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Cherokee County, Georgia.
Being dwircm* ef posting parties regarding our magnificent county—its sfi’ei.
ett, climate, water, land*, timber, minerals, etc.,—we hare written the following,
forth in a brief nnd concise manner a few of the many advantages with
str° Ur COUnty * nt ^ coUn ^y seat are blessed.
We ask all persons, whether contemplating a visit or permanent settlement
here or not, to road carefully what we have written, and if yon are desirous of
learning more Write to Thr Advance and all aacertainable information will be
cheerfully given.
We invite immigration and assure all who will come a hearty weloome. Na
lure has been bountiful to our section and has done as much for us os for any people
on the globe, lint wc nwnit an influx of population—men and women who ran and
•vi snppW money, labor enterprise and general industry—to come and assist in
cultivating our lands, utilizing the wnter powers, working ‘ho mineral deposits, and
huihl na up our aection as one of the finest and most delightful summer or winter
retorts in the world.
CAnSTTOlT
'? the county-seat of Cherokee county, OEonotA, is situated on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, 24 lnilpa north of Marietta, on the Western and At!.\ntic
railroad, and 4.) miles north of Atlanta, the State capital. A creaccnt Is formed on
the north and west of the town by the Etowah river,which river is navigable lower
'low’ll. I he town ia situated on an eminence at an elevation of about 1,1(>0 feot
above sea level, ami there is not a healthier place in Georgia. It is an old, luatori-
i ,ooo D ’ ,, n 8 y° Hrs »go lieen headquarters of the Indians. It was first chartered
in lrvJo as Etowah, but subsequently changed to its proaont name. During the
"war between the states” it whs almost wholly destroyed by fire It has since
hunt up, and presents now a handsome appearance. The streets are wide and
-haded and its .principal houses substantially built of brick. It now has an esti
mated population of 600, only about one-tenth of whom are colored. Ihere are
here splendid hi ick churehes of Baptist nnd Methodist denominations ; the Episco
palians have 1 ^ lot and contoinplate erecting a chapel thereon, and the Presbyter-
pins hold monthly acrvicos in the Methodist church. The Etowah Institute is a
Impc, two—tory brick building, new and specially adapted to the educational
wants of this section, and supplied with all needed apparatus and a corps of com
petent teachers.
A large, two-story brick hotel, containing twenty-five room*, gives splendid
secommodaliou at cheat) rates. There are also a number of private boarding
houses. There is a large, three-story brick flouring mill, with other manufactur
ing enterprises; also a fine livery stalilo stocked with good hon-es and vehicles.
I lie county property here is a largo nnd magnificent two-story brick courthouse, a
two story brick jail, and within a half-mile of the courthouse a farm consisting of
130 acres and having thereon a number of good buildings for the proper care of the
county’s poor. By special enactment of the legislature, no whiskey is allowed to
lie sold within two miles of the place ; there are no gaming houses nor other places
of vicious nmusemeut ; tho town is quiet, orderly and peaceable, having no cala
boose nflr any use for one. Canton presents many advantages over other towns.
It lias thp benefit of railroad and telegraph communications und daily mails north
and south. Tho Etowah river pasring at the base of the town, nenr the depot, af
fords mu|do opportunity for bathing, boating or fishing, and presents fine water
(towers. >lie woods near town are full of small game and aflord splendid hunting
gronnds. Nestling in the beautiful and picturesque mountain district of North
Georgia, it is protected from the extreme chilly blasts of winter, while in the hot
► timmor months the cool mountain breezes make it a most pleasant summer reaort.
Near town are magnificent springs of mineral waters, notably among them an alum
spring of known curative powers.
CHEROKEE OOTTHSTTY,
Is situated in the western part of North Georgia, 70 miles from the North Carolina
and Tennessee lines, and is bounded by the counties £>f Pickenson the North, Daw
son and Forsyth on the east, Milton and Cobli on the south, and Bartow on the
west. It is one of the best of the twenty-one counties comprising what is known
ns Cherokee Georgia, or that portion of the state lying northwest of the Chatta*
hoochee river, and cop tains 470 square miles. Jt is the original Cherokee, from
which tho other twenty counties have been cut off since its purchase from the
Indians in 1838. By virtuo of its climate, healtbfuiness, soil, crops, water powers,
minerals, society, transportation and telegraphic facilities nnd political liberality, it
stands second to none. The richest lands are to be found in the valleys, of course,
hut the magnificent timber that clothes the hillsides shows that strong, productive
@ so l is not wnuted there as well. Almost every character of soil known to the state
can be found within the limits of the county, from the dark alluvial of the river
and creek battorns to the light gray or mulatto lands of the uplands, and all are
tqually productive and responsive to care and good tillage. All the products of
(h^nortn can lie successfully grown here, in audition to those of the south. The
i creals, wheat, oats, corn, barley, rye, all the grasses and especially clover, find
here a congenial home. Cotton is the principal money crop ; tobacco forms an
important one, supplying some half dozen or more lactones in the county. With
abundant dreams of never-failing, pure wtgor and a mild climate, this can be made
n nursery for mules, horses and cattle to supply the great northwestern markets,
nnd is here being successfully demonstrated, AH thereby making it one of the
most attractive and desirable counties in North Georgia. The county is lacking in
more labor and money. With more of each the inexhaustible agricultural and
mineral resources would soon be turned into greater wealth and usefulness. The
mineral wealth of this county is varied and exhaustless and, as yet, even unknown
to in. Prominent among the minerals found deposited here nre gold, silver, iron,
manganese, copper, coal, mica, asbestos, lesd, mnrbltP, slate, etc. Our water power
in exceptionally good. The Etowah and Little rivers each possess many thousands
of uvailnble horse powers, beside that furnished by the numerous creeks. The va
riety of fertile and produo,ive lands, and minerals and superior water powe
not so great as the pure water, good health and equitable climate with whi
citizens of ChefSkee are blessed. The hoalthfulness of the county cannot be sur
passed, being entirely free from all malarial influences—a oase of chills having
never been known to originate in this county. Our atmosphere is exceptionally
tine, the winters not being rigidly cold nor the summers oppressively hot.
religious and educational advantages of the county are splendid, there D
churches and school houses in short distances of each other all over the county.
