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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, July 22.
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The Grand Lodge of Good Tem
plars will meet in Athens on the 28th
of July.
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The officers of Fulton county, as
sisted by the police of Atlanta, made
a pretty big haul Saturday night, and
caged in the county jail thirteen of
Atlanta’s “respectable’’ young men.
A keg of beer and a few bottles of
liquor was the matter.
The locusts are play ing havoc in
New Mexico it seems. It is thought
by some that they are the seventeen
year locust which ravaged the west
during the 70s. They move east and
north in two principal swarms devour
ing vegetation of every character.
The Atlanta Herald, the new after
noon paper of Atlanta made its first
appearance Saturday evening. There
was considerable rush and hurry
about the office all day, which was
the natural consequences of the first
issue. Sam W. Small is the manag
ing editor.
The National Economist reproduces
a speech made by Hon. John C. Cal
houn in the United States Senate,
Octolier 8, 1887, discussing thu bank
ing system. It should be read by all,
and especially by those who are con
tending for the perpetuation of the
present banking system.
Mrs. Prissilla Scroggins, of Hall
county, is 114 years of age; has 12
children, 103 grand-children, 636
great-grand children, 872 graet great
grand-cliildren: in all 1,274. Her
father lived to be 110 years old. She
has been a member of the charch for
102 years.
Next the 27th, the Far
mers Alliance and Knights of Labor
encampment will begin at Sulphur
Springs, Texas, and continue five
days. The programme is modeled
upon the chautauqua system, and will
include addresses each day from well
known lecturers. The largest gath
ering of labor people ever held in
Texas is expected to be present.
Grounds, wood and water will be
provided for all who desire to camp.
A house in which Daniel Webster
lived for several years in Washing
ton, but winch of late has been used
for law offices, was advertised for
sale at auction last week for non-pay
ment of sotno small claim, but pro
feedings were checked by an injunc
tion. In the back yard of this place
is still standing a linden tree planted
bv the sage of Marshfield in 1850.
Christian Advocate.
The good ladies of Social Circle and
community have gone to work in
earnest, as is the case in a great many
other localities, urging legislation on
the subject of temperance, and much
interest is being manifested by all
classes both male and female. It is
a fact beyond question that the people
are becoming more and more con
cerned ou the subject of morality and
decency. It is more disgraceful now
than in former times to be seen under
the influence of liquor. The right to
legislate upon the evil traffics are not
bo readily questioned. The plea of
“unconstitutional” is not thrust into
every discussion, and the people are
coming to the proper conclusion that
it. is souls that tit esc reform movers
seek to save. The people are realiz
ing tlm importance of life and are
waking up to its duties. It is true,
in some localities there is mo change
and hi some the people are growing
worse, but as a whole our population
is undergoing a change for the better,
and reform measures will eventually
prevail, not only as regards the liquor
traffic but in other measures, such for
instance as some suggested by the
Farmers Alliance.
Mr. Blaine’s retirement from poli
tics seems to he at least assured. The
reports of his failing health can no
longer be discredited, and, indeed,
there seems to be too good reason to
believe that liis mental faculties have
been too greatly weakened to stand
the stress and strain of furtliur polit
ical activity. Perhaps no man ever
left political life whose retirement
was of more importance to his party.
We may be wrong, but it has seemed
to us that James G. Blaine is the
only man living who could rescue the
Republican Par ty from a serious and
probably disastrous defeat in 1802.
We doubt whether he could do it,
but be could if anyone could. He
has been on the popular side of the
issues that have wrought disaster for
that party of late years. The way in
which he seized on the idea of Reci
procity and pushed it to the front
was a masterly stroke of political tact,
which the new leadere of the party
were too slow to appreciate. His
opposition to the Elections bill was
far-sighted and clear. Ilis reported
aversion to Reed’s course as Speaker
did additional credit to his sagacity.
On the other hand, his conduct as
Secretary of State has strengthened
him in conservative circles among
men who feared that his love of the
spectacular would involve the nation
in perilous situations. Hu is stron
ger to day in public esteem than he
was in 1884, and, were he physically
able, would receive tho nomination
next year without turning over his
hand.—The Voice.
Vacation.
