Newspaper Page Text
V
The sunny soufrt
,.ii, pot upon his own back.
• of Tvn' 1; ; . knoWS what he says.”
Bewho si ; d to hear n0 reply, but
G, ,°, away he strode from
(luick'i 1,1 . liui when he once more
uip olace, anu
tne i>‘“" •, oriier „ide of the street, his
gained i n . • >ker an d more nervous,
much moved. Short,
a ..d He
is were
a I lies fell from h s lips, his
1,r , !l rlutched with a powerful
lvllldS 'U , : /... li/i f ill'll a/1 hla
or twice he turned his
• .ml mice or lw c uc mi*
^P’.mi the house he had left.
<r ; i7.e upon
" moon lia<
.ne
just risen,and though
prv beams fell not yet into the
• ier 'I. u ; t sjn. gave considerable light
; lrt i r’i'ri' r !:! reflection, and Gio kept
b ‘ V m- in under the shade of the build-
!" :ilV w,unerous squads of dissipated
'"'Vir lords and merchants were
>'° U!lp -• ’< • ity making the air in-
abroad in the c r
I ,iou- with their vulgarity and pm
ess and many were the bitter
i V-1 bat passed over the armorer’s
ri 8S their hoot ng fell upon his ears,
seven'll times he turned but of his way
them, for he desired not to be
J-ixed up in any broil, and well he
, ‘, w that an humble artisan would
not escape their impudent notice if
f li e y were to meet him.
s : l( j indeed were the affairs of Tyre
at this time. The great mass of the
population were hard-working people,
jfnose labor was called upon to satisfy
thnileinands of a tyrannizing and over-
bearing nobility. To be laboring people
and even to be poor, they could well
have borne, for they expected nothing
better; but to be mere footballs of a sel
fish aristocracy—to have the fruits of
their labor wrenched from them to sup
port their superiors in idleness, galled
them to the quick, and the more, be
cause they could not help themselves.
They knew t hey were citizens of Tyre,
and yet th^y saw that they were grad
ually, but surely, losing all the privi
leges hereto belonging.
Wealth bad poured in upon the island
city, and power had become hers; but
all this was in the hands of a few, and
that few had become self-willed and
arroganr. In vain had the Herculean
oracle warned them of the sure punish
ment of tlieir Iniquities, and in vain
had the people pleaded for a redress of
their wrongs. The king and the nobles
were given over to their wickedness,
and though they sometimes feared the
indignation of their subjects, and had
even taken the most stringent measures
to prevent them from holding any sort
of meeting', 3 et they knew not the dark
cloud that was lowering above them!
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
I, Louis Agassiz, Teacher.
I do not know in recent times a more
stirring answer than that of Lacordaire,
the famous Dominican, to the court of
peers in France, who asked him what
his profession was, when he replied
simply, “A schoolmaster,” unless it be
the answer of liis friend, the Compte de
Montalembert, the noblest specimen,
sometimes think, of the modern French
laity, to the same question: “A school
master and apeer of France.” -Nay, it was
but the other day that learned and hum
hie man of science, who will live in his
tory as having declared that he had “no
time to make money,” began his will
with the modest words, so great in their
modesty, “I, Louis Agassiz, teacher.”—
Contemporary Review.
Thoughtless Man.
“Well” be remarked, “the first of
December is close at hand. It’s won
derful how time rolls around, isn’t it?”
“Oh, Herbert,” she exclaimed, “I was
afraid you were going to forget all
about it.” 60 &
Forget about it! I haven’t thought
anything else for a week.”
“ * ° think,” she sighed, “that we will
have been married three years then
1 m so glad yon are not like other men
Most of them forget all about anni
versaries.”
“Anniversary! Oh, yes: that’s so.”
by, what were you thinking of?”
she exclaimed, and much of the tender
n ?ss had fled from her voice.
At hy-er-you see, my dear, I have s
note that’s due on the first of Decem
ber.”
there are strong probabilities
rnat it will he 1894 before he quits
Fishing that he were a little less frank.
w a *hington Star.
Wild Birds. >
__ V
I cannot keep my thoughts at home,
Those wanton wild birds will not stay
Within their cage, but ever roam
With bold ambitious flight away.
Oft to the mist-enshrouded past
The swift rebellious vagrants rove,
And cross its seas, gloom-draped and vast,
To perch in memory’s tangled grove.
Oft-times, with pinions strong and fleet,
They dare the future’s mystic clime,
Until with weary wings they beat
Against the prison bars of time.
