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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL. W. ADDISON KNOWI.ES, Prop’r. VOLUME XII.—NO. 2. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GEORGIA RAILROAD. SCHEDULE. Georgia Railroad, Cos. I Office General Manager, V Augusta, November 17th, ’83.) C COMMENCING SUNDAY, the 19th inst. 1 the following Passenger Schedule will be operated. Trains run hy 90th meridian time, 33 minutes slower than Augusta time: FAST H-IXTE3I NO, 27. WEST DAILY, j NO. 28. EAST DAILY. Lve Augusta 7:40 am 1 Lve Atlanta 2:45 p m Ar Athens 12:30 am 1 Ar Gr’nsbo’ 5:21 p m “ Gr’nsbo'lo:ls “ | “ Athens... 7:15 “ Ar Atlanta 1:00 pm 1 “ Augusta 8:05 “ NO. 1 WEST—DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAII.Y. Lv AugustalO 30 a m Lv Atlanta 825 a m “ Macon.. 710 “ “ G’boro’.l2 09 p m 11 MU’dge. 918 “ Ar Athens 445 pm “Cainak.l2 29 “ Ar Wasli’t. 255 “ “ Wash’t.ll 20 “ “ Caiuak. 1 57 “ “ Athens. 905 “ “ Mil’dge. 449 “ Ar G’boro’. 215 p m “ Macon .G 45 “ Ar Atlanta. 5 45 p m | Ar Augusta 3 55 p m NO. 3 WEST —DAILY. NO. 4 EAST —DAII.Y. Lv Augusta. 900 p m Lv Atlanta.B 50 p m Ar G’boro’. .1 44 a m Ar G’boro’ 146 a m Ar Atlanta.. 640 “ Ar Augusta 6 10a m WSUPERB IMPROVED SLEEPERS TO AUGUSTA & ATLANTA. Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers to and from the following points only: Berzelia, Harlem, Thomson, Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point, Oreenesboro. Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Moun tain and Decatur. Train No. 29 will stop at, and receive pas sengers to and from the folllowing stations, only, Berzelia, Harlem, Hearing, Thomson, Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point, Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. The Fast Line lias Through Sleeper from Atlanta te Charleston and connects for all points West and Northwest, East and South- E. R. DORSEY, General Passenger Agent Jno. W. Green, Gen’l Manager. House Furnishing Goods. The largest stock south of Baltimore. Moquet, Brussels, 3- ply and ingrain carpets, window shades, lace curtains,cornices and poles, wall papers, chromos, cocoa and Canton mattings, rugs and mats. BAILIE & COSKERY, Ma sonic Building, Augusta, Ga. iunß D.L.FULLERTON —K-DEALZB X3sT-h STOVES. Bill Mil Augusta, ; : Ga. I am agent for the CELEBRA TED LIGHTHOUSE COOKING STOVE, the best, most complete and most satisfactory stove on the market. The STAR CHURN, A general household favorite and the best labor saving machine made, is manufactured and sold by me. I heep in stock Tin, Wooden and Crockery Wares of every kind, and ask a share of the patronage of the people of Middle Georgia. jg@“Send for price list. D. L. FULLERTON, sept. 14, ’B3. AUGUSTA, GA. Plci pv’Q PHILOTOKEN, A tried and reliable cure for the ailments of Ladies. Will aid Nature, prevents Nau sea, and Nervousness, and should be taken during the critical period. Has saved many lives. Endorsed by thousands of ladies as the best remedy of its kind. Any druggist, SI.OO RISLEY’S BUOHU, the best diuretic and tonic. Cures most Kidney and Bladder troubles, Weakness, Whites, and Pain in Back. Supercedes alt other kidney reme dies. All druggists, SI.OO a bottle. CHARLES F. RISLEY. sep7 83 New Yobk, pob I offer for saS the following tracts of land : , . One hundred and ten acres, good tene ment houses, well watered, and only three miles from Greenesboro’. Great bargain. One trad of land containing two hundred j and sixty acres, on the railroad, four miles i and a half from town. i One tract of land containing one hundred and twenty-two acres, three miles and a half from town. On this place there are some splendid bottoms and a mill-site. Well watered and fine pasture. All the above places will be sold cheap and upon easy terms For further particu lars apply to W. ADDISON KNOWLES, oct2B 83 GKKENESBORO, GA. —S 8. S. and B. B. 8., Simmons Liver Regulator, Brewers Lung Restorer, Bonko cine, Ayers Hair Vigor, Cod Liver Oil, Moodys king of Malaria. Cousens Honey of Tar, Sweet Gum and Muller, complete line of Drugs.— Copelan, Seals & Armor. