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ne, anyway" he fairly shouted.

me, anyway" he fairly shouted.
Dorsey suits Howell for the sem
ate just as he has suited him for
governor" the senator proceeded.
"What has he done? 1 want any Dor
sey man here to show me anything
he has done to make him fit for the
senate. He has been going around the
state making false charges and accus-
atoms against me. have asked him to
tell me those things to my face. First
| invited him to do so in my speeches.
But | got no response.
Again No Response
''Then l appointed Messrs. Howard
and Jackson to represent me in an
attempt to arrange a meeting with
him. But he wouldn't even answer
their letters. So l wrote him yester-
day morning in person and offered to
meet him anywhere at any time under
any circumstances. | offered to
change any date l had to accommo-
date him at any place am to appear;
offered any condition. But so far
haven't heard word from him in
reply.
'T wanted to get him face to face
and ask him a few questions. l
wanted to ask him if any governor
before him ever had the states fl
nances in so muddled a condition.
wanted to ask him if he ever did
anything greater than to beat Gov
ernor Harris, one of the bravest and
finest men that ever wore the gray;
and | also wanted to ask him if his
administration wasn't million dol
lars more expensive than any other
before him."
Senator Smith asked why the gov
ernor had sent special tax collectors
all over Georgia to cheat money out
of merchants under law that had
been repealed two years previously
by an act which he himself had
signed" He declared that of $4,000
etcs of the collectors. He said that
collected $4,000 went into the pock-
cts of the collectors. He said that
on demand of Gordon county's rep
resentative the governor refunded
the taxes collected in that county
under threat of exposure and had
asked that nothing be said about. He
said that $4,000 of this money had
now been raid back, but that that
paid to the collectors could not be
repaid because it was in their pock-
cts and the governor had made no eff
fort to repay it otherwise.
eff I'd been guilty of any such
conduct" said he, "it would have ia
ken a week for the Constitution to
have been able to print anything else.
But tell you I'd have sold the shirt
off my back in an effort to pay back
the money I had wrongfully taken
from these Georgians. But that prob
ably fits Dorsey to handle the great
problems that will nfront us at
Washington"
The Negro Menace
The senator said that one of the
problems ahead would be the likeli-
hood of the Republicans, if success
full this fall, under negro national
committeeman from this state, at
tempting to place negroes in postof-
offices. "But if they do" he shouted
They'll confirm them after I'm dead
unless they put the majority cloture
rule on me and make it impossible
for me to say anything"
Senator Smith here paused again
and not ony invited but urged that
anyone who had questions on any
phase of his record or any criticism
of his votes on any measure to stand
up and let his criticisms or questions
be known. He offered to divide time
with any man. "There is probably
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iMPxUvED UMF0RM TNTEKNETIUEEI
SUNlYSQIOOL
LESSON
(By REV. P. b FITZWATER, D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright. 1890. Western Newspaper Union }
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 5
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE

LESSON TEXT Kings 81; $685.
GOLDEN TEXT-Mine house shall be
called house OF prayer for all people,
lisa. 56:7.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL.-I Chron.
81; a:1T.
PRIMARY TOPIC-God's House.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Solomon Builds the
Temple
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Putting Our Best Into the House of
God
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Value of a House of Worship.
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povertv Treads on Heels.

There is nothing keeps longer than
a middhng fortune, and nothing melts
away sooner than a great one. Pow
erty treads on the heels of great and
expected riches.-Bruyere.
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ANDERSONVILLE

ANDERSONVILLE, Sept. 1. -
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dykes and son
were the guests of relatives in Ella
vile for the weekend.
Mrs. W. E. Thomasson and little
Sara, have returned from a pleasant
visit to relatives in Alabama and
North Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs Clyde Williams, of
Americas, were with their mother,
Mrs. Emma Williams, for the week
end.
Miss Ora Reid base returned to her
home in Ellaville after pleasant
visit to relatives in Andersonville.
Miss Caroline Grey, of Locust
Grove. has been the guest of Miss
Fay Rocks. Miss Grey returned to
her home Saturday accompanied by
Miss Rocks who resumed her studies
at Locust Grove Institute Monday
morning.
Miss Helen Johnson, of Oglethorpe,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Pearl
Easterlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Thomasson
and daughter, Beverly, of Carrollton,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomasson.
Albert Holloway has returned
from a pleasant visit to Atlanta.
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LeCi6eNetlCeS

