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VOL. 32.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1885.
NO. 12.
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ice in State »nd Fed.nl C
■ Llawkins BiiUdlni
B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney at hate,
AMEBICUS, OA.
Office, Forsyth Street, *.n National Banl
ion. We were roiiehoppMoJl tcTthe'imlfe
Amusements.
The tpxt was from Judges xvl., 23. -'And
tcame to mm, when their hearts were
merry, that they said, call for Sampson .that
' , and they called for
i* us sport, a
mpsonoutof the pri
made them aport.”
building.
> ai
E. G. SIMMONS.
Attorney at Law.
AMEBICUS GA.,
s’buildli
SK
3,000 people assembled
the Temple of Dagon. They had
to make sport of eyeless Samp-
i the old t
f Fort A
JanGt
B. H. WILKINSON,
Attorney at Late.
All business entrusted to liii
prompt and careful i
lected will be iinme *'
Kerence: J VV.bhef
1 be immediately remitted.-
J- M. E. Westbrook, M. D-
Physician and Surgeon.
They were all ready for
nment. They began to clap and
pound, impatient for the amusement to
begin, and they cried: "Fetch him oat I
Fetch him ont!” Yonder I see the
blind, old giant coming, led by the
hand of a child, into the very midst of
tuple. At his firet appearance
there goes up a shout of laughter and
derision. The blind, old giant pretends
's tired and wants to rest himself
inst the pillars of the house;
say* to the lad who leads him: "Show
me where the main pillars are.”
lad does so. Then the strong man
his right hand on one pillar, and
the mightiest push that mortal
made, throws himself forward until the
whole honse comes down in thunderous
-ash.grinding the audience like grapes
And s
l U I!, F. iiAVENPORT,
Prescription Druggists.
AMKltlCUS, 6UOROIA
pass, that when their hearts were m
•y, that they said: “Call for Sampi
that he may make ns sport.” And
they called for Sampson «ont of the
m-house and he made them sport.
• ears to a heaven fall of song-
listen to lhe hiss of a dragon!
Why torn back from the mountain
dde, all abloom - with wild flowers and
dash with the nimble torrents, and
with blistered feet attempt to climb
the hot sides of fire-belching Coto-
irds, thcr
ind this branch of the busint
‘coiV.kXf'Sd
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
MACON, CA.
Sir. J. A. FOHT,
Physician and Surgeon,
TUTTS
PILLS
bring down
and death upon the heads of
io practice them. While they
d cheer, they die. The 3,000
who perished that day in Gaza are as
otbing compared with the tens of
! been destroyed—
body, mind and soul—by bad
s and bv good amusements carried
Edgerton House,
MACC.M, CEOFiCIA.
25 YEARS IN USE,
8 Greatest Medical Triumph o
ow, all opera-houses, theater
ling.alleys, skating-rinks, and all
styles of amusements, good and had, I
put on trial to-day, and judge of them
by certain cardinal principles. First
you tqay judge of any amusement b;
healthful result, or by its baneful
reactions. There are some people who
made up of hard facts. They
combination of multiplication ta
bles and statistics. If you Bhow them
an exquisite picture, they will begin
discuss the pigments involved in t
:oloring. If you show them a beanti-
ul rose, they will submit it to a botan
ical analysis, which is only the post
mortem examination of a flower. They
have no rebound in their nature. They
never do anything more than Bmile.
There are no great tides of feeling
surging up from the depths of their
soul, in billow after billow of reverber
ating laughter. They seen
lure had built them by contract, and
made a bungling job of it. But bless
ed be God, there are people in
world who have bright faces, and
whose life is a suu, an amhem.a paean
of victory. Even their troubles are
like the yines that crawl up the side of
i great tower, on the top of which the
unlight sits and the soft airs of smn-
• hold perpetual carnival. They
the people you like to have come to
yonr house; they are the people I like
o have came to my house. If you but
oueh the hem of their garments you
re healed* Now, it is these exhilirant
nd sympathetic ami warm-hearted peo
ple that are most tempted to pernicious
amusements. In proportion as a ship
iwift, it wants a strong helmsman;
in proportion as a horso is gay,it w
□d these people of'
along the
the watchman’s clnb, and the rush of
the police. What is the matter now?
