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Banks County Gazette.
YOL. III.—YO. 5.
GOETHE’S ENGLISH POEM.
Thou know’st how happily thy Friend
Walks upon florid ways;
Thou know’st bow heaven's bounteous
hand
Leads him to golden days.
But hah! a cruel enemy
Destroies all that Bless:
In Moments of Melancholy
Flics all my Happiness.
Then fogs of doubt do fill my mind
With deep obsurity;
I search mycclf, and cannot find
A spark of Worth in me.
When tender friends, to tender kiss.
Run up with open arms,
I think I merit not that bliss.
That like a kiss me warmeth.
Hah! when my child, I love thee, said
And gave the kiss I sought.
Then I—forgive me, tender maid—
She is a false one thought.
She cannot love a peevish boy.
She with her godlike face.
O could I, Friend, that thought destroy.
It leads the golden days.
And other thought is misfortune,
v Is doath and night to me;
I ham no supportable tone,
I can no poet be.
When to the Altar of the Mine
A triste incense I bring,
I beg let Poetry be mine;
O Sisters, let me sing.
But when they then my pray-or not hear
I break my whisp’ring lyre:
Then from my eyes runs down a tear.
Extinguishing th’ iaceused Are.
•
Then curse I, Friend, the fated sky.
And from th’ Altar I tty;
And to iny Friends aloud I cry.
Be happier than II
—Goethe.
• Clam Digging: In Maine.
Hundreds of men and liovs on the
Maine coast make their living by dig
ging clams. They use a heavy rake
with teeth ten inches long, and when
the ebbing tide exposes the little
holes which indicate the presence of
clams they lie gin to dig. In winter
great quantities of clams are dug for
bait, the diggers sometimes working
during the night tides and in the
coldest weather. The catch is taken
to a little shanty on the shore and
“shucked” with astonishing rapidity
bom of long paactice, and is then
ready for market.
Four barrels of clams in the shell
will make one barrel in bulk or in
meat, and that ii worth from five to
six dollars. The digger, however,
has to pay sixty cents for his barrel
and forty or fifty cents for a bushel
of salt, so that he realizes only from
fv-vir to five dollars for Ins labor. In
the fall great quantities of clams are
packed at the canneries along the
coast, and then the clam digger who
is smart and can find a good bed
makes fair wages.—Cor. New York
Sun.
Santo Domingo Mahogany.
It is truo that Sapto Domingo rna
hogany,,jvhich was the earliest used,
dnd is perhaps the richest in color
and figure, is comparatively scarce
in this market, and comes only in
small logs seldom over twelve fee f
long and fifteen inches in diameter.
The Santo Domingo forests have l>een
yielding mahogany ever since Sir
Walter Raleigh’s ship carpenters ad
# jnired the wood 300 years ago, hut
the drain has been considerable for
less than* 200 years. Even yet, how*
ever, there is plenty of large mahog
any in the interior of Santo Domingo,
and in time it will lie brought to mar
ket. Capitalists of New York have
several times been interested in
schemes to build railways into the
interior of the island in order that
the untouched forests of mahogany
may be reached.—Exchange.
Vrcna Happenings.
Everything quiet around town.
No sickness, no deaths, no marriages
and no owe wanting to marry except
J. W. and J. B. They want to marry
awful had, but they have so many
sweethearts they don’t know which
ona to take. They are not certain
that they could get any of them now,
since they went wet. The man who
goes wet here now is very nearly out
of the race.
Some frost was seen in this commu
nity one morning last week, and cotton
has been looking bad from the effects
thereof.
The “corn”-d actor says that he will
bury the third party men in Washing
ton Now, I am opposed to
this jug business, but I wouldn’t be a
third partyite, bait or no bait. Would
like to here from all the correspond
ents on the subject, and especially
Cost. Hie third harty hae a majority
in Washington district.
Brother Johu and myaelf are all
tangled up. Don’t know one fro®
’tother. C-other John h
been a wet qggff. We used to run a;
considerable bps’: tlte
farm, and Brother John was jty and
I was wet; be was a hard %cll and T
was a missionary; he was a
and I was an aiitancetnan; he %
hypocrite while 1 would earnestly gpti
tend for the faith; and by this pro
cess you see we had a considerable
patronage. But all this is in the
past and Brother has gone wet. The
other day while he was scenting
around like a coon-dog he ran upon
a party of dry fellows, and they
found a ring and the middle man
was a jug. All look a shoot for
the go, and Brother got the jug, and
all the crowd went wet except the
jug; it went dry. Well, Brother
John didn't lose his religion, being a
hard shell, but lie lost his sense of
smell and couldn’t trail well. The
moon was shining brightly and he
mistook the shadow of a tree for the
foot-log and went wet again. He
being a man who always looks up,
he wended his way up the creek and
went wet all night,. Now I’m oppos
ed to this jug business, but I wouldn’t
he a third partyite, bait or no bait.
