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VOL. XXVI. ' The Kind of Books Your i . Boys are Reading ? ;?SUME STARTLING DISCLOSURES, Let Marietta Parents Provide Whole 'j some Literature for their Boys and | Girls, as Well as Food. To know how io read is important; to know what to read and what not to read is equally so. We are teach ing the youth of this county to read. Are we as teachers and parents also cultivating a taste for the proper kind of reading and removing from them. that which is injarious? I wonder if you, as a teacher, ever inquire into and direct the reading of your.pupils. I wonder if you, as a parent, kmow what your -child reads, if you cver read to him or give him a book toread. Did you ever give him an interesting book for a present? 1f you do not know what he reads ‘it is time you were finding out. The investigation might surprise you. Look among your hcoks at home and see it you have any suitable for a boy to read. A man is morally bound to furnish good reading for his children 1n pro portion to his means. A man bas no more right to let his children devour every poisonous book than he has to let them eat unwholiesome food. ' To bring this matter practically betore the parents of the Cobb, I made a little investigation among some two hundred children, large and small, a short time ago. I had them all to write me a letter telling me something of the books they had read since lest July and how they ~"ed them. On looking over the tetters I found that fifteen pupils, and some of them were fitteen years of age, had never read a book ; some who read nothing but newspapers; many who read books of the very best class ; and others that were reading the very vilest five cent novels. A large majority had read one or more of the following: Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Mrs. Aileott’s books, a few of Pan-! sy’s books, ,/Little Lord Fontleroy, Black Bea{ty, Sarah Crewe, Young Marooners, some of Dickens, Hans AndcrgOZs stories. A few of the older o#es had read some o* Scott’s, a few fiks of travel, and a very few biogrsphies, and historical works, 'One young lady had read ten of the Dughess novels. IHere is a good list for a boy of twelve: ‘History of T/nited States, Stories of Qur Coun éy, Grandfather’s stories, stories of /Heroic | Deeds, stories of Other Lands, Tom Sawyer, and Two Little Contederates.”” Compare that with the following : “I have read a part of Robinson Crusoe, and The Lite of Rube Burrows, Peck’s Bad Boy, Plucky Boys, Dead Wnod Dick, Dasbaway Charlie, Jesse James’ ‘ Death Shot.” I wonder if this boy’s father knows that he has read these books. ) [lere is another: “Ilike Wild West ecenes, and Edith and the -Burglar. I made a fricnd of Edith because she was so good to the Bur glar.” Ir answer to the question “Did you make any friendsin the books. several said that they had made friends with Peck’s Bad Boy, because he was so swmartand funny. One boy said he had lead over fifty stories in the time mentioned. No wonder those boys give trouble at home and at school when they ‘make heroes ot such imps. I found “Once a Week,” “New York Weekly,” “Fireside Compans ion,” “Log Cabin Series,” “Beadle’s Dime and Pocket Series,” “Old Cap (ollier” and other series of Detec tive stories familiar names to many boys. On inquiry, our news dealers tell me that forty or more of these weeklies are sold every week. One Che Marietta Fonrnal, little boy eight years old asked for one this week. Somebody’s boy is reading these stories—is it yours? We are all hero worshipers, and we instinctively and unconsciously gshape our lives aiter our heroes and heroines. What a calamity it is for many of our boys to be makirg he~ roes ~ of pickpockets, train robbers and murderers. w result cannot be but pernicious. Taught to feel an admiration for crime and its hero, they are stirred to follow in his foot steps. A father that wililet his boy read Peck’s Bad Boy need not be surprised at the lack of respect in his son. The danger I see in the reading of many who do not read the detec tive stories is this same lack of the truly heroic. Silly stories, called Sunday school books, are read by the dozen, which leave no result but a morbid sentimentallity. Such reading is £8 wholesome to the mind as sillabub to the body. What oyr boys and girls need is t 6 be brought in contact with