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■' The Bells.
The editor of the LaGrange
Graphic writes of “The Bells” in
P the following poetic strain :
“Light and song and childish
laughter! Quick feet pattering
over the pavenient of the throbbing i
city, or brushing with childish j
simplicity the jewels of the dew
-from the grass blades of the road
way! Little faces peering out
from the childlund of dreams into
the cloud-shadowed mystery of the
years—years where for some the
sun-rays are woven into a glitter
ing diadem of happiness, and where
alas, for others, the mysteries of
that shadowland shall shape them
.—selves into a crown of thorns! But
these are hidden with the years,
and now childhood’s quick feet
! beat only a happy measure —at tae
old school bell. Then after a little
while the old school bell grows si
lent. Childhood is passed. The
thumb-worn Ijooks are closed, and
the little bark has slipped out'
from among the daisy-starred
banks of the rivulet, and yonder
in sight is the river! How bright
it looks and how happy sleep its
crystal waves neath the passionate
kiss of the sun.”
From this picture of youth the
poet passes on listening to the wed
ding bell, “with all the sweetness
of whispering wind” to the funeral
bell, tolling out a young life, and
on through the stages which mark
the events of human existence, un
til —
“Sometimes only a weary old
man sits in the boat, sometimes a
u gray-haired woman alone. The
Bpfi’amdAaTe-so t.ieed which grasp the
r oars,Xhe echo of beLs which sound
ed long ago are bodting upon lone
i ly ears. The mutter and roar of a
■ great sea, vast and unexplored.
■ conies from down the river—th<?
B ocean of eternity. And mingled
B with it is the et?h » of voices silent
B long ago. The river grows wider
■ and wider. The twilight gathers
■ about it. The mutter of the sea
■ grows louder. The oars drop from
I the nerveless hands. Wearied age
| sinks htck and out from the river
Bfe> the sea sweeps on the boat while
the waters e<>nv>s the ringing
life's vesper bell.
■ “Oh the bells, the bells! They
ringing ever, ever! Ringing
our joys, ringing for our sor-
B rows. Sweet i.s the drowsy notes
Bof summer with its light and
9 warmth and sunshine: sad as the
M cheerless blasts of winter to the
■ poor. Quivering with love and
B peace and beauty. Wild with the
K fierce unrest of lonely, anguished
IB hearts. Decked with roses, or
[Bdraped with Cyprus, they but tell
IB the hours before we reach the sea."
ja| . The Outer and Inner Man.
fortunate thing it is for
hunianityfthr^^u-the final judg
ment mankind will be judged, not
so much’from the outward, incon
sistent conduct which character
izes daily life as from the inward
principles or motives that are. hid
den deep in the heart. In Holy
Writ we are taught that God looks
upon the heart and not on the out
ward embodiment of dust in which
it is located. On the other hand,
’man looks upon the external, the
visible, the tangible parts of his
weak fellow morta s, and forms his
judgment accordingly.
When the ancient .b wish people
had great y sinned, and the old
patriarch, who was in a manner
I Responsible for the deviatiohs, was
■ I showed to cho >se between f‘*. jeral
■ methods of chastisement h< irew
r him-elf upon the mercies o. the
[ Almighty, feeling that such a
■ course was preferable t» leaning
■ upon the feeb e arm and erratic
B judgment of man. This decision
B was a wise and sate one, and the
H subsequent punishment which be
s fel. the people was greatly amelio-
rated.
91 ate ' v^u would ever
( obtain forgiveness, or reach a state
of happiness if their destiny were
left in the hands of their fellows.
Some how or other most people
have a poor opinion of each other
It is said upon the highest au
thority that the tree shall be
' known by its fruit, and yet, in the
! same connection, people ire warn
ed against judging each other.
There is something good in every
body, though it is sometimes hard
to locate. It is certainly best to
entertain charitable views towards
all erring mortals, as it will be
shown at the groat judgment day
that the Omnipotent only is an in
fallible judge. —Ex.
Who Should Be Happy?
WillT. Hall, the gifted poet
laureate of the Nashville Ameri
can, expresses our sentiments in
the following beautiful words and
thoughts:
“Who is happy in this world?
We cannot tell any more than we
jean explain the source of colorand
fragrance in the flower. If Col.