Some people say times are hard. I
don’t know; I have lost m v spectacles
and can’t see the times, but I can
read The Gazette and Southern Al
liance Farmer, which are always filled
witli interesting matter.
Gold io Brrt7.il.
Brazil, which only a century ago
was the richest of gold producing
countries, has now ceased to be large
ly productive. The total output of
the metal from that part of the world
from the end of the Sixteenth cen
tury until now is estimated at $700,-
000,000.— Washington Star.
Think on these Things.
Naiis Creek, Ga., May 27, '92.
I once read an anecdote related by
Bourienue, private secretary of Napo
leon I. Napoleon entered the room
where Bourienne was at work and
said: “Do you knew that, some day
you will be famous?” “No, why?”
said lionrienne. “Why,” said Napo
leon, “you are my private secretary ”
That circumstance was related to
show the egdtism of Napoleon, anil
after reading the writings of some
men of to-day one is reminded of the
story. They seem to think it a great
thing to he able to belong to the plug
hat crowd. They think they have a
perfect right to abuse their neighbors,
and smoke their fine cigars and drink
their fine liquors, while the pool far
mer works from sun to sun and eats
his com bread for breakfast, in fact,
three times a day.
The time has come for every labor
ing man to choose on which side he
will take his stand, for the people or
the plutocrats. One is seeking to
bind the cords of oppression mere
tightly around your necks; the other
is seeking equal rights for you.
Think of your posterity ‘being
worse than slaves, and after looking
matters square in the face can you
decide against yourselves and all
people who are in your condition ?
Look on the one side and see who
are arrayed against the people’s
movement and you will see nearly
every one who are dependent on the
farmers for their living. Let’s see
what some, of she upper-ten think of
the laboring classes.
Jay Gould said when asked what
he thought of the farmer movement:
&F h - v ’ I can hire ono-half of the far
mers to shoot the other half to death,”
and Mrs. Frank Leslie in speaking of
some hdxrers who werb out on a
strike, said that they ought to be
shot down like dogs. What do you
think of that?
■Every laboring* man ought to re
solve never to vote for any one who
offers for office that has, not the cour
age of his convictions and ready to
speak them at all times.
There are in tips county
to -
big*tde. Oar
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HOMER, RANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: JUNE 7, IBSI2.
We would like to know what would
prompt any one to distort facts, cal!
his neighbors his enemies and declare
that they are not competent to think
and act for themselves.
We will leave that for you to
answer. But consider this matter
and then vote as you think best.
Economical Foreigners.
“The tiring with which I return
home the most impressed,” says an
exceptionally intelligent woman who
has lived abroad for some time, “is
that of the real economy which ex
ists among Europeans. At first we
lavish Americans term it parsimouy,
and sniff at tire accounting for candle
ends in the household of a British
peer or the careful thrift of the Ger
man housewife who binds her bed
blankets witli a deep, loosely caught
binding of cheesecloth to preserve
the nap that comes off infinitesimally
from handling in daily bedmaking,
but after awhile wo discover that
side by side with this rigid avoidance
of waste and needless expenditure
there are impressive results and gen
erous, handsome outlays.
“They are all skillful, too, in mak
ing the most of everything, much
more so than we with the Yankee in-,
genuity of which wo boast—it 6ecms
inherent, not acquired. At this mo
ment 1 think the French peasant
woman can serve for five sous a 1 let
ter, a more nourishing and appetiz
ing meal than our scientific kitchens
can put forth for three times that
sum. and this with no disparagement
to the latter. Asa people we seem
to lack the faculty of getting the
most out of the least; that is, the
maximum of comfort out of the min
imum of expenditure, in striking con
trast to our transatlantic friends.”—
Her Point of View in New York
Times.
How He Succeeded in I.ifo.
The man with the self satisfied air
had stoppied to speak to a couple of
men on the street, and when he had
passed one of the men remarked;
“There’s a man who has come up
in the world rapidly.”
“Is he a brilliant man?” asked the
other.
“Well, no; at least no one over
thought so. ”
“He iftust he a hard worker then.”
“No; he doesn’t work any harder
than he has to.”
“Well, I suppose he has a lot of
good hard sense, and that makes him
valuable. ”
“He has never shown any evi
dences of it.”
