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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-10
Have a Bank Account
WITH THE
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but it takes q wise one to
save it. Begin with 81 and
get a Home Bank free. Call
and ask about our plan. 4 per
interest paid on Savings De-
posits Compounded. Office in
Americus National Bank
Building, Cotton Avenue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-10

This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia E. Pinkham'S Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs A. Gregory, of 1856 Lawrence
St, Denver, Col, writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
:" was practically an invalid for six
years, on account of female troubles.
underwent an operation by the
doctors adgice, but in few months /
was worse than before. A friend adj
vised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as l have not enjoyed in
many years. Any woman suffering as
did with backache, bearing down
pains, and periodic pains, should not fail
to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound" +"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia 4. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibrQid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it y?
Mrs. PinIxham invites all. sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-10
Central of Georgia Railway

Change in schedule of Central OF
Georgia Railway, effective Sunday
September 18th, 1908. Train No. 8
will leave Albany at 2:55 a. M, leave
Americus Ais a. M, arrive Macon
7:15 a. m.
]. E. HIGHTOWER, Agent,
Americus, Ga
10-11-10
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
FAGIN IN REAL LIFE WITH
FOLLOWING OF 40 THIEVES

most an imperative impulse, he would
be reprimanded by Young, and another
subject was tried.
To the advanced pupils in the simula-
ton of a deaf mute salutations were
suddenly made, as though a friend We're
overtaking the pupil on the street. In
addition to these courses. demonstra-
tions were made before the class in the
various intricate manners of picking a
pocket.
Laird said that the pupils were prom-
Used employment by Young when, in
the estimation of the Instructor" they
had become proficient. They were 10
be sent to various cities, and were to
work on a commission basis. A certain
percentage of their s%tealings was to be
paid to the headquarters in Pittsburg,
Laird was to go to New YORK,
Humphrey to Philadelphia and Elliott
to Baltimore.
In addition to gathering in the school
the police took from the house 30 re-
volvers, 200 cards with verses of ap-
peals to help a deaf mute, a score or
more of blackjacks and billies and
other tools of the crooks profession.
Laird said that Young maintained
residences in a number of the larger
cities, and always kept two residences.
At one of these he lived and at the
other he would conduct his school.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
THE AID OF THE POOR.

That is a very sensible proposition
of Mayor Haussling that the Common
Council cooperate with the Bureau of
Associated Charities in the administra-
ton of the municipal aims. 1t is true
that both the city and the association
go over the same ground in a great
many cases and very likely, to a large
extent, the benef1ciaries double up"
in securing relief.
The work Of investigation to deter
mine the need of relief is expensive
and requires more time and patience
than the city's agents usually give ii.
1t is generally more thoroughly and
surely done by the organization sup
ported by private charity. The inyesti-
cation is very necessary, for it is the
experience of all cities that there Is
much imposture in the demands upon
the funds for the support of the poor,
the undeserving often getting what
should go to relieve the distress of the
more worthy poor. 1t should be easy
for the city department and the pri-
vate organization to work together to
the greater benefit of both and of those
unfortunates dependent upon charity.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
CITY POLICEMEN
MUST LEARN TYPEWRITING

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. At is a
question of the survival of the f%ttest,"
said Director Clay yesterday when it
was suggested TO him that it would
be an impossibility for some of the
older house %sergeants to ear short
hand and typewriting in order to
qualify themselves for the contem-
plated changes in the methods of doing
business in the bureau OF police.
The director had issued an order for
the installation of a complete and eff
fective police telephone system, dis
placing the present Anticipated police
telegraph apparatus. This will require
on the part of operators a knowledge
of stenography and typewriting. Pend
ing the action of Councils the lieuten-
ants were directed to give notice to
the house sergeants that in order to
retain their places it would be requisite
for them to take up at nee the study
Of shorthand and typewriting and be-
come thoroughly equipped for the
work.
1.-THE change will go into operation at
once the director said, but my idea
is to secure a trained force of young
men for the future. The older men
have nothing to fear for the present.
They will be given time to learn. Many
of them are fine sypewriters already"
Assistant superintendent OLeary
outlined to the pl~ainclothes men from
all police districts whom he had sum
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
YOUNG AT e~EIGHTY-sIx.

