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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
ASK RESIGNATION or
MACON'S POSTMASTER
Official Ak Falls on Harry
StiIIWeIl Edwards

Washington, d. c., July 12-Harry
Stillwell Edwards, we'll known as an
author and for several years postma8-
ter at Macon, has been asked to re-
sign that office, following charges that
he has not paid proper attention to the
office.
An inspector made the report and
the department this week request ID
MIR. Edwards to resign. His resigna-
ton has not yet been received.
Congressman Charles L. Bartlett
has recommended William T. Morgan
as Mr.. Edwards successor. 1t is un-
derstood that this will not be satisfac-
tory to Senator Bacon. The .postoffice
department wrote Mr. Bartlett and
asked him to recommend somebody
else, overlooking for a day or two tna
fact that Macon is Senator Bacon's
home town. Senator Bacon was then
told of the coming vacancy, and the
postotfice department has expressed
the wish that Senator Bacon and Mr.
Bartlett get together on a selection.
Senator Bacon declined absolutely
tonight to discuss the matter. Con-
gresham Bartlett said he had simply
complied with the departments wish
III recommending a man and that he
intended to push Mr. Morgan's name.
Senator Bacon declined to say even
that this selection was unsatisfactory.
1t has been the custom in the past 20
allow senators to recommend postmas-
tiers in their home towns Whether
this precedent will be sustained in this
case is an interesting question in view
of past political alignments.
Mr.. Morgan is druggist and presi-
dent of the Merchants and Mechanics
bank of Macon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
CARE, NOT SPEED, THE TEST
Chicago TribuneO

Chicago Tribune)
In the prosperous West the automo-
bile has come into general use among
the farmers, and as a result legislation
tends to be more favorable to its reas-
enable use. Disciplining the motorist
no longer means furnishing a few rich
men, but is likely to fall upon the
common people"
With this fact as groundwork, and
with experience as a practical teacher
the earlier laws affecting automobiling
are being amended or replaced by wis
er regulations.
A case in point is the repeal by the
Kansas legislature of the 20-mile speed
limit and the adoption of the much
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
FUNERAL OF Mr.. WADE
OCCURRED YESTERDAY

The funeral services of Mr.. Thomas
J. Wade, who died on Friday after
noon, were conducted Saturday morn
ing from the Leslie Methodist church
at 10 o'clock, the interment being n
the cemetery there. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by the pastor,
Rev. E. A. Sanders, assisted by Rev. ].
A. Thomas, pastor of the First Meth
odist church of Americas. A large
concourse OF friends joined in paying
final tribute to one who in life was
so generally esteemed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
MARRIED LIVE LONGEST
Reasons Given Why People Who Wed
Make Best Insurance "Risks"
New York Times.)

NANCN l VI IlItS.)
From Chicago, where they evidently
have an industrious Bureau OF Vital
Statistics, there come in one day two
pieces of news that possibly are relat-
ed. One is to the effect that on Thurs
day $3.50 marriage licenses WE'RE is
sued, a number that broke the city rec
ord by thirteen. The other relates to
the relative longevity, in Chicago, OF
the married and the single
The death rate of bachelors there, 1t
seems is 1913 per 1000, that of married
men only 15.3-a difference of 29.5 per
cent In the ether sex the respective
figures are 1913 and 1O3-a difference
of 40 per cent. This showing may ac
count for the violent rushing into mat
rimony that occurred, a suppositiOn
that is made the more probable by the
presumable subsistence 70 June's we'll
known Indictment toward the great
plunge
But are the longevity figures as fay
orable to marriage as they loOk-in
other words, is the greater age at
death of the married an incident or an
effect of their state?
Before answering that question, one
must remember that as a rule, though
with all too many exceptions, the PEG,
pie who marry are what an insurance
man would call selected risks" Those
desperately or even seriously i'll, if
single, usually remain so at least I'M
til recovery. while either men or wo-
men who are in any way abnormal
encounter difficulties, of not insuper-
able obstacles, even if they feel the
mating impulse. and abnormality is
mot long-lived. The chances, are
therefore, that it would be unsafe to
draw from the above statistics the con-
clusion that marriage deserves all
the credit the figures seemingly gave
it.
Doubtless marriage ana lenStn ol
days tend to go together, but probably
they are both the effects of several
causes rather than one the cause OF
the other. Hazardous occupations and
adventures appeal more to celibates
than to the married, but it is unlikely
that anybody ever married to escape
risks of the sort directly to life. That
marriage often gives new realization
of danger and a new fear of it has
ILLUSTRATION in MIR. Kiplings' great
story of the cavalry officer who be-
came afraid to ride in front of his
,trops after he had a wife and child
and fortune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
EFFORT MADE TO SET
ASIDE CRAWFORD'S WILL
.COFOneF'S Verdict, Death Due
to Poison Used

