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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-13
CHAPTER KILL OFFER
START HERE TODAY

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Helga Sorensen breaks her en-
gagement to Tom Bradford after
pursuing him for his money. She
finds employment as social secretary
of Mrs. John Ames The latter
brother-in-law, rounder interests
himself in her. Also he is most
affectionately attentive to Mrs. John
Ames.
GO ON WITH STORY
A FTER tea, of the fourth day of
"A my employment, l sought the
desk at which | knew | should find
the letters Mrs. Ames wanted taken
care of. Dusk found me still busy.
AS the shadows began to gather in
the garden below saw Mrs. Ames
and Philip, arm in arm, moving
along the path toward the latticed
seats. at the end of the lilac hedge.
l stayed there in the shadows
watching the coming of night, fol-
perhaps, an hour or more, when | be-
came conscious of another presence
in the room. Hardly daring to move.
| shrunk back further into the
shadows of the corner near the win
dow, and waited.
l couldn't see anything. | couldn't
hear anything. could only fee
intuitively that some one else was
in the room with me. And | could
only wait silently mad fearfully.
Finally the lights of an automo-
bile coming up the hill toward the
house flashed for a second in the
room.
Every sense alert, in that instant
of light l envisioned a figure on the
bed, half sitting, and then the SHIN
mer of Lila Ames' fimsy dressing
gown.
wanted to slip out unseen, but
couldn't. The door was at the 9th
er side Of the room and | should have
had to pass between the windows
and the bed to leave, and thus woulc
have been discovered SO | stayed
on, clinging silently to the little desl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-13
WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
Z soLAcE TO JOHN AMEs.
BY RUTH AGNES ABELINC

chair until my shoulders ached and
my knees felt stiff. n"
At length, after what seemed like
an hour, l heard Nan faint m9yement
There was a stir of silk. The figure
on the bed was moving. Vaguely
could get the outlines and see the
shimmering silk Of the foolish gar
ment his hands had grasped.
There was a sigh then John Ames
Strengthened up. The frivolous silk
en- thing was trailing on the floor in
weird shimmering lines. He came
to the window and dropped down
there, his arms on the sill.
He was so close to me. / knew
that | must be discovered aM min
ute and wondered how ! should ex.
plain having stayed and dared watch
him walk, alone, through his Geth
semane.
| didn't want to think it out.
Involuntarily my hands went out
and it seemed that against my owr
will and my own good judgment,
Took his unresisting, cold fingers in
my warm ones. | think it must
have been something of the same
sympathy which moved me, when
was just a little girl, to feeding anc
nursing a sick stray dog or kitten
which prompted me to offer him
that silent sympathy.
John Ames didn't look up. Hi,
fingers frightened slightly arounc
mine. For a long time we sat so
while out there in the pcrfumec
night his wife was spending the
hours with another man.
Finally he raised his head.
''They are out there" he said.
~ Eyes" | knew there was no use
of resorting to subterfuge.
He peered out into the darkness.
Then, "There isn't any use of tor
turing myself-;s there? But | cam
help it."
people always torture themselves
Then they are III love-" | said softly
Copyright, 1920
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-13
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From the Tlmes-Recorder, Au

(From the Tlmes-Recorder, Aug
ust 10, 191D.
n REALTY deal of considerable in
"A terest was that of the old John
V. Price homestead at Lee street and
Elm avenue to Mr.. Robert l.. Mcleod
Of this city, who proposes erecting a
handsome and commodious residence
there. The property embraces As
acres.
Rev. d. 1. Purser, of Greensboro,
Ala, will preach at Furlow Lawn
Baptist church at II a. m. and at
p m. today
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C Hawkins have
gone on a delightful trip to the North
and East, including Cincinnati, Chica-
go and way points of interest in Can
ada
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Parks and
little daughter, of New Orleans ARE
pleasant guests in the home of Mrs.
John T. Taylor on Lee street.
Harry Mcleod, who has been at
tending business college ir POUCH
keepsie, N. Y, for several months
and has just graduated therefrom, is
at home again.
Misses Elizabeth and Callie Slap.
pey are at home again after having
spent two weeks at the residence OF
their brother in Shellman.
Col G. r. Ellis has returned from
New York, where he spent two weeks
on business in the interest of his com
pany here, the Empire Loan & Trust
Co.
Mrs. F. w. McAfee is spending {
few days in Macon, the guest Of hel
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-13
OBSERVATIONS


