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Glow To Marry.
L That Should be Read by Every
ji ow Seeking a Sweetheart,
D Philadelphia
following is a
| ’s advice to a young man
aD
ding for a wife,
the adult age is reached—
As truly as every positiv c re¬
-gative, every knife its fork
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opposites attract, so, too,
he “genus homo, like buds
just mate, and it is not good
, n to be alone. The great
if a man’s life is to seek and
a sweetheart and then have a
,g day. Now, to choose a
w jle and companion is the
of puzzles in every man’s ex
be. gome choose for beauty,
for accomplishments and
hrnents, some ior wit and
rs, ami the average young
money and family, but af
I love, supported by prudence
Iscretion, other things being
|should i. act as the all-inspiring
Happinesss follows love
[ealth happiness cannot buy happiness,
is an attribute,
[] purchase. nowadays
s safe for us to say
[o many mothers are culpable
eouragiug matrimony when
Know in their heart of hearts
licir daughters are subject to
|c disease: this is to besevere
reeated and frowned down up
fcrarer and whenever seen. On
then hand, the presumptive
I who contemplates Hymen’s
and himself a shattered wreck
tiling short of a criminal,
age is indeed a serious aues
ft, tbe salt of common sense is
Iportant necessity. Since mar
■resolves into a permanent eov
I instituted by God, to be brok
ly by death, and not like a loose
■of shoes that can be put on in
corning and removed at night,
In issue that should occupy tire
fii, the moral, the spiritual, the
lie-al snd the consequential de
■‘Os of all thinking people to the
lost degree. The civil law may
late but it cannot sever,
feivorce is a blot on the page of
b and about it there is always a
[smell. Any one who espouses
loujugal force yoke with the prospect
ahead weds an ignis fatuus.
lea man should choose his wife
fid the sainted Primrose of
F of Wakefield” memory, who
pc his as she choose her wedding
Ii not for fine, glossy surface,
for the qualities that would
Swell. A woman is either the
brume or bankruptcy' of a man’s
■e.
tailors cut the coat according
pe cloth, which suggests how
p ®riks should consider the cir
dances of each other. It is
gfora struggling young man,
ou - money' or influence in the
b we( l a girl of affluence and
l!i , fostered in the lap of luxury
pnd f X and loving parents, when
ac conditions cannot be ^ex
r? the future; but then it is
|g lor her to encourage such a
M Di31! unless she is willing to
L “ :s stl 'uggles and misfortunes
P equal yoke-fellow and compan
The word wife means weaver,
a wife should weave along with
‘ushand the web of life.
lere are too many young girls
ght up under the present re¬
st society, so called, who, by in
cnt 1Euth ers, become imbued
‘rise notions, and flitter away
l ' Ine learning useless trifles,
taoir Lucies atrophy and leave
®ere automatons to pose for
entertainment of visitors like
F- ^ed parlor dolls under
1 case. a
rhe F lace, powder, af
- 1 ' -ri study how to make con
&t cetera; in short,
the evils I assume
of Prevailing fashion
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s aVCr or ennui. Young
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
Yol. 4. CONYEKS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 6, 1886. No. 3.
a pretty-faced, intelligent women to
commend herself as an eligible can¬
didate for matrimony should be use¬
ful as well as ornamental. A mod¬
el wife is an economist, a bread sa¬
ver, while her husband is the bread
winnei.
A little domestic drudgery is a
homely antidote against disease and
often makes a fine wife and mother
out of a mere hot house plant. I
advise thorough knowledge of kitch¬
en economy (Dody’s Domesticity),
for far too many girls nowadays en¬
ter marriage long before they have
even learned to spank a pepper box.
Any one who follows this counsel
will not' go astray.
Reasoning by Analogy; “Does
your wife talk in her sleep?” asked
one married man of another, one day
when they were comparing notes.
“I don’t lie awake to see,” replied
the heartless husband, “but she talks
all the rest of the time, bo
I rather guess she does.”
The ordinary of Butts county has
refused to issue any more liquor li¬
cense in that county, and as prohi
bition is already in effect in Jackson,
Flovilla and Indian Springs, Butts
may 7 now be classed with the dry
counties—at least during Judge Car
micheal’s administration. Some
parties near Jenkinsburg have taken
out state license, however, and will
endeavor to continue the traffic in
defiance of the ordinary’s authori
ty
Business men, Lawyers, Clergy
men and others, whose occupations
are of a sedentary character, often
have the feeling'of reminded being literally for
worn out, and are very
cibiy of declining years, when if they'
knew what ailed them, they would
find all their troubles arose from the
inaction of their kidneys or liver if
they would at such times, take Dr.
