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N 0 SUNDAY SHOW.
There should be no Sunday show
World’s Fair. Good, people
this good land of ours must
th i 9 point. The matter is
reity lively discussion, and
at first Bcem, there
America
r , n ijaV ue»’r-r—
..Uioral pages fairly glow with
, hot denunciations of those who
express a desire to see the
notion closed on Sundays.
' coder a» editorial headed “Well
bul Ridiculous” the Chicago
‘ ld goes on to discuss the matter
jurthe following fashion:
^ the Herald from
* in „f„n -tales that a gathering
B tidedVerbya former justice of
* I t ol Illinois adopt-
the people of
in mass meeting as"
the South. His style is prculirrly [
Southern and possesses all of that
smoothness and interest that the
writings or leading Southern authors [
carry with them.
Mr. Waters short stories will I
hereafter be a special feature of the j
Sunday and Weekly Banner.
ATHENS. GA„ • TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 12, 1891.-8PAGES.
VOL. 59 NO. 25
Hjmn Dowdy's Cotton Patch.
Religious Department.
Da. c. W. lane, Editor.
THE LAW OF THE SABBATH.
BY GLEN WATERS.
The briHiant and humt rous editor
of the Warrenton Clipper says: If
our legislature at its next session
Hymn was a worthless negro. Sc .res
and scores of old people in F .yette county
will bear out this assertion, and not one
will di pntu it.
Ragged, lazy, thieving, shiftless Hymo
Dowdy. The very best that could be said
lor him was that he had never been coin-
vti»hes to immortalize itself and lot P« ,ed work in slavery time—which was
. . 1 I Major Black’s fault not Hymn’s—:ind that
its praises go sounding down to thi- questionable extent he was not re-
through the “long drawn aisles and 3 P , »' 8ible for his own character. But, it
. .... . . I ia remembered, this redeeming connde'a-
tretteo vaults of all futurity, it will I tion was purely uegaiive—it was in liold-
certainly puss some effi clive dog inR h ' m n,,t iwponsible tor a part of bis
I . , .. 6 meanness; a solitary and .questionable al-
law. as a rule, the more worthless I lowance that was many limes overbalanc-
and less able to care for a do<* the e<1 b F sins and snortemnings innumera-
° 1 ble, for which Hymn waaent.iely responsi
ble.
presic
dieSii' v, “ u Lo ‘ ir . .
J rations ‘ that.
Blooming 1011 ’ 1
.,i hhivov recoru
fiction of *a coming calam ty U.
, loiimle.l OU me apprehen-
l * r toe public mind and the pop
, flhe World's Fair is opened id Chi
Loon Sunday, and a.ao ot the su-
p sue duty of the legislature not to
Lours without p.ovidtug the re-
Q.iiaite le^al guarantee that, tbe fair
ill be do fd that day.”
Inasmuch as a little church tu
BiuOtnimHon canuot hold auy great
tuaiber of people, it was sheer vani
tv that led this metting to call Usell
s'mass meeting of the people of that
Only idiots or fanatics can
a conviction ol coming calam-
itv tn the State” because <*1' an \ thing
to be done by a portion of its people,
for such a eon ■ i.ui.ui implies that a
just deity will oinisti an entire State
for a supposititious impropriety by
ofihem. ‘The |i..pnh;r and judicial
vetnict of the ages” is lhat every-
tiling that proiinn.es lest, elevation
n; the iniuo and true spirituality
oaght io be soughi on Sunday
X’ose leparimei.is ol the (air will he
opened on Sunday that will promote
n ir ,o ends. I lie legislature has
many duties to perform, but one ot
t'ltui i> not to hoi her its perplexed
head about Sunday and the fair.
>'n‘> <iv pr looses that manual labor
shall be done in ’be fair Sundays
or that any one connected with it
nn.u.il wuititead or hand more than
six days in ihe week. TLe Art In-
su.uie o! Chicago, its ieciutv rooms,
i a ic.dmg rooms, are open. So will
be the lair departments ot like na-
i.i e.
owner ie, the more worthless hounds
and curs they have, .Scarcely a
negro family in the county but has
from one to five. They are half
their solemn f e) j au j cured for, and are very pro
Old Major Black died in ’68. He le r t
Hymn ‘forty acre- and a mule’—in quota-
don in-iks that curved lor very irony aud
contempt—upon one condidon only. Tbe
Condition was ihat Hymn should ce«se to
ouse the name of Black, and call himself
ductive of a throat disease among | Dowdy insicail. Dowdy, iheorigiual, was
sheep and other property of value
We would not give a flock of 100
sheep lor every dog in the county
They are producers of Dotbing save
profanity, and annually consume
enough, together with what they de
stroy, to pay the state tax.
1 hen why dot s one of our solons not
a carpet-bagger, believed to be an ex-uuion
soldier, who had recently swindled the
negroes o; Fayette county-as iheir carpet
baggers swindled the negroes of ili> ir sec-
'ions—by peddling millennium lilies to
forty acres and and a mule.
