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Some frankly say they would not. One the
other day simply said: L think have dis
charged my obligation when / submitted
the recommendation and l understood.
4
MY business is to find the right men
for the positions. And some of them are
great positions. There. for example, Is
the office of commissioner Of Indian af-
fairs. He is charged with looking after
10000 persons in their most intimate af-
fairs. domestic and financial. He is guar
dian Of their 81 900, 100000 worth Of prop
erty. The actual wealth he has under
his control would build railroad from
Portland, Ore. to Portland. Me-. and dou-
BILE track it, No railroad president In the
country has as big job as he has. And
yet we pay for that position only 5000
year.
THAT is the compensation OF bureau
chiefs generally. What l am trying to
do is to find fiftythousand-dollar men for
these NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Jobs.
but before any man IL appointed to
an important position / want to see him.
l want to talk to him personally. Thus
/ asked all the candidates for governor
of Hawaii and OF Alaska to come here
for personal interviews.
Acquiring information about the busi-
ness of the department Is what I am
trying most to do. I want 70 get every
angle on all the matters that are coming
up. But, with the limited resources we
have and the limited appropriation, 1t
Is difficult to get everything In the way
Of Information that ] nced. / am try
ing. for one thing, to secure all the facts
about Alaska. That territory certainly
should be opened UP. That 1t Is closed
now to q greater or less extent IL ad-
mitted. 1t is q country capable of sup
porting q population Of ten million. Its
AGRICULTURAL resources and lands are
greater in extent than the combined re-
sources and lands of like character in
all the Scandinavian countries.
II want to know about the coal lands
of Alaska; to consider whether 1t 10 best
to sell them; how best they can be made
useful. to the people. In pursuit OF In
formation I expect to spend the summer
in the field. going probably through to
the Pacific coast. l doubt that shall
be able to get to Alaska tnis year. al
though l should like TO go there Tor
"On INV western trip expect to hear
at first hand many OF the complaints
about the work Of the department chat
have been voiced In various channels
Some of these manifestly are unjustin-
dDle, OUT All 6oih6 " AooAA AANso ~AAS>--
ALL"
Cautious though he was in avoiding
committing himself to any policy, the Sec
rotary in the foregoing did indicate just
what he is now doing: getting informa-
ton. The day before his appointment
was announced he happened to meet a
man from Alaska who has q mass OF
statistical facts about the territory at
his tongues end. From him the prospec-
tive Secretary pumped out much ma
terial.
And l never knew until the next day
why he was SO keen on the subject"
laughed the Alaskan In telling about It
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lander. born with the salt sea breezes
in his nostrils, with a line OF nautical
forbears behind him, never has had an
opportunity to be associated as much as
he would like with the ocean. His public
career has confined him to shore matters
entirely.
Even as a recreation he has not had
much of it, because he is one of those
absorbed individuals to whom the taking
of vacation is a rare thing. Last year,
for the first time in a decade, he really
took vacation and established sum-
mer home in Nova Scotia, where ne
rioted in the sea. He got him yawi-
rugged yacht. a chum of like tastes. and
went out and bucked the Atlantic ocean
Over a considerable section OF the north
ern map. 1T was the most fun | have
had in years" he told friend
He intended TO go again this year, but
this new position has changed his plans
Indications are now that his vacation
will be spent in the west tx.ening to the
troubles OF irate westerners lie has
many a big problem to solve. His naviga-
ton is to be to find course between op-
posing schools of thought. each OF which
is absolutely certain 1t has the only
remedy for obtaining from the remaining
public domain the greatest gooo Tor the
greatest number of the people.
He brings to these problems years Of
experience in public life. vigorous health
a great capacity for work ano snrewo'
hard-headed common-sense that won him
fame In the Office of commissioner OF In
terstate commerce.
His department needs all of these quail
tiles. For years Congress has had the
habit of making that department tho
catch-au for governmental activities that
were hard to classify. The Department
OF Agriculture, the Department or LABOR,
the Forest Service, the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the Census Blu
reau all trace a common ancestry to this
parent Back before 1S49. when the De-
partment Of the Interior was created, In
dian affairs and the Pate9t once were
in the War Department. the General
Land Office and the Census Bureau IN
der the Treasury, and Pensions under the
joint control of the Secretary OF War and
the Secretary of the Navy.
department, under IAN act to establish
the home depa rtment'-later changed to
Department of the Interior-and added
few little things like supervising the &C
counts of United States marshals, clerks
and other officers Of the United states
courts: also Jurisdiction over the COM
missioner Of public buildings In the DIS.
trict of Columbia and over the LEAD ana
other mines. which then were operated
under a leasing and royalty system the
government then declining to grant alb
solute title to mineral lands.
b
In 1855 the department acquired juris-
diction over the Government Hospital for
the Insane; in 1857 1t was given super
visory jurisdiction over the Columbia In
stitute for the Deaf. Dumb and Blind: in
1861 it was given the duty Of suppressing
the slave trade; in 1887 1t took under its
wing the newly created bureau of educa-
ton. Freedmen's Hospital was added In
1874. Howard University. in Washing
ton came next. and then a flood OF new
bureaus. Much has been added; lit
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machine creaks and snorts where they
lived.
If you are walking along G street
between 9Th and 7th and will look to-
ward the northern sky you may see
high up, always heading into the wind.
another gilded horse with flowing name
and uplifted tail. and probably dis
tended nostrils, though his position Is
too far up in the air to determine that
point without field glasses.
He is trotting on q gilt horizontal bar
and seems to be striking at least q
2.20 gait He Is we'll extended. He
seems to be about to win No other
horse IL near him. He wears no har-
ness. No su1ky or driver is behind
him.
He Is bold, proud-looking horse and
ftsis refreshing for horseDen to look
up and sec one OF their four-footed
friends who has not the detected mien
which so many horses In the streets
wear. 1t Is a pleasure to them to con-
template this horse. even If he is . gilt
horse.
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Iron Watchdog.


