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Banks County Gazette. VOL 2.—NO. 17. Don’t. Don’t look at the handsome house hat your neighbor across the street las just completed and grumble be cause you have to live in an old one. Don’t visit the sick simply because you are afraid people will make re marks about you if you don’t go, and 'or the purpose of telling your friends ifterwards that you have been to see •oor old Aunt Sallie. Don’t wear a frown on your face, mt exchange it at once for a smile. Don’t pass your pastor every day >n the streets and say nothing to him ibout money, hut when Sunday comes ;o to chiuch, take a hack seat, and when they take up collection walk up he aisle, take out vour pockctbook, jet out three nickels, a half dozen ■oppers and a dime and thunder hem down on the table loud enough ,o be heard all over the church. Don’t be always complaining about he bad luck you have had in life, hut et the past be forgotten and try to nuke an improvement on your future lays. Don’t get iu the habit of telling ‘little stories just for fun.” Don’t preach charity and leave somebody else to practice it.. Don’t dwell too much on the great icks of your ancestors, lest your hear :rs think the stock has sadly degener ited. Don’t think it condeseeiition to peak pleasantly to that form beneath hose tattered garments. They may, lerchance, cover a form as comely, or l heatt as honest as your own, into which might be reflected a ray of tuushiue by even a pleasant look. “Waste no lime in idle thinking Over what thou hast t* do. If thv life be dark and stormy, Still it must be struggled through. Squander not the precious moments, Time is ever on the wing. Brooding over disappointments, Serves hut to increase the sting.” Intemperance. While there has been a great deal aid on the subject of the liquor traffic mough hns not been said yet, and have about concluded that the fol owing is about the situation: To his majesty Satan, lord of the ■egions of darkness and king of hell, at her of liars and foster-brother to 'amblers, rumsellers and hypocrites, 'reeling: I have opened appartments itted up with all the enticements or the sale of rum, wine, gin, brandy, >eer and all kindred spirits. Our ob ects being the same can be best ittained by our united action, and I herefore propose a copartnership, til I want of men is their money, all he rest is yours. Hring me the industrious, the re pectable, the sober, and I will return hem to you drunkards, paupers and icggars. bring me the child and I vill dash to earth the fondest hopes >f father and mother. Bring me the ather and mother and I will plant liscord between them and make them i curse and a reproach to their cliil- Iren. Bring me the young man and will ruin his character, destroy his ife and blot out the highest and pur ist hopes of his vouth. Bring me the oung woman and I will distrov hei irtue and rqpirn her to you a blast id and withered wreck, and an in trument to lead others to death and .estruction. Bring me the mechanic nd the laborer with the hard earned ■ruit of their toil and I will plant poverty, vice and ignorance in their ince happy homes. Bring me the pro cessed follower of Christ and I will blight and wither every devotional eeling of his heart, and send him orth to plant crime and infidelity imong men. Bring me the minister >f the gospel and I will defile the >urity of the church and make the lame of religion a foul bv-word in fhe land. Bring me the lawyer and he judge and I will prevent justice, jreak up the integrity of our civil in titutions, and make the name of law , hissing by-word in the street. That is what the runseller wants f all people. Cheap Boy. Subswibe fo The Gazette now. A Disengenuous Defter. Scripture declares that ‘‘the wicked flee when no man pursucth.” In the case of John Sherman as it now ap pears to the people a vivid example of the truth of the above is presented. Already this friend of monopoly and benefactor of the money owners has put himself on the defensive, and has undertaken the herculean task of de fending the monetary system of the past thirty years. If any man on earth is qualified 'o do this, John Sherman is that man. He has been on both sides, lias ascertained by ex perience which is the most profitable, and has made good use of such knowledge. If lie consents to the belief that his duty demands a letter of explanation or defence for even charge that may be brought forward during the coming campaign in Ohio he will doubtless find constant and laborious employment. The follow ing letter explains itself: “The campaign in some Ohio cotin ties is beginning to warm up, now that all four political parties have nominated state tickets. The people’s party is the only one that has as yet put any speakers on the stump. Their speeches, as well as their campaign literature, are full of misstatements. They say the government loans money to bankers at 1 and 2 per cent, and that it ought to loan farmers money at the same rates. It seems from the following letter, received to day by the. editor of the Washington Court House Republican from Sena tor John Sherman, that Sherman has heard of no such loans by the govern ment. He wrote from Mansfield on August 9: “I know of no instance where money has been loaned by the gov eminent to hanks at the rate of 1 and 2 per cent, or any other rate. If such a loan lifts ever been made it was without authority of law. It. is true that under the national hanking law a hank may be made the depository of public money received from inter nal revenue and public lands, but not from custom