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Banks County Gazette.
VOL I.—NO. 40.
Written for The Gazette.
OVER THE HI LLS.
BY ISAAC POWELL TABOR.
I went over the hills one flowery June.
When the birds and bees were in tune;
I saw the birds and heard the hummiug
bees,
Flit here and there beneath the spread
mg trees.
As I went up the mountains and down
the hills,
Looking at the pretty brooks and run
ning rills,
I heard a silvery voice so sweet and
clear,
It seemed to say the Chestatee is near.
I looked and saw it between tlie hills,
Beneath the spreading oaks and run
ning rills;
It seemed to say, I’ll go down to the
deep
Where the ship-wrecked sailors go to
sleep.
On my return over the golden hills
I heard the water sing and saw the
pouuding mill.
It tilled my heart and soul with glee,'
To know w-e lived it: the land of the free
I raised my eyes to the western skv,
And saw the Blue Ridge mountain
rising high;
They looked so grand they looked so
blue,
With pretty brooks ainl rills ruuning
through.
They seemed to go up, then down,
round and round,
Then straighten out and seem for the
ocean bound.
“Just so,” for this is the way moun
tains do,
From left to right like a waving yew.
The south, ii fills my heart and soul
with glee,
Bat the Georgia hills are the home for
ire.
Long may the flag wave over Georgia’s
hills,
Her people, her institutions, and her
cotton in ills.
Dahloiiega, Ga., April 4, 1891.
PrayerviUe.
Prayerville is a fine but small do
main, situated bet wen the Hudson
and Grove rivers. It is noted for its
fertile soil. Agriculture is highly
improved, society is very good.
Mr. Tom Bruce is one of our best
farmers. lie made eighty hales of cot
ton last year. We have but one objec
tion to Mr. Bruce. lie will make his
boys slight all the poor girls.
Rev. Mr. Cartledge preached a
very interesting sermon at He ron
last Sunday. We are always glad to
hear him. He seems to us a father.
Our school at Ilebron is off ,a little
on account of farmers being so far
behind. We anticipate a fine school
in the summer
Mr. Henry Segers has p .released a
new buggy. Three cheers for Segers.
We have a good prayer meeting ~t
New Salem. There has been prayer
meeting at Salem tor four years every
Sunday night. We have organized a
missionary society. Everybody ought
to join.
Arp literary society is dead. It is
supposed to have swallowed the
library. Its obituary will appear in
the next issue of The Boss.
If The Boss takes an interest in
politics in 1892 there will not be but
one man elected to the presidency.
That being true its editor had better
keep it out if he has to suspend it.
Success to The Gazette.
Luculous Bloat.
Hacl Tempers.
There are some vices which pos
ses what may be called a respectable
exterior; they succeed occasionally in
borrowing the garments of some
neighboring virtue and passing them
selves off as a relative of his.
Even when their character as faults
cannot be denied, people are found to
paliate them and minimize their evil
tendency. Among such sins are envy,
jealousy, pride and bad temper.
To say that such a one has rather
a hasty temper, or that he is dificult
to get on with, or that he is too fond
of having his own way, is hardly, in
the opinion of many people, to say
anything really to his discredit; yet,
when we analyze that disposition of
mind which is commonly called “bad
temper,” we shall find that it is
neither more nor less than the nyt
lignant desire of making other people
suffer pain.
Even in the case of a hot or hasty
temper, this is true. No one would
use angry words to another if he did
not mean that they should wound, and
intend to relieve his angry feelings
by the suffering they may cause.
The well-known fact that a man’s
temper very often depends on his
physical state for the time being is
often accepted as a complete justifi
cation for petulance or savageness of
manner.
A man of nervous temperament,
or a person afflicted with a sluggish
liver, can no more help feeling irrita
ble or gloomy than a man with a
wooden leg can help limping. He is
entitled, therefore, to some degree of
consideration from others, on account
of his natural defect; but after all,men
are not entirely the s aves of their
nerves or their internal organs.