The season has come again when
the desire for rest and recreation be
comes general and all can leave home
and their accustomed pursuits behind
them. It is the season of general
dispersion and people betake them
selves to every point of the compass.
Those who pass the greater part of
the year within hearing of the many
sounding sea make for inland regions,
while those who dwell in towns and
cities far from the ocean hasten to
the seashore where they luxuriate in
the restful and invigorating influences
that surround them there. Such
changes are, in view of the conditions
of modern life, virtually indispensi
ble, and, if properly enjoyed, highly
beneficial. The children at school
need the change, and for this reason
statutory holidays have been appoint
ed. They are all the better for the
brief intermission of regular study.
In the country and at the seaside
they lay in stores of health and
strength, and come hack to school
and books with renewed zest and zeal.
The teachers need the respite. Their
occupation, however congenial it may
be to them, is irksome and exhaust
ing, the well-earned rest does them
good, and time devoted to it is time
well spent.
The churches feel the 'languor in
scperable from the heated term.
Those whose circumstances and du
ties detain them feel that they have
to exercise patience and self-denial.
The atmosphere is drowsy and the
services somehow have not the life
and freshness which at other seasons
they possess. Numbers are greatly
diminished, whole families arc away,
and the church and Sabbath-school
have a deserted look. These some
what depressing influences have in
duced churches to close up during
vacation and reasons in defense of
this course are urged. It is difficult,
however, to convince the average
Christian that it is a proper thing to
close the doors of the house of
God, and leave the members who re
main at home to wander at will in
search of spiritual pastorage. No
difficulty is experienced in secur
ing supply for the pulpits rendered
vacant by tho departure of their reg
ular occupants for the seaside of
Europe. Witness bearing for the
truth is as much needed in summer
as it is in winter, and it does not
seem a right thing to have silent
sanctuaries. That seems a better
method, tried in some of our Canadi
an cities last summer with excellent
results, where two neighboring con
gregations arranged to meet together
during the holiday season. It secures
a husbanding of resources, brings the
people into closer friendly relations
with each other, and leaves a door
open to all who choose to enter.
Those who go for a vacation carry
their responsibilities with them.
Many may feel a delight in the tem
porary freedom from the restraints of
conventionality. They may not be
disposed to follow out the social code
in all its minute details and require
ments, but if they' are Christians at
home, they will be no less Christians
away from home. Complaints some
times come from remote summer re
sorts that those who are rigidly de
corous at home are not so careful in
their observance of the Sabbath while
at distant watering places or in
country villages. It is also said that
they are not so punctual in their at
tendance on the means of grace as
when at home. If these things are
so, such complaints are well founded.
It is not right that a careless exam
ple should be set before the people
in remote places, neither is it right
to be absent from the village church,
even although neither a Spurgeon
not a learned Doctor of Divinity oc
cupies the pulpit, or a highly accom-'
pished organist and brilliant choir
conduct the services of praise. The
Christian life is itself a witnessing for
Christ, and there is no place where.
■ hat should be dispensed with, or
where its influence for good is unfelt.
Properly enjoyed, a vacation can he
very helpful to moral and spiritual
life. The quiet communing with nat
ure, the absent e of the turmoil and
haste so characteristic of all modem
life, sacred and secular, are conducive
to the strengthening of right feeling.
The temporary pause in the regular
rotine of customary life affords time
for retrospect and reflection, exercises
in which we are none too prone to
indulge. It is well to be for a season
cut loose from ordinary surroundings.
A well-spent vacation will be good
alike for body and soul.—Canada
Presbyterian.
Ilanibal Hamlin Gone.
Hanibal Ilamlin is dead. The ex-
President passed away quietly at
Bangor, Me., at 8 in the evening on
the Nation’s birthday. His was a
most active life. For fifty years he
was constantly before the public in
the capacity of Representative, Sen
ator, Minister, Governor and Vice-
President of the United States. lie
was horn in Paris, Me., in 1809,
and received a very meager education.
Humble circumstances compelled
him to work hard when a boy, but he
found time to study law, and in 1833
he was admitted to thu bar in his na
tive village. Then he rose rapidly.
Embracing the cause of Democracy
he went to the Legislature in 1836.
