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v. ASHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT BELLTON, GA.,
by JOHN BL ATS.
peT ann,nn ; cents for
« x months; 25 cents for three months.
1 arties away from Rollton are requested
< . < nd their names, with such amounts of
1,1 >< \ as they enn spare, from 25c. to *■!.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
pJst'oY’n ' "'i’" H-K,v BBV llri:ml >
‘ , £ r ’ J r ‘ aching every third SatnriUv
anu aunday. Pray er meeting Eridav niglit
"„ rv, jv Sunday-school at'!l a m‘
every Sunday.
.Methodist Cnrncn- R. v I. P Winter.
,F*a<’Mng every fourth Saturday
■Uid Sunday. Prayer meeting everr Tlmrs
<lay night. Sunday-school ar 2j pm every
Sunday.
Rkv.E S \ Djhant’h AI'I’OIX : vests —
,*’!'/ Sa,ur, 't*. v Mid Sunday in each inonth
at Oconee, in ehickson county. Secwnd
Saturday and Sunday at Harmony. Bartles
couiity. Third S.-u luiay and Sunday in
Weiiton. Fourth Satin day ami Sumlav at
Homer. Banks county.
Rev L p Winter’s Ai pointmf.nts—
rirst Saturday and Sunday at Pkasan'
Grove. Friday night- before first Sun'*
t. Second Sunday at Mi drx.
and Sunday at Hvkory
it’ I •“Urt'th Saturday and Sunday ut
Belltoii. *
FRATERNAL RECORD
Bell ton Loilcc No 84 I Q Q F meets first
and fourth nights in cyrrv
B- F Qv ILLI AX. Ntt? !
3 M rowi.Kß, Sec * .
(,L j\ > IU J ns d«- Guardian. *
BANKS CW’NTY DIRECTORY. *
COUNTY officers.
T. F. Hili.. Ordinary.
B. F. SrniiETH, Slu rifi’.
R. J. Dyak, Ch rk Superior Court.
P. A. Waters. Tax Collector.
W.C. Hai lhbook. Tax Receiver.
G. R. Bowden, Surveyor.
W. R. A it fl in. Coroner.
W. 11. Meeks. Treasurer.
RELIGIOCS.
PKEsnvTF.ntAN Cinm u Rev. G. H.
Cartledge, Pastor. Pn-achiny <\< ry 2nd
Sunday at 11 o’clock m., in each month.
Methodikt Ciicrch—Rev. .LT. Curtis.
Pastor. Preaching every first Sunday ami
Saturday Before, at 11 o'clock a. hl, in
each month.
Baptist Cm rch—Rev. E. S. V. Briant.
Pastor, Preaching even fourth Sundav
and Saturday before, at 11 o'clock a. ni‘.
in each month.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Phi Delta Lodge No. NS A F. AL. meets
on the first Frida v evening in each month
at 7 o’clock. W. A. \V \ts<.\. W. M.
Homer Lodge No. 82 1.0.0. F.. meets
on the second and fourth Wednesday
evenings in each month, at 7 o’clock.
IL J. DY AR N. G.
HALL UOl N'lA Oil I<'EitS
John L Gaines, Sheriff
.1 B M WiNiiruN, Ordinary
<1 .1 Mayne. Clerk Superior Court
MH) Sewell, Tax Receiver
B,enj Hawkins. Tax Collector
ytt C \’m xy. Tt visin'er .
’Am-p Caldwell, Surveyor
JjlopEiiT LovvEßl . Corom*r
AV .1 Bkovx n, School Commissioner
TABLE OF A LTJTCDES.’
ON THE AIK LINE.
Jtlanta . 1050 feet
Sibley 1<«4o “
G'aodwmL !(».:.“» “
Doraville I<nis “
Norcross 1072 “
Duluth 1103 “
Fuwanee 1027
Buford 1126 “
Flmxcrv Blanch 1132 “
Gamrsville 1220 “
Lnl:i 1321 “
IDlimn 1: 11 “
Mount Aii\v TSBB “
Toccoa 1032 “
N EAR THE A lit LIN F.
