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President Cleveland Declines.
The President has been compelled reluc
tantly to decline visiting Cincinnati and New
Orleans.
A Foul Fowl-ing Piece.
Now is the time when the managers of fall
fairs fall foul of each other.—Philadelphia News.
It is als j true that at fall fairs fair fowls fare
foul.
Our Geographical Center.
It is said that the geographical center of the
United States is marked by the marble shaft
which rises over the grave of Major Ogden, of
the United States army, at Fort Kiley, Kansas.
Major < •gden died of cholera in 1856.
A Boths child Expelled.
For an alleged insult to the Archduke Karl
Ludwig, the Emperor’s brother, Baron Na
thaniel Rothschild has forfeited hia Austrian
citizenship.
Onr Minister to Bussia.
Mr. G. V. N. Lothrop, who represents this
Government at St. Petersburg denies having
sent in his resignation—says he expects to
spend the coming winter in SL Petersburg.
An American British Peer.
It will be a novel sight to see an American
born boy sitting as a peer in the English house
of Lords. But the direct living descendant in
the oldest son line of the English house of
Fairfax, is the son of a Virginia farmer. The
other day he was driving a mule team in a
Loudoun connty hay held.
The Chineso Astonished.
At first the Chinese papers and capitalists
denied and ridiculed the report about conces
sions being made to outsiders; then exhibited
the wildcat aatoniabment at the fact—but in
accordance with Chinese obsequieonsness,
gracefully acquiesce in the inevitable—will
’’accept the situation” and make the best of it.
The Centennial.
The great National festivities intended to
commemorate the hundredth anniversary of
the adoption of the Federal Constitution begun
by a grand military and civic procession on
Thursday the 10th. Want of space forbids a
lengthy notice now. A pageant was presented
never before witnessed in this country, and it
is estimated that there were more than two
hundred thousand visitors in Philadelphia.
THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA. GA„ STURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1881.
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Onr Marvelous Progress.
When the Constitution was adopted there
were thirteen States, and the population under
the first census—1700, was 3,024,214. There
were about 1,500 cilice holders, and the Treas
ury receipts in 1702 amounted to $3,(101,000.
Now the Union comprises thirty-eight States,
contains a population of not less than 60,000,-
000, with more than 100,000 cilice holders, and
the Treasury receipts $336,439,000.
For the year ending June 30th, 1887, there
were 29,392 patents issued—the total number
for forty-two years, from July 1st, 1836, to
June 30tb, 1887, being 355,291.
Since onr public debt reached its highest
point, in 1865, there has been paid on it
$1,379,533,445—or more than one-half its high,
est total—representing 40,037 tons of solid sil
ver, and, also, a reduction exceeding two dol
lars for every second of time from August 31,
1805, to July 1st, 1887.
This is a record unapproached by any other
nation in the world, and this is the only one
paying its debt.
No wonder Gladstone said he regarded onr
Constitution "as the most remarkable work
known to modern times • • in its applica
tion to political afiairs,” or that Rothschild, in
view of results as above shown, under its op
eration, should express amazement, and admi
ration—that our progress and development
was without a parallel in the world’s history,
as we had outstripped all other nations in
what makes a nation great.
Bich Gold Find in Georgia.
A very rich gold find is reported from Union
and Towns counties in Georgia, by the Gum
Log Mining Company, whose headquarters
are in Chattanooga, Team A quartz vein four
feet in thickness has been struck at a depth of
one hundred feet. The quartz will yield $2000
per ton. Several hundred tons will be mined
before the stamp mill will be set to work.
Hon. W. D. Kelley and the Bouth.
The above named distinguished citizen—‘‘the
father of the 1 louse”—is often derisively spoken
of by some of our contemporaries as ‘‘Pig Iron
Kelley,” because of bis tireless and persistent
advocacy of the development of the great iron
interests of the country. The anti tariff press
of the South have often pointed the shaft of
ridicule at him on account of it; yet he has this
to say of and for thiB, as yet, undeveloped sec
tion:
I think it (the South) the El Dorado of this
country. It represents a vast region undevel
oped, which will one day attract the world.
There are two classes there, and they aro hos
tile : Those who represent the past, and those
who believe in and are working for the present
and future of the South.”
Corn Pones and Wheat Biscuit.
W. L. Stanley, at the asylum at Milledge-
villo, Ua., has accomplished the remarkable
feat of making 796 pones of bread in 56 min
utes. He makes 4,244 biscuits a day, and it
takes him only 45 minutes to make them and
bake them.
. Hon. Henry W. Hilliard.
