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Banks County Journal. VOL 2. it If you want the best PIANO or ORGAN for the Least Money and on the most reasonable terms we’ve got ’em. . i ■■.. v jp-. -'u •; y rr- I **g‘3l 8 Mi} i * r h V ■ ■. j. ?• i\ \ Ifni 11 1 g b i| ■ny i;i ' ! ' -r V 7.W - .!U *_JH -i Atr a-■"! V— on w: ■ on or' pi A i ?• ' "’■ ~ :*r ! s-/ t (‘'& i .. t 0..- ,-W. a . i We will .be o 1 ea -3d to haye yeu exar. ine our go* i Prices* CONA /AY -IIKIO SOUS 1 r *p J 3 “fTO v ' • ukm | II j "*■ to. ?, vk tic ■ X REPAI ,x , ■ > A AT D FAI^'TEI> LiV X?. OM Bux'git s am! Wagon made good as now. We do al kind of work in Woo! and Iron at, reasonable prices. NORTHEAST ERN R. R. Or C£ORQSA r.ETWI KX ATHENS AND U L\ TIME TABLN.2. To Take Effect Oct, 18. 1807. SOUTHUOUN D NORTHHOUND ■ —j, n ii'.y Daily Di,y NORTHIi AS TEES Tt.V lI.IIOAD STATIONS. Daily Daily I! xSu K A. *. P.M. A.M. hr Ar A.M. P.M. A.IS tat IIS 11 05 W .T'ila. N su:o eon w li as •■• -<>i ! s\ l . •• .. . i t • ;• tn * lino ’•* ■* *v 7J5 107 1132 Harimmv (.rove mo.: 7IX C . >M 917 12117 N i„lii.‘lso:i m* C-, • H • 12 13 <v,itr- ,9 411 Cl-I 4 111 949 12 30 Athens, P : o s', * U A'lP M I.v 121 P>* A B, K. SLitAVEa. Rulo Ajiout, R. Vf. SI Ell. Auiitof Subscribe f€ ; r the Journal IIOMEK, GA„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER, l 181)8. A HARD 3! AN TO BEAT THE LIVE RAILROAD AGENT IS UP TO ALL SORTS OF TRICKS. Circus People Are Pretty Cute Them- Helves, hut This Story Shows How Ouo Party Was Cleverly Outwitted by the HuHtlinj; Railroader. “There are people who think yon can’t teat n circus man, but I want to tell you that the hardest man to do is a live railroad man.” Tkj old sawdust mauagor bad tried it. He continued: “Knew where I’urccll is in the In dian Territory? Away down at the jumping off place on the Santa Ee road. The show had la -n at Purcell and wt wanted to get out in the night for a long run. Wo vw.ro going to make *4 jump to Kansas Oity. Not far from Purcell is another town, Oklahoma City. At that point a competing road with the Santa Fo runs in. We had COO people, lid of course the railroad men were after ns. It was a “big haul. Some of our people t. ugbt through tickets from Pure, il, and they didn’t worry. But about 200, maybe moro, of the crowd that always haggles over a 10 cent dicker concluded to take the Santa Pc from Purnell to Oklahoma City, pay the short haul, and tbon take tka com peting lino at Oklahoma, the agents of which were active and full of promises. “Then tbo Santa Fe mm: fixed it so the dickerers couldn’t buy any tickets from Purcell to Oklahoma, for the train wo were to go on was a special. The dicktrors said that wc3 all right; that they would wait for the regular. In less tbau five minutes a bulletin was slapped on the hoard of the station to the effect that the regular Santa Fo was 12 hours late. That made the fellows whe were dickering for a cheaper rate turn white around tbeir gills. “In another five minutes I saw a man on a traofe velocipede scudding down the stretch. Every man to his business. So I thought the railroad people knew what they were doing, and they did. That chap on the velocipede was going down the track to flag the regular and hold it indefinitely. Smart trick, wasn't it? Wait till I tell you. There was a smarter trick than that: “When the epecial got ready to pull out, the dickerers asked the agent if they could pay oil the train from Pur cell to Oklahoma, and he said ‘Cert.’ So they all boarded the train at Pur cell, intending to \: t off at Oklahoma. Just bolero tbo train pulled out the agent walks down to the engine and asks the old man at the throttle how long ho h.ul been on the road and about the capacity of his iron horse, and so forth. “ ‘How many miles an hour can she go at her be- ?’ as : and the agent. “ *Cn a good tr .ck, 03 u.iit.s.’ “ ‘ls it a good track through Oklaho ma City?' “ ‘Yes, pretty good.’ “ ‘All right. You'vo get no orders to stop there uc-r to slow up, have you?’ “‘Not yet.’ “ ‘ We 11, w hen you get to the edge of the town you lee h: r go. Don’t stop for anything—.tag? cr teams or cattle. Hcoct through the town at a Cos mile gait, or more if yen like, and don’t slow up until yee strike that strip of deeolation about 11 milr-s t’other side end you si box of the finest cigars in Chicago. In it a go?’ “‘lf I don’t get no orders ’fore! start.’ “‘Well, yon ura five minutes late GOW. ’ “In a minute, and I calculate it was loss, tbo circus spteial wan underway. It went around curves like a scared snake. It shot across straight lines like a gazelle that had been singed. It whirled tko dn?t of that country into tho sky. After awhile wo saw a town. Then wo w. ; r tb’-ongh it like the wom an rant’s shot from the catapult, only more so. O:: , of tbo dickerers, who was smiling to i : k tho conductor had not yet come round, asked a brakeman as the train v.-.: ;; c , through the street, ‘What town is tbi-:?' The brakeman said, ‘Oklahoma City.’ “The and. Jii tar's smile faded ns it came, : f : -. poet says, and his hair stood up, and turning to the brakeman he says: “ ‘ Jezooriraiai! Stop her I Here’s where we get off!' “ no iff. vest hesitate at a town like this,’ said tuo hrukeinau. “Well, al. iff 11 inih 3on this side, in a strip of country where a crow can’t live an-.! whe: 1:* Indian wouldn’t bo caught dead, the old iron horse began to slow up. Tho conductor came through just tbeu and said: “ ‘Tickets!’ “Well, say, that vr-sa a fanny sight. Them that had tickets showed up and then went to sleep. Hut the dickerers began to kick, ‘ihoy said they should havo bean let off at Oklahoma City. The conductor said the train didn’t stop at Oklahoma, that it wasn’t scheduled to stop there, and that ho wasn’t going to go back that trip. Thu leader of the dickerers for cheap f ires wanted to know what was to ho dooe. “Tho conductor was an old timer. He bad a face on him like a woman who never loved anybody. lit just told them, ‘Pay cr get off.’ Then they asked him whore they could pay to. And he said the train wouldn’t stop any more until it get to Kansas City the next morning unless it stopped to put them off. And he reached up and caught the belloard “And (very ono of the dickerers paid to Kansas City. And, of coerce, under tho railroad law, they paid more than they would ha 0 paid if they had bought tickets at Purcell And the com pany was t.att-juuch ahead. And that s ■v, licit I tusafr when 1 .. y that the hard est uiau to do is a live railroad man.” —New York Sun. *Ac#ud : . ;to to latest statistics the wciir t; ia Sweden outnumber the men by ! id.ti. b. INSANE MURDERERS. Dio Question r.f Responsibility anil Pet*. iniw-ii4u.it For the Chime. It may well be that a man who could not bo called insano, but merely, say, an ordinary member of tho criminal classes, with strong passions and feeble intellect, would in the presence of an opportunity long expected and hoped for, tho consequences of which his thoughts had frequently rehearsed, bo really for the moment incapablo of r.- straining fcia hand. Wo should burg him, nevertheless, without tho slightest scruple, and we should waste no com passion upou the abseifco of self control. It is, in fact, Impossible to frame a defi nition of irresponsibility based upou ab sence of self control without including all sorts of crimes which at present are punished by tho law. For years tack there has be:-:; a- rt of feud between the lawyers aud tho alienists on the subject, so that oven the textbooks speak of legal iuaauity and medical ii.amity as distinct. To taka extreme cases, jurists have contended that no degree of insanity should exempt from punishment for crime unless it has reached such a point that tho person is utterly unconscious of tho difference between right aud wrong at tho time of committing tho offense, while medical men havo very generally held to the opinion that this is not a proper criterion, that many of the insane are fully conscious of tho difference between right aud wrong cud that to enforce such a test means the hanging of many a lunatic. There can be no doubt that of late years the med ical view has met with a wider accept ance than it used to do amd that even lawyers have shown an increasing read iness to admit the doctrine of irrespon sibility. But