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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-07
WILL BRIDGE NEW ROAD.
Santa Fe to Cross Over the Iowa & st
Louis Line.

In the double tracking of the line
from Chicago to Kansas City, the
Santa Fe engineers are constructing an
overhead bridge at Mercyville, Macon
county, Mo-. so that the Iowa & ST.
Louis can run under it when it is com
pleted to Macon. From the best au-
thority along the line of the Iowa &
st. Louis. it seems almost certain that
the enterprise will be finished this
summer. The road now in operation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-07
YoAKUM INDoRsEs SPEECH.
says Roosevelt's Indianapolis Effort
Was All Right.

New York. June 7.-B. F. Yoakum.
chairman of the executive committee
of the Rock Island-Frisco lines, was
one of the railroad men who came out
with unqualified commentator for
the presidents Indianapolis speech.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-07
Woodmen Honor the Dead.

Great Bend, Kan. June Local
camp Woodmen of World observed Me-
mortal day Thursday by going to the
cemetery in body and holding services
at the graves of deceased sovereigns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-07
FORCE HEAT 1000 FEET.
This Is What Santa Fe Will Do ii
Hutchinson

Hutchinson, Kan, June PLANS
have been changed so that the heating
plant will be cut out OF the new
Harvey house being built by the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
CHANCELLOR DAY
STILL RED HEADED"
Constitution Beat to Fraz=
zIe by Roosevelt.

NEW YORK, October 24.-(SpeciaD
For many months we have been
under a monarchy in everything but
the name. How long will the coun-
try continue to be so absorbed in its
selfish Indifference that having eyes,
it will not see? The change of the
presidential prerogatives is going
on. How much farther could it go and
retain semblance of what the Con-
stitution provided it should be?"
This is the statement that Chan
cellor James R. Day, of Syracuse I'm
versity, makes in the course of a very
scathing criticism of President Roose-
velt's politics.
Instead of being silenced by the
attacks made upon him for his pub
lie defence of the Standard Oil
Company, the Syracuse educator re-
turns to the field and nthe course of
an article in Appleton's magazine for
November, which he entities THE
Raid on Prosperity" he gives ut
terance to some statements quite as
vigorous as any that have been made
against him.
This new doctrine that you can
legislate unsuccessful men into sue
cess by legislating successful men
out of success" says Chancellor Day,
sis a piece of imbicility that does
injustice to our twentieth century. The
man who whines rnat he has not a
fair chance because other men have
the trade, cannot be helped by law
Ground Down BY Trusts
THE most gigantic piece of i'm
pertinence that ever has been thrust
into the faces of the American peo-
pie, is the hourly and daily talk of
their being ground down by trusts and
robbed by capital and run over and
run down by railways and other So
called utilities.
1.-THE men who are using the ma
chinery Of government to regulate
competition, to tell what it's rights
and proportions shall be and to guard
against the combined endeavors of
American citizens whose genius has
given our commerce its mighty and
amazing proportions, will pass into
history with the learned doctors of
Nuremberg who declared profoundly
that a close fence should be placed be-
tween the railroad track and the ped
estrians lest the speed of the train at
fifteen miles an hour should give them
delirium furiosum!"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
FARMING OPPORTUNITIES.

