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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
MIND READER WANTED
BY C0RDELE POLICE
He SWINDLED SEVERAL CITIZENS
THERE OUT OF MONEY AND LEFT
THE TOWN

Cordele Feb. 25-Tnere is a reason,
that in dollars and cents amounts 10
about $500 why several well known
Cordele citizens would like to know
the whereabouts of w. M. Walter or
his alias. In fact there are officers
in all parts of the United States and in
Cuba who know by this time that war
rants have been issued for such a man,
charging cheating and swindling and
larceny after trust, and that liberal
reward is offered for his capture.
This certain well-dressed and dig
nified-looking man registered at ono
of the leading hotels of the city sew.
eral days ago, giving New York as his
address. He posed as a mind reader,
though some are rather effectively
impressed with the fact that he is
about the smoothest fleece" artists
who ever practiced his profession in
Cordele, and one citizen who parted
with 1925 just to learn that he was
a bunco-steerer of the most profess
sional class, is particularly of this
opinion.
Just why they came to part with
their money is somewhat mystifying
to the victims themselves, and they
speak of it only very reluctantly.
You were born under lucky star. :"
he told the most successfully feeceG
citizen, and accounted for this by rea-
son of the fact that the man was born
on the day he was and IN rae year he
was. You have great possibilities
for making money, if you only knew
how to invest" he invariably added,
and it now develops that it was the
same spiel that all of the lamb-like
victims fell for. To some extent he
convinced them that he knew the flu
ture like book, and urged them to
let him invest for them turning their
thoughts topsy-turvy with tales of
what he had accomplished for others,
and they fell to his cunning ways. He
showed them photos of tracts of land
which, he said, were located at Thorn
asville, and in which he expected to
invest
He kept them all satisfied until he
had gotten the $500 together, AMI
then left by night train, without
leaving any clue as his intended
destination. The last heard of him
was that he had passed through St
Augustine, Fla.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For Tax Receiver.

= announce my candidacy for re-elec-
lion to the office of tax receiver Of
Sumter county, subject to the action
Of the Democratic primary on March
18th. l ask your support and if thus
Ahonored will again give to this i'm
~1portant office my best care and atten
ton. Respectfully.
X JOHN T. HOWELL.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For Tax Receiver.

l herewith announce my candidacy
for the Office of tax receiver of Sum-
ter county, subject to the Democratic
primary of March 18th. l want the
office and will appreciate your sup
port, and if elected I will fill the bill
to your entire satisfaction. Respect
'mfuIly w. C. GRAY.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For Sheriff.

/ am a candidate for reelection to
he office of sheriff Of Sumter county
il the Democratic primary and solicit
he support Of the voters Of the county,
t again thus honored Mr.. Lucius Har-
'S+ey will continue as deputy, and we
promise, as in the past full and
Aaithful discharge of the duties of the
office. Q. W. FULLER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
Instantly Clears Air Passages; You
Breathe Freely; Dull Headache
Goes; Catarrhal Discharge Stops.
Try Ely's Cream Balm!

Get a small bottle anyway, Just to try
it-apply little in the nostrils and in
stantly your clogged nose and stopped
up air passages of the head will open /;
you will breathe freely; dullness and
headache disappear. BY morning! the
catarrh, cold-in-head, or catarrhal sore
throat will be gone.
End such misery now! Get the small
bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" at any
rug store. This sweet, fragrant barn
dlssolves by the heat of the nostrils;
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26

/ hereby announce myself as a can
Ididate for coroner of Sumter county,
subject to the Democratic primary to
be held March IL, 1914 With sincere
thanks for past favors, l respectfully
request a continuance of the support
of the voters in the county.
EDWARD JENKINS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS!
For Clerk % Superior Court.

TOT NttIh U NuVVIIVI NVUIb
j hereby announce myself a candi-
|ate for reelection to the Office Of
elerk Of the superior court Of Sumter
|ounty II elected MIR. Sam r, Heys
~ act as my deputy, and We earnest
4 zl;clt the support Of the people Of
he county and pledge faithful per-
.ormance O. the duties pertaining to
aid Office, Subject 10 the action CT
he Democratic primary.
H. E. ALLEN.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For Tax Collector.

