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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-29

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-29

Pam anywhere aiopped Ia % min
nies ame W IA one of Dr. Shoop's
PINK Pain Tablets. The formula Is
on The 2acen box. Ask your d0ctor
or druggist about this formulal Stops
womanly pains, headaches, pains any
whese Write Or Shoop, Racine WIS.
Tor i.ea trial 10 prove value Of his
Headache. or Pink Pain Tablets, sold
by Wali-ee's drug store
. E1r the best line of &c cigars 20
10 Weinbergefs Smokery. II
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
CHEAPER LIVING
Washington Post.)

According to a most respectable au-
thority, the cost of living in the
United States has advanced A per
cent within eleven years, and every
bill sent out by the grocer confirms
the computation. The price of meats
has leaped higher and further than
any other article, and various causes
are assigned.
Your retail dealer lays it on the
trust, and the trust retorts with it's
wholesale prices, and makes recrim-
mating suggestions about Retail
Grocers' associations" in every ur-
ban community, alleged that they
practice eXtortions at which the meat
trust stands aghast.
Again, the big trust says the supply
of butchers stuff is diminishing be-
cause of the action of the government
in opening the ranges on the plains of
the great West to homestead entry
and settlement; but it would seem to
the ordinary understanding that 100
farmers with ten bullocks each ought
to supply as much beef as one herds
man with 1000 head of cattle
We are promised an increased sup
ply from Mexico. The cattlemen,
having been driven off the public pas
ture, are driving their herds into the
republic on the other side of the Rio
Grande, where the grass is excellent
and abundant The tariff does not
operate on reimported American mer-
chandise, and American cattle grazed
in Mexico will be admitted free of
duty, if some tens of thousands of
Mexican bullocks should break into
the herd, and pass the customs Of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
AMERICAN DUCHESS
SHOCKS KIN
She's Actually Nursing tier
Own Child.

Paris, Dec. 22.-Paris society, par
ticularly the American colony, IS
smiling over little story, going the
rounds about the Duchesse de Chaul-
mes, formerly Miss Theodore Shonts.
According to intimate friends of
the Duchess she has brought into the
life of the French aristocracy Ameri-
can ideas regarding mothers duty
to her children, thereby causing vast
establishment.
1t is the custom here in high So
ciety for hired nurses to take charge
of a baby Immediately after it's birth
and bring it up for the mother. But
the independent American Duchess
has informed the titled relatives OF
her late husband that she is in no
need Of q nurse to give the young
Duke de Chalnes nourishment; that
she will attend to that herself 1t
is said that the old Duchesse Dues,
the head of the family, is greatly
shocked at such procedure, which,
in France, is confined to the peasant
~ or the bourgoisie. But the young
mother met all objections, and she
now nurses the child, whom she
barely permits to be out of her
sight
American society here is proud of
the Duchess for her stand The
Duchess has not been very strong
since her child's birth She occupies
apartments with her family, taken for
her by her father, at No. SO Avenue
Hoche, in the city, while the De
Chaulnes amily are still at the
chateau in the country. 1t is probable
that she with the rest of the Shonts
family, will take a trip to America
soon, as the Duchess believes that
the bracing climate of New York and
Washington will completely restore
her health.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
DANGERS OF ESPIONAGE SYSTEM

