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MMS CMSTT GIEZTTE, fUHMftIIKD EVKItY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - - - GEORGIA. BY NAMES Sc HILL. SUBSCRIPTION: On# year .... SI.OO Six months - - - - .50 To Correspondents. Write Hie news. Write plainly, and give proper names correctly. We will correct improper spelling, and puuclti mien. Nslice* of marriages, deaths, aeri culiural and educational mat ten. Church and Sundaysebool work are specially requested. Entered at the Pant office at Homer, 6a., as second-elms mail matter. Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Ma!. 18. The man who resorts to ridicule for argument is generally wanting in both brains and courtesy, There are thousands of men who go to church and pray that “this earth may lie as the Kingdom of Heaven,” yet they would deny the workingman a voice in making the laws of the country. If the loaning of money upon the products of the farm and upon real estate is class legislation of such n nature as to provoke the most un friendly criticisms from party lead ers, why have they not been as free to denounce the system of loaning money, to national banks, free of in terest, upon government bonds as security, the issuing of silver certifi cates on silver deposits and ware house certificates on whisky in bond. —National Reformer. A Chance For You. “The Household,’’ the oldest and best Household publication in the country, is the first on record to offer a fine family horse and an elegant Goddard buggy, valued at $7OO, as a Premium to the subscriber who shall obtain the largest number of new subscribers to “The Household” be tween March first and August first. The March, or Easter edition, of “The Household,” contains cuts and full particulars of this great offer. Copies of this number can be obtained at the news stands in the various cities and towns throughout the country, or will he sent on receipt of ten cents by The Household Com pany, BO Bromfieid street, Boston. This offer affords opportunity for any lady to secure a horse and carn age. Sunday School Convention. The eighteenth annual convention of the Georgia State Sunday School Association will be held at Columbus, Ga., Tuesday,Wednesday and Thurs day, April 21st, 22nd and 2:id, 1591. It is earnestly desired that repre sentatives from the several Sunday schools in every county be at this con vention. Tlie object of this association is to promote the prosperity and efficiency of the Sunday schools throughout the state, by an interchange of thought, and expression of experience in this work, by offering to ouch other pure sympathy and encouragement in our labors, and by meeting together upon a common platform of devotion to God, love for the Bible, interest in the children, and love for each other. The programme is being prepared and will embrace some of the most important Sunday school questions of the day and will be discussed by some of the leading Sunday school workers of the state from the various cieuomi notions of Christians, Mr. Wm. Reynolds ex-president of the International Sunday School con veution, Mrs. W. F. Crafts, Mr. J. G. Harris, president of the last Interna tional convention, and other promi nent Sunday school workers, have promised to attend and address this convention, and altogether from the present indications this promises to be the largest and best Sunday school meeting ever held by the State Asso ciation. Preparations are in active progress at Columbus to entertain the dele gates and Sunday school workers with that genial hospitality for which the people of that 'goodly city 'are noted. On behalf of the good people of Columbus we say a cordial welcome awaits all who will attend this meet ing. It is very important that the names ol all the delegates be scut to Mr. W. R. Badell, chairman of recep tion committee, Columbus, Ga., that homo may be provided. Arrangements will be made with the various railroads throughout the state to carry delegates at reduced rates. All Sunday school workers that will attend this convention will be interested, encouraged, and instructed by the words of wisdom that will be spoken. Ancient Almanac. While in Dr. V. D. Lockhart’s of fice one day last week lie- showed us an almanac published forty years ago It contains a list of the postoffiees for Franklin county, as follows: Aquilla, Auburn Hill, Boldspriag, Bowersville, Bowlingsville, Carnes ville, Bushville, Erastus, Fairview, Ford’s Store, FJintville, Franklin Springs, Geogiana, Goodwill, (now Cheap postoffico), Grove Level, Moreley’s Store, (now Toccoa), Mid dle River, Nails Creek, Parker's Store, Phi Delta, Walnut Hill, Webb’s Creek. Habersham county had only twelve postoffices, as follows: Alhm da!e, JSalesville, Clarksville, Blue Creek, Duarne Street, Hollingsworth, Leo, Mount Younh, (now Cleveland), Loudsville, Nacoochee, Soque and Tallulah. Another old almanac had on the front cover the legend: “Rescue of Villa Almanac.” The picture of an Indian chief or sachem, named Tez uco, a loins the page while the won derful virtues of a wonderful discov ery in medicine are therein related. A wild Indian store records how a princess of the tribe of Navojos was rescued from her captors and the medicinal virtues of certain plants told to the world by her. [Communicated.