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Banks County Gazette.
VOL 1 .—NO. 44.
A Batch of Conundrum*.
Wh/ will a man put high prices on
his property and refuse to help any
enterprise, and say he wants his town
to prosper ?
Why will a man say he is too poor
to buy his wife a nice dress and never
let his tobacco get out?
Why will a man drink whisky when
he knows it frets his wife, embarrasses
his children, takes Ids money and
reason, and makes a fool of him
generally ?
Why will a man say he loves his
wife ami stays away from her all he
can ?
Why will .a man excuse himself
from Church to stay with his wife, and
the rest of the time he is anywhere
but with her?
Why will a man say its too mudy
to go to church when he will wade to
get to a frolic or to the club?
Why will a man say be is too poor
to educate his children when his
whisky and tobacco bill would do it?
Why will a man go through the
world thinking he is fooling every
body when nobody is fooled but him
self?
Observer.
Two men met in Tombstone, Ariz.,
the other night, who had not seen
each other in fifteen years. When
they had talked together for ten min
utes they discovered that they had
d>oth teen on a coroner's jury in Mon
tana, which; to say the least, was a
remarkable one. The case was one
of a man found drowned in the Yel
lowstone river, his body was brought
to the coroner’s rooms, the jury sum
moned, and the body, examined. In
the hip pocket of his overalls was
found a Colt’s six shooter, and in an
other pocket a gold piece. The
justice, who was also the coroner, as
is also the rule in Arizona at the pres
ent time, lined the corpse §2O for
carrying* a concealed weapon, and
then went on with the inquest.—
Tombstone Prospector.
The true climber knows the delight
trusting his path, of following it
without seeing a step before him, or
a glimpse of a blue skv above him,
sometimes only knowing that it is
the right path because it is the only
one, and because it leads upward.
This our daily duty was to us. Though
we did not do it the faithful plodder
was sure to win the heights. Uu
oonciously we learned the lesson that
only by humble doing can any of us
win the lofty possibilities of being.
For, indeed, what we all want to find
is not so much our place as our path.
The path leads to the place, and the
place, when we have found it, is only
a clearing by the roa side, an open
ing into another path.—Lucy Tar
com.
A school teacher not far front Gor
don a short while since gave out the
word “cat” to a class of small boys to
be spelled, and in order to see how
many different ways it would be
spelled, would say “next” every time
and pass the word on. In a class of
about fourteen every boy spelled the
word differently, but the climax was
capped when it came the turn of the
last little fellow. lie was a bright
chap, and began to grow impatient
before his time came, for fear lest
someone would spell it correctly be
fore him. However, at the proper
time he staightened himself up, and
with a bright smile upon his face, be
gan to spell in a loud and distinct
toue of voice, “q-u-a-t t-e—cat. He
was put at the bead of the class for
his originality.—Gordon Press.
From the very beginning of her
administry, Mrs. General Booth, lately
deceased was an unflinching advocate
of teetotalism, and to her influence is
due the acceptance of the rule abso
lutely excluding from membership in
the Salvation Army any one who par
takes of intoxicating liquors. Each
man and woman, hoy and girl of the
entire force is a pledged hater of
alcohol in every' form. This pledge
has been the means of cutting off the
new recruits from old companions
who loved the strong drink, and
keeping them loyal to the Army of
their adoption. “Mind, Herbert,” Mrs.
Booth said to one of her sons, “let
my coilin be a plain one, for 1 'want it
to preach the same sermon as my
bonnet.” The unspoken sermon has
been reverently listened to by hun
dreds of thousands of all sort sand
conditions of men and women in all
parts of the world.—Union Signal.
There comes a time to us when we
hardly know which way to turn, or
in which direction to look for aid.
No man or woman lives to middle
life without going through some hard
places. Bitter experience conies to
the heart. Dear ones are taken away.
Riches are ifesipatcd. The trusted
prove unworthy of confidence, and
the soul is like a ship beaten on the
wind and tossed. But there is always
one way to loojj. Look up. There,
far above the black clouds, forever
shines the blue. There, somewhere
out of sight, but inexpressibly near
to the trail one who *eeks his help,
is the Friend who is ever waiting to
be gracious.—Religious Telescope.
To do good we must first be good.
If the character he good, the conduct
will be good. Wc must put our
main efforts on being good, and our
good works will llow out as naturally
as we breathe. I'oter exhorts us to
give all dilligmcc to complete our
Christian character. It wo do this,
lie says, we will not only never fall,
but we will not be idle nor unfruitful.
