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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1884)
EGYPTIAN SOLDIER. ■JSSm „„„„ 2 oF RECRUITING rg nd ™*“ s - h | g Government Make* ^^"ReadV , fn - to Run Away. ‘■;r£ tar Kiri'S;! S“SS.“ S °ent wants e-and of him. it whether never mam- taxes litary Him gerviC other light fidication . ]f in any of its need *. xs <hs hi apprehension by the kur to 8 certain number of men to nf a to the hovels of police, who go JL fellaheen and drive them «S tree t put iron collars or yokes their necks, fasten the several j by chain, and drive together a s driven in _ other coun as cattle are examined by to the prison, to be ied j C al officers. A stranger, says r allace, “when stopping in a quiet may be suddenly awakened at ;e, violent altercation outside, bv a bass male voices, ! begins by gruff, hysterical fal nominates in shriU, tones, resembling the unmusical, the professional , . . tive howlings of at a native funeral. The first is he probably he is so disturbed as- 8 that it is a case of burglary or daughter, and rushes out with the ibie° purpose of supporting and order; but vigor. he r the party of law I to his disappointment, that it is ijjjg L more serious for than the the capturing U In [the recruit army. police, with the aid of their L and switches, endeavor to keep jr |te and persistently impose silence; break from the more the ranks ob lave to be kept in their places by I Those who have no glaring cor ■ defect, aod who have not succeed [ [military conciliating authorities, the medical officer marched or are etc. Ice in the army the recruit is given Ir Irvice dead by all his friends. His term [if is fixed by the Government, lie survives the hard treatment of officers and the casualties of war p old age, he is turned out almost |ionless, to be aburden upon relatives i have forgotten him and who have cely enough for their own support. 1 no wonder, with such prospects be them, that those liable to conscrip mutilate themselves by cutting off right forefinger and putting out the it eye. This practice was so com a in the time of Mehemet Ali that [ enlightened prince formed battalions ne-eyed men and sent them into bat rith Turkish bashi-bazouks and artil behind them with orders to shoot m every man who attempted to ruii y. This plan for infusing courage 1 the soldiery has been tried so often lit has ceased to have any effect, liellahwould as lief be shot by the Py in his rear as by the one in front, ■nature the most submissive of all r I futures, the fellah ‘never shows of disobedience until brought into neighborhood of the enemy. He 1 braves danger from his superiors in F to 8 e{ out of bullet range. Whole fcents have been known to mutiny, |er a their da J officers, 8 march and of disband the opposing when P from Germany. P* ^market. 8 ave been At very time high in the New ^ t one within a few ey sold at 48 cents per dozen 7'V e ' Thousands of dozens arrive “Sherman steamers. A dealer said : B berman eggs limed, but the are FR process * 8 better than the Ameri I H 7 re a bushel of lime is slacked I ei ° or Efue pails of water; the f “ m drawn ‘b The off, lime and the eggs are L • water closes the I la ‘ e s bell and excludes the air. L-V L !it then white keep of two the or three r; and, besides egg gets *' that, the limers do 6 ne e &P until they afraid |.l |of? Wi J l8poi] are ‘ Out of 1,000 bar I 7 med e gP received in New York M , f will be gilt edged. The Ger jwoeess hj 0 "®** jeaveg that the the white in such a ^ imported eggs • 80 ^ York as fresh 'ecf nv• 6 ailers The it ls the ‘ only thing to tq fact that these pre Ik ?gs cannot be boiled. They froiT kntbofT 6Very l time they > of course. In C are 38 good 88 Bowk, ° f the freeh e ggs sold.” ca , du ty do you pay on 1 , e fr African hen is wholly unpro ' om the Pauper labor of “the Ger There is a movement foot, Bh, to on a on eggs, which Perho 0 ?] more 6 118 to charge 8ev * tauces * d ° ZeD Qnder . extreme ’• stages smes OUR STOCK is FULL AND COMPLLTE, Business and Dress Suits AWS ©TSS 60 A* -i EQUAL TO CUSTOM MADE GOODS AND AT i ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. HIRSCH BROS,, 42 and 44 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. Small Farms. J. R. Dodge writing to an exchange says: It is gratifying to know that farms in this country, while increasing in num¬ ber, are diminishing in size. This is the tendency in all parts of the land. Old plantations of the South are cut up into several farms, rented usually, but some¬ times bought by the freedmen, who formerly cultured them under com pulsion. The division of large tracts is rapid on the Pacific Coast. Bought for speculation, in areas so large that fears of landlordism was excited in many quar ters, and cultivated in part to realize taxes and interest while holding, they are kept only until sufficiently adver tised to make a market at a long advance. The broad prairies of the Upper Wiscon sin and Red River of the North are tempting inducements to capital. The bonanza farms serve well to lure new set tiers, to swell prices, and by-and-bye to fill the pockets of their owners by the sale, not of their wheat, but of their acres. Big farms are not always profit¬ able in this country—perhaps not often profitable. There is another sort of farms, the great cattle and sheep ranches, that threaten a worse monopoly than the