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Training Youn
London tive Stock Jonrrii;
Animals.
As Others See Us.
CoP-tmijas En4ni'rer-Stm'.
It would be impossible to im-1 Perm . Gi-. June 18—Perry is
pats tk. iiitmenso loss that is sus- *• S~p-.ph.oal center as well as
r . , . 0 _ m „ a the county site of Houston county,
tain# each year by tamers omhg ft fa ^ J ^ ^ J.
to the improper i..i»iu .f tare, hpsditality and morality of
vicious and unsafe; lta ^ le f? nera !L| ^d for the
stock,
many cages
’■ever afterward. Some sueges-
He is a Spoilsman.
: Causes of Increase in Divorces.
Savannah Homing Sews. •
Superintendent of the Censns
Savanna^ Sows.
The official report that was made ;
The Tikiie for Women to Marry.
Philadelphia Preen.
Probably the best time for civ-
Porter is a spoilsman. He doesn’t; a few months ‘ago Concerning mar- iljzed woman to marry, Jsays the
want democrats in the census of- j riage and divorces in -this country
fice. Our dispatches yesterday j continues to be a subject of dis-
stated that on Wednesday he made| cussion, but ^he particular ques-
an argument befoie the President] tibn bow discussed is, what lb the
-1 nam ber and beauty of its girls in- j n w hich he opposed applying the cause of the alarming increase of
‘tions on this subject are given by
a correspondent: In most sections
‘■of agricultural practice we have
made a decided advance, and it is
'somewhat singular that iu tike
tearing, breaking and breaking of
'animals—what we styie the educa
tion of animals, so conducive to
the comfort or discomfort of man
- w e still pursue a course that is
closely associated With the dark
i^rres. One common foundation
cause forms the basis of oui non
success in the education of aui-
inals, and it is the root and result
ant cause of the evils that follow.
We presume that all animals at
birth possess hereditary vice, and
that vice must be eradicated be
fore the animal can become a use
ful servant to "man. This is most
certainly a mistake, and one that
leads up to numerous evils. The
tea.me erroneous practice prevails
in the training of horses, bulls,
■dogs, etc., but it is probably in the
training of horses that the great
est mischief results.
In the education of a colt or
filly, or a young bull, the same
care is needed as that of a. Uhild.
The disposition should be studied,
fend the defects eradicated by-
kind, yet firm treatment. At
prssent, if a foal is of a lively tem
perament, it is at once put down
fes vicious, fend if either of its pa
rents have shown what is miscalled
vice, the result of mistaken bru
tality iu their education-, then the
foal’s liveliness is put down as
hereditary vice, and a prolonged
course of harsh conduct feud beat
ing is deemed necessary to effect
fe cure. If, on the other hand, the
young animal is or a stow and
heavy nature, it is erroneously
Bupposed to be the result of vicious
Sullenness, and the same treatment
as in the case of the lively foal is
undertaken—harsh treatment and
beating to bring them into so-
called subjection. In each case
this cruel discipline has just the
opposite effect to that softght, and
hence we have sadly too many
kicking, biting, jibbing and bolting
horses. In place tt£ having horses
which entertain affection for man,
we have them in constant fear of
man, ever expectant of a blow, and
their worst actions often leading
up to accident or death, are too
often the result of this fear; pos
sibly some movement of the driver
nqt connected with them being
misconstrued into the intention to
inflict a blow. In the breaking
and education of all yoiing ani
mals firmness should blend with
kindness, but never with harshness
or brutality;
of-
particular. Some of the pretty j c j v j[ serv i ce rules to appointments! the divorce evil? That evil has. and vigor are ordinarily at their
eree.iCS ahn nranCnes hi-irrlenncr flip • ,, t . . tt • i!. ... i-‘, 1 , . .-i
Hospital, would be any age be
tween twenty-four and thirty-six.
It is not said that no woman shall
marry earlier of Later than- either
of those ages; but youth and health
A scientific paper recently
fered a reward for the most cor
rect answers to a certain scientific
problems. Among others was the
old scientific conundrum, which
weighs the most, a pound of feath
ers or a pound of lead? Of^course
% pound is a pound, no m>l fcor of
What substance, and wheT , a sim
ple or thoughtless person answers
that a pound of lead is the heav
iest everybody laughs. Mr. Charles
Pitt, in answering the question,
claims that the pound of lead
Would weigh the heaviest, because
the feathers would be l^uyed up
by a weight equal to the amount df
air which they displace—just as a
cork, is bouyed up in the water.
