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Monthly Installments received: On Pianos, $lO to $80; Organs, five to ten dollars; Second hand Instruments, three to five dollars; monthly after first Deposit. Agents Wanted. A liberal discount to Teac hers. Ministers. Lodges, Churches, Schools, etc. Special inducements to the trade. Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS & SON’S, 481 Rroadway, New York. Box 3567. Testimonials OF— Waters’ Pianos and Organs. Waters' New Scale pianos have peculiar morit. —j Yew York Tribune. The tone of the Waters' piano is rich mellow and sonorous. They possess great volume of sound and the continuation of sound or singing powwr is one of their most marked features.— New York Time*. Waters* Conterto Organ is so voiced as to hare a tone like a full rich alto voice. It is especially human is its tone, powerful yet sweet, ■ Rural Stir Yorker. 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Every musical person wants it. No one should go to a • N >rmal" or other Music Class without it: It is just what young musicians need to pre serve their efforts in composition, ami the auto graphs of their friends and teachers. It contains 04 pages, finely ruled, gold stamped and strongly bound. It will be “given away ’to all who sub scribe for the Visitor at 4*1.50. Sample copy with particulars of this, and four other premiums i sent on receipt of one stamp. Agents wanted. JOHN CHURCH & CO., CINCINNATI, O. PIMPLES. I will mail .Free) the recipe for preparing a i simple Vegetable Balm that will remove Ta n FRECKLES. PIMPLES Blotches, leaving the ! skill soft, clear and beautiful; also instructions for producing a luxuriant growth of hair on a bald head or smooth face. Address Ben Vandelf I \ i\, Box 5181. No. 5, Wooster St,, New York, SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 4, 1877. The Man That Fraud Made. That is the man that Fraud made. This is Schut'z that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Gould that bought the Schurz that clings to the titan that Fraud made. This is the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Schurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Selmrz that clings to the man tnat Fraud made. This is the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Schurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Matthews, shaven and shorn, that fathered the Folioy, all forlorn, that forged the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Schurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Country, cheated and torn that spurns Stanley Matthews, shaven and shorn, fathered the Folioy, all for lorn, that forged the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that, bought the Schurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. — N. 47 Sun. Kind Word -Why Use Them. 1. Because they always cheer him to whom they are addressed. They sooth him if he is wretched; they comfort Jiim if he is sad. They keep him out of the slough of despond, or help him out if lie happens to be in. 2. There arc words enough of the op posite kind flying in all directions —sour words ctoss words, fretful words, insulting words, overhearing words, irritating words. Now, let kind words have a chance to get a broad, since so many and so different are on the wing. 3. Kind words bless him than uses them. A sweet sound on the tongue tends ro make the heart mellow. Kind words react upon the kind fooling which prompted them, and make them more kind. They add ficsh fuel to the fire of benevolent emotion in the soul. 4. Kind words beget kind for lings to wards him that loves to use thetfl. Peo ple love to see t! e face and hear the voice of uch a man. Kind words arc, t hcrcforc, of great val ue in those hard times. — Our Church, Paper. Small Things Test Men. (n things small lie the crucibles and the touch-stones. Any hypocrite will come to the Subbath worship, hut it is nit every hypocrite that will attend prayer meeting or rend the Bible in secret, or speak privately of the things of 0 )d to tlie saints. You shall find the same true in other tilings. A man who is no Chris tian very likely will not tell you a down right lie By saying that white is black, but he will not hesitate to declare that whitcy-brown is white—he will go that length. Now, the Christian will not go halfway to a falsehood; nay, he scot ns 10 go an inch on that road, lie will no more cheat you out of two pence farthing than he would out of two thousand pounds. He will not rob you of an ell. liven a Pharisee will ask Christ to his house to sit at moat with him— lie is willing to entertain ii great religious leader at his table, but it is not every one who will stoop down and unL.oso his shoes; for that very Phareee who made the feast never brought him water to wash It is feet, nor gave him the kiss of welcome; he proved the insincerity of his hospitali ty by forgetting the little things. I will he hound to.say Martha and Maiy, never forgot to unloi se hi.s shoe laces, and that Lazarus never failed to see that his feet were washed. Look, then, I pray, as Christians, to the service of Christ in the obscure things, in the things that are not recognized by men, in the matters that have the honor attached to them, for by this shall your love be tried. Child Love and Faith. About three years ago a gentleman of this city went Fast on a visit to his old home. One of his brothers there had a bright arid brauti'ul little son, not yet two years of age. The hoy —little Benny scon became strongly and strangely at tached to his Uncle Ben, from Washoe,’ whose namesake he was. Ijnclc Ben often