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ROOSEVELT FAMH Y LEAVES
THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THEIR
HOME AT OYSTER BAY. ~ Y.

friendship and eager interest Of the
crowned heads of Europe, establishing
closer personal relations with them
than ever fell to the part Of another
president: He has been urged by rulers
of half h countries on the globe to
pay them visits, and 1t is suspected by
his friends that when he goes to Europe
after his African trip he will accept
some of these Invitations. The an
nounceinent that he would deliver lee
lures at universities IN England and
Germany, While enroute back to the
United States after his hunt in Africa,
has been the signal for a renewal OF
the b~onlbardment Of requests for visits,
lectures and the like, from all over
Europe.
There is a most Interesting story
that the Emperor Menelik. descendant
to visit him while in Africa, but 1T
is understood the presidents route will
probably make it impossible for him
to accept. Menelik is one of the most
interesting rulers in the world, and has
been an ardent admircr of the presi-
dent
To Reclaim Africa.
The possibility THAT the president
nay establish more than a casual
interest in Africa. as a result Of his
trip there, is a good deal gossiped about
among people who know something of
the preparations he has made for his
visit to the dark continent. One Of
the men with whom he has conferred
a good G is j. S. Leigh Hunt, multi
millionaire. who has made fortunes in
Korea and latterly in establishing the
cotton culture in the eastern Soudan.
Hunt is an American, the friend OF
kings and emperors. and an intimate
OF the president. He went to Africa
by accident, his physicians having pre-
scribed a trip to Egypt for his health.
While there he became interested in
he great Assouan and other works
for reclamation OF the upper Nile coun-
try. and conceived the idea Of cot
ton culture there.
Going back to England, he enlisted
capital and secured a big grant Of
lands OF which to make his expert
ments. They have proved a complete
success thus far. Hunt recently de-
clared that he wondered at his own
moderation; he might Just as we'll have
had 100000 acres instead OF the so, 900
that was turned over to him. AS it
is. however, he is in the way Of estab-
fishing an immense industry, doing the
greatest work which has been done in
modern times for Egypt, and making
another great fortune. His close rela-
lions with the president have given
basis for the story that the president
may one day himself become interested
in Africa; but this Is at present mere
gossip.
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Dignity Badly RuffIed.


When the recently discovered baro-
net, Cave-Brown-Cave, first came to
America, a good many stories were told
about the persistent in which
he insisted upon being addressed by his
full name. That was before he had the
corners rubbed off his dignity by rough
ing it in the new world. He sat one
night at dinner in a boarding house in
Montreal next to an E~nglishman named
Leonard Holme, an old Cantab.
When the joints came on the table
said: "Beef or mutton. Nj. Caves;
The future baronet. in his most freez-
ing manner, replied: II beg our par
don. madam; my name is Cave-Brown-
Cave, IL you please"
: Willing to oblige her guests, the land
lady asked ii Mr.. Cave-Brown-Cave
would take beef or mutton. He accept
ed the beef.
i, Then she turned to the next guest and
said: Beef or mutton, Mr.. Holme?"
Without a smile the Cambridge man
madam; my name is Holme, Sweet
Holme." This drew a roar from the
Englishmen at the table and cost
Holme the friendship of Cave-Brouin-
Cave from that time forth.
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About h O suey.
From the Grand Rapids -

From the Grand Rapids Press.
One OF the mysteries of the ages Is
chop suey: Up to the advent Of this
avory dish into American menus
boarding house hash held the belt as
the champion heavyweight mystery of
the culinary world and many who tried
to solve it were knocked out. But along
came chop suey, a so-called Chinese
dish. with it's seductive doors and
placed hash in the background. :.
Very little is known about chop
suey even In China. where 1t is sup.
posed to I'VE originated. Upon the,
occasion of h last visit of Ii Hung
Chang, the great Chinese statesman, 10.
his country he was given a banquet
in New York. As a compliment to the
placed on the bill OF fare. Ii Hung
Chang looked at it with the frank sus-
picion which c~haracterizes his race
shifted 1t and asked wha 1t was. 1T
is chop suey," said the man at his
right. And what is chop suey?" in
national dish of China replied the
American. II nave never heard OF it,"
said Ii. )
III left a cold. clammy suspicion in
the minds of his host that night that
chop suey was a dish invented by the
Chmamen in America for the purpose
OF attracting the American dollar in
the direction Of tho Chinese restau-
rants. If chop suey is used in China
now it is probably considered an Amer
lean dish.
AS a general all around mystery,
however, chop suey is certainly there
with the goods. 1t has been %slandered
its air of mystery creates a demand
and there isn't really much to It but
pork, beef or chicken and a few yege-
tables cut up in fantastic shape.
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STORY OF
JEFFERSON UNTRUE
Tradition That He Rode Unat-
tended to inaugural Has No
Foundation in Fact.
Written for the Indianapolis News.

