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All accounts due and to In- paid prompt-
J\ at end each scholastic month unless oth
er* we arrnng<*d.
A high standard will he maintained in
each grade in cverv studv suited to tln-ir
nl\ nneeimuit.
Miw* Hattie Drx v xvilHinve iininrilijite
< D-nyi* <if tin* I’riiimry Grade, mid I***-i-1-
>••1 I*v the i'riht-ipal in oral, t and kin
i*xi*rri*i-r.
I’rnf. I? S. \Vn.MNiI!AM will min
Liinuii!i£;<•. Miitli*-miitii-. Scii-iiccs. See.
('apt. I'nxitKK will lmvc rlmri'i' of the
Military Departtin-lit and he m-Lt*-<l hv
oile r.urntlenten n! prolieiencv. Grammar
and 11 tcli School hov- compote // illinri /
Jimtitufi- ('mill*. No extra expense incur
red hv thi- splendid new feature in the
school.
Vocal M ii-ie. < 'ali-thenics and Drawing
will In- taught the little hoy.-.
Hoard in Private Families £B.OO t< SI ’>o
per month.
No change in Text Book*. All Text
(took- and .nnterial- fre* alter Spring Term.
School huildinc siihstantially repaired and
•a tnrni-hed with inodern furniture, materi
al. Ve., and i- eo ill'.>:•; tide in cvttrv [>ar
tieuhu*.
Kuler your hoys on the tirt day of each
Acsslbn.
For full niiimuneeinents of the school,
convenient calendar for |HS >. ami further
ill formation, add rest
V. K. ORlt, Principal,
Forsyth, Ga.
TviON ROE
Female College,
FORSYTH, C3-YV.
Tilts Ixstiti Tlov. fiivornhlv loeated in
M i.ldle (teoreia. is moving again upon its
high and important mi-sinn.
The t|e|utnients of Literature. Music.
I >rnwing and Painting are suoplied w.tli
competent tenehers, win' are addressing
tlielltselves to tile task of Woman s higller
edtl atioll with etlicieliev and correct ness.
'l’liose in search of a good school, one
W hose hest etforts will lie given to tit Wo
man mentally, socially and morally to
meet the rei|ilirements of life, are respeet
fully invited to consider the advantages
here afforded and to disemis tin* ipiestiuii of
] iat milage.
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patronage by good work. Alsu we keep on
hand a good stock of
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Tobacco and Cigars.
(live us a call in the fost-oliicu building.
Forsyth, (in.
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Kciu) down ltead down
Nn 01. From Savannah. No 53.
10:00 am l.rSavannah.-.Lv S: 45 pm
45 pin ar Augusta Ar A: AO am
t>: 25 p m ar M;iom ar M: 45 am
11:25 pm ar \tlanta ar 7:MO am
4:52 a m ar t'lniiilms...ar 12: MM pm
ar F.ufaula.., ; .ar M: 10 pm
1:15 p m ;ir Albany ar 12: 20 pm
ar.-Milledgevilic-nr HI: 20 am
ar KatoiUon ar 12-M0 pm
No IS From August a No 20 No 22
1>: 4A ant lv Auglv 0:00 pni
.": M 0 pm ar Sa\ h arfi:Moani
0: 2A p m ar Macon
11:2-5 p m ar -Atlanta
4: 52 m nr Columbus
11: 15 p m ar Albany
No A4. From Macon No A2.
12:00am lv Macon lv S:oAam
t>:MO am nr Savannah ar M:MO pm
ar Augusta ar M: FA pm
ar... Milloilgeville-.-ar 10:20 am
ar Katonton ar 12: Mopm j
No 1. From Macon No M. i
7: A0 a m lv Macon lv 7: 15 p m j
M:ltpm ar F.ufaula -ar !
12 ; 20nm ar Albany ar 11:15pm
No •>*" From Macon No 10
s: 1-A :i in lv -Macon lv 7-MA pm
12:MM pm ar Columbus. ...ar 4:25 am
No 1 From Macon so 51 so AM j
S;IA am lv Macon...lv 7 ;M0 pm...M;57 am
12:25 pm ar vtlanta-ar 11 ;2Apm-7;MO am j
so 24 From port valley so 21 !
S;MApinlv Fort valley lv 0 ;45 am !
