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JUNKSCOIJXTY journal oaicia'orjaurtf Bmln County WALLACE L HARDEN. Editor asd Publisher. Kate* r SnbtK tlpUon. on * ,er 0 eon-.* <:*h or *I.OO nntim* Six months 2.v cants cash orso .■ri.'a'W " Mitered at the Postojflre at Homer Gd. <ti second cuib'S matte?. Contributions arc so.teileU, t dents should rouicmh.-r thnt h. ndre.D of r°r>° *r experts.l to rend their writing. therefore they should lw short ml to the pomt. 'fh* editor of this poper does not ** *“ •sponsible for the ..* expres.rons of con ributor*. •rue JOfKS.Vi. U published every Thursday morning audj.iii I Water than Saturday morning to msu.e I"*> tu , Address all communications to V abase \ J , • ;srden, Editor. T lUR'DAY, SEPT 9 If yon are :d net-tl of any kind of PUIM.DUV: stub as Letter Heads Hill Heads,Note Heads, Envelopes, p ofj . fl ] Cards or any other knnl of the amall jobs of priming done- it. will no doubt puv you to have us furnish you with the same. Don’t fail to get our prices before making your purchase ot these goods for yo.tr Pall aud Win ,er imsines. The JOURNAL can and will save you money, if it is given the opportunity to do so. 1 Family itonnion. On August 26th 1597; A ru union of the Newton Suddeth fnniny ns held at. Mr. Zach Su ldetb’s beautitul country home near the line of Hunks, and the corners of Jackson aud Ha.'l counties- All the sons and daughters of these elderly people were present with their families; Gainesville, Jefferson, Augusta and other parts of the state were represented. When the buggies and wagons had censed rolling in from all the surroun ding counties all met at Midway Me ihodist church near by, to worship. An interesting sermon was preached bv Dr. Curti c Rev, Mr. Ilanby delivered an address on -‘Family Re unions.” --Re -union” thrilled the hearts of all, and one felt that it. was good to lie there. IY.m: 1 i TT v -viiou was lost sight of, "ami the n,and heart was placed on th ; happy, blissful re union beyond the grave. After church services, ail re-assem bled at the home of Mr. Zach Suddeth, under the shade- of the beautify! trees where in a snort w hile dinner was spread; the dinner was like the bless ings at the church; it came from an in cx.TJstibh: source. When the afternoon was far spent an d the time for separation was near, Mr. and .lbs. Suddeth called togather id! their sons and daughters with all their famili, s, for farewell talks. It was bite, csting to hear this large family talk; the aged father had lived 57 years with bis wife, his family of nine children were all alive and m vig orous health. There were something over 80 grand children present, and not a one had died since their lust year’s re-muon. After talks from different ones, they all renewed their vows to God, and asked his guidance and blessings tu the future. “Re-umon must be tiie link which binds togather Home and Heaven and around which plays the Christian gra ces Faith, Hope and Love togather with many others. A F R 1 TON'D. it Haves tlie Croupy CliiMren- H , V iew Va.— We have a splendid sMe on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and our customers coming from far a.ul near, speak of it in the h,ghost terms. Many have said that thou children would have died of croup if Chamberlain’s Cough Kemedv had not been grven.-K-iu.AM & v't mujv The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by R. T‘ Thompson, Homer, G. Vf. R. SMITH’S COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, KY. Is where hundreds of clerks, iaruiei boys and others have invested 890 for lull ion and board , for an education and are now getting f 1.000 and over a year. Rend ad. and keep ilus no tice for referen- e. Rememeraber m order that your letters mav reach this college, to address only W. R. SMITH. Lexington, Ky. Everybody who is any body, takes the COUNTY JOURNAL W II Y ? Because it is thh be st cheapest, and Newsiest „,1 Weekly in Georgia „ „ ddos’t YOU I o rget 1 Tomorrow is nearly always the most happy part of most peoples’lives; tomoraow never was seen d> any w SOW lives, or ever did live. ALL SORTS OP —■ ISI'OIOIATION Commissioner Mesbit'.’s Inquiry Ct x For the Month. NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ANoVERED |luff t(> Horrtt <1 ro 11 >mJpH**— Johnson OrrtMji For Jly Lla-i to Mop (lie lt +v* BV e of ilnx •> * qt* Artliot rim! i iioum* hern —rutting Uii • "lapoit lijiip* '*r U<e I*i the '•prlnjj, K: O. QonsTioa.