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The Parson Rides.
Theory an d practice do not al
(Fays agree __a fact which a good
iatured hut rather unpractical
-cushy clergyman once found to
as cost. His youngest son,
vhem he was educating at an ag
licultural college, came home at
■the'first vacation, eager to display
f i5 ae TfIy acquired knowledge.
I [his On the afternoon of his return
father chanced to speak of a
Kicking- [ “Oh? cow that troubled confidently, him. “I
Ln said his son
soon stop that. We learn all
[these things at boy,” college.' replied the
“Well, my like the
father, “there’s no time
[present. [suppose It’s try about it now?” milking and time; he
you For the
led the way to the barn.
[convenience led of the and operator tied to the
animal was out a
■tree.
“Now,” said Sam, the son, “It’s
I very simple. All you’ve got to do
I is to put a weight on her back and
[then [see?” she can’t kick. Don’t you
I “H-m! I’ll see later. But we’ll
[try ! it,” answered shall the clergyman. for weight?”
“What we use a
j said Sam. Look here! I’ll make
I a weight of myself, and you can
I milk.” And so saying he mount¬
ed the cow’s back.
For a moment the animal seem
I ed too much surprised to move.
I The minister began to milk, and
I then up went her heels and Sam
I found himself on his back.
“A striking, but not exactly a
I successful, illustration,” dryly re
I marked the father.
“The theory’s all right,” persis
I ted Sam, ruefully, rubbing his
I back; “the trouble is, I ain’t heavy
I I enough. Now if you’ll just get
on, Ill warrant it’ll he all right.’
“H-m! perhaps,” answered his
I father, with a glance at his own
I portly form. “There is some dif
[ I ference but I’ll in weight. Don’t know
try it, but mind, I don’t
I mean to risk a tumble. Get that
rope by tlie door there, and tie
my feet underneath. Then let her
kick if she can!”
The good clergyman was soon
I mounted and after a little difficul
I ty securely tied. Sam attempted
I to milk. At his touch up went the
I cow’s lieels again.
“Sam!” exclaimed his father, “I
I can’t stand this—cut the rope!”
Sam whipped cut his knife, but
I in Ms confusion cut loose—not
his father but the cow!
i The animal, thoroughly fright
I ened, ran frantically through the
I open gate out into the road toward
the village, with the elder clinging
to her for dear life. The people
skired almost mute with surprise,
ts they saw their pastor riding
j tjirough the town on a cow’s back,
“Why, par—parson! Where—
'mere be you going’?” stammered
an amazed deacon.
“The Lord and this cow only
know!" came faintly back, as on
Ward his cow rushed.
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the best remedy was a
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CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, January. 15, 1880.
A Dangerous Doctrine,
Tlie anarchists and socialists
are organizing Sunday-schools in
Chicago not to teach religion, but
to inculcate the peculiar doctrines
of tlie fanatics who are seeking
the destruction of society. The
schools are under the superinten¬
dency of Paul Grottkau, and are
said to be making great progress.
There are already sfx schools in
full blast. They meet every Sun¬
day morning, and the men, wo¬
men, and children are taught the
most pestiferous doctrines. Stran¬
gers can not gain admission to
these schools. Those interested
in their management boast that
they will soon have twenty-five
thousand on their rolls. Many of
those now attending are little
children under ten years of age.
Nothing has been done to put a
stop to these schools. Their gos¬
pel is a gospel of revolution.
They advocate the destruction of
property by any means whatsoev¬
er. Dynamite, nitro glycerine,
fire, and sword are the weapons
with which they propose to fight
the combined forces of society.
Like blind Samsons they arc seek¬
ing to pull down the ruins of our
social fabric upon themselves and
their fellow-men. They profess
to believe that out of the ruins
would arise a society self-govern
in which there would be no in¬
equality in rank or wealth. They
are misguided and deluded fanat¬
ics, the leaders of whom are mor¬
al lepers fit only to inhabit the
dungeons of criminals.
Senator Blair is a very happy
man. He believes that President
Harrison will aid the passage of
his educational bill, and his idea
is that free education will make
the south [republican. Ho pre¬
dicts that when the southern ne¬
groes become educated they will
demand and obtain higher wages,
anc\ thus protect northern work¬
ingmen against the underpaid la¬
bor oPtlie South. If this scheme
is at the bottom of the general
educational movement now being
pushed forward it ’ is time for
southerners to give it their serious
consideration.
The Rev. Charles Goss, of Chi¬
cago, said in a recent sermon:
“One single saloon in a town of
2.000 people is more to be dreaded
than sll the thieves and gamblers
in tho State. In five years it will
break up twenty families, cause
at least three suicides and result
in at least fifty infractions of the
law. The tears cannot be count¬
ed nor the heart-aches numbered.
