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Banks County Gazette.
VOL II.—NO. 48.
UTTLE GIFFEN, OF TENNESSEE.
Oat of the focal and foremost fire.
Oat of *be hospital ward as dire.
Smitten of errapenhot and gaugrene
(Eighteenth battle and he sixteen!)
Specter such as we seldom see.
Little Giffen, of Tennessee.
••Take him—and welcome,” the surgeon said;
“Much your doctor can help the dead!”
And so we took him and brought him where
The balm was sweet on the summer air;
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed
Utter Lazarus, heel to head!
Weary war with the bated breath.
Skeleton boy against skeleton death.
Months of torture, how manysuch?
Weary weeks of the stick and crutchl
Still a glint in the steel blue eye
Spoke of the spirit that would not die.
And didn't! nay, more! in death's despite
The crippled skeleton learned to writel
“Dear mother,” at first, of course; and then,
“Dear captaiQ*'—inquiring About "the men.”
Captain’s answer—"Of eighty and five
Uiffen and I are left alive!"
“Johnston’s presscMl at the front, they sayT'
Little Uiffen was up and away.
A tear—his first—as be bade gixjdby.
Dimmed the glint of his steel blue eye;
“I’ll write, if spared.” Thero was news of a
fight.
But none of Giffen—he did not writel
1 sometimes fancy that were 1 king
Of the princely knights of the Golden Rule,
With the soug of the minstrel in mine ear.
Anil the tender legcud that trembles here.
I’d give the best on his bended knee.
The whitest soul of my chivalry,
• For little Giffen, of Tennessee!
—Francis O. Tioknor.
When the Fire Went Out Fifty Yearn Ago.
Back in the forties well to do peo
ple never had such a thing as a match
in the house. During the winter a
perpetual tire was kept in the fire
place. At bed time ag< ><xl sized stick
of wood partially consumed was
buried in the ashes with a bed of
glowing coals, and in the morning
these were raked open, wood was
thrown on and in a few minutes a
musing fire was the result Some
times, through carelessness, the fire
would go out.
The writer remem!>ers several oc
casions when as a boy he went to a
neighbor's, a third or a half mile
away, with a big fire shovel in which
he brought back live coals with which
to start a fire. This was no desirable
jaunt to make on a cold morning
with the wind blowing savagely.
Philadelphia Press.
Arkwright’* Love Kxp^rinnce.
Some inventors have been far from
happy in their lives. Arkwright had
but a sorry time of it with that spir
ited “Lancashire lass,” his second
wife, who smashed the modol of his
spinning frame one day in a fit of
temper, because she deemed it (and
perhaps not altogether unjustly) re
sponsible for their poverty. What
she thought of it all when, after sep
arating from him, he accumulated a
large fortune and allowed her £3O a
year out of it. the annals of cotton
spinning do not inform us. We are
told, however, that she never spoke
ill of him, and would not permit any
one else to do so in her hearing.
Castien’s Magazine.
Foo<l Fer I>icm for One Man.
Professor Huxley’s food table tells
how many grains per day each
average man of 154 pound weight
should consume of solid food. Of
lean beefsteak he should have 5,000
grains; bread, 6.000 grains; milk,
7,000 grains; potatoes, 3,000 grains;
butter, 600 grams, and water, 22,000
grains.
A man of the weight mentioned
above wall have 08 pounds of muscles
and their appurtenances; his bones
will weigh 24 pounds; skin, 10J
pounds; fat, 28 pounds; brain, 3
pounds; thoracic viscera 34 pounds;
abdominal viscera. 11 pounds; blood,
7 pounds.— St. Louis Republic.
Keeping Warm in Iltiftnia.
A good story is told of Lord Ran
dolph Churchill's visit to Russia.
“What,” asked a friend of Lord
Randolph, on his return, "did you
really go to Russia for?"
“To get warm,” was the character
istic reply. Lord Randolph went on
to explain his paradox by saying
that the winter was abominably cold
eveiywbere, but that as it was colder
in Russia than elsewhere, the Rus
sians alone took proper precautions
against it. “Only in St. Petersburg,”
he said, “do they understand the art
of warming a house.”—London Tit-
Bits.
