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fii.VKS fOIMV GHiZTTE, EPULIS IT ED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - - • GEORGIA. BY HAMES Sc HILL. UTTIiUt'V TI>TTAW • UV/JUUX, iV* a A'-'A’ • One year <• SI.OO feix months r -50 To Correspondent*. Write the news. Write plainly, and give proper names cornclly. We will correct improper spelling, and punctu ation. Notices of marriages, deaths, agri cultural and educational mailers, Cliorch and Sundaysehool work arc specially requested. . wmssasss::: ‘aryj, :.rrr. : j Entered at the Poetoffice at Homer, ,6a., a* eecondrClatß modi matter, l 111 — '...'j.. Homeb, Ga., Wedsesday, Mar. 11. Gen. Gordon has carried out hts {dodge. He joined the Alliance last Friday. The body of Emma Abbot was •cremated in I'ittßbury on the 24th of February. Military companies of the state are somewhat stired up on the location of the state encampment. The Monroe high school building at Charlotte N. C. was burned on the sth. Two of the students per ished in the flames. * It is said that 10 per cent of the $20,000,000 to the capital stock of the Mt. Carmel Aeronautic Naviga tion Company has been paid in to navigate the air by their balloon ships. One of the best tliigs the last legis lature did was to pass a law prohib iting railway companies to employ a person under the age of 18 years as telegraph operator to govern the movement of trains. Men of experi ence should hold the keys when the lives of so many people are at stake. A preparatory department has been added to the Technological school. It will open on the 16ti. This is a move in the right direction, and the money appropriated to this institution will do the citizens of the state great good. The counties that arc not represented at present will have the prefforence. Who will be the boy from Banks? You should make your application at once. Ep.roß Gazette: I notice you have anew corres pondent trom our vicinity, but news and wholesale and retail gossip is so plentiful I must take a hand to let your readers know that D. Radical is pot dead but has been slumbering. We have m our midst a certain young divine whose entire theme of conversation is criticising and abusing other people. Ho seems to think that he is a fit model for all to mould by. He is perfection and all others are imperfect. Yeung man, this is wrong. You should look at your own walk in life, and if you are not satis fied with the way other people do we say, profit by their misconduct and say nothing. People in this community are geat ly excited lest they do something and get their names in the paper. I would advise you to be careful, Rod Hoad is abroad and he is a reporter of ex ceptionable merit. He knows how to report a fashionable carding and Spanish fandango. We notice in a recent issue of yonr paper the Hollingsworth correspond ent says Air. Chambers has erected a nice cottage on the corner of Broad and Hill streets. Wonder where or m what direction Hill street leads? Whore is the tow n of Holiingworth anyhow ? Farmers are badly behind. No farm work of any consequence has been done. Very few oats have been sown as yet, and every thing has a desolate, disconsolate appearance What are the poor farmers to do? They are whore Moses was when the light went out. Education is booming. We have a good school at Leathcrwood and Broad ltiver, and only four miles to the Hollingsworth college. Mr. S. H. Wilkinson's two sons and others from this community are at tending school at the Hollingsworth college. It is our sincere wish that you printers would get married or quit so much talk about it one. 1 will close for this time, and if D. Radical’s remains is not consigned to the waste basket he will comb again when he takes a nap. D. Radical. Rylec’s Stool House. Having seen nothing from this section I thought 1 would write. We have a school at this place of fifty schollars wiih Mr. Isaac King as teacher, and ho knows how to teach a good school. Farmers are doing nothing in the way of farming. Oat sowing has been suspened for a few days on account of rain. Mr. Li. 11. Suddath has plenty of measles and some to spare. Sheriff Henderson was up Saturday looking around. What is the matter Mr. H.? The cook has come back to the old stand. Mr. Felix Kinsey, who has been sick, is Better. Cricket. Moss. Many of the farmers arc getting very badly behind with their farming. Ms. Harvey West has been quite sick for several days, but we under stand he is improving. Mrs. Tabor’s little boy died a few days ago. Rev T. S. Wells visited Clarkes ville court last week, and p .rehased a couple of fine mules. Mr. Floyd Pierco gave the young people an entert iinment last week. Miss Edna Rice had a carding party a few days ago, and the young people enjoyed it very much. The spring term of Rev. A. W Edwards’ school will dose the 13th of March. Red Road. Cost. The peach trees are almost in bloom. Mr. B. 15. Garrison is very sick with pneumonia. Mr. B. I*. Pool has been quite sick, but is better. Married at the home of the bride Mr. J. A. Martin to Miss R. A. Pool. What has become of Limber Jim and the sharp shooter of Hollings worth. There will be singing at Damascus church on the fourth Sunday in March by Professor Hays. The farmers are badly behind in this section. Mr. D. H. P. Garrison wants shucks to run the Peidniont Bed factory. Mr. John W. Watson went hunt ing and killed a coon. 1 will write again if I see this in print. Hurrah for The Gazette. Cheap. Wo aro having rain and lots of it. The Bible says it rained forty days and nights on Old Noah. It has beat the record this year, but we still live in hopes that the weather will settle in time to make a crop. It seems that Cheap has two cor respondents. I don’t know how to write, but as Cheap Boy exhorts from the scriptures, 1 will try to inform the people on general topics. The rain prevented both Brother Pendergrass and his congregation from materializing at Alt. Pleasant Sunday. Suuday school will begin with the second quarter at Alt. Pleasant first Sunday in April. We would be glad to see every one who can come out •n that occasion. Mr. Benson Garrison is still quite sick with pneumonia. Very few oats have been sown and very little guano hauled in this com munity. We need a railroad and we neeed it bad. Everybody in Banks county ought to take The Gazette, for it is the newsiest and best paper in the south. We hope to seo The Gazette a first class daily with one hundred thousand subscribers, and a railroad from Lula