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The Lyons Progress. L. W. MOORE, Manager. Published Every Friday at SI.OO Per Year. ADVERTISING RATES. (Local notices. scts per line each issue Kates for display furnished on application. Entered at the Postufice at Lyons, Ga., as Second Class mail matter. LYONS CHURCHES. Primitive Baptist —Preaching at the church 1 1-4 miles south'Cast of Lyons, onthe second Sabbath c.at’ the Satur day before Methodist —Preaching or. Second and Fourth Sundays, morning and night. Sunday School every Sunday morning, v PraycT meeting Wednesday nights. Lev. V. P. Scoville. Pastor. Baptist—Preaching on Firsthand Third Sundays, morning and night. Sunday School every Sunday afternooc. Pray er meeting Thursday night. Young men’s,prayer meeting Tuesday nights. Rev. J. D. Kaoun, Pastor. About the swiftest case of/burn ing up money on record occurred at Tarr.ytown, N. Y., the other day, Louis Debiasto, an Italian laborer, >was sitting on his piazza counting his money preparatory to a trip-to Italy, when there came a blinding flash of lightning. When the man recovered his sight only the charred remain* of his pocketboo-k and money were to be found. The lightning stroke had burned the«i up. In New York the other day a man found a pocketbook contain ing upwards of $(>,000. re stored the book to its owner. The New York papers have printed pictures of the finder of the small fortune and congratulated him upon his honesty. Are honest men so few and far between in “"New York that it is the sensation of a dav when one is found? Luck * ily for the owner of the pocket book, lie did not drop it in Wall street. i The suggestion of the grand ju-, rv, that chaingang and jail pris-; oners be given a chance to earn a little money at the conclusion of their sentences, so as to provide for their wants until thev can sc * cure honest employment, is based I on reason and justice. Many an ! ex-convict, just olf the chningang and without a penny in his pocket is led bv hunger to steal, whereas if he had a dollar or two to buy food with, he might try to earn an honest living,—Savannah Morning News. ” { Citizens of Georgia, are we to sit supinely by and see our waste places invaded and built up by : hordes of thrifty people and make no protest? Are we to see factor ies supplant forests, mills to stand ; where scrub-brush once flourished, and the prosperities of Georgia swell her tax digest to over r. bil lion dollars in the next decade, and \et make no outcry against the measley, mercenary railroad gang that is doing these things? Perish the thought, says an ex change. Baseball has been named as the correspondent in a St. Louis di vorce suit. The wife complains to the court that her husband loves the game better than he does her; that he neglects her for baseball and spends all of his money on it. As a matter of fact, she says, he has neglected his business to attend games and thus brought himself to the verge of bankruptcy. So far as the infor- j mation goes, this is the first time that baseball has figured in the j divorce courts us the alienator of i a husband’s affections. i Who is Paying the Bulls? Inwiew of the contradictory re ports floating about in the news papers, .it would be interesting to know who is paying the expenses of the peace envoys at Hotel Wentworth. It will l>e recalled that a day or so ago the Russians complained of the accommoda tions at tlie hotel. That gave rise ito a story .that the expenses of ! both the 'Russians and Japanese were being paid by a private, es tate. It seema the hotel is owned by au estate, and the inference was that the hotel was giving the envoys and their attendants free entertainment for the advertise ment there was in it. According to a New York dis patch Gov. Lane ol New Hamp shire is authority for the state ment that the envoys and* their attendants are the guests of the state of New Hampshire, but there being no fund in the state treasury to meet the hotel bills, a half dozen of public spirited gentlemen came forward with the money. The state, when the leg islature meets, will reimburse them, if it sees fit to do 60, but, if it doesn’t, there will be no kicking. Until this publication it was doubtless the very general im pression that the Russians and Japanese were paying their own hotel bills. A cablegram was pub lished a few days ago, in whicli it was said that each of the envoys was allowed S2OO a day for that purpose. The president of course suggest ed that the peace envoys meet in this country, but did that sugges tion carry with it the the obliga tion to pay nil the expenses of the conference from the time of the coming of the envoys until their departure? If s<>, the president ought to have seen to that matter so lh*it there wouldn’t have been v anv gossip about it. T!iq government brought tiie envoys together, introduced them in fact, and sent them to Ports mouth. Not only that, but it pro- - vided a handsomely furnished 1 place of meeting. If entertain ment was also to be provided then 1 there has been mismanagement! somewhere or else there is no; foundation for the gossip in the newsnaners. The envovs would feel greatly annoyed if they should hear that there was a question about the payment of their hotel bills. Perhaps it was because they thought they were paving their own bills that they felt free to complain of the kind of enter tainment they were receiving.