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Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
SUNDAY-SCHOOL DECAY.

In the March Ladies' Home
Journal Edward W. Box writes
on "TAe Decay Of the Sunday
School," and points out the
reasons therefor. 81 have in
mind" ne says, ''not less than
twelve different men who are act
ing as superintendent Of our
Sunday-schools. Not one of
these men has even a suggestion
Of force; not a spark of personal
magnetism, not personal po8s-
ession which goes to draw child
rem to him or to the school over
which he presides. In five OF
these cases the men have been
failures in business: by men in
the outer world they are passed
over, and yet the church places
them in positions which call pre-
ominently for every element
which they so distinctly lack.
70 be a successful head of a
Sunday-school calls for a man
with the instincts of leadership:
man who will infuse life into
the school: hope and courage
into his teachers: who is fertile
of mind and infinite in capacity !;
who can draw children to him
and retain their interest. Not
only must he elevate his children
in a spiritual sense, but lessons
of the highest morality must be
taught: an influence refining to
mind and nature must be exhaled,
and all the time the interest OF
the children must be arrested and
held. Infinite variety Of method
must be sought. The young
quickly tire of anything which
|
long remains the same, and thai
is why they are tiring of the
Sundays school. 1t has too long
remained the same. 1t has faller
into a rut, and the fault lies be.
tween the presiding spirits of the
school who have no ability fol
their positions, and the churches
who have placed them there ol
allowed them to remain" Mr.
Box concludes his discussion
with the assertion that "tht
average Sunday school of to-day
is a rebuke to intelligence and q
discredit to the church,
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
TW EEVE REASONS.

The St. Louis Republic
gives a dozen good reasons
why newspaper readers should
read this paper. Here they are
l. The Republic Is the glva
est newspaper published.
2 1t has a cable news service
over the entire civilized world
which no other st. Louis paper
can secure.
3. Special correspondents in
all the large cities and capital
Of Europe.
4. News Bureau in New York
City and Washington, D. G.
s. Special correspondence in
7. Publishes daily the mark
ct reports Of theworld.
s. Issues a magnificent color
ed magazine cover with the
0ulluay paper
9. More rotedwiters vi ar
lists contribute TO Che Republic
than any other paper.
10. Issues an nnequaled four
page comic with each Sunday
paper free,
II. Publishes pages Of inter
est and value to womankiud.
II. Its 10 cent Dress Pattern
Department is the most popular
featrre ever introduced "dy a
every city and town NTH e, Wes.
,ern Uuited States.
9. Member Of the Associated
Press, the greatest news gath
.erer in the world.
newspaper. Thousands patio
'nize it.
The daily and Sunday ST.
louis Republic is 6 dollars a
year, 3 dollars for six months
md l,50 for threemonths. The
Fwicea- Week epublic is !
ioll aa year-!04 papers twa
Zach week.
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a LITTLE MONEY!

vested in the great Lend ana
Zinc mmng region Of Missouri md
Kansas .Galena, Empire Clry,
Joplin, Webb city, CarlctviIlc".is
very likely to make vou fortune.
That is u common experience in TIN,
rioh mining section. New miuora'
strikes are beng made daiDy.
Good mineral lands are vet ohpqp.
No other mines of any character
offer 80 sure road to wealth,
The Kansas city, Fort Scott and
Memphis railroad Is The oUIy lmr
all Of these great mung cam
For map and unio table folder
dress,
J. 4, LOCKWOOD,
Gent Pass'r Agto
KANSAS CItN No,
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
Memphis Route.
Kansas City, II. Scott (
Memphis R. R.

The best line to Kansas City, the
West and Northwest. Palace
Sleeping Cars and Reclining Chair
Cars seats free on all through
trans, Entire equipment first
class. Close connections at Union
Depot, Kansas City. The only
line with through service from the
West to the South and Southeast.
Entire tram runs through from
Kansas City to Birmingham Ala,
and to New Orleans. Send for
map and timetable folder. Write
for Illustrated papers and pamph'
lets, with county map, descrlp
tive OF Missouri, Kansas and Ark
ansas, mailed free. Address
J. Z. LOCKWOOD,
J. j. Fletcher,
Traffic Manager,
anSas City.
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04

