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The courts Lave decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them un called for, is pnma facie evidence of inten tional fraud. TOWS DIRECTORY. Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett. Commissioners—W. W. Turnipseed, D. B. Bivins. E G. Harris, E. R. James. Clerk—E. G Harris. Treasurer —W. S. Shell. Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal. J, Vt. Johnson,Deputy. JUDICIARY. A. M. Sprrr, - - - - Judge. F. D. Dismukk, - - Solicitor General. Butts—Second Mondays in March and September Henry—Thtr Mondays in April aDd Oc tober. Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February, and August. Newton—Third Mondays in March and September. I’ike—Second Mondays in April and Octo ber. Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in March and September Spalding—First Mondays in February and August Upson—First Mondays io May and No vember. CHURCH DIRECTORY. M kthodist Episcopal Church, (Sooth,) Rev. Wraley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3 r. tt. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Methodist Protestant Church. First Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9 a. u. Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor. Second Sabbath in each month. Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas tor. Third Subbath in each month. CIVIC SOCIETIES Pine (Jrove Lodok, No. 177. F. A. M Stated communications, tourth Saturday in each month. DOCTORS. DR. J. G. TURNIPSEED will attend to afl calls duy or night. Office t resi dence, Hampton, Ga. I\R. W. H. PEEBI.ES treats all dis -* " eases, and w;!! attend to ail calls day and night. Office at the Drug Store, Broad Street, Hampton, Ga. DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes sional services to the citizens of Henry and adjoining counties, and will answer calls day or night. Treats all discuses, of what ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store. Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26 JF FONDER, Dentist, has located in • Hampton. Ga.,and invites the public to eall at his room, upstairs in the Bivins JtJousa, where he will be found at all hours Warrants all work for twelve months. LAWYERS. JNO. G. COLD WELL, Attorney at Jaw, Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Coweta and Pi nt River Circuits. Prompt attention given to commercial and other collections. TC. NOLAN Attorney at lew. Mc • Donongh, Georgia. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit ; the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the UmteAStates District Court. WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Mc- Donough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. (Office op atairs over W. C. Sloan’s) apr27-ly GEO- VL NOLAN, Attorney at Law. McDonough. Ga (Office in Court house ) Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention giv°n to col lections. mch23-6m JF. WALL, Attorney at Law, Mamp*- . tOn.Ga Will practice in the counties composing the Flio* Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. ocs EDW\RD J. REAGAN. Attorney at iaw. Office on Broad Street, opposite the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia. Special attention given tc commercial and other collections and cases in Bankruptcy. BF. McCOLLUM. Attorney and Couu • ' nellor at L-w, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in llenry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta, Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe rior Courts, and in the Snpreme and United State* Courts. Collecting claims a specialty. Offica at> Main io tb« Melotoab BuiHiog. JUNE. Come and watch the morning break Across tb« misty river! Every sedgy leaf’s awake, And every wove a-qniver. ’ - ■ ’ Underneath the bending sky A thousand tuneful voices ; Every pulse is beating high. And everything rejoices. Garden herbs tbeir perfume shed j 'The artichokes flare yellow j Poppy leaves blush rosy red, And harvest pears grow mellow. Wbat a din, witbio the pioea, The noisy crows are keeping! Nods the grain in wavy lines, Soon ripe enough lor reaping. By the cherry trees is heard A red and ceaseless dripping ; In the vines the humming bird Keeps op his tireless sipping. \Vho can ever weave to rhyme This riot of the roses ? Or sounds that in the summer time Break in on our reposes ? Brightly falls the morning light, Softly falls the dew of even ; Silently the balmy night Shuts the gates of heaven! —Frank H. Stauffer. The Lost Paradise of Irem. Sunset on the Suez canal. Two inter minable baoks of grayish-yellow sand, grow ing gradually higher as they trend south ward ; a little ribboD of light green water barely visible between them ; a huge steam dredge in the background, with a clamorous garrison of blue-shirted men and r d-eapped boys who rush shouting to the side to stare at our steamer as she comes gliding by ;* behind us the houses aDd docks of Ismailia, the Khedive’s new capital, fading into one shapeless mass of gray, amid which a darker spot represents the month of the “Sweet-water canaland all around the dreary waste of the great Arabian desert, looking vaster and drearier than ever be neath the fast-failing shadows of night. At first sight, it is certainly difficult to realize that this tiny streak of water, less than 27 feet deep and barely 70 in