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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-18
TWENTY DEAD
IN EXPLOSION
Seven Boilers of American Tin
Plate Company Blow Up
at Canton.
HALF A HUNDRED ARE HURT
Bodies Terribly Mutilated and Some
Hurled Great Distance-OnIy
Dead Knew Cause.

Canton, Ohio, May 1S.-With roar
that was heard three miles away, a
battery of seven boilers at the plant of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate com
pany exploded yesterday afternoon.
killing 20 men and injuring about so
Among the injured are a half dozen
who, it is said, will probably die.
Others, physicians say, cannot recover
from their injuries. Following is tho
list of known dead:
GEORGE A. LEMLEY, catcher.
- ROVER, engineer.
CHARLES DEWITT, engineer.
WALTER RINGENBERGER, heater.
GEORGE BOLE, heater.
CHARLES BROWN, heater.
]. HENRY, catcher, North Industry.
JACK WHEELAND, dubler.
HARRY BALTZLEY. dub1er.
H BOTHAMER, dubler.
PETER WOOLGOOF
UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
ASH WHEELER.
F DUNLAP.
CHARLES RICHARDS.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
Accidents Cause Unknown.
The cause of the explosion is at
present unknown. The fireman and
engineer, who were in the. boiler room.
are dead. No one else about the plant
who survived the accident can give
an explanation. One workman says
that he heard three distinct explosions
in quick succession. The force of the
conclusion was terrific. The big plant
is in such a state of ruin as to be prac-
tically total loss. Identification or
the men was difficult because many OF
them were so mutilated that even the
most intimate friends of the dead
could not recognize. the features.
Heads we're blown from several
bodies. Arms and legs were blown
from the trunks. Fragments of bodies
were blown several squares from the
scene and bits of human flesh have
been picked, up on porches and roofs
of houses and in trees.
Hundred Men at Work.
There were 100 men at labor in the
plant at the time of the accident. But
a dozen or so escaped death or injury
These and others who rushed to the
plant as soon as the disaster was
known worked hereically to rescue the
injured from the ruins, which soon
took fire, but the fire department ex-
tinguished the flames.
The body of one man. unknown, was
blown through house. over 200 feet /
from the plant. The body entered TIE
house from the east side and continued
in a straight line through bedroom
and out the other side of the house to
Louis avenue. The torso of another
man was found in the garden of yard
about 500 feet west of the scene.
Arms. legs and parts of bodies were
strewn about the neighborhood.
The bodies of seven men mutilated
beyond recognition were found in the
north end OF the mill
For Gods sake hit me on the head
and kill me-, cried one workman to a
man who found him. The injured man
had lost one arm and suffered a great
hole in his side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-18
LOCAL PEOPLE WED
In OTHER CITIES
Marriage Licenses Issued at Milwau-
kee and Chicago TO Rock Is
- land Couples.

Milwaukee, Wis, May Especially
F. Baumbach, Rock Island,
and Ida Elbert, Davenport. secured a
license to marry mere yesterday.
Chicago. Nay is Especial Harry
9. Bateman end Lavina Fisher, both
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-18

course, they should not be made pub
lic.'
The most exciting scenes of the day
came when Assistant Attorney General
Lawler took the stand late in the af-
ternoon. Mr.. Lawler was peevish at
the start and he did not make good
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
TUMULTUOUSLY WELCOMED
EVERYWHERE.

