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a ^RADE ISSUE DAtLY A$P WEEKLY BANNER: PEG&MBER 6, 1892. ECS CLASSIC CITY! illustrious in Her Past, Active and Busy in Her Present And Marching With Sure and Stead; Strides Toward Her Glorious Future. THE GROWTH OF THE LAST PEW YEARS SHOWS WHAT THERE IS IN STORE FOR HER, AND IN CONTEM PLATING THIS Her Citizens Take on Fresh Inspiration ind the Hext Year of Her History Will be One of Unexampled Progress and Prosperity. The Municipal Government of Athens and the Work Being Done—Some of the Later Improvements^Which Show That She Is lot Behind the Times—A Place Fer Safe and Profitable Investment of Capital. phe. w oilers litalist for examins- justifies The Classic City of Georgia! The name implies leadership among the educational interests of the 8tate, and the implication is verified in fact But not only is she a leader in matters of education, but also in matters/of ms terial and business progress. She has years since refused t6 be con tent with being known a*-th? educational centre of Georgia, and claims proudly and Justly to have shown aa much evidence of Solid end enduring growth in the last few years as any city in Georgia. Her match of progress baa aomeqal, and no Southern better inducements to the Investment than Athens, and tlon of her facilities and business this assertion. HEB ADVANTAGES. The climate of Athens is delightful and heathy. In It there breeds no fell disease, and its worth to the citizens is inestimable. It Is beneficial to health, it is favorable to agriculture, it Is conducive to happiness. The health of Athens Is splendid. An examination of the reports of the city Sexton and the Sanitary Inspector shows that the death rate of Athens is exceed ingly small, and barring all deaths caused from old age or infancy, it is merely nom inal. The reports show few or no deaths at a)l from local causes. The sanitary conditions are perfect. ' Situated on the hills, her natural drainage it unexcelled^ and in addition to this her : .;nyitem of sewerage has been pronounced to be the finest for a city of her size in the entire South. So much! for the climate and health of Athens. Those who wish a healthy, pleasant place in which to live, can do no better than come to Athens. EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. A person in locating in a city always has aa eye to the educational facilities afford* ed, A man of family always desires to give his little ones a good education, and to secure it aTCheap as possible. has her system of public schools, unexcelled by those of any city in the State, in which tuition is absolutely free. She has numerous private schools taught by experienced teachers. She boasts three of the finest schools for young ladies in all the country. These are Lucy Cobb Institute, the Home School, and Mrs. Crawford’s school for young ladies. Last year there was added to her facilities the State Normal school for teachers, tuition free. To round off the whole mat ter, Athens is the home of the University of Georgia, famed for its illustrious grad uates mid the glorious work it is doing among the educational interests of the BUte. 1 ' & HER BUSINESS INTERESTS. With a population of about eleven thousand, Athens does an annual business of over twelve million dollars. She has four banka with an aggregate capital of four hundred thousand dollars: an in surance company with a surplus of one million dollars; two large cotton factories; two foundries; two plaining nulls; two * m pi eases; u flour mill; a guano and cot ton seed oil mill; a shoe factory; two ca r riage factories; a paiot fac ory; and nu merous ' small manufactories^ She has wholesale grocery and dry goods houses that do an immense amount of business and sell large bills of goods tn the territory of Atlanta, Augusta, and Macon. Her business interests are on a firm founda tion, and throughout the recent money stringency have stood the test of a tight money market. HER CITV IMPROVEMENTS. Athens is proud tossy that a complete system of sewerage is here to keep the city clean; that she has ITpaid lire department and a Gamewell fire alaim system with which to protectjthe property of her citi zens; that her sidewbiks are well paved and her streets in good addition; that she owns a lot upon which in the near future a handsome City'hall is to i-e located; that an electric car line travel sea her streets for over five miles; tLat sae is the beat lighted city in the SialejU-ing : fu!ly fur nished with electric lights by the Athens Gas and Electric Light Company; and that she has just sold $125,000 worth ot city five per cent thirty year bonds at par with which to eicct acomnlete system of water works. TAX RATE AND LIABILITIES. The tax rate of Athens is only one per cent, which is muob'smaller than that of other cities of her size in Georgia. The city has a very small amount ol liabilities* and her assets reuuce thes. to a nominal figure. To protect these, the has taxable property amounting to about seven million dollars. 