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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
\ REVIVAL OF KNICKERBOCKERs
portland EXpress.)

Is there to be a revival of the old
fashion among men of wearing knick-
erbockers during the vacation season ?
In te days when the popularity of
bicycling was at its height it was a
style that was so common one thought
nothing of it. The young man could
even wear his "knickers" to his daily
occupation without creating comment.
Already few courabeous young, and
even middle-aged Portland men, bound
for the golf links, for tennis court or
even for an eXhilerating walk few
miles out in the country, have appear
ed in the once-popular knee pants
This is the time of year when col
lege students blossom forth in their
summer toggery. But those at Yale
instead of arraying themselves in the
customary ducks and flannels, have
taken to knickerbockers. Can this be
the dawn of new sartorial liberty for
men? The stovepipe trouser is an alb
omination even worse than the plug
hat and the stiff, white collar. 1t
draws" on the leg and gets baggy and
shiny at the knee and frayed at the
bottom. Who can, by the widest
stretch of the Imagination, consider it
beautiful-especially the kind that is
turned up on the lower end and bulges
at the hip?
Knickerbockers-the breeches of our
forefathers-are artistic as well as
comfortable. They have the dignity of
chivalric lineage and present courtly
usage AS to natural deficiencies
which might be revealed below them,
few Americans have cause to worry on
that accourt Besides that is matter
easily remedied with little stuffing.
If all other colleges but follow Yale
and their sons remain true to the cause
the nation will soon be freed from the
thraldom of long pants" At least for
a few months of the year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
CENTENARY OF THE PANSY
Beautiful Garden Flower Developed
From Tiny Wild Plant
(Pall Mall Gazette.l

Just one hundred years ago Lady
Mary Bennett, daughter of the Earl
of Tangerville, was so struck with the
simply beauty of tiny wilding, viola
tricolor, that she collected some of the
best plants and gave them careful Gull
tivation
The first batch Of seedlings raised by
her gave such promise that systematic
selection was at once instituted, and
thereafter the improvement of the gen
us was taken up by the leading grow
ers. Thus to an enthusiastic amateur
we are indebted for one of the most
popular and beautiful of our garden
flowers, a flower which has marvel
ously developed in size, and with won
derful and bizarre markings and col
orings.
Many fanciful names have been Civ
en- to the pansy by country folk the
best known of which is heartease, from
the notion that II was efficacious in
diseases OF the heart This favorite
blossom can indeed boast longer list
of pet names than most of her COM
panions, a sure sign OF popularity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
CROP PROSPECTS ARE GOOD

In spite of unfavorable weather il
would seem that crop prospects in
this immediate section are good. Even
better are the prospects for the crops
of the entire country, which the cur
rent government report shows to be
exceptionally favorable, even better,
in fact, than at the corresponding time
last year.
Locally a rather protracted drouth
has been succeeded by frost, the lat
ter of which was of course very light
The drouth, however, was a more SER
ious consideration The rains that
accompanied the recent cold spell
practically put an end to the droul
here 1t is hoped, at least, that the
farmers will not be compelled 20
face another difficlty of this kind
The drouth was becoming a dang
erous feature of the crop year when
it was ended by the recent rains. 1t
is not believed than any very great
was done by the drouth. When
the rains succeeded the drouth, il
was thought for time that they would
run into a protracted wet spell, but
that danger has also been averted.
There was none too much rain here
and in Sumter county, so that condi-
tons seem to have become pretty well
balanced as the result, the recent rains
having offset the, drouth which pre-
coded them
Now that the crops have survived
the drouth and the cold wave, it shout
be the good fortune of the farmer, who
has so many difficulties to face in
making a crop, to finish out the year
further casualties. Indica-
tons are far. more certain and more
promising than ever that Sumter
county farmers will make good crops
this year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
THE HIGH COST OF EPITHETS.
philadelphia Inquirer.D

philadelphia Inquirer)
A bond salesman in New York has
brought suit against the official of a
corporation for $4,000 damages for
alleged Islander in calling him "a de-
liberate liar"
This calls attention to the fact that
the high cost of living has now en-
croached on the social side of life. Ev-
en- the use of OF epithets has become
expensive. In the good old days, If
a man was called liar he would re-
tort that his accuser was another,
or would punch him in the nose Now
adays the man who INDUCES in the
use of the short and ugly word is
asked to pay penalty that would
make millionaire vince and be care
full Of his language
What is a poor man to do in these
throbbing and palpitating times? He
may use longer and more beautiful
words, buth they are neither expires.
sive nor effective, If you tell friend
that you are inclined to believe thai
he is precaricator, he will laugh al
you and pass on. If you tell him thai
you doubt his veracity, he will take il
in perfect good nature. But call hin
a liar" and his coat is off and hi,
hat is in tie ring in jiffy. And yet il
the word is to cost $4,000 every time
it is uttered it's use will soon be con.
fined exclusively to multi-millionaires
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

