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bogkpaie banner. TERMS : year ja advance $ 1 , 00. one it .50 cts it it 25 “ three it k al a dvertising medium of Rockdale leg county- Vol. 12. notes omravel IN EUROPE by T. D- c kelley. -io. wartburg to Wittenberg. No. of his . At last growing 1 weary the advice of con finement, against and friends, he left his retreat, vent to Wittenberg to settle dis putes that had arisen e ween gome of his followers, or ex re mists had arisen, and ey were stirring up great strife. In all reforms extremis s wi arise; and this was pre-emmen y the case with that reform m which Luther stood, and still stands, the principal figure. In such cases only the true, but just-minded, do lasting good; and they alone should be trusted. It was a wearisome walk for ns up the steep path that leads to that interesting old Wartburg castle, but we felt repaid for our pains: since Ave saAv Luther’s room, which is said to have un forgone very little change, his table, bookcase, letters, chair,etc., and sat in his old chair. We also saw the large Banqueting Hall, the floor of which had just been so thoroughly waxed that it seem¬ ed almost a mirror, This had been done to prepare for the cel¬ ebration of Luther’s birthday the following Thursday, (Aug. 9tli), which was to consist of a grand ball. We were informed that this to the custom every year, It seems so very improper to cele ktethe birth-day of the great reformer in this Avay, and at first we "wonder that it should be so; but when we come to think of it, it is in perfect keeping with hu¬ man nature, as shoAvn in the fact that people celebrate the birth of Christ (Christmas) Avith carousals and other very irreligious con¬ duct. We are wonderful creatures anyway: our very flesh is but ab¬ surdity and our very bones but contradictions, which the grace of God, man’s real life-blood, man¬ ages somehow to keep together. So was the world before Christ; so was the church during Roman su premecy; so it Avas with the fol¬ lowers of Luther; so it is now with professed Christians. Will it always be so? From Wartburg and Eisenach we went to Weimar, the home of Goethe, where Ave spent the night. Immediately after breakfast nest morning we went over to the burying-ground. Cemetery, a beautiful Catholic In this we saw the very splendid Grand Ducal vault, in Avhich Goethe, Schiller, and other great, and royal men of Germany had been buried. Avent from Weimar to Jena ‘pronounced Ya-nah), where Dr. ‘X'omp had attendid the Universi¬ ty quite awhile when in Europe some years before. The Doctor ^emed * s old so tramping glad to see ground, once more that enderson and I rejoiced too. After dinner Henderson and I Barte Gbo spend the evening in Writing to loved ones at home, F>°ctor Avas looking p the town for acquaintances, before we had finished a letter JJe that Doctor two returned, and told us club of his old friends and hmsfels, -mates, Messrs. Friedrich and hagering whom he had found still 'Wished around the old place, evenmg our party to spend the lette with them. Leaving our rs un finished, we went atonce 8 Pent a most delightful eve staying even to 12 o'clock Was a time full of interest 6 writer, as well as pleasure; ee A gave a good insight to q erman social life. Hitherto, we had been in Germany, Whf ~c5s- 3 6L LJ~d m p‘ fr. fei A gbp feM m i < i < y ■■ • , Arcana- c* CONYERS, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 10, 1889. we had lived, for the most part, our own way; this time we lived, not our own way, but as the so¬ cial “Deutscliman” (pronounced Doytchmon) lives. We wonder at the difference in social customs between the Northern and Soutli ern States, but the difference be tw r een those of Georgia and those c f Germany is much greater, Speaking of society in Germany rem j n( j s me t 0 tell of a few things concern f n g the poorer class of p QO pj e that country. In the first place, the poor are very poor, so Yer y p 00r that necessity drives them into slavery nearly as com¬ plete as that of the colored man among us before the civil war. In the next place, women every where do the drudgery and hard¬ est of the work; while the men, if not in the army, act as a kind of overseers, In the hotels the women do the scouring and scrub¬ bing, of which there is a great deal done, while the men servants in dress suits stand around in a military attitude, give directions, and wait upon the table. On the farm the women do