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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Roth Rows SaYed.

Louis Boone, a leading merchant of
Norway, Mich, writes: Three bot
ties of Foley's Honey and Tar abso-
lutely cured my boy of a severe cough,
and neighbours boy, who was so i'll
with a cold that the doctors gave him
up, was cured by taking FoIey's Honey
and Tar" Nothing else is as safe and
certain in results. Sold by all drug
gistS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
ECZEMA Durable!
PROOF NOW AT 25c.
Try the Oil of Wintergreen Compound
Itch Is Instantly Relieved.

Try the Oil of Wintergreen Compound
Itch Is Instantly Relieved.
1t is usually very costly to consult
a specialist in any disease, but for %
cents, on a special offer, we can now
give to those suffering from eczema
or any form of skin disease absolutely
instant relief, with prospect of au
early cure.
A special trial bottle of the oil of
wintergreen as compounded in the
Chicago Laboratories of the D. d. D,
Company may be had in our store on
this special 20 cent offer. This one
bottle will convince you've know ii
we vouch for it.
Ten years of success with this
mild, soothing wash, D. D. d. Pre-
scription, has convinced us, and we
hope you will accept the special q
cent offer so that you also will be
convinced. Dodson's Pharmacy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
LAND
BARGAINS


492 acres, six miles Americas,
known as Lee Snider place, school and
two churches. Good neighborhood;
best location and place in county for
price asked.
125 acres 8 miles of Plains, adjoin-
ing Jno. A. Mcdonald old home place.
Dwelling, tenant house and crib
112 acres 8 miles Sumter, adjoining
Chapel, Rogers and Countryman.
Good land and good Improvements.
Lots of land 223 and 224 in 18th dis
trict of Lee Co., adjoining Sumter Co.
line, ard touching lands which sell
for $50 to $40 per acre. Ample build
ings put up years ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Midnight Doctors

are the most unwelcome visitors
even the Doctor himself curses the
luck that compelled him to leave his
comfortable bed. Suppose you try our
method, and keep big Csc bottle of
Perry Davis Painkiller in the house,
and let the Doctor stay in bed and
enjoy himself.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
CheneY's ExpectOrant-a quick relief
for coughs, colds and grippe. All
Druggists Csc.

Kitty got the prize for dinner at
our cooking class
How proud she must be- What
is it?"
"A most useful book: First Aid to
the Injured
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
CONFINEMENT.

Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air
passages, stops the irritation in the
throat, soothes the inflamed mem
branes, and the most obstinate cough
disappears. Sore and inhamed LUNGS
ale healed and strengthened, and the
CT al is expelled from the system. Re-
fuse any but the genuine in the yellow
package. Sold by all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

G. r. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1860 Vir-
ginia Ave, Indianapolis, Ind, writes
81 was so weak from kidney trouble
that l could hardly walk a hundred
feet. Four bottles of Foley's Kidney
Remedy cleared my complexion, cured
my backache and the irregularities
disappeared, and 1 can now attend to
business every day and recommend
Foley's Kidney Remedy to all suffer
ers, as it cured me after the doctors
and other remedies had failed" Sold
by all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The whole town-merchants citiz-
ems, householders-wil be out and
doing everything possible to show
visitors Macon's attractions. You'll
have great time. Plan now to come.
This is going to be a great fair-In-
structiye, inspiring, and delightful.
You must come
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Bank Of Southwestern Georgia

have bought Ely's barber shop, on
corner next door to Davenport's drug
store, Lamar street. Give me a trial;
il not satisfied, will refund your
money.
SLAVES, Zoe.
OH. QUARTERMAN & co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
President Taft Day

Thursday, November A, will be
immense. President Taft will pause
in his $4,000 mile swing around the
country to speak at the Macon, Geor-
gia State Fair to the thousands of
men, women and children who will
throng to hear nim
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
More Linen Laces at &c.

We have just received another lot
of the prettiest linen laces we have
ever shown for anything near the
price. edgings and insertings to match
and every yard pure linen. at yard sc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

have placed at the warehouse of
Mr.. ]. l.. Chambliss lot of fire, clean
Bancroft oats for sale, clear of all
grass and weed seed.
w. B. HAYS,
9-29-1mo-d&w Amerlcus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
MEMS AND LADIES' HOSIERY.

