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JOHN 2*. IXOEX3-ICS3, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS ANP CULTURE.
PRICE: TWO DOLLARS A Tear.
VOL. XXI.
PERKY* HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1891.
NO. 18-
OLD TLME SONGS.
New Grleaus Timea-Democrat.
The songs we used tp sing? Ah, me!
bluntly.
Celia dropped Her .eyes.
i pointed to naif-past three, and he
Being knew the barbarous four o’clock
j a woman and a sister, she thought j rule of district schools.
%
I love them, and if I conld bring 1
I My voice their sad, sweet tones to sing
• The^air should with an anthem ring
! Of sw
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Zauk Hay3 has applied for letters, of
administration on - the' estate of James,
Hays, late of said county', deceased:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at' the May
term, 1891, of the Court of Ordinary of
said county, and show cause, if any. they
havo. why said application should not be
granted.
• Witness my official signature this March
30,1891. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.'
Georgia—Houston County:
The widow of D. H. Holloman, de
ceased, has appled for 12 months sup
port for herself end four minor children
out of estate of slid deceased: 4 '
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the May term,
1891, of the Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this March
30,1891. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County:
W. Brunson, executor of estate of Har
riot Holloman, latejjt said county, de
ceased, has applied for leave to sell the
real estate of said deceased.
This is therefore to cite all personscon-
corned to appear at the May term,
1891 of the court of Ordinary of saidcoun-
ty, and show cause, if any they have, why
said application should not be granted.
Witness my official signature this March
30, 1891. J H. HOUSER,
Ordinary
Valuable Land For Sale
In Houston county on 10 Years
Time, at 8 per cent. Interest.
sweetest melody.
The songs we used to sing? Ah, me!
Their music fills my heart with tears,
For those lost hopes of long-gone years,
That Time’s eternal river bears
On to Eternity.
The songs we used to sing? All, mo!
In dreams 1 hear each tender strain,
In mystic minor song again—
I wake, and dies the sweet refrain
To all but memory.
she knew. Bat how could she say Molly, who held an open book,
to Harry Burton that she suspect-j was going on with a recitation, pac
ed Molly’s freak to have a not very , ing slowly up and down before her
remote connection with himself ? j cl assy her head high, her lips de-
That she was fairly convinced murely adjusted, her eyes clear
MOLLY’S EXPERIMENT
BY EMMA A OPPOSE.
I am offering for sale two reliable
fauns, containing 510 and 405 aergs re
spectively, known as “Lane Place” and
“Uing Place.” The former at 93,600.00,
and the.latter at $2,500.00; each situated
'i miles of Katli-
10 miles of Perry, and
leen. Well improved, healthy locality,
good neighborhood, and in fact, in every
way desirable home’s. A cash payment of
one-fifth is required, and remainder will
be divided as above, allowing purchaser
to pay at any time, and stop-interest on
amount paid. .
Rents for present year to go to pur
chaser if sold prior to August 1st, 1891.
Lane Place rented for $300. Aonehorse
farm on King Place rented for $75.
Farmers with small means, especially, ■
would do well to give careful considera
tion to this proposition.
GEORGIA—Hooston County:
Mrs. C. M. HoUeman, administratrix
of estate of B. Holleman, deceased, has
applied for dismission from her trust;
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appoar at the July term,
1891, of the court of Ordinary of said
count}, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should. not .be
granted.
Witness my official signature this the
30th of March, 1891.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
All persons concerned are hereby noti
fied to bo and appear at the court of Or
pinary, to be held in and for said county
on the'first Monday in June next, then
and there to show cause, if any exists,
why W. S . Felder should not be dismiss
ed from his trust as administrator on the
ostato of Mrs. C. M. Felder, late of said
comity, decoased, as prayed for by him
in petition this day filed in the office of
this coiirt.
Witness my-official signature this 27tli
day of Peb. 1891.
J.H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County:
A redaction of 10 per cent, for cash.
Would (be pleased to hear from any desir
able purchaser.
Will cut up into, small farms if a
sufficient number of purchasers can
agree as to division of. land.
T. J. FELDER,
17 Capitol Block, Atlanta, Ga.
“Going to—teach school!” Harry
Burton echoed, much as though
Molly had said-she was going to
South Africa.
MONEY TO LOAN/
In siuns of $300.00 and upwards, to be
secured by first liens on improved farms.
Longtime, low rates and easy payments.
Apply to C. O. DUNCAN,
Kov. 20th, 1889.—t-f Perry 1 Ga.
