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The Mother
is no human love like a
““Si® T ? fI t 5o V e There is no human
aofter ’ s C M £1
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' ad there is no such time
(“farther tenderness test dispKvmg to warn her her
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h> ite c s
"» of life- That time make neglect- good
no future can
(teioso to either mother or child
well unproved, ana ah
the rears that follow it can
jts improvement. Even God
i T .
himself measures his fatherly love
4om b ; , motherly mother standard. comforteth, “As one
his so
r -ill comforth you,” he says; and
v % this could he say?
what more than
\ m l many foiled a strongman by bis who^ mother’s was
first com tender and
loving and woras ways
Hiilehe was a helpless child, has
never lost his grateful, trusting
dependence on that mother’s
ministry of affection and sympathy.
When Gruff old Dr. Johnson
was fifty years old ho wrote to
]iis aged mother as if lie were
still her wayward but loving- boy:
“You have been the best mother,
anti I believe the best woman m
the world. I thank you for all
your indulgences to me, and beg
forgiveness for all that I have
done ill, and for all that I omitted
to do well."
John Quincy Adams not
part with his mother until he was
nearly or quite fifty years of age,
yet his cry, even then, was: “O
God, could she have been spared
yet a little longer. Without her
the world feels to me like a soli
tnde.”
When President Nott of Union
College was more than ninety
years old, and had been for a
half century a college president,
as strength and sense failed him
in his dying hours, the memory of
his mother's tendernoss was fresh
and potent; and he could be hush¬
ed to needed sleep by a gentle
patting on the shoulder, and the
singing to him of the old-time lul¬
labies, as if his mother was still
sitting at his bedside in loving
ministry, as she had been well
nigh a century before. The true
son never grows old to a true mo
ther.-Cd. 8. Times.
The season is approaching when
the full-dressed fashionable wo¬
man will give society the cold
shoulder.
Bridges Smith, of Macon, has
voluntarily dropped out of journal
km to accept the office of city
clerk. lie is a good newspaper
man.
Francis Murphy, the' temper¬
ance reformer, persuaded 6,500
Indianians to sign tho pledge the
day before Christmas, Mr. Mar
pby claims that 80 per cent of his
reformed men stick to their
pledges.
Governor Ross of Texas recent¬
ly sard: “Our admirable system of
public schools has brought more
people to Texas than any other
«ngle cause.' If Georgia expects
t° get a good class of emigrants,
the public schools of the state
Must be improved.
Ililev and IN ye called on Gener
!u Harrison the other day and
lectured him severely. It is said
Gat the president laughed liearti
k* e fale of the razor-hacked
> an< l wept sorely about the
frost „ on the punkin. The two
distinguished comedians were sur
pi'ewxi as well as amused at the
wide 1 ’®g ' 0 of feeling displayed
.
• w General 1 Harrison. His private
. KbCre Hry, who sat near him, neitli
r ‘ * e U nor smiled. He cat¬
was
enating the postage account.
Mr. Cleveland is the only Presi
dent who has had the fa
make * Sm stand a -ainst the
poih tad seekers. been CM service re
tried during other
A '-'‘UUiiistrations, and always with- ‘al
success. The spoilsmen
1 T^huhdozed n -° disregarding the chief executive
i t. The effort
a ze Mr. Cleveland into
r ding it failed. Congress- \«re
‘“ a kad voted for it
tried fa induce
it. He hue been
W ‘-rust reposed in him,
and t] >ple r.-ill remember
Hr thb xorm
Civil &e -X so.
Jient tni is a perma
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CONYERS, GA., TUESDAY, Jan. 1, 1889.
Spirit of Emulation.
Several progressive farmers of
Houston county liave entered into
an agreement to plant five acres
of corn, for five years, and each
year each farmer will give five bu¬
shels as a premium to the farmer
producing the largest number of
bushels of corn on the live acres.
—Houston Home jjournal.
