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The Cartersville American.
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DIRECTORY.
COURT CALENDER—CHEROKEE CIR
CUIT.
J. C. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici
or General.
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
ar.d July.
Catoosa Counly—Second Monday in February
and August
Murray County—Third Monday in February
ana August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August.
Bade County—Third Monday in March and
September.
Whitfield Count;? First Monday in April
and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F.M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
H. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, Sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Dept ty Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham, Coroner.
D. W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Commissioners—S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John H. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. 8. Cobb, Clerk.
B. U. Mountcaetle, Treasurer. ;
Aldermen —First Ward, J. C. Wofford, A. R.
Hudgins, Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. 11.
Barron; Third Ward, John i,. Stover, Elihu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Street.—Collins, Hudgins. Barron.
Finance.—Stover, Edwards, Wolford.
Cemetery.—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards.
Hall.—Hall, Wolford, Barron.
Relief.—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
Professional Cards.
W. T. MILNER. J. w.
HARRIif^
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Attornoys-Al-Law.
Office on West Main Street.
iaaj'9-tf Cartersviile, Ga.
JQH.N H. WIKLE. DOFOLAS WIKLE.
WIKLE dr WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-Law l Real Estate Agents
Office up stairs North East Corner West
Main and Erwin Streets.
mayß-if Cartersviile, Ga.
Turn wTsMii'ii,
Alloi’i ey- if-Law.
Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street.
raay9-tf CartersviU
G£OR€}E M. JOHISOIJ,
AUornej-al-Law,
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
practice lu all the Courts.
A. M. FOUTE. WALTEK M. RYALB
FOiTE A RYALS,
Attorneys-At-liaw.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Alain and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersviile, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. i. 1. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
SEEL, COKYER & YEEL,
Atterneys-AtdLaw,
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Office over Stokely & Williams’ store.
Cartersviile, Ga.
R. E. CASON,
DENTIST,
CARTERS VILLE, GA.
Office, over Curry’s Drug Store.
DR. J. T. SHEPHERD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Curry’s Drug Store,
DR. W, B. LEAKE,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cartersviile, Ga.
Jggf*Office at Word's drug store.
DR. W. H.LEAKE,
Practicing Physician,
Cartersviile, Ga,
Special attention given to diseases of women
and children, and all Chronic affections.
Office up stair-way between bank and post
office. May be found at office or Word’s drug
store.
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ADVERTISING AGENTS,
ATLANTA, GKA..
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Hotels.
eiLBBRN HOUSE,
ID.4IKSVII.LR, Cl.
H. J. HILBERV, Prop's-.
Nice rooms, lean beds, thorough ventilation,
tables applied with he verv best
the marktft affords.
*@*TERMB MOD UR A" t / J-t!
Central Hotel
HOME, GE A 1
J. H. KIPPS, Proprietor.
, R#tcs s2 per.day, ... tud tree t
na.ed in the busiotse l-'r: o tt- citv r o
onuilbps tq,<uid irozn alferUns K ceu'.ly en
arged an I rdwiy 'prnisbe-d.
Fin iriir
LGOISV*I.„ ', K¥.
CENTRALLY LOCATED
And all the appointments, including
ELEVATORS AHBFIBE ESCAPE.
VERY OOMPI.ETK.
S. H. SCOTT, Proprietor.
GRANT HOUSE.
BEST HOTEL IN ATLANTA.
New building, new furniture—every thing
first-class.
carters for commercial men.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE!
WESTERN ATLANTIC R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30,1883:
NORTH BOUND.
NO, 3—WESTERN EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 7 30 a. m.
Arrive Marietta 8 20
“ Cartersville 9 25
“ Kingston 952
“ Da1t0n..... 1123
“ Chattanooga 100 p. m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 2 35 p. m.
Arrive Marietta. 8 27
“ Cartersville 429
“ Dalton 6 22
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS-Daily.
Leave Atlanta 11 40 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 12 39 a. in.
