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THOMASYTLLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 3, ’.889
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THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.
The domes of France are fond and free,
And Flemish lips are willing,
And soft the maids of Italy,
And Spanish eyes hire thrilling;
Still though I bnsk beneath their smile,
Their charms fail to bind me,
And my heart falls hack to Erin's Isle,
To the girl I lelt bclrnd me.
For she's as fair as Shannon’s side,
And purer than its irate,
Hut she refus'd to he my bride
Though many a year I sought hot”
Vet, since to France I sailed nwny,
lift letters oft remind me,
That*! promis’d never to gainsay .
The girl I left behind me.
She says, “My own dear love, come home,
My f' 'ends are deli and many,
Or else, abroad with you I'll roam,
A soldier stout as any ;
If you’ll not come, nor let me go,
I'ft think you have resigned me,”
Mv heart n’gh broke when I answered, “No,”
To the girl I left behind me.
For never shall my true love brave
A life of war and toiliug,
And never ns a skulking s'ave
I'll tread my native soil on ;
Hut were it free or to be freed,
The battle's c'ose wou'd find me
To Ireland hound, nor message need
From the girl I left behind me.
Sunday School Anniversary.
This very pleasant entertainment was
held at the Methodist chuch, on Sun
day night, December 1st. A laige
audience was present to witness the
exercises. Rev. Mr MacDonnell pre
sided at tlie occasion.
The meeting was opened by singing
that grand old hymn, “Joy to the
World, .the t J.ord Has Ccixi ’ ’
After a scripture lesson, prayer was
offered by Rev L. B. Bouchelle. The
report of the treasurer, Mr. Norrie
Harley, was then read by Mr. T. J.
Ball, which showed that the school had
raised during the year, for the several
purposes, $170.79. The collection
brought in by the school at the after
noon amounted to $44 7;, which made
a total of $215.75 raised by the school
during the year. The larger portion of
this amount has been donated to the
home and foreign mission work of the
church, and to assist needy Sunday-
schools.
Mr. B. I’. Walket's class of young
men raised $22.95, al) d was ,he I> an *
ner class. Mrs. Brandon's “Busy
Bees” came next with $21.08. Mrs.
Brandon’s infant class, the “Busy
Bees,’’ gave a [very interesting exer
cise, telling what they could do for
Jesus. It was lollowed by “The
Fruits of the Spirit” and ‘‘TheGolden
Nine,’’ a beautiful exercise rendered
by the following young Misses :
Kitty Carroll; Daisy Mitchell; Eva
Jennings; Jennie Outten; Pauline
Brown; Elbe Pringle; Daisy Dekcl;
Minnie Dillon and Annie Roberts.
Each girl held a shield, on one side
of which, in large gilt letters was, “The
Golden Nine” and on the other side
"Love, Joy,”icc. The next piece on
the programme, was “What if Your
Own Were'Dying,” &c., very forcibly
rendered by Misses Daisy Scott; Rena
Brandon; Marion Hayes; Mattie Evans
and lluth Mitchell, and Messrs. Frank
Ainsworth; John Barr; Robert Ousley;
Eugene Smith and John Ousley
The singing in this piece was very
sweet. Miss Mamie Davis recited
very dearly and earnestly, “A Plea
for the Children.”
Miss Minnie Evans read very im
pressively, a conversation on “Giving
for Missions,” between Mr. Amos
Parker and his wife, Cynthia.
“The Plea of the Nations” to
America, for the gospel, and respond’
ed to by Christianity, was then given
by the following young ladies, their
dresses corresponding to the conutries
represented by them:
Misses Ola Mallctte, America;
Emma McIntosh, Turkey; Mattie Da
vis, Greenland; Hope Linton, Japan;
Livic Pittman, Mexico; Newdie Ous
ley, China; Julia Evans, Ceylon; Mar
ion Davis, the Indian. Miss Nannie
Philpot, dressed in white, represented
Christianity, responding to the appeal,
and promising that America would
send their benighted people the gospel
of Christ. The exercise was happily
conceived, and very beautifully and
forcibly rendered.
The closing piece was a recitation
called “The Little Red Box,” by Miss
Carrie ^Williams. 'She showed that
the little Ted box, which she held, was
empty, and plead with [the congrega
tion to fill it for the Lord. Assisted
by Kittie Carroll, Annie Roberts and
Minnie Dillon, she passed the little
red boxes through the audience, and
gathered in $11.60. The cause which
she represented and the appeal which
she made ought to have secured a
larger collection.
