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the fast departing ray
In deep despair,
>ie the spirit on its way
With holy prayer? couch will
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In words of woe,
low me to my long home
Hoianin and slow ,
logon my earthly bed
In icy sleep, affection led
en Wirt bv pure and weep?—
come the
,3If, moon implant .’ose
Upon my breast
it cheer my dark repose,
My lonely rest ?
but know where lam sleeping
Low in the ground be keeping
,ful heart will then
Watch all around, beneath
negem lay enshrined
That cold sod’s gloom, death
mitigate the pangs of
And light the tomb.
hour if I could teel
From hails of glee would steal
uty’s pressure one
In secrecy,
teml sit or stand by me
Ip night’s dead noon,
mid ask of memory,
.No other boon.
1 lonter fate is mine,
A deeper woe, fn youth’s
ill I’ve loved sweet
I soon must go.
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through death's long,
it,
Lone and forgot.
[peach bens section orchards being throughout destroy’
are
nwdisease that attacks the
The leaves turn a yellowish
Id f wither up, lonowetl bv the
death of the tree. VV neu
lisease appears, the tree at
fumed, should be at once dug tip
or it will spread
h the entire orchard,
L has aunty got bees in her
“No: why do you ask
question?” “Cause that lit
a. with a heap of hair on his
pitched hold of her, and said
going to take the honey out
lip*; and she said: ‘Well,
Caste,"
(i baby cries,” says a subscri
Lvrm its feet before you dose
t is nothing new, we under
ito warm a hr by if it cries; but,
lunatdy, parents do not usual
fine the operation to the little
wt.
is Mary A, H. Gay, the agent
I Stephens Monumental Associ
says that the purchase money
[paid. Liberty Hall” has not all yet
The association Is in
Psion o{ the hall, and has
[a k school iti in bouse immediately op
flis which a flourishing
in operation. No money
r * )een raised for the proposed
f is ment taking to Mr. subscriptions Stephens. inAt- Miss
1 of one dollar each. She says
idle intends to raise altogether
Phtman says the first time
Nt courting he felt as if a pink
[had hanledhim down a rain
y lth 3 price of chain lightning
smack in a pile of down,
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SOLID
Vol. 4.
LET GORDON'S MEN REMEMBER.
That the “uninstructed” dod si) e
being tried in a few counties mea a s
Bacon—and nothing but Bacon.
It is a trick of the Bacon men,
adopted in counties where Gordon is
stronger than Bacon, where his
frinds realize that they have no hope
carrying a county in Bacon’s name
they put out an “uninstructcd” tick¬
et, and ask for votes for it on the
ground that new men may be
brought into the race.
All this means Bacon, it can
mean nothing else. Every intclli
gent man knows that the time has
passed when a new canddiate could
enter the field with the slightest
prospect of success. Already more
than half the whole convention is
elected. In less than ten days four
fifths of the convention will be
elected. No new man will enter the
race or permit his name to be used
in it. The race is made up—and
the “uninstructed” ticket means
Bacon—and it is Bacon under a
mark!
In one county there is a movement
to send a delegation pledged to vote
for neither candidate! This move
ment is under the patronage of the
Bacon men a: Q. run by them ex
cl naively. It 93 meant simply to
beat Gordon. >—* Brooks county a
similar movement was tried. A
ticket has been made on the prom
ise that it would vote for neither.
And though it had four strong and
populurmen on it, it was absolutely
buried out of sight by’ the staunch
and true Gordon men of Brooks.
Let Gordon men everywhere stand
to the! r colors! To be led off by an
“uninstructed” ticket is to march
blindfolded into the Bacon camp,
^tobe taghod »t«.j-ou marcli
in, led by Bacon men.
Let Gordon men stand by’ the
Gordon colors and he will be over
whelmingly elected governor!—Con¬
stitution.
An exchange says: “I once beard
a mother, who has been criticised
for her personal vanity by a some
made ft t ‘duty “nn'tTx* plMVore” likely to
keep well dressed, tor she was
at any hour to be called upon to
entertain friends whose good opin¬
ion was of such consequence that
she could not afford to run the risk
of having them find hey in any but
neat and prese a table attire, lbe
friends were bus cr and and children
and she waa fully’ compensated their tor
her care in this direction by
approval and appreciation. To be
“well dressed” was not to her mind
an admission of extravagance. Good
taste and good planning often stand
in the place of dollars and cents, and
the lady in question was able to dress
well on half of her neighbors’
wardrobe,
When doctors give a man up, his
chance for life is gone. When law¬
yers give one up, his money is gone.
