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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20
Is CALLED TO PLAINS CHURCH
Rev. Arnold VIII still BE Pastor
There.

Rev. w. W. Arnold, pastor of the
Baptist church at Plains. was in Amer
icus yesterday. Mr.. Arnold has again
been called to the pastorate of that
church, which he has served for eleven
years, and will not go to Sparta as
contemplated. Mr.. Arnold will preach
two Sundays in each month at Plains.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

For Rent,-Nsw five room house;
city water; now occupied by Mr..
Lee, corner Harrold avenue and
Bell street. 81 If A. W. smith
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

AddertOn farm for rent; 125 acres
Just outside of city limits.
II. W. SMITHwICK.
196 ct At Gun Store Americus, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

When in need of gun or pistol and
don't know what kind TO buy, call on
Smithwick's Gun store. 10 ct
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

/ have for sale two Jersew COWS fresh
in milk: good butter COWS. See me at
once. [151w] WILL @. CARTER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

For Rent-Desirable dwelling, For
rest street, half block from Buchanan
corner; possession ut once. Apply to
Henry r johnson. I7-rf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20
Are You Using Aliens Foot-Ease

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease.
powder, 1t cures, Corns Bunions, Painful,
Smarting, Hot Swollen, Feet, AT all Drug
gists and Shoe Stores, 25c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

Few Cases are Tried in City Court
Tuesday.
Yesterdays session of the city court
was devoid of any features of special
interest, the time being taken up in
the trial of civil suits. This docket
will be continued through the week,
quite likely, but when the misdemeanor
cases are taken up later the session
will be more interesting and the chain
gang largely recruited from the ranks
of pistol .luggers, crap shooters and
bruisers generally. Already Paschal's
PriVateers number nearly forty, all of
them sent up for terms ranging six to
twenty months. but there is room In
the ranks for others and the county
needs them on road work
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

Wanted-Fresh mich COW. Apply
to @. r. Ellie. 2O-1
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

Ring up Will Dudley's for quick
messenger boys. Pigs aud notes to
any part of the city, 10 cts.
8 20 d g..
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20
PASSING OF AN AGED CITIZEN
MIR. Beecham Dies and is 5u led
Tuesday.

Tuesday.
Mr.. Willoughhy B4echam, an aged
aud respected citiz of Sumter, died
Monday al his residerc3 south of
Americus. Mr., Beecham was seventy
years of age and had long been a use
fol citizen of the county, esteemed
among all. The funeral took place
yesterday at the cemetery near his
home and was conducted by Rev. w.
w. Arnold.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

We cordially Invite the public to favor US with call
any time whether you wish to buy not, will be
our pleasure to show you through our store stock and
our prices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20

What Makes tn Store News
INTERESTING.

Store Il, always interesting monty to
spend about things. 1t goes
description emphasizes qualities; ps keeps
week week the
able 1t index that
my, ad' filed with timely concerning your
weather needs Not line should be skipped reading.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-20
SESSION OF LITTLE INTEREST

9.17 div
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

not refuse to spend dollar because
part of the benefits must accrue to an
other. They regard money and effort
devoted to the community as a whole
as an investment whose returns are
both certain and large.
1t is this spirit, after all, that is the
saving grace of every city and of every
commonwealth. 1t is for the cultiva
ton of that and for the suggestion of
opportunities wherein it may exhibit
itself that T h e G | o b e has been look
ing. 1t has not found as much atten-
ton devoted to this in replies hereto
fore sent to it as it could wish. 1t be-
lieves that the deficiency which it has
stated is in the last analysis the one
thing the matter with st. Paul. 1t
would be very glad of a more general
discussion of this special phase of the
topic; convinced as it is that along
this line must be developed more of
vital interest to st. Paul, more deter
mining its growth or it's decay, than in
any form of material development
whatever.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1e. 1905

having the felicity of being dogs, or,
being excluded from the inner circle of
Newport society, are not entitled to a
place at the Stuyvesant Fish table. 1t
is given to few Of us to turn our backs
on the Stuyvesant Fishes and it must
be supreme joy to be able to do that
and get whole pages of advertising out
of 1t.
The incident really ought to contrib
ute to the uplifting of the stage. 1t is con-
ceivable that the honorarium to which
the actress would be entitled would
be in the form of Stuyvesant Fish
check for thousand dollars or so. 1t
might have been more. When royal or
noble persons living in foreign parts
ask an actor or actress to sing or act
in private the compensation is rather
better than the artist would receive for
an ordinary appearance on the boards.
And Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish would GER
tainly do the handsome thing. De
Reszke, Sir Henry Irving, Melba or
any of that lot would have seized the
opportunity, done their little stunt and
carried off the money. But they are
badly managed. We do that sort of
thing much better over here. The offer
is turned down, the story is sent to the
newspapers and the actress gets, in
stead of paltry thousand dollar check.
some forty thousand dollars worth of
advertising.
Mrs. Fish is a most gullible sort of
Fish. She has done more for the ele-
vation of the stage than if she had
hired somebody to steal this particular
actress diamonds.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