great wheat farms. Without owning more than a few acres, on some water-course, some ranches fence in thousands of acres of public lands, excluding the pioneer with a small herd or flock. It is becoming a general practice, and individuals are combining in companies, with bona-fide capital amounting to one, two and some¬ times three million dollars. The con trolling interest of many of these com¬ panies is held by foreigners, absentees who live in England and Scotland, and draw their income from America as from Ireland. The Secretary of the Interior has sounded the note of warfare upon the plunder and monopoly of the domain. The illegal fences should “go.” Do farmers realize the full meaning of the small-farm plan ? It means schools, churches, society, culture in all direc tions. Monster farms mean a desert, isolation, barbarism. Small farms en courage good tillage, make large crops, high prices of land and property for all. Instead of four million farms in less than a generation eight will be required. Available public lands will be scarce. When farms are no longer given away, and landowners must divide, they will sell only at a strong advance on nominal rates. It is a good time for the poor man to secure a foothold upon a convenient bit of soil, become a land speculator in a commendable way, and make a home for himself and his children before the com¬ petition for land shall crowd him to the wall of homelessness. With an Eye to Economy. A tinware peddler called at a house on Fourth avenue the other day to exchange some of his goods for paper rags. The woman brought out a sack weighing ten or fifteen pounds and the peddler held it up on his spring scale and announced: “Derevhas shust six pounds, so help me gracious.” Her husband came out at this moment and replied that he would not accept any such weight. He knew there were at least ten pounds in his sack, and he didn’t propose to be swindled. “My frendt, do yonpelief Isheat you ?” asked the peddler. “You would if yon got the chance.” It was agreed that the man should take the sack across to the grocery and weigh it for himself; but he was no sooner out of sight than the peddler drove off and did not stop for fiijp blocks. In the afternoon the man met him down town and asked: “Ah ! you rascal, why didn’t you wait for me ?” “Vlias dere more as six pounds?” “Yes, sir—ten of ’em.” “Veil, dot’s vhy I didn’t wait. If you pelief my scales vhas too light und I pe lief der grocery scales vhas too heavy, we shtand und jaw und call names und lose time. So I move on und make half a dollar on some lead pipe. ”—Detroit Free Press. “I w ttjT. accept anything else in poli tics as a necessity, hut save me from a post office fight in a small town,’ ex¬ claims a Congressman. “They surpass earthquakes and cyclones,” LINIMOl v, 5 v-— Tlv .. *< ___ Twu ID x-u.gr sr 1 -"* fox it. ForaU lnjnrie* Sinou in man or Uxnuin. b«aat nothing •qnala Young Warriors. At the first battle of Bull Run John Meigs, a son of General Meigs, and a West Point cadet, seeing no generals about assumed and for some time directed the movement of the troops, the officers supposing he was an aid-de camp, and that the orders came from the generals. Seeing the Confederates mass ing in the wood to take Green’s Battery, Meigs ordered Colonel Mathewson to move quickly with his regiment to the support of the battery. The movement was promptly executed by the First California, and then two other regiments were brought up. Later in the day the youthful general, seeing the field was lost, said to Colonel Mathewson: “You had better fall back toward Centerville.” “And by whose authority do you give me such an order as that ?” inquired the colonel. “Well, sir,” said young Meigs, “the truth is for the last two hours I have been unable to find any generals, and have been commanding myself.” I saw young Meigs on the field, and he was wounded through the knee, but re¬ mained on duty, although in terrible pain and faint from the loss of blood. He was afterward killed in the Shenandoah Valley. In the First Iowa there was a little mite of a drummer boy named Edward or, as he was more commonly called, Eddie Lee. At Wilson’s Creek he had both feet shot off by a cannon ball. A wounded Confederate, who was shot through the bowels and lay near Eddie had taken off his suspenders, and making of them ligatures, tied up Eddie’s stumps to stop the flow of blood. During the night the soldier died and Eddie lay on the field all night beside him. In the morning, as soon as it was light, the First Iowa were surprised to hear Eddie’s drum beating the reveille down in a ravine. One of the men, following the sound of the drum, went to him and found the little fellow seated on the ground vigorously beating away, his drum fastened to a bush by his side. “Good-morning, corporal,” he said; “oh, get me some water, lam so thirsty.'* The corporal got the water, and while he was giving the boy a drink, the Con¬ federates came up and captured them both. A horseman took Eddie up ten¬ derly before him and carried him to the Confederate camp, where his stumps were amputated and the wounds care¬ fully dressed, but he died in a few hours after the operation was performed. Would Not. Shortly after the marriage of King Vic¬ tor Emanuel, he met a peasant girl upon the steps of the royal palace at Turin. 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