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fff VOL I. GRAVE OF JIM CROW. Kept Green By Tlie Memory Of The Whiskey lie Made. Clay Bought a Gallon Then Ordered a Keg—Andy .Jackson Heard of It, ami Harri Hon Tast*<! It and Went Into Kcutaciew. From the Chicago Times-Heraid. Some months ago, while traveling in Kentucky, I visited the grave of James Crow, which is situated up in the mountains, near Vanceburg. It was and is in a dilapidated condition. There ire neither head nor toot stones to indicate the name of the man who died and whose remains were there interred. Molly cotton tailed rabbits make their homes a round it. The day I visited it some vultures bad brought carrion neir by and were having a kind of can-can dance when ray friend and I ap proached and frightened them away. Around the £tave are rocks and crags and misshapen tvees. The hillside where the grave stands slants gradually to a creek, whose waters am as clear as the eyes of a blue grass baby. Rattlesnakes abound by the hundreds in that vicinity. The rattle of these venomous reptiles, the caw of crows, the whirr of pass ing woodpeckers, the balding of sil very streams over limestone, the sigh ing and sobbing of the wind as it travels through the branches of de formed trees are the sounds that reach the ear. Away off to the east are the mountains where the Hatfield- McCoy feud has been going on tor a quarter of a century. Looking to the West may be seen the ' tops of the oaks under whose branches was. fought the great fight between Col. Johnson and the Indian Chief lc cumseh. It is a weird spot. And who was James Crow? Crow Jim Crow? Back in the thirties he moved to Kentucky,.fresh from a college at Edinburgh, Scotland, where professors teach chemistry. The war witn the Indians was over. Mc- Creary and Kendricks and Johnson and Boone and other pioneers and pathfinders had long -efore made the way peaceable ami convenient for immigrants. They had chased the noble red brother westward—across the Platte a>-.d the Missouri and the Mississipni. Corn grew on tin mountain sides anil m tin- valleys when Crow went into that neighbor hood, when but a few years hefoote the savages walked and stalked and slaughtered. Time made wonderful and excelent changes in Kentucky those davs, just as has bean done in the last two years. Crow watched the crystal waters trickle down between the rocks. He saw the corn blades wave in the sunlight. He watched im migrants, with covered wagons and thirsty looks, pass on in the direction of the setting sun. Thoughts c. me to him during the still* **- of the long nights. Thoughts bring ->ctton and action brings results. So, in time, he hud bridled the. waters that flowed by his modest cabin, shelled the corn that the squirrels had left unmolested in the valley beneath him, and had constructed in a crude way pipes and vats then he ground up the corn, pour ed the water upon it, boiled it and then allowed the residue to ferment. In time ho bottled it and sold it. Travelers tasted it and smacked their lips. His trade grew into immense proportions. ll,* experimented further He made his own kegs and charred the inside of the staves. Tie filled them and set them aside The sun - beams chased the shadows of the moon away for a year and Jim Crow tapped a keg. From a white liquid il had turne't to a semi-red fluid that beaded and smiled aud sparkled at his touch, To his surprise, too, he discov ered that it had materially evaporated Ilis experiments led him further, and iu a short while he place! upon the market the first burbon whiskey ot man’s creation. Henry Olav heard of it and bought a gallon. No sooner had he tasted it than he ordered a keg The great Whig statesman introdu ced in Washington and Crow’s repu tation was established His. whiskey became famous Ills distillery got larger and his whiskey got better. It found its way to Nashville, and Andy Jacks on loved it V iiain Henry Harrison drank of it and wor into ecstasies. It was s’ pt * turns :h igh seas, and crowned heads weie made dizzy by its influence. It su'd in those days for a quarter of a dollar per gallon. Two coon skins would buy a sufficient quantity to make an entite neighborhood drunk. Crow was a peaeablo man. lie loved his adopted country. He fougt with the distinguished Longstreet, who married the other day, all during mu war with Mexico. Even if Henry Glay did liny his