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Entered at the Postoff.ce at Homer,
Ga ., at tecond-clatt mail matter.
Homkk. Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Athens is putting in a fire alarm
system, and with a paid fire depart
ment the property of Athens will be
better protected.
Mr. John F. M. Cain, of Guinett
county, committed suicide on the 7th
by shooting himself with a double
barrel shotgun.
The people of Augusta are becom
ing alarmed at the continued rise of
the river at that place, and it >s feared
that the city will again be covered
with water.
Lewis Sims, colored, shot a man
by the name of Johnson in Madison
county on the night of the 4th. The
negro made good his escape.
Emmtgrant agents are getting in
their work in Worth county, and la
bor is becoming scarce. The negroes
are going to Louisianna.
The grand jury of Laurens county
recommended a tax of SIO,OOO on a
license to sell whisky in that county.
This is right. Every county in the
state should do likewise.
Rev. Sam P. Jones and the mayor
of peleotiue, Texas, had a fight a few
days ago and Satnmic flogged tho
gentleman severely. He says he
criticised the mayor’s conduct last
November, and he deserved criticism.
Maj. E. Berkley, superintendent of
the A. &> C. division of the R. & D.
railroad has moved from Atlanta to
Richmond, Va., whore he will have
charge of the R. &D. division of the
road. We are sorry to give him up.
Mr. C. T. Hammond of tlo Georgia
Pacific succeeds Major Berkley.
The Georgia Alliance Record
Improves with each issue, and is one
of the very best all-round Alliance,
agricultural and literary papers
printed. Bio. Christopher was the
first newspaper man in Georgia to
print an Alliance paper and the Alli
ance people should patronize him.
Price $ l per year, 8 pages, weekly.
Sample copies sent on application.
Address Alliance Record, Montezuma,
Georgia.
Tobacco Culture.
Some of the weekly papers in the
State are urging the farmers of the
country to quit planting cotton ami
go to raising tobacco. Why is this?
Why do they want the people to do
a thing t hat is morally wrong, and in
the second place, to do a thing that
is injurious to the land.
You had as well advocate the man
ufacture of whisky as that of raising
tobacco; for there is but very little
difference between the two. They
are both things that do the people no
good, but on the contrary does evi>y
man that uses the vile stuff an injury.
The |>eople had better and will
continue to raise cotton, corn, wheat
and oats, and let the tobacco culture
go. It would be better if there was
not a stalk of tobacco grown in the
United States. Thousands of dollars
would he saved to the people. Why
raise and use a thing that would be a
curse to generations yet unborn?
It is damnable and ought not to he
tolerated. We long to see the day
when there will not l>e a pound of
tobacco or a drop of whiskey, or spir
ituous liquors of any kiud sold in the
United States. Then yon will see
many a glad heart, our people happy,
carrying strong bodies of physical
manhood.
As to the second proposition, by
raising tobacco you ruin your land,
thereby rendering it valuleas.
The farmers in Georgia are mak
ing money raising catton and not de
stroying the value of their lands, but
on the other hand the lands in Geor
gir are enhancing in value every year.
Let well enough alone, manufacture
your own fertilizers at home, raise
3 our corn and meat, thereby saving
your country and yourself.
There are many men in a town
who are willing to reap the benefits
which a live and well conducted news
paj>er gives, but are unwilling to aid
in the work to the extent that they
should by giving it a substantial sup
port in the way of patronage. They
acknowledge the benefit of the paper,
but when asked to advertise in it re
ply that their peculiar business does
not need advertising, they are too
well known, etc. Yet these same peo
ple get a fair portion of the trade
which the paper influences towards a
town or prevents from going else
where, and are among the first to
proffer advice os to how the paper
should be conducted.—Dahlonega
Nugget.
Maysville.
Rain and mad are very plentiful
these days.
We were very glad to see our
friend T. N. Henderson, formerly
with Carr & Bacon but now going to
school at Brasstown, Ga., in town
Sunday.
Neal failed to put in an appearance
Saturday and Sunday. Neal you
will have to give Miss A. an explan
at ion.
Prof. Ware, of Arp, Ga., was in
town Sunday mixing with his many
friends—especially the ladies.