Joint called communication of AM
cries Lodge No. IS, and M. B. Coun-
ell Lodge No. 95, F, g. A. M. to-
night for the purpose of comforting
the Masters degree on 8 candidates.
All visiting brothers are invited to
be present.
S. L. HAMMOND,
Secretary.
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Every nax the Best Day.

Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day In the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-01
EvIdence n WeaLneaa.

Neutrality, as lasting principle. is
an evidence of weakness. * ossukh.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-01

The ancient Aztecs annually sac
rifced thousands of human victims
to their gods, the bodies being after
wards eaten by the populace.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

Meade whispered to me; another man
whose name / did not catch. and the
stunning brown-eyed girl who had been
at the dance that evening. Again | felt
my disadvantage.
Rails are down." she said, turning
to him after the first act Tell me,
Francis, what's this next election going
to do to the market? have theory
She proceeded to outline her ideas of
Wall Street and the political situation,
talking with great brilliancy, it seemed
to me. That language was lncompre-
hensible to Newell, ] decided, | must
learn it too. | must overcome my mental
deficiencies-an if the stock market
and politics were part of my defects,
would simply study up about them.
Meade, how about these messenger
boy robberies? Getting pretty frequent,
aren't they?" the other man asked sud
denly
Are they" Mr.. Meade answered.
Unconsciously, he locked over at Vi.
And he refused to answer further.
Now what, | wondered, did that
mean.
Tomorrow Little Talk.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

shall have to go over the hill to the farm.
No, Rcynard, that book should be des-
troyed. II is dangerous to our peace OF
mind. But If you want to know what it
is about, why not ask Mr.. Bear? He may
be able to read
But Mr.. Bear said he could not read
and anyway he should never care 10
read about hens and ducks. He thought
that book on young pigs or on bees might
be very interesting.
Go and ask Mr.. OWL" said Mr..
Bear. "He is the wiscst one in the woods,
and he may be able to read and tell you
what that book is about"
So off ran Mr.. Fox with his book TO
Mr. Owl but, he wasn't up and SO Mr..
Fox had to sit down and wait and while
he waited he looked at the pictures and
by the time Mr.. Owl was out Of bed Mr..
poultry that he could have eaten IA dozen.
but III have all | want if Mr.. Owl
can read and tell me what this book
says about catching them said Mr..
Fox. ut will be worth the waiting ! am
sure"
Mr.. Owl came down from his house
with very stately and serious air;
he pulled his black silk cap over his
head little before he answered when
Mr. Fox told him what he wanted.
"Oh yes, | can read, he said at last
and Mr.. Fox handed him the book.
Mr.. Owl put it under his arm and placed
his spectacles straight on his nose, then he
brushed the cuff of his coat while Mr..
Fox stood first on one foot and then on
the other so impatient he didn't know
what TO do and wondering If Mr.. Owl
would ever be ready to read the book.
At last MIR. Owl opened the book
and read: Poultry keeping and rals-
ing taught in few lessons" he said.
Mr.. Fox could stand 1T no longer.
isn't that book about catching poul-
try?" he asked.
"No, Mr. Fox, this book tells you how
to keep hens and chickens and ducks.
There isn't word in this book, about
catching anything but foxes.
Mr. Fox reached for the book and
away he ran without thanking Mr..
Owl for reading it for him. "Mr. Possum
was right" he said; this book should
be destroyed; it isn't fit for us to have
around. The rubbish heap where | found
it is the very place for it.
But | shall not bother to go back;
I'll throw it into this pond And splash
it went rs he threw it, and out of sight
| 1t went
Here ! have wasted whole after
noon and evening and not thing have
! | had to eat" he said. Now, should
| like to know who could have been foolish
enough to have written book about
keeping poultry
And off Mr.. Fox ran over the hill just
as fast as he could go, for he was very
| hungry.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15
DAILY ECONOMY CALENDAR
Copyright, 1915. By tn M1Clues News
paper 0yn0tcate. Nov York Cty
KITCHEN CURTAINS.

