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1 m i j /l & i EES a; S’ U 3 *n J i i W-i r? $ - it u J n y L;l -i / * f / Jc’__--©i ii__ & - X_>" V _JaL a 4. t «55 & m i • ! -■ m s' & SJm YOURS FOR BUSINESS. .lonzo Stone ktBakW, ., eenatorial convention 47th) diH.nct., UdB i ?i i w roe '° e \, on Wednesday * iast.j on Akl^) n C Sicne bu,n , 0 f . r, r «-oc onfiiinaUd ■ for staie ’ ff. , e EF Edwards of Gov was made chairman ’: | the conn lies wore ropvt except CJarko. eirg Walton’s time to die senator, Hon. Alon “ e l,a ;\ ng '"T ,!fl T d ! ton for „ thaS ptosition, i e .niraouely accep.e.l Ktiiliou, end mode «l,„ , ld l, rarer of I be den.oe kite 27ih.se.inU,rial d,. [follow [ in h fif ! Dream able am? adopttO . Hon wes . iwas.Tiie circuit of elnc ’ bntier the rotaUon . .. !!! now be. 0 completed, lit {shaving foUo’-veu a utti petdure j« i nominaliny Bales fo; state sqnaior from [lie twenty-seventh sena iistriut, iherei'ote be it— Lived, by the senatorial Lion of said district now Wed. That the executive ittee of this disttict have ritv to prescribe the rules kulations dec tried expedt |t r conducting the pnnta the e uccee d i u g,n o in i n a lor candidates to re-present ptrict.” m DEPRAVITY. [hite worn'in with two N14 and the other 12, into tho county a ago shoeless, lbs aud illiterate. Thej ponj Gordon county and d oq a farnv The boy i? his mother and with a strap, bruising 'N He was indicted for Jll ‘ t an ^ his lawyer plead J* N<- him week. in Gobb-Superior Judge Gfoher ^ it was the first case of an,,, 111 mat ever appeared , be- . in- « Q-,, on wLipp i - - »g , > He sentenced linn in the cbaingaiUD named Dai bv. Tins Nctade of husnail dc p ! ‘d shows the lack of M truly government ft When a boy can grow F ! *.*i Conception of rev- 4 ’“ t respect for his ^'rike her with a - -Mt her w itli a stick Gelled a level of deg J Ul:,t shocks the I ”' 8 of humanity. ‘Heir ‘ i! 'f and rsoiher, I } a dad of God, and v -' '0’ IV 'y 'W 4V “(2%?“ MCD©mzfido 3% [B “:3; : CONYERS, GA. SATURDAY, t UG 25 1900. I -wish to thank the people for their generous patronage the .. * 7v ., past season' and announce that my stock of Family Groceries is complete and marked low to sell. As the fall season opens my stock will be increased and I will be able to serve my customers more . satisfactorily, I ask all to try me and get good fresh goods at lowest prices, My telephone is No. 29. Call me up and give your order and I will assure you of prompt attention. - i-»* b Ic ^. a,,0t1 ^ t-*or« oi what % Oil S) • ) 8ha i; a i. 0 reap. Wrh no tM or religious . ddVa i v „., ". w itl, poverty ever at. ■■ * heels, h!S hoy , s hu*u , at)(i ■■ea t t } ViVe Imeu ‘ neo-iected avtti therefore, destitute H ■ <>* b fihd hilt ‘ ■' ,f. fection and obedience, Otis 'en vb'oninenia Dave a heap to do with destiny, And yet with this shameful treatment, fi'eb'-': her mind, ihat old tnotutu V i for her boy «.<d Jen, ° of p ,. dee,,s ,- WI ?» fathom e ' «•»« ^ W “ otl ”', „ Od. s!,o ohnge lo the son »n|, deatliless devotion. — Main it JoUrnai t i * -----— • Spare 4 thn rod ut»d th‘e chances you vn.l catch . no P um. . a r<? jo . the imdst . , ,, Ot.iiro m mar. . f ,.i s i(1 debt-aid In* ft editors don l allow him to forget it. Tito man who rays you are al ways " long ’.nay be inistah- n nut , ,,, vn who says you ure always right is a liar. If she railway ticket agent Ws .a rigid UCGOldlDR' to tile fool ■ has . . 