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Banks County Gazette.
VOL. III.—NO. 21.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PLATFORM
ADOPTED AT THE OMAHA
CONVENTION.
Second Declaration of Indepen
dence Formulated by the
People July 4th, 181)2.
FINANCE.
First—We demand a national cur
rency, safe, sound and flexible, issued
by the general government only, a
full legal tender for all debts, public
and private, and that without the use
of banking corporations, a just, equit
able, and efficient means of distribu
tion direct to the people at a tax not
to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to
be provided as set forth in the sub
treasurv plan of the Farmers Alliance,
or a bettor system; also by payments
in discharge of its obligations' for
public improvements.
We demand free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of Id to 1.
We demand that the amount of
circulating medium lie speedily in
cieased to not less than SSO per capita.
We demand a graduated income
tax.
We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands of tlio people,
and hence we demand all state and
rational revenue shall be limited to
the necessary expenses of the govern
ment economically and honestly ad-
ministered.
We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the govern
ment for the safe deposit of the earn
ings of the people, and to facilitate
exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Second.—Transportation being a
means of exchange anil a public
necessity, the government should own
and operate ..he railroads in the inter
est of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like
the postoffice system, being a necessi
ty for the transmission of news,
should be owned and operated by the
government in the interest of the
people.
LAND.
Third.—The land, ineluding all the
natural sources of wealth, is the lieri
age of the people, and should not be
monopolised for speculative purposes,
and alien ownership of land should he
prohibited.
All land now held by railroads and
other corporations, in excess' of their
actual needs, and all lands now owned
by aliens, should be reclaimed by the
government and held for actual set
tlers only.
Charles ll’i Heady Cash.
Lord Ailesbury thinks that just
before Charles died his affairs were
prosperous. "I will have no more
parliaments,” he said, “for, God be
praised, my affairs are in so good a
posture that I have no occasion to
ask for supplies. A king of England
that is not a slave to 500 kings is
great enough.” “His heart was set
to live at ease, and that his subjects
might live under their own vine and
fig tree.” “I vtfill have by me 100,000
guineas in my strongbox,” the king
used to say, and Lord Ailesbury
heard that “there was found there
at his death about £60,000."
. Concerning this Burnet says: “He
left behind him about 90,000 guineas,
which he had gathered either out of
the privy purse or out of the money
which was sent him from France, or
by other methods, and which he had
kept so secretly that no person what
soever knew anything of it.”—Black
wood’s Magazine.
He Stopped.
A nervous little man sat on one
side of the cross seats on the top of
an omnibus the other day, back to
back with a young woman of the
“sweet girl graduate” species. The
little man felt a piece of cloth tickle
his neck, and thinking the ends of
his cravat were sticking out he be
gan to stuff the cloth down between
the collar and waistcoat.
He was nearly scared out of his
seat a minute later by hearing the
girl exclaim in a loud voice: “Now,
you stop! Leave my hair ribbon
alone 1”
The small man apologized and got
off at once. —Boston Globe.
Where Are We At ?
The republican campaign for Ohio
■was opened last week. The blow-out
took place at Woodsdale Park in this,
(Hamilton) county. Preparations
were made for a tremendous affair.
For weeks every dead wall in the city
was covered with big posters, and the
picture of ‘‘grandfather’s hat.” and its
running mate “Ratlaw Reid.” lieid,
Secretary Foster, Foraker, and a half
dozen other big republican guns
graced the occasion. Sixty cars were
engaged to take the Cincinnati crowd,
and only eighteen of them, partly
filled were needed. F.scursions were
run from several points within sixty
miles of this city, yet by actual count
there were only 2,500 people present
as admitted by Ohio’s biggest repub
lican organ.
Why is this thus? Hamilton county
has had a republican majority of at
least 10,000. This is a presidential
year. The biggest guns in the party
were present. Nothing was omitted
to make the thing a success, yet it was
the biggest possible kind of a fizzle.
The people would not enthuse. The
bands played, but the people would
not fall in. The machine claquers
shouted, but the tank and file re
sponded not. For numbers and en
thusiasm the people’s party crowds
in a frontier Kansas county would be
several laps ahead.
Is the g. o. p. dying ? Are the peo
ple actually getting their eyes open?
Has “protection to American labor’’
lost its efficacy? Have the people
discerned that we are not so prosper
ous as republican bosses claim? The
signs are ominous. In November, if
present indications count, the repub
iican bosses of this section will be in
quiring “where are we at?”,—Cincin
nati llerald.
Preservatives for Grapes.