Ob, this reckless yonng man has been
killed in a grog-shop fight. Carry him
home to his father’s honse; parents
down and wash his wonnds,
and closo his eyes in death. They
forgive him all be ever did, though he
his silence ask it. The
prodigal has got home at last. Mother
will go to her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers and twist them
chaplet for the silent heart of the
ward boy and push back fron
bloated brow the long locks that
her pride. And the air will be
snt with the lather'
>n, my son, my poor son! Would
» God I bad died for tbee;oh, my
You may judge of amusements by
their effect upon physical health. The
great need of many good people
physical reenperation. There
Christian men who write hard things
against their ^mortal souls when there
a your eyes to-day and I aslc you the
question that Gahazi asked of the
Israelties: “Is it well with thee? Is
it well with thy husband? Is it well
with thy child?” God grant that it
may be everlastingly well.
Let ns say to all young men, yonr
style of amusement will decide yonr
eternal destiny. One night I sew a
yonng man at the street corner evident
ly doubting as to which direction he
had better take, his hat lifted high
enough so you could see he had an in
telligent forehead, stout chest; ho had
a robust development. Splendid young
man. Cultured yonng uiau. Honored
young man. Why did he stop there
while 60 many were going up and
CONFEDERATE MONEY.
3100,000,000, and until tho last year of
four coll’d people of Niles, Mich.,'”
said Brother Gardner as tho echoes of
tho triangle died away. "It am a pc-
the v
, bills of
every convenient denomin
$1,000 to 25 cents. Thero
5-oent postage stamps with tho profile
of Jefferson Davis on them, and these
wero sometimes used in making
“change,” but tho m:
The fact ii
has a good and a bad angel contending
for the mastery of his spirit. And
there was a good and a bad augel
struggling with that young man 1
t the corner of tho 6
Come with me,” said the good angel.
which many are pledged.
CONSTIPATION.
TTTT'S PILLS c;
. If God ever implanted anythin;
in us He implanted this desire. Bu
lstead of providing for this demand c
ure the Church of God has, fo
ignored
As
Dr. 0. P- HOLLOWAY,
DhntisT,
TUTTSi HAIR DYE.
- Georgia Pflicb, *4 Murray St., Now York.
PATENTS
and Trade-Marks sa
nd before tho Courts prompt-
CIIAUGE UNLESS PATENT IS SECUR-
Near U. S. Patent C
DR. CARLISE’S.
L. B.
x Morbus Neural
Ethonm&th
. . Wh\tlo„
Backache, Headache
Muscles, Stilt Jolni
it. Sore Nipples, Bilious Fevi
ores, Cuts, Wounds of any <
itarrh, Bay Fever, Ac., Bi
Stings of Insects, reptiles or Dogs. Di
Dipthi
Cords m
Caked Bi
i, Inllamation of
ilon.Sore Throat,
■thache. Gravel,
lontracted
is nothing the matter with them but
incompetent liver. There are Chris
tian people who seem to think that it
is a good sign to bo poorly, and be
cause Richard Baxter and Robert Hall
were invalids they think that by the
me sickliness they may come to the
me grandeur of character. I want
tell the Christian people of my con
gregation that God will hold you re
sponsible for your invalidism .if it is
yonr fault, and when through right
exercise and prudence yon might l>e
.nd well. The effect of the
body upon the soul yon acknowledgi
?ut a man of mild disposition upon the
tnimal diet of which the Indian par-
akes and in a little while his blood
will change its unto the blood of tin
ion or the tiger or the bear, while hii
disposition will change and beeni
"I will take you home. I will spread
my wing over yonr pillow, and
lovingly escort yon all through life
der supernatural protection. I
s every cup you drink ont of, ei
:h you rest on, every dcorway yen
will Jo well
the
uigot
nthei
t becat
hen yon weep. Come with in?,’ Baid
the good angel with a voice of unearth
ly sympathy. "No, no,” said the bad
thing better to offer. The wines I pom
from chalices of bewitchiog carous
The dance I lead is over flaori
solated with unrestrained indulgen
i. The paths I tread are through
adows daispd and pmmosed. Coi
with me!” The young man besitat
body has a powerful
relentin
The
There
ideas of heaven are all shut out with
clouds of tobacco smoke. There
people who dare to shatter the physi-
h tho blood, and thus in
. * flagging digest
‘P. lonal invigorant, Uostettei
rs, which, by infusing energd into
ations of the stomach, pi
res thorough digestion s
sed this
u-.Iy ,
iale by all Druggist
i J. OLIPI1ANT, Thom-
w*. n, (ha ft: it,
DRAPER
the mayor planti
■nd of the street and lias it fired off,
?ry thing is ent down that hap-
stand in the range, the good as
the had, so there are men in
the Church who plant their batteries
f condemnation and fire away indis
criminately. Everything is condemned.
