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A OLUME 111. Tie Cartersville America OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARTOW CO. ri i;I.TS||KL' li V Elt Y TUESDAY MOUSING T American Publishing Cos. CARTKUSVILL.K, A, OFFICEi i Stiirs, North-Fast Corner of West Main aim Erwin streets. All communication* or letters on business fchoiiia be artdrossetl to AMERICAN PUBLISIfHCQ CO. CartersrlUe, Ga. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, Cash in Advance f 1 50 .six Months, “ II not paid in 4 months, *2.00 per year. Papers sent outside ol the County, 15 cents , additional for postage- KATES OF ADVERTISING: For each Square ol 1 inch or less, for the first i insertion, each subsequent insertion, 50 . onts. Soc ial contracts made lor larger space or longer time. All ooutract advertisements I most bo paid quarterly. Focal Notices, 20 cents per line for the first insertion, and It) cents lor each subsequent in sertion. Special Notices ten cents per line. Tributes of Respect and obituaries over six i lines, 10 cents pei line.- All personal cards in Local Columns J 5 cents I per line. 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. f •• J : ■ ' ’ 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 NUMBER 3. | 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 rot, ___ Bring your job work to the AiIERiCAJf Printing Office.