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MILES OF VARYING LENGTHS.
Seventeen Countries That Have Spe¬
cial Measurements cf Their Own.
English speaking countries, says
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, have
four different miles—the ordinary
mile of 5,2S0 feet and IS geo
graphical or nautical mile cf (5,085,
making a difference of about one
seventh between the two; then
there is the Scotch mile of 5,928
feet and the Irish mile of G,720 feet
—four various miles, every one of
which is still in use. Then almost
every country has its own standard
mile. The Romans had their mil
passuum, 1,000 paces, which must
have been about 3,000 feet in
length, iinlessjve ascribe to Caesar's
legionaries great stepping Capacity,
The German mile of today is 24,318
feet in length, more than four and
a half times as long as our mile.
The Dutch, the Danes and the
Prussians enjoy a mile that is
18,440 feet long, three and one-half
times the length of ours, and the 1
Swiss get more exercise in walking
one of their miles than we get in
walking five miles, for their mile is
9,153 yards long, while ours is only
1,7G0 yards. The Italian mile is
only a few feet longer than ours;
the Roman mile is shorter, while the
Tuscan and the Turkish miles are
150 yards longer. The Swedish !
mile is 7,341 yards long and the;
Vienna post mile is 8,79G yards in
length. So here is a list of 12 dif
ferent miles, and besides this there
are other measures of distance, not
counting the French kilometer,
which is rather less than two-thirds
of a mile.
The Brazilians have a milia that
is one and one-fourth times as long
as our mile; the Neapolitan miglio
is about the same length; the Japa¬
nese ri, or mile, is two and one-half
times ours; the Russian verst is five
eighths as long as our mile, while the
Persian standard is a fesakh, four
and a half miles long, which is said
to he equal to the parasang so fa¬
miliar to the readers of Xenophon’s
“Anabasis.” The distance indicated
by the league also varies in different
countries.—Ledger Monthly.
Imitative Tots at Play.
Wordsworth’s lines of a child at
play, “as if his whole vocation were
endless imitation,” were recently re¬
called by a conversation overheard
in the children’s ward at a provin¬
cial hospital. role that
A little girl whose was tele¬
of nurse rang an imaginary her
phone on the wall to talk to
companion at the farther end of the
room, who played the part of doc
tor.
“Hello!” said the nurse. “Is that
the doctor
“Yes,” answered her companion
in a deep voice. “This is the doc¬
tor.”
“This lady is very ill,” he was in¬
formed.
“Well, what seems to he the mat¬
ter?”
“She has swallowed a whole bottle
of ink,” said the nurse.
The doctor, not flurried, inquired
what had been done for the patient,
but the nurse, too, was ready in
emergencies. answered, “I her two
She gave
pads of blotting paper!”
Queer Eating.
In 1632 it is recorded that a man
named Claudius, a native of Lor¬
raine, a very short, thin individual,
used frequently to swallow with im¬
punity pieces of glass, stones, pieces
of wood, hay, straw, hares’ feet,
pieces of linen, cloth and small liv¬
ing animals, including on one occa
sion a couple of mice. Every one
is familiar with the magic lantern
slide of a man swallowing live mice,
but there are few that are aware
that such a thing has actually been
done. Another man is mentioned
who, finding himself hungry, ate sack. a
sack of charcoal, including the
Flogging Was His Strong Point.
Some one suggested during the
reiq-n of Dr. Keate at Eton that
Christianity was not so much culti¬
vated in his establishment as the
classics, and especially tnat the en¬
deavor to be “pure in heart” was not
sufficiently attended to. The doc¬
tor accordingly addressed ins bovs
upon this point, “Be pure in heart,
or (with sudden energy) I’ll flog
once flogged a whole
class of examinees for confirmation,
thinking they had come up for pun¬
ishment there is no doubt that he
meant to keep his word.
The Sandwich.
How many person 5 ^ 0 daily eat
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sanawicnes arc aware that it is to an
ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich
that that popular form of food owes
its name? The story runs that the
earl in question was very fond of
playing cards, and in order to pre¬
vent having to stop to eat he used
to have a slice of meat put between
two slices of bread and eat these as
be played. This got to be called a
“sandwich,” but gradually the in¬
verted commas were dropped as the
word became an accepted one in the
language.
What Interested Napoleon.
At one of Napoleon's reviews an
ckl grenadier who had made the 1
campaigns hearing of Italy and Egypt, not
his name pronounced, left
the ranks and asked for the Legion
of Honor.
“What have you done,” said Na
poleon, “to obtain this recom
pense?”
“It was I, sire, who, in the desert
of Jaffa, in a dreadful heat, offered
you a watermelon.”
“I thank you again for it, but
that is not worth the Legion of
Honor.”
The grenadier who so far had
been as cold as ice flew into a .
paroxysm and said with great volu
tility, “Do you count for nothing
seven wounds received at the bridge
of Areola, at Lodi, at Castigloine,
at the Pyramids, at Saint Jean
d’Acre, at Austerlitz, at Friedland
—1 in 1 campaigns in Italy, in Egypt,
Austria, in Prussia, in Poland?”
Here the emperor interrupted
him, and imitating his vivacious
language, said: “Well, well, well I
llow you scream! Now you come
to essential points; you end where
you ought to have begun. This is
better than your watermelon.”
Why We See People In Dreamland.
