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THE -'Sf- % FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
by ELLEN J. DORTCEI. VOL, XL NO. 22
TOM KETXER AND IIIS
DAUGHTER NANCY.
Continued from last week.
A year passed by after young
Gilmore’s leturn, very much the same
as the preceding years had clone,
The worthy trio of veurans whose
aims aim? aspirations had been iden¬
tical for many yers, combined in the
even tenor of their way. Miss Kel¬
ler was constantly employed in do
rnsetic affairs, reading and study,
visiting the siok and giving her per¬
sonal attention to the school, the lis
brary, the lecture room, and vaiious
enterprises tha t tended to the devel¬
opment of the people, and which had
sprang up within the last quarter of
a century. Dr. Gilmore took gieat
interest in the projects of his friends
and especially those in which Miss
Ivellev was most occupied . All the
time that he could snatch from his
practice, was spent as a co laborer
with Miss Keller.
Something more than a quartei of
a century prior to tlie time of which,
we now write, the dwellings of Roijt
Bell and Keller, the school house and
doctors shop,c made up the
immediate settlement. Then ca'u e
the meeting house, the p ost-oiiice,
the country store and with them
other settlers. Blacksmith shops,
carnage an 3 wag®n factories, furn¬
iture manufactories, and various oth¬
er industries were established in
time, and the place assumed consider¬
able importance and population, aul
was altogether a most iuteiesting
community. It was not so much a
•town as a densely populated section
of country four or five miles in di¬
ameter.
The community afforded ample
scope for the philanthropist, reform¬
er and student of human natu>e, and
illustrated the possbiiilies that may
le accomplished by the esotiuusus
and well diieeted efforts of a few in¬
Keller had been the
master spnit, b ut he had been ably
seconded bv the minister,.Dr. Stone 4
and Robert Beil, and later by Ills
tiwrgetic anil sprightly daughter.
It is not every man that can be a
reformer, if he wished, or that can
so impress a community us.to in¬
fluence the drift of thought and
conduct for the general good of all.
It requires a clear and a Wei! bal.
unced brain, generous impulses ami
a flxmess of purpose, that disap¬
pointment and iaihirre cannot
swerve. Add to these charaeteris
ties, the pres,ige and influence that
weaith gives and success is = easy.
Kefler and his co-workers were lapCi
of spotless character, tireless energy,
unselfish la ihsir natmes, possessed
of ample means, that were spent
Ireely in the futherance of every
good cause, and being men of super¬
ior intellect, it is not surprising that
they should woik great changes in
the community where their energes
Were bent in a certain direction fur
a long ter m of years.
The cost ot manufacturing every
article, was reduced to the lowest
cost, good material was used aud
the workmanship was the best, and
their products commanded the big l.
est prices and met with r eadv sale.
Each family was as nearly sell sus'
taining as .possible. A naturally
to.ta.oil ... .limulata b, good
husbandry to a high degree of pro
ductivenesg, it required hut a few
acres tor the supprt of a family*
and those engaged in other industries
drew a support from the w illing fields
with bu< hUle low* jf time from "
other business which yielded u u
handsome jnc©me* and placed tlwii
in cbimufstance of ease niut indepen¬
dence. They bird ant pic time for
for recreitiou, for a’.tendancj at
churches, lectures and social gather
^ngs. Theft, iyiu?, dissipation
licentiousness pauperism and idle
ness were almost unknown. But for
the continued influx of less favored
people, ther would have been little
scope for the work of charity.
Thejr had been taught, in the school
room and lecture room that clean¬
liness was next to godliness, that it
was a crime to desobey the natural
laws of plusjcal life, and had been
taught as for as pr-icticabio what,
these laws were. They were there¬
fore. a healthy, contented and
cheerful people and comparatively
free from the pains and penalties
of broken law. They were prosper
ous, and therefore free from the
mental and physical worry inci¬
dent to debt and financial difficul¬
ties.
