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We make 1 a ~j (Uriaf to iFfto ||u£j?er i J I ■ B Afe mg fftid iferrifcfe MaPaS!^. u £T narne FREE -1 of D r T on a postal card and we will mail ^stop tbe SDasr ha/ F and j give ! na ^ ene to show its power over the dis¬ lit ?~ atter how ,X r C oT 3 g0od ^ ASTHMALENE ni ? ht ’ s rest, and prove to you fc»r and vou n n ° ,on CAN CURE S breath fo f » er neglect your business or sit in a chair all night " Oa a postal -u card. r-. , ea A?f THE sufFocation. DR, TAFT Send MEDICINE us vour full CO., name ROCHESTER, and post-office BROS., M. Y “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. JRsasSatas “ f ” rtl f *» » «u<l «° * sph-n-M . loth for tents, awnings, etc. When made int C belting for mac is said S' < —St J J. SEAMANS DENTIST ConYers Georgia. -- -tfmUda U» «rwew, *l<b «• ~ •rwlaawt'mmaMUrM. m—