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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
VOJ . XVIII.
CURES RISING
breast
"MOTHER'S FRIEND* lilessing’ ever
offered child-bearing woman. I have been a
midwife for many years, and in eacli case
whore “Mother’s Friend” had been used it has
accomplished wonders and relieved much
suffering. It is the best remedy for rising o#
the breast known, and worth the price for that
alone. Mbs. M. M. Brcstkr,
Montgomery, Ala.
I can tell all expectant mothers if they will
use a few bottles of Mother’s Friend they will
go through the ordeal without any pain and
suffering. Mrs. May Bkanham,
Argusville, N. D.
Used Mother’s Friend l>efore birth of my
eighth child. Will never cease its praise.
Mas. J. F. Moore, Colusa, Cal.
Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt
of price, $1.50 per bottle.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Solil by all druggists. Atlanta, GA,
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC
FOR ren ovating the
entire system, eliminating
all Poisons from the Blood\
whether of scrofulous or
malarial origin , this prep
aration has no equal . . •
“ For eighteen months / had an
eating sore on my tongue, / was
treated by best local physician. \
but obtained no relief; the sore
gradually grew worse. / finally
took S. S. S., and was entirely
cured after using a few bottles .”
SC. B. McLkmope,
Henderson , l ex.
'T'REATJSE on Blood and Skin
1 Diseases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co.,
. Atlanta. Ga.
riiOFESSIONA L CA lU>S.
W. ISK YA.lt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Mu Donouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties comprising
the Flint .Judicial Circuit, the Supreme
Courl of Georgia, and the United States
District Court.
iyM. t. tut tit
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Me Donouoh, 'la.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Juilicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. aprtJ7-ly
p KHAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga,
Will practice in all Ihe Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Thk Wkkklv office.
yy A. mtowv
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and Ihe United Status District
Court. jattl-ly
| Oil > L. I’VE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Hank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
'Practices in the Slate and Federal Courts,
jj A. IMEI’I.I*,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamcton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and Ihe District Court oi the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Get 8, 18 8
||SC. i*. C UIPBGLI,,
DENTIST,
McDonough Da.
Any one dcsiiiiiß work done cr.,i l»c ac-
C inimodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE
STAUNTON, VA.
Opens Sept. 6th, 1893. Climate and surroundings ex
ceptional. Handsome buildings, being remodeled,
thoroughly renovated, repainted inside and outside,
and refurnished with new pianos, carpets, Ac. Steam
heat, gas light, bath rooms on every floor. New Labora
tory thoroughly equipped. 20 experienced teachers.
Advanced Courses m English, Latin, German. French.
Ac Special advantages in Music and Art. 141 board
ing pupils from 18 States Terms moderate For Cata
logues of this celebrated old Virginia School, address
WAV. KOISCRTSON, Trett., Staunton,Va.
VIRGINIA : COLLEGE,
For YOUNG JLADIFS, Roanoke* Va.
Opens Rcpt. 14, 1893. A beautiful and
attractive College home New buildings
among the finest in the South. Modern im
provements. New Pianos and furniture.
Campus ten acres, magnificent mountain
scenery; in Valley of Virginia, famed for
health. European and American teachers.
Full course. Advantages in Music and Art
unexcelled. For Catalogue address the
President,
\V. A. HARRIS, D. I) , Roanoke, Va.
PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
an “ hoautifii-i the hair.
Promotes a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Restore Gray
IwosrHair to its Youthful Color.
A ifij
’ Parker’s Ginger Tonic. It cures the worst Cough,
Weak Lungs, iXlulitv, Indigestion, Tain, Take in tiaoe.socts.
HINDERCORNS* The only sure cure for Corns.
Slops all pain. loc. ut Druggists, or liISCOX k CO., N. Y.
Indispensable in
Every Good Kitchen.
As every good housewife knows,
the difference between appetiz
ing, delicious cooking and the
opposite kind is largely in deli- i
cate sauces and p&lateablc gra
vies. Now, these require a
strong, delicately flavored stock,
and the best stock is
Liebig Company’s
Extract of Beef
IN HER EYES.
I looked into the azure eyes
Of her t sought to win,
In deep endeavor to surmise
My fond heart’s fate therein.
And searching with a lover’s wit
Those orbs of heaven’s hue
My prospects seem d, 1 must admit,
To 1e exceeding blue.
TIPS AND HAPPENINGS.
Plenty of rain, and grass growing.
