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Attorney at Law*
AMERICAS, GA.
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J. A. AINWLJHiY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQPITT,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
After a brief respite 1 return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will he
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courtspf Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
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AfiMTTTEMALE INSTITUTE,
Peachtree Street, opp. Governor’s Mansion,
Atlanta, Ga,
The exercises of this school will be re
sumed Wednesday, September 6, 1882, with
a corps of experienced teachers. The object
of this institution is to afford the advantages
of a thorough education, embracing Primary,
Intermediate, Academic and Collegiate De
partments. Special attention given to the
study of Music, Modern Languages, Beiles-
Letters and Art. Native French and Ger
man teachers are employed. The music de
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Prof. Alfredo Barili. For particulars ap
ply to Mrs. J. W. BALLARD,
junel7-ly Principal.
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Having purchased from HARE & COBB,
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AND ALSO A FULL LINE OF
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Provisions, Eto ,
embracing all hinds of Vegetables and
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It Is their aim to keep a first-class establish
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Tangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED DIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would De bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try k —in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
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young;, whenever any of the above
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Persons Traveling or Living; In Un
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have oaten anything hard of
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A Governor’s Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
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J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
lion. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
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‘‘The only Thing that never fails to
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1883.
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BT MARY D. DRINK.
Shall I tell you a story of Bessie, a dear little
girl I know?
A story of “once on a time,” tho’ it wasn’t so
long ago?
A blue-eyeddarling was Bessie, with gleams
of the sun in her hair,
And you scarcely could count the dimples
that played in her cheeks so fair.
Now Bessie’s mother and her father had only
herself to love,
And her presence was glad as the sunshine
that fell from the skies above.
There ne’er was a care or trouble that came
to them any day
But wee little Bessy was ready to “comfort
the worry away.”
It was only a poor little cottage that Bessie
could call her home,
But dearly she loved the meadows where
daily she used to roam;
And it happened one day that she went there
with many a sorrowful trace
Of tears and shiidisb amazement all over the
dear little face.
The reason? Ah, only that morning old Bun
dle, the cow had died,
And no money to buy another, and Bessie’s
mamma had cried;
And Bessie had heard her father sigh, and,
oh, so wearily say
Something about “the hills, wif,e and little
wherewith to pay.”
So out in the fields went Bessie, hut left her
dimples behind,
And I guess that even the birdies know some
thing was on her mind,
For she quietly gathered her flowers, nor
even lifted her eyes
Till a voice said, “Heigh-ho little maiden!”
and made her start with surprise.
’Twas only an artist searching the fields and
meadows that day
For some beautiful picture to sketch, and
wliat should come in his way
But the sweetest of all sweet subjects, a wee
little brown-faced girl,
ller sun-bonnet hiding her blushes and
many a golden curl!
But Bessie was shy of the stranger—shy and
modest was she;
Coaxing would not persuade her. “I’ll give
you money,” said he.
Ah! then indeed she was willing, and thought
to herself, “Oh, now
I’ve found how to comfort poor mother, and
father can buy a cow.”
So down to the brook she went to him, her
cheeks as red as arose.
And, all the while thinking of "father,”
Bessie learned how to “pose.”
Oh, hut it was wearisome duty! The little
round limbs grew weak,
And a tear from the blue eyes slipped softly
and washed the rose from her cheek.
Yes, “Art is pitiless,” surely, for thirty long
minutes went by,
And then the Artist had finished and looked
with a smile-in his eye
At his poor little tear-stained model. “Why,
child, are you tired?” said lie.
“I’m tired jus’ for myself, sir, but not for
father,” said she.
Then home sped dear, bonny Bessie, clasp
ing her pennies so tight,
And back to her cheeks came the dimples,
hack to her eyes their glad light.
“Oh, father I’m put in a picture! See what
Ive brought to you now!
I tried not to mind being tired, ’twas for
mother and you—and the cow!”
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY UEV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
HOME.
Let them learn firstto shew piety at home.
—I Timothy, v., 4.
During the summer months the ten
dency is to the fields, to visitation, to
foreign travel and the watering places,
and the ocean steamers ave thronged;
but at this season of the year the ten
dency is to gather in domestic circles,
and tor some months to come we will
spend many of the hours within doors,
and the apostle comes to us and says
that we ought to exercise Christian be
haviour amid all such circumstances.