Atlanta, Ga, July 12.-Attorneys re-
presenting the plaintiffs in the suit to
set aside the will of the late H. =.
Crawford, disposing of an estate val
ued at 100000 today filed with Auditor
J. N. Anderson here a copy of the yer
dict of the Carroll county coroner 5
jury, holding that the Atlanta capital
lists death was due to poison.
The coroners jury recommended
that Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, who
married the capitalist few weeks be-
fore his death, be held pending an in.
vestigation by the local grand jury.
DR.. H. F. Harris, secretary of the
state board of health, testified in the
will hearing here that he found traces
of morphine and opium in the stomach
Of the dead man. He expresses the be-
lief that Crawford's death had not
been due to pneumonia as ives report.
ed when he died four years ago. Dr..
Harris recently exhumed the body Of
Crawford for examination.
The will of the dead man left the
major portion of his estate to his wife
o. few weeks. Heirs at law of
Crawford instituted suit to have the
will set aside shortly after his death
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
Notes From Ladies' Auxiliary of
tine First Methodist Church
cause of Foreign Missions.

cause of Foreign Missions.
The Christian World is authority
for the statement that the man who ia
itiated the movement to observe a day
of prayer for China, was DR.. Cheng
Hsiang, the son of Chinese pastor
He is head of the foreign office and his
father was a convert of the London
Missionary society. There, as here,
the preachers sons are not all bad :
they do something for their country.
Miss Nettie Peacock, who has been
at home on a vacation, will return to
her mission work in China, sailing
from Vancouver August 10. She has
been in the foreign field for five o.
six years. Miss Chung Sing Soon,
who was graduated from Wesleyan
college last May, will return to he'
home in Shanghai on the same steamer
with Miss Peacock.
Borem-Someone must have been
joking with Miss Suburbs about me
and told her l owned the street rail-
way system here
Poerum-What makes you think so?
Borem-Why, l was out to call on
her last night and every time she
heard a car she said There comes
your car, Mr.. Borem Judge.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

The missionary collections taken at
Conference recently held at Waynes
Vile, leaves no doubt that the interest
in the worlds evangelization is not
declining among our Southern Meth
odist. Sensible men are not in the
habit of giving large sums of money
to causes which they think are fail
ing, or that is doomed to failure in
the near future, and it is clear that
not a few of the generous gifts made
at Waynesville were from men Of
good, hard business sense, men who
are not carried away by the power Of
Il sudden impulse. Such giving from
such class of givers are two of the
most encouraging features of the
present missionary interest among our
People Despite the appeals which
from time to time have been made TO
the selfshness of the human heart by
opposition to the work abroad the
work still goes forward. Clearly hui
man might has not overturned the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA
Z. 0. s, OF A,

meets ON Thursday nights. Wood
Dleu ) Hall, in Cotney Bldg. All men,
'eIS urged to attend. Visitors wei
coined PHILO H. SMITH, Prest.
" D. REESE, Reed. sec'y.
D. l. CoTNEY, Financial Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

b. eping cars between Americas and
I anta on trains leaving Americas
80 p. m, arriving Atlanta 6:25 a. nj
Aving Atlanta 11:45 p. m. Connects
Macon with sleeping cars to and
b. Savannah.
Pullman sleeping cars between Chi
10, St. Louis and Jacksonville on
kminole Limited" leaving Americas
jacksonville 1870 a. m. Leaves
Serious for St. Louis and Chicago
Columbus and Birmingham at 3:55
for further information apply to S.
gEllis, Ticket Agent, Americas, or
b. W Blount, District Passenger
gent, Macon, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