Dowdy had been uenerons to Hymn, de-
signal ng as his inheritance foity acres in
the Major's best land and the beat mule ot
the country. Following the sw.ndler’e in-
‘0-''-h, Lawdvl’ ensued Hymn.
•Down on yoi r knees.’said the strangi r,
qui. tly.
The essential idea of the Sabbath is
that of a day set apart by the divine ap
pointment as a period of rest and wor-
| ship. This idea is involved in the
command, “Remember the Sabbath day
j to keep it holy.” The word “holy,” in
Hymn dropped to his knees, the dog ec-1 its application to inanimate objects, as
tirely fogotlen, locking into the near eter- 1 used by the sacred writers, means con-
nity of the gun, now pointed with nice ac- secrated, or set apart from a common to
cur cy into uis own face. a sacred purpose, devoted to God. The
Hymn, tveu in tbe distraction of these official garments of the Levitical priests,
aw-ul moments, noticed that the stranger | e. g., are designated as holy garments.
city.
have
Laving aside all
coming calamities
take it upon himself as a dusy im- structions blindly,Hymn keptthls mauer
posed by heaven, to prepare and put I a profound secrei lor nineiy days, and
through a dog law. We are sure the
masses of the people would favor
such an eoactment. It always was a
strange thing to us why a set of men
selected (presumably) for their
superior intelligence and sagacity
could pass 3 or 4 months every two,
years hammering away at legislature
of to saj r the least, doubtful beniiit,
and let such a glaring need as a dog
law go unheeded. Some one is cer
tainly allowing a golden opportunity
for writing his name in letters of
gold, on the scroll of fame “pass by
on the other side.” Awake! arise!
or be forever fallen.
Sometime ago the AmericusTimes-
Rtcorder came out to the front with a
long and loud editorial enviously
accusing the Banner of doing that | maj.,r, tar hu never mentioned the matter
city an injustice tu saying Athens 1 ’ - - - J -*
then, perhaps not witi out s ane vai;ue
misei rings presented to h 8 old master th-
millennium de.-d.
‘Y ju.loo,’ said die M jor.
‘ Yasser.' said Hymn.
‘How much did you give for that?’
‘Dollar, maister.’
•D m’t cal: ine mnrsler,’ sai l th • Mijor,
shirply, ‘Wheiedid you get that dodar?
•tin’s—hit’s de same.’
‘The one I gave you to buy meat ?’
‘Yasser,’ said Hymn growing exceed-
invlv uncumfortab.e.
‘What land did he promise yon?’
Hymn did manage to ai swer th .1 ques
tion and then bioke down completely.
‘Mars Jimmie,’ Ue sobbed, ef I dom-
wrong I’li give it back, ever’ bit. I tlou’
want nuitiiu 1 , Mars Jimmie,ef ns your’u.
i don’ want «:y freedom, ner uuihm’. I’ll
woik ter you—’
‘Stop that,’ add the mejor, gruffly I’ve
a great min i to take the hide off your back.
N-*w get aw ay from here quick!’
Hym i learned in time—aot from the
the country
«'c," the Hanskk desires only to bo
heard ajQ.mg t!)0?e who oppose tbe
op’niag the World’s Fair on Sun-
dsys for the very simple reason that
G »d's Holy Sabbath should have
Bure respect from Americans than
t" be made a day of sight seeiag, a
<l«y of merriment and mirth, a day
that must call out policemen to pro
tect moral laws, in the violation ol
spiritual and Christian laws.
Uis wrong that people should g<»
U horse raves on Sunday. It is wrong
Ur a bull tight, to distract the minds
otmeaou the Sabbath. Itpsa day
Ur g ra v e ndictions, for serious
Noughts. Ii is a holy day.
Let giddy Paris have her Sunday
•folics. Let Havana have her Sun-
d »y hull-fights. But let it be said
0( dn3 fair land: -‘Here is a peopl
*bo love God better than earthly
Ifivolities; a people whose battles
W aiways been for right again-t
' 1W3 g; a people who have built up
1 « strongest nationality on earth
Ltcause they have labored oeatb tbe
•Pproving smile or God Almighty.’
Ld there be no Sunday show at
cago.
wards—that toe millennium deed wa
a swindle.
By toe major’s will, as has b-en already
sta e 1, Hymn came sul sequendy iuto die
ieiu.il posse-sion of a new name. and the
identical luriy acres; and the id utical
inul- apt cifi d in the boeus deed
Hyinu, refusing Unpopular lieiief ihit
he was air ady as worthless as it was pos
sible tor one negro to he, btcatne more
ribless than ever. He made thru,
ales of poor cotton on the foity acres Ibe
‘ convictions of to the east, electric fire alarm, land I tirriyear, and then let ten .cres go f
companies and countless other evi» '1 h , -JN ,x 'made two bales
. ^ - i u ii a of pi or cotii n.md Hi»oiht-r ton acr s went
denuea of progress, and challenged 1 - -
the Tirat s-Recorder to anti, that the
game might go on.