9 ;20 pm ar tvrry..* ar 10 ;M5 am |
so 2 From vtlanta 50.54 so 52 |
2 ;A0 pm 1v- vtlanta-1 v S; 10 pm...M;AAam
0 ;A0 pm ar-Macon arll ;45 am... 7 ;Msam
ar F.ufaula ar M ;lt;pm
lL: 15 pm ar Albany ar- _l2 :20pm
4;2Aam nr culiimlmsar 12:MMpm
MiUislgevillcar 10:20am
ur KiitoutoH ar 12:30pii
ar vinrusta ar 3 ;4opm
ar savannah ar 0 ;M0 am..Ml ;30pm
so 0 From coltimlms so 40
1 : Oil pm lv ...Columbus lv O:\M pm
5 ;42 p m ar Macon ar 0 ;00 a m
11 :15 ppi ar Atlanta ar 12 ;20 pm
ar Kutanla ar 4 :40 pm
11 ;15 pin ar vlliuny ar 4 ;0A pm
I aval sleeping cars on all night trains
between savannah ami Augusta, savan
nah and Atlanta, and Macon and Mont
"iimerv. rullman hotel sleeping cars Ik*-
tween cliicago and Jacksonville, ida., via
Cincinnati, without change.
The Milledgeville and Katonton train
runs daily (except Monday) between cor
don and Katonton. and daily except Mia-
,lnv) between Katonton and cordon.
Train no 20 daily except sunday.
F.ufaula train conneets at enthbert for
Fort opines daily except sunday. rorrv
accommodation train between ivny and
Fort vallev, runs daily, except Sundays.
Albanv aiid lilakely acconi uo*l;uioii train
runs da i1 v except sunday , between a .ba
ll v and Blakely.
At savannah with savannah, rlorma a
western railway ; at Augusta w ith all lines
to north and east; at Atlanta with vir
lim* and Keimesaw routes, to all points
north, east and west. 55 M. Rochas,
G A 55'hitkufai), 1
lien Pass Ag't, Savannah.
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GEORGIA- Monroe fur my—ss’hore
as K. B. Taylor. Administrator of S. H.
Swann, has applied to me for letters < >t
Dismission from sjfid administration, this is
to notify all persons interested to show
cause, if any. by the first Mon lay in June
next, wnv said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and offieia signa
ture. March 4th. i SSS.
JOHN T. McGINTY.
(St.os) Ordinary.
GKC )H( i 1 A—M< >N U< )K (5 >CNTY
s\Tiereas C. 11 Sharp, A ltn'r of G.
-51. Rhodes, deceased, has applied to mo
for Letters of Dismission from said trust,
this is to rite till persons interested, to
show cause, if any, by the lir>: Monday
in June, why said letters should not
lv granted.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture. Tliis March 2. 1455.
\2.00) Jolts T. McGisrv, Ord’v
IMMIGRATION NEEDED.
When we take iuto consideration
the vast area of uncultivated land in
our county; the two railroads pas
sing through it giving it proximity
to various points, the healthful ness
of its location, the productiveness of
its soil, and its adaptation to the cul
ture of various crops, we conclude
there is no better county iu Georgia
for immigrants and that, working,
energetic immigrants are what we
need to aid ns in making Monroe
county the garden spot of our state.
And while other sections of coun
try are moving in this matter, does
it not behoove the citizens of oar
county to take some iniatory steps
in devising plans wlijcreby we can
procure immigration and just such
immigration, as is desirable and
such as will add rapid growth and
prosperity to our people. To show
that there is room in our county for
immigrants who are willing to and
who will work, (and we have room
tor no other class), we will give a
few figures. To cultivate one third
of the land in Monroe county would
require six thousand hands, allowing
three hands to each fifty acres,
idie number of hands reported em
ployed per tax digest in the county
is nine hundred and eighty nine.
Add to this two thousand and eleven
white laborers am* negro tenants,
and one thousand squatters or day
hands, and we have four thousand
laborers. Deducting this number
from the six thousand leaves two
thousand laborers that are needed
to cultivate our lands after allowing
too thirds of said Hands for waste,
woods and pasture.
Now to cultivate one half the land
in the county would require an ad
ditional force of three thousand la
borers, and xve presume no one xvill
claim that half the hinds in Monroe
will not pay to cultivate, and this
added to the two thousand dcfiieien
cy already mentioned would make a
need for five thousand laborers more
than we have, and leave one half of
our lands uncultivated.