In future, therefore, we must re
frain from laughing at the fool’s
answer, as practically it is correct.
Of coarse, if weighed in a V&cti-
tun, a pound of any two sub
stances would weigh alike.
The shipments of wheat from
California to the Australian Colo-
hiegihis year promise to exceed
theme of all former years.
creeks ahd branches bordering the
town, which lies on high ground,
are given the pretty names of
pretty girls. Big Indian creek is
on the south and southwest, while
Fannie Gresham branch is on the
northwest and ; ‘Katie Flanagan
branch is on the east, making it
almost an island town. It is a re
markably healthy and pleasant
town in which to live. Many
northern people spend their win
ters here as a sanitarium, with ex
ceedingly beneficial results. The
streets are wide, and abundantly
shaded with elms and water oakB.
It has three churches—-Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian—a male
and female high school, Masonic
lodge and chapter, Odd Fellow,
Knights off Honor and Legion of
Honor lodges, and a military com
pany of which’the people are just
ly proud. The .Variety "Works,
just across the creek, manufacture
hames> brooms, furniture, grinds
meal, gins and packs cotton, and
saws and dresses lumber. Perry
has an excellent public library of
ten yfears standing, well sustained
and patronized. Its example in
this regard many of the larger
towns would do well to follow.
More than 5,000 bales of cotton,
many bar-loads of melons, large
quantities of peaches, apples,
grapes, strawberries, and other
fruits are shipped annually to
market. ’A large trade iD general
merchandise is sustained, and the
merchants, even now in the dull
season, are wearing a smile, show
ing that their trade has not de
creased.
The learned professions are
well represented, both in number
and ability.
Perry has a population of about
1200> permanent and solid, and
has many ^handsome residences,
adorned with beautiful flowers
and shrubbery. Takeii all ft) all,
a more pleasant, wetl-ordered Com
munity than Perry would be diffi
cult to find. Much of this is
doubtless due to the able and fear
less manner in which that excel
lent paper, the Home Journal, is
conducted by its gentlemanly edi
tor, Mr. John H. Hodges. A pe
rusal of its columns will demon
strate that it is one of the best
weekly papers in Georgia, and
which the people of Houston coun
ty will do well to liberally sup
port. J. E. S.
in the censds bureau. He said
that experience showed that for
census work better men could be
obtained by the spoils method than
the civil service reform method.
It would be interesting to know
when employes of the census bu
reau were selected by the civil ser
vice reform method. If they have
never been selected by that meth
od on what does Mr. Porter base
his statement that experience
teaches that for census work better
men can be obtained by the spoils
method. The truth, is that Mr.
Porter wants to handle the patrdn-
age of the censns bureau; He has
friends, doubtless, whom he wants
to put into comfortable positions.
A large number of men and wo
men will be needed for the census
work, and hundreds of them will
have steady employment for five or
six years, id fact, some of them
will be needed for ten years. It is
only recently that the census of
1880 was completed.
There is just as much reason for
applying the Civil service rules to
the census bureau as to any other
bureau. Mr. Porter says that there
is special work to be done, and ex-
jper s needed to do it. Very well-,
let him appoint experts to the
places <vhere experts are necessa
ry. Experts are needed in only a
few positions. In the great major
ity of the places only men and vo-
men who can do clerical work are
required.
It is probable-, however, that the
President will be convinced by Mr.
Porter’s argument, not because the
argument was fe strong qge, bnt
because he would like to fill all
the places in the censns bureau
with, republicans. If he should
rise above partisan considerations
and declare that merit and not
politics should Control the appoint
ments he would take a higher
place.in the estimation of the peo
ple.
“His pills os thick ab hand grenades
flew,
And where they fell as certainly they
slew,”
W8B once said bf one of those ig
norant doctors in the early timeaj
who might well have been called
the aide-de-camp of death; The
sufferer from scrofula, with sores
as bad as Job’s; need not now
eurse the day he was born, for Dr;
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov
ery will restore health and beauty,
feppetite and strength. Especially
has it manifested its potency in
curing salt rheum, tetter, boils,
carbuncles, sore-eyes, scrofulous
sores and swellings; hip-joint dis
ease, white swelling, goitre or
thick neck, and ©fi^trged glands;
A London paper says sfeys there
is some probability of having
india-rubber roads in the metrop
olis; Two German engineers have
come over to consult with the au
thorities on the subject, end
should the county council be
agreeable, there is no reason why
London horses should not soon
enjoy the iuxury of a soft and firm
foothold, • especially if they are.
shod \rith the shoe that is inter-
pticed with india-rubber.