Our esleeemed contemporary
hasn’t sntied yet. Come, honey,
what’a the matter with Americus?
led it in the matter of enterprise. It
called upon tbe Banner to name j
over « few ente-ort»es achieved with
in the p ist y< ars by
the * classic city. Tun
Banner took a delight in pointing to
Athens electric street railway, paid
fire department, se.wers. paved side
walks, paved streets, new trunk line
carried a couple of pistols half couoealed
under his coat, and the tb> Uiitit cam® oyer
him like tin-chill of death—that was Little
Ike Williams!
The very uiarr w in Hymn’s bones grew
cold—it was L'ttle Ike!
‘Oh—Lordv—Lordy,’ said Hyoin,-tn -
cbanically, ‘0b—Lordy—Lordy!’
‘Ate you ready 10 go?’ asked tbe rider,
still holmnc the cun nicely and steadily ad
justed, one Huger resiiug against the trig
ger.
TfiesunsbiDe grew black to Hymn’s
eves, and b s muscles grew rigid aid fixed.
He couldn’t liaye a id said ‘no,’ tnougb his
life had depended on it.
‘I b -lieve there’s some good in you,’ said
Little Ike, as quietly nud coolly as it it had
been a frog's life in peril. ‘Get up from
ihere. I’m going to talk to you, and if
you tell me a lie I’ll blow your head off,
like lhat,’ pointing to the dog.
Hymn managed to gain a standing pos
ture and to maintain it after a fashion,
bough his knees shook terribly.
‘How many days have you worked tlii?
week,’asked Littie Ike.
‘None, maraier,’ said Hymn.
‘That’s what l thought. A id bow p.anv
asi weekt’
‘Oik—on<—some on it, marster.’
Yes. Now nst'n to me—remember
what T tell you-<— if you don’t make six
(tales of cotton on that ten-acre patch Ibis
year,you’re a dead nigger. A-id if I ever
ride by here at 6 o’cJ ck in ibe mOming
d don’t find you here at work, you’re a
lead nigg- r. And if lev. r ride by here a'
sundown, ami don’t find you at work here,
■u’re adead niguer. And if lever hear
your preaching or exhorting again, or
stealing chiekens'or anylhi> g else, or tell
ing a lie, you’re a dead nigger. And it ■
on ever tell anybody lhat you saw me here
—do yon know whai would happen?’
‘Y--s, marster,’ very ferven'ly.
‘Do you think you can remember all ih».t
ve mid you?’
‘Yes, maister.’
’You’d betiei,’ was tbe significant ieply
Now get over lhat fence and go to woik ’
Hymn was, undoubtedly for the the first
hue in his tile, glad to gel wo k to do. He
was making a lanmus r- coid at 'chopping
ut’ cotton, while Little Ike looked on with
half-serious, hdf-unused smile.
Hvuin n"V.-r looked back— n-.-verstoppid
once to spit on his hands but chopped on
furiously.
Ii didn’t take many minutes to finish the
first row, a <1 in turning Hymn glanced
-ck for the Hist tim- toward the road.
Tue strangei was cone.
S>to| ? I de< u ne ui n’t. He had learn
ed io love iliat work. He chopped on until
lifter the sun was down and lee
By this is meant simply that they were
garments set apart to the service of the
sanctuary. They were to be worn only
by the priests, and by them only in the
discharge of their official duties. Any
other use of them was a profanation.
In like manner the Sabbath is a day set
apart to the special service of God. In
a special sense it is the Lord’s day.
And by hts appointment it is to be d*e-
voted to rest and worship. The labor
to which the remaining days of the
week are devoted is to be suspended and
the time given up to the rest of the
physical man and to the promotion of
onr spiritual well-being.
SHUTTING 1’UE DOOR.
Children’s Department.
Says ti e Americus Times-Recor
der: Scott TbornioD, Atlanta’s pet
tragedian, has started out on a tour
of the state, and made his first ap
pearance in Athens Wednesday even-
ng. Nothing could have suited the
ludents of the State University
better, and they were on hand when
he curtains went up, well loaded
vith bad eggs, potatoes and cab
itages. The first act has not beeD
ompleted yet, as Scotty is too hash-
'ul a youth to stand before the im»-
mense audience which greeted his
appearance and receive the encore
showered upon him. He was booked
for only one night in Athens, and
now feels bad because it was not can
celled
L'Lica
MR GLEN WATERS.
,0l %8 Banner is given a story
C ain Luted especially to the Sunday
Weekly Banner by Mr. Glen
& ‘ er 9) entitled •‘Hvnm Dowdv’s
CuU °n Patch.”
^ is one of Mr. Water’s best short
I s - ‘ e5 » and this is saying a very
1 deal, for as every reader of the
1 tXs *ii will at once acknowledge.
^ r ' ^ “tors >8 well known in AtU
fL » He
fiiv
%
! 's an old University boy
D S entered the Junior Class of
foi taxes. The next>ear he made: au tx-
ra ligbi bale of extra poor conon, ami
.not .■ r ien acres went for taxes.
