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[Fop The Snnuy South.]
MY BROTHER’S GRAVE.
EY DAN ASHBY.
I never shall see it—I never shall know
The place where he slumbers, lonely and low;
The sweetest of flowers I never shall bring
To lay on hiB grave at the coming of Spring;
No prayer shall I breathe o'er his low soldier bed,
Where the tear of a sister will never be shed.
Yet I know that the birds above him will sing—
The soft- tender grass around him will spring;
The moon and the stars, that are everywhere true,
Will shine on his grave in the soft-falling dew.
For him shall the rains of the sad Autumn weep,—
The winds of the South will grievinglv sweep,—
The flowers shed their fragrance beneath the blue sky,
And his lone grave be watched by an All-seeing Eye.
[For The Sunny South.]
The Silver-Voiced Messenger.
BY THEBISL
“Tittle— tittle—tit-tie—tit-tie—tittle—tittle ”
flew over the wires from the telegraph office at
M., and sonnded in the office in the little village ful idol for myself, gave it the mystic name of
love.” It was a desperate conflict she endured,
ere she reached this conclusion, bnt when it was
finally reached, she accepted it bravely, and
prepared to give him up without a murmur
against God for the “potent charm” that, in
His infinite wisdom, He had seen fit to withhold
from her. She was not surprised at what the
silver voice said to her; for. by a woman's pecul
iar intuition, she knew it was coming. Her only
reply was: “ Wait until to-morrow, and you will,
perhaps, have changed your mind.”
That same night. Mas. sat in his room by the
light of the midnight lamp, gazing on a photo
graph of a plain, dark face, with raven hair,
banded straight hack from the full forehead, and
wound in a heavy coil at the back of the head.
The eyes (the only redeeming feature of the face),
out of their soft, sad depths, seemed to be plead
ing for mercy from the searching gaze of the
handsome black ones that looked into them.
Beneath the picture was written, in a smooth,
womanly hand, “Ida Gray. Your wife must be
endowed with beauty.”
Max. Burton gazed at the picture for a long
time; but, while his eyes were riveted on that, a
light was beginning to dawn over the deluded
mind. He rose suddenly, crossed the floor to
his desk, and wrote thus:
“My IiAKi.rs'G,—Months ago I created a beauti-
TEMPERAXCE.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE I. O. G. T.
.1 Temperance Sermon.
We besin in this issue the publication of the
able and eloquent sermon recently delivered in
this city by the Rev. E. W. Warren. D. D., the
pastor of the First Baptist Church. It should
be carefully and thoroughly read by everybody,
and filed away for future reference. Dr. Warren
is one of the most effective ministers of the age,
and the power and influence which he is now
exerting in behalf of temperance, will be seen
and felt in Georgia many years hence.
of F., twenty miles away, startling Ida Gray, Ida Gray, and imagined never a Pagan wor-
the operator, from the reverie into which she I shipped more devoutly than I. I find that I
had fallen. The same sound was repeated by J have been chasing a delusion: I never knew my
her, in return. In a few seconds, the silver ; own heart until to-night. The lovely ideal, to
voice of the little instrument said to her: “I am which I allowed myself to ascribe being, form
the new operator here; just installed to-day. j and physique, I find, is nothing more nor less
Who are you and what is your name?” } than the noble mind and pure heart of the orig-
It was but the work of a moment for the deft inal of this photograph. They are both speak-
fingers to reply, “ I am a lady, sir; and, to you, j ing to me now, from the deep, soul-lit eyes look-
I am “ G. ” j ing into mine. They are the Ida Gray I have
Again she heard the voice: “Excuse my seem- loved so long, and still love, with all my powers
ing impudence, and, if yon will permit me, I j of loving. I said once, my wife must be beauti-
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.
Right Worthy Grand Templar Hickman left
the city on the 15th to attend the meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Virginia.
Georgia Lodge. Xo. 132. of Atlanta, carries the
banner in the State for the present quarter, re
porting 241 members in good standing.
The Worthy Chief Templar organized a Degree
Temple at llRpeville, in the lodge room of Frank
lin Lode, Xo. 204. on t ie evening of the 13th.
