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PORT OFFICE IN HARLEM. GA.
CITY AND COUNTY DIKECTOKY
CITY COUNCIL.
J. W. BELT., Mayor.
J.C CIIRUY.
H.A.OOOK.
W. E. HATCHER.
J. L. IH'MHF.Y.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
O.D. DARKEY, Ordinary.
« M (fIIVR, Clork aiKl Tr. »»iircr.
1.1. M.xGßl’in'.i: hi., . in.
O. HARDY, Tn* Collector.
J.A.OIIKKN.Tax llccciv. r.
W. 11. HALT., Coroner.
It. it. HATCIIEB, Hiirvoyor.
mahonic.
Harbm Lodge,No. 276 F. A. M.,meets 2(1 and
4tU Saturday*.
CHUKCIIEH.
Bapttwt Services 4th Riinday, Dr. E. IL Cn r*
wdl HiindayHohool every Sunday. Hwpmn*
t^dent-net..l. W. Ellington
Methodist -Every 3rd Sunday. Bev. \\. L.
Klnwklrford, paator. Sabbath School every
Sunday, ILA. Merry, BnpL ~ „ „ ~
MaglßtrateV Court. 12Mth District, G. M., 4th
Saturday. Return (lay lAdnva before.
W. IL ItoKlllTK, .1. I’.
.John (irclish, of T. ronto, who was
sentenced to twenty-five la lies on tin;
bare Iwk nn<l received thorn, soys he
would rather take three yea : ,p in .n
--inent thnn another such b aling. lie
thought he could repre-M even a i?h, but
nt the third stroke be yelled for mercy.
Bishop William Taylor hns established
in Africa a new line of missions extend
ing seventy miles from tlie const on the
Cnvnllii river. They are seventeen in
number, nnd the principal ones arc at
Euliloky, Ynwki, Bcaboo, Tobo Tatepa,
(lerrobo, Wamlckn, Fnhleky, Baraka,
(faraway, and Grand Seas. White men
ami women arc preferred by the natives
ns teachers in preference to natives, lie
has negotiated with the inland kings
nnd chiefs for the establishment of in
dustrial schools and missions along the
banks of this river, and calls for workers
to aid him. To each missionary nnd his
wife a good sized dwelling, ground, ami
agricultural Implements will be given.
The missionaries have been well received,
ami many requests for missions have
beep set aside for want of workers.
A sensible cor pondent from Europe
advises American parents to educate
their children in tlie'r native hind, lie
says: “There arc here in Europe multi
tudes of American children who can
speak French and German better Ilian
their own language. 1 met the other
evoningn family from Ohio, and I found
the son, a boy twelve years of age, read
ing Cooper’s novels and 'l’ncle Tom's
Cabin' in German. '1 understand them
better in German thnn in English,’ he re
marked, with a strong foreign accent.
The parents spoke of the fact with evi
dent satisfaction. Another American
family, in which are live daughters, who
Imvemndi'a great success in scichce,
medicine, painting mid music, employ
German or French in their home circle
and cannot pronounce an English sen
tence without making a blunder of some
kind."
Some features of Western land im
provement were explained to a New
York 7’n'Jmic reporter in a brief talk by
John W. Bookwaiter, lie has been de
tained from a contemplated foreign trip
by the rapid growth of country
about his large farm in Nebraska,
through xv Inch the railroads are pushing
their way. lie has cut up his land into
farms of 160 acres each, mid has lensed
125 of these farms on long term leasee
The leaseholds vary in price according to
location. Tlie farms near the railroads
are, of course, more valuable than those
remote from the line of transportation.
Tlie rentals average about S2OO per year
for each farm. “This is much belter,"
said Mr. Bouku alter, ‘'than farming on
n large scale, for several reasons. In
'he first place, it develops the country
md makes the property more valuable,
in the next place it makes each farmer
in eventual settler, who will want to
buy the farm that Im has been improving
mid making valuable. Then it is more
remunerative.’’
Tlie foreign trade of the I'nited Statci
for the last fiscal year was larger that
that for the year before in all directions.
In other words, we exported more do
mestic merchandise (exports of foreign
merchandize were but slightly less than
bvfore) ami imported more foreign mer
chandize. Including the figures repre
renting the movement of coin, it is found
that the totals of imports and exports,
merehandi e and money, balance within
$140,000, the excess being on the side of
the imports. Tlie merchandise account
alone shows that we sent abroad products,
goods mid wares valued at $21,000,001
more than the imported articles. An an
alysis of tlie export account shows that
about 75 per cent. was agricultural pro
ducts, including dairy manufactures, mid
20 ]>er cent, manufactured articles, in
cluding relined p :rol> uni. A review el
the iuijmrt account shows that nearlv 1
half the increase of tiic.ltf is duett a
luge importation of undu. able goods, |
p.-.ueipsliy colTcC; tea and raw realerials.