To feel irritation or despondency
is one thing; to allow such feelings
to master one and drive one whither
they will is quite a different matter.
It is not an uncommon thing in
this, as in more serious matters, for
the world to make mistakes, and as
cribe to some men better tempers, to
others worse ones, than they actually
possess.
A man may not only be thoroughly
selfish and exacting, but ready to fly
into a passion at .. small provocation,
and yet pass for being good-teuipered,
simply because those around him are
afraid to cross lam, and give him no
opportunity for breaking out.
His likes ami dislikes are always
taken into account and considered
beforehand; this is known to him,
and the sacrifice is pleasing.
The members of his family—for
temper is chiefly a feature of family
life—think that peace is cheaply
bought at tbe price of their own in
clinations, and congratulate theru
selve on the fact that papa or Unde
Richard is in such a good temper.
The fact is that he is in an abomi
bly bad age; he is probably quite un
concious of the fact, and unconcious,
too, that in their hearts the other
members of the family think him a
nuissance, and breathe more freely
when he is nut of the house, more
freely still when lie is a hundred nnk-s
awa -.
On the other hand, a man may be
so confirmed a grumble that, he may
be universally voted a bore and a per
son of extremely bad temper, while in
reality he is no worse off in that re
spect than many of his neighbors.
He grumbles more as a matter of
habit than any thing else; and plays,
as it were, with his temper.
Asa rule he dots not loose his
self control; ho has nothing of that
cruel love of wounding other people’s
feelings, which is the essence of a
really bad temper; he simply fumes
and fusses about because lie likes it.
Some ill-tempered men are loved
not only beyond their deserts but
beyond what one might think possi
ble. Perhaps this js because they
make up for their defects by an unus
ual warmth of affection; but there is
one description of ill-tempered nian
who is never liked, whether he re
ceives a dutiful affection or not, and
that is the man who always insists on
having his own way.
A passionate man is not always,
perhaps not often, in a rage; a sulky
fellow is not perpetually sulking; but
an exacting man is continually irritat
ing.
There are people who quietly and
perhaps good-humoredly, but with
fixed determination, insist that other
people’s preferences shall give way to
theirs; and who, if they are thwarted,
make themselves infihitely disagree
able
A man of this stamp may have
many good qualities; he may be re
spected, but he cannot be loved. Not
even his nearest relations can avoid
feeling a certain restraint in his pers
ence, and a sense of relief when he is
absent.
The flower of love may live tl rough
many injuries; but it can not survive
in an atmosphere of perpetual frost.
—Metropolitan.
HOMES, HANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. AERIE 15, 1891.
Sill’s Deceit fulness.
We venture the statement that but
comparatively few people, including
Christians, are capable of estimating
the extent of the deceitfulness of sin.
Those who make the nearest approach
to such an estimate are not only
deeply spiritual Christians, but have
had a long experience in the warfare
between sin and holiness as waged in
their own hearts, and also have a
profound and extensive knowledge .of
human nature, particularly human
nature as it resides in themselves.
Unless a person have a very minute
and accurate knowledge of himself
under every variety of conditions am l
circumstances, he is poorly qualified
to judge of the deceitfulness of sin.
This through self-knowledge cannot
be had in early life; nor can it bo had
when one has been a genuine Chris
tian five years, unless he was not con
verted until he reached middle age;
and it is very doubtful even then. Of
course it largely depends upon the
depth and strength of his spirituality,
the keenness of his inward vision, and
the degree of his soil-honesty. But
in every case it requires years of
thorough and self scrutinizing expo
rience if one would know how deceit
ful sin is. No Christian can know,
if he gives the most of his attention
to the faults of others, and is con
stantly sitting in judgment on their
sins, paying but little attention to his
own heart and its -ins. While one
is looking at the faults of others, and
is freely criticising them for their
apparent lack of love and fidelity,
t linking that ho is quite in advance
of them, lie may be tbe deceived vic
tim of some form of sin which is
gnawing at the core of his own heart.
