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Newspaper Page TextVOL. I, CABBOLLTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1,1884. NO. 40. mm* HOSTETTEHS Fitter 5 The Feeble drew Strong. When Hostcttcr’s Stomach Bitters is used to promote assimilation of the food and en rich the blood. Indigestion, the chief ob stacle to an acquisition of strenght by the weak, is an ailment which infallibly suc- ®oeabs to the action of this peerless correc tive. Loss of flesh and appetite, failure to sleep, and growing evidence of premature decay, ,'are speedily counteracted by the great invigorant, which braces up the phy sical oiergies and fortifies the constitution against disease. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. The Ideal Tonic and Exhilarine. French Wine C'Oca.—The natives of Mouth America regard the Coca plant as a divine gift and speak of it as that heav enly plant which satisfies the hungry strengthens the weak and makes me forget their misfortunes, etc. Men of sei ence, poets, scholars, divines, lawyers, physicians and others devoted to much study and thinking, speak of it as tin “intellectual beverage" as the mental ex hilaration and activity produced by wine Of Coca is truly wonderful Many’of the most eelebated physicians in the world who have thoroughly tested the French wine of Coca say : We regard this as the perfection of nervines, the purest tonie, the best invigorator, the king of remedies against dyspepsia, and anemia the restorer par excellence. The best remedy in the world to cure mental and physical exhaustion, all chronic and was ting disease, dyspepsia diseases of the li ver, debility of the nervous system, gas tric irritability, constipation, ‘sick head ache, gout, etc. Specific for neuralgia and nervous headache. Its action in neu ralgia is rapid and pleasant, relief being experienced in a short, time.'’ Ask your druggist for a pamphlet winch wilfgive you convincing proof of the great merits of the French Wine Coca. For sale by druggists • DkJ. S. Pembektox *fc Co., Atlanta, Ga., sole Proprietors. KING OF THE SINGERS Above is the exact representation of the SEWING MACHINE WE SELL FOP $20 It is in cverv respect the verv best of the SINGER STYLE OF MACHINES which are by far the most popular machines the world. Finished in the best manner with the latest improvements for wind ing the bobbin: the most convenient style of table, with extension long, large drawers and beautiful gothic cover, it stands without a rival. KING OF SINGER MACHINES. Having adopted the plan of selling Ma chines without the aid of agents and by giving to the purchaser the benefit of the commission usually given to the agents, enable them to obtain Machines at one- half of the regular prices. We therefore sell for $20 the above style Machine, ful ly warrant it for three years. We do not ask you pay for it until you see what you are trying. We only wish to know that you want to buy a Sewing Machine and are willing to pay •20 FOR THE BEST IN THE MARKET. Write to us sending the name of your nearest railroad station, and we will send the machine, and give instructions to al low vou to examine it before youjpay for It. * WILLMARTH & CO. 1828 N. 20th, St. Philadelphia, Pa. IF YOU ARE GOING ■WEST, NORTHWEST, -pR- SOUTHWEST, 3BE SUBE] Tickets Read via the N. C. & St. L. R’Y The Mackenzie Route. W FirsjUclass af^d Emigrant Pasgenger^ FAVORITE! Albert B. Wrenn, W. L Rogers, Pas. Agent, Pas. Agent, Atlanta,Ga. < linttanooga, Teun W. L. DANLEY, Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, . Nashville, Teun Saved by a Bicyclist. “\ou think me rather young for such a responsible posi tion. Well perhaps so, for I am nothing more than a boy, being less than 20 years of age. But what think you of this white hair which I have had for four years? It looks strange to one unaware of its orig in, and when I call to mind the cir cumstance that caused it I only wonder that I am alive to-day.” The speaker, a mere child in ap pearance save for Ills white hair, says the Chicago News, stood with his right index finger and thumb grasping the key of a telegraph in strument which had just ticked off to him an account of a terible rail road accident. Deferring to it he said: “I have had some trying expert cnees in my life as an operator. Four years ago I was a telegraph opera tor at a small country station on a Southwestern railroad. It had little to do, the dispatches sent and received not averaging more than two a day, and those confined al most entirely to rail-road matters. To enable me to leave the office at will I had attached a large tin cup to the sounder of my instrment so I could hear my call ‘Q,’ from any part