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Hi! NWtpi AWV i KI > All. WfltrtLJpl i NiOl kK§E( JONTY t- X 3 i . ~*.JZ i. ± TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION": Per Annum, Cash in Ad vance - Si. so Bii Months, " " 14 75 " r j£t •- • "I# ~|r~ if tfci>‘K-’ist‘ r<*l in :h>- l' -t < |f <■ of i ir svtis, 4 -s n Iwr. tklf -Tlir MoNKUf. At'VKUTISKR lilts a large ('initiation in Monr**-. Butts. Jonv**, Jasper, ami other < Ymjtititfs. I'IULISIIEI' K\ fRV \V MOKXi’N'I. CHOLERA oun The Great Southern remedy IV O R BOWEL TROUBLES, CHRDREH TEETHINS, DIARRHtEfI, DYSENTERY AND CRAMP COLIC. I U' BIGGLRS Ht f K I FIIK kR 5 < ORDIAI. should he kept in every household. ' ! ' ‘ ■■■>•' ■ the mem pfaeai int and ef&cai Indies there is for summer c >m jAmah. • y '• 1 •' •■( th< >c.u \ri nvi .lent f; i ..id den attacks h* i.o.vei. ire SO fre<|u. ri!. you should. 1 nve some speed y relief a* hand. It will save P*' 1 ' amici?, a, well as large doc tor hills. ' The wearied mother, losing sleep '“ ; ’A r nui g the lit )ne suffering such a dndnage upon its system from the rtfrets of teething, should use this invaluable medicine. For sale l.y all druggists at 50 cents a bottle. gfaJTScnd 2e. stamp for kiddle lh.ok, to WAI.TKK A. TAVI.OR, Atlanta, Ga, NOTICE TO THE FARMERS AND PUBLIC J AM STILL AGKNT FOR TIIE DANIEL PRATT GIN CO. Those in n* , **d ot (tins. Feeders, or <’oiidensers nnd expect to buy for use tne eoliiing sen-uin "ill do well to See me and get terms and juices he fori purchasing elsewhere. You eun sec sample* of Gins, Feeders and Condensers at the ollieo of .laities !>. I’riK-tor’s warehouse. WILKY L. SMITH. Agt. Forsyth, Gn., Muy 25tli. 18K5. MONEY TO LEND. 1 am prepared to negotiate loans for money iii small sums for one, two, three, four or live years, time on real estate. 15. S. WILLINGHAM. BRAMBLETT & BRO, UNDERTAKERS Forsyth, <;a. H AY ING purchased the stock of under taker's goods recently controlled be the late K N. YY iJder as agent, we are pre pared to carry on the the undertakers busi ness in all its delaik. YY t* have added a 1 ew line of goods to those already in stuck, with now and complete stock of goods, ele gant new Hearse and good reliable team, prompt and careful attention we hope to merit the patronage of the jiuhlie. Burial Kobe* for gents and ladies, much nicer and at half the cost of suit of clothes. The Hearse will he sent free of cost with coffins costing ?•_’() and upwards, when the dis tance is not too great. Bit A MB LETT & BRO. D. H. GREEN&CO., EEPAIB ttaefesreffflsr Pißt 113, e-tfiag Machines, Etc. All kinds of light Repairing executed promptly and faithfully. YY e give strict attention to business, and expect to merit patronage by good work. Also we keep oil hand a good stock of CONFECTIONERIES, STATIONERY Tobacco and Cigars. (iivo u- :t 1-ali ill till- s‘l st-uftloc building. Kor-vth. Ga. CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN SGH EDULES. Road down Read down Nodi. From Savannah. Nod;!. 10:00 a m I.v...Savannah—Lv S: 45 pm 3: Id pm ar Augusta Ar 5:50 ahi 0: 25 p m ar Macon ar 4d am 11: 2d p m ar Atlanta ar 7:20 am 1:52 a tti ar Oolmnlms...ar 12:33 pm ar Ktifaula ar A: It; pm 1: Id p m ar Albany ar 12:20 pm ur-Milledgevillc-ar 10:20 am ar Katonton ar 12:30 pm Ni> IS From Augusta No 20 No 22 9: 45 am lv Aug.lv 0:lH) pm .8: .'!tt pm ar Sav’h ar ti: 80 am 6: 2d p in ar Macon 11: 2d pm ar -Atlanta 4:d2 mar t’ol tint bus 11: Id pin ar Albany No 54. From Macon No A2. 12:00 am lv Macon lv 8:05 am 0:80 am ar Savannah ar 8:80 pm ar Augusta ar 8:45 pm ar...Mille<lgeville...ar 10: 20am ar Katonton ar 12:80 p m No 1. Front Macon No 8. 7:50 am lv Macon lv 7: Id pm 8: 10 put ar Ktifaula ar 12:20 pm ar—Albany ar 11:15 pm No 5 From Macon No 19 S: IS am lv -Macon lv 7:35 pm 12: ;ki p m ar Columbus—ar 4: 25 am No l From vacon no 51 no 58 S ;ld am lv Macon...lv 7 ;30 pm...:’ ;d7 am 12:25 pm ar \tlanta-ar 11 ;25pm-7;30 am no 2S From Fort valley no 21 8 ;85 pm lv Fort valley lv 9 ;4d am 9 ;20 pin ar ferry..'. ar 10;85 a m jo 2 From vtlanta no 54 no 52 12 AO pm lv-Atlanta-.lv S :10 pm..." :55am 1 ti ;50 pm ar-Maeon...arl 1 ;45 am... 7 :35am ar Ktifaula ar 3 :10pm 1 1 :15 pm ar Albany ar 12 ;20pm 4 ;27> am ar cohuntms ar 12 ;38pin Milknlgeville ar 10:29am air Katonton ar 12;80pm ar Augusta ar ;45pm ar savannah ar (> ;30 am..." :30pm No 0 From eohirfnnis no 40 1;00p m lv ...colmnbus lv 0;53 pm 5 ;42 p in ar .....Macon ar 0 .00 a in 11 ;15p m ar Atlanta ar 12:20 pm - ar—.