Weren't you here begging yester-
day as a lame MANI"
Quite impossible! | have followed
my profession for more than twelve
years as one blind from birth. Dor
farther.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
hOyAL ARCH MASONs,

r. WELLS CRAPTEk
lsk No. AZ, R. A M. meets
LIST Il Sd Monday nigh
4 ~ at 1900 p. m. Al Wis
E&2x% iting companions quail
IS, :" fled are cordially IL
- vite6.
LANSING BURROWS, H. P.
F. G. Oliver, sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
ANIGHTS TEMPLAR

,1'Er05gza DeMuLAE CDM
* 3 MANDERY, No. 5.
~ y n K. 7. meets every &c
! ,g " gaS " ednesday night a.
Vf 800 p. III. All Wis
a., iting knights are cor
aISIly invited.
A. B HOWARD, E. G.
F. G. OLIVER, Recorder.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

washington Camp No. "A.
"a'akHEton Camp, No. "a, P. o. 0
" A. meets every Monday niEht l.
n VI r. Hall at 8 O'Clock. viaitin
"01ners cordially Invited to attend.
s. R. SIMS, President.
D. GcMAIH. Secretary
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

nam, Schedules Corrected to Date
Central Time.
TRAINS ARRIVE.

on Savannah, Augusta
II tJan+a and Macon $500. '''O = !"
I'M columbus and in ,,oo
4 er(nediate points ''.'''' -''' "
1 om Lockhart Dothan'
'AJbany Troy and Mont ..
4 A-'''',' ..... *10:35 p IN
,ror1 Lockhart, Dothan'
aAIbany, Troy and Mont
1 ''' ...* 2:O5 p m
Eom Atlanta and Macon -;l' p "
/ om Augusta, Savannah
atlanta and Macon ..... 0:'V Il ILL
som columbus and in
Aermediate points .......: CIV All
i om Columbus and in
Aermediate points ....... IV'OV l"
&om Albany and Jack
konyille ........''.''''''' 90" ="
Albany ...* $40 a m
TRAINS DEPART.
4 Macon, Augusta and
Savannah .......'.''''' O'f0 III
Albany, Dobhan,
u ockhart Troy and
R,on+oomorv ....* $50 a m
Albany Dothan'
/ ockhart, Troy and
srontgomerv ........* 2:15 p m
Il Macon and Atlanta 80. 2:O' p Ill
Macon, Atlanta, Say
snnab and Augusta *1O:35 p m
Columbus ...........* 3:45 p IN
!, Columbus ......! $500 a III
Il Columbus, Birming-
ham and Chicago ......* $500 a IN
Albany ............* 1880 p m
j Albany and Jackson
Vile ...........* 12:30 a m
&D2ily. Except Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

At the Woman's Mission Society last
Monday afternoon Mrs. G. L. Williams
who represented the society at Leslie
gave her report which was replete
with interesting facts relative to the
work accomplished by the Americas
District
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

The meeting of the Woman's Mission
Society of the Americas District,
which met in Leslie last week, was
Interesting. The program was well
gotten up. Much credit is due Mrs. n
A. Ray, District Secretary, for the
manner in which the business of the
conference was dispatched, and the
interesting program presented.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13

USUALLY such a man believes
y in being his own janitor, er-
rand boy, clerk and general man
ager. He lives in terror OF pay
roll, and the expense ofoXpansion
Improvements fairly pals him.
A man of this type is just as big
today as he will be 20 years from
now, if providence grants him life
and unlimited prosperity. He is
carrying a portion of the same
stock that he had five years ago,
and unless he happens to have
call for these articles, he will hold
them on his shelves indefinitely.
He will tell you in a confidential
way, that it might be alright for
merchants in other lines to adver-
tise and make special offers, but
his lines is different you know"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
(By Miss Annes Pilsbury. }

The Young Peoples Missionary ST.
ciety will meet this afternoon in the
Methodist church at o'clock. Mem
bers urged to be present, visitors in
vited.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
Heisman Writes of Baseball Training for Amateur--No
BATTING EYE CAN BE FRIGHTENED BY PRACTICE

ton: while with a left handed bat
ter it should finish by pointing at
the shortstop.
IF you attempt to murder" the
ball, chances are you will only
foul it, because you have swung so
hard that your eyes and arms are
both off, and you have, therefore,
failed to hit it true. Hitting it dead
center-right on "the nose"-is
i what makes a bali go far and on
a line, not hitting it hard.
Some great batters, like Keller,
nearly always hold the bat very
short; some, like Cobb, nearly al
ways catch it clear at the end;
most good batters do neither, but
adopt a hold between the two. In
other words, they slightly choke
the bat"
A solid bat is a good thing. but be
careful not to get one SO heavy that
you can't swing it around in time
to meet a fast ball.
IVES, it is better to be left-hand-
ed batter than right handed,
for you are undoubtedly somewhat
nearer first base to start with; and,
then again, it is a bit more puzzling
to a right handed pitcher (of whom
there are more than there are
"southpaws'D to pitch to a left
handed batter
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
BY j. w. Heisrnan.
TIME was when hardly anybody

