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$16,426.73

With this report the Commission
submits the above mentioned six
bonds, purchased Aug. 18th, 1907, and
recommend that said six bonds be
each cancelled by the Clerk & Treas
urer, by endorsing across the face of
said bonds, with proper date, the fol-
lowing:
This bond was taken up by the
Bond Commission, and is cancelled
by order of the Mayor and City Coun-
ell of Americus.
This 80. !. day of ~ 1908,
80. Clerk and Treasurer !"
Also by perforating the signatures
of the Mayor and Clerk e Treasurer
on said bonds, and the signature of
the Clerk & Treasurer on the Cou-
pons. and by perforating them in the
usual manner of cancelling bonds.
And after being thus cancelled, that
said six bonds be properly marked,
filed away and safely kept by the
Clerk & Treasurer, with the bonds of
the City heretofore paid and cancell-
ed, and that this report be entered on
the minutes of the Council as perm
anent record of the cancellation OF
said six bonds.
The above described bonds have
Oct 1907, and subsequent coupons
attached Respectfully submitted,
FRANK SHEFFIELD,
Chairman Bond Commission.
c. M. COUNCIL,
Commissioner
G. MORGAN ELDRIDGE,
Commissioner.
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REPORT ON THE BONDS
MADE BY COMMISSION
At Meeting of the Council
on 9Th.

Regular meeting Mayor and City
Council Nov 5th, 1908. Present May
or Protein Childers presiding. AL
dermen Rodgers, Eldridge, Poole
and Allen. Absent Alderman Fur
low Minutes last regular meeting
and called meeting Oct. 21st read and
on motion confirmed
Public school committee reported
they recommended that the U. B. Har-
rold home be not purchased; report
received and adopted.
Street committee reported they rec
ommend ocnvict labor be used on the
streets if City can secure them. On
motion street committee appointed to
confer with County Commissioners
with reference to- securing convicts.
On motion matter of putting in
hydrant at Tennessee Chemical Co
referred to Water and Sewerage COM
mittee.
Petition of Americus Oil Co, ask
ing Council to reopen matter of as
sessment on their property referred
to Finance committee.
Report of Bond Commission read
and on motion spread on minutes:
Fourth Annual Report of the Bond
Commission
To the Mayor and City Council of
Americus The Bond Commission of
the City of Americus, composed of
Frand Sheffield, Chairman, Charles
M Council and G. Morgan Eldridge,
submits herewith it's Fourth Annual
Report:
DR..
Bal on hand last report,
June 9th, 1907 49,. $ 6,263.12
1907
Aug. g. Received from sale
of one Dougherty Co.
High School bond
$3.50. 81 100000
Accrued interest 1851
1,013.61
Nov. 18th. Received inter
est on Dougherty Co.
High School bonds =. e.. 1900
1908
May 1st. Received Col
lection Dougherty Co.
High School bonds
). :. . 81 100000
Interest on 3 Dough-
erty Co bonds $500
1,O75.OO
Sept 80 Reed from T. n.
Hawkes., Clerk and Tr 100000
SIG, 26.73
CIR.
Aug. 13, 1907 purchased 6
public buildings per cent
bonds, 3rd issue, Nos.
2, 81, %, %, "a, and %,
at a cost of 6,7310O
Balance on hand this report 9,695.73
S1e Ao6l 70
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SILKS AND SUIT
SALE AT DUNCAN'S

Mondays and Tuesdays offerings
at Duncan's include Rajah silks, tail
ored skirts, ribbons, percales and 9TH
er accessories of the we'll dressed wo-
man. Silks "a inches wide, usually
selling for 70 cents, will be sold on
the two days named for 80 cents. Silk
ribbons, the Is and 20 cent kind, will
go at cents. But the best bargain
of all will be a lot of silks which have
been selling from IS centss@to $1.50
per yard. These will be punched at
As cents per yard The $40 suits,
values $1S to $50, will also be attract
i've to the ladies'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-07

Petition sundry citizens asking
council to curb Forsyth street refer
red to street committee
Cemetery reports read and ordered
filed.
On motion matter of holes being
dug for street railway referred to
street committee.
Question of deed to John street
referred to street committee.
Bills Of ]. Nv. Chambliss and ~. w.
Shiver referred to Finance commit
tee.
All approved bills read and on mo-
ton ordered paid.
t. N. HAWKES., C. g TT.
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For the UpIift.

