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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, June 24.
Ex-Senator Ingalls has clasped
hands with the third party.
A heavy storm, doing considtrable
damage, passed through a portion of
Kansas and Arkansas on the 19th.
Tbe Lewis monument has l>cen
received by the committee, and will
be unveiled on next Monday at Dah
lonega.
It is said that The Citizen, of
Palatka, Fla., is the smallest paper in
the world. It is 4x5 inches with
four pages.
Friday is the day set for the hang
ing of Charles Osborn in Atlanta. I)r.
Griffin, of that county, has made
affidavit that Osborn is crazy.
President Harrison was just in time
in having his kin placed on the pen
sion roil. Alt the money for that
purpose has been paid out.
From The Pahlonega Nugget we
learn that tho Fannin county tax
collector is short in his accounts with
the county. Pebaps he lias been to
war with liilly Patterson.
Governor Patterson, of Pennsylva
nia, has vetoed the hill making educa
tion compulsory in his state. He
says “free attendance on a free school
seems most to benefit a free people.”
The United States? has paid out
over $18,000,000 in pensions fov the
month of June. No wonder there is
n deficiency in the treasury. If we
could only have a few more such
congresses as the last one it would he
but a short time until we would be
wiped from tbo face ot the earth,
financially.
A few days ago a woman of ques
tionable character made her appear
ance in Tate, Gn. Tho good women
of that community could not endure
her conduct, ho they procured the
services of two young men to get the
woman to go to a certain place with
them, and when they reached the
place designated eight women made
their appearance, seized the woman,
tied her to a tree amt gave her a
sound thrashing. It had the desired
effect, for when she was turned loose
she took to her heels and has not beun
seen since.
Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, in get
ting himself into a tight place. Some
days since he refused to sign license
for beer saloons, but thinks the liquor
traffic all right when carried on within
the limits of police protection, high
license and respectable men. We
agree with the mayor on the last con
sideration, but it puzzles us to under
stand how the superintendent of one
of the finest Sunday schools in tho
state and a pillar in his church, a pro
fessor of godliness who offers up to
his croator the prayer left to us by
Jesus Christ Sunday after Sunday
could sign a liquor license at all.
Wonder if the honorable, christian(?)
gentleman thinks the barroom is of
God! And upon what grounds
would he base such an opinion ? Do
we find our loving mothers and dar
ling sisters in such places as its sup
porters? Do we find our minister
generally laboring for the upbuilding
of liquor shops? Does the mayor
himself take his wife and daughters to
such places to while away a few leis
ure hours, to pass the time pleasantly
w ith tho people who cougrcgate there?
Cot holies vs 1 tar rooms.
The May number of the National
Temperance Advocate publishes sev
eral speeches delivered by various
parties at a reception tendered Bishop
Ireland, of Minnesota, in the Corcert
Hall of the Mitropolitan Opera house,
New York, in all of which the tem
perance cause was the theme. From
one of the speeches, delivered by
Father Elliott, we clip the following
paragraph:
“The entire American hierachy
signed the decree; the broad seal of
Rome was affixed without the altera
tion of a syllable, and when that is
said upon a question of morals what
ever may be the effect upon the non-
Catholic world, for Catholics it is
authoritative and binding. Saloon
keejiers have got to quit the business
or quit the church, and that is to be
the end of it. It may go slow. Great
movements go slow, —prohibitionists
will tell you that, —hut it will go sure.
And the end will be that the finger
of public morality pointing with all
the authority of Rome in scorn and
detestation at the saloon business,
will drive out of it any man who pre
tends to be a Catholic.”
While we do not propose to at
tempt to champion Catholicism,
yet the above paragraph meets with
our hearty approval. If we will re
move the stumuling blocks wo will be
better able to reach men’s hearts.
McKinley for Governor.
Major William McKinley has been
nominated by the republican party of
Ohio for governor, and he is sure to
be beaten, for the people of that state
have had enough of such men in
high offices of trust. They are
realizing every day the evil effects of
a high tariff fathered by Mr. McKin
ley, and the laboring class of voters
and tho democrats of the state will
see that lie will never bo permitted
to occupy the gubernatorial chair of
that state by their votes.