} Young man, what arc you going to do about it? The country needs you. It needs, and will need hundreds of good young men, worthy and well qualified to attend to the business, and shoulder the responsibilities of life. In ten years from now we will need anew supply of preachefs, doc tors, lawyers, judges, jurors, farmers, mechanics, etc., etc. We will need farmers to make our supplies, merchants to distribute them, mechanics to build railroads, houses, etc., preachers and lawyers to give us the Gospel and the law, so as to cause us to treat each other with justice and mercy, and keep us straight. Where .are all these useful and nec essary men to come from ? Will they just happen along ? Will they come down some river on a raft ? Or will our boys and young men, by industry and energy prepare themselves for all these very important duties? Another necessity which we are too apt to overlook or treat with indiffer ence is, that there is, and will be hundreds of good and beautiful girls who must find good husbands to take care of them or pine away their lives in old maiilhood. It is not right that so many flowers are “born to blush unseen, and waste their sweetness on the desert air,” or what is worse they will have to support some worthless dude or dunce, that is not worth the powder and lead that it would take to kill him, or what is still worse, be the slave of some human brute. It is the duty of every young man at a proper ago, to marry, for it is true yet, that “it is not good for man to be alone.” Every man needs some good woman to take care of him, and keep him from going to the devil, or “drying upon the stalk.” Whoever neglects this duty or re fuses to shoulder this responsibility will go through life minus a “better half,” and will sin against God and himself and the one that God in his providence has provided for him, and will die “Unwept, unhonored and unsung,” and he ought to. N. Trimble. Hollingsworth, Mr. Dock Ary has left for Murry county where be will engage in fann ing. We wish him success. Some sneak thief broke into Mr. J. B. Hobson’s store on the Bth inst. and carried off fifty pounds of flour, some tobacco and other small articles. Wo learn that Mr. Hobson has very nearly enough evidence to justify him in having some parties arrested. Rumor has it that some of the old Soldiers in this section will fail to draw a pen -ion, as some of them, on investigation, received their wounds before the war, and also that same of them were diseased when they went into the war. Some of our citizens will have to attend United States district court in Atlanta this week. Mr. J. W. Peyton went to Atlanta to sell his cotton on the 10th. He says it did not. pay to hold cotton this time. Mr. F. M. Cash has been quite sick the past week, hut we are glad to note is improving. Died near Longview the Bth and 9th—Mrs. Nancy Batey, Mrs. E. Dili sbaw and Mr.— Agin. A certain man in this section got his clothes very muddy the other day and went home. His little son asked him how came him so muddy. “Well, tny son, it is raining mud.” Mr. I). Radical, if you will call at my office, corner Thirty-first street and O’Posi.m anenue, I will take pleasure in showing you the town of Hollingsworth. Banks Superior Court. The superior court met Monday morning, Judge Hutchins presiding. His charge to the jury was one ol' the ablest ever delivered to anv jury, lie is a man that has no partiality about him, and sees that all criminals get their just reward. Solicitor General Russell is at his post and discharging his duty to the full rnoasure. Very few cases have been disposed of up to the time of going to press. Kev. C. T. Burgess was elected foreman of the grand jury. The following visiting attorneys are in attendance upon the court: Gainesville—Judge Estes, Colonels Murler, Johnson, Telford and Lowery. Jefferson—Colonels Pike and Hill. Harmony Grove Colonels Stark and Smith. Carnesville—Colonels Parks, Little and King. Col. 1). W. Meadows, of Daniele ville, Col. C. R. Faulkner, of Bellton, and ail the lawyers in the county are at their post Monday morning the grand jury brought in a special presentment giv ing the road commissioners until the next term of the court to put the roads in good condition, and we pre diet that before another six months the county will enjoy the best roads it has had since its organization. -Courtship In t!e Year 8000. While the unmarried woman of the year 2000, whether young or old, will enjoy the dignity and independence of the bachelor of today, the insolent prosperity at present enjoyed by the latter will have passed into salutary, if sad, eclipse. No longer profiting" by the effect of the pressure of eeononlic necessity upon Woman, to make him indispensable, but dependent exclu sively upon his intrinsic attractions, instead of being able t-o assume the fastidious airs of a sultan surrounded by languishing beauties, he will be fortunate if ho can secure by Jus merits the smiles of one. In the year 2000 no man, whether lover or husband, may hope to win the favor of maid or wife save by desert. While the poet, justly apprehending the ideal proprieties, has always per sisted in representing man at the feet of woman, woman has been, in fact, the dei>cndent and pensioner of man. Nationalism will justify the poet and satisfy the eternal fitness of tilings by bringing him to his marrow bones in earnest. But indeed we may bo sure that in the year 2000 ho will need no compulsion to assume that attitude.