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BAMSCOUNTYJOURN A! Official Organ of Banks County.! WALLACE L HARDEN, Editor and Publikhsr. Bate* of SubhCrlj/fioß- One y**r 50 cent* cash or $l.OO on time Six months 25 cents cash or 50 cents on time Mnteredat the Post office at Homer Ca. me second class mutter. Contributions arc but Correspon dents should remember tlm hundreds of people are expected to read their writings, therefore they should be short and to the point. The editor of this paper does not held iii msolf responsible for the views or expressions of con tributors. The joints a l is published every Saturday morning and* 11 copies should be in this office not l*ter than Thursday morning to insura publica tion. Address all communications to Wallace L. Harden, Editor. SATURDAY, MAY 15. 1897. Notice to tlie Public. In order to correct a mistaken idea tbet seems to be prevalent among a jarge number of persons in this conn ty.to the effect that, the Banks County Journal is still being published by the Messrs Hardman, Shaukle Merchan dise Company, of Harmony Grove, we desire to say that this is not the case. Because I have leased the entire outfit for one year, with the privilege of purchasing the entire outfit at the expiration of twelve months. Therefore it is clearly shown by the above that the Banks County Journal is now being run by the undersinged,entirely separate from the Echo Gazette. 1 am the sole lessee, not even having a partner in with me. I desire to say further in order to convince those who are rather uneasy about the life of the Journal and because I am anew comer to this county, and because I believe that it is duty to let the citizens here know that the Journal has gotten into hands that will continue the publication of it just as long as there is the least profit to be made out of it, even ii there is a living in it for the Editor. In justice to you all, will say that when 1 gave up the two Salaried po sitions that I held in the City of At lanta, one the Secretaryship of the Metcalf Lounge Company, and the other that of Secretary of Barnes Lodge No 55 of Odd Fellows I had no other intention than to come here and live, for at least twelve months from April 29th, with the hope that my new field of labor should be profit able enough to justify remaining with you for the next many years. This is still my intention and I fully desire to carry out the same. Trusting tiiat you all will appreciate the fact that I am going to remain here just as long as 1 can make il sufficiently to my interest to justify it. lam going to try my best to make a good citizen for Banks, and iullv expect the cooperation of all of you in trying to make the Journal a grand success. In stating that the editor has been very busy with the necessary changes that always accompanies the change r ■ „ _ Jt _ 1 .1 V .1 . 4 of a business from old hands t\ new ones since liis arrrival in Homer, we think is good and sufficient reason why we were not, at tlie picnic at Wilson’s bridge last Sat urday. Hoping that the young ladies who were thoughtful enough to in quire after the young, but almost strangei editor, will p'ease excuse him on account of urgent business this time, and with the hope that we will have an opportunity to meet and be come acquainted in the future. The Georgia Cracker. It affords us great pleasure to ac knowledge the receipt of the pretty, very attractive and profusely illustrated yellow cover for the Gainesville Special and North Gorgin Mineral Edition of the Georgia Cracker, which is something that will attract the attention and ad miration of any person who is fort unate enough to catch a glimae of any portion of the Georgia Grach cover. It ap pears to have been gotten out for that progressive, and up-to-date little- neigh boring city of Gainesville, by and through the efforts of that grand system of rail roads which penetrates nearly every section of Georgia, known as the Southern Railway whfch passes through Gainesville the special subject of this edition, and to which Gaiiiesvill isdeep ly indepted for the great interest that road feels in Gainesville’s prosperity. Of course the interest of Georgia, Gainesville and the Southern Railway are mutual. But sucli an edition of any paper published in Georgia is some thing of which we all ought to fee! proud. This edition as it appear- to, will have b i . something for which (•aii- mill's, entitled to congraatla (ions. AVe feel sure that if