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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
MONEY IS GIVEN TO
FUND FOR A HOME
Committee Is Making Great
Progress
OTHER THOUSANDS ARE LISTED
Only $4,000 Now Needed to Swell
the Total to $40 900 and Committee
Hopes to Secure That Amount in
Short While

The twelve day campaign to secure
the balance needed to raise $40, 900
fund for modern Y. NC. A. building
| for Americas has been launched with
such thoroughness and enthusiasm
that the success of this great enterprise
is practically assured.
And our people feel already like pat
ting one another on their backs and
proclaiming with even greater pride
than before that Eve are from Amer
icus.'
Up to last Friday there had been
subscribed over $4,000. On last Sat
urday $3.50 was added to the list on
Monday 1900 was added and on yes
! terdy about 81 900 was subscribed.
The committee reports that over
$4,000 is now pledged, and that
Americas is assured first class Y M.
c. A. building as all the subscriptions
which were made on condition that
$4,000 be subscribed are now binding,
because the condition has been met.
But good number of the wealthiest
merchants have not yet given their
final answer.
1t is hoped that they will be inspired
to give literally by the Importance of
this great work, the liberality of the
men who have given and are giving of
their time and money.
And inspired, too, by the wonderful
endorsement that is given to this enter
prise by the fact that the cool, calcu-
lating and farseeing business men of
this great country have actually put
$71359, 891, 90 into property that is used
and owned by the Y. NJ. c.. A., during
the fiscal year ending April 1906.
Furthermore, the people of Americas
have the testimony of strong business
men and ministers of our state that en-
dorse this movement so strongly.
They must realize that it is not
question of how little can do but how
much can possibly do by careful cal
culation to help build a building that
will be thoroughly adequate for the
work of a modern Y. M. G, A.
All who heard the eloquent and
strong address of Rev. Ashby Jones
Monday night on this subject, came
away feeling that their friends who
were absent missed one of the greatest
opportunities that ever came to the
people of Americas,
The local Committee is to be con.
graduated on the fact such great minis
tiers find no words too strong to endorse
this great movement, and that the
Young Mems Christian Association af-
fords such gifted public speakers
theme SO grand and glorious,
1t demands the greatest talents of
our strongest men to picture the real
worth of the Association to a commu-
nifty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
THE CHIlD'S MIND.

Give 1t a Chance to Develop by Its
Natural Processes.
The hitler they are the better, be-
cause farther removed from the world
that is ours and deeper placed in their
own world. A good baby radiates
peace. Every one who is rightly con.
stituted smiles at the sight of it.
They are busy, they are cheerful.
AS rule, they seem to be kind to one
another. They are not bored, and I'm
less the weather is insufferable or they
are sick they are not depressed.
What philosophers! What heroes!
Is it strange that the attitude of an
unperverted child should be the Chris
tan ideal?
The great merit of children as com
panions lies in the breadth of their
tolerations. They are easy to please,
agreeable to most propositions and not
very critical
They do not "know better" That is
one of their delightfulest traits. Chill
dren will trust you, and that is one of
the most gratifying compliments pos
sible.
In the company of children you have
relief in considering what will pay.
The things that they do and prefer to
do, do not pay, as a rule, except in the
doing of them.
Wise elders who are qualified to
train the mind of child are pretty
scarce The Lext best thing is the
| elder who is wise enough to respect
the child's mind and give it chance
to develop in a sympathetic atmlose
phere by it's own natural processes
E. S. Martin in Harper's Magazine
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
A MIRROR OF DOINGS
IN CITY AND SUBURB.
Little Tales Cut Short In a
Hurry,
A MIRROR OF DAILY EVENTS
Happenings In the City and Suburbs
of Local interest to ne Perassd
Over While Mullins and Coffee are
Cooling.

