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AND MEMORY,
IT LOOKED A3 THOUGH THE MAN
WAS GUILTY OF A CRIME.
A Cano Which .fellows That Circumstantial
Bvidencfi Is Ifot Always Conclusive
Proof of (lullt-rA Woman Makes Up in
Itorbeurancu Her Loss of Memory.
Two weeks ngo a family of two per
son*—husband and wife—rented u small
apartment up town and proceeded to
fumisb it. Tho carpets were supplied
and laid by a reputable home. .Some
thing about one of them was unsatisfac
tory, and a man was sent to investigate.
The wife—Odra. L.—was on her way out
of the building to post a letter when she
encountered him. Recognizing him, she
said: “Here 13 the key; X will bo back in
fire minutes. Go up and see what can
he done."
No Sooner had she got on the street
when Bhe thought suddenly of a roll of
bills, nearly. (100, which sho had care
lessly left in a glove box on her dressing
table. There was nobody in tho apart
ment, as no*servant had yet been en
gaged, ami sho was teiuptod to return at
once to look after tho money. “But
surely." sho'thought, “thatr man in hon
oet; I need have no four,” and sho hur
ried on.
In less than ten minutes she was back,
and met tho carpet man just outside
door. He stopped and spoke with her
concerning tha troublesome carpet, and
promised a speedy remedy. They sepa
rated and she entered hor apartment.
Almost mechanically sho went to her
dressing table and raised the lid of the
glove box. The money was not there.
DAMAGING EVIDENCE.
Without delaying an instant she har
ried into the hall and down the stain,
overtaking the carpet man as ha had
reached the street
“Will yon come back a moment,
please?" she said.
He did so at once. When they were
again in tho apartment she faced liim.
“A curious thing has bappened.*When
I went ont-this morning 1 left a roll
^ bills—(90—in that box over there. It
’gone now."
Tho man did not seem to understand
for a moment “Well,” ho said unmean
ingly.
“Well," repeated Mrs. L., “there was
nobody in tho apartment but’’—
The man interrupted her. “God,
madam,” he said earnestly as the signifi
cance of her words downed upon him,
“yon don’t think I took your money?”
“I don’t know what to think,” replied
Hn. L.; “the money was there and now
it Isn’t”
“But I’m nn honest man,” lie went on.
“I’ve got a littlo girl. Do you, think I’d
steal? Why, I've been eight jVars with
So-and-so. They know my, character.
Look around for your money. Perhaps
your hasband took it”
“That is possible," said Mrs. L. “Will
yon come with me to his office and find
out?" .
He acquiesced and the journey down
town was made. Mr. L. had not taken
the money. The man was greatly dis
turbed.
“Youcansearchme,"hosald. “There’s
my own mogey,’ 1 producing a small wad
from my last week's wages,
n't anothor cent about me.” And
s turned his pookets inside ont
Mr. L. was impressed with the man's
appearance and earnestness. Mrs. L.
was puzzled audhor money was gone.
• ' A CASE OF POOR MEMORY.
However, nothing further whs done at
the thne, and the man went back to his
work asking only that he and not they
report the occurrence at the carpet deal
er’s shop. Mrs. L. went home and ran
sacked drawers' and boxes, moved fur
niture, and opened tranks in a vain
search for tl)o money. Boreral days
pissed, when, on going to an upper
shelf in a wardrobe, Mrs. L.’s attention
was attracted to a towel pinned in a roll.
What was that? ihawondered. She took
it down and oponW it. Inside was a
discarded wallet; and in the wallet the
missing Mils. ’
And they had been put there by Mrs.
L. herself: She recalled, on seeing them,
that tho night before the man came she
had thought,'jnst before going to bed,
that it was careless, with so many per
sons coming and going in the conne of
the settling procosa, to leave money loose
in a box on the table, and she had elabo
rately thought ont this hiding place.
Then she had slept, and by morning had
lost all recollection of what she had done.
It was late Saturday afternoon when
. She found the money, and storming, bat
It’muit be related to Mrs. U’s credit
that she did what she coaid. She sent a
dispatch to the man in cure of his firm
stating that the money was found. On
Monday she went to the shop and ex-
plai nod the matter to the superintendent,
asking'that the nun be asked to come
to soe her. He did so and received oh
apology for the imputation on his honesty.
