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YOL. 1. DUBLIN, GEORGIA * THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1878. NO. G. =F AM I NEARER HOME . TO-NIGlfr} Sinks the sun am^fades the light, ‘Evening darkens into night, Deeper shadows gather fust, Aud auother.dny is past, And another, record made Never more to change or fade Ere I give myself to rest Let me make this solemn quest: Have the hours that winged their flight Since the dawning of the day. Sped me on my homeWard way; Am I nearer home to “flight? Have I since the Opening ntprn Faithfully my burden borne? Hus my strength on God hcetii,stayed? Itave I Watched and lmvc J prayed? Seeking .with a steadfast heart' V Uealottsly the better part? IfftVb I rttn*the Christian race With a swift and tireless pace? Have I conquered in tlic strife Which besets my hourly life? Have I kept my armor bright— Am I nearer home tonight? Has my vision clearer grown Of the things to faith made known, And the heavenly and the true Shone the world's illusions through; Have I sought my thoughts to raise, Redolent of grateful praise, As I constantly have found Every hour with mercies crowned, And His kindness all-abounding Evermore my path surrounding? Have I loved with love unfeigned? In my heart has Jesus reigned? ^ Spite of every adverse olinnce llave l made a day’s advance, Gained some new celestial height— Am I nearer home to-niglit? Till the Book shall be unsealed,. .When the judgment is revealed. Have I learned to feel how near Draws that day of hope and fear When, the book of doom unsealed, Every thought Shall be revealed, And the Judge upon Ilis throne Shall my destiny make known? Tell me, oh! my anxious Soul, When that record shall unroll Shall I with the ransomed stand J Wii^lpdijig at God’s right hand? ' Slmll.I see tiie uej'feo^liffht^^ , Tn the land that knows no night? AUNT POLLY’S FORTUNE. “I’m left all alone in the world, and why shouldn’t I seek my for tune? I toll you what, Delia, I’m going to California.” So spake a pleasant faced woman. 'She was neatly dressed and^thirty. Site had never had tin-offer of mar riage, and, what was more, she said she never, desired one. Everybody believed up to that time'that Miss Polly Saunders meant what site said, though it did seem strange. Polly and Delia were sisters. The latter was the youngest, and had married a pleasant, but somewhat shiftless fellow; or, as ho called him self, “one of the unlucky sort. ” Delia loved .him, and was willing to bo poor with him. They had one child, Neddy, his mother called him; and, as the sisters talked together, Neddy sat playing with blocks upon the floor. “You don’t mean what yon say!” exclaimed Delia, stopping her iron ing. “I do moan what I say, though.” i, 4iow- in* tlia jyorld, are ^yon going?’’ “To work nty way out, to be sure; .do yon. suppose I am too proud ? No—no.” “I wouldh’t,” said Delia reflect ively. “I will,” said Polly, decisively. ' And the will earned it. Delia -went, the next day, to see the steam er in which Polly had engaged to go as stewardess. It was a bravo vessel, glittering from stem to stern. Polly took her sister into the great cabin. On one of the sofas -sat a nursery maid with a child in her aims. “Look! Oh! isn’t she beautiful?” exclaimed Delia, her motherly heart all alive. “Yes,-the child is a pretty one,” said her sister, carelessly. “Pretty! it’s a beautiful creature— it’s as handsome as Neddy—sister, they look ajike.” “Nonsense,” replied Polly; but the bright bine eyes turning to her smiled in her face. “She has got lovely eyes,” she said, softly. “Who is it 1 ? What’s her name, nurse ? w - “Minnio Osgood,” replied the young woman; “her father is a great man; you’ve lizard of Mr. Osgood, the lawyer?” Yes, they had heard of him, and they turned away lingeringly. “Oht I wish!” exclaimed Delia, fervently. “Well, what?”, “That .tliey two might grow up for each other—-might marry.” “What a ridiculous ideal” cried nnromantic Polly — “just as if it could be possible! Those babies!” “It might, for all,” muttered the ambitious mother. ' “It might, but likely never will,” was the rejoinder - The good steamphip sailed, and Polly was?lost to her sister. Over the 'Vino sea she went, undaunted by storms, unaffected by gale—a lone, but brave woman, going to seek h6r fortune. She had no misgivings There, wera her two hands—there was hot stout heart—conquer adver sity sLc\vould—her head should be above ware?.