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A OLUME 111.
Tie Cartersville America
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DIRECTORY.
I COURT CALENDAR—CIIKROKKE CIR
CUIT.
J. C. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solicitor j
I General. .... . .
Bartow County—Second Monday in January j
aid July. , , _ .
Catoosa County—Second Monday in t ebruary ;
and August
Murray County—Thiid Monday in February ]
ami August.
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August.
I ude < ounty—Third Monday In March and
| September.
Whitfield County—First Monday in April
and October.
BARTOW COUNTY COURT.
G. S. Tumiin. Judge. J. J. Conner, Sol. Gen. i
Geo. A. Howard. Clerk. J. G. Broughton,
Bailiff.
Quarterly Terms— Fiisfc Monday in March,
June, September and December.
Monthly Term—First Monday in each month.
JUSTICES COURTS.
Times for holding Justices Courts In the dif- i
ferent Militia Districts of Bartow county, Ga,: |
< artersvillc— No. 882d Second Tue days, j
Adairsv ille “ Ss6t.li Fourth Fridays, ;
< assville “ 828rh....e0nd Fridays,
Kingston “ 952(1.... First Fridays,
Euhvrtee “ 851st Seo’ndSatuidays, :
Allatoona “ 819th.... Third Saturdays,
Wolfl’en “ 1041st....fourth Saturdays, i
Stamp Creek '* iNi&l t hird Saturdays, j
Sixth Disti ict “ 936th . Fourth Saturdays |
Pine Log *• 827th.... First Saturdays.:
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court,
il. \V. Cobl), Treasurer.
John A. Gladden, sheriff. A. M. Franklin,
Deputy Sheriff.
Bailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham. Coroner.
1). W. K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Omnmteafctrers C. Prichard, T. C. Kook, '
A. Vincent, John H. Wikie, T. S. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James 1). Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. S. Cobb, Clerk.
R. It. Mounteastle, Treasurer.
Aldermen—First Ward, J. C. Wofl'ord, A. R.
Hudgins: Second Ward, G. Harwell, W. 11.
iSarron; Third Ward, John . . Stover, Elihu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W. C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDI NO COMMITTEES.
Street—Collins, Hudgins, Barron.
Finance—Stover, Edwards, Wofford.
< eiucrery— Hudgins, Collins, Edw uds.
Public Hall—llall, Wofford, Barron.
Relief—Edwards, Barron, Harwell.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
M ethodist.— Pastor, Rev. J. B. Robins. Ser
vices, every Sunday at 11, a. m , and 7:30, p. m.
Prayei meeting, every Wednesday at 7:30, p.
m. Sabbath School, every Sunday at 9:39. a.
in.; Jnc. VV. Akin, Sunt. Youi g men's prayer
meeting, every Thursday at 7:30. p. m.
Baptist.—Pastor, Rev. F. M. Daniel. Ser- i
vices, every Sunday at 10:45, a. m. and 7:15, p.
m. Prayer meeting, every Wednesday at 7:15, j
p. m. Sabbuth School, even' Sunday at 9:30, 1
a. hi.; D. W. K. Peacoc*, Supt. Youug men’s
prayer meeting, every Suml yat2,p. m. Ser
vice ol song, every Sunday at 3. p. m. Month
ly conference, third Sundry ot each month at
3, p ni,
Presbyterian.—Pastor, Rev. T. E. Smith.
Services, ever* first and third Sundays at 11, p.
in. Salih th St bool, every Sunday at 9, a. in.;
T W. Milner, Supt. Prayer meeting, every
Wednesday at 7:30, p. m. *
Episcopal.—Church of the Ascension. Min
ister in charge, Rev. W. It. McConnell. Ser
vices. every Sunday, except third in each
month, at 11, a. m. Sabbath School, every Sun
day at 10, a. m.
Professional Cards.
T. W. MILNER. J. W. U ARRIS, JH.
. MILNER & HARRIS,
Attorney s-At-Law.
