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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
SALE OF INSURANCE
COMPANY DELAYED
Sale viii Affect Policies Of
100000

Atlanta, Jan BY the state in
surance commissioners department
the resale of the life insurance bus.-
ness of the Georgia Life Insurance
Company, of Macon, has been tenn
porarily held up until several diff
ferent propositions made to the COM
pany have been investigated and the
most advantageous one decided on.
The sale affects policies to the value
of $3,000,000 now carried by the Geor-
gia Life. The company has decided,
however, to confine it's business to the
casualty and other lines of insurance,
disseminating all life business.
A deal was almost consummated
several days ago between the Geor-
gia Life and the Volunteer State Lit :,
but the insurance commissioner is I'M
derstood to object to the business being
sold to any other than a Georgia COM
pany. Others that have made prop
ositions for the purchase of the bust
ness are the FranKlin Life, the Mary
land Life and Empire Life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
COTTGIEv MARKET IN
AMERICUS YESTERDAY
Business at the Various Ware
houses


A decline of fifteen points in the cot
ton futures market yesterday brought
general dizziness to the local spot mar
ket. Sales of cotton in Americas were
exceedingly few, even at the recession
in prices. Good middling grades were
quoted here at IL 1-8 to IL Ia cents.
The May option closed at 1886, a de-
cline of Is points from Saturdays
close.
The Americas spot market was quot
ed as follows:
Good Middling Up 1-Sc to IL 1-4c
Middling ......12 1-2c to IL 5-Sc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
BOY HAS ARTIFICIAL EYE
THAT HE MOVES FREELY
Gold Ball Put In SO That Muscles Caa
Perform Usual Functions.

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 13.-His IeEs
eye replaced with gold ball, an artI-
fetal eye, which he moves with peg
feet freedom and control, little SIZE
year-old Alexander Calevitch attracted
much attention when he was exhibit
ed today at a meeting of the OphtSaE
mic society by DR.. Samuel D. Risleg
The unusually successful substitH-
ton of an artificial eye was the hnsE
of a series of treatments administer
! ed by DR.. Risley since the child cane
under his care about three months Sgs
The boy was struck in the eye With
piece of wood on Oct 10, the doctor
said, and was brought to him for tress=
ment.
| Splinters were removed from the III
jured eye, leaving the sight consider
ably impaired. Shortly after the sighx
of the other eye began to fail througS
sympathetic irritation. In order III
save the sight of the uninjured orEsEv
Dr. Risley removed the left eye ana
replaced it with a gold ball in such q
manner that the muscles of the eye
are permitted to function as freely as
before. When an artificial eve waE
placed over the new eyeball the child
could use it so perfectly that its s<tl-
! ficiality could not be detected witaGu
lclose examination.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
WAYCROSS TEAM
IS ORGANIZED

Waycross, Ga, Jan. 13-Baseball
fans held a meeting here tonight and
perfected the local Organization which
will represent Waycross in the EN-
pire State league, the season in which
opens next May.
Waycross expects to take an active
part in the first season of the new
league, and while no claims can De
made until a team is signed, it is
known that when Waycross starts in
the race the very best fight possible
will be made to get the pennant. At
tonight's meeting four thousand dol
lars was raised as a guarantee fund
to support the local team throughout
the season.
Acting President James Sinclair, of
this city, believes the league will start
on a firmer footing than any Glass u
league ever started, and states that as
long as he is connected with the or
ganization he will see that the salary
and player limits are strictly observed
by every team in the league. In this
way only does he see how the organi-
cation can grow and remain in exist
ence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
4ll,322 POSITIONS
ARE AVAILABLE
Under the Democratic Ad'
miniStratiOn

