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Miss Lula Bacon of Albany, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. D
Sheffield, and will thus spend several
days here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Select your Christmas gifts early
and have them put away at Daniels,
the jeWeler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

See those stick pins at Bell, the
jeweler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Supt. H. B. Grimsnaw, of the Sea-
board Railway, left Americas last
night for Jacksonville, upon bust
ness trip.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Mr. c. w. Howard of Savannah
spent yesterday morning in Americas
upon business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

r. B. Barnett and Perry Putnam of
Atlanta had business in Americas
yesterday
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Shaving Sets, very acceptable
present for men, big line, at Fricker's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Sterling silver cigarette cases a
Fricker's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Coot Stanfield came home yester-
day after an extended trip to Ocilla,
Abbeville and other points down the
Seaboard.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

For choice cut flowers of all kinds
for Receptions, Weddings, Funerals,
etc, telephone, telegraph or write
Idle Hour Nurseries, Macon, Geor-
gia. 1O-22-5m'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Telephone C. j. Clark, 3O3, if you
need good coal. He has it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-13

Elegant line of military sets for
men and manicure sets for women, at
Fricker's.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
A DESERVING CHARITY.

The North Carolina State Normal
School appeals for contributions in aid
of school to be established in connec-
ton with that institution for the train
ing of colored girls as nurses. This Is
claimed to be the most deserving char
ity and the most helpful movement for
the negro of any outside of the great
schools at Hampton and Tuskegee. The
school has now the opportunity to OBJ
tain 1000 from the State. provided a
like amount is raised by the school.
This will be in addition to the yearly
grants made by the State and County
of $500. A citizen of New York offers
to give half the amount if the trustees
will raise the other half. The Treasur-
er of the school, Col. William A Blair,
of Winston, n. c., has been for many
years President of the North Carolina
State Bankers Association and also Vice
President of the largest National bank
in North Carolina. 1t is claimed for
him that he is doing more to uplift the
negro race than any other white man
in the entire South, and an earnest ap-
peal is made to the charitable to send
any amount that they feel disposed TO
give to him to aid an enterprise Of
great merit. If the whole of the 81, 900
can be raised it will secure about s4S,-
600 for the school.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

No matter what may be said by tho
papers in Indiana and the appearance
of unanimity on the surface, Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks Is not going to have the
cordial support of his candidacy that
his friends claim for him. The ma
jority of the Republican organization is
undoubtedly for him, but the younger
element, that represented by Senator
Beveridge, is either coldly supporting
him or actually hostile. They claim
that with all his undeniably good quail
ties and the favorable impression he
makes wherever he goes, there is abso-
lutely no electricity about him such as
is absolutely essential for successful
candidate in the next Presidential race.
He is not identified with any principle,
and has nothing but well-rounded COM
with which to appeal to tho
people.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

We have our choice among all things
even Democrats, and in the scrap that
is going on in Missouri for the next
Senatorship we are for Gov. Folk
against Senator Stone. Gov Folk rep
resents the more progressive intelligent
Democrats of Missouri, who want re-
forms carried out and the State brought
up to the position which her resources,
wealth and intelligence entitle her. Sem
ator Stone represents the old, hide
bound Bourbons, who have ruled the
State with little intermission ever since it
became a State, and have steadily stood
in the way of everything that tended to
bring her up to the level of her North
ern sisters. Stone is one of the old
time demagogs who believe in fooling
the people for their own good and more
particularly for his own good. He is
power among the ignorant 'po' white
trash of the OZarks, the men who fol-
lowed Pap Price whenever he could
corral them into his army, and the rest
of the time were guerrillas and bush
whackers for their own profit and reek-
ing of their spite upon their well-to-d do
neighbors. Stone, who is tainted with
bribery in connection with the Baking
Powder Trust. would be entirely re-
pugnant to any community north of
Mason and Dixon's line. but he has a
hold upon this worser element of the
Democrats in Missouri that it will trou-
BILE Gov. Folk to shake.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
TAXES AND PENSIONS.

