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EASTER CANDY B..,.JKET.
Prices Now Range as High as $40
 tIa IIan5en..,o nv,ns

Prices Now Range as High as $40 for
 the Handsome ones.
 The candy stories these days furnish evidences of American prosperity. All of them of the better class are pretty well stocked with gorgeous boxes and baskets. Easter gifts of candy con- fectioners say, are becoming more pop ular every year In the old days men were content to have the candy go in simple pasterboard boxes, But now many select receptaeles that cost sev- eral times the price paid for the con- tents
 These boxes and baskets are fash toned in elaborate styles. Beribboned and spangled, and frequently hand painted, it is not surprlslug that often man pays S20 for one. Such affairs usually hold five pounds of candy
 We import the most costly of the boxes and baskets said dealer in confectioners' supplies Germany, France and England send us the bulk of them. But lately Japan has come into the game, and now we get quite a number from there. l understand the JapA are cutting into Germany's trade with us in this line considerably. About five dollars is the fair average price for these fancy boxes and basket. But handle quite a lot that sell as high as thirty and forty dollars apiece.
 Americans are now beginning to compete with foreigners in turning out these goods. This is particularly the case with the fancy boxes. So far the Europeans have monopoly of the bas- kets Most of the material for the fan cy boxes comes from the other side; pasteboard and the painted and orna- mented paper in bulk. The duty is thirty-five per cent, but on finished boxes it is forty-five per cent
 Besides the boxes and baskets we have other candy holding novelties for the Easter season. Eggs and rabbits will always be popular, of course. Some of the eggs are almost as gorgeous as the boxes and baskets, Here's one cov- cred with silk and beautifully orna- mented that will take three or four pounds of candy to fill it. That one sells for three dollars. The rabbits are meant for children and none of them is very expensive.
 One of the oldest candy receptaeles is life-like, long-legged stork with little china baby in its bill. A place to put the candy is revealed by raising a wing that works on a hinge, Germany sends this creation to us A basket fashioned like an automobile comes from France. Charleston News and Gnnrinr
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bed, It was fortnight ago when that white man known to the Indians as Gyantwaka-"The Planter a fullmem- Der of the tribe, went up to the reser- walton on visit. He heard that Fall ing Day was sick and went to visit him. The other pagan Indians of the tribe were squatted about the room, Watch- ing, and on a chair near the bed were Falling Days leggings, his bead belt, his war club, his headdress, with the eagle feather at It's crest, all the para phanalia of Snipe sachem. To the eyes of a Seneca this showed two things. First, the old chief expected death, and second, he was going to die in the faith. For when chief of the Senecas dies he faces it in the war re- galia and on his feet.
 It was Monday morning when the white physician who had attended him instead of a medicine man told the watchers that the end had come. His two oldest friends were waiting. They clasped on his legs the leggings of old time government broadcloth which had been his fathers; they slipped his moe casins on his feet, his war bonnet on head; about his waist they slipped the belt with beads woven in the wool, and to it they hung his war club. So they put his arms over their shoulders and lifted him to his feet A weary while they waited, for he was a long time dying; but at last he drew a long breath and his head fell on his breast. He had faced death like a chleftain.
 For sachem his life was peace able one. He was a farmer, power among his people, and a good Indian The traders said that he was honest and straight and the mission people admitted it reluctantly, for he rejected Christianity. He was a grandson of Chief Blacksmith, who saw Washing ton on behalf of the Senecas and to whom Washington promised a perpe- tual reservation for the Seneeas- a promise which stands out among promises to the Indians in that it was kept Falling Day as a boy, used to sit on the knee of Blacksmith and hear the tale of the visit to Washington. He has often repeated it to Planter as his grandfather an Indian of the old school. told it in his grand eloquent Indian speech
 ''He was tan man and strong, with the look of a chief He stood before
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us, His heart was good and his words were straight. And he said;-
 You and your people shall have thse lands of the white man forever. None shall take them from you unless he conquers the white man. As long as the waters run and the beavers build, as long as the leaves fall and the eagle flies, as long as the grass grows and the rabbit runs, so long shall these lands belong to the. senecas.'
 When he was young Failing Day went to a mission school and was ed- ucated. I-5 resisted conversion but the learning he kept, and he was fond of reading, especially history. He could write an intelligent and interesting letter and though he had an Indians reserve, he talked delightfully."- when the shell was broken Tn later years he became sachem of the Snipe clan by election of the women, for women suf- frage prevails among the senecas to a degree which would delight Susan B. Anthony. The women elect the sachem. It is true that the council of men has the right to veto and can force the women to make a second choice, but rarely does.
