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THE AMEBICUS DAIL Y TIMES-RECORDER: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1891.
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CHOOSING A SERVANT.
OPINIONS OF SEVERAL INTELLI
GENCE OFFICE KEEPERS.
With Ordinttry Unskilled Help the Chief
Trouble U Generally with the Employ-
er. Who U Usually a Woman — In
justice to Hardworking Girls.
A small tow headed boy. with a vacant
look ou hia face, and a thumb worn old
blunkbook in his dirty hands, sitting on
a short stool before a littered desk, whis
tling iu a lazy, half hearted tone: a small
stove emitting a tierce heat in an indig
nant sort of way. as if disgusted with
it-elf and its surroundings: nine rickety
chairs, set in rows along the walls; a
faded old carpet, asmoke stained ceiling
and a rickety table—these are the ob
jects of furniture in a small square room
one one of the east side avenues.
The interior of the room is screened
from the view of passers by a dingy blue
curtain drawn over the lower half of
the windows. A legend in iadtni yellow
—once gilt—letters over the door'aml on
the windows announces that servants
may 1h* hired there. This is a typical
^Employment Agency.”
A reasonably careful observer will see
many curious things in an hour in one
of these agencies. It is always easy to
get high priced help. There is plenty of
it. But the less skilled and lower priced
service is hard to obtain. That is tbu
kind most of the agencies have to do
with Nije out of ten of tin* agents will
tell you that the great trouble in secur
ing satisfactory help Is with the employ
ers. A casual investigation goes to show
that they are Tight.
VARIOUS OPINIONS.
Op agents say tiiat the business has
el tinged greatly in the last few years.
“Twenty years ago,” said one of them
recently, “when a young couple set up
housekeeping they expected to start a
permanent establishment. The w^tnen
in those days were familiar with house
work from their own house training.
They were not ashamed to go into fbe
kitchen occasionally and give the green
help a little instruction. Then, too, we
got a great deal of green help from the
constant immigration which stopped
here.
Now, all that is changed. The women
either don’t know enough, or are too
high toned to go into their kitchens and
give their cook a pointer when things
don’t go right. And the supply of green
help from immigrants iy cut off. They
don’t ?■ top here any more. They go on
out west, where the old way has not
changed so much for the worse. It’s
almost impossible to get the ordinary
plain help now.”
“Very few people know how to engage
help." said another agent. “They come
here and talk to the girls for an hour at
a time, and they don’t know enough to
pick out the one who will suit them.
Four-fifths of the time they go to telling
•what I said to my last cook,’ or ‘what
she said to me,’ and the upshot of it is
they make the girl think the place is too
hard and she won’t go, whereas if they
went at it in a businesslike way they
could soon be suited.”
“Yes.” said a third agent, “the ever-
lasting shifting is making a lot of trou
ble now. It’s a rare thing for a girl to
have a place more than a few months,
even when she gives the best satisfaction.
People go to Europe for the summer and
goto Florida for the winter, and keep
bouse in the intervals between their
pleasant trips. Then they growl because
they can’t get first class help. They’re
the neoply that do the kicking. They
wani servants to show references for
years of service when they only expect
, to hire them for a few weeks or months."
TWO AQILNCIES.
Them arc two inside rooms at the place
abovH «l<*5cribed where girls looking for
work wait for possible employers. They
come early in the morning and wait uu-
til the office closes at 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. When an employer comes
the agent politely offers a chair and in
quires into the needs of his customer.
He thou goes into one of the inuer rooms
and looks over his supply. The accom
plishments aud pedigree of each oue iu
the inside rooms have l>een folly noted
down when they applied to the agent,
aud he is pretty familiar with them all.
He pelects what one he thinks will best
satisfy the visitor, aud indicates with a
graceful wave of the hand the one to
whom the aspirant for work is to nd-
dresa herself. Soinetimer a bargain is
struck almost immediately.
There is an employment office in Sixth
avenue that is just a little different from
any of the rest of them. It is run by a
woman, a clear headed, gray eyed Eng
lish woman, who was for years the
housekeeper for a well known New
•Yorker. Her clientage is almost wholly
among the wealthy people. And the
peculiar part of it is that they scarcely
ever visit her office. She has a whole
dehkful of letters which say, “You know
just what 1 want, and I trust you to get
it for me.”
