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K W BELLTON. GA., ~W"
JOHN BLATS.
Terms—sl.oo p Pr annum; 50 cents for
Bix months; 2T»c*nts for three months.
Parties away from Tallinn nr6 requested
to send tht ir names, with such amounts of
Wn•, from 25c. to si.
ciH’Rcn directory.
Baptist E S V Briant.
1 "? , 2 r ‘ Fnarllin K every third Saturday
and Sunday. Prayer meeting Friday night
in every wd<. Sundav-schonl at’ 9 a ni
every Sunday.
Methodist Uhi Xch—RevH’ Winter.
I astor. Preaching ewrv fourth Saturday
an<i,Siinday. Prayer nwetiug every Thurs
'liy night. Kunday-sehool at 2J n m every
Sunday. . .
RkV E S V BbiANT’S Am-OIXTWEXTS—
First Saturday and Sunday in each month
at Oconee, in Jackson county. Second
Saturday and Sunday at Harmony, Buhks
county. Third Saturday and Sunday in
Bellton. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at
Homer, Banka comity .
Rev L P Wmrrctt’s ArrotNniwrs—
First Saturday aud Sunday at P4.at.-nnt
Grove. Friday night he>ore first Sunday
nt Longview. Jh’cond Sunday at Mt. Airv.
Third Saturday and Sunday at Hickory
Flat. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at
Jfcilton.
FRATFIIVAT. RECORD
Bellton Lodge No 84 I O O F meets first
and fourth Wednesday nights in every
month. R F QiilllAS, N G ‘
J M Fowler. gee
S A Oliver. Inside Guardian.
BANKS COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary.
B. F. SvnnETH. Sheriff.
R. .1. Dvar. Clerk SuiM-rior Court.
P. A. Wateks, Tax Collector.
W.C. Haulmkogk, Tax Receiver.
G. R. Bowden. Surveyor.
W. R. Anri.tx, Coroner.
AV. 11. MmekA. Trimtiirer.
in?LiGt«»rs.
PnesIIVTEBIAN CirtUCH Rev. G. H.
Cartledge, IWeach&ig every 2nd
Sunday at 11 p’cmfli X. in., Wi each month.
Methodist Cm in n—Rev. J. T. Curtis,
Pastor. Preaching every first Sunday and
Saturday before, nr 11 o'clock a. hl., in
each month.
Baptist Chi fu n—Rev. E. S. V. Briant.
Pastor. Prenrhilig every fourth B*kdav
and Saturday before, at 11 o'clock a. in.,
in each month.
. FRATERNAL RECORD.
Phi Delta Lodgt* Nd. 14* A. F M.. meets
on the first Friday evening in each month
at I o’clock. AV. A. AVathox, W. M.
Homer Lodge No. S 2 J. (I. (I. F.. meets
on the second anil fourth Wednesday
evenings in each month, at 7 o'clock.
11. .1. lIYAR. N. G.
HALL COUNTY OFFICERS?
John L Gaines. Mieiitl'
J B M Wtxm ttN. Ordinary
J J Mayne. Clerk Superior Court
M B Newell, Tax Receiver
Bf.n.i Hawkins. Tax Collector
It C Young, Treasurer
M P Caldwell, Siirvcvor
Wmif¥ I Wtwrwr.tn>r -
W .t Brown, School Commissioner
TA 11LE <>F A LTIfIIHIKS?
ON THE Alft LINE.
Atlanta 1050 feet
Sibley 1040 “
Woodwin’s 1035 “
Doraville 1065 “
Norcross 1072 “
Duluth 1106 “
Suwanee 1027 “
Itirford 111'6 “
Flowery Branch 1132 “
Gainesville 1'226 “
Lula 1324 “
Bellton 1341 “
Mount Airy 1588 “
Toccoa 1032 “
NEAR THE AIK LINE.
Dahlonega 2237 feet
Porter Springs 3000 “
Clarkesville IG4MI “
Yonah Mountain 3168 “
Trav Mountain 4535 “
Black Mountain 4481 “
Blood Mountain 4670 “
Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “
Enota or Brasstown Mountain.. .47116 “
Tallulah Falls 2382 “
OTHER POINTS IN GEORGIA.
Savannah 32 feet
Augusta 147 “
Fort Gaines 1(2! “
Columbus 200 “
Milledgeville 264 “
Macon 332 “
Americus 360 “
Marietta 1132 “
Da1t0n....5' 773 “
Griftin 075 “
Newnan 985 “
LaGrange 778 “
West Point.... 620 p
Brunswick 16 “
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ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR LINE
RAILROAD.
