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m if. ♦ Y j / I [. AW AW/ A 4 S. B. Burr, Proprietor. “Ups" «nd;S''Downs. , ‘ What legions of friends always bless us When gulden success light* our way ! How they smile vhen tiiey softly address So cordial, good humored and gay. But oh! when the sun Of prosperity they frown Hath set—then how quickly severity, And erv oitt in tones of Kick the mar, don’t you see he is down ! tV hat though when you knew not a sor row, dav, Your heart was as open as wauted to And your friends, when they borrow. ask them lo You’d oblige and never pay What though not a soul you e’er slighted, as you meandered about through the town. . Your friends become very near sighted, And don't seein to see you when down When you’re up. yon are highly exalted, And traders all sing out your praise; When you are down you have greatly de¬ faulted. And they really don’t fancy your ways. Your Style was tip-top whenyoil'd ntou ey, sucker and clown. So sings every But now 'tis exceedingly because funny, Things are altered you down. Oh, give me the heart that forever, Is free from the world’s selfish rust, And the soul whose high noble endeavor Is to raise fallen man from the dust; And when in adversity’s ocean A victim is likely to drown, All hail to the friend whose devotion Will lift up a mall when he’s down. OTHER WORLDS. The Problem of a “Sweet By and By" Discussed by Dr. Newman in the Central Methodist Church. ‘Does death end all ? Is there no sweet by and by ?’ asked the Rev’ Dr. Newman in the Central Meth¬ odist Church, New York, last Sun¬ day. The subject of the discourse \vas ‘other Worlds' and the speak¬ er had selected for a test—‘In my Father's house are many mansions; if it wei’e not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.’—St. John xvi., 2. Are there no other worlds inhab¬ ited by intelligent creatures? con¬ tinued the Doctor. 1 1 this soul earth, which is but a ffrdin of sand compared to the immensity of the universe, the only inhabited plan¬ et? If il is, how ecu emptibly sm all is the intelligent univeise of Jehovah. Christ taught the contrary. Mod¬ ern astronomy has revealed, to us the wonders of the sidereal heav¬ ens, the vastness of the planets, the bewildering velocity and their Countless numbers. Do eternal si leiice, solitude and desolation reign in all those heavenly bodies ? There are day and night, spring and sum¬ mer, light and atmosphere, and are there no inhabitants adapted to BUch conditions. It is not to be inferred that, all planets at’e inhab¬ ited, for the discoveries of modern astronomy prove that some are not ih a condition to sustain the higher orders of life But the inference is «k fair one, based on the last anal ysits of science, on analogy and rev¬ elation, that there are innumerable worlds inhabited by those who in the beauty of their perfeitioa and the loftiness of their intelligence exclaim, with the angels, ‘Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty’ To some new and glorious planet the good of earth are transferred in the hour and ar¬ ticle of death. Do you ask where is heaven? Asironomers have sought for the centre of motioni As our earth has a centre of gravi¬ tation this principle is applicable to the whole universe. The sun is the centre of our system. Our sys¬ tem revolves about another centre, and there must be somewhere ih the universe a common centre around which other systems re¬ volve. That may be the abode of the glorious God. The astrono¬ mers have ascertained that Alcyone is the most beautiful star of the Pleiades and is the centre of our astronomical motion, and it has been shown that all tha stars are moving around that point as their common centre of gravity, which but confirms a great central posi¬ tion, where is the august throne of the Supreme Ruler of the universe, from which He surveys, as from the capital of His empire, the move¬ ments and glories of His creation. That may be the heaven of heavens and the abode of the blessed, and at that point there is rest—the on¬ ly point of reBt in the universe. What is the threefold ground of our hope of ft future existence f The dictates of nature the approval of reason and the teachings of reve lation. Has God marked man with a desire to live forever and