The exercises were interspersed
with appropriate remarks by the Pas
tor, and with beautiful Sunday-school
songs. Some of them were sung with
touching pathos, and others with a
grand swell of [voices, which stirred
the emotions ot the audience. Alto
gether it Was a most delightful and
profitable occasion. This is the larg
est Sunday school in this part of the
state, and is doing a noble work Among
the young. The officers oh he school
are Messrs James F. Evans, superin
tendent; T. J. Ball, assistant superin
tendent; Mrs. Jti’ia Robinson, organist;
Mr. Norrie Harley, treasurer. The
committee who trained the young
people was Mrs. T. J. Ball; Mrs. Roy-
all Miller; Miss Minnie Evans and
Miss Florrie Ousley.
(For tie Time--Enterprise.)
Tho No-Fence law.
Mr. Editor: -I see you throw
open the columns of your paper for a
free discussion of the no-fence ques
tion. soon to be voted upon and de
feated or made a permanent law for
all time to come. Therefore, I would
like to say a little in your paper, for I
am an interested person, and feel an
interest Jar.my-XeJlow
lived in the north, where the no-fence
law exists, and know all about it;
also, have seen it working in North
Georgia, and now see its effect in
Florida, by the cheap beeves and cows
being sold, mostly of the poorer class,
because they cannot grow pasturage
on a small area ol land, as in the north,
and it would cost more to make the
pasturage than fence the farm, and
many have not land sufficient to have
pastures. In one of the articles on
the question, Mr. Manning showed us
the correct view, as the law, being
constitutional, and for a free people,
and it is only the land holders who
are endeavoring to get the no-fence
law, they have hired a man to use his
influence among the colored people,
and in last week’s paper says he is
not interested, for he lives outside of
the no-fence district, and he winds up
by hinting for money, and if the no
fence men will give the desired onery,
he’ll give the chin music, even to the
detrimental progress of his own peo
ple, and retard their future wellfare
In the north, where good pasturage
can be had at little expeuse,and where
the no-fence law exists, two-thirds of
the land is under good fence protec
tion. Why? Because the man who
wishes to be independent and who
desires good neighbors, believes a
good fence indispensible. He does
not wish to depend on his neighbor to
keep up his stock or compel him to
dispose of his stock because he has no
fence, or, if by chance, have his own
stock injure his neighbor’s. There
cannot be peace and harmony in a
place where the no-fence law exists;
some one is careless and lets his stock
get loose, and lawsuit after lawsuit is
the result. In order to avoid this, we
say, give us the fence law, and let
every man be himself, and not have
to depend on his neighbor to keep up
his stock. "Oh!” says ore, “It costs
thousands of dollars to fence every
year.” We ask who is it done by? It
is the large land owners that build
three fourths of the fences. So much
the better, for it gives the poorer class
es the work to do, and keeps him
from mortgaging his home, for the
money he would earn building fences,
and the land owner would not get his
home, for nearly all of the poorer
class have to work outside their homes
in the winter, and ten to fifteen thous
and dollars each year help the poor
people. Many poor live almost on
the product of TheiFcows, which they
will have[ to sell if the no-fence law,
for land owners will not make pasture
for poor tenements, and you must sell
your stock. M. N. W.
Penetrating Nature.
Gen. Geo. W. Rains recently de
livered an address before the medical
College of Georgia at Augusta, on the
subject of “Evolution Continued into
its Higher Life.” The Chronicle
devotesja column to the address. It
says:
The supernatural, says Gen. Rains,
is passing away as a deeper insight
opens to the understanding that na
ture is but the expression of God’s
thoughts, hence there can be nothing
above His laws. Gen. Rains here
emphasizes the difference between
the supernatural and superhuman.
In a living being there must be
two co-existing complete bodies; an
inner one of finer matter interpene
trating the exterior or grosser one,
sonjewhat analogous to the gelatinous
bone pervading the mineral one.
After death there is an evolved hu
man, leaving behind its grosser parts
and no longer subject to physical
disabilities; it carries its conscious
individuality and finds itself in a new
world, in somq respects not unlike tho
one that is left. It has far more deli
cate senses, is met by relatives and
friends, and the spirit gravitates to
wards that society most in accordance
with its sympathies and formers pur
suits. The evolutionist holds that
this world is a grand and complex
machine in process of construction,
hence incomplete and necessarily im-
perfect^nritr
After the Distribution.
New York Weekly.
Foreign guest (at grand reception)
“Evidences of vast wealth are ev
erywhere. Who is that handsome
woman ablaze with diamonds?”
Hostess—“She is the daughter of a
better and better as time advances,
gradually evolving good out of ap
parent evil, and this has been its his
tory from the beginning and will so
continue.