“ Cartersville 1 48
“ Dalton 3 44
** Chattanooga 615
Rome Express—North—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ Cartersville .6 03
“ Rome 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Leuisvillo, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville.
SOUTH ROUND.
* NO 4—FAST EXPRESS.
hUdren to wrath, tvi.. SOS a. m
upre and admonition 933
the land , ;‘*‘’’*V.Y.V.'.".V.Y.Vl 42
hbm arietta 12 46 p. m.
A tlanta. 1 45
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston .. 602
“ Cartersville 631
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 1015 p. m.
Arrive Dalton ... 1 49 '
Cartersville ... 147 a.m.
“ Marietta. . ... 250
“ Atlanta.. ....... .. .340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Esc at in-.nduy.
Leave Rome .. Bsn a m.
Arrive Cartersville . . fMO
Marietta.... ~,.,10 Jj
“ Atlanta 1,^.. , . ,ii 45
No. 4 carries Pullman r ar.? > v u'ru
le At
villr to At.’, r•.
No, 12 carrie; Pulim ,a ft am Cbi '-ago to
Savannah and Loiiisviilo to - ' -
B W. WU> NN, Gen’l Pass.
R. A. ANDEIbON.V-prmtenth :,t- "
EAST & west'r i'
ON and after Sunday, Nov 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows;
GOING WEST—Daily, Except Sun lay.
NO. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950 a. in. 4 D j*. m.
“ Stilesboro 10 62 4 42
“ Taylorsvills 10 37 5 17
“ Rockraart.. 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedurtowtr. .....12 60 C 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sin.day.
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Cedlartown 205 p. nt. 715 a. m.
“ Rockmart 3 00 8 07
“ Taylorsville. 335- 839
“ Stimsboro 3 53 8 55
Arrive Cartersville 425 9 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Best.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a.m.
“ Stilesboro 8 62
“ Taylorsville 9 24
“ Rockmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville 10 10
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West.
Leave Cartersville 2 50 p. m.
“ Stilesboro 3 21
“ Taylorsville . 3 37
“ Rockmart 4 Id
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East & West Junction. . 2 55 p. m.
Arrive Broken Arrow 6 00
Leave Broken Arrow 9 00 a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. m.
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
NO. 1. NO, 3.
Leave Rome tIDa. m. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. a. no. 4.
Leave Kingston .. 920a. m. 555 p. m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. m. 650
no. 6.
Leave Rome ■;. 800a. m.
Arrive Kingston 9 00
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m.
Arrive Rome 10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos.s and 6 will run Sundays only.
No 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. fi. K., for points south.
EBEN HII.LYER, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
TANARUS, W. WHIT 13
CABINET MAKER and UPHOLSTERER.
Furniture of all Kinds Blade and
Repaired.
SHOP ON WEST MAIN STREET,
Cartersviile, Ga-
Have your Job Printing neatly ex
ecuted fd.lbis olttce.
ILLE, GEORGIA, TTEST) t - J =■
~ ’ UU ’ FEBRUARY 26, 1884.
The Cartersville America.
E itered of the Plst Office at Cartersville,
€fa., May 9 th, 188>, as second class matter .
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 26, 1684.
Sifted Shimmerings
CUEXiUD FBCM
THE
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AND
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AV SPBEAD out
Mm our Readers.
Gen, Grant will be well In a few
weeks.
What has become of Dr. Mary
Walker?
Ohio has her floods and Georgia
her cyclones.
Congress will adjourn about the
lsst of May.
Congress should protect the forests
of the country.
Blaine’s book will make his pub
lishers a fortune.
Prejudices are generally the ema
nations of weak minds.
There is not much said about wip
ing out race distinctions these days
President Arthur will retire from
his candidacy before the convention
meets.
The negroes in Washington are
worse than in any other place in the
country.
White elephant’s breathjis the col
or announced for fine summer silks.
They used to eall it pink.
Brewster is not so generally aesthet
ic nor drunk as he was before con
gress assembled.
The Marine Band may be a fine or
ganization, but they blow their own
horns a great deal.
