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Robert G. Ingersoll On Rum
“ I am aware there is a prejudice
aganst any man engaged in the
liquor business. I belive from the
time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worm iu distillery, un
til it empties into the hell of death,
dishonor and crime, that alcohol is
demoralizing to every body that
touches it, from its source to
where it ends. I do not lielive
anybody can contemplate the sub
ject without being prejudiced
against the crime. AH we have to
do is to think ol the wrecks on
either side of the stream of death;
of the insanity, of the proverfcy,
pauperism and destruction coming
from alcohol; of the little children
tugging at the breasts of weeping,
desparing, starving mothers beg
ging lor bread; of the men of gen
ius it has wrecked; of the men
struggling with imaginary serpenU
produced by this devilish thing;
and when we think of th< jails and
almshouses, cl the prisons, and of
the soallblds on either bank, 1 do
not wonder that every thoughtful
man is prejudiced aganst the vile
stuff calle 1 alcohol.
“Intemperance cuts down youth
in its vigor, manhood in its
strength, and age, in its weakness.
It breaks the father’s heart, lav
naves the doting mother, exting
uishes natural affection, destroys
conjugal love, blots out lilial
attachments, blights paternal
hope, and brings premature age in
sorrow and dishonor to the grave.
It produces weakness, not strength,
sickness, not health; death, not
life. It makes wives widows,
children orphans, father iiends,
and all paupers; It feeds rheu
matism, nurses gout, welcomes
epidemics, invites cholera, imports
pestilence, engenders cousu mption,
and covers the land with idleness,
misery and crime. It produces
controversies fosters quarrels
cherishes riote. It crowds our
penitentiaries and furnishes vic
tims tor the scaffold.
“Alcohol is the blood of the
gambler, the inspiration of the
burglar, the stimulus of the high
wayman, and and the support of
the midnight incendiary. It sug
gests the lie and countenance the
liar, condones the thief, esteems
the thief, esteems the blasphemer.
It violates obligations, reverences
fraud, turns love to hate, scorns
\ irture and innocence. It incites
the father to butcher his helpless
offspiiugs, and the child to sharpen
the parricidal ax. “Alcohol burns
up men’ consumes women, destroys
life, curses God, and despise
heaven. It suborns witnesses,
nurse s perfidy and stains
the judicial ermine. It bribes
voters, disqualifies votes ,cor
rupts elections, pollutes our insti
tutions and endanger; the govern
ment. It degrades the citizen,
debases the legislator, dishonors
the statesman, and disarms the
patriot. It brings shame, not
honor; terror, not safety; despair,
not hope; misery, not happiness;
and with the malevolence of a
fiend calmly surveys its fright
ful desolation, and reveling havoc,
it poisons felicity, destroys peace,
ruins morals, wipes out national
honor, curst*® the world, and laughs
at the ruin it has wrought. It
does that, and more—it murders
the soul. It is the sum of all vil
lainies, the father of all crimes,
the mother of abominations, the
devil’s best friend, and God’s
worst enemy.”
Up iu Gilmer county two fac
tions are represented in the j ny
under Judge Patterson, the
Bimonpures aud Slick Tails being
about evenly divided. A case
went out before a jury up there
last summer and the jury after be
ing out 24 hours came into court.
Judge Paterson wished to know if
they had agreed on a verdict.
“No,” said one of them, “we
haven't been able to elect a fore
man yet.” There were six Bimon
pures and six Slick-Tails, and
each side voted solidly for its man
for foreman. —Cherokee Advance.
Plies Cured In 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund monry if PAZO
OINTMENT fsils to cure any c*e of Itching.
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding 6to 14dsr*.
Tha tret application fires Mast and JUa*. he.
What The Matter With
Kansas?
Few people realize the wonder
ful record that Kansas shows at
the end other thirty years’ pro
hibition of th sale of alcoholic
liquors. A careful investigator
writiug in “The Outlook” re
cently showed that—
-1 n 87 ofherlOfi counties Kansas
In ft 4 of these counties there arc
no feeble minded,
has no insane.
