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NEWS AND ADVERTISER.
The ALBANY NEWS.wUblUhtd 1ML IConwlidated Sept.*, 1S80, brl
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A Family and Political Journal Devoted to tue Interests of Southwest Georgia.
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Volume 1.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1881.
Number 38.
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An“, bjr^dlsclosing,end them? fopfln., no j , uu TIIHY RI LE AND RUN ,
No more; and by one art to say we end
The headache, and a thousand natural shocks
Of scribbling frenzy—*tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To pyint—to beam
From the same shelf with Pope, in calf
bound;
To sleep, perchance, with quasi as—Ay,
there’s the rub—
For to what class a writer may be doom’d.
When he bath shuffled off some paltry staff.
Must give us paate—There's the respect that
makes
Tho* unwilling poet keep his piece nine
For who'would bear the impatient thirst of
The pride of eonsciooa merit, aad ’hove all,
I he tedious importunity of.friends,
When he himself might his quietus make
Wish a bare inkborn! Who would fardels
bear?
To groan and sweat under a l«ad of wit?
But that the tread of steep Panrassi.s* hlL,
That undiscovered country, with whose bays
Few t ravelers return, puzzles the will.
And makes as rather bear to live unknown
Thau run the hazard to be known and
damn’d.
Thus Critics do make oowanls of us all.
And thus the healthful face • f many a poem
Is sickllfd o’er with a pale manuscript:
And enterprises of great fires and spirit.
With this regard from > *oilsley turn away.
And lose the name of authors.
Practices in all the State Courts.
Refers to Hon. T. M. Norwood.
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Camilla, Ga. May 20,1881.
Editort Jfcwt and Advert iter:
I have been reading In my leisure
hours Geilccl’s life of Christ. The
book is deeply interesting, giving
the social, religious and practical
history of Palestine before and
daring the time of Christ. One pas
sage in the book reminds one
strongly of our feeling towards the
carpet-baggers and scalawags after
|he iaio war. All Palestine was un
der the control of Rome—its several
provinces governed by Roman pro
curators. The Roman system of
taxation was put into practice,
which was especially hateful to the
Jews as opposing their religious
customs. These tax offices were let
out at Rome, inncli after ll.c fashion
of the mail routes in the United
States. A contract was taken for a
province and sublet to district! and
so on. The collectors wore called
Publicans. Now for the quota
tion :
“The hatred and contempt for
tlioso of their own countrymen who,
under such cireunistnnces, took
service under the associations ol
Publicans, forming the odious taxes
a c collectors, may he imagined. The
hitter relentless contempt and loath
ing towards them knew no bounds.
As the Greeks spake of “tax gather
ers nml fycophnnts,” the Jews lind
always ready a similarly odious as
sociation of teinisj such as “tux
gatherers and sinners, tax gnlherers
and heathen, lax gnlherers and
prostitutes, tax gatherers, murder
ers and highway robbers,’ - iu speak
ing of them. Driven from society,
Lite local Publicans became more
and more the Pariahs ol the Jewish
world. The Pharisee stepped aside
with pious horror, lo avoid breath
ing the air poisoned with the breath
of the lost sou of the house of Israel,
who lmd sold hitnsolf Ion calling so
infamous. The testimony of a Publi
can was not taken in a Jewish court.
It was forbidden to sit at table with
him, or to cat his bread. Tiic gains
of the class were the ideal of un-
clcaniiess, aud were especially shun
ned. every piece of their money
serving to make a religious offence.
To change coin for them, or to ac
cept aims front them, defiled a
whole household and demanded
special purification. Only the dregs
of the people would connect them
selves with a calling so hatted. Cast
out by the community, they too
often justified tlie bad repute of
their order, ami lived in reckless
dissipation and profligacy. To re
venge themselves for the list red
.shown them, their only thought was
to make as much ns they could
from their office. The most shame
less imposition at the 'receipts of
custom,’ and the most hardened
rccklesaness in the collection of
excessive or fraudulent charges, be
came a daily occurrence.