It wa9 hieh t>m for co ton to be ‘chop
ped out,’ about the 1st of May, 1892—a
. eaudlul day.
And Hyum’sC'Uton needed attention
beyond doubt The tony acres had dwin
dl'd awav to ten ncres— he mule left him
by the major had be-u swapped for a pooi
mule and a gun; and that poor mule swap
ped again for a miserably poor mule aud
a dog.
Avtigue appreciation of these untoward
cucumsianccs nerved Hymn that day to
make an unusual tff n. He shouldered
his rusty hoe, called his dog and set out
for the coiton patch.
Tbe sb.-cr neglect and waste was a si
lent rt'buke tba. even H mn felt. He ti
iiahy climbed upon Hie lop rail ot the
fence, leizureiy adjusted himself so that
the cotton paicu w s behind him, out ot
iglit, and the sunshine in his face, began
to m-dilate. H- continued to meditate,
The Iran dog frisked restlessly about.
Hymn h«d been mediiatiug fully an
hour, the boe had fallen from betweeu
his knees and was just as long as its shad,
ow on tbe ground, and the hungry dog
had become tired of frisking about and
had fallen asleep, when a man ou horse
back, movi .g slowly toward him down
the road, tnei P.unp’esight.
‘IV it.- man,’ said Hymn as soon as the
stranger c«n«e near enough lor that point
n Ids nppt-arance to be perceptible.
Hymn watched with considerable abat
“Angel or Devil” is the name of a
took that professes to show what
he world thinks of women. It de.-
pends very much upon the woman
after all, it seems to ue. Woman
annot be discussed in the abstract. 1 ed interest after this, and then with grow.
There are some women who can wear mg curiosity, as it further became evident
i t SmriviKnnt nith the bald I'hat the solitary rider was neither Simps
Ioiin L Sullivan out wtth the Dam Tmedy nor Bud L(in( , ( nor y#t BiUy Rn_
tieaded end ot a broom, xney are i ^, en ^ an entire stian^er.
(if not devils themselves) in copart- Hymn knew every man, woman and
nership with the devil. Again, there child in the county, and a great many peo-
ate women whose every look deed | pie that d j d “^ bv ^ in ._.%: t ' u ^T". , 'l y ’^ ul
came to Shiloh on court days and such sp
cial occasions—bul this mau was a stran
ger.
He seemed peifi-cily at home, too, and
rode an unconcernedly as if he owned the
land on both sides ot the road and bad
money in tbe bank, besides.
A swarthy, little, black-eyed man with
A contributor to the Chistian Advo
cate gives the following good advice for
prevailing prayer, and touches upon a
point that is too often forgotten:
“One of the wonderful things about
our Lord Jesus Christ’s words is that
the meaning of them deepens and wid
ens just as our hearts and lives deepen
and widen.
"Not long ago a young Christian fell
into great distress about not being able
to pray more earnestly. Ha went oft
en upon his knees, he used full peti
tions, he knocked loudly at heaven’s
door, and then he went away empty
and unsatisfied. ‘Have you followed
the Master’s rules?’ asked an old
pieacber. to whom he told his trouble.
The young man said he thought he had.
‘You entered into youroloset?’ ‘Yes.’
‘How aboui shutting the door? Did
you shut out all your business worries,
all your plans for pleasure, all your
self-esteem? Was all jour earth silent
before God when you sought him in
that little closet temple ?’ The young
Christian felt with a thrill that the
speaker had found out the secret of his
discomfort in prayer.”
IMAGINARY TRIALS.
A BOY HERO.
In heartless Paris, which to foreign eyis
Seems made of mirrors, g'.—light aad
display.
A splendid building’s walls began to rise,
Ascending stone by stone from day to
day.
High and more high the^pile wus b ilded
well,
And scores ef laborers wete busy there,
When suddenly a fragile staging fe 1,
And two strong workmen swung aloft
tn air.
Suspended by their hands to one slight
hold,
Tiiat bent and creaked beneath their sud
den wetehi:
One,worn with toll, and growing gray and
old;
One a mere boy, just reaching man’s es
tate.
Yet with a hero’s soul. Atone and yonpg,
W< re it not well to yield his single life,
Ou which no parent leaned, no children
. clung,
Amt save the other to his babes and
wife?
He saw that «re deliv ranee could be
brought
The tr..il support ihey grasped mud
sur<l> break,
And tu lhat shuod.riug moment’s flash of
though:
He chose io perish for his comrade’s
sake.
With bravery snch ns heroes seldom know
“ Tis right,” he said, and ioosiug bis
strong etip,
AT THE CAPITOL
THE SPEKERSHIP RACE
CUSSED THERE.
DIS-
CRISP IS THE FAVORITE.
Harrison May Not be Renominated—
The Behring Sea DIspute-The
New Orleans Lynching-^Ven
ezuela Accepts the Re
ciprocity Proposition.
