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THE AMER1CUS D
S-RECORDER: THURSDAY, APRIL 9 1891.
HE FOUND A FORTUNE
A YOUNG MAN’S GOOD LUCK AFTER
YEARS OF MISFORTUNE.
Bli Father Loan •10,000, Then Ilia Crops
for Successive Seasons, Then Various
Members of His Family-Father Dies on
the Day of the Son's Great Luck.
■‘People may declare their disbelief in
lnck ns frequently as they like, but for
•U that, lnck is the most potent factor
in shaping tho success or non-success of
a man.’ - said a citizen of Detroit who
had been sojourning in Escanaba for
several days.
■‘I was born in a Pennsylvania village,
and came west with my parents when 1
was a lad. We located on a farm in tho
lower ]>eninsula of Michigan, and from
that hour on bad luck Becmed to dog iny
father in whatever he undertook to do.
"When he left Pennsylvania ho had
f10,000. lie put ft),000 of this in a bank
and invested the other <5,000 in a farm.
The bank broke. Then a drought eamo
and ruined his crop. His house took
fire and was burned with all its con
tents, and we were left homeless on the
verge of winter.
"Father succeeded in mortgaging tho
farm, and then suddenly my mother
died, and a few days later my sister fol
lowed her into the unknown.
CONTINUAL IIAItD LUCK.
"The following year my father had a
medium crop, and after he had sold it
and paid the interest on the mortgage
ho had just enough left to carry us
throngh the winter. He had lost confi
dence in hanks, so he kept his money
hidden in the house. Ono night we had
a visit from burglars, who took every
cent he had in the world.
“He was compelled to clap a second
mortgage on the farm, but his crop
failed and wo hndn't a penny to tide us
over until the following spring.
"One day that 1 will never forget 1
started out hunting, and 1 had to bor
row a gun, for 1 had sold my own to
provide us with bread. Game proved
very scarce, and my aim very poor.
It was nearly night, and I hadn't
even a bird to show for my long tramp
throngh the woods, so 1 struck out for
home. Jnst as I leaped the fence 'hat
let me Into our farm again I saw a
squirrel scurrying up tho dead trunk of
an old tree. I popped away nt the little
fellow, missed him, and then started
back with a cry of surprise.
“My bullet had hit the tree, and just
where it had struck I saw something
that shone like fire in the last rays of the
setting sun. Running to it, I whipped
out my knife and began cutting into the
hollow trunk of the tree. Suddenly
handful after handful of gold pieces be
gan to run out of the hole upon the
brown sod at my feet.
“I began to count The sum ran np
into hundreds—into thousands—and I
fairly screamed for joy.
WEALTH AND DEATH.
“No more poverty for usl No more,
living on crnstal No more dressing in
rags!
"1 filled my pockets os full as they
would hold, buried the balance of the
coin and tote for home.
"Upening the door 1 ran in. Father
lay on the floor—dead—stricken with
apoplexy. He was the last near relativo
1 had in the world.
■ “1 told no one of the treasure I had
found, and after the funeral of my fa
ther I went to Detroit and placed it in
• bank. I went to college at Ann Arbor
until I graduated; then embarked in
business, and my luck has been as good
as that of my father was bad.”
This story demonstrates that the opti
mists are wrong when they utter the fool
declaration that “This world is wbat we
make it" It is not what we make it,
by any manner of means.
In the case of the father who figures
in this romance of real life, he certainly
tried his best to make his family and
himself comfortable, happy, successful,
, but be failed—not through any fault of
his own, but failed throngh tho infamy
of bank officials; through a drought that
destroyed his crop: throngh the burning
of bis home; through burglars; throngh
the death of his wife and daughter;
through other agencies over which he
had no possible control, and, to finish up
his bnd luck, ho was stricken dead on
the very day that his son found a fort
une.
Un the other band, it was simply a
stroke of good luck that led the son to
the particular tree that held tho gold,
and all the circumstances of his find
were the merest accidents of fortune.—
Escanaba Mirror.
Bruin Workers and Beat.
Some brain workers toil on year after
year, contenting themselves with the re
laxation of a day or two now and then.
They have no real vacations, and the
brief intervals that they are away from
their duties do them but little good, not
being long enough for them to forget
their work and vexations and get out of
the groove they have been running in.