“Let them learn first to shew piety at
home.” Th#e are a great many peo
ple longing for some grand sphere in
which to serve God. They admire
Luther at the Diet of Worms, and only
wish that they had some such great op
portunity in which to disply their
Christian powers. They admire Paul
making Felix tremble, and they only
wish that they had some such grand
occasion in which to preach righteous
ness, temperance and judgment to come.
All they want is an opportunity to ex
hibit their Christian heroism. Now
the apostle comes to us and he practi
cally says: “I will show you a place
where you can exhibit all that is grand
and beautiful and glorious in Christian
character, and that is the domestic cir
cle. “Let them learn first to shew
piety at home.” Il one is not faithful
in an insignificant sphere he will not
be faithful iu a resounding sphere. If
Peter will not help the cripple at the
gate of the temple, he will never be able
to preach throe thousand souls into the
kingdom of the pentecost. If Paul will
not take pains to instruct in the way of
salvation the jailer of the Philippian
dungeon, ho will never make Felix
tremble. He who is not faithful in a
skirmish would not Se faithful in an
Arraageddou. The fact is, we are all
placed in just the position in which we
can most grandly serve God, and wo
ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about
some sphere of usefulness which we
may after a while gain, but the all
absorbing question with you and with
me oughCto be, “Lord, what wilt thou
have me now and here to do?”
There is one word in my text aronnd
which the most of our thoughts will
this morning revolve. That word is
“home.” Ask ten different meh the
meaning of that word, and they will
give you ten different definitions. To
one it means love at the hearth, plenty
at the table, industry at the workstand,
intelligence at the books, devotion at
tho altar. In that household, discord
never sounds its war-whoop and decep
tion never tricks with its false face. To
him it means a greeting at the door
For Dyspepsia,
Costive ness,
i Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
I Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
and a smile at the chair, peace hover
ing like wings, joy clapping its hands
with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake.
Pillowed on the ripples sleep the shad
ows. Ask another man what home is,
and he will tell yon it is want looking
out of a cheerless fire grate, kneading
hunger is an emptly bread tray. The
damp air shivering with curses. No
Bible on the shelf, Children robbers
and murderers in embryo. Obscene
songs their lulaby. Every face a pic
ture of ruin. Want in the background
and sin startling from the front. No
Sabbath wave rolling over that door
sill. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of
infernal walls. Furnace for forging
everlasting chains. Faggots for an
unending funeral pile. Awful word.
It is spelled with curses, it weeps with
ruin, it chokes with woe, it sweats with
the death agony of despair. The word
“home” in the ons ease means every
thing bright. The word “home” in
the other case means everything terrific.
I shall speak to you this morning of
home as a test of character, home as a
refuge, home as a political safeguard,
home as a school, and home as a type
of Ileqven. And in the first place, I
remark that home is a powerful test of
character. The disposition in public
may be in gay costume, while in private
it is in dishabille. As play actors may
appear in one way on the platform and
may appear in another way behind the
scenes, so private character may be
very different from public character.
Private character is often public char
acter turned wrong side out. A man
may receive you into his parlor as
though he were a distillation of smiles,
and yet his heart may be a swamp of
nettles. There are business men who
all day long are mild and courteous and
genial and good-natured in cojnmercial
life, damming back their irritability
and their petuleuce and their discontent;
but at nightfall the dam breaks, and
scalding pours forth in floods and fresh
ets. Reputation is only the shadow of
character,and a very small house some
times will cast a very long shadow
The lips may seem to drop with myrrh
and cassia, and the disposition to be as
bright and warm as a sheaf of sunbeams
and yet they may only be a magnificent
show window for a wretched stock of
goods. There is many a man who is
affable in public life and amid commer
cial spheres, who, in a cowardly way,
takes his anger and his petulcnce home
and drops them in the .domestic circle.
