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Kitchen Cntistbenloe u Uluatra««t l» *
Michigan Logging Comp.
[Chari™ Ellis In TheConW-J
They literally chuck their food; and
it would be more correct to *ay of them
•,t the table, using their own unique
term, that they are “chucking” than
that thev are “eating.” When a meal
is ready the cook opens the door and
. alls and the menYush in with a silent,
determined energy that is suggea-
m e of a gathering of old loldiers in the
lianquet rooms of Walhalla. The secret
of this is that the men all wear rub
bers or "pack*,” and so more
over the floor without noise; and
the earg. rness with which they crowd
forward, bareheaded, with swinging
arms, and legs striding far, and all
without a sound, almost makes the be
holder wonder if he has not by some
mistake got down into the wrong place.
Hungry men are reticent The sensa
tion of hunger overpowers all social
sc nse and reverts civilization for the
lime to savagery. These men march in
and seat themselves at the tables with
out a word. If there were only one
table and food enough for a dozen of
them, they would, it is easy to soe,
m ramble and fight for it like savages,
•ind the strongest ones among them,
that is, the greatest bully and glutton,
would be elected chief. But there is
plenty, as they know, and so each goes
to his place, loads his plate and begins
chucking without ceremony.
Tor live minutes you hear nothing
but the incessant clashing and clatter
ing of knives and forks against tin
plates and see nothing but the upward
erk of a hundred hands and the down
ward boh of fifty heads as, midway, the
well-trained jaws, agape, are catching
the chuck on the fly! By that time the
stomach has got fairly to work, the sen
sation of hunger is relaxing its grip,
tlic social instincts begin to exert them
selves again, the savages nro once more
becoming civilized. Here and there
you hear them talking. Qtlipand quirk
! rc on the wing, contentment i* in the
air. In live minutes more the place haa
become jovial and the more skillful
i huckers are leaving the room with pipe
and tobacco in hand, to finish the meal
with the inevitable smoke. Then oil to
work, and a repetition of the scene at
the next meal.
Salt meat, often half-boilod, potatoes
ditto, fried pork stuck fast in half-cold
pork grease: good fresh beef ruined for
ever here and hereafter by being fried
while swimming in pork fat; fresh beof
tioiied and served without seasoning of
any kind; beans that sometimes are
scooped from barrel to boiler and eo
baked” without chango of water or
vessel—a deed against which every
Boston stomach must rise in protest—
bean soup served with the beans so hard
that they will break between your teeth,
and the water as clear as when the
work began, but with its transparency
a trille obscured by bits of broken
cracker that seem to float and sail
around their iron-bound coast; hot
soda biscuit, a spoonful of flour to
a piiart of soda, it seemed to me, very
short with oceans of lard: mince pies of
liaslied beef and pork, salt and fresh:
dried apples, with molasses to suit, and
raisins thrown in to support the crust
l bat is made of chilled pork fat sprinkled
w ith flour; tea that is boiled down, tilled
up anil boiled again, and kept boiling
from mcul to meal, dished out from the
boiler, grounds and all, into measures
Hint are half-filled with cold or luko
warm water, and drank from tin cups
whose inner surfaces are coated with
the brown and dirty-looking sediment of
the over boiled tea, without sugar or
milk—all this sort of thing "the Doys”
endure from day to day with an amia
bility that would make New Kugland
dyspeptics miserable with envy.
But it must not be understood that
camp cooks are without skill They are
often good cooks. Most of them can
make excellent yeast bread, which is,
after all, the staff of life. But there is
so much work to be done, and only the
one man. with one or, at most, two
chore liands to assist him, that much of
it musrhc hurried over and slighted.
1 roni 4 in the morning until 8 or later
at night the cook must be on duty, the
season through. "Mike,” our French
cook, is as good aa they average. Hp is
active ami industrious, and ’ will cut
more meat, in his way, dish up more
potatoes, hash, fried pork, stewed steak,
soda biscuit, bakod beans, eto., in five
minutes than any other man I ever saw
ai work, and the way be will place and
arrange dishes on a table la luminous
with dexterity.
Durable Timber.
I he durability of the framed timber
"l buildings is very considerable. The
trusses of the old |>art of the roof Qf tlfe
basilic uf a St, Haul, at Home, were
framed iu si 6, and were sound and good
m I *16. a space of nearly a thousand
years. These trusses are of fir. The
timber work of the external domes of
the Church of KL Mark, at Venice, is
more than 840 years old, and ia still in
a good state. Alberti observed the
gates of cypress to the church of St.