They had been taught that life is
worth living, that it was every ones
diffy toinake the most of life,to get all
the possible en/oymont out of it, that
the surest way of securing personal
happiness was in making other hap¬
py, and that the man who loves and
serves his fellow man best, loves and
servos God best; therefore brotherly
love prevailed in an unusual degree.
They were unusually liberal and
char itablc in thought and deed.
There was far lisa of the selfish, mi
zerly, skinflint, hoggish element
among them, than is usual in a pop
ujous .
They had been taught that igno¬
rance is morally ciiminal, and the
sermons, lectures, libraries, and
school training had all tended to
develop thought and a. thirst for
knowledge, and as a community, they
were unusually intelligent aud well
informed. The old people weie se¬
rene and contented, the midole aged
worebouyantand happy, the young
men wero gallant, manly, and fired
with a noble ambition,and 1 he young
ladies were beautiful in person aud
lovely in character.
These people lived in a naturally
beautiful country, of genial climate*
where flowers were cultivated, trees
wer pelanted and protected, where
orchards and vineyards are abound¬
ed, where broad beautiful streets,
shady lanes and cool, clear streams
wer a abundant. It was not a para¬
dise, not an ideal country such as a
poetical dreamer would portray, but
it was a lovely place, and such as are
seldom found on this mundane
sphere.
The state of the man, has. much
to do with the view he lakes of his
Suiroundings. One may be misera^
b!e in a palace, and another happy
in a liovel. In a community such
as we have described, * progressive
hopelul young man, with a well
ballanced b".iin and line moral chai“
actcr like Dr. Gilmore, would cer
rainly fco pleasautjy situated, but he
was m a veritable paradise, lie was
from the first deeply in lo ve with Miss
his suit had prospered, and
the year that had passed swiftly by
hkd left no shadow behind.
[Continued.]
NEW RULES.
Ond of trie new rules of a NV estcrii
railroad is that clergymen making
requisition for half fare Uedets are
oWiued out *> to make affidavit that they
are regularly erdaineo, and are en
gaged in no other occupation. ;
cer tifieate was recently leccived from
a p reilc her at Salma, Neb., who ad
^ after tllC WO rds: “I ain eu
b - u U<J 0<her business or ooeu
° iniveash- ..[W*
|.,l.0..,”iu r l.r»«,-l>«t
mg the ummchible nebs oi •
word,'
A letter from Killja" to the Au
i hrouicE su> * the eroi*s ulm-g
the rout fr>m Gainesville here
looked nure;prowrting, wheat i»
iiuirtt tor years, hut the fruit is
most iiti entire fujiur**.
CARNESVILLE, GA., TEESDAY MAY, 31, 1887.
MARRIED LIFE.
How Adam and Eve Lived Long ago
Outside the Garden.
In appearance Eve was excoedingy
gracious and beautiful, full of reti¬
cence and dignity; people always
spoke of her as a perfect lady, and
whispered to one another that she
had come of good stock To her
husband she was full of wistful
courtesy. It secured that he had
made some sacrifice in marrying her.
and her devotion was mingled with
gratitude.
In Adam there was less that was
peculiar then in his wife, lie would
stand often on Ins threshold in the
evening and look out. He had for¬
gotten that centuries had passed by
and was still ye.irniug for the
leturn of his first born—the wander¬
er. It was Eve who in the spring
tide, turned to the meauoiv where
the lambs were playing and she al¬
went alone.
When she came back she put her
armsarour.d her husband’s neck and
kissgd him. lie did not undeistand
that she was to come from the grave
but he was grateful for the kiss, and
drew her away to look at the young
sprouting blades of corn. He had
become a husband man and wa
skiilod in the tilling of the ground.
Eve never looked happier than
when be came home hot and hungry
from working in the fields. She lov¬
ed to. set bis meal, lay her head on
his knee, aud listen 10 his talk of
the wonderful ways ot raismg crops,
and planting vineyards, He was
busy and contented, and there was
no regret in his face. But their con¬
versation did not always turn [on
commonplace matters.
TIIE OLD SOUTH.
