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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS

Spot cotton ruled dull; middling up
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GEORGIA-Sumter County.
Judy Dudley has made application for
twelve months support for herself from the
estate of Andrew Dudley, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
III parties concerned, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or before the
March term of the court of ordinary to be
held or the first Monday in March, 1901, why
said pc tition should not be granted as pray
ed for. Witness my hand and Official sigma
ture. this Feb. 9TH, 1901.
t. M. ALLEN, Ordinary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14

For Sale or Lease.--Two
lots corner Of Hill street and
Elm avenue Fine location
for storehouse, beng near to
shops of Seaboard Air Line.
Apply to Bank of South
western Georgia.
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Daily except sunday.
Nos. and 6.-Chicago and Florida special
solid Pullman Train Sleepers Observation
Compartment aud Dining Oars, St Augustine
TO Chicago. Daily except Sunday.
Nos. Is and l4.-Pulman SleeDing Cars be-
tween Brunswick and Atlanta, between Jack
gonville Fla, and Cinciu ati, Louisville, st.
Louis and Kan'as City. va .lesup and Atlanta,
Nos. 10 and l6-Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween atlanta and Cincinnati, via Chatta-
nooga; also between Chattanooga and Mem
phis.
Nos. and 8-Pulman Sleeping Cars be
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga.
Nos. and 10-Pullnan Library Observation
Cars between Macon and New York
Connection at Union Depot, Atlanta, for all
points north, east and west. Also at Jesup for
Jacksonville, Tampa, etc, and Savannah, Co
lumbia, Washington and the east.
FRANK S. CANNON, > H. HARDWICK,
Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr, Gen. Pass Agt.,
Washington, d. G. Washington, d. c.
w. H. TAYLOE, H. f. GARY
Asst. Gen. Pass Agt., Travelling Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, Ga. Macon, Ga.
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THE best beds are iron beds. Some
are moe expensive than others;
it all depends on the way they are
trimmed We have plain ename1ed
bed for as low as S5-they are from
that up, depending entirely on the
brass work. They are pleasing to the
eye and restful to the tired body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14

YOU can't enjoy an evening at
home without one of our nice
lamps. These graceful shapes with
real art decorations will make your
home beautiful and your reading more
pleasant. They are brilliant burners
and tasy to keep clean.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14

kin a
- my hIoPo VVerfuI Stood PurIfe Know
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DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
COTTON FUTURES

NEW YORK. Feb 10 Cotton future,
nnened easv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14

about artistic furniture that you will ap-
precate when you examine It. We have used great
deal of Judgement the selection and sure you
will find satisfaction IN what you buy here Suits from
SIP up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-14
Judgment in China.

There are SO many nice pieces here
difficulty IN selecting what you want, a
guaranteed by us.
The age-herald., 1901-10-20