Boche business enterprise isn't
bosh.
Many bluffs are called; but few
are chosen.
How'd you like to make vacation
a vocation.
Hay-fever guarantees the freedom
of the sneeze.
Father is worried by the glory of
the sitting son.
If wishes were fires all schools
would be burned.
There isn't any mystery" about
why we don't ship"
Cheek to cheek dancing changes
the complexion of things.
a girl with dimple in her knee is
usually a high stopper.
One weather report that strikes us
uncalled for is lightning.
: We are sitting on the brink of a
- era-needing little push.
H Everyone would want our wooden
shlps # Ford tried to buy them.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-Recorder, Aug
ust Is, 1870.
An immense crowd of people at
tended the celebratioa of the four
teenth anniversary of the Royal Ar
canum,. which took place at Crump's
park yesterday evening aud night.
The street cars carried upward of
1000 people, and ohe scene at the
park was at once interesting ana live
ly.
The East Amerlcus Juvenile Tenn
perance society will give a free. en-
tertainment, consisting of songs, reci-
tationsJ dialogues on Friday night
next at the Second Methodist church.
Among the badly frightened resi-
dents of Americas last night during
the severe electrical storm at nine
o'clock was Mrs. Badenbargn, moth
cr-in-law of Robert Gray, a wen
known employee Of The electric light
company. She dropped in a dead
faint when the lights went out, and
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will spend some time.
While some Of the plantations here
have suffered from drouCa and show
up with poor stands OF cotton, others
have been favored with fine seasons,
and the cotton crop is as good as
ever. This is true OF the plantation
of Mr.. Thomas 3. Hooks, which con-
sists of 700 aces, VITA large por-
ton of this as high as feet.
The many friends Of Mr.. W. Ross
Harper are gratified at his recen5
promotion to the post;on of third
vice president and general manager
of the South Atlantis Insurance Co.,
with headquarters IN Richmond, Va.
The announcement yesterday NOR
ming of The death of Miss Hattie Ton
dee was received with unf2igned sor-
row among her many friends in Am
CIRCUS and elsewhere.
Miss Lucille Clegg left yesterday
for Buena Vista and will spend sew
eral days with friends there
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Bolton have
returned from Columbia, Ala, where
they spent week pleasantly with
relatives.
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WIVES WHO FAIL
SHE w A S TOO
Sc tt ED
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING
~ II Il m q 9sriaJ him


- And there she put a period.
While she unpacked her travelling
bag on the first day home after the
honeymoon, she held solitary inquest
over her dead gayety, her dead am
bition, and with a sort of righteous
dissatisfaction, she buried them.
She hung the marriage license over
the mantle, a God Bless Our Home
over the door and basking in their
atmosphere she called her struggles
at an end.
Her life thereafter became sue
,cession of be-flowered bimonos and
soft-soled house slippers. She became
flat-souled somebody, verify loving
the routine which mired her. There
was nothing about her reminiscent
of the scintillant gladstone girl he
had married.
There was no play which could
lure her out in the evening and no
friends whose friendliness prompted
an invitation from her.
Her husband knew when he came
home just what she would say. He
knew just what she would wear.
He knew just how they would spend
the evening. Every time he closed
his eyes at the office he could see
the pudgy toes of the soft slippers
poking in and out with the move
ment of her rocker under the hem
of her voluminous garment with its
maddening design. he came to
where he hated the toes. He was
sure that some time he would begin
counting the times they came in and
out.
But he didn't.
French heels, frivolously swirling
skirts, smartly coiffed locks, lifting
laughter interviewed and kept him
spinning along with such dizzying
rapidity that he forgot the slippers
and their tormenting toes. He for
got the kimono. He forgot every
thing but life and change.
And when his wife filed her di-
vorce complaint, naming another
woman, and said for herself that
she had been a faithful wife, had
mended his clothes, baked, cooked
and spent her evenings at her own
hearth while her husband had al
ways been restiye, wanting to go
about and entertain
Even the judge pitied her for her
stupidity.
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HE PARABLE OF THE ICE
WATER TANK
BY DR.. William E. Barton


