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CONYERS WEEKLY.
OIJJME VI.
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Lf-v CU.it «P m YOUNG THIEVES.
Lns discoverv of a secret soci
made in this city last week. It
innosed of clerks in retail grocery
[who were pledged to steal irom
hplovers one hundred and twen
Hollars apiece each month. The
3 paid over to the treasurer of
ietv, and divided among the
n according to certain rules,
p es an amount equal to two
id Inc five hundred dollars was business given
who was going into
III This society has and been after in
bless [to than a year,
the failure of one or two
lispieion Every. The was confession excited which of some led
E rascals may be followed is by their the
ion of all of them. This
all probability. They have made
jck of character before they are
■one years of age.
e are conditions of life in _ which
[n grow up to be thieves. Such
[eir mise surroundings be expected. scarcely But when any
can
[avfi [e clerks attained in stores, to such and an age have as had to
lion and training to justify a Trades
i intrusting them with goods and
■ in a store, it seems at first view
[ble exist that an organized them for the fraternity
among express
se that o: robbing their employers,
far a degree of depravity it dis
f more base than the burglar
[nivay robber. This and stealing ingratituue in
i a meanness
jam I who ik t breaks among into the :v peculiar rich man’s sin3
r r knocks him down in the street.
taj a trust, to steal from one’s
|or flence employer, reposed, taking is advantage crime of
a
tsenessas to incur contempt as
> indignation. It is smiting the
-a.teeil,; a serpent stinging the
■ a, narms it into life.
•o.. and recent revelations _ jus- _
? ill omen t> that every depart
ousmess . and
trade, especially
busmess where money is
.
■> re more or less filled with
one way or another man
more than their wages. In
' I s ' I ? an Y of Uiem are thieves,
y t0 prove it on any one in
J- T, the ingenuity of lawyers
to fi ? 1S taxed to the llt "
'hunt 0U t wil ° has been
. nnaredsof i « thousands of dol
, »is , e . C!ty during a long series
Milan probabllit going ou a t this moment
thiev y- A society of
ies 0 \Perhaps of old thieves,
L j existe
Bnv tonnn^ 1 **’ . nce which \ perhaps has ex
the members
and atl other s hands, cover up
*■ render , detection almost
im
bet ' veen T 6 musb rogues which some secret helps
u
_ fulY^L thev I' T tI TL °il 0ne R ' r at other first sight, with
ar j
e horn,/ 01 tt;eir guilt. There
; hieve s-they
how < f ant ^ ieDce must hie
rerofmd li mt: ^emselves into
i'Y ■akeS*f n or!" ° « f dan er betra oi >' thenl the
Cbn f !lence " ’ ; So on they
wl fot'5*r- ahn lth difficulties - and
rhh d hm ^ without
this sop;lf e n ] ade for the mem -
Hal 7.° f l oun S thieves is
i to ?J ai ®®? lo w that they are
w t Thl8 of
'tion of y ’. course - is no
ofth leir enme. But it is
Pn 3 carcful attention of
• - To em
sin oppress a laborer is as
>pW tOS l 0a1 ’ and 5t mav
Efn wh « 6 give 1D “starvation” for the
tho «-vhoMe ° are ,l dnv 1>art
tt<t cn h by stress
ap e p thems cl
which * tw t ! leirS Yet it ve is s to
* ^ev(o° that onp ' not
® n 'i ten thous and of the
^te a ‘ l >ef ‘ u Eit°i*s in stores and
iaavj.f . 1 bread.
?niin' J »-l Ume U their They steal
IB on lusts,
an,t e:lrns onl Y enou_di
® t obiwk a ™ ent b Y strict
b !e to™ a ’ K ' in ghimself in
~
a ‘ s e mployer sriuppK.
.
;> f pay.But if he
j ULJ^-bn-for toempJ- treats himself some use
a lu and
m ioin, ment3 ia tbe even-
1 a others in frolics
Independent in All Tilings.
CONYERS. ROCKDALE CO.. GA., FEBRUARY 8, 1884.
which cost only a little money at a time,
he very l'eadily consumes a large part of,
his scant income increases his longing for:
more, with weakens temptation, his moral and principle, joins par-i
leys a socie¬
ty of young thieves, or becomes a thief:
oil his own hook. The way to ruin is
very smooth and down-hill always. It!
is full of travelers. And to stop while
going down-hill is hard. i
Is there no balm in Gilead? No rem¬
edy for this state of things? Well, I
would say, in the first place, there al¬
ways was a similar state of things, not
so bad perhaps as just now. But pick¬
ings and stealings intrusted always were the other prey
of those who are with
people’s clerk goods. learns In steal many by a seeing store
a to
that his employer cheats his customer.