We are pleased to learn from our vigilant
Grand Worthy Chief Templar that he has never
known the lodges to report with so much prompt
ness. It is important, as well as a good sign.
Oglethorpe county bids fair to be the banner
temperance county in the State. Eight fine
lodges of Good Templars are at work in the
county, and all of them report renewed interest
and prosperity.
The Governor has issued his proclamation
THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.
A SEEMON BY BEV. E. W. WAR RES,
rastor First Baptist Church, Atlanta. Ga. Preached im the
Eighth Anniversary Atlanta L”dye .Vo. 1,1.O.G.T., Oct. 81.
Text.—Wine is a mocker; 6troug drink is raging.
Some persons object to sermons on temper
ance, for the reason they are not gospel sermons;
others, for the same reason, object to discourses
on Sabbath schools: while others condemn the
discussion of missions in the pulpit, upon the
same principle. The inspired instruction to the
preacher is to “declare the whole counsel of
God.” God has made the subject of temperance
a part of his counsel by giving us “line upon
line and precept upon precept," upon evils re
sulting from the use of wine and strong drink,
and has left us repeated warnings as to the ruin
ous consequences of looking upon the wine
when it is red. He has hereby made it a part ol
his counsel, which we are “to declare.” Shall
we meet this obligation with becoming courage
and fidelity ? Let us do so with that faith in him
which always accompanies love and humility.
I.— Wine is a mocker.
Xotwithstanding this startling announcement
truth, that throughout the entire territory I des
cribed to yon. no crop is grown but grapes.
For the last three weeks tho whole working pop
ulation, men and women, have been in these
vineyards gathering the crop. The teams are
employed in transporting the immensely large
casks of new wine from the presses to the "cellars
of their owners, to the vaults of the dealers who
have purchased it, and to the railroad depot for
transportation to the warehouses of speculators
in other quarters. There is an endeavor on the
part of these people to throw a romantic interest
around their vintage. The casks go through the
streets with gay bouquets of flowers in their
bungholes; but, from what I have seen of the
effects of wine here, the show is all a sorry
farce. There is no question that the people
would be better, healthier, happier, and much
more prosperous if there were not a vineyard in
the Canton. We have all been told in America,
and I fully believed it, that if a people could he
supplied with a cheap wine they would not get
drunk: that the natural desire for some sort of
stimulant would be gratified in a way that would
be not only harmless to mortals, but conducive
to health. I am thoroughly undeceived. The
people drink their cheap white wine here to
will formally introduce myself—Maxwell Bur
ton, at your service.”
“Yon are excused, Mr. Burton; bnt excuse
me if I do not return the compliment (?) and
give you my name.”
As she anticipated, this served to silence the
gentleman; but he said to himself: “And so
you are a lady, Miss ‘G.,’ and decline to give
me your name. Well, so be it, fair one. I’ll
find out some other way, and surprise you, some
day, when we become better acquainted.”
Away flew the question in another direction, to
the next office on the main line:
“ What is the operator’s name at F. ?”
It is constitutional with the telegraph opera
tors, as well as all other fraternities, to help each
other, whether the case be a good, had, or (as it
seemed in this case), indifferent one. Burton
had not long to wait ere “IdaGruy” greeted
his ears.
“What a pretty, romantic name!” he mused.
“I wonder if you are as pretty. Well, Miss Ida
Gray, I hope we shall soon become better ac
quainted.”
The twenty-mile line from M. to F. was not
connected with the other branch of the Western
L’nion passing M.; and, on the whole of that
twenty miles, not another office was situated; so
that any message sent was heard only at the
offices at each end of it. The operators at each
place were thus enabled to converse as confi
dentially as if closeted in the securest way pos
sible.
