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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
THE PANAMA CANAL

Time required to go through the
canal, from 10 to IL hours.
Freight will be charged $1.2O a tor
passengers free.
American coast-wise ships may pass
through free of all charges.
The canal will save 5000 miles be-
tween New York and San Francisco.
New York is brought 5000 miles
nearer Valparaiso and the west coast
of South America.
Our Atlantic seaports are 1900
miles nearer Australia.
The distance to the Philippine Is
lands is not reduced materially.
Bulk products like wheat, lumbe :
minerals, wool, hides and wines viii
get lower freight rates through the
canal from Pacific ports.
Eastern machinery, textiles, manu-
features and finished products viii
enjoy cheaper rates to Pacific ports.
Staple products of ene south, cotton,
iron, coal, lumber and ship supplies
will have similar advantages to the
Orient and Pacific ports.
immigration will be DETECTED il
large numbers from New York to Pa
cific ports.
The cost of operating the canal will
exceed $4,OO0,0OO annually.
About $500 employees will be re,
quired.
To pay interest on the investment
and operating expenses approximate,
'$15,000,0O0 revenue per annum will be
needed.
Traffic experts estimate that for the
first few years the average annual ton
mage will be 100000 tons, not en-
ough at the $1.20 rate to make tn.
canal self-supporting. The rates
charged vessels are the same as those
at Suez.
The government will monopolize the
business of supplying coal and provis-
ions and operating repair facilities
Great dry decks, whaves, ware
houses, repair shops and other facili-
ties to cost $20,OOO,O0O are under con-
struction.
All permanent buildings will be Of
the Italian renaissance style of archi-
lecture. The route o the canal will
be beautified with trees, etc.
Storage for 100000 tons of coal,
maximum capacity, is provided Nor
nal storage capacity. $1,000 tons. Oil,
100000 barrels.
Monster 27O-ton floating cranes VIII
handle wrecks or accidents in the
canal or locks
Warships of all nations may pass
through the canal but cannot linger
more than "a hours at either end, in
time of war
The interstate commerce commits
sion has jurisdiction over the canal
traffic.-Leslie's Weekly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

They say the banks are making col
lections ahead Of time and that they
are afraid they can't find anyone to
loan their money too. Sounds like
good times in Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Women should never sheer at eacI

Women should never sneer at each
othsr-it is a bad PRACTICE
why shouldn't they?'
"Well, woman on Main street yes
terday afternoon sneered so hard al
another woman for wearing false hair
that she sneered her false teeth out OF
her mouth and they fell to the side
walk right before a crowd of men who
gave her the ha ha. Elk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
MARKET REPORTS
Quotations on Cotton, Grain, Money
and Produce Reported Daily. Amer
icus Cotton Market in Detail.

SO.
Poultry higher; springs IA; fowi
10.
Rye, No. 2, Sc 1906; barley 55a
So.
Timothy 3.75@5.25.
Glover 9.OO012.5O.
Pork 22.OO.
Pard 1865.
Ribs 10.50@11.25.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Americas, Ga, October 8, 1918
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= THE GATE
= (By William F. kirk


= = = = 4 4 y = \ \ \ y
This is picture of our gate" sweet
old mother said;
'fThey had it trimmed with roses on the
day that we were we'd
Our children swung upon it once, and
when the sun was low
Our Mary used to linger there and Wis
it with her beau.
But always remember most one
bright September day
When my big boy walked through this
gate, the time he went away.
Il had this picture taken when this
home that We loved best
Was sold to city people just before we
left the West.
I like to see its messy posts and hear
my big boy say,
Don't cry, dear little mother; l am
coming back some day
When l look hard at the old gate | al
ways seem to see
His handsome, smiling features as he
threw a kiss at me.
He never comes to see us now, wit
all his wealth and fame;
He doesn't often write us, but we love
him Just the same.
1T makes us proud, and happy to know
that he is great,
To know that he started winning from
the day he left the gate,
But | would give the years to come
with all their JOY and pain,
To see those messy gate posts and tC
kiss my boy again"
New York Journal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
TenneSseean

