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The Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOOR?:.
CRA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered *1 the pottofBee it Crswfordrille,
Georg;*, u saeond-rl*** mail matter.
THE LABOK WORLD.
IV ood-ca liVKRS are enjoying good timer.
The strike ot the Berlin bakers ha* col¬
lapsed.
liour The primer. Federation of Balxir has issued an ei;yht
■ The strike fever appear to hiavc spriaidall
over li rniu.m e-central portion of Europe.
Tiir Thk c t ,tn of >t urnviiUm? \>r mail K fric-k mck relief r r funds run is
on - ,f> 1)11 " M - 1 1,1/4 1 *
A itKW Maw,, gun.factory employ isto about r>o started 4**0 m Flor
enco, to men.
Mayor 11 a tit, of Florence. Mass, lias aj>
propriated $1000 for Kj>ortson I^abor i>ay.
Tiiehk are 172,000 persons engagwl in the
manufacture of rotten good* in this country.
About two-0.ir.ls of the States now have
bureaus for the oollection of industrial :,ta
turtle*.
Thomas Mattison, a London coachmakor,
ha* written a trealigoen the coaching of ap
pran tiers.
JaMbkG. Blaine, Jr., son of the Secretary
<>t (state, locomotive. in now a fireman on a Maine c ri
tral
f» Rusoia tbera are sixty-raven immense
epumhlg mill*, ^employing un uggregato of
i \
Hr hike* of one kind and auothar are epi¬
demic in England and Scotland on both a
lary, and a Ktimll *cal».
A movement is on foot for tlv- formation
or a national organization of the ale and
porter brewery employe*.
„ lia~e'teT<Ty J_ > ”>o'-i,ATEKS in different ijvanco part* in of England of
leoejveo n> wage*
one to two rent* par hour.
The lead roller in a Pitteburg iron mill
mak- fifty dollar* per day, and hi* family
rides behind H spanking team.
amouutlni* A roniiia* rij...-enting establish, capi tej,
iron ut plant |10,M0,'ki0 Han i* Frtoci*C<b to an
steel nt ■
* T’hk New RuglMnl Boot and ®i‘t» hi Lsstors’
18?fi, Union, which ha* wa» membership organized of lU.Wb. December,
now a
Mr, E. Bku.tncuIam has just retired from
engine-driving on the Great Northern Itail
wny (England), after forty years’ service.
The Imard of jmblic works and city coun¬
cil of Cincinnati have adopted the eight-hour
day for city laborers, with no reduction of
i>«y.
Ukporth from builder# in tho largo cities
and Mimii towns nliow Uiut houNC building
•was Dover more uctivo than it tu ho far in
Mu Fowuxhly, hour* ofth'> Knighbiof labor,
Cfinsiilnl-s eight a day too long to work,
and incline* to lieu FranUliii’* four-hour
limit. t»
Nkw Havkm (Conu.) plumber* now work
eight hour* a day for three month* of the
y««r, and nine hour* n dny for the remaining
nine month*.
Tub Now York .State lalair appropriation
for till*year allows SIA.UOU for tbr Board of
and Arbitration, (®0,000 for (80,000 Bureau for factory inspection,
the of Labor Stntis
tic*.
t____ movcmAntt*growing Id #tp/ Knglnnd tlKiHauurdtty lipw/. hulf-liolnli V
Almostalrt of
the large iiumufactnring concern* in Massa
chunetts tice. auit Maiuo have adopted it* prac¬
IN Said, G.sioaiiv, aid other places wlierii
the nrmufacture 'of militarv arms i >.
Hp.virthv.th, men take work h.. nM M,ndtil.
wive, and , iiii.liva • ill >m ......... <>i
eight.vn h.mt iidnv
j,,, i-I,,,,. I,
to drive to secure the g"tC,“,.T adoption tiy y
.
incut of children titular fourteen yearn of age
in facU»ri> s, mine* or workshops.
1\ M dvorMi ji, u vill i/.c m \ oii.-tu; .’.
RngUtut numlH-ring th^re 1 member.,, tj oi and womeu in Heavill.c Imrbcm
six
idaiut five miles from the village, a kindred
society of five liuxom women l«irbers.
Thk Italian lalHirers art* largely ntlwr giwn to
the turn fling; of harxipanlhi nuti light
non-uitoxicaling hcvi ragc > in tho hot koamui
<»f tho Voar t’ompunitivolv fow of them in
dulgo m l>c »r or ouu r alcoholic liquoiv while
nt work*
Thk Intermitionnl la»tbor (*ougr« in
nion nt. Parist, France, pas**Ml u fc »f r«*;
olutloiiN (leinrmdiuK n universal maximum *
tight hour* for ti day ' labor. (Din holidiv?
every week and tho uncon;!i!iv>iml sujtprt
•ion of all labor by children umlt feuite
years of a««\
A Hat imr Stopplo Ulhuhor.
