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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
The Official Organ of Haralson County.
IIVC HAN AN, GEORGIA, MAIL 12. 18111.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
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One Year - 81 .nn
Six Months • - .50
Three Months - .25
•tseo MAIN TO-NIGHT. r
Tuesday morning opened up bright and
clear and the earth was made to glitter in
majestic splendor by the sun's genial
rays reflecting upon the frost-covered hill
slopes. But lo! Tuesday night while all
•the earth peacefully slumbered—while
the cattle of the fields, thinking “no rain
to-night,” lay down to sleep upon the
soded turf, while the fowls of the air,
thinking “no rain to-night,” perched
themselves upon the outer branches of
the stately oaks that they might greet the
sun’s first rays and warble forth
sweetest spring lays, and while ten thous¬
ands of throats amid the quagmires had
been croaking for joy all spring thinking,
‘‘no rain to-night,” drew nearer the banks
of the streams, lest their throats become
dry—while amid all this peaceful slumber,
and dreams of sun shine, flowers and fruit
the dark pinoned clouds had spread their
wings from the four corners of the earth
and at dawn began to send forth their
drenching showers upon the already
cloud-dripped earth, and nil these dream¬
ers awoke to realize that they’d only been
slumbering amid .sp.bu-g and sun shine.
This country is no longer ruled by a
Czar. Reed lias gone home; bis time has
expired.
Gen. John B. Goreon has joined the Al
liance.He has been faithful to his promis¬
es so far.
Those who have not heretofore been
laying up something for a rainy days, be¬
gin now to feel the wisdom in so doing.
Tommie Reed will le.un something
from Speaker Crisp, of Georgia, in the
next Congress'. But Tommie has always
been a mighty thick headed boy.
Scenes of disorder will occur in the
best of regulated towns. However anx¬
ious the good citizens of any town ave’for
the peace and harmony of their town,
now and then some one will do some¬
thing that causes the best of friends to
fall out, which throws a damper upon the
whole community. Lets be careful bow
we act when the peace and quietude of
our town or community is involved.
Many years practice has given C. A.
Snow & Co., Solicitors of Patents at
Washington, D. C., unsurpassed success
in obtaing patents for all classes of inven¬
tion. They make a specialty of rejected
cases, and have secured allowance of
many patents that had been previously
rejected. Their advertisement in anoth¬
er column, will be of interest to invent¬
ors, patentees, manufacturers and all
who have to do with patents.
Surprising; Testimony.
Many physicians who have examined
into the merits of B. B. B. (BotanicBloop
Balm) have been confronted with testi¬
mony which they deemed surprising, and
thus being convinced of its wonderful
efficacy, have not failed to prescribe it in
their practice as occasion required.
H. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes:
“For two years my wife was a great suf
fcrcr. Skillful physicians did her no
good. Her mouth was one solid uleer
her body was broken out in sores, and
she lost a beautiful head of hair. Three
bottles B. B. B. cured her completely, iu
credible as it may sound, and sue is now
the mother of a healthy three months old
baby clear from scrof ulous;taint.”
A.*®. Morris, Pino Bluff, Ark., writes:
“Hot wrings and several doctors failed
to cure me of several running ul
elcrs in - ’ yi, B B B effected a wonder
full k cure after everything else
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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Gone, but not forgotten—the fifty-first
Congress.
V
The big type founders have formed a
trust. It will now be in order for the
newspapers and publishing houses to do
likewise. ‘‘What is sauce for the goose,
etc.
V*
England shouldn’t worry, Uncle Sam
has no idea of eloping with Alins Canida,
out if that,young lady leaves the parental
roof of her own free will and accord she
isn’t likely to be insulted for lack of pro¬
tection.
***
The World’s fair hoard of controle
seems, ‘,‘to a man up a tree,” to be more
interested in dra wing the salaries of its
members than in promoting the exposi¬
tion.
***
The word “Czar” which has been kept
standing in large quantities in every well
regulated democratic newspaper (office
for some time, can now be distributed, as
the “Czar” is no longer “Czar.” but plain
Represeritati ve lleed.
V
Ob, those everlasting letters. Now it
is the governor of New York and the
governor of Connecticut. We would sug¬
gest that the two gentlemen follow the
example set by the famous rulers of the
two Carolina,s.
***
Ex-Senator Blair goes to China as Uni¬
ted States minister. We give the Chi¬
nese fair warning that Mr. Blair is a very
estimable gentleman except when speak¬
ing on universal education, then he be¬
comes—well, call it tiresome.
V*
An enthusiastic young naval officer
proposes to walk to the north pole.
What’s the matter with skating?
***
If the World’s Fair is to be the success
it ought to be, more work and less quar¬
relling must be done.
V
Many of tlio Congressmen, whose sala¬
ries have stopped, are doubtless envious
of the professional base baiUst, wliose
salary is just beginning.