took the little fellow in his arms in the summer evenings, and, seated in the porch, talked him to sleep. At such times lie would point out the evening star, telling the hoy that far, far away, just under that star, was his home. The child would look long at the star, then for as long gaze up in the face of his uncle, as though thinking on wiiat a bright and heaut.ful place his home must he. At last the day came whet. IJnele Ben was to leave for his home in the far West. Little Bennie knew this as well as any one about the house, and, with both eyes and ears, was on the alert, lie would not allow his uncle to be a minute out of his sight. Several attempts on the part of Uncle Ben to steal away resulted in such fits of crying that he was obliged to return and sooth the child. However, the child, wearied with crying and watch ing, at last fell asleep in his uncle’s arms. When he awoke Uncle Ben was faraway. Long the boy looked for his uncle, and often called his name. Many times of evenings he was found gazing earnestly at the bright star that stood as a guard over his uncie’s home As he gicw, his love of the star deepened, and he talked more and more of it and of his uncle, both so far away at the edge of the sky. Even when three years had passed, and < Benny was nearly five years old, his belief in the story told him by his uncle con tinued. Poor boy! another year was never added to his age. It was Ii s fate to die a fearful death. By accident, he was scalded over nearly hi.s whole body and lived hut four hours. Ho seemed to read in the faces of the dear ones about him that he must, soon die. He bore his pain manfully, only uttering an occasional moan. As the shades of evening deep ened he was seen to turn his face anx iously towards the window of his room. At last he asked: “Is it there —the star?’’ lie was told that, the star was there and shining brightly. Feebly he said: “Take me ta the window." Ho was earned to the window. A smile lighted up his face as he said: "Ah, there it is! Now I can find the way to Uncle Ben—l can see his star!” He closed his eves us though wearied. The smile faded out of his face. One n nan as he was laid on his bed, and the light of his life had gone out and up to meet and mingle wit Ii that of the star ho so long had watched and loved.— Virginia (Nev,) Enterprise. For the Last Time. There is a touch of pathos about doing even the simplest thing “for the last time.” It is not alone kissing the dead that gives you this strange pain. You feel it when you have looked your last time upon some scene you have loved when you stand in some quiet city street, where you know that you will never stand again; the singer whose voice is cracked hopelessly, and who, after this once, will never stand before the sea of upturned faces, disputing the plaudits with treslior voices and faTcr forms; the minister who has preached liis last sermon—these all know the hidden bitterness of the two words “never again.” How they come to us on our birthdays us we grow older. Never again young—always nearer and nearer to the very last—the end which is universal, “the last thing,’ which shall follow all last things, and turn them, let us hope, from pain to joys. We were too old to walk any longeron our stilts—too tall to play marbles on the sidewalks. Yet there was a pang when we thought we had played with our merry thoughts for the last time, and life’s soriou:, grown up work was waiting for us. May it not be that these, too, shall seem in the light of some far i ff day as the boyish g inics seem to our manhood, and we shall learn that death is hut the opening ot the gate into the new land of promise?— Acanthus. Germany excels any country in the cleanliness of beds. It seems as muen a part of yearly house cleaning with them to have the hair removed from the mat tress, to have it well beaten and sunned, and the cover washed, as it is with us to have the carpets whipped and freed from their disease-begetting dust. I grant that it would be a difficult and expensive undertaking 'or an American liouse koept r, for skilled laborers are rare, and when found must he well paid, as they should he. Knowing the obstacle, then, in the way of thorough renovation of our beds, we should take all the more care to protect and air them- HI very boil should have especially made for it, the size of a tick, a white tucked comforter, not 100 thick, so as to he unmanageable in wash ing: over this the sheet is spread, livery bed in daily use should he subjected to the purifying rays of the sun at least once a week, and should be left open for the reception of air and lielit sometime before being made up. Beds riot un frequcntly used are often found very musty and disagreeable to guests. The parlor hods, that swallow their own on tents by a magic touch, are fair without, hut in lime, for the lack of proper airing they become foul within. Among the Seminole (Florida) Indiana them is a singular tradition regarding the white man’s origin and superiority. I hey say that when the Great Spirit, made the earth he also made three men, all of whom were of fair comph xior ; and that, after making them he led them to the margin of a small lake and bade them leap there in. One immediately obeyed, and came out of the water purer than before he bathed; the second did tot leap in until thu water became shightly muddy, and when he bathed ho came up copper colored; the third did not leap in until the water became black with mud, and came out with its own color. Then the Great Spirit laid before them 3 packages of bark, and hade them choose, and out of pity for his misfortune