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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Mrs. Ira Lowe will return today
from Beuna Vista, where she has
been visiting relatives recently.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

| Mrs. B. L. Wood of Lumpkin, is
the guest of Mrs. P. B. Williford at
her home on Taylor street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Follow the crowds and trade at
Bells, the leading jeweler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

| Misses Ruby and Lily Jackson, the
attractive twin daughters of Col. and
Mrs. A c. Jackson of Watkinsville,
will arrive today to spend week
with Mrs. J. E. Hightower, at her
home on Hampton street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Fine harness carried in stock or
made to order at Bagley's; wholesale
and retail
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

The World brand silver is the best
plated silver in the world. Sold only
by Daniels, the reliable jeweler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL LIFE
BrevtieS That Tell of Movements of Americas
Folks and Friends.
News Items of City Life That Are CtrOnCed Briefly for Busy
Readers.

Follow the crowds and trade at
Bells, the leading jeweler.
Fine harness carried in stock or
made to order at Bagley's; wholesale
and retail.
Mr.. w. L. Battle came with others
from Columbus to Americas yesterday
upon business.
Mr.. John H Garfield, formerly of
Americas, but now a resident of Ma
con, is in the city.
Mr.. w. D. Cowdrey of Arlington,
was a business visitor in Americas
yesterday morning.
Joseph Davidson registered from
Atlanta last night among the arrivals
at the Hotel Windsor.
Mr.. L. A. Dorr came in from Au-
gusta yesterday to circulate among
his many Americus friends for a
day or two.
Mrs. Allen Fort, Misses Mary and
Georgia Fort returned to Americas
yesterday, after spending several
S,,oo1v- ~,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Mr.. w. L. Battle came with others
from Columbus to Americas yesterday
upon business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Margaret Wheatley, the little dau-
ghter of Mr.. and Mrs. G, D.
Wheatley, i'll with fever recently, is
now improving to some extent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Miss Dirlie ellis of Omaha, is the
fair guest of Miss Callie Bell at her
home on Lee street, and will spend
q week in Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Mr.. w. D. Cowdrey of Arlington
was a business visitor in Americas
yesterday morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-10-03

Joseph Davidson registered from
Atlanta last night among the arrivals
at the Hotel Windsor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
Some Difficulties
Of Our Language


from Inc Atlantlc.
A CHILD, with its meager store of lam
~ guage, is somewhat in the position
of the tabled woodchuck, which was
simply obliged to climb tree, whether it
natural history or not. He must express
himself with what language is i'm
mediately at his command, or fail
in more or less serious degree to
express himself at all, and so his little
store must be treated as thoroughly plastic,
just as the language of his race, in its
earlier stages, was plastic. The existence
of whiten, Ito make white. is all the justi-
fication he needs for smaller, ito make
small, or lowen, ito make low" Jimmie
Jones hasn't grown much since he was
here before" says some one. why really
believe he's ungrowed some" answers my
younger, expressing his thought clearly and
fully, and delightfully."- unconscious OF the
fact that linguistic authorities do not rec
ognize the right Of this handy prefix to at
tach itself to this particular verb Ought
to have stopped him right there and loaded
his undeveloped memory with parallel col
umns of words which do and do not admit
the prefix un?- II had done so his brother
would probably not have ventured to ask.
a little later, how people make un-hand-
painted china, and his knowledge would
have been less today by. the small amount
of information which / was able to give
him on that subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

first thing he did was to capture Truxillo
and then began the end. The British gov
eminent informed him by warship that it
had mortgage on the ports revenues,
but Walker ignored the British claims.
While he was dickering with the warship' s
commander a Honduran army appeared
on the land side of the town. 1t threaten
ed to storm the place, and on the water
side the warship threatened to lombard
if Walker did not surrender.
He and a handful of men escaped, but
later were forced to surrender to the Brit
ish commander supposedly for trial by
the British authorities. But the warship's
captain steamed back to Truxillo and
gave Walker up to the Hondurans. Their
dictum in the matter was that the only
good Walker was dead one, and they
took him down to the beach one morning
and twenty-three soldiers made a target
of him. When they looked at him he was
still living, and a sergeant put pistol to
his head and blew his brains out and he
was buried where he fell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

