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VOL. XXVII. NO 28
ITT,MS OK INTEREST. !
A.storekeeper in Brfth, Me.,
says that, rate never gnaw hem
lock. He k j >l all hit) grain
in hemlock clients.
Ice cream sold in London
streets has he n found to con
tain 7,00(),tHX) microbes to each
cubic centimeter. It. is said
that more than 1,000,000 nii
c/obeg to the o nil imeter are uii
w-althy. The safe plan is al
ways to count them before eat
ing-
As the English upper classes
do not object to their boys being
birched, it is only royal princes
and the sons of noblemen who
iceive corporal punishment in
great English schools. So
at least says i headmaster of
Harrow.
A proces-ion of icebergs sent
against, tin surface of the sun
would melt at the rate of ititO,-
000,000 cubic miles of solid ice
a second, and its heat is esti
mated to produce a force of
about 10,000 l»prse power to ev
ery square footi.f its surface.
Brummagcn I rench isdanger
oos. A Birmingham citizen
passing two policemen on the
street in the evening said Bon
jour, monsieur, to them. They
at once arrested him, charging
him with being drunk and
swearing at them in a foreign
language.
As a lover of honey bees Da
vid M, Kup ley , of Louisville,
bus kept a hive in lib dooryard.
One of the he--s alighted on his
nose one day stling the tip of it.
His far ■ turned purple, and for
several hours two doctors
thought he was at the point of
death. He recovered.
Tennessee is up near the head
of the snake column this vear
with the record of Jesse ,p,
who killed (111 dross Mollk 111,
near Bristol, a rattlesnake theas
tiring three inches across the
head, live .et in length and six
inches iij diameter. It had ft
rattles beside the button.
Two Inihdn d years ago, on
Aug. SI. I’eter the great became
1 a shiplipilder's prentice at
Saardam. a little vWlage a lew
miles from Amsterdam. It, is
ti im and picturesque. In a nar
row lane by tile waterside is the
hut in which the czar lived the
life of a workman. Nicholas
II recently inclosed it in a new
building of brick and stone in
* the Byzantine sfcyl .
Government ownership of rail
reads has been found a failure
in Brazil, and the government
has olfered to h-ase it) entire
system oi ! I,(HH) miles of track
to any resp insibb- company that
will pay a bonus ot $70,000,000
as rental of the tracks, rolling
stock and other property for a
term of fifty years, and a guar
antee to restore them in good
order at the end of that period.
The Colossus of Rhodes, a
bronze statue, was* ltfc>feet high.
It was made li.v Chares, who,
aided by an army < t workmen,
consumed twelve years in its
construction. It. remained in
position in the harbor of Rhodes
for sixiv veilrs, and was thrown
down by an < artlupinke It. C.
2t 4. it lay 1 » the groirt <1 KiH
years, and w. hi t"ft Hebrew
f,.r old metal. It.- carried away
<1(10 camels loads, or at nut 720,-
000 pounds, of bronze.
There is p'i lians no tenant
wh<> is so completely ill the u. 1 1‘-
cv of his landlord as the oeelipi
er of a house in I. .a lea which
belongs to one ol the great
ground huiillords His is abso
lute |>ri tier w Ohio the four
Corners o! his 1* i '. I lie slight
est deviation is accompanied
with pains and penalties; hut,
on the other hand, the landlord
•reserves all kinds of privileges
to himself.
When t he council of ten ruled
Venice they issued a decree re
garding the art of glass making,
ii runs; “If a workman carry
lus art lx yond the limits of his
country to the detune lit of the
republic lie shall tie desired to
return. If he disobey, his near
eat relatives shad be imprison
ed. If in spit, of their impris
onment, he remain ohstinata iu
j,j, ish to live abroad an emis-
B ,,iy shall I"' told oil to kill
. him.
A Chicago boy's ingenuity
lias brought, to light the tact
4 that an ordinary chair serves
for a conienient bicycle rack.
In cleaning» w heel most people
find it difficult to keep the ma
chine St ady. and ut such times
a rack is lmdly neeibd. This
litt'e chap bus discovered that
toit-irn the chair over, hook the
I, (d ll,, of his bicycle on the rear
ligand rest the saddle on the
ha k, lie has tie .ss to all the
working pails and can manipu
late it at will.