To this office lie was chosen for five
consecutive terms, during three of
which lie was the Speaker of the
House. Very early in his Congression
al career he came out unequivoeably
opposed to slavery, and, together with
Abraham Lincoln, he supported the
Wilmot Proviso. In 1848 he was
elected by the Democrats, with the
aid of the Free Seilers, to the Senate.
In 1856 he became a Republican, and
on January 7, 1857, lie was elected
by the new party Governor of Maine,
resigning his seat in the Senate and
being inaugurated Governor the same
day. The National Republican Con
vention, which met in Chicago in
May, 1860, chose Hamlin in the sec
ond ballot as candidate with Abra
nam Lincoln. After their election,
the President frequently sought the
advice of Hamlin on important ques
tions concerning the formation of the
Cabinet and the conduct of the war,
and the latter's foresight and patriot
ism were never doubted. During
Johnson’s term as President, Hamlin
was appointed Collector of the Port
of Heston. In 1869 he was re-elected
to the United States Senate for the
fourth time, serving until 1881, when
he was appointed Minister to Spain.
lie leaves a widow and two sons,
General Charles Hamlin, a lawyer,
and Frank Ilamlin, now living in
Chicago.—The Voice.
A “heavenly foot society” has
been formed by Chinese women at
Amboy. Rev. John Macgowen, mis
sionary at Amboy (now in England
ou a visit) in a speech delivered at
Manchester recently, stated that the
society was the result of his persist
ent teaching that the Ctiinese custom,
of binding the feet was in open viola
of the precepts of the gospel. It is
his belief that the example will be
extensively imitated, and that the
final result will be a death-blow to
the barbarous practice.—Christian
Advocate.
The Atlanta Journal says that the
object of General Weaver and Jerry
Simpson in speaking in Atlanta was
to promulgate a third party. And
what’s The Journal going to do about
it?
SOCIAL. DIFFERENCES INEVITABLE.
Di*. <l. ill. Hockley Explains the Impossi
bility of Human Equality.
Were a single family to be cast upon
the shore of a fertile but uninhabited
island, the struggle between man and
nature would begin at once. They
might live to the full limit of human
life without once having the problems
of civil and social Inequalities thrust
upon them. Such terms as “civil gov
eminent.," “rights of property," “laws
of inheritance," “private property,”
“capital and labor,” “higher and lower
cUtises,” and the ideas for which they
stand, might never be known to them.
But as the population increased, re
strictions on the use of property and
government in some form wonld be
required. After a few generations,
among the multitude varying degrees
of ability, physical and mental, would
be found. Social differences would
arise, and be perpetuated by dissimilar
environments.
That which would Inevitably occur
on such an island manifests itself in
all parts of the world. Customs and
laws dilfer, but wherever socic-ty exists
several general distinctions appear.
The poor, including not only paupers
jmd tho indigent, hut those who earn
barely enough to support them, and
whom the sickness of two or three days
would transform Into objects of char
tty, constitute in most countries an im
mense majority.
In the United States, owing to extent
of territory, fertility of soil, mineral re
sources, timber, navigable rivers, sea
coast, variety of climate, isolation and
the noed of development, the poor
have been less numerous than in the
Old World, but they are now in ere os
ing more rapidly than heretofore.
At 11 io other extreme are the rich,
the mere income of whose possessions
at current interest, with only the care
necessary to superintend their invest
ments, is sufficient to support them in
luxury, though many of them may con
tinue in business for its pleasure and
power, or in the hope of adding to their
wealth. Between these is the great
middle class, having “neither riches
nor poverty," subdivided into those
who tiro hopefully pressing upward to
the envied station of the rich, and those
who, from infirmity, losses, the rise ol
now modes of transacting business tu
which they cannot adapt themselves,
and misfortunes, are declining toward
poverty.
Intellectual gifts and acquisitions
make other distinctions. In all nn
tions tho number of tho ignorant is far
greater than that of the learned, while
in tile first powers of the globe a large
number arc well informed. —Dr. J. M.
Buckley in Harper's.
Urtmini.