Steel and iron, in various so nis, eo’itrib- ,
uted the most to the increase of Jut lab.
imports.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE B KOO KIAN DIVINE’S SUN-
DAI .SLMiir SEHMON,
Subjects “The Prime Miniver*”
Text:— - u And EhUraoh said vnto Jouph: ,
■ »soe, / Aarr overall the land of KfjijpE*
i xlt, 41.
You cannot k(re|» < good man down. Go I
bus decreed for him a certain elevation to
which he must attain. Ho will bring him
through tho igh it ccx-t Him rt tHou |
nnd worlds. There f»re mt n constantly in
' trouble lest tbcjr filmil not lie nppreciabsl.
i Every num comes in the end to lw* valued at
jnat what ire is worth. How often you see
mon turn out All their ferchs to crush
one mail ot n» i. Os men. How do they
!rttcm<s|f No Iretter than did the govern
ment that tried to crush Joseph, a Scripture
character upon which we sjsak to day. It
would be an insult to suppose thflt Joll iG're
! not all familiar With the life of Joseph; how
i his jealous brothers threw him into the pit,
! but, seeing a caravan of Arabian merchants
| moving along mi their camels with spice* an-1
' gums, that loaded the air with nrmrni, sold
their brother to these merchrtrHsi wh f ‘ en*i< d
' him <lown ihto Kgyp*. how Joseph was sold
to I'oilphaT, a nianof influenceaudoffice;how
| by his integrity he raised himself to high posi
tion in the realm, until under the fa's- charge
of a vile wretch ho was hurled into the |s*ni
tentiary; how in prison be commandedrc
spect an I confidence; how by the interpreta
tion of Parao'i s dream ho was fre<al mid be
< anie tli 1 ’ chief man in government, the Bis
marck of the nation; how in time of famine
JoMph hail the control of a stdrehousd
which ire had flllcl diking th- seven
years of plenty; how when his brothers who
nod thrown him Into the pit and so] I him into
captivity appliel for corn he s uit them homo
With their Ije isti borne down under th •
heft of the corn sack;; bow the sin against
their brother which had so long been hidden
camo out at hi t, nnd was returned by tha*
brother’s for ;i\en* and Kindness, an il
lustrious triumph of ( hri<ti in principle.
Izcmri from this story in th’ first p’a •»,
that the world i '•ompell; dto honor ('hristian
character. I’utiphar was only a man of the
world, yet .Io con in hiseitimation until
all tlie air iii s of that groat, house wore com
mitted to his ch urge. From this servant no
honors or condden ■«•>; were withheld. When
Jo.cph was in pri on he soon won the heart
of the koc|>er, mid, though placed
there for being n scoundrel, ho soon
convinced the jailer that, ho was an in
iiorent inab, and, rel used front(.dbscconfine
ment, he I .•••‘•asm' u general su]rerint<»iident
of prison a Jail’s. Wherever Joseph was
placed, whether a servant in the house of
I’otiphar or a prlsionor in the penitent iary,lm
Iwemii" the first nlan everywhere a id is an
illustration of the truth I lay <1 own, that the
world is coi iq nd led to honor Christian char
acter.
'l'lierc ere those who n(r< ♦ I to a n -
ligiotis life. I'hey sp ak of it as a system of
phlebotomy by which a man is bled of all his
courage and noLility. d'hoy’ sayhehasbo
m.’imcd liinis df. They pre ten ito have no
more c<»nlidc;r ‘in him -inco his co ivt rsion
than before hiu con vision. But all that is
hypo risy. It is impossible for any man
not to admire and confide in a I‘hrls
tian nbo shows that he has i'cally liecome a
child of Got I .Ind is what he pi oft as *s to bo.
Vnn cannot (k*spi>e a son ora daughter of
the Lord God Almighty. Os course half mid
half religious character wins no approba
tion. lledwald, the Kingof the S/lxons, after
(’hristimi baptism Hal two altirs, one f r
the worship of God and the other for the
sacrifice of <1 -vils. You may have a contempt
for such men, frtr mere pretensions of
i’eli; i<» 1.1 ”t v. Ik li y’oii behold the excellency
of Jesus < hi i 1 come o it in the life of one ot
his dis ’iplcs, a I that there is good an I n >ble
in your sml rises up into admiration.