THINE was when hardly anybody
paid any attention to syste-
matte batting practice in
baseball. 1t was supposed that
either man had a good natural
batting eye or he hadn't If he
had, he needed no practice. while
if he hadn't that good eye no
amount of practice would give him
one.
All this is changed now, and it is
well understood that, eye or no eye,
every one should put in a hefty
amount of batting practice. As a
matter of fact. one should have a
stick in hand about as much as a
ball, for batting is quite as impor-
tant' as any other department of
the game, and it is probable that
as much Improvement can be made
in it as in any other with the same
amount of intelligent work.
IN the first place, a batsman
should stand with his feet close
together, and with his weight set
tied on the rear foot-that is, the
one farthest from the pitcher. Legs
spread may give him a firm foun-
dation, but once in that posture he
is anchored and can not move after
the ball, 1t would not be so bad if
we could count upon the pitcher
splitting the plate every time he
delivers the ball, but we we'll know
he is going to put some of them
close and some of them wide, some
high and some low, and we ncIrr
be free to step to wherever the ball
comes.
The thing to do is to stand still
until after the ball has left the
pitchers hand and observe care
fully where it seems to be coming.
Then. if you decide it's good enough
to swing at you can step with your
forward foot right to ?, where it
seems advisable to plant It so as to
give yourself good crack at. the
ball
Z XCEPT in very rare cases, one
should never step backward
from the plate. No fault in bat
ting is so common as pulling
away" We all have a natural ten
dency to do this. but it is a ten
dency that must be overcome be-
fore one can hope to become even
a fair batter. OF course the reason
we do it is because we fancy the
ball may hit US. But you must re-
member that the opposing pitcher
has no intention of hitting you and
giving you your base, if he can
avoid it. Besides, you must have
confidence in your own ability to
dodge the ball If you see that it is
coming straight at you.
If you will step right straight
forward toward the pitcher you will
find not only that your bat will
then reach all balls that are really
over any part of the plate, but also
that you can even reach some that
go beyond the outside corner of the
plate. Thus the consequences of
your failure to spot the .outcurve
do not loom up seriously after all.
This presupposes. though, that
you have taken your stand reason
ably close to the plate to start with.
1t is true that Wagner, Lajoie and
some others of our best batters do
not always, or even half the time,
stand close to the plate. They take
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
PELS MAY TRAIN FOR
WHILE IN MISSISSIPPI

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.-Manager
Frank of the Pelicans, has gone to Bay
st. Louis, Miss, for the purpose of
looking over the ground there in the
hope of arranging for temporary train
ing quarters for a week or so for PeIi-
can batterymen who are to report here
March s.
1t is Franks intention to get the
players across the lake so as to have
them well loosened up when the re-
mainder of the team arrives a few DAYS
later. thus preventing a general over
croWding of the local grounds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20

you could play ball; you ought to
be running a canal boat" Or Bro
ole, you are the worst hitter in the
league; you couldn't hit the ground
with your hat"
such remarks would be muttered
by Brodie until he would make a
great catch or do something that
would bring him plaudits and then
ms communing with himself would
sound like this:
w.. 'Brodie. old scout, if it wasn't
Tor you Hanlon would be in an aw-
1ul fix; you are the best ball player
in the world"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
EVERS NO STOOL PIGEON.
HE SAYS; ACCUSES TINKER