There comes at last to these men a time
when memory weakens, when it is hard
for them to fix the mind upon one sub
ject, and their work seems to grow more
and more irksome, and in conversation
there is a slight tendency to incoherence, j
It i.< rather difficult for them at times to
express themselves clearly: tho suitable
words do not come to them as readily as
they once did.
When conversing they start in well, 1
but after a short time their ideas are
somewhat contused, and they are obliged
to make considerable effort to keep their
attention tixed upon the subject they are
discussing. In writing there is a hesi- j
tancy, especially on long words or sen-!
fences They are obliged to stop and •
think, seeming to drop the thread that '
they have been bolding. These are signs
of mental failure, which must not l>e
disregarded. In this condition of brain
exhaustion, not only are tho reasoning
faculties sluggish, but unusual effort is
required from the weakened will to keep
the attention fixed. Good mentaf work
is then accomplished only at the expense
of the brain, which is still further weak
ened by every intense effort
Tho time has now come when mental
rest is imj>erative, and it should bo as
complete as possible. A long vacation
should be taken: short rests are not likely
to do any good. A sea voyage promises
the greutest good to tho weakening brain j
worker. On shipboard ho seems to drop On Uii ■pV\Q fl o Tl H "Rll Cl
almost entirely out of his old life. Ilis I UdlL ClJiU JD Liol"
vacation should not be of less than a |
month’s duration, and it ought to run
on for several months. Failing to take
tho needed rest, insanity is very likely to
be the penalty.—Boston Herald.
For Rent:
Two Excellent
Melon Farms
ONE RESIDENCE.
-for sal Ei-
Some Central and
The* Toad and the Duke of Wellington.
Short Cuts has unearthed a peculiarly
delightful letter of tho Duke of Welling
ton’s, which runs ns follows: "Stratli-
fieldsaye. July 27, 1837.—Field Marshal
the Duke of Wellington is happy to in
form William Harries that his toad is
alive and well.” During one of his
country walks the duke found a little
boy lying on tho ground bending his
head over a tame toad and crying as if
his heart would break. On !>eing asked
what was the matter the child explained
that ho was crying “for his poor toad.”
Ho brought it something to eat every
morning, but he was now to be sent
away to school a long distance off, and
he was afraid that nobody else would
give it unything to eat and that it would
die.
The duke, however, consoled him by
saying that he would liiiqself see the toad
well fed, and by further promising to
let the boy hear os to its welfare. Dur
ing the time the boy was away nt school
he received no less than five autograph
letters similar to that given above, and
when he returned for the Christmas
holidays the toad was still alive to glad
den his heart The story is even more
delightful than that of the duke's indig
nation when ho found that a party
of children at Strathfleldsaye—among
whom, we believe, was tho present
prime minister—were having their tea
without jam. The incident roused him
to immediate action, and he at once
rang the bell and issued a general order
that “children’s tea” was never to be
served in hiB house with such “maimed
rights. "—Spectator.
ness property, and
a few
Choice Stocks.
BUY NOW.
IIon a Song Was Written.
Mrs. Caroline A. Mason, author of "Do
They Miss Mo at Home?" wrote that
■ong in 1800 when n pupil in Bradford
academy. Massachusetts. At the time
ahe waa a young lady, heartsick and
sighing for her Marblehead home. Her
father waa Dr. Briggs, ,tu esteemed mid
able physician of Marblehead. One of
her slaters, Harriet, married tho Rev.
David Stoddard, a missionary of the
American board, and died fn a foreign
land. At tho time the sweet song was
written Harriet waa a teacher in the
academy, and it was of this motherly
siater teacher that the younger sister
asked many times, “Do they miss ine at
home?” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
M. Callaway,
Real Estate Agent.
Feb.l-ly
THE
31 aril I lie for Bonding Shovel Handles.
The large proportion of abovel han
dles. usually about 75 per cent., which
on split or broken in the process of
bending bat led to the invention of a
■hovel bending machine. The saving
effected may be estimated from the fact
that tan trial lot of twenty-five dozen
put through the machine only ono handle
was spoiled.—New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The accumulation of explosive gases
in a room, mine or ship's hold can now
be ascertained by meansotan Indicator.
It consists of a porous cylinder,dosed by
a thin metal membrane, and the pene
trating gases raise the membrane, close
a circuit and ring bd alarm.
