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THE MONROE jffllL. ADVERTISER
CIbORGK A. KING k CO.
VOL. XX) i l.
Professional Cards.
r. w. KING,
Justice Peace#
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lu care ft:bUtf
H 1. BF.KNKR C. A. "t.’HNEU.
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KORBYTII. :::::: : ; : GEORGIA
WILL practice in all tlie courts. Prompt at
lention given to all business entrusted to
lie n. The collection of claims a specialty.
Otllce Up stairs in Pye’s Hall. octl7
T. C. BATTLE,
a r r t o .Ft Kr je y at Xj.a.'W,
I'Ol&MTII. CiEO.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of Mon
I( ,e and adjoining counties. Also in the Su
preme Court Will give close attention to all
• t„vin< s entrusted to him. Collecting doubtful
. oms a specialty, l-f/ Mice in Court house,
novpltf.
Lr. L B. ALIXANDER
< Jfl'eis his professional services to the cit izens of
FORSYTH
aun surrounding country. Calls may be left
at las residence or at the Drug Store of F- O.
Mays and will receive prompt attention.
Dr. Alexander respectfully announces that
licictnfore bis plantation in Houston county
has required his absence from home occasion"
ally for several days at a time, but his arrange
ments arc such now as to enable him to devote
his entire time to the practice of medicine, and
lie will always he found at home or at his
olliee when not professionally engaged.
Forsyth, July 15. 1878. if
DENTISTRY. '
1 have opened an olliee in the Ahvek
tiskk building (first room to the light, up
stairs) ami am prepaired to do all kinds of
pm DENTAL
QQQO work
in a faithful and satisfactory manner. When
parties are not prepared to come to my olliee,
if notified I will cheerfully call at their res-
T. E. CHAMBERS.
Miscellaneous Aiiveilisements.
Monroe Female College.
FORSYTH, C3A.
'I his long established Institution of Learning
will resume ext irises
August 2(>> 1878*
A f*d* IhiMid of Instruction, a healthful and
pUafttid location, the refining influences of
one dt the most intelligent and moial com
innnitiism the State excellent facilities for
attainment in the line arts, all lend to com
mend it to Pivotable consideration
Hoard and Literary tuition have been red,
ed till the expense of both for the fall term,
of four months, is only S7O.
Those desirous of procuring for their daii'gh
ti rs superior advantages of mental and social
culture would do well to send at once for a
catalogue of the Institution.
Thankful to the public for the liberal patron
age of the past, the Institution looks w ith ic
newed hope and confidence to the prospect of
.the future.
R. T. ASBURY, President,
S. Q. HILLYER, D. 1).
WM- It HEAD
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HOUSE and LOT
For Salo
-1 offer my house and lot situated on Main
Street, in Forsyth, within three minutes walk
of the court house square, fur sale at a sacri
kk k. Any one in search of a comfortable
home should s*s* me at once. There is a beau
tiful grass lawn iu front of the house, a large
garden in the rear, and a straw berry bed and
tine young orchard on on* side Ihe house
has four rooms on first lloor aud two rooms
up stairs. I have expended a tirest deal of
money within the past three years to make
this a comfortable home. It is a bargain to
whoever will buy it.
DU. W. L. CARMICHAEL.
READ THIS.
I make an earnest appeal to all who are in
debted to me to come forward and pay up
now. 1 have indulged some of my patrons
during the ntire year and they Ml S 1 8E l -
TI ,F. lam iu need of fuuds. 1 Ilia appeal
lueaus business and I aui determined to have
MCUiementa. The bankrupt law has player)
out and We must now pay our debts. If you
don’t come vou will see before long that 1
mean business T. G. McCOW EN.
/■vWKhWt“fl.
THE STOXE-I.UTTER’S hTOKY.
Ue was whistling over his work, carelessly,
from long custom, of the solemn significance
of the letters be was cutting in the white mar
ble. The June sun was nearly at the end of
the day’s journey, sinking slowly to rest upon
the bosom of the broad Atlantic, whose waves
washed the shores of the little seaport town
of Monkton. A stranger, handsomely dressed
in gray, w ith large, lustrous brown eyes, came,
to the fence that was around the yard where
the stone cutter worked, and read the letter
jug, almost completed, upon the tombstone:
HIRAM GOLDRY,
Aged <ls.
dost at ska, jam l aky, 18GG.
The last figure six was nearly completed. A
strange pallor gathered for a moment upon the
strhnger’s face, aud then he drew' a long, deep
breath, and said:
“ Is not ten years a long time to be cutting
letters on a tombstone, fiiend?”
“ Eh, sir ?”
The stone-cutter looked, shaded his eyes
with liis brown hand, as he turned his face to
the setting sun
“ This is 187 G,” was the grave reply, “ and
Hiram Goldby lias been ten years under the
waves.”
“ Well,sir, that’s the question; is lie there?”
“Is he there ? Your stone tells us he is and
has been for ten years.”
