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Northeastern Railroad,
SursniNTMiDiNia Office,
Athena, Ga., Jnno 29th, 1891
SUMMER SC’HKpULE.
On and alter Monday, July 4th, 18S1, trains
on this road run as folow* :
NO. 1.
NO.8.
l.cavo Allien*
.... 4.40 a tn
8:50 p m
Arrive at Lula
.... 6.4C am
I 6:00 p m
Arrive, at Atlunta....
.... 10.00 a m | 12:20 j> m
NO. 2.
NO. 4.
I/fftve Atlanta
.... 4.00 a in
3:16 p to
Arrive nt Lula
.... 6:46 a in
6:o0 p in
Arrive at At lien*
....11:59 a m
8:45 p m
Truin* No. 2 and 3 run daily except Sunday.
Train No. 1 on Mondays, and Train No. 4 on
Sat unlays on'.).
Trains Nq*.*1, 2 and 3 connect closely at Lula
with nnssenger trains on Richmond and Dan
ville, both East and West, and No. 4 with west
bound passenf? train on Saturday niirlit only,
when it will wait until 9.48 p. m., when by so
rioinp » connection can be made.
I'oasengera from Augusta, Charleston and
Savannah and jxrint* Southeast coming vi»
Georgia Railroad, will connecTttoaa at Athena
witJi train No. 3 tlu rcbv enabling them'to vim
the summer resorts of*^ortheaat4JmgU 'with-
out a delay at Athens.
Through tickets for sale at Athens for all
points East and Wjwt. - ♦
LYMAN WEkLB.Sup’t,
THOMPSON & HFINDEL,
Dealer* in Every Description o~
Building Material
upplies _
S10 Jackson Street*
S4.
WINDOW GLASS „
TheV*rg c »t end bent assorted Mock Gloss in the
«‘y,.
Georgia Rail Road Company
fttrrERumtNDKifT’s Omci, )
Arouarx, Ga., Feb. 25, 1881. f
Commencing Sunday, 27th inat,the following
1 Wenger Schedule will opperate on thia road:
Leave ATHENS 8.45 am 7 #0 p m
Leave Wintervilie 9.15 a m 7 25 p in
Leave Lexington .. 9.53 am 8 CO p m
Leave Antioch 10.25 am 8 25 p m
L. uve Maxevs 10.46 a m 8 45 p m
Leave Woodvillc 11.1* am 9 15 p n
Arrive Union Point M.4»»am 9 40 p in
Arrive Atlanta 6.45 f m. 5 00* ui
Arrive at Washington 2 10 r u
Arrive at Milledgeville.... 4.45pm
Arrive Macon 6.45 pm
Arrive Augusta # 47 r m 7 00 a n»
Leave Augusta 9.85 am 5 SO p tv
Leave Macon 7.00am
Leave Milledgeville*. 8.58 am
1 -cave IVashiugton 10.45 am ........
Leave Atlanta. 7.15 am 8 45 p m
Leave Uuion Point 1.12 i» m 5 00 a m
Arrive Woodvillc 1.27 r m 5 15 a m
Arrive Maxeys . 1.55 p m 5 40 a m
Arrive Antioch 2.15 r m 6 00
Arrive Lexington 2.37 pm C go a m
Arrive Wintervilie 3.12 pm 6 55 a in
Arrive Athens 8.40 pm 7 SO a w
Trains run daily—so cenncctiou to or from
Washington on Sundays or between Macon and
Camak in either direction on Sunday nights.
E. R. Doksjcy, Gen., Pass., Agt.
JltO, W. GREEN, G.
Richmond & Danville R.U.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
On an.l alter June 5th, 1881, Passenger Train
Service on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Linn di
vision of this road will lie as follows:
TTs. Mail. N Y Exp’
No. 43. ‘ "
A.
B.
rave Atlanta.. .. 4:00a i
r Suwanee-I),-5:18 a i
• Lula E - 6:45 a. :
• loci-oa.. ..F - s: 14 a. i
' Seneca...-G - 9:20 a. i
• Green v’le 11<-10:58 a.
• Spartan'g K -12:14 p.
I - 3:15 p.
iL 4:37 p. m
i 1 - 6:59 p. m
, - 7:15 p. m
i - 8:40 p. m
i -10:20 p. m
i -11:40 p. m
C.
|U.S. Mall.iN Y Exp’S
...12:33 a. m
1:17 a. m
... 8:12 a. m
... 4:24 a. m
... 5:47 a. m
... 6:53 a. m
... 8:09 a. m
... 9:22 a. m
-.10:35 a. m
"Sr wan kk Accommomatioiv, No. 21.—Leave At
lanta 5:00 p. m. Arrive a( Suwanee (D) 7:08 p. m.
Sr wan kk Accommodation, No. 22.—Leave Su
wanee (D) at 5:40a. m. Arrive at Atlanta 8:00 a. m
COJtMMCTIOKS.
11.12:43 a. i
1.1:43 a. i
.vpartan’g K - 3:50 p. ni .. 4:06 a. i
Miwanec. D -10:38 p. i
.. 6:30 p. m
.. 7:45 p. m
.. 9:06 p. m
..10:16 p. m
..11.25 p. m
... 1:00 a. in
... 2:11 a. m
... 4:31 a. u>
... 5:35 a. m
No. 50.
vith
h arriving trains of Georgia Central and A.
A W. P. Railroads
•ingti
P. and W. A A. Kalin
C with arriving trains of Georgia Rail Road.
