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Banks County Journal. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ranks county. WALLACE L. HARDEN. Editor asp PruLisiiEiu Ka tit of Subscription. One year $l.OO cash. Six months 50 cents cash. Three months iT cfcs. Futeral at the Tost office at Homer tr’u. as second class matter. Contribution* are solicited, but Correspon dents should remember that hundreds of people are exacted to read their writings, therefore they should be short and to the point. The editor of this paper does not hold himself responsible for the views or expressionsof contributors. The JOLUN.U. is published every Thursday amrning andjall Copies should be in this office not Later than Saturday morning to insure publica tion Address all communications to Editor, HANKS COUNT*' JOURNAL. "THURSDAY, FEIL 3, ISUB. Foil GOVERNOR Allen. 1).( 'ANDLERj OF HALL COUNTY, for secretary of state, Mark A. Hardin, for CONGRESS, 9th 01 S’T HOWARD THOMPSON Of lIALL. THE FARMER Has the Remedy In His Own Hand if he Will Only Use It. Notwithstanding the hard times scarcity of money and low price of cotton; there are occurrences taking place every day which has a ten dency to divert our mind for the moment from the great financial depression, that hangs like a dart, pall over our once happy and pros perous country. For instance, tlie gold excitement In the far ofi‘ frigid regions of Alaska, is attracting no small degree of at tention; many are preparing to try their foitones in the land of the walrus and polar bear; there is a great unrest pervades a large por tion of our people; and the discon tented depressed and dejected are willing to take desperate chances to recuperate their fortunes. It is to be hoped that success may attend their venture; for at best it is a per ilous and hazardous undertaking. Then comes the Cuban muddle; many sniff the reft field of carnage from afar; already one of Uncle Sam’s big battle ships is gracefully riding at anchor in the harbor of Havana, guns shotted; and ready for any crisis that may arise. Then the political outlook in Geor gia at this early stage of the game, is assuming vast proportions; hundreds are reaching out for government pay: They find it much easier to draw a good fat salary from the pub lic crib; than it is to get down to hard work and earn it All of which presents a gloomy prospect for tlie countrv; and simply demonstrates the fact that ail occupations are on the wane. The gallant plow boy seems to be in the lead for governor; and from the present outlook is likely to re main so to the finish. It is now generally conceded that Colonel Candler will have no opposition; and the race will he altogether a one sided affair. We hope when he as stiines the responsibility of governor, that he will remain at his post of duty; and not be junketing about the country on free ] a ses, attending hull fights aud other like refined entertainments; just now the papers are out with blazing dead lines an nouncing the arrival of Governor Atkinson front a ti ip into Mexico, and making as grand a display ovtr him as if he were some prince or pon tate just in from an inspection of his vast possessions; the people have had enough of such lot. We are looking forward to seine hot times in the old fifth; Tom 1 1- der has thrown dowu tnc gauntlet to our Uncle Lon, and it is piedicted by the knowing ones, that Tom will run square up against a live wire. Lon is an old stager at that kind of business, and there is not a shrewder or a more adroit politician in the state than L. F. Livingston; there are three other candidates m the field; hut if we make no mistake, Lon will make it extremely lively foi the whole push. Politics is an uncertain factor in life’s somewhat cbevured career; and when a man takes up his cudgel to fight his way into office, there is no telling where lie may land. The corrupt methods employed to secure office have be come so glaring, that hundreds of „en, possessed of marked ability:' gggg' have such a high sense of self respect that they decline to enter into the scramble. They prefer to remain in private life, rather than subject them selves to the manipulations of a gang of shrewd political tricksters. It is Indeed lamentable that we should be burdened with so many corrupt methods resorted toby the wise pol itician, in order to secure the plums made possible by Uncle Sam’s toil icy millions. Of all these toilers "ii contribute their hard earned dollars to sustain