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Banks County Gazette.
VOL I.—NO. 48.
Ashland.
The farmers are behind with thei"
work on account of the rain. But
few have their guano at home. Some
have planted corn.
We have a flourishing literary club
at Central academy, also an inter
esting library.
It seems as the trustees are having
some trouble collecting money for
Professor Cooper’s school of last
year.
A memorial service was held last
Sunday at Bold Spring in memory
of Mrs. Ida Cooper, who died at her
home in Hall county, after an illness
of several weeks. Rev. W. A. Harris
preached an excellent sermon suited
to the occasion.
As our correspondent has died,
run away, absconded, got married or
quit, I take the office of reporter for
The Gazette, but news is scarce.
Three cheers for The Gazette;
three cheers for the printer who set
this in type, and three cheers for ye
reporter. Geohok Washington.
Have Made Peace.
The Alliance and the jute trust have
made peace and agreed upon the
basis of future transactions in bag
ging. The visiting alhancemen, and
members of the board of directors of
the exchange, have adjourned and
most of them left for their homes yes
terday.
A maximum scale of prices has
been fixed, and, with free competition
below the scale, the business agents of
the Alliance have accepted the proi>o
sition of the Cordage Bagging compa
ny, representing all but one of the
factories that were formerly included
in the trust.
The regulations began with the
national bagging committee, com
posed of Oswald Wilson, manager of
the Florida state exchange; M. L.
Donaldson, manager ot the South
Carolina exchange, and W I-. Peck,
manager of the Georgia exchange.
At the recent meeting of the Alliance
state business agents at Birmingham,
all :he cotton states were represented
except Georgia ami North Carolina.
There Mr. Oswald Wilson, the
chairman of the national cotton com
mittee, submitted the proposition of
the Cordage Bagging company and
it was adopted by all the states repre
sented. The Cordage Baggage com
pany propose to guarantee a maxi
mum price of cents per yard for
one and a half pound, cents for
one and three-quarter pound,cents
for two pound, and 7£ cents for two
and a half pound jute bagging, and
agrees to meet competition below this
scale. They agree to supply all the
jute bagging the Hlliancemen want.
The Alliance business agents, in
accepting this proposition, agree to
take what jute bagging they need
from this source, always provided
that it meets competition and supplies
the goods promptly.
As Georgia was not represented in
the Birmingham meeting, the same
proposition was suhmisted to the di
rectors of the Georgia state exchange
at their meeting here Tuesday, and
it was unanimously accepted.
Among those present were: Pres
ident L. F. Livingston, of the state
alliance, W. L. Peek’ president of the
exchange, and directors Broughton,
Wilson, Pearce, T. J. Barrett, T. M.
Ledbetter, S. Maxwell, S. M. Brown
and two others, whose names could
not be ascertained.
Although the proposition was
finally accepted there was some hes
itation at first, because the names of
the jute bagging people were not
forthcoming, but it was represented
that if the proposition should be ac
cepted, responsible names wonld be
affixed to the contract. If the prop
osition should not be accepted, the
parties did not wish to disclose their
identity.
The importance of this action by
all the state agents of the cotton belt
but one is very great. Even if the
action does not bind the sub-alliances
the recomeudation carries great
weight. When the alliance passed
resolutions boycotting jute bagging,
there were few alliancemen who did
not stand up to the fiat of the order,
hough it cost them over a dollar a
bale. When they make a fiat which
relieves them of this extra cost, there
is every reason to believe that they
all will stick.
It simplv means that, by one clever
stroke, half the bagging for the cora
ing year has been sold in advance, on
terms mutually advantageous to mak
er and consumer.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
Our Chart.
I have often likened the sea-faring
man to what the life of a Christian
should be. Hundreds of years ago,
when man went to sea at all, the
boats always within sight of shore.
Your Syrian or Greek might bo the
master of his vessel, hut he could not
bear to loose sight of the headland.
If he got out of sight of shore he did
not know where he was. It is a
wonderful thing at this day that a
shij) should loose sight of land for a
month together and steer entirely by
observations of the heavenly bodies,
by chart and compass, anti yet at the
end of thirty days that vessel reaches
the port, not within a mile or two,
but, comes to the mouth of the har
bor as directly as if the way had
been marked upon the waters. That
is just like the life of a Christian and
faith. We ought not to want to sec
any thing. We walk by faith, not bv
sight. We take our bearings by the
heavenly bodies, and are guided by
the word of God, which is our
chart, and by the movem of the
Holy Spirit within, which if *. o, com
pass.—C. H. Spurgeon.
Bishop Cameron, of Canada, has
issused a letter to the clergy of his
diocese, treating of their pastoral
duties toward the temperance reform.
He cites the depredations made by
intemperance, and calls for a
charge altogether upon this fiercest
wolf that comes down upon the fold.
