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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Eight Dollars Worth of CRY.

My wife had a three minute cry the
other day that cost me $S," said the
man to the New York Sun, but she
says she got her moneys worth, and |
guess she did. 1t was her birthday.
She had not seen her mother for two
yearfs, and in a generous spirit befit-
ting the day had arranged that she
and the old lady should have a little
chat over the long distance telephone.
1t was dead secret. l hal made all
plans on my own initiative and the
call came to her as a complete sur
prise. / answered it myself.
Belle said |, what do you think?
Your mother wants to talk to you
She nearly tainted. oh, mother,
she shouted into the receiver, and be-
gan to cry. With the exception of oc-
casional repetitions of oh, mother
that was all she did for three min
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
81 FOR GOVERNMENT, So FOR
MANUFACTURERS.

Chairman Underwood, of the Ways
and Means Committee, has way of
presenting facts and figures so that
they make an indelible impression
and stick to the memory. While the
tariff effects every individual in the
country, it is naturally such dry
subject that few men have the patti
ence to grapple with it and under
stand its complexities so clearly that
they can present their conclusions to
the public in an ineligible, convinc-
ing way. Underwood is one of the eX-
ceptions. He gets down to the roots
of any phase of the tariff question
that he tackles and when he talks
throws a food of illumination on the
subject.
The other day the Albanian talked
about the infamous wool schedule.
Even Taft denounced the wool sched-
ule, although he signally failed to give
the people relief when the Democrat
ic House put relief measures before
him. But while the President in a
general way has decried the schedule
covering wOolens he has never given
the people the clear insight into its
iniuuities that Chairman Underwood
has done.
Making an estimate of the number
of suits of clothes that the men and
the children of the country wear, and
the number of wooden dresses that
the women use, Underwood shows
that the tax of 81 cents a yard that is
now levied on the ostensible plea of
raising revenues and giving labor
protection agains the "pauper' work
| ingmen of Europe, makes a total Of
over one hundred and four million
dollars a year. OF this the govern
ment secures but fifteen millions as
! revenues, the remainder going to the
protected beneticiarios of the system
| of indirect taxation for the benefit { f
the few that the Republican party has
imposed upon the country.
AS Underwood says: rs it fair or
just or right to maintain these enorm-
Gus taxes unduly to foster the bust
ness of less than one-fourth of l per
cent. of the people and to require
ninety-nine and three-fourths to stag
ger under this enormous burden"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
THE PEOPLE AGAINST
LIQUOR.

Congressman Hobson is right. The
people must be educated against the
use of intoxicants. The danger that
lies in even a moderate use of alcohol,
not the danger of becoming a drunk
ard. but the actual physical danger
that is involved to every consumer,
must be stressed and pressed home
upon the individual consciousness.
Only through that means can such
strong healthful sentiment against
alcoholic drinks be created that pro
htbitory laws will have sufficient NOR
al backing to make them effective.
Hobson shows in a convincing way
that the man who uses liquors in So
called temperate way is impairing his
usefulness. weakening his faculties,
shortening his life. That should be a
sufficient reason why any man of com
mon sense should let them alone.
In the public schools of many states
the children arr today being taught
the evils attendant on the use Of al
cohcHc liquors. 1t may take several
rr7srar.r-e Of such mental training
TO bring the desired results, but the
effects viii come inevitably.
Mankind has been drinking wines
and beers for untold centuries Strong
drink cam in almost contemporary
eously with man. Old Noah, it will be
recalled. was made drunk by his
daughters. A habit that is as deep
seated as the use of alcoholic stimuli
ants cannot be rooted out in day or
a year or a generation. If it were
done in a century it would be as
toundingly marvellous.
The tendency of employers to refuse
work to drinking men, the disposition
to get rid of the employe whose drink
ing habits make him unsteady in his
service, the barring of the way to
promotion to those who indulge in
strong drink, this is having its effect
on the aspiring young men of the land
Couple this with education along the
right line and the continued min
imizing Of the sale of liquors will
follow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
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Bring ing 1t Up.t0.Date.

The teacher asked, When did Mos
ss live?"
After the silence had become pain
full she ordered: open your Old Tes-
taments. What does it say there?"
A boy answered, Moses, 1000"
Now" said the teacher, why didn't
you know when Moses lived?"
We'll" replied the boy, Il thought
it was his telephone number. Subur-
ban Life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

? SOME.
? MORNING SMILES.
The Final Degree for Willie.

