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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Fridav Morning BY ft EI)WI N E & Il A M The Official Ort-an of .Hall, Banka, Towns, Rabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city of Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in " /elvo other counties in Northeast Georgia, and counties in Western North Carolina. Advertising Rates. From and including this date the rates of adver tising in the Eagle will be as follows: Sheriffs sales, for each levy of one inch $2 60 Each additional inch or fraction 2 50 Mortgage sales [BO days) one inch 5 00 Each additional inch or fraction 3< 0 Executors’ administrators’ and guardians sales, oneii ch 1 ‘j o Each additior al inch 1 Notice to debtors and creditors 4 00 Citation for letters of administration or guar dianship * Notice of application for leave to sell land 4 00 Letters of dismission —executor, administrator , or guardian *’ 00 Estray notices * J* Citations of unrepresented estates 4 00 Homestead notices 2 00 Bule Ni. bi. to foreclose, once a month for four months, per inch * 40 «* The law authorizes county officers to collect advertising fees in advance, and we hold the officers responsible for all advertising sent ns. Notices of ordinaries calling attention of ad ministrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returns; and of sheriffs calling atten tion to section 3649 of the Code, published free for officers who patronize the Eagle. Transient advertising, other than legal no tices, will be charge i $1 per inch for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Adver tisers desiring large space for a longer time than one mouth, will receive a liberal deduction from regular rates. All bills are due upon the first appearance of the advertisement, unless there is a special con tract to the contrary, and will be presented at the pleasure of the proprietors. Advertisements sent in without instructions will be published until or dered out, and charged for accordingly. Transient advertisements from unknown parties must be paid forin advance. IH~ Address all orders ami remittances to REDWINE* HAM, Gainesville, Ga. Speak Gently. Speak gently; it is better far To rule by love than lear. Speak gently; let no harsh word mar The good we might do here. Speak gently; love doth whisper low The vows that true hearts bind; And gently friendship’s accents flow— Affection’s voice is kind. Speak gently to the lit le child, Its love be sure to gain; Teach it in accents soft and mild— It may not long remain. Speak gently to the young, for they Will have enough to bear; Pass through this life as best they may, ’Tis full of anxious care. Speak gently to the aged one, Grieve not the care-worn heart; The sands of life are nearly run— Let such in peace dapart. Speak gently, kindly, to the poor, Let no harsh tones be heard, They have enough they must endure Without an unkind word. Speak gently to the erring know They might have toiled in vain; Perchance unkindness made them so Oh, win them back again. Speak gently—He who gave his life To bend man’s stubborn will' When elements were in fierce strife Said to them “Peace, be still.” Speak gently; ’|is a little thing Dropped in the heart’s deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring, Eternity shall tell. WAS SHE UNWOMANLY? “Edna Farleigb, you are crazy! I nevi r heard of such a thing in all my life. I’m —I’m” Mrs. Horton stop ped for want of words to express her feelings. Edna smiled, but she stitched away quietly, as she replied: “I knew you would be surprised, auntie, but 1 think a moment’s re flection will convince you that it is the wisest plan. I have but SIOO in the world and the furniture that was left from the sale. It isn’t much, but with a few inexpensive additions it will furnish the cottage. Dr. Gray approved my plans, and he will rent me the place very reasonably. The grounds are planted witu fruit trees, currants, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, and grape vines, and al though they have been neglected, careful pruning and training will re store them, and they will amply re pay it in fruit Katy w.ll stay with me, and there is Widow Mirks’son a strong willing fellow, whom I can hire ” “Good gracious, Edna ! To think of hiring a man, the most improper thing of all. What will people say ?” and Mrs. Horton sank back upon the sofa completely ov rooms. Edna answered coolly, as she kept on with her work: “I have as good a right to hire a man to help me as Dr. Gray a single man has to keep a housekeeper. As for the people, I don’t care in the least for what they may say.” “But there is your sewing machine Edna, It would be so much more womaly for you to earn your living by sewing, since you are determined to | be independent ; and as far as a home I is concerned, you are welcome to stay with me as long as you live. Be side”—here Mrs. Horton hesitated an instant — “there is Thorpe Clifford; I do not think you are, as you say, obliged to take this extraordinary step. You will pardon me, Edna, * but I think it very strong minded and unwomanly ’’ Edna did not answer immediately She was thinkii g how bright and happy everything looked a month ago, when her father was living, and she had hardly given the future a thought. And then when her father died suddenly, and his ass dre came to be looked into, it was found that he was deeply in debt and his house was sacrificed to liquidate it. She was entirely alone then, but her aunt at once brought her with the few things that were saved from the wreck to her own home. “Thank you fur you offer aunt.” she said, at las; “but Ido not wish to be dependent, and I could earn but a poor living with a sewing ma chine. As for Thorpe Clifford, Ido not love him and the woman who would marry a man simply to gain a home, would be both wicked and worldly. I will prove to you, Aunt, that I am not unwomanly enough to do that." She spoke with energy and spirit and Mrs. Horton watching her reso lute face and the determined light in her eyes, was silent a moment from . sheer amazement. She never had understood her neice, and she was farther from doing so new than ever before. Os course if Edna determin ed to unsex herself, she had the privilege of doing so, but Mrs. Hor ton could not relinquish her attempt to dissuade her without another ef fort. Edna, have you forgotten Leslie Holmes? What do you suppose he will think when he hears of this.” she Mid. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. Xill. Edna bent a trifle lower over hi r work ns Mrs. Horton suoke, and her thoughts sped - to Leslie Holmes seeking his fortune in fy r aw iy Cali fornia. Forgotten him '? As if she cou d ever forget Leslie, who had been her chosen friend since child hood. They were not engaged but Edna thought they understood each other,and they had corresponded du ring the two years he had been ab sent, “If Leslie is the man 1 believe him to be, he will think no less of me; and if he is not, it does not matter what he thinks.’’ Then she threw aside her work ar ! went to feeding Chirp, her pet canary, while Mrs. Horton sighed till her spectacles nearly dropped off over Edna’s foolishness. ****** It was a pretty place that Edna had chosen; and Edna herself in a ruffled dress of pink perctil, standing under the arbor and glancing across the grounds just completed the pic ture. For she had been fairly set tled in her cottage now for six weeks and it was with no J’ttJe pride that she looked about her. The neglect ed trees had been trimmed into a neat shape, and now were a gorgeous mass of pink blossoms. The vines had been pruned also, and trimmed up, where they were growing finely, and giving great promise of fruit the present season. A largo plat of neg lected strawberries had been careful ly cleaned out, with plants left at the proper distances, and the whole top dressed with fine compost. Toe bal ance of the garden was most promis ing. Lettuce, peas, onions, aspara gus—and in fact everything in the line of garden fruit and vegetables, were in a thriving condition. John Marks had proved an invalu able assistant, and Edna’s time was fully employed in overseeing the work, and planning for future opera tions. Katy was with her and had the full care of the indoor work. Edna had not been permitte i to choose her mode of life unmolested. People had advised, sneered and ex claimed according to their various ways of viewing the matter. But Edna had coolly ignored them all and kepi resolutely on seeing which many of her friends quietly gave her the cold shoulder. Dr. Gray and Thorpe Ciifford were not among them. True and steadfast they stood by her and their friendship had smoothed many difficulties from her path. She had written to Leslie Holmes in answer to one of his let ters, and in it she had told him of the change in her worldly affairs and what she had concluded to do. Since that time she had heard no word from him. He had always answered her letters punctually before, and somehow she felt as though her strong miudedness as Mrs. Horton called it bad something to do with his silence. With a last glance over the garden she turned to enter the sitting room where chirp was singing his sweetest songs and among the flowers in the window, when she was arrested by Dr. Gray’s voice. “Viewing your work, eb?” ho said, stopping beside her and casting a glance around. ‘“You came, you saw, and you conquered, Madame Edna. Really, I didn’t think it was possible to work such a transformation as you have accomplished here.” “I am glad you like the looks of it. Dr. Gray. Without your counsel and help, I am afraid I should have had poor success. If men would ac cord women more of such friendship as you have me, we would have a better world than we do.” Dr Gray looked away off where the hills and the horizon met, and a still farther away look in hie eyes, and. said: “i never was much of a lady’s man, Edna, ’ slowly and deliberately, “but I have trotted you on my knee many a time years and years ago, and it is nothing more than natural that I should take an interest in you now. Have you heard from Leslie yet?" It was the doctor’s way to jump from one subject to another, and the abrupt question did not suprise Eana. “No: it has been seven weeks since I heard from him. j wrote him when I removed here, informing him of my intended project, but have not received an answer yet.-’ The doctor meditated, but said no more on the subject, and after a stay of half an hour ho took his leave. “It looks a little suspicious, and yet I don’t hardly believe it,” tie so liloquized, as he went down the path. “I don’t like to be mistaken when I form an opinion of any one, and if Leslie Holmes throws E Ina over be cause of her go-ahead a -tiveness, I shall lie, and he wiii deserve to be kicked,” and the doctor stepped a lit tle brisker, as if he would find pleas are in administering t he punishment, should it be necessary. “She’s got the true grit,’’ meditatively, ‘'and she’s bound to go ahead and win She’s a sensible girl, a remarkably sensible girl, and ain't afraid to soil her fingers to gain an honest living. If Leslie marries her Lt will get a prize.” With this the ductor climbed into his buggy and disappeared down the road in a cloud of dust. ****** “What shall I de., E Ina? Every 1 dollar is gone—even the roof over i my head is not my own ’ “All gone, auntie? It seems as i though something must be left.” i “No; everything is swept away. It j was all entrusted to Ackron, my bus iness Agent, and he speculated large . ly and lost, and Las left the country. ! The debts had tube paid,o*’ COUISe, - anti it took the last dollar in the I world,’” and Mrs Horton sighed au dibly behind her handkerchief. Edna sat silently thinking It was now a yeas since she had moved into her cottage, and she had been suc cessful in her enterprise beyond her most sanguine expectations. Sue wt 8 not looking quite as well as when we saw her last; a trifle thinner and a trill 3 paler. lut that was all, 1 “Ant Helen,” she said, lucking up after a moment’s thought, “you can mm . i mnrnil’Hy RL Lilt? GAINESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 17. 