The Americas Chamber of Con-
merce presented Hyman, of Macon
with silver loving cup as a token o.
their regard. The Macon live wir5
helped bake the Get-Together meeting
a success.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Now that you have resolved to help
Americas. how about the Young Mems
Christian Association? What are you
willing to do for it?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Whenever the stores of Americas
stop selling clothes good enough for
my wife I'll move out. | believe in
trading at home John w. SILVER al
the Get together meeting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

The "GetTogether" meeting was a
success. Such meeting once month
that would serve to draw the citizens
together would be a good thing
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
st. Louis Grain,

St. Louis, Oct. 8.-Cash: Wheat No
8 red "a; No. 2 hard Sc 1908. Corn
No. 2 and No. 2 white 70. Oats, No.
2, 4S1-2; No. 2 white AZ 1-2@43.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Chicago Produce.

Chicago, Oct SHUTTER, lower;
creameries "a 1926 to 10000 IL.
Eggs unchanged; receipts $3.50
cases.
Potatoes higher; receipts 30 cars.
Minnesota 5000; Wisconsin SOP
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Don't let the vision of 10 cent cot
ton make you double your acreage
next year. If you do watch the fee ~
staple go to or less.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Uncle Bill Saws:

THE old maid don't keer much
whether man will take her seriously
o: how-just so he takes her. Elk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Americas, the city with high Ideals
and the cash TO back 'em up" How 8
that for slogan?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Do you read the Times-Recorde
If you don't you are missing some
thing good every day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

THE prettiest girls in Georgia are
right in Sumter. e. H. Lyman. Yea
DO we agree with you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

While there was a further slight de-
cline yesterday in the cotton futures
market, spot values held their own and
sales in Americas were upon the same
basis a. the day preceding. The finer
grades commanded 13 to 13 Is cents,
with fair demand. Local receipts
the warehouses were 355 bales. The
market was quoted as follows;
Good middling lib to 13 1-Sc
Midling .........12 ga to II 7-8c
Receipts in Americas.
Bales
Received yesterday ........ 355
Received previously ...... ...14,110
Total .............. .l5,45o
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
New York Spots.

New York, Oct. 8.-Cotton spot,
quiet; middling uplands, 1890; mid
ding gulf, 14.15; sales 100 bales.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

The ladies of the town deserve your
support in their efforts 10 build tn =,
hospital
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Unfold your hands and get to WORK
for Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Don't forget that the Y. M. G. A.
will help the city. Tho boys of today
are the men or tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Americas, the city of 10000 in 1920.
How do you like the idea?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

danger of childbirth.
But, thanks to a re-
markable re m e d v
k n o W n as Mothers
Friend, the period is
one of joyful antici-
patton.
Mothers Friend is
a penetrating, exter-
nal application. l t
makes the muscles of
the stomach and abb
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

III the average woman could have
her way she wouldn't want it,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Stork and Cupid
Cunning PIotters
Many New Home will Have Little
Sunbeam to Brighten 1t.

There is some dread in every woman's
mind as to the probable pain, distress and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

A pretty girl never gets mad at her
mirror
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

domen plant so they expand easily and
naturally without pain, and with none of
that peculiar nausea, nervousness and
other symptoms that tend to weaken the
prospective mother. Thus Cupid and the
stork are rated as cunning plotters to her
aid the coming of little sunbeam to glad
den the hearts and homes.
Thousands of women know from expert
, ence Mothers Friend is one of our greatest
contributions to happy motherhood. Sold
by all druggists at $1.00 per bottle. Espec.
tally recommended as preventive of cak-
ing breast ot
Write to Bradfeld Regulator Co, 231
Lamar Bldg, Atlanta, Ga, for their val.
pable book to expectant mothers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
Call Money.