If the boy-clerk is taught to adulterate good,
the goods, to mix that poor he flour learns with cheat
it is not strange to
and steal for himself. It was an old
libel on pious tradesmen, which has
been often repeated: The grocer calls
to his clerk: “Have you sanded the
sugar?” “Yes.” “Have you watered
the rum?” “Yes.” “Well, then, come
into prayers.” This is designed hypo- to in
sinuate that the grocer is a great
cr ite. And there are thousands on
thousands of honest tradesmen whose
shops and stores are schools of the vir
tues, where young men are taught by a
goodly example that to be just, up
right and true in trade is lovely in the
sight of God and yields the fruit of
righteousness in the life. And we know
that the tricks of the trade are also
such in many and many a shop school or store of
that the clerk is a pupil in a
v i ce , trained to cheat and lie, and of
course learns to steal. I would like to
know how many of the employers of
these dishonest clerks are themselves
honest? In which of the stores is no
advantage taken of the ignorance of a
customer? Which one sells only regard at a
fair profit? never deceives in
to the name or quality of the tea or cof
fee sold? Now the sin of the employer
is no excuse for the sin of the clerk, but
the sin of the one prepares for the sin of
t h e other. The teacher was first in
transgression: the latter readily fol
lowed the bad example.
Let the young man also
son; j t W as put in writing several thou
gauds of years ago, and has been proved
to be true in millions of instances since;
it is written in the proverbs of the wis
e st of men, in these words: “Though
hand join in hand, the wicked shall not
g Q unpunished.” And it often hap
p ens that the joining hand in hand,
forming a society, hastens the discov
ery and punishment. Bad people are
no t to be trusted. Conspirators are is
often traitors. And no evil secret
ga f 0> Even murder cries out of the
ground. There is no place on or under
the earth where you can hide a sin and
be sure 0 f }t s staying hid. It is known
tx> two persons the moment it is done,
and light are both alike to
Him whose all-seeing eye is on you.
And that mysterious inmate of your
bosom, called conscience, sits there to
aceU se and condemn. God is working
a ]j the while to bring you to repent
ancc> arK i Conscience commands you
to confess and restore. Thus the two
fearful witnesses of vour sin are against
you and will infallibly bring you to
,
punishmefit. In vain you run away,
You carry your judge and executioner
with you: and as you run I hear you
cry; “Which way I Avis ‘ hell; myself
am hell.” man,” is
“Run, speak to that young
a n ancient direction. I am trying to
0 b ev it. Would to God that young heed!
mea everywhere would hear and
— “Irenceus." in AT. Y. Observer.
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Eating Lemons.
A o-ood deal has been said through the
p a pers about the healthfulness of lem
ons. The latest advice is how-to use
them so that they will do the most good, ben
as follows: Most people know the
e ht of lemonade before breakfast, but
few know that it is more than doubled
by taking another at night also. The
way to get the better of the bilious sys
tern without blue pills or quinine is to
take the juice of one, two or three lem
ons, as appetite craves, in as much ice
water as makes it pleasant to drink
without sugar, before going to bed. In
the morning, on rising, at least a half
hour before breakfast, take the juice of
one lemon in a goblet of water. This
wi H dear the system of humor and bile
without any of the
weakening .Ss effects of calomel or eon
water. People should not irritate
The stomach by eating lemons clear; the
powerful acid of the juice, which 18 al
ways most corrosive, invariably pro- but,
duces inflammation after awhile,
properly diluted, so that it does n ot
does its .
burn or' draw the throat, it
medical work without harm, and, when
the stomach is clear of food, has abun
dant opportunity to work over the sys
tem thorough]\\ says a medical author
'
jty. 3 —Exchanqe.
___ __
—“Lands are measured in rods,
leacrues, and so forth,” said the teach
er.”- now what is a surveyor? A
land-leaguer!” shouted ons of the boys,
— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Scenes of the Sawdust.
have “ Very few of the present generation
any idea of the complete change
which circuses have undergone within
the past twenty years,” said Richard
Hemmings, the retired circus manager
and performer. “The mode of travel,
the tent, the ring, the performance, the
salaries paid, the method of training
riders are all very different. All circus¬
es twenty years ago traveled in wagons
drawn by horses; now all but the small¬
est and most insignificant travel by
.rail. This change is rendered necessa¬
ry by the enormous proportions to
which .the modern circus has grown.