The South has been the land of
enterprise, of great pith ami move¬
ment ralhjr than the nurseiy of
scribblers. She has made history
for others to write and sell, She
has carved with the sword the path¬
way of the pen and made A merica
the strongest of the anglo'Saxou race.
The first resolution declaring the
right of the colonies to be -‘free and
independent” was introduced into a
Southern legislature by a Southern
m an. The first resolution to tiie
same effect wore presented in the
colonial congress by a Southern man,
and took form nnd consistence in
ike decimation of independence, un¬
der the match'oss genius of still
another southern man. A Southern
man led tiie patriotic Armies to vic
tcry and established the possibilities
of one of the proudest nations on the
earth, A Southern man was prime
mover in the convention that framed
tie constitution When the Govern-,
ment was created its organic law
was still an unexplained book, a pon¬
derous oar m uuskiliud hands. It
was left for the great legal mind ol
of the age- a Southern chief justice,
to analyze and stamp upon it ihc
construction which will' be accepted
as long as thec mstulioifis respected
A Somber, !r....«l lb,
nance .U, md gov
I instrument second . in
1 teJiitory; an
; out, , to the , ecestituUou ,
importance
of the United States, A
man wu* die author of the Repuhli
can theory of popular t loveraWH’iit
which prevailed during I he sixty
years of our greatest prosje/rtty,
hs ppm ness. Of die fifte3n
presidents of the continental cong/css
eight were from Slave States. From
1789 to 185R, a period of sixty-four
years, embracing eleven administra¬
tions, the slave Sta'es furnished
eight presidents, whose terms of ser¬
vice covered fifty-two years. Dur¬
ing the same time the free States
furnished time presidents whose
combined tern's covered twelve years.
—Of the twelve vice-presidents, four
were from slave States. Under
those eleven administrations, the
slave Stales supplied lourteeu secre¬
taries of state, eleven sec retaries of
war, six secretaries of the’ navy, and
eight postmaster generals. Of fifty
five ] resident l lotcm. of the senate
thirtyn me weie from slave States.
Of five chief justices, two, and the
only two of great eminence, were
from slave States Of twenty-nine
assoeia e j isti -es.s ventecn were from
slave States. \Vi tliout going farth¬
er into exhaustive details, for which
material i? abundant and oveiwhelm¬
ing. wc affirm, without fearjof decent
denial <hut afjiig the line of these
fifty-two years,, aie ranged* all the
lofty conceptions of statesmanship,
all the boM and fruitful enterprise,
all the grand comprehensive achieve¬
ments from which have evolved the
pride, the power and glory of the
American people.—-Extracts from
B F Ward, in March number of the
JUSTICE MADE RIDICULOUS.
The superstition which prevails
about the taking cRoa lbs in courts
of justice really make one blush for
one’s fellow ci eatures. In a ease in
the Liskeanl county court the other
day, a respectable gentleman who
happened to be a Roman Oath oYw.
kissed his thumb in taking the oath,
feeling, as he explained, some sort of
scruple about kissing .the Scripture
in the authorized version, but beleiv
iiig tbufo^he was taking a valid oath.
For this indiscretion he was hustled
and bullied for a quarter of an hour
by the judge aud counsel of the oth¬
er side, and finally told from the
bench that not the slightest reliance
Could be plaed upon his eviden*, and
that no language was too strong to
charcterixc the conduct; of a man
who had acted as he had doin'. The
resuit was t hat he lost his case. It
is high time that oaths were abolish¬
ed altogether if they are to be made
a ground for perverting justice as
well as making it rciiculous.—Lon¬
don Truth.
Fresh country corn meal always
on hand at W. C. & J. B. McEntire-’s
New dross goods at McConnell &
Bros. Nuns vei/ings in blacky tan,
lue nnd pink colors.
John Merry man & Co Ammoui
ed dissolved bone is the most reliable
guano on the market. Eor sale at
Avalon and Martin by R D Yow
<fcCo.,
A, a ratadrop taatallaa .tom*.