OF great import to the prosperity
of the agricultural interests of Sum-
ter county was the announcement in
yesterdays Times-Recorder that
Messrs. Frank Sheffield and Arthur
Rylander, of Americas, had taken
over the landed interests of the DeSot)
Plantation Company. The deal is
the largest ever consummated in
Sumter county realty.
Along with the announcement OF
the sale the gentlemen named stated
that the land would be divided into
convenient tracts to suit the desires
of prospective purchasers. Either
a good-sized farm or few acres for
truck farming can sbe secured and at
reasonable prices.
Little need be said of the farming
possibilities of the section to be put
on the market Cotton, corn, cane
and vegetables can be grown in
abundance. Two thriving towns, Les
lie and DeSoto, are near the proper
ty, while Americas is only fourteen
miles. Railroad facilities are ample
for shipping to markets which can
easily absorb all products and at
good prices.
1t would seem that exceptional OPP
portunities have been offered for the
encouragement of small farmers. Re-
turns from intensive farming in re-
cent years have been most satisfac-
tory, many around Americas max
ing net incomes of one to three thous-
and dollars a year on moderate in
vestment.
Encouraged by these successes the
demand for the small farms has in
creased, and it is to meet this that the
Americas gentlemen decided to pur-
chase the big plantation and cut it
up into smaller tracts.
Several hundred families will be
brought to Sumter county by the
attractive opportunities which this
deal will make possible. If the scheme
works out successfully-and there is
every reason to believe that it will
other large plantations will no doubt
be put on the market in a similar
to the great advantage of
Sumter county and her material we'll
being.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
EXPENSE OF LIVING
IN GREENWICH
Rise In Prices Greater
Than Wages.

NEW YORK, October 24.-(Spec-
iaD-An investigator of the highest
degree of acumen has made an elabor-
ate test of the cost of living for the
average poor family in a part of the
metropolis, which perhaps in the OBJ
ject character of the population bears a
character of the population bears a
closer resemblance to Philadelphia as
a whole than any other. This is ''Old
Greenwich Village" as all old New
Workers with penchant for anti
quarism love to style it.
The population today is chiefly Am
erican with a strong admixture of the
Irish and the Teutonic. Meagreness
of livelihood may be said to be about
general, but rarely has been regarded
as an excellent representative field
for test of the actual cost of liv-
ing.
A typical food budget for family
Of seven in Greenwich Village for a
week is given as follows Saturday,
1919; Sunday, 20 cents; Monday
1924; Tuesday, $211; Wednesday,
$1.19; Thursday, $164, Friday go
cents. Total $1O.49 The aggregate
for year for this family was 1924,
with wage income of $500; five Of
it's members working for cash re-
Enumeration. It has been calculated
that the rise in the cost of food since
these observations were made is 40
per cent, so that the cost of food for
this family at present would be 1892
a year Taking its other expenses in
to account this would mean an an
nual deficit of $268. The total income
per family in this neighborhood ran
ges from $3.50 a year to $2500 Wages
have advanced in two or three years
only between Is and 20 per cent, as
compared with nearly so per cent. ad-
vance in the general cost of the nee
essities of life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
COAST LINE REDUCES
FORCE AT SHOPS

SAVANNAH, GA, October "a
(SpeciaD More than a score of men
employed in the Atlantic Coast Line
shops were laid off yesterday.
This is the second batch of men
locked out in the Coast Line Shops
this month and the number idle is
reported as about fifty. 1t was stat
cd that the company hopes TO be able
to re-employ the men about Nov I al
though the officials were not very
communicative.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
GERMAN BALLOON
WON LONG RACE

ST. LOUIS, MO, October "a
(SpeciaD The German balloon Pom
mern has probably won the Bennett
cup in the international race The
balloon landed yesterday at AS
bury Park, N. j., 500 miles from the
starting point. The Isle de France
was second and only five miles be-
hind, landing at Herbertsville, N. J.
The America is fourth with record
Of 730 miles.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

General Supt Xix, of the
Seaboard, has issued a circular to
employees of the operating department
urging that the utmost courtesy be
shown the public at all times by the
representatives of the company. 1t
is this policy of courtesy on the part
Of the Seaboard which has made the
road one of the most popular in the
country Seaboard employees have a
Well-earned reputation for polite
ness, which makes it a pleasure for
shippers and travellers to do business
with that road The advice of Mr..
Xix is already the creed of Sea-
board men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
SOuthern's Agreement

President Smith does not think
highly of the agreement effected be-
tween the Governor and the Southern
Railway. He calls the agreement oil
legal, ineffective and non-enforce-
able" He says to the Governor also,
Gin the execution of the agreement
with the Southern and allied lines
you assumed or attempted to usurp,
the duties necessarily developing upon
the Railroad Commission, the Legisla-
ture and the courts"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
NEEDS RELIGION
MORE THAN CITY
Cleveland Preacher Thinks
Country Full of Evil.

