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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27
A MUNICIPAL NECESSITY

! That the city of Americas will have
! its streets remembered accurately and
carefully is an announcement that the
business men of the city will greet
with enthusiasm. They have seen with
their own eyes and perceived with
their own minds the need of such an
improvement here.
Only recently the people of the city
had an opportunity to see that the mu-
nicipality is sadly in need of having its
streets properly remembered. The
representative of a we'll known firm Of
directory manufacturers was here re-
Gently ready to do the final work for d
directory He had solicited good
deal of information preparatory to this
work when it became manifest to him
that it would be impossible to issue a
directory that would be credit ID
Americas until the streets have been
remembered.
1t is not often that the imperative
need of an improvement is pressed
home with such force The business
men here must get along now the best
they can without a directory, when
this lack of street numbering alone is
responsible for the absence of such a
commercial guide. Of course, Ameri-
Gus will have a directory, but it viii
not be made until the streets are re-
numbered. 1t is well that the plan of
making a directory was temporarily
abandoned 1t will give time for the
necessary Improvement with regard II
street numbering and arrangement.
Now that council has taken action il
the matter and asked for the drafting
OF an ordinance to provide for the re-
numbering and Encouragement of the
streets, the city authorities who are II
have charge of this work should see
that it is well done. In the past it has
been a reflection on the city that its
streets were numbered only in part AMI
then only in a haphazard manner It
is surprising that the municipality has
countenanced such d state of affairs
this long. Visitors to the city have no.
ticed this evidence CT municipal SLOW
enliness and have not been compliment
tary in the criticisms they have passed
relative to the indifference displayed
by the municipal authorities in this
particular. But this is to be remedied
Congratulations to the people of Amer
icus. Better still, the people of the
city will have a complete and reliable
directory as soon as the streets have
been remembered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27
CUSTOMS or THE NOT LONG AGO
(Leslie's Weeklv.)

Fancy in these days having to buy
white sand and soft soap for scrubbing
floors. Imagine buying food, such as
bacon, hanging exposed on HOOK
where flies were so thick, both alive
and dead, that small boys, waiting y
be served, revealed in the delight Of
sweeping off handfuls of them from
the greasy counters,
The old custom was to permit a Gus
toner to test butter and cheese by
giving her dab on knife. This she
licked off, in the way of cleaning the
knife for the next butter or cheese
buyer. Across the ceiling dried apples
hung from one years end to the other
If they were not thoroughly dried in
the beginning they were certain to be
so after several months of dust-baths
when the boy swept the sawdust, and
after being exposed to the heat from
the kerosene lamps, the odor of which
permeated everything in the place
This smell was augmented by the
leaky oil barrels, as likely as not to be
placed next to those holding sugar
When one considers the enormous va
riety of crackers suited to dainty.
luncheon and tea service, the memory
of the coarse tastelesS soda crackers
in the open barrel fails to add to any
desire to live again in the days of old
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27
LOOKING TO THE SOUTH