Now comes the question as to how
to supply this deficiency and make
the waste places in our county prof
itable. The only practical method
Hme— mtggwak* l test* re— -to us is
immigration; nor do we mean
by immigration, pauper labor.
Any other or a working class of
immigrants, to come bore, must be
induced. Can the inducements be
offered to them ? Will it pay us to
increase the inducements which are
already strong. Social status,
health}' location, intelligence of the
people, mildness of climate, fertility
of soil and variety of products are
the strong inducements we have.
Can we supplement these induce
ments by putting our uncultivated
lands upon the market at such fig
ures. and on such length of time as
will induce energetic, working peo
ple who are desirous of permanent
homes, to come and buy these lands
and make their homes with, and be
come a part of us?
if so then it certainly behooves us
to move in this matter at once.
Because, from an influx of such im
migrants as arc desirable, we would
at an early day derive incalculable
benefit. Under this programme the
lands now cultivated would be rap
idly improved, the waste lands would
be reclaimed, the county would be
densely populated, communities
would be strengthened, flourishing
schools would spring up where now
there is none, ami in a comparatively
short period of time the value of our
lands would be doubled and we would
have in old Monroe,a perfect hive of
human beings moving on prosperous
ly with bright and buoyant hopes of a
progressive future. 55 edo not think
this picture is extravagant or over
drawn, but believe that the attain
ment ot the ends suggested is not
only possible, but feasible and that
these results will obtain in the dis
tant future.
Then why shall we wait for our
children and grand-children to thus
develope this country and bringabout
these results? AVith these thoughts
we suggest the organization of a
Monroe County I migration Society,
by which and before which this sub
ject may be fully investigated, the
questions bearing upon it argued,
and ali the facts connected with it
set forth. Think of tins ye citizens,
of Monroe, who feel an interest in
the future growth and prosperity of
your county.
The Liberty I’edestial fund is
growing steadily at the rate of about
SSOO per day. The donations so far
average near SO cents each. The
poor people of all classes and avoca
tions sending in contributions, while
the millionarcs hold aloof. Its is to
hoped this will be continued. Let
the pedestal be a tit standing place
tor the statue of Liberty Enlight
ening the world, and let it not be in
miv sense a monument to the mem
j ory of any one class of men.
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, (JLOpUk TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 19. 1885.
DANCING. ■ ,
THE DANGERS AND DELIGHTS OF TH’ 0
MOST POPULAR PASTIME,
TREATED AS A RECREATE*
Dr. Talmage Talks of It to His Brook
lyn Congregation.
ITS INFLUENCE FOR EVIL.
A Breaker Upon Which Happiness'anl
Health Are Oftentimes Wrecked. £
Brooklyn', April lU. — Dr. Tall
mage is now preaching it the Br<>.V--'
lyn Tabernacle a brief series ol
bath morning sermons on “Recrek
tions, Good and Bad. ’ His subje u
this morning was “Does dancing o -
cupy too much place in modern s
-?” He expounded the t I
chapter of Kcclosiastes. setting lbrji
that there is a time to weep andli
time to laugh, ami that a smile
he as sacred as a tear. The opeuiig !
hymn was:
Hi* leadutli me, blessed thought;
A\ ords with heavenly comfort fraught.!
The text of the sermon was fron
Mathew xiv., 6: “When Jierodjs
birtliday was kept the daughter $
Heredias danced before them aifl
pleased llerod.'*
Following is the sermon in full:’
It is the anniversary of llcrods
birthday. The palace is lighted.
The highways leading thereto are
ablaze with the pomp of invitol
guests. Lord, captains,
princes and the mightiest men of tile
realm are on the way to mingle hi
the festivities. The tables are filial
with all the luxuries that the royal
purveyors can gather—spiced wines
and fruits tire rare meats. Tli?
guests, whitorobed, anointed and
perfumed, take their places. Music!
The jests evoke roars of laughter.
Riddles are propounded, repartees
indulged, toasts drunk, the brain be
fogged, wit gives place to uproar and
blasphemy, and yet they are not sat
isfied. Turn on more light. Give
us more music. Sound the trumpet.
Clear the floor for the dance. Bring
in Salome, the graceful and accom
plished Princess.
The doors tire opened and in
hounds the dancer. Stand back and
give plenty of room for the gyrations.