J. H. McLean’s Homoeopathic Liver
and Kindey Balm, would again feel
the vigor and strength of maturity,
For sale by Drs. Lee and Stewart.
3 m.
The man who wrote the song
“Sweet By and By” is said to be liv
ing in an Illinois town in great pov¬
erty. It is not always that an out
raged public gets commensurateiy
eveu in such cases
Mr. Ingersoll is quoted as saying:
“The more I see of men the better I
like dogs.” Somebody else may be
quoted as saying; “The more I see
of Ingersoll and dogs the more I
think the former most needs a muz¬
zle.”
Action should always be the child
of thought; that is, you should al¬
ways think before you act.
A conscience that slumbers and
can’t be waked is practically dead,
and may' be considered a poor invest¬
ment.
A fashionable item say3 that
“trousers are not so tight as they 7
were.” Now, if the same thing could
be said of some of the young men
who wear ’em it would be very en¬
couraging to the temperance cause.
< Taimage say's that clandestine
marriages generally' bring woe and
poverty. He might have said the
same about clandestine drinking,
and thus thoroughly frighten those
married men who keep a bottle hid
in the closet.
At Sparta, a few days ago, nearly
all of the familyof W. C. Daugher¬
ty was poisoned, but not fatally', by'
the smoke and fumes from white su¬
mac which was being burned on the
fire, around which they' were siting.
It made their skin itch and turn
red, and they became quite sics, but
have now recovered.
Editor Hutcheson, of the Jones¬
boro News, is reading law with a
view to being admitted to tne bar
at the approaching term of Clayton
Superior Court, Blackstone never
had a more worthy disciple than he
will make.
Last June Jim Richardson, a oar
ber in Rome, was bitten on the hand
by a dog supposed to be mad. On
last Friday he died from hydropho¬
bia, at least a coroner’s juror said he
did.
Dr. Hammond says that in a thous¬
and y'cars all white men will be
bald.
ELOQUENT EULOGIES.
GREAT MEN SING HENDRICKS’ FAME
IN MELLOW SWEETNESS.
The National Colors at Half Mast for the
Dead Congressman,
Washington, I). C., Feb. 2, ’86.
The United States senate devoted
a day, this week, to obituary elo¬
quence in memory of the late Vice
President Hendricks. The occasion
drew a large crowd to the capitol.
For the first time this session since
the opening day, every seat in every
gallery of the chamber was occupied
with the exception of the small gal¬
lery reserved for the diplomatic
corps, and at every door and place
of approach was gathered a group ol
spectators.
On the floor of the senate every
senator who was m the city was in
his scat, an attentive and respect¬
ful listener. Settees and chairs were
provided for members of the house
and other privileged and distinguish¬
ed people who were entitled to the
floor. Over both houses of congress
the national colors floated at half
mast; over the senate for Mr. Hen¬
dricks, and over the house for Rep¬
resentative Rankin, of Wisconsin,
who bad died the day before.
Both of the Indiana senators, Har¬
rison and Voorhces, paid glowing
tributes to the dead statesman, that
of Senator Voorhees being especially
free from the trite forms of expres¬
sion common on such occasions.
Other republican senators besides Sher¬
Harrison, among them Evarts,
man, and Spooner testified to the
uniform courtesy and integrity of
Mr. Hendricks, and above all to his
devotion to the principles of his
party.
Mr. Spooner being the new sena
tor from Wisconsin this funeral ora¬
tion was his maiden effort in the
senate. He said Mr. Hendrick was
heart and soul a democrat, who be
lieved thoroughly in his party' and
in its principles. “He was no ‘trim
er’ iu politics,” continued he, “and
indeed, I think if he might give di¬
rection to our words today he would
bid us to say of him that ho was a
‘partisan’ democrat. lie rightly
thought that politics should be a
matter of conviction, and that every
man of firm political faith owed it to
himself and to his country to be a
partisan to the extent of laboring
earnestly in all honest ways to pro¬
mote the principles in which he be¬
lieves.
