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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 5.
Georgia's first bale of new cotton
for this year was raised in Dougherty
county, and was sold at auction in
New York on the 27th ult. for seven
cents per pound.
Rev. Sun Jones wus ‘ egged” in
Houston, Tex as, some days while
making a temperance speech. The
opposition, no doubt, claim that it
was done by Sam’s coleagues.
Mat Quay has resigned the chair
manship of the national republican
campaign committee. He carried
little “Mocks of fire" Duley with him.
Wonder what they will do next?
The latest prohibition act passed
by the legislature is to prohibit the
sale of whisky in any form within
three mile* of any ebwch, school
house, public or private, in this state;
except in incorporated cities or towns.
Will the next state senator for tbe
33d senatorial district be from Ranks ?
Wo have boon informed that the
chairman of this senatorial district
lias announced that it is Jackson’s
time to furnish the next senator?
llow is this ?
What has become of the rotation
system ? Under old established rules
it is Bunks county’s time, and will
she be ignored ? No. The people of
this county will we to it and demand
her rights. It has heretofore been
the custom for tho county to name
the man for the senate and all the
other counties of tho district would
accept him as tbe democratic nomi
nee and elect him. We will not sub
mit to any action that will give Jack
son and Hall too senators each to
Banks’ oik*.
The Third Party Harangue.
Tt is amusing to read the long
winded, doub leaded editorials of the
newspapers throughout the country;
who are secretly in their hearts wish
ing that the Alliance will prove a
failure, and an* pulling with all their
might, behind the screen, in opjiosi
tion to all measures of reform, con
demning, as they say, the third party
movement; claiming that the Alliance
will be torn into atoms should the
third party prove to be a fact; that
the democratic party is the party for
this country, and the only one to
which the people ought and will
cling.
We would love to ask these dear
brothers (and sisters too) who are
making such demonstrations of zeal
for the welfare of the people, who is
the democratic party in the southern
country? Is it tbe little cross-road
jKjliticinn who goes from precinct to
precinct engineering the vote as will
best suit his interest or die interest
of the bosses who he is serving? Is it
the merchant who, twenty five years
ago, told the farmer to go home
and kill his hogs all, buy mules and
guano and plant his plantation in cot
ton, that he, the merchant, could sell
him, the farmer, corn and meat cheap,
er than lie, the farmer, could raise it ?
Is it the lawyer who seeks glory as
well as the per diem, who makes the
halls of legislation vibrate with his
oratorical poivers ? Is it the ringsters
who leagues together to run the poli
tical machine? Or is it the farmer
upon whose shoulders rests the digni
ty and burdens of this mighty gov
ernment?
If tlie latter, which all reasonable
minds must admit, then where is the
thiid party to come from? The
Alliance, composed of farmers and
the laboring classes generally,
was founded upon the principles of
democracy—a government of the
people, by the jieople and for the
people. The Alliance demands no
thing more than equal rights to all
men and special privileges to uone,
and if that is not democracy what is
democracy ?
If the machine politicians see fit to
endeavor to run the democratic party,
as heretofore, to the interest of the
few and to the detriment of the
many, then who has the right to say
that the Alliance shall not form itself
into a true democratic party and
stand up for their rights? Call it third
party if you will.
Let us suppose for the sake of ar
guinent, that a third party is formu
lated, which the politicians may rest
assured will be the case should the
peopßMbe ignored, not understanding
us to be in the movemeut, however,
what would lie the consequences ?
The national government is in the
hands of the republican party and has
been for thirty years, save one presi
dential term of four years, and should
the republicans be successful! in an
other campaign with a third parly in
the field, are they not liable to lie
without? The “olid south can always
be met with a solid north.
There are thousands of republicans
who are disposed to leave the old
party on account of the corruption it
fosters, but they argue to themselves
that the democratic party is no better.
But a third party, based upon pure
principles and reform measures might
capture them. We should not be
like the Indian’s tree, so straight as
to lean over.
Gentlemen of the ptess, what are
jou going to do ? Are you going to
let the pimple control the party, or
are yon going to let tho tricksters
attempt to control the people? If the
latter then you may expect a third
party, and one, too, that will sweep
this country for God.
