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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
D-e Law School of the University will
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mu: am* upon payment thereof Law Stu.
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teachers. The nth annual session opens
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of the graduating class will now
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new spring
AMERICUS, GEOROlAji FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1884.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
A Physician's Testimony.
I was called to see Mr. John Peorfon. who
pa confined to bis bed with what appeared -
ba consumption off the wrest form. As all
bis family had died with that dread dkei
(except hie half-brother), fals death was reaai-
«d as certain and soon. After exhausting all
the remedies, I Easily, as a last resort, sent for
Bottle of Brewer's Luna Restorer, and it
acted like magic. He oomhaoed the use off It
afssr “ d ^.a'ATxr
Barecsville, Ga.
Another Rescue from Death.
In 1881, while sewing "on a machine, xnywlfo
was taken with a severe pain in her aide, which
was soon followed by hemorrhages from her
lungs, severe cough, fever, and she could net-
th $ T P 01- e , ,ee D* * nd . ,n * few weeks sb« was
reduced to a living skeleton. Her stocnackre-
fused to retain any food, and the phyridan
thought one of her lungs was entirely cone.
At a final consultation of two physiclana, her
case was pronoonoed hopeless. Itried Brewer's
Lung Restorer, by advice of one of the physi
cians, and she began to improve after the third
dr*e. who continued the medicine, and is now
in excellent health, and U better than she has
»xen In several years. I believe Brewer’s Lung
BENJ. F. HRARNDOX,
Yatesville, Ga.
wifo was to’ the last stages of eonsump-
iji'ii. sho was nnnrhlT hmrasauli). and at
times would discharge quantities of pus from
her lnnp«, co" 1 '* —•» ~—»-*
her stomach.
coold m»t sleep or retain anything oo
eh. and we thought it only a question
ben life would he compelled to give
ho fell destroyer. After all other
remeuies nnd failed, we got Brewer's LungRe-
storer, and began It in very small doses, as she
was very weak. She soon began to Improve;
contlnmd the mned* ,nd was restored to life
and health; and is today better than she has
ever been before I regard her restoration aa
nearly a miracle, for which she is indebted to
Brewer’s Lung Restorer. B. W. BONNER,
Maoon, Ga.
Brewer’s Long Restorer Is a purely vegetable
preparation, and contains no opium, morphine,
bromide, or any poisonous substance. Send for
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PILLS
TORP ,D BOWELS,
DISORDERED LIVER,
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spirits, A f**b«f of having atslccttd
n**® d ^*F» nattsriag at the
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have no oqual. Their action on the
Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing
all impurities through these three ** aeav-
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ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
BE FEELS LIKE A NEW UAH.
RfsasLisaas
kinds of pills, and THTT»* are the that
that have done mo nnr good. They have
cleaned me out nicely. My appetite is
splendid, food digests readily, anil j now
have nuturel passages. I feel like a new
f 1 *”- "• L^EdIvaRDS, Palmyra,O.
hold every whsre.aite. Office, 44 Murray 8LJT.T.
felook upon the sweetest fl .
*Tl* withered soon, and gone;
We gaze upon a star, to find
But darkness where it slione.
There never was a noble heart—
A mind of worth and power-
hat had not, in this sinful world,
Some sorrow for its dower;
The laurel on the brow hath hid.
From many a careless eve;
The secret of the soul within—
Its fount of agony!
There never was a restful soul,
Unmoved by grief and pain.
Or sweetest hour of earthly bliss,
Free from sad sorrow’s stain;
We mark the dewdrops on the grass,
In flash of early day.
Yet soon the seething sunrays come,.
And drink them an away.
We view the mountains steeped in Hfcht,
At the first break of day;
Behold how changed they at night—
How dull, and dense, and gray,
So, with the birds, in tuneful spring—
How sweet their songs in May;
Nor thought they have, nor care they take.
For blasts of winter’s sway.
There never was a bubbing fouut—
An over-flowing spring—
Where waters, to the fevered lip,
Unfeeling we could bring,
AH changeth on time’s sinful shore;
Or hides from mortal sight,
O, for that world, where Joy and Peace
Reigns endless as the light.
CALLING THE ANGELS IN.
