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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
FIVE MULES ARE KILLED
WHEN BARN COLLAPSES

Dublin, June Al. N. Jones, a far
mer living near Tingle, this county
lost five mules and his barn as a re-
suit of a heavy windand rainstoru
which visited this section.
Shortly after the storm, which last
ed about two hours, and which blew
down good many fodderstacks and
fences in the neighborhood. Mr..
Jones barn collapsed. Five mules
and one horse were caught under the
falling timbeTs, and the mules were
killed outright. The horse, which
was small, was caught between two
large mules and was not even scratch
ed, but was near suffocatian when ta-
ken out of the debris.
A large crop of oats had just beer
packed in the loft over the stock, and
the weight of hhis, added to the force
of the wind, caused the building tc
fall,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
FAIRY TREE PEACHTREE
STARTLES POOR ATLANT IA

Atlanta, June A fairy-tale peach
tree that sprung up out Of the ground
without being planted, and that bears
luscious fruit a full month before oth-
er peachtree's give any yield, is being
viewed today as an eight-day wonder
in the back yard of Mrs. NJ A. Cham
bers on Central avenue.
The tree is laden with ripe and
beautiful fruit, already touched to the
red and gilden tones which are ordin-
arily not seen nutil July. 1t is supply
ing the whole neighborhood with a
variety of peach which is unknown to
the nursery men but which is said to
rival the Elberta in flavor.
The neighbors are all saving the
seed from the tree, planning to plant
them this year. Mrs. Chambers takes
no credit for the early yielding tree
nor can she explain whence it came
from. 1t just grew among the weeds
of the garde. she said, and she
scarcely even eloticed that it was a
fruit tree unit at blossomed out this
spring.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
CLIFF WALKER A VISITOR
YESTERDAY IN AMERICUS
Making a Winning Race For
Attorney General

Prominent among the visitors spend
ing yesterday in Americus was. Hon.
Cliff Walker, of Walton county, who is
a candidate for the office of attorney
general Of Georgia, with most excel
lent prospects of winning that coveted
honor. Col. Walker is no stranger in
south Georgia, and especially in Amer
icus, where he has been oftimes d
guest at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Frank P. Harold. Mr.. Walker is re
garded as one of Georgia's ahlest
young attorneys, and is well qualified
for the duties of the Office to which he
aspires. While in Americus yesterday
he met many old and new friends alike
and was given every assurance of CO..
dial support of his candidacy
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
SEWERS ARTERY WHILE
TEACHING MODERN DANCE

Philadelphia, June Am artery ir
the arm of Joseph Philapino, of Penns-
field, Delaware county, was severed
yesterday G,hen he accidentally plung
ed hisaKand through window in the
4 Y of George Burmeister, a neigh
bof, who was holding a christening
celebration. The man almost bled to
death before he was brought to West
Philadelphia Homeopathic hospital and
was in critical condition last night.
Philapino was dancing and was try
Ing to demonstrate the dip when he
crashed through the window. His arm
began to bleed badly, and after vainly
attempting to check the flow, his
friends took him on a car to bring
him to the city. He collapsed on an ele-
waited train at Sixtieth street and was
carried to the hospital in a patrol
wagon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
OFFER $40 REWARD
FOR RETURN OF WIFE

Thomasville, June 4.-Ten dollars
reward for the return of his wife, who
recently eloped with another negro,
is what George Worthy, a negro liv-
ing near Boston, in this county, is
offering
George tried to do without HIS 49,
for few days, but finds that whil
it might not have always been exac 4
ly harmonious living with her yet lie
can't do without her, so he offers the
above reward with the promise that
no embarrassing questions will h,rss
asked. In the description of his vii
who answers to the name Of Ida, Wor.
thy says she is not very tallxativc,
which is probably one of the reasons
which makes her desirable around thx
house, he also says she is thigh yell
low" in color, rather tall anh about
% years old. "A
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
SOUTHERN HEROES
HAVE MONUMENT
UNVEILED

