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BILL ARP Discourses Upon the Unhappy Condi¬ tion of the Rich. Only the Foor Can be Truly Happy— Riches destroy All That Consti¬ tute True Happiness. “Qui fit Maeenas” is nearly all the Latin I remember. It is the nearly beginning of an ode that Horace wrote two thousand years ago He mankind was rurainatiog over the dis satisfaction of over their lot, their condition, their that occupation, and he wonder¬ ed why it was most everybody imagin¬ ed bts-own case a bard one, *ni tint or.ner people were better off. Ever s nco th-n his¬ tory has been repeating itself over and over again. It is the same in the town and coun¬ try. The humble tenant who rents Ian l thinks The he woiild who bs happy if he owned would it farmer owns Ui8 far u be him. happy Country if he had a few more acres that join folks people tioubles imagine that the town have no and the towntoiks long to be rich and live in a city. We are all looking over the fence into our nabor’s premises and envy their better cuu dition. It our nabor has ice, we want ice. J( he has a carriage, we w <nt a carriage. But the truth is that the rich nabor is no happier, hasent for he, too, wanks something In got, and so it goes. Vanderbilt won’t be any happier in his six-million-dollar pal¬ ace that he is building at Asheville than his humble gard ner, who lives in a cottage. The wrong in building it is that the palace becomes dead capital. Of course the six millions were all paid out for labor and are atill in cireuLtion, but the money could have been paid out tors methingof more use than a bouse for a family t > live in. It would have built a thousand hous-8 for the poor iu New York. Tint is what P al.ody did with his money iu London. Mr. Kiser has just completed him a grand building in Atlanta. It cost a bund re l thousand dollars, but it was wanted and is already occupied by the Terminal railroad for offices. The house is not dea l, nor the railroad either. Rents wiii accumulate and buili another house, and the railroad will carry us and our products all over th's great country. There is nothing wrong about that. I 'is fair and honorable businest If a millionaire should choose to spend a million in skyrock¬ ets just to see the fun, it would be a stn. Croesus or some other rich man once gave a feast, birds’ and the that principal dish was humming tongues them. cost half a million dollars to get That, too. was a sin and it is the follies of the rich that make the poor so mad, and keep up the strife between capital and labor. A swell fam ly riding 200 yards to church in a thousand dollar carriage pro¬ vokes bad thoughts a id ripens the fruit of revolution. The question goes round: “How did they get all that money? I never see ’em work any.” Now if the common people only knew how little of real happiness was to'be found in the homes of the rich, they would not be en¬ vious nor covetous. There are more closets in large houses than small ones, and there¬ fore more skeieto s. There is a rat’s nest under every carriage seat and moths in every seal skin and a prowling thief watch¬ ing the silver on every tab e. The devil is asleep in the rich man s parlor waiting for his children. His impi follow them to the saloon and the gaming table and the ball¬ room and the brothel. Not long ago I met a friend—a friend of my youth. He has work¬ ed hard and made a fortune, and is still and working hard for more, and the lines of toil trouble are set deep in his face. “How d—n,” are youritoys said he. doing?” Of said I. “Not worth a inducement. They course not. heard They their had no never father talk anything but money, and they knew that when he died they would get Th y -> ust wa ‘tiug. Amt yet « thJcountry oduhi it a poor man who only know and realize the security that his poverty and his location gives to his chil dren, the security against the temptations the devilh^naZthat^tsoc^tTanltestJoy and happiness of its peace members he would thank God for his good fortune. The law of compensation comes into every situa -f’rnL 11 Ufe ‘ ^ go lnu man wdl not murmur woodnaYTtL SL m9 His W ca°pltal i X k ^ tals lot of poor land, his mule and plow, a wagon and yoke of steers, his axo and his strong srms. His children are being raised He'comes rain catches with him a Iheerfu? he makes srnUefandTtt He hat and hogs, no complaint a cow some and his wife raises chickens and sells eggs and applet and Uis “ehddrelare hkejy to be. Y haX cTse in court, and does not complain if drawn on the jury or summoned to work on the road, rest’ That family enjoy their food and their and when Sunday eome-> they go to the un pretending country church and listen to counsels of the man of God aud go home thankful to their Heavenly Father for lbs goodness. This is the picture. Cm a paint¬ er or a poet draw a better one? Indeed, these are