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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
TWO MILLIONS
A DAY

= States geological survey Is it worth the monevY
Couldn't we expend the $6OO,0Oo,0O0 year that the
smoke nuisance costs for something better than poison
ed lungs backened Skies ruined Clothes wthered trees
sooed buildings consumption and the general sense of
hang dog dirtiness!
1.-THE DAMAGE WHICH SMOKE INFLICTS EVERY
YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES AMOUNTS TO
MORE THAN $6OO,OOO,OOO IN THE DESTRUCTION OF
MERCHANDISE, THE DETACHMENT OF BUILD
INGS. THE TARNISHING OF METALS, THE INJURY
TO PLANT LIFE, AND THE GREATLY INCREASED
LABOR AND COST OF HOUSEKEEPING" says Mr.
Wilson.
And all of is useless All of it is waste All the carbon
which floats like black to defe homes and ruin
property from that black pumed smoke which be-
clouds the ar Is coal 1t costs money 1t should be burned
up and not thrown up into the air.
When soft coal is burning perfectly sends off
smoke than does anthracite 1t is imperfect combustion
that makes smoke And of course imperfect combustion
is waste to the who burns the COAL we'll as to the
community which he defiles
Once visitors at factory saw that no smoke was
to be seen leaving the stacks.
What sort of representing device have you?'
asked one.
ga fireman named Pat Gigan,' was the reply. Gas
long as we can keep Pat won't have much smoke''
Pat was good fireman, that is all. Good stocking will
stop large part of the smoke from all furnaces which
have reboXes large enough that steam be kept
without crowdng the fires. When the fires crowded.
nothing can prevent smoke.
The mayor OF a middle western city a few years ago
started to get ordinance enacted to prevent smoke He
knew that there devices for stocking fires which will
almost entirely stop the nuisance and he felt that was
rather dlsgraceu for any community to stay dirty when
it might be clean.
There packing houses in that town, and they
silently pulled wires to kill the ordinance. The mayor
good politician, and knew that he had against snag
He went to the manager of the packing house which he
identified with most of the adverse pull and asked him
what the matter was
81 can't get appropriation for the rebuilding of the
furnaces, said the manager 81 know that it would be
money in pockets to burn up this coal rather than
waste in smoke But you have to have frebox for
smokeess firing Sometime We'll get around to it. Until
we We'll have to fight you, Mr.. Mayor and believe
stop you with this council"
The mayor was beaten and retired from the field grace
fully.
The packing house went on poisoning that community
for 10 years longer Then it rebuilt its furnaces put
mechanical sokers and those stacks send out
only faint blur Of white smoke. They could all accom-
psh the REFORM and would do the communities
in which they live and the of the plants only
half awake to the panest considerations of and
personal cleanliness and health.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
CRAZY OLD M|SER'S SHACK, 4 FORTRESS ON
A CL|fFS|OE, WAS STUFFED WITH GOLD

Gaspard--
Love, happiness, moon of honey
What are all compared to money T?
Come let me clutch thee, beautiful
money,
Earth's brightest thing that never
grows old.
Grenicheux-
Gaspard, 1 swear. What does he
here?
Gaspard-
The ancient cabinets the best of
all banks,
And there lie my moneybags in
ranks,
All solid coin, all yellow ore,
And better still, l bring some more.
There l have purple linen fine.
Viands of price and rarest wine.
Wit, learning, mind-for all Of
these
Money can give If so l please.
Grenicheux-
Money can give If so he please.
No minstrel ever sang or told
A strain so sweet as clink of gold.
Gaspard--
Want 1 love? Plenty of it there.
None but the rich deserve the fair.
| may be ugly, bald and old,
Only let me WOO with gold.
From Chimes of Normandy.
Special Correspondence to The Press
PlTTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 18.-Peo-
pie laughed at old Peter Liebauch,
and called him crazy.
Peter begged for a living. Also
he sold shoestrings and herbs. He
wore funny, ill fitting clothes. His
house was a shack on the shelf of
cliff, worth as much as a pile of
driftwood.
Peter lived there all alone-ex-
cept for his half starved mongrel
dog. Only his neighbors and his
customers knew him. And they
pitied him while they laughed at
him.
But when Peter Liebauch's fool
lsh actions grew menacing, when
he came to curse the children and
threaten them, the police thought
1t would be only charitable toward
the old man, as we'll as more safe
for the neighborhood, to remove
him to an institution.
But when they dragged the old
man, kicking and cursing and fight
ing like a mailman, down those
stairs, which few but he had ever
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
MAKES VIOLIN FROM
1874 TOOTHPICKS
(By United Press)