Office over Howard’s Bank.
Cartersviilc, Ga.
JOHN If. WIKLK. DOUGLAS WIKLE.
WIKLE & WIKLE,
Attonieys-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Offices at Court House and on Main Street
above Erwin, Cartersville, Ga.
43EOROE 8. JOHNSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Office, West Side Public Square,
CARTERSVTLLE, GA.
B£g“>Will practice in nil the Courts.
A. M. FOUTE. WALTER M. ItYALS.
FOUTE & RI ALS,
Attorney*-A i-Law.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COO RTS
of this state. Prompt and faithful at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersville, Ga.
i. M. NEEL. 3.3. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
EX, ( OXMIK d' A GEL,
Attorneys-At-Law.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
pcciulty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Cilice ouErwiu Street, bet ween Main and
Market. Ciirtersville, Ga.
JAMJBtt B. CONYERS,
Atieruey-at-Law.
Office Up-Stairs, Bank Block, Cartersville, Ga
Will practice in all the Courts of the Chero
kee uud adjoining Circuits, and in the Su
tiieme Court. Prompt attention given to all
CeUectiou* y*aU a specialty.
Railroads.
KENNESAW ROUTE! .
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
The following time sard in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30, 1883:
NORTH BOUND.
NO. 3-WESTERN EX PRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 7 30 a. m.
Arrive Marietta 820
“ Cartersville.... 9 25
“ Kingston 952
“ Dalton li 23
“ Chattanooga 109p.m. i
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 2 85 p.m. !
Arrive Marietta 3^7
•• Oirtersvilie... 4 29
“ Dalton 0 22
“ Chattanooga 800
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta 1140p.m.
Arrive Marietta 12 39 ... m. !
“ Cartersville 148
“ Dalton 3 44
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Express— North—Daily, except Sunday, j
Leave Atlanta 405 p. m ■
Arrive Marietta 3 00
“ Cartersville 603
“ Home .. 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, 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.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. in.
Arrive Dalton 9 35
Kingston II 16
“ Cartersville 1142
“ Marietta 12 46 p.m.
Arrive Atlanta 1 45
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston 602
“ Cartersville 6 31
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 8 40
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga 10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 11 49
Cartersville 1 47 a. m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave Rome 8 30 a. m.
Arrive Cartersville 9 45
“ Marietta 10 s9
“ Atlanta 1145
No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New T Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to \tlanta.
B IV. WRENN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and alter Sunday, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOINg WEST—Daily, Except Sundaj'.
no. 1. no. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950 a. in. 4SO p. m.
“ Stllesboro. .. 10 02 4 42
“ Taylorsville 10 37 5 17
“ Roekmart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Cedurtown 12 00 6 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
. NO. 2. NO. 4.
Leave < eita'rtown..... .... 205 p. .... 715 a. hi.
“ ltockmart 3 00 8 07
“ Taylorsville 335 839
“ Sti esboro 3 53 8 55
Arrive Cartersville 4 25 9 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going Eest.
Leave Cedurtown 8 00 a. m
“ St ilex boro. 8 52
" 7ay i'EfVi.lt..... a .. ' l
“ Roekmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville 10 10
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West
Leave Cartersville 2 50 p. m.
“ Siilcsboro 3 21
“ Taylorsville 3 37
“ Roekmart 4 1J
Arrive Cedurtown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East & West Junction. . 2 55p. m.
Arrive Broken Arroiv 6(0
Leave Broken Arrow 9 00 a. ni.
Arrive East & West Junction 1 15 p. m.
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger
schedule:
NO. 1. NO, 3.
Leave Rome 6 10 a. m. 415 p. m.
Arrive Kingston 8 55 5 30
no. 2. no. 4.
Leave Kingston. 920 a.m. 555 p.m.
Arrive Rome 10 25 a. in. 650
NO. 5.
Leave Romo 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Kingston 900
no. 6.
Leave Kingston 9 20 a. m.
