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PEREY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 189L
NO. 12.
HE NEW
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PERRY; GEORGIA.
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Fine Perfumes a Specialty.
Kerosene and Lubricating
Oils.,
RESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COM'
UNDED by one of the best druggists
in tbo state.
A. choice line of
Cigars and Tobacco
Always on.hand.
Open on Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m., aud
from 3:30 p. m. to 6 p. m.
A share of public patronage is respect
fully solicited.
E. A FELDEll, M. D.,
Proprietor
W ASTED.--Tfce consent of 10,000
smokers, to send each,.a sample lot of
150 “NICKEL” Cigars, and a 20-year
gold filled watch by Express- C. O. D,
§5.25 and allow examination.
HAVANA CIGAR CO., Winston, N. C.
The Boy Who Minds His Mother.
Boys, just .'isten for a moment ~
To a word I have to say;
Manhood's gates are just before you.
Drawing nearer every da\
Bear in.mind while yon are j»assing
O'er tie lntervenln2 span.
That the bey who minds Ins mother
Seldonx makes a tricked man.
There are many slips an«l failures
Tn this world, we'ro living in, i'~
Those who stait with prospects fairest
Oft are overcome by sin;
Bnt Pm certain that you'll notice,
If the facts you'll nlosely scan.
That ttte boy who minds his mothtr
Semom makes a wicked man.
Then be-glided by her counsel;
It will never lead, astray,
Best assured she has your welfare
In her thoughts by night and- day.
Don’t-forget that slie'has loved yon
Since the day your life began;
Mi, the boy who minds his mother
Seldom makes a «ickea man.
must be saved: Do go at once.”
He wasrin sncli a wrougkt-np
state Ibat there was no use in gr-
gueiug with him, and so 1 went
away, walking about the streets in
sheer bewilderment..
trackless, - precipitous mountain
side,, it was a vast improvement on
the'train'. I was in motion, myself,
now^-doing something, whether it.
would a^ait me anything or not. -
Soon the sun was high. Alto
The Tails of a New Party.
-, Savannah News.-, -
Tl/ere is a good deal of talk of a
Common Sense Talk.
Soui hem Cultivator and Dixie Farmer.
Why Business Men Foil.
1
lly blind ch.-mcs I went to the. Sgether too soon it had aceomplish-
•YIONEY LOANS C
On Houston fapns procured at the low
est possible rates of interest. As low, if
not lower than the lowest. Apply to
Vt. D. Nottingham,
tf Macon. Ga.
JUST W MCEK
new youk World.
MONEY TO LOAN.
In 6nms of §300.00 and upwards, to be
secured by first liens on improved farms.
Longtime, low rates and easy payments.
Apply to 0. C. DUNCAN,
Nov. 20tb, 1889.—tf Perry* Ga.
Attorney at Law,
Perry - - - Ga.
Will practice in ail the courts of this
circuit.
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Attorney a.t Law.
Ferry, - - - Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts 'of
L^cirrcuit.
sin 8* fern
A 11d x-no y- at Law,
Office: 510 MuuraiUiY Stbeet,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Special attention given to business in
Houston county.
.T. L. Hardeman, W. dJ Nottingham.
HARDEN AN & NOTTINGHAM,
Attorneys at Law,
Macon, . - - - Geoeoia.
Will practieo in tho State and Federal
Courts. Ofiico 306 Second Street.
J. B. EDGE,
Physician and Surgeon^
Perry, Georgia.
OlEee adjoining Perry Hotel. Can be
found at office during the day, and at
Hotel at night. All calls promptly an-
swerod day or night. *
Z. SIMS.
DSN T IS T,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
JaTOffice on Main street, lately occu
pied by Dr. W. M. Havis.
First-class work. Prices moderate. Pat
ronage solicited.- apl281y
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306 Second Street, Macon, Ga.
SPECIALIST. CROWNS AND BRIDGES.
