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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
HOW WEASELS HUNT.
The Graceful Pose of the Animals
When on the Trail.

When ON the Trail.
The 1.-THE grace of the weasel may
be observed whenever it is on the trail
AT an even speed, with nose to the
ground, it's reddish brown back seems
literally to glide along through the rank
herbage by the bank.
1t may be the scent Of rat, and the
trail may take it in and out of the
bank a good many times before it
comes up with it's victim. 1t may even
have to swim q stream before it's per-
sistence is rewarded. 1t is wonderful
how small a hole that long, arched
body can glide into and emerge from
without the slightest difficulty.
When it has caught and killed its
prey it's movements are equally grace
full as it carries the spoil home to its
hole. Crossing a Kentish field saw
weasel coming along under the hedge
row red t0othed from the chase. There
was the same sinuous motion of the
back, but the little beasts head was
held as high as possible and from it's
mouth hung the limp carcass of
young rat, freshly killed. The weasel
held it by the neck and so high, for all
the shortness of its legs, that only the
end of the rats tail dragged through
the grass.
A family of weasels will often hunt
in company, and this is naturally a
most interesting sight to witness. The
ability of the weasel to enter exceed
ingly small holes is owing entirely to
the structure of its body-its fiat head
long neck and short limbs and tail. In
a cornrick it can pursue mice with ease
along their burrows.-London Mail.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
MAKING PORCELAIN.
The Most Exciting and Romantic
Trade In the World


Trade In the World.
The maker of porcelain and pottery
has decidedly the most exciting and ro-
mantle trade in the world.
The great factories of Sevres and
Dresden were founded by Bernard
Pallssy This man invented white
enamel but it took him sixteen years
to make the invention sixteen years of
hunger, misery and persecution, which
eliminated in the episode, used in II.
A. Jones play of "The Middleman,' p
wherein Palissy maintained his furnace
fire by burning all the furniture in his
house and finally opened the furnace
door to find within the glaze which he
had sought throughout the best years
of his life.
Bottgher invented hard porcelain.
He was an alchemist, and one day,
CHANGING to discover that his powdered
wig was unusually heavy, he inquired
the cause and found that the weight
was due to the kaokn with which the
wig was powdered This kaolin was
the substance for lack of which Bott-
gher's Investigations had for years
failed.
When Elers opened a porcelain fac
tory at Burslem he employed none but
the most stupid and illiterate workmen,
so that his secret processes might not
become known. But Samuel Astbury
resolved to learn the Elers method, and,
affecting ignorance and stupidity, he
got place in the factory, mastered all
Of Elers' secrets and eventually opened
a plant of his own, wherein he duplicat-
ed in every detail the work of Elers-
Exchange.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
Tbackerax and Dickens.

This is the way George Henry Lewes
once characterized Thackeray and
Dickens in the way of service to a
friend: Dickens, he said, would not
give you farthing of money, but he
would take no end of trouble for you.
He would spend a whole day, for in
stance, in looking for the most suitable
lodgings for you and would spare him
self neither time nor fatigue. Thacke-
ray would take two hours grumbling
indecision and hesitation in writing a
two line testimonial, but he would put
his hand into his pocket and give you a
handful of gold and bank notes If you
wanted them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
BLAZING METEORs.
The Short Lived spIendOr Os Shoot
Ing Star.