Ninety-six of her counties have
no inebriates.
Thirty eight of her county poor
houses are empty.
Fifty three of her jails were re
cently empty, and 6ft counti is had
no prisoners in the state peniten
tiary.
The entire number of paujiers
in the state falls short of 600.
Home counties have not called a
grand jury to try a criminal case
in ten years.
Not long ago Kansas had 200
million dollars in her banks; her
farmers owned stock valued at 22ft
million dollars, and in one year
the people have added 4ft millions
of dollars to their taxable proper
ty.
Only two per rent of the entire
population is illiterate.
The mortality rate has dropped
from 17 per thousand to 7 pet
thousand.
Does prohibition pay the people
of a state! Kansas certainly an
swers the question with wonder
ful figures.—The Ladies Home
Journal.
We are in need of a hustling
salesman to represent us in selling
from house to house over the coun
ty iur full line rf guaranted re
medies. Must have rig. We
furnish the medicine on time. A
handsome income every da to
right man who wants to make his
permanent business. For full
particulars and terms write Moore
-Higgs Chemical Company, Mem
phis, Ten n.
Hogs For Cotton
In Georgia.
United States Government Ad
vises Farmers to Grow Live Stock
as a Money Crop.
Washington, I). C. Nov. 28
Foui measures are being recom
mended by the U. S. Department
Agriculture to the farmers of the
South in order to remedy the con
ditious created by the collapse of
the cotton market. These are;
1. The reduction of expenses
by the production of more food
for the family and more giain and
forage lor the live stock.
.2. The substitution of other
money crops for part of the cotton
acreage.
.8. The raising of more live
stock.
.4. The addition of humus to
the soil in order to make fertilizer
less expensive.
Heroes Found In Dally Life.
The world has no room for cowards
fVe must all be ready somehow to
toil, to suffer, to die. And yours Is
not the less noble because no drum
beats before you when you go out
Into your dally battlefields, and n4"
crowds shout about your coming when
you return from your dally victory or
defeat. —R. U Stevenson.
School DooKs.
State adopted Common and
High School books for sale by
John C. Bell, Homer, Ga.
For Sale
Anew home sewing machine.
Price #25.00. Apply at this of
fice.
Stop In Atlanta
At Hotel Empire
Opposite Union Depot on Pryor
St. Renovated and refurnished
throughout. Reservations made
on application. Hot and cold
water,private baths, electric lights
and elevator.
First class accommodations at
extremely moderate rates. Euro
pean plan 75 cents up.
John L. Edmondson,
Propietor.
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL HOME*, ga.,
Suffered Twenty-One Years
Finally Found Relief
Having suffered for twenty one
years with a pain in my side, I
finally have found relief in l)r.
Kilmer’s Swamp Root. Injections
of morphine were my only relief
for short periods of time. I be
ciifno so sick tmt I had to under
go a surgical operation in New
Orleans, which benefited ine for
two yea re. When the same pain
eaine Irack one day I was so sick
that I gave up hopes of living. A
friend advised me to try your
Swamp Root and I at once com
rnenced using it. The first bottle
did me so much good that I pur
chased two more lsittles. I am
now on my second bottle and am
feeling like a now woman. I
passed a gravel stone as large as a
big red bean and several small ones.
I have not had the least feeling of
pain since taking your Swamp
Root and I feel it my duty to ret*
commend this great medicine to
all suffering humanity. Gratefully
yours,
MRS. JOSEPH CONSTANCK,
Rapides Par. Echo, La.
Personally appeared I esore me
this 15th day of July, 1911, Mrs.
Joseph Constance, who subscribed
the above statement and made
oath that the same is true in sub
stance and in fact.
Wm. Morrow, Notary Public.
Letter to
Dr- Kilmer & Co
s N. Y
PROVE WhAT SWAMP ROOT WILL DO
FOR YOU
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer &
Cos., Binghampton, New York.,
for a sample size bottle. It wil
convince anyone. You will also
receive a booklet of valuable in
formation, telling about the kid
neys and bladder. When writing,
lie sure and mention the Homer
Weekly Journal. Regular fifty
cent and one dollar size lsittles for
sale at all drug stores.