The second man thought the mat
ter over for a moment and then said:
“Oh. well, some people have a
faculty of making others think they
are smart men even when they ore
not."
“He hasn’t that to any marked ex
tent. No one considers him a par
ticularly able man.”
“What is the secret of his success
then?”
“His ability and readiness to say
things reflecting on the work of
others. His only hope is to convince
people that others do poor work.”—
Chicago Tribuna
Antiquity of Nickname*.
The origin of the word as well as
the exact date of appearance of tho
custom of “nicknaming” is unknown.
Such names are as old at least as
the most venerable chronicles, for,
upon diving into ancient history, wo
have no trouble at all in proving that
Plato was called the “Attic Bee” and
Socrates “Old Flat Nosa” There
isn’t the least doubt but that many
of our surnames come from nick
names applied to our ancestors, such,
for instance, as “Dollarhide,” “Ox
enrider,” “Bright,” “Lightfoot,”
“Walkingshaw,” “Redhead,” “Long
man,” “Longfellow,” etc.
Julius Caesar was popularly styled
J‘BaldheaL” and even the third Ra
meses is said to have been known by
an Egyptian word which signifies
“Limpy.” No one has been able to es
cape the blighting or benign influence
Of the nickname. Kings, queens, phi
losophers, divines, statesmen, as well
as eminent persons, have
been'liWjSe to prosper or suffer by
appropriate or ridicu
lous sobriquet added after the lawful
wal of the “Christian" name.—
F*- Vour Own.
.TwaMg|Uifyjvot rs. think a-little.
Iner * who sneer at
LYfl?--inspired move
••imjht .i wfefehlyou are the needed
ph i>eegfrSpPPhc forerunner* of ve to
j -if. Qattfif drop* all newspajters and
| jxib!to*lns Jhat do not seethe way
Ljo hfclfrirtWd party movement, and
'whose edifsPrai'd owners Mall they
Lean to bclittft you and those who are
.ill grinding their lives
out for the good of all. Seek out the
stores, the shops, the mills, the
churches, the various useful msn,
women and enterprises forming the
third party, and give your business,
be it little or small, only to those who
are friendly to the great cause of the
people in the contest now on between
them and the great plunderers. Men
ask us who will he the leaders of the
oid seed-wart parties ? We know not
and caro not. Our thoughts run in
the new, and where our thoughts go
there go our efforts. Quit thinking
of the old parties, in all except their
defeat. Think of the new that is
coming, and then help it to come
quicker 1 Help those who are help
ing it. Multiply the great thought
wave now gathering force in the
country, and help it on. Let the
dead bury the dead, and let the
damned fight it out with each other.
The new rises on its sure coming
might, and will bury the old in the
grave it dug for others.—Advance
Thought.
The yeomanry has always come to
tire rescue in time of need. Magna
Chnrta was forced from royalty by
the yeomanry in the reign of King
John, monarch of England. The
oppression of the people, at that time,
was almost serfdom. The pconianry
aroused the enslaved toilers of Eng
land, demanded and obtained of the
monarch redress for the evils existing
at that time, thereby placing the
first reform measure on record and
opened the' way for future freedom,
lit was yeomanry who deposed
•Charles 1. and gave the’people of
England more freedom. It was the
yeomanry ol France that came to the
relief of the "oppressed masses in the
cities in the great revolution of
France, which dethroned monarchs
and established tribunes which were
destroyed by their own fury, brought
Ain ml by ambitious and brutal men,
feasting the passion of revenge until
th% people became horror stricken
at their own bloody work and depos
ed the tyrants of the tribunes. In
the of the colonies against
tyranny of England the yeomanry
was in the foremost ranks and fought
side by side with the sons of toil until
the enemy was routed and victory
perched on their banner and the free
dom of their country was secured.
In the late unfortunate struggle be
tween the north and south, the yeo
manry on each side had their full
quota in the fiercest battles. In the
present struggle against despots and
robbers, they are in the front ranks
with the toiling masses, ready to
storm the fortross of the enemy.