breadth, can really be one of the great commercial highways of the world. Like the Russian military road across the Caucasus or the little thread of railway which spans the boundless desolation of the steppes between the Volga and the Don, it is so utterly dwarfed by the vast ness of its surroundings that one half forgets the .magnitude of the results achieved or the long and terrible straggle against heat, sickness, drifting sand, insufficient supplies and constant hindrances of every bind which skill and human perse verance have conducted to this glorion* completion. The men of old time, when they attempted the same task, certainly foond it no ch’ld’s play. “In the reign of Necho,” says Herodotus, note-hook In hand as usual, “120 000 Egyptians perished in digging this canal.” Whatji history of op pression and wrong, of grinding misery and wholesale destruction do these few words convey! “Stand by yonr anchor! Let go 1” The captain’s hoarse shout and the rattle of the chain, as our anchor splashed in'o the water, scatter my vision? at once and I look up to perceive that our surroundings have undergone a sudden and marvelous change. From the narrow, monotonous avenue of the canal we have glided into a wide expanse of smooth, dark water, which seems almost boundless in the shadowy twilight. To the south end west, long waves of purple bill roll op against the last gleam of light that lingers in the darkening sky. In front the posts set to mark the channel stand out gauntly like skeleton sentinels j aDd amid the deepening gloom twinkles a solitary point ot fire—the light-house that guards the passage. This is the famous “Bitter lake,” one of the countless lagoons that oc cupy a full third of the space traversed by the canal. “Are you going to stop here, Captain ?” “Don’t see wbat else we can do," growls tbe skipper, “if them fellers make us go half speed through tbe canawi, so as it comes on dark afore we git through. If we was to go it full steam we’d run tbe whole 83 miles ’tween sunrise and dark easy; bat its no fault of mine anyhow !” But no halt can be a matter of regret on this historic ground, where tbe very earth eeeme to be still shaken by tbe tramp of ancient empires, and tbe very air to be filled with memories of tbe past. Few spots oo tbe face of tbe earth have a stranger ming ling of tbe familiar and tbe remote of names which were tbe household words of oor ear liest childhood with others which arc Vdowo HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879. only to the driest lore of the antiquarian. Hebrew shepherd and Assyrian conqueror. Persian and Greek, Saracen and Crusader, Frenchman and Anglo-Saxon —aH have been here in tore. A* the full moon breaks forth in its cloud less glory, the shadowy armies seem to rise nroond us once more—Moses and the thou sands of Israel, setting forth upon that woo derfnl march of which God himself was the pioneer—Assyrian Ninos in his carved chariot, with the “captains of the hosts and the mighty men of valor” around him in all the pomp and splendor of war—the tnrbaned warriors of Cambvses with tbeir light lances and their huge wicker shields, sweeping on ward to that fierce short lever of conquest beyond which lay an unkoowo grave in the depths of the hungry desert—the soldier zealots of Arabia, following black-browed Amrou to the sock of Alexandria—mail-clad horsemen with the red cross on their breasts, straining their eyeß to catch the first ele«m of Saladin’s spear along the sky—and finally the war-worn grenadiers of republican France, gathered around the dark, stern face and eagle eye of the “Gen. Bonaparte” who was one day to be the Emperor Napoleon As I step forward on to the forecastle I find, as if to leave no element of romance wanting to this wonderful panorama, a group of Arab pilgrims gathered around a gray haired kessehgou, story-teller, who is re counting in his quaint oriental style the weird old legend of the lost Paradise ot Irem, which contains a moral that the west ern as well as the eastern world may profit ably lay to heart: “Long ago, my brethren, whpn the nations of earth were yet idolaters, and before our holy Prophet, may bis name be exalted ! had risen to teach all men that there is bnt cne God, there reigned in the land of Ad a great king whose name was Shedad the Proud. Among all the sons of men there was none goodlier than be, for it was ever the custom of the children of Ad to choose the strongest and stateliest man among them for their king. And truly he was mighty among men. Whoso named him laid bis hand on his month ; and when men spoke of anything beautiful they said, ‘lt is like the city of Ad and Thamoud.’ And his name went forth to the ends of the earth, till all men won dered at him and said, ‘Who is like unto the great king of the children of Ad ?’ And so he prospered in whatsoever he did ; tor the blessings of the evil Genii, which are curses, were upon him. “But in the pride of his prosperity, the heart of this son Eblis (Satan) was lilted up nnto his ovrn destruction. For he said with in himself: ‘There is none like me upon earth—why should I not be equal to Him in heaven? His paradise is hidden from the eyes of men ; but 1 will make a paradise unto which men shall come from all king donis of the earth, that the name of Shedad the king may endure forever 1’ “So he sent forth into all lands for skill ful workmen and men learned in enchant ment?