„ ipeltnrel.ccnmadrat
work fur us, bv Amin lVce, Austin,
* * '• u, Toledo, Ohio.
incus well. Why
over If500. CO
, ami Jno. Ho
iotyou?
lontli. Yon mu do the wo'rfc and lire ’
‘ oine, wherever you are. Even be-
ters arc easily earning from $5 to
a day. All apes. Wc show yen how
H the'time. lUg money/or work-
Fallure unknown among them.
__ . mid wonderful. Particulars free.
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Oaiiy, Except Sunday. ,
Leave Perry at 4 A. ar.
Arrive at Fort Valley 5:05 a. m.
Leave Fort Valley at 11:35 p. m.
Arrive at-Perry. at 12:40A. ar.
Aeave Perry, at 3:05 p. ar.
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APPLICATIONfFOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA: /To the Superior Court
Houston County, j of Said County:
The petition of C. E. Gilbert, jf. D.
Martin, j. W. Clark, C. F. Cooper, J. N.
Tuttle, C. H. Moore, J. H. Hodges, E. L.
Dennard andC. C. Duncan, of said coun
ty .shows that your petitioners,their asso
ciates and successors, desire, to be incor
porated for the term of twenty (20) years,
with the privilege of renewal at the ex
piration of that time, under the corpor
ate name of Houston Building,Loan and
Ivestment Company, with power to have
and use a common seal, sue and be sued,
to buy, sell, own- and deal m real and
personal property, to improve rea 1 estate
by erecting dwellings, buildings of any
kind whatever, ' and putting any other
improvements thereon that will tend to
increase the value of the same, to loan
money on real estate, personal property
or other security to the members of the
company or other persons, to take and
execute deeds and mortgages and all oth
er liens, and to sell or otherwise dispose
of thy same, to borrow money on real es
tate or personal property or other secu
rity, for tho interest of the company,-and
to have such other powers as are usual
and proper to carry out the purposes and
intentions of said company.
The petitioners pray for the privilege
of making such By-laws and regulations
for the government of said company, and
to enforce the same by such fines, forfeit
ures and penalties which may bo neces
sary and proper and not in conflict with
the laws of Georgia.
Tho objects of said company aro the
convenience and the pecuniary profits of
its members, and the business they pro
pose to conduct is that of a building, loan
and investment association. The fund
for the purpose is to bo raised by month
ly installments to be paid by the stock
holders into the company.
'[.'ho principle i ffice and place of busi
ness shall bo in Perry, Houston 'county,
Georgia, where a majority of the general
board of directors shall reside, hut peti
tioners desire the privilege, of transacting
business elsewhere within the state, and
to appoint attorneys or agents to carry
on the business of said company when
ever necessary to do so.
The capital stock of .tbo company is to
bo two hundred shares of the par value
when paid up of twenty-five ($25) dollars
per share, and petitioners pray for tho
privilege of beginning business when ten
per cent of said two hundred shares shall
have been paid in, and petitioners pray
for the privilege of increasing' said capi-
tal stock from time to time as business
may demand and the beard of directors
may direct, to an amonnt not to exceed
two thousand shares of twenty-five dol
lars each. .
The stock of said company is to be paid
in monthly installments on each share,
and the amount of said monthly install
ment per share is to be fixed by the hoard
of directors, as may be best for the share
holders and the business of the company.
And vour petitioners will ever pray,
etc. O. C. DUNCAN,
Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in office this the 11th day of Feb
ruary, 1891. M. A. EDWARDS,
Clerk S. 0;
GEORGIA: ) The above is a true
Houston County. ) copy of the original
petition for charter for the Honston
Building, Loan and Investment Compa
ny, as appears on record in this office.
Witness my hand and seal this the
11th day of February, 3891
. M. A. EDWARDS,
Clerk Superior Court.
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Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
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For twenty years Hamilton
Duke was my client. In fact it
Was to him that I olted not only a
competent fortune, but my posi
tion in society.
But for thislshould never have
undertaken his defense in this last
case, my best feelings were so
against him—not that I- was an in
grate, bnt because I helived he had
murdered his wife:
Many things compelled my draw
ing such a conclusion.
