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GOD'S OWN .A. Saturday ?Cv Kev. Alex. W. Bealer "Now you are going back to God's own covntry," Faid a gentlemen to me ap. I lo'c Thoinasvillc the other day, bound for noddle Georgia. God's own country! Thc words clung io me. I have beard them all my life. Tho XngiMnnan has used them as he turned his eyes across the bounding t.<t in thc direction cf the white cliffs of old Albion. They have been uttered in my hearing by the stolid Teuton as bia thoughts flew on rapid wing, to the Fatherland of Ger many, they have rolled in musical ea dence from thc Hps of thc Highlander aa bis thoughts swept him back to ward thc Bonny Hills of Scotland far away. I have heard them softly spoken by thc lean and hungry looking Var kee as memory carried him back '.o thc hrs of Vermont and thc hills of Connecticut, by the North Georgian as, amid thc wircgrass and pine, he talked enthusiastically of the red mud of Bartow, Hall and Cherokee, by thc South Georgian BB, standing on the hills of Murray and Habersham, be looked away to where the gophers and salaruandera plowed their daily way through the yielding fields of sand. God's own country! Where ia that wondrouB land? Ia it in some far ?way country, where the sun ever shines with thc mellow warmth of early morning, where the dew with rainbow robe ia ever sparkling, where honey beef, drunken with the perfume of tho flowers, go staggering through the f\r to store their sweets in distant hive? Ie it in somo far away land aorot s the sea, some enchanted island where fronded palma are lifted high in air, wnere tho breezes, fresh as though they came from off the field of new ffio^n hay on which a warm Juno rain has just fallen are wandering to fan *ne fevered brow? I? it in some wonderoua clime where sunsets never fade into t? e depths of nighi, and where aun'-.a^ never de generate into garish days, where re freshing shades are even found and limpid waters purl along their sandy beds to refresh the traveler passing on his way? No, God's country is not there, for mortal man has never loo&ed upon a land UL? this, nor will such beauties fall upon our enraptured eyes until freed from all the imperfections of the earth, we mount the everlasting hills of God within His Beulah land be yond the gr a vc. Ia this wondrous land io Bomemagio clime where all the men and women ?re poets who weave their golden thoughts into beautiful words, where all the singera of tha earth have been gathered together, where whispering pines and chanting streams and mur muring brooks and singing birds, all combined make a melody that soothes the beuBOS 7??o slumber, sweet? It cannot be in BU oh a place as this for the discordant notes of sin are ever heard rolling round the earth, yes on every little pateh of Paradise the ser pent's trail is st 3n and on every gleaming earthly joy there rests the mark of sorrow's dark and twisted hand. But where then is this wonderoua land, God's own country, of whioh we hear so much? Yon say it is where f/ne heart is nesting in the shadow of the wings of love? This will not do, for the heart is a great deoeiver, we dare not trust it. Love is blind and stumbles often into the diteh of error. I have known the heart to change an old red hill into an oasis in the desert of the world and to throw a halo of beauty about, the little log cabin in the lane, around which the pigs were squealing for their corn and the noisy chanticleer was breaking np the peaoe and quiet of the dawning day. I have known the heart, in its longing to ?hange sn unpainted houso standing stiff and stark beneath the pines in a bed of hot and gleaming sand, into a veritable palaoe surrounded hy the sweetest beauties nature ever lent to this old earth. Nor can we afford to trust to love to find this wondrous place, for love, earth born and base, will lead a man to some shady grove beeide a limpid stream where the dis tillery is opening up its smoking jaws to blow the breath of hell across the land, yea, and will toll him that the place where he can gratify an unnatu ral appetite is God's own country. > We like best to call ? SCOTT'S EMULSION ) a food because it stands so cm I phatically for perfect nutrition. ) And yet in the matter of restor I ing appetite, of giving new I strength to the tissues, especially ? to the nerves, its action is that I of a medicine. v i 2._?5nd ioT fre* ?