4 l announce my candidacy for re-elec.
ion as tax collector of Sumter county
subject to the action of the Democratic
primary, and respectfully ask the sup
port of the voters of the county,
l. B. SMALL.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For County Surveyor.
EDWARD JENKINS.

I am a candidate for reelection to
theoftice Of county surveyor of Sumter
in the Democratic primary March 18th,
and will greatly appreciate the support
of my friends and the voters generally.
Respectfully R. R. HOWE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For County Treasurer

announce my candidacy for the
office of County Treasurer of Sumter
ecounty, subject to the action of the
democratic primary, March II, and
will greatly appreciate your vote and
support Respectfully,
H. D. WATTS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
For County Treasurer.

| am a candidate for reelection to
the Office of treasurer Of Sumter coun-
ty, and will appreciate your vote in
the Democratic primary of March 18th
Respectfully p H. WILLIAMS.
I
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26

For further information apply to n
:. Everett, Local Agent, Amsriouk
Ga; c. W. Small, Div. Pass LII
Savannah. Ca; @. B. Ryan, @. p. a
Portsmouth. Va
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
Chamber of Commerce
After Immigrants

Augusta Ga, stating that Dr.. Alberto
Clot of New York, an executive officer
of the American Waldensian Aid So
ciety is at present in Augusta, and IS
looking into the matter of bringing -
Georgia goodly number of sober, in
dustrious and thrifty farmers from
Italy. These farmers are protestants
and homes are sought for them among
communities of portestants. This
society has established a number or
Italian farmers in North Carolina,
Texas and Missouri.
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce
is now at work making a classified list
of the inquidies received from all over
Georgia as regards the class of fac
tories, canning plants, etc, desired
and these facts will be available to
the public within a week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26

Atlanta, Feb 25.-The Georgia
Chamber of Commerce is getting
prompt answers from letters sent o It
last week TO various sections of Geor-
gia inquiring what class of factories
and other industries would best pay
in these sections of the state. Infor-
nation was also ased regarding the
need for the better class of immigrant
who would engage in truck farming,
fruit raising, dairying, etc Hany If
the cities and larger towns through
the state are enthusiastic in having
this movement pushed to the fullest
extent and offers of cooperation, both
in a financial way and in cordial
spirit of welcome have been freely
made
A letter was received from Nj
Philip 6. North of 617 Telfair Street,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-02-26
SedbOard Air Line
The Progressive Railway Of the South

Leave Americas for Cordels, Ro-
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FMS, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
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cave Americas for Richland, Co
'mbus, Dawson, Albany and intsrm@
date points
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Leave Americas for Richland, Allan
"a, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
emery and points West aud Northwest
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Leave Americus for Cordels, Able
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$40 pm
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
$ 81 s {|||'[l{Sit'S';;e!|k|||'';;;
&c IN sorTLEs AND At rovssTs
PRINCIPLES ABOVE PLATFORMS

Considerable ado is being made
about the plank In the Democratic
platform Of 1912 fayorfng exemption Of
our coastwise shipping from Panama
tolls. So far as The World is concern
ed, It is much ado abocI nothing. 1t
matters little whether this plank was
introduced with or Withhold the know
ledge of the Platform Committee as. A
whole. 1t matters little whether this
tEank was adopted with deidberation
o. in ignorance by the convention as
a whole.
To regular Democratic partisan
politician a plank may be a sacred
thing. But The World is regular
solely in its support CT Democratic
principles. Ia 1912 it supported tn
Democratic party and the Democratic
candidates solely as the most trust
worthy and efficient vehicles for car
rying into effect these principles. So
did the great army of Independent
Democrats and of independent voters
Of other parties who were the means
of electing the Democratic ticket.
Parties may create planks, but prin
ciples create parties Principles arr
enduring articles of faith Planks a!A
but temporary promises-one yea,
promises, two-year promises or four
y ar promises, as the case may be
When these temporary promises EN-
ody the spirit of the party's principles
they should be binding. When they
are destructive of the party's pTinciul :
they are as opposed to public nofcT r.
a contract 70 c01rE.t craze, and 1T
more binding.
We believe that the great majority
of the vC<crs to whom the Baltimore
convention promised coastwise eXemp
ton are more than willing to release
their representatives from a. part,
promise which is found to be opposed
to the party's principle of no subsidies
and subversive of the Nations prin
ciple of keeping faith. But even were
the majority not thus willing, the Dem
ocratic Congress must accept the re
phdiation of a vitiated pledge as thu
necessary means of keeping the highe
faith. Otherwise, it need not expec
to retain the support Of Independent
papers and independent voters VIII
are Interested in political principle
and not in party technique, and VIII
place national honor above platforr
Pharisaism.-New York World
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14

