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TO the memory of
fpiTOVALL.
Sunday was a day of tears.
The clounds were drawn as a
mourning veil, the winds sighed
and sobbed as some sad and
heart-broken thing of life, while
the rain tears pattered unceas
jngly down.
How much in harmony it
teemed with the sad and bleed
jog hearts of friends who had
gathered in the saddened home
i f Mr, W. E. Stovall to watch
Cieir loved one fight the firey
hat tie which no man fights but
ome. How pitiUss it seemed.
Just at the time wiie'i to us she
seemed most useful to the
church aud needed in her fami¬
ly Death came aud took the soul
i i Mrs. W, E. Stovall to the
spirit land.
She was the baughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Malcom, and was
1 orn November‘25th, 1868, and
died on August 28th, 1898.
In May, 1889, she was mar
lied to Mr. Stova.ll, and was al¬
ways to hint a devoted and
helpful wife.
Three little boys were born to
thorn, who are left to mourn
tiio Joss of their mother*
She joined the Primitive Bap¬
tist church two years ago, and
Las proven a loyal member,
the met the Dark Angel
v uhout fear, but with a smile
1 < ckoned him on, and when as¬
ked her wish iu regard to the
children she replied, with a
Muile: “The Lord will care for
liiein, as He has for me.”
We will miss you, dear Ida;
miss your swoet face and gentle
voice, but your influences still
lives in the lives of those who
knew you. God grant that the
memory of your life and loss
may make us more anxious to
serve Him who‘has called you
»o the beautiful land. May He
comfort and sustain the bereav
» d husband and family in this
iLe darkest hour of their life.
4 .ihi' is through with the battle, the
storm ami the strife;
f lie is safe from tlio troubles and tri¬
als of life.
bho will dwell evermore in the land
of the blest,
"Where shall site’ll rest.” ev> r he happy and evei
M. L. W.
There are 41,000 Baptist
church organizations iu this
Aouutry and 38,000 ministers.
r J he Baptist net gain is orei
100,000 yearly. There are 4,
060,000 members of Baptist
churches, aud church propert)
is valued at $80,000 000, In
3784 there was one Baptist
every 92 ot the population; now
tlieie is one to every 17. There
sic 130 Baptist periodicals pub¬
lished.—Ex.
Facts and Figures,
African elephants can climb
mountains with remarkable ease
Labor unions have been intro
t need into Japan with consider¬
able success.
The loftiest cliff on the coast
©f England is Beachy Head, the
height of which is 564-feet.
The use of cocaine to produce
local insensibility is forbidden
in Turkey on religious grounds.
The ltiesengabirge, or Giant
mountains of Germany, are to
be covered with a network of e
lectric railways.
A jury in Mexico consists ot
nine men. A majority makes
the verdict. If the nine are
unanimous there is no appeal.
The highest masts of sailing
vessels ate from 160 to 180 teet
high, and spread from 60,000 to
100,000 square feet of canvas.
Of the thirty-eight sultans
who have ruled the Ottoman
eutpire since the conquest of
Constantinople by the Turks
thirty-four hare died violent
deaths.
The list of postoifices in the
United States now includes
Hobson, Va. Sigsbeo. Ark. Dew¬
ey, N. C.: Sampson, Fla.: and
Manila, Ky.
Lieutenant Yates of the
Third Lanary volunteers, the
winner of the queen’s prize at
Bisley, is forty-three years old,
a teetotaler a non-smoker and a
coik manufacturer.
If a pair of herrings could be
left to breed aud multiply un¬
disturbed for a period of twenty
years they would yield an a
mount of fish equal in bulk to
the globe on which wo live.
It is proposed to call Cliff
Giem, England, where Keats
wrote ‘‘Lamie,” ‘‘Keats Green.”
The cottage which he occupied
lias been cleared away, but a
Keats memorial is planned.
Booth bay Harbor, Me, reports
“another sea serpent,” with
Head as big as a fish barrel aud
of size and shape and motion
that puzzled the experts No
fins, flippers or tail had this
latest marine monster.
Lord Esme Gordon., brother
and heir apparent of the mar¬
quis of Huntley, has been fined
m the Maidenhead pdlice court
for assaulting a truckman and
for using obscene language to a
policeman:
In a plea for preservation of
Elackmore’s Lyntou and Lyn
inouth district, in Devonshire,
from railroads, The Westmin¬
ster Gazette asserts that not
long ago fifty-two artists were
counted at work in the space ol
one mile.
Fair-haired people are said to
be becoming less numerous than
formerly. The ancient Hebrews
were a fair-haired race: now
they are with few exceptions,
dark. So it is in a lesser degree
with the Irish, among whom 150
years ago a dark-haired person
was almost unknown.—Ex.
Pointed Paragraphs,
One-half the world wonders
why the other half lives.
The silent watches of tin
night are those we forget to
wind.
After the field is plowed then
comes the horrowing details.
A man is indeed ignorant il
ignorant of the fact that he is
ignorant.
Nothing takes the conceit out
of a man like being beat at his
own game.