the true heroes and beroines of the world, whether it be in the form of novel, story, biography, or the hiss tory. A race that has produced as many great men and women’' as ours, 2 race that has produced a history so rich in heroic deeds should see to it that its youth honor aud emulate the good and reject the spurious. ““Literature contain the keys that unlock the aspirations of youth; nothing else has this quickening power. Homer’s “Iliad” could make Alexander the Great subvert the old despotisias of Asia and establish in their place Greek art and secience and free individuality.” J. S. STEWART. AUSTELL. Mr: Walker, of Southern Bell Telephone Co., spent last Friday in our town getting up stock for a tele phone line between Lithia Springs, Austell and Atlanta. This will be a great convenience to our many summer boarders as well as to our merchants. Mr. C. L. Drennan has sold out his grocery business here to C. J. Shelverton & Co., and will go into business in Atlanta. - We are now withouta mayor since the resignation of Mayor Drennan. Sweet water creek was out of her banks several days Jast week owing to the receut heavy rains. Ou account of a washout above here we had no trains to Atlanta over the Georgia Pacific road last Thursday. A number of young ladies met at the residence of Rev. Mr. Jewell last Thursday atternoon to arrange tor a mus.cal entertainiaent and try to organize a Literary Club. This is a step in the right direction, as every town suould have a literary club for the improvement of its young people in a way that nothing else will do. It seems that some of our boys didn’t know the penalty of hollering gchool butter, but they see now as several of them were taken to the puwp the other day and water was freely applied. SIFTER. ROSWELL, All are rejoicing to see the clear sky and the sunshine to dry the fields so the farmers can sow oats and make preparations for the new crop. The new Council has elected the public school board as follows: F. J. Minhinnett, W. G. Blankinship, Dr. T. G. Greeg, Dr. W. E Baker, Joel A. Gunter and Reese Grogan. The board selected Meéssrs. Baker and Blankinship to select a teacher. Numerous applications have bcen filed trom different parties of the State. Mr. Judson W. Eldridge died in Langley, S. C, on the 16th and his remains were brought to Roswell for interment, Dr. Baker and the mosonic fraternity officiating in the last sad rites. On the same day the remains ot Mr. P. Phillips, who died in Atlans ta on the 17th, were brought here and interred. [t is seldom Roswell has two funerals on the same day and same hour. Elder A. J. Goss will soon re~ move his family back to Stone Mountain, but he will still remain pastcr of the Baptist Church herfi. For Corns, Warts and Bunions Use only Abbott's East Indian Corn Pain MARIETTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1893. BUILDING UP A TOWN How It HaS—&tlld Can Be Done. THOUGHTS FOR MARIETTA PEOPLE, Manufacturing ;;;_st—ries Bring Peo ple, Trade and Wealth, and All Are Benefitted. When two people are to receive benefits from any one undertaking, both should assist in putting that undertaking on the best possible tooting so as to secure the greatest possible result. This principle, if carried out by a city and its prob erty owners, will be found to be the only basis on which to secure a “di versity of industries. We have been listening toolong to the cry that this is the best point at which to start such and such an industry says the Macon Telegraph. 1t is a good place but it is not the only good place, and thers are'probably sever al other places that are just as good. The man who proposes to go into business naturally selects the place where the prospects cf support trom his neighhors are brightest. If we would benefit by industries let us agsist them in every way. 