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MB AAMNitA 8PNDAV MIUAMUiu JUNE it IMS
an old threat
MB. SKirra ONOK A W*KK TALK.
Mad* by Booth Ha* B**n B*oaM*d
Sine* U<* Building r*lt.
No greater argument to in favor of
the spiritualistic doctrine than the
burial of Elwtn Booth and the fall of
ford's theater. Yearn ago Idwin
Booth, in an outborat ofpaasfcm made
the remark that if, after bia death, aueh
a thing were possible, he would com*
back and tear that old barracka to the
ground.
At the time the statement waa given
publicity, the apintualtota took hold of
it and printed it everywhere through
out the country. The dally preae
laughed at the thing and it waa soon
forgotten. Yesterday a spiritualist re
called the olt saying of Booth's, and
spoke of it in that connection. Booth
had sworn to destroy the building after
his death. It was a plaoe that made his
entire life a nightmare. He never went
to Washington. No money oouldin-
duoe him to giro a performance in that
city. If in bis travels it was necessary
to go through Washington, be gener
ally arranged to go at night, when he
should be in the bed and aSleep. If
Washingtonians wanted to see Booth
perform, they bad to take a train and
go to Baltimore. There was not
enough money in the treasury to get
the tragedian in the capita).
Now the spiritualists are arguing the
question, did Booth keep his word ? Is
the great tragedian’s spirit responsible
for the catastrophe of yesterday morn
ing? Did he cause that building to
fal.? Men who knew the great actor
and his great heart refuse to accept any
such theory. It could not be possible
that Edwin Booth would oause the
wide-spread distress that this accident
causes. Yet the spiritualists reply, he
made the threat and it bas come true.
At the very least, it seems a most
remarkable coincidence. Booth stated
that, after death, be would tear that
b uilding down, and almost at the very
moment that the burial service is being
read over his body the building
collapses.
Was it coincident?
With the fall of the old building and
the death of Booth,the Lincoln tragedy
passes from life to eternity. Booth
was the last of his race. The theatre
baa gone forever. It is singular to
think to what a tragic end most people
come who were connected with the
assassination of the President. Secre
tary Stanton committed suicide by cut
ting his throat, and Corbett, the man to
whom was accredited the killing of
John Wilkes Booth, died in a lunatic
asylum. These are but single instances;
violent deaths have come to nearly
every one bavirg a direct hand in the
affair.
The world’will diacusB the matter;
spiritualists will take courage from it,
and all manner of men will stop to ask:
Was it coincident?—Constitution.
“Orange Blossom,’ ’ the common-sense
Female Remedy, to sold and recom
mended at Lyndon’s Drug Store.
Hoop skirts ars belug talked about as
once more oomlcg tu fashion end worn
as they were years ego. We heard a
woman *«y aha never, no never ynud
put on n hoop skirt but if they some le
fashion sgaiu she will all the asms. No
matter how uncomfortable or queers
woman’s apparel may be. If in fashion,
•he to sum to adopt lb la what part
of the world it originated or by whet
darn of people first w«rn makes no dif
ference. With the hoop skirts end the
balloon sleeve the young ladles and the
old ones too will look charming. Fash
ion rules the, world and a most tyraoi-
cal ruler she to, compelling people to
submit to so many inconvenient things
for fashion sake. Fashion pinches our
feet with tight shoes, squeezes the
breath out of our bodies by tight lacing,
makes it vulgar to wait upon ourselves
and genteel to live an idle life. Fashion
compells people to dress gaily whether
upon their own property or that of
others, whether agreeable to the word
of Godjor to the goddess of pride. She
courts the aristocracy and follows in
their foot-steps and then ridioulea the
poor if they do not follow in the same
path. It to said that Richard the third
was a hump back and his court to be In
fashion with their king, mounted bus
tles on their bsoks, this not being ex
pensive the whole nation were bnmp
back from the peasant to the king, all
were artificially deformed to be in
fashion. Ladies of rank and distinc
tion do not originate these gundy fash
ions but adopt them.