«>*> ptaP*-’ “P? ll “
the blood, which cnii be neutralized
expelled o»fo^» Dr Harter* . ,
J , and
l M > al A In an Mp at M' t'onnel
A Bros.
rare old documents,
Dianes of Geo ge Washington and
Almanacs of Jefferson.
Many of tin most interest tug
possessions of our government are
never seen by the stranger. The
great ilepar.uents of Wasnington are
packed full of curious autograph
papers and rare' documents. The
Treasury has tile* enough to carpet
any State of the Um*n,and the State
Departmen t has important autograph
le tier describing tl.e inside history
of every evo ’t which has taken place
during the past 104 years. It has
diaries of George Washington, alma¬
nacs of Thomas Jefferson with mar¬
ginal no'es, and it contains, 1 am
told, letters which if published would
not leave the characters of some i f
onr heroes of the past as nigh on
the scale of morality as they now
stand. The War Department has
rll the telegrams sent from the While
House during the la c war. and in »
book of these I found the other day
some curious messages which Abra¬
ham Lincoln sent, i.i which he men¬
tions his boy Tat?. It has s.ll of the
papers of the Oonfedrrate govern
merit as they were captured at Rich¬
mond, and these gathered together
in oiie room makes up the picture of
a dead nation in a nutshell. The
Pension Office lias many a curious
memento which has crept in
the papers. They are claims
government land signed by A Lin¬
coln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses
Grant rn l John A Logan, %
in the Mexican war, and Y
across hero a paper which
James G Blain's great
got a pension for the services of her
husband in 1812. There are diaries
here of soldiers of the involution,
sent by their dceen latits to prove
that they wers in the nvmy, and
there are bushels of family Bibles
which have served the same purpose
packed away, but ready to be sen t
out to their owners if demanded.—
Washington Correspondence Cleve¬
land Leader.
HIS FAITH WAS WEAK.
It is stated that Mr. G W Cannon
the cripple shoemaker whose mirac¬
ulous cure was chronicled in the At¬
lanta Capffol some weeks since; has
been compelled to take himself to
his crutches again. It will he re¬
membered that lie was prayed with
by Dr. L B Heifer, the tait/t disciple
who told him that it ho c nly cxer
cised his faith he would be care l.
After the prayer was offered Mi.
Cannon., tljrpw, his crutches away
and walked withouf them,a thing he
had not been ao'.e to do in over a
year. Evidently his faith was very
weak, for a gentleman living in his
neighborhood inlormed the repotter
that he was compelled a few days
since to use 1ns crutches, as he was
too weak to do w.thout them.—At¬
lanta Capitol.
Go to W C & J B Me Entire for
rock bot'om prices on goods.
Ifyonwai.t a good chov of to
bscco cull on W U. & J. B. McKn
tire for IUu Frankliu.
Miss H'lllic Uaudilt has ju«t ro
received a lot of nice Ladies hats
riOlmns. flowers, cce.
$ I .00 PER V EAR IN ADVANCE
the growth of pauper¬
ism.
Pauperism is assuming very large
proportions m the cities of thisccuin 1
try.At the present rate of its iner« use
it will not b: many years before
it is ns great ill Ainjrio.l as it Is in
European cities* A few days ago it
was stated ui a New York paper that
if all the houses in th.i$ city,in which
claim nits for charity now reside,
occupied ,'ols twenty feet wide and
wero placed side by side they would
extend a distance of eighty-five miles
The number of aich houses is
27,400, and some of them are crow¬
ded tumements in which are many
Ojai'i'ft its for charity.
DEMORA LI ZED BLOODY
SHIRT WAVERS.
In a recent speech in Now Orleans
Friday last Jefferson Davis said:
“United you are, and if the Union
is ever to be broken let the other
side break it. Tho tiuths we fought
tor shall not encourage yo>* ever
to fight again, but keep your word
in good or ceil.” This manif istation
of Jeff Davis’s complete resignation
to the existing order of things will
be a grievous disappointment to the
gallant army of bloody shirt wavers
in the North. It is a feheuie
Davis thus to deprive with one
stroke of the campaign material
alleged no regenerate ness afforded
them.—Utica Observer.