goods, he voted with th American parly. He never uttered an oath. He loved his God and prayed at the Presbyterian alter. A s I stood over his grave I thought of the eulogy of 6 S Prentiss at the grave of Lafayette, who said: ‘‘Let no monumental marble or sculptured art deface with its mock dignity the patriot’s grave. But rather let the vid flower, the unpruned vine and the free song of the uncaged bird all that speaks of freedom and of peace be gathered around it..” Mr. Prentiss often used Mr. Crow's whiskey. I wonder what sort of a song he would sing over his grave if he wtre living and could see it today. This is the Man j a J' %% ' & s #’ J&l %%\ How ? Ff^ E! |=2gJ| M £ oasg -• ffirfflf tit V? -St 1 S -fei •e-5 SS ffiSj lit'P S § jtfff LIU g“o3^g ,c b^ w+, 3 'ri*r4-T rtt , fa {fiFw uuT **. Ss<B a TfM f ftm ocflr v u u o tfrtn P/nt i * o khi m m a J&y 1 p *7 S ? 4 © cat (ti ivi CUT THIS OUT and send it ar.d thirty cents in stamj to the editor ot the Banks Count v j Journal and we will send for six (G) j months The Youth’s Advocate, Puh ; fished at Nashville, Tonn. 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Or both the Bonier County JOURNAL bid (he .sthv<:o Journalf : a!.20- noMEii, ga., TiirnsDAV, smmm. ~ w>r. O JI I T U A . Y. Oil Saturday njoriiillg Sept the 11,1 ihe While rnlnd Angel of dultll vis j ted home < f Mr. aid Mrs. T. M. Grif j fin, mill with scarcely a warning rob j lied their li.ipny home of iis dearest 1 and sweetest attraction; Little Willie, 1 a bright little darling, Ago i 23 months ; an only Son. And pride ami joy ol 1 Father, Mother and one little Sister j older than himself, was suddenly stric ken with disease, and regardless of Medical aid and all that l iving hands could do his pure young Spirit look its flight, and was gently bourne by Angel’s hands, up to the pearly por tals of tlie beautiful gates of Paradise. Which swung wide open to admit the fair pure spirit of a little child which had never known sill. Tnere was music and rejoining in Heaven, for Jesus had reclaimed his own precious Jewel- in all its purity ere maturity allowed the evil one of sin to set his seal upon his tail' young brow. Old Father and Mother, with grief stricken hearts- you remember ti e the sweet prattling voice, and inno cent waysot your darling. And think it hal’d and almost cruel that he sno ILi be taken away* from yon so youngand tender; And you loved your baby so well. But remember God knows what is best tor h>; childr m. and we should endeavor to submit at all times to lu.s judgement and wisdom for u He doeth all things well*” And remember the book of life says that “Whom tne Lord lovetli lie chaseneili.” and perliapse you loved vour babe too well; and our God being a jeaLus God does not lnttnd that we should love one of his creatures better than we lave him. Therefoie, in his infinite wisdom he saw fit to remove your darling from this world of sorrow and suffering. And dear friends remember that the Lord only lent you a bright flower to gbiddon your lives fora sea son An I now he has only transplanted that flower to his own garden above where flowers never fade nor wither And Old voj siVould look to Hua with thankful hearts and Bless iuin to know you have an Angel babe in that land so bright and fair. There awaiting you. Calling with and buckouiug you on. A sweet ben coil tigfu, to guide you over rough bill, mvs of temptation, and draw yon with a silent mystic power of love and longing to a place of rest and repose, where loveu Aug* 1 ones shall welcome you home; And G,d shall wipe ad tears away. Beautiful hands of a little, sect - Itaby voice Ciillinp:, Oh! Mother, Cor thee. Rosy cheeked flailing the light .of the home, so early, us beckoning Come, lint brightest ann best of that glorious Conte, of all, and the theme of nr song (thro ,b u.s our Savior tlie j imv. *1 one stands, Lovingly calling with beckoning hands. j-:. s. c. GOLD OF THE WOULD. WHAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT AT WASHINGTON SAYS A3OUT IT. The EHtinui'ted Product the Metal F:r 1897—The lufluenßC of the .1 ul: ioi: W. 1 Tie to Still Further I>: ;:re<j;.ita tho Value jf Silver* That gojtl exists iu lar?e qnruititics in the uewly discern ml iviondike dis trict is sufficiently proved by the large aiiiouut recently brought nut hy the steamship companies and miners* re turning to the state* who went into tile district within the last eighteen months. So far Laoo,ooo in geld frn.ii tl.