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is Crawford Conniy HeraiO PUBLISHED WEEKLY. SMITH & BLASISGAME, Editors & Prop's SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PEIt ANNUM. Official Organ of Crawford County. KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA. Entered at the postoffiee at Knoxville, as second-class matter. The Force Bill. The force bill seems to be dead for the present It will be revived at the next session. We are not sure but that it would be best for the Democrats for it to pass. It looks now like independentism would cross out all over Georgia. Pickett is a candidate in the 9th. Felton is be¬ ing urged to run in the 7th and strong influences are being urged on Albert Cox and others to get them to run in the 5th. If we were brought face to face with the force bill, and it was apparent that we had to fight for white supre¬ macy, the people would see that it was necessary to stand together and would give no encouragement to independent¬ ism and to Republicanism, for at this time independentism is nothing but Re¬ publicanism. it With the force bill out of the way becomes nothing but a scramble for of¬ fice, and the people having no fear of negro supremacy or boss of their rights before them, run off after their favorites and on the slightest pretext refuse to support the nominee. We feared such results when the men and issues that are before us were forced on the party. Judge Stewart, a man of learning, ability, experience and charac- te has been forced out of th a field by a man with¬ out either ability, experience or chracter and as many people believe without even common honesty, and yet he will repre¬ sent the capitol district. There arc thou¬ sands of people, and with vast interests, who want to be represented by men in whom they have confidence and who are above reproach. The remedy for all this is not independentism. We may lose more than we gain, and it is necessary to submit to seme humiliating things, than to disentegrate the jMrty. One term wifi satisfy even the dullest man in the fifth district that they are misrepresented, and a good man will in the future represent them. As for the seventh and ninth dis¬ tricts both Everett and Winn are good men, but witfiout ability. They will do the best they can for their section. We commend to the readers of the Herald the following extract from Gov. Gordon's speech to the State Alliance in Atlanta last week. I CANNOT ENDORSE THE SPECIFIC SUB- TREASURY BILL, because I do not believe even if it could be passed that it would bring the relief you seek. The endorsement of specific bills is not what you need. You need first to win the victory for reform by general agitation on all lines, and then when the general battle is won let all the combined wisdom of all the friends of the cause be called into requisition the for perfecting the best measure for pur¬ pose. For all these great principles, the future I shall continue to do battle in as in the past; but I should be untrue to you if I did not tell you, frankly, that if you insist ou denouncing every endorse man as your enemy who will not a specific bill, drive from your ranks many earnest friends and even your brethren of Missouri who refuse to endorse it, you cannot afford to pin your destinies to any one programme or cast all your future in any one specific boat, which may be engulfed and lost. I did not ask you or your representatives to endorse a plan for increasing the currency which 1 might think without a flaw, because you might fiud that I was mistaken. This question of finance is the most obstruse and difficult of all the problems of human government, and all you need and all you ought to ask is that your representatives shall battle for the great principle and secure it by the best possible measure the combined wisdom of all can construct. Are you go¬ ing to secure your great reforms by say¬ ing to the friends of those reforms, we do not want your help unless you agree with the exact programme we have laid down? Are you going to recruit a great army from all over this co’ntinent by requiring that every soldier in yonr ranks shall measure six feet two inches by the yard stick, and weigh precisely 182f pounds, no more and no less? Is that general¬ ship? Are you to shut the gates of heaven against every man who does not go through one particular church? Christ thought that all were His followers who believid in Him as the Crucified Re¬ deemer. All he asked for the great army of the cross was devotion to the great principle. He was tested on that very point, you remember. On one occasion John said to him: “Master, this man casteth out devils in Thy name, and we forbade him because he followeth not us. ” What was Christ's reply ? This God-man, this man of all wisdom, rebuked John and commanded that he be let alone, say¬ ing: “He that is not against us is for U8. ” So I would say to you, my friends. We shall need the votes and the sympa¬ thy and the aid of all sections, all classes, all professions who agree as to the great end. Let us unite and lift this great cause of governmental reform high differences above all petty jealousies and minor or per¬ sonal ambitions, looking only to the suc¬ cess of the cause. On account of this patriotic,honest and conservative speech Boss McCune, of Washington City, has issued an order to the Georgia Alliance directing them to defeat Gordon for the senate. It remains to be seen whether they will think and vote for themselves or will take orders from Washington, Gordon has served the people of Georgia long and well. He was a brave and true soldier. He led their fight against Bulloch a bayonet rule in 1808. He is the ablest and