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mmmm ® YOU WANT ___ANY KIND OF ■H1 \-i I ■■ I }IVE THE- JOB OFFICE -A TRIAL.-- . 'JOilJN H. HODGES, Proprietor, Devoted to Home Interests and Culture. TWO DODLAHS A Year in Adranee. VOL. PEEEY? GEdEGIA, TIITJESDAY, AUGtJST 22, 1889, NO. 33. fiee is. fully | kind of may "be needed. All deft, and at prices that t pete’ with any city. < at our samples and get our orde i®f f jwljf c @ HI ©H WILLIS p_ PRICE, factor. MACON, QA. Choosing a Profession. Youth’s Companion. Twenty years ago Thomas Scott, of Penns'yIvama,'oneof the shrewd est of railway men, spent a few days in a country village. An ac tive, bright faced boy in the house where-he boarded attracted his no tice. He asked the school-master what was the .capacity of the lad. “He is dall,” wks the reply. “Thick-headed and incapable, but willing enough to learn. His father wishes to ; make;a ehemist of him, but he cannot master the first prin. ciples of the science.” Mr. Scott, watching the lad, ob served that In the affairs of daily life his judgment was clear and just, and his observation keen. He showed* too, a singular faculty for managing his school-fellows. The boy’s parents were induced to take him from school, and Mr. Scott gave him work in the yard of a railway. “Now,” he said, “you have no longer tp deal, with books, but with things and men. Make your own way. I believe you can do it.” It was the first time that the- boy had been told that he was not wholly a dolt. He proved to, be. energetic, intelligent- and enthusi astic in his work. There was a certain firmness and cordiality in his manner which gave him con trol over his associate!. He was soon sent out upon the road .in charge of a gang of men. A few years later,, when Mr. Scott came that way again, the young man was superintendent of a division. He afterward rose steadily to the front rank in his profession, A boy is too apt. to be influ enced in the choice of his life work by some accident or petty motive. His father and grand father have been successful yhysi- cians or manufacturers, or butch ers, and it seems natural and'- right for him to follow in . their foot steps, Or his ihtirhatb friend at college is going to study law, and. he must do the same. Sometimes a pious . father and mother cherish a fond hope that their boy will devote his life to preaching the gospel, and rather than disappoint them, he does it, with no fitness or zeal for the work., • In each ease the lad’s life is a failure for the want of a little de liberation and a careful examina tion of his natural abilities. Among the readers of the com panion there are tens of thousands of boys who must soon make choice of their profession or trader one of the rdost momentous earth ly questions which will be set be fore them. Don’t be in a hurry, boys. Do not let an accident de cide for you. Do not chpose, an occupation because it is more “genteel” than others.. It is the man who gives character and dig nity to his occupation, as to his clothes! - _ Don’t think because you were rated dull at school, that there is ho honorable place for you in the world- There are talents and powers which do. not deal with books. God sends no man into the world without providing an occupation for him in which he may earn respect. You have yours. v J But take care that the work is that for which the tool is fitted. The mere fact that the . work seems pleasant and attractive to yon, does hot prove that it is fitted to your faculties; you may be am bitious, but you cannot climb a ladder without feet ahd. hands. Learn the strength of your feet and hands, find the fight lad der, and then trust only ih God and to yourself to make your way up it. ~ ■ The Negro Population. Washington Eepublican. Leave of Absenc'e. The Greensboro Herald-Jonanal iNOXXOO ■jsioxxoO 'NOXXOO Noiseless powder is said to be finding favor with military author ities. It will tend to make, war much more popular,- observes the Washington Star, for raw - soldiers report that next to being killed,by a gunj it is most disagreeable to be the noise. Dr. Billings, an eminent physi-1 The big bugs in the legislature,and cian of this city, who is to have] their boon companions,- the lobby- charge of. the mortality statistics ists, are very highly amused these of the next census, said to a Re public eorrespondednt to-day: “The next census will dissipate many errors that have grown: out of comparisons made between the census of 1880 and that of • 1870. The most prominent misrepresen tation that will be corrected will be the one that asserts the phenome nal growth of the negro popula tion of .the country when com pared with the whites. The com parisons .of the next census will be made with those of 1885, , the only approachably Correct census as to .population or anything else made in the history of the government. The observation. of mortality ta bles, made more complete during the last ten years than Cver before, show that the . negro popula tion has a far higher death- rate than that of the whites. In Wash ington it is nearly double that of The whites, and yet this district has been fitly termed the paradise of the negro. Nowhere else in the civilized or uncivilized world is he as well paid for his labor, as well clothed, as well fed, aS well housed. There are more of the race in re ceipt of annual salaries, removed from the condition of day laborers, then in any city of the world at any period of the World's bistort. Even the poorest are cared for better than the average negro in any other city, in the country, and yet the death rate of . the negro, month after month, and year after year, is nearly double that of the whiteman. It is so in every city in the country, and in nearly all southern