Here ia a farmers alliance bound
to do good, a combination on
corn which will insure a bountiful
supply for five men, and will stim
ulate them to excel in other mat
ters as well as corn. "When their
five acres are made to produce
more corn than fifty heretofore,
they will naturally try to make
five acres of cotton do duty in the
same way and the extensive will
gradually drift into the intensive.
If such clubs, small in numbers,
but earnest in purpose, were form¬
ed in every district of Rockdale
county, five years from date the
condition of our farmers would be
improved a hundred per cent.
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The Philadelphia Press says:
“The appropriation of $500,000 for
educational purposes by the Geor¬
gia legislature, is a hint that the
new- South will bo republican,”
Not at all. On the contrary, it
means that Georgia’s population
is going to be increased by north¬
ern and western immigrants, who
will help to give her increased
representation in congress and the
electoral college after 1890. Be¬
sides, education in the south, as
should be the case everywhere else,
makes good democrats of people.
It is reported that on Sunday a
white man went into a colored
church in Coffee county and walk¬
ing up the pulpit commenced stri¬
king the preacher. After receiv¬
ing several hard blows the preach¬
er determined to defend himself,
and drawing his knife he disem¬
boweled Iiis assailant, causing his
death in a few minutes.
The Democratic party is a big
institution yet. It will be the tri¬
umphant party if it will stick to the
principles on which it carried the
United States at the recent [nation-'
al election by over 100,000 plurali
ty.
Senator Sherman said the other
day, referring to the little affair
between the United States and
Hayti: “That’s the kind of war I
should always like—a bloodless
contest.” Probably the Senator
made that remark to emphasize
the difference that would exist be¬
tween lus management of affairs
of state and Mr. Blaine’s.
Mayor Hewitt received a 'Christ
mas present of a picture of the log
cabin in which he was born. On
the picture was written: “No spot
too humble to be the birthplace
of a great man.” The log cabin
is still standing, but it has not
been occupied for a number of
years.
Massachusetts has tried the ed
l; regional cmalification vea£ for voters
R^o aboShit. and she is not
It works well.
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At their recent convention . fl the
r?- the lowashcnJecanLOTor ..herfa
S;nit!l votion ,si to *? duty f and t h.s ih dauuUms lhntvi
determinuiion -o p^.^i
* Io enc ™ % °ff KfttoaSob hn. Lotto mob. '
Guiteaus sister, Mis. Norton,
has written a novel entiLed Llie
Stalwarts. It deals with om po
litical history for fifty years and
pictures Guiteau «».?■»,
nate min, crazyfromfas birth,
born to The be the novel too; ox vigorous cra.ty and
cians. is
written, anu the
gS jTSSinSS 1 it
out some of a political plot.
Have a Purpose.
Young man, have a purpose in
your heart. Now, what is your
purpose in life? Is it that under all
circumstances you will do what
you think is right? Or is it to be¬
come rich at the expense of prin¬
ciple and right? The first pur¬
pose you should have is to care
for yourself. Young men now-a
days don't; and when the body is
wrecked they hobble through life,
making everybody about them
miserable. Find out what diet
best agrees with you, and adhere
to it. Daniel began by abstain -
ing from wine. This would be a
good start, young man.
Next, take care of your intellect,
Study, if you have intellect—there
are some young men who don’t
know whether they have or not—
improve it. Many hard-worked
men have acquired profound edu¬
cations by being studious and du¬
ring small intervals of leisure.
Get an hour a day if you can get
no more. Devote half of it to the
study of the Bible, and divide the
remaining thirty minutes, say be¬
tween astronomy, botany and ge¬
ology. Do this one year and you
will be surprised at wliat you have
accomplished.
Mr. AY. F. Crockett of Decatur
accidentally shot himself through
the foot on Christmas evening.
The wound, though painful, is not
at all serious.
Col. Bill Nyc seems to think
that Gov. Gordon won’t interrupt
Gen. Harrison’s administration.