*?npl*. f SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemfc??, ' i 4^4? S Pearl Street, New York, j Soo sod J i. OD; all druggists. ii a. ..m. ns.! j COUNTRY. eniny Jrieverie. , in Atlanta Journal. You cannot trust love, for he has the power to blind the eyes of man and make bim see beauty in some female that would put the witch of Kndor in a blush of shame and confusion. Where then is God's own country? Listen, and I will tell you. It is in a country where men are at work, where they arccoutented whether they have a banquet or a crust. Where men have, li'*'; the apostle I'aul, lecrned to bo contented in vJiatsoever state they are. There is the trouble with men to day. They arc discontented. Like some fiend of hell let loose. Discontent is roaming through the world. He makes the Englishman discjntented with his homo and ho mutt seek fresher fields in a foreign land and once there, and not getting rich, he looks back aud sighs for the joys he has left behind. He makes the preacher in thc North long for thc South and the one in the South long for the mountains. Ile makes the farmer wish he was a lawyer and the lawyer long to exchange the stuffy courtroom for the fresh air and wav ing fields of thc farm. He makes us wish for that whioh is just beyond our reach and we are unhappy when wo have it not. God's own country? All the coun try is His, for the earth and the full ness thereof belong unto the Lord. Whenever a man has surrendered himself to the Lord and has come to thc conclusion that God knows best what is good for him, viewing it not as he 'oes from the standpoint of time, L-t from tho standpoint of eter nity, that man is in God's country. It is not the country but the man. If any man, I care not who he may be, is trusting fully in the Lord, ho feels that his steps are ordered from above and that God has led him to thc place whero he lives. It may be on the scow clad hills of New Eng land, the mountain sidos of Virginia, the busy streets of New York, Chi cago or Atlanta, it may be on the plains of Texas, in the marshes of Louisiana, among the everglades and oranges of Florida, or on the teeming hills and blooming fields of Georgia, that man, trusting fully in God, is at home, in God's own country. God's own country ? It may be far From the childhood home In the glen God's own oountry? You'll find lt, friend, In the land of the trusting men. Bill Arp's Ideal Girl. Here is Bill Arp'? bit of wisdom that fits every dime, every race, every nation and all time: "Once I was young, but now I am old, and I never have seen a girl -vho went back on her mother who ever oame to be worth a one-eyed button to her husband. It is the law of God. Ii is not exactly in the Bible, but it is written large and lawful on the lives of many misfit homes. If one of you chaps ever run aorosB a girl with a faoe full of roses, who says to rou when you come to the door: "I oannot go for thirty min* utes, for the dishes are not wiped," you wait for that girl. Sit right down on the doorstep and wait for her, be oause some other fellow will como aloog and marry her off, aud thea you lost an angel. Wait for her, and stiek to her like a burr on a mule's tail." Be Kind to Snakes. Most farmers, and espeoially boys, take trouble to bunt down a snake when they are really the farmers* friends. Bf any persons will leave a carriage or team in the road to kill a snake they see upon the roadside. And as for the blaok snake that lives under the bouse or old poroh, it is a greater enemy to mice and rats than the best oat oould possibly be, while it would not harm an infant; in faot, could be termed to be very interest ing. Kindness always wins snakes, and they will show it as perceptibly as most creatures. A blaok snake pet is more cleanly than a dog or eat, is far less trouble, will respond to the familiar call jost as quickly, show every evidence of affection CB sin cerely, and if its fangs should soratoh the skin or even penetrate the flesh the result is not so annoying as the scratches from the briars that come from pioking roses or blackberries. -Women's imper*lotions are known only to their dressmakers. - Umbrellas and friends are seldom around in the hour of need. - You. ?may have noticed that a self-made mac wears tailor-made clothes. - An eccentric woman is one who dresses for comfort regardless of looks. ' -If a girl thinks as much of a ! young man as she does of hersolf I she is afflioied with a disease called love. WHAT IS LOVE? Bomo More or Less Clevor Attompta at a Definition. "What is