Tonight Theodore Roosevelt, ex-
president of the United States, de-
livers the first of his addresses before
European audiences, at the Sorbonne.
Paris. Citizenship in a Republic"
will be the title of the address. To-
morrow the Recorder will pub
lish a three column summary of an
address that is undoubtedly destined
to attract considerable attention.
On May u Roosevelt will speak al
the University of Berlin, his topic
there being The World Movement,
and ON May IS at Oxford University
on Biological AnaIogies in History.
OF each of these addresses the Times
Recorder will publish lengthy sum-
mary the morning after it is deliver
ed
Roosevelt is one Of the most re-
markable men Of his age. That fact
has been clearly impressed upon the
world. His reception in his tour of
Europe exceeds in popular enthu3-
iasm anything that has ever been ac-
corded to a foreigner visiting those
countries. 1t promises to gain in
intensity as he visits the homes of
autocracy. Paris gave him tumul-
tuous greeting, Berlin is apt to make
it an even more demonstrative one
1t is mixed tribute in both cases,
tribute to the wonderful virility
Of the individual, and to the grandeur
of the republican institutions that he
typifies. Considering his reception
from the individual standpoint, The
Temps, of Paris well says:
No democratic chief of state ever
before enjoyed such popularity. We
are accustomed to formal visits Of
kings and presidents, but Roosevelt is
no longer president. 1t is the man,
therefore, ont the office, that is be-
ing honored. 1t is his vigor, his per-
sonality, his character, ideas and tenn
permanent which appeal to European
opinion.
L CIV al IuOI0 worthy Oh the 6S-
TEEN of the democracy, for he repre-.
sents at the same time liberty and
author.ty-those two antitheses which
republicans, conscious of their duty,
and solicitous of the future, are ev-
erywhere trying to harness together"
1t is freely predicted that the eff
fects of Roosevelt's visit to Europe
will be seen in an increase in the
democratic spirit, in a new stimulus
to the longing for more representa-
tive institutions. The people really
seem to have taken the receptions
or at least to have given them a new
and more significant meaning by the
ardor of their welcome to a private
citizen who pictures, in their eyes,
a land where all men stand equal
before the law and opportunities to
rise are almost as common as leaves
of the forest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

and therein lies the soul of politeness
Those obsessed by the notion that it
was impossible for Mark Twain to
open his mouth without saying some
thing funny should revise their i'm
pressions Of him. In the course of his
last visit to his boyhood home at Han
nibal In the summer of 1902 he said
solemn things in the most dignified
manner possible. Several times he was
so deeply touched by the pathos of the
occasion, his meeting with boyhood
friends then grown old like himself,
his visit to the graves Of his parents,
that his voice quavered and broke, and
the inevitable tears triekled down his
face. He was overcome with emotion,
conquered by tender sentiment, and
those of us whose privilege it was to
observe him upon these occasions went
away with a new notion as to Mark
Twain. He was not the mere jester,
not the buffoon who sees in life only
the outlaws and works assiduously to
evoke them in boisterous riot of laugh
ter. He was the man Of feeling, the
tender hearted old fellow, the owner
of heart as gentle as any that ever
beat
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
and
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With no school learning save such as
he gained from a few years attend
ance at the village school in Hannibal,
Mo-, his scholastic titles were earned
by literary work which the whole
world accepted.
He Was Intensely Democratic.
Mark Twain was intensely demo-
cratic. He was easily approachable,
and he never emitted any bears growl
or lions roar. Even the humblest per-
son was made to feel at ease in his
presence. Shrinking reporters sent to
interview him quit their shrinking and
pulled up when they found him as
easy to interview as the aspiring au-
thor of the poem published in the low
er corner Of the town weekly. He
could talk on any topic, even the
weather, and glorify it with his hui
NOR. If the insistent attention be
slowed upon him was distasteful to
him he did not permit the fact to be
known. Mark Twain was one of the
politest men I ever knew. He was
considerable of the feelings Of others,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Editorial Room, Telephone 20.
Americas, Ca, April %, 1910.
LAUGH 1T OFF.

IS. E. Kiser in Judge.)
When you totter meath a care,
Laugh it off.
If your buffers full Of hair,
Laugh it off.
If you're married to a shrew,
Or your butchers bill is lue,
Or you're tortured by a shoe,
Laugh it off.
If you're mangled in a wreck,
Laugh it off.
If a boil comes on your neck,
Laugh it off.
If a brick showed from a yall
Lands upon you in its fall,
Do not be put out" at all
Laugh it off.
If a wasp lights on your cheek,
Laugh it off.
If fist strikes on your beak,
Laugh it off.
If the lady's fathers toe,
Coming upward from below,
Hurts you as you swiftly go,
Laugh it off.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
KING Of HUNOR
Tribute Paid to the Ability,
Kindly Philosophy. DroIl Fun
and Pathos of the Man Whose
Optimism Cheered Millions.

rather be the author of ''Tom Sawyer"
than all of his own works.
'The Innocents Abroad" of course,
always will be associated with Mark
Twain's name as one of his most char
acteristic books. but that may be be-
cause it was his first big work and
won for him the fame and the for
tune which enabled him to write what
he pleased.
Mark Twain's name was Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, but it was used
chiefly as a vessel whereon universe
ties hung LII. D. handles. He was
"Dr. Clemens" three times over, but
the distinction never spoiled him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Before the doors open for the grand
opera season Atlanta will probably
have sold enough tickets to insure the
100000 that was required to bring the
Metropolitan Opera Company to that
city. Is there any other city in the
South, except New Orleans, that could
have done it? We don't believe so.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
His Many Personal Sorrows.