The county now lias an estimated population of 16,000, of whom 1,100’are colored.
(>ur citizens are all intelligent, social, moral and industrious. The Marietf
North Georgia railroad passes through the entire county from south to nort
along its line are the towns of Woodstock, Too Ny, Holly Springs, Canto
oonnty seat), Mabel and Ball Ground in this county. Besides these towns
are Cherokee Mills, Hickory Flat, Ophir, Orange, Moore’s Mills, Sutallee.Walesca,
Sharp Top, Halacoa, Laredo, Macedonia and'Fort Buffington. All the above towns
and the surrounding country are peopled by thrifty, energetic and wide-awake citi
zens, No whiskey is sold in bar rooms in the county, and none except '
gallon. 'Ihere are several manufacturing establishments in the county.
To a!1 <fho may pay Cherokee county a visit we will pledge a warm welcome, and it tl
n tile, a htarly co-operation from our people. For further information regardin0Uhla
uddrobi Bis. F. Ferht, Editor Chbrokes Advance, Canton, Oeorgia.
McAFEB HOUSE,
.1. M. UoAFKF., Pnom., Sear Oonrt
Hoarding Houses.
W. M. ELLIS,
1 HANKIE NT OH PERMANENT,
’."pedal accommodation for commercial met..
East Marions street,
THE BROOKLTN UIVINIPS HUN-
MAT M’ltMDV
Li very Stable.
W. T. MAHAN. Prop,.
HALE. LITEHt A FEED STABLE Main S
t*h it* tela H.
(IRS. J. M. TURK,
• W. L. COLEMAN.
Office in Drug atore, Main - 1 re t.
Ruhleoti
Head
wading through hrilllunf ptifcnl iisdescripth
of iililgntllrAftt knrtverv ami wlckedne.** 1 The
nmn will lie lo..kiHg (fit (lav long for his hsnt
ine. in the tin shop, by 1 the ftnae, in the fae
j tary. in the counting room, end he Witt not
oinlllftr Mill hen 111 lie dissatisfied A mart
of 'faith holds n ovory nigh!
the*# periodical* nre tho jtfhttcd imitation
her ■wonts Ala* that the fair brow of
Atnofleari nrt should I*' Notched with thw
uOKpot, and that philanthropist*, botnor-
* * • • ‘ vils, should H*t
... I "V' ! l-c ■nesntistie.l A "l«" ; {Jg’Vhemaeltes about smaller evlis, should m*
" ..1 *' W‘J" "discriminate • * (fni|e ,, vehement voteo against this
id? Wliat Piet urea rwtdinK of novels will bt* tu>*voip*s. nmTmutul r . 1 t n milv
- . . .. . it iii i xfa ui.-.i.sk, in iHi (uiaiiuir-
l«nuk At?"
TEXT: “Jf<* *y of them also which used
curious arts brought their bonks together,
onii burned themnstore alt men. und they
counted the price of them, and found tt
fifty thousand pice**of silver.''—Act* xlx, lit.
1'ftill had bofin fltlt’Hnp' up Kphnsus with
Konio lively ©errnotls about the sin* of that
place, Among the more important trmilt*
wan the ffict that tto* cftirenti brought out
their l»ad l»ooki, and in a pul die plttoe made n
ltonflre of them. 1 »»*** th©n©oi*le coining oitt
ft nuif anoe. He will bent neither to!r Mi* etore,
nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who
mIvm hemlf tip to the imllRortmimit©
mniiftfi of novel* will unfitted
for the duties Ilf Wife, mother, sister, daugh
ter. Thorf she is, \\tt\t rftshefeled, counten
ance vacant, clucks pale, hftfMfl trembling,
tmmting int<»U'«r* at rnifinight over fl*e f*to
of some unfortunate 16ret, in tho ctny-tlmtf,
when she ought to bo busy. **ormg by the
half hour at nothing; biting her tinnniw
into the ciuick. The oarpw. that was
lM'ftire, ttlll !»• plainer after having wandered
through n rotfiaficf •*) night long In t«‘S*elat«Hl
hall*of castle*. Atm vofif Induatrioua com
with their arms full of Kpliesiau literature, | pgnion Will be ujore unattractive fhan ever,
pmttnt.
DR. dr. T. HOGAN.
Office iivr Ellis’ Ntorc. Main air
Drug*,
TURK A COLEMAN, Main St.
MIII lurry and Itrrninaktng.
E. A. GAULT.
Mll.I.INEltV.