love?'' was the burning question asked by the company of immortals. "Love," enid the landlady, "is that power BO subtle as to defy an alysis, which draws two people to gether who cannot afford it and en ables me to fill my third story front." "Love," said the society woman, "is the alliance of two families in euch a manner na to produce the fewest offspring and then cut the greatest swath." Said the psychologist: "Love is that set of sensations which, find ing their way through the alTeront nerves, stimulate certain ganglionic centers of the occipital portion of the brain and extend up through the higher arcas of cerebral con sciousness. lt is purely subjective in its action, and, while it has 210 regular synthesis, being extremely diverso in all of its aspects, it seems to bc subject to sotiu.' higher defini tive law as yet undetermined." Said thc college graduate, "Love is tho supreme folly." Said tho octogenarian, "Love is cte nial." S.*;.i ?he theologian, "Love is that divine orce, co-existent with Jeho vah, th., has dwelt in the hearts of men situ the shepherds ?have watch ed their Hocks and which enables us lo force every one to believe in our own particular view?, even if we have to do it with the edge of the sword.*' Said the actress. "Love is on an gel-with plenty of money." Said the bachelor, "Love is an amusement." Said the married man: "Love is the dearest thing in the world. It's the only thing that prevents me from living within my income." Said the vldow, "Love is con stant in its change." Said the dressmaker: "Without love I should go out of business. Love pays all my bills."-Tom Mas son in Life. Where the Bank President Caught Him. The bank president was talking to an applicant for a position in tho bank. "Our employees must be absolute ly honest of course," he said. "I ara honest," replied the appli cant. "Do you pay your debts?" asked the president. "Yes, sir." "Would vou pay even a poker debt?" "Yes, sir." "I'm sorry," said the president, "but we have no place for you." When the applicant had left, a friend of the president ventured to ask: "Why didn't you employ him? He's apparently honest enough." "Well," replied the president, "he probably wouldn't steal, but he tells lies. IN o man ever pays poker debts."-Kansas City Times. Had to Treat Bac't* There was a sensation in a Glas gow street one evening when one man was seen pursuing another at a breakneck pace. The pursued, much the smaller man of t te two, leaped on to a passing car. The Eursuer leaped on almost at hia eels, and, seizing the runaway by tbs collar, the two rolled off the car together on to the street. Deeming it was a thief who had been caught, a crowd collected. "What was he doing?" asked a man as the two struggled to their feet, the larger tightly grabhing the smaller. "Ach, the mean hound," he gasped. "I Stood him a glass o' beer alang there, an' ha waa boltin' without standin' me yin. But I'll watch him." And he marched off his man. Landon fte!lae, In the seventeeiith and eight eenth centuries wuen a London street was newly formed its name end date were frequently recorded on a tablet built into the wall of a corner house. The houses them selves were also sometimes distin guished by initials, names or dates, either placed like the street tablets or on a rain pipe or inside the build ing. Some of these relics still sur* Vive, but there is constant danger of their destruction, for every year ( many old houses are leveler! with, the ground, and streets once impor* j tant cease to exist, are merged into other streets or lose' their impor tance by being renamed.-London Truth. A Hint. Mother-I can't have that young mari staying here so late at night. You must give him a hint of some kind. . Daughter (in the evening)--I am very much afraid Something will happen to you on the streets at night. You must be more careful of yourself and not be out so late. If anything should happen to you, I'd-I'd die! They are engaged now. OASTORXA? ' Bears th? >? The Kind Yon Haw AWrays Bought - Many a man who prides himself 01 his veiaeity thinks it no harm to lie lo a jury. v . - Atrae 1 ero isa-man who isn't afra'd to teakle boarding house hash. - If a TL an is in love with a girl she can forgive him having very tit tle sense about the other things. * S m A Moderate Drinker. At a rneetiug in a large towu in Pennsylvania, at the clo e of the lec ture, a gentleman arose, and was an nounced as Judge So-and-So, Judge cf tbs (Quarter