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Newspaper Page TextTHE Progress. Hu JOHN K. Gi.EN. DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERERTSj, —— — .. ,'.:.i,aae i \ CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA. TBRM8:— One Dollar Ter Year. VOL.'ll. CLLVLLANO. WHITE COUNTY, (LU ffttDAY,SEPTEMBER 22. 18911. CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL,I ®™TlpAffi CLEVELAND, GEORGIA. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- ' DAY SEHHON. Spring Term Regins January 2(1, 1893. Fall Term Begins July 10t.1i, 1898. Tuition in all Classes nor lontli $1.00. In connection with the Spring and Fall terms, will be taught the terms of the public schools. For further particulars call on or address ALBERT BELL, Principal, Or ( HAS. W. MERRITT, Assistant. Subject: “Tho Battle Ours," Sash, Doors and Blinds! CLARK, BELL & CO.. -Manufacturers and D?nl* By J. HAMILTON AYERS, M. O. A Valuable Book of 600 pages, illus trated, containing knowledge of bow to treat and cure disease, prolong life and promote happiness. Sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of Price, 60e, ffffjress all orders to Atlanta Mislicg House, H(> Loyd Street, ATLANTA, GA. x i l -I ut h V Aedrt pifotal btfbrn them /jAr ecu HUfo focht of An,/*.”—I lungs xx./JT. With thiny-throo tbiKOdrunk M one ioilt b l’°" l ‘' T'linyweM lull. 1 , plot- UiiR for tho overthrow °l Bio Lord's Israel. Imi know that If ,i lion rour a floi-k of U.ls will shiver nml lituldln together. One Uon wonUI counucr a thousand kliln. Tho 1 (,?,Vo 0 i lll0rB ,ir " “ Rront imiltl- 1 u ' 1 . 0 , ot Byrlnns uuilor Oonoral lion. J'" 1 . s,ro “? »», Hons. Tho tsrnob i, i "'™ k ’ llk « tw» Bttlo nooks of kids. Mho 1,01,1 y The llonn. Of hottrSo, Oh, no I tho kills, MY il all depends whether I ini ll.TV.'r JJ, 1 ’",,'!' Oio lions or tho kills, ii °n 11® Hnttlo to;).ooo Syrians lay dead on Inn fluid, and 27,000, attempting to fly, canto nlonif hy a sreat wall, which toppled and crushed thorn to (loath. n was fho stronger weapon great BoUaths sword or little David's slm K ? 1 David hail flvo smooth stonos from thn brook. Ho onlv mad ono in striking down Opllatlh lie had a surplus of ammunition, |!n hud enough to take down finir more giants If they had appeared II, tho way. It all 3opend.up- on Whether Ood is on the side of the ehep- I H'Wd hoy or on tho side of the giant, | lheru have been many In our day who have ventured tho opinion that Christianity la falling book, and that in 50 years II will bo extlnot. lhey found their opinion on the assumed fact that tho Bible Is not ns nil 'll or NO. 38. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets. sxxxjxro-iL.iz:?^ ck.xx.cL IjXjivliceiix. Al?o HCYYEIt und DRAIN PIPE. Prices ns low t.s the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed. CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga. JOB PRINTING Of Every Description mm kxnuTBD at this iifhcb. Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention* GIVE US A TRIAL! Orders for Fancy and Plain Job Printing receive prompt attention at this office. i OftjfO Is publiafilVgireliibib'to'dn^wbhtho nSt ’one 11 imni*| ttR 9 , vt ‘ r80 or nb <‘PtorV Are not our publishers intelligent mou? And j would they, contrary to their IlitalMIdl ibter- I 6SIS, aonllnuo to publish thd llllde without 1 veraeTf ti £“v 0, i*' ohapter or a Single ind ihL ! weko becoming an unpopular book I ,, 11 People did not want It? „in, 5? rp r ra Applftou or Kerlbnoror Llp- pini'o t should publish a llllde with the omission of one ohapter, they would hit Bell m,2h? ra '! 10 y ! ,nr, \ ThB f 'Wl that through, ought ChrlstimdOrii thero are hundreds of Wl.heef 1printing, the word of (lorl without I ho omission of a ohapter or a verso Rmt'TLV'T'l * 10 1,ibl ° 1 * populttl-, and tho tills nr " moro l,0 W printed lh this derail > than ody other dbeadW pftr.uu that tho Bible Ip incronftifig iff Popularity * K^^roUgh tho 'Mii il rooms of tho coun ty* whorovor 1 find a judge's bonoh or n elerk s desk 1 find tho Bible, by w !mt othor book woulil they tnko solomn oath? Wlint The nin'I 1 ‘w! e ,h0 proeentsV trunk of f I " m ‘ “ Vl ’ rj ' “P* t0 be l»Ut In tho Hi* 2i' oun K ,niln When he Mans for fhm ti ni.f o 3 ? lblc - Voltalro predtotod that tho Bible during tho hlnutoontb eentury would booomo an obsoloto hook, Wolh Wo “ llro S' »"u«y through the nineteenth deh- urj. lho Bihlo Is not Obsolete yet. Thero Is not muoh prospect of It becoming Obsolete, nut I bavo to toll yod that that Worn -the ro0m |H wldeh Voltaire ../foto that pru- n®„ '°n—“nn'O time r, K0 W aa crowded from - wlth Blbl "» lor Hwltsorland. i .h.1,',11 tho “Egress of tho United Htates I should pass a law that no Bibles should bo printed In tho United States. II there are Ml.ono.ooo grown men and thH '“““try, then there would bo BO,000,000 people armed against Midi a law. iiut supposo tho oongross of tho ijnltoi • ™ "hool'l pass a law that Maea,day’, history or Olmrles Boa lo s novels should not : bB road-eould you get half as largo an army I or tha fourth as largo an army? In other Words, thore nre, as you know aild 1 know | » "Mhl ,1 »’» who would die fdr their : Bible. Where thero nroCO.moil Who Wohld did for any other book, The fact that thero i raTrlmMsTra , Blbl .