It sidence tlcn. F. Piny, (("IncKVill* ilieet
MISSES WILEY,
DIIE84MAK1NO OatncsTille str s-t
VIRS. M. J. HUDSON,
DREBHMAKINO, Oaincavillc street
now ttmt you hiivA Walked ill the riuiirttieS
through parks with fiHfmSfl |'i'iu , '(v<so'', of
lounged in ttie nrlsir vs it li the |«i|ished despe
rado. Oh, tlies<i mntlrmed novel readarVI
They nre Onim.-.l for lids life, whloh Is a tro-
ttlendons illseliillne They know not how to
go through tbs furnace* of trial through
which they must pnx*. and they arc unllttisl
for a world where everything we gain we
achieve hy hud, long oonumfiitg atid et-
lia* turned to aslica. They have done us a I haustlve work. w
world of harm, and they shall never do | Again: ttlwtaln fr«m all llinee tswiks whfcll,
others harm.” Heai the tlainee crackle and while they have Home gtoil things alioutthem,
roar! I have also an nduditure of evil. Y*U have
Well, my friends, one of the wants of tho I read nook* that had two element* In them—
cities (if this country is II grind Isndlro of bad I the good un.l the l>nd Which stuck to vou!
books alul newspapok*. VVc liave enough fu»l Thonadl The heart of ino«t (ssiiila is like
and tossing it into the flumes. I hem mi
economist standing by and saving: “Stop
this waste. Hero are seven thousand live
hundred dollar’* worth ok hooke—do you
propofo to bum thnin all upl If ton dim’t
want to read them yourselves, sell them, and
let somebody else reed them." “No,’’ said
the people, “if these hmiks aro not good for
in, they are not good for anytnxly else nnd
we shall stand ami *vntrti until tlie last leaf
Undertaker*.
HOLLAND & BURTZ.
('erne* West Marietta and Main sis
lllneknmllhtntt, HVifjon*, Ktr.
WARLICK BROS. A REID.
hLAi KSMiriUNU AND GENERAL RFI’Allt.
Main sire ■
w. t7 McCollum,
itLAi'KHMITHlNG ANT) GENERAL RF.PAIli
Juno. Main, (’artcruvtlie and Depot *treot»
Shoe*, llarnrim and Saddlery.
SCOTT, KEITH A BRO„
Opposite Oonrt House
spnpers Wc have enough
trt make a blaze ’JUO feet high. Many of the
publishing houses would do well to throw Into
the lilazetlieir entire stink of gisnls firing
| forth the insufferable trash,and put tt Into the
lire, nnd let it lie known, in the presence of
1 (tou, and angels, and men. that you are going
j to lid your homes of the overtopping slid un
derlying curse of profligate literature.
The printing pros* n the mightiest agency
on earth for good and for evil. The minister
of the (tos|si, standing ill a pulpit, lias a
responsible position; tint. I do not think it id
ns responsible ns the imsition of nu editor or a
publisher. At wliat distant point of time, at
what far out evele of eternity, will reuse the
influence of a llenry J. liny inond, or a Hor-
B. r. CRISLER,
Corner East Marietta end Main sts.
Iai truer*.
P. DuPRE,
Office witli Ordinary, in Omrl House.
GEORGE R. BROWN,
Offic* In Court II u-e
C. D. MADDOX, Office an Main »tre.it,
First doer Jon s.
W. A. AO. I.TKtsLEV,
Offico in Masonlo Im.lding
JNO. D. ATTAWAY,
Office with Clerk, in Court House
H. W. NEWMAN, Office In Court lions ,
Insurance,
BEN. F. PERKY,
RErREHENTING BERT FIRE COMPANIES
Heavy Snows in Oregon.
Milk in Slhcrln.
The Portland Oregon inn says:—
Speaking yesterday of the greut quan
tities of snow which inis fallen in the
Cusonde mountains during tho past win
ter, an old resident of Portland said to a
reporter: “I have lived nearly ull iny
life in this city and have generally ob
served tho weather experienced every
vear. On the southwest sido of St.
"Helen's Peak, near the summit, a small
dark bluo spot has always been plainly
visible from here. This spot must be
either a high cliff of rock or a patch of
heavy timber. Winter and summer, as
far back as I ram remember, that little
speck has always been plainly in sight
—a sort of black oasis in a vast field of
spotless snow lining the sides and sum
mit of the old mountain. Just after
that heavy full of snow which we had
f iior to tfie general clearing up storm, n —
noticed that the dark spot on the peak ' anf< it in pans, though, of ooyirse, when
in a chunk instead of a quart. The j
pie in .Siberia buy their milk frozen,
for convenience it is allowed to fre
about a stick, which comes as it liai
to curry it by. Tho milkman leaves
chunk or two chunks, as the case i
lie, at the houses of his customers. '
children in Irkutsk, instead of cry
for a drink of milk, cry for a bite
milk. The people there in the wit
time do not say, “Be careful not to s
the milk,” but “Be careful not to hr
the milk.” Broken milk is better t,
spilled milk, though, because then
an opportunity to save the pieces.
man or boy, as it is possible to knock
person down with it. Irkutsk peop
Hanking^
R. T. JONES,
EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND BOLD,
Office in H. T. JonefT store, Main sfc. |
Educa Monal.
ETOWAH INSTITUTE,
HILL A THBOOP. Prisoipaus, 0
Miss Nell Harrutt, Assistin',
Dry Goods, Groceries, Etc,
R. T. JONES, Near Court House.
HOLLAND A I1U111Z,
Corner West Mai >tta and Main sts. 1
COOOINH A HON,
Corner East Muriel Is and Main sis.
SCOTT, LEI 1 It A lillO., 0|i. Oonrt House, i
11. P. OUISLER,
Turner East Marietta and Main sts. 1
W. P. RIED, Mam finest.
W. M. ELLIS, Main Btrcot.
J. 0. AVEItY, Main rttreel.
6 HARDIN A CROCKS IT, Main Btrest.
C. F. EDGE, Main Street.
Confectionery.
WILLIS J. PEARCE, Main Street,
0. F. EDGE, Opposite McAfee House,
Hard ware, stoves, Etc.
BARTON ft BR0., Main Street.
Cabinet Milker.
