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Newspaper Page TextVOL, I NO, 31. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 20, 1884. KOStette^ ®imn s •Ajr«i3n33 «3TB3CI pno eisi32iua no rq 3p>e •aano juainuxuad pno ajtqosqs n rjoajja pun ‘oiqnojj am jo dojiios Siza. »Hi Faqavai qaiqAL ajdianua oqioads v Bjsixa •jam p«n oiuoj amajdns siqj tn jnqi Aonq ‘A^oap ainjamoid jo ‘Xpnq -an «noAjaa ‘niRnaumaqi ‘anSu pus laAaj -ap unoAjan ‘mspunmaqi ‘an3c pus jbabj •jm^idmoa jaAii ‘sisdads.fp jo BTnpoiA Sni’puodsap ’ nAvop uaqcuq ‘qnaAi aqj uoan n.injun qooniojs s.jajiajsoH jo joajja aqj pogFauji.w pun paonauadxa axsq oq.ii nV •mojsXs ><0 jCjtjjoj VIG0RAT0R !»'• f»»SO«D._* 1 LjJ!J« TCIOORA^OR irt whit itp name implies; «. .rs™™ — ■ « * edleinr and for diseases resulting from a deranged . torpid condition of the Liver; such as Biliousness, ostlvensss. Jaundice. Dyspepsia, ;.Ialaria, hick- teadache. Rheumatism, etc. An invaluable l'am- r Medicine. 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Wrenn, W. I. Eogers, Agent, Pas. Agent, Atlanta,Ga. Chattanooga, Tenu W. L. DANLEY, Gen > PfiS, <fc Tkt, Agent, Nashville, Ten#, BILL ARP’S MUSINGS. The harvest as begun. The har vest sun shining by day and the moon by night. Our Burt oats that were sowed in March have come in ahead of the wheat, and are now fal. ling before the cradle blade. It is a charming scene. The good old- fashioned way is not a bad way af ter all. I’ve got a reaper, and shall use it in the low grounds on the j wheat but the everlasting rains this spring made too many iittie ruts; and furrows on the upland, and the cradles are better. The machine jolts and bumps around so that Ralph could hardly keep his seat. But the oats are good. I have never seen better upland crop. Carl and Jessie follow along in the wake of the cradlers and tie up their little bundles, and when they get tired of that they pile them into dozens and set then up into shocks, and are proud of their work. "What a pity it is that we cant all make play of our work. How fond the children are of trying to do grown folk work, Carl wants a little cradle to reap with and think he could doit sjilen- did, but it most kills him to take a bucket of water to the field. That sore on his foot where he snagged it on a nail hurts awful bad then, and he limps all the way to the spring and back, but he can trot to the dew berry patch or the mulberry tree as lively and gay as a colt in the meadow. Grown, folks are that way too. I’ve known some mighty nice girls to get tired and most broke down cleaning up the house, and cooking, and sewing, and the like but they could wake up the music that night and dance till the rooster crowed for morning. AVe can all do what we want to do, and we go at it with alacrity. It is easier to go to a picnic than it is to church. But labor and toil has a sweet reward. We will never reap if we do not sow. The havest that is now at hand is one of the great lessons of life for our life is like a field and our years like the acres,’ and our months and weeks and days and minutes are the roods and yards and feet which subdivide the whole. Some portions arc well sown and tended and othersare not, but a good man will make an average crop. Wamay fail here and fail there, and have our little sins and weak nesses but at the last a man must be measured by bis average crop. Character is not made or lost in a day or a week, but it takes a life and we can never write a true ep itaph until the life is closed and we write it on the tomb. But a few days ago the fields were beautifully greeii, and the grain bent its proud heads gracefully before the gentle breeze and seemed conscious of its life and health and consequence. It reminded me of man in his prime moving to and fro upon the earth acquiring wealth or fame or pleas ure, and all unmindful of the reaper. But soon he ripens and must fall and make way for another crop. If the proud head has borne fruit, gold en fruit, it is well, and his mission in life is accomplished, but if clog ged and corrupted with cheat and cockle aud smut and rust and bram bles the crop is a failure and ought to have been cut down while it was green, I had worked all the morning help ing Mrs. Arp take up her carpets for the summer. The hay and dust that was under had to be swept up ever so gently—yes gently—that was the word she used—“gently, now, William; you are raising the dust, and will be all over the house. Dont be in such a hurry—gently.” I got it all up after a fashion and put out of the window in the wheelbarrow, and put the carpets on the fence ready for beating, and then I took her long handled broom and swept the wall, and the ceiling, and the corners, and behind the picture, and then our chunk of a darky brought wa ter and washed up the floors and the girls worked on the bedsteads with kerosene and turpentine and corrosive sublimate and rat poison and damnation powder, and I dont know what all, and this morning when my wife was making up her bed and lifted up the corner of the mattress she discovered one of the biggest, fattest ones you ever saw and she reclined on a chair in de spair. I was sorry for her. I \yns ft it the pesky varmints ai;e her eternal horror, and if I was rich I would build her a brand new house and fill it with brand