To transport by wagon such immense
organizations and horses, would and require an army and
of men the cities
towns to be visited are so far apart that
it would be impossible to reach them
within the required time. The labor,
anxiety and possible loss with even the
small-sized wagon shows of the past
were terrible. In bad weather, over
muddy roads horses would become ex
nausted and have to be left to die, wag
ons would be broken to pieces, and the
show would often fail, day after day, to
reach in time the towns where it was
advertised to perform.
“ Still, traveling with a wagon show
had its pleasures for the performers.
Those of them who received large sal
aries had their own conveyances and
could choose their own time for making
their journeys, provided they arrived
at their destination in time to perform,
and in pleasant weather drive it was by no
means good disagreeable roads, through to a tine beautiful team
over a
country, in the cool of a summer morn
lug, from twelve to thiity miles, which
(was about the range of the distances.
put in very hot weather the drives were
made at night to spare the horses, and
thus the people often lost a great deal
of rest. The way through who, the country bug
.was found by two men, in a
gy, preceded the show, and, aided by a
synopsis of the route furnished them
by the advance agent, inquired the road wav
and marked doubtful parts of the
with rails taken from the. neighboring
fences. At one time there were a num
ber of circuses which exhibited only in
river towns and traveled by steamboat,
but of late years this enterprise seems
to have been wholly abandoned.”
“Has there been much change in the
character of the performance?”
“Yes, many acts that were great fa
yor ites once are now never done at all.
Most prominent among these is scenic
riding that is, the enactment of a dra
ma tic scenic by "An one or more performers
on horseback. idea of what is meant
ma y well be gathered from the descrip
Lon of one of the most Shipwrecked popular of Sailor.’ these
scenes called ‘The
A rider appears dressed as a sailor. The
band plays live’y music, descriptive of
his departure from port. It changes
gradually, and soon indicates that a
storm has arisen, which fact is made still
mort , palpable to the audience by the
phehino- and tossing of the sailor upon
[ h e horse and the descriptive exclama
; tions of t h e ring-master, who verbally
raa p es known ail that the rider seeks to
convey i n pantomime. At last he is
supposed to be completely shipwrecked
and t0 be floating upon a spar in mid
oeean . His face and attitude indicate
despair. Suddenlv, distance, as he is looking anx
iously 0 fv ; n t b e hope seems to
rev ive within him and the ring-master
exclaims joyfully: ‘Aha, Jack: A sail!
A sail! Signal "it!’ Jack signals it. is
reS cued, and is finally brought he sailed, safelv
back to the port from which
w here, to lively music though again, imagi- he is
greeted by his overjoyed friends. This scenic
nary sweetheart and
ridinf twenty-five years ago was the
pnncTpal feature of every with circus. small Now
d j s never seen, except districts. very
s h ovvs j n remote country
“Other ‘ acts which were favorites,
searoely ever seen now, and are jug- bal
f jj no . on horseback, walking
nci „, r on decanters and bottles, double
.» w i dc h consisted of jumping
U°‘ n spring-board * to another, then
growing . the second one and
;fj a somersault over an object;
aad ^ , st Ya ultin", which consists in
™ j r somersau lts, one after the oth
“ apiU succession from a spring
bo ’ ai . d ! ind alighting on the same,
’ could avast
g ome per P f 0 rmers turn num
^ of them5 Arthur Barnes, an En
o , lishman having frequently turned in
ne io-hborhood of ten. revived Thisisavery
fine act, and ana mfirht be with ad
J an a ^ e ' popular, and
t ha“n w hich was very
h i ( h revived of bate years,
though itis not done to anything like the
: ° t that it once was. It con
I saine exten vaulting from the
gigtg Qjf runn ing, with the feet
f ]nd am { al jg h ting horse. upon
1)e back of a rapidly-moving riders, which al
“ The cavalcade of
•. commences a circus performance, the
ca .ilexi bv showmen entry,
u<p(] {Q be niuch ' rao re elaborate in the
character of the riding than it is now.
The 1 entries at the present time are
J^ r J; , ,, ..ml ire mere meanino’- b!bt
ie rocessi ,ms: but there used to
”J t f thpm each and intelligible having a
^ dram atic plot, as distinct
^
“What was the usual finale wt die
old-time circuses?”
