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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17

Lampower simply held the letters
out to her. What are these?" he in
quired in a repressed voice. 1t was
quite like scene from a play and
he felt 1t.
Louise behaved as he had expected
she would when confronted by expos
ure. She made dash toward the let
tiers.
"Oh!" she cried, in q tremulous
voice. Il woldn't have you see those
for the world! They-you see-that
class | belong to for the study Of Eng
fish makes US compose things. and
Mrs. Sponsor had to write a series of
love letters in the romantic style and
then had to compose the answered.
It's to make US fluent, you knowl And
you'd simply roar II you read 'em, be-
cause they're awful stun, Jim!" a.
with a woman's clairvoyance she guess.
ed little of what had happened, did
you-have you read them? And you
thought-oh, my goodness, you never
thought that they were real"
Lampower looked at his wife. who
had sunk into chair. choking with
giggles. He felt himself shrinking.
Certainly mott" he said. hastily. 81
never thought any such thing!"
And Mrs. Lampower was kind
enough to let 1t 60 at that
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Thu laasar Of Two ExlIa.

The Lesser Of Two Evils.
He keeps his monograph going all
the time when he's at home"
II should think he'd get tired Of
that"
He says it's the only way he can
drown his wife's voice"
Zone ia as bad as the other"
Mot quite. The phonograph doesn't
call him hard names"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17

Inquisitive Person-You write an
awful amount of verse for a busy man.
How do you do It? What is your
method?
Popular Poet-I have no method. l
simply sit down, light my pipe, and
wait for Decentralization to come.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Their Thou0hts.

Their Thoughts.
"A penny for your thoughtsf"
Il was pondsring on the destiny Of
man. and youf"
~Oh." replied she. who had given
him q thousand hints. Il was ponder
Ing on the density Of man."
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Cultivate Philosophy.

This would be lovely world II ev-
eryone were kind hearted and unself-
fish. Never mind what Bullets fortune
gives you. The sunshine remains and
IL some folks are rude others are
kind.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Her Limit.

Her Limit.
Dear, what shall get you for q
birthday present."
Darling. want . lot"
But. precious, can give you only
one present.
Then make It o building lot"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
The Real rhlna.

THAT anti-treating bill the temper
ance people were so set on. is total
allure"
81 should call 1t teetotal failure. !"
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17

AVIATOR am afraid we are In for
hard trip. think will revise our
program.
Passenger-Then let u make It q
revision downward.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
A Sandwich Sound.

A Sandwich Sound.
II see where Mr.. Cunningham FIJI
dayed' in Pekin, H."
"Yesf"
"Do you suppose he II in the lunch
room businessr'
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Open Season for KIngs.

The days are lovely. and the nights
AZ cool as anything;
You ought to sleep just like Q babe
II you are not a king.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Bach Reouires eustenanoe.

GdCTI TSqo"SS SusSe5sd0C0s
A house is no home unless It con-
tain food and IRE for the mind as well
as for the body.-Margaret Fuller o.
soil.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-02-17
Sermons at All Prices.

"Bretheren." said the visiting
preacher. Use got eight-dollar, sar-
mon. an Use got q six-dollar one. an
three-dollar one. an den Use got one
! kin let you have fur jes' one dollar.
Now, l want you fur to take, up the
Reflection right now. an see which
one Nv these sarmons you wants"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
70 YEARS OLD, PICKS
1O5 POUNDS OF COTTON

Thomasville, Ga, Oct. 16.-Under
an October sun as hot as that of
July, Ransom C. Wheeler of Thomas
county made the record of picking 105
pounds of cotton on the day preced
ing his 10Th birthday. During the
last two weeks in September Mr..
Wheeler or Corporal" Wheeler, as
he is known to everybody here pick
ed nearly two bales of cotton, but
some of that he says was done on
moonlight nights, and wanting to
know just how much he was really
good for still he decided to put in a
whole days work. and selected for
the purpose the day before his birth
day. The result shovel that he was
still in the game" and able to do
more than many younger and
stronger man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
Big FLEET OF STEAMERS
CLEAR With COTTON
Seven Vessels Left Savannah
In A Day

