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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08
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Bone or Back Pains, Swollen Joints
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-08

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Humanity AssertInn Itself.

In the state prisons of New York it has been discovered that men be- have better when they are not unnec- essarily degraded, when all self-re- spect is not crushed out of them. h. cluding reformatories and county jails the prison population of the populous state numbers twelve thousand, and the men who are serving first sem tences are no longer to be clothed in stripes" They are to wear smart semi-military suits, with high stand ing collar, showing a white linen col lar at the throat. and the coats are to be worn buttoned. The cap fs pat termed after the French military head gear. Tn summer a lighter fabric cut in like manner is worn. Three thou sand suits are being made from dark gray cloth without any stripes what ever. The lockstep and the cropped head were long ago abolished in the New York prisons, as they had been in other prisons in which prisonesr are not unnecessarily and unwise1y degraded.
 The meaning of these changes is to keep alive the spark of manhood in offenders serving first term. Those offenders are soon to be turned loose, and the hope is that they will yet be- come useful members of society The state at any rale does not propose to degrade them without reason. The big state proposes to encourage them to become useful men Tn society, for contrive 1t as we may they are as much members of society when they walk out of prison as is any man or woman in it. Society cannot throttle them and as a matter of self-interest and self-pres ervaCion it should not un- necessarily degrade them. There IS no sense in such degradation. It Is or ancient origin, brutal and hurtful alike to the prisoners and to society, of which they will soon again be free and active part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Growinu Treasury Deficit.

The surplus in the treasury under the Roosevelt administration Is fast melting away Dwindling receipts from both customs and internal taxa ton contribute to the result, but the chief factor in the financial situation is the almost unlimited extravaganza of two republican administrations.
 The deficit of the first six weeks of the present fiscal year exceeds twenty ono million dollars. Expenditures are held down as much as possible in these campaign months, but in spite of all the administration can do the deficit goes on increasing. The de- felt of August will be about ten mill lion dollars. In the first fifteen days of this month it was s4,017,240.
 Henry G. Davis did we'll to call at tention to the extravaganza of the Roosevelt world-power administration World rreddling and general extrava. gaace has carried the per capita cost of government to $7.10, a sum without precedent and without excuse. In the days of President Buchanan the per capita cost of government was but s2.o1. Unless the tendency to extrav- agance and world -powering be checked the United States will soon be burdened with taxes that will be severely felt in all branches of indus try and trade. MT. Davis sounded the alarm in his acceptance speech and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Lessons of the War.

It Is plain that the Japanese had as a preparation for war with Russia for national existence, learned from target practice how to shoot straight at sea even at long distance. The battle in the Yellow sea was fought at dis tance of two or three miles. The Japanese could hit the Russian ships, the Russians could not bit the Japan csc ships. One l.ussian cruiser limped into a Chinese port bearing two hun dred holes created by Japanese guns. The battleship Czareryich was nearly blown to pieces. The fighting power of the Russian fleet was destroyed, simply because of the fact that the Japanese had learned to shoot straight even at the distance of three miles. At that distance the Japanes ships were safe from all harm, simply be- cause the Russian gunners had not been taught to shoot straight at that distance ons the rolling water.
 Admiral Schley says the gunners at Santiago fought at l 900 yards. This is short range for modern rifled guns. There is vast difference between gunnery at half mile and at three miles. The Spanish gunners could not shoot straight even at short range, and their ships were speedily destroyed The battle in the Yellow sea, as well as the battle in the straits of Korea, was not so conclusive and decisive as the battle of Santiago, but in both of the eastern battles the fighting power of the enemy was destroyed The American and Japanese gunners stand out as straight shooters, the one at near, the other at long range.
 The lesson at Santiago and the Far East is alike-learn to shoot straight, and money spent in target practice Is money well invested when the days of war come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Hard Service.

Observing the local military drilling in front of the Hillman, a guest of the ho- tel being told that they were preparing for the trip to Manassee, there to en- gage in the army maneuvers next month, said:
 "well, the boys may prepare for hard work on that occasion. served for months in the Philippines and thought that hard service, but when we were ordered to Tort Riley to play war we experienced the hardest service you ever read about, and we were considered hardened. The national guard are re- qulred to endure the same exposure, the same long marclcs and the same discip- line as the regulars, and the latter set the pace at a lively gait.
 "There Is some fun in It. and little danger, but the worh is hard; for the whole plan is to tra- for actual war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
kYRLE BELLEW RETURNS.
Theatre Season In London Bad, He
 Says-Mrs. Brown Potter's Plans.