* j { M . 1 1 *' i , v ;f, 4
rather noted ..
tlt rcr, ts a r, or
hteople climber. With sv lonut rope, a
few snike* and * a hanuiHT ’ he could climb
ii blank i walla n anti , , lofty u < , h>mmy • ,, v m, I ke . I.). p,
A year or two airo he uas cmploud as
derrick rigger in » big stone qunrn in
North qt ‘ ’ temi* \x * Our dav he ivnutcd to
*
, • ] i .*
go down to tnt Ajuarrv m a mury, tut
there was no mentis of getting oiT the
precipice on which he stood except bv
........ .. »r «« 1 .....
The rope was six f«t away, hmiffing over
a chasm 200 feet deep, cushioned with
granite block ‘and but A micron jumped for
it,caught it, went down safely, hand
under hand The same dav an ambitious
Irishman, who saw the teat perform,si.
attempted .. ,1. to dupbeate 1 , * , .t and 1 was MM. 1.1,1 j
lie had the courage, but he lacked the
IK'’ es-nry rapidity of dutch and accuracy
of vision that Anderson had acquired only
by . long , experience. ■ —««» , ■ s , v r,ir- :
.
isiymgi.
(K 0110 ocedsioi! .'.' when General t iron '
was visiting 1 .oaten, a well-Kiiow ., , n gou
tleimm w as enterbuning hint, and their
talk one dav while out driving turned
upon the lien Charles Sumner an'ad- .'I
wl.om the Bostonian \v.,s ud
mtrev. After ... citing a number , or mei
dents to show the objectionable trait?
of the lamented Senator, the Bostonian
auaaeretl »»>.'..»-»■) “And. do voti know that,
of •** morals *",'»* *nu uumauilv, fkui.ri.mrt.ii iio uOt'*n t 1 m?”
hovo in tho inspiration of tho liifoloV
While si I,,.,,,.,*;,,,. leaking ho looked ateadtlv at
Orant, M”' • * • ,„v. 1 ' ‘
There howeveri no eternal 'sign! his
The General took a lo-g puff at
rigar, blew the smoke away deliberate
Iv from his lips, and quietly muarkod: He
-1 em not at all s’.rpr tsed. didn't
• „te it. von know.
™ K H<W,hW ‘ 1 hS,H ' SehSTO n ‘ 1 ‘*'° n
slow in etwitrililting tinuuxis the relief
of the suffer*-rs’at Johnstown In 1’iF.s
Imngh they mist*! §120, with which they
b-'Ught supplies Olid sent them on to the
stricken city. Over was raised
the pagan Chinamen u. this cut.
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THE DEMOCRAT C! WVFOUDVILLE, GEORGIA.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BEOOXLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON,
“Ifow to Conqnor.”—(Preached nt
Lake Jfuxlnkuckee, Ind.j
Text: “H /ren *kali 1 awaktt I will seek
it yet again." —Frov. xxiii., 35.
With an insight into human nature such an
no other man ever reached, Solomon, in my
text, sketches the mental operations of one
rectitude, who, having stepped aside from With the path for of
desires to return. a wish
something better, he raid: “When shall I
awake? When .shall I come out of this horrid
I nightmare of iniquity?” Iiut. seized upon by
uneradicted habit, and forced down hill by
his passions, be fries out: “I will seek it yet
again. Our libraries 1 will try it adorned once more.” with elegant
nro an
literature no all b <-<* d dangers to young men, perils pointing life
out to th—r: the and of
| th - complete rockfi, the t ..a quick«md«, pa of the voyage, tho Kho«1». shov ing lint all
! e
W1 pp 0 a ho man i> already in. ,aln-adv <AT the tnado track; shipwreck;
‘ mppoMt he lm already How suppose
s pnr.c a«l.ray is no to
get hack y Tit at is a field oornfMuratively un>
touched. \ propose to address myself to such,
j There arc frioM; in this audience who, with
® v,r .V paw*'<n of their agonized soul, are
1 ready to hear Midi ,Ut a d:s<-UM,i-n. f''* l M Tlwy com
I V* r " ' " 1 w f
v 7 ,r ” ®f‘ 3,1,1 ''[•> , i t ‘
• which tli-y iucoroerntol.
f arc .Now, if there
I ! lie any here, njii-e with fm .arrest
purport the pale •, vet hristian f .sling they a hi bejund
Oi ( sympathy, nnd Ihni the
M-rmon can hardly 1m expected to a dilfeur,
them, then, at this moment, 1 give them my
right hand, We and call them brother, iamk
m. U is glorious nud triumph.^ ftopc
foryoii ,. . .are,,,,, tjc (mmpeloT Gospici
deliverance. The church is ready to spreo/1
a banquet at your return, ansi the hh-rarclis
<u heaven to fall into line of bannered bfS
cession at the news of your emancipation.
