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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-18
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DRATHER & STATHAM,
L PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS.
r Tender their professional services to the
people of AmeI1Cus and surrounding coun-
try once Planters Bank Building Room
26- Gals left at HudsoD's drugstore will re-
ceive prompt attention,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-18
PEOPLE FLEE FROM
FEUD RIDDEN TOWN
Reign of Terror at jackson,
KY, Unabated.
PEOPLE FEAR ASSASSINATION

Trial of Curtis Jett and Thomas White
Has Brought About a State of AT.
fairs that Has Scarcely a Prece.
dent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-18

TAR. j. T. MCMATH,
~ once Douson's Pharmacy, Residence
IS Elm avenue. Phone 80.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
MARJoRIE's CHRISTMAS DREAM.

I had had my goodnight kisses, and my
evening prayers were said
Mothers loving hands had tucked me in
my coy little bed.
There / lay all warmly Struggled while
listened to the song
That the icy wind was whlstling as il
whr.ed the fakes along.
There was snow against my window; all
the sleeping world was white.
And ! thought Of all the stories they had
told nle of the night
When the shepherds in Judea heard an
angel chorus sing
OF a manger-cradled baby born 10 be a
mighty King.
Then my thoughts went drifting onward TO
the tales Of Santa Claus
With his dainty sleigh and sleigh-bel and
the reindeer team that draws
Dear old Santa and his presents over ali
the world so swift
That the runners leave no traces in the
softest, deepest drift.
Made me shiyer just to think about the
frozen country where
Dear old Santa lives for always had
seen a polar bear
III a cage once. at the circus-and / shud-
dered just my best.
Then l-wen, my Uncle Tommy says
surely dreamed the rest
1 was sliding down an iceberg, having lots
and lots of fun,
And had started toward the summit just
Somehow dreams are kind O funny-ai
along the little slide
Christmas trees hrimful of presents grew
in rows on either side.
Tops and candies, sleds and dollies hung
around just everywhere:
| was reaching up TO take some, when /
saw a great, big bear
Starting down the slide to get me, with HIS
mouth all fixed to bite,
And ! got so scared to see him that |
couldn't run a mite.
Then-I walked. The moon was shining
through the window by my bed
Looking through the iron ratings / could
see a furry head
Like the one that I'd seen coming down
the slide TO gobbe me,
And / lay right still and Iuivered, just as
scared as | could be,
Then | saw my stocking wrigg!e-I had
hung II on n chair
Saw a big fat hand that made me know 1t
wasn't any bear;
Saw the noonshine on his whiSkerS and |
knew just who il was-
II was Christmas eve, | 'membered, and
my ''bear" was Santa Claus!
Strickland w. Gillian in Leslic's Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
Why We Decorate at Christmas.

Why 10 we decorate at Christmas:
Why til gifts on the Christmas ire.
Why the i.olly about the walls. and the
laurel over the pictures? Why. above all
and the center of all. those green and lIv-
ing growths. the mistletoc boughs. Chris
tianS seized upon these things for The
celebration Of the festival not because
they We're green, but because of the pow
er that held them green, that kept them
alive, that preserved in them the beauty
of life, Notwithstanding the SHOW and
sleet, the wind and chilling rain. and the
whitening blast.
1t is the spirit of these living growth,
that appeals to us when all the rest Of
inanimate nature appears TO be sleeping
under the mantle of winter. Before
Christmas was, the spirits behind the
green were believed in by an imaginative
people. and the great festival adopted by
them.
The ancient Druids believed in tie
spirits of the holly. Of the laurel. OF the
bay and Of the great green trees that
formed the walls and living arches OF
their temples. To them these thing
were peopled with sylvan spirits tha'
loved the growths and kept them green
by protecting Them from winter frost~
They took the branches within thr.l
dwelling. believing that the spirits Woud
follow, ANA there exercise their protecting
care.
Among these spirits they believed none
10 he more powerful or capable of bring
ing greater blessing than those Of th'
miStlctoe.
These beliefs have gone from the world
but we cling 10 the emblems Of them
and rejoice amid them at the Christina
celebration York News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