ASHINGTON,
D. C., May 9.—
[Special].—Well,
well! can it bo
that after all of
Mr. Blaine’s jin
goism as to our
rights in Behring
Sea that we are
to humbly back
down? That’s
the talk here now. According to my
information, Mr. Blaine has discovered
that we have nothing to arbitrate and
that Russia never set up any Buck claims
as he has done when she was the owner
of Alaska, and does not now recognize
that the Ut ited States has any such
rights. As the story goes, as soon as
Mr. Blaine saw that we. had not the
slightest show under the proposed arbi
tration he began ro search for a hole to
crawl out of with as little loss of dig
nity as possible. He began then to lay
wires for a triple international agree
ment between the United States, Russia
and England, for the prevention of the
indiscriminate killing of seals in Beh
ring Sea, and now, it is said, that pend-
Droppt-d like u stone upon the stones b< - ing further negotiations no seals are to
low, ue taken at all this season. Officials at
And lay there dead, the smile still on | the State and treasury depi
lip.
What though no laurels grow his gravr
above
Aud o’er his name no sculptured shall
may rise?
To the sweet spirit of UDselfish love,
Was not his bf. a elonous sacritic. ?
—H-.rper’s Young P.-ople.
THE BABY KING.
tments re
fuse to either confirm" or derij this story.
A whole week has gone by witbout a
new and different statement from the
preceding condition of the Treasury
having been given out. Last week there
were three or four them. Mum Is the
word now, while the Secretary and his
xpert accountants are preparing the
figures for the presto-veto-uhange state
ment, which, if it meets with Mr. Har
rison’s anproval, and of that there’s lit
tle doubt, is to be given to the public on
the first of June. The intention is to
follow republican precedent by manip
ulating the trust funds in the monthly
statement of tbe national debt in such
The anecdotes current about little
Don Alfonso are simply innumerable,!
and appealing as they ao to every moth
er’s heart, go far toward increasing the 1 . available sumlus ^
popularity of the throne .throughout | ^ r ^° rn 8 ^ 8UrplU3
ispatn.
There is a sense in which imaginary
trials and obstacles are harder to dissi
pate than real or material difficulties
it is on our mental impressions that all
o ir rational actions are based, whether
that impression be true or false. A real
mountain can be cut away or tunneled.
The engineer’s busines is to remove the
mountain as a barrier; and, when that
is done, tlie fact is apparent to every
traveller to whose progress it has been
an obstacle, But imaginary mountains
are not so east’y removed. Tbe pick
and shovel of ideal demonstration,
a . ao „ M " , u 7 “ “7“ d *» km-ss j ar „ uinentj mav succeed in their work
fi ) 3 ' h ® ^ hou der ‘ , ’j rPiffay; only to'fiud the mountain re-
thing like honest pride, and started home.
Brother Billings came by just as Hymn
reached tbe fence.
‘Ill, Brer Hymn,’lie stopped to say.
Coinin’ by dis att’noou?’
‘No,’said flymn,’I been nt wuk an’I
needs res’ au’ w’uts mo’ Br’er. Biealiug
Chickens, ef some er you fai, slick niggers
ud do a good day'a wnk now an’ dm, an’
quit yer rescaluy, you’d ueed mo’ res’an’
less shoutin’, you would.’
Brother Billinas’ amusement bad given
way toincieduli'y, and then wond. r, and
theu d.Siiust as be madully percieved that
Hymn was in earnest.
deride such imaginary difficulties in
children, instead of undertaking to en
gineer them out of mind. Yet we per
mit Imaginary troubles to adults, say
ing, “It is just a notion he has,” and
then expect to be of no permanent im
portance. But such imaginings are in
effect more real than realities, and must
be regarded as a reality to him who is
possessed by them. In the tale of
French writer, an old man who early
in life was frightened says that he is
afraid of the night, and continues: “I
admit I should never have confessed
__ this before arriving at my present age.
fsyou crazy” Bre’r Hymn?, he asked, I When a man is eighty-two years of age
*'.i. " . * • ' I I a . . ^.. Iff...] h 1 ... f/\ Kft ntanid rtf l m o ne
saicntuically. " Ts you—’
Don’t Brer Hymn me eny mo’, an’ don’t
stau' dar wd yo mout like a fly trap, an’
yo’ eyes wall’ roun.’ Kazcj.-s’a little ran’
an’ I’ll beat de stuffin’ plum outeu Brer
Billings. Now, uitl QuickC
Wnereupon Brother Billings r tired pre
cipitately, and Hymn, swelling with the
it is permitted him to be atraid of imag
inary dangers. And in the face of real
ones I have never recoiled.” This state
of things is as true of childhood and
middle age as of old age. It is easier to
face real dangers than dangers that are,
or may be, only imaginary. And the
reason is that the unseen face of an
He is exceedingly frank and unre.
strained in the expression of his opin
ions, especially wnen they concern the
personal appearance of his lieges; and
although extremely disconcerting to the
parties immediately concerned, they
constitute a source of delight to every
body else. It was only with the great
est difficulty that his mother was able to
impress upon him the necessity of ab
staining fr. m making remarks of this
character in an audible tone of voice at
church. Her admonishments, how
ever, bore unexpected fruit. The King
manifestly took it for granted that the
instructions to remain quiet and silent
during divine service applied to others
as well as to himself; for shortly after
ward, when the royal family and the
court attended mass in state at the
Attocha church, little Don Alfonso sud
denly interrupted the preacher in the
midlt of one of his most impassioned
and eloquent perorat’ons .by command
ing him, in a shrill and piping tone ol
voice,’to be still, and not to make “such
a noise in church.”—Harper’s Weekly
“MUST AND MUSN’T.”
where practically none exists.
