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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-28
The CITY MAY BUILD
ITS own RESERVOIR
Bidding Not Lively For ESQ.,.
600 Gallon Receptacle

1t may be that the city of Americus
will be compelled to build the new
100000 gallon reservoir at the pump
ing station itself, instead of trust
ing this work to a contractor.
On account of the fact that there
were but few bids for the work when
it was recently advertised, Council
decided to re-advertise the work and
extend the time allowed for the offer
ing of bids until August /. Conse-
quently the time for the acceptance
of bids will close Tuesday night.
On account of the fact that the
contract will amount to only about
$4,000, the bidding on the work has
not been spirited, for it is very diff
ficult for a contracting company to
get materials and plant here and
complete a contract of this nature
with any profit at this close margin
They might also be further handicap
ped in securing labor, as the civic
Improvement work now going on has
produced a scarcity of laborers. 1t IS
not unlikely that one of the contract
ing firms already here to fill the 9TH
er contracts may bid on the work, as
they would be enabled to do so more
favorably than others.
Unless there are reliable bids in be-
fore the time expires next Tusday,
it will be necessary for the city to
construct the reservoir. 1t is likely
that this plan would prove better in
the end, as the work could be done
with more care and thoroughness. The
specifications call for the construc-
ton of monolithic reservoir. cover
and all to be Of concrete, within a
period of ninety days. A time limit
was fixed in order that the work
would be rushed to completion as
soon as possible, as the reservoir is
needed even now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-28
MANY KILLED
and INJURED
IN SMASH-UP
TRAINS CLASHED
Five Killed and Is Wounded
Altogether

Hamlet, n. c., July 27-With a
roaring crash and amid the screams
of the injured and dying, an excur-
sion train from Durham, n. c., run
ming as second No. 80, on the Sea
board Air Line Railway, bound for
Charlotte, crashed head-on into No
II, freight train in the yards at
this place at 1890 o'clock this morn
ing.
Five persons were instantly killed
and somewhere between 80 and Is
were injured.
Many Of the injured, it is thought,
will die.
The list of dead is as follows:
DORA CRAIG.
EDNA HALL.
SAMUEL MILLER.
ROSA PERRY, all of Durham, N.
&c.
The fireman of the freight train
mad MS legs cut off, and there are
many others who are seriously in
jured.
A special train has been arranged
and even now is on the way to Char
lotte with the wounded. Every doc
tor in this section Of the country is
in Hamlet and working to allay the
sufferings of the injured, while the
railroad is doing everything possible
to give them immediate relief
The special was composed of II
cars and was a negro excursion.
When the trains hit the cars were
telescoped and the dead and injured
had to be taken out of the debris.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-28
WOMEN AIDING JUDGE
IN SUIT FOR DIVOCE

Tacoma, Wash, July 27.-Three club
women are sitting with the court as
advisory judges of evidence in the sec
ond trial of the divorce case of Mol
lie Trosper against Harper P. Tros-
per, involving the custody of a 19-
months-old girl baby. 1t is the first
time in the history of this state that
women have been asked to sit with a
court in deciding a case.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
A -gaPsHOT CT TAFT.

had a good opportunity recently 10
study the personality Of President
Taft.
He il big man who is undcniahIy
and palpably fat.
Since the days of Falstaff the rudGy
figure of the man Of adirose has stood
for sleek good nature. bland manners.
unctuous speech and slow iocomotion
But our 300 pound president is not
slow.
1t is nntieniable that he waddes in
his walk, like duck, though the TAI
waddle is not so well known as the
Taft smiIe--because Big Bill usually
rides in carriage.
The president is stout, even fat. with
out being obese; he Is portly without
being pussy, and he is anything but
lazy. Ee is neither SLOW on his feet
nor sluggish In his mind.
Taft can do a days work-seyentcen
speeches day-along with any lean
and hungry Cassius.
He has suave smile. but--he saws
wood Just because he doesn't wrin-
kie his brow and enshroud his soul in
gloom is no sign he Is lacking In de,
cision
He may or may not think your way
or mine. but he thinks. Moreover, he
Is nimble to catch a suggestion from
his surroundings and Is far removed
from the ponderous Cleveland style Of
utterance.
And that smile
/ 1t has fooled many a politician and
has carried Taft over many crisis.
/ His enemies remember the saying
concerning the fellow who smiles and
/ smiles and is a villain still.
! Certain ii is that behind the glossy
and jellied surface OF the mans eX-
/ terror. over which no wave of trouble
seems to roll: behind the easy laugh
/ and the hearty manner, back of the
t sleek badges Of good fellowship, are an
/ incisiye judgment and an ohstinacy
| like a stone wall.
| Taft is diplomat.
! He Is d better politician than he is
/ credited with being.
| Whether or not be Is a patriot seek
ing only the good of his country. peo-
/ pie are disagreed.
| Meantime the cartoonist reveis in the
| wrinkles of the presidential chin.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
The Roadside eras. Knot.


