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BAMS COIiKTI mm, PUKLIHF.b EVERY WtDNKSDAY AT HOMER, - - - GEORGIA. BY HAMES &c HILL. SUBSCRIPTION: One year .... SI.OO Six mouths • -50 Entered at the, Peetoffict at Homer, G 0.., as second-vines mail matter. Communications of any cliaracter, whether on business or for publication, should be addressed to GAZETTE. llomeic, Ga., Wednesday, Sep. 10. att" ~ The Blairsville Free Press has reached ns, and is one of the neatest and host printed papers in the state. The paper is calculated to do much good for tho mountain section of Georgia, and the people of that sec tion should lend it their support. Votes :ts You Pray. The following paragraph we clip from a lengthy article in The Voice headed “Touch Not the Unclean Thing,” which we certainly endorse heartily: “Let the test be made at once and unflinchingly. A church that will not insist that its members array themselves against the license of drunkard-making and against all po litical parties that uphold it has lost its power to cope with sin and has become an ally of hell.” The same may be said as regards any organization. Men and brethren, come out on the Lord’s side. It is a great pity that the people’s party refused to insert in its platform the prohibition plank, but instead thereof the liquor plank. It is to he hoped that tho people’s and prohibition parties will form a union upon some terms, which will necessarily be prohibition, because a true prohibitionist will never make a compromise with the liquor traffic in any form, government control not ex cepted. .Every one admits that the liquor traffic ut a very great evil. Then a Christian cannot vote for its existence, and the organization, political or otlierwise., that encourages its exist ence offers an insult to God when it ofiens its meetings with prayer. Sin is sin, and there is no compro mising ground, aiul the political party or organization that sends men to the halls of legislation, state or national, who patronize drunkard-shops and fill their respective seats in a state of in toxication, should feel itself disgraced. We should vote as wo pray. If we would have our laws soberly made ami honestly administered we must elect Christians to office; not mere professors, who seize every opportu nity that presents itself to take a drink. If we would not be led into tempt ation let us remove the cause If we would be delivered from evil let us roll the stoue away. What, a Misrepresentation! We find a tlireo and a half column communication going the rounds of the press from S. G. McLendon, to prove to the people that national banks cannot borrow money from the government at one per cent and loan it to the people at eight, and that the people are being deluded by “office seeking instructors.” Mr. McLendon pro|H>ses the perpetuation of the national banking system as some thing better than the sub-treasury. Now, who is S. G. McLendon, what is his history and where does he hail from ? We don’t know who lie is nor where he is from, but there is one thing we 1 do know, he is interested, in some way, in the perpetuation of the pres-! ent damnable national banking sys- j tom. When we say in some way, we don’t mean to be vague or indeffinite, but we mean that S. G. McLendon has money invested in this thing, or he is the paid emissary of some na tional bank that is very dcsirious about tics matter. In his effort to prove that national oanks are abused through prejudice and ignorance and nothing else, he does not state the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and lie knows it, and in regard to the gov ernment making deposits with certain national banks of large sums of money without interest lie is a silent as the grave. When we began to read his article we thought lie was for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, but before we got through with it we found he was a gold bug, pine and simple. After suggesting his policy he says: “What I mean is that it would event uate in free and unlimited coinage, if the free and unlimited coinage did not result in depreciation.” We want to state here that we have but little patience with a man that will talk about a thing resulting in deprecia tion when it has in days that arc passed and gone been tested and proved that there was not any danger of depreciation. Mr. McLendon says of the present financial condition, “I do not believe the situation will change as long as the demand for the free and unlimit ed coinage of silver is unsettled,” and yot he suggests that we attain to it liy degrees, and if there is danger of depreciation cneck it, when he knows there is not a legitimate reason to offer. These statements are like many others made by the gentleman. They won’t hold water. Now, here is an other one of his statements: “Instead of keeping up a war upon national hanks, which has nothing to feed upon except prejudice and ignorance, I, S. G. McLendon, would suggest ‘something better’ than the sub treasury bill; that those banks be perpetuated, and the law under which they exist and operate amended and changed. * * United States bonds represented the highest and most solemn debt of the nation, and this debt is now about $700,000,000. As this debt cannot be paid why is it not the part of wisdom to make it the basis of an increase in our circu lating medium instead of using the imperishable products of the farm for such a purpose? * * * There is not a man in this country who would not prefer a dollar secured by a gov ernment bond to one secured by u dollar and a quarter’s worth of any imperishable farm products.” Let ns stop here long enough to exclaim, what preposterousness 1 Would the gentleman be kind enough to tell us what a government bond would be worth if we had