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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-08-28
ONCE POWER IN POLITICS.
John !. Davenport Dies in Comparative
DNUor%N

John |. Davenport Dies in Comparative
Poverty.
New York, August 27.-John l. Dav,
export, formerly United States super
visor of elections, whose death has
just occurred at Stamford, Conn, was
once a power in Republican politics
In this city. After serving through
the civil war he became newspaper
correspondent at Washington
It was Davenport's custom to make
arrests on the night before election
and his prisoners, men of all sorts,
were thrown into cage which he had
built in 2 room of the general postof
fee. The use of the cage brought his
builder much notoriety. He is said
to have died in comparative power
ty,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-08-28
RIDDIcK's BODY RECOVERED.
Despite Verdict of Jury Many Suspect
Foul Play.

FouI FIay.
Elizabeth City, N. c., August 27.-A
launch party arrived at Hertford early
Wednesday morning bringing With
them the body of G. Wallace Rtddick,
who was drowned near this place
Riddick left his home at Hertford
week ago to join house party at
Nagshead, N. c., and was last seen a
few minutes prior to the departure
of the steamer from Elizabeth City.
His baggage was found aboard the
steamer the next morning, but Riddick
was reported missing.
When he left home he had 1928 on
his person, although but Sc were in his
pockets, when his body was found. THE
coroner's jury rendered a verdict OF
accidental drowning, but it Is thought
by many that he was robbed and then
thrown overheard
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Heavy RalnfaIIs In Iowa.

Burlington, Iowa, August 27.-The
worst rain of the season fell last night
and early this morning. The whole
country is flooded and streams are out
Of their banks. Numerous small
bridges are reported down. and 1t is
feared much damage has been done ia
crops by washing out.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-08-28

Ccnstantinople, August 27-The
bomb which wrecked the train near
Kulen Burgas was thrown by third
class passenger, who was in the buff
fet car Only two cars were de-
stroyed. The dead include two Mus
Bulman womeN two children and three
trainmen. T. continued absence of
news from the interior of Macedonia
is because of widespread interruption
of telegraphtc communication and is
causing much uneasiness to the Turk
ish officials here ad much unrest
among the public generally.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-08-28
East Lake, Ala, Dec. 8th, 1902.

East Lake, Ala, Dec. 8th, 1902.
Mr.. A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:-This to certify that on Au-
gust 1st went to Verbena, Ala, to hold
series of meetings. Was at that time, and
had been for six weeks prior, so feeble was
scarcely able to preach. Mr.. F. A. Gulledge,
of Verbena, with whose family was stop
ping, kindly offered sme three bottles of
JOhnsons Chill and Fever Tonic, gratis. |
accepted, and began the use of the Tonic at
once. Within three weeks 1 was was much
better. In three weeks | had taken the
three bottles of Tonic and was fully well.
Took no other medicine then nor since, and
am in better health and heavier than for
the past fifteen years.
j. M. MCCORD,
Pastor Verbena Baptist Church.
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TRAIN BLOWN Up BY
DYNAMITE BOMBS
Rebels Wreck Budapest and
Oonstantinople Express.
SEVEN kILLEo;FlFTEEN INJURED

Near kuIealibareas RevoIutionists
Use Dynamite With Most Disastrous
Results, Causing Loss Of Life and
the Smashing of Every Car.
Sofia, August 27.-The eastbound
express from Budapest for CONSTANT
nople was blown up near Kulealfbar.
gas, about 25 miles south of Adrianople
early today.
Seven persons were killed and Is
were injured.
Dynamite bombs were used.
Every car of the train was smash
ed. Apparently, the outrage was the
work OF the revolutionists who trav,
eled on the train.
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UNITED STATES VICE
CONSUL MURDERED
William G. Magelssen Of Min
nesota the Victim.
HELD OFFICE AT BEIRUT, SYRIA

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INCORPORATED 1891.

L, q. CouncLI, r j. Perry,
President Vice-President. |
C. Nj. Council, Cashier.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
First Ride on Cars.

