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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
PRETTY GIRLS TO PACK
CRATES OF ELBERTAS
Busy Scene at Biz Orchard
Here.

Peach versus peach" is the battle
merrily waged this week out at the
big packing house of the Bagley or
chard, where nimble fingers of dain-
ty maidens are deity packing the
rich, golden fruit into crates for
shipment, and doing it to perfection.
The scene is a novel one here,
where peaches are being shipped the
first season. and the pretty girls
are enjoying it to the utmost
Their services were needed, and
they were equal to the emergency
The company wanted scores of
girls to pack the small baskets and
crates. The work is pleasant as
we'll as profitable, and representatives
of the social set are as busy at the
packing house today as ever at a
card party
Yesterday several farm wagons
were sent in by previous agreement,
and a full score of pretty girls went
out to the orchard where they were
put to work amid the great piles of
luscious Elbertas placed In the pack
ing house aud awaiting them.
AS fair and luscious as the juiciest
of peaches, the pretty packers went
merrily at it.
With deft fingers they neatly pack
the carriers, six to the crate, and
when one is filled up (the crate, not
the girD it is an object of admiration
indeed. The company pays them well
and many pretty maidens will thus
make pin money
Those who went out yesterday were
we'll pleased with their task, and early
this morning many other pretty pack
ers will go out in the company's wa
gons,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
TO BEGIN WORK TODAY
ON PARK AND TRACK
Company is Setting Ready
For Show.

Dirt will be broken this morning
upon the park and track of the Driv
ing Association, and as rapidly as
possible the half mile track grand
stand, stock pens and other acces-
sories will be pushed to completion
for the stock exhibit in AmericuS in
the fall
For the prime object of the asso-
citation will be the rearing of fine
stock in Sumttr and exhibition of
young colts upon the track.
And this will be the finest driving
track in south Georgia.
The association has secured the
services of Mr. R. T. Christian, a
track builder of many years eXper-
ience, he having built the fine mile
track in the Macon park and the half
mile track at Idle Hour farm, con-
sidered the fastest in the South
The park grounds, the great level
pasture fiat near Magnolia Dell and
fronting on the Central and Seaboard
lines, are indeed ideal.
Convenient of access by rail, and
only half dozen blocks from the
centre of the city, a better selection
could not be found in all the country
Here the buildings will be erected
right away, and a fast half mile driv-
ing track will be laid out.
The association, made up of a num-
Der of AmeriCus business men and
stock owners will meet today, or
ganize and elect officers.
Charter viii lbe applied for and a
permanent institution is thus fully
guaranteed.
Sumter county can show today as
many fine colts as any county in
Georgia. One farmer here owns ten
in his lot while another has twenty
fine horse colts, all we'll bred. 1t
is to stimulate stock raising that the
association is formed
A livestock fair in Americus in the
fall is one of the immediate objects
of the association.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30

People would like to save money
by not using it on things that are
worth while so as to be able to spend
it on things that are not worth while
N. Y. Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
TO UNvEIL IN OCTOBER
THE SHAFT TO WlRZ
Monument is Being Finish
ed in AmeriCuS.

