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CORRESPONDENCE. Editor Ban.vrk-M icsskNokh. —Were you.ever in dreamland? Did you over fee^tbc peaceful calm, the sweet sense of ease, the halo of happiness, the infinite and pleasurable ecstasy of yearning satis¬ fied? Last evening I studied in the gloaming, and wandered around the scenes of the hapMf past. 1 went to the well on the square and drank long and deep from the old moss covered bucket there. 1 sit upon the long bench undet ihe wide spreading oak and as the shad¬ ows of night lengthened out towards the east I sat down and let sweet memory roll like a flood tide over my soul. A mocking bird sang sweet carols in the branches over head; her little throat opening wide in her joy to let the burst¬ ing song pi.’or nut to glad me with sensu¬ ous delight. From down the valley came the weird and mournful notes of the whip poo-will, quivering upon the niglit-wind. Under the pile of debris of morter and brick a little cricket chirped his evening song, liis mate answering his song of love with “dice dee I 'ove thee.’’ “( lice dee I love thee;'' the cock¬ les of their little hearts vibrating with glee and love. As the sun tints glowed up like dying embers in the west to make the last Hush of life 1 saw a beautiful city with long wide streets and palatial homes, hand¬ some business emporiums and along its streets hustled and hustled a gay and happy throng, the vehicles of pleasure were flitting hither and yon and beauti¬ ful ladies and handsome men laughed and chatted in hoisteious pleasure. The drays were crowding and jostling togeh or, loaded with valuable merchandise and freight. I gazed in awe and admira¬ tion. Presently I saw a flame flash across the sky written in lurid letters, Buchan¬ an! Just then a huge monster pierced my side with lance of pain and with a scream of fright I awoke and found a monstrous flea with buckled shield and shining lapee ready to devour me. I rushed to my room and disrobed to find myself black with them, and after spending a sleepless night fighting these pests I came down town vowing eternal fealty to stock law. C. J. JlJHAN. MONEY TO LOAN. If you have real estate and want to box row money, apply to -its. W. P. Robinson. BREMEN. Revs. Lasseter and Clements, of Talla¬ poosa arc expected to preach at Buchan¬ an the first Sunday in June. A protracted meeting will begin, D V., at Bremen the first Sunday in June and continue the week following. We are expecting ministerial help from Temple and Rome. We want to hold a week's meeting at Waco begining the tliiid Sunday in June. Jas. L. Ivkt. WANTED.—A good blacksmith at once. Apply to J. S. Williams, Buchanan, Ga. Our correspondents will please excuse us for leaving off their communications this week. When you lie down at night let your questions be, have I wronged any man? hare I told the truth? THE KRAMER SASH, DOOR 4 * BLIND * MANUFACTURING t COMPANY. G. R. BULLARD, J. I'. 11. BOSWELL asi> M. K. PHILLIPS, —PROPRIETORS.— Manufacturers and Dealers in Sash, Doors and Blinds of all shapes and prices. We also make Mantles to order. Mouldings of all kinds, dress¬ ed and Matched Flooring and Ceiling; Riding of alijkinds. Give us a call and we will save you money. We are also agents for F. J. Cool edge & K'ro’s. Ready Mixed Paints, Pure white leads and Lintseed oil. Will sell you as cheap as you can buy in Atlanta, Ga. FINK WORK A SPECIALTY AND SATISFAC¬ TION GUARANTEED. BREMEN, GA. ^sGO * TQe< MRS. T. V. M’CAIN’S % 9 j TEMPLE, GEORGIA J FOR your H&ts and Dress Goods. She KEEPS a well selec ted Stock of Millinery and Dress Goods of all kinds to *. lect from. The large crowds that daily throng to MRS. Me CAIN’S store will convince the public that they can buy cheaper there than anywhere else. w* fir" WHITE GOODS A SPECIALITY! -At i" o ooo u BINGHAMTON J FULLY WARR ANTED FOR FIVE YEARS. DELIVERED AT R. R. STATION FREE. V. R. DAVIS, Agent, Temple, Ga. Here We Go! Where? To T. J. LOVELESS & SON’S To Buy__ The Cheapest and Best HATS ] In Town! The Nicest and Best Dress Goods! In Town! j The Cheapest and Best SHOES W' In Town! Well in fact everything we need. They keep it and we are going to buy it! Yes; come along, Ladies and Gentlemen, we are ready to sell you what you want, and