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Banks County Journal. OFFICIAL ORGAN' OF JbANKS COUNTY. WALLACE L. HARDEN. Editor and Publisher. KhKk nf Hubftcrlftlon. Onp year SI.OO cash. Six months 50 cent * cash. Three months 2> cts. Filtered at the. I'out office at Homer ija. as second class mutter. Contributions are solicited, but correspon dents should remember that hi.ndi'edH of people tore expected to read their writ in*.’ I '-, therefore they should be abort ami to the point • The editor of thta paper does not hold himself responsible for the viov. or cxpresslousof contributors. The Journal is published every Thu lay morning: and|a 11 copies should bein this office not tauter than Saturday morning t osmo jujblica tk>u. Address alt communi- ?•> Editor, BANKS COUNTY t)OUi.NAr . Thursday, .tan. 20 isos. 85 PERCENT CANDI-ERITES. Out of a certain number of our citizens, we find by inquiry, that 85 percent of them are in favor of llou. Alien D, Candler for our next gov r nor. Extend this ratio all ove> Georgia and see what Candler’s m: o ity is likely to be. Now tins investigation took place before the withdrawal of Hon J, M. Terrell from the race, therefore we can easily count on 00 or 05 per cent of Banks county votes being heartily in favor of Candler for governor. The total rote of .Georgia' in 1890 was 163 061. So, after allowing for the Populist camdatc’s receiving a considerable rote, what is to prevent our only Ai leu IX Candler receiving about 100, 000 Democratic votes; Jndging by what appears in print, it seems like there is not many pa pers now in favor of anyone other tli3Q “The one eyed Plowboy of Pig eon Roost,”or Col. Alien D. Candler for Governor. The man with the perpetual smile and rotary handshake is once more tn our midst and will rema n until vo’us are all counted and the final result is announced. —Ex. Mr. Debs in his speech in Rome said that the black slave of the south fifty years ago was better off than the laborers of to day. SHORT AND TO THE POINT. From the Pittsburg Post. Mayor Van VVyck, of New York made the briefest inauguinl address, with the fewest possible pledges, on record. In response to some rather gushing oratortory by the retiring Mayor Strong, Mayor Van Wyck simply said: “received this office from the people. I accept it from them and to them I will answer,” That’s a good commencement these days of extravagance of speech in the way of refarm pledges.,—Ex. Eighty’ six cotton and woolen mills were built in the South during the past year’ —Ex. A POPULAR PLANK. A wcll-Known middle Geoigian, whose figure is a familiar one at the apitoj, came up to see Colonel Can. dler in response to one of these letters, and was in the office of the sereiary of state for some time. When he came out he joined a group in one of the corridors and in speaking of the gub ernatorial situation said: •‘want to say to you in all frankness that Colonel Candler has given the opposition a solar plexus blow in de claaring for rigid economy in state govrnment and lower taxes. He has bit the democratic party right where it lives. Business recently has earned me into most of the conn tics in middle and south Georgia, and in every one of them I have encoun tered a strong feeling on the part of the people against this constant ele of the tax rate. The low price' of cotton has hi ought no money into their hands, and they are being com- j pelied to mortgage their mules to pa; | tnxes. “You peopje here in the ony don't appreciate it and yon never will un til yon go off into the country and meet those on whom the burden of taxation falls most heavily. Free silver is a good thing and a tariff for revenu only is a got (1 thing, and the great army of democratic voters ghroughont the state want unequivo cal declarations in tneir favor m the state pletfonn* They want to see the McKinley administration roasted as it ought to be, and they want to sec good men nominated for office, tint, beyond and above ail this they want fo know when they come to vote that they are casting their ballot for a j man who is not only pinged to keep j the taxrate down, but whose charne j is such as to insure b’s carrying out i his pledge ” | THE GOVERNOR’S POWER. Experience shows that the governor can do a great deal more in the mat er of fixing the tax rate than people generally suppose During the past ■few years the tax rate has steadily increased sismg from 4,37 mills in 1804 to 4.. r >6 In 1890 and to 5. 