Their forces are disciplined and well
organized, ready to march with firm
step and unwavering courago to do
battle with the enemy. The toiling
masses of the cities are daily* swelling
their ranks with equal determination
to fight for freedom, home and
country. By way of intimidation, it
has been intimated that the pluto
crats, and their hirelings, will resist
the people taking possession of the
government after they haye won it
by the ballot. It is intended to scare
the weak minded cowards who are
afraid of their own shadows. If the
plutocratic anarchists attempt to
enforce such a regime of terror and
despotism, the people would rise up
in thoir might and history would
repeat itself. With a volcano under
the monarchies of Europe, with no
[dace of safety or shelter for them
under tyrant wings, the plutocrats,
avaricious, and as they are,
are not apt to commit suicide that
way. They may gat up a few com-
of osmables or excusahles to
make a show of opposition to the will
of the Let the boys drill; it is
good for their health; after being in
store all day, they need- exercise. If
a nice lot of young fellows wish to
play soldier, and Governoi Eagle
says go ahead, all right; it was good
for these fellows. They were not
People’s Party men applying‘for
representation on the election board,
or they would never have received a
commission or been allowed tOorgan
ize. Pay no attent ion to this soldiej
bugaboo. Go to the polls and vote
for the men on the People’s Party
ticket. Elect them. They will take
tlieir seats in the legislative assem
blies to which they are elected, with
out any opposition. The plutocrats
will take their medicine like good
children and all will be serene.—The
People, Fort Smith, Kan.
TRYING A MOTHER'S LOVE.
Mr*. Flannery Was Sure That "The Two
D’ye* 1* Aquil” in Her Heart.
Mrs. Flannery is a very estimable
and industrious washerwoman, a
widow, who keeps house for her two
grown sons in two neat rooms in a
basement. One son, Peter, is a hal’d
working young mason; the other,
Joey, is a Jack-of-all-trades and a
ne’er-do-weel, but is popularly sup
posed to be his mother’s favorite.
This supposition Mrs Flannery indig
nantly resents. “I wouldn’t be that
mean,” she says. “The two b’yesis
ayquil in me heart, an iver will be.”
Nevertheless, when tho probability
of war with Chili was being discussed
in a family where she was attending
to the Monday’s wash, Mrs. Flan
nery wsis observed to be listening with
a degree of attention which implied
some personal interest in the out
come; and this is her own explana
tion, in response to a question from
tho lady of the house.
“Ye see, ma’am, if there’s war, my
Joey, he says he’ll go. He come to
breakfast the ither morning, an ho
tuk up the paper—bad luck to it—an
says he, ‘Wliat’s this?’ says he. ‘Ar
rah, but I’m tliinkin it’s a bit of a
war there’s goin to be 1’
“ ‘Jo-hy I’ says I, settin down the
taypot an lookin at him. ‘Jo-ay!’
says l, ‘ye wouldn't le afther laveing
your poor old mother to go to no
war. Now would you?’ says 1.
“ ‘An that’s what 1 would,’ says
he. 'An it’s foine I’d look in a uni
form, as ye know.’ An faith, an he
would that. But I couldn’t bear to
think of him goin to fight haythens
an savages, an so I told him, with me
apron to mo eyo an a bit of a tinder
sniffle like, for the b’ye has a-soft
heart, an 1 thought best to begin
with him aisy.
“‘Jo-ay I'says I, ‘don’t ye go an
lave me uloue with me gray hairs an
mo sorrer now —don’t ye!’
“ ‘Sure ye wouldn’t ho alone, moth
or,’ sthruck in Peter; an ‘Peter,’says
I, ‘hould yer whisht; who’s a-talkin
to you? Jo-ay I’ says I.
“ ‘l’ll take caro of you, mothor,’
says Peter; ‘don’t you fret. An its
a foine sodger Joey’ll make. An
maybe he’ll come back an officer.
Sure, I wish it was me was goin!’
“ ‘Go along wid ye, thin,’ says I.
'lt’s beautiful ye’d be lookin in
sthriped trousies an a sodger cap,
ain’t it now? Jo-ay I’ says I, ‘will yo
stay at home far your old mother, or
will ye break her heart entirely?’
“But Joey he laughs an he laughs,
an he says he’ll go ; an that’s just the
bad luck o’ the Flannerys. There’s
Peter as steady as the Rock of Cashel,
an safe to be trusted with a gun if
iver a b’ye was, an it’s him will stay
at home when he might go for a
word if he wanted. An there’s Joey
has a black eye every month and al
ways in trouble, an it’s him must run'
loose among powder an bullets an
be kilt as a matther av course. Ar
rah, well. I’ve done my part; I’ve
told ’em what I think.
“ ‘Peter,’says I, ‘ye’re a b’ye of
judgment, an if ye want to go an be
shot ye may go, and it’s not your
mother’ will object, for you’ve always
deserved well of her. Birt Joey,’
says I, ‘ye will stay with me, so ye
will, me darlin, for I’d die widout
ye.’
“An Peter an Joey they look at
each otheiz*n they laugh an they
laugh. Awl says, ‘Aint ye ashamed,
ye heartless b’yes, to mock me in me
throuble?