— Pieaso civ nn a qni k aim offectiva method of harvesting (fioundpeaa so as to save the vines ns well ns tho nuts. The gathering of this crop comes at such a bu-'y seas m that. 1 am always more or lass perplexed as to bow I shall manage to got everything pronerlv attended to. By the usual method of digging nml drying by hand the bay is not saved in good condition, and illnc!i o ft. is otton lost, this plan is also slow and wearisome when so much other work is pressing. • Answer. The Spanish gronndpoas form thoir nuts very oiose to the crown j of the plant, and therefore if they are j barred off with an ordinary plow they I may bo pulled up by hand, and all, or | nearly all, of the nuts will cling to the 1 vines. Those must thou bo piled in j Wind rows, roots up, nuts on top. Allow them to stand until next day, and then stark around a pole, taking care to have , a layer of rails on the ground to protect j the lower part of the stack from damp- i ness, and also to leave air space around 1 the pole sufficient for ventilation. In j making the stack the order of placing . should be reversed, nuts within, vines j without. When tho stack is finished cap carefully to prevent injury from rain. In about three weeks the nuts will he ready for picking off by hand, mid tho hay cured sufficiently to be stored. Groundpeas belong to the fam ily of legumes, and like all cf their kind, the tops are good for forage. Tor other varieties than the Spanish it. will be necessary to use a plow made especially to run under the vines and cut the top root, when it will be found comparatively easy to pull the vines up without loosening the nuts. Bur if the soil is very heavy, even this will not answer. In such a cime run a turning plow near the vines first, and in this furrow run a sweep, which,has had cue wing turned up to act as a bar or land slide, and the other flattened aud made sharp to run under the vines. The gath ering, curing and stacking oau then be managed as above.—State Agricultural Department. I'ir9<ctHS<i Compost Heaps. Question. —In the intervals of leisure from more pressing work, I am anxious to par up some lirstclass compost heaps for use when my spring crops arc planted. I have tried mixing kaimt and superphosphate with tho manure with success, what 1 want to know is, will caustic lime ha equally effective in helping to preserve the manure from wasting until such tiui'3 as 1 may wish to use it ? Answer —Oua objection to nsin caustic liras in a manure or compost heap ir, that after fermentation begins the lime bus a tendency to cause the es cape of ammonia. This might he, in a measure, prevented by covering the heap closely with earth ami packing down. Lime also tends to convert the available'nitrogen of manure into lesi desirable forms, and although, after the lime ie applied to the soil, this loss is iu a measure made up for by the power of the lime to promote nutrifica tion in the soil, we do not think it fully compeusat.es for the first loss. Lime should never be used in connec tion with a superphosphate, because it wiil convert its phosphoric acid into in soluble form. Therefore we would ad vise the continued nss of the superphos phate and kaiiiit rather than the lime. The kaiuit will arrest the formation of ammonia and the superphosphate will prevent if.i escape. They also supply potash and phosphoric acid, iu which the manure if. somewhat deficient. It is much more important, however, that the manure heap be properly construc ted, than that we invest iu expensive materials to prevent the escape of its valuable plant food elements. In build ing the manure heap, if we ara careful to exclude the air as far as possible ami to keep the moisture uniform, that is not having the heap too wot at one time and too dry at another, we will conserve tlio valuable fertilizing con stituents of the mass and euabie the manure to go through a uniform fer mentation, which wiil not only increase its own value, but prevent it from act ing injuriously to the soil. The ques tion of properly managing farm yard manure is one that has received the most careful study, and it is found that tne most effective methods are the sim plest, those which involve the smallest intelligent expenditure of time, money and labor. Any unnecessary haudliug is expensive and we should plan so as to secure a maximum return at a mini mum cost in ail the it-ms.