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THE 1 CONYERS WEEKLY YOL. XVIII. r l M-ION3L.SY! t V* m m Holds his seat in the Pr idea tiui chair looking f out for the interest of the O A TJ TTEDSTATES WHILE ^ ywvw^ 1 - T *■> #T w vAh**.’ Holds his foot on WghjMces and competitors with new goods, good s A ()f Rookd#le county alu! tho8e ri C We hurrah for Who spend their mone> here. sav 4 0 Olxt 1 Gash House. ■BanaanwMMnmn>7r\'r(ei {Zu i ii-^ii^T.eabniiU avrrr-iriifr.TS HaveYourOottonGinneJ At rOWYRS OIL GO O falfL Latest HUNGER System. Makes best TURN OUT. Makes BEST SAMPLE Buyers prefer and pay more for it. Highest price paid for sound seed, TRY us and be CONVINCED. Conyers Oil Co s. Gin. D. Scott, Mgr. Gin. mil am ® If your Bicycle needs Repairing? If your Gun or pistol needs Repairing; If your watch or eioclc needs Repairing; If jewelry of any kind needs Repairing ; your Me. Bring it to work is guaranteed to give satisfaction. My Shop first door above Hudsons. a B. IRWIN. m School Books pads, pencils s q nd. inks. School Supplies AT OF ALL KINDS RIGHT PRICES GAILEY DRUG COMPANY. CONYERS. GA. SATURDAY, NOV- 17, 1900. Some tin* »*- a rural l»(*r the following: 1 hast week a barn in buck county was struck by lightning, set on fire and burned t,o tne ground. This makes the fifth c-aso of incendi¬ arism in the district this year 1 i • This reminds the London Daily Chronicle of an account publish _ journal in Scotland of damage church by lightning, a part, of which read thus: “This, the act of a wise providence that oatinot err, might have been a voided if the steeple had been provided with a lightning con d ictor, as it ought to have been.* i i To PATENT Good 1dm may be secured by i our am, Address, TriE PATENT REC0H0, BalUmsrs, RM SnbscrtDtlons to TSo r.tent Itecord ll.a.ptr^n-r Pianos and Or¬ gans for sale by J. P. Tilley. i Vt My undertaking establish¬ ment is well fitted up and my stock of undertaking goods is complete. Attention prompt and ca pable. Hearses free of Charge. W. T\ Amaiid, Undertaker & Embamer 1 I HcELVANEY & BRODNAX AGENTS, We represent some of the best Fire Insnrance .Companies in existence and ask the public generally to see us before plac¬ ing their risks. Office in Banner office under hotel. McELVA NEY <& BRODNAX ^BOUT RESCUE GRASS A CORRKSPONOKXr G1VK9 HIS KXl’KRIKVCK WITH THIS VALUABLE CROP. PROPER. SEASON TO PLANT If Properly Cared Kor It Can tl( Drought Vp t® iv High State of i promotion la UeorgtM. Oobncl O. B. Stevens, Commissioner oi Agriculture! Quk.stion’.—I have read with much in terest your article on Rescue Grass pub lisbed in one of your monthly talk! some time since. ‘ I have determined to try this grass this fall, aud should liks for you to give me, if possible, tried the expo it iu rienoe of some who have Middle and Northern Georgia. Hoping to hear from you by Nov. 15. Answer.—I n reply to your inquiry we are satisfied that we cannot bettci answer your letter than by giving the experience of Mr. J, P, Baxter of Sn> wanee, Ga., and Mark W. Johnson ol Atlanta. In reply to an inquiry of ours Mr. Baxter wroto us as follows: Suwaner, Ga. Hon. R. F. Wright, Assistant Commis¬ sioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Sir—I n reply to your request about my experience with Rescue Grosf I auswer that I think it to be the fines! grass for winter grazing and the mod prolific grass of southern latitudes. Rt quiriug a rich, loamy soil, coming up iu September, growing rapidly even din¬ ing the coldest winter days, affording rich pasturage of the most sucoulen! stems and leaves from Dec. 1 to May I, or it may be mowed for hay two to thre< times daring April and May, and theu allowed to mature a crop of seed, which, in gathering, will shatter or leave enough seed on the ground to reseed tht land, so that one sowing, if proj orly treated, will suffleo. I have been growing It for fire year! and have, after mowing two or threi times, made at the rate of 100 to 15( bushels of seed per acre. Got off of 1 rod, measured, garnered and threshed by others, pecks, equal to 200 bush els per acre. The seed may be sown from June tc February. There are some peculiarities about th« grass seed. They will not gerinitiate in summer, the colder the weather in win¬ ter the faeter it grows, unless the stemi have commenced jointing, when afreew will kill it down, only to come oul again in increased