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Banks County Gazette.
VOL 2.---NO. 4.
Looking Upward.
Opticians make glasses with three
ranges, and write upon a little bar
which shifts their eye-pieces, “Thea
tre,” “Field,” “Marine.” Which of
the three is your glass set to ? The
turn of a button determines its range.
You can either look at the things
close at hand, or, if you set the eys
piece right, and use the strongest,
you can see the stars. YYhich is it to
be? The shorter range shows you
possibilities; the longer, will show you
certainties. The shorter range shows
you trifles; the longer, all that you
can desire. The shorter range shows
you hopes that are destined to be
outgrown and left behind; the longer,
the far-off glories, a pillar of light
which will move before you foeever.
0 how many of the hopes that guid
ed our course, and made our object
ive points in the past, are away down
below the backward horizon! How
many hopes we have outgrown,
whether they were fulfilled or disap
pointed! B.it we may have one
which will ever move before us, and
ever draw our desires. The greater
vision, if we were only wise enough
to bring our lives habitually under
its influence, would at once dim and
ennoble all the near future.
Let, us then, dear friends, not dese
crate that wonrlrous faculty of look
ing before as well as after which God
has given us, by wasting it upon the
nothings of this world, but heave it
higher, and anchor it more firmly in
the very throne of God himself. And
for us let one solemn, blessed thought
more and more fill with its substance
and its light the else dim and ques
tionable and insufficient future, and
walk evermore as seeing him who is
invisible, and as hastening unto the
coming of the day of the Lord.
Make haste about cultivating a
Christian character. The harvest is
great, the toil is heavy, the sun is
drawing to the west, the evening
shadows are very long with some of
us, the reckoning is at band, and
the Master waits to count your
sheaves. There is no time to loose,
brother; set about it as you have
never done before, and say: “This
one thing I do.”
And so let us not fill our minds
with vain hopes which, whether they
be fulfilled or not, will not satisfy us:
but lift our eyes to and stay our an
ticipations on those glories beyond,
as real as God is real, and as certain
as his word is true. Let these hopes
concentrate and define for us the aims
of our life; and let the aims, clearly
accepted and recognized, be pursued
with earnestness, with “diligence,”
with the enthusiasm with which they,
and they only, arc worthy.—Dr.
Maelaren.
How to Boil au ligg.
“Isn’t it strange,” said a short, for
eign looking man the other day to
some companions, while lunching to
gether at one of the restaurants,
“that not one cook in fifty, nor house
keeper either, knows how to boil an
egg? And yet most people think they
know thirsimple matter. They will
tell you to drop it into lioiling water
and let it remain three minutes, and
to be sure the water is boiling. Here
is where the mistake is made. An
egg so prepared is indigestible and
hardly fit for a well person,-let alone
one wlio is sick, to eat. The moment
it is plunged into boiling water the
white hardens and toughens. To
boil an egg properly, put it in a ves
sel, cover with cold water, place over
the fire and the second the water be
gins to boil your egg is done The
white is as delicate as a jelly and as
easily digested and nutritious as it
should be. Try it.”
Faith The Mainspring.
Faith, which is the source of so
much human happiness, is the main
spring of human activity, it moves
more than half the machinery of life.
What leads the husbandman, for ex
ample, to yoke his horses when, no
bud bursting to elothe the naked
trees, no b-rd sfnglng in the hedge
rows or trusty ski's, nature seems
dead? With faith in the regularity
of her laws, in the ordinance of her
God, ho believes she is not dead, but
sleepeth; and so he plows and sows
in the certain expectation that he
shall reap and that these bare fields
shall be green in summer with waving
corn and be merry in autumn with
sun-browned reapers. The farmer is
a man of faith; so is the seaman. No
braver man than he who goes down
to see God's wonders in the deep.
Venturing his frail bark on a sea
plowed by so many keels, but wear
ing on its bosom the furrows of none,
with neither path to follow nor star
to guide, the mariner knows no fear.
When the last blue hill has dipped
beneath the wave, and he is alone on
a shoi eless sea, he is calm and con
fident—his faith in the compass-nee
dle, which, however his ship may
turn or roll or plunge; ever points
true north. An example bis to be
followed by the Christian with his
Bible; on that faith venturing his all
—life, crew, and cargo—he steers his
way boldly through darkest nights
and stormiest oceans, with nothin"
but a thin plank between him and
the grave. And though metayhysi
cians and divines have involved this
matter of faith in wysterv, be assured
there is nothing more needed tor
your salvation or mine than that God
would inspire us with a belief in the
declarations of his word, as real,
heart-felt, and practical as that which
we put in the laws of Providence—
in the due return of day and night,
summer and winter, seed-time and
harvest.—Thomas Guthrie.
