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| Womans o ■' 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 Georglißffß ■ nor- was reared in anß hoin-. Tlwre is : ardivß in .. ; ::at an orphan iBBBBB fl led well. If ' • ' ! I - tr ! ’ i :r x ' would I ■ suriß9B99B ov. ry eonnnuß :!l ' '■ B.’l Arp t-'lls . o ;;- ni'O_. was b n !’> -da U'vaim 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. fl the friend, B fl ■ ■ fl " . B - n * ‘••If’• / ; *B 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- •-