the covering which is before us. and if tli engravings upon i; are criioruii:; to judge the inside of this edition we can do mulling else than predict'a grand sue. ecss for the Georgia Cracker, in its ef forts to very'greatly benefit (not only Gainesville.but ) .this entire section of Georgia. Thin edition will contain a complete and reliable review of North Georgia, gold, ■ minerals, stones and flays. Showing whore they are found apdtheir value. Also.illustrated descrip tions of the various mines and proper ties and the different towns and cities in the mineral belt. It also contains short siietelies of the foremost men who have assisted in their improvement and development. In our humble opinion we believe this edition of the very progressive Georgia Cracker would be a valuable addition to anybody’s home or public library, and we would advise everybody to procure several copies from the Georgia Cracker, and distribute them among their friends and relatives in lis tant countries, state: and cities in or der that we may show to the world at large that the red hills and rocky moun tains of Georgia, and especially those of Northeast Georgia are NOT what they arc suppose to be. (a portion of Cod’s forsaken country,) but there are fortunes in them for those who are inclined to work for them. The Jour nal w is’ids to extend to the Georgia, Crackercoftgratillations and best wishes for a grand success with this splendid under t aking. S. M. INMAN & CO. IS NO Molt E . In the Atlanta Constitution of last Wednesday there appeared an anon .'.ce ment by the firm of S.M.lnman and Cos of that City, that will cause ns much, if not more talk amongst the Farmers in this section {ind all over the Souh. as well as elsewhere all over the country, as a fall of several cents in the selling price* of Cotton would have created. Becaos we believe the head of the old firm, one of the very best, friends to the poorer classes of the country that lias ever risen to the grat prominence in all three branches of life, viz, person ally.fiiiir.ei.i; ly and politically, and we believe, we speak the sentiments of this ■section when we say that we are all very sorry that it becomes necessary all at once,for Mr Sam’l M. Inman to have to make some other City and State his future home. But that is our loss, and whichever other City and State is fortunate enough to catch the - at present, wanderer will have sufficient to make them feel proud indeed. At present we ought to congiv.ielate the City of New York on account of her new acquisition. And we desire to say lake good care of . iait little place Guy .:••• derided !•• ri.il < ire iter New York, j ,i.. , .J| a. you did Atlanta and the Con.-uitution, as well as the Cotton g .... ... and international Exposition airtf we can .-till my. Well done. Mr Inman. Your good works do follow after you, your service to the South,and espcialiy Atlanta will long be fresh in the minds of our people. Every b o and y wh o is an y body, tak e s the B A N K S C O U’N T Y J O U R N A L, W Ii Y ? Because it is the best clie.a]i es t an and Xews ie s t Local Weekly in Georgi a. “GREATEST OR EARTH/ 9 Dr. Milesi Restorative Nervine. Mr. R. T. Caldwell, is book-keeper in the First National Bank.of Fulton, Ky. “I was completely run down. My nerves became so unstpung through loss of sleep and worry that I felt sure I would be com pelled to Rive up my position. ! would lie 1".., r.nd it ,■ 1. bm lit,lb to shako me up so that I could not possibly attend to my business as I should, la connection with this I had liver trouble . heaviness about the stomach, and pains in different parts of my body. I was also much reduced iu flesh. I was persuaded to try Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. I first procured a trial bottle from a local druggist and good results quickly followed. I then procured n dollar bottle, and by the timo I had used this up I was a different man. I am now on my third bottle and am able to sleep soundly and eat regularly, something I could not possibly do before taking your Nervine. I am now recovered, and do not hesitate to pronounce Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine the greatest nervine on earth.” Fulton, Ky. R. T. CALDWELL, i Dr. Miles*.Nervine Is sold cn a positive guarantee that the first bottle will oenefit. All druggists sell it at sl, 6 bottles for $5, or It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, IncL Dr. Miles’ Nervine R “' wu, THE ONLY