80ME FINE BUILDINGS. Athens has some fine buildiugs that would do credit to a largti city. She -has a Y. M. C. A. building erected al a cost of $20,000; has thirteen tuet-story brick business buildings aud non. uers ot as ele gant and costly residence* - s any city cau l boast. HER RAILROADS. * Athens has four railroad* that affords her people every railroad facility, viz,, the Athens Branch, of the Georgia road from Union Point to Athens; iuo Northeastern road from Lula to Atben-; me Macon * Northern, from JIacon to Atnens; and the Georgia, Carolina anu Northern trom At lanla to Norfolk. HER GROWTH|RECENTLT. The greatest growth ot Athens has been recently. The lavl thiee ytors have wit* nessed many changes in tuu city. Several thousand have been added to her popu lation. Over four hundred houses have been built. The sewers nave been con strutted, the fire department end alarm system established, the electric line buik; the electric lights secured., the school Bys tem perfected, and many a waller improve ments made. Her growtu is in full sway now and she is bounding upward. THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. The municipal government under which Athens started her recent tremendous growth was that presided over by Hon. Edward T. Blown as Mayor, who did work that will be remembered by his people. The present municipal government is as follows: H. 0. Tuck, Mayor; W. P. Dor sey, Mayor pro tern-, Aldermen from the First ward, W. F. Dorsey and W. D. O’FarrelL Aldermen from the Second ward, John Booth and John Gerdiue. Al dermen from the Third ward, U. G. Tal- madge and Julius Cohen. Aldermen from the Fourth ward, A. H. Hodgson and E. i. Smith. reasurer, A. L. Mitchell; City Attorney, T. VST. Ruckor; Chief of Police, H. Cobb Davis; City Engineer, J. W. Barnet; Sanitary Inspector, I. G. Oir; Manager of Dispensary, Macon Johnson; Meat Inspec tor, E. D. Cox; Chief of Fire Department, George W. McDoiman; Real Estate As sessors, Henry Bensse, W. D, Griffith, Myer Stern;Dispensary Commissioners, A E. Griffith, A. S. Erwin, R. K. Reaves’ Water Works Commissioners, J. H* Rucker, A. L. Hull,G.M. Sirahan; Stw- er Commissioners. W. D. Griffith, E. R. Hodgson, D. C. Barrow, Jr. So it is apparent at once that Athens need have no fear of the future. She is bound to succeed if her people work aright in building her up. This is certainly the place for the iuves' tor to seek who wishes to reaf a rich re ward on bia money, and anyone who de sires to learn more particularly about the advantages afforded capital here, can* do so by addressing a letter to the Banner which will be promptly auswered. Athens knows no sneb word os fail; she does nut intend to take a single step back ward. MR. BILLUPS READS ALOUD. THE PUMPKIN PYE. A Domestic Feat Attended Difficulty. kj Mr. Billups was reading aloud to his wife. “Are you listening?” he said to Mrs. ! Billups. Why, certainly, dear,” she replied. “Go on, please; go on.” ‘Excuse me for thinking so,” said Mr. Billnps, “but I did think that you were going to sleep with your eyes open.” Oh, do please go oni” Mrs. Billups ex claimed. “You are so aggravating, John I” “All right,” continued- Mr. Billups. “Where was I at? Ah, I see! ‘The dark ness that can be felt, impaled and stabbed through its whole thickness by one mighty moonbeam, clear and clean and’ ” Mr. Billups’ impressive elocution was rudely marred at this point by a hoarse wail of “Ma-a-a! Ma-a-al Ma-mal" which issued from the next room, and, arresting the progress of that “mighty moonbeam,” corroborated Mrs. Billups’ impression that she had heard the baby. Tbe baby was in deed awake. He apparently wanted “ma ma” very much, and she arose from her chair and started to go to him. Confound it!” Mr. Billups ejaculated, “I’ve a notion to read tbe-story to myself if you can’t listen.” Oh, please don’t,” said Mrs. Billups. ‘I’ll bring him out and hold him in my arms, and he’ll be good, I know he will.” She hastened away and brought back the two-year-old, who blinked at the lamp light, and'was so glad to be released from his crib that he became instantly quiet and happy. Mrs. Billups tucked the young man’s nightdress snugly about his toes, resumed her seat and told her husband to go on again. He obeyed. ... - ‘“One mighty moonbeam,’” he read, “ 'clear and clean and cold, from the top to the bottom’ ” “Hello, papa!” chirped the baby, having rapidly reached the wide awake state, in which, particularly by lamplight, he was a very observant child. “Hello, you rascal! Keep still!” said ; papa, and then resumed, “ ‘All around, in • the circle of the outer black, lie the great [ dead’ ”—— ‘•Ma-ma!” cried the disturber again; “ma-mal Down! Dit down!” “He wants to get down and ru n around;” ma-ma explained to Mr. Billups', who was not an adept in baby talk, and she allowed