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The Norcross Advance. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2 00 • One copy, one year - - • ; • ; . |ive copies „ ...... $15.00 —ADVERTISING RATES:— o Space 1 w 2 wil in 2 m 6 m. 12 m finch sToo $ Tso $26054 50 $ 6 001 $lO 00 2 “ 150 250 450 725 F>oo 1800 3 “ 200 300 500 90015 00 22 00 4 “ 250 350 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 WOOL 300 425 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 U “ 550 800 12 50 25 00 40 00 50 00 1 “ 10 00 15 00 15 001 22 001 62 00| 100 00 Advertisements less than one-tourth of a column to be charged for bv the square —for first insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con tracts er n >e made where short advertise enents are inserted for a longer period than thr e months. One inch shall consti tute a sc.tare. Marriage notices and obituaries, ex ceeding six lines, will be charged for as jadaertl aments. Personal or abusive communications •will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are respectfully solicited from any source. SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO., Publishers. IN QUIET DAYS. BY CARL SPENCER. The dying year grows strangely mild, Now, in the hazy autumn weather, My heart is like a happy child, And life and I, friends reconciled, 'Go over the hills together. My peaceful days run sweet and still As waters slipping over sand, Seeking the shadows, of free will, To gather tenderer lights than fill Day’s over lavish hand. The summer wood with music rings, The singer’s is a troubled breast; I am no more a bird that sings, But that which broods with folded wings Upon its quiet nest. O! fairest month of all the year! O! sweetest days in life ! they melt; Within, without, is autumn cheer, •September there, September here, So tranquil and so sweet. F * Oft have I watched all night with grief, All night with joy, and which is best ? Ah! both were sharp and both were bijef, My heart was like a wind-blown leaf, . I give them both for rest. Fair, quiet, close Io joy allied, But loving shadier walks to keep, By day is ever at my side; And all night long with me abide Peace, aud her sister Sleep. FALLEN MEN. A writer in the Chicago Tribune has stirred up the public mind l y discussing the rather odd problem of “fallen men.” Society is taken to task for admitting to its Tanks the unfortunate of the male sex, while a barrier stronger than adamant is Opposed to the introduction into that sacred area of unhappy women, vho have sinned. This Chicago writer says if there is any blame a* all in the matter it is with the ladies themselves, for they constitute and rule what is known as “society.” Gail Hamilton says : “If women were as care ful to select pure, honorable nu n for hus bands, as men aro to chouse virtuous women for wives, there would be less 'complaint than now.” To which the Commentator adds this ter rible, and, in many respects, truthful ver dict: “Let women refuse admission to thoii society men of disreputable character, with the same degree of feminine aversion that they manifest towards a fallen woman, and, presto! society is purified at once. Let them disregard all claims of wealth or family position that such men bring, and simply say, as society does in the case of the woman, that one blot upon a man de bars him forever from admission to the society of the good and pure, and it will not be long before all complainers will have no occasion to accuse society of deal ng unjustly with sinners. I presume that, in the event of such an experiment, young ladies might banish from their presence favored courtiers, and perhaps lx; obliged to attend theatres with Mamma for an es cort ; but let us have either a cessation of this incessant croaking, or an app'(cation of the right remedy, and less talk about “a home for fallen men.” WHY THE SOUTH IS POOR. The Columbus Enquirer says the South is poor, not because we have less thrift or intelligence than othei sections, but because we do not wisely use our gift*. The profits of our labor go to enrich Europe mid the North and West Though our cotton money amounts annually to hundreds of millions it must go abroad to pay for al most everything wo eat and wear. Perhaps a hundred millions go to Euroj>c. France and Germany for extravagant dressing aud fancy goals, twice as much more to the West to pay for provisions, furniture, etc. Our agricultural implements are nearly all ; made abroad. How much g»ws to Cincin- ' nati for whiskey ? How much to Tennes see and other States for guano, hay, dressed poultry, pork and Bologna sausage t Why cannot our farmers raise poultry, and why , not our butchers make as gtxxl satis ge as Tennessee or any other State t Thus in Ihonaands of ways our profit* are borne away, and we are left without money, completely at the mercy of those upon whom we are dependent. It is time our people were reflecting seriously upon their Ymaalage and turning their attention to > **>"* aud means to prevent the outflow of ®on*y from our ml Ist. Let ns encourage home production in every possible way, for j I o»ly by so doing can we ; fwwr poritkaj of w alth and Mepend enoe. There are two reaons why wane people ’ •ever ut nd Uwrr own ~ ] that they haven't any t . h „ j *wnd is that they have no | , THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. CHAPEL ROOM TALK, BY J. U. VINCENT. SCIENTISTS AND THEOLOGIANS. Synoptizcd for the Advance. Young Ladies and Gentlemen: We hear much now-a-days about the conflict between scientific truth and religious truth. We have recently heard more than one well meaning speaker say