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A°rtl| Georgia] i, PUBLISHED EVERY iHUK'PVV ■■ '1 -AT- BKLin ON, O A.. By JOHN T. WILSON Jr. ■S? iuoney it they can pare, from 25e. *o $1 SEWS GLEANINGS. Sau Antonio is shipping -Jiecn to France. The pioneer potton mill of Memphis is now an as. tired fact. Since June Ist, s46,not) has been paid out for sponges in Key West. Six papers published by colored men in North Carolina favor prohibition. A nugget of gold, weighing three and one-half ounces, it is reported, has been > found in Putnam county, Tenn. Covington, Ga., Ims two cqlprcd men who can uiqyld eaeV ,: 4 0b0 bricks in half' a day. ' The average daily attendance on public schools tis Richmond, Va i< 5,531.5. Andrew Johneon’s heirs ar • now in litigation over the distribution of his property, which i> valued at §IOO, 11 A white woman in Newton county Georgia, was recent ly thrown into con vulsions from eating pork salad, and . died in a few lietirs. David Humphreys., of Carter’s depot Tennessee, luis Lovu married twenty-six years, ami is the. father of twenty-two child red. A cat bit a 'tittle girl mimed. Annie Webster, near Writes*urp.Ga.,' " last week, and f !, f Im- .-im-c ,’ ied wi ‘ ( £ all the symptoms of hydroe,’ no },V Covington (Ba.) SC tr; ‘ “Airing' tidit o| i his yxJijni' y OJJ ,. > Pn pro hibition to? vn ~r ()i 1 1bith)I1 vins, we will have nSremedy for snake bit' . (f the snakes win, good heavens. we ''.ill all bo umke bit. It is (earful, airj’t js ?-> > The ladies of Winchester, Va., have 'undertaken the ji,b of ercefiug marVle headstones at, the grave-of the. V.'iii chester soldiers who were killed in tlig late wat, o‘r who have tiled shvce, and who are lyirled ,jn,.StonewaH and Mount H- lvrou wvtei n x The umbrella’China tree, it is said, outside of lexat, is only found in Ji.tst ern Texas. The presence of the tree was occasioned, no doubt, bv captive •daves who scattered on the “slave trail” I -the seeds of this tree which! they had brought over to plant with | secret rites of vondoo worship. A Mexican at Las Vegas, New Mex ico, Hid Jii» wife to ; t Ixiardj iieatied her thus Iml ph ss against n fence, •look a position fifty feet, away and used her as a target fur rifle practice. He did not hit her, !•;. object being to frighten her by embedding the bullets in the board eLwc to hey head and body. She fainted under the frightful ordeal. What She Saw in Church. He staid at homo and she went to i •church; after dinner he. asked her: “What was the text, May?" “Oh>, something, somewhere iuGener k ntions; I've forgotten the chapter and ' veree. Mrs. High sat right Moro me with a Mother Hubbard bonnet on How could I hear anything when I could i not even see the minister? I wouldn’t ' have worn such a looking thing to church, if I’d had to have gone bare headed.” “zfow did you like, the new minister ?” “Oh, he's splendid! and Kate Darlin was there in a Spanish lace cape that mover cost a cent less than SSO; and they can't pay then' butcher bills, and I'd wear cotton lace or go without any .first." .< “Did he say anything about the new l mission fund?" “No, and the Jones girls were all rigged out, in their yellow silksmade. over; yon would have died laugh- 1 ing to have seen them. Such taste as those girls have; and the minister gave •out that the Dorcas Society will meet at Sister Jones’ residence—that old poky place.” “It seem* you didn't hear much H-the ■-■ serimn.” K./ £l. “Well, I'm sure its better to go to church, if you don’t hear the sermon, than to stay at Ironic anil read tije pa pers; and oh, Harry! the new minister has a lovely voice; it nearly put me to sleep. And did I tall you that Hie Bich’s-are hotfio from Europe, and Mrs. Rich had a real camel's hair shawl on, and it didfft look like any tiling 6p herl” , A long silence, daring which Harry thought of several firings;*" and his wife was busy eontemplating the sky or view, when she suddenly e.tciauaed: “Thera! I knew I|d terget to tell you something. Would yep..believe it, Har ry, the fringe on Mrs. Jones’ parasol is . k an inch deeper than mine, and twice as . heavy! Oh, dear! wIM a world at trouble this is.”