We mean to do it. Some day, some day,
Wo mean to slacken this fevered rush
That is wearing our very soul way,
And grant to our goaded hearts a hush
That is holy enough to let them hear
The footsteps of angels drawing near.
We mean to do it. Oh, never doubt,
When tho burden of daytime toil is o’er.
We’ll sit and muse, while tue stars come out
As the patriarch sat at the open door
Of bis tent, with a heavenward gazing eye,
To watch for the angels passing by
We see them afar at high noontide,
When fiercely the world’s hot flashing beat
Yet never have bidden them turn aside,
And tarry awhUo in converse sweat;
Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we
spread,
To drink our wine and break our bread.
We promised our hearts that when the trees
Of the life-work reaches the longed-for
close,
When the weight that we groin witli hin
ders less
We’ll loosen our thoughts to such repose
As banishes care’s disturbing din.
And then we’ll call the angels in.
The day that we dreamed of comes atlcngUi
When tired of every mocking quest.
And broken in spirit and shorn of strength,
We drop, indeed, at the door of rest,
And wait and watch as the days wane on
But the angels we meant to call are gone.
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BLOOD
And iu unparalleled abases, are fully and
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mailed free to any address, by Blood Balm
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Drop a postal for it, as every man and
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SMALL VOICES
Sometimes shake
pr
to the following, from a well known Drug
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B. B. B. has been used.
Atlanta, June 12, 1884.
firm belief that B. B. B. is the
best Blood Purifier on tho market. We are
selling four or fivk bottles of it to ONE of
any other preparation of the kind. It I
’ instance to give
ei
) entire aatisfac-
failed in _
tion. Merit is the secreL
W- P. SMITH & CO., Druggists.
This is the only blood medicine known
that combines quick action, certain effect,
cheap price and unbounded satisfaction.
WE PROVE
That one single bottle of B. B. B. will do as
much work in curing Blood Poisons, Skin
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tarrh and Rheumatism as six bottles of any
other preparation on earth.
One 50-year-old chronic ulcer cured; Scro
fula of children, cured with one bottle.
Blood Poisons cured with a few bottles. It
never falls. We hold home proof in book
form. Send for it. Lerge bottle #1.00, six
Expressed on receipt of
( price, If ;
address
BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga.
For sale by Dr. E. J. Eldridge. Americus,
Georgia. july23-lm
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Forsyth Street,
AMERICUS
GEORGIA
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TIIfr.ftB NEVER WA«.
e never was an earthly dream
_ beauty and delight,
That mingled not too soon with clouds,
As sunrays with the night—
That faded not from that fond heart
Where once U loved to stay.
And left that heart more resolute
For having felt Its sway.
There never was a glad, bright eye,
But it was dimmed with tears.
Caused by such griefs asever dull
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
Bf BEV. T. Be WITT TALMAGE.
Boner Imea Ts-
Ko Roan wm ate off Coua. Boner
m. if remtrs romdm ere mot la time.
ToaWt Fowdrr* “
Poets*. I—jfl
Fonts'. Powder. . ..
«Mt erwim twenty per cenuowl meketbe botttrni
Forrt*. Fewneae wxu. sirs umrAouer
Sold everywhere.
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Oils, Toilet
ips, uei
Powdei
The Death Kettle.
“O thou man ofGod.tiiere is death in the
pot!”—I. Kings iv. 40.
Elisha had gone down to lecture to
the theological students in the semina
ry at Gilgal. He found the stadents
very hungry. Students are apt to be.
In order that he might proceed with
his lectures successfully, he sends out
some servants to gather food for these
hungry students. The servants are
somewhat reckless iu their work and
while they gather up some healthful
herbs they at the same time gather
coloquintida, a bitter, poisonous, death
ful weed, and they bring all the herbs
to the house and put them in a caldron
and stir them up, and then bring tho
food to the table where are seated the
stndents and their professor. One of
the students takes some of the mixture,
puts it iu his lips, and immediately
tastes the coloquintida, and he cries
out to the professor. “O thou man of
God, there is death in the pot!" What
consternation it threw upon the group.
