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LETTERS OF DISMISSION.
Georgia Rockdale county.
To all whom it may ooncem:
Whereas J. G. Moon, guard'an of C.
J. Bolton, applies to me for Letters of
Dismission from said guardianship, and
I will pass upon his application on the
first Monday February next, at my ofiice
in Rockdale county.
Given under my hand and office sig¬
nature, this the 26 day of December,
1893. O. Seamans, Ordinary.
SHERIFF SALE.
Will be sold before the court house
door of Rockdale county, in Conyers, on
the first Tuesday in February next,
one hundred and sixty-three being acres parts of of
land, more or less, same foutth land dis¬
> o.s. 292 and 293 in the
trict of said countv, same bounded Ion
t c north by Mrs. S, W. Bryans, on the
cast by Big Haynes Creek, on thesouth
by Mrs. M. Wood’s land, and on the
west by the original land lines, to satisfy
a fi fa controlled by Benj. A. Massey in
favor of J, N. Glenn against A S. Black
administrator of R. J. Black.
W. II. M. Austin,
This Dec. 80,1892. Sheriff.
mm Frm Administration
GEORGIA Rockdale county—
Whareas, W. T. Huson administrator of
Mrs. Anu Aycock, represents to the
court in his petition duly tiled and en
tered on record that he he has fully ad
ministered Mrs. Ann Ay cocks estate
this is therefore to cite all persons con¬
cerned, kindred and credi ors to show
cause if any they can, why said adminis¬
trator should not be discharged receive letters from of
his adminis ration and
dismission on the first Monday in May,
1893. This Jan. 23rd 1893.
O. Seamans,
ordinary.
Sheriff sales for larch.
Will be sold bofore the court house
door in the town of Conyers Ga., within
the legal hours of sale on the firBt Tues¬
day in March, 1893, the following des¬
cribed property to-wit: A certain piece
or parcel of land said to contain l'wen
t' -seven (27) acres more or less lying
and being in the 16th district of origin¬ the
ally Henry now Rockdale county,
same being part of land lot No. two
Hundred and forty-seven (247), lying
in'the south east corner of said lot, be¬
ing triangular in shape and bounded as
follows: on the north by binds of J. C.
Farmer and J. H. Clark; on the east
by the lands of ilie said J. H. Clark;
on the south by the lands of Emanue.
Hoygood; ont he west by the lands of
the said J. C. Farmer and Emanuel
Hay good. Levid on as the property of
said J II. Clark to sotisfy a tax fi fa
. Rockdale
issued bv tiie tax collector of
countv, D. Wy Murdoch, against said
J. H.'Clark for his state and county
taxes for the year 1802. The tenant in
possession, Henry Reed, col, has been
duly notified. Eevy made by B , H. M.
Aurtin, bjlicriff. This the 20 day of Jan
1893.
—ALSO—
at the same time and place the follow¬
ing degficibed property,_ to-wit: one
piece of pared of land lying apd being
in the 10th. District of originally creek Hen¬
ry now Rockdale county, (Honey
district) and said to contain twenty-five
(25) more or less andb ounded as fellows;
on the north by the lands of S, J. Cow¬
an, on the west by the lands of J. S.
Stansell, on the south by the lands of
Sap Thornton and on the east by the
lands cf Jas. A. Parker. Levied on as
{be property of H-S. Bryant, P. O. C.
to satiety a tas fi fa issued by the 'lax
collector of Rockdale county, D. W.
Murdock against tiie said H. 8. Bryant
for his state and county taxes for
year 18 r ’2- The tenants in posession M.
notified, il.evy made by W. H.
Austin .Sheriff. This Jan. 26th. 1893.
nt the same time and place tiie follow¬
ing cant discribed lot In the property pity t»f Conyers to-wit: Georgia, one va
in the 10th. district of originally Hen¬
ry now Rockdale county, and bounded
as follows: on the east by the back of
S. D. Night and Mrs. John Green’s and
J. E. Maddox’s store rooms; on the
north by propetty of Mrs S. E. Gailey, and
on the west by the S. D. Night lot
bn the south hy ncrdi rail road street;
the satd vacant lot is (20) tweuty feet
on the said North rail road street and
runs (90) ninety feet baek to Ihe Gaily
property, levied on by virture of a ii fa
Issued 'pf Rockdale by D, W. MforJock stake tax $nd collector
the county f ir Levy poun- made
ty texes for yeer 1895.
