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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1891
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KAKTIl'8 GARDEN *!'OT
The South in the days before the civil
w r ar was peopled by only three classes
the large planters, who owned and con
trolled all the available lands; the small
enant farmers, who were doomed to re
mair. in a state of semi-poverty so long
as the conditions existed, and the
slaves, a happy, ignorant, careless horde,
living only in anticipation of meal-time
and evening revelry.
The planter, through inheritance, had
come into possession of immense area of
arable and timbered tracts, and Ids
slaves could work out of this an easy,
comfortable living for the small village
which usually constituted the farm set
tlement. He was almost as a feudal
baron in the number of his subjects, and
no Scotch laird was ever invested with
more absolute power over bis clan than
was the ante bellum planter over bis
people.
’Tin best that an end has come to this
condition of affairs, else this section was
in a fair way to come to the vendetta
state of the Sicilian Islands. Family
hatreds were bequeathed from father to
son, and the accepted code of honor ad
mitted of no medium betwen the fac
tious.
And yet, cultured, pleasure-loving and
courageous as were the ofder genera
tions, they have passed away to give
place to a nobler set of men. Meu who
realize and profit by the mistakes of
their fathers and grandfathers. Men
who have made this lovely Southland of
ours great In wealth and importance.
Who recognized the fact that the divine
hand was laid with kindness upon this
arcadian spot, ami when the smoke of
battle bad rolled away they buried their
dead and went to work to rear upon the
ashes of a desolated section a mighty
fabric <f modem civilization, even
while the heart w as yet heavy with grief
and despair. Nobly did they succeed,
compelling the world to admit and res
pect a coinage and perseverance, in the
face of almost insurmountable difficul
ties, which are unparalleled in the aunals
of history.
Endowed by nature with unlimited re
sources and unsurpassed climate, this
section is drawing to itself the tide of
immigration which Las for so long
flowed westward. The world is realiz
ing that a locality capable of such vast
development under such advensity and
poverty, must of necessity hold forth in
ducements to the experienced worker
and capitalist. And marvelous as was
the progress in all commercial enter
prises during the past ten years, the
next decade will witness a growth in
population and improvement unheard of
in this country.
.SOUTHERN F»EVELOPMENT.
The Manufacturers’ Record of Balti
more, of December 10, in reviewing the
industrial progress of the South, says:
“The signs of a general improvement
in industrial developments and in large
investment operations throughout the
South noted in the last issue of the Man
ufacturers’ Record are even more do-
ticeable this w eek, notwithstanding the
near approach of the holiday season,
when business men generally wait for
the new’ year before going into new en
terprises. There is a decided revival in
the projection of new mining, manufac
turing and railroad enterprises, and, de
spite the very low’ price of cotton, the
general outlook iu the South is daily
growing better, though collections in
mercantile lines may for a while con
tinue slow. A general survey of the
field shows that good ,progress is being
made to.wards securing the full $800,000
required for the proposed steel works
near Birmingham, while one or two
other steel enterprises are in a fair way
to secure the requisite capital.
Important coal-mining enterprises are
coming to the front in rp exas, and, while
one company reported last week is put
ting in a plant to mine 1,000 tons a day,
another company with a capital stock of
$300,0©0 is preparing for active work.
The opening up of coal mines in Texas
will give a great impetus to the whole
State. Extensive railroad work is being
is being pushed, and the opening of the
Norfolk & Western’s briige across the
Ohio river marks the beginning of an
other era in the South’s foreign com
merce and domestic trade as it will bring
into operation another through line to
the West and open the way for pushing
Virginia and West Virginia coal into
territory now controlled by Pennsylva
nia coni. At Norfolk this road will at
once commence the construction of very
large machine shops, and additional
piers and warehouses for the shipping
trade. The building of a road from Ro
anoke through F ncastle to Clifton Forge,
which is to he pushed, will connect the
two gi eat systems, the Norfolk A' Wes-
and the Chesapeake A Ohio, and
open, in connection with other lines, a
direct route between Pittsburg and the
South, in every direction such signs as
these tell of the rapid advance which
the 8outh is making.
TO OUR StHsL’KIItERS.
Money matters have been very tight
and we have not asked you for money
in several months. Our creditors have
indulged us and.we have indulged you.
But our creditors are now pressing us,
They will take excuses no longer. We
are therefore obliged to call ou you,
One dollar isn’t much and you can spare
it. We have a thousand dollars due us
iu those one dollar debts. You can
spare one dollar; we cannot spare the
thousand dollars. Please call at our
office and settle your subscriptions or
remit by registeied letter, postal note or
money order.