Fashion leads to pnde and vanity, it
is with some of more importance than
the strength of a virtue the of a
mind or the style of life, its example is
passion to the young. What,* disgrace
to be seen on friendly terms with an
unfashionable woman no matter
if her mind to a treasury of
knowledge and her heart filled with
goodness, she will as a rule not be ad
mitted into fashionable society. Read
the biographies of our great and good
men and women. Not one of them had
a fashionable mother. They nearly
all sprung frem plain, strong-minded
women who bad but little to do with
fashion. Readers, if you love freedom
more than slavery, happiness more then
misery, competence more than purity,
never worship the goddess of fashion.
Skiff, the jeweler, is not wbat the
fashionable, progressive euchre society
people would call a fashionable person,
but they do say he keeps e good assort
ment of fashionable jewelry and silver
ware. Athens bas been called * fash'
ionable and pr< gressive city, but she
has taken some retrogressive steps of
late, one of whioh will cost money to
retrieve and others that will blot its
reputation for some time to come. But
the city fathers, can, like Robinson
Crusoe, say, we are monarch or all we
survey from the centre ail around to
the sea. We are Lord cf the fowl, and
the brute, the people.
OBITUARY’
Mra. L W. ThMMd, dMRfetof of
Mr. ant Mrs, Jamas 4VM borg
July 0, UM6, in Mad inn wmnty sod
lived ihrtj until be? werriegu, end
after j iaed the fitopUit obureh, of
yrhtob she wes a oonttanl member until
her death. 8b* wee ever aobmimive to
the will of Qod, end never did ebe
oomplelo or murmur at Providence.
She wee always reedy to plead the
oause of the poor end needy. She
loved the Bible end daily reed U as
long at her eye-ilght wet spared her,
end followed it ee her guide through
life.
For several yean of her old ago, she
was unable to e'.tsnd church, end
would often have prayer meetings ap
pointed at her home, and always
mingled her tears of thanks and praise
to Qod with those assembled.
She bed been for many years a greet
sufferer, end proved her Christain
graces by bumble submission to her
•ffl lotions. She often prayed that when
Qod should be pleased to call her she
might not linger on her siok bed long,
end Qod answered her prayer; she
lived only two days after she was
striken down. She died at her home in
Athens, Qa, Feb. 12,1893 at the age of
seventy-seven. Sae leaves four chil
dren bereft and grief-stricken to mourn
her death.
Mother thou art gone to rest;
Thy toils and cares are o’er;
And sorrow, pain, and suffering now.
Shall ne’er distress thtf more.
Mother, thou art gone to rest;
Thy sins are all forgiven;
And saints in light have wetoamed thee
To share the jays of heaven.
THE LADIES.
The pleasant effect and per.'eot safety
with which ladies may use the Cali
fornia liquid laxative Syrup of Figs,
under all conditions, makes it their fa
vorite remedy. To get the true and
genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed
near the bottom of the package.
‘ARM'S GARDEN
SQUASH CULTURE.
A Fanonr and Mnrker.
An Illinois farmer claims in the col
umns of Tho Farm Journal that he has
used tho implement shown in the accom
panying cut two years and don't want,
anything better tor tlio work that its
name suggests.'
Hew Prl«« S^umIim Are Grown In Maua-
•liUMlta With Chemical Fertiliser*.
Squash must have a warm soil and
thrives best in soil of good strength, in
clining to u light rather thitn a stiff loam.
The rich meadows grow luxuriant vines
nttd large size squashes, but of inferior
quality and extremely poor keepers. To
secure large crops of fine texture, fully
meated squashes, ono must provide a i
liberal amount of food.
If manure is used, it should be applied
before plowing and thoroughly incorpo
rated into the soil by harrowing. The
hilla should bo struck out not less than
eight feet apart, and for the stronger
growers 10 feet is none too far. Use
from 500 to 700 pounds of phosphates per
acre, scattered well around each hill and'
mixed with the soiL Drop eight or ten
seeds in each hill, and when the plants
are well started thin them out to three or
four to a hill. At the second hoeing
scatter between the rows about 500 or
600 pounds more of the phosphate, thus
providing abundant food for the plants
all through their growing season. If the
hills are struck out into regular rows,
the field can be cultivated in both ways
and much hand hoeing saved.