The mail from Homer failed to get
here Saturday We guess it was on
account of high water.
Capt. T. J. Carr and Bijl Adding
ton leu Teusday with a drove of
mules.
The Maysville band went serenad
ing Saturday night and gave the
citizens some very fine music.
Several of our boys went to Homer
Friday night to take the “royal
bumper" degree in masonry.
Rev. Mr. McCarty preached a very
interesting sermon Sunday at the
Baptist church.
Garrison Bros, have bong t anew
engine to run their saw mill, which is
stiuated about one mile from this
place.
Dr. Strickland is one of the pretti
est men in tow n also a very fine phy
sician.
Mr. James' A. Garrard’s wtf* pre
sented him with a very hansome birth
day present —it was a bouncing boy.
Our friend J. D. Cox has purchased
a very fine violin which cost him
forty dollars. He knows how to use
it also.
Rev. N. Trimble was sent back as
pastor on this circuit of the M. E.
church.
Owing to so much bad weather
there is a great deal of sickness in
this community.
Maysville can boast of having two
of the la rgost attended Sabbath
schools of any other place of its size
in Georgia.
Prof. Brock’s school is increasing
every day—so mote it be.
Our new mayor, J. M. Eberhart,
will be installed in office at the next
meeting of the council—he is a good
man.
, Col. Mack Edwards was in town
Friday, be is always welcome.
Long live the Gazette.
Jimbo.
It Pays, That’s Why.
The advejtiser in a sin ill way often
stands aghast nt the large sums of
money which certain masters of the
art are known to spend annually in
bringing their goods before the public.
Having bad experience only within
his own narrow circle he asks in a
bewildered way how it is possil 1 • that
they can make it pay. He tak s pen
cil and paper and begins to figure it
out. Supposing their profits on a
single side to be so much, he deter
mines how many sales they would
have to make to cover their entire ad
vertising expenditure. About the
time he reaches this result he gives
up in despair and falls back on the
old but safe conclusion that these
princes of advertising nre conducting
their business for the purpose of mak
ing money, and that if they did not
find their advertising paid they would
not continue it.—Gainesville Eagle.
O’FARRELL & FUNKENSTEIN, Furniture Dealers and Undertakers, and LEADERS OF LOW PRICES
Vh Ocean Cnee la England,
The “ocean cure” for consumptive*
is practiced by English physicians in
this way: The patient is ordered to em
bark at the end of the month of Sep
tember on a sailing vessel bound for
Australia. Once past Cape Flnisterre
—for Europeans, in former times, the
“end of the earth"—the traveler may
see no land for two or three months.
He is far at sea, with little to remind
him of anything in his past life, breath
ing an atmosphere which is free from
dust and smoke, and also freer than
any atmosphere on land from the mi
crobes which often cause disease.
For the most part, he is in a kindly
climate, and the slow progress of his
vessel accustoms him gradually to such
changes of air as he must undergo.
He arrives in Australia in the summer
of that latitude. Here he is advised to
remain for a month or six weeks, and
then to re-embark on a sailing vessel
bound for England. Ordinarily he
reaches England on his return in June,
when the dangers to consumptives
from the climate of that country are
. well nigh past.
Out of fifty-six cases of consumptives
in whieb this treatment was followed,
and of which records were kept, forty
four reported marked improvement. In
five cases the condition remained the
same; in four it became worse, and
only one patient died.—Youth’s Com
panion.
Talleyrand*, Entry Into Society.
The cold manners, the outward shov
of reserve I had adopted had made
some people assert that I was a clever
man. Mine, de Gramont, who dis
liked any reputation of which she had
not been the prime mover, proved use
ful to rue at my debut in endeavoring
to embarrass me. It was on the occa
sion of my first supper at Mine, de
Bou flier's, at Auteuil. I was seated at
one end of the table, barely venturing
an occasional word with my neighbor.
Suddenly, in a loud and iionh voice
Mme. de Gnunont calls me by my name,
and asks me what had struck me so
forcibly when entering the room after
her as to mako me say, “Ahl ah!"