TAMPA, FLA, Feb. 19.-Johnny
Evers is actually broken up over the re-
port being circulated that Chance
thinks he was the stool pigeon" of the
club Those intimate with the affairs
OF the club know this to be untrue, and
EVers cites case that casts bit of
suspicion on Tinker. The Cub man
ager says that last season Chance was
suspicious, and confided in Brown,
Tinker and himself. After talking it
over on the West Side, Evers suggested
that each of the four put up 500 apiece
and II one of them was caught telling
club house tales to Murphy the Offend
er,s money was to be forfeited. Tinker
refused TO consider this. saws ElNers
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
Wolgast Appears To Be Making
Mistake in Taking Murphy on
With Only a Little Training

good enough to stop Murphy in ten
rounds \ few weeks in the noun
tains to reduce gradually and with
out sacrifice to the lightweight linn
it and then ten days of hard work
might put him into the ring in good
condition. When half right, VOL
CAST should be able to put the XII
bosh onto all such as Murphy
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
TECH HIGH WINS REMNANT:
DEFEATS MARIST rs TO 19

Before one of the largest crowds of
the season, the Tech High five succeeded
in UNFOLDING their perfect record by de
teating Marist at the MarisC court by
the score of rs to 10, and by so doing cap
tured their first prep pennant
ClintZ, at forward for Tech High, PLAYED
one Of the best games of his car eer He
scored thirteen CT his teams total points
although watched Glc .nly by the opposing
players, and also did some sW ell guard
ing. Bedell and LairC also played a star
game, as is evident roIl The fact that
Marist did MT make PORT or them in
the second half
For Marist the work of Lowry and
Callahan was excellent Lowry made
IL Cf the 19 POINTS scored by mis- team
mates, and also did seine fire work at
passing Callahan played a star game
at guard and shot four points, one of
mis- goals being made from the center of
the court
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20

their stand at different locations in
the batter's box, and that is one
reason why pitchers find it so diff
cult to judge what best to throw to
them. for they never seem to stand
twice alike. But these are very
exceptional men. and they have
such wonderfully good eyes that
they can stand away back and still
tell whether the ball is coming over.
If they decide it is, or they wish to
hit at it, they step forward and
closer to the plate as the bali draws
near and smash it anyway-some-
thing you and l couldn't do. The
general run of amateur batters will
do best to stand somewhere around
foot from the plate.
&c
N OW. the bat should not be hung
dead and inert on the shoulder,
for it requires a bit of jerk to
draw it out of a condition of iner-
tia. and that means that you will
have IL slightly swung out of bal
ance. Neither should it be gripped
too tightly and tensely by the fin
gers, that will tire the muscles of
the whole arm. 1t should be moved
slightly, easily and gracefully, in a
small circle near the outside point
of the shoulder. That will keep the
muscles supporting it supple and
elastic, and ready for business.
The head and body should be
kept as nearly upright as possible,
no matter how low the ball, for we
are accustomed to viewing objects
with our eyes in that erect car
rage of the head and body. To
bend over to swat it means that
we are placing our eyes at dis
advantage. From that position we
more or less turn the tops of our
heads down and so have our eyes
upside down, as it were.
Any lowering of the body that
may seem necessary in order to
reach low ball should be accom-
plished by a longer step with the
forward foot and greater bending
81.
A ND the swing Of the bat? Well.
that weapon should come
around to meet the ball so that it
will be as nearly parallel to the
ground as you can fetch it. Line
drives are what we all want in
baseball, and tn csc you can not get
by swinging downward as you
would swing a golf stick Neither
can you get them by whacking
down from above as you would
swing an ak at something lying on
the ground. The one swing hoists
the ball into the air, the other
chops or beats it down, and neither
is what you are after. Besides, if
you will bring your bat around
fiat it will certainly reach out
farther after curve, should it
prove to be a curve, than either of
the other swings will permit.
This stroke should not be carried
through so far, however, as to spin
you clear off your balance. The
chaps who spin clear around are
usually the ones who pull their
near foot back, for that's what also
pulls the bat around SC far. II
they did happen to catch the ball
on the stick, they would only pull it
clear out of the foul line and so
make but foul out of it. A right
handed batter should carry the
stroke through to where the far end
Of the bat will about be pointing at
the second baseman's usual posi-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-20
KID MCCOY MAKES DEBUT
TONIGHT AS EVANGELIST

NEW YORK. Feb 19.-"Kid Mccoy"
otherwise Norman Selby, the former
pugilist will enter the ring as an evan
gelist. He will endeavor to deal blow
for health and brotherly love. He makes
his public appearance IN a public school
tonight.
II now intend said Mccoy. Ito do
what | can to promote rational living. to
teach people that health is the center Of
everything worth while. and to ihstill
into them the gblden rule