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VOI.. XVIII,
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1888.
He Got His Sweetheart.
Detroit Free Presa.
ter and Edward were sitting, and
said: i
j “I must not delay any longer
u So ydu will not lend me the ! the little ‘lift’ I promised yori,
money?” asked Edward Stone of. nephew, and which you have well
his gruff old uncle. I ’earned.”
“I will give you instead,a piece J Edward glanced from the S5000
’of advice,” said the old man, “if check to the lovely face at his side
■you will take it.”
“Very well,” said the nephew, in
‘a disappointed voice.
^ “Go back to your store and save
$3 k week out of your salary.
Learn, in the meantime, all yon
can about business. At the end
'of four years you will have the
’capital you seek, and it will be
doubly valuble because you have
earned it. Then come and tec me
again. I dare say you would rath
er have the money than the ad-
Yice,” as the other turned to go.
“But, hold on, you’ve got to take
tea before the train starts, and I
want you to see my little house
keeper. Folly!” he called, and a
bright, rosy-cheeked girl tripped
in, while Edward’s face flashed
'painfully. “Polly,” continued her
father, “this is your cousin Ed
ward. He leaves on the 6 o’clock
train; make his short stay as pleas-
'ant as possible.”
At the request of her father,
who was very proud of his daugh
ter’s varied accomplishments, Mary
sang and played for her cousin-,
'and his visit ended in singular
’contrast with the stormy way it
commenced. Edward refused the
$5 note tendered to him by his un-
‘cle at parting for his travelling ex
penses.
The old gentleman smiled as he
Returned the note to his pocket-
“He’s a sensible young chap,
After all,” he remarked to his
‘daughter, as the door closed after
'their guest. “It’s in him, if it can
'only be brought out. We shall
•see, we shall see.”
“A good deal for father to say,”
was Mary’s inward comment, who
thought her cousin the most
•agreeable young niari she had ever
imet.
Three years later Mr. Stone and
Ibis daughter paused in front of a
■small but neat and pleasant-look-
ing shop, on the plate glass door
bf which were these words: “Ed
ward Stone, Stationers] and Book
Store:”
It being too early in the day
for customers;, they found the pro
prietor alone, and his face flushed
with pride and pleasure as he
greeted them.
“I got your earth nephew,” said
the old mn, witha a cordial grasp
bf the hand, “and called around to
see how you were getting oh. I
thought it was about time I gave
you the little lift you asked of me
three years ago. You don’t look
much as if you needed it, though.”
“Not at present, thank you, nn-
fcle,” was the cheerful response.
‘‘Curiously enough, it is the same
business that I wanted ’to buy
then. The man who took it had
to borrow money to purchase it
with, getting so much involved
that he had to sell it at a sacri
fice.* 1
‘‘Just what yon wanted to do.”
Edward smiled it the point
blade by his tincle. “It isn’t what
I have done, though. I have saved
$4 a week from my salary for the
last three years, and so -was not
billy able to pay the money down,
but had $50 besides;”
, ‘‘Bravo! my boy,” cried the de
lighted old man, with another
grasp of the hand that made our
hero wince. “I am proud of youL
You are bound to s'uceeed, I see,
and without anybody’s help.. I
told your cousin Polty that when
she was 18 that I’d buy her a
house in the city; that she' should
tnrnish it to suit herself, and have
§11 the servants she wanted, aud
Ive kept my word. Come around
fa see us whenever you can.
You’ll always find the iatehstring
fort.”
Edward did not fail to accept
mo invitation sb frankly extended
r-a very pleasant intimacy groW-
jsg up between the three during
the twelve months that follow
ed.
On Christmas Eve the old man
^ ® r ed the room where his daugh-
and then to that of the speaker.
“You are very kind, uncle—far
kinder than I deserve, but I ”
“But what, lad? Speak out!
Would you like it in some other
form?”
Edward’s fingers closed tenderly
and strongly over the hand that
he had taken in his.
“Yes, uncle—in this.”
The old man looked keenly from
one to the other.
“You are asking a good deal,
nephew. Folly, have you been
encouraging this young mar. in his
presumption?”
“I’m afraid I have, father,” was
the smiling response.”
“Then go, my daughter. I give
you to a worthy keeping, and if
you make your husband’s heart as
happy as your mother made mine
during the few short years that
she tarried by my side, he will be
blest indeed.”
The Alliance Slid the Merchants.
Monroe Advertiser.