This distinguished gentleman, ex-Congress-
man from Alabama, Minister to Belgium udder
Mr. Tyler, and Minister to Brazil under Mr.
liayes, is busily engaged upon liis "Reminis-
cenc* s at Home and Abroad.” It will be pub
lished by Appleton.
Invited to Atlanta.
On the 12th, Mr. Pringle, of the Georgia
State Senate, offered a resolution, which was
adopted, extending to the Forestry Congress,
known as the American and Southern Forestry
convention, a cordial invitation to hold their
next meeting in the city of Atlanta.
California's Governor Dead.
Governor Washington Bartlett, of California,
died at the home of bis cousin, Mrs. Dr.
Becke.t, at 5 o'clock, on the afternoon of the
12th (Monday), of chronic affection of the kid
neys. Governor Bartlett was a native of Sa-
vannali, Ga., and was sixty-three years of age.
He removed to California in 1844 and has lived
there since.
The next day, the 13th, Lieutenant-Governor
Waterman took the oath as Governor, and as
sumed the duties of State Executive.
Alaska Seals.
In the waters West of Alaska are numerous
islands on which the seals breed. One of the
four principal of these is St. Paul Island, near
the center. It is estimated that there are about
4,000,000 breeding seals. During the past sea
son near 105,000 gkiiiB have been taken, of
which 100,000 have been accepted as good.
Recently British seal hunters have been dep
redating to the destruction of thousands of
seals needlessly, besides threatening to involve
the two governments far more seriously than
the fisheries off New Foundland.
The United States agent reports that while
the death rate among the native inhabitants
has been high, it is a remarkable fact that not
a white man has died from disease since the
United States secured the Seal islands from
Russia. ■
The application of John Most, the anarchist
for naturalization has been refused.
The Fenian Bro’’ierhood have expelled
O’Donovan Rossa, for what the Brotherhood
deem to be proven treachery.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, and staff, un
der escort of the Atlanta Rifles, left for Phila
delphia on Tuesday afternoon, the 12lh inst.
Governor Richardson, of South Carolina,
and staff, left the same afternoon, escorted by
the Governor’s Guard, of Columbia, for the
same destination.
Men Better Than Their Creeds.
Most religionists, we suspect, are inclined to
think the sect to which they belong the sole
one that is right, yet most of them would hes
itate about asserting the startling conclusion
to which their logic inevitably leads. Each
proceeds upon the idea that those who do not
accept its dogmas are in a bad way now and
destined to be in a far worse way in the world
to come. The Calvinistic theology, for in
stance, proves by a stern course of reasoning
that all mankind, save a select few, are hurry
ing on to a realm of eternal despair. The llo
manist proves by arguments equally cogent
that there is neither hope nor Inercy for those
who die out of the communion of his church
Others insist that a lot of never ending misery
must be the fate of all who fail of attain in:
given standard of piety. The outlook of each
one must seem gloomy enough when he re
fleets how small is the number of those who
he admits may be saved in comparison with
the multitude who he thinks will be assuredly
lost. But hardly any of these will, when con
fronted right squarely with the question, ad
mit that he believes the bold, bare, unmiti
gated conclusion of his creed. He who will, in
a general way, urge the harshest doctrines of
the school of Geneva, will not admit that the
brother, cousin or friend, whom bis theory
does not admit to the ranks of the saved, are
to be found among the eternally lost. He who
assents without murmur to all that Rome
teaches and enjoins, will flinch when you nar
row down the question to the one point of
whether he believes the relative or companion
though otherwise good and true, is forever
cut off from hope and mercy for the one pf
fense of rejecting some speculative tenets.
No; whilo hardly any one is so good in prac
tical life as the precepts of his religion require
him to be, not many are so harsh in their
j udgments as the logical deductions from their
premises demand. It is beginning to dawn on
men’s minds, slowly, indeed, but decidedly,
that men cannot award justice to men—that
lie who made us is alone qualified to sit in
judgment. He can determine—and He alone
can—how far one is responsible for his actions
and thoughts—how much of his character is
due to inherited propensities, how much to the
influence of environments, and how much to
individual inclination to do wrong. /As it
mo/e and more appreciated how complex are
the forces which are moving man in his every
act and thought, it is less and less accepted
that belief or disbelief of a formulated creed
will bo the dividing line between eternal hap
piness and endless misery. Men are by no
means as good as Christianity requires them
to be; hut many of them are better than their
apprehensions of Christian doctrine would au
thorize their being. , ,
A Minister’s Sudden Death.
Rev. Donald Fraser, of Decatnr, Ga., had
been absent a short time in Florida, and was
on bis return home, by way of Brunswick.