Written for the Indianapolis News.
Speaking OF inaugurations, there Is .
tradition connected with the first inaugu-
ration of Thomas Jefferson as president
which ought to be assigned to its proper
place. Idle stories sometimes take the
form of traditions and are finally accepted
by some historians as true. Such Is the
story, popularity believed, that at noon on
the day when Jefferson was to be inau-
gurater as president, viz. March 4, 1901. he
rode entirely unattended, IN horseback.
up the Capitol hill, tied his horse to the
fence, entered the Senate chamber and
took the oath Of office. This story has
often been cited as an Illustration of JEFF
ferson simplicity, and 1t would be a good
one II 1T were true, but it Is not. AS far
as known the only contemporary account
OF the Inauguration extant Is in the
Aurora, a weekly paper published at Phil
%adelphia- The old National lntelligencer
was started at Washington in October,
1900, but there is no file of 1T for 1901 ex-
tant. The Aurora in its issue of March
II, 1901, said:
At an early hour on Wednesday, March
spectacle of uncommon animation. occa-
stoned by the addition to It's population
of a large body of citizens from the ad-
company of Washington artillery ushered
in the day, and about 10 O'Clock the Alex
andria company OF riflemen, with the com
pany of artillery, paraded in front of tho
presidents lodgings. At 10 O'Clock Thomas
jefferson. attended by IL number of his
fellow citizens, among whom were many
members of congress-, repaired to the cap
itol, His dress was, as usual, that of q
plain citizen, without any distinctive
badge of office. He entered the capitol
, under a discharge from the artillery. go
AS soon as he withdrew a discharge of ar
tillery was made. The remainder Of the
day was devoted to purposes of festivity,
and at night there was a pretty general
! illumination.
This account was reproduced IN a littlo
book entitled. Speech of Thomas Jeffer-
son. president of the United States, de-
livered at his installment, March 4. 1901
at the city of Washington" published at
Philadelphia in 1901. The contemporary
account makes no mention of Jefferson's
riding to the capitol on horseback, and
1t says he was accompanied by "a num-
Der of his fellow citizens, among whom
were many members OF congress-" That
part of the tradition which says that lie
rode to the capitol unattended" is clear
ly disproved. AS to hitching his horse to
the fence. that proceeding would be plain
ly absurd in a community where colored
servants %abounded. The whole story is a
myth and should cease to be quoted az
historical.
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The bureau Of statistics
that in 1878 the number Of pairs Of
boots and shoes exported from the
United States was but $4,000; in 1883,
$4,000; in 1898. 1.3o7.Oo and in 1908,
tations in 1873 was s468, 900; in 1883.
$3.50 in 1898. $1,s17.0 900, and in 1905
! 1.470. 900. The United Kingdom sends
abroad more shoes than the United
States. the number Of pairs having
reached s.442.2s6 during the last fiscal
50. 1880. 1856, or $1.05 per pair, while those
exported from this country averaged
t1.04 per pair.
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What's in a Title?