New York, Oct. S.-Money on ca !
firm 3@4 10; ruling rate 4 closing
3 3-4@4. Time loans strong; 60 days
3-4@5; 80 days 5 IA; months 5.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

How about that new ball park?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09

Myrtle-Darling, what is the matte :
with the auto? 1t will stop now and
then and not run at all, and when it
does go it only runs roughly.
Algy-Angel, it seems to be another
illustration of the old saying that the
course of true love never did run
smooth
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-09
New York Futures.

New York, Oct S.-Cotton futures
closed steady.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
rhs 1900 of rno Eulla-

A gentleman from the north was en-.
joying the excitement OF a bear hunt
down in Mississippi. The bear was
surrounded In a small cane thicket,
The dogs could not get the bear out
and the planter who was at the head
OF the hunt called to one Of the ne.
groes:
Sam. go in there and get the bear
out" 4
The negro hesitated for a moment
and then plunged into the cane. A few
moments after the negro, the bear and
the dogs were rolling upon the ground
outside.
After the hunt was over the visitor
said to the negro: q
Were you not afraid to go into that
thicket with that bear2"
r. "Cap'n," replied the negro. TT wus
jest dis way. I nebber had met dat
bar, but / wus pussonalIy 'quainted
wild old boss, and / jes' naturally tuck
dat bar" "
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05

Bears the
cannon Of solid Roek.

When the island OF Malta was under
the rule Of the knights OF st. John
they defended their Notifications with
canno bored in the living rock. Each
one of these strange weapons con
tanned an entire barrel Of powder. and
as it was not possible to vary the aim
of these cannon so were made ready,
facing various directions from which
the enemy might approach.
When the fame OF these arms Of der
Tense became known to the world the
idea was taken up OF transporting
rocks to submits to serve the same
purpose, but 1t was soon recognized to
be impracticable, and the cannon or
Malta, bored in solid rock, have
passed into history as the sole wea.
pons Of the kind Ver known.-Har-
per's Weekly. "
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
NEW FIRE ESCAPE IDEA.

A writer In the Boston Transcript OUT
lines a plan for preventing loss of life
from fires in large buildings. He would
haYe every building provided with a IRE
wall dividing IL In two parts ms running
from cellar to basement. There would be
f%ireproof doors In the wall on each floor.
In case OF fire in either side of the build
ing the employees would simply walk over
10 the the side and take their time about
getting down to the streets. ~
This seems a better idea than the fire
tower which has been suggested for pro-
vfding a similar way of escape 1t would
be necessary to go further to get to the
tower and II might be so surrounded by
fire as TO cut off escape.
1T has been pretty we'll demonstrated
that none OF the ordinary fire escape sys-
TENS are adequate to empty q building,
say 10 or ~ stories In height. 1t 10 impos-
sibIe to provide a separate way Of escape
for each floor. All must finally get into
the same passages or on the same stairs
inside or outside. With the most liberal
stair space IL takes time to empty a high
building. A fire on one tioor might cut
Off all on the floors above. F
The fire wall plan, provides safety for a
suffciently long time to permit all to es-
cape. OF course there 10 the possibility
that serious Ares might break in both
sides OF a building at the same time, but
this possibility Is remote and there would
still be the opportunity to escape In the
old way E>E&a4&
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05

scourge of the race. is now pretty gem
orally conceded to be durable If recog-
nized and properly treated in the in
scipient stage. Cancer Is far more cur
able In the incipient stage--but the
.~incipient stage OF cancer is h stage
which passes so quickly while the VIC
tim is making up his mind to visit the
physician and while the physician Is
making up his mind TO Insist upon a
thorough examination.
True, there is no absolutely positive
test by which a physician a deter
mine that a. suspicious sore IL a can
Ger and that obstinate ulcer Is not. *
.cepting the miscroscopical examination
OF an excised fragment of tissue, But
is 1t not enough to say, II am afraid
this is a cancer. To saw future re-
.grets, will you not let me remove it
.now?'' e@
In the presence OF a doubt as TO the
diagnosis the physicians plain duty Is
10 urge the patient to submit to treat
ment, just as though the doubt did not
exist. Only by eternal vigilance may
we consummate the cure of lancer.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
HAIR CAME OUT IN PUNCHES

