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M. E. Church, South—Rev. H. M
Quillinn Pastor. Preaching every first
Sunday by the pastor. Preaching on
the 8d Sunday by Rev B E Ledbetter.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night.
Sunday School at 0 ▲. M. Ben. F. Payne,
Superintendent.
Baptist Church—Rev. J. A. McMur-
gy, Pastor. Preaching every second and
fourth Sunday, and Saturday before
find Sunday. Sabbath-school at 8 p. m.,
U. B. haggle, Superintendent.
Episcopal. Rev. Geo.. McCauley’ Pas
lor. Preaching 8rd Sabbrth at 11 a, m.
OROER8.
P. A. M.—Meets every first and third
Monday’s at 8 p. x., in Masonic Hall.
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Jadbz Galt, Sec’ty
K. of H.—Meets evrry 1st and 3rd
Tuesday at 7 1-2 p. m., in Masonic Hall.
W. A. Teasley, Dictator.
Jabez Galt, Reporter.
COUJTTY OFFICERS.
O M McCLURE, Oidinary.
JABEZ GALT, Clerk S. Court.
J P SPEARS. Sheriff.
T W AltWOOD, Tax Receiver.
M 0 COKER, Tax Collector.
,7 L COGGINS, Treasurer.
P W MOORE, Surveyor.
W«- T. KIRK, Coroner.
C. M. McOLURE, County S. Com.
Dr. J. H. SPEIR, ‘
M. A. KEIIH,
Rev. M. PUCKET,
A.T.SCOTT, I
J. B. RICHARDS, J Education.
Wilson House,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
ALABAMA STREET, .
J. L. KEITH, Proprietor
County
Board
7H1 HAPPY MAN.
By day, no biting cares tsstil
Jly peaceful, calm, contented breast;
By night my slumbers never fell
Of welcome rest.
Soon us the Sun, with orient beams,
Uilds tbs fair chambers of the Day,
Musing I trace the murmuring stream*
That wind their way.
Around me Nature tills the scene
With boundless plenty and delight;
And touched with joy sincere, sercue,
I bless the sight.
I bless the kind, creating Powers
Exerted IIuib for frail mankind ;
At whose command descends the
shower,
And blows the wind.
Happy the matt who thus at ease,
Content with that which Nature gives;
Him guilty terrors never seize;
He truly lives*
He Couldn't Help It.
Here is another case of a boy who
couldn't help it. A protniuent and
dignified citizen was looking through
the third story window of a block on
Jefferson avenue, which he had
thought of renting, when the idea
suddenly struck him to look into the
alley in the rear. He railed the sash
of a window and peered ont upon ash
boxes, coal sob tiles and harrela of
straw without number and wag about
to close his observation* when the
sash came down with a thud and
•truck him behind the shoulders. In
his fright he fellto big knees, and
wwittni. Mfe hSlr «rrt» Wy »«,
all right the lighter wus over the win
dow sill. In addition to the weight
of the sa h any movement of the body
was accompanied by pain. The sash
could not be reached with his hands
freely enough to lift it, and it soon
occurred to the prominent citizen
that he ough to hare help. He
could not expect it from behind, for
he wa» alone in the store, bnt as he
looked down into the alley a boy
came stumping along to find some
thing worth lugging away.
‘Hello, boy! hello!' sailed the cit-
ize;.
‘Hello yourself!' cried the boy as
he looked up.
‘Say, boy, come up under the win
dow here, I want to speak to you/
‘Not much, yer don't/ chuckled
the gamin. 'You can’t drop no coal
scuttles on my head/
‘But I don't mean to.'
‘Mebbe not, but you’ve got a bad
face on you lor all that. When did
yon get out of the jug ?'
‘Boy, I want your help.'
‘So does your aunt 1 Don't get me
to stand in with no such duffer as
you are!’
‘I am caught in this window and
want to get out.'
‘So would II Been prospecting
for old junk, eh? You’ll get six
months for that 1'
‘If you'll come up stairs and help
me out I’ll give you a dollar I’
‘A dollar! You can’t play no dollar
store on me, old man 1 If you make
up another face like that at me I’ll
hit you in the eye with this old lem
on. I don’t look starched up, but I
don't let any man insult me all the
game.’
