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nil; iIONT.nK Al)\ KIfTISKII. OFFICIAL JQiJHItAy) F MONROE COU NT Y TEKM.3 OF SDBSORIPTTON: Per Agpui*, Gasi in Advance - $2 00 Six Months. “ " “ 100 UK- l.e'iston-d in the I‘ost OlH<-.* of 1 *r v v tli. ‘la a- second class matter. re>-diit M'imCiK A liv kktiskh has a large Circulation in Monr< * . Kutts, • .liisjn-r, and other ('utilities K.tl t:\KRV KHItiA V MORNING. HILLIARD INSTITUTE! SF’RUDTO- TEiRTVT Pc .ax 12th January. Kndx 2>th June. FALL TEEM Beg Cl - t Augo-t End- 18tli Dedenitjer. TANARUS 1 11o.s : T', .per ncntf ?2 'Hi 11 r i r . Wff ■PESw ’n ,11 ;* r \ Grt<l<-. nml b*-n--!-t --ril ltv the l’nn<\pnl iu <>ra!, <<tj:< t and kin dr ri'.ir t-n ihti i I*r>t. I* S. Wii.i.ikoiiAM will a.-si.t in I/ iiu;nni;i M utheinat i<~, S -icnci**, &.<•. < apt. IVindkk will hav--. iliarge of tin- M ilitary I ti-purt mi nt mid In- :i--i-t'-d liv otln-r ir-ntl'onjn ot profioi- ti'y (irmnimir II 111 I lligli Sfl.ool b-*y i -nip- llitliiirft /nitilutr Cu'irt No extra i-\pi-n-<: iin-ur r** I b\ thi.- .-pli-ndid new feature in the who. X in 1 Mui-ie. CMlUtln-uli-f. and Drawing w ill In- taught the little hoys. IJi'ald in i'rivute Families .jS.OO mi 12.50 pet molrflt. No eiange' in Text Honks. All Text I! > •!, *ll i. i .uni i-rials free n He: Sprint' l erin. S hoot building substantial!v repaired and fnrinbod witii modern furniture, materi n Ac., inid i j co ititirtab.e i:i every par ticular. t-.iiicr vnur boys on tin- tirat day of each m salon. F<-r full announcement# of the school, convenient calendar for 1885,and further iiiforiiinti'in, address V. Iv ORR. Principal," Forsvth, Gil. MON ROE Fomalo College, FOS3YTH, G-A. Tiils I NSTFTi’TIox, favorably located in M illilb* tie-irgia, is moving again upon its high and important mission. The dep-i! Iments of Literature. Music. I >rawiipg and Painting arc supplied with competent teachers, who are addressing tln-mo-lves to the task of woman’s higher • •■in it mu wit it cliieiem-v and comiclncss. I hose in seareh ot a good siliaul, line wlei-eie a efb-rts wi'l In- given to lit wo man mental)v, s-'Ci.iPv ■ nnfl itfornnv to meet tin- reijoiicmenls of life, arc resp.-ct fnliy invited to consider the advantages her.- atr -rded and to disetias the ipu-stioli of pat rmiagc. For particulars address K. T. AS IU" 11Y, President. •D. H. GREEN & CO., JS.’BA&A. LIP, CLOCKS, GUNS, PisLds, o#rirtg If \c)iink. Etc. All kinds of light Repairing executed promptly and faithfully. We give strict attention to business, and ex poet to merit patronage by good work. Also we keep on hand it good stock of CONFEOTIO NERIES, ST ATI ON ER Y Tobacco and Cigars. (■ive us a call in the post-otiice building. Forsyth. (ia. SUMS’ SORE CUBES MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE Tim** l j n*. \ S>r* Mouth, Sort? Thr At, t'm.-uw*' * iho T*otts ami I'uriflus tb* ftroath ; \;ao \ anl fpooiurnaurt .1 'y i ■jwlin? rifentitt*. Pr** i ! bv s>n< J I* AV K.ilniMws. Pntmt*. M.von, ua. Fox bale by all a.nil clem lifts. CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN! SCHEDULES. Bead down .Bead down No H. From Savannah. Nn.Vi. 10:00 am I.y - Savannah..-I.v S: 45 pm i and: 45 ]> in ar Vugusta Ar 5: ‘>o am : (1:2o pin ar Macon ar S: 4-> am 11: 25 p m ar Atlanta ar 7: Wain j ■A oil ain ar Columbus...ar 12: 3d pm : ar Kufaulu ar .k lti pm i 1: 15 pm ar Albany ar 12:20 pin ! ar-Millcdgcville-ar 10: 29 am | ar Katonton—ar 12: .'lO pm No IS From Aiumsta No 20 No 22 ft: 45 am lv Aug.-lv t): 00 pm and .'lO pm ar Sav'ii ar 0: 30 am 0 J. 5 p m ar Macon 1!: 25 pin ar Atlanta 4: 82 in ar*..-Columbus 11: 15 p m ar Alba: v- „ N\> 54. From Macon No 52. 12:00 a ni Iv Macon Iv S: 05 am 0:5*0 ain ar Savanuah ar ,3: 50 pm ar Augusta ar 3:45 pm ar-. Milledgeville-ar 10 2Ham ar—Katonton—ar 12:50 pm No 1. From Macon Nod. 7'50 ain lv Macon Iv 7: 15 pm 3:16 pm nr Knfaula ar _ 12:20 pm ar Albany ar 11:15pm No 5 From Macon No 19 S 15 a ni lv Macon Iv 7:35 pm 12: :>3 p ni ar Columbus—ar 4: 25 am No 1 From a aeon vo 51 no 5d S;lsani lv Macon...lv 7 ;30 pm-.-d :57 am 12;25 pm ar Atlanta-ar 11 ;25pm~7 ;.'>o am mo 28 From Fort vallej so 21 S ;d5 pm lv Fort valley lv 9 ;45 am 9 ;20 p in ar verrv ar 10 ;.'to ain so 2 From Atlanta so 54 so 52 2 ;-NO pm lv- vtlanta-lv S; 10 pm...d :55am 0 ;50 pm ar-Macon—arl 1 ;45 am... 7 ;dsani arKufaula ar d;lopni 1) ;15 pm ar Albany ar 12 :20pm 4 ;25 am ar columtius ar 12 ; C.pm Milledgwiilo ar 10;29am ar Katonton ar 12;30pm ar Augusta ar 3 ;45piu ar savannah ar 0;d0 am...3 ;3lpm so 6 From eolumbus so 40 1 ; 00 p in lv ...columbus lv 9:5d pm 5 ;42 p in ar Macon ar 0 ;00 a m 11 ;lo4>m iU' -U’nuila -ar 12 ,20 pui ar-.....Kufanla ar 4 :4fi nm i 11 ;15pin ar Albany ar 4 ;05 pm sic; P :g c;.i ' c'.i ad nip!:; trains between i k _- si . savan nah and Atlanta, and mhcoii and Mont gomery. I’ullman hotel sleeping cars lie tivcen chi capo and .'AOksunvUie, rla., via Cincinnati. withomVhange. ‘ Tire MiUedpeville and Katonton train runs daily (extent Monday between uor don and ra*o’U >n, n l dally ■ t siAi iliiy between, 1 '.ntoisnu and j.ordon. rrain no 2 1 >1 lily except Sunday. Kufaula train connects at outhbect for Fort oaines daily except -unday. perrv accommo<htlioi: train between Ferry and Fort valley, runs daily, except Sundays. Albany and Blakely accommodation train runs daily except Sunday, between Alba ny and alakely. At savannah with savannah. Florida A western railway ; at Augusta with all lines to north aud east; at Atlanta with Air line and Kennesaw routes, to all |>oints north, east and west. W.u. Kogkks, G A Whitkuka.ii, Sup't Gen l‘:;ss Ag't, Savannah. THE MONROE ffcADYEETISEE. VII].. XXX. Out of the Jaws of Death Health Joy and Thanksgiving, Where Death, Sorrow and the 0-rave Were Expected. P Kit II A I*B there has never occtir red in tin*medical history of <ieor gia, two more remarkable eases of recovery from apparently hopeless illnoss.