ty> fares fuel may help me, 1 propose .to
hhow what are the obstacle* of your return,
niiil teen iiow yotl are to sume :;nt th-^rfi
obstacles, i he first difUculty in t!ie-,v&y of
your ret urn is the force of moral gravitation,
Just, as there mg natural law brings
dewnloUcearth anyliung -throw into toe
r.'.r, to there is a corras^ggj,,^ lu «r„i gravi
t/itlon In other ,v t ,rdH. it is oasiej- to go
denn t.ian it i“ ff t g 0 up; it is easier to do
lh« wrong tlw^, }t is to do right, ' boyLeX' Call to mind
cnhiriulea ol four 1 * days—
, nt tbam good. thet*. had—
Route Home of
which most,affected yon? Call to mfed the
aneclotte five that, you have heard th in Oic Tp,' 1
W ten years- some or -ia art- pur - i
Merc and r i.me ra-i!y of them Micks impure. to Which m*mor.C the j
of your life have
During the years your you of
formwl > rlain .viurues of coiiduct—some
them good, some of them bad. To which
Ktyle of habit, did yon the more easily
y it 1.1? Ah. mv .if friends, we have to take but
« .........it H-lf-inMic.-tion to find out
that th. C IS in all our calls a fore- of
moral gravitation! lint that gravitation
may be resist/sl. Just as you hold may it pick in up
iiand from the north amnatliiiig and your
toward heaven, just so, by the power
Of (loil’H grace, II soul fallen may lie lifted
toward Force of peace, moral toward gravfu.tioti pardon, in toward heaven, of
God’s every one that
us, but power In grace to ovoroomo
force or moral gravitation. in
The next tiling the way of your return
is tho power of evil habit. I know there are
Hiohi who iay it every, «„y for them to eivo
up evil habit*. 1 do not believe them. Hero
is a man given to intoxication. He knows it
is (llygrucmg his iamily, destroying his prop
eriy. milling him, hotly, mind mid soul,
—-J If that man, his being family, tin intelligent could easily man,
and s±.:r loving
it that, nss..sst*ra^: It i* hard to give it It
alvery tn> proves thing sail down up. the
is easy to stream,
tide carryiug you with great force; but sup
pois- you turn tho boat up stream, is it so easy
then t. it A. tenge we yield to the t
row
evil indmatlor . m our heiii-tt., mid our had
habits, we arc s.uHi.g down stream; hut the
memcit no try to turn, we put our bmt m
the rapids ju t above Niagara, and try tho to
row up stream. Take a man given to
habit of i tolwz-co, ns moot of yon do
«“'»'V'., 1 ’ ' : ■ mte he tied, o
vary difficult. I wenty-s-wou yearn ago I quit
that habit, and 1 would ua sv»,n dare to put
my right .Mind in the fire im once to indulge
; jj, Wir, - i’. rauso it was niirh u i
. { , ot over it. Now,
| , ( . t n limI1 (; ,h ise.l by his physi
,. lBn )„ ,,; Vl . tins use of tobacco,
j with J1( , himself. around He not rannot knowing add up what a lino to do of
I ll^piros. Ho rnunot sloop night h. It sooms
t ns if tho world had turned upside tlown. Ho
feels his Imsinoss going to ruin. Where ho
was kind and ohliginp, he is sliding nnd
! fretful. Tlio eomposuro that eharaeteri/tvl
! him hits given way t«* a fretful restIcssne^s,
! nnd ho has Ihm'oiiao a complete fidget. Wind
power i-« it that ims i*olied n wave of woo
| over hesvwi*- the earth Ho has and tri«l shaken to stop n portent snaking tu the or 1 j
i
chowiii” ! Aft4»r a whilo ho wys, 1 «m gomp
to <1<* nv l ]»leflLA<'. Tlio doctor d«HmTt uuder- |
! Maudinv case. I’m going K back thing to my old |
habit.” And he returns. very assumes
1 Its usual eomj>osuix». His business stains t<» |
brighten, tlio work I Incomes an attractive
place to live iu. His ohiklron, seeing the
diirnixMioo, \mi\ the return their ;
j father'* gouia! disj > sitiou. What wave <
°* ba* blue into the sky, and j
greoiiiM'ss into the mountain foliiige..ami Uhnt th j
; g , ow of rnpphire into the sunsatJ on
; chan tin wit ha* lifu^d a world of beauty and ;
joy op Ms soul- Hv tea gone back to to
Oh, the fact it* a* we all know in oar own
j , ©xporionw, that habit is a taskmaster; as
long as we obey it* it doea not chastise us;
1 but let us resists and w»> find we are to 1 m i
sf® x „c-br»akint: spteaftriinirs .luggoruauUs! During the
K1 war
of 181S there w-os a ship set on ftiw ter,', just nb.n-c
Niagara Mali*, and then, cut from its
' wt te ' V. 1 r.‘-‘Xn
b - ote all Lot
AV.-P. there are the .mK ... m.-n o : ,
, x ,1 temWh . „ i, . a ,vn tioxui >!'■», -life t -n : ,u
t - ,wf,d ,»i. hi m
, <nvwM ic uai i.hmgm, nii'!»i .v *, sr ,t it
tsioam t f. 1 G.*l ’ only «rn-,t tUem.
vMirsof ihip;* - 0 m Join-* .1 a >r te.e. "} > >r tv VThv mty
m ! *,Ui-- :v Jvei to <ia ri*'-t
ha tl,c 1 >.,•„< ,,r . ,.r , i j,j •
e tw
n i rite. “God
heli.ine*" Me ' l h- his lip. He grind* h*
teeth. He clenches !iis list m 1. • determine
tin to k«c;> his purpose. He dure not 110k
at the bottles in the wiudow <>f a wi*c *torc.
