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Banks County ■ Journal.
VOL. 2.
HELP THE ORPHANS*
Mr. H L, Criinileyl Appeals for
Help for the Orphans.
This hard season reveals the great
work the orphan*’ homes are doing
for the public, for they are saving
many faces from the pinching flnger s
of tbe cold, and their bodies from hun
ger. Grown men may stand suffenng
but the little orphan who lias not ov*u
a pauper mother’s arms of love to
wrap in tears our hearts. Years like
this show '.he size ot hearts.
This year many orphans who have
been cared for by poor relieves an i
friends are laid beseechingly at the
doors of the orphans’ homes, because
they can hardly keep the woif of hun
gerfrom their own little ones Every
one ought to read tbe piteous letters.
“Two full orphans on the way to the
poor house, can’t you save them from
its influences?” “Two sweet children
both parents in their graves, were kept
in tle calaboose Christinas nignt to
keep them wairn.” Compare therm
cold, hungry, heart hungry on Christ
mas night with your happy, merry
children. Thank God that they with
seventeen other such cases, since Dec
Ist, have found the door of the or
pbana’ home at Decatur w ide open
The pressure for admission is an
average of one a day since December
Ist, and was ‘-00 during last year.
There are wow 125 destitute ones
there. God’s children will see that
these homes are built larger and that
' tfcw, boxes ot provisions and
clothing, they are enabled to love and
bless the absolutely destitute orphans-
Jesus said “I was hungiy, ye ted
me.”
H. L. Crumley.
BRIGHT SAYINGS.
A political dark horse is a sort of
neighbormare to the others in tbe
race.
Buying liquor at retail and using it
• has mi,—d manv.a
The color of truth depends on the
eyes looking at it.
A loafer’s room in a house of busi
ness is worth more than his presence
People who won’t work for a living
are a pestilence to the country.
There is pleasure in being a crank
that only a crank can know.
Perhaps a girl is called a M:- ie
causa she seldom hits anything she
throws at.
Every game of chance is s>"-e tiling,
bat a man usually bets on he wrong
side.
Words of Henry Grady.
When every farmer in the south ,
shall eat bread from his own fields
and meat from bis own pastures, and
disturbed by no creditor and enslaved
by no debt, shall sit amidst his teem ■
ig gardens and orchards and vine
yards and dairy andVarnyards, pitch
ing his crops in his own wisdom, and
growing them in independence, mak
ng cotton his clean surplus, aud sell
ing it in his own time and his chosen
market, and not at a master’s bidding
—getting bid piv in cash, and B ' in
a receipted mors. that • -taigas
his freedom—then abal: be tl.. bre
lug of ilia fullnoos of our da Great
King Cotton tint to lie at his feet
whiy the usurer and grainraiser bind
us in subjection is to invite the con
tempt of man and llie reproach of
Gad. But to stand up before him
amid tee crops and smokehouses,
wrest from him tbe magna charter of
our independence, aud lo establish in
his name an ample and diversified
agriculture that -bail honor him wh.'e
it enriches Us, this is te carry us as far
in the way of happiness and indepeud
ence as the farmer, working iu the
fullest wisdom and in the richest field
can carry any peoj !e.
For Lag Grippe
Thoma Whitfield & Cos., 240 Wa
bash av., corner Jacksou-st., one of
Chcagos’ olbest and most prominent
druggist, recommend Chain' erlaius
Cough ' Remedy for la grippe, as it
not only gives a protnp £id com
ple'.e relief, but nlso contracts any 1
tendency of la grippe to result in ;
pneumonia- For sal by 11. T. Thom j
pson Homer, Shore & Lewis, Baldwin <
Tit an m vrjiin b tri in *1 nif
JuoßJf Al-
Should Government Care For
The Southern Dead?
Just now the public mind is much
exercised over President McKinley’s
suggestion that the government aid
in the car* of Confederate cemeteries
and Senator Butler’s proposed bill to
pension ex-Cotifederate soldiers and
their widows.
We do not think, as it is claimed
by some, that “Mr. MeKinley was
cauied away .with enthusiasm" and
thus prompted tp advocate the meas
ure, or to express a desire to see it
inaugurated in the intent of a full
restoration of peace and tiat-noony in
all sections of our common country,
cVe take him to be a remarkably level
headed conservative Cnristain gentle
man, a true patriot, who recognizes
true patriotism whether found in
friend or foe
Ali who know anything about the
late civil war know that no truer
patriotism ever stirred human hearts
than did that which moved the men
and women of the South. Of noble
ancestry, they represented the purest
type of American manhood and wo
manhood. They suffered mote than
tongue can ever express or Jpeu can
describe. They fought and bled and
died in tile defense of their homes,
which were burned by an invading
army—their wives and littloones were
driven from he me and left to starve
in a land swept by the bosom of des
truction and devastation on every
hand.
