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HOW TWO YOUNG FELLOWS MAN
AGED TO EXIST IN NEW YORK. -
Twelv. finttnti » Weak Dow Nut Oo Vary
Fur III a nig City, but Tho*. Tara
Economical Mon Mode Their Money Oo
n Pretty Good Dlatnnco for n Tima.
A magazine writer, who claimed to
have investigated the subject, recently
stated that there are several hundreds
of young and old bachelors in this town
/ who spend all the way from $10,000 to
$70,000 a year for their personal comfort.
There is a certain delirious excitation
even in reading the details of how these
fortune favored ohaps get rid of the
time and enrich the community. To an
Ingenions youth who earns twenty dol
lars a week, for instance, the account of
ho w a $75,000 per annum bachelor wards
off ennui and retains his flesh reads like
a saturnalia.
I know tho'offect of all this on a $20 a
w^ek man, because I inysqlf belong to
the $70 a week class. Twonty dollars a
week is about $1,000 a your, and 1 have
had a lot of fun out of life for the past
three years on that sum. I know a lot
of bthor fellows who do the same thing,
for $20 a week is about the avoruge in-
como of half the neat looking chaps
wearing chrysanthemums pinned to ker
sey top coats that you run ucross in the
course of a day.
Whon 1 came to this town from a farm
in wostern Now York, I thought tho
man who offered me a permanent job as
salesman at a salnry of $12 a week was
widely extravagant, for 1 had already
learned some scrimping lossons. It did
not tako me long to And out my mistake,
and so 1 devised a system of exiwndi-
tures, and though in live yearoa my in
come has increased, as I have told you, 1
have stuck to it ever since. Here it is:
1 discovered to my complete sattBfno-
tlon that a single man can't get any sort
of nourishment, comfort,or repose in a
boarding house in New York city for
less than oight dollars a week. Even
the eight dollar varioty of New York
board is not in all respects dosirabla,
and when somo dismal experiences hod
hammered this knowlodge into mo I set
about to find a better scheme. In tho
samo store with me was another young
follow, who was contributing hlB colos
sal Intellect and energies for twelve dol
lars a week, and wo entered into a con
spiracy to shake off forever tho land-
-ladies who wore getting most of our pay.
Wo decided to hire a room together
and to get our meals in pot lflck fashion
— 1 "hustle for our grub on tho outaldo,"
as my chum put it. After a pretty care
ful soarch wo hit upon a largo, oomfort-
ablo ground floor rear room in tho homo
of an elderly widow in Harlem, whom
we soon jollied into tho boltof that we
were the snlt of the earth, with the re
sult that she couldn't take too good care
of us, We ugreed to pay her flvo dollars
n week for thut room, which took $2.50
Team from s Piwc«nd»nt of Hero®*.
It was midnight and cold. A few
shivering newsboys close by Pie alley
hung round a chestnnt vender's stand
like flies round the bnng of a molasses
barrel. The few passers hurried along
with their coat collars turned dp and
eyes straight ahead. Trade wasn't good.
Suddenly a heartrending shriek broke
the Btillness, followed by piteous sob
bing. The chestnut man, wringing hit
hands like a maniac, hung over his over
turned stand. Sparks and glowing coals
streamed across the sidewalk. A couple
of boys shot out of sight around the
nearest corner. The sobs grew louder
and mingled with imprecations in an
unknown tongue. Like magic a crowd
gathered. A policeman sauntered over.
A herdio dashed up. Still the sobs burst
from the bearded face of the poor for
eigner. Some of the crowd laughed.
The herdio man asked him why he
didn't chase the gamins and give them a
sound thrashing. He had never thought
of that, but at the word started after
his tormentors, still sobbing. It was
too Into. He carao back, righted bis
capsizod apparatus, scraped up the
chestnuts and replacod them over the
little fire that remained, crying all the
while ltko a whipped schoolboy. The
crowd scattered, the hordic driver drove
on, the sobs of the chestnut man grew
less and less until the frosty air turned
them into a chatter.
“Them Dagoes ain’t wuth nothin,''
said one young fellow to another ns they
hurried down the street. “They bawl
like babies.”
And yet Cmsar's legionaries and Gari
baldi's riflemen were of that ruco.—Bos
ton Journal.
A Troublesome Girl Saint.