*Lhaß the facts given below disclose. The medical profession generally, seoiit the proposition that const!mption can be cured, and in controverting thisoft repeated asser tion of theirs, we beg leave to pre sent the following true statemer <, from some of the best citizens of this state, and among the number that of a physician who has enjoyed a large practice in Georgia, for the last twenty six years, i# a graduate of medicine and whose skill is beyond dispute, 'flic following is Jfr. •/. O. Holloway h Statement. “The first case in which I pre scribed Brewej’ s Lung Restorer, was that of Mr. John Pearson, who had been troubled with a dreadful cough for many months. He was finally , Liken to his lied with what appeared to he consumption in its worst form, and his early death seemed inevit able. Asa htst resort. I sent for a bottle of the Lung Restorer and after lie had a taken a few doses he seem ed to revive, lie .continued to use it tor some time and was finally re stored to perfect health. So far as I could discover, lie had consumption, and the Lung Restorer saved his life. 'All of iiis family that 1 knew, died of pulmonary disease, except his half brother. 1 was afterwards called in consultation to sec Airs. 11. F. Lletirndon. She seemed to be rapidly' sinking from pulmonary affection, her lungs were rapidly de caying ami 1 thought she could not possibly live over a month. The at tending physician satisfied the fam ily that nothing more could be done for Alts. Ilearndon. [ then sugges ted a trifci id'the Lung Restorer. A bottle was procured and the patient commenced taking it. I learn that she began to improve immediately. 1 saw her two months afterwards and she seemed in very good health. I believe the Lung Restorer saved her life. I have since used several dozen of the medicine in my prac tice. and ti few bottles in my family, always with the most satisfactory results. The JLiujjtL jle|Uorqr is the oii'i\ ivitimi ~> Accv^n• w flia. t have ever prescribed in my practice, al though 1 have no prejudice against them.” J)r. Holloway resides at Barnesville, Ga. The gentleman who outlined his case below is a man considerably Ad vanced in life, and is noted for his sterling integrity. Ilis post office is 1 Yatesville, I pson Cos., Ga. The ibl I lowing is Mi\ John Pearson's Statement. In the spring of ISK2 I wasattaek ed with a very bad cough which continued to grow worse until I'all. when Lgot*u> wank that 1 could not get about. 1 tried a great many kinds of medicine but continued to grow worse. 1 was notified that 1 had the consumption and would probably die. Dr. Holloway finally told me to try Brewer h Lung Re storer, They sent to Ward's store and got a bottle and 1 commenced taking it right away. Alter taking two or three doses, I began to im prove. and by the time 1 had used up one bottle, I was able to get on my feet again. lam now in excel lent health. lam confident that the Lung Restorer saved my life and mv neighbors are of the same opin ion. It is the best lung remedy ever made, in my opinion. Dr. 11. promised me that lie would write to the manufacturers and tell them of the wonderful cure it made in my ease. Earlv in November, J.SSI, while sewing on the machine, my wife was taken with a severe pain in her side, which was soon followed by hemorrhages from her lungs and a severe cough. Fever commenced, she could neither eat or sleep, and in a few weeks site was reduced to a living skeleton. The attending phy sician told me that he thought one of her lungs was entirely gone. She could not retain the most deli cate nourishment on her stom ach. I then agreed with Dr. Sullivan, my family physician, to call Dr. Holloway in consul tat ion. They made a final exami nation of the patient and pronounc ed the ease hopeless. l)r. Holloway then suggested the Brewer's Lung Restorer as a last resort. 1 sent tor a bottle and gave her a dose. 1 found that she could retain it on her stomach and after about the third dose. 1 began to notice some im provement in her condition. I con- tinued the medicine regularly, and by the time she had taken two bot tles. she was able to walk about the house. She is now iu better health than she has enjoyed for several years. 1 baiieve the Lung Restorer saved her life. We have a family of six children, some of them grown. Mr. Hoamdon - post o'-five is Vatesvilfe. Epson Do.. Da. He is a thoroughly rehaba; man. in every pju'tiviular, > W'c red rto the following mMI known gihukuiiCti who have bau opportunity <>t' -tviag the merits of Brewer's Lang Re-tor -lor to-tecL Hob O G Sparks. Maeim (4a. Hon Geo S OlMßtr. ox-mayor of Ala<-on Ga. ('apt A J White, ex-pres. C 11 It, Milner. . Ga. JdoG Polhill. M D Macon. Ga. T F Conn. M.v •■!:. Gu. A H Sohwaok>‘, Charle-t , S ('. Col Tlm-J Burney. M . n. Ga. Henry Wooten. Mwcon. Ga. Geo P Woods. Hnwkin-viile, Ga. It M Mur pliev. El.aville, Ga. Ms. lv:.le K Dorter. Talbotton G:. AV B Dix. Atlanta. Ga. LAMAR, RANKIN & LAMAR. .'la on, Xtlauta and Albanv, Ga. Fobs nil. jumoe oji.ntv, gkokiisTfriday morning, ait.il u. isss. p|§ Absolutely Pure. Tbi- powder never varies. A marvel of purit \ . -trengtli iiin.l wliole.