Though th it Christ an l»o as far beneath
you in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom
we arc di.- u ing, by an irrevo able
law of our nature I’otipliar ibid i’haroall
will always Joseph. Chrys wtom
When threatened with death by Eud<»xi-i, thn
Empress, s uit word to her saying: “Go tell
her that I fear nothing but sin. ’ Such no
bility of character will always be applauded.
There wax something in Agrippa an I Felix
which demande I their r<* .pj.-t for Paul, the
rebel aga ust govornntent. 1 dbubt not they
would Willing y have yielded their office and
dignity for the thousandth part of that
true hero.s-i which Ijeamud in the
eye and I e it in the heart of the unconqu *r
able apostle. Tho infidel mid wordling are
compelled to honor in their hearts, though
they may not < u’ogize wit h their lips, a
Christian firm in per-e nition, cheerful in
poverty, trustful in lose?p, triuniphant id
death. 1 Ibid Christian men in all professions
and occupations, and 1 find them respected,
and honored, and successful. John Frederi *k
Oberlin alleviating ignorance and distress,
John Howard p is>ing from du ig.-on to laz
aretto with healing for the body nnd the soul.
Elizabeth Frye coming to the profligate of
Newgate prison to shake down their obdu
racy as the angel camo to the prison at Phil
lippi, driving open tlie doors mid snap
ping locks and chiins, im well ns
■ the lives of thousands of the follow
ers of Jesus will have devoted them
selves to the temporal mid spiritual
welfare of th<> race, are monuments of the
Christian religion that shall not crumble
while the world lasts. A nian in th> cars
said: “1 would like to boeome a Carislian if
i I only knew what rvl gion is. But if this
I lying nnd (‘heating ami bad behavior among
men wh » profess to bo good is religion, I
want none of it.” but, my friends, if lam
i an artist in Home and a num c m *s to me an I
asks u hat the art of painting is, 1 uni t not
! show him the daub Ol some mere pretender.
1 will take him to the Raphaels and thY
•Michael Auj« b’s. It is most unfair and dis
hone-t to take tho ignominious failuivs in
Clir.siian profe.ssmu instead of the glorious
s;i<’.’(‘s-es. Ihe Bible and t h(‘church an‘ great
pichu’e ga’lerios filled with nuist'erpieces.
I I iirthermore, we learn from this story of
’ JoM’ph that the 1-esult of persecution iseleva
i tion. Had it not been for his living sold into
1 1-gypt ian bondage by his malicious brothers
.an I his fa| s > imprisonment, Joseph would
never have lusonie Prime Minister. Every
body acct>i.;s the promise: “Blessed
arc tlh’y that, are pu’scsaited for right
eoiisnt’ss siike, for theirs is the
I kingdom of heaven,” but they do
not iwali/i'the fact that this principle ap
plies to worldly as well as spiritual success.
I Had it not Iterator -1 schin.s who brought
imp aehnient against Demosthenes, the ini
I mortal oration He ('orona, would never have
I Nn'udelivered. Men rise to high political
position through misrepresentation mid the
assiultof the public. Public abuse is all that
some of our public men have ha 1
t" iyl\ uon for their elevation. It.
in brought to them what talent an i
exoculivv font'could never have achieved.
Many of those who are making great effort
for pl a e and power will never succor d just
b?ca(i.|. they are not a f enough imixii’tjinee
to be abus’l. It is the nature of man to
gather about thos* who are persecuted and
deieii I ta. ui. ami they areapt to forget the
fa its of thos' who are the subjects of at
t’l’N While mt nupting to drive hack tho
s inderers. Helen Ftirk, a Scotch martyr
t'ondemned with her husband to death for
’ hrist s sikr, said to her husband: “Rejoicv;
; wo have live I together many joyful days, but
! Uiis tiny wherein we must die together ought
ifo be mo>tJoyful to us both. Therefore I
win ib t bid you goo I night, for soon we shall
i me. i in the heavenly kingdom." By the flash
of the iurnici» Ust Christian character is
i demonst nited.
1 go into another department, an i I find
tint tho*» great denominations of Christians
j"h h have bth u most abused have .spread
i the iih»>t rapidly. No g'sxi man was ever
in ay vilely maltnaite.i than John Woslev.