Writings Loft dried linen and bond
papers in pound box and tablet pack
ages for elegant correspondence.
M. S. HOLIDAY
Sheriff E. L. Bell went to Columbus
yesterday, where an elusive jailbird is
in hiding, and will tow him back to
the coop today.
Buster and Tige were the whole show
in Americas yesterday, Internationally,
and nowhere was a more royal well
come ever extended.
Mr.. Richard Montfort of Butler has
AIKEN position at McLaughlin's drug
store as presiding genius over the
fountain; fzzical fact.
With so many idle negroes in evil
dence on the 1.-THE streets the question
of the enforcement of the vagrancy law
is being again agitated.
If that immigration convention in
Macon yesterday will result in foreign
influx to Americas, people here in need
of help will be dee-lighted,
Americas fans are in earnest about
breaking into balloon and will get in
to game with $1,000 in bank as guaran-
tee of their stickativeness.
Col. Littleton ventures the opinion
that the recent spots on the sun should
be taken to indicate that it will be quite
warm in July and August.
Visitors in Americas are favorably
impressed with the large amount of
building going on here and evidences
of prosperity upon every side.
Americas is counting heavily upon
the vast benefits to occur in the build
ing of the Western & Gulf Railway, nor
will she be at all disappointed.
A vast amount of work is being done
just now at the Seaboard Railway
shops in Americas, and all depart
ments are running on full time.
While the rain yesterday put the
blue tag upon business 1t helped the
struggling snap bean and the plebiean
squash to develop in the garden.
Will Duncan, the Seaboard fagman
whose leg was crushed IN the yards
here Monday, is getting along all right
and will recover from his injury.
Some one says to the women of to-
day: "Never stand when you can sit;
never sit when you can lie down."
This is an excellent beauty recipe.
And now that the building commit
tee of the Y, M, @, A. has reached nigh
thirty thousand notch, let them confer
with the carpenter and brick mason.
The minstreletical pageant yesterday
delighted Americas and excited the
trepidatiOn of the rural mule, caus-
ing two or three one horse runaways.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
RHEUMATIC FOLKS!
Arc You Sure Your Kidneys are
Well

Many rheumatic attacks are due to
uric acid in the blood. But the duty OF
the kidneys is to remove all uric acid
from the blood. Its presence there
shows the kidneys are inactive. Don't
daily with uric acid solvents" You
might go on till doomsday with them,
but until you cure the kidneys you will
never get well. Doan's Kidney Pills
not only remove uric acid but cure the
kidneys and then all danger from uric
acid is ended.
b. B. Thornton, of ThOmasvilIe, Ca.
says; Il have been taking Doan's Kid
ney Pills for about three weeks and find
they have done me more good than
anything else I ever tried. / was
afflicted for long time with kidney
troubles, pains in the small ofmy back,
dizzy spells, headaches, rheumatic
pains, and felt languid and tired most
of the time. The kidney secretions were
too frequent and l had to get up five or
six times at night to pass them. Moth
ing did me any good until / used Doan s
Pills, and the first few doses made me
feel a great deal better. | have kept on
with the treatment, improving all the
time and felt compelled to write you
about it and to give Doan's Kidney
Pills all the praiseI can"
Plenty more proof like this from
Americas People. Call at Dodson's
Pharmacy and ask what his customers
report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no other
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
AN OLD GERMAN LEGEND,
The Skull With the Nail Driven
Through Its Temple.

The Skull With the Nail Driven
Through Its Temple.
At Freiburg, Baden, in front of an
old chapel rich in medieval painting
depicting the rewards of virtue and
the wages of sin, stands great cross,
at it's foot a skull with a nail driven
into the temple.
A shoemaker of Freiburg, according
to tradition. died suddenly in the good
old days before coronerS and juries
were too inquisitive and was buried
near where the cross stands. Scarcely
had the earth upon his grave been wet
by the rains before his wife took sec
ond husband
Neighbors talked, but that was all.
One night the priest of the parish
awoke to find standing at the foot of
his bed the ghost of the dead shoe
maker The CHASTITY figure raised a
CORY lock from its forehead and point
ed to nail driven in the temple.
The body was exhumed, and there
was the evidence of the crime just as
the specter had indicated. The wife
confessed the murder and was execut-
ed. But the skull was placed at the
foot of the cross as a warning.
''The effect was most wholesome .
relates the truthful chronieler, ''for
since then not wife of Freiburg has
murdered her husband
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