Arrive Rome 10 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 w ill run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
Nolwill not stop at the junction. Make
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Ch ittanoogu.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. It li.. for points south.
EIS E S HI FLYER, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l. Pass. Agent.
IF YOU ARE
GOING
: Weist!
NORTHWEST
on
SOUTHWEST.
BE SUR E
Your Tickets Read via the
U., C. A St. L. Ry.
Tlie McKonzießoute
The First-class and Emigrant Passengers
FAVORITE!
Albert B. Wrenn, W. I. Rogers,
Pas. Agent, Pa?. Agent,
Atlanta, Ga. ChattanoogH, fcnn.
W. L. DANLKY,
Gen. Pas &Tkt. Agent,
Nashville, Penn,
EISEMAN BROS?
MANUFACTURING
CLOTHIERS & TAILORS
55 WHITEHALL STREET,
ATL4Ny A * GEORGIA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1884.
The Cartersville Americas.
Entered at the Post Office at ('artersi iUe ,
(fa.. May 9th, 1882. as second ctass matter.
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1881.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. O.
MAJ. WILLIS BENHAM.
BORN 1795—DIED 1873.
“XLere is a history in the lives of all
men,” wrote the immortal bard of Avon,
and it holds good as applied to Maj,
Willis Benham, for many years a noted
citizen of Cass, hut now Bartow county,
Georgia.
Maj. Benham was horn near Bristol,
Connecticut, December 12, 170.1, of in
telligent,’ well-to-do parents. Being one
of a household of seven children, his op
portunity for a liberal education was lim
ited, being confined to a few months
during the winter season in a bitter cold
climate, and when old field school houses
did not have the modern appliances of
the present cozy academies and schools.
During the spring and summer months,
lie labored on the farm until he reached
his majority, it being necessary to assist
his father as the greater number of the
household were females. But his was
an energetic nature and he toiled with
a hearty good will, and success as a prac
tical farmer crowned his manly efforts.
In 1818, in the twenty-third year of
his age, he exchanged his northern
home for one in the balmy south, locat
ing at Lawrenceville, South Carolina, in
which place, in 1820, he was married to
■Miss Elizabeth Irby, a young lady lovely
in person and richly endowed in mental
strength. The union was a happy one,
and continued harmonious and affec
tionate until death, in 1874, deprived
him of his beloved companion, having
lived happily together fifty-four years.
In 1854 he removed from South Caro
lina and purchased a plantation in Cass
county, three and one-lialf miles from
Cartersville, the place on which his ex
cellent son, Dr. W. I. Benham, now re
sides. Here he lived until liis death,
which occurred in 1875, in his eiglithieth
year, and twenty-four years a resident
I of our county.
! Maj. Benham was a remarkable man.
! His inadequate education in youth had
i been supplemented by studious years of
application, assisted by a mind of extra
ordinary power. His was an analytical
mind. What he read, he understood.
His mental acumen was of a high order.
No man in his sphere was better ac
quainted with the history of his country.
From its discovery through its conflicts,
tie knew it all. No member of congress
knew its political history better than
Maj. Benham. He loved and honored
iiis whole country; he was indeed a pa
triot; he could well adopt the triplicate
Lines of Sir Walter Scott:
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who. never to himself hath said,
This is my owu—my native laud.”