“ Yes sir, so it does —so it does And yet
she has ordered it. She came over a week or
so back with a worried look upon lier sweet
face that I have never seen anything but
patience in the ten long years, and she said to
n.e: “You may cut a stone, Davy,” she says,
“ and put it up in the church-yard, and I don’t
want to see if. If you will do it I’ll pay you
whatever you choose to ask, Davy,” she says,
“but lie’s not dead, and don’t want a tomb
stone.” “ Lor, mum,” says I, “ he’d g’ turned
up all these years if he was not dead.” Rut
site shook her pretty head, the prettiest I ever
seen, sir, and she said: “My heart never told
me that he was dead, Davy, and I’ll never be
lieve it till my heart tells me so.”
“ II is sweetheart ?” questioned the stranger.
“liis wife, sir—his loving, faithful wife,
that’s had property, anil loneliness am! misery,
her full share, and might ha’ bettered herself.”
" How was that ?”
“ Mr. Miles, sir, the richest shop owner here
abouts, lie waited patiently for seven long
years trying to win her. Then he sa.d that
she was free even if Hiram Caine hack.”
“ Enoch Arden,” muttered the stranger.
“ Wlint did you any, sir?”
“Nothing, nothing. What answer did the
willow make Mr. Miles?”
“ If Hiram’s dead,” she raid, “ I’m liis faith
fid wife.” “ May be you are from the city, sir,
and have heard the story of our Pearl?”
“ What story is that ?”
“ YY eil, sir, its been toiii runny limn * more
particularly in the last year, but you're wel
come to what I know of it. There, that six
is done, and I’ll leave the Scripture text till
morning. If you’ll come to the gateway and
take a seat on some of the stones, I’ll tell you,
that is, if you pare to hear it.”
“ I do cure,” was the grave: reply ; “ I want
very much to hear the story.’'
“ Maybe you’re some kin to the Pearl of
Monkton; that’s what they call Mrs. Goldby
hereabouts. It’s a matter of thirty-three years
back, sir, that there was a wreck off Monkton
rocks, that you can see from here, sir, now
tide's low. Cruel roejes they are, and many a
.wreck they’ve seen, the more the pity. \ou
see* them, sir ?”
“ I see them.”
“ Well, sir, with this one wreck, thirty three
years ago, there was nothing washed ashore
but a bit of a girl baby three or four years old,
with a skin )iku a )jly leaf, and great black
eyes. Hiram Goldby found her qp the rocks-
He was a boy of twelve years, strong and tail,
and he carried the child in his arms to his
mother. You may see the cottage, sir, the
second white one on the side of the hill.”
“ I see it.”
“ Well, Hiram took the baby tin re, and Mrs.
Goldby was the same us a mother to it —a good
woman, God bless Her soul —the widow Gold
by.”
“ Is she eleael. then ? ’
“ Aye, sir, six years agone. The baby I was
telling you of, sir, talked a foreign lingo, and
was dressed beautiful in rich clothes, that must
have cost a power of money. But never would
Hiram or the widow sell them, putting them
up carefully iu case the child was ever looked
for. She was that pretty, sir, and that dainty,
that everybody calleel her Pearl, though she
was not like our girls, but afraid, alwawa
deadly afraid of the sea I have seen her
clench her mite of a hand and strike at it, for
she had a hit of temper lu her, though nothing
to harm.”
“When Hiram made liis first voyage, for
they were all seafaring men hereabouts, and
there was nothing for a lad to do but ship, the
Pearl was just a little waslied-out lily, a fret
ting until he canie home again. And it was so
whenever lie went, for they were sweethearts
from the first time he nestled her baby face on
his breast, when he picked her up from the
wreck. She wa3 sixteen when they were
married, as near as we could guess. Hiram
was a man of twenty-four. She prayed him
to stay at home then, anil he stayed a year,
but be fretted for tne sea. and he went again,
thinking, I s’pose, that his wife w ould get used
to it, as well as all w ives hereabouts must do.
But she never did —never. It was just pitiable
to see her go about, white as a corpse, when
HirSui went away, mver looking at the sea
without a shudder like a death chill. All
through the war it was jus* awful, fer Hiram
enlisted on board a man-o’-war, and Pearl was
just a shadow when he came home the last
time.”
“ After 'he war ?”
“Yes, sir; but he made no money of any
account, and so went away again, after staying
at home a long spell. Well, he never came
back. ’Twan’t no manner of use telling Pearl
be was lost; slic’d ju>t shake her pretty head
and say: “ He’ll come back.” Not a mite of
of Humming would she wear, even after his
own mother gave him up ami went in black ;
for, sir, it stands to reason he’s dead years ago.”
* It looks so.”