,\|iss ; tella F. Jenkins, a Kan
sas Citv school teacher, has
| l( ,n mud.- a ministet of the
|*-nds' churi'h in that city.
H, r ni" her. Mrs. Frances C.
Seukins, has been minister of
the Quaker eliuivli for forty
five years. Another sister has
i occupied a pulpit in Rich
mond, lull*
The Gwinnett Herald.
THE CHARACTER OF A
TURK.
The leading feature of the
Turkish character is obstinacy,
says Harper's Round Table.
There is only one thing that
will induce a Turk to do some
thing that, ho does not want to
—that is force. When that
is applied, or he sees that it is
going to he, he gives in. If lie,
however thinks the other side
is not, in earnest, he will hold
out, and sometimes that brings
him into trouble. This is the
secret, of Turkish diplomacy,
and it is that, which gives other
countries so much trouble in
dealing with Turkey. A foreign
diplomatist once remarked that
the right way to do business
with the Turk was to take him
by the throat, give him a good
beating, and then tell him to
sit down and talk business.
This was, however, rather a
rough and extreme way of put
ting it. An old resident of
Turkey I met on the first oc
casion I was in the country
once gave me the sum of his
experience of his dealings with
them in the forn of a story 1
did not think at, the time that
within a few months I should
have a practical illustration of
its truth on my own account.
But, that is by the way, This
is how t lie story goes :
An old Turk, whom we will
Call Hassan Balm, owed money
which lie had borrowed from
Abdullah, who had asked sov
eial times for its return. As
both were mussiilmans, no in
terest, was given or taken, be
lievers being forbidden by the
Koran to lend money to one
another on usury. But, Hassan
Baba could never be induced to
pay back his debt, and at last
Abdullah, losing patience, had
him up before the cadi, or
judge.
“Von owe the mone\ r ,” said
the cadi.
“It is even so, Effendim,”
replied the debtor.
“Then you must pay it back,’
exclaimed the caili, “or I will
have t<> sentence you.”
“Be it so, Effendim, I do not
pay,” replied the obstinate old
man.
“Then I sentence you to pay
tin' money, and if you continue
in your refusal, <>li, Hassan
Baba, I give you the choice
whether you will take twenty
five strokes of the bastinado, or
eat a whole string of onions, or
pay the money. In the name
of the Merciful One, I condemn
you. ”
“tnsulluh, Effendim! I will
take the twenty-five strokes of
the bastinado.”
The executioner of the court
and his assistants were called
in, and Hassan Balia having
Been thrown upon the floor and
his feet fastened, soles upper
most, to the pole by two men.
the executioneer proceeded to
lay on. But before the twenty
five strokes had been adminis
tered Hassan Baba began to cry
out lustily.
“11l tile name of the Most
Merciful, oh, cadi, giv-- the or
ders to cease, and I will eat the
string of onions!”
So, mi tlx' command of the
cadi, he was let down, and a
man was sent out to the market
place for u string of onions.
When, he got back with them,
llassuh Baba set manfully to
work t > eat the onions, but be
fore lie had got to the end of
them his stomach refused to go
any further, and lie cried out:
“Let it- be as you say, oh,
cadi! 1 will pay the money.”
Then undoing thegirdle which
In- hud round his waist, he pro
duced the pieces, which lie
counted out to Abdullah before
the cadi.
“That,” said my friend, “will
give you u better idea of the
character of the Turk than any
thing 1 can think of. He will
take a heating, he will eat the
onions, and he will pay the
money after all.”
THE MOVABLE CARRIAGE
WHEELGCARD.
Movable carriage wheelguurds
are made cheitly for use with
light carriages thut are not
equipped with fixed guards. The
movable guard is of willow bas
ket work. In its general out
lines it is something like a coat
■ r cloak hanger. It is made to
tit over a section of the rim of
die wheel. The carriage guurd
is earned in the carriage, and
w hen required for use to protect
the gown of a woman getting in
or out it is simply held mi the
wheel. —Exchange.
Mind your business, and it
will mind you.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 st 1 897.
THE SONG OF THE LOCO
MOTIVE.
Mr. Kipling has again dem
onstrated his genius, in and
through his story, “.007,” pub
lished recently in Scribner’s
Magazine. The story is that
of a number of railway locomo
tives, with No. “.007,” a ma
chine just out of the hands of
the builders, as the hero of it.
