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Ii ■ fsasssma msmi V£±i&szsaz& “1 m* mums ^&3BB i: 51 S3 *“4;. b « a ii “Tf L2 JjSSSE SS2I MUM ’he season for pies is near ! J Mbs j**. 1 wwmA 9 * you wish a imrd % in the wav * of a m 1 m- V <* t ii m m £ • - prz r.--tsfi ■; call on us and buy our goods at OWN PRICE RUSK & CLOTFELTER Frops. Rockdale Racket Store. ITEMS LOCAL AND PERSONAL THE NEW TENAN-. Now, wl>en hr the Fit casements my life I of Crew heart j Clow slut my And locket! the door, mid in each part j Etranirc darkness reiirned, forlorn and n w. There pierced no happy sunshine thruu^l i The harrier of fastened doors; The dust lay tLick upon the floor? Where rosemary was strewn and tcv But on a certain day ram? one Who knocked and would not l e dr-,i ! And threw the rusted easements ,e And entered with the wind and sun. The dingy webs Hint f.rief had spun. The dust that sad ncyleot had laid. The faded hangings, rent and frayed. Had finished erg his work was done. Ch, he hath svvrpt m.v heart for me than d( oil sorrow!ns and doubt, And he hath set it all about With peace and happy certainty! Oh, home he glad for such as he And very sweet nor let him Ibid That Rlictt one tenant left behind, that silent, sad eyed memory! —Theodosia Harrison in Harper's lla t. Miss Hattie Simonton wil' .now lie glad to see lmr friends at He w¬ lett, Ilea an & Downs’. i Mr. Rrinkly and Miss Ida Xor- ; man left Tuesday for Norwood to sneml sotiio time. Yi.u nr 3 more liable to (Lserse when ymir liver and bowels do notitef properly j)eWill'* I ittle Early P.isers mi ove the c.vase of tl 6 dilease Oailoy Drug Oo. Mrs. Pronin Almand ltn*- I epn siiuidiug some time w'fcn relit’ iv’ 1 s and friends a Bu kh*q*il. Miss Rniihio Simonton is iu>n> with relatives front Millodgevi le. T'm> lrnst in qua itity and n ost in qtalitr d> scrib s DaWitt’s Litt e E-riy liistrs, tlm famous pills for constv; at ion tunl liver complaints. Gailey Drug t o Mr. Calvin Board, of Athens, is here to-day on business. Miss Floredo Tucker will Jetivo ths week for Savannah to attei d hi; F.pwoith League convent on. Lc(Vitt’sLittie Early Risers seaicb tlie t otest- parts of the bowels and mno o «impariti: spa; d yw. Ini' discom L they ate famous for their efii n< Ltsy to t«kc never gripe Galley Drug V>>. Mrs. Jas. Co-lev and children, :tlC guest, of c rolti i (boa Mr. (. oriev came down mu. day ,-j d s, uii llie day Mob a i i, from a very go; .d jf urc« Unit Key, Muck i-Nike-, on r**tni't* l! N irctn one pping I p s t -ttiidiiy, by.munt some ;;. : - : ® I hi his b Uggy. vv e w ,uUi ii 4 h ""“■•tiont'd ili.s bn* ho dtdn t d Viilr- 'van ui. “k’.i* affictioj.’ ii. readily msepi eat '■y tiMejT DtvViM s iieli Hazel Ba'"-e. . Eiui. out for counHrreits If you get N t you xvils got- gootiresults. It . 'kr qmek - and rmstUve cure for p-ilcs. k't'lDrug «\t Mrs.J.C Stephei son luvppeiH'd to !l Vl l’v painful accident last Tl,.; r.-day by stepping on a nail M >• hope there will bo uo snous 1( s .ta. Mi ss Eugenia, Wallis who 1 s . I ‘""’i in Stamford, Texas for the I’-M titrne months, roturr.ed to ,0| '* v! ’’’ last Saturday. She speaks ' highly of Stamford and ti (j. say s e '"yers people there »r« atl ■ od health and well pleased. Mi- .t W. Baxter ef North Brook, N. ij * !le offered with I j ^ '' piles for fit: o m I t 1 o tried mnhy remedies with no i ~ - "*'tU he need DeWitt’s Witch i c. a F-x ], '^ffumkly Lo. cured him. tg r Dunn and family are ' ; ativo3 at Cravfordvil!