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

The sOles were wet from the snow, and
the damp leather proved to be an excel
lent conductor of electricity
The newsboy almost went into hys-
terics when the old man did a turkey
trot on the charged portion of the walk
First one foot was lifted quickly, then
the other, like a stringhalted horse.
The old man got no relief, so he tried
walking on his toes That proved
worse than before, so he started to
run. Next he stepped on a skylight
supported by a steel frame, got a
worse shock than he had yet received,
yelled and jumped into the entrance to
the Lumber Exchange building, where
there was no troublesome current.
The old gentleman stopped to watch
the next person who came along, and
soon crowd had gathered, which was
furnished a lot of free entertainment
of high quality by the antics of the pe0-
pie who tried to step high enough to
get away from the electricity.
The Portland General Electric COM
pany was notified and sent some line
men, who turned off the current while
the short circuited wires were being re-
paired
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
Epitaph on MoIasses Taffy.

TO have his epitaph reproduced on
chocolate creams and old fashioned mo-
lasses taffy is the fate of the late Willis
Epson, pioneer manufacturer and one
of the founders of Waterbury, whose
gravestone was found doing duty as a
mixing slab in the candy factory of
the Palace Sweets company, just sold
Don't forget the big candy stone" said
the new proprietors to the movers. The
movers did not, but some of them near
ly tainted when they lifted the marble
and read: willis Epson passed to a
higher life Aug. Z, 1853, aged sixty
eight. He laid aside his earthly nature
that he might be free from bondage"
The Epson family when notified sum-
moned the police, who sought to force
the candy men to surrender the stone
but found they could not The old
stone disappeared from the cemetery
xwonty- 1--WE years ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
ALIVE AT HER OWN FUNERAL
ST. James Park Woman Enjoys Novel
Surprise PARTY

KUHLMAN.-On 18th inst, Katherine
E., wife of Augustus f. kaufman, step
daughter of John and Maggie Schneider.
Services Sunday, 4 p. m, at parents
home Sherman street, near ST James
Park, Long Island.
When relatives and friends entered
the Schneider home in st. James Park
at the hour appointed in the foregoing
notice it was a question Which was
the more surprised, they or Mrs. Kuhl-
man, who, alive and well, came out to
give them greeting. Far from being
even i'll, Mrs kaufman was astounded
to read of her own death in several
New York newspapers of the previous
day.
According to Mrs. Huffman, she is
not only the wife of Augustus +. Kuhl-
man, as stated in the notice, but she
has not set eyes on her husband since
she left him four years ago, when their
baby boy was five weeks old. Except
for letters written to her entreating
her to return to him she has heard
nothing of his whereabouts. Now that
publication of her death has been made
she believes that it is the act of her
husband, but she is at loss to under
stand the motive.
Learning that the advertisement was
sent to an advertising agency in Phila-
delphia by John Brown" Of that city
she is determined to sift the matter
She has been informed that the hand
writing of the advertisement and that
of letters that she has in her posses
sion are remarkably similar.
Mrs. Kuhlman says her husband is
about twenty eight years old, and at
one time he was employed in the en-
ployment branch of the Young Mems
Christian association in Fulton street,
Brooklyn, and had also studied to be-
come a minister of the Baptist church
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

Awful Fate of a Leading Member
of New York's Four Hundred.
MILLIONS CAN'T SAVE HIM.