From the New York Sun
 Kyrie Bellew arrived yesterday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm to begin a seasons tour in Rallies" He leaves this morning for Denver Mir Bellew sail that he had spent most of his vacation between his house on the Thames and his yacht. the Kriemhilda, at Cowes.
 ''I was not in a theater once in the summer" he said, excepting on July {, when I went to thank Beerbohm Tree for his request that I should act In his revival of the Tempest and tell him that it was impossible
 There was really nothing to see in the theaters except the musical pieces. Lon don is in a very bad way theatrically. and the authors are writing no plays that have any success. No new authors have come up and the older ones seem to have lost their cunning"
 MT. Bellew said it was not yet settled that Mrs. James Brown Potter was to act here next season.
 There are some details still to be ar ranged he said. although most of the important points have been agreed on. The day I sailed from England Mrs. Pot ter telephoned me that she h1d neen asked to act in London in the autumn apd was to hear the play that day. She will also read with orchestral accompani- ment at all the large musical festivals in England before she comes to this country. in case she signs her contract with Mir Proctor"
 Mir Bellew expects to hurry back to England at the close of his engagement to race his yacht
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
The Georgia Pacific.

T always like to refer back to the earlier days of Birmingham as I observe the immense progress the city has made, % said an oldtimer last night. Especially am I interested in the early railroad building here.
 "The Georgia Pacific railway was the third line to reach Birmingham. and re- member well the day the company was organized for business in Alabama. It was Saturday, December 31, 1881. that Gen. John B. Gordon of Georgia. Judge A. c. Haskell, president of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad; Maj. John W. Johnston, vice president of the Richmond and Danville railroad and several other prominent magnates reached Birmingham. registered at the old Relay House. which stood upon the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks. corner ot Nineteenth street. north. These men were representatives of the stockholders of a number of proposed and completed lines, and they proceeded to consolidate and organize the Georgia Pacific Railway company by a consolidation of the Colum- bus, Decatur and Lafayette railroad  owning by purchase the Greenville, Co., lumbus and Birmingham railroad, the Elyton and Aberdeen Railroad company, and the Georgia Pacific Railroad com pany of Alabama, owning by purchase the Georgia Pacific railroad of Georgia.
 The following board of directors of the new consolidated companies was then elected: John B. Gordon. Thomas M Lo- gan, w. P. Clyde, T. M. R. Talcott, A. c. Haskell John W. Johnston. L. D. Aylett and P. M. Tutwiler The directors then elected John B. Gordon president, H. c. Ansley secretary, w. R. Trigg treasurer Henry Jeryey assistant secretary. The headquarters of the company was estab- llshed In this city.
 Thus began the real life of the Geor- gia Pacific railway, which now extends to Atlanta on the east of us and to Green ville Miss, on the west forming a most important part of the Southern railway system.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
PHYSICAL EXCELLENCE OF LAPS
Eleanor Franklin's Yokohama Letter in
 

Eleanor Franklin's Yokohama Letter in
 Leslie's weekly)
 One of the first things to impress itself upon a foreigner in Japan Is the pecu- larity and the excellence of the physi- cal training given to Japanese youth. They are a race of miniature Spartans, and they have become so through such patient, painstaking toll and endurance as would appall the average American youth, inured to softnesses. The Japanese schools are nearly all modelled after American institutions; or. as the people like to believe. after a composite of all that Is best in the schools of America, England France and Germany. The students are not, of course. trained in modern athletics, and could hold their own at nothing of this kind with our magnihcient college boys, but in simple physical training, making the very best of what nature has provided. the Japa- nese excel any people have ever seen.
 My very first day in the little island empire was full of exclamations about this constantly evident national charac- terlstc, which belongs to the lower classes and the great middle class. The highest class in Japan is remarkable. alasi for physical weakness more than for physical perfection, condition at tributable to centuries of an extraordi- narily sedentary mode of life. The ship on which I crossed the Pacific ocean had not cast her anchor in Yokohama har- Dor before she was surrounded by a great crowd-"swarm' better expresses 1t of sampans, little heavy wooden boats propelled bya single oar at the stern, and almost without exception handled by boys apparently about l2 or IA years of age. and whose half naked bodies. straining against the heavy oars, looked as If they had been modelled In bronze by some master artist. Their training Is the kind which necessity forces upon the laborer. of course, but 1t is none the less splen- did, and will have no less splendd effect upon the future Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
TABLOID PHILOSOPHY.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 It is impossible to choose our own ances- tors
 down hill.
 Success is a target with a very small bullseye.
 A corkscrew has led many man into crooked paths.
 It is hard for the man with corns to stand on his dignity.
 Money talks, but silence sometimes com mands a better price.
 The woman who wears paste diamonds is generally stuck up.
 It ought to smooth travelling for the man who Is on the level.
 Unless a man is a good listener he can't expect to be happily married.
 It's all right to begin at the bottom, except when you start to dig we'll.
 The fish that has sense enough to keep his mouth shut doesn't get caught.
 Crops cannot be raised without rain. but neither are umbralles, for that matter.
 The hardest thing about making a fool of yourself Is to keep ether people from finding 1t out.
 The wasp has the tiresome story-teller skinned to death when it comes to the point of his tail.
 Charity begins at home" remarked the Wish uuy. T thought charity began at e. remarked the Simple Mug.
 The magazine articles advising young men how to become successful are gener- ally written at the rate of half a cent a word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
In Mississippi.