Dahlonega 2237 fi r et
Porter Springs .'non “
Clarkesville loco “
Yonah Mountain .'.llls “
Tray Mountain “
Black Mountain 081 “
Blood Monntp’D 1070 “
Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “
Enota or Brasstown M#iinta : n,. .471‘fi “
Tallulah Falls 2382 “
OTHER POINTS IN CEOUOIA.
Savannah 32 feet
Jugusta. 117 “
Fort Gaines 103 “
Columbus 2(4) “
Milledgeville 201 u
M aeon * 1
Marietta .................1132 “
Dalton “
Griffin “
Newnan .W. OSS “
' LaGrange 778 “
< West Point 020 •<
1 J Brnn>wi«
4 o <i««i <’
AND CHARLOTTE AIR 1.1 NF
RAILROAD.
f—MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta..... '■o p m
Arrive at Bellton 0.27 pm
NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 12.10 a tn
Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a in
NO. 3—DAY PASSENGER —EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta -L(M) a m
Arrive at Bellton 0.50 a in
5O 4—l,ay PASSENGER —WESTW ARD.
Leave Chariot te H'.42 a m
Arrive at Bellton 7..‘»7 p m !
NO. 5 LOCAL FREKOIT—EASTWARD.
Leave Jtlanfa 7.05 a ni |
Arrive at Bellton 12.30 p m
s n. O—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD.
Leave Central 0.50 p m
Arrive at Be 11 ton 12..30 a in
(], J. Foeeacke, General Manager.
W. 'L Holston,
General Passenger ami Ticket Agent.
NORT H E A ST EIIN R AILROA D.
DAILY, EXCEPT ST NDAYS.
Leave Athens. 0 00 a in |
(’enter 0 •’>o a m
Nicholson 0 48 a m
Harmony Grove 7 20 a m |
Maysville 7 40 a in
Gillsville 8 05 a in
Arrive at Lula # 30 a in
Leave bula ’'••T’ ll 1,1
Gillsville 10 1< a m
Maysville ..lo 39 a m
Harmony Grove 11 08 a m
Nicholson 11 33 a m
Center 11 48 a m
Arrive at Athens 12.15 p m
Trains will wait one honr at Lula for
delaved passenger trains on the Air-Line
Railroad, when bv so doing a eonneetion
Jill be saved. -I. M. Ehwaki-h, Supt. '
The North J Georgian.
Volume 2.
. THIS LIFE IS -XOT ALL THORXS.
' Crave not lor that thou eanst not know,
I But do thy duty here below
■ To heaven and Io thy brother man,
’ Nor others' deeds too closely 1 scan.
All are not bad. but many good,
Laeli hath bright spots, when understood;
O’er sins of earth ne’er brook or sigh,
What can’t be changed just pass it by. |
; | Hope on. nor live a life of fear,
. i Thy troubles may be far or near,
I The present hour to time is given.
The future thou must trust ty heaven.
i Think not this world's all grliff and pain.
I Nor sigh for sou! witliou! a stain ;
i Let imsanthropes brood o’er and mourn,
ho pass sweet Howers to clusp the thorn
t< lor bright day s come, our liright days go.
y- hell loveaud kindness overflow,
I ' 1 happy thoughts thy son! pervade—
•• liturli by Sell our world is made.
MV -SH EE I’ll CART.
'!' gw, ,t heart's, like tlie sweetest Hower;
She’s like a summer noon ;
Sims like the tender air tliat blows
1 n the sweet month' of J nne.
My sweetheart's like the sweetest song
That ever yet was sung;
The mftiad nieloiWs of life
Are eaught from her alone.
My sweetheart's like the morning star
That hide- a loving face ;
j I pon the bosom of the dawn
Are caught from her alette,
i .She’s like the harvest moon that shines
i Upon the ripened tields;
She’s sweeter than the sweetest store
Their richest burden yields,
She’s like—oh! wicked waste of words
<>n herdcar self bestown—
. The loveliest of all loveliness—
i My life, my pride—my own.
