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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
NACON'S LATEST STROKE OF
GOOD FORTUNE.

Macon may not ger the STATE capitol
but it is going TO get something that
may prove equally as valuable, NIL
lion dollar railroad shops, 10 be erec--
cd and managed by the Southern rail-
way.
The addition OF this enormous lpant
TO the magnificent outfit Of the Central
viii stamp Macon as one Of the great
railroad centres Of the South. The
completion Of the new Southern shops
will add largely TO the population Of
the Central City, bringing TO it hum
dreds Of high grade workingmen earn
ing large wages. That viii mean more
trade for the merchants of Macon and
general advance in the lines Of
business,
To have the state capitol, Of course,
/ is a great thing. but it does not neces-
sarily add 10 the development OF a
city. Take Raleigh and Tallahassee,
for instance. They are the capital
cities Of two progr essive states, and
vet if there ever were somonolent
burgs they are to be found in those
two towns. The removal Of the cap
ital to Macon would add little to the
prestige Of the city. but when 1t
comes to genuine business progress
the erection Of the Southern railway
shops probably outdistances it i'm
measurably.
Macon is rapidly forging to the
front. The centre of a magnificent
section of country, with excellent rail
road facilities, it should enjoy a much
larger jobbing trade than it now con-
trolls. II has had a magnificent growth
during the past ten years and with the
I'extra impulse that the larger popula-
ton and the two great railroad shops
will give to it it would not be at all
surprising to see Macon pushing Sa,
vannah closely for second placa
among Georgia cities when the next
census is taken. So, even if its capita.
ambition is not realized, it will have
no especial reason to go into sack.
cloth and ashes, but rather should
grid up its loins with smiling coun.
tenance and face the future with every
assurance of continued accretion tC
its population and general business
int erests.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
MENTAL ACCURACY.
Greatly Improved by Leaving OF
Coffee.


The manager of an extensive cream
cry in Wis. states that while a regu-
lar coffee drinker, he found it injuri-
Gus to his health and a hindrance TO
the performance of his business du-
ties.
1T impaired my digestion, gave me
a distressing sense of fullness in the
region of the stomach, palpitation of
the heart, and what is worse, it mud
died my mental faculties so as to Sc
riously impair my business efficien-
cy
II finally decided that something
would have to be done. 1 quit the use
of coffee short off, and began to drink
Postum. The cook didn't make it right
at irst-she didn't boil it long enough,
and | did not find it palatable and
quit using it and went back to cot
fee and to stomach trouble again.
Then my wife took the matter in
hand and by following the directions
on the box faithfully, she had me
drinking Postum for several days be-
fore / knew it.
when l happened to remark that
was feeling much better than l had
for a long time she told me that l had
been drinking Postum, and that ac-
counted for it, Now we have no cof-
fee on our table.
''My digestion has been restored, and
with this improvement has come relief
from the oppressive sense of fullness
and palpitation of the heart that used
to bother me so. ] note such a gain
in mental strength and acuteness that
| can attend to my Office work with
ease and pleasure and without making
the mistakes that we're so annoying to
me while l was using coffee.
Postum is the greatest table drink
of the times, in my humble estima-
ton" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Greek, Mich
Read the little book. "The Road TO
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON"
Ever read the above letter! A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full OF human
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
No Use Now, Too Late.

Years ago, when the Panhandle"
railroad was in course of construction,
its progress was a matter of great in
trest to the people of the region
says the Youths Companion A farmer
who sold provisions to the contractors
often reached the place where the
men were at work at meal times. He
was greatly impressed at their vorac-
ity. The work was hard, and when
the dinner bell rang every man made
a dash for the table, and before any
one could believe it possible the food
had disappeared.
One day a workman on his way TO
the table tripped on the root of tree
and fell. He lay quite still, making 10
attempt to rise.
Are you badly hurt?"
mo-" answered the man -
well, why don't you get up and -
TO your dinner"
NO use," returned the other sadly.
Its too late now"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
One SHOULDN'T WORRY
over GHOSTS OF PAST
Better to Make Some Child
Happy
(By Dorothy Dix.)