Wy SuitS0 IICooJ
= HAGERSTOWN, Ind, Aug.
= 1S.-Thomas Atkinson, of Z
= Greenfork, who has a local
= reputation for making freak
. articles, has made a violin
= from 1874 toothpicks. Every Z
. thing about it. except the I
= finger-board, tail-piece, strings
= and keys, is made of tooth Z
= picks.
= The freak instrument is pro-
. nounced by musicians to pos
. sess beauty of tone and excel 4
= lence of finish found only in I
= better grade violins. 4
= Atkinson has been offered
= a fancy price for the violin. 4
. but says he will not sell UNI
= til somebody offers a dollar
. for every toothpick which he I
= used in making it.
D . q . . . q . . Q = q Q . . Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
WoMAN's SCREAMS BRING Ho-
TEL CLERK. WHO RETURNS
REPTILE TO ANOTHER GUEST
(ey United Press.)

WAI.I4A WALLA. Aug. 1S.-The
next patent medicine man who car
ries live reptiles for street exhib'-
tions will have to guarantee that
they won't wander away or else
he won't get into hotel In this
city. for gila monster, which es-
capped from Or. william Ross,
sfseNk worker. about three weeks
sgo almost depopuIated q hotel
are late lasa. night. A woman
.tnsf rctirfHx spied the reptile
aud ne resultant noise
loFk up on the jump
hall with guests. The
the monster finally
p the situation. The
bed 70 their rooms,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
i PENCIL POINTS,

Spokane does things Look around you and if she
doesn't Look at that work Riverside Fourteen story
building going up Take trips and the hundreds
of new homes building.
You ought to have been furnished guide to read yes
erdays editorials. The heads and first paragraphs
transposed Quite bit of typographical acrobatcs.
The Sacred Heart hospital now building, looms up
like castle of the Middle Ages Mantle Heights
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
LOOKS LIKE THE
LAST HOPE GONE
(By United Press

. SPRINGFIELD. H., Aug.
. 1S.-Colonel s. T. Busey of
. urbana. ILL.,, a veteran of the Z
. Civil war. one of the richest Z
. men in Illinois and the only Z
. man who defeated Uncle Z
. Joe" Cannon for congress in
. 1892, was drowned at his Z
= summer home at Mantrap, .
. MINI, yesterday morning. =
. His niece, Annie Mclean, .
. OF Urbana, was drowned at =
. the same time. The bodies .
. will arrive In Urbana Satur- =
. day noon. Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
A $4,000 CLUB
HERE.
usefulness of the figures "15(

usefulness of the figures 100000 has almost been worn
out
The population of Los Angeles, 100000, has
doubled within the past five six years There every
reason to believe that Spokane will have 100000 people
within the same like period The Angel City has the adj
vantage OF perennally balmy climate; Spokane has the
advantages of tremendous natural resources and strateg
ical position
The promotion club could be reorganzed to good advan
tage, and made the 100000 club properly maintained
these organizations of great to cities Increased
yigor and enthusiasm in the local club should be attained
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
GOT PHOTOS OF GLACIERS

c. r. Lewis, member of the
grand jury, has just returned from
the interior Of Okanogan county,
where he went to take some photo
graphic views of that remote and
but little frequented region. He
secured some pictures of the gla-
ciers and other natural wonders
that were never before photo
graphed. Mr.. Lewis enjoyed the
trip and says it was much like 60
ing into an unknown and unex.
plored land.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

IF you must fight, Robbie, take
some one of your SIZE" We'll,
papa, it amounted to the same
thing this morning. l licked two
boys, each of them half as big as |
was"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

That is what the smoke
nuisance costs us. So says
H. M. Wilson, chief engi-
neer of the technologic
branch of the United
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