There are a great many who denonnee
ball playing. They hate puzzles. They
despise charades. They abhor tab
leaux. They say: “Away with all
■arlor games!” They talk as if they
would like to have our youth dressed
bine uniform, like the children of
orphan asylnm, and marched down the
path of life to the tnne of the D»
March in Saul. They hate a blue sash
the hair, tasslcd gaiter,
.nd think a man almost ready for Sing
Sing who otters a conundrum. Young
ciations of the
:onntry are doing a glorious work.
They have fine reading-rooms, and all
tho influences are of the best kind, and
adding gymnasiums and bowi
ng alleys, where, without any evil
mrronndings, onr yonng men may get
physical as well as spiritual improve
ment. We are dwindling away to a
isrrow-chested, weak-armed, feeble-
•oiced race, when God calls on us to a
vork in which he wants physical as
veil as spiritual athletes. I would to
God that the time might soon come
II onr colleges and theologi-
iries, as at Princeton, a gym
nasium shall be established,
spend seven years of hard study in
preparation for the ministry, am'
ont with bronchitis and dispept
liver complaint, and then crawl np
into the pnlpit, and the people saj
"Doesn’t he look heavenly!” becaui
he looks sickly. Let the Church of
God direct, rather than try to suppress
the desire for amusement. The besl
men that the world ever knew have hat
their sports. William Wilberforc*
trundled hoops with his children. Mar
tin Luther helped to dress the Chi
mas trees. Ministers have pitched
quoits. Philanthropists have pone
bating. Prime ministers have played
your duty
igs you from your slumbers, yoi
ve been where you ought not to hav
been. There are amusements that sen
a next day to his work bio id-nho:
ling, stupid, nauseated; and they
rrong kinds of amusement. There
with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are not swords,with
working aprons because they are not
robes, with cattle because they are not
infuriated bulls iu the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
or a life of romance and thrilling ad
venture. love that takes poison and
hoots itself,moonlight adventures and
hair-breadth escapes, you may depend
a it that you are the sacrificed vic-
of unsanctified pleasure. Our ra
tions are intended to bnild ns np,
and if they pull ns down as to our mor
al or as to our physical strength, you
may came to the conclusion that they
inch God has put th
jewel of eternity. There are men with
great hearts and intellects in liodier
worn out by their own neglects. Mag
nificent machinery capable of propel
ling a Great Eastern acioss the Atlan
tic, yet fastened in a rickety North
river propeller. Physical development
which merely shows itself in fahulom
lifting, or in perilous rope-walking, oi
iu pngillistic encounter excites only
contempt, brt we confers to great
d the bad angel smote the good
gel until it departed, spreading wings
through the starlight nntil forever the
had. That was the turn
ing point in that young man’s history,
for, tho good angel flown, he hesitated
no louger, hut started on a pathway
which is beautiful at the opening bat
blasted at the last. The bad angel,
ding the way,opened gate after gate
1 at each gate tho road became
rougher and the sky more lnrid, and,
admiration for the
great soul in an athletic body, every
nerve, muscle and bone of which
consecrated to right uses. Oh, it seems
o me outrageous that men through
icglect should allow their physical
health to go down beyond repi '
Still further: those amusements a
wrong which lead yon into expenditn
beyond your means.