it is a very anxious (pics tiou, especially in view of recent dog mas as to degeneracy, how far this doc trine is to be nllowed to go. The condition of affairs is much more serious tbau some pcopde think, and it is highly necessary that those who ad minister the criminal law should bo on tbeir guard against any insidious estab lishment of immunity for the violation of its most sacred principles. In any case of murder the presumption in fa vor of hanging should bo so strong as to leave very slender prospect of escape for any muu who prici- to tho commis sion of his crime had been thought fit to be at largo. If this condition cannot be secured, it will become a matter of grave necessity to take prompt steps for the incarceration of many people of evil passions who are now at liberty and to render the utterance cf tin-cats a matte* to he dealt with by tho alienist as well as by tho magistrate.—Bouden Hospital. SOCIETY IN SIBERIA. HU‘SB 1 T'-. ntly F.ot'ro to tho Kitchen to Cook and Kut, “At cue cf thu grand Lulls I attended at Krasnoyarsk,” writes Thomas G. Al len, Jr., of “Fashionable Siberia, ” in The Ladies’ Home pressed by the profusion ct Sowers used in the decoration of tbo ballroom, and which had Lccu imported from Europe at enormous expense, and also by tho importance given to the matter of re freshments. Although (bore appeared to be about four girls to one man, the male portion of the company spent the greater part of tbo evening at the buffc-t, cr zokooski table, eating and drinking. Tho conversation of tbo women, I found, was most conventional, and one ccr.ld invariably anticipate tho name remn as upou an in (reduction to a lady. Knowl edge of Fvt nob, which I was surprised to find few could speck, is considered the most graceful feminine accomplish ment. “Tho kitchen, however, has for tin lady of tho land a peculiar fascination. Very often whiio dressed in silks end satins and conversing with her guests a hostess will proceed to fry a ‘ blin, ’ or pancake and cat it with tho greatest gusto. Iho ether ladies aro at liberty (fc follow the hostess’ example if they choose.” Frcuac-l! anil EnglLH CrGEoes* French men of letters have not enough of tbo audacious spirit cf tbo English, says Henry D. Sedgwick in The At lantic. Tk v troop to l aris, where they havo been accustomed to tit on their classical benches since Paris became the center of Trance. Tho romance cf Ail ion is the romance cf a Parisian thief. The romance of Ronsard is the romance oi the Parisian salon. Montaigne lives on his seigniory while England is topsy turvy with excitement of- now knowl edge and new feeling. Corneille bus tnu nobleness of a jeuna fills. You cun measure them nil by their ability to plant a colony. Wreck them cu a desert island, Villon will pick blackberries, Hansard will skip stones, Montaigne whittle, Corneille leek like a gentle man, and the empire cf France will not increase by a baud’s breadth. Take a bandful of Elizabethan poets, and Sid ney would chop, Shakespeare would cook, Jonscu dig, Bacon snare, Marlowe catch a wild ass, and in 24 hours they v culd have a leg fort, a score of savage slaves, a windmill, a pinnace, and the cross of St. George fiyiug on the tallest tree. Caloric. The emotional litterateur had just written a piece of which he was very proud. The editor looked it over and then said: “Do you candidly think such opinions ought to go into cold type?” “I don’t know much about tha prac tical work of printing,” was the reply, “butl don’t believe it makes nay differ ence. Even it the type is cold, iuu t that article will take the chili off it,” —Waxhirgtcn Slur. Paris aud Marseilles are connected ur telegraph linos entirely underground They are placed jii iron pipe sand buried four feet lx uoath the surface, with man holes 8,000 feet apart. It cost nearly kI.fiUU.OOU to bury tho wires. f’utflr© Blacksmith Bhop* A blacksmith’s shop wituont a forge may really come to boa popular institu tion in the near future. Tho idea orig inated in Belgium. The metal to be heated is plunged into a metal tub of water, and, apparently with little rea son, becomes instantly white hot Asa matter