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409 JACKBON STREET
' I have but recently returned from Neir York, where I purchased the largest and
most complete stock^lu our line ever brought to Amerlcus. Consisting In part of Dia
monds, loose and moan ted. n* Kings, Ear Rings, Lace Pins, Studs, JBcarf Pins, Etc.
patches In endless variety fr n the cheapest to the best. An Immense (assortment of
Sterling Sliver and fine Plated Ware. Clocks of all kinds and sices from the cheapest to
One Hundred Dollars each. An elegant line of Opera Glasses, Spectacles of all kinds,
Canes In the latest styles, Gold Pens, Pencils, Tooth Picks, and Fountain Pens, Table
and Poeket Cattery. Fine Pottery, Bronco and Onyx Goods. Pianos and Organs, Ac*
cordeons, Banjos, Tamb >urlnes. Harmonicas, Strings for all Instrnments, Violin Bows,
and Trimmings of all kinds. The very best Sewing Machine Needles and Oil, and a
host of other things which cannot be enumerated here. We have got the most extensive
line of Wedding. Birthday and Holiday goods in Southwest Georgia, and are (receiving
more every day. These goods have all been carefully selected, and bought right, and
will be sold at prices that defy .competition anywhere In this oonntry. Everything that
we eell is guaranteed to be exactly as represented. Goods we sell engraved free. We re
pair Watches. Clocks and Jewelry, Plau&ind Organs, and guarantee onr work to be the
very beet. We ha vs got the goods and respectfully ask every one to call and Inspect the
tame before buying, and If we cannot Interest you. we certainly will not expect your
trade.
CH RLiES A FRIC -ER.
-CALL AND SEE
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At hi, new quarters on Cotton Avenue, under Hawkins House
keeps the Quest
Wines, Whiskies. Cigars, Etc., Etc
in town. He always has on tap kegs of the
Famous Cook. Beer.
The BEST Beer ever sold in Amerlcus.
Fancy Drinks at Lowest Living Prices!
He keeps nothing but Qrst-olasa goods, and don’t charge fancy prices
far them. GIVE ME A CALL.
WHY HE TOOK THE INSULT.
Attowtaa HI. PM* to B. ItaRed Bmm
" .Bant
8, Montgomery, President. J. C. Roney, Vice President.
John Windsor, Cashier. E. A. Hawkins, Attorney.
H. C. Mitchell, Book-keeper.
Incorporated 1890.
•There are times,- said CoL Metcalf
the other day, "when men win stand
any treatment, however outrageous. A
tnsu who bat seen what it means to
AMERICCS, GA Mapd up before a revolver acquires a
great respect for that weapon when It is
in another man’s hands and be has the
'drop' on you. There was nothing In
the old days in the seventies which de
manded reparation so quickly and so
definitely as an insult Wot a man to
accept an insult without demanding or
taking redress was to bring upon him
self the scorn of the entire community.
And yet I accepted the worst kind of an
insult once and erea ts this day I blush
when I think of the circumstances
“I was in Huge at the time and waa
playing billiards when a man came in
and began to make a disturbance. He
was a well known desperado and no one
was anxious to get into trouble with
him. Ho became so obnoxious without
being checked that finally he piolr.a op
one of tho billiard balls and sent tt fly
ing through a window. He was just
reaching for another when I reversed my
cue and placing the bntt end of it in the
pit of his stomach, pushed him back
against the wall. The next moment 1
waa looking down the barrel of a Colt's
revolver. The sensation in such a case
is simply overpowering. X was perfectly
helpless, for I bad no revolver myself,
ana If I had been wearing one he could
havo killed me before my band could
reach it I thought ho was going to
shoot me then and there, bat he chose
not to do this from some whim.
" Tm going to slap your face, Met
calf,’ he said, ‘so that yon can tell people
about it. Turn your cheek around here.’
"I looked ’way down the barrel of that
six shooter so fir that it seemed to me
that I could see a bullet in its chamber.
I set my teeth against the insult. I knew
that I was deadly pole.
“ Turn it,’ he said. ‘One, two’—and
I tamed my cheek. I did not feel the
blow, bnt tho flame which scorched it
afterward was like a foroaoe fire.
CALL ON
ALL BUSINESS STRICTLY PRIVATE I
CAPITAL, $50,000.
SURPLUS, $25,000.
FOR SALE.
“ ‘Now,’ he said with a laugh, 'give
me the other one. Again he counted—
‘one, two’—and I presented my other
cheek for a second dap.
"If ever I wanted to kill a man it waa
that fellow, bat I had no ahow at all.
remember the sickening feeling which
ran over me at the thought that he
might insist upon breaking my nose.
Revolver or no revolver I do not believe
I could have stood that But I took the
insults, not from him, bnt from o six
shooter. A man can’t argue against
revolver. Bnt for months and months
longed to meet that man on oven terms.
I never saw him again.”—Hew York
Tribune.
CLOTHING!
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Furnishing Goods,
Shoes, Hats, Etc.
WHEATLEYS CORNER, 423, 425 and 427 JACKSON STREET.