the digging and plow the oxen; while the men play the gentlemen, sometimes condescending to drop the seed or drive a team. When a poor woman’s cabbage or other vege¬ tables are matured, she has to put them in the cart, and generally with her own hands pull them to the village for sale, getting to the market, or public square, by the time it is light, so as to sell all her load by nine o’clock, for at that or an earlier hour the square must he cleared. Several times have seen a small wagon loaded with vegetables come into the vil¬ lage drawn by a cleanly dressed woman on one side of the tongue and a large dog on the other. these vegetables Avere not sold in the market by the “clearing hour,” they had to be peddled out from house to house, or hauled hack home. Nowall this time the poor woman may have had a husband and grown sons; the husband at home too lazy and cruel to help her, while her boys were in the standing army. Dr. Wharton in his “European Notes” gh 7 es the best picture of German character yet: he says that a friend of his saw a dog and a Avoman pulling a wagon together, Avhile her hus¬ band Avas lying in tbe wagon flat of his back smoking his pipe. From Avhat Ave saAv I do not doubt but that very thing has occurred. Some one has facetiously remark¬ ed of Germany that “the Avomen do the work, Avhile the men ‘play at soldiers. 1 11 I think the phrase “lords of creation” must haA 7 ebeen suggested by the “air ’ of the Ger¬ man soldier. Yet Germany is not altogether bad; for no nation ever loved good schools like this nation. Many other good things could be said. But to return to Jena. I shall ever cherish a pleasant memory of our visit to this little city, Avhich is noted for but little besides its University. morning, About 8 o’clock next Wednesday Aug. 8, we left Jena for Leipsic. Henderson and I almost promised never to tell how Dr. Scomp parted with liis old friends, Messrs. Friedrich and Hosfels; for the parting ceremony was too affectionate to be fully appreciated by cold-hearted Amer leans. We arrived about 12 o clock AT leipsic, which has long been considered as the center of the book trade of ; Germany. Having procured j lodging, Dr. Scorap spent the af- 1 ternoon in buying books, Hen i derson in “taking in the show ! Avindows of that fine city, I w I sleeping and Avriting. returned, When the Doctor perhaps about 7 o’clock, we all went to the Scliultzenhaus, which is quite a favorite evening resort. In an upper hall we saw the “Roy¬ al American Midgets” on exhi¬ bition,—the man only a little higher, beaver and all than an ordinary walking-stick, while the woman was still lower. Both sets of parents were there, and they were people of ordinary size. From this hall -we went out into the brilliantly illuminated beer garden, and we had the pleasure of taking supper in the upper story of the “Glasshouse,” wdiere we could look down upon that most magnificent German “Bier garten,” enlivened by a thousand finely-dressed people and a large military band. This was a very pleasant evening we spent in high German style. Next morning we Avent to see ‘Auerbaclies Keller,” in which was laid by Goethe the principal scene of Faust. Dr Seomp bought more books. I bought a German NeAv Testa¬ ment, and an English translation of Faust by Bayard Taylor Avitli his autograph on one of the fly¬ leaves. Having shipped our surplus books to Glasgow, we left for the interesting old villiage of Wit tenbnrg, one of the chief cradles of the Reformation. Before leaving Leipsic, however it is worthty of remark that in and around that city Avas fought in 1813 one of the most prolonged and bloody battles on record, be¬ tween the French under Napolean and the allied forces of Russians, Austrians’ and Prussians. Na¬ polean began battle on 16th Oct. with about 150,000 men, and be¬ gan his retreat towards the Rhine on the 19tli Avith only 90,000. The Allies lost about the same num¬ ber. We arrived at Wittenberg sta¬ tion about 4 o’clock, and proceed¬ ed at once on foot to the old town itself. Near the station is an oak enclosed in a small garden Avhich marks the spot Avhere Lutherpub licly burned the Pope's “bull.” [N. B. Back numbers furnish¬ ed on application to neAV subscrib¬ ers.] (to be continued.) You can neither hang, burn, be¬ head or crucify the truth. A lie on the throne is still a lie, and the truth in a dungeon is still the truth; and the lie on the throne is on the road to defeat, and truth in the