-nifaula ar 4 :44 pm 11 ;15p m ar Albany ar 4 ;05 pm l.H‘a! sleeping cars on all night trains between savannah and Augusta, savan nah and Atlanta, and Macon and Mont gomery. Pullman hotel sleeping cars be tween Chicago and Jacksonville, via., via Cincinnati. without change. The willedgeville and Katotiton train runs daily .except Monday) lad ween <;or don and Kc.t-'nton. and daily except sun day la'tween Katonton ati<l cordon, train no 20 daily except sundav. Kufanla train connects at cutlibert for F<>rt names daily except sundav. eerrv acconnnodation train lvtween tx-rrv anil Fort valley, runs daily, except sundaes, Albany and Blakely a.votnuiodation train runs daily except sundav. lvtween a 1 ba il v and Blakely. At savannah with savannah. Fi<‘rihi A: western railway ; at a ig u-ta with ail lines to north and east; at Atlanta with Air line and KCnnesaw mOtc-. to all jmints ttor’h, east amt west. 11 m. Roukks, G A Nt'ittTKiiFAi), Sup't Gen Fa. s Vg't, Savannah. JOB WORK Neatly ami promptly executed at this office. Wc know no competition. VOL. XXX. PRECAUTION! MGERS’ OUJ I\ L DLft It a CORDIAL TI-IE Georgia Music House (Branch of Janhlcn & Bates,) MACON, - - GEORGIA. Southern Distributing Depot for PI ANOS ! CHICK EKING, MASOX & HAMLIN, RENT, WEADALL & .MARSHAL, A KIOX, BEIIR BROTHERS, HALLET A DALIS. ORGANS MASON & HAMLIN, PACKARD, BAY STATE. All sold oij Long Time. LOWEST PRICES. EASIEST TERMS, BEST LNSTRUM ENTS. Special discounts to Teachers. Special discounts to Ministers. AY rite for Catalogues and Terms, and you will he convinced that you have found headquarters. Don't buy until you have con sulted our prices. Can’t possibly lose anything by writing. K. 1). IRVINE, Manager. FEE3ST OH WINE COCA! STRENGTHENS & EXHILARATES A Perfectly Reliable Diffusible Stim ulant and Tonic. It sustains and refreshes, aids digestion and assimilation, imparts new life and en ergies to the worn and exha-ted mind and body, and excites every faculty of mind and body to healthy and natural condition. COCA! is a wonderful invigorator ot 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 Nervousyoniplaints. 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 y.-ur duruggi.-t-. or l)r. J. S. Pem berton' Cos., and get on the wonderful proerties if the Coca Plant, or Sacre<l Herbs: also the French Wine Coca. For sale bv Druggi-ts. Wholesale bv J. S. PEMBERTON A CO.. Manufacturing Chemist and Drug a;id*Oi! Brokers, 59 Broadst., Atlanta. Ga. For sale bv Alexander <& Sen and Ellison Smith, Forsyth, Ga. apr3 I. W. ENSIGN. BOOK SELLER. STATIONER, NEWS DEALER. All the Standard School Books on band. Mi>ceU&noou& Books and Station ary lor sale at LOWEST PRICES! Subscriptions received for all ataudard New spa: >ers uui Periodicals A got it for CHRISTIAN INDEX. OPIUM^T” 14 k DIX Reliable evidence giv ABI 1 mu and reference to CUREDfeLR' I"’* 1 "’* - s mi tor luv hook on the Habit and tt j -are. Free. ' tel.la PROCRASTINATION. There seems he an inherent pronwiess in mankind to put off for the future the doing of that which ought to be done in the present. Yielding to the sway of indolciVeor inertness, or to the entreaties of that common delusion—a convenient sea son, we are continually crowding upon the future that which the pre sent ought to bear. Indeed not many persons fully realize the truth of the proverbial expression “Pro crastination is the theif of time.” Today's demands come crowding upon us, and surrounding circum stances lead us to postpone the pro per compliance to these demands till to-morrow, and to ignore the fact that tomorrow will be freighted with its own labors. Observation teaches those who closely observe the doings of man, that the tendency to procrastinate is quite as universal and wide-spread as arc the descendants of Adam. In very childhood it crops out, and all along through the different stages of life to old age we find its foot-prints at various points. And wherever we find these evidences of procrasti nation in the history of any man we likewise find that, that man at that particular point in life lost some thing. • School boys and girls, and college students put off the proper prepara tion of their lessons from time to time and to a more opportune hour, until ere they are aware of the fact, their school days have gone and they by necessities of the hour, and force of circumstances are ushered upon the arena of manhood and wo manhood, totally unfitted and un prepared for the duties of life and for the obligations resting upon them as members of the human fam ily. Given to hilarity and mirth and blinded by present pleasures, they procrastinate the proper pros ecution of their studies and the im provement of their mental powers, until the cares of life sooner than they expect, come upon