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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
THE NEW FOOTBALL RULES.
Just Published in the SPaiding OFF,
ciaI Football Guide.

Spaldings Official Football Guide
for 1909 has just been published. This
book which is so eagerly sought by
football players is more complete
than ever. 1t contains over 300 pages
and is replete with a great amount of
information concerning the popular
sport. The revised rules for the
coming season of course form the
chief feature Of the publication In
addition to that there are All Ameri-
can selections by Walter Camp and
other leading authorities; a review
Of the season of 1909 by Mr. Camp.
There are hundreds of half-tone pic
ures of the leading teams throughout
he United States, and 80 illustrations
showing the important plays. OtSP~
features of the book this year are rec
ords of games in 1908, a list of lead
ing colleges with names of captains,
with the positions they play, coaches,
and managers, and the schedule OF
50HICo IOl I5O5 VI dill Cl1S principal
colleges, nearly 1000 contests, having
dates.
Spaldings Official Football Guide is
for sale by all newsdealers or will be
sent postpaid to any address in the
United States or Canada by the pub
fishers, American Sports Publishing
upon receipt of 10 cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
MEN WHO SACRIFICED FOR HIGH.
EST IDEAL OF GOOD.

John Wesley, in the first year of
his ministry, received $3.50, lived on
$40, and gave SIC. Next year he re-
ceived $500, he lived on the same
amount and gave $3.50. In so years of
service his gifts aggregated $150,0OO,
Wand he has testified that his income
always more than kept pace with the
increase. Carey, on a salary of $500,
gave half. He, with Marshman and
Ward and their families, lived at a
joint cost of $500 year These three
during their whole missionary careers,
contributed nearly 100000 toward
India's evangelization. Livingstone.
early in his career, made vow that
he would give to the cause of gospel
missions, all he might earn beyond
his bare subsistence He did so faith
fully and his complete conservation
was the means of lighting up a large
part of the dark continent. Living
stone was one of the most outspoken
proclaimers of the stewardship of
wealth He wrote that the time
would come when rich men would
think it an honor to support whole
stations of missionaries instead of
spending their money on hounds and
horses Some rich men are doing
this today. Selected.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
sould for &c frst tsne see hslt ! ias-

could for the Hrst tslne see hair 4 deg
en- winged men wheeling and swoop-
ing like birds i'll the air. which human
beings from Adam down in vain have
yearned to invade. Something like
this must have been the sensation of
watching Fulton's Clermont creep
without sail against the Hudson's tide,
or of seeing the first locomotive en-
CINE hauling its train of little cars.
In the end, man has learned to fl,
by forgetting the balloon and watch
ing the birds. 1t is true that Yep
plin and others have shown what can
be done by propelling cigar-shaped
balloons through the air, but the en-
ormous size and cost of such airships
and the difficulty of landing them
seem likely to restrict their number.
The cheap little aeroplane or biplane.
and whatever its odd and SPRAYING
shape, it scars as bird does. I'm
like the bird, it does not need to fy it's
wings to keep on soaring. The little
engine furnishes the impetus. So
some inventors have called the bird a
faulty monoplane that gets tired.
They are perhaps hasty The bird
has still the best of it; even the little
songsters can cross wide seas in their
annual migrations as man has not vet
done, but the time may come when the
flying machine will tire out the birds,
as the railway engine now outruns the
deer, the greyhound and the horse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
OkEFINOkEE NOT OWNED BY
STATE.
Macon TeIegraph.)