— Edward Bellamy in Ladies' Home Jour nab Edible Earth. Much lias been written about the earth eating tribes of various countries, but it is not generally known that the inhabitants* of Pcnacova, a village in Portugal, have for generations eaten n variety of earth found in the neighbor hood. It is said that any of them leav ing homo is afflicted with a singular malady with gastric, symptoms unless he be provided with a supply of the earth. The reason of this is probably the presence of arsenic in the earth, which is known to produce tbeac singtt tar effects upon its habitual consumers. Tlie fact that Dr. Vogel has found none in it by a cursory examination, but. on the contrary, has detected that it contains about double the quantity of nitrogen found in similar soils from the adjacent fields, lends plausibility to the view that the active substance may be an alkaloid. The whole ques tion could be easily settled by a com petent chemist, and it is to be hoped that someone will undertake its inves tigation.—New York Commercial Ad vertiser. i MATCHING NILE GREEN. Why a Salesman at the Silk Counter Never Smiled Again. Not long ago a young woman set out in quest of a certain difficult shade of Nile green satin. She carried a sample. An anxious look set itself in two stub born little wrinkles between Her mild bine eyi-s and marred to some extent the sweet repo .- of her countenance. Site wandered up Broadway. In and out of all the big stores on both rides of the great thoroughfare she treaded her tedious way. She stood staunchly at all the silk counters and caused stacks and stacks of pieces of green satin to be brought down, unfolded and j piled np rinto a very mountain of silk. | But still the right shade didn’t appear. At last the polite salesman bethought him of a sample, and he asked her if she had one to match. She produced the fragment of well worn satin, and the salesman knew at a glance that it was an oid, almost obsolete shade, and probably couldn’t be mat died in New York. lie told her so. Well, couldn't he get it for her, she asked with a pretty little pout, as it was very im portant. A Broadway house wns too busy to call a halt for the purpose of ! matching impossible samples. But t !*• woman was persevering. She tried Fourteenth street next, and ex hausted every silk stock and the par tienee of many salesmen on that thor oughfare without finding what she wanted. None of the floor walkers in these establishments was “green” enough to promise to get the satin for her There remained, however, Sixth avenue to come, and she went up town and down town, through every store, until she got up to Twenty-third street, Then, with fire to her eye, she railed arouml flic corner, arid at hist landed in a big bazar not a thousand miies from the Fifth Avenue hotel. The purveyor of silks was most oblig ing. He brought down piece after piece of light green, dark green, olive green and every other sort of green ex eept the shade she wanted, which stub bendy remained Invisible. At lad, in a moment of weakness, he took pity on the young damsel. He felt sorry for her Besides, she hadn't eaten a monel of lunch and looked ns if she were about to cry Anyway, she was well dressed and not bad looking, and he thought she might develop into a good customer if lie took c little trouble to oblige her. So with his best smile, the one he kept for just such occasions, lie took the sample and promised that if she would call two days later lie would have the exact shade she wanted. Will, that man actually made it his business to send down town and have a search made through half a dozen wholesale houses for that obsolete shade of Nile green satin, which materialized at hist in an old millinery stock on lower Broadway. The : young woman was on hand promptly The match was a perfect one. “What, is the price T she demand ed in a business like way. “Forty-nine cents a yard,” replied the young man, with the air of one who expected to be rewarded with a seraphic smile and a whole torrent of thanks. “Well, then, I guess you may give mo an eighth and a sixteenth of a yard, and I’d like it on the bias, please.” That salesman has never smiled again, lie is not a philosopher, lie should have found some compensation in the fact that she paid spot cash. She might have ordered it sent home C. O. !)., after the manner of some girls.—New York News. Imagination. Imagination i.