Time passed on, as time always does, and “B.”
and “G.” indulged in many a pleasant tete-a-tete
(if that expression is allowable in speaking of
parties twenty miles apart), and felt as safe to
speak their thoughts as if they had been seated
in the cosiest of parlors in some Southern cot
tage. The acquaintance ripened rapidly, as
Burton had predicted; and these two bright,
congenial spirits, that had never looked on each
other's faces, were soon connected in bonds of a
most pleasant friendship. The silver-voiced
messenger bore many a flash of wit or deep
thought, on different themes of interest, from
M. to F. and back. Thus each discovered the
ful, but my estimate of beauty is entirely
! changed. To me, you are as lovely as an angel,
with a beauty as lasting and unchangeable as
' Heaven itself. Again I ask you, Ida, will you
be my wife? for do not call me presumptuous
when I say I feel that your heart is mine. I am
j not brave enough to face an opposite fate. I know
j that you are far my superior, in goodness and
! true worth; but if a lifetime of devotion can
j balance the difference, it shall be yours. Give
! but one word, ‘Come,’ to our ‘silver-voiced
messenger,’ that has been so faithful through
j our past, and it is useless to tell you I will obey i
of wine as a beverage offered by those who pro
fess reverence for Divine truth. Let us con
sider some of them.
1. Christ made wine and furnished it to the
guests at the wedding in Cana Of Galilee. He
knew it would be used convivially by those pres-
! ent. If he made wine, it is not wrong for us to
drink it. He approved of the custom of wine
drinking at festivals. Should we condemn it?
; Let us consider this plea in justification of
the present custom of conviviality.
It is admitted that Christ made wine. He
closing the retail liquor shops in Tilton from the - turned the water into wine. He knew it would
31st of December, the “ restriction ” vote of the ‘ be used at the feast as a beverage. But does his
citizens having been oast in favor of the closing a °t justify the making, selling or using of wine
, . , . . - ,| . Fwuiv uiiua URii tUCa l' «UUC H 1UC IJWit* III
of inspiration, there are many pleas for the use drunke nness. A boozier set than hangs around
up at an election recently.
Rev. J. B. Hanson, at Barnesville, writes the
Grand Secretary. S. C. Robinson, that the Good
Templars are on the high road to prosperity in
that place, and with fifty members, all inter
ested, their march is onward.
Harlem Lodge of Good Templars, in Rich
mond county, has been reorganized, and is now
in good working condition. This lodge has
been suspended for some time, but now takes
its old original position in the ranks.
If vou don't subscribe for The Sunny South,
now, as it is too frequently done.
1. There is no evidence that the wine made by
Christ possessed the elements of an intoxicat-
the multitudinous cafes here, it would be hard
; to find in any American city. The grand differ
ence in the drunkenness of an American and
| Swiss city, is found in the tact that the man
who has wine in him is good-natured, and the
i man who is equally charged with whisky is a
: demon. There is no murdering, no fighting, on
wrangling. The excitement is worked off in
singing, shouting, and all sorts of insane jabber.
Then the steady old white-wine topers come into
blossom. If you can imagine a cauliflower of
the color of the ordinary red cabbage, you can
achieve a very adequate conception of faces that
are not uncommon in all this wine-growing re
gion. So this question is settled in my mind.
Cheap wine is not the cure lor intemperance.
The people here are just as intemperate as they
are in America, and what is more, there is no
1 public sent !“ e “ t that checks mtemperune
as quickly as possible. I long to hold your - . ,
little gray-robed figure in my arms, and to hear - Y ?' 1 , ca ° n " t ke ? P paCS * lth the advancm 8 arm - v
■ - - - - - test music to . of Good Templars.
the voice thut I know will be sweetest music to
me. Hoping and impatient, I wait.
“ Yours forever, Max.”
In a sweet little home, in a distant city, we
will leave them. The light of that home is de
rived irom the guileless soul and pure Christian
life of the queen that reigns therein. Max. con
templates running a wire from his office to his
home, so that in the intervals of business he can
speak to his wife, or have a “caress in words”
from her. They do not like to part with their
silver-voiced messenger.
FASHION NOTES.
The long, square overskirt is stylish and much
worn.
The double and treble cuff is still worn on
cloth basques.
The hair is still worn down on the neck, either
in a plait or coil.
Cashmere is much cheaper this season, but it
will be as much worn.
Pale mauve and gray combine well in a suit of
either silk or worsted.
