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.litomen at Law,
AHKBICCS, OA
m. t. c.
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Ct, Forsyth Street ’n National
dectotf
E..G. SIMMONS.
Attorney at .Law.
AMERIOU8 OA.,
:e in Hawkins' building, sooth side o
r Street, ia the old office of Fort <
(01*1 Indian Cure)
seriess In the list of BLOOD REHl
EDIKS for diseases doe to IMPURE
BLOOD. It Is an “old, tried and true
remedy.
"ade
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Offers his professional services
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i will receive prompt attention.
and SKIM DISEASE arising from blood
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overwhelming popular vote
INDORSED BY PRACTICING
PHYSICIANS.
lately, with implicit confident
dial virtues. I know whereof I speal
familiar with the medical properties i
irofound-
•ach of its component parts. It is profound-
terative, tonic, diuretic, 11 diaphoretic
imnu nagogue. In a word,
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PURIFIER-
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nd tranche*. and U
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r fall!
> make a jicr^ect and per mam
Fred A. Toomer,
A. IS.. A. M., and M. D.
Tlie following are lair samples of hun-
SrUo«ston C SJ.!*Sf“-uuo *o.
• great pleasure in sa> lng I used
alf dozen lmttles of O. I. C. for a severe
e ot scrofula of eight years standing, and
fully restored to health. 1 cheerfully
- ’ * *- —* froej blood dls-
Echeo
mend it to suffer
.* knoi
blood disease by
». I. C. Among ot
hills t
within my per-
•tim had tr*"
■ and made
peateil visits to Hot Sprlni
O. I. C. effected a permanent cu«.
W. U.O’Prt.
In conclusion tlie proprietors say they havi
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THE BOPMW BELLE.
She alts In a fashionable parlor,
• And rocks In bcreaw-obalr;
She is clad In silks anasattaa.
And Jewels are'
She winks and g
*Tis a good deal more than she think)
She lies abed in the morning
ir signatures attacked, in its adv,
;s down snapping and snarling
atTwas called too soon:
Her hair Is still in papers, .
Her cheeks stiil fresh with paint,-
Remains of her last nights blushes,
Before she Intended to faint
She dotes upon men unshaven.
And men with “flowing hair;’’
"he’s eloquent ever mustaches.
They give such a foreign air.
hetabtH of Italian music.
Ana falls In love wlta the moon;
And if a mouse were to meet her,'
She would sink away In a swoon.
Her feet a
A.D., ltlh
Her heart Is made wholly of stone.
She falls in love with a feUow
Who swells with a foreign air;
for her r .oney,
llm for his hair!
One of the very best matches—
rell mated In life;
EMY OF MUSIC, MEW ORLEANS,
TUESDAY, rchnary 10, l*S5-177tb
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Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
In th* Sjrine of 1WS I *« attacked with a
SSrU^tirSu.* when* JStreweaktfiiX
P»,
This school located four miles, east of
Amerieus, trill ho open on Monday nexttfio
li'th Inst, for tlie reception of pupils both
boys and girls
. SHOCKLEY, Principal*
1885.
1. E. MATHIS, Principal.
Monday January 12th next. 1 h
for the people of Amcncus t
would reapectfully ask a aenev
• Terrs, Rates, Etc
Primary Department per montl
Intermediate, per month
First Class, per month-
lntermedlate, peri
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Tuition due at the end of <
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■a^o <>pinion!' "u'i-T'rh'?'U-'t'kanY*Remedy
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Statement of Mr.Benj.F.Hearndon:
- ■- ** »•«-. jsM, while frcwlng on the
i shall <
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nd laid
NSTRC
MAKERS, which
usual ei *--*-•*-
mod ate
j iPECIAI, OFFER TO PLAN6 AND OR-
Installment Terms. To accom-
>se who wish to buy now, and
hold their cotton until later, we make thl:
SPECIAL OFFT'
GAM BUYERS.
s,sea sasff'®
_ . f, na ] ,-xamination of tho i*lh*nt. and
pniflimrd I!,,! ca»« N>polo«. Dr Holloway
a dime"’”IMmd that she ertSd^'retato /tec
Fiorrinrh. nnd after about the third
iKSX
I b« li, v<-1 h* lams >rer saved her lire.
llr. Ileamdon's po«t-oakw Ik YaleavUIe Tp-
i^.n County. Ca. He is a thorouuhly nllable
UMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
.MACON, OA.
HOHfiOG FEMALE COllEGE
F0RSVTH, OA.
lng Its ll
This institution is fasl
er prestige and popularity. The policy
been to place the best teaching talent at
head of each department and over the srito*®
to extend a kina, yet firm discipline.
result has been n steady increase ot patron
age and conatantgrowthln publlccwifidencf
and favor. The Spring asaslon will begin
Monday January l*th 1883.
