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. ComEsmm-cii.!■:!<, Foot Prints on the B*ad of Tima. We come upon the stage of life, full of youthful hope and faith io every thing—believing all to be pore and true —bright prospects casting abeatt tifal radiance over the future; the fresh aesN of the heart has not assumed the tints of autum, nor chills of winter— the one impulse—we must act our part in this greet Btage. We will have our sunshins and shadows; its pleas ures and sorrows. Ws are now mak ing footprints no waves of oblivion can erase long after hope is dead and we find that which we deemed so bright and true, and faults and fleeting delu sions—cheating hopo, faith and time. Many who acted their parts on life’s stage have left footprints bright and indelible. Men, brave and trne have hied lives of greatness—honor to their came, a blessing to posterity. Wash ing, a man dear to onr hearts, left an endying fame, that crowned monarehs might well envy. Napoleon Bonaparte, tbe mighty conqueror, left footprints, tut not like those of Washington. Am bitiOQß was his God; at this shrine he offered everything that stood between him and his personal advancements. In imagination we will visit the tombs of the dead —not lingering by the tombs of kings and queens, but find our way to the poets, and reflect on the foot prints left by the silent sleepers who enhanced nations by the sparkling wit and genius. Allison, the silent spec tator, Hilton, the blind bard, whose gifted imagination soared so far above all earthly objects. Shakespeare, the greatest of all —the lustre of whose name made kings grow dim. Who read human nature as an open book. Wo linger spell-bound over these toot prints and exclaim: "The lives of great men remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave hebind ns Footprints on the SaDd of time. Let us then be up and doing With a hrart for every fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn te labor and to wait.'’ 8 mo footprints tell a sad tale of the iustahili;r of human grs*tn<B>; eo much lost utKl wasted great -mso who could leave footprints tin w'nil 1 endure the monumen’s of marble hare beer, crumbled to dost. But. ala 6! they Milow the talents that God has given them to go under tbed-rk of intemperance; passing swey is c matured by every breeze and writ ten nj'O* every fading flower, and soon the tc otprints we are to-day making, will be left behind on the sands ef time, and the places we low occupy will be filled by others, and what foot prints, my readers, are you leaving on the sand of time. Fathers, are you living, brave, earnest lives, that you woeld have those young sons oopy? You are journeying tawafds the art ting sun of existence. Are you leer ing beautiful traeee.or dark and drea ry, that the tear* of loved ones can not erase? Let not the trail of the ser pent darken your Eden, but make it beautiful with the memory of good deeds, that in-afeer years its inmates will linger lovingly over your foot prints. Mothers, what footprint! are you making? Are you teaohing those young daughters that life has no high er aim than to bow at the shrine of fashion? How often do we hear it ex claimed, “Oh, young people will be young, ao let them hare all the pleas ure they oan." Thie will do for the present, but in-after life it will leave only regret. To-day we have as bright iatelleota atnoog ns as nations belorij miaiis that might leaye footprints that would endure as monuments to their names; but men can not pause long enough from their pursuits for wealth, and ladies linger two long at their mir rors arranging their toilets. They have been taught that life has but one aim, and that is to win a husband— and do you suppose they are going to be old maids No, never! Not when there are so many fashionable young men who can be won so easy by such frivolous things—never thinking or caring for the inner pniitios of the heart and mind, Young men, what footprints are you striving to make? Are you striving to be a man that will he honored from generation to genera tion, as s Daniel Webster, or George Washington? Some yonng taen have no higher ambition than to be fast young men. Spend all they can get; drink all the whisky they ean beg, flirt with the girls, and oreate a sensa tion generally. See him as he stag gera home from the bar room at the lone hour of midnight, his body soarce ly able to support his luty head. What think you of these footprints— will they do for his yonnger brothers to copy? But the evil footprints stop not here, for he wins woman’s heart but to crush and to break it, considers it toy to be thrown aside and trampled under foot. Step on it, erasb it yonsg man as you would an autumn leaf, what matters it. Think you, it is ou ly a weak woman’s heart you have broken? That was bravely done, and to you it may bo fiae sport, toying with a true and trusting heart. These footprints may icesa to you aa lightly made, and will bp erased by the next passing breeze, but only atop and re fleet. It will daiken the hope and blight the life, of one, who’s love would hav-e brightened your future lilt*. Remember the- heart can nut kuow but one true love, and if that be blighted it huddeth not again. Y<nug men, those cruel footprints will he re corded ab- = vo, aivi s- the a t reconing win E P. Is Druti!