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COUNTY REGI rrnrn •S'.- Uli I R
BY ELLEN J. DORTCH
TOM KELLER
And His Daughter Nancy.
Historical Sketches, Reminiscenses
and Legends of Franklin County
I have just read a book entitled
“Is life worth Living?” «n d have
been strangely impressed wiZh the
the reasonings of the author. He
presents cold, solid facts, and ar
rays them against sentiment.
The author hedges himself well, and
. by logical reasoning appears to prove
without taking that position,' that
life is not worth living. He takes
the Calvanistic, the Armininan and
the materialistic views of life, and
upon the surface at least, appears to
show, that life is not worth living,
that existence is a loss, and an abso¬
lute curse. It is not my purpose to
discuss the question, “Is life worth
living.” but to portray life, as lived
enjoyed, and understood by Tom
Keller and his daughtei Nancy.
Tom Keller was born in England
of poor parenZage, and brought up to
the trade ana avocation of a ditcher
His station in life would indicate
coarse, boorish ancestry, hut the de
velopments of his character in mid¬
,
dle 1 ife, his ability to suffer and be
strong, to have a purpose and to
stand by it, show that he was above
the common herd, and was not mould¬
ed of common coarse clay. Progress
Is stamped upon everything—it is a
la'fr of nature—and it is Within the
province of every man to rise above
his ancestry; to improve upon
those who have gone before him,
bat there is a limit; a boundry be¬
yond which he cannot pass, his stock
Of vitality expends, his fires exhaust.
A favorable transmission of traits
or tendencies, may possibly raise a
man far above his surroundings and
parentage, hut ho one can be great
- intellectually or morally, without a
long line of ancestry behind him,
that embodies Zhe elements of great
ness. It sometimes happens that
men come in out of the hushes, or
step up from the gutter and take
rank with great men of tie country
1 Such men are not accidents, they in¬
herit genius that may have slept for
generations, and whioh culminates in
them. There is a sort of under cur
rent in human najure which tends to
good, and is slowly raising the human
family to a higher plane. Most men
in fact all men, are what their pa¬
rentage and surroundings have made
them.Many persons while claiming to
recognize law, and to heed moral ob¬
ligation, arv really below the brutes.
They have the instinct of sell preser¬
vation; self gratification and individ¬
ual gain, and so far they are only
bo many beasts. Dangerous beasts
they are, because their tendencies to
prey upon men are guided by cun
ping unknown to the brutes that are
clothed in their proper form. They
havdthe intellect of humanity but
they lack the soul, that raises man
-above the dust. Tho man who by
he force of his Will controls the minds
iff his fellows,or shapes the destiny of
nations, or measures and weighs the
stars; is great,but he who has chords
in his heart, that respond to natures
touch: that vibrate to the
wail of the suffering, and to the
laughter of happy careless children,
is greater still. There is within him
•a strong element, of that which unite
CARNESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 1887
man to man,that makes life tolerable,
that makes immortality desirable,
that affords really pleasurable seusa
tions, either here or hereafter. Life
is a great battle, and the chief but
meanest prize is gold. Gold, or its
equivolent is Decessary to existence
but it is not the ne plus ultra of exis¬
tence. It is an object in life,but not
the object of life. This would seem
bad logic to the man, who has de¬
mands to meet, and no means with
which to meet them, or to the moth¬
er whose children are crying tor
bread, when she lrsg nothing to give
them ; But life is so short and eter¬
nity so long, of what account are a
few years of pleasure or pal®. It is
said thatfortune knocks at every mans
do#r once,that a .tide flows in upon
him that will carry his craft to a
haven oi rest, if he but knows when
to embark. It is certainly true that
fortune smiles, or pretends to smile
upon the young. Standing on the
threshold of existence, they look
down the dun vista of Zhe future and
see the sunshine but not the shadows
the roses but not the thorns. How
delusive the scene, time alone can
tell them. Of the millions of young
dreamers, to-day there is not one
whose hopes would be fully realized
not one whose conceptions of the
cold,stern realities of life are correct,
and of all their number who reach
old age, there will probably not be
one, who were iZ possible, would go
back to childhood and liyc flic same
life over again.