21 in 1897—and the latter in spite of the fact that the extra S>4Oo‘ooo school appropriation was carried over for a year, and will be collected next fail. Comptroller General Wright, who watches the finances of the state closer than anybody else, says he does not see how it will bo possible J to keep the rate for 1898 below 6.80 mills, the maximum Irmit authorized by the act of 1896, and but under the sturdy economy of Governor McDan iel in 1883 the' rate was only 2-50, j although the million dollar copitol! was begun in that year. During its its construction tlie | highest rate reached was 4 mills, and j that only in a single year. Georgia’s I taxable values have also shown a! serious shrinkage since 1892, and j under the influnees of tire cent cotton | there is almost certain to be a further j falling off when the next returns are j made. Under such circumstances it will require a governor with Spartan courrge to guard the state treasury, audit is the announcement .of his determination to do this, if elected, which has dune more than anything to give such a tremendous impetus to Candler boom at its very inception. Of course it is unfair to assume that. Mr. Terrell or any other cani date will not take an equally positivj stand on this matter, but the fact that Colonel Candler was the first man to sec the neeessits ef "eform ami to take advantage of it is not iikely to be for gotten.—Ex. Hon. Howard Thompson, of Gaines , i le, has announced his candi dacy for congress from the muth dis trict and challenged Congressman Tate to a series of joint debates. Mr. Thompson-has been a solicitor gen. oral ior eleven years and a good one ( and would no doubt make a good congressman- Representative Tate has been a useful member of Con gress and is deservedly strong in his district- The prospects, therefore, for an interesting coutest in the Ninth were never better.—Ex. Mr. W. A. Charters, of Dahlonega. if at the Kimball, Mr Charters is a member of the Georgia legislature representing Lumpkin county. He wus chairman of the railroad commit tee, and it was his bill which provided for selling the Northeastern railroad, Mr.Charters is just now now waging a lively political war with Mr, Fletch er M., Johnson, of Gainesville. These two poular legislators are fighting over the solicitorsliip of that judicial circuit. —Ex. Hon. Allen B Candler once taught school in Clayton county and alter ninny years the lasting impressions made by his ohm-actor are shown there. Col. James L. Doyal, a leading attor ney and politician of Jonesboro, was here yesterday mid in speaking of Col onel Candler said: j ‘‘Old Clayton wVil go solidly for birr. We all know him and love him down there and I expect the county conven tion to go unanimously forhim. 'When ho lived among us we learned enough of him to be willing to trust him with the greatest honor in Georgia ”. —Ex “GREATER NEW YORK WON’T Do. WASHINGTON ..Tan.S.—the post office dep&rtmeni h s found it necessa ry to issue a notice that the recent consolidation of the cities and towns comprising Greater New York did not change the postal arrangements as af fecting the several localities. This no tice was found necessary because of the many mistakes made Dy , persons addressing mail matte.i to friends in various parts of the metropolis and des ignating Ihe city location simply as “Greater Now Y'ork.” —Ex. QUEER HOUSE WAGON. Milt Dix Started For the Klondike In One Which 51 ax ]U?en Hid Home, Milt Dix is a queer frontier character, with gypsy blood in his veins and a nomad's for duess for traveling. Twenty | years ago hi drove into North Platte, ; Neb.—then a mere camp—in a queer, j boxlike bouse mounted on wheels and j drawn by three big horses, bringing 1 with him a wife and live children. Dix left his family in North Platte while ho journeyed about the country, always in the same kind of a wagon. When one wore out, lie would manage to secure another built on the same lines. Now be has started f’>r the Klondike In ouo of these queer house wagons. 110 has another young wife and several lit tle children, all of whom ho is carrying with him. He is probably liti years of age, though a well preserved man, an.! olio who has a wide knowledge of tho world, having read and traveled to much advantage, though always in this queer manner. Tho top of tho queer vehicle is of tin, painted white. The running gear differs somewhat from the ordinary two horse wagon, es it has six wheels—two in tho center. In this manner Dix says he can carry double tho load that can ho car ried in the ordinary way and he in no danger of breaking down. Then, too, if cue of the wheels breaks ho can utilize tho extra wheels and operate his vehicle as a two horse affair until repairs car. he made. —JPhiladulnhia J4IG STRIKE IS IMMINENT Fall River, Jan. 13.