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SARGE PLUNKETT. In Months With an Oysters A.re Good. Atlanta Constitution. September has never brought ?ny season of sadness to this neck of the woods. If you will try yon may oaten soy did !auy of the iand humming lit tle snatches of song that tell just as plainly as it could be told that their thoughts are of other days and that they ure Hying over again the sweet days of their .childhood. September never comes aronnd at oar house but what we find some excuse to kindle a fire in the fireplace, and r.fter supper to gather there and talk of things as they used to bo. Some.pretty pic tures come to tho mind of old folk when they allow themselves to indulge in such a pastime. If you never went down into a river bottom where the vinea climb the big trees to their very tops and then stand the ahower of muscadines that would fall in re sponse to a swing upon the limbs, you are hardly prepared^ to enjoy a review of the good things that used to como with the ooming of fall. Muscadines blaok upon the vines meant 'possum fat and potato digging and 'simmon beer sharp and* clear for the Georgia country folk that once to havo enjoy ed means to be remembered with feel ings of pleasure that ripen and im prove as the years pass by. It would be hard to make any old timer believe that fall was the "sad dest of the year." It was some town fellow that got up such an idea. He surely could never have seen the wild grapes as they need to hang along the old fence rows and hedges, nor they cotild never have went ohestnuticg with the boys and girls as they used to go, nor such a man oould never have hunted the 'possum and the coon and eat the roasted potatoes af ter the hunt was through, and I am sure that he never lived in a land where the country parties started with September and run till March. It was a month that ushered in the oyster season and so far it was good with a town poet, but he found noth ing else but sadness in the season. There is no such feeling in this neck of the woods. There has not been a happier time for years than appears now. There has been a most glorious revival of religion in most all of the churches. , Men who never seemed to give religion a thought before have joined the ohurohes and are now zeal: ons. in the work of the Master. The signB are all hopeful in religious mat* ters and pretty ?wu the shuokings will be in and the parties begin. Ev erything around us now impresses the truth that at last the people of the country have many more days of pleas ure than of displeasure or hard work. The merry jingle of song and romp pervades the air, which as good as says all glorious is the fall and a welcome to September. After a few moro days of sunshine I wish it could foo that people every where could slip up on the cotton fields of DeKalb and stand off and watch, the cotton pickers at their work. To watch these pickers would forever convince that' the Sonth is blessed beyond any other section. An Englishman has been telling me and Brown about the hop fields of Eng land, and of what a glorious time the people have in gathering the hops. The same man has convinced us that we know very little of the blessings that are oura by reason of our climate and soils and products. Cotton, he thinks, should bo turned to one of our greatest blessings. It is very similar to the hop raising in England, though to a far greater extent in ita opportu nity for work for children and girls. When we oome to think about it, the children and and women do make the cotton crop almost, and they gatner the greatest portion of it. The men j do the plowing, the women and chil dren do the hoeing and picking. If you could sli,. up on the cotton-fields any day you would be convinced that the girls of the South can find plenty to do in cotton picking time. And they do pick it. As sweet young ladies as can be found in the world pick cotton right here in DeKalb, r.nd,thoy sing and laugh as they pick, and never a thought of its being a . "low calling" enters their minds. This Englishman tells us that tho gathering, of hops aronnd the big towna of his country ia made a joyful occasion of, and he says that some day that cotton picking will bo the samo in tho South. Wheb hop gathering time arrives 4ne people go out from the towns in great nnmW_. and the thing is made a frolic of. aa weil as a source of revenue. Cotton picking is juBt aa olean and nice work as could be found in the world and our children all delight in it until some fool comes aloof; and makea them be lieve that they were bora for greater woA. Me and Brown have spent our time batching tho country boys and girls around us this year. We wore deter mined to seo for ourselves if & little hoeing and cotton picking had a ten dency to make the girls coarse or in any way inferior to what they would have been. We know that it does not hurt these girls, but to the contrary, they grow in the sweet graces and zn health. Mnuy of them bave talked to us about it and they deolare that they feel io