Th^New 3tork Co art of Appeals
has recently decided that a person
Who has paid a fine for drunken-
" i a criminal.
The signal service Continues to
issde false weather prophecies with
a regularity that indicates that it
has settled down to the business
permanently.
The American lift in the Eiffel
tdwer, at Paris, wfes subjected to a
final test, before handing it over
for public use. The lift, which
consists of two apartments, one
above the other; Weighs 11,000
kilogramnids, and loaded with 3,-
000 kilogrammes of lead—that is
to say, weighing 1,400 kilo
grammes—was raised to a consid
erable hight. There it was fast
ened with ordinary ropes, and
this done it was detached
from the cables df steel wire with
which it was worked. What was
to be done was to cut the ropes
and alloW the lift to fall so as to
ascertain whether if the steel ca
bles were to give Way, the breaks
would work properly and support
the lift. Two carpenters, armed
with great hatchets, had ascended
to the lift and were ready to cut
the cables on a signal. There was
a great anxiety. The signal was
given, a blow cut the rope and the
enormous machine began to fall.
Every one was startled; but in its
downward course the lift began to
move slowly, it swayed fof fe mo
ment from left to right, struck on
the break and stopped. There was
general cheering. Not a pane of
glass broken or cracked. A pow
erful arm seemed - to have - stopped
it without a shock at a hight of
ten meters above the ground.
►—O-i
become so great as to threaten the
well being of society. The Phila
delphia News says that the solu
tion may]be£fouhd in the changed
conditions of life in the cities
compared with those of twenty-
five or thirty years ago. At that
time, it says^the ambition of mar
ried people was to own a home,
where they blight enjoy domestic
pleasures. Now, most of the mar
ried people do not know what
home means. They live in flats,
boarding-houses; br hotels, and the
surroundings tend to drive hus
band and wife apart. The women,
having no household duties, and
committing their children to the
care of others, seek amusement in
society, or in promenades, or in
attendance upon theatres. The
men, disliking the confinement of
rented apartments, spend much of
their time at clubs or other places.
The love for domestic life is lost,
and discontent, jealousies, quarrels
and divorces are the result.
It is true that the cities have a
virtual monopoly of the divorce
business, but if this is because of
the want of domestic life in its
best sense, thefe seems to be very
little hope that the evil will be
remedied. In all probability life
in flats, boarding-houses and ho
tels, will become more general,
rather thaw otherwise.
It will not be questioned that
this sort of life has a tendency to
multiply divorcee, but there are
other things which help to cause
the increase in them. One of
them is the too general practice of
marrying almost solely for money.
The main agency, however, is
prohfebly the divorce laws. It is
so easy to obtain a divorce these
days that people make hasty and
unwise marriages; and frequently
upon the slightest provocation
they fly to the coarts for a so-called
relief. The Morning News has
often pointed out that what is de
manded is uniform and more
stringent divorcb laws.
Eight Years on tire Way.
Mr. Senseman, of Mechanics-
burg, Pa., heard something fall a
few nights ago, but gave the sdttnd
no heed. Next morning he found
thfet the bottom of his cellar had
literally dropped out; and that the
gable end the hause had sunk, and
wfes in danger of falling; An un
derground stream had caofeed the
sink.
.
A resident of Newark, N. J., is
in possession of fe letter written by
him to his wife at Dresden in
1881, which failed to reach her
there owing to her sudden de
parture, and which has for the
last eight yeais been travelling
about western Europe, iii spite of
the fact that the address of the
writer in this city was plainly
printed on the envelope. When
the postoffice authorities at Dres
den failed to find the party to
whom the letter was addressed, it
was sent to Paris, fend frdm there
to London; and from there to Liv
efpool; At each of these cities it
had apparently been left at the of
fices of the leading bankers df oth
er places at which American tour-
ists are likely to stop. Finally, it
was sent to the American exchange
fet Liverpool, where it has, to all
appearances lain for some time,
and being recently resurrected,
was returned to the Newark ad
dress, with the envelope stamped
and restamped, and otherwise
marked up with the names of
places at which it had been depos
ited.-
England idastB of 52,019 wid
ews only Is Jiity-feHr years
A French chemist named BeaU-
metz exhibited at a recent meet
ing of the Paris Academy of Med
icine a new alimentary substance
which he names fromentine. It
is obtained from VrhCat by the aid
of special millstones, qnd is really
the embryo of whefet reduced to
flour. It contains three times more
nitrogenous substance than meat;
and a large proportion of sugar.