Let us lay aside old prejudices and
go back to true and pure pninciples.
and all pull together in harmony for
reform measures.
If all the professors of Ohristianty
in this country would vote for God,
or at least take Him to the polls with
them wliat a glorious administration
we would have. Alliance, or similar
measures would bo adopted, prohibi
tion would prevail and the laws of
our government would lie framed and
administered by sober officers.
Let us take God with us.
Moucy—Tlie Sub-Treasury Plan.
We clip from The National Econo
mist, of August Ist, the following
part of an article written for the
Alliance Farmer, of Petersburg, Va.,
by J. Bard Beverley on the sub
treasury plan in reply to a few of
the objections urged in opposition,
all of said objections being as ground
ires ns the one here met. Read, ye
saints (?) who claim the exclusive
right to think and suggest:
“The next objection urged is that
the enactment of this measure will be
class legislation. We will, for the
purpose of thoroughly discussing this
question, temporarily admit it to be
legislasion in favor of the agricultural
class, and then consider whether yet
there is ground for complaint. The
body ]>olitic is likened unto a large
and shapely tree with roots diffusely
permeating and penetrating the earth,
with trunk strong and upright, with
sturdy limbs and supple branches and
glossy green leaves spreading and ex
panding to the sunlight of heaven.
Can those wind-waved branches and
sun-kissed leaves complain of “class
legislation,” of partiality, if you dig
about and manure the roots? Those
roots represent agriculture and labor,
the primal source of all wealth and
all prosperity, the source from which
all classes obtain food and clothing,
the necessaries of life. Again is the
body politic likened unto a grand edi
fice. Broadly it stands from where
its massive foundation grasps the
earth to where its pinnacle points to
ward heaven. The architect tells you
that the lines of strength run upward
from the foundation. Can the dome
or pinnacle complain of class legisla
tion if you strengthen the foundation ?
Agriculture and labor are the foun
dation of all wealth and all prosjierity,
the source from which all classes ob
tain the necessaries of l:fe. Again
do we liken the body politic unto the
human body composed of many mem
bers, the eyes, the ears, the arms, the
feet, the stomach The stomach gives
sustenance to all of the others. Can
the eye, or the arm, or the ear, or the
foot, complain of class legislation, if
you give food to the stomach ? The
stomach represents agriculture, upon
which all of the other members are
dependent. If you will maintain that
this measure is “class legislation” un
convinced by conviction, at least sus
tain yout right, then, to eomplaiu.
But first sustain the charge of class
legislation. This provides
for an increase of the currency, and
all writers upon finance, ancient and
modern, agree that an increase of the
currency stimulates all honest indus
tries, every praiseworthy enterprise.
History does not record an instance of
financial depression with an ample
amount of money circulating freely.
Hence it is for the benefit of all legiti
mate undertakings. It is destruction
and ruin to he speculation, gambling,
exploiting money shark, and to the
miserly, paper-shaving Sbyloek. Tliir
ty-one thousand of just such people
now hold the purse-strings of this
nation, and the nation is fast declin
ing for want of money. * * * *
Action Versus Promises.
Some people are so ill informed
that they do not understand the cause
that has produced the present upris
ing of the industrial classes. For long
years the partisan leaders have been
promising reform. Relying upon these
promises the people have repeatedly
placed them in power. Nothing prom
ised has ever been performed. The
democrats lay the blame upon the
republicans and the republicans
charge it to the democrats. The
people know that the democrats were
in the majority in the lower house and
could have passed any laws they
pleased, but they attempted nothing
but the reduction of the tariff 5 or
fi per cent. They made no effort in
the direction of financial reform.
When pressed by their constituency
they claimed (and truly) that the deni
ocrats of the East would knife any
financial reform proposed. The re
publicans of tho East told their con
stituency that the South only wanted
to get in power; that the reforms
they talked of were a sham, and raised
the bloody shirt, etc. In time, the
people became convinced that they
must rely ujkmi themselves; that they
must organize and unite the South
and West, and the oppressed in every
Section, hence the Farmers Alliance
and other organitions, and their fed
eration. Now the people arc demand
ing acts instead of promises.' They
will not be content with promises be
fore the election and negative action
afterwards. They will not believe
any one who has broken bis promise.