quet of flowers in her hand. and one of the watchmen noticed that some sort of white powder was scattered upon the blossoms. He confiscated the flowers. and set them to the Army Medical Museum, where it was found that they contained enough arsenic to kill three men. By chewing them the prisoner might easily have swallowed enough poison to kill him.
 The government received an offer of S3o, 900 cash from the proprietor of dime museum for Guiteaus body. the idea of the enterprising snowman being to em- balm the corpse and enclose it in an air tight glass case for exhibition. Probably this was the largest sum ever offered for a cadaver.
 The body of Guiteau, on being cut down, was buried at the jail, but was promptly dug up again at the request of the physicians and conveyed secretly to the Fords Theater Building, at that time occupied by the Army Medical Museum 1t will be remembered as an interesting coincidence that this was the very build ing in which Abraham Lincoln had been murdered seventeen years and three months previously.
 Guiteau's ghost Is said to haunt the District jail to this day. and many of the prisoneits in that penal institution are much afraid of 1t. .On one occasion a ne- gro, occupying the assassins cell, was
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way hither to be present, so he said, at so glorious a function.
 The president of the bank, the char tered name of which is The First North ern Colored Co-Operative Banking Asso- citation of Philadelphia, Is John Clinton, Jr The vice president is J. B. Booker, and James W. Caldwell Is cashier. The directors are John Clinton, Jr., L. L. Gould, J. D. Brooks, Frank Robinson, R. P. Jones and E. J. Mayo.
 The capital of the bank is $50,O0o. It placed $10.000 in the State Repository as preliminary to securing its charter of incorporation it has as an adjunct an insurance department and Is also the owner of a newspaper issued in the inter- est of negroes.
 ''The Banking House." as the colored population of the neighborhood proudly call 1t, was formerly somewhat shabby store in a row of two-story brick houses sArchitecturally the building has not been changed. but a front of glass of many colors bearing the insignia and motto of the institution and an invitation to all to become depositors has been inserted. On the ground floor is the cashiers cage. The cashier Is also paying teller, receiv- ing teller and bookkeeper. Upstairs is the presidents office and the editorial of- flee of the newspaper supported by the bank. On the third floor Is the board room, where the directors meet and where the president holds "explanatory classes every Monday evening. These classe are the kindergarten of finance to the negro population. They are designed to give an insight Into the complicated business of handling spare money to the best advantage, subject in which the average negro Is but poorly versed.
 Many colored clergymen attend these classes and preach the doctrines of thrift and cooperation among the blacks of
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has been accepted has led to some lu- dicrous variations of the dignified busi- ness of banking, though the institution itself Is all that it purports to be, se- rious attempt at the commercial and so- cial elevation of the negro. F
 The first desire of every depositor is to possess a check-book, and 1t Is difficult to persuade some of them that the pos session of a number of check blanks does not privilege them to draw without limit on the funds of the bank. Even those whose credit balance fall periously near to two dollars sport book of check blanks and in these days ordinary cur rency Is at discount in the neighborhood of Carpenter and Twentieth streets. Ev- erything Is paid for by check and the
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late Jay Gould, ran to Philadelphia. Mem ories none too pleasant will be awakened in the minds of some people as they re- call certain operations in which this road figured many years ago.
 Rairoading in a Wilderness.
 I am very familiar with Sandy Hook, having lived there on a wrecked vessel and in the Life Saving Station. besides having tramped over It's length and breadth. An interesting feature of this government railroad Is that it traverses territory which preserves the savage as- pect of this coast as 1t was centuries ago. It is a primival wilderness, a dreary waste of sand, which the wind has heaped up in dunes. or scooped out Into hollows, with storm twisted cedars and coarse salt grasses bidding defiance to three thousand miles of ocean; of win- ters storm hurlng It's waters in crashing confusion against this solitary outpost of the mainland.
 An indescribabIe sense of desolation oc- casionally comes over one while tramp jag through this wilderness. Fantastic trees, hairy with streaming mosses, and thick soft layer under foot formed by centuries of mould, and deadening one's footsteps that the muttering of the surf and the cries of hawks and gulls are heard with startling distinctness, give touch of the weird to this rem nant of our coast as 1t was in its savage state.
 Noble ships have been flung upon this desolate beach. Sometimes, with a grim regard for the decencies of death, the next storm begins heaping up sand over the victims of its predecessor, storm after storm lending a helping hand at the interment. until all evidence of the. catastrophe has been covered up. But then more furious storm will break over the coast, and like ghoul disinter the remains that previous tempests have buried. This occurred with the ship Clyde, which was wrecked on the Hook on her maiden voyage. Long after the sand had been heaped over the remains it was blown off again and the ghastly wreck once more exposed.
 But at the rort Hancock end of the Hook the signs of this primeval wilder ness have disappeared The government has erected one of the finest military posts in the United States, with large and commodious barracks and officers quarters. Recently when I was there the soldiers were training for foot ball, and two teams were out on the fine level stretch of ground trying conclusions. But only few hundred yards away was Sandy Hook light. the oldest lighthousa structure in the United States, which casts It's shadows on little unkept and desolate graveyard, where are buried un- Identified castaways and some of the soldiers who died here in camp durine the civil war. Even where the govern ment has touched Sandy Hook with its civilizing hand the memories of the will derness abide.
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~ AVE-" said the stranger as he N settled himself in that myste- S) rious mechanical contrivance - commonly known as the bar ber's chair.
 "Hot cloth?' suggested the barber as he made away with the relics of the shave.
 Guess notr' sighed the victim.
 Hot cloths-great thing-never tried it?'
 'Noi'
 "well. just let me fix you upr' and the barber proceeded to the laying on of the hot cloths.
 Flair cutY' he hinted after the hot cloth ordeal.
 "No. not today!''
 Your hairs rather long!" persisted the tonsorialist, as he toyed with the elon- gated fringe about his subjects ears. "As you please, thenl" assented the man in the chair
 Your hairs coming outr' pronounced the barber, as he pulled out handful as evidence. Want it singedy' .sa "Nop
 "Singeing Is just what 1t needs" The victim yielded.
 ''shampoo?'' softly cooed the gentle barber, a few minutes later.
 "Oh, mo-"
 Your heads quite dusty-the dust gets into the roots and ruins the quality of the hair
 The victimed surrendered.
 Hair tonic?' sweetly coaxed the bar
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Czolgosz's Bones to Be i'm a Museum