The work must begin with tho priest
himself. “The phrase, ‘I practice
teetotalism myself,’ is found to be
worth more than any amount of
preaching,” says the good bishop,
proceeding to call for a pledged
priesthood.
A Written Excuse.
I ar.ee thought a country school in
the backwoods, and, as was the cus
tom them, I required a written ex
cuse when a pupil was absent for one
or more days. Some of those excuses
I have kept, and they afford me a
deal of amusement after all the years
that have come ami gone since then.
Here is an excuse, brought one day
by a tall, red-headed boy of seven
teen :
“Dear Cir—l’leze to eggsruse Hen
ry for absents yisterdav. We made
sour-krout, and he had to tromp it
down. Also he had to Help bucher
too pigs. Respeckful yuers,
Ills Pap.”
“Did your father write this excuse
himself?” I asked.
“No, sir,” replied Henry, “I writ it
for him, ’cause he can’t spell very
good.”
I am glad to add that Henry’s spoi
ling improved while I had him in
charge. Another boy brought me
this excuse:
“Kind Teacher: Ab could not come
yesterday on account of tearing his
pants very bad just before starting,
so it took me ’most all day to mend
them up.”
A boy of about ten years, who had
been absent about two weeks, brought
me the following :
“John Henry had a soar tow, also
a soar throte and a soar fiuger. Please
egseuse.’
A girl of about fourteen, whose
mother affected a degree of culture
and great mental superiority over her
neighbors, brought me the following
note :
“Dear Sir: I trust you will pardon
Alcione’s wholly unavoidable absence
yesterday. Circumstances are not
always controllable by our finite
minds, as you are no doubt aware.
We are all subject to immutable laws,
and are constantly doing what we
lIOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1891.
would not —alas! Therefore Alciona’s
unavoidable failure to attend yester
day’s session. I trust I may not soon
have to indite a similar upexpected
circumstance. Believe me to be yours
truly and respectfully,
Anastasia C. H—.”
Simpler and more directly to the
point was the excuse brought me by a
tow-headed little girl of about eight
years, whose mother wrote:
“Flnehe could not be there or she
would of went. I think she et too
much sossage for breakfast. She
sha’n’tdo it agen. Please excuse her.”
A boy of sixteen, who came very
irregularly, always brought this ex
cuse from his father:
“Excooze Bill.”
That was all there was of it; but as
I knew it came from his father, I al
ways “excoozed Bill” accordingly.—
Wide Awake.
The Union Signal says: The
Champion has been giving its readers
a series of cartoons. Some of them
are blasphemous or indecent; others
quite significant. The one last week
tells more truth than probably its
author intended. It is entitled,
“Great National Prize Fight.” It
represents Prohibition under the
guise of a jug labeled “spring water’’
and finished off with the head and
underpinning of a man, being knocked
down with the i allot boxes in the
hands of a man similarly made out of
a jug labeled “Pure Old Rye.” Back
of the whisky jug man is a wizened
up figure holding a flask of rum, and
labeled, “Backer, Uncle Sam.” Out
of his mouth floats a penon bearing
the words “Sic him, Temper; he’s a
tyrann us!” That’s exactly the situa
tion; ballot boxes in the hands of the
whisky ring, backed by the govern
ment, can, and do, knock down prohi
bition every time. Let Uncle Sam
cease to act as backer and sicker-on,
take the ballot boxes out of the
hands of the whisky ring, and the
knocking down will he on the other
side.—Demorest Times.
Vicious Social Institutions.
If (hose who are so thoroughly
alarmed over the prevalence and
growth of divorce, and are so much
afraid that marriage will prove a
failure, will find that the cause of it
all does not lie wholly in defective
laws, and dishonorable administra
tion of them. The real roots of the
growing evil strike into the subsoil
of the vicious social institutions. The
tap root runs to the saloon, but there
are vigerous side roots that suck up
poison from many a pool of society.
If you could abolish the saloon, the
club, the dance, and the theater, the
question of divorce would be too in
significant for comment, and the ques.
tion as to whether marriage is a fail
ure would disappear altogether. And,
for really cultured people, who live
in the higher ranges of the emotions
rather than in animal passion, life is
any thing hut lame without any of
these institutions.—Christian Stan
dard.
A wealthy lady in New York who
has four daughters, made this remark
when she saw the slums sweeping all
before them in a municipal election
at the bidding of the corrupt Tamma
ny chiefs:
“Here am I, a real estate owner,
and here are my daughters, young
women of more than average intelli
gence, and yet the only person in our
household who has a voice in the ad
ministration of national and munici
pal affairs is Cato, our colored butler.”
Does that kind of government look
just right?—Demorest Times.
A Fallacy Disposed.