.,rhere is more politics to the square inch In Mississippi than there is to the yard in Alabama" said c. II. Colvin.
 T have just returned from business trip to Yazoo City, the home of John Sharp Williams and on the cars, In the hotel Hobbies and in the offlces politics, state and national, is the talk. The chief topics are the negro and Rooseveltism, and there seems to be an abiding hope for and faith In democratic success in the coming election.
 By the way, Yazoo City, phoenix like, Is arising from her ashes. The disastrous fire, which occurred there some months ago well nigh sweeping the town away, is proving a blessing. Those people are full of energy, determination and plnck, and I do not believe there Is better town in that state.
 The corn crop in Mississippi is already made and is large one. Too much rain has injured the cotton, yet those people expect nearly an average yeild."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
Maine and Vermont.

Vermont votes on September 6, and Maine on September 12. These are Ephriam-idol states, but both will be watched with interest in order to as- certain the trend of public sentiment. A light vote in both states would mean that the republicans are apathetlc, for getting the old campaign lines which have become historic:
 Have yod heard the news from Maine,
 Maine. so tried and true,
 How 1t went hel-bent for Gov. Kent,
 And Tlppecanoe and Tyler too?
 The best stumpers of the republi- cans have been dispatched to the two states, including Speaker Cannon, who is playing the star part this year on his side of the house. No one expects R revolution in either Maine or Yer mont, but the republicans desire to de- rive from the returns all the thunder that can possibly be evolved,' and so they are hurrying their best speakers
 
 to the two states.
 Vermont is almost unanimously re- publican. It has never elected dem ocratic governor since the organization of the republican party. Mckinley car ried the state by plurality of 40,49O, and two years ago the republican plu- rality on the state ticket was "A 800. Anything below the figures of two years ago will be T democratic gain. The total vote of the state two years ago was less than 10000.
 Maine is nearly as one-sided. Mo Kinley's plurality in 1896 rose to 45,- TIT, and two years ago the republican plurality on the state ticket was 27,- 490. The total vote was 105,000. A plurality that falls below 25,000 will indicate that the democrats have a good fighting chance In all contested states. It will be an indication that nope anu dBSTc5SlNeueSS HdN6 Ictulncu to the democratic party, and that the democratic stay-at-home voters will be few indeed.
 The two September states will fur nish all the definite political waves that the campaign will encounter Both elect full state tickets, including gov. ernors and members of congress. The democrats have nothing to lose except prestige, and there arc no indications they will lose any of that article even when comparisons are made with the votes of two years ago, which is the way the associated press will report the two elections. There are some good political prophets who do not hes itate to say that Maine's plurality will be cut down to 15,000, and that Yer mont's will fall below 25,000. Such re- turns would point to the election of Parker and Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
About Persons,

J. B. Ellis of Selma is at the Morris. J. D. Dennis of Union is at the Morris. Carroll Steele of Anniston Is at the Met ropoltan.
 Prof. W. L. Marlborough superintendent of the Russellville public schools, was in the city few hours yesterday.
 Frank Hillman of Blocton is stopping at the Morris.
 w. o. ". Paine of Valley Head is at the St. Nicholas.
 W. W. simmons of Athens is at the St. Nicholas.
 M. Creighton of Springfield Is at the St. Nicholas.
 W. F. Dent of Montgomery Is at the Metropolitan.
 J. G. Phillips of Cincinnati is at the Colonial.
 Charles Cohen of Nashville is at the Hillman.
 Louis Hart of Chicago is at the Hin- man.
 J. G. worell of Nashville Is registered at the Hillman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
RUSSIA CANNOT SUSTAIN
 PROTRACTED POSSIBILITIES