the pictures that painters and poets love to draw. Tom Moore said: I knew by the smoke that so g aeefully curl eil Abovo the green elms that a cottage was near, Aud I said, “If there’s peace to be found in the world A heart th it was humble might hope for it here.” humble Gray wrote his elegy in memory of the cottagers, and Burns’ best poem was “The Cotter’s Saturday Night." Samuel Rogers was rich, but the wish of bis heart was Mins be a cot beside the hill. And Goldsmith—poor, miserable, delight ful Goldsmith—paid England tribute to the humble peasantry of when he wrote: His best companions—innocence and health, And his best riches—ignorance of wealth. The average farmer’s life makes no dis¬ play in the world, and it was never intended that it should. A man has done his duty when he has filled his station according to ins capauivjr. Milton, mere Goldsmith. is, out, one ouaaespeure, one one There was but one Bonaparte, and that was English one too many. I was perusing surprised a book on authors, and was to find how few of them lived to a good old age. A literary life is short in years, works. though Brain some of them are healthv long in great work is not work when compared with the outdoor oc¬ cupation farmers. and Shakespeare simple, temperate habits of the died at fifty-two; Addison, flftv-three; Pope, fifty Steele, Gibbon, fifty four; Gray, fifty-five; Dickens, fifty-eight; six; fifty-sev¬ en: nine: Charles Lamb, sixty; Macaulay, Scott, sixty fifty one; Coleridge, sixty two; Milton, Bacon, sixty-three; Collins, sixty-four; Burke, sixty sixty-five; Ar¬ nold, sixty-six; Bulwer, sixty-nine. seven; Southey, Bixty-eight there Goldsmith and and Burns and Byron Then was and Thackeray and Hood, I who never down reach ed their fiftieth year. penned thirty oonsacutive names of notable writers, and their average ago was fifty-six year*. It would have alarmed me if I had written anything that was any account, but oonsider- lug all things I will risk it a little longer. I( a man can keep calm uni so eno, and has a good constitution, he can do literary work a long time; but there are a big lot of little troubles nowadays. I see a book "gent coming fortify un the walk right now, and I Imre to mveelf against him and listen witli patience and then and resignation book to his little s. eech, look at his and be courteous, and then make my little speech and let hi n f o. I would like to buv all their books, but can’t. And there is the worry about cooks and company, and the everlasting frolics of the young people, for they are going all the time, and have run away with the town. There hasent been a day or a night, except Sunday, in loonstuiess five weeks on that li ml there that waseut tuey some town were giving just obliged to take a hand in, for feir of offense, they say, and sometimes they don’t et home until midnight, and I wish we were all back in the country where we came from. Mi st every one of th ese vft cation days is as big a thing as a country wheat thre liing or a Sam Jones tabernacle meeting, winded frolics and, to my doing opinion, the the e long- ks are not young to any good. Irregular hours and ice cream and rake and canteloup s and milk shakes have got them all churned up, and we can’t get them uptto breakfast or home to supper. But it seems to be the family opinion that I am getting antiquated, and unreasonable, and msybe I am. though I have heard the some other paternals say it has been bauge nest vacation that ever came over Carters ■ ville. It will soon be over, thank the annA chil¬ ■Liora, ana tnen mayne we will get our dren back again. Country people don’t have such I bought things, load and they ought to be thankful. Mr. a of fodder to day from Gilreath, a good, contented fanner, and his little ten-yoar-old boy came and with drive, him and was proud modest to set up on top and he was and well behaved and has a good chance to make a good man, but if he lived in town he would be smoking cigarettes right now. May the Lord help us nil to be content with our lot—B ill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. A GIGANTIC COMBINE To be Formed by Kansas Labor A Organization. The Topeka Kan., dispatch organization snys: of leaders of the alliance Kansas are in session here to form one of the most in gigantic this organizations The convention ever or¬ ganized country. members of the Far¬ is composed of the Union, Na¬ mers’ Alliance, Industrial Knights the tional Industrial Alliance, the of Labor, the Farmers Mutual Benefit So¬ ciety, the Kansas Alliance Exchange Company, the Alliance Insurance Company, the Elevator Company aud other commercial offsprings from the Farmers’ Alliance. The object of the convention is to ex¬ change ideas upon the importance and necessitv of maintaining and building up the numerous co operative associations now in existence or hereafter to