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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bemi-Weeket. One Year - - -54 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.0d ESTPayable in advance All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged tor in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and'3s cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising' Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 tafTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Law* AMERICAS, GA. decl6tf B. P. HOLLIS 4 Attorney at Law* AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G SIMMONS, Attorney at Law, AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort& „ Simmons. janGtf 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 Or. D. V, HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americas. - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. HTOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt 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 partment is under the able management of Prof. Alfredo Barili. For particulars ap ply to Mrs. J. W. BALLARD, junel7-ly Principal. Liverj asi Sale Stalks! Besides Horses, we have the WEBSTER WAGON, LANDIS BUGGIES. J. T. BARNES’ ROAD CARTS, KENTUCKY MULES, here and en route. To epitomize, Horses, Mules, Wagons, Buggies, Carts, and Harness to suit ail tfcstes and jndge meuts, Fine styles, substantial goods at ex ceedingly LOW FIGURES. The times con sidered in all our dealings. Call and see us. N. G. & J. K. PRINCE, Cotton Ave. and West End Jefferson St. jan3tf Americus, Ga. MEAT MARKET and Provision Store W. H, & T. M. COBB Having purchased from HARE & COBB, the Meat Market and Provision Store, on COTTON AVENUE, Keep on hand the VERY BEST CUTS of BEEF, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE. AND ALSO A FULL LINE OF GREEN GROCERIES! Provisions, Eto , embracing all hinds of Vegetables and Fruits in their season, Canned Goods, etc. It Is their aim to keep a first-class establish ment, and give their customers good goods at the lowest prices. Highest price paid for CATTLE, HOGS, and all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE. Ahericcs, Ga., Dec. 16, 1882. tf .BRICK. BRICK. BRICK 1 have THREK-HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND good new brick, which I will sell cheap. Apply at once. * deoßlm R. E. COBB. Your account is due and I need the money, so call and settle, at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. f SI MMON^ 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. It should be used by all persons, old and young;, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living; In Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating; beverage. have oaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take-a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator * in the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy is harmless and does uot interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. lion. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. ‘‘The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never nave found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. NY. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in iny practice I have been and am satisfied vo use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. Tak” only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. 12. ZHILIN & CO. FOR SAT.F RV att D^fv^r.rcTc TUTTS EXPEOTami la composed of Herbal and Mucilaginous prod ucts, which permeate the substance of the Lungs, expectorates the acrid matter that collects iu the Bronchial Tubes, and forms a soothing coating, which relieves the ir ritation that cau&c* the cough. It cleanses the lungs of all impurities, strengthens them when enfeebled by disease, invigor ates the circulation of the blood, and braces the nervous system. Slight colds often end in consumption. It is dangerous to neglect them. Apply the remedy promptly. A test of twent y years warrants tho assertion that no remedy has ever been found that is as prompt mitseffectsasTUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A single dose raises the phlegm, subdues inflammation, and its use speedily cutps the most obstinate cough. A pleasant cordial, chil dren take it readily. For Croup it is invaluable and should be in every family. TUTTS PILLS ACT DaRECTLY^^THFuVER? Cureß Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Bilious Colic,Constipa* tion, Rheumatism, Files, Palpitation of the Heart, Dizziness, Torpid JLiver, and Female Irregularitie 8. If you do not “feel very well,” a single pill stimulates the stomach, restores the nppotite, imparts vigor to the system. A NOTED DiVHE SAYS; Dr. Tutt ’.--Dear Sirt lor ton years I have been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Tiles. Last spring your pills wero recommended to mo; I used them (but with little faith). lam now a well man, have good appetite, digestion perfect, regular stools, piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid flesh. They arc worth their weight in gold. REV. It. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. r DH. TUTJT’S MANUAL of l scful\ Receipts FREE on application. / fclftEßS Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters gives steadiness to the nerves, induces a healthy, natural flow of bile, prevents constipation-without unduly purging tlie bowels, gently stimulates the circulation, and by promoting a vigorous condition of the physical system, promotes, also, that cheerfulness which is the truest indication of a well-balanced condition of all the animal powers. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. DAVENPORT'S^ Belle of Americus, Davenport & Son Are Sole'Agcnts for IJELLE OF AMERI CUS. It is made of the best Ilavanna, long fillers, is not flavored or doctored and the only 5c Cigar in the market that is as good as an imported cigar. oct6-5m FOR SALE 7 500 bushels Rust Proof Oats at 50 ots. per bushel. 100 bushels Bancroft Oats at 75 ots. per bushel. JOHN R. KING, janl2-w4t Americus, Ga. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1883. vovtsv. aktis pimm 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, | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 34. “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!” On Thirty Day’s Trial. The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich, will send I)r. Dye’s Celebratrd Electro- Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Ad dress as above. N. 15.—N0 risk is iucurred, as thirt y davs’ trial is allowed. dec2l-ly WOMAN. Ilclter Ilian tlie Smile* of King*. To bring health and happiness to the homes of suffering women is a mission be fore which • royal favor sinks into insignifi cance. W'hat earthly benefaction can com pare with one which protects from “That dire disease whose ruthless power Withers beauty’s tsansient flower’?” which gives ease for pain, joy for sorrow, smiles for tears, the roses of health for the pallor of disease, the light elastic step for dragging weariness, nights of soft repose for heavy hours of tossing restlessness, bound ing vigor for languishing dulness, the swell ing lines of full grown beauty for the sharp and withered form of emaciation, a long life of mental, physical, social and domestic en joyments for a few sad days of pain and gloom, endhigin an early grave? Such is the mission, such are the resultt of Dr. J. Brad field’s Female Regulator, which is hence truly and appropriately styled “Woman’s Best Friend.” “Whites,” and all those irregularities of the womb so destructive to the health, happi ness and beauty of women, disappear like magic before a single bottle of this wonder ful compound. Physicians prescribe it, Prepared by Dr. J. Bradfield, Atlanta, Ga. Price, trial size. 75c; large size, $1.50! For sale by all druggists. jan‘J-2m What an Editor Says. There are so matry patent humbugs and nostrums, in the way of medicines, adver tised all over the country, that the masses are skeptical and are loth to buy unless the article offered for sale is known to possess real merits; and on the other hand, names of well known citizens are often forged tr certificates for the purpose of effecting sale and palming off a worthless preparation. Taking these facts into consideration, it gives me pleasure to add my testimonial to a medicine which 1 know from personal ex perience to do all that is claimed for it. Of course liefer to “Neuralgine,” a spe cific for neuraligia and headache, put up in this city by Hutchison & Bro. W. T. Christopher. Ed. Atlanta Daily Phonograph. HUTCHINSON & BRO.,Proprietors, At lanta, Ga. Sold by Dr. E. J.Eldridge, J. E. Hall, W. TANARUS, Davenport & Son and A. J. & W. B. Hudson. Jan. 101 m. Bright is the rosy blush of evening skies, And bright the waves that ’neath the moonbeams flow; Bright are tho beams from Beauty’s laugh ing eyes, And bright the flowers that iu the wood land grow; But brighter far the bloom of health to me, On cheeks whose owners stick to H. H. P. 18557 1883 A NEW PROCESS. MlH'ii mlf-ffl DOLLAR PHOSPHATE. Why should Planters pay the high prices demanded for Guano and Phos phates, when they can buy a Reliable Cotton Producer for $25.00 per ton, free on hoard cars or boat at Philadelphia? This article is below the standard of analysis by the State. Law of Georgia, and we cannot sell it through dealers ol that State; it can only be obtained by sending orders direct to the manufac turers. It has been used very largely in the North,and the results obtained havd been wonderful. It produces as large crops as the high-priced manures. The advantages we possess in the manufac ture of this article enables ns to offerlo the Planter a Cheaper Phosphate than he has ever before had the privilege of procuring. We guarantee the follow ing analysis: Ammonia. 2to 2J4prct. Sol. & Precipitated Phos. Acid. sto 0 “ Equal to Available Bone Phos. 10 to 12 “ Insolublte Bone Phosphate. 7to 8 “ We advise Planters to unite and order by the car-load, in which case the low est rate of freight will be secured. Cash must accompany the order, or you can authorize your Agent in Bal timore, Philadelphia, or New York, to pay for the goods on presentation of bill and bill of lading. Address BAUGH & SONS, . (Sole Manufacturers,) PTIUjADBLiPHIA • dec22tf FOUTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS N.> lb.ee* min .lie of' Cot.tr. jwrreor Luxe n- TiR, if Foutz’s Powders are used in time. , Fontz’s Powders and prevent Ho© Cholera. Fontz’s Powders will prevent Gaprr in Fowl*. Fontx’s Powders will increase the quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent., and moke the butter firm and sweet. * Foutt's Powder* will core or prevent almost irnl Diseask to whlcti Homes and Cattle re subject. Pouts'* Pownim will eivi satistactiox. Bold everywhere. DAVID F. FORTE, Proprietor. . Baltimore, xp,