The 7/atciier wagon which is men
tioued elsewhere, is
entirely of iron, aud is lighter
much stronger than the Wagon now
in use- T/toy will be sold at fcbo
and it is claimed that they will last
100 years. They will doubtless take
*he ; laee of wooden wagons.
LADIES OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
have found that their sometimes ex¬
cessive duties produce a low. weak
tired and tiemalous state of the sys¬
tem, and that iio.i restor..s reduces
and color to the blood, calisaya bark
a natural healthful tone to the diges¬
tive organ, and phosjihorous mildly
stimulates t(ie brain,—all eombined
Harter's iion Tonic.
Hon. N. J. Hammond of Atlanta
is being boosted for the vacancy
cause! by the death of Judgo Woods
of the U , S. Supreme court.
m
A movement is underway louk
ing to a union of tiie Southern and
Northern b< audios of the Pn mbyte
rian church.
if you waul a good chew of tobac¬
co call on W C & J B McEntire for
lk-n Franklin.
A nice line of ladies and gents
smmer shoes at W C & J B Mc
Entire.
For thj neatest ladies lu<s of
season go to Miss Sallic Randall’s
millinery store.
Work h«* Wen (iQBiuii'iiwl
the AugnsF* dirsctery.
MOTOR KEKLV’.S EXHIBITION
A Few Friends of the Inventor Sur
p-ised and Pleased,
John W. Kcely, the famous ‘ mo
tor” small number ;;l
m in; told a ol
gen Yemen yesterday morning that he
had succeeded nt last in overcoming
all obstacles, tind that he will soon
start bis engine foi f a ten days ran.
In addition the inventor announced
that lie was ntwork on a remarkable
telephone.
Aft*r showing a now “liberator,”
beneath which was a foot-bellows
and a machine revolving bv air,
termed a “siren,” Mr Kcely directed
attention to the silver and platinum,
which transmitted the “ofheric”
force to the liberator, in place of his
old hollow tube. The fain*liar tests
of firing the cannon and raising the
550 pound weight with a pressure
twenty-five thousand pounds to the
square in eh were shown. Mr Keely
then found, es he said, the “sympa¬
thetic chord” of a number </E gon
fleuieti by attaching the platmiun
and silyer wire to a piece of steel
he’tl by the subject. Then Mr.
Keely ulajcd on a Harmonica and a
small copper sphere, isolated
by being put on glass, revolved ra¬
pidly. - Phila. News.
YES, A LITTLE ODD.
JThe refusal of ;hote! accommoiln.
tions to a colored club in Bovhlehcm
Fa., seems a little odd in the light
of Republican pretensions, when it
is consicereil that PensyIvunfa it
Republican Stale by 80,0ft0 majority
—From the Galveston News (Dcnr)
ALL MEN ABE NOT BAD.
.f ..ft her me nil prepared remedies
<m reliable. This is proven by the
results following the u»o of JDr,
Harters Iron tonic for dyspepsia*
rleiiiiiaiism, scrofula, jaundice, tor¬
pid liver" and general weakness.
Governor Gordon will not attend
the drill at Washington.
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Yellow fever has made its appear
anee-at Key West, Florida.
.... down
Simon Peter Richardson, sal fft
heavily on the .Salvation Army in
Athens a few days ago. -
A nice line of ribbon just receiv¬
ed at Miss Sallic Randalls.
W CUB McEnlire have on
hand a nice line of ladies dress good*
If you want a hard bargain
an ugly hat, don’t buy from
Sallic Randall. »
- m M
Ladies and gontr fine shoes
McConnell & Bros in neat styles
good quality.
The picnic ot Tuccoa <N< the l*t <
Juno will ho an elegant affair. W
iU.»desiring new hats, ribbon, flow
ees, vie. Ur the oeeusiou, caw a *“W
plied at Mi*» HoMie Ra#d»l s
nerr ore, f.l i'arnesvilN.