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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, May 20.
It is not by change of circumstances,
but by fitt'ng our spirits to the cir
cumstances in which God has placed
us, that we can !*■ reconciled to life
and duty.—F. W. Robertson.
Our temperance exchanges for
weeks have been full of denunciation
of the drunken delegation of con
gressman who were on a big spree,
nt government expense, all the way
to and from Senator Hurst’s funeral
It is said that even the aristocratic
tipple manufacturer, Senator Stan
ford, who rots the grapes on 4,000
acres annually to make grog, was so
disgusted that he ordered his private
car c t off from the train, took a
special engine and .finished his jour
ney alonjnf’Well, gentlemen of The
press, why shouldn't men who make
laws to license drunkard-mills, pat
ronize their own hatchlings of hell
now and then.—Demurest Times.
Tobacco Did It.
Under this head the Toccoa News
publishes an article clipped from the
Atlanta Journal. The article seems
to bo an interview by a representative
of the Journal with Col. L. L. Polk
on the question of tobacco culture for
Georgia.
Colonel Polk seems to advocate the
growing of tobacco in this state and
thinks the farmers would grow rich
in the enhanced valuation of their
lands, and that tobacco will, ere long,
be the standard crop of the state.
The News comments at some
length on the article, and is in favor
of giving the experiment ji fair trial.
Here is a paragraph from the News’
editorial on the subject:
“Water the beds; make the plants
live; when you set them out in the
field keep them covered for a time;
don’t bo afraid of work; attend dili
gently and closely to those tobacco
beds and ultimately you will be paid
for nil your labor, care ami attention.”
In what way will the farmer be
compensated? With money, of course,
but at what cost? At the cost of be
ing instrumental in filling our country
with paupers, lunatics and monstrosi
ties.
We often see articles in the news
papers condemning the cigarette habit,
and advocating the passing of laws
to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to
children, and claiming that the smok
ing habit is the ruin of the youth of
the land. Still there is money in
tobacco growing.
Where is the consistency ? If it is
right to grow tobacco why should it
not be right to use it?
A Drunken Father.
God have mercy on the man who
votes to continue the liquor traffic
after reading the following special
from Ilawkinsville, Gn., of May 15th i
to the Atlanta Constitution, an organ
that champions the cause of the rum
seller and drunkard-mill:
This morning news was received
here of a most distressing accident
which resulted in the death of three
helpless children. Mr. Abe Newman
came to town yesterday, bringing his
wife and four children in a one-horse
wagon. In tho afternoon, Newman
invested some of his surplus cash in
alcohol, and drank rather freely.
About o’clock at night he went bv
the house of a relative, where his wife
and children had spent the day, took
his family in the wagon and started
for home. Newman was too intoxi
cated to drive, so bis wife held the
lines and guiding the horse. Eight
miles from llawkinsville, on tho road
to their home, the Newmans had to
pass Jenk’s mill. Instead of crossing
at the ford, for some reason his wife
drove on the mill dam and started
aoross. Half way across the dam
Newmin grabbed the lines and pulled
the horse around. The horse plunged
down the embankment in turtle! pond,
where the water was twelve feat-deep,
pulliug the wagon after him. Mrs.
Newman screamed for help, and two
negro men who were fishing at the
pond came to their assistance and
rescued Mrs. Newman aud liberated
the horse. Newman swam out. Three
of the children were drowned. The
youngest, an infant, remained in the
wagon which floated out into the
pond after the horse was cut loose,
and was rescued.
What will the man who votes for
liquor say' when he walks up to the
judgment bar of God and sees those
darling children who were n.ordered
through the vote he cast? Can Jie
say that he acted conscientiously, be
lieving that was doing God’s will?
What will the bar-room man who
sold the liquor on that occasion say
when God calls him forward to make
his statement in reference to this
case ?