By some it is believed to have been
a propheptic statement made by former
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson whom
he said that the nation would finally
look to the South as the source of It's
beef supply If the prophesy does not
come true in toto, there seems but lit
tie doubt that it will come true in part.
Relative to the phase of the matter
now before the public and which indi-
Gates a still greater prestige for the
South in this particular, the Macon
Telegraph says:
Before James Wilson, the late Secre-
tary of Agriculture, left office he more
than once, in public addresses, SAID
the nation would have to look TO the
South as the coming section to supply
beef
He spoke of the change in conditions
in the West where the large ranches
were being divided UP into small
farms. All this goes to prove what Ed
itor Richard H. Edmonds has been
saying
Conditions are favorable to Mr.. Will
sons prognosis. Our lands make all
kinds of hay. The grasses grow lux
uriantly. We have the crab grass,
crowfo0t grass, the Bermuda
The Bermuda grows all over Middle
Georgia and Bermuda lands make the
best all-round pasture land known
They afford grazing almost the whole
year. A month or so in winter is all
that other food will be necessary. We
have the cottonseed meal to mix with
rough food for the time the Bermuda
is not available
Putnam, Morgan, Hancock and
Greene are already pushing the dairy
business. But Greene goes ahead of
them. Greene is said to furnish the
hulk of the milk and cream that is con-
sumed by Atlanta Cottonseed meal,
so rich in protein, is fed to the cows
1t does we'll with the grass from the
PASTURES.
In our bottom lands Bermuda grows
tall enough to be cut for hay. Three
cuttings can be made from the same
land. On exhibition at the State Fair
last fall were a great variety of hays.
What We need is to acquire the habit
of raising cattle The all-cotton habit
has been of long standing. The oppor-
tunities are ours. We have the grasses,
and the cottonseed meal and we can
produce the hay. During the four
years of the war Georgia produced her
own supplies, fed her people and
Sherman's barn burners and largely
Johnston and Lees armies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27
Americas, Ga, April %, 1918
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< ~HR WALKED WITH GOD" 1


~HR WALKED WITH GOD" y
y = = = + \ \ = = y =
Charlotte c. Elliott
he walked with God Where'er he
went abroad,
Hate changed to love. wrath melted
into calm,
And every wounded heart received
its balm
Nor knew from what celestial fountain
poured
The healing flood. nor recognized the
Lord
he walked with God Ill lost its
power TO harm
As he passed by, and evil ceased to
charm:
To purblind eyes WAS light again re-
stored
He walked with God His was the
common lot
OF joy and pain wherein full life is
fOunds
Yet peace was his, and love that fai:-
eth not
Shone in his face. diffusing light
around.
He walked with God, ALI trivial cares
forgot;
And lol whereer he trod was holy
ground.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

One DT Mott is authority for tn1
statement that half Of the great poets
are crazy Maybe DIR. Mott considers
himself Rm0mg the number.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

IT Americas doesn't win that az
tendance trophy, there will be
mighty close margin somewhere il
the Empire State League.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Newedd you sew the buttons
on my oyercoat, love?
Mrs. Newedd-No, darling; I could
not find the buttons, so just sewed up
the buttonholes.--Bosto Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

That three billion dollars of profits
for the corporations last year didn
leave much for the wOrkmen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

The people who are spoken of as eat
ing turtle at SIS per plate don't liv"
around here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Maybe Colonel Roosevelt is even now
eEietly organizing his followers to
battle once more az Armageddon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Speaking of sticking. will the Dem
oeratic Congress be the one to put the
tar in tariff
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Now that il is dry, everybody is
hi Wiling for rain-uniess there is a
call game.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

That tax on cork legs is simply te"-
rible. Watch the peg legs rise up IN
righteous wrath.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Secretary Bryan seems to be setting
6 good example for the dry cabinet
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

When a young man gets to the point
where he calls girl an angel. 1t Is
high time to ask her to fly with him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-27

Once more the d. A R. politicians
have eft" bled and died for their
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

