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THE aMERICUS DAILY TIMEB-RECOBDER: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1891.
Don't be a
and crawl in these days! Why
not keep up with the nineteenth
century't You would not bny a
steam engine made like those of
a century ago. Then why should
you buy the old-fashioned, big,
drastic pills that gripe and debili
tate your system ?
As great improvements havo been
made in pills as in steam engines.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are
tiny, sugar-coated granules, or pills,
aro easiest to take, and never gripe
or shock the system.
They aro purely vegetable and
perfcotly harmless.
One little Pellet’s a laxative, three
to four are cathartic. They regu-
lato and cleanse the liver, Btomach
and bowels — quickly, but thor
oughly. They’re the cheapest pill,
sold by druggists, because you only
pay foi the good you get. They’re
guaranteed to give satisfaction,
every time, or your money is re
turned. 'i hat’s the peculiar plan
all Dr. Pierce’s medicines are sold
on.
Can you ask more?
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’
wear, you can return it and
&ave your money.
Comfort isn’t all of It
though. Soft Eyelets, and
"bones" that can’t break or
kink—Ball’s corsets hav«
both of these.
For sale by GEO. D. WHEATLEY.
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Old Nick Whiskey
is the best and is noted for its age
and parity, having been made on the
same plantation over
133 years
without a rival as we constantly keep
four year old
BYE AND CORN
on hand—ship any quantity, so write
for price-list.
Old Nick Whiskey Co.,
Yadkin Co. PANTHER CREEK. N. 0.
Ortfgkts, Uppui'i Mick*
r Fur sale by the DAVENPORT DRUG
COMPANY, Americas, Ga.
aw-.uk tor nu'^Kiie.
,t( lRY MT-'u CO.. Nashville, Ten*
$300 Reward!
rofwpiirrf wttb. ffcs*jr»«» YS’riy and hw
IHE O WESTOUT DRUG CO,
*agjg» *«•
Young Men Th.t An Pleotj.
“It is very difficult," said a business
man. “to make people understand that
one can't always employ young men
starting in iife just to please our friends
who recommend them to us. It's bad
business policy to employ more men
than one needs. In these days of cloee
competition, no business man can niford
to spend money unwisely. A certain
volume of business justifies and demands
a certain expenditure in salaries to carry
on that business. It isn't fair to ns to
ask us to increase oar salary list when
there is 110 excuse for so doing. It isn't
fair to onr trusted and efficient employees
to ask ns to employ new men and yet
maintain our salary list. We can do
this only in two ways. One is to pare
off enough from the salaries of the old
men to provide salaries for the new men.
Another is to discharge old men to make
room for the new. You aee that both
plans aro oat of the qnestion, other
things lieing equal.
“People who send promiscuous letters
of recommeudatioo often canse ns a
great deal of embarrassment. One likes
to please a friend, and yet one cannot
always, in justice to himself or others,
do this. And have yon over noticed
how many of these letters of introduc
tion describe the bearers of them as bril
liant young men, who will prove of
value to those who employ them? Hard
ly one man in a thousand of those de-
scrilied in this way fulfills the promises
made for him. Do those who write such
letters ever consider that if a big busi
ness house employed all the men wiio
brought letters of recommendation to
the firm it would be overwhelmed with
employees within a year and driven into
bankruptcy in two vests by its stupen
dous salary list?—New York Tribune.
Hun a Spider Ruined h Nut inn.
When the French quartermaster, Dis-
jonval, was confined in prison by the
Dutch at Utrecht he sought to begnile
the tedium of his prison life by atten
tively studying the iiabits of the spiders
which frequented his cell, and eight
years of imprisonment gave him leisure
to be well versed in their ways. In De-
ccmlier of 1704 the French army, on
whose victory over the Dutch depended
Disjonval’s restoration to liberty, were
in Holland, and the victory seemed cer
tain if the frost, which wa9 then of un
precedented severity, continued.
The Dutch envoys had failed to ne
gotiate a peace, and Holland was de
spairing when the frost suddenly broke.
