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X6 THE AMEKICUS DAILY TDlES-RECOitDER: TUESDAY, JULl 14, im. OVER FOUR MILLIONS. THi CITY TAX RATE TO BE CONSID ERABLY DECREASED \ ltecauie the Taxable Property Will This Year Amount to Over 94,000,000 — A Year of Great Growing and It* Result* to Tax Payers. City taxes are to be decreased this year. That is good news for the people of Americus. f Just what the rate will be it is hard to tell, but. that it will be decreased every thing goes to indicate, and in such mat ters as this every little helps. The cause for reduction is to be found in the fact that during the year which has passed since the city tax rate was last fixed Americus has been doing some phenomenal growing. During that time many cities have been moving backward instead of forward, but the good ship Americus was fairly launched on the sea of prosperity before the before the squall came in the way of financial disturbance. She had every inch of canvass spread before a friendly breeze and she has sped like a grey hound until she has become ono of Georgia’s leading cities. The amount of taxable property in the city will go to $4,000,000 and over. That is the estimate made by the city assessors, who began their duties yester* day. These assessors are Capt. John A. Cobb, Mr. W. D. Haynes and Mr. J. K. Prince. There is but little room for doubting that these gentlemen will do their duty by the city and by the tax payers, with equal justice to all and special privileges to none. One of the assessors was talking with a reporter yesterday. He said that so far as they had gone that they found the assessment for last year to be about the same that it was for the two years pre- ,t " «*ding. He accounted for the big increaso on the score of additions and improvements that had been mado. * Property will this year be assessed at about what it was last. In some cases the values will be lowered and in some they will bo increased. Whatovcr changes may bo made it is safe to say that they will bo fair for all at Interest. While real estate has romained firm at about the same prices as were named last year, there has been much building and improving. Hundreds upon hun dreds of bouses of every descripttion have gone up. Three-story business blocks have been erected. So have set tlement stores; bankers’ mansions have been builded, and so, llkewiso, have la boring men’s cottages; the elegant and palatial Hotel Alhambra has been pushed nearly to completion, and will be flnished inside and out before many more months have passed, and peanut stands and luneh counters have rocelvod the finishing touches. Tho Intermedi ate points between all of these things have been well brought up, and to-day Americus stands forth to the world with several tucks out of her dress, quite a different city from what she was a year ago. During the time that has passed since the last assessment was mode Ameri cus has done some of her greatest grow ing. Manufactories have increased. Plants have been added to and all aorta of business spread out It is to this growing that the phenom enal increase is due. Four millions is a large sum. But conservative men outside of the assessors say that the figures which go to make that amount, with a dollar mark before them, do not put too' large an estimate on Americus’taxable prop erty. An alderman was figuring on It yester day. He said that the city’s expend!- tures are not as great this year as they were last, and that with $4,000,000 taxa ble property the tax rate can be mate rially decreased. The rate will certainly be decreased. Just how much decrease will be made can’t be told yet, but it will be a consid erable one. Keep your weather optic on Americus and read the moral that now is the time to buy Americus dirt Mosquitoes of California. Glowing accounts induced us to try tho southern mines, and a passage to Stockton was secured on an old tub of a schooner at the rato of three ounces of gold, or thirty-six dollars per head. The deck was crowded with men of every nationality. The rolling hills, tawny and flecked with green trees, bounding the bay of San Francisco, Suisun and San Pablo, were novel and intarestinj The very color of the earth, covered with wild oats or dried grass, suggested a land of gold. The eight was inspiring. But wbeu we reached the mouth of the San Joaquin our miseries began. This river has an extraordinarily tortu ous coarse, almost entirely through tule or marsh lands, that in 1849 produced bushels of voracious mosquitoes to the acre. I had never known the like be fore. It seemed os if there was a stratum of swarming insect life ten feet thick over the surface of the earth. 