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Volume 1.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY. FEI.HUaKY 19, .188$.
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Number 24.
gyjfcsstonal Cards.
James Callaway.
Attorney at Law
When 3
CAMILLA, GA.
teli#' •
Jas. H. Spence,
Attorney at Law,
CAMILLA, GA
Will practice iu nil tb« conntie* of Al
bany Circuit. and iu the U. S, Circuit and
Limrict Court* for the Southern District
of li t
t&rOCice Up «Uira, over Thirty A Cul-
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LAND AMD COLLECTION AGENCY.
a. 0. SHEFFIELD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ARLINGTON, GA.
pfr- Wild Linds looked after and "Col
lections made in the couuti* - * of K*r!y,
Miller, C.ilhouu an I Biker. tch'iS-ly
Trowbridge & llollinslied
DENTISTS,
WAYCItOSA, - GEORGIA.
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ATTORlTSYatLAW
111 BAT STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Practices In All the State Court*.
Me tor* to lion. T. M. Norwood.
apllllm
W. T. JOXfrY- W. tt'AIJMH.
JONES & WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GA.
OiBm over Centra* Railroad Bank
•wo 15-1 v
GO SLOW.
-... ji you * pair of briaht eyes meet
That make your heart In rapture beat.
When unc voice seems to you more sweet
Than any other voice yon know.
Go slow, »y friend, go slow:
For biiybest eyes have oft betrayed.
An.i sweetest voice of youth ano maU
The very fastest things have snid.
And thereby wrought a deal of woe;
ti i slow, my friend, go slow.
When you’re convinced yon arc a poet.
And, wishing all the wo Id to know it.
Call on some editor to show it.
Your veivcs full ol blow and “glow,"
Go slow, my friend, go slow;
For many a oneghju done the same.
And thought to grasp Uie band of Fame,
And yet be has never seen his in me
Jn print. And whv—waste Iwi-kcU know:
Go slow, my friend, go slow.
When you to greed f.if money j ield
And long the mighty power to wield
That's always found m the golden held,
Wiili senseless iioioii, *nd pride, and show.
Go slow, my fr end, go sloe
FOr thousands, tempted by the glare
Of wealth, have fallen in the snare
Set for the thief. And now despair,
Regret aud shame have brought them low:
Go slow, tuy friend, go slow.
The good old earth is never wrong;
Each of her works takes just so loog;
Months pass before a happv throng
Of oaisies in the meadows grow ;
Go alow, my friend go slow.
And spring gires life to summer's flow'ra.
And mininier- sun and summer's show'rs
ITena e the fruit for autumn's howr'rs,
Aud autmun’s frost begins wInter’s snow:
Go slow, my frieud, go slow.
> KF!CB—OVER Pudf OFFICE, WASHING
TON STREET. J»u«wljrdl
t*. J. WRIGHT.
D II. POPE
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I ALplirr. aKJ *j
OFFICE:—Over S. Mayer A Glauber’s More, cor
ner 11 road and Wx-hlngton SI*.
I>ec. *8, KkSO-dlwwly
•vv wm j:.
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY, GA.
t V»MMUNICATIONS on business direct.-,I to
V uie at Washington City, during th«£tf) six*
t« ds)M will receive prompt aitention.
Attorneys at
Law,
in all the courts.
Oflt.r,* »v«*r Southo n Express oilier, oppo
site Court House. JauB-dtf
vV. A; STROTHER, M.D.
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
.si ifirffifert? flroj Siere
All ordan left at the Drug Store will receive
primp* mntion. Jan 7-ly
Dr. r:. W. ALP RIEJVD.
. AESPE :TFULLT tenders «i* services, in -be
' V 'in »ii4 •'•ranches .il his profession, to tbe
HOTEL 1 .
THE JOHNSON HOUSE,
SMITHVII.I.E, GA,
I* the place to -top and gets GOOD
s«,hjai:e meal.
THE ALBANY HOUSE!
Merrick Barnes, Proj.'rletor
Albany, Georgia.
flMii* Homo is well furnished and in ev-
1 ery wav prepared tor the accommo
dation of the traveling public. Entire *at-
I htaction guaranteed. The table i* nun-
plied with the heat the country affords,
a nd the servants are unsurpassed in po-
1 itones* and attention to the wants of
K wests. Omtiihuses convoy passengers to
and from the different railroads prompt*
I y. fcee of charge. Charge* to suit the
times. «ep*29 tf
I. J. BRINSON,
Contractor & Builder
AND DEALER IS
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ALBANY. GA.
(•umber, Brick, Shingles
Lathes, Lime and
Cement
C-o.itsntly on hand, and prdera promptly
Kali mate* fumi*ltiM lerbululilt.es and
Mticncla taken at lowest living rate*. ,
Albany and ;oulhw«»t Georgia need »nen- •
terpriac of thin k'nd, ami J am detonuisad to
•apply the demantL
Patronage solicited and satisfaction gur*
as toed
arOFFICE: At S. Sterne'* Store
on Washington Stm-t.