Down at the marble works of Clark
& Co., on Jackson street reposes a
we'll nigh finished piece of marble
which when reared at Andersonville
few weeks hence, will command at
tention from Sandy Hook to the Col
den Gate; from Canada down to the
Gulf.
It is the celebrated Wirz monument
which will commemorate the valiant
deeds of that martyr to fanatical hate
and judicial murder
The shaft is rapidly being finished
and made ready for the unyeiling cere-
monies which will take place on Octo-
Der 31st under auspices of the Z. q.
c., of Georgia.
Some time ago, publicity was made
of proposed inscriptions for the shaft.
storm of fanatical sentiments raised a
storm of fantical Indignation in the
north, and so intense was the bitter
ness thus engendered that dire threats
were thus provoked.
The inscriptions, in whole or in
part, may still be used.
1t is known, however, that one of
the inscriptions has been rewritten,
but just what it contains is known
only to Mr. Clark and the committee,
and not until the veil falls from the
shaft on October 81, will it be seen.
1t is officially announced that the
monument to be erected to the mem
ory of Captain Henry Wirz at Ander-
sonville, will be unveiled on October
31st, with appropriate ceremonies.
Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall of Savan-
nah, will deliver the principal Grafton
and there will be other addresses. Mrs.
Perrin the granddaughter of Captain
Wirz, will attend the unveiling and
draw the cords that permits the veil
to fall from the monument.
The unveiling will take place dur
ing the state convention of the U. D.
c., in Savannah.
The delegates will come from Say
annah to Andersonville for that pur-
pose. The convention meets in Saw
annah on October 9th and will ad-
journ on the goth. Those who wish
to attend the exercises at Anderson
vile on the 31st will thus have ample
opportunity of doing so.
All Confederate organizations are
invited to attend the exercises. Miss
Baxter announced the following COM
mittee appointments in connection
with the unveiling of the monument.
Unveiling-Mrs. A. B. Hull, Savan-
nah chairman; Mrs. j. e. Mathis, Am
ericus; Mrs. James Taylor, Americus;
Mrs. r. II. Taylor, Griffin. Miss Kate
Latham, Savannah; Mrs. John Don
aldson, Bainbridge.
State and Building-Mrs. ]. E.
Mathis, Americus, chairman; Mrs
James Taylor Americus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
EAGLE WILL SCREAM
ON GLORIOUS FOURTH
AmeriCuS to Offer induce
mentS to Visitors.

Plans for celebrating the Fourth
were discussed yesterday, and it is
practically assured that there will be
a celebration of the day.
Leading merchants will offer spec
ial inducements to visitors in the
way of free round trip tickets to their
customers. This offer will include
all places in the county, as well as
Smithville and Preston.
Details of the program have not
yet been worked out. One feature of
the day will be speaking at the Mag
nolia DELL local speakers making
short patriotic talks. Those who
bring their dinners can spread lunch
in the cool shade, while uptown the
hotels and restaurants will furnish
a meal at reasonable prices.
An effort will be made to get a
hall in which the visitors, especially
the ladies and children, can have
for their own, and rest. Free ice
water will be provided while the
drug stores and ice cream parlors
will have on tap all sorts of cool
drinks and creams.
In the afternoon there will be a
game of baseball at the park be-
tween Americus and Douglas. The
same teams will play on the day be-
fore. and the visitors will no doubt
give such good account of them
selves that a large crowd will be
eager to see the second game.
Even without the special attractions
and the offers of local merchants to
refund the price Of the excursion
tickets to customers, there would
probably be a large crowd in town
Saturday With the added induce
ments named the number of visitors
will be greatly increased.
Though the movement for cele-
brating the country's natal day this
year has been begun a trifie later
than usual, it is the intention of those
interested to make the day a remem-
bered one, and to bring one of the
largest and most representative
crowd of visitors from Sumter and
surrounding counties which has ever
graced Americus on the Glorious
Fourth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
WEDDING IN ATHENS OF
INTEREST IN AMERICUS

The marriage this evening of Miss
Susie Barrow and DR.. Grove, to be
solemnized at the Episcopal church
in Athens, is of moment here as in
the Classic City where the social
prominence of the bride and groom
render it an occasion of interest in
social circles. The bride the charm
ing daughter of Chancellor Barrow
of the State University, has been 4
much admired visitor in Americus.
The rites will be solemnized by Rev
James b. Lawrence rofthis city, while
among the out-of-town guests will
be Mrs. John A. Cobb, Misses Eliza
beth and Matte Cobb. Mrs.. James
Taylor and Miss. Iasfcy Barrow Taylor
OF Anaerie..s;s.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
WATER AT ICE PLANT
is STRUCK AT LAST
ArteSian Well is a Success
T'iS Thought.