“Your studies are costing his me a
great deal,” said a father to son,
as he reached in his pocket for mon¬
ey to buy books with.
“I know it, iatber,” replied pock¬ the
son, with some emotion, as he
eted a $10 bill, “and I don’t study
hard, either. ’
very
There is no sense in a fellow's get¬
ting road and pawing up dirt when
the ballots don’t go to suit him. To
howl “trickery” and similar stuff on
such an occasion makes one ridicu
lous. It is alway’s best to accept de
feat in good humor.—Sparta Ishma
elite.
Discontented Wife—“If I had
known that I should have to work so
hard after I was married I should
have remained single.” Husband-—
“I thought the way you worked to
get me you liked to work.”
It was probably an Irishman who
said, “Man is like a potatoe—never
sure when he will get into hot wa
ter,”
A wit CD so dull
c* > collect
his ideas, Perhaps this is <0
man, said to be so lassy a (V
worked but once, and was
when he was laboring under a mis¬
take.
The four-year old daughter of one
of our American peeresses was pass
ing a church in London the other
day’ as a wedding party came out.
She announced to her nurse that she
intended some day to be married,
The nurse rebuked her for men
Boning such an improper subject
as matrimony, and toild her that it
was quite on the cards that sbe
might never marry. “Oh! ftl J
must marry,” replied the child,
“I must have u father for my chil-
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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, JULY 3, 1886.
"WHAT IS LIFE?”
‘•Whatis Life?” someone asked
Montford, and he beautifully re
plied: “The present life is sleeping
and waking; it is ‘good night’ on go¬
ing to bed, and ‘good-morning, whit on
getting up; it is to wonder the
day will bring forth; it is rain on
the window as one sits by the fire;
it is to walk in the gar
den and see the flowers and hear
the birds sing; it is to have news
from the east, west, north and south;
it is to read old books and new
books; it is to see pictures and hear
music; it is to have Sundays; it is
to pray with a family morning and
evening; it is to set in the twilight
and meditate; it is to have break¬
fast and diuner and tea; it is to be¬
long to a town and have neighbors,
and to become one in a circle of ac¬
quaintances; it is to have lriends
and love; it is to have sight of dear
old faces, and with some men it is
tn be kissed by the same loying lips
for fifty years, and it is to know
themselves though of many times a
day, in many places, by children,
grandchildren and many friends.”
They were arguing about the use¬
fulness of tobacco.
“What w’ould you think,” said the
minister, impressively, “ify’ou met
an angel coming down the street
with a cigar in his mouth?”
“What,” retorted the sinner,
“would yon think ifyousawone in
a plug hat and a pair of ear muffs
coming up the street?”
John Henry, aged four, eating
green corn, was bothered with the
silk: “I wish,” said he, “whoever
made this corn had led out the bast
ing threads.”
The Atlanta post office has been
inspected by the post office inspec¬
tors, and their report was to the ef¬
fect that everything was found to
h* in good condition.
“What do these letters stand for?”
asked a curious wife of her bus
Wnd as she looked,,“’.by-’
SbcpostBoned further questioning.
“I am a lawyer’s daughter, you
know, dear,” she said, after George
bad proposed and had been accept
ed, “and you wouldn't think it
strange if I were to ask you to sign
a little paper, to the effect that ive
are engaged, would you?” George
was too happy to think anything
'just then, and he signed the paper
with a trembling hood and a burst
mg'heart. Then she laid her ear
against his middle vest button, and
they were very happy. “Tell me,
darling said George, after a long d<J
.licious silence,” “why did you want
me to sign that paper? Do you not
repose implicit confidence in my love
for you?” "Ah, yes,” she sighed
with infinite content, “indeed I do,
but, George dear, I have been fooled
so times."
The congressional mass meeting
Saturday elected delegates unin
strutted for H. H. Carlton. It w r as
.the largest mass meeting ever held
in Clarke county.
Captain A- J. Snelson, one of the
largest farmers of Meriweather conn
ty T was carried on a litter five miles
, Gordon.
to vote for
A husband telegraphed to hie
wife: “What have yon for breakfast,
and how is baby? The answer came:
“Buckwheat cakes and measleg.”
