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or 1 ** <»<•<>• n. AFiJfF TRURUDAY, AT BELLTON, GA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. J 1 "'’ (•’>2 numbers) ; six months numbers) 50 cents; three months (13 gKaambers) 25 cents. Ce ' n th< ' Sn,it,l , ” lil 'litig. cast "f the CHURCH DIRECTORY. ' Baptist Chi rch-Kcv E S V Briant, • Preaching every third Salurdav and Sunday. Prai er meeting Friday night in every week. Sunday-school at' 9 a tn every Sunday. Mbthopist Church—Rev I, 1» Winter, ■ Preaching every fourth Saturday and Sunday. Prayer meeting every Thurs day night. Sunday-school at 21 n m every Sunday. V Briant’s Aftointmknts— r trst Saturday and Sunday in each month at Oconee, in Jackson county. Second Saturday and Sunday at Harmony, Banks ’B irrl Saturday and Sunday m Bellton. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at. Homer, Banks county. Bev L P WINTER'S APPOINTMENTS— First Saturday and Sunday at Pleasant Grove. Friday night before first Sunday at Longview. Second Sunday at Mt. Airy. Third Saturday and Sunday at 'Hickory Flat. Fourth Saturday anil Sunday at Bellton. FRATERNAL RECORD Bellton Lodge No 84 I O O F meets first and fourth Wednesday nights in every month. R F Quillian, N G J M Fowler. See _S A Oliver, Inside Guardian. BANKS COUNTY' DIRECTORY? - COUNTY OFFICERS. T. F. Hill, Ordinary. B. F. SunnKTH, Sheriff. R. J. Dyar, Clerk Superior Court. P. A. Waters, Tax Collector. W. C Hai LKtiooK. Tax Receiver. G. R. Bowden, Surveyor. W. R. Arflin, Corouer. W. H.Mkpks, Treasurer. RELIGIOUS. Presbyterian Church Rev. G. H. l Jhrtledge, Pastor. Preaching every 2nd '-•■nidsy at 11 o’clock a. tn., in each month. FMethooist Church—Rev. J. T. Curtis, raster. Preaching every first Sunday ami Saturday before, at 11 o’clock a. nt., in each month. Baptist Church—Rev. E. S. V. Briant, Pastor. Preaching every fourth Sunday ; and Saturday before, at 11 o’clock a. mi, in each month. FRATERNAL RECORD. Phi Delta Lodge No. 148 A. F. M.,*meets on the first Friday evening in each month at 7 o’clock. W. A. Watson. W. M. Homer Lodge No. 82 1. O O. F., meets on the second and fourth Wednesday evenings in each month, at 7 o’clock. R.J. DY AR. N. G. •> HALL COUNTY OFFICERS. ’ John L Gaines, Sheriff J B M WiNnt’ltN, Ordinary J J Mayne, Clerk Superior Court M B Sewell, Tax Receiver Benj Hawkins, Tax Collector R C Young, Treasurer M P Caldwell, Furveyof Robert Ixiwery, Coroner AV J Brown, School Commissioner TABLE OF AJ/nTT '(EN ON THE AIB LINE. Atlanta 10,50 feet Nibley 1040 • ■ k Goodwin's 1035 “ Doraville 10t>5 “ Norcross 1072 “ Duluth 110(1 “ Suwanee 1027 “ Buford llHfi “ Flowery Branch 1132 “ Gainesville 122 H “ Lula 1321 Bellton 1341 “ Mount Airy 1588 “ - Toccoa 1032 “ NEAR THE AIK LINE. tMflKiloaega 2237 feet Springs :«oo •• KKlft “ Mountain 3168 “ Tray Mountain 4535 “ Black Mountain 44st “ Blood Mountain 4870 “ Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “ I Enola or Bra'stown Mountain.. .479o “ Tallulah Falls 23H2 “ OTHER POINTS IN GEORGIA. Savannah 32 feet Augusta 147 “ Fort Gaines 163 “ Columbus 200 “ Milledgeville 264 “ Macon 332 “ Americus 360 “ Marietta 1132 “ Dalton 773 “ K Griffin 975 “ B West Point 620 “ ” Brunswick 16 “ S c h c d 11 1 (' ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE Alli LINK RAILROAD. NO. I—MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 3.30 p m I Arrive at Bellton G. 27 pm L SO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD. L Leave Charlotte 12.10 ani B Arrive at Bebton 8.45 am ■ NO. 3—DAY PASSENGER —EASTWARD. ■ Leave Atlanta 4.00 am V Arrive at Bellton 6AO a m ■ NO. 4—DAY PASSENGER—WESTWARD. ■ Leave Charlotte 10.42 am ■ - Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p m WNO S—LOCAL FREIGHT —EASTWARD. I fceave Atlanta 7.05 a m I Arrive at Bellton 12.30 p m | KO . 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD. ■ Leave Central «.5O p m ■i Arrive at Bellton 12.36 a m G. J. Foreacre, General Manager. W. J. Houston, General Passenger and T:<k«-t Agent. N(JRTH EA S T EIIN liA IL ROA D. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Athens 6 00 a m Center 6 30 a m Nicholson 6 48 am sBEW Harmony Gpm e 730 am ■ MG a in m " r r" L s i. Volume 2. UPWARD AND ONWARD. Battling in the cause of truth With the zeal and strength of youth: Upward, raise your banner higher Onward, urge your phalanx higher To the centre of the strife; Strike, where virtue finds a foe— Strike, while love directs the blow— ' ■Where the foes of nmn are rife. : Be your watchword truth and love, Be your stay the strength above; Mid the pure, remain the purest, Mid the faithful, he the sures— Temperance your banner star. Ask not rest, nor pray for peace, Till the demon foe shall cease Live and all its Joys to mar. Warriors, in the cause of right, Earnest in your zeal and might, Joying in your high endeavor, Onward press, and falter never; Till the victory be won; Shout, until the field ye gain, Press to those which still remain, Battling till the work be done. In all our decisions and actions it would be well for us to remember the suggestive inscription that was writ ten on the gates of Husyrarie. As the traveler entered that ancient city he read on the first gate: “Be bold,” and on the second gate, “Be bold, be bold and evermore be bold;” and then he paused, as he read on the third gate, “Be not too bold I” A man’s strength should be like the momentum of a falling planet and like the return of its due and perfect curve. The best treasure on earth is the most neglected. It is the op» n door to the secret place of prayer. There all riches fall from heaven into con trite and believing souls. There God crowns his princes who prevail with him through self-conqnest. There life flows down a heavenly river, into the spiritual being of the worshipper. You feel poor in grace—try the clos et. You are. fainting in poverty—try the riches of grace in the solitude of ' your clvMt. Very young men and Woman some times think it “smart” to indulge in the use of slang. But it is a habit that leans to profanity, and fills the mind with evil thoughts. It vulgar izes and degrades the soul, and pre pares the way for many of the gross and fearful sins which now corrupt society. Young reader, keep your i mouth from all impurity, and eschew vulgar and low expressions. • ♦ • ■■■ ll ’ There are so many people who cannot enjoy amusements without a dash of wickedness in them. A rep resentative French-woman held aloft a glass of pure water in her jeweled hand at a banquet, and thus moral ized: “Oh, if it were only a little wicked to sip that water, how sweet it would taste!” So many seem to think that a spice of sin sweetens the taste of pleasure. ► ♦ •<—■—- -■ I leave to others fortune, birth, and every other fancied good which can flatter the imagination of man. I value only science and letters, and regret no labor that I have spent in their acquisition. I have preferred, and shall ever prefer, learning to all earthly riches, and hold nothing dear er on earth, next to the joys of heav en, and the hopes of eternity. Our patience revives when wo see ' the Man of Sorrows silent before his i accusers. Who can refuse to drink of . his cup and to be baptised with his ' baptism ? The darkness of Gethse mane lias been light to many an ago nized soul, and the passion even unto death has made the divine sing for joy of heart. The Stoics say: “Turn in upon yourselves; there you will find re pose.” This, however, is not true. Otfiers say: “Go forth from your selves, and seek happiness in divi sion.” Neither is true. Disease will come. Alas! happiness is neither within nor without us. It is the union of ourselves with God.—Pascal. Beauty of the face is what most peo] le mean when they use the word. But, in truth, beauty is seldom seen in a human face. I call beauty a spiritual perfection, which is some times visible in the form and counte nance ; it is essentially a part of life, feeling, character; a result of their harmonious combination.—Davis. 4 If a man has a great many debts, are they not so much to his credit ? ..11 48 » nr. W2.J5 p m <3 r The North Georgian. TRUTH, JUSTICTK, LIBERTY. ELLTON, BANKS C()UN r fr, GA., AUGUST 21, 1879. BEAUTIFUL WORDS TO A BRIDE. The following beautiful letter was i written several years ago by a, gen- I tieman to a bride on receiving her wedding cards. It is exquisitely fresh, I original, and full of poetry. Though j not intended for publication, it found I its way into print, and we thiii*k it too much of a gem to be lost entirely : “I am holding some pasteboard in my hands, Addie ! three stalely pluck ■ iugs from the bush of ceremony! I am gazing upon a card and a name— a name with which your gentle life began, a name with which your throb bing heart was lost. There is nothing strange about that card. The maiden sign still looks up from it, calm and friendly, as it looked on many a friendly visit, as it lies in many a for mal basket. I am gazing, too, upon a card where the nearer parent tells the world she will be “At Home” one day, and that is nothing new! But there is another card, whose min gling there puts a tongue of fire into this speechless pasteboard, enamel ing fate on conjmon place. It tells ns that feeling is