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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-15
LETTERS FROM MOTHER
She Answers the Announcement.

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My Dear Daughter:
Your letter this morning very happy and
and dreamed little of that time when found that you
ing into my life
glad dear, that you have the great happiness
that you brought know your put
your will realize there bliss conceivable like that
of elasping your child your breast.
friend that beautiful prose poem of Robert Inger
soils when expecting you 1t has always hung my bed
l am you remember the first paragraph
Born of love and hope, of ecstacy and pain of
and joy-dowered with wealth of united =
hearts-held in happy with lips upon ife's
drifted fount, blue veined and fair, where perfect
peace finds perfect form-loodng with wondrous,
wide, startled eyes common things of light and
day" ~
This what you my girl, and is what
your first born will be YOU
1t made very proud the night of your marriage when
you said you blessed than girls because had
impaired you full knowledge of all the great
that had made understand the sacrdne and beauty
of married life
Now when you find that the very of womanhood has
placed upon you and that you become mother
glad that nothing
heart.
this is there for that silly selfconcous-
which goes by the of mody There nothing
vulgar birth child The who realizes
greatness Natures plan work Immediately with
intelligence sympathy by beginning her child
the she is cognizant of its existence. =
begin devote yourself this which will
your great Use these months before your baby
little resting place where you prepare yourself
of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20
"INTRODTCE ME-"

There is considerable of the unique
rs well as the interesting about Della
Clarke, author and also star of the
pew comedy, Introduce Me" that will
be seen at hte opera house on Monday
Jan. %.
Miss Clarke today is the only wo-
ran in America, and it might be sad
the entire world, who writes her own
Rays, stages them to the last detail
and plays the principal role in each as
il is produced
Miss Clarke's record as an actress
ie too we'll known to need comment at
this time She is very happily remem-
tored from the time when she was an
i"'Bortant member of the forces Of
Charles Frohman Her reputation as
"a actress was established in those
davs and she has been adding con-
stantly to her fame ever since.
It was later that she became a play
wright. Numerous of the dramas that
her pen has developed are still cur
rent attractions and firmly entrenched
in the favor of the people Intro
luce Me, however, she regards as
1e best work she has done in this
rection
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20
WITH THE PLAYERS
At The OPERA HOUSE
Three Fine Dramas Coming
to Americas
"BEVERLY" TONIGHT.

When George Barr McCutcheon's
Beverly" was presented in Pittsbur5
the attendance was so great that after
Tutsday night every seat in the
house was sold for all the remaining
performances and an extra perform
ance was given on Saturday morning
TO a crowded house. While it has not
been necessary to play morning per-
Torrance in the other cities, the fact
remains that Beverly" has been
greeted by crowded houses in every
city where the company has appeared
and the result will probably be the
same here tonight as there is an I'M
usual interest manifested in the en-
gagement among all classes of theatre
patrons. There has been no more pop
ular dramatic novel in a real decade
than George Barr McCutcheon's "Bev~
erly" which is generally conceded TO
be by far the strongest most virile
and entertaining of prolific authors
works. The story has been dramatic
ed by Robert M. Baker, and if the eX-
traordinary success the play has met
with in Buffalo, Toronto, Cincinnati,
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Chicago,
where it drew the capacity of the the
atre at every performance is any cri-
teTion to judge by, Beverly" is even
more popular as a play than novel.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

JOHN w. BLOUNT.
istrict Passenger Agent. Macon, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20
MR.. HEARD APPOINTED AS
SANITARIUM TRUSTEE
Appointment Made By Gov
GrROr SIatOn.

In the appointment this week #
the new board of trustees of the State
Sanitarium,I Governor Slaton named
among others Mr.. ]. p. Heard, of vi
emma.
Mir. Heard is one of South Georgia $
prominent and progressive citizens
and will lend to his new work the
same energy that has marked his
success in other lines His appoint.
ment is a merited recognition Of South
Georgia, and is duly appreciated by
his friends throughout this part OF
the state.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20
central OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY,
Current Schedules Corrected to Date
Trains Arrive.

