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. ,, , ,, , ,V loving sympat-uy ujmmcuu iu= in sight of glory through the 4ea& feroken hearfced hatband to God, mim tB ** § H F § r* O O .S B* tei » P B 6* GO p ; YO ‘KOOYffl noMoS ‘scoxaM: "ox : M01X00 'NCXLLCO chamber. By a disposition of God’s, providence the angel of death has entered our community, and taken from ; our hearts and from onr midstgour much-beloved friend and . sister, Mrs. J. W. Hodge. As theretis no dispensa tion of Providence so gloomy as the one which envelopes life in death, and hides our loved ones forever from onr view in its pavil ion, so is the everlasting arm of our Heavenly Bather ^beneath us, with an expression of more ten derness thanfat any other tperiod of our earthly pilgrimage; more especially are we convinced of this truth inj]this dispensation,ffor as much as he takes her . who was universally lovea, We know that He came not in wrath* but in mer cy, binding earth and gHeaven to gether with?|the?i : bonds of love, both human andFdivine, and ce menting; them] together with the tears of loved|ones and the, kisses of angels, .as they meet over there a departing spirit coming up from the deep, dark waters of its last baptism, bidding adieu . to loved ones of earth, shouting welcome to heaven in th'e dialect of glory. Our friend is not dead,, but sleepeth; nor has she gone]with the domin ion of death, but simply through its shadows, which .obscure her from our vision. She is just as real now as when among ue, ahd while our souls drooped in sorrow over her departure, as we witness ed the lamp of life flickering to its last, it was to her,|thoiigh* a new change. The highest that ever came to her experience. Eartb, with its maiiifold duties, trials and perplexities, mingled with the beauty of nature and the sacred ness of home render, from con scious view,?®' Heaven, with its splendors and ever-mingled glo ries forevermore broke upon her rapturous vision. < From childhood, Miss Maggie, as we familiarly called her, pos sessed; an amiable Spirit, which en abled jier to'win all hearts, and carry in heriaffectionsall that ever came within her knowledge. Those little petulancies] that characterize most people in earlyjlife, and be come a habit.in:maturity, were not in her heart and b'fe. Confiding, generous, noble, .intellectual, pleas ant in word, no .matter the charac ter, faithful to her vows, unswerv ing in fidelity to . parents and friends, she cultivated-that angelic Spirit which so powerfully impress ed. itself Upon her countenance that a smile of recognition and welcome constantly played there, even in death, and rested .like a halo of glory upon her brow, as but the kisses and smiles of the recognition of her own blissfol eternity. As |qher duties at honle, she was a noble wife and a de voted mother. Self-possessed amid the perplexities of fife, she always to friends, relatives, husband , and phildren, bore a sweet < Sifiiie of resignation to her environments, and bowed in submission to the providences of her God; gently removing the anxiety from her husband’s brow by the hand of loving sympathy, and soothing his hearty bruised by fife’s disappoint ments, with the caressing tendrils of undying devofion. A Christian of the truest type, endowed with religious propensities, and reared by a Christian family, she devel oped a character of the noblest who will leadjhiin eventually to the Heavenly recognition of his dar ling Maggie; commit in prayer the motherless little ones to a loving God, end that wefwear the usual badge of mournmg^fdr thirty days. iBesolved, further, that a copy of this be inscribed on the pages of our minutes, that a copy be sent to the bereaved family, and that the Home Journal be requested to give it'publication.-.,,- Mrs. Julia Wimberly, Miss Lizzie Kendrick, W. B. Hurdle, Committee. tiyitv, and never was she so. happy os when doing good to ( others; and never ponld she feel, her duty was performed unless her own deft fin gers contributed towards its com- The Way to Win. Atlanta Constitution. Occasion allyiwe receive letters from our young readers asking in formation concerning a number of catch penny books now being ad vertised throughout the coun try. p i It is to be feared that these books mislead a great mpny peo ple, and do them ]harhi. They are hardly worth the paper they are printed on, and are generally written by hack-writers who have only a superficial knowledge of their topics. There are books professing to'teach the]whole sci ence of farming—books Ithat will make any m&h]a machinist, an art ist, a lawyer or an orator.' And last, but not least, there are five or six recent hand books almost almopt warranted to make success ful jonrnalists]and literary men out of tljieir. readers. It ratenatural that a young man should desire to rush along the road to success with as little de lay as possible, bat? he may take it for granted that no little fifty cent guide, or manual, or hand book will ever do the business for him. Ho one ]book^|will make a mao successful in any occupation. A man'must have ^natural ability and industry in order to make his