the government, the far mer is the most submissive. There is no problem in Kctid more difficult of solution than the status of the farmer, all syndicates and combina tions of capital at the money centers, is demoralizing to his interest. We started out to write so.nothing of polities and politicians, but find no have diverged from tlio main tract, and will conclude by stating that if we wish to better our condition we must act independent of all parties, and support only such men as adhere to the principle that all legislation must be in the interest of the masses; do this and the day is not far distant when monopolies lings and corpora tioiis will have lost their power to oppress the people, choose whom you will have to serve you; and don't waste your strength in wrangling over the success of any self consti tuted candidate, tor in so doing you 3ie engaged in a useless work, ro member the great value of the ballot to the American people. It is the magnacharta of American 'liberty. The farmer has the remedy in his own hand, if he will only use it intel iigently. Juit feeding the iov while the other fellow gets the milk, and all will be lovely; Futtoit. January 30th IS9B. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for any case of Catarrh that cannot he cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. - F, J. Cheney & Cos., Props,, Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F, J, Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and fin ancially able lo carry out any obli gations made by their firm. Wkst&Trux, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wai.di.vg, Kix.< an&Maij vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood ind mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by a'J Druggists. Testimonials free- Hall’s Family Pills arc- the best. TwO FOK ONE. By spacial arrangement we offer HOhijpj ani) j FARM In combination with our paper for 5i.25, fl.so beinn the price of both. That is, for all new or old subscribers renewing and paying: inadvance we send The Home and! Farm one year for 2"> cents Home and Farm lias for many years bem the leading: agricultmal Journal in the south and southwest, made by farmers for farmers Its Home Department conducted by Aunt Jane its Children’s Department and its Dairy lie partment are brighter aud better than ever. Renew now and get this great [Journal for the Home ami the farm for 25 cents. Banks County Journal and Weekly Constitution both one year for only $1.50. If you need a Buggy call at The Jour nal Office NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Kceion I*< -I- , Ilierr-I ami Fran* Jofeti" ’ :r! tu He JL lore** The pieparatiojs for the Swoosh arc tic expedition of 1898 are now complet ed. It will be nt'der the leadership <_i : Dr. A. G. Notboret, who accompanied Nordenskjold in the Greenland expedi tion of 1883. Its main object is to ex amine the eastern sido of Spitzbergen aud th region between Spitzbergen aud Franz-Josef Land. As this area proba bly will not be accessible in the begin ning of next summer, Dr. Nothorst in tends to make investigations in western Spitzbergen, Northeast Land (the north east island of the Spitzbergen archipela go) and Bear island. He has bought the steamer Antarctic, j which in 1895 carried a wilding expe- 1 dition to the south polar sea. It is now being overhauled and equipped for the j expedition. The captain will J.e Emil Nilsson. The expedition Will be well! equipped for geological, zoological, hy- j biographical and cartographical work. I It expects to attain rich results in all departments of science. New York HON. ALLEND. CANDLER FOll GOVERNOR., MAKES HIS FORMAL AN NOUNCEMENT. In His Letter to the People of Georgia He Signals tor Brakes and A skfl Tlielr Support In Bringing About Gen eral ltctoruis. Athens, On., January 18, 1898. Hon. Allen D. Candler, Gainesville, Ga.