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Where lilies hid the Latin text,
And smilaX wreathed the altar,
And every head was grayely bent
Ger sacred psalm and psalter;
And all the front was pink and white
With roses strewn upon it,
He saw little maid in gray,
Who wore an Easter bonnet.
He walked behind her from the church
And viewed her girlish grace;
And breathed the vague, delicious
scent
OF dainty bows of lace.
A prayer book was in her hand
She kept her glances on it,
Till came a gust of froIic wind
And whisked away her bonnet,
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Her eyes were full of April tears,
Her scarlet lips were smiling;
The sunny curis about her brow
Were made for mans beguiling.
Her face was like a dewy rose
He paused to gaze upon it,
And found that he had lost his heart
And she had lost her bonnet.
But now a spray of orange flowers
Is wreathed about the Latin;
The little maid is all in white
A dream of lace and satin.
And, as he takes her slender hand,
And slips the ring upon it,
He murmurs softly in her ear
A blessing on the bonnet!
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20
The Consistency of Criticism.

There's one thing / don't like about
Brown"
what is that
"WIhy, the confounded, low-browed,
half baked-idiot is always calling
somebody names. Boston Transcript
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Many an Easter hat will be laid
aside until the weather becomes more
comfortable.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Young citizens are wondering when
tiresOme school days will end.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

1t is a commentary upon the times
that even the lightweight pugilists
seem to be rapidly deteriorating.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Juvenile ball players will help TO
make up the baseball deficit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Sumter's stock raisers should now
get busy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20
THREE SMILES. \


Clara-What kind of face powder do
you use?
Maud-Why do you ask
Characteristic Spooner says it's the
best he ever tasted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Every man believes he is a born
leader, but the majority are unable TO
find procession to head.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

"A copy of a Mexican Who's Who
would be a very valuable book,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

A Mexican armistice is very much
like a weather report.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

The red bug is really more danger
Gus now than the bel TeevL
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Would the suffragettes abolish Eas-
ter:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Criminals will soon be sentenced tt
serve terms in aviation camps.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

The weather reports are favorable to
he watermelon prospects.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

The annual riot" of the D. A. R. S
has begun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

In the future Going up into the
air" won't be cowardly in a scrap.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Losers must have leave to speak.
-Cibber.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

We are getting nearer to the issu.
ance of those bonds every week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

That Andersonville road will GER
tainly be thing of beauty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20
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miles Oyerholt.)

| can take a drink or leave it alone,
Or even take two or three,
| can work all day or loaf and drone
Most any old thing suits me.
/ can sleep all night or wait till day
/ can laugh at a threadbare Joke,
But it makes no difference what the,
say,
| can't cut out the smoke.
-
| can eat stale bread or angel cake.
| can walk all day or ride,
| can use a spoon or a garden rake.
| can eat hash boiled or fried,
| can lead in prayer or swear like sin
i can eat fruit green or ripe,
| am satisfied outdoors or in,
But | can't cut out the pipe.
j can take a chew or pass it by.
/ can smile or show a crouch.
can wear a green or yellow tie.
| can sleep on floor or couch.
can love or hate, just as | wish,
| can quench my thirst or choke,
am satisfied to catch no fish,
/ can't cut out the smoke.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Blackberries are happy on the way
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Uncle Joe Cannon is now the chief
Republican cur and GROWER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Americas High School students viii.
storm Fitzgerald next Friday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

It's useless to argue unless you know
you are wrong.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Now for the ANIERICUs HIGHWAY
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

Y
ONE DAY during this dem
~ onstration week the Prof.
will show the ladies how to pre-
pare a meal, in one pan, in one
hour: Bib. roast, sweet potatoes,
Irish potatoes, parsnips, dressing
and three dozen biscuits ALL
IN ONE PAN, IN ONE HOUR
IN THE GREAT MAJESTIC RANGE
D on t NJ i s S 1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

ew Millinery bv every Express. Working day and
eep up with orders. Come and the largest dis
in South Georgia. Is to so per cent saving to those
with u.s.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-20

The banana man moved on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
A Bill That Should Pass