It vra* one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand to
hand fight, w'.tii intlam.s), imitab-.ug and
"wrailras halm. When he thmks he 1., on
tiralv frv*\ the old qiclmations ,\, r*>unooupen ,,^;,.
Uuil ukl , n , vl( . k of lu , uni!< wilh ;r ul s
tearing away at the fian&a of one ptxir rein- i
deer. In l*aris there is a sculptured repre- I
1 ‘entetem of Bacchus, ttepslof revelry. He '
»"fe,".’ •&$£££*!&.
. ou wnys nihK'ittmhl h-^ is not ruling a
docile ami ireiblm>k«ti st<vxf. but lw is ridu*^
a mmvstor, wild and bloodthtrety. going at a
death leap ' '
!t,.» nuar IhiOT *1*. irl I iwnl. crv^’I
^ ’ ni ^rliX '.rc tetete
wi!! <v 1 wiu seek it vet
agam.-’ Yearaago whk there were «.me IVinK
ton students were skating, and the ire
SIT Steto^v? ^ ^ «»
toe •
mere- .-Tre He theL^r'LJd'i2Tcg 'swjjt areund am! went SSn.
tocre
men losing their souls in that w*y I* u tho
one round mere.
™ to
ZTl^ngt JSSSTtew
pear* at the. church door some .s«b«th : ay,
atwl the usher greets him with * look, as
much a;: to say: 1 “Why, you here/ fee are
the last man ever expected to so church!
Come, take this seat, rightdown bf.-ied<v>rr ia
Instead of raying: “Good raorniuj m gfeul
you are here. Come; I will gap fir you a
first the rate prodigal, seat, right not up by discouraafal the pul Well,
the meeting, yet and OUiffsft esters
prayer some nH man,
with more zeal than common says:
“Glad to see you. Tho was
The save-1, young and I man, suppose disgusted, there k merWNgrau chu^^Krowa !”
himself will enter Iiark die on bouse his dignity, of <tod reMol'^^^Hrievpr agai^^Hrhaps
ti- not ii. poll-' he i-i-s fally up discouraged by h ighbB^Bf.-table al.i^^Morma
: some dowBBa
mar: hr li-d to know going • -'-t.
and immediately the ntaf/ectable an
prodigal, errand down wishing some to other return, streef^Hl). the
bF^Maud, mem
ber of a Christian association or
tries to. The Christian young
him, looks at the faded apparels
of dis ipntion, and instead of
of warm the grip long of flug-r the hand of the offers left hifoW bf>v», which tip end is
eo-ml to «triW>e/i> men in th* 'I *
how Oh, how few Christian pooj ((understand
much force and Gospel *re in in a
good, have honest handshaking! need eacounramdai,and 8< n:l'#unm. when
y<m felt the of takcrJrou
t-omc Christian man has heartily
through by the hand, have you yourlx^T, not feltmt&t thrilling
every fibre of uiind and
soul, an eded? encouragement You do that kEowkayttejg w,» just what
you n- not at
thi:; » - «.
he runs Uj retu against '" from repulsions f v,i COursJg^oudu-f, inm^^Bblo. V.'o
<ay from of tho no church, so man, he half llvoic of^Hc r^Hrom or two the
or a ntJHwdod
church. There arc people in cit
ins Castfjceerlsof who live a thousand indifference miles b* frfHle J church,
house 6 -hL Ui«m a
tHe of nn * ’■
~ tt’kstkeep
ro6B^* -Uts iar i
on ofthouseridsperish. ? W iity„thotHtt t? .J. >nd. and tens
Cdir with publi
c«hsand sinners Butiftli »rac* to tho
h«iee upon hirn, of G«ia people man with marked uAc dissipation
throw up lumds in
IngP’ horror, How r;, much as to say “‘Vt i it ahock
the*o dairArr J lious Chris
tlaiif. in all our churches Are bag to get into
heaven I don’t knew, WnJeaBrhey have an
especial train of -coft cuabkteed to]hlms8lf! air! up
cannot bolstered, wttii each thegreat 6ne ; a car herd/rf They
go Oh, cist publicans lin and
sinners. j*j, who yiwSlainly, your of
scorn at the fatln:, I tell if you
had tiecn snrroindod by the anl syne innuenr*s, (fhltured
instead of sitting to-day . the
and the r^Boed and the Chiij wredg in, you would
have a crouching fifth nn'Etbomination! in stable or
ditch, -sjvsred with nafeirtUy
It is »ot because you are Ajt any bet
ter, but because the mercy God has pro
todod in Christian you. circles, Who ore you, watehivi that brought Chris- up
tian ntege, slioiUd ana be hard by th.
par. you eo on
fallen, ! ,
1 think men alsoaro often hindered from
return by the fact that chujgjies are too aux
ious about their membership and too anxious
about their denomination, and theyrushout
when they sc a man about to give upi his
am and return to God, and ask himhow he ia
going by to bo baptized, what whether by sprinkling
or immersion, and kind of a church
ha is going to join. Oh, my friends! It is a
poor time to talk about Presbyterian cate
chUuis, red Episcopal liturgies, and Motho
.list love-feasts, and baptisteries to a man
that is coming out of the darkness of sin into
the romiiwls glorious of light mtuidrowiUai; of the Gospel. in tho Why.it and
us a sea,
n Ufotioat put* out. r him, and the man in
tho boat says t-> tho man out of tho
boat: “Now, it X jtet you ashore
are you going to andBjt'ta& liv-lfete iny street?”