“Of course it dew's; noboely else doubts it
but Mrs. Goldby. Old Mrs. Goldby’* last
words w ere.—“ I’m going to meet Hiram,” and
they say the dying know. But even then that
didn’t make Pearl think *o. Sue wore mourn
ing for her who hail been the only mother she
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1878.
knowed of, but not weeds. Weeds was for
widows, she said, and she wasn’t a widow.”
“ But the stone.”
“Well, sir, I’m coming to that. A year ago
sir, a fine gentleman from France came here
hunting for a child lost on this coast. He’d
heard of Pearl by happen chance, if there is
such, and came here When he saw the clothes
he just fainted like a woman. ’
“ She was related, them ?”
The stranger’s voice was husky, but the sea
air, was grow ing chill
“ Her father, sir.”
“ lie took her away?”
“He tried to He told her of a splenilid
home he had in New r York, for he’d followed
his wife anil child, sir, to the city they hail
never reached, lie was rich and lonely. lie
begged his child to go, but she w'ould not.
“ Iliram w ill come: here for me,” she said, “ and
he must find me where he left me.”
“ Oh, what has she lived ?”
“ Sewing, sir, mostly '1 ha cottage was old
Mrs. Goldby’s, and bless you, Peart did not eat
much more than a bird, and her dresses cost
next pi nothing. But there’s no denying she
was vepy poor—very, gpel yet the grand home
and big fortune never temped her. So her
father came off and on to see her until April.
An’ he died, sir, and left our Pearl all liis for
luue and the grand house in New Y'ork. But
she’ll not go, Sir; she’ll elie here waiting for
(liram, who’ll never come.”
The stranger lifted his face that had been
half hidden in his hand and said :
“There was a shipwreck in the Pacific
Ocean, Davy, years and years ago, and one
man only saved —saved, Davy, by savages who
made him a slave, the WeffH of slaves! But
one day this sailor sayed the life of tpeohjef’s
daughter, who was in the coifs of a huge spake,
and the chief released him. More than that,
he gavo him meta Hand woods, anil sent him
aboard the first passing ship. So the sailor
landed in a great city, sold his presents and put
the gold in safe keeping. Then lie traveled
till he reached flic uemipit town where he was
born, and coming there at sunset, jtu'ayd the
story of his life from the lips of a man cut-
His tombstone.”
Not a word spoke Davy. Standing erect, he
seized an immense sledge hammer, and with
powerful blows from strong, uplifted arms,
dashed the marble into fragments. Then pant
ing with exertion, l.c held out his brawny
hands jo the stranger —a stranger no longer.
“ I’ve done no belter yvofk j;i my life than
I’ve done in the last five minutes, iiiiapi po
home, man, ond make Pearl’s heart glad. She
don’t need it, Hiram—she don’t need it. Y r ou
asked me about the stone. The neighbors
drove her to ordering it, twitting her that she
was rich, s)ie grudged the stone to her hus
band’s memory $o sjip fold me to cut it but
says: * Don’t put dead upon it, JJavy—put
lost at sea; for Hiram’s lost, hut he’ll be found
and come back to me ’ Flic neve r looked at it
ffiram, never. And there’s not an hour, nor
hasn't been fo* t,ep years, that she hasn’t been
looking for you to come back, uo to her. and
the Lord’s blessing be upon both of you.”
So, grasping the hard, brown hand, Hiram
Goldby took the path to the little white cot
tage where he had been born forty-five yearn
before. The sun hail set and the darkness was
gathering, Ifflt a gleam of light streamed from
the window of tne cottage. lie dfpw near
softly, and standing on the seat of the porch,
looked over the bail curtain into the neat but
poor sitting room.
It was not the grand house, Pearl’s herit
age in New York, but Pearl herself was there
-4 slender woman, with a pale*, sweet face, and
black hair smoothly bnpded and gathered into
rich braids at the hack of her shapely head.
Her dress was a plain dark one, with white
rutiles, cuffs and an apron.
Site had been sewing, but her work was put
aside, and presently she came to the open win
flpfy and drew aside the curtain. She did not
see ilte tall tigijre drawn ploscly against the
wall in the narrow porch, but her dark eyes
looked mournfully toward the sea, glimmer
ing in the half light.
“ My darling,” she whispered, “ are you dead,
and has your spjrit come to take mine where
we shall part no more *”
Only the wash of the wave below answered
her. Sighing softly, she said : “Is my darling
oonungf I ’feel Ip in so near to me I coifld
almost grasp him.”
She stretched out her arms over the low
window-sill, and a low voice answered her:
“ Pearl; Pearl!”
The arms that had so long grasped only
empty air were filled then, as Hiram stood
finder the )pw window.
“ Do not move, love, she whispered, press:
ing her soft lips to Ins; “ I always wake when
you move.”
“ But now,” he said, “you are already awake.
Sec, Pearl, you r trust was heaven-given. It is
myself, your fonel, true husband, little one,
who will never leave yoi) agajq.”
“It is true! Y T ou have come!” she cried at
last, bursting into a tom nt of happy tears.