Doubtless il is . great mistake TO try
To make ONES kitchen look A. comfortable
and ~ cosy a. ones living room. There is
always something out Of place about
rugs or carpet in the kitchen, frills or
f,lrbeIows u any sort But il you choose
to have curtains at your kitchen windows
there is no reason IN the world why you
should not. In fact II may be that little
swiss curtains will soften the light with
out darkerning the room in a way that
will be beneficial to your eyes.
But the kitchen curtains should be Of
the simplest and plainest construction.
Some housewives have them IN the form
Of sash curtains that prevent outsiders
from being able to see within the kitchen
as we'll ~ softcning the light. a very good
plan where you do not need TO have the
curtains as protection is to have them
hung from the top Of the windows ex-
tending only half way down the window.
You should have little valance that ex-
tends like o rtf1e across the center space,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15
LETTERS OF TESSIE AND JOE

Dear Joe:
Profiteers to the right Of us, proftecrs
TO the left of ms, can you beat IT, Joe?
/ went downtown to Sprockers Bros.
yesterday to buy a gingham dress-you
know gingham is all In mode now,
although not so long ago you weren't
nobody if YOU wore gingham, such is life
we'll anyways, the salesady had the nerve
to inform me the lowest they had was
sl49S. Gingham, can you imagine that,
Joe3 You know what gingham is, don't
you Joe? Think of aprons.
Well anyways, says to her, "S14.9S y
/ says. "Why don't you say sll49s
while you're on the subject? You might
as well be hung for sheep as lamb
chop" says, 81 never heard of such
protiteering in my life. Id be ashamed
to look steady customer in the face and
ask Sla,9s for a gingham dress, ] saws.
'Sl4.9S is what we're getting, she says.
Just like that, Joe, rs cold as if she was
saying, pass the sugar" finally took the
dress. but believe me, Joe, my careless
manner of tossing down SIS and saying
Keep the change" must OF made that
saleslady feel pretty small, though !
must say she kept up her bold front as II
nothing had happened The worst Of 1T
was tD3t NDeU Il got nptht ttdhl liis
dress didn't fit me in the least, but 1T Mt
Mrs. Fink to q tea, so rather than cart
il back and exchange it sold ii to her for
$3.50. Anyways, the whole point of me
telling you all this is to give you dim
idea of the profteering | have to put up
with
| am sending YOU necktie for your
birthday. | like plain colors and | weighed
myself in the balance as to whether to get
you a red one or green one or a yellow
one, but finally | compromised and as
a result YOU will find all 3 colors about
evenly distributed in the one | selected.
| hope you viii approve of it and the man
said it would go we'll with any style of
collar.
Love from me and Baby.
Tessie
How Does Joe Receive His Necktie?
His Emotions are portrayed tomorrow.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

One day when Mr. Fox had taken
a run up to the farm in broad daylight
he found on rubbish heap an old book
and seeing pictures OF hens and chickens
on the cover, he decided to carry it home
and ask some of his friends what the
book was all about.
For" said he, as he ran back home
with the book, ''it may tell me how to
catch hens and chickens, and | really
would like to get some new ideas, for
of late | have had far from the good
luck need TO be in good health
So first he went to Mr.. Coon, who
looked very wise as he put on his spec
tacles and looked at the book.
Mr.. Coon turned over the pages one
by one and looked at ell the pictures
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15
DOROTHY DIX TALKS