The state and general governments are
very much alarmed over the Indian
troubles in tho western part of this state,
in the Sierra Mod re mountains, Ac
cording to the reports which have
reached here during the lust few days,
the Yaqul Indians havo boon greatly
aroused by the wholesale massacre of
their neighbor and friendly tribe at To-
mnehie by government troopB. The
penceablo Yaquis in tho valleys of So
nora and Chihuahua are leaving their
farms and ranches, and with Ihelr wives
and children are gathering at an ap
pointed rendezvous in the mountains
north of Trinidad, where they have dis
covered another patron saint in the per
son of a beautiful Mexican girl named
Anita Iloca, whose father is a shepherd.
St. Anita urges tho Indian worshipers
to tnnke war upon tho Moxicnns, and
to reclaim the rich Moxican lands in the
Yaqul valley which tho government has
taken from them. There are soveral
hundred Indian braves and about 200
Mexicans now preparing to begin their
depredations and war of extermination.
They are nearly all well armed, and are
expected to begin tliolr campaign as soon
as winter sets in,—Cor. St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
of my wages. Whon we had stuck up
on the walls the oablnet photos of all
the girls we know, and bad distributed
ikni
the kniokknaoks which these girls had
given us, the room looked simply im
mense.
The eating problem was then to be
overcome. After sundry experiences we
adjusted It on this basis: Breakfast of
rolls and good ooffee in a little shop a
block from where wo lived; 15 cents;
luncheon of a sandwich, gloss of milk
and piece of pie, in a lunchroom near
tho store, 15 conts; first doss entire din
ner, from soup to French coffee, in a
neat little obscure restaurant wbloh we
ran across, 85 cents. Total tor day’s
eating, 45 cents; for the week (of six
.working duys), $8.80. On Sunday we
stuok to the week day programme as far
as breakfast and luncheon were con
cerned, and paid fifty cents for a good
Sunday dinner. Thus a week's good,
substantial food costa mo $4.70, which,-
with the $2.50 room rent, amounts to
$7.20.
It costs me sixty cents a week to rido
to and from my work. Figuring at ten
conts a weok for my Press, seventy cents
is added to the $7.20. My smoking is
oonfined to a couple of pipes every even
ing, and n ten cent packago of tobacco
sous me through the week. Total, eight
dollars.
1 have a permanent arrangement with
ft Ueltio lady to do my washing for fifty
cents a week, and I hnve my collars nnd
enffs polished at a laundry at a weokly
outlay of twenty-five cento. Total, $8.75.
Once every week I invest one dollar
for two balcony seats at a first class
theater—$9,75. I invariably lay aside
two dollars u week for raiment of all
sorts, fixed on this basis: Two dollars a
week is $104 a year. I have two suits of
clothes every twelve months, each suit
costing rie t wenty dollars, and I can get
natty clothes made to order at that fig
ure. 1 don't get a new overcoat every
winter, but when 1 do I get a good, well
made heavy one for fifteen dollars. Cull
it fifty-five dollars. Two pairs of shoes
at four dollars a pair get me through a
year, and two hats, also at four dollars
each, ore my allowance for the twelve
monthB. Two pairs of gloves a winter,
at one dollar a pair, keep my hands
sheltered from the blasts, and eight
fifty cent cravats are enough for the
year. This figures up seventy-seven
dollars, and the remaining twenty-seven
of my dress allowance of $104 a year are
spent in collars, cuffs, underwear and
soon.
The $75,000 a year bachelor will be
astotaished'lo read that 1 am frequently
referred to as a man whq, “looks as
though he had just jumped out of a
bandbox. ‘
When I have luid aside the two dol
lars a week for dress 1 have just $8.25
left for hilarity and tempestuous plung
ing into the boisterous stream of New
York life. It very frequently happens
that 1 have some of this still in my
right hand pantaloons pocket when I
get through the week.
That’s the way I live. I do it because
it’s a case of must, althongh I never
have a poverty stricken sensation.—New
York Press.
More Canadians Here Than In Canada.
There is trouble in the Young Men’s
Conservative club of Toronto. Presi
dent Armstrong recently mode some re-
to the Conservative
marks derogatory
government as to its polioy, wbloh al
lowed wholesale immigration of Cana
dians to the United States, and said
Canada was being annexed to the repub-
" ‘ ' ‘ ‘ T!
Ho by job lots. This led to charges that
he was not loyal to the Conservative
party, and at a mooting today the club
was asked to pass a resolution expressing
its disapproval of Armstrong's views.
In the disoussion that followed it was
asserted that there were now more na
tive born Canadians in the United States
than in Canada, and more in Chicago
than in Toronto. The resolution was
defeated.—Cor. Chicago News-Record.
A Prelate'* Wicked Brother.