1879 come here. I have much better fa cilities thia season for raising fiuitand Vegetables than I had last, and with- Ihe ready market that is always here I ahull have no difficulty in support ing us both. ’ Oh, Edna I shall be so glad, so thankful, too!” So it was settled. And Mrs. Hor ton, with a great deal of respect and admiration, which almost amounted to awe, for her niece, which bad bien growing steadily as her scheme pro gressed, took up her abode at Edna’s cottage; and Mr. Ciffi’ord set about an investigation to see if any of the property could be regained. Clifford was an able lawyer, and the result was that in two months time Mrs. Horton found herself possessed of her home and sufficient of the lost property to enable her to live at case once more. And Edna? Despite her success, despite her “strong-mindedness,’' there was more loneliness in her heart than she woi’dd have cared to own, as she stood alone on the moon lighted, vine-wreathed piazza the uigbt after her aunt had returned to her home. For in the fifteen months that had passed since she be gan her new life, she had heard no word from Leslie Holmes. She felt a little bitter at times, and a little scornful also, as slowly and reluc tantly the unpleasant fact ’hat it had been as she half feared, forced itself upon Lar mind. “I wonder,” she thought, “if he is like other men, who preach up wo manly independence and usefulness, and then as soon as a woman puts her pet theory into practice, turns in disgust from her “strong minded ness.” If he is a man he will honor me for my ind pendence, and if he is not it don’t matter.” So absorbed was she that she did not hear the click of the gate latch, nor the quick, springing step that came up the walk, until it was close beside her. She turned then, con fronting a tall, handsome bearded man, at sight of whom she stopped, paralized by confiding emotions. “Edna, my own, brave little girl?’’ “Oh, Leslie!’’ Then she was in his arms, close clasped to his breast, all the doubts and suspense of the long months swept away, and only pe»ce and sun shine left. Then Dr. Gray came up tho the path, all unconscious, stopping in bewilderment as he beheld the appa rition before him. “Why bless my soul!” he exclaim ed, in amazement, “if that ain’t—yes it’s Leslie Holmes]! You young dog, what do you mean by putting in an appearance at this late day?” “Better late than never,” laughed Leslie, as he shook the doctor’s prof fered hand. “I should have been here long since, but I heard Edna had moved away, and not knowing where, I never wrote. I changed my quart rs over a year ago, which acccounts I suppose, for the fact that I did not hear from her.” “Humph!” said the doctor. “It is a good thing you can render a straight account. I suppose you came back rich, but I can tell you that Edua Farleigh is a greater for tune to any man than there is in the minee of California. Which was Leslie’s opiuion, exact ly- . A Macedonian Wail. A writer giving a sketch of Turkish cruelties that fell under his observa tion says: “The sufferings of the rural Chris tian population of Macedonia from officers of the army, boys; and other irresponsible Moslems of rank and influence are almost inconceivable. During my stay in‘Uscub a young Turkish officer who was roystering in quite an open manner in a restau rant in the company of a pasha, was pointed out to me as Adis or Idris Bey—a man of whom I had heard a good deal. He is the sou of Hadji Alta Bey member of the council of Uscub, and the owner of a large es tate about three hours distant from the town. Idris Bey and his boon companions are the terror of the whole c untry for thirty miles or more round Uscub. About the end of May of last year Idris Bey and about a dozen companions with tastes similar to his own made an excursion to his father’s chiflik. The chief of the ad joining village, a Bulgarian was sei zed, carried to the chffiik, and sub mitted to the favorite method of tor tile in vogue in Macedonia—he was hung up by the het Is. When tho poor old man could no longer en dure the agony he suffered, he con sented, at the request of Idris bey and his follower©, to compel all the other peasants in the village to repair to the chiflik, and bring with them each 100 piastres. This was but a ; relimiuary to a grosser outrage. When the affrighted peasants ap peared, piastres in hand, Idris Bey and his associates seized them Drawing their revolvers they threat ened the peasants with instant death uaiess ail the girls of the village were brought io the chiflik. What could simple, unarmed men do in the teeth oi such a horde ? These girls many nut more than 12 years of age were compelled to be present at the druu ki u orgies of the Moslem youths and Lr throe days and nights they were submitted to every indignity and outrage which a loathsome Oriental imagination could devise. Another brilliant specimen of the officers in command in Macedonia is Byer Bey. A few weeks before my visit to Uscub ho had a Christian girl of great beau ty