davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-21
LEAVING THE OLD FARM
TO JOIN THE NAVY

Atlanta, Oct 20.-Twelve farmer
boys from half dozen Southern states
were furnished transportation to Nor
folk to-day, where they go to enter the
United States navy, swapping the
plowshare for the breechloader. Most
of them were from states to the west
but among them was George NJ. Craw-
ford Of Union, S. G.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-21
BOY Shot as a Partridge.

Chicopee, Mass, Oct. 2O.-While
hunting to-day Peter Leblanc of Holy
tridges by companions, who fired into
oke was mistaken for a flock of par
the unlerbrush at random. Leblanc
received several wounds, and blood
poisoning is feared.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25
CHAS. SLOSBERG,
8 Cove ST.
{ eIissred 10 Any Parl OF Norwich

he Ale that s. Acknowledged to be tha
hest on The marKe. HANLEY's
PEERLESS. A telephone sracx RIu
receive prom2. attentica.
g. !. mcSG natcs- &c Franklin 81
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

IF we really couldn't help ourselves
if we We're really impotent slaves,
hopelessly held III the gives of the
cannibal ogre. for him to devour at
piecemeal as nis greed demanded
why. then We might bemoan ourselves
all we wanted to-if it did any good
or was any relief to the strain But
we are not thus fettered Our bonds
are usually only weak grocers' Irvine
and often such as we have ourselves
tied ourselves up with. We can break
them any time We want to.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

"The market basket Is a money
saver" says Mr.. Webb. Food is chea p
enough in this country for anybody.
1t costs me only one cent more a meal
than it did fourteen years ago"
Isn't i'll about time that we-at any
rate those Of Us vino are able to see
around corner by walking up to 1t
and "peel<ing '=isn't It a bout time that
we stopped strengthening the other
fellow and laid a few cuts of the CAD
across our own over-coddled should
ers?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25
ARE YOU FREE
FROM

Headaches. Colds. Indigestion.
PANS, Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizzinessa If you are not the most
effective, prompt and pleasant
method of getting nd of them is to
take. now and then, a desertspoon-
ful of the ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy-Syrup
Of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA. 1t IS
well known throughout the world
as the best of family laxative rene
dies, because it acts SO gently and
strengthens naturally without irrii-
tating the system in any way.
To get its beneficial effects il is
always necessary to buy the senu-
me, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co.. bearing the name
Of the Company. plainly printed on
the front Of every package.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

THERE Is no advertising medium In
F,a stern GAnnerticHf equal 10 The BuI-
letin TOR business results
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

The wrong is not that we have rail-
roads and commission men and re-
tailers- Great Scott, We've got to
have them, more or less, anyway
One trouble is that some commits
sion men are not honest nor even de-
cent. They-some of them-manage to
collect a double commission, one from
the seller and another from the buyer.
Tney-some of them-1ie like Satan
about the goods they receive, and swim
die the shipper out of even the low
price they pretend to offer But, as
the universe hasn't even abolished
Satan and sin, we shall probably have
TO get along with those elem ents a
bit longer Certainly we are not ready
yet TO abolish the universe because. it
isn't wholly TO our satisfaction.
Another trouble is just the one that
referred to the other day, and that
Mr.. Webb lays his heft on It is the
lazy, duty-shirking way in which we
turn over our responsibilities and our
work and our trouble to the retailer
demand that he do for US that which
we are too self-indulgent, too self
coddling to do for ourselves-and then
whimper and snivei and bawl because
he makes us pay for it,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25
A Bio Task.

If the commercial travellers of this
country have taken hold of the tipping
evil as earnestly as the story in an
other column indicates, some progress
should result. Tipping is a practice
that it is difficult to properly charac-
terize. Unhappily 1t is harder to COR
rect than to denounce. 1t is a burden
that. the public should refuse to bear
but the silly habit seems to have be-
come fixed. May luck attend the eff
forts of the drummers. If they COM
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25
THE CAREFUL BUYER HAS NO GRIEVANCE