Mark Twain's life was not a rose
bed. He walked no primrose path. He
encountered stumbling places and had
steep hills of difficulty to climb. And
he had sorrows that bit and griefs that
bludgeoned. At the close of his life,
so far as relatives were concerned, he
was almost alone in the world,
His best loved daughter, Susy, died
in America when he was in Europe.
His story of her death in his autobiog-
raphy is piece of pathos seldom sur
passed. His wife, who was Miss Olivia
/ Langdon of Elmira, n. Y, his compan-
ion for many years, died in Italy after
vain wanderings for the restoration Of
her health. He built big country
home near Redding, Conn, and settled
down to continue growing old as grace
| fully as he could with his two remain
ing daughters, Clara and Jean. In No
vember of 1909 Clara married a for
eigner and went abroad to live. Jean
/ was left with him. On the day before
| Christmas, with a Christmas tree for
| her father trimmed by her own hands
in one Of the rooms, Jean Clemens was
found dead in her bathtub, having
| been seized with an epileptic fit and
drowned.
When Mark Twain was fifty years
old and worth about S1000O00 pub
| Fishing firm in which he was part
Rer became bankrupt. He lost his for
| tune and was involved heavily in debt
He set to work, made a lecturing and
writing tour around the world aud in
ten years had paid off his Indebtedness
and again was ahead of the wolf By
| that time he had become so universally
| famous that his work commanded its
own price. Thereafter he could write
or rest as he chose, and he chose to
| write much.
Mark Twain's writing life began in
his pilot days and continued up to his
death-half a century of devotion to
the art of making people happy. For
| several years he was simply a hard
working newspaper reporter and spe-
cial correspondent, searching for gold
| In Nevada and California between jobs
at journalism which grubstaked him
for prospecting. But he found his
purest and most paying streak of ore
when in 1867 he wrote The Jumping
Frog of Calayeras County" That
story, picked up In mining camp. was
his first promising literary prospect
He had struck the mother lode.
Printer, pilot, reporter, humorist,
novelist, philosopher-he is safely en-
balmed to enduring fame.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
NO WONDER.
(Boston Transcript

The ancients thought the world was
fiat,
I'm really not surprised at that,
We'd find it fiat, / dare to say,
If we were living in that day.
Just think, they had no autos then,
No show girls to delight the men,
No pipes to smoke and no cigars,
No cocktails served at handsome bars
No bridge to play and no pink teas,
No liners speeding DER the seas,
No yellow journals and no flats,
No woneHs' monstrous picture hats,
No tariff problem to attack,
No gowns that button up the back,
No end seat hogs with manners rude,
No monkeying with the price of food,
No ice bills, no coldstorage eggs,
No bunco steerers and no yeggs,
No trolley cars with clang and whirr
No Teddy to keep things astir-
Say, Is it any wonder that
The ancients thought the world was
fiat?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

DR.. Hardman is the latest to be
thinking" of being a gubernatoral
candidate. Somehow they all seem to
be a trife doubtful about the advis-
ability of tackling the little old fellow
that is holding down the job now.
Strange, isn't it, how they retire after
making survey of the situation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Arrivals.

From Savannah, Augusta,
Atlanta and Macon +10:30 p m
From Lockhart, Dothan, AL
bany, Troy and Mon cry +10:40 p m
From Lockhart, Dothan, AL
bany Troy and Mont'ery las p m
From Atlanta and Macon *207 p Ii
From Augusta, Savannah,
Atlanta aud Macon -" $3.50 m
From Columbus and inter-
mediate points ...."12:10 a m
From Columbus and inter-
meediat points !!11:30 a N
From Columbus and inter-
mediate points =. !11:45 a m
From Albany and Jackson
vile Observation-Disclosures. 1895 a m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Departures.