The legislature Is to be asked for an appropriation of s4ooo year toward the maintenance of the Mercy Home Indus trial School for Girls at Woodawn, and also for an appropriation of s2O,o00 with which to erect an additional building, and the bill should be passed
 The last legislature was somewhat prodigal with the states money, and the new administration is expected, certainly at the start. to pursue conservative, not to say cautious, policy in the matter of appropriations, but the good women who manage the Mercy Home present their appeal in a plain, straightforward man. ner. In fact, no argument for a humane cause could be set forth more convincing ly than the appeal which was printed in yesterdays Age-Herald.
 The Mercy Home Industrial school is to uO TOT WayWdTu ana ueilHqueHt siils from B to 20 years of age what the h. dustrial school at East Lake has done for delinquent boys. The latter institu- ton has accomplished untold good The last legislature appropriated s50,oOo for improvements at the boys school and s2O,Oo0 a year for maintenance, and In view of those appropriations the two items in the bill drawn in behalf of the Mercy Home school at Woodlawn are extremely modest.
 The lady managers have through their own efforts and by the generous aid of citizens of Birmingham raised s23,ooo for the erection of a suitable building which is now practically completed, and the leg
 slature will surely not hesitate to vote s2O, GOO for a much needed additional struc- ture and $40o0 year for the maintenance of the school. Alabama has many benev- olent institutions, but it is safe to say that few if any grip the sympathies of the public more than this under the su- pervision of the managers of the Mercy Home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16

the question of revising the tariff will
 be taken up. and very considerable re- auctions will no doubt be made in duties even though the democrats do not con- trol the Senate or occupy the White House.
 And all through the year both of the great parties of the country will spar for position in the presidential race of 1912. The campaign of 1912 is fully opened and both of the parties will strive to better their position this year. The action by Congress next winter will re- late almost wholly to the presidential race. In a preparatory year of presi- dential campaign business is generally conducted in cautious and sound man. ner, and so it will undoubtedly be this year. It is a year that calls for cour- age and untiring energy, and in this es- pecially favored district for a great deal of hopefulness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
Initiative and Referendum

The initiative and referendum was es- tablished in Switzerland in 1S4S. There are about 6oo,ooO voters in Switzerland and the initiative cannot be applied ex- cept upon a petition of 5O,Ooo votes, and the referendum upon a demand of not less than 30 900 votes. Neither is lightly used ir Switzerland, and neither Is expected to supplant or override representative government. In s2 years the referendum has been invoked only 90 times, though in that period of s2 years hundreds of bills have been passed by the Swiss assem- bly. or the 30 cases referred back to the people, the new law proposed was adopted by both a majority of the can tons and a majority of the electors. In 19 other cases the proposed law was re- iected. The matters referred back were ones of vital interest to the people. Among them WdS liic PioPoSitiOii VI NitS SNosS purchase of railways. which was at first rejected by the people. but later, referred to the people, was adopted. Among the bills referred and accepted was the prin- ciple of compulsory universal insurance against sickness, the establishment of federal bank, the unifcation of the can tonal laws into federal criminal and civil codes the control of the alcohol mo- nopoly by the federal authorities and the prohibition of the sale of absinthe.
 In Switzerland neither the initiative nor the referendum is resorted to as a mere partisan weapon in a light matter. It is applied in that country carefully and skillfully in grave matters, and the peo- plc of Switzerland have no intention of doing without it after using it advan- tageousy 62 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
ACTORS OF YESTERDAY

of the younger school, growing great un- der our very eyes.
 The actor of, today is the actor we do not always appreciate, but in after years we will. M
 History in this respect repeats itself. The late Joseph Jefferson Is said to have sighed. as he saw the end coming near, that he was willing to join that dis tinguished colony on the other side, since all of the great actors had gone before him.
 The same was true when ke first Keene met his death HNf The members of his company announced that the spirit of tragedy went to rest with him.
 Shakespeare died when his fortunes were brightest. The critics of that time despaired of any successor, and he wes poor actor indeed.
 David Garrck counted the actors of his day and predicted that there would De no others after they passed away.
 The years roll on Each generation mas it's ideals. Each feels that his acting 1dols are just little better than those who pTeceueu llcIll anu .hoSS VI low.
 Acting, after all, is a matter of tas,e' What pleases one will not, necessarily please another. If the actors of Queen Elizabeth's day were placed before us we would feel ashamed of their boisterous methods Yet if the reverse were applied and our present day players could have been seen on the Elizabethan stage, they would have been stoned as weddings
 Our actors of yesterday are great be- cause our sympathies were keen In our youthful days, and time has added glamor of greatness.
 In this contemplation of our actors or yesterday, we must not forget our actors of today. Each year adds recruits to the growing army of players. Some will be heard of in after years, some will be en- tirely forgotten.
 One thing Is certain, however; greatness is not always thrust upon a player. It must be achieved by dilgent endeavor, so who can say decade hence what niches of theatrical fame will be filled, and by whom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
FOOLS IN SOCIETY