much better in every respect. They feel proud of themselves because they do work. It helps us all to know that we are doing some good in thc world. The most . miserable life on earth is to have nothing to do. Work makes these girls strong in body and independent in spirit-they feel proud of themselves and everybody feels proud of them. A few families have held themselves away from this work, but these are growing poorer and poor er every year, till in a short while they will disappear to mingle with the proud poverty-stricken of the towns. Our observation convinces us that a man can raise a family on the farm that will have all the sweet graces of independence and respectability with a worldly possession that would rank him with the slums' in the towns. That is, I mean that a family need not be rich to be as good as the best, if they all work together on the farm. Considerable argument has been brought of late against having these children work, but even tho children themselves have learned that work is necessary and that it is more respecta ble than being a vagabond loafer. I am glad to state that these children who work now because it is necessary will be the prosperous people of the future. There is not an old man or woman living but what can tell the children of today that it has been their observation that the workers are the owners. These old folks could tell the children of having seen very rioh families go to the dogs just from false ideas of life and indolence and extravagance. All of us who have lived long could point out many vic tims to these false ideas. To the con trary, we could point out many who are tho prosperous of today that were hard pr s as ed a generation ago. It is the saddest of things to observe family that is fast arriving at that foolish stage where they think them selves sec .re in their possessions of wealth and sooial position. Perhaps their very parents or grandparents were the "poor folks" of fifty or six ty: yearB ago, and more than apt fifty years more will find the same blood and bone poor again. It strikes me children should be talked to about these things. They are reasonable and can be impressed with one idea as well as with another. Common sense is one of the great needs.of the times, and the foundation for common BCDDO is to understand that we must all live according to our means, that work is necessary and that false pride ia an abomination. But everybody is not goiog to Work, everybody don't have to work. The thing to understand is that work is respectable If people aro able to live without work, it is all right, bat they are not a bit better by not work ing. There will always be some fools who will strive to do as others do, and it amounts to orime for folks not able to strive to live without work. The cot ton fields offer olean and pleasant work to girls and boys, .and it is a oredit to them to go about it. How proud we should all feel of the good girls who go out and help at what they oan, and we should let them know that we ave proud or them-tell them. SARGE PLUNKETT. Scrofula, Ulcers, Cancer, Skin. Trou bles. AT LAST A CORE--TRIAL- TREAT MENT FREE.-Is your skin pallid; pale or blood thin? Are you easily tired or as tired in the morning as when you went to bed? Is there loss of strength? Are you all run down? Aches and pains in bones, joints or back? Weak eyes OP styo on the oyes? 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Describe your trouble and wc will include free personal med ical advice given. Orr-Gray & Co., Wilhite & Wilhito, and Evans Phar Rev. Wm. Henry Strickland. Rev.'Wm. Henry Strickland, an eloquent and faithful minister of the Baptist church, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Thoa. Falt?n, on Friday evening, Aug. 9th. He was born near Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county, in 1839. Pos sessed of a bright and aspiring mind and a natural thirst for knowledge, his efforts took the direction of learn* ing and the acquisition of an ?duca tion. During the time of his attend ance at Mercer University he receiv ed most helpful instruction from Dr. Crawford, the president, and the able faoulty then engaged in the institu tion. Equipped with the culture such instruction and association could furnish, and moreover inspired by an irresistible call to tho service in which his-rtf o was spout,he wasordained when about twenty-five years old to thc siaibiry of tho Baptist church. His first pastorates were in Gwinnett coun ty and afterwards for several years he served the churches of Stone Moun tain, Indian Greek and Decatur. After leaving Decatur he was called to deliver the sacred message of the gospel to numerous churches in North and South Carolina and Tennessee. His last sermon was preached at Jackson Hill church in Atlanta, May 12, 1901. During thc last three months, in creasing feebleness from frequent at tacks of sickness gave warning to watchful friends that his life work was drawing to a close. His love for his divinely commissioned work, however, was