~ Klondike district lies ; • ,i depj-J and ut f>io mints ind as-tiy ctlif-t’sof the Laitcd States, and from iuforumlioi o\v r.t hand there arc substantial reasons 7cr believing that from f4,000,000 additional vvni Oe n-taiy i nut by the s-vam r : and ntr.vuiva miners s.iii : . from St ?.!ichn* ! : s the last cf September or early Ociobi v m xt. O.ie of tin* steamship compai 1 s stares that it expects io biing out about $2,000,000 on its steamer sailing fr-mi St. Michael's Bcpt. Va) and has nsL'd tiie government have n revenue cut ter act as a convoy thioucli the inuring sea. In \ie\v of the facts above stated I an josLiiied in ('stimating that the Klondike district will augment the world’s gold supp.’y in IHG7 neaily $6,000,000. The gold product cf the Dominion cf Canada fr.r IbDO, a esliuii.tcd by Dr. Li. M. Dawson, director of tlie geologi cal .survey of that roontrv, was NlO,- OUO. Of this sum the Yukon placers, within Butish territory, were credited with a prodnetion of $305,000 The total prodik fof that country for 1807 has, therefore, been estimated at $lO,- 000,000, an increase over 1896 of $7,- 200,000. From this the ricbm.jsof the newly disco- ii goUiricld..- oi the Kloc dike is evident-. In this connection it is to know what will be tie: proL.-blc in creapo ia the poveral' co-mtiic-s of the world, and io u ti-e purpuM oi compari srit, } :<•••- 1 <ii r: ; luccjv - *. i> e to J low fug tat.te of the Kohl prortui t of the United States, Australia, Africa, I Mixico, the Dominion of Canada, Rus sia and British India for J 896 and the estimated product, of these countries fur 1897 is hern giveu: !:.”t Ist* t Increase United States. BK.IkW.OK> ro.iuJ.UJU St.Ku.IXW A ußtrnUa *tti,g-jt.u,K) ,'>t.a>l) ~,7t)U,o'iU Africa 4t,-u>.•.' .vt. >.>.*•.: 12.0!,UOO Mexico 7,oU*!.U*t U.'.'.XI.U'JU U.tMU.UUU Canada !.*,,!>.-in I.;.i;,i.),ujU 7 ,gX), ,XKI Russia Sg.lluo.lOU 25.0U0.UU0 U,O I.UOU British India., r.s.to.e'.a T.UUU.UUO 1.178.UUU Totals stua.aa.O'jo f .i. ,w,uj.i t ■ .135.000 The world's gold product for 1890 is estimated to have been $205,000,000. In justification of tiie above estimate of the increase in the countries mentioned I may remark that of the United Htatps is based upon the deposits at the mints and assay offices for the first six months of the year, which clearly indicate n largely increased production, and that the increase for the year will aggregate $7,000,000.' The gold product of Africa for 1891) is estimated to have been sll,- 000,000. For tilt; first six mouths of 1897 the output cf the* Witwaternrandt mines, as shown by offi< ial returns, was 1,808,431 ounces, an increase of 338,988 ounces, as compared vAth the first, six mouths of 1896. Ther. is t:o doubt that the rate of production i- th ■ Witwaters. randt mines will be main . to ! fa. tho remainder of tin* ytav, and lie a* output of {told tor 1897 will be fully *13,000,- 000 greater than that of 1.-ithi. The deposits of gold at th; Australian mints for tho first five months of the year clearly indicate a substantial gain in 1897 over 1890. U; •.* tho basis of the deposits for the first five months at the mints the Australian Insurance and Banking Record for the month of June estimates that the gold product for 1897 of the several colonies will aggregate 3,700,000 ounces, of the value-of 803,- 050,000. This would be an i -crease of $5,750,000 ovrr the produet of 1890. The gOld’produet of Mesi-o for 1896 is estimated to have been 87,000,000. The information rec; ive.i indicates that the product for 1897 will approximate $9,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000. Tho Russian product for 1890 was $22,000,000; for 1897 it is estimated at $25,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000. The gold product of British India for 1890, front official information received, is estimated at $5*,825,000 Tho re turns of the mines for the first six months of 1897 indicate an increased production over 1896 of $1,200,000. From the data above giveu it is safe to estimate that the seven countries above named will show an increase in their gold output- for 1.897 over 1896 of $38,700,000, and that the world’s prod uct for 1897 cyn therefore be estimated at not less than $340,000,000. There is no doubt that the world’s product cf gold will continue to increase for a number of