®f, bel,1 « printed than tm.r before, that publishers nmt It a Hnanolal inteiest for them to continue tho Blblo proves that this book Isstllitho most popular book on tho planet. i upjJiuVi" R u yw,i ° ,lro l,n hiKoniatlo, . fl back from tho tnci that tho ohuroli is not as myoh respectod ns it used to be and it is not as influential.” I reply to that with tho statistic that ono de nomination- the Methodist chureh—aneord- i i g i, l 9Ul,Hti0 kR’oa »>y ono of tho bishops, | Uodh’ntos on an average a ikjW ohuroh every day of tho year. Throe hmtdM and hlxtj*- live now churches ill buo donomlnation in a year and OVof a thousand now ehurohes built ovnry yonr in this country. Does that look ns though tho ohuroh wore falling in ItH power and wore becoming n wornout institu tion? Around which Institution In our oom- muultles gather tho most ardent airoctloiis? I ho postoflleo, tho hotoi, tho court house, tho city hall or tho ehurohes? Why, when our old Tabernacle was burn ing (hero wore hundrods of men standing in tho streets who never went to thurch, tears raining down their cheeks. It is because t he church of God stands nearer to the Ameri can people than any othor institution, Men may caricature tho church and call it a col lection of hypocrites, hut when their chil dren are swept on with the diphtheria for Whom do they send? To tho postmaster, to tho attorney goncral, to tho aldermen, or to tho pastors of the ohurehos? And if there ho not room for the obsequies in the private house what building do they solicit? The academy of music, the hotel, public hull courthouse? No; the churches. And if they want music on tho sad occasion do they select tho “Marseillaise” hymn, or “God Have the Queen,'' or our own grand National air? No, they want tho old hymn with which we sang their old Christian mothers to sleep. They want the Hunday- school hymn thut their little girl sang tho last Habbath afternoon she was out before she whs seized with the awful sickness that broke father's heart and mother’s heart. Oh, you know as well as I do—1 shall not dwell on It any longer tho church of God, instead of being a wornout institution, stands nearer tho sympathies of the people than it ever did nnd eclipses all other institutions. I3ut our antagonists go on and say that Christianity is falling back, in the fact that infidelity is bolder now and more blatant than it ever was. I deny the statement. In fidelity is not near so bold now as it was in the days of our fathers und grandfathers. Thero wore times in this country when men who were openly and above board infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office. Now, lot some man wishing high position in the Htate proclaim himself the foe of Christianity and an infidel, how many Htates of tho Union would he carry? how many counties? how many warda Jn Brooklyn? Not one. Ah, my friends, infidelity in this day is not half as bold as It used to be. If It comes now, It is apt to come under tho disguise of rhetoric or fantastic sentimentality. I know If a man with great intelligence does become an Infidel and begins an attack on Chris tianity it makes great excitement—of course it does, and people come to the conclusion, weakminded Christians come to the conclu sion, that everything fs going overboard be cause some man of strong intellect assails Christianity. If a man jumps overboard from a Cunard steamer, ho makes more excitement than all the 600 Bane passengers who continue in the berths or on the decks, but does that stop the ship? Does that wreck all the 600 pas- •engera? It makes great excitement when a man leaps from a platform or a pulpit into Infidelity, but does that hinder our glorious Bible from taking Its millions Into the skies? I tell you Infidelity is not half as bold now os It used to be. Do you fjuppose such things could bo enacted now us were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elected to be goddess, and she was carried on a golden clmir to a cathedral, and the people bowed down to her as a divine being and burned incense before her—she to take the place of the Bible, and pf Christianity, and of the Lord Almighty? And while that V7W on In the onthmlrah in ^ were all agreed, l front to attack Jthoy might make fbuf they are not bM we religion 1st;( y Of Oh H*U lull it y dlctgj: 1 . 