‘Don’t yon know who I am?’ soft-
• ly asked the citizen.
Naw, I don’t; but I’ll bet the
perlece do! You’ve got one of the har
dest mugs on you I ever saw, and
»’ve a good mind to give you one for
luck. Look out npwj’
Hi* made as if he would throw,
and she citizen dodged. This was
such fun for the boy that he kept it
up far three or four minutes, and the
off-r of $2 .had no effect on him.
Then he gathered six or eight old
oranges together and said :
‘I belbve yon are the boss hyena
who knocked dad down at the cau
cus, and I’m going to drive your
nose back exaotly an inch 1'
‘If you throw at me l’li call the
police!’ exclaimed (he citizen.
‘The sooner ye call the soouer yell
be jugged I Here’s to hir. you square
on the nose!’
The opening of the back door of
a store and the appearance of a man
disconcerted the lad’s aim, and the
lemon struck the citizen’s hat instead
of his nose. His yells brought a cli
max, but the air was full of tropical
frnit even as the boy dueled down
the alley and turned a corner.
The boy oonlda't help acting that
way. He wie born so. He wouldn't
have been a hit like a bef to run up
staire and releaaed the man. He
didn't have a lair chance with his
•poiled lemons, but boys soon get
over disappointments.—-Detroit Free
Press.
lovM amd DINNER,
est table, l*d a vaiiov, and qjwaed
tile aOtliMt without skirt*whing. I
am a man of coarse wold and earth-
bora appetite myself, aud 1 wouldn't
live in attar al l*og at I would And t
good hotel in America; but loqg be
fore I got watt it the table for my
family, Mortimer and Bthei had eat
en two blue-fish, a little rue beef-'
steuk, some corn bread, a plate of hot
cakes, two boiled egg a and a bunch 1
of onions, and the waiter had gone
out to toast them some cheese.
Moral—I have during my wander
ings met several people who wanted
to live in a star, where earth born
people with animal appetites, could
not trouble them, and I always fouud
that tho safest place for an earth*
borh man, when tlis star-born soul
started to dinner, was behind a large
rock. Distrust the aspiriug mortal
who lives in a plane so elevated (hat
he requires the use of a telescope
when he wants to look down on the
rest of us. And if he ever wants
board at your humble table, charge
•hin $15 a week, and feed him lots of
soup, or you’ll lose money on him.
Unreasonable Interruptions.
BUBDSRS.
Very near us sat two young people.
He wore the face of a man that
shaves three times a day, and that
whits necktie had never seen the
starlight before. There was pearl
ptwder on the shoulder of his coat,
and a tender, dreamy look in her
lovely eyes. They sat and looked up
at the start, and they didn’t care
for any solitary thing any nearer
to this earth. “Mortimer,” she mur
mured softly—‘Mortimer/’ his nain*
appeared to be Mortimer, though I
oonldn’t learn whether it was his
front name or his after name—“Mot.
timer dear,” she said, “if we could
only live apart from this busy and
sordid, unsympathetic world, in one
of yon glittering orbs of golden radi
ance, living apart from all else, only
for each other, forgetting the base
things of earthly life, the coarse greed
of the world and its animal instincts,
that would be oar heaven, would it
not, dear ?”
And Mortimer, he said that it
would. “There heart of my own,’»
he said, and his voice trembled with
earnestness, “my own darling Ethel,
tbrough all the softened radiance of
the dey, and all the shimmering ten
derness of the night, our lives would
pass away in an exalted atmosphere
above the base-born wants ot earthly
mortals, Jand far beyond the chatter
ing crowd that lives but for to-day,
our lives, refined beyond the com
mon keu—”
And just then the man with the
gong came out. Mortimer, he made
a grab at Ethel’s hand and a plunge
for the cabin door. Ethel just gath-
ered her skirts with her other hand,
jumped clear over the back of her
chair, and made after him, and away
tney went clattering down the cabin
upset a chair, ran into a sweet old
Quaker lady, and banged a bad word
out of her before she had time to
stop it; down the stairs they rushed
collared a couple of chairs at the near
The Northampton Journal, in giv
ng an account of the Massachusetts
Insane Hospital at the place, relates
the following inoident
from
the Reporters* Gallery: Mr,
Speaker will yon frvor ns with a
•ong !Th* Serjeant was upstairs in
a minute, and the drunken report
ter added to hit crime by accn»
•ing and charging a grave an<J
peaosfni-looking Quaker tilting near
at hand with being the author of thi*
violation of the sanctities of the
pleae.
