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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
THE FARMERS PART IN THE
BOARD OF TRADE

A suggestion made recently should
prove OF much interest to the people ut
the city and county, too, relative to the
inclusion of farmers in the local Board
of Trade membership. This suggestion
has been ade by Mr.. J. F. Jackson, az
ricultural agent of the Central Of
Georgia railway, on his recent trip to
Americas, and it is worthy of attention
here.
Mr.. Jackson cited the example SET
by the Morgan county board of trade,
which includes in its membership al
the farmers of that county who wish
to join. 1t was the suggestion relative
to the local Board of Trade that the
farmers of the county be asked to
join it and form what may be termed
the Farmers Board Membership fees
in the Board would be made normal
for the farmers so that no one could
feel that it would be a burden to join
as regards the financial demand.
AS the local Board of Trade does
great deal of good not only for the
city but also for the county it is but
logical that the farmers should be ask
ed to do a part in supporting the Boar
and in arousing interest in the probe I
among their neighbors. This would
make the local Board of Trade such
power for good as it has never been
before, because it would be increased
both as regards its spirit of democracy
and as regards its general influence.
No suggestion made recently as re-
CARDS vitalizing and energizing the
Board of Trade equals this in its pos
sibilities. If the plan can be made
practical one and carried out in all the
phases of which it is capable in the
way of expansion and potential growth
it would prove a new era for the local
Board of Trade and for the people of
both the city and county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
FARM LANDS FOR SALE

230 acres 8 miles out on old Stage
road; 7-horse farm open; balance in
woods; best grade of red and gray,
pebble land, with deep red clay subsoll
You can make on this place 100 bales
cotton and plenty OF feed. If you
would like to buy some good farm Lana
look at this place with me-
so Acres 6 miles out, just off the
old Stage road 40 acres open and
level; 10 acres in second growth pine
most of this place is a gray pebble
land; joins Robt Mcneil. This is cheap
for this place. Price $21 per acre.
100 acres 4 1-2 miles west of Amer
icus! 65 acres open; balence in woods
and swamp; running water; 4-room
dwelling, barn and tenant house; gray
pebble land with clay subsoil. Price
$50 per acre.
T.. B. WESTBROOK. Agent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
CURRENCY BILLS AND THE
BANKERS

We shall soon know what the bank
ers think of the administration bank
ing and currency bill which the Dem
ocrats of the House have been discuss
ing so long and which the President is
urging Congress to pass during tn.
present session. To-day in Chicago
there begins conference of represen-
tative bankers from all parts of the
country called to consider it and ex-
press their views of it, 1t was called
by the Currency Commission of the
American Bankers Association and it
lis expected that in addition to the
members of the commission there will
! be present the presidents of forty
seven state bankers associations to-
gether with the presidents of all of the
clearing house associations in the
country,
No doubt the discussion will be H.
Illuminating as to what the country
needs in the way Of banking and cur
rency legislation. 1t is doubtful, how
ever, if the conference will reach all
agreement in respect to the chief fea-
lures of the pending bill but the views
that will be expressed and the resolu'
tons that will, in all probability, be
adopted ought 20 aid Congress in it.
efforts to give the country such 9
banking and currency law as will BIZ
for it's best interests. If the confer.
lence finds as much difficulty in
reaching an agreement as Democrats
are finding it is doubtful if what i
does will contribute anything towards
the passage of banking and currency
bill at this session Of Congress. Lead
ing Democrats have been quoted with
in the last day or two as saying thu
Congress will undoubtedly pass :
banking and currency bill before il
adjourns but the outlook that it wi.
isn't promising.
AS it is known that bankers gen
orally are not satisfied with the bill as
it is at present, and it has been great
ly changed in important particular
within the past few weeks, the chanc
es are that what is done at the con
ference will still further complicate
situation that is already so. eomplicat
ed as to make the friends of the biz
almost despair OF accomplishing any
thing at this session.-Savannah News
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
PLEA FOR THE LARK
He Eats Up Grain, but Pays for 1t b.
killing Destructive Insects
New York Times.)