We are a candidate for every
thing in sight. 1t isn't so much
the office we are after as it is the
salary that goes with it, so any
old office that has a fat salary
attached to it is good enough for
us. If we ever get a grip on an
Office we think we can hold it.
Talk about the Tyres which have
beguiled the weary and lulled
the senses through untold ages,
but we are one Of 'em-spelled
differently. We are a "wah
hoss." When war waged its
wide desolation and created q
horde of hungry pensioners we
arose in our might at the first
call Of our country and led a
strong force into Canada, thereby
avoiding a draft, which our
doctor said was not good for our
health. AS soon as the cruel
war was over we came back and
applied for a pension for injuries
received by getting too near the
engine Of canal boat, said
engine having formerly belonged
to the U. S. cavalry, We believe
that honesty is the best policy,
but. When the people realize
that we are in the race to stay
they'll rally from the hillside,
they'll rally from the plain" and
they'll como all the way from
Brushy Creek to vote for US,
The country needs great and
brave men, with good moral
chal acters packed in their valises,
who will guard one side of the
good ship OF state while tho other
side is being robbed, and that's
.ho kind Of u man we are. With
.hoao few remarks we place our
self in tho hands Of our enemies.
Portland Enterprise,
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04

pa@oA.. lie is so ravenously
hungry ,ha5 he would eat piece
OF .aw beet at once rather than
We. .y5 minutes for a nicely
con, .4.5 culet. Most medi-
o4 ... yyLave, however, that
f.. after a typhoid pa
Ll..- We en- the road to re-
cove q solid meal is as danger
ou a. he original dose of mi
oru..-. London Mali.
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
HOW MICROBES THRIVE.

One would think that such trif-
ling things as the microbes-sev-
eral millions of which could find
comfortable Accommodations on
he surface Of shilling-would
aot have any special tastes one
way or the other. But they real
Iy are quite particular as to where
they take up their abode. One
kind is only happy when it can
locate itself in somebody's lungs;
another goes to the liver by
choice; another is satisfied when
it gets to the back of the mouth.
Again, one kind will find it's bill
let in a dog or remain homeless;
another prefers pigeon; a third
likes a rabbit the best: a fourth
is not content with anything low
er than man.
Most microbes like man when
they can get him, and the ty-
phoid germ likes nothing else.
He is distinguished from all 9TH
ers of his kind by the fact that
he will have nothing to do with
any other species of animal
whatever, and that, wherever
nan is he is there also. Wheth- =
or in Iceland or India, Canada or
Central America, England or
Australia, the typhoid bacillus is
always to be found wherever men
gather together. And noun
tain is the same as plain to him
island as seaboard. To look at,
he is not much, Just a little,
short, thick rod, with rounded
ends. He is always on the move
When very short he moves quite
'apidly: when a bit long he takes
things easier. No doubt the
great object Of his motion is to
| get into a mans stomach and in
,estines, for when he gets there
ne stays long enough.
He would stay there indefinite
ly for no human power can eject
him but for the curious fact that
after time he poisons himself.
Fortunately all microbes do this
or they would soon clear the
earth of all living things. The
typhoid bacillus does it usually
in about three weeks, sometimes
even in two, but often he takes
four or five or even six. The
course Of the disease in any in
dividual case depends altogether
on the lenght Of time the bacillus
takes to poison himself. AS is
we'll known, doctors do nothing
beyond sustaining the patients
strength and seeing that he is
placed in the best condition to
weather the attack. But from
the moment the bacilli enters the
intestine they continue to manu-
Iacture some extraordinary de-
structive substance, in which
sooner or later, they all die. The
worst of it is that this substance
is also poisonous to human be-
jngs and often kills them first.
It is this fact which produces the
revor, The bacillus himself re-
mains all the time in the intes.
tines, but the poison, called tox
albumin, which he manufactures,
is absorbed into the blood and
brings about that terrible condi-
ton called typhoid fever.
Now and again the fever lasts
five weeks, and it may not end
oven ti'l The lory'oJh day, Thon
oomos the most difficult period
for those in attendance A doc.
.or positively does not tknow what
TO d. with q oonyalesoont ypho.dJ
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
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SAVED A FARMERS HOME,