Then Mrs. L. tried to reimburse him
for Ms “loss of time,*” this he would not
permit, Tho mbney was fonnd-rthat
was all he wanted. So it all ended bap-
. pily. But tho story may be taken as
forcibly illustrating the uncertain value
of two things—a woman's memory and
circumstantial ovidence.—Her Point of
Vjew in New York Times.
Miraculous.
“Bro'er Johnsing, does yo' bTieve in
;i miracle.?"
“Does I i/Ueveia miracles?' Snttenly
Idocs. -Didn't 1 * jest bare one of ’em
down at my house?”
“Yon? A miracle down at your house?”
“Yes, sah; dat's what I said. ' Dey was
jes? fonh Chickens In my coop when I
went to bed las' night, an' when I woked
np dls momiu’”-—
“Dey was eight?”
“Eight? No, yo'fool man! Dey wasn’t
none.* Dcnostole.”
“Humph! Wha’s de miracle?"
| “Do coop was lef.”—Judge.
Xon*€ouductor* of Hoot.
Grouivl cork and twine other barks,
and tho sawdust of the soft woods, as
well as the charcoal ’made of these sub
stances, are very good retainers of beat.
Lampblack also works well. When $he
thing to lie kept hot is at a very high
temperature, some light, incombustible
powders are very suitable. Among the
best of these are fossil meal and the cal
cined magnesia and magnesium carbon
ate of. the druggists. Fossil meal con
sists of the silicious skeletons of micro
scopic vegetables, called diatoms, ex
ceedingly various in shape and size, the
very largest of them hardly reaching the
length of the hundredth of an inch. It
is found abundantly in some*t»eat mead
ows and iu the bottoms of pou U,. Both
fossil ineal and magnesium carbonate
have ln‘en largely used in covering steam'
pipes.
Obviously, when the same light sub
stance is tried in both tho first ami sec
ond apjKiratus above ratmtioued, and the
results differ, it must be owing to the in
ability of tho substance'to hold the in
cluded air still in the first arrangement.
So powdered plumbago or black lead,
which is very slippery, shows nearly
twice as much transmissive power in one
as in tlie other. Loosened ;ud>estos
fiber also lets through about twice 'as
much heat in the vertical arrangement
as in the horizontal. Yet this fiber may
Ik? split up exceedingly fine, but the great
difference in its behavior as compared
with cotton or wool must be owing much
less to its own greater specific conduct
ing power than to the smoothness and
inelasticity of its fibers.—Professor John
M. Ordway in Popular Science Monthly.
KNOWN 'BY THEIR TICKS.
CHARACTER READING
MANY MILES QF
Telegraph Operator* Know the DUjrt»»l-
limit of Each Other from the Way Me**
lagrt Are Sent from One City to An
other—Some of the Freaks.
C, P, P,AYXE, M’g’r.
THROUGH
WIRES.
Americas Supply-Co.,
The Handkerchief In France.
Lace was used to ornament handker
chiefs* in Prance as early as 1(534. In
KU8 they were embroidered and had tas
sels at each of the four comers. In the
time of the Directory, that i>eriod of
fashionable eccentricity, tbev underwent
many vagaries. Those ladies who did
not care to wear the pocket attached to
the girdlo and wishod to have the hands
at liberty tucked the fan into the belt,
slid the parse into the corsdge and hod
the liandkerchief carried by a gallant,
to whom it was nece&ary to apply when
it happened to be needed. If tho hand-'
kerchief carrier cohid not be found, ok*
was insidiously flirting with another Wo
man, and the nose imperatively demand
ed blowing, the case was serious.
When the French blow tho nose, it
should be remembered, it is for all it is
worth. Noonowho has not witnessed
the performance conld ever believe tho
nasal passages possessed of such a sonor
ous quality, and when tho effort is sev
eral times repeated one might easily im
agine himself listening to the Angel
Gabrielrehearsing for the last judgment.
The French fashion in this respect is not
to he recklessly imitated like Paris styles
in laceo. silks and satins, fans, dresses,
bonnets and other things pertaining to
female attire.—San Francisco Chronicle.
’ Victim* by Thousand*.
Records of great earthquakes fill a
largo space in the world's history, and
instances where people have perished by
thousands from this cause ore mourn
fully numerous. An earthqnnke accom
panied by n volcanic eruption destroyed
tlio cities of'Pompeii and Herculaneum
and buried most of their inhabitants in
the rains in the year 79, A. D. The en
tire world was shaken from piqnaclo to
foundation stone in the year 513. In 057
Constantinople suffered terribly from an
earthquake, which killed thousands of
its inhabitants. In 743 an awfnl shock
visited China, India, Persia and Palestine,
killing hundreds of thousands of human
beings, besides beasts beyond calculation.
