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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 , * t i Only One ‘‘BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call for full name, LAXA* TIVF. BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of 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. To Our Subscribers If the little yellow label on your papei shows you aie in arrears with 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 Sa,iSfaC, ° ry "• I CONTAINS MQ OPIATES For Sale by HILL & BROWN . We Want Your Hanking liusinesß This Bank enjoys a portion of STRENG TH 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. We are ready to serve and protect you. Banks County Bank HOMER. GA. We Acknowledge Promptly Receipt of All Deposits Sc; v. Mail MAIL US YOUR DEPOSITS