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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1884)
CONYERS WEEKLY. OIJJME VI. SCOT, OR AM 1 NOT f j toColumbia's shore, r^ P bySU 01 «nmi r'tive should wear and * d tear repair: . fen “ires n e through, Lwu’s the are worn won S poke3 rt e Placed by Western the oaks; bed, k ¥. rift me down goes stead. [itbygj^ngedTn ur one like it in its aXugh bed and gears, still it seems it ought ght; h d broU wi I think the matter o'er, btbS oii a foreign shore, w across the sea came | n ly its identity, ferve dwelt, have from passed day to away. day, years feesass,. fessosssw-. bxw >ctotiTtc American - —* • 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. --- — 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.” ' -♦♦♦ -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-