^* It SoUfrd His L g. F. A. Dan forth, of Lagrange, Gn. suf fered t’c-r six mouths wi-h a frightful mon i*v so e on his pg; but writes Dm .'leu’s Ari ?ca Salve wholly cured it ’u iiv?, days. For Ulcers, Wounds I • fbe best salv iu the. world < gmirauteed. Only 25c. Sola by GriLt Co. W AII hi ED. ' Last Sunt! v tifterr.nnn I»y i- y Mr. Tret ill. Ini. Mr. Wuod Alumni uud Miss Belle Sullivan were niii? ed Hi the holy 1) uuls of wed) ick at Salem, in Newton com tv Mr. AIiuukI is a j>r si eroas ytiimg man stud will d > well. He is (he eldest so. of Mr, B. G Al ittaml. The bride is an excellent young la i v on pi Lie of makii g a happy hottm. We extend eong a) ulat ions, ■ w~ • Miss Sadie h rr\and to V/0d Mf. J. A'lCCJ6F|d0n The f< Lowitig i- L.lte.'t from Tni'sdny’s Atlanta Jour ai: "Nr, and Mr . A, J. Almand, of Li thouia, anisciv ce the engagement of daughter, Sadie, to Mr. .tie. D cOlcn on, of Sp.riitf li Id, Ala , the lit iniage to take place tl e first of June rt * their home iu Lhhonia. This wedding will no an important so* c ni event in that town. Miss Almand is the center of a la go circle of friends iu Lithouia. .She is n young woman of many attractions. She is a graduate of Wesleyan college and was at- one time a teacher of Latin in that instieneiou of learning. Mr Met lendou is at pit si rit principal of the Couye r 8 T igb school and has made many frieuds .since b s r ssidence t’lere. pjolb young people have many friends wu , warinly congratulate them.” ^4. Mtnsical Trear. here is in store for the people of Conyers a genuine musical treat. On n, tli» the ovei. ■)«»! ii.cr ingot nf I Friil riua iv ,L)li, \f-ivl7 at lb*' Gotirt nnuso. the urges fe will give a musical c u cert *. '.-•(! by that accomplished niu ei, u-o and.composer, Frof Denck. Our op ■ ■'I remember tl,. ox .‘.A:;: on ; ■ ; Diioiiicnt fulnif-hed v the go-- :>i-,iily at the Court house here ;v;, years ago. Since hat this talented lanuly bus g at rides in ; a r h o-.as . ■. ; (h art < ) I’ ant sic- and t«*->L»y stands at tl;c head of (ho class pruf. Denck has been teaching 1 he Pnaht !i \tIr¬ un-GCim - mil’ an¬ work has ! ir.ivot mot*! R.-iti- tdctnry. iiofbing " ® might say would add to the !.; moil of Prof. Denck. He i known the world*over and tile best ntusi inns of the world acknowl etige * him i - to be * <> foe ecptal i of r iUi\ . Our people are fortunate to this opportunity of attending concert and we hop* 1 lmt one and all will avail themselves of it. lickets may be seemed at l lie fiailey Drug Co. NOTICE. I forbid any one hiri g G s Meat 8, col., between t.ow ni.tl -Iu 1st, ho i>ding u: tier contract wit i me for that i into. This May «), l'JOl. Iehman Rigby. Mss Hattie Willi's is the guest of her sister, Mrs Bailey, in Au¬ gusta this week. Our iii Ho girl was unconscious from strangulation duriu > a sudden and ter nn'e attack of crony. I qui klv sec tired a bol l t One Minute Cough CTr •. giv mg or i lire ■ doses. TIk ere up was mas j tercel and our little dulling speedily ro j covered S3 v nt- s A. L. Hpaff rd, dies ter. }.; t alley Drug (Jo. | •i uii’ord Peck, of Coviogton ;!;■ ' lniay nighi to attend ! a hi mooting of the (J. M. A. I ■ tint- place. i ■ * pi. ins, who hen 1 ceii • : for v. ml days', in . oc improving. i. vie ii suffering with < i pepsia for Oi( ;-Hht twenty years and have been | utiiA - iter trying ull t-repartitions an 1 pi'.' ■° ll!