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Rockdale Register. The DmiKer of Katin* Too Mucli. 'Nobody ever repented of eating too little,' Whs the sage remark of an old gentleman on the verge of ninety, nexi to whom the writer had the pleasure of aitflng at dinuer the other night. ThV host wa* prewing him to take more, and ,frying him in the usual phrase, *W liy, have yon eaten scarcely nothing ? Now it is to be assumed thnt the old gentle man's words indicated one of the by ways of good health, along which he had traveled through his long lile, and to which he owed )iis present remarkably hetufy condition ; so it was snggeaUd to him interrogatively that he had al ways been a small feeder. es, he answered, '‘ever since I was two or three and twenty* up to that time I was a weakly fellow enough. *nd I n*ed to make the great mistake in trying to eat 'and drink ns •much as I could, in the hope of becoming stioug. All my lriends and the doctors backed ine in my terror ; but fortunately I. found it out in lime and ‘knocked off*—as your mpdem slang has it—more than half my usual amount of stimulants. I gave up the idea of making myself strong, and merely strove to make myself well, and I was contented with eating just ns much as conld digest and no more. Of course it took a little time and experience to discover the precise limits; I cou and not adopt thc'golde’n rule of always leaving oft with an appetite, because 1 never be gan with one, but by persistently erring on the right side, I got hold of one of the great secrets of lifo—the secret of knowing when one has enough, and af ter a year or two I became so much bet ter that I used to find mysplf keenly ready’ to eat a meal at any time, and by degrees actually acquired an apppetile. Then, once found, I never destroyed i:, but. always determinate!y rose with a feeling that I could cat mote. Naturally temptation grew stronger, but I was firm. I did not behave ungratefully to my stomach and immediately presume upon its increased powers by overload ing it- I did not live to eat, but only ate to live; and behold me I ‘ I have no need to Ire very particular as to what I eat, even at my time of life; I have only to bo carefuj not to eat too much.’ Here, indeed, is tho great secret of a great deal that is amiss with many of us. We are fn the habit of eating too much, more than oar digestive powers can tack le, and that which is not assimilated more or lens poisons. The system be comes overcharged and gives any latent tendency to disease within us every lac u’ty for developing itself. The question is not so muol* what we eat as to what quantity to eat, and nothing but a sharp lookout kept by ourselves can give us the answer.—[Tinsley's Magazine. - A Safe Light. Accidents without end, ns every one knows, arise from the use of matches. To obtain light without employing them nnd so without the danger of setting things on fire, an ingenious contrivance is now usd by the watchrtten ot Paris m all magazines where explosive or in flammable material are kept. Any one may easily make trial of it. Take an oblong phial of the whitest ami clear est glass, and pat into it a piece'of phos phorous about tire size cif a pea. Pour some olive oil, heated to the boiling point, upon the phosphorous; fill the phial about one-third kill, and then cork it tightly. When ready to use this novel light, remove the cork, allow the air to ‘enter -thephial, and then re-ooik it. The vmpty space in the phial will become luminous, nnd the light obtained ‘will be equal "to that of a lamp. When the 'light grows diu,its power can be increas ed by tuking out thersork, wild allowing a fresh supply of air to enter the plliial. lu ’winter, it is sometimes necessary to heat *the phial between the bands, in order 'to increase the-fluidity of the oil. The apparatus may be used for six monts —so aay those who have tried it. French Toast.