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“EQUAL KIH.HTH TO ALL AM) SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.”
Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 1892
The Age of Responsibility.
In relation to the question of re¬
sponsibility, accoi'ding to the French
criminal law, there does not appear
to be any age at which a child is ab¬
solutely exempt from punishment.
If an offense be committed under the
age of sixteen, and it be found to
have been committed “without dis¬
cernment.” the offender is to be ac¬
quitted; but, according to circum¬
stances, he is to be returned to his
relatives or placed in a house of cor¬
rection, to be brought up there and
detained for any number of years
not exceeding his twentieth. By the
criminal code of tiie German empire
a person cannot be criminally prose¬
cuted for any offense committed be¬
fore he has completed his twelfth
year. Criminal
In his “History of the
Law of England” Sir James Stephen
expresses himself as follows: “By
English law children under seven are
absolutely exempt from punishment,
and from seven to fourteen there is
a presumption that they are not pos¬
sessed of the degree of knowledge es¬
sential to criminality, though this
presumption may be rebutted by
proof to the contrary. Like most
other presumptions of law, this rule
is practically inoperative, or at all
events operates seldom and capri¬
ciously. of
“My own opinion is that the age
complete irresponsibility should be.
raised, say, to twelve (except m the
case of a few specially atrocious
crimes), and that it should be suc¬
ceeded by complete responsibility.”
This definite expression of opinion
by an authority of such eminence
and experience must carry great
weight.—London Lancet.
Hunting Hares.
There do not seem to be as many
hares now as there used to be when
I was a boy. Then the “old fields”
and branch bottoms used to be full
of them. They were peculiarly our
game ; 1 mean we used to consider
that they belonged to us boys. They
were rather scorned by the “gentle¬
men,” by which was meant the
grown up gentlemen, who shot par¬
tridges over the pointers, and only
picked up a hare when she got in
their way, and the negroes used to
catch them in traps or “gum,’’which
were ti’aps made of hollow gum tree
logs; but we boys were the hare
hunters. They were our property
from childhood; just as much, we
considered, as Bruno and Don, the
beautiful crack pointers, with their
brown eyes and satiny ears and
coats, were “the gentlemen’s.” all
The negroes used to set traps
the fail and winter and we, with the
natural tendency of boys to imitate
whatever is wild and primitive, used
to set traps also. To tell the truth,
however, the hares appeared to have
a way of going into the negroes’ traps
rather than into ours, and the former
caught many to our one.— Thomas
Nelson Page in St. Nicholas.
Walking as a Cure for Insomnia.
I do not believe that any one, not
down sick, needs to suffer from sleep
lessness who will walk prudently,
regularly and suffieiently. I have
found it a sovereign cure. The only
trouble is that walking makes me
sleep too long and too soundly. A
good many years ago, some hours
after the close of a day on which I
had done an extra amount of tramp¬
ing, I arrived at my destination and
speedily sought my couch. 1 did not
wake until the morning sun was
shining brightly, and then it was to
discover that I was in the midst of
the utmost confusion. The windows
bad been driven in, and broken glass
and twigs were scattered all about
my room. in
There had been a fearful storm
the night, a portion of the roof over
me had been carried away, trees had
been uprooted, chimneys overturned,
and everybody had deserted the
house except myself, and I had been
as totally forgotten as I was obliv
ious.—Belfords Magazine.
The Egyptian fellah is apparently
the worst taxed man in the world.
Even on the palm tree, which gives
him food and shelter, he pays fifty
cents a year.
■Cambrics, we are told, came from
Cam bray, a town hi French Flanders
famous for its fine haem*; and damask
♦rigifiatoi h* Pa mK s r .ja.
A Cannibalistic Snabo.
Mr. Henry Horan, superintendent
of the United States National mu¬
seum, who has had considerable ex¬
perience in the care of living rep¬
tiles while confined at the Smithso¬
nian institution, cites a case illustra¬
tive of the cannabalistic tendencies
of certain snakes. At one time he
hail in a cage two king snakes, the
larger of which was about two feet
long and the smaller about eighteen
inches. The kind and affectionate
nature of these snakes soon won for
them the best attention from Mr.
Horan, who fed them upon “all the
delicacies of the season.”
The snakes were particularly fond
of the eggs of other snakes, and
through their weakness for these tid¬
bits Mr. H. discovered his king snake
ship’s inclination to a trait character¬
istic of the Fiji islanders. Upon this
occasion a goodly number of black
snake oggs were being fed the pets,
and for the last round but one egg
was left for the two snakes. It was
given to the smaller one, which took
it from the hand from which all the
rest of the eggs had been taken, and
the larger snake, seeing no other egg.
tried to take the last one from the
mouth of the small snake. But the
smaller reptile had a firm hold and
kept the egg, whereupon the larger
snake commenced to swallow the egg
and its possessor.
When the snake had disappeared,
leaving only a few inches of its tail
protruding from the mouth of the
larger snake, Mr. Horan took hold of
the member and rescued its owner
from the living tomb. He was much
surprised to find that the small snake
still held the egg in its mouth and
says it lost no time in swallowing the
morsel. —Forest and Stream.
