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Rates of Board *2.00 per day: single
lmul, 50 eent. I aide always supplied
with the Lest the market affords.
Could We Tel!.
Could we tell wliat’s best, my neighbor,
In the world we’re passing through—
How to manage well and wisely
All the tasiis e have to do—
Could we see life’s snares ami pitfalls,
Could we count its many snares,
Should we happier he than meeting,
As we do, Fate unawares ?
Could we tell, my friend and neighbor,
Wlmt there was for 11s in store—
W hether riches and abundance,
Or the lean olf at the door—
Could we foresee hours of anguish,
Every ache and every pain.
Would not life loose half its sweetne s ?
Would not pleasure be in vain ?
Walking blindly through the shadows.
Now and then a cheering ray,
Hope and Faith our shield and buckler,
Is for us the better way.
By and by the mist will vanish,
By and by the shadows glide,
Letting in the light of wisdom
When we reach the other side.
—Star Spangled Banner.
BILL ARP’S LETTER,
In Which He Considers Things in
Atlanta Constitution.
Chrislmas is at liancf, ami ho
winter to speak of yet ; no cold
rains or howling Winds ; no heavy
drains upon the farmer’s small
slote of corn and provender.
Providence is kind, not withstand
ing the short crops, and our peo
pie are hopeful of getting
through the winter and starling
anew at planting time. Poor
people saw a hard stuuggle
ahead, and the good man was
gloomy and sad when he thought
of the lack of means to keep wife
and children from want and the
wolf from the door. The poor
get more sympathy than help,
and have long since learned to.
do without when they cannot
Tv r Merchants and guano. men
don’t know what contending
forces have worked noon the
farmer’s mind and what sacri
(ice of comfort he has had to
make to pay for advances —how
he has got to pinch himself and
his family, and even his stock, to
struggle through the winter that
is yet to come. But after all
there seems lo he a deliverance
not counted on, for here are the
iron works and manganeese
works and the car factory and
Uie saw mills and the new rail
roads that want-labor and teams
and pay good prices, and otir
people are going to them from
all directions. The car factory
at Cartersville has one hundred
and fifty hands and turns out
thirty cars a week. Th& manga
neese mines gives employment
to as in .any* rtiore and there are
hundreds at the furpaces. The
thirty-four steam :,S£M§| mills in
the county of Polk not less
than five hundred hands. Mr.
West’s railroad increYsqs its force
all the time as it increases its
business, and from ray observa
tion is (he best paying road in
the slate ann about the best man
aged. Then there are the copper
mines near Eockmart that help
out amazingly, for they employ
lots pf men and sixty mules, and
havejust built the biggest sta
ble I ever saw. Bu t. the biggest
thing of all is Mr. Cole’s railroad
from Rome to Atlanta, which
feeds and pay's directly and indi
recliy at least two thousand peo
pie. Besides the grading that is
going on there are scores of
countrymen getting crossties and
timber lor bridges and trestles
and stone for culberts. All along
the line I see the natives at work
cutting stocks and hauling them.
I hear the sound of a thousand
axes cutting and hewing cross
ties. I set* the humble farmers
hauling them down steep hills
and mountain sides where a wag
on couidentgo. I asked Loomis,
who is one of the contractors on
the line, how those people were
going lo get those ties up out of
the wilderness, and he 6aid they
was going to snig ’em down on a
‘‘A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
'IvLUJAY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1881.
blizzard. Loomis is a buckeye,
and when 1 told him 1 reckon it
was a lizzard lie said well it was
a lizzard or a blizzard or a giz
zard or some such contrivance.
There is a power of money paid
out every week by this company
and it all comes from abroad,
and all helps onr people. It will
save their families from want
and their stock from sale. I here
never seen as much industry in
this region as is now going on.
and it comes in (he best time in
the world, and 1 think we wrtl all
be able to pull through better
than wo anticipated.
Cherokee Georgia is being
checkered all over with manu
facturing indu sides —developing
her mineral £ \ires and her
timber. These/Sttigs mixed up
with successful farming will
make this region the garden
spot ot life slate —no fences, and
less cotton and more grass and
hav is bound to come. I don’t
know anything about t lie tariff or
what we aught lo about it. We
are all gelling along pretty well
as it stands, but somehow I can’t
help thinking that the advalorem
tax is the best. That is what the
stale has got, and I doh’l see
why the United Stales slioiildent
have it too., I don’t believe in
protecting or favoring any class
for the consumers have lo suffer
for it. I don’t want to hurt Mr.