Kirat apt hint ashore, about the
iiou-ersi’ntials of religion. Who cares what
church be joins, if ho only iolns Christ and
starts for heaven? Oh, you ought to have,
my brother, an illumined ..face, and a
book with him, retnonheringwbat tBurh h4 d apations khako
verteth the book, from the he of that his con
a sinner error ways
.shall savo a soul from death, and hide a
multitude of sins. V
dado, Now, liecourc I have I slimvi wa-v'y.,.. |yon to these under- oh
stand 1 know all the difficulties in tho
way; but I am now to toll you how
Hannibal may scalo tho Alps nnd how
the shackle* may ba unrivetod and
how th ■ i.aU.* <.f virtueforiakon may be ro
gained. First of all, my brother, throw
yourself on God. Go to Him, frankly ami
earnestly, and toil Him these habits you
have, auu auk Him, if there is any help in all
the resources of omnipotent love, to give it
to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole
to God and for help! help! help! and % if \
cry for help, look and live.
1 you cannot cry 1 just Antietam, |
remember in tho war was at ;
aud l went into the hospitals after tho ;
battle, and J said to a man, “M hero ;
are you Usrt?’ Ho made no answer,
but hold up his arm swollen and splintered,
is, t saw when where he was has hurt. wounded Tho simple soul, ail fact ho j
a man a
has t,„.t to mid do is got to hold it heated it tip before It a does sympathetic not toko |
miy long pravoi*. Just hold up tho wound.
Oh, it is no small thin^ when a man is norv- f
ous and weak and exhausted, coming from !
his evil ways, to feel that God puts two om
nipotent arms around about him and says: |
“\Vk nuui, 1 will stand by you! Tho I
niouutnuis mav depart and the liills l>o re>
in ove«l t but 1 will never fail you.” And then, I
soul thinks tho news it too good to bo j
true, and cannot Wliove it, nud looks up in
Hod*3 fiwe, God lifts His light hand and takes
ftu an aflidaxit, saying: “As I live,
katth t ha Lord GodL I have &8 pleasure in tho !
aeatli Wr-«d oflum bo Go-1 that for dioth.” such Go-sjh-I this! j
n r.s
“Cut tee slices thin,” said tho wife to tho
huslmnd, “or there will not b© enough to go j !
oil around for the children; cut the slices
thin. l>le**K<Hl be God, there isa full loaf for ;
swr v.ss£istessfug ■ I
t remember when tho Master Street lms
pilal, in tetepram Fliiladelpbia, was saying: opened ‘"There during will the bo
war, a came :
.iu.ra*h tiSLSNuJfftMmmy L nmT ‘u!v
tl.ora went t-v or |
Durty men and vousa to look after '
th,*-. • Poor wont. • In l fellows. A. t.iev
come, .on,, from W part of tim •
land. *w f.v-„ another, no one ask.sl
wtetker this man was ftwn Ore^a, or from
. . or fn 11 •d.nnsso.a. « »«
New \ork. Tarn' was a wctnUMM soldier, 1
*n t the only q;:-tiou«-as how to taksofTtiu
in -eutly. oiul put on the Kmdage, .
and administer the cordial. Aud when a
sonl comes to God He dos not ask where
you cauie from or what your luioostrv was.
Healing hwali your wounds. Pardon for all
your guilt. Comfort for all your troubles,
Then, also, 1 counsel you. if you want to
get back, to quit all your bad as»K'iations.
One unholy intimacy willi fillyear soul witii
moral iiisteiiK-er. Tn all the age* of tho
church there has not Iwru an instance where
>» man kept one evil the associate and was ro¬
fonnoil. the Among fourteen hundred Go home milt
ion of race not < ; no instance.
something ".MjrolacomMmoiD: lik* tins:
I start this day for
heaven. Until I am psrsuoded yon will join ‘
me iu this, farewell,” t
Ttien sign yonr name, and sand the letter
5^ that destroy five bad
''mnpamons a man, nor
~miwmoiis. '^ nor three leal coaipMucoN j
££ t ah^ L gv^’
£££ a gKvc urging him to hc
y hrr^
^ therefVUoh “ tc *" ac *
] lxHJn9P j ^ rtoLlT (-hr.suan advice. 1
T ,, u
Erav C hr«mn m U Chateau
Cred; then
counsel. Gather tip all the energies of body,
mind and teal, and appealing day to God for
suooess, declare this everlasting war
against practice*, ail drinking house* habits, all gambling
all of sin. Half-and-half
work will amount to nothing; it must be a
Waterloo. Shrink back now and yon are
lost. Fas* on artd you are saved. A Spar¬
tan general fell at the very moment of vic¬
tory, but he dipped his finger in Ms own
blood and wrote on a rock near which he was
dying, ‘'Sparta has conquered.” Though
he your struggle death to get rid of sin may seem to
almost a struggle, you can dip roar
finger in yoor own blood and write on the
Rock of Ages, “Victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.”
