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VOL. I.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 29,1884.
NO. 15.
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generally that he is still in the practice
of medicine. Special attention given to
chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho
tel.
JOSEPH L. COB15. FELIX X. COBB.
COBB & COBB,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA.
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iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe
cialty. Office in court house.
Dr. J. w7 11 ALBUM,
CARROLLTON - - - - GEORGIA.
Has his office, in number 2, Mande-
ville brick building. He makes a specialty
of OSTETKICS and DISEASES OF
WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on
him. Consultation free.
DR. J- F. COLE,
CARROLLTON, GA.
Is devoting most of liis time and atten
tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and
is prepared for most any operation. His
charges are reasonable.
The Harnett House,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Is conceded to be the most comforta
ble and by far the best conducted hotel
in Savannah.
8^ Rates : $2,00 Per Day.
M. L. HARNETT.
Land for Sale.
One lot of land, number 200, seventh
district, Carroll county, joining several
plantations, very heavily timbered, well
watered, lays well, public road running
through it, and some good land upon it.
if any one wishes to correspond with own
er they will direct to Post Office, Box
173, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1SS4.
JOHN B. STEWART
Wishes to say to the public that lie is
still prepared to do all kinds of
PH0T0GEAPHIN6 and FEER0TYPING
in the latest style and at reasonable pri
ces. Also keeps on hand n fair stock of
Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc.
Copying and enlarging a special?}'—
can make all sizes from locket to SxlO
inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a fine, large picture framed ready
for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan
street, Carrollton, Ga.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
MRS. E. A. HENDON’S
Perfect Fitting Chart.
M iss Fannie Fullilovc, of Athens,
Georgia,who is temporarilyTsojouni-
ing in Carrollton, announces to the ladies
of Carrollton, that she is prepared to give
lessons in cutting and fitting Ladies and
Misses dresses, and to furnish Mrs. Hen
don's Perfect Fitting Chart, with instruc
tions how to use it. This Chart together
with the lessons given, will enable any
one to b® their own mantua-maker. Per
fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at
the residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, Ce
dar street, Carrollton, Georgia.
Evans, The Jeweler,
Is now in the southeast corner of the
public square, where he will be glad to
see his friends and the public generally.
He keeps on hand a full line of goods,
consisting of plated ware of all kinds,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS *
a specialty.
All kinds of repairing?in his line,
done promptly and in good style.
IPOIR, S-A-LIE-
A second hand top buggy.
A bouble barrel breech loading shot
gun.
An iron revolving book case.
Big giant corn mill—grinds corn and
cob all together.
A good pump
Will sell cheap for easli or will e»-
cltange for cattle.
Apply to EDWIN R. SHARPE.
Subscirbe for the Free Press.
-A.LT essay.
Read by Miss Carrie Langford at Bow-
don College and Published by Re
quest of a Friend.
Had I the truly practical genius
of a Byron, a Moore, or a Shelley,
or could I wield the literary stiletta
of a Dickens, or Scott or a George
Eliot would invite you all to roam
with me for a short time far over
the sounding billows of Neptune’s
mighty domain; together we would
seek some region, deep hidden in
the shining Orient, where there
are
“Larger constellations burning mellow
moons and happy skies,
Breadths of tropic shade and palms in
cluster, knots of Paradise.
Where droops the heavy blossomed bow
er, hangs the heavy fruited tree,
Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark pur
ple slieres of sea."
Together we would wander along
the banks of the classic Tiber, where
it rolls its yellow waves beneath
the walls of Rome, that city which
was once the proud mist-res of the
world, but now stands the “Niobe
of Nations childless and crownless
in her voiceless woe.” Or we would
visit the birthplace of learning, the
home of the white armed goddess
Athene, the fair walled city of
which she was once tutelar divini
ty. Any one, or all of these and
many more scenes equally as at
tractive we would seek. But since
I am not gifted with the rhetorical
grace and literary skill essential to
the treatment of such a subject, I
have chosen for my theme a much
humbler topic, a much less attrac
tive scene.
In that far away land of “scor
ching sands and cloudless burned
out blue, on the coast of a dreary
waste of waters, there grows a tree,
or rather a shrub, for in that bar
ren and desolate land scarcely any
may be said to attain the dimen
sions of a tree; that waste of waters
is called the Dead Sea, or Sea of
Lot. To describe it would be an
unnecessary expenditure of time,
as you are all familiar with its char
acter; its very name conjures up a
picture of dreariness and utter deso
lation. But with the sea itself we
have at present nothing to do.—
The tree or shrub growing along
its coast, in form and appearance
bears a slight resemblance to the
dwarf oak.