F. M. H0LLEN, Main Street.
Carpenters and Contractors.
JOHN H. BELL, R. L. GAINES,
P. M. HOLLEN, WILLIE TOLBERT,
It. O. ORAMT.ING, J. M. HURT/.
Masons and Contractors.
H. H. McENTYRE,
A. W. ARCHER,
Jeweler and I‘hotograp%er.
J. W. JARVIS,
ALL KINDS REPAIRING DONE. Main H-. 1
‘ ‘ ' 1 ''
Guano Dealers and Cotton Ruyers.
R. T. JONES, Main Street.
J. 0. AVERY, Mnin Htreet.
OOOOINH A SON, Main Htreet.
SCOTT. KEITH A BRO., Main Btreot.
. W. M. ELLIS, Main Htreet.
Mill*.
MOUNTAIN CITY FLOUR MILL,
MERCHANT AND CUSTOM GRINDING, ,
J. M. McArsz, Propr. On Railroad, near Depot.
Gin.
J. M. Mc^FEE, Prop’r., Near Depot.
Tannery.
W. A. TEASLEY, Prop’r,
HARNESS, SOLE and UPPER LEATHER.
Cotton Planter.
R. L. GAINES, Manufacturer.
Ia ahops Warilok Bros A Raid, j
^ - . , —
Printing.
had vanished from sight. The circum
stance made quite an impression on my
mind ntrthe time, and I have kept close
watch since; but the patch never reap
peared until a few days ago. The warm,
bright days liave produced nil effect on
the snowy masses and lifted the icy vail
from that old, and, to my eye, familiar
speck. It is the first time inside of
twenty-five years that it was buried from
view. Nothing, in my opinion, oould
have produced that effect but a tremen
dous fall of snow, and it must have
descended all along the range.
He that injures another injures him
self.
warm spring weather comes on, they
have to use the pans or pails, as tho
milk begins to melt and run down the ’
hooks.
BOABS or BDBCATXO*.
O. W. Putnam, Pr«*’».
A. T. Soott, M. A. Kzbth,
J. H. Bfzib, j. J. Maddox.
Jbo. D. Attawat, 8chool Com.
Superior Court—Blue Ridge Circuit.
Jab. R. Brown, Canton, Judge.
GBonor F. Gsbsb, Marietta. 8oL Gen.
Meat* fourth Monday in Ftbniarv. and
*e«ond and kird Monday In September tr.
Oh arete* •ooa^.
H. o, Ir»/y, Jjtetjjffiy, Pan tom.
(therokee
OFFICIAL 0RGAB OF
Clanton and Cherokee County
JOB PRINTING.
CITY PRICES DUPLICATED.
Ole* Opposite Oomrt lea
dec Offtele/. or u Jam**Gordon ileniictt, ora
Watson Webb, or an Khislti* Hrooli*, or a
Thomas Ktnaollal Tako the limpid statistic*
that, our Now York rtailioa now Imv* a circu
lation of about eiglil hundred mill fifty thou
sand |h>i- day. and add lo it the fuct that thro*
1 of Our weekly periodicals Imvn an aggr*
B ate circulation bf about one million, nnd
ten cipher, if you i an, how far up, and ImW
far down,and how (nr out, reach the influence*
of tho American printing preos. Grunt God I
what is to Ini tho l««uo ol all this! 1 lielicva
the Lord intends tin printing pres* to tie the
means for thu woaJd rescue and evangeliza
tion, and t think tliul the grout last linttle of
the world will not ho fought with sword* and
gtins, hut with t.y|s- mid preffie* a purifled
tend gos|icl litci-Htufi triumphingtJvhr,tfamp-
Ung down and crushing out forever that
which in depraved. The only way to over
come unclean litoraturo is by scattering
abroad llmt which is healthful. May God
speed the cylinder* of mi Imm-st, intelligent,
aggrcH-lve, Christian printing pros*
I liave to tell you this morning that the
{ (reatest lilessiiig that ever conic lo this nation
* thatof ancle, atod literature, and the great-
eel scourge lias lieen I lint of unclean literature.
This lost has it* victims In nil occui»i ions and
de|iart incuts. It lias lielped to till insane asy
lums, and peuiUidlai iea. and almshoiuee, end
dons of aliame. bodies of this Infection
lie in tlui hospitals ana in the graves, while
their souls are being tossed over Into a lost
eternity, an avalanche of horror and desiHiirl
The Ixmdon plague wns nothing to it. Tlint
counted its victims by thousands, but this
modern |iest has already shovelled it* millions
into the charnel house of the morally doad.
Tho longest rail-train that ever ran over the
Erio or Hudson tracks was not long enough
or large enough lo carry the tieastliileHs und
tho putrefaction which have boon gathered
up in hud books and naws)Mipers of this land
in the last twenty yeaiw.
Now, it is amid sinti circumstance* that I
put, this morning, a question of overmaster
ing Importance to you ami your familie*.
What .Issiks nnd newspnp r* shall we readf
You koo l group them together. A news
paper is only n l>*nk in a swifter nnd more
|Hirtable shape, and the same rules which will
apply to liook reading will apply to news-
pujor reading. Whnt shall wo readf Khali
our minds lie (lie receptacle of everything
that an niithiir has a mind to writof Kliall
there tsi no distinction between tiio tree of
life and the tree Of death* Khali we stoop
down and drink out of thu trough which the
wickedness of men lias fIIlo. 1 tfYl li |iolluUon
and shamef Kliall we mire in impurity, and
chase fantastic will-o-tlie-wisps across tho
swamps, when we might walk in tho bloom
lug gardens of (Jod? O no! For the sake of
our present and everlasting welfare we must
make an intelligent and t'hristian choice.