Thoae in search of a good school,
whose purpose Is to prepare woman f<
the high alms and duties ot life one t
effort in the past have been successful in sup
plying valuable contribution to the society of
almost every southern state are respectf ally
invited to consider 1
tare prospects of Monroe. Foor inform:
R. T. ASBURY, President*
tion upply U
J»n3tf
WESTMORELAND'S
w
ORH FOld THE
W ORI D LARGE
tutt»s
PILLS
TORPID BOWEL&,
DISORDERED LIVER
and MALARIA.
HARO TIMES NEARLV OVER-
glorious harvest is at hand, and pros-
ty will soon prevail. Thousands of
lues who have been wanting llanos
Organs for many long years will BUY ""
YEAR. Anticipating Uie demand.
Tllln
xtlM hoar of noon.
ul look'back, I have two emotions—
one of gffttitnde to God, and the other
of tho deepest dissatisfaction with toy-
.gel/. The field has been so wide the
opportobitydias been so magnificent. I
have dons ao little compared with tho
work I ought to havs done. And theu
I remember I bad snob a glorions start
ing. Those of you who have read the
congratulatory letters of this last week
remember that Dr* Chambers, of New
York, who was her pastor, says in that
letter tbit my mother was the Godliest
woman he had ever known. _ Though
my early-home was very plain and my
father and, mother were plain people,
And her head so
so very Dttte,
EOT!
'SSEKs.
th., lived close up to God,
body ever doubted where they went
when they di$., .Oh, I bed a glorious
starting, and when Irthink of the op
portunities 1 have had for usefulness I
am annoyed that I have done so tiulr.
It ii in no feeling of cant that I expres
it, bat with deep and unfeigned
lie s got a fool for a wife!
lion before God. Oh, It is a tremen
dous thing to stand jn .a pulpit and
know that a great mB^jlcaple will be
ufliienoed by what you say concerning
God, or the soul, or the great future,
uppose a man asks of yon the direc-
;»n to a certain place, and you through
carelessness, thoughtlessly tell him
ray, and you hear after a while he
ost on the mountains and went
the rocks and perished.
Mighty Awakening.
Beheld, l will send my messenger and he
•' ire the way before me;f- J
you seek, shall suddenly
shall prepare the way befoi
Sometimes a
luggested by h
by the events of the provioc
#eek, sometimes by the question of
ner. My subject this mornin_
pomes in no such way, 'but straight
tho throne of God into my own
Give me your prayerful and in
listening. 1 will shoa* you, il
tho Lord shall help me, that the great-
need of t e church and of the world
ibis time is a spiritual awakening,
feeding in a pasture might con-
great religions advantages,might think
that all the world is evangelized; but
if this platform were the world,
much of it as I cover with my right
would represent the amount evan
gelized, or it this whole church were
the world, then one pew would repre
sent so much of it as is gospelized.
While I am just aa certain aa that
there ia a God that the whole world it
finally to be saved, and that a
world began with a garden so it i w
j to close with a garden, I am just
certainly impressed with the fact
that there needs to be a radical change
and that the Church of God needa tc
on some other tack. Inthe pres-
mode and by the present way the
thing can never ba accomplished. I
will show yon this morning, as God
may help me, that nothing will
achieve this result but mighty abd
This
day, is like the eqnator, or the Arctic
or Antarctic circle, a mere imaginary
line and thousands of professed Chris- need
tians stand discussing the infinitesmal ing. 1 need
questions: Shall we dance 9 shall we what God has done for this individual
play cards 9 shall we go to the theatre ? church. I need not rehearse the first
shall we go to the opera ? and all these' day we opened tho first communion
questions when there are five hundred sou, when 82$ souls stood up in these
:d the church of God.—
. w . „ had u great blessing. We
Oh, how much dead wood in all the are going to have greater. There is
churches. Oh, what a thinning out one just dawning upon us. As near aa
just touching religion with the tipi
of the fingers, sauntering on and saun- daybreak. It is daybreak7 Vo shall
taring on lazily, until after a while see greater things than these. “
the; will come in front of the swiftly is a sound of abundance of
revolving mill and find themselves the week the Lord Almighty will stretch
chaff which the wind driveth away, forth Ilis bare arm. There is a vast
Thousands of people who havo their multitude who are permanently connec-
namea on church books, going on ted with this church who do
thoughtless of what shall become of the not profess the Christian religion,—
human race, and regardless of the bet- They are among my warmest personal
terment of the world's condition, until friends. They are among tho most lib
after a while they fall off as Jadas did eral supporters of the church. When
:imo comes next Monday night for
public rental of tho pews they will
Achan did and all those will
who do not make religion the primor- .... f
dial thing of life, the first and the last, do their very best for the support of
Ob, how many there are who do not all Christian institutions. Some who
realize tlie fact that, though they are profess to be Christian might
l say, “I will never forgivi
_ yself
that I didn’t take more time with that
man. It i> my fault. If I had given
him the right direction, -he would have
gone the right way.” And oh, the
greater responsibility of standing in a
_ _ . , 0 perhaps
professors of religion, »f they die as pride’ themselves on how little they
they are all the communion tables at can do. There are these men of the
which they ever eat will with uplifted world who will rejoice in doing all they
hands of blood c r y for their condemn- can do. If I wanted a favor thev would
i, and their neglected Bible and be the first tuen to whom I would go.
