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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Hunting coats, leggings and gun
eases at cut price for next 80 days.
SmithWick's Gun Store.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14
Mems Furnishing Goods.

Entire stock winter weight soc
shirts and drawers, now Csc.
75c and S5c shirts and drawers,
now SIC.
$125 shirts and drawers now S5c.
$3.50 and $1.75 shirts and drawers
now $1.25.
Our soc, Csc and 75c negligee shirts
now 39c.
$1O0 and $125 Eclipse" shirts. now
69c, and 75c
$3.50 and $500 Eclipse" shirts, now
$110.
500 prs. 1Oc sox, now &c pair.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

All kinds of air guns and special
air rifle bullets at SmithWiek's Gun
Store.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Miss Addie Langford, of Richland
was a fair visitor in the city yester-
day among others.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Mrs. Sue Mclaughlin, after visit
of some length in Albany, returned
home yesterday.
Hunting coats, leggings and gun
eases at cut price for next 30 days,
Smithwick's Gun Store.
Mr. S. C. Collins came over from
Ellaville yesterday morning, among
others from his town.
Fine harness carried in stock or
made to order at Bagley's; wholesale
and retail tt.
Mr. ]. E. Mathis left yesterday for
Moultrie, where he goes for several
days upon important business.
Why pay $1,000 or
$500 for an old stock
suit? When you can
have a new spring suit
for the same price tail
or made. We guaran-
tee to fit you, new line
just in. Call and see them.
S. L. STILLS.
Supt H. B. Grimshaw of the Sea-
board Railway, left this morning
over the western division upon Off
cial business.
Miss Zeralda Martin, the fair guest
of Miss Freddie Shipp, and one of
the fairest of the seasons visitors,
returned to Albany yesterday.
The Benevo1ence Society will meet
this afternoon at O'Clock in the lee
ture room of the First Baptist church.
The. members are urged to attend.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Fine harness carried in stock or
made to order at Bagley's; wholesale
and retail. tt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

The man from Kahns will be with
us Jan. 18th and 18th, with his
special samnipS. Come in and see
them and let him make you suit as
cheap as you can buy out of stock.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Daniel'S
Shoe Store.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

In a stock this size there are many
items space will not admit of our
detailing but we say to you that II
there is anything on earth you want
that we have if you will come here
we will name you a price that will
separate you from your coin quick.
This is a Stock Reducing, Money
Raising Sale.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Why pay the price for
stock clothes when you
can have one "Made to
Order" at the same
price. Spring samples
Just in. S. L. SILLS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Mr.. E. G. Ellington, a we'll known
Dawsonian,. was in Americas yester-
day morning on business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Large lot assorted zoe sox, now y
1-2c pair
200 pairs four ply linen cuffs, 2jc
grade. sc pair.
Entire stock soc mems neckwear
now 35c.
All the gloves, night robes, sus-
penders, etc, viii be reduced same
way
We viii sell during this sale Halves
Famous $500 hats, for $19S
All other hats will be cut exactly
half during this sale.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14
Wool Dress Goods and Silks

soc dress goods, now Csc.
75c dress goods, now SOC
$100 dress goods. now 69c
$125 dress goods. now S5c.
$3.50 dress goods, now CSC
$1.00 Silks, 69c.
1925 Silks, now S5c.
All the fancy silks at tremen-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Mr. j. E. Mathis left yesterday for
Moultrie, where he goes for several
days upon important business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Messrs. C. w. LoWrey, c. r. Pyburn
and A. H. Atkins, were among the
Atlantans coming here yesterday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Supt. H. B. Grimshaw of the Sea-
board Railway, left this morning
over the western division upon Off
cia1 business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