Sessions. He said, "LalicB and Gentlemen-Before the audience is dismissed, I W?BP to say a few words in defence of myBclf and the class I represent. Now. it is very bard to have it publicly stated that I have set a bad example." The speak er had not said that the moderate drinker set a bad example, but that be did not set a good one. ''Now," said he. "I am a moderate drinker. Everybody knows me. I take my glass at home, I take it abroad; I am a moderate drinker. Who dare say anything against me? Whoever saw mc out of the way by drink? If young men followed my example, they would be as I am, respectable and re spected. I challenge thc county to say whether my example is a bad one. Let young men follow my example, and they will bo as I am." A man in the audience cried out, "Give it to him, old man, give ic to him. Put a header or. him." Some one said, "Put that man out." Another gentleman said, "No! let that man re main. Ile is the only son of thc Judge." His own son tried to follow his example, and there was thc result. He was so drunk that he would dis turb a respectable meeting. And I tell you, sir, and I tell you, madam, every one, from the beginning, who has become a drunkard, has become so by tryi?g to be a moderate drinker and failing-Exchange. A Story That Isn't Finished. This oocurred on the annual ex cursion of the Board of Trade, says the Washington Star. The colonel set out to tell a story to a group on the forward deok of the steamer. "There was a lady down in Alex andria who bought a dog when she was up in New York, and took it tD the hotel. Just as soon as she got it to her room" At this point in the narrative the whistle blew for the boat to land, and the colonel allowed he would conclude the story on the grounds. Some time later the same group happened to meet near the buffet, and the colonel took up the thread of the story. "Well, as I was saying, the lady took the dog up to her room and just then her husband came in and said he would not have the dog around. So she remonstrated" Here the dinner bell.rang and the colonel's auditors all trooped off to the shad bake. They said he could finish the story after dinner. So, when the cigars were lighted after dinner, and the same group were sitting around the lagoon, the colonel pro ceeded sgain. "So the husband ripped and stormed around and allowed he wouldn't have the dog in his room, and the lady commenced to cry, and things were looking equally when"- \J At this stage a colored show was" started in the pavilion, and the colo nel's party left him again. The party did not get together until on the street oar, after the boat landed on the return trip. They said the colo nel ought to conolude that story and he went at it again. "Then the lady said that if the husband did not let her bavo the dog that the husband should not go to lodge meeting when they got home, and things were getting interesting for the husband, when" Just then the eondaotor cried: "Transfer for the avenue," and half pf the colonel's audience got off, where upon he said he would tell the ead of that story on next year's e^uroion. - When a giri is afraid a hammock will taoak down with her alone it's ?anny what a lot sore confidence she hts in it sitting in it with a man. "'?- A man has to spend a great deal of money to make people think he has more than he has. WESTERN & A A3 Nashville, Chattan o ST. LOUIS and all poin Three Solid Trains Daily, with I to St, Louis, without change. Only through car service. Atlanta Close connections mr.de at AtlanU Central of Georgia Railway and the S< Foi map folders Or other inform?t! Thos. E. Jones, T. P. A., ? Cha* *E. Harman, Gen. Pa ?L F. Smith, Trafjac Manat Kveryfoody Hot Slarrled Louisville, June 24.-A mother and her two daughters were married today and for an hour Magistrate Velton waa busy performing ceremonies that took three members of one home in JehTersonville and added three to Louisville's population. / Mrs. Edward Marsh Kraft, 51 years old, became the wife-it being her third venture-of George Whitcsburg. Her daughters, Alma and Rosa May, 23 and 20 years old, respectively, were married to Alfred Kopmeister and Frank Burger. Three months ago Alma told her mother she n\as to be married in Juno. Then she told her sinter and the latter admitted that uhe, too, bad consented to take the same step. So arrangements were made for a double wedding. Mrs. Kraft had a card up her sleeve herself. "We will just make this a triangu lar affair," she