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Dr. Ilaygood,
\Ye extract the following from Dr.
I'aygood’B commencement speech at
i£m< r> College. Every word ot which
)8 11 ue, ami append to the sober, corn*
mon sense of every man who bat* the
good of the state at heart We hope
our readme will take time to study
the-e extracts well and ponder on
thorr* :
“Onr slow progress is rot explained
by the village idler who denounces the
nigg< r bccan e he wont woik. If these
ftnie niggcia woiked no more than
their critics, Georgia would have gone
into general bankruptcy long ago. 1
know the negro as thoroughly as any
of yon; I know his failing*, but if his
ciitics worked even as haid as he does
Georgia would grow rich.
“We do cot produce enongb. We
buy too much that we can cheaply
raise at home. We import everything
but cotton. What Horace Greely said
of Texas is nearly true ot Georgia.
He said, years ago, that Texas could
raise anything they needed, yet im
ported everything they used. He ven
tured the opinion that if they knew
the of blackberries they would
import them We impoiteverything,
from locomotives to too'hpicks Take
the average Georgia farm to-day.
Mules, horse*, w gone, plows, reapers,
harn< as, hamestrings, ax handles,
canned peaches and a thousand other
things are brought from other states.
Hay-stacks are in the west, corn cribs,
wheat bins, smoke houses are there al
so. I saw at Li f honia. over a shop
door, in tinge letters, “Chicago Beef.’
Fir il'z rs are import and hy men whose
cows sleep in the big road in front 0 f
h : s gatr, the richest spot on his farm.
E very thing inside the home, and ev
erything outside that could be found
abroad is imported. We will make
nothing wo eaD pay a stranger to make
for ns, whether we want hairpins or
hustles, baby carriages or road wag
ons. We are even willing to import
endowments for onr colleges.
“What is produced to buy all this?
Colton at eight cents a pound, losing
rearly estnunb to" Wald street sharks
hy “futures” as we receive fcr actual
sales. If proof is needed, that our
farming interests are iu a bad case, it
is near at hand, and it is conclusive;
the almost universal eageiness to get
away fiosn the farm. The majority
who stick to tbo farm do so because
they can’t get away. The country
seeks the city. Men crowd into the
j r ifessions and seek situations, thou
sands esteeming it more honorable to
sell libbons and pins over a counter at
S3O a month tbau to make an inde
pendent, if a plan, living on the old
homestead,
“In answer to all this wo are told
‘farming doD’t pay.’
“I a ay, it depend# on the farmer. A
white boy with an umbrella bossing
one black boy ploughing a #nle
bought on a credit, can not make farm
ing pav, especially il he wants to moit
gage a poe ible crop to buy a cheap
Ohio buggy for his sue tner drives.
“We arc in a bad as to our leg
ila u:e. Somehow, it ba* come to
puss that it is dilficult to secure acip
kt!e general a Bi-p'bly. If we need our
best man anywhere, it is in the legis
-1 are; but, with few exceptions, they
are not there.
“It is difficult to induce the best
men to oonaent to be Candida*es. We
have cheapened the Isgisla ve funo
tion of government; we have run it
dowc; we las degraded it. We have
done this in two ways;
1 We hare, in many eases, ren*
inferior m n to the legislature.
2 We have ridiculed the legislators
We baye made, pouting contempt on
the work of our own ban Is. Wj
have lost respeot for onr law making
power, beoause we know we have
cheapened and degraded it. Aad the
pr cess is steadily a dvwawarlone.
As we cease to respect the legislature,
we become careless as to who repre
sents us. When the best man in any
county in Georgia does not feel it to
be an honor to tepresent his people in
the general assembly, it is proof that
we have reached a most humiliating
and deploiable state of public opin*
ion and sentiment as to that body ot
men tl at most perfectly represents the
sovereignty of the people.”
A Mt>sn Subscriber.
A man living in Atlan'a, who owes
over two years subscription, pot the
Sud hack iu the pontoffice last week
marked ‘returned.’ We have heard of
many mean mcn--there is the man
who used the wait on the back of bis
neck for a collar button, and the one
who pastured a goat on his grand
mother’s grave, the one who stole the
coppers from a dead nigger’s ey< p, the
one who got rich by giving bis five
children a nickle each to go to bed
without their supper and then s‘ole
;he niokles after the children were
a*leep--but for pure downright cussed
ness the man who will tak a paper
for two years or more, mark it ‘refus
ed,’ and then stick it back in the post
office, ie entitled to the first premium.
Bend us your picture; we want to bang
it up in the office to keep the mice out
of the paste—[Griffin Sun.
We were digging in tbe garden
Monday morning and a man asked ns
what we were doing We told him
that we were hoeing beets “Have yon
any dead beats?” said he. We told
him that we had none in the garden,
but it he would s ep into the office we
would show him a list of them that
would make him shed tears for a week.
[Jasper Herald.
The Tall Men of Indiana.
On the subject of the tall men of
Indiana, Col. Calkins was fluent to
talk, and said, among other things
“The men of Indiana were noted dur
ing tbe war fur their stature, and Gen.
