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Banks County Gazette.
YOL. III.—NO. IT.
UNDER THE ROSE.
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lie moved with trembling fingers
From my throat the band of red.
And a band of burning kisses
His lips set there instead.
Then he tied again the ribbon.
“I will hide them, love,” said he,
“And the secret of thy necklace
None shall know, save thee and me.”
It was just a foolish fancy,
But from that day to this
I wore the crimson ribbon
To hide my lover's kiss.
He has gone, and love is over.
But this blade within my hand
Still shall hide our secret kisses
With another crimson band.
—Anna Reeve Aldrich.
Hound to Have Damaged Goods.
There had been advertised what is
commonly known as a “fire sale” in
Philadelphia, but as usual the rush
of customers soon purchased the en
tire quantity of drenched muslin ad
vertised. About one week after the
sale a good housewife from the coun
try entered the store and requested
my aunt to supply her with ten yards
of the damaged goods.
She was told that the muslin ad
vertised was sold nearly a week be
fore, but that they were then selling
as good muslin which had not been
damaged at the same price per yard.
The lady, however, refused to accept
the answer, and was so persistent in
her desire that my aunt was com
pelled to take ten yards of the eight
cent muslin to the cellar and rinse it
in a pail of water, for which, wet as
it was, sho received tho same price
as when dry. The customer mean
tune waited patiently and went away
happy with her “damaged muslin.”
-—Cor. New York Recorder.
The Kliyengrs* Firnt Woman.
The Khyengs of Burmah aro prob
ably the only race or trilie of people
that have any tradition of tho origin
of the liumqn race that do not have
a man or mule human being in some
way connected with that important
event. The Khyend Genesis opens
in this wise: “In the beginning of
the world, after the sun, moon and
stars had appeared, the earth, by its
own inherent power of productive
ness, brought forth a female creature,
which was called Hleeneu. She laid
100 eggs and 1 tatclied them in cotton
wool, and from them sprang 100 b.u
man beings, the progenitors of the
different races.” The least that can
he said of this curious belief is that
it us a line illustration of the multiple
theory as applied to the origin of the
human race. —St. Louis Republic.
Gold Coins In n Duck's Gizzard.
I noticed tho other day a Peking
duck that was moping about and
making strange motions with its
head. I decided from its actions that
it had some foreign substance in its
digestive organs and would conse
quently die. 1 therefore resolved to
make an examination and see what
it was. On opening the duck 1 found,
to my surprise, two pieces of gold
and a cartridge hull. The gold pieces
were too badly worn to tell of what
denomination they were, but I think
they must have been one dollar
pieces. The cartridge hull was all
worn away and gone except the
head.—Cor. Atlanta Constitution.
The New Womanhood.
How shall we conceive of this new
womanhood ? Neither as slave nor
plaything, but helper and equal mate:
coequal with man, in home, in school,
in shop, in church, in court, in all
human service, she has struggled into
nearly all lines of business; she has
become conscious of power, of ability
to win place and competence. Evi
dently she finds independence sweet;
for more and more are woman assert
ing themselves —as Lady Henry
Somerset says, pursuing a vocation
instead of a husband. They refuse
to content themselves with simple
ease, or luxury, or fashion. The needs
of the needy tug at their heart-strings;
they are awake to public abuses, their
mothering instinct goes ont on all the
lines. The new womanhood has
work to do in the church, which no
man will do in the church, work to
do in government, which men have
botched and bungled until the world
may well despair. Are not the dead
nations of the Orient the logical out
come of government by man alone ?
The new womanhood will not sub
mit to pauperization. The effete no
tion that woman must not earn her
own bread is ready for sepulture. The
old idea that a woman must depend
on some male relative, even if her
strength and mental ability far ex
ceed his, is exploded. The obligation
to place all her funds in the custody
of her uncle or cousin, or any man
who would accept them, is resting
very lightly on the conscience of the
sisterhood. In fact, womanhood, by
virtue of the very subtle principle of
progress—of upward and forward
progress—of evolution, if you like by
virtue of this principle, implanted in
her nature by God, finds herself irre
sistibly guided along paths undreamed
of a century ago. And one of these
is the path of self-respecting indepen
dence. She has found that the purse
means power, that, in order to attain
mental liberty, spiritual freedom, she
must be financially independent. The
man who doles out her pittances,
occasionally and reluctantly, feels
like a benefactor; he enjoys the sen
sation. But woman are growing more
and more unwilling to play the part
of perpetual infants; they demand
recognition as co-workers, knowing
that labor has money value, though it
be not offered in the market.—Mary
A. Ripley, in Woman’s Column.
A Lost Opportunity.
