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THE AMEBICUS DAIL Y TIMES-RECORDER: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1891. 3 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. JnneMdAwlyMr iNllinmilUIIIIIIMMIMIINIIII BAD BLOOD! 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- 1 frcU. Dr. Aekev*e EmMflfc IM P>»lf >»**?•. • only known medicine thel will thoroughly erudl• •cate the poleon from Urn «Ytiem. Get n from • your drugrUt, or write to W. It o *M„ 4dW—t Braadway, Kmw YerhClty. 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 ENGLISH —■—*■ BLOOD ELIXIR 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. A i 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