Chatelaine belts in new designs are coming
in every day, but are not fully worn on the street
yet
Seal brown is still the rage of costumes, hat
.... . , , and bonnet trimming, wraps for the old and
tastes and leelings of the other: on many sub- j young, and also stockings,
jects they coincided, and where they didn’t, the j , , .
%•/*. . . . 7 _ ho hnermoa rr\ utaa up
difference of opinion only furnished matter for
brilliant arguments.
Perhaps the reader will ask how these two
attended to business, and found so much leisure
to become acquainted. M. was a humdrum in
land town, with perhaps a thousand inhabitants;
where not much business was transacted that
The basques to woolen suits are extremely j
plain in shape, hut some are much trimmed with j
knife pleatings and fringe.
Frills for the neck of box-pleated muslin, ;
wrought on the edge with a color to match the 1
handkerchiefs for different costumes.
The once stylish Irish poplin is no longer
needed the assistance of telegraphy to connect ■ sought after. Other goods equally handsome
it with the outside world; consequently, Max- ' and far more useful are now preferred
well Burton’s time was not more than two-thirds
engrossed with the duties of his office. He was
obliged to stay there twelve hours of the day,
whether he had anything to do or not; and how
could he fill up the intervals of idleness better
or pleasanter than in communication with his
! Braided and beaded jackets are still worn by
those who have them from last season, aDd some
! new ones with new shapes are in the market.
Cloth basques and overdresses have not been
trimmed so much with mohair braid. It was
sprightly little neighbor who, though a score of tb ° u S bt ™ uld ^ very popular, hut it does
miles away, seemed always near him and ready no * seem ^ ake s0 ' veb
to entertain. * The most lovely opera wraps in the Dolman
F. was a pretty little riverside village, sweet shape are now seen. These wraps are of quilted i and most widely* circulated official organ in the
and quiet to live'in, but whose business portion i silk or satin, and are bordered with fur or fringe j United States. Subscribe for The Sunny South.
boasted of a “square,” with the county court- j with a deep netted hea.ing. ■ A conventio
Colonel Edward F. Lawson, of Waynesboro,
the Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars, sends cheering news
from his section and promises an article for the
j good of the order for our columns.
S. C. Robinson. G. W. S. of Georgia, and W.
! H. Cuttino, G. W. S. of South Carolina, are ad
vertised to attend a temperance mass meeting at
Pickens Court-House, in South Carolina, on the
i 4th of December, and address the meeting.
A Good Templar picnic, at Walesca, in Chero-
f kee county, on the 20th instant, was under the
| supervision of Hon. J. J. A. Sharp, and was a
j very profitable meeting. A good supply of well-
filled baskets and some elegant speeches were
: the order of the day.
There is a man in Xorth Georgia, who goes up
into the pulpit, and preaches that Good Tem-
i plarism is the work of the devil. Would it not
be well for his congregation to present him with
! a Bible, and refer him to Provebs xxiii: 20 to 32,
| and Galatians vi: 7 and 8.
Western Star Lodge, Xo. 136, has exercised an
influence over the sui’CMtyidjng country. A lodge
! of Good Templars is now in good working con
dition in every neighborhood within several
miles of Acworth, but one, and their missiona
ries are working that locality up.
Pickens county is waking up on the temper-
! anoe question, and the Good Templars at Jasper
| are thoroughly disciplined for the winter cam
paign. M. D. Berry, one of the old pioneers in
! the work in this mountain county, gave us a call
last week, and we found him enthusiastic.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Indi
ana have issued a very elaborate and well-timed
protest against the sale of intoxicating liquors
on or near the centennial grounds next summer,
the same being endorsed by one hundred and
fifty-eight representatives assembled in the city
of Indianapolis on the 20th of October.
A missionary committee, consisting of a few
such spirits as Thomas H. Mathews W. 0. H.
Shepard and Willie Mansfield, of Minehaha
Lodge, Xo. 103, at Marietta, have been the means
of adding four new lodges, and scores of mem
bers to the rolls of Good Templarism in the last
twelve months. All honor to such workers.