(Standing, as wo do, chin deep in fletitinus
literature, the first qne*tion that many of the
young people are asking me is: "Khali we
read novel*0 J reply: There are novels
that are pure, goon, Christian, elevating to
tho heart und ennobling to the life. Hilt I
have still further to say that I liellevo that
ninety nine out of the one hundred novels in
this day nre baleful nnd destructive to tho
last degree. A pure work of Action is history
and poetry combined. II is a history of
tilings around us, with 111 , licences nnd the
assumed names of (sietry. The world can
nbver pay the debt which it owes
to such fictitious writers ns Hawthorne and
McKenzie, and Lnndoii nnd limit, and
Arthur and Marion Hnrland, and others
w hose names are familiar to ull. The follies of
high life were never lidter ex|ioscd than liy
Miss Edgeworth. The memories of tin-past
were never more laitliliilly embalmed tnan
In tho writings of Waller Hcott. (Joopor’s
novels are healthfully redolent with the
breath of the seaweed, and the air of the
American forest. Chnrlos Kingsley has
smitten the morbidity of trio world, and led a
Brent many to appreciate the poetry of sound
health, strong limaolen, and fresh air. Thack
eray did a grand work in caricaturing the pre
tenders to gentility anil high blood. Dickens
has laiiltgjhis own monument in his books,
which are nil evegasting plea for the poor,
and tin- anathema of injustice. Now, I say,
IsKiks like these, rend at right times, and rood
in l ight proportion with other books, cannot
help mit he ennobling and purifying; but
alas for the loathsome and imjniro literature
tlint lifts cornu upon this country in the shape
of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the
hanks of decency and common sens,*! They are
coin ing from Some of tin; most celebrated pub
lishing houses of the country. They aro coming
with recommendation of some of our religious
newspapers. They lie on your eentre tulde
to curse your children, and blast with their
infernal llres generations unborn. You find
these books in the desk of the school miss, in
the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat
cabin, on the table of the hotel reception
room. You see a light in your child's room
lab'at night. You suddenly go in and say:
“What are you doingf “I am reading."
"Wliat are you reading(" “A book." You
look at the Louk: it is u liad book. “Where
did you get itf” “I borrowed it.” Alas,
there are always those abroad who would
like to loan your son or daughter
n had Isxikl Everywhere,everywherean un-
cleun literature, f charge u|ion it tho destruc
tion of ten thousand immortal souls, and I
hid you this morning wake up to the magni
tude of the theme. I shall take all the world's
literature—good novels and bad, travels true
and false, histories faithful and incorrect,
legends Is-autiful and monstrous, all tracts,
all chronicles, all epilogues, all family, city,
Ktate and national libraries—and pile them
up in a pyramid of literature, and then I shall
bring to hear iqion it some grand, glorious,
infallible, unmistakable Christian principles.
God help me to speak with reference to my
Inst account, nnd God help you to listen.
I charge you, in the first place, to stand
aloof from all books that give false pictures
of human life. Life is neither a tragedy nor
a farce. Men are not all either knaves or
fieroes. Women are neither angels nor fiii ie-
And vet, if you depended npod much of the
literature of the dny, you ivodld get tho idea
tliat life, instead of being something earnest,
something practical, is a fitful and fantastic
which lets tli* *mall particle* of gold
fall ill rough, but keeit* Ihe great cinder*.
• Inc* in n while there is a mind lik* a load
stone, which, plunged nmld steel nnd bins*
filings, gathers Up tries steel and repels the
>11ass Rill It is generally Jllst the opposite.
If yin attempt to plunge through a heoga of
buns to get one blni-kberry, you will gel
more burr* than blnrkberfle*. Yon cannot
afford In read n bad lmok, however grtod yop
are You say: “The Influence is msigtiifl-
ennt.” I tell you tliat the scratch of a pin
ha-somethin'* pmdiuxsl ttie hs-k Jaw Alns, if
through curi'isil \ as uinnr do, you pry Into an
evil IkihIu ynnr curiosity I* Ov drtiigci-ous a*
Hint of in*- mini who would take a foivb iuto
a gumlowder mill merely to see wlietliet M
wo 11 t.Inw up or not. In a menagerie iu
JTew York, a man put tils arm through the
bar* Of a black leopard’s cage. The animal s
hide lootfeil so slis>k,aiid bright .and beautiful.
Ho Just stroked It om-o. Tlie nlntistar seized
him, mid he drew forth a hand torn, and
mangled, and lilissllllg. O, tofli'h not evil,even
with tho faintest stroke. Tlmtlgli It may
tsi glossy and beautiful, touch It not, test you
inill forth yntir soul torn and bleedffig under
the clutch of tho binek leo;iard “But," vofn
say, “how ran I find out whether a Issik is
gissl or laid without rending lit’ there is
a 1 wnts something susjtieious about a bad
Issik. 1 never knew an exception—something
suspicious In the index or style of illuitration.
This venomous reptile almost always carrlee a
tVartling rattle. ... „
Again; I charge you to stand off from all
those txxiks which corrupt the Imagination
and inflame tho passion*. I do not refer now
to that kind of aismk which th8 villain has
under Ids coat waiting for tho school to get
out, and then, looking both way* to see tliat
there ia no policeman around thu block, offer
the book to your son on hi* way hntno I do
not siieak of that kind of literature, but Hint
not siieak of that kind of literature, mil i ini
which avadea the Inw and comes out in polished
Style, and with acute (>U>t sounds the tocsin I Imt
rouses urt all the baforJimsitone of the soul.
