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SfSBMHm THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: TUESD* 1891. HIS ASHES TO THE WIND. JTRANGE funeral rites over HENRV^EYER’S remains. gl tra lBcln*rmt«d to the Mails of • Bsod—HI* Ware Cut Into tbs Air from tSf*1>Utoo of Ubartjr In Now Tork n»rbor*—AII ns Ho Directed. A little white cloud Hosted oat from hotel ippeared the remsins of Henry Meyer, keeper, of Staton Wand. To be buried in this singular, half cynical fashion in midair, as it were, iu exactly as the dead man had often directed while he lived. As he had rfehed, his body ,_wps cremated, his handful of ash<*.*«•> preserved in • bos nntil the next, Sunday should come, and then, with^ttw Hopping of cham pagne bottles and expressions of good will, but no grief, was cast from the top of Liberty whenever it wonld go. In the clear sunshine of the beantifnl day, looking no bigger and of no more Im portance than a puff of cigar smoke, the clond bang for a moment nnder the lee of the statue. Then the sharp north west wind caught it, whirled it instantly out of sight in the direction of the dead man's old home, and that was the last of the body of Henry Meyer. A jovial though an raid soul, and a hotel keeper for thirty years at Port Richmond. Mr. Meyer was well known to every Staten Islander and a good many other people, too. From the name of his hotel be got to be called “Puck” Meyer, so that his real first name was generally forgotten. J He was a skeptic, a socialist, a strenuous advocate of cre mation, a pretty gqod liver and a man of great popularity in apite of a thousand peculiarities which will be Staten Island folk lore for generations. No one saw “Pnck" die. He was found dead in his bed in the hotel on the morning of Feb. 14. His wife was the first to discover his death. As his will, mails many years ago, directed, the body was taken to the Fresh Pond crematory, on Long Island, two days later and in cinerated. A committee from the Staten Island Scbnotzen corps, of which Meyers had been a member, accompanied the remuins ill three carriages, with n brass band The body waa dressed in the blno uni form of the Schuetzen corps, and after it bad been consumed the brass buttons and other pieces of metal which the fire bad not destroyed were preserved as souvenirs. The usbes, weighing little more than three pounds, were of a whitish color and as feathery as cigar ashes. They were carefully placed in a round tin box and pnt in charge of First Lieut. Moritx Wegerle. Then, with the band playing a lively air, the party re turned to Staten Island. The special committee took the steam er Bay Ridge for Bedloe's Island. To avoid cariosity Lieut. Wegerle had the tin box in a brown Gladstone bag. He swung this carelessly in his hand os the party climbed to the top. of the ped estal. Then they went>oii|sldfitjie statue on the stone platform surrounding it, and there the .bag was opened and the master of ceremonies ..disclosed, four brown paper- hugs, each, containing an equal amount of- tyjyerV ashes.: T&^re was a spoonful or two left in the .bottom of the esse, which were saved for ‘‘Pack's” married-Sister an Staton island at her rawest. t , . As be banded' around the,bugs - Mr. Binsfthlsr.madotlflJ §p*edh: : , “Here are the ashes of old: ‘Buck’ Bach man that got qtof Stuck !t into * fil®** on *** e **oa»s today— . midwinter day. with lu loWrlac sky A E?® ,r 7rt re ' 1 * yet th. white nee Ur 11. H. HAWKINS ’t H. C. BAGIEV. VlcsPrst’l W.E. 'JRPhEY. Cuhltr. 'HOASIZED 1870. Bo **’ * rtth * mr *•*“ I ”*8The Ba.ik of Americus.Qt- ronr fairness, lying 'nesth careless Dropped I rota the breeet of a bride, my fair, " tk®3T brought her borne from the holy • The bridal music haunting the air. Deep thHUlng the eoul with a rhythm divine, TUI her full heart throbbed with a new joy. And you left Its warmth for the wintry Cf street? I Designated Depository Stats of Georgia. Stockholders Individually liable. Capital» • • •' SlBOtOOO Surplus# ... 