J> with laiwrenceville Branch to and from Law-
rone-eville, Ga.
E with Northeastern Railroad of Georgia to and
iron* Ailicn-s Ga.
F with Llbertou Air-Line to and from Elberton,
Georgia. •
G with Columbia and Greenville to and from Col
umbia and Charleston, 8. C.
II with Columbia and Greenville to and from Col
umbia and Charleston, S. C.
K with Spartanburg and Ashvilie, and Sparten-
burg, Cnion and Columbia to and from Hen
derson and Ashvilie, and Alston and Colum
bia.
L with Chester and Lenoir Narrow Guage to and
from 1 >ailas and Chester.
M with C. C. A A- C. CL—B. A D. and A. T. A O.
for all points West, North and East.
Pullman Sleeping Car Service on trains Nos.
47 aud 43, daily, without change, between Atlanta
and New York. A. POPE,
ft General Passenger Agent.
T PUTTY.
In bnlk, also in boxes of 1 to S lbs.
White Lccd and Zinc.
Strictly Pure, made by the Kentucky Lead and
Oofl Co., which wc guarantee as good aa
the beat. Also the well known
Nassau White Lead and im
I»orted French Zinc.
Prepared Paint
The Celebrated Paint, made by Wadsworth,
Martinex & Longman, wfii<^i we
know to be good.
Brushes
A.fuinine of Paint and Whitewash Brushes.
Colors.
A large and aborted stock of Colors in Oil,
Also, Dry Colon*.
Varnishes.
White Demur, Conch, Copal, Furniture, Japan,
Asphaltum, <fcc.
Kalsomine
Johnson’s Celebrated Prep&ied; KalsomLe, all
alludes.
Oil.
Linseod Oil, Raw and Boilod.
Builders’ Hardware.
A large variety of Locke,*
Kim and Mortice Locks,
Surface and Mortice Blind Hinges,
All sixes and styles of Door Butts,
Inside Blind Butts (brass and iron,)
A fine line of Padlocks,
Yale Store Door Locks.
Yale Night Latches,
Screws in any quantity and every size.
And everything you want in the,] lard ware line.
Doors, Sash and Blinds.
The largest stock in Augusta, at bottom figures.
Send for price list.
BALUSTERS, BRACKETS AXipANTLES,
And almost anything that can be made out of
wood, we arolprepured to mi ke it.
Yellow Pine Lumber.
In any quantity, rough or dressed. %Wc paek
ana aeliver t all of our goods free of charge.
Thompson & Heindel.
>b!5. S10 JACKSON STREET.
it, in
Pa., has been pntout.
The Cartersville Free Press cat
off 200 subscribers this week, for
nonpayment. Served ’em right.
The Markham House, Atlanta is
now under the sole charge of W. A.
Huff, Mr. Brown having retired.
Vermont has sent to foreign fields
nearly 200 missionaries, male and fe
male, from her congregational
churches.
Cincinnati Southern Rail’y
I**v* Athens via Northeastern R. IL...- 4.40 a. m
•' *• •* —. 8.50 p. m
" '* " Georgia Railroad-...- 8.45 a. m
•• Union Depot Atlanta.........*..—... 8.00 a. ni
“ “ '• *• ........ 2.80 p. m
" halton-.——....12.1A p. m
6.40 p. m
1.2o p. m
....mm 7.65 p. m
Trenton, N. J., claims to have is
sued the first Bible ever printed in
this country. It was published in
1786, by Isaac Collins.
Guiteau has been ordered to be
kept in close confinement by District
Attorney Corkhill. He i» to have no
communication with any one.
Mr. Vrronee, having shown the
doctors how to cool the president’s
room, ought to invent some apparatus
to make that Jersey cow give ice-
cream.
It is hard to be to'd of our folly by
Boston, but the Herald of that citY is
right when it says that overdoing cot
ton culture at the south is a ruinoui
policy.
The legislature it is said, is about
to repeal the usury law. Of course
that body will receive the usual
amount of‘cussiu’ from those who
want it to stand as it is.
Arrive Boyce Cincinnati jc.
LEAVE CINCINNATI VIA O. AND M. K. R.
Leave O. A M. Depot—
” O. AM.
Arrive St. Louis.........
7.20 p. m
7.45 a. iu
74W P- m
7.25 p. to
VIA VVDAUA LINK.
I**ave Plum Street Depot...—....7.02 p. ra
Arrive St. Louis.......
8.00 a.
8.00 p. m
VIA I. AND ST. L. K. R.
7.00 p. TO
8.001
VIA KANKAKKK LINK.
I^enre Plum Street Depot. 7.00 p. to
Arrive Chitago...— - - 7.05 a. in
" " 7.25 p. iu
VIA KOKOMO.
Leave C. II. A D. Depot -
•• C. H. A D. Depot
Arrive Chicago....-.- —
VIA BEELINE.
I-oave CY II. A D. Depot....... —
Arrive New York-. —
VIA N. V. F, ANDO. R. R.
leave C. H. A D. Depot
NCW 10 SECOND-HAND
MACHINERY.
THRESHERS,
HORSE- POWERS,
FAN MILLS,
COHOS PRESSES
SEPARATORS,
Jet, Pumps, Saw Mills with
Screw or Ratchet Head
Blocks. *
4 H. 1*. Kookualtcr portable cngiie in good
order.
8 II. P. Wood. Tiber & Morse portable cn.
sine in good order.
>11. I*. Washington Iron Works portable
engine in good order.
