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FRANKLIN Ak!$PV>M 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 VOL XI. NO 6 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. Til3 readers of the Register will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded ais&sfe that science has been able to euro in all its > stages and that is Catarrh. 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