years to come, as new mines will he opened up fa all parts of the world, and, with improved 'appliances for mining and methods of extracting the gold contained in the ores, I believe that by the close of the presi ut century the world's gold product will closely approximate if not exceed $.300,000,00!). Now as to the influence of such ad dition to the world’s gold. The influ ence it will exert depends mainly on how many years the Klondike district shall continue a producer ami how largo its annual increment to the world's ex isting stock of gold shall Le. There is every reason to believe that Aia. ua an i the adjacent British territory are pos sibly as rich in gold as was California or Australia when first discovered. I have estimated that the Klondike dis trict will in 1897 produce $6,000,000 worth of gold. It will add to this prod uct from year to year, probably, for a minimum of one or two decades. And whether the gold comes from American or British territory is a matter of in difference, except to the owners and to some exeat to the countries producing it. Tlie effect of the increase on the economic, condition of ntaukind, on the rate of discount, the rate of interest, the rate of wages, on prices and on mone [ (ary policies, of a in-v-ty discovered goldfield of wonderful tidiness is the ! game, whether the field be located in j Apici i* tin, British or Chinese territory. Now, the first influence that the new addition to the world's existing stock cf gold will have v-iil he felt, by silver. , la fret, it has already been felt l " it. ! Gold is the imfuia! competitor—we might almost say antagonist—of stiver | as a monetary medium, and every ounce ! of gold newly placed on ii, * * nun 7 t h j prives from 1714 to '5 mince.- of Hitvir i of a possible eni’f Foment as nn nty t)t;.s ■ it might J.a-.’e. ,;ii now additions to the wo:-Id's rf'c k of gold, whether they come from the : Kloiio.ke, Cripple! t’mkor ibu Tran:;- i vaal, firm India, Anstiali.i or Rus-ia, i will render bimetallism by the United {States alone .more bitiicnit am! more improbable than e\.*r and will tven seriously imperil tho rh-mhr chances I that iuu luatienal bimetallism now has ; There is, in fact, at the present time. |no limit to the demand .ft.r gnid. lie tendency of initial s is toward the single gold standard Apart from tlm United Btatrs:, there is nos. 1 believe, a country c i tlie fat i of the eartlGtlnit would not adopt gold moi:enn-taliis-:n if it had tho ability to do so, w ith silver as a seb sidiaiy or token coinage. There is not a country in Europe with any full legal I tender silver coins but would replace them by gold coins if it could do so without too great a sacrifice. Germany i would gladly put $160,000,000 in cir !eolation instead of its silver thalers. France and all the countries of the Lat in union would replace their full legal tender 5 franc pieces by gold, could ! they easily get it. Russia’s demand for . gold is unbounded. Austria-Hungary cannot get enough, and so of every other * ouutry in Europe. Japan Aunts ! gold now that it has adopted tlie gold i standard. Even China shows an inclina tion to follow the example cf its con -1 queror, ’out that, of course, is out of the ! questi-un. All South America is crying i for *, 1 -’bile Wants if. Colombia ' wt-.uts it Peru van'.; it. Venezuela ha-' ecu:*-, bv.i wants men.-. Central America •' w ;s-if. Kve;> Mexico, ;’:*.* lust' strong ‘jrnjs of sdver. is feeling !h- tjvur sciueuess of its’present system lu the height of its rate of exchange.—li. E. Preston in New York Herald. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS State Agr cui:urxl Department Answers Questions. HUGH ISFCIiMATIOH FURNISHED Th#* I’mt mihl Its < n’tnri—<Vr?iln (ttfH Fr lit#* riitilnrM—How l. Kenp *• w*<*i I’<#rnt<f#*i Knll I’lmviiic *| l.fiiia In <ii!<ti-|{la 'hikl W*evjl.H In Born, K #i QuKsnov —Po:i-e pive mp a remedy, if there be any. for preventin'.: weevils from destroying orn ui:t*iiucived. Answj it —There is but* one efii- a ieut nseut by the use of wiiioh you can pro tect* your corn, and that is the bi-sul phido of Oiiibon. I have nrgfcd tho farmers for two years to try this, and some of them have done so \tfitii gi a# success. of corn in a short- rim-*, much of which will be 10-. r <>v reimeic.