kidnapped from her home at the toot of tbe Karsjack mountains, and brought to his house at Uscub. Be ing possessed of spirit the girl made some resistance, whereupon Byer Bey killed her in the most horrible manner with a red hot iron. The father of tbe girl—Kalchoff I believe, is h s name— went to the Kouak ami complained us the cruel theft of his daughter in the first instance, and oi her still more cruel death in the sec ond. The redress he found was im emmeiit for having the temerity iccuso a Bey of Uscub of any u against a don of a Christian. To Please and De Pleased. When Ifiiurs was forced to leave ' Vfer-iaiPes and his Palis hotel was bn i.ed. pt up! j asked “where will he live now? ’ “In history” said Cham, the caricaturist. Only the few can •Xj- :tt; have their names on the primed paper forever and they are those who have done something very clever or very vile. He who burned the temple of Diana is oliener spo ken of than the architect who de signed its beautiful proportions. The tyrant is perpetuated as well as the one who has blessed. All cannot hope to be among the immortals bat all can be trained to make existence pleasant, though the nature in the beginning may be the very opposite of the agreeable.. It is in the power of every one to cultivate some facul ty which wi'l be agreeable to another and thus mid io the general harmo ny. The total sum of Happiness is made up of individual enjoyment When one is a source of comfort to himself, he is very apt to afford gruti fication to society. The discontented ai d repining makes himself more wretched than he inflie s misery on others. He is to bo pitied worse than tho egotist th worshipper 'ufl self because dissatisfied, in his own bosom he strives to create grumb ling and dissension in every other heart ‘ ‘A primrose by the river’s brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more,” a'd he uses his utmost endeavors to induce the belief that life is a fraud and burden, because he cannot ap preciate its utility and buoyancy, its brightness and beauty. Nothing pleases him as much as to check en thusiasm and drag all within its sphere to the gloomy depths. Such sometimes live as disagreeables, like Diogenes, because they are conspicu ous in their own peculiar methods. “And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.” Every one can have friends if he chooses. Some are worthy to be grappled to the soul with hooks of I steel; but never yet was human be ing so friendless but that he could find a friend to tell him disagreeable truths. From the candid friends, good Lord deliver us. They are worse than he who gives injudicious prai >e, When flatterers meet, it is said the devil gooi to dinner. He always dwells with him who is ever finding fault, and nothing to commend. The duty of a true critic who loves bis art is to detect beauties as well as imperfections. The way to goodness can be led as well as pointed out. It is the bounden duty of all in this world to contribute to its hap piness, and we know of none who add so much to its joys as the good talkers. They are welcomed every where. Eyes brighten as they come, and linger on them as they leave. They are well springs of perennial interest. We do not mean those who are distinguish&d by a paucity of ideas and flow of words, some as large as a mountain and long as a tedious Icctu-’e, but one of informa tion, who can suit himself to the company, and ever command a sym pathetic audience. He must enjoy society and have a genuine desire to servo and please. If necessary he must boa good listener. The gift of a good talker is to bring out others in talk, He inspires and suggests, and forces bis auditors to believe that it is to their own powers that the conversation has taken such a delightful turn. Social sympathy, says au excellent writer, is a natural gift, but there is a combination of individuality, tact and wit, which can ba cultivated and employed in an engaging way and with characteris tic charm. He who crams for an evening talk is an intolerable worry— so smart as to be insufferable. No man can be a thoroughly good talker who does not know a great deal. He must read books, not skim them, and study those which give a permanent foundation. Then he must uso his materials in such a method as not to preach or eppeir pedantic. His brightest scintillations and profoun dest remarks, no matter how perfect ed aud conned, must have all the ingenuousness of the impromptu. Familiarity with Hie literature of the day and current events are absolute ly essential. “Gift of gab” without thoughts becomes as tiresome after awhile as one who is eternally delv ing in facts, figures and moral sua sions. Culture wins and excites em ulation. How everybody dreads a conversa tion party. The main reason danc ing is a favorite pastime is that the sexes are fond oi association, and ihere are so few good talkers. The shallowest tires of the current silly conversation of empty minds aft.r an hour or two of it. They run out of all they know and cannot think of anything else. So they sit and feel like fools—with nothing to say and without the information to suggest any theme outside the beaten track. Still (he books are lull of bright fan cies aud imaginings. Having ex hausted the common place each be comes disgusted with self and the other aud longs to join the merry or thoughtful group where the talker is tn ter tain iug charmed listeners. He not only pleases others, but shews that he is delighted by them. To those who have pumped themselves and their partners dry of empty twaddle, scand d and the small events of every day life, the dancing comes as a bies-ing. With feet aud hands occupied, words are not required. There are hours when pairs are alone that communion