Senator Voorhees mentioned that
eloquence in the forum and in the sa¬
cred desk had paid its richest trib¬
utes to the exalted abilites and
stainless character of the deceased.
The tolling bell, the mournful dirge,
the solemn minute gun, the mighty
multitude of mourners had all at¬
tended the funeral of Thomas A.
Hendricks, and had borne witness to
his deep love and grief with which
he was lowered to his last resting
place. All the honors due to the
dead had been paid by the Chief
Magistrate of the government, by
the authority of the states and by
the unrestrained affection of the peo¬
ple. “In the senate, however,” said
he, “w T e may not be silent, even
though the cup of honor to his mem¬
ory be overflowing. Here, on this
brilliantly' lighted stage, he fulfilled
his last official engagement, and clos¬
ed his commanding public career.”
Vest, Ransom, Hampton and Sauls
bury were the other democratic sen¬
ators who paid tributes to Mr. Hen¬
dricks. On Tuesday of next week
the house of representatives will de
vote itself to similar eul'ogic-s in his
memory. "house adjourned the
The upon
formal announcement of Representa¬
tive Rankins’ death, This was, of
course, the proper thing to do in the
absence of any rule requiring differ
ent action, it could not have made
an invidious distinction. But the
country is indignant that Congress
should waste time under every pos¬
sible pretext, and it is high time for
the adoption of some plan whereby
respect may be shown for the niemo
lies of deceased Congressmen with
out interrupting public business.
Announcements of deaths should be
made at the close of a daily' session,
and either Sunday' or evening sessions
should be held for eulogies. A re¬
form of thi 9 kind has been present¬
ed in the House, and will come up
soon for discussions.
Representative Rankin came to
Washington in a dying condition.
He had an intense desire to take his
seat in Congress again and be sworn
in with the rest of the members, say
ioshemust accomplish this, if he
died the next minute. On the open¬
ing day of the session, by a super
natural effort of the will, he dressed
and went to the Capitol, took the
oath, and drew his seat, reckless making
while he did so, some re¬
marks about his approaching death.
It was too severe a tax upon his
strength, however, ami he was taken
to his home which lie never left
again. He occupied rooms in a
house adjoining the residence of
Postmaster General Vilas. When
negotiating for his winter quarters
here, the land lady asked him if he
wanted the rooms for the winter.
“Yes,” he replied, “deliberately, “I
will agree to keep them for the win¬
ter, or as long as 1 live; but rent
stops the day I am buried.”
Mrs. Secretary Bayard died at
Washington last Sunday morning
from congestion of the brain, caused
by the sudden death of her daughter
some three weeks ago. For twenty
four hours before her death she was
insensible. She was 51 years old.
Her maiden name was Lee. Her re¬
mains were buried in the Swedish
churchyard at Wilmington, Del.,
last Tuesday.
Whatever Sherman, Logan, and
Evarts may be doing in the matter
of laying their wires, of preparing to
launch their booms for ’88, it seems
to be the impression that Blaine is
still in the lead in the race for the
Republican nomination. There is
no reason why Blaine should not be
in the lead. He is the typical Re¬
publican, and all the mugwumps in
the world can’t convince the coun¬
try to the contrary. With all his
imperfections he is the typical Re¬
publican.
If yon will take one of those little
Billets every evening before going to
bed, you will have an evacuation of
the bowels every twenty four hours,
killing off and removing those terri¬
ble human pests, Bacterial Animal
eulse, created by unhealthy mucus
in the organs and bowels. They
live on the mueas which should aid
nature. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Homos
opathic Liver and Kidney Pillets
will eradicate then and assist Dr.
J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney
Balm in giving health and strength
to tlie suffer. For sale .by Drs. Lee
and Stewart. 3 m.
Sid O’Shields, the young man who
was arrested a tew weeks ago in
Cartersville, was tried Wednesday
and a verdict “not guilty” was re¬
turned. He was charged with being
one of Jackson, Morrison and Spen¬
cer crowd that troubled Cartersville
so long. The verdict of the jury is
condemned by 7 the people. O’Shields
though a young man has served two
terms in the chain-gang.
Sullivan, the slugger, says he can
knock out any man of the name of
Smith in this country. The ubiquit¬
ous and multitudinous John Smith
will not stand this. Sullivan will be
slugged.
