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BANKS COUNTY GAZKTTK
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY.
Jim tered at the Pott office at Homer
Ga. tut second clast matter.
Ka( f Anlxti-rlptlmi < a*h
Utit rear '0
Aixmonth*
CHAR D.TOXJSY, Editor Si Vi bi.mi p.r .
HOMER, GA.. DEC. 3, 1896.
For Uettor Schools.
State School Commissioner Glenn
is indefatigable in his eliforls to im
prove the common schools of (lenr
lie has made a campaign for bcl
tcr methods of popnlur c donation
which hasV *<l ready ' Itad excellent
cffoct./t
Com minion er Glenn appeals to
tbtf pres* of the state to aid the school
hill which was recently introduced
by Mr. Hardeman of Newton, pro
vidtag for the levy of a local school
tax in e\*ery comity. The amount
of the local tax is to lie equal to that
which goes to each county from tie
state school fund.
The local tax is to remain in the
county, and lie added to the school
funds received from the state treas
ury. The present school term is
from three to live schools when they
pay a direct tax for month*. Tin
average pay of the public school
teacher is )e*s than sll2O per annum.
The people have quit paying tuition.
It is manifest to every thought fid
man that we cannot educate our
children in the rural districts under
the present, system. It is confidently
believed that the people will take
more interest in their schools when
they pay a direct tax for their sup
port. This is true in Chatham, Rich
mond and Bibb, where tin* local lax
is levied.
In his address to the newspapers
in support of the Hardeman hill
Commissioner Glenn says:
“The people are paying an cnor
moils local tax to detect, capture,
convict and support the criminals of
the county; would it not he better
to pay u tax to save our children
from becoming criminals? It is
cheaper to save a boy and make him
an intelligent and useful member ot
society than it is to allow him to go
to the bad and pay for the expense
to which lie subjects the county as n
criminal.
To save nil of tlit* children is the
highest unci holiest duty of the st ile.
We should (i her go forward and
perfect the public, sehsol system of
Georgia or retire altogether, and
lav the question of education tm
tircly to the parents of the children
We cannot, go backward and there
fore wc must go forward.
“It the resources of Georgia are t.
h* developed hy our own people, it
is high time to make the question of
the right education of the children a
serious question.' 1
The local school tax bill should
pass the legislature without opposi
tion. It presents a practical method
of improving our common school,
ttnd one which we behove the people
of Georgia will heartily endorse.
Sales
With Hood’s Sarsapa- ■■ ■ ■
villa, “ Sales Talk,” and I lif
Bhow that, this modi- ■ CS I
cine has enjoyed public confidence and
patronage to a greater extent t ban accord
ed any other proprietary medicine. Tin
is simply because it possesses greater
merit aud produces greater cures than
any other. It is not what we say, but
what Hood’s Sarsaparilla does, that tells
thestory. All advertisements of Hood
Sarsaparilla, like It !’s Sarsaparilla it
self, are honest. We 1. ive never deceived
the public, and this with its superlative
medicinal merit, is why the people have
•biding confidence in it, and buy
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Almost to the exclusion of all others. Try it.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Cos., bowell, Mass.
. . are the only pills to take
MOOd S PlllS with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
DICH RED BLOOD i* tlicfmm
■V datum of good health. That is w 1 \
Hood's Sarsaparilla. the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH.
ONLY True Blood Purifier
■ prominently in the public eve to
day is Hood's Sarsaparilla. Therefore
get Mood's and ONLY HOOD’S
One of the strongest exbibibition
of patient and persistent labor ever
seen is that which Mr. Herbert Spen
cer has given in his efforts to present
a system of synthetic philosophy.
He has worker! steadily upon it for
30 years and at last it is complete.
Enough is already known of it to place
it among thejinost remarkable achieve
ments ot the human mind. The won
der of its production is increased
when we remember that the vast a
mountof thought and research it ro.