Deputy Marshal Chase, of the
Portland police, has a collection of
confederate bills, which he has had
since his company left the front at
the close of the war. In telling liow
ho lost an opportunity for a success
ful speculation, ho says: “They were
being handed out to us all in unlim
ited numbers. I took a few of them
just to send home as mementos.
When we got to Petersburg the
bankets there were offering £0 or 25
per cent, for these bills. They
thought that later on they would
realize a good profit from their in
vestment. I got rid of quite a num
ber of tho bills and mado about
thirty-two dollars out of the transac
tion. I might have mado considera
bly more if I only had taken more of
them. But I think that the bankers
did not get anything out of their
bargain.”—Bangor Commercial.
How Cheap Fans Aro Painted.
Tho cheaper fans are painted by
wholesale. Along strip of silk, or
other material, is tacked to a board,
many fans aro outlined upon it, and
then half a dozen painters paint tie
same subject on each fan, each
painter laying a particular color on
the whole set. Such fans cost only
a few francs each. They serve to
aid the flirtations of pretty French
shopgirls or to tickle the peasant
fancy in the provinces.
Flower fans of the more expensive
kind have found little or no sale
here, and are not imported much.
Many of tho cheaper fans, ranging
as low as five or six dollars each, are
ornamented with painted flowers,
the work of unknown artists. —New
York Sun.
Ingenious.
An ingenious individual has hit
upon a scheme whereby ho expects
to make a large fortune. He will
advertise largely:
“For half a crown I will divulge a
a plan whereby halfpenny postage
Stamps can be mado to do the work
>f jienny ones.”
A would be millionaire wrote him
on the subject. He got for an answer.
“Use two of them.”—London Letter.
Why lie Set a Time.
Little George (to account collector)
—Father isn’t in, but he told me to
ask you to call tomorrow.
Collector —He will ho at homo
then, will he?
George—No, sir. He’ll ho out.
Tb-that’s why he told me to tell you
to call then. —Exchange.
An Affable Greeting*.
An instance is related of an old
lady much given to forgetting
names, who was informed by her
daughter that the name of a gentle
man who was to call on her was Mr.
Cowclry. She was drilled in a
nemory lesson on the name, and
t. hen the person in question called
rose to receive him quite at her
ease:
“Your name is veiy familiar to
me,” she said affably. “Good even
ing, Mr. Drycow.”—London Tit-Bits.
The Cause of Crime.
The most prolific cause of crime,
using the word to include all sorts
of acts which violate either the laws
of God or man, is human misery and
despair. That man who, try as he
m y, gets further and further from
the possibility of making a comforta
ble living for his wife and children
broods over his troubles and is goaded
by anxieties for his loved ones until
his mind is in such a state as only to
need some specific, tangible tiling to
make him a raging madman. If he
commi's a terrible crime while thus
morrally irresponsible, the iron grip
of tiie law is fastened upon him, and
he must pay its penalty because our
HOMER. BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: AUGUST 30,1802.
poor finite law simply deals with the
overt act and cannot take into con
sideration the motives underlying it.
The half starved waif steels a loaf
of bread with which to satisfy his
body’s demands for sustenance. He
is driven to theft l>y hunger, but the
court simply considers the theft—
hunger is not a matter for learned
consideration.
A poor girl struggles bravely to
win her way in life and live in purity
and respectability. She bears up
against adversity and the ceaseless
stitching of her machine adds another
to the many noises of the busy city.
Poverty stares at her on every hand—
misery and despair are her constant
attendants. At last her weary spirit
ceases to struggle, and when the
river gives up its dead her lifeless
body may be seen at the morgue,
worse still another soul be bartered
for bread. In the one ease societty
hurriedly passes over the account of
her death and with a shudder turns
away from its contemplation. In the
other she is outlawed by the brand of
shame. In neither case are her sleep
less nights, tired fingers, aching eyes
and miserable surroundings taken
into account.
To remedy these evils the causes
must be removed, never so long as
effects flow from causes will the
evils be remedied till the causes are
removed.
Men aro not criminals and women
are not vagrants from choice, but
from misery, hunger and despair.
There is no anarchy in full stom
achs, no revolution among prosper
ous and happy people.
French revolutions are not the pro
duct of thriving and well clad nations,
but they are the direct result of turn
ing human beings into slaves and
beasts of burden.