The total abstinence champions
never get much encouragement from
the nonagenarians and c~entenarians
who are so prone to publish to the
world the Secret of their longevity.
The man or the woman who arrives at
the good old age of 100 without having
been a habitual user of some form
of stimulant seems to be very much
the exception. And they always take
such pride in telling about i'll Over in
Long Island City there is a man who
has just celebrated his eighty-sixth
birthday by becoming a father, and
who says he is younger today than he
was twenty years ago. Says he: II
attribute the fact that l am young at
Sc to a normal life. I smoke three or
four cigars a day, and my pipe be-
tween times. 1 use wine and beer in
moderation. Until recently l always
took a glass of hot whiskey teddy be-
fore going to bed"
The t~eetotalers a get what comfort
they like out of that. What they
ought to note, however, is the use of
moderation wherein undoubtedly
rests the real secret of the Long
Island City sage's prolonged retention
of vigor.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

PITTSBURG, Jan. "A new enter
prise in the education of crooks was
exposed by the police on the North
Side today when Assistant Superin-
tendent of Public Safety Glenn, with a
squad of police, descended on a house
at 200 Anderson street and arrested
James Young, 81 years old; Wilbur
Laird, 16, of Clearfield, Pa; John
Humphrey, rs, of Boston, and Robert
Elliott, 23, of Cincinnati. The men
were sent to the workhouse today for
80 days as suspicious characters.
When arraigned before Magistrate
Hadheld, Laird told a tale that reads
like a messenger boys library. Laird
said that while only two others had
been found in the house besides HIM
self, there were sometimes as many as
forty there. His description of Young
represents that individual as a Fagin
in actual life. He said the man would
arrange a regular classroom in the
house on one of the upper floors and
drill the Students in the name Of
picking pockets. A speciality Of Young's
to teach his pupils how to simulate
a deaf mute. One of the drills was to
have a pupil come before he class, and,
after being warned that he must not
appear to notice any sound, suddenly a
silver dollar would be dropped behind
him. II the pupil turned, which is al
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
VOLUME 3.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1908.
NEWARK SOUND FINANCIALLY.

The exhibit of the sound financial
condition of Newark that is made in
Mayor Haussling's message to the
Common Council cannot be too often
presented or too widely advertised. 1t
is the secret Of the splendid credit that
Newark commands in the money mar
lxet. and it is due to enterprise, not to
parsimony.
An examination of the bonded in
~debtedness of municipalities in New
Jersey will show that where there is
no bonded deb there is no develop
ment and progress. The town stag
mates. "Pay as you co. is a good
maxim for the individual, but a poor
one for a community which has per-
manent improvements to make. 1t is
right that a future generation which
is to get the beneit of large improve
ments should help to pay the cost. In
many cases it would be impossible to
get needed improvements if the bills
had to be paid ut once by taxation.
The pay-as-you-go town is always a
mighty poor one in spirit and develop
ment.
Newark's gross debt would be for
midable for a city of the size If 1t
were not largely Offset by sinking fund
accumulations and by the fact that
about one-half of the debt pays itself,
principal and interest. AS it is, not
more than about $12, 900, 900 is charge
able upon the annual ratables. The
water debt of more than eleven mil
lions, which is self-paying and self
extinguishing, practically represents
investment. The Pequannock water
supply bonds certainly do.
The city obtained for these bonds a
property that, with some ~accretions, is
now worth at least $40, 900, 900, and as
the bonds are not paid out of the tax
levy, but by the earnings of the plant,
this property was virtually a gift.
When the bonds mature the income
that will accrue to the city will pay
interest and sinking fund charges and
six millions of other bonds and relieve
the taxpayers of that burden.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
ON THE BOOM A

One by one come fresh indications of
resumption of the "busy season" in the
mills and factories in various parts of
the country. Much of the slackness
was caused by the scare given en-
ployers by the money panic, though, of
course, there is always more or less of
it at this time of year. Restored con-
fldence seems to have been all that was
necessary to brace things VI again.
This condition has arrived, and on top
of specific instances of mills in Penn
~sylvania being ready next month to
give work to 10000 additional men
Chief Powderly, of the immigration
Bureau information division, reports
that the demands for workmen of all
kinds are increasing and that by the
spring hundreds of thousands of men
will be needed in the agricultural
States alone as farm laborers. Chief
Powderly is convinced from the reports
of his division that there will be a
prompt revival of the marvellous pros
perity that was checked but not halt
ed" by the excitement that prevailed
for a time in the money centres.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

moned to detective headquarters yester-
day his get busy policy" He told
them they were part of the city's detec-
tive service and must produce results
if they expected to hold on to their
jobs.
Amy mar who does not measure up
to the standard of efficiency expected
will be dropped" he said, and a man
who can do something will be substi-
tuted for him. I want reports of what
each man has accomplished in cases on
which he has been detailed, and not a
perfunctory statement that he walked
up Seventeenth and down Nineteenth
and took a drink with John Jones.
THE special police service is the
school of experience which should pro-
duce good detectives. Hereafter men
who make good showings in their dis
tricts will be given preference over all
others when 1t comes to promotions.
Politics won't cut any ice in this mat
ter hereafter.
TT is the duty of every special to
familiarize himself with all conditions
in his district. If arrests r made
over their heads by the regular detec-
tives assigned to the districts on
special duty, it will tell against their
records.
IT want every special to report to
me each day and then 90 back to his
own district and get busy. 1t rests
with you"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
THE PROPOSAL PRIVILEGE.