that scientists were laboring to flood, the world with infidelity. We have but to take up any relig ious or respectable journal to find endless controversies between the constructors of scientific sys tems and the constructors of theo logical systems. Now, I am here this evening to inform you there has been, there is, and there can be no conflict between scientific and religious truths. Honest scientists study the revelations of, God in the framework of nature: honest theologians study the revelations of God in the divine scriptures. Nature gives us the divine method of science; the Bible gives us the divine method of theology. Be tween these two plans and the facts evolved from them there is no clashing. Both have the same object—God, both read the works of the same author —God, both discover the same’ light—God. The devotees of science seek the Original Principle, but the Original Principle is God. The devotees of theology seek God, but God is the Original Principle. Science and revelation teach alike and always the grand Mosaic story of creation. Read nature or read revelation, you find the same grand incomprehensible lesson whose giver is God. We may phi losophize or theologize, in the end God is the basis and the back ground—simply the All. He is God of the universe, not by our permission, but by His sovereign ty. He cannot be volatilized out of it by chemists, nor kept in it by the labors of theologians. Every fact discovered by men has its place in nature’s temple, and no fact can prove fatal either to science or religion. There is, however, controverseis between the constructors of scien tific systems and the constructors of theological systems. But the contradiction arises from the ig norance of the constructors. Big Qted scientists gather a few facts, and syllogise them, with the conclusion that they have all the truths discoverable in their line, and with them there is no truth, out of their line. Bigoted theo logians get into certain channels, catch a glimpse of the truth, theo rise upon it, and colligate a sys tem which, with them, embodies all truth. The former anti-theosize the universe and find a god in an original principle, or in a sponta neons generator, or in a primordial form, or in a self-existing cell; the latter apotheosize their own system and find a god in the uni verse by their own sufferance, acting by their sufferance, in fact, a god only by their sufferance. The former strive to defend their own system, while both disregard the divine system. Both ask not, “Is this true,’’ but “ will it do for us to admit this is true?” The scientists say: “This is contrary to inj theory, therefore it is false.” The theologians say: “ This is con trary to the rules of my church, therefore it is false.” Both are charlatans self-deified bigots shut out from light and dead to truth. Os course their theories clash. But it does not follow that there is a conflict between religious truth and scientific truth. Honest I scientists delve in every inch of 1 nature's great temple, dig up the facts, and announce these facts without regard to consequences. They ride no hobby. They love truth, seek truth, and accept truth wherever found. They make no fight with God. They ask for facts, and accept facts without consider ing the effect upon pev dogmas or harmonized creeds or gospels. These facts they systematise and their system is science, which —“grasps with its Transforming hand, And nuikes real half the tales of fairy laud, It turns the deathliest fetor to perfume; If gives decay new life and rosy bloom; It changes filthy rays to virgin white; Makes pure in spirit what was foul to sight.’ They transform the deadly earth into glass. If God is mirrored in the glass they see Him and accept Him; if the tomb of church creeds is mirrored in the glass they glad ly enter the funeral precession, for they know from the tomb of the creeds will spring a grander building of God’s Truth. Os all men it least becomes ministers to charge scientists with infidelity. It is a historic fact that scientists are the strongest pillars of the Christian pulpit. When her citadels are invaded, scientists with truth piled upon truth al ways come to the rescue and con vertfearful defeatinto triumphant victory. This pulpit detraction and alarm is charlatanism so pue rile and despicable that it brands its authors as ignorant and besot ted bigots. FEEDING ANIMALS. Farmers who make feeding of animals an important part of their business, ought to know that their unremitting growth is the only true and successful way of treat ing them. This is the course which the most successful pork-raisers pursue in feeding their hogs reg ularly through winter and sum mer, till they are sufficiently fat in the autumn. Many intelligent persons are ac customed to suppose that poor animals may, ifi a short time, be changed into fat ones by stuffing them with rich food. The more food they can make them take in a day or a week, the quicker, they suppose, they will become fat and fit for market. But this is a false opinion, as experiments clearly show. The overfeeding is always wasteful; for after all the animals gain but little fat, and the owners begin to think that the fattening of them for market is an unprofit able business. An owner may withhold the pro per quantity of food from his hogs and cattle, and even half starve them for months, and then may change his mode of treating them, and glut them with excessive food, and thus hope rapidly to put them in fat condition; but the attempt will prove abortive, as the growth of tho animal from the earliest period of their existence, and