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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: WEDNESDAY, MAI 13, 1891. STRANGE 80UTHERN BIROS. s Hopkliit DeKtlta., Sam. Deulscns of the Virgin 1 * Ilacktroml.. ••Diilu* JO' never hyar *bout elpen- strjchersr asked Sam Hopkins the other Kim is »little colored chap that runs errands and makes himself generally nsoful about an uptown hotel. Ho hails from Charlottesville, Va.. and what Sam doesn't know about the Virginia woods isn’t worth knowing. Sam may trifle with the truth sometimes, but he puts on such an air of injured innocence when any of his statements are doubted that you are almost forced to belieye him. ’ "Never hyard’bout elpenstretchers?" he again repeated. “Why, they're the curinsest birds in all Virginny. What they’s like? Why, bless yo' stars, they ain't like nothin,’, in.these hyar parts. Yo' kin only find’em in the swamps back o' Charl'tsville, in the spring time, too. ••Wliar they is in the summer’ They ain’t nowhsr. They’s jess frogs an' lit- ards. Well, when yo’ want far to shoot elpenstrechers yo’ takes your gun an' goes out in the swamp at night. Yo' see they burrows in the ground day times an’ comes out at night to feed. "They's bigger’n a quail, an’ most as big as a ’en. Ain't got no feathers— only long bristles, like a porky-pine. They's us black as yo’ hat, too. an’ looks like n young rooster with his feathers all pulled out. Good to eat? Yes, siree. Jlos’ as good as ’possum. Yo' has to be mighty keerfnl, too, for if a elpen strecher sticks yo' with one o’ them ar quills yon's a dead man, sartain sure. In the summer time they changes into liz ards an’ frogs. They’s Jess' the bigges’ frogs you ever see, too. “An’ yo’ never hyard o' soras neither? Well, sakes alivel Why, me_ an’ my Cousin Bill killed mos' a tho'nsand of 'em in one night. Soras is jess like black birds, only smaller. "All yo’ has to do is to go in the woods with a pitchwodd light An’a long pole. I jess went oat one night with a.light an' pole, an’ Bill h# Mid a big bag. Jess as fas’ as Td knock ’em off the limb they’d fall In Bill’s bag. But they’s common all over Virginny. “Then they’s the gingas cutus, big- ger'n a nelepliant, add the vrhangtdoodle bird that flies aroun' nights and carries off pigs and cattle. An’ say, mister, they's got a green bug down there mos' a foot high, an' "Hoi’ on, sah! That ain't half they's got down there.” Then, as I had turned to leave, after expressing my incredulity, Sam remarked, with an air of injured innocence: “Well, ef it doan' jess beat me. These hyar Yankees won’b’lieve nothin less they sees ’em.’’—New York Herald. A HOLY PLACE IS THE HEARTHSTONE A holy place la the hearthstone. Where loved ones arc gathered round. Where uiothem, sires and aielen dear' . Ana brothers and friends ore found. A holy place is the Uenrthetoun, Home’s innermost shrine is ’.here. Laden with blessed henleon And lmllowcd by lovin™ prayer. A holy place is the beartlrnfmo: What clustering joy* nMUo Where the cradle of our infancy Was rocked by a mother’s bide. A holy place is the heartlibtouc. Where childhood’s pattering feet Go glancing in blrnde and annshino To tho music of pleasure’s beat. FINANCIAL. % I. H. HAWKINS % H. C- BAGLEY. Vice Pres'l W.E. VRPhEY. Cashier. 'HGANIZED 1870. -*0The Ba.tk of Americus.g*- Designated Depository State of Georgia. • Stockholders Indfyldually liable. •il> EG.