* Three, four years passed, and a cor respondence was regularly kept up Oh! those. homely, illy-spelt, illy- constructed letters, how much pleas ure they gave! From the “I take my pen in hand,” to the “ufljeck slumtely youres/ they were payed over with single-hearted interest. The mother listened to them over her knitting, and when they wore finished, invariably put her handker chief to her el'cs with a “There! I wish I could see Polly!” Meanwhile Neddy was growing more beautiful, more intelligent. His father was an honest, pious soul, and brought him up in the fear of God. Ten years had gone by, and a let ter came saying that Polly was mar ried/ to a judge Norris. What could it mean? Theii'’Polly, a hard-work ing woman,'marry a judge, and he rich, too? Well, aunt Polly was pretty, there was no denying that That letter, however,, was followed by no - more; aunt Polly must have fallen a prey to avarice, or the fash ions. Neddy was seventeen when he heard of Judge Norris’ death. The news was brought by young Osgood, the elder brother of the child, whom, sixteen years before, Delia hud seen in the arms of her nurse. The fam ily had returned to their native state. For the first time Neddy Stanton and young Hurry Osgood met, the poor boy and the rich. It was deci dedly a case of love at first sight. From Harry, Neddy learned that his aunt lived in stylo—was portly, hand some, und very rich, llut she had doubtless forgotten her poor rela tions. Three years passed. Neddy, a handsome, splendid .fellow, bogan to have the blues. The fact is, Harry hud got him into trouble by.making him acquainted with beautiful little Minnie Osgood. He loved her, she loved him, but the proud family (all but Harry) said “Nay.” Indeed, •they-took the trouble to be scornful about it, “Dear, blessed Harry!” little Min nie used to say, when he took that particular note and conveyed it faith- .fully. “Hold up your head—-don’t des pair yet,” was Harry’s motto to his friend, but Neddy came pretty near it. Neddy was twenty-three—his blues had deepened awfully, for Harry had gone into business on South and he could not hear from Minnie. One evening, lie sat disconsolately think ing desperate things. Somehow, life wasn’t worth having, after all, in his estimation, at least. ’The postman called at tho door, leaving a huge package, for which lie asked a large price. It was opened in wondering silence. Alas! poor aunt Polly was dead; but—Neddy Stanton was her heir to the tune of seventy thousand dollars. Poor Neddy looked stupid over.it for a long time, ho couldn’t realize it. Seventy thousand! Why that was about enough to set. a man up, wasn’t it? Buy father a good house—get H-pirvno—-make mother eomfortablo for life—and, yes, marry Minnie Osgood! It proved to be. Tho prophetic wish of Delia came about all in good time. - Seen through goldeft specta cles, Neddy Stanton was pronounced “good.” There was a grand wod- ding, and Neddy Stanton isn’t, very fur from the- top of the ladder of fame. Aunt Polly’s fortune did not. como amiss. Remarkable Vision of » Farmer. An optical illusion or mirage whs seen by three or four fanners a. few miles from Parkersburg, West Ya., a few days since, the appearance of which no one is aide philosophically to account for. The facts are these A farmer while ploughing in a field with several jpthovs about 7 p. m., happened to ghthce toward the sky, which was cloudless, and saw appar ently about a half a mile off in a westerly direction, an opaque sub stance resembling aw,bitehorse, with head, nock, limbs and tail clearly de fined, swimming in the clour atmos phere. It appeared .to ho moving its limbs as if •engaged in swimming, moving its head from side to side, always ascending at an angle of about forty-11 v-o degrees. .Tic rubbed his eyes to convince himself that he Avns not dreaming,- and looked again; but there it still was, still apparently swiniuung and ascending in other. Ho called to the men, about one hun dred yards off, and told them to look up and tell him what, they saw. They declared they