Many a man has been warning others
of their immediate danger of being
fatally stricken by a certain conta
gious disease, little dreaming that lie
himself was in tue subtle grasp of the
same sickness while in the very net
of signaling danger to others. The
seeds of disease were already within
him, and yet he knew it not. When
we are elated with the idea that we
are uncommonly good, let us beware
lest what we call personal goodness
be but little better than self-satisfy
ing hallucination which is produced
by' the deceitfulness of some phase of
sin. “Let him that thinketh he
staudetii take heed lest he fall!”
Zion’s Herald.
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Death and Resurrection.
A workman of Faraday, the cele
brated chemist, one day, by accident,
knocked a beautiful silver cup into a
jar of strong acid. In a little while
it disappeared, being dissolved in the
acid as sugar is in water, and so
seemed utterly lust, and the question
came up, could it ever he found? One
said it could, but another replied
that being dissolved and held in solu
tion by the acid, there was no possi
bility of recovering it. But the great
chemist, standing by, put some chemi
cal mixture into tbe jar, and in a little
while every particle of silver was pre
cipitated to the bottom, and he took
it out, now a shapeless mass, and sent
it to the silversmith, and the cup was
restored to the same size and shape
as before. If Faraday could so easily
precipitate that silver and restore its
scattered and invisible particles into
the cup, how easily can God restore
our sleeping and scattered dust and
change our decayed bodies into the
likeness of the glorious body of
Christ! —Metropolitan.
Good preaching is not so common
as it might be; but good hearing is
perhaps even rarer than good preach
ing. He who preaches well has some
thing to say to his hearers that is
worth their hearing, and he says it.
He who hears well is on the watch for
some word from the preacher that is
worth his hearing, and if it is said, be
hears it. Judging from the comments
on the preacher that are fre
quently made by- the hearers at the
close of any ordinary preaching ser
vice, would it not seem that either
the preacher of that day had not said
anything worth hearing, or his hear
ers had failed to note it? It is the
message of the preacher, rather than
his manner of delivering it, that is the
test of the preacher's importance and
wor;h. It is the interest of the
hearers in the preacher's message,
rather than their opinion of his man
ner and method, that measures their
ability and fidelity as intelligent hear
ers. According to this standard,
Jonah was a very good preacher, and
the people of Nineveh were very good
hearers. Is it, or is it not, true, that
“the men of Nim-vah shall stand up
in the judgment with this generation,
and shall contemn it,” because they
were so much better hearers of
preaching than the average man or
woman of to-day?-—Sunday School
Times.
The Reality of the Invisible.
The “Timely Advice to Girls” giv
en by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which
appeared in the homo department last
month, caused me to think about the
reality of the invisible. It has been
said that “the invisible things are the
real things,” and is it not so? Are
not hidden thoughts, longings, hopes
and inspirations, constantly shaping
and changing our lives, eve we are
aware? How many of us would be
willing to dwell among mind readers,
where every- unexpressed thought
would so blaze oh the forehead that
all might read it there ? Let him who
imagines he can safely indulge in
ignoble thoughts undeceive himself,
for the realities of life are within, and
silently they' shape the outer nature.
The unseen and the real, become at
last the visible. Preserve high ideals.
Be noble in thought as well as action,
that it may truthfully be said of you,
“his glorious soul appeared in every
look, gesture and word.”-—S, li. H. in
American Farmer.
The prevailing opinion at the Wis
consin prohibition conference was
that prohibitionists should join the
Alliance, taking leading parts in that
organization to the end of informing
ourselves of alliance principles and
influencing the Alliance to independ
ent political action.—Demorcst Times
The Pekin Anti-Opium Society has
sent forth an appeal to all “all lovers
of virtue in Great Britain,” from
which the following is an extract:
“We could truly state that since
opium came to China it lias been like
an evil ulcer, daily spreading and
putrefying, in fee ing the whole body
from head to toot until there is scarce
ly a sound piece of flesh thereon. We
think that you have only heard a
vague report. At present six men in
ten smoke opium. If so many now
are cursed by it, to what will it grow
if not prohibited ?”
