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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Sep. 2.
We would like to ask : Does the
Suite of Georgia belong to Atlanta ?
The boll worm is doing considera
ble damage to cotton in many places
in Texas.
The rust in Alabama has cut the
cotton crop off at least twenty-five
per cent.
Last Saturday Gwinnett county
voted on piohibition, ami went dry
by 701 majority.
The merchant claims that the
mortgage on tho farmer’s home en
hances its value, because the farm has
been improved by the money obtain
ed by the mortgage.
A passenger train on the Western
North Carolina railroad left the track
near Statesville, N. C., on the morn
ing of the 27th of August, and went
down to Third creek sixty-five feet
below, killing nearly every one on
board. It is a wonder that any es
caped to tell the story.
Tim legislature adjourned Friday to
meet Saturday morning in Savannah.
Perhaps the “ninety-three and a nig
ger” thought they could deliberate
some iietter where there were no mobs
to defy their authority. The body
met again Monday at the old stand,
“the people” having given them an
other chance.
Shame! Sliaiue!
Lust weclc record* a history for
tho State of Georgia, perhaps, not
soon to be forgotten.
Is it possible that the represents
tives of the people have not the right
to oust a vote without the people of
Atlanta to dictate how they shall
vote ?
Is it possible that the ministry of
Atlanta has so far forgotten God as
to head a mob and attempt to coersce
the people's representatives into doing
Atlanta’s will, regardless of the will
of their constituents T
Is it |>ossible that tho advocates of
hell, or its age us, the barroom, should
attempt-to run the state in the inter
est exclusively of Atlanta ? such ad
vocates as some of the newspapers of
saitl wi*y.
While we did not think that the
state ought to adopt The Atlanta
Constitution’s deformed illegitimate,
the Confederate Veterans’ Home, yet
had it done so we would have made
no war, but cheerfully acquiesced;
as every other law abiding citizen
would have done.
But not so with the City of Atlanta.
Called together by her press, headed
by her ministry and supported bv
her howling mob she “indignates”
if her illigitimate offspring is not
adopted and fostered by the state.
When General Gordon was before
the legislature a candidate for the
United States senate The Atlanta
Constitution opposed his election, and
a majority of the people of the
state did too, but he was elected by
a hare majority, through the agency
of the devil, we might say. The
Constitution accepted the situation
and said: “Hurrah for Gordon!”
Why should it not be as mar ly and
honest as regards the defeat of the
Veterans Home!
We have no war to make against,
the Confederate Veterans' Home.
We entertain a kind feeling for the
obi soldier as any living soul; yea, we
love his soul as dearly as we do our
own, and would be willing to do as
much as anyone, and we dare say that
the “ninety-three and a nigger’’ have
equally a* much love for the soldier
as does that mob headed by Small
Sam, Jimmie Lee and dr. Haw thorn,
and urged to damnable measures by
the press. Yea, the “ninety-three and
a nigger” have equallally as large
sou’s as throb between the w a’ls of
The Constitution or Journal buildings,
and would do just as much for the
old soldiers' supjiort.
Could any sensible human creature
entertain for one moment the thought
that The Journal or Constitution were
sincere in what they publish further
than their seeming desire to arouse
the people to mob violence?
•Sometime previous to the meeting
of the present legislature elect, it
being known that a majority of that
lody would be. alliancemen, The
Journal wrote beautiful editorials in
reference to, and published various
articles commendatory of the alliance,
and seemed to be in sympathy with
the order, but as soon as they elected
their pet, General John B. Gordon, by
“the skin of their tectb,” and we fear,
not fairly, The Journal flopped over
on the other side of the fence, and
is, snake like, endeavoring to thrust
its poisonous fangs into the blood
vessels of the jreople who nurtured it
iu its infancy, furnishing it sustenance
until it has obtained strength enough
to strike 1 at the hand that feeds it.
The very same history applies to
The Constitution. Some months ago
The Constitution commenced writing
complimentary editorials about the al
liance and its demands, and defended
its leaders from the unjust attacks of
the opposition until people were led to
believe that the world-rcnouned “best
paper in the south” intended to cham
pion tho cause of those whom it had
so long oppressed. Not so. When
the slate refuses, through its repre
sentatives, to adopt The Constitution’s
pet baby that The Constitution got
s|iecially for the state, according to
The Constitution’s idea of what the
state must have, why, the wolf, with
a howl of indignation, throws off the
wooly coat and shows to the people
that be is not so much of a gentle
lamb as you heard he was.
Shame on Atlanta and her press
that tho state’s servants should have
to stop the state's business for three
days to discuss the indignation of a
lawless mob.