The only attraction it possesses is
the fruit which it bears. This fruit,
the solanum, or Apple of Sodom—
the golden Osher—it is a very curi
ous species. It is exceedingly
beautiful, richly liued with purple
and gold, and must necessarily
stand out in strong contrast to its
surroundings, which are certainly
of a very unprepossessing appear
ance, a land of stagnation and of
death. But even here amid these
crags and cliffs, and amid this ever
drifting sand, is growing something
beautiful and pleasing; even here
are birds singing as sweetly as
Europe’s Nightingale, or Ameri
ca’s Mocking bird. What a pleas
ant surprise must this be to the
wearied traveller who for days has
journeyed over the arid waste*
without having one single oasis
smile upon his aching eyes; noth
ing but
“Sand, ever sand, not a gleam from ths 1
fountain;
Sun, over sun, not a shade from the
mountain.'’
Forgotten is the oft repeated war
ning of his guide, who so many
times has bidden him beware of the
golden Osher. Not a thousand war
nings, were they uttered in voices
of thunder, could now prevent him
from grasping this delightful fair
apple. Hears he not the sweet
songs of Nature’s minstrels? Is not
this the luscious fruit of which he
has dreamed all these past weary
days ?
Eagerly does he pluck it and
with exultant joy carries it to his
lips. But ah! what a sudden change
from the exultant flush of joy to the
paleness of keen disappointment.
Instead of the cooling and delicious
fruit which his parched lips antici
pated, he finds it to be only a beau
tiful shell containing nothing but
bitter dust and ashes, all fair with
out all repulsion within. How re
gretfully does he now remember
the gentle, earnest warning of his
guide, who would have spared him
this painful disappointment.
What a striking resemblence
does this picture bear to our lives
in many instances: How often do
we unheeding the still small voice
that gently breathes a timely war
ning wearied out with the cares and
trials of life, pluck our bright fruit
joy from the tree of selfish pleas
ure, which to our disordered vision
appears so like the fair tree of hap
piness.
We fail to notice the dwarfed
and unsightly appearance of the
tree that bears our beautiful fruit.
Beholding, we rush forward with
wild ectasic joy, and hastily gather
the tempting spoils.
Thoughts of the past wearisome
days only make us more eager and
impetuous in our attempts to reach
it.’ All unheeded falis the warning
that in vain bids us beware and
draws the contrast between pleas
ure and happiness. We have
caught the gleam of the golden Osh
er and an irresistible impulse urges
us on to partake of it. But oh! it
is the same sad story. Only one
taste and we find how sorrowfully
true was the timely, though un
heeded warning. The bright fruits of
joy that grow on the tree of selfish
pleasure, are after all, but as “huge
mellow golden Osher, that mock
ingly sitfs its bitter dust upon our
eager lips.”
Or perchance we stretch forth
our longing to grasp the golden
fruitage of Fame; but when we
think to satisfy our ardent desires,
our so long unsatisfied appetite,
we find it ‘dike to the apples on the
Dead sea shore,—all ashes to the
taste.
Yet there is one other thing
about this solanum, or Apple of So
dom, yet unmentioned, Natural
ists assert that it contains neither
dust, nor ashes, till punctured by a
certain little insect called Tenthre-
de, which eating away its heart,
leaves only a shell. Even thus it
is with us. This life, given to us of
God, was all brightness, beauty, and
purity, fair as the fruit of Ain Jidy,
till stung and poisoned by the ten-
threde of sin. Envy, malice, ha
tred, avarice, these with all their
attendant evils, creeping into our
hearts rob^ffbf our purity and dar
ken our lives, and though we may
preserve a fair exterior yet tis
“But as ivy leaves around the ruined tur
ret wreath:
All green and wildly fresh without, hut
worn and grey beneath.”
Oh then let us beware of the
dreadul Tenthrede, lest in an un
guarded moment, it enter our
hearts and mar our lives. Let
our motto be “Onward and Upward,
and this the prayer of each one,
“Purer yet and purer, be this heart of
mine;
Dearer yet and dearer every duty find."
Domestic—V ery.
It takes all sorts of people to
make a world. Many will encour
age a young lrdy to devote three or
four years to music, ‘because she
may, have to teach some day for a
living, but neglect to teach her how
to cook or do anything of house
work, never dreaming that she is
liable to become a wife some day.
