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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20
Expert TO Be Emp'oye d.

The chairman of the commission will
be named by the governor. He will be
required to give all of his time and at
tentIon to the work of the board and
will receive a salary of four thousand
dollars. The other four members will
receive two thousand five hundred
dollars per annum each. The require
ments of the present law as to the
qualifications for members of the COM
mission will be changed. 1t will not
be provided that one commissioner
shall be a lawyer and another rail-
road man, as now. Provision is made
for the employment of rate expert at
salary OF four thousand dollars per
annum, and the commission will con-
suit him as to details IN reference to
rates, both freight and passenger,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20
Penalties Attaches.

The bill provides that any employe
agent or officer of a railroad company
who violates any law of the state or
order of the commission is guilty of
crime and shall be prosecuted and
punished as misdemeanOr. The COM
mission will also have authority over
express companies, telegraph COM
panies, sleeping car companies and
electric companies not confined ex-
clusively to municipalities. Questions
of demurrage, overcharges, failure to
furnish cars promptly, delay in hand
ling freight; train schedules, passenger
and freight, delay of trains and q
multiple of questions of detail will be
regulated by the commission.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20

Phone Lov1ng's Sta ables, 81, IF r bag
gage wagon. TT.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20
-AE STOCK MUST Be CONVERTED INTO THE MONEY
REGARDLESS or ALL FORMER PRICES.

Remember it is not only clothing offering you
duced prices but nearly everything the department
Shirts reduced Underwear reducted Sox reduced Shoes
reduced Hats reduced Neckwear reduced, etc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20
GREAT REMOVAL SALE.

On or about August 18th, we
will move from our present quarters
to the new Holiday building on La
mar street opposite the Windsor HO-
tel where we will have six times the
room of our present store. and will
carry.a stock in size. quality and
price second to none in south Geor-
gia. Everything will be new and
up-to-date. Now we must close out
our present stock, beginning Monday
June 18TH, nothing reserved except
our Douglas Shoes. Ladies Queen
Come Monday and every day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20
GREAT SACRIFICES MADE BY US in CLOTHING.

These conditsn not only prevail in this part of the
try but all over the south We deem good business
the goods take losses prepare ourselves for another
son. 1t would be useless to well you
you with these inducements after have supplied
wants We cannU, lave every good one
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-06-20

AS outlined to you last week the Remarkable Cold
Weather Conditions during April and May alone
responsible for the
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
P0TTERs ADVANCE PRICES.
Instance Where High Tariff EncOur-
ages Undue Exactions.

From the pittsbUrg Post
At a meeting of the United States Pot
ters' Association, held in this city on
Tuesday, it was decided that on January
there should be an advance Of 70 per
cent on all semi-porcelain wares, and one
of nearly the same amount on inferior
wares. Il is said that practically all the
firms engaged in this line Of business
have agreed to this advance. The action
OF this association can we'll attract the
attention of the people generally, and Of
our National Executive and Congress-
only a short time ago the potters won
their long fight with the railroads TO Sc
cure equal treatment with their foreign
competitors. For years the latter have
been able 10 compete with our potters be-
cause Of the advantage given them in rail
road rates. Now. however. this advan-
tagc has been taken away, and the for
eign p0tteTs placed on an equality with
our own in shipping goods over our rail
roads. Our own potters have however.
also the protection of high tariff duties.
As a result OF the railroads action, the
American pOtters are now in a better DO
sitiOn than ever before.
It is therefore most surprising that the
first action of our pOtters after securing
the additional advantage resulting from
the action of the railroads should be TO
increase the price of their wares What
justification there can be for this proceed
ing it is hard to perceive In fact. It APP
pears to be due entirely 70 the fact That
the potters are taking unfair advantage
of the position given them by the unduly
high tariff on their products If that
tariff were properly revised and placed at
a fair figure. there would be no room for
the proposed advance Of % per cent in
prices. The increase will fall heavily
upon the class of people who are least
able to bear it. 1t will not matter to the
rich and the well-to-do, but it viii be
new burden upon the vast numbers who
are not included in these classes. The
situation presented in the pottery Industry
prevails largely III many others. In each
case the prices Of goods have been great
~ advanced simply because the American
manufacturers have the undue advantage
OF an unnecessarily high tariff.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03