maturing into destiny, and that these cards are hut the pale heralds of a coming cri sis, when a hand that lias pressed friends’ hands and plucked flowers, shall close down on him to whom she shall befriend and flower forever. I have sent you a few flowers to adorn the dying moments of your single life. They are the gentlest types of a delicate and durable friendship. They spring up by our side when oth . ers have deserted it, and they will be i found watching over our graves when those who should cherish have for gotten us. It seems meet to me that a past, so calm and pure as yours, should expire with a kindred sweet . ness about it; that flowers and music, kind friends and earnest words should consecrate the hour when a sentiment is passing into a «ikT»mcntx “The three great stages of our be ing are the birth, the bridal and the burial. To the first we bring nothing but, weakness, for the last we have nothing but dust! But here, at the altar, where life joins life, the pair come throbbing up to the holy man, j whispering the deep promise that arm j each with the other's heart, to help lon in the life-strugirle of care and duty. The beautiful will be there, borrowing new beauty from the scene. The gay and the frivolous, they and their flounces will look solemn for once. And youth will come to gaze on all its sacred thoughts pant for; and age will totter up to hear the old words repeated that to their own lives have given the charm. “Some will weep over it as if it were a tomb, and some will laugh over it as if it were a joke, but who must stand by it, for it is fate, not fun, this everlasting locking of their lives! “And now can you, who have queen ed it over so many bending forms, can you come down at last to the fru gal diet of a single heart I “Hitherto you have been a clock, giving your time to all the world. Now you are a watch, buried in one particular bosom, warming only Ztio breast, marking only his hours, and ticking only to the beat of his heart— where time and feeling shall be in unison, until these lower ties are lost in that higher wedlock where all hearts are united around the Great Central Heart of all. “Hoping that calm sunshine may hallow your clasped hands, I sink si lently into a signature.” It must be a great satisfaction at the close of life to be able to look back on the years which are passed and to feel that you have been useful to others. You may be assured also, that the same feeling is a source of comfort and happiness at any period of life. There is nothing in this world so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character, and it gives you zeal or importance in society— much beyond what any artificial sta tion can bestow. God is; duty is; life and its relations, are; death is coming; the future is opening and the obligations that rest on a man are not made to pivot upon the changeable sands of human opi nions and human philosophies. COURTING AND DIVORCE. I This old story contains a lesson which many married people have not yet learned. When Jonathan Trum bnll was Governor of Connecticut, a gpitleman called at his house one dfcy requesting a private interview. l|e said: !“I have called upon an unpleasant errand, sir, and want your advice. My i wife and I do not live happily togeth <§’, and I am thinking of getting a di irtnee. What do you advise me to dji ?” The Governor sat a few moments in thought; then turning to his visitor, said: “How did you treat Mrs. W. when y<>u were courting her? and how did you feel toward her at the time of your marriage ?” Squire W. replied, “I treated her I as kindly as I could, for I loved her retirly at that time.” “Well, sir,” said the Governor, “go Ipime and court her now just as you dhl then, and love her as when you married her. Do this, in the fear of God, one year, and then tell me the result.” The Governor then said, “let us pray.” They bowed in prayer and separa ted. When a year had passed away, Squire W. called again to see the Governor, and said: “I have called to thank you for the good advice you gave me, and to tell you that my wife and I arc as happy as when we were first married, and I cannot be grate ful enough for your counsel.” “I am glad to hear it, Mr. W.” said the Governor, “and I hope you will continue to court your wife as long #s you live.” Nothing can reconcile the heart to the awful fact of death when its shock tii si falls upon us. If eases occur in iy -a h t he unalit v of submission seems Jtoieacn tlie heights of sainthood at the very time of the stroke, it is be cause the trial, discipline or bereave ment of some former period is now in its fruitage. Remember, you are only under di vine discipline now. You are only going to school. God would not be so cruel as to let us have our own way. There are lessons we may' learn, tasks we must take, drudgery through which we must go. It would be cruel in God to let us have our own way. I know not any pleasure of sense more exquisite than a draught of cool, clear water when thirsty; but few things are more insipid than water when there is no thirst. It is thus i that Christ and His salvation are very sweet to one, and very tasteless to another.