It is very touching to see a moth
er in the kitchen bending over a
wash tub, every bone in her body
aching, that she may enable her
daughter to sit in the parlor and
and paw ivory, and sing ‘who will
care for mother now’ through her
nose, when the girl is a great deal
better adapted to the melody of
the wash board, and would under
stand the notes better. Raise your
girls to be useful as well as orna
mental, and there will be less prem
aturely broken down mothers in
the country.
From the New Era.
The Mormon Beasts in Paulding.
We learn that there are two
Mormon elders preaching their
doctrines through this county, and
are succeeding in making some
converts. The constitution of the
United States contains a clause
which gives every man the priv
ilege of worshiping God acording
to the decrees of his own con
science; but we do not believe that
the sprit of the law can be exten
ded so far as to allow anybody,
under the name of the church to
antagonize all the social, moral
and religious institutions of the
people of the community, as the
Mormon church, certainly does.—
We would not counsel any outrage
against these elders, but believe
that the people should give them
emphatic notice to cease their la
bors and leave the country, and
see that they obey. They are
generally shrewd and cunning men,
and succeed by plausibility and
artifice, in deluding many suscep
tible people, most of their victims
being females.
Henry Grady, in the Atlanta
Constitution, says that despite the
prediction of the croakers, that the
truck growers of Georgia, will add
10 per cent to their acreage over
last year, and he predicts that the
truck yield will be 25 per cent over
last year.
Old papers for sale at this office
at 50 cents per hundred.
THE CYCLONE’S TRACK.
Synopsis of the Devastation by the
Whirling Winds.
IN ALABAMA.
Montgomery, February 21.—No
loss of life here. Great damage was
done to roofs, shade frees, fences,
etc. The steamer blown ashore has
been floated and has gone down the
river. At Marion considerable pro
perty was injured and one person
fatally injured. At Cross Plains
eight persons were killed and a
number wounded. In other parts
of the State, in the cyclone’s track,
a large amount of property was
destroyed, but as to the casualties
the reports are indefinite. At
Leeds, fifteen miles from Birming
ham, the devastation was terrible.
The cyclone blew away the houses
and trees of that part of the town
east of the depot. The ruin was
complete. Tiie loss of life around
Leeds was fearful. Thus far it has
been ascertained that eleven peo
ple were killed outright and thirty
wounded, some of whom will die
from their injuries. Twenty-seven
residences and many barns and
other buildings are in ruins. At
Breck’s Gap nine houses were des
troyed and fifteen persons injured.
At Ladiga and vicinity, it is report
ed, fourteen persons were killed.
IN GEORGIA.
In Heard county many houses
were blown down. Advices from
Franklin state that one negro was
killed, and several persons, white
and black, wounded. A tremendous
bail fell in Newnan. The cyclone
passed over the western portion of
the county, doing much harm, but
no lives were lost as far as heard
from. Near Mount Airy a number
of bouses were unroofed. Mrs.
Cash and her daughter were seri
ously hurt and a number of people
injured. In Madison county Mr.
Nix and his son was badly hurt and
his residence swept away. In the
mountain counties the fury of the
cyclone was especially wild. In
Pickens county the path of the
storm was from one to three miles
wide, covering fifteen miles. A vast
amount of property was destroyed.
Up to the latest accounts the num
ber of tbe killed amounts to twenty.
The details given by correspondents
are frightful.
At Indian Spring hail stones fell
measuring in some instances nine
inches in circumference. The dam
age done was of course very great.
Near Montieello a number of dwel
lings were demolished. The des
truction in Jones county was fear
ful. Near Blountsville twelve per
sons were killed. Dwelling houses
were torn to atoms. Along the
Macon and Augusta road the havoc
was immense. One man was killed
and a number badly hurt. In Butts
county several persons were killed.
Milledgeville escaped damage.
The plantation of Col. Humber was
badly injured. A Mrs. Paschal was
killed while seeking safety in Col.
Humber’s house, and three negroes
on the plantation were killed-
Some thirty people in all were
killed and wounded in Putnam
county.
A store and two dwelling houses
are all that remains of Davisboro.
One man was killed and several
were wounded. At Maddtck’s sta
tion, on the Macon and Brunswick
railroad, eleven persons are report
ed to have been killed, and two at
Norwood. A large number were
injured and much property des
troyed.
