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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. H TB VR, v 5 WE WISH VOU /l Merry Christmas. Christmas jomes and every heart overflows with Yuletide joy. “WHAT SHALL I GIVE HIM FOR CHRISTMAS.” This is the same diftlcu t problem that presents itself at every r *-' earreoce of the season. \Ve come to your rescue and say: ‘-Come here with all your trou pes and Let us show you.” We’re in Holiday attire and have the things a Man buys for ihim geli and appreciates most. We.cau, fill ihe Boy’s Stockings as satisfactorily as the Man’s. A FEW SUGGESTIONS Overcoats Neckwear Collars Kaineoate Gloves Cuffs Suits Hosiery Mufflers Trousers Underwear ' Cats Fancy Vests Suspenders Bh rt Protectors Umbrellas Sweaters Bathßrbes Shirts Etc. Etc. We’ll lay aside your selection until Christmas, and we’ll make aiy exchanges desired after Christmas. W. D. BAILEY. MEN’S AND BOY’S OUTFITTER HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT WITH TH -< fIERICUS TRUSTand SAVINGS BANK Anyone can make money, but it tak c s a wUe oue to save it. BEGIN WITH SI.OO and get a HOME BANK FREE. We want to encourage the young folks with their small savings; the wage | earners who are striving to bay a home; the business men who are saving surplus incomes as a competency for later years; all persons who are trying to accomplish something in life beyoLd their pres ent condition. Call and ask about our plan. 4 per cent ioterest paid on Savings Deposits Compounded. OFFICE IN AMERICUS NATIONAL BANK BUILDING,, COTTON AVENUE. Unfortunate Omission. One of the most singular instances of jonishment for an oversight was that town by the commitment of an alma nac ranker to the Bastille in 1717. It las made out by order of the Duke of ♦rieans. regent during the minority of fWuis V. of France, and read as fol lows: "Laurence d'Henry, for disre rt feet to King George I. in not mention ing him in his almanac as king of ifireat Britain." How long this un lucky almanac maker remained inpris •c is unknown. The register of the Bastille, examined at the time of the Solution, failed to throw any light on te subject. | And Cheerfully Too. I "Ninety per cent of the men in this ■*orld make fools of themselves for ■soney.” 1 “Worse than that. Ninety per cent ak’ them make fools of themselves for ■Mliing.”—Cleveland Tress. I It is often better not to see an insult ■tan to avenge it.—Seneca. What Ails You? ■Bo you feel weak, tired, despondent, ■We frequent headaches, coated tongue, Biter or bad taste in morning, ”heart- Brn,” belching of gas, acid risings in ■’cat after eating, stomach gnaw or jWtfn, foul breath, dizzy spells, poor or ■'liable appetite, nausea at times and ■tdred symptoms ? ■ you have any considerable number of ■& above symptoms you are suflering biliousness, torpid liver with indi ■stion or dyspepsia. I)r. Pierce’s Golden ■edical Discovery is made up of the most ■Faable medicinal principles known to science for tlie permanent cure of ■ c ’ a abnormal conditions. It is a most ■cient liver invigorator, stomach tonic, ■* el regulator and nerve strengthener. "Golden Medical Discovery” is not dent medicine or secret nostrum, a ■•list of its ingredients being printed bottle-wrapper and attested under .7 slance at its formula will show ■■‘‘ it contains no alcohol, or harmful ■Wt-formmg drugs. It is a fluid extract wuk pure, triple-refined glycerine, ■Proper strength, from the roots of the ■,°p in ? nat!V ‘‘ American forest plants, ■s Golden Seal root. Stone root, Black ■drybark. Queen's root, Bloodroot, and root. n gl medical authorities, J lost of 01 hers, extol the foregoing 19 ustpsv tm : cur< ‘ of lust such ailments as the ■ V Prof. R. Bartholow, ■LcV kV r^ n r l ,'.' l - College, Phila.; Prof. Haia m* L niv - of Pa.; Prof. Edwin ■ iicai’.'iV of Halmemanq Med. College, I J °hn King, M. I)., Author of ■ ?.M i l , Prof. Jno. M. Seud tcri-n,..' , , utlor of s].. (;ifl c Medicines; Prof. X I yv;,: - ’’ohnson. M. I)., Med. Dept. Univ.of H 'HatPri'.'iT l P ley kilingwood. M. I).. Author 19 >1 CuiiV!r' l u. a nn,i k'oh in Hennett Medi §9* on o'; • aifo ; kend name and ad mm UuV V> U1 Card to Dr. li. V. Pierce. ®9 VtFf,' 1 ” sin <l rt-.