of thought is per fect, and silence is tbe sweetest ex pression of language. Love or inti macy of tastes unites the two, and eyes speak of oneness, and ideas are revealed and comprehended with a glance, act or change of countenance. Th s will not answer for the talking party. It is monotonous with look ei s-ou. There is wanted the sparkle of wit, the glow of humor that laughs with not at you, or the more serious matters that biing just enough of suggestion to be pleasant without being weighty, .nil thus keep up an easy flow of interchanging ideas. all elst in kumiug youth to be pleas am. und to pit i; 3 e. Some of that by eminent person-has >eea transmit ted to posterity. The young are im itators. They adopt the manners : and methods oi superiors. Table i talk is an element of early culture, i Whether parents al’ow their children ito talk at tho table or not, it is very i important that the conversation to wiiiuh they listen bo instructive aud elevating* Calk of faults and scan dals away the child. Tuey sit at the table not far from an hour each day, which is three hund-ed and sixty-five hours, or one month every year at table. Much of this time conversation is carried on and young 1 ears are open to every word. Is it ’ strange that there is a mould’ng in ] fluence in this way of exchanging : thought? Four weeks of schooling j twelve hours each day, or eight i weeks of six hours a day furnish up I portunity for considerable advance i ment. Yet parents are talking more I thoughts into their children in a giv en time than a teacher can. Ought • not care to be taken that the table I talk should be used as a pleasant ed ! ucator to excito inquiry in tho mind? ilt may in after years produce I wonderful results. The* youth [ with correct, cheerful prompting ! may be a delight to social life, a suc {cess in the word, that it may be said of him when the final slum I '©!’comes: “He had kept The whiteness of his, soul, and thus men o’er him wept.” How the Zulu Monarch Was Captured. Cctewayo behaved like a king in his downfall. Lord Gifford, with his white cavalry, got within four miles of the kraal where the Zulu k’ng was ■it daybreak and t lere lay in ambush, fe; ring to advance across th© open ground and waiting for the night to make the attack lest the. King should see and escape into th© bush which borders the kraal within 300 yards on the north side. Lord Gifford was on the southeast side. In the mean time Maj Marter, with the King’s Dragoon Guards, appeared on the northeast and was seen by the King, but was not feared, the King think ing the cavalry in the bad ground could not approach quietly or with out warning. Maj Marter, however, had stripped the sa ld’es and left the scabbards behind Disappearing from v ’ew he stol; up nuiselei.siy through the bush The native contingent, whom j had concea d, were put in advance, and they were ■ibie to move more rapidly than the horses. These men dashed out of the bush and surrrounded the Hiaal, •laying, “Th© white man is c you are caught.” Maj. Marter then rode up and dismounted entered the kraal, and coming s might to the hut ..u which the King was, called on •din to come forth and surrender. June King feared, and said, “No, you come unto me;’’ but Marter was in flexible, and th© King, creeping out, stood up among the dragoons with stately composure. A dragoon sought to lay his hands upon him, but he waved ths man back disdain fully, saying, “White soldier, let me ; be.” He then asked to be shot. ! The King’s bearing on the maren be tween the lines of the Sixtieth Regi ment into his tent in the camp at Ulundi was dignified and calm. Wearing a red blanket upon his breast in the manner of a Roman toga, he stepped slowly, looking round with head thrown back and haughty gaze at the soldiers nround him. When cap! urod he asked the rank of the offi nr w l . j had taken him. Ho treated the native contin gent contemptuously. Religions Faith. “I envy,” sa£s Sir Humphry Davy, “no quality of the mind or intellect in others; be it genius, wit, or fancy. But if I could be allowed to choose what would be most delightful and, I believe, most useful to mo, I should prefer a firm religious belief to any other blessing; for it makes life a dis cipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly ones vanish, and throws over the decay, the des truction of existence here, tbe most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from deoay and destruction calls up beauty and di vinity; makes an instrument of tor turo and shame tho ladder of ascent to Paradise; and, far above all com binations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions.of palms, amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensuali.jt and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.” Be Short Long visits, long stories, long es says, long exhortations, and long prayeis, seldom profit those who have te’dd with them Life is short. Time is short. . Moments are previous. Learn to Coudens j, abridge, and intensify. We can bear things that are dull if they are only short. We can endure many an ache and ill if it is over soon 4 while~even‘. pleasures grow in sipid, and pain intolerable, if they be protracted beyond tbe limits of rea son and convenience. Learn to be short. Lop off branches; stick to the main fact in your cue. If you pray ask for what yon think you will re ceive, and get through; if you speak, tell your message and hold your peace boil down two words into one, and three into two. Always learn to bo short. A Word for Newspapers. The Baptist ministers of New York had an exciting discussion tho other day on the point whether they should admit reporters to their meetings or not, in the course of which Dr. D. H. Mi’ler