1 O’ll Veil church tn theol- SlilYer outside the reject our rollg- pmc minor points, pt aoloneo. because is t can tell against Ohrlstl- hit used to bd» be-« jagonistid to bjujh will It J4 gdjitg td pc and telescope, chemical appnr- |us. They do not IJIblothoory about b lm overthrown thoorles—60 Gif- origin of life? at and puts both jUdn tiiid says lh “I liotlce that ttadptiug aft the- di iittvo lidt passed bIz saw what wo who tajk Very L-little,. ,aud that idntkst fl mis out tho mrft Jf a wad|J arid Htil to patronIzo but talking about polled o-u-l-o-h-ur transfixed grass- lor the other arm. ,1 ofMlio Fittest,” [>“ and tho “Nebu- ng to us common la I jrihey agreed Up With Solid filet fl ny perhaps they )», but they do not ion Lamarck, Wnl- fiel even charged not agree about itoa ; they do not What do they the chapels nnd in tlxe coy*! the cathedral scenes of r * bauohery and obscenity ns tho world hn<^ never a thing as that transpire,ji police would swoop Oil i or New York. Inflddlitl now as It Used to be. ’ '‘But* Hay oih* ithblgi is falling baek bedttm enemy; i« trliimphiiig tllal tlleW is «ipy b revelation, 'f’liore is riul that mriy pot be made* jo, Statements of thoBlbl^i sd Said Joseph Homy Hitelieoek ; so said said I’rof* ssor Mltohoti. If tho scientists of the nml they came up withid our Christianity, porhllj some improHston upon j agreed. It Is oMuU said] are falling lit oitP rtdYOi ba-aupf* .aliter in oi.iy we do not differ inside ogy 1mlf as much ns th< church in science. If t Ion because we differ i; wo might just as well r tho scientists differ, bill the war of Inlhlot solei unity is hot so severe cause thosd men afO , other, mnt as.far an t di brt u wnf between tele I.oydcn jar and Leyden at us and chemical appf agreo on anything, h Do you supposethatth the origin of life is golnj by men who have diffen forent theories--about Ami when Agassis OOtttQL fed Urt thd dOotriilO Of 6] fogtird to many sclomtsl these yoilng naturalists orl<*s ill fieiehoo thiilgd Under observation;" all see—that there are wisely wild know biit, V(_ just (is sodri txd A, ydtirig Si dlffeteiicd botWeori ilio ffli the horns of a beetle ho 1) the Almighty and go rtJ culture ns though it werA —culclmr l ^ It makes mo sick to soj^heso literary lops going down the street wJHt a cnpy.df parwitt uUdCi' Cue arm, ami a mujfr f I honours and butterflies talking about the “Bur and Huxley’s ‘Trotopli lar Hypothesis,” and ti men as though \ye wpto, in their thhUrlofi tiiid ooi tigtUitsl Christianity, might make some imprt agree. Darwin clmrg* lace upon Cope. Hi upon Ferguson. They] tho gradation of tho aj agreo about ombryol agree about? Horsehd wrote a whole chapter of wind he calls “Errors In Astrourimy," Lit Placosuys that the Union Was hot mit In tho right place ; that If It had boeii put fdtlrtlmeflthedistaiiis* from our world there wjftUd liate Peon rrnirri harmony id tho ilni\friirt. lint Ltonvllle comes Uji jilst in lime til prove that the Lord was wise ami put thomflbii in tho right phiee. How many colors wofon Into the light? Hovon, Hays Newton. |Throo, says David Brewster. How high tiitho aurora borealis? Two ami a half inilos lugli, says Lias. One hundred and slxty-flve miles, ‘says Twlnlg? How Tar is tho sun from the earth? Seventy- six million miles, flay* Loonllle •, 82,000,000 miles, sff.ys Humlmldl i mi,000,00y miles, eayn Henderson | 101,000,00(1 miles, Bays Mayer. Only a little dlffercn rn: or 28,000,(^00 miles l These men say wo do nZt agree in religion. Do they agree Jn soUhlJny Huvo they come no With solid front to (assault our glorious Christianity? f “Gdiitlemoii df tho jtiy, have yoii agreed upon your verdict?" tho court or the olerk says to the Jury, having beou out all night, on coming in. “Have you agreed on your verdict?" If they say yes, thq verdict Is taken und recorded. If they say, “No, wo have not agreod,” they nre sent back to tho jury room. Jr ono juryman should say, “T mo think the man Is guilty of murder,” and an other juryman should say, “I think ho Is guilty of manslaughter/’ and auother Jury man should say, “I think ho is guilty of as sault und battery wltlf Intent to kill,” tho Judge would lose his patience and say, “Go back to your t oom flow, and make up a ver dict. Agree on something." Well, my friends, there has been a groat trial going otl for cehturicfl and for ages bo* tween Hkoptlcism, the plaintiff, verses Christianity, tho dofomlnnt, The scientists have boon impaneled and sworn ou tho Jury. They have been gone for cent urlos, some of thorn, and they como back, and we say, “Gentleiiion of tho Jury, have you agree ! Upon a Verdict?" They say, “No, wo have not agreed." Then we say, “Go. back for a few mote Centuries and thou come In and see if yon can agree, sen if you can render some verdict." Now, thero is not the meanest prisoner in tho Tombs Court avIio would be condemned by a jury that did not agree, and yet you expect us to renounce our glorious Christianity for such a mtserablo verdict as these moil huvo rendered, they themselves not having been able to agree. But my subject shall no longer be de fensive ; It must bo aggressive. I must show you that instead of Christianity falling back it is on the march, and that the coming relig ion of the world Is to be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ 10,000 times intensiMod. It is to take possession of everything—of