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IHE ATHENS BANNER
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TUESDAY IORNING, DECEMBER 2. 1890.
ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER I j0 " r " al iB no '
gaged in an attempt to prove to the
Published Dally, Weakly and 8nnday, by
THB ATHKNS PUBLISHING CO.
T. L .GANTT Eilitor-in-Chlef,
O 1). FLANIGEN Business Manaser.
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farmers that tbe election of Gen.
Gordon to the Senate is not an Alli
ance defeat. As all the enemies of
this organization were arrayed on the
Gordon side, the Journal certainly
cannot claim tbe result as an Alli
ance victory.
The Loss of One Dollar a Year Paral
yzes Business and Adds to Our
Woes—A Similar Case From New
York—How a Cross-Roads Mer
chant Swamped the Tribune.
The papers say the Alliance will
form a third party. So far as tbe
South is concerned, any third party
the farmers form will he within the
democratic party. The negro will
keep the whites of ihe South solid.
1797-1890-
On Sunday last Mr. Henry L.
Brittain, Athens’ oldest and most
honored citizen, celebrated his nine
tysthird birthday, and received a
large number of visits from congrat
ulating friends.
Mr. Brittain belongs to a genera
tion that is fast passing away—the
old-time Southern planter. He was
reared a poor boy, but by industry,
economy and clear-sighted manage
ment, accumulated a handsome com
petency for his old age. He is a re
markable man in many respects.
Honesty and honor itself,full of char
ity and good-will toward his fellow-
men, Mr. Brittain has built up a
name and character that will endure
as long as memory lasts. While for
years a paralytic, he has borne his
confinement and suffering with Chris
tian fortitude, and but for this af
fliction would to*da}’ be as hale and
hearty as many men in the prime of
life.
He is now reaping the fruits of a
well-spent life, in the love and de
votion of his children, and the re
spect and admiration of his neigh*
bors.
We trust that our old and honored
friend will live to celebrate many an
niversaries of his birth-da}', and
serve as an example to the rising
generation of the rewards for a moral
and industrious life.
As a general thing, the fellow who
lifts the least grunts the longest
This applies to ceitain papers it
Georgia that are still rejoicing over
Gordon’s election. They did not
control a single vote for him.
One of the brightest young law
yers in Georgia is Mr. Charles H.
Brand, of Luwrenceville. He it was
who bore the brunt of tho conflict
in the lace of Hon. Thomas E Winn
against Picket and Dainell, and to
Mr.' Brand, in a large measure, is
the praise of that great democratic
triumph due. Not only is Mr. Brai.d
a good campaigner, but a fine orator.
His address at the democratic rally
in Gainesville was complimented on
every hand. We predict that the
day is not far distant when Charley
Brand will himself represent the old
Ninth dial riot in Congress.
Mr. Sam. Hardeman, represents
tive from Wilkes, opposed Mr Twit*
ty’s bill for the relief of our farmers
from that ten per ceut. collection
fees. We hope there will be enough
Alliancemen in the Senate to pass
this bill.
There is a rumor abroad that Col.
LivingstoD will be asked to resign his
seat in congress. When lie steps
down and out, the Alliance will ask
Gen. Gordon to resign his*seat iu the
Senate.
THAT TEN PERCENT. COLLECTION
LAW.
Mr. Twittv, representative from
Jackson county, has earned the
thanks of the farmers of Georgia, by
the introduction of “a bill to declare
all obligations to pay attorney’s fees,
in addition to the interest specified,
null and void.” After a bitter fight
from Mr. Fleming, representative of
the legal element, this bill passed
the House by a decided majority, and
should also go through the Senate
like a streak of greased lightning,
This was one of the many bills
enacted in the interest of 1 lawyers,
and is usury and extortion combined.
There is no difference made between
large and small claims, and under
the present law a debtor is often
forced to pay many times the actual
cost of the litigation incurred. Sup
pose a man gives one of these notes
for say $5 000, and, owing to some
unforeseen trouble, tails to meet the
debt promptly. It is a simple legal
process to bring suit, and less than
$100 should cover all fees and costs
and yet under the present law the
poor debtor must pay $500, besides
interest.
We believe in passing stringent
laws to make a man pay his honest
debts, but at the same time every
safeguard possible should be thrown
around the poor and dependent, and
thus prevent them from being op«
pressed and wronged by the rich and
powerful.
