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TKAVEJuEIIS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday. ...8a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .<> a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .S a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday aud Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays Ua m
Vrrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays tt a m
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays. ■ < l> lll
Ollice No. 2? Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Ev hauge. Telephonic connection.
j. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
AV. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
Oi lEROKEE R AILRO A1).
On and a i ter Monday, March ID, 1882, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
• excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave Cartcrsvillc
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:2.) a m
Arrive at Rockmart ....... 11:10 am
Arrrive at Cedartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart aw pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:23 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:slpm
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 p m
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Rockmart ti.'OO p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 6:00 a in
Arrive at ! tor Kmart 6:53 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2gam
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am
HOME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule :
no. 1.
.Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am
no. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 p m
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston p m
Arrive at Rome 6:50 pm
no. 5.
Leave Rome
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston
Arrive at Home 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will rim 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..
Ya. & Ga. R. R.. for points south.
EBEN HILLY ER, President.
.1. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kiugston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 p m
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
je ive Atlanta 7:00 a m
Leave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton 10:55 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m
Reave Dalton . . 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 am
Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:31 pm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 p m
Leave Kingston , . 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta . . ■ . 40t37 am
Don’t Forget
That you can le suited in a clock at
J. T. Owens.
VOLUME V.
SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY-a positive
cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth.
Ask Curry for it. nov23-6m
Pric s Baking Powder and flavoring extracts
can be had of Cel W ord.
The most prominent physicians in the city
smoke, and recommend Tansill’s Punch sc. ci
gar. Cel Word sells them.
Curry lias a splendid lot of strictly pure teas
which he is selling cheap.
A\ adsworth Martinez & Longman’s paints are
guaranteed strictly pure and of greater covering
capacity than any other and Curry is selling
quantities of it.
at Word’s drug store.
SHILOH’S CURE WILL immediately relieve
Croup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold
by Curry.
Good mixed paints at Word’s drug store.
Lamp* cheap and nice at Words drug store.
S. S. S., (he great blood medicine at Word
drug store.
One by one the roses fall, jiut “Tansill’s
Punch” cigar outlives them all. el Word’s drug
store.
Purify your blood by' using < Word’s Sarsa
parilla.
Smoke “Tansill’s Punch,” lea’s finest sc.
cigar. Cel Word sells them.
The old reliable genuine IE i Windsor soap
so diservidly popular with tin lies. For sale
by D. AY. Curry.
Flower pots from 5 cents up . Curry’s.
Hagan’s magnolia balm for id complexion, at
D. AY. Curry’s.
Curry has just received a large, lot of Lund
borg’s Triple extracts.
Attention Ladies.
Tetlows Swan’s down white and flesh colored
at Currry’s.
Tetlow’s gossamer white and flesh colored at
Curry’s.
Cigarettes 10 for 5 cts. 20 for 10 ets. at Curry’s
Seltzer AYater on draught at Curry’s. Call
and try it.
. Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by
some derangement of the stomache and can be
cured by taking Curry’s Liver Compound which
aids digestion, quiets the nearvs and thereby
gives refreshing sleep.
Fine cut tobacco at Curry’s.
Allane, Woodward & Co.’s Extra select pow
ders guaranteed strictly pure for sale by Curry.
Toilet soap in endless variety at D. AY. Cur
ry’s.
Lemon Elixir cures headache, indigestion,
dizincss, etc., for sale by David AY. Curry.
Price, 50cents per bottle.
Curry will sell you an insect gun charged with
Persian Insect powders, that will drive off all
sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and
melon vines, for 20 cents.
Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap
enough for anybody at Curry’s.
AYhy “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety
old unsightly box or keg when you can buy
elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at
Curry’s as cheap as dirt.
David AY. Curry, Dear Sir: The Persian In
sect powder procured of you lias effectually rid
my vegetables and melon vines of iiu ects with
out the least injury to the plants.
Respectfully, etc.,
June 9th 1883. Jxo. P. Stegall.
Curry lias iu stock a large quantity of all sorts
of lubricating oils that lie is selling very cheap.
A lady who has visited most of the cities north
and south says that Curry’s soda water surpas
ses any she ever drank.
Pure Lard oil the very best thing for machin
ery for sale by D. AY. Curry.
PILL 9.
Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight iu the back, loins and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to appose lie has
some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, as flatulency,uneasiness of the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspire. i, producing a
very disagreeable itching, par ilarly at night
after getting warm in bed, is a very common at
tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosan
ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts <> ectly upon the
parts aflected, absorbing the. amors, allaying
the intense itching, and ell" g a permanent
cure, where all other remodi we failed. Do
not delay until the drain on tli system produces
permanent disability, hut try and be cured.
rieeaOeenis. Sold by I>. AV. < tv. jaulß-l
“IIACKMETACK,” a la-i: and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50 cent Sold by Curry.
Another lot AVizard Oil, the g! *at “Cure A11,”
fust recoived at Cnrry’s drug st re.
Do smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel
AVord’s.
FREE OF COST.
Ry,calling at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you
can get a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve
the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you
what the regular 50 cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Brocliitis, Dry, Hacking
Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the
Throat and try a sample bottle of this
medicine. jan!B-ly
Madame Loraine’s sure death to bed bugs.
For sale by D. W. Curry.
If you would rise early take Curry’s Liver
Compound.
Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his
country friends that he can supply them with a
cool glass of soda water when in Cartersville.
Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch”
Scent cigar. Cel Word sells them.
2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug
store. _
ARE Y'OU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizcr is a positive cure. For
sale by Cui ry.
Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’s Kid
ney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Nervine, War
ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con
stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at
Curry’s drug srore.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee ou every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizes It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 ceutsper package, a t
Word’s drug store.
Ice cold soda water and ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be bad
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
Hot weather is coming, and Cel Word has put
in operation one of Tuft’s elegant soda water ap
paratus to dispense the cooling beverage.
Old smokers prefer “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent
cigar to most of the 10 centers. Cel V7ord is the
agent.
Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed
paints in any quantity at Cel VV ord’s drug store.
THE FREE PRESS.
SrEECH OF HON. N. HORNE.
Delivered Before the House of Represent
atives at Harrisburg, Pa., April 19
and 20, 1883, on the Prohibitory
Constituional Amendment.
The question now before this house is
a question that has called out a great deal
of discussion not only here bu t over the
entire commonwealth; a question that to
a greater or less extent has been agitating
the minds of the people not only of this
commonwealth, but of the entire country
for quite a number of years.
Now, it is with reluctance that I take
up the time of this house upon this occa
sion, but in justice to myself, in justice
to the members of the house, and in just
ice to the people I represent, I regard it
as my bounden duty to giYe some reason
for the vote I shall cast upon this ques
tion. I appear before you not as an ad
vocate for indulgence in strong drink,
hut I am here before you, fellow mem
bers, as a man who has never in all his
life, from his boyhood to the present
time, known what it is to be under the
influence of intoxicating liquor in any
respect whatever. I learned the kind of
temperance I believe in when a little
child at the feet of my now sainted moth
er. There is where I learned it, before
there was any temperance agitation;
when there was no talk about prohibitory
law, when there avus no talk about saying
to men what they should eat or drink,
what they should be permitted to enjoy,
or what they should abstain from. And
I have religiously observed the lesson,
and I am here to say that I believe in the
views expressed by my friend from
Franklin tlie other day.
Now, my opinion is, that if men are to
be saved from intemperarce, and not
only from this vice hut from all other
vices; if moral suasion and the grace of
God will not save men—if it will not save
the people of this state and the nation —
that nothing will. If I am mistaken, it
is an error of the head and not of the
heart; hut having investigated and con
sidered the question thoroughly before
God and man—if those principles will
not save a man and will not save the
world, I do not believe there is anything
else that will save.
Rut, Mr. Speaker, there are a few
points that have been presented here that
I wish to refer to briefly, and the first
point I wish to refer to is the question in
reference to the rider, or the compensa
tion clause, as it is demonstrated.
Now, it is admitted by some ot the
friends of this measure that it would he
right in case this amendment is adopted,
that the people who have honestly, in ac
cordance with law, invested their money
in this business, should be compensated ;
hut they claim that this is not the proper
way or the proper place to do it. They
sav, “Let the amendment be adopted;
let it be submitted to the people and rati
fied by them, and then let it he a question
for the legislature to determine whether
or not they shall he paid,” etc.
