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M'NKSCOUNTYJOI RXAL Oilicial Organ of Batiks County WALLACE L HARDEN, Editor and Fthlisiier. of Subscription. One vo■ ir *0 rcn' t ;;sli nr on t flue HJx mtiDih." .<t sc :-s!’ or r.o cfius on time Jittered nt (h? f*o- (ojffcc ot llorncv Go. <*.* second ■ x matter. Contvibuiicn.i ate aolioitc<!, f-ut C htcsi <>n should vcll. id’. v t!at lu.no.v 1 •*• i ‘ are t*N |T''*tetl to r;;*l i' > tv writs as, tlie it lore they should be short ami ;o the j < 1 The eiUforof iJji; : ] >*r does not hold himself tosponsi'. le for the vi-.u or exj>r • l ns of con rributors. ‘ The JontNAii i* pnMlslictl every Thursday luornint and all jopio -.hould ho in this oflici; not later th in Satnr ay inorninj.’: to insure i siiilivn tion. Address all tonsusuniuations to Wallace T... liar. Va. i.' ' THURSDAY, JULY 8.1807. CARD OF THANKS. Brother Hardman, <>f the Harmony Grove ECHO-GAZETTE., Hermit nsio imbody in die iollowing, even more biucere thanks than these feu words could possibly express for the very nice ami highly complimentary remarks in vour hist issue, in behalf Of the BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL which was so beautifully cxf ressed in the following few worus, and which we believe is the truth almost person ified. We can only hope for the time to come in which these words would lie even morn appropriate than at the present, vet such words ncxci go amiss. “Editor Wallace L. Harden is improving the Hanks County Journal* lie evil! nij,.ke it a good paper if the people of Banks will only give him all the encouragement needed, if they expect to keep a respectable paper m their county.” Now Brother:— Wa are very glad to inform you that our people usually appreciate a good thing when they see it, and we believe that when the Journal becomes as good as the E C HO—G AZE TT E (or nearly so, 1 then our people will awake and will he only 100 glad to offer all the encouragement needed, and then it will becon.e our duty to endeavor to do the rest. Uavi: £ only had nine week’s ex pcrier.ee in this business, we can but fed that every trial will make things better, nu < no has yet become perfect, and we full) real.ze that the point, of perfection which hovers over the Journalistic wor.d is aiicut a* hard to reach as it is to collect back taxes or even ascend the Niagara Falls. Yet that point is where we arc bound for, and can only hope that we may not 1 e side t racked too often or too long* I 'ORGETFUE X ES S. Isa wonderful thing, and has caused many had mistakes, for and a. gainst the Plaint if, this time it was a* gainst defcadent, and came very uear convincing him of gross carelessness ard financi.ii. I**ssc s. We cn :e knew of a fellow who counted back taxes on ,550.000 worth of property, tax at about 1 per cen • What do do yon think he made the total? Weli! to make aslioit story long ln xvent to work and found what the taxes <v< uld be for one year, expect ing to multiply by 15 (in order to oh tain the ani.t for 13 years) hut unfort unaly he for got to do so, and gave out his answer £.300.00. There was an other *390.00 to be added, this was done, and for convenience he lumped the whole thing and called it nearly 310,00,00. Instead of multiplying by 13 at first, and then adding $390,00 His forgetting to multiply by the tin lucky No 13 caused him to be called dowd. Now he says lo’s are very unluekv numbers, and will keep a close watch on the bakers dozen, for all tine to comp, and especially when it comes t<> using it in calculating back taxes He also was very thankful to the friend and brother who so kindly re muffed him of the 86,000 mistake’ 15timing Up. The world is slowly drying up This is a startling fact, but is support ed by statistics of rhe United State weather bureau. If the record con tinues unbroken in less than 100 years this will be arid desert. For the last forty years there has been a gradual decrease in the rainfall Up to ten ycais ago this was hardly noticeable, but far the past eight years the deficiency of rain has been so great as to be alarming. The number of inches of rainfall last year was but a small per cent over half what it was Jen years ago. The rapid decrease it rainfall began iii 1888. That year the precipitation was abnormally largo, registering 64. 98. inc!es. The next year it was mure than ten inches I ..* am.' :r tijr idly decreased until last year the total rainfall was buj 3< * 1 -i dies. The normal rainfall is 51.09 inches or a fraction less fifty two inches every year. Estimating tlic 5199 indies i> the normn| anneal prcc p tation the world is now over two years behind in her rniolal, a: sinning that last year is the new average of yearly rainfall. During the past eight years only ,‘394.58 itiehcs water fcdl. Tire normal rainfall rhoedd have been 415.92, or 61.514 inches d.fhivncy during the e'glit years. Added to this startling deficiency is the deficiency aceumul ated during the six months of the present year jest closed. This deli citncy on June 30th amounted ta 7. 