They repaid the war against them
selves by a war against the comunl-
ty.” Let ns listen a moment to
Lamar: “Iu the direful days of re
construction, when every Stato in
the Soutit was a perfect pande
monium, I heard a brilliant man
from.the North and another from
the South, stauding by bis side, ap
pealing to the young men of ambi
tion and of high and noble aspira
tions, to join their party for the rea
son tnat it furnished the onty avenue
to honorable distinction, riches and
fame. A few were enticed by the
g littering allurement, and arc to
ny bitterly lamenting Iboir delu
sion, bu*. the great body of the
voung men of the South, the pro
fessional men, I be lawyers, the doc
tors, the young planters and farm
er-, all hurled contempt upon the
miserable alternative. They prefer
red lo live in a life of obscurity and
poverty and to earn their bread in
the sweat of their brows rather than
rise while virtue, honor, intellect
and country were sinkiug.’’ C.
History for It that Amrrlra \
Intended for Christianity.
nihilism. ; Tsiees,“to Infidelity
Another suitor claiming the hand not be married.”
of this Republic in nihilism. It kxormous iXMI
owns nothing but aknifefornniver-
sal cutthoratery aud a nitro-gly-
reritie bomb for universal explosion.
It believes in no God, no govern
ment, no heaven and no hell except
what it can make on earth! It slew
l lie Oar of Russia, keeps the Em
peror William of Germany prac-
I tit-ally imprisoned, killed Abraham
_ Alter the coiigicgatiou in the I Lincoln, would pat to death every
Brooklyn Tabernacle, yesterday king and President on earth, and if
morning, had sung “My Country, it hail the power, would climb up
’ti* of Thee,” l>r. Taltiugc stitiotinc- until it could drive the God of
cd his text from Isaiuli Ixii., II— Heaven from His throne and make
■’Tlty land shall be married.’’ He ! itself the universal batcher. In
“i® : i France it is called communism; in
At the close of a week when the
World has been full of the sound of
wedding bells, tho heir of the Aus
trian Empire taking htfmc his
bride amid the congratulations of
many nations—God pros|ter Ru
dolph and Stephanie!—it may not
he inapt to anticipate the time
when the Prince of Peace and . the
Heir of Universal Dominion shall
lake possession of ibis nation, and
“thy land shall be married.” In
discussing the final destiny of this
nation it makes all the difference in
tho world whether we are on the
way lo a funeral or u wedding.
The Bible leaves no doubt on this
subject. Iu pulpits and on plat
forms and in place* of public coii-
u >urse I bear so many of the muffled
drums of evil prophecy sounded, as
though we were on the way to na
tional interment, and beside There*
and Babylon and Tyre in the ceme
tery of dead nations our Republic
was to be entombed; that I wish
ion to understand ihnt it is not to
be obsequies, but nuptials; not
mausoleum, but alter; not cypress,
but orange blossoms; not requiem,
bat wedding march; for “thy land
shall be married.”
I propose to name some of the
suitors who aro claiming the hand
<if this Republic. In the first place
thero is a greedy, all-grasping mon
ster who comes in as a suitor seek
ing the hand of this Republic, and
tint monster it monopoly. His
sceptre is made out of the iron of
the rail track and tho iron of teleg
raphy. He does everything for lus
own advantage and tor the robbery
of the people. Things have gone
»n from bad to worse, until in the
three Legislatnrcs of Now York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania for
the most part monopoly decides
everything. If monopoly favors a
law it is passed: if monopoly op
poses a law it is rejected. Monop
oly stands in the railroad depot
putting in his pockets in one year
♦200,000,000 in excess of all reason
able charges for service. Monopo
ly holds in his one hand the steam
power of locomotion, ami in the
other the electricity of swift com
munication. Monopoly has the re
publican party in ono pocket and
the democratic party iii tho other
pocket. Monopoly decides nomina
tions and elections—clly elections,
S'atc elections, national elections.
With bribes he takes tho vote of
legislators, giving them free passes,
giving appointments lo needy rela
tives to lucrative positions, employ
ing them as attorneys if they arc
lawyers, carrying their goods fifteen
per cent. less if they arc mcrchnnis,
aud if he finds a case very stubborn
ns well as very important, puls
down before him the hard cash of
bribery.