them, and they learn too late, that the golden opportunities once in the womb of the future, have in a few years been born and buried in the grave of the past. Nor is procrastination steal ing golden moments from school si. vCsTHiTiTfr'gvC v only, but from persons in ail the avocaTtoFiTTh~utt‘A The farmer puts off proper atten tion to his fruit trees and insects do their destructive work theiein and the death of the trees ensue ; he puts off housing his tools in the Fall to a convenient time and springs finds them made useless by the winters rain ; he delays carrying his pro duce to market for a convenient op portunity and the price declines and loss in money is sustained ; he post pones plowing his land and the moisture in the earth has evaporated and the ground is too hard, and thus passes through life subjecting him self to the thefts of procrastination continual I v. The lawyer puts off the proper preparation of the causes entrusted to him, and the court convening finds him not ready, whereby his clients are disappointed and his reputation is not strengthened. The doctor sometimes puts oft’ ins visit to the sick to accommodate his convenience whereby the disease strengthens its hold, tightens its grasp and the patient dies. The preacher, it may be, delays his proc lamation of awakening-words of warning for a more opportune time and for a larger audience and the immortal soul of some sinner is doomed to wail in hell forever. Thus it is that procrastination is constant ly stealing, from us, much that is valuable. Again when we look upon the moving masses of humanity and see how universal among them is the habit of postponing the most impor tant work and duty assigned them in this life, we can but exclaim —how fearful is it to procrastinate! Got! is daily calling millions of his creatures who took the wrong road at the di vergence point, to return from tneir wanderings in the wilderness of -in. and their answer coming back to the caller upon the waves of inditercnce is—wait—wait—wait till certain ob jects now comtemplated are accom plished ; till certain desires now en tertained are gratided. Remember, reader, if you are of this class, that your defference to this accomplish ment and gratification may forfeit to you a home in Heaven and bring as your heritage a home in he'll. These two. and only these two eter nal homes are before us and to the one or the other, each one of us is going. The Legislature. Judging from the now matter pi!- 1 ing up before the General Assemble, it seems that our legislators "are in the House of our fathers"—and there to stay—awhile. Glad to see they are alive and active and not sleep -1 ing. FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY,.GEQRfRA.-TUKSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11. 1885. A GOOD MAN GONE. Dr. D. B. Searcy died at his resi dence in this county Saturday morn-* ing, Ist inst., PA o'clock, and was. hurried at the family cemetery Sun day afternoon. Avery large enn> course of people from Monroe, Craw ford and Bibb counties, and many leading citizens from Macon attend ed tin* funeral services, which were conducted by Rev. G. H. Pattillo, P. E., and Rev. S. Leak, P. (J. Mr. Pattillo announced as his text the 37th verse of the 37th Psalm : “Mark the perfect man, and behold the up-, right, for the end of that man is peace.” He said: The phrase “perfect man” defined what the man is ; and “upright man’’ what the man does. The former re fers to character, the latter to con duct. The term “perfect’’ is not to be understood in an absolute sense. No human being is or can be abso lutely perfect. As here used, it is intended to describe the man whose sentiments, opinions, affections, in tentions and purposes are good, right, pure. One may be said to be “per fect" when, having discerned, to the best of Ins knowledge, that which is right, he invariably and unhesita tingly approves, seeks after and em braces it. Of course this implies a change of heart, being brought from a state of nature to one of grace wherein man can will as well as do the things that are right and pleas ing in the sight of God. The “upright man” is one whose outer life is right. A good tree bringeth forth good fruit. From the pure fountain issues a pure stream. Out of a heart made right by the grace of God, and maintained by human and divine cooperation in such a state and relation, comes a righteous life. He who is truthful within will be truthful without. Pure sentiments, just motives and righte ous volitions will bring forth truthful utterances, honest transactions and holy living. Those principles and facts aptly