Oft when sleep weaves his fairy chain
And weary limbs in bondage lie,
They leave their perches in the brain
To soar in dream’s enchanted sky.
Memphis, Term.
J.G.
X
‘GIVE US A REST.”
That is What Bill Arp says the People
Need.
°ld order of things is passing
a new age is upon us, with new
new methods, new revelations,
altogether new solution of the
n of life. * * * One keeps
by feeding the mind with fresh
food: by keeping in the
ine with the progression, evolu-
ni inspiration of the age; by
izing the supremacy of mind
Atter and all external condi-
by casting away doubts and
tnfl meeting everything with a
ns. sanguine, enthusiastic spirit.
'\bat the world needs is change
X'd. A change of belief is.more
"'vino- than changes of climate
»an thinketh so is he. The mis-
1 " of old age is due to the
h fl . n . ew ; fresh thought, and to the
. u i s constantly trying to re-
glorify the dead past.
lm H-Boloome,M.D.
officer, being hypnotized
h began to speak in Welsh,
1 fo, . ad known as a child, but for*
i0r twenty years.
“Oh, where shall rest be found,
Rest for the weary sonl.”
That is a beautiful hymn. But the
mind wants rest, too—rest from poli
tics, from the tariff, from silver and
gold*, from Hawaii and Rio Janeiro—
rest from Evans and Clay and Atkin
son—rest from the woman question
and pulpit controversy—rest from the
swim and slush of daily news—the
murders and suicides and lynchings—
and rest from Mitchell and Corbett.
Of course we must have politics and
candidates and controversy and the
news, but once in a while the mind
gets tired of all these and needs rest.
I don’t know a better place to find it
than in a little quiet hamlet that over
looks the sea or the gulf—where one can
gaze dreamily upon the waters, and.
like Byron, become poetic and ex
claim :
“Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll.”
It is good for a man to feel his insig
nificance once in a while, and he can
do it here. It is good to get away from
the restless, turbulent world and let
his mind become calm and serene. He
ought to have a few old-fashioned
books—such as Goldsmith and Cowper
and Tom Hood and Irving and Ike
Marvel—books that please without a
strain—books tender and true, and that
harden not the heart. There is
something about the ocean or a lake
or a river, or even a little rivulet, that
calms and comforts the mind. The
little spring branch is a never failing
delight to a child, and the memory of
it is fresh and green in our declining
years. Byron says:
“And I have loved the ocean--and my delight
when ahoy was to wanton in thy breakers.”
But the little branch and the wash-
hole down in the willows was good
enough for us. There is nothing in
nature or art so changeless and so
soothing to the mind as water—flow
ing, sparkling or falling water. How
delicious is sleep, how pleasant are our
dreams when the rain is pattering on
the roof. In my early youth, my fath
er was poor, and the little shedroom
where I slept had no ceiling and t be
window nothing bll t a sh ut(er . but
my m °ther tu c ked the covering
close a r onnd me and kissed me,
and the rain on the roof was the sweet
est music in the world. I will never
forget, that little room and those bless
ed rainy nights. The rich have manv
blessings, hut a kind providence has
saved some for the poor that money
cannot buy. The Indians had no luna
tic asylums in the olden time, hut
nature taught them that the sound of
falling water was the best cure for a
diseased mind. Amicalola means
mind-healing, and Amicalola falls was
where the Cherokees took their crazy
Indians and had them guarded in lit
tle wigwams on the brink until they
got well.
There are many legends of Indian
maidens leaping from seme high bluff
into the dark waters because of disap
pointed love, hut that is all fancy—the
creative fanev of the novelists and
story tellers. The old settlers told me
they never heard of such a case, nor of
an Indian committing suicide; hut
that they did sometimes take a crazy
one to Amicalola falls and the sound
of the falling waters cured them. T
think it would he a fitting change to
call this beautiful, sunny, breezy bluff
by that expressive name instead of
Clear Water. This little place is as
charming to us as when we first came.
Fishing, sailing, boating, bathing and
shell hunting still go on, while the
intervals are employed in reading,
talking, writing letters and receiving
them from absent kindred and friends.
There are none to molest or make us
afraid. Burns could have immortalized
such a hamlet, as he did the cottage in
the highlands:
“And I knew by the smoke that so gracefully
Abovethe dark trees that a eottaee was near.
And I said to myself, If there’s peace In this
The heart*that is humble might look for it
here.”