He left that place on Monday evening on the
East Tennessee train, apparently in unusual
good health and spirits. Having surrendered
his ticket be put himself in position for a com
fortable ride. During the night with no sign,
or any indication whatever that life was ex
tinct, he died in the seat, and it was only
when the conductor attempted to arouse him
on Tuesday morning, just before reaching At
lanta, that he discovered that he was dead.
Peabody Institute Scholarships.
S;ate School Commissioner Orr has made
the following appointments for scholarships in
the l’eabcdy Institute of Nashville, under that
fund: Lizzie S. Jordan, of Crawfordville;
Jennie T. Claike, Esom Ilill, I’olk county;
Matlie Haygood, Oxford; Dorine Rawls, Mar-
shalivilie; Maud Tompkins, of Heard county;
Carrie Bitting, of Dalton; Mamie Aldredge, of
Atlanta; Pinkie Cain, of Linton, Hancock
county; John Gibson, of Glascock county;
Turner Barnett, of Oglethorpe county; Rena
Hubberi, of Barnett, reappointed. Commis-
sioner Orr bas appointed up to date eighty
persons to this university.
Gladstone on Our Constitution.
On June 24th a special invitation was sent to
Mr. Gladstone inviting him to attend the Cen
tennial Celebration of the adoption of the
American Constitution, informing him that it
was ibe only one sent to any person not an
American citizen, or an accredited diplomat;
and he was also assured that he would be al
lowed to make whatever arrangements he
pleased, and would be entertained in America,
as no man has been since the visit of General
LaFayet e.
In his letter declining to come, and giving
tbe reasons necessitating his action, the fol
lowing remarkable expression occurs:
‘The attractions of tbe invitation are en
hanced to me by the circumstance that I have
always regarded that constitution as tbe most
remarkable work known to the modern times,
to have been produced by human intellect at a
single stroke, so to speak, in its application to
political affairs. I shall watch with profound
interest tbe proceedings of your celebration,
when you will look back upon a century of na
tional advancement that is without a parallel
in bistory, and look forward to its probable
continuance upon a still larger soale.”
Governor Gordon has signed the act known
as Dr. Felton’s Wine Room bill, which levies a
tax of $10,000 on wine rooms. The act goes
into immediate effect, but licenses granted will
not be affected. Persons who hold licenses
will be allowed to sell until the time tor which
they were granted has expired.
At Sioux City, Iowa, the trial of Fred
Munchrath for the murder of the prohibition
advocate, Rev. George C Haddock, began on
the 9th instant.
Isn’t it a little curious that in these multiply
ing killing cases it is always the prohibitionist
that gets killed?
Tbe Guards, Green ville, S. C., and three
companies of Birmingham, Ala., tbe Zouaves,
Rifles, and the Volunteers, have decided to
attend the Piedmont Exposition and take part
in the sham battle, and review by President
Cleveland. Birmingham will make a hand
some exhibit at the exposition, and the people
will come en masse.
How We Will Best Be Fitted for the
Coming World.
That every event which occurs is the conse
quent of something which has preceded, the
antecedent of something which is to follow;
that the present order of things is the outcome
of causes which have been operating through
ages, and that what is taking place to-day will
tell upon history for thousands of years to
come, are truths beyond dispute. We do not
know, however, that they can be classed as
truths of practical value. It helps us not at all
that we can see—to be told that we are what
we are because 6f our environments, and that
those environments began to be determined
millions of years before we were bom. It will
certainly not guide and will hardly stimulate
us to a wise course of action to reflect that
what we may think, say and do will have an
important bearing upon tbe destinies of genera
tions that are to succeed us. True, we strive
to advance what we think will be the interests
of posterity. We plant and build, we nego
tiate and go to war with a view to the conven
ience and comfort of those who shall be our
successors. But we move with a very limited
range of vision. The results which follow our
efforts may be widely different from what we
hope or intend. Some of the greatest blessings
which we now enjoy have come despite the
earnest resistance of men who supposed that
they were acting for the best Other great ad
vances in human development have been made
when those who were instrumental in bringing
them about did not mean to accomplish those
particular thiDgs. We are groping in utter ig
norance of what results shall be. Yet are we
not without guidance. We have the eternal
rules of truth and right by which to shape our
actioDS. We should not, when Issues are pre
sented, inquire which way is the easier or
which seems fraught with more present ad
vantages. When we are governed by consid
erations of expediency we may well doubt
whether or not we are doing well foe those who
shall follow us. But if we obey God’s unvary
ing rule we need have no fear. » •
The Thinking World.