the’boy to slide from her lap and shift ' for himself. ‘Lie the great dead in their tombs,’ ” Mr. Billnps continued, with a sigh of resig nation, ‘“whispering to each other of deeds’ ” Wait just a minute, John,” said Mrs. Billnps, calmly breaking in upon the voices from the tombs. “He’s got your pipe off the table.” “Well, let him have it,” said Mr. Bil lups, “if it’ll only keep him quiet It isn’t lit.” j No, I won’t,” said Mrs. Billups. “It’ll make him sick anyhow, and besides he J might break it.” “Then take it away from him quick!” And, this order having been executed and the baby purified against the loss of the pipe, Mr. Billups pitched in once more, . “ 'whispering to each other of deeds that, shook the world; whispering in a lan guage’ ” idge,” piped a little voice. 'He’&fonly imitating you,” was the com ment made by Mrs. Billups. , I wish he wouldn’t,” Mr. Billups ; ‘“whispering in a language all 'own as yet—the language’ ” ge, lang-didge!” up, you nnisance! - ‘The language of the life to come—the language’ ”—- j “Lang-didge, lang-didge!” “Now, look here, young fellow,” said Mr,. Billnps; “who’s doing this reading— yog or I?” T ak'e him up in yohiKlap,” Mrs. Bil lups suggested. “Perhaps he’ll be better tat way.” Mr. Billups, in desperation, did as he j was told, and with biB arms around the baby’s shoulders and holding the book at arm’s length continued, “ ‘The language of a stillness so dread anjJ- deep that the very silence clashes against it, and’ ” Pem-mie, pem-mle!” cried the child, seizing the lapel of his father’s coat. “Pencil, he means,” Mrs. Billups re marked. “Give him yotjtr pencil from your vest pocket, and then he’ll be quiet.” The boy got the pencil and straightway conveyed the sharpened end to his mouth, while Mr. Billnps read on,- “ ‘And makes dull, muffled beatings in ears that strain to catch the dead men’s talk; the shadow of immortality’ — “Down, down! Dit down!” came again from the restless young Billups, and his father"let him down so suddenly-that the child/stumped his bare toes against a rung chair, and began to cry. at I’ll do,” said Mrs. Billups, hopeful. "I’ll give him that box of liver pills to play with; He’s so fond of hearing them rattle. Come here, darling” —to the baby—“and get your box.” "B-b-bots?” sobbed the little fellow. “Yes,” his mamma replied. John found his place in the book again, while John, Jr., toddled away with that fascinating box of pills. “‘The shadow of immortality,’” Mr. Billups continued in a humdrum tone, his elocutionary talent squelched; “ 'the shadow of immortality falling through the by Some ^ har(Js of tho Hudson may sing of the - melon, ' . Its smooth jetty seeds and its ripe, ruddy core* And the feast of the reaper with ecstasy dwell Reclining at noon on the cool, breezy shore. For me, the rich soil of New England produces An .offering more dear to the taste and the eye The bright yellow pumpkin—how mellow its juices. When tempered with ginger, and bak’d into pye! Let others with dainties tReir appetite pamper. And gaze with delight oqfcthe splendors, of plate; Be stnnned with a bustle, and bid pages scam per— Such pleasures as these I resign to the great; But give me the feast when no knives and forks clatter. Where each to the neat cherry table draws nigh. And carves for himself from the broad earthen platter A slice of the sweet, yellow, smooth pumpkin pye. There are those who delight in the fig and the raisin. In quaffing the milk from the cocoannt’s shell; Some the olive and pomegranate lavish their praise on. The orange’s glow and the pineapple’s smelL 1 leave them the products of both of the In dies, And all the rich fruits of a tropical sky; Their exquisite juices and flavors and tinges. And ask no dessert save the sweet pumpkin py«. Then hall to the muse of the. pumpkin and onion! The Frenchman may laugh and the English man sneer At tbe land of the Bible and psalm book and Bunyan: Still, still to my bosom her green hills are dear. > Her danghtera.are pare as her bright orystal fountains. And Hymen, if ever thy blessings I try. Oh, give me the girl of my own native moon- tains Who knows hew to temper the sweet pump kin pye. —Boston Sentinel (1818). r-ith In Prayer. Charlie, .:ged five, had been told by his mamma not to go down to the creek to play. “If you go I shall whip you,” she said. Of course the denied pleasure grew each moment more attractive, and finally he could stand it no longer, and.disregarding the threat of a whipping went. When he came back, seeing evidence of displeasure in his mother’s face, he asked, “You won’t whip me, will you, mamma?” “If I don’t whip you I shall have told a lie, and you wouldn’t want me to tell a lie, would you ?” replied his mother. “You c-could ask G-God to f-forgive you,” sobbed Charlie.