His followers were booted at and maligned
mi l called by every detestable name that in
ternal ingenuity could invent, hut the hot tin'
the persecution the more rapid tho spread of
that deinnninntion, until you know what a
great lh»-t they ha\e become and what a tre
m n .ous force for God and truth they aiv
y.t iding all the world over. It was persecu
tion iha! :ave Scotland to Presbyterianism,
it was persecution which gave our own land
fir t to civil liberty and afterward to 1
religious freedom. Yest. I nißy go fuftb* * -
buck and s »v d wa« penwt RtiUn that gave the
wtwld <h* > nabalion of the Gospel. The ribald
hio ’k'‘i y,thc hungering and thirsting, the un
ju >t trial and ignominious death where all tho
forces of hell’* fury was hurled against the* row
was the intro lu*-tion of that religion which
is vett Hh* the earth's deliverance frdpi guilt
nnd suffering and her *v» u hrthig enihione
inent the principalities of h avert.
The State has sometimes said to the Church:
‘ Come, let me take yOur hand arid I will help
you.” Who* ha* been the result! The Church
ha; gone be k and has lost its estate of
holiness and has become ineffective. At
(-tie r times Hi * State has said to the Church:
“ 1 will crush you.” What has been the re
sut After the stx»rn»M have sjiejit their fury,
♦h • (i.ui cb, far fronl having lost ally of
force, has increa.* 1 i, and is worth infinitely
more after the assault than before it. The
chur .h is fiir more indebted to the opposition
o <4vil government than io Its approval.
’I h • fires of the stake have only be ei
the t i.-ches which Christ held in His
hmd, by tike light of which the church has
mar hod tx> h r present position. Jrt the
h :u i | of racks and of torture I
in ar tli?rumbling of the wheelsdf tIM Gwpel
chariot. Scaffolds of martyrdom have been
th • staii-s by which the church has ascended.
A .ut foitis is tlie best test of pure gold.
Furtlicrmore. our subject impress *s us that
gin - will iytiilo td l.>hig, long agd
h id thewj brothers sold Joseph into Egypt
'1: • • had suppressed the crime, and it was a 1
profound his ret well kept by the brothers.
Bit suddenly the secret is out. The old
fat ..er lienr> that his son is in Egypt, having
I L-•;» sold there by the malice of his
' own brothers. How their cheeks must
■ have buined and their hearts sunk
'at the flaming Out of this srtp-
1 pre s d crim •. Thd Ktiialledt iniquity has
a thousand tonglie*; and they will blab out an
exposure. S.iul was sent to destroy the
(’.moanit?s, their sheep and the oxen. But
when he got down there among the pastures
he saw ::ome fine sheep an 1 oxen too fat to
kill, and so he thought ho would steal them.
He drove the n toward home, but stopped
to report to the prophet how well he had
‘■x< nt<‘d hi* Commission, When in the d»0-
, tancc* the sheep began to bleat and the oxen
. to bellow. The se ret was out and Samuel
I s..id to the blushing and confounded Saul:
| “ What me ins the bleating of the sheep that
I I hear and the lowing of the cattle? 1 ’ Aye, my
I hearers, you cannot keep an iniquity quiet
! At just tho wrong time the sheep will
bleat and tho oxen will bellow. Achan can.