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once.
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please look at the next issue to see if
the date mark on your paper is changed
opposite your uame; if so, that is your
receipt for the money sent. If we ac
knowledge receipt by letter of all remit
tances, as some subscribers have asked,
the postage alone would cost us $25 to
$50. If a remittance should fail to
reach us, as indicated by the expira
tion mark, write us, and we will advise
you in regard to it cheerfully.
PLEASE READ THIS.
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and date means that you are in arrears,
and that v\e are very much in need of
money. We have many hundreds of dol
lars due us, and as it takes fifty dollars
a day to run our establishment, our
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tered letter, I‘. o. money border or ex
press.
The special quality of Ayer’s Hair
Vigor is that It restores the natural
growth, color and texture of the hair.
It vitalizes the roots aud tollicles, re
moves dr.ndruff, and heals itching hu
mors in the scalp. In this respect, it
surpasses all similar preparations.
WHAT IT MEANS.
, Congressman Amos Cummings of New
York says of Crisp’s election:
It means for the democratic party the
attack and not the defense in the polit
cal campaign next fall.
It means economy and not, extrava
gance in the appropriation of the public
money.
It means a reduction and uot an in
crease in taxation.
It means a surplus and not a deficiency
in the national treasury.
It means a thorough investigation of
the census and pension scandals.
It means free wool, free coal, free
binding twine, free eggs, freo raw mate
rial and free necessaries of life for free
men in a free country.
It means general and uot special legis
lation and as little of it as possible In
the halls of congress.
It means a prudent handling of the
excessive Democratic majority in the
house.
It means a careful pruning of the ap-
appropriation bills uuder the supervi
sion of William S. Holman, and other
watchdogs of the treasury.
It means an early adjournment of con
gress In the interests of the people.
It means the development of the
American navy as a measure of defense,
on the line laid down by the first demo
cratic secretary of the navy in a quarter
of a century.
It means a restoration of individual
rights on the floor of the house of rej -
resentatives.
It means legislation confined strictly
within constitutional limits, and especi
ally no federal iuterferance with the
elective franchise.
It means national wealth and pros
perity-equal rights and equal privileges
for all.
means the election of a democratic
president in November next.
Blsixess failures seem to he hecom
ing popular in our solid old sister city,
Macon, several having been reported
during the past few days.
Some of the Northern newspapers arc
publishing statements, alleged to have
been authorized by interviews with Mr.
Cleveland, declaring that lie will not iu
any way work for the nomination for
the presidency In 1892, and some even
go so far as to say that if it he tendered
him he will not accept. They claim that
Mr. Cleveland has instructed his friends
to do no canvassing in his behalf. These
reports are without doubt false from be
ginning to end, aud originate among the
enemies of the ex-president in New Y*nk
city.
To keep the heard from turning gray,
aud thus prevent the appearam e of age,
use Buckingham’s Dye for the whiskers,
the best dye made.
DISGRUNTLED.
, The People’s Party Paper, of Atlanta,
has secured as its Washington corres
pondent the “lone tlsherman” from the
tenth congressional district, as is show n
by the following clipped from its edi
torial columns: ,
“The People’s Party Paper is pleased
to announce that letters will appear in
its columns weekly from Georgia’s great
commoner, Hon. Tlios. E. Watson.
These letters, it is needless to say,
will he rich, rare and racy. They will
give inside facts in regard to legislation
—something the people are not accus
tomed to seeing in the partisan press.
If you want to see the present con
gress through unsmoked glasses, sub
scribe for this piper, and read Ton
Watson's letter.-..”
The People's Party Paper is fortunate
in having secured the services of little
Tommy,-inasmuch as he will he as hitter
against the Democrats, whom he endeav
ored to betray, as even that hitter sheet
could desire.
’Tis an old saying that “we hate none
so much as those whom we have injur
ed,” and its truth is fully demonstrated
in about three columus of solid gall
which Mr. Watson sends to his paper as
the first installment. About one column
is devoted to hitter denunciation of his
nine colleagues who were true
the constituencies which elected them
and the balance to a romantic
and highly colored imaginary dream in
w hich he figured as the Great Reformer,
with a capital R. He ends the descrip
tion of his “dream” In this wise: “Thus
passed my Dream and I awoke heavy of
heart, for I knew that To-day was as I
dreamt, and the To-morrow might not
come.” No, Tommy, To-inorrow will
not come for you. You are doomed to
pine during the term you stole from
your people, and after that the bounce,
which you will receive from an outraged
constituency will he something painful
to contemplate.