S RECREATION
not money thrown away. It is
folly for ns to come from a plao
amusement feeling that we wasted
money and time. Yon may by it have
made an investment worth more th
-an&action that yielded yon
hundred or a thousand dollars. I
nany properties have been riddled
by costly amusements? The table has
been robbed to pay tho club. Tin
champagne has cheated the children’i
wardrobe. The carousing-party hai
burned np the boy’s primer. The ta
wheni
COMPRISES FOUR PREPARA.. »ONS.
ball.
This church
ist of their life
irprise for God and the
world, but in studying what is t'
best thing to take for dyspepsia,
ship which ought with all sails set a
every man at his post be carrying
rich cargo for eternity, employing all
its men in stopping up leakages'
When you may, through some of the
possible and healthful recreations of
onr time, a word of yonr spleen and yonr
querulousness and one-half of yonr
physical and mental ailments; do
turn yonr back from snch
;AND MEDICAMENT.
ble-cloth of the corner saloon
debt to the wife’s faded dress. Excur-
ans that in a day make atonraronnd
who’e month’s wages; ladies whoso
business it is to “go shop
ping” have their counterparts
have thi
educated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appal
the church, and that send drnnken-
Btaggering, across tho richly lig-
TAILOR. L1VEB, HEART AND KIDXEI TOXIC souls
^MEASURED RESOURCES I
BLOOD PURIFIER,
cus Sumter and adjoining!
tical and experienced Ta
pan’s Actual Measuremen
the trade to be the best lit of
9 givf
K ”»S , ,—
sslon of the latest styles,
ed. Altering, cleaning,
ndlng a specialty. Spots of grease
* Itch and axle
, Having beei
s for thirty years,
kind I
’ any style of the day, being i
-* -tyles, and a tit i
•aning, repair!
. Spots<*
ir, pitch a
rith the recreation of others, and I
will show you a man who is a stnmb-
ling-block to the kingdom of God.
Such men are caricatnres of religion.
They lead yonng people to think that
good in proportion
DIARRHOEA MIXTURE,
s and frowns ' and looks sallow,
and that the height of a man’s Chris-
proportion
ured carpet of the mansion, and dash-
the mirror and drowning oi
the carol of music with the whooping
of bloated sons come home to break
their old mother’s heart. When l
go into amusements that they can
afford, they first borrow what they
not earn and then they steal what they
can not borrow. First they go into
embarrassment and then into lying and
then into thief; and when a
as far on as that, he does not stop
phort of the penitentiary. There
prison in the land where there
>t victims of unsanctified
ments. How often have I had parents
and ask
New York and beg their boy off Irom
that he had committed against
his employer—the taking of funds ont
of the employer’s till or the disarrange
ment of the accoants. Why, he had
salary enough to pay all lawful expen-
1, but not enough salary
his sinful amusements. And again,
and again, I have gone and implored
for the young man, sometimes, alas!
the petition all unavailing. Merchant
of New York, is there a disarrange-
•r thirty y
experience in the past, I solicit your pat. ..
age. IV. B. OLIVER,
aplltf
ATTENTION
Preston, Ga.
length of his face. I would trade off
five hundred snch men tor one bright-
faced, radiant Christian on whose face
e the words, "Rejoice, evermore.”
Between here and Fulton ferry every
morning by his cheerful face he preach
es fifty sermons. I will go farther and
say I have no confidence in a man who
makes religion of his gloomy looks.
That kind of a man turns ont badly.
aid n
J ■ Marble for Toombstones, Hearths, Mantles
Ac., Ac. This marble will be found as du
rable and as smooth to the touch as well as
pleasing to the eye as the native marble and i
suffer. Among forty people
Again, jndgeof places of amnsement
by the companionship into which they
put you. If yon belong to an organi;
ation where yon have to associate wit
the intemperate, with the nnclean, an
the abandoned, however well they may
bo dressed, in the name of Godqnit it.
They will despoil yonr nature. They
will undermine yonr moral character.
They will drop yon when you are
troyed. They will give not one c
o support yonr children when yon
dead. They will weep not one tea:
yonr burial. They will chnckle o
yonr damnation. But the day comes
when the men who have exerted evil
influence upon their fellows will be
judgment. Scene: The last day.