All Electric Cars Stop at Wheatley's Comer.
One farm, 725 acres, three miles from Amotions.
One form, 600 acres, near Leslie, on S. A. M. B. B., twelve
miles from Americns, about 350 acres cleared, 10 new tenant houses
on place. This is one of the finest cotton farms in Georgia; will bo
sold at a bargain. Also several houses and vacant lots in Americns.
Coll on
W. £>. Haynes cto Son,
208 Forsyth BL, Recorder Building. AMERICUS, GA.
FOR RENT I
An excellent Track and Dairy Form, one-half mile from city.
Apply to
M. Callaway. - Real Estate Agent
REAL ESTATEf BARGAINS.,
I offer for m few t!
Four bouses and
Terms Easy.
One bouse and lot on Collets Hill, large lot 210xS70 t fronting two streets. Tbe pret
tiest home to Americas.
One bouse and lot on Jackson street, fronting tbs College. Large lot, 5 rooms to the
comparatively new bouse with cook room and bath boose attached, i *
born on tbe place. Call for bargains.
, nice out house and
HUGH M. BROWN,
705 Jackson St. : :
Fifteen Shares Furniture Factor? Stock tor Sals
Americus Ga.
An Elegant Home For Sale.
For • short while I can offer the ajpli
tbe Daweon Variety Company, on Collei
house complete with ail modern Improv
and finish Is one of tbe oboioest resident
For a short while I can offer the aplendld new house juit finished by
on College street. The lot le 80x210; the
_ i improvements, and in location, design
I the cboioeat residences to be found in Amerlcus. I
Will sell it for less money then it will take to buy as good a lot and build
a* nice a house. I will be pleased to show the house to any one desiring
to purchase. If you desire an elegant home, this is a fine opportunity to
secure one.
LOTT WARRENr
Bank of Sumter Building.
v.
COOD HITT,
USIOKMT AOKNT OV TDK
Feu Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Modern Literary Chances.
The aspirant for literary honors with
jcuniary remuneration should remem-
ir that the most famous names in the
literary guild earned their money for tbe
meet part in other than literary ways.
Bryant was an editor and publisher.
Longfellow and Holmes and Ltnvell were
Harvard professors. Emerson and Bay
ard Taylor were lecturers, and Taylor
was also a Tribune editor. Curtis and
Stoddard depend upon editorial salaries;
Stedmau is a broker, and Halleck was
John Jacob Astor’s private secretary.
And one might go farther with this list.
Whittier began as an editor, and only in
middle life attempted to loan on litera
ture alone for a support whiob bis early
savings and simple habits made possible.
It was always Longfellow's advice to
young men who wished to be literary to
hare first, and mainly, a vocation inde
pendent of the finer muse. U a young
writer thinks he possesses genius he may
of course experiment with it. but it will
serve his puree and peace of mind better
to secure some source of labor and in
come that is more philistine and worldly
and ride his Pegasus only at inspired in
tervals. For it is a fact, in spite of tho
occasional big figures that aro given aa
the result of literary work, pure and
simple, that tho men who prosper or
have prospered by that alono are only,
at any one time, a few dozen in number
among our sixty-five millions of people.
—Ladies’Home Journal.
is a partly mutual company coadneUd by member, solely In tbe tntereat ol
i, sod ran Ibtrerorn offer Ufa la.urance at lower rates then tbs large Minted
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Don’t Wear a Sod Hat.
I write against the evil of wearing soft
hats. I havo made this a careful study
and havo found that tho soft hat will
eventually produce baldness. The band
of tho soft hat being so soft and flexible
that it very readily falls into every line
and curve of the head, it thus excludes
every particle of air, thereby producing
an inteiue heat and rotting the roots of
the hair. I find that the healthiest hat
for a man to woar is the silk hat, both
summer and winter, not only on account
of the stiffness of the band, which pre
vents it from falling so close into a man’s
head, but because the space which is in
side of it allows a free circulation of air.
In England, for instance, there aro not
nearly so many bald beaded people as
there arc in this country, oven in pro
portion to the population, but there are
a great many more silk hats worn there.
The young men begin to wear them
there at tho ago of 18 years.
To show you the difference in the pro
duction of silk bats here and in England
I find from the statistics that Engli
with a population of about 80,000,000 in
habitants, hss employed in the manu
facture of silk hats about 3,000 men,
while the United States, with a popula
tion of more than 00,000,000, has only
about 000. Can you wonder that there
are so many bold headed men here?—
Cor. New York Herald.
Op# to CtralcHQtu.
At the battlo of Boll Bun Governor
Alger met a breathless soldier fleeing
with the rest of the army toward‘Wash
ington.' The soldier had a wound on
his face, “That’s a bad wound, my
man,” said the governor as the soldier
halted; “where did you get iff” “Got
it at too BuU Bun fight yesterday."
"But bow could you get hit in to* taco
at Bull Bonr "Well, sir,” mid the
man half apologetically, "I got careless
sod looked backT—Baa Fraadaeo Argo-
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