The BenevoIence Society will NEE
this afternoon at 8 o'clock in the lee
ture room of the First Baptist church
The members are urged to attend.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

dous reductions.
All the WOODEN dress goods not men
toned Will be sacrificed
All the white goods, linens, towels
napkins, table damasks, and every
thing pertaining to this stock will be
sacrificed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Miss Zeraida Martin, the fair guest
of Miss Freddie Shipp, and one of
the fairest of the seasons visitors,
returned to Albany yesterday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-14

Miss Freddie Shipp leaves tomorrow
upon a pleasant visit of some length
to friends in Vienna, Ca
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
IYHAWKER .JOTy

The new court house for Cowley
county has reached the plans and speci-
fications stage.
Jewell county is now standing out by
the front gate Dragging about her
wheat prospects.
Somebody is always accepting
lucrative situation at Lawrence, accord
ing to the local papers.
James Clark, a Medicine Lodge 'bont-
legger." is found to be cobbler Dy
trade-which seems to explain it.
A team Of horses hitched to a hearse
ran away near Mcpherson. Fortunate
ly, the runaway occurred before the
funeral.
The knights of Columbus will hold a
convention at Wichita in May, and it
is expected that forty lodges will take
part in the imposing ceremonies.
]. H. Jones, of Center township, Rice
county, has just finished cutting 10000
feet of lumber out of cottonwood trees
on his place. Some boards were 10
inches wide and II feet long.
One of the candidates for county at
torney in Allen county shows himself
incompetent by emitting the word
hereby from his published announce
ment. All others hereby announce"
themselves.
An lola young man writes from
Lima, Peru, that he met George w.
Munger of Greenwood county recently.
He is making a leisurely journey around
the world. Mr.. Munger made a strong
fight for the Populist nomination for
governor in 1900
Mrs R. g. Nicols of Pratt has eight
cows and the past two weeks she has
sold 106 pounds of butter at 80 cents
per pound and had plenty of butter for
the use of the family. That is another
proof that it pays to take care of the
family's friend, the faithful cow.
The Wichita Eagle the other day had
an interesting story-for the paper-of
% pages, 1876 columns, an ordinance
levying assessment for sewer and
drainage canal. The papers printed
for this issue would completely cover
100 ordinary city blocks If spread out
one sheet in thickness. One printer
using the modern linotype machine for
setting the type, would do we'll to set
the type in seven weeks, while, by the
old hand method, it would take one
workman 10 months.
One morning last week, says the Nor
ton News, Chef Bright's attention was
called to the racket made by a couple
of dogs on the o. H. Stever farm. He
got on a horse and rode out to the
alfalfa field where the dogs had some
thing cornered which he took to be a
young wolf. He went to the house and
secured a rifle and then proceeded to
dispatch the animal with a bullet. 1t
proved to be wild cat Of the bob tall
ed variety and had licked the stuffin'
out of two good dogs. Horace will send
it away and have 1t mounted. It
weighed 25 pounds and was not fat
| either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
WHAT OF THE BRAIN CROP?

What kind of a brain crop are you
going to raise this year?
Spring comes and nature renews her
self Every spring new things are Gre
ated which never existed before Luther
Burbank, on his California ranch, and
the naturalists everywhere, will watch
all kinds of seedlings and plants for
some new variation-some sport" as
1t is called, by which nature expert
ments in her search for perfection.
Burbank will examine thousands of
plants, sometimes hundreds of thou
sands, in the hope of finding a single
new variation. He never knows what
it is likely to be or whether it will be
valuable or useless. He knows that
some of these variations are enormous
ly valuable and that it is through them
either unaided or assisted by man. that
higher and better forms of plant life
are secured.
Many of us live in towns. and ever
some of US who have farms and
| gardens have not the gift to detect
| the new creations in nature We all
| however, have our minds and in the
garden of the mind more wonderful
| things may happen than in the fields
From human brains, which are watch.
| ed and cultivated, spring new creative
| ideas and great conceptions which are
! often of untold value to the human
| race.
There have been periods in history
when for entire generations, mankind
| has given birth to no ideas of genera
value. There have been other period.
when human intelligence has f1oweret
| in art, science and discovery Lucky
is any man in any generation who ha.
by the labor of a life time given t.
| the world one original idea
All of US read and study and think
! and more often than not. like the av
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
THE FIFTH WARD SEWER.