In this b umble English home Tom
Keller when a boy dreamed dreams
and builZ castles. He was devotedly
attached to his parents, and felt keen¬
ly the hardships and privations that
they had to endure. When too
young and too feeble to work,he took
great interest in their daily toil, and
was always trying to help, ana never
so happy as when ho thought he had
rendered some seivice. He prattled
about how he would work for them
and make them a home when he
grew to be a man, and from this one
grand purpose he never swirved.
Ab he grew toward manhood, anoth¬
er figure shared in his dreams, and
was associated with all his plans for
the future. He had loved pretty
Polly Grey from chilhood, and she
was now his promised bridei At
the age of 21 he had acquired a suffi¬
cient sum to pay his passage to
America, and to provide for liiswants
for a short time, iu the event ne fail¬
ed to get immediate employment.
His hopes for the fnture were cen¬
tered in a distant country, beyond
the ocean, far from the home of
his chilhood and Zhe graves df his
ancestors. He pictured a pleasant
quiet home in the new world, owned
by himself, earned by his own labor
where in a few years he would be
joined by bis-parents and PoBy Grey;
where his parents could rest from
their life long labors, walk serenely
down rhe declivity of life, the path
way smoothed by loving hands, and
at last sleep on a spot of ground that
he could call bis own. In that dis¬
tant castle Polly Grey presided as
Mistress and queen, it was illumined
by her cheerful face, made nett and
inviting by her willing bands. He
saw happy children playing around
the door, heard their pattering foot¬
falls and their shonta of childish glee,
They grew to manhood and weman
hood, lovely, obedient and good. One
by one they left tht paternal roof
buZ be and Polly were neither lonely
nor sad, brightfaced grandchildren
took their place, they play upon the
same spot, prattlod and laughed and
chased the butZerflies just as their
partnts had done. After well spent
lives, Polly and he, slept with their
parents, Zheir graves kept green by
the hands of their descendants. The
picture was not highly colored, it
was not extravagant, it fell within the
line of probabilities, but such things
were never to be. He parted with
his parents and With Polly fu 1 of
hope, with no fear of the future, with
no premonition of the night that
was soon to overshadow him. They
parted,
“To meet no more while day follow¬
To kies ed day, till lips
no more t’aeir were
ciay.”
To bh Continued*
THREE HUNDRED LOST.
A Brittisli Ship Sinks on the
Coast of Brazil.
The British ship, Kapunda, which
left Loudon on December 11, fro
Freemantle, western Australia, with
emigrants, came into collision near
the coast of Brazil with ftn unknown
vessel, and was sunk. Three hun¬
dred of those on board were drown*
ded, and the remainder were saved
and have arrived at Bahia. The
Kapahuda was iron vessel of 1,084
tons, commanded by Captaid Ma¬
son.
It is learned that the vessel with
which the Kahunda collided was the
British bark Ada Welmore, which
also went to. the bottom. All told
301 persons were drowned.
Philosophy from Major Kit
Warren
Truth will make friends. Lies
will make enemies.—Griffin Sun.
Suppose you try that on aud see
how it fits. Step out into the street
and tell the truth and act the truth
whh every man yow meet. Giya no
hypocritical smile to Smith’s poor
joke, don’t ask Jones a question more
about his family or how he enjoyed
bis trip than you really wish to know
don’t be glad to learn anything thaZ
you are not glad to learn, or sorry to
hear anything you are not sorry to
hear. Try this awhile and then let
us hear you repeat the above speech
Tell mean men they are mean men,
and homely girl they are homely.
No, no; truth’s splendid, but it isn’t
popular. It brings “not peace but a
sword.”—Jiacon News.