Does anyone suppose that Atlanta
and her great newspapers’ love for the
old soldier prompt them to want the
Veterans’ Home built and sustained ?
If the state had accepted the gracious
gift from the “humane people,” with
the privilege of digpositig of it as the
state saw fit, would Fulton county’s
representatives voted for it to be sold
and the proceeds in money given to
the old soldier? Most iissuredly not!
Notwithstanding the donators of this
precious gift assert that, had the state
accepted, it could have sold the home,
if the state bad offered to do so would
Atlanta not have acted as she has?
Of course she would, and possibly
worse.
The state is taking care of its old
soldiers as well as it could, or at least
the legislature was not willing to
place upon the state an enormous tax
just to feed Atlanta and build that
city at the expense of every other
section, and no charitable mnn can
blame them.
Who are the veterans in Atlanta
will some righteous (?) Atlanta news
paper tell us? Why, they range
from twenty-five years old up. And
these are they who “fought, bled and
died” for their country that the City
of Atlanta and her indignant press
are so solicitous for.
We don’t want it understood that
The Gazette means to condemn the
Veterans’ Home. Far from it. If
the state is able to do any more for
her old soldiers than she is doing we
say let her do more. But we elected
men to represent us in this as well as
all other matters pertaining to the
business of the state, and it is our
duty to help them in the discharge of
their duty; not hinder. They, too,
have a right to an opinion.
Where is tlie Consistency?
We are often confronted with the
intelligence that we hat e the grandest
country in the world, and that we
could be the happiest people in the
world—have all we need in this life—
if the pleggone fanner would do like
he ought He has good lands, ami
lately he hqs dotted the country over
with neat cottage homes, but he has
become indolent, careless and don’t
do what work he does ilo right. He’s
wrong and always will he until he
changes his mode of opperation. The
man who works right lives at home
always has something to sell, pays for
what he bu)s and don't buy much.
The merchants says that the farmer
who buy* everything won’t do to de
pend upon. He spends more thau he
makes, and frequently leaves his bill
on payed. Yet he goes poorly clad,
his children go uneducated to and
from the field all the year round, and
he makes pretty good crops too. That
is very evident from the fact of the
over production.
The merchants lived on a farm
several years ago, when farming was
hard work—had to be done under a
great many disadvantages, one of
which was the ginning of cotton on
an old fashioned horse-gin, and vari
ous other difficulties, and he made
money. There is no excuse for the
farmer not making money now for he
has fifty per eent more sense about
farming than people had ten years
ago, and his facilities are far better.
But the merchant quit farming and
went to town and commenced selling
goods and buying cotton, but he pays
more for cotton than he gets for it,
and sells goods to the farmer who
never pays for them, and in conse
quence thereof loses money right
along. But the merchant’s children
go to school ten months in the year,
go to the falls and all the picnics in
the summer, and wear good, nice
clothes all the year. The merchant
builds him a real nice home and a
commodious store house, and takes
his family' frequently to New York or
elsewhere on pleasure trips, and
sjiends money lavishly, besides buy
ing one, two or a half dozen farms.
Now, when the merchant was farm
ing he bought no land. He didn’t send
Ins children to school much, and none
to the falls, and he didn’t take his
family to Philadelphia to the centen
nial, neither did he build him a very
ex]>eneiv6 dwelling house. Where
did his money go to that he made on
the farm ? He put it in his business
in town. But if he is doing a loosing
business in town why don’t he go back
to the farm ?
We are not an enemy to the mer
chant, by no means, but where is the
consistency? The merchant is mak
ing more money merchandising than
he did farming, and he’ll say so too,
we guess. But does he realize what a
confession he makes ?
He gets very little from the man
whu lives at home, because lie buys
foraaah and, of course, on close mar
gin. He gets nothing from the man
who does not pay at all, and the mer
chant will tell you he is quite numer
ous, and he buys cotton, just for the
accommodation of the farmer, at a
loss, and buys fsrms, builds houses,
goes in grand style and spends money
without stint, what then must be bis
per cent on the honest ]>oor man who
is compelled, from circumstances or
otherwise, to buy the merchant’s
goods ?
The merchant is the last man in the
world who has a right to complain
at the farmer.
Going to Law.
We frequently see in the papers an
account of some law suit between
neighbors which begun over a trivial
matter involving the possession of
property worth a few dollars, has
dragged through the courts for years
until, when it is finally adjudicated in
the court of last appeal, it has brought
financial ruin to one or possibly both
of the parties to the suit. This loss
of money is not the only evil attend
ant upon litigation, for the neighbors
usually take sides in the quarrel and
not infrequently animosities are en
gendered which result in life-long
fueds and bitterness. We have seen
thirty or forty witnesses summoned
from a single neighborhood, half of
whom would testify positively to
some statement which the other half
would deny, and before the trial had
ended there would be two hostile
camps filled with hatred and bitter
ness.