Current Schedules Corrected to Date
Trains Arrive.
! Fro m Savannah, Augusta,
Atlanta and Macon =. .."700:p m
From Lockhart. Dothan, AL
bany, Troy and Montgy *10:35 p IN
from Lockhart, Dothan, AL
bany, Troy and Montgy 2:05 p N
From Atlanta and Macon ..*2:15 p m
From Augusta, Savannah
| Atlanta and Macon. $3.50 a m
From Columbus and inter
mediate points ........*11:45 p 10
From Columbus and inter
mediate points e. ....!!11:30 a N
rom Columbus and inter
mediate points ........! 1901 p m
ON Albany and Jackson
vile go 90 a. III
From Albany e.. E. =. e. E. GAO m
Trains Depart
For Macon, Augusta and
Savannah ................ 40 N
or Albany, Dothan Lock.
hart, Troy and Monterv $3.50 a m
For Albany, Dothan, Lock-
man Iloy ana Munt'ery *2:15 p m
For Macon and Atlanta :. *2:05 p m
For Macon, Atlanta, Saw
vannah and Augusta. .*10:35 p m
For Columbus ........... !2:45 p ID
For Columbus e. e. ...... 1890 p 10
For Columbus Birming-
ham and Chicago :. :. SO: So a. m,
For Albany. =. .. ...*7:00
For Albany and Jackson
vile -............. .*11:45 p N
*Daily.
Except Sunday.
!iSunday only.
Sleeping cars between Americas and
Atlanta on trains leaving Americas
1926 p. m; arriving Americas $50 a.
m. Connects at Macon with sleeping
cars to and from Savannah. Pullman
Sleeping Cars between Chicago, St
Louis and Jacksonville on Seminole
Limited" which leaves Americas for
Jacksonville at 11:45 p, m. Leaves
Americas for St. Louis and Chicago
via Columbus and Birmingham, at
3:55 a. m. For further information
apply to ]. f. HIGI TOWER, Agent
Americus, Ga.
JOHN w. BLOUNT.
istrict Passenger Agent. Macon, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20
Catarrh Cannot BE Cured

Any medicine for external application
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
quack medicine. 1t = as prescribed
by one of the best physicians in this
country for years and is a regular pre-
5cription. 1t is composed of the best
tonics known, combined with the best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combi-
nation of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in
curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials
free.
F. ]. CHENEY & co, Props,
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

Mayor of New Town" when they come
to she opera house on Wednesday,
Jan. oath, will introduce twenty-one
musical numbers. Among the most
catchiest are "Sallie," Just Plain Sa.l
From Yankee Land, Dear Old Mex
ioo,' When l Was Young" Tell Lit
tie Grille" Hot Tamale Sam, >" Good
Night, Marie" Salem Tut Whitney
the leading comedian with the Smart
Set has some new material, new to
the stage, which he picked up while
in Europe this summer, and who, by
the way, was an eye witness to many
Of the coronation festivities
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

all points North and South. At Co.
ntgomery for New Orleans, Noble,
the Southwest and Northwest.
II. P. Everett, Local Agent, Americn@
r. II. Stansell, Asst Gen. Pass
P A.. Portsmouth. Va
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

Col George Harveys editorials the
Savannah Press says, ''blazed the way
for the Democratic triumph of last
year" Yet Woodrow Wilson wants
the editor silenced to satisfy few
Western radicals. Does the country
want Wilson for President? Well, |
hardly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

Force a man to eat his own words
and he will soon lose his appetite.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-20