The Good Templars of Georgia have the best
intoxicated at that wedding party directly
through the agency of Christ. We would have
almost to suppose a second miracle to doubt it,
for there is scarcely ever a wine party at which
some one is not intoxicated. If this were true
in Cana, then the first great wonder of the Son
of God led to a sin denounced by heaven and
despised by man. If so, then he did an act
which led to the violation of his own law, and
encouraged the debauchery and ruin of man.
This was utterly impossible—the very thought is
revolting; its expression would be blasphemy;
all his teachings and life forbid the thought.
the least. The wine is fed freely to children,
and by all classes is regarded as a perfectly
legitimate drink. I, with many others, have
looked with hope to find a remedy for intemper
ance in a cheap and comparatively harmless
wine; but, for one, I can look in this direction
hopefully no longer. I firmly believe that the
wines of Switzerland are of no use except to
keep out whisky, and that the advantages of the
wine over the whisky are not very obvious. It
is the testimony of the best men in Switzerland—
those who have the highest good of the people
-» T , , , , . , , ' at heart-—that the increasing growth of the grape
He teaches that drunkenness is a bar to the ; h&g beeQ stea , m ^ corr< | 8 ondi j attended
kingdom of heaven. M ould he do anything to , b tbe th drunkenness. They lament
hinder the salvation of those he came to re- , i
i -j ait u v • a 11 i i v • the planting of anew vineyard as we, at home,
deem.-' Avould he invite persons to blunt their ‘ . v ’
r£rsS“5 4*c* »• At of i. to »jbv rib *4
he has made, and tempt them into fatal sins,
while he suffers, and bleeds, and dies to “purify
unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good :
works?" Impossible. Then we must suppose, *
and we have a right to do so, that the wine he
made possessed none of the intoxicating prop
erties.
2. He had an object in view, worthy* of the Son
of God, when he made this wine. M’hat was it ?
The beloved disciple shall furnish the answer.
“This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana
of Galilee and manifested forth his glory; and his
disciples believed on him.” If a scene of drunk
enness and debauch had followed the miracle,
it would have manifested shame and evil, but it
glorified Christ. Evil does not glorify him,
only good can; therefore, this act of our Re
deemer so much misunderstood, and this mo
tive so divine and glorious, were good in the
sight of God.
3. Xone need fear the effects of wine made di
rectly by Jesus. Xone need be afraid to drink
of wine made directly from water. But we
should be careful not to justify an evil by plead-
and deeply feel, that the whole wine-producing
enterprise is charged with degradation for their
The Lodges are Responding.
We give below the names of the lodges which
have responded in behalf of their official organ.
All of them will respond. Xone are too poor
to take two copies, and some will take many
more than two. We shall publish all that re
spond, and keep them standing in type. Social
Lodge, located at Jewells’, sends up $10 for four
copies. Let us hear from all at once.
Lodge 174, at Jewells’ Mills, four copies, $10.
Lodge 257, at Bartow, two copies, $6.
Lodge 387, at Jonesboro, two copies, $5.
James Lodge, Xo. 355, six copies, $15.
Lodge Xo. 254, Waynesboro, two copies, $5.
"Western Star Lodge, three copies, $7.50.
North Georgia Conference.
This Methodist body, which meets annually,
ing the example of him who knew no sin. We ; consisting of all the “traveling” preachers (that
do find that the use of wine now is accompanied i S) pastors) of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1 square,
house in the centre, fourorfive “sundrystores,”
a cotton warehouse, a public livery stable, etc.,
ranged on every side. Ida Gray sometimes sent
and received not more than a dozen messages in
a day, and most of these were cotton quotations,
or reports to and from that wonderful class
known as “drummers.” So, you perceive, she
found ample time to cultivate the acquaintance
of Max. Burton.
In one of their many discussions, beauty was
the theme; and Max. took the side in favor of
the power of physical beauty in woman. Said
he: “A woman may be amiable, generons and
good; all that is lovely in mind and character;
but, if she has not a graceful form and beautiful
face, she has been denied the most potent charm
woman ever possessed. My wife, if I am ever
so fortunate as to have one, must be endowed
with the all-powerful gift of beauty.” Ah, Max.,
you don’t know what you are saying.
Ida Gray received this intelligence like a stab.
