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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
New York American.)


Luigi Viezzi. of COG Pallisade avenue
Jersey City. claims he has invented a
perpetual motion machine.
He has just returned from italy, al
ter vain endeavor to see King Eman-
uel. Kings, it appears. do not recog-
nize genius Christopher Columbus
was not appreciated by the ruler OF
his native land, but he found this con-
tinent.
Viezzi come here short of funds, but
is not discouraged He saId:
THE machine is so simple. 1t will
start of itself-and, presto! 1t just
keeps on going. On March "a, last
year at 9:16 o'clock in the evening. /,
finished the invention. There was jov
in my heart, for | knew I had solved
the geratest problem in the world
Then on October IS, at exactly 5:51
o'clock in the afternoon. the machine
started going. 1t was perfect, and it's
running yet
Thirty-eight other things viezzi has
put before the world, including fire
escapes, mail boxes, and bonnet
holder for women which does away
with the deadly hattpins.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
WILSON'S MESSAGE PRAISED
New York American.)

'-NCW iOIh
President Wilson's tariff message is
admirable in in manner and matter.
1t is particularly judicious in what
it leaves out--all the hackeneyed, OBJ
solete-and unsound ideas of the Bryan
platform. And it is highly praise
worthy in its moderate, sagacious, and
truly Democratic suggestion that trade
and business are to be stimulated and
made freer by more liberal tariff
policy, not cOnvulsed, revolutionized,
and in spots possibly destroyed by an
attempt to uproot all protection of
American industry.
Reciprocity treaties with nations
from whom We now buy hundreds Of
of merchandise and to whom
we ought to sell much more of our own
products than We do and a. revival Of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
THE STREETS SHOULD BE RE-
NUMBERED

That the chances Of directory OF
the city this season have failed is I'M
fortunate. No aggressive and public
minded citizen but who will regret T.
But it has served to point clearly the
need of a remembering of the streets
oe the city as soon as this can be &c
complished.
If a directory of the city had been
published with the meagIe data r J.
garding street numbers now obtain
able, it would have been little other
than a farce That city the size uf
Americas should permit such slovenly
neglect as regards it's street numbe'-
:ng is hard to understand The rep
resentatives of the directory manufaa-
tarers who came to the city to get the
directory in shape noticed the lack If
street numbering at once.
Since it has become necessary for
the business men of the city to forego
the pleasure of having a directory un~
til later this delay can be put 0
good account if the city authorities
will only have the streets re-numb"r
ed and have them arranged so that
when it becomes possible to arouse
more interest in the business men
here later, the streets of the city will
be remembered so that a decent t
rectory may be printed.
1t is unfortunate that the city may
have occasionally very frank and UNI
biased criticism by an outsider. 1t is
easy for a municipality, just as it is
easy for an individual, to grow slovenly
and careless in keeping house. Amer
icus has been shown it's shortcomings
in this particular Will not the city
remedy this defect? VIII
hot the business men of Americas give
vital support to the movement to
have city directory made this fall?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
1T COSTS TO RUN A CIRCUS
Many Tons of FOOdstuifs Required TO
Feed Men and Animals.
may devise.
New York World.)


Has any one ever figured out what a
mint of money it costs to operate the
biggest present-day circus? Wintering
the Barnum & Bailey circus alone con-
sumes $4,000, independent of repairs
and building new equipage But it's
when the circus gets on the road that
the financial strain is felt. Each dav
requires an expenditure of at least
$500 Figure it out yourself for a
season of eight months and see how
much money is put into circulation
each year.
Salaries of the performers range
from $50 to $500 a week. May Wirth,
the young Australian equestlienne
sensation, gets seasons sum that
would keep the average workingman
on vacation for the rest of his life.
1t costs a barrel of money to get the
animals which comprise great pop
ular feature of the circus. The mother
of the baby giraffe cost $4,000, Tom
its .ather, cost $4,000.
The equipment for this season S
show represents an outlay Of $780,
II 600, of which $1,0OO,OOO was spent for
tn parade paraphernalia. The rail-
road equipment is valued at more than
100000. The horses and their decor
ations are worth more $4,000. The
menagerie is estimated to hav cost
$720,000 and to be worth more than
that amount by reason OF tricks drilled
into the animals by trainers.
A tabulated list of the items needed
for the daily sustenance of the cosmo-
polltan host will stagger you. For the
animals the daily consumption of foo l
is tons of hay, 200 bushels of oats,
$50 bushels OF corn, so bushels II
bran. 1-2 carcasses of beef for the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
MAKING COUNTRY LIFE MORE
ATTRACTIVE