THE Iron watchdog Is not extinct In
Washington. He may not be so
numerous AZ he used to be- Time was
when 1t was not unusual for the owner
of city home to have q pair Of iron
dogs before his house, one on each side
Of the entrance. From time to time the
Rambler has reported the presence Of
dogs and lions as aids to architecture or
as guards of portals in Washington. The
list Of these things has not been ex-
hausted.
There is an iron watch dog. freshly
painted black. with a very glossy coat,
on the north side OF H street between
10th and 18th streets. There Is only one
of him. Usually these iron dog door
keepers come in pairs. and there prob
ably was pair here. but the ether dog
is missing-strayed or stolen. The re-
manning dog Is a Newfoundland, or it
may be that he is a setter. He is
couchant, but his head is up and his
ears alert as though he would sniff
and challenge anybody not known to
him who would enter the house for the
safety Of which he Is responsible
1t Is big, red pressed brick double
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democratic statesmen went to Senator
w. Il. Borah OF Idaho. progressive re
publican, for word OF advice regarding
the sort of man 70 be appointed Secre-
tary OF the Interior. They did this be-
cause Senator Borah takes a deep inter
est in the problems of the department.
and frequently Is heard in debate on
them.
Whatever you do" Senator Borah is
reported TO have told his democratic
friends. you are going to get into trou-
BILE II you appoint a western man. from
one Of the public land states, lot OF
the ltra-conservationists of the east are
going to jump on you. II you appoint an
casterner in sympathy with the radical
conservation program OF federal land
lordism the westerners are going To
jump on you hard. and 1 am going to BE-
one of the first to do the jumping So
don't ask me for advice. You are going
TO get in bad. anyhow In the present
state OF public opinion no man you can
appoint TO that position Is going to he
safe from attack. 1t is an Office full of
trouble
The graveyard of political ambition IS
another designation that has been ap-
piled to the Office. Hoke Smith of Geor-
il and has then come back politically
and he came back as United States SEN
ator two years ago, fifteen years after ne
left the department..
Henry Nj. Teller Of Colorado was Sec
rotary of the Interior i'm the Arthur cab
met, but got himself elected United
States senator while in office. and so re-
signed. Other secretaries have retired to
greater or less obscurity. Being Secre-
tary OF the Interior does not make for
much except criticism and enmity.
But. oddly enough. the Borah and other
predictions regarding President Wilson's
possible selection haven. come true. Ii
is not because the new Secretary was
unknown. for he was a national figure
before his appointment. Further. he
comes from a public land state-Califor-
MIA Still not voice has been raised In
criticism of him. Rather. radicals and
conservatives have appauded the selec-
ton.
Chances are that had Mr.. Lane known
much in advance that he was consider
ed for cabinet office, and had had an OPP
portunity to pick out the portfolio he
most wanted he would have put in bid
for Secretary OF the Navy. II is the
irony OF fate that this Prince Edward Is
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Leaning Chimney Survives Storm.
THE leaning chimney of the Avenue
of the Presidents withstood the
great storm of 1913. One would like
to write that it stood Up under the stress
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CONTINUED on Ninth Page.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
BURGLAR FRIGHTENS
WOMAN WHO FAINTS