It la rumorod that one of the brigands
who have been making havoc in the
Campagna is a brother of tho vicar gon-
oral. Not long ago he headed a party
of dosperndoes that attacked tl;o vehicle
of a church dignitary on tho outskirts of
Rome. Tho divine was horribly fright
ened, but was reassured by the highway
man, who declared ho would not harm
so well moaniug a nuin ns himself. In
a short while monsignoro and the
masked man were in deep conversation,
the former having been completely won
ovor by tho distinguished manners of
the brigand. A few days later monsi*
gnore received a courteous note explain'
iug that a fur lined clonk Was needed,
and stated that it might be left at a cer
tain spot.—-Baltimore American.
Two Cri'uii'kt of Mump Collectors.
Thu two greatest stump collectors in
tiio world were M. Philippa Ferrari, son
of tliu late Dneliessu de Gallium, and the
czar, whoso collection is said by experts
to to wortl: 8,IH)0,000 francs. He began
to make it when lie was exsrowitz, und
lias bosh adding to it ever since. M.
Ferrari, who cast away a fortune, or
rather several fortunes which ho con
ceived to he ill gotten and said he had
no right to inherit, hoards stamps as
misers hoard money. Ho has quantities,
which he says will bo valuable to liis
heirs should he live to a great age.—
London Truth.
A Small Newsboy and a Big Fireman
Each Undergo an Oparation.
Late one evening a man waa seated in
the receiving room of one of the dispen
saries in the lower part of the city. He
was talking to a young surgeon who had
charge of the room, and the conversa
tion turned to the snbject of the courage
shown by young folks as compared with
that of adults.
It’s all bosh,” said the visitor, “about
a child standing pain better than a man.
Why, it stands to reason”
Hullol” says the surgeon. “What's
this?"
“It’s me.”
The visitor turned and saw two bare
footed nrchins, one about eight, and the
other perhaps a year younger. The elder
came In carrying his companion, whom
he carefully luid on the lounge. Then
he raised himself and said:
“Me and Dannie 're newsboys, and
just now he stepped on a boated bottle
In de park end cat Ills foot,”
'And you carried him all the way
from the park here on your back?"
"Yep."
The doctor had washed the blood from
the foot and disclosed a deep, ragged cut
about three inches long. He carefully
washed and dressed it and was about to
thread his needle to take a few needed
stitches when the patient spoke up for
the first time: *
‘Are you gotn to sew it, doc?”
“Yes, my little man. It can't heal
without it.”
"Oh-h-h-ht”
He lay hack, nnd after one suppressed
groan the tears which trickled dciwn
his cheeks alone told the story of the
pain. The sole of the foot of an ordi
nary New- York newsboy is not a very
easy thing for even the sharpest needle
to pierce, and the pain of the operation
was much increased. While it wns go
ing on a member of the New York fire
patrol entered and sitting himself in a
chair waited with ovident Impatience
for his turn to arrive. The sewing fin
ished, the foot was bandaged, and the
young Styrax took up his burden.
"How far have you to go?" asked the
doctor.
“Over to Oliver street."
It was a full half mile to Oliver street,
but the youth took up bis burden cheer
fully.
"Well, sir, what can I do for you?”
sqld the surgeon to the man.
The pntrolman was a magnificent
specimen of physical manhood, tall,
broad and muscular.
“Well, you see, I was hitchin up the
hosses, and tlioy started mid throw mo
Sown. 1 fell on my hand there,” lie
added ns lie held out the member. It
was considerably swollen. To find the
oause of the swelling the doctor began
to run his fingers along the Injured part,
but he had hardly begun when his wrist
was seized in a grip like iron.
"Hold on there, doo; that hurts!”
“Of course it does, hut I havo to find
out what’s tho matter.” ,
Again he tried, and again ho was pre
vented,
“How do yon think I can fix your
hand when you won’t let me find out
what’s the matter with it?”
I know that, but I can't stand it," he
■ A The Title* ot Book*.
A hook title, like a woman's face,
ought to to pretty. And if a bewitch
ing, diaphanous veil, in the shape of a
alight' cariosity Tonsing cloudiness of
meaning can to thrown over it, so much
the totter. Readers delight to to half
taken in by books, jnst as men do by
women, so long—and this is a most im
portant proviso—so long as their vanity
is not piquod. The object of a title
should to to seem eimple, artless, naive
and quite naturally charming, but this—
as in the case of so many of its feminine
analogues—is often to to attained only
by the most consummate art,—Block-
wood's Magazine.