— Dear Sir: We, the undersigned citi zens of Athens and Clarke county. have noted with pleasure the frequent and favorable mention of your name by ,he press of the state in connection with ihe next gubernatorial election. Your peculiar fitness for the high office of governor is reudily recognized by all who know you. Active, able and hon est, you have fully met all the duties and responsibilities of private life and public station. In 1861 you responded promptly to the call to arras: and in camp, on march and battlefie.d illustrated by your conduct the fortitude and hero ism of the eonfederata soldier, sealing with your life’s blood your devotion to Georgia, and to principle. You volun. toered with the firs; you returned with the last. After the termination of that disastrous conflict you were culled to represent the county of Hall in the general assembly of the state. There you acquitted yourself with honor. In 1882- :n the hour of dire need, you were named by the democracy of the ninth congressional district as its standard bearer. In the two preced ing campaigns defeat and disaster had attended the result, and her cho sen <l,amnions had gone down before the fierce assaults of the opposition. The party was demoralized, the op— position flushed with repeated visto vies, was confident’ Without bolicita tion or knowledge on your part you were nominated and the convention adjourned. The result is history'. The man and the hour had met. After the most brilliant contest in its history the glorious old ninth was re deemed, and once more the triumph ant banners of democracy waved pri ully and high over her mountain tops. Your services in congress to your people and the country at large were emminentlv efficient and satis— factoiy. At the end of your congress ional career, embracing eight years of continuous service, you voluntarily surrendered your commission to th people without stain or blemish. After the death of the late lamented General Phd Cook, you were railed to the honored office of secretary of state. The duties of t-' is position you h ive discharged f litlif illy and well. A veteran yourself, you will not tor {get the veteran. One of the eomma.n people you are touched with a feeling of their infirmaties. A public man. you are faniilliar with tho affairs oi state. Ripa in operienee, loyal in party feahy and patriotic in purpose, you are tne man tor the place. Again the man and the hour have met. Believing that your nomination w ill heal all existing breeches in the party and that your election would be accomplished by an old-fashioned dem uccatic majority of IUO.OOO votes, we earnestly urge you to enter the race for governor at the not ensuing elec tion. Very truly yours, J, E,Talmadge; .7.3. King, 1). M Kennedy ; T. F, Comer, W, 0, Ash ; Wm T. Bryan, ,7. K, Moore; F,M,Parr, W. A, McDowell; W. J.Tmith, J, N, Webb; l.ouis Morris, E. S. Lyndon; W, D.Grifieth, James F, Foster; TANARUS, W. Reed, Sylvanus Morris; Fid TANARUS, Brown. 7V, C, Orr; C, A, Talniadge, J, 11, Huggins: .7, 0, Orr, A, 0, Fears, E, P, Fears, .7, I), Baugli; R, C, Orrr, M, Sterne; I’, Funkenstein, F R, Grifleth; Jack F, Jackson, TANARUS, A, Burke; W. A. Jes.er, 71 ope 7iale ; Tho’s H, Dozier, Oeoc-ge H, Palmer;.!, TANARUS, Anderson, H. K. Palmer; E, R. Kinniebrew, \V, F. Dorsey; T. 0. Conaway, Edwin D. Newton, J, .7. C. McMalion H. H. Carlton ; J. F. Rhodes, J. N. Bootli; J. M. Hodgson, S. J. Tribble; K. C. Roberts, T. 0. Vinvent; J O. Hutchins, tr. 71. Yancey; J. 0. Cook. Henry C. Tuck ; W. D. G’Farrall T,B. F’. Todd: A. H.Saye, E. S, Brown ; T. A , Mcaler J , F, Hamilton ; J , G, Gray, J, W, Wier: David Gann, J, K, Kenney; C, A, Coleman. TANARUS, M, Booth; S, B, Wingfield Sr, T. R, Edward: J. W, Saye. FI, I, Smith; W, B, Burnett, E, P, Lumpkin; J, .7, Hardeway, .7, A. Suddeth ; W, S, Holman, > Lamar Cobb: I),G, Oliver, i TANARUS, .7, Scott; J, B, Fears, S, M, Herrington: .7, C, Bloomfield, Y.K.Cobb; l, J, Shakelford, I From the number of reckless bicyoJ- Idiots daily put oat of the world it u evidout that me fool killer has returned from his long vacation and is getting in tome mncli needed work. On a recent shining autumn day the temperature at Huron, S. D., was 2 de grees wanner than at Jacksonville, l'la Greater New York would be better off if it had net so tnsuy £.eat -uijl " i Allen I>. Gaudier. About all that can be said for or even against Col. Alien D, Candler in con nection with the coming gubernatorial race can be found in the letter from the citizens of Clarke County; and in the reply to the same, both of which are to he found in another colon) of this issue of the JorKN.it, wliifch was the first of newspapers of s>e stale that made the announcement that'Col. Allen D. Can dler, the "l’lowboy of Pigeon Roost,” would be in the race for the democrat c nomination for that office; We there fore propose to stick to him: because Ist. he is a true and tried old-time and pure Democratic man ; and has been in active public service long enough for it to have become a well established and tin undisputed fact that he is the most worthy man in Geotgia, for