not steal the Babylonish garment without
getting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arnold
betrny hiu country without being execrated
for all time. Jxjok over the j>olice arrests,
thc«e t hieves, these burglarSj tlierteadulterers,
those counterfeiters, these high way moil,
the o assassins. They all thought
they could bury their iniquity so
deep down that it would never come toresur
h'dioit. But there wif some shoo that an
swore I to the print in the Sand, some frtlsO
keys found in possession, some bloody knife
that whispi red of the deed, and the pub
lic indignation, and the anathema of
oiitrag.Ml law hurled him into the Tombs
or lioisted him on the gallOV/s. At tho close
of th** I at t ie l ietween the Daunhin of FrahCrt
an*l tho Helvetians, Burchard Monk was so
e’ated with tho victory that he lifted his
helmet to look off upon the field, when a
wounded soldier hurled a stone that struck
• his uncovered forehead and he fell. Sin will
! always leave some spot exposed, and there is
; ih) safety in iriiqiiity. Francis tire
i First, King of France, was discussing hoW it
1 was best to get his army into Italy. Amaril,
, the court fool, sprang out from the corner
Jind said to the king and his staff officers:
i “You had b(4ter lx thinking h«w you will
get your army back out of Italy after oiren
you have entered." In other words, itiseasier
| for us to get into sin than to get out
>of it. Whitetie!.l was riding on horseback in
■ a lonely way with sdttte missionary money in
! a sack fast eno Ito the saddle bags. A high
wayman sprang out from tlie thicket and put
his hand out toward the gold, when White
field turned upon him and said:“Thatbelongs
t<> the Lord Jesus (’hirst,touch it if you dare,”
nnd th*' villain fell back empty handed into
the thicket. I Hi, the j HWer of conscience I
If offended, it heroines God’s avenging minis
ter. Do not think that you can hide any
great and protracted sin in your hearts, in
an unguard! <1 moment it will slip off the lip,
or some slight occasion may for a moment
set ajar tins door of hell that you wanted to
keep closed. But suppose that ii
th s life .you hidS it. find you get along with*
that t ransgression burning in your heiirt, sis a
ship on fire within for days may hinder the
Hume from breaking out by keeping down the
hatchways, yet at last, in the Judgment, that
iniouity will blaze out before the throne of
God and the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject the
inseparable connection betw’een all events
however fehiote. Lofd Hastifigs was be
headed one year after he bad caused the death
of the Queen's children, in the very month,
th ‘ very day, the very hour and tho very mo
ment. There is wonderful precision in
the Divine judgments. The universe is
only one thought of God. Those
things which Seem fragmentary and
isolated arc only different parts of that
one great thought. How far apart seemed
these two events—Joseph sold to the
Arabian merchants and the rulership of
Egypt- Yet you see in what a mysterious
way God connected the two in one plan. So
nil events are linked together. You
who are aged can look back and
group together a thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated.
( hie undivided chain of events reached from
tho Garden of Eden to the cross of Calvary,
and thus up t > heaven. There is a relation
b'tw» on the smallest insect that hums in the
s immer air and the archangel on his
throne. Go I can trace a direct ancestral
line from the blue jay that last spring
built its nest in a tree behind the house
to someone of that flock of birds, which,
when Noah hoisted the ark's window, with a
w liirr and dash of bright wings went out to
sin • over Mount Ararat. The tulqis that
bl< -med this summer in the flower-bed were
nursed of last winter's snow-flakes. The fur
therest >t ir on ono side the universe could not
look to tlie furtherest star on the other
side and say: “ You are no relation to me; ”
for from that bright orb a voice of light
w• ou’d ring across the heavens responding:
<s. yes; we are sisters." Sir Sidney Smith
in prison was playing lawn tennis in tho
yard and the ball flew over the wall Another
ball containing letters was thrown back,
an 1 so communication was opened with
the outside wor’d, and Sir Sidney escaped
in time to defeat Bonai»arte's Egyptian ex
pe iition. What a small incident connected
with what vast result ! Sir Lolrert Peel from
a p.-ittei n lie dr -w on the back of a pewter
(1 inner plate got the suggestions of that
which led to the important inven
tion by which calico is printed. Noth
ing in Gods universe swings at loose
vii.ls. Accidents are only Gods way
of turning a leaf in the book of his eternal
c.ecu'i's. !■ rom <ur cradle to our grave there
is a path all marked out. Each event in our
Lfe is connect* d with every other event in
our life. Our loss may be the most direct
road to our gain. Our defeats and victories
are twin brothers. The whole direction of
our hie was changed by something
which at. the time seemed' to you a
trifle. while some occurrence which
seemed tremendous affected you but little.
Ihe Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge,
Now Jers.'v, went into his pulpit one Sab
bath and by a strange* freak ot memory for
got his subject and forgot his text, and in
great embarras ment rose before his audi
ence and announced the circumstance and de
clared himself entirely unable topreach; then
launched forth in a tew words of entreaty
and warning which resulted in the outbreak
ing of the mightiest revival of religion ever
known in that State,a revival of religion that
resulted in churches still standing and in th©
conversion of a large number of men who
enter’d the Gospel ministry who have
brought their thousands into* the kingdom
of God. God’s plans are magnificent
l>eyond all comprehension. He molds us.
turns and directs us, and we know it not.
