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orih (Georgian. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT BELLTON, GA., BY JOHN BL ATS. Tekms--SI.OO per annum; 50 cents for 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.’ -♦ < 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. TVovtli <3S-eoi’g-iaii, PUBLtSREI) EVERY TIICRSD.it, AT BELLTON, GA. RATES OF .SITBSCRIPTiaN. . One year (52 numbersV-*EOO; sfx nonthe (26 numbers) 50 cents; three mojitbs.(l3 numbers) 25 cents. '* '' ’ Office tn the’Smith building, east of-the -jt 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.