Newspaper Page Text
FRANCE.
4 McELVANY.
VII.
ting ou t the Old, Ring in the New!
Our great effort is to please you.
'
j ^soo^o-m
he Summer Season is
Drawingto a Close.
:0^>*r
THE COMING FALL SEASON WILL BE A BUSY
Lr WITH US. WE ARE PREPARING TO MEET
TWITH A full stock which we will sell
It “LEI live PRICES.”
As usual we will be in the cotton market
,nd will pay the best market price. All farm
iroducts will find a ready market with us.
Our store has been headquarters for the people for many years and we
[
T.jfg all to come to see us and feell at home. We propose* to sustain the well
ifablisbed reputation of our bouse for honest straightforward dealing.
Yours very truly,
D. M. ALMAND’S SONS.
!Preliminaries are usu
\ tiresome and it is al
rS best to drive right
the point in the best,
ickest and most busi
js-like way. We have
jounced our pending
[siness change and our
ention to close out our
fire stock. All this is
9
own and we now urge
prybody to call and buy
blettiis mammoth sac
ice sale is on. We are
kling back notliing-we
r selling out anti you
[add participate in this
0. Goods are going
t and to get the best it
t
lln portant tnat you cal 1
Iv. •
A D, Summers,
ipd ffwfelk
CONYERS, GA„ SATURDAY, .AUG. 6, 1898.
“Am I My Brother’s Keep=
er?”
‘And the Lord said unto Cain,
‘where is Abel, tby brother?’
and Cain answered, ‘I know not,
am I my brother’s keeper?’ Gen.
4 c. 9 v.
What is it to be my brother’s
keeper? It is as Pope puts it
m his universal prayer:
Teach me to feel another’s woe;
To hide fhe faults I see:
That mercy 1 to others show,
That mercy show to me.
How many of us to-day are
trying to still the lashings of a
guilty conscience for violating
this great, broad, philanthropic
principle by using Cain’s fool¬
ish question, ‘ Am I my broth¬
er’s keeper?’ or the equally silly
question, ‘Who is ray neighbor,
ha must look out for himself, 1
can’t attend to other people’s
business.
The reciprocal duties of this
life demand that we love our
neighbors and be ‘‘.our brother’s
keeper.” It is a written law of
the Master that whatsoever you
measure to others it shall be
measured to you again. It may
not be paid down cash, but
mark me, it will be paid. I am
an old man now, yet I never
have seen it fail.
We may not, like Cain, have
actually stained our hands in
our brother’s or neighbor’s
blood, and yet how often have
we taken advantage of the weak
and feeble brother or neighbor
to accomplish our own ends.
Have you never over-reached
your brother, your neighber nor
his family, in trade? There are
those who deny in toto all res
pousibility of the brotherhood of
man. They are for self first,
last and all the time. This class
generally get rich. But in this
shortlife it is hardly possible
for a person to fill the great du
ties to God and to his brother
and get rich. Clean hands and
riches seldom go together. This
class will need more ico nja-
WE ARE READY!
me Conyers Manufacturing Company,
Conyers, : : ; : ; Georgia
We are now prepared to do any kind of wood work in the Cabinet line, It is our pur
pose to give repair work of all kinds prompt and careful attentiou.
INSIDE HOUSEFURNISHINGS.
In Connection with the repair work we purpose to be able to furnish at short notico any
ard all kinds of Inside House Furnishing.
OUR CABINET DEPARTMENT.
We can furnish to older any piece of Cabinet work desired. For terras, prices, etc. call-on
P. G. Tucker, Supt.
chines than neighbors in the
world to come.
On the other hand there are
people who loudly claim to be
their brother’s keeper, who
make as big a mistake as the
first class. Instead of a kindly
solicitude in all the affairs of
their brother or neighbor, they
go much farther and assume
control of his acts, hie political
and religious opinions and be¬
comes the censor of everybo
dies doings, As his master
mind, they approve or condemn
every act of their brothers, lest
they do themselves or the com¬
munity some wrong. Haven’t
you seen them?
They must be judge of what
creed their brother should be
long, and how often they must
go to church: whether Sunday
visiting is right or not, whether
their brother shall take a dram
or not,how their children should
be controlled. In a word every¬
body must do as they direct or
they turn them over to the devil
i i nolens volens.” Did you ev¬
er see any of these cranks?