“The performance used to conclude
with an equestrian drama Turpin,’ or a panto¬
mime, such as ‘Dick or ‘La
Statue Blanc.’ Then Dan Rice origi¬
nated the idea of ending with the intro¬
duction of two trick mules, and offered
five dollars to any one who would ride
either of them three times around the
ring without prevailed falling until off. This custom
generally injured by being kicked and so many thrown were by
the mules that it had to be abandoned.
Large shows generally conclude now the
with a tumbling or leaping act by there
entire company, or with races if
is a “Has hippodrome.” always the
it been custom to
give a so-called ‘concert’ after the per¬
formance?”
“bio; but it has prevailed for a very
long time. But twenty years ago it was
not so universal as it is now, and those
shows which gave a concert did so in a
separate canvas; but the side-show and
candy-stand have been inseparable this
features of almost every circus
country has ever known.”— Philadel¬
phia Times.
Neither l’ig Nor Puppy.
A dear friend of ru j ne) w ) 10 has a
never olher fund of anecdotes was
te llin<r Either the day how the expression
q{ pio- nor puppy” originated.
p) ur i n!r ” t ho Know-Nothino- campaign in
y ir , ri ia j ames Lyons met Henry A.
kinsman on the stump. Mr.
Lyons accused his antagonist of having
f£ous c h an(red from one nartv to another with
fadlity Wise in turn, re
torted in kind and said further on: In
j ay neighborhood dwell two farmers.
Q ne wag hospitable and the other un
soc } able> They were differently consti
tuted bv nature. The first had an inti
ma ti 0 n "that Hon. Abel P. Upshur, then
Secretary at'his of the Interior, would spend
a day house while visiting the
couat y. Mr. Upshur was inordinately
f on d of roast pig, but his expectant host
discovered that This dainty was in not time pro¬
cura | ) ] e> S o far as he knew, to
grat ify the appetite of the Secretary.
The other farmer happened to hear of
t h; s an d, in a generous moment, or
dered a neoT0 t0 catc h one of his finest
• g and carry it to hj s friend. The boy
did as he was ordered and forthwith
proceeded on his journey. Half way
there was a public house and Sambo
stopped to get a drink of whisky. The
hag containing the pig was put behind
a door for fancied security. Warmed
with the liquor, the negro told the
whole story of his mission. Some wild
fellows heard it and determined to have
a bit of fun. They removed the pig
from the bag and introduced a puppy
in its place, shouldered his load,
The negro re
sumed his journey, and finally ap
peared with his burden before the de
lighted farmer, who was profuse in
thanks. He told the boy to untie the
bag and let him see the present. To
the consternation of the negro and rage
of the farmer the puppy darted out,
with a lively bark. The negro was
wrathfully commanded to put the
puppy back and go home to his master,
who would be seen later. Reaching
the tavern on his return trip, the young
scamps who had previously tricked him
invited him to drink, and while some of
them plied him with whisky, others
hastily removed the puppy and restored
the pig to his old quarters.
The negro again took up his bag and
trudged Homeward in a state of mel
low but utter perplexity. Confronted
by his master, he told how he had start
ed with a pig that had turned to a
puppy and could not account for it
short of a diabolical intervention. The
farmer swore that there was no puppy
about his place, and emphatically bag or
dered the poor ne^ro to untie the
and let the dashed thing go. obeying
the order out rushed the pig, with a
grunt of delight at deliverance. The
master flamed out at the negro for his
ly in S propensities and threateiied him
wi th condign chastisement I he a,s
tonished darkey flung up his hands m
desperate protestation, wildly ejaculat- first
mg: “ lore God, massa, when I
started that was a pig, and it turned to
a puppy, and when I started agam it
was a puppy and turned to a pig. The
durned thing can turn to a pig or
puppy wh en eve r it chooses.
Mr. M lse had no occasion to make
the application to his opponent. The
crowd took it in unanimously and bore
the speaker off on their shoulders in
triumph.— Auyusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
~~
_We have another striking evidence
that this is an age of rapid evolution.
Miss Daisy Backus, little daughter Selma, oi
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Backus, of
Ala., celebrated her fifth birthday re
cently, and among her guests was
Master Frankie Butler, who presented gold
Miss Daisy with a beautiful plain
engagement ring, bearing the words in
delicate engraved letters: “Frankie to
Daisy.”
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-The Stockton (Cal.) Week says the
labor market of that State is over
stocked, and that it is criminal to bring
workinzmen from the East.
NUMBER 48.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—A Bridgeport (Conn.) rejected gentleman
will publish all the poems he
can rind.