“1 was surprised to learn a few
days ago,” said one gentleman to a
companion, “that the grapes we eat
at dessert, especially the white varie
ties, may have been plucked from the
vines a month before. A few days
ago I went to a fruit store near rny
home and asked for two pounds of
white grapes, incidentally remarking
that they were for my little boy, who
was sick.
“ ‘Why don’t you take one of these
5-pound baskets?' asked the dealer.
‘They are somewhat cheaper when
bought in such quantities, and be
sides I will put a preservative on the
grapes that, while it will not impair
their api>carance or taste and is not
in the least injurious to the stomach.
will keep them for two or three
weeks. Taste one of those grapes,'
and he pointed to a big basketof line
fruit.
“The grapes were sound and of
fine flavor. ‘Those grapes you have
eaten,’ he said, ‘have been kept in
stock two months, and I can prob
ably keep them as much longer. I
do not know what the preservative
is composed of. I get it from a big
firm of chemists down town, and
they guarantee there is nothing in
jurious in it. I have never tried it
on any kind of fruit except grapes,
but I guess it would prove just as
efficacious on peaches or plums.’”—
New York Advertiser.
The Terrible Gou-Gou.
Several writers, among them the
eminent Samuel de Champlain, tell
awful stories of the work of a super
natural monster that formerly in
habited the islands of the Bay of
Chaleur. To the Indians of the Char
leur region this terrible being, which
always appeared in the form of a
woman, was known as the “gou-gou.”
As printed the word is usually divid
ed, and pronounced with a quick, gut
tural sound, not wholly unlike the
“goo-goo” of a baby. This monstrous
amazonian, the legend tells us, lived
on human flesh. She caught Indians
by the dozens and stowed them away
in jKiuches at her hips, the pouches
being large enough, so an old Indian
told Champlain, to hold “fifty
ponies. ”
Hundreds of the Indians living
around the bay declared to both Wil
lis and Champlain that they had
often seen the horrid monster step
from island to island, and that her
head was “higher than a cloud.”
“From what they say,” Champlain
writes, “I should say that Chaleur is
the dwelling place of some devil that
torments them in the above named
manner. ” —St. Louis • Republic.
A Matter of Doubt.
A minister in the east said: “My
brethren, the collection will now be
taken for my expenses for a trip, for
I am going away for my health.
The more 1 receive the longer I can
stay.” The largest collection ever
made in that church was taken.
Anil now the question under discus-
sion is whether the size of the collec
tion was a compliment to the preach
er or much the reverse. —Louisville
Western Recorder.
l>o Stop Tins.
The Detroit Evening News, The
St. Louis Chronicle, The Cincinnati
Post, and The Cleveland Press, com-
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: SEPTEMBER 27, 1802.
bined circulation 160,000 copies, have
joined the people’s party within three
weeks. These are all daily papers.—
American Enterprise.
WHY GO “BROKE?”
It Is Easy Enough, Says tlio Philoso
pher, to Make a Living.
“No man has any license to be
broke in New York.” Tlio speaker
was a well dressed, keen eyed youth
of eighteen.
“You can earn the undying grati
tude of thousands in this city alone
if you will tell them how to escape
the discomforts, not of simple pover
ty, but of downright want,” said a
bystander.
“What is your recipe?” inquired
another listener.
“You will all grant me,” said the
young man, “that even the poorest
‘bum’ or most incorrigible gamin
that runs the streets can get a
‘stake,’ say twenty-five cents, with
out much trouble. All right. On
that foundation any boy of six or a
man of sixty can earn enough to
bouse and keep him comfortably.
How? Let him invest that sum in
morning or evening newspapers, and
keep turning over a fair percentage
of his profits every day.
“Even the largest of Park row
newsboys seldom earn less than fifty
cents a day on a smaller original in
vestment than the one I have used
for the sake of argument. I know
what I am talking about, because
five years ago I was hustling around
in bare feet the samo as the rest of
them are now, and I could make my
living expenses and have a little to
spare at tlio end of every week.
Show me a man, woman or child in
this city who is a beggar and I will
show you an individual who is too
lazy to do even the lightest kind of
Work.”
Aftor these sententious remarks
the youth turned and walked up
Newspaper row. “There is a young
ster who will ho worth a big fortune
in time," said a bystander. “I knew
him well several years ago when lie
was regarded by the other newsboys
as a hustler. His clothes were near
ly as ragged and his face and hands
as dirty as the street gamin’s usually
are. Five years ago ho conceived an
idea. Ho knew that there were sev
eral of his companions in the street
who would rather stand behind a
newsstand for a small daily remuner
ation than hustle around the streets
and take chances of getting ‘stuck
on their papers,’ as they express it.