pnlpit and telling people which
oad to Heaven. Alas! if we tell them
rrong. The temptation is so mighty
n this day that no layman can onder-
tand it—the temptation is so mighty
n this day to smooth down tho truth
-nd hush up the alarms of yhe Gospel,
.nd pat men ou the shoulder, and sing
them on down toward the last plnnge,
and tell them they are all right. Or,
lb tho peet has put it:
‘Smooth down the stub corn text to ears
polite,
Ind simply keep damnatiod out of sight”
What is the use of telling men they
ire all right wheu they know they ;
tot all right? Oh, brothers in I
ministry—for there are many in «
audiences—brothers in the ministry,
cannot afford to hold back any of the
troth, and we cannot afford to lack in
earnestness! If yon fall in this, my
brethren, yon had better stand away
from them in the last day; you had bet
ter stand away from that soul that you
have neglected, lest he tear you tc
pieces. He will say to you, “I admir
ed your philosophic disquisitions and
your beautiful gestures and yonr finely
prayerless pillows will say, “Go down,
go down; yon broke that sacramental
oath; out of the seven days of the week and the women whom I would ask
you did not give five hours to God. come in and I could trust my darling
Go down, go down !” Oh worldly pro- children to them, and whoever might
of religion, compromising pro- fall asleep that night they
formed sentences, multiform, and stel-
liform and cnrvilihear, but yon never
helped prepare me for this judgment
day. Cursed be your rhetoric, I i
going down now and I am going
take yon with me. Witness .all ye
straction. The first chapter of the
Christian chnrch opens with the ac-
of a revival in which three thous
and people joined the church in one
day. Would it not have been better to
gone more mildly and gradually
into the work and had the three thous
and souls scattered over three thons.
and years? or have only two Ounverted
year so that it might last f<
During the mont/a of Septem
ber and October, 1684, u
tell Pianot and Organ* at our
IjOvxst Bock Bottom Oath.
Price*, requiring only
$25 CASH MOT ON A 1'IAKO.
$10 MOT OH A OMAN.
And allowing three month* time
on the balance. Without Interest
or advance of price.
fifteen hundred years—and everything
be done deliberately? Peter did n<*
think so. Christ did not think so
The day of Pentecost was nothing bnt
ival. And so tho last chapter of
orld’s history is to be the history
evival. Not ten thousand people
irted, or a million people conver
ted, bat a nation bora in a day. The
millenium ia only another nam
revival. So in later ages of the chnrch,
a groat awakening came when Uobert
M’Cheyne preached at Dundee and
hosts of light and all ye hosts of dark
ness, it is his fanlt.” And many
worlds come np in chorus saying; “his
fault, his fanlt!” Oh, my brethren in
tho ministry, we ought to preach as
thongh standing in the pnlpit we felt
that beneath ua were the bursting
graves of the resurrection morn, and as
though the plattorm trembled with the
tread of eternal realities, and as thongh
above us were the myriads of Heaven
•oking down upon us ready to applaud
at fidelity or hiss at our stolidity,
hile coming through the Sabbath ait
ere the long, deep groans of the dy*
:g nations that are never dead. Ob,
that Gad with a torch would all
he pulpits of Englaud, Scotland, Ire
land and America afire. If God will
for the past, I will do bet-
Scotland was shaken, and when Rich
ard Baxter preached at Kidderminster
and England was shaken, and George
Whitefieid crossed the ocean and
America was shaken. There are these
you who can remember 1S31. It
great time of commercial depr
themselves unable to complete payment
after the three months, will be given further
time, by agreeing to pay our regular Install
ment prices, and complying withour ln-
■tallment Terms of payment, bboujd they
pay one half the amount dne at thee months,
or make a large cash payment, an equitable
priee for the instrument wlU arranged. All
will be treated falriy. and charged Priere to
accordance with the tune required, for pur-
•ymptotus indicate their axsttenoetl*
appetite, 1 towels cosUf*, Mck I
•the, IWJseM after sat log, ovarii
‘ a of Mr or mlal, Erwct
I, Irritability of temper,
sssar sssssaaivsas
PILLS in v* no equal. Their action oa tho
with dally work and nro a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
HE FEEU) LIKE A HEW MAM.
their ropoMibtmp. Instrument. *U1 he
eent on the nsonl fifteen dtp trim, when
references are given. bept5.
LUDDEN & BATES
SQUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
Savannah, Ga.,
door of Chatham Street Theatre,-
of the worst and most blasphemous
theatres of those days—and asked the
privilege of purchasing the building
for a church, and the lessee said, “For
what?” “For a church.” He said,
have it, and I will give vou
thousand dollars toward it myaelf.”
_ l was opened and at the first prayer
meeting eight hundred people were
present and the barroom was turned
luto a prayer room. The first man
that began to pray in the barroom, af-
bronght to Christian service,
. Qges,4tlInw«T»UN.T.
TUTTS HAIR DYE.
