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PICKERS ftWD HIS DOG*.
4 oiiple «< »'«»«>■ Wm
*“* reived ** «»<«’■ Hill.
(Homo Journal.]
were seated in an office iu
nu Englishman. an Irish
THE PECAN TREE.
1 AM A WOMAN.
[From an Old 1
I am a woman—therefor® X may not
Call to him. cry to h<t«.
Fly to him,
Three <;
V ,; v York eity—an nuj
^ 411(1 an American.
‘"“““l incbli-nl
It It Lil«toinnry, iifn-r grad
f„r ntudt-nta, two nr mor.. t.i lake
...i American. The Engllubuuiu
incident that occurred
tn'ii(>IIian iwii u * , v
t the rural attractions that spring into
II,. and Ilia college chum agreed to
a; Kent the pint* of pilgrimage. They
i i made an e'ctcnded Irnnip through the
Emiaiitatul smiling region, and in re
reached a .lately mansion with
*w».ks leading through the
.minds A l;edge bordered the public
,Mil and behie.l lids was a ditch. As the
mutte'ing their throated thunder.
• was*a dcpiesslDg moment, for they
idled lip 10 one of the twain with every
Where It liroin and What It Will
Yield.
[Sherman (Tex.) Cor. Kew York Sun.] , .... „
1 In• experience of Mrs. Cowles of Mo- | Pray him delay not!
g“ e with the pecan tree, and her facts and |
figures are convincing proofs of the possi- ! Ami when he comes to me, I must tit quiet;
hilities of this hitherto undeveloped Indus- Still as a stone U,
try. She mentions having Withered three £1^1 ^ , !? er '
barre's of nuts from a single tree (145 “rS Xml tlefv
pounds per barrel). I have known us : 1 ‘ t-
: £
i jnUutlou to devour him.
i kept off the creatures
The
many gathered from a single tree in thi
country. This gives 4&5 pounds per tree,
nt say 10 cents per pound, the usti.il job
bing price, or #4:t.50 ns the yield of the
tree I fere there are from forty to a hun
dred trees to the acre. This will beat an
orange ..rove, for the trees do not require j
as much rare or skill as orange trees.
AV e cannot believe that the efforts of our '
California friends will fail in growing
pecan trees. For the Ixmellt of Mr. \Y
A. Zanders of that state I will say that ’
.Mr. S. ){. Thorpe, of San Francisco, savs
he saw growing at San Jose some pecan
trees four or five years old. ten feet high. I
with seven feet spread of limb. This is 1
•ri.t'en an kept on iue wim o certainly not a bad showing. It would be j
ptick he carried, all Ike time retreating considered a fair growth for most loeali- |
lockward until the hedge, that offered no ties. I cannot lee any reason whv tliese i
resistance was reached. Hack, backward trees should not succeed in that country. I
lie went, through the hedge into the For eight years s lccceding the war 1
ditfli, "'here he remained. Ins laxly . was engaged in the winter months in the !
ide«l in between the two-.lianks.^abso- fur business. This work led me through
the timliered and swamp regions of south- !
era Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, over j
the whole of Arkansas .udthe Indian ter
ritory. Iu all these ci jntries I observed
the |x*eait growth, and in no locality was
it. confined exclusively to either low
or upland ground. It seemed to
flourish on all kinds of soil. As
Mrs. Cowles remarks, it is a species
of the hickory, or akin to it. and it has a
very tough and hardy growth. Some of
the largest trees I ever saw were along the
banks of the Osage river in Missouri ami
Kansas, where they were exposed to liurd
winters and sudden and severe chan:
father
Should I ti
Say or
Cling to him—
i What—to atono is
j Enough for my winning!
! This were the cost to me,
i This were my winning—
j That he were lad: to me!
' Not ns a lover at last if he part from me—
Tearing my heart from me—
, Hurt beyond cure—
: Calm ami demure,
Then, my behavior,
ing no sign to him
UOIO • •
CALVIN CARTER & SON
S>«* SPOTS AXTP SSOBS,
Public Square, . . Amcrlcm, Ga.
