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■M* .... i >nli Bronco Experience. ' [Puck.] „ . t , n _ about cowboy*, Sam Stewart, rem Montana to Old Mexico a* S“> m Ram was tire chief. He was not a in Indian, a grosser or a negro, ' . i. had the nose of au Indian warrior, f J* , r |;|,jr of an African, and the cour. ; l, Vnml eiiuestrian grace of a Spaniard. A “* . reputation as a "bronco hr. alter" gave 111. nan,!-. To masteron untamed bronco lin ., ,eh him to lend, to drive und to be O- ridden was Saul 1 * mission during the S weather When he was not riding the I1U special delight was to break the **Silra heart of Hie vicious wild pony of and make him the servant of man. rre seen him mount a hostile "i.uchcr," i inching his italic logsnroundtho boiiy fill, adversary, ride him till the blued ', |,i burst from Sam’s nostrils and spatter "Land rider like rain. Most every one iLns what the bucking of the barbarous h 10 | i, orsa uiLums. The wild horso prob. ’uvlarned it from the antilope. for the alter dew it the same way, i. e„ lie jumps .rsiclit UP into the nir, r.t the same instant ’ jj,,. },(* back ami coming down stitY- ulm*!, with nil four of his foot in n bunch. The concitstfion is considera! tie. I tried it onco myself. 1 partinlly roio ft „ bronco, one spring day, which will nl- ways l)e green in my memory. Tho day, I m ein. not tho l«*o»co. ■***'■*• When lie Began to Ride Me. It occupied my entire attention to safely ride tin* cunning little beast, and when ho bc;:n» to ride me, I put in a minority report against it. r j |, n vn passed through on earthquake and ii ji Jmlian out break, but I would rut her ride an e.’irthquakn without saddle or bridle than to bestride a successful bronco eruption. I remember that I wore a largj pair of M:xi- «an spurs, but I forgot about them until tho saddle turned. Then I remembered them. Sitting down on them in an Impulsive way brought them to my mind. Then the bronco str-d sat down on me, mid that gave tho spur* an opportunity to make a moro lasting impression on my mind. To those who observed the chargor with the double “cinch” across his back and tho saddle in front of him like a big leather cor set, sitting nt tho same time on my person, there must have been a tinge of amusement; but to me it wns not so frolicsome. There may be joy in a wild gallop across the boundless plains, in the crisp morning, on the hack of n fleet bronco; but when you return with your ribs sticking through your vest, and Hud that your nimble steed has re turned to town two hours ahead of you, there i> a tinge of sadtiosi about it all. K-niico Sam. however, made u specialty of doing all the riding himself. Ho wouldn’t ent^r into any compromise uucl allow the hoi>* to ride him. In a reckless moment ho offered to bet ton dollars that he could mount and ride a w ild Texan steer. The money w as put up. That settled it. Sam never took water. This was true in a double sense. Well, he climbed tho eriKs.lwr of tho corral -gate, und usked the othi-r boys to turn out their best steer, Mar quis of Queens berry rules. II Took Sum Four Dags to 11 all: Rue/;. As tli* steer passed out, Sam slid down and uni plied those parenthetical legs of hi? around that l:igh-hcadnd, broad-horned brute, and he rode him till tin fleet-foot 'd unbind fell down on the bulTulo grass, ran bis hot, red tongue out across the b!u. horizon, Shook his tail convulsively, swelleJ up stuwaud died. it took Sam four days to walk buck. A ten-dollar bill looks as largo to me a.- the Star Spangled banner sometimes; but that is nil avenue of wealth that li;ui not occurred to me. I’d rather ride a buzz-saw at two dollars n day and found. What tlie Blonde Reporter .Should Huvc Said. |Pittsburg Dispatch.] “In soft, adumbrant meshes of sieved sil v -*r, the sunbeams melt*! through the leaves and dripped in spangles of gold upon th- brown and black moquettrio of tho nhadows that left to the rugged edge of the curb, where a fragile little fragment of liu- f'anity lay moaning.” "That’s all right enough,” said the inmir;* j ln » editor, “but it’i§ a little too long. Make ! it shorter.” “But what will I say, sir?” asked Lite j Monde reporter. ' * 0h, I’d just say, ‘Honnessy Mulcnli.- a httb boy Pat fell into an open sower and i broke his nosj.’ That'll do for au introduc i>on, and then you can go oil and say wliatV | necessary ubout tho careless manner ii., ’•hieh these things are conducted, und that “nder another administration of our local ; government, and so on, you know. Give urn a rap, that’s ail.” At the Opera. [Drake's Travellers’ Mazagino.] lueywei-eat the French opera, und a* , seated themselves ho remarked, im patiently; ‘There 1 I have forgotten the oiiera- Jla'ses ngaiti?’’ ‘Uh, well,” said his wife, soothiugly, *‘w» ! get along nicely without it” j Nonseuse," he replied. “1 will have at ! t'p'ra glasa if I Imve to rent one.” ”V m ‘Ldn’t make such u fuss about for- | getting the glass when wo went to set ! m?iry Irving in Hamlet,” she remarked, r “«le sternly. i i know I didn’t, but Humlet and » I rr.-iieh ojiera are very differenttbiugs. Yoi , M t imagine a man can appreciate fine— --er-music wiihout an opera-glass, dt I Commenced Shopping Young. [Life] Drug t‘|. rkWhat do you winh.l Ittle girl tie Girl:—I want to know liow mud | . "ur best pi lb are. Your very beat pills. i J i,lr }»rs lunar: A practical hint foral , •• want to get r;c!>. Kend three-cen : _ and have tho ne«v*t exposed,” wasai , , i ' w rt ‘ M3DW;U in a washy paper. Th ! *Mmiek** at J? ^ttWe*^*** ‘’Daa’t U j Um »«* aU tw STICKING ON THE STAMPS. The JnatComplnlnt.raDlacouraz.il Postofllce Clerk. [Philadelphia Reconi.] “Tliero is .no of the sort of letter, tuat make me tired, absolutely so tired that I can't even swear,” remarked a clerk at the postoiiice in a tone of deep disgust, as ho tossed aside a pink on- ! 'elope from a pile of letters on wjii.di | he was cancelling the stumps. The of- j tensive missive fell on a corner of the | tal) lo among a dozen of others, which j had all, in a measure, contributed to the clerk’s “fatigue,” and after he had concluded hrs task he reached over and i pulled the lot toward him. I “Just see here,” lie said continuing « his wail; “not one of those letters is j properly stamped. Look at this, down j at the bottom, and this right in tho center, with u heart drawn around it, * and hang it, why here s a new racket, \ the stamp stuck on tho back,” an.I as j lie rattled on lie gave each of the epistles n vicirnm jab with tho cancel-* ! ing stamp and f hen tossed it into tho j mail-bag. j “Do yon run Across many of that kind?” “Do I? Well, I’m pretty good-na- ! lured, and you wouldn’t hear me kick- • ing if it was only once in a while; but ; they come along by dozens, und, by 1 Jove! around Christmas and St. Valen- ! tine's day about half the extra mail is j stamped in some awkward way.” ! “W ho do it?” : “Well, principally silly people who I are in love. I fancy most of the letters i slam pod in those queer ways aro lovo i letters or valentines or Christinas cards, j Look at this,” and ho tished out the pink envelope before mentioned. It was i directed in a fominino hand to a man in Norristown, had tho stamp in tho cen ter with a conventional heart drawn around it and smelt like a cake of hotel toilet soap. “Now, I must say I don’t often get ’em that bad. If I did I’d soon go crazy, for you don't know how exasperating it is to have to stop and change your regular clock-like work be cause one of these things comes along and breaks up your steady troi, as it were.” “Perhaps there is some languago of postage stamps, and dillerent positions mean dincrent sentiments,” suggested the reporter. “For instance: l'p in tho left corner, M lovo fin tho lower left corner, ‘doyou lovo?’” “Of course there is; and I’ll tell you just how it goes. Whenever a stamp i * put anywhere but in the upper right-hand corner it means just this: Tne man, woman or child who stamped the letter is cither a fool, or a crank, or au idiot, or wants io bo smart, or” Hero tho conversation was cut offby the irate clerk being called away, I'liforeseen and DlMOMtrou*. [“Uucl*.* Bill” in Chicago Herald.] Threadbare dignity is hard to sustain. Almost anybody of sullicient height and girth c.n easily onougli ho portly while his broadcloth is now; but wlion tho fabric of his exterior presentab.l.ty is fraye.l at tho elbows and gro.isy at tuo collar a great deal of stamina is ro- qu.site or else the structure goes lo piecos more or less. The man whom I studied to this conclusion was big- hcaiied and gray, tiiick and very straight, composed and sc\ero, and in all aspccls a millionaire except as to tho dilapidation of his apparel. IIo re joined a coi;ira lo in tne reading-room of a U.oalway hotel, and I couldn't holp ovorhear.ng tlio> eonversa: on. “Did you get it/” askod tho ono wl.o ha.l cv.deutiy waited hopefully for tho outcome of a small linaucial expedition. “No, I did not, sir,” was the reply of dignified disconsolation. “Hut you said lio'd give you a fiver as soon as ho looked at you ?” “Mol did say, and so I did think. Put mo mission, simj ly and sure us it seemed, caiuo into encounter with un foreseen and disastrous vicissitudes, I.isten, my friend.” Wbeu ho said “mo” for “my” I knew that ho was an actor, und it was im mediately revealed that ho had called on a theatre manager for a loan. “ 1 hat man is deep as the sou, and lit em ors his dangerous, hidden rocks liko tho rap ds of Niagara,” Hagio l*om- posio continued. 'Look you, friend- lie had digged a pit at his very door way for mo self-possession to fall into. How? Why, sir, the entry is dark and tho floor slopes rather abruptly just as I you come to tho sill. The incline j catches you unawares, and you stumble | into bis presenco instead of quietly ( walking in. 1- rom the moment of 1 that entrance me case was hopelos*. \\ hat won ier that I set mo hut on his desk with the rent toward him, thrust mo arm into a tear in my overcoat in stead of tho sleeve-hole, and became an abject beggar rather than a casual and quite unaccnsti med borrower? No, comrade, I did not get 5C». He offered me 5cents, and I took it.” Mnmethlns To He l.ooUcil After. [HiilwMphiu Pit*-.! A story which is worth tho attention of the library committee of congress, comes from Washington. It is apropos of lira midis historial allegory of tin* “Goddess of Liberty Dis|>ci>ing Ty rants,” which is in the top of the cap* itol dome. The story goes that Bru- midi w as indiscriminate in his associa tiou w.th tho opposite sex, to whom he promised to return for favors received that ho would preservo their faces where they could be seen by the nation. He kept his word, and all the faces of females in the allegory arc portraits of his “mashesthe Goddess of Liberty being an exact 1 keuess of his favorite liotiri. Another point about tho picture is that the tyrants who aro fleeing from the wrath of Brumidi’s favorite aro Jell Davis, llobert K. Lee, Alexander II. Stephens, ’.Stonewall’ Jackson, Judah P, Benjamin and‘Bob’Toombs. As the narrator of the story sail; ‘ 1 ake away the frightened expression from their faces, and they would make good faiuilv portraits. Just think of such a collection in tho top of tho capitol dome. Brumidi said he was going to do it, and he did. Pastoral Letter : There can hardly fail to be before long e general effort to supplant with pure but entertaining reading the ruinous publications that ■ &io poisoning readers of all ranks—a ; literature of dDorce, of MdaetiOBfOl ad’.iltor/i of aeral defttfc* A Grand COMPARE THE OLD PRICES WITH THE M = AT- grOAPITAL PRIZE us,000,40 Tickets only |6. Ibaves In proportion Schumpert & Roney’s, THEUE ONLY a Spot Cash Store’ I3XT AMERICUS. We promised in issue of the Recorder of January 2d, to give you some prices so soon as we arranged and marked down our goods. We arc now prepared and ready to give you more goods for less money than any house that sell goods on thirty days time. Con.emplsite a few quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and thirty days credit: Flour. Flour. In this article we stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big markets of tlie West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN. We will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system) For 50 pounds, $1.75. Old price $2.15. 2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.65. “ 1.90. Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.50. “ 1.S0. Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.35. ” 1.65. We guarantee all these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return them and we will cheerfully refund the money. Tn future we will keep on hand tlie best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR - cheap. Sugars. Sugars. Will sell you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar for $1.00, “ “ 11 pounds New Orleans Clarified lor 1.00. “ “ 11-j; poundsNewOrleans (Bellewood) Clarified, lor 1.00. “ “ 13 pounds New York Sugar, lor ... 