Ghat Hair on Yfntsrxns changed in-
stantly to a t;mssr Hlack by a single ap-
plication of tbla DTK. Sold by DruggteU,
orient by express on receipt** •>.
Office, «4 Vurtuy Street, Sew Tone.
TBIT’S MANUAL OF OSffUL RECEIPTS FREE.
OCCONEECHEERNDTAR*HEEL
SMOKING^
COMPRISES four preparations.
UVEB. HEART AHD KIDNEY TONIC,
For Indigestion, Palpitation, etc., from
°rpld liver and Inactive kidneys.
DIABRH0EA NHTGBB,
For DIarrhota, Dysentery; &c., of
dren and adulte.
„ BLOOD PURIFIER,
* or Scrofula. Goitre, Sypbilea and Skin
Ulseaaea treat impure blood.
BRAIN TONIC,
common Convulsions and Ep-
jSaemadlclac will not cure all dbeaaes.'
WtttHW preparations will do exactly what
TOBACCOS rr,
Mention tbla Paper.
flOSilTER’s
Otters
_ _ Hoatettes’a Stomach BUton la tbs article
uS52*U?SSSTtoSiw off th.de-
Hm-nny effects of undo* fattguo. Igraa
renewed Tttor tt> Om raMM*JgS*".
SSXthe llw
dorsement of puraopa .of avary daas of
Sodden'S Amies Stive-
.-I**'-*
mmmm
sms
l any warning.
. . „ . r 0 j ..ould be
feasor of religion, if you realized your wide awake until di
true condition this morning, you would make my last will and testament and
bite your lip until the blood came, and I had solemn distribution to make with
ould wring yonr hands until the with referenco to the welfare of iny
ould be tlu*
Christ
bones cracked, and you would utter a household, thi
■y that would start this whole andi- whom I would
their feet with horror. Oh, Yet they
rorldly professor of religion wake up should ask tht
before you wake up in tho barred and thoy are not. Oh, whose fault is it?—
flaming dungeon of an uudone eternity. Is it mine? 1 havs sometimes thought
>k off upon the church to-day, and it was. I have sometimes thought if I
if I am not right when I say that all would have come to God long before
the bugles and cymbals and drums and this. Oh, they, have got to be b
They are going
of the chnrch need
ied, saying: “Awake, thou that know it.' And - then what about th.
sleepest, and Christ shall give thee eighty or one huudred thousand
Do I not need arousal? Do gers who tho last twelvemonth floate.
yon not need it ? If my heart con- in and out this service! How about
demns me does not your heart condemn the eighty or on« hundred thousand
you. my brother ? strangers who will float in and ont the
also the need of a great awak- service for tho next twelvemonths?—
ening is the fact that the cause of God Oh, there is going to bo a great awak-
advances so slowly, comparatively. I ening. If wheu John Li ‘
know there are mire Christians to-day preached the Gopel in his church
than there-ever were, and yet the world Scotland fivo hundred received tlie
never come to God in this way. truth in one day, why could not
mathematical impossibility, enough in prayer to have thousand:
people born into this a day? It was not John Livingst.
of God, kid gloves, diamonds bursting or of John* Welch in the midnight
thiougb, put up to the face in shame plaid, or of Whitefieid on his face be
not elegant, fore God whole nights imploring hti
r for the fut
•ITsn
a cause ot small Im
mport,
demands.
But what miitht fill an angel's heart,
and humiliation.
Men ia all churches who do not believe divine mercy. I rathei
the Bible in and out, from yourself and have yon think of the
the first word of the first verse of the time wh<*u your soul was sinking
Mfl
Did Heavenly bliss forego.
For souls that must forever 11
In raptures or In woe."
Oh, what pulpits we will have, and
hat prayer-meeting circles
have, what fields of usefulm
have, what Sanday school classes when
we get oar message direct from the
throne. Hev. Samuel Kennedy, i
eminent minister of Christ, preached
Basking Ridge, New Jersey—I have
often heard my father tell the story—
and that minister of Christ mourned
over the coldness oi his chnrch, and he
resolved to give one whole week to
prayer and to prepare the most power
first chapter of Genesis dot
last word of the last verse of the last of the
chapter of Revelation—mighty gospel point of death
be because here and there a church look off and
buds itself to the front tnd ministers of ten thousand of your fellow
religion trample upon the favor of the a ladder of three rungi
world, and sacrificing everything shall shall be given you. Seek
whole line!”
retreat—forward the
ful discourse he could possibly prepare.