—Detroit Free Press. His Tow Mast Be Kept. “If I give you a meal,” said Mrs. Barlow to a tramp, “of course you will chop up some kindling for me?” “Madam,” replied the tramp, “when I was a mere child I remember that a neigh bor of oars, while at work on the wood pile, was struck in the temple by a flying chip and instantly killed. Child as I was, I saw the danger of such a practice as wood chopping, and I solemnly resolved never to have anything to do with it. Of course you would not have me break my vow after keeping it so long.”—Exchange. Shut i - Wouldn't Look Well. Young Lady—How much? Telegraph Operator—Twenty-five cents. “For that one word 'yes’?” "Yes’m. Same price for ten words or less. You can repeat the word ‘‘yes’ ten times, if you wish.” “Urn—n-o; that wouldn’t look well. It’s an answer to a proposal of marriage.”— Portland Advertiser. On ’Change. Stranger (in board of trade gallery)—I suppose those operators that are standing around with their hands in their pockets and not saying anything are watching their opportunities. Cynical Chicago Man—Yes, their rob- bertunities.—Chicago Tribune. Made Some Difference. Artist—I suppose you’re joking to offer ninepence for a picture like this? Why, the canvas cost a shilling. Picture Dealer—Very likely, my good sir. But when you bought It, it was clean. —Tit-Bits. Vanity and Modesty. Maud—Why do you think Alice is vain? May—The other day I heard her say she looked like me.—New York Herald. Her Explanation. During the recent celebration of the an niversary of the .discovery of America by Coiambus each school in a Michigan city was trying to see which would have the prettiest decorations. The janitor of one of. tho schools, an old man, was directed to put up the flag, and as he couldn’t see very well he ran it only half way up the pole. A little girl named Ethel saw this and stared at it in open mouthed astonishment, and when a little friend happened to come along Ethel asked what the flag was half shadow of death and, bursting back upon mast for it. “Why” said her friend, “Columbus is The Electropoise, The Electropoise is a scientific in strument for the cure of disease without medicine. Based on new theories as to the cause and cure of disease, it deals with the eleotrical and msgnetic con ditions of the body and gases surround ing it in the atmosphere. The principal and most common need of the sick, is Oxygen—pure Oxygen—and this the Electopoise supplies, by putting the system in such a condition that it abr Borhs Oxygen from the atmosphere. The Electropoise is not a patent me- I book." nicine; not a battery or belt, nor in any way akin to tbe many “electrical cure- alls” advertised. It is a reliable and trnly wonderful treatment, endorsed by tho best people of this and adjoining States. The Com pany owning the Electropoiso is com posed of Southern gentlemen and some its heavenward course’ “Torse, torse!” shouted that parrot voice from a distant corner of the room. “ ‘Torse,’ ” Mrs. Billups replied. “No, it wasn’t, either. It was ‘course.’ ” “Well, I meant ‘course.'* You know I did. I was just thinking of the baby, lie said ‘torse,’ and I” “Never mind what he .says, Mary. I was reading, ‘Bursting back upon its heavenward course—course,’ mind you— ‘from the depth of the abyss; climbing again upon its silver self ’’ ••‘Ma-a-a! Ma-a-a! Ma-ma!” This meant trouble, sure. , Baby bad got the pillbox open and tasted the contents. < ... He didn’t like the flavor. ? “Ma-a-al ma-a-a! ma-a-a!” heyelled, and mamma leaped to his side and/uttered a suppressed shriek. 'Shall I go for the doctor?” queried Mr. dead.’’—Exchange. Thoughtful Son. The Golden Rule reports the saying of a “colored brother” whose heart seems to be In the right place, although his manner of expressing himself is a little peculiar. “Why don’t you get married, Peter?” asked an acquaintance. “Why, bress you,” answered Peter, “I’ze got an ole mudder, an I has to do fo’ her, 8ah, an if I don’t buy her shoes an stockin’s she don’t git none. Now if I was ter git married ltd hab to bay ’em fo’ my wife, an dat’d be takin de shoes an stockin’s right out o’ my ole inudder’s mouf.”—Youth’s Companion. " A Natural Consequence. Jonesey—So you are thinking of getting Billups in a hard voice, throwing aside his married? ' Jok, _.i r t » - v i Rrine—Yes. “No, it’s not as bad as that, thank good- '■ Jonesey—When is it going to occur? nessl” responded Mrs. Billups. “I thought Brine—Tomorrow, he had swallowed the pills, but he hasn’t." Jonesey—Great Scott! Tomorrow? And “I guess not!” said Mr. Billups unh el- you say you’re only thinking about it? ingly. “Catch him swallowing anything Brine—That’s what I say. You didn he doesn’t like!"' • suppose a man only one day off from his “Oh, John, what do you mean? The wedding day wouldn’t be thinking about . _ , dear little darlingl Won’t you go on with it, did you?—Exchange. of the most prominent men of Georgia your reading?” \ | ^ Alabama and adjdining States are in- . “Well, I guess not that either,” ex- ! 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