1 tons of Czolgosz and Guiteau will doubt less dangle side by side, in most appro- priate contiguity and companionship, in the Army Medical Museum. Meanwhile they will remain in storage. Guiteau's bones at the present moment are neatly stored away in an oblong wooden box in the basement of the institution afore- said.
 An attempt was made to take a cast of Guiteau's brain immediately after he was hanged, but 1t was a failure. It was carefully examined, however, and was found to be much diseased. There were, indeed, extensive lesions or alterations of structure due to disease-a fact which was especially interesting in view of the claim of insanity made by his counsel in behalf of the assassin. The medical men stated, however, that such lesions did not necessarily imply derangement of the mind-were not incompatible as they ex- pressed it. with a perfectly normal state of the mental function
 The brain is preserved to this day in glass jar by Dr. D. s. Lamb of Wash ington, who performed the autopsy
 Another curiosity in the possession of pr. Lamb Is some arsenic which was brought to the assassin by his sister at the district jail. It was only a few hours before he was to be hanged, and the death watch had already been set on him. The woman, came to see him with a bou-
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power of making piece of paper valua- ble by putting your name to it is keenly appreciated not only by those who can do it, but sometimes by those not for tunate enough to own a running &C., count.
 Besides the First Colored Bank North there are seven other negro banks in the United States. All the others are located in the South and look up to the Philadel- phia institution, although 1t is the new est, as the chief one among them. Presi- dent Clinton is the appointed chairman of the convention of negro bankers to be held in Buffalo, but postponed indefinite ly on account of President McKinley's death.
 MT. Clinton went to Buffalo to make
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YOUR "UNCLE SAM" OWNS AND OPERATES A RAIL ROAD

company, it belongs to no corporation, yet may be said to be owned by the greatest corporation in the world, the United States government which Is a corporation of sovereign states, some of which are larger than several countries of Europe. Its cars and locomotives and the two small yard engines which run be- tween the government pier and the spot where the ordnance tests are conducted bear the simple legend, Sandy Hook Proving Grounds. There is nothing to designate beyond this the proprietary rights of the United States. Uncle Sam does not boast of his railroad monopoly. Just the same the line belongs to the United States, as you will observe when the conductor comes around to take up the passes For he wears the uniform of United States artillery sergeant.
 The General Traffic Manager.
 While existing chiefly for the uses of the Ordnance Department, the line, like everything else on the Sandy Hook Prov ing Ground, is under the general control Of the commanding officer of the post Colonel Burbank, who at present is in command at Fort Hancock is an officer with fine civil war record who also made reputation for himself as instruc- tor while detailed to the military de- partment of Cornell University, and who, as military adviser to the Governor of the State of New York, performed most of the work in getting off the volunteer quota of the State to the front in the Spanish war. The efficiency of Uncle Sam's railroad line, short as 1t is and limited in its equipment, and the fact that 1t connects with a railroad system which brings Sandy Hook in touch with the whole country, is due to his initiative in pushing through the line to it's con nection with the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Highland Beach.
 To any one who has no business on the Hook, Uncle Sam says, "Shooi" In 1891 our kind but emphatic uncle said "Shoor to the Jersey Central Railroad, which had a pier in the Horseshoe where the famous Sandy Hook boats landed. the passengers being then conveyed by rail to Highland Beach, Seabright, Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and the other re- sorts on this part of the Jersey coast The Central Railroad of New Jersey had succeeded to the privileges of the old Jersey Southern route, which many years before when the operations carried on at the Hook were comparatively primitive, had been granted permission to erect piers and build Its line on condition of clearing out on forty-eight hours notice While the United States government had nothing but muzzle loading ordnance, with range of but a few miles, there was little danger to those who trespassed on the Hook of were there by permission, from the experiments of the proving grounds But when the government be- gan to introduce modern ordnance, breach loading and rifled, conditions changed.
 The Hook was an inviting spot for a summer resort, and various attempts were madc to persuade the War Depart
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out in the case of Charles J. Guiteau, the murderer of Garfield and also in that of Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln.
 Certain portions of the brain of Czol- gosz, particularly of the gray matter of the cortex or rind will be put aside for examination at leisure with the aid of the microscope. Then the physicians will make complete inspection of the rest of the body, including all the vital or gans. taking copious notes, which later on win furnish the material for an offi- eial report.
 Finally the body will be skeletonized. and the bones, though technically the property of the State of New York, will be formally surrendered to the govern ment. It is probable that they will be forwarded in a box to the War Depart ment at Washington and will be stored away. Eventually they will be strung together and placed on exhibition, but not until many years have passed
 The bones of Guiteau, preserved in like fashion, have been stored away in Wash ington for nearly twenty years They are not on exhibition because 1t is not de- sired to excite morbid curiosity in the popular mind, as would be the case if they were shown to the public. People would come in crowds to gape at them, and the effect would be rather unwhole- some than otherwise.
 At some time in the future the skele-
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From the Philadelphia North American.
 NEGRO BANK, the first of It's
 JAA kind north of the Mason and f@\ Dixon line, officered by ne-
 S<S groes, with negro stockholders and depositors, is Philadelphia's contri- button to the solution of the vexed race question.
 The negroes of the city are inordinately proud of their First Colored Bank North" It stands at No. 1922 South Twentieth street, and every day since its recent opening crowds of colored folk gather on the pavement to admire its gaudy front
 Usually they do not come prepared to be depositors, but the fascination of bank of their own is almost invariably too strong and those who have dollar or two to spare enter and solemnly de- posit 1t with the cashier. The epigram- matic motto, painted in gilt letters prom inently on the window: "Ous Is the best because it's ours,' appeals to the pride of the negro, and he hastens to become a part and parcel of what lie Is con- vinced is the most progressive negro in- stitution in the country.
 On the first day of business nearly $10o0 was received in deposits, yet the average deposit was considerably under $5. Nearly 2000 colored people attended the reception at the opening of the bank. They came from all parts of Pennsylvania, New ter sey Delaware and New York and repre- sented practically the wealth and stand ing of the negro community in the North. One old negro in Tennessee had read of the proposed bank and hastened all the
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Chicago Womam Has Fouvteen
 Chsltayem am HaLf as Many Pears