1t matters not whether you call him
St Nick, Kris Kringle or Santa Claus;
or whether he comes by sleigh and deer
or in an automobile, he will be welcome.
Can you imagine the patron saint of
Christmas cheer finding any door barred
against him:
And how good ii is, forsooth, for us To
give to this jolly St. Nick the freedom
OF the world, and a right-of-way even
over our housetops and down our Chin
neys.
Some men sigh at the annual season
of holly and mistletoe, and groan al the
thought of the Christmas tree. and the
nj ght -beforeC Christmas stockings, but
those same men would miss the gift time,
and the feasting, and the fellowship, and
the good cheer
IL is the season when the children are
happest. and who. at that time, is not a
child? Men are but children of larger
growth" says Dryden and God pity the
man who ever fully outgrows his child
hood.
Let us all fill the bumper figuTatively
speaking. and drink health to Christ
mas time-to the gathering of the family
and friends at the tireside and ut the
table grooming with its roast turkey. its
chicken pie. and its fat plum pudding,
steaming hot
Let us all be children for the time be-
ing-even if. with some of us, it has to
be second childhood Vest Pock-
81 Condolences in FourTrack News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
CURIOUS FOOD COMPOUND.
Old Bones, Alum, Flint and Sulphurie
Acid for Raising
Bread,

Housekeepers have recently been sole.
tied by some of the grocers and by
peddlers to try another kind of baking
powder-"cheaper and just as good" as
they say. This is another scheme of
some baking powder manufacturer to get
a new brand on the market by Offering
the grocer a large profit. Housekeepers
are not usually much benefited by such
changes. Alum baking powders are
generally low priced, but they are well
known to be detrimental to health.
Large quantities Of one of them were re-
Gently seized in New York, being found
to be largely composed of sharp pointed
grains of ground flint and sulphuric acid.
Most of the so-called phosphate pow.
ders are mixed with alum. The manu-
facturer of phosphate powder has pat
ented the process of making the principal
ingredient of his powder from bones di-
gested with sulphuric acid
HousekeeperS do not want such mix
lures in their food They should never
encourage peddlers nor admit testers or
alleged experimenters in food within
their. doors, and when buying baking
powder should get brand well known to
be made of cream of tartar, which is a
healthful product of the grape.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
CITY CROwDING.
1t Is an Important Factor in the Present
Growth of Crime.

The modern crowding of the pOpula-
ton INTO cities Is a factor OF the first i'm
portance. Enthusiasts ex:ravagantly
praise the virtues of country populations.
and as extravagantiy disparage the NOR
al condition of cities. This eXciteS con-
tradictiOn. and in the controversy. the
fact is overlooked that the profound
changes, some beneficial and other per-
niclous, have been and are heing silently
wrought by the aggregation into cities of
so large part of the population. We
are entering upon the third generation
Of hctbed city life. The offspring OF
those whose occupations are Sedentary,
who use stimulants. lead irregular and
eNtlted lives, must. with few exceptions
suffer from inherited irritability of the
nervous system. An abnormal strength
ana eccentricltE of impulse must be the
result. and this is f0stered by city life.
y lamentable change has passed over
the country with regard to the learning
of trades. Most Compartments require
manual labor IN the earlier years Of ac-
tive life and much exercise at all
periods. Labor unions determine the
number of apprentices which may he
/ taken. ana this number is 50 small that
II Is Impossible for the large Majority of
growing boys tn secure either the knOwl-
edge of trades ar the physical and men
tal benefits of steady employment.
counting rooms and shops are crowded
with applicants for every vacant pace
while thousands are left to roam the
streets, having neither trade. profession
nor knowledge Of business
The struggle for success in society
finance. pUiitics. literature. applied
science and art grows more fierce as the
cities grow larger: the prosperous have
often paid too dear for the whistler"
those who fail are. according to tempera-
ment, Respondent or desperate. and the
consequence is n steady procession TO the
sana tOrium or the prison. And the mum
Der of neurotic, romantic. pampered
youth of both sexes is incompatible If
the country often underestimate. the
city often overestmates. and the pre-
maturely blase youth is in an abnormal
condition which feeds upon itself
Under such circumstances the very
qualities which made good man may
make his son a curse To the community.
! -CentnrY Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