Ing Star.
A small body as large as a paving
stone or not as large as a marble is
moving round the sun. Just as a
mighty planet reYolves in an ellipse, so
this small object will move round and
round in an ellipse, with the sun in the
focus. There are at the present mo-
;nent inconceivable myriads of such
meteors moving in this manner. They
are too small and too distant for our
telescopes, and we can never see them
except under extraordinary circum-
stances.
AT the time we see the meteor it
traverses a distance of more than
twenty miles a second. Such velocity
is almost impossible near the earth's
surface. The resistance of the air would
prevent it. Aloft in the emptiness Of
space there Is no air to resist it.
In the course of it's wanderings the
body may come near the earth and
within a few hundred miles Of its sur
face, Of course, begins to encounter the
upper surface Of the atmosphere with
which the earth is inclosed. To body
moving with the appalling velocity Of
q meteor, plunge into the atmosphere
is usually fatal. Even though the up
per layers of air are excessively at
tenuated, yet they suddenly check the
velocity, almost as rife bullet would
be checked when fired into water. AS
a meteor rushes through the atmos-
phere the friction of the air warns it's
surface; gradually it becomes red hot
then white hot and is finally driven off
into the vapor with a brilliant light,
while we on the earth, one or two hun
dred miles below, exclaim:
"Oh, look! There is a shooting star"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
FISHING FOR BIRDS.
Catching GuIIs and AlbatroSs with
Rod and Line.


Curious though it may seem, it is u
fact that birds are caught with rod and
line in many parts of the world. The
pastime is declared to be almost as fas-
cinating as fishing. Gulls in Newfound-
land are caught in this way in large
quantities. In New England fishing for
gulls and petrels is an important in
dustry
The method of bird fishing is practi-
cally the same as that of ordinary
fishing. Two men go out in dory and
throw pieces of cod liver on tie water.
When large quantities of birds have
been attracted to the SPOT more cod
liver is thrown out ON a hook This the
birds greedily swallow and thus fall
easy victims.
Albatross are fished for in the same
way off the Cape of Good Hope A
piece of pork is attached to a long line
and thrown overheard. The bird will
eye it for a long time, gradually and
cautiously making toward it. Suddenly
he will seize it and hold it in his beak,
When he discovers that he is caught he
will sit on the water and vigorously
flap his wings. However, he will be
drawn into the boat and made a cap
tive.
Albatross fishing is good sport, since
the bird requires careful handling. So
long as he pulls against the line it is
easy enough. The moment, however,
he swims forward the hook will drop
from his beak unless it is skillfully ma
nipulated, and the bird will find him.
self free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
The Inns of Old England.

Efforts were continually being made
in England to keep down tie number
of inns. In the reign of Edward I.
there were only three in the whole of
London. Even in 1862 no more than
forty were legally permitted in the me-
tropolis, now spreading out it's bound
aries on every side. York might have
eight Norwich, Exeter and Cambridge
four, Erlstol six and oxford three.
These regulations must have been set
at naught in a very wholesale manner,
for half a century later there were 400
''hOuses of call" in that part of London
known as the City and no fewer than
twenty-four clustered round Covent
Garden. In medieval oxford it was
ruled that no "victualer' was eligible
for the Office of mayor, and this term
Included an innkeeper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
THE REAL VALUE.
How ALI Literature Is Contained In a
Few Great Books.

GW WEGaN oOOAAs
Young people must every now and
then hear it said or see it written that
all the real value in literature can be
put upon a small shelfr-that is TO say,
the really important part of all that is
written is contained in a very few
good books, all the rest being either
unimportant or different ways of say
ing the same things that have been
said before. The statement, of course,
is not true if it be taken literally.
There are certainly many hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of books that con-
tain original thoughts or experiences
that are truly valuable; but, generally
speaking, the best part of all that has
been written is to be found in a few
volumes. To understand how this is
possible we must remember that near
ly all rules are the same as other and
simpler rules. In arithmetic, for eX-
ample, the whole science consists of
only four simple ways of treating num-
bers. We can add subtract, multiply
and divide, and that is all we can do
to numbers. The rest of the book is
only the working out of these four
rules; thus all of the arithmetic could
easily be put into a little page that
one could carry in the vest pocket.
All behavior, all right living, is also
set forth in a few simple laws. These
illustrations will show what is meant
by saying that all literature is contain
ed in a few great books. The Bible
and the works of a few famous poets
and essayists contain all human wis
dom, and these are within the reach of
every purse.-St Nicholas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04

"With little time and labor it would
be possible to construct a garden whose
flowers would combine to make a first
rate clock" said the botanist. "It is 5
a. M. when the SOW thistle opens," he
continued. "It is $50 when the dande-
lion opens. 1t is when the white lily
opens 1t is 8 when the hawkweed
opens. At 11:12 a. III. the SOW thistle
closes. At noon precisely the yellow
coats beard closes. At 2 p. II. the
uaWkweed closes. At the white lily
loses The d0ndelion closes at sharp.
Since Phys time forty-six flowers
have been known to open and shut
with great punctuality at certain hours
Of the day and night"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
THE ART OF ACTING.
what Amateurs Who Would Become
Stars Must Learn.