new furniture, all made of china wood or camphor wood. I care nothing about these silent per ambulators myself and it has been hinted to me on lpore than one oc casion that it is because I aiq toygh and old and alligatorish, which I reckon is so, though I do know some women who are no spring chickens themselves. But I do suffer from the varmints anyhow, and have my sleep broken, for sometimes I have to get up in the night and help search for them, and when found I assume a theatrical attitude and exclaim in the beautiful language of Mr. Shakspeare: “How now ye secret, dark and midnight hags! What is it ye do ?” Well, I took Airs. Arp down in the low land wheat this evening where it is thick and green and tall, and I explained to her about wheat be ing first in the boot and then in the milk and then in the dough, and as we walked along in a water furrow I said that it reminded me of the old song of “Coming Though the Rye,” that I would change it a lit tle, and say: ‘1 a body meet a body coining through wheat, And a body kiss a body wouldn't it he sweet.” And she smiled and said the rye of the poet was not a field but a branch named Rye, and the lassie was wading through it when her lover met her on the rocks and kissed her. So that knocked jail the poetry out of the situation, and I said no more on the subject, but I’ve seen the day when that wheat field would have been as good a place for the business as a branch, and if anything better. While we sauntered along old Bob White was whistling to his loving mate, and we talked over the days of our childhood, when we used to follow the reap ers in the field and get the par tridge eggs from the nests, and have a big frolic over them when they were boiled, and how we caught the young rabbits in their nest, and how everything was so fresh and bright and rosy and now how serious and earnest every thing had become. Such is life and we cannot help it, and I dont want to help it. No matter how old or how poor, there is some happi ness for us all if we will find it. The trouble with most of us is we search for it too far away— away off yon der somewhere when it is right near us. Yes within our reach if we will only see it. ’’Carpe diene,” says the poet ’’enjoy to-day and ev ery day as it comes, and dont let old father time cheat us out of a moment. The Suicidal Mania Col. Avery writes the Augus ta Chronicle some very sensible suggestions on the great evil of self-destruction and how it may be checked. He says: „The mat ter is one of growing importance. Insanity is on the increase. And this suicidal mania seems spread ing. It is fast becoming a necessity that a proper public policy should be formulated. There is a crying need for action in this appalling trouble. Lives are being sacrificed under ignorance and a mistaken notion. The doctors must know incipient insanity. They must have the courage to advise the use of the asylum, The people must be taught that insanity is simply a dis ease of the brain, easily curable at the beginning, best managed under change of surroundings, and handled to infinitely better advantage by skilled men at an in stitution devoted to the special purpose with every scientific and professoral appliance for treating it. The asylum is simply a hospi tal, like any otherliospital for spe cial diseases, where the means of cure are multiplied and concentra ted. It is a subject tl\e press should take In hand and discuss. The people have to be enlightened upon it. There is an almost univer- npon the matter, I read with pleas ure the views of your upright and intelligent correspondent, Elzey Hay, on it. The Milledge- ville Union and Recorder, the Cov ington star, and I have been told, the Sparta Islimaelite and Planter have brought the subject before their readers. It is to be hoped that others of the press will do the sa-jpe, Mr. Gid Bell’s little boy Freddie who is only about four years old, ought to wear the blue ribbon for the best fish story of tb,p season. He went pome the other day with the rearportion of his pants missing and his father began to chide him about it and to quest’oq him as to wl\ere he hadbepn^io tear liis pants tosueh a fright. The' little fellow as quick as thought told his father that he had been down to tJ\e Ci'qek and while h& was walking jllong the bank, ' a fish jumped out of the water bit out the seat of his pants and got jnte the water before ftp had time to oateh It.—Montezuma Record. From the Savannah News; A Word About Bayard. We have stated several times that the drift of sentiment in the Democratic party was towards Sen ator Bayard for President. He has about all the advantages which other candidates possess and a good many which they do not pos sess. He has never pressed his claims on the party, and has never made any active canvass for the nomination. If he is honored by his party by being chosen its standard- bearer the honor will come to him unsolicited. It is certain, however that he would make a candidate of whom his party would be proud, and who would command the respect of the entire county. There would be no chance to give the canvass a per sonal turn so far as he was concern ed, because his public and private life is without a stain. In that re spect he would present a marked contrast to his opponent, who will be known in the campaign as the “tattooed” candidate. There is one little point in Mr. Bayard’s, record which may be urged as an objection to him. He made a speech some where about the beginning of the war, which showed that his sym pathies were with the south. It is doubtful however if much capital can be made out of that speech.