Atlanta, Dec, Mrs, W, H, Pitt
man, of Fowler street, who tainted a
the sight of a burglar whom her hus
band afterward fired on with revo.,
yer and drove from the house, is in q
dangerous condition today as the re-
suit of the nervous shock she sustain
ed.
She and her husband were seated in
the library of their home, reading
when a noise behind them was follow
ed by the entrance through hal
window of a burglar
Mr. Pittman grabbed up a pistol
and began firing at the man who jump
ed out the window and escaped. Ii
the meantime Mrs. Pittman fell in 4
dead faint from which it was difficult
to revive her.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03

Statistics aren't necessary to prove
the value of Red Cross Seals. More
conclusive than any figures which
could be tabulated are the living,
breathing proofs of their value.
There is Angela Fradinardo, for ex-
ample. Angela was born in a New
York cellar which never was anything
but damp and dirty. Her father AMI
mother were sore distressed because
ANGELA was so quiet and sombre. Tie
neighbors called her 1.-The little one
who cannot laugh 1t is more than
probable that ANGELA would have died
if it had not been for the folks who
bought Red Cross Seals. ANGELA was
taken from the cellar and placed n q
fresh-air class, and today she is "the
smiling one"
Then there is Jennie Leveri, to ad l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
EMORY GRADUATE
WINS ENGLISH
TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Emory College, Oxford, Ca, Dec. e.
News has been received from Oxford,
England, that Hatton D. Towson, grad
uated from Emory in the class of 1912
and winner of the Rhodes scholarship
from Georgia last spring, has won the
tennis tournament in singles, partici-
pated in by all the students of the Eng
fish university.
Towson won the tennis honors Of
the freshman class, and then became
the winner of the handicap singles op-
en- to every student.
While at Emory Towson won the
tennis honors in singles for three sue
cessive years, and carried away the
cup in his senior year.
After his graduation in 1912 he be-
came instructor of English at Emory
and served one yea, until the time
came for him to take up his studies al
Oxford.
! : Since the fall term athletics at the
university 1t has been decided that tlt
Rhodes scholarship student will be
allowed to participate in any form O.
athletics in competition with the Eng
lish students. The American critics
believe this has been done to save the
native students from SO many defeats
as it is a we'll known fact that the
American athletes surpass all other
races in their athletic achievements.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
LOOKS LIKE MRS.
CRAWFORD WILL
NOW GO FREE