their increasing in fat and flesh, must continue on without interruption till they arc marketable. Careful observations prove that the profits of raising and fattening cattle and hogs arc realized only when they are regularly fed from day to dav, with neither too scant or heavy feeding. Some object to this mode of treating their ani mals. They wish to finish the fat tening process in two or three months, and think it is too expen sive to continue it for two or three years. This would be the case if their way of feeding was the cor rect on •; but it is not, for heavy feeding is not requisite to keep up the continued growing condition of the animals. We have in mind an observing farmer who carefully weighed all the animals ho was fattening every week. To a fine steer he gave daily four quarts of barley meal, and he found the increase in its weight to be ten pounds per week. He then tried the experi ment of giving eight quarts per day, and he found the weekly in crease of weight was less than when four quarts were given. Twelve quarts were now given daily, and at the end of the week there was no gain of flesh. These facts teach all persons who feed domestic animals that there is such a thing as feeding their stock so largely or heavily that the profits will be less than *f the stock were to receive small er allowances. When a portion of the feed passes away without hav ing been digested, it is a reliable indication that feed is not con sumed as profitable as it should be. A certain lawyer had his por trait taken in his favorite atti tude-standing with one hand in his pocket. His friends and cli ents all went to see it,and every body exclaimed, “Oh, how like! it's the picture of him!” An old farmer only dissented: “'Taint like!” Exclaimed everybody: “Just show us where it 'taint like ” “'Taint—no 'taint!” responded the farmer. “Don't you see, he has got his hand in his own pocket; ’twould be as like again if he had it in somebody's else.” Beecher says never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes when anoth er feeling will not. NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1873. FARMING IN THE SOUTH. One of the greatest errors in Southern farming has been resting the soil after it w r as worn out, that it may be recuperated by the slow' process of the growth and decay of crop after crop of weeds. Bet ter rest such land before it is ex hausted by a crop of peas or of other green crops ploughed in ; and save the years it will take to fertilize the soil by the scanty growth of Aveeds. The application of very little farm yard or special compost manure, with the aid of the atmosphere, will give a green crop, and if two such crops are necessary to bring the land to a bearing fertility, it still save time and be more econotnical than to lose the use of the land for a much longer period, and then have to manure it before it will bring paying crops.— N. C. State Agricultural Journal. BEES ON A SMALL SCALE. There are many householders whose means will not enable them to buy a cow' or provide keeping for her were they in possession of one. But' they may be equal to the purchase of a colony of bees and to provide hives for the swarms resulting therefrom. Bees, like other stock,require pasturage, but, unlike horses, cattle and sheep, they are free commoners, ranging at will in search of stores, nor can they be arrested and punished for their intrusion upon premises alien to their owners. A single colony of bees, in good con dition in the spring, may be count ed upon to double or triple their numbers in a single season, se curing ample stores for winter consumption, while suppling a gratifying surplus each autumn for household uses. This accumu lation will prove most acceptable in families, especially while the price of butter rules so high as to place it beyond the/each of those not blessed with full purses. Try a colony of bees as an experiment. —Farmers' tfyion* GRAPES—THEIR OULTURE. It is surprising that so many families in the country are willing to live for years without cultivat ing a single grape vine about their dwellings. They are compelled to purchase this delicious fruit for the table, or not taste it during the season. There is a common impression that to cultivate grapes perfectly, a vast amount of knowl edge and tact is required. To many the simple trimming of a vine is a mystery. This is an er roneous view, and ought not to prevail. Any person of common intelligence can learn in an hour how to trim and nourish vines; and if instruction cannot be ob tained from some experienced cultivator, there are books filled with cuts and illustrations which make everything plain. Three vines, of as many different varie ties, planted in some sunny nook, or by the side of some building so as to obtain shelter, will, if pro perly cared for, furnish bushels of delicious grapes every year. Select’a Concord, a Delaware, and a Hartford Prolific; make the ground mellow and rich by the use of a spade, and by employing old manure, bones and ashes, and set out the plants. In three years the rich clusters will appear, and in four years the product will be abundant. It is well to have vines planted so that, the waste liquids from the dwellings can be used in fertilization. If there is any food the vine especially loves it is the soapy liquids which ac cumulate on washing days in fam ilies. A ines drenched every week with these liquids will flurish as tonishingly, and extend them selves so as to cover large build ings, every branch bearing fruit. We say to our readers, plant vines. —Science of Health. Remedy for Chicken Choi era The following