He Is Dying of Leprosy In Glass
Room In His Palace In Gotham.
Must Never Kiss His Wife or Chill
dren Again.
Wealth. of course, does not necessari-
ly bring happiness or health. 1t does
not even safeguard its possessor from
the most shocking misfortunes known
to man. In fact, there is abundant
evidence that the families of the very
rich are frequently the unhappy vic
tins of their own wealth. Misfortune,
misery and broken health follow the
multimillionaires into their Fifth ave-
nue. houses in New York and into their
Newport homes.
The most wretched member of New
York's Four Hundred is slowly dying
of leprosy, the most horrible of all dis
eases, and yet his millions, his social
connections, his influential friends, are
pOWerless to save him. There is per-
haps no more impressive picture of the
futiIity of boarded millions than the
spectacle of this fashionable millionaire
leper. With money enough to buy ev-
erything that money can buy, he would
joyfully exchange places with the poor
est tenement house ledger.
This unfortunate, a patient of DR..
Albert S. Ashmead of New York, lives
a prisoner in his home Like Mr.. Brin-
gas, one of the richest men in Mexico,
who is also a leper, he must forever
shut himself off from the world. His
great drawing room at the rear of his
house is cut in two by a glass wall. On
one side of this his family may come
and look at him; may sit evenings and
cheer him as he gazes wistfully
through the glass wall His children
may kiss him good night with lips sep
arated from his by a glass pane, but
no human being may enter this million
aire leper's glass prison.
He must always wear rubber gloves,
must touch nothing He must never
kiss his wife or children; must not
even touch their hands. He cannot
have his clothes washed, for nobody
will wash them. Every time he changes
his sOiled linen it is burned. Every
book, paper, letter he reads must be
burned too Nothing must ever come
out of his glass prison except the
dishes, and these the leper boils and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
INVOLUNTARY CAKEWALK.

Live Wire Makes Staid Citizens of
Portland, Gre, "Step Lively"
Five hundred volts of electricity from
a short circuited wire charged about
fifteen feet of the concrete sidewalk
in front of the Lumber Exchange build
ing on Second street Portland, Ore,
and pedestrians who passed over it
without rubbers gave some original
and interesting variations on cakewalk
antics.
A newsboy who passed along the
walk first discovered that it was charg-
ed with electricity and decided that the
fun would be too good to miss. He
was rewarded almost Immediately by
the appearance of a sedate, middle
aged gentleman who wore thin shoes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

DR.. Pierce believes that our American for
ests abound in most valuable medicinal roots
for the cure OF most obstinate and fatal dis
cases. if we would properly investigate them;
and, in confirmation of this conviction, he
points with pride to the almost marvellous
cures effected by his vGolden Medical Dis
covery." which has proven itself to be the
most efficient stomach tonic, liver invigor-
ator. heart tonic and regulator, and blood
cleanser known to medical science, Dyspep-
STA. or indigestion. torpid liver. functional
and even valvular and other affections of
the heart yield to it's curative action. The
reason tOEy it cures these and many other
affections is clearly shown in little book
of extracts from the standard medical works
which is mailed free to any address by DR.. r.
v. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y. to all sending
request for the same
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03


d1sinfects with his rubber gloved hands
before they are set out for the butler
to take back to the kitchen.
Day after day the disease slowly
progresses. How long he will live he
does not know. Exactly what turn or
twist the disease will make from month
to month and year to year no doctor
can foretell The only certainty is
death, for science knows no cure. There
is no hope or comfort for him in any
direction, for according to DR.. Norris
the leprosy expert, it is hereditary and
usually destroys the family in which
it runs after some three or four gener-
ations. AS he thinks hour after hour
of the slowly creeping disease and the
possible future misery of those who are
dear to him, he has the one comfort
that his wealth has spared him from
being sent to one of the leper colonies
A recent visitor to the leper colony
Of the Hawaiian Islands describes the
lepers in the leper houses. Some are
covered with boils and have patches of
ulcers from the sOles Of their feet to
the crowns of their heads. Others are
seen down on their backs unable to
rise or move, calling on death to re-
lieve their miseries. The hospitals are
loathful pesthouses. On the floors are
lepers with their limbs rotted away, a
mass of dead putrefactiOn Some lift
their worn and feshless hands above
their sightless eyes and beg for help
that never comes until the bark touch
es the shores Of that shadowy river
from whose bOurn no traveller returns.
"Others, with running sores and life
less mouths, groan out their distress
until they can grOan no more. Others,
with tOngueless throats, are past all
articulation, disfgured, yoiceless, bar.
nacles of disease, whose eyeless sock
cts and fingerless palms cry out with
mute appeal Some are so decayed,
their nervous systems SO dead, that all
sensation Of pain and power of suffer
ing has died. and to them death is d
painless one."-New York American
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

