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Banks County Gazette. VOL 1.--XO. 30. Women ami Dramshops'. The Brunswick Times, usually a fairly decent journal, recently con tained the following coarse and bru tal editorial paragraph: “In England years ago the women extensively worked against the use of coffee. They soon saw that that did not aggravate the men enough so they at once formed unions to pro-, bibit the use of intoxicants. At this they did not succeed, of course, but made their homes more unpleasant for their husbands.” Any man who Ims a heart alive with any of the instincts of humanity, knows that for ages, womankind has borne from drunken husbands a bur den of multiplied wrongs, which would have melted the marble heart of a cynic, or moved a s oic to tears. The history of destroyed homes, beggared children, broken hearts and murdered hopes is an old, old story, daily repeated with new details of hopelessness and horror. Darker than words can paint, the shadows of sorrow enshrouded a mill ion drunkard's homes. Wind, storm, hurricane,earthquake, war, pestilence, famine combined could not fill the souls with moro fateful forebodings than fill them 11 w. Nay, the death angel might brood over the bedside of r.oblo son or fair daughter, or snatch from tiie cradle the babe be loved, but the agony infinite, i on lov ing hearts could not be half so keen, nor tiie grief and sorrow half so las ting and hitter, as the anguish which comes to that home and heart with the staggering steps of a drunken husband. And under all this merciless lash ing of poignant pain, what has woman done? In ner long night of suffering, how patiently she has waited and wept. If now and then a moan has reached the car of human pity, it has been wrung from the depths of a breaking heart. How often her help less hands have been lifted in her un utterable anguish, too wrethed even to whisper a prayer. And now at last when she .has found voice to call on the Infinite for helj> in her weakness, and on the voter to pity her Sorrow, some bestial paragraph! r, like the one above quo ted, flings into cold type some foul falsehood or stupid joke, which ought to mantle every decent cheek with shame ‘•God give us tho men.”—Demurest Times. Reform Before Marriage. Much hns been said and written about “the softening, refining, re forming influence of woman,” end much could still he said and written, in fact too much cannot be said in her praise; but there is one direction in which women, in their great good ness of heart, often make grievous, fatal mistakes, condemning them selves to life-long misery thereby. For the sake of the love she hears him, and in the hopes of working his reformation, a true, loyal women clings to the man to whom she has given her heart, and even while hating certain of the habits which she knows he is possessed of, marries him with the stong faith that the added oppor tunities afforded by the association of married life she “can reform him.” But the mistake is most fatal Scarce a day passes without present ing instances of its terrible signifi cance and fatal results. Worn out by the agonies of “hope deferred,” agonized by the stings of contumely, disgrace and neglect, d'spairing of anything but still deeper depths of degredation in the future, and broken down, perhaps, by abuse, the sorely tried distracted woman reluctantly confesses her life-long mistake nnd invokes the aid and sympathy of the law to release her from her portion of a contract which she has endeav ored to carry out, that she may retain the small semblance af self-respect which rs all that has remained to her from the struggle she has so long been engaged in. This has been suggested to us, at j the present time, by the perusal of; an item of news found in the columns I of one of our Portland (Me.) ex changes. During a recent divorce case heard before Judge Virgin of that city, the evidence showed that the wife who was seeking the divorce because of bis “intemperance, abuse, neglect, failure to provide," etc., had married her husband, knowing him to be an intemperate man. On being asked why she did so, she replied: “Because I wished to reform him.” Judge Virgin stated a most profound truth w hen he said to her: “If a wo man can’t reform a man before she marries him it will be a hopeless tusk to do it afterwards. And the woman who is willing to marry a drunkard should be also willing to live with a drunkard.” Both of which statements are facts—pure and simple. Girl's, be very careful that you do not wreck your own lives while thus attempting a hopeless piece ef mis sionary work. If a man asks for your love, see that he is sober at tne time, or how can you know whether he is responsible for what lie in saying? If he loves w ine better than he loves you, dismiss him to the one lie pre fers and go on your way rejoicing that you discovered your danger be fore it was too laic—Gainesville j Eagle. A Girl Killed By n Yninyiro. £lrs. Cornelius Rainwater, of Sa vannah, (la, received a letter from her brother, James Uhl, who is en gaged in the wholesale coffee busi ness in Calabozo, Venezuela, in which epistle he gave an account of the sin gular de th of his daughter last Sep temper. The young lady, who had just entered her 17th year, lmd been a somnambulist since childhood,and it was supposed that it was while in one of her frequent trances that she left the house and wandered several miles out into the country. She was missed, and on being searched for, was at last found near the roadside dead, w ith a large vampire clinging to her throat. iho bat at the approach