Albany. «*,»!». ». ISAS. tf
and. or D.Ua»
Are spent annually by our people for
Medicines Made North, they ate adver
tised as being adapted to Southern Cota
plaints, bet H. II. P. is a medicine that
tin. done more good than any of them,
as it it especially adapted tn oar cli
mate.—Xetei (Augusta, Ga.).
DR. TALMAGE.
Lawful Amusement*
j
THE HOST OF PLEASIIHE IJi
WHICH CHRISTIANS CAS
TAKE RECREATION
ENTKRTAINXIKNT* WHICH DO
SOT LKAD INTO BAD COB.
PANT NOB COST TOO
nt'cu.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Fcl>. 6.—At
tlio Tabcrnaclo this morning, after
the singing of the opening liyinu,
"tty d.j. irr sliding nriftly l.y,"
llic Itcv. T. Du Wilt Tultnagc, D. P.,
dlilircrcd a sermon oil the sub
ject,
WHAT rt.ACF.8 TO STAMP CLEAR OK.
The following is the full text of
the discourse:
Text : I.nke v|_ 44—“Kerry Tret
it Known by it* Own fruit."
This morning I pass on to Iny
down certain princtp cs by which
you may judgo in regard to any
amusement or recreation, finding
out for yourself whether it is rig-lit
or whether it U wrong. I remark,
in.the first place, that you ran judgo
of the moral character of any
nmu»cmcnt by Us* healthful result,
or by its baleful reaction. There
are peoplo who seem made up of
hard facts. They are a combina
tion of muttiplicalion table noil
statistics. If von show them an cx-
a uisilo picture they will begin lo
isvuss the pigments involved in
the coloring. If you show them a
beautiful rose, they will submit il
to a botanical analysis, which is
only tlio post-mortem examination
>f a flower. They have up rebound
ill their nature. They never do
anything more thnn smile. There
are no great tides of feeling surg
ing up from the depths of their
soul, in billow after billow of ro-
vcrbcrtliug laughter. They seem
as if nature had built them by con
tract ami made a bungling job of
it Bill, {blessed be God, there are
people in tlio world who have
bright faces, whose lil'ejis a:song, an
anthem, a pa-en of victory. Even
their troubles are like the vines tliai
crawl up the side of a great tower,
on the lop of which the sunlight
sits ami tlio soft airs of summer
hold perpetual cumin. They are
people yon like to have come l«
your house; they are people I like
in have come to my house. If you
but touch the he n of their gar
ments you are healed. Now. it is
these cxliilnrant and sympathetic
and warm-hearted people) that are
mo.t
TKlirTEP TO PERNICIOUS AMUSE-
* MEXTS.
In proportion as a ship is swift,
it wants a strong helmsman. Injpro-
portion as a hor-c is gay, It wants a
stout driver; aud these people of
cxlniheraut nature will do well to
look at the reaction of all their
amusements. If an amusement
sends you homo at night nci vous,
so that* you can not sleep, and you
rise up in the morning, not because
you are slept out, but because your
duty drags you from your slum
bers, you have been where you
ought not to have been. There
are amusements that send a man
next day to Ids work bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated; ami
they arc wrong kinds of amuse
ment. There are entertainments
that give a man disgust with
durdgerr of life, with tools because
they aro not swords, with working-
apruus because lliev aro not robes,
with cattle because they are not in
furiated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home long
ing for aflife of romance and thrill-
ng adventure, love that takes poison
and shoots itself, moonlight adven
tures and hair breadth escapes, you
may depend upon' it that yon arc
the sacrificed victim of unsanclificd
pleasure. Our rccreitions arc in
tended to build us tip; and if they
pull ns down as lo onr moral or
physical strength, you may’ coine lo
t*-e conclusion that they arc obnox
ious.
AMUSEMENTS WHICH ARE TOO COST-
LT.
Still further: Those amusements
arc wrong which lead you into cx-
peuditure beyond your means.
Money spent in recreation is not
thrown away. It Is all folly for us
to coine from a place of amusement
feeling that wc have wasted our
ntonov and time. Wo may by il
have maco an investment worth
more than the transaction that
yielded you a hundred or a thous
and dollars. But how many pro
perties have been riddled by costly
amusements. The champagne has
cheated the children’s wardrobe-'
The carousing parly lo* burned up
the boy’s primer. The table-cloth
of the comer saloon is iu debt to
the wife's faded drcsL Excursions
that in a day make a tour around a
whole month’s wages; ladies whose
life tint* business U to go shopping
have their oouuterparte In uneducat
ed children; bankruptcies that
shock the inouey market and appeal
the church, and that send drunken
ness staggering across tlin richly-
figured on pet of the man* on, and
da*li inti, llic mirror and • rown out
the carol of music with the whoop
ing of the bloated sou.- c-mu home
to break their old iimtlu- '* heart.
I beard of a beautiful home, where
the liell rang violently late at night.
The son had been oil"in -mini in
to organi
to associate with the iiiL-inp rat**,
with tbe unclean, with the aban
doned, however well yon may be
d-ewed, in the namcof God quit it.
