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A ■ 2 THE aMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1801, Always open —the offer made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It’s & reward of $500 cash for - an in curable case of catarrh, no matter how bad, or of how long standing. They’ll cany it out, too. It’s one thing to make tho offer. It’s a very different thing to make it good. It couldn’t l>o done, except with an extraordinary medicine. But that’s what they have. By it’s mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties, Dr. Sago’s Remedy cures the worst cases. It doesn’t simply palliato for a time, or drivo tho dis ease to tho lungs. It produces a perfect and permanent cure. Try it and Bee. If you can’t be cured, you’ll be paid. Tho only question is — are you willing to make tho test, if tho makers aro willing to take the risk? If so, tho rest is easy. You pay your druggist fifty cents and the trial begins. If you’io wanting the $500 you’ll get something better—a cure / CULTIVATION OF HICK WATER PLAYS A BIG PART IN THE RAISING OF THE CEREAL. This is the wap 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 have your money. Comfort isn’t all of It though. Soft Eyelets, and “bones” that can’t break or kink—Ball’s corsets hava both of these. For sal*, by GEO. D. WHEATLEY. 1 « 9 Old Nick Whiskey la the best and is noted for its : and purity, having been made on i same plantation over 133 years without a rival as we constantly keep four year old RYE AND CORN on hand—ship any quantity, so write for price-list. Old Nick Whiskey Co., YadkiaOo. PANTHER CREEK, N. C. UPHUN IRpS., Proprietors, Oregglsts. UppwilVt Bock, SAVANNAH, CA. ■ For sale by the DAVENPORT DRUG COMPANY, Aiuerious, Ga. 0-Aikfxcaliknc. *8RY M'FG CO» N AftHvuiX,TEMt $500 Reward! WE win p«jr too Abovo toward for aav out of Liver 'TOT! wU* West's ■vstHAbloilorgMawM* u* dlwaiiao aretrtoMr •tWuMSvin •AXT.cuuuuail*. ra.oivsHFOUjnmoca^' An Industry in Louisiana That Is Very Profitable to the Grower, but Which in Htlll In Its Infancy — How Rice Fields Are Kept Flooded. "Toll you something about rice in Louisiana?" repeuted Andrew U. Wilkin son, the owner of n large rice mill in New Orleans, where the rice grown on his plantation is cleaned, at the Gilsey House. “1 see that the papers have just found out that Englishmen are trying to buy up and form a trust of the rice millB in the south, although the agents have been down there for something over six months. Nobody is quicker than John Bull to scent a bargain. "New Orleans is the chief rice milling city of America. Fifty years ago we did not have such a thing us a rice mill, but now we have sixteen, working 220 rice ponnders and employing more than 1,200 men. Louisiana bus always been known as the Sugar State, but wo also want to add to it that of the Rico Slate of the Onion. How is it cultivated? Well, the first necessity of profitable rice c ulture is a comparatively level piece of land, properly prepared for the seed. This field must lie located so ns to lie conveniently irrigated from the prairie reservoir or the flume in the levee. Highland rice Iocs not pay in Louisiana, the only profitable rice living that grown in water. Water is the first ami last want )f sprouting, growing und ripening rice. Before the ground is ready for the seed it is divided up by a system of little sublevoes nud watering ditches. It is then planted in drills dug by machines —or rather 1 should say that the ma chine is ttie proper way to do it, but the seed is frequently broadcasted with us in Louisiana. "•Then comes the most delicate part, in the water manipulation. After the seed is planted the soil is thoroughly saturated with water to sprout it, hut the water is at once taken off when the seeds have evenly germinated, and kept off until the tender shoots of the plant |ise two or three inches above the ground. You can easily see that the young plants may bo either drowned out or dried up by the least inattention in regnluting the flow. DRAWBACKS