God alone knows them.”
Mr . T J. Pendly, a Henry coun¬
ty farmer, has three potatoes that
weigh twenty-five pounds.
A millionaire railway king has a
brother who is hard of hearing,
he himself is remsl “' Ie «
tot** . W pronnnent nose.
0ncc tlus rallw0 5' :, p o.ncd ....
’
friend’s house, where he sat be
tween two young ladies who talked
Wm very loudly, rather jto his
annoyance, but he said nothing.
006 thena shouted a
commonplace remarx, and then
said in an ordinary J tone to the
, *
rneMdies,” “Pardon
said the millionaire,
“its my brother who is deaf.“
Tf ;!]!!,, ‘ • ■■ 4 that the New York
t executions , n cnactin 0- that
executions for i crimes committed
after the Is* } inst .
should be by electricity, made no
provision •• for fv-mbduno- ° the elec
tricity. Lhe Scientific Amc . . ri can
suggests that this amounts to an
indefinite postponement of
tions. The Electrical Review con
to tte tlmt electricity is not suited
work
Fortunes in Grass.
Within the last two or three
years several farmers in Elbert
county have devoted considerable
attention to the hitherto despised
Bermuda grass, and find in this a
far better profit than they reaped
either form their corn or cotton.
Thousands of acres of rich bottom
lands are covered with Bermuda
grass, and were for a long time
thrown out as unfit for cultivation.
Since the adoption of the stock
law, however, this grass has
proved a great benefactor to tbe
farmer in furnishing him with
the most luxuriant pastures, and
also affording large yields of hay
when cut. Messrs. Hudgins
and brother, kwo of Elbert’s most
prosperous and enterprising far¬
mers, have prepared about sixteen
acres of Bermuda grass land for
moving. The present year, from
a single cutting, they gathered
50 two-horse loads of the best hay,
averaging 1,000 pounds to the
load. This hay readily sells at
$1.25 per hundred, making a yield
of $825 from sixteen acres.
The Emory Phoenix edited and
published by the students of Em¬
ory College says: “Dr. A. G. Hay
good will give the Seniors a series
of lectures on the Evidences of
Christianity some timo in the
near future. "VYe anticipate a rare
literary feast in these lectures.”
Capt. R. Hobbs, of Albany, lias
determined to enter upon an ex¬
periment which may result benefi¬
cially to tliat section and the en¬
tire South. ITe says that he can’t
see why jute won’t grow in the
rich lands of West Dougherty, and
he has ordered one pound of tlie
jute seed with which he proposes
to make a fair test of the adapta¬
bility of the soil and climate to
its growth. Ho will plant it in a
rich alluvial soil on his West
Dougherty plantation, and devote
every necessary attention to its
cultivation.
Easy crying widows take new
husbands soonest; there’s nothing
like wet weather for transplanting.
An effort is to be made to have
the state’s new agricultural exper¬
iment station located at Griffin.
Morgan county furnished buri¬
al last week to Aunt Arie Starr,
aged 100 years. Five generations
stood by her grave.
There is a lady in Brunswick
who has a parrot that speaks three
different languages. It was given
to her by a Norwegian captain.
The languages it is said to speak
are Norwegian, Spanish and
French, and the lady is now en¬
deavoring to teach it English.
Senator Brown voted with the
republicans to keep the taxes on
bagging. Senator Brown is en¬
gaged in the coal and iron busi
ness. Most of his constituents are
not.
Dr. Talmage says .that whoever
listens to a slander is equally
guilty with the one who tells it,
and with an old writer says: “They
ght both to , be hung 1 the one i >y
on
the tongue and the other y ie
ear -
There is many a child made
wayward by bad parental
ment. The iniquity of the fathers
is visited on the children, while
yet the children are still responsi
ble. Y e cannot explain this, but
there is no disputing the facts
which we see around us every day.
lt is wel1 for us to lay a f de
speculation and adjust ourselves
to tne facts tacts.
The ancient proverb says: lou
cannot get more out of a bottle
than . • « r™ f
y 1 * "l, •
enrol. 1 ' F
he can get * headache a sick ■
I stomache, and perhaps ten days
i* the lockup.
Make Home Happy.
Learn to govern yourselves, an£
be gentle and patient. Guard
your tongues, especially in seasons
of ill-health, irritation and trouble
and soften them by prayer and a
sense of your own shortcomings
and errors. Remember that, val¬
uable as is the gift of speech, si¬
lence is often more valuable.