 Falling Day was buried yesterday, No news came out of the reservation about it but it must have been a sim pie ceremony, because the ceremonial of a Seneca death is not at the grave, but death feast, ten days later. The chief is laid away in his war regalia and with very little ceremony A hole is drilled iii the grave from the body to the surface, for souls do strange things sometimes, and the soul of the dead may wish to revisit the body.
 The great ceremonial observance is the "Adia- -Kow-Ha," on the tenth day day after death. For those ten days, the soul is lowering about the earth, lingering near it's old haunts. watching everything, listening to everything. But on the tenth day it departs, and in the feast the tribe bids 1t farewell For two or three days before this feast runners of the Snipe clan will go in every part of the reservation, inviting the people of the Wolf the Deer, the Turtle, the Heron, the Beaver, and the Hawk, They will assemble in the Long House of the. Snipe people, Everything will be done according to ancient cere- nnnial The women will enter from
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one door, the men from another. They will eat corn bread; water of the meal is beaen out as their mothers beat it-- in wooden mortars.
 For although the Senecas live in modern fashion, they go back to the old customs at their ceremonial feasts. The people wear any bits of the old dress which they own, and the women of the clan work all the day before with the pestles, The mortars are hollowed from the trunks of trees. The bread of meal and beams is boiled up in kettles and baked over the fire They make, too, a soup of meal and beans, All this is ready when the guests arrive and seat themselves / about the Long Huose.
 The last great death feast was held in November 1904, for Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse, white woman and an adopted member of the tribe. SheA also was of the Snipe-clan. She had died a year before If anything pre4 vents the feast on the tenth day it isA held one year after the death becauses the soul comes back once a year.
 On this occasion the food was dil tributed among the mourners, and them Chester Lay, a head man of the Wolfl clan and a friend of the dead, spokei her eulogy, and the Senecas wept,. fora they are a people of soft hearts. Crow,N the preacher" of his tribe, expounded the dictrine of G,-Nia-Delo, the Seneca prophet and teacher, and others who had known her followed in the Seneca tongue. At the end the Snipe clan gave presents to the runners, the chief mourners, the friends of the dead and the women who had prepared the feast.
 Something like this will be the death feast of Falling Day known to the whites as Chauncey Abrams and to his own people as Nis-Nya-N -Nent, the sac- hem, and the faithful follower Of the old ways Then the Snipe women will meet and choose a man, the council of men will approve him and there will be new sachem.-New York Sun
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At every few steps forward lead the bait right across from side to side. In this way the whole water may be covered. No parts should be skipped, especially around large boulders and rocks, from which the water turns and makes runaways and rapids. These are sure to yield number of fish. If not it is unnecessary to go over the same ground twice. If fish do not re- spond to the first cast they are not to be taken with the second cast move right on.
 For such fishing a longer rod than the eight-foot brook rod is necessary; one nine feet and a half is none too long; also better results may be had
 if the hooks and tackles are slightly larger. But keep the bait a reason- able size, using as heretofore a single live worm. It is the greatest mistake to imagine old fish are much more wary than young fish, but they doknow that punches of three and four worms are unnatural and do not float down streams tied together in a knot This is one of the most frequent mistakes made by beginners. Were they to con slider a while they would realize that the most success comes from exact imi- taltion of nature.
 When you do get large fish on, stand firm, raise the tip and have com- n'and of the reel, ready at any moment to wind in at the slightest sign of weakness. Reel slowly and give him line if he wants it, Meanwhile have the net ready for him when he is brought up. If no net is carried en- deavor to lead the fish to a shallow place near the bank and lift him along the pebbles out of the water, but not before the line is reeled in as far as possible-then you have more command over the fish as we'll as the rod,
 Personally, in these later years rarely use the worm, finding much greater pleasure in casting the fly, and it is certainly just as effec- tive. But there are times when worms are absolutely necessary If one wants to secure the quarry. and that should always be limited in numbers, that the next who comes along may in his turn also have a chance to get fair share ot sport and pleasure in the game Louis Rhead in Outing.
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HAS X TAME SNAKE BIRD.
Ministers Pet That Chases Chickens
 and Dogs Away