Aiming at perfection in Christian
character, and giving all dilligence to
secure that end, will bear much fruit
of good doing by an iinpViative spit
itual law.
The legislature of New York,
having twice voted to submit to the
people a prohibitory amendment to
the Constitution, the vote is to be
taken at a speci-i election held the
the second Tuesday in April. The
amendment reads as follows: “No
person shall manufacture for sale, or
sell or keep for sale as a beverage,
any in oxicating liquors, whether
brewed, fermented, or distilled. The
legislature shall by law prescribe reg
utnlions for the enforcement of this
article, and shall provide suitable
penalties for its violation.” The Chris
tian Advocate well says: “Here is an
opportunity, without jeopardizing any
other interests, without being com
plicated with any other principle, to
walk up to the polls and deliver the
solemn testimony of a citizen that the
rum traffic is evil, and only evil, and
that continually, and should be out
lawed ”
The spirit that will win for Christ
in the home or foreign fields was well
illustrated by the missionary Milne,
who offered himself as a missionary
to China, hut was refused. He offered
to go as a servant, and was accepted;
he blacked Morrison’s shoes and did
a servants work until he acquired the
language and was ready for work;
then he became the greatest mission
ary of Southeast Asia. Did this
spirit universally prevail, heathendom
would be stocked with missionaries—
more than that, stocked with mission
aries whose presence would be felt
as a mighty force, a consuming
flame.
How We Are Apt to Forgive.
A minister once made an effort to
show one of his church members the
duty of forgiving another member
who had done him a serious injury.
After administering a great deal of
sound advice, without producing
much impression, the pastor thought
he would try what virtue there might
be in scripture, and quoted the in
junction: “If thine enemy hunger,
feed him: if he thirst, give hiip drink;
for ill f j doing thou shalt heap coals
of fire on his head;” to which the
aggrieved brother listened without
interest, until his pastor came to the
“coals of fire,” when his eye flashed,
and lie smote the table with his fist,
saying: “That’s it; I’ll burn him !”
i In this the unforgiving man spoke
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 181)1.
openly what a great many feel in
secret’ We all admit that forgive
ness is a beautiful thing in theory, and
still more beautiful in practice; but,
after all, how hard it is really to for
give. Consciously or unconsciously,
we often wait to “get even,” and then
the thing is done easily and heartily.
Or we wait to do our offending neigh
bor a “good turn,” until we carry out
the “burning” idea by an illustration
of our own Christian magnanimity
ami his meanness in a way which he
will retnotnber. Or we argue our
selves into the belief 1 that we are at
liberty to wait until the offender
“comes down' 1 ’ and asks forgiveness,
which is readily granted, simply be
cause it is our triumph and his hum
iliation. All these are common ways
of forgiving, but does any one of them
fulfill the law of Christ?—Christian
at Work.
The Christian at Work says: “A
conscientious and ardent teacher,
who hives Christ and longs to see his
kingdom extended, can find many tit
ling opportunities not only to illus
trate the principles of Christianity for
his own character, but to enforce
them upon his pupils, as guiding and
practical precepts. It was the intuiK
lion id the founders of our colleges,
as their history amply shows, that the
men of God occupying the professor
[ ships should thus supplement and
carry forward the home religious nur
ture and inspiration.”
As men get older they think more
and more of their parents. We have
a venerable friend, whose bead is
white with the frosts of seventy-five
winters, and who tells us that his
mother, though fifty years in heaven,
is present to his mind every day of
his life. From facts like these, let
mothers take comfort. Their work
i:. nut in vain. The rough, strong
hoys, who seem to give no heed to
counsel now, will be reflecting men
after awhile; and the truths that are
sown in their hearts will bear an
abundant harvest in duo seasons.—
Nashville Advocate.
San so—“I sec by the papers that n
gre.it many poor Italians make their
fortunes in America. I wonder how
they manage it?” Rodd—“lt is quite
simp! ;. They come here and work
tis laborers until they stive S4OO or
§SOO, then they go back to Italy and
buy a title, and return to America
and marry an heiress.” Harper’s
Bazar.