—William Arnot. Honesty is the truth of the heart, and the truth of the lips; it is true heart feeling, poured forth in true utterance, whether of word or deed. The life of an honest man is harmo nious. The honest, integral heart Is strong and sound rock, on which men may build securely. The wise man changes his mind, the ignorant man will not. The former will acknowledge his error and cor rect it, but the pertinacity with which the latter adheres to his opinions al ways bears a just proportion to his ignorance. The world is governed by three things wisdom, authority and ap pearances. Wisdom is for thoughtful people; authority for rough people, and appearances for the great mass of superficial people who can look only at the outside. Examine your lives, weigh your motives, watch over your conduct and you will not take long to learn enough to make you entertain charitable opi nions of others. Be harsh in your judgment of self—be tender in your judgment of others. Christ prefers forgiveness to every other virtue. He enjoins it oftener, more anxiously, and with this weighty circumstance, that the forgiveness of others is the condition upon which we are to expect and ask from God for giveness for ourselves. If thou hide thy treasure upon the earth how canst thou expect co find it in heaven ? Canst thou hope to be a sbwer where thou hast no stock? THE BRUNKARD’S BABY. A friend tells a touching story of a little girl just three years old, endow ed with unusual sprightliness and lov liness, both of person and disposition, who had been terrified by the drunk enness of her father that she cried out to a friend who was taking leave of her mother, “0, please take me home with you, and hide me, so papa - can’t find me.” What a world of woe is contained t in the plaint of this poor baby? And what a tragedy in home life it re t veals. The most loving in the world, , the most trusting, the most confiding, and the most innocent in helpliness, i is made to turn in agony of appre -1 hension from the one on whose bosom I she could naturally rest in p» feet trustfulness, sure of his protecting' f love. Rum had converted him into an object of fear, almost of aversion. O, Rum 1 who can tell the pitiful > scenes for which thou art responsi -1 ble—the love thou bast quenched, the > hopes then hast wrecked, the hearts I thou hast broken, the homes thou hast desolated, the graves thou hast dug? i Think of these baby hands raised in piteous appeal, fathers who are drunk- - ards, and they must strike like rods > of iron to your hearts. 1 Wasted Time.—My dear boys, i you make a great mistake in suppos ■ ing that the time on the corner, try s ing to smoke a cigar, is not wasted. - Think or try to think, how much time and money you are waiting, and foi I what? The gratification afforded In I the lounge on the corner or the cigai i is not only temporary, but podtiveh hurtful. You cannot indulge in them ( without seriously injuring yourselves You will acquire idle and wastefn ‘ habits, which will cling to you witl ( each succeeding year. You may in afl.er life shake thtlm oft’, but the prob abilities are that the habits thus form ed in early life will remain with you to your dying day. Be warned, then, in time,<md resolve that as the hour spent in idleness is gone forever,'you will improve each passing one, anil thereby tit yourself for usefulness ami happiness—which can never come whild you waste each hour as it flies. How to Prosper.—A very little experience is worth a vast amount of theorizing. This is what laird & Tay lor, the celebrated New York mer chants, have t<> say about the agency through which they built up their large and prosperous business : “Os all the methods open to the merchant for advertising his business, an experience of nearly half a century enables us to unhesitatingly declare in favor of the newspaper. It is, without exception, the mosl economi cal, persistent, painstaking and suc cessful canvasser any business firm can secure for the purpose of bringing their goods to the attention of the consumer.” At Table.