To-day under the nostril* of this land, there
is a fetid, fenintf, ffnwnslie<l literature
enough to poison all the fountain* (*f putilii
virtue, and smite your sons nml daughters a"
with ttie wing of a destroying angel, and it is
timfi that the ministers of the Gcspel lilew
tho trum|s't and rallied the forcet of rigid
eousness, all armed lo the teeth, in this great
battle ngHlnst a ilenravisl literature.
Again: abstain from those tsjoks which are
apologetic of crime. It is« sad thing that
some Of ttie Iwst and most Is nutlful I (*ik
bindery, nml some Of tho flhest rhetoric, lulie
lieen brought to make sill attractive. \ ice is
a horrible thing anyhow, ltisliorn in shame,
and it dies howling in the dnrknees. In this
world It Is scourged with ft whip of scorpions,
hut. afterwards tlie thunders of G'sl's wrath
pursue it adl-oss a boundless desert, laviting it
with ruin and woe. When you come to paint
carnality, do not imint il as looking from I-
hlnd omoroldered curtains, or through lattice
of royal seraglio, hut us writhing in the
agonies of a city hospital
Cursed tsi tlio Isioks that try to muke Im
purity docent, and crime attractive, and
uypoorisy nolde! Cursed Is* tho Issiks that,
swarm with litiertim-s and de«|iorodiieH, who
make tho brain of the young people whirl
with villainy I Yo authors who write them,
ye publisher* who print them, ye booksellers
who distribute them, shall lie cut to pieces, if
not by an aroused community, then at hist,
hy tho liajl of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ve
murderers of souls I toll you, though you
may oat-ape in thin world, you will o«
ground at last under the Issif of eternal
calamities, and you will ls< chained to the
rook, and you will have the vultun-s of de
spair clawing at your soul, nnd those whom
you liave destroyed will come around to tor
mont you, and to |iotir hotter coals ol Jury
Upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the
outcry of your pain and the howl of your
damnation. “God shall wound tho hairy scalp
Of him tliat gis-tli on in his trespasses.
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over a romance The ev(« flash lire.
The breath is quick and irregular. Occasion
ally the color daslj's into the cheek, end then
dies out. Tho hands tremble ns though a
guardian spirit were trying to shake tho
deadly book out of the grasp Hot tears full.
Hhe laughs witti a shrill voice that droiisdead
at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is
the spray dashed up from tlie river of death.
The clock strikes "four,” and *io rosy dawn
soon after liogins to louk through the luttioe
ui>on tho polo form Hint lookw like 11 d**Uiuiwl
spectre of the night. Koon, In a madhouse,
she will mistake her ringlets for curling sor-
iient*, and thrust her white ban I ttirougliHlio
bars of tho prison and smite tier head, rub
bing it Iiack ns though to push the scalp from
the skull, shrieking: “My brain! my tiruml ’
Oh, stand off from tliat! Why will you go
sounding your way amid the reefs and warn
ing buoys, when there is such a vust ocean in
which you may voyage, all sail seti
There is one ottier thing I shall say this
morning liefore I leave you, whether you
want to hear it or not. That is, that I con
sider the lascivious pictorial literature of tlie
day as most tremendous for ruin. There is no
one who can like good pictures Is-tter than I
do. The quickest and most condensed way
of impressing ttie public mind is by picture.
What the painter iloos by Ins brush for a few
favorites, tlie engraver does by his knife
for the million. What the author accomp
lishes by fifty (Miges, tho artist doc* by u
flash. The best part of a painting tliat costs
ten thousand dollars you may buy for ten
cents. Fine jiaiiitiiigs ts long to the aristo
cracy of art. Engravings ts'long to the
democracy of art. You do well to gather
good picturee in your homes. Hpreud I hem
before your children, after the tea-hour is
past, aiid the evening circle is gathered.
Throw them on tlie invalid's couch. Ktrew
them through the rail-train t) cheer the trav
eler on his journey. Tack them on tlie wall
of the nm-sery. Gather them in albums ami
portfolios. God sjieed the good pictures on
their way with ministries or knowledge and
mercy!
Hui what shall I say of tlie prostitution of
thisart to purposes of iniquity f Three death-
warrants of the soul are at every street cor
ner. They smite the vision of the young man
with pc ilution. Many a young man buying a
copy lias bought his eternal discomfiture.
Tllere may tie enough poison in one bad
picture to poison one soul, und that
soul may poison ten, and tan fifty,
and the fifty hundreds, and the hundreds
thousands, until nothing but the measuring
line of eternity can tell tlie height, ana
depth, and ghastliness, nnd horror of the
great undoing. The work of (loath tliat the
w icked author d«:s in a whole Issik tlie bad
engraver may do on a half side of a pictorial.
(,'niter the guise of (jure mirth, the young
man buys one of these slioete. He unrolls it
before ui» comrades amid roars of laugh-
grr...
Young mac! bur not tlii«moral strychnin*' i
tot your soul! Tick not it|* flits nest of coiled
adder*, lor vour pocket ’ J’atronlze no new* |
stand that keeffc fladii I Hnve vmir room bright 1
with good engravings; (nit for those unclean [
pictorials have no* one wall, net one bureau, ;
not on* pocket. A man ts in bettor than the
pictures ho loves to look id. If your *7** ,
are not pure, your heart (-aiinct lie At a ,
news stand one can guess tin* diameter
of the matt IrV tlie kind of pictorial be pur
Chases When fh* devil fid Is to get a man to
read a Rad liook.he sometimes sue-is-d* In get
ting him foliokat a bad picture. When
Knbin BOO* a fishing he does not rare whether
If Is a long line nr a short line, If he only
draws his victim In. Beware of laectvtou*
#>ir1/»rlf%lN young m«n: In the QWi* Al
might Omf 1 charge you.
