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If You Are Sick With Headache, Neuralgia, 1th' um attain Dsn*®, a!*, ■HflXMMa*. Blood Htaiors, Kidney Disease, Constipation, yemaie Tnfoolc*, Fever sad Amo STebftoasness, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Pros- tratlon, use Paine’s Celery Compound and bo cured. In each of these tho cause Is mental or Physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria the effect of which is to weaken the nervous sys- teia, resulting in one of these diseases. Bcmove tbs citis* with that great Nerve Tonic, and the to-siLT will dtappegr. FINE PERFUMERY AND TOILET SOAPS. --Also, a full lilts of--— Draft patent* Medicines, Paints, .Oils, 'Brashes And Druggists’ Kupple3, st bottom prices, i nn ALWAYS be found AT DREWRY’S |DRTTG STORE ^8 Hill Street.Glili’FIN, GA. The Finest Far in (tiffin Is undoubtedly tlmt of Scherer & hrnuss. They arc elegantly fitted up, and t.re prepared o serve their customers with the best of ever) thing in their liuc, >m h :is t’ne Whiskies, " Hte-r Bier, Cigars, &o. The best Country Corn Whisky at the lowest p js-ible prices |Call upon them if y»u want dvcitwlm A. LOWER, Practical Jeweler ai Dealer in Diaiis, Watts, JEWELRY, CLOCKS, &C. Special attention given to Repairing. 20 Hill Street GRIFFIN, GA. THE FINEST EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET! Oranges Fresh From Florida, in Any Quantity! THE FINEST LINE OF CANDIES EVER SEEN IN GRIFFIN. For)( Christmas)( Goods ........CALL ON........ W. M HOLMAN & CO. We Standard A Sugar for making cake. Citron. Currents. Prunes and all kinds of Extracts for Flavoring. The best Pat. Flour. Mince Meat. Jellies, and in fact anything you want. ★ TURKEYS, FISH ANI) OYSTERS. ★ ter Leave us your order and it will be attended to. 11U 11 I li} bll > in ^ * yolir DRY GOODS, HATS, SHOES AND GROCERIES of /{. F. STRICKLAJSD. NO 57 HILL STREET. .... GRIFFIN, GA: l^gP’tjOO prs. of S pie Snoes >i’ bssiban wsale prices. Alsoagood ine of to ENiWOMEN’82AND (Hi lLt)REN’8 8HOES* Bought regular, at reduced pr-- -. Calicoes, Sheetiiii/ and Checks, all Wc (narked down, Kentucky of Mens’ Jcaos, Womens’ ail i/iadr-s, 15 Childrens’ to 37$ Hose cents per 10 to/25 yard. have a full line and at cents. Ou? childrens’ mixed and black hose at 10 cents per pair is the best t hiiiy in town for the money. Handkerchiefs, Towels, Corsets, Flannel Collars and Cuffs, all at the I owes' prices. Give me a trial and I will save you money. R. F. STRICKLAND. SPENCE & SMITH. ,)PI-osm:BRICKW r ABEH0tJSE|80L03I0N St jgr.Ais in w uadj to do your w: lk. Repairing buggies and wagons is a feature o their biisn t-ss. on which .-killed labort-nly winch-Buggies, i« usid Bring Phaetons. ns your work. Furr Vipcf. Drajs, 1ST' We DeH* will build}, Wsg,ins. u niiylhingcii Sign painting will be fcatun of 1 ,-f i’< t*it slid cry a i< ir Wit Nothing ligt rood work nil; bcihju Will not take a shodr’y job to, unj j i < e H. 8| em e al llicKlm jou cannot fail to yet fair dealing. C’ali on ns t tloi < j« r. icy. SPENCE & Solomon Street, Griffin, Ca New Goods Every Day Which wc propose to sell Cheaper Than Anybody. Come lose n* when you gel ready to buy. Every thing in the way of CannedMeui* and Fruit#, Imported Jam*, Cranberries, Cream Cheese, Fine Confectioneries of nlDGnds, Nuts,| Kaisins, Jelly, Florida Orange*, Malaga Grape*. Michigan Aides. All kinds Sauce. Barge assortment best Cigar* Beat grades Sugar, Coffee, Flour, Ham* aad all kind* Frssli Meals always on hsnd, fork. Beef, Link and Dab Sausage, and all kinds Fresh Fish. ^ss^affisssa A Dress Dyed } for A Garments Coat Colored Renewed j | A Child can use them! for all Fancy and Art Work. 2 rii SK’-9ts and Merchants. Dye Book free. RICHARDSON & C0„ ! I 53 N this e o Hi¬ 's m e r u i a 1 age \ there can be no \\ good why T reason i 11> . - \ u r y HaSc, vlllago should / 'have been placed so near the summit of the hill, but, so it is, and all but n few of the farmers around about have to toil upwards in order to reach tho half dozen stores there and the three churches. I’erhaps the original settlers of western Massachusetts had an eye, or two, for tho beautiful, for thero is not a habita¬ j tion tn Berkshire county that commands n more extensive or picturesque view. The natives of Tilbury seldom montion the scou- erv, but not many years ago It attracted tho admiration of wealthy people from a dis¬ tance, nnd they set up their summer homes there. It made a