Let those in power but do justice
and these things will vanish from tut"
face of the earth to he remembered
only as a frightful nightmare of a
dark and clouded past. —The Truth.
Is Money a Product of Nature?
The argument that government
can’t make (that is, create,) money,
since the veriest simpleton in the land
knows that the individual who at
tempts to do so will be railroaded to
the penitentiary for counterfeiting,
carries with it the implication that
money is a product of nature. Out
side of man, in his individual or col
lective capacity, the only generative
force capable of transmuting the
material things of earth into factors
necessary for tho continued advance
ment of civilization is nature. Then,
taking the position that money is not
created by law, compels the belief
that nature, instead of being always
the same staid, solemn, eternal, un
changeable force that men have
always believed her to be, is, in the
matter of money at least, one of the
most fickle and flighty creatures im-
aginable; for she not only' creates a
difierent kind of money for every
difierent government in the world,
but she creates many different kinds
of money of different denominations
for each government. Thus gold,
silver, copper, nickel, brass, paper,
etc., are eacli employed by her in
the manufacture of money. In this
country she gives us dollars, dimes
and cents; in England the denomina
tions are changed into pounds, shil
lings and pence; in Germany into
kruetzers, guilders, pfennings, etc.
Such assumptions as these are calcu
lated to make nature appear ridicu
lous. The truth is, nature has no
more to do with the creation of
money than she lias to do with the
creation of a cotton gin or grain-bind
er, or any one of the thousands of
things into which men have changed
the material provided by her, into
things for their own comfort and
advancement. She provides the mat
ter from which everything is made.
But the fact that governments haVe
for a long time assumed that the
proper material from which to make
money is gold or silver, no more con
stitutes those metals “natural money”
than does the fact that Cain slew
Abel with a club constitute the man-
ner of Abel’s death the “natural” way
to die. Upon the theory' that “age and
custom” justify the use of silver and
gold as money, can be justified the
existence of crime, human slavery,
corruption and skull duggery of every'
kind, because these things* are, all of
them, older even than the use of
money ot any kind. And yet, one of
the strongest arguments, or, at least,
one of the strongest points always
lingeringly and lovingly dwelt, upon
by our “wise men” in their advocacy
of these metals as the only proper
money material, is the fact that their
use has been sanctioned by' custom
and made venerable by age. To a
mind capable of consecutive, analyti
cal thinking, it would seem that the
very fact that the bare-legged barba
rians of thyusanGs of years ago used
those metals for money materials is of
itself sufficient to cast a deep, dense
shade of suspicion over their real
utility for that purpose. The incon
trovertible truth is that money, law
ful money, the tender of which can
not be refused without prejudice to
one's claim, is a creature of man in
his aggregate or governmental capac
ity, and the only milk in the finan
cial eocoanut is involved in tho ques
tion as to how the wealth-producers
of tho nation will profitably avail
themselves of this governmental func
tion.—National Economist.
A iNovv Wrinkle.
A rather impecunious party met a
friend who was sporting anew suit
of clothes.
“Hello 1" exclaimed the former,
“where did you get those now
clothes?”
“Hush! it’s a secret. I’ll tell it to
you if you’ll promise not to give it
away."
“I’ll promise."
“You know there is anew doctor
n town?”
> “Yes.”
“Well, I sit in his office every
>.• -rning to make the public believe
lie ’aas got a patient.”- Texqs
Siftings.
Why Ho Preferred to Die,
In the year 1500 a preacher by tho
name of William Bonington threw
himself from tho parapet of the
Church of St. Sepulcher, in London.
Ho left a note which gave as his
reason for committing tho act “that
he wanted to go to the theater that
night, but did not have tlio money
wherewith to purchase the ticket of
admissiou. ” —Exchange.
Tho subtleties of the Japanese
mind aro illustrated in nothing more
strikingly than in their rules for the
arrangement of flowers. Not only
does every flower which a bouquet
or a garland contains symbolize
something, hut its position with re
gard to the other flowers is signifi
cant.
Dotted about all over Britain there
are somewhere about 3,000 observers
who send p to London periodical
reports of weather experience on
hills and in valleys, on moors and
heaths, in towns and villages.
Report comes from London of tho
discovery of the thistle as an article
of food for man as well as beast.
When boiled it is not unlike delicate
turnip tops.
Have night garments that will in
sure the utmost degree of repose
provided of courso that bedding and
ventilation are also properly ar
ranged.