Ministers Pet That Glasses Chickens
 and Dogs Away
 The snake bird Is readily tanned Racbman. who reared some of these birds, said
 "My best pet was tame from the be- ginning of It's captivity, and followed me about the house, the yard and gar den. until I thought it quite trouble some in consequence of it's peculiar at tachment to me. It is a fearless bird, keeping at bay the hens and turkeys in the yard, and never sparing any dog right and left with it's sharp-polnied bill. and occasionally posting itself in the trough where they are fed, to pre- vent them from taking a morsel of food until he has tantalized them suf- ficiently, then he leaves them to share whatevr he does not rlish
 "It was not until my bird was fully fiedged that I found it willing or anx- ious to go to the water, and then when ever it saw me going toward the pond it accompanied me as far as the gate, seeming to say, Pray, let me go. On my opening this gate it at once fol- lowed me, waddling like a duck, and no sooner was 1t in sight of its favorite element than it immediately let itself in, not with plunge or a dive, but by dropping from a plank into the stream, where for while it would swim like a duck, then dipping it's long neck it would dive for the urpose of procuring fish,
 This bird sleeps in the open air, and during warm weather perches on the house or the bars of the fence, with its head under its wings, placed there from above its back. and in rain weather it often sits In that same place for nearly the whole day. It appears to be very susceptible to cold, retreat ing to tn kitchen, and near the fire battling with the dogs or the cooks for the most desirable place on the hearth. Forest and Stream,
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cHAUNcEY ADAMS, sAcHEM.
The Story of His Death and Burial

The Story of His Death and Burial.
 Chauncey Abrams, sachem of the Snipe clan of the Seneca Indians, died on Monday on the Tonawanda Reser- vation and was buried yesterday with the rites of the tribe. Nis-Nia-Net, Falling Day, was his Indian name, and as Falling Day he shonld be known in death, for he died a pagan. A man of education, well read, living and dress ing after the manner of the whites, he clung, as is right for a sachem, to the god of his fathers. Most of the Senecas have listened to the missionaries of one tribe or another but never Failing Day who died of a broken heart
 Last month his wife died, and Fall ing Day wept himself into the grave He retired of his own house and mourned, and presently he took to his
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gRE7OvERTNG

Miss Mary Taintor of Clinton, who broke her leg about two months ago, Is able to be around the house on crutches.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-14
SELF CONTROL.
1t Is One of the Projections of the
Gentleman.


1t Is One of the Projections of the
Gentleman.
A gentleman is gentle, slow to sur
mise evil, slow to take offense and
slower still to give it. A gentleman
subdues his feelings and controls his
speech. 1t is sometimes said of a man
that che can be gentleman if he
wants to be-" but man who can be
a gentleman when he wants never
wants to be anything else, says the
Pittsburg Press.
In the cultivation of courtesy self
respect must play a prominent part.
We must never pass for more than the
value we place upon ourselves. TO re-
Spect others we must first respect our
selves. Whittier said, Il felt that
was in the world to do something, and
[ thought must"
One of the projections of the gallant
man lies in the supremacy of self con-
troll. Herbert Spencer, speaking of this
important attitude of man as n moral
being, said, mot to be impulsive not
to be spurred hither and thither by
each desire that in turn comes upper
most, but to be self contained, self
balanced, governed by the joint de-
cision of the feelings in council as
sembled, before which every action
shall have been fully debated and
calmly determined-that it is which
education, moral education at least,
strives to produce"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-14
THE BACK WAY.
BaIzac's Avenue of Escape From ais
Creditors

