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400 - THOUSAND DIVORCES.
Within the last twenty years
over 400,000 divorces have been
granted in the United States and
the bnsiness is on the increase.
It is no wonder that a strong
sentiment against the facility
with which the marriage bond is
now breakable should obtain
throughout the whole country.
There are states in the union
where divorce can be obtained
on the most trivial pretexts, and
they are made the resort for dis¬
contented couples all over the
country, who go there to have
their bonds snapped and then skip
away to pasttires new. The dis¬
graceful laxity of some state laws
on this subject has given the
impetus to a movement in favor of
a national divorce law. The fed
eral government has no more to
do with the marriage laws of the
states than it has with the loca¬
tions of their county court houses.
The fault is in states, and the only
remedy possiblo must come from
them. The American Bar Associ¬
ation has time and time again
recommended the enactment
uniform divorce laws in the states,
but no need has been paid to
sound counsel. Within the
few days there has been held
Philadelphia a meeting of able
and representative men assembled
by no other impulse than their
desire to promote an
of this national scandal. They
formed an association for the pro¬
motion of reform in divorce laws
and their enforcement, Good
citizens all over the country ap¬
plaud their motives and appreci¬
ate their unselfish efforts in the
cause of morality.
Judge Thayer of Pennsylvania
was the most prominent figure in
the convention, and made a nota¬
ble speech in favor of divorce re¬
form. Judge Thayer did not
spare his own state in his indict¬
ment of local divoce laws. He
said: “In many aiul many a case
have I felt that this thing was
being done by agreement, and
.that people who were bound by
the laws of God to remain united
were sundering themselves by a
trick and I did not have the
power to stop it.”
Have there not been similar
scenes in Georgia? Have not
Georgia judges seen divorces
granted on the flimsiest frauds?
The increase in the number of di¬
vorces in this and all other South¬
ern states proves that there is a
growing disposition to snaji the
marital tie whenever inclination
or convenience may dictate. In
Georgia the law is strict, and the
grounds for divorce, clearly de¬
fined, indicate some very grievous
sin or shortcoming, but the eon
duct of the average jury which
tries a dicorce case is simply
shameful. The rule seems to be
that when two people want a di¬
vorce there is no reason for keep¬
ing them together.
With the divorce laws bad in
some states and the juries in
others indifferent to this grave
concern the sanctity of the mar¬
riage relation is suffering great
violence in this Christian land.
A remedy is needed. It would be
a national blessing if all the states
could be induced to adopt a uni¬
form divorce law and jiu'ies could
be found who are intelligent
enough and honest enough to
enforce it.—Macon Telegraph.
had The exceptionally Lady Godiva must have
it completely concealed long hair her since
Since Ayer’s Hair lovely Vigor
person. into
came use such examples are
only not so rare as the formerly. It not
hair, promotes but growth of the
gives it a rich, silken
texture.
A New’ Yoi'k man has been con¬
victed and fined for using postal
cards to dun his creditors. There
is a large class - throughout the
country that u ill approve this
decision.
_ A . than ,. middle ., „ aged ,. bach- .
more
elor married a young girl. When
a son and heir was added to the
family the nurse was to show- the
newcomer to visitors with the
traditional remark: “Looks like
his pa, doesn’t he?” One day a
gouty old gentleman who couldn't
see the resemblance replied with
a grunt: “Just so; he's quite bald
and has no teeth.”
ALWAYS A RIVEE TO GROSS.
There’s always a river to cross:
Always some effort t^ make,
If there.s anything- good to win,
Any rich prize to take;
Yonder’s the lruit we crave;
Yonder the charming scene,
But deep and wide, with a trouble tide,
Is the river that lies between.
For the treasures of precious worth
Wo must patiently dig and dive;
For the places wo long to fill
We must push, and struggle, and drive;
And always and everywhere
We’ll find in our onward course.
Thorns for the feet, and trials to meet,
And a difficult river to cross.
The rougher the way wo take.
The stouter the hearts and the nerve,
The stones in our path we break.