The Advance, in an article on
“Our Christian Colleges,’’ makes this
point: “In one respect the Christian
condition of our colleges is not auspi
cious. The number of students who
are preparing for the ministry is
small. The percentage of decrease,
which has been great for generations,
still continues to lessen. It is evi
dent that either Ibis downward move
ment must he immediately brought to
an end or that the educated ministry
will be brought to an end. We seri
ously fear that the statistics would
show that the proportion of educated
men in the ministry is lessening.”
Once in a while we meet with peo
ple who arc just religious enough to
want everybody else to do right. The
tribe of those that busy themselves
with pulling motes out of their broth
ers’ eyes, whilo neglecting the beams
that obscure their own vision, is not
yet extinct. To all such the Lord
Jesus says now, as he did in the days
of his flesh: “First cast out the beam
out of thine own eye, and then shall
thou see clearly to cast out the mote
out of thy brother’s eye.”—Nashville
Advocate.
Across The Rubicon.
Henceforth the Leader and its edit
or wi’l give their first political allegi
ance to the Prohibition party. This
decision has not been reached hastily
and without mature deliberation, but
slowly, reluctantly and only' in re
sponse' to a clear conviction of patri
otic duty; for old party ties are hard
to sever, and old prejudices hard to
bury.
The country needs anew party. As
we see it, there is little to hope for
from either of the old national polit
ical parties. Both have outlived
their days of usefulness. Both are
too sectional and too likely to remain
so to grapple with the issues of the
day in a broad, national spirit and
keep step with the progress of the
age.
It has not been twenty five years
since Lee surrendered at Appomattox;
in some instances young forests bave
sprung up over the graves of the brave
men who fell on either side, anew
generation hrs been born, grown up
and married and is raising children,
and yet the politicians of both old
parties are still fighting over the
dead issues o£ the war and keeping
alive ns best they can the fires of sec
tional hate and prejudice.
The only democratic president
elected in a third of a century was
elected by a ‘Solid South, ami three
states north of Masons and Dixon’s
line, and at the next eLction was de
feated on sectional lines, only two
little northern states and the solid
south casting their electoral votes for
him. The hope of the republican
party in the next, contest is to ho’d
the north solid; and confessedly, the
only ho'po of the democratic party is
to hold the solid south again and
win three or four northern states.
Thus the everlasting sectional see
'awing goes on.
It has been argued, with some ap
parent shojv of reason, that the south
is solid because of her large negro
population, but the democracy in the
states of Delaware, Maryland, Mis
souri, Kentucky, and Texas, which
contain but a few negroes, is just as
sectional and just as set against the
old republican states as Mississippi
and Louisiana, where the negroes
predominate.
Neither of the old national parties
lias the time or inclination to deal
with -the liquor question, which is
.grciHer than the tariff or any other
living issue. The whiskey power,
the most dictatorial, corrupt and
demoralizing combination in this
country, lias both hopelessly by the
throat. The attitude of the national
democratic party towards prohibition
is that of open and avoVed hostility;
that of the republican party, hyp >■
ty; that of the republican part*,
critical pretense arid treachery.—
Brookhnven (Miss.,) Leader.
The soul is such an instrument
that no sooner is it set in pence with
itself than it becomes an instrument
in tune —a living instrument, discours
ing heavenly music in its thoughts,
and chanting melodies of bliss, even
in its dreams. When a soul is in
harmony, no fires of calamity, no
pains of outward torment, can for
one moment break the sovereign
spell of its joy. It will turn the fires
of freshening gales and the pains to
sweet instigations of love and bless
ing.—H. Buslmell.
“So, you say y< u want seven but
tons on this waist, Miss Susy. Must
I put another on?” “Well, yes, 1
think so. You see with six it never
comes right when I say, ‘He loves
me—be doesn’t love me, and so on
Ithink I must have one more button.”
Citizen: “Yes, I have an umbrella
that needs mending; but if I let you
have it bow am I to know that you
will bring it back?” Umbrella men
der: “Ha’ no fear; I always sharge
more for mending dan I could sell zee
umbrella for.”
The Salvation Army lias opened a
large room in Amsterdam, Holland,
and is doing much to lelieve the dis
tress of that city. On the second
night the building was opened for the
purpose over two hundred outcasts
were sheltered.
The most dfficult of all lessons to
learn is that of meekness. It is not
so hard to do many tilings great or
small for Christ, but to do these
things in his spirit is our most diffi
cult lesson. But the spirit m which
the work is done is greater than the
work. The spirit in yvliich tlie work
is done gives to the work its value,
its beauty, and its aroma.—Nashville
Advocate.