A LKGISLATUUK IIOUGIIT OUTBIOIIT.
But monopoly is not so easily-
caught now ami captured and ar
rested as when, during the term of
Mr. Buchanan, the Legislative Com
mittee in one of ouY States explored
aud exposed the manner in whicli a
certain railway couipauy had ob
tained a donation of public land.
It was found out that thirteen of
ihe Senators of that State received
1175,000 among them, sixty mem
bers of the legislature of that State
received between 85,000 and $10,-
000 each, the Governor of that Stato
received $50,000, his clerk received
$5,000, the Lieutenant Governor re
ceived $10,000, ail the clerks of Hie
Legislature received $5,000 cuco,
while $50,000 were divided among
the lobby agents. That thing on a
larger or smaller scale is all tho time
going on in some of the States of
the Uuion, but it is not so blunder
ing cs it used to be, snd therefore
not so easily detected or arrested.
I tell you that tho overshadowing
corse of the United 8tatcs * to-day is
monopoly. He puts his hand on
every bushel of wheat, upon every
sack of salt, upon every ton of coal,
and every tnmn, woman and child in
the United States feels the touch of
that moneyed despotism. I rejoice
thatln twenty-four States ol the
Union already anti - monopoly-
leagues have been established! I
at this question might bo the
the United.States it, is called social
ism; in Bassia it is called nihilism,
but that last is the most graphic and
descriptive tonn. It means com
plete and eternal smash up. It
would make the holding of proper
ty a crime, and it would drive a
dagger through your heart and put
a torch to your dwelling and turn
the whole land into the possession
of theft and lust and rapine and
murder. Where does this monster
live? In Brooklyn, in New York
and in all the villages and cities of
this land. It offers its hand to thi-
fair Republic. It proposes to tear
to pieces the ballot box, the legisla
tive hall, the Congressional assem
bly. It would take this land and
divide it up, or rather divide it
down. It would give as much to
the idler as to the worker, to the bad
as to the good-Nihilism, the panther,
liaving-prowlcd across other lands,
has set ils paw on our soil, and it
is only waiting for the time in
which to spring upon its prey. It
was nihilism that burned the rail
road property at Pittsburg; it was
nihilsm that slew black people in
our Northern cities during the war;
it was nihilism that last week iu
New York mauled to death a China
man ; it was nihilism that looks out
of the windows of the druukeries
upon sober people as they go by.
Ah! its power has never yet been
tested. I pray God its power may
never be fully tested. It would if
it bad the power leave every church
chapel, cathedral, schoolh use and
college in ashes.
labor’s wobst enemy.
Let me say it is the worst enemy
of the laboring classes in any coun
try. The honest cry for reform
lifted by oppressed laboring men is
drowned out by the vociferation for
anarchy. The criminals and the
vagabonds that range throngh onr
cities talking about their rights,
when their first right is the peniten
tiary —if they could be hushed np
and the down trodden laboring men
of this country could be heard, there
would be more bread for hungry
children. Iu this land riot aud
bloodshed never gained any wages
for the people or gnthered'up any
prosperity. In this laud the best
weapon is not the club, not the
shillelnh, not firearms, but the bnliot.
Let not onr oppressed laboring men
be beguiled to coming under the
bloody banner of nihilism. It will
make your taxes heavier, your
wagc9 smaller, your table scantier,
your children hungrier, your suf
fering grenter. Yet tills nihilism,
with feet red with slaughter, comes
forth and offers its hand to this Re
public! .Shall the banns be pro
claimed ? No! It is not to nihil
ism—the sanguinary monster—that
tills land is to be married.
A young German was once .
ing his suit, and in the midst of hit
ardor questioned the object oQbto
choice as to her possible financial
future. "I have heard,” be said,
“that your good fcthcr owns two
large estates in Silesia.” “Yes,”
* “*nd he owns
“ The
as though
then falling
the young
face, cried
darling,
such dr-
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question oft the next Presidential
election, for between this and that
time we can compel the political
parties to recognise it in their plat
forms. I have nothing to say
against capitalist. A nun hat a
right to make all the money he can
make honestly. I have nothing to
say- against corporations as sneh.