’Tis not a large one. * A vast majority of the
inhabitants of our globe do not take time to
think. Indeed, very many of them cannot
afford the time. The hard conditions of their
lives force them to devote all their energies to
the struggle for existence. The necessity of
finding bread for himself and family presses
too imperatively on the average man to permit
him to discuss the great questions that are pre
senting themselves on every side. But of
those who have leisure for thought, the num
ber who think is small—tbe number who think
independently or profitably, very small. Not
all, by any means, to whom thinking is a busi
ness, can by any just definition of the term, be
denominated thinkers. They who from Press
or Pulpit offer to educate the masses, are, as a
general thing, willing to accept their ideas and
opinions at second band. If they take an old
creed or a time-tried theory and present it in
more emphatic language or in eome new con
nection, they suppose that they have quite
accomplished all that could be expected of
them. Most, indeed, are so confined by their
solicitude to remain orthodox, that they would
shrink from a new thought as though it were
something to be feared. There can be no
doubt that many intellects that were capable
of entering upon new fields of inquiry, have
pursued the eld beateD track from an appre
hension that shoald they diverge they would
be branded as heretical. Others, however,
do so; not from timidity, but from an unwil
lingness to make the effort for some new lines
of thought, or from inability to accomplish
such achievement with effort.
But if those who act as interpreters between
the great few who originate and the many to
whom their language would be unintelligible,
do their work well, they deserve no small
share of credit They do what has to be done.
The masses who are to be moved by new reve
lations are generally unable to apprehend what
the reveaier has discovered until it is explained
to them by teachers more nearly akin to them
in intellectual power. It is a fact that they
who are incapable of discovering new truths,
are they who can enunciate them when discov
ered, with most plausibility and emphasis.
Besides, while the realm of the unknown into
which inquiry may adventure is vast, the limits
of what men may come to -know are narrow.
Could each who aspires to intellectual labor
evolve some new thought, the whole range of
knowledge possible to man would soon be oc
cupied. Nay, it would have ’been occupied
long ago, and the spirit of research, so essen
tial to the happiness of many, would be with
out a field for exercise. Such has not been
God’s plan. It has pleased Him that tbe pro
gress of human civilization shall be gradual
and slow. Those gifted with intellects capable
of striking out great truths, He has scattered
along never very thickly—most generally
thinly. We need not apprehend a time when
those endowed with powers of thought shall be
idle from want of subjects upon which to exer
cise their faculties. So long as man shall
dwell upon the earth, intelligent and patient
study will discover unsuspected facts in Na
ture’s wonderful workings, and find novel ap
plications of long known principles. As civil
ization becomes more generally diffused, and
the energies of the human mind more active,
advancement in all departments of practical
and speculative knowledge will become more
rapid. But the thinking world is not likely to
become relatively greater than at present.
An Old ddress.
Local Soverej,itv the Ideal
America: System.
musics opTeveme.
BY REV. A. A. PSCOMB, O. D.
KOHTV-SI 11 I’XrER.
Men often say that » tor y repeats itself,
think not. Epochs a eras make history, bat
epochs and eras are «h because they are so
unlike one another, history repeats itself,
it would long since Fe lost its marvellous
freshness and sunk 1? the routine of stale
commonplace. Cenries ago, experience
would have ripened » prophecy, and con
jecture matured into irfect sagacity. Then,
too, a strange yesterff would not give birth
to a strange to-morns nor would man rise
every morning in a IF world and the world
itself enter on a new obation. To see would
be to foresee. Revolions might be calcula
ted as we foretell clipses; literature and
science would run ln-he same channel; the
almanac wonld be thtypical product of the
brain; and poets and’earners, converted into
Le Verriers, would fetble at any time to turn
their telescopes to thebscure recesses of so
ciety and detect theorihcoming man who
would add a new plat to the old constella
tions of genius.
No; history never peats itself. A thing
done is done forever. Events have no coun
terparts. Years die id are buried; the sep
ulchre of the ages hi no resurrection. Free
will makes the repetbn of history impossible.
Free-will is a terribltact, and, at every step,
confronts history wltfearful anomalies. Ge
ologists know where’ look for coal and iron;
Asironomers can loce the stare; Navigators
can trust their obsertious; for Almighty God
lias signed the bond Nature as the security
of its truthfulness, nd given it into their
hands. Tne earth b its orbil; the world has
none; none at least cculable by finite intelli
gence. History, theforo, never repeats it
self. Volumes oil vcimes it writes, but, no
sooner have they beewrilten, than they are
out of date except aselps, like Dramas and
Novels, in the bewilding study of man’s na
ture.
If, indeed, we con abnegate our higher
nature and sink into e intellect of the senses,
no doubt it would bicomfortable to believe
that history repeats ielf. I can understand
how that could be. >il delights in an ap
proach to fixed nnifority. It loves periodicity.
