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JI »1 p jul RES SYPH me •RIAR SERVETUS. The m« nk Serve tns sits alone Within h!s small, unfurnished cell; Few comforts were this hermit's own— This anchorite of book and belL Communion brink's companionship, And lo! he is not all alone; A greeting trembles on his lip For that which sudden round him shona In ecstacjr of great delight He l»ofids to grasp his Saviour's hands; Big, joyful t«>*rs spring at the sight; He knows not if he kneels or stands. Alas! N«»w strikes a hateful sound The jingle of the postern door; It stings him like n |>oisoned woun<! And summons him to feed the |kj Cures dyspepsiA LIFTMAN BROS., Druggists, Lirrman'* Block, BAY If YOU WISH to Advertise Anything Anywhere "Any time Jeo. P. Roweli, & . No. 10 Spruce Street NEW YORK. TO WEAK MEN YiBering from the effects of youthful errors, sarlr kfcsy, waiting weakness, lost manhood, etc., I wit lend a valcable treatise (sealed) containing fuL’ tfosy, tend l particulars for home of charge. splendid nodical work j should"!* read by every man v.kD is nervous and debilitated. Addrw*. F. C. FOWLEm Moo^vCohil Mig O Is u&flo'v.eagea the leading remedy for Oonorrlure d tifeet. The only into remedy tot Lea corrh era or White# I prescribe it and fee safe in recommending/ to all sufferers. A. J. BTONEB, M. D. Di:i run. hi, ''JiMBssr* FINE SHOW GASES 4W*Ask lw« catalogue. TERRY M’F'G CO.. Nashville. Tens Tutfs Pills Itlanlstes the torpid llvor* ifrength* «■« tiled Igestt vo organs, rtgulstnUie bowtle, uud arc unequaled ue an ANTI-BILI0U8 MEDICINE. I8|ialirisl iHairlets thdrvlrtncsarf mUMji from that poieou. Klefsntly iini coated. Ueseimail. Price, Cflcto. Sold Everywhere. - .SO&4.1 Pork Place, If. Y. A curse u|wprings within Ills heart; A dark frown shadows o'er hiu face; The menial task, the drudge's part Calls yonder; here is Christ's high grace. He go* 1 * with pang and footstep slow. Is long detained hy hunger's moan; He hastens back from mortal woe To kiss the bare stone where he shone What tender voice breaks ou ids earf The light is as of Easter morn: “As thou didst go, I still am here; Hadst thou remained. I had l>ecu gone.” —Clifford Lanier in Independent. polite. Why, if a man had to kill a dog then bo did it in an easy and gentleman* ly way. A spirit of etiquette seemed to pervade the atmosphere. “But now I warrant that if you should get into a quarrel with some man on board this boat he would be brutal enough to haul off end knock you down with his fist. There mustcome a change, though, sooner or later. Society can’t stand the uncouthness of the present era. The customs that came in after the war robbed us of our good breeding. When every man carried a pistol for the pur pose of inducing his neighbor to be po lite every gentleman was genial. Rude ness, that unsightly fungus growth on the trunk of careless society, meant crude correction or polished death Am I boring you, suh?” j “Far from it,” I answered. “Ah! 1 like you, for 1 see in you a I remnant, though a somewhat removed 1 one, of the old days. You would rather | tell a smooth lie than a rough truth. Stick to that idea, suh. Truth, except j as it relates to history and the sciences. | is a brutalizer of mankind. The hog that wallows in the mire has truth; the Christmas n Presents! YALLKR JEANS JUSTICE j “^ tpainte " ««•*«**«• i-a*- The boat landed. ‘This is a well re- I was coming up tho Mississippi river ! membered spot with me,” said the on a slow but magnificent boat, and was planter. “One night in the spring of sitting on tho hurricane deck looking 1859 1 seated myself in a poker game over a beautiful and seemingly endless just as the boat left this landing. From spread of sugar cano land, when some the very start luck was in my favor, and one standing near ino remarked: j it didn’t seem that 1 could lose. First “You were never along hero in the i one and then another of our party drop- suro enough days of steamboating, I j ped out, until at last 1 sat facing old reckon.” j Maj. Pelton. 