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IVovtl* jriHLIBIIEt> EVERY THURSDAY AT BELLTOX, GA., BY JOHN BL ATS. Terms—sl.oo per annum; 50 cents for «)x month*; 25 cents for three months. Parties away from Bellton .'ire requested to reixl their names, with such amounts of !l “ ney as they can spare, from 25c. to SI. CHURCH DIRECTORY. BarTtST CHI RCH-ltev E S V Briant, lastor. 1 reaching every third Saturday and Sunday. Prayer meeting Friday n : ght 1 m every week. Sunday-school at 9 a rn every Sunday. Methodist Church—Rev L P Winter. I astor. Preaching every fourth Saturday ; and Sunday. Prayer meeting everv Thiirs- i day night. Sunday-school at 2j p m every Sunday. Rev ES \ Briant’s Appointments— r irst Saturday and Sunday in each month •*» '-h*<>nov. in Jackson county. Second • aturday and Sunday nt Harmony, Banks county. Thin! Saturday ami Sunday in Bellton. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at Homer. Banks county. Rev L P Winter’n Appointments— r trst Saturday and Sunday at Pleasant Grove. Friday night before first Kundax at Ij*ngview. Second Sunday at Mt. Airv. Tnnd Saturday and Sunday at Hickory Blat. Fourth Saturday anil Sunday at Bell ton. FRATERNAL RECORD Bellton Lodge No 84 I O <> F meets first and fouith Wednesday nights in <'verv month. • r f Quillian, NG * J .V Fowler. Sec s A Oliver, Inside Guardian. BANK S COVNTY DIKLECTI>KY ~ COUNTY OFFICERS. T. F. Hill, Ordinary. B. F. Svddeth, Sheriff'. R. J. Dyar, Clerk Superior Court. P. A. Waters, Tax Collector. W. (’. Haulrrook, Tax Receiver. R. W. Bowden, Surveyor. W. R. Arilin, Coroner. W. 11. Meeks. Treasurer. RELIGIOUS. Presbyterian Church Rev. G. IL Cart ledge. Pastor. Preaching every 2nd Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m., in each month. Methodist Church—Rev. J. T. Curtis. Pastor. Preaching every first Sunday ami Saturday before, at 11 o’clock a. m., in each month. Baptist Church—Rev. E. S. V* Briant, Pastor. Pru.*#hiiig every fourth Sunday and Saturday before, at 11 o'clock a. in., in each month. FRATERNAL RECORI». Phi Delta Lodge No. 148 A. F. M., inoet> on th«- first Friday evening in each month at 7 o’clock. W. A. Watson. W. M. Homer Lodge No. 82 1.0.0. F.. meets on the second ami fourth Wednesday evenings in each month, at 7 o’clock. R. J. DYAR, N. G. HALL COIM Y OFFICERS. John L 6’aixes, Sheriff J B M Winrurn, Ordinary J J Mayne, Clerk Superior Court M B Sewell, Tax Receiver Ben.t Hawk ink. Tax Collector* - f; (’ Young, Treasurer M P Caldwell, Surveyor Robert Lowery, Coroner W .4 Brown - , School CummissiomT TA BLE (>F~A LTrfUDEK ON THE AIR LINE. .1 flanta. 1050 feet Sibley 10-lo •• Goodwin’s 1035 *• Doraville 1065 “ Norcross 1072 “ Duluth 1106 “ Suwanee 1027 “ Buford 1190 “ Flowery Branch 1132 “ Gainesville 1220 “ Lula 1341 “ Bellton 1.41 “ Mount Airy 1588 “ Toccoa 1032 “ NEAR THE AIK LINE. Ilahlonega 2237 feet Porter Springs Uhmi “ < larkesvillc 1000 “ Yonah Mountain 3168 “ U ray Mountain 4535 “ Black Mountain 4481 “ Blood Mountain 4070 “ Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “ Enota or Brasstown Mountain...479o “ Tallulah Falls 2382 “ OTHER POINTS IN GEORGIA. Savannah 32 feet- Augusta 147 “ Fort Gaines 103 “ <’•> I limb us 200 “ Milledgeville 2G4 “ Macon 332 “ Americua 360 “ Marietta 1132 “ Dalton .• 773 “ Griffin 975 “ Newnan 985 “ LaGrange 778 “ West Point 020 “ Brunswick 10 “ <■• 11 <‘<llll o ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR LINE RAILROAD. NO. I—MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 3.30 p in Arrive at Bellton 0.27 p in NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WEBTWARD. Leave Charlotte 12.10 a rn Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a m NO. 3—DAY PASSENGER—EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 4.00 a m Arrive at Bellton 6.50 a m NO. 4—DAY PASSENGER—WESTWARD. Leave Charlotte 10.42 a m Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p in NO. S—LOCAL FREIGHT—EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 7.05 a rn Arrive at Bellton 12.30 p m NO. 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD. Leave Central 6.50 p m Arrive at Bellton 12.36 a m G. J. Foheacke, General Manager. W. J. Houston, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. NORTH EASTE KN KA IL RO AT >. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Leave Athens 6 00 a in Center 6 30 a in Nicholson 6 48 a in Harmony Grove 7 20 a in Mavsville 7 46 a in Gillsville v 8 05 a ni Arrive at Lula SJJO a in Leave Lula 9.50 a in Gillsville 10 17 a in Maysville 10 39 a in Harmony Grove 11 08 a in Nicholson 11 33 a m Center .11 48 a in Arrive at Athens 12.15 j» in Trains will wait one hour at Lula for delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line Railroad, when by so doing a connection v, ill be Mtved. J. M. EDWARDS. Slljif. The North Georgian. Volume 2. GOOD NIGHT. God keep you sa'e, my little love, Ail through the night; Rest close in his encircled arms Until the light. My heart is with you as 1 kneel to pray, Good night.’ God keep you in his care away. Thick shadows creep like silent ghost About my head ; I lose myself in tender dreams, While overhead The moon comes stealing through the window bars, A silver sickle gleaming ’mid the stars. For 1, though I am far away, Feel safe and strong; To trust you thus, dear love—ami yet— The night, is long— I say with sobbing breath the old fond prayer, Good night! Sweet dreams! God keep vou everywheie! DROP BY DROP. The world grows older every day! The same things we arc daily doing. While some are horn, some pass away, Some wed, and some—well, they are wooing. Some in tin- shade of sunny day Spend all their lives in scented poesy, I hue ill-earning, waste their time away hi Imwers sheltered, rich ami rosy. But “drop by drop the raindrops fall,” (Jiuek time Hies paston minutes winging, Smooth down the steep rolls the hall, While golden time away we’re Hinging. Amazed we meet the gloo'my day— 'fhe day that all to sure is coming, When we are called with Ide to pay The long account \\ e have been summing, Then slow and sure, like swift ami strong. Will find the past an idle song. —— —» Look at your flower garden, lying yonder before your windows. You know what care you must give it if you would have it prosper—how you must train the tender vines, water the young plants, remove the weeds and loosen the soil. Left to itself, great weeds would soon choke the flowers; and, though you find it hard to have as many roses as you want, it would be dillicidt to be rid of the crop of net- Ues that would spring up if you forgot those for a week. So it is with u hu man garden. The. bad things grow faster than the good, and without help, too; while you must not only help the eaf ly blossoms—the human herb., of >irLuc.s-bul light for them against the human weeds. It is ro mantic and pretty to say good always triumphs, and that the right is always victorious, but it is not true; and those who have power should always remember this. One of the. noblest tasks a man can take, upon himself is to weed the human garden and give the good, the pure, and the honest plant a chance to bear flowers ami fruit, of which those stinging nettles, evil men, arc always striving to rob them. — The mischief resulting from idle ness is proverbial. Its cure, employ j nient, is equally familiar. But what I employment ? Mischief employs too I readily and too successfully. Were its energy transferred to laudable ob ijects, what success there would be in the world! Public approval,joined to an eager desire, could not help doing wonders even more marvelous than the ingenuity of vice now accom plishes. The importance will thus be seen of giving direction to the mind. There must be an object to ensure stability and enlist attention. In such case, whatever may happen to discourage, one has this tiling, the familiar object of his life, to turn to sustain him, to keep him from ennui and despair on the one hand, and the dangers of a free unsettled life on the other. Tlis calling will hc.d him to his course, let him but be attached to it. Some one lias said that a young mother is the most beautiful thing in nature. Why qualify it? Why young? Are not all mothers beauti ful? The sentimental outside behold- ■er may prefer youth in the pretty i pictures, but I am inclined to think ! that sons and daughters, who are ■ most intimately concerned in t he. mat> ; ter, love and admire their mothers i most when they arc old. How sug- ■ gestive of something holy and vener able it is when a person talks of his I “dear mother.” Away with your mincing “mam ' mas,” suggestive only of a line lady, who deputes her duty to a nurse, a drawingroom maternal parent, who is afraid to handle her offspring for fear of soiling her line new gown. Give us the homely mother, the arms of whose love are all embracing; who is beautiful always, whether old or young; whether arrayed in satin, or modestly attired in calico. The dear old mothers !—Heaven bless them ! TUUTff, JUSTICE, LIBERTY. BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., JUNE 19, 1879. CHARITY FOR THE FALLEN, Never say anything damaging tolhe good name of a woman, it matters not how poor she may be or what her plhce in society. Wy lave a hard enoigh time at best, and God help the man who would give them a kick down ,'hc hill. We are all too free with tkeir names—we talk (oo much about them and we do very wrong. The least lit tle hint that there is something wrong, that “she ain’t all right,” whether spoken in jest or in earnest;, is taien up and unlike the rolling stone gath ers moss as it goes from place to ;ilacc and at last comes home to tins perse cuted creatures with crushing wei-tht. She has done nothing but keep qipet while her idle persecutors have