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Banks County Gazette. VOL. III.—NO. 18. THE COMING CLIMAX. WHAT WILL BE THE RE SULT? Reform tlie Watchword of the Toiling' Millions of Wealth Producers. There is one of the greatest revo lutions impending that the world lias ever witnessed. It will affect the interest and de cide the destinies of millions. For a long time the cloud has been gathering and now the gusts of wind are beginning to sweep by, fortelling of a mighty storm. This storm is already hovering over many parts of the country. After it has passed, may we have a beautiful calm ? There is one of the greatest reform ations going on in this country that the world has ever witnessed. A re formation that proposes justice and equity. It has been going on for several years, gathering men-under the folds of its banner. Revolutions and reformations go band in hand. The' revolution of 1775, which resulted in the separa tion of the colonies from the crown of Britain ended in a reformation, ■which promised free government. Our independence was gained after years of toil, hardships, and struggles for liberty. Thousands of valiant soldiers laid down their lives on scores of bloody battle-fields in de fense of home and country. Ghastly did the battle-fields a; pear robed in hurror, when the goddess of liberty first smiled upon the homo of the brave and the land of the free; hut independence was won at a fearful cost. After American liberty was gained the people were joyous and happy that they had thrown off the yoke of tyranny and oppression. They had proved their prowess by an un flinching regard for principle and an unceasing demand for their rights. They came out victors, crowned with honor and respect, as brave and as ready for the fray, as when the tocsin of alarm was first sounded. For many years after the declara tion of independence we had a com paratively pure government. The people would have l>een happy and contented had it not have been for the excessive taxation to which they were subjected to liquidate the debt which had been contracted with Eng land during the war. Our law makers in congress, instead of giving the people money, must bor row credit of foreign nations at a heavy rate of interest, which only taxes tlie people more without remov ing the evil. But the Americans are a people of indomitable energy, \vith push and grit; they flourish and pros per to some extent even under the most adverse circumstances. Towns sprung up as if by tnagic, railroads were built and civilization began his westward march; the wilderness was changed to fertile fields, and deserts were changed to oases. We were beginning to prosper; money was plentiful, labor was receiving just re wards. Capital gets uneasy and goes into a conspiracy. Change is the law of nature and we were the partic ipants of the results in the change as made by hankers, demonitizers, gold hugs, and such others as were charm ed by Ernest Seyd’s British gold. Silver was demonetized, the currency was contracted, greenbacks were burned, debts were expanded and wages decreased until the present state of affairs w as brought about. What is the result of such a policy ? The people are demanding their rights. The nation is lioing shook from center to circumference by a revolution. The climax is just ahead. The laboring masses have determined to throw off the yoke of tyranny and oppression. They are decendents of the men who fought the war for inde pendence; they have inherited the valor of their patriotic fathers; , they are men of boue and sinew, of cour age and devotion; men who dare do right and leave the issue with God. They are in a jutt cause; their cause is one that affects immortal souls and imperishable manhood and womanhood. Will they triumph is the great question of the day. Truth will prevail, and justice and right shall not be defeated always. Our forefathers fought for our liber ty, and shall we let the gift lie snatch ed away from us ? Shall we suffer the galling chains of slavery to bind us? Shall we bow in shame to king mammon ? No, never! The climax is just ahead when we shall reclaim our freedom. W. I*. Neal. Modem Oratory. “Oratory is by no means a lost art. but the power to address vast audi enoes properly is exceedingly rare,” said Tyler A. Cowton. ‘ ‘Now, nil ora tion that cannot be heard by an en tire audience is worse than labor wasted. In the golden ago of Ore cum oratory speakers addressed -en tire armies, and, if we are to believe the historians, did so successfully. They trained their voices for just such occasions, and the result was that they possessed the lungs of a Stentor and tlieir thoughts were writ ten in thunder. One Greek orator, we are told, used to exercise his voice on the seacoast during storms and could make himself understood at a considerable distance despite the roar of the wind and the pounding of the breakers. “It is a pity that modern orators do not take like pains to fit themselves for their labors instead of popping up with penny iVtii.dle voices and performing occult paritomin.es to the disgust of re vend thousand people. The gestures and grimaces of nine tenths rtf our modern orators are so clumsy and ill timed that no man of woman born ran divine their thoughts from their dumb show.”— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. About lluji'ln. The head of the true Rhinelander is wide at the temples; if the Wit is j the exact length, ;u eases out of j ten it has to be stretched sideways | in order to make it fit. English heads are wide, hut not so pronounced as those of Ge: man:;. There is more of a “sliding reale” with them as to the relative length and breadth. The Cel tic head is almost invariably round or oval and without pronounced phrenological ‘ ‘bumps. ” For general smoothness of the cranial pretube ranee the Italian comes next to the Celts, either of the two b .ding the classic Greeks in that respect. Odd as it may seem, an at j ourists declare that' the Turkish skull I is almost identical in shape, size, etc., with that of the enlightened Nine teenth century inhabitant of the United States.—Chicago Tribune. Tengile C.**t iron. Experiments with malleable cast iron by the admiralty of Sebastopol, Russia, have been successful. A trial bar, boated to red heat, was folded anil refolded several times in j succession, and at the end only one I scarcely perceptible crack showed. • Another bar that was folded cold under hydraulic pressure broke after taking a persistent curve. A third bar, heated to cherry red, could be forged and lengthened into strips. Its tensile strength was almost equal to that of ordinary Siemens Martin, steel. —New York Sun. Two Offerings, I was somewhat disconcerted one Sunday, when the vicar’s Easter of ferings were being collected, by a mad woman who brought a basket of fish which she insisted on person ally offering at the altar. She was not such a pleasant person to deal with as a colonial farmer I was once told of by a friend wh ) looked very much distressed at passing tbQ plate on a similar occasion, hut explained his apparent shortcoming by re marking in a loud aside, “You'll find a pie on the vestry table.” —Comliill Magazine. The Prayer Test. The story of a little girl who want ed a goat and prayed for it in the following manner voices a common sentiment nowadays in regard to prayer: “Oh, Lord, I want a goat and have told you so a great many times. Now, 1 am going to say it just once more, and if in the morn ing i don’t see the goat—well, I shan't be mad at you exactly, but I certainly shan't be pleased!” —Mil- waukee News. The manner in which the reform press criticises the news-gatheing and reports of the associated pres is sometimes deemed too severe. But it is a fact known to others as well as to reform press editors that the daily press reports are sent out by associa tions owned and controlled by rnotiop- HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: SEPTEMBER (>, 181)2. olist, over wires owned and controlled by the arch-monopolist of the country, and that news from these sources is manufactured, colored, suppressed, or otherwise manipulated. An evidence in point is the almost total silence of the plutocratic press concerning the great and enthusiastic meetings of the people’s party in the west and south. The ignorance and misinformation of many a man who does not desire to be unjust is traceable directly to this source. “The conspiracy of silence” has worked well for a long time. Many people begin to see a rid under stand it. It is a knowledge that- will lead to wisdom at last. No republic can afford to let one class of citizens monopolize its telegraph facilities. Nationalize the railroads and tele graphs.—The Vanguard, Chicago. DANGEI-m OF LONG WALKS. Too Much rpijpstrlan Kiteroise Makes People Dali, Crons and Thin. Few persons are aware that violent pedestrian exercise, by generating more carbonic aejd than the lungs can conveniently let off, tills the sys tem with poison and stiffens the muscles. It is for this reason very dangerous if the heart is weak. The professional pedestrian is hardly ever lithe, whereas the equestrian is grace ful because he takes exercise without filling his blood with the poison 1 have just named, the immediate ef fect of which is shortness of breath, sometimes with a stitch in the loft Side, Cyclists make journeys of hun dreds of miles without getting used up. This is because the lung's ate not overstrained as in, say, a long, quick walk or pedestrian race. Al pine climbling is worse than run ning. It lu.-s been noticed that Al pine climber ', whose forbears were not time out of mind Switzers, begin to break down after eight or nine seasons of mountaineering aud age prematurely. 