“ I knew you were not dead You could not
be dead and my heart not tell me.” Jt was
long before they could think of anything but
the happiness of reunion after the many years
of separation, Hut at last, drawing Pearl closer,
Hiram whispered —“I walked from J ,
love, and am enormously hungry.”
And Pearl’s nu-rry laugh chaseel the last
shadows from her happy face, and she hustled
about the room preparing supper.
“ Supper for two!” she cried, gleefully.
The grand house in New York is tenanted
by its owners, aud Hiram goes to sea no more;
but in the summer time two happy people
come fer a quiet month to the little white cot
tage at Me’mkton, and have always to listen to
Davy’s tale of the evening when lie was cut
ting Hiram Goldby's tombstone, and ended by
smashing it into atom?,
rt For,” is the invariable etuling of the tale,
“ Pearl was right, and we were wrorng, all of
us; for Hiram Goldby was lost at sea, sure
enough, but be was not dead, ami be came*to
her faithful love as she always said he would.
The Greenville Advocate comes to the front
with the following remedy for bone felons :
“If you have a bone felon and don’t try the
following, you have no one to blame for
your misery but yourself: Commence when
the fellon is first felt, cover it with a small
piece of cotton cloth, and keep saturated w ith
the tincture of Lobelia for 48 hours, and the
eoiruption will then be drawn to the surface
so that by opening with a needle or sharp
knife, the* corruption will run out, and no
i pain be felt. Make a trial of this one time
14 In G3-ocl w© Trust ’’
The Life Beyond the Oriive-
Bishop R. S. Foster, of Boston, delivered a
lecture not long ago before the Chautauqua
Assembly on the topic “Beyond the Grave ’’
He saiei the subject was one of great impor
tance, but one of great intrinsic obsecurity. It
wiU not elo either to assume everything and
to discuss the theme from personal beliefs- It
must be discussed from the standpoints of the
Bible, truth, aud human reason. TLe first
question of two to be considered, “Is there a
life beyond the grave?” was taken up. The
Bishop said: I elo notjkuow whether there is
or not. There are grounds of belief that there
is. It is a matter of natural belief supported
by evidence, because there is no absolute
knowledge of life beyond the grave. The
question lias become one for disputation, and
there are a great many honest doubters, many
of whom do not declare their doubts*' With
David the Bishop classed pure materialists as
fools For them there is no God and no life
beyond. Others believe that man has a spirit
within his human organization, but that at
death the spirit sleeps until the resurrection.
Others believe the souls of the wicked are an
niliilated at death, Then there is the well
known belief of the Christian World. The be
lief of the speaker was that man was a spirit
and survived after death, yet the matter was
iuvolvee) in great difficulties. So far as we
can see the mat} dies and perishes. We cam
not pursue personal investigation beyond the
grave. Why do we believe that man survives
death ? \Ye are bound to answer this question.
First was given the evidence which is found
outside of the Bible. This is first in the na
ture of man. What we see is not the man.
The essential man is invisible. The material
map js only an organism for the use of the real
man. in proof of tlijs if, y/ns sajd that there
were two kinds of existence, one of spirit
and one (of matter, a factor of thought
which thinks and expresses thought.
The mere matter of living or unliving is not
a thought factor and cannot become so. Be
hind every organism, and necessary to it, is
the tßfihg'fit factor ; which is antecedent to or
ganism, and without if the organism coqld
never exist. A watch is an organized machine.
Reason asks, whence came it ? and it finds that
at one time it existed in unorganized material;
that a thinker existed yho organised (he idea
of the watch and gave it a meterial form.
This was a certainty. It is said the brain is
the organizer, hut what organizes the brain in
in the realm of nature? However, we have a
vajicty of -organism superior to materials
structures, chief of which fe that of man hipi
self, Then the univcise itself i* an organized
whole. A grain of sand or a drop of water is
an organism as a result of natural law. Vcg
etable organisms wore also alluded to. Behind
all these the Bishop placed a thinker. No or
der succession could be eternal. Ttie essence
of number is a unit. The idea is finjte. The
order of the globe cannot be eternal. The
system of day amb night onnnot be eter
nal. One is before the othei, and a thing that
is after any ofhpr thjpg cannot be eternal.
Take the order of corn ; every grain grows on
a stalk, and every stalk grows from a grain.
You c<* n’t get one except as the result of an
other. The heavenly system was referred to
by way of illustration. Beyond it there must*
be thought. We say granite and the mountains
are solid. They are pot. They must pass
away, There is only one tiling that is solid
and eternal—that is the spirit. The question
now* was, “Is man a spirit ?” The speaker
thought he was; yet, as he was invisible, he
of course could not be seen. We can look in
through tiie window of the sparkling eye and
know that there is a man in there. The spirit
of map lias a machine —the human frame—to
get about with. When he wants to go to
Europe, he tells his body to get up and go.