) H. P. Starbuck Bros, portable engine in
good order.
4 II. P. Stationary engine in good order. •
SO inch Georgia water wheel in good order,
17 1-2 inch Jas. Lcifcl wheel in good order.
15 inch Eclipse wheel good aa new.
14 inch Thoe. Leffel wheel.
Johnson Smntter, new.
4 Spindle Brill.
16 inch Iron Lath*. 6 ft shears.
40 ineh Fan Blower.
Shafting, Gearing, Pulleys, etc.
ATHENS FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS,
Athena, Georgia.
A little West Virginia boy has
sent a fox—a big, vicious fellow—in
a box, to be sold for the benefit of
Mrs. Garfield. He requests that ones
fifth of what the fox brings may be
teturned to him, as he wants to buy
P'g-
Mrs Euza Garfield, the presi
dent’s mother had a severe attack of
cholera morbus on Friday from which
she partially recovered but is now
prostrated by fever. She is 81 years
old and her condition is regarded as
Burke, 29,172 bales; Washington,
23,058; Houston, 19,699; Troup,
19,655; Coweta, 16,282; Meriweth
er, 15,154; Hancock, 15,010; Floyd,
14,545; Jefferson, 13,377, and Cobb,
12,092 bales. - This list comprises all
the counties that produced more than
13,000 bales. Bartow, Greene, Gwin
nett, Harris, Henry, Monroe, Ogle
thorpe. Pike, Stewart, Sumter, Tal
bot, Walton and Wilkes are each
credited with more than 10,000 but
less than 13,000 bales t
As will be seen Burke county is
credited with the largest number in
Georgia. This quantity was only ex
ceeded by the following counties:
three in Louisiana; five in Mississippi;
three in Alabama, one in South Caro
lina ; one in North Carolina ; one in
Arkansas ; two in Tennessee. Wash
ington county, Mississippi, is ahead of
all with 54,873 bales. ' Georgia is the
second state in the order of produc
tion, Mississippi being first and Texas
and Alabama third and fourth. Geor
gia, with an acreage ol 2,615.563 pro
duced 813,965 b;iles, an average of
0.31 bales per acre.
Now we give some (acts whieh
would escape the observation of the
casual reader. As is well known the
larger counties of Middle and South'
ern Georgia produoe most cotton, as
they are devoted almost wholly to
that purpose. It is not known how
ever, that neither of the sections is as
favorable to the production of the sta
pie as the counties above them.
Burke, while it bears ofi the palm for
the largest number of bales, also has
by far the lrrgest number of acres and
low down in the list when it coiw
.... 7.30 p. in
7.40 a. m
.... 7.10 a. in
_ 7.25 p. m
m. 9.15 p. TO
-. 6.45 a. m
...10.30 a. ni
..................12.40 p. in
6 50 a. m
— —. 9.25 p. m
VIA PENNSYLVANIA K. R.
Date L.M.Depot - —. 3.90 p. m
L. M. l>e,K>i — ...» - 8.00 p. m
Arrive Baltimore~~~..... .
“ Washington ..h—
•* I»liiladelphia.!’.’.”.r*..”.Zi
|| New York
VIA B.' ANDO. R. R.
Leave Plum Street Dvpot...^~«-
Arrive Parkersburg
“ Cumberland—.. —.......... .....
•• Harper’* Ferry
6.35 p.
—.... 7 40 a. m
- ...... 7.52 p. to
9.02 a. to
6.45 a. iu
7.85 a. m
9.30
..—.-10.85 a. to
Washington—.......
Baltimore—. ....
Philadelphia*.——.*
New York...—
— 7.20 p. m
— 9 15 a. to
1.50 a.
...... 4 55 p. ro
....... 9.18 a. TO
1.20 a. m
.« ...12.19 p. TO
.—. 4.35 a. to
*~n
1.65 p. m
6.30 a. ns
8.08 p. m
M 7.40 a. a
- 6.3* p. M
1.16 p. n
- 9.20 p. n
- 4.00 p. a
S VIA CANADA OOUTUKRN RAILWAY.
I.MTC C. H. A D. Depot— S.SOp. ml
•• UH. AD. 2.«5p. ml
Arrl»« N.W ( York..——.M— oj J. “
VIA OBKAT WESTSSS RAILWAY.
IASTAC.U. AD. Dopot... S.20 r. ml
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H. H. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT . LAW,
a 'i*Hf G •
,FFICE on Broad SUM*, up stain. Entnnes
■Ci :-.'i
TLANTft HEALTH INSTITUTE,
Hjgenic and Electric Water-Cure,
NO 178 WEST PETERS 8T, ATLANTA, GA.
IE only Medical Institute Sooth u
Chronic Disea-e* are scientifically treated
by regular qualified Hygenie Physicians ot both
sexes, and where all heatbful and invigorating
(BATHING PROCESSES arc in existence, to-
geher with MACIlINK-VIBRATIONS,MOVE
MENTS and KLECTKlCm are suooesafnlly
applied, according to DISEASED COND
ITIONS of each patient. The only place in
Georgia where no BMP1RIC or routine practice
Is pursued, and where no DRUGS or POISONS
UNDER NAME OF MEDICINES are used sa
remedies for the sick. RHEUMATISM. NEU
RALGIA, HEART, LIVER. KIDNEY, and
SKIN DISEASES, INCIPIENT CONSUMP
TION, SCROFULA, PARALY8IB, and aU
diseases peculiar to the REPBoDUC vIVE OR
GANS, are by onr method of treatment restored
with greeter success titan by any other processes
known. Treatment especial boon for invalid
ladies. Exclusive Ladies’ Department, in
oharge of experienced Lady Physician. For
urtlier information address
obXS. DR. U. O. ROBERTSON.