The lords are enchanted. They nev
er saw such poetry of motion. Their
souls whirl in the reel and bound
with the hounding feet. Ilerod for-
gets orexx-n •-,. ■ i i>>* ... i
hut the fascinations of Salome. The
magnificence of his realm is as noth
ing compared with that which now
whirls before him on tiptoe. His
heart is in transport with Salome as
her arms are now tossed in the air,
and now placed akimbo. He sways
with every motion of the enchant
ress. He thrills with the quick pul
sations of her feet and is bewitched
with the posturing and attitudes
that he never saw before, in a mo
ment exchanged for others just as
amazing. He sits in silence before
the whirling, bounding, leaping,
flashing wonder; £nd when the
dance stops and the tinkling cym
bals pause, and the long, loud plaud
its that shook the palace with their
thunders had abated, the entranced
monarch swears unto tiie princely
performer: “Whatsoever thou shah
ask of me I will give it to thee to
the half of my kingdom.”
A WOMAN S WICKED WISH.
Now there was in prison a minis
ter by the name of John the Baptisk
who had made much trouble by his
honest preaching. He had denounc
ed the sins of the King and brought
down upon himself the wrath ot the
females in the royal family. At the
instigation of her mother, Salome
takes advantage of the King's ex
travagant promise and demands the
head of John the Baptist on a dinner
plate. There is a sound of heavy
feet and the clatter of swords outside
of the palace. Swing hack the door.
The executioners are returning from
their awful errand. They hand a
platter to Salome. What is on that
platter? Anew tankard of wine to i
rekindle the mirth of the lords? No!
It is redder than wine and costlier.
It is the ghastly bleeding head of
John the Baptist! Its locks dabble
iu gore. Its eyes set in the death
stare. The distress of the last agonj
in the features. That fascinatiiu
form that just now swayed so grace
fully in the dance, bends over th<t|
horrid burden without a shudder.
She gloats over the blood, and just 1
a> the maid ot your household goes,;
bearing out on a tray the empty
glasses of the evening's entertain
ment. so she carried out on a platterf
the dissevered head of that good
man, while all the banqueters shout
ed and thought it a good joky that
m such a brief and easy way they
had freed tiienaselvos from such a
plain-spoken, troublesome minister.
55’hat could be more innocent than a
birthday festival? All the Kings
from the time of Pharaoh had cele
brated such days, and why not ller
od? It was right that the palace
should be lighted, and that the cym
bals should clap, and that the royal
guests should go to a banquet: buf
before the rioting and wassail that
closed the scene of that day, even
pure nature revolts.
I am not going at this time to dis
cuss the old question. Is dancing
right or wrong ? but. does dancing
occupy too much place in modern
society ? And in my remarks I hope
to carry with me the affections ot all
thoughtful people. sVhatever you
may think of the amusement, you
must admit that trom some circles it
has crowded out all opportunity for
all intellectual conversation, and
made the condition of those who do
not dance, either because they do
not know how or are not in sufficient
health to endure it. or because they
lust conscientiously' decline, very
n comfortable. You must admit al
> that with many it has ceased to
b. a recreation and become a dissi
; on. With many it has become
*• h an over fatigue that you can
sUterstand the bewilderment of an
ducated Chinaman, who, standing
m a brilliant bouse where for many
I ours the dance had been going on.
, isked the wealthy proprietor : “Why
lo you not let your servants do that
jlir you " Furthermore, it will be
admitted by all reasonable people
that, whatever they may think of
the old-fashioned square dance and
many of the processional romps, in
whuh 1 can see no evil, the round
dance is administrative of harm and
ijofjtßrves to be
II Ur: !i> Oil or RESPECTABLE CIRCLES.
- 1 am by natural temperament and
religious theory utterly opposed to
the position of those who arc horri
fied at every demonstration of mirth
and play fill ness in social life, and
who seem to think that everything,
decent and immoral, depends upon
the style in which people carry their
feet. On the other hand I can see
: nothing but ruin ; moral and physi
| cal, in the dissipations of the ball
j room, which have despoiled thous
ands of young men and women of all
that gives dignity to character or
I usefulness to life.
I Dancing has been styled “the
j graceful movement of the body ad
justed by art, to the measures or
| tune of instruments, or of the voice.”