I' ter, at Home, to be whole and sound
after being up nearly 600 years. The
inner roof of the chapel of St. Nicholas,
reng's l.ynn, Norfolk, is of oak, and
CONQHE8SIONAL LIFE
mnmmm o*“'»
“It Isn't all tbewerfam* of
and the smile* of fair women to be
member of congress. We don't feed on
locusts and wild honey and 8leep on
down,” said a weary member as he
tilted back in bis chair and brushed
aside the heap of letters piled upon bis
desk. He had a haggard look in bis eye,
and his right band hung limp at his side
with a pen between the lingers. “If any
body thinks it’s clover, let him try it!
started out with tho idea that it was m;
duty to answer every letter I got. Wei .
I have involved myself in a problem of
geometrical progression,” and he pointed
in a despairing sort of way at the desk
before him, the ample waste basket b
his side and the floor about him—all ful
of lettera. “They are accumulating
every day. Every one I answer brings
two more, and 1 answer them all. Just
think of it! It makes my head swim.
When I first came here I used to go out
a little. I went to the theater occasion
ally, or to an entertainment, or to
reception, or to see a friend. Now
I go nowhere. Each year
am more closely confined. The
walls - are closing in around
me, and, like the man in the 'Iron
Shroud,' I am waiting for them to doee
In and crush me. I've stopped going
out. I leave my committee-room at the
capitol only to go to my desk at home.
I swallow my dinner whole, as
were. I write late at night—later each
night. The progression is working out
and my mail's bigger each day. Free
cntly 1 shall have to sit up all night
then reduce my meals to live minutes
give up smoking. Write, write, write
Oh—well— think! ’Tis a terrible doom
slowly to write one’s self to death. The
pile of letters is up to my neck. Boon
it’ll be over my head—daylight will be
shut out—and—then—!
“No, sir; we don't live in clover.
And he drew in a long breath and set
tied himself down in his chair as if re
signed to his impending doom. “Why,
it started this way—it always has a start
any member will tell you—it started
this way: As soon as I got to congress
I got a fetter from one of my constituents
congratulating me upon my election,
and saying that he knew now there
would be some legislation; the constitu
tion should not be violated; I must in
troduce a bill in the house to prohibit
fishing in my district with three hooks
to one line—'twas unconstitutional,
answered that letter, bewailing the utter
disregard of congress for the na
tional fisheries, and explaining the utter
u selessness of attempting class legists-
tion. That settled it. I got four letters
from that neighborllood by returning
mail, and they kept on increasing unti
the entire population was represented
by autograph letters. My promptneas
to answer any and all letters was her
alded all over the country, and I was
asked to pass all sorts of bills, from one
to regulate the length of prayers to one
for the suppression of kissing at pound
parties, tine man wanted to know
whether the rope Guiteau was hung
with was hemp or cotton. I referred
this letter to tho department of justice.
The attorney generaf indorsed it to the
warden of the Jail, who returned it to ine
with a minute official description of the
rope—the material, length and manner of
make. This contributed largely to in
crease iny correspondence. Everybody
who had something to write about that
no one olse would notice was told of my
address, with the assurance that I loved
to write letters. A large number of my
letters now are applicants for places
under tho new administration. One
wanted a place that would take
him tq Canada, He did not know what
lartioular place. His doctor told hint
hat it would benefit his health to live
there, and if 1 would just look around
and find a place there for him with a
irotty good salary attached ho would
‘ike it. But, by the way, he had chil
dren just growing up. I might take
this into consideration, and get him
located where there were good free
schools.
“Another fellow wrote that he would
leave it to me to pick out h|a place for
him, but I mustn't gi t the salary below
$1,900. He thought I'd be abetter judge
of good places than lie was
"Some men may refer these letters to
tho waste-basket, but it don’t do. They
must be answered. I must write; good
bye. 1 mustn't waste more time talk
ing. I'll have to sit up late to make up
for it. I must write. The walls are
closing around me.”
“Well, my good fellow, what can I do
for you!” and lie turned to a suppliant
in soldier clothes, who stoqd at lusdbviw
with |iersistence in his faoesnd a glazed
cap in his hand
oak,
‘ instructed upwards of 500 years
a £‘*- l>4viller qtaiaa, as iu> instance of
the durability of flr, that the lane
dormitory of the Jacobins' convent, at
aris, whs executed in Hr and lasted
sob years.
The Wrong Direction.
I brake's Magajtine.J
Am 1 on the right road to the vill*
“k"- demanded a traveler of an old
durkey who was working in a field.