The whole cosmos is In a man’s
brains—as much of it, at least, as a
man's brains will hold; perhaps it if
bo where else. And when sleep relaxes
the will, and there nro no earthly sur
roundings to distract attention—no
duty, pain or pleasure to compel it—
riderless Fancy takes the bit in its teeth,
and the whole cosmos goes mad and
lias its wild will of us.
Ineffable false joys, unspeakable false
terror and distress, strange phantoms
only seen as in a glass darkly, chase
each other without rhyme or reason,
and play hide and seek across the twi
lit Held end through the dark recesses
of our clouded and imperfect conscious
ness.
And the false terrors and distress,
however unspeakable, are no worse
than such real terrors mid distress as
are only too often the waking lot of
man, or even so bad, but tile ineffable
false joys transcend all possible human
felicity while they last, and a little
while it is I
Wo wake, and wonder, and recall
the slight foundation on which such ul
trahuman bliss lias seemed to rest.
What matters the foundation if but
the bliss be there, and the brain has
nerves to feel it.—Harper’s.
A Feather Ouster.
When you dress a white lien for mar
ket or your table L-e careful to keep the
wings clean and unbroken. Sprinkle
the joints with a little salt, that they
may dry and cure more perfectly, and
then cover the joint end of the wing
with a bright scrap of plush or velvet
to the'depth of throe inches.
I made-several of these dainty white
dust era for Christmas presents, and
they were very pretty as well as useful.
I feather stitched the blue plush that
covered the handle with old gold em
broidery silk, making three bars
of stitching down the back of the
plush, finishing the duster with a pretty
bow and long loop of blue or old gold
ribbon. - Clarissa Potter in Good
Housekeeping.
’ o •’ Worms Can’t Stand ISenzine.
Wood worms can be destroyed in
books and woodwork by benzine.
Hooks are locked up in a cupboard
with a saucer of benzine. The insects,
ns well as tbeir lame and eggs, soon
die off. Furniture and carvings are
similarly placed in a room with a dish
of benzine and kept closed up for sev
era! weeks, the time required for the
complete destruction of the insects va
rying according to the thickness of the
wood. New woodwork can be protect
ed against their entry by a coating of
glue, as, living on vegetable substances,
tin*y do not touch animal products.—
New York Journal.
Both for scientific and for industrial
purposes a standard of color has long
been desired, and in order to. attempt
a solution of the question the Society
of Arts is investigating the subject
tfirouirh a committee.
CONGRESSMAN CRAIN’S POKER STORY
Why He Wasn’t Shot on the First Vight
and How He Ewapetl on the Srcutid.
Congressman Crain, who represents
the Galveston district of Texas, tells
some remarkable stories of poker play
Ing in that state during war time. It
was an epoch there of lawlessness and
mob rule, and personal bravery was the
quality of leadership. One night he
was playing in a game with three or
four others, one of them a desperado
named Boyd. The hitter took ad
vantage of the conviviality of the pro
ceedings to hold out a card, and Crain
saw him do it. On the spur of tho mo
uient Crain said, “Boyd, you are cheat ;
ing!”
It was a foolish thing to do, unless
with pistol in hand, because it meant
immediate murder. But, to the sur
prise of every one, Boyd simply turned
very pale laughed and replied, "Crain
boards at my bouse, you know, and sol
I can't a (Toni to shoot him.”
The next evening Boyd came nnin j
vited into Crain’s room, where some
other men were, and offered to play
Crain a game of two handed “freeze
out.” The latter assented and they sat
down at the table, while the rest drew
their chairs back and waited for the
tragedy they supposed was coming. A
few minutes later Boyd again cheated,
so openly that he doubtless intended to :
be caught, and Crain at once charged
him with the offense.
Immediately Boyd leaped to his feet,
seized two chairs and threw them into
the air. One of them struck Boyd as
it fell, ami he drew the pistol he had
ready, crying, “Crain, you hit me with
a chair!”
“Like a flash." says Crain, in tailing
the story, “my instinct as a criminal
lawyer came to my aid I saw that his
pnrjiose was to claim self defense in j
shooting me. So, without stirring from ;
luy scut. I pointed my linger at Boyd,
who had me covered with his gun. and
said- 'Boyd, you know that isn't true.