One special bargain for Saturday is
ladies and mems fast black hose with
high spliced heels and toes, full regu
lar sizes and lengths; always IL 1-2c;
here for Saturday in lots of not less
than three pairs, at, pair. $500. 8 1-9c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Tt is easy now to get the view that
distance lends enchantment to if YOU
have the nerve to ascend in an aero
plane.
Give Young America rope enough
and he'll make himself a hammock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Stuart's Buchu and Juniper Compound for
all liver and kidney troubles. Relieves
Brishts Disease. ALI Druggists $l.O0.

One day dentist had occasion to
punish his 5-year-old son for disobe-
dience. AS he picked up the rod the
little fellow said; Papa, won't you
please give me gas first ?"-Chicago
Daily News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
ChiIdren's Hosiery.

Misses and boys hose, medium and
heavy weights, ) to 9, no extra charge
for the large sizes, regularly 15c, here
for Saturday at, pair. ..........10 c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
OH, YOU RUSSIAN TOOUE!

Oh, you kid
See the lid,
Filling the whole display space
Call it toque?
Juts a joke;
How'd it do to frame my facet
Made to sell,
Hear 1t YELL
Price as high as its great crown;
viii l buy?
No, not /,
My homes such little town
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Mr.. F. G. Fritz, Oneonta, N. Y
writes: MY little girl was greatly ben
Gifted by taking Foley's Orino Laxa-
tive, and l think it is the, best remedy
for constipation and liver trouble"
Foley's Orino Laxative is mild, pleas
ant and effective, and cures habitual
constipation. Sold by all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

This will be JOY day in business
circles, for from far and near the buy
ers are coming and the advertisers
here will do the rest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

AS might have been expected, Am
ericas went in force to Cordele yester.
day to see the elephant. A circus APP
peaIs strongly to Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Mems 35c to soc Ties at s5c.

Mems four-in-hand ties made of
heavy silks, rich patterns, light and
dark patterns, also black. They are
worth more than our price, See the
window display Choice =. . :. 25c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The ladies OF the Hospital Associa-
ton will again conduct their rummage
sale today, and earn the few dollars so
much needed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

AS yet the possum market has not
opened in Americas Col. Iittleton.
from the woods. reports an abundant
crop of the marsuples.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

He says he kissed you last night
against your will
Il suppose he believes it, too
Washington Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Ernest Logan, whose fine watch was
stolen from his room by stranger
two nights ago, would like for the
Americas cit to find his friend
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Americas is going strong to the AT
lanta automobile races, but those at
tending will make the trip by train and
not as part of small pageant
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
TALES OF THE TOWN
TOLD IN FEW LINES
Pencil Stubs Picked Up Al
Random.

Two other large sales of farms was
pending yesterday and may be closed
up today. Verify, the cotton makers
are after the lands
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The street force is re-surfacing peb-
bic paved Jackson stseet and filling in
with gravel many holes near the Sea.
board depot
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The addition of girls dormitory at
the Agricultural College here will
make that already fine school complete
in every way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

q ~ ~ n - 49,
ment, or settling,
striugy or milky
appearance often
indicates an UNI
healthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; too fire.
quent desire to
pass il or paiuiu
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The Hanford engagement on Tues
day night next will attract to the
opera house the largest audience at
tending this season.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The cotton market moved again yes
terday towards the fifteen cents prop
osition, and that round price will
S on be a reality.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

You may have asample bottle sent free
by mail Address DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton, N. Y. Mention this paper and
remember the name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, and the address, Binghamton,
N. Y, on every bottle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Ameri rs really will get new in
dustiy this year in the kaolin pottery
plant though Ohio people are to be
given credit for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The best pleased man in Georgia
just now is the Americas merchant
who adyertises. For the shoppers
with the dollars have found him,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Opening Day

Wednesday, October 81, will be
Opening and Justices Day The
Justices of the Peace in Georgia will
hold convention on that day and be
the guests of the fair
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

The four star attractions OF the OPP
era house closes tonight a week of
great success. Every performance has
been before packed house
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
BARBER SHOP

The barber shop in the Hotel Wind
sor, heretofore conducted by w. H.
Estes, has been purchased by me. In
future the shop will be managed by
d. F. Scroggins and conducted strictly
high class will appreciate your
patronage.
q. S. CHILDBRS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

After a man has been sick for a
week his wife looks worse than he
does from taking care of him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Good Roads Day

Wednesday, November 3, will be
day for the study of one of the Souths
most important problems-Good
Roads Judge w. f. Eve, of Augusta
will speak, as will General Evans.
Governor Joseph M. Brown will be
here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Special Free Attractions

on the Grounds all the time. Fire
works of the finest kind six nights out
of ten. Great speeches by men of
international fame, including Presi-
dent Taft and Daniel J. Sully.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