Now, as you are all aware, 1 am not a
lawyer, hut I think the question has been
clearly answered by one of the. ablest
lawyers upon this floor. And I will not
refer to that point further, because I
think my friend from Franklin has fully
covered it; he has shown that the legis
lature cannot grant compensation to these
men after this amendment is adopted and
incorporated in the constitution. But
what T wish to call the attention of the
members more particularly to in this
connection, is simply this: 1 believe in
honesty; l have been taught the princi
ples of honesty from my earliest days up
to the present time, and I trust that in
some measure at least I have endeavored
to practice it. Now, I claim that if the
people of the state are to pay the men en
gaged in this business, in the event of the
adoption of this amendment, that they
ought to know it. It does seem to me
that this should commend itself to the
judgment of every really honest man
upon this question.
I repeat this, because I think it is the
vital point—it is the point upon which I
am ready to stand before the world. If
these people are to be compensated for
the losses sustained through the adoption
of this amendment, then, when the
amendment is being submitted to the
people for their ratification, this provis
ion should go along with it, so that the
people, in voting upon the question, may
know just exactly what they ace voting
for, may know when they are voting to
adopt this amendment they are voting to
saddle upon themselves, I will not at
tempt to estimate the amount, but quite
a number of millions of dollars in the
way of compensation for losses; and if
they are willing then to indorse the prop
osition, knowing what is to be the result,
well and good. It is right for the major
ity to say that they will do so. But let
the question be squarely submitted; do
not attempt to pass the measure by false
pretenses. For I claim that if we pass
this amendment without the indemnity
clause, and then attempt to make the
people pnv the damages which may arise
from its passage, we have done this thing
by false pretenses—we have been sailing
under false colors, and the people will
have been most grossly and shamefully
deceived.
Again, we are told by the friends of
this measure that because a great many
people have petitioned this legislature for
the passage of this amendment that it is
the duty of this legislature to at once say,
all right. A number of petitions have
been sent here, and it is our duty, in
view of that, to submit the amendment to
the people.
Now, Mr. Speaker, let us see what the
constitution says upon that question:
“Any amendment or amendments to this
constitution may be proposed in the sen
ate or house of representatives, and if the
the members elected to each house, such
same shall be agreed to by a majority of
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 12. 1883,
amendment or amendments,” etc. Now,
then, there is nothing compulsory in the
constitution at all; they may be proposed.
Now, I desire to define my position as
clearly as possible upon this point.
While 1 am willing to concede to my
friends who are advocating this measure
honesty of purpose, l claim the same at
their hands.
I know that a great many of these peo
ple who have sent in petitions here, who
have gone around through the country
and held meetings, who have got the wo
men and children at these meetings to
sign their names to a piece of paper, and
have sent them to Harrisburg, the capital
of the great state of Pennsylvania, I ad
mit that they are honest and sincere—at
least a great many of them are. Ido not
believe that they all are, but I think that
they are mistaken in the mothod they
have taken to reach the desired end.
Now, there is so much that I would like
to say upon this question, that I am free
to confess that in looking oyer the ground
—the wide view that opens up before the
vision of my mind, I scarcely know how,
in the short time allowed me to pick up
the fragments as I go along, to present
them to the house. I was about to say
this: I wish to show what 1 believe to he
the duty of tlie legislature in regard to its
action upon this subject, and the petitions
that have been presented here.
I hold that avo are sent here by the
people of our several constituencies to
represent them, and to pass laws that we
believe in our honest judgment to be for
the welfare and best interests of the peo
ple of the state. And I hold that as sworn
members of this legislature, if petitions
are sent here for any purpose whatever,
I care not what tlie purpose may be, it is
our duty to investigate the subject; it is
our duty to look over the ground, and if
we honestly believe in this case that it is
for the best interests of the scate, we
ought to vote to submit this question to
the people; hut if we honestly and con
scientiously believe that it is not advisa
ble that this proposition should not be
submitted, then I say it is our duty to act
accordingly.
If the advocates of this measure con
scientiously and honestly believe that
this proposition should be submitted
to the people, they are right in voting
that it should he submitted, hut those
who take a contrary view honestly and
conscientiously are entitled to just as
much credit for honesty and integrity as
the friends of this measure. Now, I de
sire to say a few words more in reference
to these petitions. They have been tell
ing us that we should respect the sacred
right of petition, and that no man who
believes in true republicanism or democ
racy, for it is all the same thing, would
attempt, in view of the petitions that
have been sent there, to deny the people
this right".