BaIZac's Avenue of Escape From H;s
Creditors.
In the year 1913 or thereabout, be-
ing worried by duns in Paris, Balzac
took lodgings in Passy, then village
in the environs, at a house in the Rue
Basse There is little remarkable
about the front of the house. 1t is just
plain, white, two stored French
dwelling of a hundred years ago or of
today for that matter.
But at the back is garden and at
the bottom of the garden is a doorway
leading into one of the oldest lanes in
the world, from the look of it, Truly
this ruelle, with its crumbling walls of
stone and plaster, its ivy and its shade
Of oyerhanging trees, is as happily de-
void of suggestions Of modern "im-
provements" as anything to be found
within the girdle of the Notifications.
BY means of this byway BalZac,
when insistent voices from within the
house reached his ears as he worked
in his little pavilion at the end Of the
garden, could avoid the unpleasantness
Of an interview with any holder of the
overdue bills which throughout his life
were the only tangible results of his
experiments as a printer and type
founder.
It needs but little imagination to see
him hurry off down the lane, hatless
and in slippers, to await events, While
he dreams of exploiting the jewels Of
the Golconda or the silver mines Of the
new world.-W. II. Helm in Critic.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-14
LAND OF THE PARIS CABMAN
Place to which He Returns With HIS
Savings to END His Days.

Place to which He Returns With HIS
Savings to END His Days.
1t is q popularity of Paris, which ev
cry visitor who knows enough French
to tell one dialect from another must
have noticed, that nearly all Paris cab
men come from the same part OF the
country. The same thing Is true of
coal merchants and of dealers in roast
ed chestnuts, who come from Au-
vergne; of the goatherds, who hawk
their milk about the streets, who are
Breton peasants, and of many other
trades.
The cab drivers land is probably lit
tie known to Englishmen. 1t is down
In the Aveyron, and Rodez is its capt.
tai, tiny village, where the worst Ian
g,1age and the best hearts in all France
are to be found The eldest of each
family in Rodez takes the land and the
paternal cottage The old folks live
with him until their death, and the
Younger sons go to Paris and drive
cabs.
For years they drive about in all
weathers, scraping together sou by sou
until they have garnered enough to go
home and pay for their board and lodg-
ing for the remainder of their days.
They go with the elder brother to a
notary on the first day of their return
home and sign deed by which he is
ho11nd TO keep them for the remainder
of their DAYS in idleness in return for
their sayin~s london Standard.
Honesty is the best policy " Wsi
never the motto of an honest man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-04-14
REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL
Business Disposed OF at the Recent
Session,


Regular meeting Mayor and City
Council April 18th. Present, Mayor
Hawkins presiding, Aldermen Bolton.
Childere, Pinkston, Poole, Borum and
Sherlock. Minutes last regular meet
ing read.
Alderman Childers moved to recon.
slider that part of minutes as to grant.
ing petition Plnkston & Co. to erect
awning in front of their place of bust.
ness on Cotton avenue. Motion lost.
Motion to confirm minutes as read
put and carried.
Committee on Parks reported that
they could have Rees Park fenced at a
cost of $75, and recommended that the
work be done. On motion report adop-
ted and committee authorized to have
work done.
Petition of Lee Allen and others ask
ing council to extend sanitary sewer
age south on Jackson avenue read and
granted
Petition of City Ice 90. asking per-
mission to enlarge pump-house on Nc
Garrah street, read and referred to
Street committee with authority to act.
Question of merchants ueing side
walks while rolling trucks was referred
to Ordinance committee.
The proposition of Mrs. Bosworth to
donate sidewalk IN front of her prop
erty. with certain conditions. referred
to Street committee,
The matter of extending pavement
on south side of Church street, from
Hinkle street to Reese street, referred
to Street committee.
The Fire committee was authorized
to have harness repaired. All approved
bills read and ordered paid,
On motor, council then went into
executive session.
T. N. HAWKES.. G. & T.
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A MIRROR OF DOINCS
IN CITY AND SUBURB.
Little Tales Cut Short In a
Hurry.
a MIRROR OF DAILY EVENTS
Happenings in the City and Suburbs
OF Local Interest to Be Perused
Over While Mullins and Coffee are
Cooling.