“.007” was forced to do drudge
work for a time, Imfc finally
graduated into I he class of mi le
a-minute llyers, pulling “Pur
ple Emperor,” “White Moth”
and other fancifully named
limited express trains. Upon
becoming a member of t lie fra
ternity, the new engine was
taught the song of the fast fly
ing locomotive, as follows:
With a miclmai—ghignai—sell
tingal! Yah! Yah ! Yah I
Fin—zwei—drei—mutter, Yah!
Yah! Yah!
She climbed upon der shteeple
I nd she frighten all der people
Siugin’ miclmai —ghignai—sell-
tingal! Yah! Yah! Yah!
We submit that it requires
genius, and that of a very high
order, to get anything like the
foregoing out of the whirr and
rattle and roar of the high-speed
locomotive when it is burning
up the miles at the rate of sixty
to the hour. It is not to be
denied, of course, that railway
locomotives have a language of
their own, and that they say
things and sing songs as they
skim the earth. Every travel
er, and every small boy who
has haunted the switching yard,
knows of this language, mid has
interpreted it to suit individual
fancy. For instance, an old
la.lv of Springfield, told about
in the Republican newspaper
of that city, was sure she knew
precisely what the locomotive
which carried her home from
Boston was singing about’. In
Boston she had visited the pan
orama, mu! all the way back to
Springfield the locomotive din
ned into her ear—
Panorama panorama
Panorama panorama
Panorama panorama
Panorama panorama
There are boys that frequent
the railroad yards in this city
who are quite w illing to qualify
to the fact that when the Au
gusta train leaves the shed its
song is—
Two cold biscuit and a cup of
coffee;
Two cold biscuit anil a cup of
coffee —
And we have beard it said that
there is one engine on the Flor
ida run which is habitually pro
fane and has a grudge against
the colored race. Whenever it
pulls out, so the story goes, it
begins—
%
Dammit nigger, damnia nigger,
Dumma nigger, damnia nigger,
which imprecation it keeps up
steadily all the way to Jackson
ville and back again. These
interpretations, we submit, are
more reasonable and expressive
than that of Mr Kipling. He
would have us believe a good,
American built locomotive
sings meaningless dogger re I in
a low-Dutch patois. We think
the engines are too intelligent
and patriotic to do any such
thing. Let the reader attempt
to apply Kipling’s verse to the
hum of the next mile-a-minute
train comes along, and judge if
we are not right,
Mr, Kipling received $1,500
for the story, the rate per word
being 20cents. It takes genius
to do thinas like that!—Savan
tiuh News.
DOG SMOKES CIGARETTES.
Denver has a dog that smokes
cigarettes. He is u cocker
spaniel and lives in a cigar
store. He is only ten months
old, but lie is a confirmed fiend
and is cross and peevish until
he has had his daily smoke
His owner has taught him u
number <d tricks, which Hilly—
'hat is Ids nuiipi—will perform
when a cigaret te is offered as »
reward.
When ready for his smoke
Billy souls himself on the cigar
case, pel mils a pair of spetacles
to he adjusted to Ins nose, uud
then daintily lakes the lighted
cigarette in Ids mouth. He
puffs away with u beatific ex
pression on Ins intelligent face
until tile fire gets so close to his
nose as to* he uncomfortable.
Tlien lie drops the stub and re
mains quiet until the s|>cctarlfH
are removed. —New York World
Keep on good terms w ith your
w ife, your God, and your uou
sciouce.
I CLOSING EXERCISE-5 OF
UNION ACADEMY.
Editor Hkkai.d: Please nl
low me space in your vnluahh
columns to speak a few word
relative to onr school at Union
Academv, our teach-r and his
teaching. I shall he very brief
in my writing.
On Friday, September nth.
j was a sad day with the pupils
of our school to have to have to
part with tliejr dear school
mates and teacher. The school
closed in a very orderly way,
as was dictated and arranged
by our teacher, .J. P. Hadawav.
The patrons and citizens were
all invited to attend at the
close of the school to witness
the great work that was doing
and that had been done Fii
day afternoon a goodly number
of ladies and gentlemen as
sembled at the school building
to enjoy the exercisee of the
evening.