Madison is shadowed by profess¬
ional burglars and safe blowers. An
effort Was made by one of them to
rob the Bank of G. B. Stovall, but
so closely was he watched by the
man on duty that he failed to accom
plish his purpose.
“When I punish one of my ehil
dren I do so with an object of touch¬
ing his understanding,” remarked a
man id speaking to a Sunday school.
“My pa don’t,” shouted a little
boy' in the infant class. “He whales
me whenever he can get a chance.”
A new poc-m by Hugh Conway is
out. A dead man who can write
novels and poetry must be enjoying
himself abroad.
Dr. Sbradv, the editor of the Med
ical Review, laughs at the recent hy¬
drophobia scare; he declares that
there have only three cases of genu¬
ine hydrophobia been reported in the
United States in the last ten years
and that he does not believe there
has ever been a genuine case in the
State of New Jersey -
Nothing that Mr. Beecher has said
lately has attracted more attention
than his declaration that “the only
aristocracy m this land is the aris¬
tocracy of hell.” Mr. Beecher ex¬
plained himself when he said that
the men who keep gambling dens,
liquor dens, and dens of prostitution
believe that they are above the law
and defy it. These men constitute
the “aristocracy of belt.”
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THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.
In the spring of 1801 I was a 14
j r ear old boy, going to school in the
town of Fayetteville. The war bu¬
gle had been sounded, and every
one galused lawyer of that town
was blowing off his eloquence telling
us what a noble thing it would be
for a fellow to go to the front and be
shot down on the altar of his coun¬
try; how his name would be printed
in history, and what a hero he would
be, though dead, and if he should
stay at home, when the boys came
back ho would be called a traitor
and a coward. After four years’ ex¬
perience, I have decided that I had
rather be a living coward than a
dead hero. But their eloquence had
the desired affect on me. I wanted
to die for something, I did not know
what, so I enrolled my name on the
list of the Fayette Grays. Of course,
I like all boys of my age, had a
sweetheart, a hazel eyed, brown
haired beauty. If there is anything
I have a weakness for it is brown
hair. All my sweethearts have had
brown hair andl don’t know a black¬
haired woman on earth that has any
use for me. To say 7 I loved that
girl, does not express it. 1 actually'
loved all her relations, all the ne¬
groes on her father’s placo, all on
account of her. I used logo berry
hunting, and would walk up and
down the brooks with her gathering
flowers. In fact 1 was all the time
with her, and how she did sing and
play for me every night, and would
generally close by singing “No One
to Love. No One to caress. That
would get next to me every time.
Then I would move up to her and
explain. When I told her I had
joined the army, we both cried, but
she said she knew I had done right,
but it would break her heart to see
me go, and made me promise to
come home often. We promised to
be true to each other, and when the
war was over we would get married
and be happy the rest of our lives.
She helped to make my uniform and
get me ready for the front. The day
came for company to leave—the sad¬
dest hour of my life had arrived, I
went to her to bid her good bye. As
I took her by the had she fell on my
manly bosom and wept. I also wept.
The scene was a very affecting one.
Some of the oldest inhabitants who
witnessed it shed tears, also. She
said she loved me, and she did not
care who knew it. I kissed her
good bye and tore myself away. (It
was no harm- to kiss a girl during
the war. I sometimes wish the war
was going on now.) Twice a week
the mail man would hand me a nice
little white envelop, and in it I would
find written on perfumed gilt-edge
paper words of love. After reading,
I would place them next to my heart,
and at night dream of her and the
happy meeting that was to come,
but the course of true love never did
run smooth. One day the ugliest
and laziest man in our company was
discharged, for what I never knew,
unless it was for ugliness, He went
home. He lived on an adjoining
farm, where my ideal lived. Soon
the letters began to get scarce, then
they ceased altogether. This I
could not understand. But one of
the boys who came from home ex¬
plained the mystery. She had mar¬
ried the fellow who had been dis
charged. This was an awful blow
to me, but I mustered up courage,
got mad, burned her letters in the
campfire, threw her picture into the
crock and said things of “the girl I
left behind me.” I did not commit
suicide, as many would have done,
but consoled myself with the idea
that there was as good fish in the
sea as was ever caught out of it.