Mr. Twitty’s bill is right and just
and while the farmers are in control
of our State government, there are
other legal wrongs that they should
right.
The farmers iu the legislature are
beginning a reform movement in the
wrong diiection by creating new ju
dicial circuits. This means more
officers and higher taxes.
A. A NEAL & SONS-
FEARFUL STRIKE OF VENGEANCE
AGAINST THE BANNER.
The latest story is that President
Polk, of ihe Farmers’ Alliance, is
using his influence to re-elect In
galls to the Senate in Kansas. This
statement carries the lie on its face.
If Messrs. A. A. Neal <x Sons, the
Dyson, Wilkes county, merchants,
knew the financial calamity they had
visited on The Athens Banner office
in discontinuing their weekly^ paper
we know that their determined but ten
der hearts would be touched. This loss
to our cash drawer brings forcibly to
mind those lines from the immortal
Bard which say :
When troubles come they come not
single spies; but in battalions.”
Here is a financial famine hovering
over the land, and Neal’s dollar might
have kept the sheriff from our door;one
of our printers “pied” a stick of type:
the editor has a corn on bis little toe,and
our business manager ffnds that
liis shoes are giving way under foot.
With all of these trials and tribulation
coming upon us at one time, that crush
ing letter from the Messrs. Neal was re
ceived, announcing that we would never
again see the color of their money.
This is more than frail human nature
can and will bear. Of course we might
manage to bear the loss of any other
subscribers’ dollar with Christian resig
nation, and by reducing the pay of our
printers, curtailing rations at home,
and practicing a general spirit of econ
omy would be able to bridge the tinan-
eiai chasm. But our readers must bear
in mind that this whs no ordinary dollar
we lost, but A. A. Neal & Son’s dollar—
and those of our Wilkes county readers
who are acquainted with the well-known
liberality and public spirit of that great
firm, Will realize the fact that so soon
as a dollar passes into the bauds of a
Neal it at once becomes as big as a cart
wheel, and it will take a whole wagou
load of ordinary dollars to entice it
away.
But The Banner has sowed the seed
of anger in the hearts of diese patriotic
and liberal gentlemen, and must now
reap the hitter fruits of its folly. \\ hen.
alas! it was too late, we realized the
fact that a fatal mistake had been made
on our part, iu daring to defend the
Farmers’ Alliance and its principles
without first gaining the approval and
consent of A. A. Neal & Sons. It
was an oversight on our part; but it is
now too late to right matters. The
Messrs. Neal’s dollar lias gone where
the woodbine twineth— has retired from
circulation, so far as the classic pre
cincts of Athens is concerned. We will
weep, and we will miss it. there will
be an acning void in The Banner’s
cash drawer that can never be filled
with another one of Neal’s shining dol
lars.
Tho letter declaring his dire deter
mination notto take Tiik Banner again,
closes with a sad “Good-By!” With
tears streaming down our cneeks as
large as hickory nuts, with a heart burst
ing with apprehenssion for the future;
and with the pangs of hunger already
gnawing at our vitals—all for the want
of Neal’s dollar—we waft back to
those merchantile Croe-uses on the
banks of Broad river, t leir p rtin;
word:
opinions and sentiments of one man.
In conclusion, we wish our friend
Neal—and we have always felt most
kindly toward both father and sons—a
far richer return from that almighty
dollar than The Banner could possibly
insure them. May it continue to multi
ply as rapidly as the house of A. A.
Neal & Sens—that two years ago was
A. A. Neal; then A. A. Neal & Son,
and now A. A. Neal Sons. We sup
pose the next addition will be to take
in all the uncles and cousins, and then
the firm’s name will be A. A. Neal &
Kinfolks.
Good bye!
LOCKED UP.
A WHITE WOMAN SEEMS TO BE
STEEPED IN INFAMY.
Talmage & Bright well
Gives Diverse Accounts of Herself
and Sails Under False Colors—A
Suspicious Character.
A Handsome Profit Offered.—A
few days since Messrs. Lumpkin &
West bought the triangular lot opposite
Mr. T. Fleming’s from Messrs. Oates &
Gantt. Mr. Lumpkin has refused a
profit of $500 on his half interest in the
property, or a home on Milledge avenue,
that will sell for a thousand dollars
more than the lot cost, for the whole.
These gentlemen will not take twice
the sum they gave for the property.