He was well-bred, refined and
cultured, while she was of. com
mon stock, the personification of
iguoiance and low breeding. For
ten years he was all of chivalry
and tenderness to her that a lofty
nature could be, while she was al
ways morose, dissatisfied.
It was claimed by their-closest
friends that he loved'her the first
few years of their united life,
though A- neifer believed this—it’
was such a manifest impossibility.
Anyway he bated her cordially
when her life came to its tragic
close, and so he had for a consid
erable period prior to the event.
Being entirely In bis confidence,
he often came to my office, pallid
and trembling, to tell me of some
new vulgar violence of hers which
had driven him nearly to the last
extremity of desperation.
And so, one morning when Mrs.
Duke was fouud dead with an ug
ly stab wound'through her heart;,
her husband standing over her
with a reeking knife in his hand, I
naturally believed that he had kill
ed her ;
Later on, when I saw him, my
suspicions seemed- confirmed.
He was in a state of wild excite
ment when I entered the sheriff’s
office, in answer to his summons.
Until that moment no one had
succeeded in getting a word ontof
him about the murder.
What does it all. mean?” I
asked when we were alone.
. “I don’t know,” he gasped. “I
don’t know whether it was I who
killed her, or not; but I don’t.wank
to die! You mast defend me—you
must save me!”
U;Though I pittied him, I believed
him guilty; and, though I defend
ed him, I felt that be merited
death.
But my efforts were vain ones.
The evidence against him was -too
conclusive. _ -
An unusual noise in Mrs. Duke’s
room had attracted the butler’s at
tention the morntug of the mur
der. On entering he saw Mr. Duke
rising up, knife in band, from the
prostrate body of-his wife, as if lie
had just stabbed her. '
That, and the fact that the
Dukes had indulged in many- bit
ter quarrels of late, was-enough to
win a disastrous verdict from auy
jury.
Mr. Duke was found guilty and
sentenced to death. He was to be
hanged In forty-five days._
.eopening a case at that time
was’not the easy thing it is now,
and I fouud it impossible to get
him a new trial.
On and on these- grace . days
swept, seemingly with lightning
swiftness, until the time set for
the execution was but fifty hours
off.
I was desperate, Duke was fran
tic.
“Yon must go to the governor,'
he cried at length. “You must get
a pardon for me.”
“Impossible,” Ir answered;
j“There isn’t enough "tuna,
j “Yes there is. This is Wedues-
•■= | day-* morning, and - I am not to
i hang until Friday noon. The train
igoes in an hour. Ir you leave b
. i at once you can make the trip and
'gerijack in tiipe.” •
I “Bnt what is yonr pretext?
! Simply seeing the governor will do
J ne good..I”
j “You must think of a pretext on
J the way. ;
‘You are y
[ou’t stay here and t.-.Ik.
time, and my life
railway station, arriving just as the
train rolled in: Dejected ard- reck
less, scarcely knowing what I was
about I clambered od board, at the
last moment, and went whirling
away toward th(T governor’s, beut
on a mad, wild purpose,'which I
well knew could only prove entire
ly fruitless.
When the station next to my
destination was reached, .a woman
'came on board, who instantly
.pounced on me and.kissed me'
It was my niece.
“What under the-sun is the mat
ter with.you? ’.she demanded.
When I told her of poor Duke’s
predicament her face bocame very
grave, but the moment she discov
ered my business with the govern
or, it brightened:
“How very fortunate!”,, she ex
claimed, clapping her hands glee
fully. - -
“What?” I demanded, nearly
stupefied with amazement.
“Leave it all to me,” she said,
“and I will save your friend. No—
I am not .crazy. Listen: Last
night the governor proposed tome.
£)f course, Hove him dearly, but I
didn’t want to be too cheaply won,
and so I refused to give him an
answer. He dines with us to-night.
After dinner, when his stomach is
full and his heart easy to get at,
I’ll promise to marry him on’ the
condition that he pardons poor old
puke.”
