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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

The publication called Life" has
made made departure from the aver
age idea, by offering prize for the
best contribution showing why any
particular daily newspaper is the worst
in the United States" This, as we
said, lisa new departure. Instead of
trying to learn which is the best paper
1t wants to find the worst one, and the
opening such an offer affords is almost
boundless. The woods are full of peo-
pie who can tell all the bad points
about newspaper, and how it should
be run and how it should be run and
how it might be improved. They can
tell all the bad and leave out anything
good, and some one of this kind should
be able to write a paper that would
please Life. Hunting for faults is the
favorite occupation of some people and
these can find ample scope for their in
genuity IN the subject proposed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Trouble is brewing for the president
in many of the Southern States, over
! the question of the organization of the
lily white republican party and the APP
pointment of the negroes to Office. 1t
Is difficult to see how a republican
president, who expects denomination
1904, can consent to throw the coll
ored people overheard, and that Mr..
Roosevelt must do or lose the support
in the next National convention of men
like Senator Pritchard, the lily white
leader in North Carolina. Even now
the prediction is made that two years
hence the president will get little sup
port from that quarter, that three
fourths of its delegates will have some
other candidate for the presidency.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
THE PROSPEROUS SOUTH.

The year which ended Wednesday
has been one of unusual prosperity for
the country. It has been many years
since the South has known such pros
porous condition. Here and there I'm
favorable seasons have caused a short
age of crops which have affected locali-
ties, but on the whole the year has been
one of great prosperity agriculturally,
industrially, and commercially. The
holiday trade of the merchants and the
transportation business Of the railroads
have been greater than any previous
period in the South's history. This
means that the people have more money
to spend than usual.
While the South's agricultural inter-
ests have steadily increased and agrl-
cultural methods have constantly i'm
proved, the growth of its mining and
manufacturing industries has brought
| it to the point where it is more impor-
tant as manufacturing country It's
manufactured products now exceed the
value of its agricultural products by
several millions Of dollars. There are
many Southerners, men who regard
themselves as fairly well posted, who
have but q dim realization of what the
South is really doing, of its growth as
a manufacturing section The growth
of its cotton manufacturing industry
has been greater than that of any other
interest, which is natural, for the
South, which produces most of the
worlds cotton, must eventually be-
come the cotton manufacturing center
or the world.
In various portions of the South rail
roads are being built, new lines pro-
jected, and old ones being reconstruct
ted.
The South faces the new year in a
condition of peace and prosperity and
with an abiding faith in the future.
What the new year may bring to the
country before another year succeeds
cannot be foreseen. There appears no
convincing indication of any decrease
in the prevailing prosperity, which may
or may not continue for the next two
or three years. These periods of pros
perity and depression come and go, in
spite of political parties which claim
credit for prosperous times or are
charged with responsibility for hard
times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

DIR. Milburn, the blind Chaplain of
the United States Senate, who has re-
signed, being now in his 90th year
once said to Senator: s'Never allow
session to be opened without prayer.
IF you do my boys will be sure to get
into trouble" The same Senator re-
calls that on the day of the Tillman-
McLaurin fracas DIR. Milburn was too
i'll to attend and the session was opened
without prayer. The venerable Chap
lain devoutly believes that the trouble
resulted from that omission.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Last summer when the price of beef
made balloon ascension, Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson predicted that the
prices would drop when the CRASHED
cattle from the Western ranges reached
the market. Henow points to the prlce
of beef as vindication of his predic-
lion. Beef cattle that sold in Chicago
last July for 49, 25 and 1915 per hum
dred weight sold few days ago in the
same market for 81 rs and 1925 per
hundred pounds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Senator Clay brings forward once
more the point that the Democratic
South has nothing to expect from any
political alliance with the West. If the
Democracy is to win, it must be with
: the aid of the North, the Eastern North.
This is not only fact, but very i'm
important one. But in recent years
it has been ignored, with disastrous re-
suits. Savannah News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Jerry Simpson of the scanty
socks-is another statesman who wants
to see New Mexico admitted into the
Union as State because he is now a
citizen of that Territory and wants to
be one of its first Senators. Jerry is
now out of a political job uthe is get
ting rich and thinks he can round up a
Senatorship in good style.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
THE SOUTHERN PRESS
Claims The Best Ministries Seen in
Years

Savannah News, Dec. 26. "The
equal of any Minstrels seen here in
years.
Jacksonville Times-Union, Dec.
90" The entertainment was en-
tirely satisfactory
Asheville Gazette. "They are
much better than Field's.D
Tampa Herald, Dec. 31.-"The
Ministries in every particular, is
the best and cleanest ever in this
city-and this is no hot air puff,
either.
Tampa Times, Dec. 81. every
feature of the show is of the highest
order.
Tampa Tribune, Dec. 31.-HIt is
the best Minstrel performance ever
seen in Tampa"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Bradstreet's review shows that 1902
has been the greatest business year in
the history of the United States. The
outlook. for the coming year promises
even greater things in this great coun-
try of ours.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