marked change tn tho vil¬ lage, the more because a portion of the new comers found it .pleusureahle to remain through the winter. It was thus that evil entered and brought unhappiness to Heze- kiah Martin. My mind wanders back to that time when ns a child I listened to his stentorian tenor voice lending tho singing from tho choir loft of tho ancient Congregationalist church. There were two long services every Sunday then, and I recall that when the new preacher joined in the movement to abolish tho after¬ noon sermon Hexekiah was one of those who stood hardest for tho old custom, and when tho inevitable reform was finally accom¬ plished.' the sturdy chorister never looked upon his minister in the game light that he had before, lie was more faithful than ever and sung nil the louder as if to rnako up in fervor for lack of opportunity; but when tho daring divine finally went his way, and an¬ other preacher took the pulpit, tho chorister felt as if a great burden had been lifted; ns if the parish had escaped a most dangerous affliction. Tho years turned steadily along and Here kiah overcamo every difficulty that choir leaders are subject to. He pacified tho jealous sopranos, raised up now bassos, sung four consecutive Sundays all alone when tbo choir deserted him In high dudgeon because ho refused to approve of a new anthem book, and in many other ways demonstrated his fitness for the work until*prosperity In the shape of .summer visitors fell upon Tilbury. ; } Then began a quiet, insidious trouble, as im- perceptible at first ns the approach of old age. that eventually overcame him. The first manifestation of revolution canio ’ in a division of opinion in tho parish over tbo choice of a new preacher, for old Mr. Spooner had begun to feel that he was some¬ how in the wav, and ho resigned before the people were fully aware that they wanted to hear u now voice. lAtro were two leading candidates for his place, a young aud elo¬ quent preacher and a zealous worker, and an elderly man against whom not a word could bo said. The newcomers in Tilbury, joining hands with the younger members of tho church, elected the young man, and ns the contest hud not been long or determined, then- w as a s-ieedy healing of differences aud no lack < f harmony. Even then Hexekiah felt a \uu presentiment that all would not I* ui-:'; ■ :’-n hi in, but several months passed In-fore he received any direct intimation that the parish would appreciate a change in tho choir loft. Tho first ho heard of it was in a discussion.among his singers at a Saturday evening ivlii-arsal. ft was not meant that lio should hear, but ho entered tbo vestry uu- expcctedly. Sam Hinckley, one of those toHtfW and * high note, sung w tne the shadow*. Then Henridtb footed about the bweh io of him. He picked up erne of th*u*w book* brought tn by the quartet. He at the cover and let It fall. Taking lamp from it» socket be held it »o that be see, and pramOty dnnr fort* the utt collect ion of anthem*, every tow# tn which lie knew by heart, *© aacred to him. and yet so speedily btddeu away where it should serve nobody. Ho replaced the lamp ami turned the page* to "Coronation," the fin* piece sun* by a choir under bis direc¬ tion more than a lifetime ago. Fondly be looked at the familiar note* and then, hi* chest thrown out aud his head held up, bo sun* the grand old tune and Its magnificent words with all the fervor and all the poster that his voice ever hod commanded. From beginning to eud the hytun rang through the dcaerted gloomy church, and Dr. Wiiliam*. driving by in husto to attend the iiis of a far off patient, wondered that the rehearsal should have been continued lb late. When tiio last note hud ceased Hexekiah stood with the book still open and his head still np, but the tears were courstpg down his face in steady streams. , At last he sank into a chair, and with a great pang at the heart ho taw upon the twiicb beside the volume of newfangled tunes a littlebook of manuscript music. When he was a young man of not more than 50 Hrse- kiah had taken it into his head (hat he would write music, and the several anthems that ha had composed In pure harmony, but with crude progressions, had been laboriously copied into l>ooks, nnd liad been used oc¬ casionally ever since in church service. Wliat had they been doing with his music? Was it not enough that they should discard him in his old age, and bis ways and his llooks, without hunting up his