>4*s, sab,” said the darkey,
1 he traveler pursued his way but
presently returned very mad.
... , **?:" he shouted to the old fellow,
what did you mean by telling me that
1 was ou the right road to the villager
1 tol y 0 ,le truf, deed 1 did, boss,
replied the darkey, “but yo’ tuk de
* rong direkshun, sah.”
"LjhtlnUaM'”
* comparison 0 f the best writers show
that about one won! in every six in
ordinary literary English ia of classical
origin and that we could no more “expel
reu!d”" M vlT * he huignage than w<
, go back to the cirUtzation of
J nglo-saxon England.
There is some soul of goodness in
No
More
I’m an American by adoption. In
59 I married an A nerican woman with
a mule—her grandfather left it to—”
But at this poir.t the petitioner was
thrust aside by a Mexican pensioner,
jrho wore three medals and had been a
personal friend of Win Scott's and
wanted his (tension increased.
lluilding a Bridge Over the Jordan.
[Scientific American !
United States Consul Merrill, at Jerh
salem, reports that, during the past
summer, an attempt has been made to
build a bridge over the Jordau at Jeri
cho. It has progressed slowly, how
ever, as the lumber furnished bad to be
brought from Europe, and carried on
the backs ot camels from the port of
Jaffa to the river. The consul suggests
that there might be some market in
Palestine for American lumber, as tho
Austrian and Turkish lumber now used
there is of poor quality and high prioed,
but the country Is probably too poor to
malm much ot a market for anything at
present; the whole yearly import* at
Jaffa, whieh it tho Mediterranean sea
port for Jerusalem, amount to only
about $600,000.
Ntlksi Indian Servants.
Like the Chinese, thv Mexican lulls*
servants learn by imitation, and seldom
need more than one lesson, doing the
same thing over and in the tame way
until they are commanded to stop.
Whon taught a new method they learn
It at once and discard the old way as
completely as if they had forgotten it
fsrertr.
Win, rmu
From a single trr* 149 bread Bruits J .7,
have been gathered, the arexaea weight; fry ?
Keachfyjbalfig ore$tw$>35><k MSS
If Ton Want
Pure
-sa«i!
Times are Hard. Money is Scarce.
APPRECIATING THESE TWO LAMENTABLE FACTS,
L.B.B0SW0RTH
-IS OFFERING THE-
Larges! and Finest Stock of Groceries
OF ALL KINDS, GO TO
DRUG STORE!
THEY HANDLE SEEDS FROM
Which arc perfectly giire and
fresh Remember that they
make a specialty of Seeds and
handle only the best. It is
cheaper to buy good seeds at
first, for then you will not be
disappointed or lose your time
and labor.
J. A. &D.F. DAVENPORT,
LAMAR STREET,
Amerloua, t Gtoorgla.
GATE CUT STONE FILTER I
PIRE WATER, HEALTH, LIFE!
mcbride & CO, Atlanta,
■Qlf Owners.
Me BRIDE A OO., Atlanta, Southern Ag t
Seth Thomas Clocks.
Sola Agents Lambeth's Fly Fans, and
Dealers in
Crockery, China, Cutlery, Silverware,
IN AMERICUS,
Spot Cash Prices !
FOR THE MONEY. HIS STOCK COMPRISES THE
BEST BRANDS FLOUR,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEE, SPICES, DRIED FRUITS, CHEESE,
AND THE USUAL STANDARD GROCERS, WITH
A POSITIVELP FINE LINK OF
Canned Gkxxis!
WHICH AHE OF FULL WEIOHT AND THE BEST QUALITY.
HE ALSO KEEPS
TURNIPS, CABBAGES, POTATOES,
AND OTHER VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON.
BRAN AND MBLAXi
AT LOWEST PRICES. IIE WOULD ALSO CALL ATTEN TION
TO HIS STOCK OF
Liquors and Beer,
WHICH ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY AND PARTICULARLY
ADAPTED TO FAMILY USE.
(Jg^’Give him a call, examine his goods and prices. You
will find him on
JACK80N STREET, ONE D0GR EAST OF POST OFFICE,
AECSSRXOUS, GA.
March 7, 1885. yl.
SranLIMMIMn
* (*■' »**1m sf ne* at* ran by Oeetrai q
ill
Superintaedeul'a OSes, i
Iowa:
ATLANTIC COAST LINK EXPRESS.
