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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1898)
Hale'sHanqerWeekly PUBLISHED EVPKY THURSDAY. J. N. HALE. EDITOR. SARAH J. AKD RUTH HALE. ASSOCIATES. Our Terms. SubfwiiptioD, $1 r year. With Constitution, §1.50. With Journal, $150. Advertising rates furnished oa ap No deadheads need apply, plication. -tuiicatioiis printed Personal cornu. when paid for. in Obituary notices over two inc length printed when paid for. Our Job Department is a po td one. Correspondents, with enough SCWSfe to kuow what not to write, wanted. Salutatory. In again entering journalism, we desire to say that it is not with the expectation of accumu¬ lating vast, riches—Us because we lik e it. We want all of old friends who read our paper iu days gone by to readitagaiD. Don’t sfaud back becauso you never paid for it— perhaps it was not worth paying for; perhaps you forgot it; per haps yon’ll pay yet! No, no ; we don’t mean that for it is not your money we want, its your name aod influence - your presence; ydnr advice. Wo want y< u to come in as of old., read the copy >' a the hooks, lay down o;, l - ae type gal *eys, spit iu the ink tub and whit tie up tbfc reglets. We long to Be© you sidle up to the exchanges, Steal the Constitution aud all the latest and best exchange?, before we have read them, ram h era in your hip-pocket and back out., spinning some old yarn that Hbern and Ham and George Tilly use to chuckle over. We want to see the representa¬ tives of all the fairs, shows etc, come around as they came in ‘he past and get four dollars worth of free advertising for a ten cent ticket’ We want to go to their fairs aud shows with our pretty red-beaded wife, as we once did, and have them point at us when counting noses to ascertain prob¬ able receipts, and bear them al¬ lude to us, in their sweetest and most sarcastic tones, as u dead¬ heads.’* We long to grasp the “ glad hand ” of the blooming old polit¬ ical demagogues and feel the quickening flow of the life cur¬ rent which always starts when he draws bis wallet and which always stops whan we behold its con¬ tents. Perhaps you think we’d get use to them aud expect noth¬ ing. Not so. Whether it is a disease or a state of attitude ac quired by long years of poverty, want and wretchedness, the av¬ erage country editor is as sanguin as a town bailiff and as easily im¬ posed upon as a sixteen year old school teacher. ft Expectation and disappoint¬ ment are the life of them. I have known them to live on it for years an i years—attain old age and go down to the grave with no other available assets! I long for the old days when I played hide-and seek with the little bill collectors, blees ther innocent hearts. When I repeated poetry for them, jolied them up, while I hung their bills on the dead hook and beat them out of a couple of cheroots. And then the beef man, the rag setters, the drug mixers, the gro oerymen and the poor old wood sellers! all of them coming and going like free niggers to a polit¬ ical demijohn—all of them geting stuffed with something that did no goo 1. O, yes; there are pleasures to be found here that exist in no other i 111(1 We prp ^ pge $9 enjoy The School Board. There appeared in the last- issue of the Conyers Weekly a strong, bitter arraignment of the Board of Education. The members of the board are all churchmen and swore an oath to do their duty, fairly and impartially and yet their characters for christiany and honesty are held by a man in a high position, who knows ev¬ ery one of them, to be on a par, or below, that of a common old infidel. Isn’t it strange that such men should be allowed at com mun. 4 on tables and kept out of prison cells. They are cha.^ ed wi th secta nanism in the selec>n of team: ers and at the same time advi.^d that course. The article proposes to unite all parties and bring about a neigh¬ borly feeling, at the same time it tears to pieces and brings about that neighborly feeling that Jones’ has f or Jonhson’s cat. There are somethings we ap prove and rgret that the writer contradicts himself. For instance, electing teachers because of their religious views. This should not he done. Teachers should be se i-^ betoe of their worth aS i ust . ruotor s it matters not if they belong to no church. ’ Give us a man or woma n who loves and hon org Creator; who loves nature au< j freedom of thought and who has a breast full of the milk of human kindness and is not bowed down with hypocrisy, selfishness ftn< j narrow sectarianism, who is doing the growling, rip p- n g a nd tearing down in our lit¬ tle town ? He who stands in the pulpit and they who occupy the front seats, caring more for their own selfish ambitious desires than they do for the welfare of the peo¬ ple whom they are supposed to represent. No doubt exists but what just cause for criticism has been fur¬ nished by one or more members of the board in their disgusting at¬ tempts to have a member of their particular church placed at the head of the school, but criticisms should not come from those who never kick so long as their church is fully represented. It’s a shame to prostitute any church to tuch questionable methods. Many of us remember the brick female college that stood, only a few years since, in the northern part of our town. We also know that it was literally pulled to the ground by denominational preju¬ dices and by some of the very men who are injuring our school sys¬ tem to-day. It is a gross wrong to perpetrate upon the honest tax payers of the country as well as the hundreds of children that are entitled to an education. Is