voted He pointed suit what he termed
"a nest of snakes" IN the bill. WINE
he did not think there was any neces-
sity for putting gas and electric light
plahts under the control of the COM
mission he would not object to the
bill so much IL the water works feature
was eliminated. He said that as
vicksburg was the only large city in
the state that did not now own It's
own water works system he was sure
Mr.. Crumpler drew the bill and aimed
it at vicksbars to protect his COM
pany, embodying the other features as
a blind
Mayor Hayes simply said, gentle
men, all / have to say is that if yen
pass this kind of bill you put the
affairs of cities in the hands of the
commission to run our business
Judge Anderson said there was nc
demand from any quarter for such
bill, but he did not object to the fea
ture putting electric street railways
under the commission. He referred
to the passage in the house of the
/ Nacbey hill n few days ago that pro
vided for that matter, saying they ha(
no fight to make on it in any way.
Senator Saunders was present, ant
asked the delegation if they we're no
the only ones to come forward ant
/ fight it. To this Judge Anderson re
Piled. saying it was "by accident tina
we caught this bill and realized it
significance. Here Senator Ellis,
member of the committee volunteered
the remark that lie did not believe TIL
fact of the introduction of the bill wa
commonly known. 1t was predicte'
-, that other delegations would oppose il
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
PROTEST AGAINST PASSAGE
OF SENATOR SANDERS BILL

of 100000, and were ready to sell
them; that they had spent $4,000 in
laying watermains in anticipation OF
the time they would own their own
system; that injunctioE proceedings
against the laying Of these mains had
been fought all the way up to the
United States Supreme Court, and the
people had won. In concluding his
argument Judge Geo. Anderson said:
And now gentlemen, we beg of you
not to take away from us the victory
we have won, after hard and bitter
fight; please do not snatch from our
hands the rights given us by the Uni
ted States Supreme Court by passing
this bill embodying the water works
feature"
Those who appeared before the
committee were Judge Anderson, city
attorney of Vicksburg, John Brunine
an attorney, P. NJ. Harding, ex-mayol
and president of the Delta Trust and
Banking company, and Mayor j. J
Hays.
In his address before the COMMITTEES
Mr.. Harding spoke bitterly of what
lie terms the wrongs that had beer
inflicted on Vicksburg people by Mr.
Crumpler. He said he believed, bu
was unable to produce proof that
the bill was drawn up and really
| fathered by Mr.. Crumpler, with the
sole object in view of creating com
plications that would compel the city
two and half years hence, to buy hi.
water works system and hamper thu
efforts to sell the bonds that had beer
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
Mother! Is CHILD'S
Stomach SOUR, SICK ?
If CROSS, FEVERlSH, CONSTlPAT-
ED, GIVE "CALiFORNiA
SYRUP OF FIGS.

Don't scold your fretful, peevish
child. See if tongue is coated; this is
sure sign its little stomach, liver
and bowels are clogged with sour
waste.
When listless, pale. feverish, full OF
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom-
ach-ache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give a
teaspoonful of California Syrup OF
Figs" and in few hours all the foul
waste, the sour bile and fermenting
food passes out Of the bowels and you
have we'll and playful child again
Children love harmless fruit Taxa
tive" and mothers can rest easy after
giving it, because it never fails tt
make their little "insides" clean ant
sweet.
Keep it handy, Mother! A little Civ
en- today saves a sick child tomorrow
but get the genuine. Ask your drug
gist for. 50-cent bottle of "Californi;
Syrup of Figs" which has directions
for babies, children Of all ages and TO
grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Re
member there are counterfeits solt
here, so surely look and see that your
is made by the California Fig Syrul
Company" Hand back with contemp
anv other fig syruD.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
A WINTER COUGH