Oh, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send home to
their r»r«its. They go to the postoffice
eve ry ilay or two to see whether there are
any letters from you. How anxious they are
to hear.
Some one said to a Grecian general:
“What was the proudest moment in your
life?” He thought a moment, and -aid:
“The proudest moment of ray life was when I
rant word home to rnv parents that I had
gained the victory.” And the proudest arid
most brilliant moment in your life will be the
moment when you can send word to your pa¬
rents that you i:avp conquered your evil habits
by Oh, the despise grace of (1 od ami become eternal victor.
will not parental will anxiety! The father time
come when you have neither
nor where mother, the}' used and you watch will go around tin: place
to you and find them
gone from the Sonae, and gone from the field,
an4 gone forgiveness from the r-eigidiorhood. Cry the
as loud for as you may over
mound in the cb archyard, the y will cot
answer. Dead.' Doadf And then you will
• ako out the white lock of liair that was eu?
from yo«r mothers brow tais just before -^ey
huri«d her, and you will the with
UrT.ik, whh£i your father used to wait, and you will
and think, and Wish that you
had dope would just ai they "tho wanted world" you
to, and give if
you had never thrust a pang through
their dear old hearty. God pity the poor
young man who lifts brought disgrace on his
father’s name! God pity the young man
who has broken his mother's heart! Better
if he ha/1 never horn bom—better if, in the
first hour of Ms life, instead of being laid
against- tenderness, the warm bosom eoffineu of maternal
he had been and
sepulehered. There is. ho bedm power¬
ful enough to heal tho heart of one
who has and brought who parents to a sorrowful
grave, wanders about through the
dismal cemetery residing the hair, and
mother wringing the Oh, hands, that and crying: “Mother!
1” the to-day by all the
memories of past nud by all the hopes
of the future, you would yield your heart to
God. MaV your father’s God and your
‘mother’s Sod bo your God forever I
"The Loquat.
The loquat » __“i.,... is commonlv known by
Alto misuomer . -l&P&P plum. .. m,„ lue
Kelsey and Japan the plum Japanese dinei 8 from plam the is lo
quet, true en
tirely different. At a late meeting of
tlje Kj or ida Nurserymen’B ' Association it
' vai ; Noted . , that the Frinlvntvra i.nobotyra Japoiea Tannicn
be known as the loquat, and the Kelsey
Japan plum simply introduced as the Kelsey plum,
The loquat was into Lon
Jo,, from Japan about a hundred years
*8°:, Tf It caI m “ e _ aired f irom rnm .Tanan Japan to to
California. . It . L)_autilul
is a evergreen,
growing to tii6 iieigiit oi twenty-iJve
or thirty feet. The leaves aro large,
eight or twelve inches in lengtb,undn
luted, thick and shiny, and dropping
freely at nertnin certiun see sta suns nf o the the year y .
Lhe blossoms are produced in nmle.s
or spikes at the end ot the branches,
are small, white and inconspicuous.
Tbe fruit ripens beginning on the £: 1st
*^ 10 "siTSajti birds would remain 2^ SOOtld If on the
tree until the 4t!i of July. J lie fruit is
yellow, plum like, elongated in shape,
from one and a quarter to two inches
long S and containing from one to two
“X Bto <B “ ^-i/tTte or nits It has apleasnntpe
cudar, attu ta-te, combining combmtng the tne Aato* flavor
oi the tamarind and pineapple.
We are told by ex - commissioner
Coleman that the loquat Louisiana. is extensively The
cultivated in Lower
* . ru ) I “ ur ‘- etl d in d strawbeni ra wlw>mr lnaUi/ I ftoatts
and brings fancy prices. J or the year
188(» ftiul 1887 the cropfc was light, owing
to tlio late and severe frosts,
Orchards of loquats may bo seen in
riond. On. near MwO. ~
said, a low vests ago, to liave brought
in more cash per acre than any other
piece of land used for agricultural pur
,, 080S j n ti, e State.
'p| le t ree j ,__ri B crown from sheds which
germinate ■ , slowly , but , readily , ;{ if planted , t ,
while fresh. It is also grown from lay
ers and cuttings, and can be grafted
Bn j budded on the quince and haw
u orno whic ), aro closely related trees,
, lftUUSt ,. rt o / ( 111 me e.
x
Kow Cranes Hold Court.