W. H. M, Austiu, Sheriff- This Jan.
26th. 1893. W. H. M. Austin, Sheriff
llhen Baby was sick, we g*v® her 2astorta,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Mias, she clung ts Castoria,
When sh» had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Hale’s Weekly
YOL. 13.
THE WALL 0E HEAVEN
DR. TALMAGE INTERPRETS THE SUB¬
LIME IMAGERY OF THE APOCALYPSE.
The Foundations and the Twelve Wonder¬
ful Stones—Ancient Superstitions Abcnt
the Amethyst—And This Is hut the Out¬
side of Heaven.
Brooklyn, Jan. 22.—Dr. Talmage re¬
turned from his southern tcur of preach¬
ing and lecturing for ten days in Ken¬
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
and South Carolina, and resumed his
course of sermons on God everywhere.
Having preached on “The Astronomy of
the Bible; or, God Among the Stars;”
“The Chronology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Centuries;” “The Ornithology
of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds,”
he today speaks of “The Precious Stones
of the Bible; or, God Among the Ame¬
thysts.” Subject, “The Wall of Heaven.”
Text, Revelation xxi, 19, “The founda¬
tions of the wall of the city were gar¬
nished with all manner of precious
stones.”
Shall I be frank and tell you what are
my designs on you today? They are to
make you homesick for heaven; to con
sole you concerning your departed
Christian friends by giving you some
idea of the brilliancy of the scenes in
which they now commingle; to give all
who love the Lord a more elevated idea
as to where they are going to pass the
most of the years of their existence, and
to set all the indifferent and neglected
to quick and immediate preparation,
that they may have it likewise.
Yea, it is to induce many of our young
people few to study a volume of God that
ever open, but without some ac¬
quaintance with which it is impossible
to understand the Bible—I mean the
precious stones, their crystallization,
their powers of refraction, their cleavage,
their fracture, their luster, their phos
phoresence, their transparency, their in¬
finity of color and shape, and what they
had to do with the welfare and doom of
families and the destiny of nations—aye,
the positive revelation they make of God
himself.
My text stands us in the presence of
the most stupendous splendor of the uni¬
verse, and that is tho wall of heaven,
and says of its foundations that they
are garnished with all manner of pre¬
cious stones. All the ancient cities had
walls for safety, and heaven has a wall
for everlasting safety. You may say
that a wall made up of all manner of
precious stones is figurative, but you
cannot understand the force and i;;;:ifi
cance of the figure unless you know
something about tho real structure and
color and vn'.aeof the precious stones
mentioned.
Now, I propose this morning, so far as
the Lord may help me, to attempt to
climb not the wall of heaven, hut the
foundations of the wall, and I ask you
to join mo in the attempt to scale some
of the heights. We shall only get part
of the way up, but better that than to
stay down on the stupid level where the
most of ns have all our lives been stand¬
ing. We begin clear down at the bot¬
tom and where the wall begins.
The first layer of the foundation,
reaching all around the city and for
1,500 miles, is a layer of jasper. Indeed
there is more of jasper in the wall of
heaven than of any other brilliant, be¬
cause it not only composes a part of the
foundation, hut makes up the chief part
of the superstructure. Tho jasper is a
congregation of many colors. It is
brown, it is yellow, it is green, it is ver¬
milion, it is red, it is purple, it is black,
and is so striped with colors that much
of it is palled ribbon Siberia jasper. but
It is found in and Egypt,
it is rare in most lands and of great
value, for it is so hard the ordinary proc¬
esses cannot break it off from tho places
where it has been deposited. The work¬
men bore holes into the rock of jasper,
then drive into these holes sticks of dry
birch wood, and then saturate the sticks
and keep them saturated until they swell
jsngugh fo split the rock, and the frag¬
ments are brought out and polished and
transported and cut into cameos and put
behind the glass doors of museums.
The portraits of Roman emperors were
cut into it. The finest intaglio ever seen
is in the Vatican museum, the head of
Minerva in jasper. By divine arrange¬
ment jasper adorned the breastplate of
the high priest in the ancient temple,
feu* its mffst sigipficaiit positipn is where
it glows and burns add darkens and
brightens and preaches from the lowest
stratum of the wall of heaven. Glad am
I that the very first row of stones in the
wall of heaven is jasper of many colors,
and if you like purple it is purple, and
if you like brown it is brown, and if
you like green it is green, and if you
like ocher yellow it is ocher yellow, and
i£ you like vermilion jt is vermilion, and
if ypfi like black i't is black. It suggests colors
to me that heaven is a place of all
—colors of opinion, colors of creed, col¬
ors of skin, colors of taste.
