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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL. W. ADOISOX KNOWLES, Prop’r. VOLUME XI.-NO. 17. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. PURE ID FRESH PIIICS, MEDICINES and CHEMICALS. Paints,Oils, Colors, Brushes. NEW GOODS cousUntly arriving. Large stock WINDOW GLASS, all sizes Bxlo to 30x30. Full assortment LAMPS, CHIMNEYS. CHAN'DELIEKS, LANT ERNS, TOILET SOAPS. PERFU.MEHY, POMADES, etc., etc. The liest Garden Seeds, ONION SETS, POTATOES, Ac., for this climate from Robt. Buist, Philadelphia, 10c papers aolil at 5c strictly—warranted fresh and genuine, crop 1882. FINEST .S’ EGA RS in town. SMOKING and CIIEWLNG TOBACCO. Suit'Phy triviait's Prescriptions care fully compounded and dispensed. JNO. A.JjRIFFIN, OLIVER’S QUICK RELIEF WILL CURE Colics, Toothache, Colic in horses Coughs, Earache, lascct Stings. Colds, i icadaclic, Bites of insects Croup, Rheumatism, Catarrh,ami pain Cramps, Neuralgia, in mau or 1 least. Prepared by MAYS & CO., Atlanta, Ga, Sold by J. A. Griffin, Grecnesboro. mar 23 83 PRESS MAKING! BY MRS. A. 6. HARRIS, RECENTLY OF ATLANTA, At the STATILVM HOTEL BUILDING over Dr. Walker's Drug Store. Pries low. Prompt attention given to all orders anil satisfaction guaranteed. apr2o S3 GEORGIA RAILROAD, SCHEDULE. :o: Georgia Railroad, Cos. 1 Office General Manager, > Augusta, Dec Hi, '82.) Commencing Sunday, the nth mst. t the following Passenger Schedule will be operated; m. NO. 28. EAST DAILY. Lve Atlanta 2:50 p in Ar Gr'nsbo’ 5:37 p in “ Athens... 8:00 “ | “ Augusta 8:20 “ NO. 2 HAST DAILY. Lv Atlanta 8 20 a m “ G’horo’. 12 03 p m Ar Athens 500 p in Ar YVash’t. 3 55 “ “ Oamak. 1 57 “ “ Mil'dge. 4 49 “ “ Macon . C 45 “ Ar Augusta 3 55 p in NO. 4 EAST—DAILY. | Lv Atlanta. 8 45 p m | Ar G'horo' 1 47 a in I Ar Augusta G 20 a in I NO. 27. WEST DAILY. | Lve Augusta 7:25 am ; Ar Athens 11:50 am | “ Gr’nsho’ 10.01 “ | Ar Atlanta 12:55 pin | NO. 1 WEST —DAILY. Lv AngustalO 30 a in “ Macon.. 7 05 “ “ Mil'ilse. 9 10 “ “ Cainak.t2 39 “ “ Wash’t.ll 20 “ Athens. 0 05 “ Ar G’boro'. 2 10 p in Ar Atlanta. 5 55 p m SO. 3 WEST—DAII.T. Lv Augusta. 9 00 pm I Lv Macon. 7 10 “ i Ar G’horo’. .1 44 a in ! Ar Atlanta.,o 40 “ | CTBUPEKB IMPROVED SLEEPERS TO AUGUSTA & ATLANTA. Train No. 27 will stop at and recoin l passengers to and from the following points only: Belair, Rerzidia. Harlem, Thomson, Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point, Greenosboro. Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. Train No. 28 will stop at, and receive pas sengers to and from the folllowing stations, only, Berzelia, Harlem, Hearing, Thomson, Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point. Greeneshoro, Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. The East Line lias Through Sleeper from Atlanta tc Charleston and connects for all points West and Northwest, East and South- E. R. DORSEY, General Passenger Agent Jxo. W. Green, Gen’l Manager. DR. D. S. HOLT, I’IIISICIAN & SURGEON, Office at J. A. Griffin’s Drug Store. Greenesboro’, - - -• Ga. I offer my professional services to the people of Greenesboro’and Greene coun ty. Prompt attention given to all calls, feb. 9th, ’B3. Springfield, Robertson Cos., Term., November 27, 1880. Pr. .J. Bi’.AOFiEi.r): Sib—My daughter Ims been suffering for many years vyith that dreadful affliction known as Female Disease, which has cost me many dollars, and notwithstanding J had the best medical attendance, could riot find relief. I have used many other kinds of medicines without any effect. I had just about given her up, was out of heart, but happened in the store of W. W. Eckler sev eral weeks since, and lie, knowing of my daughter's affliction, persuaded me to buy a bottle of your Female Regulator. She be gan to improve at once I was so delighted with its effect that I bought several more bottles. The price, $l. .10 a bottle, seemed to be very high at first, but now I think it the cheapest preparation on the globe; and, knowing what I do aliout it, if to day one of my family was suffering with that awful disease, I would have it if it cost $5O a bottle, for I can truthfully say it has cured my daugtcr sound and well, and myself and •wife do most heartily recommend your Fe male Regulator to be just what is recom mended to be. Respectfully, H. D. Feathekstox. —Remember that any kind of first-class job printing can be executed at the Home office. ’ LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ORDINARY'S NOTICES. William K Mullins and Robert L. Me- ] Whorter Administrators of the Estate of William N. Williams and Thomas M. Bry an. Administrators of the Estate of James I!. Hart—apply fm Letters of Dismission from said Estates and such Letters will he granted on the first Monday in June next unless good objections are filed. William 11. McWhorter and Robert E. Davison, Administrators with the Will an nexed, on the Estate of William Edmond son, deceased, apply for Leave to si'll Eight Shares of Georgia Railroad Stock and all the Real Estate of said deceased, and an order to that effect will be granted on the first Monday iu May next, unless good objections are filed. Columbus M. Crossley, Guardian of Wil liam F. Buckie ami Mary F Jiutts, former ly Mary F. Luekie, both of full age, applies for Letters of Dismission, and such Letters will he granted on the first Monday in May next, unless good objections are filed. Jesse P. Wilson, Administrator of the Es tate of James W. Godkin, deceased, has ap plied for Leave to sell all the Real Estate of said deceased, and an order to that effect will be granted on the first Monday in May next, unless good objections are offered. | William W. Moore, Guardian of Albert 18. Howell, now of full age. applies for Let ters of Dismission from said Guardianship, mid such Letters will be granted an the first Monday in May next, unless good objections are filed. Jesse P. Wilson, Admininistmtor of the Estate of Willian T. Poster and John M. I Chapman, deceased, applies for Letters of Dismission from said administrations, and such Letters will be granted on the first •Monday in July next, unless good ohjec ! lions are filed. ; JOEL F. THORNTON, Ordinary. March 17th, 1883. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ff. H. TAPPAN& SON, White Plaiks. Ga. —DEALERS IN — BEY GOODS. VUES, MBS. Boots Shoes, Hats, Drugs*Coffees ( Yens, Sugar, Lord, Bacon, Molasses, Syrup, i Tobacco, < 'igars, Leather, Wool, Jeans, Cot ; toiiiules, ( 'assimerejaml in tael a full line of i (ieneral Merchandise. We are agents for | the world renowned White Sewing-Machine the best Machine made. I t is guaranteed for five years. We have sold them for a 1 her of 1 1* 11 ' | *TSefcoi£ie to Ireland, your Roval I fliOi"* * ii** '• |X r :tnnquita Indian TT/rfn Pcllcts^VlnMils’a* ! box. lassortment of lresb (IAKDItJN | SEEDS. Lot of SHE!) GOOBKHS just re- I ceived. We are agents for several Standard Brands of Guano. Tl CUT IS TEE PUB! We will lx- found at tlu; ICG WHITE HOUSE, and we invite an inspection of our stock mid will take pleasure i.i showing our goods mid stating our prices. We will ex tend credit to prompt pnying customers at ! reuonuhle rates, and for cash will sell very' ; low. Satisfaction guaranteed. (W. M. Tappan & Son, anrlß 83 WHITE PLAINS. OA. NOTICE! We have just entirely reno vated and remodeled Park’s Mills We have added new Molting- Cloths iiml new Ma chinery and now prepared to make good flour and meal. Parks’ Mill Cos. inch ft 83 REMEMBER! I urn agent for the celebrated Rochester, N. V.. Nursery. Fruit trees sold here im mediately after the war by Mr. McPherson. This fruit is the finest ever raised in the county. As to its quality I refer to the fol lowing named gentlemen who sell if in our market every year: Joe I{. Ruarks, George A. Hall, .1. W. Moore, L. C. Perdue. Bee what Hon. J. B. Park says: •‘Greenesboro, <}., March 27th 1883. This is to certify I list I have bought fruit frees from the Rochester. N. Y., nursery, and in my judgmmt they equaled anv I have ever seen from any nursery, both in the character of tiie trees and tlie quality of the fruit. Jas. B. Park." If yon intend to raise fruit you can do no better than by purchasing your trees of O. T. Hightower, aprl3 83 GREENESBORO, OA. mI. BENSON, IRCMimM, AND DEALER IN EEirS FIIE imSHIIS CIS, 743 Broad Street, Augusta, - Qa. Wl have a full line of SPRING PAT TERNS, including the latest and most fash ionable styles, and 1 guarantee entire satis faction. I make Wedding Suits a specialty. Give me a call. mch. 2nd. 1883. A. A. .JERNIGAN. V,\ E. ADAMS Drs. Jernigan &. Adams, Physicians and Surgeons, ItPOffer their professional services to all who may need them. Greene County, Ga., Jan. 37, ’B3. DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE. GREENESBUIK), GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1883. SELECTED POETRY. UNCLE REMUS’S