|OR8:— H. C. Bagley. Pres. Americas Investment Co. A holy place is the hearthstone. Where the youth have wooed and won. And wed and gone to the battle Of life with full armor on. A holy place is the heart list our. Where manhood has settled down With blessings blossoming round him. And love for a priceless crown. .1 Conductor’s Suavity. A Pennsylvania railroad conductor on one of the limited trains between New York and Washington the other night entered the first coach, fonnd it crowd ed, and in one of the front seats upon tho left was a young man. Ho was well, even elegantly, dressed. In his hand he held a French novel. Upon his sranll and ordinary countenance there sat the haughty look of reserve of the imitation gentleman. ' When the conductor entered and called for the tickets this youthful person af fected to be so absorbed iu Ills book that the conductor passed him by, calling first upon the rest of the passengers, even going clear through the train be fore be retained to disturb the haughty * reader. When the conductor came back the young perspu still refused to pay any attention. Tho conductor waited a mo ment and then called out rathe? sharply The yonthfal and 'now' thoroughly contemptuous person, noticing that the man, whom he called the guard of the train, hod addressed him with some bnuqaeness, which he translated into rudeness, took bis ticket and, without looking at the conductor; threw it upon the floor. The graduate 61 the Pennsyl vania school of manners was fully equal to this unusual situation. He showed no temper, no excitement, nor any lack of repose. With the calm gravity of m man who is sure of himself he stooped to the floor, punched the fallen ticket the requisite number of times with great gravity, and then qnietly laid it back upon the floor where it had been dropped and walked calmly oo amid the roars of the entire car.—T. C. Crawford in New A hnly plarcls the heartbi-lour. Whence the old and young have mine To r from their weary lahoe When the battle of life an* done. And oh, from the holy bml'lliitnuc. When parted from Ihoeo we love. May we go to meet by the hearthstone Of our Fathcr'a house above! —New York I..vlger. A Cnrnl.l, Custom. Of tho more modern and wholly quaint and innocent customs of Cornwall a few pleasant illustrations may he citeii. The fish wives of aucient St. Ives are an in corrigible lot. Should you visit the town at the height of pilchard fishing, and en ter the dark cellars where hundreds of women and girls are engaged in “bnllt- ing,” or salting, the fish, scores of grin ning Amazons will rush at yon. and the fleetest one will danb yonr shoes gener ously with the odorons fish oil which has drained from the piles of curing fish. This is called “wiping the shoe," and if yon flo not respond with tribute of at least a half crown for luck of the "fair iqaida that feed and clothe tho poor”— that is, the pilchard Ashes —your snbso- quent “hustling” by these savory wenches will certainly cost yon a new suit of clothing. The same custom, sava that the daubing is done with “miner'a clay,” prevails within the mines, where the stranger is expected to pay some thing for his initiation into their mys teries.—Edgar L. Waicemao in New. York Sun. The Uarber Wai Ready. An old veteran told this ns happening at Savannah during the war: A yonng officer, who was pretty much of a holly, stopped in at a tonsoriai sa loon. Drawing his sword lie ordered the barber to share him. at the same time warning him that if lie cat his face or drew a drop of blood ho would kill him when he got np. The operation was performed without accident. Before he went ont, however, the bally asked the artist if he was not very much fright ened while he was doing tho work The barber smiled. “Not in the slightest.' for if I had accidentally drawn » drop of blood I would have cut your tliront from ear to ear before yon conlcl have moved.”