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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26
SIX THOUSAND
DOLL WORTH
OF Handpainted China on
Display at DOdSOn'S
Wednesday.

j. H. Stouffer Co., of Chicago, Ill,
will have on display Wednesday, July
29th at Dodson's Pharmacy, their
entire line of Hand Painted China.
They are the leading painters of china
in this country, and two artists from
their studio will be here to explain
the details of how the painting is
done. This is an opportunity never
before had by people of Americus of
seeing such an extensive and beau
tiful display, and every one is urged
to call at Dodson's Pharmacy and see
display.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26
Stouffer's display of
Hand Painted China at
Dodson's Pharmacy
Wednesday.
To Complete Building BY Sept. /.

Contractor G. C. Hall has been
awarded the contract to complete the
two brick buildings owned by Mr..
James 7. Cotney, on Forsyth street,
opposite the postofice He is to have
the buildings ready for occupancy by
Sept. 1, at which date a number of
leases by tenants will begin
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26
WOOdmen OF World, Attention

Leslie Camp extends invitation to
Americus camp to meet with them
in the service of unveiling monu-
ment to their deceased Sovereign Ivey
at 8 o'clock Sunday afternoon, 26th.
are requested to assemble
at their camp at 2 p. M, promptly.
2t H. r. JOHNSON, Clerk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26

Two artists of note
will explain all details of
Painting on China at
Dodson's Pharmacy
Wednesday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26
Sealed Bids Received

Sfaled proposals will be received
unt Tuesday, July %, at the office
of Crawford Wheatley, for the sale
and disposal of the building now
occupied by the Americus Library
Association
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY,
JOHN A. COBB,
FRANK SHEFFIELD,
22-1w. Committee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26

1t appears like most married peo-
pie spent their lives wondering why
they did tn Y Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26

Mosquito bites spread
disease, and are other
wise unpleasant. All
kinds of nets and frames
at Ansley's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-07-26

g Protect your porches
and make them cool by
buying "Vudor" Porch
Shades from Ansley.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Excess OF Consumption OF Cotton

Those who are talking down me
Price of cotton forget that consump.
ton has been outrunning production In
the United States, Egypt and India and
wherever else commercial cotton is
grown. The shortage has in the past
five years ranged from 100000 bales ~
725,O00 bales. The shortage in the last
cotton year was 100000 bales.
The spindles of the world were in
creased last year by the number of
100000, bringing the grand total UP
to 127,2S2,000 spindles. These spindles
call for about 1900 900 bales a year.
and it is doubtful indeed whether that
number of bales will be marketed in
the present cotton year.
The buying capacity of the world
stands essentially unimpaired. Even
in this country we have good crops.
and good crops mean that the needs
of the country for textile goods will be
large. The demand for cotton goods
will certainly be increased in this
country, and in other countries it has
not been rudely checked as it has
been in the United States. Once
let the I demand for goods be re-
stored to something like the basis of
last year, and the effect upon the
prices of cotton will be speedily felt.
All the crops other than cotton are
fully up to averages, and this should
lead to higher prices for the staple,
while the worlds consumption will
doubtless be fully up to that of the
previous year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Red Tape In MILEAGE Books

There is really no reason in the
world why the railroads should annoy
their best customers, the commercial
travellers. Mileage books are issued
to them at the rate of cents a mile.
They are grateful for the rate, but not
for the red tape which goes with it.
AS things stand the mileage book is
simply vexatious method of procur-
ing special tickets at the stations. The
holder of a mileage book cannot
change his mind on a train. He can
not have his baggage checked before
he arrives at a station, for he must
first present it at the ticket Office and
procure ticket. He is lindered ut
every point, and these hindrances are
serious matter to the man who u--
sires to go from one town to another
at the last moment.
Surely the railroads can protect
themselves without unduly inconveni-
encing the men who use mileage books.
Surely they should fc.lify themselves
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Frank 0'Brien and the Bond Issue