Now I believe there are many
men and wonitn who stait in
life with a purely noble and
philanthropic object, and hon¬
estly try to show the people
the right way, as they see it,
and help all they can. So long
as they keep within this scope
they are to be honored and lov
ed,
And yet, did you ever see a
man or woman keep this line
long? No. They soon become
arbitrary and dictatorial.
It sounds well to love your
neighbor and keep your brother
stiaight, in the abstract, but it
often works mischief for both
parties. When that brotherly
solicitude confines itself to a
kind, prayerful advice and
,warnings joined to a helping
hand, it is a noble, God-likc
impulse, demanding and com¬
manding our admiration. But
when you say to your brother,
your ways are bad, you must
stop them right now, you must
do as I say and think right of
your own accord, for I am in¬
fallible. I know I am light. If
you don’t I will make you
flow ? Why, I will talk about
you : I will ruin your character;
1 will ruin your business: I
will turn you out of office: I
will have you and your family
treated with coctetppt. You
must and shall do as I think
right, or get out ot my road, for
I am my brother’s keeper: the
good Lord holds me responsible
for your doing in a great meas¬
ure, so you must do my way,
When a man’s or woman’s
zeal gets them to this pitch of
fanaticism they lose their place
as their brother's keeper and
become bigoted zealots and as¬
sume the roll of tirants. It
may may be honestly and con¬
scientiously so, bu f, all the same
it is the same Jesuistical inqui¬
sition that we and others cuss.
Either of the above courses is
wrong and contrary to the great
broad principle of human liber-!
ty and the brotherhood of man. |
Get up higher, my brother.
Take that broad view with St.
Paul. Let thy brother eat
what nis craving allows, Hon¬
or God, love your neighbor, keep
unspotted from the world, show
thyself a pattern of good work.
But in God’s name don’t don
the roll of a bigoted tyranioal
fool. Head and study 13th
0.1st Corinthians and St. James
1st C. 27v.
J. J. W. Glenn.
Pointed Paragraphs.
The average woman’s club is
a boomerang.
Trouble seldom visits a man
who isn’t looking for it.
It makes any man nervous to
have a woman gaze at him.
Diamonds and dudes repre¬
sent the extremes of hardness
and softness.
The incubator will never sue
•
ceed in driving the oJd hen out
of business.
Experience teaches people
lots of things they would rather
not know.
Lots of men have been tem¬
porarily paralyzed who never
had a paralytic stroke,
Some kind of love may grow
cold, but the kind a man has
for himself never does.
Wedlock holds a man pretty
close when his wife doesn’t al¬
low him to carry a latchkey.
The love that makes the
world go round often prevents
the income from going more
than halt away.
Patriotic citizens who were
busy flying flags in the early
Spring are now engaged in flag¬
ging flies.
FIRE
INSURANCE.
TILLEY & McELVANY-
NO. 31.
A woman may not deplore
the death of her first husband
after she marries again, but
her second husband often does.
One of the greatest dangers
to a moil’s ambition is the
knowledge that the mantle of
greatness is usually worn as a
shroud,
Let every youth aim, first of
all and most of all, at self-mas¬
tery. Without it he must be
base and miserable. With it
be cannot but bo happy. With¬
out it other things are but
< < gifts of the evil genii, which
are curses in disguise’’.—Ex,
Method is like packing thing 8
in a box, a goo l packer will get
in half as much again 38 a bad
one,—Ex.
Considering a duty is ofteu
only explaining it away. De¬
liberation is often only dishon¬
esty ,—Ex.
If you know how to spend less
than you*get, you have the phil¬
osopher’s stone.—Ex.
Our Navy Abroad. ]
The London Speaker, the
weekly Liberal organ, is com¬
menting upon the destruction
of Cervera’s ships, says, So
far as her fleet is concerned A
merica has no need to fear com¬
parison with any other country
in the world.
The spectator says that “the
American fleet could face even
that of France without any
great risk of disaster.” while ‘-as
for the Germans, and Ameri¬
can navies there cau of course
be no comparison. ” The
Germans, it says, ‘are flue sail¬
ors and brave men, but a naval
struggle between the United
States and Gei many would be
very short and very complete. ’
This result, it adds, “would sur¬
prise the Emperor, no doubt,
who thinks himself invincible,
but bis self-confidence cannot
alter history. The English
have a habit of winning at sea,
and the Americaus have shown
us that they have inherited the
habit to the fullest possible de¬
gree.”
This opinion as to the French
Navy is based upon the belief
that “the American gunners
would keep cool and hit every
time. The French would get
excited and fire too high or too
low, and lose all the advantage
of the best guns and the best
explosives ip the world.”