McCullagh the successful journal
-1 ist, the honored founder of one of
the greatest newspapers in the
country hasn’t cause to be happy,
who has? But he seems to have
gone through the last few' mouths
with the longing in his bosom
which is so prettily put into words
by Frank Putnam:
“Ah ! the end o f it all—•
Os this life that we live;
Os the blows that we get
And the blows that we give;
Os the joys and the griefs
That to each of us fall
Blind humanity dreams
Os the end of it all.”
“The contented heir of a bare
sufficiency, with ambition only to
do right, is as happy as the favor
ed of Mammon aud Fame, is he
not?”
A New Novel by Anthony Hope.
Anthony Hope is just finishing
a sequel to “The Prisoner of Zen
da.” It is a novel of the same
high, romantic kind as “The Pris
oner of Zenda” itself, bearing the
title of “The Constable of Zenda,”
and carries the attractive person
ages of the earlier story through a
new series of strange and moving
incidents. The exclusive right of
serial publication in America has
been secured by McClure’s Maga
zine, and the publication of it will
begin in that magazine in the
course of a few months.
A newspaper may pay one of its
readers a hundred compliments
and he will take it as a matt r of
course, with not often so much as
"I thank you for your kindness.”
But let the same newspaper criti
cise the same person, however
mildly and however justly, and he
is certain to hear from him in
most uncomplimentary terms.
News Notes.
The plague is raging in India.
The death rate is terrible.
Hon. Wm. J. Bryan lectures
Thursday night in Houston, Tex.
It is again reported that there is
a ministerial crisis at hand in
Madrid
Virgil Peko’s jewelry store in
Columbus, was burned out yester
-1 day at a loss of $16,000.
Gomez seems to be marching a
bout as He will not
go into Havana province.
The arrest of prominent Cuban
ladies by order of Gen Wevler is
causing a great row.
I B O
Peter Henderson, colored, the
; ! murderer of John Griffin, has been
lynched near Columbus, Miss.
The nomination of Dav.d R.
> j Francis to be secretary of the iu-
i, terior has been confirmed by the
senate.
I The Democrats of the New York
legislature have nominated David
'B. Hil for United States senator.
CREAT SALES prove the great
merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
, Hood's Sarsaparilla sells because it
1 accomplishes GREAT CURES.
A Slanderous Lie.
It takes money to run a newspa
per—St. John News.
What an exaggeration ! What a
whopper! It has been disproved a
thousand times! it is a clear case
of airy fancy. It doesn’t take mon
ey tc run a newspaper. It can be
run without money. It is not a
business venture. It is a charita-1
ble institution, a begging concern, I
a highway robber. A newspaper is
a child of the air; the creature of
a dream. It can go on and on and
on, when any other concern would
be in the hands of a receiver and
with cobwebs in the windows.
It takes wind to run a newspa
per; it takes gall to run a newspa
per. It takes a scintillating, acro
batic imagination and a half-dozen
white shirts and a railroad pass to
run a newspaper. But money—
who ever needed money in con
ducting a newspaper! When »you
see an editor with money, watch
him. He’ll be paying his bills and
disgracing his profession.
Then when yon die, after having
stood around for years and sneered
at the editor and his little jim crow
paper be sure and have' your wife
send in for three extra copies by
one of your weeping children, and
when sjie reads the generous and
touching notice aboutyou, forewarn
her to neglect to send the editor
ten cents. It would overwhelm
him. Money is a corrupting thing.
The editor knows it and what he
wants is your heartfelt thanks. He
can thank the printers and they .
can thank their grocers.
Get your lodge letter heads and
stationery printer! out of town, and
then flood the editor with beauti
ful thoughts in resolutsous of re
spect and cards of thanks. They
make such spicy reading, and when
you pick it up filled with glowing
and vivid mortuary articles, . you
are so proud of your little local
paper!
But money—Scorn, the filthy
thing. Doiqt let the pure, inno
cent editor know anything about
it. Keep that for sordid trades
people who charge for wares.
The editor gives his Wuu?riiway.
The lord loves- a cheerful giver.
He’ll take care of the editor. Don’t
worry about the editor. He has a
charter from the states to act as a
door mat for the community. He
will get the paper out somehow,
and stand up for the town and
whoop it up for you when you
run for office, and lie about your
pigeon-toed daughter’s tacky wed
ding and blow about your big
footed sons when they get a $1 a
week job, and weep over your
shriveled soul when it is released
from your grasping body and smile
at your giddy wife’s second mar
riage. Don’t worry about the edi
sor; he’ll get on. The Lord knows
how —but somehow.—Emporia Ga
zette.