They want something done and they
want men to do it who have not de
ceived them in times past. If any
man thinks the people w ill support
him merely for what he opposes, he
is dcomed already to disappointment.
The Allianco sub-treasury plan is
raising quite a cyclone because it is
a positive proposition. Some people
arc opposing it because they don’t
understand it: such people will op
oppose anything. Others oppose it
because somebody else says oppose it.
Still others oppose it because it is to
their selfish interest to oppose it.
This plan lias been denounced from
Maine to Texas, and from North
Carolina to California, but it gathers
strength as no measure ever did.
The more it is discussed the more it
ie indorsed. Its advocates are not
composed of able debaters, yet they
have alreany gotten the leadefs of
the opposition on the run. They are
pressing the disvussion anti w ill con
tinue to press it. Not a day passes
but some emnrinent statesman or
jurist joins the ranks of the sub trasu
ry advocates. The advocates of the
measure do not propose to bulldoze
any one. They arc opposed to the
bulldozing business; they have long
since decided to let reason and argu
ment lie the basis upon which plans
and purposes shall rise or fall. All
we ask of any democrat of the Allionce
is fair, full and honest investigation.
The result is not doubtful.—South
ern Mercury, Dallas Texas.
Scowling.
Don’t scowl, it spoils fcacs. Before
you know it your forehead will resem
ble a small railroad map. There is a
grand trunk line now from your
cowlick to the bridge of your nose,
intersected by parallel lines running
cast and west, with curves arching
your eyebrows; and oh, how much
older yon look for it! Scowling is a
habit that steals upon us unawares.
We frown when the light is too strong
and when it is too weak. We tie
our brows into a knot when we are
thinking, and knit them even more
when we cannot think. There is no
denying there are plenty of things to
scowl about. The baby in tlte crable
ftowns when something fails to suit.
“Constitutional scowl,” we say. The
little toddler who likes sugar on his
bread and butter tells his trouble ii:
the same way when you leave the
sugar off. “Cross,” we say about
children, and “worried to death about
the grown folks, and as for ourselves,
we cant help it. But wc must. Its
reflex influence makes others unhap
py: for face answereth unto face in
life as well as in water. It belies our
religion. We should possess our
souls in such peace that it will reflect
itself in placid countenances. If your
forehead is rigid with wrinkles before
forty, what will it be at seventy?
There is one consoling thought about
these marks of time and trouble—
the death angel almost always eraces
them. Even the extremely aged, in
death, often wear a smooth and
peaceful brow, thus leaving our last
memories of them calm and tranquil.
But our business is with life. Scowl
ing is a kind of silent scolding. It
shows that our souls need sweetening.
For pity’s sake, let us take a sadiron,
or a glad iron, or smoothing tool of
some sort and straighten these creases
out of out faces ixfore they become
indelibly engraved upon our visage.
—Dr. Talmage in Christian Herald.
Stray Thoughts.
It was only a breatji 7)f song, the
singer a young girl with the shadow
of some far away sorrow in the depths
of her large soul-lit eyes. The words
reached the ears of a sad-eyed woman
whose life had a tragedy, but like all
tragedies it had been buried in the
grave of the heart in the long ago,
hut to-night that ripple of song and
the soft girlish voice singing the song
of happier days seemed like a dim
echo from the happy past.. Anothc r
scene came up before her mental
vision.
Three young girls were standing to
gether on the veranda of a large
hoarding house. Their school days
had ended that day, and to-morrow
their paths were to sever
The three girls Who had won the
name of “Fascinating trio” had been
friends and room mates for years.
What a juei;iire tbev would have
made for a p..\.Uer as they stood
there with the moon-light casting a
sheen of silver glory over tlioir heads
—one a fair, beautiful blonde, another
with flashing dark eyes, raven hair
and whose rich dark complexion
showed that the blood of the red-mam
tinged her veins. The lost of the
group had nothing a) out her to at
tract but her eyes—large earnest gray
eyes that expressed so much. To
night they wore singing “Wh n shall
we three meet again ” How sad the
notes:
“Oft shall love and hope expire,
Oft shall death and sorrow reign.