So the whole week wds employed and
he went into the church, as he thought,
thoroughly prepared. While they
were singing the hymn before the ser
mon, he tamed to the Bible to find the
text, but he had forgotten the text and
he had forgotten the subject, and when
the hymn closed he said: “My dear
people, a strange mental accident has
happened me, and I cannot preach now
Yon will sing another hymn.” And
while they were singing another hymn
'Oh, Lord. Thon knowett that
the last time I was here, I came to take
part ic a blasphemous and nnclean
play. Now I come to pray Thy bless
ing*” Mr. Finney preached soventj
nights, seventy consecutive nights ii
that place and the whole land wai
shaken. Aye, more of us can remem
1857. AH the banks of New York, o
nearly ill of tbem closed, the commer
cial houses going down with a terrible
crash, a time of anxiety snch as I have
never seen in this country. Then the
engine hoi
he took his Bible, glancing his eyes
from page to page, hoping he might
strike upon the text and all would
come back to him; hot
his eye wonli strike upon the passage:
He said:
and the theatres
opened for religious service, and Jai
Hall, prayer meetiugat noonday, Phila
delphia, telegraphed greeting to the
noonday prayer meeting at New York,
and the answer went back, and in ray
village home I waited for the morning
newspapers with great and profound
interest, wondering what had been
done the day before in religions circles.
Four hundred thousand entered the
Kingdom of God. and some say seven
hundred thousand. Those Times are
coming agaia, my brethren. We have
the same forerunner, commercial de
pression. We have the same anxiety
on the part of Christian people who
realize that something needs to be done,
that this world can never be brought
to God by this slow process, nnd that
there must be a grant awakening.
I argue the need of a great awaken
ing, in the first place, beeanse of the
lack of enthusiasm and zeal on the part
of those of ns who preaeh the Gonel.
Yon see this is a gun that kicks. Let
the pulpit first preach to itself and then
1 caunot preach on that
text, it is a dreadful text,” and
turned over more, leaves and kept
looking, and again his eye fell upon
the same passage. “Oh,” he aaid, “I
cannot preach on that text.” The
hymn was finished, and he arose and
announced the aforesaid passage
;, and the plaoe was filled with God
and a great revival of religion was star
ted. My grandfather and my grand
mother were brought in under that
awakeniag, a line of infloence coming
down through ear family which ban
blessed my soul
interrupt the other procession marching 8Weet to |j ve f or ‘Chrii
on—tens of thousands of clerks coming woa id he sweet to die for him.* if
of stores, tens of thousands of hus- millions perished in the Napoleonic
1 Snail
Twenty-eight
bandmen coming off farms, tens of win| if 0 ‘ no hundred and eighty
thousands of students coming from the millions were sacrificed in the * Roman
colleges and universities, tens of thons- warg> ,j 0 y 00 not think there ought to
ands of operatives coming from the fsc- gome 0 t Qrt willing to bo sacrificed
tories. On and on, making no prepa- for Christ? Oh, I wish we know how
for the eternal world, taking to pray. I do not. I mean tho pray-
that come from the soul directly
the heart! I feel that there is a
of a great awakening in the fact that
the majority of professors of religion
very cold. If a chnrch have -1,000
nbers, eight bandied an asleep. If
chnrch have five hundred
members, four hundred are asleep,
great multitude of Christians, perfect
ly satisfied it they can only keep from
dropping the wine cap on communion
day, graoefnlly passing it along to
ihoffjreho.' If here be an
portant religious meeting ou a certain
night and that night there be an opera
tic entertainment of great interest, —
there be a literary elnb, or there be
social circle, or there be an Odd Fel
lows lodge, or a Freemasons’ meeting,
and. the question is between this
and between that, who
it, Christ or the world?
e day. Perhaps within
that tho great
i is a mighty awaken-
rehearfioin this placo
m about 5 o’clock in the
r 0 o’clock in' tlie evening.
- - gob*
Nicodenuu* Dodge.
When I was a boy in a printing of-
inMissouri, a loose-jointed, ling
od, tow-hcade.l, jiiau-clfl. countri-
cub of about sixteen Inungod in
day, an 1, without removing his
hands from tho depthn of his trousers
pockets or taking off his faded ruin of
a slouch hat, whoso broken rim hung
limp and ragged about his oars liko a
C-eaten cabbage leaf, started iudif-
sntly around, then leaned his hip
against tho editor’s table, crossed his
mtghty brogans, aimed at a distant
from a crevice in his upper teeth,
id, with compos-
laid him low, and i
lowing this carious bit of architecture
wonderingly along up to its clock face
with his eye.
“Don’t want anybody to learn the
business—’tain’t likely?”
Well, I don’t know. Would you
i to learn it?”
P’raps so; yn he can’t run me no
', so I want to git a show somers if
, can, ’tain’t no difference what. I’m
strong and hearty,
Do yon think yon would liko to
•n the printing business?”
Well, I don’t re’ly kcer a darn
what I do learn, so’s I git a chance far
make my way. I just as soon loam
anything.”
‘Can you read?”
auy church? 1
“Now you’re talking! Coaldn’
make out what you was a-trying to gi
through yo’ head no way. Belong to
church? Why, he’s the pizenest kind
' a Free-will Baptist for forty years.
tho llob
There
world than are born 'into the kingdom that saved them,
of God. Now, how long wonld it take Spirit that is now abroad,
bring this world to God at that Christ comes here who camo there.