Nor e’er from our impulse swerve;
For the glory we hope to win,
Our labors we count no loss;
’Tis folly to pause and murmur, because
Of the river we have to cross.
So, ready to do and to dare,
Should we in our places stand,
Fuliiliing the Master’s will,
Fulfilling the soul’s demand;
For, though ns the mountains high
The billows may roar and toss,
They’ll not overwhelm if the Lord’s at the
helm
When the difficult river we cross.—Ex,
Hon. John G. Carlisle ex¬
speaker of the House of Repre¬
sentatives, who has been spend¬
ing the last month in Idaho, pas¬
sed through Kansas City Monday
on his way to Washington, and
was interviewed as to the results
of last week’s election. He thinks
that the tariff issue was the chief
cause of the defeat of the Repub¬
lican party, though prohibition
had something to do with it in
Iowa. The ex-speaker says the
result of the election means noth¬
ing else than Cleveland in 1892.
“Governor Hill is a good Demo¬
crat,” Mr. Carlisle says, “but he,
as well as others know that it is
Cleveland whom the people want,
and it is he whom they will have.”
IS CONSUMPTION INCURABLE?
Read the following: Mr. C. H.
Morris, Newark, Ark.,says: “Was
down with Abscess of Lungs, and
friends and physicians Consumptive. pronounced
me and Incurable
Began taking Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption, bottle, and able am
now on my third
to oversee the work on my farm.
It is the finest medicine ever
made.”
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur. for
Ohio, says: “Had it not been
Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption I would have died
of Lung Troubles. Was given up
by doctors. Am now in best of
health.” Try it. Sample bottles
free at Dr. W. H. Lee & Son’s
Drugstore.
There is no power of love so
hard to get and keep as a kind
voice. A kind hand is deaf and
dumb. It may be rough in flesh
and blood, yet do the work of a
soft heart, and do it with a soft
touch. But there is no ono thing
that love so much needs as a
sweet voice to tell what it means
and feels, and it is hard to get
and keep it in the right tone.
One must start in youth aud be on
the watch night and day 4 at work,
at play, to get and keep a voice
that shall speak at all times the
thought of a kind heart. I would
say to all the boys and girls:
“Use a kind voice at home.”
Watch it day by day as a pearl of
great price, for it will bo worth
to you in days to come more than
the best pearls hid in the sea.
A kind voice is a lark’s song to
hearth and home. It is to the
heart what light is to the eye.
Editor E. S. Steadman, of the
Lithonia New Era, is a bloated
land owner, and has been down
in Early county laying out a new
town on the Alabama Midland
railroad.
Augusta has aroused her pub¬
lic spirit again and is taking
active steps to prepare for a grand
exposition next year. There is
life in the venerable old city yet,
and she proposes a “boom” in¬
stead of a “bankruptcy.”
ELECTRIC BITTERsT”
This remedy is becoming so
well know and so popular as to
need no special mention. All who
have used Electric Bitters sing
j the same song of praise.—A purer
j medicine does not exist and it is
guaranteed ed. to do all that is clairn
Electric Bitters will cure all
j diseases of the Liver aud Kidneys
will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
j Rheum by impure and other blood.—Will affections caused drive
Malarial from the system and
prevent as well as cure all Mala¬
rial fevers—For cure of Headache
Electric Constipation and Indigestion try
Bitters—Entire satisfac¬
tion guaranteed, orjmoney refund
ed.—Price 50 cts. aud $1.00 per
bottle at Dr. W. H. Lee <fc Son s
Drugstore.
A CHEERFUL FACE.
Next to the sunlight of heaven is
the cheerful face. Their is no
mistaking it—the bright eye, the
unclouded brow, the sunny
all tell of that which dwells within.