UnueP the rounded slopes Ol
Mount Rose, on the Princeton
road, stands a battered group Of
farm houses. There Sidney
Griggs, farmer, has fought for
forty years to earn a living from
the soil, There for nearly as
long his wife has aided him, but
to-day all that stands between
them and the loss Of the old home
is the generosity Of Grover
Cleveland.
There are some people about.
the Princeton pike that do not
take to Griggs. But they ac-
knowledge that in the forty years
that he has been making a liv-
ing by the plough he has not
asked or received aid from his
neighbors,
Two or three years ago mis-
fortune came under the roof Of
the gray-shingIed farmhouse.
Day after day the struggle grew,
and then Griggs turned to the
last desperate source of the farm
er-the mortgage.
With the money thus gained
Griggs paid his debts that clung
to the farm, and then bent his
back to lifting the new burden.
It was little use. The sheriff
swooped down on the house under
the hill. He sold out Griggs, and
after forty years of toll the aged
couple found themselves back al
the beginning, worse, if anything,
than when they had begun.
Laird Bellows bought the
farm.
"You 60 back to it," said he to
the old farmer. "just begin again,
and I'll let you have it at a cheap
rent" Gratefully, the old couple
came back to their home.
"I'll give you lease until
April, 1898," said, ''and then if l
don't sell I'll renew
One day last fall a stout man
in shooting clothes came over
the fields and spoke to old
Griggs,
"Nice place you have here,
said he. "Been here long?" he
asked, pleasantly,
"Nigh on forty years. saio
the farmer.
The stout man sat down neal
the doorstep, and Mrs. Grigg'
burst out in a fluttor Of hospitablt
excitement.
"Come in and have a chair
sir" said she; "come righ
in,"
The stout man walked into tho
little farmhouse and they talkeC
of the lands, the shooting, The
weather, and then Of themselves
eyes, sir" said Mrs. Griggs
with conscious pride, "l'm {
Grover"
"Well," said the stranger, "I'u
a Grover too"
"Why, Mr.. Grover, glad tC
meet you," said the farmers
wife, flushed with pleasure. 90
wonder whether we amt re.
lated?"
"Well," explained the stout
stranger, "Grover isn't all my
name. My name is Grover Cleve-
land"
"Grover Cleveland" oXclaim-
ed the old man. "Well! | never
thought to have in this house SO
famous a gentleman"
The former president looked
down at his mud stained shoot
ing boots and smiled. Then he
arose and said Good by"
One day the former president
came again.
"How de do Mr.. Cleveland?"
said the old man, slowly.
"How are you, Griggs?. here
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
letter, Salt Rheum and En-.

The intense itching and smatp
dent to these diseases isinstanthI
by applying Chamberlain 5 Il
Skin Ointment. Many very ID
have been permanently cured hi
is equally efficient for itching pi
a fayorito remedy for sore h h
chapped hands, chilblains, fpS
and chronic sore eyes. Is ctsw
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
snap shots In SGuth
HEhSSGGSsk"

Is a magnificent book Of slyty or
more photo>engraved views Of
varied scenery N Souta MlSsour.
From these views an "rcarate
knowledge can be obtained a. o
TIE productions and gcnere.
topography Of that highIy>iavor.4 q
section thatIs now attracting the
attention of home-se.k krrs and "a
vcstors the country over.
Address J. Z. LOCKWOOD,
g. p. \. Memphis Route,
Kansas City, Mo.
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04
Many Persons

Are broken down from overwork or household
cares Browns Iron Bitters
rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes ex.
cess OF bile, and cures malaria Get the genuine
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04

DIR. Cady's Condition Poua,
just what a horse needs when
condition. Tonic, blood puk.
vermifuge. They are not 10
medicine and the best in use 70
horse in prime condition. r
cents per package.
Sharp County record., 1898-03-04

WhotetouNowolgia9 Dr. Miles, pqhpluJ,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
Johnson's Chill and Fe-
yer Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of fever in
D. Hours.
NEWS AND VIEWS,