ByCharles Hanson Towne in the Smart
 Set.
 Stevenson says somewhere God give me the young man with brains enough to make a fool of himself!" A young society man is reported as saying that this sentence had heartened him more than any other in the language; that fre- ouently, before going to dinner or a CO., tillon. he would quote it to himself, and take courage when he consciously became a huffoon.
 Now, no one can be quite utterly a fool who with malice aforethought puts on the cap and bells; for to do so betokens a real sense of humor, and lunatics have no humor.
 They often have a knowledge of the ridiculous, so far as their attitude toward the world Is concerned, but they are ab- solutely devoid of true humor. If we label ourselves fools we immediately dis arm others of similar criticism; if we mention our own defects we at once si- lence our enemies who really, In speak ing of our physical deformities, reveal the fact that they lack humor and-hu- manity.
 Society is full of conscious fools; and that same society cannot be wholly fool ish itself which encourages so much .comedy'-so much Nnnocent merriment that is akin, after all, to the artistic temperament and the youthful heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
What Nav HaDpen In i911

The hope is that good crops will be repeated this year, as they have been for nearly a decade, and that the read 5ustment of the industrial situation will be rapidly carried forward until all fac tories, mills and shops are busy again.
 During the year now we'll started sev- era1 large events will certainly occur. The supreme court will decide the tobac- co and oil cases before it, and then all corporations will know just how far the antitrust bill fits them. Corporate af- fairs are awaiting these great decisions.
 The interstate commission will decide this year what advances, If any, can be made in railroad rates, and this decision will in turn decide how much new rail- road track will be laid this year.
 When Congress meets next December
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
"FIONA MACLEOD"

From January Current Literature.
 The newly published Memoir of Will liam Sharp by his wife is as remarkable a human revelation as has come from the press in a long while. Its importance may be traced to the fact that it falls in the main stream of that psychic" cur rent which expresses itself in Maeter- lncl and other writers of his school and which is taking a more and more dom- mating place in the life of our time. Mrs. Sharp reveals the spiritual and literary genius of her husband but she does much more than that. She makes us look at our own souls with new eyes. She shows us the strain of something that Is
 in us all-dual personality. man and wo- man combined. ..,.
 Fiona Macleod was the consciously feminine side of William Sharp. Many men have feminine sides as many women have masculine sides, which are never consciously expressed Otto Weininger. the young German, in his epoch making book on Sex and Character" has called attention more clearly probably than any other writer to the fact that no man Is 100 per cent masculine, as no woman is 100 per cent feminine; and in this funda- mental law may be found a key to un- lock many of the mysteries of the human temperament. William Sharp was almost an exactly balanced man-woman. One side of him was brain, the other side emotion. During the first part of his life he ex- pressed, in the main, the masculine ele- ments in him. From the ages of 40 on- ward he was possessed by the spirit of Fiona Macleod He was vividly aware of the conflict in his nature. He even had name, "Wilfion" Civilian Fiona), which expressed his sense of the central self be- hind the dual self. The deepest struggle of his life was his struggle to coordinate these different selves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
N EAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope Is dead!
 Sit and watch by her side an

Sit and watch by her side an 0 hour. That Is her bookshelf. this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium
 flower,
 Beginning to die. too. in the glass,
 Little has yet been chaffged, I think; The shutters are shut no light may pass Save two long rays thru the hinges
 chink. g Sixteen years old when she died!
 Perhaps she had scarcely heard my
 name;
 It was not her time to love; beside
 Her life had many a hope and aim. Duties enough and little cares. ;. And now was quiet, now astir, Till Gods hand beckoned unawares,
 And the sweet white brow Is all of her. It is too late then, Evelyn Hope?
 What, your soul was pure and true, The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirits, fire and dew And just because Twas thrice as old.
 And our paths in the world diverged so
 wide, Each was naught to each. must be told ? We were fellow mortals, nought beside No, indeed! for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward the love- I claim you still, for nyoown love's Delayed 1t may be for more lives yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
EvELYNHoPE; BY RoBT. BROWNING