of fuct, tho metal tub is connect ed by wive to one polo of a dynamo The water is acidulated, and when the metal ia plunged inn. tho w ater an aro seems to bo established all around tho submerged portion, which may then be removed and hammered on an anvil the same us any ordinary heated metal. — Los Angeles Times, An Averted Tragedy. An Atchison man got angry tbo other night, aud hissing an angry iarewell at bis family stalk,d haughtily out of the house and out tho trout gate. When he reached it, however, his pants log caught on a nui! cud was ripped from top to bottom, aud the angry man who had gono forever was compelled to re turn. Thus another tragedy was turned into n oaundy.—Atchison Globe. A Cemetery l or old Clothes. In tho north of Louden there is a lit tle plot of ground where oirl clothes aro buried and afterward . burned fora curious purpose. It is a fiat, barren aud destitute piece of g: .mud and presents a very melancholy spectacle. Little wood en stumps, bearing numbers, mark the graves. There is a paper mill near by, which finds it rather off . off to get suitable material for the manufacture of u special paper. Tho ordinary old rags are no good. Tho rags themselves have to bo manu factured. Old coats, old trousers and old dresses aro covered with wet soil, and after a few weeks’ rotting are ex humed. A corner is set aside for old linen goods. The linen is placed in layers in a box, with soft rich soii between tach layer, aud then buried. Limswater is then sprinkled over the grave, and after a fortnight’s rot ting tho linen is reduced to a mure skeleton, which is taken out of i..? box, laid fiat in a warm blanket and ru li ed off co the paper mili. Though it is only tho size of a foot ball ground, it contains 2.000 gravs*. which aro marked by 2,000 wooden st umns. each tv:i: ia -a a ---an bar f*r!ol<eaa c.i.rt Cfilhoim, The Pendletonions were justly proud of Mr. Calhoun and sensitive as to the impression which ho made upon stran gers. When Judge Prioieau became a resident, they were anxious to know his impressions cf their Ajax. When they first mot, as soon as Calhoun left the tab.lo, the question was eagerly asked, “How do yon iike him?" “Not txt all,” was the newcomer's reply. “I desire never to meet him again.” This was a sad rebuff, and an explanation was demanded. “I hate a man who makes me think so much,” the judge replied. “For the last throe Laura 1 have been on tbo stretch trying to follow huu through heaven and earth. I feel wearied with tbo effort, and I hate a man who makes mo foul my own inferiority.” Pcndictou was appeased. —Exchange. Oocct, !>u6 Not IW 4^ . Now ard then a man f-\ <-f a good tiling and dees net know it. An ip stance is noted by Sir M. Grant Duff in his “Diary:’’ Y?e begun to talk about the fog. “It was so l ad,” I said, “a work or two sgo that I hear Fa -ear preached against it at St. Margaret’s. ” “It was at that church, ” my friend answered, “that a clergyman, denounc ing Mr. Tooth, tho ritualist, sain, ‘1 will not name him, but his name is in everybody’s month. ’ Then, seeing the smiles on the faces of his congregation, he turned scarlet ” At tho present rate cf Increase vise population of fhe earth will double itself in years. . - , Mach Eating. Gluttony has its victims, hardly less numerous than other vices. To overeat is to overburden tho digestivo organs to such an extent that it will be impossi ble for them to perform their duties properly. Deleterious products arc cre ated, and health is finuliy destroyed. A prominent judge used to say such men dig their graves with their teeth—and it is so. On the other haud, there are those who out too litile. All extremes aro evils that experience should govern. •—Exchange. fPOIt.IA. Basis tka KM Ist Haw Always Bfljgist PEOFESSI'.tNAJ. CAEDS I L, PERK IV3 t) a ’ Attorney at Law, Hmnor, Ga. attention jriven to all business placed m my bands. (j # N. HARDEN* M. D. West os 1 Puulic Square. HO'I Mil, GA., Telephone at office. I SAM DANIEL, M. D. *1 Q f3r ofkiui: East of Prime Sqare # . HOMER, GA. J)Il. W. G. SHARP, a niLXTEWT, MAYSVII.I.K, A. jjy- Office over W. C. J.Uarriwo-’eStew. LJMI iHt h >. :••• -V s ■? &*•*' A ■ ■' ■ - •• siiViitating (tele; (.?:HP.cgu!a tii'v fee S iMaaas ondßc ivete of k 'ss•£. A'; j, _ ' ** f,! Lfiftifer -; waL. Pronic a.Chw'rfuS nesc a--’* A -#contains neither Oj ■ i,.. nor Hers V"*-v:-A‘. —..moth rex —w—iniww afOMXrSXimjVTSW SaJ ~ , jtrf&SA /Scut SctdL > I\np->r.'jnf > £J?C/. i-'.rC-Soda, * j[ m?Scid - 1 Chn'i'f. Sit'-.nr • . SiiiC r;- -**' /Ven-E? / • A perfect Remedy for Constipo ,! lion, SourStomach,Diarrhoea, i Worm.j s Coim<teions Teverish -1 oes3 aiul Los* shf Sleek I Sigeaturs of Cdx/r?Z7ziiy. | m v --r -VOI7K. ■***:£, .