said and told of her engagement to George "WhiteBburg, a Louisville butcher. It was the original plan of the moth er and daughters to be married with a single ceremony, but Magistrate Vel ton became confused and finally re quested that the tying be doae singly. - The man who knows how to mako love too well forgets, to ask the girl to marry him. ier.G Patos? itching; Qe?fc>!ay Skin Diseases, Swellings, Carbuncles. Scrofula Permanently cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm, lt de?troys the active Poison in the blood. If you have aches and pains in bones, back and Joints, Itching Scabby Skin. Blood feels hot or thin; Swollen Glands Risings and Bumps on the Skin, Mucus Patches tn Mouth, Sore Throat, or offensive eruptions; Copper Colored Spots or Rash on Skin, all .run-down,or nervous: Ulcers on any part of the body, Hair or Eyebrows falling out. Carbuncles or Boils, take Botanic Blood Balm, trnaranfceed to cure even the worst and most deep-seated cases where doctors, patent medicines, and hot springs fail. Heals all sores, stops all aches and pains, reduces all swelllngs.makes bloodpureand rich.completely chang ing the entire body into a eleen, healthy condition. B. B. B. has cured to stay cured thousands of case?of Blood Poison even after reaching the last stages, Old Rheumatism, Catarrh, Eczema are caused by an awful poisoned condition of the Blood, B. B, B, cures Catarrh, stops Hawking and Spitting: cures Rheumatism, with Aches and Pains: heals all Scabs, Scales. Eruptions. Watery Blisters, with Itching and Scratching of Eczema, by giving ? pure, healthy blood supply to effected parts. Cancer Coreel Botanic Blood Balm Cures Cancer* of all Kinds, Suppurating Swellings. Eating Sores. Tumors, ugfy Ulcers, lt kills the Cancer Poison end heals the Sores or worst Cancer perfectly. If you have a presistenf Pimple. Wart, Swellings, Shooting, Stinging Pains, take Blood Balm and they will disappear before they develop into Cancer. Many apparently hopeless cases of Cancer cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm. I OUR ???ii??i i tt.- i alio a large bottle of I I Botanlo Blood Balm( B.B.B.)as directed on label, I fl and ?hen the right quantity ls taken a cure ls I I certain, ?ure and tatting. If not cured your money I | wHI ^promptly b0| refunded without argument. J vv.Botanic Blood Bal?n [U.B.B.] Uw? Pleasant and safe to take. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Composed of Pure Beanie Ingredients. Strengthens Weak Kidneys and Stomachs, cures Dyspepsia. Sold by all Druggists, $1. Per Large Bottle,with complete direction for home cure. Sample Bent Pre? by writing Bipod Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe your trouble, and special frea medical advice, to suit your case, ?ill be seo; ia sealed letter. Evans Pharmacy. ILLINOIS CENTRAI. ?fl DIRECT ROUTE TO THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. Two Trains daily, in connection with W. & A. R. R. and N. C. & St. JJ. Ry from Atlanta. Leave Atlanta. 8:25 a. m. and arrive St. Louis 7:08 a. m. ; leave Atlant? 8:30 p. m. and arrive St. Louis 7:36 p. m. Through Sleeping Care from Geor gia, Florida and Tennessee. Route of the lamons Dixie Flyer. Caiiying the only morning Bleeping car from Atlanta to St. Louis. This car leaves Jacksonville daily at 8:05 p rn, Atlanta 8:25 a m, giving yon tljo. entire day in St. Louis to get locatfrfr For rates ftom.-ja^^y^Vt^Wi Fair Guide Book and schedules,sleep lng oar reservations, also for book showing hotels, boarding houses, quot ing their rates, write to FRED, D. MILLER, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1JNT. Pryor St, Atlante, Ga, TLANTIC R R., ?D ona & St Louis Ry? o- - -v.. ts West and Northwest. 'ullman Palace?,Sleeping Cars, Atlanta to Chicago, without change. . . . :> " ' i pith the Seaboard Air Lipo Railway muthern Railway trains. ?on write to To. 1 North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. ?.Agent. Jg&KILL THE !, jgpf SERPENT i^MfcW|/*/ Thc worst disease the world has ever known, and \5&jr^Mf[/ thc ?roa*e6t scourge to the human race, is Contagious! ^ff Blood Poison. One drop of the virus of this most aHl^HJ horrible of all diseases will pollute and vitiate the M??WMW/ Purest? healthiest blood, and within a short time after fM^MiP/ the first little sore appears the system is filled with the ? awful poison and tue skin breaks out in a red rash ; the glands of the groins swell, the throat and mouth become ulcerated,, the hair and eyebrows drop out, and often the entire surface of the body s covered with copper-colored splotches and sickening sores and erup tions. Contagious Blood Poison is as treacherous and elusive as the serpent. You may be carrying it in your veins with no visible evidences of its existence ; for while ? m ? -__,,,.._?, j _A*-u After Buffering twelve year? mercury and potash seem from OontaaieusBlood Poison, to cure .'