With a hole bored through the
earth to bed rock, the Crystal Ice
Co. is in a way now to have plenty
of artesian water for the manufac-
ture of the cooling product. For
some time past the ice company has
been paying the city's water depart
ment from 500 to $120 per week for
water, and naturally there is gratif-
cation that this enormous expense
bill will now be stopped in the COM
pletion of the we'll The water comes
from a depth of near 400 feet, and is
of fine quality
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
WO0DMEN TO HAVE A
UNIF ORM RANK HERE

The Amerfcus Camp, Woodmen of
the World, is to institute uniform
rank, with large membership, at an
early date In fact, orders for the
uniforms have been placed already
and officers of the rank chosen, and
in a short while the Woodmen will
be out for inspection in their new
regalia
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30

The romance of a spinster is apt
to be one sided.-Chicago News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
GUESTS AT A HOUSE
PARTY IN COUNTRY

Mrs. A. F. Hodges is entertaining a
house party this week at her hospi-
table home near Andersonville, and
the occasion will be a delightful one
withal. Among her several charm
ing guests are Misses Minnie Lowe,
Lucy Peacock, Myrtle Rushin, of
Beuna Vista, and Miss Lula Mathis
of Americus, who went up by the
afternoon train yesterday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30

Gentlemen
have faith in the South have faith in my State;
have faith in my people; have my faith by
my works; am pleased say have policy with yo
for $5OOO.O0.
Yours very truly,
NEON II
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-06-30
Sundry Summer Items:--

Such Negligee Shirts, Lisle Sox, Checked Main
sock Underwear Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers Scriv
ems Elastic Seam Drawers and Shirts, Pajamas Night
Robes, Neckwear, Collars, Handkerchiefs Suspenders,
etc. etc Aare well represented here and the prices
right every time better values for your money than
you viii find elsewhere See
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
HORSE SENSE NEEDED.

A. Pennsylvania Judge called mag
istrate into his presence and gave
him a severe reprimand for sending
into his court so many trivial cases,
which ought to have been ended in the
Justices court. Here is what the judge
said to the magistrate:
THE cases OF Bergotti and Shenco,
which occupied the attention Of the
court for more than day at an ex-
penSe Of some $500 to $500, ended at
a point where by little judicious
treatment on your part they might
have ended at the outset.
There is something radically wrong
IN your line Of proceeding. We sent
for you that you and the other mag
istrates of this county may be in
formed Of what the results of these
things are that you may be able to
exercise ordinary horse sense and see
that the county shall not be inflicted
with these excessive costs"
That is a sensible talk and ii is
much needed A little horse sense, as
the judge suggests, will save the peo-
PIE q good deal of money, and will
give the court more time for serious
cases. But let 1t be remembered, and
the people should remember 1t when
they elect magistrates, that the lack
Of horse sense is very expensive.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
WORK FOR THE WoRKLEss.

Not only do we have the poor
with us continually, but there is a
class among them which may be said
to be professionally destitute, the
male members of which make up
much of that floating population
amongst which, if not out of which,
criminals of the petty as well as
dangerous sort come and go. These
floating mendicants depend on the
whining assertion that they cannot
get work to excuse parasite exist
ence. The superintendents of free
employment bureaus, police officials
and the former head of the Knights
of Labor, T. V. Powderly, and many
social experts are on record as ia
Voring the establishment of institu-
tions BY the state at such points as
may seem desirable, colonies where
all the non-criminal but chronically
out of work may be sent. Feeding
and sheltering such as these without
any sort of return from them is an
intolerable burden on industry and
charity, both robbing as 1t does the
worthy of the aims they should re-
ceive and taxing those who will
work for those who will not. Giving
thus to the professional mendicant
sinks him deeper and deeper below
the plane of his self-respect and
makes his case all the more hope,
less.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
TRULY "HOT STUFF"