eities where statistics are kept, the ratio of death is larger for the negro than in Washington.. Id Charleston, Mobile, Savannah, New Orleans* Galveston, St. Louis and Memphis, the death rate of the negro sometimes rises to more than double that of the whites. The birth rate of the negro popu lation is difficult to obtain, be cause they rarely retain a physi cian, but from such statistics as we have, the birth rate does not great ly exceed in cities that of ; whites. In Washington there is an excess of negro births as compared with whites, but it is not nearly double. •From all that can be learned from the health and mortality statistics kept ih cities, it is the best opin ion that the negro population floes not increase proportionately with the whites, and that the next cen sus will show that in the whole country the importance of the ne gro as a factor in our population is on the decrease. 1 days at a resolution which Mr. Snelson, of Meriwether, takes oc casion to present every; .Monday morning. The resolution is to the effect that no member shall be granted leave of absence except for providential causes or most pressing business, and that when absence is granted, for the latter cause, the per diem of the legisla tor shall be stopped until he re turns to his seat. The big bugs may laugh at Mr. Snelson and sneer at his resolu tion, but the people .of Georgia can but agree, and dp.agree with, him. The fifct of the business is a legis lator is an employe of the people. This may grate on gentlemen of high-toned ideas, but it is never theless a fact. He is as much an employe of the people of the state as the clerks of Georgia ate the employes of . the merchants, or the manufacturers; or the farm- labor ers of the planters are hired men. They are delegated to perform certain duties for the people and are paid a per diem for their, ser vices. Now we see no reason why they should neglect that duty even for a day and still be paid. There may be "no objection to excusing them, but if outside business is :iso pressing they should certainly be willing to pay back to the people of the state, the salary allowed them for absent time. The business of granting leaves of absence is positively hurtful. It is a notorious fact that Satur day and Monday of each week are positively lost days by the legisla ture on account of the number of absentees. It costs -fully a thou sand dollars;! day for the legisla ture of Georgia to sit. .The two days a week lost is 82,000. During a session of forty days, and they seldom come under this, the state has lost $20,000. . There is the trouble. There is no objection to a member getting away on busi ness, if it is pressing, bat let him pay for it. They may laugh at Mr. Snelson’s resolution, but he is Tight, and if he continues, to ham mer away he .may accomplish what he is working for, and that he is right there can be no doubt. The legislature should attend to its business promptly and rap idly, ahd stick to business all the time. r The distinction between legiti mate trade and gambling is that in the former an equivalent is given in return for value. There is an exchange in which the condition of both parties may be bettered.' In the latter, the one profits entirely at tile expense of and by the loss of the other, giving nothing in re turn for value received. / This Toe ing the case, what right has specu lation in stocks, grain and f utures to be classed as commercial busi ness?—National Economist. 'It is something of a surprise to find in the columns of the careful Commercial Bulletin; of Boston* that the northern cotton mills pay for the heavy jute bagging and metal ties with. which cottqh is encased. The planter pays for the bagging and ties, and does hot get His money back The price of cot ton is fixed in market where the tare is deducted from every; bale, and the northern cotton mill men buy and pay accordingly—Phila delphia Record The death'of Mrs. Polk leaves but four women living whose hus bands were at any time Presidents of the United States. These are. Mrs. Tyler; All's. Grant,- Mrs. Garfield and Airs. Cleveland. During the Arthur and Cleve land administrations the room in the White House where Garfield spent long days of agony before he was carried to Elberon, was kept closed and unoccupied- The demands of, the present. and en larged presidential household have, however, brought the apartment into use again. The best telephone' story on record,..and one that is vouched for by many comes from Charles ton, S. C. Last Sunday a/young man employed in. the Western Union telegraph office ih that city conversed without difficUltJrwitii’ his brother, who was in Omaha, 1,500 miles away. They talked for an hour with hardly any panse be tween questions. The Spanish Minister of the Colonies has announced that Cuba is not for sale. When Marriage is a Failure. Springfield Republican. When there is too much latch key. When dinner is not ready at dinnertime. I' ;i ' . When the watchword is “Each for himself.” When either of the pair marries for incney. When neither husband nor wife takes-a vacation. When children are. obliged to clamor for their rights. When “he” snores the loudest while “she” kindles the fire. When the vacations are taken by one side of the house only. When the children are given the neck and the back of the chicken. When the man attempt^ to tell the wife what style of bonnet she must wear. . ...... When one of the parties engage! in a business that is not approved by the other. When a man’s. Christmas pres ents tq Ms wife consists of fedote jacks, shirts and gloves for him self. • ■ ; ■ ... , .. Wheh politeness, fine manners and kindly attentions are reserved for the company or for visits abroad. When the money that should