The Spring Place News narrates
a curious incident in Whitfield
county. It is reported that a very
wicked man was dying at his home
surrounded by perhaps forty or
fifty friends, when he suddenly
raised himsalf erect, exclaiming
that there was the devil come after
him now, and the assembled friends
upon looking in the direction indi- ‘
cated, saw something in the win- j
dow, and after pausing there for a
short time it descended to the floor |
and started to the bed where the
dying man was lying and still
pointing at it. The friends all
I fled from the room and upon their
I return found the man dead and
the supposed devil gone.
An Eclipse.
The astronomers say that there ;
will be two eclipses of the sun this '
year. The first will occur next 1
Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
It will be what is known as an
nular eclipse, which means that '
the moon will pass across the sun’s
. disc in such away as to leave only
j a rim of light visible.
The second eclipse which will be
of the same character will occur
July 29, and will be remarkable
for the length of time it will last.
The eclipse of next Monday will
last only a few minutes, so look
I.sharp Lor it.
“RUNNING FOROFFICE.”
Some of the ‘'Pleasures” and
“Hardships” of a Candidate
For Office.
A wag thus relates his experience
as an office seeker:
I was once filled with a burning
desire to do something great and
i overwhelming! j’ smart for the good
|of my country. least about for
I awhile seeking an opportunity and
was about to give up in despair,
like some of our valiant aspirants
have done, when our efficient and
utterly blameworthy county sur
veyor departed this life. When
the glad tidings of his demise
reached me I knew my time had
come.
I announced myself a candidate
at once, like many others did. I’ll
state that in my announcement I
used tie same eld lie about “at the
solicitation of my many friends.”
I state, also, that previous to that
time I had considered myself a tol
erable decent person and was some
what vain of my record. I knew I»
had done a few little dirty ‘tricks
away back yonder, but had no idea
that any one wohld remember
them. But, alas! I was mistaken
for full soon t*Le whole country
knew of my acts from childhood.
On one occasion, away , back in
t*e sixties, I winked at a fast
young widow at church, while they
were kneeling for prayer. I am
certain that no one saw me, for
immediately I looked around for
•watchers and then bellowed “a
men” to throw off suspicion. I’m
sure I never told it, and I’m satis
fied that the widow didn’t mention
it; but soon the whole country was
rife with it—they even told my
wife. • It was also told that I had
made “sheetin’ licker” and had
poisoned dogs aud stolen sheep,
and had cut off the ears and tails
of my neighbor’s pigs, aud that J
had signed a libel and killed a lie-*
gro, and also that I had been in
dicted by the grand jury for cheat
ing and swindling, and had peddled
without license and dealt in coun
terfeit money. They also said that
I was third cousin to the negroes
and had voted the republican tick
et, and that I was a drunkard and
had attempted suicide, and had
whipped a woman, pilfered hen
roosts and sucked eggs.
They further stated that I was a
part and parcel of the assassina
tion of Lincoln, and that I was the
instigation of the blow up near
Richmond, that Greer’s almanac
mentions, and that I was a believ
er in the Salem witchcraft, and
that I had refused to buy snuff for
I my wife, and twisted my mother
in-law’s nose, and had had the itch
and also that I was an atheist
and a Mormon and advocated po
lygamy and anarchism.
The silverites said i hat I favored
the gold standard and protection,
and the gold bugs said tha’t I fa
vored free silver 16 to 1 and was
in league with Tom Watson.
The missionary baptists said
that I was not one of the elect,
and that I had been sprinkled ; the
Methodists said that I was a close
communionist and wouldn’t shout
‘and didn’t believe in taking up
collections.
The farmers said that I was a
| factor of the cotton bagging trust,
| and the merchants said that I was
a contributor to the “non confor
mist” and made blood-curdling
speeches to the Farmers’ Alliance
and —but I will mention no more
of heinousness, but will add that
long before the election day I had
become so ashamed of .inyself that
. I repaired to a swamp and crawled
into a hoilow log, where I lay so
i still that I was afraid to say “scat”
when air aged tom cat mistook my
nude shins, which were protruding
! for a couple of poplar poles and
tried his claws on them.