- y lvli * f AUw ; “ k ‘ ing one •><-tint Kodel Dyspepsia Cure J , found ; cisci and am nowin bett rbitbli 1 than i have been iu for twenty j cuts. 1 ! cannot prais^ K-alol Dyspet sia Cure too highly,” writes A rs. U, \V. Bob its, NoitJi Ovt ok, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. J no. \V. ITollii gs vvonli spent Sunday the latter's; parents at Covington. Gld Soldier's Expsrieiiaa M. M. Austin, a cival war veteran, of Winchester, Iu’.. writes: "My wife was sick a long time iu spite of good di t rur's treatment, b.tf was wholly cored hr Dr. lIiug’s / ISiew Life Pilis, which worked 1 w rulers for her health.” They always , do. Try them OuD 23c at Gadoj Drug Oo’s. ____ Mr. Flit I X- , Miss Tiidie' ruck or and Elgin ' Stewart he! ml , a law , n party, . givan • by i , i lie >ou:ig ladies, at Covington last, j Friday evening, Tliey lepoj t a j nice time. ! very ] If neon’e nnlv knew what we know a’ ! . i >,i , — av. , 1 r '. . G ■ ‘ p ,, used m nearly every honseheld, esthete are feeling few of people fullness who alter do not eating suffer bek from lung a j 11;. tahnee, sour stomach, cr water brash, causi d by ir digestion or dyspepsia. A p cpaiation such as Kodol Dvspei sia ach, , wiA v digest , t your.ood.cit.mly i--, t cant help but do you good. Gail)y Drug La. Dr. F. T. Hopkins, o;ie of the cleverest, i - and best dentists in the w l)o'e''«mntry, was in Atlanta last \ ! ond.-iv oil busui *ss. O. y. Ilavgood has been very **> r r *® w “' tl "‘ ’ “*• i ij ui'\ \ io feber nt Dr ! ■ bin Led i o be the , Wot i r di.' ’ r t iiycr; ! ‘ ■ Tun er and family W *1 • v i, Decatur with rel • att - of f,n wrcnce vil •ie vu-st of reiniives it j out cry this wet'k. s Elgin Stewart is now with , : u ih*v Drug Co. and asks hia ' fneuds . to ca.l on him there. I | Nlr 1 U’nDor 1 ' W’nml nml mi ! 1 v* of ’ • ’ ' . Winder,- are hero on account, of the severe illness of the latter’s 1 tat her, Hon R II. Canntjon. Messrs \V. U. and C.C. Wtllis arp spending * several days in Aug CUBES A NUBIAN DYSPEPSIA. -TEA J CONSTIPATION. INDIGESTION. Bouses the Torpid Liver SOLO BY Ul DRUGGISTS_ t V'^v-'y w. •Just a little Dlimurcement netwt*n tiie Peppery Lovers. “See here. Daniel." began the old farmer when lie had cornered his son out by the cornerib, “what's this here eireahitin round 'lining the neighbors 'bout you and Patience breakiu c(T yci' engagement V” "Xutl.in to it ’tall,” with a sullen tone and look. “Blamed funny. I never see so much smoke where there wasn't some lire. Did you and her have some wordsV” “I said there wasn’t no breakiu off. didn't I ? What's the use of cross ques¬ tions a feller like he was on the wit¬ ness stan' V” “Lots of use, ray young man. Ilain't I tole you more times 'n you’ve got lagers and toes that my mind and nta's mill;! is sot on this here marriage? Don't our farms j::ie. and isn't she a only chile, and bain't you a only chile? Ilain't you got no gumtiofi nur cotn tuon setiEe?” ' | “She said not. She said 1 didn't ! know onougli to peel i»'ilo:l pertaters p'«* Mti:l ’«» or to l«eP awake when 1 " as a-cout • in ot bet. * ul * n *- so " ll wiong, eiiLoi. And what did you say?" “I tole her she didn’t have interlock enough to talk bo's to keep nobody finale and that o. 1 was a-picum and n-cl oru in fur beauty she'd be at the foot of the class. That’s what I tole her.” "Well V" 4 ; "She ordered me to git out and said I ef she ever see me mi that, farm from I hencefor'ard slic'd set the flogs cn me. and I tole her the dogs would have a ; confounded easy time of it ,bo fur as 1 was consumed, But third was no tfrcak'in off." Then the old man Inform'd the hov 7 j ia * p- t j. 0 engagement wasn’t renewed within 24 hours he'd Lave every “durned dollar to n samiytorium fur fools."