way. As he goes along he will get hints frpm books, but he will never leap to .the top offa profes sion for which he is unsuited sim ply because he read such works as a “A Guide to Authorship,” and “Every-Man His- Own Lawyer.” It may Be really doubted] whether any really ^eminent literary man or lawyer ever opened the covers of these books. Natural ability and persistent work enabled them to win their way. There is no short a§d, easy cut— no. royal road to success. If one of onr young correspondents is cut out for a farmer, let him go to work on a farm. If he wants to master, a trade, let him go and learn it in ^practical way. If he irants to be a lawyer, and is eqniped with a fair education, he should enter a law office. If fie is drawn toward literature journal ism, he should read, observe, think, and then write. When a man makes the right choice of a business] trade,,on profession the thing for him, to, do is to go to wort He is doomed to^ certain disappointment if fie thinks that the,study pf “Every Man His Own Wfiat Yon Call It” will land him at once on the top round . of the ladder. - . A man must work .for success, and he will not achieve it even then .if fie selects an occupation for. whidh he is solely unsuit- ec£ Bucklcn's Arnica. SaDre Tece Bese Salve in the- ivorld order. Her’s was a religion of ac- . ^worid for Colds, Brmses, Sores, ulcers, Salt Bheum, Eever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,-Chilblains, Corns antLall Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles or no pay re-, quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money re pletion, in any sphere, whether at rf, ^ ■ oft" f , f L cents per box. home or abroad, m Sunday school For safe by Holtzclaw & (Gilbert. the unique proposition that Mas sachusetts invite ex-President Da vis to be £he guest of the common wealth.: He supports his proposi tion with this argument: Have patience while I whisper a word.AYliat did you fight fpr from ’61 to’65? Union! Just eo. Of force or free will? Answer. If force,. dissolve eyery-sou therp state government: expel every southern senator and representative from congress, and picket every south ern highway with soldiers! Ab surd? Certainly it is. And it is equally absurd to speak of a man in whose fife and careerr are em bodied all for which these millions south suffered as an arch-rebel, ,and at the same time claim patri otic kindred with the people he represents. Balm a wound with honey^ not vinegar.. To this he adds these remarks: Kindness’of_heart is what i southern negro recommendsttobis white fellow countrymen as a\ per manent cure fpr ali i bitter n ess and sorrow. Christ Jesus does the same. Take Mr! Davis to yonr bosoms. It may win him f. o n his grief long enough to bless his reuuited country with a plea for patriotic confraternity. Make him feel that to .be]jn the Union is to be loved; not outlawed. Then will the south see the grandeur and glo ry of the .cause, of Lincoln, Grant add Charles Sumner; each of whom,would be acting on this line if living o.n dearth] today; and each of whom, together with Bobert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, are on this fine in the other land today. Tnis is my prescription for the ill ness of the nation. I may be wrong in declaring that Christianity has no more de voted adherents oh the globe than are to be found among the white men and women of the south, and that their humanity and religion is a better basjs -fpr . negro security than any. contemplated legislative enactments. When I look at the number of negro homes -; in every southern community, built by ne gro ivage earners; their numerous churches; built: in good part by southern philanthropy; ; while schools ornament every district; asylums honor every state^and ev ery negro sorrow has a white man’s sympathy, every, negro funeral a white mourner, and then enter; an unequivocal protest against the as sertion that the negro.suffers from a species of outlawry at the hands of the dominant race at the south, it may indicate water on the brain. When every southern state is bear ing hec-legitmate share of nation al burdens and responsibilities, with both patriotic and heroic pride, I may be a fool for denying that the eruptive fires pf another rebellion are smothered in every southern home. To plead with yon northern white men to cease jeet- ing the ciyilizsation of the south, and treat her, not patronizingly, but patriotically, may sound sense less, but so long as a cold .and dic tatorial attitude ..toward 'lier pre vails, what guarantee have we pf a better and brighter era for all our land? jDoncord among you white men must be the precursor of radical adjustment in this coun try. •GrC’O It is estimated that the habitual ppidm eaters in the United States number 600,000. These figures may be too, high, but it is very cer tain that there are. habitual opium edters who are not suspected of being victims of the opium habit in almost every city and town. The drug: clerks could furnish, startling information upon the subject. , A President Harrison’s dream of breaking the solid South by the captnre of Tirginia