One of the main planks in the
platform is in favor of high tariff.
The people have got enough of this
stuff, and they are going to put it
down.
What we want and what we need
is a tariff for a revenue sufficient to
run the government economically ad
ministered.
Mr. McKinley received a black eye
by being defeated for congress, and
now he will he overwhelmingly de
feated for governor.
The people are tired of such views
and policies as Mr. McKinley enter
tains and they are going to put a stop
to them. _
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National Hanks.
Our financial system again appears
in an unenviable light. The govern
ment issued, a good many years ago,
its bonds bearing interest at 41 per
cent. Those bonds, or promises to
pay, become due in September to the
extent of $51,000,000. The govern
ment has enough money to pay them
(so the Secretary of the treasury as
sures us) when they are due. Then
why not pay them? one might nat
urally ask. The trouble is this.
About one-half of theso bonds are
owned by national banks and depos
ited with the Treasury. On these the
banks have issued bank-notes to the
extent of 90 per cent, of the bonds.
These bank-notes are currency (since
the government guarantees their pay
ment) and under our laws they must
be withdrawn from circulation when
the bonds held as security for them
are redeemed. Therefore, the Sec
retary of tho Treasury is afraid to pay
the nation’s matured notes, i. e., bonds,
for fear of creating a panic by the
contraction of the currency that
would follow tho retirement of the
bank-notes. Wlmt does lie do? lie
hastens to New York to consult the
bankers to find out what can he done.
It is determined to extend tho bonds,
and the question in doubt is whether
they can bo extended at 1 or 11 per
cent, interest, or must be extended at
2 per cent. The bankers naturally
enough agree that the rate must be “2
per cent, in order to keep the bonds
at par and to prevent the contraction
of the currency. This will doubtless
be done, and the government will
therefore continue to pay all the way
from $f>()0,000 to $1,000,000 every
year on a debt it doesn’t need to make
and doesn't want to make, but
feels impelled to make. It is really
an absurd condition, resulting from
the issue of money by national bauks
instead of directly by the government.
Under the circumstances, one cannot
blame the Secretary of the Treasury
for wliat lie proposes to do; it is prob
ably the wise course to take. But we
hope that the United States will
never again place itself in such a con
dition that it cannot pay its debts
without creating a panic, aud must
continue to pay interest for money it
doesn’t want to borrow but has to
borrow. The national bank, as a
bank of issue, must go.—The Voice.
The Democrats and the Farmers.
How can the farmers and the dem
ocracy be separated ?
They have been one party, here in
the south. Their interests are the
same, and so are their principles.
The farmers have voiced no prin
ciple that is not one of the essentials
of democracy.
As the Chicago Times puts it,
when the farmers decry the rapid ag
gregation of wealth at one end of the
social scale and the extention of pov
erty at the other, they only jrepeat
the warnings of the purest patriots,
and recall to democrats the teachings
of their early leaders.
When they deny the right ®f the
government to make possible a .life of
ease to one class as the resitlt of
heavier burdens borne by
they put forth a declaration that can
not be controverted in a democratic
platform. ~*~
When they demand the re-'stab
lishment of justice and the abroga
tion of laws by which special favors
are bestowed on a class, they utter a
fundamental democratic principle.
How can men with such grievances
and such principles leave the demo
cratic party, and on the other-hand,
how can democrats leave them ?
In all this upheaval of the farmers
there is nothing hut democracy in
action. Wise counsel and united
effort will turn it into democracy at
its best-—Atlanta Constitution;
The Knee Question.
Atlanta’s colored citizens held a
large meeting in the basement of the
courthouse one night last week.
Tho meeting was for the purpose
of hearing an address by Dr. J. C.
Price, the colored commissioner of
the world’s fair.
Dr, Price is considered one of the
most learned men and fluent orators
of his race. He has never been very
prominent in politics, aud has for a
number of years maintained conserv
ative views in regard to tho race
question, taking the position iu The
Forum and other magazines, that the
progress of the race in education and
material vvellfare, and not pojjbiee gr
social equality, was the solution of
the problem.