SAPPHIRE.
But we must pass up in this inspection
of the foundations of the great wail of
heaven, and after leaving the jasper the
next precious sto ne reached is sapphire,
and jt sweeps arqnn 1 fhq city f ,500 miles.
All lapidaries agree in saying that the
sapphire of the Bible is what wo now call
lapis lazuli. Job speaks with emotion
of “The place of sapphires,” and God
thought so much of this precious stone
that he put it in the breastplate of the
high priest, commanding, “The second
row shall fee an emerald. «* sapphire and
a diamond, ” varies from
The sapphire is a blue, but
faintest hi» to deepest ultramarine. It
is found a pebble in the rivers of Cey
ioh. It is elsewhere in Burmah compact masses. New
Persia and Thibet and and
gouth Wales and North Carolina yield
exquisite specimens. Its blue eye is seen
in the valley of the Rhine. After a
burial of tnousands of years it has been
brought to sight in Egyptian monuments
and Assyrian cylinders. Petersburg and
At Moscow and St.
Cdhstanrinople I have seen great masses
of this sapphire, commonly called lapis
kauli, The closer yon study its Yeias
CONYERS, GEORGIA SATURDAY FEB. 4 1893.
the more enchanting, and I do not won¬
der that the sapphire is called into the
foundation of the wall of heaven. It
makes a strong stone for the foundation,
for it is the hardest of all minerals ex¬
cept the diamond.
Sapphire based on jasper, a blue sky
over a fiery sunset. St. John points to
it in Revelation and says, “The second,
sapphire,” and this suggests to me that
though our earth and all its furniture of
mountains and seas and atmospheres are
to collapse and vanish we will through¬
out all eternity have in some way kept
the most beautiful of earthly appear¬
ances, whether you take this sapphire of
the second layer as literal or figurative.
The deep blue of our skies and the deep
blue of our seas must not, will not, be
forgotten. If a thousand years after the
world has gone to ashes you or I want
to recall how the earthly skies looked in
a summer noon or the midocean in a
calm, we will have only to look at the
second row of the foundation of the wall
of heaven.
Oh, I am so glad that St. John told ns
about it! “The second, sapphire!” While
we are living in sight of that wall spirits
who have come from other worlds and
who never saw our earth will visit us,
and we will visit them, and some time we
will be in converse about this earth when
it was yet afloat and aswiug, and we
shall want to tell them about how it
looked at certain times, and then it will
be a great object lesson for all eternity,
and we will say to our visitor from some
other world, as we point toward the wall
of heaven, “It looked like that stratum
of foundation next to the lowest.”
John, twenty-first chapter and nine¬
teenth verse, “The second, sapphire.”
CHALCEDONY AND EMERALD.
A step higher and you come to chal¬
cedony, another layer in the foundation
of the wall and running 1,500 miles
around the heavenly city. Chalcedony!
Translucent. A divine mixture of agates
and opals and cornelians. Striped with
white and gray. Dashed of pallor blush¬
ing into red and darkening into purple.
Iceland and the Hebrides hold forth
beautiful specimens of chalcedony.
But now we must make a swift ascent
to the top of the foundation wall, for wo
cannot minutely examine all the layers,
and so, putting one foot on the chalce¬
dony of which we have been speaking,
we spring to the emerald, and we are
one-tliird of the way to tho top of the
foundation, for the fourth row is emer¬
ald. That, I would judge, is God’s favor¬
ite among gems, because it holds what
seems evident is his favorite color on
earth, the green, since that is the color
most widely diffused across all the earth’s
continents—the grass, the foliage, the
everyday dress of nature. The emerald!
Kings used it as a seal to stamp pronun
ciamentos. The, rainbow around the
throne of God is by St. John compared
to it.
Conquerors have considered it the
greatest prize to capture. What ruth¬
lessness when the soldiers of Pizarro
pounded it with their hammers! Emer¬
alds have had much to do with the des¬
tiny of Mexico. Five of them were pre¬
sented by Cortez to his bride, one of
them cut into the shape of a rose, anoth¬
er into the shape of a trumpet, another
into the shape of a bell, with tongue of
pearl, and this presentation aroused the
jealousy of the throne and caused the
consequent downfall pf Cortez. But the
depths of the sea were decorated with
those emeralds, for in a shipwreck they
went down off tho coast of Barbary.