" Now, it is true that there have been a
great many petitions presented, and J
will concede that a majority of those who
have petitioned are honest in their con
victions; I would he the last to impugn
their motives; hut I ask for myself and
for those who think as I do the same con
sideration—the same concession of hon
esty of purpose. This is a question in re
gard to which we cannot all see alike.
We may all agree with regard to the de
sirability of accomplishing a certain end,
but we cannot see alike frequently in re
gard to the best means to be employed in
order to secure the desired result. Now,
let us look candidly at this question of
prohibition for a moment. Does the en
actment of prohibitory laws really pro
hibit? Now, in the first place, to my
mind we start out here with a very great
difficulty with regard to this question of
prohibition of the manufacture and sale
of spirituous liquors. If this was an ar
ticle which was absolutely of no use; if
it was something that could be entirely
dispensed with and wiped out, it would
make a difference; but we propose that
they shall still be manufactured and still
sold for other purposes than as a bever
age, and that their sale and manufacture
for those purposes shall be regulated by,
law, as it is at present to a certain extent.
Now, this being the case, upon this
ground is based the fact that prohibitory
laws do not really prohibit. Now, the
wise man is always governed by the his
tory of the past. Prohibitory laws have
been in existence in several states in this
Union for a number of years \ have they
prohibited? Go to the state of Maine,
where prohibitory laws have been in ex
istence for quite a number of years. Do
those prohibitory laws prohibit in that
state? I traveled with a gentleman from
that state only three weeks ago, and he
told me that in all the towns of Maine
there is more drunkenness to-day than
there is where licenses exist—where the
custom is to license and the liquor busi
ness is engaged in under the regulation
and restriction of the license laws of the
different states. Now, if under these
conditions —after the law has been tested
for so long and it has not prohibited, it is
clear proof that prohibitory laws do not
answer the end for which they are de
signed—they do not prohibit the sale nor
the moderate or even the excessive drink
ing of intoxicating liquors.
Now, take the state of Kansas. In re
gard to that state I desire to read a few
statistics taken from the message of the
governor of that state. lie calls attention
to the question of the sale in the state and
the places where it is sold. During the
last year of license the United States rev
enue office of Kansas issued one thousand
one hundred and thirty-two permits to
sell intoxicating liquors or one to eight
hundred and seventy-nine persons, while
in the first year of prohibition there were
issued one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-eight permits, an increase of
fifty-eight per cent., while in the first
forty-live days of the second year there
were issued sixteen more permits than
during the whole last year of license. In
Lawrence, Kan., in ISBO, there were
one hundred and thirty-eight arrests for
drunkenness, in 1882, under prohibition,
one hundred and forty-five. In Atchison,
ISBO, four hundred and sixty-two, in
ISB2, five hundred and seventy-eight. In
Topeka, in 1880, seven hundred and
eight, in 1882, nine hundred and sixty
five. In Leavenworth, in 1880, one hun
dred and seventy, in 1882, three hundred
and forty-four; thus the increase of ar
rests in these four towns under two years
of prohibition is in Lawrence five and
seven one-hundredths percent.; in Atch
ison, twenty-live and two-one hundredths
per cent.; in Topeka, thirty-six and
twenty-nine one-hundredtlis percent.;
and in Leavenworth, eighty-three and
eighty-nineone-hundredthsper cent.
This is the way the prohibitory law
seems to operate in Kansas. Therefore, I
repeat, that prohitorv laws do not ac
complish the purpose for which they are
designed. Now, let us look at the ques
tion as to how it would operate in our
own state. Won id it stop the sale of
intoxicating liquors? This question of
prohibition or anti-prohibition is a ques
tion that has engaged the ablest minds qf
the country, and they have been divided
upon its wisdom and practicability. That
is a point upon which good men have
differed. Now, men claim generally that
they have a right to choose what they
shall eat, and what they shall drink, and
what they shall wear. Now, lam aware
that it is claimed by those who advocate
this amendment that they are not eon
troling men in this respect; but when
you say an article shall not be man
ufactured or sold for drinking purposes,
you virtually say that men shall not
drink that article.