# worr'uless by tiic dop:”#(i:irs.n .of weevils. When vour corn is hou-se ; \ I ."i oa top of the pith in shaiitiiv Vi I .' ?s or on c >Cion waste hi -su phhU of carbon, at the rate of M j pound* of the bi-su.piiido to every 100 bushels of corn if tii * crib i* very open, or 1 pound to the lot) bushels if the e:*i;> is tisrbt. Tio bi suipiiidu quicklv vaporiz -s, and the vapor being heavier chan the air descends through the m iss of c >: n. prnn Kitinpevery nnoU and corner, and killing all insects time it* reaches, as well as rats and mice. Tin* bi sulphide is a colorless liquid wit l ru unpleasant, odor, and is a powerful poison, and can be bou.hr at almost any store for 20 to->0 cants a pound. There is a much cheaper gtade called "fuinsi bi-su phide,” wiiicli is said hy tho*e who have tried it to he quite aa effective as any. Bear in mind t hat the vapor of this liquid is v.-ry inflatuuble, end that no fire, not even a lighted pip 2 or cigar, must be taken anywhere neat it. This danger exists as long as there is any odor tiie bi-sutpbide. and may continue for t > or three days. The grain will not be injured either for ear ing or for plant-:nr purposes by this treat incur. Some of tlie weevils b.-’ii-g protected hv the shucks from cmitm;# with tiie vapor, will escape the first ap plication, but a second use of the remedy in three or four weeks will kill these, Shelled corn or wheat or peas may bu saved from weevils by placing in a hogs head or barrel and applying a propor tionate amount of tiie bi-sulphide as above described. I will be glad to heat the result, should any farmer try tho r uiedv. There is no danger in its usa if you will b *ar in mind that tlie mate rial is very poisonous and very inflam mable, and that if you use a larger quantity than recommended you wifi be likely to injure the grain for planting purposes.—State Agricultural Depart ment. Applo# j or Merkflt QrsSTtow —I live in Giimer county ami have soue good iand. both vaiie.y ami hill land. Would it pay me r.j plant an apple orchard for market? Jf yes, will the vaiiev or tiie lull side bd best- for toe purpose? Give the imirn'.- of some goou varieties or rpp.os for this secl.t n ANSWKR.—I have no doubt tliar an apple orcdiard of properly s> ierr.-d vari eties, cared for as it should be. wiJ.i pay hands-nnely in your county ami in any other county ia an in M f 'aF west Geargia. Thefootlr.lD of rh• i mountains in southern Missouri aud northern Arkansas produce splendid crops of superior appe< wh-icli are ship ped to all parrs of the United States and I see no reason why your section should nor* do the same tiling Apple trees require a good soil, and if vour ▼alley land is well drained it will Dm most suitable for thorn At the s time if your hill sides are ut;.. • rp rod ar-* te ii u ! iimj.v : utisy mem ;re. they vi.l ciisv.er very wel for tee purpose* Ti# ■ -.usr be terraced, how ever ;• > i 1 ■ f ■ s..il- nor wash away. ']'!-* : !iov. rig are Rome varie ties that will do v.pil iu y<ur secfion: Witie >11). V.tfe .t’l errv, SiiDciiiev, Bti? i) vts. S"iriit”.u Greening. Fall Pippin, Efmvu. Kinarti, Mrs. Bryan, Grimes Gotden Pmmn. lie member that app c fre r quin* cultivation and attention.' and v/itiiouf these ti.ey will not prove pn firabie. Tuey draw tiieir sustenance from the eari'ii. stud if yon rob them <>r their food by planting other crops on the laud you will get a poor return from them. Of course, when tiie trees are young you might riant peas or clover or gome similar crop among them, but* iu no case put* a grain crop on the Jami. 1 have often seen tnis done t. rim great i.eirimeuc of rhe orchard, tlie corn or wh-at or oars robbing tiie trees pf the very elements that tin lecded for their development. If you will plant an ap ple orchard as I have suggested and give it tlie same'em e i but tho peach grower of South G ii. or the orange grower of Florida W 8 upon his frees, I have no doubt that in the long run the apple orchard will prove as profitable as tlie others. By all means try it, if you only pianf- one or two acres. Ag ricultural Di apartment. Hog t l< fr.'i. Qrrsrsov —ls r! u*e any otue .‘or hog cL-.-G.