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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
COAST LINERS HAVE
VERY ROUGH VOYAGE
City of Memphis Swept By Ter
rifle Seas.
ALL STEAMERS WERE OVERDUE

Many Vessels Came in With Their
Deck Houses, Boats and Pipes Badly
Dantased-Two Men Were Seriously
Injured by Sea Boarding Ship.
New York, Dec. 18.-Incoming coast
wise and West Indian trading steamers
reported Thursday and Friday of the
past week succession of the most vio-
lent storms ever experienced off tle
Atlantic coast.
All the steamers from ports south of
Norfolk were from IL to 80 hours oyNS.
due. Many of the vessels came in
with deck houses, boats and pipes bad
ly damaged The HolIand-American
line steamer Prinz Wilhelm I from Port
au-Prince, Dec. 10, reported being pass
ed on Friday while off the Virginia
coast, a four-masted schooner with
most of her sails gone
The Savannah line steamer City of
Memphis, from Savannah, Dec. 13, was
also many hours behind her schedule
time. One of her officers, Quarter
master Nelson, was removed to a hos
pital, with three of his ribs fractured.
A big sea boarded the vessel from
the starboard bow and sweeping all the
light deck work before it, nearly car
ried the quartermaster and First Off
GER Stow overheard. Both managed
to save themselves, but Stow suffered
a gasn in his forehead and otherwise
was badly bruised, while Nelson suf-
fered fracture of the ribs.
The pilot house was smashed, the
wheel was broken and number of
deck beams were carried away.
The Clyde line steamer Comanche,
from Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 13, and
Charleston the day following, was Is
hours late, owing to the heavy north
east gales which she fought throughout
er passage The vessel sustained no
serious damage.
the Mallory liner Comal in from Gal
weston, Tex. was more than day late.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
ATTORNEY PATRICK
SAVES DOOMED MAN
Condemned to Die He Made Ap
peal For Murderer.
ATTORNEY HAD GIVEN UP HOPE

When Patrick Heard of the Case He
Asked Condemned Man to Let Him
Make an Appeal, and Papers Were
Prepared in Prison.
New York, Dec. 1S.-Tne World
says:
Albert T. Patrick, under sentence OF
death, has prevented the execution of
John Johnson, who was to have been
electrocuted today. He was convict
ed for wife murder six weeks ago in
Westcnester county.
Johnson's lawyers concluded that
there was no ground for an appeal.
my counsel is not going to appeal
my case" said Prisoner Johnson, "and
see no use in building up hope"
Patrick, Who had just returned from
this city, where he had been sentenced
by Justice Rogers to die in the electric
chair in the week beginning Jan. p,
asked Jolnson to tell him of the case.
Johnson signed an affidavit in which
he asserted that he was not granted a
fair trial. Then Patrick wrote another
document in which it was set forth that
he had been duly retained as counsel
for one John Johnson, under sentence
of death, and awaiting execution in
Sing Sing as prescribed by law.
Aother paper was in the form of a
notice TO the clerk of the appeals in
Albany that "one Albert T. Patrick
attorney and counsellor at law, now
residing in the state prison, Sing Sing,
N. Y, has been duly retained as coun-
sci for Johnson and that said notice
was to act as a notice that an appeal
would be argued from the judgment of
the lower court.
Warden Johnson was sent for and
Patrick handed all the papers to him;
"You will be good enough to forward
these official documents to the clerk of
the court of appeals in Albany" said
Patrick to the warden. "They are in
the case of the people of the state ca
New York versus John Johnson. | am
attorney in the case"
The papers were duly forwarded to
Albany.
Patrick says that he will insist that
he be taken to the court of appeals
when the day set for the argument in
the case comes up The application
filed by Patrick in behalf of Johnson
acted as a stay of all proceedings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
REPORTED DEATHS FOR FUN.
Story Regarding Tragic End of Two
Men Fabrication.

wen FabTlcarIon.
Fitzgerald Ga, Dec. 18.-It has been
learned that the story that appeared
Friday regarding the tragic death of
Fred Elder and Ward Dickerson was
a fabrication.
A. H. Jenes, editor of the Fitzger-
aid People, received a letter purport
ing to be from j. B. d. Pau1k, stating
that Elder and Dickerson had been
killed by the breaking of a scaffold
while they were painting his house. AS
Mr.. Paulk is man of undoubted YER
acity, the report was given immediate
credence, an account of the accident ap-
peared in the evening paper here, and
the anguished relatives of the young
men prepared for their funeral rites.
Mr.. Paulk came TO Fitzgerald and
was astonished to near the story, and
declared that there had been no acci-
dent. Later young Elder admitted
that he had written the letter himself
"just for fun, and signed Mr.. Paulk's
name to it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Valuable Furs Destroyed.