Without them no great enterprise
would be possible; but what I do
say is that the same - principle* are
to be applied to capitalists and cor
porations that are applied to the
poorest man and the plainest labor
er. What is wrong for me It wrong
for the Vanderbilts and the Goulds
and the elevated railway companies
of New York and Brooklyn. Mo
nopoly in Englaud has ground hun
dreds of thousands of her host peo
ple into starvation, and in Ire
land has driven multitudinous
tenants almost to madness, and
in tha United States pro
poses lo take the wealth of fifty or
sixty million people and pot it in a
few silken wallets. Monopoly,
brazen faced, iron fingered, vulture
hearted monopoly, pr
band, offers hit hand to
lie. Let tho millions of the
South, East and West-
banns or the marriage,
at the ballot-box, for
bid them on the platform,
them by great organizations,
them by the overwhelming sent!
ment of an outraged nation,
them by the protest of thr
of God, forbid them by
high heaven, that “ ’
have this Abigail
THE MONSTEIl OF MONSTERS.
Another suitor for the hand of
this nation is infidelity. AYIieu the
midnight ruffians despoiled the
grave of A. T. Stewart in St.
Mark's churchyard everybody was
shocked; but infidelity proposes
something worse than that—the
robbing of all the graves of Chris
tendom of the hope of a resurrec
tion. It proposes to chisel oat from
the tombstones of yoar Christian
dead the words “Obliteration—An
nihilation.'’ Infidelity proposes to
swear in the President of the
United States, and the Supreme
Court, and the government of
States, and the witnesses in the
court room with their right hand on
Paine’s “Age of Reason” or Vol
tairc’s “Philosophy of History.” It
proposes to take away from this
country the book that makes the
difference between the United States
and the Kingdom of Dahomey, be
tween American civilization and
Boruesian cannibalism. If infideli-
tv could destroy the Scriptures, it
would, in 200 years, tarn the civil'
ized nations back to semi-barbarism
and then from semi-barbarism into
midnight savagery, until the mor
als of a menagerie of tigers, rattle
snakes and chimpanzees would be
better morals than the morals of the
shipwrecked human race. The
only impulse in the right direction
that this world has ever had has
come from the Bible. It was the
mother of Roman law and of
healthful jurisprudence. The book
has been the mother of all reforms
and charities—mother of English
Magna Charta and American Dec
laration of Independence. Benja
min Franklin, holding that holy
book in his hand, stood before an
infidel club at, Paris and read to
them out of the prophecies of Ba-
bakkuk, and the infidels, not know
ing what book it was, declared it
was the best poetry they had ever
heard. That book brought George
Washington down on his kneosin
tho Snow at Valiev Forge, and led
the dying Prince “of Wales to ask
some one to sing “Bosk of Ages.” I
tetl yon that the worst attempted
crime of this century is; the attempt
to destroy this book, yet infidelity,
loathsome, stenchfnl, leprous, pest
iferous, rotten monster, stretches
out its hand, ichorous with the sec
ond death, to take the hand of this
Republic. And this snitor presses
his case appallingly. Shall the
banns of thst marriage be proclaim*
‘ “No, r '
ENORMOUS IMMIGRATION.
In closing, Dr. Taliuage said that
before Coiambus and his 120 men
embarked for their wonderful voy
age their last act was to sit down
and take the holy sacrament of the
Lord Jesus Christ; that after the
first gun announced the discovery
of the continent that song that wcut
np from the three decks was “Glo
ria in Exoelcia,” and that on landing
Columbus and his men knelt and
coasecrate.t the New World to God.