not made provision for his gratifiction ? BELIEF IN A FUTURE STATB. Belief in a future tate is bound¬ ed by no clime, limited by no age, compared to no people, but is the universal sentiment of mankind. It is an old saying that conscience makes cowards of us all. A dis : tin-bed conscience is not confined to luckless wights .but is the expe¬ rience of your N eros, Richards and Napoleons. Infidels would have us believe that what we call a troubled conscience is an educated some* thing confined to Christian lands*. Hume said he could explain his qualms of conscience by a shock which he had sustained in his youth. But a troubled conscience is older era. tell us that Nero heard groans from the grave of his murdered mother. Conscience forebodes future pun* ishment and anticipates future re¬ ward. Shakespeare represents eleven several ghosts, saying to King Richard, asleep in his tent, ‘Let me sit heavy on thy soul to¬ morrow.’ Reason approves that involution is always equal to evo¬ lution, that you cannot getout of a thing that whieliyon do not put into a thing. There is no music in the harp without the harper. You may destroy the harp and the harper will survive. There are in man thought and eloquence, love and hate, hope and fear, remorse and repose. These are not material, but belong to a spiritual nature, which oonstitutes the harper. Reve° lation riot only declares the fact of a future state of existence, but lias demonstrated the same by inter¬ communication between this World and the next. Not lest than four men have been to that country and returned to us. Two had lived hire, and :.ftar ail absence of from nine hundred to fifteen hundred years they returned ti ui. An other had. always lived tliefe, and having lived with us a score or more of years returned to his native land; and the fourth, who was born here, went there and returned to us again. Do you object to the smallness of the number of visitors? Bill four are as good as forty thou sand for all practical purposes. — Moses and Elias, St. Paul and Christ are the competent witnesses that there is a ‘sweet by and bv.’ Beoause we cannot go and return, is no proof that they did not go and return. Superior advantages are not proof that they were not en¬ joyed. Others may yet go and again return. Who knows? The Master said: ‘If I go away I will come again and receive ye unto myself, that where I am ye may be also.’ Vermont Equity. There was a certain Vermont farmer named Brown, who owned a large sheep farm, and who, once on a time, finding himself in difficul¬ ties, came down to Boston and consulted his brother-in-law, who was a lawyer, as to ways and meaus *of raising money. The lawyer, who was a keen man of business, aud had money to spare, agreed to lend the farmer such sums as he required provided the latter would give him a first mortgage on the sheep farm. The farmer assented to this, the mortgage was duly made out and rocorded. and the farmer returned home to Vermont with money in his pocket. Time went on and the farmer paid interest promptly, the same passing through the hands of oue John Smith, who was it man of mark in the farmer's neighborhood, and had accordingly beau deputed to collect the interest and forward |he same to him. At length, however, Farmer Brown, finding little market for hie wool, and having invested in certain worthless outlying farms, again fell into difficulties, and this time sought the advice and assistance of his neighbor, ,he Smith, who, after looking over Brown matter, agreed to advance certain sums and FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1881. take security, by mortgage the farmer’s carts, wagons, horses; sheep-shears, and other personal property, the farm itself being al¬ ready mortgaged to the Boston law¬ yer. But BroWu still failed to pros per, and at length coulJ pay inter est neither to the lawyer nor to SmLIi. Then it was agreed that his ass.-ts should be fairly divided between the two mortgages, and Squire Joyce, a Justice of the Peace in the neighborhood, who was a member of the same church as Smith, wa 3 selected to act as ref eree. The parties met at the Squire’s office, and each spoke for himselt, the lawyer first. Said he: ‘I have a first mortgage on the farm duly executed aud recorded, and of course, the farm must belong to me.’ ‘Not much!’ said Smith. ‘I have a mortgage later than yours, on the personal properly, and if that isn’t enough to cover my debt, I shall grab the farm too. My equity is superior to yours. Isn’t that so, Squire?’ The Squire hemmed and hawed and finally said to the lawyer: ‘You consented to Smith’s mortgage, didn’t you?’ ‘Never! 1 said the lawyer. ‘That makes no difference,’ inter¬ rupts! Smith. ‘I did it for you!’ ‘Jes’ so, jes‘ so, 1 said the Squire’ ‘I remember. Tiie whole business was mighty simple. You jest con¬ sented, as this Boston man’s attor¬ ney, to Brown's making a mortgage to you.* ‘But what of it. 1 cried the lawyer. ‘He couldn't give any blinding as¬ sent to make this mortgage better than mine. 1 ‘Perhaps not in said the Squire, ‘but in equity, in equity, my dear sir ; we go by equity here in Vermont. 1 ‘Yes, I call it inequity,f said the lawyer, sotto voce. ‘Besides, 1 said the Squire, ‘lam inclined to believe that it was the intention as between Smith and Brown that the mortgage ot the carts and fixings should iuclude the farm too—though the writings don't jest say so. Wasn't that so, Smi h?‘ ‘Certain! 1 said Smith. ‘But that makes no difference,‘ cried the lawyer, ‘you must go by the record. I’ve authority on that point 1 , aud he produced a ba g full of hooks. ‘Young man! 1 cried Justice J oyce severely. ‘I'd have you know that this Court isn't hide-bound by pre¬ cedents. 1 sit here to do equity as I understand it. .Equitas non se quitur legem. Ahem !‘ ‘That's so in Vermont, by jin go! cried the lawyer, waxing wroth. ‘Order in the court! cried the Squire. ‘Besides, I mean to make it a rule in my court tha the last mortgage shall always have prior¬ ity. It’s so with wills, why not with mortgages? Answer that, you Boston chap. 1 The lawyer was dumbfounded. ‘I find on the whole case, 1 said Squire Joyce, summing up. ‘that the farm aud personalty must be sold and Smiths debts paid, no mat¬ ter what becomes of this Boston man. And Smith, as you say you have au interest in the wheelrights and blacksmiths shops up to the village, and Brown owe s a running account at both places, you just bring in those bills and mebbe— I don't say certain, but mebbe—we ca i fix those up if there's any bal¬ ance. 1 The lawyer took his books back to Boston a wiser man. Smith grabbed the farm and sheared the sheep and said tauntingly to the lawyer, ‘What are you going lo do about it?*—Springfield (Mass.) Re¬ publican. A boy was sent out collecting the other day. and when he returned in the evening and handed in his bill unpaid, be said: ‘‘fbe people around this town like me first-rate. They Were so anxious to see me of¬ ten that every man I went to told me to call again,' Adulteration of Food- A Chicago Chemist Shows utf AFetaful State of Things TheCommittee on Epidemic Dis •asas in the House will report fa vorably the bill authorizing a com mission of three experts to inquire '“to the adulteration of food in th 0 United States. Some, of the ie P orts °f the committee present a f ear ful state of things^ and are cals culated to prevent oaPfeful people f r0D u eating anything except corn biteitd and egg a, A Chicago chem writes: F T have entirely abandoned the use of vinegar generally sold in our markets, believing it to be unfit for use and dangerous. I know that sulphuric acid is largely used in its manufacture. 2. I never use the pickles^geflefdlly sold in our markets. I think the yellow pick leB are quito as dangerous as the green, I know that lead is largely used in their manufacture; verdi¬ gris is used in making the gree'u.-— 3. I have examined a large number of specimens of oiemaiigarine, and ahd havej found in them organic substances in the form of muselular and connective tissues, various fun¬ gi, and living organisms, which have resisted the action of boiling acetic acid; also eggs resembling those_of the tape worn). I ave them preserved to be shown to any¬ one desiring*to see them. The French patent under} which the olemargarine is made requires the use of the stomachs of pigs or sheep. This is probably the way the egas get in, I have specimens of lean meat taken from olemargarine.