Judge Gray, Of Delaware, was talking
recently about the fondness of Ameri-
can girls for English titles. Ii speaking
of how empty and meaningless such
foreign titles usually We're, he illus
trated it With the following:
Titles are just as meaningless in
the United States. Take my own title
the title of judge, for instance. /
was travelling in the country a short
time ago.. and at the table of the hotel
where | was stopping. there was a man
whom every one present addressed as
Judge
When this judge got up and went
away, l said to the man sitting next
him at the table: Is the gentleman
Who just left a United States judge or
a local judge
HE is a local judge. sir was the
reply. He was a Judge at a horse race
last week.
Titles at home and abroad amount
to about the same thing. Nothing
counts but the mar"
The District of Columbia comprises
an area Of 69.245 square miles. The
government consists Of two civilian
commissioners appointed by the pres
ident and confirmed by the Senate, and
one army engineer officer, detailed by
the secretary OF war, h three consti-
tuting the board of commissioners for
three years.
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Washington and Lincoln.

FROM Ine NEBRASKA state journal,
1t has occurred to a newspaper of
Boston, a city that gives much atten-
ton to the past, to Dol up the ceIe-
bration of the Washington centenary
in 1882. These give some indication Of
the popularity of the father of his
his popularity compared with the pres
ent popularity of Lincoln, whose cen
tenary we observe next Friday.
according to the transcripts re-
themselves into their celebration with
a physical vim not promised for this
weeks occasion. Philadelphia, then a
comparatively small city, had a pro-
cession four miles long which 1t took
three hours to review. Boston had two
professions. and the day was a thor
ou%ghgoing holiday. In Washington the
day was made a great event, and the
National Intelligencer suspended pub
LEGATION to give its employees a chance
civic and military procession reviewed
by the one surviving signer Of the
declaration of independence, Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton. On the whole
the day was n of the great events
of the first half of the nineteenth cen
fury.
1t is readily seen that that occasion
and the celebration to come this week
are Incompatible. h methods Of
Pnp ! expression ans .ar are different now.
o'N AOCSSSIOllS
were the favorite ~olitical expression
in those days. where now they are an
insignificant feature. A fair measure
of popular interest in anything nova
days is the kind and quantity OF pub
lie reading matter. The deulge OF Lin
DIN literature in which we are now
Immersed is the o remarkable thing
of the kind yet experienced in this
country. and is fully as impressive in
its way as the parades of 1882.
~
err, praised in Washington the innumerable
and superb American golf courses.
II never saw anything like It," said he.
"And l have just one fault to find. You
permit too many persons to promenade
your links as though they were pubic
parks. That is very annoying and also
very dangerous.
'These promenaders are often extremely
ignorant of golf. 1t was here in Washing
ton, / believe, that a player erhea
two of them conversing.
What said a young lady promenader.
'ts the mar with the club shouting ..fore,s
for?'
Her companion. another lady, an
swered:
81 suppose that is the number Of time.
he has missed the ball. And doesn't -
seem annoyed about 1t. too7'"
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School children of Liege, Belgium,
had on deposit in the school children's
savings banks last July the sum of
e. -
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-03-04
JUST 80.

Some of the haciendas in the Mex
lean state Of Durango contain q million
or more acres.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
PERRY SEES NO TRACE
OF COOK AT THE POLE
Second American Has Dis
covered Pole.

ST Johns, n. F., Sept. 7.-Comman-
der Robt E. Peary, who announced to-
day that he had discovered the North
Pole on April 6, Of the present year
found no trace of Or. Frederick A.
Cook, of Brooklyn, who reported to
the world five days ago that he had
made the same discovery in April of
the preceding year.
This news reached here last night
through Capt. Bartlett of the Roose-
velt Peary's ship, en- route to Cha
team Bay, Labrador
Capt Bartlett telegraphed to rela-
tives here that Peary had found moth
ing to indicate that DR.. Cook had
reached the pole. While Peary does
not expressly repudiate DR.. Cook s
contention in so many words his state
may have an important bearing upon
determining the extent of Cooks ex-
plorations
The Roosevelt was in good condi-
tion and the crew all right, wired Capt
Bartlett in addition, and he reported
that the steamer Jeanie, carrying sup
plies for the expedition, had met then
off the coast of Greenland. Coming
south the Roosevelt passed Etah, ant
Ppernayik, Greenland where DR.. Cool
had preceded Peary.
The Roosevelt is bound for Chateau
Bay, Labrador, with Peary and party
on board, where she is due today
Chateau Bay lies northwest Of Castle
and Henley islands on the northern
shore of Belle Isle straits and du,
east of Belle Isle
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
DtBTS ARE WIPED OUT
IN SALES OF BALES
Cotton Money Is CirCuIdt-
ing Here