—Beat (our eggs very dig'd nd stir them in a pint ol milk ; slice <somo bakers bread, dip the pieces into ihe egg, then lay tlunu in a pan of hot lard and* fry br.rwtu; sprinkle ft little powdered sugar and cinnamon on each piece nud serve hot. It nicely prepated this is a nice dish for breakfast or tea —quite equal to waffles. In a Kansas divorce suit the other ■day a man's nose was offered in evidence o "prove him a drunkard. The evidence ■was there' but was not taken by the court. The party w!k> suggested its in troduction wears one of his eyes in a sling. — ♦ ♦ ♦ -■ ■ ■■—■—. - It is said that whoever goes to sleep first on the wedding night will die first, and an exchange advises married couples -to sit up all night and play checkers. An Illinois minister announced on his Tsuoday night bulletin : The funeral of Judas Iscariot.’ To which an obliging fellow added, •‘Friends ot the deceased are cordially invited. *Vill you dake sumding V said a German to a friend, while standing near a * n '5 n't cst- if I do,’ was the reply. Vli ,and 2.V -s, . C: a■!.• The Planter Too Much for the Judge. Judge Grant was in Little nock, Ark,, a couple of weeks ago, in attendance at the United Bute* Court. One morning lie saw a farmer with a slouch hut and a genuine butternut suit, trying to sell a (■Atm in the market there. It was * large long horned atiiuta', and the tanner was informing a man that the cow would give lour quarts of milk a day, if fed well. Up stepped the Judge. ‘What do you a>k fojj the cow ? ‘About s'lo. She'll give five quarts of milk, if you'll feed her well,’ replied the planter, and he proceeded to describe her good qual ities. Said the Judge, ‘I have cows on my tarm, not much more than half as big as your cow, which give twenty to twenty five quarts of 11 ilk a day.' The planter eyed the Judge sharply for a moment, as if trying to remember whether he bail ever seen him before or not. and then asked: ‘Stranger, where Jo you live f ‘My hope is in lowa.’ ‘Yes, stranger, I don't dispute it. Stran ger, there was heaps of solgeis from lowa down here during the war, and, stranger they were tho d—Jest liars iu the whole Yankee army. Stranger, may be you mougbt be an officer iti some ot them regiments!' The Judge slid for the Court House. —[Davenport Gazette. Chicken Cholera and Gapes. L. Connell, at the New York Farmers’ Club, in answer to a query asking for a cure for cholera and gapes in chickens, replied : ‘Having in the past had a good deal of trouble with chickens dying with the oftolera, I now write to the club'to inform them that I have found a remedy which for two years has served me With good effect. When my fowls begin to look sleepy and act stupid, I give them three or lour tablt spoonfuls of strong alJtn walsr, and repeat the same the next day. 1 also mix their food with alum-water, feeding it twice a day for two or three days, afterwards once a week. Since beginning this practice I have not lost a hen from cholera. Asa pieventive, have the roosting places dry and clean ; the place where chickens roost should be cleaned as often as once a week, and sprinkled with lime or wood ashes. I o prevent fow ls from eating their feathers, give them animal food two or three times a week, such as fresh meat with oyster shells, charcoal, burned bones, dso., with good dean water. This will produce the desired effect, if anything will Gapes, to which young chickens are ttsn ally liable in excessive warm weather is a disease caused. I think, by illy-venlila ted and unclean coons, together with unwholesome, sour food and putrid wa ter. Gapes also appear as an ep identic and when this is the case the affected fowls should at once be removed from tire others. It is gtnerally thought that au internal worm, infesting the windpipe, causes the gapes. There are several inodes of treatment for this. One tried by me I can recommend : Take a small quill feather, strip the vane, except half an inch from the end of the feathers; dip this in spiiits of turpen tine. and pass it down through the small opening of the windpipe, give it two or three turns, and it will either bring up the worm or destroy them. The tur pentine kills the worm at oner, and also excites a fit of coughing, during which the worms that are not drawn Out with the feather will lie. expel'ed. This rem edy acts equally well with young tur keys. After this process the fowls should be kept for several days in a dry coop, and not allowed to run in swaiupy places or in wet grass. Their teed should be either cooked corn meal or cracked wheat, soaked iu turpentine