— Detroit Post and tri bune. “ v <*— • r - • '* . “ Come, doctor, it’s 10 o’clock, and I think we had better be- going, Tor. it’s., time honest folks were at home,” said a lawyer to a physician, one evening re cently. “Wellj yes,” was the reply. “ I must be off, but you needn’t go or. that account, ” The North Georgian, vol. r\ A BEI4JB. She was the prettiest gid, I ween, That mortal eye had ever seen; , li'ir name was Auabe] Christintv Her bangs were curled with bandoline, Her cheeks were smoothed with vUsaline. Her teeth were brushed with fine dentine. Her face was washed in coaline, Her gloves h-ere cleaned with gasoline, bite wore a dress of grenadine,' Hooped over a shirt of brHHantine, tier petticoat was bombazine Her foot was short with kill bottlne, 1, r woiin.l.s were healed with Cosmoline, bhe sailed away Irani Muscatine in a ship they calli-l H brigantine, bae ilni.,l with agav marine, ini I iey reached th*. lU«nuh»' . * <• Wi ti.t I'. >v o- ... apioid .cjArgeutine, And lived on Bloom iiiuton Olympus. n Hellene, sht j 'ierd, priest yc King, dare to elimb up tl.e slopes of ' Olympus, away above the lofty pastures of its dales and er. sts? I >i<l oven one only venture, by placing his foot upon the great peak, to find l.hnsdf ntnhlenly in the presence of these terrible gods? Ancient writers tell us that phil osophers arc not afraid of sealing Mount Etna, nltbough much higher tbiiu Olym pus; but they nc'o r mention one single mortal who has had the temeiitv Id ascend the mountain of file gods' not evefi in the day« nf science, in that age when phil;Wophcr.i rauglit that Z. us and the other immortals were mere coneep- I til.ns of the human mind. Later on, other religio'l.t, disseininated among the viuiohu people living in the surrounding puains, took possession of the sacn>d mountain and consecrated it to new divinities. There the Greek . ( bflstiaus.worshiped the Holy I rituty instvadyf Zeus; they still look llpi'n its three jiruicipal peak'- iw Hit tlirbe great tliroues of H- -veti, < firn of its loftiest, points, winch formerly, ]«;rhaps, bore a temple of Apf.lln, te now £ 'sfti*fftefln'ti d by a monastery of St. Elias; one of its dales, wherein the Bacchantes were wont to > sing “Evoe!" in honor of Dionysos or Bacchus, is inhabited by the monks of St. Denys. Priests have succeeded to priests, ami the superstitious • : p t . c t of modern times to the worship of the ancient; but perhaps the highest 'sum mit is yet untrodden by human steps; the soft light,. Fi “plcn.leiit above its rocks and »uw, han not beamed u]«in any man sincxi the Hulleoic gods took their dejiuTu-e. A few years ago it would have 1 »po,p. ! diflieult for a European to tdfaltl the sunmutof th- s>mi u |*j| U x., r Hellenic, 1- r -. Ml. , shot.., oi etli.ied nil its gorges; (hey had iiitrcn'che.l them selves in it, as within an enormous cita del. and thence, recommencing the con flict of the gods against the Titans, they' set out upon their expeditions agninijt | the Turks of Mount <' -ik Proud of ' tlu-ir itehrtkg®, they wffleyed thenm-lv.a , invincibly:-> the mountain upon which i 1 !)<’'• h'v'-.i; th-'v eudowed Olympus it I self with lite. “I am," said one of their I Songs, “I am Olympus, illustrious in all ages, and renowned amid Nations; forty- liristleupon nty brow; ssventy fvvoTJiUifahrs flow’ down my ravines, and an eagle is perched upon my highest summit, bearing in its claws the hehff of a valiant hero!” This eagle, no doubt, was that of the ancient Zeus. Even now-a-days he feeds on man, by man destroyed.— History of a Mountain. Trees and Health. Everybody knows that trees take the carbonic acid thrown out in the breath of meu and animals, separated into com ponent parts -carbon and oxygen—give back the latter to be used over again, I anil work, up the former into wood and fruits. ’ 1 It is also coming to be gem-rally nh- 1 1 derstood that forest trees do important! service in promoting rainfalls, and in ‘ helping to retain tho.,6nrfaco water for , spririgs, streams and gteicrftl <ise. It is also known that certain species I planted in malarial localities, help to ; render the latter healthy by somehow I using up the deadly miasma. It would now appear that trees grow- i ing near drains carry off the sewerage water. A