Editor National Tribune: I wish, il
convenient, you would answer the fol-
lowing questions:
]. From what source is the money
derived by which the Army and Navy
are paid?
9. What amount of tobacco and LID
uors must man use before he pays 70
cents into the pension fund?
8. Is all the pension money derived
from tax on tobacco and liquors?
4. Are we taxed in any way to pay
pensions, or soldiers serving in the
Army and Navy:
5. Are We taxed to pay our Congress
men and Senators and to build ships p
J. L. Matthews, Conway, Iowa.
Answers:
1. The Army and Navy are paid
from the general revenues Of the coun-
try.
2. The tax on tobacco is $500 per
1000 cigars and SO cents per 1,e00 Gig
arets. man will have to, therefore,
smoke 1000 five-cent cigars for which
he will pay five cents apiece or $50 in
all before the Government gets $500
of revenue. OF this about one-fourth
will be diverted to the payment of PEN
sions. In other words. he will have to
pay the cigar dealer $50 IN order 70
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

Sidney Lee, the great Shaksperean
scholar, and one of the foremost au-
thorities on our language, has raised a
hubbub in England by asserting that
English is far more thorOly learned and
better written and spoken by the aver
age American than by the averags
Briton. He says that the great uni
yersities are sacrificing everything to
the study of Greek and Latin, and that
even these are not well taught. Prof.
Lee is supported in his statements as
to the quality of education by the tes-
timony of high officers of the army.
who state that the young officers sent
to them from the universities spell
wretchedly, their grammar Is even
worse, and they are conspicuously lack
ing in ability to express themselves well
upon ordinary subjects.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

papers poured upon the Secretary Of
War, Gen. Alger emerged unscathed In
reputation, and with untarnished per-
sonal integrity. The charges were soon
forgotten. and the Governor of Michi-
gan was widely applauded by all sensi-
BILE, patriotic men for appointing Sec
retary Alger to the Senate to succeed
Senator McMillen. who had died. A
little later the Legislature of Michigan
approved this action of the Governor
by electing Senator Alger to the Senate
for six years. His tenn :, C...v nave ex
pired the coming March 4.
Gen. Alger had been in feeble health
for some tine. and his physician had
told him that he would not live another
year. Had it not been for this he
would have been reelected to succeed
himself. In spite of his physical con-
dition he attended strictly to his duties
in the Senate, and was present during
| the session of the day before his death.
The country loses one of the grand
State builders who have left an indeli-
BILE mark upon the history of the United
| States for the years succeeding the war.
The veterans lose a firm friend and
comrade; the State OF Michigan and the
Senate of the United States lose a man
of spotless integrity, high ability and
courageous devotion to duty, no matter
in what form that duty came. The
whole community loses a man who was
genuinely American in every nerve and
| fiber. whose career was illustrative of
the best that our schools and churches
can teach, and we all mourn a sincere,
gentle, widely generous, unfailingly
kind-hearted man.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

At the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Prof. McGes
told us that we are getting along very
nicely, indeed, and have bright hopes
for the future. We walk quarter of
mile an hour faster than our faith
ers. and have it in us to do this. We
are to be taller, stronger. more INTEL
leetual, more humane and mercifui,
and generally better all around men
and women with every generation. with
other peoples tagging far behind, be-
cause they do not have our advantages.
We are not really worshipers of the
almighty dollar. but worshipers of
achievement. as showing courage. will
and sound reasoning in the highest de-
gree. There is breezy optimism
about this eminent scientists conclu-
sions which is a delightful change from
the doleful croakings as to the future
of which We have had so much.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

There is sharp echo of the troubles
which eliminated in the defeat of Maj.
James w. Wadsworth for reelection
to Congress from the 34th New York
District. Maj. Wadsworth and his son,
the Speaker of the New York House of
Representatives, both hold the Presi-
dent responsible for that defeat, and
have been saying things, which kind
friends, of course, carry directly to the
President. The President-well, We all
know how he flames up at such re-
ports. The latest phase is that some
nine appointments of Postmasters in
Wyoming, Greene, Livingston, Orleans
and Niagara Counties. which are to be
made before March 4, are to be dis
posed of by Col. Peter A. Porter, Mai
Wadsworth's successor. Speaker Wads-
worth came to see the President about
it, but is said to have found the day
quite chilly.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AT BUFFALO.

