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Banks County Journa i ,
VOL. I.
LARGEST
STORE
NORTH GEORGIA
MIL IK,
Athens, tia.
UMESJIjt BBV (iflißS
NOTIONS aifiliS HATS.
Merchant* will do well to get oui
prices before burin
MICHAKL I>UOS-
AthCiii, tin
;*LIi!.IC DEBT STATEMENT.
monthly statement. >{ the
public debt shows that at tlioelosa fit
bpsii'iest Monday the •toht. less cash
iti the li-castny, naptinUtd to vi, Oil,
<5Ol. an increase for the month
of sl2, 588, 7*l, This increase is
;u cfuiiUed for by the decrease in the
amount of cash on liana. The field
is recapitulated as follows:
liilfcivdt hearing debt. Sot". 3C5.
810; delits on which interest has
erased sin. c matantv. $1,82H. 540
debt ben!iric no interest, s’BG 1 878,
774; lotai sl, ‘235, 578, 124.
This amount, however, floes not
include >5Bl, 213 933 in eertifea e*
and treasury notes outstanding, which
are offset lv an equal ainouutof cash
in the treasury. —Silver Night Watch
man.
SAM JONES IS OUT.
In -i four column article in the
AUuoti papers, that irrepressible
Homptv Humpty, Sam J inks, in
nouuees himself in the j> ihevnatorin!
rant —that isl e is in the race, hot
tint, exactly running* He says la
doesn’t have to run, for lie can s>
on a stump ami heat most of tiios
are now entered. His latter is a
roast ot tin politicians, Gov Atkin
son* and Ins followers in particuhir
Vithou >h th,. purpose of the latter 1
~ Cos 1 1..MM.7R he i <•, com
*.>c .su ire of ridicule. Hero at*
<>v i hoie- sej. clious from tin
■; polive and epistle. Ref i
1 .• C vNor.tc i’s f’i’i ms rec.eu
•> ' ie' ter, he s iys ‘* Aixi:
scared -that w.*
, . . .. < ■.'.■■■ would
:. a- ! t' it -■i.'ofid letter
j j,.... j,. i., him i v. o It .v i
si neSi t o that u-tt.er and fought it out
wil.ii ill fin us long i-.s I co-'.d ki.4: c-r
ii or . or ee.v, - - Wi an hnier
■itid I- -r< V" re ""no md teeth worn
out, I’d j'.imn.- i ‘ ti'l I di, and.
Oh, it dr. Canol a stu i to
ih'it f r,t etc at -He t :
men, 1 have made a lo' ot sh-.<-s;
they ere my -10-s and v utr fit" !
ct‘! o lames, bate*: very fnh >w km s
hi.s nauihjr.'.’
No one knows how seriously to
take your Unc*e .Tones, hot he may
\ et raise lots of .'and before tnc thing
is over—Eagle*
The negro postmaster at Lhkc
Citv‘ S. C., a town of CiM) .uhub
t*ifts *ra*’shot and killed by ku k'ui
Tuesday night? His wile and child
Were also kllltfd :md Ills two and ugh
tors woundul. The Jr.'-it. ofne© was
burned. This terribh* tr.nv- was the
on{come ot bad feeling over (he tin
j.ro's appointment .—Eagle
OLi?aaeg of vzu*
out 4 , itf'fd suffer vriih neuudgia. Thu*
•• . ij q■ . and perrai *m ■■ : •
by I<rr*-ma f Iron Hitters Every u;F n.;f
tft'j blood, narvoa. nu\ Aunt - ; , ••bro.;:*’
or otherwise, rJlcuronbß to liro .vric’ ;• • •
?:irt * lLiwri ''iiit.i used for u m ;
quurier of a century, it ati-.n.lh to-un . ■••**•
vi u.inoin? o'ir valut'd rrn;i< 1 ;.
•’us* i o". “‘ittci's ic cy fl;i
IViJ’Fij*'' t S FOII S.vM JONES
Columbus, Fi-b. 2*2. —Col C. J.
Thorton, the well Known IV>pulit,
who hit* been frequently spoken of
as th“ Populism canidate in the ap
proaching gubernatorial campaign,
s-,id t>> a journal correspondent this
oioi n Mg:
/ , : y n th lourti*' t
t o u ••o-write I Sam •!••••<*
vV:!, - o ,-C e!l>l
p. p jlist p-irjy ip Geoi-.hu 1 s" d 1
give him rap support- i’he Pop'' ‘*l
- believe? will mliy to tl- -.-vantie- s',
and iftney.do he wnl surer
ed the next governor <>l Georgia, 1 —
JHE |
CopyRIOMT. 1897 BY. K P. PCWNO CO..