True Blood Purifier prominently in the public eye to day is Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Therefore get Hood’s a>*‘* ONLY HOOD’S. The highest mountain oil the globe i s noi sft, Everest, but Ml Hercules, on tho Isle of Papua, New Guinea, It is 39,763 feet in height, being 3,781 feet hfgher than Mt, Everest. The longest span of wire in the world is used for n telegraph in India over the river Ristuah. It is over 6,033 feet and is stretched between two hills, 1, 200 feet in height. Ligni travels 157.000 miles per second, But the light that shows us die posperi ty promised us by the present adminis tration is moving down this way ait a much slower rate of speed. But we cannot expect it until 1900. The Mississippi river, from the source of the Missouri to the Eades jetties, is the longest river in tin* world. It is 4,300 miles in length, and drains an area of 1,726,000 square miles. The Amazon is the widest river in the world, and, including the Beni, is 4,000 miles in length and drains 2, 330, 000 square milos of territory. Thereisone peculiarity about Util* little City that it will take u long time to make tho editor of this Journal feel accustomed to. That is the absolute absence of even the faintest sound of a locomotive whistle or bell. These I have been hearing so costantly that tm be without both is calculated to make oil.' feel alii ill* out of town. The largest producing farm in the world lies in the south western corner of Louisiana, owned by a northern syndicate. It run ? 100 miles north and south, This immense tract is divided into conven ient pastures. with stations of ranches every six miles. The fencing nine on tliii farm cost ncaly $50,003, Citizens of Bank Co:—What is the matter with old Banks having a Farm simul&r to the above.? If we had such u farm near Homer it would not be without a Rail Road very long, would it? 'riu* value of a ton of Silver is $37,704,84 Gold being worth only $602,799,21. per ton. But the value of a ton of either Sil ver or Gold, in Cash, would soon pacify almost any ordinary man, but such’ men as those who rule such gigantic concerns as the Standard Oil Cos, and Son them Express Company don’t appear to ever get pacified, although their Gold and Silver values if converted into cash would lie a great deal more than they or any body else could take away with ones self. Y'et they are a great deal more worried than you or I am, Weights of Monies. A million dollars in gold weighs 3,686, and 4 tenths pounds, avoidupois, a niilioti standard silver dollars 5 6,9 31 pounds.::lso avoidupois weight. The telephone wak invented in 1861. n now appears like the very powerful and tyranical B II Telephone and grapb. Company will have a monopoly of the Tel ohon • business until I. 908. But il is lobe hoped that the above named company will not take a great delight in forcing agent many of those loss fortunate Companies who have and are still benefiting the world at-large, at a much more rapid gate since what was thought to have been the last day that the Government would stand back of the Company and say to each and every person "you cannot,and must not make sell rent or do anything else with the Hell telepone without the concent of that company”. Sine then the much smaller and Lvs pow, rful have very 'de arly shown that the old charges for the use of telephones have been entirely too high. This alone ought to arouse the Bell Telephone people to a knowledge that the people generally know hbw the tel ephone people have been legally robbing the very dear people,and that the public I i.s justly entitled to u great reduction ! along this line. >So let’s have it,soon. Your Cough, like a dorr’s hark, is a sign that there is something- foreign around which shouldn’t Le the: c. You can quiet the ncisc, hut the danger may he there just the same. SCOTT’S EMULSION of Cod-liver Oil h not a cough specific; it does not merely allay the symptoms but it does give such strength to the body that it is able to throw off the disease. You know the old proverb of "the ounce of prevention?" Don’t neglect your cough. A book which will tell you more on the subject sent free on re quest. Your druggist keeps Scott’s Emul sion of Cod-liver Oil. Put up in 50 cts. and SI.OO sices. SCOTT & BOWN'E, New York. PROFESSIONAL CARPS () < X. HARDEN 1 M. D. ir#~'Oi m< t: West of Pcblio Square, HOMER, dA. In another column we quote an in terview with Col. E. C. Machen and a Wall St. banker; In our