Napoleon wore an emerald at Austerlitz.
In the Kremlin museum at Moscow
there aro crowns and scepters and out¬
spread miracles of emerald. Ireland is
called the Emerald Isle not because of
its verdure, but because with it was presented emerald
to Henry II pf England an
ring, Nero had a magnifying glass of
emerald through which he looked at the
gladiatorial contests at Rome. But here
1,500 miles of emerald sweeping
around the heavenly city in one layer,
SARDONYX AND SARDIUS.
But upward still and you put your
foot on a stratum of sardonyx, white gnd and
red, a seeming commingling, of snow
fire, the snow pooling the fire, the fire
melting the snow.
Another climb and you reach the sar
dius, named after the city of Sardius.
Another climb and you reach the chryso¬
lite. A specimen of this, belonging to
Epiphanus, in the Fourth century, was
said to be so brilliant that whatever was
put over to conceal it was shone through,
and the emperor of China has a specimen
that is described gs having such pene¬
trating radiance that it makes the night
as bright as the day.
A higher climb and you reach the
beryl. ' Two thousand years ago the
Greeks used this precious stone for en
graving purposes, It was accounted
among the royal treasures of Tyre. The
hilt of Murat’s sword was adorned with
it. It glows in the imperial crown of
Great Britain. Luther (bought the beryl
of the heavenly wall was turquoise,
Kalisch thought it was chrysolite. Jose¬
phus thought it a golden colored jewel.
The wheels of Ezekiel’s vision flamed
and were a fire.
The beryl appears in six sided prisms,
and is set in seals and intaglios, in neck¬
laces and coronets. It was the joy of
ancient jewelry. It ornamented the af¬
fluent with eardrops. Charlemagne pre :
seated it tS his' favorites. Beautiful
beryl! Exquisitely shaped beryl! Di¬
vinely colored beryl! It seems like con¬
gealed color. It looks like frozen fire.
But stop not here. Climb higher and
you come to topaz, a bewilderment of
beauty and named after an island of the
Red sea.
Climb higher and you come to chrysop
rasus, of greenish golden hue and hard
as flint.
Climb higher and you reach the jacinth, of
named after the flower hyacinth and
reddish blue,
THE FABLE OF THE AMETHYST,
Take one more step and you reach the
top, not of the wall, but the top of the
foundations of the wall, and St. John
cries out, “The twelfth an amethyst!”
This precious stone when found in Aus¬
tralia or India or Europe stands in col¬
umns and pyramids. For color; it is a
violet blooming in ; stone. For its play
of light, for its deep mysteries of .colot,
for its uses in Egyptian, in Etruscan, in
Roman art it has been honored. The
Greeks thought this stone a preventive
of drunkenness. Tho Hebrews thought
it a source of pleasant dreams.
For all lovers of gems it is a subject
of admiration and suggestiveness. Yes,
the word amethyst means a prevention
of drunkenness. Long before the New
Testament made reference to the ame¬
thyst in the wall of heaven the Persians
thought that cups made out of amethyst
would hinder any kind of liquor con¬
tained therein from becoming intoxicat¬
ing. But of all the amethystine cups
from which the ancients drank not one
had any such result of prevention.
For thousands of year* tins world has
been looking in vain for such a prevent¬
ive amethystine cup. Staggering Noah
could not find it. Convivial AhaSnerus
driving Vashti from the gates could not
find it. Nabal breaking the heart of
beautiful Abigail could not find it. Bel¬
shazzar, the kingly reveler, on the night
that the Chaldeans took Babylon could
not find it. Not one of the millions of
inebriates whose skulls pave the conti¬
nents and paye the depths of the sea
could find it. There is no such cup.
Strong drink from hollowed amethyst
imbrutes the same as strong drink from
pewter mug. It is not the style of cup
we drink out of, but that which the cup
contains, which decides the helpful or
damning result of the beverage.
All around the world last night and
today, out of cups costlier than ame¬
thyst, men and women have been drink¬
ing their own doom and the doom of
their children for this life and the next.