to Homer, and from Homer to Carnesville, by way of Cheip. Rex. Gillxville. We are now having what the Eng lish man calls “awfully nasty weatn er.” The out-door workmen all seem to be a unit on the question of seeing the clouds roll by. They are anxious to get to work again. We trust, how ever, that the weather will soon change for the better, and then we will have to leave a perfect blue steak behind us until we catch up with the season. The school at this place is progress ing nicely.' Professor Dennis has secured Miss Maggie Chandler as assistant teacher. We think he has acted very wise by so doing. Miss Maggie is an accomplished young lady in every respect. Miss Mamie Curtis, an accomplish ed young lady of Elberton, has been visiting Misses G. H. Suddath and Clara Garrison this week. Mr. C. W. Meaders has contracted to build the new school building at j this place The ground has been cleared off and the lumber is now being sawed. The prospects are we will soon have a fine school building. Mrs. John Wbelchel, who has been sick for several weeks, has relapsed and is “very sick. Mrs. Landers is very sick and is not expected to live. Mr. L. H. Suddath has measles. Miss Lillie Sue doth has returned home from Hiawossee and will enter school here. Three cheers for The Gazette. Broad Brim. Banksville. Wrightown is on a boom. Mr. J. W. Balager has built a fine residence near the center of town. Mr. W. T. Harrison has erected a fine dwelling on the corner of Hill street. It is thought he will keep hoarding house during the summer. We have a very good Sunday school at New Hope. Miss Dora Echols is one of our best, ’girls. She is a good help both in Sunday school and prayer meeting. Our Alliance lodge at Hebron is still growing. Mr. Henry Wright bought a fine horse the other day. There has been but little dope on the farm, owing to the bird weather. Mr. P. F. Loftis' made eleven bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn last year. Who can beat it? Mr. Bill Roberts has left town. He says a man is a “krank” that will live at an old poor place where he can’t make anything. Mr. Wyly J. Vickory has a very sick child Mr. T. B. Bruce is still looking after his oats. We don’t think the cows have troubled him in the last day or two, however. Mr. Bruce is one of best men. - Success to Tiik Gazette. Maysville. Bad weather yet. Every body has la grippe and the more it rains the tighter it grips. Rev. R. H. Robb, of Atlanta, it the guest of Mr. A. B. Means. Prof. Ware, of Arp, visited friends in this city Saturday. Jas. M. Aleans and C. J. Browning made a flying trip to the classic city Friday. They report a pleasant time. Miss Ella Gary, of Royston, Ga., is teaching a writing school at this place. Several of our young men went to Homer to the meeting of the mosonic lodge Frinay night. Prof. Brock is receiving new stu dents every day. Hurrah for our school. Mr. C. S. Bates, of Harmony Grove, was in our town last week. Mr. Bates is a model young man and we wel come him to our town any time. Mrs. R. J. Hale has returned from AlcTyeriere where she has been for some time. Miss Ruby Irwin, one of Maysvilla’s sweetest girls, received a handsome birth-day present the other day. The hoys say either Jim Ateans, Andy Cathey or Joe Jones gave it. Own up boys. Rev. Mr. AlcCarty preached a very interesting sermon Sunday at the Baptist church. The school boys have organized a debating clup at the academy. The band gave us some fine music last week at the residence of Mrs. Brewer. A certain fellow in town says he gets more like his mother every and y. One of our young M. D.’s said he lacked to have enjoyed himself to death at Ilomor Friday night. Girls yon-are to funny for him. Jimbo. Tle Rod in God’s School. In the school of human life the i divine teacher not only gives instruc | tier., but often applies the rod; and on none does the rod fall more beavl ly than on those who are too head strong or self conceited'to be taught by God or man. Who of ns has net at some time telt the smart of that \ deserved rod ? As we turn over tl e 1 leaves of life’s record book we come up n those silly, self-willed days when presumption mounted the en gine, and prudence never used die brakes. To one comes up the sad memory of lost opportunities to gain certain kinds of knowledge, the want of which leaves a mortifying gap; to j another the memory of a premature.] rush into business without a proper ] training for it—or the choice of com panions who were a subtle poison to the soul—or some other pitiable blun der that has left its ugly scar. I might point to more than one de jected, care stricken woman, to whom sighs are her daily breath, and tears are her daily cup. Time was when that face beamed with girlhood’s glad ness, and when her maiden band held on the-pivot of a yes or no the destiny of her life. Passion said “yes,” prudence said “no.” Parents and wiser heads warned her that she was intrusting her heart to a man who would break it. All this proved but wasted to one who l ad determined to have her own way, and a thorny way it has proved to her. If the pity of friends could smooth that care piowed face, and tight up that dreary home, then she might he a happy queen to-day. Hut pity never mends shattered porcelain. Pity comes too late for those who are “wise in then own conceit,*’ for no spot on earth affords such a poor market for good suggestion as a self-conceited head. If young people will not listen to pa rents or superiors, they must learn wisdom from that bard hearted old teacher, stern experience. In the management of God,s great earthly school there is always a rod in store for the fool’s back, as well as a crown for those who seek the wisdom that cometh from above. Paul struck a very profound truth when he said: “If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.” That is, let Mm be teachable. If Newton had been above learning from the fall of an ap <ple, or Galvani above learning from the twitehings of a frog’s limbs, science would have lost two of its most 1 rilliant discoveries. The high est proof of statesmanship is to be taught by the logic of events. He or she who waiteth at the door posts of heavenly wisdom is sure to be led into usefulness and honor. The soul that is always keeping its eye open to watch the leadings of Providence, and its car always open to catch the “still smalt voice” of the Holy Spirit, is the soul that seldom commits a serious mistake. 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