If the proposed bond issue is voted
down today birmingham will stand
alone among American cities. Other
cities have made haste to provide
school accommodations for their chill
dren, preferring intelligent citizens in
the future to those who cannot read
and write.
If the democratic ticket headed by
Capt Frank P. O'Brien is defeated to.
day the people in As states will be told
by wire tomorrow morning that the
solid south has been broken-that re.
publicanism has captured a famous
city in the very heart of the south.
Men of Birmingham, can you afford
to stay away from the polls today I'M
der such circumstances?
Make no mistake. The cause of gen.
eral education and the old-time demo.
cratic party both need you today. Go
to the polls early and see that your
neighbors do likewise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
Taking Stock OF National Resources

The federal government and the vari-
GUS states are cooperating in the nom
partisan work of preparing an inven-
tory of the countrys natural resources.
Henry Gaunett of the census bureau
has been selected by President Roose-
Welt to give final form to the injuries
made by the departments of the gen.
eral government. These will be CON-
bined with the reports from the states.
and the national conservation commits.
sioner hopes to have a preliminary
report ready to lay before the next
general meeting, which will be held at
Washington on December l.. One week
later the governors of the 46 states
are to meet with the commission for
the purpose of devising ways to con.
serve the countrys natural resources.
The inventory that is being made
will cover farms and mineral lands:
crops and crop production; swamps
and overflow lands and irrigation.
waterways and railroads; timber and
lumber; minerals and the mineral SUD-
ply; live stock, game and fish, and all
other things that enter into the coun-
try's natural resources. A vast num-
Der of inquiries have been sent out 10
government officers, to bureaus of sta
tistics in the states, to county clerks
to township assessors, to manufacture
ers, to lumber dealers, to railroad and
steamboat owners and to farmers. The
net result when consolidated and tab
ulated and duly arranged will be inter.
esting 1t will be the first inventory
ever made of the country's natural re.
sources.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
NOT MANY BIG INCOMES.
Only 20 Persons In England Receiving
Above $25o,0Oo.

London Cor New York Herald
Some interesting figures as to indi-
vidual wealth in Great Britain are
given in a report of the inland revenue
commissioners.
According to this there are businesses
in the United Kingdom whose incomes
are more than $4,000 ($25O,Oo0) year.
OF those whose incomes range from
10000 ($5O,OOO) to $4,000 (s25O,OOO
there are 241. Between $4,000 ($25,O00)
and 10000 ($5O,0O0) there are SIT.
Three hundred and twenty-five receive
between $4,000 $50 000) and $4,000 ($25,-
000), 5S1 between $4,000 (s15,o00) and
6155 between $1,000 ($50OO) and $4,000
$50 ,0O0).
large number of small fortunes
and businesses in the United Kingdom
is shown by the fact that 241, 440 per-
sons are credited with incomes of from
1900 (s50OO) down to f16O (sSO0), the
lowest taxable limit.
These figures do not include en-
ployes, whose pay gives one an idea OF
the small salaries paid in England.
| There are 342,1 Ill whose salaries range
between f160 (ss0o) and $1,000 ($50Oo).
| Only 5256 receive between 1900
| (s5OOO) and $4,000 ($10,OOO), while of
| those who receive more than $4,000
| ($10,000) there are only 1888.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is credited with
| having promulgated the doctrine that it
is crime for a wealthy man to die
rich but, so far as can be ascertained,
only one man in England has put Mr..
Carnegie's theory into practice since
it was given to the world.
He was William Aronsberg of Man
chester who died on August 10. 1t has
just transpired that Mr.. Aronsberg,
who was noted as philantrhopist and
was popularity supposed to be a man of
wealth, left an estate worth only
f1oO (S500).
During his life time he made con-
siderable gifts to art collections in
Manchester and Stafford, and founded
several scholarships and prizes. One of
his benefactions was to distribute more
than $4,000 pairs of spectac1es to poor
children and to inmates of warehouses;
and hospitals,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
JOHN JASPER, GENIUS
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
I has remained for the kindly hand of
DR.. Hatcher, virginia's veteran Bap-
list divine, to preserve to posterity
fragment of one of the purest speci-
mems of genius that ever came out of the
institution of slavery. Like many precious
stones. this genius was rude and earthly
to the eye-unti1 some ray of sunlight
touched 1t, and then how it sparkled!
But II the Rev. John Jasper is to be
likened to a diamond in the rough, the
diamond must be black diamond, for
the Rev. John was as black as a coal.
Nevertheless, diamond he was, and
of the purest water; those who ever
had the privilege of hearing him preach
his famous Sun Do Move" sermon know
that he threw back the light that struck
through his soul in most wonderful tints.
though In language that threatened to
shatter the ears of his cultivated hearers
and to sweep with ecstasy the emotions
of his brethren.
In the annals of the negro race in the
western hemisphere John Jasper and
Toussaint fOverture stand as the only
true geniuses it has produced. Blind Tom
had strange gift. but he was an idiot.
There have been remarkable men of tall
emit, like Frederick Douglass and Booker
L. Washington. But John Jasper pos
sessed the divine gift of eloquence. He
could read but one book-the Bible. He
picked out sentences in that with diff
Guilty. and his dialect. to the day of his
DEATH was that of the plantation darby.
He was 40 years old when the war broke
out, slave, cornfield preacher, a mule
driving prophet, with the "gif' o. gab"
He lived 40 years after the war. and be-
fore his death preached to his thousands
every Sunday. More whites than blacks
flocked to hear him; his fame went over
the world, and Richmonds BLACK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
NEWSPAPER EDITORS.