'The “Progressive Scuth” speakiang of the building up of towns says: “The citizens of towns who wish to see their places increase in wealth and population must bear in mind that they will reap the principal part of the benefit to be derived from the establishment of manufacturing industries. Let usrelate an inci dent which illustrates this fact: A number of yearsago an Kastern town, which, owing to the destruec tion of the whaling fishery, was al most moribund a 3 a business place, offered a plot of grourd free, assist ance in erecting a building, a remis sion of taxation for a number of years to enadle a firm to éstablish a shoe manutactory. At the ocutset the firm employed only a few hands —about twenty-five—but it prosper ed and now employs over a thousand. In estimates of this kind it is gener ally considered that three inhabi tants of the town may be counted for every workman; consequently three thousand persons may be con sidered as connected with the facs tory. Say that each one of these three thousand persons spends 30l cents a day for tood, clothing, etc., we see that the whole number spend $6,300 a week, or 328,500 a year. Who are the most benefited by this expenditure—the owners of the fac« tory of trades-people or the town referred to? Would the tradess people receive this nearly a third of a million dollars if the tactory were not in their town? They would not, and it is not difficult to see that the trades-people are the ones who receive the largest share of the benefit derived from the location of the factory. ‘This is the true way to look at any schemes for building up towns.” POWDER SPRINGS. Mrs. M. P. Lane left for Holton last Sats urday to be present at the margiage of her brother Mr. Redding Howard 'Weduem day evening to Miss Alice Redding. Miss Dena Baggett, of Douglasville is visiting relatives and friends in this place. Miss May Scott who has been yisiting her cousin, Miss Callaway of Lithia Springs returned home last Wednesday. The 4th annual masquerade and valens tine ball given at the Peubody Hall Febru ary l4th Lithia Springs, proved a brilliant success. Two ot our “butterfly dudes” paid Aus~ tell a flying visit Sunday afternoon. Mr, Rob’t. L. Bennett, o? Atlanta, also Mr. Bob Hardage visited our town Sunday. REINETTE. ————ll AQD WP e s A Valuable Remedy. It gives me pleasuse to recommend to the public such a valuable remedy as Cheney's Expectorant. I have used it in my family for Coughs, Croup and Colds, und would not be without it. , ' Jro. A Baßmy. ; Atlanta, Ga. For sale by H. M, Hammett. GEORGIA GLEANINGS. Culled and Condensed from Our Exchanges. MOTHER OF TWENTY-SIX CHILDREN, A White Robin I(E--Making Clover Seed Profitable--A Very Heavy Fonr Year old Boy. Elbert county is to hava a new court house, to cost about $40,000. Canton has a whistle factory, owned and operated by Jay Rudasill. There are more females than males in Gilmer county by several Lun dred. Ex-Ordinary Thomas D. Gilham of Oglethorpe county died Thursday. Respass & Son of Atianta have purchased the ‘“mica property,” near Gainesville. The recent sesion of the Georgia Legisiature, fitty days, cost the State $65,567.99. Gas and gasoline lamps kave been abandoned in Athens {or street light ing and electric lights substituted. ALBERT BLOUNT, negro, was lynch ed in Chattanooga last week for assaulting a respectable white laay, at her home, in day time. SEVEN car loads of Arkansas ne groes passed through Atlanta Thurs- 1 day on their way to Brunswick and thence to Africa. : R. J. MILLER, an aged white man was killed by an engine on the Western and Atlantic Railroad near Atlanta on the 15th inst. A white robin was killed last Monday near Madison. This is a rare curiosity in the shape of a bird, one that.is seldcin seen. g Mr.”fi&"Kinne‘bréw,”a Floyd coun ty farmer, is selling clover seed rais ed on his place, and it brings him from &8 to $lO a bushel. The land known asthe Bob Wash burn farm in Oconee county, con taining 200 acres, has been sold to J. L. Jarreil of Athens for $5,000. The residence of B. O. Hill at Greenville was burnt last Thursday. The losses will foot up at least $2,- 000. The residence was insured for $1,200. _ Sonny Boyd, a negro boy 12 years old, attempted to wreck a train at Atlanta Thursday by placing spikes on the rails. He did it “for fun.” He was arrested. Superintendent A. I. Branham, ot the Brunswick public schools, has been clected school commissioner of Giynn county for the term of three‘ years. | Dr. R. B. Headen will remain with the First Baptist church ini Rome as its pastor. He had a call to Birmingham at 2 salary of 2,400. The Rome church didn’t want to give him up and voted him the same salary. There is a little boy at Ty-Ty, in Worth county, only four years old, who is remarkable in size. He is four feet three inches in height, weighs ninety pounds, wearsa No. 7 hat and a G shoe. His parents are