This is no exaggerated story. In
deed the sufferings of the south in
that frai ricidal ivar cannot be exag
gerated-
It was hard to tell who were the
greater sufferers the tnen or the wo
men. The men actuated by the no
blest type patriotism, the protection of
homo and loved ones, hastened to the
front while mothers and wives as
sumed tiie responsibilities not only of
father, husband, sou and brother at
home, but labored at spindle'atid loom
to eloih those loved ones who bad
gone forth, to battle.
The terrible heartache of those who
looked and prayed and looked on atid
on for four dong years, for the return
of those who never came back, can
n ever bu known except by Cod Him
self,
in the rural districts many of them
who sever owned a slave, even went
into the fields and as they expiesaed
it, “look hold of the plow and hoe
handies when their husbands left \
them,” and cultivated the crops that
their little ones might have bread.
W are now under one government
and such valor and priotietn is the
common heritage of every American,
be he of northern cr southern birth.
Then let our government at the sug
gestiou of its noble chief, honor Air.er
ican valor and patriotism by sharing
the care of the last resting places <f
those wtio wore the gray as those who
wore the blue.;
Mrs. >V. D. Ellis, the beloved pres
ident of the Atlanta Memoral Associ
ation, makes the following beautiful
suggestions:
“The hands that will guide this mat
ter will be nerved by a sentiment to*
pure. I am confident, to even sug
gestaplan that would divest our
cherished spots from our watchful
cart, or to take such governmental
care as would make any ex-Confed
emte vet ran feel that tho influences
l or sppiopriations weie anything else
, man Hie voluntary offerings of a gov
ernment foi all, whit.ii, forgetful of
differences in the past, had come to
ejoice in the valor of all its people.’’
The same principle should guide
our government it! bestowing, and the
Confederate veterans in accepting a
pension. When every ex- Confed
erate veteran aud widow is placed on
the roll with the ex-Federal veter
ans aud their widows, then, and net
till then, will every vestige of section
alism be wiped from our fair land.
This unity of hearts and interests can
never exist while our poor sens and
daughters of the cause are taxed to
pay lac pensions of ex Federal sold
iers i.,any of whom never saw a day’s
service, and still worse were not even
Americans but the dumpings of
European prisons and alms-houses
who knew no more ot our government
'ban an idiot.
May the blessed impulse that prompt
e i the wise suggestion of our good
president McKinley, directed by the
Holy Spirit, so influence our law
makers that wise measures may be
adopted, and so adjusted as to obliter
ate every thought of strife and dissen
sion and make us indeed and ir. truth
a united people.-—Mrs. Stainback Wil
son, in the Atlanta Journal.
HOMER. GA m THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 1899.
TO OUTLAW PRIZE FIGHTS.
A Bill Ih Pending; In tlie Now York Assem
bly Which Will Stop Contests.
The New York legislature may put
a stop to prize fighting in that statt,
A bill has been introduced in the
house making clove and ether contests
a misdemeanor in New York, and if
the measure becomes a law the great
mills will have to be fought somewhere
else than in New York.
The bill is to repeal the Horton law of
two years ago, which legalized limited
round urize fights and sparring exhi
bitions.
The Horton law provided that spar
ring exhibitions with gloves of not less
than five ounces each in weight may
be held by a domestic incorporated
athletic association in a building
leased by it for athletic purposes only
for at least one year, or ia a building
owned and occupied by such associa
tions. The Lewis bill is in the form
of an amendment to section 158 of
the penal code, which is made to read
as fol.ows:
“A person who within this state
engages in, instigates, aids encourages
or does any act to further contention
or fight without weapons, between two
or more persons, or a fight commonly
called a ring or prize fight, either
within or without the stats or who
engages in a public or private spar
ring exhibition with or without gloves
within the state, at which an admis
sion is received either directly or
indirectly, or who sends or publishes
a challenge or acceptance of a clial
lenge tor such contention, exhibition
or fight, or carries or delivers such a
challenge or acceptance or trains or
assists any person in training or pre
paring for such contention, exhibition
or fight is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
The bill will be sent to the com
mittee on cedes of the assembly.