They will .lc*|>oil your nature. They
will undermine vonr moral charac
ter. They will drop you when yon
are destroyed. They j» ill give m.i
one cenMo Mtutatft* yonr Children
wlien ydu are dead. Thev 1 e-ill
i
diligence*. Hi* comnnir* were!,...™... p-• «.«—
biitiglng him home. Tfiey carried' deep tint one tear at’vcoir'harial
him lo the door. They rang the
hell at X o’clock in the morning.
Father and molher came down.
They were wafting tor lie- wander-
ing son, ami then the cninrade*. A£ home. ■ Ta fine personal appearance
‘ iew lie atlthitl'a genertMirv,» rntnkiies-
Tltiv will chuckle over your dam
nation. I had a friend in the Wot
—a rare friend—he was one of Up
first to welcome me to mv new
soon a* the iloor was opened, lit
Hie prodigal headlong into the
doorway, oruiBgA^naSs*"* -be- fa,
drunk as a fool, il t! ha!” When
men go into ntiitiscim iils t< hicli limy
eatt not tilford they first borrow
what they can not earn,
AND THEM Tltrv STEAL
what they cannot borrow. Fir-1
they go into emlrtrrnssitivnl. and
then into lying, ami the t iutoitiieft:
and when a 10.111 gels -is far on ns
Hint he docs not stop short of the
5 >c-niteiitmry. There is not a prison
11 Hie land where tliere are not
victims of tinsaiirlilifd aitlitseinenls.
Ilow uficn I have lull parents come
to me and ask me to go over to
New York nnd beg their boy off
from crimes Hint Im had -unimil
led against his 1 uiploycr—the tak
ing of funds from his employer's
till or the disarrangement of the
accounts. Why. lie r Ii«d salary
enough lo pay all lawful ■ \pendi-
turcs. hill mil enough lo meet his
sinful {iiinsctnciil*. And again nnd
ngaiu I have gone and implored
lor the young man,sometimes, alas!
llic pcliliou all unavailing. Mer-
elianls of New York, is there a dis
arrangement in your ncroiinls? I-
llicrc a leakage in your momnv
drnwers? Did not the nisli ac
counts come out all right last night?
I will tell you. Tlicru is a young
man iu tour store wandering oil
into bad’ amusement*. The salary
you gave him may meet lawful cx-
oiturcs, hill not llic sinful iu-
pemi
the
heir
pictures
diligences ill which lie Im-culcicd
and he takes l>v theft that which
you do not give him in llie lawful
salary. Ilow brightly llie path 01
unrestrained amusement open-.
The young man *nva: "Now 1 am
off for a good lime. Never t.tiutl
economy. I will get money some
how. Wliht 1 tine road ! What a
beautiful day fora ride! Oaek the
whip, anil over the turnpike! Come,
boys, fill high your glasses! Drink !
Long life. Iienltli, plentv ..f ride-
just likeihis!” Ilnid-wo. king men
hear the duller of the hoofs, aud
look up and say: ‘-Why, I wonder
where those feilows got lliclr mon
ey from ? Wo have to loil' ami
drudge. They di> uoHiiiig,”- To
Ihcsegay men life is n thrill and
excitement. They stains «t other
poople.aieand i 11 iirnst 1 red at. The
watch chain jingles. Thu clip foams.
Check flushes. The eyes flash. The
midnight hears their guffaw. Tlier
swagger. They jostle decent men
off Uie sidewalk. They
name of G01I in vain,
the hymns they learned at
mother’s knee, ami to all
of coming disaster lliev cry out;
“Who eares?” I'assiug "along the
street so***e night you hear a shriek
in a grog-shop, the rattle of the
watchman’s club, the rush of t ie
police. Wlint is llie lustier now ?
Oh, this reckless young man Las
been
KII.LMl IN ASUROO-SHOI- KIOHT. '
Carry him lio-nu to his father's
house. 1'arenis will come down
and wash his wounds and close liis
eye* iu dea li. Toey. forgive him
all lie ever did. though lie can not
in hi* -ileuee. ask it. The prodigal
lias got home at Inst. Molher will
go to her In lie garden and get the
sweetest flower*, and twist them
into a chaplet for the silent heart of.
llic way u a rd boy, and’, push hack
from :lie bloated lirow the long
lo.-k* ilmt were oileo lier pride.
And the air will lie rent with llie
father’s cry, “Oh, my son. my son,
my poor -mi! would Uod I had
died for lliec! oh, my son, mv
son!’’
THE CniEF IICSIMESS OP LIFE.
