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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. A Week’s Reading Free! FOR SIX GOOD FAMILIES. Send your name and the name and nd dress of five of year neighbors or friends on a postal card and get free for yourself and each of them a specimen copy of the Great Southern Weekly. THE ** ATLANTA CONSTITUTION ” Our three humorous writers, Uncle Remus's word, famions sketches of the plantation darkey. Bill Arp's humor cus letters for the home and hearth stone. Betsy Hamilton's adventures told in cracker dialect. War stories, sketches of travel, news, poems, fun ad ventures, the Farm, the household cer respondence, a word of inetructnn and entertainment. Twelve pages. The brightest and best Weekly. Please ev ery member of the family. Send a postal tor a specimen copy. free. Addiess The Constitution, Atlanta Ga. 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