1; ■ questions . hd , to Hiiswei. woubl keep him bu«V his salary. Happy is the young man with croea eved sweetheart, she never s.eer u- him s.iaigut „w r ,, n , can against ice-cream and oynter parlors. Death is usually a Imppy if jitf from the troubles a mall I Hiirs up for himself during B< u on this wicked old ’ ‘" planet. j Ask a woman questions and j the .shuts up like a clam; do tlie indifferent act, and she’ll tell j all she knows. Beauty would be more than y )e averag woman’s | j COIll pi tX i 6n ccu !d he figured in ^ dea j _ j Never tell a woman that , j take , , her , be artist. would to an j uu * ^ » hv her face unit . ss y 0U - loosing for trouble, ,, \ are inride of | L fe seems to be up ardent desires and vain regrets The prospects are said to be good fur T xis to bat vest year the largest crop of pecans her history, i Re tr es are ! literally loaded wi,n nu -. ; pecan industry is assuming con | jideruhle proportions iu J sippi, also, and in i li ife state the outlook is said to be axceileur. i SfiVaouab News. J Tre^yV^grnvT^ **" ^ • /yS JtueSis u-j j the noli!™?* highlands . without lior this functionary utrfortu“ Td lie L soiJ - for umlr ", a &pler ci.cnmstanees ; he could ,, uot be persuaded »« accept tlu. tin. responsibilitj of h is PQ-- .f'. himse.t ! U the' ceremony. and etujb « ^PfHonri, . • h, 1 A leaf of bread a u a ibese J_ « ««e « ‘ aid upon the corpse, belie of sins conn i 8 The sin eater is lntroili^d wd «lUi much solemnity cats drinks the beer. As he Is frequently a hungry man with a well developed taste for malt liquors, the part is usual¬ little out of keep¬ i ly played with zest a ing with the dreadful nature of the obligation assumed, for it is firmly be¬ lieved that in Unis eating and drinking the sin eater actually burdens his soul with the sins of the deceased.—Kansas City Independent. The Doeskin Wouldn’t Go Ronnd. I Hungary swarms with barristers. It is the greatest ambition of the IIuu garlau peasant to make one of Ids sous 6ii advocate. i The sou of a small fanner In the neighborhood of Budapest was sent bv his father to the law school of that * ; lack of parts t wn puti oit i iCI . tl - 0 ut or t i u , necessary application, he was l)lud£e|1 )u the qualifying examina¬ tion. Not daring to return to the paternal abode empty handed after nil the money that had been spent on Ids edu¬ cation, he conceived and executed the plan of forging a legal diploma. The father was not. however, so Ignorant ns not to be aware that such diplomas i are always written on parchment— kutya-ber (dogskin)—in Hungary, j “Why is your certificate not made out on kutya-berV” asked the old man. i “The fact is, father,” coolly replied ; t ] H , y 0U th. “there are more barristers than degs in Hungary, and so there is 1 not enough kutya-ber to make diplo i mas for us all.”—London Answers. The Too Li berai t»e of s«!t. Salt draws the juices from beef In ! corning, toughens the fiber, makes it , V(1 ,, V i nc jig eK tible and less nutritious. On cucumbers it draws out the water, i toughens the fiber and renders them j very indigestible. Salt acts in exactly the same way on fish as on meat. There are two ways of considering these changes. I would hardly say that salt destroys the food value, al¬ though it robs the flesh of part of Its j f O0! i value S. T. by Rorer making in it less Ladles’ digestible. Home ; -Mrs. ( Journal. Tlie Ercvtty of Bnllnrnb It was in Ballarat that Mark Twain found the local language so puzzling at first, the good people of the place deeming life too short to dawdle In their talk. The-mayor called on the American humorist and laconically said, “Iv’in.” Then when Mark Twain gave him a cigar he simply said. “Q.” Subsequent inquiry revealed that these terms were Ballaratese for "wel¬ come” and "thank you.”