I go further and uy those arc un
christian amusements which be
came llic chief businessof a man’s
Ffc. Life is an earnest thing.—
Whether wc were born in a palace
ora hovel, whether we are affluent
or pinckpd, we have io wors. If
you do not sweat with toil, you
will sweat .vith disease. You liive,
a soul that, in to lie transfigured*
amidst the pomp of a'judgment
day; and after the sen has sung its
Iasi chant, and the mountains -hall
hive coiue down in an avalanche of
rock, you will live and think smi
act, high on a throne where seraphs
siug9, or deep iu a dungeon where
deno>ns howl. In a world where
there is *0 much to do for your
selves, and so milch to dr for others,
(■oil pity that man who lias nothing
to do. " Your sports are merely
means l» an end.. They aro allevia
tions ami hel|>a. Tlieoirui of toil is
the only arm strong enough to
bring up tlio bucket out of the deep
well of pleasure. Amusement is the
kowur where business aud. philan
thropy rest while on llieir way to
stirring achievements. Amuse
ments are merely the vinos that
grow about the anvil of toil and the
Clossoiaing of the hammers.' Alas
for the man who spends his life in
laboriously doing tiolhing, Ids day
in limiting up loungiug places and
lourgers, hi* nights in seeking out
some gts-tighlod fuoloi}''
who always baton his
et ready to bust /•
mountain or fish iu
no time to pray or work or read, is
not so well off as tliq gKyluMind
that runs by ids side, or TI16 fly-bait
with which he whips the stream. A
■nan who doc* not wprk docs not
know how to pisy. God I
us shoulders with which U
hands with' which to a
brains with which to think. The
amusement* of lite aro merely the
orchestra
tragedy
five acts—infancy, childhood,
hood, old age and death. Then exit
the last ciwtce for mercy. Enter the
o crwhelmlng realities of an eter
nal world {
KEEP OPT OP BAD COMPANY.
I gO ft|
generosity,
and ardor of nature that made -me
tore him like a lirolhcr. Rui I saw
evil people gathering around him.
They came up from llic xal.xiiis. the
gambling bells. They plied him
with a thousand arts. They seiz 'd
upon hi* social nature, ami he could
■lot aland Ihechari-i. They drove
him on to the rock* like a ship, full
winged, shivering on tlm breakers.
I used lo admoiii-li liiui. t w.iuhl
sav, “Now I wish y ni.would quit
I hose had haliil* and heroine a
Christian.” “Oh.” he would reply.
"I Would like (p; I won I I like
but I have gone so far I don’t ihi
there is any way hack.” In hi* liii.-
ments of repentance lie would g.
home, take hi* lillle gill of rigln
vcars,ciubrace her convulsively and
cover her with endearments, ami
strew around her pictures and toys,
and everything that could make
-her happy;-and then, a- though
hounded hy an cv I spirit, lie wniiid
go out to the iiifl lining cup and llie
hoiise of shame, like a foul to Hie
correc Ion of stocks.
1 WAS
SUMMONED TO Ills DEATH BED..
I hastened. I entered the room. I
round hint, tp my surprise, Ivi-ig iu
fall every-day dress on the'top or
llic couch. I put out mv li-uul. lie
grasped it excitedly, anil mid: “Sit
down, Mr. Talmago; right lh-rc.”
I sat down, lie said: “Last night
I saw my mother, who Ins been
dead twenty years, and she sat just
where you sit now. It was no
dream. I was wide awake. Thcre
was no delusion iu the matter. I
sa w tier just As plainly as I see von
—wife, I wish you would take tlicse
-I rings off of me. There arc strings
spun nil around my body. I wi.-Ii
you would take them ofi of me.” I
s iw it was delirium, “Oh,” replied
hi* wife, “my dear, there is uotliing
ilierc.” He went on and said : “Juki
where you sit, Mr. Talmngc. my
motUcr sat. She said to me, ‘Ro
well, Ido wish you would do bet
ter.’ I gut out of bed, pill my arms
around her and said, ‘Moilicr, I
waul to do better. I have been try
ing lo do better. Won’t vou help
mu lo do better ?- You - aseil to helf
me.' No mistuko about it, no delu
sion. I saw her—the cap and the
apron and the spectacles, just as she
u-eil to look twenty years ago. Bui
1 do wish you would take these
strings away. They annoy me so I
.•mu hardly talk. Won’t yon lake
knelt . down and
hardly
lev lake I he them nway ?”,I knelt down a
They parody : |ir*j'cd, conscious of Iho fact that he
realize what I. wa* saying.
Sid
idNitot r
I gbt'iip, 1 said,' “Good-bye; -I hope
yon will be better soon.” He said,
•’linnd-bye, good-bye.” That night
liis soul went to the God who gave
it. Arrangements were made for
the olMcqu s ea. Some said, “Don’t
bring 'him in the church; he wa*
too dissolute.” “Oh,” Isaid, “bring
him in. He was a good friend or
mine while lie was alive, aud I shall
slauil by him now that lie is dead.
Bring him to the church,” As I sal
ill llie pulpit and saw liis body com
ing up tnrougli the aisle, I felt a*if
I could wce.i tears of blood. I lohl
the people, that day, “This man had
hi* virtue*, and a’ good many of
them. Hu hail hi* faults, amt a
good inaiiv o‘f them. But >f there i*
aiiy man hi. this audience who is
without sin,let him cast thetim stone
at thi* coffin lid.” On one side Hie
pulpit sat Hist litHc,ro*y,sweel-fac-
•*l. n* beautiful as any little child
lliai sat at j,«ur table this morning.