of tho seachers rose from the body of its victim and attempted to fly off, but was so gorged with blood as to be unable to make its escape and was shot by one of the party. The placid ity of the young lady’s countenance showed that her death had been a painless one, and it is probable that it was not until she sank down, still fast asleep, that the vampire fastened upon her. A small wound, resembling the punc ture of a large needle, just over the jugular vein, marked where the small white teeth had liberated the blood which it had sucked, all the while soothing its victim to deeper sleep by a gentle, lulling movrnent of its outspread wings, which is the hab it of these creatures. The one which killed Miss Uhl was unusally large, measuring three feet and some inches from the tip of one wing to tnat of the other, and while its weight woulc have naturahv been ten or twelve pounds, it was so engorged that it was found to weigh something over twenty. The Future of the National Banks. The New York Journal of Com merce, which strikes the average | mercantile mind as an institution | rather than a daily newspaper, has some interesting remarks on our banking system. Our able contempo rary starts out by deploring the pre judice against the banks on the part of legislators in congress, and declares that this prejudice is not only un founded, but that it cannot be ex plain and nor justified by anything known to history. We are frank to says that we have not observed this prejudice to the banks on the part of our congress men which seems to have struck the i attention of the Journal of Commerce, i and we are inclined to believe there is some mistake about the matter. We do not hesitate to say that there is no hostility on the part of congressmen \ or the people to either the state banks ■ or those that are operating under federal authority. The tyhole difficulty, and it is a IIOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14,1891. difficulty that seems to he clearly recognized by the Journal of Corn i merce lies in the fact that the laws ; under which the national banking [institutions are now operating belong to a period of war rather than to an [ era of peace. These laws are not only ; obnoxious to the general public—they i hamper and embarrass the banks ! themselves. The great trouble is that | as soon as the newspapers or public i speakers begin to criticise the elunisi j ness of these laws as applied to the | needs and demands of this period of I rushing and hurrying business, their ; remarks are construed as attacks oa | the banks themselves There seems | to be a sensitiveness among the banks | and bankers that is not to be ex i plained by the ordinary methods of inference. And yet we have seen no severer criticism, coming from the consorva live source it does, than that which is ventured on by the Journal of Com merce. Much has been said by the representatives of the banks and the partisans of the law as it stands, in regard to the provision which exacts the deposit of government bonds as a security for the bank note circulation. This provision is held up as a marvel of simplicity and completeness, whereas it is cumbersome and expen- rive. Moreover, as the Journal of Commerce points cut, the provision was not inti nded to enable the na tional banks to furnish a hank note circulation, but to provide a market for the government bonds. The law was enacted at a time when the gov eminent was a heavy borrower, anil w ea it was compelled to find a market for its bonds. Of late the government, throgk the suggestions and manipulations of "Wall street, has been engaged in the work of embamissiug the national banks by balling in its bonds and thus canceling and reducing the circu lation based on them. Thus the banks, which were established to help the government out of a pickle at a very critical period, are now employed by the agents of Wall street in the treasury as a means of contractinjr the currency. We believe that we have had as much to say about the banks and the limitations of the laws under which '■ they operate as any other vehicle of! publication, but we have never attack-1 ed the banks, and we are of the opin ion that the prejudice to which tho Journal of Commerce alludes does) not exist. There are serious objec-' tions, however, *o tlie laws under! which the banks operate, and these objections are by no means unreason able. There is no reason why real estate should be outlawed by the national banks, nor is there any reas on why the issues of state banks' should be prohibited by a ten per cent levy. We believe it is the purpose of the ! people io retain the banks and change the law. Among national bankers who take a broad view of the situa tion there will be found few to object to such a programme, provided it is safe and conservative, and based on sound business principles.