—London 1 Chronicle. < so shattered “So she has gone home to her moth er. has she? Don’t you know, it’s the saddest thing on earth to think of a trusting, fond woman awakening to find her ideals have been shattered, that she loves him no longer, that her Idol lias feet of clay — “Oh. there was nothing of that sort i in it. She loves him as well as ever, I but she went back to ma because she i was hungry.”— Indianapolis Tress. f?f n ljt»—Is that new prison guard vigl j an t? to! ,i bim the gas was escaping, and he grabbed liis gun.—Chicago News. Answered. “A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer. Ain’t that so?” i “I can’t answer you.”-Iudianapell* Journal BEE MCDONALD. rr«^T««“r* oV'uf ^t™fchh!‘^ules aUtl is developed in proportion to its “ It ideates, therefore, a man’s habits and his mode of life. If he has sat all day with one legdap ped over the other, nnn on chair, head on hand, listening or studying—pnach ^ profeSsora and all other sedenta ries sit like tUis-tlieu the thigh ^ |uBwlc „ tliwp> tUe bones 0 f the ankle bulge, and the knee joints push through. If he delivers mail or ^ o) . drivi<s iV p!i , u nul ,e or walks a towpnfh, the muscles of the ^ ^ ^ cal)kg> tl)e knee of knots—one big bunch just be low the strap of his knickerbockers, should he wear them. If be carries big weights on his back —sacks of salt, as do the stevedores in Venice; or coal in gunnies, as do the coolies lu Cuba, or wine casks or ooffea iu bugs—then the calves swell abuor mally, the thighs solidify; the lines, of beauty are lost, but the lines of strength remain, If. however, he has spent Ids life in the saddle, rounding up cattle, chasing Indians, hunting baud its m .lexieo, ankle and foot loose. Ids knees clutched tightly, bugging that other pait of hi n, the -horse, then the muscles ol the thigh round out their lutendcd lines the most subtle iu the modulating curv lug of the body. F. Ilopkinson Kniith iu Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. A ctrer.B Horne in imttte. Colonel Charles Marshall, who was aid-de-camp to (leuerat Robert Lee and who went through the battles of the war with ids chief, told the fob towmg amusing story of his eKperiem-e SJS Ulm in t!»e flffht of the previous dav. ami he had taken possession cf an animal that seemed to suit the work. In the battle a few hours later he was riding across a field in which there were numerous stumps. Sudden!v the performance opened. The guns roared and the air was tilled with smoke ami noise, before Colonel Marshall knew v.bat was happening the horse had his four feet on one of the stumps and was gayly dancing iu a circle. In the mean time the was increasing, and the situation was anything but comfortable, but the horse kept on as if he were enjoying it. “It was uot until afterward.” su'd Colonel Marshall, "that 1 found the horse had belonged to a circus and had been trained to do this act amid the firing of cannon.” The Track Foreman. The track foreman actually accounts for a greater proportion of the rail road’s expenditures than any other ein - ployee, because the greatest cost of railroading is in the roadbed, and its equipment and the expense of main . taining it. The track foreman is in fact an important employee, but about the onlv time a passenger ever sees his sunburned face is while he is being whisked by between stations at GO miles au hour.—New York Sun. The Seatenl Totvn In the Worltl. Brock, in Holland, is far famed as the “neatest town iu the world.” This town is so fastidious (lint until a few years ago horses were uot allowed In its streets for reasons of cleanliness. and the entire town is as scrupulously kept as a man-of-war. It Is a village of 2,700 inhabitants, the main industry which is the ranking of Edam cheeses. —Boston Transcript. Vot'a Service*. Clergyman—Bat. there’s a hole in tho roof of the church, and 1 am trying to collect money sufficient to repair it. Come. now. what will you contribute? Pat—Me services, sor. Clergyman—What do you mean, Tat? You are no carpenter. Tat—No. but if it rains next Sunday, Oi’U sit o'er the bole.