<jtilled has been "71 one unremittingly
by a man who has never been physf
cully robust. Carlyle labored II years
on his “Life of Fredeiick,” and said
of it: “That hook almost killed me.”
Herbert Spencer lias given more
than three times II years to his
gjeat work and does not complain.
Npw that it, is finished the author
probably feels somewhat as did Gib
bon after writing the last page of the
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Em
pire- '’ He missed sadly the hard
companionship of the effort on which
he had been so long engaged and bis
sense of loss was gieater for a while
than tlie feeling of joy over a comple
ted task.
Mr. Spencer is now an old man and
Will, perhaps, not undertake any oth
er heavy literary work. lie lias al
ready (hum what no other living man
could have accomplished and should
be sai'tlied.— Atlanta Journal.
YOUR I’RESENT NEED
fs pure, rich blood, and a strong
and healthy body, because with the
approach of spring and the beginning
of warmer weather your physical sys
tem will undergo radical changes.
All the impurities which have accu
mulated during colder weather must
now be expelled or serious consequent
cos will rejjtilt. The one true blood
‘purifier prominent'v in tho public
eye to day is Hood's Sarsiq arilla
Its record ofvures is uneptialed. Its
sales arc the largest in the .vorld.
A few bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla
will prepare yon for spring by pui i
lying and clinching your blood anil
toning and invigorating your whole
system -
At last a bittlo has been iniontcd
that, after being once empted, ian
never bn refilled Perhaps this will
bo an important factor in solving the
fatuous pro’ 1 1. .- question.
W Lien most needed it is not unusu il
lor your family pysiciau t.o be away
from home. Such \\u, the ex penance
Kf Mr J- Y; pSohenck, editm - of the
Caddo, Ind. Ik r - JSnnder, when his
little girl, tw o poms ef ago was Uireat
ened with a severe atta k of croup,
lie sins - “Mv wife insisted that I go
b it - tun doctor, leu as ifur family phv
sieian was out of town 1 purchased a
boitloot Chaml)(jiT i:n u Cough Heme
dy, which relieve l her immediately.
I will not he wishoiit it in the future - ”
25 and ml cent bottles for sale by H.
T. Thompson, Merchant., Homer Ga.
Seven Months With Fever.
Wonderful IJU oovery of Ueulili.
Mr. ltairil's rapid and marvelous recovery
from a mere skeleton to his normal weight,
I 270 pounds, was surely tlie fulkst test of the
1 grandest strength-iitvlny autl Imililing-up
: metlieinu ever produced, namely:
Dr. Pliles’ Restorative Nervine.
J. 11. Baird.
"Gentlemen — I wish to express to you toy
rr-uiiotio fiu* iho groat good that Hr.
> Xm'ine has done for me, 1 was
ibKtm sick with typhoid fever and 1 laid
in bed for seven months. After cot ting
ovor the fever l was thin, nervous ana tired,
and did not regain my lost strength. I tried
several proprietary medicines, and finally,
after having been reduced in weight to 130
pounds, i began trying your Xcvvint, and at
once began to improve. Was finally cntinly
cured, and today ' can say 1 never felt bet
ter in all my life, and weigh 270 pounds.
This is my normal weight, us 1 measure
6 feet 5 l * inches in height."
South Bend, Ind. J. H. BAIRD.
Dr Miles’ Nervine is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell it at $1,6 bottles for $5, or
it will bo sent., prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Dr. Miles Medical Cos., Elkhart, Ind.
Dr. Miles’ Nervine Reßt n7’ith
gyCT WHAT WE SAY. but
what Hood's Sarsaparilla Docs, thal
'..'lls toe story of its merit and success
S‘member HOOD’S CURES.
WANTED-AH IDEALISM
•hiuß to patent ? i rotect voarhlras ; the'-my
hriUK you wealth. Write JOHN Wl 1
BI'KN a CO., Burnt tttornevs. W)iir.