Close observers may have noticed in
the neighborhood of country cross
roads or where roads diverge Il tuft
OF grass which has been tied into Il
knot ut the top and probably eonsid
cred 1t the casual act of some idler,
but such was not the case. Since time
immemoriai the grass knot has been
used by the gypsies as a signal ami
sign. Usually 1t Is intended merely as
a guide for second division of par
ty. indicating which road has been
taken by the first section. but ii neces-
sary quite elaborate messages may be
conveyed. a particular meaning being
indicated by the character of the knot
and its position with regard to the
road whether close to or at some dis
lance from the wheel tracks or wheth-
er on the right or left of the right of
way. The second party is even able
TO tell with considerable accuracy how
long Ii has been since the first party
tied the knot. This is accomplished
by the breaking of a handful OF the
grass stems when the knot is tied. the
degree to which such broken stems are
wilted or dried being pretty clear In.
dication of the time that has elapsed.
--Harper's Weekly.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
SheriG,s Sale.

No. Is, 2S3-In the First judicial Dis
trict Court Of Caddo Parish, La:
Castle Printing Company VS..
Louisiana Petroleum Company.
By virtue of writ of fieri facias
to me directed from the First Judi
cial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, in the above numbered
and entitled suit, I have seized and
will offer for sale at public auction
for cash and according to law, at the
principal front door of the court
house of Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
during the legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, NOV. is, 1911,
One-acre lots 6, and is in the south
half of north half of northwest
quarter section 81, township 81,
range IS, and also one-acre lot 5 in
northwest quarter OF southwest
quarter section 81, township q
range is, Caddo Parish, La, being a
part OF the same property trans
Iferred to the Louisiana Petroleum
Company Of Arkansas to the Louis
| lana Petroleum Company of Louis
llama, as per deed recorded in con-
lveyance book Sc, page 3i8. OF the re-
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05

corder's Office of Caddo Parish, La,
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon. Said prop
erty seized as belonging to the above
defendant company and to be sold
for cash and according to law. TO
pay and satisfy the debt specified in
said writ, say in the sum OF one
hundred and twenty dollars, with S
per cent per annum interest there
on from the first day of July 1910
unail paid, and all costs of this suit.
J. P. FLOURNOY.
Sheriff, exc tficio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, October 10, 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
HUMOR OF THE DAY
Shattered.

She had met the young man at the
seaside. His name wus Percy Sinclair.
His neck wear was irrcproachablc.
There were other young men at the
seaside nearly It half dozen OF them,
There was but ono Percy Sinclair.
She felt battered Ivy his attentions.
They were brief because he was called
away suddenly ~ business. he said,
but they were delightful,
II trust we may meet again. he
murmured as he bent over her rea-
sonably small hand.
And she echoed the sentiment, Later
On she looked up the lineage of the
Sinclairs and found 1t muddled
Percy didn't write, although he could
easily have found her address.
And then one day in autumn he
called. She beard him at the door.
She heard him ask for her father. Her
heart fuitered. She tripped down the
stairs.
why. how do you do. Mr.. Sinclair
she sweetly chirped. He flushed hot
ly.
81 have called TO see your father,
he stammered,
"YesY
II heard be wanted Il man TO drive
a delivery wagon Do you know how
much he paysi''
And loves young dream had made
another nightmare finish.
| Plain Dealer.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05

him In conversation. She tells him
her troubles-reaI troubles calculated
to harass the mind aud harrow The
heart.
The girl does not cpmpintn. She Is
bravcly facing her futur" She says
she l. figiting to save hcr woman
hood. whatever else she may lose.
And in I'll. depths of great misery she
Ii hopeful # success.
The rayclatiob makes the oi! innn
asham, 4 Or his troubles. most Of witch
are imaginary.
| He becomes interested in the girl
struggle. He uses some Of his money
| TO help her help herself In the end
the old man is restored to health aud
the girl scores success,
| 1t is the old story
The man who was freezing began to
, try to save the life of his comrade-
In saving the other man he saved him
self
Therefore the recipe for happiness
Think of others, care for others, labor
for others.
Hannily for our fellows, we are so
| made that to be happy we must make
others happy.
Trite. commonplace?
Yes, but eternally true
Selfishness earns its own punish
ment. Pushed to the extreme, 1t be-
comes 50 much burden that men
viii kill themselves to rid them or the
load.
Generosity is its own reward.
Both recipes may be relied upon.
DO something for somebody and be
happy. Do everything for your own
sake-an1 be miserable
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
Red Jackets Mamory.