President Harrison yesterday ap
pointed Stephen B. Elkins of Maine to
the cabinet portfolio of Secretary of
War, until recently held by Sec
retary Proctor. To some, Elkins’ ap
pointment to the vacancy seems to mean
the w ithdrawal of Blaine's claims to the
republican nomination next year, hut
the newly appointed cabinet officer’s un
solicited avowal that his acceptance will
have no effect upon either Mr. Harrison
or the Plumed Knight may mean that
he is anxious to forestall any criticism
upon his action in so taking the proffer
ed place, in case Blaine, of whom he is
known to he a warm personal fiiend,
should next year enter the lists against
the present incumbent of the presiden
tial chair.
A PURE BAKING POWDER.
A baking powder that can he depended
upon to be free from lime and alum is a
desideratum in these days of adulterat
ed food. So far as can be judged from
the official reports, the “Royal” seems to
be the only one yet found by chemical
analysis to he entirely without one or
jhe other of these substances, and abso
lutely pure. Tills, it is shown, results
from the exclusive use by its manufac
turers of cream of tartar specially refined
and prepared by patent processes which
totally remove the tartrate of lime and
other impurities. The cost of this
chemically pure cream of tartar is much
greater than any other, and it is used in
no baking powder except tin* “Royal,”
the manufacturers of which control the
patents under which it is relined.
Dr. JSdwaru G. Love, formerly analyt
ical chemist for the IT. 8. government,
who made the analysis for the New York
State Board of Health in their investiga
tion of baking powders, and whose inti
mate knowledge of the ingredients of all
those sold in this market, enables him
to speak authoritatively, says of the
purity, wholesoraeness and superior
quality of the “Royal:”
“I find the Royal Baking Powder com
posed of pure and wholesome ingredi
ents. It is a cream of tartar powder,
and does not contain either alum or
phosphates, or other injurious sub
stance.”
Prof Love’s tests, and the recent offi
cial tests by both the Halted States aud
Canadian governments, show the Royal
Baking powder to he superior to all
others in strength and leavening power.
It is not only the most economical in
use, but makes the purest, finest flavored
und most wholesome food.
POSTAL CARDS.
A Million I iit*it<U,
A fiiend iu need is a friend indeed,
and not less than one million people
have found just such a fiiend iu Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds If you have never
used this Great Cough Medicine, one
trial will convince you that it has won
derful curative powers in all diseases of
the throat, chest and lungs. Each bottle
is guaranteed to do all that is claimed or
money will he refunded. Trial bottles
free at E. J. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
Large bottles 50c and $1.00.
One day Brice and Thomas have de
voured Inman, the East Tennessee lias
sw’allowed the Terminal: aud the next,
Inman is still cm top and everything is
serene. Meautime, what the public
wants to know is what does the talented
hut retiring Jay Gould think of all this
business?
For pain in the stomach, colic and
cholera morbus there is uothing better
than Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera aud
Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by \Y. C.
Russell, Americus, Ga. <iecl*d*fcwlra.
Died in Baltimore
Jesse L. C. Berry, a retired fire-brick
manufacturer of this city, died yester
day, at his home, No. 1511 John street,
from paralysis. The deceased had been
associated with large fire-brick concerns
of Baltimore, but for the past two years
he lias been retired. Mr. Berry was
seventy years of age, and was born in
South Baltimore. He was a member of
Mount Vernon Lodge of Masons and
Mechanics’ Lodge I. O. O. F. He was
also a prominent member of St. Mark's
English Lutheran Church. Five chil
dren survive the deceased, three girls
and two boys. The latter are Charles C.
Berry, in business at Staunton, Va., and
Harry C. Berry, of Americus, Ga A
daughter of Mr Berry married Dr. Mat
thew \\\ Douavin, the w’ell-known dem
ocratic.—Baltimore American.
The many friend* of Mr. and Mrs II
C. Berry regret to hear of their bereave
ment and unite with The Times-Recor-
dkr in exrendiug them their sincerest
sympathies.
As Ayer's Sarsaparilla outstrips all
other blood-purifiers iu popular favor,
so Ayer’s Almanac is the most univer
sally familiar publication of the kind in
the world. It is printed in ten lan
guages and the annual issue exceeds
fourteen millions of copies. Ask your
druggist for it.