All nations have danced. The tin
cicnts thought that Pollux and Cas
tor at first taught the practice to the
Lacedaemonians; hut, whatever be
its origin, all climes have adopted it.
j In other days there were festal dan
j ces and funeral dances, and military
j dances and “mediatorial” dances,
j and bacchanalian dances. Queens
; and Lords have swayed to and fro
in their gardens; and the rough
men of the backwoods have in this
way roused up the echo of the forest.
There seems to he something in live
ly and coherent sounds to evoke the
movement of hand and foot, whether
cultured or uncultured. Men pass
ing the street unconsciously keep
step t the music of the hand; and
Christians in church unconsciously
find themselves keeping time with
their feet, while their soul is uplifted
by some great harmony. Not only
is this true in cultured life, hut the
red men of Oregon have their scalp
dances and green-corn dances and
war dances. The ancient fathers,
aroused by the indecent dances of
those days gave emphatic evidence
•xi.guiust any participation in the
’ • • '.'III * .xwtnm S'lyo • •i'T’lxn
i- : w< -e not given for dancing, hut
to walk modestly; not to leap im
pudently like camels.” One of the
dogmas of'the ancient church reads:
“A dance is the devil’s possession ;
and he that entereth into a dance,
entereth into his possession. The
devil is the gate to the middle and to
the end of the dance. As many pas
ses as a man makes in dancing, so
many passes doth he make to hell.”
Elsewhere these old dogmas declare :
“The woman that singeth in the
dance is the princess of the devil, and
those that answer are his clerks, and
the beholders are his friends, and
the musicians are his bellows, and
the fiddlers are the ministers of the
devil; for, as when hogs arc strayed,
if the hogsherd call one, all assemble
together, so the devil calleth one
woman to sing in tiie dance or to
play on some instrument, and pres
ently all the dancers gather togeth
er. ’ This wholesale and discrimi
nate denunciation grew out of the
utter dissoluteness of those ancient
| days. So great at one time was the
offense to all decency that the .Ro
man Senate decreed the expulsion of
all dancers and dancing-masters
from Rome.
\ et we are not to discuss the customs
of that day, but the customs of the
present. We can not let the fathers
decide the question for us. Our rea-
son, enlightened by the Bible, shall
be the standard. lam not ready to
excommunicate all those who lift their
feet beyond a certain height. 1
would not visit our youth with a rig
or of criticism that would put out
all their ardor of soul. Ido not be
lieve that all the inhabitants of Wales,
who used to step to the sound of the
rustic nibcorn, went down to ruin. I
would give to all of our youth the
right to romp amtrjH.-tj . erwa meant
it. or He would not have surcharged
our natures with such exuberance.
If a mother join hands with her chil
dren and while the eldest strikes the
keys, tills all the house with the
sound of agile feet, I see no harm in
it. It a few friends, gathered in
happy circle, conclude to cross and
recross the room to the sound of the
pianno well played, I see no harm.
If a company of people, all of whom
are known to the host or hostess as
reputable, move round the room to
Lite sound of musical instruments, I
can see no harm. I for a long while
tried to see in it a harm, but 1 never
could and I probably never will. I
would to God men kept young for a
greater length of time. Never since
my school-boy days have I loved so
well as now the hilarities of life.
What if we have felt heavy burdens
and suffered a multitude of hard
knocks, is it any reason why we
should stand in the path of those
who, unstung by life's misfortunes,
are exhilarated and full of glee?
OOTt BI.ESS THE YOUNG.
They will have to live many a day
if they want to bear me say one
word to dampen their ardor or clip
their wings, or to throw a cloud up
on their life by telling them that it
is hard and dark and doleful. It is
no such thing. You will meet with
many a trial: but, speaking from my
own experience, let me tell you that
you will be treated a great deal bet
tor than you deserve. Hot us not
grudge to the young their joy. As
wc go further on in life, let us go
with the remembrance that we have
had our gleeful days. When old age
frosts our locks and stiffens our limbs,
let us not block up the way, but say:
"We had our good times, now let
others have theirs.’ As our chil
dren come on let us cheerfully give
them our places. How glad will I
be to lot them have everything—my
house, my books, my place in society,
my heritage! By the time we get
old we will have bad our way long
enough. Then let our children come
on and we ll have it their way. For
thirty, forty or titty years we have
been drinking from the cup of life,
and we ought not to complain it
called to pass the cup along and let
others take a drink.