U. c., •' v.**. <w.
NESBITT’S TALK
TO THE FARMERS
Monthly Letter of the Commis
sioner of Agriculture.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS DISCUSSED
Attention Crtlleti to the Condition of Cropi
■ *-< I.amli Supplied With Hqiuuk, In Con
tract to Those Where Commercial Fer
tilize r Alone Wore IVpended Upon to
Furnish Elcinouti of riaut Growth.
DEPA.tTMr.XT op Aoiiif ur.Tcna,
Atlanta, Nov. I. 1840.
Onr a counts for the year 1896 must
goon be made up. fn summing up these
accounts, and in taking a general re
view of farm operations for tho past
year, there are certain facts, which stand
out in bold relief. It is from t!ir-.-;e that
we she,i;-J deduce c-mclnsion-t to be re
membered in planning for and mnn
[ aging the crops for another year. The
j humanity of the early planted eirtt-m
from many of the disasters wiiich befell
the later plantings we have already re
ferred to, but we wish now to call at
t'-iition tfi tho condition of tho cotton
crop, mid indeed, of all crops oa lands
supplied with humus, in contrast to
those where the commercial fortiiizar
(done was depended upon to supply all
the elements of plant growth, But, wo
hear some farmers say, the commercial
fertilizers profess to contain all these el
ements, ami if this is true, why flood
xve supply anything else, except tho
necessary preparation and cultivation
of the land. Tins is in a ura-nv reason
able. Reliable fertilizers do contain all
fho main elements of plant growtn,
but iii order that plants may appropri
ate these elements to the greatest ad
vantage in the proper development o£
stalk, foliage amt fruit. certain condi
tions -f the soil are <ibsolufoly neces
sary, s me of the most important of
which arc moistuie, a deep seed bed, a
finely pulverized surface. All of these
may be largely supplied by judicious
plans of preparation amt cultivation,
hut every experienced farmer knows
how much easier those conditions are
reached if there is plenty of vegetable
matter in the soil. In such protruded
drouths as we have suffered from tho
past, season, the contrast in the crop* is
< yen more marked. In September of
the past season many cot in fields wero
bare of both leaves and green bolls,
while on lands well supplied with hu
mus, tho frost, which came about the
middle of October, found the plants
Hid covered with leaves and a top crop
of bolls maturing. At Uiih writing all
further growth has been chocked, but
•yen now the appearance of these plants
is altogether different from those on
lands from which almost every vestige
if vegetable inatior has been used up
lad us examine into some o,
ru r-.;s op HTMfS,
end we wi.t a. i . a- understand the
vrondel - m t-ii-cis its piesem * exerciser
on all plant growth. Hut hefotn wo en
ter into film object we must first un
! derstand that by the term “humus" wo
mean decaying vegetable matter. This*
is of course at first unavailable, but by
gradual decomposition it. becomes Mot
only available itself, but in the nr<*ss
of its own decomposition forms combi
nations, by which the sm tuuiitiing soil
is also decomposed. Nearly every soil
is lien in the mineral elements of plant
food, but in such form that we cannot
appropriate them to our use. As an
agent for unlocking these valuable stores
“humus" cannot be too highly valued.
The process is partly as follows: The
decomposing vegetable matter or humus
is constantly generating carbonic acid,
which is known to be a powerful solvent
of mineral substances The c irbonic
acid thus formed uniting, with the soil
water, becomes the powerful, though si
j lent agent, by which we break down
and dissolve immense dop sits of plant
I food otherwise useless, because insolu
ble in water alone.
EfTKCtK OP HP MVS ON DIFFERENT SOILS.
Another benefit: derived from humus
lis its mechanical effect on different
soils. It loosens stiff clay soils, in
; creases their power to take up water
| from rains and also to absorb moisture
and gases from the atmosphere. Ou
! loose sandy soil its office is to land it to
| pettier--make it more compact. This
v, ill prevent the ruins from cuirylng off
the uviiiliib.e plant food, and enable*
tl:e soil to hoM whatever moisture there
may l e deposited ill it. A porous soil
of this hi.id. wlieu til ed wiili imiuus,
lias also the power in very large degreo
of absorbing moisture from the air.
