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Headquarters for Houston j
fice is fully prey
kind of Commercial
-if
mto be needed. "All nic
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peta_witb any city. Call and 1
at our samples and getour prices,
and you will leave your orders.
Work and be Happy. days. When capital wants a young
. mamit looka around for one who
Ar p’( Advice to tne Boy« and Girls. Doesn’t drink-.or smoke or gamble
—one who saves his money and
doesn’t ran about every night.
Family influence isn’tworth a cent
nory* A young man stands on his
merits, his habits, his associations.
■Mia a yonng man who lost hib
place because he^kept a bottle in
his room. So he quit for a year,
and was just about getting a %ood
situation, when be got on a spree
and that set him back for anothe
year and discouraged him, am.,
now he drinks whenever he can
3.1« -*•
%ev it and does odd jobs around,
but can’t get*any regular employ
ment. Nobody but sick, folks can
afford to drink, and it doesn't do
them any good. I never- saw a
father who was willing for his_ son
to drink—I never saw a son who
was willing for his'father to drink.
The wife feels as much concern
about her husband drinking as he
does about her taking morphine.
Young manjthere is al^blue book
in every town, and your name is
on it. But there is 1 no excuse for
a young man failing to get em-
plqyment in this blessed country
.Atlanta ConstitatJon,
Not long' ago I saw a nice young
man who is yet m his teens going
around town hunting for a place
in a store. He looked anxious
and iimkl, and didn’t seem to have
much faith in finding a place. The
boy belonged to a broken down ar
istocratic family, and suddenly
realized that he had to work for a
living. He had never plowed or
hoed or dug or chopped twood, or
curried a*horse, or done anything
else but go to school and visit
around and have a good time, but
now he had vrorn out his welcome
and realized that the realities of
life’were upon him. He must go
to work. His bauds are soft and
feminine. He bad very L good
clothes, was handsome, and would
have made an attractive’ clerk in a
dry goods store. Hut there was
no place, and he had no experi
ence. A few days afterward, as I
was meandering 'aro'una, I saw him
miii ig mortar for a brick mason.
He was pulling away as hard aB he
dould, but I noticed that he had
gloves. I didn’t like that until I
learned his hands were blistered
bo bad that he had to wear the
gloves or quit. He was bright
andVheerful—said he was getting
seventy-five cents a day, and was
promised a dollar as soon as he
could do -as much work as a
“trigger.” He said he enjoysd his
meals and slept splendid, and had
four dollars in his pocket that he
had earned; the first money that
he had ever earned, and he felt
richer and more independent than
be had ever felt before.
There is .grit in that boy. He:
has met the eneiriy and the enemy
is his. He has whipped poverty
and dependence at the start, and
if he will keep on that line his for
tune is made—I mean the line of
work. He lias begun at the bot-
■ tom and will work up. He won’t
spend those dollars—they cost too
hi ich to throw away on foolish
ness. They cost sweat arid tired
muscles and aching bones and
blistered hands and humility, but
he is getting over that uoir. It
nearly killed him for the society
girls to ride by and see him at
work;* They know him, and one
said, T thought he would have to
coma down.” Another said, “Poor
fellow! I am just as sorry for him
as I can be. He" is so nice, and
dances so charmingly.”
That is what is the matter with
a good many # young men. I?hey
are afraid of what the girls will
say. They had rather loaf around
among their kin or pretend to, be
reading law than to go to work-
work is not exactly respectable.