"THE SMART SET"
The Smart Set" company in "The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
The Sporting Sexton

whichever track the races were being held at he went at once to the bet ting ring. Every one knew him. Oc- easionally he mounted the box and made book on his own account, but more often he acted as cashier or sheet writer for another bookmaker
 When the races were over he returned to the city, had a bite to eat and went once more to the undertaking establish lnent. Then, sometime between and g o'clock he made his appearance in George Clarks gambling. house again, got into his working clothes. took his position at the roulette table and was prepared to give action to any gentle man desirous of gambling at the vpeel.
 Every Sunday morning he was one of the first persons to arrive at the little church in Thirty-ninth street. He greeted the pastor, when the clergyman arrived, escorted the deacon and the sisters, to their pews, bowed his head in reverence during the service and listened with ap- prociation and delight to the sermon. A shield on the front of the church bore his name and the announcement of his business. It read:
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at night at the race track in the day time at his undertaking establishment for an hour or so morning and evening
 and at the little church in Thrty-ninth
 street every Sunday morning. New York,
 however, is ever in ferment. For some
 reason or other George Clark moved his gambling house from Thrty-first street mp to Forty-ffth, and opened a
 game in the. building where Herman
 Rosenthal dwet and had his faro bank when slain by the gunmen a few months ago.
 Probably Clark moved because the Ten derlon was drifting northward. It used to be in the district between Twenty third and Thrty-fourth streets Fifth and Seventh avenues. Then it played brief engagement in the section bounded by Thirty-fourth and Forty second streets, Sixth and Eighth avenues. Now the live Hest part of the Tenderloin is in that big stretch of territory between Forty-sec-
 and and Fifty ninth streets and Sixth and Eighth avenues. Running a gambling
 house is more or less a percarious inder- | taking. While Clark was in the negihbor- hood of Sixth avenue and Thirty-first
 street he had little interference, but in Forty-ffth street he had several dis agreeable raids. IneSe were so costly
 and he had so much trouble with the
 persons from whom he had to purchase
 protection that he had to abandon the
 game. This cut the sporting sexton out
 of his job.
 | Concident with the Clark troubles came
 the agitation against the racetracks. For several years gambling at the tracks was
 attended with various endorsements So
 many restrictions were placed on the business by reason of legislation at AL
 bany that the number of bookmakers was curtailed Then came crushing
 blow when the lawmakers put the ban on ] betting. It is all very we'll to speak of 4 the sport of kings, the improving of the 1 breed of horses and the glory of great
 contests between the most highly de-
 veloped of thoroughbreds. but horse rac- 1 ing is a joke, if not very sad affair, 1 indeed. to the average man if he cannot bet a little money on the result of a 1 race.
 While gambling houses were being raided and racetracks were being closed
 the undertaking busiAesA continued with out. interruption. Now and then a we'll to-do gambler died, but most of the sports cashed in with little or nothing. Robbie Mack buried the rich and the poor and
 footed the bills of those who left nothing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

grown to such proportions that he folt warranted in opening fine establishment at one of the most prominent corners in the great residential sections where hs now lives.
 The tenderloln rarely sees him now. He no longer thinks of the closing of the race track as a calamity or of the change in the gambling situation as a matter over which he should sorrow. He realizes to- day that he scattered his energies through four fields of endeavor: tho gambling house. the race track. the undertaking shop and the sextonship only to find. aft CT giving up IA to IS hours a day through some of the best years of his life. that nothing but wreckage came out of his ef- forts He has discovered real success in failure. He no longer scatters. but devotes all his >attention to the legitimate busi- ness for which he is best qualified. He is making more than he ever made through race track gambling house and the ten- derloin shop combined. and he does not have to work IA hours a day to attend properly to everything connected with his affairs He is happy and prosperous. sound in health and sound in business. Now and then when he is in the Thirty ninth street neighborhood he looks across the street toward the spot where that fine little church once stood. A big solid struc- ture a monument to one of the great in- dustries of the land, now occupies the site He is getting to admire that solid. substantial structure. for somehow It seems to typify the change in his own life.
 Copyright, 1912. by Richard Spillaneo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
ROBERT MACK Sexton and Undertaken Seventh Avenue.