This may lie illustrated at any time by
an ■ xauiination of such soil, but is.ng.ro
marked during a drouth, or Pjiriy in.tlio
morning. Laud-, which are well tilled
with linmu . whether they be stiff clay
lands or the lighter sandy sods, do not.
suffer from drouth to the same degree
as lands destitute of vegetable matter,
ami the stillest day soils, wed supplied
with humus, rarely bake or ern-t v m
during a drouth.
VV VI'Hl U 'I.IUNH VOIVKR OF FTV.VS.
Tho addition of hnntus to the .-oil not.
on:v increases its power of absorption
from the atmosphere, but during dry
weather the s ukas# in the subsoil is
constantly returning toward the sur
face, win re tho humus will hold it and
prevent its escape into the atm 'sphere.
The amount ot water needed for healthy
plant development cannot be reduced
vat hunt injury to crops, but we may, by
tho use of humus and other mentis no
tably, shallow surface cultivation and
dost ruction of all unnecessary plants
and weeds, which also draw on the wa
ter supply, control for the use of our
growing crops the reserve supplies of
moisture, which would otherwise be
evaporated into tho atmosphere or ap
propriated by grass and weeds. That
HI'MUS IS A SOURCE OF NITROGEN
lias also been proven. This is the case
more especially from peaviues and c aver
when plowed under, but is measurably
true of all deeavinp vegetation.
HUMUS ABSORBS HEAT.
By darkeninp the soil humus certainly
increases its power to absorb hear. This
is a very important fact, to those who
realize the rtec ssity of pushing forward
their crops in the early spring.
HUMUS IS NOT FAVORABI.ETO INS... T 1.11 T..
The carbonic acid pas, which is beiup
generated in all lauds supplied with 'hu
mus. 's known to be destructive to la
wet life. Tills t.i j *rh V’ >** ’’lain re
Sheriff Sales,
GEORGIA: Banks County.—
j Will be sold on tlie first Tuesday in
January next, at the court house in
said county, within the legal hours
of sale to the highest bidder for cash,
the following property to-wit: All
that tract or parcel of land lying in
the 915th district, G. M, said county:
containing three hundred and sixty
(360) acres more or less bounded as
follows: On the North by lands of
P. F. M. Furr, East by hv lands of
!J. Iv, Thompson and Harber Broth
ers, South by lands of All's. Cran
shaw, West by E. I’. Barrett nr.
J: W. Dodd. Said lands levied on
to satisfy an execution issued from
Justice court of the 9l2tb district,
G. II in favor of the A- hpao .Phos
phate Company against Vina Motes.
Adolphus Motes aid John Motes.
Notice given as directed by law.
■'This Dedcmber Ist IB9C>.
J. W. SUMPTER,
($4.08) Sheriff.
Postponed Saie,
GEORGIA- Banks County.—
Will be sold on the first Tuesday ,n
September next at the courthouse in
■ said co n,ty, within the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder for
cash the following property to-wit:
Two lets in the town of Homer said
eon a ty, known in 'he p'al of said
county, known in the plat of said
town as lo's No. 121 and 72, which
embraces the residence and garden
ot .J. I>yar.
Also mi,', ot her lots ot said town
to wit: 39, 41. 45, 100, 101, 102,
103, 112 and 213. The same iti■ ■
lots which have been formerly adver
tised and re-advertised as postponed
sale. All of said property levied on
as thv property of K. J. l)yar, to
satisfy an execution issued from the
Superior Court of* said county in
favor of J,. N. 'l urk, administrator
do bonus non of .1 AC Patterson,
deceased, against H. J. Dyar, John
Jackson, and Sarah Patterson. T.is
Ist day of December 2896
J.VV SUMPTER.
($5.58) Sheriff.