hard put to find parallel upon which
to base estimates as regards the prob
able percentage of decline between the
second and third years of the series.
West of the Alleghenies and south Of
the Potomac and the Ohio, no hint is
heard of check to development and
good times The increasing acreage
planted to the principal crops, grains
and textiles, has driven the croakers
from their last stronghold-the theory
that the country has reached the max
imum point of production agricultur-
ally and must face the hardships of a
decline
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
WHAT UNCLE SAM THINKS OF THE
CROPS

What with a drouth, followed by al
frost, some of the farmers are likely to
grow faint-hearted and to think tn II
the year is bad one for crops The
government report for June issued
from the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, however, does not bear
out this opinion, as the prospects for
another bumper crop year are rosy, us
ing these reports as basis for judy
ment. Speaking of the government re-
ports, the Washington Post makes the
following editorial comment:
With bumper wheat crop on the
safe side of maturity and the other
field crops coming along with bright
promise of similar high yields, the
third great harvest in yearly success
sion looks TO be assured. The pros
pets are better than at this time last
year, when comparatively bad start
eventuated in a record breaker.
The government estimates for June
form he basis for these optimistic pre-
tdictions, the fulfillment of which will
Ibespeak at least another year OF pros
perity for the producer and lowering
of the cost OF living for the consumer,
together with an unbroken season Of
high railroad earnings and fattering
dividend showings. The world de-
mand for our surplus bushels is TAX
4 ing our farm products abroad in I'M
precedented volume, with no indie 4
ton that conditions which give rise
to the movement will undergo any I'M
favorable change this year.
Europe's extraordinary requir =
ments owing to military operations
having drawn a host of producers in
to the consuming class, it is inevitable
that the heavier drain on the agricul-
tural countries will operate against n
glut that otherwise might be expert
enced 1t is the official opinion, how
er, that the lower trend of prices that
has been in progress in recent months
will reach new level for the move
ment which began last winter, the
larger yield again compromising the
farmer for concessions to the consum-
err :" "'..' '"'
A government bulletin lets US see
that the staple articles are 81 per
cent cheaper than last year, 81
cent under 1911, and go per cent less
, than in 1910. A three-year period
OF abundant harvests is of such rare
occurrence that economy experts are
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
WHY ARE PARENTS?
New York World)

N-NSW 1Ol WI Io'J
A clergyman confesses himself hope
lessly old-fashioned and stubbornly
hostile to the church's new mission of
marriage regulation in saying, as the
Rev. A. F. Cambell says, that minis
tiers are running riot on the question
of eugenics," and in asking why
clergymen should demand more (of a
bridegroom than do the parents of
the bride"
The very question stamps him back
number in an era of pulpit progress
iveness. What have parents to do with
marriage under the new dispensation?
They may still provide the trousseau
and pay for the wedding feast, but
accepting a son-in law without a
medical certificate is another matter.
The question of bridegroom's fit
ness is now a subject to be settled By
a higher social authority on eugenics
considerations.
In the ministerial movement for GER
tifcated sons-in-law may be observed
an approach to the final extinction Of
parental control The gradual abri-
cation of their duties by parents has
kept even pace with society's assump-
ton of them. If. as seems likely soon
to be the condition, a father may not
indorse his daughters choice of a hus-
band without the advice OF doctors and
the consent of ministers. not even the
shadow of parental authority will be
left.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
JUDGING THE WEATHER
Memory of Oldest "Inhabitant, FalIa.
ciOus As to Meteorological Events
(New York Times.)

