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Christmas

will soon be here and our line OF
Holiday goods is the most beautiful
we have ever shown.
1t would be impossible to enumer-
ate in this small space, but we can
show the line and you will do the
rest.
We have been very careful to Sc
lect articles to suit all buyers whether
they want expensive or inexpensive
gifts.
Our prices are right, if not we dc
not ask your patronage.
Call and see our line and get oul
prices.
JAMES FRICKER & BRO.
jewelers.
Americas, Ga.
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Mrs. L. D. Lockhart came home
yesterday from visit of week tc
relatives in Dawson.
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Mr. Neon Buchanan continues i'll at
his home on Jackson street, to the
regret of the many friends of this
genial gentleman.
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l offer for few days only, my Lit
tie Gem Coal at $500 per ton, deliv-
cred. c. j. CLARK.
22-3t
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Frank Turpin came down from Ma
con yesterday, en- route to Lumpkin
to join Mrs Turpin.
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FOR SALE

FOR Secondhand coal stove
cheap Apply this Office 22-tf.
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Coal Bargains :-Clark's Little Gen
Coal $500 per ton Cash 22-3t
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New lot umbrellas, Bell, the Jew.
eler.
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Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Stills and Miss
Corinne Stills leave today for Sylves-
ter, where they will spend several
days with relatives.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-12-23

J. e. Mcdonald was one Of Cuth-
bert's we'll known business men
coming to Americas yesterday.
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Call up Loving's Stables, phone 8
for baggage transfer. If
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Special prices on all goods. Be
the Jeweler.
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Miss Martha Baldwin was an at
tractive and charming visitor here
yesterday among those coming over
from Ellayille.
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Mrs. J. l.. Bonner returned to her
home in Macon yesterday after visit
in Americas.
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Before buying a gun be sure to call
and get my prices. SmithWick's.
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Weather forecast for today: Fail
and cold.
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N. C. o Nv. the sew
Atlanta spending
Americas
OF
N
Onyx,
Thomas from Mr. Mrs John Oliver, well
yesterday
Gem Coal Is good one
N me Jewel me 1z- limited amou
JAMES FRICKER ~ " CLARK
A 7. of Savannah Mr. H. Patterson a
others the
in Americas yesterday. Americas yesterday.
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In time of Peace prepare for Cold
weather. How about getting your
from G. ]. Clark. 22-3t
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Column

'WANTED-Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Address at
once P. o. Box 80, Americas. 232-t
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Social Americas welcomes the COM
Ing yesterday of Miss Irene Walker,
who with her sister, Miss Annette
Walker, are guests of Mrs. Frank
Harold.
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r. NJ. Campbell was among the At
lantans registered yesterday at the
Hotel Windsor.
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The young men are making extens.
i've preparations for the dance or
Christmas morning, in honor of visit
ing young ladies'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
HOW THE TRICK WAS TURNED

unthinkingly slip out during the course
Of the conversation. The light CONVEX.
sation and goodly jest would be duly
noted by the editor-in-chief, who would
distribute them, then and there, to diff
ferent members of the board, with or
ders to turn in their writeup before
the end of the breakfast.
The artists seldom waited for SUBJ
jects to be assigned to them, but would
illustrate jokes which had caught their
fancy with knife, fork or pencil upon
the table cloth. The table-cloth copies
would be saved until the following day,
when copies would be made of their
sketches. In this way many of the
early issues Of the paper were pro-
duced.
AS it grew, however, these methods
sank into oblivion before the march
of system. 1t is to be feared that our
present issues have lost much of the
dash and brilliancy of the early issues.
owing to the fact that the size of the
paper has been more than doubled,
while the size of the board remains
the same. Bohemian Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
The PAINTING SEASON.