—the magicians of tbe East, and tbe cunning men of Frangistan (Europe.) aod the black sorcerers from the land of Ethiopia and the Kitai (China ) And the cbiefest of all was the Egyptian, onto whom Eblis had given power and cunning above ail the chil dren of men, that he might work the accursed will of his master and fill up the measure of the sins of (he race of Ad. And he did so. “For he built a wall of metal, whose cir cuit a swift dromedary would take three days to compass—such a wall as Scander Rnmi (Alexander the Great) built along the border of Khnrassan, to keep back Gog and Magog with their giant host. And around this rampart he planted trees and bashes and all manner of thorny plants, so thick that an elephant could not have broken them down or a serpent wiggled through them. “Then, within the double barrier—a space in which El Khuds (Jerusalem) itself and Mecca, the mother of cities, would have seemed but as wells io tbe desert—be made gardens, whose flowers were as the flower? of the paradise, reserved lor tree believers, and whose fruits would revive with the mere scent of them ODe over whom Azrael, the angel of death, bad spread bis wings. And he made stately palaces of marble wiiii roots of pare gold; aDd cool baths overshadowed by spreading palm trees; and sparkling fountains which never grew dry ; and trees whose frnita were gold aod silver and pre cious stooes, such as those which tbe magi cian Tubal-Cain made for tbe giants ot tbe elder world before tbe will of Allah boned them deep io tbe earth ; and forests through which tbe most skillful hunter of the tribe of Ad might have roamed for a hundred years without exhausting tbe game that filled them. And io tbe midst of all be built a noble city, such as tbe children of Nem roud reared at the beginning of time ; and above it all rose a tower, whose summit looked up into heaven and met the sunrise while the lower world lay yet io darkness. “And when all was finished, Sbedid went forth to see his paradise in all his might and majesty, with his queen by bis side and his princes and his wise men and warriors around him. thousands upon thousands, like the lo custs that descend upon the core when ihe harvest is lull. But Io! as he reached the gate the sun hid his face, and all was dim and gray as when the air is heavy with the cotv’g storm ; and over the whole sky low ered a deep, black cloud, like the outspread ing of mighty wings ; and in the midst was a face of stern and solemn beauty, with eyes like the stars thut looked through the storm of the desert. And a voice came forth like the blast of the night wind through some ancient city, and it said : *• ‘I am Azrael. the angel of death ; and as thou bast exalted thyself against God, so shalt thou be brought down to the dupt, even tbou and all tby people, like the beasts that perish 1’ “And as be spake, beneath his icy breath the king and ail bis host shrank and with ered, and fell as falls a caravan when the simoom of the desert passes over it. Of all that great army none escaped save the king’s bow-bearer, who went back to tell men bow Allah bad pnoisbed the presumption of the evil-doer. “Now it befell that long after this, in the days when the Caliph Moawiyah gat in the seat of the Prophet, a wayfarer, who had gone astiay in the desert in the darkness of night, found himself suddenly in the midst of a vast city, beside which even Mecca and Medina the Noble would have seemed hut as an Arab camp. The walls were mighty as those which the genii reared at the com mand o( Sub imar. Ben Daoud (Solomon the son of David) and glittering with precious stones ; and there were fountains in marble basins, and palaces beyond all the palaces of Hindoostan, and gardens surpassing those ol Haroun the Just, and long rows of colored lamps lighting up every court arid colonnade. “But everywhere reigned a dreary and awful silence, as the silence oi the grave. In all the mighty length of the wonderous city no human foot stirred, no bird fluttered, no insect crept—not a single creuture drew the breath of life. And for hours the affrighted man wandered amid this wilderness of ac cursed beauty, till in bis agony be cried for help to God ; and straightway there ap peared before him a gate higher than the minarets of Damascus, and he hastened through it rejoicing. But, when he turned about, lot the city, with all its splendor, was gone as if it bad never been. “Then be went and told his tale to the calii h, and «bowed in proof of it (be jewels which he bad broken from the wall. And the caliph sent men to seek the city, and they sought it forty days but found it not; neither bath it ever been seen again since that day. For it was the will of Allah that the paradise which man’s pride bad reared should be bidden forever from the eyes of man ; and who can resist Allah ? Brothers, the story is ended."