- j The Kight Time.—Reproof must
Ibe administered gently, if at all. If
I you are annoyed and vexed at people,
j.jtist remember it is not the time to
j speak. Close your mouth, shut your
; teeth together firmly, and it will save
I you many a useless, and unavtulihg
I regret, and many a bitter enemy. If
you happen to feel a little cross—ami
! who among ns does not at some time
i or other ?—do not select (hat season
i for reproving your noisy household
flock. One word spoken in passion
i will make a sear a summer of smiles
can hardly heal over. If you are a
j wife never tease your husband, coin
j iug Lome, weary from his day's busi
ness. It is not the right tiine. Do
not ask him for expensive outlay’s
■ when he has becii t:ilking-about bard
j times. It is most assuredly, the wrong
i time. If he has entered upon an un
! del inking against your advice, do not
i i seize on the moment of its failure to
I say, "I told you so!” In fact it is
never the right lime for these four
; monosyllables. Oh, if people only
I knew how to discriminate between
the l ight time and the. wrong time.,
I there would be less domestic miliap
| piness.
1 Sleeping Together. —More quar
rels occur between brothers, between
sisters, between hired girls, between
clerks in stores, between apprentices
in meibai/tc’s shops, between hired
men, between husbands and wives,
owing to the electrical changes
through which their nervous systems
go, by lodging together night after
night, under the same bed clothes,
; than by almost any other disturbing
I cause. There is not hing that will so
i derange the nervous system of a per
i son who is eliminative in nervous
force as to lie all night in bed with i
another person who is absorbent in
nervous force. The absorber will go
to sleep and rest all night, while the
eliminator will be tumbling and toss
ing, restless and nervous, and wake
, up in the morning fretful, peevish,
fault finding and discouraged. No
two persons, no matter who they are,
should habitually sleep together.
One will thrive and the other will j
lose. This is the law, and, in mar- j
ried life, it is defied almost univer-!
sally.
If the marriage service could only I
be so modified and amended as to in- !
chide the lighting of the morning fires ■
among the other obligations assumed
i by the bride, there wouldn’t be so I
many old bachelors jabbing their tin-1
gers with darning needles and shiver- ■
ing around in the cold,
-♦--•
The dark grave, which knows all
secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal
doubt once east on woman’s name.
Ingratitude! Thou marble hearted
fiend! more hideous when thou she west |
thyself in a child than a sea monster!
TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTE.
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 28, 1879
I’.IiOTISTIC TALKERS.
Almost every circle is blessed with
the egotist who exercises a kind of
dictatorship oxer it. Are yon in mis
take as to a matter of fact ? He can
not sutler you to proceed until von
j are corrected. Have you a word on
j.theendof your tongue? He at once
! comes to your n lit f. Do you talk
had grammar ? lie quotes rules and
gixfts examples like a pedagogue.
Doj>s he discover there is a link want
i mg hi the' chajn of your argument?
lie bids you stay till he has supplied
. it. DO you drop a word to whi he
has devoted much research? U,: in
quires its primitive signilleatic; and
directly inflicts upon the circle, a long
phtlofugica 1 disquisition. When you
relate.au incident which you sn.qrose
new amj affecting, your friend listens
wiilyciut emotion. XVhen y i have
douche observes that, lie iia- heard
long ago, and adds a very
material circumstance which you omit
ted. He is never taken by surprise,
ami it is impossible to give him any
information. Ami yet he never take's
the lead in the conversation, nor ad
vances an original thought. It is his
bit' iness to conm after and pick up the
words which others let. slip jn a run
ning talk, or to cheek their impetuosi
ty, that he may point out to them
their missteps. Had he lived in the
days of Solomon, he would have flat-
■ tered the royal sage with an intima
i tion that some of his proverbs were
plagiarisms; of had he been a con
| temporary of Solomon’s father, he
i would have felt himself bound to give
j the slayer of Doliah some lessons on
(he use of the sling, and hinted to the
sweet singer of Israel his private
opinion that the shepherd hard did
' not perfectly understand the use of
1 the harp.
