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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
OUR MUSICAL TASTE
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cleveland Plain Dealer.)
America is engulfed in a sea of mus
cal trash. The young person who
really likes good music is either look
ed upon with scorn and pity, or con-
demned as affected" and hypocritical
If one does not enjoy "Hitchy-Koo
enc is beyond the popular musical
pale One is an old fogey, or worse.
And just at this time the centenary
of the birth of Richard Wagner is be-
ing observed the world over. The man
who made modern music, who did not
kill the older classical music, is hon
Iored every where. In American cities
there are a discriminating few who
really understand Wagner, and enough
others who pretend to understand him
or who honestly like him without I'M
Outstanding, to provide a sizeable au-
dienece for a Wagner concert. But
our young people, the ones who should
have the most music in their souls
are, with comparatively few excep-
tons, devotees of ragtime. Frankly,
even proudly, they prefer "I1itchy
Koo" to "Das Rheingold." They are,
of course, beyond scolding. You can
not scold musical taste into any one.
And they have brains enough to be
worthy of better things. The trouble
is that they are blindly following d
vogue; they are fearful of not being
considered not up-to-date-than which
young America knows no more fright
full offense.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
THE WORTH OF GETTYSBURG
(Kansas City Journal.)

In striking a balance of cost in
such a tremendous account as that of
a civil war the only debts which
honor can put upon the ledger are hui
man lives In round numbers 600,0 900
men were killed in battle during
the war or died subsequently of
wounds. On some unacceptable page
whereon is told the rest of this story
must be put, however, the Union war
expenses of $1,500,0OO, $3,00O,000,
600 paid in pensions by the national
government, $1,000,000,000 war ex-
expenses of the Confederacy and prop
erty and to her losses estimated at
$500,000,000, in which are not incuud-
ed the many millions which the people
of the South have paid in state pen
sions to Confederate survivors-a total
outlay of treasure at least $6,000,00O0,-
600. 1t would be fruitless and illogical
W al cue W NiCullCl Cllo ICA IAblC
cost might have been avoided. 1t was
incurred and was paid, headed by the
loss of $4,000 men of the North and
250,00O men of the South. The only
Question to be solved is whether yes
terday is worth today, whether what
has been secured is worth the fearful
price that was paid for it
In the light Of this great balancing
the patriotic American with pious
Icontentment drains his heart and
purse with the mighty oil and says
that the Gettysburg of today, typify-
ing a reunited country of 1863 and all
the other Gettysburgs that were paid
that the Union might be preserved
But only as the nation proves that
the heroic dead did not die in vain
will the price be justified, even
though it were only a hundredbreatn
part as heavy. The great reunion oil
this semi-centennial is at least one
II item by way of such proof and is the
lesson of the independence days that
have passed since Liberty Bell was
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= = = = y y y = y y
= FOR BOTH WERE MOTHERS y
= y + = y y + y 4
When from the Mount the Virgin
went
The awful Mount of Calvary
Her slender form was weak and bent
Thy sorrow is too great for thee,
An, thou hast tasted bitter wines,
he,hsemane is His and thine
said Magdalen, all wan and spent.
Then came a woman through the
gloom,
Her eyes like shadows in the light
OF torches on the Mount of doom
Her white hair hung unkempt and
dank,
From her the Magadalen, scornful,
shrank;
As one who sees a lothly sight
Then Mary Mother sped as fast
AS mothers go when young babes
cry
20 gentle heart! o love so vast)
And kissed the woman's eyelids dry
20 thou to my eyes raise thy facet"
Not l most cursed of all the race
| in whose soul all hope is past"
ITO thine my sorrow is an naught,
The moter said The woman swept
Il Judas bore!" The soldiers caught
kept
Safe in my arms, heart to my heart,
His shame and death are now my par
In life. Her shrieks DER all sounds
swept.
The gracious John looked stern an.
cold,
He tried to part the closet inke,
pair,
BIT still the Mother would enfold
The woman of the wild despair
..Ny Son is Mercy-thou shalt see
The bay that laughed upon YOU
kneei"
Said MagdaIen, 1.-The traitor sold
Hush, hush. o friend-my Life, my
Sun.
see the sphere" the Mother said
And I will ask the spear-pierced One
or this for thee-when thou hes
dead.
Tbou from thy woe shalt find release
The torture of thy heart shalt cease
Him thou shalt meet. "Ah, it's wei
done
said Magdalen, ito give him peace?
Author Unknown
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THE ETERNAL CONFLICT
(Philadelphia Record ]