MONEY LOANS
On Houston farms procured at the low
est possible rates of interest. As low, if
not lower than the lowest. Apply to
W-. D. Nottingham,
tf Macon. Ga.
J. B. EDGE,
Physician and' Sui-geon,
• Perry, Georgia.
Office adjoining Perry Hotel. Can be
found at office during the day, 1 and at
Hotel at night. All calls promptly an
swered day or night. .
Z. 1ST M S,
1352E|lf‘ TIST
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Jg"Office on Main street, lately occu
pied by Dr. W. M.] Haris. ■
First-class.work. Pricesihoderatc. Pat-
ronage'S elicited. apl281y
W. M. Edmiihdson, administrator es
tate of John .Edmundson, -deceased, lias
appliod for dismission from bis trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons
ooncerned to appear - at the June term,
1891, of the court’or Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
havo, why said application should not
be grantod.
Witness^ my official signature, this
March 2,1891. J. H. HOUSER,
Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
Daniel M. .Vinson, executor of estate of
Elijah Vinson, deceased, hps applied for
dismission from his trnst:
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the June term,
1391, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
March 2, 1891.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
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STORE FIXTURES
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TERRY M’F’GCQ.j nashville,tenn.
“I commence next Monday,
said Molly, merely, and commenced
mending the lace ruffle on a white
apron
Harry strove for a little indif
ference and composure. This was
made difficult by the fact that Ce
lia,Molly’s older sister., had gone
behind Molly for the purpose of
cojnmuuicating her sentiments to
the caller, in dumb show. Her sen
timents seemed to be humorous
despair and resignation
“-Where is the school ?” Harry
inquired, stiffly. /•
“Four miles north of here. Dis
trict number 12,” said Molly.
“Have you—positively engaged
it?”
For the life of him, Harry could
not help gasping. He had been at’
a dance with Molly the night be
fore, and sftx bad worn pink roses
on a pink China silk -gowu.-V Not
that the Paines were rich; bat—
good gracious!—neither were they
poor.
“Certainly!” said Molly, “lap-
plied two weeks ago, and I 'had a
card from the directors yesterday.
I am engaged, and am to begin
next week.”
Molly went to the work-table for
some thread. Molly was --rather
petite, with a pretty complexion, a
straight small nose, a charmingly
moulded mouth. She was always
as proudly self-posed as though
she was twice eighteen and a half,
and to-day she was, to Harry Bur
ton, maddeningly so.
For bow long a term?” he
queried, the bewildered, exasper
ated, miserable feeling which had
takPu posession of him deepening
every minute. t
“Ten weeks.”
Molly threaded her needle.
“Until February, theu 1” Harry
murmured. “Shall you—com.e
home for Sundays?”
“Probably . not -often,” suid
Molly.
“Are you fixing that thing to
wear?” Harry demanded.
“This apron. Yes. You can
hardly be a school-teacher without
an apron,” said Mblly.
She raised her pretty brows
lightly at his angry vehemence.
The snn struck through the win
dow on her hair, which was a rich
red-brown; her lips, softly parted,
showed her white teeth; her blue-
gray eyes were lowered.
Harry Burton, throbbing with
his honest love for her, which had
been Jong growing within him, suf
fered such a wretched pang that
:-he winced.
He would not be treated so like
a boy—a baby! He would not pre
tend anything but disgust for the
nonsensical prank she was playing,
it seemed to him, chiefly for his
tormenting —and succeeding, if so.
“Good-by, then!” he said, coolly
rising. “I’m going to Pomeroy to
morrow, and if you leave next
week, good-by!”
He shook bauds with Celia
warmly, and with Molly distantly,
and stalked out.
Celia took him to the front door,
Celia was pretty, too.
“I don’t know,” she murmured,
frowning in sympathy wiih the irate
young man, and smiling because
she couldn’t help it, “what ails
Molly. It’s ridiculous. We’ve all
talked.and argued and implored
and herd’s the result. I was sure
she’d back out, and I haven’t said
a word:to anybody about it.- Pve
been positively ashamed to. But
she’s going to* do it—she actually ia
-and now it will have to come
out \I don’t know what all the
girls will say. IP she’d ever done
anything of the kind before—or ii
she needed the money—or if—
anything! But for Molly to do it!”
Celia laughed, helplessly. •
Bntthis was unsatisfactory.
that Molly was hart, or incensed,
or jealous, or—being at sea to the
cause, Celia could not rightly
guage Molly’s emotions; but she
knew something was wrong.