If I have this morning eiironssfully tatu
down An* principles by which you may |udg*
111 regard frt bocks and newspapers then I
liave done somethiffft d'qch I iimll not bo
ashamed of on the day which sliall try *very
man’s work, of wliat sort it ts.
Cherish good Issiks nnd newspaper*. Re
Ware of fit* bad one* fine column may save
your scyil; one panigrapli may ruin it.
ltenjoifllff Franklin said tliat tho reading of
"Cotton Mather's Essnv on Doing flood"
frtnti|e,t Ills entire life The assassin of laird
HukhtiI fa’lftrM that he 1*1 Into
rime by rftulinff one vivid tenonin'*.
The connecrftte.1 JoWn Anrell Jnmm,
than whom England never a netw*r
man, deolare«i in lii« old nay* fbaj he had
never yet got over the evil effeota of naving
for fifteen minute* once road a bad book
Hut t need not go no far off I oould oom©
f#e/ir hmne. nnd tell you of eomeU^ng that
omifrefl In my college daya I oould tall
yon ctf a comfikle who waa great beartjd,
fioble, nhd generouN He wa* Htudylnjc f€j
ntfnotanl© profeeaiem; but ho had
Infidel Is* At In his trunk, and
he said to mo on* day: *>• *y“i
would vou like t« read II t" I afi*w*re<t: Y*a,
1 would." I took the lmok and rend it onlr
jnr n fow minute* I was really startlisl with
Wliqt 1 sal* th*r*, anil I handed tho hook
hack trt him nnd *ald: "You had tletter da
stror Hint lirsA " No, ho kept it. V* rc«d
lie re read it. After a while ho gave up
religion as a myth. Ho gave up God aaa
nonenlty. He gave up the Itllilo a* a fable. He
gave up the Church of Christ as n Uscleas Itl-
stltiition. lie gave up gissl innrnls n* tiring
ummeemarily stringent. I liave heard of him
tint twice Ifl many year*. The time liefore
the I set I heard "f him, ho was a confirmed
inebriate. Tlie Inst time I heard of him, ho
was coining out of nrt Insnne asylum-In
body, vtdiiil ivnd soul nn awful wreck. I be
lieve that One Infidel tiook killod him for two
worlds.
Go horn* to day, and look through your
library, nnd then, having looked through
ynurlltirnry, look on ttie stand where you keep
vour pictorials and nowH|i»sirs, and apply
fee Cffnstlan tirlnelplesT liave laid downwfc
imirning If there Is unythlng In your home
flint cannot stand the test, do not give tt
away, for It might spoil nn immortal soult
(III nut soil it, for the money you get
would tie the price of blood; but rather kin
dle a fire on your kitchen hearth, or ja your
bock yard, and then drop trie prison tn tt,and
keep stirring the blaze until finm prefiwetoap-.
pendix there "hall not Is- a single paragraph
left, and the bonflre tn Brooklyn slmll 1*1 nai
cimiwimlng n* that one In the etreeta of
Epheaus.
A STORY »V CAKI, HUNKER.
Dor Ratlt I’oy und Homo Bcure.
if I jiad a locdlo poy niioudt four
yearn oldt to name und sit. on my kno«
in dor ctifning'a und usli nm to toll him n
khtofy, 1 sliould inifi him oop tipht in
my nrntitnnd jiegin:
“VliclT, once upon aometimes d«-r vn«
n Icedle jmy who vims limit, Hoslitciila
sugar und )irc*ci-voa, nnd lie tells lioa
und runs avlinv, und l»y und hy cafry*
iaidy |Kiiiits his linger lit dot jsiy und
says ho shall pc hung on dor gallows.
Dot poy'a fudder hangs down his licadt
mil shiimo, und his nutddor cries all dor
time, und sooch troubles you noafersee.
Vliellj one day viicii dis lnult jaiy gooa
nvliny to rob nn oldt womans who lifa
all alone in dor woods ho falls down u
bill und preuks his leg. Hot makes him
groan und cal) otult und po afraid, but
nopody cornea to help him. In placo of
dot a fiig bear mit two lecdlo culiHcomoa
oudt of lior don in do hill und vlmlka
oop to dot biult poy und suya:
1 ‘Vlioll, wlio you vims ?’
1 ‘I vlina Peter Bud.’
1 ‘Und how vims it you come hero ?'
' ‘I vlina going to rob dot oldt wo
mans.'
“ ‘Children, como hero,’ says dot oldt
boar to lmr culm; und vhen dey vliaa
coino aroiindt her alio says some moro:
“ ‘I like you to know now itvhas. Dis
poy first tells some lies to bin muddor;
ion lie ahtauls aonio sweetcake and shu-
gor likentief; don ho goes oudt mit
aomo bndt poys und Blitaals ^apples und
peached; don lie ah teals sriine money
from hia muddor. Pooty soon he vliaa
• robber, und lmf aomo police
looking for him. If you dolin' pclicf
some biult TKiy vhill como to a built end
elinat look liore. It vlias ahiiHt, n« true
ash gospel dot dor weekod jx-oplcs doan'
lif oudt half der days. If dis jviy vlias
goodt lie dolin’ want to rob aomopody;
if he dolin’ want to roll somepody bn
doan’ como here und preuk his leg. My
children, dis vims a oudt warning to you
dot dor vliay of der transgressor vline
liardt, und now full to und we slmll eat
him oop und pick his pones so clean ash
a whistle.’
“ ‘Und dor bears eat him opp ?’
» ‘Yes.’