excla’med, I want the good things said here to be voiced outside. I thank God for newspapers and for reporters. Tn© power of the news papers for good was acknowledged, only three voting for the exclusion of I tbe uretiS. , „ Good >nd Evil. It is a recent ad dress by Horatio Seymour, before the convicts in tho State prison at Auburn, he gives ex pression to views that does credit to him as a man of head and heart Re tnuved by personal preference from the field us politics, and at an age when the passions and prejudices engendered by an active and aggres sive political life have subsided into the repose that comes to men who have ceased to follow the “wiil-o’-the wisp’’ of fancy, his utterances are en titled to more than passing notice, and the rich fruits of his experience, mellowed and ripened during a long and blameless life, are full of lessons to which every one should give heed. The tenderness that comes with ad vancing age modifies the aggressive elements of human character, and when the judgment is unimpaired, and the heart has sway, humanity comes to the front and truth is told. In one portion of his address, which is replete with wisdom and tender thought, he says: “Sitting before my tire on a win ter’s evening, and musing, as oid men are apt to do about their acts, their errrors, their successes, or their failures, it occurred to me what I would do if I had the power, and was compelled to wipe out twenty acts of my life. At first it seemed as if this was an easy thing to do. I had done more than twenty wrong things for which I had always felt regret, and was about to seize my imaginary sponge and rub them out at once, but I thought it best to move with care, to do as I had done to others, lay my character out upon the dis secting table and trace all the influ ences which had made or marred it. I found, to my surprise, if there were any go! ion threads i mining through it, they were wrought out by the re grets felt at the wrong; that these re grets had run through the course of my life, guiding my footsteps through all its iiii; icacies and problems, aud if I should obliterate allot these the act to which these golden threads wore attracted—whose lengthening lines were woven into my very nu ture—if I should obliterate all of these, I should destroy what little there was of virtue in my moral make-up. Thus I learned that the wrong act, followed by the just re gret and by thoughtful caution to avoid Lke errors, made me a b itter man th hi I should have been if 1 had nev. r fadon. In this I found hope for mystflf an ! hope for ( there, ami I tell you who sit before me, as I sny to all in every condition, that if juu wi’l jon can make yourselves better men lhan if you had never fallen into errors or crimes. A m in’s desti y does imt turn upon the fact of his doing or not doing wrong, ’ for all men will do it; but of how he . bears himself, what he does, and 1 what he thinks after the wrong act. It was well said by Confucius, the i Chinese sage, that a man’s character i is decided, not by the number of I times he fails, but by the Dumber of times he lifts himself up I do not i know why evil is permitted in this < world, but I do know that each one of us has the magicalpower to trans ] mute it into good.” { It is rarely that the matter of good ( and evil tendencies in tho human ( mind are treated with the considera ] tion due to their importance. Nor , do thinking men, as a rule, give at tention to the subject, but drift down the current of their own life without , thought of ti e troublesome waters | where men less fortunate than them- ( selves arc struggling with evenly bal- ( anced, heredit try forces for good and ] evil. With men so organized, it is a ( simple question of circumstances as | to whether they become honored and ust ful members of society, or out casts who prey upon it. 1 luman ex- ‘ perionca repeats itself with each sue- i ceeding generation, and each has its ’ modicum of good, while evil asserts < its presence always. The social I problems growing out oi these oppo- i site conditions, are difficult of solu- I tion, but if each in their way would < conscientiously perform their duties 1 to society, much would be done to avert the sorrow and suffering that come from criminal tendencies and associations. The errors which find their way into every life, may be dealt with as to prove of inestimable value. They show us that we are no better than our fellows, soften our judgment of wrongdoers, broaden our sympathies for the erring, round off the sharp edges of personal vanity, and give a fullness of vision to the moral senses that nothing else can. Am Affecting Meeting. The second batch of amnestied Communists arrived in Paris on September 5. The correspondent of the London News relates this inci dent: An old man, the senior of the band, was wrapped up in a blanket and trembling with a cold fit of ague. A sharp cry diverted attention from him It proceeded from Mme. Ro ques, who recognized in one of the yellow-vlsaged, gray-bearded spec tres her husband, who was a most respectable man, aud for years May or of Bateaux. His case at the time of his trial ex -ited great interest. He was not a Communist, but was guilty of having granted belligerent rights to some who were wounded. The wife threw herself into his arms, and she led him to the saloon in which Louis Blanc was waiting. Those looking on felt too sad to cry ‘Vive la Rspublique!” A member in the rhetorical class in a certain college had just finished his declamation, when the president said; “Mr ,do you suppose a general would address his soldiers in the manner in which you spoke that piece?" “Yes. sir, I do,” was the reply, “If ho was half sacred to death.” Senator Bruce’s recent