Ellis o. Jones in Life.
Newspaper editors are a very knowing
and a very quarrelsome fish, often en-
gagng in mortal combat over the most
trivial matters 1t is said by pisca-
torial experts that their circulation re-
quires such excessive stimuli.
They usually swim near the surface and
seldom go very deep Nevertheless, they
are exceedingly wary and are likely to
duck when you get the hook. Accord
ingly, amateurs find difficulty in catch
ing them. Experts, however, handle
them with greatest ease. The most APP
proved way of catching them is to Sc
cure large display advertisement. the
larger the better. Some insist that the
advertisement should be highly colored
to secure the best results. The object is
to confuse them. Approach them care
fully but without fear. Spread the ad-
vertisement before them where they can
get a good look at it and the prey is
yours.
They feed on bits of gossip, rumor and
green stuff.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Atlanta Spirit,

ATLANTA is a great city and I never
cease to marvel at its pluck and stay
ing qualities" said a commercial trav-
eler from a northern state. but it is
generally thought that Birmingham will
be a much larger city in 1920 than the
Georgia metropolis. and indeed the largest
city in the south with the possible ex-
eeption of New Orleans. But the booster
crowd in Atlanta will not admit now
that there is any possibility of their city
being outstripped by Birmingham.
Everybody must admire Atlanta, for
even its audacity is sometimes captivat-
ing; but there is one example of its
audacity that does not set well on per
sons partial to Birmingham. l refer to
the fact that in the title of the new
railroad connecting Birmingham and
Brunswick Atlanta comes first in the
title, when the truth is 1t is only on
branch line of the great railroad.
when the road was started it had the
name of Brunswick and Birmingham, but
when the company was reorganized 1t
acquired the name of Atlanta, Birmng-
ham and Atlantic. Thus the name Of
Brunswick was cut out and Birmingham
was put second to Atlanta. Birmingham
was the magnet or the motif but peo-
pie at distance gain the impression
that the road was projected for the spe-
cial purpose of giving Atlanta a new
railroad This matter of title is, per-
haps, a comparatively small affair.
Neither Birmingham nor Atlanta fur
nished any of the capital TO
build the road and both are
beneficiaries. But if the iron and steel
making district had not been developed
the road would not have materialized.
As it is the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic is one of the most solidly con-
structed lines in the country and 1t is
one of the most important entering Bir-
mingham. 1t not only gives this district
bee line to the Atlantic, but it opens
a new section of Alabama to Birming-
ham,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
AFRAID OF LIGHTNING.
From the New York Press.
HIaa4 ...o.,.1.. a ~. e-aia ne H-l.I !.

