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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1898)
The Rockdale Banner. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. W. S. WARD LAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On# Year.... $ 1.00 filx Months .. .50 •Thi.ee Months .25 PflH tn advance The Banjteb will *>• *»«W t w MtV address one year for 75 cents. -"*«« kivea to clubs, Bpecza. PRICE, Advertising rates are strictly O. Bate card will bo furnished on application. Correspondence solicited from all parts of the county and neighboring towns. Com¬ munications must bear the full name of the author, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Write only on one side of paper. Rejected MMS. will not to h« returned mailing. unless accompanied Special terms by to postage agents. cover Entered at the postolfioe at Conyers, Ga. f as second-class mall matter. CONYERS, GA., MAY 19. 1898. The Hour and the Man. An honest and capable public servant is somewhat of a treasure in these days. When a constitu ■ency has a chance of being repre¬ sented by such an individual, to •reject him is equivalent to an out¬ rage upon the community, provid¬ ed his principles and sympathies are in accord with those whose suffrage foe seeks. The Fifth District of Georgia has not been too well served in congress of late years. Our so called representative has shown himself especially patriotic or even democratic. There is, in fact, reason for con¬ cluding that, to him, position and emolument aax* more important considerations than the interests of those whose votes provided him with both. We halve now an opportunity to change all this, place herself in the forefront of the battle for pu¬ rity, honesty, patriotism and good government. No matter what other people may say, the home loving and country-loving citizens of the Fifth district should march at the head of thecolumn and cast their votes solidly for the nomina¬ tion of C liar les L, Branan, of the county of Fulton, to the fifty-sixth congress. By so doing they will place themselves on record as sup¬ porting a man in whom the masses of the people have confidence, and who has demonstrated his ability in moral and intellectual work by his actions in public life. Mr. Branan has always been found on the side of the people— all the people. Furthermore he is a business man. The success of the farmer means success to him, and the failure of the farmer is his failure. He is enthused with the desire of going to congress to introduce and vote for such legis lation as will help the farmer and laboring man, and bring more prosperous times for us all. Mr. Livingston has sat in Con gress for eight years, and in that period has not attempted to heal the disruptions in the Fifth dis¬ trict for which lie was mainly re¬ sponsible. He does not represent good Jeffersonian principles and good government , and it is time that he receive notice of dismissal from our service. To the polls, then, for Branan and the right! The hour and the man are both here. The “Colonel.” Col. Lon Livingston congratulates Commodore Dewey. How grateful this tea warrior must feel. The victory it is true h&d its sweets; the brave offi¬ cer knew the world generally was ap¬ plauding him, and that his own great nation might be almost wild with en¬ thusiasm at his mighty ocean feat of war, but there was doubtless some misgiving 77. that maybe Col. Lon’s mighty approval , might . . . , hang back. . , Oh! What a relief when it came. How his cup must have been M A: v| a « / r ti * * a Miiiw . : ? p I ► !l t I rp- 'I : V r" A. g A -3 i i . / >T * •* * A * 1 ...v l JA5 i ■A E’//? <c\ A =r,v.. z: P m m la W / • m r ' ■m U't*' CUBA'S SAINT PATRICK. over with joy, and everything complete with happiness in his surroundings when the colonel’s wired message was put in his hands thousands of milts away from the magnificent Georgia colonel. Pleasure followed pleasure “as wave upon wave” when the cable announced to the brave commodore that Livingston of the fifth Georgia congressional district approved his extinction of a Spanish fleet at a blow. If either Admiral Sampson, with his fleet fresh from the de¬ struction of the Spanish fortifica¬ tion in the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico, or Commodore Schley, with his flying squadron which is itching for a chance to distinguish itself, can meet and fight the Spanish Cape Verde fleet this week, the end of the war wifi be insight. There is no doubt that either Sampson or Schley can crush the Spanish fleet, if they can only get at it, but there is a doubt about their getting it it. This Spanish fleet has been play¬ ing at now-you-see-it and now you-don‘t-see-it, for some time. It is now thought to be trying to get to Cuba without fighting ei¬ ther of oar big fleets. If it suc¬ ceeds, the war will be considera¬ bly prolonged, and that is evi¬ dently what Spain devices, in the hope that if the war is prolonged some other European power or powers will get mixed up in it. Owing to the superior speed of the vessels composing the Span¬ ish fleet, they will have the choice of fighting or running should they be met by either of our fleets. The mostiformidable fighters in both our fleets—the monitors and the battle ships—are too slow to keep up with the Spanish fleet, if it desires to run away without fighting. It is only a question of time when every ship in this Sbanish fleet will either be de¬ stroyed or captured; if they fight our fleet it will be immediately, if they get into a Cuban harbor it will be a matter of a few weeks. This week will tell which. The blockade of^ Cuba, which during the past few days has been accompanied by some stirring fighting, which we got the best of, besides catting two important Spanish eables, will be continued but the landing of an army in Cu¬ ba has been postponed until after that Spanish fleet is wiped out. Pitts’ Carminative is pleasant to the taste, acts