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BANNERMESSEMER.
VOL. XIV.
NEWS IN A
Occurrences of the Past
Boiled Down.
Seth Burrows, a cowboy, of El
Tex., got into a fight across the river
Mexico, and in a pitched battle stood
the Juarez police for one hour.
was ki I led himself, but before biting
dust he killed a gambler, a
and fatally wounded two other officers.
At Morganfield, Ky., a tornado
the city, unroofing the old
church and the parsonage, totally
ishing a large two-story brick
and giocery store, the city ball and
produce stove. Harvey Sellers, city
shal, who was in the police office at
time, was instantly killed by a
wall.
Charred and burned beyond all
blanee of human beiugs, the frames
Marcus McGelsey and Palmer Simpson,
the two Seminole Indians who a few
ago murdered Mrs. James Simmons,
still reclining in chains against the
ened trunks of an oak tree in the
nole nation, where on Friday night
met their death in the most awful
ner conceivable at the hands of an
ma mob.
Indians Put on War Paint.
A special to The Republic from
gee, I. T., says: An alarming stare
riot prevails in the Seminole nation
unless immediate steps are taken by the
United States authorities a bloody In¬
dian uprising may result. This on
count of the burning of two Iudians by
whites for the murder and outrage of
Mrs. Simmons on January 1st.
All the authorities recognize that
situation is nearer bordering upon a dan¬
gerous Indian uprising than any in re
cent years and are taking prompt meas¬
ures to quell it.
Earge Land Purchase.
A Greenville, Ala., special says:
One of the most important of recent
southern land purchases was made by
Messrs. J, J. Flowers, F. A. Flowers and
J. D. Flowers, of Bolling. These gentle¬
men have purchased 60,000 acres of
ly timbered land southeast of Bolling,
near the Georgia-Alabama line, and will
soon erect upon it an immense jdant
ilar to the one of Bolling. The Messrs.
Flowers, who have made this large pur¬
chase, are all sons of the late W. H.
Flowers, who was the first president
the Milner, Caldwell and Flowers Bum
her Company, at Bolling, one of the.
prominent lumbering manufacturers in
the south. His three sons, who
made this immense land purchase,
all members of the Milner, Caldwell
Flowers company, but this
will be separate and distinct from
company.
No sensible man should get
because a newspaper man duns him
mouey. A dun is not an
of a subscriber’s integrity, but, it is
outcropping of the publisher’s necessity.
For instance, a thousand men owe
one to four dollars. He has to dun
to piy expenses. Instead of getting
and stopping the paper for what is
estl >> due, the subscriber should
the © ditor for wa.tiug on him
up like a man.—Ex.
BUCHANAX, HARALSON’
Some New Year Resolutions.
Resolve to relieve yourself of the
body of cherished sorrow, God
his children to be happy.
Resolve to lot all your
prejudices and uukiud feelings die
the old year. Do not drag those
hatreds of vours into the
new year.
Resolve that you will this year
scrupulously careful of other
feelings and interests. Half of
ty\s heartaches come from the
erateness of other people.
Resolve to re-enthrone your job as
fault-finder, eomplainer and croaker.
business does not pay, anti the end of
year is the best tfme to wind up the
fairs of an unprofitable enterprise.
Resolve to ve-enthroue your will
permit it to wield the scepter over
your passions and appetites. The
must control, or a man is the
slave of the basest of masters.
Resolve to study the art of
your mouth shut. It is a fine art, a
fine art, and few there be that learn
as many a slandered soul has
learned,
If you can speak naught but ill,
You can at least keep very still.
Resolve to be an active church
tliis year. The demand daily grows
men who work as earnestly for
and the church as they do for success
their daily business. Such men are
for any saryice which is
and Church elevating—men who can
depended upon.—Cumberland
rian.
Farmers for Postal Banks.
Much lias been said about the
of organized labor for the
of a postal savings bank system.
ized farmers are no less emphatic in
ing the government to provide safe
positories for persons of small
Farmers are not so well organized as
workingmen of the cities and do not
together in conventions and
so frequently, but when they do
savings banks is generally one of the
jects discussed.
At the meeting of the Michigan
Association of Farmers’ Clubs at
ing recently a strong demand was
for the establishment of the postal
ings bank system, to which all the
gates present gave their approval.
the day previous the state grange
taken similar action.
A demand which the workingmen
farmers unite in making is one to
congress should give heed.—Chicago
A petition like that means a great deal,
and should have weight with congress.
Every signature is tne voluntary
sion of a wish for the establishment
the postal saving banks system. The
tal is an indication of a widespread
sire, which is shared, of course, by
times the number to whom the
nity was afforded of thus giving
sion to their sentiments by signing
pe ti ti o 11. —C li ic ago Record.
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CdSHXiJX DUUQ CO* » TISCKJS IND«« (J* 8* A*
A NATURAL WONDER.
The Tramp Red Sandstone Bowlder
the New Jersey Mountains.