Outies. This is done not for the benefit of the hanks, hut solely for the convenience of the people and the security of the govern ment. In such cases the bank Ims to give security in United States bonds equal to the amount of deposits, and the money may he drawn by tlie gov ernment on call. It is also true that during President Cleveland’s admin istration, at a time when there was a real or supposed stringency, the then secretary of the treasury deposited in national banks a large amount of pub lie money, other than that derived from customs, with a view to relieve the stringency. I believed and pro claimed at the time that this was neither authorized by law nor was it good policy. The money should have been promptly used in the purchase or payment of the public debt. No such deposit was made by a republi can administration, and the money so deposited was withdrawn as rapidly as was prudent. I know of no ease in the history of our government where money has been loaned to indi viduals. The proposition to loan money to farmers at 2 per cent is en tirely novel and without precedent. Very truly yours, “John Sherman.” This letter will bear a second read ing in order to separate the real de ception intended-from the child like simplicity it shows on its face. He kftows of no such loans being made at 1 or 2 per cent. Of course he does not, they are not called a loan, hut the banks have had the use of $BOO,- 000,000 on an average for 25 years by paying a tax of 1 per cent. It is a distinction without a difference, and no .one knows it better than'John Sherman, as ins was the hither of the iniquitous system. He blandly ad mits that a national bank may be made a depository of public moneys derived from national revenue and sale of lands, conveying the idea by inference that such sums would amount to hut little. Last year the receipts fr< m internal revenue and public lands aggregated over $148,- 000,000. lie says it is done for the HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1891. public safety: that is, a bank is more secure than the national treasury. For the past five years $40,000,000 of the people’s money has been deposit ed on the average in such banks; not, owhever, for the public good, but for the banks to loan back to the people at a high rate of interest. The people are getting too far along in their lessons in finance to take such silly excuses from any one. He charges the democracy with first inaugurat ing the deposit scheme, but this was done at a time of “real or supposed stringency” that the banks might let the people use it at exorbitant rates. The more righteous republicans how ever never did the like, but have with drawn it as fast as the banks could spare it. He concludes by saying that lie ki ows of no case where gov ernment lias loaned money to individ uals. Again the fox. John Sherman, himself, voted to loan $1,500,000 in money to the centennial committee in 1875. lie also voted to loan $1,000,- 000 to the corporation which repre sented the New Orleans Cotton expo sition in 1884. He also voted to loan the credit of the government to the Pacific railroad company, which has and will cost the people over $200,- 000,000. He advocated a loan to the Nicarauga canal corporation of SIOO,- 000,000. But as for loaning money to a single individual, and that indi vidual a farmer or mechanic, he has never heard of it. If his life is spared, no doubt in the near future he will learn of just such methods being practiced. Unpleasant Truths. At Prohibition park, Staten Island, last Sunday, Sam Sones waked np the New Yorkers in his usual viger otis style. The evangelist paid bis respects to the Wall street stock gamblers, and remarked that, it was not the sins of Five Points and the Bowery that corrupted our youth, but the gilded sins of our homes. Among other things, Mr. Jones said: “A man isn’t considered much of a sinner in this country if he pays his bills and wears find clothes. That’s a fact. A man’s money and his clothes will take him anywhere, when his character won’t take him ten feet!” The Herald calls this a homely truth; The World protests against it. Perhaps it is not wholly and uni versally true, but there is so much truth in it that it should set people to thinking. It is to be feared that only too many people have got hold of the wrong end of this idea. They ignore character, and flippantly say that “money talks.” These people who rely solely upon money to keep them up in the world are going to drop with a dull thud sme day. Every age or period of corruption is followed by an age of religion and good morals. It is that movement from one extreme to an other in soeiety which Macaulay de scribes as the swinging back of the pendulum. Nobody can explain just why it comes, hut it comes sooner or later. The signs of the times—the rest lessness of the people—the demand for reform—the recent severity of the law in punishing evil doers—the in terest of the churches in our every day problems—all these tilings point to a coming change. The pendulum is about to swing backward. We are about to go from one extreme to the other. It will not take very long for peo ple to realize the fact that the gov ernment cannot make them prosper ous, moral and happy. When they get this firmly lodged in their minds, then look out for a great religious re vival—a movement sweeping the en tire country. Something of the old Puritan spirit modified to suit the conditions of the time will come back. Avarice, corruption, extravagance, intemperance and everything that ii worldly will he under the ban. It lias been so periodically in our histo ry, and will be so again. When this era of genuine reform comes upon us men will find that money and good clothes count fur very little without character. A good mar will he held in higher regard than a bad millionaire. Something better than a fat pocketbook will be needed to make a man stand well in society. Evangelist Jones has described one extreme of our social and moral con ditions. It is some comfort to know that we are bound to go to the oppo site extreme before may years, if there is any truth in the old saying that history repeats itself.