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. mIIH WHITE PLAINS,IGA. Go to W. M. Tappan & Son if you want a handsome Breech-Loading or Muzzle- Loading Shot Gun. They' keep the very best Powder in town. Also, Shot, Caps, etc. Men, go to W. M. Tappan & Son, and buy $7 slioes at $5; $5 shoes at $3.50. Go to W. M. Tappan & Son’s and buy $3 Slioes for $1.75. Women’s heavy Shoes from GOc a pair up. Brogans from 90c. up. Go to W. M. Tappan & Son and get a fine Bedstead, and a cheap one, too. Go to them and get a nice pair of white Blankets for .$2; nice bed Quilts from $1.25 to $2.50. Get also a sett of Chairs. Go to W. M. Tappan & Son and get some of that Fiuc Syrup. Its first-class. IF YOU SMOKE, Go to W. M. Tappan & Sou and buy “No. 43," five cents Cigar. Ales. Tappan says “they are prime.” Don’t fail to try the Spanish Vequcroes Cigarettes. They are tlie best in town. Two dollars a box. Don’t fail to try W. M, Tappan & Son’s 50c Smoking Tobacco and three year old plug, and “Boss Chew.” Also, Patterson’s Fine Plug Tobacco. II YOU HIT SKII IE in the Candy and Confection line, go to W. M. Tappan & Son and call on Percy How ell or Judge Mapp. W. M. Tappan & Son keep good goods and sell them low. Ttiey solicit your patronage and will treat you light. W. M. Tappan & Son, dec7 83 WRITE PLAINS, GA. DANIEL MINER ALISPRIN G WATER Pronounced by Leading Chemists and Water Dealers the Most Wonderful Waters Yet Discovered \, OTA Specific for Liver, Kidney and Urinary Disorders. cures Gonorrhoea in from j to 10 days, leaving the system in a healthy condition. . IdpGives almost instant relief in cases of Srpytrssr.n TJrinf. & Spasmodic Stricture. £3? "Keeps perfectly pure for any length in any conditions of temperature or climate. ESpßeliahle Testimonials given on application. *AL orders for barrels ot half bar rels should be addressed to W. C. ORR, Sect.' and Treas. of the IDsusiiel L.<Eir-_era.X AtLens, G-a. oct. 9th, 11383. — G-. H. U. THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF THE WORLD ACKNOWLEDGE THE SU PERIORITY OF THE PIANOS AND ORGANS SOLD BY G. 0. ROBINSON & CO. They are selected from ten of the BEST Makers, and arc so much Superior te Others at Prices so much Less that Porchasers Save from $lO to SIOO By visiting or writing to 6.0. ROBINSON & GO. L.P.Q.S- Large and increasing sales of musical merchandise verify the fact that G. O. ROBINSON & CO. SAVE MONEY for EVERY PURCHASER. ! SHEET MUSIC, the LATEST PUBLI ! CATIONS, MUSIC BOOKS of every de | acriplion: the latest Italian Strings. The Latest and Most Popular Sunday School Book “LOVEPRAISE,” LOWEST PRICES, at G. O. ROBINSON & CO’S., 831 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA. —W. A. Kimbrough & Cos. have a large stock of best Priuts which are perfectly beautiful. DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE. <IIEENESI>ORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1884. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. TRESPASS NOTICE- I hcreliv forewarn all persons from Hunting, Fishing, Riding, Walking or oth erwise trespassing on my premises, by day or night. They will he prosecuted bv law in every junta nee, if they disregard this notice. J. M. FIGGS, White Plains, Ga., Jan. 4th, 1884. A BSSIRABLE HOTEL. WALDO HOTEL is a two story build ing 165 feet front, 75 feet deep, with piazza full length of house, 23 bed rooms, parlor, reception room, dining room and kitchen. A bouse with 2 rooms on the lot for servants. Hotel situated about 200 yards from the depot of the Florida Tran sit and Peninsula railroad and near the San ta Fe Canal. Daily steamers to and from Melrose and six passenger trains arriving daily. For sale at SB,OOO, one half cash and balance in one and two years. For fur ther particulars address, MRS. A. LEGARE, jan. 4, ’B3. Waldo, Fla. Trespass Notice. I hereby forewarn all persons not to fish, hunt, walk, ride, or otherwise trespass on my premises by day or night. I will pros ecute all offenders to the extent of the law. J. H. BOWLES. Woodville, Ga, January 3, 1881. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are forewarned not to hunt, fish, picnic, walk, ride, ortlierwige trespass our land, as they will in every instance be prosecuted to the extent ot the law. JNO. E. JACKSON, Sr. MRS. CLAUDE WINFIELD. GEORGE A. J ACKSON. THOMAS S. MILLER. Greene County, Ga., Jan. 4th, 18S4. BUSINESS INSTITUTE, SHARON, GA. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN IDHEEPIICII FElllllSOlf. Fourteenth term opens the 7th of January 1884. Board $8 per month. For further particulars address, jfcT. ZJ3. - . dectfi 53 ‘ ' SHARON, GA. TRESPASS NOTICE! I hereby forewarn all persons from Hunting, Fishing, Riding, Walking or oth erwise trespassing on my premises, by day or night. They will be. prosecuted by law in every instance, if they disregard this notice. JOHN L. DURHAM. Woodvi|le Ga. Dec. 20th, 1883. Mot EY TO LOAN. I HAVE this week perfected arrange ments to negotiate loans on improved farms at quick time in the counties of Greene and Taliaferro. JAMES B. PARK, dec. 14th, ’B3. Greenesboro, Ga, H. H. P. IS THE BEST MEDICINE TO USE AGAINST MALARIA RID YOUR SYSTEM OF MALARIA BY TAKING H, H. AVOID HAVING MALARIAL DISEASES BT USING H. H. P. MAKE YOUR SYSTEM IMPREGNA BLE TO THE INFLUENCE OF BY TAKING ZE3I- HI- E - ALL DRUGGISTS KEEP IT. aug!7 83 CANARY eiEßie FINE IMPORTED CANARY BIRDS guaranted good singers, also the finest as sortment of Cages in the city. Plain and Mixed Bird seed, Gravel Song Restorer, Mocking Bird food etc. etc. Orders by mail promptly attend to and satisfacton guar anteed at E. J. HICKEY, Fashionable Hair Dressing Saloon! No. 212 Bth Jackson Street, rear of E. R. Schneider’s, AUGUSTA, - - - GA. —25 new Buggies in our Warehouse ready for the Holiday sales. All the ladies de lighted witli anew Bnggy as a Christmas present. Farmers note this fact. —Copelan, Seasl & Armor LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. GREENE COUNTY SHERIFFS SALES. WILL lie sold on the first Tuesday in February, 1884, lieforethe court-house door in Greenesboro, Greene county, Geor gia, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following pro perty, to wit: Ore tract of land containing four hundred acres of land, more or less, all that tract of land situated, lying and being in Greene county - bounded as follows: Commencing at a hickory on cast l ank of C<v>nee river, running north 79°; cast, 04 chains to red oak; south. 8° and 45 seconds; cast 42 chains and 56 links to a stake on the line of Y. F. Gresham; 1 gW'y’M'Y Cains to said river, thence <:i -y in ning point—adjoinidglS 1 V* 'gaveV o iSltcy, estate of O. P. Daniel, , agree, an( j others. Said lund leylfet’Si as the property of Inmau, Swann iST’atj/’the same being a part of the estate of R.Yj. Willis, deceased, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Greene Superi or Court in favor of F C. Foster, trustee, vs Inman, Swann &Cq Written notices of this levy given to defendants and tenants in possession. Also, at the same time and place one tract of land containing sixty-four and $ acres of land, more or less, the same situated in the 141 District G. M. In said county—adjoin ing lands of A. G. Caldwell, John T. Dol vin, James 11. Dolvin and others and being set apart to Win. B. Dolvin under amt hy virtue of the will of his father, James Dol vin, deceased ; levied onto sat isfy a supe rior court fi fa in favoy sf David A. New some for use of Coliynbus C. Oliver vs. VVm. B. Dolvin principal nud John A. Cart wright, Security. Written notice given defendant. Also, at the same,4taie and place, two trnclsof land in Greene county, one tract ad joining lands of T. 8. Hutchinson, J. W. Wright, 11. C. Wright-and others, contain ing 206 acres, more or Jess; the other tract adjoining lands of Thomas 8. Hutchinson, VV. H. Wright, and theffirst described tract, containing eighty acres, more or less, all be ing the land whereon the defendant now re sides, Levied on as tUe property of 11. C. Merritt to satisfy a fi. Ja. issued from the Superior court of said? county in favor of Charles A. Duyis vs If.,C. Merrill. Writ ten notice given deferrt&ut residing on said