Ht the character and lifeof J )r. Searev. Fitly-three years ago this month, at the old Monroe Camp-ground God gave him anew heart. Ho was soundly, • consciously and happily converted and made a child of Heav en. From then till the day of his death, by the grace of Go . ho main tained his Christian integrity and walked Itj ? rtvfnT' b“ Xfvior. Dr. Searcy was a man of strong, positive character. He had convic tions—clear and definite; lie was a tnan of decision, of steadfastness of purpose, of uncompromising integri ty. When therefore in August, 1882, lie decided to yield himself to God and stepped across the line on the side of God and right, he took a po sition from which he never departed ; he espoused a cause which he never betrayed but to which he was in tensely loyal all the days of his life. Right in his heart, lie was right in his life. Justice, mercy and truth lived in his heart and reigned in his life. Such is the verdict of his breth ren and fellow-citizens. I asked several persons what was the stand ing of Hr. Searcy in the community. One said, "As good as that of any man that ever lived or died in the country.” Another said, “He has always been looked upon as a model.” AnothcT, “As good as the best in the whole country.” Hr. Searcy was no ordinary man. 1 might speak of him in other fea tures of his beautiful character and noble life, but thought, perhaps, it becoming the pulpit to speak mainly of his religiou character and history. He was a man of extensive reading and considerable information. You i could hardly discuss a question con- j corning which he had not himself thought and gained knowledge. He j was an industrious man—under no j necessity to work, lie still laboriously followed the practice of medicine for years. He was a successful man, managed his business well, and al- j ways had a plenty to meet his wants. ; A great light has gone out from this ! house, this church, and this commit- ' nit}*. What a character! What a life ! Fifty-three years —over a half century —a blameless, exemplary, faithful follower of the Lord Jesus! What a priceless heritage he leaves to his posterity, brethren of Mt. Zion church and fellow-citizens. ~ 1 feel that I must say to his fami ly that where so bright a light has shown for so long a time there ex ists great responsibility. The truth and power ot religion have been faithfully illustrated in the character and life of your father. Follow in iiis steps if you would meet your ob ligations. be successful in your life and win eternal blessedness in the unending future. Ot course such a life ends in peace. Fifty-three years lived in the peace of and peace with God cannot fail to end in peace —cmd without* strife, without a struggle here and issue in eternal peace at the right hand of God. When some men die no body doubts they are lost, j The common verdict is. he is gone to lie’ll. Concerning the destiny of oth er.- there is a difference of opinion— some fear they are lost, while some hope they are saved. Relative to L>r. Searcy there is hut one opinion, that is, he is saved —he is in heaven. • Well donegood and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." "Far from this world of toil and strife, He is present with the Lord ; The labors of his mortal life End in a large reward.’’ “Marks the perfect man, and be hold the upright, for the end of that ’ man is peace. Village Improvement Companies. I nder this this head the Savan nah Morning News-produces the fol lowing sensible editorial, and we hope the people of Forsyth will give it their careful consideration. Such a company could be organized with but little effort, and there is no cal culating the benefit it would be to the town : “The idea of forming joint stock companies for the purpose of build ing up and beautifying villages and small towns is not anew one. Sev eral villages north have had such “organizations in successful operation for years. When the many good points of such companies are consid ered, it is strange that they have not been formed in nearly every town throughout the country. llow "many towns, now decaying and un ailractive, might be made beautiful and delightful places of residence if fhe people only had a little public spirit, and would work together for of their homes and the linkling of new ones. There is scarcely a town of any pretentions that could not sustain an improvement company of from 200 to f)00 shares, payable at $1 per month on each share. The funds could be loaned monthly or quarter ly, and thus money that is generally wasted would be devoted not only to the building of homes, but would be profitably