Americus supply dealers and mer-
chants generally, to say nothing of
the local banks, are feeling the effect
of II 1-2 cents cotton in the excellent
collections made already. Farmers
have the money, and the majority of
them are paying off Indebtedness as
rapidly as possible
Merchants in all lines of business
report collections good.
People will pay their debts when
they have the wherewith, and many
who make their purchases here have
already paid a large portion of their
debts.
One house here, in speaking yester-
day of improved conditions, stated
that a single customer had already
cancelled his entire indebtedness for
supplies, the amount exceeding Sc, 900
The effect of high prices for cotton
AS rule people are paying more
promptly this year than ever before
and many will have cotton to hold
after all their years debts have been
paid
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
PROSPERITY Is IN THE
AIR UP NORTH
Mr.. Nh0dtIey Returns More
Sanguine Than Ever

| Mr.. Crawford Wheatley returned
yesterday from New York, where he
spent the last two weeks attending
to banking and other business matter.
Mr. Wheatley brings back the same
report that other travellers have
brought with them, of an exceeding
" optimistic spirit prevailing in the
| metropolis and the opinion generally
expressed that the country is on the
eve Of another period of wonderful
business development and expansion.
Nowhere was there any fear as to the
Immediate future, the opinion. prevail
ing that from now on the business Of
the country would be on the upgrade.
that there would be a steadily increas-
ing demand for all American prod
uets, and that idle labor would soon
be a thing Of the past again.
There is more hopefulness express
ed in the North than in the SOUTH
said Mr. Wheatley although our peo-
pie are generally the more ssanguine
in temperament. This is due, l sup
pose, to the fact that the North felt
the betterment in conditions the soon
er, just as the South suffered later
from the recent business depress on.
Up there everybody is getting ready
to make money and it does look as
though everybody was going to make
it. too. In every department OF bust
ness there is bright outlook and of
course That means prosperity fo rthe
South as well as for the North.
Mr.. Wheatley was on the Cotton Ex-
change the day the recent government
report on the condition of the crop
was issued There was suppressed
excitement, but it had generally been
expected that the report would show
a very bad condition for the crop.
While no one questioned the aecuracv
of the report, there seemed to be no
bull interests ready to avail them
selves eff it. due, perhaps, to the feel
ing that September-October would
bring rush Of early cotton and to the
fact that the market was already SO
much higher than a year ago. While
in New York among the eo>t0n men
MIR. Whe5tIey found the opinion gen
n -~avorable to continued high
Ealues for the staple, and a realiza-
ton that bear movements could hard |
ly hope for much success, or success
of anything more than transient na-
ture. with the crop curtailed as it has
been and the worlds business about
to demand probably more cotton than
last year to meet its actual consump-
tive requirements.
Il have come back well satisfied
with the outlook, said Mr. Wheatley. |
The country is in for period Of |
prosperity and progress and the South
is going to have its full share of them
both
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
Mr.. CHRISTIAN is DEAD
END GAME SUDDENLY
Passed Away at Residence
Here
Stricken With Acute In.
digestion Yesterday
Morning