Nothing is less Trustworthy than per-
sonal Impressions as to what NAV be
called the relative unusualness of anv
days weather. Present sufferings. and
even present discomforts, from either
heat o. cold, if at all serious, invariably
loom so large in consciousness that
like experiences in tho past are apt to
be forgotten or minimized, and credit
for record breaking is constantly as
signed meteorological phenomena
that are the mere commonplace of
climate.
Thus every winter we have captains
coming into port with reports OF
storms "the wors they have encount-
cred in 40 years at sea-" and the fire.
qency with which the yarns are told
proves that the great majority of them
are myths. Some of course, are tue,
for records really are broken now and
then, though very rarely, and in every
mans history there is a worst storm,
a hottest and coolest day. Just the
same, nobody's memory can be trust
ed, and especially are memories fallac-
ious when the data they supply seems
to indicate measurable climatic chang
es within single lifetimes. Those are
always wrong, and it is a curious fact
that the old end elderly people who
have and express opinions on this
subject are almost unanimous i'm de-
claring that when they were boys
and girls there were heavier SHOWS
and more of them than in these latter
days. OF course, whatever of minute
change there is must be the other way
if there be truth in the accepted hypo-
thesis that We dwell on a slowly cool
ing globe the temperature of which
will some time be that of interstellar
space.
There seems to be no doubt, how
ever, that the weather of the past few
days has been-for June-the coolest
in all the years scince real records
have been kept in this part of the
country. The government observers
have hunted through their charts and
say so. That settles it, for these fig
ures are beyond question or suspicion,
since they are quite free from the
personal equation" which counts so
much in most discussions of the
weather Indeed, they are so free from
it that their bearing on human sensa
lions is not as close asst might be,
since it is no one condition but a
combination of conditions that
makes us feel the cold or the heat For
Us a certain temperature is one thing
when the air is dry, and another when
it is humid-one thing in high wind
and another in calm. So, too, the
thunder shower in which We are
caught" impresses us as a rather ter
rible downpour, while if we watched il
from under cover it would be only
ordinary rain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
NEGLECTED FARM OPPORTUN.
tiles
Boston Transcript

Those accustomed to the sight Of
human overcrowding in the larger cit
les of New England never outgrow
their surprise at the huge areas of I'M
occupied land within an hours seam
ing of these congested centres. All
those swarming human atoms in such
small space, and all this good green
earth so near? In Massachusetts,, to be
sure, much of it is stony and stub
born; some Of it hardly arabic, yet
quite as much more of it would yield a
modest living if industriously titled.
This Is not to say that any one could
go on any bit Of fertile soil and wrest
a living from it; but it is to say that
there are large areas of such soil even
in Massachusetts which would be a
blessing to those who are, by study or
rearing, equipped to deal with it. Here
at our own doors we have quantities
of unimproved land quite as rich f
not as extensive, as men seek in the
West
Assuming grit, health and the will
lingness to endure hard work, a few
acres of land reasonably accessible to
the great urban markets spell indie
pendence and competency. There
are, happily, tokens that people are
taking the hint.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
ONE OF CUBA'S HEROINES

Pauline Pedroso, the aged nanny
who did more toward the Cuban cause
for liberty than many another brave
one, died recently at her home at Cor
rales, from old age.
Her death is widely mourned by
those who in the days OF Cuba's strug-
gle for liberty had occasion to call
upon her aid. She was like a mother
to Jose Marti, whom she aided when
he gathered the people of Key West to
get them to support the cause of the
Cuban revolution. In Key West Pau
line Pedroso had fiourishing board
ing house and when Marti arrived in
that city TO continue his continent
wide propaganda in favor of war to
free Cuba the great patriot found in
Pauline Pedroso fellow worker who
at the last moment, when finds were
most necessary, gave all she had 70
aid the cause, continuing later to be
the ministering angel to the Cuban ex-
lies who were forced to leave their ma
tive land and live there.
After the war Paulina came to Ha-
vana, where she received little or no
attention on the part of Congress, al
though many of those whom she had
aided took care of her and provided
for her, President Palma having had
her on his private donation list while
he was in Office.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
SUMTER COUNTY TANNERS
WHY NOT YOU

The Editor of the Cotton
and Cotton Oil News, of
Dallas, Texas, states in his
paper that he knows of a
farmer who sold ten bales
of certified cotton to the
Southern States Cotton Cor
pOratiOn when cotton was
l2C. He received $45 cash
per bale and $50 in script.
He was offered 75c on the
dollar for his script, took it
and thus received $3.50 per
bale for his cotton, or 81 50
per bale more than the mar
ket price less 81 per bale for
certification, or a net profit
over his neighbors who
sold by the old system OF
$65.OO. We wish to say
that no one connected with
the corporation is permitted
to dis count script at any
time. WhatthoSe who hold
scrip wish to do with it is
a matter entirely beyond
the control of the corpora
ton. MIR. Farmer, don't
delay seeing the represen-
tativeS of the Southern
States Cotton Corporation
in your county. List your
cotton at once.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15
OFFICIAL ORGAN
AmericUs, Ca, June Is. 1913
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II you could know this day must be
your last,
That ere tomorrow all your work
must cease,
Gould you keep pressing ON as in the
past,
Or would you hiatt to plan for future
peace?
Would there be any wrong of other
ways,
That you would trembling, hasten to
set right,
And would you, needless of the pub
lies praise,
Behold with fear the coming of to-
night?
If SO, however great the thing you
do,
How rich you are, | pity you.
If you could know that after this fair
ray
The mask of death must lie upon
your face,
Would there be no DARK strains to clear
away,
No misdirected steps you would
retrace?
TIE guerdon that you seek, would it
retain
The value that You place upon ii
now9
And would you brayely press ahead tc
gain
At last the precious TaureIs for your
brow?
" SO, however small the things you do
However poor you are, | envy you.
Chicago Record Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Among these are ter-fy-fower kiss
me-quick, herb trinity, -little-fac-
es-under-a-hood, and love-in-idleness.
German children call this flower
"stiefmutterchen," and, pointing o
the petals, show how the little step
mother sits alone in state while her
stepchildren must stand around her.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Uncle Boreas has apparently taken
advantage of the shortage among the
weather bureau forecasters to slip one
over.-Washington Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Now that drouth and frost have
come maybe We shall have good
weather to make the crops.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