-cive. free booklet giving ■ l»nt hll ,.:" n I vrn lm - r > of all tiie above medi tr.?,.., many oiliers endorsing, in the ■■laii-n. lo terms, each and every in- Hl »1 °L whirh , ” tiolden Medical I*is ■9 P; r ° m rx>sed ip I Pellets regulate and i9»be t 'tT:i,ici‘. liver and bowels They deal h ; e ,ver^ n i l \ n( ‘ tiun with «Golden Ther'ii *«“ tHJWt ‘ ls are much con re tiny and sugar-coated. MERELY‘A MASTERPIECE. Not a “Message” In Lovely Diction For tlie Junior Manager. A man who wanted to lecture called at a bureau presided over by two man agers. He aroused their interest with a lec turer’s art, says the Lyceumite, but unfortunately the senior member was just starting on a trip and would not return for at least a month. The senior partner called the young man to one side and exacted a solemn promise that he would not visit an other bureau or read his lecture to anybody until after he had given this particular manager a reading and a chance to make him an offer a month hence. The interest of the junior member, however, was at white heat, and he kept sending for the young lecturer, in sisting that he come down to the office and read his lecture. The young man refused with as much tact as possible, but this only' increased the anxiety of the junior. At last the young man told of the promise made the senior partner. In stead of quieting the junior manager, the announcement made him the more anxious, and finally the young man consented. The reading ended, the junior part ner said: “Now, your reading this has saved us all much valuable time. I’ll tell you frankly, my boy, it won’t do. There’s no message in it; it is loosely construct ed; the diction is poor. It won’t do. Burn it and try again.” When the senior partner returned he called up the young lecturer and sound ly berated him for breaking faith. ' “How do I know you have not been to everv bureau in town? You promis ed me on your honor you would read the lecture to nobody not e\ on to uij partner.” , . , . The /oung man protested that he had not done so. “Whv ” exclaimed the senior man ager, “of course you have! He tells me that you came clown here to the office two weeks ago and read him the entire Sure and that he told yon it was no So “ Yes” replied the young man; “after much persuasion 1 did read him a lec ture which he told me was no good, but it was not my lecture-it was Wen dell Phillips’ ‘Lost Arts. probably. 'making'facbs jS "" smr h and rny Ta Magazme. A fW “This seat, ma am, women and children. “Well I’m a woman. .. l T i■?” “Yes, b«t where are your children? New York Press. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1906. A STIR 13 CREATED IN FILIPP OF SUIT Mrs. James W. English Asks Divorce. SOCIAL CIRCLES ARE STIRRED Complainant Alleges that Jam-a W English, Jr. is Guilty of Habitual Drunkenness and Cruelty—Divorce Proceedings Piled. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19. —Mrs. Rebie Lowe English, through her attorneys, Rosser and Brandon, has filed suit for divorce against her husband, James W. English, Jr., alleging habitual drunkenness and cruelty, charging that he frequently drank at home nights to the point of intoxication until she feared personal injury. Though the newspapers hijve given the divorce suit no publicity, it is all the talk in society circles. Mrs. English was one of the most charming young women in Atlanta society, and is the same attractive and loveable woman that she was when she first made her entrance into Atlanta society. Mr. English is the son of James W. English. He has made a fortune in leasing convicts, in which he was first associated with his father and later by himself. Recently he built a $75,000 residence on Peachtree, about which there was talk of the state’s buying it as an executive mansion. Mr. English was at the head of Gov. Terrell’s staff of lieutenant colonels, being known as chief of the staff, and accompanied the Governor on all his official trips. WAUhH OF BATTLE. * The First Duels Are Said to Have Deen Fought In Italy. The first duels were fought iu Italy, according to Millingen, who speaks of a manuscript discovered at Cassel and describes a duel between a father and a son in the reign of the Emperor The odoric. When Charlemagne forbade wager of battle among the Lombards he encountered the fiercest opposition from the nobles. Early in the ninth century De Medicis, a knight, defeated in single combat the bandit Mugel, who devastated the Florentine district now called after him, Mugello. Otho 11. granted the prayer of the nobility for the re-establishment of wager of battle in 988. Women and priests were not compelled to accept it. The Normans showed less gallantry. With them a woman had to accept, nor could she name a champion. Her m:ile op ponent. however, was buried to his waist in the earth. Armed with a club, lie tried to strike her as she cir cled around him. his weapon being a ball of iron at the end of a cord. If