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orih (Georgian.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT BELLTON, GA.,
BY JOHN BL ATS.
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six months ; 25 cents for three months.
1 aifu’s away from Belfton awe requested
to send then names, wjth such amounts of
money they a spanj, from 25c■ to SI.
CnVRCH DIRECTORY.
Artist < hi r< h— Rev E S~V Briant J
\£ t 2 r * / rca f h?ng ever y third Saturday
and onnday. Prayer meeting Friday night
in every week. Suiidav-school at' 9 a* m
every Sunday.
MethodijA Church—Rev L p Winter,
Partor. Preaching every fourth Saturday
and Sunday. Prayer meeting every Thurs
day night. Sunday-school at 21 u m everv
Sunday. r
.^ E ' ® ® Briant’s Appointments—
r irst Saturday and Sunday in each month
at Oconee, in Jackson county. Second
Saturday and Snndhy at Harmony, Banks
county. Third Saturday and Snndav in
Beßlon. fourth Saturday and Sunday at
Homer, Banks county.
Rev L P Winter’s Appointments
First Saturday and Sunday at Pleasant
Friday night before first Sundav
at LongvieW.’tiecoml Sunday at sft. Aire
Thir<| Saturday aifd Sunday at Hickory
Unisf 0 ** 1 SMurdaj and Sunday at
. FRATERXAI. RECORD
Bellton Lodge No 84 I O (I F meets first
and fourth Wednesday nights in every
month. R F Quillian, N GF'
J M Fowler, Sec
S A Oliver. Inside Guardiall.
BANKS COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
T. F. Hill, Ordiriary.
B. F. Suddetti, Sheriff.
It. J. Dvar. Clerk Superior Court.
P. A. Waters, Tux Collector.
W. C. Havi.iikook. Tax Receiver.
G. R. Bowdes, Surveyor.
W. R. Arflin, Coroner.
W. H. MkEKs, Treasurer.
RELIGIOUS.
Pkkskytekiaf Church Rev. G. 11.
('artledge. Pastor. Preaching every 2nd
Sunday at 11 o’clock a. tn., in each month.
Methodist Church —Rev. .1. T. Curtis,
I’ every first Sunday and
iHifurday before, at 11 o’clock a. in., in
each month.
Baptist Chcrch—Rev. E. S. V. Briant.
Pastor. Preaching every fourth Sunday
and Saturday before, at* 11 o’clock a. m’,
in each month.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Phi Delta Lodge No. 148 A. F. 51., meets
on th** first Friday evening in each month
at 7 o’clock. W. A. Watson. W. 51.
I Homer Lodge No. 82 J. O. O. F.. meets
op the second and fourth Wedne.sday
evenings in each month, at 7 o’clock.
JL J. DY AR. N.
IIALL COVNTY <>FFI( ’ ERS.
John L Gaines, Sheriff
J B M WiNni RN, Ordinary
J J Mayne, Clerk Superior Court
M B S*Ewell, Tax Receiver
Benj Hawkins, Tax Collector
R C YoUJto, Treasurer
M P Caldwjkjll., Surveyor
Robert Lowery, Coroner
W A Brown, School Comniiss ; oner
ON THE AIR LINE.
Atlanta 1050 feet
Sibley 1040 “
Goodwill’s 1035 “
Doraville 1065 “
Norcross 1072 “
Duluth 1106 “
Suwanee 1027 «
Buford lll'fi “
Flowery Branch 11.32 “
G’a nesville 1226 “
Lula 1324 “
Belltoll 1.341 “
Mount Airy 1588 “
Toccoa. 10.32 “
N EAR THE AIK LIN K.
Dahlonega.... 2237 feet
Porter Springs 3000 ••
Clarkesville 1000 “
fckVonah Mountain 3108 “
Hpfeay Mountain 4535 “
F Black Mountain 4481 “
Blood Mountain 4070 “
Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “
Enota or Brasstown Mountain.. .4700 “
Tallulah Falls 2382 “
OTHER POINTS IN GEORGIA.
Savannah 32 feet
Augusta 147
Fort Gaines 103 “
Columbus 200 “
Milledgeville 204 “
Macon 332 “
Americus 360 “
Marietta 11.32 “
Dalton 773 “
(4riftin 075 “
Newnan 985 “
LaGrange 778 “
West Point 020 “
Brunswick 16 “
Ii e <1 ii 1 e
ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR LINE
RAILROAD.