Countless thousands of years ago
stretches of glacial deposits came
mg across the state of New
mounted the Palisades, pushed
way across the Hndscm river,
over Manhattan Island and slid out
the Atlantic ocean, whither they
j i tegrafced haps glided and sank to the into other tho deep shore. or
on
But in their onward march
glaciers left indestructible evidence
their grinding stride, and today
along tho palisades the trap rooks
bowlders are worn smooth where
mountains of ice and sand passed
them. In some rocks are deep
all pointing eastward and
which way the glacial deposits drifted
There is the evidence, mute, but
putable.
To the careful observer there
numberless other evidences of tho
ence of glacial influences in the
but none is more convincing than
tramp bowlder that has finally
down in the woods in the heart of
glewood borough. There it sits, a tow
eriug mass of rock weighing
200 tons and resting upon three
which in themselves find a purchase
j a ^ at roc ^ t ^ at * s P art auc *
to the obanour £ took which
the palisades. But, strangely
and to the wonderment of
the tramp bowlder is red sandstone
the Jersey hills 25 miles inland,
the pedestal is inetamorphite or
granite.
Around this marvelous
have grown troes that may perhaps
a century old, and they have
hedged it in, while the rock itself
stood where it stands today for
■
I sands of years. Ou the pedestal or
part 0 f it which is protected from
action of tho elements can be seen
deep ridges and scars made across
fiat surface by the great grinding
sure of the budy of ice and sand
passed over it countless years ago
New York was ice and snow clad
the world wa£ a desolate wasto in
i state of chaos.
This tramp bowlder has caused
ogists much wonderment and is
ed today as one of the finest
ever left in the wake of a glacier. It
equally astounding as though an
er should find the hull of a steamboat
the Sahara desert. The only way it
get there would be through some
convulsion that had landed it from
1 sea in tho heart of the inland sands.—
THE PROSPECTS OF THE HOME FOR
1898.
1 lie excellent stories, for which The
Home is noted, will be continued; ihe
Fashion and Fancy Work departments
will be kept up to „ a . high . , standard. . , it.-*, Kate
Sanborn will continue lier bright “Off
Hand Talks,” and every one of the mi
merous Deparlments will be increased
and made brighter.
Take Notice.—You aie given a choice
of one of the following articles and the
Home for tlireo months for only 15 cents.
Lord Lisle’s Daughter, by Charlotte M.
Brameme; Book of 00 pages on
ing and Knitting; or a .Stumping
of 60 patterns, many large designs,
cluding centerpieces, doillies, etc.
trated Premium List, or outfit for
vassing sent free.
The Home Tub. Co.,
141 Milk Boston Mass.
NU. .31
iMt OUTDOOR CHURCH.
The carvers pillars of the trees,
The flowered mosaic of the grass,
The green, transpan m traceries
Of leaf on ’e.:f ;hat U hth lies
j And lightly 1 ,ov .. when breezes pass,
The antin' 1 of tlio waterfall,
My cliori- *cr the blackbird’s lay,
And, mingling "'i It, niffi’-sing all,
Borne by the wind ami stiil let fail,
j The incense of tin new . <>\»n hay—
This is my church, my alt »r there.
Here earth, tin* kindly emther, kneels,
Her mighty hands,. ;tsp- ... in prayer,
VNhile o’er her brow the sonny r.ir,
A south wind full of i 1 ssing, steals.
Blio wraps me in her mantle fold.
I kneel and pray beside hoi there
As children do whom .-rs hold,
And living air and sunlight gold
And wood and mead* w > v with me.
—Eva hi at e . . Sj., .-.ator.
Bov. Francis ou Newspapers.
“Lacli year the local paper gives from
i'GOh to so,ODD iu free lines to the commu¬
nity in which it is located, X<>
agency can 01 will do this, The editor.
in proportion to lus means, does
for his own county than any other ten
men, and with all fairness with men
ought to be supported—not because you
| like him or admire his writing. Put be
cause the local paper is the best invest
ment a community can make. It
j no , \ H , brilliantlv edited or crowded
^ tlut « M#rW)v is „ t
benilit to the community than the
er or the preacher. Understand me 1
not mean mentally or morally—but ,ti
uancially. And yet on the moral
tion you will find most of the local
1 pers do the most for the least money
any people on the face of the earth.”
Gov. Francis evidenth close
ver, or else has had sum* xpenenco
local journalism.
His statements, thong judging them
by their acts, are very o event from
views held by a large number of people.
Some recognize the facts as presented by
him. Some will take their local paper
and abuse it and never pay for ir. Some
will take it and pay for it, provided they
can get about three or four times the
price of their subscripriondn free adver¬
tising. Many lose sight of tlio fact that
the local paper, when properly edited, is
j a good financial investment for a commu¬
j nity. They also lose sight of tlio fact
that the more substantial the support
the better the returns. The local
i * s > a S rea ^ 0X ^ en G ''hat patrons
n,ake ’*• on< “» " e believe, can
themselves justice in newspaper work,
when they have to devote a greater
tion of their time in trying to codec
hills in order to meet their own obliga¬
tions. If you want the best paper it
possible for your editor to give you,
your clues that he may give bis time
talents to the paper to continually
h moie readable and not to what you
Era.
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Are happily combined in Hood s Sarsa¬
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other articles may }»-• <>b lined. mak» at
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