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la Fifty Year*.
The Battery, how changed and how
significant the change!
Fifty years ago it was an open field,
with growing grass and stately tree*,
with & water view unsurpassed, hiking
In the most beautiful harbor In the
world, stretching toward the Narrows,
bounded ou either side by cultivated
hills, and thence out into the ocean,
turbulent and impressive. Thither
the old time merchants with their
families repaired after the evening
meal, sitting under the magnificent
trees, walking along the shaded paths,
slinging pebbles upon the swashing
waters and gazing at the lofty masts of
multitudinous shipping.
Skirting its aristocratic edge were tiie
handsomest and most desired houses hi
the city, occupied by the wealthiest
and best known people of the town.
Little by little trade and commerce en
tered those sacred precincts, driving
the domestic circle as far up town as
John street and Fulton street, while
some people even ventured to have
country houses as far toward the capi
tal of the state as Blocoker street aid
Great Jones street.
But now?
Well, without becoming historic, let
ns say that the is now’the
home of the tramp; it is cut in twain
by tlm posts of the elevated railroads,
from whose greasy rails drop oil and
cinders, while bathing houses, barge
office, ferry depots and Castle Garden
occupy its entire water front. Dirt,
squalor, poverty and immigration are
all that characterize that onoe choioest
spot of metropolitan existence.—Joe
Howard in Sew York Press.
ll*r Cliek Unparalleled.
“You see funny tilings about a thea
tre," said Aif Dayman, of the Colum
bia. “I was in the box office during
the Ralo for the matinee when a fine
looking and handsomely dressed lady
came up to the window.
“ ‘A ticket, please,’ she says.
“Harry Sommers hands her a par
quet seat, and said, ‘One fifty.'
“ ‘Oil. I don’t want to pay that much,’
she says wif.li a smile.
“ ‘One dollar,’ says Harry, handing
out another.
“ ‘Haven’t you any nice seats for
seventy-five cents?’ says the lady sort of
cooingly.
“ ‘Oh, yes, ma’am,’ says Harry.
“ ‘Let me see,’ says the lady, ‘I guess
a fifty cent one will do. 1
“Sho got It and wont to the door,
where she offered the ticket for herself
and three children. Well, you know
ice would petrify around Geary. 11c
Just stopped the party.
“ ‘Four tickets,’ ho says.
“ ‘Whatl* says the Irnly, as serene as
a May morning, ‘you don’t charge for
tlieso children ?’
“ ’Not if they don’t go in,’ said Geary
in a tone that would put frost on the
windows.
“The lady sails back to the box of
fice, humming a little time, whore she
hands in her card.
" ‘Will you call a messenger boy and
send those children home? - sho says, and
then sho goes buck and laughs for two
hours and a half."—Chicago MaiL
In Portugal.
Here a man may look about him, and
almost forget that the world has grown
older and sadder. Here he will see the
plowman and the carter guiding oxen
In Rite and shape such as the ancient
Homans bred, yoked to such primitive
plows or carts as wo can still soo on
Greek and Roman coins. Their rules
and methods of tillage art* the same
simple and often foolish ones as the
ancients followed. The old heathen
superstitions still mingle with the new
religion. The people's language li
nker to the old one that came from
Romo than any still extant,, and plow
man nud wagoner mid reaper, the shop
herd in his goatskin coat and the maid
en with her distalT, might all take their
places In some such rural procession a*
we see sculptured on a Roman bass re
lief of the Augustan age.
The very aspects of nut ui e-, the genial
air, the vines and olive trees, the rocks,
valleys, running streams, the songs of
birds and murmuring of bees on thyiny
hills are all such as the sweetest of all
pastoral poets used ns accompaniments
to his idyllic song of a happy rural life.
—Round the Calendar in Portugal.
Michael Angelo’* Studies In Amitoniy,
Before his return to the palace Mich
ael Angelo had begun a series of care
ful studies In anatomy to familiarize
himself with every line and dimension
of the figure. lie toiled at the study
for years, until Ids mastery of the hu
man form was complete. He never
painted or chiseled a figure without
working out in a drawing tho most d-1
Icate details of the anatomy, so that
no turn of vein or muscle might be
false to the absolute truth. It is by
such means that any . mastery is se
cured. Behind every work of genius,
whether book, picture or engine, is an
amount of labor and pains—yes, and
of pain—that would have frightened
off a weak spirit.—St. Nicholas.
