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lIOu rage IL
yer of Wisconsin. A certain Charles
T. Pfeister, who held many positions
of trust and confidence in moneyed
and manufacturing corporations, was
charged with bribery, fraudulent
granting of franchises, and other
crimes against the public Pfeister
| lad Senator Sawyer try to bride La
toilette to Elk things" up with the
Judge who was to try his case, Judge
Siebecker, LaFollette's brother-in-
aw
OF course, LaFollette refused the
bride and openly declared that Saw
yer had attempted to buy him. But
that is where this case of rank cor
ruption ended. Sawyer was never
prosecuted. LaFollette never did any
thing to secure a criminal indictment
against Sawyer. And Pfeister, mem
Der of the firm of Pfeister-Vogel and
Company, which mas for years been
promoting a blacklist against organ
lied labor while it was at the same
time supporting the so-called good
government" league, also escaped
harsh treatment. This bitter foe of
the workingmen was handled with
silk gloves in the Model Common
wealth. Recently Mr.. Pfeister be-
came associated with Judge Backus,
member of the LaFollette machine,
in the board of directors of the Mil
waukee Sentinel, a Hearst publica-
ton.
Not Free From Corruption.
When LaFollette was governor of
Wisconsin, he had the opportunity he
is now seeking as president to Danish
graft and corruption from govern
ment. How successful LaFollette was
as a purity crusader in his guberna-
torial career and to what extent La
Toilette would bring clean" govern
ment to Washington if elected presi-
dent, can best be seen from the con-
ditions which prevailed in his state
when he was governor.
If we examine the files of the So
cial-Demoicratic Herald, the predeces.
sor Of the LaFollette mouthpiece
the Milwaukee Leader of today, we
find the following description of
"clean" government under Battling
Bob's" governorship:
"The so-called half-breeds. or the
followers Of Robert M. LaFollette, are
by instinct, makeup, and past history
as wicked a set of grafters as their
stalwart brethren ever dared to be.
AS matter of fact, there is a con-
slant fux from the stalwarts to the
half-breeds and vice-versa, according
to how the jobs and the graft that
was to be gotten, reached around
for the men who did not get any, i'm
mediately turned 'reformers.' Theo.
dore zilmer, one Of the present lead,
ers OF the stalwarts, was one Of the
original LaFollette men and original
half-breeds in Milwaukee.
1.-THE office OF sheriff made a stall.
wart Of him. The present leader of
the half-breeds, Fred c. Lorenz, was
formerly friend Of Payne and Pfei
ster. Otto Seidel, one of the self-con.
fessed grafters, ran on the hnlf.breeds
ticket last fall And all in all, there
is not the least doubt in anybody'e
mind that the half.breeds are in nc
way or shape better than either the
Stalwarts or Democrats. Only they
happen to have the district attorne,
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steadily out beyond him, as II lock-
Ing into his future; but she herself
sat, her strong face composed. She
might. indeed, have been a prophecies
of old.
Tragedy is yours, my son." said
she, slowly, not happiness. No
woman will ever come and lie in
your arms happy and content"
"Mother!"
He half flung off her hands, but she
laid them again more firmly on his
shoulders, and went on speaking, as
IL half in reverie, half In trance,
looking down the long slope Of green
and gold as il 1t showed the vista of
the years.
you will love. my boy, but with
your nature how could love mean
happiness to you? Love? No man
could love more terribly. You will
be intent, resolved, but the flrmness
Of your will means that much more
suffering for you. You will suffer,
my boy-I see that for you. my first
born boy! You will love-why should
you not, a man st to love and be
loved by any woman? But that love,
the stronger 1t grows, will but burn
you the deeper. You will struggle
through on your own path: but. hap
piness does not lie at the end Of that
path for you. You will succeed, yes
you could not fail; but always the
load on your shoulders will grow
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written for you. Yonder forest will
always call to you" She turned now
toward the sun. sinking across the
red-leaved forest lands. rThe wilder
ness is YOUR home. You will go out
into IL and return--often; and then
at last you will go and not come back
again-not to me-not to any one
will you come back"
The youth did not move as she sat,
her hands on his head. Her voice
went on, even and steady.
You are old, Meriwether Lewis!
1t Is time, now. You are man.
You always were a man! You were
born old. You never have been q
boy, and never can be one. You never
were child, but always a man.
When you were a baby, you did not
smile: when you were a boy, you al
was had your way. My boy, long
time ago 1 ceased to oppose that will
Of yours-I knew that 1t was useless.
But, ah, how / have loved that will
when I felt 1t was behind your prom
ise! ! knew you would do what you
had set for yourself to do. l knew
you would come back with deeds in
your hand. my boy-gained through
that will which never would bend for
me or for any one else in the world."
He remained motionless, apparently
unaffected, as his mother went on.
You were always old, always
grown UP, always resolved. always
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chase. then not unusual in the Vir-
ginian borderlands among settlers
and hunters. and not held outre
among people SO often called to the
chase or TO war
His tunic was of dressed deer hide,
his weli-htting leggings also of that
material. His feet were covered with
moccasins, although his hat and the
neat scarf at his neck were those Of
gentleman. He was practical
youth, one would have said, for no
ornament of any sort was to be seen
upon his garb. In his hand he car
ried long rifle of the sort then used
thereahout. At his belt swung the
moe OF a raccoon, the bodies of a
few squirrels.
Had you been a close observer. you
would have found each squirrel shot
fair through the head. Indeed, a
look into the gray eye of the silent
paced youth would have assured you
in advance of his skill with his
weapons-you would have known
that to be natural with him.
You would not soon have found
his like. even in that land of tall
hunting men. He was a grand young
being as he stood there. straight and
lean-l;mbed; hard bitten of muscle,
albeit so young; powerful and grace
full in his stride. The beauty of youth
was his. and of strong heredity-
that you might have seen.
The years of youth We're his. yes;
but the lightness of youth did not
yet eighteen. the gravity of man
| hood was his.
He did not smile now. as he saw
his mother sitting there absorbed.
gazing out for his return. and not
seeing him now that he had returned.
Instead, he stepped forward. and
quietly laid a hand upon her shoulder.
not with any attempt to surprise or
startle her. but as if he knew that
she would accept it as the announce
ment of his presence.
He was right. The strong figure
in the chair did not start away. No
exclamation came from the straight
mouth of the face now turned to-
ward him. Evidently the nerves of
these two were not of the sort readily
Stampeded.
The young mans mother at first
did not speak to him. She only
reached up her own hand to take that
which lay upon her shoulder. They
remained thus for moment. until
at last the youth stepped back to
lean his rifle against the wall.
II am late. mother" said he at
length. as he turned and seating him.
self at her feet. threw his arm across
her lap-himself but boy again now,
and not the hunter and the man.
roolishly fond, but with a sort of
stern maternal care, smoothing it
back in place where it belonged.
strengthening out the riot it had as
sumed. 1t made a name above his
forehead and reached down his neck
TO his shoulders, so heavy that where
it's dark mass was lifted ii showed
the skin of his neck white beneath
You are late. yes
And you waited-SO long,
Il am always waiting for you.
"a
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your own master-always Meriwether
Lewis. When you were born, you
were not child. When the old nurse
brought yoq to mel can see her
black face gr!nning now-she carried
you held by the feet instead of lying
on her arm. You stood, you were
SO strongi Your hair was dark and
full even then. You were old! In
two weeks you turned where you
heard a sound-you recognized sight
and sound together. as no child
usually does for months. You were
beautiful, my boy, so strong, so
straight-ah, yes!-but you never
were a boy at all. When you should
have been a baby. you did not weep
and you did not smile. I never knew
you to do so. From the first, you
always were a man."
She paused, but still he did not
speak.
THAT was well enough, for later
we were left alone. But your father
was in you. Do l not know well
enough where you got that settled
melancholy of yours, that despond-
ency, that somber grief-call 1t what
you like-that marked him all his
life. and even in his death? That
came from him, your father. I thank
God / did not give you that, know
ing what life must hold for you in
suffering! He suffered. yes. but not
as you will. And you must-you
Evening star., 1924-01-28
CHAPTER L
Mother and Son