Atlanta, Dec. 2.-If the evidence il
the Crawford will case yesterday may
be taken as an indication of the trend
the case will take, the whole affair is
pretty certain to be settled in the civil
side of the court. 1t begins to LOOK
more and more doubtful as to whether
the widow will ever have to face d
criminal bar of justice to prove that
she did not poison her husband.
Mrs. Crawford's attorneys insist that
the poisoning charge was obviously
faxed up and brought in not through
any hope of proving Mrs. Crawford
guilty, or even from any belief in her
guilt, but simply to prejudice her in
terests in the civil action.
1t will be recalled that DR.. H. u.
Harris, state chemist, testified that he
had found traces of morphine poison
ing in Crawford's stomach.
The tests by DR.. Harris were attack
ed today in a statement of interroga-
tories submitted to DR.. J. M McCand
less, an analytical chemist. DR.. Nc
Candless charged that DR.. Harris test
was incomplete because color test
instead OF a quantitative analysis was
made.
The testimony of DR.. McCandless
followed Immediately upon testimony
given by DIR. j. w. Hurt, that he had
given Joshua Crawford morphine dur
ing his last illness, and denying that
there we're any symptoms Of opium
poisoning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
Good Time Now
For Blood Health
Energies Are More Keen
and Respond Quickly
to Help.

If you are down with rheumatism; II
you sneeze, feel chilled, are choked with
catarrh, have cough. or your skin liz
pimpled and irritated with rash, eczema,
or any other blood disorder Just remem-
Der that all the ills of life come from I'M
pure blood. And you can easily give your
blood good thorough cleansing, bath
by using S. s. s. There Is no need for
anyone to be respondent over the illness
of blood impurities. No matter how badly
they attack the system, or how unsightly
becomes the skin, just remember there is
one Ingredient in s. S. S. that so stimu-
iates the cellular tissues throughout the
body that each part selects Its own es-
sential nutriment from the blood
This means that all decay, all break
ing down of the tissues Is checked and
repair work begins. s. s. s. has such a
specific influence on all local cells as to
preserve their mutual welfare and afford
a proper relative assistance to each other.
For many years people relied upon Mer.
curry, Iodide of Potash. Arsenic. Physics"
Cathartics and dope" as remedies for
blood sickness, but now the pure vegetable
s. s. s. is their safeguard.
You can get s. s. s. in any drug store,
but insist upon having 1t. And you should
take no chance by permitting anyone to
recommend a substitute. And If your
blood condition is such that You would
like to consult a Specialist freely, address
Medical Dept, The Swift Specific Co., 218
Swift Bldg, Atlanta. Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
A FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when yoi
know that the medicine you are aboLr
to take is absolutely pure and con
tains no harmful or habit-producine
drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. Kifmer {
Swamp-Root, the great Kidney, Liver
and Bladder Remedy.
The same standard of purity
strength and excellence is maintained
in every bottle of Swamp-Root
Swamp-Root is scientifically COM
pounded from vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and is taken IN
teaspoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for every
thing.
According to verified testimony it is
natures great helper in relieving and
overcoming kidney, liver and bladder
troubles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmers Swamp
Root.
If you need medicine, you should
have the best.
If you are already convinced that
Swamp-Root is what you need, you will
find it on sale at all drug stores in bot
ties Of two sizes, fifty cents and one
dollar.
Sample Size Bottle of Swamp Root
Enclose ten cents to DR.. Kilmer g.
Co., Binghamton, NJ Y, for sample
size bottle. by parcels post-it should
convince anyone. You will also re-
ceive booklet of valuable information,
telling all about the kidneys. When
writing be sure and mention the
Times-Reocrder adv:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03

other healthy, happy person who owes
her life to the buyers of Red Cross
Seals. She had had tuberculosis from
childhood, and her life was despaircd
of until visitor to her home from ta;
tuberculosis Society arranged for hel
30 begin the out-of-door treatment Il
didn't seem best for her to go away
from home, so she went on top of hel
tenement to live She is well as evel
now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
WHENEVER YOU NEED
A GENERAL TONIC TAKE GROVES

The Old Standard Groves Taseess chill Tonic is Equally
Valuable General Tonic because Acts the Liver
Drives Out Malaria Enrches the Blood and Builds up
the Whole System For Grown People and Children.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dentists
isl?