A mile from Warrenton the Kin
sey place was destroyed and Mrs.
K. was seriously hurt. NearCamak
houses were blowii away and a
child Mas killed. Near Lincolnton
the destruction of life and property
was unprecedented. Five negroes
M ere killed and thirteen injured.
At Cave Spring the loss of life and
propei ty M as fearful. Mrs. B. C.
Yancy was badly hurt. Mr. Gilliard
and a negro boy M ere blown tM'o
hundred yards, and M’erc found
under a log dead. Arthur Ford’s
family u’ere all injured; he and his
wife and daughter seriously. Miss
Holt, M'lio m as staying u itli Mrs.
Lapsley, Mas badly injured. Mr.
Lapsley’s beautiful residence u*as
destroyed. D. H. Copeland and
Mife M-ere injured; the latter, it is
feared, fatally. Mrs. Tilly received
severe injuries. In the rest of the
storm-swept portion of the county
no lives are reported lost. Five
negroes M’ere killed, at Jackson’s
station, on the Port Royal road, and
in Hancock county eleven persons
lost their lives.
IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
the cyclone was one of the most de
structive ever known. At Chester,
S. C., forty houses and two churches
M T ere destroyed and many persons
injured. The toM-n of C'happels M’as
SM'ept away and two men killed.
In North Carolina the destruction
was equally great, and a large
number of people M ere killed and
u’ounded. At Rockingham alone
twenty persons Mere killed and
many others injured. The Mires
are down in all directions and it is
very difficult to get particulars.
THE CYCLONE AT CARTERSVILLE,
GEORGIA.
Col. Hamilton Harris, M'ho owns
one of the finest farms in BartoM'
county, is loser to the amount of
about one thousand dollars. His
barn, stable and his fences M'ere
scattered to the four M'inds. Col.
Charles Parrott, a former resident
of your city, susatained very heavy
loss. All of the outbuildings on
his plantation M'ere more or less
damaged. His loss amounts to
about the same as Col. Harris.’
Messrs. Rogers andMumford, two
of our wealthiest countymen, sus
tained a much heavier loss than
any that we have yet heard of.
Mr. Rogers, M ho resides at Rog
ers station, I am told, lost every
building on his place. His mill M as
completely demolished. His resi
dence M*as also badly damaged;
the roof of the building was
blown completely away. Mrs.
Rogers came verry hear being
killed. Air. Hunnicut, who lives
on the Spencer farm M r as more for
tunate than any of the rest of the
sufferers. Mr. H. says that hogs
weighing from 150 to 200 pounds
were blown into his yard. Where
did they come from ? Mr. L. S.
Munsford, M’ho resides about
four miles from this place,
sustained a very heavy loss; three
of his most valuable mules
M r ere killed, and every work ani
mal which he possesses M as more
or less injured. Several of his
finest milch cows terribly mangled.
The residence in M'hich Mr. Mum-
ford lives M T as also seriously dam
aged—the roof Mas blown com
pletely away. Paulding, Polk,
Cobb, Cherokee, Gilmer, Floyd
and Chattooga counties met Mith
the same fate as did the grand old
county of Bartow. Haralson not
yet heard from. She will be in
after awhile. While M'e admit
that the majority of the above
named gentlemen, M'ho have sus
tained such heavy losses, are
among the wealthiest in our county,
yet those of our people M’ho were
more fortunate, both rich and poor,
extend a helping hand to them,
and as it is custom with our good
people to offer their sympathies to
those in distress, your correspon
dent has no hesitancy in saying
that the sufferers will receive the
sympathy and the hearty good
will of everyone. Weather fair
and pleasant.
ITEMS FROM ROME.
Rome, Febuary 21.—The storm,
which at intervals became a cy
clone, was the most severe that has
visited North Georgia for years.
The residence of Mr. W. S. Crane,
in East Rome, was blown down and
almost demolished.
It is rumored that the residence
of J. H. DoM'dle’s father, a short dis
tance in the country, was blown
down.
A man M’ho came in Cross Plains
as the up-train arrived said that
everbody M as killed at and around
Koloma, Ala.
A large number of chimneys
were blown over in all parts of tbe
city and suburbs, and it is learned
that trees in many places M’ere
torn from their base and flung ar
ound like reeds before the storm.
An Interesting Story.