> ? Where there is one man con- John Knox coaid put the le’
verted to God, ten drop in dissipation, his prayer under Scotland until it shook
Fifty grogshops built, to one new from end toeud,can you not get the level
church established. There are journals, 0 f your prayer under this city aud shaki
literary journals, foil ot scam and everything from the East river to New
dandruff and slag, and controlled by Utrecht and from New Utrecht to Long
the very scallions of society who pol- Island City? God is ready. In yonr
lute everything they put their hands prayers put your body, mind, soul and
Three hundred journals, maga- eternal destiny into this thing. I
zines, newspapers in the city of New n »id not rehearse to you the stereotyp-
York—three hundred—aud 1 under- cd illustrations of the fact that God
take to say, two hundred of them are answers prayer. I need not tell yoi
hostile to the Christian religion and to Hezekiah and the restored ■ ',
all good morals. _ . of Elijah and tlie great rain, or of the
Churches surrendering to Spiritua- post-mortem examination of tho Apos-
lism and humanitarianism nothingar- tie James who, it was found had hi:
and devilism. If a man stand knees calloused by much pray
God and llo heard you—
when your child w
nd yo:
God
machinery. Sixty thousand ministers ind he restored tha' little one—oi
of religion in America, costly mnsic, that other time wheu your fortoi
great Sunday schools, and yeti de- and God sent into yonr empty pantry
clare it that while the cause of God is the cruse of oil and tho measnre of
advancing there are a great many regi- meal. Oh, we do not want any illus
raeuta falling back and falling back, trations. We just take the laddi
and if it does not become a complete three rungs. I put that do'
rout, a positive Bull Run defeat, it will feet ami 1 ask yon to climb up
Ask n
shall
snatch up the torn and tattered banner g Q d. Knock and it shall bo opened
of Emanuel aud rush on crying: “This aoto yon.” i’ut your? right foot on
‘ »urer rung aad that will bring
left foot on tho middle rung and
reason for a mighty that will hridg yonr right ou the top
awakening of the multitudinous going jung, hnd there hold fast—hold fast
down of the unforgiren. Do you know unt ji yo u see the surges of the divine
you came on this stage of mercy dashing clear above the top-gal-
whole generation has fonts of your ship. My brethren, I do
thorugh the gates of eternity? They no t know how you feel in regard
disappeared from the churches, from ma tter, but my heart breaks with the
the stores, from the offices, from the fonging I have for the redemption
factories. Some of them never offered this people. It foetus to mo if God
prayer for their own salvation. You denies me my prayer I cannot endure
might have uttered, perhaps, a saving j t . j offer myself, I offer my life to
word, bnt you did not utter it. Oh, him. Take it, oh Lord Jesus, and slay
Christain, just think of that. Where me if that be best. Whether by
is the fountain, where, with sleeves ]jf e or by my death let a multitude
rolled up, we may wash off from our brought to glory. If from the
hands the blood of immortal souls? 0 f m y grave a greater multitm
Parte Uunder Grounds
Thera are in Paris man aad women
who are never seen, never heard of,
times of terrible commotion, in
the nights of conspiracy, in the days of
olt. They live at other times a
subterranean existence; they seem a
race apart, in no connection with the
gay and busy city round about them
and abjve them. Their exisUnoo in
ordinary times is nndreampt of even by
> kind of work, hard
the majority of men, or remembered on-
like a bad dream. They are wolves
hnmen shape; they thirst for blood;
they hunger after plunder; they crave
for light aud warmth—the light of pe
troleum fires, the heat of blaahig pal
aces, and prisons, and churches; no
crime is unknown to tbem; they shrink
from no cruelty; there is no eccret which
thoy arc not possessed of; their spies
s to he found in the palace of kings,
the conncil chambers of ministers,
en in the borean of secret police,*thsy
possess the passwords of the secret fp-
cietics. They know when a conspirtOr
is on foot, when a revolt is at hand*,
when the murder of a king or emperor
id being hatched. Thejr_kxjpw it. be*,
e“"“ * v “ : ’ — required. They
their services a
it the leaders.buttbe^instruments*.
They execute what others conceive.
They are the vast reserve force ot the
revolution against society. They can
Yes, middle’ll
to keep
‘Well, I’ve seed people could lay
thar.”
•Cipher?”
Not good cnoug!
’t reckon; hut
Ive I ain’t no slouch. T’other side
hat is what gits me.”
Where’s yonr home?”
‘I’m from Shelby.”
“What’s your father’s religions dc-
imination?”
Ilim? O, he’s a blacksmith.”
No, no—I don’t mean his trade.
Hits his religions denomination?”
“O, I didn’t understand you befo\
i is a Freemason.”
“No, no—you don’t get my meaning
What I mean is, does lie belong
always bo depended upon, for they pay
themselves out of the plunder of a city
revolt, of a besieged city stormed,
zey revenge themselves for ills or
wrongs they suffer by bloodshed and by
tho burnings in which they delight.
There is but one danger which those
who make use of this vast army of tho
morally and socially insane have to
fear, and that is their InsDatience. They
long for the harvest while their masters
are still engaged in the work of the
seed-time. In their hideous under
ground life they move to and fro like
wild beasts in a cage; they curse the
dow selfishness of the masters ot their
trade, who, whilst plotting
There ain’t no pizener ones what he
If they said liiffrunt they wouldn’t saj
whar I wur-not much they wouldn’i
“What’s your religion?”