The Dutch were now exulting, and the
French generals prepared to retreat;
but the spiders of Disjonvol's cell fore
warned him that the thaw would be of
short duration, and he knew that his
little insect weather monitor never de
ceived him. Accordingly he contrived
to communicate his weather knowledge
to the army of his countrymen and its
generals, who duly estimated his (Dis-
jonvals) character, relied upon his as-
snrance that within a few days the
waters would again be frozen so os to be
passable to the French troops.
They delayed their retreat; within
twelve days a sharp freeze set in, and
the French army triumphed. Disjonva!
was released, and a spider had brought
rain to the Dutch nation.—St. Louis
Republic.
Specter Photographs.
Mr. Arthur S. Green, an American
photographer, gives the following meth
od of making the camera a source of
amusement by the production of “ghost'’
or ••shadow” picture -for example, a
seated man start/ng 1-rk in terror from
his own specter. Make a background of
the proper size by stretching out some
black material. Place the subject, draped
in white or in light clothing, in the right
attitude to the right or left of the center
of the background, then focus the cam
era and expose the plate for half a sec
ond. The impression will be that of a
shadowy and ghostlike figure. Take a
chair and table, placing the chair in the
center of the background, and the table
on the side away from the ghost.
Seat the subject in the chair, with his
bead turned to the ghost; focus again,
and give the plate a full exposure, which,
if the light is good, should be about two
seconds. Develop and print in the usnul
way. Any objects to be seen through
the ghost should be photographed with
fifteen seconds’ exposure before taking
the picture of the ghost. Other devices
of the kind might be mentioned, but it
will be more interesting to leave them
to the ingenuity of the amateur.—New
York Advertiser.
REVELATION.
Perchance In some far after time.
When we to nobler stators crown.
Shell learn to make our lire* sublime.
For God’s and Truth’s dear rake alone—
The solemn use of grief shall die.
And Joy regain her ancient grace.
And ’neath a nearer, ampler sky.
With life’s sad mysteries face to face-
Wlth p&Msionlegs Wisdom we shall talk.
And learn of Sorrow’s darkest lore.
And in the light of Knowledge walk
Forever and forevermorol
The sure result of time is change.
And (Jbauge her endless gamut tings-
ThingH that today are new and strange
Tomorrow aro forgotten things.
The slow mutations of the years.
The growth of peace, the lapse of strife.
May solve the problem of our tears.
The dark and speechless Sphinx of life!
The grief that walls not on the Ups,
The keen, slow pang of spiritual pain.
Some angel of the Apocalypse
Shall make Its solemn meaning plain.
Well, let it peas! We live our live*
We dream our dreams! then slip away.
A lustier race springs up and thrives.
Nearer to Truth's Immortal dayl
Circle on circle evermore
Our little wavee of being swell.
Gather and break against the door
Of Death’s eternal citadel!
—New York Ledger.
How Plasterers Do Without a Doctor.
Every trade has its special physic.
This is true. In conversation a surgeon
remarked that few things gave more
pain, attended with so much danger, as
some particles of lime dost in the eye.
A gentleman stunding by remarked:
“And yet such nn accident is of daily oc
currence. is attended with hardly any
danger, nud is most easily treated.*’
“How so?” came a chorus of voices.
“Well, I will tell you. i was brought
up to the trade of a plasterer, a ceiling
plasterer. You may not know that the
final layer upon a good ceiling is almost
pure lime. The plasterer stands npon a
platform and lays on the paste. It falls
upon him in every direction, and. espe
cially if he is a new hand, often a splat
ter falls right into his eye. When he
gets accustouit-d to the work the eyelid
seems to get used to it, too. and seems to
close automatically in self defense.
“Directly such un accident occurs a
fellow workman takes a mouthful of
water from the nearest pail— and there
is always a pailful of water handy—opens
the eye ns wide ns possible and squirts
with all his force the contents of his
mouth against the eyeball. This irn
mediately cools the lime and also drives
it out of the eye. Simple remedy, isn't
it, and eminently practical? But you
see a man’s eye would be burned out
long before he could reach the nearest
doctor’s.**—New York Recorder.