at Lowest Figures. Respectfully, T. J. Loveless & Son. SPRING MILLINERY! I wish to call the attention of my lady friends to the fact that I have just received a nice line of HATS, -HAT * TRIMMING, * RIBBONS, * LACES * ETC., * I have hats worth from 25 cents to $3.00. Call in and see me before buying elsewhere. Mrs. L. P, M’Kissack. BUCHANAN, GEORGIA. AFTER THE DEVIL CAME. About six weeks ago I visited friends in Calhoun county, Ala. 1 stayed only a short time and my visit was a very pleas¬ ant one. 1 had the. pleasure of meeting a great many old friends and making a great many new ones. I had an oppor¬ tunity of being at some all day singings with “dinner on the ground” and of course 1 was there. Amid all this enjoy¬ ment, imagine my surprise on hearing of the report being circulated at home that “Oscar Wild was killed near Anniston, Ala., by a runaway team.” That was me. Only, of course, I hadn't been kill ed, or anything of that kind, and I was near Anniston and all that, But then it wasn't me and 1 couldn't help believing it was if they bad left out the runaway SRJ,** was me, and some of them spoke of going right out to sec about it. Oh! how sorry everybody was. How they pitied mama, and how sorry they were for Rosa and George for losing such a noble brother and what a great man I had given promise of making, and how much good they had calculated on iny do¬ ing in the world. Really I could not help thinking it would have been a down-right shame if it had been me—everybody were so sorry. I think it was wrong to like a fellow as much as they all did me and never let him know it. I would have treated them lots better through life if 1 had know n the people thought so much of me. There were resolutions drawn up in the Alliance and nearly all the members cried and said I had been a noble young man. it seemed that I was the principle hope of that institution. The teachers of the Sunday school all cried and said I’d been a good hoy and they had always been so proflil of me and had so.hoped that I would live to bless the world. If I had ever known they had such hopes of me 1 would have never played marbles, traded or went fishing on Sunday a single time. After hearing of all these things I de¬ cided to return home at once. Oh, I was so anxious to see everybody. I knew they would all he so glad to see me. I felt as if it would he a dreadful tiling for everybody if 1 were to die. I hoped more than ever for everybody’s sake that I’d live to make a mark in the world. 1 never want to arttict people so again. Everybody liked ineso well, and I was so thankful that I wanted to stay witli them. 1 made sure that I would have a good time with so many friends. Well, I came home in time to he at our County S. S. Association and nearly ev¬ erybody was glad—I guess, hut it wasn't a bit like I thought it would be. Every¬ body had heard about it being another fellow and some had been saying they knew all the time it wasn’t so,'that I was not the kind of a fellow to die young, and one fellow said 1 hadn’t enough work about me to he driving a team of mules, etc., etc. Some who took on about it looked sheepish, and all the girls, with that ungrateful Yankee girl, took it back and said they never cried a bit. The pres¬ ident of our Alliance laughed and said he reckoned the Governor’s chair would not have to go empty after all, and the S. S. teachers took on iome, A great many of the hoys said “hallo, Oscar!” and didn’t even shake ands with me. When I saw Ed Bonne thought “now lie’s coming to tell m >w much be al¬ ways thought of me,’» 1 I smiled and looked as pleasant ; is I could, hut lie turned off anoth and looked as though he thought p bigger sneak than ever. I alnn # like I didn’t have a right anyvv suppose the fellows sorrow li. f Jonciled them to my loss, and wl/iej I came back it. confused them. 1 am not sorry that I am going away next week, hut I’m just Another fellow after all, and I can’t help thinking that if it had been that Ed Bonner himself that had been killed there would have been just as big a fuss made about him and I expect the Yankee girl would have cried too. It’s a funny world, but I have as good a right here as any one else—happy thought! I’ve made a new resolution. It’s to be just as good, studious and promising as all the people seemed to think 1 had been after my death was reported. Then if anything should happen, folks wouldn't have to he so two-sided about it. MORAL. If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life’s evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words never he said Of a friend until he is dead? Obcah Wild. SALARY, $25 PER WEEK.