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Banks County Gazette. VOL 2.—NO. 16. I Humble Piety. I Eloquence and enthusiasm have lot done so much lor Christianity as lie modest virtues, uniform activity, Ind patient prayers of thousands of Ihristians whose names are unknown, lod forbid that I should undervalue Ireat talents. Much rather would I liank God with all my heart because ■e has given to his Church in every Ige some men of great power—men Who rise and tower like mountains in lie landscape above their fellow-men. B'hesc men are not only a shelter and ■ defense for other men, but they latch the first beams of the morning, |nd send them down into the plains! |he first showers from the clonds, and lour them into the valleys. Never theless, the Church owes more to lignal piety than to their influence. Ifot the learning of the scholar, the Masoning of the philosopher, the elo luence of the orator, or the strains of Ihe bard have done the most for the Christian Church. It ever has been, Lnd it will continue to be, the holy lives, the earnest prayers, with the Imre mind, lovely spirit, and fervent llevotions of humble Christians that Iwill reform man and save the world, Christianity is God living in the hu- Inan soul of man. God reigns there. [The Church prospers according to Ihe number and and reality of indi vidual conversions. God is honored more in souls subdued and saved by grace than by great talents merely. Therefore let us do what we can to increase both, but more especially the feeble members’ piety. Life acts ui>on life. If we have not great gifts, let us have great piety, that while we are neither wise nor eloquent, we can and will be holy, for that is our native element and our heavenly Father’s design for all his children—holiness proportioned to our measure and adapted to the sphere of activity wherein we live, that attracts by its simplicity and conquers by its beauty; holiness, mys terious in its origin, wonderful in its nature —nay, miraculous, if we con sider the changes it produces; but not less human, attainable, and practic able. Yes, our lives should lie im bued with this spirit of Christianity. It should be of single, even tenor, a solemn unity, a sweet serenity, an un tiring activity, zeal which does much but says little. Lives whose purity none can dispute—these are the things that do most for Christianity. These constitute the acting life, of the Church of God. These things have kept in the most trying times so many hearts for the Lord, and in the favored times have greatly multiplied them. The feeble members are the most necessary for the world. They are the most mighty. Thu Christian is a member of society, and what he has he should use in and for societie’s good. Religion produces its effects in the human soul, in the daily life, in the Christian human Church. Mental gifts in the world—let these be sanctified by piety. Society, the Church, the world —all want this piety. Do not keep it in the place of medi tation, or inner life, of public worship, because it is profitable for all, it is suited to all persons, places, and times. Then bring it out. —Rev. J. A. Brinkerworth. Friendship is perhaps least attrct ive on its best siko. When we really need a friend, or when we would en joy having a friend, and a friend is ready at hand to love us and to serve us, any one of us can see the gain and beauty of friendship so far. But what merit is there in that? When, again, our friendship is desired, and its manifestations are welcomed, or, at all events, are recognized at their fullest and best, almost any one of us can find delight in being a friend, and in making unmistakable efforts and sacrifice as a fried. Even when the friendship is all on our side, with out return or acknowledgement, if still we have the opportunity of prov ing our unswerving fidelity, and of being an obvinus illustration of mag nanimity in friendship, we are not without satisfaction in the thought that our friendship proves openly equal to the test to which it is sub jected. But when we find our friend ship neither believed in uor desired, and we are forced to realize that the less we say or show of friendship the truer friends we shall be; when, in deed, we must refrain from any ex hibit or appearance of friendship if we would best sene our friend, — friendfhip is surely less attractive, though not any less excellent, than in other forms of its testing. Yet just here is the best side of true friendship,—when the friend never wavers in his loyalty as a friend, although he lacks the credit of being afriend, and only God knows or cares that he is true.—S. S. Times. Force of Habit. People imagine that habit is a tide which has its turning. In themselves and in their friends they make this great mistake. Wrong-doing, they say, is a transient thing. Why be over-anxious? Another mood will take us by and by, even if habit should get running strongly, flood people see their children drifting away from religious life. Their sons weary of church-going. They live largely away from home. They are too much at the club. They read skeptical literature. They speak slightingly of the the faith of their fathers. They get in a powerful drift away from hope and heaven. But loving parents look on with disquie tude. They think the tide will turn. They make no response to the anxie ties of ministers for their children. They are not roused to earnest prayer. They are content to wait, lielieving all tnc time that this is only a tide; it will turn by and by. Our children, they think, cannot permanently re main at enmity with God. Blood will tell. II ave they not a godly an cestry? What prayers have gone up for them! The tide will