Thoiwinds of years are to Him but as the
flight of a shuttle. The most terrific occur
rence docs not make God tremble, and the
most triuniphant achievement does not lift
Him into rapture. That one great thought of
God goes on through the centuries,and nations’
rlae nnd fall, and wm pass, and the
Itaelf.clianspH, but Grid, rtill k«*P" the “"*"1
vbler! riVldlry. eret’t.tb event and
century to century. To God they at e all J
event,one history, one plan,one development,
one system. Great and marvellous are thy I
works, Lord God Almighty. (
Furthermore; we learn from this story tne |
propriety M lading tip for the future. Dur- .
mg seven years of plenty J6rp|4i pictJH*edjW
the famine, and when it came he had a I
crowded storehouse. The life of nvM men In
a worldly Tespwt is divided into years of
plenty ana famine. It is seldom thdt Mpy
man passes through life without at least ficTcn
years of plenty. I luring these seven prosperous
years your business bears a rich harvest.
You hardly- know where all the money comes
from, it comes so fast. Every bargain you
make **cms to turn into gold. You contract
few Uld dcW Tort afe asMlttlded, with I
large dividends. You Invest nfo*re and mhYe
capital. You wonder how men can be
content with a small business, gather
ing in only a hundred dollars where
you reap your thousands. These are the
seven years of plenty. Now, Josepfi, is the
time to prepare for famine; foi tx? almost
every man there do come seven years ci
famine. You will be sick; you will Ire
unfortunate; you will tre defrauded ;
you wilt b* disappointed; you will Ire
old, and if you have no storehouse
upon which to fail )>ark you may be ftlttlitre
struck. We have no admiration for this
denying one's self of all present comfort and
luxury for the mere pleasure of hoarding up,
this graspiiig for tire mere pleasure of seeing
how large a pile you cart this always
being poor and cramped because as soOrt rtfl
a dollar comes in it is sent out to see if it
can't find another dollar to carry home on its
hack; but there is an intelligent and noble
minded forecast which w-e love to see
in men who have families and kindred
dependent upon them for the blessings of
education and honir. God sends us to the
insects for a lesson which, while tnejf do riot
stint tiiomselvos in the present, do not forget
their duty to forestall tho future: “Go to the
ant. thou* sluggard, consider her ways arid
Ire wise, which, having no guide. Overseer, Or
ruler, provideth her moat in the slim
mer and gathereth her food in the
harvest.” Now there are two w-ays
of laying tifl mOnfiv; the one by investing it
in stock and depositing it in banks and loan
ing it on bond and mortgage. The other way
of laying up money is giving it away. He is
the safest who makes both of these invest
ments. But the man who devotes none of his
gain to the cause of Christ and thinks
only of his own comfort and luxury,
is not safe. I don’t care how his money is in
vested. He acted as the rose if it should say :
‘•I will hold my breath and no one shall
have a snatch of fragrance from me until
next week, and then I will set all the
garden afloat with the aroma. The time
comes, but having been without fragrance for
so long, it has nothing then to give. But above
nil lay up treasures in heaven. They never
depreciate in value. They never are at a
discount. They are always available. You
may feel safe now with your present yearly
income, but what will an income be
worth after you are dead ‘ Others will get it.
Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it
before you are buried. They will
be right glad that you are dead.
They ate only waiting for you to die.
What then Will all your accumulation
Ire worth if you could gather it all into your
bosom and walk up with it to heaven's gate?
It would not purchase your admission; or,
if allowed to enter, it could not buy you a
crown or a rob?, and the poorest saint in
heaven would look down and say: “Where
did that pauper come from*”’
Finally, learn froiil this subject that in
every famine there is a storehouse. Up the
long row of building, pik'd to the very roof
with corn, come the hungry multitudes, and
Joseph commanded that their sacksand their
wagons be filled. The world has boon blasted.
Every green thing Was withered under the
touch of sin. From all continents
and islands, and zones, conics up the
groan of dying millions. Over tropical
snic e-grovo. and Fib* rian ice-hut, and
Hindu junglethe blight has fallen. The fam
ine is universal. But. glory Ire to God! there
is a great storehouse. Jesus Christ.our elder
brother, this day bids us come in from our
hunger and beggary, and obtain infinite sup
plies of grace enough to make us rich forever.
Many of jou have for all a long
while I enn smitten of tho famine.
The world has not stilled th' throbbing
of your spirit. Your conscience sometimes
rouses you un with such suddenness and
strength that it requires the most gigantic
determination to quell the disturbance. Your
courage quakes at the thought of the future.
)li, why will you tarry amid the blastings of
he famine when such a glorious storehouse
.s open in God's mercy?
“Ye wretched, hungry, starving poor,
Bcho’d a royal fca*t.
Where mercy spreads her bounteous store
For every humble guest.
tl Sce, Jesne stands with open arms.
He calls, lie blds you com**:
Guilt holds yon back and fear alarms.