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Many visitors in the city this week.
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This is a very unhealthy section for
“yalier legged chickens just at preseut.
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Fodder pulling time soon at hand.
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Nett Tueday is sale day.
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Regular monthly session of County
Court next Wednesday.
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A large flock of martins have taken
quarters near the public square. They
appear to be nearly as numerous as
the English sparrow.
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TLe uew schedule is not so conve
nient to our people as the former.
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Some little sickness reported over
the county.
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A gentleman reports corn witli such
dense foliage tiiat lightning bugs can
be seen Hying among at 12:00 m., emit
ting their tiny sparks, unconscious of
the noonday sun. Fine corn that!
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Mr. Johnny Lowe invited a number
of friends out to his place last Friday
afternoon and let off his fish pond.
About one hundred pounds of the finny
tribe was captured. He intends stock
ing his pond altogether witli carp.
Reunions are occuriug over the state
now almost daily among the re
mairting heroes who followed the for
tunes of the waving “Stars and Bars.’’
They are worthy of the best our hearts
and hands can offer.
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Over confidence based upon bare
judgement makes a very shaky struct
ure. Have confidence in yourself
when you know you are right and the
word “fail'' will remain a blank in
your vocabulary.
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Friend Henry Rowan is of the opin
ion tiiat about three thirds of the ca
lamity howlers who are walking up
and down the length and breadth of
their narrow horizon speaking in know
ing terms of the best policy for the
administration to pursue in rega-d to
the great question of finance now cou
fronting the government, couldn’t run
a one-horse farm successfully, witli
supplies furnished. And we are about
ready to agree with him.
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Clerk Luther Pair’s ability was rec
ognized at the Clerk’s Convention in
Griffin last week, by being elected as
sistant secretary of tiiat representative
body.
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McDonough was once a favorite lair
of the “blind tiger,” but far two or
three years past no spoor of it has been
discovered. The express now answers
all purposes, with a little help from
that wonderfully invigorating tonic,
“Q. I C. ’
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The grounds around the Institute
are being place in order for the fall
term, which opens August 14th.
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Mr. George Callaway has moved his
family to Locust Grove, having recent
ly been appointed section foreman at
that place.
A newspaper is not infallible. Some
times— very often—it makes mistakes
—mistakes that are glaring, and would
seem could scarcely be ovei looked, but
they creep iu nevertheless, much to the
chagnti of the poor, weary editor and
enjoyment of the fault-fiodii.g public.
Such a one occurred in the last issue of
The VS kekly, where it was stated
that “Rev. Tillman” would have charge
of the tent meeting. It should have
been “Rev. Stanton.”
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'The Ntwton county school board are
all in favor of dividing the county into
school districts and taxing the people
by districts to maintain the schools.
This is, undoubtedly, a move in the
right di tection.
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Watermelons are uow plentiful. The
receut rains have been greatly benefi
I cial to the late crop.
.McDonough, ga.. Friday, july 28. isdo.
Peacl es and apples not so plentiful
or good as was expected.
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Some of as able ministers and intel
ligent lav members as Methodism af
fords will meet with the District con
ference now in session at this place.
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Tlte following “soulful lay” was
written by one who will probably in
the future become a noted poetess. It
is dedicated to a certain individual who
will realize the pithiness of the point
if he does not appreciate the majestic
meter:
“Up was he stuck,
Ami in the very itptiess
Of h s stuekitude
He fell.”
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The Georgia railroad commission has
allowed the Centtal, blast Tennessee,
and other roads to advance their rates
15 per cent, after the 20 it of July on
nearly all classes of goods. Grain, cot
ton, lumber and fertilizers are excepted
from tiie raise. The advance on swine
flesh will be 10 per cent. Hog meat is
getting up to such a steep figure that
poor country editors, and tiiat ilk, will
have to substitute chicken or some
other cheap meat in its stead.
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On Wednesday afternoon at six
o’clock, near Luella, Col. Geo. P. Biv
ins and Mrs. M. S. Gwaltney were
united iu marriage, Rev. Buck Fears
officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Bivins itave
many friends iu this city who will con
gratulate them.—Griffin News.
The M til berry 8 afford a very pleas
ant shade these long, hot days, and af
fold a splendid place for our friends
from the country to meet their neigh
hors and discuss the topics of the day.