never has been. It is late In the day
Tor the house to get on it's high horse
after it has quietly acquiesced on the
most important occasions in the as
sumption by the senate of the very
right now contested. OF the last three
great general tariff bills passed, two
were practically senate measures and
one almost exclusively so. Upon one
occasion the house framed and passed
tariff bill covering all its manifold
schedules and sent it up to the senate.
The senate thereupon struck out
everything after the enacting clause.
substituted a bill of it's own and that
bill was the foundation of the law
finally passed. If the house considers
that its prerogative is saved by the
high privilege Of framing an enacting
clause. leaving the senate to dictate
everything that follows, it cannot be
severely injured by the Hansbrough
amendment.
OF course this whole business is
meaningless. The house has nothing
but most servile obedience for the
president. The house bows to the
senate when anything really impor-
tant, like the passage of a general tar
iff bill. is on hand. The house is un-
der the absolute guidance of the speak
er and the committee on rules and has
no voice or will of it's own. 1t has so
often waived the right to originate
bills that its sudden access of dignity
and loneliness is as amusing as it is
unintelligible.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
THE AUTHOR OF "eEN HuR"

Gen. Lew Wallace's whole claim to
fame is based on his authorship of a
book that is far from being great, but
which is undoubtedly one of the most
popular works of any age. "Ben Hur"
narrowly escaped being damned by the
critics and thereby becoming great. 1t
is an intensely interesting story, it de-
pends for its human interest on the
imagination of writer who was not
familiar by contact with the scenes he
depicted nor personally swayed by the
religious sentiment involved in his
work. But it appeals most cleverly to
the religious sentiments of it's readers
for 'Ben Hur" is popular with Chris
tian readers alone.
Gen. Wallace had never seen Pales-
was not handicapped by sordid facts
absorbed through the eye and ear by
the author. He made his atmosphere
and it must be admitted that the man.
ufactured article was much better than
the.real thing. He endowed his char
acters with those attributes necessary
to the working out of the general
scheme, and if he did not draw truly
he was under no apprehension lest
somebody in possession of facts should
make him blush for his errors. That
the work was the result of much
thought, profound knowledge of hu-
man nature in its broader manifesto
tions, and a remarkable facility in
playing upon emotions catholic rather
than personal, is demonstrated in the
hold which the book has taken upon
the story readers of the world. Deal
ing with the tragedy of the ages, Ben
Hur" has the same claim upon human
sympathy that "The Arabian Nights"
or Robinson Crusoe" has-it is an alb
sorbing story. Yet the author had read
so very specifically that he ante
dated the eruption of Vesuvius by four
years-and that without inviting the
condemnation of the hypercritical his
torian.
Gen. Wallace was a solder of some
note, a diplomat of some gifts; he
wrote other books based upon his OBJ
servation and personal study, but he
will live as the author of ben Hur."
His residence in Constantinople led
him to write the Prince of India"
and brought a charge of plagiarism
against him. His goyernorship of New
Mexico was responsible for "The Fair
God" which added nothing to his rep
utation. But he needs no other monu-
ment than ben Hur."
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
THE DIGNITY OF THE STAGE

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who attained
some advantage over her rivals in the
haute society by giving a dinner for
dogs or entertaining Harry Lehr, has
been affronted by the refusal of an
actress to appear with her company at
a private function in the Fish mansion.
The actress-whose name is withheld
out Of regard for the fine feeling she
has displayed-declinedt to appear out
side the theater for a pecuniary con-
sideration, taking the high ground that
it would be derogatory to her art.
This is delicious. From any point Of
view available to the mere outsider it
is source of joy. That Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish, who has the world and its
dogs at her lovely feet. should be re-
buffed by comic opera prima donna
must be comforting to those who, not
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19