A Shoo Blacking Syndicate.
Tho syndicate shoo blacking on the
Pennsylvania ferryboats is not a success.
The company receives $2,000 for the
privilege from the padrone who employs
the boys who nominally polish passen
gers’ boots. The padrone is a regular
slave driver, and the boys in order to
satisfy his demands try to polish three
pairs of boots on one passage. They j
are not able, in the time occupied by tho !
ferryboat in crossing, to give more than j
a few daubs of blackings- uud a hurried
bmshing. and by the time tho passenger
gets to Broadway his boots are dull and
dirty.
The boys are also very persistent, fill
ing the cabins with their calls until they
have become a regular nuisance. It was
a sorry day for the railroad's reputation
when it sold this privilege to the Ital
ians. Meanwhile the padrone is clear
ing about $3 a day out of every boy. He
gives them $4 a week and kee{>s two on
each boat. It is estimated that the pad-
rono makes $10,000 per annum oh the
Pennsylvania boats alone, besides large
sums on tho Staten Island boats and the
other North river ferryboats.—Now York
Gor. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Reveling In Fiction.
•I ain literally wallowing in fiction
jnst now," said a young Chestnut street |
merchant. “My family are out of town
and I am taking advantage of the oppor
tunity to rend np the standards Let me
see what I have on hand at present, for
the tnbles. chairs and even the Door of
my sitting room are absolutely flooded
with tile works of tlio great novelists. 1
have all Dickens’ novels, all Sir Walter
Scott's, nil Charles Baade's, all Thack-
emy’s, some of Lever's, some of Cooper’s,
some of Clark Russell's, all of Rider
Haggard's, and—well, others too numer
ous to mention. All my copies are, how
ever, wha-. ate known as 'cheap libra
ries’, ami 1 picked them upstill cheaper at
second hand. 1 don’t think the whole
lot cost mo quite <5, so 1 shall get my
acquaintance with the standards at a
wonderful bargain. There's no excuse
for a li vo American not being well up in
tho great romancers, believe me!”—Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
Too Matter of Fact.
Mrs. Malaprop—What’s the matter
with your husband?
Mrs. Brown—I guess he got out on the
wrong side of the bed this morning.
Mrs. Malaprop—Why don't you stop
that by putting the bed against the wall?
—Epoch.
FURNISH THE LATEST
PAPERS
NOVELS,
MAGAZINES
Fashion Plates.
Will receive subscriptions
for any paper or
oubic.ition.
ORDERS
PROMPTLY FILLED.
PLACE.
Mark's Book Store.
Americus News Go.
Wo can now say WHOLESALE DRUGS, and as an evidence,
call and examine our Stock and Prices. As to RETAILING DRUGS,
we will give this department MORE and CLOSER attention than
ever before, assuring everyone of prompt and competent attention.
Good.f from us will be delivered to any part of the city, and
free on board the cars.
We are offering a very large stoek, for Americus, of the following
articles:—
In Patent and Proprietary Medicines.
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, 11 sizes,
King’s Discovery, '2 sizes,
Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
Cuticura Remedies,
Tutt’s Pills,
Carter’s Little Liver Pills,
Derma Lotion, “ sizes,
Stone’s Cod Liver Oil,
Hosford’s Acid Phosphate,
Barker’s Horse and Cattle Powders,
Warner’s Safe Cure,
King’s Royal Germatuer,
E- A- HAWKINS.
L TTORNEV at MW, Office up etnlr
on oranberry corner.
BUTT &LUM
A TTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office fn Bvriovr Block, t.peialre.
Mlty<lhL^
W, Amcrcmti,
W. P. WALLA
sirs
Office over
N. S.
I*. I». 1*.
It. li. li.
C. C. <J.
K. It. JR.
W. W. C.
15. J>.
(jr •
Scott’s Emulsion,
Brown’s Iron Bitters,
Bearsfoot and Sarsaparilla,
Lemon Elixir, ‘2 sizes,
In Rubber Goods.
Fountain Syringes bolding from pint to
one-half gallon,
A Good Family Syringe, from 75c. to
$2.50.
Water llottlcs bolding pint to half gal.
Nipples.
Nursing Dottle Fittings.
Nation*! Bank.
J. A. HIXON,
4 TrORNEV AT LAW. Americus, <ia.
A Office in Hatr'ev building 0|»< oslte
Conn linuKe. Prompt at tention given to
all buMliicttt.. |un&-tl.
