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Banks ' County Journal.
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If you want the best
PIANO or ORGAN for® the
Least Money and on the
most reasonable terms,
we’ve got ’em.
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on which we offer SPEC
CIALINDUCEM ENTS
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ins our good??, or writs for Gataiogus ad
Prices*
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work in Wood and Iron at reasonable prices.
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HOMER, GA„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 24 1898.
Stav on the Farm.
From many parts of tbe stats have
come reports that tho tenant farmers
are abandoning their crops, throw
ing the onus of gather ng upon the
landlord, and are preparing to flock
into the different cities of the state.
In a time like this, when the coun
try is suffering from public stringency'
it is the duty of all our people to
•tand together. Nowhere’s tlrs duty
stronger than in our cauntry places,
where, upon the lack of credit and
of means, so largo a part of the pop
ulation is dependent upon the land
owuer for support throughout the
year. It is unfortunately the condi
tion in Georgia, where there is So
large a proportion of teuant fanners,
that the landowners must meet their
provision and fertilize! bills for the
yeas round, reiving upon the gather
ing of the crop for repaynent. Asa
consequence, the tenants have had
their suppprt for the year at the ex
pense of the land owner. They have
had possession of the laud and an
opportunity to live- When the time
for gathering :he crop comes, as is
unfortunately the case this year,
piices rule so low that tL re is but
little encouragement to the man who
has worked the year round, who finds
himself hardly a'.de to pay out. But
si is in such a movement as this that
such men should show that high
character which belongs to the na
tive of Georgia, They should staid
by the land oweer who, for the niue
proceeding months, has stood by
them and see to it that the crop is
gathered and the best is made ot the
situation There is mutuality and
reciprocity in this as well as common
honesty.
The question, however, goes even
deeper. If poor men leave the coun
try with unfulfilled obligations behind
them and rush into the towns, what
are they going to meet? It is just as
well for them to un erstand first as
well as last, that the towns are over
crowded; that there is no work for
them to do, and that they will simply
swell the list of the homeless and th"
wandering Even in tunes when
towns and cities are prosperous, Un
man who makes his living by farming
is very foolish to seek its allurements
Expert skill and trading qualities are
what thrive in cities. The man who
has his living to make by manual
labor i* at all times [and under all
conditions infinitely better off in the
j country than he can be in the ci,y.
The Constitution would urge upon
the country people of Georgia to
stand together in this great emergen
( v and to avoid the temptation ot
moving into town, when it so
settled there is nothing there for
them. The man who leaves the
country simply los°s the credit which
he has bad, and coining to (own where
ho is unknown, can get no work and
has no credit. Asa consequence,
r.e can only have himself to blame
for the evil into which lie enters. —
Constitution.
Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema.
The Intense itching andsmarting,inci
1! ent to these diseases, is instantly a Uayeo
by applying Chamberlain s Eve
:’kin Ointment Many very but. case*
hare been nonaanentl. cured by n.. I’
is eonally efficient for itching piles and
1 favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped !.*.nds>, chilblains, frost bite-.;
aud chronic sore eyes. 25 cts.per bos.
Dp. Casy*3 CesdUiod fowilcrs, are
jt - what a norse needs when in bad
co, diticm. Tonic, blood purifier and
voj-tj ifr.gtj. Tbov are not food but
:nedier;e and the best in use to put a
horse in prime condition. Pi’ice
rxrrls per peel age.
PR O/•A N N /1; jVA L CA RD ti
L, i E°i'J >3
Attorney at Law,
llomer, Ga.
Pom jit attention given to all business placed
in my hands.
(j t N. HARDEN* M. D.
HOMER, GA.
Telephone at office.
I SAM DANIEL, .M. D.
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office East of l'i’BLic Sqahe .
HOMER. GA.
J)R. W. G. SHARP,
DENTINT,
MAYS’. ILLE, GA.
(sy-Office over TV. C. .1. Garrison’s Store.
LET CONSERVATISM RULE.