MANHOOD
How Lost. How Restored!
Just published, a new edition of Db.Cvu
wall's Cxlxbsatii) Essat on the Radical cure
ofWMl— sor Seminal Weak Dean, In vol
' n Seminal Losses Iwemrer, Mental and
. iMal Incapacity, Impedimenta to Marriage*
etc.; also, Coarcxmsx, Enumand Frrs,7n-
doeed by eelf indalgeuoe or sexual extrava
gance,'Ace.
The oelebrated author, in thia admirable Es
say, dearly demonstrates, irom a thirty yean’
successful practice, that the alarming oonae-
quencee of aeit-aboae may be radically cored
pointing ont a mode of ear* at once simply,
tain, and affectual, by means ot whieh a
sufferer, no matter what hi* condition may
be, may core himself cheaply, and radically.
This Lecture should be In the hands of every
yonth and every man in the land.
Sant under aral, in a plain Mtv.lope, to any
addraaa post-paid, on nioaipt of six cents or two
postMS stamps. Wa-bavx also a seas ovnx
roa Tatb Womx. Address
THE CUI-VEKWELL MEDICAL CO
Ann Stir N*w York. N. Y* p . O. b"x, 4584
4«oh w<l
. . beauty of chiltlliood, its susceptibility
to the per centnge of cotton to tbG^ to i m p)-ession, its power over the pa-
critical.
Ireland is not big enough for the
Irish. It has about 170 persons to
the square mile. This is too large a
population for the land to support.
There is no alternative then for many
of the children of the Emerald Isle,
except to emigrate.
The newspapers are to-day pub
lishing more facts concerning the
evils of liquor-drinking than ever be
fore. This constant placing of facts
before the people will have more ef
fect than a thousand leftyhanded lec
tures like that of Dr. Howard Crosby.
Dean Stanley, one of the meet
celebrated men of the age, died on the
17th. He was 65 years of age. As a
clergyman of the Church of England
he was noted for his broad culture
his theological attainments and his
eloquence as a minister. His loss
will be deeply felt.
Special Agent Woodward tys the
star route investigations are being
steadily worked up. He refuses to
tell what is being done, but says the
investigators will be ready to go be
fore the grand jury when it meets in
September, with stronger evidence
than is usually placed before grand
juries. He says they are going for
the big criminals first.
Neither President Grant nor Hayes
was able to resist the temptation to
use the appointing power for person'
al or partisan purposes, and President
Garfield has not wholly lived up to
his declared principles, The people
are now aroused, as never before, to
the evils of the spoils system. It is
too much to hope that the President
will do his part when he shall be re
stored ?—Boston Herald.
No, it is not too much to hope, but
,it is rather too much to expect.
A good joke is told on two Pull
man sleeping car conductors who be
ing in Richmond and very hungry
started ont to find a lunch. They soon
struck a house with tits sign, *A good
lunch for 10 cents, and in they went.
They were soon desperately engaged
in devouring large quantities of food
of different varieties, but were no
little surprised when they found that
while a good lunch waa only 10 cents,
they had eaten 03.00 worth. As one
had only 10 oats jnd the other
quarter, one qf them bad to stay in
pawn till hia companion conld go
and raise the money. They
k«ow they were so empty.
And when the child wa grown Mai on a
that he wrntont to hia father to the reapers.
I he arid onto hia father: “Mr head! my
-d!” And he laid to a lad: “Carry him to
[■ his mother.” And when he had taken him and
L -brought turn to his mother, he eat on her knee
till noon, and then died.—IL Kinss. iv„ 18, 20.
There is at least one happy home in
Shunem. To the luxuriance and splen-
. dor of a great honse has been given
the advent of a child.. Even when the
. BnMStaGnabqjofS a naw,«>ulto the
poor man’s hut, a star of joy shines
over the manger. Infancy with its
helplessness and innocence, had passed
away. Days of boyhood had come—
days of laughter and frolic, days of
sunshine and promise, days of strange
questions, and curiosity, and quick
development. I suppose among all the
treasures of that house the brightest
was the boy. One day there is the
shout of reapers heard afield. A boy’s
heart always bounds at the sound of
sickle or sevthe. No sooner have the
harvesters cut a swath across the field
than the lad joins them, and the 8wars
thy reapers feel young again as they
look down at the lad, as bright and
beautiful as was Ruth in the harvest
fields ot Bethlehem, gleaning after the
reapers. But the sun was too hot for
him. Congestion of the brain seized
on him. I see the swarthy laborers
drop their sickles, and they rush out
to see what is the matter, and they
fan him, and they try to cool his brow,
but all is no avail. In the instant of
consciousness he puts his hands against
his temples, and cries out: ‘My Lead !