She could not have defined her feelings, had ■ and wear. They make up very stylish, and have
Polonaises are said to have appeared on the
street again, and among the handsomest are
those of black matelusse and velvet striped gros
grain trimmed with feather ruehing and silver
fox fur.
Dark green will be more worn this winter than
for two seasons past. Among the choice green
goods is the embossed camel’s-hair for over
dresses. The greens in these goods are prettier
than the navy-blue or brown.
For dinner dresses, the most beautiful black
brocaded silks are purchased. Some have the
rich ivy-leaf pattern, and some in scale-like de
signs. These are also crated with plain gros
grain, and are made with a basque and much-
trimmed skirt.
Those excellent qualities of black alpaca are
very much used, and the grand opera brand,
which is double faced and double warped, is
convention of Good Templars will he held
in Barnesville on the 16th of December, and it
is expected to have every lodge in the Fifth Con
gressional District represented. R. W. G. T.
Colonel J. J. Hickman, G. W. C. T. James G.
Thrower and other prominent members of the
order will attend the meeting and address the
assemblies.
Several prominent families, who have been
prospecting in the South recently, and who an
ticipate moving to Georgia from other States, and
one or two distinguished men from “across the
water,” have been hold in their inquiries and
expressions in regard to the location of liquor
shops, and have investigated closely the offers
for sale made in temperance towns and cities,
and in some instances have paid good prices for
homes where their children could not see a bar
room sign.
The Good Templars of Jonesboro have held
highly commended for its durability of color P^lic meetings, and had all the arguments in
such a thing been required of her, for she didn't
know that her heart had gone out to this gay
disciple of Moore, before she had ever looked
every appearance of silk.
: The gem skirt supporter is indeed to be rec-
, ommended. It p’uts all the weight of the clothes
favor of temperance exhausted, to induce the
young men to abandon the drink. Yet, on the
17th instant one of their noble, generous-hearted
by much evil. We are exhorted to abstain from
the very appearance of evil; to obey this precept
we must avoid the improper use of wine.
2. Another argument urged in favor of wine
drinking is derived from Paul’s instruction to
Timothy, “Drink no longer water, but use a
little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and thine
often infirmities.
It is admitted that Paul wrote this advice un
der inspiration; it is, therefore, of divine author
ity. What does it mean ? Let us seek the truth
and give a candid answer to the above question.
First—Timothy was evidently an abstinence
man, he drank only water. Second—He was out
of health—troubled, no doubt, with a disor
dered stomach, and consequently with indiges
tion, together with other maladies which fre
quently troubled him, and greatly hindered his
usefulness. Third—His system required deli
cate and nutritious food to give it tone, and his
body strength and vigor. Wine was reccommen-
ded as possessing the qualities required by his
enfeebled state of health. Fourth—This wine,
like that made by the Savior, was free from any
alcoholic quality; it would not intoxicate. There
were various sorts of wine, and among them
that which was harmless and beneficial. The
reasons for saying this wine did not intoxicate
are these:
First—Paul reccommended Timothy, who was
a pastor or bishop, to take it. Second—He says
to the same person, that a bishop or preacher
must not be given to wine. If he does not con
tradict himself—and inspiration never does—
then he must refer to two qualities of wine,—
one that would do him good and one that would
be harmful; the former was allowed, the latter
forbidden. Third—The science of medicine has
made the discovery, that alcoholic drinks in
flame and injure the stomach; that they impart
no strength, but detract from the vigor of phys
ical manhood.
South, in that part of Georgia above a line run
ning from the lower boundary of Richmond
I county west to the Alabama line, at the point
where the Pine Mountains in Harris county are
arrested by the wide-spread Chattahoochee
(about twenty miles above Columbus), and
thirty-six lay-delegates, four from each presiding
elder’s district, does not meet at Griffin on De
cember 2d, as we published yesterday, but De
cember 1st (Wednesday). It numbers 175 pas
tors, and represents 51,463 white members.
The colored members have united with a South
ern colored church called the “ Colored Method
ist Episcopal Church in America.” This church
has four colored bishops, and about 200,000
members in the Southern and Western States.