J. H. Ruckor presided over the
meeting, and introduced tho commis
sioner, Dr. Price.
The speaker showed in the outset
that he was an orator of ability. He
explained that he was here for the
purpose of enlisting the co-operation
of the colored people in securing as
good an exhibit of every character as
would illustrate the development of
the negro race, and at the southern
exposition at Raleigh which is con
ducted tinder the auspicies of the
southern emigration bureau in which
negroes had been assigned a depart
ment, whence the exhibits would
afterward be carried to the wot Id’s
fair. Speaking of the race question,
he said;
“I am prepared to announce to you
that I am the advocate of anew policy.
I believe that the two races should
cultivate harmonious relations—an
tagonism has been fostered too long.
It is to our interest to bo friends and
for the common good of our common
country, the upbuilding of its indus
tries and the development of its mag
nificent resources.”
The speaker then opposed any
form of social equality.
On the negro as imitator the speak
or advised his audience to continue
to imitate the white people.
“It is,” said he, “because the In
dian has refused to accept aught that
comes from the hands of the white
man that he remains a savage, and it
is because the negro imitates those
more advanced that he has made
progress.”
As to the prejudice against the
race on account of their color, he
said there was nothing wrong iu the
word black as a qualifying word.
‘‘Substitute in the man learning for
ignorance, thrift for tlmftiness, mor
ality for immorality, and such a prej
udice against the color ceases. Dig
nify your color by your efforts in
your own behalf, and in the upbuild
ing of the commonwealth of which
you are a part.”
Dr. Price then spoke of Mr. Grady
as having seen the solution of the
problem.
“He urged his people not to call
on .Massachusetts to adjust differences
in South Carolina, or on Pennsylvania
to settle disputes in Georgia, but to
appeal if they have grievances to the
capitol of their own state. He ad
vised them to cease following the
phantom of politics which had proven
useless.” *
The speech was full of good advise,
well told and a strong argument to
induce the colored people to show
their progress and thrift at the
southern exposition and the world’s
fair.
A few whites were in the audience.
Mr. Jones, the large Burke county
farmer, requested the commissioner
to address the negroes on his place.
Mr. Jones believing it will be a ben
efit to them and him.—Atlanta
Constitution.
A Delightful Entertainment at
the Gill.sville High School.
Your correspondent had the pleas
ure of attending the exhibition of
the Gillsvilie High School at Gills
ville, Ga., Friday evening June 19th,
which was attended and enjoyed by a
large crowd, and I trust you will give
space in your valuable paper for a
small portion of the programme.
Professor J. M. Dennis opened the
entertainment by delivering a most
excellent speech, which was heartily
greeted by the vast audience.
The song of welcome was rende'red
by seven little girls and was splendid,
each one wearing a large gilt letter
on their breast and so arranged as to j
spell the word “Welcome.”
Tbs crowning of the May Queen
was very pretty indeed, with several
appropriate speeches from some of
the small hoys.
The Literary Society, Miss Blanche
Henderson as president, did its part
well. Several recitations and essays
were delivered by different young
ladies of the society. Miss Alice
Meaders delivered the valedictory
with much credit to herself and socie
ty-
The flag drill by ten young ladies
was magnificent. The ladies were
dressed in costumes representing ten
different nations with flags corres
ponding with the dress.
Miss Blanche. Henderson, on song (
brought down the house.
Mr. W. E. Moore, a pupil from
South Carolina, delivered an honorary
address on education and-Sunday
schools.
Mr. Frank Eberhart, a pupil from
Gainesville, Gn., delivered a farewel
discourse as “Bro. Watkins to his old
congregation,” which was received
with great applause.
The Maysville string band furnished
the entertainment with splendid mu
sic.
The programme was too long to
mention all of the different plays and
characters, hut one and all did re
markably well.
It was without question the finest
entertainment we ever witnessed.
The crowd was very orderly.
BeHton.