— There can be no question that im¬ mense amounts of olemargarine are sold as pure butter. I regard it as a dangerous article, and would on uo account permit its use in my family. 4. Enormous amounts of the meats of diseased animals are sold in Chicago. I have made a large number of examinations. I have been informed of several casts of poiSoniDg in this city from the use of canned meats. I do’not dare to use the syrups commonly sold in our markets, and I use but little sugar, as I believe .them nearly all adulterod. In regard to glucose, I am informed, and believe that seven-eights of all the sugar sold in Chicago is made of, or adultera. led with glucose. As hoHr manu factured and used, 1 know that rria ny of our eminent physicians be¬ lieve it dangerous and productive of disease of the kidneys The' manufacture of glucose in this country is enormous, fluid large factories are being built to increase its manufacture. Two Different Men The Boston Transcript thus ut¬ ters the respect which all decent people reel for ‘the man with the bundle'—and deserved contempt for the other kind of man. Tho writer saw a pleasant faced custom¬ er tt a shop-counter, just closing a bargain for a costly and beautiful writing case. ‘To what address shall we send this ?* said the clerk, with a tone in¬ dicating extreme respect. ‘Nowhere, 1 responded the purcha ser; ‘I always carry my own bun¬ dles ‘ ‘Yes, sir; but this is heavy, and it will be a pleasure for us to send it.‘ ‘Young man,' said the other, 'I always love to take something home at night to show my wife aud chil¬ dren that I haven't forgotton them while at my business, and I wouldn't give apin to make auybody a present unless I carried it into the house myself. I want to see ‘am take it.' ‘Yes, sir, but this is heavy.' ‘No matter, I'm strong,* and out he went, with such a glow on his face that one could imagine it lighted up the now dim sidewalk rods ahead, as a locomotive reflec¬ tor illuminates the track. , Another welP-known street face passed him tt the door coming in. Purchasing a congress knife the new comer said in a short and dictatori¬ al tone: •Send it to my hottBe (No. fifteen hundred and something, Washing¬ ton street,) immediately; I shall want it as soon as I get home.’ ‘Two different men,’ suggested we, as the clerk closed the door af ter him. -Very,’ was the reply. ‘The man witll the bundle is Mr.-, the honest owner of hundreds of thous a nds, and there never was a sub* scription that didn’t get his name f or something handsome. The other man failed last week—all there was of him to fail—aad isn't worth his salt: but he had rather take tho commercial disgrace of failure at any time than the social disgrace of being seen in the streets with a bundle.’ Two very different men, indeed! Well take off our hat the next time we meet Mr. on tae sidewalk. Long may he live and carry bundles to make people hap py- A Truthful Kan. A ftat-fooled, old t&shioned Wes¬ tern Merchant, hailing from a coun¬ try store in Michigan, was buying stock in New York, and the firm took advantage of the occasion to make inquiries concerning some of their customers around him. When they asked about Smith, of Nash¬ ville, he replied: ‘Smith! Yes, he’s in trade yet, but he’s just married a second wife, aud she’s going through his wealth like saltpeter. He’ll .fail in les’n six months.’ ‘How about Jones, of your town? ‘Jones! Well, Jones is pegging along after the old style, and he’s bought him a bicycle, and every body says he’ll go to the wall in a year.’ ‘And Brown & Son—are they all right?’ ‘Brown & Son? Wall, they may keep along till spring, but I doubt it. Old Brown has got so nigh sighted that he can’t tell a sheep pelt front a coon skin and the boy is dead stuck on a widow woman who never wears anything less than $0 stockings.’ ‘But Davis is doing a good trade, isn’t he?' ‘Davis ! Wall, pooty fair, but he w-ju’l last. He rented the upper part of his store to a Chicago milli¬ ner, and she broke up two families an<|3,iicd a preacher. Everybody blames Davis, and bis sales last week only footed u p a pound of sal erattis and a washboarJ.’ ‘Well, you are the only otharens omor out there, aud of course, you are all right.’ ’Me! Wall, I’m all right just now, tut things may chinge. My wife belongs to three literary socie ties and is Lie big toad at church festivals, while I’ve bought a 2:40 trotter and learned to play old sledge. You needn’t be surprised any day to hear that I’ve been bust¬ ed from garret to cellar so clean that creditors can’t find enough dry wipe a biby’s lose ou ’ REMARKABLE^’lNSTANdE OF, GRATITUDE. An old aly, ninety years of age, very wealthy and full of wit, died recently at Fontain bleau, in France Her will contained this provision f ‘I leave to my physician, whose en¬ lightened care and wise prescrip tions have made me live so long, all that is contained in the old oaken chest in my boudoir. The key o f the chest will be found under the mattress of my bed.’ The, heirs were much disturbed, for t hey fore saw a material diminution I of their share of the property. The fortu nate and expectant physician a^ length arrived. Ths notary deliv¬ ered to him the key of the chest. It was opened and found to contain solely all the drugs anl potions, still intact, which the worthy phy¬ sician bad given his patie nt for twenty years bock! — »-»-—. Prof. Vennor predticts that the spring will be ‘fairly early, ho t and dry,' and that the midsum mer will be ‘cool and wet.’ He thinks there will be a good deal of sickness.— Vennor bag sustained bis reputa¬ tion as a weather seer pretty well thus far. ‘Ewe get out!’ as the farmer said o the Jamb in his earn. The Winter at the West A letter from a Now York paper gives a fearful account of the sever¬ ities of the winter in the Northwest. Up in Minnesota and Dakota there has been an almost continuous snow blockade for three months past, with deeper snowdrifts than were ever known before. The pain ful impression seems to exist that when the snow has disappeared it will be found that there lias been a great I 0 E 8 of life. It is claimed many remote settlements have been literally buried under the aval¬ of snow, and the inhabitants perished from cold and huuger. is said that in the cattle ranges the Missouri river and the Rjcky Mountains over 400,000 ot. cattle have perished, in¬ a lots of 810,000,000. In the country between the Platte and the Niobrara rivers the loss of slock severe weather has been from to 40 per cent. The cattle were killed during the terrible that have repeatedly over tliesej sections, but many from want of food. The in these regions have now their eyes the new danger floods from the melting of the quantity of snow has fallen From an Unexpected Source The Detroit Post says that a cir¬ clown in Yiiginia look occa the other day. at the close of performance, to speak plain) very searching words, which the sober attention of ma more than those who heard them In his painted fade and mottled garments he said: ‘We have taken .in §600 hero tosday: more money I venture to say, than any minister of the goBpel would receive for a whole year's services. A large portion of this money was given by church members and a large por¬ tion of this audience is made up of members of the church. And yet, when your preacher asks you to aid hini in supporting the gospel, you are too poofr to give anything. But you come liei-e and pay dollars to hear me talk nonsense. I am a fool because I am paid for it- I make my living by it. You profess to be wise, aud yet you support me in my folly. But perhaps, you say you did not come to see the cir¬ cus but the animals. If you came simply to see the animals, why did you not simply look at them and leave? Now, is not this a pretty place for Christians to be in? Do you not feel ashamed of yourselvos? You ought to blush in such a place as this.’ A Little Advice I want to give you throe or four r ules. One is, always to look at ‘die person you speak to. When you are addressed, look straight at the person who speaks to you. Do not forget this. Another is, speak your words plainly. Do not mutter or mum¬ ble. If your words are worth say¬ ing, they are worth pronouncing distinctly and clearly. Another is, do not say disagree¬ able things. If you have nothing pleasing to say, keep silent. A fourth is—and oh 1 children 1 remember it all your lives—think three times before you speak once. Have yon something to do that yon find hard, and would prefer not to do? Then listen. Do the hard thing first and get over with it. If you have done wrong, go and confess. If your lesson is tough, master it. If the garden is to be weeded, Weed it first aud play af¬ terward Do things you don’t like to do first and then with a clear conscience do the rest, The Milwaukee Sun, referring to a railroad accident, said: ‘AMissou ri girl had an ear torn off; and the wreck was scattered along tho track for half a mile ’ If that girl recov¬ ers damages corresponding in size to her left ear, which was ‘scattered along the tr ick for half a mile,’ the railroad company will have to ap lopoint aeceivei- Vol.