“ ‘Und he vlias ilcadt ?'
‘‘‘Yes.’
“ ‘Und liis muddor nnd fodder doan'
nefor see hitn aguin
“ ‘Nefor aguin.’ ”
Und some tears oumo mit my leodll
poy’* eyes, und liocreopes a Ieemo close)
to mo, und muypo dor seed sowed in
his mind mid dot leedlo shtory takes
root potter dun ull dor sermons bo shall
eufor hour in ehurcli.—Detroit Free
IVeta.
Th« Put.
He ringii and such unicornful few m hood,
Bay kindly, "Good, perhaps, but wtafl (fes
needi"
And other* mutter, "Wordel
Alt lire lieen Mid that there ia need to lay.
Wliat dnralie want, this piper bound to play
Before v.nllitenlng harder
And «o the dreams that it sailed him at dawn
Decline, and ae the silent night oomee on,
Mad pray’r a*4proteet cease;
Yet sickening hope through failure will
abide,
Until the hungry heart, unsatisfied—
In death finds Its first peaoe.
o
And then—one day the wakening nations
say,
"No doubt, this man’s was an Inspired lay—
Bow to the laureled head!"
And then—ha la be wept, and loved and
prnieeil;
And then—enduring monument*are raised
To him long deed, long doad I
—{Gertrude Hell, In the Century.
IIUMDIIOUH.
It li a wise stock that know* Its own
par.
Ths beat Illustrated paper out—A
banknote.
A leading question — “Wljj you take
this horse to water!”
Tho small boy at hil spelling lesson ia
like a postage stamp; he often get* stuck
on a letter.
The base ball player*, tt la predicted,
will ho out on strike* very frequently
during the season.
"You can’t play that on me,” aaid the
piano to the nmatour, who broke down
on a difficult pioce of mutio.
Customer: "Do you have ‘Night
Thoughts!’ ” Salesman: "No, marm,
I linvo to work so bard day-times, I sleep
powerful sound. n
Jay Oould aaya that it mnd > him very
•ad to go to church when a boy. Ho
mada a great many othur men lad when
lie loft the church and went to Wall
•troot.
A recent novel aaya: "And ha went
to bod tQd on joyed a sound, dreamleaa
sleep," How can a man oujoy anything
when he is unconicious!
Husband (impatiently to wife)—*"I
told you I only wanted half a cup of
tea, and, as usual, you've filled it up to
tlie top. Don’t you lAiow what half
full is!" Mother-in-law (grimly)—"Bho
ought to know by this timo. You've
been half full often enough."
A Beayer’a Instinct.
An old hunter living In the Oraay
Mountain* caught a young beaver soon
after its birth and onrried it to hi* cabin,
where he gradually m*de a great pet of
it. As the youngsfc)' approached ma
turity begot to building dams, and eaeh
morning tho hunter found hit cabin floor
divided by a dam that reached from
wall to wall, the componont part* of
which were firewood, bonta, articles of
olothlng and other movable article# In
the house that oould bo reached or
transported. To add to tho oonfuslon,
a basin or bucket of wator, if possible
was capsizod and flooded over the floor.
Tills little animal, who had never aeen
a stream or a dnm to know either, was
busily at work engaged in doing wliat
his forefathers had done a thousand
yeara before him.
While all other game or fur-bearing
animals of the northwest are likely to
be exterminated without dissenting
voice the poor little harmless and hard
working beaver has found a fast frland
in the cattle-mon and herd-owner*. Tha
reason la obvious. In this great dry
country and climate the streams nnd
water-holes on trio ranges are few and
far between. Moisture is the cattle
man’s greatest want. Now, a beaver
destroys nothing but trees, and as there
ore fow of the latter on the great tree,
less plains of Montana, the beaver of
necessity livos on shrubs and roots and
builds his dam whore he may. This
juft suits tho cattleman, who finds in the
insignificant little quadruped, compared
to his 1000-pound steers, a most val
uable ally in providing ponds and drink
ing placo9 where there were none before.
—Ban Francisco Call.
Making Steel Fipea.
Tho new method of making steel pipe
at Barhnelt, Germany, is said to bo very
BiicceHsfiil, and the process of manufact
ure is briefly us follows:
As soon as tlie steel is east into the
round mould, u core is thrust into the
steel, so that the tube is formed lietwoen
it and tlie sides of the mould. In order
to prevent cracking <>f this annular cast
ing during cooling, the core is made up
iu such a manner that it follows up the
shrinkage of the steel. 'Rio steel cup
thus obtained may then bo rolled in an
ordinary train. It is stated that a large
firm iu Paris proposes to apply the
method to tho manufacture of copper
tubing. @
Ilia Autograph Returned.
The Christian Advocate toll* this
•tory: Acolebratod man know how to
make a most excellent cup of coffees
A well-known ininistor wrote to him
asking for the rocipe. His request was
granted, but at the bottom of the letter
was the following manifestation of stu
pendous concoit: "I hope that this is a
genuine request and not a surreptitious
mode of securing my autograph." To
which the minister replied: “Accept ray
thanks for the recipe for making coffee;
I wrote in good faith, and iu order to
convince you of that fact allow me to ro-
■turn what you obviously infinitely prise,
but which is of no value to me, your au
tograph."
Coffee Cherries.
The fruit of the coffee tree ia so like
English cherries that, it is said, moat
folk would be at a loss to tell a heap of
tho berries from a heajP of tha edible
fruit. This applies, however, only to
their outward appearance, for the berry
contains uo stone, but two seeds iu.
stead. These seeds (which ore carried
in a thick leathery skin, called "poroh-
ment"), after going through different
processes, become the coffee beans of
commerce.
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