1 corded my trousers tight to my boot legs to prevent them from pulling tip. donned a thick coat, though the heat was intoler able, shielded my neck and face with handkerchiefs and put on buckskin gloves, and in that condition parboiled and smothered. In spite of all precau tions our faces were much swollen with the poison of numberless bites. To escajK? the hot sun wo took reftig« below deck, and to drive away the pests a smudge was made on some sand in the bottom of the boat, which filled the hold almost to suffocation. The mosquitoes were too ravenous to bo wholly foiled by smoke. 1 think I never endured such vexation and suffering. Sleep was im possible. Tho boat had to be worked by band around the numerous bends, and half the time the sails were useless for want of wind. It was a burning calm in the midst of a swamp. But even in our distress there was a humorous side, provoking grim smiles at least.—E. G. Waite in Century. CRANIUM CULTURE EXTENSIVE FIELD FOR SCIEN TIFIC EXPERIMENTS. Aa Odd Surgical Operation Cause* to Arise Hie Oucstlon, ••I* Idiocy Curable by Surgrry?'*—A Pliyslelan’s Comment on the Subject—Future Research. To Our Patron*. After this week we will collect all bllla tor job work weekly. This will make payment! easier tor you, and help us materially, as our expenses are payable weekly. Tikes Fublisiiio Company. Tbe eternal litneu of thingB would be better exemplified and the equilibrium of society better maintained if our youog men were a little more gritty and our strawberries a little less so. The result of tho efforts made to pre servo piling by a process of creosoting is very satisfactory, and shows that the wood is kept in us good a slate ns when first put in the water. Tlte dust collected by a small patch of snow between November 27 and Decem ber 27 last indicates that 1000 tons of sootsettio monthly on the 110 square- miles of London. To Improve tlio Lung*. A device recently invented for the promotion of deep breathing is likely to be of value to flat chested, ronnd shoul dered and weak longed people. The de vice is a small belt or cord which encir cles the chest at the point of its greatest expansion, and a take up mechanism to which the ends of tho belt or cord are attached. Tho take up mechanism con sists of a coiled spring, adapted to tighten the belt at intervals, and a train of wheels, by which tho speed of the spring in taking up the belt may bo reg ulated. Upon tbo exhalation of the breath, after tho full expansion of the lungs, the chest returns to the Bize nat ural to it in ordinary breathing, thus leaving tho belt loose. Immediately the take up mechanism begins to gather in the slack of the belt, which it continues to gather, and iinally it tightens tho belt about the chest until the pressure is un comfortable to the wearer, and compels him to take another fnll inspiration, thus lengthening the belt This lengthening is accomplished by the withdrawal of the strap from the case, which act ngain coils the spring. The spring in Sum. when the breath is exhaled and the chest resumes its nat ural size, again begins to gather up the slack of the belL These processes con tinue as long as the device is worn. It is claimed that tbe device induces toll breaths ut intervals, and thus naturally strengthens and enlarges the longs and cheat.