it true that members of the Board telephone to find out to which denomination an applicant belongs and then vote accordingly? If there are they are unworthy the positions they hold. Is it true that applicants are turned down because they happen to be Presbyterians, Methodist or Baptist? If not how can an ex¬ alted follower of the meek and lowly Nazareoe make such a bold charge? There was, perhaps, something slightly decayed in Denmark— there is something rotten and a stinking in Conyers. Where there is so much depravi¬ what ty charged to church and state is there left to urge our beys to attain positions of honor and trust? Away with all these petty jeal¬ ousies and strifes. Think less of self and more of the welfare of your fellowman. Let’s all—Bap¬ tist, Campbellite, Presbyterian, Methodist, (and we nobodies) pull together for good. * *■ — # Pacts (?) About the War. We love old Dewey for his bravery, We love old Clark for his grit, We love old Schley for his dash and n m rv', Old S SB mpson—nit, nit, nit ! Bob Evans is a fighter from taw, yon bet ! Wainwright never knows when to quit; the doughty Our Hobson is a terror to old Done, old—Nit! Old Sampson is a d- d Sampson is the only lubber on the waters. Watson has gone over to make Cadiz a coaling station for the American navy. If he wants to, McKinley C( an put seventeen millions of h? ei1 i* 1 ^ m ^ u ” utes. Our new boat, th.^ dived clear under came up in sight of the Cl Da_ ry Islands. Her Captain caf> hold his breath 3 days. Dewey is the greatest sea¬ man on the globe, Schley is next, Hobson next. Clark next, Evans next and all the other Americans next. No navy lias ever approach¬ ed ours but once and then we sank the whole layout. The same navy approached us again and we sunk it again. America can whip Spain, Germany, Russia, France, Mars, Turkey, J upiter, Venus, and Adonis before the water gets hot—if she wanted to. One of our sailors, up in a balloon, dropped a wad of low middling cotton on Punta Junta, the other day, and de¬ stroyed 3 thousand Spanish Fandangoes. We’re tuff! There is one gun on the In¬ diana 600 feet long. It runs the whole length of the ship and sticks out 16 feet ori both ends. It shoots 6 thousand pounds of gun cotton 32 miles. Our navy sunk 18 ironclad first-class Spanish battle¬ ships ; killed 2,000 men; wounded 7,000 and captured all the rest in 216 minutes, and never lost but one man. How he got hit is a mystery. Schley sunk all of old Sev erals ships, blew up Morro Castle, tore off all the hills and puntas and then went out on the vast and mighty deep and shot right staight up for 2 hours. He’s a luloo So far we have added Ha¬ waii, Ladrone, Philippine, Morro, Punta, Alfonzo, the Caribean sea and the yellow fever to our earthly and wa terly possessions, and just as soon as soon as Yancy Carter John Candler, John Siblev and Mark Beck gets there we will gather in what’s left. The Captain of the Oregon Jeff Clark, weighs 300 pounds has a displacement of three Spanish cruisers to the min¬ ute and can run his greal sea terror from the Golden Gate to Santiago in 5 day's. His boat is lined, inside and out, with 17 feet of solid steel, and she carries 200 13 inch rifles besides several thou¬ sand rapid firers. A Chance For Bicyclists I p BICYCLES ] ho j REPAIRED, qJ | We have some good wheels which we rent at 15c. per hour.| Langford k We Are Heady * » Conyers Mfg. QpnyerB, * Ga, 1 We are now prepared to do any kind of work in the Cabinet Line. It is our purp give repair work of all kind prompt and c attention. Inside Housefurnishings. I In connection with the repair work we pi 1 to be able to furnish at short notice any kinds of inside housefurnishings* Our Cabinet Department. We can furnish to order any piece of Call work desired . For terms, prices, etc,,callij P. ©.TUCKER, SnPBRlNTni AN OPEN LETTE To MOTHERS. f I WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR BIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK. J, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of ffyannis, Massack was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same has borne and does now bear an the fac-simile signature of _________ wn vd This is the original “CASTORIA” which has been the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty thatt yffl LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see the kind you have always bought and has the signature of per. No one has authority from me to use my iVW nafeu The Centaur Company , of which Chas. H. Fletcher March24,1898 Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by offer accep a cheap substitute which some druggist may it), tiie (because he makes a few more pennies on gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bong BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF 9 Insist Having A if on You The Kind That Never Failed ^4-vv TH * CINTAU " COMPANY, TT MUMMY •TltSCT. HtW »o»« C|TT - We have a large line of Bicycle tV -Bells, • Handle Bars, Lantern * everything offering pertaining to a bicycle *? als lch > now really at very low values 5, The are worth a great deal more Jt* for them, help but we think they will Iac 0 . »« and to sell our line of wheels We’ve aline of Wheels that S $50 to $75. © ood, reliable * to makes ® the next few days we will let them en 71 They this country are not can $100 possibly wheels, be but no whir 6 8! For the little folk--We better Wheels for girls and boys of are from selling..,, $16 and 6 to u up. Our repair department is complete aid giving Come thorougn satisfaction. 5 to see us. We have got interesting to tell you. SOI