The mocking birds are building in
the hawthorne hushes, and their in-
sniring songs are almost unbroken by
day and hv night. I know now where
they spend their winters, for there are
thousands of them here, and not an
English sparrow to disturb their tran-
quilty. As I write, I can see a score of
them within a few rods, and a gentle
man told me that he killed 150 last
summer in ail effort to drive them
away from his grape arbor, and with
all that he saved no grapes to speak of.
He enclosed many bunches in paper
and in cloth, but it was no protection,
for they picked through every cover
ing.
1 have been writing some fish stories,
hut I find that these people begun on
me easy. They didn’t want to straiu
my credulity at the start. Since my
last letter, the fishing boys came in
with 2,700 from one night’s netting,
and Mr. Orr, of St. Petersburg, said
that not long ago he estimated the
night’s work of some fishermen down
below Lim, and they numbered 27,000.
They salted them down, and had seven
barrels of fish roe, for which they got
two cents a pound. Just think of
27,000 fish caught in one night. Mr.
Orr is from South Carolina, a nephew
of Hon. James L. Orr, and, of course,
a truthful man. He owns a fishing
boat that plies between Petersburg
and Sarasota bay, and I am going
down with him soon and see these
wonders of the deep with mine own
eyes. I have been accustomed, and
perhaps hardened, to marvelous stories
in my own town, and ic strains a man’s
faith to believe everything he
hears. Not long ago, a very re
spectable neighbor, who is getting
along in years, told me that when
he first went to Texas, away back in
the 50’s, the wolves got round his
shack one night by the hundreds try
ing to get the carcass of a deer that he
had hung in a sappling close by. They
eat up his dog quick. He and his com
panion put their guns through the
cracks and fired into them all night,
and as fast as they killed them the
others eat them up except the bones
and hair, and more wolves kept on
coming and eating; but about daybreak
they left, and when he and his com
panion opened the door the hair and
the bones was three feet deep all
around the cabin. Well, of course, a
little allowance must be made for
imagination, and the flight of time
and the lack of a yard stick to measure
with; hut a man told me that the last
time he heard that story told the wolf
hair wasent but. two feet deep. That
is all very natural. I have told stories
myself that got bigger and bigger as
the years rolled on. The temptation
to exaggerate is almost irresistible,
and it is so universal that nobody be
lieves more than half of a marvelous
story. 1 reckon it was our early read
ing of Munchausen and the Arabian
Nights and Gulliver’s travels that got
our generation into this habit. Every
body loves the marvelous.
Now, if any of our Georgia or up-
country friends wish to spend a few
weeks or months on this side of Flor
ida, let them buy a tourist ticket in
Atlanta, four cents a mile for a round
trip (that is, two cents each way,)
come to Macon and take the night
train on the Georgia Southern and
Hampton, stay at Hampton three hours
until the Central Peninsular comes
1 from Jacksonville at 11 o’clock;
aboard and stay there until you
reach Lacoocbee, where the Sanford
and St. Petersburg crosses- There*
will hsve to wait two or three hour 1
hut Mr. Johns will give you a good.
r]ean supper for half a dollar, and his
smart little son, Albert, will tell yon
what a Florida cracker is. Take the
train about 6:40 o’clock, and get to
Clear Water about 9 :40 o’clock, or to
St. Petersburg at 10 :30 o’clock at night.
Tarpon Springs and Dunedin and
Sutherland are on this line. It is just,
twenty-four hours from Macon to St.
Petersburg, and you can sleep all night
for *2 if you wish to. So come along
and he happy. We have just had din
ner at our house, and Mrs. Anspaugh
gave us an oyster pie and squashes,
and cabbages, egg-nlant. cucumbers,
green peas and tomatoes, all fresh from
the gardens. Strawberries will come
along next week. But the fishermen
are waiting for me. “Olive oil,” as the
Atlanta boys say, when they mean
“au revoir.” Bill Arp.
The soul is dwarfed whenever it
clings to what is palpable and plain,
fixed and hounded. Its home is in
worlds which cannot be measured and
weighed. IC has infinite hopes, and
longings and fears; lives in the con
flux of immensities; bathes on shores
where waves of boundless yearning
break. Borne on the wings of
time, it still feels that only what is
eternal is real—that what death can
destroy is even hut a shadow. To it
all outward things are formal, and
what is less than God is hardlv aught.
In this mysterious, supersensible world
all true ideals originate, and such ideals
are to the human life as rain and sun
shine to the corn by which it is nour
ished.—Rt. Rev. J. L. Spaulding, D. D.
Consumption Cured.
An old phrslclan. retired from practice, had
placed in his hands by an East India missionary
the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption.