opinion this was a frank admission of the policy of Wail street m general. After amass ing millions of dollars through the gold standard they now propose to hold to it by keeping clown new enter prises so ns to lie able to reap larger dividens Irom the old wrecked com panies that, they have secured through manipulations of trusts and combines in many instances for less than J of the original cost to the builder. Not satisfied with contracting the curren cy to where one dollar will buy what three would before the money power got central of our finances they now propose to throttle new enterprises by holding the surplus money in Wall street where it can better protect through trusts and combines, their ill gotten wealth and in the end unload on the people through their paid ser. vants the miisroom capatalized rail roads etc., by forcing the government to take them and taking in return government bonds with the cry of iess rates of interest which means the same rates when taking into consideration : tbe-price of labor now and in the time j of prosperity. The masses who pay j tile taxes could far better pay 4 per cent, interest xvhen labor amounted to double what it now does than 2 per cent, with the present standard of values, but they go still farther, they propose not only to force the people to guarantee to them, through the government bonds that are exempt from taxes this interest. By strengeu ing the army they propose to keep down the thousands of idle laborers who in desperation strive to throw off the yoke of persecution. Indeed a Monarchy would be an ideal govern ment for such catches, who for per sonal gain ami brutish selfishness would strive to wreck the principals of a government of the people and for the people: BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE. The Best Salve in the world fur Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money r funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by L. J. Sharp & Bro., Har mony Grove, and L. G. Hardman & Bro., Harmony Grove and Maysvill Extra Meeting of tiie Council. The town Council, or Commission ers. of the town of Homer met at 8 o’clock last Tuesday and was called to order by Mayor O. N. Harden. The following Commissioners were present and answered roll call: O N. Harden, R. T. Thompson, Ci’k., J. J. Turko Tr., T. F. Hill., N. J. Ayers and J. I). Ilill. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The committee appointed to make estimates and build a Calaboose failed I to make a report Council then decidee to have bids submitted until to day at '2 o’clock p m. for building the calaboose, also t i t the contract should be let to the low est bidder, at that time, according to suicifications. Council also decided to reconsider their action m rgard to levying taxes and decided to 'ax everything that is not exempt from taxes on account of National or State Laws. The Marshall had no report to make, neiher did the Treasurer, as the town has not yet collected any taxes, The Marshall R. L Presley was directed to call at all places within the city limits, and to assess the property. Mr. .7. J. Turk tendered his service in delivering the lumber to the place to be selected for the calaboose. Mr. J. J). Hill was then sworn into the office of Commissioner of Homer The meeting then adjourned subject to call. YOUR P ESKNT NEED Is pure, rich blood, and a strong and hoalthy body, because with the appr oach of spring ami the beginning of warmer weather your physical system wili undergo radical changes. All the impurities which have accumlated baring colder weather ruus r now be expelled or serious consexuences will result. The one true blood pufier promiently .n the public eye today is Hood’s Sarsaparilla Its record of cures is unequaled. Its sales are the largest in the world. A few Dottles of Hood’s Sarsapari la will prepare you for spring by purifying and enri ching your blood and toning and in vigorating your whole system. SUBS CRIBB FOR THE BANKS C OUSTY .1 O II It N A L, ONLY 00 GENTS PER ANN EM,GAME CONDITION OF THE CROPS. Xnorcano I th Cintml Aoroajye—Heavy Kuiutt Kutitnl. Corn Crop. COTTON, Tho reports from tho different sec tions of the state would indioata an in crease of from 5 to 10 per cent in the acreage of this crop. Planting from ten to 2ti days late. Not plough yet up to indicate the stand. That already np ■{?n tho lower portion o.'the state) look ing badly, from tho unusually cool nights. Long continue,l wet