Ere we three shall meet again.”
The thought of the sad parting on
to morrow was the first shadow that
had darkened their young lives. A
few bright, happy years passed and
two of that number met; one a radi
ant beautiful bride, the other first
bride’s maid, ns they had planned it
so long ago hi the dear old college
days. But the other, the star-eyed
Indian girl, a recent letter tells, that
she has gone before, and that a white
robed angel awaits their coming on
the other shore, where “we three shall
meet again.”
Oh, life, what a mystery! In youth
we have such unlimited faith in every
semblance of purity and truth, but as
the years pass on we learn to distrust,
and in all life we will find nothing
sadder than tc have our youthfel faith
in the true, the good, the beautiful,
destroyed. The crushed rose may
yield a sweet perfume, but its fresh
beauty with tbe dew drops sparkling
on its petals is lost for ever. In youth
we all have idols. We forget the
command from Sinai’s summit;
“Thou shalt have no other God be
fore me,” and worship a face as beau
tiful as a goddess. Soon we find our
idol only common clay and we take
it down from the high pedestal upon
which we had placed it, and it lies a
shattered wreck at our feet. What a
bitter awakening from our charmed
dream of happiness. Never again
will the old confiding faith come
back again. No after atonement can
repair the wrong doing. How
thoughtlessly the young often play
with the human heart, forgetting the
price to be paid for such trifling.
They may dethrone the idol and
smile as gayly as before, and the
I world will never know that a smiling
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exterior conceals a heart wounded
unto death. “Smile and the world
smiles with you, weep and you weep
alone.” How often is taught this
bitter lesson from a sad experience—
young in y?.rs but old in experience
and sorrow. Withering age comes
ere youth lias laid aside its spring
time bloom. They have out lived
love and hope, and the future seems
hut a dreary wante.
We sometimes see lives that seem
to ns a sweet poem, lives that have
had the cup of worm-wood filled to
the hritn and yet have nobly cast aside
their own deep sorrow and seem to
live for others. With lips wreathed
in bright smiles and a kind loving
word for all, they seem to bring sun
shine wherever they go. sio one
would suspect that in the heart of
the blooming rose a thorn is hidden.
Grief that is indulged in is selfish.
Life is a problem that will never be
solved until we read in the clear
light of eternity what its many' mys
teries mean.
Mrs. Lou A. Doaoucn.
Leqdl Advertisements.
Sheriff Hale.
GEORGIA: Banks Couxtv.— Will
be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, before the court house
door in Homer, said county, between
the legal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following proper
ty to-wit: Six Mules and one Horse.
Five horse mules and one mare mule,
os follows: one called Mack, about
7 or 8 years old, and one called Bob,
about 7 years both about 17
hands high, bay color; one called
George and one Jnle, about 8 years
old and about 16 hands high, George
is dark bay, Jule is mouse-colored;,
one tailed Old Bob and one Jack,
about 16 years old, Bob is sorrel anti
Jack is Day, about 1C hands high;
also one mare mule called Grace,
about 7 years old, dark bay in color
with blaze face, about hands high.
Said property levied on as the prop
erty of J. R. Hix to satisfy a fifa
issued from the superior court of
said county in favor of Talmage &
Bros., against J. R. Hix. Property
pointed out in fifa. This Angus' kl,
1891. F. M. Henderson,
($6.00) Sheriff.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
all whom it may concern: Sarah F.
Aerey has in due form applied to the
undersigned for permanent letters of
administration on the estate of G. T.
Acrey late of said county’ deceased,
and I will p>ss upon said application
on the first Monday in September,
1891. Given under my hand and seal
of office, August Sd, 1891.
($•2.10) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEO UOIA: Hanks County. —To
all whom it may concern: M L. Cox
has in due form applied to the under
si. tied for permanent letters of admin
istration on the estate of Mathew Cox
late of said county deceased, and I
will pass upon said application on the
first Monday in September, 1891.
Given under my hand and official
signature, August 4th, 1891.
( $2.10) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
THE FALL TERM OF
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Will begin on the 13th day of July,
1891*
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pure air and water. Board can be
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