The spruce American tar#
pine for opportunities to pitch
into the Spaniards.
The clergyman doesn’t object
to a young man’s ringing a bi¬
cycle belle in church.
An old bachelor says that
love is the sugar coating on the
bitter pill of matrimony.
You can sometimes judge a
man’s ability by the number
of relatives he has to support.
The man who can accurately
describe a woman’s dress made
a mistake iu uot being bom a
dressmaker.
The Railroad Army.
larger Peace Establishment
Than Any Country in the
World Possesses,
From the New York Sun.
The standiug army of Russia
is usually put at 800.000 men,
of Germany at 600,000, of Aus¬
tria at 275,000, aud of Great
Britaiu at 225,000, all on a
peace footing. Yet there are
it appeare by the last published
report of the Interstate Com¬
merce Commission 800,000 rail
road employes iu the United
States, whose gross wages and
salaries,are nearly 1500,000,000
a year, or 02 per cent, of the
operating expenses of the Amer¬
ican railways. There are four
employes on the average fcr
mile of railroad track.
There are 80.049 station agents,
35,667 engineers, 25,322 con
(Juctors, 43,668 switchmen, fla
men and watchmen, and 21,452
telegraph operators and dis¬
patchers. At the present ratio
of increase— them are now- 50,
000 move railway employes in
the United States than there
were in 1895—the total number
will not be very far below 1,000
000 at the time of the next cen
sus.
Here is an army in which
there is no mustering out and
no war footing, for the railroad
army of the United States larg¬
er than the number of railroad
employesof any other country,
is essentialiy an army of peace,
aud it is steadily growing at a
rate larger than the railroads
themselves, taking the mileage
as a measure of their import¬
ance,—Ex.
Klondike Locals.
Fodder will be a rarely in
these parts next spring,
Mr, Clarence Farmer, of Oak
Grove, visited fair ones here
Sunday.
Miss Dodie Burgess, who has
>een clerking for Mr. J. C.
Stephenson will be with hei
mother at this place for a short
while.
The school at this pjace will
Hve an intertainment next
Fiiday night.
Mr. Ed Houseworth has the
•‘blues” the worst kind.
Mr, H. T. Houseworth has
oeeu on the ailing list this
week, ..
Quite a number here attended
t.iie baptising at Rockdale last
Sunday.
DeKalb county is not stired
up politically so badly as Rock¬
dale county. The primaries set
tied the matter in this DeKalb.
Jack.
NOTICE.
I will buy all
beef cattle, aiso
good milch cows.
A. B. Osborn.
-HENRY : REt/ON
PROPRIETOR.
My shop is comfortable.
My towels are clean.
My tools are always keen.
My attention is respectful.
My aim—to please all.
Give me a call when you need
dreesing up.
H. H. MCbONAL & SON,
RESIDENT DENTISTS/**
All work guaranteed to please.
Office up stairs over J. II. Al
maud & Co’8. store.
Conyers, Ga.
Civic Society.
Pliilologia Lodge, No. 178, F.
3c A. M.,
J. A. Guinn, W. M.
C. E. Reagan, Sec.,
Meets first and third Mon
day nights in each month,
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NOTICE.
I am at my old
stand with a good
line of coffins, cas¬
kets and funeral
supplies. My ser¬
vices, hearses and
harness free oi
charge.
W. I AM,
Funeral Director.
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ARE YOU GOING rj
A BUGGY?
I put this question to the general public
and foi] ow it
the stirring announcement that, no man does himself
he buys without looking Jnsticg ;
at my BUGGIES and learni
ces. I am paying money to this ng my I
say to you and it mea
thing. Heed it and it will U 8 g 0t
profit you much.
MACHINES.
If you contemplate buying a machine we call
tion to famons, light-running STANDARD, y° Ur attcJ
our This is
the best machines made and oned 'J
you can easily pay the price 4
for it. Be sure to remember this.
HARNESS.
The trade must be perfectly well aware that we
cam
the best stock of harness iu Conyers. You can nhvays get jJ
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Almost anything you need in our line may be found
our store. LAP ROBES, SADDLES, WHIPS, BLOKffl
BRUSHES .COMBS, BITS ETC.
You are cordially invited to save money by trading Si
store. Yours truly,
E, S.EVERITT.
STOVES AND
FURNITURE
We are undisputed!;
in furniture. Our stocl
is composed of all grade
at all prices, To thi
stock we have added a lot
of handsome Iron bed
m
steads, Clocks, Machines
etc.
JH Armed... ■ ■
A big lot of cooking
stoves that We can sell
cheap, You lose monel
if you buy without get
ting our prices.
i
Funeral Directors.
Our stock of coffins and cas¬
kets is complete and we are pre¬
pared to serve the public with
this line of goods. Our hearses
and services are free and we
answer day or night calls. Up
to date styles in trimming and
the la test and best methods of
embalming.
Johnson & Goode,
Funeral Directors.
Advertise your buSin^ 8
M. E, ALLEN
—^Successor to R- B. BRO
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