“Madaine la Duchease," I reply, “has
not heard me rightly; what I said was
not ‘Ah! all!’ it was ‘Oh I oh!’ ” My
answer, poor wit though it was, raised
a laugh. I went on with my supper,
and said no more; but on rising from
table, I was greeted by several of tho
guests, and received for tho following
days various invitations which enabled
me to make the acquaintance of per
sons whom I was very anxious to meet
—Talleyrand's Memoirs in Century.
Tho A partir Criterion of Wire*.
The plural wife system prevails nt
San Carlos, where it is regarded by
Apache bucks os profitable for ihe rea
son that wives are tireless toilers. They
chop wood, carry water, pack liay
lierd stock, build wickiups, cook, and
in fact do all tho labor calculated to
contribute to the necessity and com
fort of the camp. Apache women are
mereliantable—are bought and sold.
A buck’s wealth is estimated in part
by tho number of his wives. The value
of a wife is calculated by the weight she
can carry; therefore those ha vi ng defect
ive spines and unable to pack a sack of
flour, or bundle of hay, or an eighth of
a cord of wood and a pappoose at the
same time, aro not regarded as valu
able property, and ore less appreciated
by their masters than a pony or a burro.
-Globe Silver Bell.
Wooden Ramis to Prevent Them Bo rating.
The natives of several of the South
Sea islands cut off cylinders of hollow
trees and slip them up over the feet
and legs to the armpits, thus leaving
the whole stomach and abdomen rev
ered with a solid wooden band. In this
condition they begin the feast wliich
celebrates both the beginning and tho
ending of tho rainy season. Sumard
mentions seeing them so tightly wedged
in these improvised casks as to be utter
ly incapable of extricating themselves
even by outside help.
Tho misery endured by these poor
fanatics while in this helpless condition
must bo terrible, as it is well known
that the roots, fruits and plantaiu they
use for food causes misery to tho user,
even when not fettered by .bonds of
any kind. Yet it is not strange that
these savages should have such rites
•when our forefathers of but a few oen
turies ago did ns bad or even worse,
not oven providing a wooden band.—
8b Louis Republic.
A Core for Warts.
I removed a formidable wart from
my daughter’s hand by the application
of simple lemon Juice, which is an in
fallible cure. The wart requires satu
rating with the juice once or twice a
day for three or four days, or about a
week in some cases. The wart dimin
ishes gradually and disappears alto
gether without pain, and leaving no
mark and without incurring any of the
risks mentioned in connection with the
professional process. Another equally
efficacious and harmless method is to
saturate the wait with potato water
daily for about a week, or, better still,
with tho froth obtained from the water
while tho potatoes are being boiled.—
Cor. Home Queen.
To Oui Credit.
Tho canned fruits and meats ex
ported by tho United States have im
proved 30 per cent, in the last two
years, and ure again being Largely pur
chased In tho countries which laid al
most outlawed them. Packers found
i that adulterating their goods, in haste
to get rich, simply killed a market in
one season, and only first class goods
are now shipped.—Detroit Freo Press.
Clothing.
Clothing,
HATS,
GENTS'FURNISHINGS,Etc.
Largest Stock in the City.
Prices to Please All.
j When here come ar.d inspect our slock.
Geo. Mune Ac Cos.
The CLOTHIERS,
38 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA,
Book s and Stationery.
D. W. M c GREGOR,
The BOOK STORE
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Fire Works, Christmas Goods and
Booke in everv variety. Wholesale
prices to merchants.
Picture*.
C. W. Motes
ARTISTIC.
Photographer
34lWhitehall St,
ATLANTA, - GA.
Jewelry.
~A.S. M A NDEVILLE
DEALER IN
CLOCKS, JEWELERY, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE,
Repairing and Engraving done
with care and warreuted to give satis*
action.
Op. the college, Athens, Gn.
Money to Loan.
Money to I^oan.
Parties wanting to borrow nionev
cheap on farm lands can get it on ver
short notice by coming to see me or
wriiiug to me at Jefferson, Jackson
county, Ga. J. W.HILL.
Shoemakiny.
W. F. HILL,
f Boot ancLShoc
MAKER,
HOMER, ... - GEORG'A.
Repairing of all kinds neatly done.
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