Courage in Life.
Life is not entirely nude up of
great evils or heavy trials, but the
perpetual recurrence of petty evils
and small trials in the orninary and
appointed exercise of the Christian
graces. To bear with the failings of
those about us—with their infirmities,
their bad judgenint, their ill-biceding,
their perverse tempers; to endure
neglect when we feel we deserved
attention, and ingratitude when we
expected thanks; to bear with the
company of disagreeable people
whom Providence has placed in our
way, and whom He lias perhaps pro
vided or purposed for the trial of our
virtue—these are best exercised of
patience and self-denial, and the bet
ter because not chosen by ourselves.
To bear with vexation in business;
with disappointment in our expecta
tions; with interruptions of our re
tirement; with folly, intrusion, dis
turbance—in short, with whatever
opposes our will, contradicts our
humor—this habitual acquiessenee
appears to be more of the essence of
self-denial than any little rigors of
our own imposing. These •constant,
inevitable, but inferior evils, properly
improved, furnish a good moral disci
pline, and might, in the days of ig
norance, have superceeded penance.
There are many kinds of pride—
the pride of wealth, of name, of birth,
of social standiug or popular esteem
—but none is quite so offestve as that
of imagined mental superiority. It
looks down upon others with a super
cilious compassion which awakens all
the resentments of human nature.
Deeper and truer thought banishes
this delusion, and makes a man mod
est as nothing else can; for it is
always discovering mistakes that he
has made and must correct, mental
work done that must be undone,
hasty r conclusions that must be repu
diated, erroneous judgments that
must bo revised.
We seem to have three kinds of
people— those who are moving for
ward, those who are standing still,
and those who are going to sart in
some direction soon —Metropolitan.
All (Joining South.
The correspondence and trade item
•columns of the Monthly and other
carriage journals each contain many
noticef of removal of carriage facto
ries to the south from all sections,
the establishment of new ones And
the extension of others. All this is n
more hopeful sign, especially so
when we learn that the carriage in
dustry and allied trades of the south
have done remarkably heavy busi
ness in the past nine months, that
other lines of business are joining in
the pean of prosperity, and that the
glad earth has this year laughed the
largest cotton crop ever known. It is
indeed the “new south” that now lies
beyond ‘Mason and Dixon’s line’ and
it is working out its industrial, com
mercial and social salvation' with a
healthy activity and a progressing
prosperity that are remarkable when
compared with the drowsy spirit that
so long seemed to possess the land.
There is a bright future ahead of the
south.—Philadelphia Carriage Month
ly-
Happiness God gives to when he
will, or leaves to the Angel of Nature
to distribute among those who fulfill
the laws upon which it depends. But
to serve God and to,love him is higher
and* better than happiness—though
it be with wounded feet and bended
brows! and hearts loaded with sorrow.
—Fronde.
Lord’s Prayers and tbe Drink
License.
Think of praying, “Hallowed be
Thy name,” and then voting to license
the drink traffic, which causes God’s
name to be continually blasphemed.
“Thy will be done,” and then vot
ing that it shall not be done.
“Lead us not into temptation,”
and then voting to place temptation
in everyone’s path.
“Deliver us from evil,” and then
voting for the greatest of evils, if so
be that a little money may come to
the town treasury.
“Give us this day our daily bread,”
and voting to license that which takes
the bread from thousands.-—National
Temperance Advocate.
The daw, as it falls in the evening l ,
is unseen by all. It conies so gently, so
softly: and we only know thru it has
come when we see it sparkling on the
hedge-rows, flashing on the buds in
the morning sun. So is the coming
of the Holy Spirit.
Asa general thing, one grows ac
customed to his responsibilities, so as
not habitually to feel their full weight.
