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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1891.
An Eaten Ont Town.
On the occasion of the visit of Presi
dent Harrison to Topeka, Kan., the ho
tels, restaurants and hoarding honses
were overran by the great crowd. Peo
ple clamored for food ns the crowd clam
ors to get iuto a circus, and guards were
placed at the dining room doors to keep
back those who could not lie at once ac
commodated. A gentleman who had
tried every public place found at a late
hour in the afternoon a restaurant in an
out of the way place. He went in and
asked if he could be fed. The proprietor
said he had been eaten out.
•Til give you a dollar for a glass of
milk and piece of pie,” said the stran
ger.
“Ain't got uomilkand ain't got no
pie,” replied the hungry proprietor.
“Whitt's that in that showcase—isn’t
that pie?" asked the stranger, pointin;
ont a pnmpkin pie. The proprietor look
ed at it in a languid manner and an
swered: “That's all we have left for ray
family. If 1 sell that they won't get
anything.”
“I'll give yon a dollar for the pie,
said the hungry stranger, growing des
perate.
The proprietor took out the pie and
was in the act of handing it over when
his jaw opened and about half the pie
disappeared, the other half being handed
over to the stranger, who refused it.
"Sell it for a quarter," said the pie
man, realizing now that his chance was
growing smaller. But the stranger re
fused the ragged moiety and went away
sorrowful and ns hungry as when he
came.—Chicago Tribune.
Nlcfp fnr School Children.
We all know how much greater is the
need of children for sleep than of grown
persons, and how necessary for their
good it is to be able fully to satisfy this
need, but how great it is generally at
any particular nge of the child is very
hard to define exactly. The amount
varies under different climatic condi
tions. In Sweden we consider a sleep of
eleven or twelve honrs neocssary for the
younger school children and of at least
eight or nine hours for the older ones.
Tet the investigations have shown that
this requirement lacks much of being
met in all the classes through the whole
school. Boys in the higher classes get
hut little more than seven hours in bed,
and as that is the average it is easy to
perceive that many of them must con
tent themselves with still less sleep.
It is also evident from the investiga
tions that the sleeping time is diminished
with the increase of the working honrs
from class to class, so that pupils of the
same age enjoy leas according ns they
are higher in their classes. It thus ap
pears constantly that in schools of rela
tively longer hours of work the sleeping
time of the pupils is correspondingly
shorter. In short, the prolongation ot
the working honrs takes place for the
most part at the cost of the time for
sleep,—Professor Axel Key in Popular
Science.
Xumber Both Doors.
The golden rule, “Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you,” is
violated in a petty fashion in New York
which is intensely irritating. Many peo
ple when finishing their houses neglect
to put the numbers on properly, with
the result that strangers in search of a
particular residence wander up and
down the semi-lighted street cursing
volubly. This absolute neglect of the
law, however, is not as irritating as the
practice of painting the name on the
outer door and omitting it over the inner
door. Until 10 o’clook the greater num
ber of storm doors stand open.
The light from the hall chandelier
illuminates the inner transom, but the
outer one is a dull blank, on which noth
ing can be read. You stare at wlmt yon
know are figures, finding yourself utterly
unable to distinguish them, and you are
reduced to the ignominious course of
ringing the bell and asking what the
number is, which invariably produces
on the face of the servant who appears
an expression of n conviction not flatter
ing to your sobriety. Good Christians
there be who put the number on both
transoms—may their homes be exalted
and their examples imitated!—New York
Telegram.
The HwlM President.
Under the Swiss system the president
of the confederacy has no more author
ity than a member of the cabinet. The
head of the government is n council
elected by the parliament. This council
selects a chairman from its members,
who thus becomes president of the re
public, and assumes a cabinet portfolio,
usually that of foreign affairs. He is
clothed with no powers of api>ointuient
to office. His co-members of the cabi
net, even the judges of the supreme
court, are all elected. He can servo but
a single year; hence his time and tal
ents, instead of being devoted to tilling
offices and seeking a re-election, are
given to the service of his country. He
is helped in his efforts for pure and eco-
nomicalgovemment by a corps of trained
statesmen.—8. H. M. Byers in Harper’s.
nakiiwu.
The scholar is always ready to pick up
a thought, and a born man of business
is ever on the lookout for a trade.
A good natured coachman overtook a
tired looking peddler, and offered him a
lift to the next town. At the end of the
ride the peddler, by way of emphasizing
his thanks, offered the coachman the
pick of his wares, but the proffer was de
clined.
"Well, then,” insisted the euterprising
pack carrier, “if you won’t take a pres
ent don't you want to buy something?”—
Exchange.
Alnmlnam In Sesrrh of m Name.