Mr C leveland is generally commen¬
ded by his adwnrer« on wli at they call
his firmness and decision of character
If a man runs his head againgt a stone
wall aud being remonstrated with and
advised that the wall is harder than his
head, continues to match his cranium
against the granite, he certainly mani¬
fests considerab le firmness. But does it
pay: Is it to be commended as a desir
able trait of character?
There are now 1009 convicts in
the penitentiary, of whom 503 are
hired out to cortractors or employed
outside the institvtion.
SENATOR TEST.
Makes a Speech in the Senate on
Woman’s Suffrage.
In the ditcustian in the Senate
on the constitutional amendment
allowing women the righZ to vot e ,
which was overwhelmingly defeated,
Senator Vest spoke, in part, as fol.
lows:
“I pity any man who cau consider
any question affecting the influence
of women with the cold, dry, logic of
business. What man can without
aversion turn from Zhe blessed mem¬
ory of that dear old grandmother,
or to the gentle words and tender ca¬
resses of that blessed mother gone to
the better world, to face in its stead
the idea of a female justice of the
peace or township constable? Eor
my part I want them to go to my
home—when I turn fiom the arena
where man contends with man for
What we call the paltry prizes of this
paltry world—I want to go tack not
to be received by the masculine em¬
brace of somcfumalo ward politician
but to the earnest, loving look and
touch of a trus woman, I want to go
back to the jurisdiction of a wife,
and a mother, and instead of a lecture
on finance oi the tariff, or upon the
construcZion ot the constitution, I
wanZ those blessed, loving details of
domestic life and of domestic lov*.
I have said I would not speak of the
inconveniences to arise from wemans
suffrage- I care not whether the
mother is called upon to serve as
a jurymen or jnrywoman, rights of
property or rights of lifo while her
baby is ‘mewling and puking’ in sol¬
itary confinemet at home. There
are other considerations more impor¬
tant and one of them, to my mind
is inseparable. I speak now respect¬
ing woman as a sex. I believe that
women are better than men, bnt I
do not believe they arc adapted to
the political work of this world. I
do not believe that the Great Intelli¬
gence ever intended them to invade
the sphere of woi k given to man.
tearing down and destroying all the
best influences for which God iuten
tended them.
“The great evil in this country to¬
day is in emotional suffrage. The
great danger to-day is exictable suff¬
rage. If the voters of this country
could always think coolly and if they
ctfuld deliberate, and if they could
go by judgment and not by passion
our institutions would survive for¬
ever, eternal'as the foundations of
the continent itself, but massed to¬
gether snbject to the excitement
of the mobs and and these terrible
political contests that corns upon
us year by year under the an¬
atomy of the government, wbat
would be the result if suffrage was
given to women. Women are essen¬
tially emotional- It is no disparage¬
ment to them thatwhey are so. It
is no more insulting to say that wo
men are emo tional than it is to say
that they are delicately constructed
physically and unfitted to become
spldiers or workmen, under the stern¬
er harder pursuits ol life. 'What w«
want in this country is to avoid
emotional suffrage, and what we
want is to put more logic into the
public affairs and less feeling. There,
are spheres i n which feeling should
be paramount. There are kingdoms
in which the heart should reign su
supreme. That kingdom belongs to
woman—the realm of sentiment, the
realm of love, the realms of the gent¬
ler and the holier attributes that
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makes the name of a wife, mother
and sister next to to* Zhat of God
Himself. I would not, and I say it
deliberately degrade the name of
woman by giving her the ballot, I
mean the wont in its full signification,
boemso t believe tnat woman as she
is to-day, the queen of home and
hearts, is above the poli tical collision
of this wor d, and should always be
kept above them.
BROWR AND COCKRELL.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pays
her Respects to Them.