feeble hut earnest compositions to laugh at them I That could not lie forgiven! With melancholy fingers be turned the leave* His inspection stopped nt nn anthem for Christmas, com¬ posed on words taken literally from the Bcriptures. There it was, with Its introduc¬ tory recitative for baas, and a double fugue, as ho called it, when the angels’ chorus was reached. His wife had sung the treble be¬ fore the left tiio choir, and when with patient resignation ho bad laid her in the grave, hi* daughter had ]>erformed her part, and since she married ami moved away the anthem had not been sung. With wbat grand emo¬ tion he had heanl the voices begin the first fugal movement: Clo - ry to God tn the high • • • And how sweetly tbo second movement followed) and how they worked in together) (Slo-rj to Odd In tb* Ole- n *e 0<4 U I*.kiifcwt. Aud now it was all held up for tbo smiles of a modern quartet! The old chorister's head sank upon the boncli, anil bis tears blurred the notes on the ancient page. “Gracious mossy! Uezekiab, wake upl wake up'Kiah; you’ll ketch your death of cold? Come!” It was Peter Stone, the sexton, dam- founded by surprise, shaking tho old chor¬ ister violently by the shoulder. Painfully Hexekiah raised ids head. “Merry Chri-tmas, Peter; I’d rather stay here,” he said feebly when be saw where he was. Peter laughed almost hysterically and tngged away persistently at the old man’s shouldeix “Coinu down to the firo,” ho exclaimed; “the choir will bo here right aw ay to re¬ hearse for the service.” “Yes, I’ll go,” answered Hexekiah, aud with great difficulty h« dragged his stiffened limbs down the staire Into the vestry, where the furnace was already roaring with a freshly made fire. He submitted to be rubbed and slapped by Peter to induce a quicker circulation of tits blood, hut he gave no clear answer to tho wondering inquiries as to how lie cnine to bo locked into the church over night. Presently the organ upstairs Ix-gan to sound. Hezeklah shivered anil Peter rubbed him the harder. Then tho voice of tho bass in the new quartet was heard reciting: * “And there were shepherds abiding in tho field.” Tho old chorister listened with staring eyes. Could it be? The long recitative came to an end, nnd then all tho voices took up in proper order tho angels’ chorus. “VYliat does that mean, Peter?” exclaimed Hexekiah, starting up. “Why, In ’tw,-v.i meant as a Christmas sur¬ prise your honor. 1' icy’re goin’ to sing your piece.” The old chorister broke away from tho sextoii and Yhe hobbled up the "stairs. When be reached organ loft they were singing “And on earth peace, good will to men.” Hexekiah waited until they were done, and then in a low, grave tone that startled the gingers. h«said: “I wish you all a merry Christmas, neigh¬ bors. I’ve had bard feelings against you, aud 1 pray that God will forgive me and cause you not to took unkindly on an old man. This is more than I deserve.” F. K. Bcrtox. Severe Cases ef Blood Poison. Thousands suffer from blood poison, who woiild lie cored if they gav- B. B. ii., (Botanic Blood Balm; a trial. Send to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., for book sf wonderful cures, thot convince the most skeptical. It is sent free. J. O.Gibson. Meridian, Mis*., write*: “Far a linmherof years I (offered untold agonies from blood poison. Several prominent phy¬ sicians did ms little if any good. I began to use B B. B. with very little faith,lint, to my utter surprise it has made me a wsl] anil hearts person.'’ Z. T. Hallerton, Macon.Ga., writes. “I con traded blood poiaou. I first triad physioUns and then went to Hot Bpring#. I returned home t ruined naan physically. Nothing aeemsd to do me any good. My mother per¬ suaded me to try B. B.B. To my utter as. t< nishment every ulcer quickly heeled.” Braj. Morris, Atlanta, tin . writes: “I suf¬ fered years trum syphilitic blood poison whieh refused to be cured by *1 treatment. Physicians bad no appetite,t pronounced had pains It a in hopeless hip* and cat* joints I and uy kidneys were diseased. My throat was ulcerated and my breast s mass of ran. sin* sores. In this condition I eommsnoed icse of B B. B. I healed every ulcer and sore and anred me completely within two months.” desl&lnt answer to ms last expression, --i snow just how you feci. You want to please the smart folks on the hill, and 1 haven't got a wore! to say against them, ccpt it does seism’s if they needn’t come to Tilbury and expect to