bravest chief magistrate that ever occupied the seat. Will the Democracy of Georgia defeat him at the declaration of an Illi¬ nois Republican? We believe not. No man can be elected to the Legislature from Crawford that will vote against Gordon. The leading members of the Alliance are among his warmest sup¬ porters. A Lover’s Dream. TO I have waited for thy coming Oh! for years; And my heart is tossed and tortured With its fears. In night visions I behold thee Far away; And I wake to love thee only All the day. Love was given, never doubting, Lavishly; Strong and constant, never changing, As the sea. Ah! life was a beautiful spring time Long ago; Now we will only meet ‘‘Out on the dreamland shore. ” Since we were together passed; Years have Those of olden times were too pure To last. Yes, ’tis years since I sadly Said “good-bye;” And the cruel separation Made me sigh. Come back to this lonely heart Of mine, And I'll promise truly, truly, To be only thine. “God in mercy watches over All, and ministers to those Whose sad hearts are bound in sorrow, So I’ll trust him to the close. Mayhap He, in loving kindness, Seeking e’er to lessen pain, , Will sometime iu tender mercy Give me back thy love again.” —B. FROM WALKER’S CHAPPEL. Editors: —If you will give me a small space I will give you a few dots. News scarce, cotton opening, lots of sickness. Messrs. John Avery, Stephen Wilson and ladies are visiting their father-in- law, Mr. H. C. Bowers. Mr. Dock Visage and daughter visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. A great many people are talking of moving from Crawford. Gvess we will go two. Everybody seems to be at home. We can’t see anybody pass but our honest neighbor. Guess he goes fishing. Our corner can boast of only one dude and he is so bashful that we will not meutiou his name, for fear he will not get his color back before Sunday, and his girl will ask for an explanation. Mr. W. II., of our corner is sick, Der- haps; he is love sick, as his girl is sick also. They probably have been keeping late hours at night, as he is known to have been ten nights in succession. He says one night in a week and only to ten o’clock then, shall be the programme from this on. There is a charming young lady near here whose mouth is never closed. Her name is Miss . O, I won’t tell her name. She says tell Mr. Editor if there is any Knoxville boys that want to marry and he thinks she will suit, to send him down, she knows they will suit her. Mr. T. L. C. leaves often to visit rela¬ tives and friends in Taylor. There sure¬ ly is something more attractive than rela¬ tives, and says more about a young lady than relatives. I happened to over-hear him this morning talking to himself, say¬ ing what he was going to tell his girl when got there. It is too good to teii, and I must keep it to myself. Margril. A decision ot tlie Minnesota Supreme Court declares that photographs may not be exposed to the public gaze inde¬ pendently of the sitter’s wish or com¬ mand. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Subject: “Kind Words Never Die, Cherished and Blessed.” TjKxt : pj? 1 *°f l 0reaJsetfl the „ IXV ~ > When Solomon said this he drove a whole volume into one phrase. You, of course, will not beso silly as to take the words of the text in a literal sense. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Al- though it may seem to be very insigmificant, its force is indescribable and illimitable. "Pungent soft and ail conquering utterance: “A tongue breaketh the bone,” If the wee,‘her were not so hot and I had time I would show you kindness as a means of defense; kindness kindness as a means of useful- ness; as a means of domestic har- mony; kindness as best employed by govern- merits for the taming and curing of crimi- nals, and kindness as best adapted for the settling and adjusting of international quar- reis; but I shall call your attention only to two of these thoughts. And first I speak to you of kindness as a means of defense. Almost every man in the coarse of his life is set upon and assaulted. Your motives are misinterpreted, and your religious or political principals are bom- barded. What to do under such circurn- stances is the question. Tho first impulse of the natural heart says: “Strike back. Give as much as he sent. Trip him into the ditch which he dug for your feet. Gash him with as severe a wound as that which he inflicted on your soul. Shot for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.” But the better spirit in the man’s soul rises up and says: “You ought to reconsider that mat- ter.” You look up into the face of Christ and say: “My Master, how ought I to act under these difficult circumstances?” And Christ mstantly and answers: for “Bless them that curse you, pray them which despitefully ' use Then you.” the old nature rises up again and says: “You had better not forgive him until first I ou have chastised him. You will never get un in so tight a corner again. You will never have such an opportunity of inflicting tne right kind of punishment upon him again. *irst chastise him and then let him §?