Stars Must Learn.
1t is surprising TO discover how very
differently people who have played
parts all their lives deport themselves
before the footlights. l was acquaint-
been the wife of peer Of the realm,
who had been ambassadress at foreign
courts, who at the time had been
reigning beauty and who came to me
longing for new experience and inn
ploring me to give her an opportunity
to appear upon the stage.
In weak moment | consented, and,
as l was producing a play, | cast her
for part which / thought she would
admirably suit-that of a society wo-
man. What that woman did and didn't
do on the stage passes hll belief. She
became entangled in her train, she
could neither sit down nor stand up,
she shouted, she could not be persuad-
ed to remain at a respectful distance,
but insisted upon shrieking into the
actors ears, and she committed all the
gaucheries you would expect from an
unframed country wench.
But because everybody is acting in
private life every one thinks he can
act upon the stage, and there is no pro-
fession that has so many critics. Every
Individual in the audience is a critic
and knows all about the art Of acting
But acting is a gift. 1t cannot be
taught
You can teach people how to act act
ing, but you cannot teach them to act.
Acting is as much an inspiration as the
making of great poetry and great pic
lures. What is commonly called acting
is acting acting. Richard Mansfield IN
Atlantic.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
BE A BUSINESS MAN.
DO Not Ignore the Money Side of
Your Vocation.

No matter what your vocation may
be, you must be a business man first
or you will always be placed at a great
disadvantage in the practical affairs of
life. We cannot entirely ignore the
money side Of existence any more than
we can the food side, and the very
foundation of a practical, successful
life is the ability to know how to man
age the money side effectively.
1t is infinitely harder to save money
and to invest it wisely than to make
it, and IL even the most practical men,
men who have had long training in
scientific business methods, find 1t a
difficult thing to hold on to money aft
er they make it, what is likely to hap
pen to people who have had practically
no training in business methods?
If every child in America had a
thorough business trainingauA VI
sands of promoters, lopIa <,,e &,
ming schemers, who s'DS ssboo1: va:
the peoples ignorance, wOrsainss,
an occupation.
/ believe that the business colleges
are among the greatest blessings in
American civilization today, because
they have saved thousands of homes
from being wrecked ana have made
happy and comfortable tens of thou
sands of people who might otherwise
be living in poverty and wretchedness.
Success Magazine.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
..,,isfrtnr Rnnnr In InnIa.


They had a peculiar way of gong
into bankruptcy among the MaraWarls
in India, now unhappily giving way to
the less picturesque method or the
white man. When a man could not pay
his bills he would summon bis cred
itors. They were ushered into room
in which the thakur, or household god
was enshrined, but covered up with a
cloth and with the face turned to the
wall in order that it might not witness
the scene that was to follow. The in
solvent would then, in garb OF mourn
ing, lie on the floor, presenting his
back to his creditors, who, on given
signal, would fall on him with shoes
and slippers and belabor him till their
wrath was exhausted. The beating fir
ished, honor was declared tc''e satls-
fed all aroprea
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
THE WARLlKE MOROS.
They Prize Their Weapons and WOuI(
Rather Fight Than Eat.