Ohio State Journal.)
The Iowa farmer who has just
sold his corn crop for s12,390 might
be a good man to head National
Commission for the betterment of
conditions among city folks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-07
Noisy, but Harmless.

Los Angeles Times
Happily, our ship and the ships of
Japan are merely preparing to ex-
change blank cartridges.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-07
When 1t Becomes a Shame

Rio Grande News.
Everything is fair in love, war and
politics, except when it is done to
you. Then it's darned shame.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-07

Weather forecast for today: Fair
and warmer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-07

Aug. 13, 1907 purchased 6
public buildings 6 per cent
bonds, 3rd issue, Nos.
2, q, %, %, "a, and %,
at a cost of :. ). !. =. i.
Balance on hand this report
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I,VIO'VV
Sept. 80. Reed from T. N.
Hawkes., Clerk and Tr. 100000
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
THE COBDENTTE DILEMMA.

Embarrassments multiply for Cobdenism and
for the political party whose chief stock in
trade is the maintenance of the Manchester
faith The almost invariable trend of English
hve-elections for year or more has been an
nistakablv against Free Trade and the defeat
of Mr. Churchill in the northwest division of
Manchester is confessed by even the most stern
and unbending Cobdenites TO have been a seri-
ous blow 10 their cause. Tomorrow Mr.. Asquiril
will face what may well be the supreme crisis
of CobdenIsm. The budget Will be pre-
sented II must. if the Liberal party is TO keep
its word provide for old age pensions on a gen-
erous scale. Yet how TO find the vast additional
revenue required for them without resorting 10
u far more extended tariff system than that
which now exists is 4 problem which might well
stagger the most ingenious and res0urceful Of
inanciers.
There seems indeed to be much justification
for -ba nithy description of the dilemma of Cob
denism cited by our London correspondent in his
cable letter to-day, that II is between the FRO
tectionist devil and the Socialist deep sea- 10
maintain a ma jority in Parliament and in the
electorate the Liberal party must apparently
grant some Of the measures which the Social
tsts demand, and yet the doing SO will be so
extensive as almost inevitably 10 drive it TO
methods of taxation inconsistent with Cobdenite
principles. We shall watch with interest the
solution of this problem which Mr.. Asquith and
NJ Lloyd-George offer tomorrow. No men in
the party are more competent to deal with 1t
than they. are there any whose policy would
be more confidently accepted by the party at
large.
OF exceptional significance, too. is the attitude
taken by Sir John Brunner, TO which our CORE
spondenr refers. That distinguished publicist,
phiIanthropist and 'alkali king" speaks with
much authority for those very industrial aud
commercial interests Of England 10 which Cob
denism is supposed TO be most precious But
he proposes TO strike Cobdenism what would
almost certainly be a fatal blow. He would
not abandon Free Trade but he would aDan-
don its inseparable twin, lGtsScr fare. of
-he efficacy Of such a course, with con
seouent bounties, preferences. and what not, for
The stimulation OF British trade, there may be
snfne question. There can be nc question that it
trould be n fragrant repudiation of Cobd+nism
s;cb as would largely discredt the whole sys
feno. The fact is that, in Mr.. CIevelands words,
3. Is q condition, not theory, which confronts
pritis,, trade and government finance. Entirely
.n.rt from abstract theories. there is sn jnpera-
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
THE CENTENARY OF TEMPERANCE.