run things in city style. They want a quartet, now, don’t they t and they want to interdueo new music, don't they fund not let the congre¬ gation join in, ’eept on one hymn, don’t they I and they’re gom’ to try to make Hexekiah step down on account of bis age, and ho been chorister for fifty yean, don’t they? aiut they, l should say !” "Git up, there, Jiir, g’loug with ye!” ex¬ claimed Mr. Davis. “Youbo putty sharp, Marthy; ef you was to look through the holo in one of my millstone** and see the other a grindln’ you’d think you saw clean through both, wouldn’t ye? hay? but I don’t think you’d mnkp much of a hand to run a church, Marthy. Hay?” And »o, with good-natured obstinacy the discussion was continued until Mr. Davie helped his wife out and led the horse into the bdTn to unhitch. Now that the chorister knew that there was a feeling that his services were not re¬ quired, tho parish committee hoped that ho would reliove them of discomfort by resign¬ ing voluntarily; but weeks passed and Hexe¬ kiah retained his place without a word. So at last it was determined that he must bo approached in a Christian, neighborly spirit, and induced to consider tho matter in the right light. As the oldest member of the committee, Philander Davis was deputed to do tho talking, but though he had accepted the appointment with a cheerful sense of lta importance, his confidence failed him when ho faced tho old chorister one October even¬ ing in Hezekiah’s little parlor. The other members of tho committee sat looking at their bats while Mr. Davis coughed awk¬ wardly and began: “Peelin’ tolerable well these days,’Kiah? Hay?” “I’ve been enjoyin’ good health all turn- mot, Mr. Davis,” responded Hexekiah with dignified asperity. “Wall,” said Mr. Davis, after a wretched pause aud another cough, “we’ve como up to talk about the music.” Mr. Davis waited for the chorister to lead tho way to what must follow, but Hexekiah kept silent So tho spokesman continued: "You see, ’Kiah, the parish thinks th6y\l ought to be something of a change.” Hexekiah could bold out no longer. “Neighbors,” he said with a trembling voice, “I can't make no change. I’ve stood up in tho loft there more’n fifty years and haven't missed but two Sundays I've sung the good old music that you and I, Philander, was brought up on, and 1 can't sing much else. I’ve kept the choir together for you, and if tho money stood in the way (Hexekiah received $50 a year) I’d keop it up for noth¬ ing. No, don’t say ’taint money; I know that; I know you want a high toned quartet mid that you’re willing to pay. But—I’ve dono my lest, neighbors.” Tho old chorister bowed his head upon hia hands, nnd tlie parish committeemen wished they bnd not come. Mr. DaVis nibbed the back of his head and his colleagues looked sternly nt him. “Wo liato worse’n thunder to hurt your feoliu’s, 'Kiah, hayf” ho began again, when the chorister stood up aud interrupted him. “I know," ho said; “you don’t want to tell me I’m too old. But, praise the Lord! I’ll not stand in the way of the parish’s good. I resign right here.” But the committee was not wholly lacking in humau sympathy, and it was ngreed that Hexekiah should sing until the cud of the year, and tho chorister consented, though with less appreciation of tho favor extended to him than most of the committee had ex¬ pected. “Blessed if I didn't feel sorry fur the old man,” said young Deacon Ooodsjieed, speak¬ ing of the matter several days later. Ho did a good many others, but os the cud of tho J’ear approached the sympathy lost Its keen¬ ness, and in tho same degree tho ambition of tho younger members Increased, so that eventually tho desire tobavo a big display of music on Christmas led to another call on Hexekiah, tho result of which was that tho old chorister yielded his place at once w ith¬ out a word of protest. The celebration of the kindly festival be¬ gan with a musical aervico on Christmas ove. The new quartet was in placo and Hexekiah sat with tho audience. In deference to old time custom some of the hymns w ere sung by tho entire congregation. The old chorister tried to sing with the others, but after a few bars tho tears somehow got entangled in hia voice, aud, ns he could not sing and weep too, ho stopped tinging- When it was all over several of hi# neighbors approached him to say that they didn't think ther#'d been any improvement, and Ilecekiab Bbook each one by the band and answered nothing. The last gossiping