For Macon, Atlanta, Angus
ia and Savannah :. 4:25 m
For Albany, Dothan, Lock-
hart, Troy and Mont'ery $50 NJ
For Albany, Dothan, Lock-
hart, Troy and Mont'ery 2:O7 p 10
For Macon and Atlanta. :. *1:45 m
For Macon, Atlanta, saw
annah and Augusta :. .*10:40 m
For Columbus ......... 1915 p m
For Columbus -. !! 300 p m
For Columbus, Birming-
ham and Chicago .... 1886 a m
For Albany and Jackson
vile Observation-Disclosures a M
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

A million dollar bond company IS
being organized over in Dawson. Am
CIRCUS should be the headquarters of a
great mortgage company operating in
Southwest Georgia. There is ample
capital in this section instead of send
ing to Atlanta or other points for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
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MARK Twain,
Comprehensive Estimate of
Americas Late Literary GEN
Jus. Whose Pen Swayed the
Heart of the World. - 81
BY RoBERTus LOVE.
. ARK TWAIN is dead!

y ~ ARK TWAIN is dead!
SS The king is dead-long live
the king! But there is no
heir, either apparent or pre-
sumptive. The throne of humor, whose
kingdom was the world, is empty. The
scepter that swayed the universal
heart-the pennies idle at last. The
empire of laughter and also of tears
which this king of the writing craft
founded and which he fostered for
nearly fifty years is become as whirl-
Ing dust in the abyss of the things that
were Only there remains the heritage
of the dead rulers kindly philosophy,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

The announcement is made that
Bryan is going to speak for state pro-
hibition in Missouri Until We hear
direct from Bryan we are from Mis-
souri,. If it is so then Bryan has form
ally dropped outof the running for the
presidency on the Democratic side of
the political fence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

A Savannah man, just back from
Atlanta, tells the Press, that "The city
gave every evidence of a thriving peo-
pie, seemingly busy" This is re-
markable concession, coming from a
Savannah man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

The papers that are discussing John
T. Graves recent .offar to turn his
party over to democracy are needless
ly agitating a corpse. John got twenty
votes in Georgia and Democracy really
doesn't need them. Les hing dicker
with Tom Watson.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

The world may well echo the senti-
ment that is inscribed over the grave
of Mark Twain's wife, as in fancy it
follows the humorist to his last rest
ing place:
Warm summer sun shines softly here,
Warm southern wind blow gently
here,
Green turf above lie light, lie light;
Good night, old friend, good night,
good night.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Taft is having more trouble. Willie
Randolph Hearst has come out for
him. 1t really seems a pity that so
good a man as President Taft should
be annoyed in this way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
FOR SALE!

I have for sale the two Gardner
farms, each obtaining 1900 acres, or
total of 9,24O acres, situated eight
miles east of Leesburg and sixteen
miles south of Americas, both well i'm
proved and in good state of cultiya-
ton. Also the farm known as the Tom
Jordan place, situated two miles west
of Leesburg, Ga, and containing 3,4O0
acres These lands are practically lie ]
ell and of fine quality-recognized as
equal to the best lands in South
West Georgia. For further particulars
write or call on me at the Windsor
Hotel. 4-15-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Except Sunday. !!sunday
~ onvitb
Jacksonville m
apply J. Ell IGHTOWER Agen Americas Ga
JOHN W. Agent Macon,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Gov. Brown pleads for the shredding
of the corn stalks and feeding them to
cattle. Speak low, governor, Or some
of these breakfast food concerns will
hear you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

his droll fun, his quips and jestings
and his pathos
Mark Twain became before he died
the most famous man ON earth. He
was not merely a man; he was an in.
stitution. He was q sort of neighbor-
hood settlement Of good cheer. with
many branches located in the cases as
in the waste places, where admission
and refreshment were free to ALL MIL
liOns-how many millions is beyond
estimating-came and partook of his
wine of optimism and stayed for sup
per. His fame was and is universal.
Though an American born, a native
of Missouri. he belonged to all lands.
He had Travelled in all lands and lived
in most of them. He had more near
permanent homes perhaps than any
other man of his day. Nearly always
he was a wanderer, sometimes from
necessity, more frequently from choice.
The world was his plaything, and he
was not content without remapping
for himself the entire surface of the
big ball
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

A woman may point the finger Of
scorn at man, but she pokes it in the
eye of another woman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Of Most Striking Appearance.