their roads. That this object may be
the more easily realized the bill pro-
vides that the road shall carry free the
president of the United States, the
members of congress, federal judges.
all officers of the government, of the
army and navy witnesses in the Smoot
and other Investigations. and various
and sundry other individuals. 1t being
obvious to the author of the bill that
this free list would not keep the earn
ings down to the proper limit he has
carried free all the mails, all munitions
of war and materials for the construc-
ton of the Chicago federal building
and other eternal and never-ending
undertakings.
A trife of investigation having
demonstrated to the author that the
road would still be embarrassed
with profits another provision is made
that should wipe them out. This
takes the form of a pension list
to include the board of managers and
their employees, the pension to be
available on the completion of twenty
years service, and. in case Of the death
of the pensioner the payments-equal-
ing one-half of his salary-shall go to
his surviving widow, children, during
the minority of the youngest. or par
ents. The art with which this clause
is drawn suggests that the bill ema-
mated from the pension office, but that
is mere speculation. AS last resort.
when it is apparent that the earnings
Of the road will pile UP in spite of all
efforts made to prevent it the board OF
managers are directed to devote the
uncounted millions of surplus to the
purposes of the national defense.
1t appears to us that sufficient pro-
vision has been made to guard against
the national railroad accommodating
more than per cent on the invest
ment. This being assured there is
nothing to do but pass the bill and
build the road. We move that Section
8 Of Article 5, Senate File 6361, be
amended to read as follows: THAT
the sum of $4,000. .OOO, 900 is hereby ap-
propriated for the construction OF said
railroad, and putting the same in opera
tion," and that the bill be put upon its
passage. 1t will serve effectually to
that running a railroad is a business
proposition requiring something be-
sides legislative enactments.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
A SAFE OFFER

The Paris Academy of Sciences has
offered prize of one hundred thou
sand francs to the person who dis
covers means of communicating
with any celestial body other than
Mars during the present year. No
reason is given for barring the ''war
planet" Perhaps the academy thinks
sufficient time has been wasted by
scientists in trying to attract the at
tention of the Martians. Perhaps it
believes that by eliminating the
planet that has exerted the greatest
fascination upon the star gazers some
of the others upon which they must
perforce concentrate their attention
will prove less coy. But whatever it's
intention, most people will agree that
the academy's chance of keeping its
money is good.
- Only the narrow minded would as
sert positively that the dream of in
terplanetary communication will never
be realized. Had Tennyson written
parliament of planets" instead Of
parliament of nations" and fedora
ton of the worlds" instead of fedora
ton of the world" he would have
the thing was possible, and certainly
in the light of the more recent discov-
cries of science it would seem that
this world is nearer the other planets
If not nearer the stars than 1t has ever
been before. But in giving a short
twelve months for the accomplishment
of so great a scientific feat, the acad-
emy shows its wisdom if it's object is
merely to stimulate scientists and not
to spend money.
The man who accomplishes such a
feat, however, will not need a. twenty
thousand dollar prize. He can afford
to laugh such an offering to scorn, for
he will have, not the world, but worlds
at his feet. But he will not date his
discovery in the present year, and it
is extremely probable that he will not
date it in the present century. Science
is still in its infancy. There are
things here on earth that are not
dreamed of in the scientists philoso>
ply today. They will have to know
more about this planet before they
reach others, and the accumulation of
that knowledge will take years, possi-
bly, centuries. However, the acade-
my's offer shows a certain faith in sci
ence and in the probability of this
particular accomplishment.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

The fiare-up of the house over the
assumed encroachment by the senate
upon its prerogatives in adopting the
Hansbrough amendment forbldding the
allowance of a drawback on wheat i'm
ported for mixing purposes is highly
amusing. The house has decided that
this action by the senate is in fragrant
defiance of the provision of the con-
stitution which declares that all bills
for raising revenue must originate in
the lower branch of congress. 1t is
therefore going to stand by it's guns
and vindicate its outraged honor.
This performance is ineffably silly.
This clause of the constitution itself is
purely perfunctory. 1t was copied
from the English law. There it meant
something. The people shed much
blood to secure themselves against the
exercise of the taxing power by any
authority save their own representa-
dves. With a house of lords holding
tenure by hereditary right and not by
commission from the people, such a
condition was strictly necessary. In the
congress of the United States, where
both houses hold title from the people
with only slight difference in the
method of their selection, the distinc-
ton loses its character and force.
Since, however, it is. in the .constitu-
tion, it ought to be observed. But 1t
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
OF The FINDING OF BUGS