CLEVELAND, o, October "a
Especially even the cities with
all their immortality are in such cry
ing need of religious quickening as
the rural districts of the United
States, according to the Rev. Frank
N. White, of Chicago, who spoke at
the meeting of the Congregation
church Building Society in Pilgrim
Church.
Referring to the need of the coun-
try for more religion, the Rev. Mr..
White said:
There is only one place where it
is needed more than in the city
is in the country. The country has
its glories, its touch with mother
earth; it's unobstructed vision of far
horizon, of sky, of cloud, of stars,
of sunrise and of sunset; it's breezes
blowing pure, its murmur of forests
and tumbling brooks; its wholesome
labor in Gods out of doors; but
for all obvious perils of the city they
are transcribed by the perils of the
country, for in the country it is that
men grow sodden, heartenish, pagan
beyond any of our human kind.
Elevating Things Lacking
''In ancient times the pagan was
the countryman; the urban dweller
spoke thus with contempt of his bro
Their of the fields. That it was not
wholly without occasion and excuse
our modern day can furnish evil
dence in profusion. Make what we
viii of the vices of the city, who, that
knows the life of the country, is not
cognizant Of the fact that for vacui-
ty, obscenity, brutishness, callousness
to everything high and noble and true,
absence of every trait that glories and
enables our human kind, there is no
/ parallel to be found in the city slam
for conditions existing in neglected
rural communities and is isolated how
els.
Vital as the Church is to the life
and the very existence of the city
it bears, if anything, a still more in
dispensable ministry to the man far
removed from his fellows Great
as are the dangers of the crowd,
greater still are the dangers of being
away from the crowd"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

WinsdsOr Skating Rink will open
for the season tonight. Hereafter
the rink vii be ready for use from s
to 10 p. m. Admission to the rink 10
cents. Admission with use of skates
% cents. Parties bringing their own
skates, admission Is cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Druggists and doctors are engaged
in wordy war at Augusta over the
tendency of the former to prescribe
over the counter for various ailments.
So far the druggists are standing
pat and refusing to be dictated to
by the doctors. The consuming pub
lie is naturally inclined to want to
save doctors fees and their sympa-
thies are probably with the druggists
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Specific instructions have been sent
out by Adjutant General to the mill
6ary companies as to their conduct in
time of riot. 1t is to be hoped that
this part of the regulations may
never be required to be used.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
PITTSBURG EXCHANGE
TO OPEN MONDAY

PITTSBURG, PA, October "a
CSpeciaD While the local stock ex-
change is closed again today it is
stated that it will probably open
Monday. Local financial conditions
are good. The $5,OOO,OOO sent by the
Treasury department arrived for dis
tribution among the banks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Hon Seab Wright got Mayor Mad
1ox, Of Rome, to deny what the Con-
stitution quoted him as saying. But
what Mayor Maddox admits he said
is bad enough.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Following the advice of Con
jurer" an italian woman of Camden,
N. J., rubbed her husbands chest
with carbolic acid in the belief that
she could thus win his love- A ten
der feeling was produced all right.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Ringing Bros have fallen heir to
The mantle of the great Barnum in
sEhe show business, having taken over
the BarnUm & Bailey shows. This
leaves Ringing Bros. without COM
petitor in the circus field "the whole
zshow."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
GOING TO ORGANIZE
CLUB IN AMERICAS

