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t t r~\ f ■ w r™> r\\ji n‘ sn^ IO VT AT S$®jgg i i m Aim .TOHK HI. HODGES, I?ropr. DEVOTED TO HORSE INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CUtTURE. $1.50 a Year in Adraace. VOL. XXXI. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1902. THB RICHEST OF NATIONS, Steel Profits And Prices. Associated Press, Washington. 1 The standing of the United States with her neighbors, and es pecially with the nations of Eu- ropes,is illustrated by some state ments made by the London Daily Mail Year Book, a copy of which has. just reached the treasury - bu reau of statistics. In its various Now York World. General prosperity is certainly a continuing condition so far as 9ur backbone iron and steel in dustry is concerned. For the last nineinonths of 1901 the Steel Trust’s net earnings were close upon $85,000,000, This is a fact of gratifying import. It means Wasn’t Larger than Carnegie. chapters it discusses various feat- : bu8i ™ ss ’ '“fi ptoBto.more <* conditions in the United ^ uplo y. men ‘’ - better ’"«••• for ures States. Under the head of Wealth it placces the United States at the head of the list of great na tions, the figures being: United States, £16,350.000,000. United Kingdom, 11,806,000,000. France, 9,690,000,000. Germany, ' 8,052,000,000. Russia, 6,425,000,000. While the United States heads this list of countries in its wealth, it shows the smallest national in debtedness. the figures being: United States, £ 221,000,000; Germany, 651,000,009; United Kingdom. 706,000,090; Russia, 711,000,000; France, 1,289,000.000. The percentage of debt to wealth is given as: United States, 1.4; United Kingdam,6; Germany,8.1; Russia, 11,1; France, 12.8. Under the head of Commercial Competion, it says that “the first year of the twentieth century’ opened badly for two of the four leading industrial nations. The trade of the United States was good and showed no decline from the booming period of 1899 and 1900, in most industries a contin uance of [the boom of which the United States ljas had so dispro portionately large a share, and France t which has responded less expansively to the boom,remained unaffected by the decline and pro gress elsewhere. In England and Germany, however, the decline was felt acutely.” Under the head of the “World’s Wheat Crop,” it shows the United States far ahead of any other country in the production of wheat, with an estimated crop of 720 million bushels in 1901. Under the head “Fight for the Iron Trade,” it calls attention to the fact that the United States is now the world’s largest producer of pig iron and steel,and says: ‘It will be noted .that the United Kingdom has lost ground, produc 396,749 tons less in 1900 than in 1899, the total for Great Britain being nearly five million tons less than in America.’.’ The president is his message to congress uses language which in dicates that he recognizes the pos sibility of a break in the prosperi ty of which the republicans have boasted and desires to decrease the effect of the break when it does come. “Moreover,” he says, “no law can guard us against the consequences of our own folly. The men who are idle or credu lous, the men who seek gains not by genuine work of head or hand* but by gambling in any form, are always a menace not only to themselves, but to others. If the business world loses its head, it loses what legislation cannot sup ply.”—The Commoner. the capital and labor engaged in producing American iron and steel. In this period of plethoric pro fits why cannot the great steel combine afford to be as generous to American as British buyers of its products? It is now selling steel rails, for example, in England at $22.50per tou, after paying the railroad and ocean freights. The ocean freight alone is $5.11 per ton. So that American steel rails are really be ing sold in England at $17 per ton net. The American price is $28 per ton—$11 higher than the English price. As 2,000,000 tons of steel rails are consumed in this country every year, the Steel Trust is col lecting at least $22,000,000 a year from its American customers in excess of what it would eagerly accept from its foreign customers for the same quantity of rails. In view of those $85,000,000 net earnings in niue months, would it not be reasonable to take off the Dingley duty*of $7.84 per ton on steel rails? That would bring the American price down to $20 per ton, which would still be $8 per ton more than the trust is selling them for in England. Why Young Men Succeed. One thing that keeps some young men down is their fear of work. They aim to find genteel occupa tion, so they can dress well and not soil their clothes, and handle things with the tips of their fin gers. They do not like to get