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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 SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS, 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.