gentleman, whoso cess-drain was I constructed just like his neighbors’ and I iu the same kind of soil, had found it | mimicessary to clean it out, while the ’ others had to be cleamsd out frequently. Au examination showed that three largdtfecs, whoso foots had penetrated into the vicinity of his second, or waste . cess-pool, were clearly channels through which the waste all escaped. Whether it was changed into plant j food,, as, is likely, or was exhaled through ! the leaves, in either case it was disposed I of with equal safety. - Tlw Heroines of Nihilism, jytji&lstly daughters of poor* ‘ army onrceSN, or petty civil officers, or i even of shop-keepers, wiio feeling the influence of modern times, arc auxious to i rise above the level of their parents, ; coarse, ignorant people* in the main. : Either by their owntajejifsor by the aid , pf influential patrons, ' tlje girls gain I sclvotarships, and enteri A«>tae high school ' whbre their brains are crammed with a heterogeneous mass of kn<Avlcdge. At 19 they leave, and inritrn AMdome teach- . ers. Finding their parents uncompan- ' iojiable, they abandon home, for some I wretched lodgings, and eike out a miser able cxiatence by giving pooriypaid les- 1 4onjj. Food is senrijb; tliA-feii>lnfne pleas- ! .drds of dress are impossililys UterAtriiin iiljZ power of family affectiwi W alweiit, i tlrny pTOW hopeless and diseorif<Kted, when some day they fpna flneialisfic 1 acquaintances, rapidly adopt thefr idarfs, and, having found an object for 'their life, with feminine rashness devote: t'tem'- selves to the cause, evert* tr> the" very i TleStir:—Paris Pigaro,, . 1 -tri ' ■- Campanini is worth £150,000. He got it all for a song— Ponton Transcript. And is still pursuing the even tenor of his way. BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA„ J( |,Y I ■ Grecian Beauty. Much has been said in praise of Grecian beauty, ami the men are hand- ! som iu every sense of tho word. IVe I mi ht well imagine them 'to bA’., A been i the models of Phidiit” and Praxiteles I I heir large eyes, blade as jet, sparklo ' with glances of tire, while tho' Jong,' ‘ . silky, eyelashes soften the eyprer-r.ii .a j I and give a, drejimy mol- | ! ancholy. 7 )mr teeth are \yhiU.‘ ; ■ and well set; a fine I'eguliir proflTe nd pale-olive complexion and a tall, '( L - ant ' j ligule realize an accomplished j vpo cJ ’ : distinction. As to Qm. ho*flci< "i-v ! j seein to have left physical perfection to . the tr.ch; soine possess fine eves and ! i hair, but as a rule thcyliavo bad figures, I I , and_ some defect in tho face generally I [ . spoils the good feature’ l . It is iv.»ong>ii i , them, that lhe old Orieufai : > j eustolliA .fire most strictly Presetved; i i ; while tho men arc gradually nndeW’o- • I ing the process of •••vilizatiou they, in n | > moral point of view remain utiitionary, ! and are just as they were fifty yearn ! ago. It may, indeed, be said that, witlr , . I tho exception of Alb'”'-, th:; >,,,meli I , possesa individual cxisfenco, and i count as nothing in society. The men : , [ have reserved every privilege for thorn- I i . selves, leaving to their helpmates the ' care of the house and family. In the I ; h’v.ns, v be’■: *.ei’ ante, me kept, they are , f Uio poorest class of peasants, who know nothing, and receive miserable : . wages. The families are generally large ‘ —seven or eight little children demand | a mother's constant ntteufti'i!, TllO ■ i nioiniiig begins by directing the work of j ouch servant, i’epeatiita'.the same tiling ’ : a hundred tiln■ r-eoldhig, seienndnir, ‘ even beating them, to be nralerstouil. In | tho evening, when the children arc sleep ing, if there remain some little time, the,, . poor, worn-out mother.sits down to her I spinning wheel to spin silk, to sew or knit, if itbo summer-time, to look after ■ her silk-worms mid roco.ws happy >f . slid has not to do tho work of her in- | competent servants over again. Cnltystflon of S-ls R-spccf. A eh’lA Hint in uniformly treated with 1 courtesy. wit,h consideration, with jus | tice. will unconsciously deem himself j wf-rtiiy of mtcli; ti't’illmeut, andwill.be- ■ come worthy of it, uni - s he fs hv nature wholly lihso; and be W>ll Pn/'onjrio'lsly I . ,, 'c:e. *'ih’'ra ria ho is treated. It is a fear- I iul t hitig to give a child th- lie, to accuse I him <>l at< ajing, .to accustom him to ini- ' jr - caj... ~. <-:1 ’and .itm, titl'd bloW.s and call's. . Ho may merit punishment, but. the wino I .parent never will admit into tfir. i ( oii»c . hold vo' .ibiilnry Hit' terrible words “liar” i and ’’ thief,” and will never permit in : ' •hhnself or othin-s the hnsty blow, the y | bittei taunt, the slip-jng oj it-het. The i’ ri tim-d anil educated pat-mt' can never tolerate sfleh laugiliigo as wo have injt- t ' cated. Bitter r.