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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
NOTHING DOING IN DRINKING LINE
Americas Put Lid on Strong Last
Sunday

Sunday.
The Americas cit who went for his
dope Sunday morning found an 10y
stare instead. For the dispensers of
the refreshing coca I'd, the cooling
limeade and sizzling soda had put the
lid on tight, and there was nothing do
ing about the erstwhile fzzy founts.
The whereofness of the which was not
explained, but it was a sultry, thirst
producing fact that nobody's nickel
was good Sunday for the price of q
drink, and for orce the drugstoree
were deserted just how long this
freeze-out OF the free zers will continue
70 one seems to know.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
STATE MANAGERS HAD MEETING
Discussed Matters of Business in
Atlanta.

Mr.. w. G. Wimbish, manager of the
Americas cotton exchange of Ware &
Leland, returned yesterday from At.
lants, where he attended meeting of
all the managers of this house in the
state. Matters of much interest were
discussed, and the firms representa-
tives were royalty entertained while in
the capital city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
SI.OO NGgligee Shifts for 75C.

They're the best of their kind
andstrictly up to-date as to styles.
Our advice ISIS choose freely while
they last ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
Misses Hose
l5C. cents pair.

During our recent trip East we picked IN . =.
of six hundred pairs Misses fine Derby Ribbed ! ~
Hose, regular 25c article, which we will Close n"
quick for
I5c pair, all sizes 6's to 9's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
Mating Sale.
S2.25 Long Silk Gloves at SITS

We have them here In white and
cream. All pure silk, splendid
quality, worth and sold every
where at 1926. Special for this
week at.................... ......$1.75
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
We Are Now Opening

New Plaid Fall Ginghmas, New Fall
PercaIes, New FIanneIettes, New
FIeeCes, New Chambrays, New Seer.
Suckers, New White Goods, New
WOODEN Dress Goods, New Plaid Silk
WaiStngs. New COI0red Silk Sutings,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-04
Absolutely
New

this season and if goods well bought are
half Sold, twill be easy sailing here this
season, One of the most interesting fea-
lures, too, is that our reputation on pr-
ces will be upheld in this department
Do lis the honor to call and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
ROBERT ROBERTS HIT.

The death of Congressman R. R. Hit
of the Thirteenth Illinois district, re-
moves one of the men Oldest and most
useful in the public life of the nation.
OF his seventy-three years fffty-two
were spent in political service from
the time when, as a boy of nineteen,
he became Lincoln's stenographer, to
his death, after many years incumb-
ency as chairman of foreign affairs in
the house of representatives. Like
John Hay he had sat at the feet of the
great ones gone forever and ever by"
He had been with Washburn in the
American legation at Paris in the days
of the commune as secretary of Legal
ton and later as charge d affaires. and
came home as Hay came home. to be-
come assistant secretary of state.
When Bob" Hawk died. the old Fifth
district OF Illinois selected Bob Hit
as his successor. and he has continu-
ously filed that office Until death. He
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
THE STUDY OF CORN.
Jefferson Bee.l

In the midst of the heat of a politl-
cal campaign, we pause to suggest that
the raising of good corn is after ali
the principal material concern of the
people of Greene county. Last Fri
days campaign of corn education at
the Poor Farm convinces us that we
ought at least to divide our attention,
and give as much study to the subject
of good corn as we do to the study
of the paramount issue. Regardless Of
who is elected to office. and who is
not elected, intelligent corn raising
is still the chief business of the people
of this county, and it is a subject
worthy of just as keen and critical at
tention as can possibly be given to
it,
Tie statement, supported by proofs,
made in our seed corn article on first
page, today that Greene county
farms are at present producing only
one medium sized ear of corn to the
hill on the average, is worthy of more
than passing notice. Our neighbour
ing counties do no better. The soil
here is as rich as any the sun shines
on; it is made for corn; plenty of labor
is expended on the growing and culti-
waiting process No more labor, ex-
cept in harvesting, would be required
to raise another ear to the hill. Can we
raise that other ear? Can the farmers
of the county, by extraordinary care
in selecting seed, by extraordinary care
in selecting seed, increase their yield
of corn by SO to 100 per cent as
Holden says
1t is worth trying. If every kernel
of corn were copper cent there is
not a man in the county who would
not agree to examine every bit of the
money. no matter how many bushels.
piece by piece, rubbing it, boring it,
weighing it, to see if it We're counter
felt Now a good kernel of corn may
produce an ear which is worth at least
a half a cent And ali that is required
is to examine six kernels out of every
eight hundred, and not every individual
kernel in the whole lot. What does
this mean? 1t means that every kernel
so examined stands sponsor for more
than a hundred more kernels on each
ear. and the proper scrutiny of those
six kernels may mean so cents worth OF
corn. Is not this as profitable an exer.
else as the examination of a few bush.
els of copper pennies would be?
During the coming thirty days the
preliminary selection of seed corn for
next springs planting ought to begin.
Great stress has been laid on the fact
that the seed should be picked and in
the loft before we have any haru
freeze. From the first of October till
the first of November the best and
most profitable work farmer can do
is to make this preliminary selection
of seed. Putting head work into corn
is just as important as putting head
work into CATTLE, and everybody will
admit that the successful cattle man
lies awake nights to think about his
work.
When the corn raiser puts the same
of gray matter into breeding
corn that the stock man does into
breeding cattle, the seed corn millen-
iun will have arrived.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21