He picked out two honest boys and
entered into a contract with them.
He agreed to pay them forty cents a
day to take care of small corner
stands. The young man bought all
the newspapers and stocked tho
stands himself, and the boys were
held to a strict accounting. Froth
thoso two stands and what lio earned
himself on the streets he put $11.50
away clear at the end of the first
week.
“That money was put into two
other stands that Jie established in
the uptowTi district. All of them
succeeded, and the number was grad
ually increased until a year ago lie
bad thirteen boys at stands and
eleven around the ferry entrances
working for him. Today his staff is
fifty strong at least. He owns two
big stands under elevated stations
where traffic is heaviest. The boy
must be worth at least $12,000 today
if he is worth a cent. Last Christ
mas he bought a house in Jersey for
his widowed mother, and I under
stand ho owns some property in
Yonkers that has greatly increased
in value lately.
“He is the pioneer of his business
in New York, and he isn’t a very
old one at that, is he?” interrogated
the boy’s historian.— New York Ad
vertiser.
Paid In Gold Coin.
All the employees of the elevated
railroads in this city receive their
pay in gold. The Manhattan rail
way pay envelopes are made up each
month in a Nassau street bank, ahd
about SOO,OOO in gold coin is used.
It has been the custom of the elevated
railroad managers to pay wages in
gold coin for a long while. Mr. Jay
Gould is credited with having ex
pressed the opinion that gold was
preferable to paper money for this
purpose, because it was neater and
less likely to result in mistakes.—
New York Times.
In testing the conditions of the at
mosphere inside a petroleum tank if
the air at the bottom is found not in
flammable or explosive the air above
is sure not to be so.
.Tames and Livingston, both voted
forTutt’s bill, while Watson and Peek
had it amended so that the land
owner was to be punished also for
non-fnlfillment of contract. The
plutes are mighty hard pressed to stir
up something against the candidates
of the people’s party. But lying is
not going to pan out in this cam
paign.—People’s Rights, Montezuma.
llow to Go to Sleep.
Scientific investigators assert that
in beginning to sleep the senses do
not unitedly fall into slumber, but
drop off one after another. The
sight ceases in consequence of the
protection of the eyelids to receive
impressions first, while all the other
senses preserve their sensibility en
tire. The sense of taste is the next
which loses its susceptibility to im
pression, and then the sense of smell
ing. The hearing is next in order,
and last of all comes the sense of
touch.' Furthermore, the senses are
brought to sleep with different de
grees of profoundness. The sense of
touch sleeps tlio most lightly and is
the most easily awakened; the next
easiest is the hearing, the next is
tfie sight, and the taste and smelling
awake last.
Another remarkable circumstance
deserves notice; certain muscles and
parts of the body begin to sleep be
fore others. Sleep commences at
the extremities, beginning with the
feet and legs and creeping toward
tlio center of nervous action. The
necea ity of keeping the feet warm
and perfectly still as a preliminary
of sleep is well known. From these
explanations it will not appear sur
prising that there should be an im
perfect kind of mental action which
produces the phenomena of dream
ing.—American Analyst.
Slm* Preferred flic Kiirtli.
If tlio girls were only as bright
when they grow up as in tlieir child
hood days what a race of brilliant
women there would be. One espe
cially cute youngster has a way of
saying some unusually clever tilings,
anel great hopes for her future are
entertained by her family. She was
quite ill recently, and her mother
tried to impress upon her the de
lights of heaven, even being unor
thodox enough to suggest an un
limited number of tricycles in the
blessed abode, as one of these was
the desire of the small girl’s heart
and the devoted mother thought to
make-heaven more attractive by the
introduction of these rather mun
dane charms, yet the small invalid
did not seem to be enchanted at the
prospect of a speedy demise, even
with a tricycle as a reward of her
well doing.
At last her mother inquired why
sho didn’t want to boa lovely fluffy
angel, with a tricycle whenever she
wished to ride out through the gold
en streets, and tho practical small
maiden rather astonished tho ex
pounder of heavenly joys by reply
ing, “Well, you see, mamma, I’m
better acquainted hero.” —Philadel-
phia Times.
Kentucky Camp Meeting*.
A writer claims that camp meet
ings originated in Kentucky in the
year 1800 at Gasper River church,
in Logan county, and became estab
lished during the great Kentucky
revival early in tho century. It is
claimed that both Presbyterians and
Methodists participated in the earlier
meetings, through the camp meeting
is now looked upon as dis
tinctly a Methodist institution.