We believe that in nine cases out
of ten neighbors make a mistake
when they take their difficulties into
the courts to settle them. Even if
the matter is viewed from the finan
cial standpoint alone, and w-hen we
put it on the higher ground of morals,
and neighborly kindness, and remem
ber that peace and friendship are far
more precious than money, it would
be possibly nearer the truth to say
ninety-nine out of one hundred.
It is often hard to restrain the tem
per, and do and say what is right
under great provocation, but no one
who is able to do it, ever regrets it
afterward, and so when a difference
of opinion arises, and we begin to
feel that our rights are invaded, we
should put a double guard upon our
lips and intrench our judgment lest
we make the mistake of hot speech
and hasty action which cannot be
remedied. We will suggest some
helps to restraining words and acts
which are likely to cause a quarrel
which must be settled in the courts.
One of the first is to determine be
fore hand and lay it down as a rule of
your life that only as a last resort
will you engage in a law' suit. If
your experience and observation have
been limited, so that you maintain
the idea that our courts and justice
are infallable and that they will speed
ily mete out justice, we would advise
you to spend a few leisure days in at
tendance upon a court, studying the
methods, inquiring into the the delays,
making yourself familiar with the
question of costs, and especially with
the practices of the lawyers, and the
probability is that you will soon ar
rive at the conclusion that a lawsuit
is a luxury beyond your reach.
Second—When a difficulty arises
between yourself and a neighbor, do
not lie too hasty in expressing an
opinion, or too sure that you are all
right, and he all wrong. Remember
that there are two sidi's to every case,
and that it is for your interest to un
derstand both sides. So instead of
expressing a hasty judgment, and
perhaps provoking a hot and hasty
reply, it is the highest wisdom to say
to your neighbor, Ist us think over
this matter until another day. Then
in the quiet of your own home, sit in
cool dispassionate judgment on this
matter. Put yourself in your neigh
bor’s place and ask yourself wliat you
would desire and expect of him, if
lie was in your place. This will often
give a good light in which to act snd
help you to an adjustment of diffi
culties.
But we would advise that you go
farther than settling the question of
the right of the case, and if in your
cool, sober judgment yon decide that
the equities are all on your side, "till
conider whether "the game is worth
the powder,” or in other words,
whether it will not be better to com
promise and wave some of your known
rights, rather than to run the risk of
the miscarriage of justice, of the laws
delay, of the ex jiense of getting what
you believe to be justice, and greater
than all, of the bitterness and animos
ity which a lawsuit almost invariably
carries with it. You may have fewer
dollars for deciding to avoid a law
suit, hut it is probable you will have
more.
But there are tilings more valuable
than dollars, and peace and friendship
are among these. We have now in
mind a case where two neighbor*
joined farms for a distance of one
hundred rods, but one had built and
owned all the fence. The other died,
and his administrator sold the farm
to another man, who supposed he
bought half of this fensc, and when
told by the other that lie did not, he
flew into a passion and swore that he
would bold the fence by law. The
other man kept his temper, thought
over the matter for a day, and then
went to his neighbor and said: I can
see that there are two sides to this
question, and I am sure that you and
I cannot afford to go to law about it;
now, I will leave it entirely to you to
settle, and if you think, after know
ing all the facts, that you ought to
have half of this fence, you shall have
it, and I will never say a word.
The result was tr.at the old man
was completely disarmed, a compro
mise was at once effected satisfactory
to both and the two have been the
best of friends ever since. It is prob
able that the first named farmer sac
rificed ten dollars in the compromise,
but he gained a friend and neighbor,
and in the ten years which have pass
ed since there has never been a
shadow between them.—Home and
Farm.
Slippery Places.
President Edwards delivered a dis
course ol tremendous solemnity and
power to the impenitent from the
text, “Their foot shall slide in due
time.” But even the paths in this
life have their dangerous places, and
God’s people must keep fast hold of
God's hand if they would walk safely.
The Christian who thinketh he
standeth must take heed lest he fall.
One of the saddest sounds that smites
upon the ears of a pastor of a church
is the fall of some church-member
whose feet have slipped, and he has
gone down maimed and half dead.
1. A state of self-contidence is
always a state of danger. We always
ft el uneasy for those who claim to
have made wonderful attainments.