The Huguenots, the Holland refu
gees ana the Pilgrim Fathers took
possession of this country for God
and to the Prince of Peace shall this
land b? married. Over live hun
dred
at the gales
yeas, aud the promise this year is of
more thm six hundred thousand—
not the paupers of Europe, but
families witli an average of $800 a
head in their possession. I was told
last week by the Commission of
Immigration Hint 20.000 families that
recently arrived at Castle Garden
brought $85,000 with them. Mark
you, families, nul tumps, additions
to the national wealth. The tears
rolled down my rliceks when I saw
some of them reading their iiihlcs
and their hymn hooks, thanking
God for nis kindness in helping
■hem across the sea. Are you afraid
Ibis continent is going to be over
crowded with this population ? Ah
that shows yon have not been to
California; 'that shows that you
hare not been to Texas. A fishing
snuck to-day on Lake Ontario
might as well lie afraid of being
crowded by other shipping before
night as for any of the next ten
generations of Americans to be
afraid of being overcrowded by
foreign population in tills country.
Tho one State of Texas is tar larger
than nil France, and France sup
ports 36,003,000. The one State of
Texas is larger than all the Austrian
Empire; yet Ihe Austrian Empire
supports 35,000,000 people. The
one State of Texas far surpasses in
size the Germanic Empire; yet the
Germanic Empire supports 41,000,-
000 people. Then welcome the im
migrants with all Cbristiau hospi
talities. They will add their indus
try and hard earned wages to this
country, and then we will dedicate
all to Christ, “and thy land shall bo
married.” But where shall the
marriage altar be? Let it be tho
Rocky Mountains, when, through
artificial and mighty irrigation, all
their tops shall be covered, as they
will be, with vineyaids and or
chards and grain fields.
; bigger than Gorham and | \i
am gittin’ an office ? Is it ».
i land shall will asp ox education.
V *
Is there any politics going on—
anything except spoil? Is there
any mumeutus issue before the
I || J Jjc ♦ nta mns 4 fal-D oUa*
—anythin.
Spizeriuktnm gittin CII
a sign of brilliant statesmanship lor j
one party to outset another party, I \; cv
and was that why (English purlin- I
ment was once called the rump par-
lament because it set a long time,
and done nothing? is onr party
committed to cducalingtlie negro,
or nru we just diggiug into the rads
because they promised so much and
done so little? I just want to be
id
to Use
‘oinpany at twenty-five cents
|aji«v.
Well, you tee that young
n..»ti h;
i'i a little too much education.
That's
what's the matter. The like-
lit- t i
ouug darkey I had got a lit-
tic Che
ap education after the sur-1
fori
1
AS-
__ posted. I’m afraid my own cduea
thousand immigrants arrired : •i‘ ,H is a little defective on this point
! gates of this continent last * reckon I’m one of the twigs that
was bent and the tree is now inclin
ed fvom a proper perpendicular up
on the subject of education. Mr.
Pope said it little learning is a dan
gerous thing. I don’t know so well
about that but I am very certain
that a good deal of it is no advan-
sago to the majority of people. It
spoilt too many hewers of wood and
drawers of water, and don’t make
any thing else.of’em. If everybody
was rich, and coolu live like a gen
tleman a power of learning would be
a good thing, but most people have
to work for a living, and a little to
just as good as a good deal to them.
If a chap has an uncommon quan
tity of brains in his noggin, and
wants more learnin’, be will be apt
to get it some way. If hs has just
a common supply, all ho needs is a
common education, and if he haint
got hardly any, then there’* no
use in straining his gun. The coun
try needs laborers; the farms need
’em, and so does the shop; hot the
tarm nor the shop won’t get ’em
from the colleges. About one out
of ten who graduates, becomes
orament to tho taw or the gospel,
or some profession, and the other
nine expect some profession to or
nament them. When a young
has studied logic and rhetoric and
syllogisms and other conundrums,
be thinks it would be a waste of
sweetness for him to work—work
with his bands, his pretty white
hands. He jnst couldn’t think ot
such a thing; the very idea is pre
posterous. He must do brain work,
and so he finds his way into some
lawyer’s office or doctor’s shop, or
tum3 country editor and goes to
abusing somebody, or runs for
little country office, or loafs around
town and gits a living—nobody
knows how; and his last hope is to
invigglc some soft-hearted girl who
has great expectations, and then
live off the old man’s money. Ev
erybody’s children ought to be
taught to rend aud to figger a little;
and I’m willing to be taxed for that,
but if they get any more let’em get it
out of somebodys rise’s pocket than
mine. 1 am opposed to spoiling so
many good subjects for the plow and
l he plane and the anvil. Elihu Bnr-
ritt was a great astronomer and he
was a blacksmith and studied at the
iorge, and it may be that if he had
gone to college he wouldn’t have
been any accounL There’s more in
the boy than there is in the- college.