Surprise might fittingy be expressed at the
lack of attention which was given last week 10
the hundredth anniversary of the temperance
movement That interesting occasion fell on
Thursday last. and yet, despite the fact that
nearly the whole United States is just now on
something like the crest Of a rising tide or
temperapce activity reform and legislation, it
was permitted TO pass almost unnotlced. 1t was
ON April 80. 1908, that The Union Temperance
Society of Moreau and Northumberland was
founded. in Saratoga County, New York; and
though if had fewer than half hundred MEM
hers and in itself accomplished little 1t was the
first distinctive temperance society in the world,
and it set the example for the formation OF
numerous other organizations Of similar aim and
of greater efficiency. 1t is true that that pio-
ueer society would scarcely be cOuntenanced by
its successors of to-day, for Ii apparently did not
forbid the use of mild alcoholic liquors, nor in
deed did it altogether prohibit the use of even
the strongest spirits. The substance Of its rules
was as follows:
No member shall drink rum, gin, whiskey,
wine OF any distilled spirits, compositions OF
the same or any of them. except by advice of a
phvsician OF in of actual disease, also ex-
cepting public dinners, under the penalty of 20
cents provided that this article shall not infringe
any religious rite: member shall be intoxi-
Gated under penalty of so cents; no member
shall offer any of the above liquors to any per
son TO drink, under the penalty OF 20 cents Tor
each offence.
Such rules would be looked upon with Scant
favor or tolerance by temperance refOrmers Of
to-day but century ago they seemed far more
radical and revolutionary than outright total
abstinence does now. For that was day when
an orthodox church in the suburbs of New
York reckoned il permissible to license its pas
TOR to sell grog in a room of the parsonage in
order by the profits that trade to add TO his
slender salary. That society and the others Of
similar character which soon sprang up in emu
lation of it opened the way for Lyman Beecher's
great campaign, and, nearly a score of years
later for the formation Of the American TEN
perance Society and like bodies in other lands.
1t was nearly quarter Of a century after the
formation of DR.. Clarke's temperance society at
Moreau that "teetotalism" introduced
the world by Joseph Livesey's Preston Temper
ance Society in England when "Dicky" Turner,
a reformed inebriate, urging the superiority of
total abstinence over moderate drinking, de
clared "Il be right down. out and out, tee
teetotal for ever and ever" And il was just
half century after the Moreau foundation
that the present Maine law was enacted.
The story of these hundred years of temper
anoe work since that small and hesitant begin
ming is a remarkable one, and il has conducted
America and indeed most countries of the world,
TO far different and better condition than that
of what Mr. Lecky has called the gin cpl
demic' Of the eighteenth century. What further
developments the second century of temperance
effort may see it would be rash to prophecy.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

IFrom The Tribune Bureau-1
Washington, May 1.-The Assistant Secretary OF
War and Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver entertained
number of guests dinner tonight in honor OF
the British Ambassador and Mrs James Bryce
Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson and Mrs Frederick
II. Benedict among those entertaining dinner
parties tonight
Captain Archibald ". Butt has been appointed
military aid to the President. to take the place
made vacant by the appointment of Captain Fftz-
hugh Lee, to take the course at the French school
of equitaton, at Saumur. Captain Butts mother
Mrs. Joshua W Butt. will return TO Washington
with him from Cuba. where she spent the winter
Mrs Richard Reid Rogers had guests at din
tonight Senator McCreary. Major General AMI
Mrs. j. Franklin Bell. Brgadier General and Mrs
William P. Duvall.- Judge William A Maury, Miss
Anna Bell Maury, Miss Maths. Representative
William B, Mckinley and Mr.. Sands. of Panama
Major and Mrs. William S. Langftt took a party
down the Potomac tonight on one of the engineer
boats. The return trip was made by moonlight.
and there music and supper for the party.
Brigadier General and Mrs. Darlington and num-
Der of other officers and their wives formed the
party.
Representative Gillett entertained a small party
at dinner tonight in his apartments.
Miss Edith Kent Sanger. daughter Of Major Cen
eraI and Mrs. Joseph P. Sanger. and Vaudeville
Carlisle will be married at May p at ST.
Johns Church by the Rev. Roland Cotton Smith
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
TRULY REPRESENTATIVE.

After reading few paragraphs of Senator
JEFF Daviss latest speech have come TO
the conclusion that the distinguished orator
represents his state with unusual fidelity but
somewhat more Symbolically than American GUS
tom and Senatorial dignity call for
Arkansas. the geographers tell US. abounds
in interesting natural features. So does JEFF.
The city of Hot Springs contains seventy y-four
thermal springs with a mean temperature of
about 1876 degrees JEFF represents all these.
The medicinal properties of the springs have
given them high repute. The human siphon
charged with Arkansas sizzle can cure the
blues and all sorts of false ideas about the
decay Of craftsmanship and oratory. Fore
most among the natural wonders of Arkansas
is the Blowing Cave, in Independence County;
"a soft breeze blows continually from out its
marble mouth" the guide book says. In his
burning desire to represent the state Jen
struggles to represent this state institution
and he succeeds remarkably. Arkansas is the
only state producing diamonds in any guam
tity; Jeff fttingy represents such a common
wealth by producing pearls of thought in
limitless quantities. state whose capital is
Little Rock seems perfectly symbolized and
represented by Small Pebble on the beach
at Washington. When we consider these facts
we can no longer share the mystifcation under
which the American people are laboring in
their attempt to understand how one and a
half million ArkansanS can send to the United
States Senate the gentleman who read & speech
last Friday to three colleagues and empty
gallery. The motto of the hill bies' back in
the OZarks is, No taxation without pictorial
representation: and Jeff IS on his job. If
his constituents want a scene he isn't going TO
thwart their sovereign will.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
4 FALSE ALARM.