saw tv av hi to horse SAvimniing in tho sky, uiyl Avfcro badly frightened. Our informant, neither superstitions nor nervous, sat down and Avutehed the phantasm (if Ave may s,o call it) until it disappeared'in sjince; tilwu^ ; s going in the studio di rection and moving in the same man ner. No one can account for the mi rage, or illusion, except upon the un even state of the atmosphere. Illu sions of a different,appearance have been seen at different times in the same vicinity, frightening the super- stitous and laughed at l>y the skepti cal. [Haw York World] ». There can bo no doubt that Lord Beaconsfield has made something more important «nd "(Wrabic than a “hit” or a “coup” by tlicsettleinen.fr he has negotiated Avith Turkey? What lie has done, so fur tls can be judged from the expressions of Eng lish and Continental opinion Avhich the cable brings to us, is to raise British diplomacy to a, higher point in the respect of Continental states men than it libs touched sinco tho close of the Crimean Avar. Milton’s line about'the victories of peace is applicable in another sense than that he meant it to bear. National “pres tige” is generally imagined to depend mainly upon success in Avar and Avil- linguess to engage in it. At Ber lin, England lias regained this prestige which has for many years been, failing her, although she has just been persistently the ordeal of battle which avus offered her, by a stroke of diplomatic nego tiation. Russia on the other hand lias come victorious out of a costly and bloody AA'ar only to find at the end of it that all tfio profit and all the glory of it has gone to her rival. It may be, as was long ago said, that cunning is the quality most admira ble in a trading community, and that all Europe, having become a trading community, lias come to ad mire the commercial qualities of shreAvd bargain-driving more than the military virtues, aud to look upon Russia as a sharper regards a bully. But whatever the reason tho success of Great Britain at Berlin Is unques tionable, and Lord Beaconsfield’s political opponents at homo will do themselves no good by trying to be little it. ^ If you Avant a sour stomach, drink wine. IMAGINATION IN POLITICS. Mon of ifffoixs lire apt to set great store oil plain serviceable qualities of mind. They like industry, common sense, fidelity to routine, respect for precedent, aud they distrust, strength of imagination as a Aveakncss of poets and novelists. For tho ordinary work of the Avorld tho race of plodders may bo tho softest and best managers; but Ave are inclined to think that no one is fit for a lender in any depart ment of fife Avlio is not a man of imagination. It is tho faculty of the mind AVhioh soeins to vivify tho l’csjt, and make .tho Avliolc ihfclloct glow with uctmty. Trike a liian of’ skill and experience iii any liapdiAvork and yon lkve a mechanic; give him imagination and you luivo nil inven tor. Take n man of sound judge ment and good knowledge of the law and you have a lawyer; give him im agination and you have a great advo cate., Take a man of sensibility .and scholarship, und. you have a eritiij; givo him imagination and you have a poet. Take astrolig-min/lod young fellow tind give him an education in all the Retails of military science and you have, an officer of artillery or on giueorsjV givo him imagination and you luiAjp a general. Take a politji tician ufid cram-him with facts about •troatieajand tig) peculiar powers and interests of different nations and you have a diplomatist; give him iniagina tion and ‘you have a statesman. Of course a mind in Avhich tho imagina tion predominates, and is Virtually the only active, is tho mind of dreamer; yet even to tho dreamers avo look for visions of things attainable by moil Avho are not seers but Avork- ors. But the mind in Avliich tho will and judgement uro respecti vely the powerful servant, and the powerful muster of a powerful imagination, are thd Aiitigminds of the world, are over ready to seize opportunities or to make thorn, for they know tho thought of their opponents and thrill in sympathy Avith tho souls of their supporters. Novcr avus there bolter example of the value of. tho imagina tion in leadership than in tho course of Lord Beaconsfield on the