Red jacket. the Indian chief, had
more confidence In his own memory
than in books and papers OF white men
There was council at one time be-
fore Tompkins. an early governor OF
New York. Ia regard TO an ancient
treaty. The agent said one thing. but
Red Jacket corrected him. You have
forgotten said the American agent
1--WE have it written down On paper
'sThe paper then tells lie was the
confident answer 4 have it written
here" continued the chief. placing his
hand with dignity upon his brow
ssYou Yankees are born With a feather
between your fingers. but your paper
does not speak flie truth The Indian
keeps his knowledge here. This is
the book the Great Spirit gave him
It does not lie A reference was made
to the treaty III question. when to the
establishment Of all every word that
Red Jacket lad said vas confirmed on
the document
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
THE BACKwoODs JURY.

Said young Beatty, the convicted
Virginia wife murderer:
IA fellow is up against 1t when ne
has to be tried by bunch OF coun.
trymen from the backwoods like those
who tried me.
Continuing. he said:
"They get married young bring up
bic families and work about their
farms What do they know about how
easy it is for young fellow now
adays to get mixed mp with a girl
like Beulah Binfordg'
Here are two types:
One, the Beatty type of much money
and little morals: the other. the
bunch of eountrymen," honest. hard
working. God fearing men who sat in
that jury box.
These are as far removed from each
other in thought. habit and feeling as
the east Is from the west.
The Beatty type has only contempt
for the countrymen. while the latter
has disgust mingled with pity for
the Beatty sort.
True. these sturdy farmers know
little OF the ways of the young sport
who gets mixed up with a girl like
Beulah Binford." except by rumor.
These men OF the countryside are
men OF clean lives and decent dispo-
sition.
1t was this bunch that before and
after voting their verdict got down
on their knees and sought divine aid
and sanction.
Do you know
Were | on trial for my life on evi-
denee submitted to a jury should
want no better panel OF my peers than
the one that TINS prayed for wisdom.
While such men would find no ex
cuse for cold hiooded murder In the
revelation of the defendants entangle-
ment In the wiies OF modern Delilah.
you might be sure they would consci.
entiously weigh every scintilla of tes-
timony pro and con.
Beattv's fling is compliment.
While these stern jurvmen are no.
entirely ignorant OF the mixed motives
OF the fast young man OF today. he.
on his part is woefuliy ignorant Of
their spiritual strength and single vir-
tues
May their tribe Increase.
And BY the same token give us few
er Beattys and Binfords
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
TWO RECIPES.

neclpe for unhappiness: Think only
ssaT yourself. care only Tor yourself.
sHerE only for yourself. Mix and use
eaailr
III vos doubt the formula look about
--sou
One Of the popular plays is fine
Eslirstration A rich man has lived a
self centered life He grows morbid
zn0 begins to fancy he IL In III health.
learned physicians confirm his fears.
TIE old man. frightened at every
zymptom OF approaching disease. re.
solves to Kill himself.
He rents room In cheap tene-
snent and prepares to blow out his
GRAINS.
As be raises the pistol 70 his temple
= ragged, for1orn young girl happens
1as come into his room and engages
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
PARENTAL PARTIALLY.