New York, Dec 1S.-Two hundred
thousand dollars worth of fine furs
were destroyed by fire and water in
the establishment of Max Plaseeki &
Co, wholesale furriers and manufac-
turers of automobile garments. The
fire started from some undetermined
cause Other tenants of the building
suffered heavy damage by water.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Threw Wife Out of Window.

San Francisco, Dec. 1S.-Tlrowp
from fifth story window to tae pave.
ment Sunday night, it is said by her
husband, detective, Mrs. W. j. Ken.
nedy, surprised surgeons by maintain.
ing life in a body terribly crushed by
the fall She said her husband came
TO her apartments to effect reconcili
alton. A quarrel followed and sne says
her husband threw ner out of win
dow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Reward offered for AssaiIant,

Jackson, Miss, Dec* 18.-Governor
Vardaman has offered a reward OF $3.50
for the arrest of the unknown negro
VINO attempted to criminally assault
Miss Minnie Dupriest, a young lady.
near Greenwood cemetery. One suspect
is in Jail but no tangible evidence has
been developed against him. The negro
was unsuccessful in his effort.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
SAFE DYNAMITED BY BANDITS.
Bank Was Looted After the Watch
man and Son Had Been Bound.

man anu 0OH F1aO 6Scn 6ouno.
Suffield, Conn, Dec. 18.-After bind
ing the railroad watchman, William
Jones, and his 12-year-old son, to chairs
in the railroad station here, six bank
robbers pried their way into the Suf-
field Savings bank of Main street, blew
open the safe after the fourth attempt
and made away with about $4,000
worth of registered bonds and stocks,
not negotiable, according to President
Newton, of the institution.
They overlooked $4,000 In cash and
negotiable bonds in a drawer nearby.
Although the safe was wrecked AMI
the explosion was heard for a quarter
of mile away, the robbers made their
escape, leaving no clew whatever.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Decide to Order Strike.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 1S.-The work
mems council at a secret meeting held
in the outskirts of the city today de-
cided in favor of a general strike be
ginning December goth. The decision
has been communicated to tae labor
leaders at Moscow If the latter ap
prove. the strike will be declared forth
NTH
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Heavy Penalty Affixed.

Washington, Dec 16.-The secretary
of the interior has sent to congress q
draft of a bill fixing maximum pen
atty of $4,000 fine or ten years i'm
prisonment or both, for fraudulent at
tempts to obtain title to public lands.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19

| ne kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fill
ter out the waste or
impurities in the.blood.
# they are sick or out
OF order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, achesandrheu-
matism come from ex-
cess of uric acid in the
blood, due to neglected
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Removed from Office.

Washington, Dec. 18.-By direction
of the president the attorney general
has removed from office William B.
johnson, United States attorney for the
southern district of Indian Territory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Resumes Office of Governor.

Toxic, Dec. 1880 p. m.-General
Kodama will go to Formosa on Deem
Der %, where he will resume the office
of governor, which he filled prior TO
the late war with Russia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
Prominent Florida Woman Dead.

Tallahassee, Fla, Dec. 18.-Mrs. Ell
len Call Long, daughter of Ex-Governor
Richard Keith Call died here at the old
Call home of paralysis. Mrs. Long
was the first white child born in Talla
hassee and was a woman of culture,
prominent in the social and intellectual
life of Florida. she was an authoress
OF some distinction, "Florida's Breezes"
being one of her best known works.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
EootbaII playino Prohibited.

Ogdensburg, N. Y, Dec. 16.-The city
council has took action formally pro-
hibiting the playing of football here
until the game has been radically modi.
fed. .-.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19

.Fefusal of Kiss Made Him Desperate
Louisville, KY, Dec. 18.-Because ais
wife refused to kiss him after they
had Quarreled, Peter Rausch drank an
ounce of carbolic acid, bottle Of lin
iment and cut his right wrist with a
razor. The doctors say he will recover.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19
OVer=WOrk Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19

kinney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
1t used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
II constitutional diseases have their begin
ing in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys The mild
and the extraordinary effect Of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-RoOt, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits E-E
BY al druggists in fifty ays;Tsr55s
cent and dollar sz- II 6
es. You may have a ss==s-slsss es . sss5EEzssn
sample bottle by mail Home of swampRoot
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out .nyou have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dr.. Kilrner
& Co., Binghamton, ~. Y.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmcr's
Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton,
N. ", on every bottle
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-19

