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)ur business does not come en
pert
‘" to guppM ed to ^ * trict| y
^nr-pneople,” said tbe curb-
P er tUe barroom of ^ne of the
hotels that face Madison
, o H *w do they doit? Oh
’■ enough for a man who
bitters to get them right
even if be is an avowed blue-
on man.
There was a Boston
,11 r.v.n o
nul „e be does not drink-cer.
• not' But every morning, at
L-dst we sent into the dining-
'ass of seltzer lemonade
which be drank to ‘wake
stomach up,’ as he told his
,i s at the same table. Onc-
t ,. r of that glass of lemonade
nure Holland gin, which, be
white in color, could notbe de-
■ evcn by the person sitting
to him. Yes, of course we
• the gin was In it, for he has
'stopping at this hotel when
e city for some fifteen years.
th ere was an understanding
bed between us a long while
Then there is the wife of a na
slliccr of high rank who always
,s here while her husband is op
ofhis cruises. With dessert
inner she has two small cups
erv black coHce.and her friends
avs speak of how much more
mate and entertaining she is
dinner than before it. She
owes then areally brilliant talk.
The true reason is that there
still pony of the best French
ndy in each one of those little
s of black coffee.
>'ow look there; watch that,”
the speaker, stopping suddenly
nodding bis bead toward tbe
of the room, “Now you’ll have
radical illustration of what I
he spoke three gentlemen
illed in and walked up to the
Kacli one of them wore silk
and large diamond soltaires in
shirt fronts. They each or-
•ed drinks, two taking whiskey
the third a bottle of ginger ale.
You keeep it up better than
ght you could, Aleck,” said
of the whiskey drinkers to the
man, as be came up to the
bier’s desk to pay the check.
blessed if I didn’t think Billy
ild win inside of two weeks.”
I'm going to win that bet, and
you forget it,” said tbe third
complacently. “There’s on!
ionth yet and then the time’s
The man who drank tbe ginger
said the cashier, when they
left the room, “is in the cus-
house, pretty near the head of
He made a bet of $5,000 two
nths ago with one of the leaders
he County Demooraoy that be
eldn’t drink a drop of auything
three months. Two or three
ies a day he comes in and takes
ottle of Belfast ginger ale with
ie of his friends. The barkeeper
ir there will be $500 richer when
custom bouse man wins tbe
Why?” asked the reporter,
iblfullv.
Don't you sec ?” said the cashier
lisgust; “tbe barkeeper has a
uliar box from which be takes
se bottles of ginger ale. Each
tie in the box has been very
fully opened so as not to des-
■ the tinfoil capsule over the
i and 1ms been fixed with old
whisky—one-quarter whisky,
c-quariers ginger ale. Do you
nble’now?”
There was one fellow, a retired
chant and a pillar of a Fifth
nue church, who slopped hero
. winter, who always at his
■dshad a lemon sent to him in a
ill glass. One end ofthc lemon
nicely sliced oil and the lemon
carefully set up in the glass
Uie other end. He sucked the
:e from the lemon after he had
shed eating and everybody
ught he took it to help bis di
lion. So be did, but tbe lemon
i about half full of “tbe old
II. so that he got a good “whis-
soiu"every time. I could go
lor an hour telling you of games
these. It seemed to he a
nia with a great many people
hide the I'act that they drink
thing . ln d t| 10 y w j|| g„ to nn y
omit of trouble to deceive their
mis and acquaintances. But
"ho are behind the scenes, as it
m. know all all about it. Of
use we never give it away, for
worth a good deal of money to
■A nother well-equipped illicit dis-
k ' r V was discovered in the very
art of New York this week by
vc-nue oilicials. The moonshiners
ire caught, but there was no ex-
ing moonlight hunt and romance
, ere is in the mountains. The
leers detected the odor of burn-
s hops while they were walking
n g the streets, and just stepped
a ha put the bracelets on thedia
era > w ' 10 were busy drawing off
’high Wines.
The Home of tbe Blizzard.
Burdette m Brooklyn E*#!e.
Dearly beloved, if you want to
have fun, get up a lecture and bring
it out west when the blizzards are
ripe. Last Saturday I drove from
Hinsdale, Iowa, to Tabor. It was
only eight miles, and it wasn’t so
awfully cold. Somewhere between
an inch and an inch and three-quar
ters down below the dot; but as I
had breathed the balmy air of Wis
consin only a week before at 32
degrees below the belt, I didn’t
mind a littie thing like that. Dur
ing Monday morning I made a
a drive of 12 miles from Tabor to
Malvern. A young student of Ta
bor College, Gilbert Brooks, took
me down, because he knew the
roads of tbe country and tbe ways
of tbe blizzard. Now, when ’it
blows out in this land it blows. It
doesn’t stop for the cold and it
doesn’t stop to inquire the way. It
blows a thousand miles a minute,
and if it finds a snowdrift located
not to suit it, it just moves tbe
drift into a place, and sweens tbe
old ground perfectly bare of snow.