—Atlanta Constitution. York Tribune. now Playing Marbles Are Made. Nearly all the common marbles which drag down the pockets of onr boys are made in Oberatein, Germany. They are made from the rpfnse of the agate and stone quarries in that neighborhood. The stone is broken into email cubes by blows of a light hammer.. These small blocks of stone ire thrown by the shovel ful into the “hopper” of a small mill, formed of a bed of stone, having Ussur- face grooved with conoenbated furrows; ■bove thnns is the “runner,” which is made of hard wood having a level face pn its lower surface. This' upper block is made to revolve rapidly, water being delivered upon the grooves of the bed stone where the marbles are being rounded. It takes about fifteen minutes to finish a bnahel of good marbles ready for “snapping.” One mill will torn ont 170,000 marbles per week. The very hardest “crackers,” as the boys call ibem, are made by a slower process, somewhat analogous, however, to the ether.-New York Teh Weight of French Money. A Frenchman, who evidently revels in handling large sums of money, has com piled some entertaining statistics with regard to the weight of a milliard of the French coin of tho realm. According to him a milliard in silver weighs 10.000,000 pounds; in gold, 013,160 pounds; in 1,000 franc checks, 2,300 pounds, and in 100 franc checks, 23,000 pounds Assuming that a carrier conld carry • hundred weight. 18 men wonld la- required to carry a milliard in 1.000 franc checks, 110 men for the same snm in 100 franc checks, 3,223 men In gold and 50,000 In silver. A milliard in 1,000 franc checks would make 2,000 volumes of BOO pages each.—Boston Herald. n. rrei. amcncus invpsiine P. C. Clegg, Fret. Ocmulgee Brick Co. Jot. Dodson, or job. Dodson & Son, Attorney*. O. W. Glover, Pros’* Americus Grocery Oo. 8. H. Hawkins, Prea’t 8. A. & m. Railroad. 8. Montgomery. Prea’t Peonies National Bank. J W- Sheffield, of Sheffield#Co., Hardware. T. Wheatley, wholesale dry goods. W. E. Murphey, Cashier. E. P. FARRIS, Pre*. BLOOM BROWN. So©. A Trent. C. P. PAYNE, M’g’r. Americas Supply Go., Successors to HABBIS & PAYNE, Plumbers and Gas Fitters. THE BANK OF SUMTER T. N. HAWKES, O. A. COLEMAN, President Vice-President W. C. FURLOW, Cashier. DIRECTORS- O. A. Coleman, C. C. Hawkins, JL II. Jossey, T. N. Hawkes, W. C. Furlow, W. H. Cl. Wheatley, R. S. Oliver, H. M. Brown, W. M. Hawkes, I)r. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Rylandcr. Liberal to its customers, accommoda ting to the public and prudent in its management, this bank hollclts depoiita and other business in its line. S. MONTGOMERY, Pratt. 1. C. RONEY, Vies Pratt. WIN ' INO. WINDSOR. C’r. LESTER WINDSOR Ant. C’r. E. A. HAWKINS, AKontsy NO. 2830. Peoples’ National Bank Of Americas, Capital, •30,000. Surplus. *23,000 ORGANIZED 1683. H. C. Baolsv, Pres. W.E. Hawaii's, tee. Air. Investment Securities. Paid up Capital, .1,000,000. (Surplus, .260,000, DIRECTORS if- H C Bagley, W E Hawkins, S W Coney, WSGillls, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg, W M Hawkes, B F Mathews, O M Byne, W E Murphey, S Montgomery, J H Pharr. B. P. Hollis. Machinery Supplies. We are now in our new building in Artesian Block, and ready for business. A Full Line of Cooking Stones and Ranges. Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Snecialty. Globe, Angle and Check Valves, Te r ra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings. Greneral R^T>aii* TV^ork TELEPHONE No 18. THE 'Hi. FURNISH THE LATEST PAPERS NOVELS, ESTABLISHED 1867. INCORPORATED 1890, JAMES FRICKER & BRO. CAPITAL STOCK* - - - - #100.000. SURPLUS# Undivided Profit** • #70,401*22. * Bank of Southwestern Georgia. * M. SPEKIt, J. W. WHEATLEY* President. “ I have just returned from New York, where I purchased a very large stock of DIAMONDS WATCHES at prices that will enable us to sell lower than ever before. Our stock Is Immense, assortment complete, prices lower than any one. Call and see for yourselves before buying. C. A. FRICKER, President 4O9 JACKSON ST., 1UEBICUS, GA (Barlow Block.) .sssj Jaul-ti DIRECTOR? I lie replied: J. W. Wheatley, E. J. Eldridgo, C. A. Huntington, H. R. Johnson, R. J. Perry, J. C. Nicholson, A. W. Smith, W. H. C. Dudloy, M. Speer. Rowr Fare Ornamentation. At any time from 1. to 23 yean of age the male Esquimaux have their lower Upa pierced under each corner of the month for labrets. When the incision is first made sharp pointed pieces of Ivory are put in. After the wound heals the hole is grad ually stretched to half an inch in diame ter. Some of the poorer natives wear labrets made from cannel coal, ivory, common gravel and glass stoppers ob tained from ships, which they shape for the purpose. All who can obtain tb*m have agate one*.