What a fortunate thing it was he found
out in time, so as to save the lives ot
his comrades. Well, there are now in
the woHd a great many caldrons of
death. The coloquintida of mighty
temptation fills them. Some taste and
quit and are saved; others taste and
and die. Is not that minister of
Christ doing the right thing when he
points oat the caldrons of iniquity and
the alarm, saying: “Beware,
there is death in th« not ?” In a pal-
in Florence there is a fresco of
Giotto. For many years that fresco
covered up with two inches thick
ness of whitewash, and it has only been
recent times that tho hand of art has
restored that fresco. “ What sacrilege”
you say; “to destroy the work of such
a great master 1” But there is no Bad
ness in that compared with the fact
that the image of God in the soul has
been covered up and almost obliterated,
so that n'o human hand can restore the
divine lineament.
Iniquity is a coarse, jagged thing
that needs to be ronghly handled. You
have no right to garland it with fine
phrase or lustrous rhetoric. You can
not catch a buffalo with a silken lasso.
Men have no objections to having their
looked at in a pleasant light. They
will be very glad to sit for their photo
graphs if yon make a handsome pic
ture. But every Christian philanthro
pist must sometimes go forth and come
in violent collision with transgression.
I was in a whaling port and I saw a
vessel that had been on a whaling cruise
come into tbs harbor, and it had patch
ed sail and {diced rigging and bespat
tered deck, showing hard times and
rough work. And so I have seem Chris
tian philanthropists come back from
aomeerneade against public iniquities.
They have been compelled to acknowl
edge that, it has pot been yachting over
summer lakes, but it has been outrid
ing a tempest and harpooning great
behemoths. A company of emigrants
settle in a wild region. The very first
day a beast from the mountains comes
down and carries off one of the children
and another beast comes and carries off
another child. Forthwith all the neigh
bors band together and with torch in
one hand and gun in the other, they go
down into the caverns where those wild
beasts and secreted and slay them. Now
I want to go back of all public iniquity
and find ont its hiding place. I want
to know what are tho sources of its
power, or, to resume the figure of my
text, I want to know where are the cal
drons from which these iniquities
dipped ont.
First. Unhappy and undisciplined
homes are the sonree of much iniquity.
• A good home is deathless in it* influence
NO. 25.
my be gone. The-old home-
’ be sold and have passed ont
Parents may be
sttiitt may be sc
of the possession of the family. The
howa itself may he torn down. The
tnetdow brook that ran in front of the
hooie may have changed ita course or
ha«i dried np. The long line of old-
faakhmed sunflowers and the hedges of
wild rose may have been, graded, and
In |4we thereof are now the beauties of
i gardening. The old popular
ly havo cast down its crown of
»and ms • ve alien. Yon say
yotu Would like to go back a little while
and see that home, and you go, and oh!
>w changed it is! Yet that place will
neverloeeita charm overyonr sonl.
That first earthly home will thrill
thmqgh your everlasting career. The
dewdrops that yon dashed from the
chickweed as you drove the cows afield
thirty years ago; the fireflies that flash-
oil i'l'yom father's home on summer
nights when the evenings were too 6hoit
for a candle; the ringed pebble that yon
gathered in yoor apren on the margin
of the brook; the berries that yon strung
into a necklace and the daisies that yon
pi«*y for yon hair—all have gone in
to your sentiments and tastes end yon
will never get overthetu. The trundle-
bed where yon slept, the chair where
yon sat, the-blup-edged dish out of
which you ate, your sister’s jumping
rope, your brother’s ball, yoor kite,
your hoop, yonr mother’s smile, your
father’s frown—they are all part of the
fibre of yonr ( immortal nature. The
mother of Missionary Schwartz threw
light on the dusky brow ot the savages
to whom he preached long after she was
dead. The mother of Lord Byron pur
sued him as with a friend's fury into
all lands, stretching gloom and death
into Ghilde Harold and Don Jnan, and
hovering in darkness over the lonely
grave of Missolonghi.
Rascally and vagabond people for
the most part come forth from unhap
py homes. Parents harsh and crnel
on the one hand, or on the other, len
ient to perfect looseness, are raising up
a generation of vipers. A home in
which scolding and fanlt-finding pre
dominate is blood relation to the gal
lows and penitentiary. Petulance is a
reptile that may crawl np into the fam
ily nest and crush it. There are pa
rents who disgust their children even
with religiou. They scold their little
ones for not loving God. They have
an infernal manner of hearing the cat
echism. They go about even their re
ligions duties in an exasperating way,
as though they were possessed by the
devil. Their house is full of the war-
whoop of contention and from such
scenes husbands and children dash ont
into places of dissipation to find their
lost peace, or the peace they never had.