ed store herself, besides doing all the house work and taking care of the chil- dren. But with the increased revenue came the triplets. Then the plumbers ideas began to run to inventing things It was the old delusion of perpetual mo- ton that took hold of him. Day and night he worked on a machine that was never to stop. Last summer he thought he had solved the problem. He had given up work to devote himself to 1t and he thought he saw success in sight. He finished the machine and started it. It was wonderful oontraption, and it ac- tually ran for sixty-two hours, so the neighbors say. Then it stopped, and the plumbers brain stopped working with 1t. In one of his fits of frenzy he yan- ished Nobody has seen him since x That was last June. The deserted wife went on tending store, doing her house. hold work and keeping her children tidy. They were the incest children in the block, so everybody said. Then in the last week of September came the four. three boys and girl, all at once Now the mother is almost In despair about now to feed a family double the size of that she had before
 IL was hard struggle then, and how to get along now she doesn't know. For tunateiy for her the newspapers printed s.oi les apout IL, long stories with pie lures or all the surviving babies, and charitable people have come forward to heip along so remarkable a mother.
 George Dewey. Carter Harrison and Heien Gould were the names given to the trlplets Carter Harrison didn't get over 1t. He died in early infancy. but George Dewey and Helen Gould are fine. healthy youngsters. So is David, one of the twins. The latest babies haven't named Ill., for one, the lustiest youngster in inc io+ 1t is settled. "
 What are we going to call himy' re- peated Mrs Ormsby. when the reporter asked that question. ''why, Theodore Roosevelt"
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Chicago October 19.-The record of motherhood, in this country at least, Is Mrs. Joseph K. Ormsby's. Tn her sev- en years of married life she has had fourteen children. an average of two a year. and she is only 30. Twice twins have been born to her, once her babies have been triplets and a few days ago she gave birth to quadruplets.
 Of her big family three children were living when the four came. Only one twin and two of the triplets survived. But the four new babies are all healthy. They weigh three pounds apiece and ev- erybody thinks they will live, though that isn't often the case with quadrup- lets.
 Mrs. Ormsby is the most remarkable case of maternity ever known in this country, so the Chicago physicians say. All the same it is a hard case for the mother, for the children have only her to look to for support Her husband be- came insane last June and disappeared. His delusion was that he had invented . perpetual motion machine
 He is two years younger than his wife. She is not large-rather a frail little woman. with fair hair and blue eyes. Ormsby was a plumber when they were married in 1894. They went to house. keeping in a cottage in West Forty third street, and there in the first three years three babies came. Then it was twins, then still more twins, and finally triplets. The triplets won a gold cup at the Chicago baby show, and the Ormsby children who survived-the first twins and three other children had died-be- came sort of curio exhibit in the neigh borhood. and the subject of paragraphs in the newspapers.
 To help to feed the early corners the wife persuaded her husband to take out the front of their cottage and build \ -rnall grocery store before 1t. She tend