Some day this woman will wake up to
the fact that she lias a valuable lot of
autograph letters from many of the best
known women of this city, with not a
few from Philadelphia, Washington,
Baltimore and other towus. An auction
sale of these autographs would interest
a great many people and be very profit
able to her.—New York Sun.
A Practical Joke.
Trarnii—Yon nave mo a counterfeit |3
bill a few momenta ago. > .
Practical Joker—He! he! he! ho!
ho! Pound it ont, eh?
•• Yea, air: and on my information an
officer is now looking for you. Gim’rae
fCi in good money and Pll throw ’em off
the track. Thank*. Ta, ta!”—Good
News.
She Craved Appreciation.
A little three-year-old girl was taken
to church tor the first time, after prom
ising that she wonld sit still.and not
talk. Por some time she was as quiet
and as prim as possible, when suddenly
she tnrned to her mother and said aloud.
“Alumina, isn’t 1 a good girl not to
taiki”—Boston Traveller.
~ib8WB
The Itroadway of Hie IlueineM Alan.
The business man knows Broadway
as a street blocked with tnoviug drays
and wagons, with pavements which move
with unbroken iiues of men. aud that
are shut iu ou either side by the tallest
of tall buildings It is a place where no
one strolls, and where a man can as eas
ily swing his cane us a woman could
wear a train Pedestrians do not walk
steadily forward here or in a .straight
line, but dodge iu and out like runners
on a football field. They all seem to be
tryiug to reach the bank to have a check
cashed before 3 o'clock The man who
stops to *{*-ak to a friend or to gaze into
a shop window is jostled and pushed
aud slamidered to one side. Every oue
seems to t>e trying to catch up to the
man just in front of him. and every one
has something to do. and something on
his mind to think of. too, if his face tells
anything
So liuent are they on their errands
that they would hot recognize their own
wives if they passed them hy This is a
S]*>f where the thermometer marks fever
heat It is the great lighting ground of
the city, where the ha.lie of business
goes on from ** o'clock rn the morning
until 8 in the afternoon, at which time
tho work Hags a little and grows less
and less hnrried m.iil.V when the armies
..tclarc <io ..r.o.-thv ,\,r die day. mid
march off op town to j.lau a fresh cam
paign lor the m«-rr«»w
The armies tie-'in to arrive before «
and gather tr»iu ewry point of the com
pass The feminists land I hem by thou
sands und harry osei; s r«»ss the river
for thousands m* *»■»*. jhe e.vvated roads
marshal them iroiti tar up town, gather
ing them hy com pa nil's at eavh station,
where they are unloaded and scattered
over the business districts in regiments
They come over the Brooklyn bridge by
tens of thousands iu one long, endless
procession, and cross the City Hall park
at a quick step. It is one of the most im
pressive sights the city has to offer.—
Seri liner’s.
How Aerated Water Is Produced.
In the neighborhood of the extinct
Eifel volcano, near the Rhine, in Ger
many. are found springs of minerul
waters which give off large volumes of
natural carbonic acid gits This natural
gas liecomes thoroughly purified in pass
ing up through some two or three hun
dred feet of water, which of course
means a considerable pressure upon the
pis. This gas. being duly collected ou
;be surface, is subjected by means of
pumps to the pressure of five or six hun
dred pounds per square inch, condensing
t into a clear transparent liquid, which
is forthwith stored in steel or wrought
iron cylinders of special construction and
exceptional strength.
The manufacture of aerated waters is
now readily carried on by means of these
tubes, which are easily transported in a
manner at once simple, rapid and inex
pensive, no machinery whatever being
required. The apparatus consists simply
of a closed copper vtssel of any required
size, nearly filled with ordinary pare
water and connected with a tube of com
pressed gas.
On turning a tap on the table the lib
erated gas rushes under high pressure
into the copper vessel, becomes tbor
oughly incorporated with the water, and
produces forthwith the aerated mineral
water which is so largely consumed and
so justly appreciated at the present day
The aerated water can now tie drawu off
for immediate consumption or bottled
for future use. Mineral water thns pro
duced is stated to be entirely free from
auy flavor of chemicals sometimes dis
cernible in that which lias been prepared
from artificial carbonic acid gas. —Cham
bers Jonrnal
CREPE PULLING.
A Disreputable Fraud Practiced Upon
the Pamili<‘* of the Dead.