Bronchitis. Catarrh. Asthma, and all Throat and
Lnne affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plaints. Ravine tested its wonderful cprative
powers iu thousands of cases, and desirme to
relieve human snfferine. T will free of
charee to all who wish it. this receipt in Ger
man. French or Enelish. with full directions for
preparine and using. Sent by mail by ftdre»s-
ine. with stamp, namine this paner, W. A.NOTES,
820 Powers’ Block, Rochester, New York.
Sabbath Readings and Musings.
BY REV. w. J. SCOTT., D. D.
For quite a number of years Salem. N.
C., lias been the headquarters of the Mo
ravians of the Southern States. These
disciples of the pious and learned Zin-
zendorf, of Germany, are doing a splen
did educational work at that point. Du
ring the past year fifteen families be
longing to the Waldensian church came
over from Italy and located iu Western
North Carolina. They were cordially
welcomed by their new neighbors and
seemed delighted with their new sur
roundings. They, like the Moravians,
are part and parcel of one of the minor
Protestant sects.
They are devout and enterprising, and
will contribute no little to the prosper
ity of their immediate section.
This is just the sort of European im
migration that the South needs to de
velop its resources and improve its
Christian civilization.
* * *
President Dupuy bore himself as gal
lantly when the bomb recently exploded
in the Chamber of Deputies as did
Cromwell when he entered the “Rump”
Parliament and dispersed them with as
little ceremony as a policeman would
scatter a bevy of street gamins. This
leads us to remark that the French re
public is moving onward to a lofty van
tage ground. The day of Bourbonism
and Bonapartism has gone by, we trust,
forever. The Parisian rabble has lost
its control of the country and can no
longer inaugurate a revolution by pa
rading through the Fauburg St. Antoin
ette a drum corps supplemented by the
boisterous chanting of the Marsellaise.
* * *
It is a significant fact that of the
eight clerical delegates elected by the
late North Georgia conference to the
next general conference of the M. E.
Church, South, that only one of the
number—Dr. Lovejoy, of Athens—is in
the regular pastorate. Of the remaining
seven, four—Drs. Anderson, Cook, Pierce
and Heidt—are presiding elders. Dr.
Glenn is the conference editor, Dr. Cand
ler is the college president and Dr. Mor
rison is a connectional officer; Dr. An
derson heads the delegation and will he
an influential member of the general
conference.
Indeed, it is a strong representation
and contains a fair amount of bishop
timber if the episcopacy should need
strengthening.
* * *
It was a wise prayer of the Psalmist
David that he might be kept back from
presumptuous sins.
There are sins committed against the
explicit declarations of the divine law
and are a sort of downright defiance of
the divine authority.
Other sins in comparison are venial
transgressions because they are in part
sins of ignorance or inadvertance.
* * *
General C. A. Evans, who is likely to
reach the governorship without a con
test, is a prominent member of the
North Georgia conference. Speaking of
his ministerial experience, he is reported
to have said that the pleasantest period
of his ministry was during his service
on the Barton circuit.
This, coming from one who has held
several of tbe foremost stations in his
conference, is worthy of consideration
by his younger brethren.
* * *
The prophet Micah, one of the minor
prophets of Israel, fitly characterizes
Jesus of Nazareth as “the desire of all
nations.”
The plain import of this phrase is that
Christianity was to have a wider scope
than any of the ethnical religions, as
Tslamism and Brahminism. These relig
ions do not thrive except in the tropical
regions of the earth. On the contrary,
the Christian relierion is cosmopolitan
in its character. Not only does it em
brace the most advanced nations of Eu
rope and America, hut it has evangel
ized Burmah, Madagascar, the islands of
the South sea, and is now acquiring an
overshadowing influence in Japan and in
parts of “the dark continent.”
Beginning at Jerusalem on the day of
Pentecost, its ministers have gone forth
to the uttermost parts of the earth,
preaching “Jesus and the Resurrection.
Everywhere
From Greenland’s icy mountains
To India’s coral strand
it has discipled the nations. Nor is it
longer to he questioned that in another
century, as Bishop Heber predicted,
It will spread from pole to pole.
These marvellous results will amply
vindicate the declaration of the Hebrew
prophet that Christ is indeed “the de
sire of all nations.”
* * *
There has been a deal of ill-tempered
controversy In regard to woman’s right to
speak in mixed religious assemblies.
The opposition plants itself on one or
two utterances of St. Paul in his epistle
to the Corinthians. Were these utter
ances in the number of those which he
did not claim to have spoken by divine
inspiration?