Chills and fevers are pical specimens of pe
riodic action. The leer you go down in the
scale of being and hat, the more steady the
recurrence of the bs. The coarser appe
tites, the baser passim, are awfully regular;
and I do not. wonder, erefore, that as great a
genius as Mr. Buckle lould find in thefts and
suicides the illustratics of a theory, which
reduces the human wi to a mechanical se
quence of nature. La and crime build their
l’aradise on this suppicd necessity. Unlike
JKdipus, they rush toieet their fate and wel
come it as an iuspiratn and a rewarding joy.
Much of the represitative intellect of the
day has a heavy bias ’wards the animal na
ture. If, forsooth, <e wished to have an
intellect for the readkt success in the market
place, or, on wilder jenas, I fear, that he
would take his type om beneath, not from
above. Mepbistopbes, not Gabriel, would
be the brooding spir of that birth. Give
such a mind the cuumg of the fox, the in
genuity of the ra and the stealthiness
of the snake; add ti it the eyesight of the
eagle and the spring! the tiger on his prey,
and you arm him for he world—a fatality of
power. If men were 11 moulded in this shape,
history would verilyrepeat itself. But the
men who make histoi are, for the most part,
far better than this, ad therefore history is no
horoscope.
Last of all, I refer t the facts of history for
the confirmation of. .he truth, that history
never repeats itself, ietween the Hebrew of
the Judges and the ebrew of the Monarchy,
ouly a small space lia and yet what a moral
reach of interveningJjja! From the Greece
f Herodotus wtj*"wd in the/raiWriguring
Sory of hen4> < ® > t”A'. m.« 11,
* "“cfy in ihe sBnsiffof ; 4er I’eri-
clean age—only UJriS-fourtbs of a celnury—
what mighty agesCd their transitions inter
pose! Did history reeat itself then and there?
Rome was many Rotes. If you pass from the
Rome of the Graccli to the R >me of Cicero,
thence to the Rome f Augustus, thence to the
Rome of Nero, you ave gone over about two
hundred years, and vhat a series of gulfs you
have bridged! Picture Antony’s Cleopatra on
the one side, picture Rome's Cornelia on the
other, and tell me wiere you will find the an
tipodes of civilizatin in a sharper contrast?
Nearer home, from Elizabeth to Cromwell,
what an England sprang to power and
prowess! Nearer stll; from the America of
George Washington to the America of Robert
E. Lee—even on thesoil of Virginia—what an
extent of siguilican amazements! Yes; his
tory is an everlastag surprise. Tamerlanes
and Napoleons rush on the world unawares,
Great events find t.e race off its guard, its
sentinels asleep. Tie parable of the virgins
repeats itself with a broader moral; all the
lamps are out. Involutions startle nations
like the avalanches >f the Alps; the noise ol
their thunder is tie announcement of their
nearness. And amil all, the Eternal l’rovi
dence moves on, laving our hearts in the
hushed awe that folows His footsteps.
In all history sonething is found greater
than events. Where it does i g work with
fidelity, it observes he most perfect eimplicity;
this simplicity strengthens reason, reason di
rects feeling, and fieling supplies inspiration.
Yet, at last, hiitory is a perplexity. Argu
ments and illustratons do not suffice to show
tbe immediate objects or the ultimate ends.
< >ur questions are not answered. Nor is this
surprising, for history though evereo real, is a
parable which conveys a meaning profounder
than its outer form. For this reason, it is an
appeal to faith in God. Net otherwise can it
be history, and bence, when it forgets this
final purpose, it is the poorest of fictions.
These remarks have Keen designed to pre
pare the way for my subject, viz: Old Geokuia
asd New. What I wish is to avoid all specu
lative theories as to our civilization past and
prospective, and especially the political con
nexions of this topic. 1 do not know that I
can do this, but I can try.
Old Georgia is old Georgia no more. The
early form of our civilization, dating back to
Colonial times, surviving the Revolutionary
struggle and maintaining its existence under
the Constitution of the Federal Government
for seventy years, has ended. It ended sud
denly and violently. It ended by the
power of the sword, the worst agency
that ever smites asunder tbe closer
bonds of social and political life. Such
change—so thorough, so wide-spread—left
nothing untouched within its scope. Against
our will, our sacrifices, our prayers, it was ac
complished; against it, manhood and woman
hood, churches and states, all struggled, but
struggled in t ai i. I should be sorry to think,
that iu this natfr, history could repeat itself,
for one such cala uity is enough for the race.