To end the long dispute which has
been waged with reference to the right
designation of the metal which is now
aannnlng such importance, it is urged
that the largest producers in the world
favor the form aluminum, which also
has the advantage of greater brevity,
and that therefore foreign scientific
journals sad scientific men should fol
low tho example of American journals
and call it onco for all aluminum.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Vancouver's Illjf Bridge.
The great steel bridge across the Co
lumbia river at Vancouver will be a
mammoth concern. It will l»e 6,000 feet
from the Washington to the Oregon
shore. It will l>e double tracked, with
a roadway on top for teams, and will be
erected upon pneumatic piers. The piv
otal pier, or draw pier, will support a
draw which will give an opening of 200
feet sjKice on either side for vessels to
pass, and the span immediately south of
the draw span will be 075 feet. The
whole strnf#kure is to be of steel, built
ten feet above the high water of 1870
and forty feet above low water.
On account of the sandy formation it!
will be necessary to go down eighty feet j
below low water to get a firm founds- j
tion. There it rests on a foundation of
coarse gravel similar to that upon which
the great bridges across the Missouri
river are built. This gigantic structure
will cost over $1,000,000. and employ
hundreds of men in its erection. It will
be Jan. 1, 1892, before the cars can pass
over it. The company is pushing its
bridge and also its road as fast as men
and money and its present perfected
plans will permit. It has now between
here and Kalama over 2,000 men and
1,500 teams at work.—Columbian.
BMPS!
For Rent:
Two Excellent
Melon Farms
ONE RESIDENCE.
Anglophobia | n France.
it wonld be a pretty question whether
the English or the Germans are the more
heartily detested in Paris. It is certain
that the rancors of Waterloo have not
been softened by the humiliations of Se
dan. The fact is that yonr Frenchman
has an unlimited capacity of hatred. j
A newspaper has been started which is
called The Union Franco-Rnsse, and the
main object is to rake np stale fictions
and to invent new libels on the English
people. In curious contrast to the vul- QiiVinuKon Q nrl "Rnei
gar dislike is the undisguised admiration IdUUUl UctXl CtUU.XJu.9I. -
of English people and English enstoms
which runs through the smart circles ol
Pnrisian society. They imitate the cut
of our coats and reproduce the Latest
thing in London huts; they buy English a f P'W
horses and English guns; they talk En- a ”
glish slang. They always did admire
English girls, but that was inevitable.!
It is a higher compliment when they .
copy English dandies.—St. James’ Ga
zette.
A Tramp with 91,400.
The worshipers at St. Bonifacins’ Ro
man Catholic chnrch, on Norris square,
were excited on Saturday evening by the
discovery of a sleeping mnn in the organ !
loft. Ho was put ont, bnt shortly after-j
ward returned, when he was arrested, j
On being searcliod at the station house
$1,000 in English gold was found ubont
his person. When ho was asked where j
he got the money ho pulled ont $400
more in Bank of England notes, and told
the following story:
“I lived on a farm in England. My
mother dying a short time ago I sold
the farm and came over hero one week
ago. On Friday night I slept at
fifteen-cent lodging house at Ninth and
Race streets with the money on my per
son. I don't see why you think it strange
that I have so mnch money."
The man had the look of a typical
tramp.—Philadelphia Record.
-FOR SALE:-
Some Central and
ness property, and
Choice Stocks.
BUY NOW,
CUlWufcok-*
We 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 Indore, assuring everyone of prompt and competent attention.
Goods from us will be delivered to any part of the city, and
free on board the cars.
We are offering a very large stock, for Americus, of the following
articles:—
In Patent and Proprietary Medicines.
Ferry Davis’ Pain Killer, 3 sizes,
King’s Discovery, 2 sizes,
Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
Cutieura Remedies,
Tutt’s Pills,
Carter’s Little Liver Pills,
Derma Lotion, 2 sizes,
Stone’s Cod Liver Oil,
Ilosford’s Acid Phosphate,
Barker’s Horse and Cattle Powders,
Warner’s Safe Cure,
King’s Royal Germatucr.
». S.
I*. 1*. I J -
B. B. B.
C. C. C.
R. R. R.
W. W. C.
I). I).
G.
Scott’s Emulsion,
Brown’s Iron Bitters,
Bearsfoot and Sarsaparilla,
Lemon Elixir, 2 sizes,
Tall Story from Clarion,
Near Raine’s floor mill stands a hem
lock tree, which Is probably 100 feet
high, at the butt is all ot six feet la cir
cumference and is minus ot limbs at
least ten feet up its jagged trunk. On
the extreme top of the tree a wild grape
vine blossomed and bore fruit this sea
son, and a number of the young lads
have climbed the tree at various times
to secure tho fruit. Dr. E. M. Sloan’s
little daughter, 7 years old, was missed
from homo tho other day, and her mother
discovered her standing ononoof the
topmost limbs of tho old hemlock, gath
ering grapes. Tho child camo down os
nimbly as a squirrel. It was a daring
feat,--Clarion Republican.
