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4 Em amine how your humor is inclined* and which the mltmg pawiom UANTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY HORNING. JANUARI 17, 111! <81)c <£i;crokte 3 toance. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -)BY(— ROBT. P. MARTYN. • Offioe Upstairs corner Gainesville and west Mmrietta Street—old stand of the " Georgia A dwcate." Otnciat Organ Cherokee Oeustf y (ST*Advertising Rates extremely law—to suit the times. _za?fl Lkoal advcrtismcnts inserted and Charged for as prescribed by a recent fet of the Oeneral Assembly. Local notices 10 ceuts per line for the first insertion. Advertisements will be run until for bidden. unless otherwise marked, and charged for accordingly. All communications intended for pub lication must bear the name of the writer, 0ot necessary for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We shall not In any way be responsible fbr the opinions of contributors* No communication will be admitted into our columns having for its end a defamation of private character, or in any other way of a scurrilous import of public good. Correspondence solicited on all points •f general importance—but let them be briefly to the point. Alt ormftntfoteatlons, letters of bus! •ess, or money remittances, to receive srompt attention, must be addressed to ROUT. P. MARTYN. Cantos, Ga. THIS PAPER may be ft>und oa file at Geo, P. _ 1 Rowell * Co’S Newspaper Advertising Bureau (IS Spruce iireef), where advert Using contracts may be made to t it in NEW YORK. (Sencral ©hectors. CMVHCMESf. 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. W. A. Teaslby. W. M. 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.”