and ted every morning. The rest of the day they can have sour milk well sprinkled with black pepper and always plenty of fresh, clean water. Printers’s Greek, The following is an acknowledgement of a wedding notice and a generous al lowance ot cake by a classical rural Pro £ lessor of Typography : ‘We "make our most excellent bow to the happy twain, and the opportunity to return thanks for this almost upfled act of liberty. May the matrimonial chase which locks the form of our brother typo justify all his preconceived impressions. In whatever §ot the country he may roam, whether called upon to face the ing waves of adverse fortune, or stand before the 11 al, d t { ol enemies? may bis life be such that wheu the of death shall be laid on him, and the . of his existence draws to a close, he may produce a dean proof and claim a clear title to an honorable f in the page of history, as well as to an inheri.ance beyond the * Tom Thumb is going to Texas to live, and si>me day we shall hear ot Torn be ing waylaid aud abducted by * iexas grasshopper. A woman who went to -concert to hear Blind Tom ‘ ploy by ear,’ writes that she was swindled, and wants ns to expose the fraud- She Bays that insterd of playing by oar, he played with hie fingeis,)>•*. like ether perform, trs. Would it lie any Harm. It is leap yeat, and if a pretty girl, will, red cheeks, Teels a palpitation ot the heart tor some worthy young man, wil'd the any harm for her to call up on hi* lather and speak about the weath er , the had roads, the hard times and the bad state of toeiely, and then remark i ‘Mr. Quincy, I have an affection tor yonr son George, and I think I oou'd soon learn to love him. Quincy would look at her ftom the comer crl his eye, and she would con- tinue i . *1 can wash, bake, cut ovorclotnes, sew, play the piano, manage a servant, do embroidery* sing, speak good gann mar and make a home happy* Quincy would look from the corner of his other eye, and she would go on : ‘I hear that he is home nights, is sav ing, well educated, sensible, has no bad habits, and is just the kind of a hnsband I want. I don't expect any money with him, but will do.my share of work, plan mug and saving to help him seeme a home and bank book. With your per mission 1 should like to pay my address to him.’ Mr. Quincy would tell her to go ahead. If he was a sensible man, and would there be anything wrong >boul it ? Anotiikb Enkmv to CoTTOii.— Says the Natchez Democrat, 30th .tit.: We have been informed that snails, or snugs, are doing considerable damage in the coun try by cutting up the young plants in the guldens and the cotton in the fields. The snail Is anew enemy to the cotton plant, we, in a thirty years experience in cotton planting, have only within com paratively a few years past heard of the cotton plant being seriously injured by them. The cutworm has at times been rather destructive to the stand of cotton during our experience, and we remem ber to nave been told by an old resident of the county that the present system of sewing the seed thickly in the drill was i.dopted as a safeguard agtiust the. dep redationi of the cut-worm. The snail, however, we have always been accustom od to look upon as rather a disgusting but an innocent insect. We presume we will therefore have to apply the devel opment theory to this sluggish reptile and recognise the principles so applica ble to the human race, that as he pro gresses he becomes more rapacious. Onions lor Children, A mother wri'es: On"e a week invariab’y I gave the children a dinner which uas hailed with delight. This was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best of medicine lor expelling-what most chi'd ren suffer from—worms. I belive mine were kept free by this remedy. \. Land Spout Out in Indians^ A land spout passed through the south part of Hamilton county on Saturday last, about 5 p. in. It was about 30 feet across at the bottom, and about 60 feel across at the lop, in the shape of an hour-glasp. Som< t ines it would pull apart in the middle, but it would form again in a second. It was about 200 feet high. The body was a dark black color. It formed at White river, about two miles from the north line of Marion county, and traveled 20 degrees north of