Americus cotton reeeipts-wagon
bales only-is now on the 10000 leg,
and, as heretofore, ahead of any other
market on wagon cotton
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Exhibits

from more than a score of counties.
Farm, School, Home, Mechanical, In
dustrial Displays. The Premium Lists
are large and attractive. All Prem
iums will be promptly paid
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

cause OF us refnaf IA ore
health restoring prop
critics. If you need a
medicine you should
have the best. Sold by
druggists in fifty-cent
aud Nna 1oiIo- e,,ae
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect H.
How To Find out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty hours;
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
A Guarantee,

A Guarantee.
This is to certify that all
druggists are authorized to re-
fund your money if Foley's
Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough or cold. Contains
no opiates. The genuine is in a
yellow package. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

IN POSITION TO ASSIST YOU IN
PROCURING LOANS ON FARM
LANDS AT 6 PER CENT INTEREST.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23
FoleyS
Honey
and Tar

Will cure a cough or cold no
matter how severe and prevent
pneumonia and consumption.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

the back are also symptoms that tell You
the kidneys and bladder are out of order
and need attention.
what To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed that DIR. Ki1mer's
Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulflla almost every wish in correcting
rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys,
liver, bladder and every part of theurinary
passage. Corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer. and overcomes that unpleasant me-
cessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
immediate effect of Swamp-Root is
soon realized. II stands the highest be-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

9-29-1mo-d&w
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-23

647 acres five miles north of Lees
burg, Ga, three good settlements.
Price $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

will outfit him complete and throw in a pair of suspenders or a necktie.
 ',rhe most exciting thing that we pull off in this connection is a hypothetical question that takes nine hours to pass given point, reads the same backwards that it does forward, and is as intelligible as a Chinese laundry ticket, no matter which way you read 1t. A hypothetical question is to language, Larry, what condensed time table is to figures. If any body could understand one. nobody would have any use for one.
 "But you don't catch the French vast Ing valuable time on hypothetical ques- tions when they're pulling of murder trial. Not them. A French murder trial, Larry. with a good looking lady in the leading role, Is a tasteful combination Of one of George Cohan's shows, an election in the D. A R, feeding time in the Ringing Brothers menagerie tent recre- ation hour at Matteawan, and catching a train on the Erie. It's Just the same as the French gentleman abassing the in- valid egg all over again except, of course, done on a very much larger and more entertaining scale.
 ''Enter witness wearing the ribbon of the Legion of Honor to show that he's native born and more than n years old. Swear the witness, orders the president of the court. So everybody swears at the witness, who swears back Now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

man in black with lint on his clothes taps the condemned man on the shoulder and inquiries in a whisper what size collar he wears; his worship says that inasmuch as this Is only Tuesday, the hang ing need not take place until next Friday, and the clerk calls for the next case.
 "Our system is also different, as you may have noticed. The English hang nearly everybody but we maintain the average for the English speaking race by not hanging anybody If We can help it. Trust one of the intelligent juries to find a more pleasant way of the difficulty, if it's possible. By the time the law yers and the expert witnesses and the judge and the newspapers-don't over you do-have been drilling along for i've or six months. the prisoner has been practically lost sight of. Not that he really cuts any material figure in the case at any stage but by now everybody is tired of seeing him sitting there suf- fering from the same kind of temporary insanity that nearly all of our leading and most popular murderers have. And besides, the novelty of sleeping five or six hours a day in a court room having worn off, the fatigued jurors decide about this time just to let the matter drop where 1t is, especially as the prisoner has a very nice family who would feel greatly annoyed to see him hanged. The nice family is always on the job, Larry. If the prisoner hasn't one of his own any enterprising firm of criminal lawyers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

as much to Bach as religion does to its founder" lived in painful poverty. While organist at Armstadt he was reduced to the necessity of living on $50 year. Yet. forty years after the death of Bach, Mo- zart, hearing for the first time one of his compositions, rapturously exclaimed, Thank God. here is something new and I can learn something"
 Mozart's poverty was pathetic. Upon his death he left $500 worth of debts, and received the burial of a pauper. He was buried at Salzburg. Some years af- ter his death, when the world came to know that he had reached the Golden Fleece In the days of his sorrows and want, certain ones proposed to remove his poor body from its obscure place to one of more conspicuousness. They went to the grave and dug into the earth. but there was no body therein. It had dis appeared absolutely It's whereabouts the world has not learned to this day.
 Poor Schuberti Some of his most bril- liant compositions brought him only few dimes. as we would say. Ills won- derfully expressive setting to Goethe's "Erl- King was absolutely declined by publishers, no price being offered for it. He died at thirty-one, after saying, T am the most miserable man on earth" Two concerts were given to pay the ex- penses of the funeral. The whole mass of his compositions brought only Gin our money) about $1.75. Mark you, do not mean s175, but one dollar and seventy-fve cents- It Is pitifull
 Heine said of Laurence Sterne, He Is the born equal of William Shakespeare" Goethe described him as .the finest type of wit that ever influenced literature" Leasing said that he would gladly lay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