A movement looking to the organi-
cation of gentleman's driving club
has been launched, and Americas will
soon possess such q social organiza-
ton. Gentlemen interested in the
movement will call today uron horse
owners to discuss plans of organiza-
ton. A fine speedway will be built,
and Americas horses given an oppor-
tunity of exhibiting their merits on
the track
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Senator Bailey, of Texas, who
claimed in an after dinner speech to
Zoe so well informed on the affairs of
the Standard as to be able to recog-
nize alleged misstatements, will get
an opportunity to be one of the
states witnesses in a suit soon to be
filed in Texas against the Standard.
Maybe the Senator will develop a
very treacherous memory, like a
1umber of the Standards officers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Windsor Skating Rink will open
tonight for the season. Hereafter
the rink will be ready for use from s
to 10 p. m. Admission to the rink 10
cents. Admission with use Of skates
25 cents. Parties bringing their own
skates, admission Is cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Wall street is laying on President
Roosevelt the blame for the present
panicky conditions. AS if a physician
who points out the evidence of dis
ease were responsible for the illness
Itself Wall street has another guess
gcoming.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

In their protest over the provisions
of the Dick bill, the Savannah Volun-
deer Guards have pulled up short
against the proposition that they must
either conform to the requirements
Of the national law or disband. No
military organization can exist with
out governmental or state sanction.
1t seems probable that the Guards
viii make an effort to meet the law
rather than go to pieces after a hum
bred years Of honorable history.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
am=aicUs. GA, OCT. rs. 1907.

Two aged admirals of the United
States Navy have just started on a
honeymoon. The salt of the sea had
not fully encrusted their hearts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
Investments Induced

He takes upon himself all respon-
sibility for the development policy
which has called for such a heavy
investment now menaced and threat
ened by the warfare made by the
State administration upon the road.
In such circumstance, Mr.. Smith
says, he is discouraged and disheart-
ened, not to say overwhelmed.
But it is for the interest of those
investments, for the future welfare
of the State, that the issues raised
by the Governor should be finally de-
termined by a judicial decree. Until
this was done, there would be no more
railroad building, no more invest
ments in railroads in Alabama, and
for that reason the final adjudica-
ton of the question vitality affected
the welfare of Alabama. To secure
is speedy adjudication Mr. Smith
invited the Governor to rescind his
call and join in the efforts made to
get an early settlement.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Land in Georgia is steadily en-
hancing in price, according to the
Georgia and Alabama Industrial In
dex. I'm many sections the price of
farm lands has more than doubled in
"a few years. says the Index. South
Georgia is the coming section of the
country.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Windsor Skating Rink will open
tonight for the season. Hereafter
the rink will be ready for use from s
to 10 p. m. Admission to the rink 10
cents. Admission with use of skates
- cents. Parties bringing their own
skates, admission Is cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

A writer in the current issue of a
magazine says that it is positively
vulgar for an editor to wear dia-
monds. This is little hard upon the
princes of the Fourth Estate in South
Georgia. Columbus Enquirer-Sun,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Every time the price of meat goes
up a cent it costs the American con-
sumner $16S,O00O0OO. That's cough
to drive man to breakfast food
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

"The Pillars of Society" is the title
of new Isben play. If its like his
previous efforts the pillars are likely
to fall
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25

Does the Presidents daughter want
the Embassy of Germany as a sort of
wooden wedding" gift?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
ASKS GOVERNOR TO
RESCIND EXTRA GALL
Pres. Smith of |. & N.
Fires Parting Shot.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, October "a.
-(SpeciaD an open letter to
Governor B. B. Conner, which is no
less than an appeal to the Gov
ernor's sense of justice than it is to
the fairness of the people of Ala
bama, President Milton H. Smith. Of
the Louisville and Nashville, begs
him to rescind the call for an extra
session, quiet apprehension and re-
store confidence which is so badly
impaired.
The letter and the departure of
Mr.. Smith makes the assurance of
the extra session and it's railroad
fight doubly sure.
Mr.. Smith outlines the policy of
the road which has been followed
steadily through the years, policy
which contemplated, not the con-
struction of one central trunk line
only, but the construction of branch
es as we'll which should develop the
State and serve as feeders for the
freight business of the road-a pol
icy which would open and develop
the State and at the same time fur
nish the traffic for the road.
Mr.. Smith emphasized the fact that
since this great investment made
since 1882, by which 900 miles of
branch roads were either bought or
at a cost of 100000,
was made upon his advice and rec
concentrations and for the investors
he feels a personal responsibility.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-25
The Times-Recorder is the

TIC IIICs~FNo~UIN UGH II NHV
Oncixi Organ of the City of Americus,
g9mclal Organ of Sumter County.
Ofacial Organ of Webster County.
<0mdal organ of Railroad Commission
Georgia for the Sd Congressional District
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-06-19
HORSE THAT COULD REASON.
Physician Tells Of Animals Conduct
on a Stormy Night.