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1 D. Crawford, who has a fine plan
tation near Hampton, was in the city
yesterday delivering COO bush-Is of ear
corn which is only a part of his last
year's crop, he having sold the most
of it, hut still has a like amount at
home. 1 his has a Davor of the times
tiiat used to be, when every farmer
made his supplies at home and had a
surplus to sell in town. Gritfiu News.
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Tito people for many miles around
will miss the Shingleroof campiueeting
this year. For some cause it has been
decided not to have a meeting there
this year.—Jonesboro Enterprise.
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While Mr. J. S. Elliott was return
ing from Henry comity one day recent
ly lie viewed the surroundings from a
high liiil and saw six coru fields, two
oat patches, two millet patches and no
cotton. He did not see any cotton
from tiiat point until he reached Ii >ck
dale county. This speaks well for the
farmers )f Henry.—Lithonia New
Era.
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The following taken from an ex
change is illustrative: “There is a se
cret in building towns. Do you know
what it is ? If you don’t you can
work the problem out in the following
manner: Take two town sites; let
one be a beautiful location, witli all the
natural advantages possible, and the
other none of these. Take 500 old
fogies and misers —men who do not be
lieve in advertising: men who do not
believe in giving capitalists anything
for risking their money in their towns
—and put them on the good site Then
take 500 good, live, energetic, get-up
and get fellows, who never let an op
portunity pass to advertise themselves
and their town, and put them on the
poor town site; tlieu watch these two
towns for live years and you will very
rapidly catch on to the secret of town
building.”
The Athens Tanner strikes the nail
squarely on the head when it objects
to people preaching the support of
home enterprise and practicing the op
posite by buying whatever they inay
j need away from home. Every town
| may be judged by its merchants. A s
| a rule they are among the most public
j spirited cilizens. 'There is not an en
terprise that is for the good of the
community that the merchants do not
j take hold of They are large employ
ers of help. There profits are, almost
i wholly, distributed in the towns from
which they are drawn. They aid char
■ ity, promote progress and vote for good
) government Yet iu this very city
there are people who send thousands
:of dollars away every year for goods
| that might, as cheaply and to better ad
! vautage, be purchased at home. Sa-
I vannah News.
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i itF~ Advertising brings success.
RESOLUTION'S OF, RESPECT.
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Reportof the Committee on tile Death
of Col. T. C. Nolan, from Ills
Masonic Lodge.
To the Worshipful Master, Wardens
and Brethren of Fraternal Lodge,
No. 37, F. A. M.:
Your committee appointed to report
upon the death of brother T. C. Notan,
lately a member of this lodge, beg
leave to report as follows:
On the morning of the Bth day of
June, 1893, when the orient beams of
opening day were chasing the shadows
of night away, and the birds their tune
ful orisons were mingling with the
breath of flowers, the environment of
clay dissolved, and the spirit i f our
brother arose to Him who gave it.
It is sad at all times to realize the
ruthless, remorseless, unsparing power
of death, hut peculiarly grievous when
those we not only love v but respect for
their talents, and accomplishments, and
fitness for usefulness are taken away in
the very prime of manhood.
Life is uncertain in this moital
sphere, and not only but full of
surprises. NVo know not when th •
end shall come, nor how; neither can
we understand the processes by which
we are led, or borne, to the sure ful
fillment of God’s decrees. Tlte way 3 of
man are devious. Achieve them as lie
may, they are, nevertheless, a mystery
to himself.
If it be his mind to do the right, lie
makes a way therefor, and if perchance
lie finds success, it is to wonder tiiat lie
finds it not iu the way that he himself
hath planned, but in some other way,
he knows not how.
We are blind, as it were, and cannot
see afar off, hut there is a super emi
nent Intelligence which overlook', and
directs our thoughts and actions, and
this all supervising Power is the Great
Father of us all, who “brings tlio blind
by a way they know not, and leads
them iu paths they have not known.”
He wills our liappitiess in its glory
and directness. “I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked ways
straight,” and His faithfulness is ev> r
lasting. “These thing'* will Ido unto
them, and will not forsake them ”
Thus was it with our dear brother.
In his daily communion with his fellow
men, gifted as he was, and impelled by
a force unseen, but felt, and yel not
understood by himself, he often did the
work of tile Master all unawares.
While in light conversation he may
Itave given expression now and then to
passing thought to human ken too light
ly born, the AUseeiitg and Omnipotent
One gave sight and might to the matter
involved, and the shaft that was sent
bore true to its mark, an apt d mon
stratiou of tlte truth of religion—the
religion of Christ in its«f>urity here,
and its sequel of Glory hereafter. His
general bent was the love and aduiira
tion of tlte highest type, and the strict
est construction of Christian moral ty.