Our program was ns follows:
First after dinner, a short ex
amination (or rather a review)
on arithmetic, after which a
number of noble speeches were
delivered by the hi iglit-faced
boys and girls of the sdiool,
which gladdened the hearts ol
| the parents to see their children
progressing so admirably.
I wish to call attention to one
I of these speeches which was de
livered by master Walter Sex
ton, which was very appropriate
to the occasion, and causal tin
pupils to almost burst into
(tears, after which the sam
piece was sung by Hie school
the music having heTKi written
try one of the students. I). M
i Swords.
After the speaking 11n- se||o<- ;
inarched, making Lends am
(beautiful curves without mak
ing a hobble, but keeping the
step and in line all Hie way
(through, which was a-tonish
ing to the eyes of the specta
tors. The school marched in a
ring and received a nice treat
bestowed by our good-hearted
teacher, after which the school
was dismissed, ai d all returned
home in as orderly way as’they
come.
When Mr. Hadaway took
charge of the school here it was
small, but by a resolution to
advance rather than retrograde
and by perseverance ihe growt h
was rapid, and at the end of
the school lie had enrolled some
thing upwards of sixty schol
ars.
All his rules were bastd upon
two small words, do iikhit. By
his kindness and wmningdispo
sition lie soon gained the alfee
tiou of all his pupils, so that
corporal punishment was *“1-
dom uetessary; but when it was
necessary it was executed with
love and kindheartedu-ss to
ward tlic pupil.
His teachings were all famii
iar. Perseverance was one ot
bis great teachings. He, like
Capt. John Smith to the In
dians, taiigtt his students that
“self reliance and industry
were the sur< st guarantee to
fortune. He also taught them
to lie honest in their plays; that
a had habit once formed in
plays would he most sure to tie
carried out. in dealings in after
life. Also not to lie selfish,
blit to observe the golden rule.
The escence of selfishness is
sin, as you may plainly see hy
taking the liisl letter of each
syllable.
These are but few of his teach
ings, hut 1 shall not attempt to
ment ion any more.
Our songs on these themes will
dwell
When we think of t he past;
And the beaut ious visions of our
sthool days
Will di-ath'essin memory last
We hope Mr. Hadaway will
remain with us another year,
for we feel that the institutions
of free common schools and
noble Christian hearted teach
era are a blessing to our coun
try, ami 1 thank God for these
blessings.
A HruDKNT.
NATI'RAL REFRIGERATOR
IN IOWA.
There is a cave in Hie bluffs
near Decorah, la., in which ice
limy he found any tune during
the summer. From the motilli
of the cavern a chill hlasi of
wind issues. Li the winter the
conditions are said to he r> •
versed, and tin* temperature of
the cavern is then warmer than
• lie outer atmorphere. —New
York World.
A PREMIUM ON BABIES,
Atlanta Journal.
Napcleon said that the no
blest woman in France was she
who bore most sous.'
He wou'd he disgusted if lie
were in France now. The birth
rate and the death rate of that
country are about equal. This
condition has alarmed French
statesmen and several of them
have proposed plans to stimu
late the birth rate.
An associat ion has been or
ganized with the object of in
creasing the population of
France by putting a premium
on births. It presents a plan
which is highly commended by
some of the most influential
French newspapers and which
seems to he the most practical
method of increasing the birth
rate yet offered. It is proposed
to enact a law reducing taxation
'n proportion to the number of
children in the taxpayi r's fam
ily; the imposition of a surtax
in the case o r families where
there are more servants than
children; and tie' eduent ion and
•are of all children over six in
my one family at tie public ex-
pense.
The middle class and the
peasantiy < f France are notably
thrifty and it is from them that
the population must be mainly
recruited. The inducement of
reduced taxation in proportion
to the number ot children in a
amily would probably have
considerable effect, and it is
probable that it will he offered.
GRANT AND (K’HILTREE.
President Grant made Colo
I Ochiltree a marshal for a
itain district in Texas, The
Colonel, however, did not spend
much of his time at home, but
weut skylarking about the
country wherever his fancy led
nint. This caused so many
■omplaints to he filed against
him that at last the President
suit for him to come to Wash
ington.