—Pearson’s. A Trm> Picture. Critic—T must congratulate you on the \ ilia.n of t our pi. .. IU lent rs the Imp'.esMon o jet n .aw i ioi . the lire, Autbor-He was. I may say to you tba * 18 aa es3ct Wtrait of myself W au wife deDic-ts me,- Brooklyn Life. ff?” Bw ,W ,2, B ,3 fggpmafid 3 JSir Krw^vrtiw Si! ^as m^lni t tlnet and undeterminable. lids was so faint that one guest declared “It’s uot a taste at all, onlj a smell. At length some one suited that the chef be asked for the recipe, upon which the host remarked: -jiy „ )a u greatly dislikes being asked for recipes. Ou tUla occasion, however, h is vanity may overcome him if we tell how greatly we have enjoyed the dinner, and the see.”' salad In particular. A t any rate, we'll The Frenchman scon appeared, and v)sHily afft , ctedi uot to say elated, b y the compliments, “Eet gif me gret plaisir,” he said, *‘to tell how 1 tank ze sal-lad. Eet ver’ seemple. I baf zo laltue ’range ready; ai) i haf ze meat chop ver’ fine an dry; ze celeri l baf chop ver’ fine; an I baf ze pamme do terve, ze patate, an s tan a leetle an dry, zen I mix zem U p. Zeu I mak’ ze drosseeng mayon nalse; mudnme, she know, I haf all ver’ col' ready as ze leesli ees serf. Zen ns ze sal-lad ees to serf, I tak tine tote d'nll, pnrdonnez mol, -one leetle cloaf of ze garlook nn ueebie him in ze mouth, so. an breathe gentle, vev’ gentle, on ze sal-lad. Zat gif eet zo flaveur del'cat.”—Wliat to Eat. Snfrnr In the Human System. Sugar is a substance that dissolves easily and iu considerable quantity In water. When hi solution It easily pass ^ through auimai s membrane by °f u,osls ; n;id ™ 1 J(> ':■*««««» of It* j 1 hi ^ ' <> “ 011 sc dl *™ ® I,rt,,i u ! : ^'v 1 01 ’ tliut f ’7 i Nnn P^tuUy . , , 1 vet ti n no »u‘Gh for the lack of it. Something cIsc hti3lde « its ,u( ‘ r -° enCe Ia t G «*«!«*> necessary to secure its const.mptIon by the tissues Bernard U.ought that the liver was « ^ consmnption of sugar ami hflt ,lis ^ se ,jf tldfj 0, ^ an C « US0(1 ,lia ' ^tes He therefore , secured some of «»«■• f ia K ,0 the liver of a living animal and some of the blood that was Just leaving it. To Ids surprise, blood leaving tlie liver contained sugar than that entering it. After assuring himself that liis ob servatlour. were correct, be tried liis experiments In different ways. He found that even in the blood leaving the liver of an animal that had been fed only on substances containing no sugar, sugar could be demonstrated, Even In a fasting animal the liver It i sedf and the blood leaving It showed j 1 the The presence only of possible a form conclusion of sugar. from 1 1 this was that the liver was.capable of manufacturing this form of sugar out of nonsugar containing material, or even from the blood of a fasting aui mal.—Catholic World, | Convcrtlnu Hie Cliinnninn, j When I first met him the Greek archimandrite had been 40 years in J’sking, and had never been anywhere else except for two caravan journeys to Russia. He was an elderly gentle¬ man, with a smile like Benjamin Franklin’s, and was famed at the Chl- 1 capital for keeping tlie best wines nose and the best tobacco, fie was a bachelor, and today I recall him when 1 try to fancy Epicurus lu the body, He were the Chinese pigtail and clothes to match, and people said he could give Chinese mandarins points on etiquette. He gave me, at least, many happy hours, for lie talked with a frankness and facility rarely united in a Russian, least of all an nrchl niandrite. 