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Advertisements will he inserted at the rale of One I'o lur \*tir inch for the flrvt insertion, and. Fifty Ceuf s for each aridiliutia) insertion. CONTRACT RATES: sfAfa. 1 mo.]2 nio.j-t mo. ( « in«.]l year Inches. ... ' 4 00. 6 fn» : 7 00 10 00 Three Inches-.# 5 <fl! 7 00 8 50j 12 80 Four Inches .. ' C On S uO 10 00, IS 00 Quarter Column 7 6ti In (in 12 W 20 llall Column-...I 10 nO 15 00, 2u 00 SO One Column | 15 00. 2o 00 SO 00] 50 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 ■Mgaagd&stagarsaifta T. J. BL «vclkkA<«>l iliKNEY. >*, AtlanU. 0 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- a *5®* at an ? x P eni,e f°*tyv "i*; nl Hi i H- ;