Curtis Tiff, of Rupert, went Monday
morning to Granville to cut brush for
Myron Roberts. There would be nothing
remarkable in this fact if it were not
that Tiff then enjoyed the novelty of
his first ride on a railroad train. For A
years he has lived within half a mile of
the railroad station, and was satisfied to
occupy the time to accumulate a little
property that makes him somewhat indie
pendent. When he entered the car Mon
day morning he shared seat with ex-
Assemblyman j. Harvey Waite, of
Brooklyn, who was enjoying his first
glimpse of Vermont and the Rupert
mountains. Rupert citizens gave Tiff a
send-otf at the station as the train left.
Mr.. Tiff has few peers cutting brush.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Good Place for LAWYERS.

G. A. Prouty, the well-known Newport
lawyer, considers that the chances for
young men, and particularly for young
lawyers is as good as, and probably
better than those offered in the West or
in the large cities. In the course of his
address to the Vermont Bar Association
at Newport recently Mr.. Prouty laid
particular emphasis on the chances in
Vermont, and his conclusions, as ex-
pressed in the following are of interest:
"In the last six years my duties have
taken me into every state and territory
in the union, and l have gone in a way
which has famliarized me to great
extent with commercial and social con-
ditions. Meeting hundreds of lawyers
from all parts of the country | have in
evitably contrasted their condition with
ours; have almost of necessity inquired
whether / ought not myself to have
begun otherwise or elsewhere. AS re-
suit of this observation and reflection
there has grown up within me an abid-
ing conviction that were | obliged to do
it over again and could exercise a con-
scious volition l would be born beside
the placid waters of this beautiful lake,
| would study law and would practice
my profession in Vermont.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Fish and Game Banquet.

P. NJ. Meldon, of Rutland, will serve
as POSTMASTER lat the meeting of the
Fish and Game league, at Fort Fred
erick, N. Y, September a, and the state
speakers will be Charles H. Robb, assist
ant attorney general for the post Office
department, Bellows Falls; John G.
Foster, United States consul at Ottawa,
Derby Line; Hon. Willard F. Barnes,
Chimney Point, and, it is expected,
Senator C. S. Emery, of Chelsea. For
outside speakers it is expected that the
secretary of the navy, William H..
Moody, and Mr.. Bristow, the fourth
assistant postmaster general, will be
present, and it is hoped also that Cover
nor Odell, of New York, Hon. Robert I.
Lincoln, of Chicago, and Justice Brewer,
of the Supreme Court, will be among
the speakers.
A special train will be run over the
Rutland, reaching Burlington at II: 80 to
connect with the steamer Chateaugay.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
The Men Who do Thinqs.

This is the age of the men who do
things. They are our leaders and heroes.
We adore achievement. We worship
success. The strenuous life" has be-
come our ideal, and the President of the
United States, whom we all admire, is
the exemplar of that life.
There is a lack of great thinkers.
The glory of our time is the men who
do. We have no poets now like those
who inspired and charmed and soothed
our forefathers. We import our best
music and our best art. If we produce
some great painters and musicians, they
go to Europe where the atmosphere" is
more congenial. The air of this country
is too bracing for the fine arts, and the
best thinking is done in France and Ger
many, where life is less rapid than in
the United States.
The types of our nation and time are
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
(From Randolph Herald)

This paper has not the slightest
sympathy with lynch or mob law. For
that very reason we look with disfavor
on the tardy and altogether inadequate
punishments frequently melted out in
Vermont to alleged men found guilty in
the courts of that nameless crime. For
instance, a sentence of four to six months
in the House of Correction, imposed on
wretch at Montpelier recently, against
whom the charge was modified to simple
assault and plea of guilty entered, or
the fixing of bail in another case at
few hundred dollars, are simply standing
invitations, first to the commission of
the crime, and secondly to the mob to do
its work. When the stealing of horse
or even of suit of clothing is deemed
and punished as more heinous offence
than the robbing of virtue, the legal
machinery of our state is sadly out of
gear. There should be no excuse
furnished by those who sit on the bench
or in jury boxes for the coming of lynch
law to our state.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28

Just as we predicted. The st. Adams
Messenger sits down heavily on the
"mentioner' of Col. Parker for State
Senator. Not that the Messenger is
opposed to the Colonel, but because the
name is mentioned thus early it
thinks it will be cold day for the Col
onel when next year comes around.
Fiddlesticks.-Mo rrisville News and
Citizens.
No first class man is injured by being
mentioned" 1t is the cheap man; the
my turn next man; the peanut poll
tician that is "killed" politically by hav-
ing his name brought before the public
and his qualifications for the position
discussed in the papers months before
the nominating convention meets. That
class want "still hunt" Want to see
''the boys" who run things in the differ
ent towns and "fix things" before the
people in general know they are candi-
dates. Publicity frosts their hopes and
blights their chances. 1t helps the man
who is qualified to fill any office.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
1t Pays to Raise Horses.