At times, however, a sense of the
issues they involve comes to a faith
ful nature as an awakening to the
sleeper. Affairs of consequences are,
perhaps, in his charge, and suddenly
he notes the pitgalls by the way, per
ceiving that simply by an oversight
he might seriously injure the interest
lie is appointed to guard. Ur be dis
covers that ho is trustee to an extent
he had not realized in the spiritual
sphere; that his example and counsel
are guiding, be it one hunan soul,
in a vitally important juncture of its
history. Or he learns what in such a
mood seems no light matter, —that
the expression of his tastes and sym
pathies is exerting a molding influence
on others. How may any of us be
reassured when aroused the moment
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ousness of our living as it affects our
fellows? Only by believing that God
is able to uphold us in the place
where he has set us. Only by look
ing to him for direction, by hilling in
him until he has imparted strength.
If fife were clearly seen in its delicato
balancings for good or ill, ineffnceablo
touches given and received,, it un
known elements, its unending reach,
action would often be paralyzed. It
is well that the mystery and danger
bordering our path through the uni
verse should partly be disclosed, in
order to a better estimate of the forces
which God controls in his children’s
defense, aud the energy lie puts forth
for their aid,—truths*to which in
our superficial hours we are utterly
blind.—Sunday School Times.
Women are a part of the people,
and they are intelligent. They have
demonstrated this in various ways.
Who is more interested than the wife
-e social reforms
thai, pi onu)t£ the happiness of tkfe
family ? Wb - tdnptcd than
the wife and mmi.i thifik of the
best solution? Why have men M,
better right to decide what shall be
done with the taxes they pay than
women have? The conditions of
women have changed, and our theo
ries of government have changed.
The government of our day is simply
an association for mutual protection,
a corporation iu winch every human
being is a share holder. The popu
lar vote is the method adopted for
deciding economic and national ques
lions. U hether it is the best way or
not, it is the one our nation uses;
and with that method, what a para
doxical position is it to shut out so
large a force of intelligence!—Spring
field Republican.
A valued correspondent of the
Congregationalist reports: “Prohibi
tion has certainly made a good record
in lowa. The census returns show
that, compared with the increase of
population, the number of convicts in
the penitertiaries has decreased ten
per cent. This means ten per cent
less crime, ten per cent less court fees,
ten per cent less drunkards, ten per
cent increase in happy homes. Tlr’s
gain lias been made in spite of tho
fact that millions of dollars have been
used in bribery, according to common
report, and in tho attempt to wrest
the control of tbe state from those
who believe in prohibition, and who
have tried to keep it out of politics
altogether. In five years more it is
thought proh ; bition, if enforced, will
close up one of the penitentiaries.”
An act was passed by the 'last con
gress prohibiting the sale of liquor
within one mile of the Soldiers Home.
This was accomplished by tho quiet
effort of a lady. The saloon men
paid little attention to the bill, but
some mysterious force pushed it
through committee after conimitte.',
one house after the other, and
finally it became a law. That myste
rious force was Mrs. Kate Chase, the
daughter of the late Chief Justice
Chase. Then the district commis
sioners decided the prohibited dis
trict was all that territory lying
within one. mile of the border of the
Soldiers Home grounds. This in
cluded a part of the city and all of
two new suburbs lying near Edge
wood. Forty or fifty saloons in all
are wiped out of existence, including
tho objectionable groggt res near
Mrs. Chase’s home, as well as ten or
fifteen more which would soon have
been started in the new suburbs.—
Demurest Times.
The man who complains about the
old minister who preached so long
that he always missed his dinner, and
of the new one because the sermon is
so short that he cannot get a nap,
would be hard to please in any com
munity.—Baltimore American.
Dark or unkind fancies are fatal to
the life of the soul. Their being im
aginary does not desiroy their effect.
A thought is a thing in its touch
upon mind, and a fact to our faith is
a fact to our life.—Ex.