of color, he gave the black man his first choice. Ho took hold of each of the packages, and having lifted them chose the heaviest; the copper colored one then chose the second heaviest; leaving the white man the lightest' When the pac.ages were opened the first was found to contain spades, hoes, and all the implements if labor; the second enwrapped hun’ing, fishing, and warlike apparatus; the thitd gave the white man pens, ink. and paper, the engines of the mind, the natural, mental improvement, tlie social link of humanity, the foundation of the white man’s superiority. “Five or six years of married life,” remarks a veteran observer, “will often reduce a naturally irascible man to such a condition of angelical humanity that it would he safe to trust him w.th a pair of wings." No man can sec a fashionable lady make a wild dive for the bottom ot her dress without fearing for the moment that she is going to use her train to knock a fly off her bonnet. A Texas Story. “You’d hardly believe now what I am going to toll. In Texas wo use rawhide straps, or thongs, for tracts, and in wet weathe they do stretch amazingly. Why, often in damp weather, at home, I’vo hitched up two horses and drove down the bill from my house into the creek hot tom for a sled loud of wood. I have loaded the wood, and many times driven back home and unhitched the horses and the sled would not he in sight." “How did you get the wood home, then?” asked ttn inquisitive bystander. “Oh, I just tied the ends of the traces together and threw them over a post, went knocking about my work and waited till the sun shone out. Sometimes it would lie more than two hours before that sled load of wood would get home; hut you’d see her crawling up the hill at lust, gradually approaching as the rawhide traces shrunk up into their proper length. Yes, Texas is a great country, you bet.” Growing Old. 11 is the solemn thought connected with middle life that life's lust, business is begun in earnest; audit is then, midway between the eradio and the grave, that a man begins to marvel that lie let the days of yout.li go by so half-enji yed. It is the pensive autumn fooling; it is the sensa tion of half sadness that we experience when the longest day of the year is pa-' and every day that follows is shorter, and the light fainter, and the feeble shadows tell that Nature is hastening with gigantic footsteps to her winter grave, bo does man look hack upon his youth. \\ hen the first gray hairs become visible, when the unwelcome truth fastened itself upon tlie it,iml that u man is no longer going up hill, but down, and that the sun is always westering, lie looks hack on things behind. When we wore children, we thought ns children. But now there lies before us manhood, with its earnest work, and then old age, and then the grave, and then homo. There is a second youth for man, better and holier than his first, if he will look on, an 1 not look hack. —F. W. Robertson. Miss Mary Vim Green, cook nurse, washer and ironor, and general house keeper for Mrs. hausen, called at the court house yesterday, and said that there was a marriage license on the books which had to conic olf. It was taken out by Mr. Mat Sofelia, a Russian Fin, who lias been hullo ring her for a long time. She has told him repeatedly that site loved another; hut this seemed oid.v to have the effect of making him more devoted in his attentions. She sa.ys that Mr. Sofelia lias taken out the license so that he can get that faOi published in the papers, and thereby terrify her oti er admirers from paying their court. Already her ,fiends have congratulated her, and Mr, Sofelia has flaunted the license in her face and told her that she would have to go to Huntsville and servo fora thousand years in the penitentiary if she dared to marry aim her man wliiie this license was out against, her. The situation startled h-*r, and just as soon as she could knock Soleiia down with the stove filter she slipped off to have the r cords rectified, blie was sent to the police station for relief, hut the He goant tailed to find an ordinance covering her ease, and she do parted vowing that she never would marry Mr. Sofelia Galveston News. Interrupted Table Talk. The other evening the Rev Mr. l’lnl ac'e: sat down at the tea table with a very thoughtful air, and attended to the wiiiitc of liis brood in a very abstracted maun :r. Presently he looked t.p at hi.s wife and said: " l lie Apostle Paul ” “Got an wiul lump on the head 'sollei noon,” broke in the pastor s eldest sin , ''playing base ball. Ba. flew out i t the sinker’s hau ls when 1 was umpire, and cracked me right above the car, an’ dropped me. Hurt? Golly!” and ilie lad shook his head in dismal hut expres sive pantomime a.s he tenderly rubbed a lump that, looked like a hi hard hall with hair on it. The pastor gravely puu eu for th interiuption, and resumed: "file Ap t-lie Pain ” “Saw Mrs. O'Glieminie down at Green bamu s this afternoon,” said his eh.cut daughter, addressing her mother. “.Sue had the same old everlasting black silk, made over with a vest or t'lluei green silk, coat-tail basque pat tern overskirt made with di.igonui iu rout, edged with deep L luge; ye,.ow straw hat, wi ll nlaek ve.vet lacing inside the brim, and pale blue flowers .She’s g. irg to Cliioag Tlie good minister waited parioutly, and then, in tones just a shade louder, than before said: “Too Apostle I aul says—” “Went, in swimmin' last night With Henry and Ben, pop, and stopped on a clamshell,” exclaimed liis youngest sou; “cut ii y feet sole lift wear my shoe, and, please, can’t I slay home to-mor row?” . The pastor informed his son that lie might stay away from the liver, and then resumed hi.s topic. He said: "4 he Apo.