The following news item was sent
out from Atlanta:
Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 25.-Freder-
y fcEl,SlQss of Birmingham, Ala,
has written the Govern0F-iR. an eff
fort to open negotiations for the.
purchase of the Okefinokee
swamp. He believes that the
swamp has great future when
properly drained and developed.
AS the Governor is not pre-
pared to quote him figures just
now, his application to purchase
will have to lie over until the
next meeting of the General AS
sembly.
The Okefnokee Swamp is not owned
by the State.
Some twenty or more years ago il
was sold by an act of the Legislature
to syndicate headed by Capt. Harry
Jackson and an attempt was made to
drain it. A canal some ten or twelve
miles long was cut in from the east
side to its heart But the outer end
was never connected with the St
Mary's river as was the ultimate in
tentlOn, the purpose being to hold the
water until the canal was completed
on the inside The company failed
before the design was accomplished
A company of Michiganders then took
it over. Later it again changed hands
We do not recall who now owns it.
But it is not the property of the State
There is a wealth of black cypress
timber and red bay in the swamp; but
the time has hardly come when it will
pay to get it out.
The writer has seen vast acres OF
red bay in the swamp that measure
two feet in diameter. This red bay is
the same wood from which Cuban
mahogany is made and it is the only
mahogany now on the market. The
real article of mahogany has been ex.
hausted.
We have often regretted that the
State sold the swamp. 1t ought to be
perpetuated as a game preserve where
one could go occasionally and find thu
panther, the bear, the deer, and also
the wild goose, the sand hill crane
and other feathered tribe our fathers
knew in Georgia, now practically ex.
tinct
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
FOLEYS FFONEYANb AIR
LAND
FOR SALE.

235 acres s miles of Americas, s.
room house, near church and school !;
soil red and gray; running water.
$3.50 acre.
SIG acres, miles of R. R., 5-room
house. S. acre.
200 acres 6 miles of Americas, T.
room house, 3-horse farm; open; run
ning water. $15 acre.
400 acres 4 miles of Americas, two
4-room houses, two Groom houses;
soil red and grey. SIS acre.
200 acres level land and fertile,
miles of R. R., 5-room house (new)
rs acres, open, near church and school
SIG acre.
400 acres, 4-room house, tenant
houses, $50 acres, in pine timber, soil
mixed, pebbly and grey, a miles of
R. R. $40 acre.
$50 acres, 7-room house, 10 tenant
houses, 250 acres forest; productive
soil, miles R. R. SIS acre.
500 acres unimproved land, front
ng station on trunk line Ry.; fine
grazing and agricultural land; cattle
keep fat year round. Only 81 acre.
One-third cash.
If you want a home or investment
either in city or farm property, come
to see me or write.
p. B. WILLIFORD,
103 Cotton Avenue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
LOVE Is so STRONG

Love is so strong;
1t joins our souls forever more
Sweetheart,
No matter though the winds of i'll
blow long,
No matter how the storms of life up
start,
Love is so strong,
Yet love is weak;
1t cannot stand alone amid the strife
1t cannot teach our faltering lips to
speak;
1t cannot even save one little life!
Love is so weak!
But Love is strong;
Those whom our eyes have lost, Love
still sees clear,
And thoughts too deep for speech
ring through
Loves song,
And Love alone can face Deaths pres
ence, Dear,
And still be strong.
BY Constance Johnson in Septem-
Der Everybody's.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

year. This reaaarkabls revival IN the
iron trade has taken place quietly,
and production has reached these high
figures even while general industry
throughout the country has only be-
gun to feel the tendency to renewed
activity. At the same time there are
signs that the railroads are beginning
to fear that as soon as the crop move
ment is under way rolling stock will
be unequal to the demand. Here and
there are indications of possible con-
gestion of traffic, even though the bus
mess revival has as yet hardly started.
These are signs which emphasize
the truth that the Manufacturers Rec
ord as steadily and persistently
preached, pointing to the certainty
that our transportation facilities will
prove unequal to the pressure of bust
ness as soon as general trade is again
active. The marvellous expansion Of
our country constantly keeps ahead
of all who do not recognize the condi-
lions which guarantee a rapidity of
business expansion not found else
where in the world.
Unless the railroads wake up and
re-equip every badly equipped line,
cut down their grades where too
heavy, and prepare as rapidly as pos
sible to meet the increase of trade
that is inevitable, they will be respon-
sible for the hostility which will once
more break out in this country, when
the next practical collapse of the rail-
road system takes place, as it newt
ably will unless there comes about
a period of railroad building and the
expansion of railroad facilities far
greater than anything seen in the last
ten years. AS a minimum amount the
railroads need to spend $1,000, 100000
a year for the next five years to keep
up with the traffic which will be de-
veloped within that time. Anything
less than an expenditure on as broad
a scale as that will be far below the
actual needs of the situation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