my head !’ And the father said, ‘Car
ry him to his mother,’ just as any
father would have said, for our hand
is too rough, and our voice is too
harsh, and our foot is too loud to doc
tor a sick child, if there be in our
home a gentler voice, and a gentler
hand, and a still footstep. But all of
no avail. While the reapers of Shu-
men were busy in the field there came
a stronger reaper that tvay, with keen
er scythe aud for a richer harvest. He
reaped only one sheaf, but, oh, what
a golden sheaf was that! I do not
want to know any more about that
heart-breaking scene than what I see
in just, this one pathetic sentence; ‘He
sat on her knees till noon, and then
died.’ Though hnudreds of years
have passed atvay since that boy skip
ped to the harvest field, and then was
brought home and then died on his
mother’s lap, the story thrills us. In
deed, childhood has a charm always
and everywhere. I shall point out the
acre. If we consider the list in this
light, which is really the proper way
to arrive at the possibilities of the
slate we will find that Polk county is
entitled to the first place as having
raised more cotton to the ace than
any other. With 16,774 asres planted
it raised 8,126 bales, being a bale to
2 1-16 acres. Next in the list in reg
ular order with their percentage are
the following counties: Cobb, 2 1-12;
Floyd, 2 1-9; Bartow, 2-J nearly;
Milton, 2J ; Douglas, 2J; Gwinnett,
2J; Fulton, 2£ nearly ; Clarke, 2 2-5;
Carroll, 2 2-5; Hall, 2 2-5; Harral-
son, 2 2-5; Forsyth, 2 2-5 nearly.
We have made no calculation when
the percentage was less than two and
twosfifths. Clarke is the ninth in the
scale.
It will be seen that if these counties
had the same number of acres as
Burke they would .have produced
largely more than she did. Polk would
have had the large number of 42,355
bales and the others would have
rangedjon.down to a little over 36,000.
A curious fact connected with this
showing is that all these counties are
above what is known as the cotton
belt and are situated almost in a line
running directly across the state from
east to west. By looking at a map
this fact wilt be.discerned. There are
other interesting matters connected
with the report, bnt we cannot pursue
the thought further in this article.
These are worthy the consideration of
our agriculturists.
JUDGE TWIGUS’ BILL.
The bill of Judge Twiggs now be
fore the legislature, to make corpora
tions, owners, and proprietors of cot
ton factories, foundries, mills, ma
chine shops, etc., liable to employes
lor all injuries the latter may sustain
while in their service, is causing a sen
sation among those interested. With
out disparaging Judge Twiggs’ mo?
lives, we must characterize the bill as
a very mischievous one. There is no
telling where it will end. Any em
ployer, in any business where a ma
chine is. used, will be held responsi
ble for injury to careless employes.
The amount of damage which could
be recovered, it this hill should be
come a law, would, in many cases,
entirely break up the business of the
employer sued. The factory and
mill owners of Colnmbns and Augusta
have held meetings find organised
opposition to the bill The latter re-
ceivcd assurances of co-operation from
the manufacturers of Athens.- The
bill ought not to became a law*.
The czar, with his wife and son,
drove to mass, the other day, without
didu’t I important escort. This looks like the
ihilista are giving him a rest.
rental heart, and its blissful transition
irom earth to heaven.
The child’s beauty does not depend
upon form, or feature, or complex
ion, or apparel. That destitute one
seen on the street, bruised with un
kindness aud in rags has a charm
about her even in her destitution.
You have forgotten a great many
{■ersons whom you met, of finely cut
features and with erect posture, aud
with faultless complexion, while you.
will always remember the poor girl
who, on a cold, moonlight night as
you were passing late going home, in
her thin shawl and barefoot on the
pavement, put out her hand and said,
‘Please to give me a penny.* Oh,
how often have we went on and said,
‘Oh, that is nothing bnt street vag
abondism ;’ bat after we got n block
or two on we stopped and said, ‘Ah,
that is not right,’ and we passed up
that same way and dropped a mite
into the suffering hand, as though it
were not a matter ot second thought,
so ashamed were we of our hard
heartedness. With what admiration
we all look upon a group of children,
on the playground or in the school,
and we clap our hands and say, ‘How
beautiful 1’ All stiffuess and dignity
are gone, and your shout is heard
with theirs, and you trundle their
hoop, and fly their kites for them,
and you strike their ball, and all
your weariness and anxiety are gone
as when a child you bounded over
the playground yourse'f. That fath
er who stands rigid and unsympathet
ic amid the sportfnlness ot children,
sught never to have' been tempted
out of a crusted and unredeemable
solitariness. Tho waters leap down
the rocks, bat they have not the
graceful step of childhood. The morn
ing comes out of the gates of the east
throwing its silver on the lake, and
its gold on the towers, and iu fire on
the cloud; but it u not so bright and
beautiful as the morning of life! There
is no light like that which is kindled
in a child’/eye, no color like that
which blooms on a child’s cheek, no
mnsic like the sound of a child’s voice.
Its face in the poorest picture redeems
any imperfection in art. When we
are weary with toil, their little hands
pull the harden off our back. Ob!
what a dull, stale, mean world this
would be without the sportfulncss of
children.' When I find people that
do not like children, I immediately
doubt their moral and Christian char
acter. But when the grace of God
comes upon a child, how unspeakably
attractive! When Satnusl begins to
pray, and Timothy begins to read the
Scripturet, and Joseph shows him
self invulnerable to temptation, how
beautiful the scene! I know that p&*
rents sometimes get nervous when
their children become pious, because
they have the idea that good childreb
always die.- The strange questions
about God and eternity and the dead
exrite apprehension In the parenUl
mind rather than congratulation. 'In
deed, there are some children that
seem fnsrked tor heaven. This world
in too poor a garden for them to bloom
in. The hues of heaven are in the
petalf. There is something 'about
their forehead fbaf makes yon think
that the hand tot Christ has been oh it,
saying: ‘Let this one 4 come to me,
and let It come to me soon.” While
there was an angel in the room, and
you thought that every sickness would
be the last; and when, finally, the
winds of death did scatter the leaves,
yon were no more surprised than to
see a star come out above the cloud
on a dark night, for yon had often
said to your companion, ‘My dear, we
shall never raise the child.’ But I
scontthe idea that good children al
ways die. Samuel, the pious bov, be
came Samuel tiie great prophet Chris
tian Timothy became a minister ' at
Ephesus. Young Joseph, consecrat
ed to God, became prime minister of
all the realm. And there are in
hundreds of the schools and families
of this country, to-day, children who
love God and keep His command
ments, and who are to be foremost
among the Christians and philan
thropists and reformers of the next
halt century. The grace of God never
kills any one. A child will be more
apt to grow up with religion than it
will be apt to grow up without it.