BEST GOODS
FOR
LEAST MOSEY!
iuteiy helpless. Meanwhile out came the
proprietor, bareheaded, calling off tin*
Lj, ml k The mansion and grand o'.d
tires just over the hedge looked mount-
noons amid the rattling confusion. The
cliuKix was reached by the disap|x*aranee
verv suddenly of the person attacked, who
], iV 'on his back, wedged in and covered
with mud and water. The owner of the
premises and the traveler, convulsed with
laughter, lent suitable aid in draw ing out
tin* |>ri»
go into Rochester in that
.iuution, ” remarked the proprietor:
-M.iae in and get a change of garments. ”
They entered the elegant premises, and
after refitting, the host said, “Gentlemen.
mV lunch is ready; instead of being eaten
niii must eat!**
' While this was taking place one of the
k.riies glanced at a portrait on the wall
ami tlicit looked hard at his entertainer.
•Why, ” he remarked, concealing his sur
prise ns much ns possible: “You are
( lurk's Dickens?”
- Yes. ”
-And this is Gad’s hill?”
• Precisely. ”
“Assuredly we arc in illustrious com-
pui v unawares. ”
Tim lunch was ended, and Mr. Dickcr.s
showed his guests through his apartments,
inu ring the study where stood the writing
disk, which constitutes such a feature of
the engraving published after the author’s
death.
The Old Chicago Tlmea Building.
(Chicago Herald.]
A building is now going up on a piece
of Lind on Dearborn street whieh has a
history. Ever since the lire, with the ex
ception of a year or two when a one-story
MiUiirant stood there, the lot has been
vacant. Before the great tire it was the
>itc of The Times building.
The old building Unit stood on this lot
. was a white stone affair which molted
away to dust iu the fierce flames of Octo-
Ut. I»T1. The fire struck it about mid
niiht, tail it had been raging all around it
tor some hours. When it was seen that
the office must soon go the night editor
tauilu a desperate attempt to get the
paper out tx'fore abandoning the building.
A> the compositors were getting uneasy he
crept up the stairs and locked them* in.
The billows of tlatned rolled around, nttik-
iii" the gas lamps look like tallow caudles,
ami when the priuters became so nervous
that they could work no longer they made
tur ihe door. The first one there screamed:
“It is locked!”
“Smash it in then!” roared half a dozen
lyP'K and In a moment it was a wreck.
All hands streamed out ou the tire-swept
streets. They were not a moment too
soon. The last ones out saw flames burst
ing out of the upper windows. The night
~ had disappeared. If he could have
.% Huge u Raneli Agency.
[Croffut’s New York Lettev]
The tendency of England to »wze ou all
eligible wild land of tins countiy is well
illustrated by the recent organization of a
"ranch agency ”of uncommon jvoportions
here. 1 met this week with the
active promotor and manager
it—Henry Arthur Herbert of Muck
ross, Ireland. His partner
carl of Aylesford, who already lias a great
ranch in Texas and another In Wyoming
territory. lie lives here about seven
months of each ^ear. returning to London
for the “season,^ and to sit in the house of
lords as an obstructionist, I suppose.
Herbert hitnself is a young Irishman,
Hell, ambitious, intelligent, shrewd,
was for ten years a member of parliament,
| and, what in Great Britain is considered of
The tree is found in the western part of I n* much consequence, for nine years
this state, on poor, dry, sandy land, yield , . ar< ... . - .. . . #
ing annually good crops of nuts. Nor »r« I I own two-thirds of the lakes of Kil;
the trees affected by our loug, hot
mers. It would seem that they are adapted
to a wide extent of our country. I su|v-
pose that the nuts planted by Mr. Sandeis
got too dry In transit. If so, they would
hot germinate. If he would try a few
fresh nuts received by mail and plant on
receipt of them, no doubt the result would
lx* different. When they ge
light t
brii one more casualty to add to the long
roll. J
Tho Vanilla Dlaeaae.