Is not the spirit different from the flesh and
blood ? We know it. Every seven years there
is on entire change in the body, but there man
stays. The picture gallery of the soul is larger
than al| t)ie picture gallaries of the world and
it is not a material construction We may
know this spirit is older than matter. The
soul is distinct from the body. Man belongs
to tlie spiritual realm All this we find as the
resellt of pqre reasoning. Dqes, it have any ef
fect on the soul ? When-the musical instru
ment is destroyed, does it follow that the play
er is destroyed ? Destroy the body of the
lover who whispers sweet words to his mis
tress and you do no destroy him. There are
things a man can do without—eyes or ears to
hear. He can love Goel and commune with
him. He can live in two worlds. He cannot
eat corn, but he must raise it to feed to his ma
chine. The Bishop said: “I undertake to say
that I can live without the hqdy after death
and I expect to.”
• •#___
A Story of the Towe r
It was during the stormy times in England,
when the wars of YTirk and Lancaster were
raging, that Sir Thus. Wyatt, a fierce Lancas
trian, was confined in one of the dismal elun,-
geons of the Tower of London.
Sir Thomas was not very comfortable, as
yop may suppose. Ope day, as he sat in his
loneliness ar.d misery, a cat made its appear
ance in ins cell. lie took the animal and
warmed his numb fingers in her soft furs, anil
laid her in his breast, where she cud.lied, quite
delighted with his kind treatment. Next day
pussy came again, and wonelerful to lell, car
ried in per mouth a pigeon, which she laid at
the prisoner’s feet
The next time the jailer came to visit him,
Sir Thomas .complained of hard fare and beg
ged for some meat. His request was gruffly
refused. “If I provide the game will you
elre'ss it for me?” inquired the old knight.
“ That I will,” said the jailer, thinking him
self quite sure in making the promise. What
was his surprise when the pigeon was pro
duced. But he kept his werd, and brought it
to Sir Thomas again nicely cooked.
The cat continued to furnish him from time
to time with these rare bits. It is needless to
say that she stood high in the affection of the
prisoner.
After some years Sir Thomas was released.
He afterwards included all cats in his love and
esteem in memory of his benefactor.
A portrait of the old knight is still to be
seen in the South Kensington gallery/.with his
faithful cat beside him, and the pigeon in a
pan.
“An early winter, a late winter, a hard
w inter, and a light winter is confidently pre
dicted by tbe prophets.”— Boc/uster Ikmo •
crat.
ole to Jack Frost.
BY M. B. WHARTON, D. D.
lie>td before Wuterly Beading Club, Fbrtyth
Ga., October 1, 1878.
“ The only enemy that can successfully
grapple with Yellow Jack is Jack Frost.”—A
Newspaper Paragraph.
I thought thee cruel once. Jack Frost,
When I was young and small,
You pinched my ears, and bit my tews.
You painted red my cheeks and nose,
And kept me close within the doors,
And thus I deemeii thee chief of foes
That could my youth befall.
I thought thee cruel, once again,
When up to manhood grown,
I faw thee clothe the earth in white,
When ail that’s fair, and pure, and bright,
Was withered by thy deaelly blight,
Withered in one short luckless night,
Where’er thy breath had blown.
Y ou nipped my buds, anil spoileel my vines,
And filled me w ith dismay ,
An enemy I called you then,
A foe to garden, field and glen;
A curse sent to the sons of men,
Anil never to return again,
I baele thee haste away.
But now, Jack Frost, I find at last,
Thou wast mj dearest friend ;
One has come iu to take thy place
Without thy beauty or thy grace, ’
WUh poiapnous breath and saffron face
Bent on destruction to our iace,
And sorrows without end!
Our land lies mourning at his feet,
And ’maili his ghastly tread;
Our fairest flowers have met decay,
Our brightest gems have lost their ray,
The young, the beautiful, the gay.
Are vanished from our sight away,
And numbered with the dead !
Come back, Jack Frost, again come back,
Thrice welcome to each heart,
Stretch forth thy white and frozen wanil
Bid suffering flop at tfiy command,
Give health and quiet to the land,
Come wrest Ins scepter from life hand,
And bill the Ghoul depart.
Whole cities wail his deadly stroke,
Trade bends beneath his rod.
Palsied our every interest lies, ’
Tears, hitter tears, suffuse our eyes;
Our bosoms burst wjth groups anil sighs,
Come then, thop apgpl of tlip skies—
Thou ipessenger of God !
Thou Great Physician from above,
Who cam’st to save the lost;
Thou who didst once for sinners bleed
Copie in this hour of eii-est need ,
Conic, and mi meicy intercede;
Come, stay the plagues 'Tsatiate g eed—
Goel send the white hoar-frost.
The Uforal Cause.
With ail the world’s religion, uqd the Rom
age which is paiel to tfic Divnity, jtcan hardly
he saiei that a sufficient moral force is operat
'-lg the practical life of the people. If there
was, the effects ot that fouce or cause must
necessarily crop out.