But while we have a right to the
enjoyments of life we never will
countenance sinful indulgences. 1
here set forth a group of what might
be called the dissipations of the ball
room. In some communities these
dissipations continue all the year,
while they do the chief work in sum
mer at tlie watering places, and
therefore the subject has wide, ap
plication. They swing an awful
scythe of death. Are we to stand
idly by and let the work go on lest
in the rebuke we tread upon the
long trail of some popular vanity?
The whirlpool of the ball-room drags
down the life, the beauty and the
moral worth of cities. In this
whirlwind of imported silks goes out
the life of many good families. Bod
ies and souls innumerable are annu
ally consumed in this conflagration
of ribbons. This style of dissipation
is the abettor of pride, the instigator
of jealousy, the sacrificial altar of
health, the detiler of the soul, the
avenue of lust and the curse of the
town. The tread of this wild, intox
icating, heated midnight dance jars
all the moral hearthstones of the city.
The physical ruin is evident. What
will become of those who work all
day and dance all night? A few
years will turn them out nervous,
exhausted imbeciles. Those who
have given up their midnights to
spiced wines and hot suppers, and
rode home through winter's cold,
unwraped from the elements, will at
last he recorded suicides.
There is but a short step.
FROM TilK BALI.-ROOM TO THE ORAYK
YARD.
There arc consumptions and fierce
neuralgias close on the track. Amid
that glittering maze of ball-room
splendors, diseases stand right and
left, and balance and chain. A se
pulchral breath floats up amid the
perfume and the froth of death’s lip
bubbles up in the champagne. Many
of the brightest homes are being
There are families that
have actually quit keeping house
and gone to boarding, that they may
give themselves more exclusively to
the higher duties of the ball-room.
Mothers and daughters, fathers, and
sons, finding their highest enjoy
ment in the dance, bid farewell to
books, to quiet culture, to all the
amenities of home. The father will
after a while, go down into lower
dissipations. The son will be tossed
about in society a nonenity. The
daughter will elope with a French
dancing master. The mother, still
trying to stay in the glitter, and by
every art attempting to keep the
color in her cheek and the wrink
les off her brow, attempting without
any success all the arts of the belle
—an old flirt, a poor, miserable but
terfly without any wings.
If anything on the earth is beauti
ful to my eye, it is an aged woman;
her hair floating back over her
wrinkled brow, not frosted, but
white with the blossoms of the tree
of life; her voice tender with past
memories and her face a benediction.
The children pull at grandmother’s
dress as she passes through the room
almost pull her down in her weak
ness; yet she has nothing but a cake
or a candy or a kind word for the
little darlings. When she goes away
from us there is a shadow on the
hearth and a shadow in the dwleling.
But if anything on earth is distaste
ful to look at it is an old woman
ashamed of being old. What with
artificial appliances, she is too much
for my gravity. I laugh, even in
church, when I see hereoming. One
of the worst-looking birds I know of
is a peacock after it has lost its feath
ers. I would not give one lock of
my mother’s gray hair for fifty tliou-
first time you find these faithful
disciples of the ball-room diligently
engaged and happy in the duties of
the home circle, send me word, for
1 would go a great way to see
SUCH A PHENOMENON.
These creatures have no home.
Their children unwashed. Their
furniture undusted. Their china
closets disordered. The house a
scene of confusion, misrule, cheer
lessness and dirt. One would think
3*ou might discover even amid the
witcheries of tue ball-roouqthe sick
ening odors of the unswept, unventi
lated and unclean domestic apart
j merits.
These dissipations extinguish all
love of usefulness. llow could }*ou
expect one to be interested in the
alleviations of the world s miser}*,
while there is a question to be de
cided about the size of a glove or
the shade of a garment? How many
of these men and women of the ball
room visit the poor or help dress the
wounds of a returned soldier in the
hospital? When did the world ever
see a perpetual dancer distributing
tracts? Such persons are turned in
upon themselves. And it is very
poor pasture.