Mrs. Langtry is said to be making
mure money than when she was sup
ported by Gebhard.
The New York Sun does not shiue
as it used to. The World appears to
he taking the shiue out of it.
We would like to see Foiger and
Brewster in private life and their
(daces filled by able, houest men.
Creeds are as heloiless narks upon
ashcuvle** sea, searching a fancied
,ven t v 5 -3pass of inoomprehen- 1
si hie dogmas.
u. Quo; deluge Is almost
eqaYfoU;.; o e in New York a
C U • . > 2 , ■ ■ h.. •* pci : Ci.dy
’ *Aj;„ur,
T-•*; A.-'fit: j.i r g.->: I. m
he calttvat without losing
i ands IT:. ;.,i <'A t. „ 1 ie
i sm of the pens.
Were it not for the winters, ne
groes and siroug-mtnded female con
ventions, Washington would serve
as a half-way station to heaven.
A lodging house bed in New
York can be obtained for five cents,
and still some New Yorkers occa
sionally persist in staying up all
night.
One wouldn’t think there was any
point of resemblance between an un
successful operatic performance and
a panr ake, but there i3. They both
fall flat.
March is set down by the weather
wise for cold, stormy and windy. It
will “come in like a lion” with the
strong-minded, petticoat convention
of Lincoln Hall.
The Washington undertaker would
make excellent cavalry. Nothing
can equal the ferocuy and success of
his charges on congress, his only
weapon being a spear.
A subscriber writes: “What exer
cise should a young man take; also,
what should he eat to become a pu
gilist like Sullivan?” He nhould
play baseball and eat baked beans.
Polygamy is playing out. Kate
Field and Emily Faithful have just
returned from Utah without chang
ing their names. There is some
thing in the Edmunds bill after all.
An Intensely loyal northern wo
man objected to a boarding house be
cause the room which she was to oc
cupy had southern exposure. Not
much use trying to bridge tho. bloody
chasm.
The publisher of a Georgia paper
states that during the two years it
has been in existence he has cleared
just three dollars a month. As he
lives in Georgia he may be excused
for boasting.
j “Xfii ba true that tee hairs of
1 - -n are all
i one s
j the man after he nau scaped
j his wife’s clutches, “there will uv.
I one angel at leaM who will show
i up with a big deficit.”
When a girl proposes to you dur
| irig leaf) year and you do not want to
marry Iter, the proper thing is to
r ich foi your hat and ask her to ex
cuse you, as you have a pres-ing en
gagement with another girl.
Longfellow’s “Excelsior,” which
had 80 much action in it, was written
white the poet was in bed. The
poet had to write seven or eight
verses before he could excelsior up
enough ambition to get out of bed.
The best cr uii'M’ias now have pe
culiar contrivances called hair-strain
er; thus rendering their product ab
solutely free fro a foreign substances.
Cut this out, and plaster it iu a con
spicuous place. If you have no plas
ter, boarding house butter will do.
St.tValentine has made many a
pocket book weary and sickened a
months’ wages of many a spooney
fellow iu the country. If you will
gush you must p*y for the gushing.
Taffy is gweet, but sometimes expen
sive. Young man you will think of
this some day.
George W. Cable, the novelist,
went to visit the funny man, Mark
Twain, at his home in Hartford
Conn. Result: Cable is sick in bed.
It isn’t safe to trust yourself to the
tender mercies of a funny man.
Twain is trying to figure out which
get the best jokQ on the other, he or
Cable. 4*
Adam’s fall reached a long way.
Adam and Eve were first placed in
the garden of Eden where it was
perpetual summer. When they sin
ned they were driven out into the
cold world, and ever since that the
sons of Adam have had to pay $7 a
ton for coal and SSOO a piece for seal
skin sacques.
It appears that Chicago would be
immensely benefitted if a tidal wave
from the lake should go swashing
through the town. The Daily News
says accumulations of filih “have
raised most of the streets about the
level of the sidewalks,” and pedes
triaus wale through the slush “ankle
deep on the walks.”