—Washington Letter. E. Burk, Jr., Pres. H. M. Knapp, V. P. O. A. Coleman, See, a Treas, Negotiates Loans on improved Farm and City Property. B F Hollis, Attorney, J E Bivins. Land Examiner. W. D. MURRAY. PRESIDENT. 1. E. CLARK, CASHIER Planters’ Bank of Ell&fille, EUariUs, Georgia. PAID DP CAPITAL. . , . Collections a Specialty. Liborol to It* ©ottoman* aoooaupbdattag to tbs public and prudent In Its mauagsiaaat, this rank solicits deposits sod other business la Its U s JanMawly. LOANS. Loans negotiated at LOWEST RATES. Easy payments, on city or term tends. J. J. HANE8LBY, net & ly Americus. Georgia. How Blark Twain Scam*. The opinions of our serving folks are Bometirfies worth knowing. At the Mur ray Hill hotel the other day oue of the porters remarked: “There goes the eol- emnest and disinaleat gent as ever stopped at this *ouse. I don’t b*lieve he ever lcnowed what it was to larf.” The subject of this depressing And melancholy criticism was Samuel L. Clemens* Esq., of Hartford, Conn., not unknown to admirers of serious, and in structive literature as Mark Twain.— New York World. degram. A Mod Bom. Mrs. Drubbins (who has been reading the performances of a somnambulist) 7-The paper says that test night a man jumped ont of a window to the roof of another house* nnd ran along that till came to a church roof, when he leaped ttiat and climbed up the steeple, kfl- Drubbins—How long h;ul they “ con married?—Good News. Joseph Jefferson is not only an admir able actor, bqt he iaa painter of much roman? would Imre boo* saflfefeat to DlKOT.qr of Mabocany. In theyrar l397 one of Sir Walter Ra leigh’s shijps, in an expedition sgsinat the Azores, put in at Trinidad for repair*. The workmen used the first wood that came to hand, and it happened to be the now famons mahogany. By this accident it was first introduced into Englsnd, when it was much admired, but it did not become an article of commerce nntll a century later. Since then it has held first rank as a cabinet maker’s wood.— Golden Days. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. VM. RADAH’S Saw Mil Men, Attention ! Are you In need of machinery of any description? If so, write us your wants, >u desire and we will : *— * ” ' vy machinery snob ss itlng lost what you dosiro and we will make yon low prices. Onr spsclal busi ness is heavy machinery i ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOOD-WORIING MACHINERY, ery, we defy oompstttlon. We are !CO.’8< ‘ ‘ r ~ ” *• ” agents for udea and for first-class macblnei.. _ H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S celebrated Wood-working roachlnos, anrf can dis count factory prices. Be sure to writs for circular of “Farmers’ Favorite” saw mill; it Is the best on th* market Second-hand machinery constantly on hand. Write for prices and sue It we cannot save yon money. Perkins Machinery Company, 67 SOUTH BROAD STREET, HsotlM, Ian Tnxs Wbao.Too Writ*. ATLANTA, GA. JanaSMAwlystr Baseballs, Bats, ats. Our stock ia this lino cannot be surpassed In Mouth Georgia. HAMMOCKS! It will pay you to see us before placing your order elsewhere. Cro quet Sets, Croquet Sets i We have just received » fine assortment in this line, and can save yon money by trading with us. We would not forget to call your attention to the fact that we have added to omr general line of Books and Stationery a full line of Moulding «nd Picture Framing ma terial, and we have an experienced man at the bead of thia department, and ean do you ns good work as you can have done in Macon or Atlanta Mail orders will receive special attention. Fashion Plates. Will receive subscriptions for anylpaper or oubicition. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. PLACE. Mardre’s Book Store. Americus News Go. S, A. M. ROUTE. Savannah, Americas A Montgomery R’y. THIE TABLE Taking Effect April 10,1801* arr.. 700 0 27 It 00 4 so a m I 7oopn lva Klrniincham a S ....Childenburg b Svlacaiiica Ivei 4 40 ..... ..n)pelln......lv0l 1 2? arr Columtra*. arr 11 4ft am Ire Columliu* Ire 11 20 ^Javlllo... Ire * Kllaville. arr Americas... Ire America*..... Ire Cordele Ire Ire Helena Ira Lyons Ire . arr 0 06 H AO * 20 * 00 0 20 3 66 1 66 7 40 pm B 20 pm orr. ...Charle*toB.>... arr 2 16 hetw’n Montgomery and America*, via Q|>cHka 8 10 a m Ire.....Montgomery ..,.arr| 7 16 pm ! 10 a m lve.....kontgomery ....arrl 7 15 p 16 p ra Ire Opelika arr i 05 * • 46 arr .. .. Anwirteim ......Ire 1 * ao a 40 a m Ire, ria Unkm tgomery.. We Columbus.. Amnricufi . ALLISON & AYCOCK, CBOBE KILLER Mon ntAY AkD eoatECTLY CALLED The Greatest Kedleins In the World A WONDERFUL TONIC &SD BLOOD PURIFIER AIVOST1CBACULQV3 OOSSS invursbla dlwass. -Uh by curing. To. w., n. Looky. A New York statistician and financier figures that out of 20,000 men only 8,000 will die worth over $10,000, and only 8,000 who can bo called rich. He says that 8,000 men lose (2,000 and upward per year, and thnt 2,000 men lose $10,000 each where one mukee $100,000.—Detroit Free Press. *>.. B.r P.Ik. Mr. Biehman—Have canes Mira State- atr JHow cruel mural You shouldn’t poke fn at th* ' !«••• ft”? . byphysldaui, and it DOES HOT mSATPCOTT ezpeSTATIONS. FLEETWOOD A RUSSELL, Sole Agents RUSSELL, Sole Agen for Sumter couuty. july22-dlyr A Certain Care for Dyspepsia. There U perhaps no dlseeM bo prevalent a* Dyipepiia and IndigeBtlon, and one too, that np totnepre«eDttlmenaa.balned the *kill of the most eminent physician*. Two-third* of the chronic diieaM* bora their origin in Djr*pej>*la. he •ymptoma are loo* of appriite, Iom of ae*h, feeling of falnee* or weight fn the stomach, Moeioaolly mneea and **’* ooaaatoaally bmmb and romlli n* .aeliUty, flat» tniucra. GEORGIA. Atlanta k Iris I J. P. MoYEY, propretor, Msnnfsctnrw of Emy Variety of Beam sad deal* saw mu aurpura. apedsistmtioagino toKrasiriug. AgsutforW.LFoust• Co.’s fniibnitsil targe sad W#U Beieeted Stock ready for thlpmtut Pricer lew. Liberal termr. Write fee catalogue. ATLANTA, -GEORGIA On May i, at the side track at Furlow Lawn, the OCMULGEE BRICK COMPANY AND THE RIVERS LUMBER COMPANY WILL OPFN A SALES YAKD FOR 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. 4-80 LAP HATS. Betw’n Montgomery and Amerlcne* via Eufanla t.k a |0ilva7... .Montgomery arr 11 40 r It*.. Eafaula Ire . America*lva Between Anerjcae and jBckaonvUle, via Helena lllam . 0 10 iur Brunswick Ira 7 60 [arr..... JsofcMorili* Ira cib*a ooBM^aammil HSaEBB - - td da i « oo a* 3 r» am It oo pm — -ffy for au lata la the Boathweet, and at Auierfcus for all point* In the Northwest. Sleeping car* between Colombo* and Saran- FMsengers from Charleston destined to points wool of Sovannah, change cars atC. & 8. June- W. N.MARSH ALL. Gen. Bapertntendent. Americui.Ga. J, M. C’AKOLA N, E. 8. GOODMAN, Gen. Fas*. Agent. isas.-’errf „ West«n P*ra.Agfc, 8t. Louis, Ko. M. D. ROTES, T. r. A, Anifricui. C*. JKO. T. AROO, c. b. a., Americana*. East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia R’y Syste: -18 TOE ONLY— Short and Direct Line to the Forth, Enst or iping Cor* in This line Ih conceded to be tl and run* the fluent Pullman the South. Elegant Pullman Sleeping Cars, between Jacksonville and Cincinnati, Titusville and Cincinnati, Brunswick and Louisville, Chattanooga and Washington, Memphis and New York, Philadelphia and Naur Orleans,