Never retort a sharp or angry
word. It is the second that makes
the quarrel. Learn to speak in a
gentle tone of voice. Learn to
say kind, pleasent things when¬
ever opportunity offers. Study
the character of each, and sympa¬
thize with all in their troubles,
however small. Do not neglect
little things if they can effect the
comfort of others in the smallest
degree. Avoid moods and pets
and fits of sulkiness. Learn to
deny yourselves and perfect others.
Beware of meddlers and talebear¬
ers. Never charge a bad motive
if a good one is conceivable.
There are 1(50 cotton seed oil
mills in the South, representing a
capital of not less than $12,000,
000. In 1880, there were [only
forty oil mills in the South and at
that time most of the cotton seed
were fed to cattle or used for
manure.
The citizens ofDouglasville met
last week and [agreed to build a
cotton factory on the co-operative
plan. A charter will be applied
for at once, so Colonel James says.
Brooks county is about twenty
two miles square. Last year the
farmers raised their own meat,
corn, oats, syrup, etc. Many
make then sugar that they use.
With many cotton is a surplus
crop. Their bank deposits
amount to $000,000, without in¬
terest. Farmers of the county
have offered to lend money to'ros
ponsible persons in Quitman at 4
per cent. Every year the county
ships thousands of bushels of
homc-mado corn and oats and
large quantities of home-made
meat.
Fifty-five dollars was the
amount realized by some burglars
who entered the house of Rev.
Mr. Eakens in Oxford Sunday
night. The money belonged to
students in Emory eollege.
According to Brother Watter
son’s reliable newspaper the Louis¬
ville, Ky. Courier-Journal, Ken¬
tucky has six counties—Harlan,
Knott, Perry, Letcher, [[Bell, and
Leslie—that have never had a
church within their borders during
the sixty or seventy years of their
existence as counties.
Hereafter drunkenness on tlie
streets of Covington will be pun¬
ished by fine or imprisonment, or
both.
Over 100 white citizens of Cov¬
ington have signed 8 tho petition
asking for an election on the pub¬
lic school question.
The Augusta News relates a
itory told by a North Carolinian
about a wonderful tree in that state.
He said there was a poplar tree at
g^ion, Haywood county,
go } ar g e that it made plank enough
to build a church fifty feet long
an( j thirty-eight feet wide, twelve
f ce t higb, and supplied weather
boarding ceiling and flooring,
jr rom the same tree a fence wns
] juilt on three-quarters of an :
arounc i the cnurch, and there w’ere
three logs left over. The remain
three logs are enough to
build another church of the same
j imensions as a b ove .
v You will M1 , have no use for , spec
taeles if you use Dr. J. H. Me
Lean’s Strengthening Eye Salve;
it removes the film and seum which
accumulates on the eye balls, sub
dues inflammation cools an ^
strengthens th the weak irnta^dnerves and failing sight,
25c. a box.
Harrison Rides.
General Harrison has bought
his inauguration carriage, and it
is [now being made by a well
known firm of manufacturers in
Indiana. It will be what is known
as a state coach, or sort of largo
landau, and its price is $2,000,
which is the price General Harri¬
son will pay for it, ho having in¬
sisted that he should bo charged
the regular price. From the same
makers tlio president-elect has
ordered a family shopping car¬
riage to cost $1,000. Besides
this, ho has made arrangements
for securing for his uso in "Wash¬
ington a stable of probably a half
dozen horses, all to bo at least
sixteen hand high and cherry bay
in color. The whole outfit is ex¬
pected to bo in Washington ready
for use by Mr .Hi 4.
During the last twenty years
423 railroads, comprising 28 per
cent, of the total mileage of the
country, have been sold at auction
and many others have barely
managed to escape that fate.
This would go to show that the
enormous new construction during
these years was not induced wholly
by profits to be made in operating
railroads. The profits to the
builders were in many cases col¬
lateral.
■— m i — i ■ <n*m m i m im h —
When you are constipated, with take
loss of appetite, headache,
one of Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little
Liver and Kidney take Billets. and will They
are pleasant to vial. cure
you. 25 cents a
The artesian well at the Arte¬
sian house, in Albany, Las been
sunk to a depth of 700 feet, and
now flows thirty gallons a minute.
The present legislature, which
has been aptly termed “the farmer
legislature 1 ' has shown a more
progressive spirit than any legis¬
lature we liavo had in years and
their ideas of progress have been
governed with prudence. There
has been no rash attempt at
wholesale reformation, hut every
step has been carefully taken and
in a forward direction.
The Philadelphia statistics show
that there is not a trade or profes¬
sion pursued in tliat city which is
not more or less followed by
women.