—Mrs. A. C. Pond, a sister of the fa¬
mous Sam Patch, died at Petersburg,
Va., recently.
—Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, and
Congressman Milliken, of Maine, arc
said to resemble each other as closely as
two Dromios.
—David Pulsifer, who has been clerk
in the Massachusetts Secretary of
State’s office for thirty years, retired a
few days ago .—Boston Fost.
—Rev. Dr. Backus, of Union College,
at blind Schenectady, N. Y., who has beer has
from cataracts ten years,
fully recovered his sight as the result
of operations performed by a Balti
moi'e physician .—Troy Times.
—Ex-President Thomas Hill, of Har¬
vard College, has edited an almanac in
which the computations have been
made according to the new Eastern
standard time, the first of the kind to
be published .—Boston Herald.
—Mr. Bennett, the owner of the New
York Herald, is said by persons who
have seen him in Paris lately to have
become “prematurely old. His hair Is
turning gray and he is as slow and pre¬
cise in movement as an old man.”
ried —A Waterloo (N. Y.) girl fell was in mar¬ love
to a young man who
with her photograph, and the courting
was done through the medium of cor¬
respondence. The couple met for the
first time at their wedding .—Buffalo
Express.
—Seuor Soteldo, who turns up in
Washington as the Minister from Vene¬
zuela, is the father of A. M. Soteldo,
the young gentleman who lost his life
while trying to regulate the editorial
management of the Washington Repub¬
lican from the outside.
—“ What sort of a man is Uncle Re¬
mus?” I asked of a Georgia friend,
writes a Washington correspondent. replied,
“Joel Chandler Harris,” he
smiling. “He’s a little, red-headed,
freckle-faced farmer’s boy from Putnam
County. Just about as handsome as
a burnt shoe. He’s a good fellow,
though, and bright, but indolent. Sort
of a singed cat. He has been very well
treated by the Atlanta Constitution
people. They give hour him a good salary day,
for addition writing an or nice two house, every which
in to a very
they gave him outright as a Christmas
gift, I think. So he lias plenty of time
for literature and a pleasant place to
write it in .”—Indianapolis Journal:
HUMOROUS.
—“There is danger in the electric
wire.” remarked the criminal when
overtaken by a telegram.
—“ Young farmer: “ Are you fond of
beasts, Miss Gusherton?” Miss Gusher
ton. “ Oh, really, Mr. Pawker, if you
mean that as a declaration, you must
speak to mamma .”—Detroit Post.
—The newspapers often print the
“last words” of men, but never those
of women. The latter would take up
too much room and crowd out all the
advertisements. —Norristown Herald.
—“ Caw! caw!” screamed a Britisher,
waving his umbrella at a Market street
dummy the other dav. “Get in, you
crow,” said the conductor. The man
was raven .—San Francisco Post.
—“I wish I was a star,” he said,
smiling at his own poetic comet,” fancy. she “I
would rather you were a
said, in a dreamy tone that made his
pnlse quicken with hope. suppressed “And why?”
he asked, with anxiety.
“Oh,” she replied, in a freezing tone,
“if you were a comet you would only
come ’round once in fifteen hundred
years .”—Detroit Free Press.
—“Wasn’t Mr. Thornton mad that
you went into his vroods and cut all that
birch bark?” asked a little wood girl belonging whose
brothers came from a
to a neighbor with their arms filled with
great strips of the birch. “No,” said
the boys; “he saw us and never said 3
word.” “Well,” cried the little sister,
triumphantly, “that's just it. He was
so mad he wouldn’t speak to you!”—
Harper's Bazar.
—A story is told of a Wequetequock
man being brought to a Stonington
doctor in an ox-cart, having been While han
died without gloves by a brother.
the doc asked: or was “Doctor, dressing . if I the die wounds from the he
man
effects of this beating will the} hang
my brother?” “I m afraid they will,^
^ ™®qu<stequoexer. - A Irwich
(Conn.) Bulletin. •
— Why, how are you, Gilpin, ex
claimed an erratic Austin man, trying
to thrust his hand into the unwilling,
clammy paw of the supposed acquaint
ance, “how you have changed. Never
saw a man change so m my lile. “My
name is not Gilpin, said the stranger
m a thirty-six-degree-below-zero ejaculated the tone.
Heavens! Austin
man,” worse and worse! You have
sonal not only changed wonderfully actually, in per
appearance, but have
changed your name .”—Texas Siftings-