<ird' :ae Inore cruel than blowr. Und inflict more lasting injuries. ! * Care in tho choice <>f associates will do much to foster self-respect in a child. ’ 1 Some mothers think their sons and ■ ' daughters dan go where they choose and 1 J j play with ’Vhoin {lley pleaa-'i, (Hid como i , I out Ml w-Jkiu Iks) Th-re never was •, a greater mistake. As wen might one think it no difference what air we : • breathe. Children are quicker than we I to catch the tone of associates, to pick ! , up slang words, bad grammar, vutgac i idea.-, I hose often seem to be taken iu l! through the very pores, ns typhoid poison I i J . when least‘expected. 'Cure in the ! choice of reading will do much to foster ' due self-n.-Bpect in a child. The boy 11 I who grows up with a familiar knowledge, 1 J : of Washington, of Franklin, of Lincoln, i 1 » and other gjpatwn?!* whojiaso been the : ’ I glrtry-vif the mifions in which they have i 1 been conspicuous, will be. far more likely 1 , j to find his mind filled with noble images, i ! j with high ideals, with lofty ambitions, j than one who roads sensational newspa- ! j pers, dime novels, and the comic alma- 1 ! ! unc. Any soil that yields abundantly - ’ I must contain hi itself elements of for- | I tility, ami barren soil may have elements , | artificially supplied to them. Women in Boarding-Houses. ' Differences in families united by mar. ' 1 l riage are mostly on the side of tho wo- < ! men. Woman fails in fact to preserve 1 the amenities of the hearth. The soft 1 answer or the repression which evades < an issue is more on the part of the man > than the wile. Young women manage then- lovers, but lose their skill to man- | < I -age their husbands. Women make the I I cliques in congregations, church socte- -1 ' ties, family hotels, boarding-houses, and ' 1 | wherever lovely woman predominates. | i ; Lack of tact makes the traditional i , mother-in-law. I'athers-in-law have too | much tact to bo. fussy and irritating in 1 matters that should bo left, alone. Men i ; live harmoniously in clubs; women can ■ : not Jive in clubs without getting into I i hostile divisions ! ( The I’ckin Times gives the following: I ' : “A young lady of this city, who lias a \ : young gentleman friend in Peoria, called ' him over the telephone, which is located 1 in the office of the young fellow's father. 1 ' The required ‘hello!’ camo'biuk over, the : wire, and the dear creature-proceeded i ’ to lay herself out in she 1 sent to the listening ,egr in vjyifi. 'qium ! i ties. While she wlw stripping to take I breath, a gruff voice in thej | | startled her with the following sentence: ‘I guesjt you've made a mistake, my . deargiri;'J m Georgies father.’ When she -r< ocivuw-d pjie found herself at home l among! frteudß.” Tub tenor Carnpanini is pronounced 1 ‘ perfectly jSjpJhnilid and just too awfully 1 1 [ too-too fpr’ anytjiing,” by the bang-' j womyqg ladies Os Nmv York.— New Or- , • Irons Pitnuyusse. Awfully too too - what? Carnpanini is a wocalist not a too tootist. But as Toots would say, “ It’s of no consequence, ” — N. K C'orn- ! mercial. j ! How Long Man May Live, I It " as Jh'ofessor Hufeland’s opinion ' . Heit the limit of possible htimai; life ' Ong..i be "i-t diiwii nt zbii years; ami tins lon tho gnneral principle that the life of 1 a creature ia eight times the veai'S of its . period of qipwtli, That whiijh ;s anlckly.' i formed qidckly perishes, and Hie, earlier i complete development is rOaclicd the ■ sobhef bodily decay ensues. More wonten ri ach old ago than men, but | .more -me-; attain remarkablo longevity , thug winuhu Some aidmab'. grow, ♦•’ bo i j very o’-l. ’’’.ihii'i ilminais live shorter lives than tuose without horns, fierce i longer thw. timid, and amphibious longer ; j than thosii which inhabit the air. Tho j voi-acioim pike exists, it is said, to an age 1 ! iJ . ! 