Length of days is promised to the
righteous. The religion of Christ does
not cramp the chest, or curve the
spine, or weaken the nerves. There
are no malarias floating up from the
river of life. The religion of Christ
throws over all the heart and life of a
child a supernal beauty. ‘Her ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are peace.’
I pass on to consider the suscepti
bility of childhood. Men pride them
selves on their unchangeability. They
will make an elaborate argument to
prove that they think now just as
they did twenty years ago. It is
charged to frailty or fraud when a
man changes his sentiments in politics
or religion, and it is this determina
tion of soul that so often drives back
the gospel from a man’s heart. And
it is so hard to make avarice charit
able, and fraud honest, and pride
hnmble, and skepticism Christian.
Tho sword of God’s truth seems to
glance off from these mailed warriors,
and the helmet seems battle proof
against God’s battle-axe. But child
hood ; how susceptible to example
and to instruction ! Yon are not sur
prised at the record, ‘Abraham begat
Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob;’ for
when religion -tarts in a family it is
apt to go all through. Jezebel a mure
deress, you are not surprised to find
her son Jehoram attempting assassi.
nation. Oh 1 what a responsibility
upon the parent and the teacher.
The musician ton dies the keys, and
the response of those keys is away off
amid the pipes and chords and you
wonder at the distance between the
key and the chord. And so It is in
life; if you touch a child-.the results
will come back from manhood or old
age, telling just tho tune played,
whether the dirge of a great sorrow
or the anthem of a great joy. The
word that the sabbath school teacher
whispers in the ear of the class will
be echoed back from everlasting ages
of light or darkness. The home and
the school decide the republic or the
despotism, the oarbarism or the civ
ilization, the upbuilding of an empire
or the overthrowing of it. Higher
than Parliament or Congress arc the
school and family, and the sound of a
child’s foot may mean more than the
tramp of a host. What, then, arc you
doing for the pirpose of bringing your
children into the kingdom of God ?
If they are so susceptible, and if this
is the very best time for you to act
on their eternal interests, what are
you doing bj way of light impulsion?
There were some harvesters in the
fields ot Scotland, one hot day, and draught from the water qf life after
Hannah Dontnnd was helnimr than, awh,Ie » ot «’P ,ch •* drink he shall
never get thirsty again. Hay myself
ferent men-and women from what yon
were.before they gave you the first
lesson. They have revolutionized
your son). There are fountains nf joy
in yonr heart which never would have
been discovered had they not discov
ered them. Life is to yon a more
stupendous thing than it was before
those little feet started on the path
way to eternity. Oh, how many hopes,
how many joys, hpw many solicitudes
that little one has created in yonr soul.
You go to school eyery day, a school
of self denial, a school of patience, in
which yon are getting wiser ■ day by
dpy; and that influence of the child
oyer yon to«U i&eraase and^4nwsas»,
and though your children may die,
from the very throne of God they will
reach down an influence to yonr soul,
leading yon on, and leading you up,
until you mingle with their voices and
sit beside their thrones. The grasp
which the child)has over the parent’s
heart is seen in what the parents will
do for the child. Storm, and dark
ness, and heat, and cold are nothing
to yon if they stand between you and
your child’s welfare. A great lawyer,
when yet nnknown, one day stood in
the court room and male an eloquent
plea before some men of great legal
attainments, and a gentlemaq^eaid to
him afterward. ‘How could you be
so calm, standing in that augnst pres
ence 1’ ‘Oh !’ said Erskine, ‘I felt my
children pulling at my skirts, crying
for bread.’ What stream will you not
qwim, what cavern will you not enter,
what battle will you not fight, what
hunger will you not endnre for your
children ? Your children must have
bread though you starve. Your chil
dren must be well clothed though you
go in rags. Yon say, ‘My children
shall be educated, though I never had
any chance. What to yon are weary
limbs, and aching heads, and hands
hardened and callous, if only the wel
fare of your children can be wrought
out by it? Their sorrow is your Bor
row, their joy your joy, their ad vauce-
ment your victory. And, Oh 1 when
the last sickness comes, how you fight
back the march of disease, and it is
only after a tremendous struggle you
surrender. And then, when the spirit
has fled, the great deep is broken up,
and Rachel will not be comforted be
cause her children are not, and David
goes up the palace stairs, crying. ‘O
Absalom, my son, my son !—would
God I had died for-thee, O Absalom,
my son, my son !’ There is not a
large family, or hardly a large famjly,
that has not bent over snob a treasure
and lost it. Tn the family fold are there
no dead Iambs ? I have seen many
such cases of sorrow. There is one
pre-eminent in my memory as pastor
—Scoville Haynes McCuIlum. The
story of his death has brought hun
dreds unto God. He belonged to my
parish in the West. A thorough boy,
9 or 10 years of age. Nothing mor
bid, nothing dull about him. His
voice loudest and his foot swiftest on
the play ground. Oftcu he has come
into my house and thrown himself
down on the floor in an exhaustion of
boisterous mirth ; and yet he was a
Christian, consecrated to God, keep
ing His commandments. That is the
kind of childish piety I believe in.