Washmgtou, Jan. 25.—The most
striking features on this the opeuiug
of tinNationalConvention of
the Womans Suffrage Association,
was tlie reading of a letter from
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, now in
England, devoted most to Senator
Brown, of Georgia, and Cockrell
of Missouri. Mrs. Stanton wrote:
“For half a century we have tried
appeals, petitions, arguments, with
thriLing quotations from our great¬
est jurists and statesmen, and lo! in
the year of our Loid 1887, the best
answer wa can bring from Senators
Brown and Cockrell, iu the shape
of minority report, is a chimney
corner letter written by a woman ig¬
norant of the first principle of Re¬
publican government, which they
say gives a better statement of the
whole question than they arc capa¬
ble of producing. Verily this is a
new feature in the Congressmnal
proceedings. Though a woman has
not sufficient capacity to vote, yet
she has superior capacity to her rep
resensatives in di awing up a minor
ity report. No wonder Senator
Cockrell feeling his inability to grasp
so grave a question, ‘is anxious to
haye the matter disposed of.’ I
was rather surprised that Senator
Blair also said, ‘I desire to at the
opening of this session, if possible,
that there he a vote, so that wo may
be relieved of the question at least
for this session, and perhaps for some
congresses to come.” In spite of the
S enator’s good peech that sentiments
rather grates ou my heart strings.
If he had said: ‘I desire a voZe so
that woman relieved of her
disabilities,’ that would have had a
touch of magnamnltv. If that is the
kind of relief our champion desires,
well and good, as there is only one
way to be relieved of this question,
and that is by passing Senate reso¬
lution No. 5. But'iE Senator Cock¬
rell and Arowh hope to dispose of
the question’ by reman ling us
to the cnimney corner,
we trust their constituents will send
them to keep us company, that tLey
may enliven our retirement, make ug
satisfied in tba .;ph ere where the Cre¬
ator intended wesuould he,by intoning
us their inspired minority repent.
2’he one pleasant feature in this doc
ument is harmony between these t\Vo
gentlemen and their (Creator. The
only drawback to onr faith in this
knowledge of what exists in the di¬
vine mind is in the fact that they
cannot tell us when, where or how
they interviewed Jehovah; I have
always found thaZ when men exhaus
tbeir own resources they generally
fall back on the ‘intention of the
Creator.’ These platitudes have
ceased to have any influence with
women who believe they have the
same way of communication with
the Divine mind that men have.”
After the uugailant remaiks
of the Missouri Senator on the wo¬
mans suffrage question the feminine
Cushion for vests will go out for¬
ever.
Call for a New North.
While we are listening to so
much rant and cant about the “New
South” by iql means let us have a
hew North. What this country
really needs is a new north—a north
that will have less of the Puiitan
bigotry, intolerance, arrogance aud
less oi. the Puritan dispcsit.on to de
prex-ate othere and boast of its own
virtues. If the people of the north
could be convinced that they are no
better than some other people God
has made, and that they have some
very serious imperfections o f their
own that need mending, if they
could be pursualed to stop monkey*
mg with their brother’s eye and
give their attention to the beam in
heir own eyepwe should come to a
letter understanding and have a bet?
ter feeling all around.—Nashville
American.
Danger to the South.
There is danger that the remark
ablo exhibition of industrial spirit
and manufacturing enterprise in the
Southern States will beget a specula¬
tion whose result will be disastrous
to indluiduals and communities, and
temporarily arrest the very develop¬
ment on which that section is en¬
tering. There is something fascina¬
ting in the great figures the South
is just now dealing in—the millions
and ton millions which this “proper¬
ty” is rated nt and vvh'rh arc to he
invested in that enterprise; and there
is so-pething dangerous in it, too.
Pho wealth of Alabama and Tennes¬
see and Georgia is not to be increas¬
ed by manipulations of figures aud
artificial exaggerations ot values. It
is an easy thing to “make up” the
price of town lots in Biimingham
and Chattanooga, and mining proper¬
ties on the Tennessee river to five
times tho price they were recently
held at, but there is no real advant¬
age to the community ia this, and if
*t repels investment and delays enter¬
prise, it will, instead be a positive in¬
jury. The southern States cannot too
soon open new manufactories where
thoy are needed an d tho conditions
favorable.
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Catarrh being a constitutional disease
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