It looks very much as IL President
Roosevelt intends to make the remain
ing months of his rule at Washing
ton a veritable saturnalin of inciner-
ating invective. Yesterday his tenn
perature was about 100 degrees above
the boiling point. He blistered and
withered the unworthy" right and
left. Surely, the White House must
be coated within and without with q
preparation of asbestos, otherwise II
would now be in ashes. MIR. Roosevelt
If not clad in freproof garb would
have succumhed to spontaneous COM
bustion, superinduced by overheated
parts of speech. A year or so ago the
president coined a phrase of derision
to express his contempt for certain
Americans who had suggested that
possibly all of his policies are
not faultless. He said these
timid remonstrants were suffering
from acute Inflammation of righteous
ness" Many of Mr.. Roosevelt's fel,
low-citizens yearn to have a correct
diagnosis of his case. inflammation
is clearly too frisid a term to de-
scribe the degree of caloric intensity
with which the president pronounces
judgment upon all Americans who are
not of his way of thinking, and there
fore cumber the earth with their pres
ence. Nothing short Of a figure OF
speech like "confiagration" will meas
ure the consuming quality Of his
wrathful indignation. Yesterday Mr.
Roosevelt, in a message to congress
which, we suspect, scorched the dome
of the capitol and caused fire alarms
to be turned in from that quarter
applied the Tedhot branding irons OF
vituperation to certain publishers and
writers in the United States He must
have been thinking of the good old
times when the cattle were rounded
up on his ranch and were scared &C.
cording to the methods Of the baroni
of the cattle country. These were tho
brands which the president applied
Wanton, Wicked Defamer,
Vilifer of American People.
Publisher of Scurrilous Statements
Unknown individuals, or
individuals of Bad Character.
Manufacturers of Fatuities.
Blackmailers.
Wicked SANDERS
Blackening of Good Names.
Wrongdoing of FOulest Kind.
lnfamy.
Iniquity.
Does the president believe the peo
pie OF the United States prefer rhetor
ical fireworks and verbal branding
irons to q calm, balanced, reasoneC
statement from their chief magistrate
fortified by facts? Does he imagin'
that the wrath Of a congress composeo
OF men who are still smartiag from tn
eanterizatiOn which he gave them I
few days ago win be appeased by. tn
/ fury of mis- attack upon other Amer
| Iicans.-Baltimore Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
THE COLLEGE FARMER.

The college farmer, the boy who
leaves the farm to learn scientific
methods at one of the big agricultural
institutions, came into his own last
week at the live stock show, when
representatives of these institutions
made a new record in prizes for ex
aminations and Judging and other
practical tests of ability. Eight Of
the colleges sent picked teams oi
students and the contest between
these was SO close that the final diff
ference in standing was only matter
of a few per cent Iowa State Col
lege led at the finish, with Ne
braska University next, followed by
Texas Agricultural College, Missouri
University, Kansas Agricultural Col
lege, Ohio University, Ontario Agri
cultural College and Minnesota Uni
versity. When the first internationa
live stock show opened its doors
there was much amused interest as
to the outcome of the contests be
tween the college youth, with his
scientific and theoretical training, ant
the boy who had ben taught prac
tical farming by his father every day
on an actual farm. That was in the
days when the value of scientific
training was little recognized and ole
ways were thought the best Ther
came the contests, in which, to the
surprise of all but a few, the col
lege students who were versed in the
theory of farming showed they had {
better grasp of the practical side O
it than their friends and neighbors
who had learned in the hard schoo
of experience. Farmers who hat
sneered at book larnin'" began tC
inquire about tuition for their soni
in some of the schools, and today
students days at the live stock show
is one of the most interesting in tbs
whole program. This year thirty col
leges were represented from the
United States and Canada and the
competition between them and be
tween individuals was keener than 1
has ever been before. Delegations
from some of the nearer institutions
turned out to support their fellow
students and when H. H. Kildee, o.
Iowa State College, was awarded frs
prize in the judging contest, the an
nouncement was followed by a col
lege yell that would have done credit
to a championship football game.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31