The “Man About Town”
the Atlanta Constitution
has the following. “I have
I dlJ with the business of their fel- i a letter before me from Mr. S. E.
low-man and to neglect their own. Keller of Baltimore, in Mhich t lere
I They are most of their time on the ! is an interesting story. Mr. Keller
alert for something new, some lit- : " rites that he lived during the Mar .
Written for the Carrflll Free Press
Scandal Mongers.
It is funny to see the disposition 111
of some people in the M’orld to med-
jSavannah News.
Congressman Hammond.
Representative Hammond is at
his home in Atlanta on a short visit
to recuperate his health. He has
taken very little part in the pro
ceedings ol Congress this winter on
account of serious illness. There
appears to be an impression that he
Mill not secure a renomination
without a struggle. It may be that
this impression is created by those
M’ho are seeking the position which
he occupies*. Mr. Hammond is
recognized in Washington as one of
the ablest men in Congress. It is
certain that he is a conscientious
worker, and that there are few, if
any, M'ho have a better acquaint
ance with the leading measures be
fore Congress. His retirement from
public life M ould be a loss to Geor
gia. As capable a man might be
chosen to succeed him, but it M ould
take a neM T man a good M’hile to be
come as M'ell equipped for legisla
tive work in Congress as Mr. Ham
mond is. A-vfaithful and capable
representative ought to be kept in
Congress as long as he will consent
to remain there.
If an infidel could only kompre-
hend that he can prove more bi
hiz faith than he can bi hiz reason
hiz impudence M ould be much less
offensive.—Josh Billings.
and fr° n t of his home. While the fight
M as raging, a wounded Confeder
ate officer M’as brought into theVard
and lain on the pavement. He M*as
from day to day hunt- horribly wounded in the stomach,
shortcomings of their and the entrails were protruding-
death M as considered certain
estimation of the public,
brighten M ith delight M’lien they
are able to indulge their slanderous
propensity.
They are
ing up the
neighbors, and smearing the details
from man to man, from crowd to
crowd, and from house to house in
as vivid language as possible. The
idea of attending to their own busi
ness never strikes them. They of
course are without follies and frail
ties. They are pure, holy and
good.
But let another, even through a
mistake, make a mistep, or through
levity commit a trivial act, and he,
the scandal monger, M ill take it up
and magnify it into a grave and
serious affair. The successful in
life are those M'ho attend to their,
bu n business. The unsuccessful
are- the back biters, the scandal
mongers and mischief makers of
the day.
How can it be otherwise? IIom’
can a man attend to his ou*n busi
ness M’hen be is nine-tenths of his
time engaged Mith the affairs of
other people ? If the good old sys
tem of minding ones ou’n business
M’as practiced throughout the coun
try there M ould be less ill-u ill in
the M’orkl; there u'ould be more
social enjoyment, comfort and hap
piness. The udieels of social bliss
M ould roll as smoothe as the undis
turbed M ater of some tranquil lake.
Doubtless every one who reads
this can point out such characters
as M’e have alluded to in their
neighborhood. And as for our part,
we had as soon have the seven year
itch as to know and have the con
sciousness that some idle and mali
cious person is continually Match
ing our acts, only to misrepresent
and distort.
To be brief, and to draw the final
and complete picture of the scandal
monger, we M ill state that his dis
position is to make bad *M'orse, to
carry discord into families, and
among friends that M’ere before
tranquil and happy. To become a
pest, a nuisance, and a curse to
social life. He will be avoided by
the buoyant of spirit and cheerful
of heart. His name will be a song.
His presence M’ill be avoided as a
moral pestilence. Such characters
are to be found throughout the
M’orld. In politics, in commercial
business, in the church, in the pul
pit, in fact everyM'here M’hcre man
breathes the breath of life. But
“Give me the heart that fain would hide—
Would fain another's fault efface;
How can it pleasure human pride
To prove humanity hut base?
No: let us reach a higher mood,
A nobler estimate of man;
Be earnest in the search for good,
And speak of all the best we can."
E. W. II.
Josh Billings on Infidelity.
Did you ever hear ov a man ren
ouncing Christianity on hiz death
bed,and turning infidel?
No atheist, Mith all his boasted
bravery, haz ever yet kared to ad
vertise his unbeleaf on hiz tnme-
stun.
Unbeleavers are alhvaze so red-
dy and anxious to prove their be-
leaf that I thought they mite be
just a leetle doubtful about it them
selves.