In 1158, 20,000 person perished from an
earthquake shock in Syria alone; in 1368,
60,000 were killed or bailed alike in
Cilicia. In 1456, 40,000 were killed in
Naples. In 1531 Lisbon, Portugal, h*A
her first great shock—that which killed
,000 people. In 1830 Naples was again
visited ondhad 70,000 of her people takeo
away by the earthquake demon. The
next year tho Schamaki was constantly
rocked by earthquakes for three months,
daring which time 80,000 pereohs were
killed.—St. Loais Republic.
A Difference In Uoys.
There is a vast difference between the
ways and ideas of amnaement of the
small boy uptown and tho stnal) boy
downtown who makes his living by sell
ing papers, shining muddy boots or be
ing messenger. For instance, the. down
town newsboy scorns to throw snowballs
a usual thing. He will shake dice,
“match” coppers or smoke cigarettes and
discuss seme melodrama playing in his
favorite Bowery thpntre, but he abso
lutely declines to throw snowballs. On
the other hand, his more innocent broth-
seven or eight miles higher np on the
island still clings to the good old fash
ioned sport of “posting” everything and
everybody with a snowball. That’s all
association, of conne.—New York Trib-
Borrowed skate* Saved Mr# Flower'* %lfe.
Like all boys, I had my trials and vi
cissitudes,” said Mr. Roswell P. Flower.
While skating one day I slid into an
airhole. I would have drowned had not
my companion, at considerable risk to
himself, succeeded in rescuing me after
several attempts, daring which ho -was
more than once on the point of sliding
with me. When we reached the vil
lage he tried to say that he conld not
The telegraph operators of this city
are noted the world over as exerts.
Not only are they masters of their art us
a class, but many of tiiein have de
veloped the wonderful faculty of rend
ing character by the.sharp ticks that
emanate from the little brass instru
ments. For instance, any old time, op
erator who ranks as first rate can tell by
the tick of the machine in Philadelphia
what manner of man is at tho other end
of the wire, uo matter whether he be in
Chicago, New York or any oilier distant
city.* Just as the bank cashieVs recog
nize the signatures of old customers,
so da telegraphers identify fri^uls by
their “sending** or writing.
The fast, jerky sender, who stops
every few minutes, to tighten this screw
yr loosen that spring, or to talk with his
desk mate easily tells the receiver that
he is a nervous, irresponsible young man
of little experience and less judgment;
he* warns the receiver to be on constant
watch for errors, for which ho will shirk
Any responsibility. Without having def
inite reason to say so, the receiver will
not hesitate to assert that such a sender
would lie himself out of any difficulty
that might arise.
The fearless, manly telegrapher is the
man who sends even, well spaced Morse
—fast, of course, but steady withal, and
sends “all the time.” This man seldom
has "cases.” Ho impresses the receiver
at once that he is invariably correct.
He never stops for bad copy, because he
always reads a message ahead of the One
ho is sending, and returns any he cannot
decipher to the clerks before starting it.
This sort of mun has a friend in every
office. All the students and operators iu
way stations know him. They recognize
his sending nnd appeal to him ns would
a child to an older brother. This man's
character is Well known to everyone
with whom ho works.
SNEAKS, JOKES AND DL'DES.
The sneak is quickly discovered and
promptly "roasted." Ho sends slowly,
and with uu aggravating drag. Ho never
swears on the wire, which, by the way,
is certain to be rewarded by dismissal
if reported, although a majority of oper
ators*™ more or less profane. While
this man may not have been in the
bnsiness ut the time of any strike, ho is
certain to lie called a “scab" by all the
out of town men, with whom.ho has fre
quent spats.
Practical jokers and witty men are
generally indifferentoperators,bnt usual
ly have a reputation, reaching from San
Francisco to Boston, which 'always se
cures them work at good salaries. Their
characteristics are denoted by the small
amount 'of business they handle, not
withstanding tho fact that they seem to
work .every minute. They make all
sorts of Wanders and worry the receiver
sick, depending upon their good humor
and new stories to sqnaro matters.
Dade operators, like their funny breth
ren, are poor artists, hut they are not
fortuuato in the way of acquiring "repu
tation;" They never need tell the re
ceiver that they love dress and think of
littlo else. Their freqnont' stops and
silly ohattcr between messages tell it for
them. After six months’working with
an operator of this sort the receiver conld
describe him almost to a positive exact'
ness without ever having seen him or
heard him described.
