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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 { 5 !ik0 »■ ; ' ad there is no such time (“farther tenderness test dispKvmg to warn her her ., 1U 1 ™’ “f*f 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 mag. a0 ‘* % 15 f -./// / 7 1 / ■ Xr-- - m TV ID v A [Ip & a : r\A r < . Co y 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. .... ..... ...... * -♦ 6 ♦ * • && ■— --— 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. v ' 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 **“ B “ ^ 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, 1 ‘ a y ‘ M 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