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About The Carroll County times. (Carrollton, Ga.) 1872-1948 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1876)
The Head-light of the Locomo* tive. The Pulpit-made Power. I can imagine the service to be over,— The little country church has been emptied of its worshippers. Farmer Gray lingers at Jhe dojA- a moment. Ilia eye sweeps arid gathers in the beauties of the autumn land scape ere he descends the steps of his car riage. Perhaps the semon has been upon autumn leaves, a favorite October topic in the pulpits. ‘Excellent sermons we have,’ tsays farmer Gray. ‘Strange we don’t see greater results.’ Why, there is a sermon .-stamped on the very leaves to help truth .along. But Ido not see results. The pul pit does not have power. Where is the trouble? A good many people that are not farms • ers ask the same question. Why is not the huth that is sent out from the pulpit more • efficacious? Why does not it go out every where lighting up heaven and hell; cornpel ing men by the vividness of its testimony, to shun the wrong, and attracting them to • the light? Why is not the pulpit accompa nied by such influences of power. What is the reason? Many thinking people ask the question. Now, if there are willing men and women, as as thinking men and women, the thing desired can bo accom plished. A little suggestion to me as I was look ing at tno headlight of of a locomotive. What a great, flamingjthing is a looomovive head-light Just see it coming round a curve at night. It flashes and grows, till it sends a magnificent beam along the track, lighting up all the way. It is an immense eye of tire looking into the night, and what an eye it gives to the engineer! It would seem as if he could see a spider crawling on the rails. But what gives the head light its intensity? Watching the locomo'. tive, I saw bow it was. The lamp itself was not large. A child could handle it and carry it about at night. It Jhad though a reflector. I hero was a reflecting surface on this side, on that side, above it, below it, and from these reflecting surfaces theie shot out a huge ball of flame. It was a little lamp, but it had an immense reflect or. "" Dear brother, sister, you can boa reflect or of the truth. The sermon on Sunday may be just an ordinary instrumentality, but if there are Chaistian discip’es on this or on that side, on every side, to refleet the teachings of the pulpit in their o\vn faithful lives, the work desired is done. The sermon holds up honesty; be honest. It holds up purity; be pure. It holds up the heralding of the Gospel; be a herald of the Gospel. Beside every light held up set many reflectors. What a pow er the pulpit will become! What a blaze of light will go through your communi ty-^ Revivals come in this way. A pastor, for three months after his settlement, preached on specific Christian duties. Then he told his deacon a revival was coming. A revi val coining? Certainly. The people had gono out, and in their Better lives had giv en truth a reflector. So light hud gone out a revival was inevitable. That is all we can do to get the light to men. The spirit of. God, without whom we cun plish nothing, will do all the rest. It is a great help to a minister, when he holds up the light of Gods truth in the pulpit, 10 look down and see rows of reflects ois in the souls before him, waiting to set forth the truth in their better lives, and to scatter light everywhere. Who is willing to help the minister? Who is Mulling to sa\q I hough I cannot be the light in the pulpit, I will be a a reflector? is farmer Gray will mg to be a reflector?— Dr. Hand. A Rustic Courtship. I hitched my cher close to hern an’ shet my eyes an’ sed: vSal, youre’ the very gal I’ve been hanks enn'al ter fur a long time. I luv you all over, from flic soul of your foot to the lied of your crown, an' I don't kcer who knows it ; mid es you say so, we’ll bo jined in the holy bonds of badlock. Eplurlbus onions, gloria Monday morning, Sic temper tartan tula non compimentus, world without end-’ XLot T lho ,’ l had t,n ' o »'ed like an am_atoi, 1 lelt so relieved With that she fetched a scream, an’arter awhile she sed: ‘Peter!’ ‘What is it, Sally?’ apron. 8 ’ 6Cd Sh °’ hidma: her lace in her depend upon it, X {elt 01 . ful .‘m, 0 ! 71 S ,o rv r sez L I must holleiT Sal 01 111 burst wide open. Hooray! hoo’rav I can jump over a ten rail fence; ’ I ca „ J d „ unytlung a fei °w could or on to do " nlr tins, I sorter sloshed myself down kS Tuik 3 ! C 1 lhe with a ss. -talk about your sugar, talk about your molasses talk about your nite blornn mg serious, they warnt no where vou couldn t have got me ai’ ’em; they word ha\o tasted sour alter tint. l J J, i lO^ ,18 ? a 7 S - with ,nssea on ’em! Es Sal’s old daady hadn t brawled out so loud: ‘lt’s ime all honest people waz in bed,’ I do re al!y believe I’d stayed all mte. Though years bnng with them wisdom ] ’ 1 ,eie 18 one lesson the aged seldom learn, namely, the management of youthful leelmgs. Age is all head, youth all heart age masons youth feels; age acts under the inti nonce ot disappointgieut, youth