1.00. In this line we are fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity and pur chase at once a sufficiency for the year’s comsumption. Coffee. Coffee. In this article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to buy all tlie “Santa Claus” you want for the little ones. We deal 6^ pounds Choice Pio Coffee for $1 Thurber’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Java, Rio, and Mocha, for 23c per pound. Salt. Salt. Liverpool, full weight, for $1.20 per sack. Fine Salt, seamless bags, 150 pounds,]$1.05 per sack We are slaughtering at the very low price of $1.00 per cwt. to make room for a car load ol SEED POTATOES. Whiskies. Whiskies. In this line we are full to overflowing, and to unload we have reduced the price on all grades from 25c to $1.00 per gallon. Think of it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Stone Mountain Corn Whisky (or $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50, Tobacco and Cigars. We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton” 57c per pound, and all other grade* proportionately. We regret that we have not spuec sullicient to give full and complete quotations on all of our goods, but you will hear from us oecn-ionally. Remember that by having your goods from us anil paying SPOT OA8H you do not pay from to .ii) per cent, for bad debts, as usual in credit store. A Word as Regards the Penny ! To all those who scout nt the idea of introducing the Penny in Americus, we say that wc stand ready to redeem in good? or the cash any amount from &c upwards, firing them along and get their full value at Till! OILY SPOT CIS! STOKE II UERICDS FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.’S BANK. Very truly, SCHUMPERT & RONEY. Americus, Ga., Jnnnnry 11, 1684. Louisiana State Lottery Co. “ We do hereby certify that tee tupemte the nrrangementt for all the Monthly ant Setni-Annuul Drauingt of The Louisiana State Lottery Company,undinperson man age and control the Drawings themselces, and that the same are conducted with hon esty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and ice authorise the Company to me this certificate, with'facsimiles of o/ur signatures attached, in its advertisements.'' Commliiloniri. Incorporated in 1808 for 9b years liir the togiala- ture for Kducatiouxl and Cnariiabfn purposes— with a capital or #l.000,u00-to which • reserve fanct of over |550,000 hu since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its ft-suchbe was made a part of the present State Constitution adopted December Jd« A. IK, 1S79. Tht only LotUry tttr icttd on and endnrinl IMs peojd>: of any Stale. * • It ittver tcaUi or pottpont* Its Grand IIrrU Number Drawings taka place monthly. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. TENTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS K, IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, 'lUKSDAY. October 14, 1.M 173d Unotbly Uraolnc! CAPITAL PRIZE, *70,000. 100,0001lekets at Fire Dollar* Etch. Fractions, In Fifths, in Proportion. LIST OP PRIZES: 1 OAIMTAI. I’ltlZK 175,000 J <!•> 80,000 a PRIZES OF $0.000 M.000 6 do 2,000, 10,000 10 do 1,000, 10,000 '. ,u M0.- 10,000 100 do 200, t0,000 800 <lo 11)0, 00,000 fOO do 26,000 loou do 2u,.... $6 000 0 Apprnximutlon Prizes of $750 $8,760 ® “ '* 600 4,600 > ' “ «0 1260 1,907 Prises, amounting to 9266,600 Application for rates to clubs should bo made only to the office of tho Company In New Orleans. For further Information write ideally, giving fbll address. Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleaus, La. „PO*TAL NOTES and ordinary letters by MhiI or Express (all stuns of 98 und upward by xpnwe at our expense) to M. A. DAUPHIN. - M. A. DAUPHIN, <■07 a«T»m at., W.ihlMRt.M, o, c. Tie Lost is Fold! AND CAN^DEXPOUND.AT BUG CHAPMAN’S Bar and Restart. EiT, DRINK AIM IIKKKY, "free bed. Everything has been is sweet and clean. I tmd In Bug’s Liquors from 8 to 13 Years Old! Mrs. ELAM WILL OCOUPYJHKR, NEW STORE IN KAK1.0W BLOCK, OotoDer 1st! NE5W HATS Just arrivod nod cad be seen at her old ntoro room, with Mrs. Fred Lewis, South side of Public Square,. Americas, Ga. aeptHtf 3VRS-W And Lunch Room. that 1 have opened at my stand op posit . 1 am ready to prepare r Room and Restaurant at my stand opposite Felder's Warehouse, where MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Fresh Fish and Oysters Tor Sale. For lady customers I have prepared a separate room, where they will receive prompt and count* DURHAM’S lHPttOVKD &TJIDABD IMBUE! I * the kent constructed and in- Itbed, gives better p<rctlta|«, mote psWtr, indli sold n rlesn jyswixr**