The United states builds ware
houses to accommodate those who
deal in the product of foreign labor;
why can it not build warehouses to
aid in the exchanges of the product
of American labor ? Has the laborer
of Europe anv more rights or privi-
Jeges than the laborer of America?.
If so, wr.at are they?—National
Economist.
How little ive know ourselves!
How useless it is for us to attempt to
know ourselves by the most, careful
self-examination unaided by the eyes
arid mind of another! If we are sure
that with all our faults we arc net
selfish, not vain, not egotistical, not
proud, not boastful, not mean-spirited,
not envious, not prone to self-conceit,
not extravagant in speech or manner,
: —whatever may be the point of oui
self-confidence, it may be that we
are grossly deceived concerning our
selves at that very point. The spe
cific faults that we condemn in others,
and that we thank God we are free
from, may be faults that show them
selves in us in a way that others can
see, but that we are unconscious of.
And unless we understand this truth
as a truth, we are in no state to barn
our faults, or to correct them. Here
it is, as well as elsewhere, that he
who thinketh he standeth should
take heed lest he fall. We need to
gain lessons from the stinging words
that are spoken against us in anger
by those who blurt out at such a
time truths which we should not
otherwise hear spoken. And we
should often seek help to the knowl
edge ot ourselves from the frank and
kindly spoken words of those who
love us dearly, and who know us as
we cannot know" ourselves. Let no
one of us suppose that his unaided
judgment of himself is worth consid
ering as possibly fair and just.—Sun
day School Times.
Christian Cheerfulness.
Christian cheerfulness is noble and
excellent quality. It is creditable
alike to the donor and the possessor.
It is no boisterous intruder, but a calm
peaceful, and delightful companion.
Its influence is exhilarating and ben
eficial. It has a wise regard to times
and places, and persons and eircum
stances. It is neither obtrusive nor
offensive in its manifestations. It
varies according to the' needs of in
dividuals. Its overflow is steady and
continous like the river’s regular cur
rent, not raging and impetuous like
the swift torrent, benefits follow its
possesions, It adds to one.s comfort.
IIOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, AVADNESDAY, JUNES, 1891.
yeilds him abundat satisfaction, calls
into play the most generous feelings
of his nature, and affords him inward
joy. It renders him agreeable and ac
ceptable to all with whom he comes
in contact. It is better than medicine
to the sick. It is a preserver of health
imparts clearness and vigor to the
mind, and creates harmony, full,
sweet and abiding, in the soul. It
honors godliness, proclaiming to all
observers that believers serve a good
Master. It is the handmaid of graces
tuning the heart for God’s praise.
It glorifies his providence and mag
nifies his redemptive goodness. The
more it shines in our words and ac
tions, the better for ourselves and for
the reccommendation of our holy re
religion.—Presbyterian.
The Wages Of Sin.
No one can tell the full measure of the
punishment of sin. No one can tell just
what the afliction will he when “God’s
arm is made bare”. We max', how
ever, learn something of the suffering
which grows out of sin, just as the
branch grows from the stock. The
Scriptures speak of the undying worm
and the unquenchable fire, but to
make these mere physical torment is
to lower them. There is a fire that
cannot bo quenched, but it is not
such ns we kindle with coals. It is a
fhre of evil passions which burnes in
the soul. There is a worm which
dieth not, but is not of any species
classified by any naturalist. It is
the worm of remorse which gnaws
and is never satisfied.
No doubt the suffering of the
world to come will consist partly in
the sense of complete sinfulness.
Devil s are not incapable of distin
guishing right or wrong, nor will lost
men be incapable. There is no rea
son to believe that the mind loses any
of its power at the death of the body
/&■ wyS . fa
strengthened, to draw closer distinc
tions between good and bad, and be
tween happiness and misery.—Chris
tian XJnion.
A.lolisli Jury exemptions.
There will be a fine opportunity
at the summer session of tbe Georgia
legislature for some member to do a
great public service by doing away
with a crying evil in the laws relating
to the administration of justice in
this State. Let them introduce a bill
repealing and abolishing all jury ex
emptions. The law is such now that
in every community many of tbe most
intelligent, upright and successful
-citizens are relieved from jury ser
vice. The time lias come in Georgia
as has in other states, when services
of this class of citizens are impera
tively' needed in the jury box. In
every county in Georgia jury' exemp
tions have grown to he a great evil,
and the demad is increasing, from
from the bench and from the people,
for relief. To further such a move
ment we would not appeal to any
class prejudice but is fair and proper
to call attention to the fact that
these exemptions operate mainly in
favor of leading citizens of towns
and cities. Our farmer friends are
not favored to any great extent in
these special privileges They are
called from their farm work to go to
town and do tbe public service from
which so many city’ men are excused.