1 Warrant you. She looked up wist
fully, not knowing the full sorrows
of an orpli in child. Oh, her conn-
leuaiice haunt* me to-day, like some
sweet face looking npos us through
a hoi rid dream. On the other side
of Hie pulpit were the men who had
destroyed him. There they sat,
hard-visaged, some of them pale
from exhausting disease, some of
them finished until it seemed as if
THE FISKS OF lNIqJITY FAMED
through the cheek and cracked the
eyes. They were the meu who had
done the work. They were the men
who bail bound him hand and foot
They kindled the fires. They had
poured the wormwood and gall in
to that ophan’s cup. Did they weep?
No! Did they sigh repeutingly?
No!- Did they say, “what a pity that
such a brave man should be slain?”
No, no; notono bloated hand was
lilted to wipe a tear from a bloated
cheek. They sat and looked at the
coffin . like vultures gazing at the
carcass of a lamb whoso heart they
had ripped out! I cried in their
ears as plainly as I could “tliere is a
God and a judgment day ami an
awfur hell for those who destroy
Uieir fallows.” Did they tremble?
Oh, no, no. They went back from
the house of God, and that night,
though their victim lay iu OakwoOd
cemetery, I was told that they bias-,
phemed, and they drank, anil they
gambled, and fiere was not one less
customer in all the houses of iniqui
ty. This de- trovcd|man was a Sam
son in in phvslcal strength, but Del-
“ ‘ ‘ ' iilstines
cys
of
sport for
them.” But in tbe hour of death he
yoMunp and took hold of two pillar
ed curses of God against drunken
ness and uncleanncssgmd threw him
self forward until down upon him
and hU'qorapauiona there came the
thunder of An eternal catastrophe.
Oh, beward of evil ^companionship.
‘Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ;
' let thy heart cheer thee* in the
* ” Uie sight
bring
jnto ba-l
«sr«aat3 p: vs
»i company- Jf you belong'amusement! The fathci
for all Uicse thing* God will
thee unto judgment.
^ LJVE AT TOUR HOME.
I want to offer yon one more rule.
Any amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad.
domestic, circles
by sinful
lather went off,
the ni-Hlier, Wi lli nil. Iho child u nit
off. I’heie arc li.-d-ty llic frag
ment* before in- ..I * ureal m mv
lila-tnl iionsclioM*. Oh. if you
wandered away, t would like to
charm you luck hr tin- sound .of
lliai o ie wor-l rH.-mc.” Do yon
not know Hiat von hare hut lillle
more time lo do in--lic welfare? Ihi
yon not »ct-. fattier. Ih.ii your i-hi -
dreil are soon in get out'into the
woc.d. . and all llie iiiUticucu for
good y jiu are l» Kan- over them yon
are to have now ? Death will break
Lion ymirconjugal Marions, and
ala*I ifyon have til stand over the
grave <yf one who |ierislicd from
your ufchct! I saw a wayward
hnsbaiitf^Tairdiiig al ilii: deaih-lied
of his Christian wife, nnd I saw her
point to a ring 011 her linger, and
heard her say to her li i*liaud: “Do
you see that ring?" lie replied
“Yes I sec it.” “Well.’’said she.
“do you remember who pul it
there?" “Yes” "I pot il iliere,” and
all the past seemo I to rnsli upou
him. Uy llic ineni »ry of that dav
whcii in Hie presen -e’of men anil
angels yon promi* -d to be raitlifol
in jov nnd sorrow, and in sickness
and in health; by the memory of
1 hose pleasant lio.irs when you lo-
g -iT.er in your new home talking of
a bright lutiirc; by Hie cradle and
Uie joyful hour when one life
was spared and another given; bv
th-il sirk bed, when the lillle t-n'r
lifted up llie hands anil criled for
help and yon knew he must die,
a-ul he put one arm around each
of your n -cks and brought you
very near logelher in that dying
ki*s; by the little grave in Green
wood that you ucver think of
without a rush of tears; by tliefam-
■lv llihh-, where, aniiiDl stories of
h avcnly love, is Hie brief, but ex
it cssive record ofliirths aud deaths;
by the neglects of tho past and by
the agonies of the future, byajudg-
m -nl day, when husband and wives,
pa-cuts and children, in immortal
ur*ups will stand lo lie caught up
by shining array or lo shrink down
into darkness; all that I beg you to
g'vc to home is your best affections.
I look in your eyes to-day and 1 ask
the question that Gcli zi asked of
t ie Sliuniaiiite: “Is it. well wi’h
llicc? Is it well with thy husband?
Is it well with lliy chid?” God
grant t|pl it may bo cvoYlastingly
well.
I1EATHFCL RECREATION.