West. lie makes pig iron and
gives employment to a great
manp oeople but if I can buy a
plow or a keg of nails or an ax n
little cheaper from an English
man than an American it looks
like I ought to be allowed to do
it. Our wagon makers used to
charge us $125.00 for a pretty
good wagon but Ihe yankees
commenced selling us a better
one for $lOO.OO, and we bought
’em and dried up our own ine-j
chanicks and they went at some
ot her business. Now, if tariff J&’
right in piineiule we ought to
have put a tax 0f'525.00 on every
yankee wagon that was brought
here. Just so wilh western meat
and corn. Now, if an English
man will sell us as good a wagon
for $75.00 and as good a ax for
hall the price it looks like we
ought lo be allowed to buy ’em.
One time there was an old man
who had and lots of
grandchildren, and one of his
boys was a shoe maker, and the
old man said that all the other
children should buy their shoes
from Bob at two dollars a-'pair
just to encourage him ami keep
the money in the family. Every
day there was some outsiders
come knocking at the outside
gate with just as good shoes at a
dollar a pair, but still they all
had lo buy from Bob and Bob
gol rich off of his own kinfolks,
and that’s ihe wav with the tariff.
* *■
It is a good thing for Bob but
mighty hard oti the rest of the
family. In this portion' of the
vineyard there are fifty consum
ers to one manufacturer, and it
seems to me the majority ought
lo have the most consideration.
Mr Young and Mr. Cogin, who
run the Augusta and Columbus
fScfories, say that the south can
make cotton goods eight dollars
a bale cheaper than the north,
but the tariff enables the north
to make ten per cent, interest,
while tbe south makes twenty.
Now, if they will reduce the tariff
the south can still make ten per
cent and the north wonldent
make anything, and so they
would pull up stakes and come
down here with their machinery,
arid every steam and water povv
er in this region would be dot
ted with their factories, and that
I is just what we wank
We want more industry and
more opportunities far our boys
and our girls, and we want our
! co(loii worked up at home and
t hat will give us cheaper goods
(or ws wont liave to pay freight
both'ways. They talk a great
deal About a tariff lor revenue
only. u I have never seen one yet that
(.latentfcmve to l>e a tariff for protection
ami I fever w 11. It is all a complicated
piece of machinery fixed up by politicians
to get|<> congress and they stay there and
the p4r consumers don’t know anything
about It. Jesso. In the good old honest
days vHien masses of the poo pie made
nearljfeveiytiiing at home it did’nt matter
so mi, but it dot's now. I was a think
ing WwfenPkys when we used to wear
cull#}®! and liome-maue shoes and
and dn>nk water out of a clean
gdtml'instead of a 6ilver dipper, and sat
in thJ.plU*bottom chairs—the best chair
in tUt^woild —and lived in houses we were
not afraid of. I do hate to be afraid of a
hotisoyrvhen I go in it. I was thinking of
the tidies wheu the boys went to mill and
chopped t!ie fire-aood and wore home
made galluses and made halls out of old
ruhba shoes and played marbles without
fudging and called up doodle hugs out of
their teand holes. The boys now are too
smart for the like of that. They know
more than we know, and by the time they
are grown they know it all and.quit. Jess
so. But still 1 am hopeful. There is
always some good seed in the basket, and
may be the old slock wont run out entire
ly- 4
And now, Air. Kditor, let me say adien
to you and your readers. Adieu for a sea
son. f 1 don’t know how long, but I linvc
long suspected I was writing too much—
keeping my pen before the people too
long-f-Wearying them with vagaries that
were crude and ill digested with thoughts
that j’ere not new and advice that was
not needed, all of which smacks of varie
ty anti concert, from which may the good
Lortf deliver me. Id parting with you,
let EH t say thanks for your patience, your
court sy to me and to my pen,
and to say, besides, that if 1 have
ever iecn unkindly personal to any one in
my > r ndom letters, and he is aggrieved, I
him for not forgiving me.
Yours,
Bim. A bp.