A certain man had tragic child
hood-robbed of everything that
makes childhood bright and happy. He
was the son of parents who were des-
perately poor, poor in purse, poor i'll
body, poor in mind and heart and
soul.
There was not even love in his home
and he grew up in an atmosphere Of
continual strife and wrangling. He
was i'll fed, uneducated, neglected,
beaten, mistreated in every way, and
at twelve years of age was thrown out
into the world to earn his own liv-
ing.
BY sheer force of character this boy,
now a man, has worked his way out
of poverty and incompetency and ig-
horance. Today he is a successful
man, admired, respected, loved by
those about him, but he has not been
able to leave behind him the bitter
memories of the past
They darken all his present and
shadow his future, and he is haunted
by the recollections of all he has SUI
fered He realizes that no one can
beat him now, or tyrannize over him,
or humiliate him, and yet he is tec-
rorized by the ghosts of the blows and
the abuse that he once knew.
This man asks me what he shall do
to allay these evil spirits that are
driving him mad l do not know. The
Emmanuel church movement claims tC
deal successfully with such cases, but
personally, l know nothing of it.
The best plan would be for him 70
marry some jolly, fat, good-natured
woman whose laugh is hung on a hair
trigger and raise us half a dozen MGR
ry youngsters of his own on whom he
can shower all the tenderness and
love and ponies and drums that his
father aand mother never gave him.
DuL Il ne uOeSu want W marry LEI
him adopt a baby or two anyway, and
save them from an orphan asylum left
and make them happy. You can't
ponder long over dead and gone griefs
when you are stuffing your pockets
with toys to take to children and pic
turing to yourself the joy of the little
faces that are watching for you
There's magic, white magic, in little
fingers, and they can exercise any de-
mon that rides the soul into the black
abysses. And the advantage of a
child over any other form of diver
sion is that there is constant change
in it, Every day the little mind turns
toward you new fact that keeps you
always guessing and always alert with
interest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
CUTOFF
(From Our Regular Correspondent

(From Our Regular Correspondent
Cut Off, Ga, June S.-Rev. J. D. Nc
Cord filled his regular appointment ri
Mt Springs A NJ. E. church Saturday
and Sunday. Sundays sermon was &c
the children. On Sunday from 10 until
II a. m, Children's Day program was
rendered by the children, which was
very interesting.
Miss Minnie English, of English
vile, was the welcome guest of Mr.. T
J. Wicker's family.
Misses Willie, Annie Mae, Carrie and
Laura Wicker were the spend-the-day
guests of Mrs. R. ]. Holloway OF
Wednesday.
Mr.. Monroe Greene and little sister
of Plains, spent Saturday and Sun
day here with relatives.
Mr. D. H. Stubs and wife and
daughter were the guests of T. J.
Wicker's family Sunday.
Mr.. Greene Norris and family, OF
near Oglethorpe, spent Saturday and
Sunday with relatives here.
Dr. H. H Mcclellan and Miss Ella
Claire Mcclellan was the guests OF
friends here Sunday.
Messrs. Clinton Google, ]. K. En-
glish and r. H Wicker were the Sun
cay visitors here from Oglethorpe.
Messrs. Albert, Neal and Russell En-
glish, of Englishville, spent Sunday
at the home of Mr.. T. J. Wicker.
Miss Blanche Stallings was the
guest of Miss Willie Wicker Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Charlie Head and Miss
Mamie Duke were the guests of T. ].
Wicker's family the past week.
All the farmers around here are pa
tiently waiting for rain.
Quite a nenjoyable event was the
singing at Mr.. T. ]. Wicker's home on
Sunday afternoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

STORIES :
> WORTH READING. :
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He Was Not In.