FEMALES AND THAMES.
Surly, morose and tramp operators are
alike as to ability. They are all fine tel
egraphers. Their characters are well
defined by sUenoe, and they are’ distin-
* one from the other by bits of in
RES STPHIUS
Cubes scrofulA.
- Machinery Supplies.
We are now in our new building in Artesian Block,
and ready for .business. - •
A Full Line of Cooking Stores and Ranges.
Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a SDecialty.
Globe, Angle and Check Valves,
Terra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings.
Greneral Repair "W ork
TELEPHONE No IS.
Icantln* properties of P. P. P. Prickly Aik. Pok* R«sl
P D
f’ in*' <9 Jm T
Cures dyspepsia
IIPPMAff BEOS, Proprietors,
Druggists, Llppmaa’s Bleak, BAVAH3AH, 0
For sale by the DAVENPORT DRUG
COMPANY, Amerlcus, Ga.|
£U/C£n Cf
OW/CE
HELP
WANTED
•!«> I,,,.
from day to day by the tramps. ,
tell their story when they .correct errors
discovered in tha addressee of messages
relayed from one dty to another, and by
suggesting some word to tako the place
Bf pM badly written by.sonie newspaper
man whose “copy" they had “handled."
Lady operators are Identified by the
lightness of their sending, few of them
being able to work on long distance
wires. On this account “Clara" is a fa
vorite name for light senders of either
sex, and their character aa well as their
sex 1^ revealed by their constant anxiety
and ever faithfulness, as well as by their
disposition to talk.
Few people understand why telegra
phers use so mnch and snch a variety of
slang. This is easily accounted for.
The iflen In New York and San Francis
co oommnnicate all the latest phrases to
Chicago, from which point Galveston,
Denver, New Orleans and Ogden receive
the "new talk," and the forces at Phila
delphia, Pittsburg, Richmond and Bos
ton acquire their stock from New york.
In this way a bright saying heard by an
operator in New York is repeated the
world over the same day, as the cable
Operators are quito os slangy as tho rest
of the craft.—Philadelphia Record.
Where Every Mu le a Fire Alarm.
An original mode eff soundinp, a fire
alarm is adopted in a town in Colorado.
In that region the revolver is considered
an indispensable article of datyy wear,
and affords the quickest means of on-
have pulled mo ont if ho had had hi* nounciug to the rest of the community
■Irntna nn hut u-lmf Ka nvatitnnllv >1{,1 ik. f...........1: .1. nn ...
skates on, but what ho eventually did
was that he would have let me sink
had not hml his skates on."—Epoch.
say
A Clear IlearC
“I toll yon, laugh aa yon will, Mr.
Softer has a clear head."
• "Indeed!”
i “Yea; clear of all brains.”—West Shore.
TT*
Enas of Craba and Lobsters.
Crabs and lobsters are hatched from
eggs, resembling upon birth nothing so
mnch os tho iiuimalculm shown by the
microscope in a drop of ditch water.
They arc as nnlika tho shellfish tt|ey are
to become in mature life aa a irrnbTs un
like a butterfly. In the case of the crab
the egg clusters ore attached Ubneoth
the animal after extrusion, wliilo with
the lobster they become fastened to the
tedl, which,, by ita fanning motion, in-
creaaea the stream of oxygenated air
the impending danger. Whcnovar a lira
is discovered a rapidand prooiiscons dis
charge of this firearm spreads the news
through tho town. This method, thongh
crudo, is found to work fairly well. It
link, however, one drawback in that the
fire department, as well as the public, is
often uncertain whether a fire or a fight
is in progress, and whatever the truth
may turn out to bo somebody is sure to
be disappointed.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
To take the place
of a corset-if you won’t wear
one-try the Ball waist.
That’s, just what you can
do. You can try it, and even
ir it for two or three
weeks, if you wish, Then, if
you’re not sati&fied, you edn
return it, and get your money.
Foraaleby GEO, D. WHEATLEY
W. H. R. SCHROEDER,
Manufacturer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Van, Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Tin and lron;Roofing, Hot Air Heating Etc. Iron Smoke Sticks.
Exhaust Piping for Saw Mills a Specialty.
Corner Jaokson and Jefferson ‘streets, AMERICUB, GA.