was the intimate friend of Blaine and
his ambition at Minneapolis, Hit was
without doubt.slated for the secretary
ship of state. 1t will be Il matter of
interest in Iowa that the only time
Hits seat in congress was actually
in danger was when he was opposed by
Steve" Bashor. later a candidate for
the nomination as governor before an
Iowa democratic convention and OF
notnriety as democratic stump
speaker Bashor. then a preacher for
the Progressive Dunkers located on a
country charge in Illinois and running
on a mixed greenback- populist-de
cratic platform, came within 700 votes
of defeating Hit in a district that
gave him about $4,000 majority over all
at the last election.
Hit was of that type of public
man that attracts no great or wide
spread public notice, but whose wide
knowledge and grasp of great public
questions make him counselor and
friend of those in power. He was not
an orator but a worker. He was utili-
tartan. With nothing of the grand
stand about him, he was useful, not
ornamentative. Such men rarely draw
the eyes of the crowd or hear public
acclaim, but they turn the wheels of
government while the circus band plays
in the street. We are coming slowly to
acknowledge them and to the conclu-
sion that government is a business
more than a succession of flamboyant
speeches; that hard work and capacity
and strict attention to the duties of
official position and trust are more to
be considered than the rythm and ball
ance of sentences We need more men
of the Hit type in congress
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
poll,yER IS IN DANGER.

The continued illness of Senator Al
lison and the near approach of very
dangerous operation is believed by long
. headed politicians to be the cause Oh
the very apparent activity OF the Fall-
f road politicians; In behalf of the DEM
ocratic ticket in this state. When
Candidate Porter adopted almost YER
batim as his campaign speech the
4 false literature issued against cum
i minis by the Ed Hunter bureau, and
said almost nothing about the platform
of mis- own party politicians knew that
such policy had been designed ior
him. When the newspaper man who
had served the Ed Hunter bureau
was attached to the Porter campaign
politicians could hear train whlstilng
for crossings. Since then "one John-
sion" a valiant member of the Hunter
force in the campaign for Perkins, has
been addressing letters to standpattefs
at an expense for postage OF $o,OOV 10
$1,000 per letter and Johnston, himself
is poor man.
In Des Moines it is known that the
greatest danger to republican success
this fall is on the legislative ticket.
Reports are coming in from SO many
counties that one faction or the other
is determined to defeat the republican
nominee of the opposing faction at
the polls and permit a democrat to slip
in, that democratic legislature is
not impossible or even improbable. IL
is said that Senator Dolliver has APP
preciated this situation himself and
will wage such speaking campaign
for the ticket this fall as he never
swaged before,
In view of the seriousness of Sen
ator Allison's illness it is possible that
the coming legislature may have two
senators to elect, Delivers succession
at least will be up. The election of
Cummins as governor is not In SO
much danger as the election of re-
publican legislature, Helce as lhe eieS
tion of Deliver to the senate If there
is any genuine desire among republic
ans to hold front seats at the pie
counter some genius for organization
should be put in charge of the legisla-
tive campaign. There is strong sus-
picion that Ed Hunter is already at
that work for the democrats. Neither
Mr.. Perkins nor the railroads feel any
obligation ito take care of Dolliver.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