Of the vast number of employees on
Uncle Sans annual pay roll, num-
bering, according to the most recent
compilation Ali, 1922, exclusive of MEM
bers of congress and their employees,
and exclusive of he officers and en-
Used men of he army, navy and
marine corps, President-elect Wilson
will have the direct appointment APP
proximately of 1000 persons.
OF the other 100000 there were un-
der civil service regulations 262, 69S up
to few months ago when President
Taft, by an executive order, placed
about $4,000 fourth class postmasters
in fourteen states, also under civil
service. That action carried the last
of the fourth class postmasters under
civil service, the others in the re-
naming states having been placed
there by President Roosevelt This
most recent order has increased the
number of government employees pro-
tected by civil service rules to nearly
100000. Whether or not the order
will be permitted to stand is a mat
ter for future determination.
The 100000 approximately who are
not subject to the civil service regu-
lations include the 1900 appointees
of the president direct, about 5000
persons under the engineer department
of the war office, 1000 under the quar-
termaster's department of the same Of
fee, about 1000 others in various di-
visions of the work of the war de-
partment, while the remainder who
constitute a large majority of these
100, 900 employees are accredited to the
postal service.
The list of officers and employees Of
the government, not including Off
GERS and enlisted men of the army
and navy, made up substantially as
fellows:
State department ............. 7l2
Treasury department ..........27,829
War department ...............17, 1902
Additional under war de-
part ment (estimated)
=. Engineer dept 5000
@. NJ. Dept .........2,0 O0-11 ,00u
justice .............''.'' '.'''''.' o''VV
Postofnce ...........'.....'.' & 20 j
Navy approximately ANN. $4,000
Inetrior ................,.. 1920
Agriculture ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l2,5iJ
Commerce and labor ...........1 1883
Gov. printing Office .......... $685.
Interstate commerce commission Ga
Civir servicec commission . 20s
Smithsonian Institute amman. 424
Library of Congress ........... 33t
Total .............,....,...4ll,S2 i
National Monthly
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
OPERA HOUSE
Tuesday,,
January l4th.
"The Players
Beautiful drama by Lubim
''The Cringer''
A Daring Western Picture
by Lubin
A Daring Western Picture
by Lubin
"The Belle
OF The Beach,
A Bright Comedy by Kalem

The very best of motion pictures and
special features in photo plays. This
opera house picture show has been
strengthened to a great extent. and thu
overs of moving pictures are finding
this show quite interesting In add
ton to the above pictures, we viii have
Messrs. Won Alstenberg and Scher-
merhorn, the Great Athletes, featuring
extraordinary muscular, acrobatic aud
juggling novelties. Time of act 70
minutes. No advance in price Of adj
mission, SC and 1Oc
Remember that the Pictures ana
Vaudeville begin promptly at ESQ
o'clock Daily.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
IF THEY ONLY
WOULD DO IT

If one month in every year railroad
officials from the president down tc
the junior officers, would travel incoS-
nito over their lines, using not private
cars nor Pullmans, but the day coaches
and the regular trains operated, they
would have an awakening to the in
conveniences to which the public is
subjected, which would be very bene-
fetal to the roads and to the public
1t would be a wise thing if these off
Gals would voluntarily undertake such
inspection trips and in every respect
get the same treatment that the public
gets. They ought to buy their mile
age books and change trains often and
thus put up with the intolerable nuis-
ance of the present system of ex-
changing mileage books and re-check-
ing baggage half a dozen times when
one checking would often be sufficient
They should travel on the branch
roads as we'll as on the main lines,
put up with the inconvenience and
the unsanitary conditions of many sta
lions, and purposely, without making
themselves known, find out by personal
experience, exactly what the ordinary
traveller has to endure They would
find many of their station agents gem
tlemanly, courteous and considerate
in the extreme; they would find many
others who would much better be out
in the cornfield than acting as a rail-
Rad representative, dealing with the
public They would find many stations
and depots well kept and clearly; they
would find others wholly unsanitary
and of such character that health au-
thorities ought to suppress them as a
menace to health and life. They would
find trains on many branch lines so
Anticipated and out-of-date that they
ought long since to have gone to the
scrap heap; they would find an amount
of inefficiency of which they can get
very little idea, except through di-
rect personal acquaintance with the
situation, by study of this kind
Wherever they are not known they
ought to inquire of the travelling men
and the shippers and hear the local
sentiment in regard to the railway and
its treatment of passengers and traf-
fc. A few months ago the writer,
while in the South, very much to his
surprise, heard so many criticisms vol
rnteered against a 1000 mile railway
system operating in the South, and
which he had always supposed to have
friends everywhere that he made a
mental note oW the fact that he had
heard not a single word of common
dation of the road, but in every direc-
ton voluntary criticisms against its
management, it's operation, and even
against some of it's conductors, of
whom it was said in Florida that they
sometimes sought to discourage Sc
tiers from locating in that state when
ever they happned to get into discus
sion with a prospective settler in
their state
Doubtless the owners of the road
and it's chief officers would be as
much surprised as was the writer at
these criticisms. 1t may be taken for
granted that comparatively few of the
higher officials of the big systems If
the South while travelling in that sec
ton ever hear exactly the same kind
of criticisms that the ordinary traveller
hears. 1t is a little ungracious to
tell man the shortcomings of his
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14

l am able. | had
nervous spells, fe-
male weakness and
terrible bearing
down pains e cry
month. / also suf-
fered much with my
right side. The pain
started in my back
and extended around
my right side, and
the doctor told me it
xxyne D~Cro-so s1Qo
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
md viceburg will be flooded

and viceburg will be flooded
Lowlands adjacent to the Ebfks
river in Arkansas, are under wafer
and there has Deen some loss or live
stock ond slight damage to property
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
FARMERS WIFE
ALMOST AWRECK
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Her
Own Story.