of the village. When the south bound train arrived at noon one Saturday, I hurriedly communi cated with the conductor, and learning that he had nothing to send, I prepared to quit my office for the afternoon, as no other train was due until 7 o’elock. Locking the door I went away leaving the train standing at the depot, hot boxes detaining it longer than us ual. Luckily I did not get beyond ear-shot of my instrument, repair ing to a field near by to witness a base-ball game. I frequently left the office for hours, but always kept within hearing distance, the tin-cup sounder enabling me to distiugush my call several hundred feet away. Somehow I had an indefinable dread of ofsomeinpending trouble. I was so ill at ease that I took lit tle interest in the game. I kept my ears open, expecting, for some reason I will not attempt to ex plain, to be called to the office.— Before I had been absent ten min utes, and while the train stood at the depot, I heard my familiar call repeated in what seemed to me un usually rapid succession. Instead of walking leisurely as was my wont, I ran to the office as fast as I could, and heard as I entered:— ‘Hold No. 4 at your station until special going north passes.’ “Involuntarily I glanced out of the window, and saw the train I was ordered to hold disappearing around a curve a short distance away. I was not told at what time the special left the station, south, which was only ten miless away, and I saw in my mind’s eye the two trains rapidly approachingeach other, quickly followed by a crash, screams of pain and flying debris. Suddenly IJremembered, wliilejtear- ing my hair and cursing my negli gence, that No. 4 had to stop at the wood yard two miles down the road to take on fuel. hack to the station, getting there just as the special, loaded with the directors of the road and their families, swung around the curve into the station. I had brain fever and came near a dying, not regain ing my reasoning faculties for five weeks after my terrible experience. But the conductor said my hair was white when he found me on the rear of his train. By M. Quad. Short Talks With The Boys. Now, my lad, if you have arrived at the age of 16 it is time you began to think of a trade. This isn’t a country in which you can live on your father’s name or money for for any length of time, and even if you are calculating on coming into possesion of a comfort able fortune at your majority you may see the day before you are 40 that a trade would clothe and feed you. Ninety-nine out of every hun dred men of to-day must make their own future- Wliat that fu- tute will be depends, first, upon how you start in. It is easy enough to answer that you intend to be come a merchant, lawyer, doctor, editor, dentist, machinist, carpen ter, watchmaker, and so on, but just wait a minute and examine yourself. Take your horse to the blacksmith shop and you may see the smith look over a hundred ready-made shoes before he gets one to fit. All arc horse shoes, but a perfect fit is the question. Now, then, examine yonrself and seek to discover what particular forte you have. You were borne to fill a certain place in the world. It may be that of a poet. Make no mistake in starting out. When you hear a man who has nothing in particular to work at wishing that he had learned a trade, he is talking nonsense. He had no fitness for one. Had he set out to learn any of the dozen you can name he wonld have been a fail ure. Every city has dozens of law yers and doctors, who live starvation lives, and more or less preaching and ar tists who are seldom, if ever, men tioned by name. These men are mistakes. They have no heart in their professions, and never belong edthere. I can name you carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, wagon ma kers and others, who are out of work half the time, and the other half is mostly consumed in kicking ind complaining against the times. It is their own fault. They are botch workmen. It is like putting an accordeou under a piano and ex pecting it to play piano music. Had each learned the trade he was fitted for he would have excelled. That would take a matter of five minutes, and if means of convey ance were at hand I might over take it and avert a disaster.