Now, without going into the merits or
demerits of drinking, I repeat that men
think they have a right of choice in this
matter, and when by legislative enact
ment you attempt to control them, they
think they are interfered with in their
indefeasible rights, and instead of yield
ing they are jlhen the more determined
to have*the forbidden fruit at all hazards,
and instead of drinking less they drink
more.
Now, this amendment proposes to abol
ish an evil. That is its intention. If I
believed it Mould subserve the purpose
for which it was designed I would sup
port it with all my heart; hut I do not
believe it will have that effect. After
having looked over tlie question in all its
details I can honestly say that I do not
believe it will have the desired effect.
Now, sir, this world is full of evil. We
all know that, and great Creator
leaves every man to the freedom of liis
own choice, and then holds him respons
ible for the exercise of that choice, and
if a man drinks to excess, abusing this
privilege, he alone is respensihle. The
law cannot prohibit crime, all that it can
do is to punish the M-rong-doer. All
that we can do is to pass the law carry
ing with it certain penalties for the pun
ishment of the violator. That is the pie
rogative of law, as 1 understand it—to
punish wrong-doers in every department,
l care not of what nature the oftense
may consist.
There is one question to which I desire
to refer, and that; is the .sources from
which these petitions come. It has been
said that they come from Lite churches, and
that the churches of the land are asking
for the passage of this amendment. Now,
it is a fact, which I presume no one will
call in question, that the members of
churches when they join the church do
not sacrifice or part with any of their
rigths as independent citizens of the
commonwealth. They have their right
to come here with petitions; but, sir, I
question the right of conferences, of
synods and of ecclesiastical bodies as
sembled in their official capacity to pass
resolutions and say: We represent so
many churches and so many members, as
though every member of the church was
under the complete and entire control of
the clergy, and I must be permitted to
say that in doing so, they are assuming
possibly a little more than prudence
would dictate. Asa free American citi
zen and member of the church I honor
the clergy, but while I esteem and revere
them as much as any man in this com
menwealth, yet when they assume to
speak for the entire membership of the
churches whose pastors they are, on
questions of public policy, it does seem to
me that it is at least possible they may be
assuming too much.
But again, with reference to this point.
It is asserted that the churches, as
churches, arc asking for this amendment,
and that, therefore, it ought to be grant
ed —this amendment that proposed to
mitigate and wipe out the miseries and
evils of intemperance. Now, I repeat,
that I venerate and honor the ministers
and churches of this land; but when the
church comes here as a church and asks
for the passage of this amendment, I
think they are making a mistake. To
me, sir, it is humiliating. I believe in
the church and its glorious mission to
save men. I believe in the gospel and in
the power of the church through the
gospel to save men, yea, to save to the ut
termost. The church is not a failure, but
is destined to success in its grand mis
sion ; and in this I am taking the text
which I announced yesterday, and my
experience has taught me that hundreds
have been rescued by the power of mor
al suasion and the gospel of the grace of
God; but I hayc never known a man to
be saved by coercive measures; I have
never known a man to be saved by mak
ing it compulsory that lie should not eat
or drink this or that.
But the grace of God can save a man—
the power of moral suasion, the power
of truth, is able to save men from the
vice of intemperance and all other evils.
Therefore, 1 think, Mr. Speaker, that
the church makes a mistake when, as a
botlj', thej come here and ask us to vote
for the passage of this amendment, thus
virtually acknowledging the inefficiency
of the gospel to save.
Xow, I say I will go as far as any of
the advocates of this measure in endeav
oring to save men; but I say it cannot be
done by the passage of a constitutional
amendment of this kind. But the sup
porters of this measure say we must re
move the temptation. I wish it could be
accomplished, but am satisfied it cannot
be done. The best Book in the world says
not blessed is the man from whom you
remove evil or temptations, but “Blessed
is the man who endureth temptation, for
vlien he is tried he shall receive the
crown which the Lord has promised to
them that love him.”