4. .. Blackmore. of Halter & Black
more,, Pittburg, Pa, says: "A short
time since procured q bottle of MYS-
! TIC CURE. 1t got me out the house
in twenty -four hours. I took my bed
With Rheumatism nine months ago and
C Oh r. MYSTIC CURE is the only fnedi.
that did me any good. had Eve
best physicians in the city, but
/u,zd very little relief from them.
= he MYSTIC CURE TO be wha
'os;' IrSsnc - - otha~ ano. s.s9. =
i'd by e. ]. Eldridge. Druggist
., Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
WHAT IS LIFE.

A little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread,
A little frock behind the door,
A little shoe upon the floor,
A little lad with golden hair,
Q A little blue-eyed face and fair,
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithsome. winsome mald;
A little hand within is laid,
A little cottage, acres four;
A lit e old-time household store.
A little family gathered round
A little lonely, tear-dewed mound
A little added to the soil,
A little rest from hardest toll.
A little silver in his hair,
A little stool, an easy chair;
A little night of earth-lit gloom,
A little cortege to the tomb.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

1T * cps the Feet Warm and Dry
sk.today for Aliens Foot-Ease, O
powder. It cures ChilbIains, Swollen,
Sweating, Sore, Aching, Damp feet.
At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
AMERICUs. Ca. JAN. 8, 1908.

During the year just closed The
Times Recorder has added more sub
seribers to its list than for any previ-
GUS year in It's history.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

GEORGIA-SUMTER COUNTY.
4 hereby certify that the above is a true
cory of the original application for charter
as taken from the minutes of Sumter Supe
rior Court, Il, f, GATEWOOD
Deputy Clerk
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
Application for Charter.

STATE OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COUNTY.
To the Superior Court of said county,
The petition of j M, Summerford and d c
Jones of said State and County respe ctfull
shows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

That they desire for themselves, their as
sociateS, successors and assigns to becom
incorporated under the name and style o
"LESLIE MERCANTIL e & SUPPLY CO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03
Letters from
Women

Cured by the use of Kodol are received daily.
Their troubles nearly all begin with indiges-
ton or other stomach disorder.
If the food you eat fails to give strength
to your body, it is because the juices Sc
GREETED by the stomach and digestive organs
are inadequate to transform the nutrientprop-
critics of the food into blood. That is
indigestion. The system is deprived of the
amount of nourishment required to keep up
the strength, and the result is that one or
more of the delicate organs gradually grows
weak, and then weaker, until finally it is
diseased. Here great mistake is made.
That of treating the diseased organ. The
best doctors in the land make this very
mistake. Why should they? 1t is so easy
to see that the trouble is not there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

Petitioners ask to be incorpor sted for
term of twenty years with the p isilege o
renewal at the end of said time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

shows:
sociates, successors and assigns to become
incorporated under the name and style OF
LESLIE MERCANTIL e & SUPPLY Co"
Petitioners ask to be incorpor sted for q
term of twenty years with the p isilege OF
renewal at the end of said time.
The capital stock of the corporation is tc
be Four Thousand Dollars, divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each. Peti
creasing the capital stock from time to thu
not exceeding ia the aggregate ten thous nc
dollars.
TIE whole of said capital stock OF fou,
thousand dollars has been actual. paid in.
The object of the PROPOSED corporation Ii
pecuniary profit and G in to It's stockholders
petitioners propose to carry on genera
mercantile and supply business, dealing a.
wholesale or retail, or both, as they see
proper: buying and selling for cash or or
credit al such things as are usually embrac
all the usual necessary and prop acts
which pertain to, or may be connected
Herewith, a
Petitioners pray that they may buy. sci
lease mt or imp -ove retail ST ate ana per
so % al property as may be of interest TO them
! selves and the business they shall carry on
that they may make such rules, regulations
or bylaws as they may see fit for the carry
ing on OF said business not in conflict witt
the charter sought, or the laws of the State
that they may sue and be sued, plead and bt
impleaded; have and use a corporate sea
und err said corporate name as aforesaid.
VII
The stockholders of said corporation shat
be liable tor the debts of the same in the
amount of stock for which they have sub
scribed and not paid in; that is to say, there i.
10 be no liability of the individual stock
holders beyond the unpaid subscription,
The principal office and place of business
of the proposed corporation will be in tn,
town of Leslie, said State and County; bu
petitioners ask the privilege of establfshin,
branch Office of the bnsi ness at such othei
places wi hin and without the State as they
may see fit: the right to appoint agents, anC
to do all other such things as are necessary
anddncident to carry on said busine s.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made a
body corr crate under the name and style a.
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, privilege
and tmmunities and subjectto the liabilitie
fixed by law. This the 1st, day of Jan. 1908
w, p. WALLIS.
Petitioners Attorney,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