The North Georgia Conference represents 407
local preachers—that is, preachers who do not
travel and are not pastors, unless employed es
pecially by the bishop or presiding elder to
do so.
The Xorth Georgia Conference is one of about
forty conferences into which the M. E. Church
South is divided, numbering in all more than
700,000 members, all white except 6,000 Indians
and some 100 Chinese; more than 200,000 in
crease since the Confederate war closed. It now
has a conference in Indiana and Maryland,
where it had no members before the war. It is
presided over by eight bishops, whose resi
dences are respectively in Georgia, South Caro
lina, Y’irginia, Mississippi. Louisiana, Tennes
see, Kentucky and Missouri. These are Paine,
Pierce, Kavanaugh, McTyere, Keener, Marvin,
Wightman snd Doggett.
Thai Boy.
Who does not know that hoy ? He is as nu
merous as the sands of the sea; he infests every
neighborhood; every square of every city in the
land has one of him. He is omnipresent, and
As Paul teaches to be temperate in the use of j almost omnipotent for evil. He has a hand in
even good things, so he cautions his son Timo
thy to take a “little wine only for his stomach's
all that is bad and knows not that which is
good. He it is that persuades the good little
young men, while in a State of intoxication, blew ! sake,” and his often “infirmities” use, but do i boy of Sabbath-school proclivities to play truant
.something akin to despair ! on the shoulde^ so^that j tfiSSS :
began to steal ovef her, and for the first time in
her life she caught herself longing for beauty.
Ida possessed but one physical charm—her eves,
large and soft, with the pure, noble soul within
peering forth from their dark-grey depths. The
irregular features, straight black hair, and sallow
complexion could lay no claims whatever to
beauty.
Had Max. Burton only known it, he was wor
shipping “loveliness of mind and character,”
when he expressed his shallow opinion so forci
bly. Forgetting he had never seen the face of
Ida Gray, and judging only from what he had
seen, he had painted her. in his imagination, as
a Venus, a Hebe, or something equally lovely in
form and feature; it never occurred to him to
doubt if the picture were correct. He had
learned to love something, of that he was quite
certain, and kept saying to himself, “Beautiful
Ida! How devotedly I love you!”
“Ida, I love yon very much. Will you be my
wife ?” was the simple, straight-forward declara
tion and question our heroine heard, one beauti
ful, sunni* morning, as she sat alone in her office,
thinking of a beautiful face and lithe, graceful
figure she had just seen tripping along past her
window. Her higher instincts had been waging
a tierce war with her loving heart, since that day
when she was first awaktned to a sense of her
true regard for Max. Burton. She knew, now,
that she loved him, and for his sake a longing
for beauty had taken possession of her for
awhile; but she told herself: “It is a shallov
l theory, narrow-minded and selfish, and, if lean
;not be loved for what I am, I do not want hi;
house of the dead by his friends and relatives
: with sadness. Then how can a minister, whose
1 mission is to save, withhold his influence when
| it might save some one?
j The temperance mass meeting at Evans
j Chapel in this city, on the evening of the I7th,
, . , . , ., , was certainly a very satisfactory demonstration. *>■
hind to mane them smooth across the face as , q* be meeting was arranged under the auspices of I He who thus accuses the holy “Author of all
mourning vails are worn, and the right hand Hamilton Lodge, Xo. 228, and the house was srood. ” does so at his peril.
hacks should wear them. It is of course worn
j under the dress body, and the waist does not
. feel the burden of the clothes.
| The new vails are worn quite long again.
These have a small hem, with a string run in
i and tied around the hat or bonnet, fastened be-
there is no license to use it as a beverage; none
to use it on festive occasions; none to use it at
meals; none to drink it as a luxury. We should
be very careful not to misinterpret the scrip
tures, or to wrest them to our moral harm. To
plead divine authority as an excuse for wrong
doing, is to make God the author of our evil.
corner is then thrown back over the shoulder.
The most beautiful ball and reception dresses
are now shown in colors. The richest of these
are tulle, with tulle flounces and tabliers em
broidered with pearls forming the most lovely
flowers. Some have only a delicate vining of
pearls around them like a border.