lX*vr Orleans Times-Domoerat]
The di-ease ns< rilx.*d to vanilla and its
<a , i'c are thus de-crilxxl by I>r. Lave!, of
ronknux: - At first an itching of the
fa<i a djiaud-i, associated with a powerful
'[ii.iit.ng sensation, is experienced,and the
>kw Incomes covered by a pruriginous
erupt ion, swells, reddens and desquamate*
»! tiic end of some days; at other times
ilieri'isa fil ling of malaise with dullness,
'•illness and muscular pains, necessitating
:| ‘‘‘Nation of labor. The cutaneous
malady stems to lx; due to an acarus which
»PI>ears as u small, white, rounded body,
‘ eeiim ing generally I bo ends of the poll,
ami determines the affection by its mere
eon tael. The nervous symptoms. M.
‘•aytt thinks, may be caused by inferior
pwl** containing much oily juice. ”
Keg'lilt Huuior.
[London Letter.]
Hu* delicacy of English wit is some
thing thnt the American mind fails to up
pni-iate. An English weekly offered a
prize of 1 pound sterling for the cleverest
"ngnittl anecd te that should lx; s« nt it,
and the following secured the money: “ I
)* aH 01,1 m n small dinner-party one rv it-
,n P retentlv.^ A boy, evidently from the
grw-n-gnxN'r’s shop, had been engaged to
•MUe waiting. When he placed two
»ii i 0 ^ ,Mr,s the hostess, she—
probably thlnkiug it not correct to know
•, 1:11 w«w coming—asked: *What are
h , -*x‘ , . Jnim*s?’ Whereiipoti the Ixry,
1 jlnting first to one it.V.t uml then to tho
‘ replied; •TUl'Ius a penny each, and
'i 'hem’s two for three half-pence.’”
•luat to Tilt a k of it!
,’Arkansaw Travflt*;-. 1
b is estimated by Professor Gannyntorc
mm in the l nited States, during one sea-
j? JT-tHons of ituman blood are
a " '•>; nmsquitoes. In twenty years,
P total amounts to 1,248.400 gal-
.hii'i *'’/ , . "I—nearly u* much as was
j tiM during the war of tho rebellion.
»ii'i M> , H apfi alarming- Just think.
I “ >'»**. *hnt in 100 years 124,840,000 gnl-
' of ns gixxl blood as this country has
1 pauliiced will have been spilled with-
in !* I K *mt having been gained. It
»rtii?tt '‘* oU| lk al>out the navy, hut
to heuring in California and have fresh
nuts to plant, they will have no trouble iu
establishing extensive and profitable pecan
groves.
Royal manners.
[Detroit Free Press.]
Apropos- of children’s deportment, a
story is recalled of the lately dead John
Brown, the quie.i of England’s faithful
henchman. When he first entered the
service of Prince Albert the little prin
cesses hearing their father address him
as “Brown, ” used the same form in speak
ing to hint. The queen corrected them,
and they all addressed him as “Mr. Brown”
excepting the Princess Louise, who, im
perious even in childhood, per
sisted in her right to use the
name as her father did. One morning
the queen heard her and informed lifer
that if she again addressed Mr. Brown,
without a handle to his name, she would
be sent to bed. The next morning when
he presented himself in the royal apart
ments, where the family assembled, the
little miss said ilipixintly:
“Good morning. Brown!”
Then, as she saw the eyes of her queen
mother fixed unon her, she rose, and, with
a curtesy, continued:
“Ami good night, Brown, for 1 am go
ing to bed. ”
And she walked resolutely away to her
punishment.
What la Not.
[Boston Budget.1
Cuttle bone is not bone, hut a kind of
clmlk once iuclosed in the fossil remains of
extinct specimens of cuttle fish. Cleopatra's
needle was not erected by the Egyptian
queen itor in her honor. Pompcy’s pillar
had no historical connection with Ponipey
in any way. Scaling wax docs not con
tain a particle of wax, but is composed of
Venice turpentine, shellac and cinnabar.