i to live with her children rs when she goes
TO live with perfect strangers. Now it
| takes a woman of heroic mould to be able
| to step down and out gracefully, and that
| is why mother almost always becomes
peevish and Jealous and suspicious and
| nagging, and raises the Old Harry with
| her in-laws Just as soon as she breaks
/ up her own home and goes to Marys or
] Johns.
/ say nothing here of the fact that Stats
| ties show that mothers-in-law wreck more
homes than all the vamps and sirens put
| together. / speak only of the misery, the
| homesickness, of the woman who Is ldiotic
enough to give up her own house and be-
come hanger-on in somebody else s
house. where she has to be either a loathed
buttinski, or else keep the emergency brake
clamped down good and hard on every
impulse, and wear perpetual Maxim
silencer on her tongue.
As for Mother knocking off work at
middle age, and sitting down with folded
hands to wait for death, that way lies
suicide and madness. From fifty to
seventy is generally the healthiest time
of womns life, and she is million times
better off, and happier in every way
for having plenty to do. It's the women
who sit with idle hands who get senIle
and afflicted with melanchoha. It's the
women who have no interests of their own
who turn into scandal moDgers and
gosslps.
The best preventative in the world
for rheumatism and gout is housework.
The real elyxir of perpetual youth Is to
keep busy, and the woman who gives
these up to go and sit in somebody :
chimney corner signs her own death war
rant Therefore | urge every woman to
keep her own house, and do her own work,
or to hang on to her job If she has one.
and so live her own life to the very last
minute that it is possible to her.
And the comfort woman gets out OF
being surrounded by her own belongings
is not to be told in words. A woman's
furniture to her consists not of mere
tables and chairs, and beds and chine
They are memory and association, all
| that has made her life story, and they tell
her tales, etc. which she is never waery
| of listening to. All this makes them far
more precious in her sight, no matter how
| tawdry they are in reality, than the splen-
| did period furnishings of her prosperous
sons and daughters These are her laces
| and Penates and she ceases to worship
| them at her peril.
| A home is a woman's anchor financially
as well as spiritually. once asked Hetty
| Green what she would advise woman to
| do with a small amount of money. BUY
home" she answered. In good times
she can keep the home. II evil days come,
/ the home will keep her"
| So again | urge every woman to keep
] her own home, and live in it.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

There were ducks and turkeys as well
as hens and chickens, and then he gave
it back to MIR. Fox.
"a fine lot Of poultry" he said, "as
fine as ] ever saw"
'But what is the book about?" asked
Mr.. Fox. 81 know they look handsome,
but you can't eat pictures. | want to
know how to catch EN-. Doesn't the book
tell howl"
II didn't see word about catching
them" said Mr. Coon, who could not
read any more than Mr.. Fox, "but why
don't you go to Mr.. Possum? He may
know some words that do not"
So off trotted Mr.. Fox with the book
under his arm to Mr.. Possum's house
and showed it to him.
Mr.. Possum laughed right out when
Mr.. Fox told him what he wanted.
ooh, bless my soul and body. Rey-
nardp he said, II can't read a word
! never had time to study, but / should
like to look at the pictures"
Mr. Possum turned over the leaves a
few minutes, and then he handed back
the book, saying:
II do not think that book should be
allowed to circulate among us animals
that is, you or Mr.. Coon or ! should
not have that book around"
"Why, what do you meanY' asked
Mr. Fox, very much surprised as he
watched Mr.. Possum reaching for his
hat. ''Those birds are the finest | ever
saw"
THAT is just it" replied Mr.. Possum
Here / was all fixed for a comfortable
evening, having had fat chicken fol
my dinner, and, now that / have seer
those pictures, / am that uneasy that
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15
THE GIRL ON THE JOB.
BY Jessie Roberts.
Copyrisht. 1920, by whssser syndi .stS inc
WORK. THE Joy MAKER.

