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NIK MOXKOM DVjIUTISKK OFFICIAL JOUR N A iiFMONKQEIOtJ NT Y TERMS OF SUBSCBIPTIOH Per Amuim. Cash in Advance - S 1.50 Bix Months, “ “ " 75 Bi.’cgistcrcl in tin* Post Otiice of For syth, lia., second class matter. B*-f TIIK MuMiot. AtIVKHTIsKR liax a large ‘'('irenlathm in .Monro*-. Hiitts. Jones, .lasjwr. mol other Couiiiie*. IM ISMSIIKII EVERY TANARUS! KstlAY NoRMMI. HILLIARD INSTITUTE! SPEIITCT TERM If bin' 12th Jamitlry. Knd- iMth June. FALL TERM llegiris :11st August Hnds lxth December. tvitiox : I’riimwy tirade, per month On (•riiniimir S-b'sl G.-nde ja r month... it (N) High Selnwd tirade. js*r uitflith, I Oil 1 1 cidefttal Fee ,‘VO cents eneti Term. 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. For particulars address IL T. 'ASIU BY, President. D. H. GREEN <& CO., REPAIR CLOCKS, GUNS, Pr.t-iU, e-ving Machines, Etc. All kinds of light Repairing executed promptly and faithfully. We give strict attention to business, anti expect to merit patronage by good work. Alsu we keep on hand a good stock of CONFECTIONERIES. STATIONERY Tobacco and Cigars. (live us a call in the fost-oliicu building. Forsyth, (in. mm m m MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE {’tiros r.1.-o.llnx {• ' ii'. VL*'-r*, Sro Mouth. Sore Threat, Cl- tin? root i :ni PuriHe*> tho Breath; Uiol und r •coninnvM and t>v ! aUng <le”ti*ts. I*r<*— parrt! lv Bid*. .!, 1' A 5V B s. IVntLt<. M Go. For Sale by nil aiul (lenllsU. CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN SCHEDULES. 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. THE MONROE iSfeA DVKRTISER. VOL XXX. .|gj Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and whole-oineness. More eeoiiomii-al than tie: ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in eompetition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold mill / in runs. Hovai. ILxkinu Powdkk Cos., 100 Wall street, New York. THE Georgia Music House (Branch of L widen it Bates,) .MACON, - - GEORGIA. Southern Distributing I)opot for PIANOS ! (MUCKERING, MASON A II A MEIN, BENT, W.EA DA EL & .MARSHAL, ARIOX, BEII R BROTHERS, lIAEEKT A DA EIS. ORGANS -MASON A 11 A.MIMN, R \UK A HI), BAY STATE. All sold on Long Time. EOWKST PRICES, EASIEST TERMS, BEST INSTRUMENTS. Special discounts to Tcaclicrs. Special discounts to Ministers. Write for Catalogues and Terms, and you will be convinced that you have found headquarters. Don’t buy until you have con sulted our prices. Can’t possibly lose anything by writing. E. I>. IRVINE, Manager. HIRHiLsrOEL WINE_COCA! STRENGTHENS & EXHILARATES A Perfectly Reliable Diffusible Stim ulant and Tonic. It sustains nr.d 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 healthv 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. The greatest blessing to all afflicted with Nerv<ius.complaints, such as Sick Headache. Neuralgia. s\'akefu’.ness, Loss of Memory. Nervous Tremor. Loss of Appetite. Melan choly. Kino. F.te, F.te. FRENCH WINE COCA! will vitalize vntir bhvd and build you up :it onee. Law vers. Minister. Teachers. Or ators. Vocalists, and till who use the voice, will rind in the Wine Coen, taken halt ail hour previous to appearing betore their audiences, the most remarkable results. One trial of. WINE COCA will establish its wonderful good etleets. eall on your duruggists or Dr. .J. S. Pem berton Jc Cos., and get on the wonderful proerties of the Coca Plant, or Sacrvil Herbs; also the French Wine Coca. For sale bv Druggists. Wholesale by .1. S. PLM BF.KTON A: CO.. Manufacturing Chemist and Drug and Oil Brokers. 59 Broad st.. Atlanta, (la. For sale by Alexander & Son and Ellison & Smith, Forsyth, Ga. aprM 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 Companion. You Can Have It. “My dear, what would I give to have your hair?’ is often said by middle-aged ladies to young ones. Madam, you may have just such hair. Parker’s Hair Balsam will give it to you. It will stop your hair from falling off, restore the original color and make it long, thick, soft and glossy. You need not stand helplessly envving the girls. 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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. Every One His Own Artist. 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