There seems to be a prevailing
sentiment among merchants that
the objects, aims and purposes of
the alliance are detrimental to the
mercantile interests of the coun
try. We do not so understand the
alliance, but, as an outsider, we are
inclined to the belief that the true
intent of this order is to foster the
agricultural interests of the coun
try, and whatever does this will
prove beneficial to every other in
terest. On this subject the New
Mississippian says:
“The more we see and learn of
the farmers’ alliance, the more we
are inclined to speak of its merits
and recommend it as* the best
thing ever offered our farmers. It
is certainly the best and most
thoroughly organized body that
it has ever been our lot to become
acquainted with. It shows that
wisdom and true brain work are
its founders; Some of our mer
chants, however, seem to think be
cause they are ineligible^ that it is
a movement directed entirely
against their interests. In this
they are mistaken. It seeks not
to array one class against another,
not to benefit one class by pulling
down another, but merely to pro
tect and benefit the farmer and to
lessen his burden in life. It seeks
to adopt a cash system of trade
that will do away with the mort
gage system. Viewing these fea
tures bf the alliance ia a casual
way, the merchant may suppose
that it will prove to his detriment,
but whilb it prevents his making
such enormous profits on his
goods, it will ultimately prove a
blessing eveii to him, for it will
give him more trade and much
easier business with less vexation
and annoyance than most mer
chants now' experience.”
"Mistaken Views.
Monroe Advertiser..
Many of the negroes of Alaba
ma are making public declarations
of*their renouncement of the re
publican party. A large colored
democratic club' has been formed
in Birmingham. A negro meeting
in Lowndesboro has declared its
determination to support the nom
inated Democratic county ticket,
and the Eegister says that a great
nSany of them will do the same
thing in Mobile, as they did in the
last election.
Indiana was democratic in 1876,
by 5,515 plurality; republican .in
1880, by 6,642 plurality, and dem
ocratic in 1SS4, by 6,527 plurality,
and in 1S86 it went republican by
a plurality of 3,323. With Harri
son’s unpopularity in view, the
democrats say they can carry it
by a handsome majority in No
vember next. .
Be not offended at a jest. If one
throw never so much salt at thee,
thou wilt receive no harm unless
thou art raw:
Partial culture runs to the or
nate;
Every general reader of newspa
pers who observes closely, is led
to the conclusion, doubtless, that
the smaller towns are endeavoring
to swallow the country people, and
that the larger cities are stretching
wide their alligator jaws to gulp
down the towns, and thereby ab
sorb the whole. The press every
where seems to be bending its tal
ents and its energies in this di
rection. Each town and city pa
per is laboring to build railroads
to its town, to build factories and
'workshops in its town, and to
bring within .its borders all the
people possible to be housed and
homed therein; each one is labor
ing to get such a boom on its own
town as will drive property, if pos
sible, away up into fictitious val
ues.
It is our prerogative, brethren,
to foster, to boost, and if possible
in a legitimate way, to build up
our towns, and efforts in this di
rection are commendable, provided
they rest upon a proper base.
Fine public buildings, surround
ing facilities, natural advantages,
chatauquas, attractive parks, beau
tiful homes, enticing amusements
and various other things are paint
ed in our columns in glowing col
ors and thrown out as a lasso to
draw people to and house them
within our city borders.
The paintings of the future mag
nificence of. our towns and cities
are enriched with prophetic and
increasing streams of prosperity.
Nor need these efforts of ours to
increase our city population and
our business interests .come under
the ban of condemnation.
But when viewed from a practi
cal standpoint there looms up the
practical question, have we, begun
right, and aro we concentrating our
efforts at the right point in the
line? The old motto, “Be sure
yon are right, and then go ahead,”
is a good one, and we would do
well to follow it, if we would, set
ourselves as the moulders of pub
lic opinion.
Now, then, the foundation, of
towns is the country. Each town
must draw its subsistence from
the country; the very life blood of
its business and its prosperity
must flow into its veins from the
labors of its countrymen; its mer
chants, its bankers, its mechanics,
its machinists, and its manufactu
rers, and all its attendant hangers-
on must feed from its great heart
■the country. To ignore this
fact is worse than folly Upon the
part of town people.
If we put the cap-stone of suc
cess upon a town we must dig it
from the quarry of the country’s
prosperity, and dress it with the
countryman’s aid.-. It can come
from no other source. Then, the
first step toward success is to
build up the country, to strength
en the countryman, to raise him in
the scale of prosperity. We must
broaden the countryman’s finan
cial shoulders; we must strength
en his financial arms;" must aid
him, as far as we may be able, to
break off the fetters of financial
restraint that hamper hirsi, and to
tear away the mortgages thht.
cover his all, and must hedge
his rights and his interests as a
co-equal citizen.