In these days of cheap books an
boy or girl can get an education i
they want it, but my observation is
that not more tban.one in ten want
an unusual quantity. If the family
takes a good newspaper and has a
Bible and a few story books in the
house and the children do an honest
day’s work they’ll get along about
as well as the college boys in the
long run and do as mnch good in
the world. It’s bad enough to be
spoiling so^many white boys, but
when you talk about negroes it’s
still worse. My opinion is that their
natural condition and inclination is
work—labor—sweat—elbow grease,
and they are never so happy and
contented as when they are at it,
every time yon educate one
yon spoil him; you make a fool of
him, and I’ve no sympathy with
that hobby that some of our states-
men are riding—the education of
the negro; and if that is to be a
plank in onr platform I won’t stand
on it in my present frame of mind.
I don’t oppose any man giving his
children just as much learning as he
can afford, and I’ll do the same
thing by mine, but maybe both of
will be disappointed in onr ex
pectations and both will spoil some
goon mechanics, but I’m opposed
to a general system of
the masses at public exrense, except
so far as the simple rudiments are
concerned. Lay the foundation
and stop. I tell you this rising gen-
erationjarc powerful shifty. They
invent more ways to dodge
work than any of thelrjprcdecessors.
A nice looking man came to see me
the other day while I was way
down in the field planting water
melons and he was riding •> splen
did horse andjhad abook fail of ele
gant flowers s.nd roses and poses
and gcrangers, and I told him no, I
dident want any, and he kept on
showing his pictures and expatiatin’
till I got tired and told him several
times I dident want any, and he
ly showed me a picture of a
new lily they had imported from
the Island of Madagaskor, and yon
conld smell it forty yards off hand
and said they really onghtont to
sell any of ’em this year for fear of
diminishing thair limited stock, but
as It was me he would let me have
half a dozen at a dollar a bulb. Bnt
I told him I sympathized with his
company and thought it wonld be
PRKSBYTBB1AM GENERAL
SEJ1BLY
la Session at Msaatsa, Virginia—
The Stales II Embraces.
Special to Eoquirer«San.
Staunton, Va„ May 10.—Tho
general assembly of what is popu
larly known as tTie Southern Pros
liyterian church mot here to day.
It will continue iu session len or
more days. The opening sermon
to-day was preached bv Rev. T. A,
Hoyt, of Nashville. This gentle
man was at one time president of
tho gold board in New York city
and presided there on the famous
Bl ick Friday. The Southern Prep
brterian church embraces the States
of Maryland, Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis
souri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Indian'Territory, West of Ar
kansas, aud has chu relies in the Dis
trict of Columbia, the State of Ohio
aud possibly elsewhere. It hat 19
Synods and 67 Presbyteries, includ
ing the Presbytery of San Paulo in
Brazil, South America.
The amount of moneys contribut
ed during the year ending April 1,
1880. by its 1,928 churches was $1,-
062.33S. The church is conducting
missionary work in China, Greece,
Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and in Indian
Territory. It has two theological
seminaries—one in Prince Edward
county, Virginia, and the other at
Columbia, South Carolina. It Is
also sustaining the institution for
the education of young colored men
at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Probably
two or three principal topics that
will come np for disenssion at this
meeting will be those embraced un
der the title of retrenchment and re
form, and the “revised directory of
clyireh worship.”