On May i, at the side track at Furlow Lawn, the
0CHULGEE BRICK COMPANY
-AND THE-
RIVEBS LUMBER COMPANY
, WILL OPFN A SALES YARD FOR
BRICK, LUMBER AND SHINGLES
YOUR
BLOOD,
LIVER, |
kidneys!
Are they
U a question 1
Thy™-* th* otew
*-caab*cur*dall disc
thravcfe thehto
ims srssiii.
(WoolSrldgt’t
’ guaranteed Car- for Plies of whatever
And or degree—F r sraal, Internal, Blind
0; B’.ccdirg, Itehu g, Chronic, Bsoent or
Hereditary. $1 (X k box; 6 boxes, $6.00.
Sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of prioe.
We gnarantco to < ire any caso of Piles,
Oaarantocd and soL inly by
THE DAVEN.-ORT DRUG CO.,
Wholes*!, sail Retail Druggist*.
_ Auiericus, Oa.
temple* free.febn-d&wiyr
ABBOTT’S
CORmJ-S OKL-pPEedilyA'-
houT
a no PAIN.
Forsale by the DAVENPORT DRUG
COMPANY Amorloui, Ga.
A man will.bo in charge of thfi yard to deliver goods to customers.
A full stock of everything will be kept. Your orders solicited. 4-8 0
J. R. HUDSON cfc’CO.
-PROPRIETORS
—BOTTLERS OF ALL KINDS;OF*t—
Soda and Mineral Watery Cider and Oinger Ale’
ORDERS BY WAIL PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
834 LEE STREET- - AMdlCUS. GEORGIA-
B. I* McMATH.
K.J. MfHA^Bt. .
McMATH BROTHERS.
B. H. McMATH
Prop
BOOTSkSHOES, ET0..ETO.,
wmm. TCmr&pp|t60lALTIES.
207 FORSYTH STREET, kMERICU8, GEORGIA.
We sqllelt a «hare of the p*troo*ge of th* trading public, guaranteeing *aU*<mto*
low price*, and good good*. W* deliver goods anywhere In the olty. Call and *e* u*.
McMATH BROTHERS.
r.f.nehring,
PROPRIETOR.
total Street, DUer illei flow
AMERICU8.GA.
LIGHT BREAD A SPECIALTY!
<Msn ibr bka of iU Sadi Fnm^l; FUadl firi ill fife Wign Mi out Mr
Country Merchant* supplied 71th bread at wholesale prices.
BUGCtI
1 will aell you the beat buggy iu Oeoi
*11 kind* aoltclted and executed prompt’
>rya, price *nd.qu»lUy eoaaldered. Repairing ol
itv and neatly. All work warranted.
T. S,
Cotton Avenue.,
H the best known rfmfdy
"“ttSclMJorMGonorhajft and
Otoet In 1 to a Day*, without Pain*
PpoVOnt* fitaliUnM f’. A — t
G
10
Th* D«*r Girl*.
Ethel—I am going to marry for lore-
Hand—Certainly, dean bnt “’hat db
on expect your pros jer^ve husband to
you expect your prosper-***
through and among the ova.—Washing- marry far? Yon ore not rich.—Mtnsey’s
ton Star. | Weekly.
Prevents. stricture. Contain* no
acrid or polaononi rebalance*, and
la gnarenteed absolutely harmless,
prescribed by physicians. If-—-
rinse free with each bottle.
Bold by druggists. Beware of St
«tltntf..Armnt-hrmnoIjn MSI.
Sold in interimsbyOj'-'Oj’hArmaoy
J. Eldridge. pi—<vood <t Russell, J.
iS. J. Eldridge. P—yT* «• nuaecu, 1.
E. Hall *> J lAvenport Drug Company.
LOANS.
Loans negotiated at LOWEST BATES.
Easy payments, ou city or farm lands,
J. J. HANESLEY,
Dot 5 ly Amerlcus, Georgia,
Opposite Prince’s 6tables'
cus, Georgia.
AND RESTAURANT
. i want to drink from a ■
, - our In Americua. My f
de, *U<l with tba beat cook In tbs
L'ea^ghe moat fastidious. "
W. T. RACAN, Proprietor,!
BOW Xiaxnari Street.
of Cold Milk or Beer to “ho Kl rSst an/only
uraut .la supplied with the beet the market
a set of good waiter*, I am auiethatl
W. 13. Haines & Son.
REAL E8TATE.USTOCK AND BOND
3101-2 Lamar Street,
Amerlcus, Ga.
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