Mrs. Lease** Complaint Affsinnt Women.
In the course of an interview concern
ing her candidacy for a seat in the
United States senate Mrs. M. E, Lease
gave utterance to the following: “The
strange part of this all is that of all the
congratulatory letters ! hnve received
not one of them is from a woman. I am
the only woman ever suggested for the
office of United Stntes senator, and it is
very funny that none of my congratula
tions should come from women.”—Kan
sas City Journal.
“Hold his arm, a couple of you,” said
the surgoon to the atteudants, who had
come in, attracted by the noise. The
man's arm was held, und it was found
that the hand had been merely sprained.
—New York Tribuue.
11i« King and the Seldllts Powder#
On the first consignment of seidlitz
powders to the.oapltal of Delhi the
monarch was deeply interested in the ac
counts of the refreshing box. A box
was brought to the king in full court,
and the interpreter explained to his maj
esty how it should be used. Into a gob
let he put the twelve blue papers, and
having added water, the king drank it
off. This was the alkali, and the royal
conntenance expressed no sign of satis
faction. It was then explained that in
the combination of the two powders lay
the luxury, and the twelve white pow
ders were quiokly dissolved in water,
and os eagerly swallowed by his ma
jesty.
With a shriek that will to remem
bered while Delhi is numbered with the
kingdoms the monarch rose, stared, ex
ploded and in his full agonies screamed
“Hold me down," then rushing from the
throne fell prostrate on the floor. There
he lay during the long continued effer
vescence of the compound, spurting like
10,000 pennyworths of imperial pop, and
believing himself in tho agonies of death,
a melancholy and humiliating proof that
kings are mortal.—Indian Mirror.
Benedict Arnold’* Flagship.
A portion of the timbers of General
Benedict Arnold’s fingship, Congress,
which snnk in October, 1776. in Lake
Champlain, lias been raised by Captuin
C. W. Adams, of West Addison, Vt.
The timbers are of oak and are sound.—
Cor. New York World.
MY TIN SHOP
Has been enlarged, and is now on Washington
street, near my store. It is in charge of
MR. CHARLEY FRANK,
who is. well and favorable known to the people of Al
bany and this section. He is a first-class workman,
and is prepared to do all kinds of
<A>
TIN WORK, ROOFING AND GUTTERING.
In a few days I will have with me a first-class plum
ber, and if you have work in that
line wait for him.
MY HARDWARE STOREi
TUB ONLY OiVR KVRR PltlKTKD.
CJnn You Find ll>$ Word?
There is a a-’nch display advertise
ment in Mi’s nnner, this week, which
has no two words alike exoeot one
word. The same is true of each new
one npyx'a-’ng eoo’.i week, from the
Dr. Harter Medline Co. Th’s house
places a ‘Crescent*’ on everytb*ogthey
make and publish. Look for it. send
them Mie name of the woed, ana they
will return yon book.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
CITATION.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Doi’OllEIlTY COUNTY.
To All Whom It May Concorn: John A. Davis,
having, in piopcr fo'in, applied to me for the
giinidlunship of tne person nnd properly of
Orrio Junes, P. W. Junes, F. C. Jones nnd Junie
Reall Jones, minois of F. C. Jones,* Into of
pongheny co.inty, deceased, notice is hereby
given Hint his application will be heard at my
ofllco on tho first Monday in January next.
Given under my hand nnd official signature
this nth day of December, ir.tl‘2.
SAMl’KL W. SMITH,
Ordinary Doaghony County, Ga.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Undornp order of tho Court of Ordinary of
Dougherty county, will ho sold at auction at
tho Court Douse door of said count y on tho first
Tuesday in January next, within tho legal
hours of sale, the following property, torwil:
Whole lot of laud No, 0*12, and fractional Jot No.
818, In tho Hist district Doujjhorty county, nnd
containing in tho aggregate 888 ncros, nioro or
loss. Sold as tho property of airs. S. A. Brin
son, late of said county, deconsed.
Torms nindo known on day of snlo. This Dec.
Oth, ICO?. II. H. LONGyKxccutor
NOTIC K OF APPLICATION TO HELL
LANDS.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Douohkkty County.
To All Whom It May Concern: W. 1*. Burks,
administrator of Jesso Lee, dccen od, has ap
plied to me for leave to sell the lands of said
deconsed, whioh application will bo heard on
tho first Monday in January next, 1808.
SAMUEL W. SMITH,
Ordinnry Dougherty County, Ga.
LITTLE
UVER
PILLS
iOO
DO HOT GRIPE NOB SICKEN.