—Atlanta Constitution. Father C. O’Hare on the Labor Problem. It is admitted on all sides that the saloon, as it is generally conducted, is the most hideous abuse of the day. persistently, brazenly and inhumanly violates the most humane and reason able laws of our state. But where, I might ask, would it be if all citizens, especially our dear and noble work ingmen, withdrew their support from it? Is it not true that it keeps them poor and that it stifles progress? Is it uot true that it brutalizes husbands and fathers, breaks women’s hearts, puts rags on the workingmen’s back, disease in his body and shame and despair in his heart? Certainly it is true, and yet when labor is most dis turbed, when the demand for advanc ed wages is loudest, when strikes are most frequent, when hunger and mis ery are most rife in the houses of the poor, the r.loon flourishes still. * * * One year’s remission of the destruct ive habits of indulgence in the intox icating cup would solve every labor problem extant. —Greenpoint (L. I.) Star. A great many people make t lie mistake of judging the requirements of religion, by the standard. They reason, that what is allowable in so ciety, certainly cannot be condemned by the church. This is a grave error. Had it been so intended the Bible w ould be silent on the duty of com ing out from the world and being separate. There are many things which the church and society may have in common, but there is a point at which the common path must di verge, and the Christian must walk with Jesus, even if lie walk with Jesus, alone. Jacksonvile, Florida, has suffered much from the evil effects of epidem ics and fires, hut the worst lick she lias yet had appears in The Times- Union, ami consists of twelve solid pages of sheriff's sales.—Tribune of Rome. And who but the opponents of re form are responsible for such a state of affairs? such as l’he Tribune-of- Ruine. How to Resist Evil. Resist in the heart.; resist steb by step; resist insiduotis attacks no less than sudden attacks; and, in one word more, resist soberly, watchfully —soberly, because even that which is lawful is not always expedient.; watchfully, because the assault may come violently at any moment, may be coming imperceptibly at every moment. However it comes, you will some day find yourself in tangi giblc manner face to face with the awful final choice between good and evil; and when a soul’s destiny hangs trembling and wavering, then even the mere (lust in the balance may decide the deathful dipping of the scale. And as at. once the fiery darts begin to fall on you—perhaps this very day to fall on you—will you hold up against them the shield of faith? will you wield against him who hurls tnem the Spirit’s sword? If so, you are safe. One day an English clergy man visited the two fine ships which were to sail on their voyage of Arctic discovery into the land of snow and darkness, and he found the brave captains full of confidence; and rais ing his eyes in the cabin, he saw there, as almost its only ornament, an illuminated text; and the text was: “Have faith in God ” “Ah,” he, said, pointing to the text, “there is the true pole!” We like to think of those gallant men carrying with them into the cold and midnight that faith, that hope. It is faith which will lighten their darkness more than the stars that glitter over the floes of ice; it is a hope which will make the heaven glow with a more vivid splen dor than the aurora which flushes the fields of snow. Take with you that faith, that hope; you, too, may sail hereafter in your little boat of life into the cold, into the hunger, into the darkness, into the exploration of unknown hopes. Gigantic powers will fight against you there more ter rible than the midnight, more par alyzing than the northern col 1. Be sober, be vigilant; have faith in God and in his Son our Lord Jesus Christ, and he will give you the victory. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.—Canon Farrar. The first step which a man takes in the direction of his own overthrow is not to do some overt act of evil. A boat that lies on the water’s docs not begin to wreck itself by thrusting itself out abruplly into the current; it begins by lying on the beach and letting the tide play with it. If it is chained to the rock, no harm can come of it; mischief begins when it half lies on the beach and half floats on the water. The trouble with people is that they are drifting; they are the chip on the wave instead of the watch-tower on the slioi*e.