Hazen in the case of sheep" Lytle.
If it had been suggested during the
joint smashing craze that the colonel
of the Home Defender regiment who
went into court and testified that he
had at his back a band of over thou
sand persons ready at his beck and call
to move on the joints for the purpose of
destroying them, would at any time
sign a petition favoring the release of
one Of the most notorious jointists in
Topeka people would have scoffed at
the idea.
If it had been rumored that lawyer
who has been prominent in temperance
work for years and who was instru-
mental in securing the evidence against
Lyle would, after the conviction of the
jointists, move the court to let him go
scot free, it would have brought smile.
If it had even been intimated that
prohibitionist who has been a candidate
for county prosecutor on the platform
that he would close the joints would
ever ask for the suspension of sentence
against violator of the prohibitory law,
the idea would have been set aside as
too f1imsy to allow of consideration.
If it had been mentioned that a min
lister who stood prosecution for smashing
Joints and wore the mantle of martyr
and was wounded in an early morning
raid would ever turn his attentions to
getting jointists out of the clutches OF
the law he would have vigorously denied
the rumors.
But, after all, these very people united
in signing a petition asking the court,
which they have often criticised for
being too 1enient- with violators of the
prohibitory law, to stay the hand of
justice and allow the culprit to go free
instead of carrying out the purpose of
the law and the mandates of the higher
court in demanding him to Jail.
AS a matter of fact and law what the
petition asked the Shawnee county court
to do was just what every lawyer who
signed that petition should have known
the court could not do The judge of the
Shawnee county court was asked to
overrule the mandate of the supreme
court, thing which he never did and
never will do as it would be strictly and
openly violation of the duties imposed
1,sx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12

The happy situation, present and pro-
spective in New York municipal poll
tics is thus set forth by the World:
Seth Low and Edward NJ. Shepard
have known each other all their lives.
As little chaps they marched together
in the Sunday school parade on what
is known in Brooklyn as Anniversary
day. or The scnildren'S Walk They
have worked side by side for better
local government, and have often met
as friendly antagonists in the broader
field of politics. When, therefore, Mr..
Low says of his opponent that he has
no doubt of his sincere intention of do
ing some great service to his party and
to the city, and that he shall say of
him nothing that even friendship could
call unkindly'-and Mr.. Shepard styles
his antagonist "a man of fine integrity,
whom I have Tor twenty years honored
and shall, believe, honor as long as
live'-can not their supporters on both
sides initiate their example and give us
a decent campaign, so far at least as
the chief candidates are concerned
Rarely if ever in the history of New
York for the last forty years have the
candidates for mayor been men of such
high character, marked ability and
clean records