-tle Paul says “My teacher i> an awful liar,” shouted the second son; “he says the world is a.s round us an orange, and it. turns round all the time I aster than a circus man can ride. I guess lie ain’t got much sense.” The mo her lifted a warning finger to ward the hoy and said, ' ."rill and tlie father resumed: i “The Apostle Paul says ’ “Don’t bite off twice as much as you can chew,” broke out tlie eldest son, re- NUMBER 40. proving the assault of his little brother on a piece of cake. The pastor's face showed just a trifle of annoyance as ho said in very firm, decided tone: “The Apostle Paul says ” “There's a fly in tho butter!” shrieked the youngest hopeful of the family, and a general laugh followed. When silunco was restored the eldest daughter, with an air of curiosity, said: “Wed, but, pa, I really would like to know what the Apostle Paul said.” “Pass me the mustard,” said tho pas tor. absently. 'Then the committee rose and tho Sen ate went into executive session and soon after adjourned. — Burlington Free Press. A Masonic lodge in Indiana was pre sided over by a Master who had an exag gerated notion of discipline. One night lie ii et his lodge in called meeting (not a member absent) to instruct them in tho work. Teaching them tho use of the gavel, iie had just called them up with three knocks, when he leaned too far back, fell through a window to the ground four stories—and broke his neck. Pickoi up next morning, he was buried decently, but not a Mason came to the funeral. More strange still, not a Mason appeared any morn in that village. It was inexplicable. Forty women left widows, two hundred and twenty children left orphans, eighty-four merchants left in the lurch with unpaid hills. Twenty years after that somebody went up into the fourth story, broke open tlie door ami and beheld the lodge, a lodge of skeletons! Strange, hut true, tliev had strictly obeyed tlie orders of the W. M • and wait ing for the knocks to seat them, starved to death. Each was standing in an atti tude of respectful attention, “looking to the cast,” and had no pitying citizen taken them down they would have been standing there still. St. Joseph [Ala.) Herald. The following is from tho Lock port Tinas: “James Brown, Tonawanda, is engaged in building a novel raft for a novel purpose. It is of pine logs, and mensuies one hundred leet in length and ten in width. ’The cribs arc divided Into ten sections of ten feet each, and arc coupled together with strong chains. On tlie rear end of the second raft a house, occupying the full width of the timber, is built, and in this it is intended to stoic dogs and cats and several other kinds ot animals. At the extreme end of the raft is a steering apparatus, and here a man will he stationed to direct its course. The above is a description of what is to bn used fur transportation over the Niagara Falls on the Canada side, of animals in a few days. The animals are intended for an experiment, and should the fall have no fatal effect on them, it is said a nan lias been found who will at tempt the perilous voyage." Luck and Labor- Don’t charge your failure to ‘had luck,’ my hoy. I’ll tell you what, your trouble is—you are lazy. Learn Mr. Cobden’s proverbs about “Luck and Labor:” Luck is waiting ior something to tur" up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, turn up si meriting. Luck lies in lied and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or tin mg hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. I,nek wins. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor, on character. Luck sips down to indigence. Labor strides upward to independence. Texas Christian. A London Time- correspondent, de -1 scribing the awful effects of the famine in .South India, says the great hulk of tho people are n nv emaciated, their ribs are siicking out in painful prominence, and their skins covered with a dirty looking dis adoration of the cuticle, described in the Irish famine ot 1840-7, by l)r. Dona van as peculiar to famine. Hwe look at. the thousands of peoi le collected at the relief works, the famine marks are almost universally prevalent. ’J he superiuten i dent of relief operations in Adoiii reports that the journey over one ot his roads resembled the path ol a great battle in the numbers of dead and dying. It tho people had been smitten by a local out break of cholera in ordinary times, they would have fled from the works and never returned; hut so severe is the pressure for food that none could afford to leave the works even for a single day. A voiy careful experinent, intended to test the speed of carrier pigeons, was tried on Friday week Tho bird, one of the homing pigeons known as “Belgian voyageurs,” was tossed through the win dow of a railway carriage as the express train with tlie Continental mails left the Admiralty pier at Dover. Tlie train had been time to travel at sixty miles an hour hut the bird reached its home in Cannon Street twenty minutes holore the train. As it could only have shortened tlie dis tance by six miles, it had traveled at a pace of seventy-five miles an hour. The birds, when released troiu the railway carriage, too. nearly halt a minute to dis cover its hearings, rising to an altitude of half a mile before it set off on its course— behaving, in fact, exactly as it would if it knew ttint by losing in the air it could see its home in London. The wind was wes terly, and the bird carried an urgent com munication from the I'tench police. Best thing out of jail—A pretty girl.