—New York Telegram. Onr Would Be Aristocrats. Thousands of American yonug men of fair education and excellent possibilities, captivated by tbe pictures of English aristocratic life drawn in English novels, are learning to despise the simple, ra tional, useful life of the worthy Amer ican citizen, and to coart consideration and vulgar popularity by adopting the habits and leading tbe useless lives of English lords As is usual in such cases tbo copy is a caricature of the original. The untitled American lord proves usu ally to be a vulgar creature, having to assert his self-conferred lordship by all that is moat unattractive, meet iv humane and most un-American—and ‘-hat is a good deal—in the English aristocrat In England aristocracy has no need to display or to obtrade itself; in America it can exist only by display and obtru sion. For this reason the American would bo nobleman must necessarily court attention and try to strike the vul gar imagination by tbe mete accidentals of aristocracy, such os any boorish Dives can command—honaes, horses, turnouts, yachts, opera boxes and tbo like. And the vulgar are Impressed by such things, bow down in servile reverence before them and do their best tomako a similar diplay.—Professor Thomas Davidson in Forum. The Silent Roatman. Who can swim? Who can swim?" shouted a man who wanted to cross a river in a boat A crowd of boatmen gathered ronnd him. crying, “I can, sig nore, I can!" Only ono was silent and remained in bis bout oil tho time. 'And can’t yon swim?” Inquired the stranger. “No,’’ was the man’s curt reply. “Then you Bhall take me across." Tho gentleman had adopted this meth od to escape the iin[>ortunity of rival boatmen in that part of the country; perhaps also he shrewdly susficeted that a man who could not swim would be the safer pilot.—Capitan Fracuasa. ‘How many Shukespeares have we lost by skull pinching? How many Platos have gone down to the grave as non compos mentis? Can idiocy be wholly abolished?" Thus asks a some what prominent medical authority and newspaper writer. The world of possibilities in tbe above suggestion is the outgrowth of a recent surgical operation performed in London the skull of an idiot child for tile pur pose ut releasing tile itr.au fruui tile con finement of a malformed bone case. The experiment was entirely successful. Tile subject immediately began to develop a brightened intellect, while evil effect* npon the nervous system were practicallj unnoticed. The problem presented by this result is a very wide and a very complex one If the darkness of idiocy in a few case* can be banished by lifting the brain covering, tbns permitting the brain's ex pansion to the limits which nature doubtless intended, why may it not prove effective in the great majority of cases of young children now doomed to live out their lives in eternal gloom? To those who delight to wander in the realms of the fanciful, and trace still greater effects and results from similar causes, it will not appear unreasonable to say that tho conformation of the skull is, after all, the incident which deter mines whether u human being is born to be a Nero or a King Artlmr. a Cleo patra or a Florence Nightingale, a Napo leon or a nobody. CULTURE OF TOE SKULL. There was a case in a Philadelphia hospital not many months ago which was not dissimilar to tho one in London. An epileptic was relieved, perhaps re stored to perfect health, by an operation which lifted the bone pressure upon cer tain nervo centers in tho brain. Cer tainly there ore mental idiosyncrasies inherited for generations where the brain case varies most remarkably in form. But when we find a peculiar trait sud denly bursting out in one of our chil dren, a trait unlike parent or grandpar ent, are we quite sure that it is not ow ing to some modification of the sknll case? Most assuredly, if it is finally de termined that the pressure of bone on the brain determines the mental ability, shapes the character and molds the ten dencies, we shall have to recast all onr theories of heredity. Here, then, is presented a newproblem. Is not tho question of brain cultnre about to become to a greater extent a question of craninm cultnre? If it can be demonstrated that an idiot can he mado by pinching a sknll, nnd unmade by tbe knife and saw of a surgeon, have we not a new and wonderful field of ex periment before us? Dr. Brinton tells us that experiments on the lower ani mals prove that the skull la easily mold ed by trifling causes; that is, in the earlier stages of growth. Darwin fonnd that he conld produco long or short or non-symmetrical skulls in