E. F. Hinton. E. H. Octts.
HINTON ot CUTTS.
A TTOIINEYH AT LAW. Practice. . tb(
A Stale ami Federal Courts. Office ove*
Hart Ruiltiing, on Forsyth street. marl-lj
R BT. L- MAYNARD.
ATTORNEY and rouimell r at Law
Americus, tea. Proa ptand careful at-
T. L. HOLTON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
A AT LAW. aWvIIIT, Ga., will prac
tice In all the e<#untienoi'the State. Prompt
attention Riven touli collectionsentrusted
to my care. tf
ANSLEY & ANSLE7.
A ttorneys at law, Americus, g»
Will practice In the conn lien ot Sum*
ter, Nellie}’, Macon, Dooly, Webster, Stew
art, In tin Supreme Court, and the UnJtod
states i our .
W. II. Gukkky. DuPont Guekly.
Americus, Gu. Macon, Ga,
GUERRY &, SON;
I AWYERH, Americus, On. Office in Peo-
J pie’s National Dunk Building, Lamttr
street. Will practice In Sumter Huperlor
and County Counts, and in the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will r.-gulnrly attend
the sessions of the Huperlor Court. The
Arm will take special cases in any Huperlor
Court on Southwestern Railroad.
In Perfumery.
Lazzell’s Odors,
Persian Bouquet Special.
Crab Apple Blossom.
LaBcllc Cologne.
Lunborg’s Perfumes.
Kdeina.
Swiss Lilac.
Goya Lily.
Soaps.
A very Large Assortment of Pears’ anti Pel’s Toilet Soaps.
d. M. R. WESTBROOK, IW D.
P HYSICIAN AND BURGEON. Office
residence, next house toC. A. Hunt ini*
ton, Ch«rch street. feb 7 tf
G. T. MILLER. M- D.
P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office a
Davenport's Drug Store, a»d resilience
sornerChureh and Prince st reet*.
Thermometers.
Fever Thermometers, Clinometers, Lactometers, “Old Probabilities.’
Garden Seed.
Field and Flower Seed.
Mixed Paints.
White Lead, Linseed Oils, Tarnishes, Colors in Oil, Paint Brushes.
Toilet Articles.
LT Combs, Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Nail Brushes, Face Powders.
Pocket Knives, Scissors, Eye-Glasses.
We bottle largely Cologne, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Bateman’s Drops, Paregoric,
Laudanum, Spirits Camphor, Extract Lemon, Extract Vanilla (from best Beans)
and many other preparations. . Wo solicit patronage.
BETAIL. WHOLESALE.
Kospectfully,
•DAVENPORT DRUG CO.,
feb22-3m 322 Lamar St., 318 .Tackson St.
For Sale.
A VALUABLE FARM, formerly known
tho Robt. Hodges plantation,situated eight
miles northeast of Americus and two miles
southeast of Andersonvllle, containing
fourteen hundred acres of land; six hun
dred of which is in a high state of cult va-
tivation, the balance, or eight hundred
acres, In original timber, consisting of On k
hickory nud pine. About three fourths o
tills land lies level, while the balance is
slightly uoderlating. It Is well wuteied by
branches and springs. It is healthy,fertile
and productive. The farm house is a two
story frame structure, containing teven
rooms. Tenant houses nnd neat frame
cabins of sufficient number to comfortably
house the necessary labor lor working the
funn. Reing convenient to market,schools
and churches, nud In an intelligent and
thickly settled neighborhood, this farm
offers superior Inducements to any one
deslrirg acouutry home. For additional
in formation, apply to
J. B. FELDER,
DEALER IN
REAL ESTATE.
DRESS MAKING-!
REMOVAL.
MRS. S. F. AYCOCK takes pleasure In
Informing the ladles of Americus that sue
has removed her dress making establish
ment to a room over the People's Nation
al Rank, in the Coker building- All work
guaranteed to give satisfaction or no
charges. Mkh. S. F. AYCOCK.
M'ch 15, d- lw.
J.W. MIZE,
IS THE
SOLE AGENT
FOR
E. J O'CONNOB’S
SPECIAL BRANDS.
Ah follows:
RED TAPE,
OLD SPECIAL.