44 inches, which added to the defied ency <4 the eight years am cents 68.78 inches of water yet due the earth by old Jupiter Pluvius. This deficiency amounts to more than twice the total rainfall of the past year, which was lmt 34.12. If the rainfall continues to decrease as fust for the next twenty years as it 1x.,., during tho past eight years by tbo end of that period ihe old world will be as dry as a hot brek. . XO KNOWN REASON’ DVA N’CED. This Is a honible picture to contour plate, hut the fig ires of the men emp loyed by the government to keep a daily record of every trace of water that falls from the heavens show that the rainfall :s decreasing and that if a change in the tide does not come soor. this section of the world will be ad.iy rainless piece of dirt. A close investigation has revealed :1m fact, that there is no known sci- eulific reason for the abnormal condi tion. It is simply an unparrelied freak ot nature which the wisest [of mortals has been nimble to explain. The re cord ef rainfall for the past forty years shows that at no time has there been anything to equal the drying process of the world. Farmers have coinhiined of the excessive droughts, hut they have never thought that the rain didn’t fall at some season of the viar. It has always been thought that the rain fell at some season, and net until now has the shocking fact come : to light that the world was drying! up. This year promises to eclipse aiq year in the recorded history of tbe world. Up to the present time the lainfaT has been far below tht*“ aver ,>; i. and tbe lainv moii.lts ol January aud March are past. If the ratnfalj for the remainder of the year is no more than it has been during the cor responding mouths of the past few j years, then 1897 will break the ieeord j for ury weather. Last year broke all previous records, but this year . lias started.in to even that of 1896. The month of May was the dryest. noiifh @f May ever recorded in tins section and during the month of June just closed the rainfall was less than half the normal. With a deficiency of nc rly eight imhes staring th ; pe >ple ju the face they can hardly hope for pic rainfall to recover its normal be fore He close of the present year. HOW LONG BEFORE THE WOULD MUXS UP The situation is certainly one of in ; tCi’C st despite tlio awful prospect pre-• s ented. It is an attractive but not a ! pleasing study to sit down and figure how long it will be before the inhabi tants of this sphere will be left with out anything to drink, and the earth will le but a piece of parched ecology It is a ghastly thought to think that inside of fifty ’' ears tbc i eople may | be murdering each other for a last dron of water. For years it lias bean noticed that the rivers have been dry ing up. Water courses that once \ver e navigable are now mere sandy hot buried and barred streams. When a 'nin falls the waters overflow the banks of the river, but in f. few dnvs l is again the little straggling creek, i bis is in part explained by the cut ting down of the forests, but the same explanation does not fit the case of deficient rainfall. The large forest uid hold the fallen rain and help it from rushing into the stieams, and by that mentis prevented the floods that today mciiacs the country, but these forests did not conduce to a heavy heavy rainfall. Mr. .T. C, Miirbury, the local fore oast official < f the United States weather bureau, was asked yesterday to explain the abnormal deficiency in the rainfall. He said that there was no reason for it that, could bn ex plained scientifically. Ke conlel not, explain the unusual and rapid decrease during the past few years except that j it might be era of drought that may have ccurri and before in the history i of the world. lie had never heard of a period of unusual drought extending over so many years and could not ex plain the gradual but certain decrease during the last forty years SOME FIGURES ON RAINFALL The record presented below would p rove that such will be the ease. For ten years the annual rainfall has been | as follows: 1888 64.98 inches 1889 64.75 inch* 1890 42.60 inche s 1891 49.97 inches 1892 49.87 inches 1893 3G.43 inches 1894 40.92 inches ’895 45.92 inches 189 G 34.12 inches Prior to 1888 the rainfall averaged about fifty-five and frequertlyjwrn' up above sixty inches. The record shows that every year almost was above the present normal of 51.99.” The above poos to show that this country is getting into a terrible con dition on account of a lack of sufti. chut supply of water, and is a very i strong argument for some action by our national government being taken toward giving our farmers artificial water supply for all purposes, such as irrigating the growing and absolutely necessary crops, and for supplying good and healthy drinking water to every family in the United States. The government lias been giving aid to almost every class of lnisines s long enough without once starting to give the hack bone ot our government the fanning class. It is all wrong for the big arid absolutely independent trusts and hanking concerns to receive the aid of the government by