Heartaches and discord often are
cadsed in. family life because OF the
partiality of the parents
Nor does it help matters that the
Partially is apparently unconscious
Father and mother. who should 5e
very careful to treat the children alike.
especially in money matters. often are
guilty of gross discrimination.
Item
know family where all the chill
dren save one have had a chance. The
boys have been educated and started
in life The daughter has remained
on the farm homestead TO care for
the parents. She Is forty years Of age
and has received for her services moth
Ing but her board and clothes. and the
clothes have not been of an extrava-
CANT sort.
Why has she been slighted?
know another family where there
are two sons. One boy has been sent
to college and furnished money for
travel. while the older brother has
devoted his life to the fathers jobbing
business on small salary
/ Is that fair?
In another instance the oldest son
has been established as manager OF
the farm He is married and lives
with the old folks He runs the farm
In such way that most OF the profits
go into his pocket. Meantime two
other brothers work in the city as
| common iaborers.
1t is cruel discrimination
Because In this instance. as In the
others, the member OF the family who
il In least need Of assistance gets the
most. The "smartest" boy or the
handsomest girl gets the preferred OPP
portunfty
Whereas
1t would seem parental sympathy
should go to the lame duck Of the fam
I lily flock
Query
II you give John i start In business
and deny Jim chance. DO ron think
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05

The origin of the word chestnut
as applied to IN Oft tod joke may, ac-
cording to Joseph jefferson. the actor.
be traced to the stage. In a melo-
drama entitled "'Tsc G..n.soa Sword"
written by William Dillon. two OF the
principal characters were Count
Xavier and his servant Pablo. In a
dialogue between them is to be- found
the origin of the word ""hestnut. rs
applied to Il story that has lost IFS
first bloom of noyelty Here.it Is.
Once" said the ecuni. II entered
the forests Of Galloway when sud
denly from the boughs of cork
tree
chestnut, count. interrupted Pablo
Cork tree" said the count.
"A chestnut reiterated Pablo. i
should know rs well as you. for /
have heard you tell the story twenty
seven times"
The count was veritable Munchan-
sen for the frequent relation of his
exploits and consequently liable to get
little mixed in his details. so it IS
that from cork tree we get the chest
nut
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
Sl,eriff's Sale

Is. 494-In the First judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, Lou
isiana. V. l.. McCarty, ct al VS..
w. II. Prince.
By virtue of a writ of fieri fac
las to me directed from the Honor
able the First Judicial District
Court of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, in
the above numbered and entitled
suit Ihave seized and will offer for
sale at public auction for cash and
according to law, at the principal
front door Of the court house OF
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, during the
legal hours for sales on,
SATURDAY, NOV IL. 1911
Certificate No. 2 for $50 shares OF
the par value Of $4,000 each of the
capital stock of the Nelson System
Manufacturing Company, incorpor-
ated under the lows of the State OF
Missouri, said property seized as be-
longing to the above named defend
liant. andto be sold for cash and
according to lay TO pay and satisfy
1.-THE debt specified in the said writ
say in the sum of S5,560.00 with
eight per cent per annum Interest
thereon from the 18th day of Jul,
1911, and ten per cent additional on
lsaid principal and interesa as at
torney's fees and all costs Of this
suit. j. p. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff. ex-Officio Auctioneer
Caucasian, October, e. 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
His Descent.


He was gentler specimen OF his
class than one usually meets. and
when he made his appeal for some
thing to cat at the kitchen door he was
asked by the good natured cook to
come in by The fire. AS he sat there she
said:
You don't look as though you had
always been tramp"
81 haven't" he replied, without of
Tense. II came from a very good fam
ily'
She let hirn eat on without Interrupt
ton, but after he had finished she said
"You say you came from a good fam
lily. May ask the Nance"
at was Blankleigb.'' he responded.
why" she said in surprise, that's
the name of the occupier next door to
u.s.
Yes hG replied. Il noticed it on the
doorplate That's who | came from.
He threw me down his steps just be-
fore called here. Denver Times.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
SAY YES.
n difficult word.

NO IL difficult word.
And SO Is Yes
He who would build up strong char
ssaseeg or succeed In business must learn
y - say ne.
Also he must learn to say yes
beth words are decisive. They are
gsse anal words Hesitate. daily. haggle
sz1 ynu may the time comes when rou
gmaszzk end by saying yes or no.
Mxw Instance
You stand on the threshold OF new
essEssxprisq 1t means much to you. It
~ Eeasibc Others not ADLER than you
! aawe done it And yet YOU
Finger shiyering on the brink
And fear 10 launch away.
Est
sEaging carefully canvassed the mat
sssr, knowing its possibilities and
Rnumane vour ability TO succeed if you
sagy hard enough why. then. come up
10 %, FACE 1t and say:
Yes, ] will do II.
when you say that and mean it,
gen have won half your hattie. You
waste no more time In doubt and w0r-
~. The die icing cast, the Rubicon
dressed, you eyread your energy On
taan aasb
Or
Hating wrestled with an undertak-
saH@, the battle seems to be going
ssasgzInsf you Your plans have been
yauset just IS the wind topples over the
sADy soldiers set up in row, Yon could
saEy--if 1t would dc any good. You ask
ssNATself
rs atfworth wniief'
TIE time Is crucial Say Yesl' To
w*vs urs Is to Ia9I utterly. Say Yes. Ii
sssse dii75 goes down will go down with
-, still lighting I
Say Yes.
WfAen YOU have said that you have
aHstvsns hostages to fortune. You will 90
cd .yonr job with vim and redeem the
.Raxng
There 10 tremendous power in AFR
uaaflun.
To affirm Is to try. To affirm Is td
rasHt your dominant will power into mo
sfign Once in motion nervous energy
NEdIi supply velocity and momentum
And on you go
Affirmation Is optimism.
SAY YES
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
Heart toneart
I atks.
soHN DOE. CONVICT.
By EDWIN a. ME-

