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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
Invigorating to the Pale and sickry

The Old Standard general strengthening tonic
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria enriches the blood and builds up the sys
tem. A rue tonic. For adults and children. s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
AMER|CUs HAS
LARGE STOCKS
COTTON UNsOLD
1906 BALES YET HELD IN THE
WAREHOUSES;.

Americas warehouses are still
chock-a-b block with cotton bales as the
result of the world wide war and ina
bility to sell the staple at satisfac-
tory prices. Cotton. warehousemen
stated today that probably 1900
bales were still stored here and it is
quite probable that the greater por-
ton of this surplus will be carried
over into the next crop. Sumter coun-
ty produces more than $4,000 bales
cotton annually, and such conditions
as now prevail here because of the
war were never known before. At this
date last season-Ju1y Sd, there was
not bale of cotton in Americas ware
houses, the entire crop of 1913 having
been sold at excellent prices. The
crop this year will not nearly reach
$4,000 bales, because of the reduced
acreage, but with the surplus carried
over will prove as much, or more per
haps, than can be sold satisfactorily.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
ANOTHER PARTY
GOING SHORTLY
To EXPOSITION
AMERICUS PEOPLE OFF TO PACIF.
IC COAST SHOW.

Another party of Americas tourists
numbering a dozen congenial people
are preparing to leave shortly for
the big Frisco fair, and will get away
to the Golden Gate of the Pacific about
the 18th or 18th inst. This is the sec
ond large party going from Americas
to the Panama Exposition, the first
party of personally conducted tourists
having returned here this week with
glowing stories of their stay in the
Golden West The party going out
ten days or two weeks hence will be
joined en- route by Mr.. and Mrs. E. D.
Sheffield and Miss Sarah Sheffield OF
Americas, who are now at Albuquer-
que, and who will return there via
Colorado Springs after their trip to
the Frisco fair.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
DOCTOR TAKES MANS
$50 FROM POCKET
IN MEDICAL TEST

ST. LOUIS, July 3.-Beniamin Boon
shaft of 1920 Biddle street, is mourn
ing the loss of $50 as the result Of a
rather impromptu medical examination
Friday, according to information he
furnished police of the Carr Street
Station.
Boonshaft told the officers that
about o'clock man called at his
house in answer to an advertisement
which the visitor said he had read Of
fering the property for sale. Boon
shaft told the man, the police say, that
he wanted to sell the houst because he
was in bad health.
The caller informed Boonshift, so he
told the police that he was physic-
ian, and that if agreeable he woul1
make an examination of him. Boon
sraft agreed, the police report, and
the stranger tested his breathing and
listened to his heart beats, and thea
departed. Shortly afterward Boom
shaft felt in the inside pocket of his
coat and discovered that his wallet
containing $50 had disappeared.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
SEVERE PUNISHMENT
Of Mrs. Chappell, Of Five Years
Standing, Relieved by Cardui.

MI. Airy, N. C.-Mrs. Sarah M. Chap
pell of this town, says: 81 suffered fol
live years with womanly troubles, also
stomach troubles. and my punishment,
was more than any one could tell.
tried most every kind OF medicine
but none did me any good.
read one day about Cardui, the wo-
mans tonic, and decided to try il. |
had not taken but about six bottles until
| was almost cured. II did me more
good than all the other medicines had
tried, put together.
My friends began asking me why
looked SO well, and | told them abou,
Cardui. Several are now taking it."
Do you, lady reader, suffer from any
of the ailments due to wonanly trouble,
such as headache, backache, sideache,
sleeplessness, and that everlaStingly tired
feeling?
If so, LET us urge you to give Cardui a
trial. We feel confident it will help you.
just as it has million other women in
the past half century.
Begin taking Cardui to-day. You
won't regret it. All druggists.
Wyifs to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory Dept, Chattanooga, Tenn, for Ssscfa.
fnstyEctions on your case id S4-pags book, "Home
T-satmant for Women" in plain wrapper NC LEA
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
Sumter
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