weather all over tho stato lias caused a good deal of delay in farming operations, and I fear that much laud vih be planted with but very poor prep 'ion. COHN. Tho acreage is repartee s about the sumo as last year, with j. nat ation not so good. In some countit n .South and Southwest Georgia corn , s had to be replanted on account of u'<" excessive rainfall, by which mai)| fields were completely drowned out. I’oo early to estimate the stand. Lu.id in many cases poorly prepared, bclause of tho time lust by continued ruin). OATS. r The acreage 10 per cent renter than last year, and the conditjoi very much better. Quite 50 per cent of tho oat crop was sowed last fall, an as nearly all of it escaped winter .kil mgs, there is a good pkrospect for a flaejirop. wheat. I More wheat planted than for several years past. The crop is ported as looking unusually well, bit I fear it wiii yet be seriously iujaie by rust, which is reported from sevei i counties in the middle mi l lower port us of the state. No rust yet reported , ora North Georgia, where wheat is large.; planted. FRUIT. The reports vary very mull as re gards peaches, ranging from j, percent in some enmities up to a fJ crop in others. After a careful st:iy of re ports, I conclude that, the shl.meut of poaches from Georgia this scon will be light, while there will bo pisuty for hisme consumption. Tho sarai may be said of pears. Apples and grapS prom ise a full crop. Plums, cileries and strawberries are all mure orlese'ujured, but will make fair crops. i , STOCK,. } The report on stock of all' inds, as regards both condition and lumbers, compares favorably with las' year, showing a slight increase. No dseases reported, except cholera amou, liogs, which is doing much damage in a few counties. Tho Fnnnoi’d Hoy. Tiie boy on the farm is just abmt the same kind of a boy you will iiud tvery where. Ho is susceptible to the same influences, and, given the same ippor tunity, be will accomplish abort the same results as his fellow in tbttown or city. With perhaps this to hs ad vantasro: The farmer boy is neirer to nature’s great heart and comes to un derstand her ways; and again, tie soli tude of the farm gives him opportunity for communion with self, if Ip is a thinking boy, to come to better mder standing with himself and to k> w his powers and limitations better iglu his his urban prototype. nj Coys every where need tho stimulus of self interest, and this is too ofwi de nied them on the farm. What hr dojis goes into the general fund, as it’.feiß, and he does not see how much lie,wil ing to swell it. Ii the farmer xßd keep his boy on the farm and mak’yJ i a factor in its successful the young man to take his piaefeJj carry on the work when ho isi goijv or*l keep him from seeking a home air for tune out iu the great world so f 11 of doubt and uncertainty, he should, -t an early period of tho boy’s career give him something to do for himself the returns frosi which will be his owi If the farmer raises sheep, then t few well bred slieep; if horses and cifile, some colts and a cow or two; if nelr a market a, coop of nice chickens, |r a garden plot for his own cultivation —something that shall be the iby’s own peculiar property and the retirns from which shall be liis to do lith just us he he will. Not only wili he grow in independence and learn for himself the lessons of failure and ac cess; he will have an enthusiasm for he work in hand, which of itself will <> a guarantee of success; without witch life itself, in its host souse, is a fail're, and a vexed problem in many ho nes will bo forever settled.—Exchange. Wlmaf, Seed CJottim and Corn. Question. —How much in pounds-of the three fertilizing elements—nitro gen, phosphoric acid and potash—lre taken from the soil per acre by a c;op of tO bushels of wheat; how much |iy a crop of 1,200 pounds of seed cotton, and by ten bushels of corn. Answer.— A crop of 10 bushels lof wheat will take from the soil 13 pounds of nitrogen, 6 pruuds of phosphoric acid and 8 95 pounds of potash. Shoild you take, off of the land at the saihe time 1,200 pounds of straw, there world be taken from the soil an additional 6 pounds of nitrogen, 3.03 pounds of phosphoric acid and 9 pounds of potash, besides 3.42 pounds of lime and 2.53 pounds of chloriu In a crop of 1,300 pounds of seed ccjt ton per acre there will be taken from the soil 20 20 pounds of, nitrogen, 10.;|0 pounds of phosphoric acid and 10.