—Wanted: Good Agents to sell our General line of merchandise. Mo peddling. Abovo sal¬ ary will be paid to “live” agents. For further information, address: CHICAGO GENERAL SUPPLY CO., No 178 West Vauliuren St., Chicago, 111. aprl 111 Jy LOCAL ITEMS. KltV.sH FISH, If you want fresh fish he at our- Ad¬ just after the south bound passeugi comes Saturday afternoon. Come imme¬ diately before they arc all gone. 1*. .1. I.ovki i>s ,v Son. Parents, semi your children Id -vhool. Prof. Joe IV. Kelly commenced - 'bod here Wednesday morning. If you receive a copy of the liusn. Mksskngkk this week, read it. Our local ami editorial columns have been given to the write up this w e. k. Mr. .1. W. Stubbs, Rutland, (fa., says Uradycrotiuc is a sure cure for ile.id ache. Here are some men: Zee wishy washy. Zee Wishy washy. Washy re** whisky washy zee wishy. Oneof the trustees wanted a bet r man for a school teacher. Pull the mote out of thine own eye. What do you think of a man who wiil say lie is a friend to you ami tin a turn around and stab you in the back? When the righteous rule the people re¬ joice; when the wicked rule the people mourn. Who rules in Buchanan? Art our people rejoicing? Cash paid every night if required for a farm hand by J. S. G;um, three mile north of Buchanan, Gil., on Kockinarf road near Chandler’s shop. The people say they have let a few men divide them on school matters here long enough. Let the people rule, os clear the track and let us pass. Parents, would you think for a moment of going back on your obligations? If you have subscribed to a school 1>« as good as your word and send your children on if they arc not sick. J. P. Cooper, the old fruit tree man is here again in the interest of the Koine Nursery, asking you to save him an order. You will save money to deal with him and get a reliable stock raised in Georgia. If people would do what they say they will do, theie would be less trouble in this world. We don’t have to open our nnmtIts every time we say anything. (y.Tr ... : u -r and intimations through our actions are Bring words. Don’t think that we are taking sides with any one if we should happen to dif¬ fer with you on any question. What have to say is from an honest conviction, and if it don’t suit you we are sure that we would not mar our conscience just to please you. Understand we are open fo i conviction. An honest heart will \ iel <: to conviction and cleave to that which is right. The Union Sunday school of Buehaim>. will picnic at the pond just east of tow Saturday. Marshal W. L. Young was ap pointed to prepare the grounds, who tell us that he has a beautful place fixed ne: a spring of good cool water. Everybody invited to attend and to bring along some¬ thing good to eat. Let the children al! turn out. It will be a day of pleasure and recreation. We expect, to have more to say ahum the school here next week, and wo wiil put you on notice in advance that if you don’t like it you can let it alone. We a re here for the best interest of Buchanan and we don’t propose to play shut, month any longer on such important questions that affects the pub¬ lic. We are going to hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may. A man is not much of a friend to who will go among your enemies and that you have injured yourself in this or that thing, or that he believes it will in juie you. Your enemy should catch on to this friend and remember that lie would do the same by him. If you have a friend whom you believe to he doing wrong, g, to him and him alone about the mafic,. That's the kind of a friend you would p prcciate. If you want a friend he ;■ friend yourself. While you may gain fa¬ vor with your friend’s enemy by tin - talking, you may at the same time he los¬ ing your best friend. A true friend is wprth more than gold. Can't you he worth more than gold to your friend by being true to him?