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A* - :: & * /fe / r * * w ss. ■ •/ S .v • fi V 1 » * f v ; £ & * * us* . - h - -c. l K i if 1 * F 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.