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VOL. XXVII. NO 31
SQL”:: LETS.
From Alpharetta Free Press.
Ail mon are not observing
Some are blind.
Evolution of the word ‘bomb’ ]
—bomb, boom, bum.
1 The young man who is in j
debt is usually a promising fel
low.
The milk of human kindness
is rarely handled by creameries.
A girl’s ‘no’ sometimes means
‘yes,’ especially when she says
know.’
In his estimation, a negro
preacher’s morals are not cor
rupted by “fowl” stories.
Pill Anderson says he never
writes his girl a letter—that he
is the “male” she’s iooking for
Paradoxical ns it may seem-,
the more Mum a man gets the
more loquacious he becomes.
A Judge is the onl_r known
married man with daughters
who would ask another man in
to court.
When a man tumbles from a
ladder he not only falls against
the ground, but Ins inclination
too.
It’s funny but nevertheless
true (hat, although a stream ol
water rising, it is constantly
going dow n.
Over the dooraay of a shoe
shop in Atlanta i« a sign which
reads . “Blit ' A shuse Mended
inside.
Generally, the assertion that
•tw-> heads are h-tter than one’
is true, hut some women can’t
be convinced.
Don’t neons" your neighbor
of having common sense if you
have any regard for the truth
Common seme is a rare tiling.
Boys, don’t think because a
girl smiles at you that she is
stuck. She is just thinking, no
d mbt, what a fool she could
make of you.
The editor lias in his posses
sion a pencil which can write
three different colors—black,
red and blue. All people of a
min us tomp- ; anu nt are invited
to e-ili and see it w rite.
One of our contemporaries, in
publishing th- death notice of a
citizen, concludes with the fol
lowing; “In -.'verence to one
of his great' -’, characteristics,
inuv his grave ever be kept j
green.”
A CENTURY AGO
«
Ther-■ was not a public library
in the United States.
Almost all the furniture was
imported from England
An old copper mine in Con
necticut was used as a prison.
There was only one hat fac
tory, and that made cocked
hats.
Every gentleman wore a queue
and powdered hi* hair.
Crock-*i v plates were objected !
to because they dulled the;
knives.
A man who jeered at the j
nr* iicliO - or criticiz’d the gif-!
in on was ii’iQ’j.
A g 'ii 1 1 ■•mail bowing to q lady ■
d I wu v * scraped his foot, oij the j
round.
Two stage coaches bore nil
the travel between New York;
ami Boston,
A day laborer considered him 1
gait well paid witl| two shillings
ft f lny,
The whipping post and pillo
ry w- re still standing in Bos
ton ami New York.
Beef, pork, salt fish, potatoes
ami hominy were the staple
ijiot tile yettv round,
Buttons were scarce and ex
peu’ive, and the trousers were
Igaloqed with pegs of lftoos.
A new arrival in a juil was
*ot upon by his fellow prisoners
and robbed of everything he
had.
\Vji n a man bad enough V - '
lie plactq his spoon ucrq.-’s his
pup to indicate that h° wanted
)p> npuv.
f'Onther bre dies, a checked
shirt, a red llauDel jacket nod a
Cooked hat formed the dross ol
uu artisan-
The ohufell collection was
taken in a bag ui the end ot n
pole, with a bpil attached to
ftrou-o sleepy contributors
The oldest maid in the world
it is claimed, lives in S-ymour
{ml, -mo was KH years old last
week, I'a king to a newspaper
ip-aii willi iid to her age
and win - n-vir married,
she said: “1 never kept compa
i\; with tint two men in my life
ami as neither one of them had
spunk enough to ask mo to mar
ty bio), I got di-g.isted - ” Tlie
uugiUant Sivaonali New* re
marks; "We may be pardoned
for doubting that two failures
would di»gust the mod- ru youug
lady.”
The Gwinnett Herald.
A PAINFUL PREDICAM KNT.
STOttV OF A MAN WHO KAVEH A
FELLOW MAN FROM
sricihK.
From the Washington Star.
“Well, I would liardlv be
willing to say,” responded the
physician to an inquiry made
by one of a group of list -ners,
“that a man who committed
suicide was insane, for I know
several persons who were never
suspected of insanity before t he
act, nor have they been since,
who, to my certain knowledge,
have attempted suicide. One
or two cases have been public
and have got into the newspa
pers, but the great majority of
them are professional secrets,
and no one will ever know of
them except those few who
know now. That’s one of the
responsibilities that a physician
takes upon himself.