Probably he won’t, but if he
should be sent to the United
States senate in a year or two, he
might frustrate some of the ad¬
ministration's little schemes.
If your kidneys are inactive, you
will feel and look wretched, even and
in the most cheerful society,
melancholy on the j oiliest occa
sions. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver
and Kidney Balm, will set you
right again. $1.00 per bottle.
AYlien you are constipated, with
loss of appetite, headache, take
one of Dr. J. II. McLean’s Little
Liver and Kidney Piilets. They
are pleasant to take and will cure
you. 25 cents a vial.
Croupy suffocations, night
coughs and all the common affec¬
tions of the throat and lungs Mc¬
quickly relieved by Dr. J. II.
Lean’s Tar AVine Lung Balm.
Old people suffer much from
disorders of the gratified urinary organs, the
and are always at
Sff 3 Kidney troubles. Bairn $1.00 fa
banishing their
per bottle.
Imperfect digestion and assim
ilation produce disordered condi
tiers of the system which grow
and are confirmed by neglect, i.
J. II. McLean’s Strengthening by its
Cordial and Blood Purifier,
tonic properties, cures indigestion
and gives tone to the Scomuen.
$ 1.00 per bottle.
For sick headache, femme
Little Liver and Kidney Billets,
25 cents a vial.
If you spit up phlegm, and are
troubled with a hacking cough, AVine
use Dr. J. II. McLean’s Tar
Lung Balm.
In cases of Fever and though Ague,the not
blood is as effectually,
as o o
1Wr Cure will eradicate tins
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abe tfe.
Frequently accidents _ oceui m
household wliichcauseourns
^ 0 j” an i c Q been d Liniment the constant has for
m any years family remedy.
| vor jte
, y will Lave no use for
W.
'inflammation, on the"eye cools balls, sub- »ud
once irritated nervaa,
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To Deal with Suspicions
The following advice from an
exchange if kept and appreciated
will be profitable to some of our
readers:
“There are many suspicions
need crushing in tho bud. AVe
fancy our friend is cool to us; we
imagine some one has slighted of us;
we suspect our neighbor Most likely having
spoken ill of us. case* we
are mistaken, and, in any we
could never probably search into
the matter, Our trust in our
friend or our own self-respect such
should lead us to put away
thoughts, picions. Borne to abandon such herhaps, sus¬
one has, word
scandal dropped a poisonous Let or
into our ears. us
banish it Circumstances from our thoughts with tend
scorn. may
to cast suspicion on one whom him we
honor; let us continue to trust
in our heart of hearts. AYo may
fear that some one has committed
a fault which, however, does not
concern us in the least, and which
we are not called upon to interfere;
let us expel the idea as an unwel¬
come intruder. In one of these
two ways suspicion may be rightly
dealt with. If as a warning; it
has a mission to perforin, it will
do its work; if it is an unworthy
or an idle conjecture, it will be
dismissed. In either case it will
pass away, as all suspicions are
meant to do. As transient guests
of the mind they may bo useful in
establishing the innocence which
should be be brought to light, or
in proving the guilt which should
be purged inmates away. of the But mind as their perma¬ in¬
nent
fluence is most pernicious.
A. conscience-stricken Ohioan
has sent $10 to the state treasurer,
to be added to the conscience fund.
He said he was once a member of
the Ohio legislature, and drew
stationery to the amount of $10
more than lie required. Some of
the Ohioans assert that thejylon’t
believe he was a member of the
legislature, the reason for their
opinion probably being that no
Ohio legislator would be troubled
with a’conseienco. Probably they
are right—they ought to know.
There are so few doctors in Rus¬
sia that forty per cent of the ’pop¬
ulation nover have any medical
attendance, and yet the Russians
enjoy good health and live as long
as their much doctored neighbors.
The cheapest Christmas present
sold by one jeweler in New York
cost eight cents; the most expen
sivff cost $50,000.