The costliest toy on record was a
broken nosed wooden horse which
belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and
was sold a year or two ago for 1,000
francs.
A Homelike Place.
Little Dick —Mamma, may I go
over to Johnnie Black's to play?
Mamma—Why do you spend all
your time at Johnnie Black’s ?
Little Dick—His mamma hasn’t
any new carpets.—Good News.
In a Prohibition Town.
A sign that was placed on a store
door about forty years ago now
adorns a Biddeford place of business
and is of course obsolete in its pur
port and should be discontinued at
once. It reads, “Wines, ales, etc.”—
Bangor (Me.) Commercial.
The people and the newspapers
that cry out against the lawlessness of
labor strikes and strikers, and yet
have no word of condemnation for
the Pinkerton's and their assassins, do
worse than “strain at a gnat and swal
low a camel.” They show beyond a
doubt that their sympathies are all
on the side of might against aiglit.
The wonder is that the American
people have suffered the Pinkertons
to carry on their unlawful business
as long as they have. A standing
army of more than 30,000 men main
tained by capital to do its bidding is
a menace to the very name of free
dom, and a disgrace to any people
The Pinkertons must go.,—Western
Herald, Girard, Kans.
A Fairy Talo from Arabia.
Anent the ease with which sen
tences aro twisted and their mean
ing colored by a stroke of the pencil,
I am reminded of an oriental legend,
related to me recently at a dinner
party by Mile. Azeez, the Syrian
lecturer. Mile. Azeez is an accom
plished linguist and of course reads
and speaks Arabic with nattye
fluency. “The Arabic language,”
said she, if I quote her correctly from
memory, “is peculiar. There are in
some instances as many as seventy
different words to express the same
meaning, and then, too, tho erasure
or addition of a dot will entirely re
verse tlio meaning of a whole para
graph. There is a legend in Syria to
the effect that ono of tho king’s min
isters once took a dislike to the
queen, and wrote a slanderous epi
thet concerning her on tho walls sui’-
rounding the palace.
“The authorship was fixed upon
him, and the king's soldiery took him
into custody. His lioad was in dan
ger. As lio was being conducted to
tho audience chamber the escort
passed tho place where ho had pub
lished tho slander on tho queen. He
hurried and covertly erased a single
dot. When arraigned he declared
that it had been his intention to flat
tor the queen, and begged his sover
eign to send learned men that they
might read the inscription aright.
This was done, and tho wiso men, in
stead of a calumny, found a poem
dedicated to tho beauty and amiabil
ity of her majesty.”—Now York
Letter.
Two Lovers of llaiTties.
Foreign art journals contain an ac
count of a bargain mado by a rich
Russian noble with an eminent
French artist. The rich man bought
a picture which tiro painter bad just
finished, and which was considered
his masterpiece, giving a higher price
than was asked for it on condition
that the artist should never make a
ci >py or retain a photograph or even
a study of it.
The Russian could not enjoy this
great work of art unless he knew
that no other human being could
share the pleasure except at lii3 will.
It hangs in a chamber of his palace.
Oddly enough, tho subject of the
picture which lias excited this feel
ing is the Madonna and Child.
A companion story to this is that
of a wealthy “self made” American,
whose chief pleasure was for years
to accumulate autographs. His col
lection embraced letters from almost
every English author, the original
manuscripts of an essay by Elia, ono
of Dickens’ novels and a lecture by
Thackeray. His delight in touching
and looking at these treasures was
keen. They were friends and com
panions to him.
Ono day lie gathered them all up
and sent them to a free college for
poor boys.
“Itseemed criminal in me,” hesaid,
“to keep this great pleasure to my
self when thousands might he made
glad by it.”—Youth’s Companion.
A Great Discovery That Slumbered.
In earlier times ono of the greatest
discoveries of the ago was made by a
man polishing amber, which was one
of tlio most highly prized of ancient
ornamental gems and found only
among the crown jewels of royalty
or in the caskets of princely rulers
and w'ealtky people dwelling in pal
aces. The man, it was said, felt a
mighty shock—a violent tremor
thrilled through his hand and arm
while he was rubbing the stone. He
may have exaggerated tlio account,
or the authors of the many versions
may have done so, but tho facts were
there.
That man had struck tho trail of
an electrical discovery. But for cen
turies this suggestive truth of slum
bering power slept. No experiments
were tried—science was in a state of
repose. Experiments suggestive of
electric discoveries were tried, with
out attempts to further investigation.