he failed t;> touch her at the third at tempt he \va - vanquished, which meant to him uenth with dishonor. •Becearin says tlut the reason so nany dueis were fought in Italy in the oe.rly days is that where the law does not afford protection one must iook to single combat to retain the re spect of one’s fellow men. In tin* mid dle ages the ferocity of Italian duels, passes belief. "Any way of putting an enemy to death (*ogni modo’) is good Enough.” says one of their writers. "When an Italian spares his vanquish ed adversary.” says Bran tome, "he maims his arms and legs and gives him as a memento of his kindness and generosity a hideous gash across the face.” Lampagnauo practiced on a painted model of Galeazzo Sforza be fore he stabbed him. Dueling was called “la geienza cavalleresca.’’*—Corn hill Maga7i”p The Gentlemanly Leopard. The cheetah has a reputation as one of the most gentlemanly of beasts. A story from Ootacamund shows what fine manners the animal has. Three Calcutta visitors to the hill station were out on a tramp wh ' they were overtaken by a thunderstorm, accom panied by sheets of rain. They spied a cave in the side of the hill, and into it they rushed. When the rain stopped they came out and. to their surprise, found a cheetah sitting licking the heavy wet off his waistcoat and his paws. It was his cave, but rather than deprive his visitors of their shelter the polite creature had sat outside in the driving tempest. With a friendly mew and gracefully wagging his tail, the cheetah bade adieu to his guests and walked with dignity into his house.— Asian Magazine. His Second. She—l must say I don’t believe in “warmed over” love. He—Well, there’s one thing sure —a widowers second love is always worth more than his first. She—The idea! He—l mean his second ladylove is always worth more money than his first. Philadelphia j Press. Womanly. “What,” she asked, “is your idea of a womanly woman?” “One,” he replied, “who takes the comb out of her back hair every little while and gives it two or three upward scrapes and then jabs it In again.”— Chicago Record-Herald. SOLONSIN LINE TO TAKE THE BATH Mayor Hawkins and Mem bers Council JJST ELEOTEO ARE INSTALLED Oa’h Administered by Jus >Ci Hud son—Mayor Names Standing Com mittee —Few Matters of Business Were Considered. At a special meeting of the city coun cil last night the recently elected mem bers of that body. Mayor Hawkins, Aldermen Childers, Furlow and Poole, and City Clerk Hawkes, were duly in stalled for the term. Justice J. I. Hudson administered the oath to the new members, After this formality a few matters of routine were considered, after which Mayor Hawkins announced the stand ing committees of council for the en suing year, as follows: Finance and Taxation. —D. M. Bo rum, Chairman, J. 8. Bolton, T. M. Furlow. Purchasing.—T. M. Furlow, Chair man, J. E. Poole, J. 8. Bolton. Ordinances. —Z. 8. Childers, Chair man, I). M. Borum. C. J. Bherlock. Water and Sewerage—C. J. Sherlock, Chairman, D. M. Borum, T. M. Furlow. Streets and Sidewalks —J. S. Bolton, Chairman, J. E. Poole, C. J. Sherlock. Fire and Police. —J. E. Poole, Chair man, J. S. Boiton, Z. S. Childers, Public Buildings and Lights.—Z. S. Childers, Chairman, J. E. Poole, C. J. Sherlock. Cemeteries and Parks. —T. M. Fur low, Chairman, Z. S. Childers, C. J. Sherlock. Public Schools. —D. M. Borum, Chair man, J. S. Bolton, J. E. Poole. After the usual felicitations the coun cil adjourned to meet on/ Wednesday night next, 27th. No matters ol spec ial interest were discussed at the meet ing of the solons last night. U l. hi 'j ICC3.* i i.* V.-of-,.* V, itb Kl.t'WtcUlMin. 1. » . 3 uttd ’ivi::- If {><••»; v. - .tJiUc less nutrition aii 'ffvak - water, than* would be less rhwin •:: wu. gout, eczema and neuralgia in the world. The most fre quent cause us these derangements is an excess of nutritive materials. The blood is surcharged with salts that are not needed in the system. The doctors are trying to remedy these diseases by giving something to eliminate the salts, such as purgatives, diuretics and solvents of various kinds. The rational way, however, to cure such affections is to stop the cause. Drink more water; eat less meat and concentrated foods. This shuts off the supply of urates in the blood. Those who take active exercise in the open air every day require a great er amount of nutrition. Not only do they use up the nutritive materials in muscular exercise, but the amount of oxygen inhaled because of their activ ities thoroughly oxidizes the urates and changes them in urea. If the blood is loaded with urates they are very like ly to crystallize, especially in those portions of the body where the circula tion is the least and the temperature is the lowest, such as the elbows, an kles, the toes and fingers. Drink more water; eat less food. This is a prescription that is worth more to such people than all the drugs in the world. Shut off the source of urate poisoning and the effects of urate poisoning will disappear.