—A spectacle unparalleled in the industrial world b**gnn Monday when the reduction of the wages of nearly a quarter of a million men, women and children em ployed in New England cotton fac tories started* Each of these individ uals will here afler receive 10 or ll cents less on the dollar than the; have been earning. In addition to the quarter of a million actual workers affected there are concerned half a million other persons, represented by the families ot operatives. It is the most sweeping reduction j ever made in cotton manufacturing business. The fact that all the operatives but l hoso employed in the high-class j goods mills of New Bedtors and Law rence submitted to the reduction, although under protest, is an indica tion of the extraordinary conditions prevailing that cause such an extreme reduction. In Massachusetts, notably in Fall River, where the cut and uvn star teclit | is supposed to affect, seventy five mill ; treasurers who never before suffered such a reduction. Iu New Bedford the same cut-down in high priced salaries occurs, and in Fall River members of the Association of Mann failures themselves advised the cut down salaries as well as wages. The action of the National Mule Spinners’ Assoeiotion in permitting the Lowell and New Bedford Spin ners to strike is, by many, expected to lead to a strike in .all the big cot ton centres, which may turn New England into the field of the largast strikes the country has ever witnessed Few mills in New England, wheth er located in the great mill centres or scattered in small towns over the Sjx States, but have posted notices of reductions. Among the centres in which every cotton manufacturing < mployee is affected arc these: Hands, Fall River 27,954; Lowell 21, 162, Providence and illackstone, Valley 32,509; Manchester,N II 13, 243 Lawrence, Mass 13,486; New Bedford 10,635; Other point in Maine 14,0C'0; New Hampshire towns 4,900- —Augusta Tribune - The cotton mills declared an extra 10 per cent dividend on their profits before making that 11 pot cent reduc tion in the wages of 300,000 operatives. Hanna says he owns all the State of Ohio except Forakers, and this For akers is harder to manage rnd gives him more trouble than all his coal ■ mines, steam boats, railroads, banks and the President. BRUMBY FINED' BY GOB Ell. Marietta, Jan. i t.—Judge Gober yes terday tilled Brumby, who was eanidate for mayor, ,<5OO and costs. Tins results from the indictments foutu against Brumby for carrying concealed weap ons at thu pells in the recent city elec tion. Glover Was discharged.—Ex. P ergons who are troubled with in digeslion will be interested in the ex j perl oner of Wm H. Penn, chief clerks in the railway mail mice at Dus Moines, lowa, wlio writes: “It gives me pleasure to testify to the incuts of Chamberlain’s Cough, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy For two years I have suffered from indigestion, and am subject frequent severe attacks of pain in the stomach and bowels. One or two doses of ibis remedy never fails to give perfect relief. Price 25 and 50 cents; sold by 11. T THOMPSON, Ilomer, Ga. WANT SAI ETY APPLIANCES. Washington, January 7. —Congress- man Micks presented to the house to day a petition representing 26,000 rail- ■ road employees of the Uniled States, j praying for the enactment of a law to' properly equip every freight and pass enger car engaged in interstate com merce with a sate automatic coupler J —i Lamps, Lamp Chim neys, -A. , I *ia! t a • I I s !iiaiw, Oils, j Vnriiisilies*, Brushes Sponges I MUSICAL IXSTRUMEXT. N And a lot of other thing too tedious to mention can be had at HARDMAN a BROS. Drugstore, Cheaper thar *>se wnere, ■ 'Southern mills will cons jme about 1,500,000 bales of cotton this*year, if j they are run on full tint’.