While the Banner is in favor of
retrenchment, it is not radical in its
views. We always advocate con
servatism in everything. The Legis
lature should not go at the work et
tax teforin blindfolded with a sharp
axe in hand- It sh uld fir t see ex
actly what the state has on hand to
raoet its obligations. Then it should
deal as liberally as possible with
every departmedt of slate uovernmoet
With the information we now pc vess
concerning the financial affana ot
the state we do not see how the tax
rate can be materially reduced with
out emting the common school and
pension funds. If it be possible to
do otherwise in justice to tbe tax
payers, we do not favor cutting those
funds. Men with far greater ability
than we possess may demonstrate
how this can be done: If so, we
shall be greatly pleased.
We notice that there is ad sposi
tion to entthe pension fund and leave
the common sch< I fund intact. We
do not favor any such action by th
jagislature. If one of these funds is
to be cut then both should be cut
There should be no discrimination in
taver of the common school fund.
There are more negro children ia
Georgia receiving the benefits of the
common schools than white children,
We are not in favor of shielding
them and cutting off the funds for
Confederate veterans. It won! 1 be
well it no cut should be necessary
bat if i< necessary then all appropri
ations should be scaled e p itably and
justly.—Banner,
An Interesting Clock.
A most interesting old time-piecs
is the clock standing in William the
Fourth’s bedroom at Hampton Court
and which s 1 of
Kingston, were recently
to repair.
The clock was made by Dan
Quare about tbe year IG6O, and is
one of the most remarkable pieces of
automatic mechanism in existence.
It is what ts commonly known as a
‘•grandfather ( lock,” standing in a
very tall oak case, with heavy ormolu
mounts. There are several particu
lars in which ihis clock is almost, if
not quite unique. In the first place
it goes for twelve months at a time
without winding. But more remark
able than this is its ingenius mechan
ism- It is what is known as a “cal
endar” clock, and besides recording
the davs of the inonto and tlm months
of the year, it also automatically shows
the time of sunrise a°d sunset
Ttie last time tbe clock was over
hauled was eaily in the present cen
tury. For tbe las* forty years, how
ever, the clock bad not been wound
up. It speaks well for the splendid
workmanship of our ancestors that,
with slight exceptions, Messrs. Gay
don f mud the works in as perfect a
condition as when the clock was
originally made, and there is no rea
son why it should not last for another
200 years.—L#ndou Mail.
“Blind Tom’As He Is Today.
“Hie name of Thomas Wiggins
means nothing to the majority of
readers,” writes John J. a’ Beeket in
the September Ladies’ Home Jour
nal. “But Thomas Wiggins is ‘Blind
Tom,’ a name familiar to hundreds of
thousands in this country and abroad,
who have heard the piano played by
this wonderful negro. The rmpress
ion that he is dead is a pretty general
one. Asa matter of fact, Blind Tom
has never been ill a day in his life-
On the banks of the Shrewsbury
River, in a domain of over two hun
dred acres of woodland, stsdds a
picturesque two and a half story
wooden house witli a broad veranda.
Here Blind Tom is at home.
“His hands are not at all ‘piano
hands.’ In place of the slender long
fingered hand which one so often sees
in great pianists, Tom’s hands are
small and plump, wi h t,he thumbs
and tapering fingers quite short.
“The strongest impressioD I bore
away was that of the sweet, eon
tented life the poor blind negro is
loading. There was pathos in if
I had expected to find a wonder at
the piam , and I did for his untaught
mastery of the instrument is marvel
ous. From tbe time the Bethune
family lift the dinner table to see
who eou’d he playing on the piano,
and discovered the sightless picka
ninny of four years perched, on the
stool, his little hands plucking un
canny melody from the iteyhoard—
from that time until now he has bad
an unwavering devotion to the in
strunient whose music is bis life.”
TOM WATSON DRAWS KNIFE
Said That He Waa Ready To
Carve a Conductor.