Grace Greenwood writes: Never
unsex yourself for greatness. The
worship of one true heart is better
than the wonder of the world. Don’t
trample on the flowers while longing
for the stars. Live up to the full
| measure of life; give, wqy to your
impulses, loves and enthusiasms;
I sing, smile, labor ami lie. happy.
' Adore poetry for its own sake; yearn
I for, strive alter excellence: rejoice
i when others attain it; feel for your
| contemporaries a loving envy ; steal
into your country’s heart; glory in
! its greatness, exult in its power,
honor its gallant men, immortalize
its matchless woipcn.
Clean hands in matters of money
are among the indispensable condition
of gentlemanliness. No man who
borrows and does not pay, ami does
not care whether lie pays or not, is a
gentleman, no matter how witty, or
gay, or fine he may be. To speak in
good plain English, the man who
dresses himself at other’s expense,
not knowing how to pay, not caring
j whether lie pays, is a genteel scoun
drel, and yet such tilings are done by
good natured folks, by kind-hearted
people, by persons who never probe
them moralij to ascertain what their
tendency is, and what they lead to.
As you pass along the street you
meet with a familiar face—say ‘’Good
morning” as though you felt happy,
and it will work admirably in the
' heart of your neighbor. Pleasure is
cheap—who will not bestow it liber
ally? If there are smiles ami sun
shine all about us let us not grasp
them with a miser’s fist and lock them
up in our hearts. Rather let us take
them and scatter them about us.
One day you will be pleased with a
' friend and the next day disappointed
lin him. It will be so to the end, and
j you must make your mind up to it
, and not quarrel, unless for very grave
i causes. Your friend, you have found
out, is not perfect. Nor are you, and
j you cannot expect to get much more
■ than you give. You must look for
i weakness, foolishness and vanity in
j human nature.
I Since our creator has filled this
j world so full of beauty and wonder
I for our present life, lie has, no doubt,
! provided other worlds for us, as rich,!
as wonderful. Since He has made
i our hearts capable of a love that i
i never dies here, He has provided a i
sphere for that love hereafter. Pro
gress, which does not cease here, will i
find its opportunities there. This life j
is the image of the next Clarke,
THE BAHY'fc DEATH.
There came morning at last when
the baby’s eyes did not MMgt-The
doctor felt the heart tfirbhJHfcr-un
der his fingorsf*but. he knewrr was
heating its la*t. for the
r. and dared *She
anticipated Inm.
her voice
Was so passionless
most have, belonged to a disgpibodied
spirit—Tuiow that my darling is
He bowed his H5r
very calmness awed Inrtf. •. i
. ‘ls fix-re anything you do
ease her?’ •
‘Nothing, I do not think she suffers,’
’ Phen will you please to go away?
She is itilne—nobody’s but. mine, in
her life arid in her desifllfftiiid I want
her quite to myself at the last.’
Sorrowfully enough he left her.
■ Tlie mother held her child elbsely,
but gently. She thought in that hour
that she had never loved anything
else—never in this world should love
anything else. She wanted to cry,
but her eyes were dry and burning,
and not a tear fell on the little up
turned face, changing so fast as mar
ble. She bent over and whispered
something in tlie baby’s ear—a wild
passionate prayer that it would re
member her again in the infinite
spaces. A look seemed to answer
tier—a radiant loving look, which she
rtionght must be born of the. near
heaven. She pressed her lips in a
last despairing agony of love, to the
little, face, from which already, as she
kissed it, the soul had tied. Her white
wonder had gorrff homo. 'This which
lay upon her hungry heart was stone.
Planning to do good is always safe.