laws looking to the protection by all sorts of round about ways and not give to our most important and absolutely 7 l.eco’sary class the aid that they can not, ot themselves, obtain. The first and most important nssis ancc the government could give, i s the sti] plying of an abundant sup ply of water for all purposes. This could be very easily and more profitably done than one could iniag lie. Tho government would then no i have to levy Tariff duties nor VVlusky ■ or Tobacco taxes, but would on the i 'A other hand very greatly enrich ou r country from North to South and from East to West and would thereby giv the prosperity to tho masses and not to the classes. This drying up of our lands and everything else, might he a very stroug and effectual reminder sent upon our people by the Creator of the Universe, that it is best for us to pre pare for War in time of peace. There can be no doubt about the I fact that drougths cause more loss to (nor j.oopln ili.vn any other single ! cause. Therefore if we have large : and regular crops ofeverytliing we are lire most prosperous and independent people on the earth. There is one way by which our people become even more independent than they are now. This is the way :ooby which every class from Presi dent of Trusts down to the most bum tile class of our farmers will he more henefitted than they ever have been heretofore. It will enable our government to get out of debt, and will thereby loose it from the powerful claws of the British Lyon. This government was very foolish to ever yet within this terrible monsters claws, but became so grad ually that it was hardly perceptible. Notv we can by one grand and united effort free our dves and at the same time greatly enrich ourselves. This is an effort that is within the reach of every section and entirely I unpolitical, being just, as good for one party as it is tor the other, and rio one can raise an objection to a plan by which the hundreds of thousands of our idle and almost helpless laboring people w ho for several years past have I neon unable to obtain regular work. V/lnil if the plan does cost our peo ple one bi'.Hon ($1,060,000 000) dollars? It will take years upon years to spend that large amount. Say our people are willing to spend one million (* 1,- COO,000) million dollars in ' ach state in the union each year for ten years. Don’t vou see that that amount, if put into one or more immense water works plant, and if the liberal use of i water thus taken in charge and util— I ized in the irrigating of our crops ! would very soon yield enough increase ! jn crops to within a few years make ! all the money back that, would be spent in the construction of these water works plants. Not only is there a majority of on,- people who are, or would be, willing to support such a grand * scheme for the benefit of the mass of people, but we believe tlmt at least seventy-five ner cent of our fanners would be only t<>o anxious to L* fU ! tted States government all tin bonds that would be necessary to put these plants into successful operation; they could, and we b live would, all fie sold within the state in which those respective plants would be built. Take the state of Georgia for in stance, don’t you think our people would be only to glad to buy of the Government, bonds of the denomina tions five, ten, ienty twenty-five fifty and one hundred dollars, these bonds to be ledemable with so much water the satire to he used at any time after completition of the Water Works plant to th se respective bond holder’s premises ? Tho cost of suf ficient water works to irrigate Georgia could be made very reasonable amount because we have hundreds of immense natural water piowers which would only li. vu to he utilized by dams lin'd an 1 wheels or br natural flow down through the bo: toms in races cut out jn tiie hillsides. But a better way would be by 7 pump mg through cast iron pipes sufficient large to inigate several counties iu the close neighborhood of the source from which the water is taken. Not only would our farmers and other classes of people he willing to contribute enough each year to put into service not less than 61,000,000 each year for the purpose of securing this most necessary thing for the sue. cessfu! raising of crops, but. they, no doubt, would be willing to pay tor the wat’r they might use on their respect, ive farms Say there is a million dollars put into each state year after year for 20 years, which would bo long enough time to have every family and farm well supplied with water, this would rim the grand tot il expens ; , up to eight hundred and eighty million ($880,000,000) dollars. I his sum would he a very ttifling consideration if taken in comparison with the grout good and receipts which would soon follow the first year’s output of $44,000,000. These Water Works plants would be worth just double the amount of money they would cost. And as our country has spent Bil lions of dollars in the U. S Mail, U- S. Army, U. S- Navy, U. S. Judiciary, U. S. Weather, U. S Fishery, U. 8. Health, U. S. Life saving, U. S. Navi' gation