all that marine Insurance could be called.
His patrons gradually made the place a
general exchange FOR news Of the outsids
world, and IN 1892. when the coffee house
moved TO Lombard street. the proprietor
undertook to gather the intelligence that
came to his tables In the form of a print
ed gazette. In "Lioyds News" which bs
started about that time was printed not
only shipping news. bat general infoTma-
ton, and it was his dabbling with outside
affairs that brought down the govern
ment censorship on his little sheet and
stopped its issue after a brief existence.
''Lloyd's List" which IS the name SIN
retained by the official organ Of the
agency, was founded in 1925, confning it
self wholly TO marine intelligence, and
the paper continues % this day the oldest
newspaper Ia London except for the Lon
don Gazette. During the lrst century Of
its existence LlyOd's was conducted with
out any organization but IN l774. after a
succession of financial scandals insepara-
bic from the eighteenth century. fever
for bubble speculation and Insurance.
gambling, an association OF insurance
underwriters and brokers. calling itself
the New Lloyd's. took up headquarters
in the royal exchange, the predecessor Of
the present building. which is as much OF
show place IN financial London as the
Bank o. England or the stock exchange
The form Of policy adopted by these as
sOciates continues unchanged 10 the pres
ent day but for the substitution Of the
more prosaic BE It Known That" for
the pious opening phrase Of the original
form, In the Name Of God, Amen"
The Marine Insurance.
The underwriting members Of the body.
who number about GO out of the total Of
800 members, each deposit with trustees
upon admission security to the value Of
So GO. This fund. amoL in all 10
about $15090000. is the eIty CORE
spending 20 the capital and Iurplus Of an
insurance company. II applies. however,
only to marine risks. and al Of the
strange policies issu,5 by the underwfit-
ers are backed only by the credit and
good faith OF the men who underwrite
them. It is from Lloyd's symbol for the
best ia hull and equipment that the
familiar al Is derived
At the door Of the underwriters room
is the great register of shipping, in which
the history Of every registered hull afoat
Is set down Not only the dry facts OF its
condition and worth OF hull. but its
casualty history, for the luck of a vessel
as we'll as its material worth. enters into
the calculations of the underwriters. Care
fully guarded from the public is the
Confidential Index whose contents. too.
are Il large factor in the estimates Of
risks. Here the shipOwneTs are tagged
and billeted, their financial standing is
duly rated, and their past dealings with
the underwriters are kept track Of II IS
in this index. too. that the records Of dis
graced captains are kept, mercifuny re-
moved from the knowledge OF all but the
members Of the agency.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
some TALLEYRAND STORIES
Instances of Great Frenehman's
Sharp and Ready Wit.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Never
Failed to Have Reply Ready
when Required.

from the Neu York sun.
When "a rumor spread Of the death Of
George III. a Partisan banker came 90
ask the opinion OF the minister Of foreign
Affairs. We'll. said Talleyrand gravely.
some say he IS dead, and some say he
is not I may tell you IN confidence that
1 don't believe either" On another occa-
sion a general Of no great culture turned
up late for dinner and began 10 explain
that a "maudit pekin" had detained him.
Taileyrand asked him what a pcl,in was.
lie replied that il was camp phrase for
ali that isn't military" "Oh, 1 see. 20
said Talleyrand. Just as we call mill
tary all that is not civil" When a not
very handsome Engiishman vas boring
the company one day with long descrip-
ton of the charms Of his mother. Talley-
rand broke In at the first gap. 1T must
have been your father, then, who was
not very good looking" Some one OBJ
serving 70 him that Fouche. the infamous
minister Of police. had a great contempt
for mankind Talleyrand's reply was.
Yes. he has studied himself very care
fully" Another person had the impcrti-
HclCe 20 ASK MIN Aliat 4ldG passed dL Il
council that he had attended. Three
hours" said Talleyrand.
When he heard that Semouville. for
whom he had little respect. was getting
fat he pretended To be mystihed. and
explained that he did not see how it
was 10 SemonviIe's interest to get stout. "
1t was also Of Senonville, when he had
become a senator and some one was urg-
ing that there were at all events CON
sciences in the Senate" that Talleyrand
said: "Oh. yes! Semonville alone has at
least two" a friend who VIGOROUSLY was
rather q rOue met him one day and COM
plained that he was feeling the pains Of
hell" Already" said TalleyTand. Tai
leyrand, however, was quite as able to
say pleasant things as bitter on the spur
Of the moment. Our author recalls how.
when he was challenged TO say which Of
two ladies at table-Mme. de Stael and
Nine. Grand-he would rescue from the
water first. if both were drowning. he
turned TO one and said; You are able
to swim" So when Napoleon asked him
pointedly how ne became rich. he an
swcred: Il bought stock on the 18th Bru-
marie. and sold il the next day"
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
THACKERAY WASBLACKLISTED
Two Noted Clubs in London Reject
Great Novelist.
Members Feared Possibility of See
ing Themselves Portrayed in
Some Future Book.