turn. Let us wait. Meanwhile the current of impen iteney outruns all limits and periods. It proves itself to he no tide at all. It is the river Amozon. This tre mendous stream gathers its head waters within a hundred miles of the Pacific Ocean, and facing eastward rushes over au extent of nearly three thousand miles before it reaches the Atlantic, draining the Andes slope for a stretch of two thousand miles, receiving in its main sweep across the continent tributaries as large as itself, very soon cutting its channel to the depth of sixty feet, it plows deeper and, until near the sea it be comes throe hundred feet deep. It throws its gathtred forces against the ocean tides, and the sea piles itself up in vain to resist. The struggle is soon over, and the resist less current sweeps on. Far out at sea sailors dip up fresh water. The tides are felt four hundred and fifty miles up the river, but the current outrnns it and makes its freshening influence felt five hundred miles from shore. There is no tidal law to con trol the force of such a stream. It is persistent, growing irresistible. The forces of sinful habit are not feebler than the rushing of the Amazon. Tlie lives of unrepenting men are gather ing tributaries from days aud years. They rush on in tremendous rapids ond plunges. The powers of the world to come, like ocean tides, sweep far up from the shore into the thoughts and passions of men. Heav en makes its influence felt through years of growing impiety; but the Current of sinful habit sweeps on un restrained, and cairies character and doom far out on the bosom of eterni ty. Life is what life makes itself. Its momentum creates permanence. Its awful sweep makes nothing of jetties and restraining forces. On it goes, more and more like itself, until its bitterness or its sweetness are as certain as eternity is enduring.—Presbyterian. The tanning of elephant hides is comparatively anew industry, accord ing to tlie Boston Journal of Com merce. The method employed is practically the same as in the tanning of cow hide, exeept that a stronger HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2(i, 18i)l. combination of the tannic ingredients is required, and greater length of time—about six months—is necessary to perform the work. When the hide is taken out of the vat, it is an inch and a half thick. Among the articles made of elephant leather are pocket-books, small saehels, cigar cases, and similar articles, and they are said to be expensive luxuries. In finishing the hide, no attempt is made to glaze or polish it, every thing be ing done to preserve its natural color and appearance. The leather is very enduring, several years’ wear having but littlo effect on it. Every one ought to have an object in life. It is not enough merely to recognize that we have duties. We have a duty to he pleasant and agree able to others; but being is not an object of life, it is one of the inci dents of right living. The man who lives for “society life’’ may be uni versally polite and kindly in manner, and yet hare no real object of exist ence. Being agreeable is only one of the methods of living, not an ob ject of life.—Sunday School Times. What Wc Owe the Farmer. Last fall, when the financial flurry in London caused a depression in this country, it was admitted in New York that the southern farmer with his cotton saved the United States from a disastrous panic. And now, after the unprecedented export of our gold, the northwestern farmer with his wheat comes to the front to draw all the money back from Europe with hundreds of mil lions more. Already money is becoming easier, and the outlor k is bright. But we owe this not to the government, nor to anything that it has done to im prove the business situation. All that we enjoy and all that \\ c a hope for in the shape of prosperity we owe to the farmer with his cotton in the south, and his wheat m the northwest. If nothing occurs to disappoint our expectations of a good business sea son. the republican party will claim that its financial and tariff policy has brought us a return of good times. But the farmer and the workingman will know better. They will know that they are prospering not because of existing economic conditions forc ed upon us by the government, but in spite of them. We are saved from ruin, and will enjoy this touch of flush times this fall simply because the tremendous energies of our fann ers, together with their economy, have enabled us to overcome the unfavora ble conditions of our financial system. Instead of being easily satisfied with the outcome of this season it is in order to consider how much better it would be under an honest tariff with a volume of currency large enough to meet tlie wants of business. The west and south are pulling and tugging at Wall street for money to move their crops when under the proper system they would have enough money of their own for that purpose. Then the farmers and working men who are feeling more hopeful should bear in mind the fact that but for the robber tariff they" would be able to save 15 per cent of their living expenses. The promise of good times this fall shows that this is too big and produc tive a country to be entirely ruined in a short time by an oppres sive and extravagant government. Now is a good time to think of the active work of the farmer as a factor of our prosperity, and it is a good time to think of the burdens and restrictions placed upon him by a government which thus far has been deaf to his appeals for relief.