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CASTOR IA
AmwvwWNSVtw -
for Infanta and Children.
“Caaterit Ajo.»n*d*pOtocfaflf XcH
taontOBL" H. A. Ascm, X. D.,
Jlj8a Oxford Bt, Brooklyn, If. V.
“Tli. use of 'CsstorU'is sonnlrerul sad
Its nwrits so well known the* It sesmsewwk
ot *up*mu«moo to endow* It rewsretb*
who donotkeep Distort*
Ul» Tutor BjounlnfUln Reformed Church.
s£»p. 1 aiid < piu™c>3i S
'tnESibmkm medication.
- For eerersl nu, I have wamaM
Earn F. Prase* It D,
“Tbs Wtnthrop,"l»th Street and 7th Are,
New York City.
to CaaTAua CoaruT, 77 Mdbbay Bnm, Nnw Too*.
Sat lire llotutaotrd 17* m.
In the odorons “office" of one of the
east side "hotel*." in the midst of an
interested group of co-lodgers, a fellow
was airing hi* grievances against na
ture recently. “Talk of red hair or
freckles or cross eyes or bowlegs or
crooked noses," he said, “ they, one or
all, may be inconvenient, they mny be
useless, hut they aro blessings, yes. sir.
blessings compared to my 'Adam's ap
ple.' An 'Adam's apple,’ sir. is nutnre's
kick—her slap in the face—a camel's
back on a small scale in a man's throat.
Brains, sir, talent, genius—nothing will
atone for it. It is a frost, and it never
thaws. I might have been anything I
desired but for my hunch throat, but
who could lie persuaded that a man witli
an Adam's apple attached to him for life
could he anything hut a freak?"—New
York World.
Erlilntr- of Ilia Sun', Variability.
We cauiiot rest with the assumption
that, since tile sun is evidently no Miru
and no Birins, therefore it is practically
an unchanging radiator which for an in
definite period will continue to cause
the earth to bloom m the beneficent ef
fulgence of its life Inspiring rays. A sun
may affect the welfare of its planets
either through the gradual mutations
which it undergoes in the course of ite
evolution, or through the more rapid
and violent changes that characterize
the stare that are ranked os variable.
We have seen that most of these latter
belong to the third nnd fourth classes,
but there is reason to suspect that the
majority of all the stars are variable to
a slight degree, and evidence of varia
bility in the case of the sun is furnished
by the phenomena of snn Bpots.— G. P.
Serviss iu Popular Science Monthly.
Going west or east, north or south, who goes
by the ‘‘Racket Store” without drooping in
and examining our goods and prices is
BADLY FITTED
to support a family. He needs a kind but firm
hand to knock some sense into him. Ours is
the only stock in town wnich is calculated
TO SUPPORT
extravagant claims, but we won’t make ’em.
We prefer to have a man and his family come
in and look us over; in fact, ours is
A FAMILY
store, and each member of your family will
find something to interest and instruct them
ROGERS & WILDER,
104 Lee Street.
BeptlMAw
financial.
*. H. HAWKINSPm-t. H.C-BAGLEY. VktPnTi
W. E. MURPhEY. Cuhler.
ORGANIZED 1870.
-*SThe Bank of Americus g*.
&««***.
Capltali ■ B _ a,. Rn
Iio8:8o2
-: DIRECTORS!—
C.' oifl**0c Jv*r m '“ t °°.
f. ^ssssz-^SMSstt^^^^-
Capital Stock . - I I rr; ■
Paid up Capital - - . _ “ _ flOOjgj.
THE BANK OF SUMTER
T. K HAWKES, 0. A. COLEMAN
P ™ ld * nt ' „ Vice-President
W* C. FURLOW, Cashier.