pur sued her, and now she is kicked from door to door, and is fallen so low that none will do her reverence. Give a dog a bad name and you had as well kill him—talk about a good woiian on the streets and aei'oss bar-rubm counters, and you.had as well set her down at once as a social wreck. No one wants to help her. We don’t want so much theoretical religion; we want a kind of blue jeans and homes*n;n pity that will do for the washtub. ind the. kitchen as well as the dravihg room and the parlor—a sort of mi versal honesty that will not think a woman a thief because, she. happen to wear a sun bonnet and walk ac oss the street with a string of mackerel in her hand. There is nothing wrong in manual labor, and honest poverty is a sure passport, to heaven. ’ < Don’t judge a man by the dofiies he wears, for God made one and*thc tailor the other. Don’t judge him by his family connections, for Cain be longed to a very good family. Don’t judge a man by his failures in life, for many a man fails because 1 is too honest to succeed. Don’t judge a .man by his speech, for the ] . rot te'tr and t!:.., i.> butUn i.IMLu- nient of sound. Don’t judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat often inhabit the. grandest structures. Don’t judge a man by his activity in church affairs, for that is not unfrequently inspired by hypo critical and selfish motives. Don’t judge a man by his lack of disjAiy, for the long cared beast is the hum blest of animals, but when aroused is terrible to behold. Don’t take it for granted that because a man carries a contribution box he is liberal; he of ten pays the Lord in that way and keeps the currency. ». < « Stimc men us? words as riflemen use bullets. They say but little. The few words go right to the mark. They let you talk, and guide your face and eyes, on and on, till what you say can be answered hi a word or two, and then they launch out a sen tence, pierce the matter to the quick, and arc done. Your conversation falls into their minds as a river in a need chasm, and is lost from sight by its depth and darkness. They will sometimes surprise you with a few words that go to the mark like gun shot, and then they arc silent again, as if they were reloading. Such men arc safe counsellors and true friends, where they profess to be such. To them truth is more, valuable than gold, while pretension is too gaudy to deceive them. Words without point to them are like titles without merit, only betraying the weakness of the blind dupes who are ever used to for ward other men’s schemes. It is astonishing to see how a man may live on a small income who has a handy and industrious wife. Some men live and make a far better ap pearance on six or eight dollars a week than others do on fifteen or eighteen dollars. The man docs his part well, but the wife is good for nothing. She will even upbraid her husband for not living in as good style as her neighbor, while the fault is en tirely her own. His neighbor has a neat, capable and industrious wife, and that makes the difference. So look out young man, before you go into matrimony. It is a lottery in which most men can only buy one ticket, and if that turns out a blank, your whole life had better be a blank, too. Luckily, no one need go into a wedded state with his eyes closed, as it is the case with his “lotteries, and we judge all who are sensible enough will use their optics and draw prizes. GENEROUS PEOPLE. Generosity often brings its reward, for selfish people are often the most miserable in the world. They are morbid and miserable concerning their own health or fortune, and be come so susceptible about every in sidious attack of disease, lest it should enter the fortress of their nature, that by their very intensity of anxiety, un conscious to themselves, they do their best to let the enemy in; with others there, is often so much susceptibility to praise or blame, honor or insult, that life becomes a feverish state, of hope and fear. The, unselfish, in think ing about others, as well as them selves. have their thoughts driven from their own anxieties and their own ailments, and so, becoming in terested in (he common weal, are less particular and sensitive concerning matters which affect themselves. A beautiful story is told of Sir Philip Sydney, while borne away, dying, from the battlefield. He had just placed a cup of water his lips, when there was carried past him a wounded soldier, who looked with longing eyes on the draught of the. more favored Shclncy. He withdrew ids lips, and instead of drinking him self, gave the cup to the'poor maimed soldier, with the simply utterance. •Thy necessity is' yet greater than mine.” That was an illustrious in stance of unselfishness, and does honor to his character in the sphere of heroic deeds more than the most brilliant passage of arms. He wan a wise and philosophic boy who always wished (hat