Here is the record of one New York
combination horse sales company for
four years. 1t has sold 100 trotters for
S516,210; an average of S5162: IL stall
lions for S120,600; an average of $40, 1850;
Z geldings with records) for S72 800, an
average of $10,371; 6 mares, 1.-TWO green
for S45, 100, an average of S7516; brood
mares for so 1926, an average of S3637
yearling trotters for s21 1926 an average
of S4350, 6 two year olds for sci 900 an
average of $3650; three year olds for
1856, 500 an average of S60S3; 6 four year
Odds for $21, $50 an average of S4625. The
Woodstock Age has been urging its
readers to breed better horses and cor
respondent writes the editor that The
question of breeding good horses for the
market is a purely commercial one. If
farmers saw a profit in this line of indus
try they would pursue it. Now it costs
about $50 to breed and keep colt till he
or she is four years old; and it must be a
very good animal that can be sold for
much above this. Besides, there is the
chance of sickness and of injury from
the barbarous barbed wire fences that
still pervade parts of the country"
The editor replies: "Such is the line of
argument to justify the Indifference of
the farmers to breeding first-class horses,
and the reasoning would have been I'M
answerable few years ago. Just now
it fails. The price of really good horses
has gone up In fact there is hardly a
limit to what is willingly paid for per-
fectly satisfactory animal.
Besides. if a man once breeds a $500
or a $1,000 horse, he has at once estab-
lished reputation and practically a
business. 1t will be easier to sell all his
other horses. The breeder should aim
high, therefore, and not be content till
he is producing again in Vermont as
grand strain as was ever represented
by the Morgan"
Better still breed Morgans. There is
no end to the demand for Morgans from
all parts of the county. 1t has been
demonstrated over and over again that
they make the finest driving horses in
the world and have speed. endurance
style; in fact all the desirable qualifica.
tions of the IDEAL horse.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28

The Chicago employers have set the
whole country good example by max
ing, through a committee, a thorough
and systematic investigation of the cost
of living in all the districts of that city
in which their employees reside. 1t has
been found that the increase in the past
five years has been Is per cent and the
wages of the men will be at once raised
Is per cent. This is the right way to
settle this question. If all employers
would adopt the same plan there would
be very few strikes, and labor troubles
would be almost unknown.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Boy Burned in Barn.

The house and barn of Frank Pero
on Woodward Hill, Waterbury, were
burned August 2lst. Mr.. Pero was at
work on the farm when he discovered
the fire. He rushed into the barn to
save his horse and then to the house,
where his wife and child were asleep
They were nearly suffocated before being
rescued.
a son, six years old followed his father
into the barn and was not missed until
the barn fell, when his half burned body
rolled out.
Frank Pero, while out with team on
Sunday making arrangements for the
funeral of his grandson--the boy who
was burned to death in the fire on Wood
ward Hill on Friday last-had the mis-
fortune to get tipped over and roll down
a twenty foot embankment. His collar
bone was broken twice and rib was
cracked.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Own "A Home.