not unduly depressed. Slyne also would
have preferred to see a silver bucket be-
side the table, a pursy gold neck protrud-
ing from it, but he wanted all his wits
about him that evening. while he was
once. more pitting himself, alone, against
all corners in Monte Carlo-and. ineiden-
tally, against the odds In favor Of the
bank. on which he hoped to draw to the
tune Of at least, q hundred thousand
dollars during the next few days. He
knew OF expensive experience that the
Widow Cliquot and her charming COM
gerous campaign is over than just before
1t begins.
He would not even venture upon an
after-dinner cigar, contenting himself
with a cigarette from the plain gold case
with a crest on it which he had pur-
chased FROM the chauffeur he had SO
provfd entially picked up in Genoa that
afternoon. But he tipped the waiter with
such profusion that the man preceded
him to- the door bent almost double with
gratitude, and even the Marquis Of In
goldsby was starfngly impressed by the
magnificence of his exit, as Slyne had
intended be should be.
His mastery impersonation of an un,
ostentatious millionaire was not wfthoua
it's effect .on the 'hunkeys of the Casino
also. These made as much of his en-
trance as he in his assumed modesty
i. would allow on shis way into the SALES
de jeu,s where he attracted not a few APP
praising, inquisitive glances while he
once more dared discovery as he roamed
from table to table, gazing about him as
though that had really. been his first visit
there. The world and the half world
alike seemed to be wondering who be
might be-; circumstance which other
wise. would have caused him ecstatic
=, -; CTo be continued tomorrow
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course of this invention. Among the dis
turbing improbabilities Linda remains q
curiOusly compelling girl The portrayal
of her flight is rather close to perfect
idyl. Nevertheless, one reads protesting
against an attempt to make the miracles
Of romance masquerade as an everyday
realism.
Baldwin Van Slyke. Illustrations by
Wladislaw T. Benda New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The little Syrian girl. Nazileh Sewaya.
is the center round which this group of
staries~ circles In IAN amazing portraiture
of Syrian immigrant life in that foreign
country of, Brooklyn Each common
place incident of the dingy crowded quar-
ter set about, as it Is here, with the be-
wildered feelings and thoughts OF a
strange folk in some far country, 10 a
little bundle Of pure inconsistencies. This
is the irresistible appeal of these stories
that hides in the soul of !: everybody
stranded in this alien place Of the world.
Wonderfully sympathetic pictures drawn
with a. genuinely poetic artistry.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A study
I'm Political Evolution. By A. F.
Pollard, Nj. A., Lift. D., author Of
Factors in Modern History" etc.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
The worldwide movement toward
democracy makes a complete survey OF
any country's political evolution In this
direction a subject Of substantial and
timely instruction. OF all countries, Eng
land furnishes the fullest and most clear
ly marked example Of this process Of po-
litical development from loose and war
ring elements to an organic national
state. From the maze Of general English
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

the conservationist. He moreover re-
vises and corrects the common notion
that water transportation is cheaper than
that by rail. These two points made
clear. the practicability of a system OF
waterways as an efficient and saving
means or transportation Is entirely lost.
RMS may sound like technical and per-
maps tedious exposition. On the con-
trary IT'S technicalities are, so far as pos
slble, translated into common speech. it's
manner is brisk and vigorous, and its
app zach is along very interesting line
of American history.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Logan
Pearsall Smith, NJ A.. author of
Life and Letters Of Sir Henry Wot-
ton, etc. Home University Library
OF Modern knowledge. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
The Engish-speaking person-student,
writer. reader. talker-keen to the quail
ties and powers of words, will set an ex-
ceptional value upon this compact, clean
cut outline of the English language. The
study is geological in plan. Period after
period of English history is investigated
for it's word deposits, for the assimila-
tions. and blends, and notifications of
these under the influences of successive
layers of historic condition. The elastic
and accommodating character OF English
Is shown by bringing it to bear upon any
new SET Oh COnQltlOnS-Sdy those OIL I1OU-
ern science and industry-and by marking
its immediate comeback in adequate
word or phrase as a vehicle to carry it
into the common currency of speech. The
various acceptable methods of word-mak-
ing are explained and exemplified. A
most interesting chapter names the great
English wordmakers and describes to a
certain extent their contributions to the
language. Spenser and Shakespeare
stand at the head here, both in time and
service. Then the later poets-Coleridge
and Southey and Keats conspicuous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
Look out! Good-God!"