VI hIlduelpnld RECORD
Standing upon the ground which
more than any other signifies the per-
manence of our nationality, with a
glorious history behind him and the
splendid opportunities of the present
about him, the President at Gettysburg
faced the future and pointed out to his
Icountrymen that the perpetuation of
the nation involves a perpetuity Of
conflict.
With other weapons than those Of
fifty years ago, but in the spirit in
which that contest was fought out
must we fight to preserve our govern
ment, must We struggle forward to-
ward our ideals, must we preserve for
posterity the priceless blessings which
have been handed down to us.
The Civil War was followed by an
unparalleled orgy of political cor
ruption because, the danger of disunion
having been averted and human slav-
cry abolished, there was very general
feeling that there was nothing more TO
struggle for. We imagined that we
had attained to the goal set before us
by the founders, and that we had real
lied the political ideals of 1875. We
asked only whether man who begged
for the public confidence had been
loyal to the Union and friend of
the colored man., and after a time We
discovered that good many rascals
could pass both examinations
Then we began a new struggle-for
the moral cleansing of politics Pres
emily we discovered that, noble as our
political ideals were, and elevated as
was most of our national political life,
We were allowing our great cities to
fall into the hands of robbers, and we
discovered also that a good deal of
tn legislation at our state capitals
was a matter of merchandise. The
economic changes, too, brought new
probes before us, and we came to re-
alize that unless we struggled nightly
against many insidious forms of evil
Gettysburg would have been fought in
vain and the Fourth of July would be
no more than an historic landmark.
With unrivaled literary grace the
President said the one thing needed to
be said at that time and place. The
great past needed not to be spoken of;
the place spoke for that. What could
one add to Gettysburg itself in Gettys'
burg? But the future, the relation OF
the past to that, and the significance
of Gettysburg in the continued life OF
the nation-that demanded some men
ton, that was needed to make the cell
ebration complete and full-orbed. And
that the President gave. He told the
country that what had been achleVe1
by struggle could only be preserved by
struggle, and that the realization OF
our political and social ideals imposed
as heavy a burden upon us as it i'm
posed fifty years ago or 1877 years ago.
lit is still our solemn obligation to
maintain the struggle of the genera
tons that have gone before US that a
government of the people and by the
people and for the people shall not
perish from the earth.
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pie as to the purposes of the new par
ty. The answer Mr.. Beveridge gives
propose new Constitution and a new
to President Wilson's question is: wv,
order of government"
Should the theories of the Progress
sive party as TO changes in our system
of government acquire the momentum
Mr. Beveridge predicts, then the old
Republican party should vote with thu
Democratic party, for the preservation
of our form and system of governme 1t
is of far greater consequence than any
tariffs, or other former party differ
ences.
Mr.. Beverage expresses what Is
meant by this ti-Constitution move
ment which had its birth in the West
Have our people grasped this twieG-
tieth century movement, putting on
trial our very system of government!
1t will be the issue of the next presi-
dental campaign. The forces are al
work to accomplish. the overthrow OIL
the representative system, supplanting
it with the new dogma of the Progress
sive party. What course shall W.
pursue? Or as President Wilson puts
it: What shall we do with it?"--
Macon Telegraph
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
cotton WANTED
l5C A POUND

10000 bales of cotton from
Sumter county farmers at
IS cents per pound basis,
niddling.
those who are interested
in a dependable price for
their cotton can find me on
Saturdays atSheffjeld Hunt
ington Co.'S store and con-
tract your present crop at
the above price.
@. W. Walters, Sec.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
"COMMANDER DAVENPORT