Buffalo is making strong effort 10
secure the holding of the New York
Annual Encampment in that city in
June, when the State Mckinley Monu-
ment will be dedicated. The Monu-
ment Commission and the Chamber of
Commerce are strongly behind the
movement and the Board of Aldermen
and Councilmen have appointed a COM
mittee to attend the meeting of the
Council of Administration, which will
be held in Albany this month. If the
Encampment will go to Buffalo the
President and Cabinet, a committee
from Congress, Gov. Hughes and other
Governors will be present with the
Fourth Brigade of the National Guard
of New York and great number OF
comrades from PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio,
Michigan, Canada and New York. Buff
falo deserves to have this honor, and
we sincerely hope that it will be given
her. 1t Will make a great occasion for
the Department Of New York and
ought to be fully enjoyed by the COM
radeA
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

The widow of "Stonewall Jackson
commends herself to right-feeling peo-
pie by declining a pension of 500 a
month voted her by the Legislature of
North Carolina, and recommending
that it be distributed to the poor wild
ows of the State. OF course, 500 a
month Will not go very far toward re-
lieving the many widows in North Car
olina who are destitute because mis-
taken feeling of State loyalty took their
husbands into the Confederate army,
but the principle is right. North Car
olina made her men go into the army,
and it is only decent that the State
should care for their widows. Mrs.
Jackson is to be commended that she
reminded the Legislature that its first
duty is to the poor women of North
Carolina.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

pay between Is and 10 cents into the
pension fund. The tax on whisky is
$1.10 a gallon. There are from 130
to $50 good-sized drinks in a gallon.
These retail at an average price of 10
cents, so that the man will have to pay
the barkeeper from s12 to SIS before
the Government gets s1.1O, of which
27k cents will go to the pension fund
3. The Pension Fund is, like other
expenditures of the Government, de-
rived from its general revenues. The
Government collects from various
sources every year about $685., 600, 600,
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

We confess to having very little pa
tience with heretical clergymen of any
The so-called advanced
views" deeper insight" clearer con-
ceptions," and all that, are 80 per cent.
mere vanity and pride of opinion. The
creeds of all Christian churches have
been laboriously wrought out by ex-
ceedingly able men, who have made the
work the enthusiasm of their lives, and
while. of course. there is a great room
for progress, we are as suspicious OF
the man who is going to revolutionize
creeds as we are of the man who pro-
poses to revolutionize politics and fl
nance. Human experience shows that
real progress in all these things is
only made by taking step at a time,
and then carefully scanning backward
and forward before taking the next
STEP The most of US will do very well,
indeed, if we are as good as any of the
churches teach. The man who pro-
fesses to be better than his church Is
a proper object of suspicion.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

No wonder Socialism thrives in Ger
many, and the people are restiye under
the repression of the military and the
officials. Recently Herr Muerbe, a
school teacher of Dresden. was visiting
Halle, and, going up to policeman.
saluted and asked some information.
The policeman stared at him and told
him to speak more respectfully, AMI
take off his hat. The schoolInaster told
the policeman he was insolent, where
upon he was arrested, and the court
decided that while he was not obliged
to take off his hat to the policeman, he
must pay fine of 10 marks for using
the word "inSolent."
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
Name Of agent.

of which about s141,0oo,ooO or less is
expended for pensions The great
items that enter into the revenues arc
1901, 100000 from customs, S249,0OO,-
600 from internal revenues, $7,5S5,52t
from sales of public lands and $751;
607,910 from miscellaneous sources.
These are all Jumped together and the
various expenses of the Government
appropriated out of them.
4. We are not taxed in any way to
pay pensions or to pay the soldiers
and sailors. The duties are generally
imposed for the prot ection of the Amer.
lean manufacturing and agricultural
industries, or to regulate the sales of
liquor, tobacco and oleomargarine
Virtually the same taxes would be i'm
posed if there were no pensions and
10 Army or Navy.
8. The same statement is true with
regard to the salaries of Congress and
the expenses of building the Navy.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