Don’t gossip. It not only injures
you oy leading you to exaggerate
facts, but it often injures those of
whom you speak when no injury was
intended. Words, especially bad
ones, are like thistle seeds,borne upon
the breeze. They lodge and grow
over the laud and when once started
cannot be picked up again.
The kerosene fiend has been rather
quiet of late, but last week he invei
gled a dentity United States m irsha!
ofSpr.u rfieid, T i.- to m mkey with
the kerosene can to try and start the
fire. Hed l n>t climb the golden
stair, Uij; there is bootu in the court
planer market. Kerosene is no res
pecter of persons.
It is 'noteworthy fhat the last five
floods-in fho O io Valley have oc
curred iu February, the river reach
ing the highest point between the
dates of the 14 h and 21st, and that
until 1880 1 here had been no over
flow iu February since 1850. This
appears lo show that February has
come to be a month when wet weath
er conditions prevail to an alarming
extent.
Anew waltz, not on the pro
gramme, was introduced at a South
Side ball last week. Aa irate mother
walked into the room, took her
daughter’s ear between her thumb
and fore-finger, and waltzed her
home. While this new figure is rath
er sensational, it is not likely to be
generally introduced, as the partici
pants, that is, one of them, thinks it
altogether too irritating.
The question of who is the author
of “The Bread Winners” Is still
being discussed, and is, as yet, un
satisfactorily settled. It seems
strange that such a matter should go
so long unsettled. It is now likely
that “The Bread Winners” will go
down in history along with “Beauti
ful Snow,” With from fifty to one
hundred fathers, and double that
number of mothers, all claiming it as
their child,
Noah’s floodshould not be derided.
Considering the time and thecircum
stances Noah did as well in the way
of a flood as could be expected. Had
he been an Ohio man, with all the
advantages afforded an Ohio man of
the present day in scientific informa
tion concerning forestry and mete
-1 urology, he would uot only have pro
vided for a first class flood to begin
wit but would have improved upon
it the next year. The citizeus of the
Ohio valley grant Noah the credit
he deserves, but we flatter ourselves
that if he were living now we could
give him a few pointers on floods,
THE TATTLER TALKS.
J*fts tad Fancies Gathered Here and Thm
and Told by tho Tattler to Tickle the
gossips Mid Tarn the Tedious
* * *
Hoars into ...... 1
Much has been said in a compli
mentary way of the good people of
Ctrtersville. Commercial men say
it is ft good place t sell merchandise
preachers say it is a guod pi ice to
hold a conference or an association,
pleasure seekers say tt i* a good place
t-* spend a vacaii n,f r jgnb< lie-* and
beaux say it is one of ihe most d-.
ligh:fu!*towns in the siatv to spend
a few’weeks of social pleasure. Alii
these things are literally truv A
more hospi.able generous people el
not live. Cf.rtersville extends aj
hearty welcome to strangers who
c >me well recommended. Our peo
ple live well, society is very good,
school ! are well attended, churches
are large and preachers well support
at. But with all this thnre is a miss
ing link that fearfully retards the
progress of the town, and that is a
want of hearty co-operation aud a
la,ck of broad public spirit in any en
terprise,that requires unity of action.