'Je | 'ye i, rs; the thrlle ’a good for 100 ‘ yi'/nA or more, hurt rrtitong birds the . go'd'.m itffgle is known to hate lived I nciuil y HW; yeiijv. while file Bly ami som ue-r crow teaches tho venerable age of a c. utury. Passing up iu the scale of life , to man,.a.al skipping the patriarchs, wo II nil man A i-ectn-dod instances of longevity ..w. • | flr , H te (tropk-.-i nur { Honiaii’l. Pliny notes tliat in the reign of the Em peror \ espnsiau, in the year 7fi, there were PI linen living in the limited urea bet ween'Hie A ppciiniiies and tl(e Po of j >OO yearn and upward, three of whom j i ..l ie Ito and 4 ovei 135. Clii'ol'ci” v-'fe : lived to the ago of 103, and tho Boman ■ actress, Liicyjn, played in public as lute j as In i' ] 1,2111 year. Coming down to more reei-nt times, the most notable ! mithenH. msfiint’.e of great ago is that of ! Hi-iirv .ieiikiiis, of Yorkshire, England, who died in 1070, 109 years old. He 1 Wa-i a and at the age of lot) easily siijim uct'os'i rapid rivers,. Aoi olber liisfopc ease is that of I'arr, of Shropshire, a day liiborer, who lived to rim age of 152 years. When more thou J2O he married his second wife, aijd till 130 he could swing the j scyHi” rjpTwichl the flail with the bast of Ins fcilow-lnboreis. tu11!.1152d year Parr went up to London,to exhibit him self to the king. It proved ini iinlneky •t if. fo''. violating Hie alisteihloiii' habit oi a ceuiury ami a bait, the old man feasted so fre'My on tho royal victuals that ho soon died, merely of a-plethora. On elimination his internal organs proved tn bo in excellent condition, and ( lie'c. V. n? no .’■easwr why he slioubl not have livid ninch longer sake for this un fortunate taste of royal hospitality, i’rpfes- >r lluf'-land’s roll of centenarians l iucJud'., ■ e-uy more-remarkf'ilc eases. • ' Ornggeil Wines* As 1 • rance has kicked up a row aiiout American hog meat, which extended even to ringing bells through the villages warning tho citizens, it is entirely fair to wnni the American people against the drugged wiues of France, The i'arinan, ii paper printed in English in Paris, gives a branch of the history of this manufacture of wines sold fraudulently under the names of the choicest brands of French wines: The wine crop of 1879 was about 25,1)110,000 or 30,000,000 hec toliters below the average of the Inst ten years. The annual consumption in Fram-o is from 40,000,000 to -15,000,000 hectoliters. Every body expected a rise in the price of wine, and some conscien tious dealers laid in a stock from abroad. The rise .in price, however, never came, i and the i> a’ | ( nts remained well supplied. The redsfin was that the natural deficit was compensated for by artificial means. Winq was manufactured out of dry grapes. All the raisins to be found in Eastern ports were bought up, and wine manufactories sprang up all over the country. Around Paris alone there are w-vi ii steam-power wine manufactories. The cost of a cask of raisin wine is about 50 francs, and it was sold at 100 francs, thus giving a profit of 100 percent. But the competition has now become Bitch that the price of raisins has risen from twelve francs to seventy-five francs the 100 kilograms. The consequence is that that raisins have been abandoned, and wine is now manufactured oiit of glu cose, a sugary matter obtained from the potato, out of the residue of molasses, out of rotten apples, dried prunes, dates, figs and all kinds of refuse fruit, and even out of beet-root. These abomina ble liquids are colored artificially and mixed more or less with Sjianish wines or white wine. The adulteration and manufacture of wine has attained such vast proportions that the principal deal- ' ers who had taken measures to supply the market loyally with harvest wine from foreign countries have taken steps to put a stop to this gigantic fraud. The imposture has reached such a pitch that not one-third of the wine now drank in Paris is real grape. The revelations of the manufacture of French brandy arc no less