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A MODEL MAN. A Prominent Minister's Tribute to George Washington. The Life and Influence of the “Father of His Country.” The Rev. Robert Collyer preached re¬ cently in New York on the life and in¬ fluence of George Washington. “It is 157 years now,” he said, “since Wash¬ ington was born, and it will be ninety years in December since he went to bis last rest, worn out, not by age, but with caro for his country. In his life¬ time were those who slandered him, wtio lied about him, and so he was also a man of sorrows. But the admiration for him has suffered no abatement, but has grown deeper and firmer. He made no special profession of religion—as the term runs now—but laying the words of the prophet to his heart, ‘what does the Lord require of thee but to do justly,’ he walked humbly with his God, and he is now the Saint George of the New World. As time goes on we shall think of him as one whose soul was like a star and dwelt apart. To him the voice of the people was the voice of God.” The preacher in referring to Washing ton’s trials and troubles remarked that he never laughed. And what, lie asked, could bo more pitiful than to rob a whole man, as Washington was, vt the great gift of laughter? Ho thought Washing¬ ton was fortunate in his family, and that was, as some of his hearers knew, a for¬ tune in itself. The preacher next de¬ voted somo timo to the great General’s ancestry. It was clear, he raid, they were of the good old stock, purely Eng¬ lish, anil that even Scotland could put in no claim to him. ‘And as lie, like all of us,” said Mr. Collyer, “had to come from somewhere, wliat better place to come from than England?” The old motherland missed well the acorn she sent over, but the mighty cak came to its perfection on our side of the sea. f After speaking of Washington’s tender devotion to his mother ho touched upon his education. It was no misfortune to him, continued the preacher, that there was no time or money for any but a very limited education. One result of this was that his spelling was something to wonder over to the end of liis days. But he became a master of mathematics, self acquired, In liis later days. But they saw now that the lines of his life were not to bo on those of the scholar. Mr. Collyer loved to believe that Washing¬ ton, like Lincoln, was got destined by Providence to be a scholar, but their lives would teach some professors and scholars a lesson. Washington was depicted ns a bashful youth and young man, and incidentally the preacher observed that in our times that instinct was dead, and young men did not blush as they used to do. But in battle there were • no blushes on his checks. Great men had as a rule no sense of the worth of money and prop¬ erty, but that was not strictly true of the greatest of men. Washington kept his own accounts, and as his steward and overseer he carried everything. In¬ stances were git en to show that he was as generous as lie was just Money was as dross to him when weighed against things that were sacred. lie would be remembered as a man who could not only take care of his money, but spend it like water in a good cause. He came forward at the proper time and cast his all into the scale trembling with the fortunes of the new born republic. From that day on he had no other thought and purpose than to win freedom for the nation and to establish it on a sure foundation forever. As lea¬ der and commander his fame rested not so much on his victories over his ene¬ mies as on his grand courage, patience and manfulness in defeat and disaster. In spooking of his last days the preacher said:—“You never heard any¬ body speak of Washington as aa ‘old man.’ He was struck with immortal youth. A ou cannot make him old, and time has cast a lialo around him.” The Rev. Mr. Collyer finally pointed out^the lesson of the patriot’s life. Washington did not ask if life was worth living, but he proposed to himself to make life worth living, His great watchword was “Duty.” Not pleasure, not the pursuit of money as the end of life and living, but “duty.” In the yrikjeraess, the on the battlefield, in the market, itj camp, m the council, he was a moa of amplest influence. Every ,whese they found him asking, “Is this my duty as » Christian?” A whole man, and therefore a holy man, his great ex¬ ample stands colossal, seen of every land. The path of duty was the way to glory. A Broken Violin. Some years ago, before Mr. E. P. Lug¬ and moved from South Carolina to Georgia,he had in his employ a German, who grew sick, moved away and left in payment of a small amount of borrowed money an old violin. The violin was in a