The reason men do not display their
bad temper in public is because they do
not want to be knocked down. There
are men who hide their petulance and
their irritability just for the same rea
son that they do not let their notes go
to protest; it does not pay; or for the
same reason that they do not want a
man in their stock company to sell his
stock below par lest it depreciate the
value. As at sunset sometimes the
wind rises,so after a sunshiny day there
may be a tempestuous night. There
are people who in public act the phil
anthropist who at home act that Nero
with respect to their slippers and their
gown. Audubon, the great ornitholo
gist, with gun and pencil went through
the forests of America to bring down
and to sketch the beautiful birds, and
after years of toil and exposure com
pleted his manuscript and put it
trunk in Philadelphia, and went off for
a few days of recreation and rest, and
came back and found that the rats had
utterly destroyed the manuscript; but
without any discomposure and without
any fret or bad temper, he again picked
up his gun and his pencil, and visited
again all the great forests of America
and reproduced his immortal work.
And yet there are people with the ten
thousandth part of that loss who are
utterly irreconcilable, who at the loss
of a pencil, or an article of raiment, will
blow as long and loud and sharp as a
northeast storm. Now, that man who
is affable in public and who is irritable
in private is making a fraudulent and
over-issue of stock, and ho is as bad as
a bank that might have four or five
hundred thousand dollars of hills in
circulation with no specie in the vault.
“Let us learn to show piety at home.”
If we have it not there, we have it not
anywhere. If we have not genius grace
in the family circle, and our outward
and public plausibility merely springs
from fear of tho world, or from the
slimy, putrid pool of our own selfish
ness, I tell you the home is a mighty
test of character. What you are at
home you are everywhere, whether you
demonstrate it or not.
Again, I remark that home is a ref
uge. Life is the United States army
on the national road to Mexico; a long
march, with ever and anon a skirmish
and a battle. At eventide we pitch our
tent and stack the arms; we hang up
the war cap, and, our head on the knap
sack, we sleep until the morning bugle
calls us to marching and action. How
pleasant it is to rehearse the victories
and the surprises and the attacks of the
day, seated by the still camp fire o"f the
home circle. Yes life is a stormy sea.
With shivered masts and torn sails,
and* hulk aleak, we put it at the har
bor of home. Blessed harbor! There
we go for repairs in the dry dock. The
candle in the window is to tho toiling
man the lighthouse guiding him into
ports. Children go forth to meet their
fathers as pilots at the Narrows take
the hand of ships. The door sill of the
home is the wharf where heavy life is
unladen. There is tho place where we
may talk of what we have done without
being charged with self-adulation.
There is the place where we may lounge
without being thought ungraceful.
There in the place where we may ex
press affection without being thought
silly. There is the place where we
may forget our anoyances and exasper
ations and troubles. Forlorn earth pil
grim, no home? Then die. That is
better. The grave is brighter and gran
der and more glorious than this world
with no tent from marching, with no
harbor from the storm, with no place
of rest from this scene of greed and
gouge and loss and gain. God pity the
man or the woman who has no home.
Further, I remark that home is a po
litical safeguard. The safety of the
state must be built on the safety ot the
home. Why cannot France come to a
placid republic? MacMahon appoints
his Ministry and all France is a quake
lest the republic be smothered. Gam
betta dies, aud there are hundreds of
thousands ot Frenchmen who are fear
ing the return of a monarchy, France,
as a nation has not the right kind of a
Christian home. The Christian hearth
stone is the only foundation stone for
a republic. The virtues cultured in
the family circle are an absolute necessi
ty for the state. If there be not enough
moral principle to make the family ad
here, there will not be enough political
principle to make the state adhere. No
home means the Goths and Vandals,
means the Nomads of Asia, means the
Numidians of Africa, changing from
place to place according as the pasture
happens to change. Confounded be
all those Babels of -iniquity which
would overpower and destroy the home!
The same storm that upsets the ship
in whichthe family sail will sink the
frigate of the Constitution. Jails and
penitentiaries and armies and navies
are not our best defense. The door of
the home is the best fortress. House
hold utensils are our best artillery, and
the chimneys of our dwelling houses
are the grandest monuments to safety
and triumph. No home, no republic.
Further, I remark, that home is a
school. Old ground must be turned
up with subsoil plow, and it must he
harrowed and roharrowed, and then the
crop will not be as large as that of the
new ground with less culture. Now,
youth and childhood are new ground,
and all the influences thrown over their
heart and life will come up in after life
luxuriantly. Every time you have
given a smile of approbation—all the
good cheer of your life will come up
again in the geniality of your children.
