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VOL. I. LARGEST STORE IN NORTH GEORGIA AtliellH, Carat,. mime m goiids NOTIONS SINKS HITS. Merchants will do well to get our prices before buying MICHAEL BROS. Athens, Ga. S4O 000 Worth of Cottou. Perhaps the biggest cotton deal that has been made in this section in a long while was made Thursday af ternoon at Iloscliton. Mr. C. S. Webb bought of Dr. W. P. DeLappo rriere 1625 dales of cotton for § 40. 000. Mr. Webb gave him a check on the State Banking Company of Ca ue sville for $30,000, a rather health) check for these early days of 1898. The remaining ten thousand dollars was paid yesterday. Mr. Webb will weigh and ship out the cotton next week. True Reform. If the word of the New York Journal is to be relied on, a young millionaire of that city, a youth of the rich family of Phelps-Stokes, is doing some uplift ing of the masses in his owu way. Hu will have the science of cookery and housekeeping taught to wives and daughters among tenement house dwell ers. Mr. Phelps Stokes says he has dis covered that bad cookery is the under lying cause of nearly all tho domestio rows in humble life. He will bring peace am? good temper by the introduc tion of the other kind. Who shall say Mr. Phelps-Stokes is wrong? In a building which was for merly a saloon and daucehonse in a New York tenement district tire young man has initiated his practical philanthropy. For the children there is a kindergarten. For their mothers and older sisters there are classes of cooking and housekeeping. The cooking classes number ten, meet ing at different hour.;. The cheapest, plainest foods are selected, and their proper preparation is earnestly drilled into tho feminine tenement house mind. Object lessons in cleanliness and every detail of household work arc given. The Phelps-Stokes theory is tbiu when workingmen go home to palatable, nourishing suppers in an inviting home they will not want to go off and become drunk. The idea is the same old one, “feed the animals.” There is a reading room too. • What is called the Penny Provident fund is connected with the establish ment. It is of the nature of a savings bank, and to this fund may be confided riny sum, however small, for safe keep ing. It is interesting to know that the young philanthropist pays his own ex penses as be goes. • Don't Neglect Voar Diver. £,;yer troubles quickly result in serious complications, and the man who neglects his ];"er lias V' 1 regard for health. A bottle of B'S' nV .r.-u llrtors taken now and then will kef-D the live rin perfect order. If (he di-n>e has developed, Browns’ Iron Hitters w :t. cure :* pennanontly. gtreneth ami v'i'o’.'.v 1 always ' "le v uso. Browns’ Tr..' " r te-s Is arid by ali dealers. Apparently Hawaii could have done nothing inora favorable for her cause than to tend her president, Mr. Dole, to tut. die is a man of uncommonly fine and imposing physical presence, being fee! 2 inches tall and having a frank, kindly and dignified manner. He has made a most favorablo impression at Washington. This is the Man s^ VE ggj? E PEo? Le SA. S At i $ p jraf %% & ** <Cf , H ? 7 ! fca ■ 2 oSe £3 - . wITTTi ji *s ©a fnif] \m\ & * °-§ 8 w Is&kgg rffrl W-M s'“l§ad •|s 0&5 rfffW IWUI IWU&3 Jiph L:tt! tf r'3 u sl t&fi? u:“u . I*l*l3 $53 fell 4o§g.H 5“ i ots <£S? hut: Hsr°“,j£2 <23? nV;H S?jJs'7,o r.HS.' £3=3 P-t-d * VMrJ I4if- ti ;• t> H . i,o°;J (fcr/> hfeWk, -US =5; pq e-ben £¥?/ 1 ffY-v--,v-Va'*o o; W SEfI figy tin gj; _ gj Banks County Journal. THE | franc COpyrciGHT. 1597 BY. r* F.FCNRO VCO ' •‘Messieurs, does not the expression of the open eye strike you?” •’ Yes; they express admirably tho most perfect agony,” M. Morin replied. “And does it not seem,” asked tho examining magistrate, “as if they were fixed with that expression on tho mur derer?” “Without doubt. Tho month seems to curse and tho eyes to menace. ” “And wlint if tho last imago seen— in fact, thut of tho murderer—still re mains upon the retina of the eyes?” M. Morin looked at tho magistrate in astonishment. His nir was slightly mocking and tho lips and eyes assumed u quizzical expression. Hut Bernardet was very much surprised when ho heard one remark. Dr. Erwin raised his head, nud while he seemed to approvo of that which M. Ginory had advuuced he said, "That imago must have disappeared from the retina some time ago.” “Who knows?” said M. Ginory. Bernardet experienced a profound emotion. He felt that this time the problem would be officially settled. M. Ginory had not feared ridicnle when lie spoke, and a discussion arose there, in that dissecting room, in the presence of the corpse. What had existed only in a dream in Bernardet’s little study be came here, in the presence of tho exam ining magistrate, a member of the in stitute, and the young students, almost full fledged doctors, a question frankly discussed in all its bearings. And it was be standing back, ho, a poor devil of a police officer, who had urged this examining magistrate to question this savant. “At the back of the eyes, ” said the professor, touching tho eyes with his scalpel, “there is nothing, believe me. It is elsewhere that you must look for your proof.'' “But”—and M. Ginory repeated his "who knows?”