Variety subjects; or, Practical lessons [Contents: The Bible -- Parental Training of Children -- Higher Education -- Woman, Her Origin, Mission and Influence -- Life is Real -- Cultivate a Bright Sunshiny Disposition -- Mans Disloyalty to Gods Moral Government -- Cleveland and Jeffersonian Democracy -- Indian Springs or Mineral Waters -- Relative Duty of Pastor and Church -- Missions -- Prayer Meetings in Our Churches -- Courtship and Marriage -- Force of Habit -- Do all the Good you can and as little Harm as possible -- BarRooms Headquarters for the Devil -- Agriculture -- Democratic Victory -- Little Things -- Humbuggery -- Georgia Legislature -- Absolute Predestination of All Things -- City Life ]

4 preliminary leaves, [13] 191 pages, frontispiece (portrait), 21 cm ; blind-stamped green cloth with gold lettering ; James Matthew Hurst (1821-1910) was from Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia. ; signature of D.C Alford on the front endpaper. Drewry Cade Alford was born in Anderson County, South Carolina in 1856. His father was a merchant and farmer who later moved to Hart County, Georgia and was postmaster at Oak Bower for many years, all are descended from James Alford who migrated from Boston to North Carolina about 1730. D.C Alford became a successful businessman and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee, and was director of the Hartwell Bank. His motto was "Buy the truth early, and sell it not" --Men of Mark in Georgia ; Contents: The Bible -- Parental Training of Children -- Higher Education -- Woman, Her Origin, Mission and Influence -- Life is Real -- Cultivate a Bright Sunshiny Disposition -- Mans Disloyalty to Gods Moral Government -- Cleveland and Jeffersonian Democracy -- Indian Springs or Mineral Waters -- Relative Duty of Pastor and Church -- Missions -- Prayer Meetings in Our Churches -- Courtship and Marriage -- Force of Habit -- Do all the Good you can and as little Harm as possible -- BarRooms Headquarters for the Devil -- Agriculture -- Democratic Victory -- Little Things -- Humbuggery -- Georgia Legislature -- Absolute Predestination of All Things -- City Life ; "The subject of Christianity Education Morality Vice and Intemperance Politics Political Economy Commerce and Agriculture Family Government and Relations of Parent and Child and many other important subjects as they appear in the index of this book and the author without egotism or arrogance to himself will venture to say that no family should be without this book "--Preface; VG.…