the highest office in Ga ; that lies within the power of our free thinking people, those who would completely destroy all cliques or rings now composed of strong believers in, and supporters of the spoils sistems of government, when the opportunities fer so doing are offer,-d. It is satisfactory to know that our trade relations with Canada are on the whole satisfactory, in spite of the at tempt of editors on both sides of the line to stir up bard feeling, heaven knows why. Canada had last year a much heavier trade with us than with Great Britain. It is well to bear in mind in connection with this that Can ada has given to the United States bet ter reciprocal trade arrangements than she has to Great Britain itself. Duties on British goods imported into Canada are 4 per cent higher than on American goods entering the Dominion. Spain still whines that filibustering expeditions continuo to leave United States ports for Cuba. Well, why do not Spanish cruisers stop them from landing in Cnba then? With a half de cent navy and half decent vigilance Spain would keep the Cuban coast so guarded that no little schooner could run in and unload. The United States has the whole' coast from the bay of Fumly down to the Mexican border to guard. Spain lias only the line drawn around the shores of an island not as large as an average stato of the Union. What is Spain herself about? It is of first importance that the Alaskan Indians sliould in all ways be conciliated and treated fairly by miners and others in their country. If their good will is gained, they will be of great help to white people developing the country. The Indians themselves do not ears for tbe gold, or they would have bad much of it long ago, but if they t’hould become irritated against us by being cheated or ill treated by those who do want tho gold it is in their power to make things extremely un pleasant for ns. Booker T. Washington, principal of the Normal aud Industrial institute foi the education of colored students at Tuskegee, Ala., announces that $5O sent to him will pay for the schooling of a young man or woman for one year. When the student rs seives sufficient ed xio.-i tion, h> or sho will ho sent to the counties in Alabama in which tho g.eat esc number of illiterate colored children are and will establish schools among them. Here is opportunity to do m-ich good for tho comparatively small sum of $5O. Brain Cells In the Finders. A medical man recently assisted in an autopsy ou a person blind from birth, and he sought to discover by scalpel and microscope tho secret of the extraordi narily delicate touch the blind man had acquired during life. Sections perhaps a sixteenth of an inch thick were care fully sliced off the inner surfaces of the index and middle lingers of tho right hand. Under a high power these show ed instead of a single nerve trunk and artery and vein of tho average man a most complex and delicate ramification of nerve filaments, dainty and minute nerve twigs in immense numbers branching from the main system. Through constant use the finger tips of the blind acquire this unusual develop ment, with more and more perfect per formance of function. —Chicago Record. Buried Money to Avoid Alimony. Conrad May, a man who figures here m a divorce suit, acknowledged in oourt that ho had buried $45,000 on his farm in Wisconsin to save himself from pay ing alimony to his wife. He refused to say where it was buried, but yesterday it was discovered by a farmer who was hunting squirrels. He was crossing May’s land when his dog ran a gopher into its hole. The farmer began to dig for the gopher and was astonished to como across a number of shot sacks con taining gold, silver and paper. It was, in fact, May’s buried treasure. May hoard of the find and claimed the mon ey, which was paid over to him by the finder, in all over $45,000. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Max Dukes Dug Up 84,500. j Max Dukes, who lives iu Baltimore j Hundred, while cutting timber on the farm recently, struck something that blunted the sharp edge of his ax. He at once went to work to see what it was and soon discovered it to be a large stone buried in the ground. After work ing for some time the stone was re moved, and to his surprise a large iron pot was hidden beneath it. Dukes was not long in digging out the pot, and it was full of silver money. He counted the treasure over and found that it amounted to $4,500. It is thought the money was buried thero by a man who lived on the farm during the late war and who was known to have consider able money, but bis heirs never knew what he did with it.