all laws, all manners, all customs, all cities, all nutious. It is going to bo so mighty as com pared with what it has boon, ho much more mighty that it wlil seem almost like a now religion. I adopt this theory boeause Christianity has gone on straight ahead nol withstanding all the bombardment, and lulldolily has not destroyed a church, or crippled a minister, or rooted out ono verse of the Bible, and now their ammunition seems to bo pretty much exhausted. They cannot get anything new against Christianity, and if Christianity has gone ou under the bombardment of cen turies nml still continues to advaneo, may we not conclude that, as tho powder and shot of the other side seem to be exhausted, Chris tianity is going on with more rapid stride? I And an encouraging fact la tho thought that tlie secular press in this day and the pulpit seem Ijarnesse l in tho same team for the proclamation of tho gospel. To-morrow there will not be a banker on Wall street or Htate street or Third street who will not have in his pocket or on his table treatises on Christianity, calls to repentance and .Scrip ture passages, 20 or 30 of them. In the im ports of tho Christian churches of tills city and other cities. Why, that thing would huvo been impossible it few years ago. Now on Monday morning and Monday evening the secular press spreads abroad more re ligious truth than all the tract societies of the country spread in the other six days. Jilessed be the tract societies ! We hail them, and we hail these others. I say it would have been Impossible a few yours ago. Hundreds of letters would have como to tho secular newspaper offices, say ing, “Stop rny paper ; we have religibn on nry Chrlstinft red every philanthropist? Besides, that, the rising generation are be ing saturated with gospel truth as nd Other generation by this international series ot Sunday-school lessons. Formerly tho ehil- dren wore expected only to nibble at the lit tle infantile Herlpturo stories, but now they tiro taken from Genesis to Revelation, tho strongest minds or the country explaining the lessdiiS td thd teaohers, and tho teachers explaining them to thd classes, ami wo are going to have in this country 5,000,000 youth forestalled for Christianity. Hear it! lleuf 1 ri! Besides that; you must have noticed, ifvort have talked on these great themes, that uwr? are finding out that wldlo science Is grand in soeulai dll'eotionsf they cannot give any comfort to a soul In trouble. Talking with men on steainboa/s nfld in rail ears, I And they are coming back to thd comfort of tho gospel. They say, “Somehow Iffiman science doesn’t comfort me whon I have any IfoUblff, and f must try something Nad.’ Alid iliey are trying Hid gospel. Tnko fd^r ftqlerjttll.’ odiurtlatlon id thd mother who lms jffst |G her dhihl; , Apnly* the doctrine of the “survival of tho IUl : o i h. ,, Toll her that her child died because its Iif«? was not worth as muoh as tho life of one that lived. Try that if you dare. Goto the dying man with your transcendental pltraesology and tell him he ought to havo eonlldonee in tlltiitfi'unt “it* lx*/' and the everlasting “now," (thd the otehial “what is it?" nml go on witli ydtir cdrisbliftidfl apd ft od If hd is edmfortikli Go to that woman who hart ldst her hus band and tell her it was a geological h'ooeB* sity that that man passed out of existence, Just as the megatherium disappeared in or der to make room for a higher stylo of cre ation, und go on with j*our consolation and tell her that thero is a possibility that 10,- OflO.flOO years from now we ourselves may be tfeologlcdl Spddlmens on the geological shelf, potrifldd specimens or the extinct human rudd: Arid rtfte’r yott havo gdt all through witl'i your ctinsplntion, if,thn prior afflicted soul is not utterly crazed, I will send 6ut the plain est Christian from my ohuroh. and with rins half hour of prayer and tho reading of Scripture promises the tears will be staid, and thoconAohltloii fltld Jnv in. that house will bo like the calmness of an Indian sum mer sunset. There will bo a glory flooding tho house from floor to cupola. Oh, people are finding out themselves and thoy all have troubles —t hoy liudthut philosophy and ■(Tdilc** <M rtrif help them when there is n dead bahoIn tint house. Tlicfy ftro doming hack to our glorious old fushionod syrnpiG thotlo rollgiou. Oh, young man, do not bo ashamed to bo found on tho side of the Bible. Do not join UtfWo yotjipf Jlioil Who in this day put their thumb In their vest ami swagger about tho street and tho stores talking nborittlfd gln« rlous ninetoonth century, about its light bo- BILL ABF'S LETTER. of tfamlnji in Fuinrcs The Philosopher Doom Not Exactly Agree With Bishop Keener. Let um <0(6 fair with tho (Gores. Bishop Kei not* imyh in tho N/tshtlllo ( hristlan Advo onto that “ll.o mercantile world ifi the south is now controlled by tho wholosalo gambling and massive fraud* of cotton futures; that the cen ters of New York. Livctp »«*1 and New Orleans have yielded to this COlesniU h«*Ii me of h zard until the production of tho fltflplj ha* no * fleet upon its market value " He says 111at “duiing the pas' three mouths thent? ItaVe bn n ko!