Good results in painting at the least
cost depend largely upon the material
chosen. Paint Is a simple compound
and the ingredients can be easily test
ed. The solid part or pigment should
be White Lead. The liquid part
should be Linseed OIL Those best in.
formed on painting always buy these
ingredients separately and have their
painter mix them fresh for each job.
Before the mixing the test is made.
Place a pea-sized bit of White Lead
on a piece of charcoal or piece of
wood. Blow the fame against it and
see what it will do. If it is pure
White Lead, little drops of bright, pure
metallic lead will appear, and with pa.
thence the White Lead can be COM
pletely reduced to one globule of metal
lie lead. This is because pure White
Lead is made from metallic lead.
You may test dozens of other So
called White Leads and not be able
to reduce one of them to lead. If they
will not change wholly to lead but
leave a residue, it is clear that some
adulterant is present.
If you should have your painting
done with such materials, no matter
how cheap they might seem, it would
be costly in the end.
National Lead Company, Wood.
bridge Building, New York City, are
sending on request blowpipe free to
any one about to have painting done,
so that the White Lead may be test
ed. With it will be sent handsomely
printed booklet having as it's frontis-
piece the ''Durch Boy Painter" re.
produced from the original painting.
This little painter has become noted
as the guaranty of pure White Lead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
ODDITIES I'M
SHANGHAI
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)


When I first arrived in Shanghai it
was something of a shock to hear our
honorable consul general say to the
boy when sending upstairs for friend
to come down to my room, boy, go
topside, look-see can ketchee Mr.. M.
Sposie have got, tellee come down
side," to which the boy answered as
seriously, Can do" and disappeared.
A story is told in Shanghai of a Rus
sian diplomat who fell in love with
charming German lady. Unfortunate
ly neither could speak the others Ian
how they were going to conduct the
love-making. They could both talk
pigeon English, however, and fell back
on that. When anyone in China makes
a contract they say Can putee in
book" so the Russian, looking unutter-
able love at his fair lady, cooed soft
ly, "My likee you-sposee you ikee
my, can putee in book?" To which she
shyly answered, Can do" and they
were married.
.
found that in point of advancement
in the drama the Chinese could not be
compared with the Japanese.
The stage is merely a raised plat
form with row of gas lights across
the front, each little jet blinking for
lornly at the top of a piece of pipe
that sticks bravely up for four or five
inches. Another row of lights is over
the stage, and at the back two cur
tanned doorways complete the entire
stage arrangements.
The play begins at seven, and short
ly after that time the tables on the
ground floor are fully occupied by Chi
nese slipping the tea that is an inevi-
table part of every entertainment, So
cial call or business meeting.
One dollar, Mexican, pays the en-
trance fee, entities one to a place at
one of the tables, program and tea
all the evening Extra refreshments,
such as fruit, nuts. sweets and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24

ubiquitous melon seed, are charged at
the rate of 20 cents bowl.
The attendants who keep renewing
the tea cups do so by adding hot wa
ter, never more tea, but the pinch of
tea leaves in the bottom of each cup
seem to possess wonderful powers of
endurance.
In the balcony, that contains the
best seats, for which extra charge is
made, people sit by the railing, which
is broadened out into a sort of table.
On this they lean, and place their tea
and refreshments.
The walters walk about on narrow
platform outside of the balcony rail,
dispensing the hot water and eatables,
occasionally passing around napkins
scalding hot with steam, that are con-
sidered very refreshing for wiping the
hands and face.
Cinnamon and their wives attend
the theater together, the only public
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24