To yitalize and animate country lii9I
sc that the great exodus of people
from the farm to the city will de-
crease, if not disappear, is one of the
problems of the modern world. There
are already too many people in the
large cities, but still the farms ara
drained of many of their best men
and women to feed the ravening nav
of city life.
The meeting to be held in Richmond
next week has many things to COM
mend it to the farmers, for whose ben
eft it was arranged. OF this assembly
the Atlanta journal says:
There is to be held at Richmond
Va, next week, under the auspices or
the Conference for Education in the
South, convention, or father a
group of conventions, in which every
alert citizen, whatever may be his
particular vocation, has vital cause TO
be interested. The range of subjects
to be considered includes many differ
ent questions that bear upon the
South's rural development and they
will be discussed by men who are III
Intimate touch with this important
field of thought and endeavor-bank-
crs, merchants, manufacturers aud
teachers as well as farmers.
1t is coming to be more and more
clearly realized that the prosperity u
towns iand cities depends upon III.
contiguous farm territory. Bushes;
men are fast awakening to the trut
that from their particular standpoint
| u pays W encourage III every way pos
sible the development of agriculture
resources Hence we find boards .
trade and chambers of commerce ea
gaging in active campaigns to uphill,
the country about them as we'll as Ia,
= immediate interests of their own com
munities.
Thus, the Commercial club of Louis
vile is financing a movement for be.
ter rural schools throughout Ken
lucky. The Duluth commercial club Ia.
employed an agricultural expert t
train the farmers of the adjaceu
!, counties in scientific methods OF cul
tivation. The Atlanta Chamber d
Commerce is doing work of this char.
aeter that is especially noteworthy. I
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
FIREFLIES GO A-COURTIN'
Scientists Learn That Bugs See Their
Mates Love Lanterns.

The problem that has interested
psychologists for centuries, the mys-
FERROUS question as to whether SUCH
insects as the grasshopper and the
cricket hear, or whether lightning bugs
and moths see, has at last been
answered in the affirmative by two
noted scientists of the day At least,
that is the Interpretation that may be
deduced from the recent observations
and experiments of Prof. Mast, OF
Johns Hopkins University, and Dr.
Karl Peters, of Berlin, Germany.
The instrumental music of crickets,
grasshoppers, locusts and other insects
is heard and appropriately responded
to by their mates, according to the re-
searches Of DR.. Peters. The melodies
of these little creatures may be merely
noises to birds and man but they con-
tain the love lyrics and tones of we'd
ding hymns to them.
Prof. Mast's discovery has to do
with the lightning or FREELY and seems
to indicate to many learned savants
that these beautiful illuminants OF
the living summer nights" really are
possessed of eyes that see
Prof. Mast studied the behavior of
lightning bugs for some time, and his
observations led him to the conclus-
ion that the female FREELY did not
wander far from her own fireside, but
remained more or less in the exact
neighborhood where you found her In
brief, the lady bug with the lantern
placed amidships, does not fly at all.
1t crawls or moves about sluggishly
The paterfamilias, that is to say, the
male gentry of the freely community,
are the foragers, gallants, lovers and
yoluptuaries. 1t is the gentleman fire.
fly that goes flying around, seeking
what he listeth, finding adventures
and making love.
PROF.. Mast found that the gallivant-
ing male insect would fly about, when
suddenly it would flash its living Ian
tern If feminine member of the
tribe was sticking to a tusk of grass, d
twig, or at rest upon the ground, any
where within a nearby area, it would
flash a shy, modest response in the
way of a flash of light First the fe-
male, then the male would signal in
this way to the other. This would con-
tinue until the lover discovered it's
timorous mate hiding in the dell. Once
they caught up with each other, and
found their hearts desire, theirs would
be sparkling of the true-lovers kind.
The conclusion that may be drawn
from a great series of experiments by
Prof. Mast is that fi1eflies make ami
mated love by the(glow of their Won
derful little lights. They must have
eyes that see, otherwise the one sex
could not respond to the light signals
of the other sex.
When all is said and done there is
really little difference after al be-
tween love-making and the amours of
these little insects. The butterflies,
crickets, cicadas, and grasshoppe:s
make love with their little lutes and
lyrics. man makes love with stringed
instruments and little liars" Iightn-
ing bugs make love with the winking
love light of their glowing lanterns.
/ The lovelight in the eyes of the human
lover the flashes of colcr in milady's
gowns and millinery are much the
same sort of thing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