The suggestion is made by West
ern railroad man that the railroads
erect warehouses and help the farmers
to carry their cotton and other pro-
ducts. The railroads are vitality inter
ested in the maintenance of profitable
prices, as out of them grows a heavier
business for the transportation lines
The spectacle of the railroads and
farmers joining hands would be a nov
Ell one, but it would be far more SEN
sible than the old policy of fighting
each other. The interests of both are
in common in many ways.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
CHEWING ONES WAY INTO GOOD
HEALTH


suffering from dyspepsia and va
troubles of the nines have
ardent des of Fletcherism earnestly advocating
taste the JOYS of
and healthful body and an active and
Everybody knows in Fletcherism is
extension the ola rule about
ordinary sanitary
the in plenty of
Good health it shown is simply matter of little of liberal
simply
following the rules that Mr. Fletcher has laid down result of his own
A Fletcher
parous
performs young man
simply by
eating recognition of the fact that has
the food before is introduced
ach and that the failure to avail oneself of natures provisions the boiling
the food unprepaed state responsible for lack of health lack
physical vigor, and lack of mental power
In publishing series of
treating of his methods and results In
naturally in probability
what is to-day
Fetcheism",
began by trying find required
he interests so % heath nd s and and s a
n cet go and 6nefcep laws Hence as m gnon
search to find out The fault was
toG edeny argued that Nature had gyen4s
h G a nG o M The fault or faults must be committed
% eR yes The e1 snys of fs s m1n
loosely akn
necessltatng in mouth
pleasant sensations revealed New delights Of taste We're dscoy
is call oodfter:
located the back of the mouth where the throat
socaed usually
told little teatke projections placed the
them having trough around it, and these
end it,
Dang gq Sr he
a a
then mouth
alright pouch Food when properly mixed with saliva will
the middle the direct
collect the mouth off
the
gate
into
the throat will be entirely off
with
will
until it reaches the food-gate
digestion
ready acceptance into the body will be
myself chewed carefully
everything it that there and until it slipped
Then chewed careuyea
whatever the appetite craved
requisite of what is called Fletcherm"
First: a appetite
available which
called by appetite
the mouth
and practically swallows itself"
Fourth S
Wait possible; Nature will dc
h
observing, posi
hdw
of n
twenty years
ttiredfe
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
FLYING AT RHEIMS.
New York World. J

The first flying meet in the history
of the world is an event of more than
ordinary interest There have been
many balooning contests, sometimes
with a dozen or more competitors
ready to go where the wind might
drive; but the gathering at Rheims
this week is the first of its sort for
heavier-than-air flying machines built
to breast the wind and hold a stated
course. The flight for The Worlds
prize at the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton will be the first in the New
World.
Hereafter events may move fast and
the marvellous soon become the COM
monplace, as has so often happened.
Yet little while the sense of awe will
linger. Few can read unmoved of that
sight, new in the history of invention,
when the eye of a spectator at Rheims
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
CURRENT COMMENT

The one-man idea is a bad habit
which will have to be abandoned. IT
makes things too easy for some and
too difficult for others. 1t gives bust
ness, which should be a free for all
the appearance of a hippOdrOme. It
takes life and virtue out of politics. It
debilitiates government and destroys
proper responsibility. Above all, it
weakens the political judgment and
capacity of the people.
OF course Mr.. Hartman has broken
down under the load, real and ficti-
tious, that he is carrying. Of course
the Democratic party is under no OBJ
legation to accept the new issue which
Mr.. Bryan, already round-shouldered
under the weight of his unequaled
burdens, is no doubt preparing for it
OF course Mr.. Taft's vacation days al
Beverly are not of necessity devoted to
.. lawmaking-the work which Congress
is authorized and expected to perform
But the one-man idea has taken pos
session of them and other people hold
aloof and calmly await results.
AS the business, the politics and the
Government of the United States are
all too big for one man, the people
would do we'll not to accustom them
selves to the one-man idea in any OF
their larger activities. A popular gov
eminent and democratic society dc
not thrive under such conditions. The
men who play the part are misled. The
millions who encourage them only
trifle with their own rights and well
fare
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
ONE MAN.
New York World