1 am glad to know this, because I care little for mountain scenery and feel as if in jail when Alp rises above Alp around me. The strong sunlight from dawn io dusk and the simple and reposeful horizon of the plain lire.far more congenial to me than the patchy lights and chillingly deep shadows of mountains. Ladies.it also occurs.'te me, may be interested to know that a muddy complexion is often a consequence of violent clambering of hills, the blood losing, when overcharged with car bonic acid, its ruddy glow and the skin delicacy in trying to aid in working till' the poison. Soft, clear complexions are much more common in “rolling” countries than in high lands. The Swedish women have in this respect a great advantage over the Norwegian, and so far as I can judge from personal observation the Ayrshire girls have more to be proud of tlum the highland lasses. Those who go in for pedesstrianisin and lawn tennis should carefully drill tlieir breathing organs to keep their good looks (when blessed with them), or to improve their appear ance when they are not good look ing. Spirits suffer just as much as appearance from the self poisoning process of which I have been speak ing. Have you ever noticed what fearfully dull and cross beings gen tlemen become after a hard day’s deerstalking?- London Truth. Ainu Women. Wlierr Ainu, especially Ainu wom- I en, meet after a separation that has i lasted some time, they have a pretty | way of telling each other their, ex ! peri cnees in a sort of chant, and in ! the pleasant sound of tlieir singular- I ly sweet voices one forgets their | wild and unkempt looks. The Jap | asnese women are equally remark i able for the sweetness of their j voices, but have the advantage over I their Ainu sisters of delicate and dainty ways, the charm of which the most stolid globe trotter is con strained to own. If the women of Ainu-moshiri, as the Ainu call their land, are the drudges of the men in their youth and middle age, their op portunity for revenge comes with ! the lapse of years. The corses of an angry old woman excite the utmost terror in the bravest bear hunter. He flies panic struck from such names as ehunuma ash (mangy deer), tontoneppo (bald pitted boar) or. worst of all, rai-guru (corpse) or inao-sak-guru (godless fellow). After death her ghost is regarded with even deeper dread.— London Saturday Review. After tlie Election. Congress dared not recognize silver, dared not tackle the tariff, dared not adopt any measure of relief for the people until fter the election.” Whan these men come around asking you tof.votc for them again, tell them it is a little uncertain what effect such a’vote might have, and you do not desire to act hastily, you will think about it—after the election.— Progressive Farmer, Mt. Vernon, 111. The republican party poises ns the prohibition party of the state and have iiowled because the people’s party did not make prohibition an issue. Saturday at the republican county convention a resolution was offered favoring the enforcement the prohil itory law but it was rejected. Why is this? has prohibition become too much of a load? —Uninn, Salina, Kansas. A dav of disaster for any nation will surely dawn whenever rts society is divided into two classes—tho unem ployed rich and the unemployed poor—the former a handful, tho hitter a host. —Daniel Webster. An Important Omission. The mother’s 'suspicions wore arons- and, and that night when the youu man left the house, and tlie (laugh r came up stairs, she inter view* (1 her. “E i/aheth,” she . said sternly, “didn't 1 hear Mr. Srnipley kissing yon is the parlor as I canto along tho hnlir ‘‘N >, mamma,, you didn't, ” respond ed th • daughter emphatically. “W"ll, didn’t he try to kiss you?" persisted tho mother. “Yes, mamma,” demurely. Tie- mother spoke triumphantly. “I knew it.” she said. “Did you permit him?” “No, ma’am, I did not. I told him you Vail always taught me that I should not permit any yotuig man to kiss me,” “That was right, that was right, my dear,” said tlie mother encour agingly. “And what did ho ray to that,” The girl blushed, but was un daunted. “Le asked mo if you had ever told me 1 was not to kiss a young man.” >■ mother began to feel that pos j sibly she had omitted a vital link in her instructions. “What did you tell him?” she asked. “I said I didn’t remember it, if you had.” The girl stopped and the mother broke out: “Well, go on, go on.” “I guess that’s what you heard, mother, ” and tho daughter waited for tho storm to burst.—Detroit Free Press. Tho Age of tin? Oak. The extreme limit of the ago of the j oak is not exactly known, but round ami living specimens are at least 1,000 years old. Tho tree thrives best in a deep, tenacious loam with rocks in it. Stagnant water is one of its aver, ions. It grows bctt> -r on a comparatively poor, sandy soil than on rich ground imperfectly drained. The trunk, at first inclined to-be ir regular in shape, straightens at ma turity into a grand, cylindrical shaft. The oak does not produce good seed until it is more than six years old.