terriby delapidated condition—strings gone, no keys, no bridge, nothing but the box. In thin*condition it was bat¬ tered about unnoticed, and was finally moved to Georgia as a part of a lot of plunder. Nothing was thought of the old instrument until an Italian stroller came along and saw the old violin, ex¬ amined it and pronounced it of the very finest make. Mr. Lugand thought of course the fellow was jesting and offered him the old thing for fifty cents, The stroller couldn’t “ante,” so Mr. Lugand kept the fiddle. Some weeks after Mr. Lugand received a letter from a New Orleans music dealer saying he had heard of the instrument and would give him sixty-five dollars for it. No one will be surprised that the owner jumped at the proposition and expressed it to fhc music dealer. A few days after brought another letter from a New York dealer offering him $100 for the now wonderful instrument. Mr. Lugand promptly wrote the New r Orleans dealer to reship it to him. The dealer did so and Mr. Lugand had his violin again. The night before he was to ship it to New York it had been left in the shop^ and when Mr. Lugand came down the next morning a terrible disaster had taken place, The fiddle had been broken by a saw. With a sad heart ho wrote the dealer, who said in reply he would still give twenty-five dollars for the pieces if the back was not broken. It i needless to say that the pieces were shipped. A check was sent in return.— Millcdgeville (Ga.) Chronicle. Spectators of a Runaway. It is curious to note the difference in people during an excitement. When a horse and cutter went spinning up Cass avenue a few days since at break-neck speed a pedestrian who was coming down the street looked around for a club. A second one turned back and ran half a block and faced about. A third ran across the street and then ran back. A woman left the sidewalk and ran out to the curb, just where her danger was in¬ creased 50 per cent. The driver of a laundry rig pulled to one side and remark¬ ed to a boy that it was a fair runaway, but nothing to brag of. An old man held up his cane as the horse came along and cried: “Stop! Stop!” A woman on the steps of a house wanted to know why somebody didn’t ring for the police and the driver of a milk wagon, who came within an ace of being upset, hit his old nag several cracks and exclaimed: “Yes, hang ye, but you wanted to be killed, didn’t ye?” Probably the coolest one of all was a tramp, who looked up and down, men¬ tally calculated ou how far the horse would run and the damage he would do, and said: “If I’d been born a boss I might have amounted to sun thin’, Wonder if he'll spill anything out where I can gobble it.” Cost of Children. In the lecture on “Public Health,” delivered recently by Dr. E. V. Stod¬ dard, of the Rochester (N. Y.) City Hospital, the speaker said that the aver¬ age cost of bringing children to maturi¬ ty was $600. To bring a child to the age of 5 years requires on the average $o00. In the United States 35 per cent, of the males failed to reach the age of 20 years. Of course, the mortality among infants is much higher than among older children or adults, For every person dead there are two persons sick. It costs less to develop a Norwe¬ gian than to raise to adult years au in¬ dividual of any other nationality. There is less general sickness in this century than in the centuries past. Where the average age of a eitizeu is now 50 years, iu the days of ancient Rome the citizens lived but 30 years. As many people live now to be 70 years old as three centuries ago lived to reach the age of 50 years. Rather Prejudice*. “Jennings is no judge of beauty/ said ” De Jones. don . . t , know about , . that, , „ replied ,. , “I his friend. . “Well, I do,” returned De Jones. “He is going to marry that girl who jil ted me.” AN 0L1) TIME PARTISAN. It is easy to mcs.11 to mind his familiar figure as he sits, during Winter evenings, in his favo¬ rite comer. In his easy chair, with pipe in hand and his silver-rimmed “.-p .es” pushed back until they find a soft resting place on his beloved snow learning white head, with eyes sparkling and his face with pi asure as lie calls ba.-k old memories of days long gone by, he is likely to talk soraeihing after this fashion: “It’s a lont time since I was a boy. Ah, but that was many years ago. Sixty long years have gone and the good Lord knows they were short enough. I v. as then as spruce ami pert as as “Oh, any chap but thereabouts. changed iieap we boys were hoys ! Things have didn’t a since those days. Boys then take much stock in stylish clothes, and they Clothes didn’t carry canes like they do now. and ernes didn’t cut much capor then, but it was go id hard sense and work. “The boy who could do the bigge .t day’s work —could cut the most wood, split the most rails, plow the most corn, was the most envied, for i.e was sure to have the sweetest and best look¬ in’ gal at the ‘Hingin’ school' or ‘apple peelin.’ “I tell you those were rood old times! “I didn’t think anything of going thirty miles or more to see your grandmother, and we (Ji'ln’t have very good roads either, but gen¬ erally “Talkin’ had to follow some o d Indian trail. about sickness then, there was no sickness like now. If we bad a cold, a pain, or anything, there was ihe best medicine in the world found in any log cabin hom* you came across. mother, Why, bless I remember that my old grand¬ God her sou!, she’s been dead these tifiy years or more, could make the best home made medicine for miles around. Her ‘sarsapa rilly’ couldn’t be beat. Come to think I just read m the paper about somebody who is making this ame old log cabin medicine, under the name of ‘Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla.’ “ It does seem splendid to think that you can buy those good old home cures at the druggist’s nowadays. “ Mebbe yon think people were not healthy in those days, but I tell you that it was mighty sel¬ dom anybody was sick long when they had such good old grand-mother medicine so handy. “ People used to bo stronger, healthier and they lived longer, when I was a boy.” Customer—“I see you are advertising full sets of teeth for $8.” Dentist (cau¬ tiously)—“Y-e-s, sir. Do you live at home?” Customer—“No, I board.” Dent i -t (with dignity)—“You certainly cannot xpect an $8 set to be of any use in a boarding house, sir. My charge to you will be $2.5.” The Episcopal bishop of Glasgotv, Scotland, inhibited Canon Wilberforce from talking temp trance in the churches of that diocese, Oecbuse he co-operates with the ministers of the Church of Scotland iu his work. You Need It To impart strength and give a feeling of health md viror throughout tho system, there is nothing: dual to Hood’s Sarsaparilla It seems peculiarly ulapted 10 overcome that tired feeling caused by Uange of sea on, climate or life, and while it tones an 1 sustains the system it pur fies and renovates the blood. We earnestly urge the large army of clerks, book-keepers, teachers, housewives, open fives and others who have been closely confined during tli winter anl who need a good spring medic to Uk* ' ne, Hood’s Sarsaparilla “For years at irregular intervals in all seasons I suffered the intolerable burning and itching of blood poisoning by ivy. It would break out on my legs, in my throat and eyes. Last spring I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as a hlood purifier, with no thought of it as a special remedy for ivy poisoning, but it has effected a permanent and thorough cure.” Galvin T. Shute. Wentworth. N. H. Purifies the Blood “Hood’s .Sarsaparilla purified my blood, gave me strength, and overcame the headache and dizziness, so that I am aide to work again, I recommend Hood's Sarsapirilla to others whose blood is thin or impure, and who feel worn out or run down.”— Luther Nason, Lowell, Mass. “We have used Hood's Sarsaparilla for years, and recommend it as the best spring medicine or blood purifier. Our boy is nine years old and has enjoyed good health ever since we began giving it to him. We are seldom without It.”—B. F. Groves, Roches¬ ter, N. H. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all di uggists. *1; six for *5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD It CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar Cleanse the System DO With that most reliable medicine—Paine’s Celery Compound. It purifies the IT blood, and regulates cures Constipation, the liver and NOW ktdneys,effectually cleans iDg the system of all waste and dead matter. Paine’s Celery Compound combines true nerve tonic and strengthening qualities, reviving the energies and spirits. “ I have been troubled for some years with a complication of difficulties. finding After trying: va¬ rious remedies, and not relief. I tried Paine’s Celery Compound. Before taking one full bottle the long troublesome symptoms be ' van to subside, and 1 can truly say now, that I feel like a new man. Digestion has Improved, and I have gained ten pounds In weight since I have commenced taking the Compound.” Honestcs Stearns. Felchvllle, Vt. $i.oo. Six for $5.oo. At Druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. A Dress, or a Coat, ) Any Color Ribbons, Feathers, FOR Yarns, Rags, etc. ) TEN CENTS J TookhkV new> ”^1 amond fJ 0 s tiie ^sr ^FAsffeSiT diamond dyes and take no other, For Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles USE DIAMOND PAINTS. Gold, Silver, Bronze. Copper. Only to Cents. SSbY POrtrElitSn .a Portfolio of beautiful baby pie £■><,' \ turee from life, printed on hne w 9 JBi/k plate paper free by patent Mother photo of cO 2 process, sent to n/i jQgJgS’A any Sesf^nd Baby bom at^. within a year. otS //pViJwEUl.