Under the former head are com
prehended the management of
churches, benevolent schemes and
the distribution of funds connected
with these schemes. At a previous
assembly, a committee was appoint-
ed to consider a revised directory of
church worship. The committee
will report to the present assembly
aid recommend at eminently proper
that ehn rch service* shonld embrace
a recitation of the Lord’s prayer anil
creed and the reading of the decalo
gue. A form of bnrial,
and baptismal service will also
snbmitted. Should the report be
adopted its adoption does not carry
with it absolute obligation to use
the forms; ministers may nse them
or not at their discretion. After a
brief address of welcome by Rev.
W. E. Baker, pastor of the church at
Staunton, prayer by Dr. Pryor, of
Virginia, and an able sermon by the
retiring moderator, Dr. T. A. Hoyt,
of Nashville, the general assembly
was called to order at 12:30 o’clock.
Rev. Dr. R. P. Farris, of Mieouri,
was elected moderator by acriama- r , „
tion. The various executive com-/imprudent for him to disposeofany
mittecs made their reports. The
foreign mission reported an cx-
lon report
pemtitnre of $59,215. Ninety-three
peatons, all told, are engaged in
missionary work. Africa is recom
mended as the next field of adven
ture. The report on education
showed that eighty students were
receiving instructions for the rain-
isterjr. During the year there were
thirty-eight ordinations and nine
teen deaths. The total amoont of
expenditures were $10,300. The
seminary for colored students at
Tuscaloosa reported a roll of twen
ty-six and most encouraging oat-
this year and advised him to wait.
When he got ready to depart he
asked me if I had any objections to
bis calling on Mrs, Arp and getting
an order from her if he could.
“Non% whatever,” said I as he start
ed off, quite jubilant and hilarious.
“Maybe she will take a few of those
Madagasker lilies if you are certain
your company could spare them.”
Mrs. Arp don’t play second fiddle to
me about such feminine things as
fiowers, but I know that she knew
the state of the exchecker, and was
a considerate woman, and I watched
the door to see huw long she enter-
any place, I reckon, but
hunting for honest
first use be made of I
an order on liis |
1 jump into the chain-
the pcoplo of
TU-*lrave got more
u anybody but they
Ij-TtcT-tiiat one can perceive
ml all the isms came from up there
and I never Ihiuk of’em bat what I
remember what Hr. Pope said
about Lord Bacon, “the wisest,
brightest, meanest of mankind.”
Congress has more smart men than
If I was
I would
cruise around outside for awhile
before I went in, and if 1 was huut-
ing patriots who thought it was
sweet to die for their countrv, I
woutdu t go iu at alt. The beet
'e 1 know of and the most re
in time of trouble are living
an hnmble life and making no noise
in the world and they are uot sur
feited with education either. Mav-
be I’ve not got enough lo under
stand the question or hare got too
mnch for my capacity, but some
how or other I think people are get
ting a little too smart, and I reckon
we had better not encourage too
mnch book larnin,’ for Soloman
says that “mnch study is wearisome
to the flesh.’’ Yours,
Bill Aar.
HUMOROUS WRITING.
Almost cvenr one privately In
dulges in the idea that he conld be
come a celebrated humorist writer if
he were only to try.
He takes up a magazine or news
paper and reads a humorous article,
and says to himself; “If I only had
time, I could do vastly better than
that.”
Nov, 'riend, suppose you take the
time and try I
If yon can produce a first-class
humorous sketch, your fortune to
You nood hot plod on in
coon - 1ng-houses or vegetate behind
the counters of dry goods stores sell
ing calico at a profit of two cents on
a yard. Yon can jnst go on with
your first-class humor, and fix yonr
own valuation nponit, never fearing
but it will be paid.
But the fact of it is, you are a lit
tle mistaken. This humorist busi
ness is mucii easior in theory than
iu practice. Anybody can criticise
and find fault with onr tunny
writers, bat the question is, can that
same "anybody” do any better ? If
•o. let him do it.
You think it a very easy and sim
ple thing to sit down with a pen in
your fingers, and a sheet of paper
before yon, and indite thoughts
which shall convnlse tho world with
laughter, and sayings which shall
bo repeated for scoros of years to
come?