«1 in N< w York and elsewhere riri.00p.ffnd baltjH t»f cotton." 'J his would be 22-f,(tVfU0f» bales tor the year’s crop. All of this, ho Hiy* “.fl pr*r*Iy Imaginary vuluo ex -pt the 8 000,000 bales turf’ ra sed and thin ideal cotton that was not ffiftno would yield *7,SlO.OOO.FOO, nml th s ih th** flouring against which the planter I.hh to make headway. All the gambling den** i*i this conn try and in the Budon-Jliulcufl of Europe nro child’s play com pared tfitli this huge monster that envelop cri'iD tho fortune myriads.!’ id even the lo of Gambling in futriros is a si/.. JMh’fltf on Const!tut on ' anything is uHln, tor It is a mode of gWlfn# ' , ’ nr., something for nothing. I * »« demoralizing fit ; common sense of mankind. Whon the Mtrik^rw aisault and intimidate o'lims who would gladly wofk, of when they allow tiolonco to be dent* and the track torn up and tho locomotives is ablod, it is simply an outrage upon Iho law of I he land and if p rsisled in will surely bring this governmont into a monarchy liko thoso of Europe, whne it takes a standing army of half a million soldiers to protoct citizens and their property. The very class who are now Importu nate for the government ownoiship of railroad* should remember that Strikes nre not tol rated among governmont employes, noi her in tho army or naval or public works or the railway mail service. Strikers do not daro now to stop tho locomotive and the car that carries tho United State-* mail Well, of course, those brotherhoods have an answer to all this, and I have road it all. Fa- pent and periodicals come to mo weokly that breathe out enmity to capital and arc taintod with communistic principles and In my opinion llieso publications aro doing a world of harm. They arc educating tho working people to the idea that there should boa divis on—a division. In tho awful days of the French revolution throe communists went into tie* Bank of llotli- ehilds and cried “liberty, equality, fraternity we have como for our lummy.’’ The Jew said “all right, I havo flO, OO.OtiO franok* in Iho bank. Thero aro (50,01)0,000 people in France; hero aro yours,” and ho throw Ihreo francs upon the counter. 'Now go tell tho UBt to ci mo on and get tlioirs." said be. But wo have not como to that ami I liopo wo never will. It becomes all our considerate jieoplo, whotlier poor or rich, whether em ployers or employed, to bo reasonable and tol erant, nml to Aspect tho rights of others and teach others so to do—Bill Au* in Atlanta ling l tho extreme nnd results in ruin U1 thousands of i those who engage in it, but I cannot see how (baling in futures affects tho prieo of cotton, 1 for in its analysis it is betting whether it will go tip or down. There were no 60,000,0 0 bales Wight or snld, neither real nor ideal. Tno speculator rh^h to Iho bucket shop, “I’ll bet you that cotton will go ftp Within thirty days and ( will put up a margin oh 2B0 lmlcs. 1 ' “All right/’ riuvh the bucket sijop, "put tlpfSOO ! and I’ll take tho bet ” G’bttori drops instead i of rising and the $600 gocti ffp the snurit. and tho siieculator iH a sadder but not a Wls V mam A riot her speculator bet tho other way, perhaps | nml won, arid 6* eohrso lie tries it again. The j shop will hot cither way, n*nl like Dio dealer in ; a faro bank, always comes out abend in the | end. The shop has no interest to bull of hear , tint cotton. The s-op knows its oonsunurs arid j or i iid in ns. of all tho bets, i can \odgo to thfl.svei suit ii. Now that is the ttity I timlerfltand it. It is no g*dting up a corner on ft'C/Uofi It is simp y hacking a man’s judgment with hi#, fnonov. That $600 was tho strike; and while it repn- Sell ted 260 bales, it was really iho value of on- -ra Iv flflt'en bales. This solution would reduce Jug Hufllehmt without any Bible and without the bihliof/s flgtires from 6(1 000,000 l aics to any Christ and without any God. The tiinn 8,400,0 0 hales mi (he npiount lost or won in .. . ing—wo may not live to soo it, but [ tliroo months. What it linfl to do with fixing nil ou Id not he surprised if wo did sue it—> When this whole country in to bo ono great church, tho forests the aisles, the Allegheny •Did Hid Rooky Mountains tho pillars, the dim ill Of Jlllaild lakes thd baptistries, and iho the price I cannot see. Liverpool Still fixes the price and lias tho Indin crop to help fix it and it seems to lm uniformly fixed every year in proportion. It is the farmers really who fix ho price when they fix tho acreage to the wrirship the hallelujahs chorus iff Him wild JBiigland-Amerlca agents still examino careful Wn." (Uld i.ri itd.d Khali bo evermore ovoi* td iho majority -crimo under the ban ner of Emanuel. Vernon was tho son of an .English M((uirt\ lb* was brought up in groat ologanco. Thera was a man working on tho place