baby is called Rosloe Conkling Bruce, and they tell the infant that Gov. Sprague will efteh him if he isn’t a good little SMALL BITS ’ Os Various Kiucls < art lessly thrown To ) . Kether. i No hots! potl ?r ever tried ! j ttnash an elephant s trunk. How tdrnuge it is that Lot words should produce a coolness. It is reported that the Indians in Florida now number only 800. Patience is taught by a fish rod and line having a worm at one end and a man at the other. The woman who said she wouldn’t marry the best man ’ivlng kept her word when sue married a tramp. To be interesting a speaker should be fall of his subject, unless he hap pens to be speaking against liquor. A sociable man is one who, when he has ten minutes to spare, goes and bothers somebody who hasn’t. The amount of pin-money requin I by the married woman depends on whether she uses diamond pins or rolling-pins. Etiquette says a call should not b less than fifteen minutes in length. Book agents have been known to re main longer, A Hindoo baker in Calcutta, proud of the English he has acquired dis plays the sign, ‘European Loafer’ over hrs door. Gun. Sherman’s daughter is : oon to be married to a young : aval ufii cer named Thackeray, who is a re a tive of the great novelist. When you are down-hearted and the world looks black to you, you ought to be hospitable enough to en tertain a hope of better days. The reward of the truly virtuoi s are inherent in their own lives, and are none the less enjoy d, though they are unknown to all the world. Oranges, lemons, olives, and al monds are to bo cultivated in Flori- da soon by a large number of Ital ian colonists, now on their way to that State. Gold from Europe continues to arrive here in such large quanti ties that our young men can now own two sets of brass sleeve but tons without being considered ex travagant. It is a great gift of the gods to be born with a hatr- 1 am! contempt of all injustice and meanness. It is a higher lot never to have !.• d and truckled, than to have shared honors won by dishonors. Wherever affection can spring it is like the green leaf ami the blossom pure and breath ng purity, v hatevi r soil it may grow in. It is noi. satis fied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness. The world was made to work in, and if you fill vonr In-urtc angels the bad spirts will keep out, because there is no room for them. They like work to do, and will not stay long with an idle, slothful per son. Little words are the sweetest to hear; little chart ies fly farthest and stay longest on the wing; little. 1 .kcs are the stillest; little hearts the full est; little farms the best tilled; little books the most read; and little songs the dearest loved, There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief re lation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her and then forever passed her by. An American engineer has been ‘ studying the great wall of China. It J is 1,728 miles long, and, being built , without the slightest regard to the < configuration of the ground, is some- 1 times carried 1,000 feet down into ' abysses. Brooks and small rivers ' bridged over by it, and strong tow- < ers on both sides protect large riv ers. The admirers of Father Ryan, as well as lovers of true poetry, will’ be gratified to learn that Messrs. John L Rapier & Co., publishers of the Mobile Register, announce that they now have in press the first and only edition of Father Ryan s poems ever offered to the public, which they expect to have ready for delivery on or before the Ist of November, prox. A Dutchman, the proprietor of a Colorado fine of stages, was collect ing $2 a piece from the passengers, byway of fare. A’l had ppid except one, and he, drawing a large revolv er, pointed it at the head of the col lector and hoarsely asked: “Wont that pass me?” Perfectly unmoved the Dutchman said: “Oh no; we eats dem tings here. Two tollars please.” Herr Krupp, the German gun maker, is a tall, fine looking man nf remarkably commanding presence, with white hair and beard, high forehead, bright eyes, and a striking ly intellectual expression. At sev enty bis natural force is not abated, bnt he is active and energetic. His broad breast is not broad enough for the medals and orders that have been conferred upon him by his own and other sovereyons; he has repeatedly declined a patent of nobility during the last fifteen years. The pious s oundrel who managed the Freedman’s Bark and robbed the confiding negroes of their little savings, aggregated into an immense sum, cut the erminating proof of their guilt out of the books of the institution. This is what Senator Bruce discovers in his work of inves tigation. Yet when those rascals were stea’ing the funds and mutila ting the books they gave much of their time to fervent prayer that the Lord would bless the poor benighted negro and curse the “wicked rebels.” It may be that they thought they had a fair claim to the money in pay ment for their prayers—Shvannab a1.,..-. Heal Estite Hoase and Lm>» ( street, 11 aclu land. 4 rooms, y.mn ■ orchard, stable, erib oF'X 11 ise a,i va h house. Apply to \ B C Dorsey & Co, R, al Estate Agents ; Vacant lot containing 2 acres Vtbe-.- street; nice building lots. Apply so ABC Dors. y A Co, Beal Estate Agents? from Sp I rin - stre «t, corner lot, fronting 110 fee, and running baiklso f. -i ■ beautiful building lot and near the public squ we Apply to AB c D &f 1 “ Estate Agents. Sixy acres, partly in an! partly onto( city mints, good dwelling and out-house.