numbers. It make! a gradual growth when not grazed oi mown. Mowing it down only hasteni it* growth. I have hod the same plat, part mown once and pert twice, all ma ture at the same time. I have three plats which mature aboar May 1 to 10. Owing to seed of head* mot all ripening st same tune enough nod will be left on the ground to re •eed the land. Two *f the*# plat* I break up aboai June 1 to 18, fertilize and sow in pea*, the other I plant iu corn and field beans 1 think the gra*« by this pr<>ce*s im¬ proved the last three years, and mad* in may mnjf dormant until the oool night* in September. The seed are quoted by eeedmen at VI cents per ponnd, but about >00 poaudl may be had of Dr. A. M. Wiun & Sob of Lawrence ville, Ga., at 18 cents pel ponnd, or 10 ponnd* at 11 eents, or ol undersigned a small amount, say ICC ponnd*, at same price. Note—Thirty pound* will sow out acre. C05T0F REVENGE. Last wet>k at the Pick wick'a party of gentlemen were convers ing, I3aid oue of them: “Twenty t ears ago I was hunt ing on the field of a neighboring farmer and hart h-*«grd a good¬ ly number of f.u quail when the land owner appeared, took the fruits of my hunt and severely chastised me. I went, home much angered, but kept my own council. The days passed md I seemed to be overcome by a burning desire for ven¬ geance. I chanced to read some thing about Jehnson grass, in rhe New York Sun one day,and I struck upon a plan to get even with my enemy. Ilia farm '* ap i fine one, embracing about 300 acres. I procured a bushel of the grass seed and under cover of night I scattered them over that farm. A few months later my father moved to a distant state. The years passed by and I grew to manhood 1 The mem ory of ray chastising and my le venge had been long forgotten. One day some years ago, I met a lovely young lady at the home of a friend. I was smitten, laid siege to her heart and hand and m irried her. Her parents were dead andher worldly possessions consisted of a 300 acre tract of of what she termed wild land in my former state of residence I vent to see it, and imagine my surprise to recognize in it the old field where I had Bun¬ ted, received the licking and sowed the seed for revenge The whole truth at once dawn ed upon me. I had married the daughter of the old fanuei and my wife was the undisput¬ ed owner of one of the finest fields of Johnson grass on the face of the eaith. That iand in its present condition is worth about 50 rents an acre, but if J could just get rid of that accurs Johnson grass, it is worth NO. 46 $30 per acre • l have *pent$10M on it already an l it begins to look as if ns much n.ore would he required to reclaim it.—Dal¬ las (Tex) News • flora 1 Cou r-age. T! e moit pitiful paradox in 11 a ture is physio*! bravery allied with moral cowardice. A iikui may he as brave as a lion when it comes to a personal encount¬ er. where mere brute force is all that is required, but if he has not the moral courage to do right for the sake of right., he is a detestable travesty on mail hood- No man need be afraid to do right, He may avoid the coniequences of a fiUiculi' and still lie braver than Uaesar . It takes a fine sense of cour age and a pure heai t to bo able foreknowledge an error and eu deaver to Fepair a wrong and the man who can do it deserves all praise from his fellow m ill and God will not withhold from him his j ist reward. If .we were true to our nobler and better instinct*, temptations would not find us vulnerable to every assault, but too often we areleJ fs'ray by our selfidi motives • The thing to cultivate is not so much of iron muscle, but a hea>t cf st al, yet sufficient to resist every temptation. The least sin possible is the lope o? mankind. Absence of sin is a drnani of Angels—Ex • • Sava u all has made her first shipment of phosphite lock to Honolula • In speaking of the event The Morning News has this to sav: “This shipment, which wtnl in an American V68 sel, must traverse the long route around South America, consutu ing 150 days or more in the pas sage. If such shipments can be profitably made over that long distance, how ruuch more profitably could similar ship meats be made by way of an isthmian canal. With a ship canal across Nicaragua the dis¬ tance from Savannah to Hono¬ lulu would be cut in half, and the commerce from this port to the islands might reasonably hi expected to become important, ’*