NO. I—MAIL TRAIN —EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 3.30 p m
Arrive at Bellton 6.27 pm
NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 12.10 a in
Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a in
NO. 3—DAV PASSENGER—EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 4.00 a in
Arrive at Bcllton 6250 a m
NO. 4- DAY PASSENGER—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 10.42 am
Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p m
NO. S—LOCAL FREIGHT—EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 7.05 a m
Arrive at Bellton 12.30 p m
NO. 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD.
Leave Central 6.50 p tn
Arrive at Bellton .12.36 a m
G. J. Forkacre, General Manager.
W. J. Hocston,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
DAILY, EXCEPT BUNDAYS.
Leave Athens 6 00 a m
Center 6 30a in
Nicholson 6 48 a m
Harmony Grove 7 20 a tn
Maysville 7 46 a ni
Gillsville 8 05 a in
Arrive at Lula 8.30 a in
Leave Lula 9210 am
Gillsville 10 17 a m
Maysville 10 39 a m
Harmony Grove 11 08 a m I
Nicholson 11 33 a m ,
< 'enter 11 48 a m '
Arrive at Athens 12.15 p m
Trains will wait one liour at Lula for
delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line
Railroad, when by so doing a connection
will be saved. J. M Edwakdh. Supt,
The North Georgian.
Volume 2.
THE HONEST FARMER.
Happy I count the Aimer's life,
Its various round of wholesome toil;
An honest man with loving wife.
An offspring native to the soil.
| Thrice happy, surely! in his breast
Plain wisdom and the trust in God:
His path more straight from east to west
Than politician ever trod.
His gain's no loss to other men;
His stalwart blows indict no wound ;
Not busy with bis tongue or pen,
He questions truthful sky and ground.
Partner with the seasons and the sun,
i Nature's co-worker: all his skill
Obedience, even as waters run,
M imls blow. herb, beast tlmir laws fulfill.
A vigorous youthhood, clean and hold ;
A manly manhood; cheerful age;
His comely children proudly hold
Their piwmitage best heritage.
Unhealthy work, false mirth, chicane.
Guilt—needless woe and useless strife—
O, cities vain, insane, insane!
How happy is the farmer’s life’
' ■ '
Wanted—A wife who can handle a broom
To brut»h down the cohweba and sweep up
her room ;
t’an make <lecent bread that a fellow can
eat,
Not the horrible compound every where
meet;
Who kimXvs how to boil, to fry and to
roast.
Make a good cup of tea and a platter of
toast;
A woman that washes, cooks, irons ami
stitches.
And sews up the rips in a fellow’s old
clothes.
Ami makes her own garments—an item,
too, which is
So horr.il expensive, as every one knows:
A common-sense creature, and still with a
mind
To teach and to guidi—exalted, refined—
j A sort of an angel and house-maid com
bined.
HMH, FRIENDS.
Nothing hurts a man, nothing hurts
a party so terribly as fool friends.
A fool friend is the sewer of bad
news, <>f slander and sill base and un
pleasant things.
A fool friend knows every mean
thing that has been said against you
and against the party.
He always knows where your party
lis losing, and the other is making
! large gains.
He always tells you of the good
! luck your enemy has had.
He believes every story against
you, and kindly suspects your defense.
2V fool friend is always full of a
stupid kind of candor.
He is so candid that lie always be
lieves the statements of an enemy.
He, does not suspect any thing on
your side.
Nothing pleases him like being
shocked by some horrible news con
cerning some good man.
He never denies a lie, unless it is in
yntir favor.
He is always finding fault with his
party and is continually begging par
don for not belonging to the other
side.
He is frightfully anxious that all
his candidates should stand well with
the opposition.
He is forever seeing the faults of
his party and the virtues of the other.
He generally shows his candor by
scratching the ticket.
He always searches every nook and
corner of his conscience to find a rea
son for deserting a friend or a princi
ple.
In the, moment of victory he is
magnanimously on your side. In de
feat he consoles you by repeating
prophecies made after the event.
The fool friend regards your repu
tation as common property, and as
common prey for all the vultures,
hyenas and jackals.
He takes a sad pleasure in your
misfortunes.
He forgets his principles to gratify
your enemies.
He forgives your maligner and
slanderer with all his heart.
He is so friendly that you cannot
kick him.
He generally talks for you but al
ways bets the other way.