S4Onr of the pathetic stories used oy
ttne FriendS of Abe Ruef. the one time
tx.asiforuia boss to secure his release
>e+~- =; -, ~-as this:
1t il said that every night the old
.uother or Ruef goes to the bed occu-
xvaesf by the son in boyhood and "tucks
MIN In inst as she did in the evenings
aong ago
The story may or may not be true
But
gttsa faithful picture OF that moth
&rr,y devotion that never forgets her
boy that softeus the hard words
shat may be spoken of him by his fell
AOys, that condones his failures and
rcrgives his sins.
lnere is only one thing in human
relations that approaches the beauty
pms unotherly love. and that is its recog>
saition and return by the son.
lin the r4eavenworth tKan, prison is
IN man who Is called John Doe.
That Is not his right name. but IN
%M4AT EUAA AdIlC ue was oShL w fhsSNAs
sEgr the burglary of n postofiice.
The man IS suffering from cancer Of
The stomach. which is rapidly carrying
him OF, and he endures intense agony
He has no friends.
on. if be has friends, he will not
u0axae them In his condition little
egETort by his friends would secure his
'release. and he might die out of pris-
~ar. But, writing on his cot. he re-
fuses TO tell And for the reason that
Mother might hear of it..
lie knows that his mothers heart Is
sxsre enough as she wonders where her
wandering boy may be and prays for
asuws from him To tell her he Is
srunvict and dying from an incurable
disease would kill her.
And ST, crushing back the pain as
he Hes at the brink of death, the brave
AheIlow will not betray himself lest he
sy7rgs his mother pain
AND
Somewhere a mother dreams and re-
members baby face. and then tot
En kills and later boyish figure In
Anee breeches. and then a manly
RDufh--he will always be boy to her
-an6 as she smiles or signs or prays
adsse never dreams that her boy Is a
~SsMafElct.
And f1cp
Rtch the picture in sordid outlines
&nvutcast dying In his iron cageyet--
Whatever the sins OF John Doe. con-
yASs, there's lot Of good In him
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05

=
Inn will feel good toward John or to-
ward you?
Or
If you give Mary tailor made gowns
and make Martha put up with calico,
Il, -ou fancy Martha will think as
mnt u It you as she ought TO:
VII; u0t tote fair with the chit
(lrent
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05

Dearest. will you let me share your
every sorrow after we are marriedT
she whispered as she cuddled her
cheek against his.
Eyes. darling" he replied. again
plucking delicious kiss from her
sweet. lips.
It was the same lady who two years
later YEARLY cried out:
"Oh. Tom. why can't you ever come
. into the house without bringing tale
of trouble with you? I'm so sick of
hearing about how hard you have to
work to keep the bills paid. Chicago
Record Herald.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
The Money Power,

Braggs--It is positively absurd to
talk about money power" in this
country. There Is no such thing.
Waggs-I'd just like to discuss that
with you. Have you got minute to
spare?
Braggs-Not a minute. I've got a
note due at the bank and they're both
ersng me 10 death about it.-Life.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-11-05
Succession Notice

No. f5,302-First District Court par
ish of Caddo, State of Lo,,;s;ans
Succession of P. E. Thenari
NOTICE IS hereby given that Rev e
Bertels, administrator, has This A.
filed final account in said snecasa: - :
and unless opposition be mada
thereto within the time specified hv
law the same will be duly homa,o
gated as prayed for. o'oo-
witness the Hon. E. w. sushar,,n
Judge OF said court, this 2nd s aas =. -
November 1911. " ~ uay o.
~ : Deputy CLERK