NO. 1 —MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 3.:16 p m
Arrive at Bellton 6.27 p m
NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 12.10 a m
Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a m
NO. 3—DAY PASSENGER—EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 4.60 a m
Arrive at Bellton 6.50 am
NO. 4—DAV PASSENGER—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 10.42 a m
Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p in
NO. S—LOCAL FREIGHT —EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 7.05 a m
Arrive at Bellton 12.30 p in
NO. 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD.
Leave Central 6.50 p m
Arrive at Bellton 12.36 a m
G. J. Foreacre, General Manager.
W. J. Houston,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
NORTH EASTERN RAIL ROA D.
DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS.
Leave Athens 6 00 a m
flk Center 6 .'.O a m
F Nicholson 6 48am
Harmony Grave 7 20 a in
Maysville 7 46 am
Gillsville 8 05am
Arrive at Lula 8.30 a in
Leave Lula 9.50 a m
Gillsville 10 17 a m
Maysville 10 39 a m
Harmony Glove 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 hour at Lula tor
delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line
Railroad, when by so doing a connection
will be saved. J. M. El-w.otns. Supt.
The North Georgian.
Volume 2.
BE UP AND DOING.
I
There is no place for idle men
In such a world as this is,
For who a single talent hides
The ten-fold increase misses;
With busy hand and active brain,
Our strength we are nmewing.
And if aught worthy we’d achieve
We must be up and doing.
We wait in vain for fortune’s
To fill our lap with treasure,
And lose our interest on the notes
We sacrifice to pleasure.
In misery and poverty
Our folly we’ll be rucing,
So while the golden moments last,
We’d best be up and doing.
A holiday once in a while
Adds strength unto endeavor;
But who would prize a jubilee
That lasted on forever?
So if we have any work to do— z
And who can do without it?
We never will accomplish much
U nless we set about it.
There is no room for idle men
In this great hive of labor,
Where each a duty owes himself,
A duty owes his neighbor;
Beneath your feet, within your head
The soil must have renewing,
So from your lethargy awake,
To-day be up and doing.
Old age is coming on apace,
How swift the horns ate flying,
Soon beneath the churchyard stone
At rest you will be lying ;
Live while you live, each noble aim
Attentively pursuing;
For if you would to honor rise,
You must be up ami doing!
Frittered Away. How much
lime we fritter ttvvtiy without doing
anything for ourselves or the public
good. For such omission it is too
much the habit with us all to excuse
ourselves on the plea of a want of
time; whereas, in truth, this is sel
dom a good and sufficient ground of
justification. Nothing is easier than
to fritter away time in matters of no
I use to themselves or to any one else.
The habit is readily formed. It grows
upon one unawares. Keep a strict ac
count of every hour of your own time
for a single week, setting down cor
rectly the exact manner in which
every hour is spent, and see whether,
when you come to review the record,
you do not find it full of admonition
and instruction. In this simple way
one can readily understand the secret
of the want of time. He will discover
that he has given hours to idle talk, to
indolence and to inconsiderate trifles,
which have yielded him neither profit
nor pleasure. What is the remedy?
Arrange your work m the order of its
comparative importance. Attend first
to the things which are essential to be
done, and let Ihe (inessentials take
their chance afterward. The differ
ence in the amount of work accom
plished will be astonishing. Duty
before pleasure. Those who practice
this precept have plenty of time for
pleasure, and enjoy far greater satis
faction than those .who reverse this
rule.
Men Wanted.—The great want of
this age is men. Men who are not
for sale. . Men who are honest, sound
from centre to circumference, will
condemn wrong in friend or foe, in
themselves as well as others. Men
whose consciences are as steady as
the needle to the pole. Meu who
still stand for the right if the heavens
totter and the earth reels. Men who
can tell the truth and look the world
and the devil right in the eye. Men
that neither brag nor run. Men that
neither flag nor flinch. Men who can
have courage without shouting it.
Men in whom the courage of ever
lasting life runs still, deep and strong.
Men who do not cry nor cause their
voices to be heard on the streets, but
who will not fail to be discovered till
judgment be set in the earth. Men
who know’ tl|eir message and tell it.
Men who know their own business.
' Men who will not lie. Men who are
not too lazy to work, nor too proud
to be poor. Men who are willing to
eat what they have earned, and wear
what they have paid for.
—
Idleness is the nursery of crime. It
is that prolific germ of which all rank
and poisonous vices arc. the fruits. It
is a source of temptation. It is the
field where ‘the enemy sow tares
while men sleep.’ Could we trace
the history of a large class of vices,
we should find that they originate
from the want of employment, and
are brought in to supply its place.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY.