The action of the grand jury in the
Fifth ward sewer case is disappoint-
ing. There is a disposition among a
certain class to belittle the charges of
graft and misconstruction and to at
tempt to place the odium on the
shoulders of those who made the
charges. Just why this should be
done is not evident. There is no doubt
whatever that the people of the Fifth
ward are the victims of most grew
Gus outrage. They paid for sewer
on the theory that it was constructed
along certain lines and they find they
have one which in many instances fails
utterly to do the work for which
sewer is designed. There are people
along the line of this sewer who can
not drain their cellars. In places the
fall is entirely inadequate and there
is hardly a place where the original
specifications of the city engineer
were followed. In every instance
where the plans were changed it was
for the benefit of the contractors and
with shameless disregard of the peo-
pie who were paying for the work.
There is no use to say that all this
was due to mistakes of engineering
mistakes are not made that way. No
one who has investigated the charges
will doubt that there was graft there
and lots of it. Are the people to sit
calmly down inactive while the men
who are responsible for the outrage
wink slyly at each other and shout in
the public ear 1--WE are exonerated."
No municipality can afford to coun-
tenance such a state of affairs and if
the grand jury did not see fit or was
unable to place the blame where it
belongs there are other methods by
which the people who are responsible
should be brought to account.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.]
either.

From the Atch1SOn GloDe.J
A man thinks lots of things he doesn't
know.
People are always asking advice and
never taking it.
Tell any man you have a good deal to
do and he will laugh at you.
Was there ever a man big enough to
honestly admire his competitor?
Experience will teach some men in one
lesson what other will be years in learn
Ing.
Men are like little boys: they all like to
have great big rag tied around a little
sore.
If you should be kidnapped how much do
you suppose your best friend would give
to get you back?
An Atchison young man who is engaged
to be married has over SO pairs of socks
laid away to be darned
If a boy under u knows what a hand
kerchief is for. it is a sign he is regarded
by his playmates as dude.
If there is going to be money lost the
best friend you have in the world would
rather see you lose it than to lose it him.
self.
Give a man his due. He may not mean
mean all the disagreeable things he says
either.
Every woman believes that if her hus-
band could be married to some other wo-
man a week he would know better how
to appreciate her.
An Atchison old bachelor says that
when he gets married his wife will be a
girl who keeps her hair plastered down
| straight. He says that women who let
| their hair fly around loose or curl it, are
never to economical of thrifty as those
who slick It down straight.
| A girl who has older brothers is less liza
| hasn't She has heard what fun the men
make of the women who smile and flirt
she may think ii is, the man who tells ii
| gives her no credit for her innocence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
THEIR NEW RELAIIoNsHrp.

You'll at least be a sister to me9
MANY thanks You're exceedingly kind
nave others; but that you won't mind,
JUST at present their number Is three.
can take a magnanimous view
" the matter. won't be outdone,
Enough know you already have one
LII at least be a brother to you.
mat my sisters do love me I know
ana know their affection I prize
I'm pretty nice chap in their eyes
Ihelr regard they are willing to show
''Mr. Smithers'' sounds awfully prinn-
When l am calling you Maggie" my
dear.
AS my sister. it's perfectly clear
GU can't get out of calling me Jim"
And I'll hug all my sisters-like this
AND they always return the embrace
There's no need of averting your face
l m bestowing a brotherly kiss.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.1
The peekaboo waists in show windows
look cool.
Money may buy a house, but not a hap
py home.
But nobody censures the actor whose
wife supports him.
Where there's smoke there is some one
or something smoking.
The prosperity of fool may be either
a reward or a penalty.
Even the man who lives upright isn't
apt to die in that position.
It's a good deal easier to get engaged
than it is to get disengaged
Many a man who toots his own horn
imagine that he is the whole band.
A married woman cares more for dress
than a man; a spinster cares more for
man.
If you would keep on the safe side be-
ware of people who try to get on the
good side of you.
During courtship a mans word goes
about seventeen times as far as it does
after marriage.
It's easier to write a book on How to
Get Rich than it is to make good by
your own recipes.
A man never borrows the scales of Jus
tice for the purpose of weighing the short
conings of his neighbor.
A married woman who says she wishes
she were single again is the first to look
for No. as soon as she becomes a widow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
"a be glad to marry to stay there. but