land. ALSO, a* the sarae.timc and place, one tract of land in said culwty in the incorpor ate limits of Grconetfiirn, adjoining lands of 0. A. Davis, seujs ( J. L. Brown, An drew Mason and others, the place whereon defendant now resides; containing twenty, two (22) acres, more or less; Bout land lev ied on as the pryperty of Alexander Mason, to satisfy an execution, issued from the sis pei ior court of said ciraity, in favor of W." A. Kimbrough & Cos. vs. Alexander Mason. Notice given tenant. C. C. NORTON, Sheriff. January 8, 1881. jr A. W. Foster & Cos.) Mortgage in Greene vs. ;■ Superior Court, Sep. W. 11. Crawford. ) tember term, 1883. Rule Nisi.—lt being represented to the Court by the petition of Albert W. Foster and Wm L. High, partners, under the firm name and style of A. W. Foster & Compa ny, that by mortgage dated the 18th day of May, 1877, W. 11, Crawford, then of said comity, but now of Dodge county, said State, conveyed to said A. W. Foster & Company, two hundred acres of land, more or less, situate, lying and being in the said county of Greene and State of Georgia, ad joining lands of V. D. Gresham, i. T. Gres ham, William Armstrong and others and known as the Crawford place, and being the place whereon the said W. H. Crawford resided at the lime of the execution of said mortgage for the of securing the payment of u promissory note made by the said W. 11. Crawford to the said A. W. Foster & Company, bearing even dfite with said mortgage, and due “on No vember the first after date” for the sum of Twelve Hundred dollars ($1,200) with legal interest for value received which Note is now due and unpaid with the exception of $584.09 paid April 19, 1878; and It being further represented to the Court tlmt said note and mortgage contain a waiyer and re nunciation ou the part of said W. H. Craw ford of any and all homc3tead and exemp tion rights he has or may have under the laws of this State, or the United States in the aforesaid mortgaged prem ses, as against the debt therein evidenced and secured. It is ordered, Unit the said W. H. Craw ford do pav into tins Court by tbe first day of the next term thereof the principal, inter, est and cost due on said debt, or allow cause if any lie bas, to the contrary; or, in default thereof foreclosure be granted to the "Said A. W. Foster & Company of said mortgage which foreclosure shall set up and establish the waiver and renunciation of right to homestead and exemption in and to said mor gaged premises, and the equity of redemp tion therein lie forever barred, and tlmt ser vice of this rule lie perfected ou said W. H. Crawford according to law by publication once a month for four months before the next term of this Court, in the Georgia Home JomtNAi., a newspaper published in Greenes- boro. Tliis, September 13t,1i, 1883. THOMAS G. LAWSON, Judge S. O’. O. C. A true extract from the Minutes of Greeuc Superior Court, Septemiicr term, 1883. JESSE P. WILSON, Clerk. scp2B 83 NEW advertisements. WORK, BLAGKSMITHINB, -AND- General Repairing, —BY— J. I HELL 41, GREENESBORO, CA IJC r E have just opened business at the VV Copelan Shops, in Greenesboro, and arc prepared to do all kinds of work in our line. BLACKSMITHING, making Wheels, Turning, Shoeing, Forging and repairing of all kinds. Wo ask for the public patronage. We do first-class work* and guarantee it in every instance. Terms CASH. J.M.HOWELL&SON GREENESBORO, GA. jan4 84 SELECTED POETRY. < HE LEADS US ON. He leads us on. By patlis we did not know; Upwards lie leads, though our steps lto slow Though oft we faint and falter by tlie way. Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day, Yet when the clouds are gone We know he leads us on. He leads us on Through all the unquiet years; Past all our dreamland hopes, ami doubts, and fears. Tie guides our steps. Through all tlie tan gled maze Of sin, of sorrow, and o’ercloiuled days, b “ We know his will is done; And still lie leads us on. And lie at last. After tlie weary strife, Aflertbe restless fe*-r we call life. After ttie dreariness, the aching pain, The waywaid struggles which have proved in vain. After our toils are past. Will give us rest at last. PHILOSOPHER BILL ARP EXPRESSES HISOPINIDN OF POLITICS. WHAT nE THINKS OF THE PRESIDEN TIAL CAMPAIGN—PAYING FOR THE SLAVES—A SOUTHERN MAN WON’T DO ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. I believe there is peace most ev erywhere now. Folks have stopped killing folks for a little while and the new year has dawned npon the world in brotherly love. Not so much love either I reckon, but they are not mad enough to fight. Egypt has had a time of it for the last few years, but Egypt has about fought herself to death and is com pelled to quit. There is no nation of any consequence that is now making a business of killing folks, and I was thinking what a blessing it would be if mankind would quit it altogether. Some historians say that war is a necesssary evil. Tlmt no government can stand very long without a war, for war strengthens a government and unites the peo jaiov U Alterthm’t-fret iip r foreign war the people will get'to qaarrel ing among themselves and overturn their government. I read the oth er day that the emperor and nobil ity of Russia are plotting a foreign war to put down the nihilists at home. Some of our statesmen say that the north and south will never be reconciled until some other na tion knocks the chip off our nation al hat and then we will all join hands and make friends and pitch into the fnrriners—may be so, may be so—war is a mighty bad thing, but if we are obliged to Lave it 1 want them fellers, who abuses us so mnch to haven fair chance. Give' ’em tbe post of honor, which is the post of danger, and if per chance they fall let ’em Tall in dust and glory. I was ruminating over the com ing contest for the next president. There won’t be a fight I reckon, but the contest is going to be very bitter and the quantity of lies and slander most amazing. Both sides are getting reeadj now laying in stock. Our side will do the best they can I reckon, but they have neither the capital nor tbe experi ence of them fellers already in of fice. Our lie factories and slander mills are on a limited scale and have been declaring such poor div idends for the past twenty years that we sorter lost confidence in the business. When we do make any thing them other fellers swindle us out of it, and I reckon they will do it again. There seems to be a pow erful rumpus going on about Mr. Carlisle’s election, and the way he bas fixed up bis committees. Well, I never could see any difference about Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Rau dall making a president. I can’t see wbat the tariff committee has got to do with it. If Mr. Carlisle put free trade men on tbe commit tee what does that amount to if the majority of congress aie oppos ed to free trade. I know that these committees have great influence if they are able men and good men, but if they are just schemers and politicians their reports don’t have much weight, and congress won’t be bouud nor gagged by them. When did the speaker get to be a man of such consequence and such power ? How does it happen that a committee is each a big thing, that the whole country is afraid of it. Ain’t congress a bigger thing tban a committee ? Can thirteen men control 300 ? If a majority of members believe that protection is right can’t they pass a law to that effect? Of course they can and so I don’t see what all the pre liminary fuss is übout. The peo ple are going to have something to l-iiv nl>o><! nil t)u“*“ greet 'filiation*. :it)ll l!m people will speak through the press and the press will te board. One thing is certain. The dem ocracy. can’t unite on a fioo trade policy, neither can the republican party unite on a protection tariff. There are too many conflicting lu te* rests at stake anioug the manu facturers and their laborers on the oue hand and the consumers on the other. There are lots of mills idlo now, and lots of laborers out of employment, and lots more work ing at reduced wages. There are millions of capital iuvested, and there are millions of women and children concerted, and it won’.t dd' for