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HOMER, GA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2 1801).
MOT THE PEOPLE ELECT
Year by year the sentiment in favor
of electing United States senators by
a direct vote of the people of the dif
ferent states is growing in strength.
It is but a question of a short time
until this reform will be be accom
plished. Theie are now deadlocks in
no less than seven states, and money,
threats, intimidatation, etc., are being
used by many 'candidates and their
friends to influence elections. These
deadlock* are always productive of
evil. They breed corruption and create
strife. They iriends against
other, create'factions that bring about
evil results in slate affairs, and fre
quently send dark horses to the sen
ate, when the people really desired
other men to represent them. The
people wi.l sooner or later take these
matters into their own hands for set
tlement.—Banner. •
REDUCE THE NUMBER OF
LAWS.
The Rome Tribune makes a very
happy and sensible suggestion in the
following: ‘Biennal sessions of the
legislature would.cut down the great
flood of useless laws enacted at evc-ry
session. We have too many laws now
Tha people of Georgia should rise up
and demand biennial sessions of the
Georgia legislature.”
A Tennessee paper, the Gallatin
Examiner remarks: “An idea prevails
in the tniods of a great many people
that unless their representative in the
legislature introduces a number ot bills
and gets his muse in the papers he is
not doing anything. But to those who
understand the situation the best rec
ommendation he can have is that lie
indroduces as few as possible and kills
as many as he can, for wc have too
many laws already, and it is uetierally
the representative who knows the
least that introduces the mast bills
Let us have as few new laws as possi
ble, and the people will be better
off.”
Living Long.
Qiveurs as a rule prefer to live wall
rather than long. Hence the well
known phrase, “short aud sweet.’
Nevertheless many persons much pre
fer “long and sweet.” If one may
judge by the zeal with which news
papers give accounts of tho few cen
tenanans who here and there drag out
a precarious existence, it would seem
as it the doctor who could permit us
to reach such an advanced age would
deserve the benediction of his contem
poranes.
bir James Sawyer in ayeeent lect
ure at Birmingham has tried to satisfy
this desire.
'lhe following is according to him
what one must Join order to live 100
years.
1. Sleep 8 hours a day.
2. Sleep ou the right side.
3. Open tne windows of one’s bed
rooii at niuht. -
4. Put a screen in frost of the
door.
5. Place one’s bed away from the
walk
6. Take a bath the temperature of
the body every morning; not a cold
douche
7. Taka exercise before beakfast
8. Eat little meat and be sure it is
well oooked.
9. (For adults) Do not drink
milk.
It). Eat much grain in order to
nourish the els which destroy the
germs of disease.
11. Avoid intoxicants, which de
stroy these cells.
12. Take daily exercise in the open
air ,
13. Keep no animals in living
rooms.
14. Live as much us poisibie in the
country.
FuRTY BARBELS \ DAY.
Harris & Buquo, Erin,Tenn., man
ufactures of the celebrated Erin lane
ay they have great faith in Drum
mond’s Lightning Remedy for rhea
motism. One of their principal coop
ers was laid up with rheumatism un
til induced to take Djummond’s Light
ning Bemedy, After takinS two bot
tles he went to work, and has since
been making forty barrels per day.
If you want this remedy, send $6 to
the Drummond Medicine Company
New York, and they will send to your
express address two large bottles—
anouge for one months treatment
Agfpts wanted.
NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspepsia,
fiwiKr Constipation and Indigestion
p * Rotates tm Liver. Prku. ££,-
THE ATLANTA CONSTITU
TE.
Take Your Homo Paper and The ComAi
t lit ion sum! he Happy
We call special attention to our
clubbing arrangements with The
Weekly Constitution, published at
Atlanta, Ga. The clubbing price of
the two papers being only $1.50 per
year, subscriptions to be sent through
this office and the terms to he cash.
It is a tact perhaps not generally
known that The Weekly Cocstitunon
has the largest circulation of any
newspaper ou the*western hemisphere.
Only a few months ago a large news
paper directory questioned the claim
of circulation made by The Constitu
tion and put up a forfeit of SIOO that
it, could be disproved that it had mote
than 100,000 circulation. The Cons
titution promptly accepted tin; offer
aud submitted ite hooks to the repre
sentative of the firm. Mr: George P.
Howell, publisher ot the newspaper
directory, acknowledged his error
publicly and paid the forfeit-
The Constituti >n, while being a
detnocraio newspaper, it is first and
above all tilings a newspaper. It is a.
twelve page, seveD-coltmin weekly,
making eighty fou J-.oiumns eachjwc-ek.
Its subscription price is $1 a year, but
f taken under the arrangement with
tins paper we can give them both at
the price above named.
The Constitution has a special cor
respondent in every important city in
the United States aud a representa
tive in all of the leading centers of the
world.
During the war with Spain, 'which
has just been Drought to close, the
reports of no newspaper in the south
could compare with its news presen
tation from the front, Its special staff
representative sailed with the army
when it first embarked from Tampa,
and of the 120 correspondents who
went to Cub ,he was one of only
seven who remained to see the flag
hoisted over the public buildings in
Santiago. Its special representative
also accompanied the fleet Jin the
Garibean sea. “and its Washington
special service covered evay detail of
the important war reports originating
at the capitol.