I thought I would write a few
items and if in your judgment they
are worth publishing all right.
The people have had hard work
battling with the grass on account
of the recent wet weather.
Captain Allan Sumner, a Methodist
divine, preached at Hawkins’ camp
ground last Sunday. He is styled a
home-made preacher, and by the way
he is making good and lasting im
pressions upon the minds of the
people. Ho will do good in the
ministry.
The camp meeting at Hawkins camp
ground will commence Wednesday
before the second Sunday in August.
1 had the pleasure of joining in the
hcly bonds of wedlock, at the resi
dence of the late Isaac Furr, Miss
Samantha Furr and Mr. James Gow
dcr. May their future be their hap
piest days.
John C. Smeiaey.
Beyond Recall.
The day may have been a depress
ing one, the atmosphere overcharged
with heaviness, and tho mental and
moral faculties deadened thereby. Such
days come to most of us; and unless
at such times we are a little more
careful than common to guard well
our tongue, the sharp word may es
cape which once having passed our
lips cannot be taken back again,
though we would give years of our
life if it only might be. Like the
lightning flash it has gone forth,
scathing where it lias struck; The
electric shook may have cleared the
air, but at what a cost if the spoken
word have blasted and wounded as it
fell on ti e sensitive ear of one whom
we would have s >arcd had we hut
realized the fearful power of our lan
guage to harm, possibly to helplessly
maim another human life! In the
murkiness of passion and unrest,
therefore, let us he very chary of our
speech, lest some word escape our
lips which, once spoken, will he for
ever beyond recall.
There are numberless deeds we do
which, could we properly count the
cost thereof, we would not do. But
an act once committed carries with
it a force which the one who designed
it sometimes never thought of; while
it was only a mental design it could
be thought over and the plan thereof
changed. Let us, therefore, he very
chary of our deeds, lest we in our un
guarded thoughtfulness commit some
blunder which will forever prove a
stumbling-block to ourselves or others
when the occasion is long beyond
recall.—Anonymous.
Harper’s Weekly of May 6 has this
to say of the cow-boy:
Where the cow-hoy comes from is
a mystery. He is often of Mexican
origin, and more than half Indian.
He is a democrat always: lie lives
under the flag of a republic, and
knows it. He recognizes no social
superior in any man; hut, on the
other hand, to those he considers his
inferiors, as the Indian or negro, no
arristocrat of aristocrats could bo
haughtier. He is brave to fool-har
dinyss, and will take chances of his
life that it would seem none but a
crazy man would. He takes no
care of his health. When a long way
from the camp or ranch, he sleeps
where night finds him on the open i
prairie, with only the stars for light.
He bathes when he has time, cal;
and drinks anything ho can get, and
all he can get. lie can lie depended
upon to do his work well, he it at
camp or when driving a big hunch of
horses from the ranges to the ranch.
He is as strong as an ox, has an un
bounded love for gay trappings, and
is generally gay and free from care.
His chief characteristic is a profound
contempt for the denizen of the East,
whom he calls a tenderfoot. The
cow-boy might not shine on fifth
Avenue, but he is just the proper
person for the ranch- and he-is withal
a very picturesque, very useful, and
very natural man: The wages paid
him are small, and are usually ex
pended as the first opportunity pre
sents itself. He thinks not of the
morrow. He is a creature of to day.
He is the same cow boy that Mark
Twain knew, and he is no different
when driving the beeves in Kansas
or the hunch of horses on the prairies
of Dakota and the North-west.
Fisli is generally eaten with a fish
knife and fork. Should a silver knife
not bo provided, two forks may be
used, although one generally will be
sufficient An egg must not be broken
into a cup or glass, but eaten from the
shell.
Alaska is now the roomiest of out
territories, it contains eighteen square
• miles for encli inhabitant Its popuia
tion consists of 22,195 natives, 4,419
whites, 2,215 Chinese, eighty two blacks
and 1.568 half breeds.
Hankers.
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are protected l>v one of Hall’s Burglar
Proof Safes and infaliable time lock.
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NOW
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