-om aiess. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold oulf/ in cans. Koyaf. Baking Powdku Cos., 100 Wall sir-i-t. New York. FRELTCII WINE COCA! STRENGTHENS&EXHILARATES A Perfectly Reliable Ififfusible Stim ulant and Tonic. It sustains and refreshes, aids digestion and assimilation, imparts new life and en ergies to the worn and exhasted mind and body, and excites every faculty of mind and bodv to healthy and natural condition. COCA ! is a wonderful invigorator of the genital organs, and removes all mental and physi cal exhaustion. The best known remedy for sterility importency Antidote and substi tute for the MORPHINE AND OPIUM HABIT. Tin* greatest blessing to all afflicted with Nervous complaints, such as Sick Headache, Neuralgia, Wakefulness, Loss of Memory, Nervous Tremor. Loss of Appetite. Melan choly, Blues, Etc, Etc. FRENCH WINE COCA! will vitalize.your blood and build you up at once. Lawyers, Minister, Teachers, Or ators. Vocalists, and all who use the voice, will find in the Wine Coca, taken half an hour previous to appearing before their audiences, the most remarkable results. One trial of. WINE COCA will establish its wonderful good effects, call on your duruggi.-ts, or Dr. J. S. Pem berton & Cos., and get on the wonderful proertie-s -of tin Coca Plant, or Siu-rn V,, .V- . >W--A rrs-Sr.. - *—■t sale In Druggists. Wholesale bv .1. s: PEMBERTON A CO.. Manufacturing Chemist and Drug and Oil Brokers, 59 Broads* Atlanta, Ga. / For sale-by Alexaim . & Son and Ellison & Smith, Forsyth, Ga. apr3 SHERIFFS SALE FOR MAY. Will bo sold before the Courthouse' door, on the first Tuesday in May next, between the legal hours of sale, the following property to-wit: One hundred acres of land more or less, known us part of the. li. 11. Watson plantation and, which is bounded on the north by Peter McMiekle, east by land of Thomas Dewberry, south by lands of Peter McMiekle, and west by lands of R. H. Watson Jr., trustee; and also two hundred acres of land more or less, known as the home-place of M. M. Watson, and on which he now re sides, lying west of the one hundred acres of land above described. Lev ied on as the property of R. 11. Wat son Jr., trustee for M. M. Watson, to satisfy a ri fa, issued from Monroe Superior Dourt, in favor of LI. M. Comer & Do., vs R. H. Watson Jr., trustee Ac; property pointed out in said ll fa, and tenant m possession notified. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold one house and lot in the town of Forsyth, containing thirty by fifty feet of land, more or dess, bounded north by Owen Myriek, east bv a street running from sand bottom to Pro-tor’s Hotel, south by L. F. Greer and At. <4. Turner’s property, west by Lewis Banks & Bro. Levied on as the property of Henderson Dumas to satisfy a tax ti- fa. for his tax for ISS4. Lew made by G. W- Green, L. C. Also, at the same time and place, will be sob! one house ami lot in the town of Forsyth, containing one-half of an acre, nv re or less, bounded north bv A. J'. llammoml, east by a street, soiuh by . b i F Goo drum, west by T. B. Cnhaniss. Le vied on as the property of Jennie Ogle-, tree to satisfy a tax ri. fa. for her tax for ISS4. Levy made and returned to me by <4. \V. Green, L. 0. Also, at die same time and place, will be sold twenty-five acres of land, more or less, bounded on the north by a branch, on ti e east by a public road leading from the homestead of the defendant to Stew ard's line, and on the south and west by the lands of the Steward’s estate rt; of D.E. M to satisfy several tax ti. fas. in my hand ler stale and county tax vs. 1). E. Willis, transferred to J. <4. Ilittick. Levy made and returned to me by (4. W. Green, L. (’ Also, at the same time and place, one hundred acres of land lying in the sev- enth district of Monroe county, bounded north by Henry Cain, west and south by , Andrew iugr.un. east by R. Alanrv. Lev ied on a> the property ui Giibv rt Jackson, t" satisfy a tax ti. fa. for his tax for l-" 4. Levy made nd returned to me by G. F. Thompson, L. ('. Also, at the same time and place, eight acres of land, more of less, lying ; . Thitd Distret of Monroe county, lamd s of Mrs. ] -outh by Starkey Hand, and others, west by B. J. Non is. Levied on as the pru jierty of John S. Knott. Agent, to satisfy a tax ii. fa. for his tax for 1 ' v -4. Levy made by G. F. Thompson. L. ('. C. A. KING. Sheriff. April 2, 18S5. Gf.OBGI A—Moskoe Corntv— Where as K. B. Ta lor. Adi *tr fB. H. S\\ inn. > applied to for letters <>f l)i-nfis-io- from - .id adini-ti-t— itio:, this i to notify all person.