If YOU turn u ii Iaap Of spain, you
viii take note at its sou hern point and
running out into / 10 strait OF Gibraltar
Of a promontory which from its posi-
ton is admirably adaptel for COM
handing the entrance of the Mediter-
ranean sea and watching the entrance
and exit of all ships. A fortress stands
upon this promontory. called now, as it
was called in the time of the Moorish
domination in Spain, Tarifa The name
is of Moorish origin. 1t was the GUS
tom of the Moors to watch from this
point all merchant ships going into or
coming out of the midland sea and to
levy duties according to a fixed scale
on all merchandise contained therein.
This duty was called from the place
where it was levied "tarifa," or tariff.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
LECTURE AT FIRST METHODIST
Miss Bennett To Address Audience
Tonight.

Miss Belle H. Bennett, President of
the Woman's Board of Home Missions
of the Sou thern Methodist Church, will
deliver an address at the Methodist
Church tonight at 1880 o'clock. The
public' is cordially invited to attend
this service. Miss Bennett is a most
gifted speaker and her address is sure
to be edifying and entertaining. Many
have pronounced her the most capable
and best informed of the women of the
whole Methodist church.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
THE FRUIT CROP is AL RIGHT
Cod Enough to Prevent Buds From
Swelling.

While few ragged pear and plum
trees in Americas orchards are bloom
ing. the peach trees are not putting for
still considered safe. If the cool wealth
er continues on, further guarantee is
given of an abundant crop, and doubt
less large shipments will be made from
Americus-dozens of Misunderstanding
June and July.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
So 80 and $500 LACE CURTAINS At $3.50 PAIR
40 Inch Linen Finished Lawns at lie.

Monday and Tuesdey Feb. 18th.
and 10Th we are going to offer a
regular &c quality of round threaa
linen finished white lawn at lie yard
we " i'll ct sell one customer over 20
yards of tits lawn at the price, we
have only 3 limited quantity in stock
regular &c qaulity here Monday and
Tue sday a ( per yard lie.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
1876 Persian Lawns at11 lie.

Five hundred yards new sheer
Persian lawns, one of the best values
you ever saw for the price not over
20 yards to one customer at the price
regular price l9c here Monday and
Tuesday at per yard 1lhC
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
Rising From the Grave.

A prominent manufacturer, VIM. A.
Fertwell, of Lucama, N c., relates a
most remarkable experience. He says:
After taking less than three bottles of
Electric Bitters, I feel like one rising
from the grave. My trouble is Brights
disease, in the Diabetes stage. I fully
believe Electric B1tters will cure me
permanently, for it has already stopped
the liver and bladder complications
which have troubled me for years.
Guaranteed at Eldridge Drug Co. Price
only soc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
THE PAINTaRusH MUCH NEEDED
Appearance of Buildings Would Be
Improved.

Now that the the sheds and awnings
have been pulled down along Lamar
street, the appearance of that thorough
fare would be greatly improved by
judici >us application of the paint brush
to the weather-worn buildings. One
or two property owners have begun the
work of improvement already, and it
behooves the others to do likewise. A
liberal use of paint helps any city, and
it will help Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
Mems 81 ,OOand $3.50 Night Shirts Soc

Monday morning we will place on
fIannelette night shirts for less than
the cost of the fiauneIette we have a
complete run of sizes and every shirt
Is either the ST. 90 or the $1.50 grade
now all thatremains will be sold here
at each soc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
MEMS 5OC NGCkWeaT at 20C.

Twenty five dozen of the newest
shapes in mems four~in. hand ties
made of heavy silks full regular
length and perfect goods regularly
sold for SOC here Mondayand Tuesday
only at each 29c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
A Valuable Lesson.