This gilded sphere is utterly bed
warfing to intellect and soul. This
constant study of little tilings; this
harassing anxiety about dress; this
talk of fashionable infinitesimals;
this group that simper and look as
kanee at the mirrors, and wonder
with infinity of interest “how that
1 one geranium leaf does look;” this
NUMBER 17.
shtiveling up of man’s moral dignity
until it is no more observable with
the maked eye; this taking of a wo
man's heart, that God meant should
be filled with all amenities, and com
pressing it until nil the fragrance
and simplicity and artlessness are
squeezed out of it ; this inquisition of
a small shoe; this wrapping up of
mind and heart in a ruffle; this tumbl
ing down of a soul that God meant for
great uplittings! I prophesy the
spiritual ruin of all participators
in this rivalry. Have the white, pol
ished, glistening boards over been
the road to Heaven? Who at the
flash of those chandeliers hath kin
dled a torch for eternity? From
the table spread at the close of that
excited and besweated scene, who
went home to say bis prayers?
To many, nla>, this life is a mas
qiicrudc ball. As at such entertain
merits gentlemen and ladies appear
in the dress of kings or queens,
mountain bandits or clowns, and at
the close of the dance'throw off'tlveir
disguises, so many all through life
move in mask. Across the floor they
trip merrily. The lights sparkle
along the wall or drop from
the ceiling—a very cohort of fire!
The feet bound. Gemmed hands,
strcched out, clasp gemmed hands.
Dancing feet respond to dancing feet.
Gleaming brow bends low to gleam
ing brow. On with the dance! Flash
and rustle and laughter and immeas
urable merry-making! But the
laughter of death come over the
limbs and blurs the sight. Lights
lower! Floor hollow with sepul
chral echos. Music saddens into a
wail. Lights lower! The maskers
can hardly now he seen. Flowers
exchange their fragrance for a sick
ening odor, such as comes from gar
lands that have lain in vaults of cem
eteries. Lights lower! Mists fill the
room. Glasses rattle as though shak
en by sullen thunder. Sighs
seem caught among the cur
tains. Scarf falls from the shoul
der of beauty—a shroud! Light
lower! Over the slippery boards in
dance of death glide jealousies, dis
appointments, lust, despair. Torn
leaves and withered garlands 011I3'
half hide the ulcered feet. The
stench of smoking lamp-wicks al
most quenched. Choking damps.
Chilliness. Feet still. Jlauds folded.
Kyes shut. Voices hushed. Lidas
out!
SOUTHERN COURTESY AND
KINDNESS.
An Englishman of influence, who,
with his family, emigrated to this
country in 1871*. settled m one ofthe
Gulf States, llis friends in New
York remonstrated with him, urging
that the south yet suffered J.rom-the
effects of the war, that trade was
duller there than in the north, and
the chances fewer of success in busi
ness.
“I know it," lie replied.
“You will be there measurably out
of the world of art, music, books,
even news. The towns and houses
have few modern improvements,”
his adviser insisted.
“All very true.”
“The people haven’t the energy
of the north. They are apt to be
hitter in their prejudice.”
“But they are so friendly,” replied
the Englishman. “If I were asked
to name the marked feature of south
ern character, it would be friendli
ness. When I went among them I
found, for the first time in my life,
myself in a world where every man
seemed to consider every man his
blood relation. Though lie had nev
er seen him before he stood read}" to
invite him to dinner, or to befriend
him if be needed it.”
The Englishman remained in the
south. He could not tear himself
away from the pleasant, intangible
ties which had been spun around
him.
No one can travel through the
south without feeling the powerful
charm of the universal atmosphere
of good humor, kin lness and court
esy that is found in the people. Not
only is it shown in the hospitality of
the upper classes, but the poorest of
your fellow passengers is ready to
render you a service.
We have known a train stopped
for an hour in order that a doctor j
might be called to wait upon a sick j
child, and in the six ears full of pas- |
sengers there was not a voice raised [
in discontent. It .****>*£ 1
to do.
In the majority of cases, of course,
the good-will is shown only in a j
smile or pleasant word ; but no one i
who has not lived in this perpetual ’
sunshine can understand its tian
quili/.ing and cheering effect.
There can be but little use in the i
union of the different sections of
this country it the two cannot learn
something from each other. If
northerners are, perhaps, able to
teach their southern brethren some
lessons of energy and progress, they
can also learn from them much that
will make life sweeter, higher, and
far better worth the living.
The northerner at heart is, per
haps, as faithful a lover and as kind
a friend, but he keeps his love and
kindness for his personal friends
and Ins own household and allows
very little of either to illumine his
face, words or manner in the ordi
nary associations of life. —Youth s
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NEWS ITEMS,
Havana's new cable hasbeeu suc
cessfully fan).