VX’e are bound to make full use .of all
our powers, and all our opportunities;
fftj.l fhnt. we may do this mnv be tile
great aim and hope of life. Rut if
our abilities are limited, or our op
portunities cut off, that is nothing for
which we are responsible, or on ac
count of which we need be made un
happy. Failure by such a cause may [
torment a selfish n;an, for it mav
strike at the root of all his expecta
tions. But (lie end of a good man in
life is jn ids aims, really, and in his
efforts; and not of necessity in the
results that arc reached. And these
aims or efforts need never be lower
or less than he would choose that thy
should lie. Here is tlie cure, then,
for disappointments. Set your hope
on the highest good yon may do, ac
cording to the will of God, and you
can never fail.
- ► .
I am wonderfully delighted to sec
a body of men thriving in their own
fortunes, and at the same time pro
moting tlie public stock or in other
words, raising estates for their own
families by bringing into their coun
try whatever is wanting, and carrying
out of it whatever Js superfluous. Na
ture seems to have taken a particular
care to disseminate her blessings
among tlie different regions of the
world wit li an eye to their mutual
tercotifse and traflic among mankind,
that tlie nations of the several parts
of tlie globe nnghtljave a kind of de
pendence upon onA another, and be
united together by their common in
terest.—Addison.
If a reflective aged man were to
find at the bottom of ipi old chest—
where it had lain forgotten fifty years
—a record which he had written of
himself when he was young, simply
and vividly describing his whole heart
and pursuits, and reciting verbatim
many passages of tlie language which
he sincerely uttered, would he not
read it with more wonder than almost j
any other writer could at his age in
spire ? He would lose the assurance
of his indentity under the impression
of liis immense dissimilarity. It would
seem as if it must be the tale of the
juvenile days of some ancestor, with '
which he had no connection but of I
name.
-«-•
'I he passions are the only orators
that never succeed. They arc, as it
were, nature’s art of eloquence— :
fraught with infallible rules. Sim-1
plicity, witli the aid of passions, per- i
suades more than the utmost elo-1
queuce without it.
Act upon your impulses, but pray !
that they may be directed by God.
THE WONDERFUL PRAYKIt*
•XX Inch? XX T hy, that one which your
mother taught you. Did you ever 4
think, short though it be, how mucfl||
therg is in it? Like a diamond in tIH
of a queen, it unites a
jgns Mi one,
It f'eai'lWwl of us, every one of r
tojook to God as our parent—
It PLWPt? . is Wkuse ou£ tlimj^t 8
apd'Qpflres above e«wth—“Who art!
Tii»heaven.” * <
. It tells us we mffst reverence our"
Wl»eathes WKi-siomiry
’Thv kingdom eSße.”<'
Ami a '
And a
"Give us this jjay
And a forgiving
us our trespasses akwe forgive thrive
Who trespass :igmnfl us?’
And a cautiogs spirit—.“ Deliver us
from evil.” .
And last of all’, an adoring spirit—
“ForAhinc is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, fovover and
ever. Amen.”
Now is it not both a wonderful and
a beautiful prayer? Jesus, our dear
Saviour, taught it; and who «ould
better tell us how to piny to. his
Father and our Father, to liis God
and our God?
——— *- ♦ -«
Doubtless if a student’s time and
means are limited, lie should confine
himself' to a few studies, and such a--
liave close reference to bis future bus
iness in life, so far as can lie foreseen.
A liberal education is something
more, going beyond self-irrterest and
rigid economy of intellectual furnish
ing, making provision against contin
gencies, and allowing a good mrirgm
lor helpfulness to the less fortunate.
It is the duty of every American boy
and girl to acquire tlie best education
that circumstances will permit. How
many not favored by circumstances
; have proved themselves Napoleons
by “making circumstance” let the
high places of the land answer.
—► -4 ...
Honesty is the truth of the heart,
and the truth of the lips; it is true
heart feeling poured forth in true ut
terance, whether of word or deed.
The life of an honest man is harmo
nious. Tlie honest integral heart is
strong and sound rock, on which men i
may build securely,
'
It is always best to leave the pro
gress of religion entirely to example,
to argument, and to efforts dissociated !
from the powei' of the civil arm; since
men will be found to einbyace truth
for its own sake, though they will
scornfully repel it jf thrust upon them
by others.