.How could she tell him that she
deemed Molly’s startling act td’be
a rebellious, indignant attempt to
even matters—to show him her in
difference—to go away from him
altogether, and let him see how se
renely she could do it
Celia knew not the reason of
her pretty sister's dudgeon. How,
then, could she impart to her pret
ty sister’s admirer her vague sus
picious?
He was an admirer only—not a
finacee. It would be manifestly
improper. Celia remained silent.
'Ml, gt>od:by!” said Molly’s
admirer.
and bright. And the visitor was
in for half an hour of it.
Oddly enough, he was conscious
of a feeling of comfort such as he
had not known for many days!
Molly was here, at least, near him,
though.she was giving all her at
tention to a geography class.
He felt a' thrill of happiness in
her mere bright presence—brown
dress and white apron and all.
Besides, the room was clean and
pleasant, in spite of hackneyed
His tone was funeral; so was his
expression. He drifted down, the
path as though it made no differ
ence where he went to. He di
vined that Celia was laughing, and
he did not care. He felt desper
ate.
He told himself that he would
go over to Celia in a minute, if she
wasn’t spoken for. He was siok of
Molly’s freaks and whims. In
view of this absurd affair, it seem
ed to him that she alw&ys had
been whimsical—which was an in
justice. Teaeh school—a district
school! She was out of her senses.
What did she mean by it?
Harry felt an all but uncontroll
able wish to go back and shake
her.*
He thrust his hands into his
overcoat pockets and whistled dis
mally. Wiiy, he shouldn’t see her
again, he didn’t know when.
He was more - than dismal; he
was angry and sulky. He felt the
need of a little comfort and mental
quietude, and he thought he would
go around and see Alvira; and act
ing on the resolve, turned into a
side street and knocked at a mod
est door.
The week which followed was
one which he never forgot, for in
it lay his first taste of real unhap
piness, which grew into settled
doom.
He went to the lecture alone.
He had been wont to take Molly
Paine to everything of merit that
cams along. He went sleighing;
and felt so wretchedly lonesome
that he got home as quick as pos
sible. He went to a small party,
afid grew to positively dislike the
pretty girl.he took in to supper and
went home with, because she was
not Molly Paine;
Hef ussed and moped and chafed,
and on Friday afternoon he went
to see Celia:
“Do you expect Molly to-night?”
he leaked.
And when' Celia said no,he got up
and went out like one in a dream,
or like a young man possessed of a
single idea—an idea he had battled
against, but which had overcome
him. He went home, got bis horse
into bis cutter, took- some hot
bricks and a soapstone and went
off in senrch of district number
twelve.
He found it by dint of industri
ous inquirj. Within a short space
he was pulling up at the door of a
little schoolhouse, which bad been
white once and was brown now,
set in the middle of a big bare
yard. -
The snow was up to the fence on
either side, being tramped down
in the middle by’many small feet.
“Dismalest holel ever struck!’’
Harry muttered, and tied his horse
at the one post and strode to the
door,
Molly answered his knock—
Molly herself; Molly in a brown
dress and white apron—looking
rather prettier than ever before'
and ten times as captivating.
Her lover’s heart rose to his
throat and he stammered, over the
greeting he’ had meant to utter
with dignity.- s
He fancied that Molly gasped
chalk-dust.
And the school which numbered
twenty-five, was very decent-ap
pearing; Harry admitted that. The
children were red-cheeked and
healthy, the older girls were good-
looking and the boys manly.
The crackling fire made the
was not Molly. Now he abomi
nated her.
“Is she crazy?” he. fumed.
“She said she had heard it.”
• “But, anybody s knows better—
everybody! You, Molly! Have
y8u lived in Perry all your days
not to know that I’m Alvira Aus
ten’s cousin?”
“I knew you were some, distant
connection,” Molly whispered, try
ing to get her hand free, and fail
ing.
“I’m her ‘first cousin ’ third re
move,’ as they say. We’re third
co.usins. Well, and you know she’s
‘quite some’ older"than I?”
“I didn’t think that made any
difference. She’s pretty and styl
ish.
“So she is; and a good girl be-
THE TRAINING OF CITIZENS!
of
mottoes on the walls and floating side!” said Harry, warmly. “There
great black stove seem cheerful
and the little old melodeon' by the
platform created a home-like at
mosphere. There were evergreen
festoons over the windows and
some plants on the sills. It was
decidedly cozy.