Many people habitually endure a feeling of
lassitude, because the' think they hare to. It
they would take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsap-
arilla this feeling of v eariness would give
place to rigor aiid vitality.
Eastern Farmers for Gf.oroia.—
Messrs. Oates & Gault, real estate
agents of Athens, are now working up
a plan to settle a colony of New Eng
land farmers around Athens. They are
advertising ihe agricultural advantages
of this section in tbe northern papers,
and daily receive letters from eastern
farmers, who express a desire to move
to Georgia. This is a move in the right
direction.
Tiy BLACK-DRAUGHT tea lor Dyspepsia.
A SMALL WRECK.
The next House will stand 222
straight-out democrats aud 92 re
publicans. Reed will play the role
of the gnat on a steer’s horn. *
Gov. Nortben made a wise ap
pointment in Mr. R. F\ Wright as
Assistant Keeper of the Penitentiary.
“Farewell, farewell, will do for the gay
When pleasure’s throng is nigli;
hut give to me wlieu love I ones part
That'good old word, good bye. *
Parnell, the great Irish leader,
presents a combiuat on of moral cor
ruption aud patriotism.
A TYPICAL SOUTHERN SCENE.
Gov. Nortben has appointed Mr.
Lewis W. Thomas as Solicitor of the
City Court of Atlanta. Mr. Thomas
was one of the Nortben campaign
managers, and distinguished himself
by imitating Reed’s methods while
presiding over the Senatorial con
vention in Atlanta.
It is reported in Atlanta that GenJ
Gordon and Gov. Nortben will take
charge of tbe Alliance movement in
Georgia, and weed out the present
offloerQ. To secure the confidence
and support of the farmers, Gen.
Gordon must first cut himself adrift
from that band of politicians and
Alliance-haters that has gathered
around bis footstool.
We cannot see the consistency of
an AUianceman, who believes in the
Sub-Treasury .bill, supporting (Jen.
Gordon for the Senate, after bis re*
pudiation of that measure. But there
are men who had rather hurrah with
the winning side than see tbe prin
ciples they espouse vindicated.
Description of a Family That Moved
Through Athens, Yesterday.
Sam Jones says when a Methodist
preacher moves all he has to do is to
pack up his blacking brush and call the
dog.
Yesterday there passed through Ath
ens a white family, moving from one
county to another, that had but little
advantage over the average Methodist
preacher, so far us worldly goods are
concerned.
There was in this household the old
man, who walked alongside the wagon
and drove the team; a grown son, fol
lowing behind driving a little red cow;
in the wagon sat the mother, smoking a
short clay pipe, and surrounded by a
numerous progeny of tow-headed chil
dren ; while on top of the load was a
rosy-cheeked country lassie, arrayed in
a red calico dress. Beneath the wagon
trotted the proverbial yaller cur of low
degree and of the female persuasion.
But the load most attracted the at
tention of the street gazers. We have
no idea the entire outfit would bring ten
dollars at public sale. There was an old-
fashioned twist-post bed-stead, three
split-bottomed chairs,a bundle of quilts,
an empty bed tick and a box filled with
the table and kitchen utensils. And
this small stock of goods was the entire
accumulation of an entire family, the
head of which had long passed the mid
dle stage of life.
A reporter asked the old man if fye
owned any land.
“No,” was the reply, “I didn’t make
much of a crop this year, and so thought
I’d fy another settlement. I’m a rent
er, and it ain’t much trouble for us
poor folks to move. The ole ’oman had
the fever, and John got his leg hurt at
a log-rolling, and Sal there she took a
notion to go to the singing school, all
of which sot us back mightly. It’s all
for the best, though, I reck< n. So we
decided to pull up stakes and try our
luek in another settlement.”
“Haveyou any means to farm with?”
we next asked.
“Oh yes, me and John are good
hands, while the old ’oman and the gals
can do a sharp sprinklin’ of work them
selves. That, the best rabbit dog you
ever seed under the wagon,: and our
new home is a mighty good rabbit sec
tion. 1 spect we kin find day work to
do to get bread. We’re no ways oneasy,
stranger, for the Lord never made a
moutli but he made something to fill it.”
We learned a useful lesson from these
poor but contented people. Here in
Athens are men who spend their thou
sands a year, worrying and fretting
over hard times; while this family,
without a cent in their pockets, or a
week’s rations ahead, are moving among
strangers, without either fear or trepi
dation. They are contented and happy,
and Vanderbilt with his millions does
not get more enjoyment out of life
j thau this poor but happy country fam
ily.