work on the forest will serve as an
object lesson of conservative lumber
ing and will surely be watched with
interest by private owners of large
tracts of forest land in other parts Of
the Mississippi valley.
The headwaters of Buffalo Fork,
White river and Little Red river are
included in the Ozark forest, as well
as numerous smaller streams. On &C.
count of the more frequent occurrence
of fire and the larger area of denuded
land on the south side, the streams are
nearly all muddy, testifying to the
rapid erosion which is in marked con-
trast to the clear sparkling water of
Buffalo Fork. At the present time the
streams are not used for developing
water power, but in all probability
they will be of great Importance for
this use in the near future.
All claims valid prior to the with
drawal of the lands in question will
not be affected by the creation of this
forest, and all lands chiefly valuable
for agriculture and not needed for ad-
ministrative purposes, that were un-
avoidably included within the
boundaries of this forest, upon appli-
cation will be listed by the secretary
of agriculture with the secretary Of
the interior, for settlement under the
homestead laws.
The new forest brings the total area
of the national forests in the United
States up to 64,963,555 acres. Prac-
tically all of this land is located in the
Rocky mountains and Pacific coast
region, and all of it is west of the
Mississippi.
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pie opportunity to kill two birds with
one stone and combine amusement
with religion.
If one can endure a Chinese theater
until the end of the performance, the
deafening orchestra, and the falsetto
voices, he will find that two ushers
come to the front of the stage and an
nounce that the play is finished. Chi
nese plays never end in any culminat-
ing climax, indicating to the people
that all is ended, so this announce
ment is really necessary.
The plays generally abound in pre-
posterous heroes and characters,
though occasionally a scene of home
life will be represented, giving for
eigner an insight into customs, abso-
lutely unattainable in any other way.
But with their faces painted out Of
all human semblance, their exaggerat-
ed and unnatural voices, walk and
manner, together with constant jum-
BILE of properties and stage hands,
with their feeble make-believes, COM
bine in producing a most amusing
and absurd ensemble.
We were not altogether sorry that
we had endured unto the end, though
the boredom was beyond anything I
can remember. We kept our seats,
mentally chasing ourselves with the
caller who, with winning smile, said
to the little girl who occupied the
study while her father, an eminent lit
erary man, was at dinner:
81 suppose, my dear, that you assist
your papa by entertaining the bores ?"
Eyes, sir" replied the little girl,
gravely, please be seated"
know of only one thing in China
that is funnier, and that is practice
drill of soldiers, which may actually be
seen within 200 miles of Shanghai.
Here they use weapons of pattern
as ancient as the first Crusaders,
spears with triple points and battle
! axes on long poles. A row of soldiers
armed with these antique curios stand
behind row squatting on their heels
and armed with rifles of the vintage
of the American civil war. In front OF
| these a third row of men lie fiat like
sharpshooters, also armed with the
same venerable firearms.
When the word of command is
given they make ready and take
aim" but at the word "fire!" not a
| trigger is pulled, each man says
''boom!" with that sublime indiffer
ence to the ridiculous and childlike
faith in make-believe that distin
| cuisines the theaters.
When an officer was asked why
such a performance was allowed he
said it kept the men busy and under
discipline and didn't waste powder.
To see whole company of men &C
through this absurd performances
again and again as soberly and con
scientiously as if really shooting is
| the most overwhelmingly funny thing
/ to be seen in China. compared tc
| which the theater is poor sesoRd-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
To Try Bananas Near Mexican Border

To Try Bananas Near Mexican Border.
Senior Manuel Cuesta, Mexican con-
sui, has plans maturing for series Of
experiments at Mexicali, just across
the international line, to demonstrate
the fitness of the soil and climate for
raising pineapples, bananas and
Smyrna figs. He has experimental
on small scale in this line and with
in few weeks will have experimental
gardens installed at the Mexican town,
which gave promise of becoming one
of the show places of the imperial val
ley. Consul Cuesta is convinced that
a highly profitable industry in the
growing of bananas and pineapples
can be developed in the Mexican terri
tory, and that the growing of heni-
quen or sisal hemp will also prove a
source of much profit. He has sam
Piles of fiber and rope manufactured
from it produced near here which he
claims is superior to much Of the
fiber now on the market. Another fea-
ture of Senior Cuesta's experimental
garden will be an attempt to mature
coffee plants.-Los Angeles Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
The Thunder Cloud.