quiet Christmas" "Iie must have chloro-
formed the dog" vas her inner comment.
And again, Not many gifts, thank YOU:
my dearest friends remembered me"
Her second inner comment was one of
approval. That was very nice-it is the
giver, apparently, that is OF Importance.
Don't you think" she asked him, sud
denly, on his next visit, that every man
should have dog"
That depends. You can't ceneralize
on such subject, l should say Was it
Madame dc Staei who said The more a
man knows women the less he needs
dogs That was :, clever paraphrase.
she thought. and in !tVr upturned eyes he
read that MS path of waiting had at
length. led him to bis land of Beulah.
1t was about six weeks later. They
were brealtasting in her biiou apartment,
where they were stopping while they
made definite arrangements for their
newly married state. Mr. Robinson was
reading the paper, and Mrs. Robinson
feeling the shock of surprise which =
woman experiences when she realizes
that her presence has ceased to stimulate.
Even ring at the bell did not disturb
hinl from a snappy editorial. Suddenly
he looked up. At the door was a mes
senger boy holding by stout strap .
fierce looking pup which was making
strenuous efforts for freedom
Take it away!" he commanded.
Take it away! What do you mean by
bringing that brute here?"
faint for YOU" answered the boy.
surlily; its hern."
The boy handed Mrs. Robinson a note
with official mark from his company.
While she read it, Mr.. Robinson barri-
caded himself with abundant chairs. She
perused it half dozen times before she
grasped the meaning. which was, briefly,
that the boy VINO had taken the dog six
weeks before, had lost it and DESTROYED
the tag, forging a receipt. Another boy
had betrayed him, and fer month the
company had been searching for the ami
NAL, which they had finally found and
returned to her.
What is it," asked her newly welded
| husband. You don't mean anybodv's
been fool enough to send that brute for
wedding presently"
"Oh, no." she answered, meekiy. Its
dog | sent to friend before Christ
mas; it was lost What shall we do with
it?" She looked at him helplessly
Take it away" yelled Mr.. Robinson
to the boy. Keep it or give it to the
company, only go! gol gol"
The door closed behind the couple, and
MIR. Robinson resumed his paper, after
saying with an attempt at righteousness;
Pm glad YOU didn't send it to me. Ii
it had ever reached me l would not be
here now. simply loathe dogs"
Mrs. Robinson approved his statement
silently,-New York Mail and Express.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
Christmas Pleasure.

Let Christmas stand for pleasure. and
for the reason that ii is especially the
Christian day. When Christianity drops
her weeds and smiles, then the whole
world takes up the refrain:
Religion never was designed
To make our pleasures less.
If we were to fancy whole Christian
lied world il would be world inspired by
the spirit of Christmas-a bright friendly,
henehccnt. generous, sympathetic mutual
" helpful world. A man who is habitual-
ly mcan selfish. narrow, is a man without
Christmas in his soul Let us cling to
Christmas all the more as Il day of the
spirit which in every age some souls have
believed to be the possible spirit of human
society The earnest faith and untirinc
endeavor which see in Christmas n fore
east are more truly Christian. surely. than
the pleasant cynicism of atheists. etc.
which smiles upon it as the festival of &
futile hope. Meanwhile we may reflect
that from good-natured hopelessness to a
Christian world may not be farther than
from star dust to Il solar Sy stem.-George
William Curtis.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
BIG CHRISTMAS TREES WANTED
No More Little Ones and Maine Mrs.
Supply Them.