There will be a lively fight when the
bill comes up for a hearing, as a ma
jority of the members of both houses
are believed to he in favor of glove
contests under limited restrictions:-
Tile sporting men ot New York city
wiil lie given an opportunity to appear
against the bill.
lUOMCAb IFS
If you don’t behove honesty is the
best policy, try it once.
If yon answer questisns, people are
apt to question your anwsers.
If a woman fails to understand a
m in, they are on an equal footiug.
If a boy realty enjoys going to
school, he is always too delicate to
atlei and
If you do your best to-day, per
haps you will be able to do better to
morrow.
If you can’t help your ailments, you
can at least refrain from talking
about them.
If soma people practice humility, it
is because they are tryiug for the
underliold.
If you hire a man to be honest, you
will have to raise his wages from day
to day.
If a cooper cau’t make a barrel of
fun, he can at least have a staving
good time.
We will always have the new wo
man She will never admit that she
has grown old,
'like A GREAT HAILWAY
With its branches running in every
direction, are the artyries and veins
which convey the- blood to every pai t
of the system. When the liver and
kidneys refuse to act the blood is pie
vented from circulation by poisonou r
acids, and then conies Rheumatisms
Dr Drummond’s Lightning Remedy
drives these poisonsifrcm the blood,
and Dr. Drummond,s Lightning Lin
iment restores the stiff joints, drawn
coids and hardened muscles. If your
druggi t has not got these remedies,
send to the Drummond Medicine
Company, New York, and the full
months treatment of two largee
bottles will be sent to your express
address.
Mo NUy TO LOAN.
We now have plenty of mor.ey to
loan on improved farms m Banks
county. Terms and interest liberal
Call and see us.
DUNLAP & PICKRELL,
Gainesville, Ga.
The Gall of Gomez.
Whatever else may be said of
Gomez, nobody caa question the quan
tity and quality ef his gall, He exhib
its a specimen of cheek beside which
adamant is as soft as chewing gum.
Our government is willing to give the
Cuban insurgent army $3,000,000, hut
Gomez scorns the proposition, ,aud
demands $57,000,000 for his pay roll.
He claims to have4o,ooo men, when
it is a well known fact that the entire
Cuban insurgent anny has nevor
really had half that number. Even
with his al eged 40,000 troops Gomez
is compelled to put in 200 brigadier
generals in order "to figure out his
little $57,000,000 scheme. Hu asks
that this host of so called brigadjers
be paid at the same rate as the
brigadier generals of our army, $5,500
a year, and proposes to apply our
scale|of soldiers’ pay all the way
through. Of the Gomez plae we
would give to every one of the 40,000
soldiers be claims to an average
of about !$1,450 each.
Of courscp.be goverumeut will pay
no attention to the Gomez proposition
further than to rej-ct it promptly and
flatly. Coming Ironi Gamez it is
especially insolvent. W hen we sent
our army and navy [to drive the
Spaniards out of Cuba,
the field and sulked in his tent during
tbs rest of the war. But as socr n.,
it was over he came foith with r ao
mand for money. His arrogant at
tempt to blackmail the U. S. out of
$57,000,000 has hardly a parallel in
history of impudence.—Journal.
Sweeten the Breath, Brighten the
Eye Clear the Complexion and Insure
the natural Bloom or Health, use Dr.
M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine,
Carried Him to Atlanta to Avoid
a Lynching.
Flether Whelcbe), a young Gaines
ville negro, was carried to Atlanta by
the sheriff of I all county yesterday
afternoon to get him out of the dan
ger of being lynched by a mob. The
negro attempted a criminal
assault upon a y ,uiig girl Friday “af
ternoon. He was arrested Saturday.
It was reported in Gainesville he was
to be lynched last night. Hearing this
report J udge Estes suspended conr 1
long enough yesterday to issue an
order for the removal of the negro to
Atlanta.
On Friday evening Miss Maud
Worley, a niece of Mr. E. E. Kim
hrougb, of Gainesville, was assaulted
while on her way from school by
Fletcher Welchel.
While gsine alone along Main
street the negro, who is some 18 or 19
years of age, acc®ste,l her in a very
impertinent manr.or and
attempted to seize her. She freed
herself from his grasp and her screams
frightened the negro avay.
The man was apprehended Satur
day by Ghief of Police W E. Smith
and locked up. He stated at first that
he only meant to snatch a purse from
the young lady, hut afterward told
another colored boy that the theft was
not the object of bis assault.