The pastor never knew that the hand some young sexton was a gambler. None of the deacons suspected it. The sisters would have been shocked if any one had intimated such thing. But every one in the Tendcrloin knew that Robbie Mack of the gambling house. of the race track and of the undertaking establish ment was the sexton of the little Thirty ninth street church. and every one re- spected him. New York never has had kinder hearted or more generous char acter than Robbie Mack.
 He was a sport by inclination, and a sexton and undeDaker by inheritance The undertaking establishment came to him when his father died. So did the sext9Eship. The sporting world gets it's recruits from all classes. You will find divinity students dealing faro bank robbers manipulating the cards at stud horse poker; college graduates presiding at the klondlxe table, and pug-uglies of various degrees at the red ed-and-black
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
NEw TRAlSs -ConrlnENr4L -RolLRoAp.

then sorted, polished and packed for export.
 l find many American coffee planters down here in Costa Rica. l met in San Jose banker who has an estate of 40o acres and I saw several other Amer jeans who own estates on the rail- road between San Jose and the Atlanti, ocean. I found big coffee plantation on my way up Mount Poas. This be- longs to the British consul, Mir. Cox, and a young American, Jerome B. Clarke. It is one of the best managed coffee estates in the country. The owners are mixing their work with brains and are adapting modern agri. cultural methods to the raising of cof- fee. They cultivate the trees so as to conserve the moisture. They use arti- flcial fertilizers adopting the same for- mulas as those used in Hawaii The ef- feet of this work is already shown in their trees and in their crops and peo- pie come from far and near to sec tho- results.
 The coffee plantation of Cox 6 Clarke now consists of 250 acres, which they have chopped out of the Jungle. It is as clean as Dutehman's flower gar den, and the trees are wonderfully thrifty I asked MT. Clarke as to his labor. He tells me that the ordinary wage Is 50 cents a day. but that he finds it better to contract for his work by the piece The contractor labors with the men and In this way Is abls to get much more work done MT. Clarke has also a coffee drying estab- lis hment and a lumber mill, connected with which is factory for making OK carts.
 This Man Grows Oranges
 Among the other American planters have met here is a MT. Meigg, the son of the Californian who built so many of the South American railroads. Mir Meigs has an orange estate on the Atlantic slope, which he Is cultivating after modern scientific methods. He Is also raising grape fruit. He has now about 10000 trees, and they are just coming into bearing. His fruit will go first to Port Limon by railroad and thence direct to New York.
 Speaking of American institutions in Costa Rica by far the most influential of all Is the United Fruit company, the Costa Rican manager of which is now Mr. William E. Mullins. This compsny has millions invested in it's banana in- dustry and in ranches and railroads It owns the chief transportation lines and has one of the leading steamship lines, of the Caribbean sea. It has done moro to develop Costa Rica than any other one thing and it Is today the chief in- fluence in behalf of the prosperity and progress of the country.
 FRANK c. CARPENTER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

ican blood, and that they can get sev- eral cents more a pound from the Eu- ropeans than from us. The coffee trees are descendants of the Arabian plants, and some of the beans look like Mocha, although the average Is larger.
 Most of the crop Is raised on small farms, ranging in size from to 5o acres up to 400 acres 1t is the fashion for the rich man to own hls own cof- fee plantation and nearly every one of the well to do of San Jose has a country estate, the main crop of which Is coffee He has his home in the city, but after the winter holidays takes his family and goes to his country home for January and February. during which time he harvests the crop. The labor is done by the natives, who work for about 50 cents a day, and these, together with the foremen suffice while the master is not present.
 How Coffee Is Raised
 I have visited coffee plantations all over the world but those of Costa Riea are different from any l have seen in Brazill, Java or elsewhere. The young plants are set out in the shade and bananas and other trees are cultivated with them, that they may keep off the sun. The business is scientifically car Tied on and great cure IS tdheii III SV- lecting the seed. This Is from the best plants and the best beans of those plants The beans are sprouted in seed beds which have been prepared be- forehand. The ordinary seed bed is per haps a yard square. The beans are only half covered with earth. Indeed, they are set in by hand so that A half inch only shows above ground. After a time from the top of the bean comes sprout and from the bottom shoots down root into the earth. The srrout grows into leaves. and when the plants are a month old they are set out in the nursery in rows about six Inches apart They grow there for a year and are then transplanted to an orchard, where they are to stay. Tho plants are now about six feet apart. They are carefully cultivated and are kept free from weeds. They begin to produce fruit at three years and will yield a full crop at five. In Costa Rica a good yield per tree is about one and one-half pounds.
 The harvesting season begins along in December. The coffee is then ripe, and the trees are covered with berries much like red cherries. These are picked. off by girls and carried to the factor where the flesh is taken of by Ing. or by running the dried seedl lough the machinery. After the beans p.lve been pulped they still have two thin coats of skin. These are taken off by machinery, and the beans are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