Among the many other distinctions
that fall to Americas this year is that
of having as one of its citizens tnt
commander of the Georgia Division
United Confederate Veterans, Major
General H. T. Davenport. Commander
Davenport is too well known to ths
people of Americas to need much sac
of him, but James Galloway in the
Macon Telegraph gives the following
interesting comment:
When the State Reunion of Confed,
crate Veterans convenes in BrunswicS
it will be under command of Gen. H
7. Davenport, of Americas. He never
approved of the custom prevailing i'll
the L. c. V. Association of designating
the officers in charge as generals,
unless they were generals in the army
as it creates confusion, but always in
sisted that the title should be com
mander."
He is known among his friends az
Tom Davenport He was a member OF
Company A, Twelfth Georgia regiment
and enlisted June %, 1861. To belong
to the Twelfth Georgia meant fighting,
and Tom Davenport experienced the
rough and hard lite of the Confeder-
ate soldier. He was in the following
battles and skirmishes Green Brier
River, Allegheny Mountain, Battle Of
Mcdowell, Front Royal, Winchester,
Cross Keys. Port Republic, Seven
Lays around Richmond in 1862, Cedar
Run, Warrenton Springs, Second Man
assas, Chantilly, Harpers Ferry,
Sharpsburg, Charlottesville, near
Manassas Gap, Warrenton Springs,
Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania
Court House, May 8, 1864, Spottsyl-
vania Court House, May 9, 1864.
In ;orl,
ter heavy fighting all day, Tom Daven-
port was captured and sent to Point
Lookout prison, then to Elmyra,
where he bribed his parole and was g
paroled prisoner when Gen. Lee sur
rendered. What an experience was
his!
He was IS when he joined the army,
ffty-two years ago, and has always
taken such an interest in the camps
that in 1902 he was made commander
of Camp 642 at Americus; then lieu
tenant-colonel on staff, Georgia divis-
ion, then Encouragement, Western
brigade, Georgia division, and now
major general, Georgia division So
from his youth up he has worn har-
ness of a Confederate soldier. Yet he
is loyal to the United States, believin..
in sound money, low tariff, reserved
rights of the state, and sane politics
He is progressive, but discards suct
innovations and creeds as conflict wit,
the principles for which he fought h
says the Bull Moose party should b.
called the "Retrogressive" party, as d.
goes back to the Grecian republics fol
its models, repudiating the gloriou:
improvements made by the fathers
who established a government WithOu
a model, which is yet the wonder G.
the world
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Old Observation-Disclosures looking so
blue about, old man?
De Ch2ppie-Reason enough Last
night l dramatically told Doc Dc
Rocks that ! was consumed with love
for his daughter, and the old chump
prescribed quinine for a fever and said
he'd send the bill later-Boston Rec
ord.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Colonel Roosevelt has secured per-
mission to carry pistol This is the
first time, we believe, that he has ever
asked permission to do anything. -
Washington Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

The tariff has been a subject of dis
cussion for many years, but has never
been so interesting as this summer. -
Washington Star.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

New Workers who despair of getting
that near heaven any other way are
holding church meetings on top OF
skyscrapers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

We seem to have popular govern.
Jment assisted by the National Associa-
Mail.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

That must have been Secretary
Bryan's Washington physician who
said that grape juice is good medicine
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Some men born with a silver spoon
in their mouths are so greedy they
swallow it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Balkan bIouses give fair idea OF
what a nightmare the Balkans are
anyway.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

The Georgia legislature is conyihc-
inc MS that II should not meet oftener
than every two years
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Do dog-days make some people
growl more than usual?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Summer is no respecter OF sections
~ the country, it would seem.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

The hard working mind is ever hap
pier than the idle one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Many an apparently straight man is
crooked enough to hide behind cork
screw
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OFFICIAL ORGAN

Americas, Ga. July ID, 1918
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-21
PAGE ELEVEN

It's a queer thing, but the longest
and most fulsome tributes of
respect are always paid to the man
who leaves the most money.
Cheer up! Ohio farmers have
heard the katydid and are making
ready for a frost. This will mean
that the weather will soon be cooler.
So long as the watermelon crop is
not taxed, the Colored Brother isn't
going TO sit up nights worrying
about the Income Tax nor any other
old tax.
In counting the cost of her recent
unpleasantness with the other ma
tiOns, Bulgaria will doubtless agree
with Gen. Sherman, in the matter
Of war.
This is most certainly the year for
marvellous discoveries: French
savant declares women do not talk
as much as they used to-barring
always the Suffragettes.
Nice, long, hearty article in
newspaper Oh banker AQVlCG TO
the Farmers" which probably ad-
vised them to help the bankers by
borrowing more money.
If Mister Castro needs anything
like practice in the matter of rebel
lion, he might visit Mr.. Huerta, of
Mexico, long enough to get onto
that gentleman's methods.
The worm continues to turn, and
Chicago produces three women who
have the smallest and most perfect
feet on record. Don't you remem-
ber-but of course you do.
1t is to be deyoutly hoped that
Georgia's school teachers, whose pay
has so long been overdue, are not
compelled to suspend eating till that
overdue pay arrives. And, passing,
this is one big blot on the States
record which it will be we'll to wipe
out for good.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-21