be or¬ ganized, such as insurance companies, associa¬ fire, life amt mutual Alliance protective Exchange Com¬ tions, Kansas organizations. pany and other kindred The intention is to economize by placing all these institutions under one manage¬ ment, and thus simplify the machinery by which they are operated. A MONTGOMERY BANK FAILS. The Farley National Suspends Temporarily. A , Montgomery, . Ala., dispatch says: The Farley National bank, organized January 1, 1890, closed its doors at 12 o’clock Friday, announcing that it was forced to make a temporary suspension because papers drawn on New York by other parties had not been paid when stock of the bank $100,000, and C T‘ the al is deposits are reported to be $56,000. The suspension was casued by the bank cashing sundry drafts drawn on New York b * ^Alabama Terminal and to¬ provement Gompsny, a local corporation engaged in railroad building and cashed devel oprnent. The drafts which were W more e secured than the by su,n P ald on Th^ thc /T** drafts, But the collateral is of such a nature that it cannot be realized upon right now, B°^, 1Qg t hr0U / h h ft** th « t" Terminal company WU1 m the end. , It is stated that the bank will pay out in full, and that loss to stock holders will be little if anything. KILLED IN A TUNNELL. Eight Men Suffocated in a Pow¬ der Explosion. A dispatch from Burke, Idaho, says: Two hundred pounds mouth of of the giant powder exploded at the tower tun¬ nel of the Black Bear mine, near here, Friday, wrecking with terrible _ effect. Four men were imprisoned at the breast of the drift by rock, which caved in, and were suffocated. The bodies of four other mineis are not yet found, but hope of finding them alive has been given up. The explosion aud was terrific, tearing up the earth caving in the tunnel for the distance of 100 feet. The rescuing party recovered the dead bodii s of G. McNeil, general manager; Robert John Jones, assistant manager; Blackburn and John Barron, miners. Four others are missing. London as It Was. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates makes the statement that the old name of the city of London was written Lynden or Llyndin, meaning “the city on the lake.” An old tradition gives us to un¬ derstand that London was founded by Brute, a descendant of JEneas, and called New Troy or Troynovant, until the time of Lud, who surrounded the town with walls and named it Caer-Lud or Lud’s town. This latter is probably the correct version of the story, if for no other reason, because it is an easy mat¬ ter to detect a similarity between the expression Lud’s town and London. It is claimed by some writers that there was a city on the same spot 1.107 years B. C., and it is known that the Romans founded a city there called Republic. Londinium, A. D. 61.—(St. Louis HUMORS OF A DIRECTORY. MUCH TO AMUSE AND INTEREST IN NEW YORK’S NEW ISSUE. The City Boasts of 3200 Smiths, 25H Christened John—11 George ■Washingtons—Odd Names. The New York City Directory lor 1891 is out, and persons who read light literature will find in its pages much to amuse and instruct. The new Directory contains 379,971 names, a large increase over last year, and, as usual, the Smith family is the largest. The Smiths came to New York when it was a small village, and they have mul¬ tiplied until twelve pages of the new Directory are filled with the 3200 names of the various members of the family. The John Smiths number 258 and oc¬ cupy one page in the Directory. All the professions and all classes of trade and labor are represented oy the 258 John Smiths. There are only half as many Browns as Smiths. The 1600 Browns named oc¬ cupy six pages, and next in point of numbers come the Jones family. They number 700 and lead the Robinsons by 200 . Of the 379,971 names in the Directory 6100 are taken up by the four families of Smith, Jones aud Robinson, This settles the disputed question of which arc the first families of New York. The four named are first in point of num¬ bers. The Zwoster, Zwissler, Zwink, Zwie fah, Zwickl, Zwicky, Zwiech, Zvicke Zurl, Zust, Zumbush andZumbo families are among those that have only one name, each in the Directory. One of the shortest names is Ey, and one of the longest is Pfeiflensclmeider. The families with the long and short names are small. There are eleven George TVashiugtons, and most of them are laborers. There are only three Thomas Jcftersons and no Daniel Webster. There are fifty persons whose names are Gold and as many with Silver names, while almost a hundred are Golden in name at least. Odd names can be found on almost every page of the Directory, but one of the oddest in the book is that of Sacob Phoebe, a driver, who lives at 612 East Thirteenth street. Pieczonka, Pielstick er and Piepho, are fair samples of many names that begin with P. There is only one man named Sick, and he is