and last but not least U. S. Financial departments and by such enormous expenditures have not once beuefitted our main stay (farmers) the feast bit (with one exception of the U. S. Mail service. \V e believe it. is high time for the farniern who have been hard at work for these hundred years trying to bet. ter themselves, and who have contin ually grown poorer and poorer, while their enemies (the trusts and cem bincs) have been growing richer and richer, and laughing in their sleeves at the unfortunates who are entirely depeutent upon the goodness of their Creator to either make or rum thei r crops by droughts, to wake up from their s.eep, and with one loud erv fo l ' Government aid, demand by a general appeal for the Government to tak ( . some quick steps toward giving them the much needed and inevitable arti ficial irregation. This if carried to completion would most assuredly help all classes, put hundreds of thousands of people to work aud would put the Iron produc. ing sections to mining, would put. the railroads to work hauling iron and all kinds of machinery to he used in va rious industries and which could be run by these immense water powers which are going unused. “The cry of drying up’’ will never do when we, aware of thefact that mors yhau two thirds of the entire earth is water. What was so much water put here for, if it was not to be u . foi all purposes? We hear the echo say to be used in the many different waysi a nd because we well know that these log plants are entirely out of reach of the ordinary farmer or collection of them. Therefore it remains for the whole people to go to work and have pros perity for all of the different branches of business Now, friends and Brother Editors if we all pull together we will succeed with this grand but necessary under taking. Therefore tho Journal earnestly re quests you to lend a helping hand by publishing the loregoing. We cannot wait too long ana ex pect satisfactory result'-. We will meet with strong opposition on the part of trusts, but we (if united) will win the fight and the gqod to be derived will be simple unmeasurable Now lets go to work on this and then say “victory is ours.” The farming class must have the same amount of protection that ah other branches of business have here tofore received. let’s have it. Let s have it soon too. Everything has been crushing the laboring classes for too long a time. Stop this heavy crushing monster before it gets our very throat or we might have to pay for the water we drink, and pay it to some big Standard Oil Company, as jt were. M>*. C. L. Hasbrouck, a druggist at Mention, Mich., says all of the good testimonials that have beer, published by the, manufacturers of Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy could lie duplicated in that town. For sale by R. T. Thompson Homer Ga. Noboay ned hr Ifenrs’rla. Get Dr. Mil ay VU mils from ilnuurlsU “*Ooe cent ado**. amekicn navy fifth. Acording to the figures of commander Kelley 7 of the anicncnn fleet the II S ranks as the fifth power in the seas Taking one battleship of the 1896 type as the unit of fighting force. Great Britiaii ranks first or 57,5 battle ships: France 37,5" Russia 22,5 7 Italy 20; United States, 10: Germany 9,8: Spam 4,5 and Japan 4, other Nations not worth considering as to naval strength, Great Britian is determined to roantain her navel superiorly bv increasing her navel strength and is building 12 battles hins’ France 8, II S. 5 Russia 6; and Italy 2. The U. S. has qbly recently past Germany in nayel strength but no doubt will be inmv years in outranking Italy 7 the fourth on the list. F. E, H. Wants a Mansion in the Sky. The man who built ‘ the house that Jock built,” and whose artistic imagi nation made plans for the “Raeelors’ Domain,” the edifice which stands in the center of the Houston street block, has ai: idea. This idea has come tc Colonel Jack Smith in an emphathic way and he says that he will carry it out imme diately. Next week he will purchase ten acres of land on the Peachtree road, where he will begin work on the elaborate structure ever put up under the sun. To it the pyramids will bo pygmies, and in its height intricate proposition it will almost rival the tower of Babel. Colonel Smith is the head of the great family of that name in United States. He is proud of his lineage and still prouder of his name because he declares he never saw a Smith in his life who was not a good man. Col Smith is wealthy and his building pro clivities are not the result of any idiosyncratic turn, but eume from the desire to gratify a passing whim. He constructed a peculiar building on Peachtree street, the architect mil de signs of which were pronounced most unique. In addition to this, the Bach elors’ Domain is his handiwork. Thi s is a queer building in the middle of the block of North Pryor and Houston streets. Now Colonel Smith is about to car ry out the main idea of his life and gratify an ambition which for yea s he has nursed. He will build tbe Smith mansion. This is to lie an edifice with as many stories as as