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Banks County Gazette. VOL I.—NO, 39. Getting in a Hurry. Southern newspajwrs are agitating the question of a line of steamers: from some southern seaboard city to ] European ports, thus giving us direct trade with the old world. While such a scheme may possess some bus iness advantages, one of the news paper arguments for its establishment, vise that it would bring us large Bum- j hers of immigrants from Continental Europe,—pre c euts a a chance of very doubtful benefit, or rather of positive disadvantage. It is set forth as one of the attrac tions of this alluring possibility, that this class of immigrants have peopled the former wilderness of the west with a hardy, industrious and thrifty citizenship; that tney have endured privations* have toiled unremittingly, have overcome obstacles and won marvelous success in their conflicts with the rigors or northern win! rs. The southern newspaper takes this roseate view, and without stop ping to consider or inquire if there tnav not be another side to the ques tion, proceeds to paint a glowing picture of abandoned fields, worn out plantations and exhausted soil re stored to its original fertility, and white with cotton or golden with corn. Before going wild over those unreal izitig dreams, it would be well to ex amine some of the wholesome impor tion of European laborers into the northern states. Ist. They are rarely the pioneers. Of the hundreds of thousands of toil ers who, with ax or plow, have sub dued the virgin forest or the bound less prarie, the emmigrant from Europe was rarely a part. Some brave strong, vigorous, American from the New England or Middle states, first found his way into the wilderness of forest or prune, and bore the inevitable suffering and pri vation which ever falls to the lot of the frontiersmen. And when, aftc years of ill-requited toil, the Ameri can-horn pioneer, broken in health and spirits suacumbs to the visitations of “death and taxes,” a European importation steps in and takes his place and home. 2nd. Only a small fraction of these immigrants find their way to the farms. They prefer to stay iu the cities, starving in cellars, freezing in garrets, subsisting on odd jobs, guz zling beer aud hatching schemes of spoliation and plunder. They plot anarchy, violence, crime. They live squalor, work for n pittauce, debase their women, and rear their children in rags and ignorance. They Squan der their poor earnings on their vices, and then look with glowering eyes of hungry hate upon the prosperity of their irdustrious and frugal neigh bors. 3rd. They demand the privilege of planting European beer-shops, European Sabbath-desecrntian, and European infidelity wherever they go. To do this they clamor at the doors of legislatures, tyranize political par ties, and make disgraceful deals with trickery demagogues, for lax laws in return for votes they control. They know no political allegiance, no par ty loyalty, no patriotism, no grati tude for the system of government whieh afords them asylum from Old-world despotisms. 4th. They are clannish, following blindly the leadership that promises most freedom for their vices and im munity for their crimes. They hold narrow and mistaken views of gov ernment, and do readily become hom ogeneous elements in American citi zenship. sth. They elbow their way into the places long filled by peaceful and contented laborers born on our soil, and by accepting lower wages, turn them ipto the streets to starve, or to become burdens on the industry of the country. With its hard and unsettled prob lems before it, with its hundreds of thousands of unemployed negro la borers, is the sopth willing to encour age the extensive importation of this disquieting and unsettled factor into its social life? Is it willing to risk a union of organized ignorance with imported anarchy, to make misrule certain, and multiply disorder, vio lence and crime ? If the south will consult its best interests it will “make haste slowly’, and continue to bring as much as possible of the brain and brawn, which has been coming in from the north with a strong steady current, constantly increasing for the last few years. With this element mingling with its citizenship the south is sale for good order and good government, and the reign of intelligence and virtue rather than ignorance and vice. —Demorest Times. 'John Wesley and Cheap Litera ture. A century ago no church made such eutensive use of the press as did the Methodist. Johu Wesley was really the pioneer of cheap literature. He sought most earnestly to flood the societies with good reading. This was done through the preachers. At the conference of 1767, in answer to the question, “How may the books be spread more?” this answer was given: “Let every assistant give them away prudently; and beg money of the rich to buy books for the poor.” The following.year the question was put in another form. “In many places the work of God seems to stand still. What can be doue to revive and enlarge it?” Mr. Wesley’s view of the relation of literature to religion comes out fully in the an swer. “Much good has been done by the books which have been published; and more would be if they were spread more effectually. At present there is a grand defect herein, almost all over Great Britian and Ireland- Little can be done to remedy this un less all of you will lend a helping hand.” At another time he wrote: “Be more active in dispersing the books.” In 17(3:1 he wrote to Chris topher Hopper: “If you