—Atlan ta Constitution. Shall Tiretl Men Go to Church ? Yes; most assuredly! Where else should he find rest—rest for the weary soul? Many persons of both sexes ofttimes imagine they are tired, when, in reality', they are not; they are only lazy. After a hard day’s work how many will go to a theater and enjoy it, and laugh as heartily and go out between the acts “to see a man,” as often as those who have not worked during the day? Some men and women will go to a ball and dance all night after a hard day’s work. A man now in this city was telling me only last Saturday that for four years he averaged at least five nights a week at balls and parties* after working hard all day in the stock department of a wholesale house lie says he is now suffering from the evil effects of his actions. Depend upon it, it is either laziness or unwil lingness, or both, that keeps people from church. How often you will see aged, infirm, and crippled children of God being led into the house of wor ship ! There would be more excuse for them to stay at home than there is for those who are able to do a good day’s work, and are.in health. Be sides, our blessed Saviour says: “Come unto me, all ye that labor aud are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” And where will you find closer communion with him than in his sanctuary?—Southern Churchman. How It Strikes the People. For some lime past the enemies of the Alliance have made the atmos. phere thick with vague and porten tous rumors and charges. In season and out of season these busy fellows fire off their noisy blank cartridges at every nlliauccman whose prominence attracts their attention, but, despite all this sound and fury, nothing comes of it. Speaking Of this farcical flurry of rumors and Charges, The Covington Star says that the enemies of Living ston have about run this thing into the ground. They charge him with everything, and prove nothing. The Star thinks that this plainly shows an effort to cripple Livingston’s influence and destroy y x usefulness, but it warns these loud talkers that' it is time to prove something or shut up. It strikes the people just that way. As Lincoln used to say ; “The people are not all fools all the time." They know the difference between rumors and facts -f between charges and proofs. The recklessness of the enemies of tlie Alliance overshoots the mark. Not satisfied with firing at Livingston every time he shows his head, they made the mistake of supposing that it would help them to trump up a charge of some sort against Colonel Peek, the president of the Alliance exchange. They started their little story on its rounds, and it fell flat. The trustee stockholders of the Alli ance exchange met and unanimously re-elected Colonel Peek and tlie entire old board of directors! That was the best answer that could he made—the only answer that is needed. Colonel Peek’s honesty has never yet been questioned, and it will never suffer in public estimation on account of the abuse of a lot of blatherskites. But the enemies of the Alliance are not going to be silent. The vindica tion of Colonel Peek iu their slang is “white-wosh,” and Colonel Livingston cannot move a step without being accused of “bossing things.” Perhaps it is unnecessary to dignify such as saults with more than a passing men tion. But they show how far some men are willing to go in their attacks upon the character of good citizens in order to injure the Alliance cause. As The Covington Star says, it is about time to prove something or shut up.—Atlanta Constitution. The plutocratic press is just now trying to make some capital out of the report that a son of Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the noted woman orator of Kansas, is guilty of larceny. Of course it turns out that the boy is innocent and the episode only serves to show the ammose and depravity of the partisan press. But suppose the report had proven true, we can not see where there would be any capital in it for the partisan press of either party. Both, the democrats and republicans are blessed with a long list of defaulters and thieves who are to this day unpunished, for the simple fact that they were good partisans aud men of influence. The peculiar methods practiced by the leaders—iingsters—of both parties are not calculated to inspire tlie youths of our land with any very high regard for truth and honor. On the other hand it seems that the highest prizes are awawardod to the most unscrupulous—the shrewdest political wire puller. The corruption everywhere prevailing in high places is contagious and is debauching the public mind to such an extent that not only the son of Mr-. Lease, but every youth in our land is in danger of its deadly influence. The labors of Mrs. Lease aro being directed to the end of shutting off this iniquity at its fountain head, and those papers that employ such damnable methods to persecute her would he serving their country and their God if they would direct their efforts to the same purpose.—National Reformer. A lady who had been married about a year was making a visit in the fami ly where she formerly resided A little girl, after overcoming her diffi dence, began to talk with the lady. Said the little girl; “You used to live here, didn’t you?” “Yes,” was the reply. “And you went off and got married?” “Yes.” “Won’t you come back and marry us again ?”—Boston Transcript. Sylvester Wedge says: “Its more honorable to be kicked by Jay Gould than to he spoken to by a common man.” There are thousands of men in this country that are giving a prac tical demonstration that they think so too. They may receive their re ward after while if the bosom of their pants holds out, hut we don’t believe it.