Terrill, the statistician of MassaciiU
setts, wrote that they were the tallest
and tbe finest men ever contributed
to any army in the history of tha civ
lize 1 world. B>;aahov the soil and
jjlimate promote physical greatness in
oar sta e. It is no uncommon thing
to see a dozen men together on the
street corner of any little town, amoug
whom not one is under six feet in
height. We are a big people oot there
in Indiana,” conclu led ike colonel. —
[New York Tribune.
Humorous.
A bad pen; penury.
Time gallops andor the spur of the
moment.
It is a strarge fact that silk dreos<B
can nit be satin.
Bismarck, of course, consideis thst
all is fair in war, but he is not so ready
to concede that it is fair in love.
B mrder (looking over breakfast ta
ble; the table is mad* of good wood.
Professional gamblers have a great
many superstitions. One of the most
praetieal is, that if they deal the cards
themselves they have a much better
chance to win.
There is a little girl in New York
whose commercial interests are so pre
cocious that she rents furnished rooms
in her doll’s house to her sisters for a
fixed number of caramels each week.
“One thing. Maria,” said the tarred
and feathered gentleman, and his wife
was plucking him after ’he festivities:
“the tar ain’t no special nse, but there
is almost a dollar’s worth of feathers
on me.”
A western baseball supply dealer
places the u-mal array of bats and balls
iD his show window, and then adds to
them a large roll of court plaster, a
huge bottle of arnica and a pair of
crutches.
George Everhart, a prominent young
teal estate dealer and capitalist of Chi
cago, has been authorized by a gentle
man in New York city to place $2,000,
000 on the election of Cleveland
against any man whom the presiden
tial convention could nominate; the
bets to be made in sums of s2,oooeach
and upward, before or after the late
convention finished its business. The
Coy of Sin is ahead again.
Fcoled With Dynamite.
When Hampton and Bradeen mov
ed iheir ettnp from Ma lison to near
Athens, a little negro who was work
ing with them had sto’en the half of a
dynamite cartridge. Hampton and
Bradeen heard nothing from the cart
ridge until yesterday, when the news
came that the lilllfl-iiflgro- had used_U
to perfection, as his blown-off hands
will testify. In playing with the cart
ridge it went off and tore away both
his hands, besides a portion of the
a m The little negro will hardly
steal anything else of an explosive na
ture.— [ Banner Watchman.
Itch, Mange and Scratches of every
kind on hnman or animals cared in 30
minutes by WoolfonJ’s Sanitary Lotion
This never fails. Sold by Hardman
& Sharp, Druggists, Harmony Grove.
Thomas Massey’s new house, one
mile above town, is approaching com
pletion, and presents a handsome ap
pearance. Several other new build
ings and improvements are in course
of erection, and taking it all together,
we think the people are on the up
grade. There is no reason why we
should not improve. We have every
natural advantage, and inducement to
make our people contented, happy and
prosperous. Banks is all right.
Hackmetack, a lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50 oents. For
sale by W. B Mason, Homer.
Georgia, Bil ks County,
To all whom it may concern, | J C
Wade and B. K. Lord. Executors of
the will of James Wade, deceased,
have in due form applied to the under
signed for leave to sell the lao la he
longing to the estate of said deceased,
and said application will be heard on
the first Monday in August next. July
2nd, 1888. 10 4t T. F Hill, Ordinary
Georf ia,
Banks County.
tion signed by a Dumber of the citizens
of the 448th District, G. M , of said
conniy, raking that a voting precinct
be established at Longv ew, in said
district. And 1 will pass upon the
same at my office in Homer on the let
Monday in August next. Given un
der my hand and official signature
July 2. 1888. T F. Hill, Oidinary.
10 4w.
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For dyspepsia and Liver Complaint
you have a printed guarantee <>n each
bottle of Shiloh’s v itahzr. It always
cures. For sale by W. B Mason.
Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption
Ouie is sold by us on a gaaramee. It
cures Consumption. W. B. Mason,
Homer.
Legal Notices.
Georgia, [ Whereas B J„ Dyar
Banks Co.,} administrator of
Thos. P. House, late of said county,
deo’d,. has applied to me in terms of
the law for letters of dismission from
said administration. This is there
fore to cite and admonish all concern
ed, to show cause at the —regular term
of the court of Ordinary of said county
to be held on the Ist Monday in Aug.
next, why said discharge should not
be granted. Given under my hand
and official signature, April 27, 1888.
3m T. F. Hill, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
All persons having demands against
the estate of F. F. A. Hitch, late ot
Banks county, deceased, are hereby no
tified to render in their demands to
the undersigned according to latf, and
all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make immediate payment.
June 2nd, 1888, J. H. Brooks,
Administrator
6 6w of F. F. A. flitch, deceased.
Georgia, Banks County.—To all
whom it may concern: W. P. Ray,
guardian of A. Cl. Anderson, applies
to me for letters of dismission from said
guardianship, and I will pass upon his
application on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember next at my office in Homer, in
said county. Given under my hand
and official signature, May 31st, 1888.
T. F. Hill, Ordinary.
Notice is hereby
given that a peti