NopcCldl 10 llmeS-ReCOrQeC.j
SUMTER, Ca, July 3.-Messrs. AL
win and Jesse Israel, Bonnie, Terrell
and Frank Webb, Misses Ruth Webb
and Edna Mae Foster were guests of
Misses Lila and Theone Webb Sun
day.
Misses Leila and Florrie Webb spent
Saturday shopping in Americas.
Miss Thelma Harvey returned tc
her home in Ashburn, after a pleasant
visit to Miss Annie Catherine Nc
Donald recently.
Messrs. HI. J. Webb, E. C. Webb and
w. A. Webb spent Monday in Ameri-
Gus.
Miss Allie Goodwin, of Plains, was
the guest of Mrs. Wise the past week.
Misses Alline Speer and Ora Rod
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03

whether waking or snoring, he had
decided to take a short cut to complete
rest by having the courts save him
from the daily din.
Mrs. Sentry, in very cross action
asserted that she could give no infor-
nation about how she sounded when
asleep, but that it was fact that her
husband was in the habit of squeezing
a scent piece until sap came out Of
the metal wreath and that she wanted
to be separated forever from him and
his undisturbed bank roll.
Judge Prigg of the Reno County
District Court heard all that seemed
to annoy the Sentney family, and de-
cided that they could live happily ever
after if they were a bit diplomatic.
Just to get Mr.. Sentney started in the
right direction he decided that he
should pay the costs Of both actions
and that no decree would be granted.
Then to make sure that Mr.. Sentney
would get used to parting with funds
he ordered that he pay his wife $1,000,
which she declared she had loaned her
husband on their honeymoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
AMERICAS REPLY
Americas Accepts the Evidence aad
Many Americas Readers viii
Profit BY It

Which is the more weighty proof
a few words from an Americas resi-
dent, whom we know and respect, or
volumes from strangers in distant
towns? There can be only one re.
ply.
]. F. Simmons, 127 Finn ST., Amer
icus, says; MY kidneys got weak and
for month I was bothered by the
kidney secretions being too frequent
in passage. They annoyed me both
day and night and bothered me at my
work. My back was weak and felt
all tired out. l went to doctor and
after an examination, he told me to
use Doan's Kidney Pills. They cured
me and ] haven't had any trouble
since.'
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Simmons had. Foster-M ilburn Co..
Props, Buffalo, N. Y. adyt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03
LAW ALLOWS WIFE
To SNORE AO UB.,
THOUGH PA KICKS
KANSAS HUSBANDS PLEA FOR
DIVORCE ON NOISE GROUNDS
DENIED.

HUTCHINSON, KAN, July 3.-Under
the sheets, blankets and laws Of
Kansas a woman who is the lawful
wife of any complaining deponent may
snore as loudly, boisterously and SON.
,orously as she cares to, even though
her nocturnal efforts make her hus-
band the leading insomnia athlete of
his particular county. Charles Sent
ney, wealthy grocer of this city, has
found this out at cost Of between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Mr.. Sentney brought an action
against his wife asking divorce on the
ground that her noise and power as a
snorer had kept him awake for all but
eight or ten hours since their mar
riage ten years ago. He told the
court that he had lain for hours look
ing up at the ceiling and listened
somewhat attentively as his wife whis-
tied. sang and yelled through her
nose. He asserted that he was con-
scious that she meant no harm, but
that in as much as he needed sleep
and his wife annoyed him greatly
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03

GEORGIA-Webster County.
Before me came w. e. Jenkins,
Cashier, of Bank of Preston, who be-
ing duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is a true
condition of said Bank, as shown by
the books of file in said Bank.
w. E. JENKINS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this LIST day of July, 1915
]. w. A. HAWKINS, N. P. C J.P.,
Webster County, Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-03

gers were visitors in Sumter Tuesday
Mrs. G. w. Israel and daughter, An
ma, spent Friday with Mrs. H. J. Webb.
Mr. and Mrs. j. B. Webb spent
Thursday in Americas shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Worthy left last
Thursday for Florida. where they will
spend a few months with their daugh-
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Webb and CLYDE
ternoon with Mrs. E. G.. Webb.
I'M and Mrs. r. G.. Webb and Clyde
Webb motored to Bronwood Sunday
Messrs. Bonnie Webb and John AL
len Mcdonald played ball with the
Americas team in Dawson Friday.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