And cold? The hot bricks froze to
our feet, less or more. We rattled
over the rough, frozen roads where
the ground was bars, then we
would plunge into snowdrifts up to
the horse’s corsets, and all the time
the pitiless wind sweeping all the
way down from the Alaska, whirled
tbe light snow in our faces and
searched out every crevice and
wrinkle in every blanket and ulster.
Shade of the great wnitc bear, but
it was cold! And as f"8t ns the
eye could reach across the great
white drifted prairies, the snow
went sweeping, whirling into fan
tastic circles, rising in great gyra f -
rating columns, combing over like
ocean breakers; mile after wintry
mile the Arctic dannee went on,
and the ghostly squadrons of
the frozen north went charg
ing over these measureless plains,
and ever and anon the fierce sweep
of the sibilant, hissing winds, for
there is no forest here for them to
sing and roar through. Time and
again the horses turned their heads
from the fierce onset of the snow
and the blast, and only the skillful
driving of my comrade kept them
in the road and “laid in the leads.”
The only living souls we saw in
those 12 miles of storm and cold
were three little country children
going to school—two boys aud a
little girl. That’s western stock
for you. As we passed them tbe
boys hailed us cheerily: “Mister,
gimme a ridel” That’s boy all
over.
Then getting from Malvern to
Council Buffs. I stayed in tbe
Wabash railway station all dsy,
fraternizing joyously with tbe
tramps in tbe common comfort of
a red hot stove and waiting for a
train. There were good hotels only
a square away, but bless you, you
could’t have pulled me away from
that stove with a stump maebiue.
All trains late. Nothing in on the
“Q,” and the “cannon ball” stuck
in tbe snow down at Humeston
The belated brakeman, on a stray
freight waiting for orders and
thaw said be thought I might get
down on tho 22, if she went on 18's
time, get off at tbe “Y” and catch
the 16 passenger down the branch
and meet the 67 at tho siding when
she came up on construction as far
as bridge 34, and then jump tbe
gravel at tbe junction and make
second 16 or extra 10, be couldn’t,
say which, as far as the slow board
at the “Q” crossing, and then I
conld run wild and get to tho bluff
on 2. “Two what?” says I. "Two
legs,” says he, and honestly I think
that is the way I would have gone,
if Wabash mail hadn’t thawed out
in time to land me in Council
Bluffs just in time to freeze my
ear, which I did walking from the
opera house to tbe U. P. dummy
for Omaha. Come out and freeze
up with the country.
A delegation of Missourians
called on Senator Cockrell tbe
other day and complained that he
was not doing more for his consti
tuents who were seeking office.
After listening to them patientlv,
he made this remark: “Gentleman.
I have been twice to tbe White
House on this mission, and each
lime Mr. Cleveland received me
kindly, and after be bad told me
what he hoped to do and how he
intended to do it, I should have
been ashamed to put my oar in and
ask him to break all his purposes
to put my friends into office. You
can get some one else who can rep
resent you in this matter. 1 will
do anything else in the world, for
you, but I will not go up to the
White House and ask tbe President
to break bis promises and ideas
of what his duty is in order to
satisfy me.”
A LANGUID LORD.
NOBLEMAN WITH POETIC
AND DUDISH LEGS.
“Gumboil” in x.w York—How Mluportee-
cuc’« Love Letter. Were Identified—
Tlie Lord n “Mather" of the
EnglUb Tyjie.
[Blakely Hall In Brooklyn Eagle.]
Lord Garntoylo, who is uow floating
about town with an nir of melancholy
languor, has tho faco of a pool, the legs of
a dude, and the manners of a much bored
snd sought after nobleman. When 1 say
that bis face is poetic, I mean tbnt he lias
a high forehead, big eyes and a melan
choly droop of the mouth, which acc ird
with the traditional ideas of what u peel's
face should he like. There is a suspicious
caving at tho bnck of his lordship’s head,
uml his long legs arc indubitably weak.