able and regular income from their lit- erature; whereas of the old the most un- certain livelihood was that of the artist, Milton sold the manuscript of Paradise Lost for s25 and small royalty.
 Tasso was so poor that he could seldom indulge in the luxury of a candle at night.
 Benjamin West, that prince of portrait painters, honored in this country and abroad, was too poor to buy camers hair brushes for his work. But he owned a cat and the cat owned a tail, and West subsidized the cats tail to do the deli cate work that a camels hair brush should have done.
 It Is said that Dr. Johnson wrote "Ras- selas" in order to pay the debts contract ed at the time of his mothers illness, death and burial.
 Gibbon was poor as any day laborer while he was engaged in writing his his- tory; and Hume. while composing his work on ''Philosophy," was forced to live on s250 the year.
 Rossini, to whom the world is indebted for the "Stabet Mater" some of whose bars now mystically float through my mind, while memory recalls a brilliant throng of men and women, myriads of lights shining through the perfumed air, and chorus of three hundred trained singers rendering the great composition; the maestro, Rossini, I started to say, learned in poverty that he had voice and a cou1 responsive to music Gnawing hunger in his younger days guided him into paths which finally led to the Gold en Fleece.
 Bach, whose mass in B minor sent a thrill throughout the musical world; and of whom Schumann said, Music owes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

down ten years of his life if he could thereby give Laurence Sterne ons more year in which to write. Sterne's life has been described as ''the enthralling career of great and conquering genins.' He reached the Golden Fleece, but fl was with many sorrows, i'll health and all manner of debts resting upon him. Worn out at 53. he died in an obscure London lodging. was given a private burial with out kinsman or friend present; and few days later his body was stolen by body snatchers" and sold to an Oxford surgeon for the instruction of young med ica1 students in the dissecting room For the benefit of those interested, I beg to say that the Macmillan company has this year issued '"rhe Life and Times of Law renee Sterne." by Wilbur L. Cross, and in the October number of The North American Review the reader will find review of the book, together with some striking criticisms on the career of Sterne.
 Goldsmith. Steele and Leigh Hunt were constantly lodging their creditors, like our impecunious friend Dick Swiveller. Goldsmith had always been poor. His father, according to the sons account. was the pastor of a poor flock, and he himself was passing rich on
 Forty pounds year"
 Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been called the ''hero of debt" He received large sums of money, but was always poor and in debt. On one occasion a man came to Sheridan with bill which he insisted should be paid at once. Sheridan was seized with a sudden admiration for the horse the man was ridingI begging the rider to stop his dunning he compli- mented the horse extravagantly. He then asked the rider to let him see the horses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28

houses. He had been speaker three times when elected Vice President. He smiled his way through politics and went to re- tirement under cloud because of a let ter he got containing a greenback note for S1000 which he kept and appropriated, but didn't know who sent it.
 John Newman Edwards, that brilliant genius of the Kansas City Times, when Mumford was its owner, wrote a chapter on Colfax that is classic. Of course being merely a newspaper editorial. 1t soon died; but warrant <Sat there are folk In Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and In- diana who recall 1t. Edwards was one of the old Joe Shelbys men, and in some respects he was the equal of E. w. Carmack as a writer for the press.
 And now come to the most conspicuous case where logic got 1t in the neck in the entire history of Congress- Colfax went from the south wing to the north wing of the capitol when he was elected Vice President and inaugurated in 1889. Everybody supposed Henry L. Dawes would succeed him as speaker. He had long held seat In the House He was a man of the highest character, and of not only respectable but of far more than ordinary capacity for legislation The death of Thad Stevens and the resignation of Elihu B. Washburn had left Dawes leader of the majority; all eyes turned to him. but when the caucus was held it was discovered that James c. Blaine had a majority of the votes. Blaine mort gagged every chairmanship and more.
 Dawes was given appropriations, and during the first regular session of the Forty-first Congress he made speech in criticism of the executive estimates that astonished and captivated the country. Grants administration was not yet a year