TUt> Burnt;!** lien ng a Motor.
It is well known that the bumble
bee’s weight is but a small fraction of
an onnee, but when he strikes a small
boy in the vicinity of the eyebrow his
reserve force is such us to make it ap
pear as if he weighed a ton. A half
dozen able bodiod bumble bees have
been known to impart a motion of at
least fifteen miles -an hour to a whole
country school, weighing in the aggre
gate perhaps a ton. No argument
based upon such a misapprehension can
quench man’s ambition to fly or dem
onstrate its impracticability.— Reading
Herald.
SUfb‘HI3ED IN A DOCTOR’S OFFICE.)
Other Startling Thing* Than
Somfitirnes Found in Clouet*.
A peaceful and unoffemive citizen
was seated one evening in a doctor's
office m a .neighboring city. lle had
called on professional business, but
that had I wen disposed of, and as the
doctor (seemed to be in no hurry he
lingered for a friendly chat, although |
disturbed at intervals by the suspicion
that perhaps the amount of lls bill might I
be gauged by the length of the visit. ;
in moving about the office looking for
some little article which he desired, the
doctor at length threw open the door
of a cabinet which occupied the space
in the upper part of one corner of the
room. The visitor opened his eyes in
wonder.
It was not a skeleton upon which
his gaze fell. Do not be alarmed, gen
tle reader. There was nothing so hor
rible to be disclosed—at least, in that
closet. No, the lights of tho chande
lier fell upon what looked like a cross
section of tim armory room of a modi
ftval csislio. There was a multitude of
glistening objects, nil bearing some re
semblance to some portion of the hu
man anatomy divine. If they were
armor, surely this wafc armor with
modern improvements, for these ob
jects—whether of tin or silver or plati
num, or of whatever metal composed—
were perforated after the manner of
tho seats in the cabins of New York
ferryboats. Perforated armor would
seem, however, to have certain draw
backs, along with whatever advan
tages the perforations might secure.
It is believed that in the times when
armor was more common than it is
nowadays, the perforated variety would
not have commanded so good a price
in the market as that which was war
ranted to keep out air as well as ar
rows, spears and other unpleasant
tilings.
The visitor, as lias been Implied,
opened his eyes in wonder, and like
wise expressed his wonder by means of
a wondering exclamation. The doctor
liimself took a glance and laughed.
“That looks like a portion of the
Tower of London," said the other.
The doctor laughed again. “It looks
worse than I thought,'" he remarked.
“The fact is there lulvo been some put
in there without my knowledge, and
they are not arranged precisely ;ts they
ought to lie. 1 don’t know that 1 ever
saw them in tho full blaze of the gas
light before, and I didn’t know just
how formidable an appearance they
presented.’’
“I hope,” said the visitor, “that you
are not in tiie habit of suddenly open
ing that cabinet and springing that
show upon your unsuspecting pa
tients.’’
The doctor laughed oncomoro. “De
cidedly not,” was tho reply, and in re
sponse to tho visitor’s questions he ex
plained what tho cabinet’s contents
were.
Thoy were “splints" for use In fract
ures, and the doctor said that ids col
lection contained at least one of every
possible fracture that could occur to
the human bones. Splints are made
of various substances; sometimes felt
is used, being molded into the proper
shapes, but the most approved splints
are made of thin copper covered with
(in. They nre perforated in order to
provido for ventilation and are both
flexible and rigid, and are said to give
great comfort to those who are com
pelled to use such things.
The doctor’s visitor had had no ex
perience with fractures or splints, and
confessed that ho did not want to have
any. He might have confessed, though
ho did not, that In ids mind splints for
a broken bone had always been asso
ciated with such splints as baskets are
tuado of, and he had never thought of
modern Improvements in connection
with then). But wo a!i live and learn.
If wc didn't what would tho world
come to?—New York Tribune.
Sparrow* 1 Antic*.
I see some queer antics among spar
rows. Looking out through the open
door one day I saw u song sparrow on
the concrete walk sitting on her tail,
which was turned under her. Some
thing seemed to ho wrong there. She
was picking at the tail feathers, and
either the tail would not stay under
her or else She was too uncomfortable
to sit still more than a moment at a
time. The tail seemed to bo continually
getting away from her. Sue went
through these gymnastics many times.