eyes nodded bandanna head welcome him
fortune told" he said
him Then she his palm and told him
silver preferably dollar Always accommodating
Peterson did
Just then the looked ceiling Peterson looked also
When he turned his back the half dollar had disappeared
Den the trick did Quckefn he explained later to the desk
Despanes The said she didn't
went and told that again with
silver wasn't going to be did the next time just pulled
dime Dog cats if that didn't get just like the half
dollar!
paper They're because
>"
1.-The smallest piece of money had wodolar bill
hand Then she told lot of beautiful
after and that had bright She said had enemies but
the end would leave them Then she
hocupocus movements looked at hand the
bill She said the spirits got it!
Nov amt that funny?
got thinking about
sckes and didn't right too
here if a
The desk advised him to swear warrant
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10
THE GIRL AND THE SCREEN

When The Mother entered the CON-
blnatlon deliCatessen shop and ice
cream parlor group Of girls seated
at table We're so much absorbed in
their discussion that they had even
forgotten the refreshments before
them. Nor did they see The Mother
as she stood waiting for one OF the
busy clerks to come her way.
why, we've just got to find a way
TO Keep her out. | tell you We cant
nave her in the sorority. She would
spoil all the fun. Every last one Of
you know how rude and unfair she is
capable Of being" and little Miss
Bright Eyes, who had the floor pro
TEN, mixed in a name with her spir-
tied protest which sent the hot blood
to The Mothers temples and made her
leave the shop without making the
purchase for which she had entered
It.
"a wv SNC tiC SuDJVlL VI Gil thC
talk was The Girl-the listeners own
young daughter.
And what was worse The Mother
knew in her heart of hearts that the
criticism she had heard was true.
Throughout the afternoon of the
crisp November day The Mother sat
alone in her sewing room. The work
the had begun lay untouched in her
zap, nor did she stir in answer to
either door or telephone bell Her
gaze was riveted on the expanse of
lawn which circled her pretty home,
and as she watched the little dead
leaves blown away into hollows and
corners and trenches for their long
winters sleep her thoughts ran back
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

over all the sixteen years of The Girls
life, and, as though it had happened
yesterday, the scene of the childs first
quarrel came with grave Importance
to her memory.
The Girl had been to blame. She
had been intolerably rude to Little
Neighbor; beastly unfair, and when
her small guest had stood out against
her The Girl had burst into a storm
of tears which so touched The Moth
ers sympathy that it quite ran away
with her judgment
From that day on The Mother had
been nothing better than screen be-
hind which The Girl might find pro-
lection.
From this far-away picture Of the
first quarrel of The Girl The Mothers
thoughts came back to the group of
serious young faces in the ice cream
parlor where her schoOlmates were
discussing ways and means Of keeping
The Girl out of their sorority, assign
ing as their reason that she was rude
and unfair"
The words rang through The Moth
ers mind with the persistency OF some
lifting tune from a musical comedy.
They seemed to dance away with the
scurrying leaves out on the broad
lawn, and then come back to scar
their way like a burning brand into
The Mothers brain. She remembered
innumerable instances when, in her
dealings with her companions, The
Girl he'd shown no sense of justice,
and as many others in which her domi-
neering egotism and intolerable self
ishness had appalled, The Mothers
heart. but each time the adoring pa
rent had believed that only she saw
the hideous faults OF The Girl. and so
she had gone on from year to year
screening them from the public eye.
or at least thinking that she did, for
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

guard her tongue because she had
never had to suffer the consequences
of its sting. And the Girl, amazed at
the slowness of The Mothers consent
to make it alright with Mrs. Lee"
reiterated her question.
1t was almost dusk when The Girl
left the sewing room to wash her tear
stained face. The Mother watched her
detected steps take their way down
the street toward the home of Mary
Lee, and her heart ached for her.
Even now The Mothers impulse
was to rush out of the house, over
take The Girl and save her the pain
full apology to her neighbor. She had
been screen for SO long that the
thing had become habitual, and it was
only the realization that The Girls
womanhood would be permanently
dwarfed If she did not begin at once
to do little fighting on her own &C
count that held The Mother beside
the window watching for the return
ing steps,
The Girls feet almost ran along the
street as they brought her home. Her
head was held high; red spots burned
her cheeks, and when she threw open
the door of the room in which The
Mother waited there was glorious
light of conquest in her eyes which
argued happily for her growth
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