1t is a poor excuse for bugaboo
that cannot Brighten the conserva-
tive business interests" in Wall
Street-New York American.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

What makes Congress mad and a
nation glad is President who so far
forgets precedent as to NEEDLE. -
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Growing bpckwheat in Sumter coun-
~ makes one ask il the product ?
good for buckwheat cakes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

No cold water was thrown over
those June wedding arrangements by
the cold wave.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Friday, the thirteenth, has pass I'd
has always been
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

The Jap war scare has died out, but
re scrap in Congress is the real
thing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Win the courts take snap judgme IT
in investigating the Kodak trust?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

That cold spell seems to have
warmed up the ball team.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Pleasant relations are NOT always
poor relations.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-15

Few women adopt children for fad.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-10-23
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
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Princess Flour is guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
Heaters at soc on the dollar at
Lhngo's. 16-tf
Claude Watson was visitor from
kooskia on business the first of the
week.
Before ordering new heater see
that line Lingo is showing. Quality
goods at the lowest price. lott
Jack Callard came out from New
some Tuesday to spend few days on
the outside.
Iron with electricity at 5 cents per
hours. Grangeville Electric Light &
Power Co. 3-tf
). l.. Gross, Of Kooskia, was a county
seat visitor on business the last of the
week.
l.. j. Root came out from his place
over III the Boies country the first of
the week for business visit of several
days in the county seat.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-10-23

Princess Flour is guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
If you need heater see Lingo for
bargains. 16-tf
Tankage for hog feeding. Norwood
warehouse Co. 20-tf
Asa Jones was in town several DAYS
this week from the Salmon river coun-
try on business.
>. Nj. Niece, manager of the Nez-
perez cooperative lines, was in town
the last of the week on business for his
company.
Princess Flour is guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
f. Gabriel of the, historic old town
of Freedom on the Salmon river was in
the county seat on business the last
of the week.
w. H. Robinson and wife are here
from Michigan for a visit with Mr..
Robinson s sister, Mrs. G. A. Johnston
and Miss Sayde Robinson.
Camas Social Club No. 2 will give
public dance at the Fem hall Novem.
Der 7th. Dance tickets 81, supper at
hotel. Good music guaranteed. 22.3
Mrs. c. w. Greenough of Cotton wood.
has been spending the week in the city
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. II. Mcdonald.
Wayne Arnold and Pearl Wright re.
turned Monday evening from trip
to Spokane and Moscow. They saw the
idaho-W. s. G. football at the uniyer-
sity city Friday which they pronounce
the best ever
The stock of the Gateway clothes
shop conducted by Harry Dobner is be.
ing shipped to Lewiston. Harry says
that his business together with the
ladies' made to measure department
added takes all his time.
Princess Flour is guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
Camas Social Club No spent a very
pleasant afternoon on October Is with
Mrs. Jesse Woods. Club No. l will
meet with Camas Social Club No. 2 at
the Star school house on Friday, Octo.
Der 81 and it is expected that all will
have a good time. Light refreshments
will be served by both clubs.
Thomas Thompson, the jeweler and
has opened up shop in
one ,of the frame buildings on Main
street opposite the bank of Camas
Prairie and is prepared to do all kinds
OF Matchmaking and repairing. He is
an experienced workman and will
draw his share Of the public
Cyrus Overman, jr., arrived home
from Canada the last of the week and
will probably remain on the prairie for
some time with his parents, Mr. and
70 settle up some affairs. He says that
the northland offers some good oppor.
tunities and that many of the resiien-
sers up there are in a way to make
money within the next few
Years.
Princess Flour is guaranteed to give
Hon. James Surridge, one of the
'ounty's best known old pioneers and
man who has been identified with
very progress of the county for many
'ears past, was in town Tuesday from
him home in the Harpster section ON
business. He says that conditions are
good aions the river this year
md that the people down there are
optimistic and prosperous. iii