House he didn't rush out previous. In
stead 1 had to get a man named Loeb.
which looked at me suspicious, to take
me in.
"'"Hicks, says the President, after
awhile, Il can't go nowhere. 1 have no
time for exercise" b.. i-.-
"Shucks, Mr.. President" says, don't
take it so hard. Just clap on your hat and
come along. If you can't go out of the yard
we can run around in a circle. I'm trained
to the minute and 1 want to show off,
"."No Hicks he says, I'm sorry, but
I can't neglect my work like 1 used to. l
don't know how it was people got along
without my advice, because nowadays they
don't seem able. And now I've got my
duties to do. I'm just going to dictate a
message to Congress on dressmakng as a
domestic art"
lowell" I says, its only 10 o'clock in
the morning. What you going to do about
| noon?" ..,,. ~.
to make a couple of railroad presidents
jump up and down, active and risky
"'"'How about 1 o'clock, them" says I.
mo he says lat 1 O'Clock I've got to
talk with a delegation from the League of
Long Noses on The Home and the Child,
=,
cure for collie
"'"Let's make it them 1 remarks, pa
tent and agreeable.
LIT amt possible" he answers, quick
and informed ''At o'clock I've got to call
a man a liar"
"Shucks, Mr. President l says,
that's easy. Cali him a liar brisk and
convincing, and come along with me-
".''Hicks," he says, you don't under
stand I've not only got to call him liar,
but I've got to frame it up as to get
| away with it,
"'"Well, Roosevelt / says. getting some
| monotonous in my remarks, how would 5
| o'clock suit you?
No better" he says. AT that hour
| I've got to turn down a statue that has been
| accepted by commission of famous artists,
| write letter Of congratulation to a lady in
| Wyoming which has had twins, and answer
| a communication from my friend Battling
| Nelson as to the relative merits of the right
swing and the left hook
"'"What are you going to do at 4?'' in
quires, getting right discouraged.
"''At A. he says, wrinkling up his fore
| head some, I've got to make a couple of
| trust magnates beg, walk J lie, jump
| through and play dead, and after that I've
| promised to speak harshy to senator,
deny the reports of fraud in the land office
| and do little government business"
a. "Five? suggests, brief and pointed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
Lord Curzon's Duties
as Chancellor of Oxford

special correspondence OF me S'dI.
LONDON, March 2S, 1907.
O ONE curiosity may have been felt in
the United States as to Lord Curzon
new duties as chancellor of oxford
University which were not mentioned in
any OF the ca bles announcing his election
American universities have no office which
corresponds to the chancellorship. In the
English universities the principal takes the
place of the American college president
The CHARACTERISTIC is still higher Office
the highest in the university-and as such
il is wholly honorary and is held for life.
Lord Curzon, chancellor OF oxford
University, takes no active part in the ad-
ministration of university affairs. He even
has no residence in the college town, and
visits the seat OF learning only occasion
ally. His chief duties lie in representing
the university upon state occasions, the
comforting of degrees and the welcome of
new students. Traditional oddities which
cluster around so many official positions in
England are quite lacking in the case of the
chancellor. In his official capacity he wears
the regulation black mortar board cap and
gown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
Grant, the Unassuming.
Gen. Morris Schaff. in the Atlantic.

Gen. Morris Schaff, in the Atlantic
Grant and Sherman were the only off,
GERS of high rank 1 ever met who did not
charge the atmosphere about them with
military consequence. While at City Point
I frequently Joined my friends of Gen.
Grants staff, Porter, Babcock Billy
Dunn and others, at his headquarters. The
general, in undress uniform, always neat
but not fastidious In appointments, would
sit at the door Of his tent, or sometimes
on one of the long settees that faced each
other under the tent-fy, smoke, listen,
and sometimes talk; and not soul of US
from the youngest to the oldest ever had
thought of rank. Without lowering his
manner to the level of familiarity, he put
every one at his ease by his natural sim
plicity. He had none Of the caprices of
moods or vanity. Quiet In his presence and
natural in his manner, gentle in voice. of
absolute purity in speech, of unaffected,
simple dignity, Grant threw charm over
his Campfire. West Point never graduated
q man who added so little austerity or pre-
tense to the peak of fame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

we got to talking about the political cayuses
which is being rubbed down for the race,
and | remarks confident and free.
For instance" ! says. there's old man
Cannon. the same which is a mortgage eX-
pert on. in Illinois. He amt so young as
once but he's still some frisky and nmble.
His seventy -odd don't bother him none to
speak of and when the cards get to run
ming good and there's some red liquor Sit
ting around proximous he can hit the trail
at gallop. his running motions being pic
turesaue and convincing. And there amt
no question about his conversation, neither.
| amt never heard old man Cannon dis
course, personal and intimate. but l know
those what has and they praise him high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

nified, Son, you run and tell your mother
that / just promised Mr.. Hicks of Texas to
go out with him for awhile and it can't be
put Off" And we ducks swift and accord
ing.
But says Hicks, turning his glass up
side down to show it was empty as I was
saying the President has changed some
The Honorable Bill Sanger rolled another
cigarette and shook his head. II amt
rightly sure" he said, about Hicks CONVEX
sation. 1t does sound real frilly and UNI
usual.
But / opine from what Hicks said and
from what l see in the papers that Roose-
welt is still in the saddle and that the gov
eminent cayuse that sheds him has got to
buck some. The same being plumb true"
i. c. n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