I haven't touched you. If you want
to fight I'll nacmnntralnfc you anywhere
you like and with any weapons within
an hour of this time, bet's fight, if
need be, but there’s no occasion foi
murder 1‘”
Crain's coolness of action saved him
ami the duel never came off. because
friends interfered, do lived to secure
Boyd's acquittal of murder su'-.e
queiitly. I, liter on, however. Boyd
was killed with libs boots on in a row
Washington Star.
A llorim’s Intelligence.
When Sunday comes my horse knows
that 1 am not proceeding on my pro
fessional rounds, but he will put on his
Ix-st style ami proceed to the aceus
fomed church, when, without any guid
ing on "my part, he will land his loud at
the church door, and woe to the team
that limy chance to get in ahead of
him. On no other day of the week
will he make the attempt to turn up
into or pay attention to the road lead
ing to the church.
Two weeks ago, on Sunday, I took
my wife out for a rido on Bolton mouu
tain, and in going had to pass a church,
one to which the horse was not areas
turned to go. when to my surprise la
wns bound to stop. It was only with
some difficulty that I got liim p-.-ff the
post. About a mile and a half farther
on he came to another church, one at
which he has never l*en accustomed to
stop To my surprise John made an
other strong effort to stop. On any
week day lie will pass that church doily
without paying it the least attention.-
A Physician in Hartford Times
When She Regpttt.
"I hear Brown married his cook.”
“Not exactly. His wife wasn't a cook
until after she married him.” Harper's
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Furniture!
Do You Need Furniture?
if so
W. W. JORDAN, of Harmony Grove, Ca.,
has a SPLENDID LINE of all kinds of FURNITURE,
and will sell you as cheap as the cheapest. lie has a large stock of Sewing
Machines at living prices, and on good terms. Trunks at cost to close out
that branch of business. Also large stock of Baskets, Satchels, Valises,
etc., cheap.
Remember he carries a large stock of Coffins and Caskets; also Robes,
Shoes, Gloves and Hoes for burial purposes. Hearse free with any coffin
worth $25 or more to any place within ten miles of Harmony Grove, and
reasonable charges for longer distances of cheaper coffins.
SHORTHAND
Lockhart’s Drug Store
WILL FURNISH YOU ALMOST ANY KIND OF PATENT
MEDICINE.
Biocd Purifiers, Tonics, Piiis--ali Kinds,
FURNITURE POLISH,
CLEANSING FLUIDS,
PILE OINTMENTS,
Plnsiers. Perliinicry mul Brushes.
Fine Soaps, Ginger, Pepper and Spice.
SALTS AND SULPHUR,
Horse and Cattle POWDERS.
SPECTACLES, and Family Medicines of all kinds.
Hooks.
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Sketches
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WHAT THEY SAY:
Rev j M Ilubbert, D. D., J.L.D., pas
tor of the First Cumberland Pres
byterian Church, Nashville, Tenn.,
says:
In “Character Sketches” the pic
tures make ns think of Banyan’s alle
gories, -rEsop's fables, and Xast’s cari
catures. The took will please its
thousands.
J. R. Brooks, D. D., Presiding Elder
of the Shelby District, of the West
era N. C. Conference, writes:
1 have read with great interest a
number of the sketches in the origi
nal and striking volume of Rev. G. A.
I.ofton, and heartily recommend it to
the reading public.
Rev Mr Bonner, pastor of the Metbo
dist Church, Hickory, N C, writes:
“I wonld give one dollar to read
"Character Sketches’ just one day.”
The Knoxville Sentinel, Knoxville,
says:
“Character Sketches” is a remarka
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tinguished author led ns to expect
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amination of its unique pages makes
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The Baltimore Baptist says:
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taining volume, full of happy hits and
wise suggestions.
The Western Recorder, of Louisville,
Ky, says:
“Character Sketches” is unlike any
thing tlnil Inis nppi nred since the days
ol lohn Uuuviui, of whose emblems it
strikingly, reminds us.
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-Miss Loula Morris, of North Carolina,
wiites:
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Professor J. 11. Boon, of Ga., writes:
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my first eight botws work. I met only
one person to who fa I failed to sell the
book. I bi-lieae I etui make a great
success at the business Ant on the
fence trying to decide whether to con*
tinue teaching or give up my school and
sell books entirely.”
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