.. Then and there, on a publie’train
though we were, I both hugged
a nd kissed her.
She was as good as her word,
and six hours later I was on board
another train, homeward bound,
and in my pocket was a reprieve
for Duke, the case against him be
ing so strong tbafc the governor
deemed a full pardon impolitic
then.
The reprieve granted him anoth
er three months though, and by
that time popular sentiment was
likely to cool down sufficiently to
make a pardon feasible.
On the way home, I was fairly
happy, and tried to picture to my
self Duke’s face when he Spew be
was safe.
This made me so comfortable
that I fell asleep.
Nothing disturbed my slumbers
until'the trainmen called out the
name of the junction where I had
to change cars for the .branch road
which.ran through my town.
And there, to my consternation,
I found myself unable to move.
Mentally I was awake. Physically
I was asleep. I wasfully conscious
of the stir and bustle 'made by
hose who-were getting oivaud off
the train; but I could not move a
mnscle.
With all my might I endeavored
to throw of the traueelike spell
which held me, bnt all to no pur
pose, the traiu moved on and took
me with it.
Gold perspiration oozed out
through every pore, and I think I
would have gone mad then and
there had not utter unconscious
ness mercifully come to my res
cue. •
It was more than an hour before
I regained possession of my senses.
By that time it was impossible
to get back to the junction in time
to catch the home-bound train on
the branch line. Springing np-the
moment I was conscious, 1 explain
ed things to the conductor, offer
ing him any price he chose to de
mand if he would run his train
back to the junction and take me
home.
1 Thiswas out of -the question.
He could only do such things on
the order of the general superin
tendent, and that personage coujd
not be reached, because a storm, r.
day before had: blown so many
wires down that all telegraphic
communication was cutoff.
All I could do, then, was to re
main on board the train seven
hours more, when by tramping
twelve or fifteen miles over a crag
gy,: roadless mountain I' could
piobably.get home by soon.
! Though the “probably” discour
aged me, I thanked tlie- conductor
for his advice, shut my teeth hard
on any misery and .tried to make
the best of it. That was the loo
e,t night of my. life. It seemed to
me that it would never end.
Day was just breaking when we
reached the station where I was-to
leave the traiu'and begin my foot
journey over the mountains.
-Hard as was the ascent of that
ed half its jonruey from horizon to
zenith. '
It was then that I reached the
mountain top with a good seven
miLes of rough walking still before
me. ■ ..
.Duke was to be hanged atenoon
nnlesa I was on time.
At 10 o’clock I was but two :
miles away/from him; and'with all
the horror of my journey presume
ably behind me, I smiled self-
gratuiatiyely-nt the thought of hoiv
easy the rest would be,’and of how
I would disappoint those who were
even-then gathering’ to see my,oli-
ent liauged. ~ , _
A vine caught.my foot and threw
me. Falling, I sprained my ankle,
and the pain was so intense that I
had-to exert every atom of my will
to ke'ep me from going into a dead
faint -
Breaking a forke.d stick from a
sapling, presently, I extemporized
it into a crutch, and hobbled on as
best I could
At the eud of' an hour [ had
made bnt half a mile, and was so,],
exhausted that I knew another fif
teen minutes would bring my lo
comotive powers to a full stop.
Pour old Duke must die, after
all. There was no help fur it, and
with an outcry of utter despair, I
settled on the ground in a heap.
The mental anguish I suffered
in the half honr which followed
was enongh to unseat a man’s rea
son.
—Watch in hand I counted the
fleeing seconds.
In twenty-five minutes more my
client wonld hang for want of the
reprieve in my pocket.
And, then, joyful sound, I heard
approaching feet! '
A moment later, a negro appear
ed. Ho. was old, dirty and stupid
—enlirely-unatte to understand
me until I mentioned money.
Wheu I said: “I will give you
one hundred dollars if you get
this paper in the hands of the
sheriff before 12 o’clok,’ ’with a
yell like a fisnd he snatchejl tbe
reprieve out of -my hand and
darted away.