Well, boss, you’ve kind o’ got mi
What is your name?”
Nicodemus Dodge.”
I think maybe you’ll do, Nicode-
j; we’ll give yon a trial anyway.”
All right.”
When wonld you like to-begiu?’
So within ten minutes after we hi
glimpsed this nondescript hn w
of us, and with his coat off and
hard at it.
Beyond tho end of out establi
hfch was furthest from the sti
deserted garden, pathless and thickly
grown up with blooming viilainoi
"impson” weed and its common frien
he stately sunflower. In the midst
his mournful spot was a decayed aud
>gcd little frame houso with but
window and no ceiling; it had
been a smoke-house a general ion hefor
Nicodemus was given this lonely at
ghostly den as a bed chauitier.
The village smarttes recognized
reasure in Nicodemus right away—
to play jokes ou. It was easy
that he was inconceivably green
confiding. George Jones had the
honor of perpetrating the firs, joke oi
" ‘ a. Ho gave him a cig
icker in it, aad winked to tho crowd
come. Tho thing exploded
iway the bulk of Nieo-
iply said:
e-lashes. He
r these kind of sc
ne,” and seemed to snspec:
Tho next evening lie way! *
tod ponrrd a bucket of i
One day, whilo Nicodemus w:
ining, Tom Elroy tied his clothes.
'*• ’ inras made a bon fire of 1
by way of retaliation.
A third joke was played on N
us a day or two later. walked
he middle aisle U the village chui
Sunday night with a staring h
re living on the fat of the land.
At times, when danger is near at
hand, a strange pulsation ia felt in the
moral atmosphere; a subtle scent, as of
iuiphur, fills the air; evsn the far-off
of this subterranean cry, its cry
for blood, is heard by the upper world,
hy that gay city which rests on the
thin, frail ernst that covers the yawn
ing abyss below. By these foreboding
.igns men of Paris know a social revo
lution is near at hand. On the sudden
the signal for action is given, the de
nizens of the subterranean city issue
forth in their might and in their wrath.
Men shudder at the sight as if hell bad
broke loose.
In the last half-century, thrice has
Paris witnessed the rising up of the
mbtotranean city, thrice heard and - 3
trembled at the shoots ot its men in -
their rage, the shrieks of its women '
drank with blood. These meu of ter-
-, these women of fury, manned the ••■•it
barricades on the “three glorious days oi
of July.” They crowned the citizen --
king. They rose against the empire; jt
but were moved down in countless
thousands by the grape-shot of Napo-
lean the third. They held Paria in
possession during the reign of the Com
mune. Pale-faced men in blouses,with
loodshotoyes and cruel lipa, never
at other time in the light of day,
tracts of Paris and filled the
ttors with rivers of blood. Women
ipired with the exhalation of fury.
held tho
d of lies
far than the men, raorecru-
t, bolder in action. It was
«, unsexed hy their crime,—
woman is worse than ’iho
nen—who lit np the petro
leum fires, cast horning liquid i
houses, who burnt to th, ground and
gutted the Tnillmes, adding the red
streets red with blood.
When the Archbishop of Paris, aud a
triest venerated for his virtuss and hia
:harity by rich and poor alike, were
publicly murdered together with two
ither hostages, the women in their ti-
ger-liko fnry at the sight of blood,whea
t abandoned men shudder-
long of jubilation, a cry «l
delight more horrible than the shrieks
of the dying in the streets of Pe> is,
irrible even then the screams of
nnd children )>erishing in the
What crimes were committed
st, what horrors ware pei pel rated
dark daring the reign ot the
Commune, there is none to tell.
inoald
eight
boulders. The
»ker spent the remainder of tho night
,fter chnrch in a cellar of a deserted
house, and Nicodemus sat on the cell:
rd breakfast
the prisoner remember
ed that if any noise was made rough
ould be the consequence,
had two fe«t of stagnant |
ud wag bottomed with six
inches of mud.
. long time had elnps?d
the village smarties began to feel an
uncomfortable consciousness of not
having made a very shining success
ont ot their attempts on the simpleton
from old Shelby. Experiments grew
scarce and chary. Now the yang
doctor camo to tho rescue. There war
delight and applause when he proposed
Nicodemus to death,
plained how he was going
erything by storm, capturing all the er that always brings the blessing—al*
the obstacles put in the way of their ways, always. Oh, that we might b«
destruction. Who will be brave enough ^ overcome with desire for the salva-
to go out and throw himself in front of tion of the people that from 10 o’clock
that stampede of men and women, and at night until u in the morning
twinging the sword of God’s truth cry: might be steeple
aightr
„ 0 __ If snch
'Halt, halt, halt 1” Oh, my brothers should come, Bleepless because fnll
Jesus, it seems tome the 0 j prayer, let that be a night of weep-
• 5. : j »v_
for something almost ;„g 0 var onr sin and of rejoicing
desperate. Ordinary solicitations will d{ T ; M mercy. Let there be wailing,
not do the work. You want a in omen- mailing, wailing. Let there bo shont-
gutten by whole night of wreetling j n g ( shouting, shooting. Bnt lest we
prayer with the omnipotent God. might not have snch a night as that.