This is not right, and il is certainly
not in the interest of pubic justice.
A law should be passed abolishing
all jury exemptions, and vesting in
the discrimination of the judges in
each case the excusing of jurors, on
the ground of age, illness, peculiar
occupations, urgent business, or other
conditons which might appeal to the
court. —Columbus Enquirer Sun.
Our weakness will be our strength
if we rest that weakness on Christ’s
strength. “When 1 am weak, then
am I strong” is a principle of univer
sal application in our connection with
Christ. Our strength in him is born
of our conscious weakness Ourself
strength and self-fulness are the
points of oar grented weakness. -
Chi rati Advocate.
The Argentine Republic has de
cided to issue notes against silver held
in reserve, to be legal tonder for all
future obligations. It is expected
that a law will be passed declaring
invalid all contracts stipulating other
than the legal tender, so that if gold
be a premium it willnol be to the in
jury of the country. This course
was decided on after a complete fail
ure to secure enonh gold for a basis
on which to issue a currency—Nat.
Economist.
'W hen God tries ns, he goes to the
root of disease, and strikes nt the
most sensitive point. Abraham must
snerjjjct Isaac, Jacob must bo bereft
of Joseph. Our darlings must go.
God str ; kes for our life and to save
us, and .to sickly sentiment, no un
faithful weakness restrains his stroke.
—Christian Advocate.
A little girl was sent by her mother
to the grocery to by a cake of castile
soap. When she got there, she
couldn’t remember the name. “Is it
glycerine or oat-meal soap?” sug
gested the grocer. Gracie shook her
head. Th n she brightened up like a
flash. “Now, I know!” she exclaimed,
triumph .ally: “I want cast iron soap.”
“Do you think your sister likes to
have m<r come here, Jimmy?” “You
bet. You take her to the theatre and
bring bur candies.” “I am glad I can
make hr. happy.” “Y r cs, and the
young ij’low what she’s engaged to
don 1, mind it, either, for it saves him
that much money toward goiim to
housekeeping.”
Delegate: “I hope to see the day
when all shall be equal, and one man
as good as another.” Pat: “So do I,
and then I'll soon show Dennis Mc-
Car hv l’aiu a better man than he is.”
—Ju.’
Tj,r<‘ Important Numhcit,
The whole world is looking out for
No. 1. If is a very important number
and is employed oftener than any
other. It is a component part of every
odd or even number, and is the root
and foundation of all numbers. There
is one God and one heaven. We have
one heart and one soul, one lifo and
one death.
Two is a number of great utility and
pre-eminence. The Creator kept it in
mind in many of his works. He ere
a tod man and all the boasts in two
sexes, and gave the humans two eyes,
two ears, two nostrils, two arms, two
hands, two legs, two feet and many
other double members of utility to the
body. All the passions are in pairs,
such as joy and sadness, lio[k> and fear,
love and hate. Health and sickness,
living and dying, boat and cold, vice
and virtue, knowledge and ignorance,
truth and falsehood and the like are
represented in duplicity.
The numlier three is ono of great
prominence and significance. Shake
spearo says:
‘•They say there is divinity in odd
numbers, either in nativity, ehaneo or
death.’’—Chicago Herald.
Hindoo Women.
Hindoo women wear very beautiful,
and when wealthy very costly Jewelry
They wear a large ring in the nose,
quite a number on each ear, and ever
so many bangles on the arms and
wrists, also massive gold ami silver
anklets and rings on each toe. These
rich ornaments are very becoming, and
the women naturally think a great deal
of them. Hut widows are not allowed
any ornaments at all. nor must they
wear colors.
The condition of women with living
husbands is not much better. They
must never look upon the face of any
other man. so that they aro not allowed
to leave their homes, and these homes,
even among the rich, are not pretty in
the least. The small dingy rooms have
bare walls and hardly any furniture,
and look upon dreary interior yards
without a vestige of tree or llower. -
Mrs. David Ker in Jemmas Miller Mag
azine.
Promptly Answered.
“What did they do with Joseph’s
coat of many colors!’’ asked the Sun
day sclniß! teacher.
“Cut it down and made it over for
Benjamin,” hazarded a pensivo little
boy at the end of the scat. Kxehange.