What a glorious this would
be, if all its inhabitahtMjCbnld say,
with Shakespeare’s shepherd, “Sir, I
am a true laborer; I earn what I
wear; I owe. no man hute; envy no
man’s happiness; glad of other men’s
' good; content with my farm.”
Good resolutions are often like a
loosely tied cord—on the first strain
of temptation they slip. They should j
be tied jn a hard knot of prayer. And
then they should be kept tight and
firm by constant stretching Godward. .
If they slip or break, tie them again. I
Human happiness does not depend
upon doing that which has been con
sidered impossible, but jn working
wisely within the limits of our ordin
ary capabilities.
What is even poverty itself, that a
| man should murmur under it? It is ,
I but as the pajn of piercing a maiden’s '
ear, and yon hang precious jewels in ;
the wound.
Every man, woman and child has '
got something to do, and an oppor-1
' (unity for doing it. Remember, that 1
in a little well done, much has been :
accomplished- ]
Dewdrops, sparkling in the morn-!
ing sunlight, are emblematic of the ! I
brightness and purity of gems of >
virtue, when reflecting the rays of ( <
the “sun of righteousness.”
The slanderer injures three persons '
at once —him of whom he speaks ill; G
him to whom he says it, and most of i
all, himself jn saying jt.—Basil. t
TVorth. O-eorg'ifvn,
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THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS,
tfiinkethin his'Keart’so-
■*
! is'dear at a
Hn Y* )■ 11J i xaM ' *
1»P wafits
• t^islo/
"save soWls?’j"
The neitr miss of
h* , i • ry., ’ Jr
k^Teceaij^breforms
Mpi | ‘tv the rich.
. Never oppose'*.
dmjii'’!
Lot him that would WO rld
first ihove himself.s '
Tlie truest end o|Bffe the
life that never eiids?
jdHk *
Tlie surest RY fail is to*
determine to sd^^WT,
Heaven of rcstaat the
close earth’s
Manners reqwjjejime, as nothing is
more vulgar than haste,
Ip refraining fioin being mean tq
others you are good to yourself.
Some men, like pictures, are better
for a corner than a full light,
See thou a man diligent in his busi-,
.ness, he shall stand before kings.
The W?te way of forgetting one’s
own troubles is to solace those of'
others,
Charily is the rarest as it is the
most attractive trait of Christiaq
character.
The sunshine of life is made up of
very little beams that are bright al|
the time.
He who loves the good, and looks
for tlie good Ijnils tfic goo<| an<j gathers
the good.
Prosperity is not without many fbiira
and distastes; adversity is not without
comfort and hopes.
In religion not to do as thou sayest
is to unsay thy religion in deeds am}
to undo thyself by doing,
An industrious and virtuous educa
tion of children is a better jnlieritance
for them than a great estate.
It is by what we have done, am} pot
j what others have done fqv us, that we
' shall be remeinbeved by alter ages.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver
and the giver; and adulation is not of
1 more servjce to the people than tq
kings,
Honor is like an island, rugged and
without a landing-place ; we can never
more re-enter when we are once out-,
side of it.
Mind not much who thee, or
who is against thee; hut t.w- care that
God may be with tlieo.
thou doest.
VX T e should, while in the world, go
with the gospel stream, thouglPh. lit
tle one, for it runs into the'ocean of
eternal life.
He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more excel-,
lent who can suit his temper to any
circumstances.
Every person has two educations—:
one which he receives from others,
and one more important, which he
gives himself.
God is the. author; men are only the
players. These grand pieces which are
played upon earth have been composed
in heaven.
Many professors of religion like a
little of the world by stealth, which
they conceal as smugglers do their
contraband goods.
Never write on a subject without;
having first read yourself full of it;
and never read on a subject till you
have thought yourself hungry on it,
Chance is a fickle thing, and be whq
trusts too much to chance, lyjll find,
some day, that he has beep <|epunding
on something that was only a shadow,
The great blessings of mankind are
within us and within our reach; but
we shut our eyes, and like the people
in the dark, we fall foul upon the very
thing we search for withoqt finding it,