— David Ker, in Sunday Afternoon for May. Easy Lesson In Etiquette. We have been profoundly interested in a work that has just been sent us, the author whereof. Professor E. B. Fanning, aims to give to the world easy lessons in etiquette for gentlemen. It is a useful work. Among other things the Professor s»ya: “When calling on a new lady acquaint ance. the hat should be takeo to the parlor and held in tbe hand.” This is one of tbe best instructions in tbe book. When you don’t know all about the young lady and her family, young man freeze to your bat all the time. We once knew a young lady who kept her father and lour brothers in nice, new, stylish hats all tbe time, by simply instructing the servant to just skin the hat rack every time a young mao with a giddy hat was fresh enough to leave it io tbe hall. We’ll bet a dollar Prolessor Fanning has been there himself. And then, besides, a “plug” hat is such a comfortable thing to bold in one’s bund. When you can’t think of Bny'hing to say, stroke tbe hat the wrong way, and then ex - ert yonr energies daring the rest ol the visit to getting it smooth again. “A gentleman,” says tbe professor, with becoming severity, “never dances with his overcoat on.” And we may add that be hardly ever dances with bis overshoes on, and tbe in stances in ihe best society in which a gentle man has danced through the ent're set with bis ulster drawn close over bis head, bu trousers stuffed m tbe legs ut bis india-rubber boots, and an umbrella held over bis bead arc rare iotietd. society cannot fee! too grateful to tbe Professor for meotiooiog this little matter of etiquette. "A gentleman.” continues the professor, “always wears gloves " This is a solemn, earnest, inspired truth. When yon meft a—a—person any where. in the street, In the cellar, at the lunch stand, In swimming, In bed, and you see he wears no gloves, shun that person. He is no geotleman; Professor Fanning suys so, and Professor Funning knows. Why, a real gentleman wears gloves when he washes his hands and trims his nails. “Always," insists the professor, “offer your hand to a Indy with the back of the hand down.” If yon don’t believe this, try offering the band to a lady with the back of it up. The lady will immediately kick the stuffing out of you.— Burlington Hawkeye. The People of Pisa. At Pisa you enter on the Tuscan oivihzn tion—the glory of modern Italy—and mod ern here means the last thousand years, for these Italians were learned and accomplished people when our Saxon forefathers were rude savages—when England was a forest filled with warring tribes, and the Howards were “bogwards.” Fortuoqjely for the ease and instruction of the tourist and student, all that is best in Pisa is summed up iu four build ings that are grouped in one spot, and which taken together, affords an admirable intro ductory study of Tuscan art and architec ture, as they are representative and finished specimens of the style. These buildings are the great Cathedral of Pisa, tbe famous Leaning Tower, which is a detached tower of exquisite symmetry, raised for the purpose of swinging the Cutbedral bells; a huge baptistry, and a walled, holy field or ceme tery. All tbe buildings are of pure white marble, of fanltlws design and masterly finiah, and together const I'ate a group which is said to be without equal in the world. They illustrate well, too, the wealth which, io tbe modern ages, was lavished on church build ings, and the splendor and elaborateness of their establisbnient. Of this splendid group, each one of which is a masterpiece, tuking rank among the great buildings ol tbe world, tbe Cathedral is, of course, the centre ; all the others are mere adjuncts to it. The Leaning Tower—Campanile they call it—is a belfry The baptistry is hat a colossal fonnt, and the Cemetery, or Campo Santo, a graveyard, but walled with costly statuary, and tbe burial ground made with numberless shiploads of earth brought from Jerusalem. At Florence there is the same magnificent equipment for the Cathedral Church there— tbe Campanile—a square tower, raokiug as the first of its kind in the world. And when this wonderful endowment of a single cathedral is considered, it must be re membered, too, that Pisa is a small place. It has hut 26,000 inhabitants, and is the ceoter of a district of about 50,000 peopla only. Nevertheless, the Pisaa, altheogh a little, hove been a mighty people. They were great soldiers aod sailors io tbeir day, and their physical energy was always animated by tbe force of education and high culture. There was, therefore, little of lost power in their development, aDd thus they carried tbeir arms into ail parts of Ihe world, and their name into history. At one time they domi nated Italy, aod thought it the world, dis playing military and executive genius of the highest kind. Tbe Bonaparte family was of Tuscan descent, aod although Napoleon came on the field when the glory of Pisa was but tradition, be seems to have only gathered up and reviewed in Iwmself what was once a common inheritance of Tuscan blood.