>rado Hint feel at Home.
Mrs. Bond —Living so far from the
city as you dc. Miss Xewburgher, you
must see very little of your father.
Miss Sv wburgher—Yos, ho isn't hero
very often; still, ho seems qiiito tike
one or" the family. - Puck.
YOUTHFUL CHAPERONS.
On© of the Fnnny Thing* That the Fe
male College Ha* Given Us.
I have a.little cousin no bigger than
my thumb.
Well, tliat is not strictly true and
substantial as a fact, but it will do as a
figure of speech.
Sh is a wonderful little creature, as
bright as a dollar and as pretty as a
fairy. She went through school and
went through college like a streak of
greased lightning, feminine gender.
She graduated at tho top of the class,
and the only limit to her honors was
that the supply gave out. I would not
dare to tell the age at which she got
her sheepskin, it was so little.
Now there is a certain kind of fame
which travels quick, and when my
pretty little cousin made up her mind j
to teach for a year or two, pending the
time when the hero should come and
set her to darning socks and making
cake, the offers poured in from all
quarters of the compass. You would
have thought that teachers were the
scarcest kind of an article, and so I
suppose they are—that is, real smart
ones.
She took her pick of a number of
gilded offers, modestly declining to be
made president of a western college,
and sticking up her nose nt a mere pub
lic school prineipalship.
Asa happy medium and good thing
to practice on she took a position in a
fashionable young ladies’ seminary in
the city of New York, with about three
hours a day of work and a nice fat
salary attached. Oh, my little cousin
is smart in more ways than one. She
knows ori which side of her bread to
look for butter and molasses.
But tlie joke of it is that in the school
to which she has gone the teachers hav e
to play the part of chaperons to the
young ladies when they wish to add
Daly’s or Theodore Thomas’ special
branches to the curriculum of their stud
ies. It is all very pretty in theory, but
it looks decidedly funny to see my
sweet little sevcntccn-ycar-old cousin,
just as full of fun as she is of Greek
and mathematics, engage.} in tho sol-
earn duty of escorting a lot of nineteen
year-old misses to places of amuse
ment. I don’t wish to give my cousin
away, nor will I mention the particular
school which is blessed by her pre.se ~-e
and dignity but I don’t- • *fg
nT confidence that it’s n<
from Fifth avenue, and tl fSiiei
is going to convoy a flotilla’* ' /lings
she sends mo a warning word, and if
ever a fellow gets the worth of his mati
nee tickets I happen to know the man.
My blessings on the youthful chap
e.ron! She is filling a long felt want,—
New York Herald.
An Od.l Way to Collect ISIUs.
Many years ago an eccentric dry
goods merchant in New York owned
property on which there was a mort
gage held by another merchant. A
clerk of the latter called on the former
and said, “I called to get tho interest
on that mortgage.”
“Did you. indeed!” replied tho mer
chant. “Can you read this Bible,
young man ?”
“Yes, sir,” replied tlfo clerk.
“I want you to read this chapter in
the Book of Job,” said the merchant.
The clerk read a chapter, and the
merchant listened with the greatest at
tention. It was about a horse being
clothed with thunder. After the chap
ter had been read the merchant ob
served :
“Job was a great- old fellow—wonder
ful genius. Now I'll give you a chock
for the interest money, and. mind you,
hereafter when you call I'll always give
it to you. If Ido not, write ;tw a note
if I am out, and I will leave a cheek
when I come in. Yon road Job first
rate.”—Dry Goods Chronicle.
A Pnxxlrr.
Tlie following proposition is left for
tile reader to think about:
If there are more people in the world
than any one person has hairs upon his
head, then there must exist at least, two
persons who possess identically the
same number of hairs to a liair.
This same proposition may be applied
to the faces of human beings in the
world, if tho number of perceptible
differences between two faces be not
greater than the total number of the
hninan race, then there must exist lit
least two persons who are to all ap
pearanees exactly alike. When it is
considered that there are about 1.500,-
000,000 persons in the world and that
the human countenance does not vary,
except within comparatively narrow
limits, the truth of the proposition be
comes obvious, without applying the
logical reasoning of it.—New Y'ork
Tribune.
Seductive Son? of tho Mocking Bird.
In southern cities, where a tine is im
posed for killing ono, mocking birds are
very’ numerous, and they sing so joy
ously in the trees that it seems unneces
sary and cruel to confine them in cages.
They sing their sweetest songs during
the moonlight nights ot summer, often
iiwphug old residents to lose sleep for
the sake of hearing them.— -New York
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS,
ROMAN HOUSES IN LONDON.