And every ebullition of anger* and
every uncontrollable display of indig
nation, will be fuel to their disposition
twenty or thirty or forty years from now
—fuel for a bad fire a quarter of a
century from this. You praise the in
telligence of your child too much some
times when you think he is not aware
of it, and you will sec the result of it
before ten years of age in his annoying
affectations. You praise his beauty,
supposing he is not large enough to un
derstand what you say, and you will
find him standing on a high chair be
fore a flattering mirror. Words and
deeds and example are the seed of char
acter, and children are very apt to be
the second edition of their parents.
Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is apt
to go down in the ancestral line; but
Herod begat Archelaus, so iniquity is
transmitted. What vast responsibili
ty comes upon parents in view of this
subject. O! make your home the
brightest place on earth if you would
charm your children to the high path
of virtue and rectitude and religion.
Do not always turn the blinds the
wrong way. Let the light, which puts
gold on the gentian and spots the pansy,
pour into your dwellings. Do not ex
pect the little feet to keep step to a
dead march. Do not cover up your
walls with such pictures as West’s
death on a Pale Hbrse, or Tintoretto’s
Massacre of the Innocents. Rather
cover them, if you have pictures, with
The Hawking Party, and The Mill by
the Mountain Stream, and The Fox
Hunt, and the children Amid Flowers,
and the Harvest Scene and The Satur
day Night Marketing. Get you no
hint of cheerfulness from grasshoper’s
leap and lamb’s frisk and quail’s whis
tle, and garrulous streamlet which from
the rock at tho mountain top clear
down to the meadow ferns under the
shadow ot the steep, comes looking to
see where it can find the steepest place
to leap off at, and talking just to hear
itself talk! If all the skies hurtled
with tempest and everlasting storm
wandered over the sea, and every moun
tain stream was raving mad, frothing
at the mouth with mad foam, and there
were nothing but simoons blowing
among the hills, and there were neither
lark’s carol nor humming bird’s trill,
nor waterfall’s dash, but only bear’s
bark and panther’s scream and wolf’s
howl, then you might well gather into
your homes only the shadows. But
when God has strewn the earth and
the heavens with beauty and with glad
ness, let us take into our home circles
all innocent hilarity, all brightness and
all good cheer. A dark home makes
bad boys and bad girls in preparation
for bad men and women. Above all,
my friends, take into your homes Chris
tian principle. Can it be that in any
of the comfortable homes of my con
gregation the voice of prayer is never
lifted? What! no supplication at
night for protection? What! no thanks
giving in the morning for care? How,
my brother, my sister, will you answer
God in the day judgment with reference
to your chilclron? It is a plain ques
tion, and therefore I ask it. In the
tenth chapter of Jeremiah, God says
He will pour out His fury upon the
families that call not upon his name.
0! parents, when yon are dead and gone,
and the moss is covering the inscrip
tion of the tombstone, will your chil
dren look back and think of father and
mother at family prayer? Will they
take the old family Bible and open it
and see the mark of tears of contrition
and tears of consoling promise wept by
eyes long before gone out • into dark
ness? O! if you do not inculcate Chris
tian principle in the hearts of your
children, and you do not warn them
against evil, and you do not invite them
to holiness and to God, and they wan
der off into dissipation and into infidel
ity, and at last make shipwreck of their
immortal soul, on their death-bed and
iu the day of judgment they will curse
you! Seated by the register or the
stove, what if, on the wall, should
come out the history of your children.
What a history—the mortal and im
mortal life of your loved ones. Every
parent is writing the’history of his
child. He is writing it, composing it
into a song, or pointing it with a groan.
My mind runs back to one of the best
of early homes. Prayer, like a roof,
over it. Peace, like an atmosphere, in
it, Parents, personifications of faith in
trial and comfort in darkness. The
two pillars of that earthly home long
ago crumbled to dust. But shall I
ever forget that early home? Yes,
when the flower forgets the sun that
warmed it. \es, when the mariner
forgets the star that gnided him. Yes,
when love has gone out on the heart’s
altar and memory has emptied its urn
into forgetfulness. Then, the home of
my childhood, I will forget thee. The
family altar of a lather’s importunity
and a mother’s tenderness, the voices
of affection, the funeral ot our dead, the
father and mother with interlocked arms
like interwining branches of trees mak
ing a perpetual arbor of love and peace
and kindness—then I will forget thee—
then, and only then. You know, my
brother, that a hundred times you have
been kept out of sin by the memory of
such a scene as I have, been describing.