1 soon had him broke. I looked up and saw a tall man, to 1 ‘Look here,’ said he, ‘I’m not going to whose appearance coming ago had lent jump this game. I’ll put up my body a sort of distinction. His clothes set servant, bo gad, suh. Come here, Bill. upon him with an air of genial dis arrangement, and his eyes, I noticed, were moist with tho dew of recollection ns he gazed far away over tlio fields. It took mo but a second thus to estimate him, and ray answer to his question was prompt: “I was never along hero in the old days.” “Oh, well, then, you don’t know any thing about it. You only catch now a poor shadow of what was once a glorious substance.” Ho seated himself besido Bill came up, and a husky fellow he was, too. Well, I won him, and the old ma jor wont to bed swearing. ‘Bill,’ said 1, ‘who’s your master now?’ ‘Yon is, sab, said he. ‘Correct you are, Bill. Black my toots. ’ “Well, suh,” tho planter continued, “I kept Bill right with me, although 1 do believe he was one of the biggest ras cals I ever saw. One day, just about tho time Grant was marching into Vicks burg, and while I was inarching in an opposite direction about as fast as 1 WATCHES. ell larger quantities than any other liotisi e can therefore offer you a much larger ell them closer than others cun. DIAMONDS. During the past few months we have pure!..—v. --- ------- ---- ,, . LAKH worth of DIAMONDS, moat of which we selected personally while In New ^ ork. We can Hell these goods at what small buyers have to pay for tnein and make our prom. ; have purchased < • HKVEN THOUSAND DOL- Si Silver aii Me! Wire, Jewelry, Us, Fiaees tei Dips. We buy all the nboi ban anyone. Don't fall ;raved free. JAMES e buy all the above in large quantities, obtain special prices, and will sell lower throne. Don't fall to call upon us. Store open day and night. <l»nds we sell en- s BARLOW BLOCK I'H, GA ist i va*< r. L IFE AND ACCIDENT The cbcapntf^ a=d best. W. T. A. DUNN, Agent. ^ CONTRACTORS. SAM STEVENS. COL- C IONTKACTOK. la prepared to do any kind* of bulldlngand moving at reaton- uble prices Wind mllle a specialty. SHOEMAKERS. P. R. STANFIELD- P RACTICAL HIIOEMAKBBand repair er, Anierlcus, Ou. Repairing aspeclallj S H HOLSEY. B OOT AND SHOE MAKER. . . . _ n specialty. Shop up stair, over Arthur Kylande *'h shoe store. L I H YKItS. at; E-A- HAWKINS. TTORNEY AT LVW. Office upstairs Grunberry corner. SIMMONS & KIMBROUGH. A TTORN EY s AT LAW. Office up stain In Barlow llloek. BUTT & LUMPKIN. A ttorneys at law, Americus, aa Office In Hnr.onr Block, upatulrs. L. J. BLALOCK. attorney AT LAW. Office In A. house. New Firm. New Goods. New Quarters. tullis & McLendon STOVES AND Best Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material Agents for the Celebrated HARVEST STOVES atid GRATES. tnc, relighted his cigar, which had pone could, Bill came up to mo and eaid: out, and thus continned: “A man that was neror along hero be fore the war don’t know anything about life. In those days tho boats were pal aces, and man In general was so accom modating and polite that ho’d fight yon in a minute. Now the boats are flatter mills, and man, instead of being gentle manly and accommodating, will curse you, sub. I own a plantation np tho river, but it don't amount to anything now.” “Is tho land worn out!” I asked. “Oh, no; land's just ns good ns over, bnt the conditions that made life there enjoyable have all been changed. Why, suh, 1 knocked a fellow down tbo other day, and hanged if he didn't sue me for breach of trust.” “For what?' I oiclaimed. “For breach of trust, I tell you. He had me arrested and hauled np before what is known in our country os a yaller jeans justice of tho peaoo. Tho follow stated that he had trusted me or ha shouldn't have been hit; said that if he Mars John, I've don got enough” ‘Enough of what? I asked ■* ‘Enough o’ dis yere wnhf “ ‘I gad, so have I; but what nro wo going to do about it? “ ‘I doau’ know what you gwine do 'bout it, sab, but I knows what I gwine do—Tm gwino ter do Yankees. “I didn't offer him any advice—I sim ply struck him over the head with a handy carbine and left him lying near the roadside.'' The old fellow was silent for a few moments. “I have but little farther to go,” he said, after gazing down tho river. ‘‘I havo been dowu to seo about some land. I got into a sort of squabble with the government, and wa3 told to go dowu to Keospart to seo the United States land commisioner. 