—Ex change. EIG HT DAY CLOCKS. The Reason They Are Not Made to Ron Just a Week. The French have a fashion of ex pressing an indefinite but* short period of time by the phrase “about eight days.” Under similar conditions we would say “about a week.” The French method seems unnatural, ours natural, for a week is a distinctly rec ognized period. We believe there is only oue way in which we use the eight day period, and that is in making clocks. Did it ever occur to you why we have what is called an eight day clock and not yne made to run exactly seven days? There is a good reason for it. A clock that is made to run eight days is pretty sure to be wound on a cer tain day of the week, for it would be almost impossible for any one to re member to wind it on every eighth day. Therefore the interval between wind ings is seven days, precisely as the maker desired and expected. The reason is that a clock runs bet ter when it is not allowed to run down, or even nearly so. The same plan is followed in making a watch; it will run for thirty hours, but as nearly every man winds his watch at the same hour every day or night, the spring is never fully exhausted. Regularity in wind ing is one of the best means of keeping a timepiece in order. Extraordinary Inducements Clothing Buyers The largest stock to select from is here. Best fitting clothes are heae. The finest made. $39,00 Men’** Suits, Overcoats and Bain coats, now $22.7S $27.50 Men’s Suit- 1 , Overcoats and Bairco its, now 21.59 $25.00 Men’s Suits, Overcoa s and Baincoatt, now 18.75 $22.50 Men’s Suits, Overcoats and Baincoats, now 16.75 $20.00 Men’s Suits, Overcoats and B -incoats, now 13.75 sl7 50 Men’s Suits, k Over coats and Baincoats, now 11.75 sls 00 Men’s Suits, Overcoats and Baincoats, now 9.75 $12,50 Men’s Suits 8.75 $lO 00 Men s Suits 6.T5 Men’s Old Suits, formerly $20.00 and $25.00. for $12.5# Men’s Odd Suits, formerly $15.00 and $17.50, for 8.7* Men’s Odd Suits, formerly SIO.OO and $12.50, for 5,0* Lot of assorted Odds and Ends, foimerly $7 50 to SIO.OO, will be closed out for $3.50. ODD TROUSERS $8.50 Odd Trousers, now $7.5* $7.50 now 5.75 $6.50 Odd Trousers, now 4.5® $5.00 Odd Trouseis, now 3.75 $4.00 Odd Trousers, now 2.75 $3.00 Odd Trousers, now 1.95 All cheaper Trousers in same proportion. 300 pairs Useful Xmas gifts for the men. More of them here than any place in Americus. In addition to the clothing jou will find: Smoking Jackets. House Coats, Bath Robes, Gloves, Sox, Suspenders, Neckwear, Underwear, Night Robes, Pajamas, All Kinds Handkerchiefs, Mufflers, Silk Initial Handkerchiefs, Collars and Cuffs Hats. Shoes, Umbrellas, Etc. Chas. L. Ansley Successor & Ansley Bee Ad on Fourth Page. See the —» Beautiful THINGS WE HAVE FOR PRESENTS! Cuff' and Collar Boxes, Manicure Sets, Comb and Brush Sets, Traveling Cases, Military Brushes, Razors —safe- ty or regular, Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, Fine Meerchaum Pipes plain or carved, Cigar Holders, Cigar Cases, Mirrors, Gold Fountain Pens, Hand Bags, Cigars in Christmas Boxes, Co lognes, Extracts in Cut Glass and many other nice things. The goods are the best —our prices are right. REM BERT’S DRUfi STORE 113 FORSYTH ST, Shrewd Game. “Extry!” yelled the bright newsboy. “All about the ter’bJe wumpty— er— wump!” “Eh?” asked the inquisitive old man. “What did ye say, sonny?” “I didn’t say it,” replied the boy. “Buy a paper an’ see.”—Minneapolis T -'iimn 1 V | Ask your doctor the medical name for a cold i ■ on the chest. He will say, “Bronchitis.’* Ask C//Z him if it is ever serious. Lastly, ask him if he prescribes Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for this * 1 disease. Keep in close touch with your family j •§> S% % S h physician, and follow his advice carefully. mM m *a § Jf We hat-3 secrets I We publish J. C. Ay«rCo., ” w■ » w " •> WNj 5>- the formi: ias of all our preparations. Lowell, Mass. NUMBER 194 Fit and Fought. One would have thought this an Americanism, but I find it in Garrick'* “Miss In Her Teens,” where Tag says to Flash: “Oh pray let me see yoa fight! There w«pe two gentlemen fit yesterday,” etc. (act 2).—Notes aal On or! os.