Alabama has been visited by a
fearful ewe lone.
The Agricultural Society meets in
Marietta in Angnst.
Gen. Grant's condition is not as
well as reported last week.
The vote of censure against the
Gladstone ministry was defeated.
Snow storms occurred in some por
tions eff the Northwest May 7.
Fatal lever is decimating the ranks
of the British trvxqis in the Soudan.
Key West, Florida, is now ship
ping 100,000 dozen pine apples a
week.
The epidemic at Plymouth, Penn
sylvania, continues with its fatal re
sults.
Emma, Queen Dowager of the
Sandwich Islands, died suddenly,
April 25.
Ex-Governor Walker, of Virginia,
died in New York, May 11, of con
sumption.
Great uncertainty prevails in re
gard to affairs between England and
Russia.
The capital of West Virginia has
been removed from Wheeling to
Charlestown.
The President appointed Anthony
M. Keiley, of Richmond, Va., to bo
minister to Austria.
Dispatches state that there was a
heavy frost in the southwestern por
tion of Virginia May 10.
A llrussell dispatch says tiiat Hen
ry Stanley has been appointed Gov
ernor ot the Congo State.
The President has appointed Hon.
John Goode, of Virginia, to he So
licitor-General of the Pnited States.
Doni Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
has reigned for fifty-three years—-
longer than any other living sover
eign.
The democrats have elected a
small majority of the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention in Florida.
Heavy rams have deluged the
country along t lie Rio Grande, Tex
as, causing much destruction to pro
perty.
The New York Assembly has vot
ed SI,000,(ton more to carry on the
work of completing their §16,000,000
capitol.
Mr. Josiah Bullock, who had lived
to the remarkable age of 102, died in
the Rutland district, near Macon,
May 10.
llev. Julius Ochs, in a sermon at
the synagogue in Chattanooga, en
dorsed Rev. Sam Jones, his teachings,
-fu'nt fiffrinertrods.
Interest in the .Murphy temper
ance movement in Pennsylvania, is
on the increase. Over 400 persons
signed the pledge.
Judge Wiliam Merrick has been
appointed to succeed Judge Wylie
on the Supreme Court bench of' the
District of Columbia.
Serious riots liavo taken placo in
Venice, Italy, occasioned by the ho
tel proprietors keeping gondolas for
the use ofthe guests.
Gen. McDowell, who was in com
mand ofthe Federal forces at the
first battle of Manassas, died in San
Francisco, Cal., May 5.
Two hundred hands have been
thrown out of employment by the
partial destruction by tire, of Hoyt
& Co.’s, shoe factories, Haverhill,
Mass.
In Atlanta the City Council has
increased the retail liquor license
from 8300 to 8500 a year. This is
better than futile attempts at prohi
bition.
Walter E. Stanton, of New York,
a young capitalist, has purchased
the entire bonded debt of the state
of Indiana, which amounts to 81,-
685,000.
The South Carolina exhibit in
New Orleans will be carried to
Charleston and displayed at the
Agricultural Society Hall, in No
vember next.
General Middleton, commander of
the Dominion troops, had a severe
battle with the rebels under Riel,
at Batochc, May 7, in which the re
bels were defeated.
Ex-Governor Conrad Baker, of
Indiana, died at indiauabolia <** ikn
vania in 1817 ; was educated at
Gettysburg and studied law under
Thaddeus Stevens.
The republicans of Illinois elected
their candidate to the legislature at
the election recently, thereby giving
them a majority, which will result,
no doubt, in the election of Gen.
Logan to the senate.
It is stated that the new postal
card paper, under the contract of
1885, will be a delicate pink in lieu
of the cream color of the cards now
used. The texture of the paper is
also to be improved. The size will
remain the same.
In a German grist mill recently a
sack of flour fell down stairs, opened
and scattered the contents in a burn
ing gass flame, set fire to the dust,
causing an explosion which lifted a
part of the roof of the building, and
broke nearly all the windows.
Mr. E. E. Brown, propietor of the
Edgerton in Macon, celebrated his
seventieth birthday May 2. He has
been connected with the hotel busi
ness for a number of }ears, and is
perhaps the best known gentleman
: in the business in the state.
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