When we consult the Bible we find
that God’s most useful servants have
not only been strong men among
men, but they have been eminent in
their age for sound judgment, discip
lined faculty, and power of bringing
things to pass. Secular history has
brought forward no name worthy to
stand beside that of Moses, for na
tion building. His work abides to
our own time. Samuel, David and
Isaiah were great, very great men.
We nonce that the apostles are fre
quently carelessly referred to as in
ferior men But all of them repre
sented what was soundest in the life
of their time, and some of them were
men of superb genius. The Gospel of
John indicates the high-water mark ot
human writing, the Epistles of Peter
ami James, to say nothing of the
writings of Paul, are the work of no
ordinary men, unless we are prepared
to accept a theory of inspiration that
requires no more h .inan co-operation
than ability to hold a pen. The
leaders of the Chukch of Christ have
almost invariably educated men of
great native powers. In modern times
Luther was a university professor,
the Wesleys and Whitfields were Ox
ford men. John Eliot, Jonathan Ed
wards, and a host of the early New
England ministers, had the finest
discipline. It is a I rue instinct which
plants the school near the church.
Education naturally is the handmaid
of rehgion.—Christian Advocate.
How much time has been consumed
by a woman of forty-five in putting
her hat on straight?” inquires a com
ic, paper. Not half so much, we dare
aver, as the average man of the same
age has wasted in idle smoking and
kindred follies.
Men should begin to serve God and
then keep right on. There is no ex
cuse for stopping or delaying. To
hesitate, to falter, to barter, is always
dangerous, for it may he the begin
ning of a defection which may end in
a total falling away from the Master
—Christian Advocate.
Our Sundays should be like hills
in a journey, mounting which, now
and then, wo get enlarged views, and
are lifted to a wider range, on which
we catch the divine sunrise, and
whence we move on afresh, purer and
braver for the kiss of the hem of the
garment of God.-—Gov. Long.
There are some men who if left
alone are as cold as pokers; but, like
poket's, if they arc once thrust into
the fire, they become red-hot, and
add to the general blaze.—Norman
Macleod.
A Jtoyal Gambler.
All England his been talking over
the charge that one of a party of
titled idlers was detected in cheating
at cards. The British puplic is not
so much concerned with the merits
of the charge or the honor of the ac
causad as with the fact that the
Prince of Wales was one of the par
ty, and conspired with the rest to
suppress the story. The person who
finally divulged the secret, and who
is described as “an intimate woman
friend” of the Prince, stated that all
the accessories of the game used on
the occasion belonged to his royal
highness. The Queen is reported to
be “intensly annoyed” by the expos
ure, and even “furious”. The impor
tant phase of the affair is the impulse
it is calculated to give the rising tide
of aversion to royal goovernment.
The tax payers have often grumbled
over - the sums they have had to fur
nish for the Queen’s heir to squander
upon his pleasures. Now that he is
caught staking the people’s money at
the gaming table and trying to smoth
er a resulting scandal, there will be
fresa converts to the gospel of gov
ernment by the people, for the people.
The accused gambler has brought
suit for libel, and in the trial the
republican agitators will be likely to
get some new texts.
The following story though an old
one, illustrates the responsibility of
even moderate drinkers, and ought to
be read and remembered by every
Christian man who even takes one
glass of liquor in a year: “At a tem
perance meeting in Philadelphia some
years ago a learned clergyman spoke
in favor of wine as a drink, demon
strating it quite to his own satisfac
tion to be scriptural, gentlemanly, and
healthful. When the clergyman sat
down, a plain, elderly man rose and
asked the liberty of saying a few
words. ‘A young man,’ said he, ‘who
had long been intemperate was at
length prevailed on to take the pledge
of entire abstinence from all that
could intoxicate. He kept the pledge
faithfully for some time though the
struggle with his habit was fearful,
till one evening, in a social party,
glasses of wine were handed around.
They came to the clergyman present,
who took a glass, saying a few words
in vindication of ttie practice. ‘Well,
said the young man, ‘if a clergyman
can take wine, and justify 'it so, why
not I?’ So he also took a glass. It
instantly rekindled his fiery and slum
bering appetite, and after a rapid
downward course lie died of delirium
tremens—a raving madman.’ The old
man paused for utterance, and was
just able to add, ‘That young man
was my only son, and the clergyman
was the reverend doctor who has just
addressed this assembly.’ ”
Carelessness and exactness in
speech are sometimes characterized
as affectation and mere pedantry;
but, say what some people may, it is
unquestionably the unfailing mark of
culture. No one thoroughly and lov
ingly acquainted with the literature of
his language can regard propriety in
its use with contempt. The purity
and harmony and rhythm of his native
tongue are as precious to him as the
perfect rendering and interpretation
of music are to the musician; and to
the preservation of the English lan
guage in its integrity, it should be the
duty and pleasure of every individual
lover of it to contribute.—Selected.
Tliank The Little Ones.