Religious feeling. we are told, like patriotism
and public morality, is on the wane. Because
many public officials show preference for
ways that are dark and tricks that are vain
we are asked to believe that civic virtue
ready for the undertaken: because officer
of government sells the secrets of state TO
enemy we are told that patriotic fire longer
burns in human hearts, and because the race
is coming more and more TO q belief in practical
rather than theoretical religion must make
the deduction that religion itself is losing its
hold the minds of
A few days ago an Episcopal clergyman in
Connecticut achieved little transitory fame
by announcing that II could be taken an
axiom that Professionalism had spent itself and
passing; that its idols not of this
age and that its traditional theology had been
discredited. Professionalism he said lacks the
unity, balance and symmetry of the Catholic
Church. and because it is by nature Individual
istic and begets disntegration 1t can never oe-
come powerful. As the reasons for its existence
have largely passed away the various cree,ls
growing out of the Reformation must at last
be merged in the Catholic Church.
Yet at the same time have it on the au-
thority of the Rev. DR.. r. s. Macarthur, Of
Calvary Baptist Church, that Catholics are
leaving their communion in large numbers
Every Protestant church in New York. he says
has former Catholics among its members At
q recent service, when he received twelve mem
bers, ten of them were found to be former
Roman Catholics, and on Easter among a large
class Il young professor who had been
member of the PassiOnist Order in a neghbOr-
ing city. From a Protestant point of view
therefore. it is evident that Catholicism is on
the wane and Professionalism is growing IN
strength.
The present celebration in New York seems
to indicate however, that the Catholic Church
has had and is still having a healthy and con
tinuous growth. a like gathering of Protes-
tants would indicate that that branch of the
Christian faith was making equal progress and
no one familiar with conditions especially in
this city, can fail to appreciate the growing
strength Of Judaism. That limited number Of
prominent in any church see fit to change
their religion and enter some other branch more
TO their liking Is no more evidence of dsin.
tegration than the changes of men from
one political party to another because of
changing conditions q indication of the
death Of the party from which they have gone
So long as men think and reason for themselves
there will be division of opinion on religious
as well as political questions. The greater free
dom of choice shown by this interchange of
members is a healthful rather than dangerous
sign. and cannot fail to result not only In a
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

IBy IelSSTaph 70 Tribu1e
Newport. r. l.. May Miss Pauline Leroy
French. who IS to be married Tuesday 70 sam
uel Jones Wagstan, Of New York. gave a dinner
this evening at HerbOurview. the home OF her
grandmother Mrs. T. o. French for her attend
ants and a few others of the wedding party. Mrs.
view. acted chaperon OF the party. which n
cIuded Miss Edith Kane. Miss Eleanor Mortimer.
Miss Irene sherman. Miss Gladys PeIi Miss Marion
Clark. Miss Caroline Grosvenor. Miss Dorothy
Kane. Miss Lisa Cutting Miss Margaret Stewart.
Samuel Wagstafr. Willing Spencer. William Ffts-
hugh WhtehOuse. jr.. Stuyvesant Leroy. the par
ents of the prospective bride and bridegroom and 4
few others.
Mrs. Alfred -. Vanderbilt will entertain IN honor
of the wedding party Monday evening
Mr.. and Mrs Guy Norman. OF Boston. have
rived BeIaire for stay OF months
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt will return
TO this country from Europe May y
New York to-day
Mr. and Mrs. = 8. Cramp. Of Philadelphia. ard
Ogden Mills. Of New York. who have been here for
"A few days, returned 20 their homes to-day
Miss Rcsaiind Fish. OF New York. arrived this
evening and is the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs sidney
Webster
Francis O. French and a number OF others Of the
Freuch-WasStan wedding party arrived this even
ing for the wedding Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. LCrtllard Spencer have returned
from visit New York
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
IN THE BERKSHTRES.
rBr Taleuaph % The Tribune J

