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Banks County Gazette.
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I am sitting by the sea,
Watching a the tide comes iu,
And the waves appear to me
Like our human waves of sin;
For the world is one vast ocean,
Full of waves of strife and din,
Aad we watch with deep emotion,
wi ien the tide comes in-
We have ships upon this ocean
. That are sailing wide and far,
And we \va : t with much commotion
Till they r aeh the hnr>or bar
They’re enr hopes, desire, ambitions
What we arc or what wo have been f
And we’ll better our conditions
When the tide comes in.
When the tid go's out
All along the stranded beach
We can sec twixt fear and doubt,
Things we could never reach;
All cur napes are scattered there,
Hopes that have been born of sin,
And the sight is Hr less ‘.air
Than when the tida comes in.
So upon the beach of life
Impure hopes must scattered l;e,
And we leave this vale of suite
And leave them on thejbeach to die
But. the geo t slips on the oc.un
Will sail in on God’s own tide,
In His hatbor of devotion
Evei, ever, to abide.
Henry Banks iu Elberton Star
UNCLE BEN’S LETTER.
Bill Hullet, who lives on a small
faini in Lake county, was showing me
anumlietjof Indian relics priz.d by
him because they had been in the
family so ieng.
“What have you in there?’ I asked
pointing to a faded b oe plush case
originally inteecerl, I fancied,' for a
set ef silver teaspoons Before an
sweiing rv question Bill opened the
box and held it so that I could look
into it, and but for a yellow envelope
it was empty, lie too* up til* euvel
ope, touching it with exceeding Care,
and handed it to me.
“What of it?” I asked after read
ing the name and address —“Mrs.
Mary Hullet Ant inch, Lake county,
Ills.”
“You notice,” --aid he, “that it h
nwer Ken opened."’
“Yes,” I answered, “and what is
this postmark written with a pen r
Whv. it is Gettysburg, isn’t it?”
“i>s- That’s where the letter wa>
malic ’., addressed to my mother, and,
as you ;>oe, none has broken ihe
Mah”
“Why, that’s strange. Toil me
ju nit it.”
In order to get th hisiorv of a rel
ic 1 had to feel, er rather pretend that
I felt, a great interest iu it. Bid took
the letter cud put it away. •• ,and after a
lime tool me the following bit of fain
iiy history ;
“You see, ray mother thought more
of her brother, rny Uncle liau, than
she did of almost anybody in the world
5€2 tliat
it is there!
This is the trade-mark which
is on the wrapper (saimon-col
r.-.a- ——i of every
bottle of thegen
-os*#' nuine SCOTT’S
mil EMULSION.
r-m sure t: is is on
the package,and
that nothing else
arvifs'i••*•?'• is palmed off cn
■( you when you
ask for it.
Nothing has been made that
equals it to give s rcr.rth and
so’id flesh to those who are
run down or emaciated.
Your doctor will iell you
that it is the one food for all
thoss whose weight is below
the standard of health.
Put up in 50 cts. and SI.OO sixes,
and sold by all druggists.
SCOTT U BOWNE, New York.
While quite voting she married in the
east, aud she and father, together
with my Uncie Bc-11, cania on to this
state I don’t recollect much about my
father, for he died not long after 1
was born, but fr-m wnat 1 have al
ways understood the niarrriage was
not a happy one. Well, Uncle Ben
finished paying for the farm and had
tne deed made over to mother.
“I merely mention these small de
tails to show how much the bio her
aad the sister were attached to each
other. Well, when the war broke out
—and I recolicc* it well, for I was a
chunk of a boy—Uncle Ben swore
that it was his duty to go. My moth
er was a very patriotic woman, but
with the selfishness of a woman's af
fection she could not see why she
should be called upon to give up her
only brother! But Uncle" Ben de
dared that every woman should not
only be called upon to give up her
brother, but her sou, her husband, her
lite, if ueeds be. He was so devoted
to the Union, so strong in his denun
ciation of all people who were luke
warm, that when the time came ho
was elected captain of a company.