very poor and will wbably put the boy on exhibition. Tuesday night, of last week, a party of 410 emigrants passed through Atlanta on their way to Pine City, Ga., where they go to purchase lands and to invest money. The emigrants came over the Kast Tennessee road and were from Ohio. There is a woman living in Way cross, Ga., who is the mother of ‘twenty-six children. She is now in her ninety-six year of her age, and has remarkable fine health. ler mental faculties and vision are good, and she has never been sick a day in her lite. Twenty-one of. her chil dren are living and are all married, each ot them having large families. The children and their mother are all in confortable circumstances. The rumber of this remarkable wo man’s grandshildren is nearly two hundred. She has tully a score of great grandchildren. Mr. C. G. 'Trammell, an old oiti zen of Cartersville, father-in law of Rew Walker Lewis, pastor of Trinity church at Atlanta and brother*of Hon. L. N. Trammell, died in Car tersville Saturday. Mr. Trammell: lived in Cartersville for a great many years, and was highly respected and beloved by the entire community. A negro boy living on the farm of Jonas Fuller, » few miles from Ros well, accidentally shot himself in the arm on last Saturday week, while attegpting to kill a "hawk. The enti’)load of shot passed throngh his arm between the elbow and shoulder, and he came near bleeding to death before medical ats tention could be obtained. M¢s. James Wheeler met with a painful mistortune at her home near Roswell on last Sunday week. 1t wag a drowsy day, and Mrs. Wheel er feeling the effect of the weather, threw out her arms, straightened her torm, threw her head backward and gaped, dislocatiug her jaw. : 11. IL. Davis and family at Canton‘ lett last Wednesday for Childress,i Tex. Mr. Davis sold his brick mills property to John A. Scott and bought Mr. Scott’s half section of improved farming lands in Texas. GEORGE A. LINGO, ot Americus, is in jail in Griffin charged with kills ing a tramap named Smith, Sallie Walker is jailed as accessory. AARON RAPHAEL, nineteen years old, committed suicide at the Kim ball House in Atlanta last week. The Americus Improvement Coms pany has gone into the hands of a receiver. O T A=, 3 LOCAL LEAFLETS. Picked Up and Dotted Down for Jour nal Readers. Miss Lizzie Pilgrim is visitidg friends and relatives in Gainseville. Mr. Will Cox has gone to Brookhaven, Miss, to put up a fine monuwment turned out at the L.. 8. Cox marble yard. Mr. and Mrs. John Keeffe, and daughter, Hazel, of St. Louis, arrived in the city last week, and are at Mr. J. A. Massey's. Mr. Cornelius Keeffe and daughter, Carrie, returned to their home in Gordon county last Monday afternoon. A hawk killed by Mr. L. A. Bishop, of this county, the other day, measured 49 inches from tip to tip of wiags. Thisis considered the largest hawk ever killed in this section. Mr* J. Spilman say he and Judge Gres~ bham, recently appointed Secretary of State in Cleveland’'s cabinet, were school boys together and he has had many a wrestle with him. Judge Gresham seems to be on top now. THE opportunity is now offered for Ma rietta to secure an elegant Library buildirg free, if they will furnish a lot to build it on. Miss Sarah Clark, has now in hand $2,000 to put in such a building, besides she will donate 2,000 choice books.* A number of Marietta gentlemen are interesting them< selves to rzise $2,000 to buy a suitable and convenient lot for this purpose, and have secured subscriptions to the smount of $750. It the lot is purchased and the new building erected, it 1s proposed to merge the Marietta Library with the 2000 volumes that Miss Clark will donate Thisis an important matter and puts the matter ina shape where Marietta can secure a Library, in building and books, equal to the best of any city of like size in the South. We have been requested to state if uny one desires to contribute to the fund to buy this lot, they can call on Dr. T 8. Stewart, Mr. B. R. Legg, Dr. P. R. Cortelyou, Dr. Homer Reynolds or Capt. R. W. Boone. Either of these gentlemen will be glad to receive cuntributions. They have cons tributed liberally themselves and hope that the citizens will avail themselves of this opportunity to secure a first class Library. IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOUSE. J. B. Wiison, 371 Clay St., Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be without Dr, King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, that it cured his wife who was ihrestened with Pneumonia after an attack of “La Grippe,” when various other remes dies and several physicians had done her no good. Robert Barber, ot Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr. King's New Disecovery has done hinu more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free Trial Bottles at J. D. Mas lone’s drug store, Large bottles, 50¢. and $l.OO. A RICH GOLD MINE. On Mr. J. B. Kemp’s Farm Near Lost Mountain. T 0 BE WORKED BY CAPITALISTS, ‘l‘our Shafts Sun; ;I—Plenty of Gold Found. Bought by a Syndicate,who Will Put in New Machinery, One of the richest gold mines dis covered in Georgia has been located on the farm of Mr. J. B. Kemp, near Lost Mountain, in this county. Mr. T. 3. McDaniel writes us that the mine was first discovered before the war. The land was then owned by Mr. Solomon Kemp. He bought a negro, named Ish, who was a miner, and he found this gold min® and worked it until his master died, pay ing him seventy-five cents a day for his time. The land was sold and bought by Mr. J. B. Kemp and he would not let any one work it until now. On the 6th of February, Mr. D. C. King, Mr.J. J. Petty and Mr. W. Leßarron, of Chicago, 111., and Mr. T. 8. McDaniel, of Dale, Ala., arrived on the farm and proceeded to sink four shafts. To their grati fication they found plenty of gold, the shining particles could be seen plainly. They entered into negotia tiong for the mine, and gave Mr. Kemp $2,500 for ninety-four acres of land. They returned to their homes to buy suitable machinery, and will be back in ten days to go to work. ‘Mr. McDaniel says they will want forty or fifty hands to work for them at one dollar per day. They propose to add to the wealth of the county by developing this mine, which has 80 long remained adle. ; ’ WEDDING BELLS. A Marietta Lady Woed,;Won aud Wed ded in Texas. Waxanacuig, Texas, Feb. 16, 1893, No social event of recent years has cre ated such wide spread interest as the mar riage of Mrs. Ella Anderson, of Marietta, Ga., to Mr. Ed Williams, of this ecity, which was solemnized at 8 o'clock last Wednes~ day nightat the First Presbyterian church. Promptly at the appointed hour, while the sweet strains of a popular wedding march, rendered by Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McMillan, signaled their approach, the happy pair marched down the aisle, preceeded by Mr. James 0. Hammett, brother of the bride, and Mr. Robert McCombs, who were fols lowed by Mr. Frank Williams, brother of the groom, and Mr. Lee Quaite, acd halt ing in front of the chancel were made busband and wife in a beautiful and ims pressive ceremony by Dr. C. McPherson. The bride is a sister of Mrs. Lee W. Wheless, of this city, and is a lady of rare accoms plishment, endowed with all the attributes of noble womauhood. She wore a beautis ful traveling costume of blue grey. The groom is a prominent and sac'iesstul mer chant of this' city and the son of the late John G. Williams, one ct the early residents of Waxahachie, and one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of this county. The son inheriting the father's sterling virtures and vast interests left to his charge, is well fitted to be the custodian of the jew el he has just wooed and wed The bridal presents wer; numerous, and beaatiful testimonials of the very high esteem in which they are held. Immediately after the ceremony they left for the city of Mexico and other places of interest in the land of the Aztecs. W. THE money i 3 being raised to build another cotton factory at Dal ton, and 870,000 has already been subscribed. The proposed capital is $lOO,OOO. . el e ELECTRIC BITTERS. This remedy is becoming so well known and 80 popular as to need no special men~ tion, All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicine does not exist and it is guarans teed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils. Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.—Will drive Malaiia from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers,—~For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters—Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.—Price 50cts. and $l.OO per bottle at J. D. Malone's drug store. NO. 12.