He-Well, If you want to know
it, 1 married you for your money.
She-I wish l could tell you as
easily what I married you for.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
CHA MONSTER IN BEDROOM
CAUSES HOTEL PANIC

with some trepidation. however,
fearing the medicine man might
have lost more of his stock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

King Manuel is going to visit the
other monarchs. This Is q terrible
alternative to staying at home and
getting blown up.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

The kaiser has decorated Charles
w. Eliot. Now we know that GER
tain standard German works are
on that five foot shelf.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

Zion City is going to have a doc
tor, which will spare the faithful
George umpire mobbed by the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
s== THE SPOKANE PRESS EDITORIAL PAGE

TO NAIL SUBSCRIBERS-The your
pres on the address label Of each When that date
subscription
name taken from the list address
label is a receipt
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

At Niagara Falls poultry show
some chickens were found to have
pointed wings. Vain things!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18
MOST ANYTHING
Josh WISE .SAYS:

AS Brutus would have to say 1t
now: Il loved my Caesar, but oh
you Rome!"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-18

Title of Spokane's boost
club should be changed
from "150,000" to 1885,
0O0." Spokane now has a
Donulation of 100 O0O The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE or
THE BIBLE.

presumably intelligent
public
literature
master teachings world Previous gen
of
mty with their some an
Bible than people in standing are 1t was then considered
unacqnanted with Bible entirely
superficial knowledge Of them is declared
ference that nexplanable and nexcusable.
tanceshp only
literally the flesh child
very composition warp
spiritual existence The Washington
discussion the subject,
lance nqs the %opd Of a o 3 WRIT Pe Ssa wGH 9H q
no o ana NE OF tno aquamntce WIN the teach
the general Thought people has passed away and it is to
certain that President Norhrop
among certain class of persons that distinguished not to know
among praises sounded for
e t @ % WR % cese h Bod o Gng
literature etant down United States Of the time
a @ @ supe S S hsra QUALITY o @ B H scholars
strong cromyesn
as
% d H y ne g and n t6i While h h he pms OF
God Bbone and his worthy weighed heavily parliamentary
was that he could his
{ he s t the d. }Ssq1
said Dom Paul that much of his
which safely n that his lions int @
written in crypogram
low Intellect 6 gas s mn for his gqdan in mediate ar here be-
al ascribed the mind alone
possible ehfG G nte wOmf oag since have ar[
that have followed But most feel the the teachings
probabilities
sT4 S that e of h s sfe ss'0 will more for OF RHs' "
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
IN HOUSES OF WORSHIP
TODAY IN AMERICUS
Sermons of Interest Will
Be Heard.

In the absence of DR.. Lansing Bur-
rows, who is in Ohio upon his vaca-
ton, Rev. Mr.. Clarke of Andersonville
will fill the pulpit at First Baptist
church today.
The services at Calvary, conducted
by Rev. J. B. Lawrence, consist of holy
communion at a. m. sermon at II
and evening prayer at 8 p. m.
Rev. R. l.. Bivins will conduct the
services at Furlow Lawn Baptist,
morning and evening.
The Supernatural will be the
theme of Rev. L. Irwin at the
Presbyterian church this morn
ing. Tonight at 8 o'clock Mr..
Irwin will preach upon The Restless
World"
Rev Hamp Stevens will fill the pull
pit of First Methodist Church today,
morning and night, and will preach
at Brooklyn Heights this afternoon
at 4.
Col. w. P. Wallis will conduct SER
vices at st. Paul's church this even
ing at o'clock
Spirit" will be the sermon topic at
the Christian Science Church today.
Golden Text will put my spirit
within you, and cause you to walk in
my statutes, and ye shall keep my
judgments and do them Ezekiel
1921.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
NOT ALONE IN FREAK
LEGISLATION.
Macon News.)