It is thdUght that it may advanta
geously replace powdered meat as
a concentrated food. It iiiay be
employed for making soiips, fend
highest perfection between these
two periods. Very*early marriages
are seldom desirable for girls, and
that for many reasons. The brain
immature, the refeson is feeble, and
the character is unformed. The
considerations which would
prompt a girl tq marry at seven
teen would in many cases have
very little weight at twenty-four.
At seventeen she is a child, at
twenty- four a woman. Where a
girl has intelligent] parents, the
seven years between seventeen and
twenty-four are the period' "vhen
both mind and body are rhost
amenable to wish discipline, and
best repay the thought and toil
devoted to their development. Be
fore seventeen few girls have learn
ed to understand what life is; what
discipline is, what duty ’is. They
cannot value what is best, either
in the father’s wisdom or in the
mother’s tenderness. When mar
ried at that childish period they
are like young recruits taken fresh
from the fafni fend the workshop,
and hurried off to a long campaign
without any. preliminary drill or
training; br like a schoolboy re
moved from school to a curacy
without being sent to th^universi-
ty or to a theological hull. Who
can help grieving over a child-wife,
especfally if she hate Children,
and a husband who is an inexperi
enced, and possibly exacting boy-
man. The ardor of his love soon
cools. The visionary bliss of his
poetical imagination vanishes like
the summer mist; there is nothing
left but disappointment and won
der that ftliat promised to be so
beautiful and long a day, should
have clouded over almost before
sunrise.
i. j§
Here is ah item of more real
bearing upon the question of
Flying Machines.
Attempts ' to make birds the]
models upon*which man can con-j
struct a flying apparatus are at- j
most without ntiniber. History is I
full of such attempt^ and their
failures. Three years ago, at the
meeting of the Ameififcah Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science, a certain professor, Isaac
Lancaster, react a paper before the
Buffalo convention, in which he
professed to give the results of
many years’ stfidy devoted. to tli
observation of bijds ih flight; “In
1876,” said] ProL Lancaster,' “I
went to the]Gulf«;coast of South
Florida, below Tampa Bay, and
resided there*;for'fiveltyr’ars, con
tinuously engaged in this matter.
From Tampa P‘
soiirihg birds 0< ^
sioh. Th2se P
th
t
Cedar Keys,
nd in profu-
of buzzards,
cranes; gfen-
, gulls, herons,
ortance. The
Southern prosperity than all the
CDugresional buncombe that is
heard in a month’s time. Tlie
Georgia Alliance has had occasion
to contract for 3,000,000 yardB of
cotton bfegging. Where has it gone
for that considerable quantity of
goods? To the New England mills?
Not at all. It might have done
so once, and not so very long ago,
but now it has no need to do so.
The contracts were given to mills
in Lousiaiia aiid Georgia, and the
incident is very completely illus
trative of the radical changes
which have tdken place in one of
our leading industri£4. The South
has ho longer any need to divide
an important part of its revenues
with the cotton spinners of Massa
chusetts ond Rhode .Island; It
does its own work aiid keeps its
money at home. This incident
noted will bear a lot of thinking.-
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
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Grandfather-Smith of Funxsu-
tawney, Pa, who was gathered to
his fathers several ybars ago; used
to say, after the grfeafc flood df 1861;
that it was all in the moon:
Whenever,” he said, “the moon
changes at 11 o’clock and 59 mih-
utes in the day tiipe on June 1,
you may look out for heavy rains
and a big flood. I have seen two
or three great floods during my
lifetime, fend they werb all causbd
by the change of the mdon at this
particular time—11:59, Jdnd L
When the change of thb moon
domes again at that time; look
Out.” Several of the citizens of
that placb remember this, and, it
is said, Idoking up the almanac,
found that the change of .the
moon took place on June 1; 88
precisely at 11:59 o’cldSh; and iii
Consequence they marvel ifinffiL*
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use Brown’s Iron Bitters.'