couple bad left tbo church, the sexton had blown out the lights' and locked the heavy doors behind him. Weigh bells jingled faintly away out of bear¬ ing, and the slow footsteps of the sexton crunching on the half trodden snow mingled with the tones of the clock in the high tower striking ten. Then a door inside the vestry opened, and out of a closet w here brooms and dust pans were kept an old man came hesitatingly. He mode bis way very slowly up the broad stairs to the main meeting room. At the door leading to the ehoir loft ho paused a moment. His band was on the knob, but he turned it not More slowly than before he went down the aisle and dropped into a pew. He sat there in the darkness a long time, bis head sunk forward on his breast A half hour, may be, passed, before he rose and inarched with determined step to the choir door, and up the stairs to the familiar loft H# found a match in his pocket and lit the lamp that bung near the bench, where Hexekiah for more than fifty years hod song God’s praises and carried the voices and spirits of the congrega¬ tion with him. The dim yellow ray threw gloomy shadows of the pew backs Into relie Just disclosed the pulpit st the further end of the chursh, gave faint hints of evergreen fes¬ toont on the walls, apd here end there the laurel worked words “Emanuel,” “Glory to God iq the bighset," and »o on, thst bad been placed there with great toil by the young men end women of the parish in honor of the day so near at hand; but hod yon been thswe you would have semi only the potrhsrch'aJ farm of the chorister with a sadly bitter look on his fsce gastttg at the gloom about thn pulpit Was bo thinking bow often be bnd stood solemnly thus while the minister waa preying? Pcvhs** so. few tremuiony,"Aa»mr" after n mexnm tf hi#-Uss Darted, and a With It* intent# Itching, dry, fe»t skin. ful power ovor this disease, It blood and expel* hMi* without asm log A Co, many polheeaw ■Uttnwi A ■I JSSBMB *«9» 10 sores > h.j 1*. d innl.e c-orpo ate iirr.it* The « un wood wtrtSM will v*im nearly iirnn; jwf pay for iv»r It,and it,atm then kite tl»< land is worth or r price atked for It. »<-rc», 100 in woreU part in side ptgfity lie. Sd Mtw iasitlecity limit#.: : .tphtri side.it) it. to 10 .lt-, inside ».li. city g(io4h«W.#>tBl HhH< . acres frufo. afP^r?! '• out it II'MIUV, l.oiiac-, barns, inti dm, I A If tflxPT* at, M nt I J f• *fiI .*. d * d !o #i • \ j h.f A t .#i#»l l«i («. '. UNMMJHAJI Re d K.Ufe Agent »IO ■HOADWAV, INDERCORN8 ifr fcwrCt Farm and House and Lot For Salt A 2023# acre farm is " miitu of Griff!u, Ga 80 acres In woods, 120 In splendid slate of cultivation, *d for improved cleared farm of stumps and rooks, Machin¬ fix- stock, and fodder machinery. will be sold with ery, farm If corn wanted. All ready for business anoth¬ er year. lot In Also, Griffin, a large roomy For house and two ad¬ acre Griffin, (la. particulars dress me at (id., car# Clark Cl-A&fo * Son. septlUcUwHm THAU Executor’s Sale By 'virtue of an order granted by the Court of Ordinary highest of Spalding County, I will sell to door tho in Griffin, bidder, before the court hoade- during the legal hour* lt<j>, m sale, on the first Tuesday in January, the following property tielonging to the estate of Blinds II Doe, late of said eottflff, deceased, for the purpose of distrlbutim. imong the heirs, to-wlt; Two city lot# in (iriflin, descrilmd ns follow*: one two room house and lot in the comer of 15th and Pop- la-* streets, one fonrth acre; and one four room house and lot on Taylor street, ope acrj-. Term* of sale, oashoada^ of sale, i Administrator’s Sale. WATCHESJ DINNER ★ JEWELRY, ★ |j AND TEA SETS! DECORATE!) LUSTRE AMO PUUt WHITE ENGLISH GRANITE WARE. DECORATED AND FLAW CHINA PLATE SETS, GLASS, TlN AND WOODEN WARE. KENTUCKY COOKING AND HEATING STOVES. SEE THEM AND PRICES. NOVELTY CO. BOOTS, SHOES AND LEATHER Hill Stliuanyl IlM Ulilll' UWJIV Hfl Home-made Shoes and Leather a Specialty, CST’ We warrant alt work an<] shall make it a point io misrepresent noth infj. Jos? (Vir-iTed a large shipment of Gents, Ladies and Hisses fine goods and school shoes for Children. A. S. MURRAY (MU* your attention to hia COMPLETE SUITS 08 SINGLE PIECES. Suits of 9 Pieces from S20 to $ 100, Mies, Cl Bedsteads, Spring Beds. Wardrobes. Etc •* bet. To Pure] An t Elegant Marriage, Carriage, Bri.v eopaieat Ball, .Concert or -i k alee, reatur'sDb Financial Clocks, Stock*. Sock#, cock*, OrKvws* Written B* m - * Liit?