their shoulders against the wheels, and they prefer to give orders to oth era, or figure as masters, and let some one else do the drudgery. There is no doubt that indolence and laziness are the chief obsta cles to success. When you see a boy, who has ju3t secured a position, take hold of everything with both hands and “jump right into his work as if he meant: to succeed, we have confidence that he will prosper. But if he stands around, and asks questions when he is told to do anything; if he tells you that this, or that, belongs to some other boy to do, or that is not' his work; if he does not try to carry out hia orders in the correct way; if he wants a thousand explanations when asked to run on an errand, and makes the employer think he could have done the whole thing himself ; one feels like discharg ing such a boy on the spot, for he is convinced that he is not cut out for success.—Exchange. Thousands Sent Into Exile. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore aud racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. Don’t be an exile when Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con sumption will cure you at home. It’s the moat infallible medicine for Coughs, Colds, and all Throat and Lung diseases on earth. The first dose brings relief. Astound ing cures result from persistent .use. Trial bottles free at Holtz- claw’s drugstore. Price 50c and $1.00. Every bottle guaranteed. Subscribe for the Home Journal. How’s Tbilisi We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for aDy case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ca tarrh Care. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honora ble in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in tern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimoni- als free. Halls Family Pills are the best. Edward Rosewater, founder and editor of the Omaha Bee, is a mau of unique personality. He ia small in statue and speaks in a low voice, but he is a politician of most pronounced fighting abili ties, says the Saturday Evening Post. At a hotel in Washington a few nights ago he was speaking of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. “Carnegie and I,” said Mr. Rosewater, were fel low telegraph operators nearly four decades ago. He was station ed out west and I was in Wash ington. We got acquainted, as operators do, over the wires at night, and would call eaoh other bp our first names when we spoite through the medium of our in-, struments, aud for nearly forty years we have been promising our selves the pleasure of meeting.” “I drifted out to Nebraska, and Carnegie’s history you know. Nat urally, I was much more anx ious to meet him than he could possibly be to meet me, aud a few days ago I called upon him. “I.assured him when he greeted me that I sought none of his money for librery or other pur poses. Carnegie looked at me searchingly, You can see that I am a small man. I am five feet 4 inches in heighth. He is no tal- ler;'and is even slighter in build than I. “Suddenly he extended his hand and exclaimed with unmis takable sincerity af feeling: “ T am glad to meet you, Mr. Rosewater; lam glad to associate with a man ivlio is no bigger than I am.’ ” Evidence is |accumulating raj> idly in support of the democratic contention that American govern ment in the Philippines is even more extravagant than was the Spanish administration. Six of the American office-holders in Manila draw salaries that aggre gate $63,000, an average of $10,- 500 apiece. It is not surprising that some of the unenlightened Filipinos regard American owner ship as an expensive luxury.— Oceana Tribune. A Georgia negro, asleep on th track, came in contact with a train, derailing several cars. He got up, brushed the dust from his coat, and remarked to the engin eer: { ‘Efj,'you foks ain’t mo’ keer- ful how yer gwine, yer’ll sho hurt sumbody sum er dese dnys, en git sued fer damages.—Constitution. The connection between rpos- qmtoes and malaria was suspect ed as long ago as the time of Lan- cisi, the great Italian physician, who flourished at the end of the seventh and the beginning of the eighth century. Blown To Atoms. The old. idea that the body some times needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has beeen exploded; for Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless,gen tly stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headachee Only 25c at Holtzclaw’s drugstor. A package in the Christmas mail at the Indianapolis post- office, opened, in the office because it had neither stamps nor address upon it, was found to contain a boy baby, about a week old, warmly wrapped in cotton and peacefully sleeping. For Infants and Children. 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