A great deal of ridicule and ami
mad-version is being INDUCED in by
some of our contemporaries, both
within and without the state, with re-
gard to few misfit members of the
Georgia legislature and their freak
offering to the sum of legislation. but
is Georgia in any degree singular in
this respect? Perhaps Georgia gets
more notice in this regard from the
press of other states because her leg
lsIature conVenes at a different seas
on from the generality and the news
papers OF these states find relief in
turning from the antics and tragedies
OF their own fool legislatures to jump
on ours. But it is a fact that some of
the leading newspapers of the country
who for reasons best known to them
selves have not found anything re-
markable enough for special COM
ment In the course of the congress
which was gravely called together in
extraordinary session to revise the
tariff downward find a great deal of
diversion both for ridicule and cen
sure in the freak and serious meas
ureS before the Georgia legislature
To such we attribute their concern
for our affairs to nothing more i'm
portant than the desire to find some
harmless distraction for their readers
from the matters of more vital con-
Germ that are being perpetrated to
their injury with the tacit consent of
these journals.
But with regard to our freak legis-
lators especially great deal has been
made OF the anti-riding astride bill
chiefly, but as the New York World
says, ''if Georgia is after the palm
she must think little harder. How
can it hope to compete with Oklaho-
ma, where hotel may not use any
cup dish, vessel or receptacle for
food that has cracks visible to the
naked eye, and may not cover any
bed with sheet less than nine feet
long; where Senator Landrum's bill
protects the feelings of the aborignes
by forbidding the use of wooden In
dams as cigar store signs under pen
atty of $50 and six months imprison-
ment? Kansas will still be a few laps
ahead with its acts forbidding drink
ing on railway trains and the running
of motor vehicles at illegal rates of
speed except by political chauf-
feur, who may run an automobilious
band wagon at any rate he sees fit
compatible with the safety of the oc-
cupants thereof
I'm Illinois bill was introduced
to establish new matrimonial truth
VIZ, the squaring of the circle A
western legislator has endeavored to
make it unlawful for any druggist to
sell patent medicine unless there be
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
TOURIST TRAIN TO FLORIDA
TO COME VIA AMERICUS.
New Service to Begin in September, Ii
Is Reported.

Americas and Columbus are to CON
tinue in the line of tourist travel
from the West to Florida. which
promises to be very heavy during the
next season. The Central Railway
will cater largely to this business, es-
pecially from the West, and will
bring the tide this way.
Already the Central is operating a
through train, Chicago to Florida, via
Columbus and Americas, but this ser
vice, according to report, will be
greatly improved
These trains pass Americas a.
1920 and 1926 a. M, respectively,
carrying through sleepers and doing
local service as well between CoIur,-
bus and Albany, taking the place Is
trains Z and s below Americas.
With the opening of the new seaso
however, through fast trains will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

affixed in conspicuous place in his
store an affidavit stating that he has
tried one bottle of the mixture and
experienced no harmful effects there
from Another has sought to have it
declared under pains and penalties
that every hotel menu should be
printed in English, another that every
saloon must have red light in front
with the word danger inscribed
thereon while still another act pro-
vides that it shall be unlawful to dis
charge any rifle or revolver in the
public highway unless to kill some
wild, ferocious or dangerous beast, or
an officer in discharge of his duty In
the Lone Star State it is solemnly en-
acted that the skies of Texas are as
blue as the skies of Italy"
1t may we'll be asked, how can the
state of Georgia expect to compete
with such absurdities as these?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
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, 5 miles of r. r., 5-room
house. S. acre.
200 acres miles of Americas, /
room house, 3-horse farm; open; run
ming water SIS acre.
460 acres 4 miles of Americas, two
4-room houses, two broom houses;
soil red and grey. SIS acre.
200 acres level land and fertile, G
miles of R. R., Broom house (new)
IS acres, open, near church and school
SIG acre.
400 acres, 4-room house, 3 tenant
houses, $50 acres, in pine timber, soil
mixed, pebbly and grey, 4 miles of
r. r. $40 acre.
$50 acres, Groom house, 10 tenant
houses, $50 acres forest; productive
soil, 6 miles R. R SIS acre.
800 acres unimprOyed land, 'front.'
ing 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.
2. b. WILLIFORD,
1913 Cotton Avenue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The Montezuma Record believes the
great danger to prohibition is in try
ing to drive the public too far. Fanat-
ical leaders, it insists, are doing their
level best to create a reaction against
the prohibition law. Says it: Whisky
men caused the downfall of whisky in
the state of Georgia, as they are doing
in every state. The Prohibitionists
will cause their own downfall if they
become too ardent in their efforts to
make the horse drink at the water
trough. Just watch and see.'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The Georgia Tech is enc of the state
institutions that should be fostered to
as great an extent as the treasury will
permit. 1t is to be one of the great
est factors in the future industrial de-
velopment of Georgia. In the debate
in the House the other day Mr.. Up
shaw, of Douglass, said business men
in his town had been forced to send to
Boston to get men to install textile
machinery, pay them big wages and
travelling expenses, and stand around
with their hats in their hands for fear
these visiting experts would leave, all
because there were no boys in Georgia
available for the work. He wanted the
Tech, fostered and built up to correct
this state of affairs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The Columbus Ledger has kindly
opened it's columns to contributions
on The abuse of husbands" Afford
ing the relief to the overburdened
hearts of abused husbands is a prac-
teal exemplification of Christian char
ity. If the abuse of husbands keeps
growing as it has been of late there
will some day be a revolution that will
fairly gorge the streets with rats and
pink ribbons and peach baskets hats
and other evidences of feminine dom
nation
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
FLATTERY.
Chicago News