Looking back on our former civilization, I
cannot reeist the conclusion that it was an in
stitution of Providence. By this, I mean,
that a higher will than ours ordained it and a
higher power than ours sustained it. The ear
lier civilizations of the North were mainly the
oretic; a logical frame-work was constructed in
advance; Puritan Fathers were beforehand with
their syeteme of pubi c and private economy;
while oars generally obeyed the law of circum
stances and shaped themselves by pliant force
to enit the demands of occasion. One of the
distinctive facts of onr career, is this absence
of constructive will, this abeyance of choice on
abstract grounds, and, consequently this yield
ing to what seemed to be providential hints.
Indeed, could we have had our way, it is quite
likely that Southern civilization in the Colonial
age and afterwards under the Federal Consti
tution, would have been different from what it
was; but this was impossible and bence cir
cumstances, far too strong for human resis
tance, dominated both our purpose and power.
Partly because of the stringent necessities of
soil and climate, partly by reason of more im
perative laws, we grew into a state of things
not ideally our own; and rough-hew them as
we might, the ends fulfilled destiny.
For the precise work it had to do, this civili
zation was admirably fitted. It contained the
most active and energetic element of modem
liberty, viz: Leal Sovereignty, which it had in
herited from the first occupancy of this coun
try. Not only as s principle but as a senti
ment, it cherished this doctrine and embodied
it in its homes and business. The old planta
tion was its bulwark and the old planter was
its most resolute chieftain. Outside of this,
our civilization cleared the forest, opened the
territory, redeemed a large share of the Atlan
tic slope as the first arena of American enter
prise, did much to secure the Mississippi Val
ley, originated the Lewis and Clark explora
tion, and more than any other section aud more
than all sections, enlarged the area of our In
stitutions and made a continent possible to the
American Flag. For both races, it was aposp
er of immense good. For both hemispheres,
it was a benificent power, acting nationally
and inter nationally, and diffusing its blessings
with singular (quality over vast portions of the
globe. Had its advantages been selfishly con
fined to one race, to one section, to one conti
nent, J should hesitate to claim for it what 1
have claimed. Directly or indirectly, this old
civilization made itself felt among the supreme
forces of the age, in tbe trade and commerce
of the world, in the geuius of North and South,
in ths inventive mind of Compton, Arkwright,
Cartwright and Whitney, in many inter
ests of social and political economy, in
Congresses and in Parliaments; and, as it
understood the creed and interpreted the code
of human duty, nowhere on the side of wrong,
everywhere on the side of right.
At every step in the progress of the race
physical forces blend with moral and intellect
ual forces. On no other consideration is civil
ization possible. Man is the image of the ma
terial universe as well as the image of God.
Winds and waters are his servants. Gravita
tion grinds his corn and sifts his flour. God
never meant him to be a sham and an imbecile,
but a sovereign girded with might and crowned
with honor. To fulfill this decree, man has
been invested with sovereignty over the earth,
that he may rebuild his fal'en paradise and
tread the soil as its Lord. If man chooses, be
can be nobler in wealth than in poverty, aiid
morally grander in a palace than in a hut. I
test our civilization by its tendencies to elevate
manhood in these relations; and I do not hesi
tate to affirm that, as it respects the industry
and commerce of nations, it was an immeasur
able benefit. We were the smallest recipient
of its advantages. Other communities took the
lion’s share. But we were content. Year by
year our thoughts and hopes were more and
more concentrated in our own civilization; and,
generation afier generation thrown back upon
ourselves for strength and support, our career
presented the spectacle of a people insulated
from the world by a peculiar ecouomy of life,
and yet acting with extraordinary energy on
the progress of the nineteenth century. This
is not the first example of its kind. Judea was
isolated; and thus the elect race grew tough
and sinewy, the Melhusaleh of the races—
counting its years by thousands and binding
its hardened ligaments around every fabric of
modern civilization. England, too, has had her
insularity, but tbe little island has balanced
the massive continents. I do not cite these as
parallel instances. This, however, I may say,
that our separation from tbe world gave us an
independence, a scorn of low compliances, a
high-toned personality, or, if you please, a
lofty distinctness that have left an ini ffaceable
impress on tha age.
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How often do we hear this expression fall
from the lips of those who have been disap
pointed in life—from those whose hopes have
been blighted, whose dreams have failed of re
alization. We hear it from the old and tbe
young, the rich and the poor, the exalted and
the humble. We hear it from .all ages and
all conditions in life. “If we had only known!"
