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| THE BANNER-MESSENGER . ' “—‘:-"-:2—“:—‘:..:.":1;:.;’;:;;; e ot 6 Oficial Oran of Haralson County. HANAN, m-:onmA."JQN. 1, 1891, . NIX, Editor and Manager. SUBSURIPTION RATES, RN ARE &vAe ke e s S - £I.OO Sl MORENS < b gsoewß e- = .50 EPIRG EGRERN (e el 0) =8 T 8 SR .25 } e ————————————————————— The one cent letter postage was like the forty acres and a male. It wasa promise and nothing more. A ———————————————— The National Economist quotes the At lanta Constitution under the heading of “The Reform Press.” Isthe Cousti a re form paper? —M Sitting Bull missed the mark when he predicted there would be no cold weather this winter, although the boys are mak ing it warm enough for them. ——————————— A goodly number of bills have been in troduced in Congress for the purpose of increasing the circulation of money, but none of them have proven effectual yet, or at least it is the case with us. e ——— The squeaking of Christmas toys has about ceased and we are made to feel glad. Can’t Sandy Clause get up some thing that will interest the children next Christmas without so much noise? we guarantee him a patent if he will. ol Sl 1t is the duty of every Allianceman to be patient and firm. [ttakes men of deep and strong coavictions and with courage to stand to such convictions in order to ac complish great reforms. To such men we owe our freedom to-day. Wwill our posteri ty say the same of us? r' ¢ e ~ The Whitesburg Advance is now a ‘handsome all home priut paper. J. L. Almon is editor and proprietor. wm. k. Smith, Jr., the former editor and proprie tor, has severed his connection with the Advance *‘simply for the sake of a larger iold.” He could find one peahaps near yver on Snakes creek. R — ton has a new daily paper, ‘‘The o, SE - e WAV T ake. bcess of a daily paper in (,Imm]ltun; Iybody can. Carrollton is the small- | | town onrecord with a daily paper, it she isa progressive liftle city., Suc- ‘ ss to her daily paper. | ——————————— Why fill a store with goods and then keep darkiabout it? It costs money every | 'day and every hour to carry a stock of goods. Let the public know what you have to sell. Interest the people—at tract them—do not allow them to forget you or your crowded shelves. Turn on the lights, especially the brilliant, steady and far-reachinglight of advertising.—Ex e e Notice to Sunday School Workers. The second quarterley Sunday school ®stoeiation of Haralson county will con vene in Buchanan Sunday and Saturday before the first Sunday in February. A full corps of delegates and all the officers are expected to be on hand. A harty welcome is extended to all the schools. T. M. MOORE, Chairman of Executive Committee. R — ‘ BREMEN. i Alvs. Lella Parker, assisted by her son. Rbbert, is opening a lunch house and will furnish meals near the junction of the ramroads. Success tothem. achers are moving to Bremen. re trying to go to Africa. C. W. PARKER. OLD PARMER COMES AGAIN. NONE SO SMART AS HE. R . Everything quiet, peaceable and lovely in this section. No sickness to amount to anything., Health good in thesc parts except chills and bad colds. Willful negligence and gross careless ness have been the prime canses of me not answering all the letters sent me, My friend, Lee Dennis, is one among the anx ious inquirers about this portion of the moral vineyard; his letters containing a list of questions almost as lengthy as the moral law. I thinkall the questions he asked but one have been answered in the MesseNaEß, He wanted to know if this was a good place for printers, and wanted to know what kind of water ruey had to drink out here. From what little infor mation Lcan gather, printers drink the same kind of water that other people do Speaking of water makes me think of packing water. Several years ago I thought it was impossible to pack water, but [ am now convinced that this can be done. The process is simple. We have been packing our drinking water 220 yards. It is now school days with the children. They are going to a free school, and all the expense attached 1s buying the books and paying the taxes. A few days ago the teacher asked a crowd of little male scholars which they intended to make when they got grone, preachers, lawyers or doctors. Our youngest kid was in the bunch, and when it came his time to an swer he said: “I'll not make narry one.” When asked by the teacher what he would make, he answered: “I’'m goin’ to make a farmer.” I mention thislittle incident to show that erroneous ideas are often inculcated into the minds of children at school by well-meaning instructors. Georgia and Arkansaw are full of young men who have been taught that an edu cation means something with which to eet, out of the field. Itis often the case that you will see stout and well-muscled fellows trying to preach, or practice law or medicine, who would look more like they were at home if they were on the farm or in the shop. A few days ago I started a hoghunt ing, my attention and eyes were turned a few steps off my tiail Ly the barking of asquirrel. The animal’s tongue was go ing like a bell clapper, as it were, and 1 4thwith and immediately took old Hulda from my shoulder and emptied the con tents of the left hand barrel in the b("(ly and head of the noiswsaninrema=No soon er thaf thé' ¥uot struck the squirrel the thought strnck me that his tongue was his ruin. This incident set my thinker to running. It made me think of a few individuals L have a slight acquaintance with, whose tongues are poisonous and never get tired. No hog hunter may nev er come along and pour a load of shotin to ’em like I did the squirrel, but they will be despised by all good people and will finally come to some bad end. The fellows and winches I have in mind will go from house to house in search of something bad. They never hear or know of anything too bad to tell, and they will either add to or take from to make matters worse. Their tongue is their ruin. Hog huutingis as common here as deer hunting in Georgia. Enough meat has been killed