BELLTON’. BANKS COUNTY, GA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.
PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED.
History and observation alike teach
us that our reaping will be according
to our sowing; that if the product of
a certain course of life is happiness,
the end of a different kind of life must
be misery. It is not according to rea
son, if the future state of one class of
human beings is to be the highest
possible enjoyment, that another
class, altogether unlike in character
and life, should be partakers of the
same joy in any degree whatever.
That'in the end obedience to God will
receive its reward and disobedience
its punishment, is a firm conviction of
all who admit the existence and right
eous government of God. The fact
that retribution may be delayed is no
argument that, it will not be inflicted.
But when we come to the word of
God all uncertainty is at once remov
ed. We are there taught in the plain
est language that it shall be well with
the righteous and ill with the wicked—
that those who receive the Lord Jesus
Christ as their Savior shall enter into
his rest and glory, and (hat the wicked
who know not God, and obey not the
gospel of his Son shall go away into
everlasting punishment. The future
happiness of the saints is no more
clearly revealed than is the future
misery of the enemies of God. We
have no more right to reject what the
Bible tells of hell than to refuse to
receive what it tells us of heaveii. The
knowledge of both is conveyed to us
by Divine inspiration. And the same
terms are used to express the unend
ing happiness of heaven and the un
ending misery of hell. According to
the Holy .Scriptures, we have no more
right to expect the wretchedness and
sufl’erings of the wicked to cease than
we have to look for a termination of
the blessedness of those who have
fled for refuge to lay hold upon the
hope set before them in the gospel.
The continuance of the latter is no.
more plainly or forcibly expressed
than is the continuance of the former.
—Presbyterian Banner.
Mark This, Boys.—“ Did you ever
know a man who grew rich by fraud,
continue successful through life, and
leave a fortune at death?”
This question was put to a gentle
man who had been in business forty
years. After reflecting awhile, he
replied:
“Not one. I have seen many men
become rich as if by magic, and win
golden opinions when some little
thing led to an exposure of their fraud
and they have fallen into disgrace
and ruin. Arson, perjury, murder and
and suicide are common crimes with
those who make haste to be rich, re
gardless of the means.”
Boys-stick a pin here. You will
soon be men, and begin to act with
those who make money. Write this
good man’s testimony in your mind,
and with it put this word of God: ‘He
that hasteneth to be rich hath an evil
eye, and considereth not that poverty
shall come upon him.”
Let these words lead you to resolve
to make haste slowly, when you go
into business in" the matter of making
moneys
Satan’s Armor.—The armor with
which Satan furnishes his followers is
directly the reverse of that Christian
armor described by the apostle Paul.
Instead of a girdle of truth, he girds
the sinner with a girdle of error and
deceit. Instead of the breastplate of
Christ’s rightousness, he furnishes him
with a breastplate of his own fancied
righteousness. Instead of the shield
of faith, the sinner has the shield of
unbelief; and with this he defends
himself against the curses of the law
and the arrows of conviction. Instead
of the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God, he teaches him to
wield the sword of a tongue set on
lire of hell, and furnishes him with a
magazine of cavils, excuses and ob
jections, with which to attack religion
and defend himself. He also builds
many refuges of lies, in which, as in a
strong castle, he proudly hopes to
shelter himself from the wrath of God.
To know a man, observe how he
wins his object, rather than how he
loses it; for when we fail, our pride
supports us—when we succeed it be
trays us.
No padlock, bolts or bars can secure
a maiden so well as her own reserve.
.i. RACY EXAMINATION.
The following racy examination of
candidates for admission to the bar, is
taken from the Western Law Journal.
The examination commenced with:
Do you smoke ?
I do, sir.
Have you a spare cigar?
Yes, sir. Extends a short six.
Now, sir, what is the first duty of a
lawyer ?
To collect fees.
KighK What tethexmeonfif 1 i
To iecrease the number of clients.
Whaa does the position towards
clients«*i»nge?
Whew making out a bill of costs?
Explain. -.1
Ye' then occupy the antagonistic
position. I become the plaintiff and
he beeftmes the defendant.
A suit decided, how do you stand
with s><• lawyer du the other side?
Chdlkbyjowl. h
Enough, sir. Vou promise to be
come an ornanient'to your profession
and 1 wish you auMess. Now, are
you aware of the flirty ya» ’ are ?
Perfectly. ' Hxrf* r
Deseribe iti-' -> 4> M' <' 1>
It HRlHnrtfe’jiwlif drink. ,
Btif’sappose I decline?
Candidate scratches Illa head.