- iiitere-t*sl to -how cau-e. if anv. by the fir-t M >: Lay in Juno m-vt. way -ai . letter- should not be granted. Given under my band and official signa ture'. Mitreh 4tit. I^Bs. JOHN T. MH4INTY. -be '. lII’.OOKLYXJTKAOIEL HOME AGAIN FROM THE WEST. A Touching and Beautiful Sermon Common Mother—The Tendernes;, Love, and Forbearance of the Creator of ths Creature. if* After an absence of two weeks, (lilting which time he-spoke in sinne thirteen cities of the west, l>r. TsJl mage retunied to his pulpit in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. -Before tle sermon he expounded some sonsoilt tory ]iassjtges ot scripture. T%e opening by in n was: i “Cmne. ve disconsolate, where’er von guish, i I Come to the mercy scat: fervently kneed The subject ot the sermon wo-. The mother of us all, aud the was from I-aiait xvi., 3J: “As or* whom liis mother eomfbrteth, hijk I comfort you.” l>r. Talmage sSH “The hible is a warm letter of r"y feetion from a parent to a child, and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may, be fifty or sixty nigiits of gentle do* in one summer that will not eausy as much remark as one hail storm ot half tin hour, so there are those wtgjji are more struck by those passages of the hible .that announce the indig< nation of trod than by those thatan-> nounce Ilis affection. 'There may come to a household twenty or fifty! letters of affection during the year) and they will not make as much ex! citement in that hottse its one sherf iff s writ, and so there are peoplts who are more attentive to those pas-l sages which announce the wrath of God than to those which announce Ilis mercy and Ilis favor. God is a lion, John says in the book of Reve lation. God is a breaker. Mieah an nounces in his prophecy. God is a| rock, God is a king—but bear also that God is Love. A father and his child are walking out in the fields on a summer s day,-and there comes up a thunder storm, and there is a flash of lightning that startles the child,and the father says: “My dear, that is God's eye.” There comes a peal of thunder, and the father says : ••My dear, that is God’s voige.” But the clouds go off the sky and the storm is gone, and light floods the heavens and floods the landscape, and the father forgets to say : “That is God's smile.” The text bends with great gentleness and love over all who are prostrate in sin and in trouble. It lifts up with compassio- , It melts with tenderness. It breathes upon us the hush of an eternal lulla by. for it announces that God is our mother. “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I eomfort you.” I retnjirk in tI.J fW nhiA„ A mother's SIMPLICITY of instruction. A father does not know limv to tcacli a child the A, B, C. Men are not skillful in the pri mary department, but a mother has so much patience that she will tell a child for the hundreth time the dif ference between F and G and 1 and .1. Sometimes it is by blocks; some times by the worsted-work ; some times by tl slate ; sometimes by the book. She thus teaches the child jpul has no awkwardness of conde scension in so doing. So God, our mother, stoops down to our infantile minds. Though we .are told a thing a thousand times and we do not un derstand it, our heavenly mother goes on, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a lit tle. God has been teaching some of us thirty years and some of us sixty years one word of one syllable, and we do not know it yet —f-a-i-t-h, faith. When vve come to that word we stumble, we halt, wo lose our places, we pronounce it wrong. Still (Tod s patience is not exhausted. God, our mother, puts us in the school of prosperity, and the letters are in sunshine and we cannot spell them. God puts us in the school of adversity, and the letters arc black and we cannot spell them. If God were merely a King, he would pun ish us: if he were simply a father, he would whip us; but God is a i mother, and so we are borne with and helped all the way through. A mother teaches her child chiefly by pictures. It she wants to set forth to her child the hideousness of a quarrelsome spirit, instead of giving a .ecture upon that subject. she turns over a leaf and shows the child two boys in a wrangle and says: -Does not that look horrible?" It she wants to teach her child ting, awfulness of war, she turns over the picture-book and si rows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered men, the wild, agonizing, bloodshot eye ot battle rolling under lids of flame, and she says: -That is war!" The child understands it- In a great many books the best part are the pictures, i’he style may be insipid, the type poor, but a picture always attracts a child's attention. Now God. our mother, teaches us al most everything by pictures. Is t!;e divine goodness to be set forth? llow docs God, our mother reach us? Bv an autumnal picture. The barns are full. The wheat stacks are rounded. The cattle are chewing : the cud lazily in the sun. The or : c’nards are dropping the ripe pippins into the lap of the farmer. The nat ural world, that has been busy all summer, seems now to be resting in great abundance. We look at the picture aud say : -Thou crow neat the vear with Thy goodness, and Thy, paths drop tktness.” Our family comes ar "i!n! t’.e breakfast, table.: It ii:u> beeiva .very eoki night, bull the children are an bright, because* they slept under thick coverlids, and they are now in the warm blast of tiie open register, and their apa tites make luxuries out of the.plain est fare, and we look at the picture and say: "Bless the Lord, U, ‘my soul!’’ God wishes to set forth the fact that in the Judgment the good will be divided from the wicked. How is it done? By a picture, by a para- ble —a fishing scene. A group of hardy men long bearded, geared tor standing to the waist in water; sleeves rolled up. Long oar sun gilt; boat battered as though it had been a playmate of the storm. A full net, thumping about with the fish, which have just discovered their captivity, the worthless moss-bun kers. and the useful flounders all in the same net. The fisherman puts his hand down amid the squirming fins, takes out the moss-bunkers and throws them into the water, and gathers the good fish into the pail. So, says Christ, it shall be at the end of the world. The bad He will cast away and the good He will keep. Another picture. OOP, OCR MOTHER, wanted to set forth the duty of neighborly love, and it is done by a ■ icture. A heap of wounds on the road to Jericho: a traveler has been fighting a robber; the robber shtb bed him and knocked him down ; two ministers came along; they look at the poor fellow, but do not help him. A traveler comes along—a Samaritan. He says “Whoa!” to the beast he is riding, and dismounts. He examines the wounds: be takes out some wine and with it washes the wounds, and then he takes some | oil and puts that in to make the | wounds stop smarting, and then he j tears off a piece of his own garment l for a bandage. Then ho helps the I wounded man upon the beast and j walks by the side, holding him on until they come to a tavern. He xsays to the lanlord: “Here is money to pay the man’s board for two da vs; take care ot him; if it costs any thing more charge it. to me, and I will pay it.” Picture: The Good Samaritan; or, Who’s Your Neigh bor? f Hoes God. our mother, want to set 'forth what it foolish thing it is to go y.tway from the right, and how glad jdivine mercy is to take back the [wanderer? How is it done? By a [picture. A good father. Large jfarm with fat sheep and oxen. Fine Ihouse with exquisite wardrobe. Dis contented boy. Goes away. Shar pers fleece him. Feeds hogs. Gets LjMimesick. Starts back. Sees an pld man running. It is father? The iKind, torn of the husks, gets a ring. The foot, inflamed and bleeding, gets i sandal. The bare shoulder, show ing through the tatters, gate a robe, 'i'lte stomach, gnawing itself with' hunger, gets a full platter smoking villi meat. The father can not eat Hr looking at the returned adven ; ’ ror. Tears running down the face j'.td,they come to a smile—the night with the morning. No Doyre pouts and coined back, promising to do better, (-rod knows licit is enough for one day. ‘-And thct began to be merry.” Picture Prodigal Son returned from the wilderness. • ' So God, our mother, toadies ns ev erything by pictures. The sinner is a lost sheep. Jesus is the bride groom. The useless man is a barren tig tree. The gospel is a great sup : per. SATAN, A SOWER OF TARES. Truth, a mustard seed. That which we could not have understood in the abstract statement, God, our mother, presents to us in this Bible album of pictures, God-engraved. Is not, the divine maternity ever thus baching us? I remark again that God has a mother's favoritism. A father some time shows a sort ot favoritism, fa re is a boy—strong, well, of high f-rehead and quick intellect. The father says, “1 will take that boy in to my firm yet,’’ or “1 will give him the best possible education.” There are instances where tor the cultiva tion ot one boy, all the others have been robbed. A sad favoritism ; but that is not the mother’s favorite. I will tell you her favorite. There is a child who at two years of age had a fall He has never got over it. The- scarlet fever muffled his hear ing. lie is not what he once was. That child has caused his mother more anxious nights than all the other children. The last thing she does when going out of the house is to give a charge in regard to him. The first thing on coming in is to ask in regard to him. Why, the children of the family all know that lie is the favorite, and say: ‘-.Mother, you let him do just as he pleases, and y K ". give him a great many things vAieb you do not give us. Hess your favorite.” The mother smiles. She knows it is so. So he ought to be; for it there is any one in the world who needs sympathy more than another, it is an invalid child, weary on the first mile of life’s jour ney ; carrying an aching head, a weak side, an irritated lung. So the mother ought to make him a favor ite God, our mother, has favorites. ••U horn tlie Lord loveth, he chaMcn etl* : that is. one whom he especially mves he chasteneth. God loves us a! ; but i-there one weak and sick and s<>re and wounded and sutfersing and taint, that is the one who lies near est and more perpetually on the greit. loving heart of God. Why, it never coughs hut our Mother, God, hears it: it never stirs a weary limb in the bed but our Mother, God. kimvs it. There is no such a watch eras God. The best nurse may be overborne by fatigue and fall asleep ( iifthe chair, but God. our Mother, after being up a year of nights with a coffering child, never slumbers nor MCtp.V , 'Oh.” says one, “1 cannot under -1 staid all that about affliction.” A re die r of silver once explained it to a Christian lady : “I put the silver in the tire, and keep refining it and trying it until I can see my face m it, tud I then take it out.” Just so it if that God keeps his children in the furnace till the Divine image majf be seen in them; then they are taftn out ot the fire. “Well,” says soie one. "if that is the way that God treats It is favorites. I do not | want to be a favorite.” There is a I barren field on an autumn day just wanting to be let alone. There is a bang at the bars and a rattle of wluffletrees and devices. The field says : “What is