-io No. 36 DO YOU INTEND TO HE NO¬ BODY. TO TOCNG MEN. My friend, I want, to tell you the safe way to become nobody, and less than nothing to your home, to your copntry. It is easy to become nobody. the drinking 1. Go to saloon, hotel or tavern. Spend your leiss ure time there. Letitheyour re¬ sort—the place where you are sure to be found. 2. Be sure to bo very moderate in what you drink. At times do not take anything. Never ‘ touch anything stronger than cider, lager beer or some other light drink. 3. To fill up time, be free aud easy, pluy domiuose, checkers, or something eiso to kill time. 4. Never read anything useful; never touch a serious book. If you do read anything, let it be dime novels, books that run down relig¬ ion, something spicy. stomach 5. Mind and keep your full of food and drink, your head empty, your time cousumed with games of chauce, and in a few years you will be nobody, unless you turn out a drunkard, a professional which gam¬ bler or a jail bird, either ot is worse than nothing or nobody. My young friend, pursue this course, and you will be rude in man* ners, coarse in conversation, p;o fane in language, indecent in con¬ duct, aud an outcast from good so¬ ciety, possessed of neither con¬ science, taste nor a sense of pro¬ priety—in short, a nobody. There are numbers of young men hanging about saloons just ready to graduate to be uobudies. Beauty Before Age. An amusing incident occurred on a Cleveland street car the other day. A woman of fifty, made up to look about twenty-five years old, got aboard at a crossing to find ev ery seat occupied. She stood for a moment and_then selecting a poor¬ ly dressed man about forty-five years of age she observed: ‘Are there any gentlemen on tho car ?’ ‘Indeed, I dunho,' he replied, aa he looked up and down, ‘If thero hain’t, and you are going clear through, I'll hunt up one for you at the end of tlie line.’ There was an embarrassing si¬ lence for a moment, and then a light broko in on him all of a sud¬ den, and ho rose and said : •You can have this scat, madam. I am always perfectly willing to stand up and give my seat to any¬ body older than myself.’ That decided her. She gave him a look which ho will not forget to his dying day, and grabbing tlie strap, she refused to sit down, oven when five seats had become vacant. Free of charge—an empty gun. Au ex-press p ackage—the girl who has jilted you. What word may bo pronounced puicker by adding a syllable to it? Quick. A study in oil—the attempt to get a sardine out whole. It is a poor speller who docs not have au i to business. As with a woman, so with 3 horse. His back hair is his mane trouble. A New York engraver• recently made this mistake: ‘Mr. and Mr's. --request youf presents at the marriage of Iboir daughter. 1 Said a stump orator: ‘I know uo North, no South, uo East, no West.’ ‘Yes, 1 said au opposing man, ‘domed it you know anything called else.' A new style of stocking is Voltairo. Sock-rates would have been a better name, and we never did like a stocking with a tairo at the end of it. Scone in a restaurant: Man with his co.it off struggling with u pieco of steak, calls oat to the proprietor: •Say, don't the horns go with this ere meat? 1 ‘Yes,‘ said an affectionate mother 1 ‘the firs- year of ■ my daughter's marriage I thought her husband was an angel, and I‘ui sure that ev ery yoar since l.‘ve wished ho was one. 1 A fashion paper says, ‘tialhorod waists arc much worn. 1 If tho men, would gather tho waists carefully, and not squeeze so like blazes, they would not bo worn so much. ‘Holo on dur,‘ said a oolured man hailing an acquaintance. ‘Dog s ye cross do street ebory time yer seo me ter keep from payin' dat bill No: I doesn't. ‘What fur, dea? Tor keep from boiu‘ asked fur it.