| the American merchant marine, not by
bounties which imply favoritism, but
by discriminating duties in favor u
American ships whenever they can BE-
applied, are clearly indicated both in
| the words of M. Wilson's message and
in the still more significant fact that
provision has already been made at
the Presidents request for exactly
these measures in the tariff bill itself
reported by Leader Underwood.
The Presidents message deals in
generalities-necessarily so. But it IS
not in the Bryan manner 1t is not the
deliverance of man enraptured with
an abstract theory. 1t does not say or
imply that protectionist manufacture
ers are robbers" or protectionisJ
workingmen "beggars." The Bryan
.epithets are all missing.
Mr.. Wilson insists that the tariff
schedules are to be squared, not TO
any theory, but ito the actual facts. :"
He would move with an engineers eau
ton along the difficult track of reform.
He declares that lit would be unwise
to move headlong with reckless haste"
He warns us against cutting at the
very roots of what has grown up
among us by long process and at our
own invitation"
No tariff bill can work miracles. The
worldwide phenomenon of mounting
prices will not be contravened in a
moment by act of Congress. Prices
can be materially reduced by tariff
legislation only in those cases where
forced and unnatural combinations are
broken up.
A good tariff bill cannot do so very
much to lower prices. But it can do a
great deal to raise wages and incomes
through quickening of the general
pulse of industry and commerce.
1t is mot to be expected that any
OOphu Col Al tO6loiclIlOll VIII pass lie
present Congress without a serious
and prolonged struggle. 1t may take
three or four months to tell the tale.
There is no reason to suppose that
the President has any illusion about
easiness of his task The House OF
Representatives can, no doubt, be re-
lied upon to support the administra-
ton measure. But the Senate is an
other matter.
In the Senate Mr. Wilson will have
to deal with some veteran and hard
ened political sinners. The view that
these sinners are likely to take of any
progressive program is aptly indicated
by ex-senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, who said Tuesday:
President Wilson has some admir-
able qualities, but do not believe that
he quite knows what awaits him in the
political organization"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
SPECIAL BARGAINS.

Just received consignment of Genu-
inc Panama Hats; must be sold at a
sacrifice in two weeks.
IL Alpine Shape, worth $500, at s.. 95
IL Nobby Shape. forth $500 at $4.95
IL Telescope Shape, worth $500, II
1895.
Come quick, or you will miss a bar
gain. w. j. JOSEY,
9-2w Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