—Atlanta Constitution. Independent Manhood. The prev ailing political methods in the country have a tendency to stul tify manhood. Allegiance to party: | and desire for politic al supremacy has j i taken the place of patriotic states manship. The political.machinery is; controlled to a large extent by cor porations and syndicates representing the money power. Prominent among these are the railroad corporations, brokers, builionists, bondholders and i trusts. They have a firm grip on i much of the political machinery of the government. Holding a balance of power, wielding the powerful in fluence which money gives them, they arrogantly dictate tiie platforms and policies of parties, the action of con ventions, the result of caucuses, the conduct of the executive power, and the judgment of courts. They are thoroughly equipped in the potent power of corruption. They are remorseless in their exactions oil commeree. They demand usurious rates of interest. They extort from labor the profits of its industry. It is to meet ibis remorseless, grow ing power that the independent man hood of the country must rise. The great hearts of the people are yet, strong enough to re-establish the principles of free government in their former purity. This great work lies in the j atriot iof the people. The independent manhood of the country must rise up and throttle the monster of corruption. The perpetuation of free institutions demands it. The re-establishment of liberty upon the basis ot moral purity requires it. The homes of the ‘peo ple, their future prosperity and the welfare of generations unborn, de pends upon quick and decisive notion upon the part of the great common people. Let the independent manhood of the country rise up and assert itself in such thunder tones that w ill shake the thrones of despotism, t\ranny and plutocratic government throughout the world. The second great battle for human rights is being fought on American soil. Let the watchword bo “America shall be free.”—National Reformer. Wanted—a Boy. Wanted—a boy. A brave, cour ageous, manly, hopeful boy; one who is not afraid of the truth; one who scorns a lie; one who hates deceit; one who loves his mother; one woo does not know more than his parents; one who lms the courage to say “no” and stick to it; one who is willing to begin at the bottom of the ladder and work upwards; one who thinks it would be unmanly to smoko; one who thinks an education is worth striving for; one who is willing to obey his superiors; one who knows his home is better than the street; one who doesn't believe the marvelous tales told in the story papers, and will not read the vile stuff; one who won’t cheat in a fair game; one who won’t be a sneak and do a mean act when unseen; one who won’t spend every penny he earns or gets; one who I thinks he should respect himself and | keep himself in decent appearance; ! one who won’t attack an old man ! because he is defenseless; one who | won’t torture dumb animals; one who won’t steal; one who won't swear; one won’t listen to or repeat nasty | stories; one who won’t revile an. jeer I at drunken persons on the street; one who won't do a dirty act for another boy who is too cowardly to do his own meanness; one who loves to do right because it is right. Wanted—a boy; a whole-souled, earnest, honorable, square, boy. Where can he be found? Does be live in your neighborhood? Is he a member of your family? Do you know him ?—American Teacher. The Alliance in England. The fame and prowess of the Far mers’ Alliance ha’s even extended be yond the briny deep, and that great English paper, the Londan Times, is attacking this orgaization and warns the British farmers against following the example of their brothers in America. This is just what wo should ex ! pect. The Times is the organ of the I British aristocracy and favored classi 1 es, and will oppose any and every | movement tending to the orgaci/.a tion and relief of the masses. The light waged against the Alliance in i our own State and country is about to be repeated in far-away Enggland. But let this grand and noble order once secure a foothold in the British Isle, and we predict that the brave men who fought the battle of Nase by, and have twice overturned the most powerful goverment the world ever saw, will prove as ti ne to their intetests, and as courageous in the defense of their rights, as their de scendants in America, who sprang from their loins. But it should indeed encourage our Alliance friends to see the wide spread work of their order, aud nerve their hearts, and strengthen their arms to persevere in their undertuk ing. The eyes of not only your own countrymen, butof the civilized world, are turned upon the struggling farm ers of America. .You are now on trial; and victory for the Allmncemen means not only a righting of their own wrongs, but it will encourage the farmers of every Christian coun try on our globe to emulate your ex ample and strike for liberty. Alli ancemen must not look back or falter. Never let it be published to the world that the great agricultural communi ty of our Republic have wavered in their mission or surrendered their cause.—Athens Banner. Emma Abhout Dead. Emma Abbott, the prirna donna, is dead. She went to Salt Lake, Utah, Jan- uary sth to fill a four nights’ engage ment, and despite the advice of her physicians went on the stage the first night. The next day she was taken alarmingly ill with pneumonia, and failed rapidly after that. Her phy sicians saw she could not live. She was totally unconscious until death ended her life. The members of her company are distracted with grief. Miss Abbott was so kind to them that they idolized her, and to have her so suddenly snatched away has prostrated them. Emma Abbott was one of the world’s greatest and sweetest singers. She began life in humble circum stances and rose to wealth and fame by the marvelous sweetness of her voice. She was worth several hun dred thousand dollars. She was popular with the people, not only for the sweetness of her song, but, for the gieat desire she always s owed to please. She sang to their heart as well as to their artis tic taste. The announcement of her death will shock the millions who have heard her in opera and' in the more familiar pieces with which she favored her audience between the acts. The voice that drew new beauties from “Home, Sweet Home” and “Last Rose of Summer,” is hushed forever.