Would to God we had many Tinker
Nolans to teacli and enforce the beau-
tiful lesson of chastity for home anil
society ! The world would he better,
the-queenhood of home the magnet ol
hearts, and life all the happier, and all
the more hopeful.
While our brother made u i open ex
hibition of his religious intentions, no
out ever beheld the beauty of holiness
in more attractive colors than now and
theu, when, iu public discourse, he
would ring the changes of its wondrous
enchantment iu poesy more than syren.
God used him for llis own wise purpo
ses, and while he was yet unconscious
thereof, it may have been, the sun stood
still for the battle of the soul, till hal
\ lowing victory ended the stiife.
“There’s a Divinity which shapes
i our ends, rough hew them how wo
j may.” It is pleasing to us to know
: that when the grim monster, Death,
approached him, he was shorn of his
| terrors—was a friendly messenger to
.call him from lalmr to refreshment— a
peaceable janitor to unlock the portal
-1 of eternal life.
In the River of Eile arc many Falls,
dangerous, more or less. Upon its
j smooth bosom lloals many a craft full
laden with hope, when, all unexpected,
the rapitls are reached, whose turbulent
waters eugulph and destroy, and above
their dismal roar is either heard the
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! shriek of despair or pa-au of triumph
Thankful are we that on that peaceful
: morn, when '.he storms of Time’s nav
i igation had ceased, our brother tr:ui«
ported, could feel the rapture of victo
ry which l’aul described: ‘O, death,
where is thy sting? <), grave, where
is thy victory? Tne sting of death is
sin, and the stieugth of siu is the law,
hut hanks he to God. which givetli ii<
lhe victory through our Lord Jesus
j Christ.”
He illustrated in his life tiiat he who
lives a Mason true will die a Christian
I true, far, are thee not the parallel
Joints measuring the circle of human
existence, and faith’s itig| iration, round
ing the old and tlte new dispensations,
and crowned with the Word all bright
uitli tlte Spirit from Moses to Revela
tion? Peace he to thee, Brother
l inker! Sleep on till God hid thee
arise iu thy glorified humanity.
Light and heat are life. Darkness
! and cold is death. To him who is
saved there is light and heat the
| grand combination power of the resur
j ruction. Blessed be the power of light
land heat—the newer of God himself!
j It is said “there is a natural body, an!
| there is a spiritual body.” Light cor
responds to Faith, by which we see afar
J off the glory we shall have, and bring
it near, and Heat corresponds to Love
which in its into one many heartß witli
I Christ, and when at last the spirit shall
j return and from tlte opening toiuhs
j “this mortal shall put on immortality,”
we shall see tlte same Tinker as we
Itave known him, hut shining with the
light of an endless transfiguration.
We knew him from his boyhood. He
grew up in our midst, as it were, in
the very lap and nurture of Masonry.
His father was a Mason before him.
Fortunately for him, he was born, rear
ed, and educated iu a time, and coun
try, and trcnong a people of not only
refined, hut liberal thought, lie was
laborious in employment, constant in
duty, and faithful in service. Gifted
with ati exuberance ot imagination, his
poetic tastes lent beauty to labor, and
made it a pleasure—not a task. lie
was cut down in his prime—for what
reason, no mind can divine. It rests
alone in the inscrutable providence of
God. Iledoeth all things well. He
never made a mistake. We cannot re
call our brother to our earthly com
munion, but if ho he of those who are
“sent forth to minister for them who
are heirs of salvation,” and we shall
exemplify truly tlte principles we pro
fess, we may cherish tlte hope tiiat he
j still is witli us, although unseen by
mortal eye.
lie was in his way a useful ’man.
Speak in his lighter moments us lie
might, there was sometimes something
j to bring him around to the living Truth
in language most charming, and way
most expressive. In some inspects his
life was almost a poet's dream, and yet
he hat I his faults. If we were called
upon to name them, we might find it
hard to do so “in toto,” hut certain it
is that no matt ever lived without faults,
save One.
Whatever they may Itave been, let
thorn he buried with him, and forgot
ten, hut his virttns let tts remember.
They shall live and shine as long as
tlte sun itself shall shine, and their
memory, we trust, soften many a heart
to a better life.