-Detrolt Free Prcssf ■World's Loisjrost rtc.frway. Tlie Philadelphia city ball contains {i lc highest continuous sta if way in the world, and tourists who have boasted of their muscular ability j|, in climbing sto „ p Bteps f)f tlie llber inn monument at Charlestown!, the Wash ingten monument or the Queefhtown, njpnumeut to General Brock near On tario. will toll their friers Vers of their feat oP (impending the 598 which lead from tlie seventh fioct§of the city of hall t:i the landing about dhc feet Ponn - H st ntue. Dt extends frnn V p , evcnt - a to Uw gir^eenth ifon. floor . an ,j contains .‘MS steps of arrang ed about a square central shaft, in which runs an electric elevator. To reach the tower stairway the climber stairways at the northern end of the bn , w; _ tUuB umkilI( , a total climb 0 f ‘ 7 . |; , stpps _ Tower climbing is one of the fads of tourists. Hitherto the Bunker Hill miu , menti v , 5th lt3 four hundred odd atone steps, and the Washington inonu* me lit. which has a few more, have rep resented the acme of opportunity for tests of physical endurance iu thi» country.—Philadelphia Press. Remarkable Power. A dear old lady was taken one day to a musical service in a Boston chufclt. She had heard much about the fine voice of the soprano and was prepared for a treat. She sat in rapt enjoyment until tlie service was over and then turned a ra¬ diant face toward her escort, who was a young grandson. “Dear bey,” she cold, “you’ve given) rae a great treat. Her voice is perfect ly beautiful. It made cold chills run all up and down my spine.” j "it's too bad, grandmamma,” said the boy, "but she didn't sing today, j though she was there. Tim gentleman next me says she’s been suffering from | a bad cold, and one of the chorus had l0 ging the solo3 for bor .- | “What, dear?” said the old lady, look- | j a g momentarily distressed. Then her f aee cleared, and she patted his arm j reassuringly. | again™ & “We ome time. But, after 1 income | all. If she can make me feel that way without singing 1 don't know that it; would be wise for me to hear her. Now, would it?”—Youth's Companion. i Too Profuxe. Managing E liter—Quiiler writes more than twice as much r.s any ether.man on Lie staff. He r-*al!y deserves to have Lis s-dr.ry raised. r.ueiness .M.tnagcv-Oii the contrary, he ought to have it reduced. Just think .f the money lie costs r.s i:i a year hi .be matter of pens, ink and paper.’ Bostpn Trgaspriet*.- , Wpotf Ser.iif 11s In I! is Glppp. Narrating "Some Remarkable eases of Double Personality.” Dr. U. Osgood Mason cites in The Ladies' Home Jour uni t he case of a "young ecclesiastic in the seminary with the Archbishop -— of Bordeaux. France, who wits in tlie habit of getting up at night in a condition of somnambulism, going to his study and composing and writing his sermons in the dark. When he had finished one page, he read it over and properly corrected it. A bread piece of cardboard interposed between his eyes, and his writing made no difference to him. He wrote, read arm corrected just the same as if there had been no obstruction. Having completed his work to his satisfaction, lie returned to bed. and in the morning he had not the slightest ideaef what ho had done In the night and had no knowledge of it until he saw the manuscript in his own