When the days ol sickness came sud
denly, and ho was told that be could
not get well, he said : ‘Jesus alone
can save me. Jesus will save me.
He has saved me. Don’t cry, ma
ma ! I shall go right straight up to
heaven 1’ And then they gave him a
glass qf water to ctool his hot lips, and
he said: ‘Mama, I shall take a
Those jhat live are in perl’. We know
hot what d^rk path they ni:ly take.
The day inay come in which they will
break your heart; bnt children dead
aie sate—safe forever. Weeping pi-
rents, do-not mourn too bitterly over
yourjqhffd that has gone. There are
tdto kinds of prayers made at a child’s
sick bed. One prayer the Lord likes,
the ether prayer he does not like.
’When,a soul icdecls down at a child’s
sick bed and says, ‘O Lord, spare this
little one; he is very near to ray heart;
I don’t want to part with him, but Thy
will be done,’ that is the kind of a
prayer the Lord loves. There is an
other kind-af prayer Which I have
heard men'Titakein substance, when
they sayfci ‘O Lord, this isn't right, It
is hard to take this child; yon have
no right to take this child; spare this
child; I can’t give him up, and I won’t
give him up.’ The Lord answers that
kind ot prqyer sometimes. The child
liveaxra and. lives on, and travel* oft'
in paths ot wickedness to perish. At
the end of every prayer for a child’s
life say, ‘Thy will, O Lord, be done.’
The brightest lights that can be kin
dled, Christ has kindled. Let us, old
and young; rejoice that heaven is gath
ering up so much that is attractive.
In that far land we are not strangers.
There are those, there who speak our
name day by day, and they wonder
why so long we tarry. If I could count
up the names of all those who have
gone out into the kingdom of heaven
it would take me a long while to men
tion them. A great multitude before
the throne. You want no book tn tell
yon of the dying experience of Chris
tian children. You have heard it; jt
lias been whispered in your ear, O
father, O mother, O brother, O sister.
Toward that good land all Christians
are bearing. This snapping of heart
strings, this flight of years, this tread
of the heart reminds us that we are
passing away. Under spring blossoms,
and through summer harvests, and
across autumnal leaves, and through
the wintry snowbanks we are passing
on. Oh, rejoice at it, children of God,
rejoice at it! How shall we gather
them np, the loved and the lost! Be
fore we mount our throne, before we
drink from the fountain, before we
strike the harp ot our eternal celebra
tion, we will cry out: ‘Where are our
loved and lost 1’ And then, how we
shall gather them up! Oh, how wc
shall gather them up!
“In thia dork world of ain and pain
We only meet to part again;
Hut when we reach the heavenly shore
We there shall meet to part no more. { \
4 *The lope that we shall si o that day
Should chase our present grief* away;
When these *hertyears of pain are past
We’ll meet before the throne at last.”
Hannah Lemond was helping them
gather the hay. She laid her babe
under a tree. While she was busy
in the field there was a flutter of wings
in the air, and a golden eagle clutched
the swaddling band of the babe and
flew away with it to the mountain
eyrie. All the harvesters and Han-
nah Lemond started for the cliffs. It
was two nailer before they came to
the foot of tho cliff. Getting there,
who dared to mount the cliff? No
human foot hid ever trod it. There
were sailors there who had gone up
the mast in tbi day of terrible tem
pest , they did not dare risk it. Hau-
nah Lemond sat there for a while,
and looked up and saw the eagle in
the eyrie, and then she leaped to her
feet and she started up where no hu
man foot had never trod, crag above
crag, catching hold of this root or
that root, uni il she reached the eyrie
and caught ta'ir babe, the eagle sweep
ing in fierceness all around about her.
Fastening t.hn child to her back, she
started for her friends and for her
home.' Oh, what a dizzy descent,
sliding from tiis crag to that crag,
catching by that vine and by that
root, coming down further and
further to the most dangerous pass,
tvhere she fou id a goat and some kids.
She said : *N >w I’ll follow the goat;
the goat will know jn-t which is the
safest way down.’ And she was led
by the animal down to the plain.
When she got there’all the poopte
cried; ‘Thank 3od I Thank God I'
her strength not giving away until
the rescue was effected. And they
cried, ‘Stand back, now; give her
air 1’ Oh, it a woman will do that
tor the _ physical litis of her cbifd,
wbat will you do for the eternal, litis
of your boy or your, girl ? Let it not
be told in the great day of eternity
that Hannah Lemond put forth more
exertion for the saving ot the physi
cal life of her child than yqu, O
parent, have ever put forth for the
eternal life ol your little one. God
help you l
1 pass on to consider the power
which a child wields over the parental
heart We often'talk about the influ
ence of parents upon children, I never
heard anything said about tho infiu
ence Of children upon their'
Yon go to school to them. You no
more eduoate them than they educate
you.' With their little hands they
have eaugbt bold of your entire na
ture, and yon cannot wrenoh yourself
that one tarried In the bouse you felt away from their grasp. Yon are dif
at Jesus feet, and I want Him to do
just what He thinks best to do with
me.’ In those days ‘Rest for the
Weary’. was a new hymn, and he had
learned it; and, in a perfect esstacy of
soul, in his last hour, ho cried:
“ In the Chriitian’e home in glory
There remains a land of rest;
There my Savior’s gone |beforo me
To fulfill my soul’s request!