The place to buy silver, cut glass
and hand painted china is Bells the
Jeweler.
Cotton is coming up very we'll on
plantations in this section, and in 12C
days now, including Sundays. the rev
bales will roll.
LII the sanitary sewerage of the city
is extended southwark very far it may
necessitate another bond issue to de-
fay the expense.
From the moment of this reading il
will be just "a hours until the bonnet
brigade forms and the order forward
march" Is given.
The revival at First Baptist church
will begin tomorrow, and the meetings,
continued through several week., will
be very interesting.
Americas still holds tightly to about
1000 cotton bales. We just don't need
the money and, under IL cents, will
swing to the goods.
The friends of Judge j. B. Pllsbury
are glad to see him out again after a
confinement at home for several weeks
by continued illness.
Council is going to expend $75 in
wire fencing Rees Park, and the work
of improvement. long contemplated,
will probably end there.
M. O. Parker has been made a mem
Der OF the paid fire department., sue
ceeding John Argo, who has gone with
the Bell Telephone Go.
The main ingredient Of the prospec: :
I've chicken pie increases in size and
numbers but slowly. Verify, there ls
no balm in Gilead now.
The straw hat will be Officially"
ushered in tomorrow, And it need
not be eald that the Easter bonnet will
be an evidence as well.
A wln9storm early last night threat
ened to stir things in Americus, but
the prospective monsoon passed and
without even a good rain.
The city council has ordered the ex-
tension of the sanitary sewerage sys-
tenn out Jackson avenue at the request
of many property owners there.
Ten people guessed correctly the
number of chickens, 113, aud in the
contest among these the fine pair Sc
prize shoes went to drummer.
Time hung heavily with the cotton
fraternity yesterday, there being no
reports from the exchanges. There
will be no market today, either.
As the courthouse habiteurs are
strongly addicted to checker playing,
it can safely be said of some OF them
that they lead checkered career.
Messrs. T. II. CLARK and e. u. Der
rick of Plains were Sumter county
boys awarded diplomas by the State
Board of Pharmacy on Wednesday.
Easter Egg Dyes, eight colors SC
Sixteen designs on paper sc.
REMBERTs Drug Store,
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COME FOR A VISIT
OR ELSE GO AWAY.
Those Who Come and Leave
Daily.
At AMERIcUs HOMES
our Own Name or That of Friend
May BE Found Below In The.Lengthy
List. of People Who Came and Went
Yesterday.

Large assortment of Base ball goods.
Tennis goods, and Fishing tackle
Phone 246. M. s. Holiday.
Capt. j. F. Woods came with others
from Ellaville to Americus yesterday
on business.
DR.. B. T. Wise was prominent among
the visitors from Plains in Amerlcus
yesterday.
Mrs. D. 8. Fargason is spending O
few days with relatives in Dawson, hel
former home.
Miss Nellie Niles has gone to For
sytb, where she will spend several days
with relatives.
Miss Fife Bethune of Buena Vista
was a visitor here yesterday while en-
route to Macon.
Mrs. Nellie M. Blasingame has gone
to Perry upon visit of several days
to friends there.
Miss Irene Miller, fair visitor here
for several days, has returned to hel
home in Albany,
Miss Parks of Cuthberl, the guest Of
Mrs. Will Dudley, returned t., heI
home yesterday.
Mr.. Wilbur Brown of New Orleans
was among the well known visitors in
Amerious yesterday.
Mr.. q. M. 8. Adams of Eastman was
among others coming to Amerlcus yes.
terday on business.
J. A. Rouse and B. N. Massey of Ma
con were in the city yesterday, guests
of the Allen House.
Mr., M. M. Parker of Townsville
was among other visitors coming to
Americus yesterday.
Miss Kate Wheatley and young
brother, John, are visiting relatives in
Macon for few days.
Mrs. J. W. Lowery, the guest of Mrs,
Fl. T. Davenport, returned yesterday
to her home in Dawson.
Messrs. T. s Martin and J. A.
Worthy came up from Dawson yester-
day. having business here.
Mrs. W. L. Sharp, attending the
recent Presbyterian meeting here, re-
turned to Macon yesterday.
Mr.. Jamee Galloway of the old re-
liable Telegraph circulated yesterday
among his many subscribers here.
Mr.. Richard F. Sans of Atlanta wa.
here yesterday upon business conneot.
ed with the Virginia Carolina Chemi.
Cal Co.
Judge and Mrs. r l.. Maynard have
returned from Fort Valley, where they
were called by the illness OF the for.
mer's mother.
Misses Mary Edna and Josephine
Logan of Shelbyv1Ile KY. are fail
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Logan I,vir
here, coming yesterday.
We send for and deliver your pre-
scriptions promptly, anywhere in the
CITY. Hudson's Drugstore. Phone IL