Chicago RecOrd-Heraid.D

(Chicago Record-Heraid)
They are hazing darling Willie; he is
hanging from a tree;
They have robbed him OF his clothing,
and they whoop with ghoulish
glee;
They have made him walk a tight-ropa,
they have ducked him in the
lake;
But we're hoping he'll live through it,
if his dear neck doesn't break.
They have made him walk barefooted
where they scattered carpet
tacks,
He is wounded on his forehead where
they hit him with an ak;
They have made him pass blindfolded
where a misstep meant his death
But we're hoping he'll pull through it,
if he doesn't lose his breath,
They are hazing darling Willie; he is
hanging from a limb,
While the merry, merry hazers stick
long splinters into him;
They have scratched his feet, pretend
ing they would burn him at the
stake,
But were hoping he'll live through it,
if his dear neck doesn't break.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Montezuma Record is entirely
disguised with Georgia politics. 1t
says that "if all the slack wads, pro-
hi-cranks, peanut politicians and d
fools who want to get office We're ell
ected hell would be more desirable
place to live in than Georgia" But
that's where the saving grace of com
mon sense on the part of the people
comes in. They don't get elected, as a
general rule.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Color Transition.

An aged colOred man was engaged
in burning the grass of the lawn of a
young broker when the latter returned
to his home, and thinking to have some
fun with the old man said:
"Sambo, if you burn that grass, the
entire lawn will be as black as you
are"
Oats all right, subj" responded the
negro Some O. desc days dat grass
grow up an be as green as you are.
Judge.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Thousands Of hay stacks are to be
seen in Georgia to-day where there
were not to be counted by tens a de-
cade ago. And, as the Montgomery
Monitor says, There's no surer indi-
cation of self sustaining farm than
those same stacks"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

If Pope Brown was a good taIker
he could infuse ten times the life into
his campaign. 1t is still true that the
able public speaker has a tremendous
advantage in politics. He can even,
except on rare occasions, outdistance
the model letter writer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Switched OF.

Il notice that your garden doesn't
look very promising this year"
mo, every time my husband got to
digging in it he found a lot of worms
and they always reminded him of his
fishing tackle. Chicago Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

utes l had it from her afterwards
that her mothers vocabulary was
equally limited. Personally l consid-
cred the interview failure, but my
wife insists that both she and her
mother had one Of the loveliest ex-
perienCes Of their lives
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
To Gentle.

ChOlly-While | was calling on your
daughter last evening, Mr.. Cults your
dog growled at me.
Old Butts-Did he bite you?
Cholly-Oh, no-only growled.
Old Butts-I'll have to get rid of
him and get another-Chicago Daily
News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

That Ievity is SUBJECT that is some
times worth while avoiding has been
learned to the sorrow Of a would-be
undertaken.
a recent examination of the State
Undertaking Board, among the ques-
tons asked of the many applicants
was the following one:
What do you consider as an infalli-
BILE sign of death?"
Grape on the door" answered one
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Brunswick News hits at the
Savannah Press by saying that the
Lion is still a lion" But lion can
sometimes be sick AMI later on be
dead one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Editor Leavy, of Brunswick, thinks
that tom Hudson will yet live to
smite the small politicians who tried
to besmfrch his record"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Pure milk" question is agi-
tating a number of Georgia towns. If
Plain Dick" really brings the state
better whisky it is important that the
milk for the punches should also be
of excellent character.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Pope Brown says that package
houses in the cities means easier liz
uor for the negroes in the country
and less safety to the women on the
farm" That is an argument that
speaks with telling force to many an
isolated farmer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Sandersville Georgian says it
is now up to South Georgia to show
whether it really wants governor
from below the main line of the Cen
trail railroad.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

There is a surplus of confidence in
the Atlanta campaign headquarters.
II they would only distribute some of
it in Wall street it would be where it
is more needed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Candidate Emmett r. Shaw winds up
his platform with the statement that
IF by your ballots you tell me to stay
at home l will stay without a muir
muir"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

A Shellman young lady sent the Sun
OF that place this comment; Some
folks are so good they are about as
interesting as hitching post" The
Sun intimates that it would ruin the
girls church standing to publish her
name.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Athens Banner is for Little
Joe" because he did not set the world
on fire. 1t objects to the firebrand in
politics.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

EX-Gov. Browns suggestion about
a referendum vote on the liquor ques-
ton is good one. But that would not
settle it, The liquor issue will be up
in Georgia as long as whisky is made
somewhere else and men living in the
state want to sell it or drink it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

A large number of weekly papers
are lining up behind Pope Brown on
the liquor question. They want liq-
uor kept out of their counties to as
great an extent as possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Revenge.