—National Economist. The New Party in Ohio. A special correspondence, August 7tli, from Springfield, Ohio, to The Voice, New York, says: The proceedings o: the Ohio Peo ple’s Party convention in this city had features that wore of considerable in terest for the prohibitionists. Con Burckhauser, the Cincinnati beet man, was present and took an active and conspicuous part. Secretary Robert Schilling, of the national committee, known as a personal liberty man, sat on the platform, and was influential shaping the party’s work. The convention’s views of the liquor question are expressed thus: “We recommend the following reso lution to the national convention con sideration, believing it to be a national instead of a state issue: “We believe that the solution of the liquor problem lies in abolishing the element of profit which is a source of constant temptation and evil; anil we therefore demand that the exclu sive importation, exportation, manu facture and sale of all spirituous liquors shall be couducted by the government or state at cost through agencies and salaried officials in such towns and cities as shall apply for such agencies.” It is undoubted that among the delegates sent the policy that will be generally advocated by the Peo) lie’s Party throughout the country. George F. Washburne of Bo.st< n, Eastern member of the national <x ecutive committee of the party, in an interview in a Springfield paper, says that the plank will be modified to suit the demands of different states, according to the strength of prohibi tion sentiment in them. It is understood that among the delegates there was a strong repre sentation of prohibition feeling. It is almost certain, indeed, that a majority would have endorsed a straight out prohibition plank. When gubernatorial nominations were called for, John J. Ashenliurst, prohibition candidate for governor, was one of the men named. There were expressions of protest, and be fore the ballot was taken, Hugo Preyer, secretary of the state com cittee, rubbed Ashenhurst’s name from the blackboard on which the nominees’ names were posted. Preyer SINGLE COPY TIIKEK CENTS. was formerly a violent personal liberty champion, but several years ago he sin prised people by becoming inter ested in the prohibition cause and writing articles against the saloon. The People's party leaders are very anxious indeed to win the coming election in Ohio. It is not altogether certain that they look with absolute scorn upon the fusion idea. Rumors are passing round that Governor Campbell is desirous of making a deal with them, whereby he shall have the benefit of their support for the gover norship and in return permit the People’s party to elect the next sena tor. However that may be, it is stated on good authority that an at tempt was made to come to terms with the prohibitionists, the plan be ing to endorse the prohibition plat form and ticket if the prohibitionists would abandon their name and march under the People’s party banner. Power in Personality. A mistake has crept into the minds of some people, and so into the service of their lives, that was born of igno rance of the workings of certain pri mary laws of our being, and has been kept valie from age to age because of the impatience with regard to the long and thorough process necessary to complete development. In an ago of progress, when the line of aspirants is pressing on to achievement, the temptation to do, before being, is to short-sighted ones not to be resisted. It is not to be met in one stratum of life, or one sect of religious belief alone, but everywhere it offers itself, and meets its victims all along tlie different avenues of endeavor. The woman who wi.ls to become popular in society, expends her phys ical energies and make draughts upon her nervous force; these tell the fact of her effort through the face, the form the speech, and indeed in each movement; weariness and anxiety have spoiled her beauty and delivered up the secret of her purpose. She marks the woman who brings every body to her feet without a seeming effort, and who evidently gives no thought to becoming popular. She envies her power, but remains blind to the source of it. She will not see that this one compels attraction through the simple fact that she em bodies those lovable and ennobling qualities that have brought admirers to her feet. How in; ny have tried to copy a woman with this sort of personality, and have found it impossible. Grace of the unstudied sort eludes the efforts of imitators, and remains forever unique. Yet such a character is sure to make an atmosphere in a commu nity, and though some cannot breathe in it, and will not try to, a few will be helped and moulded into anew experience. Jf personality is desirable along the secular ways, is it not especially need ed in religious service? In the Church at large, in the pu’jiit, in the Sabbath school, the want is felt, and nothin" 1 can supply it but the pure power that lies in the being that one would teach. The ministry takes a people up no higher than itself has been able to rise. The influence of a preacher is not gained by copying the rules of magnetism, but bv that personal force that has sprung deep within the soul. The Sabbath-school teacher does not send home a truth to the hearts of her class by the use of well chosen language, forceful illustratsons, or vivid pictures, but through the evidence that her listeners discover that she has felt what she offers. We need workers always, and everywhere, but our first great want is men and women who are so desir ous of becoming all that it is worth while to teach, that the discipline of life can be accepted, and the long waiting for personal fulfilment can be bore patiencetly, that true power may he engendered within to work itself iuto outward expression —Christian at Work. The time to subscribe for The Gazette —right now'.