-.rar i see some advertised iu the papers, hut* will they do what they - V r./' *- n ' i'.R aiious i '>u:' for *_'• r very farm disease have from time to] time been published to the world. Many j of them were uo doubt worfillers, while | a few of them p- s-ibly possessed some merir. Not one of them, however, up to tins time has proved a sure cure, and j manv million doiiars coiifiuue to bo lost annually by hoys dv; iu f cholera. U is pot. tiie Mistoin ■#)f this departmont to advertise the uie’i's <f any medicine, but I deem the manor .of so much im portance to our farmers that 1 will now depart from thecusumi, and sav to you and other farmers tiiat- l believe hoit cbo.era can be cured by a medicine put up by Mr. II P. Don ire of 71 Frazer street*. Atlanta, (ia His test-imonialfl as to the wonderful resuns of the use of bis cholera remedy are, many of them, from as good men as we bare in Geor gia. some of win m I know personally. They assert most- positively that their sick hogs were at once cured, and the spread of the disease stopped by the use of tills medicine. I have not tried it on my farm, simply because I have had n> elm r;t among rnv hogs, but I cannot doubt the testimony of men wnotn I know have tried it. and 1 take this means of advising any who are losing hogs from cholera to write to the above undress for the remedy. I hope I am not mistaken as to tlie efficacy of tins medicine, which as I view it, promise 4 to l e a boon, nor only to tho farmers of Georgia, but of the entire country. Mr. D and ;e is now in tiie northwest, but will soon be in.. Atlanta, and he offers to go to any parr of the state where cholera ex:.ns and demonstrate that he can cure it, and this ho p**opos*s to do at his own expense. *~Stare Agricultural Depart ment. AN ENERGETIC CONSUL. Relieved tlie Missionaries and Brol:e Open tiie Prison* Consul James H. Mafldeu, an Illinois man, Ims come to lio known among Americans abroad as a model ot his calling. He is located at Smyrna. Ha lias no knowledge of the Turkish lan guage, but is abundantly supplied with energetic English. Two of ins latest dip lorn ifio acts have been just deseri*. ed : the state department people at Washington by appreciative observers. One account comes from missionaries Tbr.v had been gathering clothes for sufferers in tin; inti rior. The Turkish officers at the wharf re fused to pass charity boxes, demanding information of the exact nature of the contents. Hadden came down, listened to the story of the missionaries, got into a towering rage, swore out. of all propor tion to. the occasion, the r-F-gions folks 1 thought, and directed the Turks to put the boxes aboard the steamer. This was done, to the amazement of the bystand ers, without remonstrance from tbs Ottoman officials. The other 'iueident ' is even mote exciting. An “American citizen,” of, as the 1 expression is in that locality* “Auterir . can citizen for protection and Turk for : revenue,” had been incarcerated in tho Smyrna jail for some petty offense. Doubtless he was guilty enough, but he was an American citizen. Madden demanded the reh asa of the'American. The request was parried. -Ho then de manded a trial of the prisoner or his release. He stormed a little iu the lan guage none of them understood and get his native vice rotisnl, Ezra Davee, who has keen attached to tiie consulate since 1833, to notify the town authorities that the consul gave them two days to do something, and then, if the Ameri can citizen was still ia jail, the consul would came down and take him out. Accompanied t\v a stalwart person, armed with‘a sledge, tie visited -the prison, broke down the door of tiio American's cell aud let him go free.— tit. Louis yosf-Dispaft.il. AERONAUT'S DARING ACT. Drop poll With a, P • OCO r'eet Above Lake Michigan. Ptv lessor Patrick Doer, high diver, trapeze perform!.r pad aeronaut, made a )•■ thei/thif day from :.<■ , of a v.-halcbsok while ca i >at n Chicago io Milwaukee. The width hue. bit Chicago w ith between 4,000 - Ltd 5,000 people on board. Ex actly ut 11.04 o’clock in the morning, when tlie steamer was eight miles out in the lake, lot w < • .j Kenosha aud Wau ki-gau, tin. gre.it i;.vines ceased to puls ate and the whaiebaek can.