Rt Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster,
d. D., bishop of Connecticut, told an
interesting story not long ago of a
colored clergyman, who was far from
being brilliant preacher, and had
the habit, when eXhorting his breth-
rem, of shouting in a very loud tone
of voice. The bishop thought he
reprove him, so suggested kindly that
perhaps his sermons would have as
good an effect If delivered more soft
ly. But the colored minister replied:
well, you see, it's this way, bishop,
I has to make up in thunder what I
lacks in lightning" Weekly.
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enter, and painted and gorgeously
robed actors are shrieking apparent
ly out of the top of their heads) in
falsetto voices.
The progress of the play is highly
amusing to a foreigner, for, there be-
ing no curtain, the action is never In
terrupted even though the stage hands,
are on the stage quite as much as the
actors.
This seems at first rather q useless,
performance, but after awhile one rea-
Lies that if an actor didn't give some
idea of who he was, and what he In
tended to do, it would be difficult to
pick him out and follow his perform
ance amid the confusion and hustle of
stage hands arranging or removing
properties and make-believe scenic
effects.
Though there is no scenery there
are crude attempts at properties. For
instance, piece of muslin laid down
to represent river; curtain hung
from two bamboo poles held by
coolies is temple gate; draped chairs
and tables are rocks and mountains,
and boat is made of two chairs with
a pit of cloth stretched between
When an actor is supposed to enter
on horseback he Frances in, curvet-
ting handsomely. The whole perform
ance is singularly reminiscent of child
ish days, when lets pretend" turned
everything to exciting realities.
When the actor has informed the
audience what he is going to do he
retires, and then makes his proper en-
trance, going through all the details as
he has promised them. AS he climbs
over the mountains, or gets out of his
boat, the stage hands quickly remove
them, or, should he enter the temple
gate, it Immediately walks off, for it's
usefulness is over, and it must give
way to the next scenic representation,
which will be arranged as the need for
it arises.
When an actor dies or is slain in
combat he has most impressive
death scene, wriggling all over the
stage, to the great delight of the audi
SuCC, VIII w HUI S00m W pGICSlNc
any incongruity when he gets up, after
he is thoroughly dead, even to the last
little shiver, and calmly walks off.
The actors either wear masks of
painted silk or gauze, or else paint
their own faces with water colors and
a brush until all semblance of hui.
man face is obliterated.
There are no actresses, men assum.
ingsevery part. When they make up fo1
women they wear wigs and put blocks
of wood under their feet to counterfeit
the proper walk of ladies swaying
along On their Golden Lilies" as the
Chinese admiringly style the dreadful
little hoof-like feet a Chinese woman
spends years of torture in obtaining.
There are numerous travelling
theatrical companies in China, and
these generally pitch their tents in the
temple courts, thus affording the peo
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24

The president has just signed a
proclamation creating the Ozark ma.
tional forest in the northwestern part
of the state of Arkansas. The Ozark
and the Arkansas national forest,
which was created in December last,
form the two easternmost national
forests. The new forest has an area
of nearly 100000 acres and is located
in Johnson, Newton, Searcy, Hope and
Van Buren, counties, on the divide be-
tween the Arkansas and White rivers.
1t includes the Boston mountains and
other ridges along the southern eX-
tremity of the Ozark range of Mis-
souri,.
The area included in the new Ozark
forest is natural forest land, for the
most part covered with. unbroken
stands of hardwood and shortleaf pine.
Oak, hickory, elm, gum, maple and
ash are the predominating trees, while
the pine is found in limited areas in
the southeastern part of the forest.
The timber is estimated to be worth
not less than $1,5O0,0OO just as it
stands, and may bring 100000 if
properly handled, as the people of the
country who are now selling the tim
Der do not realize the value of their
possessions and are accepting $3.50 to
So per 1000 board feet, and in some
cases three to five dollars per acre.
The stands on the forest run all the
way from nothing up to 10000 feet per
acre, averaging about 5000 feet in
merchantable timber. The value of
timber is conservatively placed at
three to five dollars per 1000 feet.
1t is estimated that there is not less
than 5O0,000,000 feet of hardwood saw
timber alone, besides a vast amount of
timber suitable for railroad ties, han
dies, spokes and wagon stock, and
timber which is not now cut except for
fuel, but which will later become
merchantable as the shortage of hard
wood increases.
The destruction of the timber
through fire has reduced the value of
much of the land, and in many places
the slopes are washed so badly that
Tie sui udS lOoL VI It's pOW0T W
produce timber. 1t is thought, how
ever, that under careful management
most of these areas can in time be re-
forested.
Samuel ]. Record, supervisor of the
Arkansas national forest, will also be
in charge of the Ozark, and will con-
tinue to have his headquarters at Fort
Smith. 1t is thought that he will have
four to six guards added to his force
to begin the administration of the new
forest in addition to those who have
been appointed on the Arkansas ma
tional forest. These men will be ma.
tives of the state.
The Ozark and Arkansas forests
will give the state total national for.
est area of nearly 100000 acres, but
all of the land is not under govern.
ment control. as considerable areas
have been taken up under various
claims. The creation of the Ozark ma.
tional forest has put another relatively
small tract of the immense forest area
of the Mississippi valley under a sys.
tenn of management according to the
principles of scientific forestry. The
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
COFFEE EYES.
It Acts Slowly But Frequently Pro.
duces Blindness.