813 e, Second St., Muncie, Ind.-"My
little girl had a bad breaking out on
the scalp. II was little white humps.
The pimples would break out az large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run vel.
low matter. She suffered nearly a year
with itching and burning. It-was sore
and itched all the time. The matter
that al from her head was very thick.
I did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb 1t, and.
when / did comb, It came out In
punches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
Il tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could I get to stop It. I began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after ! sent for
the free samples. / used them and
they did SO much good / bought a cake
Of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. / washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment In the scalp every two
weeks. A week after I had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
Q had a breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully" (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson. Dec 20, 1911.
Cuticura Soap aud Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free, with 35-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cutdcura. Dept L, Boston"
Adv. NN"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05

has not yet gone out az fashion.
Like most OF the ssSables that men
fear, this n never appeared to Ja-
cob's sons. Instead Of difficulties they
found themselves welcomed by this
mysterious potentate, who had shown
such a strange interest In them before.
They were received as honored guests.
1t was bewilderlng and disconcerting
to those who thought that such things
were ''too good'to be true
The Call of the Blood. d
This was a great hour for Joseph.
Only the exile in a foreign land can
know the sweetness OF a familiar face.
The wealth of Egypt and its honors
had no powers to- compensate him for
the loss of those who We're dearest to
him on earth. How the advent of his
brothers. and especially of the only
other son Of his mother, affected him is
best told in the words of the inspired
record: ,~a .E t'
And he asked them OF their welfare
and said: rs your father well. the old
mar Of whom we spake2 Is he vet
aliVe?' .H IT. X III.
And they said, Thy ser our ga
Their is we'll who is yet alive. And they
bowed the head, and made o~beisance.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Ben
jamin his brother, his mothers son,
and said, rs this your youngest broth
er, of whom We spake unto me?' And
he said, God be gracious unto thee,
my SON. And Joseph made haste: for
his heart yearned over his brother; and
he sought where TO weep; and he en-
tered into his chamber and wept there"
The Family Feast and Its Secret.
All unknown to the guests. the elab-
crate feast prepared for them was a
family gathering, and the greatest day
of their lives. They were so busy
rying over what might happen that
they could not recognize the blessing
i'm front of their faces. Even the sig
nificance of the fact that they were
seated according 10 their ages was lost
upon them. The special portion that
was given to Benjamin caused them
to marvel, and Vet they did not see
through 1t. Had they not been so Wor-
rled and fearful, they would readily
have understood that one of the great
romances such as all people have In
their lore was being enacted before
their ayes. 3
However, we cannot blame these He
brews o strongly, since most of us
are in nk case. God plans good for
u.s., and we fear evil. He sets us In q
world of blessing, and we dread II as
IL 1t were a world Of impending dis
aster. God takes us into His banquet
ing house, and His banner over ns Is
love; but we refuse to accept the priv
ileges and joys of the family relations
with Him NJ" rs. a nv hg1
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
PERSONS COLOR BLIND
Tests Used by Railroads Show That
Almost Everybody Is Slightly
Color Blind.