Th<A is no -instance of the kind on
re.eoid in the books. I cannot answer
the question.
You are right. And the confidence
with which you make the assertion
showacpnclusively that yon read the
law attentively. Tait’s Cake a drink,
and I f Will sign your certificate at once.
A Healthy Climate.—We meet
a tall gaunt looking figure, the other
day, itdiggcr from CalifYirnia, and got
into conversation with hfrn 1 ! ” ' ■'
‘Healthy climath We suppose ?’
‘Hualthy I alt ain’t anything else.
there yon eSu ehoose
any el&mvteyou 1 ike j hot or cold, and
that'tooSi'ffnoiiT' iffirpff thnn
fifteen minutes. There is a mountain
there the Sary Navady, they call it,
one side hot and one cold. Well get
on top of that mountain with a double
barrel gun, and you can, without mov
ing, kill cither winter or summer game,
jest as you wish.’
’What! and have you tried it?’
‘Tried it often, and would have done
pretty well but for one thing.’
‘Well, what was that?
‘I wanted a dog that could stand
both climates. The last dog I had
froze his tail off while pintin’ on the
sunimerside. He didn't git entirely
out of the winter side, you see—true
as you live.’
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Anything the Matter.—When
the parent went into the parlor to
look for his newspapers he camo sud
denly upon his daughter and her beau
their faces so tightly glued to each
other that they didn’t notice his
entry.
‘Ahem!’ he observed.
The twain started and came to the
light with faces that bore every ap
pearance of having just been drawn
out of a furnace.
‘Anything the matter?’ grimly asked
the old gentlemen.
‘I think we must have fainted,’ said
she in a whisper.
‘Humph! What made you faint?’
he inquired suspiciously.
This was such a poser she sank back
exhausted, leaving her companion to
carry them safely out of the trouble.
With an awful wrench at his faculties
he gulped out:
‘I think there must be poison in the
wall paper.’
The old gentleman collapsed.
‘When you choose a wife, young
man, don’t go it blind,’ says a reli
gious exchange, ‘but proceed- prayer
fully, quietly, calmy and considerate
ly to find out her faults and foibles,
likes and dislikes.’ Good as fur as it
goes; but what the young man wants
to know is, how can he manage to
stock up all the aforesaid information
unless he marries the girl beforehand.
Bishop Clark once went to see one
of his parishoners, a lady with a pro
digous family, which had recently
been increased. As he rose to leave,
the lady stopped him with: ‘But you
haven’t seen my last baby.’ ‘No,’
he quickly replied, ‘and 1 never ex
pect to I’ Then he fled.
Other men’ pains are easily borne.
SELECT PROVERBS.
Pay as you go and keep from small
score. 1
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to
lose.
Past labor is pleasant.
Poverty is the mother of all arts.
Provide for the worst, the best will
save itself.
Poverty craves many things, but
avarice more.
Quarrelling dogs come halting
•ttetne*.'”* ‘ A l>»
’Quiet persons are welcome every
where.
Rielles, like rftanure, do fio good will
the}’’ are spread. ' 5
Running hafefc do not need the
See, listen and be silent, knd you
will Hve Hi peace. *«/<•
Speak well of your fHendMjFyihr
enemy say nothing. ■ IM'’
Speak - little and to the purpose,and
you will pass for somebody.
Setting down in writing is ii lasting
trtemofv.
Tint which is well dene is twice
done. !•< . ! ..i.
Think of ease, but work ml 4”
The-stone that lies not i<> yiNßwrfy,'
nteed not offend yIM Wwhmi teste
- Tlie b<eSt throw upon tire fflete is to
throw them away. ” ’
j Hints to Everybody Tse way
to get credit is, to be, the
way to it is not to. use i t,
much.
Trust not man’s appearance ; jig-,
pCaranees are deceitful, perhaps’'as
sumed for the purpose of obtaining
credit.
The rjch are plain; trust Um,
iMiyone, who carries but little uii hi
bac*-
Never trust him who flies inio a
pasiwon on beiqj but imjje
hlm.pjyy qukkly if there be any vir ;
’tue iu tiie >w. ; .
Whenever you meet who is
•fond of augment yon will meet oiu .
who is profoundly ign want of the op
erations of the human heart.
Mind your own affairs. Let the
errors you see in others’ inanagenient
suggest corrections in your own.
The true secret of living at peace
with all the world is t > have an hum
ble opinion of ourselves.
