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BANKS (ftIVFV fiAEZTTE, PUBLISHED KVEKY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - - - GEORGIA. hames &c hill. SUBSCRIPTION: One year - Six months *>o tEfbUenj at th9Pontoffi.ee at Homer, mail matter. t''•*3pptoitlmm.>qf any character, ■} tiff ifi btisirt-'- <.r for publication, Homer, Ga., WirDN-K-snAv. A>ru. 29. Field Marshall Count the great German soldier is dead. He died at the age of ninetv-one years. AU the material for the construc tion of the UGrange streer railroad has been ordered, and the work has been commenced. way to repining. No mend tic worrt fortune. "■W ‘a-—— ------ J ..... At the close of g • by a father who had prayed Kr"poor family, his son said: “Father, if I had as much wheat in the barn as you have, I would answer that prayer myself.”—Ram’s Horn. Did you ever feel the joy o ' win ning a soul for Christ ? I tell you there is rio joy out of heaven which excels it—the grasp of the hand of one who says: “JSy your means I was turned from darkness.” Hon. A- O. Bacon has resigned his position as general attorney of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia railroad, to take effect next Octo ber. The road regrets to give him up. Ife has rendered efficient services which the road appreciate. There are no morl blanks; there are no neutral characters. We are cither the sower that sows and cor rupts, or the light that splendidly illuminates and the salt that silently operates; but being dead or alive every man speaks.—Chalmers. Some of the best farmers of the county are talking about '.he 11. H. & C. railroad. This road must be built. What say you ? Are you willing to take stock and build this road to Homer by the Ist of Octorber 1 There is a gentleman close by who has uo interest in the town who will take $l,OOO worth of stock. This county must have a railroad and we must build it The criticism of Senator Carlisle that the government can have no money to loan to the farmers that it does not first collect in taxes, now quite often repeated, is a most stale chestnut. The truth is, the taxpayers can have no money not first issued by the government. The farmers simply propose a just and equitable method of issuing money, no more, and will accept no adjustment that does less.— National Economist. The Christian minister gets, it is true, many things that are better than money. His constant medita tion upon the highest themes is itself a great compensation for any self denial to which he may be subjected. Resides this, the gratitude of the souls that he helps and blesses as he goes on his way, the consciousness of duty faithfully done for Curist’s sake, and the approving presence of the Holy Spirit—all these are of inesti mable value. —Christian Advocate. Physical pain is not altogether evil It serves at least two good pur poses; it calls attention to the fact that the important law has been brok en and admonishes the transgressor to proceed no farther in that direc tion. It is the mission of pain to pre vent suffering. There is a spiritual }>ain which is more poignant and more important than physical. Pongs of remorse admonish the to repent and seek pardon. The an guish of a guilty conscience is not the punishment of sin, but a merciful warning that punishment lurks some where in the direction the sinner is pursuing. Pain is nature’s uangcr signal.—New York Advocate. M. Joseph X. Telford Dead. Mr. Telford was born in Bellbrn, Booth Car&linia, in the year 1850, and djhd'on his farm four miles south of Homer on Friday morning at half past six o’clock. Mr. Telford moved to this county in 1872, since which time he has been an honor to the comity and a shining light in the community where he lived. He was one of the foremost farmers of the county. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and for many years was jm elder in bis congregation. No one who knew him ever bad any doubt but that he wjjs a true Christian, and his host of friends are consoled with the assur ance that earth’s loss is heaven’s gain, lie was always at the front in the discharge of every Christian duty. Mr. Telford was ever ready to wok for the upbuilding of his country on every line, and in his death the coun ty has lost one of her best citizens, the church one of its brightest jewels and humanity generally one its no blest examples. In 1882 be married Miss Ella dfajUister, of Toccoa. To bless their born to them, two of whose souls preceded their'{SulmlFb