Reputable florists in this city are suf
fering greatly by a dodge called “crepe
pulling.” resorted to by. unprincipled
dealers in an attempt to increase their
business. A reporter, desiring to ascer
tain just what the above term signified,
visited several of the Broadway stores,
but the majority of dealers were averse
to conversing upon the subject. John
B. Nugent. Jr., when spoken to, said:
“You wish to find out about this ‘crepe
pulling.’ do you? Well, Til tell you how
the scheme is worked. Each morning
these fellows pick np the papers and go
through the death lists in a very careful
manner They select those people whom
they know are in the middle walks of
life. One of their men is then sent to
the house of mourning, and he, upon en
tering the room where the bereaved rel
atives are seated, inquires in the most
sorrow stricken tones what was tho cause
of death Naturally, some one will as!:
whether he knew the deceased And the
reply will generally 1m that they have
bad many an l many a good time togeth
er Such a jolly good fellow was Jack
And they were almost brothers. He used
to come over to the store every day fot
his bunch of vioMsor a pink
“Before the relatives are aware of the
fact the artful fellow has a ten or twenty
dollar order This in itself is bad
enough, but when these florists make up
a floral piece, instead of giving the
family natural Rowel’s they make np
the wreath, or whatever it may bo. of
what we term civpe flowers, uu artificial
flower resembling a white pink. These
things are purchased at about one dollar
per pound A few natural roses are
stuck into the design and when the
entire piece is made up tiie whole thing
costa them in the neighborhood of two
dollars Oue cannot understand how
much this pernicious practice is indulged
in and what harm it does the majority
of dealers.”
Mr Nugent told of a certain florist
who sent one of his men down to Cherry
street to a house where a woman had
died. The man went up stairs, and
leaning over the coffin actually forced
tears to his eyes after declaring that the
woman was his cousin, and while no one
was looking, as he thought, strewed
sznilax around. The husband, a big,
burly Irishman, and who, by the way.
had worked in the flower business him
self, canght the fellow, and after giving
him a good trouncing, deposited him' in
the street without any show of gentle
ness.
“He," said Mr. Nugent, “at least got
what he deserved."—-New York Press.
167 DOZEN
Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Shew
AT WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL.
WILL BE BOLD REGARDLESS OP DOST OR D0N8EQUEN0EB.
120 MISSES’ SAILOR HATS at 25c., worth 50c.
For the above, and anything else in the Hat line, go to
The “GREAT AMERICAN EAGLE” SHOE STORE
Where you will find all the novelties in Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s "
Once Too Often.
A recent Herman paper tells the story
of an elderly mau who bad for a wife
one of those trying persons who. accord
ing to their own ideas, are always in the
right, and who make it a point or con
science to prove every one else in the
wrong
The poor man was never allowed to
make any statement without having it
instantly disputed by his accurate bat
irritating Bponse. She hud acquired
such u habit of correcting und contra
dicting him that, according to the story,
she one day made a mistake which gave
her suffering husband n chance to laugh
nt her
•Do yoa remember, my dear,” he said
in a retrospective mood, "the letter
case embroidered with pearl beuds that
yon made for me with yonr own hands,
when we became engaged? It was worn
out years ago, hut I can still see it very
plainly On one side there was embroid
ered a beautiful butterfly, and"
"The butterfly was on the other sideP
interrnpted his wife, in her most deject-
c.l tone.
And she always complained that .Ur
Underfeld “was fond of telling stories
withoutuny point." whenever he referred
to this conversation afterward
Weighing Maclituu*.
Weighing machines and scales of some
kind were in use 1800 B C., for it is
said that Abraham at that time
•weighed out" 400 shekels of silver, cur
rent money, with the merchant to Eph-
ron. the Hittite, as payment for a piece
of land, including the cave and all the
standing timber "in the field aud in the
fence." This is said to be the earliest
transfer of lend of which uny record sur
vives, and that the payment was made
in the presence of witnesses
The original form of the weighing
scale was probably a Iwrsuspended from
the middle, with a board or shell sus
pended from each end. one to contain
the weight, the other to contain the
matter to be weighed. The steelyard
was probably so called from the material
of which it was made and from its for
mer length It Is ulso known aa the
Roman balance, and is of great an-
tiqnity.— St Loafs Republic.
A Matter of Neetsslly.
“I don’t see how yon make yonr
patients obey yon, doctor. A man who
ia fond of high living never will diet."