When Patrick Heard of the Case He
Asked Condemned Man to Let Him
Make an Appeal, and Papers Were
Prepared in Prison
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13

have moved to the cotton
mills, our enrolment and our
average attendance have been re"
duced on that account. But while
our numbers have not increased
great deal our finances have improved
a great deal We now have funds
sufficient to maintain a five months
school in every district in our county
and still have some money for build
ing and repairing school houses, and
we are doing without any aid from
second hundred thousand dollars.
We have an excellent graded school
in Waynesville under the supervision
of w. c. Allen, and we have three local
tax districts besides, which are doing
good work. We could have more local
tax districts but a five months school
among our farmers is about all they
can support at this age of scarcity of
hired labor. Still we have some other
districts that will yet vote local tax.
The sentiment is growing in favor as
they see what our local tax districts
are doing.
We are not doing a great deal i'm
consolidating districts for our district
lines are determined more by natural
boundaries such as rivers, creeks and
mountains, than by distance every
time. We have consolidated some and
the prospect is that others will be con-
SOlidated soon
We have six rural libraries in our
county with fair prospect that other
districts will put in a library in their
schools.
Our teachers as a class are as good
as can be found in any county in our
State To them we are indebted for
| the great progress we have made IN
our school work. We have a monthly
teachers meeting under the leader
| ship of Prof. r. D. Mcdowell, of the
Waynesville graded school, and moth
| ing is working more for the upbuilding
| of our educational system than TINS
gathering of our teachers.
Our teachers salaries have In
creased some, but the best for them is
that they now get their pay monthly
for their work. Without attempting
| to explain why it was so, yet our sys-
tenn has been so managed that our
teachers We're the last paid. Poor
house jail fees, roads and everything
came before our schools. Now we
have our school funds separate from
all others, and nothing is encouraging
our teachers more than that one
thing.
| We have had a good board of educa-
| ton for four years, and that board
has done a great deal to put our finan-
cial system to what it is. We have
new board now, and 1T is starting OF
we'll and every indication is that we
are still to move on.
No better sign of progress can be
| found than the building of new school
| houses and the repairing of some old
ones. We are planning to build some
| more new houses and to displace some
| old benches with new desks.
| We have many difficulties to over
| come, but we feel sure we are making
progress.
| r. A. SENTELLE,
| County Supt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13

were enrolled one hundred and sixty,
representing fifteen counties. These
Institutes last for four weeks with four
teachers thoroughly qualified in
charge. The work done in these is in
caIculable. The county has the Invest
Teachers Association i'll the State.
which meets once a month with an
average attendance of seVenty-tiVe or
eighty In these teachers meetings
model class work is done with classes
of children In all the grades. In ad-
dition to this the best methods Of
teaching and management Of schools
is thoroughly discussed. This associa
ton has been great power for GOOD.
There is g teachers library
in the County Superintendent Of
fee, consisting of more than one
hundred volumes of the best and most
generally approved books upon teach
ing The five graded schools in the
county, with their corps of thorough
ly competent teachers enter heartily
into all the work of the county, and
there is no difference between rural
teachers and graded school teachers
in their interest in every department
of the work.
The wonderful progress the county
has made in later years along all edu~
cational lines is due very largely to
the agencies mentioned above.
First, a live, progressive Board of
Education. ever on the alert for inn
provement and a hearty and whole
souled support of the Superintendent
in whatever he undertakes for the
betIerment of the schools
Second. a thoroughly competent Su-
perintendent, giving all of his time to
the work and doing so with a love for
the work. which comes FROM an Unborn
disposition to help people.
Third A consecrated, energetic,
competent corps of teachers. always
ready to be directed and to do their
very best.
Fourth. The cooperation, sympa-
thy, kindly interest and support Of the
leading citizens of the county.
With all of these agencies working
tremendously together. the future edu-
cational interests of this county will
not suffer and at no distant day with
a continual increase in enrolment and
average attendance the percentage of
ignorance among its people will be as
small as any county in North Caro-
lima.
T.. I. NJ
Greenville, N. c., Aug 10.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13
RuNCONLRE COUNTY.