Yacht,men Threatened by n Waterspout.
During the severe storm which pre
vailed here and over tho Sonnd Oct. 19 a
hngo waterspout was seen off Charles
blond. A party of New Haven yachts
men were eloso to it in a naphtha
launch, and for n time were in danger of
being swamped. The waterspout come
from a sonthorly direction. It drew up
the water of the Sonnd and created addi
tional disturbance to the turbulent sea.
It finally broke between Charles Island
nnd Bums’ Poiut by tho wind changing
to northwest. It would have been de
structive to uny boat which camo in its
path.—Cor. New Haven Register.
Eighteen thousand acres of land, heav.
ily timbered with hemlock and other
hard woods, the last of tho famons Penn
sylvania hemlock belt, has been con
veyed by J. K. P. Hall, Ridgway, to
Andrew Knul, of St. Mary’s; Sampson
Short, of North East, and S. S, Bnllis,
Clean, N. Y. Tho purchuso prico wns
$100,000. This land lies in tho vicinity
of St. Mary’s and Johnsonlmrg. Three
railroads run into it.
M. Callaway,
Real Estate Agent.
Feb. My
THE
There are 20.000,000 acres of unsnr-
veyed land in tho state of Washington,
and mnch of that great extent of coun
try is almost impenetrable, being cov
ered with a magnificent growth of the
finest kind of timber. Surveyors have
literally to cut their way every foot, be
cause of tho thick unde-brash.
A rug valued nt $1,000 was bought in
London lately. It was abont thirteen
feet square and hail abont Salt stitches to
the iueb. - The material was wool
combed, not ent, from the animal, and
worth more than its weight in silk.
FURNISH THE LATEST
PAPERS
NOVELS,
MAGAZINES
Fashion Plates.
Will receive subscriptions
for any paper or
oubication.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED,
In Rubber Goods.
tin Syringes bolding from pint to
e-half gallon,
Fountain
one
A Good Family Syringe, from 75c. to
$2.50.
Water Bottles holding pint to half gal.
Nipples.
Nursing Bottle Fittings.
In Perfumery.
Lazzell’s Odors,
Persian Bouquet Special.
Crab Apple Blossom.
LaBelle Cologne.
Lunborg’s Perfumes.
Edeina.
Swiss Lilac.
Goya Lily.
Soaps.
A very Largo Assortment of Pears’ and Fel’s Toilet Soaps.
TWELFTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
of. TH*
im-m-mras,
914 Wilut Street PkMelplii, Fa.
Income to .Tan. 1,1801, Including
balance, -.. .|S4f,750.30
Disbursement* Mr Losses and Ex
pense of Management ^9M»9.ll
IXYESTEO ASSETS.
Bonds, Htoeks
untl Tru-t Co . 12 .'54.00
Bills R*-celA’»l»le, Ledg
er balances, etc 40,167.10
$355,400.19
Contingent Assets 755,34901
Total Assets $1,098,1*0,36
— 196,112.84
INSURANCE IN KOUCE.
Jan. 1,1891,12,170 Policies, repre
senting 426,055,050.00
Total IiO-seBand Payment* to
Members In 12 Years 1,037,2-6.76
_ lugs a he first five years, us agaln*t i
average expense cofct about |11 In old line
companies.
ie«.
eragecost of over $4u lu old line coinpnn-
are twen •.
The cash assets of the Fidel!
ty-elght times its nseeria ned liabilities, as
against a rat loot |1.12 to each fi liability in
old line companies.
The Fidelity has already saved to Its
poliov holde> a in twelve yeais.us compar
ed with old line premiums, over iliree
million dollars.
Its policies are plain, « ntechnlcal, and
r re guaranteed on the same principal that
DUNN & L0YLESS, Managers
d-tf AMERICAS, GA.
Thermometers.
Fever Thermometers, Urinomcters, Lactometers, “Old Probabilities.’'
Garden Seed.
Field and Flower Seed.
Mixed Paints.
W kite Lead, Linseed Oils, Varnishes, Colors in Oil, Paint Brushes.
Toilet Articles.
Combs, Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Nall Brushes, Face Powders.
Pocket Knives, Scissors, Eye-Glasses.
Wo bottle largely Cologne, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Bateman’s Drops, Paregoric,
Laudanum, Spirits Camphor, Extract Lemon, Extract Vanilla (from best Beans)
and many other preparations. We eollcit patronage.