A woman, tall, somewhat angular,
dark of hair and eye, strong of fea-
tures-a woman now approaching
middle age-sat looking out over the
long. tree-clad slopes that ran down
from tho gallery front of the man
sion house to the gate at the dis
tant roadway. She had sat thus for
some moments, many moments. her
gaze intentiy fixed, as though wait
ing for Notwithstanding or
some one that she did not now see,
but expected soon to see.
1t was late afternoon of n day SO
beautiful that not even old Abe
marie. beauty spot Of Virginia, ever
produced one more beautiful-not in
the hundred years preceding that day.
nor in the century since then. For
this was more than a hundred years
ago; and what is now an ancient
land was then half opened region,
settled only here and there by the
great plantations of the we'll to do.
The house that lay at the summit of
the long and gentle slope, fianked by
its wide gallerieS--its flung doors
gaze as one approached-had all the
rude comfort and assuredness usual
with the gentry of that time and
place.
1t was the privilege. and the habit,
Of the Widow Lewis to sit idly when
she liked. but her attitude now was
not that Of idleness. Intentness. re-
poseful acceptance OF life, rather,
showed in her motionless, long sus-
tanned position. She was patient, as
women are; but her strong pose, its
freedom from material support, her
restrained power to do or to endure,
gave her the look of owning some
thing more than resignation, some
thing more than patience. \ strong
figure of a woman, one would have
said had one seen her, sitting on the
gallery of her old home a hundred
and twentyfour years ago.
The Widow Lewis stared straight
down at the gate, Il quarter of Il mile
away, with yearning in her gaze. But
as so often happens, what she
awaited did not appear at the time
and place she herself had set. There
lery Il shadow tall shadow, but
she did not see it. She did not hear
the football, not stalthy, but quite
silent. with which the tall owner of
the shadow came toward her from the
gallery end.
1t was young man, or rather boy.
no more than eighteen years of age.
who stood now and Eazed at her
after his silent approach. so like that
himself he seemed now, as he stood.
clad in the buck skin garments of fhe
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heavier and heavier. You will carry
1t alone, until at last Il will be to
much for you. Your strong heart
will break. You will lie down and
die. Such a fate for you. Merne,
my boy-such a man as you will
be-
She sighed. shivered and looked
about her, startled. - she had
spoken aloud in some d
We'll. then, go on id. and
withdrew her hands frt shoul-
ders. The faces of bot re now
gazing straight on over the gold
fecked slope before them. Go on,
you are a man. l know you will not
turn back from what you undertake.
You will not change. you will not
turn-because you cannot. You were
born to earn and not to own; to find,
but not to possess. But as you have
lived, so you will die"
You give me no long shrift,
| mother?" said the youth, with a.
twinkle in his eye.
"How can I? l can only tell you
what Is in the book of life. Do I
| not know? A mother always loves
her son; so 1t takes all her courage
! to face what she knows will be his
lot. Any mother can read her sons
future-if she dares to read II. She
knows-she knows"
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starr
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must, my son. Beyond all other men.
you will suffer-"
iYou were better named Cassandra,
mother" Yet the young man scarce
smiled even now.
"Yes, am a phophetess, all too
sooth a prophecies. my son. l see
ahead as only a mother can see
perhaps as only one of the old High
land blood can see. I am soothseeI
and soothsayer. because you are blood
of nv blood, bone of my bone, and
l cannot help but know. cannot
help but know what that melancholy
and that resolution, all these COM
bined, must spell for you. You know
how his heart was racked at times?'
The boy nodded now.
s,Then know how your own must
be racked in turn!" said she. MY
son, II is no ordinary fate that will
be yours You will go forward al
all costs; you will keep your word
bright as the knife in your belt
you will drive yourself. What that
means TO you in agony-what that
means when your will is set against
the unalterable and the inevitable
/ wish-oh. 1 wish ! could not see
1T, But l do see 1t. now, all laid out
before me-all. all. Oh, Merne-may
1 not call you Merne once more be-
fore I let you go?"
She let her hands fall from his
head to his shoulders as she gazed
Evening star., 1924-01-28
The American Oil COMPANY