And so off he marched, leaving my
mother iu the deepest grief. At
night she would awake me with her
sobs, and many a time when I heard
no sound would I put my hand on her
pillow to find it wet with her toars.
Of course the violence of her grief did
not last, for pride and the love of
country bade he be brave, hut w hen
ever vve received news that a battle
had been fought she would lock her
seif in her room and there wait to
hear that her brother was dead.
“Thus it went on until his death
was mentioned .in these dispatches.
He was killed at Gettysburg, and two
days Inter there came a letter from
him. My mother knew that it had
beeu writte i just before ho went into
battle—probably the vory last thing
he did was to seal it—and she declared
that I he seal must never tie broken.
I reinember that some of the neigh
bors argued will, her that she ought
to see what the letter had to say, but
•lie said not, it must forever remain
sealed. So she aever did open it,
and when she came to die she told
me to keep it just as she told me to
keep it jiut as she had kept it and to
leave it to my favorite child, with the
same instructions that she had given
me. My mother was of excellent
stock, and 1 have thought that this
propted her .sometimes to say that the
crest of her descendants might b an
unopened letter. She always said
this laughingly, but I have noticed
that it is in a spirit of fuu that we
sometimes showi our pride. Well, as
you see, I save never opened the let
ter, ami 1 never intend to I’m going
to Isare it to rnv son Andrew.”
Bill and I went fishing that, after
noon, as we did nearly every Satur
day during the summer, and all tb
time we were casting I was itching to
know what was in that letter Of
course I knew that it contained
simply a few lines tel’ing his sister
that a battle was on, and that k a
trusted in God and the right. But
I wanted to , fee the lines I
could fancy the shape of the sprawl
i*g characters, written with a pencil
by the light of a candle held by a
bayonet stuck into the ground.
“Bill” said I, ‘you would have
found me among Ute neighbors
urging your mother to open that
letter.”
“But not it you had seen that not
to open it, was a sentiment with her.”
“Well, I don’t know about that.
Probably not.”
The next time I went out into the
country to fish with Bill 1 found him
in rather a dejected state. The
drought had continued so long that
ho knew that the crops must be a
fadure, and summer boarders had
not come iu numbers sufficient to
insure an offset for the damage-
Bill said be didn’t care to fish, bit I
were to hang the biggest bass in the
lake, it is a question whether I’d
have courage enough to puii him
i out”, said he.
Oh. it surely isn't as bad as that!”
HOMER. RANKS COUNTY. GEORGIA : NOVEMBER 19, 1806.
Cotton.
With careful rotation of
crops and liberal fertilizations,
cotton lands will improve. The
application of a proper ferti
lizer containing sufficient Pot
ash often makes the difference
between a profitable crop and
failure. Use fertilizers contain
ing not less than 3 to 4%
Actual Potash.
Kainit is a complete specific
against “Rust.”
All about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex
periment on the best farms in the United States—is
told in a little book which we publish and will gladly
mail free to any fanner in America who will write for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
I argued. “One good season will
make everything all right.
“No, ’ he replied, shaking his head.
“In fact, there may not be another
season for me.”
“What do yon mean;”
“Why, year before last, in order to
build the large extension to the
little house that we had lived in so
long. I had to mortgage the farm.
Oi course I thought that I would
soon pull out, but 1 haven’t. I can
get a few hundred doHar-' move than
tlie mortgage is for, and I thought
that I would let the thing go rather
than to wdiry any longei and take a
few hundred and rent me a shanty in
the village, 1 am a isort of plast
erer, and 1 mr y pick up a bare living.”
Ho was so depressed that I eared
not to talk to him, and I took the
first train and returned to the city.