from the new OrK TTeSS.
Most women are afraid of lightning. A
young bride whose mother was once
slightly shocked inherited an awful dread
of thunderbolts. Her father attempted to
instill holy reverence for the grand ar
tillery of heaven. MY dear" he would
say, sit is the voice of the Lord speaking.
The lightning fash is a mode of express
sion and the thunder is It's reflection.
Never be afraid. You will never see the
stroke that kills you. Never be afraid of
the voice of Cod 1t was hard to make
the girl believe this. She was married a
year ago. The fierce pyrotechnics of Sun
day night in this vicinity startled even
the oldest inhabitants. The bride was
missing. After long search she was
found covering in the bathroom. my
poor darlingv' said her husband; I'VE
thought you had come to some harm.
Don't be afraid; 1t is only the voice of
the Lord in the tempest" "I-I-er-
know" she whimpered. but He must be
aWfully mad
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
SMOKING COMPETITIONS.
From Tit-Bits.

from lll-B1ISs
Started in one or two small places a
few years ago, Smokers clubs have
proved most popular institutions in Ger
many, and are now to be found in nearly
every village. The members meet in the
local taverns once a week, and drink
much beer and smoke many pipes of to-
bacco.
The most interesting feature of these
clubs, however, is the annual festival, to
which members of neighboring clubs are
invited to take part in a smokers COM
petition, held under precise and elaborate
rules and conditions. The contestants
are divided into two parties of 10 each,
and are seated on a platform at the
end of the room. The president then
weighs out with great exactitude FIVE
grammes-about one-sixth of an ounce
of tobacco for each man, who rams it
into new pipe.
At a given signal matches are struck,
pipes lit, and all begin smoking furiously,
so that they are soon hidden in clouds of
smoke. Meanwhile the judge counts aloud
the seconds and minutes as they fly, and
before three minutes have passed most
Of the pipes have been smoked out. Each
mans time is duly entered on a sheet as
he hands over his pipe and the tobacco
ashes in it are carefully examined to see
that the pipe has really been smoked
out.
The prizes consist for the most part Of
beer "steins" and smokers articles, such
as pipes and tobacco jars and cases.
Music plays prominent part in the en-
tertainments, which are becoming in
creaslngly numerous and popular.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
EvENED tT UP WITH HOPPER.
Comedians Remembered How They
Had to Hear casey" Every Night.

From a New York Letter.
De Wolf Hopper sat back in the dark
ness of the theatre where they were re-
fearsing his new musical comedy the
other day and listened entranced to the
work of the chorus men. Most of 'em
are singing like they thought this was a
great national calamity" said he, but
there are two men in three who have for
gotten their grief. Listen to EN- yodle,
what?'
The stage director who was profanely
admonishing the performers nodded.
They're pair of pums,' he said.
"Came to the door awhile ago said they
could sing. / tried EN-, and sayi They
can hand out the MARBLE like a pair of
musical mokes. No use potnering with
EN-, though. I've seen that sort before.
As soon as they can raise the price of a
kettle of suds they'll be off for the Bow
cry"
Hopper demonstrated warmly against
this cynical view. 1.-THE chances are
they're pair of good fellows down on
their luck" said he. What If they are
poorly dressed? Is mans worth to be
measured by s. worth of blanket? Shame
on you. GO back there ana sign 'em.
and tell them to come TO me If they need
clothes or place to live"
The stage director moved away in the
darkness grumbling and shaking his head.
pretty soon he came back, wearing look
of joy. "They say they're starving" he
reported, land don't know where they'll
sleep tonight. But they've got an awful
rush of repartee. They say that IL they
had known that long-legged, goggled-
eyed, whopper- jawed Hopper had any
thing to do with this company they'd
have taken poison before they would have
come in."
Hopper, full to the chin with anger,
rushed back to lick the impudent pair.
He found West and Lawrence, two lead
ing comedians of another Shubert COM
pany, rubbing their tramp make-ups off
and grinning at each other. I'VE always
said we'd get even with you, Hopper"
they said in explanation. when we were
kids we were chorus men in your COM
pany, and every night you used to reclte
Casey at the Bat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
DEVIL DOGS OF LABRADOR
From the Boston Post.