is practised suc cessfully by Mr. R. 11. Knapp, ol Atlanta. Ga.: Take two ounces of each, pow dered red pepper, alum, rosin and I sulphur; mix one tablespoonful j in three pints of scalded meal. In severe cases put one third of a . teaspoonfu! in a meal pellet, and give to each fowl every day till ' the cure is affected. Put a lump . of alum as large as a hickory nut I in their drinking water. — Rural \ Southerner. THE SIZE AND MODEL OF THE ARK. A writ er in the National Gazette discusses the subject at length, taking both the Bible account and that recently discovered in Assy ria for a basis. He says that reck- : oning the cubit at eighteen inches, the ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep, and would register about 15,000 tons if meas ured as a sailing ship, or about 12,000 tons if measured as a steamer, by British rules. It was thus smaller than the Great East ern. It had three decks, and was divided into numeious compart ments by longitudinal and trans verse bulkheads, for the safety and order of its occupants. It was built, of gopher wood, a species of evergreen timber resembling the pine in length and strength of trunk, and the white cedar in lightness. In model, says the writer, it was all that a great car rier could be, chest-like, with lines straight and angles square, but the bottom and top were eleptical in outline, presenting convexity to the earth and sky. After giv ing the dimensions and the mode of construction of the se/eral parts, this authority tells us, as if he was equally certain on this point, that the ark is now in a good state of preservation, but lying under an eternal mantel of snow, hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude of 17,500 feet above the level of the sea. Ever since the flood dried up, the climate of Ar menia has been colder, and snow always covers the top of Ararat, rendering it impossible for any of Noah’s descendants to go up and find the ark. Home Conversation.—Children hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents what they deem drudgery to study in books ; and even if they have the misfor tune to be deprived of many edu cational advantages they will grow up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood the privilege of list ening daily to the conversation of intelligent people. We some Limes see parents who are the life of every company that they enter, dull, silent and uninteresting at home among their children. Il they have not mental activity and | mental siores sufficient for both, let them first use what they have for their own households. A silent house is a dull place for young people, a place from which they will escape if they can. How much useful information, on the other hand, is often given in pleasant family conversation, and what unconscious, but excellent mental training in lively social argument, cultivate to the utmost all the graces of home coversatlon. Take Heed. —We take the fol lowing from the Rural Southern er : “No matter how intimate you are with the friend with whom you have business transactions— put your agreements in writing. How many misunderstandings arise from the loose ways in which business matters are talked over, and when each party puts his own construction, the matter is dis missed by each party with the word', “All right; all right.” Erequenily it turns out all wrong, and becomes a question tor the lawyer and the courts. More than three-fourths of litigation of the country would be s?ved if the people would put down their agreements in writing and sign their names to it. Each word in our language has its peculiar meaning, and memory may by the change in a sentence, convey an entirely different idea from that intended. When once reduced to writing ideas are fixed, and ex pensive lawsuits are avoided.” Life consists of a series of illus trious actions or elegant enjoy ments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with neces ilies, in periormance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the pro curement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruj - tion.— Johnson. Harry, we do not know how many Sundays after your marriage it will be necessary to lock arms with your wife to and from church: we believe custom has establish ed no limet, but four is a very good ni m her.— Danh» t r y A"ews. VOL. I.—NO- 23. CHEAP HOMES, AND ONIONS ME i on sai.i: GWINNETT COUNTY. The lands which were advertised for sale in Lawrenceville, on the first Tues day in this month, by the subscriber, were not sold at auction, as was intended, in consequence of the money crisis now pre vailing, and the heavy rain which fell din ing sale hours. A minimum price was fixed on each tract, however, and a few were sold at private sale. Those described below were not sold, and are now offered at the price to each annexed, to-wit: The Northeast corner of lot number 141. and a part of number 148, containing about 75 acres. This p’ace lies one mile south of the Com t-house,. in Lawrenceville, on the Covington road. There is a dwelling house, stable, well of first-rate water, a young orchard, and about forty acres of pretty level gray land in a good cenditio i for a crop next year; the balance is all in the woods. Price $lO per a :re. The Southeast corner of the same lot, and part of number 148, making another tract of about 75 acres. This is all in the woods, and contains a good deal of branch bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on the same road. Price $7 per acre. The Southwest corner of number 141. , This is all in the woods, lies well and is well timbered, except some ten to fifteen