If there was among men in our coimtiy who
occupy hlgfi posHjqps, and amopg fhp§e in
authority, an intellectual understanding of the
moial law and social needs of the people, there
could not long remain among men anil women
those hurtful extremes of wealth apd poverty
Jt will be found when such persons, as we
have inelicateel above, are developed into the
principle of morals, and understand it in con
nection with the law of adaptation or its ap
plication to human affairs, that they will
change in sentiment and in conduct as did
Soul wlien op Ihp roijel to Datnascps to parry
out his ambitious schemes.
Asa single cause ever works a variety of
effects, so must a moral cause when actually
taken on, be seen in larger ratio of effects.
With all the forces, interior and exterior, now
at work in the societary body, it cannot be
long ere a more positfye knowledge of the
principle of morals shall enter into minds
which are least expecting such a v ! sitation.
and which must respond with alacrity/similar
to that manifested by Saul, who afterward
became Paul, the hero and martyr for right**
eousness’ sake.
As mind after mipj becomes converted, anil
classes of people become humanizeel iu higher
degree, ail departments of life will feel the in
fluent. Religion will be revived and remain
revived, and all the best impulses will be gaL
vanized into permanent life, Religion, politics,
and social life will he purified and lifted out
of the slough in which they have so long been
draggled. The signs ’of the times are propi
tious iu all the seeming darkness of the pro-s
--ent time.
—
Why It Pays to Read.
One’s physical frame—his body, his muscles,
his feet, his hands —is only living machinery.
It is the mind controlling and directing that
machine, that gives it power and efficacy. The
successful use of the boely depends wholly
upon the mind—upon its ability to direct the
will. If one ties his arm in a sling it becomes
weak and finally powerless. Keep it in active
exercise, and it acquires vigor and strength,
and is disciplined to use this strength as de
sired, just as one’s mind, by active exercise in
thinking, reasoning, and planning, studying,
observing, acejuires vigor, strength, power of
concentration and direction.
Plainly, then, the man who exercises his
mind in reading and thinking, gives it iiiireased
power and efficiency, greater ability to direct
the efforts of his physical frame —his work—
to better results than he who can merely or
mainly use his iuusjlis- If a man reads a book
or paper, even one he knows to he erroneous,
it helps him by the effort to combat the errors.
Of all men, the farmer, the cultivator needs
to read more to strengthen his reasoning pow
ers, so that they may help out and make more
effective, more profitable, liis hard toil. There
can be no doubt that the farmer who supplies
himself with the most reading—the most of
other men’s thoughts and experience—will iu
the end, if not at emce, be the most successful.
The Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.
—The morning being cold, the Sheriff wished
him to warm himself at the fire. “No, good
Mr. Sheriff,’’ he said, “ let us dispatch, for
within this quarter of an hour my ague will
come upon me, and if I be not dead before
thal mine enemies will say I quake for fear.”
After having prayed, he rose up, saying “ Now
I am going to Goel!” He felt the edge of the
axe, otserving to the Sheriff, “’Tisasharp
meelicine, but a sound cure for all diseases.”
He then laid liis head upon the block, and was
told to place hiiuself so that his face should
look to the east; he answered, “It matters
not how the head lay, provided the heart was
right The exe-cutioner hesitated to strike,
when Raleigh cried out, “What dost thou
fear? Strike, men!” His head was severed
-in two blows. Born 1552; died IGIB
A Miracle.
We find this extraordinary statement iu the
Sandersville Courier .*
Here is something that occured within a few
miles of your city, fifty-one years ago, which
never has been in print, though it was written
down at the time for publication ; the writer
vouches for the truthfullness of the story and
says it can be authenticated by two other wit
nesses. I have the original manuscript iu my
posiession :
An infant was born to me on the 19. h of Oj
tober, 1827 and was seven weeks old; its
mother departed this life three weeks after
the birth of the child; the child was then fed
by hand. On the morning it was -even w*eks
old, I and my oldest daughter who was then
living with me, took the child out of bed to feed
it, alter making a light we discoveieel a differ
ent look in its countenance. It looked as
though death had made its appearance. We
as usual offered it the nursing bottle, but it re
fused. We waited a short time and made
the same offer; The child refuseil again. This
was done several times. The child appeared
to be perfectly easy anil a smile was upon its
face. We then .procured some fresh cow milk
and gave it to the child in a spoon. The mo
ment the milk touched the childs mouth it was
instantly clabber. \Ye thought strange of this-
We threw that away and some fresh milk was
gi\en to the nurse, and in a moment that was
clabbered, we tried it the fifth time with the
same results. We then got all the milk that
we had and set by the nurse and it was all
clabber in one moment. We were then fully
convinced that we need not try to feeel the
child, so we quit. By this time it had the ap
pearance of a Saint and soon began to shout the
Redeemers praise, though it did not utter a
woj-d, but \yith loud laughs so that one might
hear it across the house distinctly; this laugh
would be heard when any one would talk tt it.