They Pr1Be IneIf =" eApOmS anu w Ou1O
Rather Fight Than Eat.
An inordinate military conceit is a
dominant quality of the Moro. TO him
there is but one measure of defeat-tO
wit. annihilation If beaten, he eX-
poets nothing less; if he meets less, he
has saved the day, perhaps won vic
tory. They are all of one profession
arms. AS children their first toys are
wooden arms, their first instruction the
play of the sword and the spear. What
ever else as men they may be-priest,
farruer, rObber, pirate, merchant, law
yor they are always, first, soldiers.
Eor young man to lose his creese
means to lose his right to marry, and
it is the desire of all to die creese in
hand. In fear of loss they sleep on
these precious arms or with them tied
to the body. For the same reason their
cannon are kept lashed to timbers in
their houses.
Firearms, indeed, are their main dan
ger with civilized people. If they see
the opportunity thereby to secure such
arms, MOros can never resist the temp
! tation to rob and murder To get them
they will risk ALL lose all and never
| whimper. To them without the best
arms death were prefera ble.-Major r.
L. Ballard in Metropolitan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
The Knockout Blow.

The blow which knocked out Corbett
was a revelation to the prize fighters.
From the earliest days of the ring the
Knockout blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or the iugular veal. Stomach
punches were thrown in to worry and
weary the fighter, but if a scientific man
had told one of the old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region of
the stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. DR.. Pierce is bringing
home to the public parallel fact; that
the stomach is the most vulnerable organ
out of the prize ring as well as in it. We
protect our heads, throatS, feet and lungs,
but the stomach we are utterly indiffer-
ent to, until disease finds the solar pleXus
and knocks us out. Make your stomach
sound and strong by the use of Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and
you protect yourself in your most vulner-
able spot. WGolden Medical Discovery "
cures Uweak stomach" indigestion, or
dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and inn
pure blood and other diseases of the or
gans of digestion and nutrition.
The "Golden Medical Discovery has a
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no
matter where located or what stage it
may have reached. In Nasal Catarrh 1T
is well to cleanse the passages with DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy fluid while using
the "DiScoVery T" as constitutional rem
edy. Why the rGolden Medical Discov-
cry" cures catarrhal diseases, as of the
stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
| organs will be plain to you If you will
read booklet of extracts from the writ
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their curative properties. 1t is mailed
\ free on resouest. Address DR.. R.V. Pierce,
Buffalo. m. Y. This booklet gives all the
/ ingredients entering into DR.. Pierce's
medicines from which it will be seen that
they contain not drop of alcohol, pure,
| triple-raf bed glycerine being used instead.
DR.. Pia,sce's great thousand-page illus
trated Cnmmon Sense Medical Adviser
/ will he Serft free, paper-bound, for 81 one
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04

The eyeball contains high percent
age of blood, and why, therefore, is it
white? The answer is that the blood
vessels which supply its surface are
so exceedingly minute that usually
they do not admit the little red corpus
cles to which the ordinary red appear
ance Of the blood is due. Blood without
these corpuscles is colorless, or, at
most, of the faintest yellow tint. But
occasionally when the eye is irritated
or when there is any slight or consid-
erable arrangement of the system cer-
tain Of the little vessels enlarge suffi-
ciently to allow the corpuscles to en-
ter, thereby producing the well known
red streaks or infiamed appearance of
the eyeball.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
AN EMPEROR's TASTE.
1t Was the Origin of a Common Say
ing In Austria.

1t Was the Origin of a Common Say
ing In Austria.
An anecdo4e which was current Of
Ferdinand I. OF Austria at one time
greatly delighted his subjects and gave
rise to a common saying. One sum-
mer day he was hunting in the Syrian
mountains and was overtaken by
violent thunderstorm. He sought ref
uge in a farmhouse whose occupants
were just then at dinner, and his fan
cy was caught by some smoking dump
lings made of coarse -four. He tasted
them, liked them and asked for more,
and when he got to Vienna, to the hor-
ror of the royal cooks, he ordered the
same dumplings to be served up daily.
The courtiers were scandaliZed that
such a coarse dish should figure on
the menu, and even his physicians re-
monstrated against the use of such
food.
The emperor had always been the
most plant of men, but he now show
ed that he had will of his own and
persisted in gratifying his new fancy.
Finally the physicians pretended that
it was dangerous to his health to be
living on dumplings and insisted on his
giving them up. The hitherto docile
sovereign stamped his foot and de-
cIared that he would never sign anoth-
er official document If his diet were
denied him.
Emperor I am" he shouted, "and
dumplings 1 will haveW
To prevent stoppage of the govern
ment machinery opposition was with
drawn, and his majesty clung tena-
ciously to his dumplings. Then the ira-
perial phrase became proverbial, and
thereafter when any one insisted on
gratifying silly whim some one was
sure to say:
Emperor am, and dumpllngs will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
nflIS Of Different Birds.