ONE OF LINCOLN’S EARLY CASES.
Tlie Grout Man Whittled a Little Wind
mill to Convince the Jury.
In the year IS4B there was a memo
rable lawsuit in Chicago between Par
ker and Hoyt over the infringement of
a patent right of a water wheel. Adams,
Butterfield and others wore attorneys
for the plaintiff, and Abraham Lincoln
for the defendant. During the progress
of the suit John Brink, Eso., now of
Crystal Lake, Ills., chanced to be in
the city, and the following is his ac
count of It;
The trial lasted thirteen days and ex
cited an unusual amount of interest.
'When Mr. Brink reached the city he
found every one talking about the suit
aud the groat supreme court lawyer,
Abraham Lincoln. Judge Drummond,
of the United States district court, pre
sided at the trial, lie sustained Lin
coln in all of his propositions and in all
of his objections to the positions taken
by tlie opposing counsel.
In the course of the trial a flume was
made and water applied to the wheels
for the purpose of demonstrating to the
jurors the exact faets in the case. In
dian meal was thrown into the water to
show the Jury more clearly the effect of
the water on the wheels. Soon after
this experiment had been made Lawyer
Adams said to Mr. Brink, “Don’t you
think we have the best of the case?”
Mr. Brink replied: “I do not know that
lain a suitable judge, as I did not ar
rive hero until the suit had boon in
progress two or throe days. But this
man Lincoln seems to hold you live fel
lows pretty snug."
Then Adams said: “1 would rather
fight every lawyer in the state of Illi
nois than Abe Lincoln, because he is a
natural man, a natural lawyer and nat
ural mechanic —in fact, a natural any
thing—and he knows more about that
waterwheel than the man who made it,
and I don’t know anything about it.”
While the attorneys for the plaintiff
were making their pleas Lincoln sat
there, and although listening attentive
ly, whittled out a pine stick about half
an inch square and a foot long. From
tlmt lie cut off two pieces about three
inches in length, and with these two
pieces he made the wings of a wind
mill. lie fastened them together by
running a pin through the center of the
two wings and that pin into the end of
the other and longer stick. After hav
ing put it together lie blow upon it,
and when it worked to his satisfaction
ho took it apart and placed it in his
pocket.
There were eighty-four witnesses on
the two sides, and Mr. Brink thinks
that Uncoln took no notes, but trusted
wholly to memory.
He requested the witnesses to be
present during his plea, and said if lie
made any mistakes in regard to their
testimony he wished them to correct
him. Whilo presenting his sido of the
caso lie took out the above mentioned
windmill from his pocket and putting
it together blew upon it and explained
it to the jury. He assured them that
if any infringement laid been made
Parker had infringed upon the old
time windmill, and that Hoyt had not
infringed upon Parker. Adams was to
make tho closing plea, and in Lincoln’s
speecii lie anticipated what Adams
would say, and by this moans weakened
the force of his plea. Lincoln won iris
case, and the jury were out only a little
over two hours. —Chicago Tribune.
Bats in Cold Wcallier.
At the beginning of the cold weather
bats begin to huddle together in regu
lar bunches in hollow trees, dark cor
ners in deserted hous a or in caves in
the rocks. They gradually lose all sen
sibility and continue in a drowsy,state
until tho return of genuine warm
weather. The little hooks at the end
of tho joints of each wing of a bat are
what the bat hangs itself up by when it
goes to sleep.
When the bats are clustering for
their winter’s sleep one of tho number
hangs itself in this way, head down
ward and the others cling to it. Jt is
said that sixty bats have been found in
one cluster tho entiro weight of the
lot being sustained by the one bat with
bis hooks clinging to whatever he
fastened them to at tho start. The
position of the central hat in such a
cluster would be like that of a man
hanging to something by his thumb
nails mid supporting the weight of
fifty-nine other men. Hats that have
obtained the outside position in bunches
of this kind have been found so badly
frozen that their wings could be broken
like brittle candy, yet, on putting them
in a warm place, they soon “thawed
out” and came to life as if nothing had
happened to them. —Detroit Free Press.
An ItxplHnatlcn.
Clarinda—Y/but detains Cousin Will
so long in the vestibule?
Clarissa—He’s tubbing his gums ea
the mat
Clark: la—Good heavens! Why don’t
he use a toothbrush.
Uncle Fred—Permit, mo to explain.
The young man is cleaning his rubbers.
—Pittsburg Bulletin.