AND CENTURY
PURE RYE WHISKIES-
Tilt-sear*- the puiest aud best liye
Whi-kies solil in the United Sta'es,
and none run dlsput- these fuels.
When you want sonielhlug good
give Mr. Mize acall and you will
receive the kindest amt most
prompt attention.
SUFFERERS
‘OF:
Youthful Errors
Lost Manhood, Early Decay, etc.,
etc., can secure a home treatise free
by addressing a fellow sufferer, O.
W. Leek, P. O. Box 31tt, Itoanoke.
Virginia.
LUMBER!
Having located a mill at Cobb Station, I
am prepared to furnish Lumber of all
kinds on short notice. First class Lumber
furnished on short notice.
J W. CASTLEBERRY,
M'ch 15,-d-lm. Cobb Station, Qs,
K. J. O’Connor, of Augusta, Ga.,
is general a it **ut for H. & H-. W.
OtttherwcwxPa
FAMOUS OLD RTC WHISKIES! ■
Buy these goods and you get the
best in the world feb 4
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOBjas
THORNTON WHEATLEY
Americus, * - Georgia.
J A. FORT, M, D.
) FPII:E At Dr. Kldridge's drug More
Can be found at night lu bli r- om, over
Idridge' di rig store. Harlow Block.
DR. T. J. KENNEDY, M- D-
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Having
I live years experience, and recently
taken an extended course In New York
Post-Graduate Medical school, is now pre-
P red to offer his professh m.I *rrvl-ea to
Americus and surrounding vicinity, ‘ alls
left on his slate at Dr. Kldridge’s drug stoic
TWELFTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
OV Til K
FIDELITY
Iffi - LIFE -
914 Walnut street, Plitaielpliia, Pa.
INVKSTKD ASSETS,
tat
gage L
Bonus, Stocks and
Loans on Collateral.. 81,781.10
C.*sh In office, Bunks
and Trust Co . 12 651.00
Bills Receivable, Ledg
er balances, etc -10,167.10
„ 1355,450,19
Contingent Assets 755,849.01
Total Assets $1,008,186,30
'INSURANCE IN FORCE.
Jan. 1,1891,12,176 Policies, repre-
senting . $20,955,650.00
Total Losses and Payments to
Members In 12 Years, I,037,2i6.76
The annual expense dues are limited to
$4 per $1,000 Invuianco and the mortality
savings!he first five years, as agutnst an
average expense cokt about 911 In old line
companies.
busln ss in UFO cost the Fidelity
pur **' * -- -
AKB CO
ie«.
The cash assets of the Fidelity are twen
ty-eight times Its asceria’ned liabilities, a«
against a rat loof $1.12 to each $1 liability In
old llnecompniiles.
The Fidelity has already saved to Da
pollcv holde sin twelve years,as compar
ed with old line ptcntlums, over three
million dollars.
Its policies are plain, tntechideal, and
ere guaranteed on t he same principal that
Government Minds are guaranteed.
L. 0. Fouhk President.
0UNN & L0YLESS, Managers
(l-tr AMEHIOCS, GA.
FINE SHOW GASES.
A^Ask for catalogue.
]JERRY MT’G CO*- Nashville. Tenm
AN K ^£5? R0u
r- . ~ r- El# -illf f OP
FFICE 1 W
lND STORE FIXTURES
thetERRY M'F G. CO.
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THE BEST THING OUT
KEBT YOUR WIVK«!
YOUR Hitters!
Your uiu;htn"i
sn.l YOUR AUNTH
“THE LITTLE SEW® MACHINE HAH"
Wants all the Ittdit-H to eall au*l
seethe latest
SEWING MACHINE MOTOR.
KI Fel). < 7>f , lv' lll ' ll " l! n ' nr ArU,lun Corner.
SHINGLES
-AND-
LUMBER
Having Just finished an outfit io ntann*
facturethealniv* nuimd articles, we are
R remtml to furnish hetu on short notice.
rttlsfnctlon guarantee . Will deliver at
JT« r iS e ? ,n,, V* frora Americas,
on H. A. A M. R. R. Address us at Leslie
R. A. WILSON A CO.
Knig-hts of honor
The Lodge In Americus laovet ten yean
Insure* for ttfii .i. Assessments light
Rarest and cheapest life Insurance. For
nformation apple to
_ D. K. BRINSON.
V m Ileporert