has a standing committee on agricul-
ture. 1t has inaugurated vigorous
campaign for an increased production
OF corn and foodstuffs in Georgia aud
under it's direction there is held each
year one of the greatest corn exposi-
tions in the South. Furthermore, II
stands ready at all times to assist
formers in overcoming perils to their
crops and in other efforts to upbui Il
their interests.
1t is largely for the purpose Of
quickening and organizing such enter
prizes that the Richmond convention
las been called The program, al
e, ceptionally interesting and varied
one, includes "a farmers conference
to get at the best means of marketing
farm products; a business mems col-
ference to take up the question of aid
H. agricultural development; an ed
icors' conference to plan for concert
cd press action; conference of rural
workers to make the rural school
meet farm needs; a college conference
tC plan educational extension work
for country communities; and general
on rural credits, the
country church, taxation, and better
for country women" n
addition to this there will be an eX-
tensive exhibit to portray the rural
of the South
1t is doubtful there was ever held in
any part of America a convention 30
generous and inclusive in its treat
ment of rural interests as this prom
Uses to be. 1t comes opportunely, for
the best thought of the entire nation
l., now centered upon the problems OF
tie farm and the enrichment of 81
phases of country life.
The national Congress is approach
ing a constructive program of legisla
ton through which the federal gov
will render more active and
more practical aid to this great fed
Of public interests. There is now be.
fore the Senate a bill by Senator
Smith, of Georgia, providing for ii
division of markets in the department
ct agriculture, through which the far
ners may be kept continually inform
ed as to the current prices and move
ments of food products. A Rural
Credits Commission is soon to sail for
Europe to study the financial side of
agriculture in the Old World. Scores
OF commercial and industrial bodies
throughout the Union are turning
their attention to these and kindred
subjects.
1t is we'll that the South, which IS
the great agricultural section of the.
country, should give particularly
earnest thought and effort to such at
fairs. The Richmond conference will
doubtless mark long step in the
right direction; and its participants
should have the hearty cooperation
in carrying out such plans as they
may devise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

The farmer who lives at home will
not be worried by the big price of
grain occasi0ned by the Western
floods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

1t is a case OF uneasy lies the head
ound.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

who is president of Mexico?" is a
question that may be answered diffef-
emily within a very short while.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

Americas is just beginning to get its
baseball team in shape Just wait un-
til things get going.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

Whether good or bad DIR. Friedmann
has received good bunch of publicity
in this country
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

Governor SuEzer does not find time
hanging heavy on bis hands in playing
the role of governor of New York III
Tammany-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

The cod weather only served to in
cease the lung capacity OF 10y Il
fms.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

BalIooning has a different meanine
as applied to baseball and warfare.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

The su viyors of Amageddon think
they are good for another bout or twv.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17

America has already recognized the
Chink-as a laundryman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-17
OFFICIAL ORGAN
Americas, Ga, april II, 1918
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APRIL =
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Jack Remmington)
A tickle maid is April,
like any fair cOquette,
With glances bright she wooes us,
And then she spreads her net
She lures us with her smiling;
She bathes us with her tears,
She plays on our emotions
Our hopes and joys and fears.
She sings songs of sunshine
OF birds and bees and flowers;
She whispers of soft breezes
hat sigh through radiant bowers.
in ecstacy we court her
This maid of frail alloy,
Whose tears are sparkling jewels
Of lachrymosal Joy.
She bids the blossoms waken
And weeps. but not in gloom;
{ he fain would hnger longer
To see the world abloom.
SO like a gentle Phoebe
Cl3 varying moods she sings;
She wins US with caresses
While yernal natul sings
We love this winsOme maiden,
But little does she care;
We scorn the jade so tickle
And get the naughty stare.
II hot and cold she plays US,
Whene'er she gets the call,
But still we rather like her
She's April-that is all.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-25
A 14-YEAR OLD BOY
STARTS ON LIFE TERN