As he dresses in the very I eight of dudish
fashion, his appearauco invariably at
tracts attention. He stau Is nt least six-
feet two inches in height, and is as thin a
man as ono would care to see. Miss For-
tescuc, lo whom his father paid #50,000
In Loudon a short time ago, on condition
that she would release the precocious
young lord from his engagement to innrry
her, is also lean and lank. The wliolo
world was interested in the suit for n lime
and then it suddenly dropped out of sight
on payment of the damages, only lo he
recalled by the presence of tho young Lo
thario here
The most nuiusiug feature of the whole
trial, and ouu which I believe has not re
ceived much publicity, was tho beautiful
letters with exalted sentiments and well
rounded periods, which Miss Portescue,
whose renl r .me xvns Finney, wrote to
the lover, who wns popularly known ns
Gumboil. It was discovered, after the
trial was all over and the money paid over
to the mercenary plaintiff, Hint every ono
of these letters was copied from an old
paper covered hook, which flourished in
England several years ago under the title
“How to 'Write Love l.eIters. ’’ This lit
tle hook wns sold for ti pence at the news
stands when it llrst enine out, hut it hud
grown raro at the dale of the beginning
of the trial, and the source of the heaiititul
letters which .Miss Finney wrote to Gum
boil remained n mystery until u newspaper
the
illy
of tho
APPRECIATING THESE TWO LAMENTABLE FACTS,
L. B. B0SW0RTH
man, who wus rummaging among
books at an old Loudon shop, suduci
found a nund>cr of sentences on <
A man in Rochester offers $500
for the discovery of each new comet
during the present year. Ayoung
man who tried roller skating the
other night thinks of putting in a
claim for $5,000,000,000; but some
of the heavenly bodies he saw
when lie stopped so suddenly may
have been meteors and asteroids.—
Post-Express.
There are nineteen kinds of
me'-al more precious than gold.
pages which struck him as being' familiar,
lie bought tlie hook, compared it with tlie
Finney letters and the result wus a com-
plcte identifleation.
Gumboil is painting the town red, after
a solemn and heavy fashion. He wanders
about from o.te play houso to another of
an evening, dines nt tho ilrunewick or
Itelmonico's, where lie ofton holds his
knife and fork poised in the nir for somo
minutes, while he stares at somo beautiful
woman who catches his attention. He is
not a great man in bis own country by
any means, and the woman r ialley, when
she was hero as a chorus girl at the Stand
ard theatre, earning the magnificent sti
pend of #15 per week, attracted attentiou
only by reason of her stiffness angularity
and stupidity on the stage. He, too, was
thin and tall, and I imagine the love
making lictwccu her and Tile imperial
nibs Gumboil, must have been rather a
lank affair. Au English gentleman who
knew Garmoyle slightly in London, and
who is a man of wide acquaintance in
every great city on the globe, said a night
or two ago up town, “t.ord Garmoyle be
longs to a class of men in London who
are known ns mashers. The term there
has n much higher significance than it has
on this side of tho water. A masher here.
I take it. is a man who may be in any
position in life, from a street lounger up,
and who walks along the street ogling the
women, or devotes all his attention trying
to make feminine conquests.
“In England such u man might he digni
fied by n number of names, hut never by
the title of “masher. ” Most men here
would resent being called by that name,
but it is not so on the other side, where
the little band of men known as mashers
is composed of the fastest livers in Great
Britain. Most of them are titled, several
aro clever in various ways, and ail of
them apend their money recklcaaly. Thoy
are tho most steadfast patrons of the music
balls and the light opera, and they are tbe
most fashionably clad men in all London.
No man seems to be eligible to the masher
brigade who has not had somo sort of
affair with one of tbe favorites of the light
opera atago. The mashers themselves are
an cuervutcd, dissipated and languid lot
of men who carry tbe marks of their high
living in their round shoulders and heav
ily seamed faces. They nover move in
good society, but they arc all well clubbed
and their favorite expression Is ‘let us
live well whilo wo live '
-IS OFFERING THE-
Largest and Finest Stock of Groceries
IN AMERICUS,
AT TECH TORT LOWEST
Spot Cash Prices!
FOR THE MONEY. HIS STOCK COMPRISES THE
BEST BRANDS FLOUR,
SUGARS. TEAS, COFFEE, SPICES, DRIED FRUITS, CHEESE,
AND THE USUAL STANDARD GROCERS, WITH
A l’OSITIVELP FINE LINE OF
Canned Goods!
WHICH ARE .OF FULL WEIGHT AND THE BEST QUALITY.
HE ALSO KEEPS
TURNIPS, CABBAGES, POTATOES,
AND OTHER VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON.
BRAN AN JJ MEAL
AT LOWEST PRICES. IIE WOULD ALSO CALL ATTENTION
TO HIS STOCK OF
Liquors and Beer,
WHICH ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY AND PARTICULARLY
ADAPTED TO FAMILY USE.