The young lady, who is only about
14 years of age, fearing excitement
evidently has refused to give the par
ticulars of the negro’s assault Friends
of the family and the men of the town
generally were highly indignant and
it was currently reported about town
yesterday that a mob would lynch the
negro between nightfall and morning.
John Wanamaker. The dry goods
prince of Philadelphia,’’ has engaged
the entire last page of evety weekly
issue of the Philadelphia Record for
a period of two years. That is to say
every day for the next two years, Sun
day alone excepted, ha will have an
entire page iu the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Ho says he owes bis s'lcce** to
the newspapers and gives them a cer
tain amount of his profits.—Ex.
An Honest Medicine for La-
Gt ipx>e.
George W. Waitt of South Gardi
ner, Me., says: “I have had the wart
cough, cold, chills and grip and have
taken lots of trash af no account but
profit to the vender. Chamberlain’s
Cough Rdtuedy is the only thing that
has done any whatever. I have
used oue 50-cel.t bottle and the chills
cold and grip have all left me. I con
grtnlatf a’ue manufactures of an hon
est narda ine”. For sale by R T.
Thompson Homer, and Shore & Lew
is, Baldwin.
A GREAT YEAH.
Business Never Equalled by any
Other Nation.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press con
tends that the year 1898 was one of
the most woiderful in the history of
this country and sustains the state
ment with the following bill of panic
nlars
1. Largest wheat crop except that
of 1891.
2. Highest price recorded for
wheat except in 1888.
3. Largest cotton crop.
4. Largest export of breadstuff’s.
5. Largest exports of manufactured
goods.
6. Largest aggregate exports of
produce and merchandise.'
7. Largest production of iree ore.
8. Largest production of pig iroa
9. Largest production of coal.
10. Largest productio* of copper
11. Largest rrjductioa of silver ex.
cept that of 1882
12. Largest production of gold
13 Largest gold holdings.
14. Largest per capita circulation of
all forms ot money.
15. Largest aggregate bank clear
ings.
10, Largest aggregate sale of bonds
17. Largest aggregate sale of stocks
!on New York Stock Exchange since
1882
19, Smallest number of failures
and smallest aggregate liabilities since
1892
This is indeed a remarkable showing
but it contains one item which we
regret.
The cotton crop, it is true was a
record bleaker, but how much better
it would have keen for the south if
several million less bales of cotton had
beeu raised and the food crep had
been proportionately larger.
Taking the record of the year alto
gether, however,, it shows for thi ß
country a production of values and a
relume of business never equalled by
anv other nation.
The Wheat Position.
W’heat ended last week a decided
reaction as was to be expected after
the roda water bulge of the middle of
the week. A 10-cent advance dis
c iut t many- bull arguments. A
striking simi'arity has developed in
the wheat and securities market with
1893- This year the average price of
twenty active raslrcad stocks and
wheat by a strauge coincidence
touched the top on th* same day,
while they also coincided in the vear
very closely- It would be a bold per
son to predict that the last week saw
the top in wheat or stocks unless he
were inspired by Mr- Benner’s pre
dictions in regard to price movement*
for 1899. In wheat, however,the con
ditions are so nearly like 1893 that
comparisons suggest themseives.
Exports have largely exceeded that
year and are as then about the largest
on record. Primary receipts have enly
been exceeded by that year for the pe
riod since July Ist. The previous year
in both cases witnessed a prolonged
decline as a result of large crops.
This year a world crop is paomised to
he a record breaker following a big
American crop. As in 1893, there
has been a large foreign short interne*
which has at least beer, partially cov
ered, and there has been evident the
presence of the speculative public for
several weeks. Ona of the bull rgu
meets ie cotton has been s lessened
acreage promised for cotton and an
increase in wheat. There has been a
sharp advance and hesitation, advi
ces from the West repo/t increased
offerings from the farms’ 1 s, the export
business at the seaboard' iss shrunken
to small dimensions, ana the visible
supply for the week is expected to
sfc. w but little if any decrease. The
movement of wheat to primary cen
ter* continues at about double the
figures of a year ago, although the
price at that time was 20 cents a
bushel higher on the wildest m&n.ip
ulation the trade has ever seen. The
essential factor in the fluctuation* re
mains the same as during the advance
and consists in size ef outside specu
lation apart from the clique who are
supposed to have tbe movement in
hasd. At the end of the week there
seemed a decided diminution m the
outside orders, and the pit speculator
was the most conspicuous buyer
Things are saklom what they seem
and another influx of lt pub!ic buying’’
might advance wheat to the dollar
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mark during the week, as predicted
by some of the most enthusiastic bulls.