under the dominion of hope. * lei . Tl, . at da y has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost unis versa] ly confessed; but let us not attend oih iy to mournful truths; if we look impartially about us, we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and joys. - i-JJJ L Men We Don’t Want to Meet. [From tlie. London Punch.] The man who grunts and gasps as he gobbles up his soup and at every other mouthful seems threatening with a choking fit. The man who, having by accident been once thrown in our company, makes bold to bawl your name out, and shake your hand profusely when you pass him on the streets The man who artfully provokes you to play a game so billiards with him, and though he feigns to be a novice, produces his own chalk. The man who can’t sit at your table on any set occasion without getting on his legs to propose some stupid toast. The man who thinking you are musical, bores you with his notions on the music of the future of which you know as little as the music of the spheres. The man who wears a white hat in the winter and smokes a pipe when walking, and accosts you as old fellow, just as you are hoping to make a good impression on some well dressed lady friend. The man who, knowing that your doctor faces you at the table, turns the talk so as to set him talking ‘doctor shop.’ The man who, with a look of urgent bus iness, when you are in a big hurry, takes you by the button bc>le to tell you a bad joke. The man who sitting just behind you at the opera, destroys hair of your enjoyment by humming the air. The man who makes remarks on your personal adornment, asks you where vou buy your waistcoats, and what you paid for your dress boots. The man who lards his talk with little scraps of French and German after his re turn irpm a continental tour. Duty tlie Aim and End of Life. There is much in life that, while in this, state, we can never comprehend. There is indeed, a gre at deal of mystery in life— much that we see as in a glass darkly. But though we may apprehend the full meaning of the discipline of trial through which we have to pass, we must .have faith in the design of which our little individual lives form a part. We have each to do our duty in that sphere ot life in which \vc have been placed Duty alone is true; there is no true action but in its accomplishment. Duty is the end and aim of the highest life; the truest pleasure of all that is derived from the con sciousness of ; ts full fill men t. Os all others, it is the one that is most thoroughly satis.- tying, and the least accompanied by regret and disappointment. In the" words of Geo. Herbert, the consciousness of duty pertains cd, gives us music at midnight. And When we have done our work on earth—of necessity, of labor, of love, or of duty—like the silk worm that spins its lit tle cocoon and dies, we too depart. But, short though our stay in life may be, it is the appointed sphere in which each has to work out the great aim and end ot his be ing to the best of his power; and when ‘hat is done, the accidents of the flesh will affect but little the immortality we shall at last put on: “Therefore we can go die as sleep, and trust Half that we have Unto an honest, faithful grave; Making up pillows cither down or dust!” A Good Sermon. The New York Sun preaches the follow ing brief but excellent sermon on honesty and truthfulness: All men ought to have found out by this time that it is never safe, either for a public functionary private individual, to do wrong. It is never safe to indulge in swindling, cheating, or bribe taking. It is never safe to practice corruption, any kind or degree of it. It is never safe to indulge in false hood, any sort of it. It is never safe to do anything which would bring shame to the door by being revealed. One may fancy his misdeeds can’t be found out, or have been covered up, or can be covered; or that they can be denied or explained away so that peo pie will be deceived about them; but yet it remains true that there can bo r.o safety tor the wrong doer, and no security against his exposure Though this looks hard to some people, it is nevertheless in accordance with the lixed and irreversible moral law of things and ot being. The only safety for a man, or for a woman, is in refraining from wrong and in doing right. Even in old times, at the very beginning of human his tory, it was said, ‘Be sure your sins will find you out.’ lhe Fastest Running Yet. I tell you wat’s a fact, men; none of you hain’t seed no ruuniri, I seed a dyeer run wunst. Hit War a spike buck, an he war stretched out till he warnt Oiggern a shoe string. Talk about movin! The shudder on a buzzard a dappiu to kyarn liant no wlier, I had a blue specklee houn what had a tetch o grey houn iu him, and he war aider that dyeer. lied upped him in the thick, an here he cotne a tairly limberin through them flat piney woods. For sine it tuk my breath away to look at him. I led a cotch that dyeer too shore, but jist as lie got agin me he struck a whaliu big pine plum een trely head foremost. lie stove his splinter ed bones three inches into the wood! The lick jar -ed the pine straw offu the top limbs. When he struck, his bine legs flopped roun the tree an I hearn the toe nails what jerk ed out a raltlin agin the pines fifty yards ahead! Hits a real fact!