invested, paying regular dividends to stockholders and learn ing the people, especially the young men, practical lessons in economy and thrift. dn most towns land and building materials are cheap, and a very neat house, suitable for a small family can be built for from SOOO to SI,OOO. A building association could insure the erection of from three to ten such houses every year, besides lending small amounts to members for the improvement of old build ings. Whenever you find a town in which there is properly directed public spirit, you will find one in which the people are prosperous and contented, and in which the value of pro] rty steadily, though perhaps not rapidly, advances. Public spirit is contagious, and if the conditions for it are favorable it will soon make itself apparent in a community,-. It the money is not needed for the erection or improvement of build ings, it can be devoted to the estab lishing of manufacturing enterprises which will add to the business and importance of c town. There is always room f j such enterprises, and they rarely ail to be profitable when uoperly inaugurated and eon 'V'dP’iir k.....;,,.- ,r.._ IT the people of a town want it to become attractive, they must go to work and build it up. If they wait for capitalists or outsiders to come iu and build it up, they will be dis appointed. Capital is nowhere so timid as in a small town, and it sel dom pays to invest money in a town where the people are devoid of pub lic spirit and local pride.” The South and the Spoils. The New York Times, in discuss ing the recent letter of Secretary Lamar to Mr. Eaton, of the civil ser vice commission, says: “Mr. Lamar speaks in a very mod erate tone of the evils under which the south has suffered from the spoils system. ‘Under preceding adminis trations,’ he says, ‘and before the civil service commission was estab lished, the appointing power, owing to peculiar causes, was not directed, as a rule, to selections from the most intelligent and the best in population in the south.’ He might have said that the appointing power was not, as a rule, directed to selections from the south at all, or to selections from the best and most intelligent from any population for offices in the south. It was largely directed to the choice of men who could get delegates to national conventions for the gentle men who happened to control the appointments. South had the spoils system in full operation, but it had the system in its worst form, compli cated and degraded by features that were only partially known or were wholly unknown in other sections. For years there was not a republican state in the union where the federal service was managed as it was in the south, and there was not one, not even Pennsylvania or Vermont, where its management in any such way and to the same degree would not have given a majority in that state to almost any candidates the republicans could have put up.” And yet our republican friends professed to he surprised that the south was “solid," and it has been only a short time since the Times was-demanding the disintegration of the “solid south ’ The Times goes even jet further, and remarks that “even purely par tisan appointments in the south made by a democratic administration would be better than those made heretofore under the republican ad ministrations, as a rule, because they would have to be made with a greater sense of responsibility to public opin ion there.” We are glad to see this tardy recog nition of the trials which the south has had to endure under a republican administration from such a source. Final Cultivation of Potatoes. Rochester Herald. In cultivating the potatoes the last tune if you lull them up at all make the hills broad and flat, so that the water will not run off. but soak in and wet them through and through. When the hills are made high and sharp the water will run otf and the potatoes are liable to suffer from drought. REV. SAM JONES. He is Attacked by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, of St. Louis. St. Louis Republican. Tl.i s is the way the St, Louis Evan gelist, the leading Presbyterian pa per of the west, will speak of the Rev. Sam Jones to-day: “•Willipus Waliopus’ is the course alliteration found in a dispatch from St. Louis to the eastern press, used by the star revivalists, Sam Jones, to describe the power of Christianity. The phrase can have no other mean ing in his saying, ‘I tell you, when the willipus waliopus of Christianity passes over humanity it levels all alike.’ His so-called sermons at the Plattsbnrgcampmeeting, as publish ed in the daily papers of the city, abound in similar expressions. There is such disgusting incongruity in the use of such slang phrases, many of which are unknown to the better classes of society in connection with the gospel ot Christ, that thoughtful people wonder why ministers of re ligion can sanction such vulgarity as a part of modern revival methods. When the people can associate such terms with the truth and the Holy Ghost there is great danger of com mitting the unpardtetable sin. The increasing tendency to irreverence m this period of the world's history is encouraged by such flippant slang phrases to express truths of the most solemn import, The lowest class of hoodlums feel contempt for the re spectable appearing persons who try to win their favor by the use of their own familiar forms of speecF . The purest language should be used as tiie appropriate channels of commu nicating divine truth to men, who must receive it with serious consid eration in order to be made effectual in their salvation. The clown can excite laughter, but his coarse sallies of wit are not the proper means to produce conviction of sin, whether in the circus or in religious assem blies, and he can always go ahead of the preacher who imitates his meth ods to draw a crowd.” If Dr. Cooper will follow brother Sam he will find that “Willipus Wal iopus” is not a circumstance to what the good people of St. Louis will hear before the Georgia Evangelist gets -through with them. The staid preshyterian will find something to gush over, and pray over besides. Let “Willipus Waliopus” have full sway. Hard on “Gath.” Mr. Geo. Alfred Townsend lately met u southern man of wide ac quaintance and great frankness,” WnolornfOo tue"sou'ni' would never develop into a rich country because the soil is too poor to be worth manuring, and instanced the white clay soil of South Carolina as an example. The editor of the Charleston .News and Courier, hav ing read this slur upon this state, comes back at the author and the author's interviewer with the asser tion that there is no clay soil in South Carolina, save the beds of kaolin, which deposit is shipped to the north in large quantities every day, where it is sold by the pound to take the place ot sugar in certain food preper ations, and which is, therefore, ob serves the Courier, with some asperi ty, probably not less valuable, in the long run than other soils sold by the acre. As the matter now stands, honors may lie considered easy be tween "Gath” and the southern edi tor. —Indianapolis Journal. it will not be many years before the north will seethe value of south ern lands, and emigrants will hunt the south instead of the bleak and dreary northwest. They will take negroes and all after they once try our genial soil. We would bo glad for a few of the best to come —not too many, however, to effect good morals, or good government. Mr. Berner’s Position. The House having under consid eration the reform prison bill, our immediate representative delivered himself as follows: Mr. Berner, of Monroe, spoke in opposition to this bill. He said it was an impracticable scheme and would bear no good fruits, lie would oppose it at the hazard of covering himself with oblivion. He did not like to see old mother Georgia ma ligned and denounced as a procuress and aider of prostitution. She had done the best she could. Before the war she had plenty and did not have the negro problem to deal with. He found thirty-six in the list, who could enter the institution, eighteen for burglary, three for attempts at rape, six for larceny, two for horse steal ing, one for murder, two for man slaughter, one for felony, one for arson and two for robbery, lie said it was useless to attempt to reform these criminals. The last sentence in the above paragraph is not good scripture doc trine. If the thief on the cross could go through all right, perhaps some one of the criminals mentioned might get a taste of salvation. The Holiness Feast for Augusta. Augusta, Ga.. July 20. —[Special.) The Augusta Methodists held a mass meetingto-night at St. John’s church, General C. A. Evans presiding, and John M. Weigle, secretary, to pro vide ways and means for the nation al holiness campmeeting, to meet in Augusta in October. Comtnitteeson finance, reception, etc., were appoint ed. Preparation will be made to en tertain 3,000 visitors from all parts of the union, and a tent will be erected seating 3,000 people. JiDIRER 29. SAM JONES AS A COLLECTOR Sam Jones devoted his last day at Plattsburg, Nlo., campmeeting to putting in a few solid licks for the little orphans of Georgia. Mr. Jones has done a good work in this line for