And now I have some remarks of
a more genial nature. You must
have noticed last Sabbath that I
have no sympathy with that whole
sale denunciation of amusements
to which many churches are pledg
ed. A hook lately issued says that
a Christian mini has a righlto some
amusements; for iiistauce, if he
comes home at night weary from
tri 1 mm II, Mil, fit line Hie need of
recreation, lints oil his slippers and
goes into his garret and walks live
ly uroiiml the floor several times,
■iicrc can he 110 harm it. I be
lieve the Church of Go I has made
a tremcnduoiis mistake in trying to
suppress the Rportfiilncss of youth
and drive out from men their love
of amusements. If God ever im
planted anything in us, lie Implant
ed this desire. But, instead of pro
viding for this demand of onr qa-
turc, the Church of God, for the
main part, lias ignored it. As, in a
riot, the Mayor plants a battery at
the end of the street and has it fired
off, so that everything is cut down
that happens In siand. in the
range, the go-ul as well as the
bad, so there are men in the church
who plant tlii-ir bnlicrtrs and fire
away imlisci iminately. Every filing
is condemned. There are a great
many who denounce ball-playing.
They hale puzzle*. They despise
charades. They abhor tableaux.
They say; “Away with all parlor
games!’’ They talk a* if they would
likeio have our youth dressed iu
uniform, like the ■ hildrcn of an or
phan nsylnm, and march down the
path of life lo llie tune ot tbe“Dcad
March” in Saul. They hale a blue
sa*li. or a rosebud in the hair, or
tasseleri garter, and think a man al
most ready -for Sing Sing who ut
ters a cum ml rum. What do they
prescribe for our young people in
the way of recreation? mycr-
meeiings! Now, a young man, busy
in the store from 7 iu the morning
to 6 at night, sometimes wan is some
thing besides prayer-meetings. We
have a physical as well as a spiritu
al nature ihat asks for recreation.
Young Mcii’s Christian Associa
tions of the country are doing glo
rious work. They have fine read
ing rooms, and all the influences of
the bc-t kind. I believe tbe time is
coming wheu these associations will
also supply physical recreation;
when, added to their reading room
and prayer-meetings, there will be
gymnasium* andgVtowling alleys,
where, without any evil surround
ings, our young men may get phys
ical as well as'spirimai improve
ment. Wcarc dwindling away to
a narrow-chest oil, weak-armed, tec
hie-voiced race, n hen
cod calls us
lo a work in which He wants phy
sical as wcll.as spiritual athlete*. I
would to God Hi. t the time might
soon come when in all our colleges
and theological seminaries, as at
Princeton, a gvmimsiiitu shall be es
tablished. Wc speud seven years
of hard study in preparation for tbe
ministry, and conic out with bron
chitis, ilyspe|Kia and liver com
plaint, and llien crawl tip into the
pulpit, and the people say, “Don’t
be look heavenly!” Because he looks
sickly. Let the cliun h of God di
rect, rather than attempt to suppress
the desire for amusement. -The best
men that the world ever knew have
had tlicir spor**. William Wibcr-
force trundled hoo|is with hi* chil
dren. Marlin Lulbcr helped dress
the Christmas tree. Ministers have
pitched quoiis. Philanthropists
have gone a ska’ing. Prime Minis
ters have played ball. This chnrcb
to-day i* tilled with men and wo
men who have iu their souls un
measured resources of sportfnlness
and frolic. Show me a man; who
never lights np with sportfnlness,
and has 110 sympathy with the recre
ations of others, and I will show
you a man who D astomblingblock
on the way to the kingdom of God.
Such men are caricatures of relig
ion.
They lead young people to think
j tian man’s -Inline i* in pi-oporlii.u
! t» the li-iiglli ol Ids face. 1 wonlri
■ trade oil five liuudrod such men f.u
I une hrighl-fnceii, radiant Christian,
j on who**: fnre are thu words, -Re-
1 joii-e, evermore.” Between here
! ami the Full..11 Ferry every nioru-
• ing. Iij his clieerlul fiee, he* preach*
ej liny sermons. 1 ’will go Inr-
! tiler, ami suv llinl l have no coeli-
deiee ill a man who makes a relig
ion of hi* gloomy look*. That kind
always I uni* out. Iiadlv. 1 would
uot want him for thu Treasurer ol
an Orphan Asylum. The orphau-
woiilri suller. Among forty peoplt
whom I received into the church ul
one mtiimttnloh, there was only <ini
applieaut ol vrliosiApiety I was sus
picion*. - lie Ield llie hmgest sldry
to Still; had seen the most visions,
and gave an experience so raptur
ous and profound that all the olliei
applicant* were discourage.!. I
was not surprised in a year after, tn
learn Hint lie had run off with Hu
funds of Ihe hank with Which he
was coiyieclcd.
WHO IS THIS PLACE ANGEL
that yon call religion—wing* black,
feet black, feathers black ? Our re
ligion is a bright angel—feet bright,
eyes bright, wings bright. Taking
her place ill the soul, she pull* a
rope that reaches lo the skies, ami
sets all the bells of heaven a-cliim-
ing. There arc some persons w Im.
when talking lo a minister, al wai
ted it |>olitic to look lugubrious.