A stubborn, annoying. depressing
cough hangs on, racks the body. weak
ems the lungs, and often leads to seri
GUS results. The first dose of Or.
Kings New Discovery gives relief
Henry d. Sanders, Of Cavendish, Vt,
was threatened with consumption af-
ter having pneumonia. He writes:
'Dr. Kings New Discovery ought to
be in every family. it is certainly the
best of all medicines for coughs, colds
or lung trouble" Good for children's
coughs. Money back If not satisfied.
Price SOC and $1.0o. At all Druggists.
H. E. BuckIen & Co., Philadelphia or
St. Louis rrlsF
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
vickssuRc CITIZENS OPPOSE r
=. COMMISSION CONTROLLING
PUBLIC UTILITIES.

jackson. Miss. Feb. IA delega-
ton Of vicksburg citizens appeared
before the corporations committee Of
the senate Friday afternoon to pro-
test against the passage in the legisla-
tuEe of senate bill No. 288, introduced
by Senator Hal Saunders, of Talla-
h&tchie county, which seeks to place
under the direction and control of the
railway. commission nearly all public
utilities, including street railways, gas
plans, electric light plants and water
works.
The especially objectionable fea-
ture to. the Vicksburg men is the wa.
ter works provision, and they said Sc
to the committee, frankly and without
mincing words declaring the adoption
of the bill would result in denying to
Vicksburg that for which the people
had fought for ten years, municipal
ownership of the system, without nav
ing to pay an enormous sum in excess
o5(its real value of the system now
owned and ,operated there by the
Vicksburg Water Works Company, Of
which they stated M. o. Crumplel
owned controlling interest.
The members of the delegation tolt
the committee that Yicksburg people
had voted to issue bonds in the sun
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
JAPAN'S NAVY SCANDAL.

Something more than the intoler-
ance of Japanese public opinion is re-
vealed by the solemn demand made
upon Rear Admiral Fujii that he COM
nit harikari. 1t is evident that the
charge of navy graft" has become an
overshadowing national issue in ia
pan.
Rear Admiral Jujii is not the only
high officer of the navy under sus-
picion The important documents to
which reference is made in Toxic news
dispatches are said to contain proof
that others have received commissions
upon the purchases of navy supplies.
The police examination of the cores
pondent of an English press associa-
ton is, presumably, based on the as
proofs were in the possession On a
Japanese newspaper and were purchas-
ed by navy officials to prevent publ
cation.
An investigation is under way, but
hot-headed Japanese are not content to
await official action. Perhaps they
doubt its sincerity. Such public opin-
ion as they represent has convicted
Rear Admiral Jujii in advance of a
hearing 1t is after others.
Back of it all is the long fight waged
by Mr.. Yuko Ozaki and other liberal
leaders against "clan control" Of the
Japanese government.-New York
Herald.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
SOUTHERN CATTLE.

The Report News Bureau Of st.
Louis sends the following to thu New
Orleans Picaylnee
'Tne scarcity of cattle throughout
the corn belt of the North has served
to turn the attention Of the Northern
feeders to the South for supplies of
stock to- finish for market. c. M. Rob
inson of Monroe County. Mo-, has jtIst
finished marketing a bunch of Florttaa
steers at tire st. Louis National Stock
yards that he bought last fall when
they weighed 400 pou1Gs. He fed
them 100 days till they weighed 62S
pounds AMI sold them on the markets
at 81 per hundredweight.. He says
these Florida cattle made Trim money!
| Eugene McAtsr, of Glenarm, Sangal
mon county; ILL.,, located lin the very
heart of the corn belt, was unable to
| buy Northern stock cattle, So recently
purchased several carloads of 440-
pound Alabama stock cattle at st.
! Louis. He fed them 10 days on cot
tonseed cake on his Illinois farm and
they gained $50 pounds to the head in
that time. He recently marketed them
1T Sc. 80. Mr. McAter says these South
ern stock cattle do exceptionally well
when finishrd out in the corn belt and
is so pleased at financial returns on
his venture that he has purchased an
other lot, which he is now FINISHING
for market"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
LARGE FIELD in SKI TOURNEY

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-02-14
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