Iu Silken Tie#.
On Sunday afternoon, at the residence
of the bride, some three miles from
Americus, Mr. Will Dupree, aged six
teen, lead Miss Ida Patton, age seven
teen, to the altar; Rev. H. Stubbs offici
ating. Mr. Dupree Is the son of a pros
perous farmer of Sumter county, and is
a young man of many fine traits. His
bride is an accomplished young lady of
extreme comeliness, whose rare graces
recoiumeud her to all with whom she
comes in contact. The Time*.Recorder
wishes them nil the happiness that life
affords
Two New aud Handsome Si/e* Are Now
Ready For l *e
Two new sizes of postal cards went
into effect yesterday.
Yesterday morning the postoffice de
partment wa8 ready to issue them to
postmasters, to lie known as “A” and
“C” cards respectively, in addition to
the “B,” the one now in current use.
The A will be of fine quality of loft-
dried paper; the C of a strong, finely
finished jute paper.
The former will he pearly gray in color
and 2 15.16 by 4^ inches in dimension,
with afportrait of General Grant in the
upper right-hand corner. The card will
he printed in dark blue.
The C will be light inauilla, JjxO^
inches, designed very much like the
other new card.
Postmasters will not he permitted
under any circumstances to redeem pos
tal cards in the hands of the public, nor
to exchange one kind for another.
Here is a statement, the truth of
which is not generally known:
“Only once in a quarter of a century
—in 1882-1883, just prior to the inaugu
ration of two cent postage—have the
department receipts met the expendi
tures. The estimates of 1893, which
have been prepared for the action of
congress at the coming session, show
that the service may be made to reach a
self-sustaining basis by July 1st, 1803.”
In the additional railway postal ser-
ice established during the year, the
south comes in for a full share. Of the
8,000 miles increase, three-fourths were
applied to southern and western states,
the south having 2,400 miles.
The postmaster general meets the
ews of a big number in wlmt lie has to
say about the telegraph.
“I want to see,” he remarks, “the
two great servants of the people, the
postoffice and the telegraph, reunited,
and the telephone brought in to enhance
tlie value of the combination. Public
interests, private needs, and the popular
will call for these ageueies to perfect the
great postal system of this country.
Sixty four millions of people are taxing
themselves to-day to the amount of $70,-
000,000 annually to maintain the post-
office plant, and are deuied the right to
vitalize this maguificent machinery with
the mightiest force which science has
given to render that machinery most
effective.”
As to reducing letter postage to a uni
form rate of 1 cent, Mr. Wanamaker has
to say:
“To do this means exactly that the
department will lose one-half of the re
ceipts from letter postage. One half
would he $20,710,064.75. I have hereto
fore stated that 1 cent postage will he
successfully demanded in time. I be
lieve that time is not far off It would
not he just and fair to a service upon
which every effort has been spent for
two years to make it self-sustaining,
and which now premises to become so
in the next fiscal year, to heap upon It,
the instant the balance sheet becomes
clear, a burden of millions.”
The postmaster-general believes that
li tter carriers should not be weighed
down like pack horses, that railway
postal clerks should he paid for the dan
gers they face daily; that it is wrong
pay a fourth-class postmaster $100
year who has to pay $200 for fitting his
office with boxes, and that rural deliv
ery should he widely extended.
Then comes a valuable item regarding
newspapers which he says could he car
ried free. “It is possible from July 1,
1S93, to take off the entire tax on news-
pa pel’s, except for city delivery, if all
hooks of every kind are placed on a
level with other merchandise and tho
postage may he reduced by consolidat
ing fourth-class matter with the third-
class.
INTERVIEWING SPEAKER CRISP.
fine lluft..
■Sumter county challenge, the world
on a record for raising hogs Mr. .1
Honey killed two that, when dressed,
tipped the beam at 1,000 pounds, ( apt.
Adderton has also raised several hogs
whose avoirdupois averaged almost as
much.
The Atlanta Journal Give, a Bright and
Shadowed Picture.
It was a perfect autumn day, such as
Americus is often blessed with, and the
bright sunshine and cheery breeze coni,
bined to keep the temperature at an even
and delightful point
Mr. Crisp had returned hut a fev
hours before, and I knew to a certainty
where I would find him, and get a talk
for the Daily Recorder.