dungeon is on the road to vic¬ tory. Let liars take warning. Secretary Nisbet of the Georgia Agricultural Society is iioav busy sending out pamphlets contain¬ ing the transactions of the soci cty’s meeting at CedartoAvn. The pamphlet is full of interest to far mers everyAvhere, and especially to those of Georgia. The erection of a monument in memory of deceased Confederate soldiers in Elberton is assuming shape. The “heathen Chinee” is not “peculiar” in all of his methods. All of the Chinese laundries in NeAV York city, about two thou¬ sand in number, have formed a trust, and will put up prices. This is the best reason we have yet seen for the exclusion of the Chinse from this country. The Chicago Inter-Ocean pre¬ tends to be surprised. It says: “Considering that Gov. Gordon is one of the leaders of the southern democracy', his speech in Chicago was admirable in tone.” The Inter-Ocean Avould like for the public to believe that southern democrats are not pa triotic, but as a matter of fact it knows better. It may as well acknowledge the corn. The peo ple as a rule are on to its little scheme. PROPER READING. It has been truly said that this is a reading age. We doubt not but books are read more generally and extensively than in any age i Avhich has preceded the present. And books are more easily ob¬ tained than ever before. They are more abundant and cost less than ever before. While this is true of good books Ave rather think it especially so of books not calculated to exert a healthy moral influence on our young people. The fact that there are so many of these and so cheap is one to be deplored. Parents should fully realize the fact and guard the reading of their chil¬ dren. In some of them truth is so di¬ luted that it is a Avaste of time to read them. The young and inex¬ perienced read them and thus lose much of life’s seed time. The seed soavii, the harvest folloAVS. Lost time can never be regained. So all see Iioav important to read so as to reap a harvest. There are the light trashy books, and the bad and impure.' Reading the former is a loss of time. Some one has said: ‘Bad books carry Avith them the es¬ sence of death and their end is destruction.” It is not every book that is popular that is good. “An imp of darkness can never be an angel of light though he be dress¬ ed as Gabriel.” There are many sad stories about people whose brains have been fired by reading trashy dime novels. Parents can remedy theso mat¬ ters by seeing that ample good reading is placed before their children. Pernicious literature is playing a large part in the crimi¬ nal records of the land. Would that all of it could be forever swept from the face of the earth, and that authors would never rel¬ egate the moral consequences of authorship to the shade, Avhile seeking to send forth that which Avill sell. There is no excuse for an impure book in this land of Bibles, religious noAvspapers and churches.—Index. A WOMAN’S DISCOVERY. “Another Avonderful discovery has been made and that too by a lady in this county. Disease fas¬ tened its clutches upon her and for seven years she Avith,stood its severest tests, but her vital or¬ gans were underminded and death seemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She bought of us a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption and avus so much relieved on taking first dose that she slept been all night mi¬ and with one bottle has raculously cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz.” Thus Avrite W. C. Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, N. C.—Get a free trial bottle at Dr. W, H. Lee & Son's Drug Store. Candidates for Commissioner of Agriculture are popping up all over the State. Representative Brady, of Sumpter, and Martin Y. Calvin, of Augusta, it is said, will oppose Col. John T. Hender¬ son, the present commissioner, who wants to be re-elected. The commissioner ought to be a gen¬ uine farmer. One who under stands the science of agriculture practically and scientifically. No doubt the republican ma¬ jority would like to enjoy the fun of unseating a number of Democrates, but the dear fellows have to take it out iu wish j ing. That majority is not big enough, j y gp -BLACK-DRAUOHT tea cure* Constipation. Mrs. Sibel Lee Fowler of Adair ville, 13 year old, is the mother of a fine baby girl weighing nine pounds. UNCLE PHIL’S STORY. “Tell us a story, Uncle Phil,” said Rob and Archie, rushing to him. “Wlist about?” said Uncle