Finally a white throated sparrow came
on to tho walk and began imitating
her. whereat sho (low at him mid drove
him away. At another time I saw one on
a fence, trying to scratch her oar and
keep tier balance, bat die did not suc
ceed in giving more than one hasty
scratch at a time. 1 have seen young
sparrows dancing near the river hedge.
At my approach thoy slid under the
bushes like rats.—Forest and Stream.
Artificial Pearls.
The imitation pearls receive their lus
ter from an animal product, the scales
of a small fish found in tiia Mediter
ranean. It is called the bleak fish, and
when caught its scales are stripped off,
and by a secret process the iridescent
property extracted and reserved for
use. At first it was applied to the out
side of tho glass, but fiudiag it soon
wore off a method was devised of ap
plying it to tiie inside of the tiny glass
spheres through an orifice that is after
ward sealed. The artificial pearls thus
have all the luster of the genuine arti
cle. besides a certain brilliancy that
makes them even prettier. But they
are not pearis, aud have never attained
much popularity.—lnterview in St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
llow Eiectrkitj la “Stored.”
The energy which a current may at
any hist ant be said to possess is unme
mediately transformed into heat in the
circuit, which will under certain condi
tions produce light; into chemical en
ergy; into motion, which may or may
not produce sound, or into magnetic
and eleetrotomc conditions. The last
may either bo permanent or hare the
same evanescent existence as the origi
nal current. i
When electricity is employed to
charge a storage battery, only that part
which is transformed into chemical
energy is used. The rest is dissipated.
Tlie bat tery, then, instead of being a
place where electricity is laid away, is
a place where chemicals are left by the
current, with the expectation that they
wiii in turn produce a current when
called upon. This may seem a fine
distinction, but it is only apparently so.
For instance, the current might lie
produced by a dynamo turned by Ni
agara water power. The cliemieal left
by it might be zinc deposited from a
solution of zine sulphate. This might
be trans-jK>rted, preserved, bought and
sold, and finally be employed by some
physicist to produce another current.
Were Use electricity itself stored in its
original form, then the imaginative
reader can best tell what would become
of it and how it must be handled.—
Professor Samuel Sheldon in Popular
Science.
Th “Neck Verne.”
The “Neck Verse” is the first verse of
the fifty-first Psalm. “Have mercy
upon me, O God, according to thy
loving kindness: according to the mul
titude of thy tender mercies blot out
iny transgressions.” It was so called
because when a criminal under the En
glish law claimed the “benefit of clergy”
this verse was used as a test. The only
evidence of the condemned being a
priest was an abilit y to read, and if lie
could read this verse his neck was safe,
for no civil court could send him to the
gallows. The law exempting clergy
from civil penalties was established
during the reign of William Rufus, find
continued in force till about the middle
of the Seventeenth century.
It was often abused, for kindly dis
posed clergymen would frequently
tench persons unjustly accused tin?
verse in question, and even render
them assistance in repeating it in court;
but the disuse of the law was the nat
ural result of a change in public senti
ment with regard to the responsibility
of the clergy and of the more general
diffusion of knowledge, so that an
ability to .road was no longer regarded
as an evidence of having taken clerical
orders,—St. Louis Ulobe-Demoerat.
Silk Stockings*.
Queen Elizabeth started the style of
wearing silk stockings, and when some
kind arid loving husband looks over his
wife's bills at the end of the month,
with silk stockings all the way from i*Ci
up, he can think of Elizabeth mid
swear. Asa matter of fact the silk
worm began to kick up its heels in
early Greece, and then gradually worked
its way into Italy, and in the time of
Henry 11 of England tho silk era was
beginning to dawn. Silk stockings in
those days, however, were few and far
between, and when a pair of them
was presented to Edward VI by Sir
Thomas Gresham the king hugged
himself with joy. Queen Elizabeth got
her first pair from her silk woman, Mrs.
Montague, and after she laid worn
them onee she declared she never
would go back to cotton, which is all
tho more extraordinary, as Elizabeth
had no husband and lmd to pay her
own bills.—-Cloak and Suit Review.
Tlu* Oldest Giunc of Hall.