Eastern question, and his triumph may'bo pronounced distinctively tho triumph of imaginative faculties, Ho has never been considered as learned as Gladstone. He has not tho enthu siasm of Bright or Loavo’s knowledge of political economy. Ho had sim ply the ability of conceiving as attain able things of which none of them originally dreamed and which all of them Avortld pronounce impossible Avhon they heard of them for the first time, His imagination lias boen lo him Avliat, Hector was to Androma che’s father, mother, brethren. It tumbled him to conceive of India in all its colossal proportions, to realizo that'it was not so much a colony in another hemisphere as a part of the empire, to be bound closer and made a sourco of strength instead of AWiuk- ness. Ilis Eastern policy was based on this bold conception; and while Russia avus winning her toilsome and bloody Avay doAvn to Audrianople and flrsdlf Avi tlfrfcho concerns'that lay undpr the shadoAV of her flagstaff, he contrived a pageant at Delhi arid proclaimed the Queen Empress of In dia, transported a portion of tho Iii- diaif troops to Malta, making manifest the magnificent schemes' that wore familiar to his thought, and secured L'ypnw und the protectorate of Asia Minor, thus bringing tho British Islands apparently into co-operation witli Ilindoostan. What lie has done is bold, original, startling; and it has been accomplished with' the ease and facility,of enchantment. The man df precedent and common sense would have said, people will only laugh at you if you attempt these coupe ilu theatre. Beaconsfield know intu itively that the darling schomcs of his OAvn imagination revealed to tho world would awo opposition. Wheth er or not his achievement is admitted to be sound statesmanship or just statesmanship, it cannot bo denied that it is successful statesmanship, arid, above all, iinaginative states manship. Yon must be clean to bo healthy, FEVER ANI) AGUE lam ore prevalent during the spring and fall than at other seasons; tho reason is that changes of tempera ture are train more sudden and more frequent. There are persons Avho have lived many years in fever and ague districts without having had the disoaso. Witli proper cave and qttontion, all might avoid .it. An observance of these simple rules will generally Avurd off tho diseuso. Avoid exposure to tho damp air of the early morning and tho early eve ning, except, when exercising, and then do not remain in tho Open air to cool off, Avoid groat fatiguo; sleep eight hours out of twenty-four. Be sure that tho Avutor used for drink ing and cooking is perfectly pure. Wear flannel underclothing at all seasons. Keep- the feet dry arid warm. To euro foA r or arid aguo take 12 grains of quinino, at one dose, about an hour before the chill is expected, Just ono p’bok- from that hour take another 12 grains of quinine. The disease will seldom return. This is tho it oso if or an adult. Children should take smaller doses, according to ago. The reason that decided do- sos of quinino euro fever and ague seems to be, that the disease receives a shock which breaks it. Small doses of quiniuo only hold it in .check dn ring the time tho modiciuo is being regularly taken; as soon a:< it is sus pended tho disease usually returns. Henco tho popular notion that the quinine only “feeds” the disoaso. The fault is not in the modiciuo, but coumging the uso of 'medicines, avc are bound to say that quinino, herd ically administered, has proved the only “dead shot” for fever and ague in our practice,—Haifa Journal of mm. - The fool says, “I can Toavo off drinking Avlicnevor I please.” *\ CIVILIZATION IN DANGER. Count Bchou vnloir Talks of Asiat ic Hordes—Ho Wishes to have Anns withheld from them. It is reported that at ono of the meetings of tho Congress, Count Hehouvalotf brought up tho question of tho employment, of Indian troops in European Avunvuro, arid tho sell ing of modern arms to tho Asiatic peoples, especially to tho Chinese. Ho \yishod, ho said, to invito tho Con- gross to look upon this subject with out passion, arid to regard it as affec ting, tho interests and porlmps the very existence of European civiliza tion. He cited the opinion of an ominent savant, Avlioluid latoly pointed oat that, had