GEORGIA: Banks Cor.vn
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
January next at the court house in
said county, vvithiu the legal hours
of sale, to tin- highest bidder for cash
four sevenths of undivided interest
in one hundred acres of land, mole
or less, known as the G. J. Forbes
place; hounded on the cast bv .amis
of J. K. 'Thompson, north by A. |.
Sanders anil others. Said land levied
on to satisfy an execution issued
from Superior Court of said couuty
in favor of Oscar Brown against
I). B. Walktr, administrator ~f J. A.
Vi alker, deceased. This December
Ist. I 9(1. J. W. SUMPTER,
(13.33) Sheriff.
GEORGIA: Bank County.-
Will be sold on the first Tuesdav in
May next at the court house do©. - in
said county within the legal hours ot
sale to the highest bidder for cash
the toll . n n r to wit: One tract of
laud I ing in said county ami bound
cd ns follows. Adjoining lands of
VvyU\ J. TTirieldkeid on the north
and west,, lands of Alts. Conn and
J. 11. Gardiner on the east, and lands
of J. .I. Ray on the South, the place
whereon defendenl imtv resides.
Containing one hundred and twenty
six acres, more or less. Said land
levied on as the property of .i. 11
Brooks, in atijsfy an execution is
sued fiom the Superior court of -aid
county in taqor of G. X. Hitch amt
Kula Taylor against said J. II brooks,
administr t r of the estate ot F. F. A.
Bitch, deceased. Written notice
given as required by law. Decern-
I ber Ist 1896.
J. W. SUMPTER,
| ($4.81') Sheriff.
Wl SERIF REE
Young and Old.
Rejoice with its in the Discovery.
When a man has suffer. 1 for veins
with a weakness that 1 lights • <
and robs him of all that really makes
life worth living, if he can avail t itn
self of a complete cute, why not pos
sess the niosai courage to stop hts -ovt.
downward course.
We will send ' u hv tea; :. A! sO
LI'TKLY FREE, in plain package,
the Al.l. POWEL’EUL Dli. HOFF
MAN'S VITAL RESTORATIVE
TAIII.ETS, with a 1 c >_ 1 1 gt arantee to
S permanent 1 v cure LOST MA S'HOOD
SELF-Alii'SE. SEXUAI. WI'AK
| NESS. VARICOCELE. STOPS for
ever NKIHT EMISSIONS and niv al
uv.-tl drains. Returns to former up
paarances emaciated organs.
No C. O. 1). fraud nor recipe de
ception. If we could not cure,'we
would not send our medicine FREE
to Pry, and pay when satisfied. Write
j today, as this tuny not appear again.
: Address
| WESTERN MEDICINE CO.
j Kalamazoo. Mich.
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•T. ROGERS,Pres't W. C. OLIVER, Yice-PreiT. A. M. BSNTOX. Sc. and Troas
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DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS
OF ALL KINDS.
Such as the Osborne Mowers. Il.ay Hakes and Disc Harrows, Olir*
( Milled Plows. Also \\ftgon and Buggy material, Guns, Ammunition, Beit
' ings, Ax'-s. T able and I’o kel Cutlery. The Famous
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HARMONY GROVE, _ _ GEORGIA
f ’ ; •_ . ..
Hasleton & Dozier
-t.AYTON St.
dealers in
High Grpcle Pianos!Organs
SMALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PICTURE.* 1 , PICTURE
FRAMING, ARTIST'S MATERIALS.
buv our instrument, from first hands, g, ve our wn g.ar.Bte*on them
Rn " “aw mak it to vour interest to oeu b or write tons before bay
Fertilizers for Fall Crops
should contain a high percentage of Potash to
ha -art the largest yield and a permanent cnrichmeot
of the soil
V, :re for onr “ Farmers' Guide,’’ a 142-page illustrated boofiy ]
is b'i, aid 1 . 11-eiul information for farmers. It will he sent fiee, at,
w ill make and save you money. Address,
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Ss what J. W. HEAD be
lieves when he is crowded
with work. He now has
tour good workmen em
ployed at his shop between
Homer and Maysville and
can do your work cheaper
than anybody.
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