—State Agri cultuul Department. Grass. Question'.— With all the lights before you, wouid you advise a farmer to plant Johnson grass for hay? Answer. —There is probably no hay crop more certain than Johnson gras?, and some farmers, who have tried it, •pronounce it unsurpassed for abundance of yield and quality. But there are many things to be taken into consider ation, and other farmers are equally pronounced in their opposition to it. Iu The'discovery of McElfree’s Wn <>f Cardui has brought about a revolution in the treatment of the common com plaints from wh-cbali women some times suffer, callab “Female Diseases. The belief that. - hese taoubles could only qe treated after examinations l>j physicians, and frequently only ue cured bv the surgeon’s knife, was oace vribesoreab- The dreap of such treat ment, uud exposure kept thousands of modost women silent about their sufi enug. They preferred the pairs to aud torture to going to a physician a. bout such mrtters, rfc .* "t. ELECTRIC BITTERS. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhapse more gene, orally needed when thelangnid, exhaus ted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has ‘often averted long and perhapse fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act mol-e surely in con literacting and freeing the system from from the malarial poison. Headache Indigestion, constipation, dizziness yenieakl to Electric Bitters. 60 cent and SI.OO per hot tie at E. .1. Sharp arid Bro’s Harmonv Drove. And at L (t. Hardman and Urn's Harmony drove andMaysville viaw of sno'n conflicting opinions. It Is only fair to state both side.! of the ques tion and leave oaoh individual to choose whether it suit* his special needs or whether it is better to leave its cultiva vation to some otic oise. In tho first place then its advantages are as follows: It is perennial, that is, it will last for a number of years. It is unlike many other grasses in its de pendence oil moisture at a certain pe riod of its growth. All through the early spring, the summer and late fall it responds to rains If ihoseare abutid ant three or four cuttings are possible, and oven nnder adverse circumslauoos, one cutting is always certain. Once set, therefore, it may be depended on for an almost certain yield for many successive years. On the other hand, among the disad vantages of having a permanent field of Johnson grass, are: Its certainty to spread, both by underground stems and by its millions of seeds, which, if al lowed to mature, are scattered in every Girw'.tiou. The iast may be entirely prevented by mowing clean as often as the plants show a disposition to perfect seed, three or four limns during irs sea son of growth. If the field in which this grass is grown i3 in a measure iso lated from the rest of the farm, aud if no plow is put into it, whereby a care less farm baud may transport the roots from one part of the farm to another, thsro is little danger of propagating it in this way. Another disadvantage 13 that, while Job ison grass, if out at the proper stage, that is, jut after it has bloomed and is ready to fm ■ u heads, i;i make splendid liay, if the cutting is delayed bovo.'id this period the hay becomes t.eigh and woody and stock will not eat it. Still another objection Is that it is very diiilcult to eradicate it. Once it has taken possession of a fisid, it must be given over to it without question. While under some conditions this might constitute a vary serious ob jection, under others it might be re gardod as a positive advantage. The hav, when cut at the proper time and properly cured, is fine, the yield is cer tain and generally atmud mt. Iu view of these facts, if one ha3 a field suited for its cultivation, why not let it take possession uud thus secure at little ao3t and trouble a nutritious hay, the de mand for which is never fuiiy supplied. We know some intelligent farmers who are enthusiastic supporters of Johnson grass when plantod under the above re gtrictions.