In the hands of an especially dom
ineering. or exceedingly ambitious, or
not overly scrupulous, President, the
Secret Service system might speedily
degenerate into an adjunct of exc
cutive power positively dangerous to
a republican system of government
Permission to use the government
detective force-for that is all the
Secret Service is-in whatever man
ner the executive power sees fit to
direct, would open the way for abuses
that might speedily become intoler-
able. An executive with recalcitran
Congress on his hands, House whose
members as representatives of the
people refused to lOgislate to suit the
plans of the Pres tdent, might-and
who can say that he would not-use
the Secret Service to pry out private
secrets, to secure facts damaging to
Congressman to be held over their
heads like big stick to compel sub
mission to executive domination. Such
a thing might not happen, but then
it also might. Many things have
happened which twenty years ago
would have been deemed equally as
improbable as this.
All Congressman are not paragons
of personal purity, even though they
may be absolutely honest in all their
public dealings and entirely faithful
to the trust imposed in them by their
constituents The use of the Secret
Service to investigate their private
lives, to secure a club to hold them in
line with, would inevitably come If
the detective corps referred to is to
be made entirely subservient to ex-
ecutive orders. 1t might not come in
ten or twenty years, it might come
sooner but such evils are an newt
able outgrowth of continued usurpa-
ton of power. Executive usurpation
speedily breeds contempt for legisla-
tive interference with executive plans
;
would have been intensely shocked at
the idea of the government threaten
ing to institute suits for criminal Ii
bel in behalf of private parties con-
nected by ties of kinship with the ma
tional administration Yet today such
a threat is in fact made in a message
cept~ IN COnoreSS undar the Sneoiou
plea that the government has been
libeled." With executive views and
policies taking such course as this.
who can accurately prophesy what it
may or may not do in the future if
further power and more adequate
weapons are placed in its hands?
The country since the last Democra
tic administration has been drifting
rapidly away from the old time moor
ings. Democratic ideas are swiftly
being left behind. We now see the
executive denouncing judges who fail
to render opinions to please the White
House, denouncing individual Rep
representatives who fail to view
public measures as the White House
does, denouncing newspapers that
venture to criticise and demand in
vestigation of alleged improper tram
sactions, and finally insinuating that
Congress in its entirety is cor
rupt body whose members are fearful
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
PROHIBITION THAT PROHIBITS
New York Times.)

Ever since the new wave of pro-
hibition" spread over a considerable
part of the country the fact that the
internal revenue returns showed no
sign of its effect has been an ex-
tremely puzzling one For, while it
it easy enough and true enough to
say that prohibition does not pro-
hibit," the prohibition of these days
is very different thing from what
it used to be.
Formerly it was based largely on
the claim that indulgence in intoxi-
cants was wrong in itself and led in
evitably to wife-beating and the
drunkard's grave. Assertions Of that
sort appealed to comparatively few
people, but they left the majority un-
moved, to continue in one way or
another the moderate drinking which
knowledge and experience told them
did not have those particular and par
ticularly dreadful results. Nowadays,
however, different arguments have
been used-arguments that have APP
peaIed to efficient majorities in many
states
The South, for instance, saw a vital
necessity for decreasing the consump
ton of liquor by the negroes, and
everywhere there was grown up
fear-when it was not a conviction
that even little alcohol decreases to
some extent the powers of mind and
body and that such decreases often
meant the difference between fail
ure and success in the fierce compe-
tition of modern life. Prohibition so
based, especially when reinforced by
the rules of many great corporations
employing hundreds of thousands of
men, might confidently be expected
to decrease the amount of drinking
done, but the revenue reports mys-
teriously kept up month after month,
and the manufacturers of beer and
whiskey-in the scanty leisure left
from their mysterious fight against a
movement which they said was doing
them no harm-joyfully called at
tention to the strange fact as con-
firming their claim.
But now a change has come and at
last the excise revenues have begun
to fall off The situation is compli-
Gated somewhat by the recent in
dustrial and commercial depression,
and this may account for some or
much of the decrease. There is some
reason for thinking it has not, how
ever, for idle men as rule tend to
drink more than those steadily at
work, discouragement and apprehen-
sion are apt to counsel the cup of for
getfulness, and it is not the alcoholics
first economy, but his last, that cuts
off his accustomed stimulant.
Whatever the cause, the total ex-
else receipts in the last fiscal year
were $1S,000,000 less than those OF
the year before, and the last three
months show a recrease of $7000,000
from the corresponding months of
1907 1t really looks as If the new
prohibition did prohibit-some.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL

An angel comes to each of US
On Christmas day
Glad tidings of great joy l bring"
We hear him say.
He tells of Jesus lowly birth,
And of His coming to the earth,
AND of His holy, priceless worth,
To us today.
lie tells of us that matchless song
The shepherds heard,
And sings it DER again to US
Yes, every word,
tbs, Peace on earth, to men good
WILL
1t rings out over vale and HILL
And thrills our very beings, till
Our souls are stirred
%, Christmas Angel, in my heart
Forever dwell,
And sing again that song of songs
| love so we'll
May | be like that heavenly King
Whose praises on this day we sing,
The One for whom we ever ring
Glad Christmas bells!
Juliet Reeves cage Is, Liberal
Kan.) In Woman's Home Companion
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