tricts.
Japan refused to accept the Mexi-
can ambassador, and that ought to
run Japanese stock up little in the
U. S.
Old Father Knickerbocker looks
most beWildered at the daily stunts
and the end Of the show is not yet in
sight.
The newspaper bunch gotta hand
this one to Governor Blease, of South
Carolina: he's a right hefty little
space-fller.
Henry Lane Wilson's S4resigna-
ton is in the class with that of the
cook who quit vivid the Missis a
p'intin to the dure."
1t begins to look as though Gov.
Sulzer,. of New York, was the origi-
nal I'm Bad man, and the more he
talks the worse it gets.
The New York police count that
day lost whose low, descending sun,
sees from the murderer's hand, no
mysterious killing" done.
''Mr. Lind cautiously looking for
the key to the Mexican situation"
newspaper assures us; sail right
as long as he doesn't have to look
as cautiously for the way out of the
country where the situation is To-
Gated
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ton, in more than one way: we have
suffered, through the negro, and we
are suffering more through the for
eign element.
We have taken the peasant from
every country of Europe, and we
nave given him work at American
trades, on the American wage, and
he has speedily adopted the Ameri-
can mode of living-which is to
spend all you make and run in debt
for all you can. To deny yourself
and your family nothing that the
other man and his family have,
taking no note Of the ability which
enables the other man to rank
higher as producer, than you do.
And here is where the rampant
socialist gets in his good work; he
is trying to adapt existent conditions
to theories, and he is making an
awful mess of it.
In one town through which 1
passed, the rear view of a row of
tenements was visible; the rabbit
warren style of living was most
aptly illustrated, and the houses
were tWo-family affairs, joined by
broad piazza which seemed to be the
pants; men, women and children
were eating, drinking and bathing
in the happiest informally; as our
train slowed down, we were close to
one of the houses, and one man,
stark naked, had just finished his
bath in a big wooden tub at the edge
of the piazza, on the ground floor,
and no one seemed the least dis
f1111 At
long custom.
There seemed to be plenty of food
and beer; and one of the peculiar
things noted was, every large col
liery town had at least one brewery,
and if very large town, two or
three.
Another peculiarly noticeable
thing was this: the Roman Catholic
Church was as conspicuous as the
brewery, and it made one think some
things about church that would
complacently permit the things one
saw, and which were universal
among these people.
There is chance for the socialist
to look at the matter of equality
from the viewpoint of the people
who have been given too much of it
to digest. They have been placed
on the same footing as the American
who has had a good common school
education, and who realizes the val
lie of his toll We have blinked at
a lot of tOmmyrot argument which
has been aired, every time there are
labor strikes, and we are getting
into the habit of sending the State
military to shoot down these ignor-
ant people, to whom we have given
gifts they did not understand and
could not appreciate. The curse of
the dollar has been on ali these
mine horrors-frst, because of the
niggardliness of the owners who
will not install the apparatus for
safeguarding the lives of the mine
the increasing cost of the luXuries
to which the miners themselves have
not been accustomed, and which are,
in so large part, harmful to them.
This is not an effort to side-step
the question of the wretched wages
the majority Of the miners receive;
that is another story altogether, but
it is simply what one sees as one
goes into the heart of these districts
which, each year, add SO greatly to
the labor problem. If we could es-
tablish, not only uniform wage
scale for the mine workers, but
uniform basis of living conditions,
we would have no labor problem in
these sections it is safe to assume.
The education of the children
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keep out, for some years at least,
the element which is making blood
shed so common, and military muir
der so frequent in our mining dis
tricts.
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MORE
MORE IMPRESSIONS FROM A
LITTLE TRIP.

k1~R HERE are some of us who
have not taken the Socialists,
as a body, in serious
enough vein to make a studv
The Prescott daily news., 1913-06-07
WOMAN WHO TOPPLED KINGS ENTRY IN DERBY REcovERs
 CONSCIOUSNESS
JOCKEYS CONDITION GRAVE
Rider, Recovering Senses, Inquires of Militant's Condition, But She
 Expresses No Concern
 for Her Victim.

London, June 7-"Did I ruin the race?" asked Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette who seized the kings colt near the finish of the derby and was nearly killed by the horse and rider rolling over her, when she part ly recovered consciousness in the hos pital at Epson.
 Informed that she did not stop the race, but that she caused the kings jockey. Herbert Jones, to be seriously injured, she said
 That cannot be helped. The cause must go on"
 When Jockey Jones awoke in the hospital his first question was:
 How is that unfortunate woman"
 She became much worse last night She passed a restless day The doc tors consider the symptoms grave. An operation probably will be necessary The police notified the hospital au thorities that she must be regarded as a prisoner.
 The attack on the kings horse in the derby was the militant suffragette retort upon the king and queen for the latter's attempt to prevent the militant sympathiZers in the royal household wearing their badges.
 Militant leaders profess to have had no foreknowledge of Miss Davison'3 design. The only comment they make upon it is that she was courageous and unselfish.
 Miss Davison is one of the women the police have always feared would do something tragic, and for months she was under observation. The sug- gestion that the act was accidental, that she caught the kings horse by mistake, is discredited, because she had a card and had carefully studied the jockeys colors.
 There is general indignation, but a feeling of utter helplessness in deal ing with these militant women. The new cat-and-mouse bill seems to be proving a failure, because the govern ment is unwilling to throw on the militants themselves the respOnsibil- ity for the results of hunger striking.
 The attack on the kings horse has intensified the anti-militant feeling of both the king and the queen.
 Consequently, the situation in the royal household has become tense. In fact, were it not that the season is at its height and royal engagements are extremely heavy, there would be a cleaning out of suffragette sympathiz- CTS from the royal household.