Oh, is there some mother like Hagar,
leading her Ishmael into the desert to
be smitten of the thirst and parched in
the sand ? In the solemn birth-honr a
fell straight from the skies into
that house, saying, “Take this child
and nurse it for me and I will give thee
thy wages.” When angels at night
fall hover over that dwelling do they
hear the little ones lisp the name of
Jesns? O traveller for eternity, with
yonr little ones gathered np under yonr
robes, are you sure yon are on the right
road, or are yon leading them on a
dangerous and winding bridle-path off
which their inexperienced feet may
slip, and np which comes the howling
of the wolf and the Bound of loosening
ledge and tumbling avalance ? Bless
ed the family altar where the children
kneel. Blessed the cradle where the
Christian mother rocks the Christian
child. Blessed the song the little one
sings at nightfall when sleep is closing
the eyes and loosening the hand from
the toy on the pillow. Blessed
the mother whose heart every throb is
a prayer to God for the salvation of
her children. The world grows old
and soon the stars will cease to illu
minate it, and the herbage to clotbe it,
and the mountains to guard it, and the
waters to refresh it, and the heavenB to
span it, and the long story of its sin
and shame and glory and trinmph will
tarn to ashes; bat parental influences,
starting in the early home,,will roll on
and up into the great eternity, bloom
ing in all the jov, waving in all the
triumph, exhanlting in all the song of
heaven, or groaning in all the pain,
and shrinking back into all the shame,
and frowning in all the darkness of tho
great prison bonse. O father ! O mo
ther ? In which direction is your in
fluence tending ?
I verily believe that three fourths of
the wickedness of the great city ran oat
rank and pntrid from the undiciplined
homes. Sometimes I know there is an
exception. From a bright, beautiful,
cheerful Christian home a hnsband or
a son will go off to die. How long
have yon had that boy in your prayer.
He does not know the tears yon have
shed. He knows nothing about the
sleepless nights yon have passed abont
him. He started on the downward
road and will not stop, call yon ever
so tenderly. Oh, it is tongh, it is very
tongh, after having expended so much
kindness and care to get snch ingrati
tude. There is many a yonng mar
who is proud of his mother, who wonld
stribo into the dnst any dastard who
would to do her wrong, whose hand,
by his first step in sin, is sharpening
to plunge into that mother’s heart. I
saw it. The telegram summoned # him.
I saw him come in scarred and bloated
to look upon the lifeless form of his
mother—those gray locks poshed back
over the wrinkled brow he had whiten
ed by his waywardness. Those eyes
had rained floods of tears over his ini
quity. That atill white hand had
written many a loving letter of counsel
and invitation. He.had broken that
heart. When he came in he threw
himself on the coffin and sobbed out
right and cried: “Mother 1 Mother l’ 1
Bnt the lips that kissed him in infancy
and that had spoken so kindly on
.other days when he eame home, spake
not. They were sealed forever. Rath
er than snch a memory on my soul, I
would have rolled on me the Alps and
the Himalayas. “The eye that mock-
eth its father and refnseth to obey il
mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out and the yonng eagles shall
eat it.”
The second caldron of iniqnity to
which I point is an indolent lire. There
are yonng men coming toonr city with
industrious habit* and yet they see a
great many men who seem to get along
without work. They have no busi
ness and yet they are better dressed
than industrious men and they seem to
have more facilities of access to amuse
ments. They have plenty of time to
spare to hang around the beautiful ho
tels or lounge around the City Hall,
their hands in their pockets, a tooth
pick in their months, waiting for some
crumbs to fal} from the office-holder's
table; or gazing at the criminals as
they come np in the morning from the
station honses, jeering at them as they
leap from the city van to the Court
House steps. The industrious people
see these idlers standing abont and
they wonder how they make their liv
ing. 1 wonder too. They have plen
ty of money for they ride ; they have
plenty of money to" bet on the boat
race or the horse race ; they can dis
cuss the flavor of the costliest wines ;
they have the best seatr at tho theatre.