Who has not felt its electrifying
influence? One glance at this face
lifts us out of the mists and shad
ows, into the beautiful realms of
hope. One cheerful face into the
household will keep everything
warm and light within. It may
be a very plain face, but there is
something in it we feel, yet cannot
express; and its cheery smile
sends the blood dancing through
the veins for very joy. Ah! there
is a world of magic in the plain,
cheerful face, and we would, not
exchange it for all the soulless
beauty that ever graced the fairest
form on earth. It may be a very
little face, but somehow this
cheery face ever shines, and the
shining is so bright the shadow’s
cannot remain, and silently they
creep away into dark corners. It
may be a wrinkled face, but it is
all the dearer for that, and none
the less cheerful. We linger near
it and gazefenderly upon it and
say: “God bless the dear, happy
face! We must keep it with us as
long as we can; for home will lose
much of its brightness when this
sweet face is gone.” And even
after it is gone, how the remem¬
brance of the cheerful face softens
our way!—Selected.
A DISTRESSING CASE.
“Eor over a year I have had a
breaking out on my leg, rvhich
troubled me so bad I could not
walk, leg badly swelled, of a pur¬
ple color, with eruptions so bad
that blood would ooze out if I
commended bore my weight on it. Clarke’s I was Ex¬ re¬
to try
tract of Flax (Papillon) Skin Cure
which I have done. My leg is
now well and I can walk two miles
on it without Hayward.” any trouble.” Sign¬
ed “A. D.
Clarke’s Flax Soap makes the
skin soft and prevents chapping.
Skin Cure $1.00. Soap 25 cents.
For sale by all leading Druggists.
Mr. Charleton, of Troup, fur¬
nishes a curious bit of informa¬
tion about the religious complex¬
ion of the recent Georgia House
of Representatives, The list
given is an accurate one: Primi¬
tive Baptist 7, Baptist 48, Meth¬
odist 31, Presbyterian 14, Chris¬
tian Baptist 5, Cathotic 1, Episco¬
pal 2, Freo Thinkers 1, No church
53, Unknown 11. The late Hon.
Louis Arnliein was the only He¬
brew in the House.
The worst feature about catarrh
is its dangerous tendency to con¬
sumption. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
cures catarrh by purifying the
blood.
One evening a man, tall and
spare, surrounded by a country
atmosphere, cautiously approach¬
ed the desk at Willard’s hotel and
hesitatingly said that he wanted a
room. Mr. Harris placed the
register before him and handed
him a pen. “What’s that for?”
inquired the would-be guest.
“Sign your name, please,” was
the reply. “I’ve got a lady with
me. It's my wife—we’ve just got
married,” was the faltering re¬
mark of the visitor. “Then write
both your names on the register,”
was tho advice given. An inspec¬
tion a moment later revealed the
following entry? “Mrs Jennie A
me.”
GOOD ADYIOE, SHOWING RESULT.
Edward Silvey, Chicago, gives
testimony: tw’enty-five “My wife had Catarrh
years; suffered severe¬
ly for six years before she began
to use your remedy. Unable to
breathe except through the mouth;
in a most critical condition. Tried
everything Dr. without relief, when
Streeter advised her to buy
Clarke’s Extract of Flax (Papil¬
lon) Catarrh Cure. Relief fol¬
lowed immediately. She contin¬
ued to use it uutil she is now en¬
tirely been cured. Her health has not
Price so good Wash in many years.”
$100. the Baby with
Clarke s Flax Soap. 25 cents
For sale at all Druggists now
has the Flax remedies on hand.
The Augusta Chronicle says it
is no secret that President Liv¬
ingston favors Augusta as the
place for holding the grand Alli¬
ance fair next year.
FOR THE BLOOD,
nta, Biliousness, Weakness, take Malaria, Indigestion and
UROWN-S IRON BITTERS.
It cures quickly. For sale by all dealers in
medicine. Get the genuine.
DRILL AND;REYIEW.
During the war of ! the Revolu¬
tion, a Highlander in the British
army was accused of sympathy
with the Americans. _ Y lien asked i 1
what he had to say for himself,
he replied:
“Only this: I got away quietly
from my comrades to pray a bit
while in the bush,'and was coming
back when the soldiers'took me.”
“Are you in the habit of .pray¬
ing?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Then pray now. You never
needed it more in your life.”
The colonel took out his watch.