no farm products? Why were govern ment bonds instituted anyway? Ex amine one and you will sec that they partake of the nature of their father, the devil and must have cfliinated from hell. When we read such things as we have just quoted; things that have been answered time and again, and the only reason that they have to be answered repeatedly is because some men won’t hear, wc feel tired. Who told S. G. McLendon that United State bonds were belter se curity than imperishable farm pro ducts ? Who told S. G. McLendon that gold and silver had intrinsic value, and that they never fluctuate, but are as stable as the rock of a ires ? Echo answers, W-h-o ?!? Who Told You So? The Athens Ledger has this to say about the political situation: “The emergencies of a distracted political party require heroic remedies which in ordinary times would not receive the countenance or favor of conservative men. This rule will apply to the sub-treasury heresy. Let the farmers repudiate forever and for aye this foolish measure." And what would The Ledger sug gest instead of the “sub-treasury heresy”? No doubt The Ledger would ad vance the novel “six-days’-work-a week idea. A grand idea, especially as the country is flooded with “over production,” but possibly The Ledger fi rgets that the farmers of this coun try have been heeding the advice given them by learned newspapers like The Ledger for twenty years, and have reaped as the reward for their obedience and patience, mortgages and debts, and nothing with which to pay but a product for which there is no market, or at least not remunera tive prices. Would it not be a pretty good idea for The Ledger and all such papers, to take a little rest? The farmer has no time to listen to you now,Brothers. He has heretofore left it to you to point out the way while he carries you on his back, but yon have directed him to a precipice over which he has very near fallen, and which would have crushed you and him both had he not stopped. But thank God be saw the danger and turned back, and though you kick, lie is going to carry you out of the mire of despondency and place his feet on the firm road bed of prosperity so that, lie may carry you with ease. “Beggars should , not be choosers.” A Vicious Middleman. By delegation by government of the power to issue money has resulted an exploiting class of middlemen, the existence of which is contrary to all economic interests. This class adds nothing to the wealth of the commun ity. Worse, it retards legitimate effort by taxing the necessary functions of production, conservation and distri bution. The necessary middlemen who add to the wealth of tiie people by their services between producer and consumer, are as great, though, perhaps, not as direct, sufferers by the existence of this vicious ckiss as are the farmers and mechanics. A most apparent example of the exploiting class resulting from false legislation is the land-shark of the western states. Corporations are created by the formation of land and loan agencies, which employ attor neys, open up nicely furnished offices in the central tows, employ counsel and abstract attorneys, and advertise that there is “money to loan” on farms secured by first mortgages. All necessary paraphernalia is at hand for taking fees from applicants, and the “money to loan” is secured from distant eastern or European cities on representations based upon the ap praisements of the land mortgage sharks and the certificate of his ab stract attorney'. Whenever there is a conjunction by which the necessary evidence of security can lie made to accompany the application, the land shark sells the mortgage to the in vestor, his entire agency having been that of a broker in bringing borrower and lender together. The money may have been found by persistent ad vertising, and the investor usually re mits to the broker part of the interest, and makes him agent for the collec tion of of the periodical payments, as also of the whole upon maturity, thus making an addition to the fees and blood money taken from the debtor. Under a system varying but little from this plan of oj>eration, the vast farm mortgage debt of the west and south has been placed. The profit of the loan agencies has depended pri marily upon how deeply they could gouge each applicant for a loan, and, secondarily, upon how much premium they could secure for giving the len der an opjKirtunity to place his in vestment. In other words, the profitH of the business were derived from a high rate of interest where the loan was placed, as compared with that prevailing when the money was se cured. Anything that increased this disparity was to the profit of the land sharks. So successful has this kind of brokerage been that men occupy ing the most honorable representa tive positions have been corrupted into greedy agents of the system, and have made their standing with the people a means of advertising the par ticular agencies with which they have maintained connection. When it was stated, upon the clear judgment of men familiar with the actual condition of affairs, that some of the western states were so heavily mortgaged that there must be losses to lenders should there he general foreclosures, the land-shark raised a cry of distress and endeavored to dis credit the facts. Later the census in vestigation has show n that the most extreme statement of the condition of affairs is less than the unfortunate truth, and now the question arises, what relief is possible? It is appa rent that relief will soon be sought if the contraction continues, not for the debtor, but for the creditor. A sen ator of the United States, from Con necticut, said some time ago that the servant girls of Hartford owned the mortgages of Hartford. So, also, the small depositor