Stage: The rocking earth. Enter
Dukes, Lords, Kings, beggars, clo'
No swdYd, no tinsel, nc crown,
foot-lights, tho kindling flames of
world. For orchestra, the trnmpel
that wake the dead. For gallery, the
clouds filled with angel spectators.
For applause, the clapping floods of the
tea. For curtain, the heavens, rolled
together as a scroll. For tragedy, tho
doom of the destroyed. For farce, the
“ srve the world and God at the
s. For the last scene of the
fifth act, the tramp of nations across
the stage—some to the right, others to
the left. Again, any amnsement
that gives yon a distaste for domestic
*'fe is bad. How many bright domestic
ircles have been broken by sinful
amusements. The father went off, the
mother went off, the child went < f
There are to-day the fragments befoi
of blasted households. Oh, it you
r e wandered away, I would like to
charm you back by the sound of that
your accounts? Is there
leakage in your money-drawer? II
not the cash account come ont right
last night? I will tell you. There '
a young man in yonr store wandering
off into bad amnsements. The salary
yon give him may meet lawful expen
ditures, bnt not the ainfnl indulgences
in which he has entered, and he takes
by theft what yon do not give him
Feathers and Matrasses
Our process is a new steam proccs:
moving a prevalent cause of disease
gives feathers a new vitalitallty and origi
nal elasticity. All who wish to hare
clean sweet pillows, beds and bolstei
consult us at the
.A. ZfcsTiEW
OLD SIRRENE BUILDING EAST
SIDE OP THE SQUARE.
Wehne^irmMsUlafulorUy ln AUu- Cotton Ave., Am.Ticu.,.Ga.
ta, Macon, Enfanla, Ala., and t
rocage from the families In Americus * qjio
best references given when solicited.
TULLY A BROS.
plicantof whose piety l was suspicions.
He had the longest story to tell, had
seen the most visions, and gave an ex
perience so rapturous and profound
that all the other applicanta were dis
couraged. I was not surprised in a
year after to learn that he had run off
with the fnnds of the bank with which
he waa connected. Who is this black
angel that you call religion—wings
black, feet black, feathers black? Onr
ItU on eiWMltonntJ.W. Hutto- religion ii n bright angel—feet bright,
ayes bright, wings bright. Taking
her plftce in the soul, she pnlls a rope
that reaches to the ekies and sets all
the hells of heaven a chiming. There
persons who, when they talk
How brightly the path of unrestrain
ed amnsement opens. The yonng
says: "Now I am off for a good I
Never mind economy; I’ll get money
Mr. J. A. Wesson presents his patentloop
for harness, which frees the horse either
backward or forward at the pleasure of the
Head six cents for postute,
. and receive free, a costly box
-of goods which will help all.
right away than anything else
n this world. Fortunes await the workers
absolutely sure. At pnee address True A
Co. Augusta, Maine. marS-ly
. t will receive a Coe lot of River Fist
sttrsfigassca—
ZSSSg*?'***
’ majtitf A.C.LAING.
to a minister, always feel it politic to
look lngnbrions. Go forth,'ob, peo
ple, to your lawful amnsements. God
meant you to he happy. Bnt when
there are so many sources of innocent
pleasure, why tamper with anything
that is dangerous and polluting? Why
will
rith
I ha’
hesi
always pitied a
who did it
penurious, rascally
fellow. * In those days southern men
turned up their aristocratic noses at
‘shinplasters,” just as they do *
to state troops, and felt like solid, lion-
course, tho paper is inferior, but i
has a bluo hack, o
l by a i „
a inch and a half tall. Thei
o uniformity in the designs. On S'
bills thero .Will iTnrijrin«ry hands
jonfederato heroes and <
federate state-houses; as Jeffersi
vis on tho 60's and Alexander H.