—New York Telegram.
Class-Legislation of Course.
The sub-treasury is class legislation
is it ? Well how about the prodig
ious loan to the cotton exposition at
New Orleons? How about the silver
coinage law ? How about the whis
ky legislation ? How about the pen
sion robbery ? How about the loan
to the centenial? llow about the
world’s fair loan ? Yet to loan the
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government’s money to the farmer
who pays all taxes from which the
government obtains revenue is uncon
stitutional class legislation. Ain’t we
consistent folkes?
Bear It In Mind.
Present events seem determined to
give the people an insight into the
political parties. Everybody knows
that the republican party lias furnish
ed Mr. Carnegie all the tariff protec
tion he wants, and the democratic
party furnishes him all the bayonets
he wants. One party furnishes the
tariff and the other the bayonets.
Heap that in mind. Progressive
Farmer.
A SMART BOY. -
A Clever Method of Catching Geeso In
hi) Arid Fort ion of tho Country.
The Southern Pacific overland
train was rumbling along between
Colton and Pomona. A party of half
a dozen commercial drummers in the
smoking car were telling yarns and
interesting tho other travolers. “I
want to tell you a little story about
my boy out party near unto tho
desert in San Bernardino county,"
said a sunburned rancher who sat
near and had been hearing the drum
mers tell some pretty tall stories.
Tho old man removed a pipe from
his mouth and began .-
' ‘My boy is purty smart in his way,
lommo tell you, and none of ’em gets
tho best of him. T’othor day he
rigged up a kite. It was the biggest
kite I’d ever sat eyes on. It was
about six feet wide an twice as long,
an on the top of it my ooy placed a
few green branches, which he’d cut
from an oakwood tree. ‘What’s
them fur?' I inquired. ‘Never you
mine, dad,’ says ho. ‘I know what
I’m about.’ And, by gosh, ho did.
Ho flew that kite up in the air an
stood watchin it fur a long time,
when I says to him, ‘You’d better
pull that thing down now an get to
yoiu- work.’ ‘Lemmo alone, d;td,’
he replied. ‘l’ll git tkar yet.’
“And, by gosh, he did. The next
time I took a look at him he was
u-linnlm i’i on the kite line, with a
snuio ou ills face as big .. ... fr. r.
When the kite came down near tho
ground I saw what he was a-smiliu
at, and it was enough to make a
body smile too. Any you fellers want
to guess what was on that kite?”
None of the drummers wanted to
guess and the old man went on with
his story:
“Well, sir, a-settiu on tlio top o’
that kite was eleven of the purtiest
wild geese ye over saw. Yes, sir,
eleven on ’em. You se.e, the geese was
flyin north purty thick, and my boy
got up this sekemo to catch ’em.
There ain’t many trees out our way,
an after a fat goose has been flyin
purty steady all day ho gits kind o’
'tirodlike an looks for a place to set
down an rest. That’s just vvliat my
boy was couui.in on when lie built
that kito.
“By ofTerin tho goose a place to
stop an rest, an by smearin tho top
o’ tlie kito with tar, so tlioir feet
would stick so fast they couldn’t get
away, ho did the business. But it
was fun pullin them geese in. Just
as fast as we could send the kite up
and pull her down again we got from
ton to a dozen geeso, an in four days
we captured six carloads, au I’m
taking them to Los Angeles to sell.
None o’ you smart story tellin fel
lers don’t happen to know what wild
geese is wuth now in the Los Angeles
market, do ye?”—Pomona Progress.
Score On© for tho Pedagogue.
“You have some fine ducks this
morning,” said the kindly old school
master to a poulterer,
“Yes, sir, all fresh today.”
“What is tho price!"
“You can take your choice, sir. I
have them at all prices.*
“Well, I want to give my hoys a
treat, but I do not want them to D(T
too tender. There aro a dozen hero
pick out four of the toughest.”
The poulterer obeyed. “Here, sir,
you have four of tlio toughest birds •
in my shop.”
“Thank you, sir,” said the school
master; “1 11 take the other eight.”
—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
A Taking Sign.
A tradesman of Flatbush avenue,
Brooklyn, has a big sign stretched
across the front of his store bearing
in large black letters the legend,
“Dealer in Green Goods.” He sells
vegetables and general garden track,
but if the sign doesn't bring him
many customers eager for unhal
lowed speculation there is no virtue
in appealing to their inclinations.—
New York Sun.
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