— No one doubts that Mr. Bayard’s is as loyal a man as there is in the country and that during his whole public career he has worked sin cerely and earnestly for the good of the entire country. The New York Sun in its Monday’s issue, reviews all of the candidates who have been spoken of in connection with the nomination. It regards Tilden out of the race by his own volition. To all candidates except Rayard, that journal has objections or a- wards only faint praise. Of Bay ard it says. We have reserved to the last that veteran Democrat, that accomplish ed and spotless gentlemen, Thomas F. Bayard, of Deleware. There would be among Democrats of the old school a widespread satisfaction if the convention should determine to nominate Air. Bayard. A few years ago, the fact that in the conflict of the civil war, his sympathies, like those of Senator Logan of Illinois, are beliieved to have at first inclined toward the side of the Confederate States, was justly regarded as interposing some obstacle in the way of his nomina tion ; but that feeling, we believe, has been almost obliterated by the hand of time. Air. Bayard stands honored of all men and of all parties and if he should be chosen by the Democracy as their leader in the impending struggle, the fact would be welcomed by thousands with a joy that would not be felt at the success of any one of the other gen tlemen whose status and prospects we have now in.partially consider ed. Air. Bayard is always foremost in supporting all reforms proposed, and his nomination would be a inorejconspicuous declaration of the Democratic party in favor of ad ministrative, tariff and civil service reform than anything that could be possibly said in the platform. An eminent New York phrenol ogist in a conversation with a re porter, the other day gave some interisting points. A scholarly person has a good length of brain from the opening of the ear to the nose, and is full across the brow. The mechanical man has a wide head at the temples, upward and forward of the ear. The poet is ex panded in the uppep part of the temples, The commercial _ x ... . man sal ignorance and misconception has a broad head just forward of the ears, where the desire for prop erty is represented. The quarrel some man is broad abovp and be hind the ears. The pious and sym pathetic person has the top of his head well devoloped. hose of of a proud, dominating nature are high at the crowu of the head. The fqee indicates as lpiich as the head. In the proud, dogmatic man the long Roman nose will be found. The firm self-willed will have a long, strong, stiff upper lip. One who js warm hearted am 1 , qffectionate wifi ^aye full, red lips. A true staunch friend has full and prominent chip A good talker has a full and pro truding eye* men with dark coarse hair and rough long faces are adap ted to the stern duties of life,— Those with fine lmU' and skin are the pacts and artists of the world. Those who have red faces, blue eyes, short necks and broad ches-ts arc jojiy good fellows, fond of the pleasures of life and rarely wicked except through voluptuousness. How Blaine Is Regarded In the North. The New York Herald, than which no journal is more wayward in its independenc or more effected by the winds and tides of popular opinion, says he is the weakest candidate his party could have; “the republican leaders have load enough to carry in the coming campaign without adding Blaine of Alaine, to it. They are carryiny Dorsey, Brady, Kellogg, Roberson and lvener.'They would be -glut tons if they added Blaine.” They have made themselves gluttons. Henry Ward Beecher referred to him when he spoke recently of “a candidate for the presidency stained by jobbery, in alliance with the policies of the- great railroad princes, hand and glove with cor- tupt lobbies and in full faith with the corrupt find corrupting gangs who swarm our legislatures and live by sleek plunder.” The New York Times, the ablest, most influ ential and most honest representa tive of its party in the country, described him unmistakably when it talks of a possible nominee with whose name there are connected scandals,” which he has not dissipa ted. He has held important trusts; he has amassed a good deal of wealth; there are acts of his which it requires much obtuseness to be lieve to have been honest acts and a goop deal of charity to overlook. His own explanations of them are insufficient and disengenious, He is unquestionably ambitious and his ideas of the destiny of the American Union on this continent are full of peril. Very probably ho would, as president, be either mis chievous or ridiculous and might be both. No ono knows what he believes in finance, (except his be lief in the money value of a speak er’s decision,(and as to the revenue, “he is the author of the maddest scheme that a shallow demagogue ever invented, a scheme which had only to be announced to in stantly silence his ardent admirers, and he is surrounded-by one