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x Banks County J ournal. YOL. 2. ORGAN! If you want the best PIANO or ORGAN for* the ud Least Money and on the rrost reasonable terms, we’ve got ’em. HAMILTON AND - ham mm on which we offer SFEC CIALINDUCEM ENTS We wslf he to have you exam ine our goods, or write for Catalogue ad Prices* CONAWAY'S MUSIC HOUSE. ATHENS, G V i ■■ r '' x^pz L have .your buggy , "f '-- 'VJ -.*;£&£ BY R. J. DVAR Sc CO-, Old Buggies and Wagon made good as new. We do -1 kind of work in Wood and Iron at reasonable prices. NORTHEAST ER.U R. R 0 ©F GEORGIA BETWEEN ATHENS AND LULA TIME TABL ti. No 2. To Take Effect Oct. 18. 1597. SOUTHBOUND NORTHBOUND-1 — W la Daily Daily Daily NORTHE ASTERN RAILED AD STATIONS. Daily Daily D ExSu .. , T ArA.M. F.M.A.M „ r r jiio N 10 U) 800 SO 53° 815 lttoW (VillsvillW 10 33 743 58 600 832 }}£-••• ’i-ivsviiie 10 13 720 3** ?25 9ID nD"tiarmo'nvGroye ““ £l3 o#o In 1 "•■ssr- SS !. •g amp 1 -S aV. *• a K, IC. EJSAV E 6, Sta ’•i .’ tt w - SIZES, Ailifcit. HOMEII, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, > 1898. THE BURIAL OF GINGER JAMES. A Bpell I had to wait Outside tho barrick gate, For Ginger James was yussln oat as I was pas-yin in; *E wiis only a recruit. But I give ’ini the salute, For I’ll never git another chance of givin it ag’inl ’E'd little brains, I’ll mvear, Eencath ’is ginger 'air; Tsperfior.nl attractions-^well, they wasn’t very largo; ’E was fust in ev’ry mill An a foul mouthed cur, but still \sTe’il forgive ’ini all 'is druwbucki—’e ’as tak en ’is discharge. ’E once got fourteen days For drunken, idle wnyß, An the colonel said the nasty things that colonels sometimes say; ’E called ’im to ’is faco The regiment's disgrace, Bat the colonel took 'is 'ut off when 'e passed ’im by today. For d.tys ’e used to dwell Inside a guardroom coll, Where they put the darbies on ’im for a 'owl in Huv?ge brute, llut as by the guard, ’e went Tliuy gave ’im the present; Tho little bugler sounded off the “general ea lute.” The band turned out to play . Poor Ginger James away, ’ls captain und ’is company came down to see 'im off, An thirteen file nn rank, With three rounds each of blank, An ’e rode down on a carriage, like a bloomin city toff! ’E doesn’t want no pr^s; ’E’h journey in first, cloas; ’ls trnv’lin rug’s a union jack, which isn’t bad at all; Tho tune the drummers play, It ain’t eo very gay, But a rather slow selection from a piece that’s known a “Saul." —Edgar'HVallace in London Chronicle. ALASTAIKS CROSS. "Rise up anil come out now; it’s a bonny night for ns indeed —and for tho work that’s afoot, lan Ban.” Thus a voico cried aicud from tho midmost of the silent gronp of cragsmen and Sshor men that stood waiting dourly round the fast shut door cf lan Mac Alastair’s cottage, perched, like a gull’s nest, on tho ridge of the steep and shining beach at Ronaldshay. “Make haste., man, make haste, and come along with your self. It’s tired waiting here we are.” "Aye, aye, it’s ready and coming I am, Macdonald, but hasty work is ayo ill work, and I was saying a bit prayer in an orra minute bore; that was all.” The door swung open now, and the speaker came out into tho half light that a sullen moon gave as cho slipped fitfully from cioud to cloud in tho windy sky. A handsome man, this fair lan, with eyes as blue as cornflowers, and r. yellow beard that tho wind was tossing ali ways at once, but just now his eyes were darkened and his face sot with tho same stern purpose that made dumb the crowd of kinsfolk and neigh bors around him. “Come out, Alas tair!” he called, and a tall slip of a lad came out and stood waiting by his side. His father had given him a strain of Danish blood as well as Celtic, and his mother had been kindly Irish of tho Irisn. But Alastair Mac Alastair favored nc .her fair lan nor dark Aileea, for his eyes were of tho sea’s shifting color, and tho soft hair under his fisherman's cap was a dusky red. His eyebrows were of the darkest, and against the sunburn of cheek and chin his lips showed curiously colorless, and in odd contrast to tho sturdy men and strap ping lads around him was his extreme slenderness of build, in spite of the rough blue clothes which scorned almost to hide him. “I am hero,” he said, speaking in Gaelic, as ho stepped to his father’s side, “and the time is hero, lan Mac- Alastair says. And what do you want of me, neighbor.