The Movement for Fusion.
A conference was held in Indian
apolis last week between a few mem
bers of tbc People’s party, Fanners’
Mutual Benefit association, the Far
mers’ Alliance and the Prehibition
party to consider the question of fu
sion in the state election this year. A
unanimous vote was taken in favor of
“a union of the reform parties for
state work,” on the basis of the reso
lutions adopted at the Sherman house
conference in Chicago, with the word
“municipal” left out of the fifth
(woman suffrage) resolution. T. W.
Force, president of the Indiana Far
mers’ Alliance, said that 41 out of 42
of the Indiana delegates to the St.
Louis conference were in favor of
Miss Willard’s minority rej ort. Col.
Ritter said his mind had recently un
dergone change in regard to the need
of financial reform, and he spoke
strongly against the present system.
Dr. H. W. Taylor, secretary of the
People’s party state central commit
tee, said “the state, district and
county tickets should be united
whether the national tickets are or
not.’’ It was unanimously agreed to
request tho chairmen of the state
committees of the two parties to call
the central committees together for
conference. A similar movement is
on foot in Michigan, and perhaps in
other states.
We want to utter a word of warn
ing right here. Our readers know
that The Voice is desirous of a union
of reform forces. But there is a
difference between a union and a
fusion. In union there is
strength, in fusion there is
nearly always confusion and weak
ness. In union two or more parties
consolidate into one; in fusion two or
more parties maintain their separate
organizations and dicker and bargain
with each other in regard to nomina
tions and platforms. Ardently as we
desire a union of tho progressive
political elements of our nation, we
do not see how there can be any such
union between the Prohibition party
and the People’s party until the latter
has moral courage enough to change
its base nationally, make an uncom
promising declaration of war on the
liquor traffic, and then proceed to
make war as well as declare it. We
can see no immediate outcome to the
present movement in Indiana or in
Michigan, except a fusion. We effer
no criticism of the conference held,
for we believe that such comings to
getherand intorchages of thought are
very good things. But there can be
no union of two state parties as long
as one is professing fealty to a nation
al license party and the other profess
ing fealty to a National Prohibition
party. They cannot unite their two
state committees into one, their sepa
rate county connnittoes, their differ
ent clubs. The two organizations
must remain separate, and all that
could be done would bo to agree on
the same state platform, and the
state ticket. But this involves a
“deal,” and we do not see how the
results can be other than deplorable.
If the same candidates are nominated,
to what national party do they profess
fealty? Will the prohibitionists
nominato and vote for candidates
who are working for the presidential
candidate of a national license party f
The personal belief of such men does
not court. If their political support
is to be given to a presidential candi
date on a platform that by silence
assents to the legalization of the liquor
traffic, they are not entitled as candi
dates for state offices to the support
of prohibitionists. We see no escape
from the logic.
There is but one way that a union
of the voters in these two parties can
be effected, and that is by the success
of those in the People’s party who
wish such a union, in prevailing on
their party to place itself nationally
on a prohibition basis. When that
is done, not before, a basis of
union can be negotiated by the
national committees. Until that is
done, prohibitionists cannot consist
ently negotiate any deal of fusion.
Let us keep our record true. The
Philadelphia Ledger, (Geo.W. Childs’
paper), said February 24, in comment
ing on tho St. Louis conference:
“The longest lived of all third par
ties has been the Prohibition party,
nthd its continued existence should be
suggestive. It was founded upon a
sentient principle, and not upon dis
affection toward or discontent with
existing general conditions of govern
ment. Like the Republican party in
its inception, it was a party built upon
an idea which appealed to both the
intelligence and the moral sense of
the country.”
If the Prohibition party has been
the longest lived of all “third parties”
it has been so because it has been
steadily true to its principles. It has
made no deals. Every other third
IIOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: MARCH 5, 1892.
party, the Greenbackers, the Grangers,
the labor parties, has wrecked on the
rock of fusion.—The Voice.
Mozart’s Knowledge of Instrument*.
Scarcely an instrument in the or
chestra escaped Mozart's attention.