—Constitution.
LIVING AT HOME
The South Ceasing to Depend o n
the West for Supplies.
There is practical evidence that
the Georgia farmer has begun to lire '
at home. In a recent letter a promi
nent railroad man of Georgia stated
that the southbound tonnage on thi s
read had decreased at least 50 per ct-
This he attributed to the low price of
cctton and a decline in the purchasing
power of the merchants. ~H< did
not specify the character of Western
shipments,” says tho Southern Farm
er’ but we are inclined to believe that
their decline in quantiy is not an evi
deuce of depression, ae the railroad
official suggests, but is proof that the
farmers of that territory are ceasing
to depend upon the West for supplies
which they can produce them seines.
This manifestation may cause tempo
rary dullness in some hues, but it will
pass- ludependence of the West in the
matter of supplies tor household and
stock is but a step toward the ability
of the Southern farmers to become a
seller to the West aud Notts.’ 1
It would be poelic justice to see
tbe Western farmer buying from the
Georgia farmei, who has had his
smokehonse in the West so long.
HOW IT ACTS.
There s no waiting weeks and
months for relief while taking Dr,
Drummond Lighting Remedies for
Rheumatism. S'sne cases years
standing have- acen enterly cured
with one treatment. Relief and bene
fit are fait from the first, end if the
treatment is persisted in, the stiff
joints and drawn cords are restored
If your druggist has not got these
remedies do not take anytnmg else.
Describe your case and send $5 to the
Drummond Medicine Cos., New Yorit.
and the full month’s treatment ef two
large bottles will be sent to your ex
I ress address.
—i - - — r~‘irrratm
Legal Ads,*
GEORGIA: Banks County. — J. M
Powers has applied for exemption of
personality and setting apart same
and I will pass upon the same at 12
o’clock m.'oa the 13th day of Feb.
1899 at my office. T. F. HILL,
Ord’y
GEORGIA: Banks County.—l,
John H. Kettle, - , do heeeby consent
for my wife, Martha I. Kesler, to be
come a public or free dealer as pro
vided by section 1760 of the revised
code of Georgia 1882. Jan 18, 1899
JOHN H KESLER.
Bring us that wood on subscript en
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GEORGIA: Banks County — After
four waeks notice pursuant to Section
2546 of the civil code a petition of
which a true copy is *nb?oined will be
presented toR. B. Russell Judge of
the Superior court, at the court house
said county on the 20th day of March
1899 J. C. Chambers
GEORGIA: Banks County. — To
the Hon. R. B Russell judge of the
Superior court ot said county,
i’ho petition of J. C Chambers br..
1 That she is guardian of W. H.
aad J. T. Chambers heietofore ap
pointed guardion in said county.
2 Tnat she desires lo sell for re in
vestment at private sale the following
property: A tract of land in said
county adjoining lands of Melinda
Chambers, J G Ward and other.
3 Said tract containing 88 aerrs
more or less, said land is poorly lm
proved, is uneven and thin, but one
small house from which thero is bvt
little income, which are the reasons
for wan tint to sell.
4 Petitioner desires to invest the
the proceeds in certain farm lands in
said county adjoining lands of E
Darien, Nancy Gillespie and others
containing 80 acres good farming land
well unproved
5 Petitioner shows notice have
been given of intention to make np
plichtiok has been published four
weeks a* required by law
J A CHAMBERS,
Sworn to and subscribed beforn me
the 17th day of January 1899.
T. F. HILL,
(§7.47.) Ord’y
GEORGIA: Banks County.—Ab
ner B. Griffin colored has applied for
exemption of personality and setting
apart and valuation of Homestead nnd
I will pass upon the same at 12
o’clock M. on the 2nd day of Feb.
1899 at my office. TANARUS, F. IIILL,
Ord’y
PAHLONEOA, GA.
A collate education la thm raadi of all. A.E.,
U.S., Km oral and Bunineen Man’s courses.
,'ood laboratories: beallhfcl, ln-rlporat mg cli
ents ; military discipline; rood moral and
relic tows in Cur ness. Cheapest board In the
State; abundance of country produce ; expenses
front $75 to $l5O a year; board In dormitories
or private families. Special license course for
teachers; foil fscettr of nine; all under the
control of the TJniveinlty. A colic ga prepar
rtorr class, Co-sdncatlon of Mast. Tbe Insti
tution founded specially for ntadsnta ol limited
means. Sethi for catalocno to tbs Preeldsat.
Joe. 8. BraWsar. A.M.