Six years ago I learned valuable
lesson, writes John Pleasant, of Mag
nolia, Ind. Il then began taking DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, and the longer
| take them the better / find them"
They please everybody. Guaranteed at
Eldridge Drug Co. 25c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
Real Estate Bargains

l am now offering splendid line of
real estate investments, comprising city
as well as farm property. Call soon if
you would secure bargains.
J. B. FIELDER, Real Estate Dealer.
2O-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
Complete Assortment

All of our stock and styles will be new and
composed OF selections from the very best houses of
the country Realizing the fact that to make this
department the success that we have made of our
Shoe and Hat business, we will have to continue
our old motto: Give customers the very best
values for the money!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

Had there been no doubt in the
world, dogma would have strangled
truth long ago
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

1t is comforting to know that no
passenger ever had his character in
iured in railroad accident.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

banking each and every one of our CUSTOM
ers for their part in helping to make the success
that we have of our business for the past year and
soliciting continuance of their patronage for the
new year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

Dreams are the flowers Memory
brings from the Past to brighten the
winters of Age.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS

PAZO OINTMENT fs guaranteed to cure
any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro-
truding Piles in to IA days or money re
funded. i0c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

Farmers attention called to Floradora
cotton seed in another column. % If
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
A Positive
CURE
EIy's Cream Balm
IS quICNIy dDsUEUou'
Gives ReIief at Once.

Gives Relief at Once.
1t cleanses, soothes
heals and protects
the diseased men,
,;rane. It cures Ca
tarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
rtnrnr 4ha CnnSna Of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20

Writings Loft dried linen and bond
papers in pound box and tablet pack
ages for elegant correspondence.
M. S. HOLIDAY.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-20
CATARRn

Taste and Smell. Full size so cts, at Drug !
gists or by mail; Trial Size 10 cts. by mail. |
Ely Brothers, SIS Warren Street, New York.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-10-29
CATS ARE SHREWD.

mo cat" says Barry Pain, "ever
cared one fraction of a pint of milk
about human being, and no feminine
cat owner believes it." We fear that
this is true bill.
A cat may purr and purr and be a
villain.
Once let the cuisine fall below the
proper mark and off goes the migrate
full (but shrewd) animal to stop with
friends who will look after him better.
That is the keynote of the feline char
acter- shrewdness. 1t Is the human
traits In their character which make
men call cats selfish. The motto OF
the cat is business Is Business" II
man takes this as his motto and
acts up TO it we call him a successful
man, and we allow him to write abb
surd essays on Hints to Young Lads"
and 80 on. in the papers. But we do
not honor the cat. We try and shame
him by pointing out to him how much
fonder we are OF the dog. Does the
cat blanch? Not he (which has
the better timer" he asks us quietly.
and slips out through a window for
stroll, while the dog remains shut
up indoors, depressed because his
master VIII not take him out that af-
ternoon New York Globe.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-10-29
Fee and Foe.

In a suit recently tried in a Vir-
ginia town young lawyer of limited
experience was addressing the jury
on point of law, when, good-na-
turedly, he turned to opposing coun-
sci, a man of much moro experience
than himself, and asked:
That right, 1 believe, Colonel
Hopkins?"
Whereupon, Hopkins, with a smile
OF conscious superiority, replied:
Sir, have an Office in Richmond
wherein l shall be delighted to en-
tighten you on any point OF law for
q consideration"
The youthful attorney, not in the
least abashed, took from his pocket
a half-dollar piece, which he offered
Colonel Hopkins with this remark:
mo time like tho present. Take
this. sir, tell us what you know, and
give me the change. Harper
Weekly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-10-29
NEW FAD OF KANSAS FARMERS.
Have Many Public Sales to Dispose
Of Stock and Farming Implements.