Hasty observers may easily gain the
impression that a certain invalid who
is to arrive at the port of New York
to-day controls the business situation
and that on his life or death hangs the
commercial and industrial fate of the
nation.
Those who gather at a quaint village
on the Massachusetts coast may be
pardoned perhaps if they reach the
conclusion that the Government of the
United States, VIGOROUSLY divided into
three great coordinate branches, is
lodged wholly in the person of an
amiable and painstaking Chief Mag
istrate.
1t is rare indeed that one man comes
into sole control of any situation ex-
cept by common consent. Even the
fiercest despots of the past have owed
as much to popular submission as to
intimidation and force. When one man
rules many men submit unquestion-
ingly.
1t is this growing tendency to defer
to follow, to obey, which is weakening
the old independence and initiative OF
the people. Speculative business halts
to count the pulse of one man. Polit-
ical parties are prone to accept their
ideas from one man. Government is
listless except as one man moves. Yet
business deceives itself, political par
ties know that they are duped and
government is fully equipped in all de-
partments to meet every emergency
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

The Macon County Citizen prints an
interesting letter from a school teach
er of that county. This teacher de-
clares that one of the great weakness
es in the schools of Georgia is the fact
that seventy-five per cent. of the teach
ers themselves have only a common
school education. They are thus pro-
longing and perpetuating ignorance.
Raising the standard of the teachers is
the very first essential to raising the
standards of the schools generally.
Boards of Education and School Com
missioners throughout the state
shouid bear this in mind.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

The Christian Science Monitor very
concisely and effectively sums up base
ball, as follows: THE game is in all
respects cleaner than it has ever been
before; it offers to all ages and to all
classes a means of recreation that is
not unwholesome; its influence is dem
ocratic and Matchmaking; at the very
least it diverts the thoughts of a very
large section of our people into chan
nels where morbidness finds little OPP
portunity for play"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

Several Western newspapers have
recently decided to exclude objection
able advertisements and news items
from their columns. This may enable
them to cut down the size of their
sheets without injury to the public or
themselves, either. 1t is very doubtful
that the great size of many papers is
any recommendation considering the
class of matter that is frequently re-
sorted to to give the pages a meretric-
ious interest to those of prurient
minds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

Some grouchy citizens of Atlanta
are complaining of kissing in the
parks there. That is not the true At
lanta spirit. Baltimore's mayor pub
licly invited sweethearts to do all the
billing and cooling and kissing they
wished in the parks. The census is to
be taken next year and Atlanta will be
wise if it does not drive the lovers
away
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

One of the latest stories from New
York is to the effect that it is difficult
to meet the demand of Western farm
ers for diamonds. This may be merely
one way of stating that the West is
very prosperous. Its prosperity is
merely the forerunner of that coming
on the South. Farmers down here
won't buy diamonds, but they are pref
ty apt to be buying more land and au-
tomobiles the next year or two
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

Thomasville has a proposition from
an outside investor to put up $15O,000
for cotton mill if the citizens put up
the other half. Americas has enjoyed
an excellent proposition for some
months but nothing definite has been
done toward putting the project on
foot and deciding finally whether the
city can do it's share or not. Next
month the ball should be started roll
ing
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
UP TO THE RAILROADS
TO PROVIDE CARS.
Freight Congestion Threatened, With
Business Revival just Started.
Manufacturers Record,

Manufacturers Record)
Pig iron production is now running
at the rate of about 25,000,000 tons a
year, or practically up to the high
water mark of 1907, as against little
over 100000 tons produced last
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

u The Farmers Union News says the
time has come to make a bale to every
acre. 1t is to be hoped, then. that the
acreage will be split nearly in half and
the portion saved from cotton put into
corn and other grains. The South
should exert itself to prevent oyerpro-
duction just as well as to increase pro-
duction to the acre.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28
is YOUR
MONEY
INVESTED
WELL !?