Ah, it is the amethystine cups that do
the wildest and worst slaughter! The
smash of tho filthy goblets of the rnm
meries would long ago have taken place
by law, but the amethystine chalices
prevent—the chalices out of which leg¬
islatures and congresses drink before and
after they make tho laws. Amethys¬
tine chalices have been tho friends of in¬
toxication instead of its foes. Over the
fiery lips of the amethystine chalices is
thrust the tongue of that which biteth
like a serpent and stingetli like an adder.
Drunkenness is a bombination of apo¬
plexy and dementia. The 400,000,000
victims of opium come out to meet tho
150,000,000 victims of alcohol, and the
two agents take the contract for tum¬
bling tho human race into perdition, but
Whether they will succeed in fulfilling
the contract depends on the action of
the amethystine cups, the amethystine
demijohns, the amethystine ale pitchers,
the amethystine flagons, tho amethystine
wine cellars. Oh, Persians! Oh, Assyr¬
ians! Oh, Greeks! Oh, Egyptians! you
were wrong in thinking that a ctip of
amethyst would prevent inebriation,
TIIE HEBREW SUPERSTITION*
But standing on tho top of this ame¬
thystine layer of the foundation of tho
wall of heaven I bethink myself of the
m: . !:e that many of the ancient He¬
lm- j made when they thought that tho
am ’.yst was a producer of pleasant
dreams. Just wear a piece of amethyst
over your heart or put it under your
pillow, and you would have your dreams
filled with everything beautiful and en¬
trancing. No, no. Tho style of pillow will
not decide the character of the dream.
The only recipe for pleasant dreams
is to do right and think right when
you are wide awake, Conditions of phys¬
ical disease may give a good man night¬
mare, but a man physically well, if he
behave himself aright, will not be trou¬
bled with bad dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar, with eagle's down
under his head and Tyrian purple over
it, struggled with a bad dream that made
him shriek out for the soothsayers and
astrologers to come and interpret it.
Pharaoh, amid tho marble palaces of
Memphis, was confounded by a dream
in which lean cows ate up the fat cows
and the small ears of com devoured the
seven large ears, and awful famine was
prefigured. Pilate’s wife, amid clouds
of richest upholstery, had a startling
dream, because of which she sent a mes¬
sage in hoj; haste to a courtroom to keep
her husband from enacting a judicial
outrage. But Jacob, at Bethel, with a
pillow of mountain rock, had a blissful
dream of the ladder angel blossoming.
Bunyan, with his head on a hard
plank of Bedford jail, saw the gates of
the celestial city. St. John, on the bar
renest island of the Aegean sea, in his
dream heard trumpets and saw cavalry¬
men on white horses and a pew heaven
and a new earth, Nq amount of rough
pillow pan disturb the night vision of a
Saint, and no amount of amethystine
charm can delectate the dream of a mis¬
creant.
But, some one will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row
of the foundation of the heavenly wall,
if you are not able to accept the theory
of the ancient Greeks, who said that the
amethyst was a charm against intoxica¬
tion, or if you are not willing to accept
the theory of the ancient Hebrews that
the amethyst was a producer of pleasant
dreams? answer is, I have brought
you to the top row, the twelfth layer of
the foundation of the heavenly wall of
1,500 miles of circling amethyst, to put
you in a position where you can get a
new idea of heaven; to let you see that
after you have climbed up twelve strata
of glory you are only fit the jut so of th
eternal grandeurs; to let you, with c~ eil
bhantment of soul, look far down and
look far up, and to force upon you the
conclusion that if all our climbing has
only shown us the foundations of the
wall, what must the wall itself be; and
if this is the outside of heaven, what
must the inside be; and if all this is fig¬
urative, what must the reality lie? Oh,
this piled up magnificence of the heav¬
enly wall! Oh, this eternity of decora¬
tion! Oh, this opalescent, florescent,
prismatic miracle pr architecture! What
enthronement of all colors! A mingling
of the blue of skies, and the surf of seas,
and the green of meadows, and the up¬
holstery of autumnal forests, and the fire
of August sunsets. All the splendors of
earth and heaven dashed into those
twelve rows of foundation wall. All
that, mark you, only typical pf t he spir¬
itual glpries that roll over, heaven like
the Atlantic and Facile oceans gwting
in one billow, impossible
Po you not zee that it was
that you understand a hundredth part
of the suggestiveness of that twenty
first chapter of Revelation without go¬
ing into some of the particulars of the
wall of heaven and dipping up some of
its dripping colors, and running your
eye along some of its wondrous crystal¬
lizations, and examining some of the
frozen light in its turquoise, and feeling
with your own finger the hardness of its
sapphire, and shielding your eyes against
the shimmering brilliance in its beryl,
and studying the 1,500 miles of emerald
without a flaw? Yet all this only the out¬
side of heaven, and the poorest part of
the outside; not the wall itself, but only
the foot of the wall, for my text says, “The
foundations of tho wall of the city were
garnished with all manner of precious
stones.” Oh, get down your harp if you
can play one! Get down a palm branch
if you can reach one! Why, it makes us
all feel like crying out with James Mont¬
gomery:
When shall theso eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold?