the farmer going to do with me now ?” The farmer puts the plow iu the ground, shouts to the horses, the coulter goes tearing through the sod and the furrow reaches from fence to fence. Next day there is a bang at tire bars and a rattle of whilflctrees again. Thefield says: “I wonder what the farmer is going to do next? The farmer hitches the horses to the harrow and it goes bounding and tearing across the field. Next dav there is a rattle at the bars again, and the field says: “\N hat is the farmer going to do next:” He walks heavily across the field, scattering seed as he walks. After a while a cloud comes, The field says: “What, more trouble!” It begins to rain. Alter a while the wind changes to the northeast and it begins to snow. Says the field: “Is it not enough that I have been torn and trampled upon and drowned? M ust 1 now be snowed under?” After a while spring comes. OUT OF THE GATES OF THE SOUTH. Warmth and gladness como with it. A green scarf bandages the gash of the wheat-field, and the July morn ing drops a crown of gold on the head of the grain. “Oh,” savs the field, “now 1 know the use of the plow, of the harrow, of the heavy f'oot, of the shower and of the snow storm. It is well enough to be trod den and trampled and drowned and snowed under, if in the end I can yield such a glorious harvest.” “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear ing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” When 1 sec God especially busy in troubling and trying a Christian I know that out of that Christian s character there is to come some es pecial good. A quarry-man goes down into the excavation and with strong-handed machinery bores into the rock. The rock says. “What do you <lo that- for?” lie puts pow der in; he lights a fuse. There is a thundering crash. The rock says; “Why, the whole mountain is going to pieces.” The crowbar is plunged ; the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is thrown into the artist’s studio. It says: “Well, now I have got to a good, warm, comfortable place at last.” But the sculptor takes the chisel and mallet, and he digs for the eyes and he cuts for the mouth and he boros for i>. .•■• !,-&* 1 -fvor the rock says : “When will this torture be ended?” A sheet is thrown over it. It stands in darkness. After awhile it is taken out. The covering is removed. It stands in the sun light in the presence often thousand applauding people as they greet the statue ot the poet or the prince or the conqeror. “All!” . says the stone, “now i understand it. lam a grout deal better off now standing as a statue of a conqueror than 1 would have been down in the quarry.” So God finds a man down in the quarry of ignorance and sin. flow to get him up? lie must he brd and blasted and chiseled and scoured, and stand sometimes in the darkness. But after awhile the mantle of afflic tion will fall off and his soul will be greeted by the one hundred and for ty -toni* thousand and the thousands ot thousands as more than .conquer or. Oh, my friends, God, our moth er, is just as kind in our afflictions as in our prosperities. Grid never touches us but for. our good, if a field clean and cultured is better off than a barren field, if a stone that lias become a statue is better off than the marble in tlie qnarrv, then that soul that God chastens may be his favorite. Oh, the rocking of the soul is not the rocking of an earthquake, but the rocking of God’s cradle. • As one whom bis mother comtorteth so he will comfort you.” I have been told that the pearl in an oyster is merely the result of a wound or a sickness mfflieted upon it, and I do not know but that the brightest gems of I£ea%*en will be found to have Deen the wounds of earth kin dled into the jeweled brightness of eternal glory. I remark that God has a mother's | capacity for attending to little hurts, j The father is shocked at the broken bone of the child, or at the sickness i that seis the cradle on fire with fever, but it takes the mother to sympa thize with all the little ailments and little bruises of the child, if the child have a splinter in the hand, it | wants tlie mother to take it out and ■ not the father. Tlie father says, ! "Oh, that is nothing, hut the mother ! knows it is something and that a I little hurt sometimes is a very great hurt. So with God, our mother; all our annoyances are important enough to look at and sympathize 1 with. Nothing with Gad in some ! thing. There are no ciphers in j God’s arithmetic. And if we were j only good enough of sight we could see as much through a microscope as ! through a telescope. Those things J that may be impalpable and iufi | nitesimal to us, may be pronounced i and infinite to God. A mathemati j cal point is defined as having nb parts, no magnitude. It is so small you cannot imagine it and yei a mathematical point may be a start ing-point for a grout eternity. God’s surveyors carry a very long chain, j A scale may be very delicate that can weigh a grain, but(L-d-’s scale is so delicate that he can weigh with it 1 that which is so small that a grain lis a million times heavier. When John Kitto,a poor boy on aback street of Plymouth, cut his foot with a piece of glass, God bound it up so successfully that he became the j great Christian geographer, and a ! commentator known among all na tions. So every wound of the soul, however insignificant. God is willing J 7 C 5 