-ia fine gift, hut it wants managing. It runs well in harness with a good stout bridle of common sense. i Without this bridle, however, it is likely to load its master a pretty dance. Hey presto! at the merest prompting off it goes, clean out of the realm of earth and experience, rigid into the middle of space, with the crosslights of unnumbered spheres confusedly upon it, and strange breezes fanning its hot impulsive exterior. It is a ticklish piece of work to get it back to earth ; and it is so exhausted by the madcap scamper out of the or dinary bounds that its luckless master Is for a time as prostrate as if he had been flogged with positive misfortunes. Under the false enthusiasm of an hour ago ho would have done all things—or at least attempted them—so bracing was its influence upon his mind; but when this same fancy is temporarily laid by the heels ho is useless.—All the Year Hound. A HI;; SNiintinff. As some curiosity is expressed as to the quantity of paints and oils used in the construction >if the Forth bridge, the officials of the company requested Messrs. Craig & Rose, of London aud Glasgow, who held tlie contract throughout, to make up a statement of the amount actually supplied, and these were found to be as follows: Ma chinery and illuminating oils, 980,072 gallons; paint oils, 35,527 gallons; paint, 250 tons. It is computed that the quantity of oil used would have been sufficient to float one of her Ma jesty's first class cruisers and sufficient paint to cover 1,100 acres, or nearly two equate miles of surface,—Pall Mall Budget. H:ui Beeu Holding: Hands. “John,” said Mrs. Wings at the breakfast table lately, “you've been studying palmistry lately, haven’t you?” Wings thought something was up and evaded the question by another. “What makes you think sof he asked. ‘Oh, last night you kept asking in your sleep, “What kind of a hand have you got?" St. Joseph News. Swift’s Specific. If s. s. s. ci ?? r - To Smokers. Hr, L. M. Geueiia, of Vicksburg, Miss., says that his system was pois oned with nicotine from the excessive use of to bacco in smoking cigar ettes. He could not sleep, his appetite was gone, and he was in a bad fix generally. He took S. 8. S., which drove out the poison and made anew man out of him. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases nailed Free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. T. E. KEY i CO. Harmony Grove, Ca. Are now receiving the most magnificent line of Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and Clothing ever brought to Harmony Grove. Our goods are selected with the greatest care, and if i i;u want to be in stile get MRS. W. W. JORDAN to trim you a HA l And sliow you hew to nuit*. h find trim up your dross and you will have the latest. * 5.4 harmare store. Be y Your IIA RDM ARE at the lowest prices. We are headquarters for FARM IMPLEMENTS, BLACKSMITH TOOLS, WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIAL, Cool* and Heatiugf SsTOVKS, TINWARE, WOODWARE, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, Sash, Doors and Blinds, A1 so Agents for EUREKA COTTON PLANTER, Best in the WORLD I Call aud Nee Our Ooods. HARDMAN HARDWARE COMPANY, Harmony Grove, Georgia. Dooks a ini Stationery. RICHARDS & CO. T. S. CAMPBELL, Managj:r. Book Sellers and STATIONERS, AND DEALERS IN Music, Musical Instruments, and Fancy Goods. Keep on hand n full line BOOKS and STATIONERY usually found in a First Class Book Store. W est side Public Square. 7-21 GAINESVILLE, GA MUM C, J. un Maysville, Georgia, Has a full line of GEKERALi MERCHANDISE Ami will sell as cheap as the cheapest. I sell the Best GUANO in the market .- SOLUBLE SEA ISLAND and Farish Furman Formula. Ls. 3. Sharp Gives Special Attention to the PRACTICE of MEDICINE, xn his M holesale and Retail Drug business he carries a complete line of Patent Medicines, Druggist’s Sundries, Paints and painters supplies, House Paints guaranteed the best by Cooledge Bro., of Atlanta, Ga., Landreth’s Garden seeds that has each package dated, and all unsold on November Ist is burned at Landreth’s expense. Sole Proprietor of Parasiticide, that cures Itch in 30 minutes. Address all orders to, and call on him at Harmony Grove, Georgia. g^g 7 Bottles sss has of s. s. s. ette smok ing has impair ed your health, Take S. S. S. be come well again. Cancer cured. For thirty-five years I was afflicted with cancer ous sores on my face which prominent physi cians failed to cure. Sev en bottles of a & S cured me permanently. Am now sixty years old and in perfect health. Hibam Sweat, Orion, Ala. Clotfiing. Clothing, HATS GENTS’ FURNISHINGS,Etc, Largest Stock in the City. Prices to Please AIL When here come and inspect our stock. Ooo.Must? Ac CUo. The CLOTHIERS, 38 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA, Jewelry. A. S. MANDEVILLE. DEALER IN CLOCKS, JEWELERY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Repairing and Engraving dene with care and warranted to give satits faction. Op. the college, Atheus, Ga. sands of such cases after good physi cians had failed.