Prom the LONDON Standard.
a recent case recalls the fact that the
altering Of club rules is not so easy a
matter as might at first sight appear.
When some time ago a West End club
decided TO raise its subscription a mem
Der protested and took the matter into
court. There Il was decided that where
a clubs bylaws expressly contemplate "a
change Of rules the matter is simple and
the course obvious Il is different where
nothing is said IN the rules as 10 altera-
tions. In that case the consent of all the
members must be obtained before any
change can be effected. even though
such change may have been made on pre-
yious occasions without demur by mem
bers.
The Travellers rejected Thackeray, the
majority fearing to see themselves in
some future novel By the great man-an
interesting commentary, by the way. on
the Thackeray-Nate quarrel. The Athen-
aeum was not more kind to the novelist
There he was blackballed. The difficulty
was got over. however, in the following
year by the rule which permits the cleo
ton without ballot OF persons distinguish
cd in science, literature, or public life.
There was a worse contretemps over
the election of George Moore, the philan-
thTOpist, 10 Brooks. His nomiuator was
in Ireland, and his secoEder unable TO
attend the ballot. The consequence was
that men We're running about saying:
Surely you're not going to vote for that
scoundreI MooreT' twenty-five votes
rne0rHaf M thee NH
blackballs. They had mistaken their man
for scamp who had been rejected years
before. When the blunder was discovered
members wanted 20 retake the ballot,
bat this was against rules, so the cleo
ton had 10 be deferred 10 another day,
when the philanthroDist was unanimously
made q member
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
GREAT BLUE HERON COLONY.
Same Lofty Sycamore It's Resting
Place for TweBty-tvvO Years.

same Lofty Sycamore It's Resting
Place for Twenty-Five Years.
From ST. Nicholas
a place OF rare interest TO bird lovers in
Michigan is a great blue hcron-s nesting
place ten miles west Of Battle Creek on
the north bank of the Kalamazoo River.
1t is notable because there are now only
few nesting places Of this handsome
and majestic bird left in that state. Il
is stiIl more notable from the fact that
the few others are in inaccessible swamps.
while this one is on dry ground, only "A
short distance from an interurban cleo
trio line, and can be reached without dir
fculty.
Great blue herous are home lovers and
become SO attached TO the place of their
birth that they always return 10 the same
nesting place and even the same tree.
They have been known TO nest in one
place for fifty years. This colony has
nested on the Kalamazoo River for TWEEN
ty-tWo years.
y sycamore tree is always selected as
the first home tree because the color of
the bark haTmonizes perfectly with the
color of the birds plumaEe. thus afford
In this gigantic sycamore were originally
thirteen nests.
The tree is thirteen feet in circumfer-
ence and 1oo feet high up to the first
branches. From this tree the colony
has spread out 10 several elm trees.
The nests are "A most interesting sight
and are SO large that they can be seen
from q distance OF one mile. They are
huge. rude structures, built Of good-sized
twigs and sticks, loosely placed together.
forming lattice work on which the eggs
are laid
The birds use the same nest every sea
son. adding more sticks to shape Il I'D
when they return the following season.
The eggs number from three to four. are
of q bluish-green color and are little
larger than hens eggs.
The herOns during the nesting season
are OF great benefit TO the farmers. as
they destroy al the snakes and field mice
for miles around When feeding the
young the noise and Commotion made by
the fiedgelings can be heard at a great
distance
The blue heron is a majestic appearing
and most beautiful bird. II is frequent
~ enormously called the saudhiI crane.
1t is n solitary bird except when nesting
and is wild and shy.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
JOHN HAYS PHILOSOPHY.
Thought He Had Lived Most of Life
when Forty Years Old.