9100,000 & 5 IT ARRIS, Pres. BLOOM BROWN, Sac. a Trow. C. P. PAYNE, K’g’r. Americas Supply Co. Suooessors to HABBI8 ft PAYNE, Droppwl from th. titer of the blMnd dead, Do your folded leave, hold the dwr of istrs? to your fresreoc. prayer, soft murmured P 1 ®****®* so®l for the finished years? Was the snllen chill of the crossing stone Less cold than that pulseless heart, my own? P. 0. CtozinT’res. Ocmalgce t Jos. Dodson, of ju. Dodsoo A Bon, Attorneys. O. W. Olover, Pres’t Americas Orooery Co7_ ^'‘tWes-r BheBMdsC leseledryii •»“ 1 M Howe'er it be. O you white, white Rose, I will lay you down on a girlish hreest That hae never thrilled >neeth bridal snows. Nor yearned for the peace of unbrokur, net. You shell Unger there till your bright, brief day ‘ - • Of bentty and bloom breutben Itself nwey. -8. Elgar Renat Id Kate rield'a IVesbliigtoo. THE BANK OF SUMTER o-4-coi T. N. HAWKES, President & Wide street. «s llenlth Propntere. Dr. Andeis has been investigating tin influence of the. width of streets in citiet on the mortality from phthisis, and nr the resulta of examining into the locali zation of 1,500 deaths he lias arrived at W. C. FURLOW, Cashier. DIRECTORS— O. A. Coleman, C. C. Hawkins, B, H. Jossey, T. N. Hawkes, W. C. Furlow, W. H. 0. Wheatley, R. 8. Uliver, H. M. Brown, W. M. Hawkes, Dr. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Itylander. Liberal to Its customers, accommoda ting to the public and prndent In Its management, this bank solicits deposits and other business in Its line. the conclusion that the number of deaths Jg". WINDSOR. CY. from phthisis is smaller in proportion to the population in the wide than in the narrow ones, and that in narrow streets the mortality is greatest where they are long or where they form a cul-de-sac. In other words, complete movement of air about dwellings is s point of prime importance In connection with the ques tion of pulmonary phthisis. It is on this principle that all modem bylaws as to open space about houses are | Capital, *30,000. based, and it is as impoitant tu have wide open spaces behind houses as in front, so as to secure a proper through current of air. The existiug tendency to put up an undue limit on the needed area behind dwelling houses is strongly condemned, as constituting a distinct violation of one of the most vital es sentials to the promotion of health end prevention of a certain class of disesses.— New York Telegram. I. MONTGOMERY, Preit. J. C. RONEY, Vice Praet LESTER WINDSOR Ai«t.(?r. We arc now in our new building in Artesian Block, and ready for business. A Fall Line of Cooking Stoves and Ranges. Gas Fixtures arid Sanitary Goods a Specialty. Globe, Angle and Cheok Valves, Terra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings. Greneral Repair W ork dect-tr TELEPHONE IVo IS. E. A. HAWKINS, Attorney NO. 2830. ESTABLISHED 1867. Peoples’ National Bank - Of Americns. f INCORPORATED 1890. pifl+pQ JAMES FRICKER & BRO. * asmonmtes - Surplus, 926,000 ORGANIZED 1883. H. C. Baolev, Pres. W. K. Hawkins,Sec. & Tr. New York Horara. “Do yon know what I consiuer the I H 0 Bagley, W E Hawkins, S W Coney, most remarkable thing in New York?" w S Glllis, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg, asked a man from the west who had WM Hawkes, BFMathews, G M Byne, been spending a week iu the city. WE Murphoy, 8 Montgomery, J H Pharr. His metropolitan friend suggested t lie | B. P. Hollis. Brooklyn bridge, the hurrying crowds capital STOCK. - - . nrnm. on Broadway, the Stock exchange, the | SURPLUS & Undivided Profits, - *70,401,22. German opera and other stock marvels. Investment Securities. Paid up Oaoital, <1,000,000. ISurplus, $260,000. dibictobs: fare uni aff- »W?lvAJpi one of the is a He' . and went back to the ’ ^MStowSfy^nMlityof Each man took his station therefore in the head correppOildtfig to the point* of the compass,,and as each hag was emp tied the members cried, “Here goes the ashes of ‘Puck’ Meyer. Happy days!” lies of‘Pnck’Meyer. Happy days!” “Happy days to old ‘Pnck’ Meyer,’ said Mr. Rinachler. . “He was a good fellow,” remarked Lient Wegerle. . “You’re right he was,” said the others .■together, according to the prearranged formula. “Do you believe in the resnrrectionf” asked one of the committee of a brother member as they bourded the 5 o'clock boat “Well, 1 gness there's something in but each time tho conntryms- shook his head. “No,” he said finally, "you haven't bit what I mean, though yon see it—or W. B. c. DUDLEY, * Bank of Southwestern Georgia. * M. SPEER, J.W. WHEATLEY, “ ddent “ ‘ 1ET. Assistant Cashier. I have jnit returned from New York, where I purchased a very large stock of DIAMOFDS AND— WATCHES at prioes that will enable hfc' to wll lower than «v,r .before. Our (took is Immense, assortment complete, prices lower than any one. Call and sea for yourselves before baying. C. A. FRICKER, President.