But see, th£rc yet is room.”
Summer Silks for Ladies.
Among tlie gay India silks are thoso ot
seal-let striped with whit*', heliotrope
striped with green, and bine xvith yellow
lines far apart, separated by Greek
squares or by tlie outlines of a parallelo
gram. The gay poppy rod silks liax-o
the skirts in festoons edged with cream
lace, and in short paniers above, or else
there is a half-long apron overskirt of
six breadths caught up high on each hip,
and for tho lower skirt is a triple box
pleated flounce, each box pleat being
shortened in the middle to a point, and
edged with white Oriental lace. Tlie
basque has a surpliee blouse front like
those described lust week. For a more
quiet gown of heliotrope and green
striped silk a very long draped apron is
used, nearly covering the lower skirt,
showing only a side-pleated flounce at
tho foot. Green velvet collar, cuffs and
pointed girdle complete the coraage. A
demi-polonaiso made for some of these
summer silks has the front very short,
with Direotoire revers opening over a
soft blouse-vest with wide velvet girdle;
the polonaise jxirt is confined to the back
I and sides, consisting of two pointed
I Avings made by elongating the middle
forms of thelwk and gathci-ihg sloped
pieces along the side forms of
line. This polonaise is made up of dark"
bine figured surah, over a gray skirt of
plain surah laid in large pleats, or it may
l»e of blue nnd rod striped surah over a
plain blue skirt. A new fancy is that of
adding a third color to trim fabrics show
i ing two colors, as a gown of blue and
l primrose striped silk has long scurf ends
I of eoquelioot rod velvet riblxm down its
sides, ending in bows, with similar rib
bons across the vest and as a girdle.—
Harper's Bazar.
Electric Lights as Crime Restrainers.
Electric lightning is no longer an ex-'
periment in this city. Its advantages
over gas are so many and so manifest that
even if the electric lights cost a great
: deal more than they do, it would be eco
nomical to use them. Theyare great crime
restrainers. A dozen electric lights and
one policeman will take better care of a
given extent of territory than half a
dozen policeman without the electric
lights. A long step has just been taken
in providing for an extension of ele. trie
lights to all the avenues, all the streets
leading to ferries, and all the principal
streets. It isonly a matter of time when
all parts of the city will be lighted in
the new way.— Xeic York Epoch.
Tub htory of the bakers.
naw They L ve In the Old World nnd In the
Now-
(From the N. Y. Hearl<l.[
We publish a tale that bears a message ;
fnt nil. Men can live, if need be without
houses : they often do live without sh es;
and at n pinch they can even dispense
with clothes; but none can live without
bread, nh’d M the story of the bakers has
universal interest. ,
Our correspondents have sent tin coll- :
tributions to this narative from Palis,
from Berlin and from London, and wC
purpose to contrast the condition of the
bakers in those cities with that of their
iyfethrtil in Kew York. But let us first ,
look back « Httle. Me can better |
appreciate the condition of the bakers
now by comparing It with that off a gen -
eration ago. < , v 1
Ihiity y«ars ago an English baker, ;
who tells this himself, got only 8 siill- ,
lings, or $2. per week. He slept six
days out of the seven in the dough trough, ,
atld he had his • lothes off only ofic« a ‘
week. WC sny this was thirty years ago.
Things are better with London bakers
now, but their fate is still a severe one. ]
In Berlin both pay and work for this
class nre wretched, but in Paris their
situation is in both respects much
better.
Coming now to New York, wc find fl •
different state of things. Everywhere
else it seems that the poor bakers are
expected always to give thirteen to tho
dozen, while nobody ever gives it to
them. But here they are more fortu
nate. Os the seven thousand in their
guild in our city foremen average *l3 25;
second hands, $l).50; third, $7.1 q and
fourth, 86.90. Bakers’ wages have ad
vanced within two years on the whole
82.19 weekly ]cr hand. In some con
cerns rates are higher. There is one in
which no man gets less than sl4, and
the average is sl6 weekly for each hand.
Here, too? twelve hours is a day’s work,
while in other establishmentsit is some
what higher.
But the New York bakers are far bet
ter off in point of hours than they were
even so lately as 1885. In that year the
average of their hours reached 15.5 per
day, nnd it is now 12.1. The outrage
ous boarding system to which they were
once subjected is now in a great meas
ure abolished and promises soon to dis
appear altogether. This system is des
cribed in detail in another column, and
we need only say here that it is like the
method now employed by many con
tractors—those working on our aque
duct, for example and has the effect at
once to enslave the worker and to enrich
his employer.