THERE We're two young mothers
L ION italy, and they had each
of them Several Children, whereof
the oldest was Little Girl. And she
was about the age of the daughter of
Keturah. And they rode upon the
train. And they had Bottle, whose
shape was like unto Diamond, such
as they have IN Italy And it held it
be the Fourth part of a Pint.
And as soon as they were seated
in the train, the little girl filled the
Bottle at the Ice-water Tank. And
she drank thereof, and she carried it
to each of the mothers, and to each
Of the children. And they drank, ev-
cry one of them, all that was in the
Bottle
And by the time the last one had
been refreshed, the first one was
athirst. And the little girl began
again, and went around the circle
of the two families. And they drank
of it as freely as it had been Red
Wine.
Now the little girl wore dress
of Mrs. Harding Blue and stockings
that were green, and red handker-
chief upon her head. And her mother
pinned up her dress to her waist, for
->~~-o~o~-~~~o~~-~~~>~)~~-0 o~~~~0-~-~0~1-~~-~
Drs. ]. B. and A. +. Hinkle were
summoned to restore her.
The white teachers composing the
normal institute will hold a meeting
at the college on Jackson street to-
day.
Yesterday afternoon, while two
lads were having some fun on horse
| back, the horse of one of them, startl-
/ ed by something, became frightened
and threw the rider, Esten Buchanan
cutting his head slightly. Nothing SER
/ ious
Mr.. Ed Ansley, tho enterprising
Jackson street grocer, has been heard
from in New York, where he is now
| buying an immense stock for his Par
Tor Grocery. He will return home
[ loaded.
Col. E. G. Simmons, of the well
known firm of Simmons & Kim
5rough, left the city yesterday to
look after an important lawsuit in a
( neighboring town.
Mr. Judson Hyatt, clever knight
of the grip, was in the hands of his
Americas friends yesterday.
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(Ffom the IlmeS-Recorder Aug
ust Is, 190D.
Having disposed of the greater
portion Of chambers business here,
Judge z. A. Littleiohn has gone to
Santec, a, quiet but inviting resort
away up in the mountain region of
North Georgia, where he will rest
for several weeks.
Miss Benlan McMath has gone 10
Draneville to spend few weeks
pleasant with friends.
Miss Alma Clarke, of Webster, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. w. NJ. Tullis,
this week at ner home Oh Church
street
Mr.. George >. Whcatlay and
daughters, Misses May and Kate, left
yesterday for the north where they
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The exclusively entitled to the pu
cation dispatches credited otherwise
paper also the local published herein All rights
publication special dispatches herein contained
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
SEABoARD AIR LINE.

Arrives Leaves
Sis pm Richland-Cols. 1000 am
8:1o pm Cordele-Say'h 1891 pm
1881 pm Riehland Montg'y $40 pm
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-13
TAXES are the increasing worry OF