to the Cod who gave To the h. art hr. - • •• widow and the three pre<rol&'ooya wc extend our heartfelt sympathies They, with all who were associated with him in life, will miss his wise counsel and Christian example, but there is a source of joy in the thought that if w f e live the life he lived wc, too, will not fear death. The burial service was conducted by Rev. G. 11. Cartledge. assisted by Rev. J, F. Goode, in a most appropri ate minner, at eleven o’clock at the Presbyterian church, this place, in the presence of a very large crowd of grief stricken relatives and friends. The Mississippi has tendered its resignation as the official organ of the State of Mississippi because it could not support all the Ocala de mands. Such action was eminently proper and honorable under the cir cumstances, and places that paper in a position where it can act independ ently without being charged with un fairness to the order. There is one other state organ that, having less respect for the Alliance and far less sense of honor, should be compelled to follow the above example of pro priety.—National Economist. It is said that Europe is very short on cereals and that the grain pros pects for this year is very discourag ing, and a suspension of the import duties on American grain is being strongly urged in many European countries. Russia which has export ed grain in large quantities hereto fore, is so short herself this year that she will have to call on the outside world for supplies for her own con sumption. This means high corn and flour in America. Wheat ad vanced 7 cents .per bushel last week and the top is not yet reached in corn. This shows what the result would be if we could get Europe short on cotton. —Gainesville Eagle. It is not an easy tiling for a teacher to impress his pupils with the beauty of the law of love when the law of hate is observed in the house. “My father says always to get even with people,” said a pupil when the discus sion was upon “retaliation.” And yet this father was a lending man iu the town, one very much hearkened toby others. The teacher has to war against the inheritance his pupils possess out of the past. —Sehool Jour nal. The Washington Critic notes the fact that congress has provided for 600 public biddings, the plans of which are yet to be devised or ac cepted by the government architect. There are certainly not more than 2,400 distinctively agricultural coun tries in the United States, so that it appears that while the members of the Fifty tirst Congress were contend ing that they would never, no never! vote for the reckless expenditure of the people’s money in the construction of warehouses for the farmers pro due's, that body saw no impropriety in providing over two-thirds the number of buildings specified in the Pickier bill, and one-fourth as many its can possibly l*e called for under the widest possible extention of the sub treasury plan. If the money to construct the warehouses must first be taxed from the farmers, who pays for the six hundred buildings already voted? Pah!—National Economist. It is not the purchasing power of | the dollar that concerns the farmer, i but the debt paying power. L~ It is said that the blackest man in j Glynn county, Ga., is named White, | the whitest man is named Brown, the tallest man is named Rowe, ainl the largest man is named Small. Maysville. Maysville is on a big boom. Mr. Henry Green’s residence on Willliam street is nearing completion. Prof. Rrock has one hundred and twenty-five students at present, and still they come. Ask Tom if he killed that snake the other night. * Mr. Joe Eberhart, our worthy mayor, and several other boys went seining the other day. I think they had fisherman’s luck. We welcome Mr. C. T. Whiting back again to our town. Mr. C. S. Rates and Miss Sallie Gordon, of Harmony Grove, were up here at preaching third Sunday. Miss Sullie is one of Harmony Grove's charming young ladies. Mr. J. M. Garrison bad the mis fortune to mash his foot very bad while loading lumber at this place the other day. Mr. I. A. Madden made a flying trip to the gate city one day last week. The farmers are still hauling some cotton to town, and making prepara tions for as large a crop as last year, and to my opinion they are making a great mistake. Lord William Savillc was in the city Friday. Mr: J. H. Jones, manager of the ivery stables at this place, has gone to Ashville N. C., which place he will make his future home. JVlrs. C B. Irwin and her little daughter are spending a few days in Narcross, at the bedside of her sick sister. We were glad to see the lovely face of Miss May Irwin at church illlrd Sunday. She is teaching in Gainesville. Miss A vie Burch left for her home at Lula Wednesday, after a delightful stay with her grandmother of this place. The fishing season has come and on Saturdays you can see the school boy around with a fishing rod and a box of bait trudging toward the river as happy as a king. Mr. F. A. Rhciuhardt, of Gaines ville, was in our town one day last week on business. Mrs. C. T. Bacon has returned home after a visit of several days at her sister’s, Mrs. 11. 