How to loaf gracefully" the subject
of magazine article, runs along the
same lines as MIR. Perkins editorial,
Dying in Harness" Both articles, in
fact all such writing, is tinctured with
personal experience. The busy man,
the man that has had something TO
do, a forced daily occupation, forcea
from sense of duty, cannot UNDER
stand the enjoyment of elegant lels-
ure. and dying in harness" lacks even
horse sense to one accustomed from
childhood to life of ease and free
dom from any regular occupation.
Some years ago, when the city of Bos-
ton depended on horse cars for trans
portation, big fire started in the
barns of the street car company IN
South Boston. Over 800 horses were
driven loose into the streets before
the fire was extinguished. Then the
employees, began to hunt for the horses.
Not one could be found, but in the
course of half an hour a strange pro-
cession came down the track. When
driven from the burning barns each
horse sought it's mate, and side by
side without harness, car or driver,
they started on the round trip to Bos-
ton and back, finally arriving at the
starting point Russell Sage did the
same thing in New York every day,
lacking even the incentive of fire and
being driven from home.
And to use these car horses for
further comparison and illustration, an
experiment covering a years time was
once made by this same horse car
company Twenty miles a day was
found to be the distance a horse could
travel and continue in the best of con-
dition. $40 miles per week But some
SUPERINTENDENT With "a thinker" had an
idea that even horse needed Sun
day. SO in the Jamaica Plains line for
one year each horse Travelled 40 miles
in six DAYS and rested on the seventh.
And the figures carefully compiled at
the end of the year was SO faV-
orable to the the horse Sunday that a
rest day thereafter was given
to all of the horses on the entire
system This same car company also
made practice of giving one-half
their horses a vacation in the country
each year Horses not sick. but "off
country and turned out to grass. And
that paid too by reducing the number
of sick disturbed and dead horses each
year.
Even railroad superintendents have
found out that their locomotives need
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
cAhApA,s ATTITUDE.

~ In an article published in a recent
number of the North American Review,
Mr. Edward Porritt represented the
Canadian Manufacturers Association
as being opposed to a British prefer
ence. In the August number of the
Review. Mr.. Watson Griffin. who, for
the last four years has managed the
protection campaign of the Canadian
manufacturers, takes issue with Nj.
Porritt on this point In his article,
which is entitled "The Canadian Man.
ufacturers' Tariff Campaign" he
quotes at length from announcements
made and speeches delivered by repre-
sentative manufacturers. to show that
the policy of Canadian manufacturers
+ is to secure protection for Canadian
products against all, non-Canadian
products, but, at the same time, to
allow preference to British products,
SO that they shall have the first oppor-
tunity to supply any part of the Ca-
madam market which is beyond the
capacity of Canadian production. Mr..
Griffin says:
But, While the Canadian Manufac-
turers' Association has emphaticalIy
endorsed the principle of imperial pref
erential trade, some of the items of the
Canadian preferential tariff as it now
exists have been freely criticized on
the ground that certain Canadian in
dustries are. not sufficiently protected
against the competition of British
manufacturers who have the advan-
tage of cheaper labor and lower rates
Of interest The remedy proposed by
the Canadian Manufacturers Associa
ton is, not to abolish the British pref
erence or even reduce the percentage
Of preference, but to raise the genral
tariff so high that, WIN the preference
is allowed, the minimum tariff will
be high enough to offset the greater
cost of labor and the higher rates of
interest. thus placing the Canadian
manufacturer on an equality with his
British competitor. 1t would be pos
sible in accordance with this plan to
even increase the percentage of pref
erence, attic this would involve pro-
11ibitory rates on some classes of for
eign products
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
MsleAz9
RsfREaEaEaTaiasFa IaTsi assEsl 9IsaFaTalE
Iowa Newspapers
AUTOS FOR EVERYBODY.
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.


But the automobile for the common
people" soon will be due. 1t seems
safe to assert that the cost of manu-
featuring these machines does not
alone warrant the steep price at which
they are now sold. The demand and
the patent office have combined to
keep the prices up until some time
when, the demand in high circles hav-
ing been supplied, the manufacturers
will suddenly discover that they can
afford to place their output on the
market much cheaper. Indeed, the cut
has already begun, as lowering prices
indicate. 1t was so with the bicycle,
and has been so in other cases, so it
is but a question of time when the
well-to-do farmer can in reality ride to
church in his automobile and give his
work team their needed Sunday rest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
rest, and it is given them as a mat
ter of economy.