a party *to make in this business. Let the democ racy go slow. There is no room in their platform for a free trade plank. Lot them favor a tariff re form and whittle down somethiugs as low as thoy will bear and put up somethiugs, but do nothing for the sake of party. The wants and necessities of the humble people of this land are of greater moment lhau any parly. We can’t whip them fellers on aDy tariff issue. We can’t unite the south upon it much less tlie notheru democracy. Times are changing, capital is com ing south every day to be invested iu manufactures that need protec tion and can’t live without it, and we want it to come. Let it come, our iron and coal and timber and cotton and climate are now loom ing up into view. Our mills are mukiug money while theirs up uorth are languishing. They have just found it out, but hardly be lieve it and even accuse us of mak ing false reports of divideuds and profits. Things are working all right down here now and maybe we had better let things alone awhile. The prosperity of the south is of more consequence to us thau the electon of a president. I want the democracy to Bucceed and turn out them fellers, and I want it bad, but when Mrs. Arp asks me what a democratic president is going to do for me or for her and the chil dren, I’m sortered bothered to ex plain. It takes too long. We don’t want but one plank in our platform and that is we want them fellers to swjwf down ana", ci*., tiov havA sfcle enough.' That is plat form sufficient and it is all the bet- ter, because it is the truth. Truth is powerful and will prevail. Truth crushed to earth will rise again. It has been a powerful long time ris ing and prevailing, I know, but we live in hope, hope springs eter nal in tbe human breast. Hope has been sptinging for twenty-five long years in the democratic breast and is springing still, though I don’t think the spring is as bold and strong as it used to be. Nevertheless, let tts all bail the new year with as much hope and faith as possible. If Uncle Sammy Tilden is superanuated let us hunt around for some other man. There are plenty of them. I don’t see that we are obliged to take a man from New York or Ohio. If the best man lives in Rhode Island, lets take him. The people are tired of being tied to New York. If the democracy of New York are sound they will go as strong for a man from Missouri if he is a good man and a statesman. “Westward the tide of empire takes its way.” But you needn’t talk to me about put ting a Southern man on the ticket for vice-President. I’ve seen Joe Brown mentioned, and Colquitt and Blount. Why I had just as leave take Dr. Carltou with his platform of pay for our niggers, for the effect would be all the same. The New York Tribune could by itself make 200,000 people believe it was the entering wedge to get pay for our niggers. Now, there is noth ing wrong in wanting pay for our niggers. A man can’t help want ing it, and I don’t know anybody right now who wonldent take it if be could get it, but that debt is sorter like a debt that has been paid by a fellow taking the benefit of the bank-rupt law. You dident got anything, and you never will get anything, but still you can’t help feeling like the fellow owed it and ought to it if he could, not withstanding his discharge. Wil berforce spent a life time trying to get England to free her niggers and he succeeded, bat England paid the owners of the slaves for their value and it cost her sixty millions of pounds to do it. Rut our folks are not them sort of folks and so we don’t expect anything. I haven’t any record of my niggers. Confederate bonds woke up from the dead somehow and got to be worth a little money, bat my con fidence iu niggers is powerfal weak. If anybody wants to buy my claim I’ll sell it at five cents in tbe dol lar and take it in counterfeit mon ey. Blessed is he who expects lit tle and knowing them fellers up yonder as well as 1 do 1 expect to remain blessed the balance of my days. TERMS:—S2 00 per Aiimmi, in Advance. WHOLE NUMBER 552 Fight your own batili s, hoc your own row, ask no favors of anyone, mid