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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Senator Colquitt has our thanks
for the report of the commissioner of
Agriculture for 1886..
American labor protects itseif by
superior skill and industry. Ameri
can capital seeks protection by high
tariffs and secret trusts.
The report of the Commissioner
of Argriculture for 1886 is just be
ing distributed. Will somebody tell
us why by the middle of May, 88 ,
we do not have the report of 1887
as well.
The democracy, headed by Pres
ident Cleveland, proposes to battle
tariff reform, with incidental par¬
spoils. The republicans will be
content to fight for party spoils, with
incidental protection.
What we saw, and heard and did
in Atl nta will have to be told next
week. Now we have only room to
congratulate our readers upon the
excellent work done for them by the
state democratic convention.
Atlanta Constitution of Dec. 8th,
n 87: “Mr. Cleveland has been led
into I a trap.”
The democracy of Georgia in con
- , vention assembled, May 9th: “The
Atlanta Constitution appears to be
the party trapped.”
The progress of a town must de
pend upon the intelligence of its peo
. pie. In the support of our college
' lies hope for Hamilton’s future
our
prosperity and usefulness. It is en
couragmg to see the interest in the
school growing and its patronage in
creasing as it deserves.
a
i|| Senator Colquitt has been in At
ianta this week looking after his
He need not ha,e come.
There is not in the senate to day,one
whose course is more in accord with
ilie people of Georgia
JOSEPH L.DENNIS
PROPRIETOR.
! an issue in the approaching contest
j President Cleveland has practically
asserte( j this principle, and in a very
CQr( jj a j wa y the democracy of Geor
gia has endorsed him in it.
a TAX ON KNOWLEDGE.
At ^ gj^ annua | sess i 0ll G f
Type Founders Association of Amer
ica, j K q c ] j n t ^ e mont h G f April, it
was decided to advance the price of
type. Although this is the fifty sixth
annual meeting of the association, 'it
is . but the second in recent years of
which the printers of America have a
feeling recollection. About twelve
or eihgteen months ago there was a
break in combination of type found,
ers and type could be bought at dis
counts ranging from 25 to 33 per
cent from the association’s list-prices
The association met, however, and
managed to get in to its ranks foun
dries that had hitherto held aloof,
An agreement was then reached and
a uniform discount of ten -per cent
agreed upon. Their circulars in
forming printers of the advance in
prices congratulated theproprietors of
printing offices that the value of
their offices had been increased by
this action. Now that another ad
vance has been agreed upon we sup
pose the printer is again a subject of
congratulation.
But, some how, we do not see the
matter in this light. Before the first
advance the type in which this para
graph is printed could be puichased
for 30 cent", a pound. The first ad
vance raised the price to 37 cents
'
an( | t j ie rece nt a flvance puts it to 41
cents q’j ie t yp e fo unc ] ers are p ro .
tecte( j by a high tariff and if we take
t ] le p r j ce at t } ie ly p e were so fo
5 e f ore combination was made as
the price at which type can be made
• ar *d sold in com etition with an open
market, and it is reasonable to infer
that is > then for every pound of
primer type that they buy the
thousand American printers are
1 ^ rea< ^ ers books and newspapers
pay this tax to support these infant
them being about twenty five years
Taxes should be laid to sup-
HAMILTON, GA., MAY 11,1888.
port the government, not to build
monopo ies.
Sunday School Picnic.
All Hamilton shut up shops and
went to the Sunday School picnic
last Friday at the beautiful grounds
at Kingsboro. Or so it seemed, for
nearly everybody in town was there,
The ride down on the railroad was
pleasant and without accident.
was no program and no formality
about anything. Old folks went to
give the children a pleasant day in
the woods and the little folks went
to enjoy themselves as only happy,
innocent childhood can. Time pas
sed rapidly and dinner time soon
came, cloths were spread under the
trees and contents of the well filled
baskets were emptied upon them.
then the enjoyment of old and young
was mutual. Tong and laboriously
the crowd tugged at the tenpting
and and then quitted the contest in
hopeless despair—there was .more
than t! rec times as .1 many equally
hungry folks couid have eaten.
The baskets were again filled and
then began a faithful effort upon the
part of many to make themselves and
their dinner comfortable. Romping
plays were instituted in which all en
gaged; the swings put up in the fore
noon were all kept going; rope jump
ing by big and little was participated
in and by the time the whistle
nounced the approaching train every.
body was happy and willing to vote
the union Sunday school picnic of
! 888 a royal success. Conductor
Coleman soon delivered a happy
throng at the Hamilton depot and
little folks ami big folks dispersed
to their homes, all willing to believe
the wor’d a pleasanter place to live
in than some folks would have us
think it.
* ♦
THE BIBLE.
^ A P ft P m r r * ad ateveu* before
It m thlehem Numtny School,
April ttOth, 1HH*.
Although this subject has been
tin
exhausted. Who can do justice in
the setting forth, even the necessity
great and
innumerable advar.tyges derived
from the i. fluence of this holy
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRIOTLY IN ADVANCE.
book? Of all ihe blessings vouch
safed to mortal man, aside from the
gift of our Saviour, there are none
so pure, so grand, so transcendency
holy as this precious volume,
It is like a crystal fountain, whose
springs send forth streams of living
water, which gladden and purify the
hearts of men. Or, like a beacon
light from sonic lowering rugged cliff,
whose radiant beuns sptead out over
vast expanse of waters carrying light
and cheer to the storm-tossed man
ner. But the Bible, unlike this
friendly beacon, has no limit of ex
tent or duration in its diffusion of its
rays, for this glorious lamp is not on
ly hung upon the rock bound coast
of life's tempestuous sea, but spreads
a brilliant light upon the broad high
ways and withholds not its gentle
beams from the more humble path
ways. Nor does its light glare and
flicker here, but beams forth in one
continuous stream of radiant glory,
Glorious book! a priceless boon*
you are to men; a companion which
no misfortune can alineate. Thoug
all other frionds may foisake, so !• ■
as we comply with its holy precej
its precious promises will cling “closet
than a brother,” and with a generous
hand opens infinite sources of purest
pleasure-pleasures laden with • the
richness and fragrance of heaven,and
all the beauty and grandeur of Ihe
Great I Am.
It is the mighty lever of^ mankind
which lifts the poor degraded wretch
from the vilest sloughs of a sinfu life,
ennobles his apirations by directing
his thoughts to a higher and brighter
world than this. See yonder, that
poor, blinded Hindoo mother, as she
tosses her innocent babe into the
foaming waters of the Gangrs. To!
what moral darkness is reigning there.
But mark the change when the burn
ing rays emanating from this glorious
lamp, the Bible, have reached her
j nnoceol sou k See that gentle moth
er now. iVhat a halo of glory encir
c !cs her darksome brow, as she softly
lays her hand upon the head of her
dark-eyed boy kneeling at her feet,
while she teaches him the way of life,
and to lisp the prayer of faith and
love. What has wrought this mighty
change? Devoted Christians, with
NO. 19.