TIE whole of said capital stock OF fou
thousand dollars has been actual paid in.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

The stock holders of said corporation shat
be liable tor the debts of the same in the
amount of stock for which they have sub
scribed and not paid in that is to say, there is
TO be no liability of the individual stock
holders beyond the unpaid subscription
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-03

The capital stock of the corporation is to
be Four Thousand Dollars divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each. Peti-
toners, however ask the privilege of in
creasing the capital stock from time to tt N .
not exceeding 10 the aggregate ten thous nd
dollars.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
THE VERDICT $4,000
To Family of Engineer James
R. Watson, Killed on
the Road.

The jury yesterday evening awarded
the family of Engineer James R. Wat
son $4,000 damages for the loss of his
life in the discharge of his duty on the
Seaboard Air Line.
Only about one hour the twelve men
delberated over the amount of damages
for that was the only question at issue.
The road admitting negligence.
Yesterday morning the defense recalled
to the stand r. p. I. Sanderson, Super
intendent of Motive Power for the Sea-
board Air Line. Then the following ad-
dtional witnesses were examined for the
railroad: John S. Chambers, of Whining
ton, Superintendent of Motive Power for
the Atlantic Coast Line; Prof. w. c..
Riddick, as an expert mathematician, to
calculate on earning power; Engineers
e. D. Clark and w H. Fetner, and w.
e. Owen and j. NJ. Ashby.
Another strong effort was made to
show that as a usual thing engineers
were retired from duty on the main line
when they passed fifty years of age.
The defense rested after the introduce
ton of the witnesses mentioned, and then
John Riddle and G. w. Newcomb gave
additional evidence as to the character
and habits of the dead engineer
The evidence was all in then. and the
argument of counsel began. Col. T. M.
Argo for the plaintiff, and Capt. w. ii.
Day Major ]. d. Shaw and Judge t. b.
Womack for the defendant, all addressed
the jury.
1t was nearly o'clock before the
speeches were all concluded. The judges
charge was very brief He told them
that the question of roads retiring en-
gineers over fifty or sixty years old must
of course be considered by them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
And His Patient, China, Ready
to Rebel.
BRUINS PAW WITHDRAWN
He Begins 10 Doubt The Efficacy Of Biting OF
Johns Limbs as a Remedy for all
the Ills That John is
Heir To.
(By the Associated Press

Washington, April 2S.-No response has
come to the State Department as yet
from either Ambassador Mccormick at
st. Petersburg, or Minister Conger at
Pekin, to the inquiries respecting Rus
sia's demands In connection with Man
churia
The officials are in a state of sus-
pense and uncertainty in view of the
from the Russian and Chinese capitals.
In the absence of official statements of
Russias purposes, the opinion prevails
here that these Russian demands We're
really put out in a tentative form last
week and not in regular official shape.
There is good reason to believe that the
Chinese government itself let the de-
mands leak out in order to secure the
support of the powers in it's refusal of
the Pussian demands.
Notwithstanding the intense public ex-
element over the proposition, the Rus
sian government, it is surmised. took
steps through the statement issued IN
st. Petersburg yesterday to abandon
several of the original demands. Il
is not doubted that such reduction of
the maximum demands was fully with
in contemplation when the tentative
statement was thrown out.
If this assumption, general in official
circles here, Is well founded, then Rus
STA will not further interfere with the
consummation of the United States
trade treaty with China, including as it
does the new ports of Moukdam and
Taku-S Shan. On the other hand, the
fourth demand, characterized by the St.
Petersburg statements as unimportant
is not so regarded here, for it amounts
to an indefinite continuance under Rus
sian direction of present conditions in
China, which will stop all reform move
mentS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
REGULARS, NAME ALDERMEN.
At Mass Meeting Eeld in the Court House in
Durham
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial to News and Observer
Durham, N c., April 2S.-The court
house was again packed tonight, the oc-
casion being a mass meeting for the
nomination of ticket for aldermen by
the regulars. The crowd was about equal
to that last night when the reform
movement put out ticket. There were
a few short talks in which one speaker
said that the other side had named the
issue, and that he was in favor of ac-
cepting it and fighting out the question
at the polls. There was great enthusiasm
and the meeting tonight, taken in con-
necton with that of last night shows
the great interest in the fight now on.
The ticket named tonight contains the
name OF one who was nominated last
night, c. H. Herndon. The ticket named
is as follows: A. H. Rigsbee, j. B..
Mason, T. S. Christian, w. A. Guthrie,
c. M. Herndon, A. D. Markham, Albert
Kramer and DR.. ]. NJ. O'Kelly.
This afternoon paper under the name
of "The Voter" published in the interest
Of the anti-saloon movement, made its
appearance. 1t will be published until
election.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
WILD ANIMALS BY
EXPRESS.
Two Lions, a Baby Leopard,
Two Little Bears Reached
Here Yesterday,