tho anoient Greeks possess ed even tho -rudest of our modern arms, they could liavo rolled back 'the barbarian Ironies who.swept thorn away. But the experience of tho lust campaign had shown that Avar avrs rio longer .to bo a contest in which su perior physical strength and moral purpose would win Victory. The Turks, armed with rifles niado in the United 8talcs, and entrenched in positions chosen anil fortified by mil itary skill, had been able to hold at bay for Aveeks the floAvcr of tho Rus sian army, the best, bravost and most ardent of soldiers. If the countless hordes of China and of India are to he permitted . to arm themselves with modern Avonp- on.s, and to acquire a practical knowl edge of tho art of modem Avarfare, there will be nothing to prevent them froth rolling forth into Enrol** and crushing Christian civilization out of existence. Especially wore the Mon golians to be feared from this point of view, and ho invited the Congress to take the matter ink serious consideration, and to deliberate upon tho practicability of a league of the European poAvers binding them ,to abstain from employing Asiatic troops in Europe, and to prevent, as.fur as possible, the importation of arms of precision into Asia. Earl Beaconsfield is said to have made rather a light reply to this ap peal, and to have said that at all events tho subject avus not at till ger mane to tho object of tho Congress, and should not now bo. discussed, but Count Selionvalbff’s remarks mndo a strong impression upon Prince Bis- mn-rk and M.- Wadcington; arid sub sequently in private conversation they suggested that the subject ivas wor thy of consideration by a congress called expressly for that purpose.— Savannah New. ; „ ( ifrt . Tho Indianapolis Sentinel says: That tho thieves and friends, of thieves Avho clamor for Grimt would bo Avilling to soon cluiUgoof govern ment, Avitl?Gvant instaUed as Diqta- tor, King, Emperor) or potentates of of some kind, wo have m> doubt, and that, such is their ulterior design is tho general belief.” Givjno.—Wo need to give as much as othors need to get. The Arabs have a proverb—“Tho ivutcryou pour on tlio roots of the cooonnut comes back to you sAvcetonod and enriched, in the milk^rom tho top;” and every liba tion avo pour upon the roots of Chris tian enterprises avo r’oeoivo into onr own month again, ill ’ the sweet draughts of personal gi’OAvth. If avo find little blessing in giving, it is, per haps, because avc givo so little, or ex ercise, in giving, so little solf-donial. A Nasi a xiiAa’ Mkakh Bosietthko. [Burlington Hawk-eye.] A West Hill- nuin calls iliis horse “Time,” became Avhon he is “untied” ho “waitos for no man.’’ A Newspaper riml Bible in overy house, and a good school in ovory dis trict, arc the principle supporters of virtue, mortality, and civil liberty,-— Franklin. Dust is chiefly organic vegetable matter. Tho greater part of tho dust of city streets, is'horse manure, and tho other offal. To onhalo it is un questionably destructive to human Ufo. . ^ It is ordained in tho eternal con stitution of things, that mon of iri- toniporato minds cannot bo free; their passions forgo their fottors. In hundreds of thousands of cases of broken-doAvn health, a brisk walk of an liour in the opon air after breakfast; and thon a nap of an hour or more before tho midday dinner, and quiet for tho rest of tho day,will effect a euro. . / WJIEHK PIH33KMOE OP MlND IS . Needed. [Burlington Hawk^ye.] It is a torriblo give-away when a tomporanco leoturor, pausing in his speech to take a drink of water, sets tlio glass doAvn, and lazily reaches out towards the end of the table for a couple of coffee grains. Babios should not bo alloAved to flrick their thumbs. It does serious injury in several Avays. Tho habit producos protrudiug and bad shaped lips, and destroys tlio contour of tho thumb;, more than this, it seriously deforms the chest. Tho arm of a child addicted to this habit, lies; much of the time in only ono posi tion, and its Avoight on the thorax oc casions a depression of tho ribs, t.» tho sorious diminution of tho lung- capacity. It is safe to predict thau the constitution of a child Avho is in dulged in this practice, will ho lik- - ly to bo soriously and permanently impaired.