of the most desperate gangs of advent urers this country has seen, since the days of Aaron Burr.” From the Columbus Enquirer. “Greed and Gambling,” The idea suggested a fe\f days ago that the Atlantajournaiistsgotup a walking match in order to bridge over short salaries during the summer months, was probably not the case, yet there is nothing else than the gains, of the gamester for the men who are ready to barter health and strength for the most uncertain chance of championship and coins, and the cheers of an un thinking crowd and boisterous We regret to see that this mania is spreading. It is now attacting clerks and even brought into the contests at fire parades. If it served any us- ful purpose in the world, there might possibly be some excuse for it; but there is none. All its tenden cies are towards demoralization. Nothing is gained for science, noth- for human progress. There is noth ing in it to elevate the mind or to promote the interest of humanity. There is nothing at all in it but greed and gambling; gains for the few, probably gainless in the end, and a false glory of being the win ner. Respectable journalists ought certainly to find better employment of their time and talents. They should leave this leg work for others, even though the people fling gold into the purses of those of muscle and allow genius to pine on the merest of pittances. Those who are rearing orchards should see to it that their young trees are shorn of water sprouts the grass destroyed about tneir trunks and mulching well applied.JA young tree will no more grow up thriftily and produce profitably,without care and attention, than a young boy will become a useful and honorable man without training by ‘his el ders and betters.’ The area of or chards does not keep pace with the demand for fruit and a larger re turn per acre can be made in fruit than any other product the farm er cultivates. Atlanta has all the tricks and manners of a Northern city. Of course, it hfls its little panic and the failing bankers will probably be able to pay sixty cents on the dollar. Affected simplicity is refined im posture. According to the security you of fer to her, fortune makes her loans easy or ruinous. Vice stings us even in our pleas ures but virtue consoles us even in our pfiins. Unclean Journalism I have to tell you this morning that I believe that the greatest scourge that has ever come upon this nation has been that of un clean journalism. It has its vic tims in all occupations and depart ments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and alms houses and dens of shame. The bodies of infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves while their souls being tossed over ihto a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror and despair. The London plague was nothing tu it. That counted its victims by the thous ands, but this modern pest has al ready shoveled its millions into the charnel house of the morally dead. The longest railroad train that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks was not long en ough, or large enough, to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which have gathered up in the bad book and newspapers of this land in the lastjtwenty years. Now it is amidst such circumstances that I put the question of overmastering importance to you and yourj fami lies. AVhat can we do to abate this pestilence? What books and newspapers shall we read? You see I group together. A newspaper is only a boo k in swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which apply to book reading Wfrat shall our minds be the the rccept- able of anything that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinettion between the tree of life and the tree of death ? Shall we stoop down and drink out of the trough which wickednness of. men has filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in impurity and chase fantastic wiU-o-the-wisps across the swamps when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God! Oh, no. For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelligent and Christian eoioip.—Talmage Feeble Saints. It was an amusing distortion of a good hymn, but there was not a little sound philosophy in it, when the negro preacher sang “Judge not the Lord by feeble saints.” And yet this is precisely what the great majority of unconverted men are doing all the time. They will not go to the Bi ble and give heed to what God him self says They have no ears for His voice of mercy that offers them salvation for the taking. They do not pay any attention to the sol emn warnings that the Scriptures utter. They judge the Lord by “fee ble saints, ” They attempt to feed their starving souls on the imperfections of Christians, and poor enough food they find it! Because God’s people are not - all that they ought to be, therefore these cavilers will keep aloof from the religion which they pro fess. Because God’s believing followers are not perfect—they do not claim to be—therefore say these unbelievers, there is no power in relegion. Christian cannot claim exemption from criticism. They know that the eyes of the world are upon them. But they say to the unbeliever’ ”If you would know the truth, go to the Word of God; go to Him who is the truth; judge not the Lord by feeble saints.”