lave the souls or bodies of tiieji, recommend, every where, the primitive physic and the small tracts.” In 1778 lie wrote to another: “Procure all the subscribers you can to the Magazine. To Rich ard I’odda he wrote in 1732: “You are found to bo remarkably diligent in spreading the books; lot none rob you of this glory. If von can spread the Magazine it will do good.” Swift Birds. Thomas Alexander, in nis book en titled “Game Birds of the United States,” says th it wild ducks, unaided by the wind, fly from GO to 100 miles an hour, atid that the blue-winged teal, “going down the wind at the top of his speed, will make fully 150 miles an hour, possibly more.” The swiftest bird oa the wing is the frig ate bird, a sort of nautiele bird of prey. Sailors believe that it can start at the peep of dawn from the cost of Africa, and following the trade winds, land on the American cost before sunset. It can undoubtedly fly more than 200 miles an hour, hut we do not know of any trustworthy record of the speed of which it is capable. —Golden Days. Faith—-Victory. He that hesitates is sure tn fail. He that doubts will never succeed. Faith is the foundation stone on which all great reforms mus! be built. The “gnawing gift of doubt” never makes a reformer. He must thor oughly believe what he seeks to ac complish. He must believe not only that he is right but that he will suc ceed. He may see obstacles and meas ure their size and understand the difficulty of surmounting them, lie may know that his opponents are nu merous, wealthy, influential and un scrupulous, but all these things move him not. With the eye of faith he sees the end from the beginning and knows he is to succeed. This makes him strong, valient, confident and that is half the battle. He is a host in himself because of this hope, this faith, this confidence in the final re suit. This is the secret of the streugth and steadfastness of the Prohibition ' ists of the nation. They arc good HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA,-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TANARUS, 1891. stayers. Why? Because they have faith iu their undertaking and know that they are to succeed. See .how they hold together, how they persist in voting their principles, how they talk with confidence and hope of fi nal outcome. Other forms of prohi ■ tion movements have eotne and gone during the past twenty years. Amend ment campaigns have gone up like rockets and down like sticks. In these campaigns temperance people have organized for a special purpose and when defeated they have dis banded. Not so with prohibitionists. Defeat has hut stimulated them to greater endeavor, and to-day their party is active, courageous and ag gressive. They have pledged more money to their National Committee during the past six months than in any previous five years. They are planning for a more vigorous cam paign -than ever before and confi dently expect a large increase in their vote in 1892. They do not look for immediate success, therefore are not discouraged at the- temporary triumph of their enemies. Such a host of intrepid, hopeful, courageous soldiers are feared by the liquor power more than ten times their power, unorganized and less sanguine of success. Like Gideon’s bane their power is not in numbers but in faith, and, like those three hun dred brave men, they will not cease their labors until these modern Midi anites are driven out or compelled to cause their destructive attacks on the homes of the nation.—Rockford Mon itor. Oillsvillc. Our town is on a boom. Real es tate has advanced 25 per cent in the last thirty days. Until recently our town and com munity has been somewhat devided on the school question, their are now united, and have decided to build an academy. Twelve hundred dolllar.s has been raised to build the house. The good people of this place have kindly tendered the school the Baptist church.till the academy can be erected W. A. Crow, of this.place, is hav ing a tine residence erected. He will have it completed in a short time: Mr. G. 11. Suddatli has moved to thi < place. T :e health of our community is not very good. Mrs. Dr. Welchel has been seriously sick, hut we are glad to say she is improving. We are sorry to note the death of James A. Davis, formerly of this place, hut now of Gainesville. He died on the 22d inst., of pneumonia. He was truly a good man. Uncle Newton Suddath has moved ovor on the wayside. The election is over, and every body seems to be satisfied. The people have but little to talk about, and have fallen back on the force bill and the free coinage of silver. Our farmers have done but little yet in preparation for another crop. Miss Clarence Garrison is visiting friends in Atlanta. We wish her a pleasant visit. Miss Hattie Mullikin is visiting friends in Harmony Grove this week. Ed Mullikin and Ed Garrison swapped pants a few days ago. 1 don’t know which one was cheated. Broad Brim. The critical attitude is Dot friendly to faith. The faith faculty is neither generated nor enlarged by it. The whole range of Christian facts, doc trines, experience, and duties, have suffered from the critical attitude. That the things of God, their being and aim, are hid from the wise and prudent, is up to this good hour the most difficult lessons to learn. Their efforts to unfold the tilings of God have only confused and darkened. The learning and strength of the wise and prudent are not the instruments by which to solve and sec the hidden and mysterious things of God, but the meek docility of the babe seeg and unfolds the things that are veiled |to the sages and scribes of earth.