SONG. BY JOEI. CIIANIn.KR HARRIS. Come along, true believer, come along, De time is a rollin’ ’roun’ W’en dein w'at. stall’s a haltin’ by de way Won’t wa’r no glory crown! Oh, de sun shine white, de sun shine bright. Year de news w’at de spirit tells; De angels say dele’s nothin' fer to do Butter ring deni charming hells ! Atmos' home! almos’ home ! We faints an’ falls by spells; Angels sav ain’t, nothin’ fer to do Butter ring dem charmin’ bells! Come along, true believer, come along! l)e wav am open wide: No us • fer sinners to be. stumblin’ 'roun' A huntin’ fer de hev'mly guide ! Oh. saints, slip thro! Oil, sinners, come too! En a-year w’at my Lord tells; De angels say ilere’s nothin’ fer ter do Butler ring dem charmin’ bells! Almos’ home ! almos’ home ! We faints an’ fall by spells; Angels say ain't nothin’ fer ter do Butter ring deni charmin' bells! Come along, true believer, come along, En walk in de hev’mly way ! I rastle wid Jacob all night—all night— ■ I rustic wnl Jacob all day! My cross is heavy, an’ its () my Lord ! "En I year w’at de spirit tells; ■ De angels say (lore's nothin’ fer ter do Butter ring dem charmin’ bells ! Almos’home ! almos’ home! We faints an’ falls by spells ! Angels say ain’t nothin’ fer ter do Butter ring dem charmin' bells ! —Atlanln Constitution. j CURSED WITH RICHES. ! A SPLENDID DISCOURSE BY DR. TALMAGE. * QUARRELING OVER DEAD MEN’S PROP ERTY’—FAMILY' FEUDS—THE BEAU TIFUL PICTURE OF THE WINTER OF LIFE. Another will case has come into court, and an estate of eight mil lion dollars is in the balance. Two members of the family were cut off with only one million two hundred thousand dollars, bad estate of things ! Put yourself in their place and see how yon feel! Just think of a man starting out iu the world with only a million, two hundred j thousand dollars! They go into j court for more, and the great Yan <lo up of tlio most eomjnonplneo aUTg! 1 ate Griffy illustrations, on a large scale, of what is going on now in many courts on a small scale. Family affairs displayed, charges of insanity and over influence, and strife for all following generations. Meanwhile, let all men of small means, or no means at all, take comfort that you have nothing in the way of large estate to set your children in quarrel. Great peril for those who possess large estate, great peril for those who are ex pecting large estate. The surro- gat’s office is an Armageddon. The bitterest feuds ever seen are be tween sisters and brothers about their father’s will. It does not make any difference how sound may be his mind when he makes his last will and testament; after his death mighty efforts will be made to prove him imbecile. It is always evidence of a testator’s in sanity when he does not give you as much as you think lie ought to. Amid all the inconveniences of Jim- ited finances, take the consolation ! that your grave will not probably be made the battle ground for legal contestants. It is really a bealthi er state of things when you take care of your children until they are able to take care of themselves, and then in your old age they will take care of you. It is a beautiful scone when parents rear their chil dren in principles of industry, and kindness, and honesty, and m all the amenities of life, and give them such a strong start in the right di rection, that when the parents come on toward seventy or eighty years, they get a letter from the son, saying:— Dear Father and Mother—l have been consulting with my wife and our little children, about ask ing yon both ±o come and spend the rest of your days with us. We have a good warm room on the first floor which you could have all' yourselves. You can rise as early in the morning as you want to, and 'go to bed as early at night as you choose, and the nurse lias promis ed to keep baby still while you are taking your afternoon nap. The children clap their bands at the idea of grandfather and grandmoth er coming to live with us. We are having the old arm chair mended, and I shall this afternoon buy a copy of the Psalms of David in large type. I will send the big wagon over for you next Monday morning, with blankets, buffalo, hot bricks and foot stove. Tuck yourselves up warm and snug. The man will drive gently over the gul lies. You shall never want for anything so help me God! Do not say anything more about being de pendent on us for a livelihood, when I remember bow long I was dependent ou yon, itul what good eare mother took of me when I was sick a great while ith the scarlet fever, and what good advice you gave me when I started in life, giv ing me those prinoijilas in which I am trying to bring ttj my own chil dren now ! With |o e and kisses from us all, I am win* affectionate and grateful Son. Next Monday afternoon the wag on is coming up the lane. The whole family are outjn front to greet its coming,-aifiTfie child rftri make a world of railit, enough to frighten the horses. irhei l ke it slow ly, now, and do no*A' ukhat tep,” says the son, us l y> v ; *L,ther out of the wagon. talk at once, the jyK. ’y it, JrT ing what the —* new dispensation of fy*,. 