—Scat: Agricultural Depart ment. Gam in, Crlm-*‘u *•<! .T inin t’i*ver. Question. —Doea Grin.tu or Grimsou clover improve fclie Inn i as tiiuoh hs the I;ad or White clover? Is the gathering of nitrogen the only benefit which tho clovers render the land? P*ease toll me something about Japan clover. I have heard that it. wiil improve the laud, furnish good pasturage and that if- does not- require as much manure or tho same care as tne other varieties. Answer —The Crimson clover semis its roots down deep in the earth, but be ing an annual it probably doos not im prove the laud as much as the biennial Red clover. Whits clover, though a le gume, does not benefit the laud as much as cither the Scarlet or tho lied clover, the roots not penetrating tho oarth to the same depth as the others. Where a green crop is needed for turning under in the early spring, tho Scarlet clover is tho best vf the three, as it makes a very heavy growth in the late winter and early spring. The clovers ami other lo games not only gather nitrogen for iu tore crops, but their strong, long roots penetrate the subsoil and loosen it up, thus rendering the succeeding crop less liable to suffer either from excessive rains or from drouth. Iu addition, their j decaying roota fu/iish humus to the soil. Japan ciov/r (liespedez t striata) ] belongs to the family of legumes and is 'an annual. 011 poor land its growth w i low aud rereading, but 011 good land it will grow from 15 to 20 inches Sail and ! yield a fine crop of excellent hay. It j seems to prefer dry clay soils and will | grow on lands of this character that are I too poor for the other clover?. It is a ! good renovator, sending its roots deep into the ground aud holding its own against all other plants. A3 far as tested it does not succeed well 011 sandy lands. I advise its plantiug on thin hillsides, whore it can be pastured dar ing the summer, all stock being fond of it. Sow in the spring, broadcusting from 15 to 18 pounds of seed to the w.ra—State Agricultural Department. f . fU3!AN TEa cures Dys.iensla, Constipation and Indigestion | <K Regulator. vbe Liver. Pr'cs. K Tt has now been demonstrated that nine case3 out of ten of women’s disorders, painful and troublesome as they are, do t ot require the attention of a physician at all. “Local larat ment” or “private examine,tions” have been shown to be entirely un nco'-srafv. The simple, pure wine of Cardui, taken in the privacy of tlic home insures quick relief. It is entirely unnecessary for any woman to suffer from these almost universal complaints. She can get a bottle of McElree’s Wine ol Cardui at the nearest, drug store for if 1,90 and quickly put an end to the rn pleasant pains and derangements. Thousands of women are well to,dnyj because they did that. IT** Rye. Question. —Is there any cheap crop thnt I can rover my lands wit> during the winter? I know it is a mistake to | leave thorn bare, but oloy/'r and vetch are uxpeu-nve crop*, atuc nnlosstbe land is rich ami ail conditions suitable they often fail. I tvant something witlrn the reach of u i ordinary fanner, and which I. cm taka off in tho spring in time for other crops. AsswKit.—For your purpose I think yon could use nothing better than rye. It is of course an injury to the land to remain bare for several mouths, subject to the leaching and washing of our heavy winter rains. This is tho chief reason why cotton culture is so iujari- , ous to land. The crop takes from the ! soil less plant food than any of the sta ple crops of the country, but the cotton fields being loft- bare of vegetation, and subjected for the entire winter to the washing and leaching of heavy rains, are rapidly deprived of some elements of point food,' particularly of nitrogen By sowing from 3 to 4 pucks of rye to the acre from Sept. 1 to J.’) you will pro tect your laud largely from washing, you will have a good pasture Mir y:h the late fail and winter for all your stock, and you will have the gr>*en stub ble fe<> turn under iu the spring. You can plant rye without injury to the grow ing crop by running a shallow sweep furrow through the middles of the rows, having first sowed the seed ane&tl of the plow. Tu is plan can als > he prac ticed suoodssfifiiy with oats, pasturing them in the winter and turning them under iu the spring. Of the two, how ever, I prefer the rye, as better able to withstand the cod. ami as being of more rapid growth aud earlier ma turity. Should you prefer to make hay of tho rye, co.ise to pasture it after Christmas, ami cut when starting to run up and then turn under the stub ble. Where you expect to cut the rye you must of coins knock down the cot ton stalks iu good time, so