NUMBER 12. ■to hind up! As at the first erv of the child, the mother rushes to kiss the wound ; so God, our mother, takes the smallest wound of the heart and presses it to the lips of divine sympathy. “As one whom his mother comtbrtOtb, so will 1 oom sort you.” I remark farther, that God has a mother’s. PATIENCE FOR THE ERRINO. If one docs wrong, first his associ ates in life cast him otf; if he goes on in the wrong way, his business part ner eastshim off; ifhegoeson. his best friends east him off-—iiis father easts him off. But after ail others have east him off, where does he go? Who holds no grudge and forgives the last time as well as the first? Who sits by the murderer s counsel all through the long trial? Who tarries the longest at the windows ot a culprit’s cell ? Who, when all oth ers think ill of a man, keeps on thinking well of him? It is his mother. God bless her gray hairs, if she be still alive; and bless her grave, if she be gone? And bless the rocking-chair in which she used to sit, and bless the cradle that she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used to read. So God, our mother, has patience for all the erring. After everybody else has cast a man off. God, our mother, comes to the res cue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all the other doctors have got through, the heavenly phy sician comes in. Human sympathv at such a time does not amount to much. Even the sympathy of the church, 1 am sorry to say, often does not amount to much. I have seen the most harsh and bitter incut on tlje part of those who pro fessed fakir in Gh4*t toward those who were wavering and erring. They tried on the wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate and caricature, and they tried tittle-tattle. There was one thing they did not try, and that was forgiveness. A soldier in Eng land was brought by a sergeant to the colonel. “What,” says the col onel, “bringing the man here again ! We have tried everything with him. ’ “Oh, no,” saVs the sergeant, “there is one thing you have not tried. 1 would like you to try that.” “What is that?’ said the colonel. Said the man, “Forgiveness.” The case had not gone so far but that it might take that turn, and so the colonel said: “Well, yotiog man, you have done so and so. What is your ex cuse? “1 have no excuse, but lam very sorry,” said the man. “We have made up our minds to forgive sn.y.^.qy.’sg I. accost eu tn that life was reformed, and that was the starting point for a positively Christian life. O, church of God, quit your sarcasm when a man falls! Quit your irony, quit your tittle-tattle and try forgive ness. God, your mother, tries it all the time. A man’s sin may be like a continent, but God's forgiveness is like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bounding it on both sides. The Bible often talks about God’s hand. 1 wonder how it looks. You remember distinctly how your moth er's band looked though thirty years ago it withered away. It was dif ferent from your father’s hand. When you had to be be chastised you bad rather have mother punish you than father. It did not hurt so much, and father’s hand was differ ent from mother’s, partly because it had outdoor toil* and partly because God intended it to be different. Tne knuckles were more firmly set and the palm was calloused. But mother’s hand was more delicate. There were blue veins running through the back of it; though tlie fingers some of them, were pricked with a needle, the palm of it was very soft. Was there ever a poul tice like that to take pain out of a wound ? So God’s band is a mother’s hand. What it touches it heals. It it smite you it does not hurt as if it were another hand. Oh, you poor, wandering soul in sin, it is not a bailiffs hand that seizes you to-day. It is not a hard hand. It is not an unsympathetic hand. It is not a cold hand. It is not an enemy’s hand. .No, it is a gentle hand, a loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a soft hand, a mother’s hand. “As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you.” I want to say, finally, that God has a mothers way of putting a child to sleep. You know there is no cradle song like a mother’s. After tlie excitement of the evening it is almost impossible to get the child to sleep. It the rocking chaw stop a moment the eyes are wide open, but the mother’s patience and the mother’s soothing mariner keep on until, after a while, the angel of slumber puts his wing over the pil low. Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the time will come when we will be wanting to lie put to sleep. The da}* of our life will be done and the shadows of the night of death will be gathering around us. Then we want God to soothe us, to hush us to sleep. Let the music at our going not be the dirge of the organ or the knell of the cliurchtower or the drumming of a “dead march,” but let it be the hush of a mother’s lullaby. Oh, the cradle of the grave will be soft with the pil low of all the promises. When we are being rocked into that last slum ber I want this to be the cradle-song: "As one whom a mother comforteth, so will I comfort j*ou. "Asleep in Jesus! Far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be; But thine is still a bleed sleep, Frem which none ever wake to weep.’’ A Scotchman was dying. His daughter Nellie sat by his bedside. It was Sunday evoning. and tho bell of the church was ringing, calling the people to church. The good old man, in his dying dream, thought that he was on the way to church as he used to be when he went in the sleigh across the river : and as the JO B P RJ_N TING Business Men if vou Want Sill Heads, Note Heads, Cards, Letter Heads, Enevlopes, Statements, Dodgers, Circulars, Programmes, Hand Bills, Or any other kind of Job Printing done, send it to the office of the Monroe Adver tiser. I have on hand a large stock of printing material of all kinds and of the latest stiles. Work done neatly and lYomptlv. Monroe Advertiser. evening bell struck up, in his dying | dream lie thought it was the call to church. He said ; “Hark, children, the .bells are ringing: wo shall ho late ; we must make the marc step out quickly." He shivered, and then said; “Pull the buffalo robe up closer, my lass, it is cold crossing the river: but we will soon be there, Nellie; we will soon be there.” And lie smiled and said, “Just then' now.” No wonder he smiled. The old man had got to church. Not the obi country church, but the temple in the skies. Just across the river, flow comfortably did God hush that old man to sleep! As one whom his mother eomlortelh, so tied comfor ted him. *. WHY COUNTRY LADS SUCCEED. One great source of culture in the Country are the evenings, and it is not impossible that much of the suc cess in life that has attended boys, country born and bred, with limited early opportunities, is largely due to the fact that evenings were devoted to intellectual culture. The isola tion of a country home leads to this far more than the homes in a citv, where entertainments and amuse ments of all kinds from the dime museum to the opera, or from the skating rink to a Lowell institute lecture, attract the family to outside festivities. In fact the quiet even ing at home is almost unknown in city life. Through all grades of so ciety—through the circles of culture, fashion, middle class or lower life— runs this tendency to such evening entertainment outside the home. In tact, to an increasing number of people, there is no home life, in tho former acceptation of the term. Hotel boat ding, apartment houses, the living in flats and other “modem conveniences,” have altogether su perseded the houses of the past, and social life undergoes a corresponding change. It it is gaj r or, brighter and fuller of pleasure, it lacks somewhat of the seriousness of endeavor which contributed to form an atmosphere where aspiration if not inspiration, held its sway and influenced growing life. The men who have impressed their power upon the age are not, as a rule, those whose evening in boy hood were devoted to the outside at tractions ot city streets. The above taken from tlio Amcri cus Recorder, contains truths, which we would bo glad, eould be iudoiihly impressed on the minds of our bojs. This anxiety Is begotten within us, |Jffuny boy - j eir evenings away ffom hom$ n fiPsnli]tleHH amuse ments, the influence of many of which is to a greater or less extent, demoralizing. The boy's suscepti bility to levity and his blindness to the importance of storing his boy hood mind with that imformation, which will bo of great utility and benefit to him in mature years, ac counts to some extent, for this ten dency. Wo know that it is impossible, to make a boy, while a boy, a man, be cause the boys of the present day la bor, (in the wrong direction) with all the vim and energy of their souls to be men, and they, generally, make a most signal failure. But observation and experience both teach us, that a boy, aided by the a lvice, always ac cessible to him, can so conduct, him self, so shape his boy-hood course, and so appropriate a proper propor tion of his time, as to grow into a true man, strong in usefulness, and great in influence for good. The evenings spent by the boys, in self culture, around the family fireside, under home restraint and proper home influence, will aid largely in accomplising this result. So in the kindlest spirit and with sincerest wish for their welfare, we advise all boys,to spend their evening profita bly at home, assuring them, that spending the same in frequenting public entertainments, and unprofi table, not to say immoral, public amusements is not only leading them gradually into broader field of dissi pation, but is wasting the bright period of 1 ife. Cayenne Pepper. We have often heard pepper re commended for some ills to which flesh is heir, because of its medicinal and health giving properties. It is used more or less by a great man}* people as a condiment. Writing upon this subject W. Matticn Williams in Popular Science Monthly says: “Great relief and temporary comfort are commonly obtained by using it as a “dinner pill.” If thus used only as a tempo rary remedy for an acute and tem porary or exceptional attack of indi gestion, all is well, but the cayenne, whether taken in pills or dusted over tlie food, is one of tlie most cruel of slow poisons, w hen taken habitually. Thousands of poor wretches are crawling miserably toward their graves, the victims of tho multitude of maladies of both mind and body that are connected with chronic, in curable dyspepsia, all brought about by the habitual use of cayenne and its condimental cousins.” When* there is occasion for the emplovraent of giant powder on the farm, it is the part of wisdom to call upon an experienced man to do tho handling.