ten Specially for The Bulletin.)
-4zNaukee. Wis, paper recently
iiSze- an interview with Alfred l.
IS. steward OF Ringing Brothers
tl-sus- 1t vas about the way he
is big family OF 1,2o0 people. and
ST OF it. Mr. Webb's experience
s.llkingly confirms what 1 talked
sss.st the other da@the market bas-
phase OF things-that / am
. -apted TO quote several extracts from
IL 1 want YOU 10 read them over and
=ee just how a man who has to feed
eco people a day-three times day
wifi psntSr of food-and with mighty
rood lood, too want you to see what
he thflks about this new-fangled way
o. buyiDs " telephone and marketing
at 1sng distance
Bar In mind one important fact:
Cn,rus folks are well fed Many of
them are exceedingly high priced peo-
rie- people who can afford to i've wen
and who insist upon doing So / don't
mean that they live on cake and ice
CT cam and drink champagne As their
occupation requires that they main
rair good health and abundant energy,
tEey have no temptation to commit in
rzlidizIn that way But they live on
coed food wholesome food, nutritious
food. and plenty of it They are not
ratfoned of with stale vegetables and
refuse meats and baled hay, like the
animals IN the menagerie- They get
rust as good food as the market they
are nearest TO viii offer them And 1T
has to be well prepared. too
With this Introduction, let me quote
what AR Webb said to the Milwaukee
Il have been circus steward for 90
Years. and 1 have been with Ringing
Brothers for IA years straight What
can I tell you about the high cost of
1irfng2 This It costs me only one
cent more 2 man TO serve q meal than
IL did II years ago
But YOU know the cost of living has
Increased about SO per cent in the last
10 years said the reporter
~Oh. yes I know from the running
expenses OF my home as well as other
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

1t harms ones case to be toe in
discriminatory and 100 angriiy deniln-
ciatory. As 4 cold matter of fact, the
alaount which the railroads add to the
cost of the material entering into a
family s ordinary ntc.,l=material often
thought to it from thousands of miles
away-is so extremely little that we
should have to invent smaller coins
than we now handle to pay it with.
As another cold matter of fact, the
honest commission merchant adds
mighty little to the price the consum-
er Iays-nothIng at all, when one con-
siders what he gives in the way of
convenience to both producer and con-
Surrer
And the honest retailer is not only
a convenience, he is necessity
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

If there's one thing surer than an
other in this world, II is that we have
TO pay Cor what We get-sorneflow,
sometime, in same coin or other We
may pay in money. or we may pay in
work, or We may pay in seIf-copte Inpt
or we may pay in tears of sorrow and
renorse; but pay we will and must
With most of tie question really
SINNERS down to whether were willing
to pay the price. If We're not willing
to pay, in care and work, the price
of economical living. then We can pay
4 bigger price 70 the middlesnen IN.
money It's quite in our own hands
within our own choice. not just
yours and mine. perhaps, but IN that
of all of us. ting together. And You
and ! are an important part of that
all of u.s., remember.
THE FARMER
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

ar. impression on hotel men and rail
road officials More power to them
Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

Winsted.-Mrs. Elizabeth Browns
combe Whiting, 81, died at the home
of her son. J. III. Whiting. this week.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

Now, it seems to me that Mr.. Webb
is altogether too hard on the mid
dIernan,'' using that term to cover all
the classes he does 1t does not seem
to me at all fair to call him "a para
site pure and simple" and to say that
"he produces nothing but trouble" We
sren't going to get along without mid
d1emen, any more than we are going
to get along without the middle of the
road Which, by the way, is much the
better part of the road to travel on.
whether g-Ing to market or discussing
economic sociology.
There must always be midd1emen.
How could We ever get California or
anges or Ghica go beef or Minneapolis
flour. if the railroads didn't cover the
middle ground between us and those
91acesc
How could the busy farmer, with a
big farm to attend to- one requiring
every minute cf mis- time-how could
nc get along without the services of
the commission merchant, to take his
lead at one buy and let him hurry
baoK to his work CT producing another
\ farmer can't well put in twelve
hours day raising crops, and twelve
horrs more a day selling them out,
pieccmeal, to those who want peck
Of this. or a dozen of that, or a pound
and half Of something else.
Moreover. we should go without a
good many things We now have, whc a
they are bit -out of season. if it
wasn't fer the cold storage plants
which hold them for us.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

Because we are bearing the burdens
OF wrong CUSTOM custom we have
ourselves shared in making we have
small excuse for denouncing the hen
eficiaries of that custom At least
not till we nave made some honestly
vigorous efforts to releaSe ourselves
from it and cast off its burdens.
II a circus steward. who has to buy
in Los Angeles, Cal. one day and in
Albany. Y. y another day, and in
Savannah, Ca, another day=if he can
supply a family OF 1890 men, women
and children with ample food, of good
quality and well cooked at cost of
but a cent meal more now than in
1884, there is reason to suspect that
AIR and Mrs Bill Jones of Podunix
might do about as weIl--if they cared
enough about it tc use equal pains and
sense.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-11-25