Our story, taken altogether, shows
that the New York bakers, like the
workers in other trades, arc far better
off than those who follow the same call
ing in the Old World. Their hours are
easier, their pay is better, and their con
dition, instead of being at a standstill,
tends always to improvementor amelior
ation. At best the baker’s trade is a
hard one. He has to bear excessive
heat and a peculiar strain upon the
lungs, and hence his tendency to pul
monary trouble. It is. however, true
that ventilat ion and other appliances arc
better here than abroad, nnd this adds
to the superiority of the New York
baker’s situation.
FOR GOOD
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Home Council
We take pleasure in calling your
attention to a remedy so long needed
in carrying children safely through
the critical stage of teething. It is an
incalculable blessing to mother and
child. If you are disturbed at night
with a sick, fretful, teething child, use
Pitts’ Carminative, it will give instant
relief, and regulate the bowels, and
make teething safe and easy. It will
cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Pitts
Carminative is an instant relief for
colic of infants. It will promote di
gestion, give tone and energy to tlie
and bowels. Tlie sick, puny,
suffering child will soon become tho
fat and frolicing joy of the household.
It is very pleasant to the taste and
only costs 25 cents jer bottle. Sold
by druggists.
For sale at Holliday’s Drug Store
and Peeple’s Drug Store,Harlem, Ga,,
and by \\ J. Heggie, of Grovetown.
Having secured the Agency for the celebrated
Burnham Water Wheel
Georgia and South Carolina, I am prcfnie|
speoial inducements to pities wishing to jut ii.
Tfm&SgSEial am also prepared to do any kind of .Mill Work fre’-''
Correspondence solicited.
OKAS r.
• - - - AUGUST A.
DODGE’S C.C. C.C.
Certain Chicken (Um [ 1(l
Eight yc&tn of •archil experiment
taking research ha«o resulted in the
of an infallible specific for the cun' »ndn
vention of that most fatal and dreaded
of the feathered tribo-Cholera. An« a'
fullest and fairest tests possible, in which ev' 6 ' 1
claim for the remedy was fully snhataus.W
1 the remody was placed upon tho market , J
i everywhere a single trial has been all that*
Required io prove it a complete succeaa n*
directions for its use arc plain and almpla
the cost <rf fire remedy so email that the saiun
'of a single fowl wifi repay th< expense i,
effect’ is almost magical. If the retired,
I given as directed, the course of the diseaai, ,
| stopped at once. Given occasionally aa i,/
1 yentive, there need bo no fear of (ho|R„
which annually kills more fowls than allnthel
i diseases combined It is true to name
tain Cure for Chicken Cholera. No u>n!»n
, raiser or farmer can afford to be without it 4
will do all that is claimed for it. Head tlafo"
| lowing testimonial :
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Del'Abtmext of AoiurrtTrw
A-Tlasta, Ga„ March 19,1887
To the Public: Tlie higll charactct of the
testimonials produced by Mt. Dodge, together
with hie well known rcputa,ti for troti m
veracity, afford Contiiirihjf evidence df tha
I high value of the Chicken Chplera Cure he i s
now offering upon the market. If I were en
gaged in the business, I would procure a Ut
tie of his medicine, little doubti.nr thcßucce»
that would attend its administrat/on.
> Yours truly,
J.T.’ HENDL’BSOX,
COm’f of Agriculture.
Price 25c. Per Package,
Manufactured Exclusively by
j?. r x>odcs
I No. 62 Frazier Street, .... Atlanta, Ga
For Sale by all Druggists.
SINGLE PACKAGE BY MAIL 30 CENJS
Also breeder of tho best variety of thorough
bred Chickens, of which the following are the
names and prices of eggs for setting. Chickens
in trios and breeding pens for sale after Sep.
tember Ist, 1887 :
Langshansl2.oo per setting of 18.
Plymouth Rocks2.oo per setting of 13.
White Face Black
. ' Spanish2.oo per setting of 13.
. : Houdans2.oo per setting of
Wyandotte 2.00 per setting of 13,
SilvcrS. Hamburgs... • 2.00 per setting of 13.
j Amer’n Dominique 2.00 per setting of 13.
• ! White Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 11
i Black Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 13.
. 1 Brown Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 13,
‘ j Game3.oo per setting of 13.
C. C. C. C. for sale by G.M.
( j Reed, Harlem, Ga-, andW.J
Reggie, Grovetown. Ga.
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