If it had not been for this deficiency
we would to day have a cotton fac
tory m full sweep a school house of
which the city would be proud, a
park that would be an ornament as
well as a luxury, and last iu order
bqt not in importance a public library
of five thousand volumes. AH those
things are useful and beneficial to the
town, and why it is th it every en
terprise of this kind lags and
from cold neglect is a mystery that
the Tattler cannot understand or ex
plain. The old adage“what’s every
body’s business is nobody’s business”
is carried out to the letter in Car
teraville. In individual persuits our
people are progressive and wide
awake. The merchants are posted
and pushing, the mechanicsare ener
getic aud efficient, the lawyers are
studious and succes-ful, and ail the
pursuits and professions of Life the
people of Cartersville are abreast Of
the time. But just let it be known
that somebody is out with a subscrip
tion book to forma stock company
ora mass meeting is called to dis
cuss the erection of a school house, or
a meeting of the library association
is suggested and everybody has
something else to look alter. If we
keep on at this poor, creeping pace
Cartersville will never be any thing
more than a common poky country
town. It is absolutely necessary
that the individuals make some sac
refice for the general good of the
whole. In this matter of a public
library some immediate action is de
manded. The nucleus of the library
is already here. There are about
five hundred volumes resting quietly
in the dust of one of the up-story
rooms over B iker & Flails hardware
store—the result of two or threespas
rhodic efforts at starting a library
association. Some two or three hun
dred of these books are standard
works and should be re*d,but as long
as we wait for somebody else to du the
work of organization nothing will be
done. Rome has a library of 5,000
volumes to which she is constant
ly making additions. We mention
this fact that it may excite a spirit of
emulation in our own people. We
will not now pursue this subject
further but ask you seriously to turn
it over in your mind, and consider
whes her or not it is worth while to
do any thing more than talk.
The eye lone that went sweeping i
up the river last Tuesday evening j
was something grand to look upon, j
It eatne with a rushing soonnd and j
went plunging along at a terribie!
rate, twisting trees and houses into
splinters,and spreading desolation and '
ruin wherever it touched. Hundreds i
ofourcitizeus watched its course os
it canae whirling up the river from
towards Ham Harris’ place aud went
dipping along until it vanished over
the hills in the direction of Cooper’s
iron works. Men’s heart stood still
aud their faces blanched as they
watched it and heard the muttering
sound of its terifle voice. The
heavens were in a commotion. Black
fragments of clouds went rushing
from place to place like wounded
birds hunting safety. Sometimes
the whirl-pool of clouds would leap
down into the forest and snap trees
like they were pipe stems. Again in
their mad flight they would rise and
rush for a mile or two and reach
down again clasping in their shape
less arms hopses and barnsand fences
and fling them in to atoms,and hoarse
ly laugh at the calamity and ruin
they made. It was a spectacle we
hope never to see again. We thank
God that it was no worse—that no
lives were lost in our county. God
was in the storm, “How oft amid
thick clouds and dark does heaven’s
all rn'.ing sire choosa to reside; his
glory unobserved, and in the majes
ty of darkness round circles His
throne.” How weak and helpless
men feel at such a time. How much
we are made to feel the need of the
I “everlasting arms” about us. The
natural prayer that bursts from every
heart is, ‘ Lrd -we or l p-rish.”
Bueh visitations humble us and make
feel our dependence on G at, “In
fhs fierce shrinking and howling
crashing on in desolating
breath yet curbed -rub rais? t He
show* His aidful power, yq tender:
csre. In the free sun-liglu, in the
dropping of the clouds sod changes
of the *e>:soiß, He proclaims His
boundless goodness and exhaust
loss love.”
Toe Tattler does not tako very
much stock in love letters. There
is generally a milk-and-ciderishness
about them that has a tendency to
nauseate the average reader but the
produced below has a freshness, not
to'say originality about It that will
buse a ripple of laughter to creep
o\*r your countenance. It is the
eopyqf An original thst was sent to a
girl in Birtow county, from Texas.
I’he girliives near. Adairsvilie, so we
are infoi ned, but our informant does
not tell us vhether or not the young
lady aforeiqjd has consented to be
bis “stair in the este” or whether
the “stair” ha* ye t taken its way
westward, or whorher she has gone
into the feather or gone to rais
ing little geese, but presume the
“scorspondence” has terminated hap
pily and that John Smith is luxuriat
ing in the perpetual smila* of sweet
Mary Bennett. Read:—
eollius co tex sep 4 1882
mis i tak pleasur in rlten yu
afu lines tu lete yu no iam wel an
a doin wel an hop thes fu lines wil
finde you injoyin thes sam blesin i
wua lik to scorspon withe yu scors
pond whitbe mee yu air thee fust
girle 1 ever rit tu i like yu betern air
girle bak thar yu air mi stair in thee
etst wel 1 mus clomb er yu wii bee bye
mee lik theegurl wuz bye thee boye
hnewentea cortin and sot bye bur
aui daye longe and© elide knot sa a
wurde at last hee seed p„ fethur on
hur dres and nocked it of and sed
thairs a fehtur on yu shee sed it is
a wunder i am am knot covered withe
fethurs i hav bin a setin bye a guse
al daye plese accer this john smih tu
mis raary Bennett at horn.