— C. 11. Parkhurst. A New Danger. It hhs long been the general belief that leprosy could not exist or spread in this country, but there is now con siderable doubt about it. With several eases of this dread disease in New Orleans, and as many more in New York, the physicians and hetdth authorities of the United States should give the matter serious consideration. W e must run no risk if it can be avoided. If by neglecting the proper precaution this terrible scorge once obtains a foothold here the conse quences will be more disastrous than tongue or pen can describe. Thus far our cases of leprosy are said to have come from China, Japan or thd’Hawaiian islands. Now, the question is, will the disease make progress in this climate? Arc the persons who have come in contact, with the things handled by the leper butcher and the leper laundrymen in New York in any danger? The constant immigration from nil the countries under the sun is bring ing us face to face with new dangers. Time and again we have found it necessary to guard our ports against yellow fever and cholera. Perhaps the next thing in order will be to quarantine against lepers.—Atlanta Conttitution. Grumblers are of all people the most depressing. It is not necessary for you yourself to be personally found fault with to make it worse than misery to be w ith them. It is the atmosphere they create about themselves, the lifo they give you to lead. And when their cross humor translates itself into pcrsoral dis pleasure and quarreling over trifles, then are they the very scourges of llieir time and pla’e, and no one can be blamed who tries to escape from them. A Scheme has been started in Maine to license hotel bars. The Lewistown (Me.) Journal deals with the matter after this fashion: “As believers in prohibition and its work ings, we thank the gentlemen who want to start grog-shops within the hotels for the valued proof which they supply that the sale of ardent spirits is cut off by prohibition—in. facts, that prohibition prohibits. It is good to have the friends of license put themselves on record against pro hibition, simply on the ground of the objection that prohibition gets there. The contract undertaken by these titty gentlemen who met on Thursday in Waterville, and resolved to turn the wheels of progress fifty years backward in Maine, is a larger con tract than they can execute. It not SINGLE CORY THREE CENTS, only undertakes to reshape and de grade public sentiment in Maine on the gigantic evil of our time, but it undertakes to dissolve a part of the Constitution of Maine, as well as a considerable body of statutory law. \Ve do not believe that the landlords of -Maine can he consolidated against the Constitution, laws, and moral sense of the state. The hotel that has come to stay is the hotel that un dertakes to supply food, not poison; refreshment, rather than demoraliza tion. The gentlemen who want the license to sell grog most go to other pastures. The men and women of Mai ne lft r a great majority have said it; they will continue to say it. Maine is utterly opposed to license. The idea that business is promoted by grog-shops is one which it would lie well to put to the test. How much more efficient has grog made any person o your acquaintance? When did you eve hear of a man’s salary being raised because of his talent for absorbing libuor? How many failures in business and in life are chargeable, directly or indirectly to strong drink? Until all these and hosts of collateral questions are answered in life other than they are answered by the recent Wnterville License convention, the argument of that body will need no refutation but that of daily observa tion.” “If you don’t consent, I’ll kill my self to-night,” lie said recklessly. The fair girl shuddered. “Wait a week, three days, before taking the step.” “I will,” he answered, for in this re. quest he saw more ;bnn a sign of hope. “Because, you know,” sho continued, “I have a friend who makes life insurance denis, and I feel you love me too well to refuse to allow him at my request to make a little something out of your disposing of yourself.”—Philadelphia Times. Yard-Wide Christians. We were in a dry goods store to day. The young men and women were busy displaying tlie latest styles —goods of all shades and patterns and textures and widths. “Yes," said a young miss, energetically, “this is a full yard wide.” She meant that the particular pattern she was recom mending was of normal breadth. “Yard-wide’’ is a synonym for good measure. So many yards will make a garment if it is a “yard wide.” If it is only “three-quarters” in breadth, more must he added to the length. People prefer goods a full yard wide. It is so in the Christian life. There is a great demand for yard wide Christians. Narrowness is abnormal. The need is for broad-minded, gener ous-hearted, sympathetic, consecrated, helpful, ready to-lend-a-hand Christ ians. Such people have a wide out look. They take liberal views of things. They plan magnificently. They are true blue. Their broad shoulders are always under churchly burdens. They' lift evenly all the year round. You may lean on them, and lean hard. Their courage never fails. Their zeal never tires. Their faith never dies. Every one is a colorbearer for tbo King. Away with your puny, sickly dis ciples! Pigmies are of small account. We want none of the half-ayard wide sort. Those are stirring times! Awful times! Glorious times! Oh, for a host of young men and women of whom it shall be said: “They are yard-wide Christians !’ Epworth Herald. lie is a very discreet man who never says either too much or too little. At a business meeting, re ports the Lowell Citizen, the chair man announced: “Brother Skinner submits his resignation as a member of this society. What, action shall he taken upon it ?’’ “I move you, sir,” said one of the parliamentarians present, “that the resignation he ac cepted, and that a vote of thanks lie tendered to Brother Skinner.” Mr. Harrison was only his grand father's grandson a few years ago, but he lias since achieved promotion to the rank of his Son s l’a.—St. Louis Republic.