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS,
RACING WITH THE WIND.
Adventurous Kxperlenee r>f a Lineman
on a Railroad Tricycle.
James De Boe, a lineman employed
by tlie Great Northern Railway com
pany, accomplished a feat which, while
it was to a great extent involuntary,
is no less remarkable. De Boe is furn
ished by the company with one of those
tricycles so constructed as to ran on the
regular railway tracks. Tlie machine
works with a hand lover, and the speed
of ten miles or more an hour is quite
commonly attained. De Boe accom
plished the extraordinary feat of keep
ing up with a short, line train, running
thirty miles an hour, for a distance of
over two miles. He wouldn’t do it
again, lie says, for 1-510,000. He was
waiting in the yards for the 7:30 train
to Minneapolis to pass him.
The train passed all right and stop
ped for a few seconds with the tail
coach dose to where Do Boe stood
with his machine. Tiiat gentleman
conceived a brilliant idea. He would
take a turn with a section of No. 6 wire
on one of the coach buffers, make tlie
other end fast to bis wheel and save
labor. The connection was made in
such a Way that lie calculated lie could
release himself by cutting the wire
when the speed was too high. 110
chuckled when the train started up to
think what a snap lie was going to have
in getting to Como.- The train was a
fraction of a minute late, though, and
the speed ran up to twenty miles in no
time. De 800 saw with alarm that the
little wfTt'el on the other track was
jumping a foot clear of the rail overy
few seconds Ho determined to cut
the wire, and reached round behind for
his pliers.
They were gone. The unusual mo
tion had jerked them out of the tool
box. 'Elio speed was up to twenty-five
miles an hour now and the tricycle was
spinning along on two wheels, witli the
beam carrying the third fanning the
air like a kite tail.
De Boe was working hard to unwind
the connection with his fingers when
there was a gigantic plunge. A tele
graph lineman shot through the air
like a meteor and landed in a sand
bank beside the track. A railroad try
cycle kept going and lit thirty feet
further on a badly wrecked vehicle.
The concern had run off the track.—
St. Paul Globe.
A Pen Portrait.
The following is an exquisite portrait
in miniature of one of Talleyrand’s
early friends:
Nobody ever appeared to me to pos
sess a conversational charm compara
ble to her.;. She had no pretentious
ness; her words never bore, if I may
say so, any striking color; she spoke Inf
delicate shadings; no witticism ever
fell from her lips: that wot£l have been
too violent. Witticisms are remem
bered, whereas she only sought to please,
and to let tho words Ixs forgotten. An
abundant stock of facile, now and ever
delicate expressions supplied tho varied
requirements of her intelligence.
This lady has inspired me with a
thorough aversion for people who, in
Older to speak the more accurately, use
none lmt technical terms. 1 have no
faitli in the brain power, or in tlie
science, of persons who are ignorant of
equivalents, and go on forever defining;
it is to their memory alone they are in
debted for what they know, and ac
cordingly they know it badly. I am
sorry that this remark should have oc
curred to me during M. do Humboldt’s
stay in Paris, but now it is penned let
it remain.—Talleyrand’s Memoirs in
Century.
How n Quaker Custom Sturtod.
Y/litn Fox, the first of Quakers, was
Meting La church, and the preacher
said anything which ho didn’t, liko, ha
moved solemnly, put on his hat and
kept It on until tho disagreeable re
marks concluded. Hence aroso the
Quaker custom of wearing hats- In
church.—Clothier and Furnisher,
blie uuart Litre*
“It’s too bad, lady, but you’ve drop
ped a elevated railroad ticket inter the
box.” said a bridge ticket chopper.
“Oh, that’s all right,” said the wom
an. “1 put the bridge ticket in the ele
vated railroad box.”
Then she moved on into the station,
having failed to catch tlie idea which
the chopper had in his mind when he
touched her on the elbow. The chop
per’s remark was meant to boa round
about demand for a bridge ticket. But
the woman understood the remark
literally. She thought that a kind
hearted public functionary had ex
pressed his regret that she should have
put a flvo-eent ticket in the box when
a two and-u-half-cent ticket would have
been good enough.
But if the woman failed to read the
mind of tlie chopper, sbo certainly non
plused him with her answer, and it was
not until slio had become lost in tlie
great crowd which was waiting for
transportation that it dawned upon >the
chopper that he would have served his
employers bettor if Lie had not been so
civil—New York Times.