The Weekly Constitution during
he late Spanish war served the news
of llsotable events, from first to last
with ptomlness of a daily. The vict
ory of Dewey at Manila, the death of
Ensign Bagley, the movements of
troops and fleets, the destruction of
Cevera’s fleet, tho operations ia Porto
Rice, the treaty, and the unfurling of
the stars and strips over Motro castle,
Havana were all given in the Weekly
on Monday, on the very day the news
first appeared in the daily.
The Weekly Constitution makes a
special feature of its agricultural page,
which is presided over py Col. R. J-
Eeddiug, director of the Georgia ex
periment farm, and a mau who is
'■ecognized as an expert on all agricul
tural topics. He gives a fall page
every week on agricultural inattesr.
A page is devoted to the women and
a page to children, these pvo depart
ments being 1 presided over by Mrs
William King.
Among the regular staff members
of ibe Constituiou are fJoel Chandler
Harris, Frank L. Stanton and others
well known throughout the country;
whtie among its special contributors
are sucb men as Wallace P. Reed.
Bill Arp, Barge Plunkett, Betsy
Hamilton, Dr, Talmage and others of
national reputation.
The Constitution has just completed
the thirtieth year of its existence)
Dlark Howell being the editor and
Colonel W. A. Hemphill its business
manager. lis name is a household
word in every southern slate, from
Virginia to Texas. It has always
been in especially close touch with the
agricultural masses of the south and
n having reached a circulation which
carries it into 150,000 homes it has
won a unique distinction which ranks
it among the greatest of American
weekly newspapers.
Tne Constitution will send a sample
copy of its great Weekly freo to any
one sending jiis own name and the
names of six neighbors on a postaj
card.
Every man should take his county
uewspaper before anything else, aud
next to this he should take a good
general newspaper, sucb as the Con
stitution. His county paper gives him
the local] home news, which is not
supplied by a newspaper furnishing
the general news from all parts of the
country and from all over the world .
Before a man seeks information from
outside he should first feel sure that
he is being kept posted on what is
going on at home. That is why ha
should take his county paper first
When, however, tho opportuuity is
offered to get the best weekly news
paper in this countrr with your home
paper, the inducement is such as to
elicit prompt response from our read
ers.
We will be glad to receive clubbing
subscriptions with this p.-.. • uni The
Constitution, and'if tin re are any who
are now subscribers to this paper, who
wish to take The Constitution also we
will be glad to receive to
the latter and forward firm, Having
authority from that paper to do so.
Ti e Constitution should he in every
southern home!
■
ADVERTISING THAT PAYS.*
The average merchant will get ex
ceedingly angry if you tei! him you
don’t believe there are any good rea
sons why people should patroniza him
'n peference to his competitors. Thus
aroused, he will pour out reasons
good reasons, too—enough to fill a"
book. But it rarely occurs to the
averave merchant to give ihe public
those reasons in his advertising. Ho
doesn’t seem to realize that such i s
the best sert of advertising—the only |
sort of advertising that is rea aver j
tising.
Avery snecessfu' book agent once
told me that in eight years he li cl
never found a person who .wanted a
book. The remark implied that eveiv
prison he had approached had tii>.t
said, “No," but that persistency had
convinced enough people otherwise Ic
make the business profitably.
Is it any wonder that a first ad or
a second ad doesn’t usually bring much
enconr gement?
A great many people have the money
and the speculative inclination to
print a first and second ad. Too few
have the courage to climb a hill that
is a hundred ads long.
Most people will sav “no” to most
anp new proposition, and if the'prop
osition, is not worth presenting again
it is not worth considering at the out
set.
Every good salesman knows that
sometimes people need only a little
urging to make them buy. hLme peo
ple need solicitation to eat wren they
are hungry, Likewise, they must be
invited to your shelves and counters-
Your ad is your salesman, your solicit
or. People, notably women, wait for
a big advertisement betore supplying
actual wants. It makes things look
alive. No one likes to march <.own
an empty store, accompanied by two
floor walkers and stared at by two
doz n clerks Ther’s lots of talk about
the bctiier of getting waited
on and |the > weariness of waiting
for change, but nobody likes to go to
a house where there is no such bother
It looks as if something was v.io:,
aud there are a great many tilings
wrong. The place has no talk about
its goods. People come in by accident
—maybe to.rest —the place looks so
yiiee and quiet Quiet is a-good thing.
Silence, which means about the same
t.hing.hsa been called golden- Pcrbap
it is if a than hrs a nervous headache,
but it isn’t business.
Business means busy n<’ss.
Proper business means iiroperpro?
it aud right advertising will bring it.
It is estimated that there is 150,000
bales of cotton in the fioidk of Missis
aibbi and Arkansas. Colorep emigrants
are gorug from North and South Car
olina to pick this cotton at fifty cents
per bundled wounds.
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periments that trifle and endanger the health of.
Infant-; and Children— 3-1 , ricnce against Experiment^
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