“I recall one instance where
I saved a man from committing
suicide, and. though he never
showed the slightest symptom
of it afterward, I am positive
he was crazy ns a loon at the
time of the attempt. It bap
pened about six years ago it. a
Western city, in a hotel where
1 was the resident physician. I
had met the man in the even
ing after dinner and bad played
a game of chess with him in his
apartments, the finest suit in
the house. He had arrived at
the hotel the day before alone
j and had asked for the best
rooms, paying for them in ad
vance. Then he had asked, for
the house physician, and as one
result of our acquaintance we
were playing this game of chess.
We had had one or two mild
| drinks duriug the evening, and
after the game was finished lie
j turned the talk upon suicide,
having some very interesting
and pcculiaT ideas on the sub
ject, chief of which was bis ut
ter aversion ti splf murder un
der any circumstances whatev
er. He was so firm in bis op
position that lm almost lost
his temper when i ventured the
assertion, that suicide migl t ho
almost justifiable.
“In the midst of this conver
sation he suddenly went into
the adjoining room and return
ed with two revolvers, which he
laid down on the table between
us. I didn’t understand what
they were for and asked him.
“ •W4l,’ he answered m the
coolest kind of lashi-m, ‘-the
time has eonte for tne to die,
and you have got to kill me.
My eoul would he damned for
ever if I did it myself, but if
yog do it piy liloq-i will not he
on niy own hands. There are
two revolvers. You take this
one’—handing me one—‘amt I
will take the other. As yon
see, they are both loaded and
in perfect condition. If you do
not sh«qt tpo within a minute,
l shall shoot yog. 1
“He took opt Id* watch, ami,
standing five or six feet from
me, he counted the ticks and
aimed his gun directly at tny
head. { saw by his eye that he
was crazy and that 1 would
have to ohey hjm or pay the
penalty of disobedience with
my life, and still { dpi put
want to shoot a man, however
T might be justified in it. With
this thought I lifted the revol
ver, and, taking pa ref pi aim,
he wntuhmy, me narrowly, I
drew the gun square down upon
his forehead, and just as I was
about to pqli UieDjgS- V 1 tl|rf-\v
it to ope side and shot for his
pistol arm, My intention was
good, but I was exoited, and
my shot only cut through the
llcsh without disabling him,
and bpfqtft I hud tiiqu to niev.
he bad fired at my heart. A
case of instrument* In my vest
pocket saved nic, and the (text
shot I fired was more to the
purpose, and my host was dead
without having committed sui
cide.
<1 told the story to the land
lord, who was tny friend and
relative, exactly as jt occurred,
I hut to. the world at large tin
story went forth that the man
tiad committed suicide while
! crazed, and the fact that he
i lpid been in an asylum was suf
i ficient guarantee that 1 was
| telling the truth,”
A shirt collar caus d thedeath
of an American truvler in Eng
land lvoontly, Pressing ugsinst
t»e point ot inhibition m ar tho
“AdauiV uppl’*, 1 ' iv.-qnrution
was arrested and asphyxia pio
duced.
LAWRENCEVILLE. UEORG A, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12th 1897.
SHE HAS FORGOTTEN.
A WOMAN CANNOT RE: MKM TIER
HUSBAND OR CHILDREN.
Mrs. Mamie Kusielin is one of
the strangest patients ever
sheltered at the City hospital,
St, Louis. Intelligence is de
picted in her countenance, and
she does not. even know her
name.
Mrs. Kusielin lives with her
husband in North Twenty-sec
ond street. She is 28years old,
comely, and her dress is much
neater and richer than that
usually worn by- inmates of the
observation ward.
One day recently Mrs. Eusie
lin fell while she was preparing
dinner. She struck her head
on some object, just what she
don’t know and her husband is
unable to learn. Beyond leav
ing a slight lump on the back
of her bead no physical injury
is perceptible.
When bpr husband returned
from work in the evening, she
answered his ring Biid admitted
him. He threw of! his coat
and asked if supper was ready.
Mrs. Kusielin wrinkled her
brows, thought, earnestly fora
moment or two and solemnly
annoiini ! (hat she had forgot
ten. Thinking his wife was
joking, lie put his arm about
her and said they would go and
see. On entering tin* dining
room it was apparent that noth
ing had been done toward pre
paring the evening meal.
Mr. Eusilin was inclined to
lie angry and demanded the
reason for his wife’s neglect.