Phil, as Rob climbed on his right knee and Archie on his left. “O, about something that hap¬ pened to you,” said Rob. “Something Avlien you were a little boy,” added Archie. ‘‘Once when I Avas a little boy,” said Uncle Phil, “I asked my mother to let Roy and myself go and play by the river.” “Was Roy you're brother?” asked Rob. “No; but ho Avas very fond of playing with me. My mother said yes, so Ave went and had a good deal of sport. “After a Avhile I took a shingle for a boat and sailed it along the bank. At last it began to get in¬ to deep Avater, Avhcro I couldn’t reach it Avith a stick. Then I told Roy to go and bring it to me. “He almost always did Avhat I told him, but this time ho did not. I began scolding him and he ran towards home. “Then I Avas very angry. I picked up a stone and threw it at him as hard as I could.” “O, Uncle Phill” said Archie. “Just then Roy turned his head and it struck him right over his eye.” “O Uncle Phil!” cried Rob. “Yes, it made him stagger. He gave a little cry and lay doAVu on the ground. “But I Avas still angry with him. I did not go to him, but waded ipto the Avater for my boat. But it was deeper than I thought. Before I knew it I was in a strong current. I screamed as it carried mo down stream; but no man Avas near to help me. “But, as I Avent down under tlxe deep waters, something took hold of me and dragged me towards shore. And Avlien I was safe on bank I saAv it Avas Roy. He had saved my life.” “Good felloAv! Was he your cousin?” asked Rob. “No,” replied Uncle Phil. “What did you say to him?” asked Archie. “I put my arms aronud the dear fellow's nock and cried, and asked him to forgive me.” “What did he say?” asked Rob. “He said ‘Bow woav, avoav!’ ” “Why, avIio Avas Roy, anyAvay?” asked Archie in great astonish¬ ment. “Ho Avas my dog,” said Uncle Phil,—“the best dog I over saw. I have never been unkind to a or to any other animal since, and I hope you never xvill be.”— Sydney Dayre, in Our little Ones. The action of the House dem¬ ocrats, in their caucus Monday, in passing a resolution reaffirming their devotion to tarifl reform, meets with the approval of very nearly the entire democratic press, and of a large number of indepen¬ dent newspapers. The democrats took their position on this ques¬ tion last fall, and they are not going to recede from it. They are in for the fight, and they are going to win. Tariff reform is Avhat the people need, and they are finding it out. The three recalcitrant republi¬ cans who voted against the repub¬ lican caucus nominee for chaplain of the House, thus defeating him, are receiving the anathemas of the republican bosses, and it is said that Speaker Reed is going to punish them by gmng them undesirable committee places. Their action was very creditable to them, and it is approved by the people.j WORDS TO FRIENDS: Job work- solicited and satisfao tion guaranteed. Reliable attention given advertis¬ ing. TERMS REASON A RLE. : No. 42 PEOPLE DON'T FORGET. I called last night to see an old saint Avho is above eighty years of age. Her physician health is good, but her mind is almost to¬ tally Avrecked. To sIioav me the truth of tlio latter part of this statement, her son, Avitli whom she lives asked her several questions. She seemed not to Iuioav Avhero she Avas. She could not tell the name of her husband. She Avas confused as to the number and names of her children. Slio did not know the son avIio Avas talking to her. She was all mixed up in reference to her own name. At my suggestion the subject was changed to that of religion. Now the answer came clear and ready. Who died to save you? Avas asked. “Why, the Saviour, of course,” was the ansAver. Where did he dio? Here she hesitated for the name. Was it Gethsemane ? Avas asked, She replied it Avas somewhere there. Was it Calvary? With a clap of her hands she said, “That’s it.” Do you expect to be saved by your own merits? “Not at all, by no means. Jesus is the Avay, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” Where do had people go when they die? They are bound in chains of everlasting darkness.” Where is Jesus noAV? “He is in heaven.” Aro you afraid to die? Here she shoAved a faith that amounted almost to a demonsta¬ tion, and said, “I will go straight to heaven.” Are you not afraid to die? “I have not a particle of fear of death; the Christian ought not to have.” Such was the subtance of her conversation. 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