1 One day. for Instance, I nsked him bluntly how many converts he had made. He answered that he thought i he had made one. but he did not wish j to be taken ns stating this positively. When I returned to China after an In- j terva! of 2! years, all my inquiries led me to respect the honesty of this Rus¬ sian. He said, furthermore: "I have lK>en here 4u years, and per¬ haps I have converted one Chinaman. ^yi J( , n missiouarics tell you that they j jj ave njoi'e than that, do not he lleve them- — Poultney Bigelow in North American Review. NO. 3?. , ac j ^tSk'.^mn’cIhiV poke’s, S niffc‘«l the young lady 7ns as else flounced * of tbc 10 . (t! , mu-hing .ha young man to cling to the good old, un tn!Ty , ; ,lk when he de slro „ 10 i >0 complhnontary.-Baltimore American. ’ftio Tavern lor I’onrl. The largest price eve; asked and paid for a single pearl was •SViO.Oh'O, which was the value of the great Tavernier pearl, it is the largest and must per , f,, ct gem of ns kind known. It is c.vactly two Inches in length and oval shaped. Tlse l Hiial Iteply. A year ago a tailor mustered courngo enough to send'Ids bill to an editor, y t > received it yesterday with a polite note, saying, “Your manuscript' is ro epectfully declined." Ten million dollars annually is ex p pnd ,,,i London for umbrellas. The j K > ( ,pi t . there are accustomed to carry them whether It Is mining or not and lu all sort;j (jf weather, The ill doing cf a good thing Is a very p m it evil. i --- Shiiple finest!euo. The beginnings of a new primer havo been made hy one of our exchanges. The questions may be indefinitely con* tinned by teacher and pvjpil. “Bee the eoi'U iu the field. Can the corn walkT ■ i “No, the corn ctnika.” “Bee the pretty cake. Does t!;o cake stalk if” “Never. Cut you cbcul J t:eo a cako walk.” “I have a rope. Can the rope walk?” “Yea, if it is taut.” “The hen Is iu the garden. Docs the hen rise?” “No, the hen sets.” “The mercury is in the tube. Will the mercury set?” “No, my child. Walt until July and see.” A Variation. The two old friends, as has been nar rated before, met again after many years of separation, “By the way, brown,” said .Tones, “do you remember that snubnosed cross eyed little Tilbury girl with a face on her that would derail an express train? She used to live somewhere In your neighborhood. I think.” “Oh. yes, I reineuiber'her perfectly,” replied Brown, “Whatever became of her?” “I nm sorry to disappoint you, Jones”—here is where the variation comes in—“but I have-not the slightest idea. I didn’t marry her.”—Loudon King. Awry Tron Home. It breaks parents to have their boys leave liomc, but it is the best thing that can ever happen to them. A man gets n training when away from home that he needs in after life, and which he can never receive at home, It is a grandmotherly notion that a man should be tucked in liis l ed at home every nbrbt until the day he marries and goes to a home of his own; such hothouse treatment puts him in poor condition for the cold blasts he Is bound to encounter later ia life.—At¬ chison Globe. The Other Way. A pale nml disheveled Frenchman who had not found “a life on the ocean weve” all that could be expected, was sinking ir.to his steamer chair, when a passenger asked cheerily; “Ah, good morning, monsieur; have you break¬ fasted ?” “No. monsieur,” answered tho pallid Frenchman. "1 have not breakfasted; on the contrary;” A part of the curious list of Lady Lit¬ tleton's wedding outfit 200 years ago is as follows: "A black pnddyswny gown and coat, a pink imwatered pabby sute of chunks, a g id stuff sute of cloatbs, n white worked with sneal sute of clor.ths.” Only Turkish flags are allowed ia Constantinople.