Runcombe county has in her rural
districts 10000 white children of
scuooi age and ,OO0 negro children.
For this number Of children she has
100 white teachers and eighteen col
ored teachers. The enrolment the
past year was "A per cent. in the
schools for the white and II per cent.
in the negro school. To take in &C.
count the many private schools the
total enrolment would easily reach 81
per cent. BuncOmbe is we'll proVld-
ed with private schools. among them
are the Normal and Collegiate, and
Home Industrial of AsheTylle, the
Farm School. of Swannanoa, Weaver
vile College in North Buncombe, a
PRESBYTERIAN school at Jupiter in
North Buncombe. the Biltmore Parish
school, an Episcopal school near Sky
land q cchriStian school at Black
Mountain, a Presbyterian school at
vi ontreat. There is no excuse in this
county for any child to grow up illit-
crate for there is school in easy
reach of every one. Our school term
is tive months with eight and nine
months in the three special tax dis
tricts recently formed. Our last CEN
sus reports show only one hundred
and two white illiterates between the
ages of II and II. and only % among
the negroes, or one per cent. Wnlte
and less than three per cent. colofe i.
Many districts reported not a child be
tween IL and q but that can read
and write. These reports seem TOO
fiattering. We have not accepted them
as final. Our Board of Education has
recommended that teachers take the
census, this year in their respective
districts, and we are glad to say they
have heartily consented to do so. Thus
by next year we shall be able to veri-
fy statistics. We are indeed proud OF
our body of teachers in Buncombe.
We are gradually increasing the sal
ary of the best. and hope by this
means to keep them in this Work-the
greatest of all work. There is but
one who Yields a bigger influence for
good upon the race than the consecra-
fed teacher and she is the mother.
The importance of home training can
not be over estimated. The best of all
schools is to be found in the best
homes Mr.. Seward. when n senator
of the United States took occasion %
dwell on the importance of Home Ed
ucation; and when the comprehensive
character of that education is seen
it's importance will be at once admit
ted. For it touches all sides of our
being-the ethical. the religious, the
intellectual and the physical, so that
the first and most abiding impression
comes to the child through the moth
er. A great writer has said tnat no
community stands higher in morals.
religion. intellectual attachments, and
in social refinement than the mothers
of that community. And that the
mothers may feel the weight of re-
sponsiblity resting upon them, our
Board of Education has purchased one
hundred volumes of the best maya
zines obtainable we'll bound in cloth
and full of valuable information, -
be sent to them by the teacher, to be
read and returned. These volumes
are then to be placed in our rural IL
braries. Let us hope that much good
may be the result of the reading of
these magazines.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13
ALEXANDER COUNTY.

Alexander is a small county with
very few towns in it. hence our peo-
pie are dependent, in a great meas
ure, upon the free schools for an edu-
cation.
We are among the mountains where
consolidation is not practicable in
many instances. hence many of our
schools are small.
county.
county running this year 10 months.
One at TaylorsVille with Prof Sloan
principals; Hiddenite High School,
with Prof. Sharpe principal; one at
Stony Point, Prof. league principal
All these schools expect a better
year than ever before. A school of
telegraphy is also established at Hid
dcnite.
The cheapncss of board and tuition
at these schools is attracting many
students from other counties.
We are proud Of our record in
sending teachers to Durham graded
schools, Trinity College, etc. But we
are yet far short of what we wish 10
attain. Our public schools are net at
tended as they should be. The parents
are waking slowly. We will have the
first county institute this year that our
county has had for Is years.
We are trying to keep in line with
other counties in the great and grand
work Our school houses and grounds
are better than ever before.
A. F. SHARPE,
County Supt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13

others will vote local tax during the
year.
The total school fund for this year
was $3.50. $3.50. There are 1896 pu-
pills of this number. we enrolled
620S. We have 46 first grade teach
ers, average salary paid was $4,000
per month.
For the year of 10000 only two
schools in the county employed more
than one teacher, this year there
were ten. All our teachers attended
teachers Institutes last year, and a
number of them attended the training
school at Boone this summer.
Hon. r. A. Hamilton. A. A. Price
and w. F. Lewis compose the Board OF
Education. They are earnest, ener-
getic men. anxious to advance the
cause of education in the county.
Our superintendent, w. II. Jones. has
been engaged in school work for the
last IS years, serving as president OF
Fairview College, Switzerland Semi
nary County Supt,. and member III
Board of Education. while principal
of Switzerland Seminary he made II
the best known and most largely at
tended school west of the Blue Ridge
He enters on his second term as super
intendent without opposition from any
one. and the next two years Will SHOW
marked progress along educational
lines in AShe county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-13

The history of public schools in this
county, in many particulars, is like
that of other counties in the State.
1t had its beginning, and for many
years, the public school, only to
very limited extent, met the educa-
tional needs of the people. The school
buildings, as a rule, We're inferior; and,
in many cases, the teachers were COM
pafatively inefficient
Following the election of our Edu-
cational Governor, while the tide of
educational interest was rising, the
School Board Of the county elected
Rev Charles E. Maddry, who is an
alumnus of the University, as County
superintendent. Being young, vigor-
Gus and progressive, he gave his life
to the work Of improving conditions.
Resulting therefrom, there are mark
ed signs of improvement in every part
# the work. Many new houses have
1een built others have been repair
d and enlarged and many have been
upplied with patent desks and other
/ furnishings.
Decided signs of Improvement are
observa BILE in the teaching force. Many
better ones of former years have
qualified themselves for the work.
Some of those and a number of those
Who have entered the school room
later have high school, normal school
and college training.
The rural districts of this county,