promptly, and never fails to give satisfaction. It carries children over the critical time of teething, and is the friend of anxious mothers and pnny children. A few doses will dem onstrate its value. E. H. Dorsey, Athens Ga writes: “I consider it the best medicine I have ever used in mv it j oes a ]] you claim for jt,” and even more.” Sold by Dr. W. H. Lee, druggist. Jobs Pox Reduced Swells. The exposure of Lord Rosslyn’s pseudo hospitality recently at a swell Loudon restaurant, where he invited 50 friends of the rapper Bohemian set to dine with aim and confessed, when his creditors oarne down on him, that the entertainment had been given at the sole expense of the proprietor of the ho¬ tel at< which the feast was spread, and that he had been hired to appear as host, is a new form of the social indus¬ tries open to the reduced swell. Another is what Pooh Bah called “attending small suburban parties for a reasonable fee. ” The existence of such practices is regarded somewhat skeptically in this country, but it has long been in vogue on the continent. A firm organized in Haile for furnishing presentable guests has published and distributed the fol¬ lowing tariff of its charges: “Dancing men in evening dress, 2 to 50 marks; dancing men, good talkers, 2 to 80 marks; dancing men with monoole, 3 to 10 marks; cotillon specialists, 8 to 75 marks; old gentlemen with decora¬ tions, 3 to 75 marks; retired majors for ohaperons, 3 to 75 marks; noblemen to take hostess in to supper, 20 marks.”— San Franoisoo Argonaut. Manjak. In the island of Barbados large quan¬ tities of a mineral have been found which the natives call manjak. It is of a bright black color and occurs at a very slight depth, sometimes on the sur¬ face in beds one to two feet thick. It generally appears under an angle of about 40 degrees, and in the immediate vicinity of rock. It is presumed to be solidified petroleum, which is often seen here exuding from the earth or Soaking Cil the water. Iu its composi¬ tion this mineral is similar to the pitch of Trinidad, to the gilsonite of Utah and the Canadian albertite, but it is of a much better quality. The best varieties of manjak contain 2 per cent of water, 70.85 per cent of volatile organic substances, 26.97 per cent of ditto solid ones and .18 per cent of mineral parts. Trinidad pitch contains from 21 to 30 per cent of water and about 38 per cent of ashes. Hence the manjak mineral is much richer in nat¬ ural bitumen. It is used - among other purposes for the insulation of electrical conduits, for varnish, bituminous con¬ crete and for fuel, mixed with peat, etc. It may to some extent supplant gutta percha as an insulating medium.—Sa¬ vannah News. N "j I / ! VJ m x w/\ .-.v y* A V Wp v v * 1 ) J i ' I •ALL ABOARD!" 4 DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve Cures Piles, Scalds, Burns. _ 1 ; - : ' i 1 A '; < 111 00 n 11 j : ii 111 : Drops 111:11111 i 11 ii 1 m 1111 n ■' 1 u 11 i • » ■ , I • I ! 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For a long time the at¬ tempt to arrange fares for rides occupy¬ ing less than 30 minutes had proved a because the watch of the driver that of his passenger never agreed. But now that the “time indicator” has been generally adopted there are no disputes, and a passenger on a day can ride a block in two min¬ in the blissful consciousness that will not be overcharged in the end. When the passenger enters a cab for a distance course, the driver turns key which brings the hands of a dial marks both time and money / to the . point. . Ibe , lowest price IS . 60 _ _ (12 cents), and this entitles the to a drive Of only two min For two minutes more the fare is centimes. When six minutes have the hand points to 80 centimes. may drive for a quarter of an hour a minute over for 1 franc 10 cen¬ and for 23 minutes for 1 franc centimes. This is the limit of the for at 1 franc 50 centimes the traffic for the course comes in¬ operation.—New York Times. Sympathetic fita&atxh. I’XV -a > W <• :y s 'V 0 if ga -A;?* ' ' fl r. — ■ ?*«»*•' v:, The sympathetic tenderness of a lov¬ ing husband mother, is especially everything during to an her expec¬ tant first ordeal. druggist George Layton, Esq., gives a promi¬ the nent of Dayton, O., following case: A customer of mine, whose wife has used four bottles of ‘Mother's Friend” before con finement, says, after had seeing the effects of the remedy, that if she to go through the ordeal again, and there were but four bottles on the market, and the cost was $100 per bottle, she would have them. “ Mother’s Friend ” is a scientifically compounded liniment which affords cer¬ tain relief in the various ailments pre¬ ceding elasticity childbirth, and and assures proper to the cords muscles in¬ volved ia ttA final ordeal. “Mother’s Friend” is sold by drug¬ gists, or expressed on receipt of one dollar. Valuable book, ** Before Baby is Bom, ” mailed free on application. THE BRADFiELD REGULATOR CO.. 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Send zc. stamps for samples, tape measure, measuring blanks, etc. * .w » TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN - - And all kinds of Den¬ tal work done at hard¬ time prices. See me at my office upstairs and over J. H. A! in Co.’s Store, E- W. McEalla, IlEnlist. Don’t Neglect Tour Liver. liver troubles quiokly result in seriOBB GMBpli cations, and the man who neglects hi* liver has little regard for health. A bottle B#iBrowns’ Iron Bitten taken now and th«® arfll keep the liver in perfect order. If thB disease has developed, Browns’ Iron Bitten Will cure it permanently. Strength an* Vitality will always follow its usa. Biowns’ Iron Bitten ia sold by all dealer* CLUBBING RATES. The Rockdale Banner will club with the following named papers at the prices given opposite the name of each paper: Atlanta Constitution.......$1.25 Atlanta Journal 1.00 N,Y. World (8 times a week) 1.40 Southern Cultivator.... 1.25 Home and Farm........ . . 1.00