“He can’t help himself, madam.
When he has paid my bill he has to re
duce his living."—Harper’s Bazar.
Waco*. U'vmlerfiit lists.
Waco, Tex,, is infested with rats in
countless legions. They run through
the streets, invade the stores and resi
dences, devour grain, flour and grocer
ies, and tnuko themselves unmitigated
nuisances, whicli the application of ordi
nary-and extraordinary remedies hus
failed to remove. While they accept al
most anything that comes iu their way
ns edible, they have a penchant for eggs,
and the way they convey them from the
nests to their holes is thus related by
Sam Whaley, the jailer, who has mode
their habits a study:
“1 set an old black hen right np there,"
he said, pointing to the corner of the jail
yard where Sheriff Dan Ford’s horses are
stahlod, “aud they carried off every egg
and broke the hen up. She went to lay
ing again in two weeks, and made her
nest in another stall. Two eggs were iu
the nest, and these remained undis
turbed, but when tho third was laid it
disappeared, two still remaining,
watched and saw the rats come—four of
them.
“The smallest of tho quartet straddled
his four legs over tho egg, hugged it
tight, then rolled over on tils back, hold
ing the egg tightly pressed ugainst his
belly. One rat took tho prostrate one by
the ears just like a boy bolding the han
dles of a wheelbarrow and kept him
steady, while the other two took him by
the tail, and away they went, pushing
and pulling until they got the egg to
their hole under tho brick wall."—Cor.
St. Louis (Hobo-Democrat.
No Good Subutltuto for Ton.
There has never been discovered a good
substitute for tea. Daring tho wur of
the revolution onr forefathers adopted a
“liberty tea," which was made from a
fonr leaved plant called “loose strife."
This plant was palled up like flax; its
stalks, stripped of their leaves, were
boiled! the leaves were then put into an
iron kettle, and the liquor of the stalks
poured over them. After this process
tho leaves were laid upon platters and
carefully dried in a brick oven heated
for the purpose.
Tea. flavored with vanilla and rum, is
a popular drink iu Germany. The rum
preventi the tea drinker from lying
awoke at night.—Detroit Free Press.
In Greece there are 30,000 hives, pro
ducing 3,000,000 pound* o? homy; in
Denmark 1)0,000, producing 0,000,000
pounds; in Russia 110,000, producing the
same; in Belgium 200,000, producing
5,000,000 pounds; in Holland 240,000,
producing 0,000,000 punnds; in France
050,000, producing 23,000,000 pounds; in
Germany 1,450,000, and in Austria 1,550,-
000, each producing 40,000,000 pounds of
-A.T GREATLY REDUCED
119 Forsyth Street,
PRICES.
Americus, Ga.
ESTABLISHED 1867. INCORPORATED 1890.
JAMES FRICKER & BRO.
I have just returned from Hew York,
where I purchased a very large stock of
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
at prieea that will enable us to sell
lower than ever before. Our stock Is
Immense, sssortment complete, prices
lower than any one. Call, and see for
youraelres before buying.
C. A. FRICKER,
President.-
4O9 JACKSON ST., AMERICUS, GA.
(Barlow Block.)
Americus Iron Works,
-BUILDERS OF-
Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins,
Presses, Feeders and Condensers, Saw and Grist Mills,
Shingle Machines, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Boiler
Feeders, Valves, Jets, Etc.
Shaftings, Hangers, Boxes and Pulleys Americus investment Co.
ftsrSpccial attention given to repairing all kinds of
Machinery, Telephone 79. '
Saw Mill Men, Attention!
Are you in need of machinery of any description? If ao, write na yonr wants,
stating just what you desire and we will make you low price*. Our ipeoial busi
ness is heavy machinery such os
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOOD-WORIING MACHINERY,
and for first-class machinery, wo defy competition. We are general agents for
II. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S eolebrated Wood-working machine*, ana can dis
count factory price*. Be sure to write for eireular of “Farmer*’ Favorite" saw
mill; It Is the best on the market. Second-hand machinery constantly on band.
Write for prices and *e« if we cannot save yoa money.
Perkins Machinery Company,
67 SOUTH BROAD STREET,
Mention Tint Times When!You Writs.
ATLANTA, GA.