We have never heard of but one par
allel case to this, and for the benefit of
our friend Neal we will cite it:
When Horace Greeley owned the New
York Tribune, he incurred the anger
of a little cross-roads merchant, by op
posing a candidate that said merchant
most ardently supported. We do not
recall the name of that subscriber; but
in all probability, he is an ancestor
to these same Wilkes county Neals.
After considering the matter, we arc
convinced that they must be very nearly
related.
Well, after the election, the New
York Neal rushed, in an excited man
ner, to..the Tribune office and ordered
bis subscription discontinued. Not
satisfied with this, he forced his way
into Mr. Greeley’ i private olfice. and
prancing up to that great editor, ex
claimed :
“ Mr. Greeley, you persisted in oppos
ing my candidate, Col. Blank, and I
have therefore stopped your paper!”
“ What, do you mean that in your op
position to me you have actually gone
to work and stopped the Tribune?”
“ Yes, replied this ancestral Neal,
“ that is just w hat I have done,” and his
face overspread with satisfaction at the
consternation depicted in Mr. Greeley’s
countenance.
“Come with me, I must see about
this,’’remarked Greeley, “and if what
you tell me is true we must manage to
reconcile matters.”
Then seizing his visitor by the arm
Mr. Greeley first carried him to the up
per story where hundreds of printers
were busily at work, setting type for
the morning’s paper. From this part
the New York Neal was carried from
fioor to rtoor, where all the work of
publishing a grea; paper was in pro
gress. At last they landed in the base
ment, where lightning presses were
printing thousands upon thousands of
Tribunes.
The New York Neal stood
spell-bound, for his utter insignificance
had dawned upon him.
At last Mr. Greely confronted him
with a frown upon his brow:
“Didn’t you tell me that you had
stopped my pacer? What department
have you stopped ? You had me dread
fully frightened!”
“I meant,’’stammered the disconcert
ed Neal, ‘ That I had stopped my capv of
the paper—1 didn’t mean the whole bus
iness.”
“My friend,” remarked Mr. Greely,
“Y'ou have removed a great load from
my mind. When you frantically rush
ed into my room just now, and
announced that you had stopped the
Tribune, I really thought you meant
the entire establishment. Why did you
not tell me it was only your one copy,
out of over 100.000, that yon had dis
continued?”
The conceited Neal then looked
around for a small gimlet hole through
wYiici. he might creep and regain the
street. The sad truth had dawned up-
an his egotistical mind that ‘ one swal
low does not make a summer, and nei
ther does one subscriber make a news
paper. ’
The Freight Train Jumps the Track
Between Maysvllle and Glllsvllle.
The freight train on the Northeastern
jumped the track yesterday between
Maysville and Gilisville. The train
was running at an ordiuary speed and
no satisfactory reason can be assigned
for the derailment of the train. The
damage done was slight, and no loss of
life occurred. A negro boy named
Kobt. Nicholson, sustained several
painful injuries, he being thrown from
tne top of the car, the concussion was
very severe. The wreckage was soon
cleared and everything was pur iu
ship-shape order. The regular sched
ule was resumed, and the train is run
ning as before.
Mortgages.— A great many mort
gages are now being recorded by our
Clerk of Court, some of them amount
ing to only a few dollars. P.-ople are
fast losing confidence in each other. It
is a bad sigu.
Another House.—Mr. J. S. King is
building a new residence on Barber
street. This section of ibe city is fast
boilding up, ur.d when the electric ears
are in operation it will be one of the
fashionable portions of Athens.
The Georgia Press Association.—
President Glessuer tells u< that be 13
arranging an excursion for the State
Press for next spring, to take in Chi
cago and several large western cities.
They will also take a voyage through
the lakes, and stop at Detroit, M in-
neapolis, and other points.
Building.—Mr. G. E. Heard is build
ing on his farm near Athens, and will
move there uext year. Mr. Heard is
one of our best and most popular citi
zens and ws are glad to know that he
will not move hack to Elbert, as was at
one time reported.
A Strange Intoxicant.—There is a
white man in this city who has become
such a slave to the liquor habit tliat be
drinks all the bay rum and hair tonic
he can lay hands ou. When our liar-
bers are not watching, he slips into
their shops and will drain their boules
of hair dressing before they can release
bis grjp.