From the Boston Post.
- HE desolate coast of Labrador,
(CD 500 miles from Belle Isle to Hud-
son strait peopled by 1000 whites
and 1900 Eskimos, and frequented every
summer by 10000 Newfoundland fisher
folk in quest of cod, is without roads or
bridges on land, charts, lights or bea-
boat in summer and by dog teams in
winter across the snow-clad wastes
The dogs employed for this purpose are
so savage and intractabie that they are
known as the devil dogs" and terrible
are the tales of their ferocity. They are
largely of wolf breed, and often attack
and sometimes kill and devour human
beings. DR.. Grenfell declares that every
season one-half of his pack will eat the
other, and only a fey months ago he
came near being victim to them HIM
self.
James Humby, aged So, living near Bat
tie Harbor, started for the forest for fire.
wood with some neighbors, each driving
his own team. Humby's dogs were known
to be vicious and he usually took a
helper, but this time he went alone. The
teams were some distance apart, and sud
denly he was heard shouting; the other
men, hurrying to him, found him down
and the brutes tearing at him viciousfy
1t is supposed they fell to fighting and
he, trying to untangle their traces, fell
among them and became victim. He
made grim~fight though, killing two
and wounding five with his ak, but they
ended his life, and it took the united
efforts of all the men to drive them off
and recover the mutilated body.
Nearly every settlement has it's tale of
the dogs viciousness. Some years ago a
pack nearly killed Nurse Williams, of the
Grenfell hospital. She fell, and they made
for her, and but for the lucky arrival of
man with an ak the affair might have
ended fatally. The same summer at He
bron dogs killed and half ate an Eskimo
boy of 10 who was dragging a seal from
his fathers boat to their tent At Hope
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-21
PEOPLE OF THE ARCTIC.
Peculiar Views of Life Entertained Bv
Eskimo Men and Women,

D.. Il. Harbour In Leslie's Weekly.
Ihese people of the White World, these
children Of the snow and ice. give them
selves little concern regarding what is
going on in worlds beyond their own.
The climate in which they live and the
limitations of their whole environment
make it impossible that there Should be
much change IN their own manner of
life, and they do not care for the changes
that soap and water might make in their
domestic life, while the women OF the
FAMILY are not anxious to adopt changes
in the methods of cooking that might
make some of the dishes they prepare
much cleaner and far less deadly than
they appear to be. But the best-filled
larder in the homes of the most affluent
OF the Eskimos offers but little in the
way of variety in food, and the question
80 vexing to the American housewife.
What shall we have for breakfast?'' or
FOR dinner, or supper, never troubles the
Eskimo housewife, since these meals may
not vary for months at time, and are
prepared in the primitive way in which
they were prepared by the Eskimos of
oSiiciotioiS anu generations ago.
The dress of the women and the men
is so much alike that If an Eskimo lady's
husbands clothes happened to be better
than her own she might borrow them
to wear to some Eskimo society function
without exciting any comment as to her
dress.
AS in some other lands the man is re-
garded as a being vastly superior to the
woman, and the birth of a girl is never
regarded as a blessing. Indeed, it often
happens that both the father ana mother
resort to the unavailing folly of tears and
lamentations when it is announced that
a newcomer is girl. A boy can become
great fisherman or a great hunter
while girl-of what use is she? A mere
cumberer of the earth, regardless of the
fact that she works as many hours
day as, and even more than, a man when
she reaches the goal of her ambition and
marries. Not to marry is as sad mis-
fortune as may befall her, and if she is
married and widowed she makes all pos
sible haste in securing a second partner