— My first thought was a ,hand-car, my second a horse, but I did not knowif the first was at the stationer the second was to be had in the village. Rushing out of the office I stumbled over my bicycle. With out a moment’s thought shoved it, out of the door before me, and was on it in less time than it takes to count ten. In my odd momets I have practiced, and had become quite an expert bicyclist. The uuntry road parelleled the railroad for several miles, and the former was down grade the entire distance. I put my whole strength into the effort of propelling the machine and had the satisfaction of attaining a peed I had never accomplished be fore. My hat blew off and my coat was doffed through fear that it would retard my speed. I got within perhaps fifty yards ofthenow stationary train when the engine whistle blew and the train started up. I redoubjed my efforts andjeame alongside the rear platform of the last car jpst as the train was get ting under full headway. With a falling side motion I threw my wheel against the side of the car just forward of the platform and grasped the Jiand-rail as it came in reach, at tjie sgme time letting go my hold on the bicycle. I caught the bell-cord and gave it one vigo- ous pull, and as the train came to a halt I gave the cord three jerks the signal to back, and fainted. The conductor found me where I had fallen. Suspecting something wrong, he permitted the train to You have the same idea of being merchent that I had at your age. It was simply to buy and sell goods. That seems easy enough, but the merchant who hasn’t a “knack” for the business is doomed to cer tain failure. Not one out of fifty clerks ever become merchants. Probably not more than three or four out of fifty are fitted to do busi ness for themselves. A boy’s idea of being a doctor is to visit the sick, cure them if possi ble and collect fifty dollars, and the one who answers that he is going to make a lawyer of himself thinks of nothing hut big fees and verdicts in favor of his clients. But as I told you at the outset, if you have arrived at the age of 15 or 16 it is time you looked matters square in the face and had some idea of your future. If you were to answer at once you would say that you would take a professionin preference to a trade. A profession means several years of hard sturdy, quite a large cash out lay and then trials and rebuffs to get a start in business. It is one thing to graduate as a lawyer or a doctor,'and quite another to pick up clients and patients. If you have fully decided on a profession be careful of your first move. If you have a large head your grand mother has doubtless mauy times exclamed. “What a great lawyer this boy would make.” Don’t try to make one on the size of your head. We’ve got any number of that class in the country now, and they can’t pay their grocers’ bills. If you can pull s\ splinter out of your finger without winking it may he a sign thut you would make a great surgeon. It may also be a sign that you are born to be a butcher. How will you know wliat to pur sue ? Your own feelings are the safest guide. If left to your pa rents and to circumstances you may be forced into a trade or profession whieh you can never make a suc cess. When you come to realize that you must make your own way in life your particular forte wil be apt to reveal itself. One of the best lawyers inDetroit was intended for the ministry; another served as a journalist, but all the time feel ing that he was out of his element; another was forced by his father to learn the trade of harness maker. I know a machinist who first studied medicine; of a watchmaker who tried to become a lawyer; of a carpenter who threw away three years of his life trying to beeome a dentist. After you have selected your pro fession or trade, what then ? Strive to master it in all its details and to excel. If you become a car penter don’t be satisfied when you can saw and plane and match Don’t be satisfied with $2.00 per day. Make yourself worth $3.00 Master detail and push yourself from car- peuter to builder. Don’t imagine that a man in search of a lawyer walks down the street and drops in at the first sign hanging out. It is the lawyer who has climbed above his fellows that he seeks out. If our friends are ill we want the best doctor. We want the man who has made himself the best by study and- energy. The black smith who is content to mend old wagons will never iron a new one. The machinist who stands at the lathe to do about so much work in ten hours need not hope to be bet ter off. It is the men who put their heart into what they do who succeed. I can name you twenty instances in Detroit where skilled workmen have been taken as partners in large factories. The clerk who is capable, honest and persevering is bound to win a higher position. The joiner who does his work to last for years instead of months is never out of work. There are house painters who are satisfied to stand on a ladder or scaffold at $2.50 der day. There are other house painters whose energy and enthusiasm have made them sign writers and decorators and raised their wages to $40.00 per week. It is not so much what you do, but how you doit, that brings prosper! ty.