Court tennis is tho oldest game of
ball that we have that is to say, it
goes back further in its present form
than any other.
Games of I‘all of some kind go buck
so far that there is no traeo.of their be
ginning. In their simplest form the
ball was tin-own from one man to an
other. If wo carry the process one
step farther and imagine the ball, or
whatever stood in its place, to be hit
back with the hand, instead of being
caught and thrown, we have at once
hand ball, the original of all games
like tennis, rackets, etc. Indeed, the
French name for tennis remains paume
to tins day, because tho ball was struck
with the palm of the hand.—James
Dwight in Scribner's.
llrtir Parted cm the Side.
Frank Cushing the other night de
scribed a quaint poetic idea of the
Zuuis in regard to the reflection of the
moon in the water. The reflection is
called the 1 ‘younger sister of the moon, ”
because she always appears at night
when the moon appears, and always
looks up to the latter. This little sister
is considered the goddess of love and
coquetry, and the tradition exists
among the women that long ago she
decreed that they should wear their
hair parted on the side. The Zuni
women, just like their higher bred sis
ters, of course religiously follow the
dictates of the goddess of love and
coquetry. —Buffalo Express.
A TTim Kditor’l Advice.
If you were to see two young women
in a room, uiy son, one pretty and the
other plain, you would naturally kiss
the pretty one if you should kiss either;
but in so doing you use poor judgment.
If you kiss the pretty one she will not
appreciate the favor, while the ugly
one will lie affronted. But if you kiss
the plain one she will be duly grateful,
and the handsome one will look upon
tiie transaction as a fine bit of sarcasm,
of which the ugly girl is the mark.—
Boston Transcript.
Legal Advertisements.
GEORGIA: Lavks County.—Ai!
persons having demands against the
estate*of Francis Jordan, late of said
county deceased, are. hereby notified to
render in their demands to the under
signed according to law. and all persons
indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment.
Jan 12th Ix9l. Thomas Job dan,
(52.10) Adtu’r Francis Jordan.
Georgia: Banks County.—To all
whom ft may concern: W 8 Mize,
guardian for J. M. Mize has ap
plies to me for letters of dismission
from said guard nship, and I will pass
upon said aplicaUon on .the First Mon
day in Ami! 1891 at my office in
Homer saki’couiiiy.
Given under my hand and official
signature, this January 6th, 1891.
(54.U6) T. F. IIILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County.—No
tice is hereby given that fifteen free
holders of the 1206th district, G.M. of
said county have filed in my office a
petition for an election to be held in
said district for Fence or Stock law
as provided by section 1455 of the
Code of Georgia and the acts umend
tory thereto, and after twenty days’
notice, if no objection is filed an elec
tion will be ordered in terms of the
law. Jan. 10th, 1801.
(82.10) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
Sheriff Salt*.
GEORGIA: Hanks County.—
Will be sold on the First Tuesday
in February next at the courthouse m
said county, within the legal hours of
sale, to the higbes' bidder, for ca*-h,
the following property to wit: One
tract of land lying in said county and
bordered as follows; On the west by
1). 1.. Evans, on the north by James
W. Dodd, on the east by Earl Moats
deceased, on the south by Thomas E.
And-rson and Mrs. Rclx-cra Lewal
lan, cvntaining two hundred and
thirty five acres more or lias. Said
land levied on as the property of \Y.
W. C, Kidd to sati >fy an execution
issued from the Justice court of the
912th district G. M. of said county in
favor of Comer & Carr against the
said \\ .W. C. Kidd. Levy made and
returned to ins lv George XV. Lucy,
L. C. This Dee, 2Sth, 1890.
XV. A. Scoggins,
(14.92) Sheriff Hanks County.
GEORGIA; Banks County. To
all whom it may cone-m, \V J Burceste
guardian of A 8 and ..saac A Vaughn,
has implied to me for letters j>f dbuute-
Mon from said guardianship, and I will
pass upon said application an the first
monthly in March, 1891, at myjjftke in
Home.
Given under my band and official
signature, December tsi. 1890.
2 25 T F HILL, Ord’y.
Administrator's Sale.