The first mutterings of a storm in the
ranks of the republican party are being
heard here. So far Mr. Harrison has
apparently had it all his own way in
bis march towards a second nomination,
ail'd none of his party have seen fit to
attempt to make any organized opposi
tion to him, but saualls are ahead for
him. Parquliar, of New York, has
openly stated here his belief that Harrl-
sou could not possibly be elected, and
an Indian republican of promi
nence has said that Harrison could
not carry that State. These are straws
showing the drift of republican senti
ment. i ...
The Blaine* 'men'- cannot be kept
down much longer; they hate
Harrison, and every time that
Russell Harrison’s newspaper in its
silly attempts to make glory for
Harrison casts a slur upon Blaine that
hatred ii intensified. Those men would
rather see a democrat elected than have
to stand HarrUon for another four
years, and, mark the prediction, in six
months they will be shouting that sen
timent from the house tops. Mr.
Blaine may be perfectly willing that
Mr. Harrison should be renominated,
although I have serious doubts of it,
but his friends are not. They hope, of
course to nominate Blaine, whether he
consents or not, but they are determined
as will be seen before long, that in any
event Harrison shall not be the nominee.
consciousness of a victory well earned, seen danger cannot be faced—because it
went home ai d io bed. v is not there. In a tiue sense the imagi-
Tue next morning at 6—and every morn- nary trouble is real, and must be re-
ing Ht 6—rind ihe next evening at sundown spected as a reality
—Hymo was there at work.
There was no mako believe about it, ei-1
ther. He worked.
Of course tbe news of Hymn’s reforma
tion spread tar and wide. It was the talk
of Fayette county. People lnuubed and !
said it would wear off. You couldn’t fool
them, they said, for they bad known Hymn |
too long But it didn’t wear off.
Hymn almost foreol to look around him
[S. S. Times
The Good Old Times.
“Then times were good,
' Merchants cared not a rush
For any other fare,
Then Johnny cake and mush.”
But now times have changed, and tbe
plain and simple fare of the forefathers
is done away with. Patent flour, and
high seasoned food, and strong drinks,
and utterance are heavenly. Titty
ire angels. There are very many of
the latter class in Athens. Very
many.
No noDler company of women ever ^ 8wariI1 lllfc C . ..
bnaded themeelves together than I br^mdjJriromed fei’t hat, and a gun across
— j.... “ 1 tbe suddb-in from of him, aud a blue-
cbi eked shirt.
‘Mornin’,* said Hymn, as tbe stranger
rode up.
The man made no acknowledgement
whatever of tbe greeting until he bad ad
vanced several steps further, and then be
looked op abruptly, and stared si night at
Hymn. The horse had, seem in tly of its
own prefi rence, left the uii idle of the road
and slopped so near Hymn that tbe lean
those who conduct the Woman’s
Industrial Home of Athens.- If the
world had more such men and wo
men no Burns would ever feel called
upon to say,
••And man, whose heaven *rec cd face,
Tlie smiles of love adorn,
Mar.’s iohumauitrlto man,
Makes countless thousands mouru.
in the morning, and at. sundown, to be cer- ],ave taken its place, and, as a result,
tara that Itnle Ikp Williatos wasu t lurking I ( jy S p e p 8 i a impure blood and disease of
about, but be worked on anyhow, for he t g e ^ ma |.h, liver and lungs are nu-
felt better at it. He actually liked it, and mftroU8 This great change has lad one
thejeaous pride: and satisfaction w- th> © f the most ski llful physicians of the
which he watched the cotton grow in that tQ 8tU( jy ou t a remedy for these
ten-acre patch would do ones heart good ^dern diseases, which he has named
,0 5J se ' r, .. his “Golden Medical Discovery.” Dr.
iPim« iot&vmi ihmS ihemw^ at the Pierce in this remedy has found a cure
feuCO, 111 driving down tue road. I * T)v<aT>pnsiA 'Rmnohitis Anthma.