The curious effect of slow daily poi
soning and the gradual building in of
disease as a result, is shown in num-
bers of cases where the eyes are af.
fected by coffee.
A case in point will illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont, expert.
enced slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes in the form of increas-
ing weakness and shooting pains
with wavy, dancing lines of light, so
vivid that nothing else could be seen
for minutes at time.
She says:
This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and I naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause.
About this time l was told that cof-
fee poisoning sometimes took that
form. and while ! didn't believe that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, I
concluded to quit it and see.
II took up Postum Food Coffee in
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at a neigh
boris was unsatisfactory. Well, I
made Postum strictly according to d.
rections, boiling it a little longer, be-
cause of our high altitude. The result
was charming. l have now used Pos
tum in place of coffee for about 8
months and my eyes are well, never
paining me or showing any weakness.
/ know to certainty that the cause
OF the trouble was coffee and the cure
was in quitting it and building up the
nervous system on Postum, for that
was absolutely the only change made
In diet and took no medicine.
my nursing baby has been kept in
a perfectly healthy state since have
used Postum.
Mr.. friend. discarded cof-
fee and took on Postum to see if he
could be rid of his dyspepsia and fire.
quent headaches. The change pro-
duced a most remarkable improve
ment quickly"
There's Reason" Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
LOSING a Tenant.

A landlord in the Highlands of Scot.
land had a "crofter" tenant, who paid
him ten shillings year as rent for
the little farm. At the end of the
second year the tenant came to the
landlord and said that he was not
able to pay more than five shillings a
year, as crops had been poor. The
landlord agreed to this.
At the end Of the third year the
tenant appeared before the landlord
again and complained that things
were going so poorly with him that
he was not able to pay any rent. The
landlord agreed to let him remain
rent free. At the end of the fourth
year the tenant once more appeared
before the landlord. and said:
Colonel, if you don't build me a
barn I'll have to move"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-24
Much of Bright College Papers Sue
cess Due to p. M. breakfasts"

For several years it was the custom
of Cornell Widow boards to meet
downtown every Sunday morning and
breakfast together. The Widows
breakfast table attained an enviable
position among college affairs. Gradu-
ally, however, the breakfasts became
dinners in all except name. The uni
yersity witnessed the strange sight
of body of care-free students break
fasting" at eight o'clock of an evening.
But the gentlemen of the university
have always looked with uncensuring
eyes upon the little vagaries and Pc
culiarities of the "widowers." At the
old breakfasts, after the members Of
the board had consumed large quanti-
ties of meat and had washed every
thing down with many flagon of the
finest Malmonsie, they would set them
selves to the production of Widow.
Light conversation upon the exist
ing good or evil of the day would
bounce from lip to lip. and back to lip
again. And many a goodly Jest would