GEORGIA: Baks County. - Agree
able to an order from the Court of Or
dinary will be sold before the court
house door on the First Tuesday in
February next (1891) vvithm the legal
hours of sale, die tract of land whereon
J. E. York lived at Ibe time of his
death,containing one, hundred and ixt.v
acres more, or less, adjoining lands of
Enoch Anderson. Thomas Sheridan,
Mrs. Mize and others. There >s three
tenant house* ou the same tad land
enough cleared for three horse crop,
Sold as the property of J. K. Y'ork late
of said county, deceased, sold lor the
hetifil of the heirs and creditors. Terms
taeh L. N. TURK,
($3.48) Adnnuismitw.
Libel for Divorce.
Carry Robinson vs J. M. Robinson
Libel for divorce in Banks Superior
Court, September term 1890.
Pursuant to an order from paid
court perfecting service by publica
tion the defendant, J. M. Robinson is
hereby notified that a libel for divorce
in favor of his wife, Carry, is now
pending against him in said court, mid
that he is require ! to be and appear
at the next term of said court to be
held on the third Monday in March
next, to answ< r said cause.
N. L. Hutchins,
($2.98) Judge S C. W. C.
Oscar Brown, Petitioner's Atty.
Litha 11. Davis vs M. Van Davis,
Libel for Divorce in Banks Superior
Court, September term ISOO, Grounds
cruel treatment.
It appearing to the Court that the
Defendant M. V. Davis does iot re
side in this State. It is ordered by
the Court that service be perfected
on the defendant by publication as
provided in statute twice a month for
two months before the next term of
i lns court, in the Banks Counts Ga
zette, a newspaper published iu said
county. It is further ordered that the
Clerk of said court direct to and ad
dregs notice to said defendant if his
address is known requiring to bo
and appear at the next term of this
court lo answer petitioner's libel for
total divorce. SepU mbe-r lflth ISfHi.
Granted. N. L. Hutchins,
Judge.
G. W. Brown and W. H. Simpkins,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
I hereby certify that the above
order is a true copy of the minutes of
Banks Superior Court, this Dec. 2f>d,
IShO, L. N. Turk, C. S. C.
THE
BANKS COUNTY GAZETTE
IS I‘UBLISED IN THE INTEREST OF
BANKS COUNTY,
By H A'l I S & UII.B.
GEO. W. WALKER,
MANUFACTURER OF 7
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ONE and TWO HORSE: WAGONS
OF ALL STYLES. ALSO
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IF YOU CALL ON US, AS WE KEEP THE LARGEST AND
Most Fashionable Goods
IN THE STATE.
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New Store! New Furniture!
W. W. .IC>IU>AN
OF HARMONY GROVE, GEORGIA,
Wishes to announce to the public that he has moved into his new iron store
and has a very large stock of FURNITURE of all kinds, consisting of
SUITS, BUREAUS. BEDSTEADS, SAFES, MATHEWSES,
LOUNGES, CIIAIRS, ETC., ETC.
Do you need a trunk? If so you ought to see XV. W Jordan’s Mamot b
Stock of them. I also carry a good stock of Sewing Machines. Machine Oil,
Needlea and part*for all machines. 1 also carry a fine Stock of Coding,
Caskets, Burial Rohes, Gloves, Shoes and Hobs for Burial purposes.
Call and see my goods and see how cheap 1 can sell von. Remember
the Iron Store. W.. XX. JORDAN.
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QIiHUI |H yps.
OP’D IMUAI NEW MANAGEMENT.
Office and Shops near Air-Line Depot.
Valves and Cocks, Steam Guages, Water Glasses, •
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS,
Repairing of ail kinds of Machinery a specialty.
Correspondence Solicited. (10-15-91) Gainesttli,, Ua
Lawyers.
PAL EDWARDS
Attorney sit I.aw
HOMER, GEORGIA.
Money to loan on three per cent,
commission, and payments made by
installments.
J. W. HILL,
Attorney a t w
JEFFERSON. GEORGIA.
h. iTjTsmith,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Harmony Grove, Georgia.,
Will practice in Banks, Jackson,
Fratikliu, Madison, and adjacent coun
lies, and also in tiie Supreme and Fed
eral courts of tiie State. Will give
special attention to collections and
make prompt returns.
C. R. FAULKS Eft,
Attorney sit Law
BELLTON, (.GEORGIA.
COLLECTING A SPECIALTY.
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HOMER, GEORGIA.
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