that- tbey will not interfere with the reaper or cradle. —State Agricultural Department. BUOKLE.VS A R NICA S AI. V E The Best, Salvo in the world fo Cuf.s, Bruises, Sores* Ulcers, Snk Rheum, Fever Son s, 'rotter* Chapped Hands, Chilblains, C ;rns, and all Skin Erupt ions, and p isitively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect salmi.action or moony rriunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by I*. j. Sharp & II ir monv Grove, and L. G. Hir bn ii & Bro., Harmony Grove, and Miysville. VIA www At Nashville, lend May Ist to Oct, 35s t. The Buildings of the Tennessee Centennial, in number* and architectural beauty, sur pass Allan e’s and nearly equal Chicago's. The exSiibiv arc aiS ready, ami are inter esting end in- Lactive-. The five stock display exerts any txiiibiiiiifl of the kind ever wade. Tho Midway is great. The Westers & Atlantic Ftv-rcved, estd the Nashville, Chattanooga S. St, Louis Railway faa solid vestibule trains will. PuHmaa’s finest Mespitif; cars, front Atlanta t Nashville. For Sleeping Car Berths, or any information about rates, Hotel or Boarding He use occommodetloos in Nashville, call open c-r writs to f, E. HARMAN, GtneroS Pass. Ageni, ATLANTA, GA. Cnnrief 6Uv*tvck> Ik* K®ad Trip keies IvOIbC©, it, Hasfnife are cneflpw —. ———staying at home. The Best FAl.Vraml OJL Are found at HARDMAN BROS'DMGSTORE Harmony Grove. You can paint up your old buggy cheap by getting your Faint from them- Some of our very dear neighboring people manage somehow to talk a ores', deal; yet fail to sav what they ought to, and in fact say very little. Beautiful Bird Uoolr. It is for the soundest of economic rea sons that children should he taught to like birds, to study them and to pre serve them from harm. The prosperity of farmer and gardener depends in great measure on it. So does the thrifty growth of shade trees in town and city streets. Everything that tends to foster this affection and care for birds among boys and girls, therefore, is to bo wel comed. A book cm the subject of the birds o' America has been written by Mabel Os good Wright. Dr. Elliott Cones, Ameri ca’s leading ornithologist, has given Mrs. Wright the benefit of his scientific knowledge in the preparation of the volume. It has 111 exquisite illustn tions, drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. It is written in the form of a story an' is well adapted to he read aloud in schools. Tiie hook cousins exact de scriptions of the feathered creatures it deals with, so that any key or girl can identify tb.eia. .. CUT THIS OUT anti pent] it and thirty centß in stamps to the editor of the Banks County Journal and we will send for six (C) months The Youth's Advoca'e, Pub lished at Nashville, Tenn. Regular price for six montns is 60 cents, or one dollar per year. Never before lias such a pnpor been offered for ouo doiiar. if at, any I rice. (Remember, our special thirty rents offer is for Lew subscribers only Read the following, which w ill explain some of the advantages of the Youth’s Advocate aud our offer (ogive nßiey cle, Gold Watch, Sf holarship, Etc. free: The Youth’s Advocate, an illustrate*, uemi-monthly Journal of sixteen large pages printed on a very high grade of paper. Establised I8"d- Sampl ■ copies sent free.. Yon fit.' Peope. Subscribe fer a naj er that its elevating in character, moral in tone anb especially interesting and profitable to young people but. read with interest and profit by people . f All Ages. Some vf the Lest talent to be found has been regularly employed for diffe-'ent. depnrments. NuniL-noni inatioual. Jt would De useless for us to comment on the advantages of gur.h paper going into evev house hold- where mortal influence and lit erary aceornplisnnienis should he en con raged and cultivated. Such a tenus to prevent young people from culti vating the habit of reading iinproii table and demoralizing literal me. It is strongly inpors and by I eneiiertt, Miuiste-s, Business men aud others. A Bicye!