The infidel, in hiz impudence,
will ask'you to prove that the
flood did occur, when the poor idot | twenty-five men.
hisself can’t tell what makes one
apple sweet and one sour, or tel!
why a hen’s egg iz M'hite and a
ctuck’s egg blue.
When i hear a nizy infidel pro-
klaiming hiz unbeleaf, I M ould il
Hh
and this fact M as announced to him.
He replied deliberately: “Dulce et
decorum est pro patria mori—I am
in the hands of my Maker, and a
Southern soldier knoM's how to
die.” Mr. Keller adds that the
scene made a profound impression
on him, and he had often M’ondered
M’hat became of the brave Confed
erate, M’ho shortly aftenvard mov
ed from his house. He says, “his
name was McDaniel, he was Major
of a Georgia regiment and had an
impediment in his speech. I have
seen that a man named McDaniel
has been elected Governor of your
State, and I thought he might knoM*
something of the matter of M’hich I
have M’ritten.”
Governor MeDaniel M as himself
the Georgia Major alluded to, and
Dr. Roach, of this city, was the Con
federate surgeon M'hose prompt
and skillfull treatment saved the
Governor from death ashy miracle.
The Governor still suffers from the
effects of the wound, and day and
night wears a plate over the spot at
M’hich the bullet entered. If this
plate M ere displaced by accident,
fatal certainly serious, results might
folloM’.
How Bananas are Raised.
As everybody knoM’s M’ho has
eaten a banana, the luscious fruit is
seedless. The plants are .'propaga
ted from other plants, so that the
stock is not likely to run out. The
plant requires for vigorous groM’th
a deep, rich soil, abundantly M’ater-
ed. With these conditions present
there is said to be no risk for a crop
in hot regions, M’here alone the
fruit is produced. Nine months
after a cutting has been planted a
purple bud appears in the cenver of
the unfolding leaves that shoots
out from the head of the parent
stem. The stem on M’hich the bud
appears groM’s rapidly above the
main stalk. As the bud increases
in weight the stem bends doM r n-
ward by a graceful curve, on the
extremity of M’hich this bud con
tinues to groM’ still: the purple
blossoms falling off, little shoots
appear as the embryo fruit. Each
fruit has a yellow blossom at its
outward extremity. At the end of
three or four months the fruit has
groM'n to maturity, and is picked
long enough before it is “dead ripe”
to preserve it in marketable condi
tion. From the roots of the parent
stock other roots appear, M’hich are
trimmed out or left to groM’, as the
cultivator may deem best. A single
stalk, therefore, bears only one
bunch or crop as its life’s M’ork.
Spaniards have a religious rever
ence for the banana, believing it to
be the fruit of M’hich Adam par
took.
The fruit has long been regarded
as extremely nutritious. It is re
commended above all others for in
valids Mho are unable to swallow
harder food. An estimate by Hum
boldt claims that 44,000 pounds of
bananas can be produced on the
soil that Mould be required for 1,000
pounds of potatoes, and that the
area that would be required to raise
M’heat enough for one man would
produce .enough bananas to feed
del to cum and see him die. i
guess not. He Mill be more like’v
to send for the orthodox man M’ho
The Cure for Gossip.
“What is cure for gossip? Simply
culture. There is a great deal of
gossip that lias no malignity in it.
God natured people talk about
their neighbors because, and' only
~ | because, they have nothing else to
talk about. The confirmed gossip
is either malicious or igno-
. ,.. ... , . ,rant. The one variety need
engineers the letle brick church | a change of heart, and the
just around the korner. j other a change of pasture. Gossip
I never hav met a free-thinker is alu ays a personal confession ei-
yet who didn’t beleave a hundred ther offmalice or imbecility, and the
times more nonsense than he kan young should not only shun it, but,
find in the Bible ennyM'here. by the most thorough culture, re-
It iz olwuss safe to follow the re- lj eve themselves from all tempta-
ligious beleaf that our mother j *° indulge in it. It is a low
taught us—there never waz a I frivolous and too often dirty busi-
mother yet M ho taught her child to j ness - Ther o are country neiglibor-
be an infidel. j ^ 100< ^ in which it rages like a pest.
, . _ , „ ■ Churches are spilt in pieces by it.—
A may learn infidelity from Xeighbors are made enemies by it.
books, and from his associates, but i n many: persons it degenerates‘into
he cant earn ri from a c hronic disease M’hich is pratical-
hiz mother’nor the works ov God j.ly incurable. Let the young cure
that surround him, j it M’hile they mav.”