Again her brow wrinkled, she
scratched her head and slowly
said she had forgotten.
Her husband spoke sharply
to her. Thi n their little daugh
ter spoke tip and said her mam
ma had fallen and hurt her
liead.
Mrs. Kusielin was questioned
lib nit the fall, but, as she did
to previous questions, she re
plied only that she had forgot
ten. Sin-was so evidently in
earnest in trying to recall
events that lnr husband le
eime convinced she had seri
ously injured herself, and lie
determined to have a physician.
The doctor could not under
stand her case, and ho advisid j
tlmt sin- be sent to the hospital |
for observation.
Dr. Otto Slitter, the hospital
superintendent, is puzzled over
her ease.
He asked her name. She rose
i’i her c >t, looked directly in i
Hi*- do-tor's face the puzzled!
look crept i vor her eounto-i
nance, and she said she could j
not recall it.
“Is it not Mrs. Mamie Etude
-liu ?’’ the doctor asked.
“1 believe so,” was her an
swer,
Tiion she was asked if she;
were married, if she hud any:
children, when she was injured,!
un i many other questions. To
nli of these she returned tlm
same answer—“l've forgotten.’)
—St. Louis I’osHtyplM
lit(W USTRIOHES lit \. j
Considerable misconception j
prevails ns to Ihe manner in
which the ostrich runs. It!
seems to hi* still generally I»eld!
that when running it spreads
its wing*, anil aided by the',pi
skims lightly over the ground.
Tnis js not correct, When a
bird really settles itself to run
it hold* its head lower than usu
al and a little forward, with a
deep hook in the peek. The
neck vibrates gen nogs ly, but
the head i mains steady, thus;
enabling the bird, even at top
speed, to look around with un
shaken glance ip ptTy direction.
The wings Be along the sides
about on a level with or a little
higher than the back, and are
held loosely, just free of the
plunging “thigh.” There is no
attempt tn h“ld tlieui yytended,
or to derive any ussistpnee
from them u* organs of Might,
When an ost rich, after a hard
run, is very tired, its wings!
sometimes droop; this is due to
exhauston. They are never b.y
i .1 running bird cgevtiug himself,
Itn the utmost, hold out away <
Ifiom th«* sides to lighten its
weight or to itiereftx' u« pace. 1
Hut the wings appear to he of i
groat service in turning, en
abling the binl tu double ah
. nipily, even when going at top
|speed.
The old Alexandrian librury
contained 7<JO,OOQ| volumes, tlio
i largest collection ever brought
1 together before the invention of
• printing.
A Hungarian farni ir of line
vi I to. 1.a., has invented a maoh
| iuo which, it is said, will brush
away a:l kinds of insects from
cotton plants.
WON A WIFE V TH AN EGG
From the New fork Herald.
Ross William!- )fEnid,O.T.,
wrote a lovelorn nessage on an
egg ready for si pment several
weeks ago, and is a result he
won himself a bride.
M hat the young man said on
the egg was Ibis: (
1 On a farm in the Cherokee
strip 1 sit, a sad and lonely
bachelor, thinking sadlv over
mv fate and would love to come
off the nest an 1 join my life
wit ii t hat of some comely young
lady of not too many summers’
growth. Should the message
oil this egg meet with the eyes
of a fair one who is matrimoni
ally inclined <>n shoitacquaint
ance, and who thinks she could
enjoy a prairie life with a stu
dent of nature s beauty, address
Rii-s Williams,
Enid, O. T.
Tn due course of time this re
ply came:
“Dear Mr. Williams: From
the quiet precincts of my bou
doir I write thee, lam lonely,
too, and have often longed to
quit city life and go west, where
♦ lie toll, wild grass sways in the
wind as if listning to the sweet
song* of the chinch bugs. After
chopping wood lo kindle the
kitchen fire and after the fire
was ready for business and the
pan was sizzing in the sparkling
fat, I was about to break an
egg into the pan. when behold!
your message meets my gaze.
It seemed like a dream of a lost,
unknown love! I am comely,
but not fair. Age, 28; no mon
ey. but plenty of grit. Let ns
exchange photog'-aphs. It may
end in anof her A ni-rican union,
inlig !«I lie pre-erved. Methinks
1 know yen ii...
’ Be- ie Carroll,
“Chicago, 111.”
’Further correspondence re
sulted, and a few days later the
young people were married.
MOST WONDERFUL ( AYE
IN THE WORLD.