Ah, yes; if we could only have looked into the
future—as did the prophets of old. The mis-
takes we could have avoided, the sorrows we
could have shunned, the tears that need not
have been shed, the hearts that would not have
been broken, and the premature graves that
would not, perhaps, have been filled! If we
had only known, doubtless wo could have
avoided some of these. Bat perchance while
endeavoring to avoid these errors we would
have committed greater blunders still Ti
some of us at least, life at times seeing almost
unendurable. The present is an aching raid
The past is ehrouded with sorrow. We fain
would forget the unhappy past and consign
those unpleasant recollections to the dark wa
ters of Lethe. But so long as reason sits en
throned, just so long will memory be busy
bringing.back its past wi .h its joys and sor
rows—its weal and its woes. We know not
what the future has in store for us. It is dark
with impenetrable mystery. But there is one
the insidious enemy is upon our track. iVe
know that the angel of death is hovering all
around and about us. But when and where he
shall reach out his arm and cut us down we do
not know. Let us rever, to the past, and let
those pass in review who have preceded us
upon the journey to that goal in the distance
that is au unfathomable mystery to us all—
then we can say:
“We know that moons shall wane
And summer birds from fsr shall cross the sea,
But who can tell us when to look for death. 1
Life is short and judgment is sure. Death
has all seasons for his own. <)ne by one have
our friends and relatives been snatched from
our embrace by the relentless hand of the fate
and borne to other spheres. The places that
knew them on earth will know them no more
forever. A bright boyish face arises from the
grave, as it weie, and B'.auds before me. That
tall athletic form—that face which was hand
some even in death—the dark curly hair, the
black flashing eyes, are indelibly stamped upon
my memory. Again 1 stood by that grave
which has been buried beuealh the snows of
many winters, and decked with the flowers of
as many summers. Again I hear the weak and
trembling voice of the aged minister as he
reads the chapter which is the Christian’s con
solation—the chapter which tells us about the
resurrection morn, when tbe dead shall come
forth and be judged according to the deedB
done in tbe body. Again I hear the mother,
who is crushed with sorrow and remorse, who
is bowed with grief and despair, cry out in an
guish as she stands by the grave of her only
boy, “If I had only known his life would be so
short!” Alas! alas! it was too late; her boy
was dead—died believing his mother would
never become reconciled to him again. Unfor
tunately a few weeks pryor to bis death, he,
by some thoughtless act, incurred his mother’s
displeasure, and she, while in a passion, told
him never to come in her presence again, nev
er to return to the old homestead. Little did
she dream that his sands of li fe were almost
run, and that ere long he would succumb to
the inevitable.
How often is this the case. I dare say that
we have all at some time in our past lives said
harsh and bitter things, that, subsequently we
would have given anything in the wide, wide
world to recall. How careful we should be not
to say or do anything calculated to wound the
sensitive feelings of others who may differ
from us in honest opinion. How many hearts
are bruised and bleeding that could be healed
by a gentle pressure of the hand, or a cheering
word freely spoken. We should not judge
those harshly who do not see as we do; tor ev
ery man has a sacred right to exercise his own
judgement and express his own opinion when
occasion may demand. If we could only look
down the stream of time, and discern the rock
upon which our frail life-buat is to be wrecked,
how different would our lives be! But as we
do not know when we shall be called from the
stage of action and make our exit from this to
the future and eternal world, it behooves us to
be prepared for the change that awaits us.
When we shall have crossed the dark river of
death, and Bhall stand face to face with our
Creator and Judge, may we receive thatplaud
it, infinite in wisdom and boundless in good
ness, “Well done, good and faithful servant-”
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Mr. Joel C. Harris is picturing for the read
ers of the Centurg Magazine a rural village of
Middle Georgia as be imagines it would ap
pear to a pair of health-seekers from New Eng
land. Judging from the opening chapters,
nothing finer than “Azalia” has appeared from
his pen.
There have been some scenes during the
present session of our Legislature which might
well bring a bluah to tha cheek of every Geor
gian. But it ia a matter for gratulation that
the successor of Judge Hall was chosen with
out au unseemly squabble. It is also a matter
for pride that no unworthy candidate offered
himself, and that before the event was deter-
mined, it waa known that the State was going
to have a good Judge.
We sometimes meet with the remark that
few old men are left. Yet phji.icians aLd sta
tisticians assure us that the average of huinau
life is lengthening. The remark above cited
is, we presume, made by old or elderly men—
who realizing how very many of those wiih
whom they started have dropped out, begin to
think that such mortality was never known
before. Nestor thought this way;—so have all
the old since his day. There are as many
aged people living now as there have ever been.
But the hand of the Reaper stays not.
“One by One.”
On the 3rd of Jnly, died in Knoxville, Tenn..
from the effects of a wound caused by the ac
cidental discharge of a pistol, Mr. O. D. I.oyd,
in the 40th year of his age.
The Editor of the Suhnt South was proud
to claim Mr. Lord as one of his most iotlmate
and most highly prized friends. He had known
him for years, and known him to esteem him
for his manly, noble, irreproachable character,
and generous disposition. Tbe shock occa
sioned by the suddenness of his death, is in
tensified by its seeming untimeliness, and the
heartrending circumstances attending it.