-:?” “Go down to tho beach, Alastair," his father said curtly, and tho boy obeyed silently. When tboir feet were ankle deep in water, lan Mac Alastair spoko again. “Did you pray before you slept tonight, Alastair? Yes? that’s good. Strip now. ” His sou lifted won dering eyes to lan’s gloomy face, but obeyed silontly, and presently someone muttored a verse of an old spell song that changed tho wonder in Alastair’s eyes to comprehension. Naked hands and naked feet are all that the sea has need of; Naked, oh, the soul must go that tho ninth wave lias gveecl of! Naked heart for tho stars to sift, naked limbs for tiie tide to drift Out from the shore, to corno no more to the hearth3 that the spirit has heed of. When the murmur died, Alastair raised his head and looked round on the darkened faces with a flickering smile on his pale mouth. “Is it todrown my self you’ve brought me here or will you do it, lan Mac Alastair? I’ll lift no fin ger to stop you, for long have I been knowing I was the needless month and the useless hand among you, and my red head bringing bad luck to your nets all the summer. Only I’d take it kindly if you would do it-quickly, friends —be- cause it’s bitter cold it is waiting here. ” “ You shall not be waiting long, Alas tair,’’ lan said heavily, “and neither will you drown yourself nor we you. We will be giving you a chance, though not iu Ronaldshay.” “Ronalsbay 1 know, ’’ Alastair said quietly, “aud it’s glad I would be if you would kill me here with your own hand, lathor— No I ’ His band slipped from his father’s shoulder, “Then have your will and your way, lan Mac Ala stair, I’ll not gainsay you.” “There’s the moon,” lan said at last, “now make ready.” Ho stooped and dragged some dark object at his feet a little higher up the beach, so that its lower end only lay iu the sea. Alastair glanced at it and saw th r, it was a tree 'trunk, weed covered and barnacle grown with washing about in heavy seas. Upon it a spar was lashed crosswise. Alastair looked at it a moment longer, then, in obedience to a gesture from his fatten, laid himself down upon it with [ his arms outstretched. Then Macdonald I and another man stooped over him, 1 lashing his feet together aud then se ouring his arms to the crosspiece just above the elbows. Two stout ropes held him by the shoulders and went over his body, crossing on tho breast, and those wore drawn so tightly that Alastair, after enduring with clinched *>’• rh f:rt minute, was forced to cry out. "Doreen it,” lan MauAlastair said hoarsely, and tho others obeyed. “I am Safe now, ” Alastair said, smil ing, as they drew back from him fora minute. “Your knots are fast, Macdon ald, and bo are—ah I” They had raised the cross Upright now, and tho sudden strain upon his overwrought nerves had forced another cry from Alastair, but the next rough movement ho tnro in si lence, and it was with shut lips and quiet eyes that he endured the sudden casting out from their midst und smoth ering splash iuto deep water. “A boat will be picking you up may be, but yos will not be corning back to Ronaldsbay, Judas Mac Alastair I ’ Mac donald shouted after him, but Alastair called no nurse back, as Ihoso on shore half expected. He did not even turn his head to look at the shore, bat lay slill upon his cross, taking with tho same quietness the stinging cf tho salt spray in his eyes and the tingling pain in his bound limbs. “Naked limbs—the sea has need of,” Alastair whispered pres ntiy. “Doer, tho sea want mo any more than tho land does, I wonder? Oh, but it’s cold, cold!” shuddering as one wave elder another drove over his naked body. “Iwi.-i. t a wind wouid rise; then I would got a chance of drowning. Is that a mutter of thunder?, I wish it were. Mother, are you sorrowful somewhere for me to night?” A nearer mutter of thunder stopped his murmuring, and the next hour laid another cross upon Alastair’s burdened shoulders —the cross of per petual tossing about from drowning to life as tho big seas lifted him now and now broke over him in a clatter of yel low foam. When the stress cf the storm went by, Alastair had fainted, hut pres ently the splash ot some tossing wrack upon bis naked breast brought him to a knowledge of hunger aud coid and pain. “The fish will he plenty next cast, I’m thinking, ” Alastair gasped as he tried to shake the drenched hair from his eyes. “If only the sea won’t cast me