there are states m the union, and it is to be free to all the Smiths in the world. “I shall collect $1 a month from every Smith in the United States who subscribes until the house is built,’ said Colonel Smith yesterdays “I shall give myself, $lO9 until the work is completed every month, and in ad ditioc to that I shall supervise the work. 1 have ten acres of ground nr, the Peachtree road and it is there that this Smith homestead shall be built. It will he the largest house in the world and w ill cover the full ten acres. I shall have everything in the world lit the woild that people want in the house. It will be a sanitarium, a pleas ure resort, a hotel, a family home aid anything else that they care to have I have writon letters to many of the Smiths in tho United States and shall have blanks filled out which they can I send back to uie giving what tqey wish i to contribute. “From the top of the house I will I build telescopes through which we cyn gaze at the other worlds. I shal have race course also on top, and a good bicycle track also. lam going to have everything in the world that the Smiths want. It would take me a whole day to describe it ali. I am going to begin work :.l once. As fast as the money is received it will be put on the house ” —Constitution. Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema. The intense itching and smarting, inci dent to these diseases, is instantly a 1 lay ed by applying Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very- had case: have been permanently cured by it. It is equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite remedy for sore nippier, chapped hands, chilblains, frost hire; and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box. Dr. Cady’s Condition Powders, arc just what a horse needs when in bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. They are not food but medicine and the best in use to put a horse in prime condition. Price 25 cents per package. For sale by K.- T. Thonpioh: Ilomer. Ga. Money Made Easily and itapidly Head Thisand Tliinlc it Over! We want three or four men will* eneriry and trrit to represent us in Banks and adjoining Conn ies. Will pive them a situations in which they can make money rapidly, the work being* light and emhloymerit the year round. Requires no capital or* great education.- Some of our best salesmen are country boys. Profits quick and absolutely sure. Write at once for full particu lars, Address, li. C. HUDGINS & CO., Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga. We will send you both the weokly Constitution and the Bank* County Journal for $1.25 a year cash. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BAN K S COUNTY JOUR N A L, NLY 50 CENTS PER ANNUM,CA SH GEORGIA. Banks County.— This is to notify all persons that 1 will not be responsible for any debts con tracted by my wife Elizabeth A. Dunnagnn. July 6th, 1897. J. D. Dunnngan. Sheriff Sale for July. GEORGIA: Banks County.— Will be sold on the First Tuesday in July next at the court house in said county, within the legal hours of sale, to the liighest bidder for cash the fol lowing property towit: One tract of land in sam county and State, in the 1464 district G. M , adjoining lands of il. ’!. Smith on East and Mrs, Marris nn the South, VV. A. Griffin col on West and John Herrington on North' the place whereon defendant now re- sides containing forty acres, more or less, and on a settlement read running • rom the Herrington place toGillsviile Said place is well improved there being erected upon it a good dwelling house and necessary out buildings. About fifteen acres in cultivation, said land levied on as the property of Marion Cochran Col. to satisfy three puichascniouey executions issued bum die justice court of the 1464 (list. g. m. said county in favor ol YV. A. Griffin Col. against Marion Cochran. Deed tiled in the clerk’s office of said county as required by hi.v. Levy m-de by H. M. Smith i,. C. June 2, 1597 and tallied over to me. Written notice given defendant in terms of the law- June 2, 1897. J. S, PARKS, Sheriff GEORGI A : Banks County.— Will be r.oklon the first Tuesday in August next at the court house door in said county within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following property to-wit: One ninth undecided interest in four hundred acres of land, more or less, and known as the Joshua Owen horde place, adjoining lands of J. K. Thompson, J. A. Richey. A. J. San ders and other:;. Said land is well im proved and in a high state of cultivation said land lev icd upon us the property of J. O. Owen to satisfy an execution is sued from the Justice court of the 208th diet. G. M. of said county in favor J. 0. Stephens against J. 0. Owen. Levy made and returnee to mo by R. 1) Stephens L. C. Notice given to tenant in possession as required by law'. This June 30th 1897. J. S. PARKS, Sheriff. Everybody who is an y bod y , takes the BAN K S UI ) U TV T Y .1 OTJII K A 1.. W II Y ? Because it is tli e best chea n e s t and Newsiest Weekly in Georgi a —a n and cl on’ t Y'OU forget it . Cut a loaf of