- 4O9 JACKSON ST„ AMERICUS, GA (Barlow Block.) Cashier. could see it if you looked- -a hundred times every day. To me. now, the most amazing thing in the whole big town is I J. W. Wheatley, the wonderful indifference the horses C. A. Huntington, H. R. Johnson, show to the elevated trains. Why. if R> J. Parry, J. 0. Nicholson, one of those things should go rearing I A. W. Smith, W. ILC. Dudley, over the heads of my plow horse* tticy'd I Speer. simply have hysterics. A* for my little Ei Bonn, jBt( PreSi M> KkapP) y. p. mare Kitty, she wouldn't stop running till shq got into the next state. , Yonr bones, however, don't even look np when a train passes. 1 really can't un derstand it.”—New York Times. O. A. Colehan, Sea, A Tress, Georgia Loan&TruslCo. Kli,(lenient* to Lou,Ion, A careful newspaper reader, resident in London, who has given much utteu- , tion to elopement statistics, states.that | B 1 x^tnrni on an average fonr elopement* take Negotiates Loans on improved Farm and City Property. Attorney, JEBrvnm. Lend Examiner, place in London every week. Thia wonld | *. 0. UURRAT. PRESIDENT, give a total for the year in round num bers of 200 in a population of something like 6,000,000. Preeuming that the unm- ber of elopements alt over the country is in ..the. same proportion we have a total elopement list of about 1,600, per year. Now that a Gretna Green marriage is PAID DP CAPITAL, J.E.0UU, CASHIER Planters’ Bank of Ellaville, a thing of the-past elopements seem to bn,.on,UMi wane. It, is.stated 1 that at retna Green ,to|l honse alow SOO con- lei wietn *6metlmes nnited in a year.— ondonTit-Bito mtmmlihA Collections a Specialty. -j>i ATjyi" rm. A N«w Way to 8li«ll Egga. At a meeting of the Roys) Meteorolog- leal rodety. Mr. H. B. Soott, F.,8. a, drew attention to a carious case ofjight- nlng stroke which hod occurred at'Bally- ^ami Odimty Hsyo: Ttae eggs mi'In a basket fanthe floor of-a toom Wkefl the hoaee/was struck by the- discharge. It Mgs found that their shells (sll off .when they.wpre put,into,,but iys*ef.toaYiag the inner membrane nnbroken.. Chi be ing cooked they tasted quite well.— Cassell’s-Magakina bsnk solicits deposits sod other business Is 1U U e jaaUewly. Loans negotiated at LOWEST BATES. EM,p»ym«to,cn^ty^r^»dL nct 6 iy Amerlons, Georgia. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. ItT mid the brother laconically „ a got to My Meyer will find a hard job palling Jiim- Jteyer self togetlier when that day comes. Meyer wh 60 years old and came to this country from Hamburg about thirty- five yean ago. He wm one of the first volunteers from Staten Island on the northern tide during the rebellion. He served through the war and get a wound In his left leg in a skirmish in Tennessee. He refused to let tho surgeons .amputate his limb, although they said he couldn't live unless ho did, and brought the leg and the rest of liis body'home' safe ana ■■■MRU /hhknp sound at the end of the war. He never wore an overcoat, always wore a silk hat the year round aud always carried a cane. The Staten island children al most worshiped him. . Meyer provided in * his will that his friends nhonld have a champagne supper after ncuttering Ills ashes, but it was found that no money remained for this. In fact, the mail died a bankrupt. His place at Port Richmond was Hold nnder euro the day after he died. He e child, a wm S years old, by. his at wife. His life was a fast and a 1 hi* friend* hardly knew left The snn spot periodicity is a subject of universal interest, snd little has been sounded of its unfathomable depths. It is known that the cycle is completed in about eleven year*, containing a max imum of activity and a minimum of qnl- eacenev, that the spots are entities in the I solar photosphere, filled with gases or vapors cooler than the surrounding por tions; that the spots move with a vary ing velocity, and that the spot produc ing activity has a direct infiueuce on tiro | magnetism and electricity of the earth. VM. RADAM’S CBOBE KILLER MOT TRULY AMI CORRECILT CALLED Purse thefts seem to be the common thief's special weakness, more than 10 I percent, of the