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■ THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1891. fc A NOVEL WATCH NIGHT. THE PROCEEDINGS AT AN AFRICAN (CHURCH IN NEW JERSEY. A Cloc^.iat Bid Been Tampered with Would Not Strike the Witching Hour. The Story of the Prodigal Son In Mod- am The annas! watch moating of the mem bers of the African Baptist church at Timbuctoo, N. J:, a year or two ago was in many respects a novel one. For many years the sable residents'of the little settlement in the woods near Burlington have b«n. in ■ the habit of holding a watch meeting on New Year's eve. These meetings are always well attended by old and yonng, and have often developed a great revival of re ligion in that section. A year ago the watch meeting was a failure because the preacher's watch stopped at half past 11 o’clock, and the fact was not discovered until daylight. To prevent a recurrence of that mistake it was decided last year to have a big eight day clock, owned by “King” Lewis Armstrong, who has long enjoyed the honor of ruling the destinies of Timbuc- ■ too, repaired in proper shape and taken to the church to mark the passage of time. This was done, and the clock was put in the church just back of the pul pit where every one could see it. And, to keep the clock in time, Elder Jordan and Elder Congo . were instructed to have their watches wound up and Bet by railroad time to avoid any jiossibility of a mistake. This they agreed to do. Promptly at 8 o'clock the services be gan and the church was filled. “King" Lewirt Armstrong sat in the pulpit with Preacher Quann, and occasionally de voted a few minutes to keeping the stove red hot. “Dis yer watch meeting," said Preach er Quann, “will begin xvid a hymn, ‘l'me goin’ over Jerding by and by.' You all knows de tune; hit's bin sung yer a good "many years—and hit means jus’ us much now as hit ever did. And when yon am a singin' it, brethering, doan forgit to think what de words mean. De tune alone won’t save yer souls. Dar am .plenty of good singers dat ain't got no more 'ligion than a skunk. Singin’ am like prayin’. You has got to mean de words you is usin’ or you ain't no good.” The choir, which was stationed just back of the stove, thereupon raised the tune. After two or three verses hod been sung the entire congregation began to enter into the spirit of the occasion, swaying their bodies to and fro in time with the music and keeping a peculiar sort of double time with their feet on the floor. As the verses were exhausted the preacher would yell, “Swing de tune ag’in! swing her ag’in!” This always had the desired effect. Finally they be came weary and a halt was ordered. “King” Lewis Armstrong next Baid a few words, in which he strongly advised the young men of Timbuctoo to change their ways before it was too late. “Dar ain't no better time 'n now,” he said. “Dis present time you orter quit yer ornery ways, forsake de exampul of de wicked Herod and get into de ark of glory, wot am lighted wid electric light and full of groceries for de winter. We am jee' about gettin’ into another year, and all of us orter to make up our mines to do better. Oit away from do sins dat has IdVered you up, and if you die next year you will be comfortabnl in Aber- ham’s buzz urn. What J'me fellin' you is facts. Taint no guess work. Ef you do&n believe it look at dat prodigal sou what de good book tells us about “Dar was n man dat was mitey well fixed. He had a good job on his fod der's farm, had a hoes and wagon to use whenever he wanted it and no Sunday milkin’ to do. But his heart wasn’t sat : tailed. He thought de old man wasn't farmin’ de place right He 'lowed be could ton heap better a wukkin for hls- self, corite ole man was behind de times. De prodcrigul he had been rcadin’ de 'ttaements in de papers 'bout men want ed to take big jobs and uuthin* much to da' So he says: 'Guess I'll quit,’ ole man. - Gimme what's cornin’ tome, an' I’ll try my luck sommer else.' De old man .tuk him at his word, guv hfln the money and chased him out But he didn't make no money. He jes' fool it away on farm mergiges out west and boss racin' in the east till he blowed it all in. Den he come back on de farm, and do olu man tuk pity on him, furguv him what he done and give him a home ag’in. And dot’s what de Lord 11 do for you ef you doan put it off too long.” The effect of this on the congregation was marked, and soon there were many sinners on the monrners’ bench. From that time until midnight there was sing ing and prnyer until “King" Lewis’ eight day clock struck 8 instead of 13. This raised a commotion and tko clock was soundly denounced. “King” Lewis said: “Hit doan mako no difference whut de dock strikes; look at de linn's and deyll tell you de time. Fact is, 1 bleeve dat ar yonng willyuin, Lord Garrison, has been monkeyin’ wid de striking tools in dat clock anyhow.” This was denied byth accused, and it was finally decided to refer the matter of the time to Elders Jordan and Conga There was just two minute* difference in their watches, so a compromise was struck by Congo setting' his watch a minute fast. Then, ns both watches pointed to the hour of 13, the preacher blew a longblaftoha tin. horn, the wor shipers shouted and sang and the new year was started on its way.—New York Herald. No Medium Hke the Newspaper. The advertising man of a well known New York clothing ‘house says: “We were the first to use the sails of ves sels as an advertising medium. Then we jfot up the ‘alphabet pnzzle,’ and gave away 600,000 puzzles while the craze lasted. Afterward we invented the Waterbnry watch idea. We had to do something, because three of our prin cipal competitors had failed, and their stocks were being sold for next to nothing by assignees; so we decided to give a Waterbnry watch with every twelve dollars' worth of goods pur chased. We advertised the watches ‘wound and set.’ To wind them fast enough we had to rig npa little machine worked like a sewing machine that would do the winding, and we kept several boys at work winding and setting them. Before we quit we hod given nway 40,000 of the watches. “But nothing ever pays its like the or dinary newspaper advertising. The fact is there h:is come to bo in this city a class of advertisement readers just os there is of news readers. They read the advertisements every day, and of course the man who wants to attract them has to get up an advertisement that will do it The day of standing advertisements in the paper, 'Go to So-and-So’s for cloth ing,' or ‘Go to This-and-Tnat’s for shoes,' has passed, just as the day for painting signs on rocks and fences or on the sails of boats has passed. You' must Uavo something interesting and fresl- ip every advertisement, and it will be read. mm CENTUM RAILROAD OF GEORGIA BoutHwestern Correct Schedule, No, 22, In Effect Feb. 22th. 1«» I Division. A Place fop Talent, In nearly all regulated lines of indus try at present the advertising man is one of the mast important adjuncts of a business. And on the the other hand the advertising department of a first class newspHjier is not what it used to be, but is instead fast becoming an in teresting feature of all enterprising jour nals. Formerly the prevailing idea •inong the uninitiated was that the talented, the best, most versatile and most ingenious writers and artists were all employed in the news department. How nearly correct this idea may have been need not be stated, but that such is not tho case now may be seen by a perusal of the “ads” of any flourishing paper. 'The competitions between the merchants and between the papers’ agents have become so great that the great wholesale and retail houses of the large cities employ talented men at big salaries to attend to their advertising alone, and the men who want the bes^ positions in the counting rooms of news papers must combine fine business quali fications with the latent that wins suc cess in the editorial chair.—Yeuowine's News. Advertising Necessary to Success. The merchant or manufacturer who does not advertise his goods cannot sue ceed. Of late newspaper advertising has become a distinct trade in itself, and all over tbe country leading*concerns pay fabulous prices for men who are skillful in writing catchy advertisements. In many largo cities there are men earning from $3,000 to $10,000 a yearto write ad vertisements. This fact in itself shows advertising pays. If people interested in this subject will investigate it for themselves they will find that the leading advertisers in The Plain Dealer are the merchants who have the best stores, the best assort ments of goods and who sell at the most reasonable prices. Such merchants do a much larger business than merchants who do not advertise; consequently they turn their goods over more quickly and can afford to give better prices. Close buyers appreciate this. What is the moral? He who advertises the -most judiciously succeeds the best, and the buyers who seek the best bargains patronize such merchants.