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Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Skp. 9.
Atlanta has found out that she can’t
control the state.
Men of God don’t go with a crowd
of boys and lead them against the will
of the people.
John Sherman says people who
want free coinage of silver are dis
honest. Come, Johnnie.
It's a grand idea that a few hods
can get together, hold indignation
meetings expecting thereby to control
legislation.
Mr. J. H. Bates, near Calhoun,
raised a pumpkin this year that
weighed one hundred and twenty five
pounds. Did you ever?
McKinley says lie is in favor of an
honest dollar. It would he better for
himself and for the country if he was
also in favor of an honest party.
Last Wednesday tho youngest
couple in Georgia were married at
Columbus. The groom was fifteen
and the bride fourteen years old.
Banks county has more confederate
veterans than any county in the state
according to population, and we have
yet to hear a single one of them say
the legislature did wrong in rejecting
the home.
Port Royal has been bought by Pat
Calhoun and other gentlemen, for the
purpose of turning some of the busi
ness from the west to the south Allan
tic states. This is a big d(yd and
means much for this section.
The Atlanta Constitution has re.
pented, and, of course, we are sorry
for our condemnation. We think
The Constitution a great paper, and
capable of doing great good, which it
does, but, like us, it can make a mis
take.
Lieutenant Ash, of the Ranks
county Guards says that tho pensions
now given to the soldiers is far better
than the home recently offered them,
and that there was not a man in this
county that could he induced to go to
the home.
The legislature has postponed tho
time of adjournment from the 18th
of this month, to some indefinite time
in the future. That’s right gentle
men, stay as long as you can for
many of you may never again be per
mitted to represent your county.
While in Gainesville some days ago
wc had a conversation with Hon. A. J.
Monday, chairman of the executive
committee of Hall county, and ho
says he knows nothing of the authori
ty of Jackson county furnishing the
next senator. He says Hall county
is satisfied with the rotation system
and she will stand to it, and will sup
port any man that this county may
name.
Government Ownership and Con
trol of Drunkard-Mills.
It is to he regretted that Athens has
endorsed the plan for the government
to assume direct control of the busi
ness of drunkard making. The de
gree of prominence and the concep
tion some of Athens’ people have of
the plan would be, no doubt, of con
siderable interest.
For our part, we cannot see how any
prohibitionist, who opposes the busi
ness when carried on indirectly by the
city, state or nation, as a silent part
ner, can endorse it simply because the
city, state or nation becomes the sole
conductor of the business. What is
wrong for the community to do indi
rectly is wrong for it to do directly.
Aflor innumerable vain attempts in
all civilized lands to make it possible,
by means of regulation of the traffic
in liquors, for people to tuke them
without being poisoned thereby, the
public mind seems more and more to
be divided on two distinct lines of
policy—some believing in state mono,
poly, state control and state responsi
bility for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, the other division holding
that nothing less than the total prohi
bition and suppression of the intoxi
cating drmk can remedy the evils
that flow therefrom.
It will not change the qualities of
alcohol to have it dealt out by a gov
ernment clerk. It will not hinder the
formation or gratification of the appe
tite for liquor to sell it for two cents a
glass instead of fifteen cents. The
sanction which the government puts
on the business will be none the less
obvious when the president or gover
nors are appointing an army of men
to do nothing else but sell liquor and
the whole community is taxing itself
to pay them salaries for poisoning
and debauching its members.
When the city, state or nation
reaches that levil, it will be time for
prohibitionists to refuse the payment
of taxes, and we believe, if equity has
not deserted the courts, the refusal
will be justified at the bar of justice.
In sober truth, when the state be
gins to levy a tax to pay salaries to
men to conduct grog-shops, ever,
principle of justice would sustain re
sistance to the collection of the tax.
Even the sentiment that to-day sup
ports the license system revolts at the
thought of government “canteens.”
As for eighty per cent less liqm rs
being drank when it is made purer
and better, and sold for one cent a
glass for beer and two cents a glass
for whisky, it is simply an absurdity.
Some time since the People’s party
of Ohio referred to the national com
mittee for its action a resolution
which reads as follows:
“We believe that the solution
of the liquor problem lies in abolish
ing the element of profit, which is a
source of constant temptation and
evil, and we therefore demand that
the exclusive importation, exporta
tion, manufacture and sale of spiritu
ous liquors shall he conducted by the
government or state at cos through
agencies or salaried officials in such
towns and cities as shall apply for
such agencies.”
Why not extend this plan so as to
take in other forms of vice ? Why not
have the government take control of
the houses of prostitution, and pay
a salary to agents to carry them on ?
Why not do the same with gambling?