-.•••- VJ*- - CXACT Copy OF V/HAPFSB. f 9 f 1. hir - § v si ?:'xJ *i r*aa and w * llig t-gi’mlg goods 511 I.A>Vi ‘i l Jl l , i('t‘S, >ur large store . - a jj, f,l !ft ni bottom to bottom to top. Our stock is the inost complete ever l rought to G linesville, embracing everything needed for man, woman or child. ?•- iiOri oropg and low prUtos The<v no t vvo classes of men whose interests are nearer the same than the farmer and the merchant. V >en .Le fanner prosj.eis the merchant prospers, and when erops are short and cotton low the merchant i* effected by tiio blow the same as the farmer I>< i<; thm t.. 1 j C t t : •-asou we have selected om stock and mad 1 our ■• ; xc- i-; ' ■u*t im . NOTE HIE SJ‘ECT.iI. PUN E,S Gi YEN J- / LQ W BILK.B, SAT INS YELYE i S, . i C . Boautiful black T.uTctii medinm weight, regular width ail silk, worth (!;')(-, at blta Heavy w eight bhn k " aft. ttu, fu.i h inches wide, worth nir.i- fO-- a : .Ac Extry heavy hback Tavett.-*. fuii -•■( m. u de, sells elsewhere u* til per yard only BDo BLACK .V-D COLORED WOOL DRESS GOODS. Ten pieces of Be udcl th, ft-1 i lie,, wide, extra heavv, bauiifnl finish,at §1 Fifteen pieces Ladies- loth very 1 e.a i all wool 54. inches wide, .-.oil!: 05u to 75c pot yard, cur ; -net • Oc Twcriiv pieces i. aier . th, rll wooi,| full width, worth 50c, only 35c 20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 16 w. wide, 40 (-r.lv ’Jit'- 10 pieces of Novell its, 4 i inches Wide i worth "J'.f. at 1; c 20 pieetee double wic'th Dress Goods-1 worth resjnlM- L'>", at iOc. Our line of black Gross Gauds em hi-ac.ui oi’cri sty aim v e.nve denii and includine IL-r.n--;‘.s ■' gss. meres l>i - Wal-s. 'VI. ~ cords, li-.-nojuimA'.-vci ii. Grepons, Broudclo h- l.nd csclotbs etc ranging in price fra: i 10* to “20c CLOAKS, C.'.PES and JACKETS In Ladies’ end Childrau’s Wraps we | feci conlident that we can please you i Our f 2 Plush Cape cannot.hu duplk j caled elsewhere for less than ¥0 id) j Extra heavy, latest style Pivsli (’ -i : - all sizes wortii regular #5 50 to $6 50- our price .S3 85 [ Come I<> s.?<- Polite "ftei'H;;:; ; -t o urteovs treatment tocvryone FULL LINE OF BTJTTERICK PAETERNS A WAYS ON HAND E Mr. J. I>. BOONE link'* las office with ub I p MI 1R PHF YHO Dean Building. Corner Main and Washington Streets, Phone 11 GAINESVILLE, SA. L--dirA.■r'Au.r.,,.. : . - u.dLAß.s ft'/S' /*SV —i - Western jVI :X ;;;L V- y, ...^ s ff' ! a,-... GiL' ■' v -’-f S)K •-v k? 1 A'.-.- Vi . I a!,--. a r. .fffi’-- % NO. :>. Infants and Children. (ind You Have m ays Bought Esaro the £ t Signature 0 In Use W For Over Thirty Years Tt:r c - JTAun COMPANY, new york errv. MILLINERY. stock is to date to be - r yon desire in; iinery line it will ■at to call on us, as you iind everything needed i $25 Fr< noh pat* ■" • 'p< ;:d inducement to wut ■ * u merchants in tins department CLOTHING AND HATS. H>till g : .llor made Suits - u ide by the cele : and Sri; s . ‘IS;os, fef Baltimore, nv tt: tern in designs and the ti , clot hi ii gj on the yics'i uibrace every** 1 for in single breasted :!>; • Ibiv isted Sacks, Cuta* nays and Prince Alberts ‘. a I hesi sorted stock ■1 r in town. From a n little suit to a fit a tot of three Large stock of < Md Pant for children, aud hoys arid men, HATS AND CAPS, an_> . head and anysixe ptirse. ILre von can firnl anything you want an a 15c Cap to the celebrated John •stetson Hut as high as $6 ENT’S FURNISHING GOODS largest line in Collars, Cuffs, ar. Shirts Lanndried and u ism ,Vi Hoaeiy, Colton and Wool C wear for men and boys a!wave to b * found here at the very lowest priors