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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. jlgTlNCT feint