of tho namo of Ralph. Vornon used to often talk with Ralph. After awhile Vornon went off to college and came back with his mind full of skepticism. Ho talked his skepticism to Ralph, tho workman. After awhile Vornon ly and Catltiounly into the crop condition of ery county in the fltfnth. England knows Die condition nml extent of the crop in Bartow county better to-day than any farmer in it, lor slio dried not rely upon ono source of information lint on several, 'J)»«ro is not a buyer or dealer in Georgia who does iltit Vely upon the last re ports Hunt him from somo grefti house in New York that i-> connected with English* of New England mills. I cannot seo where tlio bucko* shops conic in or how they can influonco the Wont front homo again, was gone for years, prico. Millionaires liko trio Inmans put largo came ba*5k, und among his first questions moneys in cotton every year and mnko monov, when getting homo Was, “Whore is Ralph?" for It is their business, and they understand it, "Oh l" said the futhoi*, “Ralph Is In prison but thoy rutt no bucket shops, mr do liny Waiting for tho day of execution." make colossal fort in g.h by spocula'lon. 'liny Voriloil hnstoitod to sou Ralph. Ralph, | bade their Judgment with their money and are Irioklng through tho wlekot of tho prison, ! able to hold thoif purchaseM tin 111 thero is a said: "Vernriii; how gorid ^ou aro to come j profit. I remember a Olmrlo^ton coffeo inei- and soo mo I J am gla*l to soo you. I hardly Chkitt by the numo of Samuel Farrar who made expected you would como and seo me. I in thirty yen hi tt million do lnrs by doaling in don’t blame you : 1 don’t blame anybody;] coffeo. He hml a large ittnp in hlsprivatoof- only blamo mysolf; but, Vernon, 1 want you nco, nnd it w.is checked off in years and to promise mo ono thing. Will you?" Vernon | inouDiS and days, nml Din prico of conco for replied, “I will." “I want you to promise ! every day was marked, and a groen lino marked r to talk Skepticism in the presence tho ups and down, tliri i-ino and fall, and it was Igl> ro WMM JIUllllllg Jil ] »«--u IIIIU mni)0|(ii» unv mu< iuiivu mu* Buunk" ako any dilTorenno Dm av< rage prico for Dm yonr. Brazil who Dm of anybody. You soo it might do thorn harm, i a very crooked line. Then tliriro waa q straight When vou used to say there was nothing in ri d lino tiint split tlio diff- ronco rind showed Iho Bible, and it didn’t. .. ;;;; “ ' ’ how wo lived, wo would como out happy at markot whero ho I ought. If tho crop was the last, somehow it had a bad Influonco up- 1 short ho made allowances for it and raised the on me, and L went Irom had to worse until I i rod lino according to his best judgment nml am hero, and I must die for my crimes." bis most roliablo information. “1 buy/* By almost superhuman effort the sentence Was changed, nnd ho was to bn transported to another country for life. Tho ship going there was wrecked on Van Diomon’s Land. Among those Who porishe t Was Ralph, the victim of Vernon’s skepticism. Vornon lolls the slory to-day with tears and a broken heart, but It Is too late! Oil, do not talk skepticism • Lot God bo true, though every man bo found a liar. “when the prico is below Hint liu wlion it is above." Just so it is with shrowd men everywhere. I boliovo thero is too much odium hooped upon rich men, too much malignant alums of . money kings and millionaires. 1 reckon wo ting a letter at tho last period and then b» the recently issued so von th annual report of Mie bureau of ethnology, Maj. J. YV. Powell, director, comes to several new conclusions alxmb the North Atnori can Indiana, lie holds that instead ol related dialects, originating In a single parent language, they speak many lan guages belonging to distinct, families, with no apparent unity of origin. The population at, the time of Columbus bits been greatly exaggerated. As compared with the vast territory occupied and tho abundant food supply, it was very small, and nowhere, save possibly in California, had it uugmented sufficiently to press upon the food supply. Though tho In dians had overspread the whole of North America, tho Europeans found them in u state of equilibrium. Y\ r itli tlio acquisi tion of horses nnd firearms, but not till then, ninny of the tribes became nomadic. Agriculture was generally followed among the tribes of what aro now the Eastern i'nited States, but nowhere were its products sufficient to (iinaucipatu them wholly lioui the hunter statu. Cuts nt Sou. Considering how much tlio cat abhors cold water, our readers must often have wondered why Heal tiring men are so fond of taking the animal with them on u voyage. This is explained hy two cir cumstances. Marine insurance does not cover damage done to cargo by iho dep redations of rats; but if the owner of tho lamaged goods can prove thut the ship as n nt to sea unfurnished with a cat, e can recover damages from the ship muter. Again, a ship found at sea with »•» living creature on board is considered a derelict, and