1\ Camp, of Gainesville. As stock law has gone into effect I think it would be proper foi people to put up their stock. I see several calves running out over town. Put them up and make the owners pay for it is the idea. Mr. Henry Nelms, of Gainesville, is in town delivering a patent broom which be sold some time since. M’liat has become of the Cost cor respondent? Is he dead or only sleepeth. Fell him to wake up and see if he can scent another wedding. JIMBO. The Situation. To-day the minds of men are per plexed. The leaders of the common people have espoused them, and now the question is, what will they do? Tlie jostling crowd are on guard in masses, and will by a small majority, for they are all not posted alike, fol low the gleams of the greatest light: tlie swaying masses will follow with the make up of their subsidary teach ings. In this storm-tossed condtion of the public mind, the national offi. cers of the Farmers Alliance have the hardest time to fit themselves, in public opinion, and why is this ? Be cause there is no place in thought be tween the educated and the unedu cated. The Alliance is one of its features simply a school in politics; the people, children, without parents, and the officers are our best teachers. As soon as a man is educated, he be comes so enraged at his past igno rance, and feels the necessity of strong help, that he wants the teacher to quit school and become one of his partners in his new line of thought. If he did this the uneducated would loose confidence in the teacher, and the graduate and teacher wonld suf fer alike for support. The Alliance school is non partisan in politics, and partisan men are only liali edu cated in economic the necessity of keeping the teachers as much as possible out of party ]K>litics. Party is, and ever will be, the bane in the education of political economy. If a principle is in error, it is then partisan, but when it estab lishes “equal rights to all and exclu give privileges to none,” it cannot in and sense be partisan. Righ\ dis poses of party, and wrong makes it, and it is to be righted that to-da* the party has to be used in executing the Alliance demands. To be non partisan and still believe in prineible, is a stunner to old line politicians; they do not rise above selfish views, and the idea wf a man from the Alliance non-partisan school taking a hand in politics makes them want to call him an Alliance party man. They can not distinguish between the school and the education. —J. B. Gay. An organization of colored minis ters at Pittsburg lias passed resolu tions denouncing the manner in which their race is treated in the north, and declaring that grater discrimination exists against the negro in that sec tion than in the south. They were rather late in finding this out, or at least in confessing. Yesterday' is yours no longer; to- i morrow may never he yours; but to day is yours; the living present is yours, and in the living present you may stretch forward to the things that are before.—Archdeacon Farrar. Senator Edmunds has resigned his seat in the senate. This is about the best act of his life. High protective tariff, gold alone as money and the obnoxious force bill were his favorite measures. If his antediluvian col league would do the same the senate would be riil of two old fossils and the coming Alliance in Vermont might be able to elect men in tlieir places who had some ideas of whnt was happening in this generation.— National Reformer. Good News For The Lawyer. “Well,” said a lawyer as he en tered his eondemed client’s cell, “good news at last.” “A reprieve f n eagerly exclaimed the prisoner. “No, not a reprieve, but your uncle has died and left you £500; and now you can meet your fate with the sat isfying feeling that the noble efforts of your lawyer in your behalf were not unrewarded.”