In Monroe a vvlvito man was
Bbo ‘ b T *
knocked down with a rock by
some unknown party; a barroom
broken open and robbed; a small
sized riot in which the marshal
camc ovd victorious- -arc about all
^ Christmas casualties to this
«a-o. ^
Rev. Sam Small, being asked in
Cincinnati w hen the prohibition
movement would win, said that it
was bound to win at some time,
hec ' win, ho
was m the predicament of the old
Millente who, when asked when
“the end ’ was to come, replied; I
am as good a Millente as I ever
was , but I've been disappointed
so often regardin’ the eend o’ the
world, that I hant gom’ to set no
more dates . -
, The^ltl^iorayo^
to get one „f his own. Thochan
ces are that he will make a big
mistake if he goes to the city,
without money and without influ
The COGstant rjst
o£ yo«* men fa the large cities
naturally makes wages low. It is
better to be a farmer than to be a
half-starved clerk, and in point of
fact it is better to be an indepen- j
to be anything
X he clergy of the Church of En
„ land “J of all grades, * number 20 ,
. mD ortcd by the
No. 4 IQ
j A Woman Badly Beaten.
I An outrageous affair occurred
6 miles west of Lawrencevillo in
j Gwinnett county a few nights
since, the details of which are just
coming to light. It was the bru
tal whipping of Mrs. Couch, a res
pec table widow lady, by some un¬
known person. Mrs. Couch lias
three children living with her,but
on the night tho whipping occur
ed they were absent, leaving her
entirely alone. She retired at the
usual hour and fell asleep. She
was aroused by noise in the
room and before she could cry out
she was seized by the throat and
cruelly kicked and beaten with a
heavy stick unti l she was senseless.
It was impossible to recognize her
assailant in tho dark. The as
sanlt is a very mysterious affair,
and no reasonable explanation of
it has been offered. Mrs. Couch
is a lady of good standing and
well connected, and it was not
thought she had any enemies.
What made the assault more out¬
rageous was the fact that on the
next day she was to have been
married to a. prominent citizen of
Gwinnett county. Arrangements
for tho wedding Iiadbeen complet¬
ed, but Mrs. Couch was so pros¬
trated by her terrible experience
that tho marriage bad to bo post¬
poned. Thero is a suspicion that
the object of the assault was to
prevent the marriage, but thus far
no evidence has been developed
to substantiate this suspicion.
The newspaper man as a private
secretary seems to have come to
stay. Mr. Cleveland set the ex¬
ample of appointing newspaper
men to that position when lie took
Col. Lamont out of a newspaper
office, and Gen. Harrison has,kept
the ball rolling by invading an
Indianapolis office. Now Mayor
Hart, of Bostonf _ha:-i selected a
journalist for that position, and it
is probable that after a while none
but journalists will be selected.
A certain Judge Kelly, of St.
Paul, lias begun a war on news¬
paper reporters. AYe feel safe in
predicting that Judge Kelly will
soon bo one of the weariest men
on record. Still, the gall that en¬
ables him to enter the arena
against a western newspaper re¬
porter is, in a sense, admirable.
The prison population of Lon¬
don lias fallen from 20,000 ton
years ago to 14,000 now, though
the city has grown much in this
interval. This shows a wonderful
improvement in rdspect for law or
a less vigorous enforcement of the
penal statutes.
The Detroit Free Press remarks
tkat the ffreat SGC1 . e t of long life is
t o keep healthv. There are some
notab i e exceptions. Alexander
,t 'enj<£od cu OT) ] iens and rnanv others nev
OT good health, ami yet
thcy livt d long,
K 1 ^' k % ' e ^ A “ < lkt j* ^ys J he has
prayed , all . his life that , when , , he
cM God would send hmi to heh
His laca is tnat he nughe ow...
the sinners m the plmoman re
i‘o. bo w,is.ed. Erenn ms expe
nmi fl '“'f 1 ' ‘f
mrght not be great.