is forfeited to the Admir alty, the fiuders, or the Queen. It lms often happened that, after a ship has been Abandoned, some domestic animal -a dog, u canary bird, or most fre quently a cat, from its hatred of facing the waves—has saved the vessel from be ing condemned us a derelict. ~ [Now York Dispatch. WRITES I'ETTERS BACKWARD; An Aged Pittsburgher’s Peculiar Accomplish meat. Did you ever seo a person begin writ- would nil get rich if Wo could—vV< u tlirpre* crs. It grieves mo to hear somo of Dios** politi cians trying to army tho poor against tho iHi and to stir up strife and oil!emeus among tlm people. Jt did not uso to bo that way. Men tvho prospered woro respected in my young days - respected by everybody, Riches wore not considered a sin. Tho scriptures sp uk approvingly of Abraham and Job and Solomon and toll tin of their great, wealth, and how Iho Lord blessed them. I believe that there are good men now who are rich and they do rood with their money. If they did no* I don’t know what would become of the poor and suf fering when pcsblenoo or famine or storms af flict them. But there scorns to boa fooling of unrest and well-marked polarity, however, there bitterness am ng eer.ain classes all ov< r tho is not tlio leant doubt. It in n well- oou,1 . ,ry ' 1 Bomoha.ly i. making tlio uorklnx , , ...... joorlo boliev* that they are imposed upon hy known fact that j! a bur ol solt iron tho rich and by Dio government. I see in a bo Hiispoiulcd Biifficienlly long in tlio Romo paper that they havo organised in Chubs air, way at a height of from one to district, “‘ Floyd county, "a bread brigade,” Tlio FoIc’h Attraction* Thn polo'rt attraction for other oh* jectfl heaidoti tho magnetic needle lnia, up to tho present time, been at bosl imperfectly understood, owing to the ineoinpleteliesH of the data furnished by thouo who nntko such inattors a study. That many objects possess a Sunday; don’t give us any through tho week. Stop rny paper." But I have boqn told that many of the secular papers have their largest circulation on Monday morning, and the whole population of this country nro becoming sermon readers. Besides that, have you not noticed tho papers proclaiming themselves secular almost every week have religious discussions in them? Go back a few years when thore wag not a decent paper in the United States thut hud not a discussion on tho doctrine of eternal punishment. Small wits made merry, I know, but thero was not un intelligent man in the United Htates that as a result of thut controversy in regard to eternal punishment did not ask himseli the question, “What in to he my eternal destiny?’' And som<* years ago when Tyndall offered his prayer gauge there was not a .secular paper in the United States that did not discuss the question; “Docs God ever answer prayer 1 May th* creature impress tho Creator?" Are not «{[ fhese fusts cflccmruging t9 ev- f/.n,* fm.f ,,l,m*D tl.n H.ii’f.um it will hrt Un ’ 1 l,ttVO 400 lllemboi H 1111(1 they llHVO sigll loin n 1 aliow. tlio mu Rico, it, will D0 ftllt i j, r j, H u| 1( | passwords, ami have sworn Hint como magnetized, and no odUMiil what they will have 10 emits a pound f**r iheiroot- pOHitipn it wan originally placed, it will ton, debt or no debt, nnd theywid hold it at (if ho balanced us to be. free to move), j tho muzz e of a, Avlr*cli* ster." Surely Dmt eventually asBiimc a north and nonth can’t bo so. Is it poHsiblo that the spirit of .. . J anarchy and commuii'sm is taking hold of «.u2* direction. people? B aud brigade! Whv, (hero is not n It iH tils,, oluiinod by DX^rimnntow in I^;;.v<l ^n-fy «l>o '»>; *>! r ihrou K h to”tho' flrsT“iotuVr' ol 'tho" Hrst llmt ii living In i ,ii jin bo Ay, strotohod |l|ilM| ; |n|lt (Vl . rv „ j, mil h!'h"ra - wiinl. It sooms tn bo natural to him to rigidly upon a board pen Fectly pivoted, | f ro m tho wohI by Iho carlnad. tmt ft iloii't c iino will quickly “line up* in a north and now. Thom nro hundreds of farmers in Bar- south direction, tho head pointing to wnie backward and finish up nt tho be ginning? That’s what Carl Maier can do without tho least exertion, says the Pitts burgh Dispatch. It, seems just as easy for him to remember tlio words and let ters ol a sentence In reversed order as it is for tho ordinary person U> remember them in their regular order. It is an easy matter for him to think backward, aud, what is more astonishing, ho writes up side down. Tho letters arc a 1 inverted af ho looks nt them when writing. And again, in performing this feat,which ono would think would require all the power and attention of his brain, he is not dis turbed by carrying on a conversation with you, no matter how foreign the subject inuy bo. Miller's performance would make one almost believe tho theory recently promulgated by a scientist that we have “double-barrel brains." If you repeat a sentence to Maier, no matter how long it may be, after hearing it once he will commence and write tho scnteuco verbatim, starting at the lust