Turkey was a contiguous country. and Russia not only possessed complete con. trol of the sea, but by means of her strategic railways could place troops quickly on the scene of operations. In her present conflict with Japan. on the other hand, she cannot transport by sea an ounce of ammunition or of food to her field army in Manehuria, but is forced to rely exclusively on riclSety single track railway which is many thousands of miles In length and which may be blocked or cut in a dozen places at any moment. The conveyance of endorsements Is not only slow and constantly liable to in- terruption, but 1t Is inordinately expen- sive. It has been computed that the nain- tenance of a given regiment in the field at Liao Yang costs the Russians three and half times as much as it did to keep the same regiment in the trenches before Plevna. How long could such a burden be borne by the Russian treas- ury, even If the service of the national debt required no larger part of the national income than was the case a quarter of a century ago? As matter of fact, Russia's obligations to her for eign and domestic creditors have been enormously increased during the interval. It was estimated at the beginning of the present war that her debt to France alone amounted to billions of francs. Large additions to that debt have been made within the last seven months and now we are told that a new loan of one hun dred million rubles has been arranged in Paris. How long would French savings continue to flow into Russian exchequer after the fall of Port Arthur and the rout of General Kuropatlkln should have fort of Russias to regain Manchura would be hopeless? The moment, how ever, that Russia's power of borrowing in France shall cease. her military opera tlons will be paralyized. Elsewhere abroad she has no credit and she has reached the limit of taxation at home
 The talk at St. Petersburg about an indefinite prolongation of the struggle is buncombe. Should the army under Gen. eral Kuropatkin meet with the fate that MacMahon encountered at Sedan the war in the far east will have practically end ed. Even if Kuropatkin's army, or part of it, should succeed in effecting a retreat to Harbin, it will have to stay there or take refuge behind Lake Baikal. With the Japanese in possession of the Man churian railway a recovery of the ground lost would be impracticable An aggres- sive campaign on Russia's part in 1905 would be an act of folly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19

the subject should be presented in ev- cry part of the country from every democratic stump and In every dem ocratic newspaper
 The extravaganza alone of the Roosevelt administration should con demn it. It cannot plead that the times are hard, for the times" arose under republican sway and Dingley- ism. It would by such a plea con demn itself. It must in other words face the figures of extravaganza and deficits, and those figures should be presented on all occasions, as the in- evitable results of the republican twins, Extravaganza and Dingleyism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
EARLY AMERICAN CIRCUS.
Trooped Along Country Highway in
 Dead of Night.
From the Pilgrim.

From the Pilgrim.
 In the last analysis. a great modern American circus, such, for instance as the Barnum & Bailey show, is a gigantic manufacturing plant. To be sure. it's product Is entertainment rather than To- comotives or kid gloves, but entertain ment is recognized commodity and one, moreover, that few of us would care to get along without. To produce this one article" the combined and systematized labor of one thousand and fifty-three men, women and children, working in thirty-seven different departments, is re- quired. at salaries ranging from eightly cents a day to one thousand dollars a week. Thus far there Is no difference, save in the article produced, between curcus and any great factory such, for instance as a Lowell mill or a Birmiug- ham tobacco plant But no further may the analogy be drawn. A Lowell miH stands through the years where it was erected A great entertainment factory the circus-is built anew each morning between the hours of 5 and and razed each night between the hours of and 12. Each day its thousand employees eat their breakfast in a new town, on the new factory slte and each night they sleep soundly as their four trains are whisked across the country to the next days stand Small wonder the circus worker soon loses all sense of locality and after a month on the road does not know, or care, whether. the '1ot" Is in Minnesota or Kentucky.
 In the brief space permitted a magarzine article, the multitudinous details of cir GUS conduct cannot be suggested even, much less dwelt upon; but if I can bring to the reader some appreciation of the gigantic task which circus management assumes each spring the purpose of this brief article shall have been accomplish ed.
 In the first place the Barnum & Bailey circus as at present constituted is not a spontaneous affair but the result of a slow, evolutionary growth. The fathers of the present generation readily recall the circus of their boyhood, the affair of ten wagons three elephants, a camel and one clown, together with a thirty foot "round-top" cavalcade which dragged it's weary way along the country highway in the dead of the night Such shows were common in New England six ty years ago, and to the natives were known IS 'Menageries." They seldom ventured Into the west, the unknown land which today Is the greatest "circus territory in the world, though MT. Frank Hyatt, the present superintendent of the Barnum & Bailey show, was attached to a wagon outfit" that showed in the Rocky mountain region and the country on beyond as early as 1863