The great revival is one of the
curious things in Kentucky his
history, and its effects are still visi
ble in other things besides camp
meetings, granting these religious
open air gatherings to have had the
origin attributed to them. Some
thing of the spirit of the old camp
meetings yet survives in the “holi
ness meetings,” but the camp meet
ing has in this time developed some
varities that have no kinship with
the godliness and religious fervor
that swept the western country when
Ken lucky was yet an infant common
wealth. —Louisville Courier-Journal.
Stray Dogs Bring Luck.
Mr. Pung, of the Chinese legation,
is authority for the statement that a
Chinaman can wish for no better
luck than to have a strange dog
come to tho house with the evident
intention of linking his future for
tunes with those of the family. This
is especially ti ue of Peking, whore
stray canines, instead of being Sum
marily dismissed from the doorstep,
as is the general custom elsewhere,
are taken in, cared for and their lives
henceforth surrounded with the com
forts most appreciated by their race.
So great, indeed is the superstitious
feeling that no pains are spared to
induce the stranger to remain per
manently with the new found
friends.—Kate Field’s Washington.
Senator David B. Hill is carrying
consternation into the Cleveland
camp. Ilis henchmen in New York
are already knifing the ticket headed
by their idol’s chief anomination. his
cousin openly places a bet upon the
electiou of Harrison, and the senator
himself neither calls upon the nomi
nee at Buzzard’s Bay or at the demo
cratic national executive committee
headquarters.—Economist.
A SUICIDE’S LAST MOMENTS.
Nerved by Absinthe to the Point of In
jecting the Fatal Drug.
As to the question of the suicidal
tendencies of absinthe drinking, there
is a striking instance in one of Edgar
Saltus’ novels—“Mr. Incoul’s Misad
venture.” At least the musings and
soliloquy during which suicide was
determined upon was accompanied
by a free indulgence in the danger
ous beverage. Lennox Leigh is the
young man who takes his own life
as the only seemly end to a charge
of cheating at cards, of which ho is
innocent, but which he cannot re
fute. The charge is made by his vin
dictive enemy, Mr. Incoul. The viv
id portrayal of the condition of mind
produced by the absinthe is remark
able. “On reaching his room,” says
the author, “lie put his purchases
(morphine intended for suicide) on a
table, poured out a glass of absinthe,
•Sighted a cigarette and threw him
self dowu on a lounge. For awhile
his thoughts roamed among the epi
sodes of the day, but gradually they
drifted into less personal currents.
“He began to think of the early
legions; of Charon, the god, renounc
ing his immortality; of the Hyper
borean, the fabled people, famous
.for their fidelity, who voluntarily
threw themselves into the sea; of
Juno bringing death to Biton and
Cleobis as the highest recompense of
their piety; of Agamedes and Tro
phouius praying Apollo for what
ever gift he deemed most advanta
geous. and in answer to the prayer
receiving eternal sleep. He remepi
bered how Plato had preached to the
happiest people in the world the
blessedness of ceaseless sleep; how
the Buddha, teaching that life was
but a right to suffer, had found for
Ihe recalcitrant no greater menace
Ilian that of an existence renewed
through kalpas of time.
“He mixed himself another glass of
absinthe, holding the earaffe high in
the air, watching the thin stream of
water coalesce with the green dreg
and turn with it into an opalescent
milk. The soliloquy was renewed:
'After what has happened ..there is
nothing left. I might change my
name. I might go to Brazil or Aus
tralia, but witlr what object? 1
could not get away from myself.
And yet life is pleasant; ill spent as
mine has been, many times have I
found it grateful. After all, it is not
life that is short; it is youth. When
that goes, as mine seems to have
gone, outside of solitude there is lit
tle charm in anything, and what is
death but isolation the most perfect
and impenetrable that nature has
devised? And whether that isola
tion came to me tonight or decades
hence, what matters it?’
“He poured out more absinthe and
put tho bottle down empty. Before
drinking he undid the package which
he had bought from the chemist.
First he took from it a box about
three inches long. It was a tiny syr
inge and with it two little instru
ments. One of these he adjusted in
the projecting tube and with his fin
ger felt carefully the point. He
threw off his coat and rolled up his
sleeve. From the phial he filled tho
syringe and with tho point pricked
the bare arm and sent the liquid
spurting into the flesh. Three times
he did this. He reached for the ab
sinthe and left it untasted. The
lights turned pale and glowed less
vividly, as though veils wore being
drawn 1 >et ween him and them. But
still the languor continued, sweeter
even, and more enveloping, till from
sweetness it was almost pain. The
room grew darker, tho colors waned,
the lights behind the falling veils
sank thin, fading one by one; a
single spark lingered; it wavered a
moment and vanished into night.”