letter of tho last word und finishing it ward tho pole. This faculty is not present, in ii corpse, and it occurs to the writer that if there iw really any thing in it, it would bo u splendid “death test." Another “polarity" proof i« this: PJaco ono end of a demagnetized bar invert his mind in bis work, for he never fullers or stops to think, but writes ns rapidly as a person writing in tho ordin ary way. “1 acquired this in a peculiar manner/' said Maier. “While I was a clerk in a grocery stoi c in Saxony I was an ambitious lyc- mo upon our Keftcasl. They havo cattlo sort of u boy and always wanted to do There nro hi tow who will have coi n and fortd, r ami moat to tell. Our farnuirf aro better off today than any other class in the c* mmnnify. They como and go when they please. They have ho.ilth und strength ami good water ami nro n vur vis ited hy storms or peitileuco, such as havo late- | and hogs and ch hihh” nml tho scho Diouho not far uwav—what >«gs and “ga d tho church nro pity t * ey cannot for ti of irou upou tho ground, inclined ho | litfclo whilo look in upon tho poor of Eiiroj that the end in your hand points to- ' * -* • * ‘ ~ ’ ward tho pole star, strike it one sharp blow with a heavy hammer and it will immediately acquire “polarity" and will be found to exhibit all tho well- marked qualities of a magnet.—St. Louis Republic. Bullet Waves. One of tho interesting results of the recent experiments in England in photographing Hying bullets lias been to show that the disturbance in tho air travels faster than tlio bullet it self. The photographs exhibit air waves in udvunco of the bullets, even when the hitter arc moving faster than tho velocity of sound. everything different from every person else. YVhcn tlio customers came to mu for their bill I would place the bill in an inverted position in front of me and make the bill out backward, as I huvo written for you. I oamo very nearly being prose cuted for practicing witchcraft. Many people assigned this power to the witches. Then the spiritualists eamo to me and told mo I was controlled by a wonderful mind. Although I couldn’t explain it by any other theory than it was a concen tration of my mind, I at last persuaded That did not uso to 1» : tho liw and’how it them that there was nothing supernatural comes to ho tho law now, I cannot understand. j„ i ftn , no t able to perform the feats u’mlZVZ T,i, ^p'm™ 1 llSl : d who" 1 wuh younger. I an, on our road from Ath.n-a lo Nashville. That getting old now and my memory is not is all right and wo hop it wiil continue. so good as it used to be. My eyesight is I havo their hearts' touched with gr .titudo that they live in this blessed land. Labor is too hard upon cnpitul -too Dir* aten ng too ex acting. Those may seem strange word t for un to uso, lmt they nro true. 1 am ns ho.sti'o to monopolies and trusts nnd combines ns any body, »*ut whon i road of these great trikes in a timo like this, it shocks mv sympathy. \N hat arc these organization** amhow, but monopo lies? The watchword of nvo-t of th* in is "if you don’t pav so much, wo will quit and whon wo quit nobody ol o shall tali*! our places." Tho mystery is how a 'railroad can pay iti men at all whilo our whole financial sys tem is parubz d. There is bald ly enough freight business now to pay for th** axlo grease. Ono day last week there wore only seven loaded cars going north I over this great road, so I waa told. Below At lanta there is nothing to load and yet tho leaso In one case where tho bullet was i of |ho Western and Atlantic costs’ $120 a day. moving considerable faster tlmu sound * Raff^jwdj ftn(1 factories have their troubles travels in the air it was preceded by an atmospheric disturbance which, at the moment the photograph was taken, was half an inch in advance of the pretty near gone. I can’t see very much. In looking at you I sec it is a form aud know that you aro a human being be cause you speak to me, but I couldn’t see my writing if I didn’t use a blue pencil. It seems to be the only color that I am able to see. That’s the reason J use it all tho time." Tho old man started to write a long sentence which will invest iu tin m where strikes and violence prevail. Now, I do not wish to ho misunderstood. , I havo r< sped for all these organizations whero point of tho bullet. Even when the | tiny respect the rights of other people, hut bullets were traveling four times ah fast , when those < m ployed on one road unv to their *« -T 1 t ’ , ° distiulmiu;# j S&XgS !'PPt, ahead of them* j their denMUd sh*«-H th > judpiri»ct an/j thg man was given him. Whou he began ho said: “While 1 ain writing this 1 want you to talk to me, for it seems to make my work easier. You need not be afraid of an noying ine. I could be writing a discus sion on theology aud at the samo time carry on a conversation with you on tho financial sjfcuatioii, and it wouldn’t worry mo at all.TJ .. . „.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, September 22, 1893, Image 1