could get out Of million dollars Is
superior food, shelter and raimentp
he has written himself down not only
pig or poodle but an ass 70 boot.
For TIN FIRST and most important
thing that the man with a million
can get out of Il, IL he wishes. is
leisure This leisure b the greatest
blessing Of all, not alone to himself
but to the entire world. This leisure
does not imply iileness, nor Is 1t q
boon for the, lazy man. Its greatest
worth is to the energetic, the ambi-
tious, the aspiring man. 1t means
simply that he will not have to give
his time to money-grubbing that he
will not have to- give so much of
musele-wearying, bone-racking, sweat
binding toll to the mere earning of a
living for himself and those dependent
time nor energy left for the cultivation
of his mind, his soul, his love for
those things which are the symbols
of truth and beauty.
Out of this leisure, this time left
over from the toll that is necessary
merely to exist, the world has gained
the advancement that has been made
from the most primitive and bestial
savagery. Leisure-work Is the work
that Is done for the love of the work
and not paid as a tribute to the first
law of nature. 1t is to this work we
owe our science, our philosophy, our
literature, our fine arts, our invention
our entire progress toward higher
spiritual life. II is to the time, the
opportunity of study, assimilate and
enjoy the products of human genius
expressing itself in its multiform vari-
cites, that every man owes whatever
degree of culture is his.
This great blessing-the unfettered
chance to give ones best to the worlc
and to receive from the world the
best 1t has to give-is what wealth
brings. Much wealth is not essen
tial, but some degree of wealth is
The potential difference between him
who has, and him who has not
might be broadly expressed by the
| difference between The Man With
the Hoe" and the man who painted
| him. Millet was not a millionaire
| it is true, when he painted that un'
| forgettable picture. But he had made
such emergence from poverty that he
was no longer obliged to paint chear
portraits and pastel limitations for his
daily bread. He was able to do. In
| leisure, the work he loved.
| A million dollars cannot bring the
capacity or desire either to do or en-
| joy such work. Not even millior
dollars can make a silk purse out o.
a sow's ear But 1t can and does
bring the opportunity; the rest de-
wolves on the mfllionaire.-omahs
World Herald
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31

Very possibly President Roosevelt
has arrived at the conclusion that he
had best handle congress with kid
gloves, not the six-ounce variety. AT
any rate, II is now reported that he
is taking water, that he does not in
tend to personally assail congress
men in the message in which he hopes
to sustain his charges that the law
makers feared his sleuths, 1t is rath-
er a peculiar position the president
finds himself in. This is the first
time that his bluffing has been called
1t has made him more cautious. The
message will be milder--at least, it Is
hoped so. Possibly he is taking COM
fort in the anticipation that the gum
shoe artists in all departments may
be combined under one head.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
RUMORED CANTON TO- HAVE
NEW DEPARTMENT STORE

A rumor to the effect that store
room now occupied by the drug firm
of Durbin 4 Wright, at the corner
Of Market and Seventh streets, is to
be leased by new company and to
be remodeled into a department
store, is circulating persistently in
local business circles. When ap-
preached upon the matter, H. r.
Jones, the owner of the building, de-
MED that any such deal was con-
templated. He said: -It is all news
to me. have not even heard of the
matter. / think that a mistake has
been made"
The Durbin & Wright Company
said: "We are not IN position to
give out any information upon the
matter"
Another party in a. position to be
well informed in that connection
said: II am informed that a depart
ment store Is to be located in the
room now occupied by the Durbin &
Wright Company, and that 1t will be-
gin business next summer. However,
know nothing of the details of the
project"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31
BILLS
TO Be INTRODUCED

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Burk-
EFT, of Nebraska, is to introduce bill
after the holidays for federal control
Of telegraph lines. Senator Dolliver,
of Iowa, will bring before the SEN
ate soon as possible bill for system
attic federal inspection of all corpor-
alton books. La Follette's bill for
scientific and uniform system of rail
road valuation win be reported from
the committee tefore the present con-
gress dies. Senator Fulton will push
forward at once bill empowering
the interstate commission to pass up
on reasonableness on freight rates.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-31

knowledge of the business Ia equal
to or better than that Of witnesses
who have preceded him. Mr., Car
negie's frankness was never more
charming than at the point where he
ridiculed Judge Gary's solicitude for
the steel corporations competitors.
Any situation which presupposes
virtual monopoly pleading for the
interests of the unfortunates whom
they have not yet gulped down is
too ludicrous to be considered
thoughtfully for one instant.
And this is the only argument
this and some figures of cost, which
Mr.. Carnegie correctly declares may
be made to do the bidding of theiI
master in any variety of ways-why
the tariff on steel should be main
tanned. "Our competitors need it,
After having the facts driver
home i'm this manner, republican
standpatters, If they persist in theil
determination to maintain schedules
will be guilty of worse hypocrisy
than any person had ever believed
them capable of.