Molly’s lover sat in a sort of
lethargic calm. The geography
class was reciting chief cities and
principal rivers-in a monotonously
soothing way.
The warmth of the room, after
his cold, long drive, had a dulling
effect—as did his subtle, growing
happiness after his long dreariness.
He was almost sleepy.
He wore a bland, contented smile
which puzzled the school—thfe
scholars, admired - him, however.
He was not very distinctly aware
of anything; he knew a history
class succeeded the geography, and
a spelling class the history, and
that Molly was speaking to the
school in her bright tones—some
thing about next week’s work; and
that she was giving a military
sounding order—one, two, three;
and that the school was filing out
with well trained precision; and
that at last, he and Molly 1 were left
alone in the warm cherry, dusty
schoolroom.
“Did you—did you come to take
me home?” she said hurriedly.and
bieathlessly, as though afraid of
the-silence.
And she went to the far end of
the room and began erasing figures
from the blackboard. *
“That’s what!” said Harry! em
phatically. “Don’t you waut to go?
I’ll bring you back Monday morn
ing.”
A faint murmur in reply.
“I thought you’d give it up after
a week of it Shaft you? Do
you like your boarding place?”
Molly erased in silence.
“It’s a jolly little school,” he
burst forth, warmly, “and you’re a
jolly little teacher! I don’t care
what you’re doing it tor—it’s is a
gorgeous success!” -
All his bitterness was gone, and
he laughed light-heartedly and im
moderately.
Molly rubbed away, her face' in
visible.
“Molly,” he cried, “what is the
matter?”-
He was over at thd blackboard
the next minute.
Molly was crying. It was more
than her lover could credit, but she
was crying.
“You—you came so suddenly!”
she whispered, chokingly. “I was
not looking for you, and—ob,
dear!”
She gave up and turned away,
helplessly- tearful.
But Harry turned around, too,
and—by no means conld he help it
—put his strong and comforting
arm around her.
It was a question after that of
who.should break tke4ulence, which
stretched itself alarmingly.
Harry did at last. For a light
had broken over him, he meant
to sift matters.
What made yon do itj Molly ?”
he demanded. “Was it—could it
be anything to do with me?”
A silence, and then a low mqr-
is'only one prettier and better.
Well, and you knew sbe was going
to marry Mr. John Chapman, of
Pomeroy, next March—the cloth
ier, you know.
“No, I never!” said Molly, stout
ly-
“She is, though, and a good
match he is. One thing you did
know, Molly,” said Harry gravely,
“and that is-that I never cared for
any but you, and never would and
never could. To have doubted
what you knew so well, all for a
nonsensical rumor! Molly!”
He softly boxed her ears.
“Come now,” he" said, when a
second happy silence was over—
and he laughed again—merciless
ly—“come, you’re not going to
teach school any longer? Now that
you’ve proven that you’re utterly
indifferent to me, and entirely able
to take care of yourself, and more
than anxious to get along without
me, won’t you say good-bye to dis
trict number twelve?’
“Never,” said Molly—“never!
m a tremendous success. The
school likes me, and the parents
are pleased with me, and the di
rectors are delighted. I’m a revo
lution, a cyclone, and I’m going to
stay. * You can come after me Fri
day nights and bring me back
Monday mornings, if you choose,
bpt I stay!”
“You can use the vast wealth yon
will accumulate in the purchase of
your—ahem!—trousseau,’’her lover
observed, with tender irony.
He did come after her Friday
nights ana bring her back Monday
mornings
That-was Molly’s last effort at
school teachiug, but neither she
nor her lover regretted the little
episode. They were the happiest
ten weeks they had ever known.
And she did use her money for
her trousseau, the next spring; for
their wedding followed Alvira’s
shortly.--Saturday night.
FORTUNES AND THEIR USES.
Pete Wasn’t in If.
and shrank a little. In view of the j mttr . And under protest a few
Children Gry for Pitcher's Castorla
known in her he doubted it; j “Good gracious!” the young man
At least she recovered immedi-; cried,
ately, audshuok hands and said: j “You never believed that? Molly
How do yon'do?” and replied to; Paine, you didnlt? By George!
his inquiry that she was well, and - who put that into yoor head?”
walked before him across the room.; “Jenny Ford,” the inj'ured tones
Tire platform held two chairs. ‘ murmured.