The days budget of news that does
not contain some freak idea or sugges-
ton from a Chicago professor is very
much of an anomaly. The latest Is
from DIR. Denslow Lewis, president of
the Medico-Legal Society of America,
who would have us make every year a
lear year so far as the popping the
question privilege goes. DR.. Lewis
thinks that If women were the choosers
all the time we should be far along
the road toward a ~regenerate society.
He cites the fact that in the animal
world the female invariably selects her
mate as proof that such is the natural
course for humans also, and mentions
the divorce records as a pretty clear
indication that man as the chooser has
made a rather bad job of it.
We are inclined to think that DR..
Lewis's agitation is a triie Unnecessary
The mere proposal of marriage is more
or less of a formality nyway The
really important work has been done
before it comes to that, and not by
any means the lesser part in it has
been played by the oma When
Shaw ungallantly said that woman's
business in life is to ensnare mar in
the matrimonial net, he exaggerated.
But there was a modicum of truth in
what he said, too. Women are the real
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
F A REWARD.

A pecuniary reward procured the APP
prehension of the negro who com
mitted the murder in the Park House
in Orange. A reward may be the means
of bringing to justice the cowardly
and brutal murderer of George H.
Fisher, who was fatally shot in his
house in Congress street last Wednes-
day morning.
There is an old saying that murder
will OUT When a murder is COM
mitted there is always some witness
or some clue, but police sagacity is too
often at fault to find the one or detect
the other. A reward excites the inter-
est and cupidity of people who may
have some knowledge of the crime or
who may have opportunities of inves-
tigation denied to the police. And a
reward sets many minds thinking and
puts many persons on the watch 1t is
also a temptation to a confederate in
crime.
We may as well recognize the fact
that our system of detection of Grim
inals is imperfect and unreliable, and,
therefore, when police detection is at
fault it should be assisted by the offer
of a substantial reward for evidence to
bring the guilty to justice. The das-
tardly murder of George H. Fisher
should not go unpublished. A reward
should be offered without delay.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
THE NEED.

A large central playground, as sug-
gested by the Mayor in his message,
means, of course, a tract convenient of
reach from all parts of the city. 1t
may be located in one of the outlying
wards where land is not held at pro-
hibitory prices. It could not be estab-
lished in the centre of the city because
of the cost of the land, and the OBJ
jections that naturally would be urged
by all property-owners in the vicinity.
1t would have been well if the orig
inal scheme of the Essex Park system
had included large spaces for play and
sports. These could have been obtained
without much sacrifice of scenic park
of greater necessity than the parks.
But the city is now obliged to provide
what was overlooked by those who de-
signed the park system, and it should
not fail to do So, while at the same
time establishing Fairgrounds for the
little ones.
The vacant lots, once so numerous,
are disappearing under the march of
building improvement, and 10 longer
furnish play places for the young.
They supplied a need that must be
satisfied in some other way. The chill
dren of Newark nave a first claim upon
the city government hat cannot be de-
niad
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Length of Taft,s Trip.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
low long a time did the trip of Secre-
tary Taft around the world consume?
H.. S.
ut occupied 1913 days. The chronology
of the trip is as follows: August 10, left
Washington and spoke at Columbus, o.;
August %, spoke at Lexington, KY; Au-
gust "a, spoke at Oklahoma City; Au-
gust 26. spoke at Joplin, Claremont and
Webb City; September 9, spoke at Seat
tie; September 13, sailed from Seattle for
Orient; September rs, arrived at Toxic,
Japan; September %, arrived at Yoko-
hama; October l, guest of Asiatic Asso-
citation; October 1, spoke at Toxic; Octo-
Der 2, private audience with Emperor;
October 8, sailed from Kobe for Maya
saki; October 5, arrived at Shanghai,
China; October z, arrived at Hong Kong;
October 10, arrived at Manila; November
10. sailed from Manila; November Is, ar
rived at Vladivostok, Siberia; November
%, his train on Trans-Siberian Railway
nearly wrecked; November 80, arrived at
MOSCOW, Russia; December 3, arrived at
st. Petersburg; December 4, had audience
with Gar; December 6, arrived at Ber-
lin, Germany; December 7, sailed from
Cuxhaven for United States; December
~, landed at New York.-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
PartIsanship and Patriotism.

Meanwhile, the progressive Democracy
and Republicanism of America, forming
almost a new party already, much more in
agreement with each other than with the
rea%ctionary element in their own party,
are to be congratulated on the prospect
before them. With such alternatives as
Bryan or Taft, or Bryan or Hughes, there
will be little for the selfish and %corrupting
interests. so long dominating the majority
of the people, to do for themselves except
to take to the woods. The country will
be safe with either man in the White
House, and the administration Of affairs
will be for the benefit of the people of the
whole country. No patriotic American
need lose any sleep over the result, which,
ever way the battle of the ballots should
go. We have happily passed the period
when partisanship colored all political
views and made ones own leaders imlnacu-
late and the candidates of the other side
the worst men in the world. Partlsanshio
is fast losing itself in patriotism, to the in
finite advantage of the republic and the
happiness Of its citizens Atlanta Geor-
gian.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
The Folly of a Revel.