Oh, my soul! If my text shows us only
the outside, what must the inside be?
While riding last summer through tho
emperor’s park, near St. Petersburg, I
was captivated with the groves, trans¬
planted from all zones, and the
beds—-miles this way and miles that way
—incarnadined with beauty, and tho
fountains bounding in such revel with
the sunlight as nowhere else is seen, 1
said: “This is beautiful. I never saw
anything, like this before.”
But when I entered the palace and saw
the pictured walls, and the long line of
statuary, and aquariums afloat with all
bright scales, and aviaries a-chant with
bird voices, and the inner doors of the
palace were swung back by the cham¬
berlain, and I saw the emperor and em¬
press and princes and princesses, and
they greeted me with a cordiality of old
acquaintanceship, I forget all the groves
and floral bewitchment I had seon out¬
side before entrance. And now I ask, if
the outside of heaven attracts our souls
today, how much more will bo tho up¬
lifting when wo get inside and see the
King in his beauty and all the princes
and princesses of tho palaces of ame¬
thyst?
Are you not glad that wo did not stop
In our ascent this morning until we got
to the top round of tho foundation wall
of heaven, the twelfth row, the ame¬
thyst? Perhaps the ancient Hebrews
were not, after all, so far out of the way
when they thought that the touch of tho
amethyst gave pleasant dreams, for the
touch of it this hour gives me a very
pleasant dream. Standing on this ame¬
thyst I dream a dream. I close my eyes
and I see it all. We are there. This is
heaven! Not tho outside, but the inside
of heaven.
With what warmth of welcome our
long ago departed loved ones have kissed
us. My! How they have changed in
looks! They were so sick when they
went away, and now they aro so well.
Look! Yonder is tho palace of our Lord
the king. Not kept a moment outside
we are ushered into the throneroom.
Stretching out his scarred hand he says,
“I have loved thee with an everlasting
love,” and we respond, “Whom have I
in heaven but thee?”
But,loSnSta? “playground
of the children. Children do not want a
throne. A throne would not fit a child.
There they are on the playgrounds of
heaven—the children. Out of the sick
cradle of earth they came into this
romping mirth of the eternal play
grounds I clap my hands to cheer them
m the glee. Yonder are the palaces of
the martyrs, and before their doorway
the flowers, crimson as the bloody mar
tyrdoms through which they waded up
into glory Yonder is Apostolic row,
and the highest turret is over the home
of Paul. Hero is Evangelist place. Yon
der aro the concert halls in which tho
musicians of earth and heaven are tak
ing part—Handel with organ, and David
with harp, and Gabriel with trumpet, and
four and twenty elders with voices.
And an angel of God says: “Where
shall I take you? On what street
heaven would you like to live? What
celestial habitation would you like to
occupy?” And I answer: “Now that I
have got inside the wall made up of all
manner of precious stones I do not caro
where you put me, Just show me whero
my depayted loved ones are. I have seen
the Lord, and next I want to see them.
“But here are thoso with whom I toiled
in the kingdom of God on earth. They
are from my old parishes at Bellevillo
and Syracuse and Philadelphia and
Brooklyn, and from many places on
both sides the sea where I have been per
mitted to work with them and for them,
Give them the best places you can find.
I will help steady them as they mount
^ho thrones. I will help you burnish
iheir coronets.
“Take these, my old friends, to as good
rooms as you can get for them in tho
house of many mansions, and with win
dows looking out upon the palace of tho
great King. As for myself, anywhere in
heaven is good enough for me. Halle¬
luiah to the Lamb that was slain.” But
I awake. In the ecstasy of the moment
my foot slipped from the layer of ame¬
thyst, that bo called producer of dreams,
and in the effort to catch myself the
vision vanished. And, lo, it was but a
dream!