There are two species of meadow
larks in the United States-one in the
East and the other in the West. They
resemble each other close in plumage
land habits, though differing much in
song, the song of the Western biri
being loud, clear, and melodious, while
, that of the Eastern species is feebler
and loses much by comparison.
In many localities the meadow larl,
is classed and shot as a game bird.
From the farmers standpoint this is a
mistake, Since its value as an insec,
eater is far greater than as an object
of pursuit by the sportsman. Both the
boil weevil, the foe of the cotton
grower, and the alfalfa weevil are
among the beetles it habitually eats
Twenty-Five per cent of the diet of this
bird is beetles, half of which are pre-.
daceous ground-beetles, accounted
useful insects, and one-ffth are de,
structive weevils. Caterpillars form
II per cent of the food, and are eatel
in every month of the year. Among
these are many cut-worms, and the
well-known army worm. Grasshoppers
are favorite food, and are eaten Ii
every month and almost every day
The vegetable food GA per cent of the
whole consists of grain and wood
seeds.
Recent studies OF the Western mead
ow lark, reported by H C. Bryant, o.
the California station of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
show that while this bird may do con
siderable damage in destroying sprout-
ing grain, it also consumes large
quantities of destructive insects, ara
when the benefits are balanced against
the injuries there remains no doubt
that the bird deserves protection and
encouragement. It's value as de
stroyer OF injurious insects far exceeds
its detriment as a destroyer of sprout-
ing grain. The value of a Western
meadow lark living to one dead is as
5 pounds of insects (most injurious)
and one-half pound of weed seeds is to
ga pound of grain, considerable
part of which is made up of wild oats
and waste grain" Another important
point in favor of the birds is that they
turn their attention to the insect
most abundant, thereby increasing
their efficiency at the time of an insect
outbreak They bear an important re-
lation to grashopper outbreaks and to
other insect outbreaks as WE'LL
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
MASCULINE FIGURE MORE ARTS.
TIC
(Kansas City Starr

Concerning the discussion of slit
skirts, diaphanous skirts or any other
skirts that seem to occupy the minds
of some people rather inordinately
because, perhaps, they have too much
leisure on their hands, | would like
to say, consolingly that it is merely >
matter of getting used to them. Once
used to them, no one will notice them
particularly, writes a correspondent
When the peekaboo waists first came
into vogue quite lot of people had a
good deal to say about this form of
indecency in dress, but nowadays WHO
pays any attention to them? In anc-
lent Greco and Rome, when nude bot
les were exhibited in the arena or else
where, no one was in the least affect
ed by the nudity, and contemporary
writer's do not even allude to it at al,
it was such a matter of absolute in
difference. The only thing that Great
ed comment was beauty and shapeli-
ness, etc., qualities which were as I'M
common then as they are now.
In this connection it deserves to be
noted that the ancients were univer-
sally convinced of the esthetic supe-
riority of the masculine figure eve.
the feminine, so much so that artists
when they modelled women's figures
invariably idealized them towards the
masculine type This fact is given
expression by many writer's, the first
among whom to mention it was the
famous Wincklban. But no one who
is not utterly blind need fail to see to-
day that the male figure is vastly
more beautiful and we'll proportional
in its outlines than the female being,
the beauty of the female being confn-
ed mostly to the face and perhaps to
the contours of shoulders and arms.
For the hief charm of the female fig
ure lies in it's being largely hidden
unveil it, and it only becomes appar-
ent how much more defective it Is
than the male figure. For instance
the slit skirt and the daphanous skirt,
without underskirt, would only APP
prise the male portion of mankind that
most women are knock-kneed, and
full Familiarity with this fact would
merely cause ridicule and finding in
difference Any one who has had op-
portunity to see a woman wear trous-
ers must have been struck by the fact
that the female figure resembles thar
OF the monkey much more tnan the
male in the species homo. This re-
semblance becomes the more striking
in the case of negro Chinese and In
liam women, the white woman being
the furthest removed among women
from the type of the ape. But the
furthest removed of all from that type
is the white man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
Amerieus, Ga, August "a, 1918
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Games Whitcomb Riley.)
Wasn't it pleasant, o brother mine,
In those old days of the lost sunshine
0f youth-when the Saturdays chores
were through,
And the Sundays wood in the kitchen,
too,
And We went visiting, "me and YOU"
Out to Old Aunt Mary's?
--~1s~i ana @la
1T all comes back so clear today!
Though l am as bald as you are gray;
Out by the barn lot and down the lane
We patter along in dust again,
As light as the tips of the drops of
the rain,
Out to Old Aunt Marys.
We cross the pasture and through the
wood
Where the old gray snags of the pop
lar stood,
Where the hammering "red heads
hoped awry,
And the buzzard raised in the
clearing" sky 49,
And lolIed and circied as we went by
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
Ard then in the dust of the road
agafns
And the teams we met, and tht
countrymen,
And the long highway, with sunshine
spread
AS thick as butter on country bread
Our care behind, and our hearts aheat
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
why, I see her now in the open doc"
Where the little gourds grew up tn
sides and DER
The clapboard roofl-and her face
ah, me!
sVas't IT good for boy to see
And wasn't it good for a boy to be
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
ind O my brother, SO far away,
weis is to tell you she waits today
TO welcome us-Aunt Mary fell
asleep this morning, whispering, Tel
The boys TO come" And all is well
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