In youth grief comes with a rush
and overflow; but it dries up. too,
like the torrent. In the winter of
life it remains a miserable pool, re
sisting all evaporation.
Your faith in God must be a reason
able faith, and must lie based upon
experience, and one that has proved
itself to be well founded.
TRUTH, justice, liberty.
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1879.
the TURN OF LIFE.
Between the ages of forty-five and
sixty a man who has properly regu
lated himself, may be considered in
the prime of life, ills natural strength
of constitution render him almost im
pervious- 1© an attack of disease, and
experience has given soundness to his
judgment. His mind is resolute, (inn
and equal; all his functions are in the
highest order; he assumes mastery
over his business ; builds up a compe
tence on the foundation he has laid in
early manhood, and passes through a
period of life attended by many grati
fications. Hayuig gone over a year
or two past sixty, he arrives at a
standstill. But athwart this is the
viaduct called the turn of life, which,
if crossed in safety, leads to the valley
of ‘old age,” round which the river
winds and then beyond, without boat
or causeway to efleet his passage.
The bridge is, however, constructed
of fragile material, and it depends
how it is trodden whether it bend or
break. Gout and apoplexy are also
in the vicinity to waylay the travel
ler, and thrust him from the pass;
but let him gird up his loins and pro
vide himself with a titter staff, anil he
may trudge on in safety and with per
fect composure. To quit metaphor,
'“The turn of life” is a turn either
into a prolonged walk or into the
grave. The system and powers hav
ing reached the utmost expansion iioiv
begin either to close like a flower at
sunset, or break down at once. One
injudicious stimulant, a single fatal
excitement, may force it beyond its
strength, whilst a careful supply of
props and the withdrawal of all that
tends to force a plant will sustain it
in beauty and vigor until night has
entirely set in.
—
RELIGION AND HONESTY,
Is it not time to preach anew the.
of honesty ? First, t<> do justly,
as if honesty was the foundation
stone ; then to love mercy, and then
to walk humbly.
There is too much one-side religion.
We know examples of zeal and un
tiring energy, in Christian work, in
men who so neglected their own
affairs, that they are always under a
load of debt, and give honest unbe
lievers a very poor opinion of a Chris
tian man’s business habits.
Such things ought not to be so. We
know people who are called lights
and shining lights, who not only pro
fess and call themselves Christians,
but do a great deal of real work, who
are utterly unmindful of pecuniary
obligations, who ‘fail’ when they can
pay no longer, and yet learn nothing
of the value of money, and arc just as
devout as if they were not dishonest.
They are ‘unfortunate,’ true, but
fortune implies chance, and there is
no chance in living within one’s in
come and paying one’s debts. Think
of a published ‘Memoir’ of a so-called
Christian who, in our opinion, cheated
trades-people and defrauded creditors,
while he lived better than they ami
bated no jot of his expenses, or chari
ties. No wonder that many honest
men are not believers. They attend
to their own affairs and are not always
failing.
We want a great many things in
these days—more faith, more love,
more self-denial, more Christian zeal;
but for symmetry of character we
want more down-right honesty in
men and women.
To do justly, love mercy, and walk
humbly with our God—God help us.
It has been remarked that almost
every character which excited either
attention or pity, has owed part of its
success to merit, and part to a happy
concurrence of circumstances in its
favor. Had Ctesar or Cromwell ex
changed countries the one might have
been a sergeant and the other an ex
ciseman.
Truth is always consistent with
itself, and needs nothing to help it
out. It is always near at hand, and
sits upon our lips and is ready to drop
out before we are aware ; whereas a |
lie is troublesome, and sets a man’s
invention upon the rack, and one
trick needs a great many more to I
make it good.
Kindness, sweetness, good will, a
prevailing desire and determination I
to make others happy, make the
body a temple of the Holy Ghost.
THE LAZY MkN.
A iazy man is always good natnred.
He never flies into a passion. He
migfet crawl into one, if that were
possible, but the idea of flyihg into
one Is preposterous.
Who ever heard of Jazy man
breaking iuto a bank where
had to be used, or drilling into a safe?
Not but that he might covet his neigh
bor's goods contained therein, but the
horror of handling a crowbar and
drills would always deter him from
actually committing robbery. He
never runs away with his neighbor’s
wife, simply on account of the horror
lie has for running. If he is ever
known to run, it is to run to seed.
He ftirely lies about his neighbors,
for It would be too much exertion;
i but he will lip about a bar room all
day.