I'd be glad to marry to stay there. but
didn't"
why not?'' asked Tim breathless1y.
Il was almost ashamed to come over
after you in the hobs after your riding
In automobiles and in the subway and
things like that. and I didn't suppose
you'd care for that lunch after all the
city truck you'd been eating"
Matte regarded him scornfully.
"Bess did one thing she said quiet
" She made me contented with my
lot They live in a real palace with a
hundred servants and they don't ever
walk up and down stairs. They have
beautiful rooms and costly food, but
it's not like a home. Why, Tim, most
OF the men In New York don't even
have time to love their wives. They're
too busy making money
Tim cleared his throat and fixed his
gaze upon the distant hills.
Matte he said timidly. Tive
got lot of time and-and-"
And you've been wasting 1t making
yourself miserable over the thought
| that was going to come back citified
and tired Of old faces and friends" re-
minded Matte. I'm afraid you don't
| make very good use of your time. Tim. :"
Pm going to spend the rest of 1t in
telling you that I love you." said Tim
boldly, and Mates face gave assur-
| ance that the telling would be well
come.-(Copyrighted 1908, by Associa-
| ted Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philade1phIa RECORD. !

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record1
Silence is golden when it isn't fronicaI
The best thing about hope is that It
costs nothing.
Even the doctor sometimes can't keep
body and soul together
The man who is satisfied with some
thing Just as good" is apt to be failure.
The man who browns his sorrows in the
flowing bowl has few joys to christen
in it.
No, Maude. dear. a chauffeur's ball
would not necessarily be limited to the
breakdown.
The only excuse that some people seem
10 nave for getting married is that mis-
cry loves company.
The square piano is old-fashiored ana
1t looks as though the square man was
getting to be also.
Nell-'Mr. Saphedde says he would lire
10 be a monk Belle-In a monastery or
The man who does things is worth ten
OF the fellows who tell us how ti,fnga
ought to be done.
Mr. Buggins-.'T am going to begin to
save ss ior rainy day" Mrs. BugeinsN
rain coat today for only 30" -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31

erage garden, raise the usual crop of
usual things. But it is from the usual
garden, carefully watched and nur-
tured, that spring the creative varia-
lions which mark new steps in prog
ress.
As you watch the growing plants this
spring season, ask yourself what kind
of brain crop you are going to raise
this year. Are you going to think of
anything but the same trivial and
stupid things which ordinarily hold
your attention, or are you going to
pillow deep, harrow we'll, and bring
forth something better than you ever
have before?
1t is a kind of farming which every
one can do and which pays everybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Women have suffered in all ways ex-
cept in silence.
X X
Everybody makes more or less mis-
takes but few admit that they do.
X X
One of the most important Qua1ifica-
tions for a beginner in literature is a
small appetite.
X X X
When a chap comes from a wedding
party with both eyes BACKED it is
prima facie evidence that he was not
the best man there.
X X
It's easier to believe that there's a
woman in the sun than that there is a
man in the moon because it's so hot in
the former.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31

Some logic that was deliciously
humorous flowed from the mouth of
"Jack" Beall, the Texas congressman
in the speech he delivered the other
day in the house when he took occa-
sion to pay his respects to Mr.. Roose-
welt. 1.-THE president is a contradic-
ton" he said among other things.
HE declaims against race suicide, but
insists on keeping a tariff on safety
pins and baby buggies."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