But still, you ask me. “How do they
get their money ?” Well, my friends,
there are only four ways to get money
—just lonr. By inheritance ; by earn
ing it; by begging it; by stealing it.
Now, there are many people in our
community who seem to have' plenty
of money who did not inherit it, and
who did not earn it, and who did not
beg it. You must take the responsi
bility of Maying how they got it. There
are men who get tired of the responsi
bility of life aud see these prosperous
idlers and consort with them, they
i---*. ■‘ u 't same tricks and they go to
ruin—at their death,—their
depart ore canting no more mourning
than is felt for the fast horse they
foundered and killed by a too hasty
watering.
Oh, the pressure on the indastrions
young men is tremendous when they
see people all aronnd them fall of seem
ing success bat doing nothing. The
maltitnde of those who get their living
by sleight-of-hand is multiplying.
What is the use of working in the
store, or office; or shop, or on the scaf
fold, or by the forge, when you can
get your living by your wits ? A mer
chant in New York was passing along
the street one evening and he saw one
of his clerks half-disguised, going in
to one of the low theatres. He said
within himself: “I must look ont for
that young man.” One morning the
merchant came to his store, and the
clerk came up in assumed consterna
tion and said : “The store has been on
fire. I havejust got it ont; bnt many
of the goods are gone.” . The mer
chant instantly seized the young man
by the collar and said : “I have had
enough of this. You cant deceive me.
Where are the goods you stole ?” and
the clerk confessed it instantly. The
yonng man had gone into the plan of
making money by sleight-of-hand or
by his wits. Yon will get out of this
world just so mnch as, under God, you
earn by your owh hand and brain, IIo-
fatins was told he might have so mnch
land as he could plow aronnd in one
day with a yoke of oxen, aud I have
noticed that men get nothing in this
world that is worth possessing, of a
financial, moral or spiritual nature, save
that they get it by their own hard work.
It is just so much as from the mornin
to the evening of your life you can
plow around by your own continuous
and hard-sweating industries. “Go to
the ant, thon sluggard, consider her
ways and be wise.”
Another caldron of iniquity is the
dram-shop. Surely there is death in the
pot. Anachareis said that the vine had
three grapes, pleasure, drunkenness,
misery, Richard III. drowned his own
brother Clarence in a butt of wine-theae
two incidents were quite typical. Every
saloon built aboveground or dug under
ground is a centre of evil. It may be
licensed, and for some time it may con-
duct its business in elegant style: bnt
after awhile the cover will fall off, and
you will see the iniquity in its right
coloring. Plant a grog-shop in the
midst of the finest block of honses in
yonr city, and the property will depre
ciate 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 per cent. Men
engaged in the ruinous traffic sometimes
'say: “Yon don’t appreciate the fact
that the largest revenues paid to the
government are by onr business.” Then
I remember that Mr. Gladstone, the
Prime Minister ot England, said to a
committee of men engaged in that tra
ffic when they came to him to deplore
that they were not treated with more
consideration* “Gentlemen, don’t be
uneasy about the revenue. Give me
30,000,000 sober people and I will pay
all the revenue and have a large snr-
plfl*;” Bnt, my friends, the ruin to
property is a very small part of the evil.
Jtt Stakes everything that is sacred ii
th^ family, everything that is holy ii
religion, everything that is infinite in
the fionl and tramples it into the mire,
The marriage day has come. The hap
py pair are at the altar. The gay lights
flash. The feet bound up and down
in the drawing-room. Started on a
bright voyage of life. Tails all np.
The wind is abaft. Yon prophesy every
thing beautiful. Bnt the scene changes.
A dingy garret. No fire. On a brok
en chair sits a sorrowing woman. Her
last hope gone. Poor, disgraced, trod
den under foot—she knows the despair
of being a drunkard’s wile. The gay
bark that danced off on the marriage
morning has become a battered hulk,
dismasted and shipwrecked. “Oh!” she
says, “he was a good man as ever
lived. He wis so kind, he was so gen
erous—no one better did God ever create
than he. Drink, the drink did it. 1
A yonng man starts from the country
home for the city. Through the agen
cy of metropolitan friends ho has ob
tained a place in a store or a bank
That morning in the farm house the
lights are kindled very early and the
boy’s trank is on the wagon. “I put a
Bible in yonr trunk,” says the mother,
as she wipes the tears away with bur
apron. “My dear, I want yon to read
it when you get to town.” “Oh,” he
says, “mother, don’t you. bo worried
about ms. I know what lam abont.