•It’s the b. St cotton in the county .Hymn.’ Ponsomntionin itTearlv Maees and
he said warmly. ‘I believe you’ll make Consumption, in its early stages, ana
six bales of cotton on it this year.’ “Liver Complaints.”^
‘Yasser,’said Hymn, ‘hit’ll make six I Yxss, Vonderkau & Bickers.—For
bales.’ 1 the next week these gentlemen are otter-
•And, Hymn,’ continued Mr. Perkins, ‘if i D g all styles of goods in their line at
you want anything at the store now you greatly reduced prices. They now have
can get it.’ n o old stock on band, and they are de-
•Tnanker,’said Hymn. I ter mined never to carry any. In order
Not only mat,but be gradually acquired a | to accomplish their purpose they have
reputatieu fo> honesty tbai white people I made this sweeping reduction whi h
are too alow sometimes to accoidiog to ne- you will find announced in their adver-
The unveiling of Henry Grady’s dog waked up with a start and barely es-
monument in Atlanta will be one of I <»P« d * , *- p P® d upo - n '
‘ iUd graduated with high honor
s ° ne i ear » carrying along with
D*®udid success not only the studies
s M- S. course, but all the studies
’Le Junior Class as well, this be*
8 required to get a diploma.
h S,nce hi& graduation Mr. Waters
ft 1 ’ biea 0D staff of the Atlanta
“Station. He Is a vigorous,
lv 'e newspaper-man, and is more*
* °ne ol tb« best story writers in
.'!•• >?
the greatest events of the year. The
love once felt all over Georgia for
Henry W. Utrady is an abiding love.
It lives and grows.
BANNER W A V ELETS.
Some take rye, and some take beer—a
drink’s a drink for a’that. What s in a
name, utileas tlie> are mixed.
Mr. Cleveland is laying mighty low,
but the people are doing a sight of
watching, *nd Cleveland is doing a
mighty sight of thinking.
Mr. Harrison has gone home, qf last,
in time to put on his blazer and think
where it 1b best to spend tbe summer.
Mornin’ sirb,* reputed Hymn'with
soon- uneasiness.
Tbe stianger stared full i>t Hymn for an.
other second or two. without replying,
and theu turned in his saddle to look ut
tWr d -g.
TTuu’re the nliger I want,’ belaid qni<-t-
iy, turning to Hymn again.
Hymn fairly stopped breathing and even
the nungry dog seemed io sniff danger at
hand.
‘How many bales of cotton did yon mak.
last y«;ai ?’ he demanded, quietly.
‘One, marster,’ s*id Hymn humbly.
‘On twenty acres 1’
‘Yasaer.,
Hymn was embarrassed already, and
becoming more so under the steady gaz-
of the Btranuer.
•Ia that your dog?’
‘Yes, marster
Tbe stranger lifted h : a gun with a quick
movement, and befotre Hymn could say
word it wa» ever ns mly too late—the dn
by the
Here’s to the New Or eans grand was dead, Ids heal aln os tom
nry? Send it Soutl —not the gi*nd we ll-directed shot
jury Bouth. No, no, **»utl *#
They’ll make as handsome trees as ever select him as.the dinner. Mi. McMillin
you saw, one*of these days. Haven’t I has surprised a good many people by
ou noticed the trees in Benson’s yard? I developing more strength than he had
^all and scraggy and crooked, just be- been credited with; but his only hope
cause they were left to grow as they of winning is in the eventof a protrac
pleased. The city fathers now don’t ted struggle between the two first named
propose to run any risks—” candidtates, which many shrewd ob-
“But I wonder how the trees feel servers are now predicting as certain to
about the must and musn’t?” remarked occur.
Uncle l’hed, dryly. Government officials decline to ex-
Exit Tom, wishing he bad not said so press any opinion for publication on the
muoh on the subject of trees—and boys, report of the New Orleans grand jury
groes. And us for Hymn, he hsd been
worthless to long th at he wondered not a
little, sometimes, at ihe new respect shown
him. So fur from bring ostracised in bis
church, as ut first seemed likely, he be
came u-lrading member. His influence io
Mount J- rusaUm/and amongst tbe neuroes
generally, became something wonderful.
But perhaps the proudest day of his life
was that day in November when he bau*
tisements. Remember the plane to buy
is from Vess, Vondereau & Bickers.
Clayton street, Athens, Ga.
Furniture —The E. S. Edge Furni
tore Company have a new advertise
ment in the Banner today. Mr. E. S
Edge, who has charge of the business,
is one of the most popular and well
known business men ia Athens. He
.... :. v , V , ~ u .„ . . I Known uusiuess uieu iu atuauv. ne
ed bis sixth bale _of cotton to qhlloh, with carr j e8 a complete line of furniture of
fully six hundred pounds ove^of good lint | all kin ^ 3 , Y ou will find his establish
ment on Broad street, n6xt door to 8
cotton in the body of the wi
Today Hymn Dowdy owofc the forty
acres of laud willed him by Major Black’
and four good mules, and there isn’t a
more industrious or more successful farm
er in Fayette c .uoiv.
His reformation is a fact of so long
standing that it is almost forge tten now
that be ever needed reforming— the re for- I
mat ion itself has only a dim place in the | col. Jno. J
m* moiies of the old people.
When they tell the siory—I suppose it
mast still be recalled now and then—they
wonder to this day bow it all came about.
T
C. Dobbs. There is no use in Bending
away for goods when you have an op
portunity to buy front this firm. Give
them a call and you win be pleased with
goods and prices.
TO ORLANDO.
Strickland Has Left for
That Place.