•‘lt is impossible to tell you. ”
“Impossible?"
"Absolutely impossible."
“I will repeat to you my first qnre
tion—why?"
"Because i have sworn on my honor
to reveal it to uo one."
* Ah, uh!" arid Ginory mockingly.
"It was a vow? That is perfect.”
"Yes, Al. b> .lugo; it was a row."
“A vow made to whom?"
"To Bovere. ”
"Who is no longer hero to release
you from it. 1 under stard. "
"And. ” asked Dautin, with a Tehe
nronee whicii made the registrar's thin
hand tremble as it flew over the paper,
"what do you understand?"
"Pardon," said M. Ginory. "Ton
are not here to put questions, hut to an
swer tlioso which are asked you. It is
certain that a vow which binds the
holder of a secret is a means of defense,
hut the accused have, by making ceru
men use of It, rendered it useless. ”
The magistrate noticed the slmost
menacing frown with which Dantin
looked at him at the words “the ac
cused. ”
"The aicused?" said the man, turn
ing in Iris chair. “Anr 1 one of the ac
cused?” His voice was strident, almost
Btrauglcd.
"1 do not know that, ” raid M. Gino
ry in a vary calm too*. "I say that yoa
wish to keep your secret, and it is a
claim which 1 do not lutmll"
"I repeal, M. le Jngo, that the secret
Is not mine. ”
“It is uo longer a secret which ea*
remain sacred hero. A murder bat baea
committed, a murderer is to be touml,
and everything you know yon ought le
reveal to justice. ”
"But if I give you my word af ham*
that it has not the slight** bearing on
the matter —with the death of Bov®*!"
"I shall tell my regtotrur to writ*
your very words in reply. He has decs
it. I shall continue to question you,
precisely because you speak to me of a
secret which Ims been confided to you
aud which you refuse to disclose to me.
Because you do refuse?’'
"Absolutely. ”
"In spile of what I have said to yon?
It is a warning. Yon know it well."
"In spite of your warning. ”
“Take care," M. Ginory softly said.
His ongry face had lost its wonted ami
ability. The registrar quickly raised
his head. lie felt that a decisive mo
ment hud come. The examining magis
trate looked directly into Bautin’s eyes
and slowly suit!, "You remember that
you were seen by the portress at the
moment when liovere, standing with
yon in front of bis open safe, showed
you some valuables?"
Duntin waited a moment before he
replied, as if measuring those words
and si arching to find out just what M
Ginory was driving at. This sileuce,
short and momentous, wus dramatic.
The magistrate knew it well —that mo
ment of agony when the question seems
like a cord, like a lasso suddenly
thrown aud tightening around one’s
neck There wus always in his exami
nation a tragic moment.
"I remember very well that 1 saw a
person whom 1 did not know enter the
room where 1 was with AL Bovere,"
Jacques Dautin replied at last.
"A person whom you did not know?
Y'ou knew her very well, since you hail
more than ouco asked her if M. Bovere
was at home. That person is Alme.
Moniche, who has nuido her deposition."
“And what did sko say in her deposi
tion?’’
The magistrate took a paper from the
table in front of him and read: "When
j I entered, Ai Rovere was standing be
i fore his safe, and I noticed that the in
dividual of whom I spoils (the individu
al is yon j cast upon tho coupons a look
which made me cold. 1 thought to my
sell, "lids man t'siks ns if he is meditat
ing some bsd deed
“That is tossy, ” bmsr.ndj- said Dan
tin, who had listened with frowning
brows and with an angry expression,
“that Mine. Mouie'.ioaccuses mo of bv
iug murdered M. Rovers I"
“Yon ars lu too much haste. Mwa.
Munich* ha* not said that precisely,
phe was only surprised—rorprlsod and
frightened—at you>- I xpression as Too
looked at tli* deeds, bills and coupons.”
“Those ooupens, “ i,sited Dautin rather
anxiously—“have they, then, been stol
en?"
"Ah, that we know nothing about!”