Asa business for life, he chose that of
farming and planting, and having a
judgment rarely at fault, he was success
ful to a high degree, having up to the
time of our unhappy war accumulated
what most of us would now regard as an
easy fortune. Socially, when well known,
no man was ever more genial, none more
true in friendship and sympathy; few
wiser in counsel and advice. His strong
mind easily grasped the nature and
meaning of subjects brought before him,
and his judgment—almost unerring—
rarely failed him. The writer of this
humble tribute to an honest and noble
friend, had for years the benefit of his
advice and ripe judgment, and gratefully
j records in this article his high appre
] eiation of them, and cheerfully confesses
that he is daily deriving benefits from
them. Maj. Benham was the soul ot
truth. Never have 1 known a man who
so utterly despised a falsehood. He
could not brook prevarication in any
shape; he scorned the aqipearance of un
truth or ambiguity ; his moral teaching
was truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. He was honest and equi
table in his transactions with his fellow
man. His word was his bond. It never
entered into his mind to wrong any one,
but to “mete out even-handed justice to
all” governed him through his long life,
and the world has been benefitted by his
life. His influence and example made
their impress on all with whom he came
in contact. His conduct and upright
principles re-appear in his offspring and
will for generations to, come, for as “a
little leaven leaveneth the whole
so the life of an honest, sincerely good
man will impress for good all wlio know
him, especially the youth who are close
observers of men’s examples. An up
right man is a light shining all around
him, and it is impossible to estimate the
value of his precept and example. Bad
men, on the contrary do an immense
deal of evil in the neighborhood they re
side in.
The Savior of mankind has said: “Let
your light shine before men, that others
seeing your good works may glorify
your Father which is iu heaven.” Some
young persons will read this feeble trib
ute of a friend to Maj. Benham’s charac
ter aud worth, and as he desires to see
the youth of our land advanced iu
all the nobler traits of our nature, he
urges them affectionately to take a high
moral and religious stand that they may
become worthy citizens of our noble
country which will soon be under their
control as legislators, ministers, teachers
of youths, husbands and wives. See to
it that you take a firm stand for virtue,
morality, honesty, temperance, industry,
and for the cause of Christ. Resolve
never to drink strong drink, and never
to do anything beneath the hoftnr and
dignity of a Christian gentleman or lady.
None should Ire willing to live in the
world without being a benefit to it, and
that it be betterfor his noble acts. When
it is known by proofs of Holy Writ that
a man’s works will follow him to heaven
or to perdition, it becomes every human
being to look honestly into his or her
conduct and see to it that they walk in
the way of virtue and religion, that their
record may stand the test of life and
death eternal. Maj. Benham lived such
a life. All who knew him will bear tes
timony to the fayt that he never injured
his fellow-man, but that he treated all
with integrity and kindness.
He was a reader of the Holy Scrip
tures, and better—a full believer in
their teachings. Still better than all, he
believed in the Son of God as his, and
the world’s, Savior, for all who sought
Him and found Him. As an evidence of
this faith and trust, he gave himself into
his Master’s hands and found that peace
which insured eternal rest to his soul.
Uniting himself to the Methodist church
at Cartersville, Georgia, he lived in its
communion until the day of his death,
which was one of triumph, for he died
full of faith in his Redeemer. One of
his comforts and great consolations was
in the-words of the Lord: “The Lord
will provide;” “Jehovah, givetli.” It
was his delight to hear that grand old
hymn sung, embracing the idea above.
On the night of his death he was greatly
cheered and made happy by a vision—a
glance into the upper kingdom. He
looked up and saw a plain and shining
way to heaven, and calling Dr. Benham,
his only son, informed him of what he
saw, and proclaimed that all was well for
him. The Lord had indeed provided
for him and bid him enter into his ever
lasting rest.
Young (Hi, a,.- you read this sketch of
a good man and dying Christian, resolve
just here and just now that you will give
the world a sober, honest man, and
Christ your heart. Will yon? It may
be your turning pome tor liio or uoenh.
Maj. Benham, socially, was a pleasant
companion to those who knew him inti- '
mately—as balmy as a May morning, i
In his own honor-hold lie Was- a model
husband and father—loving, kind, affec
tionate, firm, yet gentle in the govern
ment of his children, and no husband or .
father ever received in return from wife !
and children more love and reverence. *
The beloved wife of his youth died a
year or so before his own demise, which
brought to his aged heart the profound
est grief of his life. Never did the wri
ter witness a sorrow so poignant and
heart-breaking as he saw when our dear
friend gazed his last on the placid face
of his wife as she lay in her coffin, soon
to be buried out of his sight. Turning
to the writer, with unutterable grief he
said: “Oh, sir, the light of my house
and my heart has gone out.” What
could comfort him at that hour but the
hope of a meeting in the bright world
above, where death and separation are
no more.