c. p. DAVIS, Dentist.
Forsyth Street Over Western Union
OFFICE: RESIDENCE:
Phone 262 Phone 21S
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
Driues One To Suicide
And Manies Another

marriage license of Teti and Miss En-
dicott, Reeves went to his boarding
house and fred bullet into his let
breast.
Lodgers who ran to his room heard
him moan. "She turned me down.
The young man lost consciousness a
moment later.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 2.-Whill
the body of Samuel H. Reeves, who
killed himself because she had reject
ed him, lay in the morgue of st. JOS
eph's hospital, Elizabeth Endicott be-
came the bride of Joseph Teti,
Driven to distraction when he saw
in morning newspaper notice of the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
RICH CANADIAN
FOUND DRUeGED

Atlanta, Dec. "A mysterious Can
adam, Louis C. Young by name, was.
found in locked apartment, apparens-
ly dying, at No. Sc Williams street To-
day.
He came here about six weeks ago,
with sum of money in his possession,
and said he was looking FOR farm.
and that he was going to send hack 20
Canada for his aged father and mothe-,
His present illness. it is stated at tina
hospital, is apparently due to durgs.
and the physicians hold out no hope for
his recovery. aae,s \.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
BURDENS LIFTED
From Americas Backs Relief Proved
by Lapse of Time.

Backache Is heavy bardes
Nervousness. dizzinesss; headache.
Rheumatic pains urinary ills;
All wear one out
Often effects Of kidney weakness.
No use to cure the symptoms.
Relief is but temporary if the cause
remains.
If it's the kidneys. cure the cause.
Doan's Kidney Pills are fnr kidney ill.
Read about your neighbor's case.
Here's Americas testimony.
The kind that can be investigated.
W. +. Myers. he Forest ST., Ameri-
Gus, Ca, says: "You faay continue 10
use my endorsement for Deans KID
ney Pills, for value them as highly
as ever. i willingly confirm all have
previously said in their praise. Doan's
Kidney Pills relieved me Of pain
through the small OF nay back and al
SO regulated the passage OF the Ela-
ney secretions."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
WOMEN FIGHTING
ROBBER DEALERS
SUCCESSFULLY
CAMPAIGN FOR CHEAPER EGGS
Suit Against the Chicago
Egg Board

Chicago, Dec. 1.-The suit Of tha Gss-
eral government. charging the Chicago
butter and egg board with violation Of
the antitrust Law. win be brought IN
trial here this week. it was announced
today by James FL WIlkerson, Unifea
States district attorney In this city
The determination to rush the cass
tc trial came ON the backs of u ugp0l't
by Cherries B. Morrison, master III
chancery favoring the contention &C
the government that the quotations
committee of the board arbitrarily aix-
ed the price of butter and eggs.
The suit was filed shortly after the
board voted to abolish the commft-
tee.
News oe the early trial was received
with satisfaction by club women en-
gagged in an egg boycott, although it
was not evident to thena that the case
would affect the price of eggs.
Mrs. John C, Bley, leader of The bow
colt in this city. said today that fae-
plan of bringing in eggs from the
country direct to the consumer coui4
not be put into effect immediately.
THE farmers are not yet educated
to the opportunities of the parcel post, =
she said. but we have begun can-
paign in that direction which should
bear fruit by next summer OF at least
by this season next year"
Prices ON Decline.
The wholesale price OF eggs tenhni-
cally classed as ordinary frsts" de-
clined 3 to S cents in South Water
street today. as compared with lasE.
Saturday. although there was no ms-
terial increase in receipts Dealers
would not say that the drop was due
to the boycott, but the women derived
much satisfaction from ID.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03
Bup Red Cross Seals
And Help Fight Death

to this proof. The only difficulty IN
the case of Jennie is that she has
changed so much in one year that 1t is
hard to make any one believe she IL
the same girl.
Bessie White, of Philadelphia, is al
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-03

taking Groves Taeess chill Tonic
strongest bitter
1t has equal for Malaria Chls and Fever
life and vigor Nursing
Sy Children Removes Biounes without purgng
and spirits Arouses the liver to action and
purifes the blood Appetizer. Strengthened
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-28

Mitchell & Seaburg.
Standard Grocery.
J. NJ. Shindley.
T. NJ. Thornberg.
Shadley & Crisswell.
Frank Schafer.
Fletcher & Schultz.
Randol' & Rhoades. !
B. A. Warren.
j. A. Swanson.