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THE WEEKLY BANNER VOL. XXVII. Don't fail to examine oar line of Fishing tacKle fish hooKs and lines. Hananioeks, Base balls, Cro¬ quet sets, and other sporting goods, before you bay Oar line is- complete and xve will save yoa raoriey. TVn e, G>eA\evg Drug Co, SetraylBS BaoklM. gians aftei Hie lent o Wa erloo. He w» fuH of ^source and had great skill and presence ot mind. At Pescara, when he was in great dangei, a large fortress in front and a savage msur rection in his real, his own common sense saved him. “Who commands at Pescara? he tsked a soldier. “There are two. „ “What is the grade of the chief in command.'” "A brigadier general.” , "His name?” “De Pietramaggiore. “His title?” 1 “A marquis.” “His age?” “About 70.” “Is he well preserved? Does he keep his color?” “He is thin and pallid.” “Is his voice strong and manly?” “It is weak and dull.” “Is he lively, gay?” “Neither the one nor the other.” “What does he wear on his head?” “He is powdered, and his hair is don* in locks.” “Has he boots and spurs?” “No; he wears silk stockings, shoes and great buckles.” “Great buckles!” cried Duhesme. “Bring up the gnns and begin firing I The place is mine!” An Excuse For a Pardon. When the stern Duke of Wellington was prime minister under George IV, he managed the old monarch easily enough, but when he attempted the same tactics with the young Queen Victoria he met his match. She con¬ stantly outwitted him. One of his earliest official acts was to bring be¬ fore her a court martial death sentence which, he expected her To sign as a matter of course. A soldier was to be executed for desertion, and as the death warrant was placed before the queen by the duke she raised her eyes, full of tears, to his face, saying: “Have you nothing to say in behalf of this poor man ?” “Nothing,” said the duke, standing at attention like one of his own privates; “he has deserted three times.” “Oh, your grace, think again,” plead¬ ed the queen as if she were asking for the life of her dearest friend. “Well, your majesty, he certainly is a bad soldier, but there was somebody who spoke for his good character. He may be a tolerably good fellow in civil life.” “Oh, thank you,” said the queen in heartfelt tones, and before the aston¬ ished duke could utter a word of pro¬ test she had written across the paper the word “Pardoned.” Fmnkvlittng Goat Dairies. There are a couple of European dai¬ ries in Athens whose proprietors keep cows, but they do business mostly with the foreigners and with those Greeks tvho ape foreign manners. Your genuine Athenian believes the goat to be the proper milk producing animal, and he regards the cow in this connection about the same as Americans do the toare. The milkman takes his animals with him, jangling their bells and sneezing. “Gala!” he shouts, with a quick, star¬ tling cry, with a “g” whose guttural quality is unattainable by adult learn ers and usually unperceived by them. M’hen a customer comes to the door, he strips the desired quantity into the proffered receptacle before her vigilant ®yes, selecting one of the goats and Paying no attention to the others, who Understand the business as well as he floes. Patiently they stand about, chew¬ ing the cud or resting on contiguous floorsteps. When their master moves on, they ®rise and follow, more faithful tha* flogs.- -Scribner's Magazine. How Do You Pronounce “Dog?” How do you pronounce “dog?” The chances are that, if you are an average * Massachusetts citizen, you pronounce he “ 0 ” rather broad, like “o” in song. The Century Dictionary, which is a very indulgent dictionary indeed, al¬ lows you to pronounce it so if you ^ ion i: h, should bat no really other sound dictionary “ ” does, in the 0 as hot. Likewise how do you pronounce hog:’ Even the Century won’t let Jtv say “hawg.” This reminds me L it a friend has written the following beautiful but abstruse poem: MY HOG* AND MY DOG. [A lesson in pronunciation.j 1 once owned a roving hog likev. : > a liiile dog, whom I ned unto a log To keep i,li . from * bog Which was near. That faithful little cawg, Desp-to the chain and lawg, . pursue that roving hawg And drowned in the bawg v ' as my fear. —Boston Journal. £ 5 'H^ of t j lc , avenuc i !C hurried, dropping ‘die moist shects in vestllmlos and rmming ^hem in the space between the door aii( j si j. Finally he came to a iiouse t j ]at was separated from the sidewalk b y an um ^t-udded yard. Cassidy open* ed the iron gate and walked up the s t one path. He knelt in the vestibule and started running the paper under the door. An upper window was raised, aU( j a woman’s voice called: “Is jhat you, Harry? You are awful j a t e . j hear the milk carts rattling.” Cassidy thought it best to remain quiet. The voice continued: “You needn’t think I’m coming down at such an hour! The idea of you, a married man, coming home at such a time! Lost your key. as usual? Well, catclj tllis one> » A heavy piece of brass siiot two sto pies. There was a heavy fall, and the vestibule resembled a pressroom. Some one found Cassidy smoking his pipe j n tj ie “accident ward.” “Going back to the carrier route?” they ag^ed. “Niver once more,” responded Cassi dy. “Oi’m goin back to wur-ruk in th’ quarry. Thor’s no faliin kaes thor; only dynomited rocks.”—Chicago News, An Abandoned Test. Sir Hiram S. Maxim was once a vic¬ tim of one of the British war office’s sudden freaks. When the Maxim quick tiring gun was being tested by the government with a view to finding out its weak points, its inventor was asked to have 10,000 rounds fired at the highest possible speed. The experi¬ ment was successfully carried out, hut the chairman of the committee of in¬ vestigation was still unsatisfied. “That’s very well as far as it goes,’’ he exclaimed, “but covfld you guaran¬ tee your gun to go on firing automatic¬ ally at the same rate for, say, 24 hours?” “I can,” was the quiet reply, “and ) will—on oue condition.” “And that is?” “That the government finds and pays for the ammunition.” At first the committee were inclined to close with the offer, but when it was discovered that SG4.000 rounds would be fired and that the cost of the experi¬ ment would be something like £5,760 they dispensed with the trial. Utilizing the Waste Prodnct. A parish in the highlands had been cut off from communication with the nearest town owing to a severe snow¬ storm, relates The Scottish American. Supplies began to give out, and the miuister was much perturbed in inind as his snuffbox was quite empty. The Sabbath came round. Ilow was he to get through his discourse without the aid of his usual stimulant? He appeal¬ ed to his faithful henchman, the sex ton. Alas, he was In a similar unsat isfactory predicament! How was it to be remedied? Andrew shook his bead, thought loug and suddenly disappear¬ ed. Presently he returned with some¬ thing resembling snuff wrapped care¬ fully in paper, The minister took a hearty pinch or turn and then asked: “Where did you get it, Andrew?” “Flease, sir, I just went and sweepit the pulpit oot,” was the reply. Fair Sized. “No,” said the retired showman, “I won’t say that we had the biggest giant that ever happened, but it is a solemn fact what 1 am going to tell you. This giant had a peuchauce, or whatever you call it, for trying new styles of whiskers.” “M-hm." “Well, when he wanted a new style laid out he had to send for a landscape gardener.”—Indianapolis Press. Toads Inclosed In Rock. The Rev. W. Buc-kland, from experi¬ ments on toads in holes of oolitic 1 ime¬ stone an d sandstone covered with glass, finds that, while limestone pre¬ served them aiive, sandstone killed them. His conclusion is that unless a toad imprisoned in a stone gets a little air it canuot live a year, and unless it gets food it cannot live two years.— London Globe. Would Know Later, Patient—Now. doctor, wbafs the matter with me. anyway? The Head Consulting Physician—My dear sir, do yon suppose that if we knew what was the matter with you we would have decided to bold a post mortem ?—H arper’s Bazar, Many men in China do not marry, I the priests who serve in the temples and those who take up literary pur¬ suits abstaining by choice, while many remain single by reason of their erty. Life and coat buttons often hang by ' eldhder threads. CONYERS, GA. MAY 15 1901. i • MY —> — — — S?3 \ Vs i - y s E *,-• EDPLrS - - - STORE ' . * •V 'ft w ft Because I keep what the people want to eat AND THE PRICES ARE IN REACH OP &&& A €€€ §mmmm <n XX J rou will /K>. *■ € a my QJ store yotm 1 be surpri XbGU. Vi a •> i* vi m D Jt pop w O my : - LINE OF EATi^BLfia 8 J. SUMMERS, HE'S THE GROCSKYMAH. !he Time Has Onsie vviwh to spend .-tc^r*r=SSJi-»S.SE 3 ;-—O the A _ t- afternoon ^^"lerrtr ^ ■;V) out driving. v I have both, horses and buggies all, at reasonable Q to please prices. 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