4< i has come to the hoi^VTThTact is, the young mail of tlfat -house has wou the grandest inheritance he cau get in this woßif: the priv ilege of taking care of the old peo ple in their last days yAeir pray ers are a fortune, tluVge bopacity to comfort in days of trey a ben ediction, for the promises are nev er more beautiful than when trem bling lips utter them, and when we ! stand over the brinjf of a short grave it is very strengthening to have au old man’s haii/put on you, while he says . “My sod, bear up, all is well,” and there nothing more soothing than lip.) touch of an old mother’s wrudded hand. Yes, she is beautiful*iVl care uot how much her back' jjiay be bent with burdens, or how much her face may he wrinkled witl care, she is beautiful to all those Vilo can. look up in her face and cal her by that word struck through ’.ith all celes- tial rhythm, “Mother!” So these two old people past tieir last days with their son—therhorniug twi light of the little children of the household mingling w(tli the even ing twilight of the aged ones. Sometimes, perhaps, m the infirm ities of old age, theyjmay boa lit tle querulous, the wiki from the northeast giving ex™ rheumatic twinge to the shriveled limb ; but the whole household are patient and answer not back iTJin. After awhile, quo goes ;*J'a other goes soon after. A - J,c %^KS < imotli* lfttU wav apart. Hat thePr kindly influ ence will never be broken. 'Which picture do you like the best? The home in which the children wrangle for the father’s money, or the home in which the children plan for the comforting of declining years? Over one the dove settles. Over the other (ho vulture screams. Over one the promises, “Honor thy fa ther and thy mother, that thy days may belong upon the land which the Lord thy God givetb thee.” Over the other, the curse, “The eye that mocketb at its father and refuseth to obey its mother, the ra vens of the valley shall pick it out, and young eagles shall eat it! ’ —Dr. Talmadge, in Frank Leslie’s Sun day Magazine for March. Sweet Minded Women.—So grent is the influence of a sweet minded woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It is te her that friends come in seasons of sor row and sickness for help and eoin- fort; one soothing touch of her kind ly hand work wonders in the fever ish child; a few words let fall from her lips in the ear of a sorrowing sister do much to raise the load of grief tlmt is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The hus band comes home worn out with the pressure of business, and feeling ir ritable with the world iu general; but when ho enters the cosy sitting room, and sees the blaze of the bright fire, and meets his wife’s sutiliing face, he suedambs in a ino- rnent to the soothing influences which act as the balm of Gilead to his wooded spirits, that are weari ed with combatting with the stern realities of iife. The rough school boys flies in a rage from the taunt3 of his companions to find solace in bis mother’s smile; the little one, full of grief with its own large trouble, finds a haven of rest on its mother’s breast; and so one might go on with instance after instance of the influence that a sweet min ded woman has in the social life with which she is connected. Beau ty is an insignificant power when compared with hers. —A hater of. tobacco asked an old negro woflian, the fumes of whose pipe were annoying him, if she was a Christian. ‘Yes, brudder, I ’spects I is.’ ‘Do you believe in the Bible?’ ‘Yes, brudder.’ ‘Do you know there is a passage in the Scriptures which says that nothing unclean shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven ?’ ‘Yes, I’ve heard it.’ ‘Well, Chloe, you smoker; and you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heav en because there is nothing so un clean ns the breath of the smoker. What do you say to that?’ ‘Why, I ’spects to leave my breff behind me when I go dar. POVERTY A BLESSING. HOW A YOUNG MAN BECAME INDEPEN DENT BY* LABOR. Editor Georgia Hume, Journal; Mr. Jackson Coley and wife, of Tallapoosa county, Alabama, paid a visit to the sisters of the former —Mrs. Bruer and Mrs. Grant—liv ing in this county, near the old Gar ner ferry, the place of Mr. Coley’s birth. His father, John Coley, sr., was for many years the miller at that place, and could relate many interesting anecdotes of events that transpired on or about the river | during his residence there. tDueof thV most interesting o<f was his account of LOfewVsi freshet, as it , jAiled, oi 1840. The river rose so rapidly that-See miller’s house was undermined, and without uotice one corner went down and there was scarcely time for the family to gather up a few articles of bedding and vacate the house. Mr. Jackson Coley, jr., was the youngest son. The parents were very poor, and could give their chil dren but small educational advan tages. Perhaps Jackson, being the youngest, had better opportunities than the other children, and enjoy ed such as the common ohl-field school furnished. The first ac quaintance of the writer wit® Mr. | Coley began in 1838. He was then j living as overseer with Mr. Gilley l Moore, near Liberty catnp ground, i The next year he served Mr. Sea ! born Lawrence in the same capac ity and in 1840 moved to Jones j county, where he married Miss Wattey. After five years residence iu that part of Georgia, he moved to where he now lives, and has lived within two miles of his pres ent residence for more than thirty years. Mr. Coley was a successful plan ter and soon had sufficient force to require himself au overseep, He tells me that he invested .all the money he could save in negroes and when theuwere Anticipated, he gave up .fifty. He has, Tiewever, | by superior skill and management, I waved a competency. We/imder- I stand that he has 800 acres of : laud in Georgia, and in Ala-^ ! props,. .... , HELTif"''). FT' j amount of 870. He TCis W reare& ' ! respectable family of four children. ] One of his sons is an accomplish ed physician, having attended the schools of Philadelphia as well as of New York and availed himself of the large hospital advantages of both those cities. Mr. Coley was born Nov. 25th 1815, consequently is in his 68th year—lie is still straight and well preserved. His wife seems to be much his junior and is a lady of uncommon good sense. The object of this sketch, chief ly, is to hold Mr. Coley up as an example to our young men, and enable them to see what industry and economy directed by judg ment, may accomplish. Here is the son of a poor anil even desti tute miller with few advantages, who at the age of 25 years was not possessed of $5OO worth of proper ty, who by cultivating the soil be came rich iu twenty' years; and after the loss of $25,000 to $30,000 in negro property, still has a com fortable living. Perhaps Mr. Coley owes a great deal to his ear ly poverty. It is not always lucky to ho born rich. Money earned is much better appreciated than that from' gifts or inheritance. It is of- teu extremely unfortunate to be born richer to be suddenly made so by whatever means. The writer feels to-day that he profited by be ing stinted in his supply of money. To tlic poor young man we have to say, hold up your head and march on, being directed by just princi ples. You will surely - make life a success. To Mr. Coley we are in bebted for our first lesson in coon hunting. We graduated on the second hunt. Sioux. . —At the closing service of the mission in St. Patrick’s church, New Haven, on a recent Sunday evening, one of the mission fathers asked all the men in the church, and there were about 1,600 of them, to repeat after him a pledge prom ising not to go into a saloou from 12 o’clock Saturday night till 12 o’clock Sunday night for one year. There were not half a dozen men in the church but who raised up their right hand and repeated the words after the priest. —Of the 716 persons who travel with Biruum’s show, every one is for total abstinence from all “intox icants” during the existence of bis or her engagement. “My partners and myself are rigid teetotalers,” said the veteran showman to a newspaper reporter, “and we pay for the brain as well as muscle of of all employees. We are compell ed to follow this rule, where the most thorough