Gen. Rains uses this beautiful pe
roration:
The evolutionist worships in a tem
ple that has the broad earth for its
floor, and the blue dome ot heaven for
its canopy. Its music is tho murmur
ing forest, the sounding shore and the
grand chorus of heavenly harmonies
sung by tho sweet voice of nature. Its
preachers arc “the tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, sermons
in stones, teaching there is good in
everything.” The Being adored is
tho Mighty Spirit of the Universe,
whose divine piesence fills tho immen
sity of creation, dispensing life and
action throughout the realms of infin
itude.
In conclusion, I cannot do better
than to quote the eloquent words of
Canon Kingley’s Hypatia, somewhat
modified: “It is but a little time, a
few days longer in this prison-house
of our degradation, and each thing
shall return to its own fountain; the
blood-drop to the abysmal heart, and
the water to the 1 iver, and the river
to the shining sea; and the dewdrop
which fell from heaven shall rise to
heaven again, shaking off the dust
grains which weighed it down, thawed
from the earth frost which chained it
here to herb and sward, upward and
upward through stars and suns,through
angels, archangels and seraphs, purer
and purer through successive exist
euces, [till it enters the great I Am
and finds its home at last.”
Nearly eight thousand Democratic
postmasters have been put down by
the hand of Clarkson in the past eight
months. The Harrison administra
tion is a success.
The trouble with some theologians
is that they think nobody can get in
to heaven who doesn’t have a latch
key.—Burlington Free Press.
It’s very monotonous to bo rich,
but there is a variety about being
poor that sometimes make one weary.
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
bonanzajprince.” Trn
'I understand. And that other by
her side?”
“Her husband owns a gas well.”
“Yes. And tho one now talking to
her?”
“She belongs to Standard Oil.”
“Yes, I understand that, too. Here
comes another young lady in rich
attire. Who is she?”
Oh, she’s the wealthiest girl in
the room. She’s a Johnstown suffer-
Well Governed.
The Chineso have a political say
ing which is worthy the reading even
of American statesmen. It is as
follows :
When is the empire well governed,
and affairs go as they should go?
When swords are rusty and spades
are bright; when prisons arc empty
and grain bins filled; when the law
courts are lonely, and o’ergrown with
grass; when doctors walk and bakers
ride. It is then things go as they
ought and the state is well ruled.—
Youth’s Companion.
The courtship of the Esquimaux
Is peculiar. The old folks get togeth
er aud arrange the matter. The
question then arises: Is ho able to
support a wife ? In order to answer
this to the satisfaction of all parties
lie is required to go out and kill a
polar hear. As soon as he lias done
this lie comes in and sneaks behind
the door of his sweetheart’s house,
out he tries to
■wr-Avr*. wiimi iMinnnwMi'i'i **«»>
pounce upon her and carry ner to
his dog-sledge. If she can get away
she docs so, kicking, scratching and
biting like a perfect fury. He gives
chase, whereupon all the old women
rush out and beat her with frozen
strips of sealskin until she falls ex
hausted. He then rushes to tho
siege, whips up the dogs, and then
the marriage ceremonies are all over.
“Dot Abram Levi he opens a store
next to mine. It vash mean in him.’”
“But didn’t you say last summer,
Mr. Doppenheirricr that competition
the life of trade ?” “Yes, but I
wasn’t in no beesness last summer.”
Democratic backbone in the young
state of Montana seems to be of first
rate quality. The democratic half of
the Senate is determined to prevent
the contemplated theft of the legisla
ture by the republicans, if it takes all
winter. No republican from Montana
will rap at the door of the United
States Senate very soon.
The average bachelor likes to think
he is better off’ than the fellow who
gets married, but he doesu’t really be
lieve what he likes to think.—Balti
more American.
A reporter, in describing a teeto
tal meeting, said that “they had a
most harmonious and profitable ses
sion, and retired from the hall full of
the best spirits.”
Bridget: “Shall I l’ave the ball
lamp burnin’, mum?” Mistress:“No,
I am pretty sure Mr. Jones won’t be
home until daylight. He kissed me
three times before he left, and gave
me S20 for a new spring bonnet.”
Tubbley, bashfully, and removing
his lmt spasmodically: “Is Miss
Tremmer in?” Maid: “She is, but
she’s engaged.” Tubbley, who set
tled things last night: “I know it;
I’m the young man.”
Jones—“Hello, Smith; hack from
the west again, eh ? What did you
do out there?” Smith—“Started a
paper.” Jones—“Aha! What wns
the name of it?” Smith—“A sub
scription paper to get me back east
again.” —Burlington Free Press.
We have just re
ceived 12 pieces of
Dress Goods in all
the leading colors.
These;; goods are
36 inches wide,and
we offer them at
the extremely low
price of 26 cts. per
yard. At this low
price we expect to
close them all out
this week.
10 new rolls ol
Carpets, entirely
new patterns, just
received.
Levys
^Mitchell House Block