is blighted. Mr. Harison may no.w £.eek conso lation in a romp with. Baby McKee.' are stiees of an -inch. r fietween each. Over this a layer of straw an inch thick is spread, and then a coating two inches thick of adhesive mud, taken from the bottom of a canal or pond, which receives the seed. The raft is moored to the bank in still water, and requires no further attention. The straw soon gives way ahd the_soil also, j’the roots drawing support from the water alone. Infabouftwenty days the raft becomes covered with the creeper (ipomoea reptams), and its steins and roots are .gathered for cooking. In;?autumn its small White petals and yellow stamens, nestling among the round the leaves, presents a very pretty] ap. pearance. Ini some places marshy land is profitably cultivated in this manner. Besides these floating vegetable gardens there are also floating rice fields. Upon rafts constructed qs= above weeds and adhdrfent mud were placed as a flooring, and when the rice’shoots were ready for transplanting .they were placed in the floating soil, which, being adhesive and held sin place by weed roots, the, plants were . maintained . in position throughout the season. The rice thus planted ripened in from sixty to seventy in place of one hundred days,. The rafts are cabled to the shore, floating on lakes, pools or sluggish streams. These floating fields served to avert famines, whether by drought or flood. When other fields Were submerged and their crops sodden or rotten, these floated and flourished, and when a drought prevailed they subsided with the falling water and while the soil around was arid advanced to maturity. Agricultural treatises contain plates representing rows of rice fields moored to stprdy trees on the banks Of rjvere or lakes which existed , formerly in the lacustrine, regions; of the lower Yangtse and Yellow rivers. —f— At the congress of the advocates of cremation held in Vienna, the statement was brought that there exists at present throughout the world fifty, crematories, most of whiph are in the ^United States, twenty in Italy, and on.e. each in Germany, England, France and Switzerland. j. h. hertz] , Reliable Clofbier and Furnished , MA.COJS'. CiA- . Will give his ensicin'ers better goods, low er prices, and a larger assort ment to select from. Ic to THIN Si - n, .-v -a 5 * > Und.er-^7-ea,r- To fit a boy three years old, or the largest sized man. 4)e lH)e 574 and 576 Cherry Street, MACOH, GA. IF YOU WANT - FIKST-ClkSS GROCERIES, CONFECTIOIY^RiES, Fruits in Season, Ci- gars, Tobacco : Etc* Examine my stock before purchasing. Besides afull stock of t S r IANDARD GOdbsi I will always haye on Isantl-some . at remarkably low figures. . - UST'X/ookontfpr changes in .this ad vertisement. S.L. SPEIGHT, . - , t . PEBBY, GA.- Jl (H.fBEOTEIt, Opposite Hotel Lanier, Ma: ffr :>n, Ge. Official statistics show that 25,- 000 people are killed annually -}by wild beasts and reptiles in India. Of these about 20,000 are slain by snake?] The Government offers rewards and makes other efforts to reduce the danger, but the people are indifferent. .. t- ;r», — •* ’. 1 Meals at, all Hours. Open Hay and Mght. Sleeping Accommodations in Con-. nections; 25 Cents a Bed. Elegant Bather Shops. Attached. The Verdict Unanimous, W. D. Suit,- Druggist, Bippus; Ind., testifies: “1 can., recommeped Electric Bitters, as the very best recnedy. Every bottle sold bas givsn relief in every case. One man. took six bottles, and .fas cured of Bheumatism of 10. vears’ stand ing.” Abraham Hare, druggist, BeJiyille* Ohio, affirms: “The best selling medicine I have ever hand led in my ]2Q years’ experienee, is Electric Bitters.” Thousands. of others have added their testimony so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases pf the Liver, Kidneys and Blood. -Only a : Jial£ dollar a bottle at Hpltzclaw & Gilbert’s Drug store. REFRESH MENS: - . .. 1. have just opened the elegant ‘SUWANNEE RIVER BAR\ Where only the best Liquors- will be sold:. Come to see me when'm 'Macon. Will fill jugs promptly andloW : "fig ures for : cash. My liquors are guaran teed to bo the best .in-the market. -. Bespeetfully, . , v - .. #ILL WAGXOir: 673 Forth Street, Corner of Pine, MACON, GA. Neuralgic 'T^ersotis And those troubled with :iar. o:ssces ! ! resulting &om care or overwork will ue relieved by taking Iren hilt cm- Genuine has trade mark and crossed red Hues on wrapper. Banyan’s “Pilgriin’s Progress” has lately .bean, translated into the Chinese .dialect of Amoy, which is said to be the eighty-third lan r giiage or distinctive, dialect in which this work has appeared. ' ■ ■»- CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. 'Xo rsn Editoh—Please inform your read-, ers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely nse.thousands ol hqpsles3.casc3 have been permanently cured, f shaBbe glad to send two bottles pf my reme dy pf.ee to any of your readers who have con sumption if {hey will send rap their express and post office address. Respectfully, T- A. SLOCUM. M. C-, 1SI Pearl st., N 'w Yoffc Benew your subscription for the Home Journal now. , -^-rLd. Sa-r. 519 FOUBTH ST.,