TAXES are the increasing worry OF
congressman. They are wonder
ing how they are going to- raise
enough money to pay the national
bills, and at the same time keep in
good humor the wage worker, the
salaried man, the small business man
and the corporation stakeholder.
Whatever levies are decided upon,
we are assured that the luxury taxes
will be repealed
When congress- repeats the luxury
taxes it will take out of the Ameri-
can political system a relic of one of
the Oldest institutions in the world.
*w&
THE iaxury tax, in one form or an
other, has fourished in every age
of human development. But rulers
of various nations and at various Pc
riods have differed widely in their in
depreciation of the word luxury"
For instance, sunlight and fresh
air were considered luleuries in med
ieval France. A tax ives levied on
the square inch of window space. A
fiat IwindaS tax later prevailed in
England.
Yards fot0 the kiddes to play in
likewise came under the luxury ban
in England. Householders had to pay
a large sum for the privilege of keep
ing front lawn.
Medieval Holland considered long
names a luxury and levied tax on
every letter over certain limit. But
that didn't prevent Dutch young
bloods from sporting monickers like
Johannes Frederikus Hiiarich van
Uppenspatter.
Taxes on coats of arms became
widespread in Europe Immediately
after the birth of the democratic
movement. Mobiles were forced to
pay if they wanted to display their
family insignia on their coach doors.
WHILE we all cuss at the income
tax collector, we have to admit
that methods of collecting taxes have
improved with age.
Under the Roman empire the gov
ernor Of a province was responsible
for all the taxes of his district. He
EARNED out" the taxes to a number
of subordinates and they in turn
"farlged them out" to men still lower
down.
After the taxes were collected the
governor and his underlings were
rich, but very little money ever found
its way into the imperial treasury to
repair roads, build bridges and I'M
pove trade.
Under the Turkish Empire a col
lector goes aronud in the spring and
estimates the crop of vineyard. The
vineyard may be wiped out by
drought, floods or insect pests, but
the husbandman has to pay on what
his land would have yielded if none
of these mishaps had occurred.
TAXES in some form are necessary
to government.
When people group together in a
III
Of is dues. When people group to-
gether in nation, dues become
taxes
We always have had taxes and we
shall have them as long as govern
ment exists. The perfect system of
taxation will come about when every
cent of taxes is used to better the
condition of the taxpayers.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Central Time.)

central T1me.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
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National Advertising Representatives, FROST.
Lands KoEIN, Brunswick Bldg, New York;
Peoples Gas BLDG Chicago.
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Official organ for-City of Americas, Sumter
County. Railroad Commission of Georgia for Third
Congressional District, U. S. Court, Southern Dis
trici of Ceorgis.
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OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

daughter, Mrs. Perry Lipe.
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Daily and Sunday by mail SO per year in ad.
vance; by carrier l5c per week. Csc per month.
$3.50 per year. Weekly. sls0 per year in advance
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PAGE FOUR.

The years just ahead will see wonderful advances in the
cooperative movements. j Lowell, National Grange
Master, of Fredonia N. Y.
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Entered second class matter at the postofdce at
Americas. Georgia. according the Act of Congress
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05
SAGE TEA KEEPS
YOUR HAIR OARA
When Mixed With Sulphur L,
Brings Back Its Beautiful
Lustre at Once.

Gray hair, however handsome. de-
notes advancing age. We all know
the advantage of a youthful appear
ance. Your hair is your charm.
1t makes or mars the face. When il
fades, turns gray and looks streak
ed, just few applications of Sage
Tea and Sulphur enhances its 40
pearance a hundredfold.
Don't stay gray! Look younrr
Either prepare the recipe at home
or get from any drug store a bottle
of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulpbur
Compound" which is merely the
old-time recipe improved by the ad-
dition of other ingredients. Thon-
sands of folks recommend this
ready-touse preparation. because If
darkens the hair beautifully. he
sides. no one can possibly tell as
it darkens so naturally and evenly
You moisten sponge or soft
brush with it, drawing this through
the hair. taking one small strand
at time. By morning the gray hair
after another applica-
ton or two its natural color is re-
stored. and it becomes thick. eIossv
and lustrous, and you appear wears
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05

family, derive their living through
construction.
Of the country's annual savings
it is estimated that out OF the vol
ume of new capital issues which In
1920 reached the high figure OF s4,-
545. 0oO. 900, s2,723 900 900. or 90 per
cent of state, municipal rallroad
and industrial securities were is
sued for construction in some form
or other.
The future of the construction in
dustry is especially bright
A report of the senate committee
on reconstruction and production
estimates that from $4,000, zoo, 900
to $4,000 900 900 is necessary to
provide for structural facilities
which would now be in use had
there been no war. and of this
amount $4,000, 100000 are now need
ed for the building of homes. At
a recent convention the president
of a builders association stated
that the shortage of homes approx
imates 100000.
In closing, the bulletin states
that when the tide turns to better
times, construction is the first to
be carried on the rising food, and
that other industries follow in its
wake. Its final statement is that
construction would seem to be the
barometer of our national life
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05