Harry took one. He was rather. “Jenny Ford!” said Harry in a
discomposed. He had supposed stage hiss. r
Dph’t you know-what her re a-, that school would be out. 1 She w*s the pretty girl Tie had
sou is,-anyhow?” ■ Hairy asked But the round clock on the wall disliked at the party beeanse’she
There was a meeting of the
stockholders of a certain railroad
at Jackson, Miss. A colored man
crept up to the head of the stairs
in the building, says the St. Louis
Globe, where the meeting was /in
progress, and wbisperiugly asked
of another colored man on duty
there:
“Moses, has dey dnn woted to
cat wages down?”
“Sah! What you talkin’ ’boat?
I doan’ know yon, sah!” pompous-
replied the other.
“You dun doan’ know me?”
“No, sah!”
“Git yon! Didn’t 1 -dun marry
your sister Mary, an’ hain’t I
workin’ right*in dis depot?”
“What’s de name, sah?”
'“Name! Name! Hain’t I your
brudder-law, Pete Williams?”
'‘An’- is yo’ one of de stockhold
ers of dis railrode?”
“Ob co’se' not.”
“Kin you wote in dismeetin’?”
“No.”
“Den, sab, I begs to inform yon,
sah, dat arter we git frew pnrceed-
in’ wid our purceedins ye may de
cide to culminate de same to out
siders; an’ if we do, sah, an’ should
happen to meet me, sah, I shall be
happy to particalate all de eluci-
dasbun incomprehensibly wid. our
policy. Good-day, sah!”-
Merit' Winn
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llacon Telegraph.
The university of the City
New York presented to fourteen
bright women, a few evenings ago,
certificates showiug their success
in passing the examinations on the
work in the law conrse of-that in
stitution.
The concluding remarks of the
valedictorian, Mrs. Theodore Su
tra, explain the motive which actu
ated her in taking up the study of
law. “Not because I intend to be-
come a practicing attorney, or
want to run for congress, but be
cause Itim a member of the hu
man family, and because there is
no,nobler or more elevating study,
or one that has a greater tendency
to make-me a more intelligent, lib
eral-minded, and, withal, better
woman.”
It does not seeipi that there is
auy prospect 'of such a wholesonfe
principle as is here announced af
fecting any change in the course
of study in our public schools. It
is beginning to be understood that
any public school system which
does not recognize its responsibili
ty as the state’s ageut for the mak
ing of enlightened citizens is de
fective and sadly in need of re-or-
gwnization; but it cannot be said
that thenrjs any de'mand in our
section of the country that the in
cubus oE useless school-room tasks
shall be removed from the list of
requirements set before the pupil,
and substitutes therefore provided
in the adoption of treatises on the
fundamental principles of common
law, end on the essertial features
of political economy, as items in
the regular course of - study for
boys and girls alikeT
The mother who appreciates to
the full, the Jesuit’s claim as to a
child’s remarkable susceptibility
to the influences which in so short
a time mold his character for good
and all, does not stop to think how
her tender anxiety concerning the
manners and morals which her boy
shall carry into the social world
lakes no account, of the peculier
temptations which will assail him
in what may be termed his civic
pursuits. Her neglect springs
from ignorance of the things com
monly considered ofVo interest to
woman, because, perhaps, of her
entire disconnection, as aii-.active
participant, with them.
Were every woman in the land
acquainted with the workings even
of our courts, with the power and
the responsibility of the ballot,and
the j’eopardy attending its misuse;
with the significance of political
parties in an essential and not a
partisan sense, then we might
hope that otir great republic need
not be driven to the pass of de
pending on repression of evil to
save her institutions from disaster.
The men who framed this wonder-
snl triune government counted on
something better than our use of
it 'hen develops! They prophe
sied a ballot guarded by a more
spiritual power than that which
recommends the Australian scheme
or any other ingenious arrange
ment whose inception began with
the recognition of man’s depravi-
If the Jesnit priest was willing
to relinquish the child of twelve,
feeling no fears in .prosselyting
zeal in after years being able to
shake its religious faith, what
might not the mother hope to do
for her coantry by giving her boy
to the world with the plain truths
of perfect citizenship firmly fixed
in his mind and heart?- , Knowing
these truths,she can qiagnify them;
ignorant oftliem, she lays upon
her son none of the restraints
which might come to him with
thoughts of his early training, iir a
thousand crises of public life.
It has been stated by good au
thority that two wagers concerning
woman’s acquaintance with public
affairs brongbt some remarkable
revelations dnring the crowded
season at a health resort well known
to Georgians.