Whether the government should
nationalize certain forms or all forms
of legitimate industry, is a debatable
question; hut that the government
should turn its machinery, established
for the purpose of protecting “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
into the carrying on of a business that
spreads ruin wherever it goes, en
slaves men to the worst taskmaster
that God himself knows of—the task
master of Vice—and destroys human
life by tens of thousands, is a prosti
tution of government.
Stand By the Demands.
The more we read the comments of
the press of both parties, and note it.s
attitude toward tho Alliance, the
more united and determined they
should be in their efforts to secure the
reform measures which the Alliance
has inaugurated. There is an under
current that is sweeping against the
foundation of the order with such a
force, that unless vigilantly watched
and earnestly resisted, will have the
effect of destroying much of the
power and influence of the organiza
tion. While the brethren are san
guine of accomplishing many things
for the good of the organization, they
should not be forgetful of the fact that
the mightiest forces arrayed against
the oner are to be resisted; and in
order to resist them successfully the
Alliance must be united in one solid
line. Any and everything within the
bounds of reason should be resorted
to in order to secure the utmost unity
and harmony in the organization. The
most essential prerequisite to the
securement of any reform in which
the masses of the people are interested
is unity, and we admonish our breth
ren throughout the country to
stand by the demands as adopted at
Ocala, Florida. They are the embodi
ment —the essence—of the principles
of honest, just, wise and economic
government, and it is our duty to
maintain them. After calm and de
liberate reflection they were formu
lated for adoption by that great con
vention, and seeing in them' the em
bodiment of wisdom and justice they
were adopted as the platform of the
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
of America. The Alliance lias espous
ed a great eause—one that require*
gigantic efforts on the part of an op
pressed and downtrodden class of
people to throw off the fetters of the
enormous money powers of the coun
try, and let not petty jealousies and
bickerings estrange you in the fight
against these monsters.
Bachelors.
The Wyoming tax on bachelors
which the legislature is reported to
have passsd is not very oppressive,
being but $2 a year; but as a prece
dent it suggests some very serious
reflections. It seems to assume that a
man ought to be punished and stig
matized for being a bachelor. Quite
likely that is the case in some states.
Massachusetts, for instance, where
there is an excess of females; hut
goodness! what is a poor male man to
do out in Wyoming?
We haven’t the figures for the last
census, but that of 1880 gives 14,152
males to 6,687 females. If every
female in the state were married,
there would he thousands of mascu
line left-overs. Think of the cruelty
of it.
A melancholy swain has lavished
ice-cream and soda-water on the ob
ject of his adoration. For her sake
he has read poetry, even Swinburne,
and committed it to memory. Sighs
have taken the place of stirloin in his
diet. And after long weeks of anx
ious suspense, during which chills
and fever have played tag up and
down his backbone, he has screwed
up his courage to the sticking point,
and found that he has won—a sistcrl
At such a moment, when he is ready
for suicide and only hesitating as to
the means, at such a time when lie
needs kind words and a porous plas
ter, the law comes and claps a $2
mortgage on him because he djfln't
get the girl! With what two-fold
feeling he can say witli the poet:
“’Tis sweet to love, but oh! how bit
ter to love a gal and then not git her!”
We protest. In the name of poor,
suffering, rejected bachclordom, we
protest. If Wyoming needs the
revenue, let her tax the old maids
who have refused to wed. There
would bo some justice in that.
Tariff Reform.
The trouble with our tariff system,
as everybody knows, is that whenever
any attempt is made to adjust its de
tails, even those which are of least
consequence, the whole question is
at once thrown into the arena of pol
itics and becomes the subject of con
flicting local and personal interests
Anything like a scientific adjustment
of the tariff schedule has been for
years an impossibility. This is true
of both parties. It applies to the
Mills bill and to the McKinly bill.
Sectional discriminations and polit
ical jobbery appear in both. Not
many yers ago a Tariff Commission
was appointed to gather information
on which to base a revision of the
tariff. It gathered a vast amount of
information, digested it, and, recom
mended to congress a revision in ac
cordance with what had been learned,
or as near in accordance as the di
verse views of the Commission would
let them agree upon. Their recom
mendations and facts were of no avail,
and congress went ahead in the usual
style to construct anew tariff. Now
something of the same kind is being
tried again. The senate finace com
mittee, at the last session of congress,
appointed a sub-committee to gather
information. The scope of investi
gation that is being made is thus de
scribed by Senator Carlisle:
“Our work comprehends the whole
range of tariff legislation, both in this
and foreign countries, and we go as
far back in our research as practicable,
gathering all the facts that manufaot
ture, transportation, wages, etc.,
comprehend, and applying them in
the final determination in a way that
shall show to us what influence they
have had in increasing the value of
necessary commodities. We have
had before us many eminent econo
mists and have obtained an enormous
mass of statistical matter that will
have its proper place in our final re
port. With regard to wages, we
have an agent at work gathering sta
tistics and he is making a satisfactory
degree of progress. Nothing that
has been published or presented to
congress bearing upon this subject is
of any practical value, as it is lacking
in the very information that it pur
ports to give. When our labors are
finished we will be prepared to give
to the country a mass of data un
equalled in value in the consideration
of economic questions.”