There is ar present serving a term
IN the penirentiary at Columbus a
former official Of the posrofice depart
ment, convicted of graft" on many
counts, says the Metropolitan Maya
zine. The gentleman in question had
always been on friendly terms with
the newspaper correspondents, and
when he was arrested and placed n
Jail there was a rush of the newspaper
men to the prison, confident Of secur-
ing an interview.
The accused, however, refused to De
seen, and sent a characteristic mes
sage 10 his would-be interrogatOrs:
Tell them" said g to the warden,
that l am not in"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

The South Georgia newspapers I'M
derstand that the question of a divis-
ion of the state into two common
wealth is purely an academic one
nevertheless they are interested in a
discussion of it And some of them
are advancing mighty good reasons
why division could be made to work
to advantage. In the midst of it all
the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News
serves notice that if there is going to
be any division, Hawkinsyille will be
right up at the front in running for
1.-THE capital site of South Georgia. We
had hoped that the vote was going 20
be unanimous in favor of Savannah
Butler Herald This is as seriously as
any one seems to discuss the matter
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
HAT is WOMAN'S
Crown OF GLORY
PiquaRt HGadgGaf is Now in
Fashion

After all is said and done. woman's
browning glory is her hat. Poets
would have US believe it is her hair,
and Mr.. Roosevelt and Napoleon Bona
parte that it is her children, but We.
live in day that takes its clothes
very seriously, buys its hair and
brings up children scientifically
(which means that elimination 5
looked upon with more respect than
accumulation, so that the consistent
woman looks we'll TO the forms of her
hats and finds it helps make all else
in her life pleasanter and simpler.
Someone has said that a well-itting
gown gives woman more confidence
when she enters a room full of strang-
ers than any amount Of religious prin-
ciples and a smart hat is apt to give
its wearer greater poise, peace of
mind and charm of expression than
the consciousness that she is a model
wife and neighbor. Good digestion IS
a basis of beauty, and a well chosen
hat is often responsible for happy
home, for it multiplies the smiles and
increases the good nature of the
wearer, and the rest follows natur-
ally-good children, amiabIe husband,
contented servants.
Once upon a time there was a prim,
superstition that "a lady was always
well shod and well gloved.' Perhaps
she was, poor soul, but We have seen
many well shod, well gloved ladies, ,"
who were sad frumps and doleful dow
dies, and anyway, when that maxim
was formulated ladies" wore elastic
side boots and inartistic bonnets and
mouse-colored gloves that stopped
short enough to show the ugliest two
! inches of most women's arms.
To go back to hats They are small
er this season than they have been for
many years, and many of them are
delightfully."- coquettish and piquant.
Many are of cretonne yelled with chif-
fon and some are of hemp (f1ne and
closely woven, like hOrsehair), III
white or plain color, and then yelled
with printed chiffon put on smooth and
plain, the final effect being that of a
gaily Powered hat of silk and chiuz
under soft mist of color. Blues of
bright persuasion, purple in all tones,
emerald green and black and whita
are the fashionable tints and tones.
Early in the season a good deal of
rose and coral was seen, but like all
gay things that become common from
much usage, these roseate hues faded
away and the clear greens and blues,
black and whites and puppies are in
the ascendant.
Ostrich feathers are a craze for
the larger hats and even for the small
er shapes one sees wreaths of feathers
that may be bought by the yard and
are twisted around the crown of the
hat like a yard of ribbon, and the
trimming is complete Some of the
smaller hats are trimmed simply with
a huge, well made bow of MORE, vel
vet, messaline or stiff taffeta Striking
contrasts are considered very modish
For instance, a hat Of dull mauye, dull
unfinished straw, is wreathed around
with American beauty roses (that de-
licious shade of pink that borders on
lilac, as if the gorgeous big blossom
were fust a shade chilly in all ITS
beauty, and at the back is a dashing
big bow of richly deep purple velvet
the loops lined with satin of the same
/ shade.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
mo RECORD OF WEDDING
is MADE BY MINISTER
Very Careless in Returning
the License