TO THE WORK. On tile other band, witli too much water, crawiisji itrvude the fields and de vour tile delicate plants, while with none at all, rice caterpillars cut them down and kill them. If you neglect the main flume you not only risk the total loss of your crop, lint by permitting tho water to get ahead of you there may come a break in the levee, and away go your cattle and crops. The most expensive part of rice grow ing comes when it is about a foot high, after it has been liberally watered; 1 mean the grassing of the rice. Yon see, the laborers wade through the rice, pull ing, np and throwing into heaps ull the weeds and water grasses they find. This grassing costs on an average about four dollars an acre, and after thut is over the rice planter lias bnt little to do ex cept to give it plenty of water. One pe culiar thing about irrigation is that the heads of the rice plunts never fill out, no matter how much water you give them urtiflcinlly, unless there are plenti ful ruins. 'One feature of rice cultivation would lie great fun to city sportsmen, bnt is a terrible. nuisance to us. 1 menu the birds. Talk about yonr ducks and geese hiding the snn. Perfect clouds of rice birds, English sparrows, summer ducks, rail and other fowl of the air and wa ter, come to see if they can't harvest onr crops for us. from daybreak to dark a perfect fnsilade from the guns and old mnskets is heard in hundreds of square miles of country. Over In this field you hear the shrill shouts of creole farmers shrieking out Sunday school language In French |mtols; from the next probably the deep chested whoop of negro field hands, und in another the hoarse yells of the new American rice growers— those who have come from the great northern wheat fields. It is scream!— pop! — wlmopt — bung! — boom!—in the noisiest battle from dawn to durk thut you ever heard. "The rice birds are onr worst enemies, and while we kill millions of them, left to immure the fields, other millions come in to take their places. The ravages of the rice birds some years ore fearful, the crop being almost u total loss. Per haps now that the Yankees are coming down to grow rice they may invent some machine thut will either destruy the birds or keep them away. l-UOriTs OV RICK CULTURE. "As soon as a pale yellow tint appears over the level heads of the opening grain the water is carefully drawn off, the fields being drained as thoronghly as possible, and the work of harvesting is began. The dried sheaves are carted direct from the field to the steam thresher, where the grain is prepared for market. The profits in rice planting, witli good lack, will in a few years make any man rich. The yields on good lands in Lou isiana give from fifty to seventy-five bushels to the acre. Rice is a plant which is generous to the attentive and industrious farmer, bnt it reseuts neg lect mom than any other cereal. A man can cnltivate fifteen to twenty acres of rice land, and If strong and industrious he can easily secure from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels of rice, worth at present prices about a dollar a bushel. The work U not bard, except daring grassing time, and, as good living is cheap with ns, a small rice farmer can easily save one- half of his gross income. “The cultivation of rice in Louisiana is still in Its infancy. Many of the hun dreds of immigrants are yearly taming their attention to rice, and at the pres ent rate of increased acreage Louisiana will be able to tnpply the entire country with this most valuable cereaL”—New York Telegram. COUNTY DIRECTORY. Superior Court—Hon. W. H, Fish, judge; C. B. Hudson, solicitor-general; J. II. Allen, clerk, L. B. Forrest, sheriff; J. B. Lamar, deputy sheriff. Regular terms, fourth Mondays iu November and June. County Court—J. B. Pilsbury, judge; F. A. Hooper, solicitor. Monthly terms, first Wednesday. Quarterly terms, third Monday in March, June, September and December. County Commissioners—J. II. Black, chairman; C A. Huntington, J A. Cobb, G. W. Council, J. W. Wheatley. County Treasurer—J. E. Su'/ivsn. Tax Receiver—J. W. Mize Tax Collector—J. B. Dunn. Coroner—J. B. Parker. Ordinary—A. C. Speer. Americus, 789tlj district, O. M.