Stephens on the 20’s, tho Nashville,
r abovo anodcr
pranks played by monkey*. SJ
and playful kitten*
reasons why do fiend who chops
hull lam’ly wid an ax should hav
precious body kept fat at do expoi
de State an’ his precious soul kept fur
prison chaplain to practice on. I left
when every thing was ready, the break-'’
do church feelin’ dat murder ’
all laid, tho monkey* all seated, I
j wife.
t is ready, and they
aid.
waiting!” she asked Jn dismay.
vailing,” 1
‘I thought
o were going t
well bekase I wouldn’t lend him $2 1
should hev broken his skull rv%l a club
depended on do preacher t
federate
cy is colored pink around the likenesses.
Tho first bills wero simple notes, paya-
ober
“Our thioves get do sarno
itcnccs—when dey happen
be alone, and I
. Lreeslng-gown.”
"The people about
ibly dri
ioy wear pretty much
Imagine, then.
irery fashionably drewed thein-
. wear pretty **“
things all the year round.”
lieder&to states of Amci
burglar, but when dev do do hull pco-
hat v
m! slm
for that sort of paper. A silver dollar
worth at least thirty confcdi
dollars. The confederacy understood
that it had to‘protect its currency a
ited that it would never open,
scenery on either side the road changed
from gardens to deserts and the bright
wings of the bad angel turned to
cloth and the eyes of light beci
hollow with hopeless grief. And on
the right of the road ihero was a serpent,
nd the man said to the bad angel:
What serpent is that?” And the
nswer was: "That is the serpent of
stinging remorse.” A vnltm
through the sky, and the mau
the bad angel: "What is that vul-
their rights, and
assed making it treason for moneys
a exchanged for different vaJv
There is something tender and pathetic
the willingness of tho grey soldiers
receive confederate bills for pay.
They know its depreciation, but they
loved the principles it represented, and
principles do not, cannot, depreciate.
"It took a hatful of tho paper to buy a
loaf of bread,” said an old war-horso tc
•but bread bought with il
tasted mighty sweet.” "Great golly!
“Tha
mortal dread
the whole paper supply of tho country
would givo out (they issued so much of
stuff), and that wo would have
out (they issued
,. md that wo woo
do without periodicals and news. Thera
of the slai
gauto try t
had c
something that had wound him round
and round, and he said to the had 8
gel: "What is it that twists me
this awful convnlsion?” an.l the a
"That is the worm that n<
And then the men said
the bad angel: "What does all this
id they _
week. They were always on tne buy.
bought everything (but negroes), and
were glad to buy at high prices—at any
price. Results commended their
dom. When tho war ended they
the propri v " “
isted ii
:orner of the street the other night;
i6ted it all. and why have yon that
deceived me?” Then the last deception
sonl, I watched my chance for man;
long year; when yon hesitated ti
night on the street I gained my triumph;
iu are here. - Ha! ha!
Come now, let us fill these two
chalices of Are and drink together
darkness and woe and death. "Hai!
hail!” O, yonng man, will the good
nt forth by Christ or the bad
at forth bji sin get the victory
yonr soul? Their wings
terlocked this moment above y(
tending for yonr destiny, as above the
Apenines eagle and condor fight mid
sky. This hoar may decide yonr des
tiny. God help yon! To hesitate ‘
) die!
Trial by Jury.
Augusta Chronicle:
Since the modi
cvdty household and disseminates
telligencc to "all the world and bis
wife,” tho jury systei
cases, has been brought, partly by
neglect, partly by craft and partly by
design, into eenous disrepute. As
very man of sense reads the papers,
ind therefor? has become acquainted
•ith all details of criminal offences
forming some opinion of the subject,
he becomes disqualified for duty. The
isily
Knoxville Journal utters a truth when
lays that "a large majority of those
o are placed on trial for murder pre-
an ignorant, pliable, to an honei
ntelligent jury. They i
influenced by the sophistry of lawyi
They are less capable of grasping and
grouping facts. They’re not so apt tc
comprehend the rnliags of coarts.
They are much more likely to return
favorable verdicts or to disagree
somehow. What a fine road ! What
a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the
whip, and over the turnpike 1 Come,
boys, fill high your glasses. Drink!