— Nashville Advocate. Independence is a blessing, but not loss so is dependence. While it is our duty to manfully assert our independence of that which handicaps us injuriously, it is equally our duty to manfully acknowledge our depend ence on that which conditions and develops our existence. If independ ence brings us power of choice and liberty, dependence brings us power of life and salvation. If independ ence frees us, dependence saves us “ The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to bo depended upon by as many inferior as it can roach.” We Americans, attached as we are to the doctrine of independence, should not fail as Chris tians to be equally attached to the doctrine of dependence. With all our independence, let us learn to de pend, and to be worthy of being de pended on.—Sunday School Times. Hollingsworth. Tile farmers are selling and ship ping their cotton as they are afraid that the advance in prices are not coming soon. Mr. R. A. Wynn lias the finest fish pond in this section and it is well s{oclted with carp. Sonic of the young men are trying to organize a temperance society at this place. Mr. J. R. Chambers is building a nice cottago on the corner of Hill and Broad streets. He lias rented his farm out and is going to move his family here to educate his chil dren. The little “Rose” is gone and Mr. A. A. W. looks very sad. Messrs. E. L, and S. Duckett are visiting their brother and his family near Dalton. • Mr. E. S. S. Hambrick and Miss Millie Massey were married the 10th of January. t arc somewhat behind, hut with favorable weather thoy will come up all right. The renters in this section as a rule are in better circumstances than a great many land owners The most of the renters are out of debt and have money to pay for wliat they want. Mr. T. E. Anderson lost a fine cow from blind stagers. If religion, as an expetience or Church force, is not aggressive it is nothing. If not- a fighting force it is a dead force. The aggressive attitude is much more than mere activity; mtlch more than agitated restless ness, or the busy conspicuousness of much doing. It is the embattled at titude in the face of foes. Its pence is gained by cinquest. Its heaven is won by lighting, its perfection is the perfection of the soldier saint. If religion does not have the soldier’s nerve, the soldier’s courage, and the go'dier’s codfiiot, it is a worth less thing, which secures no advance, no victories, no perfection this side of the grave, and no heaven the other side.—Nashville Advocate. Feelings are very delusive things. The of glow prosperity is mistaken for gratitude. The pleasure arising from gratification is confused with the comfort of dutifulness. The excita tion or being prominent and taking a part is pnt down to the credit of science. The softening of the sym pathies is substituted for practical be nevolence. If ilie feelings are not watched with discriminating care they will subvert all practical and solid godliness.—Nashville Christian Advocate. The Springfield Union says: “Some thing has been gained for temperance by the enforcement of business prin ciples, as, for instance, on the rail roads, which positively refuse employ ment to men who use intoxicating liquors. Self-interest compels such prohibition, and so it does in many industrial employments. It is becom ing increasingly hard for a man addic ted to drink to find employment. This is business, though it is hard on the victims and their families, but if it were more generally the custom th self interest of employees would help them to avoid the drink habit. If business men would take up the temperance reform as a purely busi ness matter, we believe that great progress might be made. Let them leave the moral issue to the philan thropists if thoy choose, but they should not bo deterred from attack ing- the subject because it has always been so largely a moral issue. Let them consider how much might be saved in the efficiency of labor and the faithfulness of employees, in the vast amount of wage money turned from the rum seller’s till int.o the channels of legitimate trade, in the decrease of taxation for the support of courts, jails, and alms houses, and see if it would not pay to put an end to the liquor traffic. We know that ‘there’s millions in it,’ and it is only a mock respect for what is considered equal rights that prevents legitimate business from demanding the aboli tion of the ruinous, trade-killing liquor traffic-” Are Saloon License Legal. The last decision of the United States supreme court on the liquor question is attracting the attention of the whole country. The moro it is studied the more sweeping it appears to be. A writer in The Voice calls attention to the particular clause in the decision which says: “There is no, inherent right of a citizen to soli intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of a state or of the United States.” He claims that (he logic of this statement leads di rectly to affirming the illegality of every dram shop license. He says: “If the individual citiien has no inherent right to sell intoxicat ing liquors, it follows that one thou sand or a million citizens combined have no right. (Nought multiplied by a thousand or a million is nought still.) As one cannot confer upon another what he does not himself pos ses.s no body of citizens could author ize a legislator to make a law provid ing for the sale of intoxicating liquor by retuijj