Savannah, Oct, l6.-With several
steamers sailing for foreign ports
with 64,997 bales of cotton, and four
more arriving to reinforce the eleven
remaining steamers, all here to carry
cotton to European ports. Savannah's
harbor presented busy scene yester-
day.
The cotton carried out yesterday IS
probably underestimated in the fore
going figures and today will probably
see some amendments to the clearings
of the ships.
Taking the figures to be correct,
however, the value of the cotton car
ried away was approXimately$3, ,250,
585. Two of the cargoes went to Liv-
two to Bremen, two for Havre
and one to Mediterranean ports.
In addition to the fifteen foreign
steamers now in port to load with cot
ton a large fleet of steamers is Sa-
vannah bound for the same purpose.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
SCRAP OF The PIGTAILS
grows In INTEREST
Seems No Chance To stop
The War

Berlin. Oct. 16.-Chances Tor sue
cessful intervention to halt the Iurho
Italian war are becoming less 1a'oI-
able according to semi-otlclai stat
ments today. Italy is no longer VIII
ing to concede a Turkish suzeralh'y
for Tripoli, while on the other manu-
Turkey is not willing to surrehuel
Tripoli Internationally.
The Tripolitian situation causes
anxiety here.
The Chinese situation is in dellca'e
shape No surprise would be felt mere |
if it caused international negotiations
on some action by the powers
The commander of the German gun
boat Tiger reports from Hankow Una,
the American admiral has assullleu
command of the foreign warships a.
Hankow. The Japanese aulilii a.
Kwashima. is continued at the 9ed'
Of the foreign land forces.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
WANTS JACK JOHNSON
TO Be A MISSIONARY
PuqiIiSt Thinks Preacher
Seeking NOtOFiety

London, October 16.-The Rev. Stanley
Parker, the nonconformist minister at
Newcastle-on-Tyne who took an active
part in opposing the Johnson-Wells
fight, has written to Johnson, who now
is showing in Newcastle, assuring him
that the minister's opposition to the
mill was not based on personal
grounds and urging the champion 10
retire from the ring and devote himself
to missionary work.
Mr.. Parker recalls the remarkable
success of a negro lecturer, Celestine
Edwards, and, in suggesting that john
son should follow his example, says:
I'VE are anxious to enlist all your
splendid powers in the higher service,
believing that Championship of the
weak, the wronged the downtrodden
and the SHINING is greater than the
boxing championship of the world"
Johnson waved the suggestion aside,
lremarking:
Parker is simply seeking notori-
iety."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
APPEAL TOUCHES
HOUSEBREAKERS' HEARTS
Told Over Telephone She VIII Get
Back keepsakes Of Daughter.

Chicago, Oct. 1G.-Mrs. George j..
Kneubler, wife OF an attorney, made
an appeal to the hourebreakers laot
night in an effort to have restored
keepsakes-two rings and iocket-of
her little daughter who was lost in the
Iroquois Theatre fire.
q am heartbrol.an over the loss "
said Mrs. Keub' e. IF the burglar
knew how wrctched | am he would re-
turn them"
To-day a man called up Mrs. Kueb-
Ter and told her the rings and locket
would be sent back to her by mail.
Il tried to get him to furnish me
with information about himself, but he
left the telephone without saying any
thing more than that the stolen prop
erty would be returned" said the
mother.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
TRIES SUICIDE BY PACT
Promised Husband ii He Died She
Would Take Her Life.

Boston, Oct. 16.-Mrs. Hulda David
son, twenty-four, promised her nus
band when illness seized him short
time ago that if he died she would take
her life. Davidson regarded death as
inevitable, took his life. His WIDOW,
keeping her promise, swallowed pols-
on today and in the Quincy Hospital
tonight the doctors are trying to save
her life.
Davidson, who had been taken 10
the Taunton Asylum for the Insane
took his life two weeks ago. His Wild
ow began preparations at once to keep
her tragic bargain.
Yesterday she told her cousin, Mrs
Ellen Luomala, of the suicide pact.
Her cousin believed Mrs Davidson
was jesting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS
HOLDS The RECORD
For Attendance In Local.
School System