—“what if we try it this time? Will it inconvenience you, my dear master?” M. Morin mado a movement with his lips which meant “Penh!” and his whole countenance ex pressed his scorn. “Hut I see no incon venience. ” At tho end of a moment he said in a sharp tone, “It will be lost time. ” “A little more, a little less,” replied M. Ginory. “The experiment is worth the trouble to make it. ” M. Ginory had proved without doubt that he, like Bernardet, wished to satis fy his curiosity, and in looking nt tho open eyes of the corpse, although iu his duties he never allowed himself to be influenced by tho sentimental or tho dramatic, yet it seemed to him that those eyes urged him to insist—nay, even supplicated him. “I know, I know,” said M. Morin, “what you dream of in your magis trate’s brain is as amusing as a talo of Edgar Poe’s. But to find in those eyes tho image of tho murderer—come, now, leave that to the inventive genius of a Rudyard Kipling, but do not mix the impossible with our researches in medical jurisprudence. Let us not make romance. Let us make, you the exam inations and I the dissection. ” The short time in which tho professor had spoken did not exactly please M. Ginory, who now, a little through self conceit (since he had mndo the proposi tion), a little through curiosity, decided that ho would not beat a retreat. “Is there anything to risk?” lie asked. "And it might bo one chance in a thousand.” “Hut there is no chance,” quickly answered M. Morin, “none, none.” Then, relenting a little, ho entered tho discussion, explaining why he had no faith. “It is not I, M. Ginory, who will de ny the possibility of such a result. Bnt it wonld be miraculous. Do you boliove in miracles? The impressions of heat, oi tho blood, of light, on our tissues arc not cataloguablo, if 1 may to allowed tho expression. Tho impression on the retina is produced by the refraction which is called ethereal, phosphores cent, and which is almost as difficult to seize as to weigh the imponderable. To think to find on tho retina a luminous impression nfttr a certain number of heurs anil days would to, as Vcrnois has very well said, to think ono can find in the organs of hearing the last sound which reverberated through them. Peuh! Seize the airbubblo at the cud of a tube and place it in a museum ns a curiosi ty. Is there anything left of it but a drop of water which is burst, while of the fleeting vision or tho passing sound nothing remains!" The unfortunate Bernardet suffered keenly when he heard this. Ho wished to answer. The words came to his lips. Ah, if he was only in M. Ginory's placet The latter, with bowed head, listened and seemed to weigh each word as it dropped from M. Morin s lips. “Let us reason it; bnt, " tho profess or went on, “siuco tho ophthalmoscope ) dos not show to the oculist on the reti j ua any of the objects or beings which a sick man sees—you understand, not one of them—how can yon think that pho tography can find that object or beipg on the retina of a dead man’s eye?” He waited for objections from tho ex amining magistrate, and Beruardot hoped that M. Ginory would combat some of tho professor’s arguments. He had only to say; “What of it? Let u? see. Let us experiment. ” And Bernar ds bad longed fer just these words from l him, but the magistrate remained si- Idit Ills head still l.'-ct. The police HOMER, GA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10 t 1898. agent'felt’with despair liis chance slip ping, slipping away from him, and that never, never again would ho find a like opportunity to test the experiment. Suddenly the strident tones of Ur. Er ivin’s voice rang out sharply, libo an electric boll, and Bernardet experienced a sensation like that of a sudden unex pected illumination. “My dear master,” he respectfully began, “I saw at home in Denmark a poor devil picked up dying, half de voured by a wolf, nnd who, when taken from the very jaws of the beast, still re tained in tho eye a very visible image in which one could see tho nose and teeth of the brute. A vision! Imagina tion, perhaps! But tho fact struck me at the time and we made a note of it ” “And?” questioned M. Morin in a tone of raillery. Bernardet cocked liis ear as a dog does when he hears an unusual boupJ. “But there i* no chance," quietly an ewered M. Morin. M. Ginory looked nt this slender young man with his long blond hair, his eyes as bine as the waters of a lake, his face palo and wearing the peculiar look com mon to searchers after the mysterious. Tho students and the others gathered about their master, remained motionless and listened intently as to a lecture. “And,” Dr. Erwin went on frigidly, “if wo had found absolutely nothing, we would at least have kept silent about nu unsuccessful research, it is