This is all very well, and will be of
very great value, no doubt. But the
moment any practical result is at
tempted, the moment any effort is
made to revise any single item of the
McKinley bill, at once the clashing of
selfish interests will begin anew and
the facts so carefully gathered will be
at once remanded to the rear. The
scientific adjustmet of the details of
the tariff by congress is as impossible
to day as anything in politics can be.
What ought to be done, and wnat
would be done if the need of the pol
iticians for a tariff issue did not recur
so frequently, is to take a lesson from
the work of the Interstate Commerce
commission. If all the details regarding
the adjustment of the rates of rail
roads had to be attended to by con,
gross, we should have t' e same sort
of muddle and jobbery as now ap
pear in our tariff bills. Instead, con
gress determines the principles on
which these details shall be adj ;sted
and then creates a non-partisan com
mission with power not merely to
collect information, but to adjust the
details in accordance with the general
instructions given. ’The tariff should
be treated in the same way. Why
not?—The Voice
Sunday Rest.
A man who has so much to do that
he will work nights and Sundays as
well as week days is not likely to do
much in the long run as the man who
rests at God’s appointed times in
order to fit himself for effective work
between these times. Many a busy
man breaks down a great deal earlier
than he needs to, because he insists
on working when rest is his first duty.
And many a man who observes God’s
law of the night and the Sabbath,
written in man’s very nature, accom
plishes far more in a series of years
than he could have wrought with any
violation of the law.
Mr. Gladstone, speaking not iopg
ago of his own experiences 'ru_ buifr
life, said of the high privilege of
“Sunday rest:” “Personally 1 have
always endeavored, so far as circum
staces have allowed, to avail myself
of this privilege, and now that I have
arrived near the goal of a laborious
public career of close on fifty-seven
years, I attribute in great part to this
practice thj prolonging of my life
and the preservation of my faculties.”
A true man can do more in six days
than he can in seven, week by week,
as he can do more in sixteen hours
than in twenty-four, day by day, for
a lifetime.
Tlio Don’t-Care Philosophy.
“Don’t care is the motto of this
generaiton,” remarked one of the
most famous women in Georgia, the
other day.
Undoubtedly the don’t-care phi
losophy rules the hour, but it is the
devil’s philosophy, all the same. We
hear it on every hand. Old and
young, in social, political and busi
ness circles, have this heartless phrase
on their lips all the time. It has be
come a part of our current slang
The old don’t care because they are
growing calous or discouraged, and
the young don,t care because they
think it is great thing to be cynical.
W e can see all around us the evil
consequences of this mistaken view
of life. It makes the rich grind the
poor, and it makes the poor ignore
the rights of the rich. It is bring
ing law into contempt, and it swells
the vast army of people who never
enter a church door.
Great calamities occur, misfortunes
overwhelm the worthy, and the help
less cry in vain for relief. But the
procession rushes onward,
heedless of tl esc things, and carrying
the don’t-care rule of action or inac
tion into all the relations of life.
A chill seems to have fallen upon
all human kind. Men school them
selves into a stolid indifference con
cerning everything that vitally affects
them and their fellows- “It will be
all the same a hundred years hence,”
thev laughingly say when they face
a crisis in their own or in the nation’s
affairs.
This is the philosophy of the time.
Has it made the world any better or
any happier?—Atlanta Constitution.
Two Poisonous Plant*.
The poisonous sumach resembles a
group of young ash trees. The poison
ons ivy resembles the harmless wood
bine. Its leaves, however, have but
three leaflets, while those of the wood
bine have five. —Salem Gazette.
Pavements of Broken GUm.
Use has been found for waste glass
by Messrs. Rostaing, ftarchey & Oreille,
of Paris Any fragments of broken
glass of various colors lire mixed to
gether, after having been broken to a
suitable size; they are then placed in
molds lined with silica tale or some
other resisting material and fired. A
coherent mass is produced which enu
be dressed and cut into blocks, which
are, of eonrse, irregularly colored Such
blocks may be used as ar'ificial marble.
The blocks are usually rough on one
side, owing perhaps to incomplete
fusion; this gives a surface which is
admirably adapted for causing them,
especially if they are slablike in form,
to adhere to walls with tlie addition of
a little mortar. Fine decorative effects
can thus be produced. Dirsi-jns in re
lief can be obtained by pressure while
the block or slab is plastic.