IT is still uncertain whether Phila-
EFeIphia has kidnapped or adopted the
pennant infant. Milwaukee Evening
gun
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

II seems that for about two weeks
rr more Kansas has been the real mid
way station going toward that real
Earm place
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Harvest season is pre-eminently tn"
time when the farmer is on top in the
game of business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Former Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson has hit the right trail when h
headed for the farm.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

There's no doubt that Huerta would
Have made a fine poker player.-Wash-
ington Post
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Huntington, W. Va, needn't expect
to stop park spooners with paint. Most
of 'em are used to it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

At any rate they haven't got Wood
rows goat yet, though SuiZer seems TO
he among the dOwn-and-outers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

The telephone girl is not old-fash-
toned because she has rings in hes
ears.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Nobody denies that John Lind has
the grit and nerve necessary for
special ambassador.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Kentucky Congressman should b.
made to leave their weapons" a
home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Chicago policewomen are warned u
be gentle. No rolling pin methods pa :
mitted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

The world was never any more beau-
tiful than it is today-the viewpoint
has changed, that is all.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Every United States Ambassador
must be an expert house hunter to
qualify.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

With two governors in a fray, New
York "loonies" steal away.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

The clear conscience is frequently
accompanied by fat pocketbook.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Almost sugar cane season again and
think of how the drouth hurt the cane
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

Prize COW is an anti-suffragette. But
she's "bossy at home though.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

That three-battleship bill ought to
go through with a bang.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24
OFFICIAL ORGAN
City Of Americas.
Sumter County.
Webster County.

sSG8'lYo&d Commission OF Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
H. q. Court, Southern District OF
Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

ind O my brother, SO far away,
w+is is to tell you she waits today
To welcome us-Auut Mary fell
asleep this morning, whispering, "Te
The boys 10 come" And all is wei
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

qualify.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
A Travellers Measure.

John d. Rockefeller, Jr, was talk
ing on his trip home from Panama,
about tips on ocean liners.
There is a fixed unit of tipping,
$2.50-or, at least, there used to
be" he said, before everything went
up; and most travellers go above rath-
er than below the unit.
Travellers, as a class, are gener-
Gus, and at any rate / have no pa
tience with the stewards and walters
who complain.
"A steward on an ocean liner once
said to be at the end of voyage:
Mr.. Blanc amt worth much
can tell that
How can you tell?' said l.
"'Oh,' he answered, it's easy fol-
us stewards to take a mans meas
ure'
I suppose, said l, you measure
him from tip to tip?'"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
The Mystery of Vaudeville.

New York Sun: 1t used to be a
theory of the purveyors of vaudeville
entertainment to their theatres that
any man who was sufficiently con-
spicuous might prove an attraction
to their programs. This view has
been held by managers in New York
and they have been justified in their
belief on more than one occasion.
The degree of notoriety sufficient,
however to make a performer inter-
esting to the public has never been
exactly determined. So there has
not always been profitable event to
the exploitation of public characters
on the vaudeville stage.
The mood of the audience at vau-
deville theatres is hard to under
stand. Their freedom from snob-
bishness is their most striking trait.
Fame in other theatres, regulations
in this or any other country, are un-
important if their possessor fails to
interest on his own account. Only
the other day one of the amusing
members of the opera house COM
pany, who had delighted his audi
ences at public and private entertain
ments, began an engagement which
was to last for months. 1t closed in
a week, so Indifferent was his new
public to what he had to offer.
Some of the most entertaining
women of the theatre, such as May
Irwin and Fay Templeton, have not
had on the vaudeville stage the sue
cess they had found elsewhere. Mrs.
Langtry had her difficulties during
her visit to this country, and Mrs
Patrick Campbell never came back
to the vaudeville playhouse. Mrs
James Brown Potter did not even
conclude her engagement, but re-
turned to England, and an admired
beauty who has recently been on
the programs at local vaudeville
theatres to sing four songs has rare
ly been able to perform more than
half her set program, so Indifferent
is the vaudeville public to her efforts
Yet Sarah Bernhard has been able
to exercise for the vaudeville audi
ences a potent charm which did not
always assert itself in previous trips
to this country. Her success before
public now making her acquaint-
ance for the first time may be taken
as proof of the theory that the best
gift of a performer in the vaudeville
theatre is notoriety, artistic or of
any other kind.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
A sTEPLADDER FACTORY.
Ashland Has Long Had What Med
ford is Now Going After.