In all of the countries of the Old
World we have little hopes of real
democratic Government ever being es-
tablished, except in those which have
Teutonic or Celtic blood as tho domi-
nant strain. With all the talk about the
Imperialism of Germany, that country
is more rapidly approaching a real
democratic form of Government than
any other outside of England. The fac
tions there are rapidly developing into
real parties such as exist in this coun-
try and England, Which are the only
ways of maintaining n genuine repub-
lican Government The recent mani
festo of Chancellor Won BueIow makes
much progress in that direction. as it
tends to consolidate the factions into
parties. Heretofore there have been a
number of discordant groups in the
Reichstag, each striving for some subor-
ordinate purpose. The Government has
been carried on by playing off one of
these groups against another, and when
this failed of carrying on the Govern
ment by the autocrat will of the EN-
peror. This was Bismarck's way. When
he could not get the factions to agree
he would dissolve the Reichstag. and go
on simply upon the will of the King or
the Emperor. Now it is likely that the
Germans will come to the same process
by which the Governments of Great
Britain and the United States are car
ried on. That is. some one great ques-
ton will be brought to the front as the
main issue, and the factions will sink
their selfish little purposes in a union
upon the great question that is before
the people. Then real constitutional
Government will be possible, and not
before.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE.

When the returns for 1906 are sum-
married the temperance advocates have
every reason to be satisfied with tho
results of the work done. Only few
years ago the whole country seemed as
irredeemably in the clutches OF the
Drink Demon as it now sees under the
heavy hand of the trusts. The politics
.of cities, Counties and States were con-
trolled by the Lords of the Brewery,
who dictated nominations and elections
to every Office from policeman and con-
stable to Governor The saIoonkeepcr
was the most active and influential poll
teal leader in every precinct, and the
man who suggested curbing his power
had to expect the vilest abuse and
were as arrogant and intolerant as the
old Slave Lords were. There had to be
no halfway mushiness about q candi-
date. He had to be warmly in favor
of drinking beer as n healthy and moral
exercise and preacher of its having
every facility and the widest liberty or
as candidate he would have no chance
whatever for election. Like the Slave
Lords the Beer Lords became too des-
pOtic and arrogant and aroused the
people against them. Since that time
there has been wonderful progress
made I'm curbing their sway. In 1884
under the old prohibition laws in Ohio
there were over $4,000 saloons in the
State, or one for every 125 people. The
saloonkeepers and the brewers dictated
politics everywhere, and in 1884 elected
the attorney for the Saloonkeepers Pro-
State. They had their Representatives
in the Legislature, the Supreme Court
and in all other places of influence and
control. The State of Ohio began n
change of policy then in the adoption of
the Pond law, which taxed every sa-
loonkeeper 5000, and this worked ad-
mirably in reducing the number and
limiting their influence. The Temper
ance work has gone on steadily since
then in the State, with 4 regular in
crease in the cost of licenses and the
diminution of the number of saloons.
until there are now in the State 1900
Townships in which no liquor is allowed
to be sold. In other States the same
progress Is manifest, and the South is
as far advanced on the liquor question
as the North. In Georgia 103 out of
the 137 Counties of the State have pro-
hibition and eleven-twelfths of the Ar
kansas Counties are also dry. In In
diana there are 649 Townships and 40
cities where the sale of liquor is pro-
hibitcd. In Vermont there are 140I
towns. of which only 25 allow the sale
of liquor. In Kentucky 90 of the 123I
Counties are dry, and Tennessee shows
even n stronger proportion, with 1885
out of 1,S40 towns having prohibited
the sale of liquor. 1t is now estimated
that fully 100000 of our people live
in communities in which prohibition
dominates and no liquor is sold
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
TO ABOLISH THE PENSION AGENCIES.