larcenies.etc., brought before the courts being for thefts of puree*. Watches stand second favor- [ ites. More than three-fourths of the pones stolen are the property of ladies, the thieves seeming to find ladies’ pock ets more suitable for picking than men's The Greatest Medicine In the World A WONDERFUL TONIC AUD BLOOD PURIFIER ALMOST KBACTOOTS CUBES Saw Ml Nan, pip! Ate yon in need of machinery of any description? If so, write us yonr wants, ' ■ • • • ■ ■ ‘ Till—* *— " ‘ atlng just what yo ms is heavy macninery suob u SGINES, BOILERS; 'SAW MILLS, AND iery, we defy ooapetttlo t CO.’S oelebrated Wood-’ make you low price*. Oar special bust- H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S oeleb'rated Wood-working machines, on? can dis count factory prices. Be sure'to write for oirculor of "Farmers’ Favorite” n* mill; It is the best on the market Second-hand machinery constantly on hand. ^ * )t save Write for prices and see If we cannot save yon money. 67 SOUTH BROAD STREET, MmUol'IuxTiuhs When You Write. ATLANTA, GA. Baseballs, Bats, ats. I , .,1, 0*t» Stock |o this lisa cannot be surpassed to South (Horfla. HAMMOCKS! HAMMOCKS! T Order elsewhere. Oro- Ustwscn MoDtpctnerr^y^ Amdrions^ via Uatoa It will Tiay ^yDn toeee ns before. net Sets, Croquet Sets! We have lust received a fine assortment in this he, atid'catf'gave y6a money by trading with ns. We wonld not forget to caU your attention to the fact that wo have added to otir general line of Books, and Stationery ', a full line of Moulding and Picture^ Framing,ma- ■'' il, and . we have an experienced man at tbo head of this department, and pan do yotr as good, work as you can have done in Hacon or Atlanta Mail order* will receive special attention. ALLISON & AYCOCK, ate f»Min stROTi' SMSMCtll,' OBOBQI4. The army .of the United State* con sists of R.1ST commissioned officers snd a little oror, J»,0Qp private R|Mtok.f‘ FLEETWOOD A for Sumteroonuty. elusive of thi duties; thus one-i sists of its officers. Th"foreo co*” IA Certain Cora for Dyspepsia. A new method of preparing wood pulp I composition for moldings iadescribed, in There is perhaps no disease bo prendent as DrsDepsI* and imlijre»tion, and one too. tliat up s present time nas baffled the skill of the eminent physicians. Two-thirds of the which"ti;o"w^d"puip"t, wued with |^K’'fT u 'i^ « lironze powders, aniline or luetallic.col- occssiiauiir n»ns*» snd vumitinr.soliiitr, s*w- ryit'f, . nniform ,vilnr nt auv l « BC *. 111111 P* ln 111 the besd, with s ssnsalion ol ore, so as to gne a unnorui ooior or auy hnTlnM ,oVglddlnm, irreruisrltr of bowels, I shade to the pulp. low spirits, sleeplessness. Milo- desired I whethcrtoUu^w|cry over hi* memory. The brownish diseoloraliou of ceiliugs where gas i* used is caused by du»t car ried against them by the heated air rents produced by the irn* went of ktilnejs, sad not u»- -*j oentl’ypslpl tLm of tbs bean. If yo* are .altering with a of these symptons im. Hour’s DTerarmo KW wUl oor* yo*. resparad only by iliita Saw Works J. P. MoVEV, proprotor. RCsnufscturer of Every Variety of Ban sad ttotior ■AW MILL SUPPLIES. Special attention xiveo to Repairing. Agent foe W. L. Power A Oo.*s toiarqtd, Wood Working Machinery. Largo and WsU Selected Prices low. Liberal tonus. Writs for catalogs#. ATLANTA. -GEORGIA On May i, at the side track at Furlow' Lawn, the OOMULGEE BRICK COMPANY AND THE— RIVER8 LUMBER COMPANY WrLL OPFN A SALES YARD FOB BRICK, LUMBER AND SHINGLES A man will be in charge of the yard to deliver goods to customers. A full stock of everything will lie kept. Your orders solicited. 4-30 DUNLAP HATS. THE LATEST STYLES AND SHAPES. ARTHUR RYLANDER, .. .>»-.! • - -Jeans-. -• • , - * , S • » .. '.sww.wpi: Jaeksoh St FURNISH THE LATEST FAPEBS OJ 70D10 V. NOVELS, -a/ cO :«•> MAGAZINES ^OX Will receive subscriptions for anyTpaper or uubic.ition. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. PLACE. Mardre’s Book Store. Amoricus tOUTE. Savannah, Americas A Montgomery R’y. TIME TABLE Taking Effect April 19,1891. HIT, 7 00 p m rwi Ive .a..Birmingham*' “ Cbildersburg lv«j B os a 27 15 pm iioiMstoiiufiriiiiiirf iv$ bos Ive ByUcanx» Ire 4 40 Ire..... ..•Opelilu lv®| l u Wo., ... Ellaville arr .• KlUvUlt, We . Americua arr Ire AaMTletiB We IN . Cordite.. lre,.^v.___ r _ TT . 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