sources said the steward. But you
see in the circus we escape because
We cut out the middi eman-there you
have the whole trouble-the middle
man He is the one that is making
all the hardship in this country, like
wise all the money. He is parasite
pure and simple and he produces moth
ing but trouble.
BY middlemen / mean all who stand
between the producer and the consum-
er, commission merchants, railroads
and other methods of transportation,
cold Storage firms and delivery men.
But most / mean the men who specu-
late in the necessities of life, the stock
gamblers and jobbers-
Il IL give you an example: When We
were in New York at the beginning of
the hot season. in July, / think, lemons
were selling at IS q box one day; the
rext they jumped to $14 a box. Why?
Some man had seen the need of them
because of the heat and cornered the
market The extra SO box was paid
to the man who produced nothing, but
speculated in the necessities of life.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
WILL REWARD PEARY
Bill to Make Him Rear Admiral
Passes Both Houses.

Washington, March 3-The plans CT the
friends Of Captain Robert r.. Peary 10 Sc.
cure recognition Of his polar achievements
by Congress succeeded to-day. The House
by a vote Of 15f 10 "a. passed an amended
Senate bill giving him honors.
The original Senate hill authorized ths
President to appoint Peary a rear admiral
in the navy. 20 be carried as an additional
number In grade, and TO place him on the
retired list at the highest pay in the grade
The House amended this so as 10 authorize
the President 10 place him en- the retired
list OF the corps Of civil engineers with ths
rank Of rear admiral, 10 date from April s.
1853, and to give him the thaI~S Of Congress
for his Arctic explorations resulting IN
reaching the North Pole"
When the bill was brought up Mr.. Macon.
OF Arkansas, Immediately demanded sec.
ond on the motion TO suspend the rules ana
pass the bill, and made the point OF 10
quorum, Withdrawing that, however, when
approximately quorum wss found pres.
ent.
Messrs Dawson. Of Iowa ;JHobson. Of Ala.
bama: Roberts, of Massachusetts, Butler,
~ Pennsylvania; Alexander Of New YORK.
and Mccall. cf Massachusetts, spoke in al
vocacy Of the bill, and Mr. Macon opposed
Il. The bill finally was passed, and. nav.
ing House amendments. was sent 10 con-
ference.
The Senate later in the evening concurrei
in the amendments and passed the bill.
which makes II law as soon as signed
April s, 1909, IS the date when Peary
reached the pole.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
HOUSE HAS A F|L|BUSTER
Democrats Attempt to Delay
Legislation.
THEY ABE SOON SUPPRESSED
Rule Brought In 10 Shut Off De-
bate on Tariff Board Bill When
II Comes from Senate.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington, March "A Democratic fill
buster against the appropriation bills. the
object being TO throw them over into the
extra session. died aborning In the House
tonight, after tumultuous hour. The
Democrats lacked leadership and votes,
and although they made trouble for time
and threatened still further 10 tie up the
legislative programme. they were finally
showed under by a vote of POS TO n. Fifty
or mere Democrats declined to follow the
impromptu filihusters and two Of the large
appropriation measures-the sundry civil
and the naval-were sent to conference just
before 10 o'clock
With an all-night session ahead Of II, the
House then settled back and resumed its
consideration OF private bills of all de-
scriptions.
The Tariff Board bill is rot in the House
Just now. but the majority is looking for
it's return from the Senate Tomorrow morn
ing. when the latter body expects to pass
il. Determined that it should not be talked
10 death in the House, the Rules Commit
tee tonight brought in rule that would
shut off debate Immediately on the receipt
of the measure from the Senate
me DeWocrdtlc IipuSler HTsl Dopoeu W
when Mr.. Foss asked unanimous consent to
send the naval appropriation bill to confer
ence. The request was refused. Mr.. Foss
then moved to suspend the rules, and the
Democrats mustered sufficient number Of
votes to delay matters.
Mr. Tawney next attempted to send the
sundry civil bill, to which the Senate had
added scores OF amendments, TO conference.
Representative Garner, of Texas, was i'm
mediately on his feet, and Il was then that
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
FOR ECONOMY EWD REFORM
President Asks Means to Con-
tinue Department Investigations.