Aurora. H.. June 20.-A boy in
knee pants. who looked like the av-
erage run of boys twelve to thir-
teen years old. and wearing the en-
barrassed grin of the lad who has
been called in from play ito speak
his piece for company" stopped in
Aurora on his way to the Joliet
penitentiary, where just after 10
o'clock he began a life term for the
recent murder of "a woman and two
babies.
The boy was Herman Coppes,
fourteen years old. who last April
shot and killed Mrs. Mamie Sleep
at her farm home in East Plato,
near Elgin, and Drained her two
children, boy of two years and a
girl of four. He is the youngest
life prisoner who has ever entered
the State prison.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-25
Q Q @ G O O @ Q Q G O O @ @ Q
G OLD-TIME ICE CREAM. @
@ Q G G @ G G G G G @ G @ 9 @

A scant teacupful of -four to two
quarts of new milk; put three pints
over the fire in a double boiler, mix
the -four with the other pint until
perfectly smooth, then, when the
milk is boiling, add and stir in the
-four; let it boil for fifteen minutes,
and just before taking it from the
fire, stir into the mixture one and
one-half pounds of pulverized SUI
gar; any good white sugar will an
swer. Stir all the time after put
ting in the sugar. letting it remain
over the fire only long enough to
dissolve the sugar, then take from
the fire and strain at once through
coarse towel. When cold, add a
quart of good cream. beating it in
well; flavor with vanilla-one and
a fourth tablespoonful of the ex-
tract to a gallon. When perfectly
cold. freeze. This is very mex
pensive cream, and is very good in
deed.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-25
MEMORIAL SERVICES
FOR KENTUCKY HEROES

Monroe. Mich, June 19.-Anni-
versary ceremonies for heroes of
the war of 1912 took place in this
city to-day when thousands of visi-
tors, together with representatives
from Kentucky. gathered to do hon
or to the memory of 1000 Ken
lucky soldiers who lert their homes
and marched North in the middle
of winter to the relief of French
town and Detroit.
They were captured by the Eng
lish through the treachery of a set
tier and then allowed by their cap
tors to be butchered by Indians.
The services were held over the
graves of the Kentucky heroes in
Memorial Place. The principal
speakers were Lieutenant Cover
nor McDermott. of Kentucky, and
Governor Ferris, of Michigan.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-25

ed States. On the subject OF Bet
ter Babies" there is published in
addition to TIE editorial referred
TO above. an article entitled Bet
ter Babies in the South" which
contains an interesting report of
some remarkable work done in
Louisiana by Mrs. Frank De Garmo.
Fiction of absorbing interest and
reality is contributed by Mary Hast
ings Bradley. Mary Heaton Worse.
Juliet wilbor Tompkins. Viola Bur-
hans and Maude Radford Warren.
Art features Of special beauty
and value are included, and the
regular Cooking. Fashion. House
hold and Young Peoples Depart
ments are full OF good things.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-25
LASHED FORMER BEAU
HAD TALKED ABOUT HER

Marietta. Ga, June ga sen
.ation was created yesterday at New
Home Baptist church in Cherokee
county when Miss Belle Greer, the
1j-year-old daughter of Rev. r. E.
Greer. pastor of the church, laid
the lash to Roy Owensby. a 49,
year-old boy Of the same communi-
ty.
Owensby had been a recent beau
of Miss Greer. and had made re-
marks about her. so she said, that
were not complimentary but were
calculated to injure her reputation.
The young man was sitting in a
buggy when Miss Greer began, but
jumped out on the other side. She
was ready for him when he did so,
and rained a shower of blows upon
him.
Before coming to the church Miss
Greer had procured hickory
withe three-quarters of an ich in
diameter and five to seven feet
long. Her father stood by and told
the young man 10 stand and take
the medicine" He did so till the
withe was worn to fragile. When
Miss Greer turned the butt end and
began Trailing him over the head
other parties interfered and stop
ped the young woman. --
In the afternoon at the same
place a bevy of twenty young girls
brought flowers to Miss Greer as
their approval of her
course of defending her own good
character. Owensby had recently
moved into the community from
Union county. Miss Greer's father
has lived there for a number of
years.