—Baltimius Amer ican. Large Cargo of Grain. The mammoth tramp steamer Algoa sailed from Tacoma a few nights ago with the largest cargo of grain over | loaded in a singlo vessel, carrying i 117 7,509 bushels of wheat, valued at $312,000. The Algoa is bound for tbe northwest coast of Africa and is expect ed to bo about 70 days making tbe voy age.—New York Telegram. ' A few months ago, Mr. Byron Every of Woodstock, Mich., was badly afflic ted with rheumatism, his right leg was swolen the full length, causing him great Buffering, he was advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The first bottle of it helped him considerably and the second bottle affected a cure. Tlu 25 and 50 cent sizes are for Biilo by R, T. THOMPSON, Hmhs, Ga The recent opening of valuable mine in the west and northwest will give i stimulus to industrial enterprises geuer ally in the country and relieve the gorge of money in the older cities. Profitable investments will bo found in mining and manufacturing throughout the Rocky mountain region. These will draw from the east millions of dollars, which will be applied for mutual ad vantage to the investors and to the thrifty and industrious western workers who use it Crossed or tangled electric wires arc responsible for much damage by fire re cently. It waß this that caused the Col iseum blaze in Chicago. Tboso Who per mit ignorant workmen either to con struct Dr stretch such wires or to kuvo charge of them after they are made ami stretched are guilty of nothing less than a crime. The person who whines and com plains is always lazy and generally weakminded. Long life and prosperity to tho individual with royal pluck and vim. “Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Fredericks town, Mo., was troubled with chronic diarrhoea for over thirty years. He had become fully satisfied that it was only a question of a shoit time until he would have to give up. He had been treated by some of the best physicians in Europe and America but got no per manent relief. One day he picked up a newspaper and chanced to read an ad vertisement of Chamberlain’s Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, he got a bottle of it, the first dose helped him and its continued use cured him. For sale by R. T. THOMPSON, HOMER. Longest Street Car Line. What will be for a time at least the longest street car route in the United States is under process of construction in Ohio. It is an electric road which will utilize the ordinary public high ways from Cleveland to Cincinnati, thus bisecting the state. The lino will bo 2C2 miles long. Its object is to get the way passenger and froigbi traffic between villages through which it passes. Many of these have not at present railroad facilities of any kind. It will also pass by farms, en abling the agriculturist to stop tho cars at his own door aud load upon them his grain aud live stock, convoying it thus to market. The line will pass through 14 coun ties on the route from Cleveland to Cin cinnati. The projectors expect to do a great business in conveying excursion parties, and in this they will not be dis appointed. Special excursion cars of the double deck cr two story pattern are provided, fitted with smoking rooms aud accommodations similar to a parlor car on long distance trains. There will be special freight cars and trains. The mo tor attached to each car will be small, of merely 25 horsepower, but it will be sufficient, aud tho curs will run at very short intervals. They will he operated on the trolley plan and will make an average speed of 35 miles an hour. The possibilities open to a road liko this aro hardly to be estimated. It will connect directly with large business centers sparsely settled districts that will wake as from a Rip Van Winkle sleep. It will scatter population from the largest cities aud populate suburban country districts. The small expense at which such a line can ho operated will | enable it to charge low rates. That of | itself will boa boon. For summer tour ists there could not be invented a pleas anter mode of travel than this, doing away as it does with steam, smoke aud cinders and much dust. The only won der is that nobody thought of each a long distance street car line before. A Wonderful Discovery. Tlie last quarter of a century records many wonderful discoveries in medicine, but none that have accomplished more for humanity than that sterling oid household remedy, Browns’ iron Bitters. It seems to contain the very elements of good hefdth, and neither man, woman or child can take it without deriving the greatest benefit. Browns’lron Bitters is sold by all dealers. Anyone sending a sketch and de*cription may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Comnmniea- Itonß strictly oontldential. Handbook on Patent* sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken tlirouch Munn & Cos. receive tpeciol notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Horrest cir culation of any scientific Journal. Terms. $3 a year; four months. sl. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & CO* 36 1 Broadway. New York Branch Office, 625 K St.. Washington, D. C. W. R.SMITH’SBUSINES S COI LEG 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 erence. Address only W. R. SMITH, Lxxixitos, Kentucky, Tetter. Salt-Rheum and Eczema. The intense itching and smarting, inch dent to these diseases, is instantly allaye< by applying Chamberlain' s Eve an. Skin Ointment Many very bat. case: lave been permanently cured by iu. I is equally efficient for itching piles am i favorite remedy for sore nipples, ■happed hands, chilblains, frost bitei rad chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box. Dr. Daily’s Condition Powders, are ist what a horse needs when in boo indition. Tonic, blood purifier r.nd irmifuge. They are not food bnt .edicine and the best in use to put a orse in prime condition. Price 35 eats per pact vge. C hattanooga Normal University. Will Sustain the Following Depart — ments. General- Courses. Pnmanship, Teachers’ (Normal Course proper), Commercial, Short hand and Typewritihg, Elocution Scientific, Special Mathematics, Spe cml Language, Spctal Science Classic.- Special Courses, Telegraphy, Kindergarten, Art, Normal Kindergarten (for training of eacherr). A Complete Conservatory of Music. School the entire year ex cept the month of Angus. FOURTEEN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT TEACHERS. AS SPE Cl AT, 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 leg ular couse we permit sue!) substitu tions aswill enable one to make a speccalty of any line of work desired. TUITION in the regular De partments is SI.OO per week, payable for a term in advance; in the Special Courses it depend upon the work ta ken. No tuition will be refunded, but for a continued illness ot more than two weekfl.fi due bill will be issued for the time lost, good for any future time. DIPLOMAS. To any one completing any of the courses 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. \Y e desirethe attendance of ladies and gentlemen, amt 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 the withdrawel of any one who does not conform to the usual deportment of a lady or gentlemen. EXPENSES. It is an object of the school to impress practical economy in every department. Good board can be bad fri in $1.50 to j>2.00 per week and room rent fri n> 50c to 75c per week, thus making the entire cost with til lion $3.&0 per wetk. To meet these low rates it is absolutely necessary that all bills be paid a term m ad van ce. We will refund money paid for board or room rent, but charge lOcper week additional for thetime, if less than one term. Text-books may be rented from the text-book library at 10 per centof the retail, Urns saving a great deal in the expenses of books. School begins September C, 18f>7 for next school year- For futher infer ation addres DR. H. M EVANS, Clmtanooga, Term. You will notice the advertisement of the Chattanooga Normal Universiitv above, read it very rarefully, and it you decide to want to attend 'heUn iversitv and take a thorough course, ami if yon have not the necessary money to pay your expenses, you e:*u go to work iglit at your own home getting subscribers to the Journal, a ~! we will give to the person who Sends ns the largest numb.