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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
Tha Official Organ of Haralson County.
BUCHANAN, GEORGIA, SEPT. 3. 1801.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
-One Year - - - si.oo
Six Months 50
' Three Months - .25
An attentive mind bespeaks self-reli¬
ance and an intelligent weighing of words
and ideas.
Haralson eounty’s representative did
not vote for the State poor house. He
know we had no subjects in Haralson.
How many Confederate soldiers, who
would be likely to adopt that State poor
house as a home, are there advocating
the measure?
The county railroad tax bill has been
declared constitutional by Judge Clark
This means a half-million dollars to the
state of Georgia.
Representative Baldwin, of Randolph
county, did more than any man to defeat
the Confedcate Home bill. Dr. Baldwin
was a gallant soldier, and is a brave and
fearless man.
There should be uo feeling of estrange¬
ment existing between the people of tho
country and town. Let all work together
harmoniously for their mutual benefit.
Four-fifths of those who voted against
the Confederate Home bill are old Con¬
federate veterans. That follow down in
Carroll who went home as mad as a wet
lieu will please take notice.
How many old Confederate soldiers in
Haralson county would he willing to leave
-their home tics to take up their abode in
city of Atlanta? In our judgement
if this thing they call the “Confedate
Home” had been put upon the state, it
have become a summer resort for
the rich only.
* Georgia leads the van in trying to set
.-.up a State poor house. We are not will¬
ing to force these old Confederate vet¬
erans into that magnificent (?) poor house
up in Atlanta. We want to provide for
the helpless ones, and are willing to do so
without requiring them to go to Atlan¬
ta’s poor house to draw their rations.
Tight money, political heresies and
snubs from the Legislature can’t keep
Atlanta down.—Atlanta Journal para¬
graph.
This might he taken as an admission
that the defeat of the Confederate Home
hill was not so much a slight of the vet
eraus as a snub at Atlanta.—Columbus
Sun.
Big raeu get big things ou foot and
then dump them off on the people to sus¬
tain by taxation. Yes; they throw iu a
few dollars, get the good women to be¬
lieve their mission is a mission of charity
and they go to begging and the first
thing you know they have a great and
grand good something to donate (?)
to the State, and for the State to keep up
and support, and should the State refuse,
they go wild and call cveiything that
crosses their path a trator. Let charity
abound; yes, even so much as to hear the
voice of the people.
Much of the spleen that was recked
upon those members of the
who voted against the bill to adopt
“Confederate Home” was
caused by the disapproval of the
by the State Alliance—judging from
tone of some newspapers and their
respondents. Well, the boys have got
they have things pretty much their
way, and they most always take a
ble view of matters and are influenced
their course by reason which appeals
common sense and good judgement.
majority of them are old Confederate
diers who bore the brunt of the
hard fought battles of the Confederacy.
Say they have proved traitors to their
lost cause?
KINO WORDS OF ADVERTISING.
The following truthful pen picture of
one phase of the editor’s life is going the
rounds of the pi ess, under the head,
“Encourage the Editor:”
“As a rule, the editor gets a thousand
kicks to one caress. Once in a while ho
gets a kind word, and it warms and
cheers his storm-beaten, weather-cracked
heart co its innermost core. Most poo
pie are afraid to tell an editor when he
writes an article that particularly pleases
them, for fear of making him proud, we
suppose, but if they find anything that
does not accord precisely with their
views they will neglect their business to
hunt him up and tell him of it. Pshaw,
dear friends, don’t think you will spoil
the editor by giving him an occasional
word of cheer any more than yon will
spoil your child by-complimenting her
upon a piece of patch work she has fin¬
ished. Of course you could beat the job
yourself, but that doesn’t deter you from
giving words of encouragement to the
child. It has done its best. So you could
doubtless beat the average editor at run¬
ning a newspaper? Of course you can.
The man does not live who can’t beat an
editor at running a newspaper. The ed
itor is willing to acknowledge that you
can. He only does it because you have
not time to, but this fact need not deter
you from giving him a word of encourage¬
ment occasionally.”
In commenting upon this left-handed
eulogy, the Maury Democrat has this to
say :
Giving him a kind word of encourage¬
ment is good, but giving him words of
advertising for his paper is better. Pay
him his money when he cams it and kind
words will be forthcoming. Kind words
may warm and cheer the storm-beaten,
woathlr-crackcd heart of the above edit
or, but as for us we prefer a load of coal
or wood mixed in with the cheer of a
pair or shoes, and plenty of substantial
food to fill the inner man, every time.
this way the editor doesn’t get a
thousand kicks, but some delinquents
kick about a thousand times before they
pay their bills, while others beat the edit¬
or out of the paper, ranging anywhere
from a month to a century.
That’s the true philosphy. The edi¬
tor, does not, as a rule, cave for the
kicks and curses; ho gets use to them
early in the game; by the time lie has
been in the business a few years a light¬
ning stroke seems as a love lick, and a
cyclone appears to be nothing more than
a slight pooh-booh. An editor made out
of the right stuff cares little what out¬
siders say, so his conscience is clear, his
meal hag well filled, and his appetite
good. It is not pleasant words for which
be sighs so much; they are as balm of
Gilead to his soul, and he appreciates
them; but thanks bo unto the Lord, he
can live without them.