The picture of Tom Watson on a
railraod train with his knife in his
hands, ready to recent what he thought
was an insult by the conductor, is one
that arises from a story that is going
the rounds.
Mr. Watson had been at Cussela, in
Chattahoochee county, defending
Bagley, the Populist nominee for the
legislature who is under indictment
for killing Adams, the Democratic
nominee, and was retnrninn to his
home on a Southern railway train,
between Columbus and Warm Springs
when the troablejoccurred.
Conductor Charles Kendall was
runmg train and Mr. Watson occupied
a seat In (he first-class coach. He
had ordered supper to be brought on
the train, and Conductor Kendall
said that he must go into the smok
ing car to cat, as the supper could
not be brought inte tbe ladies’ car.
didn’t like smoke.
Mr. Watson said that it made him
sick to eat in the midst of tobacco
smoke, and |inisted on having b s
where he was.J
At the time tbe conduc’or was at
the end of the car and Mr. Watson
according to reports of“the affair, was
standing with his hands on the door
posts arguing the question.
There was a lady in the car to get
off and the conductor had to go help
horjout. He left talking with Mr.
Watson abruptly, it is said, pushed
him aside and went back.to the lady
Mr. Watson is reported to have
construed this action as a personal
affront, and it is stud that when the
conductor came back Mr Watson had
his knife out and called the conductor,
saying that thep must settle the busi
ness.
CONDUCTOR explains
The conductor, it is said, explained
to Mr. Watso that it was his duty to
help the lady off the train and he had
no time to stand on ceremony sc he
brushed him aside without intending
any affront.
It is said that Mr. Watson accepted
this explanation and became serene
one# more.
The sequal was that he had hi,
supper in the car where he had baen
riding and ate it there.
facts about the philip-
INES.
Oiled rags are ussd for brooms.
Battle me no larger than goats.
Women exceed men in numbers
Hats are worn only by foreigners.
The women all smoke large cigars
The natives bathe.dues times a day
Water buffaloes are used for plow
ing
Manila was founded by Logaspi in
1571
The inhapitants all fall asleep at
midday
Knives and forksjare unknown to
the islands.
Electricity is used for illuminating
purposes.
M anilla is pronounced Mah-nee-lah
by the natives.
The common laborer receives as
touch ns ten cents a day.
Fashionable delicacy for the menue
is the grasshoper,
Mosquotoes are are mors formable
than Spanish gunboats
The poorer class robe themselves
in one yard of cloth
Manili is Jconsidered commercially
equal to Calcutta and Batavia.
A CURE FOR DYPEPSIA.
I was troubled with liger trouble
and mv stomach was out of order, and
after eating my baeakfast would throw
up what I eot. It went on this way
lot about two years. At last, after
trying other remodies withouj any
goo ! effect I was induced to try Ra
moil’s Liver Pills aip Tome Pellet*
After using one or two boxes I found
mytdf iu a healthy condition. I use
them occasionly yet, always when in
need of pills. I consider them the
nest pill ou the market, aud fed safe
in saying they are the finest things
ever used.—John Livcsay, Luther
Hancock Cos„ Teen.
Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, aud which has been
iu use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
/f- and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
AJlovv JJ O ono to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are hut Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Childri Experience against Experiment/
What is CASTORUA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It Is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
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
yj Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET, MEW YORK CITY. _____ _
Ileudquarterw lor snoods
sit Lowest Prices,
Oui new goods for FALL and WINTER are here. Our large store
roomes are literally filled from bottom to bottom to top. Our stock is the
most complete ever brought to Gainesville, embracing everything needed for
man, woman or child.
ShOrt orops’Rud low prices
There are no two classes of men whole interests are nearer the same
than the farmer and the merchant. When the fanner prospeis the merchant
prospers, and when crops are short and cotton low ihe merchant is effected by
the blow the same as the tarrntr Realizing this to he a fact this season wo
have selected o,r stock and made our prices to suit the times.
NOTE 1 HE SPECIAL PRICES GIVEN BELOW
SILKS, SA'i INS VELVETS, ETC.