a policeman. There is one Moth. A Hester street tailor answers to the name of Hyman Ashpies, and an East side plumber is named Sniff. Closely following the name of Mr. Sniff come Sniggs, Snitken, Snitzer and Snizek. Following the large Snyder family come a collection of names of which these are fair samples: Soagrio, Soar, Soat, Sober, Soberer, Socks, Sold, Sole, Son, Sonenshine, Sonnet, Sons, Soons, Sopp and Spick. George Space is a painter, and the Spades are engaged in various occupa¬ tions. Speed, Sped, Spedding might mean the particible, etc., of the verb speed, but they are proper names on page 1299 of the Directory and in the same order come the names Spell, Speller, Spell¬ ing. named Tam¬ There are several persons many who are not members of the society of the same name. There are three Tricks, one Trig, but no Triggers. the John Freedloveis a butler, and is only man of the name. There is only one Tubb, and he is a painter. There is only one Trust, and unfortunately he is not a merchant or banker. James Trusty is a messenger and probably carries only confidential messages. Persons who enjoy pronouncing hard names can practice on such tongue twist¬ ers as Tschopik, Tuschudy, Tshoten, Twirschulk, Tvvohy aud Twohig. There are plenty of good persons but only one Twogood. Tne latter is a car¬ penter. Vines and Fig, but There are two one no Figtree. "Vinters, Falls, There are Summers, Springs, Moons, Moonshine and Stars. Rain, Wind, Storm, Snow aud llale are common name3. There is one man in the Directory whose name is Muda, and 53 whose name is Dennis. The first Directory in New York City was published in 1786 and contained 846 names. Since that time the number has steadilv increased, reaching 16,504 in 1810, 150,303 in 1860, 360,960 a year ago. During the last fifty years the number of physicians in town has increased from 400 to 3276; of lawyers from 1209 to 5026; of takers from 400 to 1125, and of grocers, from 2000 to 4625. The increase has thus been much larger among professional men than it has among those engaged in ordinary business occupations.— New York Sun. Meerschaum iu New Mexico. The discovery of a large deposit ot meerschaum near Silver City, New Mexico, has just been made public. Sev¬ eral months ago Clark Rogers discovered the cropping and brought a specimen to this place. Pieces were sent to Berlin and Vienna, and a few days ago the re¬ sults of the tests were received here. Experts in both of these cities reported that the specimens were genuine meer¬ schaum, and Mr. Rogers and M. W. Neff, of Silver City, immediately went out to the place where the discovery was made and located a claim .—New York Sun. THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN 4 ERVINE 3 TONIC -AND Stomach^Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery ol the Last One Hundred Years. It Is Pleasant to the Tasto as the Sweetest Nectar. It Is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic American lots only Medicine recently Company, been introduced into this country by the Great South and yet its great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab¬ itants of South America, who of disease rely almost by which wholly they upon overtaken. its great medicinal powers to cure every form are This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also cures all forms of failing health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power* upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strengthener of the life forces of It the also human of body real and as a great value renewer in tht» of a broken down constitution. is more permanent treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs It than any ten consumption for rem¬ edies ever used on this continent. is a marvelous cure nervousness of females of all ages. Bhould Ladies who are approaching this the Nervine critical period Tonic known almost as change in life, sot fail to use great constantly the danger. for the space This of two strengthener or three years. and curative It will carry is of them inestimable safely over great because its energizing will value to the aged and infirm, great properties give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year. CURES Nervousness and Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache and Sick Headache, Female Weakness, All Diseases of Women, Nervous Chills, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Nervous Choking hot Flashes, Palpitation of the Heart, Sleeplessness, Mental Despondency, St. Vitus’s Dance, Females, Nervousness of Nervousness of Old Age, Neuralgia, Pains iu Heart, the Paint in the Back, All these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Nervine Xonio, NERVOUS DISEASES. As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, pleasant no remedy and has harmless been able in