But he canuot live on air—there is no
unction to bis soul in au empty meal bag;
there is a time and tide in his affairs,
when his empty stomach yearncth after
things more substantial than compli¬
ments and words of cheer, when his
empty coffers aspire to a perfect realiza¬
tion of a few dollars and cents. It is
then when the far-reaching and fetching
pathos of the logic of the Maury Demo¬
crat comes home to him with a “dull,
sickening thud”—he wants a few pleas¬
ant words of advertising, and his soul de
lightetli to hear the delinquent exclaim:
“Here’s that dollar I owe you 1”
Pleas: nt words are nice and sweet, but
a good square meal is much more “tetch
in,” and on occasions, lias been known
to reach the exact spot, where most
needed.
If you want to cheer the editor, patron¬
ize his paper.—Chattanooga News.
What’s This Bnt a Slap?
It is a remarkable fact that a majority
of those who voted for the acceptance of
the Confederate home were the more
prominent members of the Legislature.—
The Brunswick Times.
The Times will please remember that
49 voted against the Confederate home
and that four-fifths of them are Confed¬
erate veterans. Why should the Times
be cutting up such a rusty about these
Ccnfcdtiate vetnars?
MEETING.
On the first Sunday in September there
is to be a meeting hold at the Pine Grove
school house, recently erected between
the residences of Mr. S. H. Waldorf and
Mr. Duncan Newman. Services begin at
11 o’clock. Several ministers are expec¬
ted to be in al tendance and everybody are
cordially invited to be present.
LITTLE CREEK.
Ed. Bannku-Mebsengkr.—I will glvo
your readers some of tho news in this
section.
Crops are promising at this time. Fod¬
der is being pulled and corn is good and
watermelons cheap. Though there are
some boys in this section who think it
funny to go in their neighbors watermel¬
on patch and steel out and eat them for
the fun of it. Two boys the other night
went into Mr. I. H. Bentlej’’s patch and
was enjoying themselves but all at once
they heard the report of a gun which
made a great change in their fun and they
made haste to get off from there.
There is some sickness in this section.
Mr. Fletcher Oswalt is in a critical con¬
dition and H. E. Wimpeo has a. very sick
child which is in a dangerous condition.
Some other little sickness.
Tours,
John Spixkins.
Now Try This
It will cost you nothing and will surely
do you good, if you have a Cough, Cold,
or any trouble with Throat, Chest or
Lungs. Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guar¬
anteed to give relief, or money will be
paid back. Sufferers from La Grippe
found it just the thing and under its use
had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try
a sample bottle atom expenses and learn
for yourself just how good a thing it is.
Trial bottles free at Neill & Almon’s
Drug stoi-e. Large size 50c and $1.00.
APPOINTMENTS BUCHANAN CIRCUIT
For September, 1891,
Pleasant Hill, first Saturday and Sun
day.
Smyrna, second Saturday and Sunday.
Waco, third. Sunday.
Bethlehem, third Saturday, a. m., and
Sunday at 3 o’clock afternoon.
Bremen, third Sunday night.
Buchanan, fourth Saturday night and
Sunday, a. m., and p. m.
Philadelphia, fourth Saturday aud Sun
day.
Felton, fourth Sunday night aud per¬
haps Monday night following.
Protracted meeting begins at Friend¬
ship first Saturday to continue a few
days.
These appointments will be filled D. V.
in person or proxy.
J. L. Ivey, P. C.
REMARKS.
We have had several protracted meet¬
ings on the Buchanan mission. About
76 new members received during the year
up to date. We trust the morals of the
county are improving, hut sin grows rank
while salvation flourishes. We have had
much good help from the ministers on
this work for which we return our grate¬
ful thanks.
J. L. Ivey.
Milton, Fla.
This is to certify that I have been afflict
ed with Scrofula, or Blood Poison, for a
number of years. Tho best physicians of
Mobile and this city said nothing could
be done for me. I also took a large quan¬
tity of-, but found no relief in any¬
thing that 1 took. My limbs were a mass
of ulcers, and was sent to a physician in
Mobile my body was a mass of sores. 1
had given up all hope, and as a last resort
tried P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root
aud Potassium), and after using four bot¬
tles (small size) the sores have entirely
disappeared, and my general health was
never better than at the present time,
and people that know me think it a won¬
ful cure. Respectfully,
ELIZA TODD.
Catarrh originates in scrofulous taint.
P. P. P. purifies the blood, and thus per¬
manently cures Catarrh.
ATTENTION!
FARMERS!
$3
Having made all the arrangements
necessary, we now offer to buy
YOUR COTTON,
and we take this method to publicly an¬
that we are going to give as much
for COTTON as Mr. Anybody.
There will be other
buyers hero, but that’s
“ALL THE SAMIE.” We
ABE GOING
to Buy YOUR Cotton
*
If you will bring it to Buch¬
anan.
T.J. LOVELESS & SON J
BUCHANAN, GEORGIA.