While waiting in the White
House reception room for his
turn to see the president, Ochil
tree began reading a report if
the proceeding day’s races at
Saratoga and was surprised to
-ee that a horse hearing his own
iiaine, Tom Ochiltree, hud car
ried off second money. When
lie faced President Grant, the
latter said he was sorry to learn
that an appointee of his should
1 e in any way derelict in his
duty.
“The fact is, Tom, I can
hardly pick up a paper that I
don’t run across your nume,”
sari he, “and you stem to be
i bout everywhere except ill
Texas, where you ought to be.”
“General,” suid the Texan,
with a smile as radiant as a
Ca’ifornia sunset, “if you’ll
read the papers today you’ll
(hid that 1 carried off second
money at Saratoga yesterday
u'ml uni said to Is* ‘in line form
and faster than ever.’ See
bee.”
And lie showed the sporting
page of the paper Hi his pock
-t
“Aid I to hlame,” lie said,
“if, while I am faithfully at
tending to uiy duties at home,
some confounded race horse is
disgracing my name about the
count ry ?”
Tile President thought not,
and Tom hitiried hack home
and stuck to husineu —quite
aw bile.—Chicago Times-Her
ald.
•m ■ - ini
We are iu formed that the peo
tde residing in the neighborhood
of the Dahlniiegu eump ground
charge the tent holders $1 per
load for straw for the harlx r,
s«venty-flv« cents a bushel for
corn and two cents a bundle lor
fodder to feed the preacher's
horses. Luring the construc
tion of the harbor some years
ago, an old gentleman came to
us and said if we would give
something towards its building
that we would only lie lending
to the Lord, We knew that it
was i rare chuuce for a man
| running a country paper to ev
er get to see the Lord, but we
concluded to risk it and handed
tli ■ old man a dollar, And now,
lif some of tliotu old church
ineinbers can’t risk letting u
i load of straw out <>n the same
, terns, after lie furnishes them
i the rail), sunshine and health
;to make it, they must surely
think that their chances of see*
| mg Him are about as slim us u
i newspaper man.—Duhlonega
N llgget.
Jealousy is the key tuatopens
> many Wedlocks.
; HARDY NOVA SCOTIAN
FISHERMEN.
The great “Yankee” fisher
men are mostly Nova Scotians,
but the captains of our fishing
vessels are, as a rule. Ameri
cans. hardy, self-reliant, quick
to think and to act and ready
for any emergency. While the
dories are out the captain, with
the aid of the cook, handles the
ship and keeps his weather eye
on the horizon. If he sees dan
ger in sky or sea, he sets a sig
nal—usually a basket hoisted
in the fore staysail halyards—
to recall the dories. Only too
often, though, the gale comes
up with such suddenness that
the dories to leeward cannot get
back. A dory with the bodies
if two fishermen in it or more
frequently empty or tossed bot
tom up by the waves tells the
•dory. Yet in spite of the dan
ger of starvation a jug of water
usually constitutes all the pro
vision aboard a dory, and a
compass is a rure bird. —Gustav
Kobbo in St. Nicholas.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Years ago Prince Bismarck
used to spell bis name with the
■c. ’ The present spelling does
away with the monetary signif
icance of the name Bismark —
two marks.
Dr. Robert .1. Brown, a scien
tist and a Kansas pioneer, died
recently at Leavenworl h, after
a lingering illness. Dr. Brown
was the first druggist- to do bus
iness in Kansas.
A monument to the memory
of Samuel Thomas von Sum
mering. who, Germans say, was
the inventor of the electric tel
egraph, was unveiled a few days
ago in Frankfort-on-the-Main.
The dedication of the momi
j inent which has been erected to
j the memory of Marshal Canro
| oert, at Saint-Cere, France,
; will take placeun Oct.ll. Gen.
Billot, the minister of war, will
preside at the ceremony.
Mrs. Hitty Smith and Mrs.
Deborah Hall of Barnstable,
Mass., probably the oldest twin
sisters in the country, celebra
ted the 92nd anniversary ol
their birth last week. They
enjoy excellent health, and, it
is said, look as hale as many
people twenty years younger,
Thad Stevens once had a col
ored servant in Washington
named Matilda, who one morn
ing smashed a large dish at the
buffet. “What have you bro
ken now, you d — black idiot?” !
exclaimed her master Matilda
meekly responded: “’Tain’t j
de fo’th commandment, bress.
de Luwd.”