The Medford papers chronicle the
fact that that city is going to fill a
long-felt want in the way of a fruit
ladder factory, the Commercial Club
making special inducements to some
men to start one. Ashland has a
first-class ladder factory already.
Cliff Payne has for years made and
sold the highest class of stepladders,
as well as nearly everything made of
wood
By the way, there are very few
Ashlanders who know the extent of
the woodworking establishment
maintained by Mr.. Payne. The
building, which on the street appears
to be but one story, is in reality
three, the two lower stories being
below the street line and opening
onto Ashland creek canyon. Mr..
Payne has it thoroughly equipped
with all the latest machinery for
woodworking and is turning out
stuff the equal of that of any factory
in the country.
This is but one of a number of
small industries in Ashland, which
if they had the entire patronage of
the city and upper valley along their
lines would employ a much larger
number of men and add to the pros
perity.
In speaking of the tariff Abraham
Lincoln once said that he did not
know anything about the theory of
the tariff but that he did know that
if an American railroad bought a ton
of steel rails in England that Amer
lea had the rails and England had
the money, but that if the railroad
bought the rails in America this
country had both the rails and the
money.
This is equally true of home trade
and especially of home manufactures.
With the home merchant ony his
profit is kept here, over and above
the cost, but with the manufactured
article the cost of the labor and often
of the raw material is kept here.
This is equally true of farm prod
uce. The small direct gain to the
individual by using shipped in prod
uce is more than balanced by the
indirect gain to him in the prosperity
of the community when he buys at
home,
Ashland ranchers in buying fruit
ladders should buy the home manu-
facture, just as they wish the Ash
land people to insist upon produce
raised in the territory adjacent to
Ashland, Reciprocity must recipro-
cate to be reciprocity. @
Make Ashland home market for
both farm produce and manufactured
goods in every possible instance.
! From time to time the Tidings
will call attention to other local
manufactured products which should
be insisted upon by local people.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
Medford Doctor Succumbs to Cupid's
Arts Quickly.

Medford Sun: DR.. W. H. Ever
hard, prominent business man and
real estate dealer in this city, Sc
cured a tip last Saturday that Mrs.
L. A. Markin of Los Angeles, an at
tractive and wealthy widow, was in
terested in real estate in the Rogue
River Valley. Being one of the most
enterprising hustlers in this neck of
the woods or any other, DR.. Ever
hard proceeded to secure the lady's
address and Sunday left for the Cali
fornia city, with all the latest real
estate patter at his tongues end.
1t now transpires that instead of
selling the beautiful widow a portion
of his extensive holdings the doctor
was so charmed by his prospective
clients beauty and personality that
he promptly made her his partner for
life via the matrimonial route, the
marriage occurring last Tuesday.
The information first came to Med
ford through the publication of the
marriage license in a Los Angeles
paper. Although his intimate friends
are somewhat surprised at the rapid
ity of the doctors courtship, those
who met Mrs. Markin on her visit
to this city few weeks ago declare
they do not blame the Medford man
at all, and they are preparing a roy
al welcome when he and his bride
return.
According to A. X. Ware, secretary
of the Commercial Club, who is ac.
quainted with the Los Angeles wom-
an she is a person of great charm
and cultivation, being an artist and
author of no mean attainments. AL.
though Mr.. Ware is taking credit fol
the match, it is believed that CupiC
is largely responsible and that DR.
Everhard Snccumbed to violent cast
of love at first sight.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-16
In the Social Realm !


Mr. and Mrs. A, L. Kitchin of this
city, is one of Douglas county's fair
est daughters and has resided here
for several years. She is accom-
plished and was a favorite among
the younger set. For a time she was
engaged in teaching school in Doug
las county, and in this capacity she
proved herself most capable. Mr..
Collins is. paymaster of the Humbird
Lumber Company of Sand Point and
is highly respected by those who
CHANGED to make his acquaintance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins have a host
Of friends in Roseburg who extend
congratulations on this, their mar
riage day.