***
A newspaper writer says the Chinese
Highbinder’s mission is to get as much
as possible, for nothing; to obtain it peac
ably if possible, but get it anyhow. Such
also is the apparent mission of a good
many people, who do not belong to the
kill-you-for-a-nickle Chinese society.
***
Pool selling on horse racing is to be
made unlawful in France. This is in
striking contrast with the action of' our
Congress, which has passed a bill legal¬
izing pool selling on the race track in the
District of Columbia.
***
Ground will be broken April 2T for the
erection of the Grant Monument at New
York. The monument will be completed
when enough money shall have been rais¬
ed to pay for it, and that will be—the
Lord only knows when. No wonder Gen.
Sherman said: “Don’t pass the hat
around for me.”
***
The criminals of Connecticut will not
shed any tears over the dispute between
the governor of that state and Governor
Hill, of New York. The adage may now
be paraphrased to read: When govern¬
ors fall out thieves go free.
V*
The queen of England has had her
nerves considerably upset of late; slie
quarrelled with her son, and waiting to be
successor, in public; and slie was fright¬
ened to death lest the mercurial Frenc “
man would treat kerjjbeloved daughter,
the thoughtless Empress of Germany, as
they once did an erstwhile queen of their
own. Happily the trouble is for the
time over, but between the cares of the
state, economizing and her children, Her
Majesty knows the truth of the saying:
“Uneasy lies the Lead that wears a
Hat Holes, Cats and Silver I'.lIJs,
Bkotiiku Nix:—This caption may ap¬
pear to the reader like Wanar’s dodgetu
catch the readers attention. We are talk
ing about the same tiling, but our mo¬
tives are different. Waller's is to get into
our poeketbooks; mine is to try to lay
plans with my brother Allianeemen to
kee^i others out of our pocket books.
To illustrate the caption, we will say
cats are gold, silver is hells for them, the
farmers are rats; the oldf state bar.Its used
to be rat holes the farmers could go into
when the cat with silver hells tried to
make them their prey, and if a rat or two
got caught we only laughed at them and
told them to be quick next time and they
would have better luck, for its a. sorry rat
to let a cat get him with a silver be|J
and plenty of rat holes to run into.
There were good old times when the
cat had to hunt industriously for prey.
Mark the black shadow that came over
our fair land when our public servants
conspired with the emissaries of Eng¬
land to take the bell off of the cat and
tax state banks 10 per cent., then
stopping up all the rat holes to carry out
the hazard cincular for money to control
labor and reduce free born American la¬
bor to slavery. To the foreigners for the
first ten years of this process the cat was
very sly until she got bloodthirsty and
came boldly on the barn floor in the
shape of the jute andVtwiue trust to get
such rats as she desired and crippled
them she left. But the rats out in Kan¬
sas, not having anything to do in their
rat holes, their nails grew out longer and
sharp and they snatched and pulled out
a nice pile of fur from the cat and will
finish the job in 1892. All hail Kansas!
She is coming, God bless her! I hear it
whispered that the Georgia rat’s claws
are growing finely and will be ready for
the big fur pulling in 1892. What the
writer means by the rat claws growing is
the education that is going on with farm¬
ers. Now, brother farmers, if the illus¬
tration is homely it, is true. We are just
as helpless as so many rats in a barn
without a bole to go into from the cat.
Let us see to it at the ballot box that sil¬
ver is allowed as free coinage as gold that
will put the boll on the cat. The Sub¬
treasury bill will open the rat boles and
force the cat or gold to goto working for
two per cent, per annum and go to work
like a good citizen instead of being hid
away in the conspiracies of trade.
J. C. Westbook.
LIBERTY.
Brother Nix:—
I have nothing much to write about on¬
ly the grippe. We have plenty of that.
/ grip-to-grip all this country;
It is just over
besides we have bad some other sickness
and some deaths and still some sickness
in the country.
It is still raining and I think the farm¬
ers will have to begin their crops in the
mud or wait till June. But they can make
cross ties if they want to work and I guess
they do.
Well, Vines had a lumber sale the 5th
and sold lots of bad lumber that nobody
else wouldn’t have, but it brought a good
price, as he told them it was their last
chance to get lumber. I reckon he meant
rotten lumber.
The young folks lmvo been having a
nice singing Sunday nights, but it has
played out and they are just grilling
around, having a good time I guess.
There will be a Sunday school taken
place at Liberty church the 4th Sunday.
I hope we will have a good school, and I
don’t know why we shouldn’t when other
places do and 1 know we can.
We have had lots of mad dogs in this
beat and there is one mad cow in this
country now. It is A. J. Fincher’s cow.
She has not hurt any one as yet, but lias
give some of the boys a race. Mr. Glaze
says if she is not mad she must have a
spite at him for she made him jump the
garden fence.
Hustling Joiiny.
P. S.—The grinning I spoke of was the
sun grins last summer.
H. J.
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