The bill of the canary is built for
crushing seeds-has strength, but in
many of the doves the bill is slender
and weak Many of the pigeons and
doves that feed on seeds have gizzards
that are large and misunderstanding
and grinding being accomplished in
that way.
1t is difficult to say how much birds
experience taste, probably in a small
degree. Ducks and parrots have soft,
feshy tongues, but in most birds much
of the tongue is sheathed In horn.
Food may be selected by intuition as
to what is wholesome, more than by
taste.-St. Nicholas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
MANY, MANY DOCTORS.
A Sixteenth Century Wager That
Might Be Won Today.

Might Be Won Today.
The story is told in Jouberts 'Popu-
lar Errors Concerning Medicine" pub
lished at Bordeaux, France, i'll 1919,
that one Gonelle jester at the court
of the Duke of Ferrara, insisted once
upon time that the trade which had
the most followers was that of doctor.
To prove his assertion he left his home
one morning to go to the palace with
his nightcap on and his jaws wrapped
up. The first person he met stopped
him with the question, "What is the
matter with you, Gonelle?" GA terrible
toothache." ooh, is that all? I'll tel
you what will cure it." And every per
son he met had some advice to give
him.
When the jester reached the dukes
chamber, the same question and an
swer were repeated. "Ah," said the
prince, Il know of something that will
take the pain right away" Gonelle
instantly threw up his kerchief, saying:
"And you, too, monseigneur, are doc
tor? / have only passed through one
street in coming from my house to you
and have counted more than 200 of
them. l believe 1 could find 10000 in
the city" Whether the story is true or
false, it could be told again in our
days, and Gonelle would win his wager
without dispute.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
Seals Learning to Swim

Young seals do not know how to
swim. They have to become gradual
ly accustomed to the water either by
entering it to paddle about by them
selves or by being carried into it in
their mothers jaws. They have great
fear Of the waves that break into foam,
and as soon as they see one approach
ing take to flight in terror and do not
turn round until they have ascended
to very high place above the sea.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
Liquid Corn.

An easterner was prospecting in the
north Georgia mountains when he
came on a native apparently clinging
to the side of steep hill tilling corn.
The prospector stopped for chat,
and the mountaineer, nothing loath for
a rest in the shade from his fatiguing
toll, was agreeable.
"Say, friend, how in the world do you
get the corn down off that hillside aft
er it is ready for harvest?" asked the
stranger.
'In jugs" was the laconic and prob
ably truthful reply.-Atlanta Georgian
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
Purity of Milk.

In Paris the municipal chemists ac-
cept milk as pure when it contains one
ounce of butter and four ounces of
solids per quart. At Bern milk must
contain at least per cent of butter
and may contain 90 per cent of water.
At Berlin the police seize all milk of
fered for sale which is below the legal
ly required standard of 2.7 per cent of
fatty matters. This allows the dairy
men to add with safety from 10 to 13
per cent of water to fairly rich milk.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04

Bowling is one of our games that
originated in the middle ages. The ex-
act date of its introduction is obscure,
but it has been clearly traced to the
thirteenth century. The first bowling
greens were made in England. In bad
weather these could not be used to adj
vantage, and this led to the construc-
ton of covered bowling alleys.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-04
1t Happens.

"You are very successful prophet"
we said. "Will you tell us the secret
of your success?"
Certainly" the sage replied in a
kindly tone. GAS it is always the un-
expected that happens, merely proph-
esy the unexpected. American Spec
tator