In conclusion we submit these reso
; lotions:
Ist, Be it Resolved, That in the
death Bro. 1 Nolan we have lost
one of our mobt capable and brilliant
m labors.
2d, That we will cheiish liis memo
ry, and emulate his virtues, avoiding,
if possible, any mistake s, if any he
made.
3d, That a page be left in the min
utes of this lodge, surrounded by black
lines, and devoted to his memory.
4th, That we sincerely condole with
his family, and tender them our heart
hit sympathy, and pr sent them with
a copy of the>e resolutions, with the
assurance that i: will ever he our pleas
i inv to wait upon their call, whenevei
in the Proviiience of 1 'oil it shall Ire so
directed. Respectfully sulmii lcd,
.1. W. Ha iti’Kit,
C. T. Zacuiiv,
G. ’V. Hit VAN,
Committee.
Munranln'il 4'nre.
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diiii.il. Il you ere afflicted aitli a Clinch,
.•old or any lue , throat o- chest trouble,
and will use tin r iedy is directed, giving
lit a fair liial, an I i xp. li .'litre no benefit,
j you may reliirn tin; bottle and li.-.vc roar
i mono n-f.n.ded. Wo c ’uld nol make Ik's
oil.-r iii-1 wo u< t know' that Ur. King's New
| Iliseovoi} i-oiiid be relied on. Il never
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Etiglith Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps and
blemishes from horses blood spavins,
cuibs, splints, swteuey, ring bone, su
ites, sprains, ail swollen throats, coughs
etc. Save S3O by use of one bottle.
Warranted the tn ;»t wonderful Blemish
Cure ever known. Sold by C. D. Mc-
Donald.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report.
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CHICAGO LETTER.
Dr. anil Mrs. Low Viewing the Sights
at the World’s Fair.
Editor Wei.kly :—We reached the
Hotel Ingram eleven days ago, and are
now tired out and broken down sight
seeing.
Our hotel is at the 60th street enter
ance to the Fair, and while we pay a
good price yet it is an elegantly kept
house. We Itave music every night in
the large auditorium, and are crowded
witli guests from all poiuts of the coun
try.
On the first day after our arrival we
visited the Midway Plaisauce (French,
pronounced in English “Playsonts”).
It is over one mile long and dotted on
either side witli houses of all the for
eign nations, and in each house there ; s
a sideshow, many of which we visited,
paying from ten to twenty-five cents
each. Some were good, others hum
bugs. The Moorish Palace I think tlte
best of any we saw. The scenery in
it was beautiful anil picturesque. In
going through one becomes so bewil
dered and confused that he can scarcely
find his way out. Here we see the
iduutical guillotine that beheaded Marie
Ant'onette, and many other things of
interest, and also hear music that sur
passes anything 1 ever listened to.
The streets of Cairo and Venice with
a fac simile of tlte streets and houses
absolutely built and standing as they
were three hundred years ago, and
many other things were seen by us
which we will have to omit describing.
In the Midway l’laisance we also
rode two rounds in the celebrated and
world renowned Ferris Wheel, two
hundred and sixty-four feet in diam
eter. When at the highest point we
might have seen McDonough had our
powers of vision been strong enough.
It is immense. From seven to ten
thosand people ride on it per day, pay
fifty cents a head for otto trip. This
mammoth wheel was constructed at a
cost of $400,000.
We visited next the State Buildings.
All the states, with a few exceptions,
is represented (one of those exceptions
being our own state, Georgia). Tlte
different buildings cost upon an average
from $50,000 to $200,000. It was a
big job to take a more glance at the ex
hibits in each of those buildings. Cali
fomia, I think, made tlte fittest display,
and had their different articles more ar
tistically arranged than any of the
other State buildings. lowa, Illinois
and Virginia had beautiful exhibits.
The latter (Virginia) had Washington's
residence built exactly as it is at Mt.
Vernon, with all the furniture, paint
ings, musical instruments, etc.
You can readily see notv how big a
I show this is.
We visited the Art Gallery—a place
that will have to he seen to he appre
ciated. There you see in sculpt ute,
painting and bronze the finest works of
the ancient masters, and also the more
modern works of our artists of Ibis age
A fine mathematician has made a cal
culation that it will take to give five
! minutes to each exhibit in the Art Gal
lery thirteen years to go through it. I
! have not superlatives sufficient to des
[ oribejthe hugeness of it, nor is my
I language sufficiently intense to convey
the immensity of it. The Administra
I lion. Government, Liberal Ails, Man
ufactures, Trausportation, Electrical
and Agricultuial are all very large
| bud lings, some of them covering forty
acres of ground, and all filled from
' I) ittora to dome with the finest displays
[ the world can produce.