1 had bod some correspondence With the office, and, from the tone of the letters re ceived, I did not expect that my treat ment would beany too courteous. When I got there I was shown into a room and told to await the pleasure of tho hadn't trusted mo he would have dodged commissioner. Presently a voice said, in time, and ha therefore thought that 1 should bo dealt with for breach of trust The yaller jeans justice said ho thought so, too, nnd hanged if ho didn’t fine me $3." “Why didn't you appeal the case? 1 1 asked. “Oh, well, yon seo, I'm not in the law business. 1 just horsowhippod tho justice till the dust flashed out of tho yaller jeans und then 1 lut the affair drop. I tell you,” he added, after ii brief pause, “we nsed to havo great times along here in tho old gentlemanly days. I remember one evening a sort of preach r came aboard at a landing just about here. He was a simple man, with a meek smile that seemed to have been morti. ml into his face. I soon got ac quainted with him nud learned that, aside from being a preacher, ho operated a plantation and had eorao liitlo money. “Among tho juissengers was one of tho shrewdest gamblers 1 had ever known, and when he found c«;t that the preacher had money ho began to lay plans for catching him. 1 went to tho preacher and told him. 'That's all right,’ said he. ‘In this lifo it is but natural that tho wolves should be after the sheep.' 'Of courso you will not play with him,' said L ‘Oh, I don’t know, This ia the commissioner, snh. Hooked up and there stood Bill—my BilL I didn't know what to say. “ ‘Good mawnin’,’ said ho. “ ‘Look here, Bill,’ said 1, 'are you tho United States land commissioner? “ ‘Dat's whut do president says.' ho answered with n grin. “‘Well, if that’s the case, Bill, 1 reckon I might os well go back home. 1 suppose you remember how we parted. “ 'Oh, yas, sail, 1 ricollcck er little argyment we had 'bout de war, an’ yere sab,' be added, us he touched a lump on his head, 'is er part o’ dat nrgyinent yet. Takes it longer ter go down den any ar- gyment 1 eber seed. Sorry ter seo you in trouble. Mars John, but lemiue tell you, dar ain't no use in worryin Yer, Mr Sanderson, fix up dis genrman's papers ter dat lank It ain't gwino cost you cr cent, sah.’” A look of tenderness shone in tho old man’s eyes. “Yes, suh,” he added, “Bill, tho rascal, fixed up everything all right end wouldn’t charge anything This is a curious world. Well, 1 get off here.” —Opie P. Read in New York World. AgeutB for the Celebrated Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine. Bugefies andWagons WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS- SADDLERY AND.HARNESS- CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE, AND A SPECIALtLINE OF CUTLERY, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE, ETC We specially Invite the trading public to call and examine our goods aud prices. We keep the best, as well as the cheapest goods In this market, and will give our customers the value of their money. Tullis’ Old Stand, 433 and 435 Cotton Ave., AMERICUS, O-A. Savannah, Americus & Montgomery Railway Time Card in ffect October 11, 1890 Western Division. STATIONS. •No. I 'ft 05 pm .1 Lumpkin I 15 32 .1 Richland ; I !5 01 ,1 Preston 1 4 35 .1 Plain* |4 02 .1 Arrive americus Leavei | jS 25 Eastern Division, STAl'ION8. •No. 5. j *No 17, 35 p m V 15 4 12 9 88 f l> 52 10 07 10 13 10 2ft 10 45 *0 50 11 10 11 17 ill 28 11 41 .Arriv I ft SO p i . ..Hmtlnieton, 1 jo 50 i DcSoto, Cobb** Johnson, 15 2ft ..Coney 3 14 J-5 32 . I Cordele,. .Penltt,. .Williford,.... ....Seville Pitta .. Rochelle,... ...Wlsbart. ..Abbeville,. ,..Copeland,. . 4 5ft . 