This false pride is a Contemptible
weakness and disgusts me so I
feel like taking off my coat and
hiring out to tote'mortar or dig in
the ditches for the gas pipe just as
an example. I counted twenty-sii
negroes all in a row digging in
those ditches and not a white man
among them. A working boy
won’t have to do that kind of work
long. He is watched and tajkad
about, and very soon somebody
wants him, and he gets a , betler
place. He crawls up. It is an old
saying that if a young man saves
his first thofisSiid dollars he will
get rich—that is so in nine -cases
out of ten—yes, if he will save his
first hundred he will succeed, and
any young man can save.that much
in a year if he will let whiskey and
society girls . alone—society will
keep a poor young man poor. It
keeps married folks poor. I am
ihiuking now of a mMried man
who is bowed down with debt,
while his family are trying to keep
on the ragged edge qf society. A
milliner makes their clothes, .and
they are just ooliged to ride in a
carnage when they, go visiting,
Such people aie the town talk and
don’t know it." There are nice
young men iri every, town who
have been clerking for yekrs .arid
’ haven’t laid up a dollar. They
must take a girl to every show
that conies along, and spend five
dollars on every dance, for those
who danee must pay' the
If lie does not have it it is his own
fault. If.he can’t get rich fast he
can slow. If lie will begin young
and .work hanj and behave him
self ne will accumulate a plenty
for his old age. Old age wants
some Mbtieyl It wants rest and
ought to have it. “Otiuin bum
dignitate” is the latin for dignified
leisure, but I heard Judge Under
wood say it meant “rest comes by
digging.” Dig first and rest af
terwards. Old age don’t want to
get up on a cold winter morning
and make the fire and cook break
fast. Yesterday morning a little
darkey tapped at our bed room
door and said, “Mammy say her
sick an’ she can’t come dis morn-
in’.” And themjl heard a female
voice reply, “Oh, dear me, there it
is again. I thought last night she
was filing to'get^sick. She is such
an aggravation. I wish she would
quit and stay quit. Here it is
seven o’clock, and not even a fire
made.” Aud so the breakfast was
like the trains, an hour late, and
the children were late to school,
and got marked, and everything
was but of joint, and haven’t got
straightened but yet. Eight dol
lars a month and perquisites won’t
keep a cranky cook in order. In
such emergencies 1 used to get up
and cook the breakfast myself;
but I Wdii’t do it now, I’ve struck.
I’ll do without it first. I want my
otinm cum dig. Mrs. Arp shan’t
do it, either. She wants her otium,
and is entitled to it. We have ari-
other darky close by, and so the
case is not desperate, bat it is pro
voking. There is a good deal of
provoking in this vale of tears.
Last night I started to town. The
silver moon was shining nearly
vertical, and its I. stepped off the
piazza to the pavement, I thought
I saw our black dog lying on the
Step; and so I stepped high to step
over him; and Mrs. Arp says she,
“what are you stepping so high for
—you remind ifie of a blirid horse
with the string-halt.” “I didn’t
want to step oil jthe dog,” said I,
indignantly. She just laughed,
and said, “children, did you see
^prir pa trying to step over hiil
shadow—tiiere is nd dog there;”
And they all laughed but me.'
Such things always disturb my se
renity.
Go to work young man and lay
up some money ftir your old age—
for the time when the grasshopper
will become a burden and the cook
will quit before breakfast, and foil
will think your shadow is a dog.
“What about the girls?” says a
friend. Let the girls quit their
foolishness,' as Sam Jones says. If
they can’t make mbh£y; let them
£uit sp.4n3in| it. 1 know Young
ladies in’ this: town" whose fathers
are. on a strain,; and yet they woii’t
make their own dresses." They
have them made by the milliner.
out. a
- a d$
do a ble«sed thing to Kelp their
fathers maintain the family. A
girl whose father is on a strain
fiddler, ought to make her own clothes and
know how, she should learn. Ev-
—v member pf^the family should
fc least earn their salt and; pepper
nd pickles and ckewing gam. A
girl of eighteen who can’t. make
inr own clothes is not fit to be a
life, much'-Iess a mother. Rich
or poor, she ought to Ho something
usef ul. Get up early - and fly
around and sweep and dust and
look after the dining-room and the
lamps. After breakfast go to that
sewing machine and make it hum
and june like your, grandmothers
did the spinning-wheel. In the
afternoon'pet osfyour nice home
made dress and go to see some
body you want to see, somebody
who wants "to see you, and^talk
sense when yon get ther6. Ob,,
for. more model boys and model
girls to raise the next crop from.
Young man, don’t you marry a
young girl who is too proud or top.
lazy to make her own clothes.
YouDg lady, don’t marry a young
man who drinks or who spends all
he makes. If following this ad
vice stops the breed, let it stop.
Bill Abp.
Au VufosTsiuate Recognition.
• ’"
"West Point Alliance.
The minister’s wife sat on tKe
front porch mending tSe clothes of
one of her numerous progeny. A
neighbor passing stopped in for
a social chat. A large work bas
ket, half full of buttons, sat on the
floor of the porch. After varion*
remarks of a gossipy nature, tile
visitor said:
“You seem to be well supplied
with buttons, Mrs..Goodman.”
“Yes, very well indeed.”
“My gracious! If there ain’t two
of the same buttons my htisbarid
had pn his last winter suit. I’d
know’em anywhere.” , -
“Indeed,” said the minister’s
wife calmly. “I am surprised to
hear it, as all tligge buttons were
found in the contribution box. So
I thought I might as well put them
to some use, so I—what! must you
go? Well; Be Sure to hall, again.”
A gentleman well-known in At
lanta as agent of, one of the largest
soap manufactories in the country,
has at his home on the Hudson a
scrap- book which will doubtless
prove an interesting heirloom to
his family. By this, book he can
tell exactly where lie was on any
day within the past fifteen years.