The various tests for color blind
ness have come into practical use In
the examination of railroad engineers
and the like, where the ability to dis
tinguish colors is necessary, SO that
these tests are no longer peculiar to
the laboratory. But il Is not gener-
ally known outside the laboratory that
everybody is partially color blind
that is, In certain parts OF the field OF
vision. The most normal individual
can . all the colors only when he
looks directly at them. II looked at
from an angle OF about fifteen degrees.
red and green can no longer be seen,
but I'M their places, win appear shades
or yellow or blue. This region OF the
eyes is known as the yellow-blue zone
IL the color be moved still farther to
the side the yellow and blue will dis.
appear and only gray can be seen.
This region is known as the zone OF
complete color blindness. An inter
esting theory In regard to these zones
is that every normal y represents
three stages OF evolution. The zone
OF complete color blindness is the low
est stage, and appears in such ami
mails as the frog, whose vision Is
known az shadow vision, The blue
yellow zone is n step higher in the
scale, although not clearly marked
of in the animal kingdom. And the
appearance Of the red-green zone
marks the highest stage OF evolution.
Cases Of color blindness are. accord
ing to this theory. q lack or develop
ment beyond the early stage Of indi-
aiduai life.--Strand Magazine.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
The LURE OF THE WEST
WESTERN CANADA ATTRACTING
THOUSANDS or SETTLERS.

Writing ON the Canadian West. an
eastern exchange truthfully says:
The West still calls with impera.
tive voice. TO prairie and mountain.
and for the Pacific Coast. ontario's
young men and women are attracted
by tens OF thousands yearly. The
great migration has put an end to the
fear, freely expressed not many years
ago by those who knew the West from
the lakes to the farther coast OF VAN
couver Island. that Canada would
some day break In two because OF the
predominance OF Continental European
and American settlers in the west
This Ii true. While the immiGra-
ton from the United States Is large,
running close to 10000 q year, that Of
the British Isles and Continental
Europe nearly twice that number, max
ing o total Of 10000 pei year, there
10 Q strong Influx from Eastern Cam
ada. It is not only into the prairie
provinces that these people 60, bur
many OF them continue westward. the
glory OF British Columbia's great trees
and great mountains, the excellent
agricultural valleys, where can be
grown almost all kinds OF agriculture
and where fruit has already achieved
prominence. Then the vast expanse
OF the plains attract hundreds OF thou
sands, who at once set to work to cul.
tivate their vast holdings. There Is
still room. and great opportunity in
the West, The work OF mans hands,
even In the cities with their record
breaking building rush. Is the small
est part OF the great panorama that
is spread before the eye on q Journey
through the country. Nature Ii still
supreme. and mai is still the divine
pigmy audaciously seeking to impose
his viii and stamp his mark upon an
unconquered half continent.
The feature that most commends
itself in Western development today
is the "home-making spirit" The
West win find happiness In planting
trees and making gardens and build
Ing schools and colleges and ~universi-
ties, and producing a home environ
ment 80 that there VIII be no disposi-
ton to regard the country as a tenn
porary place OF abode in which every
n 10 trying to make his pile prepar-
atory to going back East or becoming
q l~otus-eater beside the Pacific,
The lure OF the West ia strong. It
will be still stronger when the crude
new towns and villages Of the plains
are embowered in trees and vocal
with the seng OF birds-Adyertise-
ment.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-05
ms peparted Friend.

Though he that ever kline and true
Kept stoutiy step by step with YOU,
Your whole, long, gusty hfeshne through,
BE gone a while before
Be now a m gone before,
Yet doubt not: anon the seasons SHAH
restore q
Your friend TO YOU M#l&.
He has but turned a corner-stm .s e Va
He pushes on with right good win
Through mire and marsh. by heugh n
NH 4F NS @& o..
That self-same arduous way
That self-same upland. hopeful way
That you and he through many a doubtful
Attempted stnl, I
He Is not dead, this ~friend-not dead,
But In the path we mortals tread
Got some few, trifing steps ahead
And nearer to the end, 80
So that you. too. once past the bend,
Shall meet again. as face TO face, thiA
You fancy dead.
Push gaily on. strong heart; the while
You travel forward, mile by mile,
He loiters with q backward smile
TIL you can overtake.
And ssrains his eyes 20 search his wake.
or. whistling. as he sees you through tina
brake,
Waits 90 a stilc.
Robert Louis stevoBccn.