—Christian Weekly. Capt. A. G. West has had a field of wheat lying on West Avenue, com prising some twenty acres, that has been the admiration of all who have seen it. Ahead of others, he began the other day to harvest it. It is es timated the yield will be about twenty-five bushels per acre, and and if it hadn’t have been for the ravages of birds and the drawback of bearding it would have yielded twenty per cent, better. Taking eight bushels per acre as the vera- age for this country, this is excellent. We were shown a bunch compris ing sixty-four stalks jthat sprung from a single grain. The spot on which this Avheat grew, ten years ago, w r as a piece of barren soil, hard ly profitable to cultivate in any thing. It has been run iq.clover and plowed under, manured and treat ed to tonic iron (screenings from ores), run in successive crops favor able to its building up, until we see now what it is capable of. The present wheat crop was put in with drill, and a pre ttier stand we never saw. While in most wheat fields a great waste occurs in the thin leavings of the cradle or reap er, we saw a horse rake at work in this field saving all this, which in an extensive field, is considerable. Probably what some of our people need is to consider with more profit som e ideas of Yankee origin* CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EYEBY FRIDAY. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publisher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one Tear, S1.25 One copy six months, 65 One copy three months, 40 CLUB KATES: Ten copies one year, SI0.00 Twenty copies one Year, .$20.00 PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS 3DK.. X. XT. CHENBT Would inform liis friends and the publi* generally that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho tel. TOSEPII L. COBB. FELIX X. COBB. COBB & COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLETOX, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Office in court house. Dr. J. W. HALLUM, CARROLLTON - - - - ' GEORGIA. Has his office, in number 2, Mande- ville brick building, ne makes a specialty of OSTETBICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. r. c. McDaniel, DENTIST, CARROLLTON, . GLA-. Is now inserting full sets of 28 teeth for $20, half set 14 teeth, 810. Partial sets and fillings cheap in proporton. Satis faction guaranteed in every case. Offlc# in Mandeville building. IDIEL. J-. IF. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. Is devoting most of his 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. 5?^ Rates : $2,00 Per Day. M. L. HARNETT. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that he is still prepared to do all kinds of PH0T0GBAHING and PEBEOTYPING in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fail - stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc, Copying and enlarging a specialty— can make all sizes from locket to 8x10 inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan street, Carrollton. Ga. MILLINER Y. MRS. M. A. WILSON ^R.eeently of LaGrange, having located in Carrollton for the purpose of engaging in the millinery business, asks a share of public patronage. few a-oems. ner stock, a part of which has just been received, is new, and she respectful ly asks the ladies and those wanting any thing in her line to call and examine. pi AT Tifor the working class. Send UrULJJlO cents for postage, and we will mail you free, a royal, valuable box of sample goods that will put you in the way of makin g more money in a few days than you ever thought possible at any business. Capital not required. We will start you. You can work all the time or in spare time only. The work is univer sally adapted to both sexes, young and old* You can easily earn from 50 cents to $5 every evening. That all who want work may test the business, we make this unparrelled offer; to all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing to us. Full j>ar- ticulars, directions, etc., sent free. For tunes will be made by those who give their whole time to the work. Great suc cess absolutely sure. Dont delay. Start now. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. Real Estate Agency. In opening an agency of this character, in the city ol Carrollton, facilities are of fered to those desiring to sell property, to the best advantage, by placing it prom inently upon the market, and to such as desire to purchase, it affords the best me dium for obtaining a perfect title to the same—a matter af paramount considera tion in buying property in the present day. The renting out of lands and the collection of rentals in kind, or other wise, constitutes a part of the business of the agency, as well asj the collection of claims and adjustment of over due pa per. Executors, guardians, trustees, and all who occupy fiduciary relations, will find it profitable to confer with this office in reference to the management of es tates,&c, A long experiene m this line ena bles me to offer my sendees to the public with confidence, and I promise only a reasonable charge for services rendered- Office with S E Grow, Esq , ia the Court House, SEABORN N JONES, Attorney at Law*

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The Carroll free press. (Carrollton, Ga.) 1883-1948, June 20, 1884, Image 1