— Wilkes' Sjrir it. Stories that you Needn’t Believe. Speaking ot shooting ducks, says Dr. F., puts me in mind of the great storm that oc oured when I lived on the island. As vou all arc well aware, our island was near Cas co bay; an awful storm arose, and was so fierce that it drove all the ducks in the bay into a pond, covering about an acre near my house. In fact, so many ducks crowd ed into that pond that I could not see a drop ot water. Sho, says Smith, didn t you shoot any of them? That s M hat I was coming at. I went into the house and got my double-barrelled shot gun, and discharged both barrels into them, but to my astonishment they all rose into the air, leaving not a solitary duck on the pond. Good gracious! You don t say so, said Smith. Didn t you hev any shot in yer gun, or what in lhe thunder was the troub le? Well I was'coming to that, said Dr. F. It astonished me at first; but as soon as the ducks rose a few hundred yards in the air, and commenced .to separate a little, docks began to drop, and, whether you believe it or not, I picked up twenty nine barrels ot ducks, and it was a poor season tor ducks too. Yon see the ducks were wedged in so solid in the pond that when they arose they car ried the dead ohes in the air with them then seperated down came the twenty nine barrels ot dead ducks. Oh, says Smith, Irn not surprised at that at all, or of the ducks yer bagged, for it was an awful storm. I remembor it well, doc tor. I had at that time a corn barn full of corn, on one side of tlie barn was an open urindow, and on the other side was a knot hole. During the storm the wind blew' so fierce that it blew every ear of that corn right through the knot hole, and the next morning I found my corn barn full of shell ed corn and not a single cob. I had a cu riosity to know where the cobs had gone to. 1 went to the rear of the barn and followed toe line of those cobs over eleven miles, and at a distance of about five miles a large, first growth pine tree stood in the track, and darn me it the wind hadnt driv cobs into that ere tree from top to the bottom.— Gh doctor, that was an awful storm. YVs, sighs the doctor, awful. Our Bovs. —Let them have a room of their oivn, by all means—not a bed room—• and allow them to choose their own furni ture, curtains, it:;. If they show bad taste in their selection, they will be interested after awhile in correcting it. There should be plain bookcases, a big solid table in the center, by all means an open fire, and room after that for Joe’s printing press, or Char ley’s box of tools, or Sam’s cabinet of min erals; for chess or checker boards or any other game Which is deemed proncr. To this room the boys should be allowed to in vite their friends, and learn how to be hos pitable hosts even to the extent of an innos cent little fast now and then. Barents and sisters M ill be agreeably surprised at the cordiality with which they are treated when they occasionally become the guests of‘our boys.’ W orth Remembering.— Do not laugh at that drunken man reeling through the streets. However ludicrous the sight may he, just pa us i and think. lie is going home to some tender heart that will throb with intense agony; some doting mother perhaps, who will grieve over the downfall of her once sinless chili; or it may be a fond uife, whose heart will almost burst with grief, as she views the destruction of her idol, or it may be a loving sister, who will shed titter tears over the degradation of her brother, shorn ot his manliness and selfrespect.— Rather drop a tear in silent sympathy with those hearts so keenly sensible and tender, yet so proud and loyal that they cannot ac cept sympathy tendered either by word, look, or act, although it might fall upon their crushed and wounded hearts as re freshingly as the summer dew upon the withering plant. A Tough Foot.— They tell big stories about the tough feet of the Louisiana darkeys but the Vicksburg negro is nlwrys ready to compete for the medal. One ot them entered a blacksmith shop the other day to sell a horse shoe, and placed his bare foot on a piece of hot iron just cut from a bar. It was a full minute before it struck in, and then he gave a leap over tlie anvil and ut uttered a yell. The-smith asked him to ex plain, and the darkey responded: ‘Why, Ize been standin’ on dat piece of red-hot iron!’ ‘And you didu’t know it!’ ‘Not zactly, I smelt suthin kinder curus for awhile, but I thought dere was a ded boss around here somewhat!’ The Tools.