MORAL AND RELIOIOUft.
What we weave in time we wenr>
in eternity.
Wound no man's feelings unneces*
•ariI y. There are thorns enough in
the path of human life.
— __
When we have done a wrong ao$
wt should never rest satisfied until*
we have done all in our power to
make as much reparation for
wrong m possible.
A Homo for Mothor,
the
the rotunda o( the hospital, re/igons
services are held every day. and near
ly every evening daring the week
some entertainment is given. (There
are occasional exhibitions of the ste-
reopt icon by Dr. Mcekins, vocal and
instrumental concerts, and readings
or lectures by Dr. Earle, the super
intendent. Nome odd oonoeitsget in
to the heads of the patients in atren-
dance at the chapel entertainments
sometimes, one of the most ludicrous,
perhaps occurring recently. Dr Earle
was lecturing upon the derivation of
Christian names—Charles George,
etc.,—endeavoring to show their or
igin, and #as in the midst of an in
teresting dissertation, when a woman
rose np and said, ‘I qrould suggest
a brief season of prayer/ The doc
tor was equal to the occasion and
turned it eff by saying; ‘I have no
objection whatever to prayer, bnt it
seems to me hardly the proper occa
sion for it now. However it re
minds me of a story which I will tell
you. A certain man died in a coun
try town, beloved by all his neigh
bors, and when the last sad rites on
earth were to be paid, they gathered
in largs numbers at the residence
ot the bereaved family to attend the
funeral. The minister extolled the
virtues of the deceased and brought
the handkerchiefs to many a tearful
eye by his pathetic language. He
closed by inviting those who had any
remarks to make, to speak. At this
point an individual stepped forward
and said. ‘If the friends of the corpse
have no objections, I should like to
make a few remarke on a protective
tariff.’ ”
An interruption of an opposite
character once occurred in the Brit
ish House of Commons, as related by
Mr. Townsend. At a pause iu the
midst of business, while silence pre
vailed in the House, and while the
Speaker sat enveloped in his im
posing dignity, some one shouted
It is delightful to torn from tha
too frequent tad example of the dim*
novel bitten runaway boys, bringing
themselves and parents to grief,
to a pure picture of filial love and
duty like this: Says a letter written
from a Western city.
Basinets called me to the United
States Land Offloe. While there •
ttflteen or seventeen
years old came in and presented a
certificate for forty acres of land.
I *oi struck with the conntenanon
»ud general appearance of the boy,
and inquired of him for whom he was
purchasing the land.
“For my self sir.”
I then inquired where he had got
money. He answered:
“I earned it.”
Feeling then an increased desire of
knowing something more abodt tho
boy I asked abont himself and parent!.
He took a seat and gave me the fol*
owiug narrative.
I am the oldest of five children;
Father is a drinking man and often
would return home drunk. Finding
that father would not abstain from
liquor I resolved to make an effort
in some way to help my mother,
brothers and sisters. I got an axo
and went into a new part of the
country to work clearing land, I
have saved enough money to buy for*
ty acres of land out there.”
“Well, what are yon going to do
with the land ?”
“I will work on it, bnild a log
house and when it is all ready, will
bring father' mother, brothers and
and sisters to live with me. The
land I want for my mother, which
will secure her from want in her old
age.”
And what will you do with your
father if he continuas to drink ? n
“0, sir when we get him on the
farm he will feel at home and be hap
py, and I hope become a sober
man.”
“Young man, may God’s bless
ings attend you in your efforts to
help and to honor your father and
your mother.
By this time the receiver handed
him his receipt for his forty acrees of
land. As he was leaving the offic$
he said:
*
‘•At last I have a home for my
mother.”