ter of economy.
Some one once wrote an article and
compared a man with a railroad en-
CINE. With ordinary usage. barring ac-
cidents a locomotive is built to run 50
many thousand miles before it goes to
the scrap pile. The average human be-
ing, barring accidents. is supposed to
run. /. e, work so many years, before
he joins the majority. Both can stand
hard work In fact last longer than IL
idle to rust out, but both need to be
we'll housed during these rest periods.
they need fixing frequently in places
where they show weakness from wear
and tear And having all this in mind
the theory seems to be good, that II at
stated periods the locomotive is Idle
and we'll taken care of, the miles it
still has to run can be depended upon,
even il it is idle three months. And
man built for three score and ten, and
having lived half of his allotted time,
laying off" |. e., loafing for three
months, has the other half of his life
trip still ahead of him, with increased
chances to safely accomplish it, just
because Of the rest. the loafing spell.
We now have 800 words in the re-
formed spelling association. Anothef
Roosevelt is needed to reform, to edit.
to give us new meanings for severa
words in the English language, To LOAF
in it's best meaning is not to be idle.
Loating is the art Of doing something
you don't have to and keeping at IT.
till recreated. Gladstone was
loafer while cutting down
tree. Senator Hoar loafed mentally
by reading dime novels, particularly
detectiva stories. Roosevelt loafs by
taking long walks at four mile an
hour gait. or a six days of hard horse
back riding. Loafers never do what
they are obliged to do when workers.
Scientific loafers always have change.
A railroad conductor, when he lays or,
wise man that he is, never takes trip
on the cars for the fun of it. But the
bank cashier getting on crowded
train of excursonists actually gets rest
by being all tired out when he gets
home.
Dying in harness was not beau
tiful theory in the days of treadinills.
And galley slaves, swinging their long
oars, chained as they were to the ship.
objected very much to living or dying
in such harness. But in the solitary
confinement cell the occupant envied
the men in the treadmill. And so the
man of the Russell Sage frame of mind
is to be pitied In fact, any man that
cannot loaf is entitled to Our SYM
pathy. On the other hand, no worse
punishment can be melted out to Rus.
sell Sage than to compel him to loaf.
Such men are in ruts of their own dig
cling, and they have neither the power
nor inclination to get out. sensible
man is not in fear of dying in harness.
or anywhere else for that matter, but
to live in harness so long. SO constant
ly. that the buckles are not felt when
they are wearing sore places. to have
the collar, choking and not know why
the breath is short, to pull on the bit
till the mouth is raw and not know
why food is distasteful, to keep up a
two minute gait till bursted blood
vessel brings death inl harness, from
such a life and such a death, Good
Lord, deliver us"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
FRArERNALs CAN BE HELPED


The fraternal insurance societies
which promise to work out the rate
problem for themselves If the legisia-
ture would let them alone would
stand a better chance of redeeming the
promise if they would substitute COM
petitors for legislatures. 1t is COM
petition that prevents many of the
fraternities from lifting their rates up
to a scientific and just basis. The
legislature could help them by putting
restraint on competition, by saying
that the rate shall be such as to en-
able the fraternity to perform its con-
tract with the insured, not only now
but in the days to come. No man who
says the government should regulate
the railroads should contend against it's
of insurance. The regula-
ton is as necessary and legitimate in
one case as in the other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
THE LECHER AND HIS VICTIM.

Hanging is none too good for such
a brute. He did not strike the blow
that made Irene Blydenburgh a corpse,
but he struck the blow that ruined her
young life and compelled her to seek
the aid she did from her troubles
commit suicide or live a moral outcast
for the rest of her days. He killed
her moral character; killed her pure
young life and drove her to despera-
ton You see this same condition of
things in every community. 1t does
not always result as fatally as it
did in this case. but it is there
just the SAND What a lesson it is
to every father and mother to take
care of and protect their daughters
from these lecherous brutes. What
do these men care? They brag and
boast of the number of young women
they have sent on the road to hell,
The more, the greater their fame
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
HOME AGAIN.
-Don.,heu in Cleveland Plain Dealer

among their associates. If there is
anything that makes our blood boil
it is to hear some lecherous brute
brag Of accomplishing the ruin of
some young girl. He'll is not hot
enough for such a man nor the rope
too quick route to take him there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21

Jennie Beaumont. of Wabash, Ind.
widow of civil war veteran. has left
all her property. including two resi-
d,ences to the local Grand Army post,
ir. accordance with the wishes of her
husband
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21
Sta rvln0.

When your body is starving robbed
by indigestion-Dr. Kings New Life
Pills will relieve and cure % cents.
Mcbride G. Wills Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-21

stone. The average original cost a
mile of the gravel roads was $1,4O3
while the crushed stone roads cost ST.
221 mile. Only six counties in the
state still have toll roads, the total
mileage being 112
According to Lacey standpatters and
democrats as dangers to republican
success are nothing as compared to
the big corn crop and the absence of
the circle from the ballot.
Nearly $4,000 in fines were paid by
British Automobiles during the year
ending June 30 last. statistics for
which relating to motor car offenses
have just been issued The number
of prosecutions during the year was
GIGS, and 1915 defendants were fined.
making the average fine paid about s11,
In l.245 cases the prosecution was for
exceeding the speed limit. Five motor
fists We're sent by the magistrates for
pedestrians thru neglect, drunkenness
while in charge of an automobile. etc.
1t is a striking comment on the some
times excessive zeal of the rural po-
lice against automobilsts that 739
prosecutions We're withdrawn or dis
missed, while ASP defendants We're dis
charged on payment of costs.