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Stash* oath* Pm* |
Breaking Ont,
LffiT'HH.Hn,
• five yourself the needed 'Mention _ -— Cl - ,
•We need not tell you the* you retire *No^
• medicine, to mnrarm freedom from •£» nflw ft-
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• only known medicine thel will thoroughly erudl•
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mm
For Two Weeks Past
WE HAVE BEEN
For One Week More
WE WILL CONTINUE
S. H. HAWKINS. >t. H.C* BAGLEY/Vic.Prw'l
W.E. MRPhEY. Cashier,
'HOAX1ZED1S70.
-*8The Ba.ik of Amertcus.gt-
Designated Depository State of Georgia.
Stockholder* individually liable.
S apltalr • ' - •liso.ooo I
urplUH. ... £l(M>,OOo I
-ID EL OBSs—
H. G. tUgley, Pres. Amencua Investment Co.
P. C. Clegg, ITch. Ocmulgee Brick Co.
J**. Dodson, of dan. Dodson & Bon, Attorney*.
G. W. Glover, Prcs't Americua Grocery Co.
8. H. Hawkins, Pres't 8. A. & M. Railroad.
B. Montgomery, Prea’t People* National Bank.
J. W. Sheffield, of Sheffield & Co., Hardware.
T. Wheatley, wholesale dry goods.
W. K. Murphey, Csuhier.
ild up Capital
00,000.
THE BANK OF SUMTER
T. N. HAWKES,
President.
O. A. COLEMAN,
Vice-President. |
W. C. FURLOW, Cashier.
DIKEOTQRS—O. A. Coleman, C. C. I
Hawkins, B. H. Jossey, T. N. Hawke-. I
- — n. &. wr
W. M. liawkes, I
W. C. Furlow, W. IL C. Wlieu-ley, R. 8.
Oliver, n. M. Brown, W. M. Ha*'
Dr. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Kylander.
Liberal to its customeis, accommoda-1
ting to the publio and prudent in it* I
management, this bank solicit* deposit*!
and other business In it* line.
I. MONTGOMERY, Prut. ). C. RONEY, Vk. Pmt
1N0. WINDSOR. C’r. . LESTER WINDSOR Aut. Cr. |
E. A. HAWKINS, Attorn.y
JXO. 2838.
THE
Peoples’ National Bank|
Of Americas.
Capital, 9/10,000. Surplus, MO,
ORGANIZED 1883.
II. C. IUolky, Pres. W. K. Raw a i ns, Bee. A Tr.I
Investment Securities.
Paid up Capital, 11,000,000.
(Surplus, $260,0
DIRXCTOBS:
llagley, W E Hawkins, 8 W Cone
011118, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg,I
HCBa
WSGili
W M liawkes, B Fifathews, G M ByneJ
W K Murphey, S Montgomery, J H Pharr.l
B. P. Hollis.
V.B.C.11PDUY,
iras*Undivided rronu", • are,Imp’
* Bant of Sonthvestern Georgia. •
M. SPEERS J. W. WHKATLIY,
' Ce DUD.
Cashier.
DIUKCTOK*;
J. W. Wheatley, E. J. Eldrldge,
C. A. Huntington, .11. K. Johnson, ,
R. J. Perry, J. 0. Nicholson, I
W. H.C.Dudley, '
M. Speer.
. J. Perry,
. W. Smith,
Showing; t; 0 finest lino of Mouldings for Picture Framing, etc. ever
displayed in this vicinity, at a reduction of
40 PER CENT FROM REGULAR PRICES
DOCTOR ACKER’S
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nmiKMUiMn ALLISON & AYCOCK
This ia n new department in our business and we are making
SPKCIAIj PRICES to let you know that
when you want Frames, tho S PRCIAL
I 3 EOPL E that you ought to see, are
310 LAMAK MTICKKT.
The Leading Stationers.
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AMKHICUA. UKOK.il4
E. Burnt,'J11., Pro*. H. M. Knapp, V. Pj
O, A. Colxmaw, See. a Tress,
Georgia Loan&TrnstCoJ
Negotiates Loans on improved
, Farm and City Property.
BP Hollis, JEBivis*.
Attorney^ Lead Examiam J
W. D. MURRAY, PRESIDENT.
Planters’ Bank of EIIitUI#
Kllavtlle, Georgia.
PAID UP CAPITAL,
Collections a Specialty.
Liberal to its euatom
the publio and prudent in tta ■
hank solicit* deposit* and otlMr I