“I do not say that that man wiW
steal,” said a witness on trial; “bat
if I was a chicken I’d roost high
when he was around.”
Speaking of dancing, a clergyman
remarked, “that people usually do
more harm with their tongues than
their toes.”
“Man and wife,” says a wrtier on
matrimony’, “should doesn’t learn to pul
together,” If this mean
that when she grabs you by the hair
you should grab hers, we fail to
understand the drift of this writer s
argument.
Ex President David Davis died at
his home in Bloomington, Ill., last
Saturday. In many respects he was
a distinguished man.
Ao Atlanta editor has discovered
that “the five great evils of life are:
A standing collar, a stovepipe hat,
tifht boots, a cross woman and poor
whisky.” It is believed that he
would cheerfully bear the first four
if the latter was remedied.
“Th. ftlr is full of expected br.de
grooms,’ 8a.vs an e * c ^"S e : *
order that this item might be lntelli
irivt-
OUTH 9
SHALL WE "FORGET THE WAR?”
The friends of Major Bacon say:
“The war has been over twenty
years. Let us forget it!”
Bnt why should we forget the
war? Its memories are glorious and
sacred. Why do the Bacon men say
we should forget them? Simply be¬
cause Mr. Bacon did not stay in the
war and fight it through, while Gen¬
eral Gordon did. Because Major
Bacon was never wounded, while
General Gordon s body is covered
with the scars he won in honorable
war. Because the war memories
hurt Bacon and help Gordon in the
pending race.
Because then, forsooth, it disad¬
vantages an office seeker to cherish
those heroic and hallowed memories
they must be forgotten! Because it
hurts Major Bacon’s chances to have
them remembered,the childless moth¬
er going down in bereavement to the
grave must put aside the memories
of the brave deeds of her boys who
lie buried in the valley’s of Virginia,
and drive from her heart her love of
those who stood shoulder to should
with those boys w'hen they went
down fearlessly to death and to glo
ry! The widow in her weeds must
forget the heroism of the husband
who died with her name on his lips,
amid the carnage of battle! The
poor fellows who hobble along on
a wooden stump must forget what it
all means, and the fluttering sleeve
must bring no proud consolation to
him who wears it! The young men
whose fathers sealed their devotion
to blood, Georgia’s cause with their life’s
must turn aside from this
glorious heritage, and forget the
scenes amid which their fathers
fell! The old veterans who suffer¬
ed on the march—who thrilled amid
battle-—who starved in prison pens
— who languished in hospitals—w ho
agonized, wounded and deserted on
battle fields—who exulted in the
charge and endured in retreat—who
fought and starved, and prayed, and
Lmorh^d and 4 wept stars, in and the ragged shadow’ and of
N’llU ium/o
‘““Jjtbnt'LLf more ofgW it)
it t han an y victory that was ever
won __ t j vesc veterans must forget all
t,his? When they meet each other,
an d the old comradeship of the camp
fi ,. e Indies in their veins, and the
un Lidden tear glistens fn their eyes,
an d their arms go about each other’s
net q ;> and the eager memories come
thronging to their lips—they forget must
st0 p a j[ that foolishness and
{t , «xh°y roust forget the war!”
p or g et the immortal fellowships of
the camp—forget the empty seat at
t)ie meS8) an d the golden hearted fel
low w h® filled it—forget the boys
w | 10 f e [j by the wayside, storm—all or went the
down in the deadly friend
roar j n g f un . the despair, the
s S of those sad bnt glorious days
__ a ]j this twenty forgotten!” years
ago and it must “all be
So the Bacon men say!
But why must it be forgotten?
Because it hurts Mr. Bacon’s chances
for the governorship? Because these
memories hurt Bacon and help Gor¬
don they are met with derision and
we are told they must be put aside.
Because the old soldiers who sees
Gordon for the first time since the
brave old Virginia days, finds that
his oy’cs moistens or his voice trem¬
bles as he greets his old commander,
he is accused by the Bacon organs of
“waving the bloody’ shirt,” and he
told that he must forget all this.
The memories of the war are sa
cred. They are glorious. They are
sanctified by suffering, ennobled by
defeat, the best heritage of a people
that lost all but these memories.