each other over billowy fields, the
breath of June, the coral of the lark,
the dew of the night, the wealth of
summer and autumn's rich content all
golden with imprisoned light Drink
it and you will hear the voice of men
and maidens singing the Harvest
Home mingled with the laughter of
children. Drink it and you will feel
W thin your blood the starred dawns
the dreamy, tawny dusks of perfect
days. For 40 years this liquid joy has
been confined within slaves of oak,
longing to touch the lips of man.
Your friend, Robert G"
My Dear Bob--I return to you
some of the most wonderful whisky
that ever brought a skeleton into
the closest or painted scenes of lust
and bloodshed in the brain of man
1t is the ghost of wheat and corn,
crazed by the loss of their natural
bodies. In it you will find transient
sunshine chased by a shadow as
cold as an Arctic midnight, in which
the breath of June grows icy, and the
carol of the lark gives place to the
foreboding cry of the raven. Drink
it and you shall have woe SORROW
DdDDIlHS, anu NOuHuS BIlHOuL
cause Your eyes shall behold
strange women and your heart shall
utter perverse things. Drink ii
deep and you shall hear the voice of
demons shrieking women wailing and
worse than orphaned children mourn
ing the loss of father who yet lives.
Drink it deep and long and ser
penis will hiss in your ears, coil them
selves about your neck and seize
you with their fangs AT last it
biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder For 40 years this liquid
death has been confined within
slaves of oak, harmless there
as purest water. ! send it to you
that you may put an enemy in your
mouth to steal away your brain and
yet | call myself your friends.
Buckley"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
THE NERVOUS CHILD

The doctor told my mother
That | was a nervous child.
And II she wished to keep me
Shed have to treat me mild,
And never seem the least put out.
Or let on she was riled.
No matter what should happen
/ never must be hit,
Or shut up in a closet,
Or given just a bit
OF bread and tea for supper,
Or p'faps I'd have a fit.
So when I threw the inkstand
At Aunt Rebecca's eye,
And hit the place I aimed for
And raised an awful sty,
And spoiled the parlor carpet,
My mother said, oh, myn
AID when l took The dust brush
And dropped it down the drain,
So the plumbers had to come
And excavate the main,
Ny mother only said, My child,
Please don't do that again"
Ara when I hung my sister
Until she nearly choked,
Aud gave the cat SIN funny stuff,
So he curled up and croaked,
My mother said Restrain yourself
Or l shall be provoked"
And when I took her Iocket,
And pried out all the pearls,
And fed EN- to the baby,
Before l cut his curls,
Ny mother said why can't you be
Like other little girls?"
She went and told my father
l nearly drove her wild.
But really what could father do?
He only sat and smiled.
oh, gee! I think it's simply great
To be a nervous child!
Grid Evan,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

of investigation at the hands of the
Secret Service.
Patronage has long been used as
an efficient weapon, but if to this is
to be added the spy system, the pri-
vate note book in which the daily
movements and actions of Congress
men are to be carefully collated, then
the country will have taken long
step forward to a government that in
its essential features will be little
above that of Russia. With Presi-
dents selecting their successors, dom
mating and coercing Congress, judi
ciary and press, the line between the
chief executive and a Gear will be
thin. indeed The country certainly
needs an awakening
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

.fcers free. of tribute. the citizen of
this town who buys and consumes the
beef will not make much fuss about
tiff he gets his steak cheaper on
that account.
1t cannot be too frequently or too
positively emphasized that the cost
of living to the American urban popu-
lations is frightfully dear. For a full
century the citizens of this republic
enjoyed cheap foods. In 1908 one-half
the population is urban, and more
than half of that half is crushed I'M
der high and exorbitant prices for
the foods that sustain animal vitality.
Here is reform suggested that it
behooyes both parties to seize on.
If things remain as they are, cheap
living will be your paramount issue
in 1912, and it will sweep the country
from ocean to ocean.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
GIVE THE CITIZENS PRINTED RE.
PORTS.