handwriting. he’leaeles Col oE Ser.scn. Old Moneybags was tired of hearing nil this stuff and nonsense about the 1Joor So)rt , oflp hod called u!s atten - tjoti to liis own way cf living, with deli* f*i > c i o.s out of season cn his groaning ta jjle nnd _ ••Delicacies m , ( . ({ srason p. !l0 tluut d ered. "What if 1 do get to use Ice in tiie stttumer time? Don't the poor got fo use it iu the winter, when it's fresh, ^ nd j j mvt , t0 p llt up with the cold star age stuff? B-r-r-r-r!” - Indianapolis Dress. , | Xftt For 5G*1 UeaBh. i y Hubbubs—Why nfe you moving front your suburban Lome? ?. Hubbubs— 1 am a!! run down. i t Iluhlmhs—Malaria? v iSttbiiuhs—No: gossipy neighbors.— Philadelphia l’ocor.l, 4 ■ BMitriaoMW £ A BOY AND A HIFLEL Aistt thr Trick tit- rmtisf r"nyed to VW 1 the ITiPii ( nrei'r!. f Exact statistic- , ti the subject are lacking, tint n i.i certain that Uie man Vliii "didn't know it was lu.m eri" mils find maims annually a great many per¬ sons. The only .-are rule with a gun is never under any circumstauces to point it at anybody Due should a ways act on the a sump ion that*It is f j loaded rnforumaieiy. tit- tig i. tin aver n gc human being learns only by, ex perie.uce, and where a gun is eoueerned i that often entails an awftn priee. ! lt (ar mg th s l, mod a vete an j ’gponsmau of thl t city adopted a | Gini'i'i" method of impressing ibis tea- j s«n on his son. This is Imw lie leh.L *the k story: ; -j v. nnt m.v son to be a spoilsman. | pis father lie mav have its many ' pleasant memo; ics to lock lack to. Tberefore. on bis sixteen h birthday I gave him n rifle And instead < f read jug him a long leeittre on the necessity J c ,f handling tin-weapon carefully. I put up a job on him .that would be far more effective. After lie had spent n couple 0 f p onrs fondling it and cleaning it a ud examining the mochabistn after i the manner of healthy boys. I coutriv- ! e>i i nknown to him to slip a blank ; cartridge into the breach. "Then I called him out into the yard , and holding my hat in front of me, ask¬ ed him to show me how he would lake aim nt it. Then* was an explosion, and he fell in n dead faint. You lusty think it mean of me. but I allowed him ! u think that only the badness of ins h;id C r some intervention of Providence saved uie from death. The lesson he learned will last him through bfe. be en use a terrilile fright accompanied it. Some day when he gets old enough to have a boy of his own. I shall tel! him 0 f tlm trick I played on him.”—New \ or k Herald. ! Wmn , s» '« “Mamma, come quick! Too catsup on the shelf." 1 , “Drat that cat! I'll make fiddle | I strings of her in no time if l lay my i hands on her! She’s forever into some- 1 thing." aud the enraged materfamiliaa vigorously pounded her way into the pantry. | “Where Is she, Tommy? I don t see 1 her.” "Bee who?" “Why. you said (he cat was on the ehelf.” "I never said there was a cat oa the *bclf." “Yes. yon did. You said. 'The s cat % up on the shelf.' ; “So 1 did. and 1 say it yet. The eat sup on the shelf right before your ejes _ Don't yon see it? There Id that old : wine bottle." and he quietly but very Bwiftiy dodged out into the k.tcden tw&QQ'B WcekJy. ... . Ciencron* Orent lii iinin. Britain's “earth lumber" is a common sneer on the continent. but look at vrhat we have given away without the least reason! We took the Ionian islands In 1S0» an d handed them over in Greece for nothing about At years afterward, king! Corsica shows George 111 as