The most wonderful cave in
the world is in the island of
Tonga, in the south l’acific.
Byran called it “a chapel of the
seas.” It i-i formed in a rock
that is almost surrounded by
the ocean. This rock is about
00 feet high and broad propor
tionately,
Many years ago a boy the son
of a nativi chief was chasing a
huge turtle, when his game
seemed to sink into the rock-
The lad w.itehid an waited until
the tide fell disc losing a small
opening in t lie r- ok about six
feel under low w iter mark.
Diving boldly, 'lieyoung him
ter entered the aperture, and
to his surprise, <•"me to the sur
faee inside the r ck. The rock
was hollow, and its interior Mgs
found aft. r\\m*is, when the!
natiyee exp!- y-d t with torches,
to. contain .pany I-euut i’pl stal
actiteft
When att. eke'l and followed
by enemies, the natives, who
know the secret, leave tlivir
canoes, pi tuge , ,t.» the water
ftnd ilisapp ar. Their foes
ling-r, ust'-yuhe’ l at ilyur dU-|
appr-ari.nc., rnr pa person not
acquainted with n. would bus-
JT-et that th ri» k was hollow.
London Telegraph.
Eugene, (tie , \ya» recently
the scene t.l a ton uiitje wedding
of two \yho Lad h ver seen each
other l efo'e tlie arrival of the
overland in the afternoon, says
the Portland (tire {correspon
dence of tho Sin Francisco
Chronicle. The loyera were
Mjss Eftortp Jay, a comely
brunette ot :tH, Augusta, Ga,
and I*. N, HHly, a middle
aged farmer of Pleasant Hill,
Ore., a man with good name, u
large farm ai d a healthy bftpk
account. Mi*#-'#*, from her
southern huun* answered an ad
vertisement ul Shelly, who was
in search of a wife. The corres
pondence uppotiicd tp, have
b'eii mutual'y satisfactory and
(he two fyll dt spi rat* ly 111 IpVC
with each o’ In-r !>v nisi).
WHAT 1 r MEANS.
When we M'tvn ixc that we
will guarantee Dr. King’s New
Discovery, Kl Hie Bitters,
Bncklen’s A'nioii Salve, or {tr*
King’s New Lily pills, it means
that we are authorized by the
proprietor* to sell these reme
dies on u p-si ivn guarantee
that it purchaser i* pot satisfied
with ri suits we v ill relund the
purchase price These med
icines have been «o|d op this
guarantee f< r many years and
, I Rory could by no more conclu
-ive evidence of their great
merit Ark üb' ut them and
give them a tri"l Sold at A
M. Winn & bim ‘a Drug Store.
Ripaas Tab lie* cure nausea.
1 Kigali* Tabule*. uite gives rsilst,
Personal and Other
wise.
ITEMS GATHERED IN AND
AROUND TOWN.
Did you know that one of the
most industrious men in Gwin
nett county is found in the per
son of Col. Tlios. K. Winn?
He has recently moved to his
country home, three miles west
of Lawrenceville, and is devot
ing his tiino to the improve
ment of his lands- He planted
a vineyard a few y airs ago and
it is now oi.e of the finest in the
county.
There is nothing Col. AVinn
enjoys more than farming, a*
he was reared upon a farm.
After serving four years in the
army of the Confederacy, he
came home and begun the study
of law. When he was admitted
to the bar lie located iji Roswell
and practiced awhile, hut his
health failed him and lie gave
up the profession.
In 1800 Col. Winn was elected
to represent the “Bloody
Ninth” in Congress, and a more
honest and faithful Congress
man this district lias never had.
When the Populist party
sprung up lie joined the ranks,
and while ho is not taking much
stock in politics now, he is ss
true as steel to the principles of
his party.
& »
*
Rev. W. A. Dodge, of Atlan
ta, who conducted a series of
meetings in Lawrenceville re
cently, is one of the best preach
ers in Georgia. He was con
verted when !!! years old and
began preaching at 17.
Most of bis sermons were on
scriptural Holiness, and he
would always prove bis assert
tions by the Bible.
Mr. Dodge is a preacher of
the old Methodist style and
he never fails to impress his
congregation when exhorting
them to “Turn your feet unto
the testimonies of t.ho Lord,
and delay not to keep all His
commandments.”
* *
•
We have within the bounds
of Lawrenceville the best school j
in the county, under the charge
of Prof. James A. Bagwell.