in the trusts and sav ing banks of the east have their mon ey invested in the mortgages of Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota. The system of contraction that has made the security inadequate has jeopar dized the investment, and further ex ploiting will necessarily further weak en the hold upon value now the de pendence of the thrifty New England worker. The effects of the false system may often cause the loss of his home to the western farmer, but it will also operate to dissipate the life-savings of the thrifty yankee mechanic. In a contingency like this, what more natural than that the land-shark should %aise the cry that he is mis represented ? Cursed in the west as a worker of untold evils, he is now recognized in the east as an irrespon* sible boomer, and stands aghast at the result of his work. Vainly may he raise a cry, that the farmers, his vic tims, are dishonest, or that the Alii ance favors repudiation. All the se curity he has ever had is still pledged, and if he was the means of advances greater than it will repay, his, and his alone, is the fault. To his greed for more fees and interest alone can be traced every loss sustained through his operations. Did he but join in the effort to secure more money, by which values would be enhanced, and cheap money, by which redemption might be aided, the land broker might yet do much to redeem his vocation from obloquy and his kind from hatred. But instead he has joined w ith the movement to depress values, by crying out that silver coinage and the issue of money on farm products is repudiation, and now leads in the futile effort to restore the condition that has made his only profitable business in the south and west for years. He now believes he can work over the old mine with profit—a task as hopeless as the endeavor to grind with the water that has passed the mill. His career must end ere the farmer of the went or the investor of the east can see a satisfactory clear ing up of the financial sky.—National Economist. New York Advocate. Nothing quite satisfies the soul in this world. The sweetest music, the finest paint ing, the most perfect stature, the sub limest eloquence, and tho rarest beau ty are not quite equal to the highest ideal. The highest gratifications of the mind and the heart lack some thing. The grandest country on earth has many faults. The I rest re ligious denomination or society is wanting in some important respect, and the purest, happiest home under the sun hides some dark shadow. The efforts men make to ottain a state where they will be satisfied are vain. Contentment is possible, but complete satisfaction is not found in this life. It is beyond. “Then shall Ibe satisfied when I awake in thy likeness”. Tlie Praying Engineer. One w inter, several years ago, there was a great deal of religious interest in a certain western town, and among those who joined the church was Allie Forsyth a little fellow twelve years of age. His mother was a widow, and had removed, four years before, from their home in Vermont to this tow n in Wisconsin. On the evening of the Sabbath when be joined tbe church, Allie was sitting in the twilight with his mother, and presently she said to him: “Allie tel! me what led you to want to be a Christian? Was it your home teachings, your lessons in Sab bath school, the regular preaching of the pastor or has it all come through the influence of the revival m etings?” Looking up into his mothers face he replied: “Mamma, it was none of these. But do you remember when we were coming from St. Albans to live here that I wanted to go on the en gine and ride with the engineer? You were afraid to let me til. the conductor, whom you knew well, told you that the engineer was a remark able man, and that I was just as safe on the engine with him as on the parlor car with you.” His mother assured him that she remembered the circumstance very well. “Then,” continued Allie, you al lowed me to ride on the engine, where I was to stay till you or the conductor came after ne. When about ready to start from the station where I first got on the engine, the engineer knelt down for just a little bit, and then got up and started his locomotive. “I asked him many questions about its different parts, and about tha places and things which we passed by, and he was very patient in answering. Soon we stopped at another station, and he knelt down again just a mo ment before we started. As he did this often, I tried to see what he was doing, and, finally, after we hod pass ed a good many stations, I made up my mind to ask him. He looked at me very’ earnestly and said : “My little lad do you pray?” “I replied, ‘Oh, yes sir! I pray every morning and evening.” “Well, my dear boy,’ said he, ‘God hay allowed me to hold a very respon sible place here. There are perhaps, 200 lives now on this train entrusted to my care. A little mistake on my part, a little inattention to signals might send all, or many of these 200 souls into eternity. So at every sta tion I kneel just a short while, and ask the Master to help me, and to keep from all harm until I reach the next station, the many lives he has put into my hands. All the years I have been on this engine he has help ed me, and not a single human being of the thousands that have ridden on my train has been harmed. I have never hail an accident.” “I have never before mentioned what he said, but almost daily I have thought about him, and resolved that I would be a Christian too ” For four years the life and words of this praying engineer had been constantly with this lad, and became at length the means of leading him into a Christian life.