Judge" William j. Reilly of Virginia
is a candidate for foreign appointment
at the hands of the government. He has
many reasons tor claiming prefermeDt,
among them being the fact that he is the
only American who ever filled queen
full of bird shot. Years ago he was con-
sui at ozMAmbique, His residence was
near a favorite bathing place. and at
night the female bath3rs would disturb
him with their noise. On one occasion,
being particularly exasperated, he took
his shotgun and fired it at the bathers.
He says his intention was to fire a blank
cartridge, but the cartridge was not
blank, and the Qaeen of Madagascar
caught the charge IF small shot in her
royal body.
A New York paper announces that the
ice crop on the Hudson this winter will
be about normal. 1t has come about,
however, that the natural ice crop cuts
very little ice in the market. There are
SO many artificial ice plants scattered all
over the country that if the natural crop
were to prove flat failure il would NOT
make great deal Of difference. Ice is
one thing in viii 3h human ingenuity has
discounted nature. The chief function
of the natural crop now is to afford deal
ers an excuse for putting up the price.
The governor of Ohio the other day
sent = pardon to a convict i'll the peni-
tertiary at Columbus; but the man re-
fused to come out. He said he had
grown old in Jail, was fairly well salts
fled with his life and would remain
where he was. When the turmoil of the
political conflict in Ohio is taken into
considera ton one cannot wonder that
the old convict preferred to spend his
remaining days in the quiet and securi :
ty of the penitentiary.
Woman is subject never mentioned
In Morocco. 1t would be considered a
terrible breach of etiquette to ask man
about his wife.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12

ct is nos everybody who can f"tl
desperately il love, >" Andrew 5lan2 d.
clares. "Ma2y a young womaa knoas
that she, for one, is not y bora heroine.
We cannot al lave d genius 1or passion.
Indeed that genius IS first, rather uu-
usual, and, secondly, is apt not to be
confined to o single object. Girls ought
not to be educated in q belief in the
coup de foudre. Most Of them will find
some good fellow who is much attached
to them, as they will be to him. They
will marry, if they have luck, and never
think of losing their heart, in the style
of Dido Or AIedea. This has always been
the prose fact of matrimony, and thus
'Hymen peoples every town. If young
women wait for the coup dc foudre and
the handsome knight who comes riding
through the forest, they will Golf St.
Katherine or lead apes in hell. Novels
prove the inadequacy Of the ideal, The
heroine always loves the unsatisfactory
poet, is Tilted, meets the solid squire or
business man and finds that what she
had taken for love was, etc.-we all
know the formula--and lives happy
ever after -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
LUNATlC WITH PISTOL LOOSE.
AN INNATE OF THE ASYLUM SHOT
AT DR.. POWELL.
The Madmau Eluded His Guards and While
Making His Escape Opened Fire
Upon Them and the Doctor.
Is stu at Large.
Is still at Large.

Great excitement was created at the
state lunatic asylum few nights ago by
one of the patients, B. S. Osborne, sent
there from Fulton county.
There was dance 10 one of the build
ings where a great many 'of the conva-
lescent patients had gathered to spend a
pleasant evening under the super
vision and care of attendants and Off
Gals, as is customary and usual.
Some time during the evening Os-
borne went outside with an attendant
on each side of him. Just as they reach
ed the ground he backed away from
them, pulled a pistol ana fired in their
direction and ran towards Dr.. T. O.
Powell
The superintendent had just left the
building and was On his way to his pri-
waite apartments. Osborne continued
towards him and as he passed fired at
him several times, once within six feet.
l,r. Powell did rot know whether Os-
borne knew him or not
The attendants and others pursued
Osborne, but did dot succeed in captur-
ing MIN. Dr. Powell has sent kilograms
to dittereat points and expects to have
him back in a short time
1t is mystery to the officials how he
secured the pistol. 1t is thought he let
himself out Of his room at some time
previous by means of a rope made of
his bedding, as a rope Of that kind was
found hid den in his room. This part Of
the matter is being rigidly investigated.
DR., Powell is rec ewing the oOngratu-
latious of his friends Oh escaping injury,
as it was a miracle he was not killed.
Ben Osborn was adiudged insane
year ago, just after he had shot and kill |
cd rheo Slrader, foreman of the Allan
to LitAographing Company. The killing
was one Of the most Shocking character.
Osborne had been in the employ of the
company ami was discharged. He held |
Shrader responsible for the loss of his |
position and sWOre he would kill him.
Shrader left his work in the evening and |
walked to tue corner Of Alabama aud |
Lloyd streets.
Osborne was there in waiting. and |
shot his victim down without a word |
Shrader died almost instantly. Osborne
said tie had been prosecuted by Shrader
and tfat the man he killed had taken
his soul from him and given it to a dog.
A writ Of luuacy had been sworn out |
for Osborne before the killing, and Of
hcers were hunting for him when he
shot Shrader. He was tried on this writ
and sent to the state asylum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
SAYS THEY ARE ALRIGHT.