ATLANTIC GARAGE,
100 9Th St. NV.
CONGRESSIONAL GARAGE,
62S Penna. Ave. S.E.
H. F. DOUGLAS FILLING STATION,
1926 Goth st. NV.
DRISCoLL GARAGE,
124 St. NV
EDWARDS MOTOR SERVICE CO.,
18th and Rhode Island Ave. NE.
GREY STONE SERVICE STATION,
llth and Rhode Island Ave. NV.
GRIFFITH'S FILLING STATION,
18th and r Sts. NV.
JOE IN0FF,
14o1 Penna. Ave. Sc.
MARVEL CARBUREToR SALES CO.,
2120 14th st. NV.
MARYLAND AVE. FILLING STATION,
l4th and Maryland Ave. NE.
MT, PLEASANT GARAGE,
2424 18th St. NV.
MAZZULLo BROS,
Nichols Ave. and w St. Sc.
LORD BALTIMORE FILLING STATIONS,
INC,
No. !, 80 Pa. Ave. NV.
No, Q, 500 E St. NV.
MOTOR TIRE COMPANY,
x7l6 Penna. Ave. NV.
NORTHEAST AUTO SUPPLY CO.,
(Grifiths Filling Station)
Baltimore Boulevard above II st. NE.
More
Evening star., 1924-01-28
Before-Inreutory Sale of
Spring Dresses
$40