—Congregation alism An Appeal to Royalty. If the eye of royalty should be reached the heart of feminine royalty w'ould surely be touched by this ten der appeal from an Irish temperance joumnal: “What a world of good the queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales could do if they became total abstainers! A voluntary surrender of pleasure, a breaking with social con ventionalities of an admittedly worth less kind, a going in the face of vain fashion and low self interest, that you may benefit your fellow men beyond the dreams of the philanthopist—what is that but heroism of the highest kind? And that is the praise reserved for her majesty and their royal high nesses, that is the glory, brighter than any victory of arms could shed upon it, in store for the crown of Engl ind if they, for the sake of the people, will lead with their personal example against the p ople’s greatest cur c. Thousands and tens of thousands of these have cheerfully laid down their lives for the queen; and millions more are ready to do the same. Ah! wouldn’t it be a small matter, a chiv alry utterly insignificant in itself, but of unspeakable significance in its re sults, if she in return would lay down her wine cup for them. Wc reraem her with pride two American queens one for each division of political forces —-who possessed that “highest heroism.” President Harrison said in his speech at Montpelier, Vermont, that “A statesman of one of the southern states said to me, with tears in his eyes, shortly after my inauguration: ‘Mr. President, I hope jon intend to give the poor people of my state a chance’” The president then tells that he rebuked the weeper, and perhaps made him ashamed of his solicitude for his people with a lec ture on southern delinquencies. But a great injustice has been done by the president in withholding the name of the statesman from the south who could so far forget propriety and re spect for his select surroundings as to shed tears over the poor people of his state. He should be named, that the poor people might do him honor. Who was he? Oh! who?—Economist. $2,000 In old GIVEN AWAY BY INI. E. Cor. 9th and Walnut, Cincinnati, O. ESTABLISHED 1852. #I,OOO I.> T GOU> to SoholarH in book-keeping, To the Students passing the Best Examination in JJook-keeping, Arith metic and Penmanship Class limited to fifteen. 50 Dollars in Gold will be given to - - First 30 “ “ “ - - Second 20 “ “ “ - - Third #I,OOO OOJLD to Scliolars in. SHOHT-HAIX I>. To the Students making the Best Speed in Sixty days in Short hand, Class limited to fifteen. 50 Dollars*in Gold will be given to - - First 30 “ “ “ - - Second 20 “ “ “ - - Third We will continue these prizes to each one of the Classes until the $2,000 IN GOLD has been given away'. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES NOW IN SESSION. 12-Si Shirt and Pigtail. A coiresj*>nclent sends to The Youth’s Companion a copy of a letter written by an English sailor on his return from an India voyage. It is dated “Warren Hastings, East India, man, off Graves end, March 14, 1813.” One thought was uppermost in the writer’s mind, as will be perceived by the hastiest reader. Dear Brother Tom—This cams hoppln to find you ia good health, as it leaves me safe anchor'd hern yesterday after a pleasant voy age. toleable short and few squalls. Dear Tom—Hopes to find poor old father stout, and am quite out of pigtail. Sights of pigtaii at Gravesend, but unfortunately not fit for a dog to chor. Dear Tom —Captain’s boy will bring you this, and put pigtail in his pocket when bort. Best in Lunnon at tho black boy in seven diles, where go acks for the best pigtail, pound of pigtail will do and am short of shirts, ouly took two whereof one U wored out, and t’other most, but don’t forget the pigtail, as 1 ’aven’t ’ad a quid to chor since a Thursday. Dear Tom —as for shirts, yer 6ize will do only longer, l like ’em long— get one at present— best at Tower Hill, and cheap—But be p&rtto ler to go to 7 diles at the black boy for the pig tail, and dear Tom acks for pound of best pig tail, and let it be good—captain's boy will put the pigtail in his pocket Boy likes pigtail so ty it up strong. But dear Tom, shall be up on Monday, there or there-about s—according not so part icier about the shirt, as the present can be washed, but dont forget the pigtail without fall, and so am your loving brother. t. p. P. S.—be sure you dont forget th% PIGTAIL. Small Change In Plruty. A well dressed and not bad looking woman, with a small handbag, rushed into up town shops and stores the other day for “just one cent to make up fir* cents for car fare. ” She took It sys tematically. and nearly everybody she came across responded to Ler appeal* A group of gentlemen in a cigar store each contributed n penny—all but one. He said apologetically that he was sorry, but that he liad nothing less than half a dollar. “1 can change it," she said promptly. The three men opened their eyes, but she saw her bad break at the same moment and slipped away with a faint smile creeping up from behind her ears. —New York Herald. A Mnihroom Caterpillar. New Zealand sends large quantities of mushrooms to San Francisco and also to Hong Kong. The Chinese eat it. use it for medicine, and make a fine dye out of it One remarkable species grows out of the laxly of n large cater pillar. practically converting the animat into a vegetable. —lndianapolis Jour nal. Dye Works. Steam Dye Works. MILES JOHNSON, No, 10 Clavton St,, Athens, Ga. Lawyer*. G. W. Brown ATTORNEY AT LAW, MAYSVILLE, - - - GEORGIA Will do a general practice. Collecting and Divorce cases a specialty. P. M. EDWARDS Attorney nt Law HOMER, GEORGIA. Money to loan on three per cent, commission, and payments made by installments. A. C. MOSS, At lomey .t I aiw HOMER, GEORGIA. Parties ordering any thing advertised in these columns WILL PLEASE MENTION THE GAZETTE