Tattler.
TO A COUNTRY LAD.
A young mail wiitts from Hart,
county to tbe Constitution on a sub
ject which is interesting c iough to re
ceive a more extended consideration
than couid be accorded it in the de
partment of questions and answers,
where it properly belongs. Our
young friend writes that he will short
ly reach his majority, and, naturally
enough, he is looking around for some
thing to turn his hand to. He is very
modest in hi3 statements. He s iys
he has worked on a farm all hi life
but has received such educational ad
vantages as are offered in a neighbor
hood school. He believes he Isas the
basis of a fair English education, and
he knows that ho is willing to wo?k
hard in any direction where there is a
fair show of success. He is rather tir
ed of the farm, and want* to know if
there is any opening in Atlanta for a
young man who is not only willing to
work, but determined to succeed.
Now, when a country lad of more
than average brightness asks if there
is any opening in Atlanta, er any
chance of success, what are we to say?
Shall we close our eyes to the poten
cy of the circumstances and individ
uality and tell him to remain on the
farm, or shall we tell him that in every
step and in all departments ©f life, in
the city and in the country, a thou
sand opportunities await the right
man? All tilings being equal, a coun
try lad would study his comfort and
his interest by remaining on the farm;
but are all things equal? Upon every
side we see that country birth and
breeding, the outgrowth of which is a
sturdy and manly simplicity, are the
basis of the highest success in every
profession and walk in life. The most
successful men in Atlanta—in Amer
ica—weie onco barefooted country
boys. The rural—the pastoral—ele
ments ia our state and national life
rules to an ex teat and with a purpose
not dreamed of by politicians.
Oq the othfir hand, we know that
iu every town aud city there are
young men who hud it impossiolo to
get woik. They find every position
filled and every avenue to success ap
parently barred. In search of work
or employment, they are subjected to
all sort* of humiliations aud at every
turn they are compelled to swallow
pride and independence. Of a hun
dred who *eek employment many,
perhaps,will find it, but h>w far does
the employment represent success?
a thousand who find employment, one
will reach what people call success.
But there ia this consolation: the con
ditions are no worse than fifty years
j ago. While the thousand are plod-
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ding along, k *#pi g body ad soul
together, a b* sght ltd wiil make his
appearance an < aoe nip ids the impos
sible. He Will wring su *c ss from
th< mns 1 hopeless surrou id mgs.
How and wh\ ? Who shall nv?
Success is in the man and not in his
surroundings. It is called by various
names; some say it is luck, some op
portunity. Whatever it is, permanent
and worthy success is based on integ
rity, industry and that element of
character wdiioh commends one to the
confidence ot his aquaintances. All
this has been said hundreds of times
before, i.nd it remains to be said hun
dreds of times hereafter. It is not
satisfactory as an explanation. But
the Hart county lad who asks our ad
vice ought to be told that the success
of youth is not the success of age;
that one who would win success in
city would be more than successful on
a farm, for the same qualities that
give success in one direction give it in
another. Our aptitudes are important,
but they are not everything, and one
may be as successful in one calling as
another, provided one brings the same
energy and industry to bear.
No doubt our correspondent will
think that all this is far cuough from
definite advice, and so it is. Advice
is either perfunctory, or else it is bas
ed ot a thorough knowledge of con
ditiomand surrounding*. Ordinarily
we should unhesitatingly advise a
contry lad to remain upon the farm,
but a good business man is better
than a poor farmer, just as a good
farmer is better than a poor business
man. Our correspondent must decide
for himself.—Constitution.
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