Between his two excited CALCULATIONS
Siyne had outwitted calamity. Taking a
rash curve at top speed, he had come to
an unexpected rectangle in the roadway
running almost parallel there with the
shore below. and. rounding that corner
safely with a quick wrench of the wheel,
had almost crashed into a heavy, high
built OK wagon. which was backing blind
ly- out from some steep. hidden side lane.
The hubs of the cars wheels had all but
grazed the parapet of the roadway at Mr.
Jobling's side, and Slyne, on the other,
had barely escaped being Drained by the
timbers protruding from the rear Of the
wagon The ornamental chauffeur was
fast asleep In the tonneau behind.
Mr.. Jobling lay back and gasped. while
Slyne held on as If nothing had happened
at the same breakneck pace. But neither
spoke again for some time.
Through village after village they dash
ed, always at grave risk and yet without
accident. The moon rose just before they
reached Alassio. Slyne even managed to
improve the pace a little then, and his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

among them. And Sir Walter Scott the
great revivalist of words. Burke in the
eighteenth century, and Carlyle in the
nineteenth The whole is a useful and in
teresting study. summing to a body of
unbreakable proof of the inherent vitality
and splendid resource of the English
language.
A ROMANCE OF BILLY-GOAT HILL.
BY Alice Hogan Rice, author of Mrs
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" etc.
illustrations by George Wright New
York: The Century Company.
Only now and then in the Romance of
Billy-Goat Hill does Miss Rice-or is it
Mrs. ?-strike the particular key, draw
out the particular tone, that made "Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" immediate
ly and immensely popular. This is a con-
yentional love story. An unexplained
crime rejecting rather gravely on the
young lover in the case is one of the nee
essary holdups to the progress of it's
fruition. The marriage of the young
lady in a purely friendly, even in a pla-
tonic fashion, to a fine fatherly old hus-
band is another. After regulation
amount of pleasant reading matters
smooth out. Suspicion veers to the right
quarter. the good husband slips off into
another world, and the course of true
love takes fresh start and brings up
at the proper place. The title of this ro-
nance, a couple Of its minor characters,
and q certain warm and mellow spirit
cleaning here and there. are all that
are reminiscent of the earlier and more
thoroughly human and natural "Mrs.
Wigs"
THE BEST OF a BAD JOB: A Hearty
Tale Of the Sea. BY Norman Duncan,
author Of Doctor Luke of the
Labrador" etc. New York; Fleming
II. Revell Company.
One of the worst O. Jobs to be made
s'the best or here The blindness of
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Sleight. New York: r. +. Fenno 9
Co. Washington: woodward

Sleight New York: r. +. Fenno 4
Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
WHEN MARGARET WAS A SOPHO-
MORE. BY Elizabeth HOLSTER HUNT.
author Of when Margaret Was a
Freshman" Illustrated. New York:
Moffat, Yard & Co.
ZEBEDEE v. BY Edith Barnard De-
lano. Illustrated. Boston: Small,
Maynard & Co.
THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL. BY
Eleanor Gates. New York: Dufneid
THE LITTLE GRAY SHOE: A Ronancs;
BY Percy Brebner. author or
Princess Martha" etc. With Illus
trations by f. Vaux Wilson. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
RODDLES. BY i. Paul Neuman. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
MASTER MARINERS. BY John r.
Spears. New York: Henry Holt 4
Co.
THE BUST OF LINCOLN. BY James
Francis Dwyer. New York: Double
day, Page & Co. Washington: Wood
Ward &: Lothrop.
UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS: Essays
ters. By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now first published in book form
New York: The Lamb Publishing
Company
PSYCHOLOGY; The Study Of Behavior
BY William McDougall, NJ. B.. read
err in mental philosophy in the Uni
versity of Oxford. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
THE CHRONICLES OF QUINCY
ADAMS SAWYER, DETECTIVE. BY
Charles FELTON, Pidgin, author OF
Quincy Adams Sawyer" ETC., and j
NJ Taylor. Illustrated by Harold
James Cue. Boston: L. c. Page & Co
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good old Tom Tulk. Marooned on an
ice pack and blinded for life in its glare,
Tom Tulk, in an unquenchable cheerful
ness. is, on its outside. the worthy hero
ever, is the sea itself-'Lord help us all!
The greatest thing God nader
This is an Intimate and knowing story
of the sea as it lives, and feels. and
Labrador and Newfoundland. To one
who minds the moods OF this most mon
strous Of created things Norman Duncan
in his portrayals of it is both a terror
and q delight. He is both in this par
ticular astonishing adventure Of the sea-
LINDA. BY Margaret Prescott Monta-
que, author Of I'm Calvert's Valley"
etc. Boston: Houghton Mifilin Com
pany.
Tho author of this romance has
achieved a unique and lovable person in
the Linda naming 1t. The story itself,
too, is an engaging one, provided the
reader sets himself in the proper attitude
before It, This attitude must best the one
of easy belief in which he met the. fairy
stories of his early readings. The events
either taken together or in their special
sequences, are Of so unlikely character
when sized UP by the way In which
things really do come to pass-that to
Icdu With ENJOY I1euC one I0uSC revert 10
the credency Of hts childhood. AS a
modern fairy story Of the Cinderella pat
tern. however, or as a myth wherein a
lovely dryad temporarily fOrsakes the
heart Of her embodying tree for a forth
faring into the world, it moves charm
ingly throughout. Linda is a southern
mountain girl. The child's marriage, her
flight, her adoption by a rich woman,
secret motherhood, adulation, many WOO
ings and a melodramatic close, incident
to her return to her home, make the
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THE WHITE BLACKBIRD
By
HUDSON DOUGLAS.
tCspy4sAt 1872 By Little, Brown, 4 Co..
(Cspysis1t. 1872. BY Little, Brown 4 Co..