OF course, you are legally married
to your wife, with whom you have
been living happily in Americas for
several years-or presumably happy
and all the town recalls the beauti-
ful wedding ceremony at the church,
or the home, It was gala occas-
ion, and one long discussed with in
terest.
But in cold, unsympathetic law, are
you married, and is there a record of
it at the courthouse? The chances
are there is no such record-that Is,
in some instances.
A condition that might possibly bring
embarrassment, some time.
This fact was called to the atten-
ton of the grand jury recently, not
that this body could rectify ministe-
rial laxity in the past, but rather to
call public attention so that there
might be no recurrence in the future.
The fault is not that of Judge Cobb
,of the Court of Ordinary, by any
means. for no county in the state has
an ordinary more careful and abso-
lutely correct in keeping the records
than he, The fault is rather with the
ministers who perform the marriage
ceremony, and then make no report Of
it.
This requirement is made of them
by the state laws, but the ministers
some of them-seem to forget it.
When a marriage license is issued
the names of the contracting parties
are placed upon the stub in the IL
cense book. So far so good.
When the wedding ceremony is per-
formed the officiating minister, or JUS
tice, is required to bring the used ii
cense back to the ordinary's office for
record. This law is complied with by
several of the ministers of Americas
and of the county, but there are 9th,
ers who lay the license away and for
get about it.
And it is this latter Class that may
cause trouble.
The fact of marriage cannot be re-
corded by the ordinary except upor
certificate of the officiating preacher
1t cannot be presumed that wedding
has taken place merely because a Il
cense was issued 1t is often the case
that something happens to prevent the
wedding, even with license issued.
1t is said to be a fact that some
weddings occurring in Americas
few years ago have never been re
corded, the minister performing the
ceremony having lost the licenses. d
course, the couples are married, blu
the recorded evidence is lacking; {
bit of ministerial carelessness tina
should not exist
If you are in doubt as regards YOU
legal married status, better hunt IL
the preacher, or see the ordinary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

, SOME
, MORNING SMILES.
In a Fix.

In a Fix.
(Chicago News)
Life is vapid, vain and teary,
All the world is out Of tune
Days are empty, nights are dreary,
Somber is the brightest noon;
Shadows hide the smiles Of summer
And the hours are dull of hue,
When your girl goes back on you!
From the ballroom broad and spacious
All the former Joys are fed;
Vaudeville is vile, yexatious,
For your sense of mirth is dead;
Problem plays you canot follow,
Nothing pIeases, old or new;
Life is hollow, hollow, hollow,
When your girl goes back on you.
When by her you are commanded
Never more TO come around,
On a sandbar you are stranded
Forty miles from solid ground.
Rival suitors think it funny,
Think your plight joke immense
But it's forty kinds of honey
When at last your girl relents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

When one reads the thrilling dis
patch OF a sea serpent of enormous
size and terrifying aspect chasing a
fish Of the type that Jonah made IA
nous for ten miles in front of a
crowded beach, one realizes that the
summer resorts have at last opened.
Columbus Enquirer Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
OFFICIAL ORGAN:
Americas, Ga, June 8, 1911.

y \ ~ y y y y + = y = y
= TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
y y = y y y = = y p = = y
(W. ]. Hampton, in n. Y. Times)
Boys will be boys" they tell US,
These kindly souls who think
that every boy
Is an unmiXed joy,
And can't get on the blink.
No matter though the youngsters
May drive US crazy blind,
With fearful eyes
Somebody cries
Boys will be boys. Be kind"
All over this big city
The boys by thousands run
Regarding nought
OF what they ought,
So long as they have fun"
No Others rights respected,
No laws regarded, they
Bang in and out,
And cruise about
Along the hoodlum way.
Boys will be boys" they tell US,
These foolish friends who hate
To check the joys
OF thoughrless boys
Until IL is too late
These boys are quickly growing
Around us everywhere,
and as they grow,
Fool friends should know
Boys will be men. Beware.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