as a beverage, hence every legislator who has undertaken to en act a law for such sale has assumed a right lie did not have and could not possess,‘because it did not inhere in the people.” The logic is strong and it is diffi cult to discover any flaw in it. This decision was read by Judge Field, one of the most conservative judges of the supreme bench. It is the most sweeping decision ever ren dered by the court and liquor men as well as temperance men recognize its importance. The probability is strong that with this sweeping decision as a basis, the prohibition movement will receive a new and accelerated impulse which shall compel the attention of legisla tures and congress. Demorest Times. The little girl who declared, when others were talking about being “teetotal” iu their temperance prin ciples, that she was - ‘eider- total,” was wise in her generation. Hard cider drinking is a slower way to drunkenness than whisky-drinking, but, if persisted in, is as sure a way, The New England Farmer tells of a cider crazed drunkard who killed his aged father, tried to shoot his aunt, then fired the house, and put a bullet in his own head, in a village, near Westfield, Mass. The young man “had squandered his father’s money, abused his wife till she secured legal separation, and had for months quar tered himself on his suffering parent, while he kept soaked in drink.” It is a good thing to be “cider-total.” It is not a difficult thing for a man with a quick conscience to act in ac cordance with it, if lie has a little tact. Dr. Campbell, the famous head of the Blind Asylum in London, had recently occasion to illustrate this truth. The Prince of Wales was about to visit the institution. Some of the direct ors, in anticipation of the visit, said to him: “You will have to lay aside SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. your American prejudices, Doctor, on this occasion, and furnish your guests with wine.” The Doctor en deavored to excuse himself. “It won’t do,” was the reply. “The Prince would think himself insulted if he came here and no wine were offered him.” The Doctor made no further argument, but when the Prince arrived Jie introduced the subject himself. “I am aware, your highness,” he said, “that it is usual to have wine provided on such occa sions as this, but it is against my principles and those of our institution. I can only offer you the best tea and coffee I obtain.” The Prince not only thanked him at the time for liis consistent adherence to his prin ciples, but is reported as saying every where in London society: “I am glnd to know that we have one in stitution m London which is consist ent, and will not lay aside its prin ciples, even for a prince.”—Christian Ilerald. One of the most excelleut of recent innovations is the introduction of metal ceilings in place of wood and plaster. These ceilings do not shrink or burn like wood; they will not stain, crack, or fall off like plaster, but living permanent, durable, fire proof, and ornamental, will eventu ually supersede both wood and plas ter, besides being in the end far more economical than either. Prayer is to cover the whole life. We are commanded to hray always, to pray everywhere, to pray in every thing. Not that the Christian is to be always on his knees, hut always in the spirit of prayer. If Lis’ lips are not always praying his heart should bo. This does not do away with the necessity of stated times and seasons, and places to pray. Without this spirit of prayer our stated prayers will be formal and cold. Without stated seasons of prayer the spirit of prayer will be dissipated, or degener ate into sentiment or syllabub.— Nashville Advocate. Sydney Cooper, the famous British painter, is now eighty-seven years old. He still possesses excellent health, and gives five or six hours a day to painting. He sleeps nine hours out of twenty-four, and lives abstemiously. According .to the New York Trib une, there lias come to be a difference in practice “among people of good taste and position in New York, who enjoy the presence of their friends at dinner”’ with reference to serving wine. It says: “In many house, as. a matter of principle, wine is never placed upon tlio table, and in others wine is occasionally omitted for special reasons. For a long time there has been a social need in tho city for some quiet, pretty, and effec tive manner of indicating in invita tions to dinner, whether or not wine will be served, in order that invited guests may have full knowledge of the facts. A movement has been be gun, originating socially, and second ed by one of the popular stationers of the city, for indicating that wine will not be served during the affair, by attaching a knot of blue ribbon to the lower left-hand corner of the invita tions.” A delightful dinner entertain meut was recently given upon this plan, attended by a large number of society people. The Tribune adds: “It is believed that blue-ribbon invi tations will solve a difficulty with which society has long contended, requests for one’s presence at a dinner to which the ribbon is not attached speaking for themselves.” Francis Parkman, the historian, has taken to gardening. He is par ticularly fond of roses. lie is writing again, having, in a great measure, re covered his health. An ardent tree planter is Joaquin Miller, who has already set out moro than 20,090 trees in the vicinity of his home, “The Heights,” near Oakland, Cal. Not until he has satiated his taste for tree planting does lie intend to return to literary work.