- to a stun i still. Tin* pvoce-s of ititl.itiou was very rapid. In 13 iuiuntes from rlie time the vtssi 1 stopped tin* halionii shot upward fioni the deck. d;agging after it the paiaehute, D. a wliiel; D-e professor hung hy Ids teeth. The builoon ascend ed 5,0,:t) feet, when the parachute sud denly tted. It.fell 499 feet before it caught the air. A suroud after it opened the professor reversed bis position and huitg hy his fret. lie irmained in tliis Ufii.iiid.; until tho parachute had sunk to within 20u f**et of the surface of tho lake, when he dived and struck the water safety... A boat picked him trad fiis buijijcu.up so(ia after. The balloon used hy Professor Deer is of his own make am! is calk'd an “uir splitter.” It is pointed at both end* and is ex tremely graceful in the air. —Exchange. Vac#*L •* tio <3uv3 iirau':<mneß!i, Dr. i’reti '.v', D Evelyn, ..a* of St. Luke’s hospital, t an Ft - -. has just made public the o stilts ot 15 y rs’ ex periments, by which he claims to have j found u certain cure, by inoculation of i horse blood, for ‘drunkenness. Dr. Kve j lyn began his investigations white a . surgeon in the British army in Zulu- I 1-irul, and lie selected a horse as a ciean ! animal with plenty cf blood. . His ! ure is *".* the same iim ■ as tho I vaetij,;. .m,u ;i neti, nod bn < that , ;t not oa, v ;.,- e i-.i-.i-,’log ,f -r drink. no. i: stilisfancG wh: h he gams by injecting alcohol into the blood of a horse ia* calls eqnisiue. Alcohol is introduced into the horse, and tin* blend h then drawn olf and treated until it is in rendition for use.—Exchange. —... . A KnUlfßualir Sc,it i,y K. j.rt... Coach Du vis of the Lafayette college football tvuut was tho recipient at East on, Pa., the other flay of a mysterious looking box by express When he opened it, be found a huge rattlesnake roiled up and ready to spring out. He quick ly close ! th.- lid and hurried the box oiit into the back yard. At night, when ho and a party cf friends went to look ut the reptile they found that it- had trawled out of the box pud was gone.—New Yolk World. Notice to Creditor*. All persons indebted to in** eithe** by note or open account will please meet me in Homer on Friday the 15th of October next for settlement. Those not settled on that day will ho left in the hands of Judge A. C. Moss for collection. V. I). Lockhart. THE ATLANTA CON NTHTTIOX’S IpR Ml itiiS-si ns,' Woj.*<l Coil t „ WITH A CUMULATIVE OFFER OF IN ADDITION TO THE TEN PER CENT KI ND DERIVED FROM THE SUBSCRIPTIONS. OF AEJ/GUESth-M. As there are hjoro than* 12,!X)0 sub scriptions expiring in the period of t-his C -oiitent. and as the eircyjatipn of The Weekly Gonslltution is Bteadily in-# creasing, tho fund to be divided iu | this ( I *ontest should ettsily be from $ 1 ? .*>oo- to SSiS.OOO The Contes Began SEPT- 6TH, Ends NOV; Ist. The word this time.is.-a SIMPLE' EV ERYDAY. PLAIN expression. familiar to every human being wilt) can talk English. It i- taken from a 'standard publication of value - in Htrthority on matters portaihing to t ■ gardj£i. the fore 1 Mini farm. It is a. Word familiar especially to every farming household. Aim ought to have the book, bu; even v. iihour it you may be able, to supply the tvorii by using your judgment. The Sentence ,i* as follows: , „ \ Stmly of tlie orijfi it of 4 - ’ notv in this co sntt-y vvlti ini press of!' with the large it ess oldie punt iier tlial; have bent introiltir'eil from Europe.” /'///■s’ < O.VTKST /.S' THE 5 TIT • of a Series uf Extraordinary Interest, NEARLY W.OtK) in cash having been distributed in the three preceding Con tests, the lirst of which was announjed last November. In the first Contest, ending January 1.1. Mr. M. 1,. Brittain was t)f only person to supply the cor rect word of-the sentence then an nounced and he received .fl.O&I in rash. The next Contest closed March Ist, and there were a great many success ful gueasers, among whom was di vided ijt! ,700 in cash. The third Con test brought many correct answers, $1 in cash being divided among them, and in the Contest which dosed [September Ist, after rnnning througii the dull summer months, $578,30 accrued, but could not be di vided, ns NO ONE correctly supplied the missing word. This amount Itow ever, will lie added to the Contest now .announced,. inenfaring the Ten per (.’cat. Fund to that extent a;td making the Contest of peculiar interest. This ( oiitest lasts two months and the amount to be divided will proba bly be io the neighborhood of $2,000 There may be one correct an Tver, there may Lie a dozen. there may be more, blit remember it coats nothing to sup ply a word, awl you may get it cor rectly. Whether you do or not, you get the (jfvntost of all Ain rican News papers ami The Hanks County Journal for $1.50 a you r Address all communications to Tho Journal, Homer, lilt. LARGEST STORE NORTH GEORGIA. 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