bread made of A Iglelieart’s Swans Down Flour. You’ll ’ find it as white aud as light as —swans down. Eat a slice of it and you’ll find its goodness and sweetness equal its looks. is milled from the best winter wheat that the finest soil and climate can produce. Ask for it at your grocer’s, if you want the best bread and pastry that flour will make. IGLEHKART BROS., EVANSVILLE, IND. fj THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Tortoises and turtle have-no teeth* Only one parson in I‘ooo reaches 100 years of age. The best champagne corks cost a bout six cents apiece. Tho people of Borneo make beer from the peppe.s plant. Tile Egyptians attributes the inv ent ion of beer to Osiris. In the fifth century before Christ re fined copper was deemed as precious as gold. More than 1,800 variteties of roses have been cultivated during the pres ent’cenlury. 1 lie Bar k of England contains silver ingots which have lain in its vaults since 1696. About one-fourth of the Africans are Mohammedans and almost three* fonths Pagans A i'r: . a comprises nearly 11,520,000 square miles, and probab’y contains over 190,000,000 people. \ “Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble,” says Mrs, E. G. Gregory, of Frederick-Mown, Mo., “Our doctor’s remedy had failed, then we triad Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave very! speedy relief.” For sale by li. T. Thompson Homer Ga. Please note the Constitution advertisement on page 8, can’t you supply the missing word? Subscribe for both papers, at 51,25 per year, send tho money and orde** to The JOURNAL, HOMFR. Ga. 800 YEARS RACK -Ihe genealogy of Queen Victoria may be traced back to William tbe Conqueror. As The Boston Herald quaintly puts it:“Quoen Victoria is the niece of William IV, who war the brother of George IV, who Was the son of George Iff, who was the grand son of George 11, who was the son of George I, who was the cousin if Anne, who was tho the sister in law of William 111, who was the son-in law of James 11, who was the brother of Charles 11, who was the sou of James I, who was the cousin of Eliza beth, who was the sister of Mary, who was ine sister of Edward VI, who was the son of Henry v T II who was ti e cousin of Richard 111, who was the uncle of Ed ward V, who was the sor. of Edward VI, who was the cousin of Henry IV, who was the son of Henry V, who was the f,on of Henry IV*, who w:oi the cousin of Richard 11, who v.as the grandson of Edward 111, who was •he son of Edwaid If, who was the son of Edward I, who was the son of Henry 111 who was the son of John who was the brother of Richard I, who was the son of Henry 11, who was the cousin of Stephen, who was the cousin of Henry I, who was the brother of William Rufus, who was the son of .William the Conqueror 800 years ago. —Ex BUCKLEX’S ARNICA SALVE The Best Salve in the world for 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 refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by L. J. Sharp & Bro., Har mony Grove, and L. 6. Hardman & Bro., Harmony Grove and Maysvillo* NOTICE Tin* r -ifi Commissioners, of Anderson and Bushviile Districts are requested to meet me at the residence of Airs. Chandler on the 20th lust, for the pur pose of locating the District line in dispute betwen Anderson and Bush viile. July Gth 1897. T. F. 111 LL. _ Or’dv. GEORGIA: Banks County. —To ah whom it may concern: A, T. Edwards guardian for R. A. Edwards now 7 R. A. Stredman, and John E- Edwards applies to me for letters of dismission from said guardianship and I will pass upon his appliction on the first Monday in October next at mv office in Homer said county. Given under my hand and official sig. nature. 'lbis Julj the sth 1897. ' T. F. HILL, Or’dv. President McKinley's mail avera ges from 1,000 to 1,300 letters a clay, and several sack a ot newspapers. The Franks took their names from tne rranctsques, or battle axes, which they threw with deadly effect. The armor of the fourteenth century 1 was so heavy that a fallen knight i could not rise wiibout assistant Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 16, 000 words, and Milton one of 8,000. University graduates rarely exceed 4,000. An Ostrich lives about 30 years, and the average annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes. - Gkit.—■ I>ISSO LUTION NOTICE. , Maysville, Ga., June 14, 1897- i This.is to certify that we have this day dissolved the firm of Smith, Eber harts & Cos., J. T. Smith having bought the interest of J. M. Eberhart and George W. Harmon of Mdse and store ace’ts except those J. M. Eber— hart and George W. Hannon has a copy of signed tip by the firm. IJ. T. Smith resumes all liabilities of the outstanding indebtedness of the for mer arm from .Tan Ist, 1897, and that J. M Eberhart and George W. Har mon are not responsible for any in— debetedness of the former firm. J. T. SMITH [L. S.] J. M. EBERHART [L.S. Geo. W. HARMON L.S. Dont forget to send in you Subscription for the BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL At the remarkably low price 50 cents per annum,if paid for in advance,