In either event was his emphatic state
ment “It is a shame for women to speak
in the church” intended for local or gene
ral application? There were grievous
abuses in the church at Corinth and a re
proof or prohibition which was suited to
that turbulent congregation may Dot have
been adapted to other localities.
May not this deliverance, as we have al
ready intimated, be in the same category
with his stringent sayings on matrimony,
which he confesses, to have spoke* by
permission rather than by commandment?
Not otherwise, as we conceive, cam his
views be harmonized with his conceesion
to the women of the right of praying and
prophesying. The latter function he al
lows to be greater even than the gift of
tongues, and yet the only restriction he
puts on it is that she must prophesy with
her head uncoveved, as more befitting the
modesty of her sex!
We are a witness to the fact that not a
few mothers in Israel are wonderfully
gifted in prayer and exhortation. For
one, we will not, because of a dozen lines
of at least doubtful interpretation, ex
clude them from the minor ministries of
the sanctuary when the spirit moves them
to testify of the grace and goodness of our
common Savior.
AFTER LA GRIPPE
Comes Weakness, Catarrh, Cough,
Bronchitis and Sometimes
Consumption.
The acute stage of la grippe gener-
erally passes in less than a week, hut
unless Pe-ru-na has been taken from
tbe first of the attack the patient does
not get well. In the majority of cases
it is weeks, even months, before the
effects of la grippe leave th-* system.
This can all be avoided by taking Pe-
ru-na. Those who were so unfortunate
as to not take Pe-ru-na when first
taken with la grippe, and are suffering
from the after effects of la grippe,
should at once begin a course of Pe-
ru-na, and not stop taking it until all
of the bad effects of la grippe are com
pletely eradicated from the system.
If this is done, numberless cases of
nervous prostration, chronic colds,
bronchitis and consumption would be
prevented and many valuable lives
saved.
A MEDICAL BOOK FREE
A book on la grippe, chronic ca
tarrh, coughs, colds and consumption
is now being furnished free by the
Pe ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co.,
of Columbus, O., when sent name and
address.
Dr. Sheldon Jackson tells the Inde
pendent that it is impossible that the 4
salmon berry of Alaska should get its 4.
name from its being put up in salmon ce
oil. There is, he says, no such thing
as salmon oil in use there. The only
oil used is made from tne dogfish, the
herring and the Ulican fish. It gets
its name, says Dr. Jackson, from the
color of the berry. There are two va
rieties of berries, one of which is red
dish, and the other a pure salmon
color.
The mode of depositing its eggs
practiced by the notorious locust tree
borer (Cylbn?. robmm) has been de
scribed by Mr. Jack in Garden and
Forest. He notiepd the beetles laying
their eggs August 23. Jhe W are
large, oblong, white and soft and are
placed just under the e d £ es ot
roughest bark, or mnre particularly in
places where the hark has ^roken
and where small limbs hav*
or broken of. A favorite place also is
around the openings of thei r own b
rows.
Are you Hard of Hearing or Deaf?
Call or send stamp for full particu
lars how to restore your hearing by
one who was deaf for thirty years.
John Garmore. Room 18, Hammond
building, Fourth and Vine, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
The age of turtles, like the age of
some excellent women, will never be
known. In many parts of the country
boys cut their initials on the shell of
the tortoise, with the date, and then
watch for them in later years. At
Hatboro. in Pennsvlvams, one was
found with L. W., 1833 cut on the shell.
Mr. Levi Walton, who cut the lettering „
is still living, hut the slow going tur-
tie will probably outdo him in the race^ad
of life. __
A Skipper.
The East Tennessee Vestibule Limited Train
runs between Atlanta and Macon, 2 hours and
29 minutes—90 miles. ....
Leaves Atlanta 11:25 a. m- and Macon 10:45 a,
m. No extra charge for seats on this train.
A reason for the faith that Is in him.—
A responsible citizen of the South writes:
From observation covering a great num
ber of cases I unhesitatingly pronounce
Salvation Oil to be the most wonderful
remedy for burns I have ever tried.
In filing band saws, tie a string where
you begin te file, and then you can tell
wheD you get around, and therefore all
the teeth will be sharp, and you will not
file any of them twice.
“I have been using Dr, Bull’s Cough
Syrup for some time. It cured my baby
of a very had cough. I believe it was
the means of saving his life. Mrs,
Thomas Hinton, Centreville, N. J.”
Anaesthesia was first discovered in
1844.