I- got two votes at the election
; from a drummer itad a one-eyed
negro who thor.gfft that I was run
ning for free liquor and cheap ci
jgars. ' ■
Children Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria,
Children Cry for
Pitcher’s
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A 1 y the eloqu®/ ‘
WieiouL The train«
drain and soul in theß
and
Tho home at
Ga., has so h
the many good hemes secured i 9 ■
its little ones. Pretty Nellie is so~l
delighted with her adopted parents
and they say “We would not take
the world for Nellie.” A splendid
lawyer writes “We don’t see how
• we could love a child of our own
more than we do Grover.” The
Trustees are delighted in the many
orphans thus made happy and ever
watch over them to see that they
are properly loved and cared for.
Thirty-five destitute, desolate
and almost desperate little orphans
have begged admission to this lov
ing home in the last month and a
half. All the homes.should have
the liberal support of those spared
by God to love their own children.
In Memory of Mrs, Mattie K,
Dennis.'
Sister Dennis was born at Trion,
Ga., May 19’, 1875, and was con
verted and united with Trion Bap
tist church Sept. 1891, was happily
married Bro. E. R. Dennis July
' ZB, 1893, and departed this life
' Tan. 10, 1897 and on the 12 was
quietly laid to rest in Trion ceme
tery, after religious exercises con
ducted by her pastor.
Sister Dennis was a faithful and
loving wife, fulfilling all the re
quirement of her sphere. She was
' not only true and affectionate to
1 her husband, but was a meek and
submissive follower of her meek
and lowly Savior.
It is sad to think of a home so
bright and promising to be broken
up—but the Lord knows best, and
1 what He does — it' is well. May
the Great Comforter console the
’ apparently inconsolable husband
land bereaved family and friends.
It is God’s to command and ours
to obey—His to do and ours to be
submissive. Her Pastor.
God Only Knows.
Whither are we going with hurrying
feet
Forms that are passing tonight on the
street?
Faces all sunny and faces all sad,
Hearts that are weary and hearts that
are glad;
Eyes that are heavy with sorrow and
strife,
. Eyes that are 'gleaming with beauty
( and life;
> Pictures of pleasure and crosses of
, care.
Going, all going, God only knows
where!
>
Hands that have earnestly striven for
t bread,
Hands that arc soiled with dishonor
instead;
Lives that are tuned to a purpose ,Bub-
lime, >
Lives all discordant and jangled with
crime; •
Souls that are white and pure assnow,
Souls that are black as the midnight of
woe; i-
Gay in their gladness or drunk lndi<
spair, '
Going, all going, God- -ot;y knows
Some to the feast where the richest
red wine ,
And rarest of jewels will sparkle and.
shine:
Some in their hunger shall wander
some
shall -deep nor awaken when j|B
shall come.
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rect control Kingston Presbytery
of the Presbyterian church in the Uni
ted States of America and is to be con
trolled by said I resbytery by and
through a board of nine trustees to-wit:
your petitioners and their successors
in ollice to be chosen in the manner
hereinafter specified.
G. Petitioners show that it is their
purpose upon the granting of this char
ter to proceed at once to execute the
powers and privileges thereby con
ferred for a period of one year for the
granting of said charter at which time
the term of ollice as such trustees of
the three first named petitioners will
expire at the end of two years for the
granting of said charter, the term of
office as such trustees, of fourth, fifth
and sixth named petitioners will ex
pire at the end of tht;ec years from the
date of the granting of said charter the
term of ollice as such trustees of the
seventh, eighth aud ninth named peti
tioners will expire and each trustee af
ter his first term has expired shall hold
office one year and until bis. successor
is appointed and qualified and any
trustee is eligible to re-election. The
vacancies of the office of the trustees,
as they occur, are to be filled by the
Presbytery of Kingston in connection
with the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church of the United
States of America and in case of divis
ion and schism in said Presbytery orl.a
rival set of trustees, said General
Assembly is to settle the question as
to which body is said . Presbytery and
who are the proper trustees.
7. Petitioners pray for the rights for
themselves and for their successors to
exercise all the rights and privileges
as set forth in this petition and also
that said association have the right to
enact for its own government in such
a manner as a majority of the trustees
may prescribe such by-laws and ordi
nances not contrary to law as may! be
or become necessary for the full and
complete accomplishment of the end
in view. And petitioners pray the
court to pass such judgments, orders
and decrees as may bemecessary in the
premises. Jxo. D. Taylor,'jajb
Petitioners’ atty.
GEORGIA, Chattoogit county. Oy
I, J. V. Wheeler clerk Superior
court in and for said, county ao hereby
certify that the abovjj and forbgoing-
I petition tor charter * a correct copv
of the orMC-C^ 1 tow |jf record on njbß
of coiW-
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