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TT 5" illb \W OONYHRS m&y' WE,, ii •U fiy VOL. XVIII. « » -) -XV J / V 4. r ■>. 5fc /: M of Groods aud ¥" Lowest Prices. Money spent with them is money saved. mut If your Bicycle needs Repairing; If your Gun or Pistol needs Repairing • • If your watch or clock needs Repairing ; If your Jewelry of any kind needs Bring it to Me. My work is guaranteed to give satisfaction, snap rirst dcror above Hudsorrar' C. B. ERWIN. 3'v P~; BLere! For the cheapest cash grocery store in town call On N. V. Richardson. Conyers, Georgia. Corner I). M. Almand Building. New Meat Market. I have opened up a meat market in Cornsr store room ill Night building. \5J\W keep n\oe, frash meaYe, ©Y. reaaonab\ Yr\ces„ \ soWcitthe ’Qa.lror't age oV'One peopte. Give xm o q Co.ll IS, I. least. Ml* ras. CONYERS, GA.. SATURDAY, DEC- 1, 1900. s bought old; Mrs. Genie IIay good’s millinery business I expect to oiler to tlie people, this season, a. handsome line of new an 1 stylish millinery at low prices T --It shall be my aim to please all custo¬ mers and I invite all to call and see me. —--1 haye^engaged Mrs J. A, Guinn as trimmer and Teel sure that perfect satisfac¬ tion will be given all. Hoping to 3 *our trade, I am III**** * ** " RESPECTFU LLY Miss Lena Have We Got Them? Some things every town A liar, a sponger, a sm its richest man, some girls, a girl who giggles, weather prophet, a hood feud, half a dozen a woman who talks., a who knows it all, more than it needs, a boy who up in church’ a few old women, a preacher thinks he ought to run town, a stock law that is enforced, a bachelor who is gay for his age, some men make remarks about women, few who know how to rvn affairs of tke town, a young man who laughs every time he says anything, a girl who goes to the postoffice every time the mail comes, a legion of putty heads who can tell the editor how to run his paper, scores of men with the caboose of their trousers worn smooth a 9 glass, a man who grins when you talk and laughs out loud after ho has said something.- To Encourage Matrimony. Frenchmen are becoming a larmed at the low and decreas ing birth rate in the.r and steps are being taktn to encourage matrimony. A de creehas been issued by the new Minister of War abolishing the requirement that every officer of the army who m:irri;s shall receive wjth h;s bride, as a dot, sutp producing not less than whq envy me," The enterview e r astonished. and said j thing about Miss Rockefeller^ being a philosopher; to which s he replie f: Not a philosoher : 0 nly a thinker. It is poverty w hic’i perhaps taught others to think: I learned it through wealtn. AJany persons wl o are inclin ed to envy rich may learnt a profitable lesson from this mil 1,200 francs a year. Officers are now permitted to marry at pleasure. There is talk, too, Pi ac ‘ n £ ta * upon bachelors, in an effort to drive them into the matrimonial fold if they will not enter it voluntarily.-— Ex • Happiness and Wealth. A London paper reports an interview with Miss Rockefeller, daughter of the Amencan pe troleum king- After putting several questions which the young woman readily auswered, the euterprising interviewer ventured to siy ‘•And now, tell me, as you no doubt belong to the class of the most envied of all women, wheth er I may presume that you happy ? » 1 Miss Rockefeller is repoited to have replied • ‘“Hap py? Can one buy happiness with money? Are ti:ere not many things to make us quite un.iappy which money change, abd then are not spoil ed ones more positive in the principles of life than the others? No; I am not happy, and you tell it to all 1 School Books pads, pencils, and inks. chOol Supplies OF ALL KINDS AT RIGHT PRICES. GAILEY \mOr COMPANY. liouaire’s daughter 1 The de¬ sire for liHppilioK* I s ! common to every human bmug, hut the rich arc no more free from wretchediless than the poor, al¬ though their trials may come in a somewhat different shape The fact is the pursuit of hap¬ piness based upon merely mate¬ rial or worldly things is decep¬ tive to rich and poor alike. If it were possible for men and women to be perfectly happy in th'8 world, they wou ! d not care for another existence which is called the true land of the liv¬ ing, and where perfect happi¬ ness can alone be found. Soon¬ er or later this lesson is taught ..very human being, and happy is the man who discovers it in time, to prepare for blissful e ternity ■—Augusta Chronicle. Threshing Old 5traw. The hastening of the year toa close has revived the discuseiou as to when the century vvi’l It is a waste of time to try to reason with a fellow w ho caD’t see ■“ H Klanc0 ' lhat 1000 3™“* must end before the 19th cen tury will be complete, and that tIie fim year ot tl,0 new CP,,tu Wl11 be ia01, Nintfe0U T cen ‘ are nineteen hundred Subtract nineteen cen then, from 1901 and you have left 1 year. the com¬ of the new’ century. —At a meeting Friday of the dock holder* of the cotton !C vvaa decided that funds siifli lo construct a snse null that oiild be operated profitably were available, and the enterprise been abandoned,—Madison NO. 48 —The Glascock Banner shoots i his out: “An old foql that, hae about served his time oneavli is not fo much to be earn] for, but tiie young man or lady who trapes in and out of church dur¬ ing sei vices, with the hope of being noticed by somebody, is to be pind," True w»t is never injurious to others. Pharaoh’s daughter wasn’t a broker, hut she got a little proph¬ from the rushes on the bank. Our happiness in this w’orbl chiefly on the affec¬ we are able to inspire, A p-omise is the offspring of and should be ti ur by recollection. A weetside tobacconist hands purchaser a neighboring card, He who has lost all confidence lose not hing more. ABOVE 5t24ofTi A Georgia 5EA. I Agricultural College m j 59 ManBuiloinc. tt TbFRON. ill . _ __ _____ A * u . a.b, religion* influences. un^re/kay “a 6; u' tnfder lb * **“*' Sen4 Ior sotImTajSTY sam r