Here is where the plow of pros
perity must be first put in. Our
country people who work must
not be held as despairing and de
spondent toilers for others, but
must become free and independ
ent laborers for themselves, work
ing with a glad heart and free;
with plenty at home and prosper
ity in their fields smiling' upon
them, before the future of our
towns can measure up to our pro
phetic paintings thereof.
This can be done. Bat it can
be done only by swelling the work
ing force in the country and in
the towns to the maximum, and
by reducing the dead-head and
non-producing Claris to the jsfiflj-
mum, and alrhands putting in frill,
time and full work. Nothing
All efforts to foster and boost
the towns, to fill them with dense
population, and with varied enter
prises, are, and will be fruitless,
so long as there is not prosperity
and plenty among the country
people. Country prosperity is the
fountain whence towns draw the
very life blood of their Business ex
istence.
‘How do You Uoolc at Tilings.
- Marietta Journal
Have yon ever stopped to think
how difficult it is to please every
body? If you haven’t thought
about it, you have doubtless dis
covered that you have never been
able to smooth the ruffled feelings
of everybody. There are so many
diseased minds in the world that
some look through the spectacles
of envy, and can see rid good in
anything that those they envy do,
consequently they speak, dispar
agingly _of them and their busi
ness. Some look through the
spectacles of malice, and condemn
a great deal that is good in those
they dislike, that is entitled to
praise; others look through the
spectacles of prejudice, and find
that “no good can come out of
•NaVareth,” but everything is me
diocre, inferior and of no account;
some look, through the spectacles
of suspicion, and are ready to ac
cuse every man of being a rascal,
a thief and a scoundrel, without
having ability to fairly discrimi
nate between the good and the
evil; some look through the spec
tacles of jealousy, and look upon
their professional or business ri
vals as quacks, charlatans and
swindlers, unscrupulous and de
ficient in the nobler, qualities of
humanity; some look through the
spectacles of sensitiveness, and an
alyze every remark . to see if it
contains an intended slight or in
sult, rendering themselves misera
ble ’ without cause; some look
through the spectacles of igno
rance, and.get things badly mixed,
stupid in judgment, straining at
gnats and shallowing camels; and
and there are others who look
through the spectacles of egotism,
whom it were well to see them
selves as others see them..
Observes the Chicago Herald:
“The Canadians have appropriated
solid chunks of cuteness from, the
Yankees in the matter of contracts
and contracting. . A sh'ort time
since the Dominion of Canada
awarded a contract for the build
ing of a 'bridge -over the Fraser
Diver, on the Canada Pacific rail
road, to a Canadian contractor at
$1,500,000. He sub-let * the work
to a Philadelphia contractor for
$400,000, who in turn let the job to
another contractor for $100,000,
and he let it to another contractor
for $75,000, at which figures the
bridge was built.
The English sparrow has now
got almost as bad a name at home
as in this country. The damage
which he causes to the farmers of
England has been estimated at
$50,000,000, and a reward of 6 cts.
a dozen has been offered in some
parts of the country for heads or
eggs.
Talk to Boys,
From Upstairs.
When I met you, everywhere,
boys—on the street, in ..the cars,
on the boat, at your own houses,
or at school, I see s great many
things in you to admire. You are
earnest, you are merry, you are
full of happy life, you are quick at
your lessons, yon are patriotic,-
you. are brave, and you are ready to
study out all the great and curious
things in this wonderful world of
outs. But very often I find .one
great thing lacking in you: You
are not quite gentlemanly enough.
There are so many little actions
which help make up a true gentle
man, and which I do not see in
you. Sometimes, when mother or
sister comes into the room where
you are sitting in the most
for table chair, you do not jump
up and say, “Take this mother,”
or “Sit here Annie,” But you sit
stil and enjoy it yourself. Some
times you push past your mother
or sister in the door-way from one
room to another, instead of step
ping aside politely for them to
pass first. Sometimes you say
“the governor,” or “the boss,” in
speaking of your father; arid when
he comes home at night you for
get to say, “Good evening sir.”
Sometimes when mother has been
shopping and passes you on the
corner carrying a parcel, you do
not step up and say, “Let me car
ry that for you, mother,” but keep
on playing with the other boys.
Sometimes, when mother or sister
is doing something for you, you
call out, “Come, hurry up” just As
if you were speaking to one of
your boy companions. Some
times when you are rushing out
to play, and meet a lady friend of
mother’s just coining in at the
door, you do not lift your cap from
your head, or wait a moment till
she has passed in.
“Such little things!” do you
say? Yes; to be sure. But it is
these very little acts—these gentle
acts—which make a gentleman. I
think the word “gentleman” is a
beautiful word. First, “man,”
and that means everything brave
and strong and noble: and then
“gentle,” and that means full of
those little, kind, thoughtful acts
of which I have been speaking.