We would guess be will say “Lord,
I didn’t think there was ar.y wrong
in selling liquor. The people, through
their representatives, gave me license
to sell, and the moral man drank at
my bar; the church man, the professed
Christian and minister of the gospel
all patronized my mill, and what bet
ter evidence need I want that my
business was honorable ?”
What will the drunkard father say?
By a little strain of the imagination
we think we here him say, in reply to
God’s question as to why he got
idrunk and murdered his children :
“Lord, when I was a hoy my neigh
bor asked me to take a drink with
|iint, and he being an upright, honor-
Ibblo man, I felt there could be no
harm, and there and then acquired a
taste for strong drink.”
Though the honorable man can
ask the boy to drink with him the
deadly poison, and will vote for the
tempting gin-mill to still stand open
to allure him on to death and destruc
tion, yet he cannot stoop to the level
of a rum-seller.
Why need we say more ? We could
write column after column in defense
of the abolition of the traffic and
there would he still much unsaid, hut
in the extract above quoted there is
enough to convince any Christian
that God does not approve the liquor
traffic.
Who Pays Most?
The Brewers Gazette rushes to the
dafense of Blaine’s beer-procity policy
and says: “St. John, ex-governor of
Kansas, and the rest of his gang, are
down on Janies G. Blaine for prepar
ing a pamphlet on the malt and beer
trade with the Spanish American
States. Well, what of it? Who
contributes the most to the support
of this country, the brewers or the
tax-shirking prohibitionists t”
This pretense that the liquor traffic
contributes largely towards the sup
port of the government, is utterly
false and hollow. The brewers owe
the people untold millions more than
they have ever paid.
If a man who is conducting the
business of drayman runs his heavy
wagon against a carriage and smashes
it, he must pay the damages.
If a brewer runs his beer slop into
a home and destroys it, the same
equities exist, aud the brewer owes
for the damage he has caused.
Let these dishonest brewers who
have so long been dead-beating so
ciety, pay their honest debts, and
reimburse sufferers for losses sustained
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by their infamous traffiic, and it
would beggar every one of them and
leave them in debt mo.e than all the
Astors, Vanderbilts and Goulds could
pay.
The beer business is a parasite,
sucking up the people’s resources,
and for every penny it pays in reve
nue, it steals a dollar’s worth of food
and clothing from half-clad wives and
hungry children.
This revenue plan legalizes public
plunder, and the spoliation of a mill
ion homes to enrich the beer banditti,
who turn over the infinitesimal frac
tion of a starved cent out of each
dollar of their robber spoils to “sup
port government.”
This stupid policy of collecting
revenue by swiliing rotten beer down
a million throats, needs a little light
upon it.
Don’t let prohibitionists or any
other sensible people be fooled by the
rurtioerats’ cry of “revenue.,’
The rum traffic never did and never
can pay for the jails, prisons, alms
houses and other penal, reformatory
and benevolent institutions it makes
necessary; for the armies of police
required to watch its lawlessness; for
the alms its victims take from public
charity.
Prohibitionists pay the bills. Sober
men who labor and save, and build
homes, and found great enterprises,
pay tho bills. And where sobriety
and decency and temperance have
set the pulses of commercial life
blood coursing to and fro, the saloon
leech squats and sucks its lazy fill
from the ebbing and flowing tide.—
Demorest Times.*
Maysville.
Mrs. Boone Suddath is quite sick.
Maysville is progressing, yon can
hear the buzz of the saw and the
ring of the hammer from mom till
eve.
I; seems as though someone was
going to take a helpmeet to himself
from the way he is buying property.
That’s right “Doctor,” set a good
example before the younger kids.
Some of the boys are calling a
certain woman ma; [n]Otis should
be taken.
Mr. C. S. Bates is up to see the old
folks at home, on his weekly visit.
There seems to be more attraction
than the love of the parental roof. I
guess it is Al(l)ice.
The school at this place is moving
on finely, in spite of the di-advantages
it is laboring under; having enrolled
one hundred and eighteen scholars.
Professor Brock is one of the best
educators in Banks.