A huge darkey, a few years ago, wan
dered from one place to another through
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He
was known as “Bones,” and his mouth
was the largest that was ever seen. On
one occasion, being rallied on the size of
it, he said: “Why, boss, dat’s de handiest
mouf in de wori’. I goes to a hotel an’
dey quits me ’way uqi in de top ob de
house to sleep. I gets uqi nex’ mornin’,
don’t fin’ no water to wash my face in,
an’ what I goin’ to do? Why, I jes’
opens dat mouf, an’ dere ain’t no face lef
to wash, cos, don’t you see, when de
mouf is wide open de face am all gone.”
The reason farm hands are scarce can
be accounted for in the fact that a man
can’t get a moment’s rest on the barbed
wire fence now in use. The old rail
fence offered some inducement to a man
to engage on a farm, but this barbed
wire business don’t give a man any show 7
at all.
Nothing like stenography has been
invented for taking a statesman down.
When the sqieaker contradicts himself
the short hand reporter shows him up.
That is why careful liars revise their
sqieeches before they go to the printer.
The goose is called a fool bird, and
when you talk science to her she is; but
she never lays more eggs than she can
cover, and never bites off more grass
than she can chew.
In Armenia girls are married when 12
years old. In this country at that age
they are too busy buying candy and
making faces at the boys to think of mat
rimony.
A West Point dude wanted a cannon
placed on a high hill, so it could be said
that the hill had a bang on its brow.
“Summer Boarders Taken in” is the
unwittingly truthful advertisement of a
New York farmer.
Advertise in the American.
PROHIBITION.
Col. M. E, Stansell Continues bis
Temperance Talk*
Editors American —ln a former article
on the whisky question, I made some
reference to the. interest which f Utters
a: and mothers naturally feel in their chil
dren, as connected with disappointments
and ruin springing out of the use of ar
dent spirits. Much more might be truly
said, and with profit, on the same line.
This field is almost limitless; it lies close
along by the side of the infinite. "Who
ever thought of setting bounds to the
hopes of a mother in the future of her
sons and her daughters ? Who was ever
able to describe the intensity of her fears,
arising from the threatened ruin of her
children, on account of the bewitching
temptations of this world? Among all
the temptations known to a mother,
strong drink occupies the very front
rank, and the anguish following in the
train of intoxication is, of all others, the
keenest and most appalling to her.
"Without experience to aid her, every
mother understands, as by intuition, the j
terrors of the drunkard’s bowl. These
things come home to her ns naturally as
the light of the sun comes down to the
earth. The effect is fully seen, as by
panoramic view, before the brush ever
touches the canvass, and while the habits
of these dear ones are being formed, the
danger of overthrow by strong drink cov
ers the horizon all around, dark as the
cloud that poured out the flood, and
when turned loose one would be no more
destructive to a mother’s hopes than the
other. Then may it not be said with
propriety and truth, that he who would j
put such a stumbling block in the way of*
the success of the young, puts to buzzard, j
at the same time, the happiness of every
p are at for a lifetime, and strikes a death
blow T ANARUS, with a two-edged sword, at both
the young and the old. Is not the W'his
kv traffic answerable daily to a charge
like this, yn every community where its
sale is allowed ? Who can deny it ? Who
can repair the widespread waste in the
track of whisky ? And who w ill say, give
the people more of this trouble, or that
it shall stand in our midst just as it is?
Rather, who will not say,- “Enough; its
sale shall be forever prohibited.” The
time is at hand, or near us in the future,
when public opinion will require every
body take position upon this question,
and give an account of their stewardship
here, as on a political measure, to say j
nothing of the account in the great here • j
after. It is admitted that the whisky i
dealers are genial men, good citizens in j
all respects outside of this, gentlemanly, ;
and seemingly kind to their neighbors.