Occasionally one hears in this mi
crobe-mad age a note of protest from
medicine man who still retains some
faith in the theory that the herbs Of
the field have medical values quite as
effective in remedying the ills of the
flesh as the use of the minute animals
classed as innocuous which the bug
hunters would set to work to kill off
their pernicious brethren. 1t is but a
feeble protest, for the medicine man Of
today is not so cocksure of anything
as his predecessors We're of everything
he is willing, on the quiet, to admit
that he really knows very little about
the result of his practice until he has
practiced on the individual. Still he is
beginning to believe that possibly the
germ theory is being overdone.
And as matter of fact he is going
to have the layman with him If he
makes his protest to be heard. There
is no denying that some of the more
advanced of the bug hunting mem
bers of the medical profession have
done much in isolating the microbes
specifically identified as the causes Of
specific diseases. They have described
to us the exact form of beast to which
we may charge the presence of certain
diseases that ravage the human form
We are, as it were, on terms of easy
familiarity with bacilli the names of
which We cannot pronounce. When
we. have an ache We speculate on the
shape of the animal that is the in
citing cause of it. Unhappily,. we have
been introduced to but few of the in
nocuous bacilli that are just loafing
around hungry to be turned loose upon
the lions and tigers of their kingdom.
Microbe chasing has been of inesti-
mable benefit to mankind in that it
has given us an exact knowledge of the
values of antiseptics. 1t has removed
in great measure the menace of
those diseases which lose their malig-
nant character under proper sanitary
conditions. But it has not gone far
beyond the initial stage in that it has
dealt very largely, thus far with the
isolation of the vicious germs without
finding the beneficent creatures pro-
yided by nature to free humanity from
the menace of the pernicious class.
AS laymen we have no fault to find
with those who are prying into the Sc
crets of nature with a view to bene-
fitting mankind. But it is certain that
there is a disposition on the part Of
the bug-haunted man of today to give
ear to the physician who pins his
faith to the things he knows rather
than to go all the way through the
mazes of speculation with the inves-
tigator who is engaged in finding a
bug to fit every ill, or carving out a
fortune for himself by amplifying the
uses of the by-products of coal tar.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Contemporary Comment
Powers of the Executives

Only--a treaty. duly concluded and
eonstitutionally ratified, can give the
executive lawful authority for such
proceedings as exist and as are fur
ther contemplated in Santo Domingo.
A mere protocol cannot do it, as the
executive has practically admitted by
throwing overheard the protocol by
Jan. 20, 1905, and promising to substi-
tute treaty in regular form for ratf-
hcation. A mere executive agreement,
no matter how ingeniously drawn, can
not do 1t, as the senate impressively
declared on Saturday by it's vote of so
to on the amendment to the French
arbitration treaty.-New York Sun.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Santo DOMINGO

The conspicuous appearance of the
United States navy in the matter is no
new thing, for as early as last April
this government warned the Santo Do
mlngo government that it might have
10 place a guard at each custom house
Meantime the question whether the
United States can" seize all the GUS
tom houses on the coast is one that
will arouse considerable discussion
Pittsburg Gazette.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Among the Merrymakers
He Really Did

''What is this here gold cure [ hear so
much about?" inquired Square Rednose
of the man from the city.
why it's very simple. Square re-
piled that individual. waggishly; they
what you call 'volatilized, and then you
take the hot vapOr."
You don't say"
That's it, exactly"
''WelI, it may be all right" said the
Square, after long pause. but do you
know, somehow I'd hate to take the
money!"-New Orleans Times-DemOcrat.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
"Pull" of Our Police

Up to date the investigation of the
New York police problem by the COM
mlttee of nine eminent citizens appoint
ed Tor the purpose has not developed
much beyond the fact that the metrop-
oils has about 5000 policemen who are
on duty eight hours a day, having six
teen hours off, and who receive mini
mum pay of 81 a day. They are a pow
erful body of men, and they have
powerful political pull.-Boston Her
aid.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
About the Beef Trust

There is certainly no man in America
who finds anywhere in the law author
1ty to exercise the remarkable leniency
which these high officials in Washing
ton are ready, according to the reports.
to extend to men of whose crimes they
claim to have abundant proof. -
Galveston Daily News.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Ought to Satisfy Everybody

Niedringhaus is losing votes, but
happily there is little danger that
Kerens will be elected senator from
Missouri. The only decent thing for
the legislature to do is to recognize
itself as mistake. the result of an
accident, and re-elect Senator Cock
Record.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Treaties and PuhIini+u

Publicity killed a treaty that would
nave given England territory in Cen
tral America and would have placed
that nation in joint control of the pro-
posed Nicaraguan canal. And the SEN
ate should be a party to similar or
kindred agreements, because, from the
senate's elaboration, publicity is GER
tain, and in no transaction of this gov
ernment should there be secrecy. The
people have right to know all things
at all timeS.-New York American.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Evils of the Tariff

The two evils of the tariff are dis
elimination against the consumers on
the one hand-the eXtortion of exces-
sive prices for articles essential to ex-
lstence and the reasonable comforts of
hving-and the undue enrichment Of
the relatively small class in whose i'm
terests the tariff is maintained.-Kan
SaS City Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
Pounding Acquaintance

Mrs Grimes-Do YOU know Mrs. Sykes?
She lives in the same hotel that you do.
Mrs. JoSlyn-No, L can't say that [
know her; but we are on pounding ac-
quaintance with the Sylleses. They make
so much noise We have to rap on the wall
Transcript.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
CoIIusive Divorces

1t will not be denied by the bar of any
state that collusion is close to the root
of the divorce evil" now receiving
such general discussion, or that a con-
siderable percentage of divorces are
collusively obtained.-St. Louis Re
public.