They exaggerate their own strength,
and grow presumptuous. Other peo
ple may fall; not they. So boastful
Peter felt when he uttered the vain
glorious vaunt, “Though all men
forsake thee, Lord, yet will not I!”
He was the very first to forsake his
Master under the fire of the scoffers.
He learned to his sorrow what a
wretched weakling was Simon Peter
without Jesus Christ. So dangerous
is this self-confident temper of mind
that I have always had the most anx
iety for those who entered the Church
with a very glip account of them
selves, in which the little word “I"
and “I” was painfully prominent.
These fluent talkers have often been
the first to stumble; some of them
ended in mere smoke. The young
convert who has the poorest opinion
of himself often comes to stand high
est in the opinion of others. In
Bunyan’s marvelous allegory—w hich
I fear is not studied as much as it
once was—poor, modest “Mr. Fear
ing” managed to reach the Celestial
City, though with such a low estimate
of his ow'n graces that be lay outside
of the gate trembling, and was almost
atraid to knock; but his Lord “car
ried it very lovingly with him” after
he got in. On the other hand, rattling
“Mr. Talkative” never reached heaven
at all, and self-conceited “Mr. Pre
sumption” was left lying on the road
with a pair of iron fetters on his
heels.
Somtimes God sees a secret pride
in the hearts of his own people which
needs to be chastised. This may be
the reason why he often sends sore
affliction on those who stand prom
inent before the world. They were
in danger of stumbling through over
confidence, and in mercy to them he
brings them into a “Valley of Hu
miliation.” A stoop has often saved
from a fall. Two much “top ham
mer” is perilous in any ship.
2. This leads me to say that world
ly prosperity is a very slippery place
to the average Christian. When a
man begins to grow rich in money,
especially if it flows in rapidly, he is
very apt to grow poorer in grace.
This is not true of every one. There
are some followers of Christ, like
James Lennox, and William E.
Dodge, and the late Mr. Fayerwethcr,
to whom God can trust an immense
income without its spoiling them.
Gold is too often a hardener of the
heart. When a church-member em
barks in a hot race for wealth, his
ambition is likely to swell with bis
income; the higher he rises in pros
perity the more he leans over like a
tall tower whose attitude is too great
for the breadth of its base. Every
prosperous Christian ought to pray
every night and morning; “O Lord, I
am in a dizzy place. When my foot
begius to slip, let thy mercy hold me
up!”
3. In these days many in our
churches are in terrible peril from
sinful conformity to the ways of the
world. Self-iudulgenee takes the
backbone out of them. A luxurious
style of living, an absorbing round of
social pleasures, and of dancing,
dressing, and drinking entertainments
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are generally fatal to the spirituality
of those who are decoyed into them.
Wholesome recreations are good for
body and soul.; yet there are few
Christians who can be trusted to
stand firm in such slippery places as
the theater, ball-room, or the wine
parties. Sooner or later the devil is
likely to trip them up. At fashion
able summer resorts and in foreign
travel this sort of Christians venture
over the line, and say to themselves:
“We are away from home: nobody
knows me here; I will ‘see the ele
phant for myself.” With the same
style of apology they venture into
speculations and schemes that are no
better than gambling. Ah, when the
tempter gets the professed Christian
into such snares of sophistry and
self deception, he is already on the
edge of the precipice. The man
who does not feel every hour, “My
Master sees me, and I am his repre
sentative before the world,” is al
ready a backslider.
4. Since this world has so many
temptations, where is the safeguard?
There is only one; it is this; Keep
close to thy God. If the ice is thin,
stay off of it, and you will never be
drowned. If there is ever a strong
undercurrent drawing you into sin,
cry unto God for help, and swim out
of it! When you feel any strong in
clination drawing you toward any
dangerous place, pursuit, or practice,
then set your foot down firmly and
say to yourself: “No! not one inch
farther! - ’
The safest rule for a Christian is
to practice total abstinence from
everything that leads into slippery
paths. Never go where you cannot
ask Jesns to go with you. Never
undertake what you cannot ask Jesus
to help you. Neter see how close
you can drive to the edge of the
precipice without going over. And
whenever stern duty requires you to
go where the path is icy or perilous,
then renumber the Psalmist’s prayer:
“When I cry unto thee my foot
slippeth; then O, Lord, let thy mercy
hold me up!”—T. L. Cuyler, D. D.
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Dr. C. A. Ryder,
13EWTIST,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
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G. W. Brown
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAYSVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
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Attorney Jit
IIOMER, GEORGIA.
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commission, and pnymeuis made by
installments.
A. C. MOSS,
Attorney at Law
HOMER, GEORGIA.