Fully believing that he had but a
few moments to live, the Christian
soldier knelt and poured out his
soul in such language as only a
friend of God could use. All who
heard it were astonished, the com¬
mander himself among the rest.
“Go,” said he; “you have told
the truth. If you have not been
often to drill, you could not have
done so well at review.”
CONVINCING PROOF.
In many instances it
that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
Balm), made by Blood Balm Co.
Atlanta, Ga., will cure blood pois
on in its worse phases, even when
all other treatment fails.
A. P. Brunson, Atlanta, Ga.,
writes: “I had 24 running ulcers and
on one leg and 6 on the other,
felt greatly swallowed prostrated. barrel I believe of
I actually vain efforts a to
medicine, in cure
the disease. With little hope I
finally acted on the urgent advice
of a friend, and got a bottle of B.
B. B. I experienced a change,
and my dispelled. despondency I kept was using some¬ it
what
until I had taken sixteen bottles,
and all the ulcers, rheumatism,
and all oilier horrors of blood pois¬ I
on have disappeared, and at last
am sound and well again, after of an
experience of tw’enty years tor¬
ture.”
Robt. Ward, Maxey, Ga., writes:
“My disease was pronounced poison. a
tertiary form of blood
My face, head and shoulders were
a mass of corruption, and finally skull
the disease began eating my kid¬
bones. My bones ached; my
neys were deranged, I lost flesh
and strength, and life became a
burden. All said I must surely
die, but nevertheless, when I had
used ten bottles of B. B. B. I was
pronounced well. Hundreds of
scars can now be seen on me. I
have now been well over twelve
months.”
The Legislature has passed, and
Governor Gordon has sigued the
bill to establish *an Industrial
School for Girls. The bill pro¬
vides that the school shall be a
branch of the State University,
and shall be located at Milledge
ville. This is good and righteous law¬
progress on the part of our
makers.
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THE BEST ADVERTISING.
The most efficient advertising in
behalf of Hood’s Sarsaparilla medi¬ is
that which comes from the
cine itself. That is those who are
cured by it, speak to friends suf¬
fering similarly, who in turn de¬
rive benefit and urge others to
try this successful medicine.
Thus the circle of its popularity is
rapidly widening from this cause
alone, and more and more are
becoming enthusiastic in behalf of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla as it actually
demonstrates its absolute merit.
All that is asked for Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla is that it be given a fair
trial. If you need a good medicine blood
purifier, or Sarsaparilla. building up
try Hood's
The farm home is especially
suited to training useful members
of society. In the successful
farm home the bread of idleness
is never eaten. Busy lives are
least exposed to temptations.
Childhood is restless and imita¬
tive. Parents should not do all
the work, though it may be less
trouble than to teach the children
to help and do it well. We owe
it to children to do well the duties
of home life, whether it be city or
country home.
Neuralgic Persons
And those troubled with nervousness relieved resulting
from care or overwork will be by taking
Brotvn’s Iron Bitters. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
COL. PEEK'S CARD.
At Home, near Conyers, Rock
dale county. Ga.—I scalded m i
hand with steam from a boiler,
tried every imaginable remedy
without relief. I then sent to me
family bottle physician. He sent me a
of Mrs. Bush's Specific,
and in fifteen minutes from first
application asleejx I I was easy and fast
regard it as the best
remedy of the day for burns and
scalds, &c. Wm. L. Peek.
Don’t be Without
Ayer’s Tills in your house. As a mild but effec¬
tive aperient, they have no equal. "I have used
Ayer's Pills for the past thirty years,” says Mr
James Quinn, of 90 Middle Hartford, ’
st., Conn medil
- and consider them an invaluable family
cine. I know of no better remedy for liver
troubles, and have always found them a prompt
cure for dyspepsia.”
“ I believe Ayer's Pills to be the safest and
best medicine known for that large variety of
disorders -where a cathartic is required.”—Dr
J. 0. R. Stetson, Pittsburgh,Pa.
Ayer’s
Pills are purely vegetable, and their use is at¬
tended With no ill effects.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,Lowell, Mass.