^HAROSM w V . Gt> *h*unotoi«, vt. k CO., Women Sold. According the to the reports from Hodeida, one of largest ports of Arabia, on the Red Sea, slaves are still smuggled across from Africa in large numbers, and in spite of the activity of the British, French and Italian cruisers. It is charged that the Turkish officers connive at the trade and receive bribe money amounting to $2 a head on the slave importations, in this part of Arabia, slaves from the Zanzibar coast and the Soudan were formerly in¬ troduced in large numbers, finding em¬ ployment chiefly in the harems and at do¬ mestic service. The blockade ha 3 prac¬ tically cutoff these sources of supply, and most of the slaves now imported are Galla and Abyssinian girls, who can be taken to the coast at the narrow part of the Red Sea and shipped across in a night. Most of these girls are destined for the harems, and the more attractive among them sell at the comparatively cheap rate of $120 to $200 apiece. Dry Goods Merchant: “You have called in response to our advertisement for a floor walker?” “Well, sir,what are four qualifications for the position?” Applicant: of “I am the father of three pairs twins.” What will cure the worst case of dyspepsia? What will insure a hearty appetite and in¬ creased digestion? What will cure general debility and give anew lease of life? What will dispel nervous depression and low spirits? What will restore exhausted mothers to lull strength? What What will will enrich strengthen blocd? nerves What and muscles? the will enable you to overcome weakness, wake¬ fulness and lack of energy'? What will pre¬ vent chills and fev er and other effects of ma¬ larial poison? Brown’s Iron Bitters. It is well to know this. The jute bagging trust will only ask the farmer $3,000,000 extra for bagging in 1S90. A ftnd’cnl Cure for Epileptic Kirs. To (he Editor —Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above aamed disease which I warrant to cure the worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir tues that I will send free a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will givo me his P ROOT. O. and M. Express C.. 183 Pearl address, St. ltesp’y, New York. H.G. Children Cry lor It. If a child will take a medicine with pleatm offen¬ e, you mav know that it is not in any way sive to the taste. Children iike Hamburg them Figs, and it is no longer necessary to disgust Fig. 3lack with castor-oil. 25 cents. Dose one Drug Co., N r . Y. TnE Mother’s Friend, used before confine¬ ment, lessens pain and makes labor com¬ paratively easy. Sold by all druggists. At no other season does the human sys’em so much need the aid of a reliable medicine like Hood’s Sarsaparilla as now. The impoverished con dition of the blood, the weakening effects of the long, cold winter, the lost appetite, and th it tired feeling, all make a good spring medicine absolutely nec ssary. Hood's Bars.parilla is p.culiarly adapted for this purpose, and Increases in popular ity every year. Give it a trial. “Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the cheapest medicine I can buy."—!'. It. Riedel, Belleville, Ill. The Spring Medicine “Every spring for years I have made it a practice to take from three to five bottles of Hood's Sarsa¬ parilla, leeanse I know it puriflea the blood and thoroughly cleanses the sy.-tem of *11 impurities. That languid feeling, sometimes called ‘spring fever,’ will never visit the system tha has been properly cared for by this never-failing remedy,”— W. H. Lawrence, Editor Agricultural Epitomist, Indianapolis, lad. Creates an Appetite “I wish to enroll my name as one of those who have derived health from the use of Hood's Sarsa parill t. Tor many years I have taken it, especially in the early spring, when I am troubled with dizzi¬ ness, dullness, unpleasant taste in my mouth in the morning. It r. moves the bad taste, relieves my headache and makes me feel gre ,tly refreshed. The two bottles I have used this spring have been worth many dollars to me I advise all my f riends to take it ’’—John Burns, 683 43d St., Town of Lake, Chicago, hi. Sold by ail druggist*. $1; six for $5. Preparedonly by C. I. HOOD & CO., Ai-othecaries, Lowell, Mass IOO Doses One Dollar SENT FREE! Every reader of this paper, who expects to buy A WATCH, tend for new Illustrated Catalogue for 1889. which we send Free. J. P. STEVENS & BR0., Jewelers, *7 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA. Road Carts !NE 10 per cent cheaper Buggies! than anybody. gyDon’t buy before gi fting our prices znd cat* lozues. THE GEO. W. sTOCKELL CO., N*m* tb s paper. NASHVILLE. TEN* SOUTHERN DYE HOUSE All kinds of Silk. Cotton or Woolen Goods handsomely dyed or cleaned. ICSuits a Specialty.