At the meution of its name, it would turn its
head, look the speaker in the face and
break out iu a laugh. This was done about
twenty times, and then it died with a smile
upon its fftce,
The above facts can be established by two
other living witnesses.
Bengluan E. Barwick.
Englhli and American Vehicle*.
It is a very curious fact that just as the
Americans arc getting up such a furore over
the peculiar English styles, the English are
beginning to adopt seme of the most promi
nent American ideas as to road gear. It is
well kpoeyn that English carriages have been
noted for the ; r bulk and weight, while the dis
tinctive characteristics of American carriages
has been lightness. The fact is, English wheel
rights coulel not turn out light vehich's, be
cause then native woods are of an Inferior
quality. Jt is said that they tq-e now import
ing American timber. At the same rime
American manufacturers are, in many in
stances, increasing tb size and weight of their
vehicles to satisfy the wan's of those) Ameri
cans whfl have got the idea that a eotioh or
carriage to be elegant must be hwuvy. In
England tlie heavy vehicle was more appro*
priate for it corresponded with the gieater
weight of Hhc English horses, us compared
with American stock. But American ingenu
ity has met this want, and vehicles arc now
made iu this country to show tlie fancied
heavy appearance without being in reality
heavy. There is another curious fuct in con
nection with this part of the case. It is well
known that in Great Britain for a great uia*y
years there has been a heavy tax ou all four
wheeled carriages, while the tax ou two
wheelers has been little or nothing at all.
This had the effect of bringing two-wheeled
vehicles into popular use wherever they could
be made to answer the purpose. Without the
use of economy, t\vo.wheeled vehicles are the
ones most favoreel in this country at the pres
ent elny. In Europe these two wheelers are
used for any purpose, even the transportation
of elogs to the hunt, or stow'ing away of pota
toes or market stuff's. Yet this is the kind of
vehicle that has become popular and fashion
able of late In this country.
England aud Egypt.
England is about to foreclose her mortgage
on Egypt, aud bid in that country for tlie ben
efit of the creditors. Step by step she has
swallowed up the bonds of the Suez Canal,
and taken control of tlie Khedive’s finances
until now the poor Viceroy is ready to accept
any programme of government that Great
Britain may choose to suggest. Ancient S. *-
elan will lose; her autonomy uiuler the new
regime, but she will be tlie gainer in many
practical ways. Her public works will be put
and kept in the best order; her finances will
be admirably and safely managed; her re
sources will be developed in an unprecedented
degree; religious toleration and political re-,
form will come iu baud in hand, and she will
have no one to molest her or make her afraid.
Like* tlie occupation of Cyprus, the* suzerainty
of Egypt in England’s possession will tend to
bettf r tlie condition of Central Asia by a cer
tain reforming process that will be inaugurat
ed. The power of the Ciese-ent w ill continue
to wane, while tlie respect for the cross must
wax great apace. Hence, tlie world will be
the better for this last triumph of British di
ploimte y . —Sa tannoli New*.
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Curious Case ok Petrifaction —More
than twenty years ago Judge Alms sunk a
well at Bolinaa. Happening to have three or
four large oak oil casks at the time, he knocked
in the heads, burned the oil, and set ti.em in
the well, one above another, and. strange to
say, they are as peifect to-day as when they
were put in tiie well. The top cask is about
two feet below the surface, and a curb of
common boards is set over tlie well, running
down to meet tlie casks. Several of these
curbs have rotted away, and been replaced,
but the casks appear likely to stand forever.
Is there here a hint for well builders, or are
the louses of petril action loeud ?
The Cow. —If civilized people were ever to
lapse into the worship of animals, the cow
would certainly be their chief goddess.—
What a fountain of blessing is a cow! She i*
the mother of beef, the source of butter, the
original cause of cheese, to say nothing of
horns, hair cemibs, and upper leather. A
gentle, amiable, ever yielding cieature,who
has no joy in her family affairs wbieh el*
does not share with him. We rob her of her
children that we may rob her of her milk, and
we only care for her that the robbery may he
perpetuateil. —llounehoUl Word
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
Estimating Heaiurcs.
It is often useful to have a few approximate
data to deduce weights and measures from.
Here is a correct table, which, however, does
not aim at great accuracy, but may serve to
make a rough estimate when it is necessary to
reduce measures. It is taken from the Man
ufacture and Builder:
A piut of water weighs nearly 1 pound, and
is equal to about 27 cubic inches, or a square
box 3 inches long, 3 inches wide and 3 inches
deep.
A quart *f water weighs nearly 2 pounds,
and is equal to a square box of about 4 by 4
inches and B*J inches deep.
A gallon of water weigh from 8 to 10 pounds,
according to the size of gallon, mid is equal to
a box 6 by 6 inches square and 6,-7 or 74 inch
es doep.' •
A cnbic foot of water weighs nearly 63
pounds (more correctly g§ pounds), and con
tains from 7 to 8 gallons, according to the
kind of gallons used.