And the magistrate smiled. “One has
found in Rovere’s r,afo lu the neighbor
hood of 4110,000 francs in coupons, City
of Paris Nads, (hairs in mining wile
ties, rent rolls, but nothing to prove tfer.t
there was before the assassination more
than that sum."
“Had it been forced open?”
“No; but any one familiar with the
dead man. a friend who kuew the secret
of the combination of the safe, the tarn
loiters forming the word, coolil have
opened it without trouble."
Among these words Dantin heard on*
which struck him full in the face —
"friend. " M. Ginory had pronounced
it in an ordinary tone, but Dtuitin had
seized and read in it a menace, lor a
moment the man who was being ques
tioned felt a peculiar sensation. It
seemed to him cno day when ho had
been almost drowned during a boating
party that same agony had seized lum;
it seemed that ho had fallen into some
abyss, some icy pool, which was para
i lvzing bite. Ovt-osHo to him the vf.en
HOMER. GA., THURSDAY. MARCH 3, 1808.
Inlug magistrate experienced a contrary
feeling. The raster of a book and line
feels n similar sensation, bnt it was in
tensified a hundred times in the magis
trate, a fisher of truth, throw ing the
lino into n human sea, the water pol
luted, red with blood nud mixixl with
mad.
A friend! A friend could have abused
tho dead man’s sue rat and opeued that
safa. And that friend—what name did
ho bear? Whom did AI. Ginory wish to
designate? Dautin, in spite of his song
frnid, experienced a violent temptation
to ask the man whut he meant by those
words But the strange sensation which
thin interview caused him increased. It
seemed to him that he had been thors a
Irsag lima—a very long ttmo since he
had ararad that threshold—and that
this littlo room, separated from the
World lik* a monk’s cell, had walls
thick enough to prevent any one from
hrowing anything mkida Ha felt as if
hypnotised by that man. who at first
had met him with a plwasuut air, und
who now bent npou him those hard
eyea Something doubtful, like vague
danger, surrounded him, metiaced him,
nud he mecbnnicully followed the ges
ture which M. Ginory made as lie touch
ail tho ivory button of un electric bell
as if on til is gesture depended some
wgit of bis lifia A gated tetewd. X
Ginory raid to him in a short tono,
(m butte berg brought?"
"X. Beroordct has just brought thorn
to me, M. le ffugo."
"Uivo them to ns " Ho then added,
"Is M. Bernardo, here?"
"Yes, X to Jn*a”
"Vary weiL"
/acqute Dantin niasinbiuad the little
man with whom he had talked tn tho
toanuj from the boom of death to the
tomb, where ha Itad heard aoraeon. call
"BornardeL " He did not know at the
time, but the name bad struck him.
Why did his presence seem of so much
importance to this examining magis
trate? Aud he looked in his turn at AL
Ginory, who, a little nearsighted, was
bendiug his head, with its sandy hair,
its bald forehead, on which the veins
stood out like cords, over his notes,
which hud been brought to him; inter
esting notes, important, without doubt,
for, visibly satisfied, AI. Ginory allowed
a word or two to cscapo him : "Good I
Yes—yea—fine! Ah. ah! Very good!"
Then suddenly Dautin saw Ginory raise
bis head and look at him. as tho saying
is, in the white of the eyes. He waited
a moment before speaking and suddenly
put this question, thru* at Daatin like
a knife blow:
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“Are yon a gambler, as I find?"
Tho question uiado Jacques Duntin
fairly bound from his chair. A gambler!
Why did this man ask him if he was a
gambler? What had his habits, his cus
toms, his vices eveu, to do with this
cause for which ho had been cited—to
do with Hovero’s murder?
"Yon are a gambler, ” continued tho
examining magistrate, casting from time
to time a keen glance toward his notes
"Oneof the Inspectors of gambling dens
saw yon lose at the Gcrcle des l’ublioistes
25,000 freuciH in one night."
"It is possible. The only important
point Is that I paid them. ’ ’ The response
was short, crisp, showing a little irrita
tioa and stupefaction.
“Assuredly, ’’said the judge. "But
you have no fortuuo. You have recently
borrowed a considerable sum from the
usurers in order to pay for some losses
at the Bourse. ”
Dautin became very palo, h!3 lips
quivered and his hands trembled. These
•tgne of emotion did not escape the eyes
of M. Ginory nor the.registrar's.
“Ie it from your little notes that you
have learned all that?" he demanded.