useless to say. Think, then, my dear master, the exterior objects must have imprinted themselves on the retina, did they not, reduced in size, according to the size of th placo wherein they were reflected? They appeared there; they certainly ap peared there. There is—l beg your par don for referring to it, but it is to these others (and Dr. Erwin designated M. Ginory, his registrar, and Bernardet) — there is in tho retina a substance of a red color, the pourpre retinien, very sensitive to the light. Upon the deep red of this membrane objects arc seen white, and one can fix the image. M. Edmond Perrier, professor in the Muse um of Natural History, reports (you know it better than I, my dear master), in a work on animal anatomy and phys iology which our students are all fa miliar with, that ho made an experi ment. After removing a rabbit’s eye, a living rabbit’s eye—yes. science is cruel —lie placed it in a dark room, so that lie could obtain upon tho retina tho im age of some object, a window, for in stance, and plunged it immediately into a solntion of alum and prevented the decomposition of the pourpre retinien, and the window conld plainly be seen, fixed on tho eye. In that black chamber which we have under our eyebrows, in the orbit, is a storehouse, a storehouse cf images which are retained, like the To b.i continued next week* THE NEW YORK WORLD THRICE A WEEK EDITION. 18 Pages a week. 150 Bauers a Year. A paper as useful to you as a great daily for only one dollar a year. Better than ever. All the news of all the wrld all the time. Accurate and fair to every body. Democratic and for the people against trust and all monopolies. Bril liant illustrations. Stories by great au thors in -.very number. Splendid read ing for women and other ipe -ial depart monts of unusual interest, It stands first among “weekly” papers In size, frequency of publication and freshness, variety and reliability oi con tents. It is practically a daily at the price of a weekly; and its vast list of subscribers, extending to every state and territory of the Union and foreign countries, will vouch for the accuracy and fairness of its news columns. We offer this unequaled newspaper and The BASKS COUNTY JOURNAL together one year for .$1.50. The regular subscription price of the two paper $2.00 cash. The most tremendous trade ever car ried on by any nation within its own limits will open for the United States . next spring with the melting of the lco | and snow in Alaska. Corn responds readily to proper fer tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to result from a liberal use of fertilizers containing at least "]% actual Potash Our books arc free to farmers. GERMAN KALI WORKS, S3 Numb St., Kaw Y^b The eclipse of the sun was celebrated in India with religious ceremonies. While it was in progress thousands of Hindoos bathed themselves as uart of the progn. ume. If an eclipse had that kind of influence on civilized people, we ought to have one at least once a week. Not a single boiler exploded in all Philadelphia during the year 1897. That shows tho advantage of the habit ual calm state of mind. 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Rememlipr we send both papers a full year for SI.OO, and you ran have a copy of the liook by sending 15 eents additional. Address The Banks County J oukn a r. Homer, Ca Lamps, LampChim* neys, Glass, Putty, Painlx, Oils, Vtiriiislios, Brushes Sponges MUSIC A L IXS Tli UMENTS, And a lot of other thing - too tedious to mention can be hud at HABDMAN & BROS. Drug Store, Cheaper tliar. “'se wn ere ABOLISH THE SABBATII The abolition of the Sabbath ’5 a question that is being agitated through out the country by the Jews, and next Friday night Rabbi Marcuson will discuss it from the pulpit at the •yniigogue. Dr. Maiouson’s lecture will bo on the subject, “Shall Wo Abopsh the Sabbath?” and he will make argu menu both pro and con ill order to present the question in all of its phases. The question of the abolition of the Sabbath means whether the Jews shall cease to observe Saturday as their Saturday as their Sabbath or lo adopt the Sunday the same as the Chris tians, Both sides have strong advo cates and the question is one of ah sorbing interest to the Jews every where, —Macon Telegraph. Thru and Now. The half century anniversary of her gold discoveries which California began to celebrate Jan. 34 may well last for weeks or evon months. The first great historic event in connection with our oountry was .he discovery of the conti nent itself. The second was the war of the Revolution. Third in importance as to time was tha discovery of gold in California. How we have made history since then! The uncovering of tho immense goldfields caused California nnd all the region west of the Mississippi to progresi more rapidly in 60 years than the whole country had done in two centuries pre vious. Fifty years ago African slavery exist ed over half *,ho Union. 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