— Savannih Morning News. A Great Writer Thus SpeaKs Truthfully. “She was a woman worn and thin, whom the world condemned for a single sin. They cast her out of the king’s highway, and passed her by as they went to pray. He was a mau, and more to blame, but the world spared him a breath of sham<. Beneath his feet he saw her lie, but raised his head and passed her by. They, were the people who went to pray, at the temple of God on the holy day; they scorned the woman, forgave the man—it was ever thus since the world began. This Should Put Our Country People on Guard. A prominent trade review says that figures show that to-day the south has almost as large a popo lation as the entire country had before the civil war began, that it has almost as much valuation, and that it has more railroads, more exports, more cotton spin dles, and in a general way is richer in natural resources, bnnk deposits pig in. n and coal than was the en tire republic in 1800. THE LYONS PROGRESS AUGUST 18, 1905. These Indians Were Giants. j Gigantic skeletons of prehistoric Indians nearly eight feet, tall have been discovered along the banks of the ChoptaiiK river, by the em ployees of the American Academy of science. The remains are at the academy’s building on Frank lin street, where they are being articulate and restored by the academy expert. They will be placed on public exhibition in the fall. The collection comprises eight skeletons, of which some are women and children. They are not all complete, but all the larg !er bones have l>eeii found and j there is at least one complete specimen of an adult man. The excavation^were in progress for months, and the discovery is con sidered one of the most important from the standpoint of anthro pology, in Maryland in a number of years. The remains are believed to be at least 1000 years old. The formation of the ground above the location of the graves gives every evidence of this. During the ex cavation the remains of the camps of latter Indians were revealed. These consisted of oyster shell heaps, charred and burned earth, and fragments of cooking utensils. These discoveries were made fully ten feet above the graves which contained the gigantic skeletons. There have been other discov eries in Maryland of remains of men of tremenduous stature. A skeleton was discovered at Ocean City several years ago which measured a fraction over seven feet and Bix inches. This skele ton was interred in a regular bury ing mound and beads manufac tured by white men were found upon it. The dead indian was probably one of the tribes men tioned by Capfain John Smith, who m July 1608 made a voyage of explorat Cbeeapoftk l>ay. At the po irit on the Choptank where the remains were found there are steep shelv ; ng dills of j sand and gravel that extend to the J water’s edge. Beneath the bank is a laverof marl, and have deposits of between twenty and thirty feet of sand and gravel above them. A ! peculiar feature of the discovery is the charred state of the bones of the women and children. Those of the men are untouched by fire. This seems to indicate that the ancient Indians cremated the bodies of all except their warriors. Th-* wet resting place of the bones for so many centuries has made them soft and fragile, and it was with the greatest, difficulty that they were removed. —Baltimore American. It is announced that Edison lias at last succeeded in devising a perfect electiic storage battery. If this be true, then the great in ventor and discoveror can claim to have conferred upon mankind one-of the greatest boons conciev nble. It will effect a wonderful revolution in industrial life. It will practically eliminate the beast of burden, and be applica ble i:i a thousand and one ways. Mr. Edison said two years ago, that he had completed a storage battery, butdt was too heavy. He has continued to address himself to the problem and as a result the weight ha: been reduced to forty pounds per horse power. Thus a forty-horse power machine would weigh only 1.600 pounds. Chamberlain’s COLIC. CHOLERA AND Diarrhoea Remedy THIS is unquestionably the most successful medicine in use for j bowel complaints, and it is now the recognized standard over a large part of thecivilized world. Every man of a family should keep this remedy in his home. Buy it now. It may save life. Frick, 25c. Large Sizx, 50c. WE ARE FIXED lii Every Department of our Store to Supply the Trade. In Clothing We have just received from the markets of the East an assortment of men’s, youth's and ch ildren s’ suits at prices that would tickle a cow. In Notions, Laces and Embroideries we are Headquarters Hat Department In men’s and boys hats we always carry a full assort ment. To be well dressed you need a Knox-All Hat. Come and see our line. In Hardware and Harness we are Headquarters (Bents Os Every discription a fine line to select from and at the right kind of prices. ODOM & CO., LYONS, GA. Bring Your Produce. TO THE A Lyons Produce Exchange We pay highest market price. either cash or trade. Chickens, Eggs, Hides, Tallow and Beeswax. In fact any thing in PRODUCE line. Fine new STOCK of Dry Goods, Groceries, Tobacco, Etc. COME and see us and we will treat YOU right, LOCATED in WOODEN STORE EAST of BROWN'S OLD STAND. S. GREENRURG, Prop. Live to Eat and Eat to Live. That’s the way an old saying goes and it’s just the way most people think, but out in the couniry, it is a prop sition some time to get something that suits. We are here to say that we try to keep a variety of something fresh and good at all times. We handle a complete line of the finest canned goods put up, also pickles, relishes, fine hams, in fact, everything usually found in a first class grocery. Cold Drinks, Candies and Fruits, Are other things that we call special attention to. We are serving as fine Cold Drinks as can be found in town and our line of candy is always fresh. Suppose you call and see us iu the Scarboro building and we will try to please you. BROWN & WELLS In Dress Goods We have them from the plainest to the finest and at the right prices. Be fore laying in your winter supply we invite you to inspect our line. Shoe Department Seventy per cent of our shoes stock is all new good. We carry all styles and sizes and prices, come and see our line whether you buy or not. Groceries Both heavy and Fancy we handle a fresh clean line of the best and believe in quicK sales and small profits.