convincing of the wholesale char- j actor of the frauds. French brandy of I this day is described as an inferior spirit I distilled from sugar, potatoes, Indian I corn and whisky distilled from barley, | and this is the stuff imposed upon the | people of this country. It would be a I national blessing if there was an author itative analysis made of the various so- | called French wines and brandies fraud- I uleiitly pushed off upon the American I people by the wine manufacturers of i France. The drugged and poisonous ! stuff is, in adition to being a commercial fraud, also most delpterous to health an life, and its importation phonld bo discontinued. No pure winos or bran-, dies are now exported from France. A oentmsmax and three ladies who mnst have had a great deal of spare time have found by count that a blonde has about 140,000 hairs on her scalp ; a brunette. 109,000; and a red-hairdd belle only 88,000. This lost- provision of mituro is undoubtedly to prevent in -voluntary incendiarism. Indians never drink to drown sorrow. When they can get anything to drink they have no sorrow to drown. /IrooZ - lyn Eagle. n1 " I l ■l■ ■I I I ■ IB IV .. _T•• • I - I „||_ A- Famlniigo at Ln Venta. i It so happened fiini wo tencKoiT T.d Veuta ofi a •festive occasion. A fundatlgii was ill full blast but a ‘Short distance; from onr quarters, and S large number of stnuigo Indians from the surrounding country were in the village. Our advent luid ytihscM if teini>orary suspension of the festivities, but the people «oou bo i gan to drift that way again-, and by the time we had finished our supper the music of harp mid bandolon could bo i heard,, the daucp was once more in iHoglyr-J. Aleii’nd»r< told us that the village would piPbobly grow lively trt- I ward midnight as the dance '-otlfinried, for the Indians wei'b drinking a gv-ud 1 deal of mi seal, and ninny of thorn were still coming in from the country. He iuformeil me that tho Alcalde of tho town had already hidden himself, as is llio ilusteiii Oit sl'ch occiisiorrs, and that wo must be on otlr guard, for the Indians were bad men when druuk, and inclined to dislike strangers. Wo were all armed to the teeth, liowe.ver, and felt no ap prehensions. After supper, Marion and I sallied out Into the dark street, and, follolving the sound of (lie music, soon 1 found ourselves in the midst of the , crowd of -wild, half-naked revelers. The i dancing was carried on under the shed : which wns lit np by pine-knots, throwing ■ out a wieiil glare over tiic di laky crowd. I A number of men and woliicu would step into the open space and shnllle slowly | around, each one apparently ou Jiisowu • responsibility, and with no regard to I figure. Tn the meantime those who ■ I word not (lancing would squat in a cir- cle around the Open »pnc<’, and sing ' monotonously in.(line with the music of the instruments'. The dancers would finally rctir*', »nd others take then- places, I the process being rej oiited .with little or I no variations. But it was in l:b<- (Alter rim of the circle that the real fun seeniod - to be going on. Little groups were • gathered here and there, drinking, sing ing rind, ('arousing, and, as wo left the. crowd and picked oiir way back t<> our lodgings, we noticed one of our men, Eoiiciano by name, ogling a dusky I maiden, and treating her to a drink of orchata.-—Z>. /S’. liictlitr'Hicm, in Cali- : forritan. Life's Brightest Hour. itx’oi long p.iuee; 1 inut a,gentleman who : is assessed for one million. was j in his bap', care upon his brow, ami liR slightly stooped beneOtWhis burden of wealth'. We were -speaking of tho period of his life he hud reached the most perfect eujqvmen!, or lather, when he , had found iiappiucsß to be nearest uu- . alloyed. “I’ll toll yoti,” said tho millionaire, ■ “when was the happiest hour of my life. I At the ago of one and twenty I had saved SBOO. I was earning SSOO a year, i and my father did no’ take it from me, only requiring that I should pay itiy I board. At the age of twenty-two f j secured a pretty cottage just outside of the city. I was able to pay two-thirds of the value down, ami also furnish it respectably. 