AT that hour he remarks, I've got
to revise the code of athletics at Harvard,
dictate an essay on the reproduction of
species, strike the third-term rumor over
the head with an eiderdown pillow-and
speak for half an hour SO before a dele
cation from the Home-bulders' Guild on
the Economic Significance of Harmonious
Household Arrangements. Then at i
But he didn't get no further, because
just then lively looking kid come skip
ping into the room and he says to Roose-
welt, but looking at me curious and inquir-
ing, Pa. ma told me to tell you that the
cooks on a rampage again, and will you
speak to her right away"
Roosevelt he looks at me and ] look at
him and his left eye flutters and he turns to
the kid and says, speaking solemn and dig
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
New Electric Lamp.

The "Osram' electric lamp is a new in
vention on the German market after many
experimental but successful tests. 1t re-
places the carbon filament for glow lamps
by fine wires of wolfram. which are claim
ed to employ only onethird of the energy
heretofore required. The latest test showed
that after use of 1000 hours there was
an average loss of brilliancy of 6.3 per
cent In the case of twenty-five candle
power lamps and SO per cent in the thir-
ty-two canGlepower lamps. OF the sixteen
lamps tested eleven were not in the least
damaged, and capable of continued use.
This new lamp shares with other lamps of
it's kind the drawback that IL can only be
used hanging downward, but it is claimed
by the inventor that this. the only disad-
vantage, can easily be overcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Within a few weeks the tide of munlclpai
progress will sweep away from Nashville
Tenn. one of its landmarks-the birthplace
and former home of William walker the
'sray-eyed man of destiny" who once
sought to carve out an empire for himself
in Central America in the very region where
Nicaragua and Honduras are now claWlng
each others throats. Soldier and adVen-
turer he met the same fate that so many
soldiers and adventurers have met-death
in front of the rifles of a firing party OF
his enemies.
The house where this man, called by
many the greatest of all filibusters, first saw
the light is a quaint building in the style
used when Jackson was trouncing the Brit
ish at New Orleans. 1t is in the heart of
Nashvines business district, and it must be
| torn down because the city intends to run
traffic on the main business thoroughfare.
Its owners, who bought it from Walker
relatives are to be paid $4,000 for 1t.
For years II has been visited by persons of
an adventurous turn Of mind who have
| come to Nashville to see the place where
Walker was born and where he spent his
youth. Several years ago there was a move
ment on foot to buy it and preserve 1t like
| Mount Vernon, Monticello, the Betsy Ross
house the Lincoln homestead and other
homes where once lived great Americans.
But the effort came to nothing. Long ago
| the lonely grave where Walker was buried,
near Truxlo, in Honduras, was eaten away
by the encroachments of the sea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
No Market for Empty Cigar Boxes.

From the Kansas CITY Sur.
pile of empty cigar boxes reached
nearly to the ceiling in a Main street cigar
store.
"We're giving them away for kindling
wood" the dealer said There is no mar
ket for empty cigar boxes. Cigar factories
pay two cents or more apiece for them. and
when once used they are worthless. The
government places a revenue stamp upon
them and specifies that they shall not be
used again for cigars. AS result thou
sands are burned every day. Some of them
ere pretty, too. and all are perfectly made"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

clared a republic and assumed the title Of
president. Then Mexico got after him. He
secured some reinforcements, but disaster
overlook him. Finally he had to cut his
way back across the border, where he sur
rendered to American troops. He was
tried in California, but the government au-
thorities acquitted him of violating neu-
tralty. Defeated in his first filibustering
attempt, he was the richer in experience.
X
year later he turned his attention to
Nicaragua, where the usual revolution was
in progress. The fighters were the legiti
mists and the democrats, and Walker
turned in for the latter, with fifty-seven
flibusters he took with him from Cali
fornia, and whom he called the American
Phalanx. In the first fight Walkers party
was beaten, but in the next few things
went Walkers way, and the legitimists
were compelled to seek an ignominious
peace. Walker was made commander-in-
chief Of the army, and adventures from
pretty much all over the world fiocked to
his standard. One of the men who fought
with him was Joaquin Miller, the poet A
little more than year after he landed in
Nicaragua Walker was elected president
of the nation. His success and his obvious
aim to conquer the whole of Central
America and make himself emperor forced
the other Central American republics to
get together. They formed an alliance and
declared war.
. Walker had 10000 men while his enemies
had 21,OOO, but this doubtless would have
made little difference had he not made his
fatal mistake of making an enemy of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, whose steamship line to
Central America meant the transportation
OF men and supplies. Vanderbilt withdrew
his ships and Walker was left high and
dry. He had to quit and return to the
United States. The people received him as
a hero.
But in few months he was hack in
Central America with more nlibusters.
The next move was like Napoleon's from
Elba-it led to his waterloo. He found a
local revolution going on in Honduras ana
offered his sword to the weaker side The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