A born violinist, he wrote coneerti
for violin and orchestra which,
though without the emotional ele
ment of Beethoven and Spohr, aro
greatly prized. To the tenor violin,
which had been deemed worthy only
of filling up tuiti passages, he gave a
voice and place of its own in the or
chestra. The clarionet was raised to
great importance by him, and forth
with took place as a favorite solo in
strument. In nearly all his scores it
received especial attention; while
the fresh, beautiful, and exceedingly
masterful work, the quintet in A
major for clarionet and strings, and
the fine clarionet concerto, which he
composed for Stadier, have imparted
to the instrument an all age reputa
tion which can never bo impaired.
Then his sparkling genius spent it
self in writing for that line reed in
strument, tho basset horn, the splen
did properties of which ho deemed
more suitablo than even rhe clarionet
for his “Requiom.” For the oboe
Mozart did much, according it a
prominence which it had never
reached with any previous composer.
His Opus 108 has a rare oboe part,
and in the mass “No. 12” is some
lino if difficult music for it.—Black
wood's Magazine.
A Whistling Gangling*.
It seems that thero is really a
whistling language. A French trav
eler, M. Lajard, has written a work
on tho subject which has been occu
pying the attention of the Paris
Academy of Sciences. It is in the
Canary islands that people whistle
instead of speaking when they hold
converse with each other. Nor is
tho whistling language a mere lan
guage of conventional sounds. It is
composed of words, sis it were, like
any other language, and tho inhab
itants of the Canary islands attain
great proficiency in it, so that they
can converse on all sorts of subjects.
The whistling noise is produced by
placing two fingers inside tho mouth.
M. Lajard declares that the lan
guage has a great affinity with Span
ish. Ho has jotted some of it down
in asoiV of musical notation, and it is
found that any sentence lias exactly
one syllable more than theequivalent
sentence in Spanish, tho extra sound
being accounted for by tho fact that
the first syllable serves as a mere ex
planation designed to attract the at
tention of the person addressed. M.
Lajard learned enough of the lan
guage to converse to a certain extent
with the natives. —Loudon Tele
graph.
Lotting Temper Ran It* Course.
“What a comfort it is occasionally
to slam a door ?” confessed one wom
an to another in a confidential chat.
“There have been times when that
privilege was a great safety valvo to
me."
Tho other laughed. “A little hard
on the latch and hinges, wasn’t it?”
she said. “I knew a woman who
showed mo in a closet an old calico
gown secured to a hook. She said
to me, ‘Whenever I am irritated to
tho verge of giving way I rush in
here and give this gown a vigorous
twist.’ Its tattered folds were mute
ly eloquent of its value as a mood
conductor. My own method of re
lief is to rush into the garden and
dig. When my family see my trowel
making tho dirt fly they realize that
I have got to the ‘slamming door’
pitch and nobody disturbs me.’’—Her
Point of View in New York Times.
Beautiful Women.
Bishop Potter has recently preached
a sermon in New York in which lie
stated that beauty in women leads to
wickedness, and that it is en undesir
able thing to cultivate. His opinion
has met with unanimous disapproval.
To blot out the beauty of women
from the world be a calamity. We
might better afford to lose all the
other glory of earth, sea and sky. If
the wickedness for which women are
responsible were confined only to
those who posses beanty there might
be some cause for the Bishop’s con
demnation, but such is not the case;
on the contrary, tho examples are in
finite where a beautiful woman is
distinguished alsa for the highest no
bility of character and the sweetest
graces of mind and heart. Bishop
Potter would possibly object to
the demoralizing influnnee of or
nate and handsome churches and of
the modern homes with their count
less embellishment; and, to be con
sistent, he would, of cource, abolish
all the ornament of apparel, which
adds so much to the wearer. But all
the bishops in all th clinches could
not eradicate from the soul of woman
that mate love of the beautifnl which
finds expression in countless ways.
As she herself is nature’s fairest cre
ation, it follows that she should appre
ciate the gifts of her creator and
supplement them when necessary,
and the world would not have it
otherwise.—lndianapolis News.
HERALDRY OF THE RAILS.