rabbits by training. Ethnologists affirm that tho skull is modiflod even by tbe cradle and tbe pil lows on which the infant sleeps. Dr. Jaralld proves from his own obeervation that the skull may be modified from tbe head being held in an unnatural posi tion. POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE. If this new line of investigation can be pursued persistently and auccesafnlly it will result in disproving tbe belief that idiocy in children, outside of cases of hereditary mental defect, is a visita tion npon the children for the sins of tbe fathers, and allowing that it is an un natural but essentially curable physical condition. Tbe ability to cure idiocy will therefore depend entirely to what extent the bony case has dosed its sutures and hardened itself to the brain. Dr. Maurice, the authority quoted at tbe beginning of this article, in discuss ing this range of subjects, a few of which are embraced in the above, closes by saying: The world has of late grown enor mously in its tendencies toward the pres ervation and merciful care of the mal formed and helpless. Civilization has badly overloaded itself by merciful ten derness toward criminals nnd diseased. Are wo at last to find relief by discover ing that crime and disease and idiocy are all cnralde? And the next stage, what will that bo? Possibly tbe marked decrease in human fertility and the in- of onr average life quite beyond what now seems possible. The removal of life’a social terrors must precede tho largely prolonged and happily continued existence.—Philadelphia Press. for Infants and Children. ^Mtortebsoveils v «gr ■ Jchfldrer If tfmmeoditsssupesbjrllf iy proscription VtHm to me.” H. A. Ajrjsxx, M. D„ 111 So. Oxford St* Brooklyn, {2. T. “The ass of ‘Castorla'If so universal end Its merits so well known that it seems a work Lots Pastor Btoomlncdals Bsformsd Church. XJUs Worm gives sleep, snaps jmotes d. * For severs! yean I bars recommended your ‘ Outoila,'and shall ahrajs oontlnus to Soaoaaithaslnvariablyproduced bcacflclal Edwin F. Pakdzx, H. D., “Tbs Wlnthrop,” 19th Street and 7tb Ave., New York City. Thx Comes Coxfaxt, 77 Xoiuf Stezxt, New Yoax. For Bent! For Bent! , This is the way with the Ball corset: if you want ease and shapeliness, you buy it—but you don’t keep it unless you like it After two or three weeks 1 wear, you can return it and have your money. Comfort isn’t all of it though. Soft Eyelets, and “bones” that can’t break or kink—Ball’s corsets have both of these. For sale bv GEO. D. WHEATLEY CHEAP BATES A BOARDING HOUSE, CLOSE IN, LARGE NEW, ALSO-— A DWELLING, NEW AND NICE, WITH EVERY CONVENIENCE, -ALSO- SOME SMALLER HOMES Commencing Saturday July 4, and esc succeeding Saturday until 8ept. ‘Jtith the A. A M. Railway will hava on sale, at $3.50, round trip ttvkets to BRUNSWICK, GA FOFL SjAlIIjEj. good to return by train leaving Brunswic at 11 p. ra. Sunday, or 7 a. m. Monday, arrh Ing at Amerlcu* 8 a. m. or 6.20 p. m. tb following Monday, but on no later train*. Sunday Excursion Rate, Brunswick Cumberland Island* Only $1.00. Round trip tickets, to Brunswick, good return until Qct.81, on sale dally at 17/0fo round trip, and to Cumberland Island fo $9.fi0 round trip. BARGAINS IN RESIDENCE 9 BUSINESS PROPERTY. JAPANESI M. CALLAWAY, Real Estate Agent. ESTABLISHED 1867. INCORPORATED 1890. JAMES FRICKER & BRO. AMEEICrS, GA.. ' guaranteed Cars for Piles of whater And or degree—Er ■ ernal, Internal, Blit or Bleeding, Itchir g, Chronic, Beoent c Hereditary. $1.00 i box; 6 boxes, $5.0 Sent by mall, prepaid, on reoeipt of pric We guarantee lotus any oase of Guaranteed and sok. only by THE DAYEN.-ORT DRUG CO., Wholeial. aad Retail Drnzgfiti Americas, Ga. Samples free. feb'.’l-d&wlyr A Certain Core for Dyspepsi There Is perhaps no dlssass so prevalent Dyspepsia and indigestion, and one to the present time nas baffled most eminent ...