Washington, March 3.--President Taft to-
day sent TO Congress Two special MESA ges,
one asking that there be included in the
sundry civil bill an appropriation Of $1,000
and a reapportonment Of the uneXpeHded
Fart Of The existing appropriation TO en-
able him to continue his investigation by
members If the government departments
ana experts into the business methods en-
ployed oy the government, with view to
greater economy and efficiency in the trans
action OF business The other message rec
ommended the payment of $3.50 as a com
promise for claims against the government
on account Of q fiIe which destroyed the
Malambo ward I'm Panama in January. 1906
The fire was said TO have been caused by
the negligence of the sanitary department
OF the Canal Commission. In his message
asking money 10 continue his economy plan
investigation. President Taft says in part:
The chi difficulty in securing economy
and retor,d is the lack Of accurate intOr-
Q nment T. now spent for. There have been
no adequate means provided whereby the
Pres cent or his advisers may act with in
teHigence on current business before them
there nave been no means for getting
prompt. accurate and correct information
as 10 results obtained: estimates &. de-
partmental needs have not boen the subject
Of thorough analysis and review before sub
mission
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
CATHOLIC VOTE OFFER ALLEGED
Washington Man Reported to Have
Said He Had Them for Sale.

Washington, March THAT q resident Of
Washington whom he named had represent
cd himself 10 him and other Congressman
as able, through the knights Of Columbus,
to deliver for a suitable consideration
Catholic votes in large blocks in various
districts throughout the country was as
serted On the floor Of the House to-day by
Representative Ben Johnson, of Kentucky.
The assertion caused much private discus
sion. but there was no comment on the
floor and no action was taken.
Mr.. Johnson said that four years ago
1000 such votes in his district were offered
10 aid in his reelection in return for
money. lie said he received a letter nvit-
FMS. him 10 meet the writer. whom be
named. and that the offer was made al that
meeting lie declared that other members
Of Congress had more recently received
similar offers
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04

the Democratic minority showed It's nano
I'VE may as we'll be frank about II,
said Mr.. Garner. "fcr we know that You
ere going 10 bring rule IN here to accept
the Tariff Board bill just as II comes from
the Senate early in the morning. We a,s
not fibustering, but we think sc have the
votes 10 defeat this plan. and " we are go.
ing 10 have an extra session We might as
well consider appropriation bills, too. We
40 not purpose 10 have you jam this Tarin
Board measure down our throats In me
closing hours"
Representative Clayton. Of Alabama, be-
gan alcng the same lines.
II want TO krow II you have talked with
the leaders en- this side" bandly said MT
Hobson. in Alabama Democrat.
This seemed to 1ettle Mr.. Clayton.
Leaders? Leaders," he responded. I
DON'T know who are the leaders on the
DcnnccratIc side. | cont know who my
colleague regards as a leader; but my idea
Of the Democratic leaders is the fellows
who find out how the majority 81 the party
feel and then, say. Come ahead, boys
This reply was greeted with loud ap-
plause and boisterous laughter on the Re-
publican side Of the chamber, members
shouting that Mr.. Clayton's conception OF
a Democratic leader was entirely proper
Representative Fitzgerald followed Mr.
Clayton, and he, too, virtually served no
t;ce that a Democratic flibuster was on.
He characterized as outrageous the Payne
resolution providing for the immediate pas
sage of the Tariff Board bill as socn as n
reached the House from the Senate, and
said the Democrats did not propose 10
stand for H.
Mr.. Tawney then renewed his motion 10
suspend the rules, disagree to the Senate
amendments and go into conference, urging
on the House that owing 10 the lateness
OF the hour prompt action was necessary.
Despite the Democratic threats, the I'm
buster was choked Off by the overwhelming
vote OF 205 to ~. Mr.. Garner attempted TO
obtain a rollcall. but only twcnty-eight dis
couraged Democrats rose in answer to his
up. boys"
Noting that the opposition had been
thoroughly squelched. and with the aid OF
their own party. Mr.. Foss renewed his
motion to send the naval hill TO conference.
The motion carried without so much as
dissenting vote from the routed Democratic
nlibusters. Within five minutes both the
naval bill and the sundry civil bill were
in the lands of the conferrees, and the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
Vollrath Seamless
Enameled Steel Utensils
In the March Sale Of Housewares