Washington, June A bronze NOR
ument, IMPLYING the South rising tri
umphantly from the sufferf1gs an
privafelB of war was dedicated at Ar
lingto4 national cemetery this after.
noon to the memory of the Confed
crate dead. The memorial was formal.
ly given into the keeping of The fedora
government by Mrs Daisy McLaurir
Stevens, president general of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and was accepted by President Wilson
who paid high tribute to the sincerity
and valor of those who fought under
the Stars and Bars. Gen. Washingto
Gardner, conmander-in-chie of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and
Gen. Bennett H. Young, commander
in-chief of the Confederate veterans,
delivered addresses giving significant
expression to the animity now exist
ing between veterans of the blue and
the grey.
The monument was designed and
executed by Sir Moses Ezekiel, him
self native of Virginia and a ve5-
eral of the Confederate army. 1t noR
stands amid circling tiers of sma
monuments Of three hundred Confer.
crate dead.
Mrs. Stevens in her address of pre-
sentation, said:
1T would be both useless and i'm
pertinent for me to try to praise or
appraise our southernJd dead. Useless,
because the world hasldone and will
do that. Soldiers hay1 laid laurels on
their biers. Divines have quickened
listening mu3titudes to nobler things
by recital of their deeds. Poets have
embalmed their memory in the honey
of immortal verse. 1t would be inn
pertinent because only lips inspired
of God could tell how Southern hearts
feel over our Southern dead.
They sleep within the shadow of
the home of Lee and in sight of the
dome of the capitol of their fathers
and their sons. Above floats the flag
they fought, but it does not wave
above their dust in jeering triumph
but in loving protection. 1t seems to
send from each stripe and star bene-
diction upon their graves!"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
|ROBT. REDDING \
DIED THURSDAY;
FUNERAL TODAi
PASSED saaif It GR|EE'
Reared And Well KnO
Americas
feOrs

kilograms received yesterday 'Ds9
relatives here announced the d, s
of Mr. Robert J. ReddiR at his h
in Griffin, where he had long resis
and was formerly euperinte1dent
the state experimental farm. a w
ding was native Of schley
and was well known in Americus the =
throughout this section of south &c
gia and in the state generally as wen.
He was cousin of Mrs. John A. Cobb, Il
of Americus. Mr. Redding wasA pc
nently identified with the agricM. All
interests of the state, and a man of
wide information and intelligence up-4a
on agriculture generally. The funeratN
will take place in Grifln at 10: SgA !.
O'clock this morning. at
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
MRS. EA5TERLIN
Died WEDNESDAY
IN ANDERSONVILLE
AGED RESIDENT OF SUMTER
Many Attended Her Funeral
Yesterday

The funeral services of Mrs. G. W
Easterlin, who passed away on Wed
nesday, were held yesterday afternoon
at Andersonville where this good wo-
man had spent the best years of her
long and useful life. A large con-
course of relatives and friends paid
loving tribute to her memory at the
services yesterday, conducted by FL
der Murray, of the Primitive Baptist
church, and rendered deeply impress
i've throughout Mrs. Easterlin was in
her eightieth year, and was loved ami
esteemed by hundreds OF friends who
sorrow at her death. She was the
widow of Green w. EasterIin, one OF
Sumter's prominent and well known
residents, who passed away many
years since. Surviving members Of
her family are two daughters, Mrs. G..
W. Grant and Mrs. S. T. Nance, and
two sons, Messrs. w. NJ and ]. B.
EasteTlin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
ROOSTER CHASES A man;
He WON'T DO IT AGAIN

Houston, Mimi, June 4. Frank
Schonlan was injured so severely by a
rooster yesterday that he is under the
care of a physician today. Schonlaa
was in his hennery when the bird few
into his face, tearing him with his
sharp spurs and striking him on the
face, neck arms and legs. Schor lc2 led
and called physicianS{o dress his
wounds. Last night e3T rooster was
captured, while ASLEEP snd today fur.
nished the family cr6,ken dinner
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
DINK FRAZIER ON TRIAL Il
ON CHARGE OF ROBBERY
Friend Claims He Was Touch.
ed For His Roll

Dink Frazier, indicted for alleged
robbery, was put on trial in the supe-
riorstgurt yesterday afternoon, follow
ing the trial of various negro cases
for multitudinous crimes. One Ma
this, a friend of F'razier's alleged that
he was held up, assaulted and battered
in Dink's place on Muckalee Hill,
where he had gone 10 buy a refreshing
pint Of long-range liquor, the sum OF
$40 being taken from him after he
ked- been badly beaten up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
SPOKE
BEFORE LARGE
AUDIENCE HERE
MAKES A GOOD IMPRESSION
Candidate For U. S. Senate
In Americas