—Never talk of disa-! greeable things at your table, but let ! the. conversation be kind, genial, so cial and cheering. The more good company you have at. your table, the better for your children. Every con versation with company at your table is an educator of the family. Hence the intelligence and the refinement, and the appropriate behavior of a family which is given to hospitality. Never feel that intelligent visitors can be anything but a blessing to you and yours. How few have fully got-1 ten hold of the facts that company and conversation arc no small part of education. Truth and Error. There are only two powerful influences at work in the world ; and these two influences | are Truth and Error. They are es sentially different, as different as light and darkness, —and we cannot com pound them. They are ever found in the deadliest conflict. When one un furls its banner, the other must fight or leave the field. We find these two powers always at war in every true man’s breast, and they fight on until the last flickering spark of life goes out, when Truth puts its enemy to flight, and the spirit of the just passes into the presence of an everlasting Truth. i To live without envy is a certain | indication of great qualities. 'X .7 IVovtli Greorg-ian. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT BELLTOH, GA., BY JOHN BLATS. Terms—sl.oo per annum; 50 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. Parties away from Bellton are requested to send their names, with such amounts of money as they can spare, from 25c. to sl. THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. A good example is the best sermon. Let them obey who know how to rule. The head is ever the dupe of the heart. He is really wise who is nettled at nothing. There are follies as catching as in fections. It is a great folly to wish only to be wise. Interest blinds some and makes some see. In times of sorrow our solace is Jesus himself. • To extol one’s own virtue is to make a vice of it. Most people judge men only by success or fortune. We give advice, but cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. He that hath the love of God in him hath the kingdom of God. To establish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as if we were established. The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it—the most obliged to praise it. Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of character—even that of disinterestedness. There is real love just as there are real ghosts—every person speaks of it—few persons have seen it. The best and noblest service in life is prompted by love, and love works without consciousness of self. Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character ; sow a character and you reap a ilcstmjT There is'’nothing that so refines, polishes and ennobles face and mien as the constant presence of good thoughts. Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while ‘judicious men tire showing you the grounds of it. Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than the common, bitt those only who have greater designs. Imitation is always unhappy, for till which is counterfeit displeases by the very things which charm us when they are original. There are. strings in the harp of every life, which though covered with dust, give out music when the wings of truth stir the air. Love sees what no eyes see; love hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. A dishonest person is in dread of every one he meets, while the honest man fears not the whole world as he does his own conscience. A hypocrite may spin so fair a thread as to deceive his own eye. He may admire the cobweb, and not know himself to be the spider. Think of him, you that mourn your imperfectness to^lay—think of Jesus Christ himself and then be assured that you are to be like him. Faith, though truly His gift, becomes fruitful only through pain, and though it may be a living faith, it cannot yield rest, when discipline is just beginning. If a man be gracious to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them. How many of us can thank God for what seems evil, rejoicing in it, feel ing while not seeing that he has sent it because we need it and cannot be as He wills without it. As storm following storm, and wave succeeding wave, give additional hard ftiess to the shell that incloses the pearl so do the storms and waves of lire add force to the character of man. Don’t you know that propor tion aa we subdue our pride and lust, our love of things worldly and carnal, that just m -.fjM’ns we overcame selves, we enter into Number 37. be wise.