Trespassing Forbidden. — Several
farmers, living around Gum Spring,
asks that we warn Thanksgiving hunt
ers to keep out of their white cotton
fields, as they will prosecute all tres
passers. These farmers say the hunters
every year knock out and destroy a
great deal of cotton for them.
Yesterday the calahoose was tenant
ed by a strange woman whose several
accounts of herself smacks of some
thing on which strange supicions might
be grounded. „ .
She is a wild, squalid creature and
her face is hardened by tbe rough lines
of turpitude and eoarsened by the traces
of crime.
She has told several diyerse stories
about her residence, saying she hailed
from Gainesville, to another that she
came from the country contiguous to
Athens. These are suspicious eircum
struues aud abundantly Justified her
being kept in durance.
Another wild tale leaked out, where
she had solemnly avowed to several
parties, that she had shot a negro wo
man, and was a fugitive from the
sleuth-hounds of justice.
In personal appearance she is not
prepossessing, but rather the contrary
Her hair fell in dark, tangled masses
over her shoulders, her dress was. slat
ternly and disarranged, and he whole
aspect denoted one well schooled
the torturous ways of vice. Her demean
or was one of unblushing audacity, and
she keeps a bold front, talking glibly
and unrestrainedly.
A. Banner reporter asked her “what
she had done?”
“That is what I want to know,” she
answered.
“Didn’t you profess the shooting of
another woman?”
She turned quickly and said, “Is that
what they have got me for?”
The reporter confessed his ignorance
on that point, and then asked her what
her name was.
/‘Lizzie Emerson,” she said.
“Where are you from?”
“G unesville.”
“How long have you been in Ath
ens?”
“Only a short time.”
“Can they prove anything on you?”
“No, they can’t. 1 ain’t done noth
ing and they can’t say l have.’
“IIow long do you expect to stay in
the lock-up?”
“1 dunno.”
She is a ditty creature, living with
negroes, and disgusts by her brazen ef
frontery.
Now comes tbe most remarkable
phase of this case. She claims to In
bound by the ties of blood to prominent
families in counties encircling Clarke,
aud swears she ean substantiate her
elams.
She called herself Lizzie Wilkey to
policeman Good rum and was the author
of an entirely different story than the
one she detailed to The Banner re
porter.
The. woman’s profound destitution
would evoke sympathy if she did not
demean herself with such imliff-renre
to her sordid surroundings and profess
such contentment with her debased
condition.
She win, when she came in the
clutches of the police, in quarters occu
pied by negroes, ami in an atmosphere
of viciousness and tilth.
She seems to be a suspicious charac
ter, basing the suspicion entuely on her
own crooked stories, which she has told
to various parties. She having said
Unit she shot a woman, which she now
stoutly denies, should afford ample rea
sons for her detention until a thorough
investigation has been made and the
stories are sifted to the bottom and the
truth ascertained.
later.
Mayor pro tem Rucker issued orders
to release the woman, with special in
junctions for hei to leave Athens.
Chief of Police I). Cran Oliver regards
her as a suspicious character and in
tends to have her arrested again if she
lingers in the vicinity of Athens.
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Agents for
White Clipper Plows,
Hampton
Damascus Chill
Wood Mowers and Ra\es.
Clark’s Cutaway Harrows.
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W. MeKINNON.
Blacksmilhiug aud Repairing of all kinds Guns and pj Wo j
paired. Cou. Washington & Jackson s T8 ‘
maj Gly . - Athens’ g 4
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The Exchange Bank.—There is not
a finer set of furniture'and fixture-* in
the stale than our new Exchange Bank
is equipped with. It is oak, hand carv
ed, and of the mo3t substantial cliarac
ter. This bank, while less than a
month old, is doing a tine business, and
its stock is already worth one per cent,
premium.
Blew Out the Gas —A gentleman
from Oglethorpe county, who was
stopping at the Commercial hotel Tues
day night, blew out the gas, and but
for the timely discovery of his mistake
by Mr. Davis, the clerk, would have
suffocated. The part}’ said he fanned
out the light with hjs hat.
mjm
For the edification of Messrs. A. A.
