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Banks County Gazette. yg,,. vl 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. NO CURE—NO PAY. He lives two miles from Gilisville on \iio Athens and Belton road and will eoine to you if yon are not in 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, titled. Female diseases are treated 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, THi: In wan Docxon. Gilisville, Ga. ii | A household ramc/iy for.nil Wood acl i Skin dlHrascw Cit b without fsii Scvof •il.n.Ulf’fcr.% JMie '*!>{• 1 :•< v't It? *>*;?-• j and everv form O' J - > n 1 1 *• l simplest ’'i ole i>, :foules. ( i or. Fifty i V firs’ libo vj tli upvfir up; uicfss, clem* i onstra'*s Us ,iaru/. cxw.’ ho : tin.', purify* j ii-.f ar,d builchn" up vn lu-t;. Onlx>t ! ej has wore curative virtue tuau < J , dozen, of ‘ a-.y other kind. I t huikl.* jp tho health } aad strength from *he first iosa. jj \W m \¥HITMZ for tSook of devf til Cures, sent free vnappli - } ea t ion, if not kept V>y your JDcal drugfrfst, rend \ f'.U) for a J-. bottle, or 5.00 for tlx hot- ; tleSj and. medicine wi Ibe freight j 3LCC : b BALM CO., Atlanta, 6th j DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 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 tion. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. 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 Constipation Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It retains the digested food too long in the bowels and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indl- Hood’s gestion, bad taste, coated ■ ■ ■ tongue, sick headache, in- WLJf „ 0 I somnia, etc. Hood’s Pills 111 Jfe cure constipation and all its ® results, easily and thoroughly. 25c. All druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass. XUe ouly Pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. “GREATEST ON EARTH.” Dr. llcstorative Nervine. Mr. R. T. Caldwell, la book-keeper In the First National Bank of Fulton, Ky. “I was completely run down. My nerves became so unstrung through loss'of sleep and worry that I felt RUre T would be com pelled to eive up my position L wdtild 110 awake all night ion*?, and it took but little Caldwell. to shake me up bo that I could not possibly attend to ruy business as I should. In connection With tills I had lit Hr trouble , heaviness about the stotuach, and pains in different parts of my body. I was also much reduced in flesh. I was persuaded to try Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine. I first procured a trial bottle from a local druggist and good results quickly followed. I - procured a dollar bottle, and by the time I had used this up I was a different man. I am now on my third bottle and am able to sleep soundly and eat regularly, something I could not possibly do before taking your Nervine. I am now fully recovered, and do not hesitate to pronounce Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine the vrcatcut nervine on earth.” Fulton, Ky. R. T. CALDWELL. Dr. Mites* Nervine is Sold on a positive guarantee that the first- bottle will benefit. All druggists sell it at- $1,6 bottles for $5, ot it will bo sent, prepaid, on receipt df price by the Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, Xn<L Dr. Miles’ Nervine R ”‘?, r ",u. North Georgia fViGuitiirai Goiiege, DEPftRTMF.NT OF THE UNIVERSITY, AT DAMLONEGA, GA. ftp* Term Zemins Firs! 'Hominy Ic Febrniry; Fell Terni Beyini First Monday in September, FULL LITERARY COURSES. TUITION FREE, With airple corps of Tcachert. THOROUGH MILITARY TRAINING Under u JJ. S. Army Officer detailed by Secretary oi War. DEPARTMENTS OF Music and Art, Under coinpetoat and iiroroagli iniHroctor*- YOU NO L AIMES havcttjual cdviatage* CHEAPEST COLLEGE fN THE SOUTH. ?r Cai-dozm** and fed inior nitioo, ftddr* Secretary or fr-'fiYirrr of Board Tntntccs. —TO Young and Old. Kejoice wltli its in the Discovery* When a man has suffered fer years with a weakness that blights his life and robs him of all that really makes life worth living, if he can avail him self of a complete cure, why not pos sess the mosal courage to stop his own downward course. We will send you by mail, ABSO LUTELY FREE, in plain package, tho ALL-POWERFUL DU. HOFF MAN’S VITAL RESTORATIVE TABLETS, with a legal guarantee to permanently cure LOST MANHOOD SELF-ABUSE, SEXUAL WEAK NESS, VARICOCELE, STOPS for ever NIGHT FIMISSIONS and unnal ural drains. Returns to former ap pearances emaciated organs. No C. (). D. fraud nor recipe de ception. If we could not cure, we would not send our medicine FREE to try, and nay when satisfied. Write today, as this may not appear again. Address WESTERN MEDICINE CO, Kalamazoo, Mieb. incorporat*i> Nervous Troubles are due to impoverished blood. Hood’s Sar saparilla is the One True Blood Purifier anil NERVE TONIC. Nobody need bavo Neuralgia. Get Dp. Mllatf Pain Pi Ur from and run vista. “Oti# #enl ndwa* NO. 28.