acres, which is a pine old line. The soil is good and contains a large proportion of bottom land. Price $7 per acre. The Northeast, Southeast and South west quarters of lot number 140, coutain ueeovdiHg origi»al sixty two and a half acres each. The Covington I road runs nearly on the Northeast line of • this lot, aud a right of way to the lower i side of the lot from the road will be re- I served. These three tracts are all in the I woods, well watered, and on each could Ibe opened a nice little farm. Price of i each $7 per acre. As many of the above tracts will be sold I together as may be desired, or any person applying can have either alone. A tract of acres, adjoining AVm. J. Born, Dr. Mitchell and Colonel N. L. Hut chins' lands, lying inside of the town cor poration, and good red land, well watered, all ready for the plough. Pri> esls per a< re The Gord< n place,with 50 acres of wood land, in the Southeast corner of number 130. Ou this place there is a good dwelling house, with seven rooms, and a po<JT crib and stable, one and a fourth miles from the Court-house, on the Jeflerson road. There is a first-rate spring, well improved and surrounded by the native forest trees, near the house, and about 75 acres of first rate red land, now all lying out. The houses and fences arc in bad condition, but can be made good with but reasonable cost. The two tracts contain 175 acres. Price $1,20*). Any coinjietent judge would. [ on seeing this property, pronounce it very cheap. The Ilollinsworth place, on the same road, two ini es from the Court-house. This place contains 230 acres, number 207. and has always been considered one of the best farms in the neighborhood. Im- i provements fair, about one-half e eared. ] and the other in the woods. If desired, 1 this lot will be divided into two equal parts, by running a line across the road, so as to throw one-half on ibe side next to K. T. Terrell, and the other next to J. M. Ambros’ farm, and the purchaser can have choice of sides at the price asked. I which is $lO per acre. Also, about 75 acres in the Northeast corner of lot number 130, on the same j ' road, and adjoining the lands of J. M. j Ambrose and others. Os this tract about j 25acres is old field, and the balance all I ’ wood lands. There is an old house place ; on the road, two and three-fourth miles ] from town, and several fruit and shade ' 1 frees around it—a beautiful place for a ( residence. Price six dollars per acre. AH these lands lie in the fifth district of said county, and within eight or nine miles of the Air-Line Railroad, and to enable persons of small means to secure homes '' for themselves and families, are offered on * the following easy terms, to-wit: One- < fourth cash, one at two years, one at three ‘ and the other at four years, with interest ’ at ten per cent. ' < William E. Simmons, Samuel J. Winn, or Dr. T. K. Mitchell, would show the ! ' property to strangers wishing to see it. ' . For further particulars, address JAMES P. SIMMONB, Norcross. Georgia. ; novlitf PROSPECTUS. o— T II E NORCROSS ADVANCE —AND— CHRISTIAN UNION, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY"! At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT &. CO. o TERMS: One copy one year $ 2 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 To clubs of five one year 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To ministers of the gospel, professional teachers in schools and in academies, pro fessors and presidents of colleges and uni versities, and all presiding officers of agri cultural chi's and farmer’s grangers, wa will send it for one dollar a year. O THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all the great interests of our readers especially, and of our country aud race generally. To do that we promise to give thorn each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re ports and Atlanta Prices Current; the Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other counties,etc., and such Literary,Scientific, Educational, Political, Agricultural and Religious reading matter as we may from time to time think most interesting and profitable. Tn Politics the ADVANCE will be j independent ; but it will not !•<• partisan, nor do injustice to any party, oi indi vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon estly believe, that the first and chief care of ail Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts and tneir arms, we will discharge this sacred duty, as best we can, under the guidance of Him w ho is able to direct and keep us in the way of truth. W r e will also studiously avoid giving cause of oftense to any professed Christian .on account of difierence of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt to build up any one branch of the Church more than others, nor to injure any one of them. OUR RELIGIOUS PLATFORM. We believe that there is a per sonal God—who created and over rules all things—that Jesus Christ is His Son and our Savior, and that the Holy Ghost is His messenger and our instructor. That the Bible was written by inspiration of God—is true—and the only safe foundation for Christian faith and practice. That the soul is immortal—that there will be a resurrection of the dead and final judgment, and that the punishment of the unre deemed will be eternal. And will insist, that all who agree in these fundamental propo sitions,and seek salvation through Christ, constitute his Church, and should all unite and co-operate with Him, and each other, in the sacred work of redemption, as an affectionate family of brothers and sisters. James P. Simmomk, LI. Vincent, John Beats.