Again I sought my watch.
My messenger-bad twenty-two
miuntes in which to cover a mile
and a half, a portion of his route
being through thick underbrush.
It was doubtfuLif he could maks-it.
The hour which passed before
he returned with* help seemed a
hundred years to me,
“I done got dar,” he gasped
nearly out of breath, “an’ de gem-
men am all safe.”
Probably it was unmanly, but I
wept for'joy.
They tried to make a hero of me
for that exploit, but I am too com
monplace and stolid for tbat. "I
had simply doua my duty. Iliad
saved my client. That was all.
However I was rewarded more
gloriously yet.
Before Duke’s -reprieve expired,
his butler was taken seriously ill.
Just before he died, - he made a
startling confession.
It was he who killed Mrs. Duke.
She caught him in the act of steal
ing her jewelry and he killed her
to escape punishment. Keturning
a moment later, to make sure his
victim was dead, he saw Duke be-
sidd the dead woman with the
bloody knife, and so made capital
out of this circumstance, swearing
away his employer’s life to save
his own.
newjiolitical party. It is worthy, alIy>ost ; nf ns ar6 - in debt> and
P l notlcf> ' bovver, thatit is almost bav9 . nnaf?ht to pay , we bav6 toiled
entirely confined to leaders of the j an ,j i abo red hard to gat-out of ,debt,
alliance in western states. Senator but we grow worse every year,-and
Feffer, of Kansas,' Representative
Simpson of the same state, and
Sehafor Kyle, of South Dakota, all
of- whom' have been making
speeches since the adjournment nr
congress,Jiave a great deal to say
about the necessity for a new par
ty. The leaders ; in the new party
movement were republicans. "There,
are few, if any, who were demo
crats among them. As a rule, al- :
liancemen are satisfied with the
democratic party. -
It wonid be foliy for the alliance
to organize/a new party without
positive assurance that the alli
ancemen of tbe south would sup
port it, because the alliance is
stronger in the south than in any
other section of the country. Bnt
there are no visible signs that a
new party wonld be popular with
southern aliiancemen. On the
contrary, there is every reason to
think that the alliance in the south
is going to stand by the democrat
ic party.
There are a few southern aUk
aiicemen, perhaps, who would sup
port a new party because the dern-
ocratic party will not adopt the
sub-treasury plank of the alliance
platform. These tew still think
that the sub-treasury plan promises
great assistance to the farmers.
And doubtless they are very sin
cere. The great majority of the
alliancemeD, however, who have
given that plan careful study, are
satisfied that it would injure the
farmers rather than help them.
Every few days n prominent alK-
anceman in some part of the south
openly takes a position against it.
On Tuesday Hon. J. H.-Bee-
man, the chairman of the executive
committee of the farmers’ alliance
of Mississippi, and member of con
gress from that state, ' in an inter
view stated that he was opposed to'
the sub-treasnry plan, and he dem
onstrated quite satisfactorily, that
the plan would have a bad effect
upon the farmers if it shonl-1 be
enacted into a law. He declared
thatit wonld enable the specula
tors in cotton to corner the cotton
market anil fix the price’ of cotton
to suit themselves. He saidjbat
the majority of the aliiancemen of
Mississippi were opposed to the
plaD, and that all of them Would
be when they eomprefiended its
defects fully.
Mr. Beeman is, of course,a dem
ocrat, and he believes that tbe
democratic party -will give the
..... Atlanta Constitution.
We have all got behind gnanci- ; According to the statistics col-
lested by Bradstreetfs, ihe failures
last year amounted to 115 in every
10,000 persons engaged in business
in the United States. Those fnil-
ures are tbas classified as to ?!;t-i r
causes:
people all needed reforms when it -erythingxis family' needed to
gets control of the legislative and
executive branches of the govern
ment- And the belie f which he
holds is the belief of ninety-nine
out of every hundred aliiancemen
in the south. Their confidence in
the democratic party is not weak
ened in the least. And’ there is
not, therefore, any probability that
a new party at this tuns could get
a respectable following in any
southern state. The Peffers and
Simpsons of the west may start a
new party if they want to,-but they
need not look to the, south for
help. If they do they will be dis
appointed. Those in this section
of the country who would join
them are without influence, and
would unite with a new party with
the hope of getting offices There
is no otecasion in the sonth to wor
ry about a new party.