If a suitable mold be prepared with
movable partitions then pieces of glass
can be arranged in such a way that
upon firing a very effective “stained
glass” window is produced, the necessi
ty of using “leading,” as in the ordina
ry way, being thus obviated. This idea
will enable many manufacturers who
have heaps of "waste" glass lying about
useless to turn them with very little
expenditure to profitable .account.—
slanufacturer.
Uses for the Search Light.
There Is no doubt that if every large
passenger steamer was provided with
several search lights many dangers
would bo avoided and the yearly loss
of life at sea would be greatly lessened.
This statement applies specially to emi
grant steamers, in which so many lives
are in jeopardy in times of danger. It
has l>een recommended that the equip
merit of such vessels with search lights
should be made compulsory by the gov
ernments of the countries under whose
Hags they sail and at whose ports they
touch.
As an instance of the simplicity of a
search light outfit,and the advantageous
use to which it can be put, it is only
necessary to look to the navigation of
tlie Suez canal. Vessels unprovided
with the electric light can hire a com
plete plant when entering the canal
either at Suez or Port Said. The whole
arrangement can be sot up in an hour or
two, and the steamer can then go
through the canal at night. Formerly
every ship in the eanal bad to tie up to
the banks at night, and the passage
often occupied fifty or sixty hours.
Now it is generally made in eighteen or
twenty hours, and on some occasion*
even quicker time has been made.—
Electricity.
Counterfeit Goodness.
The keynote to hypocrisy is struck in
the remark, “No man is worse by simu
lating goodness.” This may sound fine
ly epigrammatic, but unfortunately
there is not a word of truth In it. Any
one is always worst' by simulating good
ness, for that means assuming the ap
pearance of it without the reality. Not
only is he more virtuous than before,
but his vice lias acquired an additional
sneaking quality, which makes the man
more contemptible perse, and infinitely
more dangerous to the community.
Imitation is the tribute which vice pays
to virtue, doubtless, but the vice is
none the less vicious. -Dr. R. W. Co
nant in Popular Science Monthly.
Adulteration of Coffee.
The adulterntiou of coffee in France
lias reached such alarming proportions
that it lias become a subject for inves
tigation in the chamber. The adulter
ation is made by a mixture of flour and
sulphate of iron, which is pressed into
the sluq>e of a coffee bean, the resem
blance being difficult for even an expert
to detect by sigiit. A small amount of
chicory is sometimes added, and the
exterior is given a touch of oil to make
it shiny.— New York Times.
$2,000 *>“
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DAY AND NIGHT Cl ASSES NOW IN SESSION. 12-?-
Lcaal Advertisements.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
all whom it may concern; Mark L
Cox administrator of Matthew Cox,
deceaeed has in due form applied to
the undersigned for leave to sell the
lands belonging to the estate of said
deceased, and said application will be
heard on the first Monday in October
next. September 7th, 1891.
1$1.80) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
all whom it may concern; A. J. Mc-
Whorter and Walter S. Sims, execu
tors of Hope Sims deceased, have in
due from applied to the undersigned
for leave to se'l the lands belonging
to saiii estate in Colquitt county, and
I will pass upon said application on
the first Monday in October next.
This September 7th, 1891.
< 52.01) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County. —To
all whom it may concern; Notice is
hereby given that the commissioners
appointed to review the proposed
change in the line between Wilmot’s
and Berlin mal.tia districts have filed
their report in this office, which is
favorable to the change of said line,
and if there is no good cause shown
on the first Monday in October next
I will pass an order directing that
said line be changed and established.
This September 7th, 1891.
($2.61 ) R F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County.— To
all whom it may concern: M. A. Wil
banks lias in due form applied to the
undersigned for permanent letters of
administi ation on the estate of H. M.
\\ ilbanks late of said county dec’d.
and I will pass upon said application
on the first Monday in October next.
Given under my hand and official
signature, this the 7th day of Septem
ber, 1891.
($2.16) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County .-Notice
is hereby given that fifteen free-bold
ers of the 418th district (. M. of said
county have filed in my office a peti
tion for an election to be held in said
district for Fence or Stock law an
provided by Section 1455 of the code
of 1882 nod the Acts amendatory
thereto, and after twenty days’ notice
if no objection is filed an election
will lie ordered in terms of the law.
August 27th, 1891. -
($2.85) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
Latryers. v
G. W. Brown
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAYSVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
Will do a general practice. Collecting
and Divorce cases a specialty.
P. M. i.DWAKRS
Attorney at laiw
IIOMER, GEORGIA.
Money to loan on three per cent,
commission, and payments made by
installments.
A. C. MOSS,
Atl 01*11 ey at I^aw
IIOMER, GEORGIA.
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