.nd all external . aud trying* the beat physicians siens dicnnnPir th*, rlic. v?HKSk f!/f obtainable, and all the patent signs disappear, tne ais- A^m^^M?h medioinesprocurable,andstead? ease is doing its destruc- fGbSfi^Q&M ily continuing to arrow worse,I tive work within nr tho S?tttj?rS?y? sravey.? all hope of recovery, ondi me tvoric Wimm, or tne V/JfivOSSQl physicians pronounced my case patient is constantly ^g^ts^SSt&DS incurable. Hoping against hope,, harassed by returning Itf&?^^VtZf?^ symptoms and unrmstaka- ^- -' twelve wa? cured sound saut ble traces of the blood well, and for two years havohad. _. rri. j e no return cr Bymptom of tho vile disease. poison. Th o u s a nds of Waraaw, N. 0. H. M. BEQIBTEB. i physical wrecks and chronic invalids from the effects of Blood Poison know the uncer tainty of the mercury and potash treatment-that it stifles but does not kill the serpent. As long as there is life in the serpent there is danger in its fangs ; and while your blood is tainted there is danger of infec tion. Safety lies only in crushing out the life of the loathsome disease and killing the serpent. For many years S. S. S. has been known a's an antidote for Blood Poison, It is a remedy composed entirely of vegetable ingredients, and we offer Os,ooo for proof that it containa >^isBW ^east particle of mercury, potash or jfjJ1 "*Zl fjfr 'MnJ other mineral. It thoroughly purifies the sr ^^a^ V^is?jfc^ blood, improves the appetite and diges* ti?n? and tones up all parts of the system* ?^?rifr Jsfr^Zj fl 1? chronic and long-standing caECQ o? ^mnw^xmmw^ Blood Poison, S. S. S. acts promptly and without leaving any bad after-effects^ Write us about your case, and onr physicians will advise with^ out charge, and we will mail you free our home-treatment book tell*' ing all about Contagious Blood Poieon and its different stages an& symptoms. TMESWSFT SP?CmG Af?WTA, G?? . 5 > J 1 ' I I ' To Stove Buyers ! Special attention is invited to a new shipment of ACORN STOYES AND RANGES Which we have just received, and which includes the very .latest pattern* both coal or wood, adapted to the requirements of this market If you require anything in the Stove or Range line we solicit an oppor tunity to explain the merits of THE ACORN. We also carry a complete and up-to-date line of TINWARE, "WOOD ENWARE and HOUSE FURNISHINGS. Guttering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring executed on short notice Yours truly, ARCHER & NORRIS. AFTER THIS DATE We Will Not Retail Fertilizers And Acid Phosphate to Any "We do this for the reason that we are represented here by Merchants; and it will be much better for all cf the retail business to pacB through theil hands, thereby saving a lot of confusion. We therefore respectfully [ask oui friends to call on- : OSBORNE & PW?HSON. ' :'.V -.' OR ^ '/;'. ? " . ? DBAtf St RATLIfFE* Ot any other one of our repxoeentatives here or any adjacent town. We sn I represented at every Xo\7n in the up-country, and hope to merit yon*;; co? inned liberal patronage, ' m> NC :\;::Aad the results show that there it none superior in quality. iHDER?fll HBSPym ?B eu ci. i , I gs 1J- " ' ? ! """MfaP Ttl A A fl Fert?zer. ? j -. Vf '. -j ? - We are Belling Armonr's Gtaano and Acid, and have a few more oars of our contract left. If you want high grade Blood Ammoniated Goods see UB AT OHOS? VANDI?ER BROS* NOW IS THE TIME For Overhauling Carriages and Buggies so as to have them, ready for sesvice in pretty weather, be have a tine lot of material and plen ty good, xeiiabie help, sum will do cut best to please with repairs on all vehicles. FAUIt IR STEPHENS. tri? mo?tr>aa?na aat?e in tnaworid. SITUATED oa and near North Meta Streei. ' Five ru mutes* Walk Oom* Hounel Apply to J. I*. ?Unksealea, Intelligence^ ,O?N>a. Hoti?e to Creditors. ALL persons having demanda again* fha Estate of T). 8. Maxwell, deceased are : aerea j ?oilfivd t? present tham proven* to the ?nderslguot _ ?time prseerlbed hy law, act thc^ndeb^tomi*?j^merit, ' .tflUSS. KATE B. MAXWELL, ?a'x.