east, passing through Delaware, ball Creek and Wayne townships, in Hamil ton county, stopping io the east part of Stony Creek township, Madison county. It traveled about 20 miles, and was about one hour in passing that distance It de stroyed [five farm houses, one school house,fone church, and two barns. When it would pass directly over a house it would tear it all to atoms, and all the fragments would pass up through its body and be thrown out at the top, like the smoke passing through a ta'l smoke stack. W T hen it passed near the of a house k it would draw the roof up through the pipe, and draw the house over and smash it all up. In passing through, the timber it would pull all the trees up by the roots that it passed di rectly over, and the timber on either side it would break off. Many of those that it would pull up would pass through it and come out at the lop. It would carry them from 100 yards to a half mile It stripped some of the fat ms of their poultry. In passing through the pipe all the feathers would be taken off the chickens, and the flush would be very black, like it had been pounded against the walls of the pipe in passing through it. There were some cattle and a few sheep whirled through it. It took one house up and left a woman and three children sitting on the floor unharmed. Several woman and children were badly bruised, but none killed.—[Clarksville Letter to the Indianapolis Journal. Not Any for Him. This is the season when advertisements of refrigerators and ice-chest spread out iu a newspaper like a mortgage cu a stna’l corner lot. It was advertising >n the Free Press that attracted a Nankin farmer into Detroit and into Woodward avenue harware 6tore yesterday. When he mentioned the fact that he would like retrigerator, the proprietor web coined him with u sunny smile, and the ddikfi cheerfully larked their shins against the stoves as they flew around, ‘Will you look at these ice chest ?’ as ked the proprietor as they came to a long row. What I want to keep ice in a chestfor? growled the farmer. ‘What I want is something to keep provision cool and uice in hot weather.’ ‘W<ftl, here you have it. Here is the best refrigerator made,,, The farmer opened’the doors, looked the box over-and around, and seemed much pleased with it Presently he in quired? “What,* the principle ol the thing— how docs she cool off the provisions! ’ ‘You put your ice right in here, thut ilie box and away she goes, was the reply. ‘lce!’ gasped the farmer. •Why. of course. You can’t run a re frigeiat r without ice, can you?, The farmer turned without a word' walked down stairs and ot t to his wagon and was getting in when the man littried up and asked; What's the matter ?" ‘Do you think I’m 'a four cornered fool?" howled tho agriculturalist. ‘Do you think I’nt goirg to buy that high priced povision asylum and t.ien keep .ce too i'—[Detroit Free Press. A granger writes to it rural paper to ask ‘how long cows should bo milked V Why, the same as short cows, of course •Brother, why don’t you ask the stranger to pray ?’ ‘ Because,’ reprovingly observed a dea con, • this ain’t no place .for practical jokes. That man’s the president of a gas company.’ TIfHCRttJtT RKfUfATIOX which Dr. Pemberton fluid extract of stillingia, (or Queen’s deli hi) bas attained n all sections of the country as a GREAT AND 000 MEDICINE and the large number of estimoniats which are constantly being receiv edfroiv. persons who have been cored liy its use, is conclusive prop. Of its great merits. 00 00 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOuPOOOOOOOOOOOC ooooooc o 7he great health restorer o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC oo 00 . is a positive specific and <nte for dyspepsia liver complaints, const nation, headache, diz ziness, pains in the ban <; kidney complaints, jaundice, female Weakness, ltttnbago, genera, debility, gravel, gmit, sciofula, cancerous hn mor, erysipelas, stilt- I‘HeUni, ringworm, pi pies and humors on the face* old nlcers, rheu uiatism, mercurial ttad syphilitic affections. It removes all mercurial ot other poison,, from the blood, and sot* restores the system to perfect health and purity, 1 hat pole, yellow, sickly looking skin is soon chatl£p?d to one of