passenger made no protest, but sat with
eyes downcast, his lips always moving
mutely
"A slight overdraft on the future-it's
no more than that" remarked Mr.. job
ling a little later, as if he had been alone,
and Slyne looked round at him for an in
slant, with nostrils curled in faint, su-
perior smile.
Slyne' thought he could guess some
part, at least, of the troubles affecting
his chance acquaintance. and was very
little inclined to hear more about them.
He was too busy considering his own plan
of campaign, the blood in his own veins
was running too briskly under the stimu-
lus of that wild flight through the keen
night air, to waste any time or thought
on another mans worries. But-a relloW-
feeling makes us wondrOus kind. Cheer
up" said he, suddenly. Every one over
draws more or less on his luck, at one
time or another. If that's all you've
done it's nothing to NOPE about"
Mr. Jobling sat up with start and
stared at him. That's ALL he asserted.
give you my word, sir. And then
he recollected himself and laughed un-
comfortably, confused.
I've been thinking aloud said he.
But you mustn't take any notice of that.
It's a bad habit of mine. And as You
time to time AS man Of the world, sir,
you'll understand what l mean to convey
to you. And, of course, these little over
drafts are always met when they're due"
What q fine night this is for fast
spin.''
What's the nature of your :. present
overdraft?" Slyne inquired, perversely.
safe in the certainty that the other could
not resent that rudeness. and was again
amused by Mr.. Jobling's cough OF dis
comfiture
But. Purely metaphorical," that gen.
tleman countered cleverly. We'll soon
be in San Reno at this rate. / wouldn't
wonder IL we've established record. 1t
isn't every day there's such a car in the
market
mo, it isn't" Slyne agreed. Nor
buyer for it." And conversation Ian
guished again.
But Slyne's spirits, none the less, were
steadily rising as he drew nearer mile
by mile, to the chief temple OF that god
dess of chance to whom he looked to be-
friend him now-since 1t was not on his
own behalf alone that he was seeking her
shrine, since mischance must entail COM
sequences so dire to Sallie as well as to
him. The personal risk he was running
lent added zest to the piquancy OF mis-
most unusual position as champion OF
maidenhood in distress. And what Saliie
fate would be IL his own luck failed him
he could picture In vivid detail from his
own experience Of world most men
knew nothing about.
Within q few days the olive Brancn'
with a. suphly Of cheap coal ana some