IflN* Savannah Sally at • IS a ■
Arrive at Savannah a fifty at T 40 p
Arrive at Jaaap daily at. g 19 a
Arrive at Wavcrom daily at »Maa
Arrive at Callahan dally at 11 It a ■
Antra at Jacksonville daily at 1910 a m
810,I*illrofoUrstation *nrm Barunah
and Jacksonville.
FAST MAIL.
.’2; s
Arrive at Callahan daily at,,.... 11 If am
Arrlrr st JackennrtBedeflyBt......,...tf oe*m
A|6t. u Dupont -1.1!v at. 11 If .a
Arrive at Vaidoatadally at. t*«f am
Arrive at Oultman daily at. 1*40 u m
Arrtm at Tl ofnaerille fatty at )»,.
Arrive al Batnbrtdga dalle at. „l*i|
Arrtre at Chattahoochn dally at. I si p m
8top.nl, at atattona named .bore an* at .11
atallou between ThomMvilla .ad Uhatteheoehn.
13 40 p a.
Psaaraerrs for F.mandlna, Wald., Ocala, Lne-
bur,, GalnesTllle, Cedar Key end all atatleu aa
Florida Railway aid Navigation Company tala
thifi train.
Cloae connection at .lee kata vill# dally for
Owen Cove Spring, 8t. A at n* tine, PalaUa, Eo-
terpriao, Sanford andfall f * - - - -
landings£on St. John's
Passenger* for Pensacola. Mobile, Hew Orisons,
Texas and tranaeMlasiasIppt points US# this train.
Arriving at Penracola at 10 00 p as. Mobile 140 a
blNiv Orleans at 7.40 a r
Pullman buff
New Orleans.
CHARLESTON EXPRESS.
ullman buffet and sleeping? cart Wayoi
Leave Savannah daily at.
Uy at. lNis
Arrive at Savannah dally at * INsn
Arrive at Jcsnp dally at. I Si a u
Arrive at Wi
Arrive
Jas. Fricker &; Bro.
JEWELERS,
AND DEALERS IN
PIANOS
Barlow Block,
Americus, Ga.
No More Eye-Glasses
Wmk
' Eyw!
MITCHELL’S
EYE-SALVE 1
A Carte n, Safe aad Effective Remedy for
Sore, Heak 1 Inflamed yes,
during Le»g-tHghteilnee* 9 nnd He-
•tor inn the Might ef the I fid.
CURE# TEAR DROPS. GRaNULATIAN?.
8TYLK TUdUHH. KK1» KYW», MAMED
RYK LASriKH, AND PKODUCIKO OtflCK
RELIEF A.ND PERMANENT UiiUE
RELIEF
Also, equally e-leu* when
maladies, each ae fleer*. Fever
W. desire to 0.11 the attention of the publio to th. foot that w* hav* at last go
settled in our new .tor. on th* PUBLIO SQUARE and have on hand a largo and
handsome stock of every thing in our lint. Our Mock oonalM* partly of i
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds 1
SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY,
GOLD PENS. PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS,
WALKING CANES. OPERA GLASSES,
GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES. ETC.
Wc era Head quart srs for
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses!
One suit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Steel, Bronze, Eylonite. Cellaloid or
Rubber Frames. We ere Hole Agwcte for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM
BINATION SPECTACLES—the Lest in the world. We sell the
Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines 1
sod here constantly on band Needles, Oil*, Attachments and Parts for all Msthinu 1 -
We have th* beat equipped shopffor the
Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
in this section of Ine State. We employ none but first •elate workmen and guarantee
all onr work.
PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT.
Thie branch of onr business i* steadily increasing and *U we ask is tint partis*
whs expect to buy a Piano or Organ will call end examine <rnr Mock *1 ad gat out
prices before they buy. If we cannot do as well or better lor yoa than y. m o*n do
for yourselves w> do not ask your patronage., The feet that we have sold] lanotand
— . __ yo_. t
S 1 Organs to dozens of the best busineus men in' Ameriene shown plainly the* ww**ll *»
s JJdttr’nt'TOHEU.'s hai.vk tv n.rd' I •«» “ *“/ »“<> J°« buy from ns yon have no freight to pay and «ve th*
ad.aeiasr. _ ., | trouble of nnhozing the loetrnment. a* we plaee it in yoer foouae and irl v# you •
Sold 1 y ell I ru|gUU »l 3» *euU
FIVE YEAR S guarantee.
strumente, consisting of Violins, Gaibare, Banjos. Tkalouri nee, Aoeonh one ana
Harmonica*, end also keep Strings of the vary best quality, Violin Bows, Tut 1 flsnl,
Bridges, Rosin end ell kind of Musical Instrument Trimming*.