every season would last forever, and when it was. gone was glad that the next follew ing season had conic. When it was winter he said: “O, glorious winter! What fun there is in sleighing and coasting, and snow-balling and going to school! I wish winter would last In spring he said: “Delightful spring! Season of Howers and birds! How I love the spring! I wish spring would last forever!” Summer came. Then he said : “The sweet clover! The fun of haying! and now I can go in swimming every day. I wish summer would last for ever !” Autumn followed and he exclaimed, “O, ripe and mellow autumn! Oh, luscious season of fruits! Rich and pleasant harvests! Hunter’s moon! rabbits, partridges and quail! Pears, apples and grapes! I wish autumn would last forever!” • That boy enjoyed this life. That one boy was wiser and more philoso phical than ten thousand hypochon drics and croakers. “It will do!” is the common phrase of those who neglect little things. “It will do!” has blighted many a char acter, blasted many a fortune, sunk many a ship, burned down many a house, and irretrievably ruined thou sands of hopeful projects of human good. It always means stopping short of the right thing. It is a make shift. It is a failure and defeat. Not what “will do,” but-what is the best possible thing to do, is the point to be aimed at! Let a man once adopt the maxim of “it will do!” and he is given over to the enemy—he is on the side of incompetency and defeat— and we give him up as a hopeless case. The most successful men and wo men are those for whom their employ ments and pursuits have the greatest attractions. We want instructors for our youth who do not look upon life, as a disgrace or a drudgery, but who have a genuine love or aptitude for it. “If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time affects it; if we rear temples, they crumble into dust; if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with right principles, with a just fear of God and love for our fellowmcn, we engrave on those tables some thing that will brighten to all eter nity.” There is enough whisky drank in this country every year to fill a canal eighty miles long, four feet deep and fourteen feet wide. It would buy the poor of this country 230,000,000 bar rels of flour. It would build 600,000 homes worth $2,500 each, and give a Bible tv every man on earth.’ Number 30. SOMETHING FOR PARENTS. It is a common saying that every child thinks his father the wisest man in the world. This is very natural, as parents are their children's fountains of knowledge. To them their chil dren come for anything they want to know; and in them they arc general ly satisfied. But every wise parent has occasion to say, now and then, “I don’t know, my dear.” The. surprise, of the child on first hearing that there is anything that his parents don’t, know, fixes the fact in his mind. When he Ims once discovered that his parents have something more to learn he becomes aware—and this ought to be fixed in his mind—that their educa tion is not finished, and that it is their business, as it is his, to learn some thing more every day as long as they live. So much for knowledge. The case ought to be as clear to him with regard to goodness. It is not enough that in church he hears all mon and women are sinners. These things may set him thinking, but there will be., or ought to be, more, light every day to dear up his ideas. The same parents who honestly own to their child that they arc ignorant of things about which he questions them will own to him that they arc not nearly so good as they wish to be. Thus is the truth opened to the feeblest and smallest mind that education has still to go on, even when people are so in conceivably old as children arc apt to think tlieir parents. -« There is something about deep sorrow that tends to wake up tlx child-feeling in all of us. A man o! giant intellect becomes like a littb child when a great grief smi'es him or when a grave opens at his fireside. I have seen a stout sailor—who laugh ed at the tempest—come home when he was sick, and let his mother nurse him as if he were a baby. Be war ‘Witting to lean oh the arms that nevei failed him. So a Christian in time ot trouble is brought to this child-feel ing. lie. wants to lean somewhere, to talk to somebody, to have some body to love him and hold him up. One purpose in all affliction is to bring us down to the. everlasting arms. AVhat new strength and peace it gives us to feel them underneath us! These mighty arms cannot only hold us; they can lift us up. Men err who look upon learning as the sole property of him who has it, or who Hold that giving a man ed ucation by public aid is like giving him material things at the cost of others. The laws of political econo my, of supply and demand, do not apply to it, and it is madness to trust alone to these to give our people the knowledge