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. , Bold Jack Co Joe: *Td Rive a dime To know what your evolving Within your mind; they mint be prime Beeolves you’re getting up thin time” Bald Joe t> Jack: •*Tlio fact in Pro Besoived to quit resolving.” The Annul Pent. Of all tbe ills the new year breed* More than the little note that read* ‘•Sir, wfll you plasse remit J" - ' ■ - - — ' . . -Ftostt* Never Bo Commonplace. “Bring your feet with yon and have them fitted to a pair of oar common sense shoes,” is the way a Pittsburg dealer advertises. It is a good phrase and one which attracts attention. The man w|A> succeeds in advertising in snch a way *hat people read his ai ■-jrtise- ment is the one who draws trade to his store os sure as a magnet draws a needle to itself. Study up quaint, pithy or witty phrases to head your advertise ments, and be not too modest in the space they occupy.—Brockton Shoe. for Infants and Children. “Caetoriali so well adapted tochfldren that I recommend itaa superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Arrears, M. D., lit So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N.Y. “The nee of ‘Castoris'ls so universal and Its merit, to well known that It' seems a *yk of sapereracatlontoeiidonelt. Few are tho Intelligent families who do not keep Ceatoria within easy reach.” Chios Maktyk. t>. D.. New York City. Late Feetor Bloomlncdele Reformed Church. Caaterla ernes Cotie, Oonsttpotton, Sour Stomach, Diarrbota. Eructation, NUU Worms, gins sleep, and promotes dt Without injurious r “ For several years I hare recommended your Osstorla,’ and shell alweye continue to do so aalt hu Invariably produced bancflrial results.'' Enwur P. Pannes, H. D., “The Wtnthrop,"lMthStreet sod Tth Are., New York City. To Csaraon Cowmmv, T7 Kossav Stecxt, New Yota. E. P. HARRIS, Pros. BLOOM BROWN. Sec. a Trcaa. C. P. PAYNE, M’g'r. Americus Supply Co., Successors to HABBIS & PAYNE, Flumbers and Gas Fitters. SAVANNAH it WESTERN DIVISION . Schedule No. 19, tsklnx effect Dec. 7th. 1800. , jjgl No. 6, Bctweca Savannah and Birmingham] No- A Dally, ,vla Americus, Dally. 8 <5 am Leave,.., Savannah Arrive 100 p mt 1220 p m Lyon- ,. S35 055 Amerlcus 515am SCO .../•■ .Buena Vista, - ■ / C.tnmhn. T Jk 785 ..Col ambus, Leave 600 , No. S Dally. Ias«et ger No. A . Dally. Fast Hail EAST BOUND. No. 8 Dally Fast Mall No. 7 Dally Passenger 4 64 “ 600 “ 1000 “ ftJWp m 666pm I: 615am Lv. Americas Ar Ar. Fort Valley Lv. ** Macon " ** Atlanta “ " Augusta “ *• 8a van nah u 110pm >l83ara 10 20 •• 710 “ 0 io p m 027pm MOO “ H40 « 216 *‘ rooam 6 4»* « No. 7 Daily Passenger u 37 »• m 10 m ; 4 4 2* ft m 785 « m No. 6 • 1‘ally. Fast Mail 110 p m 185 “ 4 </7 * 7 01 •« WEST BOUND. No. A Dally Fast Mari No. 8 n Dally Passenger Lv. Americus Ar. Ar. Smithvllle “ •• Eufnula ** “ Montgomery Lv. 231 pm 180 “ 1106 a m 7 40 a m 826a m 1280 “ 10 25 p m 7 80 p tn s? No. 5 Daily TO FLORIDA. No 6 Dally 288pm 116 p m 12 20 p 111 8 80am No 8 tally Warn" 3 00 « 2 16 “ lOlOp 750 785 9 37 p m IW06 “ 1045 pm 460am 7 16 a in 7 2on m 1 10 p m 2 OS “ 250 « 6 40 •* Lv. Americus Ar. “ BinlthvlUe “ \r Albany Lv “ ThomsKvllle Lv “ W»y cross “ “ Brunswlok ** " Jacksonville •• SolidTrains with Sleeping Cars Between Mavannsh and Birmingham. , Fprfurther information relative to tickets, schedules, best routes ete. etc., apply to T. MAXWELL, Agent, J. C. McKKNZIE, Hup’t, E.T. CHARLTON,Oeu. Pass, Ag»t* Americas. Os. Bmtthvll'e, Oa. savannah.Ga. * ' D. H. BYTHEWOOD, Division Pass. Ag , t., Coiumbus f Ga. D L. CURRAN, Hup’t, Columbus. Ga. J. C. AH AW Trav. Puss. Ag't., Savannah Ga. Machinery Supplies. We are now in our new building in Artesian Block, and ready for business. A Full Line of Cooking Stoves and Ranges. Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Soecialty. Globe, Angle and Check Valves, Terra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings. Greneral R^T)air W ork TELEPHONE No IS. The Americus Construction Company, Successors to C. M. Wheatley & Co. ■WORKS! JACKSON, BAY AND LEE STREETS. Now complete and ready for work. A full stock of all kinds of Dry L- TIMBER ON HAND, BOTH ROUGH AND DRESSED. FLOORING, CEILING, MOULDINGS, STAIR POSTS AND RAILS, AT LOWEST u'aRKET PBICZ. Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mantels. Prompt .Attention to all Ordem. -White fob Catalogue and Fbicis. deoltf julSltf Blank Books. School Books. -BASE BALL BATS NewsDaoera and! Periodic.I,. 