—Tribuim, TWO CIRCULARS. | In the write up of the meeting of the Board of Edjucation a few days ago, the matter of taking census of the school children was mentioned briefly. Now a bit more on the census sub jeet: State School Commissioner Glenn has just sent out rigid instructions as to the taking of the ceushs- These instructions were in the form ot two circulars, one to the county commissioners of the several couuties and one to each of the men who will act as enumerators under control of the county authorities. The latter appoint the enumerators, who receive §2 per day each out of the county treasury, but the state di rects their work and holds them re sponsible for a proper performance of the duties intrusted to them. The present legislature added §4OO 000 to the annual school appropria tion, making the total for the y ear SIB9B sometimes more than §I,OOO, 000. This sum is being distributed under an old census and Commission er Glenn has been demanding anew for a long time. Now that a census of the present school population has been ordered he wants it to be a cor rect one and the state board of ed ucation is backing him up in his de mands. On the resiijt depends all future legislation and appropriation affecting the schools of the state and the taking of tiie census will he wateed with interest by all tax pay ers- Commissioner Glenn says; “We all rejoice that we are to have at last a correct count o! trie school population of Georgia. Few people know how much that means but those interested in the cause ot education and anxious to see the state’s funds honestly expended realize the importance of the work just under taken. This department has been operating for years under an old census and in apportioning the funds at our disposal we may have made many mistakes. More than that, the legislature has a right to know what becomes of the §1,600.000 which it spends for school purposes, and this is the only way to lot it know, when the census is is completed every dol lar and every child in the Gate will be accounted for” GOLD FROM KLONDIKE. Jan. 13—Thirty five mer. from Dawson arrived -in Seattle on the Alki to day’. They brought down §IOO 000 in gold dust. The heaviest individual owner of the pre cious stuff is Nels Johnssn, who brought out $40,000. Johnson is a young Swede, who went into the Klondike country over a year ago. He loca ed a claim on Bonrnza creek and shortly before leaving Dawson City sold out for $60,000, bringing §40,000. of this amount with him. lie is on his way to Sweden to visit the scenes of uis boyhood and to enjoy his fortune.—Ex. Boelt Keeping, Byslnsss, fo# PHONOGRAPHY, i Situation, TjPB-WrlfiSE I A * ir ™ WILBUR rT^MTTH, KY., i For circular cf his famous and responsible COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF KY, UNIVERSITY Awarded Ssdsl al IVrW , ErpoiJlian, beferfl to thousands of graduates in positions. Cost of Fali Kiisinfs, f'tiarse. including Tni j lion, Book.:- and Board iu family, about *yo. i Shorthand.,Typo-Writing, and Telegraphy, Specialties Kentucky University Diploma, under seal, awarded or:,dilutes, f.i ~u. y Course free, if desired, Sluraeatiaa. Ent-.'ruow. Graduates successful. hi drih ■ In hurt aon - letl>ra reach as, atUlrraa or 11‘, WiLBUR R.SMITH. LEXINGTON.KV. It is estimated that 1,20 C tons of ostrich feathers have been exported I from Cape (Polony luring the pabt 30 ■ years, valued at sl2, 000, 000. That fools and their money are eas ily parted will be proven if the spin i ners union, having $70,000 in its treasu ry, will order a strike which can ac complisn notliing except deplete its treasury,—Tribune. NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspepsia K Constipation and Indigestion Regulates the Liver. Price. 25c. Isss v* troubles of iiij own, li’oir g'tMxluesw Nuke dOn’t ms^n * tiOn yOurs. - But il you are troubled with liats and Mice, Magic Rat Mover w ili rid your premises of these] posts, On sale by Druggists and Grocers, 15 and 25 cents. Not a Poison. It- can be procured at this office Sent to any address by mail three dimes. Everybody Says So. Case&rets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pieas aau.inid refreshing to the tasio, v gently and positively on kidneys, liver i bow. Is, cleansing the entire rystrm, dis|x! cr'ds "ure headache, lover, habitual constipation and biliousness. Picase buy and try a box ofG.C. C. to-day; 10,25, f.O cents, field and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Chattanooga Normal University. Will Sustain the Following Depart— ments. General; Courses. T’nmanship, Teachers’ ( Normal Course proper), Commercial, Short hand and Typewritihg, Elocution Scientific, Special Mathematics, Spe cml Language, Spcml Science Classic.. Special Courses, Telegraphy, Kindergarten, Art, Normal Kindergarten (for training of eacherr). A Complete Conservatory of Music. School tne entire year ex cept the month of Angus. FOURTEEN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. EIGHTEEN DIF FERN NT TEACHERS. AS SPECIAT, FEATURES of our school pupils may enter any time, select such work as they esire, and pursue their studies as rapidly as their ability will permit. In any reg