Judge Peffer, the new Kansas
senator,'thinks all young persons
should Delaught substantial hand
icrafts. He has eight; children, of
wlrom three of them are daughters.
The boys have all learned the
printers’ trade, and the eldest
daughter has been taught to set
type. One son -is a locomative en
gineer. One daughter does amen-
nensis work and reporting, but al T
so sets type.—The second daugh
ter has been trained to keep ac
counts, and the youngest daughter
is stenographer ia .the Kansas
Farmer office, of which paper the
f-ither'is editor.
Seaweed is now ntiiizsd- in' the
-manufacture of a tough paper
which can be utilized in place of
window glass. Yery pretty and
effective decorative effects can be
gained by coloring-the paper and.
using it in thd same way as stained
or painted glass.
aJP- rOH THE
fes****^ TTcakness, ilaiaxiu, Imilgesiioa ailg
Biliousness, take
It cures tiniei-.'. For .‘•-tj.- all >:i
msuicine.* Ccvte
According to the Navy Register
there are in the service . of the na
vy 6 rear admirals, JO commo
dores, 45 captains; 85 commanders,
74 lieutenant commanders, 250
lieutenants; .75 junior lieutenants,
~I74 ensigns, 15 medical directors,
50 snrgeons, 51 assistant surgeons,
13-'pay directors, 13 pay inspect
ors, 48 paymasters, 22 passed as
sistant paymasters, 11 assistant
paymasters, 70 chief engineers, 67
passed assistant engineers, 61 as
sistant engineers, 23 chaplains, 12
professors of mathematics, 7. naval
constructors; and 10 civil engiu-
ears.
The Queen of Roumanin has
written a.melodrama which should
have beprrprodaced at'the Bnrg
theater at Vienna, bnt it turned
oat to be so wildly and weirdly
absnrd in plot and so bombastic in
language that the manager irisist-
edtliat if-it was produced there
would hot only be a riot in the gu-
Idience, bar a strike among ; the
employes, and so it was withdrawn.
the qustion with us is, what shall
-we do? the cry has been, , plant
more cotton, it is the only money
crop. -
The exercise of--a little common
sense will convince us that relying
on cotton is whatehas brought us
to where jwe are. When we .look
back through the past we .find
when there was less cotton raised,
and the crops of the country con
sisted largely of corn, wheat, oats,
rye and barley,. every rural home-
had its "corn cribs—barns in which
their small was stored, there were
plenty of hogs, cattle,~horses and
mules, .nobody was burdened with
debt, the farmers had money, and
often loaned ^to the merchants at
a less per cent, than you can buy
goods at for c<jsh now.
But the cry comes up, there is
no profit in grain.
Mr. I. J. Stonecypher, in the
Tocoa, Ga., News, says:—Let me
ask tbe question. What is the
prime cause of all .the oppression
of indebtedness? Does it not orig
inate for a lack of sufficient supply
of the prime necessaries of iife be
ing raised at home? .The want of
provisions'is the great drawback
with the most of us, the cost of
clothing is a very small item, com
pared with that of corn, meat and
flour bought. But the question to
be settled is, ho.v are we to recover
from the dilemma in which we
have fallen? We talk about more
money and cheaper money through
legislation:give us money uutil it
is as plentiful as the stars in ihe
heavens, and we will not be a whit
better off as long as we depend on.
buying • everything we eat, and
were money is as plentiful as we
have stated, ana did cotton cover
the land in Franklin couuty to a
depth of 50 feet, this will not rem
edy the evil as long a6 we keep onr
corn-cribs and meat houses at such
a distance from home. It is true
there is a margin in cotton, bnt the
producer does not get it; it goes to
the men who stand between the
cotton producer and the grain and
meat producer.