The double apron front is a novelty this sea-
well-filled, two-thirds of whom were Good Tem
plars in regalia. Addresses were delivered by
Revs. W. F. Cook, pastor of Trinity Church,
and W. A. Dodge, pastor of St. Paul s Church,
Capt. John Milledge and others. Several names
were added to the roll of Hamilton Lodge at the
close of the public exercises.
Morning Star Lodge, Xo. 379, at Homer, in
son. It is different on each side of the figure, ; Banks county, has a lodge deputy and a mem
and laps in front. Some dressmakers make the j bership that,' for diligence and zeal, cannot be
surpassed by any lodge in the State. They were
organized fourteen months ago, with one dozen
members. They now have over one hundred
: members on their roll; have organized four other
aprons plain one side and striped on the other,
according to the materials of the costume. The
main trimming is knife pleatings or fringe.
A Piexh-ward widow moved into her house lodges near them, and nursed them into vigorous
tbe other day, and her first six callers were | life, and all of them are now strong lodges. Dr.
lightning rod agents. She bluffed them off one J. Wylie Quillian. the Deputy of Morning Star
by one, but when the seventh one came, he 1 Lodge, can tell you how it was done, and how
said: “I don’t claim that a rod will protect
the house, but I do say if I was looking for a
second wife I'd never marry a widow who didn't
have a lightning rod on her house. And that’s
the way all rich men think.” “You may put
It is a shallow : up two of ’em!” she promptly replied, “and be
sure they are conspicuous, too.”—Detroit Free
Press.
the members will help in such work.
Hezekiah Evans, a good citizen and an exem
plary member of Oak Lawn Council, U. F. T.,
died recently, and the Council paid a handsome
tribute to his worth in a series of excellent res
olutions. We have not the space to publish
them.
ood, ” does so at his peril.
3. Another argument in favor of the use of
wine is this: In wine-growing countries, where
i the people drink a great deal of it, there is no
drunkenness. If we made it here in great quan
tities, and all our people were wine-drinkers,
! there would be no drunkenness among us.
This is a very popular argument, and is gen-
| erally believed to be founded in truth; but one
who has made close observation, and ascertained .
i the facts as they exist in wine-growing conn- Courier-Journal.
tries, gives positive testimony against this the
ory. I give you the facts as stated by a compe-
i tent man who fully explains himself.
Dr. Holland, editor of the Scribner, wrote the
following when in Switzerland:
“A large amount of land in this Canton of
Yaud is surrendered to the cultivation of the
I grape; and as the wine of Switzerland is never
heard of out of Switzerland, it is plain that it is
j all drank here. Indeed, I have been assured
< that the wine produced in this Canton is drank
mainly in the Canton itself. Xow, from near
Yillevenue to Morges, a distance of twenty-five
| miles, as I guess somewhat at random, the en
tire lake-side, averaging half a mile in width, is
a vineyard. One can say almost with literal
and “go swimmin ” with him that he may come
hack and enjoy his discomfiture when the pa
rental protest and admonition is being vigor
ously applied. He chaseth the unwary cat and
tieth the tin can to the caudal appendage of
the family watch dog. He lieth down to learn
evil and riseth up to practice it, and thus ac-
quireth a wide-spread notoriety which putteth
his name in the mouth of every one and maketh
him a terror in the land. There is no hope of
relief from his wickedness, for he has existed
from the beginning and always will. As the
seasons come and go, and the bad boy of yester
day becomes the man of to-day, even so do oth
ers rise up to follow in his footsteps and perpet
uate a line we cannot hope will ever become ex
tinct. Let our objurations rest on him as we
will, he yet remains to torment and distress us.
He is the inevitable whom we cannot avoid.—
Truth in Brief.—Anybody can soil the repu
tation of any individual, however pure and
chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies
will believe, and his friends never hear of. A
puff of the idle wind can take a million of the
seeds of thistle, and do a work of mischief
which the husbandman must labor long to undo.
Such are the seeds of slander, so easily sown,
so difficult to gather up, and yet so pernicious
in their fruits.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words
scorch them, and bitter words make them wrath
ful. Kind words make people good natured.
Though they do not cost much, yet they accom
plish much.—Pascal.
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