Adopting the report of the Commit
tee on Appropriations, the House of
Representatives has voted to abolish
all of the IS pension agencies except
to be in the direction OF true economy,
but whether it is or not is a matter for
future and very careful consideration.
A list of the agencies with the number
of pensions paid from them and the
money disbursed is as follows:
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

Another one of the Louisiana
Tigers" who We're completely exter-
minated" on so many battIehelds and
in such a variety of armies and dates.
died recently at Harrisonburg. Va, at
the ripe age of So. His name was John
II. Flannery, and his business, a dis
tiller of the "old-fashioned handmade
whisky" In his civil career he must
therefore have slain incomparably
more Yankees than all the Louisiana
troops-Tigers or otherwise-did dur
tng the four years of war.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

The French Government will give
crosses of the Legion of Honor to
workingmen, the same as to soldiers,
artists, scientific and literary men. Five
crosses are to be awarded to them this
year, and the bestowal Of the first has
raised no end of a storm. The recip-
lent was the secretary of labor union,
and he is assailed from two sides, the
first being a charge by some of the
unions that his union is a sham, and
the other by out-and-out Socialists that
no workingman should receive favors
from a Government
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

Very naturally, the ladies>will be in
ment goes about that momentous do
mestic business-hiring a cook. With
all it's mightiness and grandeur the
Government has to have these opera
tors of the range and the griddle, pre-
cisely as does the mistress of the mod
est cottage in the suburbs. But it goes
about getting them in much more
imperious way than the woman of the
house dares. The Government just
says it wants the cooks-10 of them
just now for Western posts and reser-
vations, and the Civil Service Commits
sion is instructed to select them from
the list of applicants The Commission
lays down that the applicants must be
at least 20 years old, have good eye,
sight, and satisfactorily answer the fol-
lowing questions:
Are you subject to loss of conscious
ress?"
do you wear glasses ?"
Did you ever have dyspepsia?"
"Are you subject to dizziness?"
What are your past and present
habits in the use of alcohol"
"Do you use opium, morphine or any
other drug?"
sHave you ever had any deformity?"
The pay is from $3.50 to $40 a year,
not a great deal higher than the pay
of first-class artists in private houses,
but there is great number of appli-
cants The probability of making
good marriage has much to do with
this. as young woman who is real
cook will not be allowed to remain
single long after she reaches the West
and her merits become. known.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

Considered purely as a matter OF
business the annexation of Porto Rico
has already proved very profitable in
vestment. In the calendar year 1897.
tho year Immediately preceding an
nexation, the United States imported
from Porto Rico s1,943,251 worth OF
products and sold to Porto Rico ST.
023.751. This year, the end of the first
decade Of annexation, shows that the
trade has increased fully 10-fold. For
the 10 months ending with October We
bought from Porto Rico s1s,s2O,13I
and sold to her during the same period
sl6.509.946 worth; making a total of
over s35,000.000, with a probability
that the aggregate will be raised by the
end of the year to more than 100000
900. Our main purchases from Porto
Rico are sugar, cigars leaf tobacco, mo-
lasses, oranges, straw and palm manu-
factures and hides and skins. The goods
that We sent to Porto Rico, mentioning
them in the order of their Importance,
are rice, cotton manufactures, iron and
steel. meat and dairy products, bread,
wood manufactures. -four, boots and
shoes. Goldfish, fertilizer, steel rails,
tram-cars and cotton goods.
The National tribune., 1907-01-31
DEArulors SENATOR ALcER.


career magnifcently full of loyal
ty, good-citi2enship. manly work, bril-
liant courage and high achievement has
been terminated by the death of Com
rade RUSSELL A. Alger, Senator from
Michigan. 1t was a typically American
career. and . one that can always be
pointed to as a stimulus and an emula-
ton for every American boy. Senator
Aiger died as he had lived, with his
harness on, ailing his very last moments
with the work In life which his con-
science commended and his soul as
pired to. Up to the last day of his
life he was attending punctually to his
duties in the Senate, and his last
The National tribune., 1907-01-31

The Senate is losing its character as
a "Rich Mans Club" by the recent
elections, and it is believed that the
process is going on interruptedly.
Younger men of moderate fortunes are
being preferred, and the disposition is
to select those who have given a good
acc punt Of themselves in the House OF
Representatives.