"Do you know what is the surcst little
Joy maker in the world?" asked woman
of me the other day. She is the editor ot
weIl-known woman's magazine, and she
gets letters from all over the world from
women who have things TO say or things
to ask, women in all sorts of positions
and circumstances. l thought she would
know more than / what was the correct
answer 10 her question, and told her NJ.
cts just the same old bromide, the
answ cr. Work, my dear know, for moro
women tell me their joys and griefs than
il would take to fill this city plum full.
And / find that il is the women who have
no real job who are the unhappy, discon-
tented ones.
81 don't mean that it must always be q
paid position. The woman who has
home to run and does il well, with all its
endless detail and its interesting possible
ties, with the children's needs and her
own needs to attend TO, that woman has
a job and she is not one Of the wailcrs.
But many girl who lives in a small flat
where there is no real work for her, and
who doesn't have mite of responsibility,
who has nothing on earth to do but amuse
herself and dress herself is absolutely
wretched. She doesn't know what als
her nor why she is unhappy, but l do.
She needs work.
you see, without work you can't
have leisure, you cant know what VA
cation means, you cant feel that any
thing you do matters. We need to feel
that. The normal human being likes TO
know that il is giving something as well
as getting something.
"The father who thinks he is securing
his daughters happiness by leaving. her
with enough money and with 80 little
training or education in the actualities
of life that she will be incapable OF earn
ing a living or running house, that
father is actually insuring, in nine cases
out of ten, the misery of that girl. This
may sound exaggerated, but if you read
a few of the hundreds of letters | get
from girls and women in exactly that
position. crying for something to make
life good, to fill their restless minds and
empty hands, you would see that it is
not exaggerated, but the plain truth.
Work, healthy. sound, useful work,
not over-work, work that we can do we'll
and that interests us, that IS the one
sure joy maker for us all, IN season and
out
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
BY Lee Pape.

Yestidday after supir / was setting
on the frunt steps Jest setting there
and Leroy Shooster came up saying,
Hay Benny, can you go to the moves?
| don't know, maybe, Ill see, wait 3
second, Ill be back in a minnit, | sed
And | went In the house and started
TO run up stairs to ask and wen | got
about a quarter ways up | trlpped and
fell about eighth ways back, making
a fearse noise, and pop called down,
Stay up, stay up, for the love of Pect
STAY up, you've got all mite, haven't you?
Meening wat was the hurry, and
waited little vile to give him chance to
thi nix of sumthing elts and then | started
to run up a little slower but not mutch.
and wen got about half ways up trlpped
agen and fell about quarter ways back,
making IA even fearser noise, thinking,
Jimminy cIickits, gosh, q, and pop called
down, Be carefill be careful, confownd
it, you've bin falling up those steps for the
last minnits, do you think have nuth-
ing elts to do but sit heer and lissen to
you trying to brake your fool neckp
No sir. | sed. Meening | dident think
so, and | quick snuck down stairs agen
backwards, thinking, G, | better go out
a vile and come back in about 10 minnits,
he wouldent give me the money to go
now anyways hest after all that tripping.
Wich Jest then wat did do but trip over
the rug in the hall and bang into the clothes
rack with the fearsest noise of all, pop
calling, Benny, come up heer.
Ony | was going out the frunt door
lest then and dident heer him, and Leroy
Shooster sed, Did you get it,
| changed my mind, ! amt going to
ask, ! sed.
Wich | didcnt.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-15

with Iongm pieces At each side hanging
down half way to the place where the
two window panos Join.
White il the colr usually chosen for
kitchen curtains because it washes Frst.
But one young housewife who wanted a
neat, up-to-4iate kitchen with an air .of
chcerfulness about it had curtains IN the
form Of the sort Just described made Of
blue and white gingham, checked With a
check larger than that Of kitchen aprons
but OF about the sanfe effect. =.
A housewife when going through old
trunks in the attic the other day csrnc
upon many yards of the old sort of Crows
barred canvas that used 10 be used W
stiffen the bottom Of skirts. OF course M
one uses that sort of thing in drcssrnaklnp
any more. The housewife determined
that il ought TO be used 80 she washed Il
and ironcd it without starch, taking out
some Of it's original stiffness. From this
she made valance curtains for her kitchen
and pantry. IL had an air of crispness
that made it especially attractive.
shaw-aDid the rev maid ask for q
night OFF, Mrs. Shaw--"No; she gked
which night we expected her 10 stay al
home" London Answers.