—Detroit Free Press, signify but a conscious weakness that strives to hide itself under a bombastic tirade ? The good and true physician is powerful in his tranquility and effective in his gentleness. The turbulent politi cian who blusters for his party and violently and vehemently denoun ces men and measures outside of it, represents the weakest part of pol itics, while the patriot who nobly but quietly devotes his best abili ties to the best good of the country, shows forth his statesmanship. The wordy orator who indulges in fanatical clamor by frothy eloquence, betrays the meagerness of his thoughts, while the earnest speaker, striving in plain language to impress a single plain truth on the minds of his audience, is a far greater power among them. And so it is all through life. The best and noblest and strongest people will, as a genaral rule, be the calmest and the gentlest They feel a reserve of power with in them upon which they can draw at pleasure and thus they have no need of using all their ammunition at once. It is true that there is such a thing as a dead calm—a le thargic state—where, excitement is absent, emotions are dull and life itself is torpid. But no one will mistake this for the dignified com posure of controlled excitement and subdued emotion. There are times, too, when power must lay aside the calm exterior, which is its normal state. There are sudden flashes of indignation against wrong doings sudden sharp rebukes of injustice or oppression, which are all the more effective as coming from one habitualy quiet and gentle. Even these are not noisy or violent, but like the lightning, sharp and swift and often clear the atmosphere around There is Strength in Calmness. In order to be strong one must exercise a calmness guided by discretion. Every thoughtful ob server may learn that this is one of the grand lessons of human progress. It is a very great mis take to suppose that noise and vio lence are the heralds of power and influence. It is an old but true saying that “still waters run deep, little brooks are noisy.” So with the action and conduct of the hu man race. It is weakness, not strength, that takes refuge in a storm of words, in noisy declama tions, in violent threats or abuse, in loud boasts or fierce denuncia tions. Conscious power has no need to resort to any such self-as sertion. There is nothing perhaps which more plainly demonstrates this fact than the force of authority. Take for instance the parent—one will scold and threaten and punish ind yet command neither respect nor obedience. Exasperated at his failure he vents his wrath, first in one way and then another, and the more noisily he asserts his mas tery the more thoroughly he ex poses his weakness. Another will be quiet, gentle and self-possessed will use no loud tones nor angry threats, nor offensive assumptions of authority, yet the children of such parents yield a loving obedi ence and respect that leave no doubt of their real supremacy, Another illustration of this fact shows the strength of calmness, and and not boisterousness, in daily la bor-much talk and little work generally go hand in hand. Those who boast of the great things they will accomplish, who make a stir and a commotion whenever they attempt anytl^qg, who work violently and to excess at one time and not at all another, Avho think that in order to be in earnest thev must be fussy and to be enthusias tic they must be violent; such per sons cannot show the strength of labor. This is reserved for the calm apd steadfast toiler, who, Without boasting, or flourishing, or overstrain, or confusion, patiently and earnestly pursues his Avork aiming at excellence rather than plaudits and at fidelity rather than And thus might Ave present a long train of examples, all of Avhich clearly demonstrates that strength lies in a calmness guided by a prop er exercise of discretion. What does the fussy pretensions of the quack Ante-Bellum Senators. In the'year 13G0, says the St. Lou is Republican of July 16th, Jeffer son Davis of Mississippi, Robert Toombs of Georgia, and R. M. T, Hunter of Virginia Avere members of the United State Senate, and not ouly its three most influential members, but eminent Southern leaders. Each representad a State Avhich claimed and exercised Aveighty influence in the national council, and as they belonged to the then dominant party and Avere champions of the theories that rest ed on slaA r ery, they posessed an authority which, in the present changed condition of things, it is dificult to comprehend. The polit ical sky Avore a trouble look in the spring of I860. The John BroAvn