His method seems to be new—at
least it is unique. Every day in
the year he writes home.. After
reading the letter, his ‘wife pre
serves the .envelope which, of
coarse, contains the postoffice
stamp upon its face. This half of
the envelope is barefiilly pasted in
its plaee in the book, arid stands a
record of the sender’s whereabouts
upon, the day indicated by the
postmark. As the owner 6f l this
book has been over the greater
part of the world, his. book is a
decided-curiosity.—Constitution.
. —
A suit is now pending in the
justice court of Byram’s district,
this county, for 25 cents. This
brings- to mind the celebrated
conch shell case that was iii the
justice court of Eliutville district
several years-go. A epnch shell
Was the bone of contention valued
at 50 cents. A possessory warrant
was brought for it, ft was twice
tried id the justice court and came
to the superior court by certiora
ri, where it was dismissed. The
cost amounted to from $20 to $30,
and the shrill remained where the
court found it—Carnesville Tri
bune. - . . , - -
When you hear a irian say that
fie: has to raise cotton to buy meat,
you) may pat it dowii. on your book
that He is no farmer;, He . re
mains oh fus farm by the grade of
God and the Merchant. , SuptU.a
man is absolutely in a worse fix
than the" tenant, as the tsriarit di
vides losses "and other • calamities
with the landlord, while thS.Arian
who' raises cotton to buy. meat has
fc bear all the responsibility.—Al-
iiahcs Advodafe."._
COKStSFTJ03 SUEELf CUBED,
•To.rHS.XDiTos— Pirasa infr-rniyour rfsa
met tfiafcJ hare apositiTeremodv for. the abort
*aic*d tissue. ;Bjr its timely use thoanantt* of
hoysles* ea'ej i*yi,b««n-permanently cured
Harper’* llagaetn..
There was once a lady, sober in
mind and sedate in manner, whose
plain.dress, exactly represented her
desire to be inconspicuous, to do
good, to improve every .day of her
life in actions that should.^.benefit
her kind. She was a serious per
son, inclined to improving conver
sation,, to the reading . of bound
books which cost at least a dollar
and* half (15 cents of which she
gladly eontribut'edsto the author),
and she had a distaste to the "gay
society which was mainly a flutter
of ribbons and talk and pretty
faces; arid when "she;’ meditated, as
she did in her spare moments, her
heart was sore over the frivolity of
life and the emptiness of fashion.
She longed to make the world bet
ter, and without any prigishness
she set it an example of simplie ty
arid sobriety, of cheerful acquies-*
cence in plainness and iriconspicu-
ousness. ..
One day, it was in the autumn,
this lady had occasion to buy a
new hat. From a great number
offered to her, she selected a red
one with a .dull red plume. It did
not agree, with the rest, of her ap-
parfel ; it did riot fit her- apparent
character. What impulse led to
this selection she could not ex
plain. She was not tired of being
good, but something in the jaunti
ness of the hat and the color
pleased her. If it were a tempta
tion, she did not intend to yield to
it, but she thought she would take
the hat home and try it. Perhaps
her nature felt-the need of a little
warmth. The hat pleased her
still more when she got it home
and put it on and surveyed her
self in the mirror, Indeed, there
was a new expression in her face
that corresponded to the hat. She
put it off and looked at it. There
was something almost humanly
winning and temptatious about it
In short, she kept it, and when
she wore it abroad she was not
conscious of its incongruity to her
self or to her dress, but of-fche in
congruity of the rest of her appar
el to the bat, which seerued to have
a sort, of intelligence of its own, at
least a power of changing and con
forming things to itself. By de
gree one article after. another in
the lady’s wardrobe was laid aside
and another substituted for it, an
swering to the demanding spirit of
the hat. In a little while this
plain lady was not plain any more,
but most .gorgeously dressed, and
possesseo^with the desire, to be in
the height of fashion. It came to
this that she had a tea gown made
out of a window curtain
flamboyant pattern. Solomon in
all his glory would have been
ashamed of himself in her pres
ence.
But this was not all. Her dis
position, her ideas, her whole life
Was changed.. She read nothing
but stories in paper covers. In
stead of being sedate and sober
minded, she was frivolous to ex
cess; she spent most of her- time
with women-who liked to “frivol.