ular couse we permit such substitu tions a?will enable one to make a speceaity of any line of work desired. TUITION in the regular De partments is *I.OO per week, payable for a term in advance; in the Special Courses it depend upon the work ta ken. No luitionwill be refunded, but for a continued illness of more than two weeks.a due bill will be issued for the time lost, good for any future time. DIPLOMAS. To any one completing any of the course's above mentioned, a dip|oma will be issued indicating the- workd one. HOW THE SCHOOL IS GOVERNED- This is not a reform school; ther efore we have no set rules. We desirethe attendance of ladies and gentlemen, and we expect to treat them as such. We are willing to ad vertise in regard to the conduct of students’ and the privilege of asking 'he withdrawal of any one who does not conform to the usual deportment of a lady or gentlemen. EXPE.N BES. It is an object of the school to impress practical economy in every department. Good board can be had fr ( m $1.50 to $2.00 per week and room rent from 50c t.o 75c per week, thus making the entire cost with tit tion $3.00 per week. To meet these low rates it is absolut ly necessary that all bills lie paid a term in -idv.-in ce. We will refund money paid for board or room rent, but charge lOeper week additional lor tlietime, if less than our term.. Text books may be rented from the text-book library ,-t lO per eentof the retail, thns saving a gre.at deal in the expenses of books. School begins September 6, 1.897 for next school year- For father infor ation add res DR. H. M EVANS, Chatanooga, Tenn. o—> You will notice the advertisement of j the Chattanooga Normal Universiity above, read it very rarefully, and it you decide to want to attend theUn iveisity and taken thorough course, and if you have not the necessary monoyto pay your expenses, you can I 'go to work igiu at your own* home, yetting subscribe-s to tiic Journal, and j we will give to tlie person who sends j is the largest number of cash paid tip subsciptions to the Journal at 30 cts ! irom now until Sep. Ist and therafter ?I 00 per year to any addrsesuntil j ' ll ■)' 1898. a scholarship for 48w’k i schooling at the Chattanooga Norma!! I Diversity. I nisis well worth your I attention. It is a school for both ladies and gentlemen, and if either a lady or gentlemen gets 11s the largest numiierof subsci ■ ers ior the Journal vve will give this holarship f.iee ot charge. So think a nit it just long e notigh to arrive at tii conclusion that it is a chance of your i “time and that you had better try to win tiiis §50,00 by just a little work. Cash must ac company all orders for the HANKS COUNTY JOURNAL KIIEUM ATI S3I. is promptly relieved and quickly cured by Drummond,s Lightning Remedy. It is pleasant to take, act immediately is nut injurious, does not disturb dig estion It is for rheumatism only in all its torturing forms. Describe your ease, send §5, and we will ship to your xpross office two large bottles, one month ( s treatment, with special direc tions. Agents wanted. Drummond Medicine Cos., S-l N issau St. New York. It has now been demonstrated that nine cases out of ten of women s disorders, painful and troublesome as they are, do not require the attention of a physician at all. “Local tarat ment” or “private examincitions have been shown to be entirely un necessary. The simple, pure wine ol j Cardin, taken in the privacy of the 1 home insures quick relief. It is entirely unnecessary for anvj woman to suffer from these almost i universal complaints. She can get! a bottle of McElree's Wine oi Cardiff j at lire nearest drug store for ,SI,OO ar.d quickly put an end to the un pleasant pains and derangements j T 1 ousatids of women are well to day | < 1 hit they ditl that. DOG PAID FOR HIS FOOD. Kept a Robber From Walking Aw ay With Jewelry Worth *BOO. A young married couple living in Denver are rejoicing that they did not dispose of a big St. Bernard pup several months ago when It was drinking a good deul of milk and was proving to be more or less trouble about the house. The pup grew to be a full grown and useful dog, and tho latter fact was never bettor demonstrated tliau a few days ago, when he saved his mistress’ jewelry. Some plumbers were sent to the house to fix pipes that were out of order. In advertently while they were there tho unsuspecting young wife made known the fact that she kept all her jewelry iu the house. Tho plumbers were from a down town firm supposed to bo reliable. It is not known whether they betrayed the lady’s secret or