Newspaper law says if a person or
ders bis paper discontinued he must
pay all dues or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is
made and collect the whole amount,
whether the" paper is taken from the
office or not. Also action for fraud
can be instituted against any person,
whether he is responsible, or not in
financial point of view, who refuses
to pay subscription.
War is the fruitful parent of crime.
It reverses all the rules of morality.
It is nothing less than a temporary
repeal of the principles of virtue. It
is a system out of which almost all
the virtues are excluded, and in which
nearly all the vices are included. The
morality of peaceful times is directly
opposite to the maxims of war. The
fundamental rule of the first is to do
good ; of the latter to inflict injuries.
►- >--♦
Have you known how to compose
your manners? You have done a
great deal more than he who has
composed books. Have you known
how to take repose? You have done
more than he who has taken cities
and empires.
Our eyesight is the most exquisite
of our senses, yet it does not serve us
to discern wisdom ; if it did what a
glow of love would she kindle within
us and how our lives would be beau
tified.
Some men advertise their lives and
the public are generally disappointed
because the advertisement promises
too much ; others let their lives ad
vertise them, and the public always
get more than is promised.
Nothing more hinders a soul from
coming to Christ than a vain love of
the world; and till a soul is freed
from it, it can never have true love
for God.
They are poor that have lost noth
ing ; they are poorer far who, losing,
have forgotten ; they most poor of all
who lose and wish they might forget.
It is better to sow a good heart
with kindness than a field with corn,
for the heart’s harvest is perpetual.
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dejioK . .
Number 41.
THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS.
Self-praise deprecated.
My heart is its own grave.
The absent feel and fear every ill.
The jest that gives pain is no jest.
Every one is the son of - his own
Works.
Pray devoutly and hammer on
stoutly. a -mm te Dl -dl «
Velieity, not fluency of lang^S^ ‘
iba,Uerit ’ -
Qi*e pleasant viceis makes tnftrMh » r
ments to scourge us.
Nature never says that wlucbjrrqite't
son will contradict. : • » te Hwp
Fame is the shame of immortalfty,®''' ''
and is itself a shadow. ' r ' ! ’ :
. . “• '•''
The wittiest pgrson m a4;paM»dy.p> ,
he who plays the fool, 4 .
A model husband qjily permits hte "d
wife to do all the , r
■ Jt Ys easy «Kindte<Mw>,
ditficoft
Thw pretretti WorWhte»artied wfclteic-rr
localise it is full of Mtaee* Mt***}
dreanping. . -rs *
Virtue is always-more
I>y the wicked than beloved by
‘nghtebns. ■-> ’■ t
; Children of God, like the lilies of 1
>thc vajlejt, fiyuriah ’ best ‘in lowly
Mtua’pi/ J
ml,-; - allot -.-ft
*lt is a blesscddfcWte »tpep, yljflDi ,
•Wfc do it to gather up spiritual manure
tor tlfe s&ul. ' ■ wfT
■■ ft’:- *tete wte
Poverty is the .pnly burden
grows Ueiug nhajrel ;
those we love,, „ it ,
, We should I
vidences. for' there is fight &n 'the*
other side of them.
He who reads no newspapers of
any kind is only spared of heaven
that he may sit on a jury.
A woman too often reasons from
her heart; hence two-thirds of her
mistakes and her troubles.
The surest way of being deceived
is to think yourself cleverer and more
cunning than anybody else.
Holiness is not blind. Illumination
is the first part of sanctification. Be
lievers are the children of light.
If you have been tempted into evil,
fly from it—it is not falling into the
water, but lying in it that drowns.
Endeavor thyself to do so well that
others may rather envy thee thy
knowledge than laugh at thy ignor
ance.
No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life, or
temperate who considers pleasure to
be the highest good.
AH brave men love; for he only is
bravfe who has affections to fight for,
whether in the daily battle of life or
in physical contests.
We should learn by reflection on
the misfortunes which have attended
others, that there is nothing singular
in those which befall us.
Hardly do we guess aright at things
that are upon earth; and with labor do
we find things before us; but the things
that are in heaven, who hath searched
out.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this,
that when the injury being on his
part the kindngss shoqjd begin on
ours.
Many a man thinks its virtue that
keeps him from turning rascal, when
it is only a full stomach. One should
be grateful, and not mistake potatoes
for principles.
Time and pains will do anything.
This world is given as the prize for
the men in earnest, and that which is
true of this world is truer still of the
world to come. •
Whatever comes out of despair can
not bear the title of valor, which
should be lifted up to such a height
that, holding all things under itself,
it should be able to maintain Its great
ness even in the midst of miseries.