Several weeks "passed. I went not
to the country for the reason that to
me the whole landscape hud been
saddened. I had become much at
tached to Pullet. lie had a droll
way of speech, a dry laugh, and his
misehit vous eye cat so odd a caper
now and then that 1 was drawn to
iiuu* But I eared not to see now
that a misfortune had befallen him,
for niv friendship for him was found
ed on a humorous sentiment- One
day 1 net a man from Antioch and
asked him about Bill, whether or mat
he had found a purchaser for his
farm. “I think he has,” the man
answered- “I understand that a
fellow named Fetterage had about
closed a deal will) him. Sorrv for
Bill- says tiiat he can get along may
he as a plasterer, bat, 1 don’t see how
he can when the regular plasterers are
about all out of work.”
A few days after this I was hasten
ing along the street when someone
grabbled hold of tne. I wheeled about
and there was Bill, pretending to
choke me. IJis ovo was bright, cut
ting its odd capers, and 1 noticed that
he was arrayed in new clothes. “You
are hustling along here pretty brash,”
he said, releasing me, “but I want to
show you that I am not to be run
over even if I am from the country.
I stood there looking at him, won
dering what could have hnpneiied.
“Have you sold your farm ?” I naked.
His eves twinkled. “Sav,” lie said,
“I am all right now, and my son An
drew, little raseal, bro jglu it all about
Got into the box other day,looking for
Indian arrow heads, and what did he
do but rip open Uncle Ben’s Utter
and brttigit to me. And of course I had
to read it: told that he—Uncle Ben—
had buried S3,OUC in gold in an iron
box at the left band root of the white
oak tree facing the outlet of the lake.
I jntnped up and hoe, I tell
von 'Fite tree had been cut down
years ago, but the stump was there till
right, and there I dug till I got the!
money, all time thinking about moth- j
er and her brother, nnd the next day
when that shark came to close the
deal with me I said: ‘No, I’m obliged
Vo you. I don’t beliewe I care to
trade. I thought I was broke, but
the truth is an uncle of mine lias left
me some money.’ And, ay, the news
that fortune has been left to me has
spread about, and you ought to see
the folks bow to me on the road. Ob>
I'm all right now, and. say again, you
naver saw fish bite ns they do now !
Come out.”.—Opie Head, in New Yoik
Commercial Advertiser.
It is a mailer to be deployed that
our agricultural pursuits are not more
liberally p.utonized and that so many
men who would "make a success of
tanning leave the country and seek
employment in cities or towns where
the rt numeration may be a little
quicker obtained, but often where it
is only for a few brief months, and
the remainder of the year they are
allowed to roam about without even
a vague possibility of work, consum
ing thus v hat has accrued to them as
tic r esult, ot a few months’ labor.
Being without work they grow rest
-1 ist, ami often fall into and sep nioir and
wen if tin v have a secure position
for a year they aie consuming time
and dwarfing talent, that ‘is shaped
anil destined for ti e '.or-- id life
of a farmer. There is nothing so
pun*, so exalted, so inspiring as life
on a farm. It lifts oue up from the
soil he tills to the God who blesses Ins
labors with the ch-vious harvest. The
air lea breathes is pure, the water lie
drinks comes fresh from l-ature’s own
fountain, and whatevlr he touches
has the ring’ ot truth aud honestv n-
I out it. i'he professions are crowded
the traces are full to ovavtlov/ing and
there is a struggle always to receive
the patronage necessary to a support.,
hut away out in the country God’s
free soil stretches in untold acres of
unemployed ground, and nature in
vites laborers to her rich fields. Com
petition there dues not tffort 11s. We
inquired of au intelligent citizen in
regard to bis business, lie replied.
“VYo are often without work, the best
of us. The troub e lies iu the fact
that there are too many consumers
and net enough producers. The
trades are too much sought after, and
the forma top,sadly neglected.” We
are Ratified he is right. The noblest
best ami most soul and mind c-leva
ting work in the v/oild is found in
agricultural pursuits. Tiie.ie is more
time foun'l m this occupation for con
templation and for study and research
A farmer’s mind is it: a better condi
tion to receive information and instruc
lion than the mail who is harassed
with the cares, worries, etc., incident
to city life, —Ex.