. , Physicians recommend it
All dealers lceep.it 81.00 per bottle: Gennlne
has trade-mark and mossed red lines an wrapper: :
&
frigate birds, ^ U1 ^
nets, eagles, c ose
and others c 1 ‘ e
buzzards w* em " \tually rest in
the sea or* 8 been njthg int»or or
bay coast, t a ^ amori flirty and fifty
feet above th^° TSg facing the
wind for hours on mo
tionless wings. mSy were birds
of from four to six pounds in
weight; tjrith an equal number of
square ieet of wing eutfa'ce. I
watched a score tfhem on one
occasion for fou|f^bn consecutive
hours, during wliitu time not a
dozen flaps were Pjade for each
bird. If a bird cA float indefi
nitely in calm air without using
muscular exertion, h e i Q g f° r me
chanical purposes ns rigid as a
board, then a board or metal body
of Lhe right shape Find position
ought to be able to do the same
thing. In construction it must
preserve the essential features of
the,bird's wing.” oThe professor
said that nothing wfes nebbssarjF to
sutfefess but a nice imitation of the
figure of a bird wfleil flouting in
the air. .
POWDER
Absolutely F^ure;
Thispowdor neypr vanes'. A marvel .of purity
strength aud wh&csomonjeps. pore economlsa
than theord inary kindg. and cannot be sold la
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aeigbt.alnn^aud phqspbate,powders. Sold only
incans. BoYal Basing Powdeb Co ,IOC Walaat
street. K.I.
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In a family in Y Infrew, Canada,
there is a cat which ife much pet
ted. Oiie day the lady of the
house sat down for a moment, and
either to relieve her feelings, of ai
a bit of innocent diversion, gaffe
vent to a little Whistle. Imme
diately the pet r u i sprang up to
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her lap, and JbrKj its sheathed
paw struck he ,J - e^V>w in the face.
The lady tho-“ a L^ fjs strange, but
at first hard ye ^F c ]ccted it with the
whistling.^ 5 a little time
afterward, in ar cher room, she
1
happened to re’’. , ^9 whistle,
and the cat sprang tip’ a *N. struck
her again. This time^S, lady
thought it infist be the whistling
which was giving Pussy offense;
and so, with “malice aforethought, 1
whistled again. Sure enough, the
cat chastised her with another
blow, sqfeare in the face. About
the only- possible explanation is
that in the whistle it fancied a call
was being given to the pet dog,
and was jealous thereat.
The French Court tfii Appeals
has cotiflrmed a judgment aimtil
ling the will of a Fffenehmaii
named Louis Augdst TraVeri, who
died in 1883 and left his monby
to the London workbbtise and {tool*.
He instructed his executor to con
feign bis body to the deep just off
the English coafet, declaring that
France had always oppressed him,
that the French Were a natiofi of
dastards and fools, and he onty
-wished that he might giv€ them to
the English, the born enemies of
stnpid France. The court held
that the London poor and work-
houses had no legal representa
tives; and that such anti-patriotic
sentiments indicated insanity:
A gorilla in the Bombay zoolog
ical gardeiis takes a bar of iftih
two inches thich and bends it dou
ble in his hand, and with one bite
of his massive jaws fend teeth he
shivers the hardest df mahogany
knots into match-wood.
. hits been rtceiVed; Consisting bf
t)ry Goods, Motions, Slides; Hats’,
Crockery, TinWafe; fctfe.
FOWLER'S FLY FANS;
All marked low down for cash.
MY STOCK OF GROCERIES
is also complete, and I can satisfy all
customers in quality o( gojidfe and priced
Thanking.thq public for past' favors, I
respectfully ask a continuance:
D. MARTIN;
Perfy; Ga:
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■PERRY, GEORGIA.
v-TgT* Office over Paul’s Fnmitufe S torfc
Firgfcjjlass work: Prices inbderate. TnK
ronage Solicited; apl 28 ly
A PHYSICIAN’S
WARMING I
Of all the teitft’fc, soal ;
aiHict all classes bf humanity, nothing in all;
iks ever approached comparison to the ravages of
BLOOD POISON !
of flesh and life. Alas! How often just ■
affliction loves to affect a noble life with its p
taint. It sfUtes with destructive aim
g. . ", j notable,-!
SCROFULA king hor^ statesmen.
Even unto the third
generation are the sins of the father made fhanlffcsti
WHai a fearful heritage to i/eq'iSitii iia innocent
child! Ah I the herrtblc ravages of this affliction!
- '-J' T ~
To its activity is due sore throat
SORES «> re Rwr, sore kidneys, sore lungs,'
sore skin, great ulcers, internal, ex
ternal and eternal unless proper trCatthbil Is applied-
The test remedy is a prescription used n—tJ
jh privaiS practice by hi old Atlanta p
is now prepared a thousand gallons ;
is
only 1
Iti
tanic Blood Balm,
blood poison' first
and lastly Is winded t
kidneys; and through the i
It is clearly the duty of <