4 42 4 31 1030 A 10 08 1) 52 ,vnld. 2 01 2 13 2 30 Helena. Erick,... Alamo, ... Verbena,. .Ulenwood, . California In 1840. In November or December of 1840, while still teaching school in Platte he answered. ‘I havo worked very county, 1 came across a Frenchman hard nnd am off for a rest, and if he can named Ronbideaux, who said he had aid me in getting what I nek all right been to California. Hie description was Some of tho greatest of English clergy- in tho superlative degree favorable, so men, yon lmow, have been quito expert much so that 1 resolved if possible ♦oaee at cards, and although 1 aznnot a great that wonderful land, and with others clergyman, yet I am an Englishman, helped to get up a meeting at VVfeton and am game for any sort of innocent and invited him to make a statement he* amusement that may bo flashed tip.’ fore it in regard to tho country ‘Bet that man Nickerson,' said I, refer* j At that time when a man moved out ring to the shrewd gambler, ‘will beat west as soon os ho was fairly settled he youf ‘Oh, possibly,* the clergyman re- wanted to nove again, and naturally joined, ‘but ho can’t beat me out of every question imaginable was asked in much. Perhaps I might win from him, regard to this wonderful country. Roubi- Don’t think that I am an easy victim, deaux described it as one of perennial my dear sir. I havo had a great deal of spring and boundless fertility, and laid experience, and am not so very easily stress on the countless thousands of wild picked up.’ horses and cattle. Ho told about or- “Well, sir,” the planter continued, “ho anges, aud hence must havo been at Los didn’t dodge that gambler at all, but Angeles, or the mission of San Gabriel, .0) p in 3 15 p i: Mount Vi . Vidnln, .. . i Arrive, Lyoui*,.... I Meal station. •Dolly. f King station*, or any information as to rates, etc., call on your agent, or address W. N. MARSHALL, C. S. ADAMS, K. 8. GOODMAN, Superintendent. Train Dispatcher. Geu. Pas. Agent. ROBT. L- MAYNARD. A TTORNEY and counsellor at Law, Americus, Ga. Prompt nnd careful at tention given to n'l bunt ness entrusted to . Office at No. 405, Jackson Street, up Mcp.9-d&w3m* stairs. W. H. tii KKRv. DuPont Gceruv. Americus, Ga. Macon, Ga, GUERRY St SON; I A WYE Its, Americus, Ga. Office In Peo- J pie’s National Rank Building, Lamar . ...... *'- L , i n .sumter Superior street. Will practice In Sumter Superior and County Courts, and In the Supreme Court. Our Junior will regularly attend the sessions of the Superior Court. The firm will take special cases In any Superior - ~ id. Court on Southwestern Railroad E. F. Hinton. E. H. Cutts. HINTON & CUTTS. A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice In the State and Federal Courts. Office over Hart Hullding, on Forsyth street, mar 1 ly WALTER K. WHEATLEY, A TTORNEY AT LAW. Office 405 Jackson street, up-stairs. Julyl8-ly. ANSLEY & ANSLEY. ^TTORNEYS AT LAW, Americas, Ga. lUIli. £. I D IXA. IJIV IT , AlllOIH.ua, u». __ Will practice In the counties of Sum ter, Schley. Macon, Dooly, Webster, 8tew- T. L. HOLTON. A. T m%f. AMPMVfcSJ? tlce In all the counties of the State. Prompt W. P- WALLACE. National 1 J. A. HIXON. A TTORNEY AT LAW, Americus, Ga. A Office In Bagley building, opposite Court House. Prompt attention given to all business. Iun5-U. DENTISTS. DR. W. P. BURT, D ENTIST. Dental parlors over Gran- berry’s store. DR. d. J. WORSHAM D ENTIST. Dental parlors over Nation; Hank. PHYSICIAN AND UBOEONS. * J. M. R. WESTBROOK. M- D. pHYBICZ AN AND SURGEON. JOfflc* residence, next house to C. A. Huntinj ton, Church street. V 6. T. MILLER, M. B. P H YBICIAN AND BURGEON. Office at ~ ' ' Davenport's Drug Store, and residence, rner Church and Prince streets. 8. B. H AWKIN8, 8r., C. A. BROOKS* Telephone 3ft. Telephone 72 Hawkins & Brooks, ’ PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Americus, Georgia COtBce In second atory In old Granbery dge's drug store, promptlyattenttoc gut. W, L. Bullard (1108 5th Avenue, Columbus, Oi Blindness, Deafness, Catarrh, etc , Eye Ear, Throat and Nose disease* exclusively. Hospital advantages In New York. London and Vienna. 