when Forty Years Old.
Marx Twain in North American Review.
A quarter of a century ago I was
visiting John Hay at Whltelaw Reds
house in New York, which Hay was oc-
cupying for a few months while Reid
was absent on a holiday in Europe Tenn
porari!y also, Hay was editing Reds
paper, the New York Tribune. / remem-
Der two incidents Of that Sunday visit
particularly well.
In trading remarks concerning our ages
l confessed to forty-two and Hay 20
forty. Then he asked if / had begun to
write my autobiography and I said !
hadn't He said that l ought TO begin AT
once, and that / had already lost two
years. Then he said in substance this:
AT forty a man reaches the top Of
the hill OF life and starts down on the
sunset side. The ordinary man, the aver
age man, not to particularize too closely
and say the commonplace man, has at
that age succeeded or failed: IN either
case be has lived all of his life that is
likely to be worth recording; also in
either case the life lived is worth setting
down, and cannot fail 10 be interesting
If he comes as near 10 telling the truth
about himself as he can. And he will
tell the truth in spite Of himself, for his
facts and his fictions Will work Loyalty
together for the protection Of the reader;
each fact and each fiction will be a dab
Of paint eacn viii fall in its right place
and together they will paint his portrah;
not the portrait he thinks they are paint
ing, but his real portrait, the inside Of
him. thc soul Of him, his character
Without intending to liz ne will lie all
the time; not bluntly, consciously, not
duly unconsciously. but half-cOnsciOusly
consciousness in twilight a soft and
gentle and mercifui twilight which
makes his general form cOmely, with
his yirtuOus promnences and projections
discernibIe and his ungracious ones IN
shadow. His truths viii be recognizable
as truths. his modidca tons Of facts which
would tell against him viii go for Moth
ing. the reader viii see the fact through
the film and know his man.
There is a subtle devilish something
or other about photographed compost
tion that defeats all the writer's attempts
20 paint his portrait his way"
Hay meant that he and l were ordinary
average commonplace people. and l did
not resent my share Of the verdict, bat
Hursed my wound in silence. His idea
that we had finished our work IN life,
passed the summit and were westward
bound downhill, with me two years ahead
of him and neither Of US with anything
further to DO as benefactOTs 90 mankind
was all a mistake. 1 had written four
books then, possibly five. 1 have been
drowning the world IN literary wisdom
ever since. volume after volume; since
that days sun went down he has been
the historian of Mr.. Lincoln. and his book
will never perish, he has been Ambassa- /
dor. brilliant orator, competent and ad-
mirable Secretary Of State.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03

Where Tyre and sidon teemed with ships aload
The wharTcs are idle and the waters lone;
And to the Temple that was His abode
In vain Jerusalem recalls her own.
Breeding the bygone from her sCulptured seats,
In living rock her mighty memories heWn,
Along the Nile. wonder Of water streets
Old fertile Egypt is a Strangers boon.
Mark Athens. brcathed upon by breath Of gods.
Wit baTds and sages to reveal her signs,
Leap like fame above LIES iron clods
10 tall in ashes upon vacant shTiues
And Rome, frm-founded in a wide emprise;
Her laws ana lCgiOns her imperial goal
Avail net when her sometime homer dies
Smothercd IN shows that kill the mounting soul.
Such names Of pride and power have been brough
low,
Lapsing alike into the caveruoUs years;
out Of the grayness Of the long ago
Their ghosts tit homeless and guess their tears
The destiny Of nations They arise,
Have their hcyday Of triumph. and in turn
Sink upon silence and the lidless eyes
OF fate salute them from their final urn.
How splendid-sad the story, How the gust
And pain aud bliss Of living transient seeml
Cities and pomps and glorics shrunk 70 dust,
And all that ancient opulcnce dreams
Must a majestic rhythm Of rise and fall
Conquer the peoples once 50 proud on eGrthl
Does man bIt march in circles after ali,
Playing his curious game CT death and biTthi
Or shall an ultimate nation, Gods own child,
ARISE and rule. nor ever conquered be:
Untouched Of time because. all undehed
She makes His ways her ways eternally2
Richard Burton, IN Century
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
MRS. BoNAPARTE's PORTRAIT.
Wearing Dress Left Betsy Patterson
by Jerome BOnapnrtc.