To reach his home was but a walk of
ten minutes. It seemed to me that
never did a place carry sucli a deep im
pression that it was a “home”—a home
of joy, contentment and happiness.
Back one hundred feet from the broad
street was the house, unpretentious and
evidently of many years standing. r f ,
the front were trained vines, and (low
ers and shrubs grew around. There
were chrysanthemums of all solid and
variegated hues, and tall trees threw
shadows on luxuriant, inviting grass.
As I entered the gate I saw Mr. Crisp
and Walter, his eighteeu-year-oid son,
sitting close together on the veranda.
One of the great democrat’s hands was
lying affectionately on his son’s shoul
der, and the other was patting the head
of a pointer dog crouched at his feet.
Never have I heard Mr, Crjsp laugh so
heartily and look so merry as then, when
he listened to his boy. A happy group
it was, and the pointer evidenced his joy
by thumping the lloor with his tail.
“How d’ye do?" and Mr. Crisp’s greet
ing was like it always is—a warm wel
come that draws you to 1dm. “I was
just listening tosomeof Walter's stories.
Come in and join us.”
Pretty soon reference was made to the
opinion that was already sweeping tiie
country as to his eminent fitness for the
peaker’s chair.
‘ How proud i would be to see him
get it," spoke the sou, and the two ex-
changed glances that spoke volumes of
mutual affection and pride
That was a year ago.
Not many weeks since a father ai
red In Atlanta. With his face full of
anxiety and with a hurried, nervous
step lie hastened to the Journal office.
P was Mr. Crisp, called by telegram
from Ohio to the bedside of Ills sick boy
—Walter.
“Have you heard anything about Wal
ter to day?" and his voice was net steady
as he asked the question,
A few hours more and lie was in
Americus.
A few days more and all was over
They laid him under tiie sod at Oak
drove, and there the green grass grows
and the lovely Howers bloom and the
wild birds sing, while far above some
where in the happy eternal land the joy
ous soul of Walter Crisp—him who was
such a gentleman, so free-hearted, so
high, pure and honorable—looks down
with pride, and the father hears tiie
soft breeze float down the whisper:
"Don’t grieve, papa. I see all."
Deserving I'raine.
We desire to say to our citizens that
for years we have been sellingDr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr.
King’s New Life Pills, llucklcn’s Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nev
er handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satisfac
tion. Wo do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and wc stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfac
tory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great
popularity purely on their merits. Sold
by Dr. E. J. Eldridge, druggist..
Stricken with Paralysis.
Mrs. Brown, an aged lady residing iu
the vicinity of Itecs park, was stricken
with paralysis Monday evoning shortly
past six o’clock, and since then she has
been lying in a comatose state, and her
(lea’ll is only a question of hours. Mrs.
Brown is the Aiother of Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Zeke Taylor, and the grandmother
of Mr. Ed Brown, of tiie firm of Perry
A- Brown. She Is In her eighty-first year
and has hosts of friends who will learn
with sorrow of her precarious condition.
ROYAL “X
Powder
>nly one made
free from lime, alum, and all extraneous substances,
and ABSOLUTELY PURE. It is in every way
superior to every similar preparation. Witness :
The United States Covemment tests (Chemical Di- j
vision, Agricultural Department) show Royal Baking <
Powder a cream of tartar powder superior to all others j
in leavening strength.— See BULLETIN 13, Aq, Dep,, j
P 599- j
I find the Royal Baking Powder far superior to the
others. It is pure, contains none but wholesome in
gredients, is of 23 per cent, greater strength.
F. X. Valade, M. D.,
Public Analyst, Dominion of Canada.
I find the Royal Baking Powder superior to all the j
others in every respect. It is purest and strongest.
Walter S. Haines, M. D.,
Prof. Chemistry Rush Medical College,
Consulting Chemist Chicago Board of Health, etc.
The Royal Baking Powder is perfectly healthful, and
| free from every deleterious substance; purest in quality
and highest in strength of any baking powder of which
I have knowledge.
Wm. McMurtrie, E. M., Ph. D.,
Late Chief Chemist Agricultural Department.
I have found the constituents of Royal Baking Pow
der to be of a high degree of purity, free from adul
teration or admixture of deleterious substances.
J. W. Mallet, Ph. D., F. R. S., «
Prof, of Chemistry, University of Virginia. !
j The Rpyal Baking Powder is absolutely put'. It
j is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable baking
| powder offered to the public.
Henry A. Mott, Ph. D.,
Late Chemist for U. S. Government.