He is of estimable service to bil
liard saloons keeping the chairs warm
and Watching the game for few would
care to play if there were no specta-
I tors. The fact that he does this with
out pAy. day in and day out, shows
the remarkable unselfishness of his
nature.
Hje lazy man never gets up revolu
tion*, insurrections or any other pop
nlar Excitements, and don’t make a
' nuisance of himself by tramping
around the country, making incendia
ry speeches to promote public dtsetHt
tent.
lu’s own neighborhood he is
never a busybody in other people’s
affairs, for tlie very idea of being a
busybody or anything would drive
him out of his head.
No lazy man ever ran mad. If he
I goes crazy it is because he can’t go
anywhere else without walking.
Lijgy men don’t disturb the quiet of
peaceful neighbors, by putting up fac
tories, fttniiu'es and other abomina
tions.
* A SAD STnRV.
A jolly medical student in Berlin,
who had finished his studies and was
about to begin practice, invited his
friends to a banquet, and got very
drunk with them. After the carousal
he stumbled home in uproarious ex
, citement, and when he got to his
I lodging he threw up his window and
leaned out, in order to breathe the
cold air. After a short time he was
struck with a violent pricking and
smarting in the eyes. He closed the
window and went to bed. When he
awoke the next morning he found the
room in darkness and concluded that
it must still be night. He tried in
vain to fall asleep again.
After awhile his landlady knocked
at his door and asked if he was ill, as
he was lying late in bed.
“What do you mean?” asked he.
“I shall get np as soon as it is light.”
“Sir,” exclaimed the woman, “it
has been clear daylight these two
hours.”
“Oh !” cried he, with a mighty oath,
“is it possible that I became blind
last night?”
His surmise was true. He had lost
the power of vision while trying to
chill himself into soberness at the
open window. This frightful discov
ery so wrought upon the young doc
tor that he fell into a violent fever,
which carried him oft’ the following
week.
How to Kill a Church.—Don’t
pay your pastor’s salary. This is an
all important direction. Be sure to
follow it closely. Although you sol
emnly promise to pay him a certain
amount and at stated times, no mat
ter; don’t pay, or only what you feel
like paying, and when it’s perfectly
convenient. Don’t obey the Lord
when he says “The laborer is worthy
of his hire.” By and by you will have
the satisfaction of seeing your church
“going down.”
A young prince, whose mind had
learned in some degree to value re
ligious truth, asked his tutor to give
him suitable instruction, that he might,
be prepared for death. “Plenty of 1
time for that when you are older,” :
was the reply. “No,” said the prince— ;
“I have been to the churchyard and !
measured the graves, and there are
many shorter than I am.”
As riches and favor forsake a man,
we discover him to be a fool; but no
body could find it out in his prosperity.
CIRCULATION OF MATTER.
Notwithstanding the constant re
turn of plant and animal matter to
the parent earth, all the mineral
does not remain where they are de
posited. Rains and rivers daily re
move from the soil a portion of the
materials which are, so essential to
the perpetuation of animal and veget
able forms, and transport them to the
sea. Thus the natural store of min
j era! food becomes daily smaller, and
. the land in consequence less fitted for
the growth of plants. But for this con
tingency also there is a provision
The solid rocks which form the crust
of the earth contain all these essen
tial forms of inorganic matter in
minute proportion. As these rocks
crumble and mingle, with the soil,
they yield constant small supplies of
each ingredient of phosphoric acid,
lime, magnesia, etc. These springs,
which trickle through the rocks from
above or from beneath, dissolve and
difilise wherever they go.
Thus, in a great many localities, a
moderate supply is day by day brought
to the surface to replace that which.by
natural causes, is constantly removed.
And the great seas help in this work
of restoration. They heave their lofty
waves into the air,and break in foam,
that the rough wind may take up and
bear back again to the land a portion
iof the salty spoils with which the
j rivers are ever enriching them. And
1 then, lest these small, daily restora
i tions should not succeed in pcrpetiial-
I ly maintaining the necessary richness
■of the soil in mineral plain food.
I periods of convulsions came at lust to
their aid. Great physical revolutions
i from time to time intervene. Now
all at once, and now by slow desirees.
the bottom of the sea becomes dry.
Land and water change phices, as
they have often done during the
geological history of the globe; and
after each change now rives of plants
forthwith begin to take up what the
rivers and rains had carried down into
former sea beds. The same mineral
matter begins to play over again the
same part as before’ in the constant
succession of animal and vegetable
life. In this we see another long
cycle, through which certain ingre
dients of the solid earth are ever
slowly moving.