up at their very doors—or then they will be thinking I'd bo coming back again to haunt them. Is it coming loose I am?” The rope had slipped from his right arm, leaving it free, and the next wave flung him against a sharp edged rock, bruising bis free arm on the small sharp shells that covered it. But Aias tair clung fast to the rock, with a light in his face that would not fade for all the pain of torn flesh and nerves, and presently he found what he was seeking —a crevice through which ho could thrust his fingers. When his hand was fixed fast in the jagged hole, the light deepened and softened in Alastair’s face. “This is good, this is better,” he whispered, “then the open sea, and still this will not hurt my own folk, for this rock is not Ronaldsbay. * * * Kind, kind, after all, are you, sea o’ me, kind er than I daicd hops you’d bo." And now a big wave lifted him softly and turned him over on bis face, still an chored to the rock by his right hand. The weight of tho cross on his back pressed him down an arm’s length, no more, and then the sea that ho had loved very gently took tho soul of Alas tair Mac Alastair to itself. At long last fishermen from tho is land of Eday found him, still hound to his cross. Though they were afraid to take the drowned lad •oard tb art tat, lest tl y should sutler in their hi .:mg harvests, they towed cross and all ashore with them and buried cross and all in their windy hill graveyard, where lie those few men of Eday that the sea has not drowned. And the story of Cress Alastair is a woeful story in the North isles to this day.—Black end Whits. Ilia Regret* “I regret to observe,” said S'.dllton, : ‘‘that tusre is to lie auotiier yacht race j for the America's cup.” “Rogret? Why, it indicates that England and the United States are com ing together again!” said Jones. “That’s just it, ” said Skilltou. “We wore beginning to got- along sn nicely, and now all the old troubles will be re opened. ” —Harper’s Bazar. (ndiHei I’ailn us Shoplifter. A Navajo Indian can hide more bulls ■within the folds of his blanket than a two bushel basket could hold and can successfully hide many stolen articles bofoio our eyes. The settlers along the San Juan and Animas rivers, during the early days, had to put all their steaiabla po. j :- ssions in one corner of their places of abode and stand guard when the Na vajoes were visitors, which was a too fivyuent occurrence. “Chinny ah-gol” (meaning something to out) was the first intimation generally that an Indian was near (perhaps a half dozen). They rarely exceeded half a dozen in number, as they, like the American hobo, had learnt 1 that smaller numbers stood a better show to get something to eat. One day in A. It. Lincoln’s cabin, on the south bank of the San Joan river, three bachelors wore partaking of their evening meal when a Navajo with a glass eye walked in. All tried to watch the Indian’s movements, but he bad managed to' get several articles under his blanket and would not have been detected had not an accident befallen him. A hatchet which slipped from ono of the folds in his blanket fell, and the sharp blade cut a long gash in the calf of his leg. The Indian looked to ths roof of the cabin as if wondering where the hatchet bad fallen from, but the blood sporting from the open gash be trayed him. His blanket was shaken, and a butcher k ife, miner’s candle stick, several candles and a package of tobacco, all belonging in tiro cabin, foil on the earthy floor. —Durango (Col.) Wago Earner. n !>!<! Not I’fr.’.T'-- Whey. The special c-rr ; a lent, of a Well known : i furm.-hd r most eafisfacr.;iy h awhile a, for u friend of bin who lives up in northern New York state, and he dees not know It yet He bad gone up tho state to vißit some mill or other, aud the before men i. ,cd friend volunteered to drive him over to his destination. Now, while the special correspondent has a wonderfully general fund of information ho knows litflo about tho country, aud when they were passing a huge cheese factory he exclaimed: “Why, there’s a creamery 1 Just wait a minute while l go in and get p. drink ci buttermilk. ” With this be jumped out of tho car riage and entered the building. My country friend says that whey is not pleasant to take and that even the pigs won’t cat it- But when tho special cor respondent nsked for buttermilk the people in tho factory gave him a big glass