Col. Jno J. Strickland.
Has g ne to Orlando, Fla.
Where he will attend to the interests
It Was Simply Great.—Charlie Fur-1 of Mr. Sorrells in his suit for the recov-
low’s Madisonian, one of ti e brightest ery of most of the land on which Orian
and best weekly papers in the southern do is built,
states eclipsed its own progressive self I ( ol. Geo. C. Thomas will
last week bj getting out one «-f the most I leave in a few days to take a
attractive spring issues thattver came 1 the work.
to this office. It was twelve pages and I Thomas and Strickland is a fine firm
printed in purp'e “to boo It takes I of lawyers and will, without doubt,
a hastier to down handsome and enter-1 make things warm in the land of flow-
prislng Charlie Furtv#. « «.
“A fellow can’t have any fun,’
growled Tom. “It’s just ‘must’ aud I
‘mustn’t’ from morning till night. You |
must do this, and learn that, and you
musn’t do the other thing. At school I
you’re just tied up to rules, and at home if they can prevent it, and they think
—well, a shake ot mother’s head means they can. There's music ahead as sure
more than a dozen mustn’ts. It seems as you are boi n, and with good manage-
a pity a boy can’t have his way half the ment the democrats can march to vic-
tiuie, and do something as he likes.” I tory keeping time with it.
“Going to the city this morning, If the opinion of leading members of
un ' Tom?” asked his Uncle Thed from an the party as expressed here lately have
adjoining room. any influence with the democratic cau-
Why, of course,” answered Tom cus of the house of representatives the
promptly. . next speaker of the house will certainly
‘Going across tbe common?” I be a southern man. These gentlemen
“Yes, sir; always do.” have argued that the south is entitled
“I wish you’d notice those young I either to the speakership or to a place
trees they’ve been setting out the last I on the national ticket, and that it
year Or two. Of course ' the old trees would be better politics to give it the
will die sooner or later and others will speakership. If a southern man is to
be needed, but—well you just observe be speaker it will probably be either
them rather carefully, so as to describe Repiesentative Crisp, of .Georgia; Rep-
their appearance,” etc. I resentative Mills, of Texas, or Repre-
“What about those trees, Tom?” aentative McMillin, of Tennessee. El-
asked Uncle Thed, after tea, as they sat I ther one of them would suit me, there
on the piazza. I fore I can speak of their chances without
Why, they’re all right; look a little prejudice. Mr. Mills was largely in the
cramped, to be sure, snipped short off I lead a month before the adjournment of
on the top, and tied up to poles, snug as congress, but it now looks as if Mr.
you please, every identical twig of I Crisp was ahead, and were it not for
them; but that’s as it should be to make the liquor dealers national or-
them ship shape, don’t you see? They ganization, which, it is stated here,
can’t grow crooked if they would. | will bitterly fight him, I should
—Sunday Afternoon.
AN ADJOURNED TERM.
The Superior Court to Convene Again
June 9th.
The superior court of Clarke ccunty.
Will convence again June 9bh and
bold an adjourned term.
There is business of the greatest im
portance to be transacted and the term
will be very interesting without doubt.
Tbe caseof the negro. Will Johnson,
who shot and killed John Webb, anoth
er negro, on the G., C & N. railroad,
will be taken up and tried as will
several other important cases.
' The jury commissioners have been
on the lynching of the Italians, but pri
vately the universal verdict ,is “just
what I expected,” and many people
have recalled the words of Edmund
Burke—“a whole people cannot be in
dicted.”
Senators Brice, Yilas, Hill and Gor
don will all sit in the rear row of seats
ou the democratic siije when the senate
meets next December.
Yenezuela has accepted the reciprocity
proposition made to her by this govern
ment.
A NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
A Meeting Will Be Held to Take the
Building of a New Church in Hand.
, - . , . , . . Athens is to have a new Baptist
ordered to meet and draw a grand jury c j iurck .
'em) will narfrtrm fhoir riitftr in a #enr I ' . ' . , _ , _
This at least seems probable now.
and will perform their duty in a few |
days.
A DISTINGUISHED DIVINE.
and the matter is being very generally
and very enthusiastically discussed
among all the Baptists of the city.
There will be a meeting of the Aid
Society of tbe Baptist church held at
tbe church next- Wednesday afternoon
for the purpose of discussing the ‘ques
tion more fully. The deacons of tho
church wlU be invited to meet with the
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Dr. McDonald of Atlanta WiH Preach
. In Athens Yesterday
A distinguished divine.
Will occupy the pulpit of the Baptist
church today.
He is Rev. Dr. McDonald of Atlanta Aid Society and assist tnem in talking
and is known all ever the state as a up the new church,
learned and powerful minister and the The plan is this: To sell the Baptist
church will no doubt be well filled this church and lot by the opera house, buy
morning • a new lot more centrally located, ana
Dr. McDonald is in Athens in attsn- build a larger and handsomer church
dance ou hts son, who was so unfortu-1 on it.
nately shot a few days age. 1 a lot near tbe cpnrt house is delta