John De Saline is mayor of
the smallest city in the world, j
rhe city, the name of which is
Fenton, is regularly incorpora
ted, but though it has been in
existence for more than twenty
years, it lias a population of
less than 100 people. Itissit
nated along the Meramec river,
about fifteen miles south of Bt.
Louis. The city is a settlement
of wealthy business men of St.
Louis, and has a full quota of
officials, none of whom, howev
er, draw salaries.
Aloise Msiilmrdt of Vienna,
who died ut the beginning nl
the present year, left to his
heirs u number of Inigo cases
filled wilh railroad tickets
which lie had collected from all
parts of tin* world, ami for
which he had spent a fortune
When the heirs caused the val
ue of the strange legacy to be
estimated, their disillusion was
painful. The 400,000 tickets
had to be sold to an English
house for 2,000 florins, or less
than SI,OOO,
_ - 1 M
THERE IS NOTHING SO
GOOD.
There is hothing just as good
as Dr. King's New Discovery
for Oonaumption. Goughs and
Golds, so demand it and «L> not
permit the dealer to sell you
some substitute He will Hot
claim there is anything bett-ir,
hut in order to make more prof
it he may claim something else
to be just us good. You want
Dr. King s New Discovery be
euusu you know it to lie safe and
reliable, and guaranteed to do
good nr money refunded. For
Coughs, Colds, Consumption
and for all affections of Throat,
Chest anil Lungs, there is noth
ing si good as is Dr. King's New
Discovery. Trial bottle free at
A. M. Winn A Son’s Drugstore,
Regular size 50 Wilts and sl.
A mill employing fifty men is
How engaged in making pa|>er
from the bagaeae, or sugarcane
refuse which was once the great
est nuisance to the sugar grower.
One of the most curious re
suits of the investigations made
by doctors in the Russian jails is
the statement that each group of
criminals has its own peculiar
color of the eye.
i Kivaiis TabulMTyltatoul UjuUivs.
1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
MISSIONARY COL
UMN.
(This column is devoted to
the missionary cause, and ised,
ited by the \\ . F, M. Society,
Lawrenceville auxiliary. |
I”or a good while the burden
of the prayers at monthly con
certs was for the opening oi
loors, the breaking down ol
barriers. Now from all the
fields conies the cry that the
loors are open everywhere, and
that the want is for men to go
in and occupy them. I.ater the
prayers were for men and women
who would go to the opening
fields. These prayers have been
answered, to(. in the most, won
lerful manner, and to-day there
ire six thousand young Chris
tians in our country alone who
have volunteered for mission
work, and are ready to go wher
ever they are gent; and now the
cry from all societies is for
money. Thus the responsihili
’y for the work is thrown hack
upon Christian people them
selves. God has done his part
in opening doors and inclining
men and women te be willing
to go as missionaries; he has
answered our prayers. Are we
going to fail him now?
Said President Gates, in his
address at the last meeting of
the American Board: “0 mv
brothers, what answer can we
-give for ourselves before the
judgement throne of God, if
this glorious work of preaching
(lie gospel of light to dying men
of checked and dwarfed and
fails of its glorious possibility,
‘•ecause we who are God’s stew
ards hold fast to God’s money
i for our own selfish uses? There
(is a time when the Almighty
Banker of the* universe calls in
his loans.’’ —Missionary lte
: view.
It is said at the present time
the tomb of Mohammed is cov
ered with diamonds, sapphins,
and rnbbies valued at ten mil
lion dollars, and the tomb of
1 the Saviour is unknown. Let
ns hope that this ten millions
may be used some day to point
1 the Mohammedans to the true
light—that not the tomb of any
man, not even that of Christ.fis
(of any value; the living Christ
i only is able to save—and briog
life and immortality to light.
I —Selected.
"
Pray and work and give
These lire shining privileges.
Don’t call them duties only,
(call them privileges, part of the
(“largess” of the kingdom of
heaven. Every Christian I talk
with, who-is accustomed to vic
torious pleading at the mercy
peat, tells me that something
great is going to happen.
These “mountain top Chris
tians” are always the first to
catch the gleams of the coming
day. They tell us something
j wonderful is about to come to
pa>s. Believe it. Think it.