go for a/book goes for what only one side of the House knows any thing about. When both parties persist in ari- -guing over a subject upon which they never have and never can think alike. Ji} When the lord of creation pays more for cigars than his better half does for hosiery, boots and bonnets. When “father” takes half of the pie and leaves the other half Tor the one that made it and her eight children. A Woman's Discovery. “Another; wonderful discovery ha! been made, and-that, too, by a lady in this country; Disease fas tened its clutches upon her, and for. seven years she withstood its seYereet tests, but her vital dfgans were undermined, and death seem ed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly, and could not sleep. She- bought of as a bottle of Dr, King’s New Discov ery for Consumption, and was so much relieved upon taking the first dose that she slept all night, and with one bottle has been mi lk me is : still J rac stresses i Airs. LutL - ^ W.C. xr ~ “Tipping” a Waiter. ‘I had the greatest . time at the hotel I stopped at while I was down to the city,” remarked. Uncle Josh to the admiring crowd wild' collected at the store to hear of his journey. “They had a great, big dining-room there, and more than a hundred waiters; but;' none of ’em came around where I was. I giot there as much as. an hoar, an* none of ’em paid the least bit of attention to me, Finally, a man at the table with me, who was just finishing his dinner, says; ‘You’ll have to tip one of the waiters, if you want to get any attention here.’ .. .. . ( ;, “Wall, I''lowed,i end do that fast ernuff, fer I felt erbout mad jest then, so the very next waiter that came skipping by with a hull raft o’ dishes up over his head, I put oUtiny foot an, tipped him. tip quicker’n a wink. That \fras . the quickest way tb get attention I ever seed. Why, I had the whole hotel 3 boss an’ all, there in about ten seconds.”—'Peck’s Sun, • , . j Diamonds have blazed English society the present sea son as they never have before. They have even appeared in tlier gre ; ate3t,-profusion at morning en tertainments. ; It is well known that practice in looking at distant objects im proves the eyesight.. In the test fo-r color Blindness among the en gineers of the New Jersey Central road, it was found that the oldest xiiah in the service had the - bfesfc sight for lohg distance. purposes, and was able to distinguish the va rious shades and; colors; 1 The.Brovince of Ontario, Cana da, is possessed of the most exten sive deposit qf TqCk ^alt whibh has yet been found on " the’, American continent. The salt was first dis covered at Goderich, about twenty years- ago, at about a depth of 1,010 feet, by a Boring which was itade for petroleum. . The salt measures extend over an area of 1,200 square miles.' - ; A Cbripodist Has His ; f “Year before last I had women patrons to one mau,” a Chiropodist. “But last yea so far this year, the falling < the former patronage has beeii more than one half. But there ha! 'been ho decrease iixthe num ber of my male customers;' How do I account for all this? Easily. Fashion iu shoes is responsible for it. A year and a half ago the high! narrow / 'French heels were- tlte fashion in woman’s shoes, and'they are one of the best friends; a chirp*, podist can have. They are’regu lar and rapid breeders of corn!. No woman can wear a pair'of such shoes long without looking up a corn doctor. A • i.. ~ But the low flat heel, is] noty! tbs fashion. If the rest of the shoe ffits- the foot, the, heels are the nat ural enemy of corns and- the chiro podist has to suffer. It is generi ally believed that women are mote vain of their feet than men are' of theirs, but my experience. ; ba shown me that quite the contrary is the fact. Men will insist ifi making their foot look sniall, find any shoe that; will do that is the fashion for them. The narrow toed or “toothpick” style of men’s shoes, worn now 6& much as evef; will always insure the corn doctor a living, especially if the/shoes are patent leather. A patent leather shoe, for some reason j will ’ call a corn into being much quicker than an ordinary shoe. J... ;.^ ’ The fellows who don't have corn! are those who wear roomy-toed shoes. But they musn’t be too large. A shoe too large is as ba’d as one tco small, An oversized shoe makes corns bn the bottom of the feet, and they are the worst kind. The late war was the greatest corn-curer ever known. I -never- knew of a single ease bf aeoldier in that war_ who suffered from corns, and 1 was all through it; If a law should be passed tbafc.no shoe should be worn iff this'coun try but the pattern army shoe of the rebellion, the corn doctor's oc cupation would be gone.”; .- I | Before, the war the high-water mark in cotton ttei 5,300,000 bales. The crop of last year is.poG yet entirely out of .‘the 'hands bf the' planters, bufc those whose business attention is absorbed by the staple place it-at 7,400,000 bales, an in crease ; of 300,000 over the. year preceding. This season, with aver age weather, it will be 8,000,000 bales, worth nearly four hundred' million, dollars, or five times the value of all the gold and silver produced in the United States ill one-year. = Observes the New - York Com mercial Advertiser: ‘‘When Car dinal Gibbons,, the other day, in Baltimore,' ordained as priest' Charles Randolph Uncles, a col r ored man, a step was taken which Is likely to mark an ' epoch in the religious history of that, rabe, Uncles is 1 the first colored man' ever elevated to the Roman Cafch- olic priesthood in this coai : A clotrd-bursfc in other day dropped' eooc on a "region two mile form a lake of tea and ten feet deep. CONSUMPTION SEEELY CURED. 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