of thin, acidncns liquid, which ho swallowed down at a draft. Tho drive was t hen continued. The special corre spondent seemed to bo very thoughtful He finally exclaimed m his explosive fashion: “Veil, Smith, I don’t know what breed of cows you raise up hero, but that was the darndest buttermilk I ever tasted.” —Paper Mill. Tw o airj>s ut a Tlsr.c. One evidence of the ever hustling char acteristics of the average Rew Yorker ia showui on cho stairways of the up town station of the elevated railroad at, Bark place and Church street. The steyis of these stairways ore covered with rub ber, but every other step has large iron rings imbedded in the rubber. This was caused by the fact that the New Yorker is never content to wait even one minute for a train, and that when he hears one approaching as he is at the foot of tho stairs ho will rush np tho stairs two steps at a time hoping to catch tho train. Asa result the olovated railroad offi cials noticed that the rubber matting on every other step was wearing out twice as quickly as tho rest. Bor a long time they pondered as to the cause, aud ono day Manager Frannioli solved the prob lem. To know was to act in his case, and the steel re-enforced rubber now lasts if anything longer than the or dinary mats ou the other steps. —New York Sun. Victor Ruf;o In Exile. I iivo near the sea in a house built 60 years ago by an English privateer and -ailed Eauteville House. I, a represent ative of the people and an exiled sol dier of tho French republic, pay droit do poulage every year to the queon of England, sovereign lady of the Channel islands, us Duchess cf Normandy and ray feudal suzerain. This is one of the curious results of exile. I live a retired life here with my wife, my daughter and my two sons, diaries and Francois. A few exiles i have joined me, and we make a family 1 party. Every Tuesday I givo a dinnor | to 15 little children, chosen from among i tho most poverty stricken of the island, ! and my family and I wait ou them. I ! try by this means to givo this feudal country an idea of equality and frater nity. Every now aud then a friend crosses the sea and pays me a visit. These are our gala days. I have some dogs, some birds, some flowers. I hope next year to hove u c m •’ ci.-viage and ai. irs ) My poo irctmilances, which had l en .ht to a very !ow : ebb by the coup d’etat, have beeu some* ! what improved by my book “Les Miser : Abies.” I setup early, Igo to bed early, • 1 v. rk ail day, I walk by the sea, I hav c a sort of natural armchair in a j rod: for writing .at a beautiful spot I called Finnp.il! bay, I do not smoke, I lent i-iast boef iike an Englishman and I ! drink bear like a German, which does ant prevent tho Esnana, a clerical news paper of Madrid, from a. sorting that Victor Hugo does not exist and that the real author of “X-c.n Miserebles” ia called sataa. —Betters ci Victor Hugo. Growing Old. pie—Carrie, you don’t seem to care so much for me as yon did when we wero first married. ghe—As for that matter, I don’t think so much of my hat as I did when I get it just before Easter. —Boston Transcript. Fli OEESSIONA L CAIII),S J. L. ™FTN3 Attorney at Law, Homer, Ga. Tomyt attention given-to all business placed iu my bands. n. harden* m. and. WertottPuulic Square, HOMER, GA. Telephone at office. J 4 SAM DANIEL, M. D. (vf-office East oi' Public Sqarr . HOMER, GA ~ ])TI. W. G. SHARP, MATS VILLI!, GA. \ fgp-Offiee over W. C. J. Garrison’s Store. j I Ar, ’Cs.-.ertati; KSt-vr.se. I Titers k: r.e diseiss mere uncertain in its j y-ture than dyspepsia. Physicians say that ,bs symptoms of no two esses agree. It is therefore most ditties! t to make a correct tUsjjnoete. Ho matter how severs, or under srhatdl*''.!isedy<ipepri* attacks you, Browns’ Iron Bitters will cure it- Invaluable in ail diseases of i‘ro stoms-cli. I’oor arid nerves, arowns’ Iron Litters in sold by all dealer? The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which lias been in use for over HO years, has borne the signature of - and Ids been made under his x>er ,//soon i supervision since its infancy* Allow no one tp deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex periments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORS A Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props ami Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. 