When the new school build
ing was erected Col. Duvant
was chosen as the superintend
ent and a year later R. John- 1
ston took charge, and they both
had very fair sohools.
Last June the Board of Edu
cation, consisting of Sum J,
Winn, D. T. Cain, J. P. Byrd,
L. F. McDonald and M, K. Kw-I
ing, eleefed Pp’f. Bagwell a*
the Superintendent, and on the.
2 1st of September Hie school
opened witn nearly a hundred
pupils, not merely on the roll
hut in actual attendance. This
was t{\e largest opening that has
been known here for yearn.
Now besides the ia?£e mini
her of home students that at
tend this high institution of
learning there are a great many
from other places.
And the school continues to
grow, despite the effort* of a few
people to pull it down,
The numlier of student* up to!
date is about lift and by the
first ofJanuary l’r »f Ungwell ex
pects 1 mil or even more.
l,iterwry *oeietiea have been
organised at the school for the
development of the minds of
the young mail and ladies.
• •
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Ad a cotton market our town
cannot lie beat by uny place of
it* population in the “t'r»v‘kei
Slate,”
NVo have quit** a number oj
men who buy the (\e» oy staple
from horny-handed sons of
toil. Her" are the names of;
some of our buyers-
T. (\. IWeIJ, J. W. Chipley.j
!J. D. Spence, Q. W. A A, l'-;
Gain, Sassar A l(ookuv>re, Nl,
E. Ewiu*.
Law remn ville pays u higher;
price than any market in North
IQeorgm- She even pays a bet
j ter price than Atlanta
if yog wi\l .land on the
streets and uotioe you will soe
. farmers from near Monro*,
I Stone Mountain, Unfold, Nor
proas, Winder and otlier place*.
This goes to show that the far
mers waut the best prioe for
j their out to 11 and they come to
l.awri'itceville and get it.
ScHIHI.KH.
■ ftlgsus Tsimie* curs bud bis* lit.
_THE X RAY.
| The best composition on the
N Ray, of the students of
the Lawrenceville City School. |
The X Ray is probably the
most important discovery of
modern times. It is hard for
us. who have not studied elec
tricity, to understand it. All
light is snid to be vibrations of
the air but some of those light
waves are too long and sumo
too short to be seen by the eye.
Nearly twenty years ago Prof.
A. G. Bell discovered that these
long ravs would pass through
wood, stone ami other opaque
bodies: but Prof. Roetgen, of
the University of Wurzburg,
Germany, was the first to use
ravs. On the fourth of Janu
ary, IWftl, he announced that he
had discovered a new kind of
ray never before used hv scien
tists which would be of great
value to the world as it would
photograph objects through al
most any opaque substance,
that the bones and internal or
gans of the body could be shown
by it as plainly as tin* face is
-Imwii by the ordinary photo
graph. His announcement pro
duced great excitement through
out the world and experiments
were at once made in all of the
colleges, not only in Euiope but
also of the United States. The
new ray is not a light at all; it is
producedby electricity in a glass
tube and will pass through rub
ber, wood, card-board, llesli and
other solid substances and act
on the photographic plate from
which it is not necessary to re
move the wooden slide. There
have been photographs taken of
silver coins enclosed in a wood
en box a quarter of an inch
thick, and also the bones of the
hand through the flesh. These
wondeiful rays pass through
flesh so easily that it makes*
only a slight shadow on the
plate. The chief use of the X
ray is in surgery, It has been
used in locating bullets and.
| diseased parts of the internal
! organs.
I One surgeon located a needle
! in a young lady’s leg which had
! entered the upper part of her
j body months before, anil had
(worked itself below tin* knei .
A plate can be placed in the
! month and photographs made
| of points of the formation of the
* bead. It is thought it cun be
j used in the treatment of con
| sumption, small pox, an/l many
I kinds of fever. Its uses are so
1 many and its discovery of such
recent date, that its true value
is hardly known as yet.
Lawrence Exem.
AN KNTERTAINMIXT
TO RE LIVEN AT LIJXOMNI,
Editor Herald: —A novel
and unique entertainment will
be given at Brad well Academy
on Saturday Oct . 2!srd, (or the
purpose of painting and com
pleting the buikliwg-
Young ladies will sell ice
cream, cake, lemonade, eto. on'
the grounds from 1 to fio’clock.'
