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gCftJ / » : ■■■ > f ONE YEAR FOR $2.75 CASH £N ADVANCE. Sample copies of the Southern .Onlti Vator mil he niailed FREE on applica tion to Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Drawer %, Atlanta, Ga. ' JOB WOB.K Neatly executed —-AT THIS OFFICE. JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor 1 . Devotedto Home Interests and Culture. TWO DOLLARS A Year in Advance. 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 The Home Journal