There is man in middle Georgia
who does not think Hoke would ac-
cept the senatorship if it were handed
to him on a silver waiter. He is in
Milledgeville, howeyer-and he can't
get away.-Rome Tribune-Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

Ia naturally talented actor shouldn't
go on the road he should marry.
You may have noticed that it costs
a man good deal to get in line at
the political pie counter in this great
and glorious land of the free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
RHEUMATISM RELIEVED
IN SIX HOURS

DIR. DETCHON'S RELIEF FOB
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ton upon the system is remarkable
and effective. 1t removes the cause
and the disease quickly disappears
First dose benefits, 75c and $1.O0. Sold
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
As She is Spoke.

81 wish you would go over and see
how old Mr.. Tinsley u.s." said a church
worker to one of her pupils.
The pupil returned promptly with
the information, Hes seventy-eight. ="
Brooklyn Life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
Sat Near q Box,

Il went to the opera last night"
What did you hear
THAT the Richleighs were goins
abroad this summer and that Maud
Highly is engaged to be married. y
Boston Transcript.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

AS a rule, weather prophets are not
popular, but the man who has predict
ed a cool July deserves a leather med
al.-AtIanta Constitution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
Such ANNOYING Ignorance.

Hubby-T lost a foursome today at
the Woody links
Wifey-Why not advertise for it,
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
His AMfnI Plight

First Centipede-Is he henpecked?
Second Centipede-Mercy, yeh! His
wife makes him wipe all his feet
Harper's Weekly
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

In the course Of time a woman may
forget why she hates man, but she
will continue to hate him just the
same.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

The editor of the Baxley Banner is
worrying more about the red bug than
the boil weevil
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

See details of Grand Subscription
Contest on Page 6. Prizes: Diamond
Ring, Diamond Brooches, Gold
Watches, set with Diamonds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

With the warm weather and the
presidential booms things should GER
tainly liyen up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

It's a shame the way some people
forget to remember.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
Paradox.

1T takes too to make a quarrel"
How queer"
why queer?"
'fWhy, thought man and his wife
were one. cleveland Leader.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

And it sometimes occurs that mar
riage is an antidote for love.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

If, in the face of these arguments,
you can still worry, it must be be-
cause you love it, and / give you up,
No doctor will treat a patient who
dosen't care about getting well.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

AS long as a woman can hide where
she is stout she knows she isn't
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

Glove makes the world go round
quoted the Wise Guy. yes" asseh'eu
the Simple Mug, provided you nave
enough rocks for ballast"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

Will Sumter's barns hold the big
crops that are in sight?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

Jack Johnson should be glad that ne
had chance to sail at all.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

This should be delightful weather 70.
the coronation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

IS worth while to marry in Chicago
any more?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
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AT EVENING. :


(Cornelia Kane Rathbone, in Harper
Weekly.)
The lonely lake lies sad and pale
Beneath a Swallowed moon,
No ripple laughs along the shale,
No mating bird gives tune.
The trees in garb of black on me
Cast mournful, pitting glance;
Even the youngest aspen-tree
Forbids its leaves to dance.
We kissed at morning meath thei
b0ughs,
We loved and kissed today
They sigh, the trees that heard on
vows;
To-day is dead" they say
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

For every evil under the sun
There is a remedy or there is none.
If there is one, then try and find it:
IT there is none, then never mind it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

A wise girl is indisposed when a
young man calls Unexpectedly after
she has been eating onions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09

Won't the trusts be glad when cool
weather comes?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-09
A Good Excuse.

4 Good Excuse.
You watch the clock a good deal,
my man"
It's this way, boss" explained the
workman addressed I'm little deaf
and don't always hear the whistle -
Kansas City Journal.