Why not own a home? asks the Bur-
lington News, and then goes on with
some pertinent suggestions worthy of
careful consideration:
ga healthy feature of the present
prosperous condition of the country is
the growing tendency among all classes
of people to build or purchase bones,
thus ensuring the safety of their Savings
as well as providing for the future. So
much money has been lost in the past
through the glittering offers of UNI
scrupulous promoters in thousand and
one investments of questionable charac-
ter, that the eyes of the frugal thinking
class have been opened, and as they look
about and see their neighbor in his
attractive, though inexpensive home,
which has been paid for by small saw
ings, they may well wonder why the
same thing has not been done by them
selves during all the years when they
might have been paying for house
instead of renting one.
A person of good character and thrifty
habits, with few hundred dollars and
an honest disposition to help himself, can
easily find means to build; and much of
the attractiveness of any town or city is
due to its many cosy houses, surrounded
by well-iept lawns, with flowers and
shrubbery.
Now is the time for the wage Garner
to build himself home. With the
qualifications we mentioned at the out
set, the money is easily procurable at a
reasonable rate of interest, and scores
and hundreds of our people should take
advantage of the opportunity.
The safest investment that can be
made is to build house for a steady
working man, who will pay from s. to
S. per month more than fair rental.
Credit him at the end of the year
with the full amount paid, less interest,
taxes and insurance. In five years a
man getting Sl2 per week will own a
81, 900 home. Even if he fails to pay
for the place, or even to pay more than
fair rental, you get tenant who takes
the very best care of ana interest in youl
property. Barring sickness, the average
man will pay for little home in five
years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Big Apple Crop.

The apple crop in Grand Isle county
will be the best for many years. The
fruit is large and smooth. The pear
crop will be light and only small crop
of plums. Grains of all kinds are large
and good crop. The onion crop is a
small one, very late and promises few
hard onions There is large acreage
of beans and with warm September a
large crop may be looked for Corn is
poor and late. The grass crop in the
south part was heavy, while in the north
it is light. Potatoes are reported good
throughout the county.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Barre Daily Times. ]

This is the counsel of Associate Justice
David j. Brewer of the United States
Supreme court anent the lynching of
rape fiends, and there is much to be
commended in it, why may not di-
rection be given to the presiding judge of
the proper court, when such an atrocious
crime has been committed as those
giving rise to lynchings to Immediately
convene the court and put the accused
at once on trial: If this were done and
no appeal were allowed would not the
community be more confident that full
punishment would be promptly meted
out? If it be said that under the haste
of such a trial some innocent men
might be punished, a sufficient reply
would seem to be that justice would be
more likely done than when mob takes
the law into its own hands"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28
Weak
Heart From Attack
of LaGrippe.
Palpitation, Smother
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DR.. Miles Heart Cure
Cured Ne.

The terrible after effects of LaGrippe are
most dangerous when they attack the heart,
the engine of life. Weak hearts are as COM
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-08-28

the skyscraper, with its frame of steel,
the electric motor and the stock tape.
We have now no great philosophers of
calm, serene lives, like Emerson, who
never did anything except to write a
few thousand words which have left
their impress upon the life of the world
We do not love money more than our
forefathers did, but we love the making
of money far more. We work fewer
hours, but with more intenseness and
nervous energy.
The men who do things are not con-
tent with small achievements. They
work on scale of continents. They
are the captains in the conquest of the
markets They build immense railroads
and canals. They consolidate indus
tries They create big banks. They
bridge oceans with ships. They regulate
competition so as to reduce its waste.
They are ever seeking new ways of
making consumption keep pace with
the productive energies of the country.
ployed.
There is reason, therefore, in the adj
miration which we give to these men.
Admiration is the coin which the world
pays to its leaders. 1t is a great thing
to be able to do things, not merely as
most of us are content to do, by laying
one brick upon another, but by waving
a magic wand or, like Alladin, rubbing
a lamp, rear vast structures almost in a
night, thousands of hands doing ones
bidding 1t is great thing to be able
to do one thing supremely well, to be
able, like Stevenson, to say, zone thing
l do" In this age we have specialized
endeavor. Each man does one thing,
and if he is of the right kind, seeks to do
that one thing supremacy well. The
result is, an astonishing rapidity and
high quality of production. But it will
be observed that the keynote which is
always sounded is edo" do" So
intent are we on doing, that we give
ourselves very little time for thinking,
says the Wall Street Journal. Even in
our recreation we are forever doing and
never resting. With our nerves at the
highest point of tension, we do not allow
ourselves time for repose and thought.
This is the great defect of this age.
We not only do, but we overdo. We
work, but we overwork. We play and
we everyday. We eat and we overeat.
We speculate and we overspeculate.
The most pressing need is more time
for thought. After ALL it is not action
that keeps things moving, but thought,
and that nation lis not the greatest and
the most powerful which does not pro-
duce men who think as well as men who
| do.