The Office of the Southern Expeeus Company.
i* in our More end theirUgent, Mr.JS. C. COOPER m hi *e> employ m lifik trtf
and Bn Iceman and will be glad to ■err* all who are needing mymlng ia ear M *• .
call Aim was bs m err* uew art era
mu* jar* mioKlifi <t
We also have on band a lam. Meek ef maaU 1C. urinal la-
Ikmhoarioee, Aoerrdi -on* and
Dr. W, P. BURT,
dbntxbt
jM and aflar tbia data I will not worb for
aay OM asrap. frn CA*M, °*
■;KS
- w fitsmiM
rrlve at W«veroeidaily U JRp m
.rrive at Cellehan dslly at 7 IS n a
rrlve al Jacksonville dully «t • 00 p a
Slops at nil regular Steffens between ffevaeueh
and Jacksonville.
Pi Ilmen parlor ears Savanmh ta Jacksonville.
JB9UP EXPHE8R.
I reave Pavannah dally eft 4 to p m
Arrive at Savannah dally ai • 40 a ■
Arrive at Jesnp dally at 700pm
Stops at all regular aad flag station* between
8avanaah and Jeanp.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
. T 90 p m
. 0 10am
. * p »«
Bavannah dally aft
Arrive at Jeeup dally at.
Arrive at Waycreae dally at , _
Arrive al Callahan daily at 4 45 am
Arrive al Jacksonville daily at 010 a m
Arrive at Dupont dally aft 1 90 a m
Airlve at Live Oak daily at. 14T a m
Arrive at Gainesville daily aft..... 7 GO am
Arrive at Valdosta daily at 0 SO a m
Arrive at Quitman dally at 4 90am
Arrive at ihoinasvilfe dally aft.. • 00 am
Arrive at Albany dally at 10 90 a m
1‘ullman palace sleeping can Bavauaah te
Galneavllle.
Pullman buffet and afeeplng cars Ravanaab ta
Jacksaavllfe.
Passengers |br Brunawiek via. Jeanp taka Ihl
train, arriving at Brunswick at 0 II a m.
users from Pernandlna, Quit esvltle, Cedar
:nla. WIMrood. Leesburg aad all sUttons
Railway and Navigation OomgMny and
Florida Southern
ay and Navlgati
n Railway take t
ibis train.
Passenger* for Madfeon, Montfeello, TaUahas-
»e and Jl Middle Florida points take this train.
Connections at Jacksonville daily with People's
Line Bteameru and Railroads for St. John’s rivor.
Through tickets sold and sleeping ear borth ac-
immodstiona seenred at Bren's Ticket Offer,
No. 22 Bail street, and at the Company's Depot,
foot of Liberty street. JAB. L. TA IJAML
Gen’l Fast. Agent,
a G. FLKMIN9, Gen’l Sup ft.
TH MSHKS W UPI. MLT $1
K M . ITSELF.
A 41 A —-Aft—S mJl M — L..J
A Vlffl ffvwlvwl HRs ™
mail VltaUly, Barnaul aa* rkntaaitD*.
rrematur. Daclina bl mu. lmn ef
1 .U,l. and Ike untold mlaai laafi'aaultlae flam la-
dlacrafian or aacaaou A bosk for erera mu
in*, middle ar. and old. ft oontalna 1ft pra.
JnSaaa for all aenu aad chromic diaeasae, rack
on# of vklck la Inraluabla. Bo fund be tic an-
lliur, whoaa aiporteuaa 'or M rear. Is anrb u
arobekly noear baton Ml le Ike krtofcey physi
cian. M,.pafn bound ta bcutlfnl freon mnatn,
eeibcaaad oorara, foil jilt. fwmMf la be a Our
proriaalor^reSau'ui ether^ari!’ ariT? Ibis
eonntry for M.M, nr tks aaeney will ba rafondad
In arm instance- Plica only .1 by mail, port
paid. niusmilTs sample * emu. Ben* saw.
Uel* medal swarded ibe bulker by the Betiooal
Mwkcri tmaelellu,talk, fun bf.Wblak.be
ZStesWiWsaa.'sts.'iam
then la M member of aoeuty le wham Ike
Baiun efUfewm net ka natal, whether youth,
parent, (nerdlu, laatmetor ur darfymnn.-Ar-
CONCH PEAS
A buutiful whit* table or atoak pea.
Tbs Tiuu IBB rirtrty IBM ewd are very
r itlle. for sale by the QuaM, at Dr.
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