Leigh had ended his life by hi3
own act in a condition to which
large quantities of absinthe contrib
uted.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Stick to the Nominee.
Kmr or Gazette :
Dear Sir—You hear a great deal
said of late by the democratic party,
as heretofore, about sticking to the
nominee. Now, Mr. Editor, please
let me say a few things in your valua
ble paper in reference to sticking to
the nominee of the democratic patty
of to-day.
If the laboring man wants to work
for I*2 to 15 cents per day and board,
and clothe and feed his family and
pay his doctors’ bills out of that, then
let him stick to the nominee of either
old party. And if some of our neigh
hors who have done so much hard
SINGLE 001‘V THREE CENTS.
prohibition woik in the last few years
want it all killed now, and desire with
all their heart and soul to have whis
ky sold right in your church doors,
why, of course, you must stick to the
nominee, Grover Cleveland. That is
all you have to do.
Preachers, deacons and stewards of
all our churches should be very care
ful which nominee they stick to.
Brethern be very carful how you vote.
The world is watching you.
If you vote in accordance with your
preaching, praying and talking for
the last few years you will certainly
vole for the Rev. C. T. Burgess for
the senate 33rd district who is a pure,
whole sold man, who is alright and
will stand by yolipAjid if you waut
a good representative for Banks
ceuty be sure to vote for Captain C.
Chitwood.
Now Mr. Editor with these few sug
gestions offered for the consideration
of the good people of old Banks
county, 1 remain as ever.
Gkoiuje H. Slaton.
Id Our Sun a Dynamo?
As wo look at tlio glowing carbon
in an incandescout lamp and know
that it is possible for that hairlike
filament to maintain its heat and
brilliancy, almost unchanged, for
more than 1,000 hours, it is an ob
ject lesson for us. It is intense heat
and brilliant light without combus
tion. When feeble man has been
able to so far unravel the mysteries
of heat and light as to be able to
accomplish this result, a suspension
of judgment at least is called for on
the part of our scientific leaders who
hold to the the theory that tho heat
of tho sun must be derived from
combustion, and predict that the
timo may come when the fuel will
bo exhausted.
The 1 iglit coining from tho incan
descent lamp is simply another form
of motion. Is it not possible that he
who sits on high as the ruler of all
forces may utilize the motion of the
rolling spheres as huge dynamos, and
thus give us sunlight and heat with
out combustion ? —Popular Electric
Monthly.
Hl* Choice.
An amusing parallel to tho famous
story of “I prefer the gout” comes
from Newcastle. Though matters
are almost as much at ebb there as
they can be in the way of trade, ale
is still flowing. A collier who had a
very Inal leg was plainly told by his
medical attendant that his love of
drink was the cause of his disease,
and that he must either give up his
ale or lose his leg. He had no more
hesitation about the alternative than
had Tennyson’s “Northern Farmor”
in a similar predicament.
“If this ’ere leg wmna stand a drop
o’ good ale I’ll hae nowt to do wi’ it.
Off wi’ it!"—London Tit-Bits.
What "Amen" Meant to Her.
Being taught to say “amen” to
close her evening petition, not realiz
ing its meaning and having remem
brances of tlio street peddler, who
had visited the street that afternoon,
to her great delight, Little Iva fin
ished her prayer by saying, “A man;
he sells bananas; buy me one!” —New
York Tribune.
llow Monkey* Treat n Sick One. •
Monkeys, with some notable ex*
ceptions, are some degrees worse
than savage men in their treatment
of the sick. On the now Jumna
canal at Delhi monkeys swarm in
the trees on - the banks and treat
their sick comrades in true monkey
fashion. The colony by the canal
being overcrowded and as a conse
quence unhealthy, did, and probably
does still, suffer from various un
pleasant diseases. When one monkey
is so obviously unwell as to offend
the feelings of the rest a few of the
larger monkeys watch it and taking
a favorable opportunity knock it
into the canal. If it is not drowned
at once the sick monkey is pitched in
again after it regains the trees, and
either drowned or forced to keep
aloof from the flock. —London Spec
tator.
The Triumph of Art. •
The triumph of art over nature is
illustrated in the fact that an artist
recently made~a painting of some
beech trees in an old pasture that he
sold for S2BO. The owner of the pas
ture parted company with his prop
erty at about the same time for $l5O,
and he called it a good sale at that.—
Augusta (Me.) Farmer.
Twenty-two thousand dollars per
day. That is what it costs Pennsyl
vania to keep the Homestead workers
from earning bread for their families.
llow long will the taxpayers stand it?
—Kincaid (Kan) Kronicle.