minded of primeval savagery. One
need only see the stevedores, at Port
au Prince, pounce upon the bones that
are thrown down to them by sailors.
They are naked to the waist, and
their black bodies glisten as they tum-
tle over one another in their barges,
hghting and scratching, trying to get
at a bone. Their screeching is hid
eous, and when one of them clutches
the prize and tears the flesh with his
teeth, until another snatches it away,
one thinks with disgust of unclean
beasts
Perhaps one Haitian in twenty can
read and write. The educational sys-
TEN is farce. Yet, the inhabitants
are usually devout. II village is on
fire Zone of the pleasing pastimes of
warning factions), the negroes will
leave their huts to burn and toll fran.
ticaliy to save the church.
The lack of public works is pitia-
bic. Naked children, and grown ones,
too, loll like swine in the ditch water
of the public streets. The only cleo.
trio lighting in the country is that in
the presidents palace. In all Haiti
there Is not an illuminated street.
The explanation of all these wretch.
ed conditions may be summed IN in
one word politics. A boy of six ia
brevetted colonel in the army.
Wholesale smuggling, winked at by in.
terested officials, cuts down the ex-
port tax. The children of the inhuen.
tial are immune from the conscript
system, but the under dog of the sys.
TEN must abandon his little clearing
to the women and serve his term as a
soldier, which in Haiti is worse than
being a tramp. The postmaster of
a village pays his bil,1 in postage
stamps, giving double.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10
today 1t was quite obvious that she
had not wholly succeeded.

The Mother sat In her sewing room,
the work she had begun Immediately
after lunch lying untouched for hours
in her lap. She heard The Girl open
the front door; lay her books on the
library table, and come slowly down
the hall. When she opened the door
of the sunny little sewing room The
Mother had picked up the work in her
lap and was plying her needle indus
triously
To The Girl she gave a smile and
went on with her work, ignoring the
troubled look in the young eyes as
they watched her from the doorway.
There was obviously something
wrong, but The Mother, for the first
time in her life, made it difficult for
The Girl to tell her.
"Oh, mother, have got in SO
wrong" finally from The Girl who, in
the sudden memory of the embarrass-
ing time she had been having did not
notice The Mothers unusual silence.
Il called that little Mrs. Lee a per-
feet dowd today, and she overheard.
| was talking to Marjorie Mason about
the party for which Mary Lee has sent
out invitations and | had no idea her
mother was within q mile around,
when | suddenly turned and saw her
standing back of me when | had just
said that it was pity for Mary 70
have such dowd for mother.
You'll make it alright with her
won't you MOTHER ended The Girl
in keen distress.
The Mother regarded her with
grave, calm eyes-this pretty young
daughter who had never learned to
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

violence. Negroes fell heir to maghlh'
cent plantations after the expulsion OF
their French masters. But they Sho"
a poor accounting for their steward
ship. They have sQuandered their
subsistence in civil war and the lux
ury of sluggish ease. A family here
and there camps in the wilderness, Nv
ing on coffee that grows wild, picking
the fruits on every side, and perhaps
growing a few vans. Should a man
sspire to what he could call a farm, he
would have to leave it for military
se.vice, or perhaps see it ruined by
raYaging hordes of armed politicians
Consequently, the vast natural res
sources of the country are not ex'
plored. The island has been called
the richest of all the West Indies.
Anything that is planted will grow
and yield crop after crop the same
year. Yhe hills are covered with for
ests Of fine wood, practically I'm
touched. Cotton might one day mean
great wealth for Haiti, but it's an
nual export now does not exceed a
few thousand tons. There are also to-
bacco, hides, sugar, corn, rice, rich
metal deposits, and the great staple,
coffee, the production Of which has
fallen off of late years by almost
half.
White Mans Influence Resented.
But should a foreigner attempt any
thing for the development or uplifting
of Haiti, he is fretted by obstacles at
every turn. The negroes have wanted
nothing of the white man. They are
absurdly jealous, absurdly suspicious.
The cost of the white mans absence
is misery, but Haiti chooses to pay 1t.
A fair-sized transport. circling the
coast, could take away every foreign
er in the country. They number scarce
ly 500, mostly Germans. The negroes
number about million and a half.
At every turn, the traveller is re-.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10
Vicar for Six Gets $4,000