I am old enough to take care of myself.
Don’t yon be worried about me.” The
father says: “Be a good boy and write
home often. Yonr mother will want
to hear from yon.” Crack goes the
whip and away over the hills goes the
wagon. The scene changes. Five years
after and there is a hearse coming np
the old lane in front of the farm house.
Killed in » porterhouse fight, that son
has come home to disgrace the sepul
chre of his father. When the old peo
ple lift the coffin lid and see the chang
ed face and see tho gash in the temples
where the lifaoozed out, they will wring
the withered hands and look np to heav
en and cry: “Cursed be turn! Cursed
be rum!” Lorenzo de Medici was sick,
and his friends thought that if they
conld dissolve in his cap some pearls
and then get him to swallow them he
wonld be cared. And so these valua
ble pearl* were dissolved in his cup and
he drank them. What an expensive
draught! Bnt do yon know that drunk
enness puts Into its cop the pearl of
physical health, the pearl of domestic
happiness, the pearl of earthly useful
ness,, tho pearl of Christian hope, the
pearl of au everlasting heaven, and then
presses it to the lips? Oh, what an ex
pensive draught! The dramshop is the
gate of hell. There are 6ome, in the
outer, circles of this terrible maelstrom
and in tho name of God I cry the alarm.
Pat back now or never! You say you
are kind and genial and generous. I do
not donbt it, but so much more tho per-
Mean meu never drink nnless some
else treats them. Bnt the men who
in the front rank of this destructive
habit are those who have a fine educa
tion, large hearts, genial natures, and
splendid prospects. This 6in chooses
the fattest lambs for sacrifice. What
garlands of victory this carbuncled
hand of drunkenness hath snatched from
the brow of tho orator and poet! What
gleaming lights of generosity it hss pnt
ont in midnight darkness. Como with
me and look over—come and l)ang over
—look down into it while I lift off the
coyer and yon may see the loathsome,
boiling, seething, groaning, agonizing,
blaspheming hell of the drunkard.
There is everlasting death in the pot.
REMINISCENCES
OF THE SCHOOLS'A* THE
PLA.INN Of*' DURA.
FROM 1842 TO I860.
«y iw. o. Pickett.
NO. IX.
former letter I have said that
'progress is written on all the works of
God.” Man forms no exception to the
general law. He is the noblest work
of creative power distinguished from
all else by powers and capabilities
snsceptablo of the highest culture and
from the period of creation has ad
vanced in knowledge and wisdom pre
paratory for the higher life in the spir
it home, lie ib made bnt a little low-
than the angels with an assurance
that he shall be their equal. With
snch a faith giving vitality and power
to the people of the Plains and with
such an assurance coming from the
Christians God,how natural that every
avenue of knowledge and wisdom and
religious culture be opened for tho 6ons
and daughters of the people.
For the accomplishment of such a
purpose there must be a oerfect adapta
tion of means to tho end, and the natu
ral wants of man suggest as tho means
tho elevation of woman to her true po
sition in the Christian household, in
society, in the church, in science, in
literature, in the professions, and in
the world of trajic. Man’s wants
demand a woman fully developed
morally, intellectually and physically.
This want is inherent iu his constitu
tion and his demands are imperative.
There can be no abatement, for it is
holy and just, and nothing short of a
perfect woman can discharge the holy
and sacred duties of the matron or the
still higher dnties of maternity. Upon
these conditions depend the highest at
tainments in female loveliness and
beanty, aud the ultimate accomplish
ment of the wise and beneficient pur
poses of God in the plan of perlectiog
man and through the operation of the
law of eternal progress render him a fit
worshiper in heaven. In a single word
upon the highest culture of woman de
pends the highest and noblest virtues
of man. Give man a wife who grov
els in the filth and mire of ignorance
and idleness, and he will sink to the
lowest depths of infamy and shame.
Give him one of angelic virtues and
she will raise him to places of honor,
and lead him to the throne of God.