Regular sup|e*i-s will then lie
served from "> to 7 o’clock, af
ter which a concert, consisting
of dialogues, miiftip. recitations,
etc., will i jose the exercises <>{
the evening. Admissioft to rou*
cert lOcts.
Samlm W. I*i'Bose,
ITinoipal.
THOMPSON'S MILLS,
Our school ha* dosed, but
will begin again sunn.
Prof. Millikin has gone to see
the old folks at homo at Baxley,
Ga.
Mr. John Maddox is very:
sick with leAor,
D. A. Vermillion and wife
visited her father and mother
Saturday night and Sunday.
Miss Annie Kiimard has re-:
turned to her home in Newnan,
Ga , Miss Annie made many
friends here,
Misses Ara and Mattie Park*
were the guests of Miss May
McDaniel Saturday night.
Mr. I.ige Pirkle and Miss Ja
nies Wood and Mr. Henry Wood
and Miss Uo,u Marrow, of Ghest
iiuf Mountain, were In-re Sun
- day.
Miss Kata Feagans visited her!
brother, J. M. Feaguus, Satur-i
■ tiny night.
Mr, Henry Mauldin and his
tinier, Miss F.mery, vented their
; titter, Mr®. Wofford, i*at Sun
day.
Maduui Burner say* there in j
going to l»o u wedding hurt* |
noon, I
Mr. Jim Nowell's littli* non,
i Derrah, in stck with tyjilioul
fever.
Jiin Lowery and tleorge Feu-i
gans killed a rattlesnake lust
iweek.
J, 11. Park* ban moved back
t<> his farm and llev. J. M. l’ir
| kl« will keep the boarding bouse
next year.
Mr. Author Hudlow and his
j ter, Miss Mollie, visited friends
I and relatives iu Buford Satur
day,
1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
MISSIONARY COL
UMN.
[This column is devoted to
the missionary cause, and ised,
itod by the W. E. M. Society,
; Lawrenceville auxiliary.]
TRI’ST.
I leave my hardens and my cares
; In God’s almighty hand.
I leave the answp*-- to my prayers
To wait His own command,
I treat him on Hire’son and shade,
I trust, anil I am not afraid.
I trust,anil trusting, sweet my rest!
Eor now I grieve no more.
His peace is mine—His comfort
blest,
And all my strife is o’er.
Then, come tlie sun or come the
shade,
I trust, and I am not afraid.
—loirs Wilfrid M<T't.rnK
“whatsoever.,’
“it hat soever!" blessed Lord,
\m I reailv for that word y
Ist hy will so dear lo mine
That tin- whispers of thy love—
Heard all ot hi r calls above—
claim me, keep me wholly thine?
Search me, teach me, hold my heart.
Draw me to thy blessed feet,
There, in hush or service sweet,
I would live tin*'better part.’
; Help m», Christ, my I.ord, to show
'I ha* i love Thee lirst anil best.
! "Whatsoever" be the te«t
That my stewardship shall know.
i.et this year my truest he.
Pilled with Christ’s reality.
—M. Hitler Herds
the field.
“Amongso many what are they,
Five loaves, two fishes small:
Send thou tho multitude away,
We cannot food them all 1 "
Thus reasoned they who once
had seen
Displayed tne power divine,
Which at the Cana Marriage
fens!
Changod water into wine.
Wo think of earth’s uncounted
hosts
Who never heard tin* name
Of Him who left his throne of
light,
And as their Saviour camel
We shrink appalled before the
thought,
“And who are we,” we < ry,
“So few to boar tho broad of
life
To those who faint anil die!”
But He, who in that desert
place
His banquet freely spread,
And fed tin* hungry thousands
t here,
Is He not still our head ?
“Go ye in all the world,” Ho
saith,
“And everywhere proclaim
(Where still earth’s teeming
millions wait)
Tis gospel in my name,”
“my LAP is empty NOW. ”
The abandoned grief and
hopeless sorrow of heathen
mothers over the loss of their
children is touching in ttie ex
treme, A Indy from Calcutta
tell* the following pathetic in
cident coneernjng her visit to a
Mohammedan woman who had
lost her only child- She says:
“In (ho s«d, dirge-like way that,
the Eastern n ournor wads out
lu-r distress, she repeated over
aud '.varagatn this refrain: ,My
,lap is empty now 1 My little one
w here ia be gone? I promised
to sacrifice a caw! 1 did pray
in every one’s name, even in
Christ’s, hut neither lie, nor
Moh a m mend, nor Alt heard my
prayer U The poor woman could
not understand why her snerific
;w as not accepted. When the
'child was a year old she had
offered the onw, for which she
had paid five dollars. Her
grief was pitful, and she seemed
on the very verge of insanity,
and on my !a»t visit l found her
hugging the baby clothes. ”
There are many Christian
| mothers whose laps are empty,
but the consolation of the bles
sed gospel bring comfort to tlie
sorrowing heart. You whohav*
been thus smitten, yet comfort
ed. as a new year opens cat) you !