—W. B. F. Oliver, J. I*. W. K. Wheatley, N. P. Court, second Tuesday. City in' Am Emeus—Mayor—Jno. B. Felder, Mayor Pro Tern—W. K. Wheatley. Aldermen—P. H. Williams, J. J, Wil liford, T. F. Logan, J. E. Bivins, J. A. Davenport, W. K. iV'heatley. Clerk and Treasurer—D. K. Brinson. City Engineer and Superintendent Water Works—G. M. Eldridge. Chief of Police—A. P. Lingo. for Infants and Children. ‘'Castorlq -sa -reEadapr.. Jtochflf tcjn, , recommend Its* superior to soy preaeriptaaft known to m3." IL A. Aacaxa, K. D., llj So. Oxford 8ft, Brooklyn, N. f. “The use of 'Castorla'ls so universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse It Few are the Intelligent families who do not keep Castoija within ermyreocln^ HajjW^OD^ r ... p.T*a. ffl/u.mlnplehi Bafnemod Church. * For several years I have recommended jour • Castoria.' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial Edwin F. Famm. M. D., “Tbs Winthrop,” ISSth Street and Tth Am, New York City. For Over Fifty Year. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It soothes tho child, softens the gums, allays all palu, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy fordiarrhaia. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists through out the world. Blotches, Old Sores, Ulcers and all skin eruptions cured by P. P., the great est blood purifier of the age. nov:!dl2t-w2t. Ilats trimmed only wl*h ribbon de mand a generous quantity. The True Way TO EH) THE HUMAN BODY OF Tho Poison of Disease 18 TO FORCE IT OUT THROUGH THE SKIN. SWIFTS SPECIFIC always does this effectually. It treats the disease instead of tho symptoms, and re moves tho cause, thereby making a cure. Mrs. E. 3. Rowxu, No. 11 Quincy St., Medford, Sims., (ays that her mother bis been cured of Scrofula, by the OM of four bottle* of 0.0. <3.^ after having hid muck other treatment, tnd being reduced to quite a low condition of health, u it was thought the could not Uve. TreatlK on Blood and Skin Diietuci mailed free. Drawer A SWOT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ga* Are you going to use Gas or Electric Light Fixtures? If so we can save you money. We have $ 10,000 worth of Gas and Com bination fixtures in Brass, Copper, Gilt, Bronze, Old Iron, Or molu, Silver, &c., in stock. Our prices are 10 per cent, cheaper than you can buy from the factory. We carry a full line of Hard Wood" and Mar- bleized Iron Mantels, Tile Hearths, Grates, &c. Heating and Cook ing Stoves, Ranges, Fire Sets. Coal Vases, Hods, Fenders, &c., in Brass and Japanned. Send for prices. We arefui nishinT the New Hotel with gas fixtures. Hannicatt & Bellingrath Co., ATLANTA, GA. Tax Cxxtaux COXMXT, 17 KUBBSg STRXXT, Nxw Toxx. 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 wixich 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 n 0 li: find something to interest and instruct them IfcOOJEIfcS fife WILDER, 104 Lee Street. Septlfrl&w 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. AMERICUS. GA. Americus Ironworks, BUILDERS OF Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins, FI NANCIAL. J H.C.BAGIEY. Vkftw. I. H. HAWKINiPm'L W. E. MURPhEY. Cuhkr. ORGANIZED 1870. -*8The Bank of Americus.g«- Designated Depository State of Georgia. Stockholders individually liable. DIRECTORS H. C. Begley. Pree. Americus Investment Co. P. C. Clegg, Pres. Ocmnlgee Brick Co. Jas. Dodson, of jas. Dodson ft Son, Attorneys. G. W. Glover, ITes’t Americas Grocery Co. 8. H. Hawkins, Pres’t S. A. & u. Railroad. 8. Montgomery Pres’t Peoples National Bank. J. W. Sheffield, of Sheffield & Co., Hardware. T, Wheatley, wholesale dry goods. W. E. Morphey, Cashier. 1100,000. THE BANK OF SUMTER T. N. HA WEES, President. O. A. COLEMAN, Vice-Prelid int. W. C. FDRLOW, Cashier. DIRECTORS-O. A. Coleman, C. C. Hawkins, B. H. Josscy, T. N. Hawkes, W. C. Furlow, W. H. C. Whe.Jey, R. S. Oliver, H. M. Brown, W. M. Hawkea, Dr. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Rylander. Liberal to Its customeis, accommoda ting to the public and prudent in it* management, this bank solicits deposits and other business in Its line. S. MONTGOMERY, Prsrt. J. C. RONEY, Vfce Pint. JNO. WINDSOR. C’r. LESTER WINDSOR Ant. C'r. E. A. HAWKINS, Attorn.; NO. 2830. r he- Peoples’ National Bank Of Americas. Capital. *80,000. Surplus. 823,000 ORGANIZED 1883. Americas Investment Co. Investment Securities. Paid up Capital, 81,000,000. Snrplus, 8260,000. directors: iagley, W E Hawkins, S W Coney, W S Gifiis, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg, IV M Ilawkes, B F Mathews, G M Byne, W E Murphey, S Montgomery, J H Pharr. B. P. Hollis. E. Burr, Jr., Pres. H. M. Knapp, V. P. O. A. Coleman, Sec, a Trcns, Negotiates Loans on improved Farm and City Property. B P Hollis, Attorney, J E Bivins. Land Examiner. tiHOST STORIES Presses, Feeders and Condensers, Saw and Grist Mills, Shingle Machines, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Boiler Feeders, Valves, Jets, Etc. *' _, Hangers, Boxes and Pulleys #g“Special attention giVen to repairing all kinds of Machinery. Telephone 79. *' ,Wm Saw Mill Men, Attention! la Its Worst Fspm* Bxrros, Ust Co.. WU, Dee.. 83. Rev. J. 0, Bergen vouchee for the folio win*: Jamee Rooney, who was anffstlng tram VUna Daaae (a tta want fora tec aboot 1* yean, wsa treated by accent pnyeidasi without effect, two bottlee of Factor Koenig's Baeva Tonic cured him. Tireox, Mo., March ft lflOL My daughter was taken with catalepsy when aboot 1 or i yean eld; we triad dlffareat modi* about 3 or 4 yeara eld; ire tried dlffareat modi* etnea bat without effect. It Is now itwl •years Mac* lb*begin taking Paster Beeelg*e Serve Tonic and’tEchA'ilfft^iad’aaattsc* or the dl*. cue since that time. G. DUEBKR. XT A. HABt m, BJ,, WW i I hereby teatlfy that Fetter KoealCa Tonlccured a gbl of mv congregation Vital Dance, and a married lady of ala BKV.FOL.nBMO] SoSt!* - FKEiSfiRW KOKNIC MKO.OOn Chicago, I fteM by Drantte at ftl per Bottle, (kill UmlftlMA •BottlaeterM. ENGINES, Our special business is heavy machinery such as BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOOD-WOHJING MACHINERY, ery, ICO. tltion. We are general agi H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S celebrated Wood-working machines, and can dis count factory prices. Write for circular of “Farmera’ Favorite” aaw mill; It la the beat on the market Second-hand machinery constantly on hand. Write for prlcea; we can aave you money. Perkins Machinery Company, 67 SODTH BROAD STREET, Mention IU Times-Recobdkb Wh i Whan Ton Write. ATLANTA, GA angUd&wly B. T. BYBD, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE Insurance placed on City and Country Property. - — next door below Mayor’s i Office on Idiate dly. V. C. HAWKINS. 0.0. LOVING. HAWKINS & LOVING We are prepared to dotEMBALMING onfshort notice. SATISFAC TION GUARANTEED.O Also keep a fine line of Metallic and Cloth Covered Cases, Caskets and Coffins. HEADQUARTERS FOR FURNITURE. Nl(ht calbCfor coffins Telephone No. tf, or re - :r C..O.Storing, Brown street. mayte-Q. 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 oft 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 & CREW, 79 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.' THE FIRST ALWAYS Thos. B. Glover, THE VETERAN Grocer of Americus, The oldest grocer merebant In Americus and the first to open In the new hotel with a first-class line of GROCERIES, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, aud everything usually kept in • Hr**' class grocery! Thanking the people of Amerlcux and surrounding country for their very liber al patronage In the past, I respectfully solicit a continuance of the same, ana will do all In my power to please fill who come my way. All goods delivered free of charge in corporate limit*. THOS. B. GLOVER, id door, Northeast corner New Hotel, on Sm New Street, Americas, Ga. Pure wines, brandies and whiskies for medicinal u*e, sold at Dr. Eldbioox’s Drug Store.