According to official figures in Su-
perintendent Millers first monthly
report to the board of education for
the present school year, the grade
with the largest attendance in the
grammar school is that of the sec
ond division of the fourth grade,
known as Fourth Grade B., while the
first year class in the High School,
of course, leads all the rest.
The attendance in figures as shown
in the report gives the Fourth Grade
b an enrolment of "a pupils, while
the first year class in the High
School tops any other class or grade
in the grammar school or High
School with an attendance of 65. An
Interesting estimate shows that the
average enrolment per teacher in
the grammar school is Al, while that
in the High School is 27, so that,
though the High School possesses the
grade with the largest enrolment N
the school. the largest average en-
rollment per teacher easily belongs
to the grammar grades.
Apropos the attendance at the
schools this fall, the foregoing figures
are Of unusual interest and suggestive
ness. The heavy average enrolment
per teacher in the grammar grades
serves especially to show that there
is much need of an enlargement or
better arrangement of the facilities
for handling these grades. The con-
trast between the number of So stu
dents enrolled in the first year class
in the High School as compared with
that of the % enrolled in the fourth
year class serves to show that here,
as is almost universally true in high
school, only the faithful last to the
end. The record-breaking attendance
noticed in the school system as Q
whole has already been referred t
in the pages of The Times-Recorder
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
The BEARS In CONTROL
OF MARKET TO DATE
Bureau Report Will Likely
Be BGariSh

New Orleans, Oct. 16.-The most
important factor to be considered in
the cotton market the coming week
probably will be the next report on
ginning to be issued by the census
bureau Wednesday week. The report
will cover the period through Tues
day.
Bearish figures are expected, but
public opinion will be Influenced large
ly by bureau reports of the week
This ginning report will be the most
comprehensive one issued as the pre-
vious reports dealt largely with early
sections.
The movement and spot demand
both will be carefully observed this
week for anticipated new develop
ments. 1t is claimed that the lack Of
spot demand is causing a falling off
in the movement, also that the feeling
among spinners that they are secure
in not buying is responsible for the
poor inquiry.
SpinneTs are expected to hold off,
pending the census report on ginning
both on the hope that prices will work
lower and in order to get better
line On the crop
The weather will be an important
factor as cold weather is not uneX
pected
A cold snap would have more effect
on market sentiment than on the crop
as no material damage would result
from frost on account of the crop $
advanced condition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
LOVE CRAZED, KILLS SELF

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct 16-After an
Intellectual attempt to kill Mrs. H. NJ.
Hall of No. 1886 Crownhill avenue,
mother of the girl who had Tilted him,
A. Clifford Vanorder of Rochester, N.
Y, comitted suicide here last night by
shooting himself. The bullet passed
entirely through his body near his
heart.
He recovered consciousness for a
short while and told of the parents
objections to his love for Miss Annie
Hail. who is eighteen years old. Van
order, who was twenty-five, came to
this city eight months ago from Ro-
chester, where his father is a whole
sale fish dealer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
MAY REMAIN in
The AIR A MONTH
WrightS Work For That Sort
OF Machine

Manteo, N. c., Oct 16.-Orville
Wright, one of the brothers of that
name who have won fame as aviators
and who is now at Kill Devil Hill for
the purpose of putting to the test some
ideas in flying machine construction,
today talked of the experiment which
he is here to make.
The machine or glider with which
he is to conduct the experiments has
not yet arrived at the camp, although
it was expected today. There are still
matters pertaining to the tests that
are to be made here which Wright
prefers to keep secret. He will give
no accurate description of just where
in it differs from the old.
ut is like our old glider" he said,
except" and the exceptions are what
he does not make pain.
Our record for soaring in the old
glider was 1 minute and 20 seconds, -
he said, in response to a question.
Asked if he expected that the glider
could be made to stay up twice as
long as the best record made by the
old, he looked rather surprised and
replied
1--WE would not consider that We
have made much progress did We not. ."
How long do you believe it possible
for this new machine to remain in the
air?"
Perhaps a month" replied Wright,
but a smile was on his face. eve have
known certain things for a good many
years which We are now going to put
to the test We have not done so be-
fore because we have not had the
time"
The old gliding machine of the
Wrights weighed 112 pounds and the
new 140, Wright explained.
There has been disagreement be-
tween Wright and Bob Westcott, own
er of the land from which Sights were
made in previous tests, and it is pos
sible that this may interfere with the
inventors plans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
DRIVERS WILL
FORM BENZ TEAM
Most Recent Entries In
Savannah Races |