, 4 - THE PRESS^ _
Chr|ktinn Index.]
flp. Tnlinage, a few days ago,
detihrered one of liis unique dis
courses, taking for his subject
ilie modern newspaper press. Lie
seems to liave studied the suject
to some purpose, lie gives vent
lo several peculiar atul a few
original opinions concerning the
press, (one of Ihe most powerful
literary and moral agencies of
modern times,) which will not
by many; still the
discourse is quite interesting and
entertaining.
Qne of the lexis taken for his
discourse was: ‘‘And the wheels
were full of eyes.’ 5 lie said :
but the printing presses
have ail their wheels full of eyes?
All-other wheels are blind. The
manufacture’s wheel sometimes
over the operative fatigued
in every nerve and muscle and
bone, and sees nothing. But the
newspaper press has sharp eyes,
keen eyes, eyes that look up and
dmvn, far sighted and near sight
edyithat lake in the next street
antfthe next hemisphere; eyes
of criticism, eyes of investigation,
eyes that sparkle with health,
eyes glaring with indignation,
eyes tender and loving, eyes
frowning and suspicious, eyes of
hope, blue eyes, black eyes,green
eyes, sore eyes, historical eyes,
literary eyes, ecclesiastical eyes>
eyes of all sorts.”
Ur. Talmage’s second text was,
“For all the Athenians and siraii
gers which were there spent their
time in nothing else but either to
tell or hear some new thing.”
Thw speaker said : “That text
gives cry to the world for a news
paper. In proportion as men be
come wise they become inquisi
tive, not about small tilings, but
about greater things. The great
question thunders, ‘What is the
news?’ There is a newspaper in
I’ekiu, China, that has been pub
Jisled every week for a thousand
year*, printed on silk. Koino an*
swered the question with the Ac
ta Diurna, France answered it
when her physicians wrote out
the news for patients. England
answered it by publishing an ac
count of the Spanish Armada,
and its newspaper press went on
increasing until the battle of Wa
terloo, which decided the desti
nits of nations, of Europe, was
chronicled in a description of a
third of a column ! America an
swered Ihe question when Ben
jamin Harris published the first
weekly newspaper,entitled “Pub
lic Occurrences,’' in Boston, in
1690. The first American daily
newspaper was published in Phil
adelphia, in 1784, entitled “The
American Daiiy Advertiser.” I
wjll give you the genealogical
tree of the newspaper: The Ad
am was the circular : the circular
'begat the pamphlet; the pam
phlet. begat the quarterly ; ihe
quarterly begat the monthly ;
the monthly begat ihe semi
monthly; the sc mi monthly b°-
gat the weekly ; the weekly be
gat the semi weekly; the semi
weekly begat the daily. Alas,
through what a struggle it came
to its present development! As
soon as it began to demonstrate
its power, superstition and tyran
ny shackeled it. There is nothing
that despotism so much fears aB
the printing press. It lias too
many eyes, liussia, which, con
sidering all the circumstances, is
the meanest and most cruel des
pot ism on earth lo day, keeps ihe
printing press under severe espi
onage. A great writer in the
south of Europe declared that
the King of Naples had made it
unsafe for him to write on any
subject but natural history. Au
stria could nol bear Kossuth’s
journalistic pen plied lor the re
demption of Hungray. Napoleon
L, wanting to keep his iron heel
on the neck of the nations, said
that a newspaper was a regent
of kings, and that the only safe
place lo keep an editor in was a
prison.
“But the great battles of free
dom of Hie press were f'ouelit in
the court rooms of England and
the United St ite. One was when
Ershine made his great speech
on behalf of the freedom to
publish ‘Paine’s Rights of Man’
in England. These battles were
the Marathon and Thermopylae
of the fight which determined
that the printing press was not
to be given over to handcuffs and
hobbles of political despotism.
Thomas Jefferson said : ‘lf I had
to ciioose between a Government
without newspaper and newspa
pers without Governments, I
would employ the latter.’
“Slung by some fabrication in
print, we talk of the unbridled
press. Onr new book is ground
up by unjust criticism, and we
talk of the unfair press. Through
some indistinctness of our utter
ance we are reported as saying
just the opposite of what we did
say, and we talk of the blunder
ing press. We take up a news
paper with social scandall or a
case of divorce, and we talk of
the filthy and scurrilous press.