Reports from New York are that the
celebration of New Years eve cost those
who participated in it ~three-quarters of
a million of dollars. That is a rough esti-
mate, of course, and the extravaganza of
New Workers is rarely underestimated.
Still, an sum of money was
doubtless expended or the revelry in ques-
ton, and it would be idle TO raise the
question whether all of it was thrown
away. There were some who profited by
the recklesssness of the rabble. 1t is safe
to say, however, that fully half of the
amount named came out Of the pockets of
people who could i'll afford to join In the
merry-making, people who needed the
money for other and saner purposes, but
who could not deny themselves the pleas
ureaof seeing and being seen I'm a COM
pany distinguished for nothing except its
ability to go the pace-a frivolous, thought
less, i~mprovident set. AS to whether that
is ever worth the price there cannot be
two opinions.-Providence Tribune.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

The Common Council of 1907 went out
of existence last night and the Com
mon Council of 1908 came into being,
with the Democratic majority of last
year increased and the Republican
minority correspondingly diminished.
The conditions Of a few years ago,
when the Democratic vote in the Coun-
Gil was a negligible quantity, are nearly
reversed this year. With a Democratic
Mayor and Democratic control of
the Common Council, the Democrats
have full responsibility for local gov
seen how they will discharge it.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Mhnt bel = Gentlemnne

Perhaps the best definition of the word
extant Is embodied in a well-known pas
sage written by Cardinal Newman. 1t Is
too long to quote, but it is prefaced by the
illuminative remark that n gentleman may
best be described as one who never need
iessly gives others pain. That may appear
IL very simple characterization, too simple
10 be adequate, and yet If examined it will
be found to contain the root of the whole
matter. 1t will, of course, be understood
that the pain which the Cardinal had in
mind is not physical suffering. 1t is any
and every kind Of mental and moral dis.
turbance, whether resulting from the
slightest inconvenience or the deepest dis
tress, and he who Is careful not TO give
others pain ic necessarily always consid-
crate, both In small things and in large. of
other peoples rights and feelings.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

lord who INDUCED in a vulgar gutter
fight in Paris this week made a pitiable
exhibition of their social order and of
the human nature concealed under a
pretentious title. The p~rovocation for
the fight. which would have caused he
contempt of an American street gamin,
was an American heiress, the daughter
of Jay Gould, who had traded her in
and a French roue. She was sick of
her bargain long ago, and has shaken
it off, but she cannot escape the
penalty. Hers is all the notoriety of
occurrence that the world is laugh
ing at.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
OF Presidential Mould.

In every trust that the President has
imposed upon him Mr.. Taft has emon-
strated what 1t means to be a loyal Ameri-
can. His ability and his integrity have
never been questioned even by his political
opponents. The value Of his services in
the Philippines can never be measured.
AS a lawyer he stands in the front rank
as a citizen, he commands the respect OF
all his fellows; his partisan preferences
are of the sterling, rock-ribbed kind that
win the respect of his foes and Of that
uncontpromising kin that always places
principle before expediency. Son Of Massa-
chusetts stock, born in an heroic mould,
gentleman, patriot and scholar; with a
mind broadened by travel; honored guest
of the great rulers of the earth and well
coined alike in the home of the poor and
lowly, the Republicans might not find 1t
an easy task to select a nominee for Presi-
dent who would reflect greater glory upon
the party than William H. Taft.-Haver-
hill Gazette.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04

Six per cent, just fixed by the Bank
of England as it's rate of discount, is
high, but the mere fact that it is a re-
duction of 1 per cent. from the rate
fixed when the money panic here was
al its height is an encouraging sign of
the strengthening out of financial con-
ditions. Never since the great panic of
1873 had the rate gone so high as 7 per
cent, but always the decline must be
gradual. That it has begun to go down
is an evidence that the situation is APP
preaching the normal again.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
what People Like to Read.

Two silly persons, who had never been
heard from before, carried out a suicide
pact in New York Wednesday, and the
male fool of the two left a card addressed
to 1.-THE Editor of Any Papers," request
ing them to tell the public we died for
love-" He didn't blow out his brains, for
they never had been put in. Cases like
this show up one of the off-sides of the
newspaper business. If nobody would
print stories of this kind, then such ninnies
would cease to regard the papers as their
special publicity bureaus and might aban-
don their performances. There is only one
reason why such publication is made; that
is that people want to read it.-Hartford
Courant.