JpeTUive him a call, examine his goods and prices. You
will find him on
JACKSON STREET, ONE DOOR EAST OF POST OFFICE,
AMERICUS, GA.
March 7, 1885. yl
tarcAPITAr. PRIZE STJ.OOO. ZH
Tickets ouly S3. Shares 11* proportion
GUI
Louisiana State Lottery Go.
“ Ha do hereby certify that tee tuptrttea
We arrangement* for all the Monthly ani
atmv-Annual Drawing* of The Loumana
State Lottery Company,and in penon man
age and control the Drawingi themeelcet,
and that the iame are conducted with hon-
eety, faimeu, and in good faith toward aL
partue, and we authoriu the Company to
we Ihu certificate, with fac-tim(lu of our
ngnaturee attached, in iti advertitemenii."
Jas. Pricker & Bro.
JEWELERS,
AND DEALERS IN
PIANOS
for tt V can by the Legislo.
ture for Educational end Charitable purposes—
with a capital of 11,000,000-to which a reserve
fund of over 8660,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelm).. pOpnliir rote it, frnnchU,
W«J made a part of the or,lent State Connilatloo
adopted December id. A. D.. in.
»« «ht fetterjr nir uttd os amt endarud ty
He people of any Slate.
It aeeer teala or purpose,.
Ill Grand Single Number Drawing,
taka plsoo msnthjr.
A IPLKKDID OPPORTUNITY TO
A. YORTCNE. FOURTH GRAND
#inWWO, CLASS ,D. IN TUB ACADEMY
V “ U A IC - WEW OKLEANS, TUESDAY,
April 14, ISIS—ITOth Monthly Drmwln*.
CAPITAL PRIZE, |7S,00«.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, In Filths, In Proportion.
LIST OP PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE *75,000
i} tf° do 20,000
1 do do 10.000
2 PRIZES OF MOO .... 12,000
'• do 2,000. 10.000
10 do
SO do
100 do .
800 do
SJ5 do jo;... 25,'ooe
MOO do 26, 26,000
APPROXIMATION PHIZ!!'.
0 Approximation I’rlxoa of $760 6,760
5 “ “ 600 4,600
> '* “ 260 J£80
1.W7 Prize", anion riling to $266,600
Application for rntca to claim tlmuld be made
only to the offleo of the Company in New Orleans.
^f,°P further information write elcaily, Rivlrv
(till address. POST A Is NOTES, Ksprena
Nom-v Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi
nary letter. Currency by Express (all mini of
90 «nd upward at oar expense) add reared
M. A. DAUPHIN,
„ Km Orleans. La,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
COT Seventh St., WashlnRton, li. C.
Mnko f*. O. Money Orders payaolo and sddreao
Registered Letters to
KKW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
Now Orleans, La.
2,000, 10,000
1,000 10,000
600. 10,000
80,000
1(10,.
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. 0M$1
I 'M HYSELF.i
A Great Medical Work on Manhood.
iseriesIresutUng iron in-
A book lor every nan
Id. It contains 126 pre.
—— lr, Ncr — — m _
bility Premature Decline in man. Errors of
Youth, and the untold mf ‘ * • • •
discretion or excesses. _ _
young, middle are and old.
script ions tor all acato and chronic diseases, each
Demand fur Lucifer Matches.
[Exchange.]
A large dealer in lucifcr matches say*
the dull season in this lino of business is
between Dec. 1 and March H. lie adds:
“The population of the United States is
stated at about 55,000,000 persons. Of
those only 20,000,000 live in cities, leaving
5*5,000.000 in country places. During the
summer time the men work iu the Helds,
and when they want to light their pipes
they use a match. In the winter the tire*
ure kept up. and few mutches are needed.
Now. tbe non-use of, say, ten matches a
day for four months in perhaps 51,000,000
houses will alone cause it dull time in the
match business, for it will amount to -V
000,000,0 *0, to suv nothing about those
not used by the men. i.ut the country
people do not cuuse the only losses in the
trade; for there are less used among city
people iu winter than summer. ”
Gull Hamilton’* Appearance.
IChiouco Journal. 1
“Ciail Hamilton"(Abigail Podge) Is de
scribed us quite tall, with a very good
figure, but not a very pretty face. In re
pose she bus rather a frigid look, but
when in conversation her face lights up
with an intelligent smile that is pleasing
and inviting, fclie is usually very tu'ka-
tive and familiar; and. when un idea
strikes her, she seems to hesitate a mo
ment, squint her eyes slightly us if com
pressing tlie thought into the briefest mid
choicest language. Motile ladies call her
"queer. " >he Is no more so thun a mid
dle-aged Indy of a literary turn of mind
ought to be. to give her individuality.