A Wonderful Discover
m] Mrs. Bush
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For Burns, Scalds and Spasmodic Croni
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$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. FOR
$8 & $8 SHOES FOR LADIES
Best in the work). Examine his
$5.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOEj
$4.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE.
$3.50 POLICE AND FARMER’S SHOE.
$2.50 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE.
$2.00 GOOD-WEAR SHOE.
$2.00 & $1.75 BOYS SCHOOL SHOES.
Fraudulent when my name and price are co
stamped on bottom. W. L. DOUGLAS,
Brockton, ass.
FOR SALE BY
STEWART&M'CALU
CONYERS, - GA.
GEORGiA RAILROAD
Stone Mountain Route,
Georgia Railroad Co.. \
Office General Manager. )
Augusta, Sept. 21, 1889 ,
COMMENCING SUNDAY. 22, met,
the following Passenger schedule will be
operated. Trains run by 9°lh meridian
'
i FAST LINE.
! NO. 27 WEST DAILY.
'
Lv Augusta 7-45 am I Lv Athens
1 ArCoUVerS 11. I >7ani Ar AtlantO IUv piU
' 2S
NO. ~o itAol part daiiy
Lv AtiJmtft 2 42 DID , Al AugustaS AtllODS 7 P™
j Ar Conyers 340 pm | Ar i5 pm
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, NO T* EST mTTV PAIL1»
> 2 EAST DAILY *
Lv Atlanta 8.0o am | Lv Angustall.OSam
Lv Conyers 9-*9 »m | Lv MttOn MO «■
.Ar Athens 5.15 ,'I pm Lv „YVaRh’n ->111 (1 VI u ll.lOaBl ‘V dui
Ar , w W , , , 114-30 „ pm , | t bVlVaaliU
a SO
AliOliU i.MiM'u, V* , , T F ,,,,, m t I. “ Ty Alliens o*4'l AUl
A r M aCOll {>.00 pm Ar LOUjerS iw.wi'iuim 4 ^ 1’“
Ar Augusta I 30 pm | Ar Atlanta 5-4-5 P m
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COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
Daily except Sunday. 5-4«
Lv Atlanta 6/20 pm | Lv Cov’gt’n 6.1* «»
LvConvers 8.07 pm | Lv Conyers 7-o0
LvC’vt’ng 8.35 .pm | Ar Atlanta am
NO. 4 BAST DAILY - NO, 3 EAST
Lv Atlanta 1115 pm j Lv Augustan .00 p&
LvCony’rs 12. 39 am I Lv Conyers W™
Ar Augusta 6.40 am 1 Ar Atlanta 6. 3 O am
UNION POINT & WHITE PLAINS R. »■
Didlv except Sunday- 5-40 J
Lv Union Point.... iO-10 a m & p
Ar Siloam..........rO-35 8DI 6- ; 4 °P Ul
Ar White plains... .ll.»a m
Lv white Plains .8.0O am 3.30pm
Lv Siloam...... .'.’.’.8.35 a m 4-4° 405pm P 111
Ar Union Point . 9 00 a in
Train Nos. 27 and 2S will stop
and recieve passengers to an
the following stations on L v: Grove
town, Harlem Bearing t 1 ...’
Norwo'd, Brnett Craw 0
Union Point. Greensboro, a a -
Rutledge, Social Circle, ’
Conyers, Lithonia, - tone
t a j n an d Decatur f *u ■ , g
p ra i n No. 1 connects for i
West and North West,
connects for C harleston an a P
Eat Ko. 27, for ail P® int V
Wesr, No. 28 tor r l ]es .
an d South No. ^
ton and Savannsh. West..No t . Qr
West and North
charleston, Savannah ai
Ea ct. GREEN, Gen. Afona^er. 1
JOHN W.
E R. DORSEY, Gen. - ^
j 0E . w. WHITE, Tr av. Pas- -j
DR. J. J. SEAMANS
DENTIST, GA
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upstairs, Office in opposite Cam Sweden Hotel.