An Interesting Silver Wedding.
Ten days ago a woman in this city
ebrated her silver wedding anniversary
in soma rather remarkable circum¬
stances! She wore tho dress, wreath,
veil and slippers of tho initial fete. Her
mother also appeared in the sam© cos¬
tume—purple velvet with point lace
(Jounces—which had graced her daugh¬
ter’s marriage twenty-five years ago.
Her four bridesmaids and four grooins
men were all present. Her two sons
came home from Yale for the dinner.
With the exception of the death of a
young infant in her early married life
there had been no break in the family
circle for these twenty-five, years—a rec¬
ord for which one may well be grateful.
—Her Point of View in New York Times,
Twq educated negro women a* Vasten
kav© begun the publication of the first
newspaper in the Congo Free State,
NO. 5.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Salt water is good for falling hair.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Areometers were first described by
Baume in 1788.
Plautus, the Latin Shakespeare, was
the son of a freedman.
A tree kept well thinned ont at the top
grows tho fairest fruit.
Women mostly commit suicide by
drowning and by shooting.
The marriages of minors aro 6 per
cent, of the whole number.
The thinnest man in congress is James
D. Richardson, of Tennessee.
In 1600 Gilbert recorded that other
bodies besides amber had electric prop¬
erties.
Of every hundred baliy girls that are
born in China about thirty are put to
death.
Tho man who picks tip a redhot stove
lifter and is badly burned is apt to get
on his sear.
Electric lights were introduced in the
government arsenal at Woolwich, Eng¬
land, in 1878.
Woman is seldom color blind; hence
her preference for looking on the bright
side of things.
The truth that is aimed straight at the
devil will be sure to make some highly
respectable people dodge.
Tho heaviest man in congress is John
W. Rife, of Pennsylvania. A special
chair is provided fbr his use.
In 1889 Kansas had a wheat acreage of
less than 2,000,000 acres. Last year she
is said to have 4,000,000 acres.
Four-fifths of the engines now work¬
ing in tho world have been constructed
during the last twenty-five years.
Every student at the Chicago univer¬
sity is compelled to take at least one
hour of physical exercise every day.
Marriages are made in heaven, which
probably accounts for the summer en¬
gagements never amounting to anything.
An oak tree was recently cut mi a farm
near Bedford, Ind., which yielded a log
40 feet in length, 01 feet in diameter and
4J feet at tho top. Tho log is without
knot or blemish of nny kind and will
be exhibited at tho World’s fair.
Shopping; Philosophy.
Tliero were two young women in a sil¬
versmith's on Broadway hearing in their
hands the lists of tho happy be imps who
were to be remembered with gifts and
on their faces the anxiety of Christmas
shoppers. forced
“Say, Nell,” said ono as they
their way to tho placo whero penholders
were displayed, “why don’t you give
your father a lienholder?”
“Woll,” said Nell thoughtfully, "ns: ho
dictates even his letters to mammj* to
his typewriter, I don’t know what two ho
could make of one. But you might get
one for Walter.”
“Walter has one. Why don't you get
a Rilver framed calendar?”
“Too expensive. 1 believe I’ll get
Louise a set of studs. Enameled ones
are pretty, aren't they?”
"Yes, hut Louise has same she bought
!J^ forTyseif. WpU _ gi v Noll j
wai new hatpin Come on
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They ^ dFd so and then Nell remember
ed he needed 80me , ills 8I)(1
bo ” ht thein . After theso purchase* the
yon ( K * showK;r8 ^, Mi( i they ^ felt too tired to
'^ m d drifted down
th ^ planning ' to buy ' father and
miter Lo ,. i8e ^ in the futunj .
„ Thftt „ said R womau who wfts con .
,, cientionsl ^ 8trn ggljng f* g with her list,
fa t e ^ ui op y . I wish I hail
dh of to do the sntu0
thi °__ ,..._ New Y ork World.
sleeping n«r Life Away
Tho German village of Grambko i«
g rea tly excited over a caso of persisteqt
somnolency in the person of the (laugh
ter of one of the town officials. The girl,
a j )r( ;tty, slender child of some thirteen
yPars 0 f age> has been in a continnal
s i ee p since the second week in May, and
CV en now does not show the least trace
0 f arousing from her protracted slum
her. During tho first week of her en
f orce d sleep the family seemed grieved
to tho verge of distraction and all was
mourning in tho house where the child
] ay ; n the embrace of “death’s twin
After awhile, however, when it was
noticed that she would swallow liquid
nourishment, their fears for her safety
seemed to abato to a certain degree, and
now, after a lapse of more than half a
yearj the family go about their daily
j aborg as if the little maid were really
dead and half forgotten. Highest m edi
ca i authorities have been consulted, but
a n efforts to keep her awake have re
gu jt c d in total failures.—St. Louis Re¬
public,
A Nice Way of Making Tea.