11 destroys TV orms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Me Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRUY STREET, NEWYOR**. CITY. . Ileadiuiirters ior goods sit Irowesi Prices, Out new goods for FALL and WINTER are here. Our large store roomes are literally tilled from bottom to bottom to top. Our stock is the n ost complete ever brought to Gainesville, embracing everything ueeded for man, woman or child. fcSliGrfc eropg and low prices There are no two classes of men whose interests are nearer the same than the farmer and the merchant. When the fainter prospeis the merchant prospers, and when crops are short and cotton low the merchant is effected by iho'blow the same as the farmer Realizing this to Lo a fact this season we have selected o.r stock and made our prices to suit the times. NOTE IHE SPECIAL PRICES GIVEN BELOW SILKS, SAT INS VELVETS, ETC, Beautiful black Taffetta medium weight, regular width all silk, worth Goc, at 590 Heavy weight black Taffetta, full ?A iiichea wide, worth regvlar SOc at. 75c Extrv heavy black Tafk-ttn, full 24 in. wide, sells elsewhere at SI per yard only 85c black and colored wool DRESS GOODS. Ten pieces of Bruadcb th, 54 inches wide, extra heavy, b .utiful finish, at SI Fifteen pieces Ladiesciutn. very —ivy ail wool 54 inches wide, worth Goc to 75c peT yard, our price 50c Twcniv pieces Ladicsclolh, sli wool, full width, worth 50c, only 35c 20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 46 in. wide, 40c, only 20c 10 pieces oi Novelties, 40 inches wide worth 25c, at 15c 20 pieeies double width Dress Goods worth regular 15r, at. !oc. Our line of black Dress Goods em braces every style and weave desired including Henriettas, Serges, Cash, meres Diagonals, Wide W ales, Whip cords, Bengalines, Novelties Creporis, Broadcloths, Ladiescloths etc ranging in price from lOoto 20c CLOAKS, CAPES and JACKETS lln Ladies’ and Childron’s Wraps we fee! confident that we can please you Our $2 I Cape cannot be dupli cated els-• where for less than S3 50 Extra heavy, latest style Pivsh Capes all sizes worth regular $5 50 to $6 50 our price I*3 85 Conic to sec us. Polite attention and courteovs treatment toevryone FULL LINE OF BUTTERICK PATTERNS A WAYS ON HAND (ggj ’Mr. J. E. BOONE makes bis office with us J.E, MUEPHEYCQ,, Dean Building. Corner Main and Washington Street*, Phone 118 GAIN ESV i LLE, GA. Liv©r USs Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, const! pation, sour stomach, indigestion arc promptly cured by Hood’3 Pills. They do their work easily and thoroughly. B 5j Best after dinner pills. BBS 25 cents. All druggists. 23 hH B Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass. The only Pill to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla- KO. 35. MILLINERY. In Millinery we lead. Our stock 13 the largest and most up to date to be found in Gainesville, If you desire anything in the millinery line it will be to your interest to call on us, &• here you a ill find everything needed from a 25c;Sailor to a $25 French pat* tern Hat. Special inducement to out of town merchants in thus department CLOTHING AND HATS. High grade Tailor mads Suits Our line suits are m.de by the cele hrated Schloss Bros, of Baltimore. The most modern 111 designs and the most perfect fitting clothing on the ■.>■ rket. Our styles embrace every th . wished for in single breasted Sacks, double ’breasted Sacks, Cuts* ways and Prince Alberts The largest and best assorted stock of Boys’ Clothing in town, From a nobby little suit to a tit a tot of tbreo years to a youth of eighteen. Largo stock of Odd Pant for children, and boys and men. HATS AND CAPS.' For any sile head and any aixe purse. Here you can find anything you want from a 15c Cap to the celebrated John B Stetson Hat as high as $6 GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS The largest line in Collars, Cuffr, Nwackwear, Shirts Laundried and on laundried, Iloseiy, Cotton and Wool Underwear for men and loya always to be found here at the very lowest [ prices Much in Little Is especially true ol Hood’s FiUs, for no medi cine ever contained so great curative power In so small space. They are a whole medicuM cues., always ready, al- mgk c p a ways efficient, always .at- k-gS S 3 9 M Isfactory; prevent a eote' r 9| ■ Sjp or fever, euro ail liver Ills, sick headache, Jaundice, constipation, etc. *scl The only Fills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.