Well, we are willing you should
try, and when yon achieve success,
we will laugh at your witty things,
and sun ourselves in tho flash of
yonr diamonds, and not feel any
envy. * • * We are apt to look
upon humorous writing as a pas
time, as requiring less thought and
intellectual power than the heavier
ivs which crowd onr reviews;
but in this wc aro mistaken* Your
true humorist must have wonderful
imagination, observation, a keen
sense of the ridiculous, a thorough
understanding of men, a generous
-~wer of language, delicacy, sens!-
lily, tender ness and a strong lore
of humankind.
Wholesales Retail Jewelers
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Watch Manufacturers,
DEALERS IN
-FIN
Origin of tlie Word "Dnn.”
KiaYarkHtnU.
This word "don" to not entirely
nfamiliarto the ordinary North
American ear. It to not a word of
sweet sound or delightful associa
tions. It generally means that a
is undone. The coarse and
persistent demand for filthy lucre
at a time when wc have hunted
through every pocket we possess in
the vain hope of finding evon the
smallest coin that was ever deposit
ed in a contribution box to not ex
actly like a refrain of mnsic. It
may, however, be sadly interesting
to know the origin of the word.
There to a momentary glow of satis
faction in the sight of the maker’s
name on tho saw witli which the
surgeon amputates yonr leg. We
do not argue that it is a satisfaction
that lists very long, or that it is
very profound in it* character, but
till there is the merest shadow or
interest not to pnt the matter iu an
exaggerated way, in the knowledge
that the aforementioned saw to of
ood Sheffield make, and not one of
teso cheap instruments in which
High civilization sometime# deals.
In the reipn of nenry VII. a fa-
us bailiff, named Joe Dan, lived
in the town of Lincoln. He was
extremely dextrous in extorting
money from unwilling pockets.
When he was invited 'to call again’
he always accepted the rhecrful in-
vitatlon. Indeed, his habits were
profligate and he vas so careless ot
lie courtesies of life that he wasj
,at to call even when no genial in
vitation had been extended. He |
was never much farther away than
a creditor’s shadow. AVhen a man
refused to pay a bill, therefore,
some one was sure to ask: “Why
don't you Dun him?” Hence the
awful word which has followed the
impecunious even unto this day,
and tho associations of which not
even the lapse of time can mellow.
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Bridal Presents,
Clocks, ronzes,
Etc., Etc.
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“Ix what condition was the pa
triarch Job at the end of his life ?”
asked a Sunday school teacher of a
quiet-looking boy at the foot of the
das;. “Dead/’ calmly replied the
boy.
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Dr. Pryor, delegate from this tained that fellow, and it didn't take
nbly to the general synod of
reformed dm rch in America,
which met in Brooklyn last ‘June,
gave a happy accourft of his visit
and the fraternal manner in which
he had been entertained. Publica-
of several minor committees
mad. . .
her half so long as it did me to con
vince him she wasn’t running on
blossoms at this time. She tola him
that those same Madagaskar lilies
were growing wild down in onr
swamp, and she was glad she had
found the true name for them, and
she would like to engage 500 bulbs
Ha was about four years old, but
he was a hopeful youth. He said:
“Papa, have you done anything poor
down town to-day that you think 1 p en d
ought to whip you for if I were as
big as you are Tr
,'tlothera! Nfoilaers!! If others !!!
Are you disturbed at night and
i broken of your rest by a sick child suf
fering and crying with the excruciating
; pain of cutting teeth? If so, go atone*
j and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Stbup. It wiil relieve the
“Is that cheese rich?” asked
Bloggs of his grocer. “Yes,” was
the honest answer, “there’s mil
lions in it”
The success of a church choir
singer is, after all. a matter of
chants.
little sufferer imm- litteljr—ds-
upon it; there is no mistake
about it. There is not ft mother on
earth who has ever used it ..ho will not
tell you at once that it wi!i regulate the
bowels, snd give re*t to 11»•• mother,
and relief snd heslth to the child,
operating like tntgic. It is perfectly
ssfe to dse in all cases, snd pleasant to
the teste, and is the prescription of one
of f he oldest *nd best female physicians
and nurses m the United States. Sold
everywhere. 25 esnts a bottle.