III lllC IldlCll ScAiS ~
Splendd Vollrath ware-strong, seamless,
sanitary-every piece stamped out OF one piece
Of steel. then coated with three coats OF hard
enamel. No Joints to leak or prevent perfect
cleanliness. Covers are exactly the same as
the bodv. Colored an attractive lavender gray
with black edges. 49,,
Sizes given are the actual capacities Neither
Vollrath nor we believe in skinny measure.
Tea kettles, 3-qt. Csc; Act. 75c; 5-qt' 9oc;
GOT, ST. LOT Sl20.
Coffee pots, lot, 4oc; l12-qt, 45c; 2-qt,
SOC: 2Ia-qt.. 55c; 3-qt., CSC; 4-qt., 75c.
Water pitchers LOT, 35c; 2-qt., 4Oc; SGT,
Rice boilers, l-qty soc; l12-qt., Csc; 214-qt.,
Colanders, Gin, 25c; lO-in., 28c; ll-in. SOC;
l2-in., 40c.
Water pals. 6-qt, 4sc OCT SOC; 1l-qt,
60c; l6-qt., zoe.
Covered buckets lot, 22c; 2-qt., 25c; 3-qt,
SOC; 4-qt., 40c.
Tipped saucepans, POT, lSo; 3-qtY 22c;
4-qt.. 24c; Sgt 26c; 6-qt., 2Sc; SGT, SOC.
Preserving kettles, 2-qt l8c; 3-qt, 22c;
4-ot.. 2Sc: 5-qt., 28c l2-qt., SOC.
Side-handle covered saucepanS, 112-qt soc :;
2Ib-ot $50; 31a-qt., 4sc; 5-qt., SOC; 7-qt., 60c.
Flat-handled ladies', Ain, l0c 4la-in.. l2c !;
sin, l5c.
Long-hsndled dippers l-qt, lSc; 2-qt., zoe.
Pie plates (shallow), Gin, l0c; l0-in., l2c !;
lin, l4c.
Pie plates (deep), ola-in., l4c; 1917 in, 15c
Easement. Now Building.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
Political Motives Alleged.

Senator Stone desired 10 know if the
charge OF the Senator from Kansas was di-
rected against the Postoffice Committee Of
the Senate, the President Of the United
States or the Postmaster General
Il do Mt allege that the committee or
that the Postmaster General or the Pres-
dent are doing his." Senator Bristow re-
piled. Il say that political considera tions
inspired this movement against the maga-
zines that have been instrumental in eX-
posing The lottenness in public life in
America
Thee has been much undertaking OF a
low order by a low class Of men," said
Senator stone. The charge made by the
Senator from Kansas is a very serious one
and l call his attention to the fact that
he has not Yet cXoneTated the officials I
have mentioned. I desire to know what in
Auence he has in mind"
Mr.. BriStow said he meant that political
influences mad oeen at work against the
magazines for q number of years.
Senator Pen~ose then offered in place Of
the clause raising the rates on magazines
an amendment, authorizing the President
TO appoint a commission of three members
thoroughly to investigate the whole subject
of the cost Of handling second class mat
ter. One ot the commissioners, X is pro-
vided. shall Oe 3 judicial officer OF the gov
eminent, and the two others shall be per-
sons who mold no office and who have no
connection whatever with the POstofiice
Department or with any magazine or news
IEper This amendment was adopted
unanimously.
Points of order we're sustained against q
proposed experiment IN carrying packages
under Parcels rost system, and also
against an item Of $4,000 for an investlga-
tion into the feasibility Of establishing a
parcels post
Following the passage of the bill, which
carries about s25S,0OO,O0o the Senate took Il
recess until q p. m.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
CORES RECIPROCITY PLAN
Will Try to Attach 1t to Tariff
Board Bill.

Washington. March 3.-When the Tariff
Board bill is taken up in the Senate at S
o'clock tomorrow Senator Gore, Of Okla
homa. will offer as an amendment the bill
providing for reciprocity with Canada He
undertook to present the amendment to-
night, but was told by the Vice President
that under the terms OF the agreement 10
vote on IT tomorrow the Tariff Board bill
had passed the stage for amendment
Nevertheless, said the Oklahoma Sen
ator. II shall present the bill. / do not
hope for any success, nor do ! expect
~ en- a vote on it. 1t will go out on rul-
ing by the chair. OF course. ! could ask
for a vote, but that might be Of "A charac-
ter to discredit the measure. and | do not
want to do that. Ny thought is that there
should be at least this much of an effort
TO get aCtion on a measure which the Presi-
dent regards important enough to warrant
an extra session
New-York tribune., 1911-03-04
TAFT REPLIES TO BACHELOR
Cannot Agree with Master OF
Grange on Reciprocit

Concord. y. H., March 3.-President Taft
does not agree with the opinion of the Ma
tional Grange, Patrons Of Husbandry. that
the proposed Canadian reciprocity agree
ment will hurt the agricultural interests OF
this country Ex-Governor Nahum j.
Bachelder master of the National Grange
to-day received a letter to this effect from
the President in reply to letter which
he recently sent TO the White House. Mr..
Bachelor in his letter declared that the
proposed agreement would result in de-
probation Of American farm values and
bring on a financial panic. The Presidents
reply is as follows:
81 have yours OF the 2Sth Of February
about reciprocity. / am sorry that cannot
agree with you. / don't think II will hurt
the farmers, and couple of years test
will prove it, Sincerely yours,
WILLIAM II. TAFT