He was a man Of most striking APP
pearance-the kind that attracts atten-
ton anywhere in a crowd and causes
others to take a second look. In his
later years his shock-no, his crown
of hair, perfectly white and glossy like
fine spun silk, became his trademark Of
recognition by strangers wherever he
went. 1 have seen a woman who new
er before saw Mark Twain pick him
out without opera glasses, though she
sat in the top gallery of Carnegie hall
and he occupied a lower box near the
stage, and the great house was crowd
ed. He had no doubles as to personal
appearance-there was only one Of
him.
And there was only one OF Mark
Twain as literary syndicate. 1t has
become the fashion to describe him as
the great American humorist This
undoubtedly he was, but he was more
His appreciation of Joan of Arc, first
published anonymously, is accepted by
critics of acumen as one of the most
refined works in the serious literature
of the nineteenth century. The book
won its way before Mark Twain ad-
United its paternity. While he was
writing the Joan classic he worked,
time and time about, on that amazing
funny masterpiece, "Pudd 'nhead Will
son." He simply couldn't be serious
altogether for a stated period
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Sect. Knox says disarmament is in
sight Not in Tennessee, We'll wager.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
SHARPEN THE
GRASS SHOWER.

Tom Westheimer, the barber, viii
sharpen your lawn mower while you
wait New machine for the purpose
just received. 22-1m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

Eve baseball fans can't keep the lies
Off.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
Never Altogether Funny.

Nor must we take it for granted that
Mark Twain, summing up his career
as writer, ever was altogether funny.
He never was. He was one of the
closest observers of human nature and
institutions, places and things, that
ever lived. Even in his most humor-
Gus books we find that he has made
accurate transcripts of the things
which impressed him. Though he ex-
aggerated, a privilege belonging to his
profession, one can read between the
lines the inhering truth. He was an
inveterate foe to shams of every sort.
and apparently knew his highest hap
piness when with droll sarcasm he
punctured a popular fraud with his
pen.
But Mark Twain often wrote books
just because he had the story to tell.
The tale of "Tom Sawyer" is one of
these, and the "Huckleberry Finn"
book is another Each of these is true
to life-to boy life. Rudyard Kipling is
said to have remarked that he would
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
!. LAND
BARGAINS
Snider land Sold.
Little Land Sold.
Come quick for others or
say Il Am Sorry

125 acres 8 miles Of Plains. adjo.n-
ng Jno A Mcdonald Old home place
Dwelling. tenant house and crib.
I12 acres 3 miles Sumter. adjoining
Chapel, Rogers and CouutrynaD.
Good land and good Improvements.
Lots of land 223 and 22i IN t7tb dis
trict of Lee Co, adsa.nins Slmter GO
line, and touchinG lands naicb sell
for $50 to $40 per acre AmaIe build
ings put up years ago
Bank Of Southwestern Georgia
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

The contest for the two week
trip to New York is now becoming
lively, and you have a chance to
either enter the contest or help a
friend whit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23

A Bank Account for giving you a
feeling Of prosperity. a feeling Of
self respect, a feeling that you are
making use Of your opportunities in
lille.
In every state in the Union more
people are opening Savings Accounts
and increasing them weekly than
ever before
Can you afford NOT. TO share in
the general prosperity and SAVE
MONEY when Dollars or more viii
start your account.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
The Planters Bank
OF Americas.
IS YOUR
MONEY
TNVFCTF
WELL. !?

Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it-how best to invest it.
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
finance-but can also give you valua-
BILE aid and advice about investments
and securities. Open an account with
the
BANK OF SOUTH WESTERN t'E0R-
GAS SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
and enjoy the advantages that accrue
Beware of the man who pats you on
the back. He may be trying to ascer-
tain If coin gingles in your clothes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-23
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY
Current Schedules Corrected to Date.

Arrivals and departures Georgia
Railway Passenger ime.