To those who get sleeplessness from
tea let me recommend a most delicate
way of making it. Fill a perforated silver
hall with dry tea and swing it through a
cup of lwiling water, The ball can re¬
main long enough in the water to pro¬
duce a most delicious infusion, but there
will be none or very little of the tannin,
that astringent element of tea which is
so injurious. Recent scientific inquiries
into the qualities of the peculiar power of
tea, which has tended to raise it so high
in popular esteem, claim for it a calm,
placid, benignant exhilaration, greatly
stimulating the stomach, but if it is al¬
lowed to steep long it becomes a poison.
—Harper’s Bazar.
A Loaded Derelict.
The ocean mariner dreads a derelict
and is grateful when emf government old
gets fresh track of these dangerous
vagrant, and tells tiie marine world
about where they drift. There is one
ship wandering around that has become
famous. She fa the American steamer
Wye*€», Sargent, abandoned March 81,
(89i, laden with $20,000 worth of ma
hogany. She was from Mexico bound
for New York. abandoned She has off already Cape Hatteras drifted j
since being mile*.—Detroit Journal. j ,
over 5,000
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Mr. Geo. IF. Turner
Simply Awful
Worst Case of Scrofula the
Doctors Ever Saw
Completely Cured by HOOD'S
SARSAPARILLA.
'• When I was 4 or 5 years old X had a scrof¬
ulous sore outlie middle linger of my left hand,
which off, got so had that tho doctors out the
Anger and later took oft more than half my
hand. Then the sore liroke out on my nr in,
came out on my neck and face on both siner,
nearly destroying right the Doctors sight of said one It eye. ;iNn
on my arm. -war the
Worst Case of Scrofula
they ever saw. It was simply nwfnl! Five
years ago 1 began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Gradually I found that the sores were begin¬
ning to heal. I kept on till I had taken ten
bottles, ten dollnr.! Just think of what i
return I got for that investment! A ihon
■and per cent* Yes, many thousand. For -
the past 4 years I have had no sores. 1
Work all the Time.
Before, I could do no work. I know not
what to say strong enough to express my grat
Unde to Hood’s Sarsaparilla lor my perteet
cure.” Saratoga Georgs W. turner, N. Farmer, Gal¬
way, comity, Y.
Hood's Pills ^ wot \>ut «&t
digestion and tone the stomach. Try them. 25c.
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REMOVES Kanaka, Sense of Fullness
Cokqe' TIOK, Pain. •
REVIVES Failixo ENERGY.
RESTORES Wabms Normal To® Circulation, Tim. and
to
OR. HARTER MEDICINE CQ„ $L lOttl*. Mo,
LETTERS Of ADMIHISTBATIOM
Georgia Rockdale county.
To all whom it may ooawu!
Whereas, H. P. and T. II.- Bryan, th jr,
having in clue form applied letters t<> i of ci-tirl
of ordinary for permanent T. H. li a *
ministration on the estate ya
<leeensec1, and I will pass upon said itp
dlication on tiie (ir-t Moudey in Be I).,
1803. This Dec. 27, 1802.
0. Seamans, Ordinal?.
HWEBS OF ADUfflifflATB
Georgia, aw * dale county:
Whereat U. L. Mcff-iiiiell, adminis¬
trator of it. ,T. Sldploy, deoea"Hcf, r pr -
nents to the court oj Ordinary duly lir j N
in this office that he has lutlv adm l- '
teretl It. J. SliipJayV estate, tin's is th !*«*•
fore to cite aftpersons show concerned, if hriri Ui-jr
or creditors, to cause, should any not
ran , why said “from administrator
bo dismissed tlio administrative
and receive his letters of dismission on
tiie First Monday in March, Ordinary. 181)8.
O. Seamans,
Attorney At Lav/,
In the Night building first room on the
eft, up stairs. «
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