0-aAWly. SCHEDULE AMERICUS STREET RAILWAY CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA soutnwestern Division. Correct Schedule, No, IS, iu Effect August 34, IS90. actually sat down to a game of poker with him. Of course tho preacher lost, bat he was shrewd enough not to bet very high. Thu minister camo np to me with his smile mortised in a little deeper, and said: ‘Well, ho is pretty sharp and X have lost abont a hundred dolliu-s; but how are we to preach against an evil unless wo know the ways of that evil? In trntli, aside from any attempt to peep behind tho mask of evil, I am fond of playing cards, and if I should create any other impression I should be • hypocrite, nnd a hypocrite Is worse than a gambler. Do yon wish to play a game? 1 played, and away late that , few miles from it Every conceivable question that W6 conld ask him was answered favorably. Generally the first question which a Missourian asked about a country waa whether there was any fever and agno. I remember his answer distinctly. He said there was but one man in California that had ever had a chill there, and it was a matter of so much wonderment to tho people of Monterey that they went eighteen miles to see him shake. Nothing conld have been more satisfac tory on the score of health. He said that the Spanish authorities were most friendly, and that the people ww,. niku,twiiic<Mjc.,mvuSIU£;p "were iir. moat h-ryittHif yi ; hell's Bend ho carried 3,000 of my dol- that yon conld travel all over California Ian with him. 1 don't know that he and it would cost yon nothing for homes ever saw a pulpit, for I found out after- or food. Even the Indianswers friendly, ward that he and that fellow Nickerson His description of the country made it were partner*. Oh. ym, ihose were aesm like a paradise,—Gen. John Bid, , great days, when people wsregenileand . well fa Century. • •• a I SAVANNAH & WESTERN DIVISION Schedule No. 17, taking (effect August 24, 1890. No. 5, Between Savannah and Birmingham No. 6, |Dally. via Auierlcua, Daily.| 1030am Leave... Savannah Arrive 5 40p_» 205pm vl .L£on*.. 750 8 5ft 1015 210 | Car* leave Wheatley’s Corner for City Limits, Lee Street and corner Magnolia Avenue and Folder Street, at 0:30,7:00,7:30 8:00,8:30, 9.00and9:30. HOUND THIPS BACH WAY. 10:11) y m 12:00 12:40 1:29 2:00 2:40 8:20 4:00 4:40 City Limit*, Lee Street and corner Mag nolia Avenue and Felder street at 8:40 and 0:10 p. m. Meet Central Train* at 8:20, 9:00 a. m 12:00, m., 1:06,2:28,6:44 and 10:10 p.m. 8. A. M. at 9;15,0:40 10:30, a. m. 3:23J:35 and 6.20 pm. To take effect October 19, 1890, RAYMOND REES, Supt Aurlve..... . . ..Columbus, Leave 5 45 No. 8 No. 0 * No. 5 No.? Dally Passenger Dally. I* avenger Daily. Fast Mai EAST BOUND. 1 Dally Fast Mai n. 3:00am 6 11 “ - 0pm 15 “ 30 “ Lv. Americus Ar Ar. Fort Valley Lv “ Macou “ *• Atlanta “ 106 p m 11 35 » m 1015 •* 7 00 “ 710 “ 215 •* 7 0*) am 6 40 “ m 6 “ 5 pm a m 6 30 “ •• Augusta “ «• Savannah 14 8 60 p m H 10 p m No. 7 Dally Passenger 1010 p m 10 40 4 GO a m 7 35 am No. 5 Dally. Fast Mall WEST BOUND. No. 6 Dally Fa*t Mall No. 8 Dally Passenger 106 p m 185 “ 410 “ 706 “ Lv. Amerlcua Ar. Ar. Smtthvilla “ Eufaula “ ** Montgomery Lv. 2 30 p m 130 “ 1105 a m 7 65 a m 340a m 1230 •• 10 26 p m 780 p m No. 7 Dally No. 6 Dally T(F FLORIDA. No. 6 Dally So. 8 Tally 1010 p m 1040 ** 1180 pm 620am 740am 8 30a ml 106pm 210 “ 260 M 640 M Lv. Americus Ar. “ Sml thvillo •* Ar Albany Lv. •* Thomasville Lv “ Waycrosa *• *• Brunswick “ w Jacksonville •• 230pm 115 p m 1100 p m 830am l 40 n 315 230 0 60 m 70 630 KiMsntnf Car* Between Savannah and Binning- bam. Pullman Buffet Bleeping ears Americas;.) Jack ton villc, Florida. For further information relatlva to tlekata,sehadBle«, beat rentes ate. etc., apply to A . x. hay WELL, Aseat, J. V. MoXIMIK, Bap't, B.T. CUABLTON, Oen, raajkpt, America* Ga. . Macon, Oa. Savannah,Ga. D. H. BTTfl E WOOD, DtvlJton Paaa. Af'U, Colombo., Ga. D, D, CUBBAN, Sapf, Colombia, Oa. J. C. SHAW.Trav, Pam A(’L, Savannah Ga Trouble Brewing Shall the S. A. M. or the Central get the freight on Hall’s Immense Stock GardenSeeds That are ju,t beginning to arrive. Listen for Competitive rates. The struggle for Fearl Onion Bets has commenced—first comes, first served. All know that HALT keeps the best of everything—don 1 get felt! Call at ' Everybody knows where it is. • % .