discipline and sys tem arc so vitally important.” FUN IN A SLICE FEU. i A NEST OF YOUNG ALLIGATORS FRIGH j TEN A CROWD OF LADIES OUT OF THEIR WITS.. Monday night last a crowd of : passengers from Florida on the j Georgia Central Railroad experi enced a lively racket in a sleeper, i The first of the fun began by a lady j occupying bertli No. 7 jumping up :and exclaiming “Oh ! dear! there’s | a horrid, great big, ugly mouse iu my bed !” The porter kindly examined the i bed-clothing and found nothing, af (ter which the lady was prevailed upon to again retire. A short time elapsed, when au aged female sprang out of bed and hollered: “Bats! rats! Oh, what! ! a rat! Somebody come and kill it. Dear me! I shall faint.” Again the porter went through the linens and fouud nothing, but hardly had he completed his task than a blushing bride of only a few days, clad in the chilly and airy garments of night lit square out in the rniddlo of the car and said : “George, there’s a half dozen mice and rats in that bed, and it’ll be a cold day' in July before I get back there to sleep. You’d better get up before they eat you up.” ‘‘Gadulmightydingit!” yelled poor George, as one of the horrid things snapped him on the lower extremi ties. I3y this time the entire car was up, while some were laughing and enjoying the situation, others were using language not found in Sun day-school books, for being disfrb ed in their slumbers, aud the new ly-married man swore vengeance against tfce party who were playing tricks on newly married people. Things were getting to pretty high state of turmoil and excitement,! when a secoud edition of Peck’s j bad boy poked his tow-head out j aafl chirped: HMu, rna! I specks my alligators arO out,” which upon investigation j proved to be true. The little fel low had nine or ten of these rusty- ; back pets, briuging them homo from ! the Land of Flowers, when they became broke out of lark. LEATHER, _CoA4!pf Willi'S hud elap • !s£?• - yjje ; upm .... | Atlanta, told Mr. Turk of the fuu, ] • and as it was too good to keep, lie i gave it to a Post-Appeal reporter ! last night. Continuous Providence— Doctor Guthrie has the following beautiful passage on Divine Providence : Providence lias no Sabbath. No night suspends it; from i(s labor i God never rests. If I may compare small things with great, it is like the motion of the heart. Heating our march to the grave, since the day we began to live, the heart lias never ceased to beat. Our limbs may grow weary; not it. We sleep; it never sleeps. Needing no period of repose to reuew its strength, by night and by day. it throbs every pulse; and constantly supplying nourishment for the frame, with measured, steady, untired, stroke, I it drives the blood along the bound ing arteries, without -any exercise ! or will on our part, and when tlie consciousness of our own very ex- j istence is lost in dreamless slum- j hers. If this be a just view of Divine Providence, may we not rest se curely? Shall we not hid our troubled spirit be quiet? “Tlie j steps of a good man are ordered jby the Lord,” says tho inspired ! volume. There is an unslumbering : j eye upon us; there is a heart of in- : finite love beating responsive to j every need of our earthly life; there j are arms of Omnipotence under- j neath and around us. Let us be still—quiet as an infant in its moth er’s arms. Let us commit all our interests to the keeping of our heavenly Father. ——•- • Bad Thoughts.— Bad thoughts, if cherished, blight virtue, destroy purity, and undermine the stablest foundations of character. They are like rot in timber ; like rust in iron. They eat into the man. And when the process has gone for a while, and there comes the stress of an outward temptation, down they go into a mass of ruins! Ships go out to sea, all bright with fresh paint, their sails all spread and streamers flying, and never come back—never reach port. Why ? They met a storm aud went down, because they were rotten. Under; the paint was decay. Just so bad thoughts, vile; ini-: pure thoughts and imaginations, j rot the manly oak of character, rust the iron of principle, slacken all the stays of virtue, and leave the man, or woman, to the violence of temptation, with no interior of reserve power to withstand the : shock. Bad thoughts fed and fat tened are the bottom vice of socie ty.