Hon. Thomas S. Fielder, of Macon
addressed a large audience at thy
Americus opera house yesterday morn
ing upon his candidacy for the United
States senate as the successor of the
lamented A. o. Bacon, and the wrapJ
attention accorded him and frequent
applause evidenced the fact that the
impression made by the young south
Georgian was most convincing, and
as favorably received by the represent
ative assemhlage before him.
Despite the very oppressive wealth
er, the treatre was well filled with
citizens of the town and county, man.
ladies gracing the occasion. Several
prominent citizens, by invitation, oc,
cupied seats upon the stage with the
speaker
Mr.. Fielder spoke for Just one hour,
12 to / o'clock, and we'll entertained
his audience throughout He was in
troduced by Capt. NJ. B. Council, who
paid a lattering tribute to the able
young south Georgian in regard p
both his public and private life. The
reception accorded Mr.. Fielder was
alike cordial and sincere.
The speaker discussed many impor,
tant issues, expressing his opposition
to a life tenure of Office upon the part
of the federal judiciary; opposition
to the appointment of negroes to i'm
portant offices, which white men
should fill, and especially his opposi-
ton to the present peonage laws,
which were inimical to the farmers
and agricultural interests of the South.
He strongly advocated government aid
in the building of good roads.
Mr.. Fielder made himself clear on
the federal peonage law and stated
he wanted to proteet.th farmers OF
the country, which part of his speech
the voters cheered long and well. H9I
strongly advocated the agricultural
credits system, which will result in a
more elastic currency, he said
The speaker paid his respects to one
of his opponents in no uncertain terms
first placing himself upon the defen-
siVe as answering charges recently
made against himself. His remarks,
while courteous, and whOlly free of
mud-slinging, were delivered with
telling effect and ELECTED frequent out
bursts of applause. He paid a giow-
lug tribute 10 HT6SlQ6HJ wilson Wnlcn
he characterized as the nations ablest
chief executive.
Mr.. Fielder was congratulated upon
his fine address and the excellent i'm
preston made here. In the afternoon
Mr.. Fel1er made a trip to several
towns in the county, meeting and min
Cling with friends in each place.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
TEDDY TO HAVE
PRESIDENTS CAR

Paris, June 4.-President Poincairts
has ordered that the PRESIDENT Il
railroad car be in readiness for the
use Of Color el Roosevelt, on his ar
rival at Cherbourg, and that he be
shown every courtesy. 1t is under
stood that the president will receive
Colonel Roosevelt Saturday. j
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
Col. Dave Andrew

terday than would Il
and all on account 61S@ d. @ 90 q
the first one the season ass
promoter of florida growtbsV yer
bent down the scale beam atp~ ,sJ
watermelon at this sesle is 4
like stumbling upon sapn Claus u
expectedly although all 6f AmericuA
will bury its face in the luscious boz
som Of melons month hence. when
they will be as plentiful as old maids
at a suffragette meeting, and far more
to Mere Man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
BLIND MAN DIVORCES
BEAUTIFUL WIFE
Los Angeles Man Tells Judge Fingers
Couldn't "See Other Man." But They
Taught Him Beauty of Wifes Feat
ures and of His Children. Eight
Years Welded.

Los Angeles, Cal, June 4.-Walter
C, Livingood today divorced the wife
he had lived with for eight eyars, but
had never seen. Livingood is blind.
Mrs. Livingood, he said, was very
handsome woman. His finger tips, be
said, told him so. Her features were
very symmetrical, he said, and her
complexion was beautiful. His fingers
he said, told him this. His sense of
measurement told him of the sym
metry, while the delicate nerves in his
finger tips told him by the warmth OF
her face that her skin was pink.
Guiding himself to the witness chair
Livingood seated himself and told his
story:
Fourteen eyars ago premature ex-
plosion destroyed my sight. While Wis
iting my parents back East -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-06-04

"Meet me at Cherrington's."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
ANIMALS IN WINTER