— Edward Everett says, ‘To read the English language well, to write a neat legible hand, and to be master of the first four rules of arithmetic, so as to dis pose of at once, with accuracy, every ques tion which comes up in practice—l all this a good education. It you add the ability to write pure, grammatical English, I regard it an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation. The Stale of Georgia covers an area of fifty eight square miles. It is the largest of the old States east ot the Mississippi riv er, except Virginia, extending through more than tour degrees of latitude and five ot longitude. It is equal in size to Eng land and "Wales, and larger than Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland uni ted. How much he knew of the human heart who first caelld God our Father, Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes of our illusions. They who weep over errors, were not formed for crimes. A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds. Action is life and health; repose is death i and corruption. Jfarnt aub ©range matters. Sheep to Clean Land. Many think the only advantages of sheep are in their wool-producing properties, for getting that they multiply with great rapid ity, doubling the flock annually, and, in this climate, taking care of themselves, if good Winter pasturage and proper shelter are af forded. There is, however, another use tor sheep, which we have Found by experience to be of great advantage in good farming. They are the best weed and thistle exterminators a farmer can have. They keep the pasturage tree from these pest of the farm. We recollect of hearing, twenty years ago or more, that the late Richard Gently, of Pettis Cos., Mo,, had a farm of 7,000 acres, and that not a weed could bs seen upon it. We did not put much faith in the report, and determined to visit the farm to see w hether the repdtt was true. We did visit the farm, and such a model of neat ness and cleanliness m farming we never saw before But it was not long before we dis coverer! to what it was attributable. Mr. Gentry kept several thousand merino sheep. These he transferred from field to field, as he saw proper, and they nibbled down the weeds arid kept the pastures tree of them’. He told us that a dozen men, constantly en gaged, could not keep the weeds under subjection like this flock of sheep. But in clearing land sheep are still more valuable. They will keep down the sprouts and shrubs much better than men can do with tlie best tools. They give them no rest. As soon as anew bud or leaf shows itsell. it is nipped off. Hazel sassafras, su mach—everything is compelled to surren der. They give them no chance for life— no quarter. Everytime they make an effort for new life, they are remorselessly cut down. If farmers want to clear land, or free it from weeds and sprouts and foul growth, sheep are the best aids. Farmers can well afford to keep sheep free of charge the r ear round, for the work they perform for them. If farmers are not able to buy sheep, it will be money in their pockets to keep their neighbors’ sheep without charge. They never can have neat farms without them. The reason they are not kept by every farmer is, that dogs are so destructive to them, They furnish the best animal food. A family can cat a sheep without letting the meat spoil. More mutton and less fat bacon would lie better lor farmers. But farmers can raise slmep, even with do gs around them if they will take some precau tionary measures. If ft number ot large bells are put upon the sheep, the noise pro duced when dogs are in sight will drive them away. They want to do the destruc tion so no one will know it. If sheep are kept with cattle, and dogs pursue them in stinct teaches them to run to the cattle for protection; and, if the dogs still pursue, the cattle will tight off the dogs. This we have seen done. But, to make the keeping of sheep double share, a yard near the house or stable, witli a high fence to enclose the sheep at night, is what is needed, The sheep will soon get accustomed to coming to their -deeping quarters, and it will not make much labor to securely inclose them every night.— Coleman's Rural World. Watering Newly Planted Trees. There are limes when water is almost cssen tial, but it is best to avoid it if possible. In many cases trees are injured more by the kind hand holding the wat-erpqt than they would be bv full exposure to the drv weath er. If a newly planted tree showed signs of withering its leaves on the least warm weather, we should most likely cut off a few of its branches, which would lessen the evaporating surface. It it still seemed to suffer, choose a dry day to loosen the earth on the surface about it, loosen say half an inch, and then with a rannod ‘unmercifully’ punch and pound it. This will so thoroug ly pulverize the soil that it will attract moisture from the surrounding ground. It, after all, the leaves do not wear a cheerful aspect , make a shallow basin about the roots, and pour in a bucketful or two of wa ter, and a day or two following fill it*again with the dry earth, pressing closely. This will do for a whole season. A Wonderful Freak of Nature. Mr. Boggs informs us of a remarkable lapsus naturae in Chattooga county—that of twin calves, attached together by a liga auient ala Siamese Twins. The calves are three weeks old and thriving. They are grown together, hjy a strip at the shoulder, and, saving this strip, are perfectly develop ed. The owner is making arrangements to exhibit them at the Centennial, where they will no doubt attract much attention.