Go forth, O people, to your lawful
amusements. God means you to
be happy. But when there are
sources of innocent pleasure, why
tamper with anything that is dan
gerous and polluting? Why stop
our ears to a heaven full of song
sters, to listen to the hiss of a drag-
ou ? Why turn back from the moun
tain sides all a-blooiu with wild
flowers and a dash with Hie nimble
ter rent s, and with blistered feet at
leinpt to climb the hot sides of fire-
belching Cotopaxi ? The day comes
when the men who have exerted
evil influence upon their fcllow-meu
will be brought to judgment.
Scene: The last day. Stage: The
rocking earth. Enter: Dukes, lords,
kings, beggars, clowns. No sword;
no tinsel; no clown. For foot
lights tho kindling flames of a
world. For orchestra, the trumpc s
that wake the dead. For gallery,
the clouds filled with angel specta
tors. For applause, the clapping
floods of the sea. For curtains, the
heavens rolled together as a scroll.
For farce, the effort to serve tin
world at the same time. For Hie
last scene of the fifth act, tramp of
nations across tho stage—some to
to the right, others to tlio left.
“These shall go| away into overlast
iug punishment, but these into (ife
eternal.*’
W’KX DK FOLKS IN <;0|Nlt.
J.C. Wrtlker In Ittdi:uia|-ol!:i Journal.
Wat’sd«tarntfhin*at *».• Lilvhvrt*1 •**
Ib*ii** kfrrn «I*t lo’ ati hour an* hi *'!
Te.l soil. Mr. Nip^ali. tla*i *!*•« jro* bo'a,«
llil* ii'luhty loutMMr.i! Bailin’*«\u d«* folks i.'
gone!
I’Jatn*’ mT (ran!’Itn*r 'to ar'n’«!« Vow !
Ah’ ill* wtlwl df-Hii^bt f*/«lt» wi|rb«T .‘h*/!
fV\*Mtr.t.Mej: >ttt luti'V w’ n .!•*..V s|.», si Mm
Aud jr u heih dt* cat a->;*iit a’ uVu tic uiuoi
don’t •him*!
•"hutio i«r Addle, an’ de Ltidge to tun*!
Aud I Irf’ Yr right bock w!»a Hue a!«as h.siip,
A ’d*» tri'dh C -H.ip short an’de ajwra 8|*|it
WYn day hjiul do mortal tuaii s»cw a*l«i’btn' hi'*
Relic of Ihe War.
The following interesting letter
was written by a young boy aged
fourteen, while serving Tn the Con
federate army in Tenncssco. He
was killed in battle before arriving
at Hie ago of fliteen:
Camp near Manchester, Ticnn.,1
January 19,1863. (
My Dear Ma ami Pa.—After
writing to you five or six letters
(which I hope you have received,)
I now take this opportunity to
write you by a “Fed,” who prom
ises to take it to the first Federal
postoffice and send it to yon. First
of all, I will tell yon of the great
battle before Murfreesboro. I was
in it all, except the last day; at that
time my wound was no better than
it bad been a week before. Our
battalion was ordered to Lavegt, to
bring on the euemy; they went
down to Lavcrn, aud fought the
Yanks from there to Stone river.
Although my wound was hurting
me very much I could not stay, as 1
was ordered, with the wagons, and
hear of our brave boys belug sbol
down, and 1 there in sight or it all;
so I got one of the boys to saddle
Kate, my mare, and I pitched to the
batUe field, where 1 worked from
morning until night, carrying the
wounded off Ihe battle field to the
ambulances, where they were car
ried to town and pnt in the hospital
to be taken care of by the women
and doctors.
Oh! Ma, yon cannot imagine
how a ball le field looka Yon hear
the wouuded crying for water and
asking please ake pity on them;
ou see the brave boys charge Yan-
;ecs aud drive them back; you sec
hundreds of poor, dead Yankees ly
ing in the mud aud mire; yon bear
the bombshell* bursting right over
you head and bullets flying thick
around ^our very face; yon tee can
non balls ploughing the earth up
under vonr horse and knocking the
tops off the trees all arouud you,
one of which was near killing me;
yon see our own brave boys falling
all around. 1 tell yon, Ma, it is an
awful sight and I think Providence
was all that saved me. Never did
I bear of such bravery as 1 saw in
our troops; they drove the enemy
back on every side, their left was
driven in clear to the centre. Vie
captured 52 of the!;* best cannon.
At one of the batteries we napiurcil,
I saw the bodies of 26 dead Yan
kees lying in a pile. Youseewound-
ed men crawling on tlicir hands
and knees; tho poor Yankees and
our brave boys all shot through
and through by cannon balls and
torn to pieces. I tell you, Ma. it is
a shocking sight Ma end Pa, I
wish I could toll you how we
whipped them; bat I haven’t got
-be time. I captnred a few things
from the Yanks and could have got-
tan as many things as I wanted, but
could not get down off my horse.
The few tilings I did capture I am
saving. Our boys were iu tbe rear
or the enemy burning wagons, rap
turing
•»
Yau
to a better position and never lost a
thing; but burnt 800 of their wag
ons and raptured 6,000 prisoners.
The Colonel is now going and I
will hare to dose. Give my love
to, and kiss all the children for me,
Kate, Martin and all.