Bore cor* for SICK HEAD
ACHE, impaired dlgtrtloa, consti
pation, torpid glands. ThcjrarouN
, vital organa, remove nautca. dls-
aineei. Magical effect on Kid
neys and Diadder. Conquer
billons nenroaa dis
orders. Eitabllih nat
ural Dour Action.
^Benntlftr comploxion by
, purifying
Pubxly Vegetable.
The doie la nicely adjusted to suit ease, as one pill ean
never be too much. Each vial contains «, earned Invest
pocket, like lead pencil. Business man's great
convenience. Taken ea»ler than sugar. Sold every
where. All genuine goods bear “Crescent"
p.Youfl
Send 2>c«nt stamp. You get 3S page book with sample.
OR. HUTCH MEDICINE CO., 81. Louis. Mo,
HARDWARE!
As usual, is replete with everything carried in a first-class store
of its kind. Remember my LOW PRICES will make you a customer
at once. I have the goods and they must be sold.
Telephone No. 19.
I. JACOBSON,
WAHIIINUTON HTRCKT.
C. H. CAMFIELD & CO.,
Warehouse and Commission
MERCHANTS,
ALBANY. GEORGIA.
Having leased the old Sims & Rust Fire-proof Warehouse, we will engage
' ~ ‘ ' aim
In a general Warehouse and Commission business.
Our Mr. OAMFIKLD, having had twenty years’ experience-In the cotton,
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business, wo will make the handling of cotton a specialty, and hope with oiosl
application, strict Integrity, and honesty of purpose, to merit a share of
pub!'
publlo patronage in this business,
Our charges the same as ci
National Bank and Messrs. Hobbs
C. H. CAMFIELD & CO.
m
Our charges the same as customary. We refer by permission to Firit.
ihs & Tucker. Call and see us.
jy5-3m
CARTER & W00LF0LK
SUCCESSORS TO N. & A. F. TIFT & CO.,
BAGGING, TIES, FERTILIZERS,
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^ALBANY,
GA.
J« lie JAY.
D» B. JAT
J. L. JAY & SON.
J.L.JAY&SON,
CONTRACTORS
AND PROPRIETORS
Artesian City Novelty Works.
dealers in
Lumber,
Lath,
Shingles
AND OTHER
BUILDING SUPPLIES.
J. Lj
J.L.JAYSSOH/
l^eal Estate
AGENTS.
When you want to rent a lious^
CALL ON US.
We have some vacant dwelling
HOUSES FOR RENT / ’
Cheap to desirable tenants.
The Value of a llusslan Heard.
The Russians had au old law by which
any one who drew hair frern another’s
beard should bo titled four times us much
aa for cutting off a linger; and the im
portance and value of the appendage is
further illustrated by the fact that,
although the loss of a leg was estimated
at 12 shillings, the loss of the beard was
estimated at 20.—English Illustrated
Magazine.
ESTRAY HORSE.
I hn>k up at my lunncon Mr. J. A. Johnson’*
I’ike Hill place in Hast Dougherty, a deep bay
Texas pony horse. Tin* pony had been running
at large in the ueighltorhood for a week nv two,
and seem* to in* unbroken. Tin* owner of the
animal can recover atone by proving prujicrtj
ami paying cost of advertising, cle.
PAUL MAI.KITE.
lad-w-it . Colored.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PLOW ON EARTH!
W. S. BELili.
JA
cfc SON.
J. E. iMnrrii & Co,, Cl,ain & sons,*
DRUGGISTS
And General Dealers in
Drugs, Medicines, Lamps
Soaps, Toilet Articles, Etc.
No. 98 Broad St.
SODA FOUNTAIN,
Fine Cigars and Tobaccos.
Our Prescription Department is com
plete in all its appointments, and pre
scriptions are carefully compounded.
Telephone No. 59.
J. R. dkGRAFFNREID & CO.
Booksellers and Stationers, announce
to-day that their
HOLIDAY GOODS
Are oil the way. Don’t buy until you
see them.
We are headquarters for music of all
kinds—pianos, organs, sheet music, etc.
Give us your orders for any instrument
you want, which we can supply on short
notice and at low prices.
Orders for repair work and tuning, if
left at our store, will receive prompt ,at-
: first-d
tention, and we guarantee
work 1
it-class
of an instrument Tuning from a dis
tance ; parties paying tuner’s expenses
both ways besides regular price tor the
work. Don’t forget the location.
IOO BROAD STREET, *
ALBANY, GA. T