From the Baltimore American.
Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte. the wife Of
the Attorney General of the United
States. has been sitting for her portrait
to be painted by one of the most famous
portrait painters OF the country. in a
dress she has repeatedly refused to let
Washington and Baltimore society have a
look at-the magnificent gown OF duchess
lace left to Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte by her husband. Jerome Bonaparte
the King Of Westphalia, and a brother Of
Napoleon, Emperor of France.
The dress is one OF the most precious
heirlooms OF the Bonaparte family. and
has always been the property of The wife
Of the eldest son of the house. Aside from
its value by association. the dress is al
most priceless intrinsically. When Jerome
Bonaparte, who, as Capt. Bonaparte, at
a ball given by the Pacas. met the beauti-
ful Betty Patterson he fell deeply in love.
His attachment grew, and notwIthstand-
ing the fact that they We're separated by
the decree OF bis elder brother he con-
tinued to hold her in faithful memory as
long as he lived. and at his death he
willed her this dress, along with other
articles Of great value which he had pur-
chased for her before the Little Corporal
stepped in and ruthlessly crushed the ro-
nance Of their lives.
The dress has always been carefully pre-
served. Only on occasions Of great inn
pOrtance TO the BOnaparte family has it
been worn. and il is said Mrs. Bonaparte
is having her portrait painted in the gown
especially because Of the special interest
her husband takes in the garment. The
picture is not expected to be finished FOR
some months.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
CLEvERNESs IN A RED HEN.
Thawed out n Frozen Comb in snow,
so Owner Says.

From the New York World,
Samuel Baldwin. Of New Providence y,
j.. owns a little red hen which displayed
almost human intelligence on SATURDAY.
The hens comb was frozen and shp
stuck her head in the snow and kept Il
there until her frost-bitten head decora-
ton thawed out. Mr.. Baldwin proudly de-
scribed the hens feat yesterday:
ANY doctor Will tell you To hold snow
10 your ear or nose if il is frOst-bitten.
Instinct told my hen to do this. She
frozen. 1t became perfectly white, and
the hen acted so sick-like that ! was
going to kin her. But yesterday I looked
out of the back door and 1 saw what
seemed to be part of "a chicken in a snow
drift. 1 called my wife's attention TO it
and she said: Why, that's only bunch
of chicken feathers: l saw them there
half an hour ago
Just then I thought ] saw the feath-
ers move, so I ran out the door to see
what it was. When 1 got to it I saw
that it was my little red hen lying down.
her feet under her and her head stuck
in the snow I went to grab her, but
just then she gave a squawk and the
snow flew as she pulled herself out and
went toward the chicken-cOOp, half flying,
half running When l saw her again her
comb was as red as ever and she was as
lively as before.
See. there's the hole in the snow" said
Mr.. Baldwin, nstinctively proving the
truth OF his remarkable narration. And
-yes-there's the hen-that little red one
See. her comb is red and she is clipper
as can be. Wonderful, eh?''
The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
GREATEST OF HOTEL TOWNS.
Tens of Thousands of New Workers
Give Up Home Life.

Give Up Home Life.
From Success.
The latest edition Of the Social Register
contains a list of 5000 families living in
hotels in New York City. This. OF course.
does not include all the citizens Of this
great old town who have given up home
life of the kind their parents knew.
An expert who has studied the hotel
business Of two hcmispheres says that
New York cares for three times as many
persons in hotels as does London, six
times as many as does Paris. and ten
times as many as does any other city
that can be named.
There are l36 large hrst-class hotels in
Manhattan alone, more than 800 including
the smaller ones. and. at the rate of con-
struction at present. the calculation has
been made that within twenty years there
viii be on Manhattan Island alone SIS
hotels Of 800 rooms each or Of greater
size
With a floating population each day
ranging from 1900 TO $4,000 for the vari-
Gus seasons of the year. there is little
wonder that New York has become the
city OF the earth most conspicuous for its
hotels
II IS said that At one Of the well-known
Fifth avenue hOsteiries at least Sl0.l00
daily must be received before there Is
cent Of profit At least four of the fash
ionable hotels are said 10 have wines In
their cellars TO the value of $1J00.000. The
annual bill FOR cut flowers used By these
places runs from $4,000 to $4,000.
One house says that its yearly butter
bill is $4,000. more than the salary Of the
President of the United States As this
is rot one of the largest hotels, there may
be butter bills Ia town that are bigger
even than the salary OF an insurance
president.