105 AND 107 FORSYTH SIREt'T. J. R. HUDSON & CO. -PROPRIETORS- Americus-Bottling- —BOTTLERS OF ALL KINDS. OF Soda and Mineral Waters, Older and Oinger Ale ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 824 LEE STREET. / AMERICUS. GEORGIA. R. L- MoMATII. E.J. HoHATH. B. H. McMATH Americus Iron Works, builders of Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins, llcgiilar Publications Rest. No one taki's up a regnl? r publication without the expectation of finding some thing of interest. The, simple act of turning tho pages is as positive an ex ample of expectation as is the opening of a closet if one is in search of a coat. Hence an announcement in a regular publication has an advantage over any other form of business solicitation—that of meeting tho sought for eye at a time that it is in a mood for such greeting. A. C. Ladd. Fulfill Every Promise. The merchant who desires the confi dence and enstom of intelligent people should never make a promise that he does not fulfill, or bold out, either by express statement or inference, any in ducements that are not folly substan tiated by the facts. There is no endur ing success where confidence is lacking on tite part of customers. Any success not founded on square and liberal deal ing is rare to be short lived. Use Common Reuse. That people should use the same prac tical common sense in advertising that is Decenary to transact any other busi ness would aeem to he an indisputable proposition. Yet there are gentlemen who are extremely good business men In all other respects who will make grievous errors in this direction.- -Knox ville 8entineL Host Have Genius. The simplest advertisements some, times require the most care and thought In their construction. To write a colnmn fa a matter of time, but to edit it down into a sentenco is something more.— Printer's Ink. Presses, Feeders and Condensers, Saw and Grist Mills, Shingle Machines, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Boiler Feeders, Valves, Jets. Etc. '* Shaftings, Hangers, Boxes and Pulleys #S“Specia1 attention given to repairing all kinds of Machinery. Telephone 79. MJMm EOTT & CO., MERCHANT * TAILORS. ;(Succes8orH to Mbs. 11KEMSTELLEK) 110 Lamar Street, over Peoples’ National Bank, Americus, Greorgia. McMATH BROTHERS, -DEALERS IN- Groceries, Provisions, Country Produce BOOTS, SHOES, ETC.. ETO„ WHISKEYS, TOBACCO & CIGARS, SPECIALTIES. 207 FORSYTH STREET, AMERICUS, GEORGIA. , Wa solicit a Hhnro of the patronage of tbe trading public, guarantee! ng satisfaction - - low prices, and good goods. We deliver goods anywhere in the city. Call and see us. 'McMATH BROTHERS. BTJGGI 1 will sell you the best buggy In Georgia, price and quality considered. Repairing ol all.klnds solicited and executed promptly and nr ..tly. All work warranted. We are now opening a FIRST-CLASS TAILORING I line 'of goods of LATEST STYLES AN1TF, ESTABLISHMENT and will have a fine ASHIONS la stock, and will GUARANTEE PERFECT FITS. Prices satisfactory. Come and see us before placing your orders and you will be more than satisfied with our styles and prices. Mr. Kott lived here four years ago, and w» with Mr. Bremsteller, and Is no stranger to the people of Americus who wear good clothes. 3-3 lm. IT. I>. WATTS - Wholesale ZJtdJRctailJDcaler in GROCERIES Fine Tobacco, Cigars and Whisky a Specialty! No. 80S Forsyth Mid 1004 Lee Streets, - • AMERICUS, GEORGIA DUNLAP HATS. THE LATEST STYLES AND SHAPES. ARTHUR RYLANDER, Corner Lamar and Jackson St jSBltf T. S. GREENE. Cotton Avenue., • Opposite Prince’s Stables* American, Georgia. * ' W •: - M'WQk REAL ESTATE BARGAINS- - .. -•- -w- ,-n | 1 j * *“ Mifl I offer for a few day* tbe following icslraole property eloee in at A bargain: / Four houses and lota, housai Just co a pie ted; 4 large rooms each; lota 60xlC$each. Perm a Eaay. __ - ■ / One bouaeand lot on uoitege Hill, large lot 210x370, (routing two streets, l atVffgfr ■* - ~W| A lest home fn Americas. ' - ft One house and lot on Jackson street, fronting the College. Large lot, 6 rooms to the "■ . . - H comparatively new house with cook room n “ “ " v »aro on the place. Call for bargains. HUGH 705 Jackson St, : : Fifteen Share* Furniture Factor. Block for Bale M. BROWN, : Americus Ga. Sans Souci BAR AND RESTAURANT W. T. RACAN, Proprietor. Wo. 807 Zjamar 8tre«t. Rum. Gin and Will Jtle _ JIIKl' U" m.v Bar •nylblngyou want to drink rmm a gnu. of Cold Milk or Beer to the Rheat unci only WfiUkrbdour In Ac-erlcua. Mr Kcelanranl te .upplted with tbe bet themara.t afiorda, and with lb. beet wok in the State, and a Mint good waiter*.-1 am s an please th. nuwlQwtldkraa. jr m W. 13. Haynes & Son. REAL ESTATE, STOCK AND BONO £ BROKERS, 208 For3yth Street, . Americus,