Beautiful black Taffetia medium
weight, regular width all silk, worth
65c, at 59c
Heavy weight black Taffetta, full 24
inches wide, worth regvlar SOc at 75c
Kxtrv heavy black Tafletta, full 24 in.
wide, sells elsewhere at $1 per yard
only 85c
BLACK AND COLORED WOOL
DRESS GOODS.
Ten pieces of Broadcloth, 54 inches
wide, ei'tra heavy, Ir.uliful finish, at
Fifteen pieces Ladicscl'oth. vevy heavy
all wool 54 luches wide, worth 65c to
75c per yard, our price SOc
Twenty pieces Ladiesclotli, all wool,
full width, worth 50c, only 35c
20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 46 in.
wide, 40c, only 20c
10 pieces ot Novelties, 40 inches wide
worth 25c, at lie
20 piecies double wic tli Dress Goods
w orth regular 15c, at 10c.
Our line of black IJross Goods em
braces every stylo and weave desired
including Henriettas, Serges, Cash
meres Diagonals, Wide Wales. IV hip
cords, Bengalines, Novelties Crepons,
Broadcloths, Ladieseloths etc ranging
in price, from 10c to 20c
CLOAKS, CAPES and JACKETS
In Ladies’and Childran’s Wraps we
feel confident that we can please you
Our $2 Plush Capo oannot be dupli
cated elsewhere for less than S3 50
Extra heavy, latest style Plvsh Capes
all sizes worth regular $5 50 to §6 50
our price 83 85 ■
Come to see us. Polite attention ai”l cr.urteovs treatment toevryon*
FULL LINE OF BUTTERICK PAETKRNS A WAYS ON HAND
(J=Mr. J. R. BOONE makes his office with us
J.E, MURPHEYCO.,
Dean Building. Corner Main and Washington Street?,
Phone 118 GAIN ESVILLE, GA
An Uncertain Discftae.
There is no discuss more uncertain in its
.ature than dyspepsia. Physicians suy that
be symptoms of no two oases agree. It is
Ihererore most difficult to make a correct
diagnosis. No mat er how severe, or under
TANARUS, hat disguised vspepsia attacks you. Browns’
Iron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in nil
diseases of the stomacii, blood and nerv.-s.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by ail dealer*
HOOD’S Sarsaparilla has overano
over again proved by its cures,
when all other preparations failed, that
it is th One True BLOOD i‘urine:
NO. 38.
MILLINERY.
In Millinery we lead. Our stock is
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, a*
here you will tind everything needed
from a 25cJSailor to a $25 French pat
ternjllat. Special inducement to out
of town merchants in tins department
CLOTHING AND HATS.
High grade Tailor made Suits
Our fine suits are m de by tha cc!e
br.ited Sellings Bros,'jof Baltimore.
The most modern in designs and the
most perfect fitting clothing on the
market. Our siyles'emlirace every
thing wished for in single breasted
Sacks, double |breasted Sacks, Cuta
ways and Prince Alberts
The largest and best assorted stock
of Boys’ Clothing in town, From a
nobby little suit to a fit a tot of three
years to a youth of eighteen. Large
stock of Odd Pant for children, and
boys and men.
HATS AND CAPS.
For any sile head and any sixe purse.
Here you can find anything you want
from a 15c Cap to the celebrated John
B Stetson Hal as high as $6
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS
The largest line in Collars, Cuffs,
Neackwear, Shirts Lanndried and un
laundried, Hoseiy, Cotton and Wool
Underwear for men and boy* always
to be found here at the very lowest
[prices
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood’s Pills, for no medi
cine ever contained so great curative power tt
so small space. They are a whole medicine
Hood’s
ehes., always ready, ala- s --
ways efficient, always sat- ,|| A
Isfactory; pi event a cold KT 911 2*
or fever, cure all liver Ills, m ■■ ■
sick headache. Jaundice, constipation, etc. 2BC.
The c*ly Pills to take with Hood's S&rsanarUlA.