This is so in many thousands of instances. ]
But if this traffic is in itself a wrong, they |
are the more dangerous to society for
these very reasons. For it is w ell know n
that the more plausable a wrong is made
to appear, and the more respectable its
apologists, the apter the young and in
cautious are to fall into the same error.
Enticement and temptation, when joined
together, constitute an engine of power
which is well nigh irresistible, and this
is the danger which the wardens of soci
ety are called on so often and so loudly
to avert.
Perhaps it will never be understood how
it is that a good-hearted man can make
up his mind to become a general distrib
utor of whisky, especially if lie realizes
the inevitable tendency. It is likewise
difficult to understand how it is that he
cannot look at the situation as it is seen
by others. Interest alone is in the w r ay.
Just at this point, it may be said that
there are two views to this phase of the
question. One looks wholly to the inter
est of the seller, and the other exclusive
ly to the physical, financial and moral ef
fect upon the consumer. The seller gets j
all the consumer can work for, even down
to penury, and gives him in exchange
paralysis of the nerves, mind and heart;
bankruptcy in finances, oblivion to moral
sensibility; and rags, dishonor, and no
bread for the ruined wife and children.
And then comes the strangest anomaly
the world has ever heard of. They are
both willing to stand up and swear, one
moved by money and the other by habit,
“that this is all right.” Can such an
idea as this be characterized as anything
else but a hallucination, voluntary on one
side and constrained on the other? Shall
this state of things be allowed to continue
in the midst of civilization, even if it
should affect nobody but the parties to
the transaction?
The great body of our people are deep
ly interested in the well-being of society.
They are neither sellers nor consumers.
They can be trusted to rectify a wrong
which is plain enough for everybody to
see. Who ever saw a rum seller anxious
to place the temptation of whisky before
his own children ? This would seem to
be a pretty fair test of his judgment on
the line of the good or evil there is in it.
If it is a good thing, or believed to be
excusable, it should be consumed at
home. "Who ever heard one of them ad
vising his children, while they are young
and susceptible, to take a drink morning,
| noon and night, or to spend their little
change with their father in his saloon in
the purchase of his jugs, his cups and
his bottles, and then to take them home
under his own roof and have a high time
till midnight, where the mother can see
i and hear, till all is hushed in the deep
j sleep of revelry, and where she can si
lently weep the balance of the night
away ? No man could stand a test like
this at home. Such a scene ought to
revolutionize any household in America
in a single day. Now, it is not pretend
ed that there is a grocery keeper in the
wide world who would . take pleasure in
such conduct in his own house, but the
searching question is, “Will proof be re
quired to show that the whisky traftn
carries, nightly, just such scenes to tin
homes of thousands of others?” And
here is the proper place for silent
thoughts. Remember the injunction,
“Do unto others as you would have them
do unto you.” This would close the last
saloon. Can they justify by saying that
such people ought not to buy rum?
Will they pause and try to answer this
question, “On whom is the greater re
sponsibility, he that holds out a strong
temptation to drink, or he that is weak
and made to succomb to it?” To say the
least, Is not the responsibility divided,
and either half crushing and full of sor
row ? And herein may be felt and seen
the wisdom of that memorable request,
“lead me not into temptation,” for it is
wrong, and being so led the strongest
may fall, and then the tempter is respon
sible for his own conduct and the catas
trophe of others besides, his load is too
heavy to carry.
Here is a saloon keeper who may be
styled No. 1. He has a qiromising soi.
and a lovely daughter. Both are married
and trying to raise families in resqiecta
bility. He does not spread the tempta
tions of his saloon before them, no; per
haps he would close his doors forever be
fore lie would allow these two young fam
ilies to be wrecked by habits of debauch
ery contracted in a father’s house. But
retailer No. 2 sets up on another corner
for competition in trade. He offers the
bbttle indiscriminately to all, and takes
in the money from everybody as they
come. After awhile these two married
children fall under the temptations held
out by No. 2, and he gets their whole es
tate. The families are broken up; the
husband and wife are separated; the chil
dren are in rags, ready for the poor
house; and, to crown it all, a homicide is
committed -in one of the families by a
member of the other, and the penitentia
ry for life or the gallows is brought fully
to the view of all concerned.
