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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 pennant with a diamond .■ tors 'I. V. ' m white. BBB|SbB9P ••• s' -t i a jM > M ' <9 IB 9 9 9 ■ 9 . 9 9 9 V 9 ■A scenic view a!il 9 ,L\,: Is , . 9 a •! i 'I he i jB JS I ’ mil' ; 9 9 ■ a . - tho 31 9 open •’SB A 9 Vy2 *; 9 *4 9 the BKgIWgRBwgMI , , .A* '• U distinguishing 9 H The lowa RcBBHH met an-1 !i-lj<.urnelß.."r;V; 10-ik in its position on the quc^BH tion will look in the judge said, 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 | life :in<^9 > Jm -9 ■JI^^iBWK9999WWi SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS 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 a pros’-nt t^9 „A ■ ’ fUji - I f 9