you will succeed a thousand times better than those who are al ways beseeching some one’s pat ronage. Not one can ever help you as ycu cau help yourself, be cause no oue will be so heartily in terested in your affairs. Tlie first step will not be such a long oue, perhaps; but, carving your own way up the mountain, you make each oue lead to another. Men who have made fortunes are not those who had $5,000 given them to start with, but started fair with a wtll-earued dollar or two. Men wUo have; by their ow n exertion, acquired fume, have not been thrust into popularity by puff, beg ged or paid for, or giveu in friend ly spirit. They have outstretched their hands and touched the public heart. Men who wiu love do their own wooing, and I never knew a man to fail so signally as oue who bad induced his affectionate grand mamma to speak a good word for him. Whether you work for fame, for money, or for anything else, work witli your hands, heart and brain. Say, “I will,” and some day you will conquer. Too mauy friends hurt a man more than none at all.—Ex. USING A FIRE ESCAPE. Tbe other day a prominent citi zen of Detroit, says the Free Press, who has been greatly interested in the subject of fire escapes, was inspecting a building on east Wood bridge street which had just been equipped wtth balconies and lad ders, and he summed up his opin ion with : ‘Well, sir there’s no need of an nccident here in case of fire. All any employee has to do is to coollv step from a window to one of the balconies and descend in perfect safety.’ At one o’clock Saturday after noon this same citizen was in the same building when some rags took fire on the fourth-floor, a smudge arose, and an alarm was sounded for the steamers. ‘Fire! fire!’ was echoed through the building, and the employees i-usbed fur Ihn iriartTio.- ed sheep. The eminent chizin lost his legs as soon as he heard the cry—ran twice arouud the room without see ing the opened door, and finally brought up at a window. The sash was hung on weights, and yet he pushed, pulled and tugged in vain, and finally lowered the top sash and climbed over. As be descen ded to tbe second balcony ho left one coat tail on a nail, broke his watch chain and took a tumble which landed him ou his back, aul he was there yelling ‘fire!’ when the engineers came up. He had to be helped through a window and down stairs, and when a heartless wretch in the crowd asked him Low long he had practiced the “escap ing” business, he replied: ‘None o’ your business, sir 1 Dri ver, take me borne.’ THE BEST I’OR GOB. Nothing less than the best should bo given to God. He is himself the best. Our gifts have a lelation to the person to whom they are presented. We do not choose a defective and valueless object as a gift of love to whom we honor. If we truly honor God, or recognize the honor due Him, we should show it in our offerings to Him. Infinite in every existence, He commands the homage, the purest and best tributes of all holy beings. His love for ns also calls for the best expression of our love for Him. As in nil the universe there is no being like God, so in all the uni verse there is no love like God’s love. It is pure, disinterested, ex haustless love. It has manifested itself in the greatest possible sacri fice for us, and rests not until it secures tbe highest possible bene fits we con receive or enjoy. Moved by this love, the soul can express its own deep sense of obligation and the fullness of its love only by the best gifts and the greatest ser vice. —ln ante-belellum days La- Grange boasted two female colle ges, of 200 young ladies each, also Brownwood Institute and a high school for young men, the two num bering over 200 pupils. Since the war the female colleges are still prosperous, but it has seemed im possible to maintain a school of any notoriety for boys. —An incident of the cold snap has just come to us. An engine on the East Tennessee road, be come frozen and stopped. The en gineer and fireman walked to town, as the engine would not run. The pipes and pumps were frozen so that the machinery refused to workt