- Selected, Tt!TtMS :—#2 OO per Annum, in Advance. WHOLE NUMBER oil A C’HIitSTIAN MARINER. flow A CAPTAIN WAS WARNED OF A SHIPWRECK. Last Christmas day I witnessed something very thrilling.. We had just distributed the family presents Christmas morning when I heard a great cry of distress in the hallway. A child from a neighbor’s house came in to say her father was dead.. She was only three doors off, and I think in two minutes we were there. There lay the okl Christian sea i captain, his face turned upward to ward the window, as though he had suddck'y seen the, headlands, and with aL illuminated face ars though he were just going inio harbor. The fact was, he had already got through the “Narrows.” Iu the adjoining room were the Christ mas presents waiting for his distri bution. Long ago, one night-when ho had narrowly escaped with his ship from being run down by a great ocean steamer, he had.made his peace with God, and a kinder neighbor or a better man than Cap taiu Pendleton you would not find this side of heaven. Without a moment’s warning the pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him just off the light ship. He had often talked to me of the gooduess of God, and especially of a lime when he was just about to go into New York harbor with his j ship from Liverpool, and he was : suddenly impressed that lie ought jto put back to soa. Under the | protest of the crew and under their very threats he put back to sea, fearing at the same time lie was dosing his mind* for it did seem so ; unreasonable that when they could j get into harbor that night they [should put baok to sea. But they put back to sea, and Captain Pen dleton said to Lis mate: “You call me at ten o’clock at night.” At twelvw at night the captain was aroused and said, “What does this mean ? I thought I told you to call me at ten o’clock, and Hero it is twelve. ’ “Why,” said the mate, “I did call you at ten o’clock, ami iyon got up, looked around anti toltl me to keep right oh the same course for two hours and then to call you at twelve o’clock.” Said the captain, “Is it possible ? I have noremeii)byname of that.” At twelve ;o ta<iek Uie 'duy&.iifK.Jt&t ou deck, and through a rift <yf Ifte,cloud the moonlight fell upon Hie sea and' showed him a shipwreck with one hundred struggling passengers. Ho helped them off. Had lie been any | earlier or any later at that point of the sea lie would have boon of no service to those drowning peo j pie. On board the captain’s ves | sel they began to band together as ; what they should pay for the res cue, and what they should pay for the provisions. “Ah,” says the ■ captain, “my lads, you cau’t pay me for anything. All I have on , board is yours. I feol too greatly honored of God in having saved I you to take any pay.” Just like | him. He never got any pay except ' that of his own applauding eonsei ;once. Oh, that the old sea cap tain’s God might be my God and ; yours! Amid the stormy seas of this life may we have always someone as tenderly to take care of us_ as the captain took care of the drown ing crew and the passengers. And may we come into the harbor with as little physical pain and with as bright a hope as be had; aud if it should happen to be a Christmas ! morning, when the presents are be i ing distributed and we are celebra ting the birth of Him who came to I save our ship wrecked world, all the | better—for what grander, bright er Christmas present could we have j than heaven ?—Dr. Talmage, iu | Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine ! for March. —A young lady sent a poem, en titled “I cannot make him smile,” to a British newspaper. The edi tor ventures to express the opinion that she would have succeeded had she shown him the poem. —Do you get real pleasure from your prayers, reading, and medi tation on holy things ?or do you get through them to satisfy the de mand of your conscience, and are sec etly glad when they are over? —This world of ours is full of trouble. Its fair face is scarred all over w ith graves. But the more he studies it, the more one marvels t.) find how full the Bible is of conso lation. That is good evidence of its authenticity. —The difficulty of conduct, says Fronde, does not lie in kuoiviug what is right to do, but in doing it when known. Intellectual culture does not touch tbo conscience. It provides no motive to overcome tlid weakness of the will, and with wi der knowledge it brings also new temptations. —An Eastern proveib says, “He is miserable once who meets with' ill-fortune but twice who fears it before it comes, .5i