beauty , freshness end health. It Will cure any chronic or long-standing diseases, Whose real or direct cause is had blood, A trial will prove it, Thousands have been snatched as it were from the grave bv its miraculous powei, who now enjoy health and happiness, where once all was misery. , , It invigorates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflammation, cures ulceiution, End regu.Stes the bowels. DR. PEMBERTONS STILLINGIA OR QUEENS DELIGHT GIVES HEALTH, STRENGTH AND Al- PETITE. It purifies the blood, and renovates and in vigorates the whole system, Its medical prop erties are alterative, tonic, solvent, and din* retie. , Foi testimonials of wonderful cures, send to the Proprietor,.or call on your Druggist, the genuine is prepared only hy I)It. J. S. PEMBERTON, Chemist, Atlanta, Ga. For sale hy all first-class druggists. Office of G W Adair, Wall street, Atlanta, Ga„ July l(i, 1875. Dr. J. S. Pemberton- Dear Sir : I havo used yoi r extract of Stillingiafor a chron ic skin al ection of many years standing,which made a o ire after all other remedies had fail ed. Iha ve known your stillingia used in the worst oa >s of scrofula, secondary, sypliilictic diseases* *hcun. at iern, kidney and liver affect ions, wi great success. In fact, I have nev known i o fail in the tr <st desperate cases. I conside r the greatest blocd purifier known. Yours truly, JC K\ ANS. (pgTFor sale hy Jones & Carswell, Con yers, Georgia. COLONISTS, EMIGRAN TS, AND TRAVELERS WESTWARD. For map circulars, condensed time tables and general information in regard to transpor tation facilities to all points in Tennessee, Ar kansas, Missouri, Minnesota. 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DELIVERED AT ANY DEPOT IN THE CITY FREE OF CHARGE. Time sales payable Ist of NOVEMBER, 1876, without interest, with option of paying ir Middling cotton at 15c, delivered at your railroad depot. * b J. O .MATTIIEWSON & C 0..- General Agents, Augusta, Georgia, STEWART & McCALLA, Agents, Conyers, Ga. l[lhe Greatest Medical Discovery OF THE XlXth CENTURY. * % 0 , HEALTH, BEAUTY, AND HAPPINESS RESTOREDO MODERN WOMANHOOD. ! DR. J. BRAD FIELD'S FE MALE REGULATOR. woman’s best friend. Its operations are quick and sure t and it never fails to cure. , Thankful for the very flattering reception the Female Regulator haw met with from all poo tions of the country, the Proprietor begs to announce that he has largely increased his mane ■ factu ring facilities, and hopes that before long he will be able to place within the roach ol ever y suffering woman, this, the greatest boon of her sex. PRICE 1 50 per Bottle. by all. Diliggjpts in the United States.“©a L. 11. BRAD FIELD, Atlanta , Georgia, Proprietor. READ! READ!! =?-+= - ‘ : - It is well known to doctors and ladies that women are subject to enormous diseases pecu liar to their sex,-such as suppression of the menses, whites, painful monthly periodica-, rheumatism of the back and womb, irregular menstruation, hemorrhage- or excessive ‘ noi prolapsus, uteri, or falling of the womb. , ~0 ). Blooming in all her Prist i.. Beauty, health, strength and elasticity. Tried doctor after a Rutledge, Ga., February J.B. lo‘ 4 - This is to certify that my wife was an invalid for six years Had disease of the womb headache, weight in,lower part of the back; suffered from languor, exhaustion and “ er e less, loss of appetite and flesh. She had become so exhausted and weak, her friends apprehensive she would never get well. Tried doctor after doctor, and patent meuici L and despaired of her improvement, when fortunately she commenced on Dr. Braone male Regulator. She is now well; three or four bottles cured her. Improved in he. ir j w , petite and flesh; " she is blooming in all her pristine beauty, strength, and elasticity. ( ward you as her savior from the dark portals of death, —anil my benefactor. May >o ow" never grow less, and you never become weary in well-doing. JOHN - ’ TFor Sale by W. 11. LEE and JONES & CARSWELL Conyers. > Send for Circulars. NEEDT.K Jb GTJLLETT’S IMPROVED COTTON GINS ; COOK'S Ph TENT SUGAR and SYRUP EVAPORATING = PANS; VICTOR CANE MILL; SWEEP STAKE THRESHER and SEPARA ‘ 3 TOR; CARDWELL'S THRESH- C ER and SEPARATOR; g j . v .., Q ■s.icpu.iif) .itj pnog.