Some Of these have just recently come racks.
yet their prices have been deeply reduced include in
the Sale $50 dresses of spring fabrics
spring styles. Jerseys, Aannels, poiret twls crepe
de chimes, cantons, satns and prints.
Another Remarkable Group
Dresses as fresh and new sprinstime itself each
one intended to be sold a much hg her
price. Twill charmeen and the newest ST =. 90
silks in the season favored colors .... 10
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY

(From The Times Recorder. August
IS, 1914.)
Americas cotton buyers were in
the market yesterday for best
grades of cotton, and good middliug
grades were quoted at 8 7-8 cents
to 10 cents here. liz view of ur-
settled conditions abroad this is not
a low price for cotton, and it is be-
lieved that a considerable quantity
of the bales of first picking will be-
sold at current prices, at or near
ten cents, and the financial strin-
gency prevailing will be relieved to
that extent.
John Taylor, Jr., Dudley Gate
wood, Ferdinand Cohen, Louis Nor
gan and Charlie Payne have return
ed from a trip to Florida.
The Misses Kathleen and Flora
Danham are at home again after a
very delightful visit in Tannille, and
have as their fair guest Miss Ken
drick of that place.
Mrs. Shelton Harris and little
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
Where the Shoe
Pinched

There was opposition in the
Legislature to the measure Civ
ing the people the opportunity
to vote on biennial sessions. For
a century Legislatures, as
whole, have fought every sug-
gestion of cutting the session to
one every two years. Repre-
sentahves have said that the
business of the State could not
be conducted in less time than
SO days every year.
If one will examine the pro-
ceedings of the present Legisla-
lature-which adiourns Wednes-
day-he will come to the con-
clusion that the business of the
State--as it is now conducted
could very we'll be completed
with a 50-day session about
once in four years-or maybe
ten.
w c. Sutlive, associate edi-
tor of the Savannah Press and a
representative from Chatham
county, writes his paper on Au-
gust ], as follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
New Use for Cotton

Another use for cotton has
been found by our scientifically
inclined commercial men. To
the owner Of an automobile, it
may sound queer" when he 8
told that his Lizzie is painted
with cotton, but such is the case,
according to recent newspapers
notices. 1t is being done in ev-
cry large city in the county, and
the surprising thing about it is
that the process is being shown
to have advantages possessed by
no other method.
The process referred to is the
Duco system Of painting, and
the principal base of the enamels
used is cotton-not in the form
which we think of cotton, but
the cotton fibers treated with sui
phuric acids in a manner that
in reality makes the finished col
or enamels a sort of liquid eel
luloid, which is sprayed onto the
automobile body with compress
ed air, forming a coating that
is almost ndestructible.
The finished job gives the APP
pearance of fine velvet sur
face, extremely tough and d.--
able, and so hard that it can
be safely cleaned with dry
cloth when covered with mud,
as well as even being undam-
aged by contact with fire. In
addition to these qualities the
process possesses the great adj
vantage of extreme speed, it be-
ing possible 10 finish car in an
incredibly short space of time, as
compared TO The customary la
seed oil method If painting.
The new process is being used
as standard by several of the
best known cars, and the ia /
that it is sponsored by one of the
largest organizations in the
world gives confidence In It's
absolute stability.
Every additional use for cot
ton means a greater demand;
a greater demand means higher
prices foi the staple. and larg-
CT margin of profit for the farm
er. 1bJ
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
BEER BILL. SETTLED.