They should be sacredly guarded hal
and kept alive, and transmitted,
lowed and unimpaired to our chil¬
dren’s children. Better that every
politician that has aspired since
Esau or plotted since Catiline should
be beaten—better that the brood of
buttonholers “from Genesis all the
way,” should be ground into of these pow¬
der than that the slightest disregarded,
memories should be or
the humblest'man that fills a soldier’s
grave be lorgotten? Mr. Bacon’s
whole life, were it consecrated from
now till death, will never hold equal
sacrifice with the veriest boy that
faltered and fell in tho charge, dye
j n g with his eager blood the soil
that gave him birth. And yet Mr.
Bacon’s friends tell us that for his
sa ke we must “forget the war,” for
it “has been over twenty years!
,*“* » f “o„gh
tijat in Mr! Bacon’s interest the liv
be gendered, but even the
No. 24.
IN MEMORIAM.
Death has recently made fearfui
work in our midst, illustrating in
his choice of victims the truth of
an old poet, “lie love8 a shining
mark.” Alas! that he should so
strangely pass by the aged and in¬
firm, who are near the end of their
journey and whose life’s work is
done and who are read}’and waiting
for the long summons that calls them
to their eternal home, to seize upon
the flower and beauty of our youth,
whose life’s journey has just begun,
so full of bright hopes and anticipa
tions of the glorious race before
them. To this we must submit in
silence and say with Eli, “It is the
Lord.”
.1 > Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.”
Their unfinished work below will
be finibed above in the presence of
the Master. They are taken from
the evil to come, and life’s nigged
journey, so fraught with hidden dan¬
gers, toils and snares, they were not
required to tread as we are. This
should be a matter of thanksgiving
to God, instead of lamentations if
He sees fii thus to favor our dear
little ones.
It is but a little while ago that wo
were shocked at the call of Jesus for
dear little Freddie Hollingsworth.
Alas, we hardly know to say. He
was one of the sweetest flowers in
our youth’s gardon, and could we
do anything else but stand amazed.
Dear Lord, we prayed spare us
Freddie, how can we give him up?
Thy will be done. We should re¬
member that in such an hour as we
think not the 8on of man eometh.
Rest for the little sleeper;
Joy for the ransom’d soul;
Peace for the lonely weeper, roll.
Dark tho’ the waters
Joy for the little sleeper,
The gentle, timid Iamb;
Safe with his teiider keeper,
Could there be sweeter balm.
Peace, little loving sleeper,
Close to thy Savior’s side;
Housed with thy tender keeper,
Safe for the Lord has died.
Wm. Hollingsworth.
" term” of*office 1 oThou. lA h.
The
Trammell as Railroad Commission
er will expire during the next exeat
tive, and it is rumored there will oe
a lively scramble tor the office. A
place on the railroad commission is
about the best paying and less^ la
borjons berth in the state. The
scheme and details ot the work have
all been arranged, and now there is
little to do besides an occasional
meeting to change or revise rates.
It is iutnored that several gentle
men are now in active training for
this race.
There is much truth in the adage:
“The man who worries about things
that cannot be helped is sawing Urn
her for his own coffin.”
Mr. Luther Brittain has gone to
Sugar Valley ,Calhoun county, where
hc*has been elected principal « a
High school, in which there are sev
era! teachers. He is a recent grad
uate of Emory cellege.
A gentleman at the theater sits lie
bind's lady who wears a very but large
hat, “Excuse me, madam; tin
less you remove your hat, I can sec
absolutely nothing.” Lady ig
nores him. “Excuse me, madam,
but unless you remove your hat,
something unpleasant will happen.”
Lady ignores him again. Gentle
man puts on his own hat. Loud
cries from the audience, “Take off
that hat! take off that hat!” Lady
thinks they mean her hat, and re
moves it. “Thank you, madam.”
As all the counties in the 27th
senatorial district have conceded the
senatorship to Rockdale county this
time, and as Rockdale county has
named Hon. W. L. Peek as her
choice for that position, convention we see meet no
use in the district
jug at all. The executive can sim¬
ply meet and ratify the action of
Rockdale county’, and that is all that
is necessary to be done. There is
no necessity for a convention—Gov.
ington Star.
A Philadelphia paper published
an able editorial the other day on
the lessons to be derived from the
contest between Gen. Gordon and
Maj. “Brown” in Georgia.