MIR. Nasworthv Talks to Macon Paper
About the Condition of the Farmers.
Mr.. F. Nasworthy of Dawson, who is a
prominent warehOuseman and farmer,
was in the city yesterday en- route TO
Louisville While here Mr.. Nasworthy
said that the farmers of southern Geor-
gia are in better condition than they
had been for long while. The cotton
crop is the largest ever raised in that
section, he said, and though the price is
nc " below 5 cents it is not hurting the
farmer so much. 1t is the merchant that
is suffering. Good crops of potatoes,
cane, out of which to make syrup, plenty
of meat and a fairly good corn crop
make it unnecessary for the farmer TO
close out his cotton until he sees fit. A
tremendous amount of the staple is being
held.-Macon News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
4 Timely RetI al,

4 young bUtanist was showing par
ty Of ladies and gentlemen through the
conservatory ana explaining to them
the properties OF some Of the choicest
plants
Among the visitors was q would be
young looking middle aged lady, who
at every description volunteered the
statement tlat the plants and flowers
she had at home were quite equal to
anything exhibited here or indeed any.
where, just as they were passing a
giant cactus she was heard to exclaim:
We'll, this is nothing extraordinary.
/ have a cactus at home that is still
larger. Iplanted and reared it myself :"
Reared it yourself" the professor
gently observed. How remarkablel
This specimen is So years old, ana if
yours is still larger
The lady did not stay to hear any
more, but executed a strategic move
ment to the rear.-Pearson's Weekly
Nowadays when women are trying to
do everything it is not strange that many
things are oyer-done. 1t is not strange
that there are all kinds of physical and
mental disturbances. If the woman
who rs doctor. or a lawyer, or a jour-
naist, or in business would not try to be
a society woman too 1t might be differ
ent; but the woman who knows when
she has done a DAYS work has yet to be
born, Usually woman's way is to keep
doing until she drops. Working in this
way has manifold evils. The most COM
mon trouble resulting from over-exer-
ton, either mentally or physically, is
constipation of the bowels with all its
attendant horrors.
DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
most efTectual remedy in the market.
They work upon the system easily, nat
nrally. There is no unpleasant nausea
after taking them. No griping-nO pain
no disc3mdt They are composed of
material, that 90 through the system
gradually, collecting all impurities, and,
like the good little servants that they
are, sdsposing of them effectually.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
FRIENDLY BAR EXAMINATION.

A Georgia correspondent sends US this
account of young mans oral examina-
ton for the bar by local committee be-
fore an old Judge, who was also an OLD
acquaintance of the candidate. Being
asked, "What is arson?' he scratched his
he d and finally said, ~ believe that's
pizen, amt it?"
On this the old judge, to help him out,
says: "Tut, tut, Jim. Suppose | were
to set fire to your house and burn it
down, what would that be?"
With quick and emphatic reply Jim
said ~ think it would be dad drafted
mean trick -
But although this answer was not
technically accurate, Jim was in the
hands Of his friends and was hcnorably
admitted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
u Sccessful PhrSicians.

We he artily reconmend DR.. Hatha-
way d Co., of 221 So. p DAD St., Allan
ia, Ca, as being perfectly reliable and
remarkably successful in the treatment
of chronic diseases of mon and women.
They cure where others fail. Our read
ers, if in need of medical help, should
certainly write these eminent doctors
and they will receive a free and expert
opinion Of your case by return mail with.
out cost; this certainly is the right way
TO do business. They guarantee their
cares. Write hem today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
Animal Worship.

Swine were adored in Crete, weaseIs
at Thebes, rats and mice in Troas, por.
cupines in Persia, the lapwing in New
Mexico, bulls in Benares, serpents in
Greece and many Of the African coun-
tries. The Hindoos never modest snakes
They call them fathers, brothers, friends
and other endearing names. On the
coast of Guinea hog happening to kill
a snake, the king gave orders that all
the swine should be destroyed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-01-12
SWEETHEART SUED.
Gave Man the Laugh After Getting ALI
HIS Property.

Michael H. collins, of South Bruins
wick township, New Jersey, has broug ut
SUIT in the court Of chancery to have set
aside a deed made by him in conye!1ing
all his property to Agnus Allen. The
property was c1n8eyed in july. 1896, TO,
81 and 'other valuable considerations
The other valuable consideration was her
agreement to marry him. The bill
charges that afterwards the woman only
laughed at him and had him elected from
one of the houses he had decided to her.
Collins, therefore, asks that the deed be
sci as de.