— Rome Courier. A <>t the Southern Planta tion, a Grange paper, has an admirable let ter in which, after stating his objection to the Grange interfering in such pursuits as the law, banking, life insurance, etc., he adds: ‘Others are advocating Grange stores. I think there are too many merchants al ready, and I am of the opinion that dry goods are as cheap as we should demand, and, from what I see, there is not much money made on meat at this time; this cannot be visited upon our groceries. So it seems that a good cause exists why* the Grange should not pull out of the course blazed out for us in our ritual.’ The writer, in adopt ing the language of moderation in respect to Ids order, has earned the respect of all other classes. A Garden the Year Round.— One can searedv,go amiss for tlungs proper to be planted during tile month ot May. In his tables showing what to plant in order to have an abundant, supply of vegetables all the year round, l)r. Bavenel mentions lor this month, cucumbers, snap beans, okra, mel ons. tomatoes, egg plants and green glazed cabbage. lie might have added sweet po tatoes, turnips, squashes, pumpkins, butter beans, corn, and a host of other products too tedious to mention. It we have plant ed carefully through the past months, ac cording to Dr. Ravenel‘s directions, we ought to have now for use an abundance ot garden peas, asparagus, snap beans, arti chokes, bush f quashes, irish potatoes, let luce, onions and turnips. The dearest object to a man should be Ids wife: but it is not untrcquentlv her clot lies. THE TIMES, CARROLLTON, GA. By Edwin R. Sharpe. Every citizen should take his county paper and now is the time to subscribe. The Times Will keep you posted on the issues of the day. This is the Centennial year 1870, and everything is going to be lively along the entire lines. The biggest political fight since the birth of the Republic is about to take place and the combatants arc putting themselves into position for the contest. Subscribe for The Times and keep posted. . The Times Will continue as heretofore to give prominence to local news. 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After two years of prosperity, unexampled in The anna is ot Juvenile literalure.dnring which Sr. Nicmn.es has con solidated with itself all its strongest competitors, Ihe put) Ushers find themselves in a j.Of-ition to promise Mat the Third Volume, beginning with the November nnmber, 1875, shall, in its usual attractions for (oils and Boys, sur pass even the proceding volumes, in addition to its con tributions from THE FIRST WRITERS OF AMERICA, there will ini stories poems and sketches by some of the mo-t pro mineut English authors, Arrangements have hceu utaue for- a very interesting series of papers on WINDSOR CASTLE. By Mas. Oliphaxt. I reating of its ITistory and the Child life of successive royal generations. CHRISTIANA G. ROSSETTI will contribute to the new volume, LOUISA M. ALCOT. will write “Marjorie's Birthday Gifts,” and other shert stories. Some articles on Astronomy for Young People have been promised by thepopu ar English astronomer RICHARD PROCTOR. There will be a continued story of Life in Iceland BAYARD TAYLOR. In the November number, the opeuing of the new vol ume will begin an AMERICAN SERIAL STORY. “THE BOY IMMIGRANTS,” By Noah Brooks. Giving the adv« nturesofa party of boys in the California Gold Mines in the earliest days of the gold lever. J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Author of “Jack Hazara" stories will contribute some highly interesting sketches of adventure at "Bats Cove.’ “TALKS WITH GIRLS,” By leading authors, wi 11 be a prominent foatnro of the new volume. Especial attention will also be given to. INCIDENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY, With spi rjted pictorial illustrations. The various departments. ”Jack-:n-thc-Pulpit, “The Riddle-Box.” and “Letter-Box,” and the paper- for “Very Little folks,” are to be more attractive than ever. French Latin and German stories, for translation, which have proved so popualar. will be frequent in the new volume. Some of the direst works of the greatest painters of the century have he. u engraved especially for St. Nicholas, and the first artists or the day will contribute fresh and original draw ings for this fixe art magazine for the yovno. Definite annosneeraent of many interesting acd novel matures will be made in the December number. St. Nicholas "ill continue under the successful editorship of maiiymades dodge. And no eflorts will be spared by editor and publishers to maintain and increase the attractions and value of the magazine. Subscription price, $3.00 a year; single numbers 25 cents, bound volumes $4,00 each. These volumes begin with November. The two now ready for 1874audlsT5 are elegantly bound in red and gold, and form the handsomest gift-book for children ever, issued. We will scud the magazine one year, beginning with November. *1875. and either of the volumes bound as above, postpaid, for $7.00: or, a subscription 011 b year and the tw o volumes for $10.0t). 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