_ DIRECTORS— O. A. Coleman 0 P
Hawkins, B. H. Jossey, T. N. Hawke*
W. C. Furlow, W. H. C. Whe^lev Its
Oliver, H. M.’ Brown, mT niwke?*
Dr. E. T. Mathis, Arthur RyUndw. ’
Ibl ““to"?*, •ocommoda-
ting to the publio and prudent in it*
management, this bank solicits deposits
and other business in its line.
MONTGOMERY, Pr.it, J. C, RONEY, Vkt Prnt
JNO. WINOSOR. C'r, LESTER WINDSOR Ant e" .
K A. HAWKINS, Attorney
NO. 2839.
Peoples’ National Ban!
Of Americas.
Capltul, 930,000. Surplus, 935,000
ORGANIZED 1883.
ALLISON & AYCOCK
The Booksellers and Stationers
ABE NOW IN THEIR
New quarters in the New Hotel Build
ing “The Windsor” and are
Ready for Business.
ALLISON & AYCOCK, 406 Jackson Street.
AM^RICCTS, GA.
Vl.liliiE tor Ducks.
In India nu ingenious scheme iB prac
ticed for taking docks on u line, which
is attached at one end to a flexible stick
stuck up in the mnd, the other extremity
having a double pointed needle of bone
attached to it. The hitter is baited by
stringing npon it some grains of corn.
Presently along comes Mr. Dnck, swal
lows ths needle mnd finds himself a cap
tive the moment he tries to fly away. In
old times the Cape Cod fishermen de
pended largely for bait npon the sea fowl
they took on their voyages. To catch
them they threw oat fishing lines with
hooks on the ends, to which were at
tached chunks of cod liver. The Utter
floated because of the oil they contained,
and marres, galls and other hints swal
lowing them were quickly pulled in,
skjuned and chopped up.—Interview in
Washington Star.
Printing by Do, Power.
Printing machines are usually driven
by-S team or gas motors, bat the machine
which prints a certain newspaper in
America is ran by dog power. A Urge
wheel about ten feet iu diameter and
two iu width is connected with the driv
ing rigger of the machine by means of a
belt; strips of wood, for fontbold, are
placed a foot apart on tbs inside of the
wheel, where Joe, the jonmalistic
dog, walks bis weary .round, and thna
causes the wheel to revolve, joe has ran
the press for about fire years, and has
faithfully earned bU board and lodging,
bat it U now about time for him to feel
illand "turn it up,” being unable to con
tinue tuning it round.—London Tit-
Bits.
— .ear...
Natural Soda Water FountaliiM.
In some parts of the Colorado «1« sort
water boils np from springs, which are
surrounded by circular hillocks of cur
lionate of lime from four to eight feet
iu height, the material of wiiicb 1ms
been deposited from the flowing fluid
The latter is so highly charged with gas
that it is very difficult to keep corks in
bottles filled with it. It seems queer to
find in snch a desolate country real soda
water fountains supplied by nature.
Sirups are uot offered to order, unfortu
nately. The lime deposited on the rocky
shores was contributed by such springs
as these, bubbling np from what was
then the bottom of the lake.—Washing
ton Star.
In the towns and cities of Chili all the
shopping of any consequence is done in
the evening. In Santiago the stores ore
open till midnight, and during the hot
afternoon, when everybody takes s
siesta, they ure locked up.
Pctmienm superseded vegetable oils
for lighting purposes in India, and is be
ing gradually driven out itself by the
electric light, owing to the peculiar fit
ness of the latter for nsc in hot climate!
A book entitled "History of Wonders
Performed at Fairs" mentions an Eng
tishmnn who. at the fnir of SL German,
in 1724, leaped over the heads of forty
people without touching one of them.
The late General B.F. Kelley received
the first wound of the war at the battle
of Philippi. His blood stained vest, with
the rent in it made by the ballet, is pre
served by a Washington officer.