You have often Lad raging temptations,
but. you know what has held you with
supernatural grasp. I tell you a man
who has had such a good home as that
never gets over it, and a man who lias
had a bad early home never gets over
it.
Again, I remark that home is a type
of heaven. At our best estate we are
only pilgrims and strangers here.
“Heaven is our home.” Death will
never knock at the door of that man
sion, and in all that country there is
not a single grave. How glad parents
are in these holidays to gather their
children home again. But I have no
ticed that there is almost always a son
or daughter absent—absent from home,
perhaps absent from the country, per
haps absent from the world. O! how
glad our Heavenly Father will be when
Ho gets all His children home with
Him in Heaven. And how delightful
it will be for brothers and sisters to
meet after long separation. Once they
parted at the door the tomb; now they
meet at the door of immortality. Once
they saw only ‘through a glass, darkly;’
now it is face to face, corruption incor
ruption, mortality immortality. Where
are now all their sins and sorrows and
troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red
Sea of death, while they pass through
drysliod. Gates of peril, sagstones of
amethyst, thrones of dominion do "not
stir my soul so much as the thought of
home. Once there, let earthly sorrows
howl like storms and roll like seas.
Home! Let thrones rot and empires
wither. Home! Let the world die in
earthquake struggle and he hurried
amid procession of planets and dirge of
spheres. Home! Let everlasting ages
roll in irresistible sweep. Home! No
sorrow. No crying. No tears. No
death. But home sweet home, —beau-
tiful home, everlasting home, home
with each other, home with angels,
home with God!
While I stand here I remember that
this is an anniversary to me. It is two
years ago since my son lay at the foot
of this pulpit in a casket—two years
ago to-day. What expectations and
prayers and affections were wrapt up in
that boy, I cannot say. My consola
tion in regard to that is the consolation
you have in regard to those of your own
families who have passed away. Gone
from home on earth, they have a home
in heaven.
One night, lying on my lounge when
very tired, my children all around
about me, iu full romp and hilarity and
laughter—on the lounge, half awake
and half asleep—l dreamed this dream:
I was in a far country. It was not
Persia, although more than Oriental
luxuriance crowned the cities. It was
not the tropics, although more than
tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens.
It was not Italy, although more than
Italian softness filled the air. And I
wandered around looking for thorns and
nettles, but I found that none of them
grew there; and I saw the sun rise, and
I watched to see it set, but it sank not.
And I saw the people in holiday atitre,
and I said: “When will they put oft’
this and put on workmen’s garb, and
again delve in the mine, and iweltir at
the forge?” But they never put off the
holiday attire. And I wandered in the
suburbs of the city to find the place
where the dead sleep, and I looked all
along tho line of the beautiful hills, the
place where the dead might most bliss
fully sleep, and I saw towers and cast
ties, but not a mausoleum, or a monu
ment, or a white slab could I see. And
I went into the chapel of the great town,
and I said, “Where do the poor wor
ship? and where are the hard benches
on which they sit?” and the answer
was made me, “We have no poor in
this country.” And then I wandered
out to find the hovels of the destitute,
and I found mansions of amber and
ivory and gold, but not a tear could I
see, not a sigh could I hear. And I
was bewildered and I sat down tinder
the branches of a great tree, and I said,
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“Where am I? and whence comes alll
this scene?” And then out from among
the leaves and up the flowery paths
and across the bright streams there
came a beautiful group thronging all
about me, and as I saw them come I
thought I knew their step, and as they
shouted I thought I knew their vo’ets;
but then they were so gloriously array
ed in apparel such as 1 had never be
fore witnessed that I bowed as stranger
to stranger. But when again they clap
ped their hands and shouted “ Welcoine,
welcome,” the mystery all vanished
and I found that time had gone and
eternity had come, and we were all to
gether again in our new home in Heav
en; and I looked around and said, “Are
we all here?” and the voices of many
generations responded, “All here!”
And while tears of gladness were run
-1 ning down our cheeks, and the branches
of the Lebanon cedars were clapping
their hands, and the towers of the great
city were chiming their welcome, we
all together began to leap and shout
and sing, “Home, home, home, home!”
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