•:< in-•- * II r<- t • ? A paper n ‘ H *d m Invlirir y” was lead before the (J ngr> of An thiopologiets iu ne- Yoik the o ter day, in which the writer took die ground that drunkenih*bi was a do-ease transmitted Irom pa tents to ebildran— a view, by the *av. held by many well informed persons, it nor absolute iv correct. In this opinion, bowev*r, Dr C E. Hpitaka, a distinguished specialist in nervous diseases, does not coincide While he dos not belieye that alcohol ism is hereditary, he uods the less ad mits that vice in parsnta weakens children, and that by reason of this weakness, the children are more liable to contract intemperanoe. Alcoholism in the anoester ia more likely to pro dues epilepsy and imbecility in the offspring, he believes, than to repeat itself. Ex Surgeon General William D. Hammond, if another eminent man who does not believe in the transmis aion of inebriety. He can find nothing to induce him to believe that a man is aors liable to become! an inebriate be same his lather or mother was one. He maintains that drunkenness ia a habit, and declares that he nevsr heard of bnt one clearly established instance of transmitted habit, that was of a man who took a cup of tea exaotly at midnight overy night. This man's father and grandfather had the eame habit. This man broke himself of it, bat is not recorded whether or not his children inherited the habit. There are not wanting physicians who entertain viows opposed to those of Drs. Hammond and Spitzka. A gentleman very successful iu the treat in'nt of nervous diseases says that, in his practice, when he has traced the history of an inebriated patient, he has generally discovered inebriety in the family. This ought not to prove a great deal, as the families in which at least ono drunkard can be foand are quite numerous. Another physician of prominence informod the Anthropological Con gress that inebriety is hereditary to a certain extent, but believed it is more likely to show itself in the second and third generations tha in the first. He said ho was satisfied *that, even if the offspring of drunkards have not an in herited appetite for strong dtink, they acquire it more readily than the off spring of temperate people, and be come wrecks much sooner. Since doetors disagree, who ean de cide? A farther and mote searching investigation is conseqently needed. Meanwhile all persons of alcoholic pro clivities would do well, now as ever, to abstain from the habitual use of in toxicants, not only for their own good but for that of posterity.—[Exchange. Humorous. The latest out—The boy kept after school. The anatomy of melancholy—aboil ed old hon. An office that seeks the man is the police office. * The silent watches of the night are not Watefbnrys. When the cdptain ■want* to atop the vessel, doeJ he halt etay-sail. Even truthwgelf vera cioue It lies at the btntom of a well Tie man who is always a pickle doesn’t preserve his temper Worth a cest. There nre t*o things that a woman will always jotup at—a conclusion and a m u*e ■‘ls hie wo! h iiv ug?” has become - society ques ion it depends on iiie l i vei ••One good tom '< <*rve ano'ho” van never spoken ot (te paper Oilar a this i ime ot the ye i 1 is un new thing or a popular man n> b banque ei at a hotel, yet s me people would call it a present inn ovation When tbe spider described the beau ties of his parlor to tbe fly he foigot to state that it was furnished on the in Btallment plan. A musician recently submitted a song to a publisher, entitled ‘‘Whydo I live?” After reading a small por tion of it, the publisher wrote the com poser as follows: “Because you sent it by a messenger boy." At the oirons recently the leopard began teasing the elephant. The ele phant bore it in majestic silence until the thing oeased to be amuemg. Then he growled, “Hush, child, or I’ll knook the epets off you." Tke democrats and greenbackers of Michigan have fused. Together they had a majority in the last state elec tion, There ia no imaginable reason why there should be h greenback par ty at this etege of proceeding!, unless it be to help the democrat! to success, and we hope the relio in Michigan will attend strictly to business on election day.—[Telegraph. The average Mexican laborer suppertß his family on ten cents per diem invested in corn, rice and beans, Grnnnels, Power & Cos., .a. ,— I—-.HARMONY 1 —-.HARMONY GROVE,— * —, DEALERS IN Plantation Supplies. f We Keep in stock a fall supply of good and fresh goods. We can not be surpassed in Quality and Durability. We buy at lowest market figaree;,we defy competition in prices. We want only a Hying profit on our sales. V e do not claim to bo Yanderbilts, nor do we wish to accumulate their fortunes. We are receiving daily, a foil supply of oar Customers every day wants. Country Produoe Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Prices. Athens Music House, 114 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffice, Athene, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors, ;-SJS£SJ Repps alw.ny-r on hand the nest makes of, VIOLINS AND BANJOSJ And all kinds of Musical Instruments at the very lowest prices for Cash, or on the Installment plan. Written gurantee on all instruments sold. Special reduced rates to church *• •*!*< I es and Sunday schools. •■"— - Piotures and Picture Frames a specialty. All sizes and styles of Frames made to order at short notice. Buy from us and 6ave agents' commissions. 16 North-East Georgia Fair Association. Fourth Exhibition Will be Held at Athens, Georgia, Nov. 5,6, 7,8, 9 10th ’BB. OVER $3,000 IN PREMIUMS. Kaoes Every Day, Re-union 16th Georgia Regiment Confederate 'Yeteranr, Sham Battle. Good Band in attendance. Special premiums ior County Exbibite. Grounds in Corporate limits. Special ratee. One Cont per Mile on Railroads. Speeial puree ior North East Georgia Horses. SYLVANUS MORRIS. st.t.r,.