About Drinking at Meals.
I observe with pleasure that the
verdict of geueral experience and
common sense has been confirmed by
scientific experiment in the matter of
taking fluid with meals. Dr. Tev
O. Stratievsky, of St. Petersburg,
after elaborate trials, has found that
fluids materially assist the assimila¬
tion of proteids. and announces the
following conclusion, which it is to
be hoped no future experiments will
controvert “O11 the whole, the
widespread custom of taking fluids
during or just before one’s meals
proves to be rational and fully justi
fied on striet scientific grounds. To
take fluids with the meals is almost
as important an adjunct to digestion
as is the mastication of solid food
preparatory to swallowing it. ft is
obvious, however, that there is a
limit to the amount of fluid one can
swallow with impunity - not to speak
of comfort.....just as much with meals
as at other times.
“It would be dangerous to create a
general impression that fluid is good
with food irrespective of quantity.
It is, moreover, a well ascertained
clinical fact that an excess of cum
prandial fluid does retard digestion
in certain people, and gives rise to
discomfort in most. A little atten¬
tion to one's sensations in such mat¬
ters will far better fix the desirable
limit than all the ‘data’in tho world.”
—Hutchinson s Archives.
He Knew.
A gentleman firing on Cass av¬
enue was commenting on the habits
and peculiarities of tbesparrows. and
giving an object lesson to his family,
taking for illustration a tree outside
of his library window, where a com¬
munity of them were perched.
He used large words and classic
language, and his hearers were all
much impressed with his superior
knowledge. 'Then one member of the
family asked him why it was that
the sparrows became so black in win¬
ter.
s 58 S£=s£ season."
the exigence* of piped shrill
■Oh, come off. pa." a
voice from the floor, where as small
boy lay sprawling with his a
his hand: "they get black in winter
cause they go into the chimneys and
stay there all night—that’s why.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Severe CuuiahraenL
First Boy—Do they whip at your
school?, I wish they did.
Second Boy—No.
Price per Year, S LOO
His Cure in Drawing.
Stothard, an English painter, was
noted for his certainty of hand. An
anecdote related by Leslie, a brother
artist, shows how he acquired the
sureness that gave him fame.
Stothard was showing some early
drawings from the antique, made
while he was a student of the acad¬
emy. They were begun and finished
with pen and ink only, and Leslie re¬
marked that “they looked like beau¬
tiful line engravings.”
“I adopted this plan,’' replied
Stothard, “because, as 1 could not
alter a line, it obliged me to think
before 1 touched the paper.’ 1 —Ex¬
change.
Not tho Hferriiuac, but tho Virginia.
There never was a Confederate
ironclad or any other ironclad named
Merrimac. The Confederate ram
was the Virginia always. She was
constructed upon the hulk of an old
United States frigate called the Mer¬
rimac. Why people should go on
calling tho Virginia the Merrimac wo
cannot see. History and fact—not
always synonymous—agree in this
case. The Confederate ironclad was
the Virginia, not the Merrimac.—
Norfolk Landmark.
Soldier AntH.
Among ants there is much the same
division of labor as among bees and
a more complicated series of individ¬
uals, for we find not only the neu¬
ters, which perform all tho working
functions of tho hive, the males and
the queens, but we have in some spe¬
cies a special class known as soldier
ants, which have wonderfully pow¬
erful heads and jaws, and perform
no other duties than to defend the
formicary and make war.—Boston
Transcript.
A Conflict”! Questioner.
Miss Elderly - That tree was plant¬
ed sixty years ago.
Mr. Blunder Did you plant it with
your own fair hands?
Miss Elderly (indignantly) — Sir,
pray what age do you take me to be?
Mr. Blunder (confusedly) — l- i
didn’t mean that. I—I mean, did
you see it planted?—Loudon Tit Bits.
The Youngest Maine Gramlfatlier.
The youngest Maine grandfather
continues to be heard from. Accord¬
ing to latest accounts I10 lives at
Stoneham and is but thirty-six years
old -Bangor Commercial.
It has been calculated that the right
hand of a good compositor in taking
typo from the frame to the stick
while setting up D.UhO eras in eight
hours covers a distance of Jtl.OOl) feet.
Must tho Mistletoe Go?
I observe that one of the members
of the Edinburgh Naturalists'society
is endeavoring to prove that the beef¬
steak fungus (Fistulina hepatica), and
not the mistletoe (Viseiun album 1, as
is commonly believed, was the sacred
plant of the Druids. His premises
are that the fungus grows on the
oak, while the mistletoe does not,
and that when sacrifices were abol¬
ished at their ceremonials the Druids
shed the red juice of the fungus in
lieu of the human blood, which could
not be obtained.—Notes and Queries.
Working I.ifo of a London Train Horne.
The average working life of a
London omnibus horse is five years;
that of a tram horse is only four. He
is the same soil of horse, he comes
to work at the same ago, he costs
about the same and he works the
same few hours, hut so much greater
is his effort that it costs a shilling a
week more to feed him, and he is
worked out in four fifths of the time.
—London Tit-Bits.
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