It is quite possible that impres¬
sions upon the mind and upon the
nerves of sight might suffice to con¬
vey the fullest conviction of the
actual presence of one whose image
appeared in a dream, for the last
objects which the dreamer beheld
before falling asleep were his bed¬
chamber and its contents. He
dreams of these, and also of the
figure of his friend, which seems to
he in the midst of them, and he will
in consequence following assert most posi¬
tively on the morning
that “ho was not asleep; he dis¬
tinctly saw the figure standing be¬
side his bed; he could not be mis¬
taken.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.
Butchers and Consumption.
About once a year a story goes
the rounds of the daily press to the
effect that butchers are immune
from consumption. These stories
have been permitted to go uncon¬
tradicted for so long that they have
got to he generally believed.
Now the truth is that the per¬
centage of butchers who die of con¬
sumption is quite as large as the
percentage of those engaged in any
other ordinary line of business. My
reason for giving space to this is
that some butchers might be led to
bc-lieve that they really are im¬
mune from consumption and there¬
fore become careless of their health.
—Butchers’ Advocate.
Baked Potatoes.
The naked potato is more easily
digested than the boiled because its
starch is partly converted into dex¬
trin by the high heat of the oven.
The sweetness of the baked pota¬
to is an evidence of this. If, how¬
ever, baked too long or allowed to
stand after it is done till cool, the
starch becomes waxy and loses its
delicious quality. The invalid and
the dyspeptic should eat baked po¬
tatoes rather than those prepared
in any othe r way.
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Some Household Superstitions.
The gift of a knife cuts friend¬
ship; in handling a needle the eye
and not the point must be extend¬
ed. The dropping of a dishcloth
betokens a visitor, and he or she
will he an entire stranger should a
cock crow in the doorway. It is
unlucky to cut the nails on Friday,
although the Arabians, on the con¬
trary, religiously observe that day
for the purpose. If you sing be¬
fore breakfast, you will cry before
supper, and if you stumble up stairs
you will not be married during the
year. Putting on the left shoe first
is regarded as an omen of ill.
Augustus Caesar put his left sandal
on before his right one, and nearly
lost his life the same day in a mu¬
tiny. That had nothing to do with
it of course, and Butler in his
“Hudibras” scores him frr tte frilly
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THE WILLOWS.
With trunks aslant the wil’owa Btaml I
And o’er the river lean:
TJiey seem to pour their foliage down,
A cataract of green.
Tlioir wind swopt branches downward flow
To mingle with the stream;
The leaflets bend to kiss the waves,
The dearest friends they seem.
And this is why the willows weep
And mourn, n> well you ken;
The little waves all ray goodbv,
But n.’er come back a.rain.
—Ernest Harold Uavnes in Boston Transcript.
TRICKS OF BROWNING'S DOS.
Ways In Which He Showed His Devo¬
tion to His Master.
Robert Browning's mother had
an extraordinary power over aui
mats. \V. J. Stillman says in bis
“Autobiography” that she could
even lure butterflies to her by some
unknown means, and that domestic
animals obeyed her as if by the aid
of reason.
Robert had received a present of
a bulldog of a rare breed which
tolerated no interference from any
person except him or his mother,
and would never allow strangers to
he in the least familiar with her.
When a neighbor came in, he was
not allowed to shake hands with
her, for the dog at once showed his
teeth. Not even her husband was
allowed to approach her too closely,
and if Robert was more familiar
with her than the dog thought
proper the display of teeth was very
evident.
One day, to subject him to a sc¬
vere test, Robert put his arm about
his mother’s neck as they sat side by
side at the table. The dog went
round behind them, put his fore
feet on a chair and lifted Robert’s
arm away with his nose.
There was a favorite cat in tho
family and her the dog hated. One
day he chased her under a cup¬
board and kept her there, besieged
until Mrs. Browning gave him a
severe lecture, and charged him
never to molest pussy more. The
creature obeyed her implicitly.
From that time forth he was never
known to touch the cat, although
she, remembering past tyranny,
bore herself most insolently toward
him. Y r et when she scratched him
he only whimpered and turned away
as if to avoid temptation.
An Amendment.
“Some years ago,” says a writer
in Anecdotes, “when the new lands
in Indian Territory were opened the
small towns which sprang up were
filled with a very mixed population,
and the theaters and traveling the¬
atrical companies were bn a par
with the towns they visited.
“One night the writer was in
Oklahoma City and stepped into a
theater where ‘Trilby’ was packed being
played. The house was with tough
from top to bottom
characters, and the charm : r of the
actors and their acting was, if any¬
thing, tougher, so that even tho
audience became restless.
“The play finally reached the
point where Little Billee is sup¬
posed to clasp Trilby passionately
in his arms, instead of which he
held her at arms’ length, with as
much ardor as he would havgjdiown.
to a bale of hay, and exclaimed,
‘Oh, Trilby, nothing can come be¬
tween us!’ whereat a six foot cow
puncher in the gallery leaned over
the railing and shouted in tones of
supreme disgust:‘Aw, git out! Y*er
could t’row a cow between yer!’ ”
Ruined by His Stomach.
The first Napoleon’s fondness for
mutton and garlic is contended, generally
known, and it lias been
and possibly with some reason, that the
had lie been more abstemious at
time of the battle of Leipsic that
tremendous conflict might have end¬
ed differently. The emperor cer¬
tainly had to quit the battlefield, an
ugly rumor says, from a severe at¬
tack of colic brought on by over
indulgence in one of his favorite hut
indigestible dishes. More merciful
critics see in his illness that day the
commencement of the cancer of the
stomach which seven years later
brought his life to a close, but can¬
cer of the stomach usually runs a
far more rapid course, so that the
disease could hardly have begun in
1813 .
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