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good health. He will cine von with
the herbs of the earth. He has cured
more than a thousand, in the last two
years, in liall and adjoining counties,
most of whom ''ad been treated by
other physicians and were not bene,
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with great success. Also Fgs', Fevers,
C die, Catarrh and Nervousness and
all blood diseases. No charge made
for consultation or treatment. Call
on or address,
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Gilisville, Ga.
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The intense itching and smarting inci
dent to eczema, tetter, ealt-rfieum, and other
diseases of 1 lie skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. Jt is equally
efficient for itching piles, and a favorite rem
edy for sore nipples; chapiied hands, chil
blains, frost bites, and ciironic sore eyes.
For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box.
Try Dr. Cady’s Condition Powders, they
are just what a horse needs when in bad condi
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Cleveland.
Having succeeded in defeating the
party which has thrice made him its
nominee, and twice the president of
the nation, having cheerfully aided
to reestablish that system of tariff
taxation which he habitually describes
as robbery, and to enthrone in power
those agencies which he picturesquely
denominated “the communion of pelf,*
President Cleveland remains unsatis
fied. ilo glares about for new worlds
of infamy to conquer, new ways ot
stultifying himself aud demonstrating
the hollowness and hvpoeraoy of his
constant claim to honesty of oonVic.
tiou. He seems to have found his
opportunity in the civil service reform
law
Pledged to tariff reform, Cleveland
aided 111 the election of VI kinley.
Pledged time and again to m nu
ance of ci\d service rei'orti in ieU.r:
ami in spirit, he ha;, ever since the
election been a party to a scandalous,
tho , ; petty, perversion'of it to the
suds of personal and partisan spite*
Friday the postmaster of Spring
field, 111., was dismissed because < f
his activity m Bryan’s support. For
our own part, we de not believe that
any mail holding apuolic office should
b debarred from exertion of his pi
litieal rights unless he has neglected
the duties of his office. No such alle
gation is made in this ease. But if
paitisan activity be made a cause for
removal from office it must lie parti
san activity' on either side. Tho post
master of Chicago was active in sup
port of McKinley. Why does Ins
'springficid brother go and lie stnv?
The collector of the port of San Fran
cisco traveled all over the central
west making bitter speeches against
P>ry an, but tho Cleveland theory of
< iv 1 service reform does not molest
hi No federal office holder who
fought democracy has suffered - none
who upheld its cause is safe.
In Kentucky there Wage* a faction
al war within the democracy. Senator
Blackburn seeks re-election. Secre
tary Carlisle, who betrayed his pint/
as readily us he deserted nis convic
tions, wants his seat By ci-ia of those
brilliant exhibitions of nepotisms of
Grover Cleveland 'are famous, Car
lisle'!- son servos at comfortable pay
■as chief dark of the treasury depart
meet, aud has charge of appointments
to and removals from office. Since the
election he has mads repealed remov
als of friends of Senator Blaekbirrn,
replacing them by partisans of his
fathef. This execrable perversion i.f
a power which, under the civil service
law, he ought not to possess, he has
carried even to the point of removing
a woman for no other cause than her
friendship for his father’s political
opponent. To this scandalous and
abominable utilization of the public
service for the gratification of private
malice Grover Cleveland is a party.
His order would check it instantly.
His frown would put an end to it.
But his fayor, uhieh the project clear
ly enjoys, will doubtless lead to com
pietfe demoralization of the public
service.
Out of office Cleveland will go with
out the favor of democrats, for he has
betrayed and assassinated democracy.
Asa mugwump ho will h.'ve little
standing, for he has violate 1 ,■ tr
dira! precept of mugwumpery --civil
sc. vice reform. The republican!' will
sea: eel/ admire him, for even the
P tish spurned Benedict Arnold
Contemned, despised and |Uatcd, he
will carry with him into obscurity
but one con eolation —an all-sullictent
one, maybe, to one of his gross naltire
—be retires rich.—New York Journal
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Mr. R. T. Caldwell, la book-keeper In
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NO. 28.