—London Tid Bits. A Logical Conclusion. Jack—l want to marry a woman who does not consider marriage the chief end and aim of existence. Dick—l suppose yon want to marry a married woman, then.—Munsey’s Weekly. A patent-right man wanted to sell a negro an incubator. “Dar whar you is wrong, mister. I incubates two chickens to your one, and incubate mine full grown, without the trouble of raising them, except from the roost. No expense to rar incubator but walking expenses, and I saves the daytime; my machine runs only in the night-time.”—Tifton, Ga., Gazette. The picnic season is now at hand, The red bug is on the way, The tick will surely get there, When there, he’s there to stay. —Macon County, Ga., Citizen. A life spent in brushing clothes and washing crockery and sweeping floors—a life which the proud of the earth would have treated as the dust under their feet; a life spent at the I clerk’s dest; a life spent in the narrow shop; a life spent in the laborer’s hut. may yet be a life so ennobled by God’s loving mercy that for the sake of it a king might gladly yield his i crown.—Cannon Farrar. We clip from an exchange some tiling worth looking after. The clip ping is in the interest of common honesty: “Before you undertake to pray the Lord’s Prayer very loud in church be sure that you are not selling goods with a thirty-five-inch yard stick or potatoes with a seven-quart peck measure.”—Christian Advocate. Swift’s Specific. s. s. s. To Smokers. Mr. L. M. Geuella, of Vicksburg, Miss., says that his system was pois oned wifh 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 iix generally. He took 8. 8. 8 , which drove out the poison and made anew man out of him. Treatise on Blood and Sltln Diseases nailed Free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. HARDWARE STORE. Buy Your HARDWARE at the lowest prices. We are lieadquaiters for FARM IMPLEMENTS, BLACKSMITH TOOLS, WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIAL, Oook and Ileatijig' {<T<>~V ES, TINWARE, WOOD WARE, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, Sash, Doors and Blinds, Also Agents for EUREKA COTTON PLANTER, ' Best in the WORLD 1 Oj 11 ami Soc < >lll* CLSootlf**. HARDMAN HARDWARE COMPANY, Harmony Grove, Georgia. WILLIAM C. J. GARRISON Maysvilie, Georgia, Has a full line of <; IS IN M EIICIIA MUSE And will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Also a well selected stock of Ready-Made Clothing, Hats and Shoes, and FARMING IMPLEMENS. DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Marble Monuments, TOCCOA, GICOUG lA. ISEE IIE i SET 118. Photographs. LOOK lIEUE! ■MOW is your time to go to Harmony Grove and have your Photograph taken, or old pictures enlarged. You will find llic price lower than any .other place in die state. I make a specialty of cabinet work. My price are FOUR for ONE DOLLAR or TWO DDL LAIts AND SIXTY (.ENTS PER DOZEN. Gome now cr you might find me gone or prices up. Call when iu‘ town and see me. 92-4 15 T. G. ALLEN. Hooks and Stationery. RICHARDS & CO. T. S. CAMPBELL, Manager. Book Sellers and .STATIONERS, AND DEALERS IN Music, Musical Instruments, and Fancy Goods, Keep on hand a lull line BOOKS and STATIONERY usually found in a First Class Book Store. West side Public Square. 7-21 GAINESVILLE, GA , Jewelry. A. a MANDEVILLE. DEALER IN CLOCKS, ~JEWELERY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Repairing and Engraving done with care and warrented to give satis' faction. Op. the college, Atheus, Ga - 7 Bottles of S. S. S. if cigar 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 8. & 8- cured me permanently. Am now sixty years old and in perfect health. Hibam Sweat, Orion, Ala. Periodicals . “The Voice” 4-8 columns each week, full of matter of interest to all. We will send to any person a sample copy of this most aggressive yet popu lar paper hi the world, FREE. NEW SUBSCRIBERS ARE RECEIVING A YAI.r \BT.K PREMIUM FEEE ! And, besides, in the course of a year, ; “Voice” subscribers save dollars more than the price of the paper, by the various special offers made, from time, by the publishers. SPURGEON and TALMAGE. Tiik Voice contains a sermon from Spurgeon orTalmage each week Are You Fo.no of Heading? It contains select sitert stories; interest ing matter in all directions. Are You a Farmer ? 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Address Mention this paper. Funk & Wagnalls, 18-20 Astqr Place, N. Y. s.s.s. has cured thou sands of such cases after good physi cians had failed.