The total output of Christmas tree.
from Maine this year will not ,Ncr.6
half million, as compared with mil.
lion or more III past seasons. In spite of
good times and plenty of work ali over
New England, the jobbers in RoSfo,,
have sent ont emphatic orders for large
trees and fewer of them.
There Is no longer any demand ia.
what are called children's trees. which
are from . TO : feet tall. The incrpasr
III social and religious organizations in
the cities and villages has transferred
the Christmas festivities from the family
pallors TO lodge rooms and churches. 80
that while the number of presents which
will be distributed this year is larrpr
than ever before, the management has
been taken from the hands of individual
parents and guardians and placed unde,
the control of the Sunday schools ANA
benevolent associations. making an in
creased demand for big trees, from -
to 20 feet tall.
Il have orders for 5000 trees" said
Henry Wescoft, one of the shippers who
has been accustomed to send away from
10000 To $4,000 every year. "and not oDs
of them is to be less than 10 feet high
and all must have a spread of lower
limbs which viii cover ut least 5 feet
This is ridiculous.
ITO produce tree with far-reachin.
lower limbs it must grow alone in a
clearing with 10 other tree within n ROD
of it. Now fir trees don't grow THAT
way. In the winter. when the cones
drop off from the ola hrs, they are taken
by the north wind and driven along on
top of the snow until the land fails off
into a gully. Then the cones stop and
sprout and come up i'll thicketS.
The north sides of all gulles are
densely crowded with such frs all along
the sea coast. They grow M in tangc
but in twenty years half of the seedlings
are dead from strangulation and tnlrt.-
fourthS Of the remaining half are no more
than slim poles with tufts of green al
their tops. You can search among TO-
600 acres Of this kind of growth and
not find 4 single fir that will make q
Christmas tree such as they want in
Boston.
"The only way in which ] can fill m,
orders is to climb aloft in old frs ana
cut off the tops - to p feet about the
ground. This will be big waste OF
timber but 80 long as they will pay me
for the trouble | am willing to do it,
have bought lot Of land covered with
large frs and am going TO cut the growth
off to sell to the Rockland kilns for burn
ing line
From the tops of these trees | expect
to cut most Of the Christmas trees which
| send away. They will be big and
covered with fir balSam and gum hut
am going to obey orders. | shall have
to receive from 30 To IS cents for every
tree of this kind which | send away.
But when man wants big Christmas
trees he should expect to pay big prices 80
--Castne, Me, correspondent New York
SIM
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
Percussion System of Mining.

In the percussion system of mining the
great boring instrument, or trepan, rises
and falls with a regular motion, revulv-
ing as it does on a vertical axis. Its
huge teeth tear and grind the soil and
rock 10 powder The water in the shaft
turns this to pulp and the mixture is
brought TO the surface in huge
caissol with an automatically sliding
bottom. When the shaft is lined with
steel tubing. it is pumped dry: and when
relief shaft is sunk the mine is ready
for operation. This method is being used
TO reach newly discovered seam of
coal. which was struck at n depth of
100 feet in Kent, England.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
A Snerrmen of Londonese.

"A Workingman want dian paticatlain
and bot a Vast yer aten-pane and the
newt Syndii i tucet bak to dat Man and
said sch mai Vast list full OF Mots so !
sad vot du you agspnkt for dat Maine
butarfes." That is specimen, says the
London Chronicle. of the aliens endeav-
or TO tell a story in English: ii was
found hy the Inspector of Jewish board
evening school in the east end of Lon
don s little thought will decipher the
meaning, and show how the Cockney
pronunciation has influenced the ear and
the pen of the Ghetto.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
How to Tell the Eyerereens.

White Pine: Five needles in a bundle;
scales of cone thickcned at the top.
Scotch Pine: Two bluish-green, short
needles in bundle
Austrian Pine Two long, dark green
needles in bundle.
Fir: Erect cone; fiat. spreading needles
scattered singly.
Norway Spruce: Large, hanging cones:
scattered needles point all ways
Hemlock: Small hanging cones; fiat
spray.
Larclf: Many needles in cluster; fall
off each year; erect cones.
Red Cedar: Blush berries; sharp
priclly spray.
Arbor Vitae: Flat branches; cones few
scaled. and only two seeds under each
White Cedar: Cones roundiSh with
four To eight seeds under each.
Pitch Pine: Dark stiff needles arranged
IN threes.-Detroit Tribune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
A CHRISTMAS LK-SONG.

The little Jesus came to town:
The wind blew up, the wind blew down;
Out in the street tne wind was bold;
Now who would house Him from the cold
Then opened wide stable door,
Fair were the rushes on the floor;
The OK put forth a horned head;
Come little Lord, here make Thy bed"
Up rose the sheep were folded near:
Thou Lamb of God. come, enter here"
He entered there to rush and reed,
Who was the Lamb of God indeed.
The little Jesus came to town;
With OK and sheep He laid Him down;
Peace to the byre, peace to the fold.
For that they housed Him from the cold!
--Lizettc Woodwork Reese in Lippincott's
Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
THE CLOSE OF THE HOLIDAY

curly head is nodding now
Amid the Christmas toys:
The candle f.ckers on the b0u-b
That bore SO many joys.
AT last his head sinks on his arm
Ia rcstfulness complete:
smile that glows with childish .t,..
Tells that his dreams are swerr ''''' -'
When weary, | at last forsabe
This world of gentle cheer.
no turn aside from joys that make
This passing life so dear.
! pray that faith shall be in me
so simple and So deep
That / may WELD ali trltstfuIIv
And, smiling, sink to sleep.
Washington star
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
Natural Inference.