She Sept Lent in the most pensive
way so as to make the impression-
upon everybody that she was bet
ter than the extreme kind. From
liking the sedatest company she
passed to liking the gayest society,
and the most fashionable meth
od _pf getting rid of her time
and she is now an ornament to so
ciety. ■
* Albany News and Advertiser
Here is the best on* that has yet
been heard on the Chatanqnaf An
old woman wandered into the sit
ting room, of one of onr. most
prominent ladies, and announced
herself with . the query; . “Say,
Miss Lizzie/ when is this here She-
talker gwine ter take place?” She
"was iriformed-that the opening cer-
mones would b® next -Monday.
“ Wellj l’iri Mighty glad 'they’re
gwine ter let the wimmen folks
talk, 35 .she said, “I neyer has talked
eg Much as I wanted to, and if
they’ll only give us a chance when
-they have-the She-falker- I’ll be
satisfied.”
The Trinity church
SBC.- J _
property,
xt is very particular hdw-*- jprirtf besides. If she' doesh’f
I*- Vo*, ta. au assessed Talua-
•wnption. if -Hwy -wig send me th«ir expresi fion of $3,750,000. This proper-
gggppp^^,, l.-ci... p p
Monroe AdTertiser.
ON FARMS,
Sad mistakes ^are often made, \ At 7 p6T OGtit Interest'
CHEAPEST OF THEM ALL.
and grave errors committed by j
persons in this life, because they
do not look on, or at, .but one side.
To every trade, to every business
transaction, to ’all; differences of
what ever kind or character spring
ing up betw.aeu individuals there
are two sides. In all such matters
It is a trait)of"human character to
look almpst .exclnsively upon the
side of individual or self-interest.
This fact, coupled with a. miscon
ception of lihe true law of self-pro
tection and .self-preservation leads
us into a line of defense indicating
that there is but one side-the
question at) issue. ; This is true,
and especially observable, tin) in
stances or differences involving
character. We too often endeavor
to build up our own fences on this
line by pulling down the fences of
our neighbor. We draw the pic
ture in accord with pur views re
gardless of what .the results may
be to our neighbor. We base our
acts and. say-so3 upon the view
presented by looking at one side.
We do not put ourselves in onr
neighbor’s shoe's and «take a fair
and impartial view of the other
aide". This course of conduct usu
ally widens the" breach and pro-
duses harmful results.
This serious mistake is more
generally observable" among class
es of persons who are usually de
nominated gossipers and tattlers,
of whom we hope it riiay be said
“they are not increasing.” These
persons, whether ever on tile qui-
vive for for such or not we know
not; soem to be well versed in all
the little breaches of etiquette and
improprieties that- bubble to • the
Surface in social circles. These
they catch up and float out upon
the other side^to see what the re
sults may- be. They communicate
the foiblea].)of olhers, with the in
terpolating precaution “don’t you
repeat this,” to their confidants, of
whom they have many. Thus it is
that the little faults and shortcom
ings of many find access to the
public ear, from which oftentimes
harmful and hurtful results follow.
Much of this comes from the fact
thht gossipers will not put them
selves iri the shoes of those about
whom they goasiji, and look on the
other side.
Applvto ->v.
©AYI$ & FELBEK,
June 14—tf. PEBRY, GA. ’
193*Cotton Avenue,
MACON, - - - GEORGIA,
Treats Diseases iif ihs jp
E-arj Threatafid Nose,
SpecIa,ll3rS
A Q- KXLEY>
Attorney at Law,
FORT VALLEY, GA.
(Office over Dow Law Bank.)
Practice in the counties of the- Macon
Circuit; in Macon and Taylor counties,
and in the Federal Courts.
HELP IK TIRSE OF NEED.
The meanest manjri the world
ia named Brown, and lives at Mob-
erly,J!do. He sold his neighbor
Jones a half interest in a cow and
then refused to divide the milk,
maintaining that Jones owned the
front half of the cow. The cow
recently hooked Brown, and now
he is suing Jones for damages.
Hawkinsville News,
The New York Commercial Ad
vertises says “The rapid growth of
the West was due largely "to the
emigration of Southern whites to
the States. Nealy one-third of the
active colonists of the West were
Southern born men!
No one can ask honestly or
hopefully -to be delivered from
temptation unless he haa himself
hoiffestly and firmly determined to
do the best he can to keep out of
it.
- 5 s ~'■ '•
“To Be, or Not To Be”?
soliloquized the melancholy .Dane.
A sea of troubles opposed. He
shrank before them;ambition lay
dead. Life, as he viewed it, rested
under a yellow cloud, tinged with
green. Hamlet, to iny mind, was
billons. The blood, diseased, car
ried through-the natural gates and-
alleys of the body, made life a bnr-
deri; and the ills of the body mag
nified in a ten. fold degree hi* oth
er ills. Purify , the blood, give,
new life and action, to the system,
take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery, and, your drovfsiness,
lack of appetita, chilly sensations,
yellow skin, bad breath, will all
depart, as the morning mists are
dispelled by the rising sun.