Long life, health, plenty of rides just
like this 1” Hard-working men bear
the clatter of the hoofs and look up
and say; "Why, I wonder where those
fellows get their money from ? \\\
have to toil and dradge; they do noth
ing.” To these gay men life is a
thrill and an excitement. Thej stare
at other people, and in turn are* stared
at. The watch-chain j regies. The
cap foams. The checks flash. The
eyes flash. Midnight hears their guf
faw. They swagger. Tbeyjottle de
cent men off the sidewalk. They take
the name of Go<| in vain. They parody
the hymn they learned at their mother’s
knee; and to all picturea of coming
disaster they cry ont: "Who canal”
the counsel of some Christian
word, "home.” Do you not*ki
that you have but little more time
domestic welfare, Do yon not
father, that yonr children are soon
go out into the world, and all the
fluence for good yon are to have c
them you must have now ? Death
will break in on yonr conjugal relation
and, alas, if yon have to stand over tl
who perished from yoi
neglect! I saw a wayward hnsband
standing at the death-bed of his Chris
tian wife, and 1 saw her point
on her finger, and heard her hnsband:
"Do yon see that ring ?” He replied;
"Yes, I see it.” "Well,” said she,
"do you remember who put it there ‘
“Yes,” said he, "I put it there.” And
all the past seemed to rush upoi
By the memory of that day, w
the presence of men and angels yon
promised to be faithful in joy and sor
row, and in sickness and in death; by
the memory of those pleasant hours
when yon sat together in yonr new
home talking of a bright fotnre by the
cradle, and the joyfnl hour when
life was spread and another given; by
that sick bed when the liftle one lifted
up its hands and calls for help and yon
knew he must die, and be put one arm
round eaon of yonr necks and brought
thetnselvei
ipnlation of men to form
juries has, in some localities, become
fine art. In this way justice is to
often impossible, and if the crimini
have money or influence enough,
may reasonably expect to escape
you very near together in that dying
kis; by the little grave in Greenwood
that yon never think of without a gush
of terra, by the family. Bibles where,
■ its stories of heavenly love
brief bnt, expressive record of birtbi
and deaths.
By the neglects of the past and by
the agonies of the fntnre, by a judg
ment day when husbands and wives,
parents and children, in immortal
groups, will stand to be caught up in
shining array or to Ihi ink down into
darkness, by all that I beg you to gi’
r elso be let
punislinent altogether
nderly.
It is about tii
the jury system. This is presumed
bethe age of reform, and nowhere f
more imperatively demanded thai
the Temple of Justice, called.
Ding below par. During tho '
s the depreciation of the c
>nder ober it. Find mo do dirti-
imp—do meanest thief—dotough-
irglar, or do mos’ pitiless mitrder-
i’ 1 will find you n lawyer to take
so fur $25 an’ do liis lebcl best to
ill find you
i’ up in do pulpit
just punishment.
'When do pulpit back:
kin hot ycr last dollar
tell you dat bangin’
number of murders. Why? Bcki
pulpit makes a martyr of ebery
wung off! Ho am ’
g wid an’ made do
made to believo dat He:
. to receive him. Hi
die bravely. Ho a
scaffold
sacritico his lifo fur s«
' do facks—ju
cido accordin’ to do
shuns properly conduct
a tho south who never
confcdi
r kept it as long
while others
iles of blue-back bills
id negro tracks at tho backyard gate.
Money accumulated 60 rapidly
iy kept it in largo
liistrio&ic instin
They are now engaged
l barrels, and in bureau draw-
ho writer means confederate
Silver and gold wero unknown
ley had t<
i when da
valueless n
of stuff
and take comfort
dark and dreary-
Iu 1865 a law was paased by n
tho relief of
trustees, administrators, and executors
who might have in their possession coi
fedcrato money realized from sales. By
^ the oflico of
larv or probate judge of tho
ind swearing that it **■ “
tho ordin:
county,
guardian or administrator‘was released
all liability. Like a two^dged
eived for trust property, the
t both ways. It *
fond guardian, who paid for it i
lie, kissed on tho bible, and
% recently s
bills (there were four hundred of them)
leemedso bright and crisp that the
ijcs sparkled at tho sight
There has never been a craze
tho curiosity collectors for conf
money. At old bookstores and small
shops it is bought and sold
33
be bought foi
a bo had for a song,
certainty
used. Many famUi
They
before
ro compelled
begin to impre
• take
. box of confed-
bonds. They
homo in a deplor-
it ouco they would
appcaranco by pa
pering it with old journals and period
icals, and patting abovo and below a
border made of confederate mono;.