table. But of all the odd characters of the Tenderloin Robert Mack was unique.
 Whenever gambler, rich or poor, died, Robbie Mack buried him. If the gambler was well to do Robbie sent bill If the gambler was broke through i'll luck or long illness, Robbie bore the funeral expense. Sometimes in the midst of his play at roulette he would get a call to the telephone, and would learn that some member of the gambling fraternity had cashed in. He would communicate at once with his undertaking establishment. and then with a sigh return to the wheel and resume charge of the game
 Gamblers are notoriously improvdent Few of them have mitch of the worlds $ goods when the deal closes. It eased the last days of many of them to know they would have decent funeral. Every one in the Tenderloin accepted it as natural that lSind-hearted Robbie Mack would see to that part of the ceremony. He was making plenty of money, was one of the boys and it was his business. He got $i0 a night for his work at the roulette wheel; he got S10 or sl5 a day
 
 had the profits of the undertaking es- tablshment. The sextonship of the church brought in a little money too, but not much.
 For eight or ten years Robbie Mack whirled the wheel in Clarls Sixth avenue house. and then in the house Clark took later in Thirty-first street, between Fifth avenue and Broadway. He worked at the race track, spring, summer and fall, visited his undertaking room twice a day and was at the little church in Thirty ninth street every Sunday morning to greet the pastor, the deacons and the sisters, to take part in the service and listen to the sermon. He was happy when he had a stiff play at the wheel and his blood was stirred by a thrilling race at the tracks. He delighted. too, in a well conducted funeral. But noth- ing pleased him so much as the Sunday service in the little church in Thirty ninth street.
 If 1t were not for the fact that New York is changing constantly Robbie Mack might still be behind the roulette table
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
71EUBlQUITlous sbuzzN8DS

The stores are scattered throughout the town The merchants are chiefly Costa Ricans, and in most cases they have large stocks of goods. This is the business cen ter of Pacific Costa Rica, and the mer- chandse is carried from here up the rivers and to the settlements along the coast.
 Tho harbor of Punta Arenas is excel lent, and when the canal is completed it is believed that this port will have con- Siderable trade. The town is now on the boom. The prices of real estate have al- ready increased about 1v09 per cent, and the people expect great things when the steamers from the Atlantic shall come across the isthmus to them
 How One Lives at the Seaside
 But let me tell you how one lives here at this Costa Rican resort. Take the Hotel Europa, which, as l have said, is about the best here. I have described the bare walls of my room and it's outlook upon the Pacific. The only furniture is. an iron bed, washstand and two rckety chairs. Upon the washstand is a solitary towel l have a right to one towel every day if I so demand, but no change IS made unless on request. My water pitch CT is of about the size of a lager beer schooner. 1t may hold one liter, but ii is not always full. I am allowed a napkin week, and this has been changed only upon my request. There seems to be a constant mix up of napkins, and I am now protecting myself by writing a great on the knot in which mine is tied at each meal
 The eating here is awful. The regular breakfast, which I take at a. m con sists of a cup of black coffee and hot milk. with some crusts of dry bread Butter is furnished, but this is so un- speakably bad that l do not eat it. Eggs are an extra and l pay 12 cents for each one l order. They are of the scramhling variety. It is risky to try them soft boiled. l piece out my breakfast with some jam which I buy at the store.
 La Europa serves luncheon between Il and 12. This consists of soup, fish