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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. * 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 SINGLE COPY TJIREE CENTS, 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.