here to supply the people,and nearly.all of it has been fattened in the woods on the mast. Pork is now selling t three and a half and 4 cents, and dull sales at that. But every sweet has its bitter and visa versa. We are put to some trouble in getting our meat. We have to drive out a mile or two from home in the hog range, shoot.em down wherever found and haul ’em home. . It will take two hands nearly all day to get three or four hogs home and get them dressed. Sometimes you will have to shoot a hog more than once to kill him, They are a little skttish and it takes a good marksman to bring them downat the first shot. I haven't made a second shot at a hogyet, and I am given up to be one of the best hog hnnters in this whole country. I have seen hogs run ning in the woods here that would weigh over 200 pounds, and they had not scen an ear of corn in twelve months, There are some very fine deer in this countryyet. I will have to state lhere that I have had the inexpressible pleas | ure of killing one deer, and I also want t» ‘show how human nature will show itself even among brothers while deer hunting. My brothes knew nearly every hog trail and deer stand in the woods. We, togeth er with other gentlemen, went driving. He showed me a “‘stand’” and he went to another *‘stand.” I stood about forty five minutes, and began to get impatient, But by this time or probably sooner, I heard something coming at railroad speed. I propped myself against a pine tree; and pulled both hammers back as usual. He was a fine buck coming in a gallop. I was cool, calm and sercne as anyone could be under such circumstan ces, and waited until thejbeast got in 20 stops of me, and then emptied a ad in him. Hefell to his knees, spilled some of his blood and then ran faster than ever. He peacefully expired in a few moments about a mile from there. The Luman nature I spoke of a bit ago is this: Ihave been informed that deer very seldom ever passed by the stand [ was at, but neaily always went by the place where my broth erstood, and he knewit. And as usual, luck was in my favor and against him, Yours faithfully, - OLp FArRMER, P. 5.—11 failed to mention in the prop er place that I killed the deer about eight years ago in Alabama, 0. 1 Bro. Waldrop Tells About His Trip to Lookout Mountain. Bro. Eprror:—After an abscence of sometime, I will try to write again and give you a sketeh of a trip I have just made to the state of] Alabama to see one of my brothers who lives at Attalla. In company with J. T. Waldrop I boarded the train at Rockmart at 1:40 o’clock and by 6 o’clock in the evening we found ourselves in the bright iittle town of Attalla, a distance of 90 miles. We went by the way of Rome to Gads den. I cannot see why so many people are renting land when there is so much un improved land as there is from Rome to Attalla. There are thousands of acres of unimproved land that lies as level as a yard and some as good as the land in Georgia and it can be bought from one o four dollars per acre. Well we found brother H. C. Waldrop about 8 o’clock Tuesday night and spent the night with him. Next morning we started for a trip down to town where we boarded the dummy for Alabama City at which place we left the dummy for Look out mountain. We struck the mountin where Black river enters the valley, It is an interesting sight from there to the Black river falls. The first thing to be seen is che coal mines where they take the coal from the mines ready for the grates. The nextis the little flats——— thatextend from the river to the moun are a number of trees called turkey oaks that are as green as our oaks in June and the craggy banks of the river is covered with green Ivy which makes one think that summer never departs. The stream has cut a channel from five to seventy five feet deep. Here is a picture to Le seen and never forgotten. The water /!n&kemrgk"&wé'( feaop of 98 fante~ At e water leaves the rock “a few feet it be comes in a wavering condition and bursts into sheets like flakes of snow and falls gently enough to beat into the whitest of foam. We had come to see the falls. So we had to decend about one hundred feet down the rugged hanks to the water,then we walked around] under the banks that have been worn out by the constant slash ing of high waters. The distance around the basement is abount 300 yards, We went away under the river back of the falls, where, in olden times, they had pic nics. We sawifragments of the platforms on which they used to dance. I tell you I did not feel like dancing while I wasun der there with millions and millions of pounds of rock hanging over me and some pieces that would weigh a ton just ready to fleak off. lam ready to admit that my mind was free for a few mo '‘ments from tne cares of this world while Iwatced the water make its grand leap and go rushing and surging down its rug ged road to the foot of the mountain,— While my two brothers and [ locked hands and set ourselvs, I reached out and broke a limb off of a gum tree 125 feot high. ‘ W. 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Go get a nice Clock, Watch, Picce of Table Silverware, Musical Instrument, Jewelry ora Gold Ring for a Xmas Present: Good goods at LOW PRICES and Guaran- Repairifig Watches done quickly, by a thorough v-‘-rdrl.(m.m._‘ and fully guaranteed REMEMBER PLACE--CORNER HEAD AVENUE AND MILL STREET, Tallapoosa, Ga. HARDWARE!! —THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO BUY—— ANYTHING IN THE HARDWARE LINE IS AT J. A, Campbells, "7 (Uedartown, Qeorgia. PLOWS, COLLARS, COLLAR PADS, HAMES, ETU., ETC. The Success Collar Pad is the Best on the market. S/ G o By = o }é}/afir and ‘ ""/i{_ffm% S NS HERE FELLOW! | R e # JUST FROM MARKET? = g Yes; and want to call your attention to | the fact that I have just laid ina new supply g —— O F—— NEW GOODS! STRAN HATS, : WOOLEN I 4 8, ’ PRINTS, WORSTEDS, CASHMERES, LAWNS, ] SHEETING, TICKING, BLEECHING, CHECKS, BOOTS, SHOES, ETC, , Respectfully, H. N. STEWART, BUCHANAN, GA. 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