But this morning I address you
on a subject yon have never
heard presented—the immeasur
able blessing ot a good news
paper. Thank God that their
wheels are full of eyes! [ give
you this overwhelming statistic:
that in the year 1870 the number
of copies ot literary and political
newspapers published in this
couulry was 1,500,000,000! What
church, what reformers, what
Christian man,can disregard these
things? I tell you, my friends,
that a good newspaper is the
grandest blessing that God has
given to the people of this cen
tury—lhe grandest temporal ,
blessing. The theory is abroad .
VOL. VI. NO. 46.
that everybody can make a new#,
paper, with the aid of a capitaliat.
Ihe lac t is that fortunes are
swallowed up every year in the
vain effort to establish newspa
peis. The large papers swallow
up ihe small ones The big whale
eats about fifty minnows. We
have 1 000 dailies and weeklies
m the United States and Canadas,
and only thirty-six are a half
century old. The average life of
a newspaper is about five years.
Most of them die of cholera i
fan turn, It i 8 high time t j lat - fc
was understood that the success
ful way to sink a fortune, and
keep it sunk, is to start a news
paper A man with an idea starts
the “Universal Gazette” or “Mil
lennium Advocate.” Finally the
money is all spent, and the sub
scribers wonder why their papers
do not come. Lei me tell you
1 hat ii \ou have an idea, either
moral, social, political, or reli
gious, you had better charge on
t e world through the colums
already established. If you can’t
climb your own back yard fence,
don’t try the Matterhorn. If you
can t sail a sioop, don’t try to
navigate the Great Eastern. To
publish a newspaper requires the
skill, precision, vigilance, strate
gy, and boldness of a connnander
in-chief. lo edit a newspaper
one needs to be a statesman, a
geographer, a statistician, and so
far as all acquisitions are con
cerned, encyclopedic!
‘Our newspapers arc repositories of
knowledge and are constantly lifting the
people into the sun light. Newspaper
k noledge makes up the structure of the
world’s heart and brain, and decides the
fate of our churches and of nations. Ad.-
nms, Jefferson, Franklin. Clinton, all had
their hands 00 tlie printing press. Most
of the good books of the day have come
out in periodicals. Macaulay’s essays
Carlyle’s essays, Buskin’s, Talfourd’s, and
others have first appeared in periodicals.
It one should sec iu a life nothing in the
way of literature but Ihe Bible, Shakes
pcave, a dictionary, and a good newspaper
be would be fitted for all the duties of this
life and for the opening of the next. A
good newspaper is a mirror of life as it is.
Complaints nre made because the evil ia
as well as the good. But a news
paper that merely pvesen's the fair and
beautiful side of society is a misrepresen
tation. If children come into the world’s
active life and find it different front what
they had believed, they will be incompe
tent for the struggle. Complaint is some"
times made that sin is set np in great
primor type and righteousness in nonpareil.
Silt is loathsome ; make it so. A great
improvement in newspapers would be to
drop their impersonality. It would add
potency to articles to see articles signed.
It seems to me that no honorable man
would write an article that he would be
ashamed to put bis name to. What is a
private citizen to do when a misrepresen
tation is multiplied 20,000 orJSO,OOO times?
A wrong done a man’s character in a
newspaper is more virulent then one done
m private life. It seems to me that it
would be a great advantage to the litera
lure of this couulry, if men could get the
credit for the good they write, aad be
held responsible for the evil they write
Another improvemena would be a univer
sity education for journalists, as for other
ptofessions. No profession requires more
culture aud education than that of jour
nalism. There must be editorial profes
sorates in our colleges.
“The newspapers serve an important
function as the chronicless of passing
events. They describe for the benefit of
future historians all events-ecclesiastical,
literary, social, political, international,
hemispherical. They are the leservoirs of
hsitory. They are also a blessing in ibeir
evangelizing influences. The Christian
newspaper will be the right wing of the
apocalyptic angel. She cylinders of the
Christian printing press, will be the front
wheels of the Lord’s chariot. The music
that it makes I mark not in diminuendo
but iu crescendo 1”
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A story conies from the Pacific coast
that a woman, wlu-n setting a ben, broke
one of the eggs but mended it with court
piaster. At the appropriate time a little
chicken eaiuc from that identical egg, but
it was cross eyed.