The first and only shipment of wild ami
mails that ever arrived in Raleigh by eX
press. came yesterday afternoon, being a
mart of the consignment of the Gaskill-
Mundy-L.evitt Company. for use in the
geological arena.
Usually wild animals for trained ami
NAL shows are raised in this country
geological gardens, but shipment from
South America and Calcutta direct to
Raleigh caused great excitement among
the express company people
AS soon as the express messenger
pushed one OF the big boxes to the door
of the ear, jim Marrow, the colored mes
senger, heard the growl of the lion and
the last that was seen of him, was That
he was going in the direction of the PEN
itentiary woods.
II was with a great deal of trouble
that the superintendent of the company
here secured enough help to transport
the animals to the city lot where they
were transferred from their travelling
cages to the show cages.
In the shipment there were two beau
tiful Nubian lions from Calcutta, one
Of which Madame Dyer very graciously
named Raleigh and the other Carolina,
out of compliment to our city, where
they are organizing and also to our
State.
For the baby leopard, the name Spot
was given and the two little Sun bears
were named "Alphonce and Castor.
A great deal of excitement was mani
tested while the transfer of the animals
was going on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
Coming Cabinet Conference.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington April 2S.-An important
conference between the President and the
members of his Cabinet will be held in
St. Louis probably on Wednesday night.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Shaw,
who is to be of the party at that time
will be joined there by other members
Of the Cabinet. Matters of Importance,
which have arisen since the President S
departure from Washington, will be
brought to the attention of the Chief
Executive. These will include Russia S
attitude in Manchuria, the developments
in the investigation in the Postoffce De-
partment and some departmental matters
upon which the President will have to
pass judgment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
PAYNE c0NFERs WITH BEACH.
The Case Of Tyner May be Laid Before the
Grand Jury
tBy the AssocIated Press

Washington, April 2S.-United States
District Attorney Beach had a conference
with Postmaster General Payne today re-
garding the recent abstraction of papers
from the safe of the Assistant Attorney
General for the Postoffice Department
with a view to laying the case before the
grand jury.
If the grand jury takes up the case
it is not probable that it will report for
at least two weeks. Postmaster General
Payne has sent a letter to G. A. c.
Christiancy, in which he says that Mr..
Christiancy's request for an investigation
of his official acts viii be granted and
that he will be given leave of absence
until further notice. The Postmaster Gen
eral also says that Mr. Christiancy Will
be given every opportunity to explain any
matters reecting upon his conduct as an
official of the Postoffice Department.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
A RIOT ar MARS EILLE'.
Friars Barricade Themselves in Convent
Hot Fight in the Streets.

10y Iu6 ASSOCidlcd ItSS.(
Marsellles, April 28.-A riotous out
break occurred today in the streets sur
rounding the Capuchin Convent, where
the friars barricaded themselves. A
crowd of several thousand persons gath
cred about the place at an early hour
many of them carrying banners having
anti-clerical Inscriptions. During a
charge made by a squad of police Com
missary Souchin was struck on the head
and badly hurt The fight became gen.
eral stones and clubs being used. A
number of policemen were injured and
many arrests were made.
A number OF persons who attempted to
rescue the prisoners stoned the commits
sary of police and the police thereupon
charged with drawn revolvers and fired
about twenty shots in the air to intimi
date the rioters. Strong reinforcements
were then sent for. Traffic was suspend
ed in all the surrounding streets and rigid
surveillance of the neighborhood was es-
tablished.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30

Waterman prior to the fire. At the time
of the fire two persons were burned to
death
Since the fire Wertheimer has not been
engaged in any business. The firm dis
charged it's employees, including Simpson
but he got work as motorman. A week
ago he lost that position. He had long
talk with Mr.. Wertheimer yesterday ar
ternoon and returned last night. Simpson
returned to the Wertheimer home at an
early houn today and the shooting oc-
Cured in the hallway of the house after
which Simpson walked away and later
was arrested
All Simpson would say was that Vert
heimer owed him money for something he
had done and had refused to pay him.
Wertheimer denied this but Simpson had
demanded money from him as a brother
Mason.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-30
To Separate the School Taxes.
(Bv the Associated Press.)

Tallahassee, Fla, April 2S-Representa-
tive Long introduced today joint reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the
constitution providing that in the collec-
ton of taxes separate record be kept
of all taxes paid by white and colored
taxpayers and that the school fund de-
rived from taxing each race be devoted
exclusively to schools of that race
Thirty nine representatives voted for the
amendment to four against it The con-
stitution requires three-fifths vote OF
all the members elected to each house
Many members did not vote on the
amendment, and it lacked two of receiving
the required vote.