The best growers have dropped the for
mer custom of hilling np their squashes
and prefer the level mode of culture.
The cultivator should be kept going over
tbe field until the fanners become sc
long that the cultivator would injure
them in passing. A Massachusetts farm
er who has made a special test of ferti
lizers on squashes tells in a letter to
American Cultivator how he grows prize
squashes.
My former practice was to apply to
my squash field nino or ten cofds of stahl,
manure to the acre, but now, by using
five cords of manure broadcast and a
handful of phosphate in each hill, I get
a much more satisfactory crop with less
labor and expense, tho work of planting
not being half what it used to be when
we applied the manure in every hill.
The phosphate is very obnoxious to the
black bugs and other insects which feed
upon the young plants, and I seldom
HANDY AND CHEAP.
But little description is required—the
cut is so plain. Any farmer who has a
workshop can make this implement with
a little aid from the blacksmith. The
small figure in front is a pieoe of plank
with a cultivator tooth inserted. When
furrows are to be made, one of these
should be bolted behind each ruuner
at A. To keep the furrowers down to
their work and in line, run a board across
tbe rear ends and bolt it to each one.
The operator should lay a board from
tho main plank to the rear board end
stand on it. The farther he stands be
hind the deeper the marker goes.
BUCKLKN’B AKNiO HALVE.
The Best salve m the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Bores, Ulcers, Balt Rheum, Fev«
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posit*
tVOOD'8 Phosphod:
Tho Great Enclbh Remedy.
Before and After,
Athens by Palmer & Kinnubro.v, and
Druggists everywhere.
Complete '
Manhood
and how to attain it.
At last a medical work that tells the caoscA
describes the eSects, points the remedy. This
la scientifically the most valuable, artistically
the most beautiful, medical book that has ap>
lubjects treated are Nervous Debility, Impo*
fcney, Sterility, Development, Varicocele, •file
Husband, Those intending Marriage, etc.
Every man who would know the grand truths,
the plain facts, the old secrets, and the new
discoveries of medical science as applied to
married life, who would atone for past follies
and avoid future pitfalls, should write for this
wonderful Uttle book. It will be seat fr*e.
Under seal. Address tbe publishers,
Erie Medical Co., Buffalo, N.Y,
sOTiale by John Crawford A Cto and
*ul A Ktaai*-w
Don’t forget tho’* Fancy Table Nuts
Pvotns, Wrinntn, Almonds and Brazils, .
Ml fresh and of superior quality. J. R. j have any trouble from them when 1
Moore, telephone 113. 1 3
freely use the phosphate.
Save
Paying
Doctors’
Bills
BOTANIC
BUODBAUK
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THE GREAT REMEDY
FOR AIL BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES •
Ilaslwn thoroughly tested by em
inent physicians and the people
tor 40 Tears and never fails to
cure quickly snd permanently
SCROFULA, ULCERS. ECZEMA,
RHEUMATISM, PIMPLES. ERUPTIONS,
Heinz’s Sweet Pickle in bulk at Gal
loway, Lambert A Co.
j fjcl»
.vwcdL. Price fl per bottle,^ bottles for $&. For
min by drusegista.
SENT FREE wox«V 0 S®bes. f
BLOOD BALM CO., Atlunt , 6a. <
Hou. TV. V. Lucas, ex-State Auditor
of Iowa, says: “I have used Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy in my family and
have no hesitation in saying it is an ex
cellent remedy. I believe all that is
claimed for it. Persons efflioted by a
cough or cold will find in it a friend.”
Tnere is no danger from wbooping
oueh when this remedy is free given.
25 and 50 cents bottles for sale by John
Crawford & Co.
FOiT KENT.
The brick building on Jackson street,
recently occupied as Council Chamber,
tbe City Engineer’s office and tbe stable
and lot adjoining.