— Philadelphia Pres*. American and English Flirts. American men and American women are, perhaps, the boldest and moat uncomprom ising flirts in tlie world. It must needs be so in a society which banishes mothers as superfluous, old ladies as nuisances and any kind of chaperona e as an Infringement of the glorious Trans Atlantic birthright and an insult to human nature. We do oot say for a moment that this unchecked, uncon trolled intercourse betweeo the yoaug men and women in America leads to grave mis chances; but we do say that it leads to an organiz e system and recognized tooe of flirting wbicb strikes os, used to more reti cence and less freedom, as odd, to say the least of it, aod essentially -‘bad form,” as tbe youth of the d?y would call it. If an En glishman were to permit bimaelf to say to a single favored oue anything like what an American man woold say to any girl what soever with whom be might converse, society would mark him as dangerous sod careful mothers would keep their daughters out of bis way, as watch-dogs guarding the lambs from tbe prowliog wolves. But tbe Ameri can girl weald and Joes think nothing of it. She is used to close sailing and gives as good wr. of yotiths and maidens who meet np in the mountains for a summer, and who pair ‘off day after day and far into the night, among the lovely in the do»ky glades of the silent fores! ; thinking nothing of it. and not supposing that any one else will think more than she does She has been used to being taken to dancing parties by the young man of the boor, who call* for her and is her “friend” for the occasion. The mother doe* not and the giH is con fid--d to the eare ot her male chaperon without hesitation or re pdgnance. Human nature demands gallantry in such circumstances as ao absolute neces sity—the inevitable outgrowth of the occas ion ; and. unles? she is weaker and rasber than most, she has to take care of beeeelf while paying back her entertainer in hi? own coin, shielding herself while attacking him, and, above all things, showing no fear. Hence flirting becomes, as we have said/ both an organized system of intercourse and a regular fashion among the American youth; and the consequences are to be found i* a certain dash and boldness and hardness and discretion all combined, whereby the parties engaged in the pleasant game seem always on the brink of danger, and yet secure. Another consequence is, that English men and maidens are at a disadvantage when they meet with their compeers from over the water, for the American men would be sure to say more than they meant to substantiate to the English girls, and tbs American girlv would lead the Englishmen farther than they meant to follow, and the q)i<tnces are (hat there would be heartaches and disappoint ments for the more reserved of the two. We have flirts enough, however, among ourselves, and we do as much harm to each other as is ever done by outsiders, a hose ways we misunderstand because we judge of them by oor own. The serious flirt among us is especially dangerous, and we question if the boldest American, or the most impas sioned Italian, ever did more damage than the quiet, undemonstrative English flirt, who tabes sentiment ns bis ground of action and Platonism as his point il'appui. Soft eyes that took dark and melancholy in the twi light ; a sweet, sad voice that awaken re sponsive echoes in the imagination of the bearer; a languid, still, aod self-contained manner, giving the impression of reserve fond of force, of talent, of feeling, of capac ity for sorrow, of power of sympathy—these are the various items which make up the stock-in trade of the sentimental flirt ; and with these he or she dispenses sweet pain and pleasant anguish to all aroond. All, that is, who are weak enough to believe and innocent enough to be deceived ; nnd who take tinsel and tinfoil for shining silver aod ruddy gold. —From a Parallel Driven fry an Englishman. A Catechism fur Plain W omen. When a woman loans a desire to please, she loaes half her charms. Nothing is mora conducive to beaoty than cheerfulness and good humor; and no morose or unhappy woman can be good-humored and cbeerlul. Then there are vast numbers of ill-tempered women who are ill-tempered because they are ngly They do not know what is the matter with themselves; neither do their friends know. But the incessant neglect and indif ference with which they are treated Anally does its work of embittering their feelings until the elf ct upsn their moral character is most pernicious. Every woman ought to understand that nothing short of deformity, can make women unattractive, provided she. will study her points ; and points of attrac tiveness every woman has. A thoroughly refined, graceful manner.can be aeqaired by any woman, and is a power-, ful charm. The best grace is perfeot naturalness. Still, you must study yourself, and form your manners by tbe role of that art which is bat a carrying out of the lawpf nature. But if it is voor nature to be for ever assuming some unpicturesque, ungrace ful attitude, pray help nature with a , little art. If you are stoat, av.oid the smallest chair in the room,; and be yon do sit on it, not to lean back on it with your,,bands folded in front of you, below you* waist, especially while the present fashion lasfc, if yon are thin do not carry yourself with; your chio protruding and your spinal, column carving like the bowl of a spoon, E|p not wear flimsy materials made up, without a ruffle or puff or flounce, to fill np hard out lines of your bad figure, so cruelly defined by the tightly pulled back, draperies. Study the art of dressing. We once knew a. very plain vgomon who dressed so tastefully it was a pleasure to look at her. If you huge been moping till you are sick'with the thought of your,.own hope less ugliness, be up, and dping. Forget your disappointments; forget the past and the fneers of your own family over the mistakes that yoo have made. There are still friends to be won. There iu work to be done. RoiWG yoarspjf anrl n§ thg PQpr-v&ting! distrust of self, and the moral cowardice which forbidsgon tqassert yoereelf. Xoung t• L ... - _ _ - _ ._ .A 1 , Nd. 49