- about half in cultivation; choice fruit tr s —apples, peaches, pears, plnms.grap,-- etc as pretty a place as any in Norlhe’ gin- Apply to AB C Dorsey A Co, Red Estate Agents. Four and a half acre-lot, just outside city Innes, in good state of cultivation; house cort tming 3 rooms, with upstairs unfinished Apply to AB C Dorsey A Co, R p Esl de Agents. A 3(k) acre farm, about 6 miles f-om Gainesville; 12« acres of bottom laud, with 0v.r0,000 young apple trees, all bearin'' fruit, with house and 5 settlements ou the place. This is a place that for a future in vestment cannot be excelled. Apply to \ B C Dorsey A Co, Real Estate .Vents NO. 41 3 1 building lot on west side of Main street fronting 22 feet by 100 back. Will be s. Id cheap for cash by A B C Dorsey and Co. 25 or 50 acres of land just outside of the oily hunts, enclosed; beautiful place tor building; 10 or 12 acres woodland, 8 or Itl acre.-: branch bottom; balance in old field, and lies well; fine view of the mountains? For sale by A B C Dorsey A Co. 1 wool carder, double cylinder, one break er, .] burr machines; been used e.ght years For sale by ABC Dorsey A Co. House and lot corner Spring mid Syca more streets; 7 rooms, good basement, well arranged and convenient; also a small boose adjoining, with 4 rooms. For sale by A B C Dorsey A Co. . 2t» acres of land, one-half outside the city limits; a new three-room house, stables, etc. inside the city limits; all the laud cleared and fenced, and in cultivation. For sale bv A B G Dorsey A Co. 4(j4 acres of land at Lula, 50 acres having been laid off into business and building lots, each alternate lot of the 50 acres bJ? 101 ;iug to the No. heastern Railroad: the Air -Line Railroad runs for one mile through tiia above tract jof land; the Northeastern Railroad about three-fourths of a mile; the . .jbt of way of both voads oil the 4GI acres; ihe tracis ot land lies well; GO ceres of old field; 15 acres of branch bottom, not cleared plenty of wood and good timber. This is the place for you to make your money on, as we will sell with the tract of land the business and building lots; all goes together ABC Dorsey A Co. ll’ese, with other city property and farms, are in our bauds for sale. We also rent property, and will look after wild lands, or sell lands anywhere. We advertise at our own expense-no sale, no charge. All letters promptly answered when stamp : s enclosed. A. B. BRUMBY’S School for Boys, Prince Avenue, - Athens, Ga. ■ RE-OPENS MONDAY, SEPT. 1, Ls7». 1 uition SI to SG per month, according to » age, grade, etc. Board $lO a month, in .d - vanee. k 1\ >f. W. H. Waddei. writes: “f do not hesitate to recommend Dr. Jhumb- as the most successful teacher among those who, during my professorship of twenty years’ duration, prepared students for the Univer sity of Georgia.” For fc ier information send for circular to or confer with A. B. BRUMBY, A. M., M. D. se2G P. O. Drawer 287, Athens, Ga. WALTER T. M. ARTHUR. JOHN W. GRIFFIN. McArthur & DEALERS IN Ln ud and Real Estate EASTMA X, GEORGIA. Offer for sale or lease in lots to suit purch 1- seis, some of Iha choicest timber and Tur pentine Lands in the Southern States. REFER BY I'HIIMISSIOIV 'l’o I. C. PL ANT, Prest. First National Bank of Macon, Ga. Capt. JOHN McMAHON, Vice-Prest. Sou them Bank of the State of Ga. Savannah, Ga. sep26-tf Lucy J Dover) Libel for Divorce in Daw vs >■ son Superior Court, April Earl W Dover. J Terms, 18ff9. It appearing to the court by the loturn of the Sheriff iu this case that the defendant* Earl W Dover, does not reside in said conn- iy, and it further appearing that he does not reside in the State of Georgia; it is or dered by the court that said defendant ap pear and answer said case at the next term of the court, and in default plaintiff be al lowed to proceed. And it is further ordered that service be perfected on the <ief<*ndant in said case by the publication of this rule in the Gainesville Emile, a public gazette of this State, once a month for four months before the next term of this court. April 21, 1879. Geo. Nf. Lester, J. S. G., B. K. C. Georgia, Dawson County. I hereby certify shat the above and fore going is a true extract from the minutes of Dawson Superior court, April Term. 1879. This April 30,1879. John W Hug-, ss, may9-4m C. S. (}. Alfred J Batson j Libel for divorce in Union vs. z Superior Court, May Lizzie Batson. ) term, 1879. Rule to perfect seivice, etc. It appearing to the court by the return of the sheriff that the defendant does not reside in this county, and it further appearing that she does not reside in this State, it is on motion of G J Wellborn, counsel for plaintiff, ordered by the court that said defendant ap tear and answer at the lext te-m of this court, else that the case be considered in default and the plaintiff allowed to proceed. It is further ordered that this rule b - pub lished in the Gainesville Eagle one.- a month lor four mouths. GEO. N. LESTER, J S C. A true extract from the minutes of Union Superior Court This May 29th, 1879. ju!4-4m G E FOSTER, C S G. Cheap for flash. Twenty acres of land, one-half inside city limits, a new three-room cottage well fin ished, and good outbuddings; one hundred young fruit trees of choice varieties; good well of water, etc. All the land cleared an< under good fence. For further particulars apply at this office. sel9. MILLINERY GOODS. Miss Lizzie Carroll desires to announce to her friends and customers that she has reconsidered her determination to leave Gainesville, and will make it her permanent home. She has ordered and will have on her shelves next week a splendid stock of goods. ’ And on Wednesday, October the Bth, She will have her Opening Os Millinery Goods. All beautiful things to * please the Ladies. Her stock is the finest she has ever brought to this market. Pur chased very LOW, anil she will offer RARE BARGAINS. Callon WEDNESDAY and every day tbere i after. CASH SALES and small profits is