Express it. Deny yourself first,
and let us answer all the cavils
of infidels, and sneers of ene
mies, and pessimistic doubts of
half-awake Christians, and
taunts of devils, by world-wide
victories fairly w.m. Then
shall we interpret in the doui
light of history what we now
dimly understand as a prophecy
—the words of John of Patinos*
“1 heard a great voice out ol
In aven saying, Behold the tab
ernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them and
they shall he his jieople, and
God shall lie with them and lie
their God.”—Selected.
UNXPOTTKD KHOM TUB WORLD.
A recent writer tells of going
with a party ilown into a coal
mine. On one side of the Kang
way grew a plant which was
perfectly white. The visitors
were uatomsheil that there,
where the roal-diist was con
stantly Hying, this little plant
should he so pure and white. A
miner threw a handful of hlack
dust upon the plant, Imt not a
particle adhered. The visitors
themselves repeated the expert
moot, hut tliti coal dust would
not cling. There was a wonder
ful enamel on the white jielala,
to which no s|>eek or stain could
cl'ng. This little plant, with
its pure whiteness atuid the dust
and drippings ot a coal mine, is
a picture of what every Chris
tian life should he. In this
world of evil, where so manv
unholy influences breathe about
us, it is the Christian’s mission
to he pure: to keep themselves
. “unspotted from the world.”
IDo you ask, how is this possi
ble'.* Christ can keep you. If
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God can make a little plant so
that no dust can stain its white
ness, can he not by his grace so
transform your heart that no
sin shall stain its purity? “lie
ye therefore perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven
is perfect.”—Ex.
TRIBE TE (IF RESPECT
TO KbitElt JAMES M. DAVIS, l!Y
THE CHURCH AT MT. MORIAH.
Eider James M, Davis was
born in Gwinnett, county, Ga.,
January 9th 1820. On Novem
ber Slrd 1812 he was married t<*
Miss Elvira Bailey, who was a
devoted help-meet, sharing with
him all his sacrifices and gospel
labors. October Ist 181(1 lie
jollied the Baptist church at
Mt. Moriah, and was baptized
by Elder Richard Phillips. In
this same church he lived and
labored the remainder of his
long and useful life. lie was
called to the pastorate of Mt.
I Moriah church, and De,.. sth
1851 ordained to the full work
of the gospel ministry, Bros.
Silas King and Amos Hadaway
constituting the presbytery.
I With the i xc option of two years,
lie continuously supplied this
I church as pastor until March
j 19th 1897, when death called
' him from his labors on earth to
! his reward in Heaven.
During tins busy pastorate of
forty-three years, he baptized
into the fellowship of Mt. Mo
riah church alone KO9. At the
same time he served many other
churches, and baptized in all
1002, 10 of whom are ordained
ministers. He was chosen Mod
erator of the .Mulberry Associa
tion eleven yems. A part of
fifteen years lie was employed
at.d lain.red as a missionary in
the Mulberry and Chattahoo
chee associations.
Truly a great man —in many
respects die- of the greatest of
his day—has fallen. In the
death of our old father iu Js
real, the Baptist denomination
has lost an able and consecra
ted minister, the church a z -al
ous brother, his wife a devoted
husband, his children a loving
father and safe counselor, and
the sinner a loving voice point
ing him to Jesus. But we are
persuaded that our dear old
father is not dead but slceneth,
for he yet speaketh, and his
works do follow him, There
fore, be it resolved,
Ist, That tin 1 church extend
her sympathy to the family of
our deceased brother and com
mend them, in her prayers, to
the God of all grace, and point
them to that beautiful land of
which our brother loved so well
to sing—to that land where
they may meet to part no more.
Resolved, 2nd, That this ex
pression of love be spread on
our minutes as sacred to his
memory, and that a copy bp
forwarded to the family of our
brother; also that copies he
sent to the Christian Index and
the North-Georgia Baptist for
publication.
W. A. Cain,
J. M. Pool,,
E. V. Foot.,
J. M TtJooi.it,
J. B. Tuggle,
Committee.
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Charles p. Howard, who lives
at 4858 Vine street, Denver, has
one leg which is composed of
more than a thousand pieces of
flesh taken front the arms and
legs of other men The limb
whs scalded off his leg ten year*
ago in railroad wreck, und in
order to save the limb the .-,ur
geon resorted to skin-grafting.
The operation was successful
and the leg is njw as good as
the other one.—New York
World.