That fellow cut me out in very
underhand way"
Yet you are going to the wedding, >
Yes; l may get a chance to soak
him with an old shoe Exchange.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

1-,,.vey Jordan declares that Eng
lish spinners will be glad to pay II
to 10 cents for cotton. But We are
beginning to be dobious about Har-
yey's predictions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Swainsboro Forest-Blade says
that there are many who like Judge
Russell personally At will vote
against him because of his position
on the liquor question. They don't
like his company"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

If more liquor is sold in Georgia
under prohibition than ever before the
liquor dealers must be intent on cut
ting down their business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Editor Folsom down at Mount YER
non, is indignant because it is claim
ed the Methodists may rally to Judge
Russell because he attends that
Church. Folsom insists that mo true
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian or
Christian ever rallied to whisky"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The man who said that widows
easily married again made bulls eye
when he declared the reason to be
that Dead men tell no tales"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Business women make good
wives" declares an exchange. Ger
tainly. Especially if they can make
enough to support two.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
"OutclaSSed."

Does your automobile go faster
your neighbors?"
NO, replied Mr. Chuggins. But
my danger signal makes a much more
disagreeable noise than his"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Mother Goose.

There was an old woman
Who wanted a fiat;
She had seven children,
So that settled that.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

Judge Crisp has many friends in
the district and will make a strong
race" is the way the Cordele Sen
tinel puts it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

The Dawson News insists that hav-
ing had real farmer at Washington
in the person of Hon. Dudley Hughes
the Third District is apt to repeat the
experiment by sending Farmer Mer-
Ger, of that county, to Congress
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
The Color Line.

Johnny, your school report is COW
cred with black marks"
We'll. l never claimed to be a
White Hope"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
Americas. Ga, October l., 1911

IF Crisp is elected he will make
good congressman" says the Ash
burn Farmer and Stockman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18

"Dublin's Chamber of Commerce is
entirely on the job says the Laurens
County Herald, and the city is begin
ming to feel some of the many good
results accomplished" Has the Am
CIRCUS Board of Trade gone to sleep?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-18
OFFICIAL ORGAN:

OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City of Amerlcus
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission Of Georgia For
Third Congressional Dis riot.
Y S. Court Southern District OF
Georgia.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
GARY's TWO CIVIC BODIES.


o o
which
off
of
banquet which Governor Iany Burlington
Crumpackef
that has held
The n
In later when the Commercial
It natural that the should
of
huencew will no be wha should.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
THE UPLIFT IS HERE.

the
good the
be
If that
Rust
imported by the Lake Woods
of
Wabash Dame and
in
of their aorte journal with
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
Heart toHeart
| Talks.
HER PUNISHMENT.

A great painting. The Pursuit of
back, riding at breakneck speed to
catch up with the goddess Of Fortune.
Behind her rides grinning Death
Which fifty symbolizes the career OF
the late Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes.
Yerkes was a cold blooded. money
making genius. who early in life got
into the penitentiary for embezzle-
nent. Afterward. going to Chicago.
he made a big fortune in the street
car business.
His faithful wife stood by him when
he was sent to prison. When he got
rich he rewarded her devotion by d.
yorce and married Mary Moore. a
beautiful young girl aged twenty
three. He was then fifty.
The second wife was ambitious So
cially and hoped to be a leading fac
tor in high life, but Chicago society
deliberately snubbed and repulsed her.
She persuaded her husband to move
to New York Yerkes built a mansion
there, but the social doors would not
open to the golden key.
Disillusioned. embittered. Mrs. Yerkes
shut herself up in the Fifth avenue
palace.
Yerkes sold bis Chicago holdings
| and went to London. where he made
more millions in traction. His wife
made a third essay to enter society,
but in London, as IN America. she
was turned down by the smart set
There was domestic difficulty, and she
came back to New York.
Then Yerkes returned to New York
where be died in great agony at a
fashionable hotel. Mrs. Yerkes visit.
| ed him only once during his illness. a
| few hours before his death.
| The story is told that Yerkes died
alone. bis body being dumped into a
| big laundry basket and taken by 9
freight elevator down TO the under
takers wagon.
And the widow?
When the will was read she was
cut off with 100000. Even the rich
art gallery in the Yerkes palace was
left to the city. And for years the
widow spent money and energy trying
to get her legal rights.
Meantime she married for love" 9
young man named Miner. They lived
together only one week And shor-
time ago she died of nervous prostra
ton. an old woman at forty.
Never in her life did this woman
get what she wanted.
Why? Did 1t just happen so?
No. The law Of compensation holds
| It'll &rI 80 t1x,4 t>rx
she married for money and social hon
ors.
Note this fact: Even handed justic'
Furnishes in at least two ways:
First.-By giving US what we want
Secondly denying us what w
want.
And of the two modes of punish
ment the latter is often the lesser.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
The Evening Chit-Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON

years stretch barren before YOU"
Yes, I know, my friend. In the first
agony of grief IL is next to impossible
to see anything but those barren, lone
some years.
But after that first grief, don't you
think you owe 1t to your trust in the
one you have lost as one it to be
happy in the hereafter. and to your
faith in Christianity as consistent
doctrine, TO show by the renewed Sc
renity and cheerfulness of your life
that you believe that he is really hap
by and that death is only a temporary
separation?
1 was talking these things over with
a young man who not only believes
this, but has lived it through the loss
of both father and mother.
NO crepe was hung upon the door
when my father and mother went
away" he said, Just a bunch of flow
ers. And this is the way 1t should
| be- Nobody could miss them more than
sometimes a million times a day.
But the anticipation. the belief. the
thorough confidence that there is some
| thing beyond the grave, is quite suf-
fcient for me-"
| 1t seems to me that the Christian
who does not gradually come to this
state of mind is denying his faith.
| 1t is for him, as well as for the out
and-out infidel. that Whittier signs:
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress
treest
Who. helpless. lays his dead away.
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles playi
! Who hath not learned in hours of faith
| The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That Life is ever Lord of Death.
| And Love can never lose its own.
RUTH CAMERON
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
Death cannot long divide.
For is IL not as though the rose
That climbed our garden wall,
La - -


That climbed garden wall,
Had blossomed on the other side?
There is a certain Inconsistency
sometimes exhibited by Christians
that I cannot unders stand
1 wonder if it has ever puzzled you.
1t is this: A beloved friend has died
"a mother, a father. a husband or
child. Say. for instance, a husband.
The bereaved wife says, Il know my
husband was a Christian. No better
man lived. I know he has gone
straight home" And Yet she is
plunged into deepest sorrow.
Is this consistent with the professed
belief of Christians in an after life
vastly happier and fuller and finer than
the one we are now living?
1t seems to me that it is only the
person who does not believe in hap
by after life who is uncertain about
the dead ones fitness for such a life.
who has reason to grieve this way.
You say. But perhaps the wife is
sure that her husband is happy-her
grief is only for herself at losing
him"
No. that can't be quite So for how
often you hear her type refer to the
dead as poor Charles
Besides, suppose the grief were Who'll
| ~ for herself isn't that an extremely
selfish attitude for a Christian to take
! to believe that the one she loves is
far happier, and yet to give herself
| over to rebellious and unconquerable
| grief because she is separated from
him for a time-a time. too. which, ac-
| cording to her belief, is infinitely small
compared to the eternity which she
shall enjoy with him?
/ "oh. It's easy to talk. but when
you've lost some one you love and the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26

of the case. Coroner Tesage state
that his investigation showed that Lar
sens wounds were self-infiicted.
Following the quarrel Mrs Larsen
went to the home of neighbors and
stated that her husband had gone away
from the house after severely beatip e
her Neighbors stated that the couple
had quarreled the greater part of the
night. Mr.. and Mrs. Larsen had been
married but two months.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
The Day in
HI r Y
"rHIs DATE IN HISTORY

THIS DATE IN HISTORY
June 26.
l'ls-Prince Alexis, son of Peter the
Great, died in ST Petersburg Born
inMoscow. Feb. 19. 1890.
115S-Louisburg taken by the English
under Amherst.
1796-David Rittenhouse, noted astron-
omer, died. Born April s, 1882
lS3o-king George ". of England
died. Born Aug IL, 1852.
lS3S-Ftrst Presbyterian church In Chi
cago organized
ls4s-Sir Robert Peers measure
abolishing the Corn Laws received
the royal assent.
lS62-Federal forces suffered severe
losses in several engagements In
Virginia.
1SS9-Simon Cameron. noted statesman
died in Lancaster. Pa. Born there
March s, 1893.
ls9S-Cliffton House at Niagara Falls
destroyed by fire.
1sO7-British House of Commons pass
ed a resolution in favor of curtail-
ing the powers of the House OF
Lords.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
THE pERNIcIoUs BREWERY INFLUENCE.


the board body which
will
they n
Toleson brewery and
while
S by
of its municipal slome
OF one saloo 0
breweies adve
politics
insolencef
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-26
RUTH CAMERON.

OF the many styles of Russian suit thex
is surely none more handsome and manly
than the one illustrated herewith
OF course, the suit has its little trousers
without which no little man would be sat.
isfed Over them there Is the blouse OF
coat, which, in this case. is plain and
scant with the closing dingonaIly In front
the edges of the opening ornamented with
handsome reyers, which are prolonged In
the front from the wide collar which trina
the back. The sleeves are gathered at
the shoulder and tucked at the wrist
Pongee silk. pique. linen, poplin. serge
and the like wiz all make handsome suita
of this kind, and the collar and revers
may be detachable and embroidered by
hand.
The pattern. 1906. is cut in sizes 2. and
years Medium size requires 3 yards Ut
So inch material.
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending 10 cents to the Office OF this papo6.