not do something to help -end
abroad the knowledge id' a Sav
iour’s love? The needs are so,
great the demands so pressing, !
the workers s > few,
A native woman of North At
rica put this query to a inis !
jsionary, “How many in this
city are telling of a Saviour’s!
I h>vo to the people?’’ “Only
three,” was the reply. Then I
the missionary adds: “1 shall
! always have iu remembranec j
i the expression of that face,,
j looking earnestly iu mine, as it j
(trying to fathom a mystery,
when he said,* Only three j
you say, among the thousand of
women!’ and then added a
{question which 1 could not ans
wer: 'Why do not more come
jto tell ns? Is it hoeauss they
jdo not love us, or because they
do not love Jesus very much?”
—Heathen Woman's Friend.
In a sea-on of about eleven
weeks #50.000 worth of Black-,
berries were sold in Marquette
souuty, Michigan.
loyal makes the food pure,
wholesome and deliciroif.
pfll
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THE ASSOCIATION.
Tin l Yellow [liver Primitivo
Baptist Association mol with
the Primitivo Baptist church
in this place last Friday morn
ing and continued through Sun
■Jay. Friday and Saturday was
taken up in attending to the
businoes of the association.
Several »crmniis were delivered
each day and those who took
no part in the business meet
ing were thus entertained,
i There were about thirty min
i isters present and quite a mini
t Uer of messengers from the dif
i t'erent churches in the nssocia
| lion, and visitors were in great
, numbers from all over the couu
| try from the first day.
Sunday was the big day. It
was just such a day that makes
big gatherings unpleasant and
! disagreeable—hot, dry and dus
i ty —but the people were hero
iiiil the same, It was the larg
■ est gathering Conyers has had
in many years. The people
.camo from a great distance and
I bv 10 o’clock the grounds
around the church and the old
seminary, which are very large,
I were filled with horses and bug
gi- s, and those who came late
were compelled to tie their
.stock some distance from the
I grounds.
The services Sunday morning
were eouducted by Elders Hitch
cock and Eubanks, and the din
ner that followed was sumptu
ous nnd plentiful. Elders Mc-
LeKoy and Bagwell preached
I the closing sermons in the after
I noon.
All the visitors worecomfort-
I ably onterlanied and all en
j joyed the occasion very much,
'flie next association will be
hold with Sardis church in
Walton county, near Mom
j Itoekdale Haulier.
DR. KING’S NEW DISCOV
ER FOR CONST’MP
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//’hooping Cough, Asthma,
Hay Fiver, Pneumonia, I Iron
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take, ami above all, u sure cure.
:It is always well to take Hr.
I King’s New Kite Pills in connec
tion with J)r. King’s New Dis
covery, as they regulate ami
' tone the stomach and bowels.
|We gu iiantee perfect satisfac
tion or return money. F.a*
! trial bottles at A. M. Winn &
•■soil Drug Store Regular s m
j oo cents and f 100.
ODl) FACTS,
Among the unntorou* sup
erstition of the Cossacks tie re
is none stronger than the belief
that they will outer in a better
state if they are persona l ly
clean at the time they are kil
led.
A Southern editor mak» this
announcement about his Jour-
I nal: “A tirst-cluss newspap r,
entered as second-class mu er
jin a t bird-class post-office ’
1 F.x.
If the armies of Kurope should
mu rob at un eight mile gait, 5
abreast, 15 niches apart, it
would require 91 days for them
to puss a given point.
In Brussels the height of
| house frontage in public streets
is determined by the width <>f
the street. The maximum
j height is CO feet.
Dartmouth college is bemfit
c-d to the extent of #7S,(XJO by
the will of Charlea T. Wilder,
of Wehesiy Hills,
One of the historical build
ings of which Owego, N. 'l . 1*
proud is the drug store in which
Thomas C. Platt started his ca
reer.
Shakespeare's house was visi*
tod last year by UUU.UOO visitors
who paid admission for the t'tiv-