to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬ ual. Nine-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family is heir, art dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general Btate of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, lilc* starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment v pessary to repair the wear our present mode or living and labor impose* upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This recent production of the South A merican Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous derangements. Cbawfordstole, Ind., Aug. 20, 'M. To the Ot cat South American Medicine Co.: Dx. e Gents I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years with a very tried seri¬ ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I every medicine I could hear of until but I nothing ad¬ done me any appreciable South good American Nervine was vised to try your Great since Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and using several bottles of it I must say that 1 am surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the stomach cud general nervous system. If every¬ one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you would not be able to supply the demand. J. A. Hardee, Co, A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA. On awfor Orville, Ind., May 19,1885. been af¬ My daughter, twelvo years with old, Chorea had flicted for several months or St. Vitus’s Panes. She was reduced to a skeleton, could not walk, could not X talk, had could handle not swal¬ low anything but milk. to her like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave her up. I commenced giving her the t’outn Ameri¬ can Nervine Tonic; the effects wire very sur¬ prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬ vousness, and completely. rapidly improved. I think Four tho bottles South cured her grandest remedy American Nervine would the recommend It ever discovered, and W. to every¬ one. Mbs. S. Lnsming.br. State of Indiana, > ss: Subscribed Montgomery and County, f to before this Mar sworn me 19,18S7. Chas. M. Travis, Notary Public. INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. The Great South American Nervine Tonic Which we now offer you, vo Indigestion, is tho only Dyspepsia absolutely and unfailing the remedy train of ever discor ered for the cure of , vast symptom* and horrors which are the the result result of oi disease disease and and debility debility of of the tho human human'stom stom* ach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who h affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands go to prove that this is the one and only one great cure in ths world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of unmalignant diseas* of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the Soutk American Nervine Tonic. Every Bottle Warranted. Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, 8l.25.Tria! Size, 15 cents. NEILL (5c ALMOND, Sole Wholesale and Retail FOR HARALSON COUNTY CA. Broken Constitution, Debility Indigestion of Old and Age, Dyspepsia, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Frightful Dreams, the Ears, Dizziness Weakness and of Extremities Ringing in and Fainting, Impure and Impoverished Blood, Bous and Carbuncles, Scrofula, Scrofulous and Ulcere, Consumption Swelling of tho Lungs, Catarrh of the Lungs, Chroma Cough, Bronchitis and Liver Chronic Complaint, Diarrhoea, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Summer of Infants. Mr. Folomon Bond, a Ind., “I have of Friends, of bottles Darlington, of The Great says South : Ameri¬ used twelve Stomach and Liver Cure, can Nervine Tonic and bottle did for and X consider that every good, me I one hundred dollars worth of because have not had a good irritation, night’s sleep pain, horrible for twenty dreams, year# on account of which haC been and general caused by nervous chrome prostration, indigestion and dys¬ pepsia of the stomnc-h and by a broken down condition of my nervous system. But now I can lie down and sleep all night os sweetly as a baby, thiutt and I feel like a sound man. I do not there has ever been a medicine introduced into this country which will at all compare with this Nervine Tonic as a cure for the stomach." Crawfohdsville, Ind., June 22,1S87. My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. \V# gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Nervine and she is completely re¬ stored. X believe it will cure every ease of St. Vitus's Dance. I have kept Is it the in my family fot two years, and am sure It greatest and rem¬ edy in tho world for Jndigestiou Dyspep¬ sia. all forms of Nervous Disorder* and iailin| Health from whatever cause. John T. Uish. Siate of Indiana, 1 f 33 . Subscribed Montgomery and County, to * before this June sworn me 22,1887. Chas. \Y. Wright, Notary Publlo.