■ sa 7 s „}° better nature; “hush, thou e foul heart. Iry tho soft tongue that breaketu tue bone." have you ever in aii your life known settle acerbity quarrel? and acrimonious they dispute to a Did not al- •ways make matters worse and worse and w< j£ se - ?2 ar j| a S° there was a great quarrel • the i iesbytenan family. Ministers of in Christ were thought orthodox in proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen of tho same denomination. The most outrageous personalities hunter were abroad. As m the autumn a comes homo with a string of game, partridges and wild ducks slung over who his shoulder, so there were many ministers came back from the ecclesias- tical courts with long strings of doctors of had shot with their.own rifle. •a The division became wider, the ani- mosity greater, untii after a while some good mcn resolved upon another tack. They be- gan to explain away the difficulties; they be- g? 111 to forgive each other’s faults, and lo! the great church quarrel was settled, and the new school Presbyterian churoh and th»> old school Presbyterian church became one the different parts of tho Presbyterian, order welded by a hammer, a little hammer, a Christian hammer, that tho Scripture calls *a Y soft have tongue.” dispute ou a with your neighbor. You say “I to him, bear “I despise you.” Ho re- plies, can’t the sight of you.” You say to him, “Never enter my house Hosa y s t “If you come on my door sill 111 kick , you off.” You say to him, “I’ll put you down.” He says to you, “You are mistaken. I’ll put you down,” And so the contest rages, and year after year you act tho un-Christian part. After a while the Better spirit the seizes neighbor you, and one day you go over to and say: “Give me your hand; we have fought long enough. i line is so short and eternity is so near that we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I reel you have wronged me very much, but let us settle all now in ono great hand shale- mg and be good friends for all the rest of our lives. \ ou have risen to a higher plat- lorm than that on which beforo you stood. leu win his admiration, and you get his SSHS ctjour Lord, who died for Hi, armrd ss oe woira - “ i0 US S 5 ' lngs I ' roa “ J about U.H, uud k ders Lies are prolific, and whilo you are 8 killing one fifty are born onlVexhausfyour- All vour demnn strations of indignation self. You might as well on some summer night, when the swarms of insects are coming 1 up d£turbmgycur from the meadows family“brm* and disturbincr i on up “swamp Charleston, angel,” like that which thundered over and try to shoot them down. The game is too small for the gun. But what, thou, are you to do with the abuses that come upon you in life, you are to live them down. I saw a farmer go out to get back a swarm of bees that had wandered off from tho hive. Ashe moved amid them they buzzed around his head, and buzzed around his hands, and buzzed around his feet. If he had killed ono of them they would have stung him to death. But he moved in their midst with perfect placidity wandering until he had captured the swarm of bees. And so I have seen men moving amid the annoyances, and the vexations, and the assaults of life in such calm, Christian deliberation that all the buzzing around about their soul amounted to nothing. They conquered them, and above all they conquered them¬ selves. “Oh,” you say, “that’s a very good theory to preach on a hot day, but it won’t w fil work. It has worked. I beheve it . is . the last Christian grace we win. You know there are fruits which we gather in Jnne, and others in September, July, and others to August, and others in and still others in October; and I have to admit that this grace of Christian for¬ giveness is about the last fruit of the Chris¬ tian soul. We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcastic tongue, and the quick tongue, and the stinging tongue, but we know very little about “the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” We read Hudibras, and oterae, Dean Swift and other apostles of acrimony, but give little time to studying the example of Him who was reviled, and vet reviled not again. O that the Lord by His spirit would endow us all with “the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” ^ press now to the other thought that I de- aire to present, and that is, kindness as a means of usefulness. In all communities you find skeptical men. Through early edu¬ cation, or through the maltreatment of pro¬ fessed Christian people, or through prying cur iosity about the future world, there are a great many people who become skeptical in ’ religious things. How shall you and capture them for God? Sharp argument single soul from sarcas¬ skep¬ tic retort never won a While ticism to the Christian religion. of Christian¬ pow¬ erful books on the “Evidences ity” have their mission in confirming Chris¬ tian people in the faith they have already adopted, I have noticed that when skeptical people are brought into the kingdom of Christ tt is through the charm of some genial soul, and not by argument at all. Men are not saved through the head; they are saved through the heart. A storm comes out of its hiding place. It says: “ Now, we’ll just rouse up all this sea;” and it makes a great bluster, but it does not succeed. Part of the sea is roused up—perhaps one-half of it, or one-fourth of it. After a while the calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks down, and the ocean begins to rise. Itcomesupto the high water mark. It embraces great headlands. It submerges the beaches of all the continents. It is the heart throb of one world against ths heart throb of another world. And I have to tell you that whilo all your storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm may rouse up the passion of an immortal na- tore, nothing less than the attractive power of Christian kindness can ever raise thedeath- less spirit to happiness and to God. I have more faith in the prayer of a child five years old, in the way of bringing an infidel back to Christ and to heaven, than I have in ail the hissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical contro- versy. with religious You cannot overcome men argumentation. If you come at a skeptical man with an argument on behalf of the Christian religion, you