Not less marvellous. in the unparalleled
cures it is constantly making of wOman's
many peculiar affections. weaknesses and
distressing arrangements, is DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, as is amply attested
by thousands of unsolicited testimonials con-
tributed by grateful patients who have been
cured by it Of catarrhal pelvic drains painful
periods, irregularities, prolapsus and other
displacements caused by weakness, ulcer
alton of uterus and kindred affections, often
after many other advertised medicines, and
physicians had failed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
TIMEs-REcoRDER sUNDAYBMARcH 3 oo7

That our American forests abound in
plants which possess the most valuable
medicinal virtues is abundantly attested
by scores of the most eminent medical
writer's and teachers. Even the untu-
tored Indians had discovered the useful
ness of many native plants before the
advent of the white race. This informa-
ton, impaired freely to the whites, led
the latter to continue Investigations until
to-day we have rich assortment of most
valuable American medicinal roots.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE
We earnestly request all young persons, no matter
how limited their means or education who wish to
obtain thorough business training and good posi-
tion to write by first mail for our great half-rate
offer. success, lndependence and probable fortune
are guaranteed. Don't delay Write today.
The Ga.sAla. Business College. Macon, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

Lessons in Piano, Pipe Or
gan, Orchestral Instru-
ments, Voice Culture, har-
mony and composition.
Thorough course in ear
training and sight reading.
For rates and particulars,
apply to Prof E. III. McNiel,
or Miss Lula Matthews,
pa, Jackson street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

Both the above mentioned medicines are
wholly made UP from the glyceric extr - IS OF
native, medicinal roots. The processes en-
plOyed in their manufacture were original
with DR.. Pierce. and they are carried Ga by
skilled chemists and pharmacists with the
aid OF apparatus and appliances specially
designed and built for this purpose. Both
medicines are entirely free from alcohol and
all other harmful habit-fOrning drugs A
full list of their ingredients Lis printed on
each bottle wrapper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

I-a1lv. Except Sunday.
Sleeping c3rs between Americas and At
lant3 on II III leaving Am CIRCUS l0:40p, N 81,
and arriving Amer1cus E:32 q. M. Connects
at Fort Valley with sleepers to and from
SzN ann2D.
P0r further Inform alton, apply to
j. e HIGHTJWER. Aren't. Amertcue. Ga,
JOHN w. BLOUNT. Travelling Passenger
Agent, Macon. Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

Close connection at Cordele for all points
north and south. At Columbus for all
points west, and at MONTGOMERY for
New Orleans, Mobile, all Texas points and the
southwest and northwest.
Night trains have through Pullman buffet
sleepers and coaches between Savannah and
Montgomery.
For further information applyto
d 2. EVERETT, Agt., Americas, GA
W. Z. Sources, II. P. A., Savanna h.
'As y, STEWART. sc p. A Savanna
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03

He Is Dying of Leprosy In Glass
Room In His Palace In Gotham.
Must Never Kiss His Wife or Chill
dren Again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
ALL w ~.
aeAeduleg ensctlr &c Feb 25 OF

arrival and departure OF trains at Am er1
Gus, Gz-CenErdl nf GEORGIA Railway Par
senRer Station. Goth Meridian Time
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
departures.
ForMacon. Atlanta. Augusta and
From Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta

From Savannah Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon. Observation-Disclosures. 40 40 % m
From Lockha RI, Dothan &Albany !. .+I0 40 p IA
Lockhart, Dothan and Albany 81 Sc o IN
Atlanta and Macon....... " On p N
Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta
and Macon :. ..................... *5 80 a m
From Columbus Birmingham and
intermediate points .........:..:. IS So p N
From Columbus, Newman and In
termediate points. -. ........,. mop m
From Birmingham, Columbus, via
Fort Valley. ................. IS 80 m
From Birmingham. Columbu via
Fort Valley. $50 40 p N
From ALBANY and intermediate
points. ......... ................... n 40 a m
From Troy, Montgomery and
Eufaula... ..,....,....... ........ " IS p m
From Troy montgomery and
Eufanla .-....... .....,....... 49,. &c A. p IN
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
Director Sage Reports Bulk of
Corn Crop Now Beyond
Danger Of Frost
CUTTING NOW IN PROGRESS
Remaining Thirty Per Cont Errat'c
and Ton to Fifteen Days Necessary
70 Mature Il - Last Week Warmest
in September Conditions in North
west Iowa.
Special to Times