— Ohio State Journal. Two Expensive Hanquots. Tho costliest meal ever served, ac cording to history; was a supper given by iElius Veins, one of the most lavish of all the Romans of the latter days, to a dozen guests. The cost was 0,000 sestertia, which would amount to $212,600. A celebrated feast given by Vitcdlius, a Roman emperor of those days, to his brother Lucius, cost a little more than $200,- 000. Suetonius says that the ban quet consisted of 2,000 different dishes of fish and 7,000 different fowls, besides other courses.—New York Sun. Detecting Plated Coin. “For plated coin a drop of acid squirted on the edge where the plat ing weare most will chew up the base metal in a hurry.” “What add do you use?” “For gold coin a mixture of strong nitric add (ii drams, muriatic acrid 15 drops and water 5 drams is used. For silver, 24 grains of nitrate of silver and SO drops of nitric add with 1 ounce of water. One drop is sufficient. If the coin is heavily plated we scrape it a little before putting on tho acid.” —Springfield Republican. That the agricultural and laboring classes of this country me being ground down by injudicious capital ists cannot be questioned; that the cause is due to unwise legislation is self-ovbhn ; that either old party is responsible to a greater or loss de gree is certain: tlmt the political rot which is daily handed out by the pub- lie press to the common oj !c can not be relied upon to give broad and generous views on this great ques tion is an incontrovertible truth; and for a man to pretend that he can vote intelligently for tlie best interests of himself and his fellowuinn, wTlmut first laying aside all politico 1 prejudice is utterly absurd.—Upland Monitor. THE GRAND LAMA’S PALACE. An Klevon Rtorv I'.uiMlnry tlir? Top oT Which Is Keac/hed by Ltwlclcrs. Potala, precipitous in many places, rises within the confines of the outer city of Lima in the north western quarter. It is heaped up in the most fantastic style with halls and storied temples and monster tombs; but, on looking up from tlie foot of these heights, the whole aeries seemed con joined into one vast structure, sur mounted by five gold plated rec tangular domes of great size. The chief erection is tho P’o-dang Marpo or “Red palace,” a building carried up t 6 the height c: clven i l tcr: •* and winch i.; a- cm!-.-! f:vm story te .-wry by mean.- of woolen la-n.lcr- with breadi>..t.dblieul tin Tins is the central edified around which the cthe: - s climb and cluster. The lower stories arc built against the sheer fac > of tho acclivity. After passing up a stoop path ave nued by trees, you arrive at the prin cipal or eastern doorway of the whole establishment. Here, first, is along ball, up which you may ride on pony back if you choose. The liall is gar nished on either hand by long rows of massive prayer cylinders, which, placed like barrels ou end on well oiled pivots, can easily be made to revolve with a touch as you pass filAng. Each barrel has within it, wound compactly on the iron axle pairing fn.vn top to bottom, iauuuier.vbld lengths of paper, on which hr.t been stamped man Jr thousands of times the well known formula, “Om Muni Padme Ilian," tho special invocation to tiro Bodhisattwa Cheririiisi, and therefore to tlio grand lama, who visibly impersonates him. At the end of tho hall are broad stone steps, which mount to a paved landing, whore stands an' obelisk. You are row again in the open air, and two long flights of-steps, hemmed in by tho outer walla of other building.. ascend up tho face of the hill to the ground f loor of the red palace. Thence the ladder climbing com mences. Fivo long ladders, one after another, have to be scaled, passing up through dark and mysterious vaults—really vestibules to the neigh boring buildings—some with-weird looking passages conducting who shall know whither? At the top of tlie fifth bidder things seem brighter, since now you outer the more hab itable portion of tho palace, compris ing suites of rooms, set above set. On this floor, in an adjoining apart ment, are the lower limbs of. an ele phantine image of Jin am pa, the Buddha-to-come. He is seated on a platform in this room and his figure is of sue!?colossal proportion:.; that it passes up through the floors of the ! two other stories above, this one. I Altogether tlie image is said to bo j about seventy feet high. When yon have reached the third floor of tho upper portion of the palace you may walk around and gaze upon the mon ster head and shoulders of this gilded Buddha. All orthodox visitors on their way up perform solemn eircumtnubula tion around the legs, tho body an tlie shoulders respectively, once on each of the three floors through which the effigy has boon reared.