raid on Harper’s Ferry had recent ly taken place, shoAving Avhat dar ing and dangerous measures Abo litionism Avas capable of; Kansas, after a fierce struggle, had been lost to the South; the groAving Re publican party was preparing for the Chicago Convention that nomi nated Abraham Lincoln; there Avere grave divisions in the Demo cratic party that had ruled the country for nearly fifty years; and, to com plicate things still more, there AA*as a strong native American element in the Southern States which refus ed to ally itself with the Southern Democracy in defense of the ex treme position Avhich the latter claimed Avas nessary for the main tenance of Southern institutions and interests. Congress Avas still in session, and it Avas observed that Davis, Toombs and Hunter Avere frequently sitting together in the Senate, as if in consultation. These consultations usually took place at the desk of the Senaror from Miss- issppi, and the fact Avas remarked, then, as proof of the clearer perspi cacity, stronger will, and superior ability of the man who was destin ed afterAvards to become chief of the then only dreamed of Southern Confederacy. lie buried. Their old abolition ene mies are gone. Garrison, Seward, Greely, Chasa, Giddings passed a- way long ago. EA r en Wendell Phil lips is dead. Lincoln, the first Re publican President, has been in his bloody tomb these nineteen years. The greatDouglass sleeps in Illinois soil, and trees tAventy-tAvo years old grow OA'er his graA*e. His Presi dential competitiors in the memor able campaign of I860, Breckinridge and John Bell are a sleep too, each in the soil of his native State. All the members of the first Republi can Cabinet are gone but one— Simon Cameron—and Simon Cam eron Avas a comparatively obscure man in the spring of 1860. The Mississippi Senator of I860 is noAV 76years old; the Georgia Sen ator is74; the Virginia Senator is 75, They are not very old men, y there are not three other liA'itg men in the Avorld Avho Avere actors in great historical drama Avho hav served as pall-bearers to such procession of eminent fellow-play ers CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publisher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: -o- Oue copy one year, One copy six months, One copy three months, club rates: Ten copies one year, Twenty copies one year, •1.25 65 40 •10.00 •20.00 PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS . Blaine’s Load. It must be rather gallin Blaine to knoAV that many of the best men in his party are refusin to support him because they do not think he is a fit man to be Pres! dent. He is a very proud and A’ery sensible man, and unless he has a will of iron and a constitution that can bear any strain he Avill be broken doAvn before the campaign closes. What a lesson his career teaches to the younger generation of public men! The trickster, the demagogue, or the dishonest man is sure to be found out, and he certain to be condemned and made to pay the penalty of his Avrong-do- ing. Blaine is a man of magnifi cent ability, and intellectually fitted to fill any position, but Avhen his moral character is brought into question good men shrink away from him. Not an independent pa per in all the country supports him and in his OAvn party that part the better element Avhich has not deserted him is not shoAving enthu siasm in his behalf. How often must he liaA’C Avished, in the last feAV years, that he had neA*er Avrit ten the Mulligan letters, or rather that he had not coveted these Lit tle Rock Railway bonds; but then is a man holding a high official po sition, AA T ho uses that position to ad vance his priA'ate fortune, capable of remorse ? Whether he is doubt less capable of being convinced that there are enterprises in AA’hich it does not pay to be a dead-head of These three men are still living. It is strange that it should be so, but there are many strange things connected with the tremendous drama in Avhich they played so con spicuous a part. Their experimen tal Confedercy Avas born, lived and perished so long ago that the Amer ican youth of to-day knows noth ing of it except Avhat they read in books. The South has passed througn the blood and agony of a conflict which left the floAver of its population beneaththesod, and scar red its mountains, valleys and for ests Avith the tracks of plowing missiles. Abolitionism had its way; slavery Avas overthroAvn and ruin ran riot over the Southern land till there was little left to destroy. Yet the three Senators of 1860, from Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia, have survived all the havoc and are still above the turf beneath Avhich all their prominent contemporaries