The broom factory has discon
tinued for the present.
We are to have some new comers
in town soon. That is right, if you
want to live in peace, come to
Maysville.
The way a certain Professoi visits
this place, someone may have cause
to beWare.
Mr. B. 11. Green’s house is nearing
completion, it will l>e a very nice
house when completed.
To-day’s Duty.
“It will not last long. Tour day,
my day, the world’s day, the day of!
opportunity, the day of grace, the day
of salvation—all days are swiftly pass
ing away; and the great day, the last
day, will snrely and speedily come.”
So speaks a wise man. He speaks
well. Time is short. Our waking
hours arc soon over. The cradle and
death chuir of Frederick the Great
in the Hohenzo lorn* museum are
placed side by side. With all of us
they stand near together. The time
allotted us to do our work for God
will soon have emptied itself into the
oceam of eternity. We must seize
the present opportunities. Their
neglect can never be repaired. We
have our work to do. We have a
daily work. It is moro important
than we know. Let ns be up and
doing. Remember what Jesus said:
“I must do the work of him who
sent me while it is day; for behold
the night cometh when no man can
work.” Only one conscious of this
necessity will be able to say, when
the sun is setting. “I have glorified
thee on the earth. I have finished
the work which then gavest me to do.
—Kpworth Herald.
The Picnic.
That long-talked-of and anxiously
awaited picnic was the success of the
season.
Last Wednesday morning the clouds
were heavy and threatening, and
seemed as though there was nothing
to do hut to turn loose and rain,
which it did about ten o’clock and
continued all day, off and on, and
very nearly all night it rained and
continued next day, until the pros
pects for the picnic on Saturday
looked gloomy indeed.
But fate had decreed that the pic
nic should not be a failure, so Satur
day morning the sun rose in all its
majestic splendor, with not a cloud
dotting the elements, and everything
gave promise of a beautiful day.
The farmers having been blessed
with a nice season it was feared that
the crowd would be small. That idea
however, prevailed only for a time.
Soon, to the delight of Homer’s picnic
loving population, vehicles of various
characters rolled through the city, the
occupants of which silently bade our
people to follow, and we did.
The grounds were reached in due
time, and the large crowd sought to
amuse themselves in various ways, as
is usual on occasions. Some
whiled away the time fishing, (for
minnows,) others strolled up and
down the river, others passed the
time playing mumble peg, while some
seemed to be in dead earnest court
ing.
All were enjoying the day hugely
when dinner was announced. And
such a dinner! The table fairly
groaned under the weight of good
things. The ladies of Banks county
are too well educated in the culinary
art for us to attempt to give a de
scription of their efforts on the occa
sion in question, suffice to say th.it
all had plenty, and there was left
enough to have fed more than as
many more.
After dinner was over the crowd
was conducted by Mr. W. B. Mason,
to a suitable place close by, and
Messrs. Wilbanks and Forbes, with
their instruments, photographed the
group, and took orders for a number
of pictures.
The last, but bj no means the least,
feature of the occasion was the reci
tations by the little git is, Misses
Lorena Scoggins, Willie, Hattie and
Lottie Morris and Mary Mason, all of
whom did well. All the pieces were
appropriately selected and had been
well committed and of course were
well delivered God bless the little
girls. May their future be as bright
as the present gives promise.
Hollingsworth and Giflsville were
well represented, as well as various
other sections, including some from
other counties. •
Every one seemed to enjoy the
occasion, and the day is one long to
be rememl>ered.
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Rev J M Ilubbert, I). D., LL.D., pas
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J. R. Brooks, I). D., Presiding Elder
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Professor J. H. Boon, of Ga., writes:
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hours, and in that time taken ten sub-
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m v first eight hours work. Intel ouiy
one person I failed to sell the
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tinue teaching orgive up my school and
sell books entirely.”
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New Shops, New Tools, First-Class Men
Build and Repair all kinds of Machinery. Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Cano
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