* I will toll you some!liing I saw out
in New Mexico,” said the e ccentric fier
traveler, whose . sprightly talk
man aim
his skill in made the interpretations him favorite of in pa tho ni
istrv had a
]jon80 espeei;l L il hi* v with the ladies, for
mo.st ... of (( f uhom ,, tll lie hod bad nrotlmfed predicted hv by tlio the
lu*es of their pa.me an ear.y and liappy
marriage. ‘*1 . tho west, said
was away out m
] 1C< “and I saw thousands of sand hill
dying toward the place where J
**
the east, the west, the north and the
sinitli, and very soon a great company
0 f thousands had collected, almost ob
««>™g liaht °f thesnn They re
fveral days and 1 looked on m
wonder to see what they would do and
About presently inring, 1 saw them come together
a covering the ground for
acr es around. Their manner was solemn
#s if thev had assembled for deliberation
some vv-id "-‘e t ‘ mu tier. ■
nil m pla anti everything and waa
stiil I hoard a oil! -ka and flapping
looking up saw that no of the cranes
had risen from the midst of tho vast
o;k ourso and was making a peculiar
lunsi- me mran l by the flapping his of
wings aud a i sorts of gyrations with
b. dv nnd gestieulati us with his legs
* asjfhe speech.
wi ng> were making a
A . ‘ . u 1 - l " - 1W 1 - 1, A ’ , to . • 1 a moment and
- tho
I • r,i a .mg
. tney
iv. n ii tue gro a as
auntinsr the -• v. ito vias ii.) m j
t e air, L uia M the one who was nnik- |
ingft apeedi 11 stopped ami body, came if down, they j
takm.aa iisVote, rose :» a wi:en as tlioy j
We.e ;
wv;:-.e dew . ar.etl: r ,-vune in t i e middle :
of the crowd shot u:i and fell back to
tho L * ‘f I “ e ll< ™ « th \l 1,11
jumped tiiey rose on ru linn » Kidv and and left bnn. the place -inn
for ,^ x! ’ Only the one crane in the
anJ ^ 1 ^ U1>
to look at him he was stone, dead.”
“Tiny are holding court,” said the
party in concert, us the German cou
I reckon that must have l*'cn
the c “ ¥p ’’ * a ' d tbe Lierman. “That
ernne w us evidently on trial for his life,
and the one who made the speech must
have been the judge charging tie jurvp”
-Atlanta Corsttutiou.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY
Stone Mountain Route.
Office Gexekai. Maxao- ’
Augusta, Ga .Mar. h 2. i
/"'10MMENCING SUN DA . drd inst.,
V^the following p os- :. . r tclules will
•uotsa;jB,;o pue tquitnv ‘tl-niny
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•sun} nepuam jq £q un i stirrjj,
:DSXtuado sq j
Parlor cars on 27 and 28 between Au¬
gusta and Atlanta.
Train No. 27 and 28 will stop and re¬
ceive passengers to and from the follow¬
ing points only: Grovetown, Harlem,
Hearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett,
Crawfordville, Union Point, Greensboro,
Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Cov¬
ington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone Moun¬
tain and Decatur.
E. R. DORSEY, I. W. GREENE,
Gen’l. Pass. Ag’t. Gcn'l Manager.
Joe W. White,
General Traveling Passenger Agent.
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CUTTES, GRIWDEB AUD i
SHELLER
Combined in One Frame. T3ie Onlyg
Combined Feed Mill Made. i.
Warranted to Give SatisfaGtlc: . J
Can use tliroo different sized Grinders upon the g
same Mill at any time. Really five machines in 5
one.
Send for circular to
FRAZER Willisimditirg, & "I kCY, led. i
c u k* * : s ♦— -♦AVILES,
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GEO. II. GILMER. Machinist,
Crawfordville, Ga.
En"ine.=, Seraratevs, and any kind of
Machinery repaired had in best muchexperietiee style very
reasonaliie. Havin'; best
in this work 1 am now prepared to do
of work.
F AT I ST A CTIOX GU AR A N’TEED.
Onn Stoyrs M adb New— I will over
iia«| your ol.i stove and make it .rood as
new tor a very small sum Parties not
leavi*,^ the ui'inev, I will do their work
; -id wu:t a r. a-omii ie time tor the money.
_te ri It (ilLUBll
-yrrr-rj-yr’TTT*“5“ Ji ?CoS
H > ri WW » ■
-LADIES and GENTS’
MHlNkr
& ICE CREAM
PARLOR.
No. 8 "W. Hunter St.,
Atlanta, - - Georgia.
Meals at All Hours, Repulars Dinne
from 11:30 to 2 o’clock, Fish
Oysters in every style.-Game and
to
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FIFTH ANNUAL
CLEARANCE SALE
iJune! to Aug. S f 1889.
$25,000
Worth of Pianos and Origans
from best makers to be closed ! j
out regardless of cost or value.
Stock Into cash tool ar^e. in stall Must snent convert assets. j
or •
Some* erttrely NEW IN8TRL
xHE.’VTjS not used u day.
Sonic* Nearly New—nsed a few
months only.
Some* nsed a year or so.—Some*
used two to three years.
Some* fine .Second Hands—taken |
in exchange* and made new’ in
our repair Factory. K.e«poiished
—Ktt-strnng. Restored iu Tone
and Action, and made good for
j ears of service.
BARGAINS. EVERY ONE.
EASY TERMS.
Your OWN TERMS almost.
Very lisiit Monthly Payments, bal¬
or Small Cash Payment and
ance when you get ready.
CASH Burs CHEAP.