Chicago News)
Smeared on thick or spread on spat-
terry,
Eyerybody's fond of fattery.
Blushing virtue
Will not hurt you
You'll draw no assault and battery.
People never do see through it,
So you'll hardly oyerdo it.
Feed them candy;
Keep it handy
See how promptly they go to it,
Ii you use your best endeavor
they will think you very clever.
Get your hand in,
Then you'll stand in,
And they'll doubt your judgment
never.
People take a lot of praising
If you skillful are in phrasing.
AdulatiOn
AS a ration
Brings results that are amazing.
Carking care can kill a cattery:
be responsive, cheerful, chattery,
Goodness gracious!
How capacious
Is the human mind for flattery!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
Piles Cured at Home BY New Absorb.
ton Method

If you suffer from bleeding, itch
ing, blind or protruding piles, send
me your address, and l will tell you
how to cure yourself at home by the
new absorption treatment; and will
also send some of this home treat
ment free for trial, with references
from your own locality if requested.
Immediate relief and permanent cure
assured. Send no money, but tell 9TH
ers of this offer, Write today to Mrs
NJ. Summers, Box P, Notre Dame,
Ind.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The bachelor editor of the Dalton
North Georgia Citizen, viewing love
through the dark spectacles of ignor-
ance and pessimism, perpetrates this
IF there were less romance and more
congeniality employed in this matri-
monial business there would be less
for the divorce courts to grind on
Dalton and Quitman are evidently get
ting close together. Perhaps the sick
kitten and the warm hearth may yet
find each other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

put on for the Western tourist travel,
leaving Chicago and going through to
Jacksonville. The train south will
pass by Americas about a. m, While
the Chicago bound train will reach
here in the early afternoon.
These trains, it is said, will do no
local work, running through from
Columbus to Americas, 6S miles, with
out making a stop Such is the re-
port current now regarding the new
winter tourist schedules, though moth
ing of an official nature has been
given out yet.
There will be flood of Florida
travel next season, and the Central
will get its share as usual.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The modesty of Atlanta is again
beautifully illustrated in the fact that
it has several candidates for the va
cancy on the railroad commission. The
great mistake the legislature made
originally was in not prescribing that
only Atlanta men should be eligible to
the commission.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08
T arm Loans
II you want lean on your farm
save money by seeing me.
G. Il. ELLIS,
Planters Bank Building,
Americas, Georgia.
is YOUR
MONEY
INVESTED
WELL !?

Next to having money, the most
important thing Is how to take care
OF it-how best to invest it.
4 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 Georgia's
Savings Department and enjoy the
advantages that accrue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

..1+,, +he little things that count
says Rockefeller. JONI - ~ 80 Tho
personal experience ~ 90 oil q
hoas oaat i means hundreds of thous-
, anas Of dollars to its owners. The lit
tie things certainly count w.
aaNe got the public by the tnfo@''
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-08

The Atlanta correspondents insist
that an Atlanta man will succeed Nc
Tendon. All we have got to say is that
South Georgia supported Civ. Brown
and it is about time that South Georgia
got some recognition. This part of the
state is getting very weary of being
Georgia