Westwood, Md am a farmers
wife and do most of my own work when
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-27

Cards received by friends from w.
E. Rem inform them that he is go.
journing in the vicinity Of Billings,
Montana, where he hopes to locate.
After An existence of about two
years the Sully News, weekly news
paper published at Onida during that
time, has been purchased by the
owner of the Onida Watchmsn and
consolidated with that paper.
Mrs. d. A. DeBow of Lindsay.
Okla, writes to South Dakota papers
to find trace of her husband, DIR. ID.
A. DeBow. who came to this state to
practice medicine some time ago,
since leaving his wife no word has
been heard Of him.
The Pierre Candy factory, owned
by Paul Miller, will move to larger
quarters in the Fay building now oc-
cupied by the Schultz barber shop
and Moulton's confectionery store.
Mr.. Schultz will move his shop
50 tho building vacated by Mr.. Mil
Ter. The change will be made May l.
1 George Fsllon. of the Smead hotel
of Lead, who has had under consider
alton for some time, the secretary
ship of the state tax commission.
which position had been proffered
him, yesterday decided not to accept
the position and wrote to H. c. Pres
ton, of the commission to that effect.
G. F. Knapp returned home Tuesday
from business trip to points in Me-
braska. Mr.. Knapp was in Council
Bluffs on Sunday evening, when that
city was tornado swept. and later he
viewed the ruins, and also the destruc-
ton of Omaha. Upon arriving in Pierre
he appeared very much as one glad he
was at home.
The County Auditors association
elected the following officers at their
meeting Tuesday: President, H. r.
/ Wood, Sphinx; 1st vice president, e.
G. Alderman, Beadle; End vice .presi-
dent, r. A. Zangle, Dawson; secre.
tary-treasurer, j. j. Roberts, Brown;
executive committee, A. E. Ecklin,
McCook; Burt Burton Meade; l.. G..
Leggett, Lyman.
Pierre churches celebrated Easter
with specially prepared music, the
First Congregational church having
a particular service for the Capital
City Commandery Of knights Tenn
plars, WHO attended the church in the
i morning in body. Inside the
churches were Easter lilieu and
spring flowers, but outside was q
heavy mist and threatening snow,
which by Sunday night turned into .
small blizzard
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-27
THE OPENING SHOE SALE

The manufacturers Of the Wear u
Well Shoes opened branch house In
Pierre on Saturday. whom they placed
on sale . full line Of mons footwear.
The opening sale was well attended
and sales were readily made. The
makers Of this line Of goods oifsr :
iserviceable article for asmall sum Of
money; the manufacturer's guarantee
goes out with each pair sold.
Customers were not slow In taking
advantage Of the low prices.for which
shoes were offered and about: everyone
that called there Saturday made I pur.I
chase from the fine stock displayed.
Mr.. 2. j. Coyle i the salesman and
he is pleased with the splendid patron
age he ia-receiving.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-27
aoenarv In 1arinu Sea.

Sailing southeasterly along the shore
Of that haunt Of the walrus and polar
bear, st. Matthews island, in the Be
ring sea-" said navigator Of those
waters, zone Is impressed by the
mingling Of the grotesque and the ter
rible in the character Of the scenery.
The northwest point Of the island Il
split up into collection Of large
rocks Of most fantastic shapes. Houses,
spires, cathedrals and figures Of men
and beasts are some OF the forms as
sumed by these volcanic fragments.
which, rising black above the white,
seething foam of the seat that breaks
against their base, give weird aspect
to the grim and desolate region. One
rock resembling large saddle sug-
gested to me the thought that some
antediluvian giant might in his time
have straddled 1t and perhaps fshed
for reptilia over the beetling cliffs
which 1t surmounts."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-27
Howard Stock Dealer Dead.

Lambert Wagner. aged fifty-four.
was found dead In his bed at his home
In Howard. Physicians give the cause
Of his death as apoplexy. Mr.. Wagner
had been troubled at times with an
ailment Of the heart and before re-
firing had complained Of feeling i'll.
He took . stimulant and was appar-
ently feeling all right again, but the
next morning when members Of the
family called BIN, he was dead. A
widow survives him. He was stock
dealer at Howard.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-27
Wedding and
Anniversary
Gifts

Birthday Gifts, etc. The kind 81
gifts that are admired for their beauty,
priced for their usefulness and remem
bered for the generosity Of the donor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09
TELEPHONE
bell (priyate exchange connecting All
departments), No. 49O0.
How my achievements mock me.
--TroiIus and Cressida.
Pure Soft Drinks