Screens were made of bonds with
money borders—in fact, everything
snsceptiblo of ornamentation received
its supply of pasto and pink treasury
It was said of ono that those he sfew
in his death exceeded in number
be slew in his life. It is true of the
confederate treasury.
A Poor Italian Finds $75,000 in
Gold
Signor A. Yatuone, the person who
has suddenly come into tho possession
of the proprietors
fortune,
of the Hotel d’ltalia, corner of Pacific
and Sansome sts., Ban Francisco,
Cala. He drew tbe $75,003 m the
February drawing, on ticket No. 28,-
600, in The Louisiana Bute Lottery
for $5. He is a little, black-eyed Ita
lian, about 35 years of age, and bears
a very good character. He takes his
good fortune very, quietly. He Jia«
put his money away, without having
made any change jet. He made' his
brother a present of $10,000, and is
going tocslebrate his fortune by keep
ing open house all next Sunday.—
San Francitco (Cal.) Chronicle,
March 3.
Keep Looking; Young.
Thii is the age of young , T ,
Other things being equal they are
everywhere preferred. Save yonr yonng
looks. It means position and money.
Ia your hair falling off—dry or lustre
less? Preserve and beautify it by
establishments.—Cincinnati Enqui
Suffering Camels.
A correspondent of the London
Standard, writing from Gakdnl, says:
The marches of Stewart and the going
to and fro of convoys, during which
many of tho camels were occasionally
four and six days without water and
food, except the dry, reed-like sabas
grass growing upon the desert, told
fatally upon hundreds of the poor
brutes. Tho stamina was gone out
the survivors, and protracted rest
necessary, with good feeding for all
this enormously
of which he himself i
author.
The old gentleman
ing and began to re
•' io was coming whi
igcr bo ablo to give his sons
largo profits, for of lato y<
1 constituted them his mi
place of intrusting tho berth
family, which
to be driven about An awful effluvia.
noxious as a pest-house, exhaled from
the wonnds of the miserable animals,
and has latterly filled the air wherever
a camel convoy marches. I say noth
ing of the stench from tho cbuntless
deed victims which line the route from
running the gauntlet of smells insuffer-
friend. “Who are you?” Passing to homo your be9t affections’. I look
using Parker’s Hair Balsam.. Not
dye, sure to work, cDan, Call an 1 'aeo them, next
color. apl81m of Amcricus.
‘ J. H. Black & Son will
shoes, hats and leather
anybody, patronize hoi
A r
hand, and
Sevres, in Mr. Di
... bottle. ^
the other, „
the kind that our raco can boast of.
Tho Persian piece, of coarso pastc-imi-
K tho careless
manner characteristic of thei
can be put beside the Chin
mens, though distinctly of lo\
lists of to-day, stimulated by the do-
tic as well, and of which they only
seem to have preserved tho secret, ,
turning ont work in some respects
Brought to Bay.
Plunkett McCook, au ex-momber of
tho Texas Legislature, was tried for
* * n d guilty.
asked the prisoner:
‘Prisoner, if you know of any miti
gating circumstances you are at liberty
in tho Legislature. I don’t know of
any. other mitigating circumstances,
except that I was in hopes that by im
proving my financial c
improved morally.”
His Honor, in pass
atoning in a manner for'tha injuries ho
lictcd on the peoplo bv his ca
reer of crime in tho Legislature.—Tcx-
$ Siftings.
ablo than that ot their teachers, shows
itself in all that they da. Their work
lacks tho solidity, tho seriousness, tho
harmless. lies
The unfortunate wife of Mclvillo, tho
engineer of the, ill-fated Jeannette, is
living in Philadelphia supported by tho
allowance allotted her by the court.
"She has two lov«jy children of T and
9, anil an elder daughu r 4»f U;. who U
as gifted ns she VW-.n. ii' h- ,.M
days Maud wtu-iu-. ..'linrV •*..