There is rest for the wesry,
There is rest for xou.
“ Sing, Oh! sing, yo heirs ot glory,
Shout your triumphs ss yon go;
Zion’s gates sre open for yon,
Yon shall find an entrance through !
There is rest for the weary,
Titers is rest for you.”
‘There is rest for yon, papa; there
is rest for you, mamma.’ And then,
patting his hands over his heart, he
said : ‘Yes, there is rest for me. And
then he asked them to read “The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He niaketh me to lie down in green
pastures, and leadeth me beside still
waters ;’ and he cried out, ‘O death,
where is thy sting ? O grave, where
is thy victory ?’
Oniy ten years old! Aud then he
said: ‘Now I wish you would just tarn
this bed, so I can look once more on
the foliage and see the sun,set.’ And
they turned the bed, and ho said :
do wish Jesus would hurry and coroe
and take me.* They said to him:
‘Why, are yon not willing to await the
Lord’s time ?’ ‘Yea,’ he said, ‘I am,
bnt I would rather Je*us would come
and hurry and take me.’ And so, with
a peace indcsoribable, he _
Oh, why need I go so for hack ? I dan
recall the obsequies ot a little child
who espoused the cause of Christ one
Sabbath. Some thought ahe was too
small, but she was ripe for heaven, and
the Lord took her. One day she said
to hnr pareut; ‘Isn’t there, mother, a
passage that says, ‘My grace shall be
sufficient for thee?* And she said,'
‘Lord, make that grace sufficient for
father and mother and sisteranti
then, speaking ot her deceased brother,'
she said; *1 will take Harry by the
hand, and we will come 'out to* meet
you, mother.’ Oh; there is nothing
iients. sati about a child's death, save the
grief in the parent’s heart. The little 1
ones go right out from a world of sin
and suffering to a world ofjoyj ’' l
How many sorrows .they ’ escape,,
how many temptations, bow many
troubles! Children dead are safe.
a little nonsense.
The world’s fair—Women.
A grass widow is anything but
green.
In oinion there is more strength jnst
now .than at any other time of the
year.
Bridget being told to put a little
nutmeg in.the rice pudding, picked
out'the smallest one in the box and
threw it in:
How Johnny described it: ‘How
did you find yonr nncle, Johnny r’
‘In apple pie order.’ ‘How’s that ?’
‘Crusty.’
‘Prisoner, have yon been convic
ted ?’ ‘No, your honor; I have always
-employed first-class lawyers.’
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the
politest young man going is a resident
of that city. He took off bis hat to
talk to a lady through the telephone.
We are not thoroughly posted on
the human anatomy, bnt it strikes us
that some people mast have their fib
ula: in their tongues.
It has been conclusively proved that
if a man walks around the world on a
great circle his head will go just 37.7
feet farther than his feet. ‘So, if you
don’t want to wake some morning
with yonr head and feet that for apart,
don’t attempt circumnavigation.
It was in the smoking room of an
Atlantic steamer that a worthy Teu
ton was talking about weather fore
casts. ‘Look here,’ said he, T dell
yon vot it is. Yon pett.er don’t dake
no shtock in dem weather bredictions.
Dose people don’t know nodding. Dey
can’t dell no petter as I can.’ ‘But
my dear sir,’ said a person present,
‘they fore told the storm which we
have just encountered.’ ‘Veil, dot
isb so,’ said the Teuton, contempla
tively ; ‘but I dell yoo vot it is, dot
shtorm would have come yuu the
same if it had not been bredicted.*
Money Sy the Ton.
From the settlement at the Phila
delphia Mint, which haq just Seen
completed, if. is ascertained that the
operations for the past fiscal year have
been nnusnally large. The whole
amount of prgcioqs metal received was
3,352,505 40 ounces of gold, valued at
362.906,94793, and 6,756,904.62
ounces of silver,! Worth #6,482,376.96.
The amount and value of the bullion
operated upon hv each of the operative
offices in the’ different processes of
coinage was the largest in the history
of the Mint; The gold bullion was
2901- tons, with a value of #157,600,-
000, and the silver, 696J tens, valued
at 320,243,600. 1 Upon this bullion,
there was a legal allowance for was
tage of 52,872 66-1000 ounces, or
8257,778.64, but the wastage for the
year falls very much below the allow
ance, being-3,467 275-10000 ounces in
gold and silver, with a value of $43,-
602.65, or $234,175 99 less than is al
lowed by Che'treasurer department.
E^’SjENATqB, Merbimon, of North
Carolina, is reported to have said re
cently in a speech at a prohibitory
meeting!*Reidsville, that state: ‘I
have never middled with I liquor! I
have never drank it, have hardly kept
it as piedioine in my family, and yet
it has meddle^ with foe -has made
my bqy M wandering vagabond, has
broken sny: win’s heart j yea when I
wiw atieepj thinking him at home in
befog made, *
drunkard iu ^be ny-fqqnw.ofRaleigh.’
- ‘I .only got ninevycentsaday,’ be
■*•4. *9 hij ^SWde^wbe came along
iraponsiWe’-for him to* exist en that
sum; upon which Ue.iotited the entire
party into “he nearest salum and treat-
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