put the man on his mettle. He says: “I see that man has a car- bine. Pll use my carbine, ill answer his argument with my argument.” But if yon come to that man persuading him that you desire his happiness on earth and his eternal welfare in the world to come, he cannot an- swer it. What I have said is just as true in the re- damation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be saved through the caricature of a drunkard? Your thick mimicry tongue, of the staggering step, and the and th© disgusting But hiccough only to worse him maddens his brain. if you come in kindness and sympathy, if you show him that you appreciate the persuade awful grip him of a the de- praved appetite, if you of fact that thousands who had clutched the grappling in their hooks of evil inclination *oul as firmly as in his have been delivered, then a ray of light will flash across hia vision, and it will seem as if a supernatural hand was steadying his staggering there gait, the A good many yoars ago lay in streets a man dead druuk, hia face exposed to tho blistering noonday sun. A Christian woman passed along, looked at him and said, “Poor fellow.” She took her handkerchief and spread it over his face, and passed on. The man roused himself un from his debauch and began to look at the handker- chief and lo! on it was tho namo of a highly respectable Christian woman of tho city. He went to her, he thanko 1 her for her kindness, an 1 that one little deed saved him for this life, and saved him for tho life that is to come. He was afterward Attorney-General of tho United States; but higher than all, he became tho consecrated disciple of Jesus Christ. Kind words are so cheap it is a wonder we do not use them ofteti w. ThSre are tens of thousands of people who are dying is for the lack of one kind word. There a business nian who has fought against He trouble has been until think- he is perfectly exhausted. mg about forgery, about robbery, about sui- cide. Go to that business man. Tell him that better times are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord delivered you. Tel! him to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands besidd every business man in his perplexities. Tell him of tho sweet prom- ises of God’s comforting grace, That man is dying for the lack of just one kind word. Go to-morrow and utter that ? na saving, omnipotent, kind word. Here is a s°ul that find has the been light swamped of the Gospel. in sin. He He wants to feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking out over the beach, watching fora sail against the sky. Oh, bear down on him. Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious to him, and, there though is great he has Saviour been a provided. great sinner, Tell a mm t&at tHough his sins aro as scarlet they shall be as snow • though they are rod like crimson they shall be as wool. That man is dying forever for tho lack of one kind word. There used to be sung at a groat many of the pianos all through the couutry a song that has almost died out. I wish somebody would start it again iu our social circles There may have not been very exquisite art in the music, but there was a grand and glorious sentiment: ^ driSn'^ '°™m or "cfc, to™ TwiS’KatliTa!! ou^d“rf ChriSMa S J.'f of R usefulness. ‘ nt f SS ; Hissiug There that is wo no miss need a of great coming deal ?aw unless t0 thc “ the simple ! tn ? qR?; s ^ ne y °“ tim ® ? k ou ! 10w preach that thls to simple story of a Saviour s kindness is to re- “ ations? hard heart of this Tnry s ° bduiacy 13 . to be br0i£en before that s There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most remarkable pictures I ever saw. It is “The Descent of Christ from the Cross. It is stand one and of Rubens’s pictures. No man can look at that descent from the cross as Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes flooded with tears, if ho have any sensi¬ bility at all. It is an overmastering picture —one that stuns you, and staggers you, and nauuts your dreams. One afternoon a man stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens's “Descent of Christ from the Cross.” He was all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour’s suf¬ ferings “It is time when the janitor tho came in and said: to close up cathedral for the night. I wish you would depart.” The pil¬ grim Cross,” looking at that around “Descent of Christ from the turned to the janitor and said; “No, no; not yet. Wait until they get Him down.” Oh, it is the story of a Saviour's suffering kindness that is to capture the world. When the bones of that great Behemoth of iniquity which has trampled all nations shall be broken and shattered, it will be found out that the work was not done by the hammer of the iconoclast, or by the sword of the conqueror, by or plain, by the torch of persecution, but the simple, overwhelming force of “the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.” And now I ask the blessing of God to come down upon you in matters of health, in mat¬ ters of business; that the Lord will deliver y°u from all your financial perplexities; that he will give you a good livelihood, large sal¬ aries, healthful wages, sufficient income. I pray God that He may give you the oppor¬ tunity of educating your children for this world, Jesus and through the rich grace of our Lord Christ of seeing them prepared for the world that is to come. Above all. I look for the mercy of God upon your immortal souls; and lest I stand before some who have not yet attended to the things of their eternal interest, In this, the closing part of my discourse, I implore them here and now to seek after God and be at peace with Him. Oh,, we want to be gathered together