The best story told in an evening Of
amusing talk at the Winshlp clut
meeting this week was that Of DR.
Paul about his partner in business foi
score Of years or more, his horse
When the doctor and he were 20 wears
younger in practice Dr. Paul received
hurry night call from one Of the
best families in his circle. They lived
mile or more away in a rural neigh
borhood and although it was late al
night and storming the doctor rushed
ont there at fun speed.
On arriving in the yard at the house
he threw the blanket hastily upon or.
rather at the horse (who never re.
quired hitching), for It was found af.
forward lying on the ground at his
side, and dashed into the house with
his case of instruments. It turned
out that the aged grandmother of the
family had had a fall that her should.
er was dislocated, that ether had to be
administered the pain was so great
in short the doctor could not take his
hand off his work for three hours.
All this time a driving sleet storm.
the moisture freezing as It fen and
giving everything a coat of ice. was
beating upon his partner out in the
yard
When the doctor finally emerged in
the small hours was to find the horse
where he had left him. except that the
rig was headed round for home. A
daylight examination revealed the
truth through the marks Of the hoofs
and wheels Of the buggy that during
his long wait Of three hours I'm a pelt.
ing and freezing storm. the horse had
score Of times made up his mind to
go home and had gone down the road
sometimes quarter. sometimes half
of the way. and then had thought this
hard on the doctor and had turned
back 70 wait as in duty bound.
IL this is not a demonstration not
only Of reasoning power but also Of
moral consciousness. what is it? It
is needless to say that the doctor re-
spects his subhman partner and
would no more think Of parting with
him till death doth them part than
he would with any member of his fam.
ily IFS back is bowed with the weight
Of ~ years he is no longer the hand
som trotter he once was. but he Is
the DOCTORS "fdus Achates." just the
same, and he win not be supplanted,
IN spite Of the publio's Boston
Transcript
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-06-19
Notice.

In the election for officers MONDAY
night Company M elected A. T.
Stovall captain. E. S. Elliott FIRST lieu
tenant Myers Hodges, second lieu
tenant
Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Walton left
Tuesday morning for Mobile. where
they will witness the graduation Of
Miss Sallie Belle King. Mrs. Walton S
sister.
The ladies Of the Methodist church
will give a Progressive Lawn Fete at
Mrs. F. j. McDonnelIs Tuesday night
June 25th. Admission Is cents to one
and all.
Adams & Neubert have lust re-
ceived a car load of hay presses and
two car loads Of hay machinery. and
more coming. A firm that buy in such
quantities are bound TO give you prices
that cant be beat Try them.
The G. S. S. club met with Miss
Lillian Nix Saturday afternoon at 4:3O
o'clock. After new officers were elect
ed dainty refreshments we're served
BY the hostess. They had donkey
contest in which Miss Bessie Hug
gins won FIRST prize and Miss Carolee
Allen the BOBBY. Everyone enioyed
the afternoon and think Miss Lillian
an ideal hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Rubel gave a lovely
SIX o'clock dinner Wednesday evening.
their handsome new home being as,
tilully arranged for the affair. b
guest Of honor was Mrs. Josie Frazee
Cappleman. Of Little Rock. Ark. The
other guests were Mrs. Van Slyke and
Mrs Ceampenons. Of Meridian. The
menu was the choicest Of the season
and several courses served in faultless
style. The hospitable host and hostess
with their sister. Miss Morris. did
everything possible to make the eve.
mng a pleasurable success.