The Gum of Trees.
[Holcntlflc Journal.]
It has been discovered hy a Dutch sci
entist that the gum which collects on the
branches of trees—especially the cherry,
peach, plum aud others Waring s!oi e
fruit—is duo to disease of the tree. The
disease Is produced by a highly organ Ired
fungus, whoso nclion causes the lor.ia-
tion of the gum, nnd it is quickly repro
duccd in sound trees when they are inoc
ulated with pieces of tho gum containing
nny of the fungus.
A celluloid collar used by a New Bruns
wick mau to kindle a fire blew tho (love
over the room.
ORGANS,
Barlow Block, - - - - Americus, Ga.
We desire to call tbe attention of tbe publio to the feet tbat we have at last go
settled in onr new store on tbe PUBLIO SQUARE and have on hand a large and
handsome stoek of every thing in our line. Our stock consists partly of |
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds 1
SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY,
GOLD PENS, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS,
WALKING CANES, OPERA GLASSES,
GOLD AND AND SILVER TIIIMBUES, ETC.
We are Headquarters lot
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses!
Gan snit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Steel,JBronse, Xylonite. Celluloid or
Rubber Frames. We afe Sole Agents for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM
BINATION SPECTACLES—tbe best in the world. We sell the
Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines 1
and have constantly on band Needles, Oils, Attachments snd Parts tor all Machines.
We hare the best equipped shopjfor the
Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
in this section of tne State. We employ none but first-oiasa workmen and guarantee
ail onr work.
r ,r
_ of which lain vxluablt. Bo found bv tVo l_
thor, whoa# export en co «or 88 veara la anch aa
probably never before felt to (ho lot of any phyai-
work in every eonae—mechanical, literary and
profeaakmal—than any other work aold In ihta
country lor #2.60, or ibe money will be rafknded
In every instance. Price only |1 by mail, poet
paid. Jlluairativo aample 6 cents. Send now.
Gold medal awarded ihe author by the National
Medical Association, to tho officers ef*wbicb|ha
for inttriKOlou, and by the afflicted ]
will beaeflt alL—London Lancet.
There le no incmbe/ of eoeiet) to whom the
Science of UtewUl not bo useful, whether youth,
parent, guardlan, Instructor or dairyman.—Ar
gonaut.
Address the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr.
W. n. Parker, No 4 Bulflncb Street, Boa ton,
Maas, who may be onnsulted on all dtaeaaee re-
quirtna skill end experience. Chronic and obett-
Late disease* that have baffled thclj PA I skill
of all other phjardana a ipecirlbnLaHy
Such treated »ucce#ffcllv YSELF
i instance of failure.
Mention this paper.
novltfml
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PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT.
This branch of onr buaiooss ia ateadily increasing aud all we ask is that parties
who expect to buy a Pisoo or Organ will call and examine our stock and gat our
prices before they buy. If we cannot do aa well or better for you than you can do
for youraelvea we do not aak your patronage., Tbe fact that we have sold Pianos and
Organa to dozen* of th* best business men in Americas shows plainly tbat.we sell os
low as any one, and when yon buy from us you have no freight to pay and sava tbe
troubla of unboxing the instrument, as we place it in your house and give you t
FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. We alao have on haDd a large stook of small Musical In
struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Accordeons and
Harmonicas, and also keep 8trings at the very best qnslity, Violin Bows, Tail pieces,
Bridges, Rosin and all kind of Musical Instrument Trimmings.
The Office of the Southern Express Company
is in onr store and theirtAgent, Mr.;s. C. COOPER it in our employ aa Book-keepei
and Salesman and will ba glad to serve all who era needing anything in onr line.
CALL ANn (SEE US IN XRMT STORES
...utf JAS. FRICKER & BRO
, --inmte—*cnm. *
u tent free. Give P.O. end
* No. 66 John St.. New York.
i —Ladles and feeetlemen to
!, take light, pteosunt iifi.
p!o>menT»*tlhelr own bomrs (distance no objec
tion): vork sent by mall: $2 to $5 a day can bo
quietly m»de; no cntivumine. Please sddress at
once OLOItB M OF JOG, Boston, Mass.,box 6344.
mail 8-4 w
Dr. W. P. B77RT,
DEISTTIS T
A morloum, Om
F ROM and after thU date I will not work for
any one excep: fbr CASH, or acceptable
na|*r which will command money at the boak. I
do cood work at reasonable prices, ani In future
will net take promises for pay. Respectfully,
D*84tf W. P. BOHT, Peatlti,
POR SALE!
One seoond band carpet, but little
worn, containing about tbirtyjyarde. Ea-
qnire at this office. jacSCtt