A peck is equal to box 8 by 8 sqfiare and 8
inches deep.
A bushel almost fills a box 12 by 12 inches
square and 24 inches deep, or 2 cubic
feet.
A barrel of water almost fills a box 3 by
2 feet square and 1 3 feet deep, or 0 cubic
feet.
Petroleum barrels contain 40 gallons, or
nearly 5 cubic feet.
Bad. Perhaps, but (lit* Ollier Is
Worse.
If the Democratic party is as bad, says the
tifchC'nnati Enquirer, and unworthy of public
tiu-t as the Republican leaders and journals
say, bow outrageously must the Republican
party have been acting, mu i bow ooirupt its
leaders must have become, that the people
should prefer, as they have within the past
few years, the Democratic party to the Repub
lican party! The Republican leaders bad it
in tbejr piwer to have refined the Govern
ment for many decades by wise measures and
honest admiufctaation. The fact that Hayes
" 115 beaten on the popular vote by a quarter
of a million ; Unit the Semite will in six months
pass into the control of the Democracy, and
that the last Congress was Democratic, and
that the present one is also Democratic, shows
ihat the Republican managers and lcadeis
ha\c forfeited the public confidence. Under
such circumstances, we submit that it dose not
become them to talk about the Democracy as
they arc in the habit of dig, and that they
had better busy themselves hi improving their
own standing with tlie people than in slander
ing their neighbors.
If aye’s Title.
However varied may be the opinions con
corning the validity of Huye’s title to the
Presidency, iherc is not u question in the
minds of cither Democrats oi Republicans upon
one Important poiut. vi/; the unquestionable
right of Dr. Pierce’-. Family Medicines to the
title of the Stnmlafti Rvaxvlies of the a:e.
Listen to the voice of the sovereign |>eople.
Mew Okj.eaks, Jane 10th, 1878.
Dr. R. V- PIV.kCK. Buffalo, N. Y..
Dear Sir- Tour Pleasant Purgative Pellets
seem to be particularly attained to tbe wants
of the people in this warm climate, where bil
ious affections are particularly prevalent. I
regard them as the best curthurtie 1 have ever
tried. Yours truly, John C. Henderson
Boston, Mass.. May 14th, 1878.
Dr. R. Y, Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear SiV—Your Golden Medical Discovery
has cured my boy of a fever Sore of two years’
standing. Please accept our gratitude.
Youis truly. Henry Wuittno.
Of tbs result at Newnan the Columbus En
quirer-Sun say :
The Convention has broken up in confusion,
as all expected. The majority clung to a man
an 1 the minority fought him. Nothing seem*
ed to be cared about the interest of the party
and country. It was individual all through.
There are some still jn this land who believe
office seeks the man. What a terrible delusion.
According to the present status the majority
have adjourned sine die. They resolved to
leave the election of a Congressman to the peo->
pie on the first Tuesday in November, the
regular time, and recommended lion. 11. R .
Harris as the candidate. They also appointed
a committee to prepare an address. The
minority is still in session, and will probably
nominate a strong man. All are glad the farce
is over.
A boy, giving bus impression in regard to
Moses, wrote as follows:
“He was an Egypshin He lived in a ark
maid of bull rushes, and he kep a golden calf,
and worshipt braizen snakes, and be et nutbin
but kwales and manner for forty year. He
wus kort by the hair of ffiis bed while riding
under the Wow of a tree, and he was killed by
his sou Abslon, as he was a hanging from the
bow. His end was pease ! ”
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A Nice Way to Cook YoCno Chickens.—
Take young ahickcns, dress them as usual,
take them apart at each joint, wash them and
pi tee them in a dripping pan, and just cover
them with sweet thin cream, season with salt,
pepper and a little butter; put them in the
oven to cook. When the cream is almost
cooked away the chickens are done. They
are splendid oooked this way.
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Augusta Evening News: “Jo. Hairie, of The
Constitution, is the father of another boy.
The young man made his first appearence in
Canada, and therefore will never be eligible to
the office of president of tbe United States
However, this misfortune will not prevent him
from running for congress in the fifth Georgia
district groomed by the sous of Hoke Smith,
Jim Banks and Amos Fox."
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Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, interviewed in
Chicago, thought Hancock the only man to
successfully oppose Grant in 1880. The Green
back movement, he said, would show great
strength in the South, but it could not prevent
a solid South on National questions. The
movement would lie carried on within the
ranks.
A man bet another ten dollars that he couid>
tell him how much water to a quart went over
the fails of Niapira in a year. ‘How much V’
was the question. “Two pints to a quart,’ r •
plied the first as he pocketed the wager.
Small but active bootblack to a wearer of
tblrteens —“ Saf\ boss, let me black yer hpots ;
do it for five cents an acre and warrant done
before sundown.”
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NO. 41.