Neal & Sons, we will state that when
they desire to transact any business
with The Banner, or any oth> r
daily paper, that they should ad
dress their communicatione to tbe
business manager and not the editor, as
the two departments are entirely sepa-
arate. This paper is owned by a stock
company—most of its members were
supporters of Gen. Gordon for the Sen
ate—and tbe editorials are simply the
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'The Dog Ordinance.—Capt. Oliver
says he will be no respeetor of person
wiien it comes to killing stray d gs
found on the streets. Every canine:
whether a thoroughbred or a mongrel,
must bite the dust. Parties carrying
dogs thiough the streets must keep them
tied, or they will fall under the ban of
this ordinance. Several of our citizens
have given away their dogs.
Tbkatmf.nt Continued.—A letter
was received yesterday from Mr. Clar
ence Rowland, in which he described
his treatment in the Pasteur Institute.
He says the virus is injected with six
needles in different portions of his body,
an4 is done so three times daily. lie
says, however, that before long a change
will be made in tbe method of treat
ment, and once a day will be all that
is necessary. His friends apprehend no
trouble from the bite, and think the
treatment he is undergoing will remove
all danger. Mr. Snead is taking the
same treatment. Both will return home
again io about three weeks, aud will re
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W. T. JORDAN, Pres.
Office over I. Morris, Ilroad st-
Athens Business College, Mhen-, 6a.
lAtARRh
Is a constitutional and not a local disease,
and therefore it cannot be cured by local
applications. It requires a constitutional
remedy like Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which,
working through the blood, eradicates the
impurity which causes and promotes the
disease, and effects a permanent cure.
Thousands of people testify to the success
of nood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy for
catarrh when other preparations had failed.
“ I will say I have been troubled for sev
eral years with that terribly disagreeable
disease, catarrh. I took Hood's Sarsapa
rilla with the very best results. It cured mo -
of that continual dropping in my throat, and
stuffed up feeling. It lias also helped my
mother, who lias taken it for run down state
of health aud kidney trouble.’' Mbs. S. D.
Heath, Putnam. Conn.
“ I have used Hood’s Sarsaparilla for ca
tarrh with very satisfactory results. I have
received more permanent benefit from it than
from any other remedy I have ever tried.”
1L E. Bead, of A. Bead & Son, Wauseon, Ok
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 01; ilx for ft. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell,
IOO Doses One Dollar
• FINE CIN-H
- t*u .NED.
Mr. J. Rice Umith.—The Banner
had the pleasure of a 'call yesterday
from Mr. J. Rice Smith, of the Georgia
Chemical Works, of Augusta, Ga. Mr.
Smith is one of the most universally
popular man in the south, and has
host of friends in this section. He teUs
us that hifTguano works haVe largely
increased their capo< ity, and will this
season make between 45.000 and 50.000
tons Mr. Smith contemplates moving
to Atliehs, if he can rent a suitable res
idence. If his family is pleaded with
our city he will settle here. It would
lie as big a thing as our electric railroad
to capture this enterprisiug gentleman
as a citizen.
WANTED.
The unde reigned would contract with
some responsible party to furnish good
dry pine wood at the. company’s works
during i !»«• rear 1891.
Athens City Water Works.
Mr. J. T. Newton, of Morgan County,
Loses His Gin-House by Fire.
Thegin-huuse of a t. M. J. T. New
ton, a ..wirgati couniy iur.,.«r wuo lives
ne’ir Pennington, was destroyed yester
day by fire.
It was a large, costly, commodious
structure, and was at the time of its
destruction by fire, full of the fleecy
staple. There was no insurance on tbe
building and the loss amounts to about
$J. 500. The fire is attributed to acci
dental causes.
Mr. Newton has made a phenomenal
success at farming, amassing a splendid
property ahd illustrating by his own
rxample the fine possibilities afforded
by this sphere of activity.
He commenced with one mule and a
little land, and now runs fifteen plows
and confidently expects to realize $5,000
over and above all expenses t iis year
on his farm. This is proof positive that
farming will pay if systematically con
ducted.
WOMAN’S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
bicycle riding. - But the problem with
her was how to get away from her baby
long enough to take the needed exercise
upon the wheel. So she put her woman's
Ought Women to He Dependent on Men
for Pecuniary Support?
It is a question I have been thinking i wits to work, and the result is a bicycle
about for a good many years, and at ; with a comfortable seat for the baby
length I have made up my mind to pro- j tixed just in front of the handlebar,
claim my theory boldly, and come out I Now both mother anil baby take the air
and say that men are under no obliga- and sunshine together, anil get health
tion to support women and it ought not
to be expected of them. There is only
one exception, and that is where .a wo
man lia3 little children >vho need her
care. In a better organization of so
ciety even the mother of little children
would be free to pursue her own voca- I
tion; for the babies would be cared for ]
and beauty.