—Tribune-of-Rome. Cyclones and Tornadoes. Lieutenant John F. Finley, of the United States signal service, has writ ten a very interesting article on the origin and development of cyclones and tornadoes—the former being the typical general storm and the lat ter the typical ocal lstorm. lie show's that while cyclones may develop within the Uuited States, they usu ally enter this country from the ad jacent regions. The places of the entry are the North Pacific coast (Oregon and Washington), North Dakota and the gulf coast. From each of these quarters the cyclones approach with peculiar characteristics. Those entering the country of North Dakota are most frequently accompa nied by tyrnadoes. To understand the relation of the tornado to the cyclone we must con sider tho cyclonic disturbances as di vided into quadrants by two lines at right angles, one inning north and south and tho other east and west. The northeast quadrant is distinguish- ed by great humidity, high winds and heavy cloud formations, especially' in the southern portion, together with precipitation. The southeast quadrant contains the maximum of heat and moisture; it is the region of all classes of local storms, especially of the tornado. The southwest quad rant is marked by clearing weather and diminished humidity while the northwest has the minimum of heat ami moisture, with brisk, cold winds. The southeast quadrant being the recipient of heat and moisture, gen erates the cyclone, and the most vio lent disturbance of the equilibrium being in this quadrant, and within a limited area, the centripetal force becomes greater, and the formation of the tornado ensues. The questions which naturally occur are: What places are best adapted to the development of tornadoes, and what is the time when conditions are most favorable to them? Lieutenant Finley points out that tornadoes are SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. found in regions where warm, moist air begins to underneath a colder and dryer upper stratum that comes from another direction. This con dition is followed shortly by an inversion of the air in the upper and low r er strata, the first visible effect of the coining storm being the appearance in the west and north west of a heavy, protentions bank of clouds, followed suddenly by the rush ing of adjacent clouds toward the center of the disturbance, especially from the southeast, east and northeast; as to time, the summer is the most favorable for tornadoes, when the in terior of the continent is warming, and the air of the lower strata is drawn from lower latitudes far up in the northern portions of the country on the eastern side of the Rocky mountains, the isothermal curve being deflected very decidedly towards the north. Lieutenant Finley’s summary of the results of his investigations seem to cover everything that can be learned on the subject. Briefly, the most iin portant of them are as follows: Tor nadoes generally accompany a low pressure area; the progressive motion of the tornado is to the northeast, and the tornado, with scarcely an ex ception, occurs in the afternoon, just after the hottest part ot the day. The tornado seasou includes March, April, May, Juno, July, August and September, the months of greatest lroquence being April, May, June and July. From a careful investigation there is every i eason to believe that these storms were as frequent and violent 200 years ago as they are now, and there appears to bo no cause for any unusual change in their annual frequency for a like period to come. As regards protection in case of a tornado, Lieutenant Finley can, un fortunately, say little except that the north side of the tornado’s path is the dangorous portion aud the south side is the safe one. If the cloud be mov ing to the northeast, then the line of escape is to the northwest; if to tha east, then to the north. To one who stands facing the advancing cloud in the direct line of its approach, the safe side is always to the right. No structure that rises above the surface of the earth, however built, can whol ly resist the violence of the tornado, and, therefore, no building is safe, either as property or as a refuge to protect life. From a business point of view, therefore, as affecting the question of life and property, the tor nado must be considered as a natural agency for destruction, to be careful ly watched and continually provided against. John B. Gough: What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity', not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess, and have confessed, before God, I would give my right hand to-night if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society. Don’t worry whether the man who says nice things to you means them or not. 'l'he fact that he takes the paina to say them is a compliment. He doubtless has an ax to grind, but it doesn’t follow that you must turn the grindstone.—Demurest Times. Editor Hanlon, of the , Quitman Press, denies a damaging rumor in the following paragraph: “A rumor is afloat that the senior editor of this paper is receiving a fixed salary of %4,000 a year from a northern magazine for contributions to its columns. With tears as large as hotel biscuits streaming down our emaciated cheeks, we deny the charge. It is false—it is twice false, we regret to say. Hand in that dol lar due on subscription,” Old Gentleman (at head of stairs) —Sally, ain’t it time to go to bed? Sally—yes, father dear, don,t put it off another minute; your health, you know, is not robust.