"Certainly,” M. Giuoryreplied "We
have been seeking for some hours fur
accurate information concerning yon;
started a sort of diary or rough draft of
your biography. You are fond of pleas
ure. You are soen, in spite of your age
—I pray you to pardon me; there is no
Bailee In the remark; 1 am older than
yoo —everywhere where la found tho fa
tnoue Tout Berts which amuses itself.
The easy lifo is the most difficult for
those who have no fortune. And, uoc-ord
ing to these notes—l refer to them
aguin—of fortune you have unne. ”
"That is to ray," interrupted Dautin
brusquely, “it would bo very possible
that, in order to obtain mouey for my
needs, in order to steal tho funds in his
iron safe, I would assassinate my
friend?"
M. Ginory did not allow himself to
display any emotion at the insolent
tone of these words, which had burst
forth almost like a cry. Hu looked
Dautin fall iu tho face, and with bis
hapds crossed npou his notes he said:
"Monsieur, in a matter of crimiunl
Investigation a magistrate eager for the
truth ought to admit that anything ie
risible, even probable, but in this case
ought to recognize the fr.ct that you
have not helped me in my tasi A wit
ness finds yon tete-a-tete with the vic
tim add surprise* your trouble at the
moment when you are examining Iln
vere's papers. I ask what it was that
happened between yon. Yon reply that
that is your secret, and for explanation
you give me your word of honor that it
had nothing whatever to do with the
murder. Yon would yourself think that
I was very foolish if I insisted any lon
ger. True, there was no trace of any
violence in the enactment, whatever
subtraction may have been made from
the safe. It appears that you are in a
position to know tho combination. It
appuors also that you aro certainly in
need of money, as clearly known as it
is possible to leant in a hurried inquiry
snch as has lien mudo while yon have
been hero. I question you, I let you
kpow what yon ought to know, and you
fly iuto a passion. And, note well, it is
you yourself, In your anger and your
violence,, who speak first tho word of
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which I htivo not pi onounoed a syllabio.
It is you who have jumped straight to a
logical conclusion of tho suppositions,
which are still defective, without doubt,
but aro not tho less suppositions. Yes,
it is yon who Say that with a littlo log
ic ona can certainly accuso you o tho
murder “ ono whom you called
your friend.”
Each word brought to Dan tin's faco
an angry or a frightened expression, and
tho more slowly M. Ginory spuko tho
more measured his words, emphasizing
hla verbs with a sort of professional
habit, as a surgeon touches a wound
with a steel instrument, tho questioned
man, put through a sharp cross exam
ination, experienced a frightful anger,
a strong internal struggle, which made
the blood rush to his ears and ferocious
lightnings dart through his eyes.
“It is easy, moreover," continued AL
Ginory in a paternal tone, “fer you to
reduce to nothingness all these supposi
tions, and tho smallest expression in re
gard to the role which you played iu
yoor last interview with Bovero would
put everything right ’’
"Ah, must wo go • aek to that?”
"Certainly, wo must go back to that.
The whole question lies there. Y'oa
come to nu examining magistrate and
tell him that there is a secret; you speak
of a third person, of recollections of
youth, of morul debts, and you aro as
tonished that tho jtidgo strives to wrest
the truth from yon?”
"I have told it. ”
“Tho wbolo truth?”
"It has nothing to do with Rorere’s
murder, and it would injure someone
who knows nothing about it. 1 have
told you so. I repeat it."
“Yes,” said AI. Ginory, “you hold
to your enigma. Ob, well, I, tlio magis
trate, demand that you reveal tho truth
to me! I command you to tell it. ”
The registrar’s pen ran over the paper
and trembled ns if it scented a storm.
Tho psychological moment approached.
Tho registrar knew it well, that mo
ment, and tho word which tho magis
trate would soon pronounce would be
decisive.
A sort of struggle began in Dantln’s
mind. Ono saw his f:-.co grow haggard,
his eyes eliango their expression. He
looked at tho papers upon which AI. Gi
nory laid his fat anil hairy hands—those
police notes which gossiped, as peasants
say, in speaking of papers or writing
which they cannot read and which de
nounce thorn. Ho asked himself what
moro would be disclosed by tlioso notes
of tho police agmts of the scandals of
tho club, of the neighbors, of the por
ters. 110 passed his hands over his fore
head us if to wipe off tho perspiration
or to ease away a headache.
Continued on fourth page.
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