— Murray’s Magazine. Tlie Discovery of the Noodle. Tho discovery of tho magic-lie needle was one of the most useful and remarkable of human discover ies. The needle, when placed paral lel to a conductor carrying an elec tric current, would be deflected from its position to the right or left, as the case might be. This discovery ere ated a great excitement among sci entists who disbelieved in its power. It was too simple to bn of value, so they thought, but scientific minds began to study into the relationship between magnetism and electricity, ; and some event so far as to declare there existed a missing link, and commenced to investigate, experi menting silently, that if they tailed no one should say, “I told you so,’ as they of ton say £cT unfortunate in vesligators hi modern times. —Boston Transcript. An attempt to blackmail om of the most.successful business rnori of thin nation, by a threat to pul lish a vol umiiidus mass of falsehoods concern ing him, met with this response: “Go ahead; puWish anything, just so you say something about me.” He want ed his name before the public, trust- SINGLE GORY THREE CENTS; b"-g loth'' love nf fair play for vindi cation. '! iic people’s party is kept before the public by the old party press, and while it is done in a man ner that is uncomplimentary, it at tracts the attention of the people who have never given our principles a thought. The advertising, such a-' it is, will do us more gw and than harm.— Bolivar (Mo.) World. AN EXPERIENCE OF ONE MIGHT. Story of iv Ynumr Fellow Whoso White Ilsiir Attriirted Attention* In Albuquerque, N. M., one night they pointed out a white haired young fellow and told me liow it came ahyut that hi-; hair Was white. He was a gambler by profession end happened to lte in oho of the frontier towns at a lime when the business was getting rather danger ous. A moral wave had swept over the place and the authorities were “running the gamblers in” right and lott. Thie. than was caught and put into jail with a com do of horse tbievea and a vt in! others of Id's own class. Death is the penalty for horse stealing in the c.-.mpn, aridT in this car-> they c-emed not overparticular whether some stray sheep got mixed in with thiews or not. About mid night the sheriff cut• ed and led one of the men out. Pretty soon he re turned with another fellow. “What did you say the sister’s name was'?” asked.one. “Well, write it down. Mohbe she'll want some thing done with the body." Then another follow was led out, and when the sheriff and his assist ants returned they held another whispered consultation concerning ’ certain relatives. Then /they tools another man out, returned aud did the whispering act, again. And mit continued. The strain on the fel lows who were left behind was in tense. They knew that each man taken out by the sheriff went to liis death, and the thought, of who would be next was enough to drive a man crazy. Tlie night wore away and the young man referred to was the last to bo taken. He was conducted to a bridge outside the town, a rope was placed around his neck and then he was swung off. Tire vigib-nidled him up at once, however, and as he gaspingly recovered a fellow whis pered in his ear: “We are going to take a vote on this business,” he said, “You area young man, and some of us feel sorry for you, but'remember, if we let you go you will have to leave tho town.” Tho promise wav made, quickly enough and the man continued, “Look here, I’ll cut this rope, arid while we are voting you clear out.” The job was done, and with his neck still smarting from the strain of the rope the young man ran for the brush. He wandered around in the chaparral till morning, and in the early- dawn came to a ravine. He wandered along this looking for some water with which to bathe his wonfids, and on rounding a curvo beheld a camp tire. Seated in a row-'betere it wore all tho men \*ffo bad Ivon ill the jail. Each had been given the same cliailce.- Chicago Mail. Tlio Color of flip Common Clovor. Red find white clover are introduc tions from the. Old Wc. kl, though, unlike buttercups and daisies, they are welcome rather than con ch nned the cultivator. They have followed man so eloii ly that it is almost impossible now. to say where was its original native home. It was not in Ireland, where St. Pat rick induced tin* Irish king to believe in the Trinity, and uu oxalis or wood sorrel must have been the trofoliato leaf used by the great man to illus trate the doctrine and convert his antagonist. When trouble between nations springs up the clover finds its great opportunity for foreign travel. The American tourisy'ond of using his eyes will iiogpui int'dar feature in tho red clover as ho journeys northwardly or south. lif&’eniusyl vauia. for instance, the' red- clover field presents a sherd Iff pale-rose, with numerous ( uses of whitish flow ers or clear albinos among them, but the farther northwardly he pro gresses the 1 <riglt colors increase. On Mount Desert island and similar latitudes the flowers are often deep erh - on, and pale rose is the rare ex ception. -Thomas Meehan in l’liilas (lelphia Ledger. Tlie Homestead strike, the East Tennessee strike, tlie Buffalo strike and tlie Coeur d'Alene strike, all run ning at once, all being met by bayo nets and Gatling guns, ore a sorry comment on the great “happy and ('prosperous American workingmen ” j of whom McKinley pirated prate- —• i Pittsburg Kam-aii.