Now, who will undertake to describe
the feelings of retailer No. I? Can he
ever have a doubt as to who it was, or
what it was, that brought this ruin upon
him and his children ? How will he al
ways feel towards saloon keeper No. 2?
But what can he sav?' "He is in a similar
condemnation. He has opened the (loot
of min to many families and invited thorn
in, and now it is easy to remember the
anguish of his neighbor’s wife over her
boy, as he staggers home from his bar at
the break of day. Alas ! lie must nurse
his own misery, as these sad thoughts si
lently come and go. If lie strikes at tlie
brother saloou, he has no weapon to use
but one two-edged sword which has no
hilt, and both will lose blood. But let
retailer No. 2 proqiose to bring about the
same amount of ruin by any other means j
and open war may be expected. The
screen will afford no protection. How
true it is that chickens and curses come
home to roost. M. R. Stanselk.
SAM BROWN.
He Talks About ’Squire Gladden--
Frightened by a Snake. &o-
I suppose every man in Bartow coun
ty knows ’Squire Gladd n. He is a
whole character by-himself; he is cer
tain. Well, ’Squire Gladden and I are
the thickest chums in the world; we are
certain. There is a community of inter
est betwixt us what would really surprise
an ordinary citizen. We are both poor,
skinny, beardy, ugly and gassy; we are
both beyond the meridian of life, and,
with new moon smiles continually play
ing around our pretty little toothless
mouths, we are gradually trailing out a
checkered existence, satisfied with our
selves, dissatisfied with everybody else.
There is only one point of dissimilarity
betwixt him and myself, and that is, liis
fondness for snakes. He don’t love
snakes for money, nor for glory, nor for
kindness, nor for beauty, but he loves
them simply because there is a fellow
feeling of kinship existing between
them, which renders snakes and Glad
den chummy and sociable. He is a nat
ural born snake charmer, for it is no
more trouble for him to charm a snake
than it is for a shoemaker to put sorry
leather in a pair of shoes.
One day last week I was peacefully
making my way along that portion of
Cartersville familiarly known as Bull
neck, when whom should I behold
trudging diligently uq> the street, but
’Squire Gladden? We both paused, and
his attitude w r as one to charm the eye
of artist and the soul of poet. One lithe
leg w’as gracefully resting just a little to
the rear of his other leg. Into my in
teresting and intelligent countenance he
glanced with eye that gleaned less with
defiance and more with a distressful con
sciousness that he had been caught up
with in the very moment of his triumph.
He knew me, he grinned a cyclone grin,
and then a melancholy, bitter and un
joy ous smile ran over his rugged feat
ures. For a moment he struggled with
his emotion, and strove to look as though
i he had nothing under his well worn
j coat. But a large sized oyster oau is
too obtrusive in its rotundity, and too
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| definitely pronounced in its platform to
t'scape my attention. With a despairing
sigh he said:
| “Snake in a can.”
Now if there is anything in the world
that I do despise, it is a snake, and es
pecially a snake in a can under my
lothes. T 1 io skin of my bottom lip be
;an to tremble, the whites of my eves
a-gan to grow a lit lie a Glow , my whole
mechanical get-up began to bo perme
ated with an invisible substance, called
fear. ’Squire Glanden opened his cadav
erous mouth and spake:
“Come to my house and I’ll show you
a snake, sure ’nough.”
I shuddered and went. Into his
house we sneaked. He wore a proud
and sardonic grin; I wore a jiunp-and
catch-it, slimy, gassy and unlikely smile.