For further information apply to
Thomas P. Vincent,
Chairman Pub. Prop’y Committee, or
A. L. Mitchnia,
Clark of Council
Tickets will be sold Athens to Au
gusta and return via Georgia R R on
aocouatot Sham Battle for $7 95, in
cluding admission to exposition
grounds. Tickets sold on morning of
June 13 and limited to return June 14.
• B. N Harris, Agent
JLb a Ne«t Egg Necessary?
It is impossible to tell without know
ing what passes in the mind of the hen
when she is considering nestmaking
The “theory” of the nest egg is certainly
plausible. It is believed that the uesi
looks more attractive to biddy and seems
more homelike if there is a nest egg in
it. If she has been in the habit of visit
ing that nest box daily, the fact of there
being an egg (or the counterfeit of one;
there when she comes expecting to lay
another egg makes her think the nest a
safe placo, while the absence of an egg
(or a counterfeit) may suggest a visii
from enemies of some kind, says the ed
itor of Farm Poultry, who uses nesi
eggs. He ha3 a china one in each box
all the time.
Subscribe for the Athens
banner.
A LITTLE GIRL;
The daughter of J. B Cox, a leading
merchant of Big Island, V& , who had
an alarming cough, baffling the skill of
the physician, was cured by tbe use of
.Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullein.
A Weak Digestion
strange as it may seem, is caused
from a lack of that which Is
never exactly digested—/a/. The
greatest fact in connection with
Scott’s Emulsion
appears at this point—it is partly
digested fat—and the most
weakened digestion is quickly
strengthened by it.
The only possible help
in Consumption is the
arrest of waste and re
newal of new, healthy
tissue. Scott's Emulsion
has done wonders in Con
sumption just this way.
Prop*red by Scott A Down,. N. Y. AHdrofttllfc
Lucian L. Ray, et al.) Petition for
vs. . 5 Belief, _ to
lultable
_ _.upertor
C. B. CnANDnza,etal.) C< u-tof Clarke Co- (to.
October Term, 1888,
To Mrs. Rebecci Chandler and CaldweU Chand
elier. M emphu, Tenn.:
fou are hereby commanded to be and appear
at the next term of said court, to be held In
and lor tali county, or the aeoond Monday to
October, 1883. then and there to Answer plain-
tiff’s complaint.
Witness, the Hcnorable 1 tomtit n McWhor
ter, Judto presiding-. This, May Nth, 1833.
J. K. KENNEY, Clerk C. 8. C.
MaySC—w8t
ifAK6I LOANS.
Negotiated In the following counties: Cll
Oglethorpe, Oconee, Jackson and Welton.
Apply to Cons A Oq
r.T a. KlnraCo. Thomas Bt. eni
Clarke
Oh, no, don’c taka “the bluea” be
cause of “tight timef,” but take your
li’.tle money to Wilson’s Cash More i —
wh^re you will find plenty of every- ^ Weekly Banner—th«
thing to eat at prices lower- than ever J.
before. Hold your courage and money great Democratic Organ OI tuff
until you get there. _ Eighth and Ninth District#
Miss Jennie Smith’s Summer Class It’s worth mors than * d»tt«*
in Drawing end Painting will begin I ’* ’ey
J in • 15',h. 129 Washington street.
OLD TIMER!
A Big crowd for Commencement Day
As It Used to Be!
COLLEGE EXERCISES IN ithe MORNING!
Two great Games of Baseball ’between the Crack Clubs of Northeast Georgia, Greek
meets Greek. .Foot Races, Sack Races. A day crowded with amusements, ending with a
Great Entertainment.at tbe Opera House in the evening, illustrated by magnificent views.
Lecture by the brilliant orator, Mr. THOMAS S. MELL.
SPECIAL RATES OF ONE FARE
£F a11 Railroads. MAKE YOUR PLANS TO COME AND BE ONE
OF A CROWDTHAT WILL ENJOY AN OLD-TIME DAY. Athens will have on her best
clothes. EVERYBODY WILL EE MADE WELCOME AND WILL HAVE A GOOD TIME,