not, but someone did. A few days later a stranger called at the house, representing himself as coining from tho plumbing firm who had recently fixed tho pipes, and said ho was sent to inspect them. "Wait until I take some things out of the bathroom,” said the lady, cud she started up stairs. But the man followed her to the steps. This frightened her, and she at once suspected that he was bent on mis chief. Then it dawned upon her that sho had by innuendo told where the jew els were, and fearing violence if she screamed she stepped aside and allowed him to pass on. As soon as ho had left the house she looked for her box and found it missifig. There was SBOO worth of jewels in the box. The lady became frantic, but she did not lose her pres ence cf mind. Galling the St. Bernard dog, sho hailed tho alleged plumber as he was going out of the gate and told him of her Iqss. Of course the man denied any knowledge of the affair and wanted to go on down the street, but the plucky little woman sicked tho dog on him and refused to let tho robber get away. She insisted that her jewelry was in a small box iu a room adjoining the bathroom when ho went up stairs and threatened to have tho dog attack him unless the box was forthcoming. After parleying for some time the culprit saw he was dealing with a de termined woman ana took the little box from under his coat. Tho lady would not prosecute him for the reason shat certain amount of unpleasant notoriety would be attendant on such a course. However, tho police were in formed of the matter. Now the young couple would not pmt with tho animal. —Denver Times. HEADLESS WOMAN’S GHOST. & Frlgatena l?a!iin;ore fcTid Ohio Train men at a Railroad Biding. Trainmen on the Baltimore and Ohio and West V irginia Central railroads em ployed near Cumberland, Md., were re cently frightened by the shape of a head less woman that makes her appearance at Greenwada’s biding, near Twenty first bridge, between Cumberland and Keyser, W. Va. Freight trains are side tracked there, and when the trainmen ary waiting a headless woman emerges from on old culvert or bridge and walks up and down the track. Whenever any of the men attempt to follow her, sho disappears. 0110 railroad man was so badly frightened that lie left the service of tho road. Others say that if the head less woman keeps up her antics they, too, will quit. Ouo railroad man, whoso reputation for truth has never been questioned, says that a few nights ago he crawled j under the locomotive to avoid seeing j this headless object. The men declare | that the ghost can bo seen almost night I ly. The other night two trainmen on the j Baltimore and Ohio who live iu Cum-1 beriand were frightened by the specter j and went to work tho next morning | with great reluctance. The Tuna He Hams. And still young Mr. Leiter goes up and down iu the land merrily lium j iniug, “X fear no foe iu shining Ar ; snour. ” —Chicago Times-Herald. 1 Shoe IK*i*ler'a Advertisement. A Quobec shoe dealer has thought v a clever advertising idea. With ever pair of shoes sold he gives a pair c. overshoes, on each sole of which ia a stamp cf his business, with tho letters reversed as ia typo. At each step tho wearer takes in the snow the shoe deal er’s advertisement is visible. It is there fore visible all over town. —New York Tribune. T’he S>ying Century. Old century, tottering tc Thy rest, Ali vainly dost tlmu beut thy breast. Anew dawn gilds the mountain croul. The story of thy wondrous day, With ail us glitter and display, In twilight shadow dies away. Almost, the poet, iu wise rhyme Thy n: also is sung in verse sublime, Begins l.is luy, ‘-Oneo on a tiino. ” Strange fancies fill thy time worn brain. Thou dremnußt thou art young again, With battleery on land and main. And a dread turmoil of unrest Embroils tho orient and the went. Alarums sound at thy behest E’en Israel's children, in thy throes, Imagine o’er again their woes, And many a hope toward Zion goes. The world is mod—men shout and cry— Beholding wonders in the sky, Renewing faith in prophecy. Old century, we love thee well, Thy fame the chronicler will tell fc’hon long forgot thy funeral knell. For many a noble thought hath sped To nobler action by thee led, And many a high souled word was said. New happinoas came in thy wake, Righted was many an old mistake, An age worn thirst thy springs did slaka. Rest thee—new hopes begin to play. They drive thy death Lorn fears away And usher in the newer day. -Rest thee, brave requiem shall bo thine, Whose lustrous deeds will long outshino The strange vagaries of decline. —Felix N. GerE>oa iu Denver New*. Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema, j The intense itching and smarting, incf j dent to these diseases, isinstantly allayed I by, applying Chamberlain’s Eye ana Skin Ointment. Many very bat. cases- I Lave been permanently cured by ii. It is equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite remedy for sore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 20 cts. per box. ]>r. Cady’s Condition Powders, are just- what a horse needs w hen in bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier mid vermifuge. They are not food but medicine and the best in use to put a horse in prime condition. Price Sj cents per ige. lION. HOWARD THOMPSON ANNOUNCES FOR CONGRESS. Places Himself Before Tlie People of Tlie Ninth District, as A FULL FLEDGED CANDIDATE “To the Democrats of the Ninth Congressional District- At the solicitation of friends through out tlie district, and to gratify an hon orable ambition, 1 announce myself a candidate for your nomination to the fifty-sixth Congress of the united States. Having been honored by you as one of your delegates to the late national convention vvhieh assembled at Chicago, and which promulgated your principles nne nominated your candidate, Ho, W. J, Bryan, and having taken part in the deliberations of that body, I deem it useless to further express my views in this announcement. Time has dem onstrated the wisdom of that platform, and I stand now, as J did then, on every plank thereof; and should I receive t'ao nomination, and the same should be ratified at the ballot box, i will do all in my power to enact into law the declara tion of principles therein enunciated ; bc-lieving that, tlie only hope for genera' prosperity and the happiness of our poop le lies in the triumph of the democracy, am the successful promulgation of its principles into such enactments as that the masses may t e able to earn, with industry, an honorable competency for themselves and families, Good gov ernment can never come to our homes and our firesides through any ether source. Hoping that my candidacy may meet with such consideration at your hands as that of a co-worker in your ranks de serves. I remain, with great rerpiet, Your obedien t servant, Howxkd Thompson Gainesville, Ga., Jan, Bth 1898.” HAS CHALENGED MR. TATE. For joint debates anywuere in this district. Mr, Thompson’s letter to Mr. Tate is as follows: “Gaiuesville, Ga., Jan. 8, 1698. Hon, F. 0, Tate, Washington, D. C, My Dear .Sir : I have this day formally announced my candidacy for the Democratic nom ination for Congress in this district. I shall proceed at once to make ar. active canvass of the district, and will address the peopic in behalf of my cen didacy. 1 respectfully ask that you join me in a series of debates at such times and places as may be mutually agreed upon by respective friends selected for that purpose. I herewith enclose you a copy of my announcement. Your early response will greatly ob lige, Very respectfully, Howard Thompson. Where -Oo \ on l>uay voss *• i Soa{ siml KoCort h V Wo <3 o .-to t sell .solort ? 1> u.t we | now iifa-vo is* slock the handsomest 11*5*'; of Toilel Hop oai the market, “Sweet Maidetv* is ilie slickest thing 1 out lor five erts* a cake L*C. Hardman & Or® HARMONY GROVE. GA. SUBS ORI R E 1? 0 R TII E B A NKB COUNTY J 0 U E N A L. OXBY.fI Dollar PER ANNUM GASH. THE WEATHER CALENDAR The Banks County Journal has re ceived the Cardui Weather Cnart and Calendar sor 1898 from the Chattan ooga Medicine Cos, manufacturers of McEh'ee’s Wine of Cariini and Tiled ford's Black-Draught. This is one of the best ca'endars published. Ii con. sists of twelve sheets of paper, 13x20 inches in size, all fastened togeather with a gait tin strip and a brass loop liam'er. Each sheet contains the cal endar for one month in large figures that can be read across an y room. Under the figures patent weather signals indicating Prof. DcVoe’s Weather Forecasts for every day in tiie year appear. The moon’s changes and lenal holidays arCvalso shown. The calendar is valuable in nt.y nome. We understand a few copies of it can be secured by sending ten one cent postage stamps to tli : Chat tanooga Medicine Cos„ Chattanooga Tennessee, W. It. SMITII’SBUSINESS C O E I, E G E Is where hundred of clerks, farmer boys and others have, invested S6O to S9O for tuition and board for a Busines Educa tion, and are now getting $ 1.000.00 and over a year. Keep this notice for ref ’rer.ee. -Address only W. R. SMITH, Lexin-otc.v, Kentucky,