Your affection
IL w!
N. B.—Direct your letters to Col.
\7.0. Bullett, Bean ford’s Brigade.
tiff! W.niV dst ?
Wmn
Utl I
i idc enemy ouming wagon*, cap-
iring prisoners, males, rattle and
verything else. We whipped the
'ankecs all to pieces; we retreated
:5SE
How tlei'V Jlco crack*!
•uml »f liil toll Diuiii lacY,
talk altr.it tic haul* w»4 dcr Uwj taib on,
H’at4*»aY on’/ rume w’eu'du -u«ks U com?
Wal I took *n’ done ef a •lio’mifT' got’
I’op right up lif if ole 1*cI-*«on’ ?
W*atb«lat a .thiuiu’ iro <|t* front door crick ?
Good liras do Lord ! hit's d • folk* gut lurk !
IIIm IsOmi Prolrce*
The prisoner in cell No. 1 wa*
making a great noise as Court open
ed recently in Detroit, ami lie was
therefore brought out first. He
was a stoat, thick-set man will:
short hair anil milk while eyes, ami
lie believed himself to be a mono
tain lion of Ibc fierce* . order. Ill
came on a dance, with a half-con-
ed war-hoop in his teeth and Bijali
rather expected he would raise
fur.*.
“Is yonr name William Hill?”
softly inquired l||e Court.
“Old man, von bet!” was tlir
ready reply.
“See here, William,” continued
his Honor, “this Conrt is not an old
man—neither docs he bet. Don't
make use of any more such lan
guage. Now, then, you were drunk
yesterday.”
“You bet!”
“Prisoner, this Court doesn’t bet,
and if it lias lo inform you of that
fact again, it may have to add sixty
days to your sentence. Do yoii
plead guilty or not gnilty ?”
“Jcdgc, 1 wa* druuker’n a bcci
bar’I. 1 was fighting drunk, i
was just in the condition to chaw up
half the police force in this one
horse four corners. Jcdgc, let me
out long enough to flap my wing,
and give k crow which ran be heard
four miles against a stiff wind?”
“William Hill, I think I know
what ails yon,” quietly remarked
the Court after looking him over
“You are aching to fall against
sonic consumptive Detroiter, about
five feet who will mash yon flatter
than sole leather. You evidently
thiuk yourself a tarantula, but yoii
arc nothing but a rabbit. Instead
of being u terror, you are a nui
sance, and I shall send you to the
Work House.”
“Judge, I’m from Arkansas, and I
tell you I’m dangerous.”
“Pooh! I shall send you up foi-
tliirty days, the same as any com
mon drunkard.”
“Don’t disgrace me, Judge. Make
it six months, nl least. Think of
the story going back to Arkansas
that 1 was sent np on a horse-fly
sontence.”
But his Honor was obstinate, ami
the prisoner sat down on a nail keg
in the corridor, and said he’d have
to kill one of the guards at the
Work House to rcstoro his lost pro
tege.
An Ornament to the Profession.
A student applied the other day
to one of the district courts for ad
mission to practice, and an examina
tion committee of ouc was appoint
ed by the judge to ascertain his
qualifications. The examination
begau with:
“Do you smoke, sir?”
“I do, sir!’’
“nave yon a spare cigar?”
“Yes.”
“Now, sir. what is the firs* duty
of a lawyer?”
“To collect fees.’
“Right; what is the second?”
“To increase the number of his
clients.”
“When docs your position towards
your client change ?”
“When making a bill of cost.”
“Explain.”
“Wc are antagoni*.ic. I assume
the character of the plaintiff and he
becomes the defendant”
“A suit decided, how do yon stand
with the lawyer conducting the olh-
easide?”
“Cheek, by jowl.”
“Enough, sir; yon promise lo be
come an ornament to tbe profes
sion, and I wish you success. Now,
yon arc aware of the duty yon owe
me?”
“Perfectly.”
“Describe it?”
“It is to invite yon to drink.”
“But suppose 1 decline?”
Candidate scratches his head.
“There is 110 instance of that kind
on record in the booka”
“You are right; and the confi
dence with which yon make the as
sertion shows yon have read the law
attentively. Let’s take a drink, and
FU sign yonr certificate.”
An Unfortunate Answer.
Says the Richmond Rtgitltr -.
Lucicn Young’s noble action a few
weeks ago, in saving several Ken
tucky lives from a wrecked vessel
will be remembered; also the action
of the Kentucky Legislature in pub
licly rccoguizing his services. A
few weeks since lie was in Frank
fort, and while tliere visited the
penitentiary, where lie met Saiu
Holmes, confined for tbe monlcr of
Colonel Napier. Young and Holmes
were boys together at school, «nd
fast friends. Young was greatly
moved hy Holmes’ unfortunate con
dition, and (determined to make an
effort for his release. To this end
he coiled on tlio Governor and made
an earnest appeal for a pardon.
Governor Blackburn relented, and
the pardon was made out and sign
ed. With the document in his {lock
et, Young hastened bade to the
prison to tell the good news to his
rriend. Before telling hii
er that ~
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