Cabbage Plants
Weather conditions have lieon
ideal and lam justified m say ing
that you can’t buy any better
plants, and I feel sure you will be
more than pleased with them at
the reasonable price offered. Va
rieties: Early Jersey, Charleston
Wakefield, Early and Late Flat
Dutch. Early and Late Succession.
Price ftOO, 7ft cents; SI.OO per 1000;
5000 ami over Bft cents per 1000.
Special price on large quanities.
Beet, Lettuce and onion
Plants ready after December Ist.
Write for price on these.
Plants by mail 85 cents per 100.
Shipments are made same day
older is received and satisfaction
will be cheerfully given.
Appreciating your fav ors,
Alfred Jouannet,
Mt Pleasant. S C
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Only One ‘‘BROMO QUININE"
To get the genuine, call for full name, LAXA*
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8. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Stops
cough aud headache, aud works off cold. 25c.
DEAFNESS OANOTBE CURED
by local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion of
the ear. There is only one way to
cure deainess, and that is by con
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
erased by on inflamed condition ot
the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or im
perfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed. Deafness is the
result and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube re
stored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by
Catarrh which is nothing but au
inflamed condition ot the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dol
lars for any case of Deafness (caused
by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Bend for
circulars, free.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Bold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipatiou.
Men’s and Boy s
CLOTHING
This Stock Must Go
In anticipation of a heavy crop of
cotton and good prices we bought an
enormous stock of Clothing several
months ago. It has now arrived, but
as the crop will be short and prices low,
we have decided to le b this stock of
Clothing go at unheard of prices. Call
and see it.
BLACKWELL BROS.
rVfaysvilte, Ga. .
PROFESSIONAL CABCS
Dr. O. N. HARDEf
Office at Residence
Five Miles North-east of Homer.
§ Calls Answered Promptly.
Telephone Connktion.
dr. j. s. jolly
Homer, Ga.
Will answer calls Day ur Night.
Residence call at Hill Until.
Office East sid I i.Uk Square
S. R- JOLLY
attorney-at-law
Homer, Ga.
On n k in Corin' House
J. S. CHAMBERS, M. D
Ofi r’e in oi.i> lVsTon h i: Bui <
IXO.
HOMER. GA.
j. w. Wallace.
Physician & Surgeon
Office five miles south east of
Homer at residence of R. J. Aal
lace.
Calls Answered Day or Sight
111 If Ml 1 I— —~~T
Empire Laundry.
We are agents for the Empire
Laundry of Athens. Our basket
leaves every week. Leave jour
laundry at our store.
HILL * Bit OWN
The Quinine That Does Kot Affect Tie flssd
Because of its tonic and laxative ertec:. TA.--
TIVF BROMOOriNINE is better than '
Quinine aud does not cause nervousness
ringing in head Remember the full n r
look for the signature of E. 'V. GROVt.
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Journal please call iu and settle
the bill. All can pay the* small
amount they are due us and it will
relieve your conscience and our lii
uaucial strain.
My Mamma Says
p[\r' ' , Its Safe ' .^Sm
gay? [hf for Children!
“The Children's Chil- __
dren’’ are now using 'O’ W
Foley’s Honey and Tar 4 * [ % #? I J§
Compound and it is to
day the same safe efTec- J ,1 '*jn%
tive and curative med- I $ £% JhL f
icine thattheirparents --■****■
foundit. Forallcoughs, ’ FOR
colds, croup, whooping „ -
hoarsenes and ticHi'ng GMIS ** COldS
in throat, use it. It 1 *= - © 11
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AND SAFETY that is inpregnable. We so
licit your banking, business with the fin
assurance of meeting j our requirement in a
business-like and satisfactory manner, an l
with the Absolute Knowledge that your de
posit in this Bank is SAFE.
IN ADDITION to the assets of this Bank,
which are profectly good for protection, DE
POSITS ARE Absolutely INSURE!
AG-INST LOSS.
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