The living Of st. Alphage, London
Wall, England, which recently became
vacant, is a sinecure. There IL no
congregation, the average number OF
worshipers on Sunday being about six
The stipend of the incumbent is $4,000
year, and it has been suggested that
the church should be amalgamated
with another and the salary of the
vicar put to better use within the
church.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

eminent. is land of palms, land of
dreams and incidence. The people of
the island own lazy Africa for moth.
er. They are the creatures of DALI
ance. they are good-natured, and quick
to laugh, showing their white teeth
and the whites of their eyes.
But they also have the thoughtless
cruelty of children. In spite of their
natural slothfulness they rage under
their tropic sun with the energy of
bloodthirsty beasts, wrecking their
tiowery paradise. They suspect the
white man, fearing return to slavery,
and they carry on constant political
feuds with each other. On all sides
are evidences of suspicion and hatred.
The island is land of decay
The boards of the houses arc cracked
and rotting. There are negroes in
rags everywhere, lazily shutting
about, doing nothing. What is pic.
turesque is Of dirt. There is no ma
tional dress, no distinctive local color.
The impression one gets is of a
coon hollow" such as the slums of
our southern cities might offer. But
the lightheartedness of our own dar.
kies is missing. One feels that the
spirit has been taken out of these
Haitians. The sun glares bright and
hot, yet there Is heavy cloud that
depresses. When voices are raised,
they are rarely mirthful, but high
strung, quaIrelsome, in a peevish
strain.
Not Far From Savagery.
Without the white man, the blacks
have been sinking gradually to their
original savagery of the African jun
gle. Their enlightenment, such as
there is OF it. is only initiative. For
instance, an election is but the old
tribal war cry, attended by scenes Of
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

police the bear the brunt the trouble and
this
how wigwag.
Not satisfied with entire dependence the telephone
Police Commissioner
mnaon between police headquarters and precinct the five Dor
oughs effect
roof of the municipal building signal flags with enthusiasm than
transmitting and photographs used by the police
men during the day and powerful signaling lamps by night the code
being followed The harbor police the Morse
Bauer OF the the instruction
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

portion OF the eight-foot sewer wos a'
Gently completed and through -. =
manhole Machill obtained ligh. .he
ar According to Policeman M. aua
VINO discovered him, Macbiu wos eer'
ing in comfort. was Nv
The Tacony police wer. a,ro-
surprise when the phone rang ''n a
Say, listen" came an or
voice. there is a man livins sAs 81
sewer up at Torresdale avenue ~ a
Cottman street. Come I'D and ana
him. Everybody is scared to a aea,, get
turning to Patrolman Macs ea'a =,
lokers' but you'd better take the
cover On a manhole aJar Remoa .aa
.,onary lame fought a real wo1f ~ perl
he dropped into the manho, Mo-. IN IN a ca
saw table. On it was a lo. anu !" IN t
DUNK and on it lay MachiIl, u Ore
for observation. 'n'iy and
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-09-10

MANSON StTttI. IL IS HUI UIttII IHdC
potorson gets to visit town but when
ho does it's a lively day. When he
wont into the fortune-telling parlor,
tho adventure with the doctor which
cost him SIS for two bottles of medi-
oine was still fresh in his mind. He
did not intend to be "slicked" again.
AS he stepped inside of the cur
tanned doorway, the gypsy queen was
sitting before a table gazing at
crvstal ball. She raised her head and
Peterson noticed far-away look in