By Telegraph % I1e Iriounc
IAnox Mass May Mrs Joseph H Choat-. -
New York arrived in Stockbridge to-day for ths
early season Mr. Choate will arrive there soon for
a short sojourn. The Choats country place has
been leased to Mrs George P King. OF Boston for
the season.
Among the New Workers. 70 arrive at their cou1-
try places in Stockbridge Mr.. and Mrs R 3.
Bowker. DR.. A. F Riggs Bfrdseye Lewis. Thomas
Brakeman and George de GersdorH.
Mrs William n. Bradford and Mrs. Lindsay
Fairfax Of New York opened their country villa
in the Pfttsfeld Road to-day
8 Parkman Shaw and Francis Bullard. OF Bos-
ton, have arrived at the Curtis Hotel
Robert w Paterson. OF New York. has given
contract for a large addition Bla1tyre villa
The principal will be used for the exhibition
of curios which Mr. and Mrs Paterson have col
leCted abroad
Mr.. and Mrs Charles AstOr Brfstsd have returned
to Lakeside from New York. where they attended
the Catholic centennial
J. Woodward Haven. OF New York. has leased the
Stokes villa Lake Mahkeenac. for the season
Mrs j. Frederick ScEenck. OF New York. has
opened her country estate. ValIeyhead. FOR the
summer.
Mrs. F. Pope Sampson Of New York has leased
her PittsheId place to Warren VI Salisbury. q
Chicago
Mrs. Morris X Jesup. os New York has ztve1
contract for addition TO BeIvoir Terrace. which
she is to occupy for the early
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03
THOSE OyERANIIOUS FRIENDS.

Mr.. Joseph BermeI. ex-Presdent of the Bor-
ough Of Queens, is. according to his friends IN
nOcent of the charge Of having fed to aVold
giving further testimony before the grand jury.
1t is all a mistake To intimate that he would
leave the august body of his peers In the lurch
deliberately at a critical moment is TO DO grave
injustice to the character of noble man. he
anxious to testify that instead OF going
to the pier to embark he got excused from the
jury room and hurried away in order TO per-
suade his wife to return with him. He was so
much interested In searching for the truth and
preparing to present it to the jurors that it old
not occur to him until q short time Defore the
hour of sailing that his wife might go away
without him. and at the last moment, WITHOUT
even taking time to tell the officers OF his pur-
pose. he entered his automobile and hastened 10
the pier in fact. anxious was ne 10 Keep HIS
wife ashore that ne took number of his friends
along TO help him prevent her from SAILING
The true story of the unfortunate incident Is
this. He arrived at the boat just before the
gangpank was raised and shook hands around
with the friends who had accompanied him.
This was done not because he had any Intention
of remaining on the boat but because he reared
he might not find his wife and get off before 1t
started The handshaking was merely precau-
tOnary measure. He had acquired the haol
while running for office some time before, ana
when pOtlclan-that Is StaleSfnan-oDce
gets addicted to the habit it is hard TO break
away from. When he had wrung the last hon
est hand he saw a man who looked like deputy
sheriff approaching with a paper and attempted
to get to him and accept the document, but MS
officious friends formed an inverted flying
wedge and rushed him up the gangplank, leaving
him in such dazed condition that he did not
recover until the ship was passing the Statue
of Liberty.
Mr.. Berme is not the first man whose friends
have been his undoing: in fact the average bor-
ough president might be able 70 wabble around
in the position without great detriment TO the
city if he would forget that he had any friends
and conduct the affairs of the department i'll the
interests of the people. If his friends were re-
sponsbe for his failure as Borough President
it is only fitting that they should finish the work
so auspiciously begun and force him out of
reach of the grand jury in the nick Of time. But
this should be warning to ex-borough presi-
dents and others who post off tG the piers In
automobiles with intent to keep their wives
from sailing not to take too many friends along
with them Think how Mr.. Bermel must feal
as, burning with a desire TO testify, he finds
himself helplessy marOoned on an Atlantic
New-York tribune., 1908-05-03

tive necessity for gn increasing revenue such as
present sources cannot provide. Expenditures
cannot be reduced or restrained from increase.
and taxes as at present levied cannot be materi-
ally increased. Therefore, new sources Of rev.
enue must be found. What wonder If the nation
turns for such revenue TO the untaxed I'M
port trade which competes with domestic indus
try? Meantime, it is peculiarly interesting
see great Free Trade publicst moving for the
adoption under Cobdensm of those very methods
and systems which Cobdenites have been de
nouncing as the evil offspring OF Protection.