- of cash paid tin subscipttons to the journal at 50 n from now until Sep. Ist and therafter §I.OO per year to any addrsesuntil July Int 1898, :i scholarship for 48w’ks schooling at tlie Chattanooga Normal University. T hisis well worth vour attention. It is a school for both laities and gen:lemen, and if either a ladv or gentlemen gets ns the largest ntimberof snbsei ers for the Journal we -,viil give tins holarship face of charge. So tinnk a tit it. just long e nough to arrive a* til conclusion that it is a chance of your i “time and that you had better try to w u this $50,(10 by just a little work. Cash must ac company all orders for the BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL It lias 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 taeat ment” or “private examinotions have been shown to he entirely un necessary. The simple, pure wine ol Cardui, taken in the privacy of the home insures quick relief. It is entirely unnecessary' for any woman to suffer from these almost universal complaints. She can get a bottle of AlcElree’s Wine ol Cardui at, the nearest drug store for SI,OO and quickly put an end to the un pleasant pains and derangements Thousands of women are well to-day cause they did that. IION. HOWARD THOMPSON ANNOUNCES FOB CONGRESS. Places Himself Before The People of Tlie Ninth District, no A full fledged candidate "To the Democrats of the Ninth Congressional District— At the solicitation of friends through out tho district, and to gratify an hon oruble ambition, I announce myself a candidate for your nomination to the fifty-sixth Congress of the United States. Having been honored by you re one of your delegates to the late national convention which assembled at Chicago, and which promulgated your principles ane nominated your candidate, Ho, W. J, Bryan, and having taken part in tho deliberations of that body, I deem it useless to furtherexpress my views in this announcement. Time hag dem onstrated the wisdom of that platform, und 1 stand now, as I did then, on every plank thereof; nnd should 1 receive the nomination, and the game should be ratified nt the ballot box, I will do all iu my power to enact into Jaw the declara tion of principles thevein enunciated ; believing that the only hope for general prosperity and the happiness of our people lies in the triumph of the democracy, ana the successful promulgation of its principles into such enactments as that the masses may he able to earn, with industry, an honorable eoinpetency for themselves and families. Good gov ernment can never come to our homes and our firesides through any other source. Hoping that my candidacy may meet with such consideration at your nands as that of a co-worker in your ranks de serves, I remain, with great respiet, Your obedient servant, Howard Thompson Gainesville. Ga.,Jan, Bth 1898.” HAS CHALENGED MR. TATE- For joint debates any wuere in thus district. Mr. Thompson’s letter to Mr. Tate is as follows: “Gaiuesville, Ga., Jan. 8,1898. Hon. F. C, 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 an active canvass of the district, and will address the peopie in behalf of my cen didney. 1 respectfully ask that yon 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. A NIJBIAN T - A cures Dyspepsia wAiJy’ Constipation and! ad ige-sf. io r I’’ Regulates the Liver. Price. 25-. Where I)o "Y'ou buy your Soap and so i or (h? Wo do lot soil Notoriliy but we now have in stock t lie handsomest, line of r AV>il.*i Hosip on tlie market* “Sweet Maiden” fioap is tlie silielcestt tiling* out for fiveets aeako L.C. Hardman & Bro HARMONY GROVE. GA. A STEP BACKWARD. “The Loud bill to regulate second ei s-i mail matter, which is now on dt-r consult*r&t to i by Congress, is a distinct step backward, and it is to be hope i that no self respect mg legis lator •-mli give his vote for a measure which is bound to work detriment to the educatioeal interests of the peo pie Mr. Loud proposes to make the H-<tal Dcpai ti '.ei t self sustaiuidg by raising the rates of postage for all ornirv ot complete books which now pass through the mails at ono cent per pound and to abolish the privilege which publishers now have of sending '■'ample copies at the same rate. The result of this will be an incrense in the price of books, which are so cheap nowadaos that the poorest working man may secure a nice little library of his favorite works, A bill that raises the price of books, pats a premium on illiteracy, and should nos be passed. Tlmre are better ways of mrking the Postal Department self-sustaining. For instance, why not make the rail* roads carry the mails as cherply as they carry the shipments of the exprefs companies? It has been estimated that this alone would accomplish the object, we give in another column an article upon this subject which will repay careful rending. Our readers will do much to defeat the bill by a postal card pn t st, as snggesied.” f SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BANKS COUNTY J O U It N A L ONLY $1 Dollar PER ANNUM CASH.