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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. IN> - t.i Ot: ATI : i •T. ROGERS,Pres't W. C. OLIVER, Yice-PreiT. A. M. BSNTOX. Sc. and Troas ....OFFICE 0E.... 'mi mum: i\ii ninniii w (INCORPORATED ) 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 “rSIEW ENTERPRISE COOK STOVE.” • o\>r . •Ji-i daily use. evrv one piving perfect satisfaction. \ foil line of latest improYed | 11. Gmg .srovi- i:■ ' :* it* fierul line of iianiware. al! of which we are offering rock bottom* 41 ' '' l ‘Tti. :ilso f ; r nisli you wiib any kind of Jkia l hineiy. tail and examine our stock and | be eoitv liiceu. j (-'oner of Cirnesviile and Broil -•rcets, next door to Qu Tiian Jb Sa HARMONY GROVE, _ _ GEORGIA f ’ ; •_ . .. 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