Mabel r. Goodlander, in the Churchman
When winter is coming the wild crea-
lures in the north are preparing for the
cold months; some, like the squirrel, by
storing up food, but many more by going
to bed to sleep through the cold days
when food is scare. This winter sleep is
called Information.
Each animal chooses some comfortable
place for his long rest. The woodchuclS
rolls up in his burrow in the hillside: the
coon and bear find caves among the rocks
Many of the arm-blooded animals do
not sleep all winter, but take long maps
from which they wake on warm days.
The cold-blooded creatures hibernate,
too. Snakes knot themselves up under a
log or rock; the toads wood frogs and
tortoises push down in the soft earth; the
mud turtles and water frogs bury them
selves in the bottom of shallow streams
and ponds
So they sleep till hunger wakes them up,
and doubtless the first thing they do in
the spring is to hunt for a good meal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
The Good New Year

The old yeas has gone and the new
year comes with brightest auguries.
If 1913 was not prosperous year for
everybody 1t witnessed much thrift,
and only in the latter part of the year
was there complaint of dullness in the
business world. There is promise that
the new year will be one OF the best
in the history of the country. If there
has been trade recession, a revival of
business activity is right i'll sight, and
before the year is many weeks old ev-
cry section of this great productive
country will be booming
Alabama has the advantage over
most states in the matter of varied re-
sources. 1t is rich in minerals and
rich in agricultural possibilities. We
have here in Birmingham the south s
steel center. The district is now pre-.
pared to turn out finished steel pro-
ducts on large and varied scale. The
Tennessee companys steel rails are
in ever increasing demand, and the
new wire mill will begin operation
within the next few days. 1t is rea-
sonable to say that the steel output
of the Birmingham district will be far
greater than in any previous year,
but in finished steel products the dis
trict is yet in its infancy, so to speak.
Two or three years from now the wire
mill will probably have another unit
added and within ten years four or five
units will be added.
In point of money value Alabama's S
crops have made new high records in
the year Just closed. The cotton crop
was not very far below that of 1911,
the record-breaking year. The money
value of the crop now ginned exceeds
Dy mllllOnS OF dollars tnat OF l9ll. corn,
hay and minor crops have added
wealth to the state and the money val
ne of 1913's crops totals about
5000, 100000 In 1907 the total money
value was only about $100,000,000. A
state that can increase it's farm pro-
ducts so rapidly is a state with a
splendid future.
The Age-Herald wishes everybody a
happy new year. Alabama has started
on a new era of agricultural, industrial
and commercial progress, and long
may it continue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

NEW DEVICE TO WARN SHIPS

From the London Standard.
Until this year our huge steamships
were using just the same methods for
iceberg detection as were practced
century ago. In spite of the great in
crease in speed, the primitive business
of taking temperature readings from
buckets of water hauled up the ships side
continued
The Titanic disaster Has opened a new
era. The ship of the future will be as
fully equipped with accident-preventing
already the captains bride" is being
Transformed into high class instrument
room. In short while it promises to
resemble a well stocked physical labora-
tory and prominently among the instru-
ments there will undoubtedly figure the
frigidometer, the instrument which proved
it's utility on the Manretania by giving
warning of an iceberg floating at dis
tance of 10 miles away.
1t is the invention OF a Scotch engineer
named McNab.
Ioebergs are always surrounded by
zone of cold water. Owing to the TACT
that seven-eighths of an iceberg is pe-
meath the water this zone of low temper
sture is surprisingly extensive
Hitherto it has been the practice when
steamng in doubtful waters to take the
ten.perature of repeated samples OF sea
water and watch carefully for any pro-
nc unced drop in the mercury of the Their
moneter. The difficulty with the old and
c,,,de method has been that the tenn
ncrature of the water IN the immediate
surface of the sea IS no index to the
te temperature a few feet beneath
The new iceberg dctector has two
nerve" centers in the shape of ther-
mometers, one placed high on the FORE
mast and the other built low in the keel
at point we'll forward.
AS the temperature falls degree by de-
gree the mercury in the thermometer es-
tablishes series of contacts which. in
turn transmit electric currents to seq
mcnted indicator on the captains bridge
loud sounding alarm also Is connected
with the indicator.
Upon a steamer with this equipment en-
terng an ice-infested district, and the
alarm sounding, the observer on the
bridge moves two levers around the face
OF the indicator until the alarm ceases to
sound. The position Of the levers then
shows the air and water temperatures.
The moment either of these tempera-
lures falls further the alarm again comes
irto action. and is again only checked by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01