If feel your kidneys are inactive, you
will and look wretched, even
in the most cheerful society, and
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.
Too many women of fashion do
not know where fashion stops and
vulgarity begins.
A wilful falsehood is a cripple,
not able to stand by itself without
another to support it. It is easy
to tell a lie, but it is hard to tell
only one lie.
A school boy being asked what
he was sobbing for, replied: “Well
I don,t want to cry, but it just
bursts out itself.”
Old people suffer much from
disorders of the urinary organs,
and are always gratified at the
wonderful effects of Dr. J. H. Mc¬
Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm in
banishing their troubles. $1.00
per bottle.
The electric sugar refining
swindle is not the only one which
has caused people in this country
to drop cash within the last fifteen
or twenty years. A scheme for
burning water was started some
years ago, and one for making a
aew uu,i vaiuable metal out of iron
slang was announced. Each one
took money J out of tho pockets 1 of
people wno are quicx k to in . essin j
new and untried things, and the
schemers walked off with their
pockete full. Perhaps if people
were « 0 t anxious to become weal
tfiy at a leap.iney wouici be
taken in by these schemes.
WORDS TO FRIENDS:!
i/i>5 work solicited and satisfac
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Reliable attention given advertis¬
ing..
TEEMS EE A SOMA ELE.
No. 47.
President Dwight of Yale col¬
lege does his writing on an old
fashioned secretary that is said to
have been in the family 200 years,
and the puritanic, straight-backed
chair in which lie sits looks as if
it had been in the family at least
a century.
If you spit up phlegm, and are
troubled with a hacking cough,
use Dr. J. K. McLean’s Tar Wine
Lung Balm.
Tlie Democratic party is now
and it has always been a national
party. There is no line of sec¬
tionalism between democrats,
dividing them into “northern”
and “southern.”
Frequently accidents occur in
the household which cause burns,
cuts, sprains and bruises; for use
in such cases Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Volcanic Oil Liniment has for
many years been tlio constant fa¬
vorite family remedy.
Mr. Gladstone, it is announc¬
ed, is going to review a new hook
by Margaret Lees, an American
writer, called “Faithful and Un- .
faithful.” The book deals with tho
questions of marriage and divorce,
and as tlio [opinions expressed
agree with those known to be held
by Mr. Gladstone, the grand old
man.no doubt will give the work a
favorable review. In that case,
its sale would he very great.
Mr. Gladstone has made tho
fortunes of several authors lately.
In cases of Fever and Ague, tho
blood dangerously is as effectually, poisoned though not the
so by it
effluvium of tho atmosphere deadliest poison. as
could be by the Chills
Dr. J. IT. McLean’s and
Fever Cure will eradicate this
poison from the system. 50 cents
ti bottle.
It doesn’t look very much as if
either.Gen. Longstroet or Col.
Buck would he givon a cabinet
position. Borne of tho Georgia
newspapers suggested ex-Senator
Joshua Hill for tho cabinet, hut,
while Mr. Hill would be very
likely to do himself credit in any
position, he will hardly be appoin¬
ted, and he won’t care if he isn’t.
Ho is enjoying his old age among
friends in both parties in Madison.
Croupy suffocations, night
coughs and all the common affec¬
tions of the throat and lungs
quickly relieved by Dr. J. H. Mc¬
Lean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm.
There aro now 4685 acres of
land in Green county under mort¬
gage to longloan companies.
The original number was 15,619
acres. Of this number 3422 acres
were redeemed, and 7512 sold un¬
der mortgages.
Imperfect digestion and assim¬
ilation produce disordered condi¬
tions of the system which grow
and arc confirmed by Strengthening neglect, Dr.
J. H. McLean’s
Cordial and Blood Purifier, by its
tonic properties, cures indigestion stomach.
and gives tone to the
$1.00 per bottle.
At the residence of Rev. Sam
P. Jones, of Cartersville, cn
Christmas day, was held a reunion
of the Jones family to partake of
a turkey dinner. There were four
generations of the family repre¬
sented, and had it not been for
the absence of the infant daughter
of Portor Stocks, of Atlanta, there
would have been five generations
at the table.
For sick headache, female
troubles, neuralgic pj ains in the
head take Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Little Liver and Kidney Pillets,
25 cents a vial.
Mrs. Myra Lewis, wife of Sid¬
ney Lewis, editor and proprietor
of the Ishmaelite, died at her
home in Sparta Saturday evening.
She leaves a husband and three
small children, and a large circle
of friends, to mourn her death.
Her death was not unexpected,
as she had been ill with consump
tion some weeks. She was a most
noble and estimable Christian.