> -•
THE EARTH.
Aristotle, who lived in the fourth
century B. c., and studied nature with
great earnestness and assiduity, held
many views concerning the earth that
were very reasonable for his time.
Yet, in the absence of facts, nothing
was left for him but to rely upon
logic. He had certain ideas of what
is natural and what is perfect, and
from these he reasoned as to what
must be and therefore what is. To
the question whether the earth turns
or the heavens turn, he replies that
the earth is evidently in repose, not
only because we see it to be so, but
because it is a necessity that it should
be, that is, because repose is natural
to the earth. If it be asked why the
stars must move around the earth, he
replies, it is natural that they should,
because a circle is the most perfect
line, because it has no ends, and it
must be therefore described by the
perfect stars. That the earth is the
centre of the universe and is at rest,
is furthermore proved by Aristotle
from the theological considerations—
thus, everything which performs any
act has been made for the purpose of
that act. Now, the work of God is
immortality, from which it follows
that all that is divine must have an
eternal motion. The heavens have a
divine quality, and for this reason
they have a spherical shape and
move eternally in a circle. Now,
when a body has a circular motion,
one part of it must remain at rest in
the centre; the earth is in the centre,
and’ therefore motionless Popular
Science Monthly.
There is nothing that so refines,
polishes and ennobles face and mien
as the constant presence of good
thoughts.
Be liberal in thought and generous
in act. You cannot be too indulgent
to honest opinion or too open handed
to poverty and suffering.
National progress is the snm of in
dividual industry, energy and upright
ness, as national decay is of individual
idleness, selfishness and vice.
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Number 40.
THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS.
Appointments once made become
debts.
Passion is the drunkenness of the
mind.
Happiness is no other than sound
ness and perfection of mind.
Those who know the least of others
think the highest of themselves.
Reputation is based upon deeds.
How then can the idle man become
famous ?
Mankind worship success, but think
too little of the means by which it- is
attained.
Os earthly music, that which reaches
the farthest into heaven is the beating
of a loving heart.
Don’t go to law. If you feel that
way, go sit on a bramble bush, or
crawl through a sewer.
Base natures ever judge a thing
above them and hate a power they
are too much obliged to.
The gospel was not proclaimed to
give you a creed, but to render possi
ble to you a devout life.
He who is the slave of his own pas
sions, is worse govorned than Athens
was by her thirty tyrants.
There is no man so friendless, but
that he can find friends sincere enough
to tell him disagreeable truths.
We could not endure solitude were
it not for the powerful companionship
of hope, or of some unseen one.
The easiest and best way to expand
the chest, is to have a large heart in
it. It saves the cost of gymnastics.
The worst fools are those who once
had wisdom. Not to possess what is
good is a nrisfortune—to throw it
iway is folly.
It is vain to hope to please all alike.
Let a man stand in what direction he
will, he must necessarily turn his back
on one-half the world.
Whenever wc have to establish new
relations with any one, let ns make an
ample provision of pardon, or indul
gence and of kindness.
One of the best rules in conversa
tion is, never to say a thing which
any of the company can reasonably
wish we had left unsaid.
Satiety comes of too frequent repeti
tion, and be who will never give him
self leisure to be thirsty can never find
the true pleasure of drinking.
We should learn, by reflection on
the misfortunes which have attended
. others, that there is nothing singular
in those which befall ourselves.
Is it just to forget all the kindness
done us by those with whom wc live
for a little pain, which after all, may
have been given unintentionally?
There are a few things in life more
interesting than an unrestricted inter
change of ideas with a congenial spirit,
and there are few things more rare.
There cannot live a more unhappy
creature than an ill-natured old man,
who is neither capable of receiving
pleasures nor sensible of doing them
to others.
To the disgrace of men, it is seen
that there are women both more wise
to judge, what evil is expected, and
more constant to bear it when it has
happened.
The young, obscure years ought to
be incessantly employed in gaining
knowledge of things worth knowing,
and the obscurer such years are, it is
apt to be better.
Prosperity shines on different per
sons much in the same way that the
sun shines on different objects. Some
it hardens like mud, while others it
softens like wax.
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.
Words are little things, but they
strike hard. We utter them so easily,
that we are apt to forget their hidden
power. Fitly spoken, they fall like
the sunshine, the dew and fertilizing
rain, but when unfitly, like the
the hail and devastating tempeM.