(19 pounds of potash; in addition to thesis should be added 4.25 of lime. Most <>f these elements are contained in tbp seed, the lint containing no nitrogen!, only a trace of phosphoric acid and a very small r.monnt of potash. In a crop of 10 bushels of corn, in cluding the stalk as well as the eai, there is taken from the soil 14 pounds of nitrogen, 6 pound of acid phosphate and 12 pounds of potash.—State Agriw cultural Department. 1 New Hotel for Tallulah. A handsome new hotel is to be built at Tallulah Falls ami it will be conducted by Mr. Frank Bell, former ly manager of tin; Aragon. Mr. Bell is now in the north with his family, i>ut he will return to Atlanta in the course of a week or two. Atlantt capital will be invested in tlie hotel and the Blue Ridge and At lantic will assist it financially. It is proposed to advertise Tallulah’s grand scenic attractions and attempt to make it a popular resort. Nature lias done her part and it is believed that if a modern hotel well managed is main tained there, the tails and the rugged scenery will attract a great many visi tors.—Constitution. , TO OUIt CORRHSPONDENTS. Your tatters containing newsy ar ticles from various parts of this sec tion ar * expected to come in almost every week and especially is this the desire of the new editor who Is anew comer to these parts, and who will be pleased to have every one, come to this office so that we rnav become per sonaliy Jcqnainted with each other. The public is also invited to call. Your letters will leeeivc the promt at tention they deserve. If you will call at this office we will offer you such inducements that you will find it to your interest to work. Your letters sent the first time to the new manager must bear your real name ns well as your nomdeplunie which will he kept, l’ie.isa don’t think that because the Journal has changed hands your correspondence is not solicited, on the other hand I want you to feel Hat your news’and interest is our news interest also. NOTICE In order to stimulate a desire on the part of our correspondents who want to write newsy letters to the Journal, but feel a delicacy in doing so, we nuke the fol’owwg offei, to the person who sends us the best news letter from any post office in Banks county between now and the first day of next July we will give one dollar in cash as prize’for their efforts. Trusting that those who arc in the habit of sending us letters, will dotheir best, in order to win this prize, and that each letter will be an improve ment on those that have preeceeded it, and with the the desire that in this way we will be enabled to improve the quality of tlie Journal. We are youry in earnest, Ei>. Banks County Jouxai.. IN OR HE TO GET .ALL OFTHENE V’ S Y O U OUG H T T O It EA D TII E B A KKSOUS T Y J O U RNA L. (S* m „ fi wests it? s £ii ©ST Health Was Greatly Impsk’sd, But Hoctl’s Sarsapari’fa Buiff 14 Up— Lxrco Have AH Disapocp-rod. ‘•I visa tree dod with eruptions oil my' face, which a; . red like scrofula. My health was so much impaired 'that I was advised to .alee Ilocd’c Sarsaparilla to build me up, and I bought six bottles. Before I bad taken ha if of this amount I found that ! was improving. I could rest better at night, and felt refreshed in the morning. I gained ,in flesh and when I had finished .jo six bottles tho sores oa my face had alt disappeared.” J. B. Bod die, Postmaster,. Nashville, No. Carolina. “After suffering from a sore leg for 28 years, four bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla made a complete cure. It is several years since I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, but I have not suffered with any sore or erysip elas in that time.” Mrs. M. J. - Hartley, Lovett, Georgia. Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Best— the One True Blood Purifier. Be hi:!'., to get Hood’s aud only Hood’s, easy to take, easy to buy, iIGOU S FlilS easy to operate. :!sc. — * fljoney Made Easily and Kapidly Read This and Think it Over! tVe want three or l'.mr men with energy and grit to represent us in Banks and adjoining coun ties. Will give them a situations in which they can make money rapidly, the work being light and embloyinent the year round. Requires no capital .or great education. Some of our best salesmen are country boys. Profits quick ami absolutely sure. Write at once for full particu lars, Address, H. C. HUDGINS & CO., Kiser Building, Atlanta, (la. ar£/uem Wp/tf sum f-pF'- I „„ Pfi/CFSP-Ho On ft goods me me Best Qtf# Pjt/CES THE LOWEST