To go 10 church: nevertheless. her son
Bobby was required 10 attend us usual
Now said she when he came in.
what was the sermon about, Robert 2"
The sermon?" replied the boy. We'll.
| don't know; it was sort of rambling
like. But judging from the text l guess
il was about cash boys"
Nonsense. she remarked. What rut
that into your head. Pray, what was
the textE''
"'An the days Of my appointed time
will | wait. till my change come. -
Youth.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

Gee whiz," exclaimed the ren7rtc-'
looking over his report Of the wedding I'D
the paper. I'll bet that bridegroom "''
be sore
What's the matter:" asked the Saahe
editor.
He owns an old family homestead OIL,
in the suburbs somewhere. ! believe. a'.t
he told me- TO say the young couple WI.
reside nj the old manse. The paper -'s
il old mans. Philadelphia kelorl.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
YuLETIDE REFLECTIONS

As she hung up her stocking she sad,r
cried: ~uy
"Ah! Santa Claus. il you knew
What would pleasure me most 10 fD1 T.,
side! III
But how can / hope that you
Can divine what l painfully strive To hin.
From the prying eyes Of an:
loOkcr-0n Mt the gay seaside;
nun at a costume ball
And you cannot give il if you would
she snapped the clasp in vexation.
And before her mirror sadly stood
cgafding her frail foundation.
Town Tonic.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
His Last.

man by the name of Johnston who went
up to a farmer living near Chappaqu2
and. shaking him vigorously by the hand
said:
DO you know. | think you are little
kin TO me by marriage. amt you: Dldn
you marry Caruthers:
Yes" acknowledged the farmer. y IS,
| did marry Caruthers; but. brisk =
and emphatically. I'm never do il as'n'
New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
THE NEXT KAISER.
Crown Prince William of Germany, Who
May Play Important Role in
March of Empire.

The Crown Prince William of Germany
is the most talked of young man in the
world at the present moment, owing to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
Pevamped.

When man keeps reiteratinr N''e q
that's the tH,d's truth. h. either "a> A.. I.
reputation Il, liar or knows he "'
serves l.. 49,.
IL Eighty ignorant ehlid .L,9
the folks d. who have never seen A'.t
at his owE, breakfast iab!c.-Bai''N'...
Americana
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

1t was on Christmas day. 1879, Sir
". L0ckhart avenged the death OF Ca
vagnari by entering Cabul
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

the sickness of the Kaiser. He is an eX-
hemcly young man and will have the
task Of upholdng the Hohenzollern dy-
nasty in the face of many combativc elc-
i,,Hnfs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

In north Wales everyone is priyi.
Legged to whip his neighbours legs with
holly on the morning after Christmas.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

The first Christmas turkey was eaten
in England in 1924.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26

distinguish between sincerity and bru-
talitv.
"Iou can't ell now | appreciate your
kindness in senling me those cigars but
my dear child. | couldn't offer them To
Nestle; why, he's a Cunnoisscur, and
He paused and then went on abruptly.
II can't even smoke them myself | have
tried this with the expression of a
man who is waiting to have his halo
fitted
Mrs. Brislce looked pclitant She had
the whole gamut OF expression at her
command,
You dear fellow! How refreshing
would have smoked the horrid things and
pretended they liked IT."
He brcathed audible relief. You're
not offended? / thought I'd better have
ii over with you here than TO lie to get
out OF the scrape."
They returned. he OBTAINING her a mo-
ment to whisper, I'VE won't ever quarrel
about cigars again, will we--dear?"
Never" she answered, emphatically
knowing that they never would
Imagine she said 10 herself in the
carriage going home. marrying q man
who is candid like that and prides him
sell on it. Ii there is anything worse
than a guilty lie, it's the unblushing
truth
The attitude of Mr. Robinson puzzled
her. Not a word did he say regarding
the new inmate of his household She
had begged them all, in the notes ae-
companying her gifts, not to send any
Observation-Disclosures capricc"-and
this might explain his inexplicable silence
this. or his tact
She asked one or two leading questions
oh, yes he said, had pleasant,