Lawrence Washington's beer
bill has been paid and a long
standing liability has been dis
charged.
This bill was contracted while
he was a student at Oxford and
has been running now for two
hundred and ninety-one years.
Members of the American Bar
Association who recently visited
the Sulgrave neighborhood dis
charged the debt. Lawn encc
Washington was a great uncle of
George Washington, the Father
OF his country, and this accounts
for the debt being liquidated by
the lawyers.
1t is true that the statute of
limitations outlawed his bill long
ago, but a proud country like the
United States could not allow any
stigma to remain upon the name.
There was a moral, if not a legal
responsibility. And it did not
matter that prohibition is now in
vogue in this country and that
beer bill is looked upon as IAN
iniquitous outlaw"
But the Omaha (NSb.) World,
which has dwclt upon this matter,
notes that the bar association.
with Yankee shrewdness, got the
college authorities to agree to
knock off the interest. Those fell
lows recognized that the interest
would have sent them all home
broke if they had tried to pay it.
The original bill was for II shill-
ings and 10 pence, little over
$4 at ordinary rates of exchange.
Interest at 6 per cent, compound
ed annually would have amount
ed to something ike one hundred
million dollars.
Asst was, the account was set
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
Old Days In Americas

children are at home again after
having spent some time pleasantly
in the mountains of NORTH Georgia.
Mis- Mary B Hixon WI have as
guest for week Miss Lyra Swift,
one of Columbus popular society
girls, who will arrive to-day.
An occasion of much interest to
themselves and many relatives and
friends will be the annual reunion
today at the old Hogg homestead
in Marion county, sixteen miles west
of Americas. The three sisters are
Mrs. W. C. jenkins, Mrs. n. L. Hal
ley, and Mrs. W. c. Pickard. The
six stalwart brothers are Charles
Hogg, Clyde, James, Ely, Willis and
Bradley.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
KIWANIS HONOR BROTHER
CHARLEY.

The members of the Kiwanis
Club at their luncheon and
Glove feast" Friday noon in
honor of their charter member,
Gov. Charles W. Bryan, sprung
considerable of a surprise on the
Governor when they appeared at
the table wearing black skull
caps in which the Governor has
become familiar to the people Of
Nebraska.
"Modesty has long compelled
me to hide my light under a
bushel," the Governor observed,
"but l had scarcely expected TO
see so many of my brother XII
wanians follow my example" -
Omaha Daily News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
E1i1'&i':.e!a5
~ hsAIbcre ,ACple
SUNDAY
nah Press.

He has preached $4,000 sermons
Canon Hay Aitken, England's
greatest revivalist. Aged, but in
good health, so he may pass John
Wesley's record of $4,000 sermons.
Vicar Athens observation is that
church-going habits have been
broken down by the invention of
the bicycle and auto. He overlooks
golf. every new benefit which
science has conferred upon us has
been used to take men away from
the churches"
An exception is radio, which has
created an invisible church audience
numbering into the millions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
Is, 1000

(From The Times Recorder. August
IS, 19O4.)
Col. w. T. Davenport took his
sons and daughters by surprise yes
terday by presenting to each and
every one a very handsome cut glass
bowl, wrought in the most beautiful
designs Of the manufacturers art.
Even those residing in distant states
were alike remembered.
While driving out to his farm yes
oerday morning Mr.. r. S. Broad
hurst was SO unfortunate as to lose
a handsome gold watch valued at a
hundred dollars, the ticker slipping
from his pocket. 1t was found by
a little negro boy, who brought it in
10 him at his office. 1t need nor
be said that the little darkeys hon
esty was well rewarded n cash.
Mrs. Sally H. Gyles left yesterday
for Bronwood upon a visit of a few
days at the home Of her brother,
Hon. Alma G. Hill.
Americas plucky little neighbor,
Plains, is in the procession in the
receipt of new cotton. Two bales
from the plantation of Capt. John
A. Mcdonald were received there
yesterday.
Americas peope with plenty of
money seeking investment, and who
decline to put it in a>cotton mill
here for fear that Cotton Mills don't
pay may be interested in the fourth
year of success Of the new Rushton
mill at Griffin. This plant has JUST
declared semi-annuaT 3 per cent
dividend and besides, will add to
the capacity of the plant by puts
ting in $4,000 worth of new ma
chinery.
Americas should own her elec.
trio lighting plant as well as her
water works. This is very essential
for the welfare of any city.