Savannah. Ga, Oct. 16.-With NOM
nations of Victor Hemery, Bob Bur-
man and Eddie Hearne as drivers, the
official entry of three cars composing
the Benz team in the Grand Prize
Race. to be run in Savannah Thanks
giving Day, was made to President
Harvey Granger of the Savannah Au-
tomobile Club yesterday.
All the drivers are well known
wherever automobile racing is pop
ular, and particularly is Savannah
where they have all competed in for
mer races. The selection OF Eddie
Hearne, makes him the winner over
Ralph DePalmer and other noted drlV-
ers who were under consideration by
the Benz Company.
Hearne is one of the youngest drlV-
orc who will be in the race, being but
% wears A,d. He began his racing ca
raer at Savannah in 1908, when ne
drove a Buick car into fourth place in
the Savannah Challenge Trophy Race.
In 1909 he drove Flats in the Wander
hiIt Cobe Cup, in which he finished
fourth and won the Amateur Cham
pionship Cup at Indianapolis. He es-
established a record for the Algonquin
Hill Climb which still holds in a
Benz in 1910 when he changed his
|aIlegiance to that car. In Benz he
finished fifth in that years Wander
bit won the Indianapolis Spedtay Hell
met twice, finished first in the lOU
mile free for all and the 80 mile free
for all. at the Indianapolis Speedway
He also finished first, second ano
third in as many ten mile free for alls
on this track. In the same year ht
won the Fox River Trophy in the Ell
gin National Road Race.
HENRY has no superior as a driv
or Some of his most notable per
formances are the winning of the
1905 Vanderbilt in Darracq, the Cir
cuit des Ardennes in the same ca
the same year, the st. Petersburg
Moscow Race in a Benz in 1908, ant
the French Grand PriX this year
Hemrey has finished second in both 0
Savannah former Grand Prize Races
being beaten by Wagner in a Fiat b.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
ATHLETICS Win
Second GAME
Of SERIES
GIANTS LOSE, SCORE | to 8
MaFQuard and Plank Hurled
The Ball

Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Oct. 16.-
The Athletics turned the tables on
the New York Giants in the second
game of the worlds series champion
ship this afternoon by a score of 3
to 1. The game was even until the
sixth inning when Collins doubled
and Baker drove the ball over the
right field fence for a home run. Both
pitchers were in excellent form, Plank
having slight advantage owing to
his steadiness. Marquard was visibly
nervous in the opening innings, but as
the game progressed, steadied down
and the Athletics were unable to do
ANYTHING with his delivery except in
the sixth inning. New York's only
run was the result of a misjudged fly
to center which went for two bases.
The local team backed up Plank in
excellent style while the Giants were
credited with three errors, one rank
muff by Deyore, the latter also dis
tinguishing himself by striking out
four times, every time he faced Plank.
Score by innings:
New YOrk........... 100 OOO Jul
Philadelphia ........ 100 OO2 OOX-3
Summary: Two base hits, Herzog'
Collins. Home runs, Baker Pitch
ing record: Marquard four hits in "a
times at bat at seven innings. Gran
dali no hits in three times at bat in
one inning. Sacrifice hit, Oldring.
Left on bases, New York 8; Philadel-
phia 2. First base on error, Philadel-
phia l. Hit by Plank, Snodgrass.
Struck out by Marquard, 4; by Gran
dali 2; by Plank 8. Wild pitch, Mar
guard. Time 1852. Umpires at the
plate Connally; on the bases Brennan
left field KLEIN; right field Dineen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
ITALIANS IN SMYRNA
IN DIRE DISTRESS
Rome Hears Kings Subjects
Are Badly Treated

Rome, Oct ia dispatch from
Smyrna t. the CorrierTe D'Italia says
the colony of 10000 Italians there is in
a pcecarious condition.
All Italian railroad employees have
been discharged and the Italian port
workers are being boycOtted. Nea-
politan fishing boats in the harbor
have been seized and numerous famt-
lies are destitute A worse fate IS
feared for large number of Italian
workmen in the interior of Anatolia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
ONLY ONE DEATH
RECORDED HERE
FOR SEPTEMBER
AMONG White POPULATION
Last Three Months Show
Only -Four Deaths