^ EXPRESS PAID ONE WAY. 24 Walton St., ATLANTA, GA. We will make you a present of a buildias? lot adjoin¬ ing one of the most promising cities of tiiei West, and pay the taxes on it for two years, if you will do a slight service for us in your town, St-nd us your name, and we will write vou full particulars. Address THE NORTH WEST CO.. 420 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. LI. CONSUMPTION I hare a positive remedy for the above disease . by its use thousands of case* of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured. So strong is my faith in its •mcacr that 1 will send two bottles free, together with a valuable treatise on this disease SLOCtM. to anv sufferer. Give Express and P. O. address. T. A. M. C, i SI Paari St, N. Y ObatobS say Piso’s Cure for Con sumption is THE BEST for keeping the voice clear. 25 cents. linUF uumc J*X['mr. Penmanship, Book-keeping. Arirhmetlc, Sh’rt-hand.etc., Business Forma, |1 thoroughly 1‘• taught by MAIL. Circular* Buffalo. IC. free. __L. Bryan Ollcgc, 45/ Mzin SL. Y. - America WATCHE to buy. ri ETON. Corky, 115£ Pa. £ PEERLEf t Are the BEST. Sold ST Dst-oem, T « e Women Praise B. It. B. The suffering of women certainly awakens the sympathy of every true philanthropist. Their best friend, however, is B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Send to Blood Balm Co., At¬ lanta, Ga., for proofs. H. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes: “Three bottles of B. B. B. cured my wife of scrofula.” Mrs. It. if. Laws, Zalaba, Fla., writes: “b have never used anything to equal B. B. B.” Mrs. C. H. Gay, Rocky Mount. N. C., writes: “Not a day for 15 years was I free front head¬ ache. B. B. B. entirely relieved me. I feel iike another person.” James W. Lancaster, Hawkinsville, Ga., writes: “My wife was in bad health for eight years. Five doctors and many patent medicines has done her no good. Six bottles of B. B. B. cured her.” Miss S. Tomlinson, Atlanta, Ga., says: “For years I suffered with rheumatism, caused by kidney trouble and indigestion. I also was feeble al¬ and nervous. B. B. B. relieved me at once, though several other medicines ha 1 failed.” Rev. J. M. Richardson, Clarkson, Ark., writes: “My wife suffered twelve years with rheumatism and female complaint. A lady member of my church had been cured by B. B. B. She persuaded my wife to try it, who now says there is nothing like B. B. B., as it quickly gave her relief.” Trade is fairly good throughout the country, barring the coal and iron industries. Lung Troubles nnd NVnsting Diseases can be cared, if properly treated in time, as shown by the following statement from D. C. Freeman, Sydney : “Having attacks, been a great sufferer from pulmonary and gradually wasting away for the past t wo years, it affords me pleasure to testify that Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Lime and Soda has given me great relief, and I cheer¬ fully recommend it to In all addition, sufferipg I m would a simi¬ lar way to my-elf. say that it is very pleasant to take.” If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son’s Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottl^ Bronchitis is cured by fiequent small dose3 of i’iso’s Lure for Consumption. Some Mexican Superstitions. It is believed that the murderer who has slain liis victim with sword or dag¬ ger will escape if the body falls upon its side or back; but if the body falls face downward, then the murderer surely soon will be captured and put to death. This belief is said to be so firmly rooted among the people of northeastern Mexi¬ co that when a murdered man fall’s upon his face his slayer makes no effort to es¬ cape, and even sometimes voluntarily surrenders himself to justice. dressing for her If a bride, while wedding, is pricked by a pin so that the blood flow's, great misfortune im¬ pends. think of the If two persons same thing at the same time, a soul is loosed from purgatory.— Scribner’s Maza¬ rine. a Orders for the Shannon Letter Files and Cabinets, Document Filing Cabinets, Rapid Roller Coppiers, the Schlicht Indexes, Metal Roller Shelving; many styles of Office Desks, and the latest improved Bank and Office Furniture and Devices solicited 0 at the Atlanta Agency, by H. 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