RETAIL. WHOLESALE.
Respectfully, •
DAVENPORT DRUG CO.,
1)22-3 m 222 Lamar St., 318 Jackson St,
C. M. WHEATLEY, Pres’t.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Vice Pres’t.
B. II. JOSSEY, Sec'y & Treas.
C. C. STONE, Supt.
The Americus Construction Company,
Successors to C. M. Wheatley & Co.
Have the largest stock of
Dry I umber
For Sale.
A VALUABLE FARM, formerly known
tho Robt. Ho 'ges plantation,situated e ght
miles northeast of Americus and two in ilea
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 Oak
hickory amt pine. About three fourths o
this land lies level, while the ImlAnce is
slightly uuderlatlng. It Is well watcied bv
branches and springs. It l« he«lthy,f?rtlle
and productive. The farm house Is a two
story frame structure, containing ►even
room-. Tenant houses and neat frame
cabin* of sufficient number to cotuloriahly
house the necessary labor lor working the
farm. Being convenient to market,schoo)s
and churches, and In an Intelligent and
thickly settled neighborhood, this farm
offers superior Inducements to any one
desiring a country home. For additional
information, apply to
J. B. FELDER,
DEALER IN
REAL ESTATE.
THE BEST THING OUT
Both Rough and Dressed, ever held in the city, with unequalled capacity
for the execution of tine work. Thoy will furnish the trade with
Sasb, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Stairwork, Pulpits, Pews,
COUNTERS, SHELVING, MOULDINGS, ORNAMENTS, ETC.
Prompt attention given all orders.
Write for Catalogue and prices
Office and Factory, COR. BAY JACKSON STS. Telephone No. 78.
Uptown Office, No. JACKSON ST. Telephone 110.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Pres.
ARCHIE R ELDRIDGE, Gen'l Mang*
PLACE.
Thu rolling mill department of the
United State* Rolling Stock company at
Anniston, Ala., ha* completed a piece of
(hafting 23 feet long, 71 inches in diame
ter and weighs 8,040 pounds. It i* to
be u*ed in the work* at Anniston.
The chlorination proccs* for the ex
traction of gold from it* ore* ha* been
greatly improved within recent year*,
and now promi*e* to b* adapted to the
treatment of low grade non-concentrat-
ableorec.
MTq
Mardre’s Book Store.
Americus News Go.
The Americus Refrigerating Go.
Respectfully state that their new Ice Factory will start the
manufacture of Ice in a short time and will be prepared to
furnish Pure Crystal Ice in any quantityfrom a pound to a
car load. Their Refrigerating Chambers will also soon be in
readiness for the preservation of all perishable food products
and will be perfect in every particular. For further partio
ulars either telephone, write or call on
THE AMERICUS REFRIGERATING CO.,
Office & Factory Cor. Jackson & Bay Sts., on Central R. R.
RE8T YOUR WIVE*!
YOURMh*TERH!
YOUR COUSIN'*!
and YOUR AUNTS!
Wants all the ladies to call and
see the latent
sewing machine motor.
Slappey^Bulldlng near Artesian Corner.
SHINGLES
-AND-
LUMBER
Bnving Just finished an ontflt to manu
facture the ubm'- naim-d art kies, we are
prepared to furnish hem «n »h« rt notice.
Satisfaction guarantee *. Will deliver at
Parkers Mutton, fen miles from Americus,
J* MoVEY, proprotor,
Manufacturer of Every Variety of Raws and dealer
RAW MILL SUPPLIES. Special attention given
to Repairing. Agent forW. L. Power &
Co.’e Celebrated.
Wood Working Machinery.
L*r(.ud W.IJ Belwtod Stock read, tor •Mpamt
PricM low. Literal tone*. Write for catologna.
-ATLANTA, -GEORGIA
aayt-dAvlyMr
SUFFERERS
:OFi
Youthful Errors
Lost Manhood, Karly Decay, etc.,
etc., can accure a home in ati*e free
by addrea.iug a fellow niHerer, V.
W. Lock, P. O. Box 816, RoBiinke,
Virginia.
LUMBER!
Having located a mill at Cobb Station, I
am prepared to furnish Lumber of all
kinds on abort notice. First clean Lumber
furnished on short notice.,
J W. CASTLEBERRY.
M’ch 15,-d-lm. Cobb Station. Ga.
KNIG-HT3 OF HONOR
The Louge In Americus Is eve ten years
Insures for *2,000. Assessments light
Safest and cheapest life Insurance. For
^formation applv to
D. K. BRINSON.
may \7- Repoicrt
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