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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. * r