Xow, I would go to the man in the
gutter and lift him up. I would not say
to him, “Come, poor fellow, we have got
a constitutional amendment that will re
move temptation,” but I would say,
“Stand up in the dignity of manhood
which God has given you the will to as
sert ; assert it in the name of the Lord
and be a man ; show yourself a man be
fore the world, resit the devil, and he
will flee from you.” When, oh when,
do you ask me, when will all evil, in
cluding intemperance, be banished from
the world ? I say, not by passing pro
hibitory amendments; not by passing
prohibitory law's. Xo, no, but by the
onward march of truth, and light, and
gospel salvation. That is the way the
world is to be saved, and that is thewwar,j r ,
I believe, that this, and all evil is going
to be removed, and the world saved. I
have faith that the stone that was cut
out of the mountain without hands, will
roll on until it fills the whole earth,
when the Lord’s house shall be estab
lished upon the top of the mountains,
and all nations shall flow unto it, and
the light of millennial glory shall hurst
upon this world.
And o’er our ransomed nature
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
BOSTON LETTISH.
A Correspondent Takes a Turn of Miml
Both Devout and Patriotic.
Boston, June 30, 1883.
To the Editor of The Free Press:
Being of a turn of mind both devout
and patriotic, it struck me that a very
proper way to combine the two woidd be
to attend the divine service at the little
church on Salem street immortalized by
Longfellow in “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
So thus impressed, I started forth one
Sunday morning to that by no means
aristocratic portion of the city. It is not
larger than tiie common little country
church you see anywhere, but it is built
of stone and has an old-time, substantial
respectabilitj' truly impressive.* Enter
ing it, you find the tiny window-panes,
the high, old-fashioned box pews, the
clock, whose age, like that of a maiden
lady, no one can find out, the quaint old
organ, built in 1758, and the high gallery
in which the negroes sat. There, too, is
the solid silver communion service, from
which the sacred emblems have been ta
ken for nearly a century and a half (pre
sented by George III), the copy of the
Scriptures known as the “Vinegar Bi
ble,” from the misprint intended for
yineyard, from which tire majesty’s
name was erased after the revolution.
After services, with fear and trembling,
I climbed the rickety wooden stairs with
stealthy tread. I assure you, John Xew
man or anybody else who went up those
dark, uncanny flights, deseryed to be
immortalized in poetry and given a pen
sion beside. A small boy, who lived in
the vicinity, seemed intent on suicide, so
rapidly did he mount the steps and so
recklessly step across the small square at
the top, where the stairs end. It seems
strange to me how near boys always are
to death’s door that they can be so cheer
ful. I verily believe a boy enjojs having
his arm blown off, or his eye put out, or
his neck broken. It is agony on that ac
count to be near a youth of the male sex,
The old South Church is of value to any
one who is interested in Adam, or Moth
er Goose, or the Fourth of July, or Mrs.
Washington’s slippers. It is a source of
much regret that the original was lack
ing in the honesty of purpose and integ
rity of character shown in his descend
ants, John Quincy and Charles Francis.
Adam and Eve are here represented in
the costume of one hundred and forty
years ago. done in silk embroidery. Ad
am, with a cane in his left hand, is seat
ed under an oak caressing a peculiar
quadruped with sinister looking glass
eyes, while Eve, in a very tight-waisted
dress, with a full skirt, is sitting beneath
a cherry tree. Mother Goose was not a
myth, but the wife of Isaac Goose, who
lived in Pudding Lane, now known by
the more aristoertic title of Devonshire
street. She was a poetess, who combined
the wisdom of Shakespeare with the im
agery of Spenser, a good house-keeper,
an exemplary mother-in-law, and lived
nearly a hundred years.
Governor'Butler is still pressing his
little sad face against the pane to see if
any light is shining to guide him to the
White House; but it doesn’t shine “worth
a cent,” as the western boy saith. He
has hoped to gain political capital by the
Tewksbury investigation, but he has
failed utterly.
Dr. Tourjee has bought the big organ
in Music Hall, and after its enlargement
to number 151 stops, it will be placed in
the new hall in connection with the
Home building.
George E. Whiting, of the Cincinnati
conservatory, will be here next year to
make it “talk,” and some superb organ
music is anticipated. Ray.
If you want a first class lot of brick,
enquire of Harris Best. 17tf.
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NUMBER 51.
A PRINTERS PROTEST.
In the interest of accuracy the follow
ing protest and plea is commended to the
world of scribblers
Oil. why do people form such a’s and finish of
such b’s?
Why do they make such crooked c’s and such
unnatural d’s?
Why do they form such shockinge’s and "s with
ague fits?
Their g’s and h’s are too much for any printer's
wits.