Women teachers, how is this? A boy
tells me that he prefers men teachers to
women because men do not “fly up anil
get rattled,” and even when they punish
a pupil they do it coolly and calmly. So
don’t “fly up and get rattled.” Assnn»
have it not, ana
m a co-operative nursery, and get better ^ ^^TyoS'ontwardhs evenihongh
fronfirionr T.nnn nrw atia WAtnorv \unwa * . , » Tr
you are a raging volcano within, k “
treatment than any one woman, were
she a dozen times mother, could give
them. The pecuniary dependence of
women on men is the root of all their
other disabilities. Remove that and the
rest will follow. It gives man the feel
ing of ownership iu a woman, and
woman the feeling that she is owned. A
woman has as good a right to work for
her living as a man has. Where she has
the only way to control others. " eak
people are always sputtering and ex
citable.
A Pretty Novelty.
The latest novelties and oddities m
her own occupation, sticks to it faithfully * small bits of imported table china ««
and makes money at it, she can meet a tho rounded cabbage or long pointed
man on equal terms, face to face, and lettuce leaves, curled upward and den-
many him or let him alone as her affec- cately tinted from white in the centerto
tion dictates. Then we shall have fewer the richest natural green. They
divorces and a happier, more beautiful be had only at the Italian shops and
race. Pecuniary dependence is slavish | cost from 50 cents to $4, accordi ? S J^
and weakening. It lestves woman's best size. The larger cabbage leaf bowls are
capabilities undeveloped, and makes of used for salad or fruit, and the smaller
her a moral, intellectual and physical : ones for olives or butter. They are par-
dwarf, a coward and a deceitful crea- ‘ ticularly appropriate for butter
ture. So let her use all her powers of j as in many a country home the golue
mind and body, and go in and work for j store is enveloped in the cool P a j m °
her living, brdvely and gloriously, keep- j dew covered cabbage leaves to make u
ing out of her head all fool nonseuse j way to market. .
about stopping in a few years and mar- The association is strengthened
rvinfr some man who will “snniwrt” l,r>r '
tying some man who will “support” her.
Tho money getting occupations are open
ing to women magnificently, so fast in
deed that I cannot begin to half keep
track of them in this column. On the
whole, too, men are beginning to treat
women very fairly, realizing, that if one
occupation becomes overcrowded others
will open, and the world is big enough
for all honest workers.
leg- SLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation
Fanny Williams, a plucky Indiana girl,
has completed one contract for ten miles
of grading upon a railroad track, and
has contracted for thirty-five miles more.
Mrs. Ellen C. Bacon, of Toledo, O., has
been appointed a pension claim agent.
She is "chairman of tho children’s com
mittee of a humane society, and much of
her work lies among the orphan children
of soldiers. It was in order to secure
pensions for them that the power to act
officially in their- behalf was given to
her. She was recommended for appoint
ment by several eminent lawyers.
Bicycle riding for women is a pictur
esque, graceful and lively exercise. It
ought to be encouraged in every way.
Bat when a lady appears in public uponi
a squeaking, rusty old tricycle and wears
fiery red stockings and low cut shoes it
his a tendency to temporarily discour
age bicycling as an exercise for women.
Mrs. Florence Lewis, of Minneapolis,
has perfected an invention which is a
credit at once to her head and heart.
She was fond of outdoor exercise and
the dainty butter balls are served on
lunch table, fresh and cold Uou»
hollow of such a leaf plate set
small Venice mat edged with a " *
of embroidered clover leaves m o
ITALIAN BUTTER LEAF ASD MAT.
and silver. The mat is a circle o " .
satin jean; the leaves are dist
with » skeleton edge of clover gree
in Kensington stitch, and fimshet
a buttonholing done over a silver
The stitches in the buttonhole wo ■
quite wide apart so as to show the
This silver cord washes well »u „„ eJ1
thirty-five cents for six jaxoo.. «
finished, the linen is cut away _ . • „
outer edge of tho clover leaves,
a scollop. Before doing this, ho
the mat should be dampened ® -
wrong Bide aud laid upon a P 1 .®* 3 ^
nel face down, and pressed with a_ •
iron. Emma Moffett Tvao-_
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Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla*
,’cELRE'S WINE OF CABOUI
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