Trademark* of Some of tho Well Known
Kullroud* in Thin Country.
Alm'ost every railroad company
has a devico or motto which is print
ed on the time table folders, the let
ter heads and the illuminated cards
that bang on walks of station, wait
ing room and business office. These
devices are usually printed in colors,
and some of them are quaint and
clever. One of the most familiar is
tho autumn tinted maple leaf, the
main arteries of which designate the
route of the Chicago, St. Paul and
Kansas City railway, which is popu
larly known as the “Maple Leaf.” A
three leaf clover is the distinguish
ing mark of the Toledo, St. Louis
and Kansas City road, which is com
monly called the “Clover Route.”
The Houston and Texas Central
railway has about as elaborate a de
sign as any. Its main feature is a
steel colored horseshoe bearing the
name of the road. Encircled by the
shoe is a green four leaf clover rest
ing ou a background of red, and con
necting the heels of the shoe is a rab
bit’s foot labeled “Lucky Route.” To
tho right just above the horseshoe
appears a lone star. Tho four leaf
clover is also the devico of the Rome, ;
Watertown and Ogdensburg road,
each leaf bearing a letter, as “R. W,
& O.” The long stem of tho clover
cuts lengthwise through the Frerch
word “Bonheur,” conveying assur
ance of good luck.
Jay Gould’s Missouri Pacific fo&d
has a large red seal, crossed by a pdl
road track, with tho name of the y°ad
in black letters covering the entire
face of the seal. The hei’aldic spunp
of the Wabash road is a red flag/with
a black center, in which appeal's
forward end of a
headlight Hashing the word 188
bash.” Tho Lehigh Valley
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and mighty little of thaß
question the real vital iB
day in lowa, with the U 9
sailing the law at every 1
with Gov. Boies pardoninj
tors of the law out of tho u
at a wholesale rate, will
does the Republican part
says nothing. But actions speaks
louder than words, and the batch of
anti-Prohibitionists elected as dele
gates-at-large to the National Con
vention, tell in a way no one need
misunderstand how the party is head
ing.—The Voice.
The Way A It.
When most pretty girls reach nine
teen they become engaged to some
poor young nun and he hasn't the
money to marry on, they wait untill
he has saved it. The waiting process
is a long and tiresome one. While
the young man is having a good time,
spending 90 cents and saving 10 cent
for his nv.frige, the girl is growing a
little ob.er, a little plainer, a liit’e
more rireworn, and wasting her
youth : i waiting for a man who in
most c lß es finds someone more at
tract! e and breaks the engagement.
If girls will look around at the
gre.jt number of girls who have wait
ing t>r some poor man to their sorrow,
they probably hesitate before
entering upan an engagement that
promises to bo long and fruitless, and
thsi leaves them worn out, an<4 with
no faith in human nature at the end.
Very often a girl who is waiting
f>r a young man to becomo rich,
t trows away the real opportunity of
W lfe; very often she is a slave to
the caprice of a man who finally de
serts her. Very often under
circumstances, a woman |
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ments in a new party can save it.
Such as exactly tho condition of the
United States Government to-day. -
Kenilworth Ivy.
The Kenilworth ivy is very' well
known as a basket plant for house
decoration. Very few understand
that it is perfectly hardy in this cli
mate, and that it will serve to orna
ment old walls just as well as it orna
ments tho walls of the celebrated
Kenilworth abbey, from which it
takes it name. We have recently
seen some on an old wall along a
roadside, which has evidently been
on tho wall for a number of years.
It was quite as beautiful as anything
seen in tho Old World.-Meehan’s
Monthly.
Gloves Aro Not Made of Ilatskins.
It lifts often been said that the
glovoniaknrs nf Pai-ia mot.
their trade of the skins of rats which
are caught in the sewers, but this has
been denied. Certainly the material
would not bo strong enough to suc
cessfully counterfeit the kid unless it
were for the thumb part only, which
is generally of a thinner and different
kind of leather from the rest.—Wash
ington Star.
Tho First Striking Clock.
Tlie first striking clock
ported into Europe by the Pusj9pp|j
about the year A. I). So^9l
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