She will say to him. “where thou go-
eth, I will go, thy home shall be my
home, and thy labor shall be my work.”
Snch were the views of the leaders
of the people at the Plains, and conse
quently as early as the year 1848 a
boarding school was opened where liter
ature, ornamental needle work, and
drawing and painting and innsic were
tanght by an accomplished youog lady.
Right here an interesting item of his
tory comes in. The first piano pur
chased for the nse of a school-room in
the county of Sumter was made in Co
lumbia, South Carolina, sent to Macon
by rail, and conveyed from r there
in a wagon to the writer’s house by
Geo. E. Clark, and the second piano
was bought by J. H. Black aud the
writer for Ransom’s school-room. And
at this late date I must be allow-
in the name of the people of the
Plains to express a grateful remem
brance for the generous, and friendly
assistance received from Mr. Ezekiel
Hawkins, Wm. P. Jones, the three
Coker brothers, Judge Coleman and
John Hancock, of Randolph; in our
first effort to establish a school for the
mental and social elevation of our
daughters.
Tho abovo facts show the Plains at
least, three yeas in advance of South
west Georgia * in offering educational
facilities of a high order of mental cul
ture to our daughters, and twelve years
advance of the city of Americus.
The demand for a higher state of men
tal and religious culture of onr daugh
ters were imperative and we have not
been disappointed in the result. We
live to sac reason trinmph over the
prejudices of the past age against the
powers and capabilities of woman for
the attainment of knowledge and to set
at defiance the usages and folly of the
dark age and open every avenue of
progress to place the sex upon a level
in our institutions of learning and we
glory in the thought that the time will
come when regardless of sex, superiori
ty and efficiency for labor required,
will determine the question of selection
to place of honor and trnst, and so far
as inflaence from the Plains may ex
tend, the customs amj prejudices of the
past nor any system of religious cul
ture nor false delicacy shall rob the
women of the Sonth of their birthright,
of equality where mental and moral
efficiency characterize her sex. If Jesns
wept over the down fall of the corrupt
city of Jerusalem, heaven may become
a fountain of tears, in view of the pre
sumption and selfishness of man in ex
cluding the wife of his bosom with her
angelic nature and true greatness from
all the higher duties of life, and patting
her upon a level with beast of bnrden
and lifeless banbles to play with. And
here allow me to say that there is
nothing that has higher claims upon the
svmpathy of the Christian church or of
the protecting care of God, than a wo
man rendered by the customs of society
wholly dependent upon man for the
essentials of life. Circumscribe her
me of legitimate action in the vrorid
literature and trafic. and drive her
* When the high schools were organized
at the Plains, Macon, Georgia, had the hon
or of having the only Female College in the
republic. I think those in Cuthbert
from the professions aud she is not self,
reliant her only alternates are infamy
and shame or starvation, and herein
lies the terrible secret of female degra
dation, suffering and crime in the great
cities of the world. Give me the pow-
or equal to the occasion and I wonld
beat down every barrier that obstructs
her upward tendency in all relations of
life and place her in her true position,
whether in social, the literary or in the
world of traffic. I wonld give her the
place of honor and trnst in every insti
tution of learning where her watchfnl
eye and maternal love should form a
tower of strength ior the safety and for
the moral and social advancement of
her sex. Woman has power for good
and man for evil. In the absence of
maternal counsel Eve foil before the
cunning of man in tho garden of Eden
and his lying tongue said, “The wo
man beguiled me aud I did eat.”
Solomon in his glory with all of his
vaunted wisdom, was but a sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal. He built
the onter walls of the temple and gar
nished the altar accordingly to pattern
and led his live hundred deluded vic
tims into the dark and dismal road to
infamy and shame. While Hannah
clothed in garments of virtue and hu
mility, guided by the unerring dictates
of maternal love, made a little coat for
Samuel once every year, and led him
np to the temple to worship the God of
her fathers. The moral leprosy of the
ono has become chronic in the nineteenth
century and people hell with its
victims, while the virtues of the other
Ifves in the promptings of maternal
love, and stands written in the book of
life. Why thon will the folly of the
Christian age put at the head of our in
stitutions of learning beardles» youths
who cannot know the wants of our
daughters nor realize the magnitude of
tho fearful responsibilities that rest up
on the guardians of youth iu the ab
sence of maternal counsel aud paternal
protection?