ASgentleman! Everyboy may be
one if he will. Whenever I see a
gentlemanly boy, 1 feel so glad
and proud! I met one the other
day, and I have been happier
ever since.
The Court’s Benediction.
An Offset Claim.
The following address of a Su- j fm™ Magazine,
perior Court Judge to four ; .young j £ hired ^ wbo bad been em :
men just admitted to the bar, is j ployed on a farm in this county;
clipped from DemoresFs Monthly a entered suit his employer
of 1876, and attributed to the
Judge of the Dome (Ga.) circuit:
“The plans of men and mice
aft gang astray.” A chair has
recently been patented to accomo
date the ladies who indulge in
the beauties of the • bustle. But
alas the god of fashion has is
sued the verdict that bustles must
go hence, and the chair with its
deft and beautiful contrivance will
have to follow in this funeral pro
cession.
A Beautiful Sealsiiiii Cloak.
Is a becoiriing garment to a lady.
If she has an elastic- step, an air of
grace and modesty, and the glow
of health on her cheek, she will
always command admiration.
Without these, no woman can ap
pear to advantage. With sickly
countenance; painful gait, and
listless air, she is an object of pity.
How many American women daily
drag out a miserable existence, ig
norant of the blessing of perfect
health! All her weaknesses cad
be cured by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription, the great specific for
prolapsus, leucorrbea, ulceration,
and unnatural discharges'. The
only medicine sold by druggists
under a positive guarantee of sat
isfaction, or money refunded.
Dead- guarantee printed on its
wrapper.
Dr: Pierce’s Pellets, or Anti-
ihort of this can/ nothing else will Bilious
vials; 25 cts..
Farmers Alliance Advocate.
We will send the Weekly Advo
cate and the Home Journal 1
year for $2.40—only forty cents
more than . the price of the
Journal. The Advocate is a
good Alliance paper and all Alli-
ancemen should take it.
One of the unwritten latfs of
the United States Senate is’ that
when a Senator marries while in
office each Brother Senator shall
contribute $10 toward a wedding
present. *
THic Vedict Cwaiiini'jiH-
. W. D. Salt, Druggist, Bippus,
Ind., testifies: “I can recommend
Electric Bitters as the very best
remedy. Every bottle sold has
given relief in every case. One
man took six bottles, and was
cured of rheumatism of ten years’
best selling medicine I have ever
handled in pay twenty years expe
rience/ is Electric Bitters,” Thou
sands of others have added their
testimony, so that the verdict is
unanimous that Electric Bitte'rs do
cure dl diseases of the liver, kid-,
nevs or blood. Only a half dollar
bottle at all drug stores.
“Young' gentlemen,” said tb'ri
Judge, “I want to say a thing or
two to yon. You have passed as
good an examination as usual, per
haps better.; but you donfc know
anything—like those young fellows
just back from their graduation at
college, you think you know., a
great deal. It’s a great mistake.
If you ever get to be any account
you will be surprised at your pres
ent ignorance. Don’t be too big
for your breeches. Go ropnd to
the Justice’s Court and /try to
learn something. Don’t be
afraid; set off Upon a high key;
you will no doubt speak a great
deal of nonsense. You will have
one conolation—-nobody will know
it. The great mass of ^ mandkind
take sound for sense. Nevermind
about your case; you are as apt to
gain ari lose. Don’t be ashamed
at the - wise looking justice. He
don’t know a thing. He’s a dead
beat on knowledge. Stand to the
rack, fodder or ho fodder, and you
will see daylight after a . while.
The community generally sup
pose that ydu will be rascals.
There is no absolute necessity that
you shall be. You may be smart
without being tricky. Lawyers
ought to be gentlemen. Some of
them don’t come up to the stan
dard, and are a disgrace to the fra
ternity. They know more than
any other race generally, and not
much in particular. They don’t
know anything about sandstones,
carboniferous periods and ancient
larid animals known as fossils
Men that make out that they know
a great deal on these subjects don’t
know much. They are ancient
land animals themselves and will
ultimately be fossils,
“You are dismissed with sincere
hops of the Court that you will
not make asses of yourselves.
The London Hqspitel remarks
that while alcohol does not seem to
have produced any racial deterio
ration in white races or rather in
the Indo-Germanic family; it acts
differently upon Asiatic and dark
races. Alcohol in any quanity
seems to set most Asiatics—the
Jews are an exception—on fire, to
produce an irresistible craving for
more, and to compel them to go on
drinking until they are sunk in
stupor of intoxication. They care
little for the exhilaration of par
tial inebriety, but the conditions
of “dead drunkenness” is to them
delightful. Hence liquor exerts
a baneful influence upoii them.