The tuberose is no rose, but a species of
polynnth. The strawberry is no berry,
but only a succulent receptacle. Turkish
baths did not originate in Turkey, and are
not baths, but heated chambers. Whale
bone Is not hone, and is said not to possess
a single pro|H*rtyof hone.
He UeveHled Hlmxell'.
I Pitt burg Chronicle-Telegraph.]
A gentleman who had courted anti
married hi» w ife iu a full heard and lived
for ten years with her endowed with the
same hirsute adornment, quietly deter
mined to have it cut off. Ills wife found
it difficult to recognize him. and she sat
staring nt his strange appearance for some
time. “Well, "he exclaimed, “have you
got nothing else to do but sit still? I
suppose you expect me to do ull the wotk,
while you loaf, as usual.” ho snappishly
said. “Why, it is you after all—1 knew
you the moment you spoke, " she replied.
Why They Wore Beards.
[Exehai’te. ]
A Frenchman sent a circular to all his
friends asking why they cultivated a
U-nnl. Among the answers nine stated,
“because I wish to avoid shaving;” twelve
“because I do not wish to catch cold;”
five “because I wish to conceal had teeth;"
two “because I wish to conceal the length
of tnv nose;"six “because I am a.soldier;”
twenty-one “because I was a soldier;”
sixty-tiyu “bceaqse my wife likes it;”
twenty eight “because tny lovo likes it;”
fifteen answered that they wore uo
lK*nrd«*.
larney, ” said Mr. Herbert to me, “aud
command the approaches from every
direction. By the wav, I want to put up
a hotel, American stylo, in Muckross, and
get a first-rate landlord for it. The object
of this agency of ours is to defeat the or
dinary promoters, who get rich selling
ranches and swindle both parties. We
few*trees • slm ^ S( ‘H bottom prices. We already
have on our books 40,000,000
I asked him if he was not mistaken, re
minding him that 40,000,000 acres was
more than one-sixtieth of the whole area
of the country.
“So much the better!” he said with a
smile. “Mistaken? No. Why, wc have
5,000,000 acres in one lump down in
Texas. In another year we mean to have
a good deal more. ”
The Drcas of Modern Fiction.
[Boston Gazette.]
Tho cardinal objection against the
lighter literature of the present day is its
lack of sincerity. Form is regarded as of
more importance than substance; a pretty
external drapery is used to ornament a
worthless manikin, and wheu the reader
expects flesh and blood he is ecnfrouted
with wood. The art which should
conceal art is only art made
coarse by artificiality; an inartistic
nigging at petty details; a com
monplace attempt to catalogue c
series of readily observed surface pltcnom
enu, and to neglect the vital soul beneath.
Falsi* art hits triumphed over nature;
morgue has usurped the place of the
arena, and literature has sunk to the low
level of busying itself with trifles; with
drawiug its picture from the dressmakers’
and milliners’ dead models, elaborating
the insignificant, apotheosizing the ridic
ulous, and then claiming for its stiff-
jointed, artificial-voiced manikins tho
reward that is due to living men and
women whom it so offensively carica
tures.
The Dog the Bravest Animal.
[Nelson Kizor in Phrenological Journal.]
People sneak of “ brave as a lion. ” The
lion is not brave; he is a coward when the
royal Bengal tiger, regarded as bis equal,
is presented; lie hesitates, makes a great
parade, blit does not get very near. The
dog, on the other hand, will assail a lion,
a tiger, a grizzly bear, an elephant, a
dog, or a man, and he docs not
stop to count the size of his op
ponent. Mnny u man has been saved
because his little dog, who is as quick as
a Hash, bus annoyed a bear, behind, that
was pursuing the man to the death; ho
would turn to take care of tho dog, which
would of course dodge back and keep out
of the way of the bear, while the man
would be gaining distance, and when tho
hear turned for tho mun again, the dog
was at his heels biting his hamstrings.
We know of nothing hut the dog that
will fight a foe forty times his bigness, or
one of its own kindnud bigness to the
death, with such unqualified and eminent
bravery; and, therefore, wo account tho
dog the bravest thing that lives.
A Wrong Dlagnoaln.