Never was there such an epidemic
OF public sales on the farms as this
spring. Seven auctioneers have been
kept busy and others are in training
at auctiOneers schools. Some Of the
auctioneers are "Colonels." They
claim that title when they have
cried" 100 sales.
But it IS only the result of the Sarm.
ers getting rich-and of the lano yOom
which causes much change of loca-
tlon.
Central Kansas has reached a time
when the farmers who have made
their home here, writes an Abilene
correspondent of the Kansas City
Star, have acquired more material
than they need to run their farm. or
are anxious to change their residence,
and so want to have a sale" They
go to the county seat and make ar
rangements with the auctioneer. and
have their bills printed. The latter
are put up in the post office or are
scattered on the fence posts of the
vicinity
The attendance on the public sales
is usually good. nothing but bad
weather keeping the farmers of the
vicinity away. The women frequently
accompany their husbands and form
an interested portion of the audience
when the household goods and can
ned fruit are sold.
The crowd that has looked over the
possessions of the household curious
ly and nodded at the various flaws
in the implements of the farmyard
has also had a rude sort of entertain
ment. On every sale bill in large
letters appears Free lunch at noon,"
and sore Of them have the addition.
al legend, Bring your tin cups This
Is Greek to the city resident, but the
farmer knows What 1t means. It is a
promise that there will be great
steaming cans of coffee, with plenty
of sandwiches and perhaps pickles.
The task OF providing cups for a
hundred or two visitors is a formid-
able one, and the prudent housewife
asks that the Corners bring cups to
use at this function. The habitual
auction attendant is fully equipped
''SAA VIZ cups " uoG VII outll OCtd-
sions
During the winter all sales begin
at 10 o'clock. but as the days lengthen
the noon start is more common It
all depends upon the amount of ma
terlal to be sold. Sometimes there Is
something more than coffee to drink,
but not often.
The amount of property changing
hands in this growing method OF dis
posing of used farm material is enor-
nous. In this county alone probably
sevcniy-ive sales have been held
since the first of the present year. and
they have averaged more than 81 900
each. or at least 100000 worth Of
second hand goods disposed of by
farmers TO their neighbors. The same
con ''tion exists in nearly every well
settled county Of the State. and so
common Is the custom becoming that
it Is unlikely that It will show any
diminutiOn for some time to come.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-10-29
FASHION NOTES

Some new straws seen this season
have been as fine as woven silk.
In hat trimmings, ribbon Is playing
an important role.
Turquoise blue is a stunning shade
with which to surround the crown of
your Panama outing hat.
Alice-blue has not been a fad of a
moment II is still very fashionable
and cuffs and collar of II are seen on
many suits OF dainty checked mater
falls
Hardly a veil without a fancy edge
or border of some kind Is seen on a
hat with any pretensions to smart
ness
Leather continues to be used I'm nov
ell ways. The latest thing is the leath-
er hatpin The head of the pin is cone
shaped. embossed and stained In a
unique design
There IS an undoubted tendency to-
ward draperies. exhibited for the most
part I'm the hchu effects on the waist.
and In some oversklrts Of thin fabrics,
with the overskirt showing at the
sides.
A wide gold ribbon belt and little
bows Of gold ribbon on the Jacket are
new touches
The bright colored Persians are
chosen for trimming because they
show through SO effectively
White prin roses covering the TOP
Of round, wide.brimmed hat run
over the sfde down TO the hair where
they are lost I'm the soft folds Of q
huge ribbon bow
There Is good deal Of Persian
trimming applied to revers, vest, etc,
Of street suits and overlaid with
heavy, coarsemeshed lace.
Big sleeves are coming. beyond
doubt They are here IN fact. but the
vogue Of many materials in cOmbina-
ton simpllaes the style for home
dressmakers with last years gowns 10
remodel
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-10-29
TURNING
BUTTERMILK
4 " bO
DRINKING.

Food Is bound TO be a topic for
discussion when New York women
get together, IT IS said. They talk OF
the favorite dishes and drinks OF
each; of the merits and demerlts OF
various restaurants. and SO on. They
boast Of their knowledge of the art Of
cooking and of their Joy I'M eating. So
It must be a dreadful blow to Manhat-
tan hOusekeepers TO hear they must
feed their families on buterm1k N
they wish TO be fashionable The
ROosevelts nave taken up the idea. In
the White House, trapped buttermllk
with tiny cubes OF pineapple. bits OF
orange and berries Is served Out at
Friendship, the summer home Of John
r. Mclean, the President. on a ride.
stops at the farm house for a glass
Of buttermilk Frozen buttermilk.
long appreciated by the epicures OF
New Orleans. has been introduced In
the North 1t Is sweetened only slight.
ly and the tart flavor is not lost
New York Press.