advantages of learning suitable to thelr
genius" He would deny to them mo sort
of learning" but he would advocate espe-
cially history, that they might under
stand the world and be able to know ana
judge of things music and dancing pc
cause they are their darlings:' the sraces
of speech, that their conversation might
be desirable. The women in the academy
were to suffer neither guards nor spies.
Defoe was canny enough. to know the OPP
position, and in his refutation he suggests
the hue and cry against such project.
The hue and cry today has advanced from
education to suffrage 1T looks, urges
Defoe, ''as If we denied women the ad-
vantages of education for fear they should
vie with the men in their improvements.
He suspects that 1.-THE world are mistaken
In their practice ABOUT women" for he
cannot think that God Almighty ever
made them so delicate, SO glorious erea-
lures so agreeable and dehglt1ui
to mankind . all TO be only stewards
of our houses, cooks and slaves And
he looks ahead confidently. This chap
ter is but an essay at the thing he says.
4 refer the practice to those happy days,
if ever they shall be, when men shall be
wise enough to mend it," The day seems
near.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
A COURTESY STRIKE

From the Ohio State Journal.
Here is strike that is to be indorsed.
1t is over in Brooklyn, where the iron
workers have struck "for polite language
during working hours" The news item
Jacob Berovitz, one of the workmen. who
complained that the loud and crudely eX-
pressed orders of the foreman made him
nervous. That is good point. We have
had too much of this rude and violent
language toward employees. 1t is one
thing that has kept up the conflict be-
tween capital and labor.
The abuse of an empoye by an en-
ployer is one of the strangest and mean
est discords in human experience. The
naughty and insolent attitude of man
ager or foreman tends to keep up the hos
tility to capital. 1t has no right to d
place in the relation of employer and en-
ton that the boss is better than work.
men, which the latter are prone to resent.
There is a great improvement in this
regard in the past few years. More kindly
and iuster views are taken of the rela-
tions among men, and a higher regard
for the man who works, not for any
economy consideration merely but be-
cause there is a growth of the apprecia-
ton of manhood. If such strikes empha-
size the duty of courtesy In trade, social
and official relations 1t will be one OF the
best things that have taken place for
years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperous Tia,es

In the south 1913 has been good year
fer business. and we start into 1911 with
exceptionally bright prospects, said cy-
rus Garnsey of Memphis. general man
ager of the Galloway Coal company Of
Alabama.
The coal trade during most of the
year just closing has been brisk. My
company certainly has no cause to COM
plain. As to the future, / have never
known it to look brighter. During the
past two or three months there was a.lull
in business throughout the country, and
but pessimsts are fast disappearing. The
democratic administration is making
good. 1t has done nothing to hurt legiti-
mate business. On the other hand. it
has done much to help it. The banking
anC currency law is accepted as bene-
hciai in the highest degree.
The south's large crops and the high
prices which the farmers received form
the basis of good times. 1t is safe to as
sert that the next few months will wit
ness wonderful prosperity all through this
part of the country. rhe Birmingham
district is in splendid shape, and large
development work will pe pushed. The
completion of the great wire mill at Fair
field is. of course, a factor of far-reaehing
effect in Birmingnams progress. Its
value to this section cannot be overesti-
mated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-01
A Georgia Visitor

Samuel Carter of Carter, Ca a brother
OF Mrs. James Campbell Maben. Jr., ar
rived in Birmingham last night to visit
his sister. Mr. Garter was an out of
town guest at the New Years ball of the
Country club last night.
Mr.. Carter is an extensive planter in
Georgia, and one of the most prominent
men in Murray county which is situated
in the northern part Of the state, not
fas from the Tennessee line. He is a fire.
cuent visitor to Atlanta, Rome and Chat
tanooga. and also Birmingham.
THE farmers OF the south have been
unusually successful this year just
closed said Mr.. Carter. THE yield has
been unusually good and every farmer III
my state has money in bank, And the
most wonderful thing about it is the farm
crs owe very little money, If any.
1.-THE general outlook for farmers is
good. The currency bill which has just
passed, and is now a law, will enable
farmers In the future to finance their af-
fairs better than in tho past. expect
81 eat results from the operations of the
currency bill"
Mr.. Carter will be the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Maben for several days.