[Now York Hum]
“I say, young man,” said a physician,
stopping him ou the street, “you are not
well. Your fare is flushed, and you aro
in a high fever. Let me feel your pulse. ”
“I—I’m all right,” protested the youth.
“No you’re not, ” said the physician
positively. “ Ycur pulse is over a hundred,
and in less than two minutes you will be
in a cold sweat. You take uty advice and
go home. ”
“I—I can’t go home. Iam resolved to
ask old Jones for his daughter's hand to
night or perish miserably iu the attempt. ”
“ Wrong diagnosis, ” muttered the doctor
to himself.
Indian Milk.
[Pari * Bo icon. 1
aw, that this is Indian milk, aw, ”
aaid~n dude to a dairyman.
“No, sir. "said the dairy man,“this is first
class cow’s milk fresh from my farm. ”
“I be*/ pardon, sir: I do wcqlly, aw. It
Itohs. aw, like Indian ntilk. ”
“The dickens it doe
call it Indian milk?”
—weally, n
chalked, aw!
(■rowtli ot Our «:i»l«a,
In 1860 the United Stati s had only 141
li-iliin.. i iii , * t lu 1RWJ me uiiicu *»•»«»
*«i. r g * ‘ } * ,l ? ne to proteet the ' cilies 0 f OVfr # 000 inhabitants, now there
'winiri «ift? 1 * P i , u ? aInl1 lho 8iu « in K j are over fiOO such cities. The total popu-
‘ l>lrra of ,lle I lation of tbb clan of cities was .->.UOO.<XJO,
% T 1 now it is 14,000.000.
.Nearly Perfect Picture,. , .
ul»i-? a Photography U becoming pop
'in r ranee. The salts of the inetal
£ 7 Krwn and ffr.-euish brown, nttd
F„ r ‘ ? ,- vcrs produce \cry delicate tints,
tu * holographing forests and landscape!
• tf/f "jP^rior. giving pictures treat are
) l*er[ei;t reproductions of nature.
Tbc6o,tt lolwcco
Historical Furniture.
[Chicago Herald.]
Among the interesting exhibitions prom
ised for the year 1885 that of Russian his
torical furniture, which Is to bo held at St.
Petersburg, will be much appreciated by
antiquarians and artists. The primitive
chairs and tables of the ancient slavs, as
well as the costly furniture which at
What makes you j present adorns the ’ residences of the rich,
| and the bright colored deal goods in the
moujik'-s cottage, will be exhibited, and
appeals are at present being made to furni
ture dealers and o*hers possessing antique
furniture to send their goods to the com
mittee.
New Store
and;
New Goods.
K. T. BYRD,
INSURANCE AGENT,
OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK.
Forsyth Street, - • • ■ Amerious, Ca
AGENT FOR THE LEADING
IN THE COUNTRY, HIVING YOU THE BEST INSURANCE AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
■» AO-BTJT FOR TUB
GULLET AND LUMME8 COTTON GIN?,
ITlio^Soat’Oina Made S
CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OF INSURANCE OR GINS.
Bcptl8m3 T. I
XTE777 ADVERTISEMENT.
Jas.Fricker&Bro.
AMERICUS. GA.
About September first we shall move into
our new store, at the old stand, Barlow Block,
Public Square, where we shall open the most
elegant assortment of goods in our line ever
brought to Southwest Georgia. At our pres
ent store on Cotton Avenue, we have a large
stock of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Solid
Silver and Plated Ware, Pianos, Organs and
Sewing Machines, and everything else usually
kept in a Jewelry and' Music Store, that must
reduced to save moving and make room
for new goods. Therefore, for the next
Twenty Days, or until we move, will sell any
thing we have in stock at prices lower than
have ever been reached before
PTOAPITAL PRIIB|T»,MO,ja
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Louisiana State Lottery Go.
••n'edo htrtby certify that tee »uvenue
the arrangement! for all the Wonthly ani
Semi-Annual Drawing! of The Lvuuiana
Stale Lottery Company,aniinperton man
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and that the tame are conducted with bou
nty, fairness, and in good faith toward all
parlut, and we aulhmte the Company to
ute thit certificate, with Jac-timilei of our
tignaturu attached, in iu advertiiemente."
f£*8 Commissioners.