1 wit". married on Sunday —a Sunday in June, at illy father’s house. My wife had come io me poof in purse, but rich in the wealth of wo- | manhood. The Sabbath amt the Sab- • I bath night we passed beneath my lath- | er’s roof, and os* Monday morning I i Went to my work, leaving iuother arid j sister to help in preparing my home. “Ou Monday evening, when the labors of the day were done, I went not to the paternal shelter, but to my own house— my own home. The holy atmosphere of that hour seems to surround me even now in the memory. I opened ihe door of my cottage and entered. I laid nty hat on the little stand in the and passed on to the kitchen—our kitchen and dining-room were nil one then. 1 pushed open the kitchen door and was in—heaven! The table Was set against the wall—the evening meal was ready prepared by the hands of her who had ! come to be my helpmeet in deed as well | as in name—and by the tea-table, with a throbbing and expectant look upon her ; lovely and loving face, stood my wife. : I could only clasp the waiting angel to | my bosom, thus showing to her the > ecstatic burden of my heart. “The years have passed—long, long years—and worldly wealth Ims flown upon me, and I am honored and envied ' —but as trud as heaven—l would give all —every dollar, for the joy of that June evening, in the long, long ago.”— Exehanae. We Denied It. The locomotive of a Harlem milk train struck a man who was lying crosswise on the track. The train was stopped ami i backed up, and instead of the maugled ! remains the-engineer found a manstand- I ing on the-tfack and looking around with, agaze of-, curiosity. “Where is that ■ man?” said-the engineer. “What man?" I said the traynp. “The man I struck,” retorted the engineer. “I don’t know. I Did you hit a man?” said the fellow. ' “ Yes,” sirtil the engineer. “1 knocked I' a mah otDright here and he went up l 1 against ■ that freight car." “Didn't Si'e I him. When did it happdif? ‘'Jiist j now. Aren’t you the man?” “ Not as f I remertbet.” “Didn’t I knock you olf the frack T’* the engineer persisted. “I don’t thinlcyon did, but you can uxam- ■ ine me and-aee.” The fellow’s bead pud shoulder were severely bruised and bleeding. .When asked how he. received i the injuries he said : “ Well, I don’t ' exactly know, but I -thought I fell oil' the , freight car. Guess lam not hurt much anyhow.” Ashe walked, away he sang out “Much'obliged to you for telling i mo how it happened. ” ■ It is wise to keep in mind the fact that ' souls mav be won 1“ tin fWsT-by n life - I on a sick bed JfliflflM’Tvcll as by a life in i a cathedral desk. Pure submission is as I good as going on a foreign mission. jMofth Published Evert Thursday at BELLTON. GEORGIA RATRH yesr (52 numbers), $1.00; six moathtf ‘iJ 6 HV’noersy 50 cent*; three month. 1 ! (13 uuntbert). 25-cents. ' 3 . QlGci.ui £ te <’t*ter VflTn *,“> o. th depot. — - - - . . .. ; a-—*-■A—. In Three Hundred Years. | iln .English author named Willis D. Hay has given to Hie world a very re markable book, entitled “Three Hun dred Year* Hence.” Hoy’s, work indi i cates his [xissesslon of a wonderful imag imition. He. Inis endeavored to tell something of the world ifnd its popula ; tidh in' 21S1, and his attempt bristles ; with startling ideas and wonderful theo ' rio«, Ho describes the rise of Socialism and pl'ctlicts that the Land League agi tation will involve Great Britain in a civil | war, which will destroy her commerce and pave the, wav for her downfall. . Upon the ruins of crumbling empires ’ will be founded a world-wide republic, f A Yankee will invent an annihilating I machlui’ which will make wars impossi ble. The diaaj>j>ci«nince of armies and I forts will make the universal republic i stronger. Thi? new force is discovered. ' By means of this, man walks on the floor of the ocean and forces his w ay through thei Isovels of the earth. Great caverns • are diseove. Int enormous depths, and I-as Hrn surface of the earth becomes crowded colonies are planted in these, 1 and mighty domes shaped like diving • tells, built upon the bed of the ocean mid ruiming up above the level of the i wider, afford temporary and permanent , abodes to thousands. " They cultivate sea weeds, and vegetables, aud fibrou l submarine plants for textile fabrics and ' dyes. Later