He closetl and pegged liis door shutter
and silently motioned me to a rickety
looking chair. I sat down. From be
neath a double and ancient couch he
drew a large and long box. From the
top of this box he moved a wide plsuik
what served for a lid. My usually in
tellectual countenance took on an ex
pression what was anything but indica
tive of courage. I am a courageous
man; but when I glanced into that box,
my courage deserted me in a twinkling.
For in that box I beheld a real live
snake what measured fourteen feet and
nine inches from tip to tip, what was
twenty-six inches in circumference, what
had nineteen rattles tied to its tail, and
what had fourteen fangs in its ugly
mouth. Out of this snake’s eyes a hor
rible and glittering light darted straight
into mine. I can truthfully say I was
never frightened before. But right
then, for the first time in my life, I was
soared. My knee bones rattled like -the
bones what the end man manipulates at
a minstrel show. An unearthly, soda
water feeling flashed up my spinal col
umn. and I became a really active man,
inaugurating proceedings by springing
towards the door. But Gladden had an
ticipated this move on my part, and had
placed his crooked back against the door.
I tried to scream, but busted bad. The
snake slowly raised its head, smd grinned
a fearful grin. I can stand a great deal
—my powers of endurance are wonderful
—but I could staud that no longer. I
moved backward, I crouched, I sprang.
My foot caught on the round of a chair,
and I executed a double somersault and
knocked over a cupboard of dishes and
victuals. In an instant Gladden swung
the door wide opeto T
continued the performance by kicking
'-over a table <vhat had a lamp on it, pull
ing down a gun rack, tumbling rashly
out of the and 1, and plowing up Glad
<ton's front yard with my nose. In less
than an instant I was on my feet and
running for dear life. It seemed to me
that every rock was a snake, every fence
was a snake, every house was a snake,
the whole air was filled w ith snakes, and
snakes were crawling all over me. I
slipped, I fell, I jumped, I ran, I glided,
I flew; I did, certain. In something less
than twenty-three and one-half seconds
I dashed into Bob Patillo’s store, con
siderably disfigured, but vowing ven
geance and acknowledging to myself
that I was the blamed est fool in Christen
dom.
I am now wearing sticking plaster
smiles on my nose. My back is sore,
my legs are sore, and I am sore all over.
I haven’t seen Gladden yet—l hope I
will never see him again. They say he
sleeps with six snakes in his bed every
night. I hope to gracious one will bite
him real bad before very long; I do, cer
tain. lam not a fighting man, but the
next time I meet Squire Gladden, I’ll
bet that great big mule what I bought
from Gus Bates that I’ll lick him or he’ll
lick me. Yours in wrath,
Sam Brown.
SO LAM) IS SIGHT.
“I expected to find the Ark an saw to
be a much wider stream,” remarked a
newly-arrived visitor. “It’s low now,”
replied a bystander, “but I’ve been out
in a boat when I couldn’t see land on
either side.” “Below’ here in the bottom,
I suppose.” “No, here.” “Why, this
town is on a bluff". You don’t mean to
say that you saw it overflowed?” “Oh,
no.” “Then, hang it! you could see land
on one side, at least.” “No, I couldn’t,
for it was night, you know.”
“I tell you what, Robinson, I think
that I should like to live in Ireland.”
“Great Scott!” exclaims Robinson; “what
do you mean ?” ‘ ‘Oh, ”is the gloomy re
joinder, “it’s the only place I know of
that isn’t governed by the Irish. ”
Angelica (at a lecture); “How’ rude of
that couple to go out, Algernon ! ” Al
gernon (glancing towards the door with a
sigh that signifies he thinks the lecture a
bore); “Yes, but how happy they are
now! ”
A manufacturer of the white wine vin
egar chums that his compound is so much
better than the old-fashioned cider con
coction that he has adopted the sign of
“Who will care for mother now.”
From an agricultural exchange we
learn a new r kind of potato is sailed the
“Keifer.” It Is probably a small potato,
and one that is very much subject to the
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