Incorporated tn 1808 for tft yesn bj tbs Legisla
ture for Kducatlonsl end Charitable purposes—
with a capital or 11,000,000-to which a receree
fund of over 1560,000 haa since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote ita franchise
was made a part of the present Stats Conatitattos
adopted December Zd, A. D., 1179.
The only Lottery ever tcUi on end tndorttd Im
thi people (if any State;
It never tcalet or paitponei.
Its Grand linn Is Number Drawings
take place monthly.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, *75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Fire Dollars Each.
Fractions, In Fifths, In Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES: j
1 CAPITAL PRIZE 05,000
1 do do 15,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF $5,000 12,000
5 do 2,000, 10,000
10 do 1,000, 10,000
20 do 500, 10,000
do 000, 00,000
do loo, 80,000
8O0 do 50, 25,000
1000 do 26,... 05,000
0 Approximation Prize* of |?50 (6,T»0
» “ “ 500 7,500
9 “ 200 1250
1,907 Prize*, amounting to 9265,500
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on*, don't it look Hku
(Choctaw.)
A* Bleated Contrivance.
[JCew Orleans City ItiUi.l
German Mtvdenta Under Training.
[Exchange.)
Student* at several of the German uni-
versiticH have taken to rowing, under
English trainer*, who *ay that the pupils
utterly refuse to give up liecr or tobuixxr
ira!!i"l? c “, comra P om, !' 0 P™''- ; much nupwlwl m beauty.
*^ratow^,..‘ n ..! oa ‘ hern . Turk, T' • koncit. but b. hu not newly
cul.ir.Uon It almo.t the ■ mlr.ri u ' •
T&i[SSfia, ef im-blunu. both l
Amonir the moit Ulanal of all eontriv- while gcUInjj ready for race'. au,l tbero-
ancra of nature is that wblcb preventa a fore do aol get into fit condition to accom-
man front being disturbed by bis own j pli-b mueb.
snorlug. Ter Dlormmm. la f.rti,
Arkansaw Traveler: Honeaty L not so l<,y .Ijaramaa are now popular in 1 trl*.
Tbe toad la — ** “* 1 —
10 many ad
mirer! u tho bright bird that would steal ^ tomely ilccoraled ti
They co-tilit of microscopic views ph ito-
graphed on tiny lenses snd set in hsnd-
.orated framss. They trs coo-
insxpsAilTs*
Come and examine our stock, get our
prices, and wc will guarantee that you will
be convinced that we mean what we say
Remember we have great bargains to offer for
CASH and the time in which to secure them
is limited. Come one, come all, and don’t
fail to come early.
JAS. FRICKER & BRO.
Americus, Ga., Aug. 13, 1884.
MRS. FRED LEWIS’.
Amerious, Ga., Aug. 24,1884. tf
Pa\ETUV
And Lunch Room.
1 am randy to prnpnrn
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
Fresh Fish and Oysters for 8ale.
For Indy cnatomera I have prapnrcd'>n Mpnrntn
room, where they will rncntvn proaptfnnd courte
ous n'totlon.
, sept35.nl JOHN A. TURPIN.
W. J. PHILLIPS.
JOHN 8. MIEIUI.
★
BAKERY,
Cotton Avenue.
P We cnil tbe nt tent ion of tbe poblle to tbe fret
Ibat we are orepnred to 111 all orders for Freak
Bread, Cuke*, Candy, Etc., of onr own make-
food and pure. We keep a'no Confection* and
Qroceriee, which we ecil at tbe ruling price*
Buy end tell Country Produce. Give ne a call.
IT. J. PHILLIPS & co.
Jnlrlatr
INSURE WITH THE
IBTB $1,11111,078.
A. L. HESS, Agent,
At Bankjtf America!
DURHAM’S
IMPROVED
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I. the best rcr.i1ruct.il and fla-
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