Tb -re are also many foreign
li ivii.g large buildings filled with tb*-
finest displays of their countries.
The Government building is espcc
idly interesting. We see there so
many relics of the If vnluiianmy war
—Washington's sword, cane and jew
elry. iueludi.g his watch; LaFayette’s
watch, the sadi he wore and with which
he bound a wound teeeived in battle;
also a lock of Washington's hair. Au
revoir.
We uiay remain two weeks longer.
Rain plentiful in Chicago.
Yours truly,
Dr. and Mrs. Low.
for W«»k Nervts.
5 CENTS A COPY
A Story With a Moral.
Rishop A. G. Ilaygood, writing from
Oxford, tolls a little story which points
to a moral. He writes :
“Tom Edwards lives in three miles
of Oxford. Years ago I knew him as
a careful, thrifty citizen. While presi
dent of Emory college I bought from
him chickens, eggs, butter, honey and
fruit in their season. Ilia start was
humble, but be was dilligent and pa
tient ; also had foresight.
“Yesterday my family had a little
picnic on his place. He has 20 acres,
most of it light gray land, there is
some creek bottoms. He raises some
cotton—enough to buy what he and
1 his family must have that they can’t
raise. Whatever people or s'oek need
to eat Tom Edwards raises at home. I
saw fruit treesj well kept; a beautiful
vineyard of au acre or more and full of
grapes; along a ditch a row of fig
trees, a long, low shelter for many col
onies of bees, good barns in good shape,
a pretty herd of grade Jerseys, fat
and sleek, and grass in the meadow to
keep them; well stocked fish ponds,
from which they catch fish for the ta
ble. Chickens thrive under their caro.
Sugar and coffee he can’t raise, else ho
would do it. How peaceful that homo!
I low free from care they seem to be!
It was restful to look at them and talk
to them. Such men do not want to go
to Texas. Such men are not scared
out of sleep by the story of broken
hanks. They are an honor to our
state. They are its mainstay. To
Tom Edwards, free citizen, I raise my
hat.”
“A Corpse Uaptiseil.”
Christian Index.
In the secular papers of June 8, was
printed a dispatch sent out by the as
sociated press from Chattanooga, that
a dcud man bad been baptized by Rev.
J. W. Drennon, in Walker county, Ua.
Letters of inquiry have come to us in
reference to the affair. Among others
the following comes fiom the venera
ble Dr. W. 11. Robert:
Centerville, Miss, June 10.
My Dear Bro:—The N. O. Pica
yiino of the Blh inst. contains an ac
count of the baptism of Mr. .1. W.
Massy, a farmer. The report said, “af
ter his death he was immersed with all
due form and solemnity, by J. W.
Dreunou, in the presence of a great
crowd. The dripping body was then
coffined and interred.” The act is put.
down as occurring at Eagle Cliff; a
hamlet on Lookout Mountain, near
Chattanooga.
1 was told on the street that it was
done by a Baptist preacher. Please
answer this in the Index ;
1. Do Baptists teach and practice
the baptism of persons after death ?
2. What denominations allow such
actions ?
3. Tell us who J. W. Dernnon is, if
you can, and to what church he be
longs ?
This county, and our village espe
cially, are taken up by Methodists aud
Presbyterians. Please answer and
oblige much, Yours fraternally,
W. 11. Robert.
Immediately on receiving this letter
we wroie to the postmaster at Eagle
Cliff, asking particulars. The follow
ing reply was received :
Eagle Cliff, Ga., June 13.
In auswer to your first question I
will say that there is no Missionary
Baptist preacher by the name of Dreu
non in this county.
2. Will say that the person baptized
was not immersed—only sprinkled by
the request of the subject.
3 Yes, there was a dead man by the
name of Massy, sprinkled by a Metho
dist minister near this place named J.
W Drennon, but he did it to satisfy a
request made by Massey to his wife
before bis death. He told bis wife if
lie could not lie baptized before bis
d. utb to have it done afterwards at the
grave Drennou did not want to ad
minister Bapiism, but thought it would
impress the people to attend the church
and its commands while they were in
health. So he sprinkled the corpse at
the grave. This is about all I know
in regard to the matter. Yours fra
ternally, VV. P. Wallin.
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