were simply preparations for the meteoric
last days of his life.
It was in 1858 that the real William
Walker began to show himself. Both the
United States and Mexico were troubled,
the first over the question of slavery and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
, Filibuster to Give Way to March of PROGRESS

the other over French aggression. South
erner as he was, Walker saw his chance
to give his countrymen an outlet for
slavery into Mexico by conquest. With
ffty-two men he invaded Lower California,
then, as still, Mexican territory. He de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Jim 1 says that sounds right to me-
You agree with what I've heard Now you
been up there and you've seen this here
Taft person What do you think of him.?
Sanger says Hicks to me, arguing and
persuasive, 'Taft's man. You can't make
any mistake about that. When you see
him close all of sudden he looks like a
couple of men. l amt aiming to exaggerate
none wilful and vicious, but he's as big
around as three bronchs and as heavy as
Pete Sanderson was after the boys got
through pumping lead into him the night
of the holdup.
And Sanger says Hicks to me, solemn
and convincing. if Taft ge,s that President
job there's one thing YOU can bank on: The
Washington. Taft. he told me He says
horses is good enough. but he don't feel
that he can afford one a day. And that's
what it takes when he's riding regular
He's plumb hard on EN-, and it would take
-the lazy herd TO give him his exercise for a
year
Then 1 asked Jim about this man Shaw
which comes from Iowa and which had
charge of the money. And Hicks he gave
me his idea of him. He didn't overlook
none of them while he says he was in
Washington.
Sanger says Jim to me, that Shaw
person is real entertaining. l went up to
see him. not knowing him none, and he be-
ing fixed alike and similar as to me, and he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Ireland's average wheat yield Is thirty
seven and one-half bushels per acre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Then Jim Hicks of the bar circle, which
is of rowing disposition and says he has
been to Washington twice, he speaks up,
familiar and agreeing.
Sanger he says, eloquent and dscour-
sve, you're talking straight. Sanger, old
man Cannon is there all the time. He's a
deliverer He's got the call on EN- all for
talk. Why, he can converse that decorative
and ornate it would make your hair curl.
There amt nothing in the way of talk that
he can't frill up and make plumb exciting
WHY. he can invite you to liquor and put
so many high lights around it it don't sounu
like what it is. You could shut your eyes
and think it was a greaser mule driver i'm
plorng the near animal to climb out OF the
breeching.
.Of course" said Mr.. Sanger, Il amt
denying that Hicks don't sometimes soar
plumb above the truth. but on this here oc-
casion I'm right convinced that he was
hugging the saddle. And l remarks that
away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Walker was born in 1924 in the house
that is to be destroyed. His father was a
Scotch banker, who had married in Ken
lucky, and Williams parents wanted him
to be a Presbyterian minister. But the
youth had his own ideas. He studied law
at the University of Tennessee and medi-
cine at Edinburgh and practiced for a while.
Then he took up the law again, and hung
out his shingle in New Orleans. Then he
became a newspaper man in the same city.
Next re went to California and studied hui
manity in the rough while the gold fever
ragged, serving as an associate editor on
the San Francisco Herald. AL these things
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

Hon. Bill Sanger, sheriff of
Arnim, Tex, replaced his empty
glass on the bar, smoked re-
fiectively for awhile and shook
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07

I'm frank tn admit, he remarked, " that
reading the newspapers general and pro-
miscuous is calculated to make cowgentle-
man some acute and observing. Ever
since that Congress bunch hit the back
trail out of Washington I've been plumb
puzzled trying to figure out which of these
here candidate persons has got the call. and
/ amt got it rightly fixed in my mind
yet.
Il was standing in Sans place the other
day. lquOrng casual and discoursive and
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
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class condition throughout;
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south. on paved street; cement
walks. plenty Of shade. one OF
the best locations on the north
side Price reduced on ac-
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10 The Bee.