Mr.. r. T. Christian, one of Sumter's
best known and most valued citizens.
expired suddenly yesterday morning
at his residence on Brown street. The
end followed an attack of acute indi-
gestion, and possibly apoplexy as we'll,
and was almost as sudden as it was
unexpected
He suffered for probably half
hour, walking in the hall in the mean
time, but expired ere the family ply
sician, who had been summoned could
arrive.
His son, Henry Christian, was with
him at the moment and caught him in
his arms as he fell
The announcement of the death of
Mr.. Christian was a shock to his host
of friends here for, while a resident
of Americus for little more than
year only, he was held in highest es-
TEEN among all.
Many called at the home yesterday
to tender sympathy to the distressed
family, for in all Georgia there is not
a more devoted one.
The death Of the husband and father
breaks the first link in this family of
ten members, the devoted wife, six
daughters and two sons. With the ex-
ception of one married daughter. who
is ill at her home in Atlanta, all are
at the stricken home
In the death of Mr.. Christian Sum-
ter county sustains a loss that it can
ill afford just now.
For little more than a year he has
been superintendent of roads here
and the work he had already perform
ed is an enduring monument to his
skill and ability as engineer and road
constructor. His superior in his cho-
sen vocation was not to be found in
the South.
Sumter's good roads, the pride of
the county were largely constructed
by this experienced and skilled engi-
neer.
Before removing to Americus in the
summer of last year the family re-
sided at Macon, where Mr.. Christian
likewise left the impress OF his skill
and ability.
For many years he was connected
with the engineering department of
the Central Railway, engaged in road
building. The track in Central City
Park, considered the finest in the
South, was constructed by him. as
were others of like kind, requiring
greatest engineering skill.
In everything undertaken he gave
closest personal attention as to detail,
one secret of success.
The county will deplore the loss of
such an able official
Mr.. Christian was born in Jones
county on November 18th, 1851, and, |
therefore, was in his 5Sth year. Strong
and robust, and seemingly in the
prime of life and health, his sudden |
taking away was all the more surpris- |
ing to his many friends here and |
throughout Sumter county.
The funeral services will be held
here this afternoon, notice of which
appears elsewhere
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
BARN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
SAVED BY BROKEN DOOR
COnflagratiOn Was Thus Narrowly
Averted.

The large barn on the farm of Mr..
J. G. Carter, near Americus, was
saved from destruction by fire a day
or two ago by very close call
Lightning struck the building, filled
to the roof with hay and other COM
bustible material, the bolt running
down the framework of the main en-
trance to the building. At it glanced
therefrom the fluid fell upon a door
that had fallen upon the hay, which
thus protected it until farm hands
came to the rescue and extinguished
the fire. Had the blaze got a hold
upon the hay the building and valu-
able contents would have been de-
stroyed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
WILSON BACK TO BOOKS;
THE SEASON Is ENDED.

Doc" Wilson, one of the star
twirlers of the Americas ball team,
the Champs of the State" returned
yesterday to Atlanta to re-enter Stone
Mountain college for the fall term.
Than Wilson there is no better pitch
er in amateur baseball, and few SUI
periors in the South Atlantic league.
1t is to be hoped Americus will have
him again next season.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
OPENING OF CITY SCHOOLS
Registration Begins on Thursday
Next, the 9th Inst.

The registration of pupils for the
fall term will begin at Furlow and
Mccoy Hill schools Thursday, Sep
tember 9, and will continue until Sat
urday, September 18th. Office hours
from 10 to u, and from to 5. Schools
will open Monday, September 20. High
school pupils should report early so
as to arrange their studies.
sat A. G. MILLER, Supt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
T. F. GATEW0OD HAS BOUGHT
BROWN HOME ON LEE
Desirable Home Was Purchased by
Him Yesterday.

In the purchase yesterday of the
Joe Brown residence on Lee street
formerly the F. E. Burke place, Mr.
T. F. Gatewood acquires one of the
most desirable residence properties
in that section of the city. There are
ample grounds, an acre or two, and
the location is an ideal one for a com
Portable home. Mr.. Gatewood will dis
pose of his present residence on Col
Iege street and remove to the larger
home out on Lee. The price paid
was quite reasonable-$4, 500.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
RECEIPTS OF COTTON WERE
315 BALES YESTERDAY

Cotton receipts at the warehouses
yesterday were very good for a mid
week day-315 bales. Prices, locally,
were about the same as on Monday,
II 3-S cents, though the better grades
yesterday sold for II 1-2 cents in
Americus, with brisk demand for all
good cotton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-08
LIBRARY Is AHEAD $40
AS PROCEEDS OF SHOWS.
This Amount, Even, Is Thankfully Re.
ceiyed.

The Americus Carnegie Library has
received $40 as its share of the pro-
ceeds arising from the benefit per-
formances kindly rendered by Mr.
Harry Bickford, manager of the op-
era house picture shows. While the
amount is not great, it will materially
assist the library, which has been
sorely in need of funds for current ex-
penses and the purchase of books
ever since the doors of the institution
were opened on June 1.