the internal fires of the I globe are made available for heating pul'posps. With their aid the frozen regions iil'oilml the poles are reiidered ’ tropical. The vine and banana flourish ! there, and tho long arctic night is made brilliant with electric lights. In time the populat ion of the globe liecomcs so , dense tliat the Ecumenical Council, tho I head-center of Government for the States of Humanity, deckles that the four or five millions of nfites covered by the ’liibitations of men must be brought under erdtivation. The population of the globe betakes itself to cities built upon piles in thy seafl, houses are de : molished, and every inch of the earth’s : surface is cultivated for food. The Cap -1 llnl wherein laws are made for the world j is located at Terrapolis, a city of 10,000,- I 000 inhabit,-mtn, built in the South I Pacific Sea; It is ornamented with a few j of the most remarkable buildings in the j ancient world, including .the Cathedral i of (IqlogUu, the Tower of London, the i Vatican, snd the great Pyramid. :V book of this character ought to i make fivicirmfingToiidiiig; How-much of truth there may be in it the reader alone i can determine. The predictions which i Hay makes are founded upon scientific I data. It is . a pity that we can’t live to ace the womlerfiil changes he has in his j iiiind's eyrtj_ We learn that EllisA Co., proprietors lof Bailey Spriugs,.are imikinr prepara- I tions to entertain an unusually large j number ql visitors this suinmei. They 1 are receiving communications from all over the South inquiring rates and con tracts for board. I’his is only their due, for not. only are (hey successful hotel keepers, but their place is in every i way worthy of patronage. It is one of j the coolest, shadiest, breeziest places iu | the South ; lhe locality and surround j in;;s arc delightful ; the buildings are ■ roomy, airy, and conveniently arranged; : the iiceommotl.'ilions, fate and attention I are first i.-l.'iss, and Shoal Creek is the. | most romautic stream and the best fi.-h --j ing waler vou ever saw. Add to this the unrivalled power of the old Hock Spl'ltiK in the cure of dropsy, scrofula, dyspi-psfii ami diseases of the blood, skin and kidney*, and thc-sum of attractions jis irresjstiMe. H you have ever been i there you know this is true. 11 you i have not, try it just once. You will never reG-ei'll. Address Ellis & Co., Bailey Springs, Ala. ._ , ■ People who think China is a small power are surprised to know that the tonage of her mercantile marine is 4,- I 100,000, exclusive of the inland junk traffic. The tonnage of the United : States, including all the canal boats in | the country and all the river boats, is 1 but 4,500,tX)0. Even England’s tonnage is only 6,100,000. So that China is press ing close after England as a sailor power. No Hospital Needed. No palatial hospi ta,! needed for Hop Bit ters patients, n<>r, large salaried talented puffi-rs to tell what. Hop Bitters will do or (Ute, at they tell their own story by their cerlaiii ttnd absolute cures at home. - New Yotl Ifidependent. “It’s mighty strange, so it is,” re marked Mulcahy, “that the tinants av Ireland is tho wuns to make all the trouble. You wild expect now that it wild be the landlords.” “How’s that, at all? Bbwiit are ye givin’ us?” said O’l’lannerty. “Wliy, d’ye moind now it’s the landlords that’s the proper rioters.” J In* Kveryttifnff Failed You? Then try Warner’s Safe Kidney aud Liver Cure. It is said tho. man who uses snuff never lias a cold in the head. , Perhaps so; but it would be m;ich nicer if he had a cold and no suuff. Spring and Summer Diet. Oredn rniit ahh bod vegetables, which are pni-fi'-iilailv plentifuliltlliis season of tlie year, utncjst invariably disorder the stomach and su ].< l unluci; Crumps, Cholera Morbus, and what in worW, Ilianluea aud Chronic Dysentery. People «bu desire to preserve their health slioiild be Ujcccdingly careful about their diet at thi- seasmi, and nt ao time slioiild they bo «it limit a irnppiy ot I'u.qpi Davis’ Pain Kii.lkr, the safi st surett and speediest remedy for all I i-oubii'-s of the stmuadh or bowels. All drug giets H'-U it. ; Disengaged lovefs may be described as express companies.