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moiues. Sept. 24.-The weekly
weather and crop bulletin says that
during the past week a~bnormally high
Temperatures prevailed five days WIN
brisk. driving winds. The last Two
davs were much colder, bringing the
average excess of temperature for the
vee,, down to 4 to 6 degrees. Light
frosts were reported on Sunday morn
ing in northern, central and eastern
districts. There was ample raln1ail III
All sections. and some local excess in
portions of the northern and eastern,
counties. 1t was the Wartnest week
in September very favorable for has
teninp the maturity of the corn crop
Reports from the fields indicate that
for the state at large about ~ per
cent of the crop is ripe enough to be
cut and shocked, and cutting is in pro-
sress In nearly all districts. The be-
lated 80 per cent is more than usually
variable as to hardness of the ears,
and most of 1t needs ten to fifteen days
of ripening weather to make 1t practi-
cally safe.
Fair progress has been made IN
blowing. The pastures are unusually
good for the last of September.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
Muscatine Assailant OF AtaIissa
Man Captured But Valuables
Not Discovered
MAN CAUGHT EATING NOTE
Confederate Of Hiehwayman Who Hold
Up Charles Wright in a Saloon,
Overtaken by Sheriff, and $40 Note
Jerked From His Mouth Just as He
Was About to Swallow It.
snectai to Times Republican.

DeCldl W
Muscatine, Sept. 24.-Charies Wfas1l'
OF Atalissa. was robbed of $4S and a
gold watch in a front street saloon
hero last night. He had just entered
the toilet room when "A stranger
stepped in, showed Il gun in ms race
and told him to dig up. Wright "ous
and the mar backed out. OFFICER bih@
was informed of the occurrence anu
in twenty minutes landed the high
waynan in another saloon. He hau
lante the money and the watch,
however. and they have not yet been
recovered.
When Binz arrested the robber. VINO
gave his name as Joe Golett, OF lll-
nois. a man who later was found TO
be his confederate, ran out the rear
door, clambered into a buggy tieo III
the alley, and drove down the river
road. He was seen, and telephone in
quiries among the farmers along the
road, brought out the fact that he had
sold the outfit to Ed VIII for $40. and
walked off thru the woods. Sheriff
Benham was notified, and after a chase
secured the man. No money was
found on him, however, until Benham
noticed that he was swallowing,
grabbed him by the throat, forced
open his mouth, and jerked out the
$40 note, which he was trying to get
down his throat. The men will have
their hearing today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
$4,000 FOR HUMILIATION.

Swedish Girl Comes to America to
We'd; Fiance Offers Her Work.
Special to Times-Republican.
Rock Rapids, Sept. 24.-For Emil
JAMS failure to keep his agreement to
marry her, and the humility he has
suffered, Grace Rosen asks $4,000 as
balm to her wounded heart, n also
wants 5000 for expenses to this coun-
try. The plaintiff claims that she
came to America at the request of
JAMS, her playmate during childhood
days in Sweden, and that he promised
to marry her upon her arrival here.
In her petition Miss Rosen says that
Jams came to America in 1902 and
that they kept up a correspondence
until January, 1907. She claims that
he proposed marriage in his letters
and she accepted and came to the
United States as requested. She ar
rived at Little Rock about January
IS, 1907, and was met at the depot
by Jams, but his greeting was cold,
entirely unlike what she expected from
a warn hearted lover. He told her
he would get her a place to work as
a hired girl and refused to marry
her as he had agreed in his letters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
GIRL STRIKER IN RIOT.
Severely Beat Two Sister Employees
Who Refused to Strike.