that we need. What you buy to clothe or feed your body is yours against all the world, which is cut off from its use. What you gain to adorn and feed your mind, you gain for all around you. When you use your property, you take away its use from all others; when you use your knowledge, you can only do so by giving it out to the communities in which you live. —Ho ratio Seymour. Bad language easily rims into bad deeds. Select any society you please ; sutler yourself to converse in its dia lect, to use its slang, to speak in the character of one who relishes it, and your moral sense will very soon low er down to its level. Becoming inti mate with it you lose your horror of it. To be too much with bad men and in bad places, is not only un wholesome to a man’s morality, but unfavorable to his faith and trust in God. It is not every man that could live as Lot did in Sodom, and then be fit to go out of it under God’s con voy. This obvious principle, of itself, furnishes a reason not on ly for watch ing the tongue, but for keeping our self as much as possible out of the company of bad associates. Men often escape lightly from the first imprudence, and sutler terribly from its repetition ; for folly repeated becomes sin, and sin is always pun ished. There is no variableness in the government of God. -♦-« There are things which nothing but experience can teach, and the news paper business is one of them. Never bother a bee when he is b« s y- INortli Georgian, PUBLISHER EVERY THURSDAY, AT BELLTON, GA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 numbers) $1.00; six months (26 numbers) 50 cents; three months (13 numbers) 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. Hope, kneeling and praying. Pray for pardon, not penance. Obedience is nobler than freedom. Penitence is God’s own medicine. Deal with those who arc fortunate. Children are tender —lead them gently. Let another’s shipwreck be your sea-mark. Where we are not at ease we cannot be happy. Think truly, and thy thought slutll be a fruitful seed. Our object should be, by personal profit to profit others. What best proves there’s life in a heart ? That it bleeds. A knowledge of mankind is neces sary to acquire prudence. When ill reports are spread of you, live so that nobody will believe them. No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. Half of the pleasure of riches con sists in seeing others suffer the pangs of poverty. Idleness is hard work to those who are not used to it, and dull work for those who are. Combat all thy discontent through irayer, every care through faith, every ear through hope. He who reels and staggers most in he journey of life, takes the nearest ut to the devil. Dewdrops at nigkt arc diamonds at norn; so the tears we weep here may •e pearls in heaven. -Ill' ivlio uiimals will display the same charac teristics towards his fellow men. Absence destroys small passions, ind increases great ones—as the wind extinguishes tapers and kindles fires. Whatever be your outward lot in life, your condition is truly pitiable if yon are guilty of neglecting moments. He who is false to present duties breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the defect when the weaving of a lifetime is unrolled. He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty, possesses, in a large measure, divine elements in his char acter, and must grow spiritually. None arc too wise to be mistaken, but few arc so wisely just as to ac knowledge and correct their mistakes, especially the mistakes of prejudice. Comfort, as the world generally ap plies it, or would apply it, in every day life, when strictly analyzed, signi fies a great consideration for self and a perfect indifference about others. Every year of our live we grow more convinced that it is the wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good, and dwell as little ns possible on the evil and false. We should no more lament that we have grown old, than the husband man, when the bloom and fragrance of spring have passed away, should lament that summer or autumn has come. There are two ways of getting through this world. One is to make the best of it, and the other is to make the. worst of it. These who take the latter course work hard for poor pay. Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, or hap pier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to society; it is disgusting to the refined and abominable to the good. He who looks on beatity with a pure affection forgets the loveliness of the body in that of the soul, and rises by means of that earthly beauty to the great artist, to the very essence of loveliness. What a fine looking thing Is war! Yet, dress it as we may?-dress and feather it, daub it With gold, huzza after it and sing swaggering songs about it—what is it but murder in uniform? Cain taking the sergeant’s shilling?—Douglas Jerrold.