Princess Christian, the daughter of
Queen Victoria, employs a woman physi
cian. Dr. Jnlia Maitland, who la a spe
otahsf <n diseases of the Berras
^mericus Iron Works,
BUILDERS OP
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
J4B“Special attention given to repairing all kinds of
Machinery. Telephone 79. 2 W ‘ 4m
Saw Mill Men, Attention!
ENGINES,
Our special business is heavy machinery such as.
BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND W00D-W0RUNG
-and for first-class machinery, we defy competition. We are general 1
H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S celebrated Wood-working machines, am
count factory prioes. Write for circular of “Farmers’ Favorite’’ saw mill kit is the
best on the market. Second-hand machinery constantly on hand,
prices; we can save you money,
nts for
1 dls-
iu; 11 is the
Write for
Perkins Machinery Company,
67 SOUTH BROAD STREET,
Ifactloi nu THna-Rzeosaza Wb
1 When Too Write,
ATLANTA, GA.
aaglkUtvlj
B. T. BYED,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
REPRESENTING THE SAFESTAND STRONGEST COMPANIES IN THEJWORLD.
Insurance placed on City end Country Property.
Office on Jackson Street, next door below Mayor’s Office,
daeat-dty.
0. C, HAWKINS. li. O. LOVING.
HAWKINS <fc LOVING
We are prepared to do EMB ALMING on short notice. 8ATISFAC
TION GUARANTEED. Also keep a fine lino of Metallic and
Cloth Covered Cases, Caskets and Coffins.
HEADQUARTERS FOR FURNITURE.
Ntfht calls for ooffins Telephone No. 4S, or call on G. O. Lovlnc, Brown wr *** , Ba yj W y
H. C. IUOI.KV. Pro,. r. c. Cr.eoii, Vice Pre,
T. F. Ox - KWool), Sec. St Tr.
Americas Investment Go.
Investment Secures.
Paid up Capital, $1,000,000.
Surplus, $250,000.
mnzcTOKs:
H C Ilagiey, W E Hawkins, S W Coney,
W S Gillis, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg
W M Hawkes, B F Mathews, G M Bvne,
W E M urpboy, S Montgomery, J H Phsrr.
' B. P. Hollis.
E. Burr, Jr., Pres. H. SI. Knapp, V. P.
> O. A. Cor.EM an, See, a Treas.
Georgia Loan & Trust Co.
Negotiates Loans on improved
Farm and City Property.
B P Hollis,
Attorney,
J E Brvras.
Land Examiner.
GHOST STORIES
When you hear a man say
“ We’ve got a PIANO here
just as good as the IVERS
& POND for a great deal
less money,” remember that
all the ghost stories have
not been told yet
When you hear a man say
that “So-and-so” keeps a
better line of musical goods
than we do, just add one
more to your list of ghost
stories.
When you want an IVERS
& POND PIANO with all
its patented improvements,
see that you get it Allow no
solicitation or. specious mis
representation to switch you
off onto something inferior.
Ghost stories frighten chil
dren, but not mature and
sensible people.
Call on us and try the
IVERS & POND SOFT-
STOP, even though you do
not wish to buy anything.
PHILLIPS t CREW,
79 Peachtree St, Atlanta, Ga.
AUGUST MYERS.
Artistic Tailor
Under T. Wheatley’s Store,
FORSYTH ST.. AMEPICUS.GA
Having been In the tailoring b u, ‘ D * , ‘
for twenty seven yean, I have R l ' t
perfect satisfaction to my customers,
isve made no misfit*. 1 de»l w* ,
first-class house |n New York city, “
can show many excellent samples,
good English, Frenoh end Intiisa 7^
goods, ana customers will find my K
arc all firstclas*. A Urge number o>
sample* of Imported salting*. 1
make up aults for $22 to *35.
Call and see me. '
‘ A. MYERS,
Cor. Forsyth sod Jackses »“•
DOMESTIC - COAL I,|
For Sale tbis Season.
I shall be prepaired to'foraUb *
grade Lump Cool for Grate purpo***>
any quantity thU fall and winter,
S. R. SIMS
Sept 3, tf