These wagers were to the effect
that not ou2 of the twenty bright
women chatting so delightfully on
the long west veranda,if asked to do
it, could tell the difference between
a petty-jury and a grand jury, nor
explain the workings of the electo
ral college—not One of them. J’he
first wager was lost, oat and ont;
for one demure matron gave a fair
explanation of the differences be
tween the two juries, but the elec
toral college went by tbe board! A
few had heard of it, bat not one
knew where the institution' was lo
cated, nor who its president was,
Savannah News.
The series of articles in the
North American Review, relative
to the proper use to. be made of
wealth, written by Andrew Carne
gie, Mr. Gladstone, Gardihal Man
ning and Cardinal Gibbons, have
attracted a great deal of attention.
The last of the series is by Cardi
nal Gibbons, and it appears iD the
April nhrnber of the Review. 'It ia
entitled “Wealth and Its Obliga
tions.”
The motive for the writing of
these articles is fonndin the rapid
increase in the amount and num
ber of great fortunes, sud the
gradual widening of the golf which
separates the rich from the poor.
The wealth of the world is increas
ing at a rate that almost surpasses
belief, but it is being concentrated
in a. comparatively few hands.
And the greater this concentration
the more dissatisfied the poor
^become.
In his article Andrew Carnegie
said that it was the duty of a rich
man to-live unostentatiously,shnn-
niDg display and extravagance,
and, after providing for those de
pendent upon him, to hold the re
mainder of his wealth as a trnst
fund to be used for the benefit of
those less fortunate than himself. *
Mr. Carnegie is acting, to some ox-
tent, in accordance with these
views. He has already invested
several millions of dollars' tor the
benefit of the poor.
Cardinal Gibbons commends the
views of Mr. Garnigie in so tar as
they favor the distribution of tbe
surplus wealth of the rich among
the poor. He treats the snbject,
however, from the standpoint of a '
Christian rather than that of a
statesman or philanthropist He
thinks that the selfishness display
ed by the rich hardens, the hearts
of the poor against religious influ
ences. He says. “Those familiar
with the daily lives and sentiments
of tbe laboring classes know what
a stumbling-block to their faith is
pious pennrionsness, tbe charity
that, begins and ends .at borne.
They cannot reconcile godliness
and greed. For most, other forms
of human weakness there is toler
ance, even at times compassion;
but for the man who acknowledges
oar common fatherhoed and broth
erhood, with his hands tightly
closed upon his purse-strings,there
is a fierce contempt, ‘corses lond
and deep.’. It may safely be af
firmed that one sanctimonious mi
serly millionaire in a community
works moreReadly harm to Chris
tianity than a dozen isolated cases
of burglary or drunkenness. In
Europe, we are told by competent
authorities, the desperation of the
poor is fast driving them - into
atheism.”
Wealth has responsibilities which
few rich men recognize in the way
they should recogniza them. They
do not in any sense regard them
selves ae trustees of that part of
their wealth for which -they have
no use. They do not think that
those less fortunate than them
selves have any claim upon their
sarplaB riches, and they do not
seem to care if their extravagance,
their ostentations display of their
possessions, and their selfishness,
have a bad effect upon the commu
nity in which they live.
If the mntterings of their less
fortunate brethren fail to arouse
them to a sense of their responsi
bilities, it is a question wbether
the state should not do so for the
common good.
either.
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The Talbotton New Era tells
this amusing story of an impecn--
nious Georgia editor: “He -had to
practice rigid economy to pay for
bis office as well'as to make a Jiv
ing. He lived in his office, and
slept in one corner cn apile of pa
pers; prepared his own meals,
which consisted of only cheese and
rice. He used his paste pot in
which to cook his rice, ate his fru
gal meal off ofthe ‘bed’ ofthe
press, and wiped his mouth with
the .‘tympan.’ It was a waste of
money for him to buy matches, so
he ‘covered up fire.’ Persistent
economy nfler awhile enabled him
to pay for his paper, and then for
tune seemed to smile upon him.
He'got married, was elected con
stable, and appointed sexton ofthe
Methodist church. It is needless
to say that he is prospering, and
honors still continue to be heaped
upofi him by those who admire -his
determination and and appreciate
his worth.”
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Mr. Jas. H. Cordon, pastor M.
E. Church, Wilson, N. C., sai g- i_
•ake great pleasure in recommend
ing Bradycrotine as a specific for
Headache in’its various foma.
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