Seekers after health should re-
member that the record of Americus
in this particular is as excellent as
| it is in so many others.
Only recently it has come to light
that the city has a record for Sep
tember health that is surely unsur-
passed in any city of equal size in
this section of the state or through
out the entire state.
Though September is notably the
most unhealthy month of the year IN
this section of Georgia, nevertheless
the City of Americas has a record Of
only one death among the white pop
ulation during the month of Septem-
Der for this year.
When one stops to consider these
figures, the remarkable nature of
them become readily apparent, and
the real meaning of the statement is
shown much more clearly. If con-
sideration is given to the fact that
the month of September this year
was one that was exceptionally hot
and dry, further meaning is added to
the statement.
Under normal conditions the month
of September is one that tries the re-
serve force and patience of the av-
erage person, both old and young
while a month of such record-break-
| ing heat and drouth as the one re-
Gently closed would naturally tend
to swell the mortality list than the
average September would be expected
to do. Only one death in the white
mortality list during September, 1911
is a health record in Americus tha
is indeed one of which the people o
this city have just cause to be proud
as those who have become famillia
with this fact have rightly observed
Further than this, the, record
show, as City Clerk and Treasure
Harvey Weaver has pointed out tha
there was also only one death among
the white population of the city dur
ing the month of July, while Angus
shows only two deaths, one being ac
cidental. From this it may be seel
that there has been in the last thre
months here only two deaths amoDi
the whites, barring the death of al
infant and those from academia
lcauses. A cleaner bill of healtl
would be hard to find in a long searcI
according to those who should know
One is tempted to compare tn
health record of Americus during tn
past summer with that of small
town in northern Georgia, where tn
mortality rate was so low that RI
federal government is said to hav
sent a special agent to investigat
the figures and to see if they wer
correct There is no doubt abOu
the figures given herewith to sho1
conditions locally, as they were tax
en- from the city's official records.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
Will SEABOARD
IMPROVE ITS
LOCAL SHOPS?
so Runs PERSISTENT RUMOR
1t Is Hoped Here That Such
May Be The Case

There has been current locally for
some time rumor to the effect that
the Seaboard Air Line railway will
greatly improve it's local shops, and
there seems to be a good foundation
for the rumor.
1t has been a matter of knowledge
to those familiar with the status of
affairs at the local shops that there
were some improvements much need
ed. From time to time in the past
a rumOr has gone abroad that these
improvements would be instituted
soon.
The substance of a report that was
pretty generally circulated here re-
Gently and gave rise to considerable
inquiry was that the Seaboard would
spend 100000 in repairs at the local
shops in conjunction with the re-
rebuilding of the shops recently burn
ed in Savannah. A telegram directed
to Superintendent of Motive Power,
A. J. Poole, of the Seaboard, at Nor
folk, brought a denial of the local
part of this when the matter was in
vestigated.
But that does not seem to be the
end of the story from what can be
learned from the best local sources.
The rebuilding of the Savannah shops
is a certainty, as local Seaboard Of
ficials assert, though they make no
reference to the amount of money to
be spent. So this much of the rumor
is in substance undoubtedly true.
Further consideration of the mat
ter and careful investigation has
tended to indicate that the local end
of the rumor is also true in sub
stance, though it is not thought that
the Seaboard has an idea of spend
ing 100000 here. More credence is
given to the suggestion that what Is
meant is that the Seaboard will make
the improvements now deemed nee
essary at the local shops, which
would cost about $4,000.
1t has been learned from local au-
thorities that the improvements here
are badly needed and that the effic-
iency of the shops will be affected
unless these improvements are made
at once. The sum of 5000, it is
estimated, would place the local shops
in excellent condition and make them
worthy in the matter of caring for
the work that is to be done here.
There seems but little doubt that
there is some substantial basis for
the rumors that have sprung up re-
Gently in more definite manner than
at any time previously. 1t is sincere
ly hoped here that the work of re-
pairing the shops will be undertaken
at an early date.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-17
MAYOR HAS PLAN FOR
SOLVING TRAMP PROBLEM

Poughkeepsie, Oct 16.-Mayor John
K. Sague has a plan for solving the
tramp problem in this city. Hereafter
all tramps who apply to the police for
lodgings and are accommodated will
have to pay for the accommodation
next day by helping clean up the town.