We extend sincere sympathy and condolence
to the grief-stricken widow and orphan—but
feel assured that that Gtffi whom he loved and
served will guard and protect them.
Philip Motz, Chief, and C. J. Been, Assis
tant Chief, of the Fire Department of Colom
bia, S. C., will represent that city at the meet
ing of the National Association, in Atlanta on
the 20th inst
A song seems a very simple thing, yet good
songs are not numerous, and song writing tal
ent is rare. Comparatively few songs have
ever taken hold of the popular heart to such an
extent as to make them moving agencies, and
of those that have in is quite impossible to tell
the secret of their power. None of the great
poets have written great songs. Most of them
wrote verses that are sometimes sung, but not
one, we believe, wrote anything -that will live
as a song.
Governed too much is the great trouble with
most of the nations of Europe. Individual ef
fort is too much repressed and too much taxed
for the privilege of being repressed. It would
seem that we are rapidly getting iu the same
way. Some of our Legislators appear to be
filled with the idea that there should be a spec
ial law for every contingency and that nothing
should be lsfi to individual discretion. Stat
utes multiply until none save those who make
it a daily study can know the law.
Now and then some new form of wickedness
startles mankind, or an old form in intense
horriblenesB fills the mind with terror, and
excites the remark that men are gro wing worse.
We doubt not that this apprehension has been
alarming all along down the period of history.
In the meanwhile, the moral condition of the
world has steadily grown better. It is far,
however, from being aa good as it should be,
and we fear that at its present rate of prog
ress, our planet will bs venerable before the
majority of its inhabitants will be righteous or
their condition blissful.
We bavs long been accuslomcd to regard our
Constitution as not only good, but very good—
as nearly perfect as anything in the law-mak
ing way ever conceived by human wisdom.
The time was, however, when it was not so
considered. It was subjected to sharp, and, in
many instances, unfavorable criticism by those
to whom it was first submitted, and the ques
tion of its adoption was for many months
doubtful. As we approach the centennial of
this great instrument, under whose provisions
we are enjoying peace and liberty, it would be
well for our people to read of how much pa
tience and wisdom it required to induce the
States to form a Confederacy after having
achieved their independence.
The old marooning pirates as depicted by a
writer in the late numbers of Harper's Maga
zine, were a most crnel and mischievous lot;
yet had there been so nearly a state of perpet
ual warfare at sea between the English and
Spaniards, that more than one Buccanier chief
tain who deserved to be hang as a freebooter,
received not pardon alone, but honors. To
capture a Spanish galleon, to sack a Spanish
town, were not deemed offenses by Elizabeth,
or, indeed, any of the Stuart kings.
It is said that the strain npon some of our
public officials is such that no one can enter
upon the dnties of these positions without the
apprehension of soon breaking down in health.
The fact that many of them do break down ia
beyond dispute. About the explanation, there
may be a difference of opinion. We do not
ascribe it to too much work or to too much re
sponsibility. English Ministers are hale and
strong at Seventy-five, after half a century of
official life. Onr cousins over the water are
Veterans’ Day.
We unite with the Macon Te'egraph in giv
ing the following suggestion our hearty en
dorsement :
Dr. Kudiaill, of Forsyth, makes a suggestion
in connection with the State Fair that will be
received with favor on all sides. It is that the
26th of October, “Veterans’ Day," be observed
as a holiday all over Georgia; that merchants
everywhere close up their places of business
and everybody assemble here at Macon who
can, to pay tribute to the scarred soldiers of
the Confederacy.
It is a fine idea. We are drifting away from
the days of ’61-’65 as rapidly as life’s out-go
ing tide can bear ua. Day by day some lamil-
iar head sinks beneath the wave and is seen no
more. Let us, while there is yet time, assem
ble once more to honor these grand men who
for four yearn, without price or hope of re
ward, braved death in battle and the elements
for ua. The moat loyal Southern man can do
this with honor to himaelf. We have greater
hope for the Union because of a membership
that, while true to its new allegiance, is yet
true to itself.
Come, then, one and all, and see the gray in
line once more. And yon who are restrained
from this final re-union of the battered veter
ans close your doors, and in the sight of sll
men put yourselves in accord with the senti
ment of the day.
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The damage done the railways in Arizona
prove to have been greater than was st first
thought. One fill fifty feet high on the Dra
goon grade washed out eight miles, and it will
take three weeks to repair wash-outs between
less the victims of the fiend Worry than are I Tucson and Benson. One thousand men are
our Americans. This it is which carries so I at work on repairs, and the damage done is
many of our public men to early graves. | estimated at $200,000.