Thousands of cures follow
When a man is drowning lie will grasp atstrawv
birt straws will not save him. Extend to him a
life-boat and his rescue is certain. .
Hr. James A. Greer, of Athens, Ga., .(endors«dby
the editor of the Athens. Banner-Watchman) makes
the follov/ing statement:
“I am first cousin of the late Ex-Governor Alex
ander «. Stephens, and have been postal clerk on
different railroads since ISC-3. For ten years I h: re
been a sufferer from a cancer on
CANCER my face, which "grew Worse ,
until the discharge of matter became profuse and
very offensive. 1 beCa’die thoroughly disgusted with
blood purifiers and pronounced tliem humbugs, as
I had.tried many,without relief. •
Finally I was induced to use Botanic Blao&Eflm,
(B. B. B.) The offensive discharge decreased at
once and the hardness disappeared. It became less
and less in size until nothing remains except a scar
I gninrd.flesh and strength, and all v;ho have seen
me bear testimony. 1 cannot-say too much in its
praise.”
A. H. Moriis, Piae.Bluff, Art., writes:
“Hot Springs failei entirely to care me of several-
terrible, indolent running ulcers on mv legs, with
which 1 have beer, troubled for.manyyears. Sever
al doctors also attempted to citrs me but.failed. I
HOT
(made In Atlanta, and thecffect hasbeeqtruly
magical^s they have all healed and I am cured aftel
everything failed. My general health is also improv
ing, appetite aird'digestion good 1 sleep soundly;
and never felt tetter. Doctors told me that I could"
not be cured. . ■ . • ■ *
I refer to every merchant or professional man of
Fine.Blufi,
ESPAny one interested who desires to know mors
about the wonderful merit of B. B. B., will please
send address to c lood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga., for
their illustrated ’ Book of .Wonders.” (2)
CJOTJSTX: .
E. S. "Wellons has "applied lor letters
of administration on tlxe estate of-Stei
phen L. Thompson, late of said conniy,
deceased:" v-r' V s .'
This is therefore to cite all person J
eerned to appear at the April
1889 ofthe conrt of Ordinary of said c
ty, and show cause, if any they'have", why
said application should not be granted.";
Witness my official signature, this
February 28.18S9.
-J H. HOUSES, Ordinary.
GrEOBGfi—HODSTori'CoUNTT :
T. D. Warrenhas applied for perm a-
-tent letters of administration on the es-
■;ato pf 0. A. Warren, late of -Hons- -
ton county, deceased:
This is therefore to cite all persons con,
cemed to appear at the April term, :
of the Court of Ordinary of said coi
and show cause, if any they have,
said application should not be granted.".
Witness my official cignatore .this
February 28,1889. - I
o. H. B.OTJSEB,
; Ordinary,*
—^r— —
GEORGIA—Houston Couxtt:
E. S. Wellons, administrator of Mrs.
M. "V. Downs, of said county, deceased,
has applied for letters of dismission from
said trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons eon 7
cemed to., appear at the April Term,
1889, of th^ Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
granted,
Witness my official signature this Janu-
J. H. HOUSES, ,
Ordinary!
GEORGIA—Houston County- -
K. Taylor and Mrs. C. A. 'Taylor, Ad
ministrators of the estate of BryantjBaf a-
man, deceased, have applied for dismie-
dismission from said trust:
This is therefore to cite allpersons" con
cerned to appear at the May term;
1889, of the courtof Ordinary of said coun
ty, and show cause, if any they have, why
said application should not he granted.
Witness my official, signature this Jsn.
31,1889" J. -H. HOUSED,
4Ht. - Ordinary,
ON FARMS ANJ) TOWS'
PROPERTY.
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IN BIBB AND ADJOINING COUNTIES
ELLIOTT, ESTES & CO,
318 Second St., Macon, Ga.
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Office on'Main Street,
R^aew your subssription now.
. S6S SolM Gold Witch.rir»V5
Sold for® loo. until lately. 1/ Ilf*
\ Best $85 watch in tho world. H II H
lekeeper. 'War-A II1 »
h ranted. Heavy Solid G
One JPerso Jin cedi in-
cal Uy" can figure one free,
together with our large and val-
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TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MJCCA, GJ..
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The Most Extensive Dealers in
Bsry Goods,
IN
GEORGIA
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TO THE CITIZENS
REDDING &
HOUSTON COI
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HAYE FILLED UP
WINSHI PA GALL A WAY’S
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JAEANTEE TO PLE.