There is one serious disadvantage
that citizens labor under in endeav-
oring to study the finances of the city
government, to make themselves ac-
quainted, as every citizen should en-
deayor TO do, with its resources. its
assets. its liabilities, its department
al expenditures, and that is the en-
tire absence of any printed reports.
It is true there are reports made
land filed away in the archives of the
city. But that is a very poor and
inadequate way of meeting a proper
public need. Citizens do not have the
time or the opportunity to go to the
lcity hall and wade through a lot of
years accumulations of papers. Even
if they did they would find it a long
and tedious work under such condi-
lions to study the income and outgoes
OF the government.
What the citizens Of Ameri-
Gus should have, what they
are entitled. as taxpayers, to
have, is a small printed pamphlet
every year giving the financial state
ment of the city in a succinct shape.
showing its bonded Indebtedness, its
taxable assessments. its receipts from
each and every source, the expendi-
lures in every department, etc. Such
a compilation of annual reports would
probably not make over a thirty page
pamphlet Probably all that would
be required could be issued for an out
lay of $50, or perhaps considerably
less.
If such reports were issued here ev-
cry year, as they are issued in many,
indeed most. other cities, the tax
payers could study them at home.
Year after year they could make COM
parsons, they could ascertain where
the increases in expenditures came
in, they could satisfy themselves as to
the wisdom of such increased expen-
ditures. they would know exactly
where the money went to-and surely
they have right to have such infor-
nation at hand year after year for
the purpose of comparison.
Taxpayers educated in such a way
are the best citizens city could
have. They are intelligent as to the
wants of the city they. are intelligent
as to the manner in which their mon
les are being expended, they are in
telligent as to the development of the
departments. Only by such printed
reports, always at hand and easily I'M
derstood. can citizens readily appre-
ciate what the municipal government
is doing.
Why should not the present ad-
ninistratiOn establish a precedent in
this respect, set the pace for the next
and all subsequent administrations
to follow Why not order the publ
cation Of a report giving the financial
statement of the city, and of each and
every department, together with a
summary of the work done during the
year, for the information of citizens.
There can be no wiser expenditure
of the peoples money than to let them
know in this way what has been
done. The paying out of $40
or $50 a year for this purpose is a
mere bagatelle compared to the sat
isfaction it will afford the people of
Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
INGERSOLL ON WHISKEY
kansas City tsar.)


In your issue of the Star today you
published Bowling Green (Ky) dis
patch credited to the Memphis News
Scimitar, in which letter from Col
onel Ingersoll to James A. MacKen-
zie is given 1t reminds me of a let
ter very similar that was published
10 years ago by Albert A. Sparks, edi-
tor of the Mt. Vernon (Ind) Repub-
lican, and as the reply was also pub
lished l give it here word for word.
The correspondence was between Col
onel Buckley, and was as follows:
Dear Buckley send you some of
the most wonderful whisky that ever
drove skeleton from the feast or
painted landscapes in the brain of
man. It is the mingled souls of
wheat and corn. In it you will find
the sunshine and shadow that chased
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

Look around you, see if there is
some unfortunate family to whom
Christmas promises to bring no good
cheer, some little child to whom Santa
Clause may seem a myth. Bring
brightness into such lives and Christ
mas will take on a brightness that
you perhaps may never have known
it TO hold before The spirit of I'M
selfshness, the spirit of love for the
least of those who are down in the
misery and poverty of the world, is
the spirit that makes Christmas what
it should be, the absence of which
mars the years sweetest and hottest
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

The sardine pack is very snort By
sardines is meant the young herring
and other fish caught along the New
England coast. 1t s doubtful if this
country has known what a genuine
sardine in tin is in many years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

Plans are again under way for a
corner in butter. Fortunately the
Georgia syrup crop is large and we
can fight shy of butter and benefit
our health at the same time. The
South is foolish to let itself be bled
by corners in any food product that
can be produced at home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
Unusual

yes: we were disappointed in
the peasantry."
AS to how?
..They always seemed to be work
ing .sWe never found them dancing
and singing in chorus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

When will Roosevelt really send in
his farewell address? Will he deliver
it on Inauguration day, Immediately
after Taft finishes speaking?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

There is to be no Christmas tree
at the White House. Race suicide has
the upper hand in the Presidents fam
lily just now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

New York Press.
The reason a girl can think a man
is eligible is she wouldn't if he was
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

New York Press.
Where women are superior to men
is they don't get their pockets picked
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

New York Press.
Mans worst habit is life, but he al
WAYS gets over it
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
New Use For Broken Bottles.

The farmers in a hop-growing sec
ton of Oregon, says Mr.. p. O'Bara,
Assistant Pathologist U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c., in the January Strand Magazine,
built farmers telephone line out of
such material as they happened to
have at hand The line was built of
hop wire which had used as trelIis
for the vines; aand this was tied to
the necks of bottles, which took the
place of the ordinary glass or porce-
lain insulator. A large spike, with
leather head. fastened the neck of
the bottle to the pole or cross-arm.
A girl is awful smart to pretend
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23
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