The passage of an ordinance pro-
viding for the inspection of soda
fountains is important, of course, but
nothing like as important as its en-
forcement. The law books already are
Uttered with deadwood. 1t is useless
to keep adding to the pile.
Ice cream and its kindred concoc-
lions, together with cooling and re-
freshing drinks Of all kinds, have
come to be looked upon as necessities.
The business of tickling the palate of
the public in the hot days of summer
is an enormous one. Impure flavors,
harmful coloring ingredients, the alb
sence of sanitary precautions, all en-
danger the health of the community.
1t is a duty of the city to see that its
inhabitants are served in manner
and with products not dangerous to
health.
Some months ago, an ordinance was
passed, in response to agitation, pro-
viding for inspection of the restau-
rants of Birmingham. Rigid rules
were laid down for those who make
a living by supplying prepared food
to the people. The law is excellent in
every way. The veal of the public is
carefully safeguarded in its provis-
ions, and severe penalties are fixed
for those who violate the enactment
This law, as meritorious and as i'm
portant as it is, sleeps peacefully
within its sheep-bound casllet. The
commission pleaded that the city did
not have the money to employ men to
see that its requirements were car
ried out. The burden was placed upon
the police as a whole. In this in
stance, as always, what is everybody S
business is nobody's business. 1t is
safe perhaps to say that not 10 per
cent of the policemen of Birmingham
are familiar with the terms of that
ordinance, and it may be that the de-
gree of ignorance also prevails among
the restaurant proprietors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09
The vacant senntorahip

Many citizens, even some prominent
lawyers. seemed to think that Governor
O'Neal would appoint United States
senator TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Johnston" said an old
democrat last night. Il was under the
in preston that under the seventeenth
amendment to the constitution, which has
been ratified. the governor no longer
had the power to appoint. Among those
who had read the amendment there was
a difference of opinion.
"The names oftenest mentioned in con-
nection with the senatorial vacancy in
case Governor O'Neal could appoint for
the unexpired term were w. 2. G. Hard
ing and John 3. Knox"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09
TALK HELPS PRONUNCIATION

Robert j. Menner in the Atlantic Monthly.
Perhaps the NEST potent of influences
toward diverse pronunciation, especially
difference in accent, is the fact that we
seldom or never hear il conversation a
vast number OF words which nevertheless
constitute an important and Indispensable
part CT our vocabulary.
by silent reading and neglect of con-
versation, langi,s sc Itself declares Rich
ard Grant White lis coming into disuse. =
The rcsu. of this practice is not only that
we are always mentally registering pre-
nunciations peculiar to ourselves, which
we have no means of ascertaining to be
uncommon or ridiculous. but also that the
natural tendencies OF our language. unre-
strained by the conservative force which
occasional use IN conversation might ex-
ert, rapidly foster new pronunciations and
produce diversity OF pronunciation even
among the most careful speakers.
All these influences obviously supple
ment each other in resisting any trend to-
ward uniform pronunciation, and facilitate
the progress of the tendencies of speech
peculiar to our English tongue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09
A DEATH FROM HyDRopHoBIA

From the Louisville Courier-Journaf.
There is generally happy medium, .
and it can be arrived at by persons who
are reasonable. Persons who want to kill
every dog thatsis sick or suffering from
thirst, upon the ground that IL may be
mad" commit atrocities. But those who
will not be convinced that the bite of dog
is attended by more or less danger some
times let themselves in for heavy penal
ties. A case in point is that of a young
man who has just died of rabies in New
York hospital as result of mis- fondness
for dogs and his conviction that hydro
phobia was mythical.
Three months ago the boy, an athletic,
but of door, sport loving, dog loving Lao,
saw a dog Looping down the street snarling
and barking. A cry of mad dog was
raised John McInerny showed his con-
tempt for the popular view by remaining
in the line of the dogs progress to speak
kindly to it. The dog bit him, but he paid
no attention to the wound. Three months
later hydrophobia developed, and ran its
course to a fatal ending.
Dogs should be looked after at all times,
and especially in hot weather, and pro-
vided with access to water as well as suf-
ficient food. 1t is unnecessary ana ess-
tremely brutal. to assume that every dog
that is sick or out Of sorts Is mad
and treat it accordingly. But it is unwise
to court contact with a Swapping suspect
in order to show that your belief as to
hydrophobia is iat varlance with the popu-
lar view. That form OF argument may
prove costly as well as uncouyircing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-09

but they might, after all, discover
something that should be changed.
Perfection is not professed by the
democrats. They are essentially hu-
man, therefore prone to err.
Then there is the personal phase of
the thing that should be given consid-
Grafton. The republicans think they
are serving the country. They are con-
vinced that the majority is about to
perpetrate stupendous wrong. They
are cocksure they could have framed
a bill far superior to that brought in
by the democrats. 1t should be re-
membered that Collie Cibber rewrote
Shakespeare, and friends of the deli
cate dilettante, Alexander Pope, inn
portuned him to turn some of the
Bard of Avons grandest flights into
real poetry.