the past four years and his heart is in it. llis methods as a collector are unique, lie knows just how to strike a crowd. When he is after money lor the Georgia orphans he literally forages on the enemy, strikes below the belt and “takes un derhull” when it will do him any good. noW IIF. WORKED IT. At Plattsburg, last Sunday, lie led artfully to bis business. The first response to his appeal was a dona tion of 810. “1 like that,” said Jones. “That's a man don’t belong to any church. God bless these old big-hearted sin ners round here. A man goes to church and they “brother” him till they think he belongs to them. But it seems to me I would go to one of these big-hearted old sinners quicker than I would to one in tlif church. Ain’t that true in Missouri—uigger hcarted men out ot the church than in it? Oh, brother, when we go home to-night, and sit down with wife and child, let us say: “Thank God, J have done something to-day lor the orphan children.’” * * * “Let every follow here give some thing. If you ain’t got any money, borrow some from the fellow that lias it, and if you ain’t able to give or borrow a cent, if some of your friends will lie or bind you in a sack, I will take you down to the orphans’ home and take care of you. If you ain’t able give anything, just send up your man to the orphans. 1 will ship you down there and they will take care of you. That's a good idea, ain’t it?” “Brother Gibson, you go down that way. (To Judge Hitt.) You are a preacher, ain't you? No? Well, I’ll make out like you are. [Laugh ter.] Brother, will you get your hat and stir around? Get right down there. Just move aside there a lit tle.” * * * (A stranger handing up 810). I’ll give it to you, Brother Jones. 1 can trust you. Brother Jones. All right. Now you take your hat and go to work. I’ll trust you. * * * * * * Just about this time, it is told by a bystander to the reporter how the bona-fide sinners ot Plattsburg, headed by John K. Lincoln, Adam Breckenridge and George IS. Newdy, ten in up 810 each, to be g t,*, U' -'i. i uijiios anu coiiuren. These were tbe sinners who belong to the whist club and play in Sheriff Allgaier’s cool and shady room. :jc 'Jf. IIE STEPS OVER TO KENTUCKY. Last Tuesday the gcorgia evange list opened a booming revival at the High Bridge campmeeting in Kcn tneky. He turned up fresh as a dais}' and won the crowd at the start. Among other good things he said : “One time an old buck-slidden Methodist told me he had been seek ing a blessing in meeting. He asked me how bo might get this. I told him that I could tell, but I wanted to know what he was going to do with it. Ho said he wanted to be happy. lie was just like a drunkard wanting to get happy for the tun he would have. He was trying to de bauch religion to a glass of whisky. A dog can run a rabbit when he feels like it, and catch it when lie feels all right. S; # 'Jf- % * * '%■ “You have been singing ‘Come, Angel, Rear Me,’ and if some of us ever do get there angels will have to take the job. That’s no way to do. Where a good man dies his head and shoulders are already in glory, and his soul get’s there before an angel can fly.” * j|C sje * ijc “If you are neglecting a thing you know you ought to do, you ain't fit for nothing. These preachers all know it, but they wouldn't tell it for a dol lar. Ain’t you shamed of your lit tle husband, sister? Give him some soothing syrup. I don’t call any names, but every tnan knows his number. If I was anything, J wouldn’t be a miserable one-horse failure. ■Jf. -Jf. % % if. if. “lf‘ you get in heaven tbe way you are doing now it's because God don’t hold you responsible. It’s like the first kind of engines, which used to have just two wheels. The}' ran on schedule time, but that was only three miles an hour. Mow they have put on eight more wheels, and they can go sixty miles an hour. Will you let God put on some more wheels ? Lord have mercy on these two-wheeled fellows; they have got to Vie side tracked and put out of the way. Brethren, I don.t go much on a man who don’t pray in public. We understand that numerous farmers favor prohibition because they believe that negro labor is de moralized by country stores that sell liquor. These farmers do not, as a rule, intend to quit drinking them selves, but desire to compel negroes, by law, to be sober. If some of our church friends are right, this is an attempt to make negroes better than white people. So says the Augusta Chronicle. Any reason that makes the farmer a prohibitionist is a good one. It the negroes are made better, why will it not make the whites better at the same time? - - - -♦♦♦- ■ ■ An establishment for manufactur ing vire is among the probabilities at Rome. JOB PRI_NTI NG Business Men if vou Want Bill Heads, Note Heads, Cards, Letter Heads, Enevlopes, Statements, Lodgers, 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 stoek of printing material of all kinds and of tin; latest styles. Work done neatly and Promptly. oxroe Advkktiskk rOY^i POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesonn-noss. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, snort weight, alum or phosphate powders. S<tld only in cans. Royal Baking Powder Cos., 100 Wall street. New York. The Local Option Bill. Some apprehension is expressed by the friends of the general local option bill that it will be defeated by the amendments which, it seems probable, will be made to it in tho senate. The opponents of the bill arc cer tainly leaving no means untried to prevent it from becoming a law. It is believed that their purpose now is to get it so amended that the house will not accept it. It will then go to a conference committee, where it may be kept by shrewd management until towards the end of the session. In fact, it may he kept there until it is too late to secure its passage in any shape if the opposition to it is active and vigilant. It is a question whether the oppo nents of the billl are not. making a mistake in obstructing its passage. One of them, a few days ago, said that it was the purpose of some of its strongest supporters to make it tho basis of a political movement. It is much more likely to become tho basis of a political movement if its pussago through this legislature issuecesslul ly obstructed than if it is passed. If it is passed at the present session tho interest in the law will become local at once. If it is defeated, the chances are that local option will become a political issue at tho next stale elec tion. * The very large vote which the bill number ot counties already hi lied to the temperance cause are y-4 *y good* indications that it would not be cult for the temperance people to" elect a temperance legislature. If the opponents ot the bill arc good politicians they will take into con sideration something beyond a mere temporary success.—. Savannah News We trust that the senate may not be able to defeat the bill by tacking on unfriendly amendments. It is best for all concerned for this ques tion to be left quietly to the people in their respective localities on a fair basis, rather than divide tho demo cratic party on that issue. Let us vote prohibition when we have a chance, and also the democratic tick et when wc go to the polls. Vegetable Oils for Cooking. Some few years ago a Philadelphia firm canned cotton seed oil to bo used in cooking purposes instead of lard, hut owing to lack of proper ap preciation by northern cooks and the prejudices of many hoousekeep ers the enterprise failed. Wc fail to see why animal fatsaro so extensively used in cookery in stead of the more healthful vegeta ble oils; the latter are cleaner and quite free from disease gun ns of all kinds, which cannot he said of many grades of so called lard found in tho grocers’ stores. When heated, tho common grades of lard emit a disa greeable odor, which permeates tho house and spoils the flavor of the food cooked in it. Many of the down town restauaants use lard for cooking purposes, which, when on the range, emits a stench that drives all thoughts of dining out of our minds, and we seek a more appetizing re sort. The unpleasant stuffy smell of bakeries is attributed to their con stant use of lard. Cotton seed oi! is extensively manu factured in the south, where it is much used in cookery, ami there is good reason why it.should not event ually supersede hogs lard every where, it is not only more economi cal, but it is decidedly more healthful, being less liable to adulterations. Put up in air tight cans, it is less apt to come in contact with foreign im purities than the barrel of lard found in the groceries. One can get lard put up in tins, which is usually pure, but even the very best of hogs lard does not meet the requirements nec essary to give it preference over vegetable oils.—Mew York Cook. We certainly prefer the old fashion lard —mado at homo, and not in Chicago or Cincinnati. We like it pure and white as our mothers made it. And prefer the cotton seed to waste at the root of corn and cotton. Away with cotton seed oil ! Let us have hogs and corn —home-made lard and hominy. Cotton seed to stay at home to help poor land and poor farming. <♦- The first sheet of paper ever man ufactured in,Georgia was made at the Pioneer paper mill at Athens.