Next to having money, the moss
important thing Is how to take care
of it-how best to invest 1t.
A Banking Institution OF this kind
cannot only care for your financial
interests In a careful, conservative
way-giving you abundant banking
facilities in every department Of fin
ance-bUt can also give you valuable
aid and advice about investments and
securities. Open an account with
the Bank Of South Western Georgias
Savings Department and enjoy the
adv ntages that accrue
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

and Manager.
City Editor.
Business Dept.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-28

rder, Established
Established 1890.
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12

and misery. l advise all suffering
women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound" MRS. EMMA
WHEATON, Vienna, w. Va
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound. made from native roots and
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full drugs, and to-day holds the record
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Mass, from women who have been
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Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
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Every such suffering woman owes il to
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Vegetable Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12
Paris Butcher Guillotined.

Paris, Aug.-A sudden official an
nouncement that a public beheadins
would take place at 4:3O O'Clock
Thursday morning in the boulevard
fronting the State prison created :
sensation in Paris, which has not seen
an execution in fifteen years.
Immediately immense crowds gath.
cred ar the scene, but were kept back
from the guillotine by heavy details
OF police and municipal guards.
Partisan sentiment long has been o.
posed to public executions, for in the
past they were accompanied by
scandalous scenes Of revelry.
Despite this sentiment Parliament
refused to abolish the death penalty
In France, and in view of the revolt
ing crime Of the man executed Thurs
DAY morning, President Fallieres re-
fused to commute his sentence to life
imprisonment The victim was NAM
ed Duchemin, a butcher.
], In 1903 he stabbed his mother, and
this not resulting in her death QUICK
y enough, he finished her by strano-
nlation. The motive for the crime |
was robbery.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12
We Can Fill Your RiI1.
We are now in posonto fill your promptly and
w "X
U" EH ~

Because we now have in operation at Hart La DIR RIG
COMPLETE SAWMILL AND MANUFACTURING Pi ANT W.
manufacture Lumber Moudngs ETC. IL Is TO vour ad
vantage to buy direct from firm the material
First as we manufacture lumber we see that we'll
sawed dressed and dried before retail ward
second II you give order is not in stock ar orr
yao we can have sawed you promptly and that means
"'e saved ana time saved means money saved
lhd as we manufacture lumber, in buynp of lie vou
save the middle mans profit in fact
e manufacture with the advantage before
cost after buy o e ~ ~ ''e iiiS'
we are making special effort get good BARN TIMBERs
ana we are succeeding We stock Axe 6x6 6xS and
Sxs all Lengths from 20 tmbers are strictly
NO yellow pine in the rough think thew make
moers than they dressed car load of
nese umoeI are selling ordered second
barn BILL - ' ~ ~ e'' 'eioie puyihg your
we have just unloaded of GALVANIZED CORRGATED
KoN ROOFING 26 and % gauge lengths from to rs feet
use the pest care and have
n roofing thoroughly before buying give you best
we nave secured Call and prices on Paint
Nuoor Roong Galvanized Roofing Concrete Blocks
lOGAN.M0ORE LUMBER COMPANY Bu1 H7ESa,,D,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-08-12
General Rumbold May Have to
Dig Up"

Sedalia, Mo-, Aug. Captain W.
A. Collins, commander Of COMPANY
U. Second regiment National Guard
OF Missouri, was notified by Adjutant
General Rumbold that a mistake had
been made in the payroll Of this COM
pany while on duty at Camp Hadley
curing the recent State encampment
at Nevada, and that each officer and
private would have to remit at once
one days pay to the adjuhnt gener-
ais Office.
The notification stated that the
c,ompany's men had besn paid for ten
DAYS service instead Of nine. The
mistake waa made b the adjuant
i! generals Office and Il the boys in
que y. fail to remit General Rnmbold
NJ hare 10 foot de BIZ.