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|Fvrtli CJ-eoi’g-itvii. 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, PUBLISHED EVERY AT BELLTON, GA, RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. „J’ ne >' < ! ar < 52 numbers) ?1.00; six months (2l> numbers) 50 cents; three months (13 numbers) 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. . ■ o, Number 38. pw ii 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,