*, Gold IVajch, Diamond Ring or a scholarsmp iu Draughoii ft Practical Business College, Nashville Tent:, or Texarkana, ! exits; or n scholarship in most any reputaoie Business College or Literary jachooi in the United States, can be secured ; Ly doing a little work for us at home. Largo cash commission paid agents Address Youth's Advocate Pub. Cos, Nashville Tenn., (Don’t tail to send order for special six months offer as above directed.) Tho name of the work is “Citizen Biid. ” We find from it that there are nearly 1,000 different native birds in America. The way for children to study a bird and describe it is set down as follows: The boy or girl takes a pencil and notebook and passes into woods, orchard or garden. The observer sits quietly till n bird comes hopping along. He does not move or frighten it, but simply looks closely at it, Ho examines and notes down first its size, as nearly as he ean estimate it, then the oolor of its head, throat, breast, back, tail and wings. We learn further from our book that birds which catch and eat other birds are called cannibal birds, aud that among these cannibals the female is usually larger and Wronger than the male. If children go about among the wild birds gently, not frightening or hurting them, tha little creatures will soon cease to be afraid of them, and will come and hep around them and look up fearlessly at them. We know once of a little girl who lived in a min ing camp iu tho west. She had mostly to amuse herself, and so made friends with tiie wild creatures in the country around. They grew so accustomed to her that squirrels would perch fearlessly upon her shoulder, and she often came into camp with wood birds flying all about her head. At its last session the Pennsylvania legislature passed a thoroughgoing law for the protection of the fruit interests of the state. It was a law against in fectious diseases among fruit trees. It is directed against such affections as peach yellows, pear blight aud tiie black knot among plums, also the peach rosette cr any contagious disease among cherry trees. Tho law ought by all moans to have included among contagious dis eases the caterpillar that strips fruit trees of their leaves and makes great nests iu the branches. In each township or borough there will be a board to see that the provisions of the law are exe cuted, in case the owner of the infected fruit or fruit trees baa not the sense aud public spirit to destroy such trees or fruit himself. It is expected that the law will in timo stamp out peach yel lows, blsok knot and pear blight in tha state. Heart TroubSs Quickly Cared, A Convincing TesSiMionSjftJu ~ A ’k IV '4^s/ Miss Ella Kurtz. “For 19 years 1 suffered from heart trou ble. During that time I was treated by five different physicians. All o? them claimed that I could not be cured. I was greatly troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation and pain in the side. If I be came excited, or exerted myself in tbe least, the pain in my side became very severe. At times it seemed as though needles were foot ing through my svie. Sometime in the month of November last. I commenced taking DR. MILES’ HEART CURE and since then I have improved steadily. I can now sleep on my left side, something I had never been able to do before I can walk without being fatigued, and am in much better health than ever before , I would recommend all sufferers from heart trouble to try Dr. Miles’ invaluable remedy without delay ” MISS ELLA KURTZ, 518 Wright St., Milwaukee, Wis. I>r. Miles Heart Cure Is sold on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell it at sl, ft bott.es lor $6, or it ill be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, Iml Dr. Miles’ Hear! Care R “?n£s Lor * St-a fc'v v W,LLBEA and -*> 3 # *i 4* o®*" FOR IT AT 50 ('ENTS PER YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE BEFORE SEPT 10TU, NEXT. rllg u ! ' "*r ACS I have always on hand and for sal G CA large stock of Monuments and Tomb Stones at ROCK BOTTOM P RICES. Monuments Tomb, Head and Foot Stones and Cradle Tombs. |. You should always go and see Robertson’s and get his Prices. Remember Robertson Pays all the freight to vour neaiest depot. > v A. H. Robertson, 115 Thomas St., Athens, Ga. NORTHEAST ERM R. R. OF GEORGIA BETWEEN ATHENS AND LI’LA TIME TABLE No. 4 J’o Take Effect May 18 1897, SOUTHBOUND • ; rUBOUNI) El —r —Vr —• “ 7 ' : H : 10 : 1 D’ly Italy ISnOn; STATIONS. :Ex Su StxS-i ExSu |Ex g'M Past. . ; : ... ~ ; , 1... 'ir A M ' P •: V M MV u - „ Athens : MS® ' W™ , In'- !: 1122 •' Center... 10 33 : 743 1*23 “2: SIS: ,152- Harmony :too3 : 713: *4 g* # g: 12 07’ Mavevilfe 0 43- Soil 12 24 130: '4O 12 30 ... •• Lula i v A ij j.-- a AM: PM AM Ar J ‘‘ A 1 " R. K. REAVES, STATE AGENT- 0 wwol yyyy