When I remembered that the sea
was full of fish of all kinds, I re¬
membered there was star fish, mul¬
let, whale, big fish, little fish, elec¬
tric fish—she was of tne electric
sort, at least she gave me an awful
shock.' She is now- the happy moth¬
er of eight dirty-taced boys, and her
husband is bailiff of his district,—
J. M. S. iu the Jonesboro Ga. News.
Dr. J. H. McLean’s Celebrated
Catarrh Powder will cure Catarrh,
Cold in the Head, Ozena, and sores
up the nostrils. With this little in¬
vention -a bent glass tube—which
will be in every' box hereafter, you
can blow the Catarrh Power up and
on the inflamed mucous membrane.
If you blow to hard and some of the
Powder goes down your throat, will
do no harm. For sale by Drs. Lee
and Stewart. 3 m.
Civilization is making gratifying
progress in the Congo country. A
few years ago the inhabitants ate
white persons raw; now they roast
them.
TROUBLES IN AN OKPH OS' HOME
The Methodist Orphans’ Homo,
near Decatur, is in deep trouble over
disclosures which have just been
made. Percy' Close and Wiilie May',
two orphan inmates, made their ap¬
pearance at the house of the Rev. G.
F. Gibson, in Powder Springs, on
Tuesday, having traveled on foot a
distance of over forty' miles. Gib¬
son was superintendent last year,
hence the visit to him. The boys
stated that they' had been most cru¬
elly treated by Mrs. Hampton, the
teacher; that she had inflicted ninety
nine lashes upon one of the inmates
and that the son of the present su¬
perintendent, Rev. Mr. Branan had
full sway over the orphans. A visit
to Rev. Mr. Branan elicited a differ¬
ent story. He said: “Mrs. Hamp¬
ton was teaching here when Mr.
Gibson was superintendent, For
some reason Air. and Mrs. Gibson
did not like Airs. Hampton, and when
I was on my first visit, before I had
taken charge, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson
regaled me with a tirade upon Airs.
Hampton. They said she was cruel
and tyrannical. They called in a
child whose leg, they said, was sore
from a beating by Airs. Hampton.
Furthermore, Air. Branan said that
Gibson had told Willie May before
he left, that if he got tired to come
to him and ho would give him a
month, and Airs. Gibson would be a
mother to him. The trustees of the
institution are investigating the
matter.
Thomasville lias gas works in op¬
eration and is now arranging for
water works.
The smallest firearm in the world
is revolver a gold watchcharm in the form of
a about an inch long.
If the discharge from the bladder
is light colored, and demands fre¬
quent attention, especially at night
you have reason to suspect an un¬
healthy condition of the Kidney's,
use Dr. J. II. AIcLeuans Iloimeo
phatic Liver and Kidney Balm. For
sale by Drs. Stewart and Lee. Jan,
30, 3 m.
The hulk of the grand army of
tramps appears to have gone West
this winter to grow up with the
country. Fewer of them succumbed
to the Solar wave than might have
been expected, thanks to the protect¬
ing virtues of thousands of hay¬
stacks.
The trustees of Monticello high
school are taking a groat interest in
educational matters for their city.
With a railroad Alonticello will y'ct
outstrip some of the neighboring
towns.
I hold it to be a solemn, self evi
dent, heaven born truth, that a man
who will play chess for amusement,
would saw a cord of wood for a joko.
—Burdette.
A few days ago Mr. A. J. Carver,
of Terrell, sent by express to Mr. J.
E. Brown, editor of the Henry Coun¬
ty Weekly, a handsome thorough¬
bred Scotch collie pup. The little
Browns are all happy.
One of the largest gambling houses
in Chicago was raided the other
night and over two hundred players
captured. Such things are some¬
times done on a huge scale.
There are several men out in the
wild and woolly West who are afraid
M. Pasteur will discover a better
remedy for snakebite than whisky.
John Russell Young says that Lis¬
in ark and Ben Buttler look alike.
That’s pretty rough cn Butler and
Bismark.
“What is a fashionable hotel?”
“One where you get what you don’t
want and have to pay for what you
don’t get.
If a man could be bitten by a mad
dog and not know it he would not
have hydrophobia. The difficulty is
in not knowing it.
The AIcDuffie Journal holds its
nose and remarks: We know a
family who, if thoroughly washed,
would produce dirt enough to make
a Sate as big as Rhode Island.
If a man would always remember
that a little lie is charged up to him
at the same price as a big one, he
would strive to be the biggest liar in
tjwn or noted for truth,