IF'rom the New York Press1
A girl likes to dance so as to be too tired
next day to help her mother.
A woman's idea of a good complexion is
when you can't guess whether it is real.
A comfortable feeling is to have rela-
tives visiting ct your house when you are
away on a business trip.
A man who can pass through a stock
market panic without losing his head
will go wild if his shaving water isn't hot
enough. -
When man goes to a political meeting
he yells at the speeches and finds out in
were about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31

Folks in Pittsburg, Pa, can al
ways be depended upon to make rec
ords in all things Two of their num-
Der who were connected with ma
tional bank are under arrest for mis-
applying the funds of the institution
to the amount of one million dollars.
The only wonder is that they did not
get away with all the money in the in
StitutiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31

Telepathy is used by the women
of Aurora, Ill, in the liquor war that
Is being waged in that town. The
fair sex employs thought wave tao
tics to influence speakers against To-
cal option. They tried it the other
night on a speaker in their efforts to
confuse him but he went right ahead
speaking and the telepathists refused
to state in what way their efforts had
been a Success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
HUMOR or THE DAY

The Poets Wife-My husband read this
poem at a public celebration before thou
sands of people. Alas! it was the last
poem he ever wrote.
The Editor.I see. Did they lynch him
Mrs. Naggs (reading)-In some parts OF
Africa the more wives a man has the
greater his social Importance.
Naggs-Well, I suppose the people there
admire a brave man.-Chicago News.
s,- Pa, What does a golden anniversary
3'well. my boy. it signifies that a man
and woman have quarreled together for
Detroit Free Press.
Jack.I may kiss you then?
Perdita NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the
Jack teagerly)-when?
n1or row ; say SATURDAY ' Journal. "
IT am going instantly to that dear
Duo. your past is such no heiress
Still. I might earn something serving
He-Jones says in this letter thai his
She-That is not So l saw two horses
hauling it along the street the other day.
illustrated Bits.
Butterin-Why have you been studying
those rules SO hard for the last few days?
Fusser-Don't bother me. I'm taking a
girl to the game.-Harvard Lampoon.
Stern Parent (anxious to impress the
lesson)-Now, my son. tell me why 1 have
Tommy ebittsrlyy>11g3o,- POL, There; you've
given we good hekn a News a0nt even
Don't be afraid" said the woman on
the front sseR that d1g kss
Mike Il do not question your assurance ASST u3c.
| an Observation-Disclosures Star.
You say he married the cook?'
| Eyes, but she was a college girl in dis
well. if she was a good cook, it was a
mighty thorough disguise. "-Philadelphia
do you think women are more opti-
"sure thing A woman may look under
her bed every night for forty years with
right on hoping. '-chicago Record-HeF-
aid.
"Your husband is still very fond of
horses said the woman who disapproves
of betting.
well, it's nothing to his credit.
ct don't know about that 1t shows he
has very forgiving disposition. wash
ington Star.
I'm your opinion" asked the member of
the investigation committee, what is the
cause of the evident unrest among the In
dians?"
Comanche Pete, the noted scout blew a
cloud of smoke into the atmosphere Then
he took his pipe out OF his mouth.
"Fleas," he Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
when a mans engaged to a girl said
Miss Singleton Ibis idea of good hours
is to stay from o'clock until any time
after midnight
yes" replied Mrs. Bridey, land even
after marriage the hours are the same.
The only difference is that in one case
they are hours with her and in the other
away from her ."-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31

Anarchy's flag finally has been
tossed to the breeze in New York and
that a score of policemen were not
sent to their doom was only due to the
premature explosion of a bomb in
the hands of one of the cankers of
humanity. The murderous intent was
there. This is only another instance
which goes to show that drastic steps
must be taken to stamp out anarchy
in this country.