at last in the bright buu semblage of the skies, our work all as ‘ sorrows all ended. God bless you a nH ^ Children, and your children’s children. ^ now I commend you to God and to the w of His grace, which is able to build v 01 , Up and givo you an inheritance amon» ° a ii n, them 1 that are sanctified. WATER POLO. A New Game Introduced — Players and their Tasks. A new sport, picturesque combining genuine di$" re- creation with athletic play, is a thing to be hailed with delight says a Chronicle. New York letter If in addition to the San Frau! cisco to these advantages it is one with peculiarly suited to the season, and so few limitations that it can be played almost anywhere ’ its popularity is a foregone conclusion. Such a sport is water polo, which was played for the first time in this country only a few weeks ago, and the honor of its introduction to the list of American pastimes belongs to Rhode Island. It ij imported from England, but even there it has beeu introduced only very lately. Polo on horseback and polo on skates have been followed by polo iu the water and the aquatic method proves to be not only the safest, but the most interesting of the three. It will not be surprising if it should become a feature of the gay 3 and fashionable summer existence at Newport, Narragansett, and other Cape May, (At¬ lantic City resorts. To play polo on the water, it is essen- tial that thp capable participants swimmers, in the game should all be entirely at ease in water of a and depth able varying dive from three to eight feet, if need to be. and stay under for a moment, Two goals are erected in the water a foot above the water mark. The goal is merely a piece of black cloth, about three feet long and two feet deep, fastened at the top, but hanging loose which at is the about bottom, so that a rubber ball, the same size as a football, may be pushed between it in making a goal. At each goal stands a judge, and a referee is sta¬ tioned on one side near the entree , where he commands a good view of all the players. generally six players each There are on side, and the object is to place the ball in the opposite goal, but it must be placed in to count a goal, throwing it in being counted as foul. The duration of the play depends on whether the goal has been made. If at the expiration made, “time” of ten minutes no goal has been is called. After a rest of five minutes the rubber is thrown out by the referee, which is a signal for the players to get ready; then a whistle is blown anu there is an almost simultaneous plunge by both teams for the ball. Tho positions taken iu a match-game are somewhat similar to those in football. It is a sort of football played with the hands. There is the same kind of on¬ slaught for the capture of the ball, and i it is kept iu motion by the members of 1 one sine /niesingf ludicrous it from laughable one to another, home very and scenes sometimes take place. Two men will clutch for the ball at the same time, and both will disappear, and ou their re¬ appearance the one with the ball will find on reaching the surface two or three of his opponents in waiting for him, who pounce upon and sink him out of sight. Iu a moment, probably, all but the goal-tenders are in the middle of the tank, and all that can be seen is a con¬ fused mass of arms and legs, but the keen-eyed captains of the teams have got their wits about them, and a sign of or the an expression will cause two or three opponents’ players to gradually near the goal. The goal-tender’s fun then the com¬ ball, mences. He makes a rush for but the adroit “rubberist” passes it to another of his team, and if his opponents have not come lo the assistance of their tender captures the goal. The difficulty of making a practice. goal can only be understood by actual One hand must be on the ball when it is played in the goal, and in deep water this is a rather difficult feat, with some¬ body on the player's back trying to force him under water, but he depends on his friends to keep him out of such a di¬ lemma. They may not conic up to hi* expectation, and in a second the aspect at of the game is changed and the ball is the other end of the tank. There are now five clubs in the East. Condensed Facts About Cotton. The following items from Statistician Dodge's report to the Secretary of Ag¬ riculture will be of general interest: Cot- ton can be grown in almost every section of the world lying within the parallels of 35 degrees of latitude, and this belt in¬ cludes the greater part of the laud surface of the globe. It is more or less grown this by almost every people inhabiting in portion of the earth’s surface, though and the districts between twenty degrees its cul¬ thirty-five degrees north latitude tivation now seems most produced profitable. is The area on which it may be practically limited only by the require¬ fibre ments for the product. It is the which is adapted for use under the widest conditions of climate and civiliza- tion, and it is the only fibre known which is and can be produced in such quantities and so cheaply that the exceed per¬ manent demand cannot possibly the supply. Thft country produces of the more than one-half of the product world. We now consume in our own mills about 33 1-3 per cent, of our annual crop, and the proportion is slowly but steadily increasing. Brooch and Lace Pin. The difference between a brooch and lace pin, which a great many people do not Understand, is that a brooch should oe almost as long as it is broad; oftencst it is round or square, but this is not ab¬ solutely a necessity. A lace pin roust at least lx* mounted on a long pin. if the jeweled part itself is not long and nar¬ row.—[New York Star.