The amount of patent medicines
received at Gen. Sheridan’s.cottage
at Nonquitt, from well mean
ing admirers, would, it is said, fill
a small apothecary shop. The
doctors, also; were deluged with
advice by mail about • the treat
ments the patient needed. It came
from all over the country, like the
patent medicines
Philadelphia if said to be more
overcrowded with lawyers than
any city in the countty. This
state of affairs resulted in the
judges a few weeks ago raising
the course of study for students
from two to three years. It is
thought this will raise the stan
dard of excellence arid diminish
the annual crop of attorneys.
■Since Jan. 1, 1875, the orphan’s
court in Philadelphia has Sworn
in 1,000 new lawyers.
than
It is estimated that riot les
$500,000/000 are invested in wa-
teringplaces and tourists’ resorts
in this country, the Jersey coast
leading off at least $100,000,000.
Hr,
i Regulates the
L, makes Teething
Bowels, Strengthens the
Basy and Costs only 25 Cents. Teethlua cures
theSnmmer troahles of Children ofmyags. It
isczfe and stirs. Try It and-yon yrnihever he
without TEZTHIKA aslong as there toe child- , -----
tea la the House.- Ask your Druggist. J T- A.
employer
the other day for balance of wages]
amounting, as he claimed, to
$32. The suit was ontriql in Jns.-
tice alley yesterday, and .it looked
at.first as if thev.plqintiff. had a
.clear case. He gave dates and
figures in a straightforward .-ways
When the farmer took the stand
he said. “I claim an offset for
that $32, for I honestly owp- it” „
“What is yorir olrsei?” said thri
lawyer.
“He is an. unbeliever.”
“In wbat?” . ••
“Why, in the Bible.” : -r
“What has that got to do with,
your justly owing him. $32?”
“It has a heap to do with it—r
I had six hands in nly employ and
we were hurried when I hired thip
man. He had not been with iis
two days when he stopped thp
reaper in the middle of the lore
noon to dispute about Daniel in ?
the lion’s den, and in three days
we had a knock down over the,
whale swallowing Jonah... The
man who runs the ..mower gotj
to arguing about Sampsori, and
drove over a stump and damaged
the machine to the tune-of $18,—
The next day my boy broke hip
leg while climbing the fence tq
listen to the row that was going op
over the children ,of Israel going
through the Sed sea! ' Worst ofall,
my wife said she didn’t Believe
Elijah was fed by the ravens, and]
hang it ali, I found myself weak
ening over Noah and .his flood.—
That is my offset, sir; arid if h<|
was worth anything I’d sue him
for $1,000 besides.”
The Darfc Side of Things.
Some people will persist in tak
ing a gloomy view of everything
There is a man of that kind hjt
Austin, living iii ward No. 13. £.
neighbor happened to drop in to
see him the other 4qy and found
everybody lively except the head
of the familf. . ,»
“How are you all coming on?”
“We are tolerable except Boly
He is laughing and joking becaus^
he is going .fishing. I just kno w
that he is going to come homq
drowned, and howling with a fish
hook sticking in him somewhere.”
‘Weil, the rest seem to be
cheerful.”
‘Yes, sorter. Jeinimy is jumps
ing and skipping about because
she is going to a candy pulling,]
but I know something_will happen
to her. I read of a girl in Phiia-r
delphia only last year who wap
coming^roni a candy pulling wheri'
a drunkenniari threw his wife out
of.,a thrife-story window and
killed her.”
“Killed who?”
Jemimy/’’ • • -
“.No; there slie is.” ,
“Well, it might,have been her if
she had been on trie pavement be-
lOW.”' ... : -
‘Well, you are looking' healthy!
‘Yes, I feel jast like the mad
did who dropped dead iq New
York last week from heart disease..
He was in high spirits and bad i.
good appetite; and them's jnst my
symptoms.” -
—*— ^ 7 1
Prof; Elisha Gray; of Illinois/
thinks he has solved the problem]
of transmission of handwriting by
wire. He has very recently ob
tained letters patent for,a .combi-,
nation of. instruments called the
lelantogf ipn, consisting of a trans
mitter and a receiver, designed
away with skilled Jopfefaio
invention is based on the
ery of a new. principle iii .
ing the electric current.
i
To the Editor— Please inform yonr read---
ers that I have a .positive remedy for the above!
named disease..By its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been, permanently cured.
I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme-
smbption If they i
. V
mid post office
HoiiTZOlaw & GiijBebt, Perry, Ga. i
.M.C
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