Catch that soul before it makes the an( j fost before the setting of the days
plunge. Put down everything and ran B un our accounts should be made np,
to the rescue. To-morrow may be too this moment go so low down bo-
late, to-night may be too late, 3 o’clock f ore God that there there shall be no
this afternoon may ^be too late. Sm® lower depth of humiliation. Ob, that
we might have a blood red prayer
• great eternal world, x nsre are nous- WO uld bow the heavens and
aflame and no ladder at the window; bring all the unforgiven to the feet of a
__ere are ship* going down and no life- bleeding, dving, sympathetic Jesus,
boat. Oh, God, whelm ns with these and the place be shaken as with tern-
realities. Kill onr stupidity. Take pest and earthquake, or that it might
from under us our conches ot ease.Hnrl b« as solemn as though we heard the
us into the battle. An eternity of rapturous and agonizing vociferation
work to bn done in ten yeart. Aye, 0 f three worlds,
perhaps in one year. Aye, perhaps
lie had a noble new skelton—the stele-
of the late and only local celebrity,
Jimmie Finn, the village drunksrd— a
grisly piece of property which he had
bought of Jimmie Finn himself at
Civil ltighta in as Skutiug It Ink
Boston has a civil rights case. A
Mtchman named McKay bnilta ska*
ng rink at the Highlands last year
and fitted it np in a luxurious mann* r.
He charged twice as much for admis
sion as was asked at any other rink in
Boston, and catered for the best and
wealthiest classes. He refuted admis
sion to none, hat refused to permit any
one to skate whose color or appearance
did not suit him. Reotntly two color
ed men, one of them a member of the
Suffolk connty bar, went in and were
relnsed skate checks. It was in vain
that they offered money and threaten-
sue the proprietor. The Ssotch-
was characteristically firm and
told the colored men plainly that his
only objection to them was on the
ground of their color. A warrant was
issued for McKay’e arrest aad Satur
day he appeared in oourt to answer the
charge of violating section 29, chapter
207, of the pnhlio statutes, which
reads as follows: “Whoever makes any
i, for fifty dollars, under gi
petition, when Jimmio lay very 6ick in
tlie tao-yard a fortnight before his death.
Tho fifty dollars had gone promptly
for whisky, and had considerably har
ried up the change of ownership
distinction, discrimination
tion on occaunt of color, or nee, except
for good cause, in respect to tho admis
sion of any person to or his treatment
in a public plaoe of amusement, public
tyance, publio meeting or licensed
skeleton. The doctor would put Jim
mie Finn’s skeleton in Nicodemus’ bed.
This was done about 10:30 in the
evening. About Nicodemus’ usual
bed-time—midnight—tho village jokers
camo creeping stealthily through tho
jimpson weeds and sunflowers toward
tlie lonely framed den. Thcy^ reached
the window and peeped *
the long-legged pauper
inn, snail he punished by a fine notex-
exceeding fifty dollars.” The case
postponed to allow the defendant
> to prepare hie case. Mach
interest is awakened in the proceedings
d both parties propose to fight it to
the end.
wtm An eteraity of work to I The girl who hang* on the gate with
be done, perhaps, within one week.— her sweetheart fays she hopes gas will
Ayewithra — T> *'
not get to he cheaper than moonlight.
There
o M--w- his bed,:
very short shirt and nothing more. He
was dangling his legs contentedly back
and forth and wheeling the music of
Camptyn Races” ont of a paper-over
laid comb which he pressed against
his month. By him lay s j-'w-harp, a
solid India rubber ball, a
new top, a solid India rubber nail, a
handful of painted marbles, five pounds
ofato^kcandy,.a well-gnawed slab of
gingerbread as big and as thick as
a volumo of sheet music. He had sold
the skeleton to a traveling quack for
three dollars, aad was enjoying the re
sult.
The shortest day of the year is just
The Editor's Salary.
_ “My dear;” remarked the editor to
his wife the other evening, " ’
uiBwueiae outer evening, “do. you
Iknow what became of that oigar box
which I left on the mantle yesterday?”
“Yes,” replied his spouse^ “I threw
|it in the stove this morning.”
I “lam sorry you did thak'-'raplied tl e
editor; “it contained five thousand •dol
lars, my laat month’s pay and I had
intended to purchase yon an elegant
parare of diamonds with it.”
“Oh. never mind, replied the lady
cheerfully; “I ean wait till your next
month’s salary becomes due.’'
What is economy?” asks the X*liite-
delphia North American. ’ Wo’U tell
you. It is paying ten cents for a ci
gar, and compelling your wife to earn
her tes$ seasons. dress' and to make
it do" for another winter. The country
is fairly bulging with such economy.
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