Mysterion* Ruin* of Civilization In Hrlt
aitt Nearly Two Thousand War* Old.
The houses of the better class can be
reconstructed from the Homan villas
whoso foundations have been laid bare
In various parts of the country. A
very great number liavo been found
and partially examined by excavations.
Some of them are of a size and splen
dor which denote great wealth as well
as a feeling of profound security. They
have been found for the most part in
the southern counties. Many are in
Kent—a county which, so long as the
count of the Saxon shore protected its
coasts, was the safest part of Britain.
But many of these villas have lveen
found in Lincolnshire, and there are
probably hundreds awaiting discovery.
It is not fair iu considering the trailer's
house of London to take the magnifi
cent ruins of such a villa as that which
has been laid bare at Woodchester in
Gloucestershire. Hero we find sitting
rooms fifty feet square ranged abont
courts or gardens a hundred and a hun
dred and fifty feet square; here are
splendid tessellated pavements, fresco
paintings, fragments of statues and
groups, Samian ware, and every indica
tion of art and luxury. We need not
suppose that London merchants lived
in [minces. Into the lofty, brilliant,
well heated apartments of the finer
houses there was thrown a confused
mass of furniture not unworthy of tho
richest palaces of modern days. Cush
ions and lounges of crimson silk and
Babylonian tapestry surrounded the
banqueting tables and walls; mirrors
of metal or glass shone on all sides.
Glass windows let in the inconstant
sunlight, and candles, lamps and can
delabra in the winter evenings scattered
over the rooms on tripods, tables,
niches, and perhaps hung aloft on tho
ceiling, threw down sufficient light.
Tho infinite number and varied forms
of their lamps show the care tho Ro
mans gave to lighting their rooms and
their taste for nocturnal amusement.
Carpets, rugs and matting were thrown
upon the mosaic floor. Statues of real
merit stood around in artistic negli
gence. Tables of citron wood, or mar
ble tripods, book shelves ami stands,
glass vases of nil forms and modes, rich
with green, red or purplo dyes, shono
on tho Roman sid'-boa'?' ‘' lnK
, cj- vti.., e of delicate
Samian were added to the glow
color; they were so fragile that omy
fragments of the finer kind iiave been
preserved. In the midst of his luxuri
ous home sat the London euri.nl, or al
derman of the Homan time, on his
curtile chair, surrounded by wife and
children, clothed in the richest fabrics
of the day, and all glittering with rings,
jewels, armlets, bracelets, some of
which have been left behind to tell
their tale. Ou the bones of a woman's
arm in Mr. Roach Smith's collection
are seen three bracelets of gold, with
gems and rare chasings.
To complete the picture of the homo
of tho Homan period wo must add a
great number of articles of convenience
or comfort that would seem to us al
most exclusively modern. Chairs,
lounges, sofas, bedsteads, chests, clos
ets, drawers, curtains, glass vessels,
mirrors and vases, bunches of keys,
and a great variety of kitchen utensils,
gold and silver ornaments, baskets and
urns for money, great amphoric filled
with wine, and the well stored kitchens
of the wealthy made up the require
ments of Roman life. These the bar
barous Saxons plundered or destroyed,
chiefly from a fear that magic lay in all
objects of art. A garden in the front
of tho villa, filled with roses from P.ts
tuin and lilies and violets, was never
forgotten by a people so fond of flowers,;
baths, hot and cold, wore attached to
every large house. Fourteen centuries
and the ravages of Saxon and Dane
have covered Roman London with a
cloud of mystery that no ono has been
able to remove. Eugene Lawrence in
Harper's.
A Despvrafct* Chitocc.
A Russian exile relates how ho onea
saved himself by a desperate artifice.
A police official searched his house for
compromising papers. There was in
his possession a document the discov
ery of which meant serious danger to
himself and his friends. .
Wherever lie might hide it it seemed
certain that it would be found. Ho
coolly’ handed tho document to the
official, who scarcely glanced at it and
handed it back.
After the most careful soareh tho of
ficial, his nose blackened witli soot and
his hair decorated with feathers —for
he had even examined the stovepipes
and tho bedding departed empty
hauded. —Youth’s Companion.
Sure Cure tor insomnia.
Rope off your mind and eject every
idea from tho cleared space. Then as
suwo the manners of certain Boston
policemen; imitate the action of the
tiger, stiffen up the sinews, and if an
idea shows but his head in the ring
seize him by the collar and throw him
out. If your will is tolerably obstinate
you will win the day. ~ 80-Jen Trans
cript.