Thru worlds shall traverse, not a few Much Is to learn and much to forget Ere the time bo come for taking you But the time will come-at last 1t will, When. Evelyn Hope, what meant, I
 shall say Tn the lower earth, in the years long still That body and soul 50 pure and gay? Why your hair was amber, shall divine And your mouth of your own geranium's
 red
 And what you would do with mo. in fne In the new life come in the old ones
 stead
 have lived, I shall say so much since
 then,
 Given up myself so many times, Gained me the gains of various men, Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes: Yet one thing, one, in my souls full
 scope, 1
 Either missed or itself missed me- And want and fnd you, Evelyn Hope! What is the issue? Let us see! loved you. Evelyn. all the while; My heart seemed full as 1t could hold There was place, and to spare for the
 frank young smile,
 And the red young mouth and the hairs
 young gold. So. hush--T will give you this leaf to See; shut 1t inside the sweet. cold There. that tsis our secretl go to sleep; You will wake. and remember, and un.
 derstand. f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post. E. TT OW many men and women over
 come by misfortune or depres-
 sion have decided to end it all, and then-the tragic purpose proving abortive through weakness or some un- forseen incident-have had reason to re- joice ever after at such failure?
 Out of work. disappointed in love, filled with remore at some crime com. nntted, suffering from disease or a sur- felt of pleasure, disgusted with this world, or seized with an insane notion that a happier realm awaits the act how many men and women have thought lessly, or even deliberately, turned upon themselves, like the scorpion girt by fire, and sought their own destruction.
 Every month, according to statistics. 15,oOO persons perish by their own hands; that is, 800 each day, over 20 each hour, CT one person every three minutes. Strange indeed that so many before they fairly get a glimpse of life as 1t really is should seek so recklessly to throw it away-to reverse the law of self-preserva- ton and become their own assassns!
 And now we hear of a club of near suicides which has been organized at Trenton, N. J., by Walter Hannison, styled the Society for the Upift of De- sponded Fellow-men, and having for it's motto: "Never Again."
 While the success of such an organi- zation must depend largely upon the character of the members and its general management, no one can deny it's prob- able value as an association, or even as a suggestion to wavering humanity. Not every one who has attempted sell-de- struction would care probably to join to secrecy of so desperate revolt against himself. Yet all such may be strength ened by the mere announcement of this club and its sentiments.
 The suicide, in most cases, whatever his impelling motive, is more to be pitied them can be regarded as wholly to blame for his own tragic fate. Though it be said,
 When all the blandishments of life are
 gone The coward sneaks to death, the brave
 live on,
 yet the forces antecedent to birth, with the effects of heredity and environment, have to be considered in all cases.
 A suburb of Berlin has had such an unbroken succession of self-murders dur ing the last year and more, that 1t has been styled suicide-Town. And despite the great number of causes assigned, such as love affairs, financial distress, and want of employment. Berlin physi- clans have fixed upon the weather as the chief culprit inducing such destruc- ton; since sunshine has been the excep- ton. and an intending succession of damp muggy days, dark and gloomy mornings, and cheerless evenings has prevailed. Fortunate is he who has bright. sunny
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
ANDY AND HIS FRIENDS

From the Louisville Chronicle.
 Andrew Carnegie has succeeded not only in making himself the second richest man in the world, but also in enriching several of his fellow countrymen. When the "star-spangled Scot' retired from business his fortune was estimated at 1875, 900. and he had made about ssOo.- GOO, 900 for his friends and partners, a large proportion of whom are of Scottish birth. These include George Lauder. his cousin. who now lives in retirement at Pittsburg, with at lesst s20,0O00o0 to soothe his declining years; Thomas Morrison, all so a cousin, and Alexander Peacock, an- other son of Dunfermline, likewise amassed huge fortunes at Pittsburg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
rannof a pIain man live, and think no harmg
 king Richard III.
burdeDSome Electrical Duties

The government is about to prosecute the combined electrical companies under the sherman antitrust law, but really %be comnanies are not so much at fault as is the tariff. The electric lamps TOT -,,,,h the American consumer has to pay 1s cents are sold for export by the com bfned electrical companies at ID cents The reason of the difference Tn prices ,s n,atn. The American electrical nanu- facturers are protected by 6o per cent 6utv. and they have combined to make the American consumer pay just shadow under the figure at which 1t would pay to import foreign lamps. This Is what high tariff duties are for, and this is what increases the cost of living in this coun- try.
 The government alleges that the con- federated electric companies do business aT1er lTlS ldsiiiOh'
 They agree to sell electric lambs at specified prices only to consumers who maintain the schedule resale prices and who handle only trust lamps.
 They bind themselves to manufacture and sell no lamps except those author ,zea bv the General Electric company.
 There can be no change in prices, terms and conditions of manufacture and .ale without three-fourths vote of the members.
 No doubt the electrical companies should be prosecuted under the anti trust laws. but the shortest road to re- lief for the people consists in repeal of the s5 per cent duty. This duty Is highway robbery. It was devised for that purpose, and it is used to It's full .st extent to rob the American consum- er It is but one duty of 1000 of that nature in the Aldrich bill, and there can be no real relief from oppressive tax ation until the Aldrich tariff is wiped out and something deal fairer ito the people substituted.