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LO r 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. 1 7 6 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. • •' yv.w y\vv\^sv\'\w -v \v*' • -vv v»' v ' s\»* * > 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