“An Joey, he says, ‘Don’t ye cry,
mother, don’t yo! I’ll stay —if there
aint any war I’
"An I shook me fist at the laughin
rascal, an says I, ‘Jo-ay!’ ’’—Youth’s
Companion.
The Mean Height of Land.
Tire mean height of land abovo sea
level, according to the most scientific
geographers, is 2,250 feet. The mean
depth of the, ocean is 12,480 feet.
Only 2.per cent* of tho sea (oceans in
general) is included inside a depth of
500 fathoms, while 77 per cent, lies
tholand into the hollows
of the seas, wafer would roll over
the earth’s crust- to a uniform depth
of two miles.—Philadelphia Press.
. **&*'&:■ r- ——
' Tire Farmer’s Power.
All over the world the farmer is
slowly learning that really all power
lies in his hands. He stands at the
fountain and can work his will with
the stream that flows past his feet
and of which all the people of the
earth must drink. Nothing serious
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS.
would happen to the general run pf
folks if the law courts were to take a
year’s vacation, hut the centers of
commerce tremble w-hen the farmer’s
of Russia have a poor crop.
The gap is filled by the farmers of
Canada, the United States and other
wheat growing countries, but what
would happen if the failure of the
crop in Russia were artificial—by the
closing of a cotton mill by a, “com
bine”—and all other farmers banded
together to take advantage of the
scarcity? A combine of farmers,
were such a thing possible, would
hold the world in its grip as the bra
zen palmed Moloch held its victims.
It is in the interest of liberty that no
such “combine” is possible, but the
very conception of it will show the
farmers what they could do if they
got nearer togethor and studied then
own interests.—Montreal Star.
We suggest to the friends of re
form in Georgia that they do not
allow themselves to be drawn into
meetings advertised by the demo
crats. The reason for the suggestion
is, that without exception when they
have a meeting, all the democratic
papers make false reports of meet
ings. Now it is not that such reports
cause any trouble with our people,
but the speakers that are sent out by
the democratic clubs are paid accord
ing to tho reports made by said pa
pors. If you do not believe this just
watch the men who do the work.—
Alliance Fanner.
Governor Ireland denies that there
is any man in the country who wants
work who cannot get it. The New
York Sun says there are over a mil
lion of men in this country who want
work but cannot get it. Which is
most likely' to bo right? I leader,
which do you yourself know to be
most right anyway?—The Truth.
Chinese Importations.
The report of the maritime cus
toms of the Chinese empire for 1890
shows that the importations amount
ed to 127,093,481 taels, an increase of
14 per cent, over the preceding year.
The exportations, on the contrary,
havo fallen from 96,947,832 taels in
1889 to 87,144,480 in 1890. This dimi
nution is due to the active competi
tion of Ceylon and India in the tea
trade. The importation of rice was
considerable; that of opium was in
creased 1 per cent., and of cotton 25
per cent.
The exportation of tea amounted
to 1,065,396 piculs, as opposed to
1,877,331 in 1889, and the value of
tho silk was 30,255,905 taels, against
36,401,967 taels in 1889. .Theentire
customs receipts for 1890 were 21,-
996,226 taels. A tael is equivalent
to seventy-five cents.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Skill In Sawing Mahogany.
It has bedn found that mahogany
should not be sawed thinner than
twenty-six to the inch, though occa
sionally it is sawed thirty to the inch.
The process of sawing twenty-six to
the inch is as. nice a one as can well
be imagined. It is a species of sur
gery that requires a keen instru
ment, an experienced hand and an
Intelligent mind. A log worth $125
in bulk may be sawed so that it shall
sell for five times that sum, or so
that it shall bo worth not more than
fifty dollars. —New York Sun.
Burglar Proof.
An old maid is so much afraid of
robbers that she strews pepper under
the bed every time she retires for tho
night. When questioned on the sub
ject, Bhe said:
Any scamp attempting to hidft
there will betray himself through
having to sneeze.—Avondpost.
In 1880 Maine produced 350,000
bushels of clams, valued at over
SIOO,OOO, and in 1890 the production
was considerably more tlxan 500,000
bushels.
Henry VIH put a stop to the rais
ing of inferior horses in England by
having all slaughtered that were un
der thirteen hands high at the age of
5 years.
It was a fatal mistake in the demo-<
cratic party when it admitted that the
laborers of this country had any ju/
cause for complaint. If they b
stuck to their old policy of “w
more and eat and wear less” tj
might have been some hope of /
vincing a hungry people of the
of their position, but now the
none.—Southern Alliance Farnij