A contemporary announces a new
story, entitled “The Need of Mon
ey. That has long been an old,
old story with us.
A good laugh is said to be the
sunshine of the home, but there are
some men so base that they think
more of a smile ’round the corner.
Mr. Beecher attributes much of bis
good health to have avoided baseball
t in his youth-
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WOMAN’S OPINION OF MAN.
Mrs. Duiiiway, of the New North¬
west, at a literary reunion at Salem,
Oregon, “toasted” the gentlemen as
follows:
“God bless’em! They have our
joys, they double our sorrows, they
treble our expenses, they quadruple
our cares, they excite our magna¬
nimity, they increase our self res¬
pect, they awake our enthusiasm,
they arouse our affections, and they con¬
trol our property, out-maneuvre
us in everything. world This would be a
very dreary without ’em. In
fact, I may say, without ’em it
would not be much of a world any¬
how. We love ’em and the dear be¬
ings can’t help it; we control ’em,
and the precious fellows don't know
it.
“A 3 husbands, they are always
convenient, though not always on
hand; as beaux, they are by no
means ‘matchless.’ They are most
agreeable visitors; they are handy
at State fairs, and indispensable at
oyster saloons. They are splendid
as escorts for some other fellow’s
wife or sister, and as friends they
are far better than women. As onr
fathers, they are inexpressively
grand. A man may be a failure in
business, a wreck in constitution, not
enough to boast of as a beauty,
nothing as a wit, less than nothing
as a legislator for brilliant woman’s rights,
and even not very as a mem¬
ber of the press; but if be is our own
father we overlook his short Com
ings and cover his pecadilloes with
the divine mantle of charity. Then,
as our husbands, how we love to pa¬
rade them as paragons. In the
sublime language of the inspired po
et:
“We’ll lie for them,
We’ll cry for then),
And if we could, we’d fly for for them.” them—
We’d do anything but die
Whitehead, the man now in Clarke
county jail for killing Hardeman, in
Oconee county, is on the verge of the
grave, and is likely to die at any
moment from measles. The phy¬
sicians have declared his case hope
^ ^ t ' v y. Marshall McDonough named
gh( a d kUled a moons hiner
Brown The coroner's jury Monday
retnnred a ve rdictof murder agaipst
th(j mars h a l, and he is now under
,
A y’oung man in Macon who gets
a good salary, and who is able to
afford it, is a great beer drinker.
For five years be has averaged tert
glasses a day, making 3,650 glasses Sun
a year, which with extras on
day, will amount to $200 a year.
Crematory is evidently making
headway. If ridicule could have
killed this method of disposing of
the dead, it would have succumbed
to the cartoon printed small some boy with years
ago, depicting a a
tin can in his band standing at the
door of the crematory and asking of
the proprietor, “Please sir, is dad
done yet?”
Mr. W. W. Daves, of Tyler, Tex- of
as, a first honor married graduate Miss
Emory college, was to
Annie Hopkins, the charming
daughter of Dr. I. S. Hopkins, of
Emory college, on last Thursday couple
morning week. • The happy’
left immediately after the ceremony
for their future home in the Lone
Star State.
Putnam county has subscribed
$30,000 to the Eatonton and Monti
cello railroad, which is to connect
Eatonton with the Covington and
Macon railroad at Monticello. On¬
ly $40,000 was wanted from both
Putman and Jasper counties, and
now Jasper county will have to raise
only $10,000 tr/secure the road.
This of course she will promptly do.
Covington is pleased to see the pros¬
pects for the early building of this
road are so good.
Mr. J. J. Wallace, an old soldier
and resident of Newton county, who
was in General Gordon’s command
came into Covington Saturday and
amid great cheering and declared applause that
from the Gordonites, in the
while during an engagement shot
late southern war he was
through the lungs, falling in the
thick of the fight, and while writh¬
ing in the dust amtd the tramp of
horse’s feet, every moment expect¬
ing to be crushed to death, Gener¬
al Gordon bravely came to his res¬
cue, and dismounting his norse,
placed hi* almost lifeiess body, in
hifcowfc saddle and safely carried
him away from all imminent danger,
thereby saving hts life, Mr. Wal
lace Was very much enthused, and
said that he would undergo a thous¬
and tortures rather than be afraid of
voting for the gallant general.