The cultivated reader will pardon
this seeming digression, and the wise
and judicious parent will appreciate
and.utilize the suggestivo thought, and
I will pass on to the reminiscences of
the Plains of Dura.
I would here call the attention of the
reader to tho most significant incident
in the reminiscences of tho Plains,
showing the people in that locality at
least fifteen years in advance of the
State, or perhaps of the South in res
ponding to tho higher aud just demand-
of female efficiency in the professional ■ i
world as a physician. Fourteen or
fifteen years ago Dr. J. W. Durham, ‘
an eminent physician of the eclectic '
school died, leaving a wife and several
daughters, who by fire and other ways
were reduced to a state of dependance
upon her own resources for a support.
At this juncture members of society,
representing the Baptist, Universalist
and Methodist branches ot tho Chris
tian church, united their counsels, as
sumed the care of her children for the
time and encouraged her to attend a
course of lectures in a Medical College,
where by virtue of a superior mind
she procured a diploma, has by a suc
cessful practice educated her children
to a point of usefulness and self-reliance,
and stands now upon the records of the
Medical College as the first legally au
thorized female physician in the State,
and if 1 mistake not, of the whole
South. While her oldest son who was
educated mostly at the Plains is known
as an attorney of merit in Southwest
Georgia.
As a faithful recorder of reminis
cences of the Plains, I cannot ignore the
fact that Jesse H. and Wm. Pickett,
the two younger brothers of Mrs. l>r.
Durham were educated at the Plains,
and are both physicians of merit. Dr.
Jesse, the elder served honorably first
as Capt. and by promotion Col., in the
Confederate Army, and then as repre
sentative in the legislature
with pride that I record the
pleasing fact that the Plains of Dora
is well represented in the mercantile
acd millinary trade by four ladies
from leading families, led and encour-
aged by a well-known milliner, who
has ever shown a readiness to move in
advance in such vocations of life as are
suitable and necessary for the well
being of her sex. With snch a worthy
example of usefulness and self-reliance
we hope the time is not far distant
when every mercantile honse in onr
Southern cities will be served by well
qualified clerks from among the daugh
ters as well as tha sons. Why should
the people ignore the highest and best
interest of their danghters and tolerate
life of destructive and pernicious
dalgence in leisure, when we know
that a life of female idleness and inef
ficiency for the active duties of a mar
ried life foreshadows an age of cslibacy
and moral degeneracy.
[to he continued.]
BOIIN LUCKY
Fortune seems to favor this neighbor
hood, for hardly a Louisiana Lottery
drawing takes place without singling
out some lucky fellow in Memphis or
this vicinity. At the last drawing tick
et No. 07,552 drew the fourth capital
prize of $6,000, and one-fifth was col
lected by tbe German National Bank
for Chris. Hettinger, an honest and in
dustrious carpenter. Mr. Hettinger was
looking over morning A valanche, when
he came to his number. He hastily re
marked to a friend: “By Joe, I believe
I have struck it this time,” and rnshed
off for his ticket. He was overjoyed to
find that it was a tally.
Ticket No. 12,333 draw the first cap
ital prize of $75,000 and one-fifth was
held by a well-to-do fanner living in
tho quaint and picturesque littlo town
Canadaville, Fayette county, Tenn. An
Avalanche reporter paid a visit recently
to Canadaville and was introduced to
the lncky farmer. His face was all ag
low with good nature. He said that bis
good fortune enabled him to make some
improvements in his.place that he had
been long wanting to make, bnt felt
nnable to do so. He said he had began
life with nothing, bnt had accumulated
and acquired a good farm. His $15,000
wonld enable him to live comfortably
and serenely the rest of his life. He re
marked to the reporter that now fie
wouldbave a windmill—something that
his heart had long been set upon. The
farmer drew his money through the
Bank of Commeroeof this oity.—Hem-
phis ( Tenn.) Avalanche, July 26.
If you want a first class steam en
gine for ginning and threshing, call
on Harrold, Johnson & Co., and ex
amine their large stock of “Eclipso
engines” at their engine yard, Cotton
avenue. Engines on hand ready for
Avoid delay.