unabating. Ho was a man of great natural industry. Dur ing the period of his ministry he pre-' pared and delivered 0301 sermons, and at the same time devoted cara for his family, and attention to all social duties, were not neglected. We re member and love him for many rare and noble qualities, finding Lim al ways cheerful and hopeful, showing keen interest and ready unselfish sym pathy in the joys and sorrows of others. Daring the dosing years of his life he suffered many heavy afflictions from the hand of God. The destruc tion of his home by fire, the loss of a brother and two sons, and then the death of a lovely and affectionate young daughter, followed eaoh other in quiok succession. Yet all these trials served as renewed occasions to exhibit the wouderful courage, hero ism and endurance his character ever displayed. As a preaoher he had, in a remark able degree, the power of fixing the attention of those who heard him, causing him to be remembered and loved years after by even tho little ones of the congregation. The charm of nearfelt sincerity was his. His words did indeed seem to burn and glow with the message his divine Master gave him to deliver. The listener was never troubled by find ing in him any self consciousness of vainglory, and his eloquence partook of the fervor and warmth of the feel ing he had for his theme. All thought of self was swallowod np in the gran deur of the things that belong to the kingdom of Christ. His Christian life and death furnish the Burest testimony to the value of the Christian religion. What are "all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them," what aro all worldly honors, what are wealth, fame pleasure to him whose life work was finer and more enduring than any of these, and whose present possession and reward dazzle the mind with the radiant intensity of their glory? "landing last Sunday morning and gazing upon the still form and placid features of our friend and brother.in Christ, regret and personal bereave ment were lost in the thought of the blessedness and triumph of his death. It was as if tho flaming ohariot de scended at the bright noonday hour, as to the prophet of old, bearing to the soul of this ready and waiting Christian, the invitation from the heavenly court to its last long glo rious flight. And so after more than thirty-six years of almost unresting toil in tho ministry he entered joyfully upon his citizenship in Heavon. Let us think of these things, and take comfort when we remember him, seeking to share his experience and to emnlato his exalted service.-Kate R. Hillyer, in Decatur, Ga., DeKlab Kew Era. A Communication. MB. EDITOR-Allow me to speakfT few words in favor of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I suffered for three years with the bronchitis and could not sleep at nights. I tried several doctors and varions patent medicines, but could get nothing to giva me any relief until my wife got a bottle of this v?!oable medicine, which has com pletely relieved mo.-W. 8. BROCK MAN, Bagnell, Mo. 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Tho conductor recognized Williams.' b?t Wilhams did not recognize the con ductor, and about this fact tho fun of tho story hangs. "Mr. Smith," said tho conductor, after working his train and returning to have a chut with his passenger from Kansas, "I see you are from To peka. Did you ever know a man out there by tho namo of Archie Wil liams?" "Yes, I know him very well," re sponded thc pseudo Smith, after struggling hard to steady his nerve and regain his composure. "Yes, Williams is considerable of a fellow out there. He's Attorney General of the State" "Who, Williams? Attorney Gener al? Well I'llbo d-d!" ejaculated the conductor. "What kind of a peo ple are they out there io Kansas to elect a ohucklehead like that for At torney General? Why, sir, I used to know Williams back here in Illinois -grew up with him, you might Bay .-and of all the dundie pated, slab sided, step- on- himself-and fall- over fellers you ever saw, Williams was the worst. That man Attorney Gen eral? Why, if you will believe me, Mr. Smith, he didn't know law enough to wad a shotgun. He was run out of here because-" "Stop it! St?p it!" yelled Williams, springing to his feet. "There is your blankety blank Smith pass. Take it up and collect fare if you want to, but you oao't abuse me any longer!" Exchange. - "Well," said Snaggs, "I think many dogs have more sense than their masters." "Yes," agreed Craggs, "I have a dog like that myself." And then he wondered why they all laugh ed. ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 3.-Tho Bap tist home mission board today unani mously elected Rev. F. C. Connell, corresponding secretary to fill the va cancy occasioned by the doth of the late Dr. F. H. Kerfoot. Dr. Connell has been pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Va., sinoe 1894. Prior to that time he was assistant secretary of the home mission board in Atlanta. She Knew Amos Keeter. 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