its but we abandoned it three years later, ami the French naturally grabbed it. Tangier came to us I y the marriage 0 f Charles 11. We abandoned it ut the t ,nd of 22 years, We took Culm in 170'i ami handed It hack to the Spaniards, after holding i t f or to months. We took the Pliillp pines and returned them to the same country for £800.000—which was never paid. Here is a short list cf other places which we once hold and gave up with out compulsion: Minorca. Sicily. Sar¬ dinia. Buenos Ayres. Montevideo, Java, Pondicherry, Celebes. Moluccas, Elba and about HO other places. We took Cape Colony in 171)5. but gaV e it up again to the Dutch. In 1800 we took it again—and kept it.—London Standard. The Congliliig Bean. To the ordinary housemaid the fall* l«K of a house plant into r. violent paroxysm of coughing is naturally disconcerting. Yet there are plants which will do this when the broom or the duster begins to make dust tly. This singular plant. Is the “coughing bran," known to the botanist as the Kutndn tusslcns. It is a native of warm and moist tropical countries and cannot and will not stand dust. When dust settles upon the breathing pores In the leaves of this plant and chokes them, a gas accumulates inside tho leaves, anti when it gains sufficient strength forcibly "blows off." clearing the pores of dtist and making n sound exactly like coughing, At the samo time the leaves tremble ntnl the plant itctunlly "gets red In the face." through lho sinking of the green chlorophyll grains and the appetirnttee of red par tides on the lenves. This plant la sometimes used ns a ho Use plant, and sweeping rite room sets it coughing, to the inteuse astonishment of persona ttot familiar with its peculiarities. Missrcl III" fVtics*. An American who was sojourning In Spam at the time says that on the day when Dewey was des1to> mg t to . pan* isl ' squadron at Manila n veptesenta* five audience. Including some of Hpnln's bravest and best, were attend lb* » patriotic lmilfiglit in Madrid, applauding lltese words of the a’uous nia (adore: hitli the ease o t i w »' 1 have kdletl mi.' hold tl.t tradition, ot i 1 - keep green the laurels of their tilus trlous fathers by triumphing over the Yankee pig.” The Only Thin*. A man once wrote to a western law¬ yer for information In regard to a per¬ son who hud owed him a considerable sum of money for a long time. "What property has he which 1 could Rttnch?" lie asked. The lawyer’s reply was brief and to the point: "The man died six months ago. He lias left nothing subject to attachment taive a widow.”—-Youth's Companion. A Smooth Aoiiter. He—Do yon.think you really wanted a new dress now? She—You don't know anything about ^ I wish I had known before 1 mar r | (1( j rou w |, a ( fl stupid you arc. guessed ije—Yon might have it t , asj | v W |„, n i offered to marry you.— Pick-Me-Up. t)eMtlil*o<l Itreentance. “He was in the legislature two years," reads a notice of a departed citizen: "came within an ace of goiug to congress, held n government obic® five years and finally died a Lhtistiau. —Atlanta Constitution. The Bible has been so called only for the last 7iMi years, It was formerly called “The Books” or the "Divine Library.” Lord Brougham eomtnonly spent three or tow weeks iu study before Writing n great speech. Family Records, ft betULi.Ul picture, 15x22 indies, on a back* ‘ „„ld. Sample by giodtut I l mail for 12c. Agents wanted, . , ad- , . ^ ^ ^ g fc j 0 | uij Supply Co, T.ithouia wu-cuja, Ga