— physicians. chronic diseases have their < The symptoms are lose of ai Two-thirds of PIANOS AND ORGANS. occasionally nausea and vomiting,acidity, lcnce, dull pain in the head, with a Bern* ‘ heaviness or giddiness, irregularity of low spirits, sleeplessness, sallow skin, i aaent of kidneys, and not nnfequently HQI Mon of the heart. If yon are suffering whk« of these symptoms Da. Holt's Drsrxrno Eux will cure you. Prepared only by I Dr. Holt’s Dyspeptic Elixir C'mpanv, Watch Repairing and Engraving a specialty. Tnned and Repaired. Pianos R. E. BYRD C. A. FKICKER, President J. H STARBUCK, L. D. LOCKHART, Manager Jewelry Department. Manager Music Department. Auditor, OFFICE 57i JACKSON STREET. AMERICUS, OA. Will adjust Books and Accounts and general collecting business. A compete £. P. HARRIS, President and Manager. C. P. PAYNE, Sec. and Tieae. attorney associated. Chargee reasonsb Will take business In neighboring clti References; J. W, Sheffield ACo« Bank AMERICUS SUPPLY CO. PLUMBERS * GAS FITTERS Sumter, Davenport Brug'Co. C °tinrrti>« dene, .elicited. mayll fa Dissolution, The firm of Andrews A Carter lathis dissolved by uUMsl consent,R. “ * retiring. He wl.l be snort ter. and the firm h crest ter ““ whoaasnmeaalltheilal It la pleasant to know that Herr Most, tbe anarchist, has been sent to Blackwell's bland, and that ho is sur rounded by water, even though he j doesn’t let any of it touch his person. | MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES. Stoves, Hardware, Etc. Repaiv Work a Specialty, Telephone No. IS. ARTESIAN BLOCK, AMERICUS, GA. firm of Andrews A Carter an<_ debts due them. C. C. Carter all liabilities and will collect aU debts the firm of Argo A Andre 1 ’KVa”*" C. O. Cartk*. Carter 1 return thanks to the pub B neroue patronage bestowed, and r the new firm a continuance of tb* • • R. M. Ajidbx Americus, Ga., June 16,1881. 41 B •O' THE LITTLE SEWING MACHINE MAS orrcRs for sals CHILD BIRTH • • • • • • MADE EASY! .A crown of glory awaits the man who will invent an open street car having none but end seats.—Chicago Evening . Post. . i Modern humanity has larger heads and shorter legs than the ancients. The average Florida crocodile brought north by the tourist is seven inches in length, and he has sea room enough in a cigar box. Wo look at Uie little cuss, and then, thinking of his ancestor whom we saw pictured in the geography of our boyhood days currying off an ox in his jaws, we conclude that tho Augustan ago, for crocodile*, ia post.—Martha's Vineyard Herald. An Observing Child. Little Boy—Mamma says you were born with a silver spoon in your month. Comely Heiress That means 1 was bora rich. Little Boy (after closer inspection)— Was it a tablespoon. —Good News. “ Mothers' Friend ” is a scientific ally prepared Liniment, every ingre dient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro fession. These ingredients are com bined ir. a .runner hitherto unknown On May i, at the side track at Furlow Lawn, the OCMULGEE BRICK COMPANY -AND THE RIVERS LUMBER COMPANY WILL Ol'FN A SALES YARD FOR BRICK, LUMBER AND SHINGLES SEWING MACHINES & MOT# For all Machines on easy terms, and c supply the best to Needles, Oils, Atiachinenis, Eli rOR ALL MACHINES. Ppeclal attrntton given to repairing I small Machinery. Orders by mail wluv celve prornnt attention. 6* MOTHERS’ FRIEND” WILL DO all that is claimed for it AND MORE. It Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to Life of Mother and Child. Book to “Mothms” mailed FREE, cot), taining valuable information and voluntary testimonials, Scot by express os receipt of price |M0 per bottlf MAO FI ELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta. Si. SOLD BY ALL l? R LOU IOTA A man will be in charge of the yard to deliver goods to customers. A full stock of everything will bo kept. Your orders solicited. 4-30 SWEET WATER PARK HOTE LUUK Springs, Georgia. C. C. HAWKINS. HAWKINS & LOVING, DKALKKtIX -^Furniture, Baby Carriages, Refrigerators,e*- Elegance and comfort. Table, fafvi£i9 famish Inga above criticism- Tbe beat fwq G. O.LOVING, least. Run-radon for the plei rest for th« invalid. TT J In the United States. natural mineral waiera In the wor*d f Hlgb-elass accommodations for IQ0 r* Elevation 1 JX0 feet. No malaria. The great *1 wnt i METALICJCASES, CASKETS AND COFFINS. 405 Cotton Avenue. Night calUgarcoffln^at night attended to bxa..O.-Loving, at re.ldence>.it aide Brown tre«U lluri.Drobe. alway.fonjli.nit. m»y ZJ-lj. qua, *ltn It. brilliant all Ion ponnl card), lo tend bo cured st home v