(iive you all the time wanted
but SPOT CASH will t-ave you
money. TRY US ON. We will
meet you every time.
PIANOS
$ 50 , $ 75 , $ 100 , $ 150 .
ORGANS
$ 24 , $ 35 , $ 50 , $ 75 .
WRITE FOR BARGAIN SHEET.
CLEARANCE SALE
SUHIISER 1889. v
iUDDEHSBATES.SJ.H. QA.
SAVAKM&K,
l
Dob bins' fciectris »aa_
THE BEST FAMILY SOAP
hi TKE W0SLB. ’
It is Strietlf furs. Uinform ia Quality ■
original formuLi for which we paid ff0,000
J a ( changed twenty years th- ay, > ri h.'iS c ver '£Tr.t:>- bev:i j; . D-d l:> or
"g in ..---r, : : 11 *3>
B idrntleul ici qctdiiy *y « ztii y
^ znaiic twenty years a.,n>.
TT A contains riottiiZiX iaTirie. < J i* a right*
colors and jnre bleach tho itn-p-st bites. - •
ens j* v
TT washes flannels and blankets as n - - t .-.er soap
in the world doe*—without shrink eg - r.aving
them soft and white and like new.
READ THIS TWICE
i-iz»a»v^ci» Ai -re»<re-.a t zjk tj .ysttfn »n.Mrr - -c J r»var.-a.'<jr.
riiatso-aoiver etw ax-anfitcr: v*«in» ■*-- •sown.
a»» J —ft i«k ?;
T HERE is a of tiir.e, of labor,
of soap, of fuel, and of the fabric, where Dob¬
bins’ Electric Soap u used to dirco
p.\ : trial will dcT.onsirate its greah merit. It
^ will pay you to make that trial.
JT^ Y IKE .ill best it Ia extecsively imi
tated and ccunterf :it-d.
Beware of Imitations.
TNSIST iipca 2!*.* E’colrl.:. Don't take
Magnetic, Electro-Magic, PI'-i-!adclpl’.' cheap. . Electric, They
or any oilier fraud, simply because it is Ask for
will ruin clothes, and are dear ut any price.
—0.^5. BOBBINS’ IXECTSm: -i^oo.—
and take no other. Nearly every grocer from Maine
to Mexico keeps it ia stock. If \ ours hasn't it, he
will order from hi - i cnrest v. hoRsule grocer.
EAD carefully the inside v. rapper .tround each
bar, and be careful to folioAV directions
„.r each jutside wrapper. You en»:?ot afford to
wait longer tef <re trying for yourself this old, reliable,
«nd truly wonderful
Dobbins’ 9 Electric«Soap.
0 F? ' GTJZl
m
: \ d"
f watches in each P ri I LA ■ - rrr?wi
S3SV/r.:ch Club, and we get cash
f^! the Club for each watch before i: ■
m Si fra out, week, *’—c'tch though t Thli is metr.bcr v.'hy \v< > 5
und why we are tl:e doing tbe
F’briJ-'nly watch business in v.'Crt
first about quality v.d.ut o-hcr:- goods, cut i.T ou:f
prices ‘ q^lity.OurtjlO ere SlivcrWntd. \ 1
;y ^
is a substantial Silver \tzjt itnitaiL n ej -ii jt~ •
m 3 £matty£:nil} Stem-Wind Am eric ci ,5
Watch—either huciiag care oi
Our 9 -i- 3 .vO Wat k L a frie.x
Open Face, test rucii’y, rtifi’ent
AiccrlcaaLc”.erV/av. r.
i we a r 20 yea n.
watch sold for •* -5 " v * -. w. . -
jg| mjB a mere first-class satisfactory Srib-ucd u::& C sere' :.a ric th
! fSBj less any S than o.*d Geld double Care the that car. be so -
mcney, as car
i sS; SB °l solid low cases quahr.-.#P are oaxl werti-cti
' i j sSL OurS -iS Wutt h :
short use. cot :a;r
auakerou3 irare:tact yateutcd ina- ; — *
! proven:ents, of vital imp raance to a rur-p tl*; v
| ate iVtiui,&c., timing —FaUnt which Du::/>r control L </* exclusively. FeUer.t I - '
we
is fully equal for accuracy, appearance, dare
biiity Open and sendee, Hunting. to any Our- $75 843 Watch, #C(> Rr.il- cite;
Face or .
road Watch is especially ccmira te. r - ‘
the most exacting use, and us the he* . r ail- J- e r
read Watch made. Open F-ce cr Hum -g j yi
1 Ail these prices are either all cash cr in c.ol-s, J *
SI .OO a vrecli. An /yr f^yck ^
/«i Oafor JWte/rM go,;i c*. CisisGofe'. k Wuitk. ^ t
The Keystone Watcli »- f
■ *:« BSc; !• Cc’i Cwa Eslflrg
004 WALSIIT ST. PKIUM. ft.
[ ft Afdnyindi. v Ajax ©Agents yrie rfeetpr^Aecoc t. Watch fj* We lesu SeEibriaiia-. Wanted. rtjkr uziz*: ater, t* $’.00 wa^n * tivw m