Who Refused to Strike.
Sioux City, Sept. 24.-Having re-
fused to go on a strike with their Sis
.er employees in the packing depart
ment of Haskins Bros. 4 Co.'S SOAP
fl Glory, Edith Frank, of South Sioux
City, and Ella Nelson. 709 South Wall
street, We're set upon by q bevy OF the
girl strikers as they quit work and
| were severely beaten.
Shouting. Well fix you," Mabel
Matthews, leader Of the strikers,
bounced upon Miss Frank, threw her
TO the ground and pulled her hair ard
struck her unit. she cried for mercy.
4 couple of men passing by INTERVIEWED.
WhaD the sirl arose sobbins and
walked up the street. Miss Matthews
nd her contingent followed AMI a
hlc.k further down started another
disturbance That was suddenly inter-
rc,ted by the appearance of Patrh'
ran Tedford c. Britton. who had run
.,v"r from the exchange building.
Tie strike anong he eighteen glrl
employees of the factory was started
when Miss Matthews, spokesman and
organizer for the girls, waited upon
l.. J. Haskins, treasurer for the COM
pany. and demanded hat the wage be
raised from 90 cents a day to 81. Mr..
! Haskins replied that he was willing TO
pay 81 to those who were regular al
their work and We're capable of earn
ing it, but not to a number OF ne"
girls who were just beginning to learn
the work.
After a short consultation among
themselves, the girls walked out, with
the exception of Miss Frank and Miss
Nelson,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
WOODWARD TEAM PROUD.
Took First in Both Places at I. o. o.
r. Sovereign Grand Lodge.
speciar 10 Times Republican.

S9peC1al 10 Zines hepuoii'aH
Woodward, Sept. 24.-Woodward is
justifably proud of the thirty-hve men,
members of Woodward lodge. No. 4b0.
/. o. o. F., just returned from st. Paui
they have been attending soNer-
eign grand lodge of the United States
and Canada The Woodward degree
team entered into the competition IN
conft ,ring the first and second degrees
OF Odd Fellowship and won first PRIZE
In tcth degrees against all competitors
Their markings were IS in first degree
and 81 in second degree out of a posi-
BILE 100. The prizes We're S225 each. a
total Of $3.50. The nearest contestants
with them were Swedish Olive lodge
o. Moline, ILL.,, and Congress lodge OF
Chicago, each of which eXemplited the
degrees in masterful style.
This degree staff have done honor TO
their town and their order. IN Des
Moine in 1902, in Baltimore in 1903,
in Toronto in 1906, and in ST. Paul m
1907. A reception and love feast WIN
be held in their honor some time TINS
week, at which the Rebekahs Will De
hostesseS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
In Northwest Iowa.

Special to Times-Republican.
Sioux City, Sept. 24.-Light frosts
occurred Friday and Saturday nights
in northwestern Iowa, but reports IN
dictate that they did not damage the
corn crop. Much of the corr Is safe
tho some of it will not mature before
it Is killed by frosts with ordinary
conditions prevailing. Heavy rains IN
the vicinity of Sioux City have I'M
proved the pastures and aided fall
blowing.
r. f.. Nichols, commercial agent FOR
the Illinois Central railway, reports tor
Sioux City that t%hreshing is delayed
somewhat by rains. Light frosts oc-
Cured in the vicinity OF Marcus, Lar
rabee and Matlock. out without dam
age to corn. Sixty per cent OF the
corn is safe from frost. Pastures are
in good condition. Average temperature
es: rainfall one and one-half inches.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
Sheldon.

Sheldon.
Frank Remmerde, Of sioux Center,
has purchased the f~orty-acre farm Oh
Garrett Newlins, adjoining Sheiooh
on the north, paying S162.5o per acre
for the land. The board OF super
visors has allowed a pension OF Sio
per month out of the poor fund Tor
the support of Hannibal Waterman
Who is in poor health, Mr.. Water
man was the first white settler OIL
O'Brien county, and a township ana
river in this county bear his name. Z.
The S2.7OO deep well on the OBrlen
county poor farm, as well as the shas-
low wells. have gon dry, INC the SUI
pervisorsi have had fourteen test wells
put down without finding Il supply.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
Normal pebaters Chosen.

Cedar Falls, Sept. &c. F. Schwei-
ker, P. C. Colgrove, +. Bruins, G.. Al
derman, Emil Trott and Virgil Sim
mers have been chosen to constitute
the two debating teams from the Iowa
State Normal school who will go
against two teams from the state col
lege at A1nes in annual debate early in
the month of November. The debate
will be a double header, each school
having a debate in progress on the
same evening. The subject for discus
sion will be the adjustment of the
personal property tax in h United
States. Each school will debate the
negative and the affirmative side of
the question.