getting better every day. In a few
weeks time crops will begin to
move. Hundreds of millions of dol
lars will be put into circulation.
and business will soon be back on
a better and sounder basis than in
years.
Notice to Dealers.
Many wholesalers and manufac-
turers stopped pushing at the very
first sign of dark cloud The re-
suit being that many drug lines
Slumped. Tanlac went right ahead
and the result has been that more
Tanlac has been sold during the
first six months of the present year
than in any corresponding period
in the past.
Line up with Tanlac. Connect
with a product that sells no matter
how the times, because of its super
ior merit.
Although Tanlac has been on the
market over six years, it is an
actual fact that more TanIac is
being sold today with the same
amount of advertising than dur
ing any time in the past.
Tanlac will not only prove your
greatest seller for this year, but
for many YEARS. to come.
Tanlac is sold in Rock Island
by the c. f. Schlegel drug store
and by leading druggists every
where.-tAdvertisement.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05

ests.'' said President Hsu Shi-
chang, speaking on the subject,
has made it impossible to lay out
lines according to some compre-
hensive plan for the whole coun-
try.
Such being the case, part of the
capital seems to have been invest
ed in unimportant routes while
many more important regions are
without any modern means of COM
munication. Since the first con-
struction of railways in China 40
years ago no less than $500, 900, 600
has been expended, yet trunk lines
are to be found only north of the
Yangtze and east of Honan prov
ince. leaving the great plains to
the west and south practically I'M
traversed."
Imagine the United States with
one railway line from Cincinnati
TO New York, another from Atlanta
to New York. then a few jerk-water
lines so to 100 miles long scatter
ed here and there. mostly without
connecting with the trunk-lines or
with each other-and all in the
same regiOn-and you will have
something like parallel with the
case of China.
Development Slow.
Imagine again Chicago with only
two railroads-one 80 miles long,
the other about 100 miles long.
Canton, with a population about
like Chicago's, is in that fix.
In the provinces of Szechuen,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05
old SETTLERS
ASK INFUSION
OF new BLOOD
Urre Younger EIigfbles. to Join at
56th Annual Reunion at Watch
Tower.

Infusion of new blood is sought
hv the Old Settlers association,
which will hold its 56th annual re-
union at the Watch Tower, to-
morrow. While the attendance of
the pioneers at this reunion is of
the first importance. those who
have the welfare of the organiza-
ton at heart urge the younger set
tiers to join the association and
take an active interest in its man
agement-
In the eligibility rules, anyone
coming to the county in 1875. or the
son, daughter, husband or wife of
a settler of that period, is eligible
to join
Mayor H. NJ. Schriver will de
liver the address of welcome and
President Thomas Bollman will
respond at the forenoon session, to-
morrow. Other events will also he
on the program.
In the afternoon E. c. Fisher,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-05
CONSTRUCTION
RANKS NEXT TO
AGRICULTURE
Bulletin of e. s. Chamber of Com
merce Calls 1t @key- Indus
try Of Nation-Future Bright

Rock Island business men en-
gagged in construction work have
read with interest a special bulle-
tin just published by the commit
tee on statistics OF the Chamber Of
Commerce of the United States. in
which one statement is made that
next to agriculture,
is the key industry of the coun-
try, and that great many other in
dustries are dependent upon it.
After making the point that
mans first development was con-
struction, the popular belief that
American industry is divided into
FIVE basic divisions, representing
agriculture, manufac ture, trans
portation and communication, min
ing and lumber. is cited. and the as
sertion made that the construction
Industry should be separately class
ified.
To this end a large number of
business concerns devoted to one
form or another of construction,
and not belonging to any of the
above five Classifications have been
brought together. and the result.
according to the bulletin that next
to agriculture, the construction in
dustry ranks beside the largest of
the remaining groups.
Following the 1920 estimate of
the national wealth, which places
the amount at 200, 900 900. the
claim is advanced that S77.321 ,0O0.-
600 of that wealth has been pro-
Guced by the construction indus
try.
This sum Is representative of
structures and plants, railroads and