Politeness always pays because it is
right, and ’tis the natural courtesy
which every one has good reason to
expect, no matter what the age. It
is profitable to be polite to children
because of the example.
A writer in the Household
They run on our errands, upsffWi
for our books or slippers, our thim
bles, our new magazines; downstairs
to tell the servants this thing or that;
over the way to carry our messages,
to the postoffiee with our letters and
parcels.
They leave their play or their work
a dozen times in the morning, to do
something to oblige us who are grown
up, bigger, stronger, and apt to be
less absorbingly occupied than they.
No game of politics, or business in
later life will ever be so important
to the man as ball and top to the
little lad; and no future enjoyment of
the little girl will ever be greater in
degree and in kind than her present
interest in her dolls and her playhouse;
yet Johnnie and Jennie fly at our
bidding, arresting themselves in mid
career of the play which is their pres
ent work, and alas! half the time we
quite overlook our own obligation to
be grateful.
We do not say “I thank you!”
And because we do not say it, we
make it difficul. for our children to be
polite, as simply courteous, as other
wise they would be by nature, and
the imitation which is second nature
to all children.
Dont find fault with your neigh
bors, even though you have nothing
else to do. If yon want occupation
you can get a good deal longer job by
hunting the virtues that they think
they possess. —Somerville Journal.
According to Ruskin, an educated
man ought to know these things:
First, where he is—that is to say,
what sort of a world he has got into,
how large it is, what kind of creatures
live in it, and how, what it is made of,
and what may be made of it. Second
ly, where he is going—that is to say,
what chances or reports there are of
any other world besides this, what
seems to he the nature of that other
world. Thirdly, what kind of facul
ties he possesses, what are the present
state and wants of mankind, what is
his place in society, and what are the
readiest means in his power of attain
ing happiness and diffusing it. The
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man who knows these things, and
who has his will so subdued in the
learning of them that he is ready to
do what he knows he ought, is educa
ted, and the man who knows them
not, is uneducated, though he could
talk all the tongues of Babel.—Nash
ville Christian Advocate.
A wealthy American woman has
just founded in Vienna an asylum for
mothers-in-law. The building, not
yet completed, is to be big enough to
accommodate five hundred guests,
and the institution will serve as a
pleasant refuge for ladies whose com
pany is not agreealilo to the ungrate
ful men who have walked off with
their daughters. More than one-half
of the apartments in the asylum have
already been bespoken, the applicants
ail representing the higher classes of
American society. A Germain pro
fessor has written a brochure show
ing the inability to agree with one’s
mother in-law is a certain proof erf
intellectual progress.
A good Christian cannot be other
than eager for the extension of oUr
Lord’s kingdom among men, nor only
from his sense of what is due to the
Lord who bought him, but also from
his natural senso of justice, his per
suasion that he has no right to with
hold from others those privoleges and
prospects which are the joys of his
own inmost life.—Canon Liddon.
Pee your Bible. I think there are
some persons who imagine that there
is a sacred quality in a family Bible
lying on the center-table, and who
have the same sort of regard for the
hook that lies there that some other
people have for the value of a horse
shoe nailed over the door; and the
one is as good as the other. The
Bible that is unopened is at best of
value only as a respectful profession
that you are uot exactly an infidel.
The Bible that is to lay hold on you
is a Bible that you may lay hold upon.
—Lyman Abbott.
Preachers do not always practice
what they preach. The following
incident might find its counterpart in
more cases than is generally imagined,
and it is quite possible the picture
fits some fathers who are not preach
ers. A Welsh minister, who has been
reproving his congregation for not
attending Church on Sunday morning
probably regrets that he included the
members of his own family in his con
demnation, for straightway his daugh
ter rose up in the church and let him
have a piece of her mind. She spoke
of a man who, when he first woke,
could not rise unless his hot water
was bronght and the towel was placed
under his uose. She related how
boots had to be cleaned, fires lighted,
and the breakfast prepared, and then
went on to describe how the worthy
clergyman required his book and his
coat and gloves ;nd his hat and his
stick and—his cake and his wine
before he was ready to start to bis
work. All this was quite as well de
livered as * the sermoq.—Cnristian
Advocate.
Nothing will yield you richer re
ward of gladness and a greator wealth
of joy than faithfulness to cultivate
and develop the happier, warmer,
sunnier side of your nature, that von
may be a blessing to yanrself and a
blessing to all around you.—Schuy
ler Colfax.
If a young man was proof against
the allurements of drink he would
have nothing to fear, comparatively
speaking, from the temptations of
London. If drinking is not necessa
rially the precurser of every voice
it at least accompanies them all.
There are upward of 20,000 pub
lic houses in London—one to every
200 people. There are nearly 4,000
private elubs for young men, such as
dancing clubs, social clubs, lietting
clus, and all relying mainly upon
drink for their financial success.
These are rapidly increasing in num
ber.—Brittish Weekly.