What a hurhatn eye is without sight is an i with
out a dot;
J’s arc such curious, crooked things, we recog
nize them not.
K’s ought to stand tor kindness, hut Comes iu
well for kick.
L*s and m's are mischievous, while n’s just raise
Old Nick.
O's arc rarely closed at all, and p’s are shaggy
things.
Q’s might as well be spider legs, and r's mosquito
wiugs.
Some people make a passing s who never cross
at:
Others use the self-same strokes to form a u or v.
W’s get strangely mixed; x’s seem on a spree.
Yis a skeleton on wires; zounds how we rave
at e!
And yet, just think what typos get from drivers
of the quill!
They call us such a careless set, and scribble on
at will.
Well, they will scribble, and we must rave aud
vainly try to please.
Till they go back to school and learn to make
their a b c*s. ; 1 *
“ARM HOLT.”
An article in the Cartersville American
of last week under the above caption at
tracted my attention. I desire, Mr. Ed
itor, through your columns, to call the
attention of all in this community, young
and old, male and female, but more espe
cially the girls themselves and their
mothers, to this manifestly wrong and
immodest practice. Xo matter how this
custom originated, that cannot affect it
morally. Xow. to deal plainly with the
matter, we will enquire into the mode,
the way of this “fashion” of walking;
for, unfortunately, it is now so preva
lent as to be an almost universal custom.
When the young man walks with his
female companion, instead of her taking
his arm, that is, resting her right hand
lightly upon his left arm, according to
the time-honored and universally ap
proved method, which is entirely unob
jectionable and also Very proper, indeed,
indispensable to the reauireme.nts of so
ciety, he passes his left arm under her
right and grasps her wrist, or sometimes
holding her hand with lingers dove-tail
ed, thus unavoidably, drawing their bod
ies very closely together. Is anything
more than a bare description of this im
pudent and indecent habit necessary to
convince anyone of its immoral tenden
cy ? Can a man and a woman get that
close together and continue so for any
lentil of time without experiencing that
perfect flood-tide of pleasurable emo
tions that spring from natural sexual
attraction rushing over them? Depend
upon it, whenever any habit or even oc
casional practice under the sanction of
fashion that excites these emotions is
indulged in, it is not only immoral and
immodest in those who do it, but dan
gerous to the well-being of the commu
nity where it obtains. These practices
are encouraged b/ fast young men—bold,
bad young men—for the very reason that
these dangerously pleasant emotions are
thereby excited.
Society is a structure upon moral found
ations. A fashion, or, more properly
speaking, the fashion, is a practice or
practices that most universally obtain
in society. “The fashion” is “set” by
people, it is sadly true, who are contin
ually seeking some means under which
to cloak their licentious and immoral
practices, which means become allowa
ble because it is “the fashion” —thinking
thus to elude the frown of virtuous peo
ple and escape social ostracism. And
custom they know “rules all fools with
a rod of iron and makes even wise men
ti enable.”
Now, don’t let anybody Seek to justify,
or rather to excuse, this habit of young
people holding arms and hands while
walking under the plea that it is the
fashion. Fashion is sometimes right and
sometimes wrong. In this case it is so
manifestly wrong, so indisputably im
modest, so dangerously immoral in its
tendencies, that every sound moralist,
man or woman, condemns it, and the
saving, conserving element of society
demands its discontinuance forever. You
may say—those of you who not only do
not disapprove of this habit, but engage
in the practice of it —that we who do ob
ject to it are making “much ado about
nothing,” and quote the old maxims,
“evil to him that evil thinks,” and “to
the pure all things are pure,” and re
quest us to hold our peace; but so long as
it is possible for evil to contaminate good,
and so long as purity is corruptible by
contact with impurity, it will remain
necessary for virtue and morality to not
only preach but practice their principles
tor the salt to exert its savor. The salt
of the earth is the pure and virtuous ele
ment of society. To this element of our
community this article is addressed and
commended for consideration by one who
knows from experience and an excellent
opportunity for observation that this
habit herein condemned and attacked is
strictly liable to the objections taken
against it, particularly in its dangerous
tendencies. Escort.
♦ •
From Frank L. Haralson, State Libra
rian.
Atlanta, Ga., January 14, 1880. —
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your Neuralgme, both on myself and on
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Frank L. Haralson.
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