Learn to be a man of your word,
One of the most disheartening of
all things is to be associated in an
undertaking with a person whose
word is not to be depended upon
—and there are plenty of them in
this wide world, people whose pro
i. ue slender a tic an a S „i
dertweb. Let your cord, given chain .word
be as a hempen a the
-.nought steel, that wiU bear
heaviest sort of strain. It will go
*
Oak Grove Christmas Tree.
'Mr. Editor:—I had the pleasure
of attending’ the Oak Grove ehrist
mas tree, and I must say it was a
rompld'o success. It was a now
thin”- to « good many in that com
munity, ami the old and the young
i were out in full force by 6 o’clock.
The house was full. They all
wore a smile on their face. They
had two trees and they were full
of beautiful presents and two
clear across tho building
were full and a large pile on the
door. The hour arrived to open
the exercises and beautiful all was piece quiet
and they sang a of
music, then had prayer. Two
Santa Claus then appeared deliv¬ and
entered into the house and
ered the presents that were* called
by two gentlemen. After all was
delivered, then a .short talk, then
a song, and short prayer and then
dismissed.
I doubt if you can find any
Sunday school in the county that
is doing as much good as Oak
Grove. They have a large school
and old and young take part.
They have an Alliance club, tho
strongest in the county.
They have they a weekly all prayer- be
meeting, and seem to work.
fully interested in the good
Where there is union there is
strength. Go on, my good friends,
and great will be your reward tn
Heaven.
May God bless you in trying to
do good to others. Friend.
“S555T
Mr. Gladstone is going to write
a magazine article on “Pigs.”
Saxony is said to furnish the
largest per ccntage of suicides of
any civilized state.
A notice in a southern newspa¬
per of the marriage of Mr. Ilyan
and Miss Rock has the headline
Ryan-Rock-—familiar sound.
Tho growth and popularity of
religious clubs whose main object
is the promotion of social inter¬
course is ono of the interesting
signs of the times.
Edward Sherman, of Whitewa¬
ter, Via, lias become a raving
maniac, as a result of an attempt
to abrubtly discontinue the use of
tobacco. He had for many yeais
consumed large quantities of tho
Weed, both by smoking and chew
iug.
An oditor out AVcst put a lovo
letter he had written into the copy
box, and his editorial ontheprop
or observance of marital duties ho
sent to his love. Tho letter ap¬
peared in his paper, and ho is.
chasing his compositors all over
the country, with a tommahawk
in each hand.
If the republican organ of the
north really want to envolye some¬
thing practical out of the hubbub
they are raising about the sup¬
pression of the negro vote and
the various forms of intimidation,
which they allege to be in con¬
stant practice in the south, the;/
should turn tlieir attention for
a short while to affairs of a like
character taking place in their
midst, so that by becoming better
acquainted with the nature of the
atroci ties being committed at their
very doors, they could more intel¬
ligently advise the remedy for tho
evils of the same sort, elsewhere.
Rumor reached us AVeduesday
of the killing of a white man nam¬
ed Pittman, near Jug Tavern
Tuesday night, by some negroes.
It seems that the negroes had a
frolic at a place called “Nigger
town.” It is not known how the
trouble began. A posse of men,
it is said, went out from Jug Tav¬
ern and found Pittman terribly
mangled. His physicians think
he will die. The whites are very
much incensed at the outrage.
At the asylum at Milledgeville ...
was a real red letter
^ Col . Humber, the new siew
ard gave the patients a good
turkey diimer , with nuts and fruits.
ssttrer ^
eJ Comot Band assembled at the
fountain in the front yard, made
some fine music, among which
the popular and historic air of
-Dixie” called forth three tensing
ch eers from the large number of
patients listening.
Q en< Boulanger's one idol in
life is said to be his mother. She
was with him in 1859 during tfie
tan menta
md wllich bas neTer
entirely healed. Ho spends every
Sunday afternoon and evening
with her, and if away, always