Congressional Record. Hon. S. S. Cox on Salt. On Mr. Belford’s proposition to amend the river and harbor bill by the appropriation of $100,000 for the improvement of Salt river, in the State of Kentucky, so that the Democratic party might find free and easy navigation there on next November, Mr. S. S. Cox, of New York, felt moved to deliver the fol- loAving: “I rise to moralize somewhat desire ‘special leave’ to discuss the conservatiA T e elements of salt as Avell a Salt rh*er, Salt river is not located in Kentucky*. It is of Avider renown. It is a stream as full of sad meaning to the politician as the Stygian stream to the ancient Greek. It Is the route to official ex ile—exile to Hades—the political Limbus Fatuorum. “The Avord ’salt,’ sir, is Aryan in origin. It has preserved its savor on all derivative tongues. Its re lation to politics is implied in the word ’salary.’ Salt Avas a legal tendar among the Latins. It is an element of health. It was the an cient symbol, of hospitality. From time immemorial, to be placed above the salt at the banquet ta ble, Avas regarded as the most polite recognition of rank. Those Avho Avere seated near the salt-cellar, so to speak, Avere regarded as servile and mean, and Avere relegated to the attic.’ Therefore, if one means to be self-respecting, it is still said, in the old parlance; that ’he never drinks beloAV the salt.’ Salt is the emblem of purification. The sea is salt over the ruins of Sodom. On the Dead Sea’s shore the crystal lized Avife of the fleeing patriarch became a pillar of salt. How sad her lot! “But in its remote and liquid meaning, the Avord salt implies a retiracy from poAver, an exile up a stream Avhere there may be no pat- onage but much repentane. Hinc Lachrimae!” DR. I. 3ST. diE3STE 5r Would inform his friends and the public generally that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho tel. lOSEni L. COBB. FELIX N. COBB. COBB * COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLLTON, 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. He makes a specialty of OSTETRICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. Z. T. GUTHREY, Boot and Shoemaker, ROOPVILLE, - - - GA. Solicits the patronage of those wanting any work in his line. Repairing at short notice and in good style. Give me a trial Carroll MASONIC Institute, The exercises of this Institution will be resumed Aug. 11th., 1884 and contin ue for three months All pnpils within the school age will receive the benefit of the Public Fund; Tuition due at the end of term. H. C. BROWN. 1-mo. Principal. To the Voters of Carroll County. I announce myself a candidate for Or dinary at the election for County officers in January next. With gratitude to the people for con fidence and favor shoAvn in the past, I shall iffeleeted, give my entire time and attention to the careful discharge of the duties of this responsible office. Respectfully, Wm. Beall. ATTENTION FAEMEBS. Iam agent for Cooper's celebrated en gines, Centennial and Winship gins.— Before purchasing give me a call, as I think I can make it to your interest. N. FAIN. A a" antrd for The Lives of all xx^ClILOtlie Presidents of the U S The largest, l.andsomest best book e\-er sold for less than twice our price. The fastest selling book in America. Im mense profits to agents. All intelligent people Avant it. Any one can become a successful agent. Terms free. Hallett Book Co., Portland, Maine. r. c. McDaniel, DENTIST, C-AJRROXaXaTOIT, . GA. Is noAv inserting full sets of 28 teeth for 820, half set 14 teeth, 810. Partial sets and fillings cheap in proporton. Satis faction guaranteed in eA'ery case. Office in Mandeville building. 3DH,. J. F. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. Is deA'oting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and prepared for most any operation. His charges are reasonable. The Harnett House, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Is conceded to be the most cotnforfa-' ble and by far the best conducted hotel Savannah. Rates : 82,00 Per Day. M. L. IIARNETf, He Avho seldom speaks, and Avitn one calm, Avell-timed Avord can strike dumb the loquacious is a genius or a hero. Every great passion is but a pro longed hope* MILLINERY. MRS. M. A. WILSON Re ecently of LaGrange, haAing located in Carrollton for the purpose of engaging in the milliner}* business, asks a share of public patronage. NEW GOODS, Her stock, a part of which has just been received, is new, and she respectful ly asks the ladies and those wanting any thing her line to call and examine.

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The Carroll free press. (Carrollton, Ga.) 1883-1948, August 01, 1884, Image 1