Now, the only remedy we can
conceive of is, to raise everything
we consume in the line of provi
sions at home, ar.d never be afraid
of raising too much grain, meat
and vegetables, for it will be in de
mand by somebody/
Judge Cox, of Glover Hill, Va.,
very truthfully said,—when every
farmer failed to raise at home ev-
raso- No.
Incompetence. 2,005
lack of experience Gil
lack of capital .4,f 52
Unwise granting of credits 502
ires of.others ‘.57
Personal'extravagance 242
Neglect of business 300
Competition.V, Y.. 240'
Disister..?. ..1,353
Speculation.................... got
1 ^ 310
Total...
same, he was on the sure road to
gripf.
After planting a bountiful crop
of all we need, and the pantry and
larder are sufficiently suppled, if
we have any spare time, devote
that to the preparation and culti
vation of a few acres of cotton to
come in as a surplus prop, .and my
word for it, we will come' out of
debt, live free from the so-called
money lords, and the people of the
rural districts will be happy and
prosperous; oar homes will he
more attractive to onr bpys, and
they will be less disposed to seek
attractions and employment
abroad. ...
Tbe death of General Terry at
tbe age of sixty-th ree'brought out
the fact, states the Chicago Herald,
that uearljrall ot the great Federal
Generals of the war have died
when between the ages of .fifty-
four and sixty-three. Among them
are mentioned Grant, Sheridan,
Thomas, Logan, Halleek, McCIel-
Curtis, Blair and several others of
lesser note.
“If you foand five dollars, would
you try .to find the owner?” Pat—
“Faix, no, lam no hog. I’d be
satisfied finding the-five.”
If you wish your wife to throw
tbe cloak of charity over yonr sins,
be sure to provide her- witii an ex
pensive one.
>-<?-<
A Safe IiivesEmeuI.
Is one -which is guaranteed to
bring yon satisfactory Tesults, -or
in case of failure a Tetnm pur
chase price. On this safe plan you
can buy from ‘oar advertised Drug
gist a bottle of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption. Tt is
guaranteed to bring relief in evsry
case, when nsed for any affection
of Throat, Lungs or Chest, sncii as
Consumption, Inflammation of
Lungs, Brochitis, Asthama,
Whooping Cough, Croup, etc,, can
always be expended upon.
11,673 $175,032,834
It will be seen that lack of capi
tal accounts for about 40 per ei-nt .
of the failures, and most >>f the
others .ire caused by imprudence
or ignorance of business. A« a
rale, when a man faiis in business,
he has been trying to do too mneb,
trusting too much, or spending too
mnch, or all three.
Many merchants are anxious to
carry heavy stocks to impress lken-
competitors with the idea that they
are very prosperous, and the same
ambition leads-them to spend more
than they can afford to maintain a
prominent place in society. So
they overstock themselves and ran
into extravagance.
A happy contrast will be found
in tbe lives of our farmers, after
making due allowance for their
burdens and difficulties. It is true
that some farmers buy too much
and spend too much. Some start
with too litile capital, and others
never learn how to run a f.-.vm.
Many of them attempt to Jo too
mnch. All this may be admitted,
aud still the fact stands out that
farming is a much safer and more
independent oecupation than .that
of a merchant. Farmers rarely
rail. . Even jvhen they are unfor
tunate, they straggle along, pay a >.
higher interest than anybody else,
and yet manage to live. They do
not go with they families to starve
m tenement houses, as mauy bro
ken down merchants do in our
large cities. They are not likely
to accumulate big fortunes, bnt oe
the other hand they escape the
worry aDd nervous excitement of
the merchants whose business is
subject to numerous risks, to say
nothing of competition anu disas-
tronse panics. ,
Our course, these reflections will
not prevent farmers from selling
out and moving to town to engage '
in trade. They will go tlieir own
way. Bat the statistics here pre
sented coDperning the causes of
business failures will suggest some
thing r.that may be profitable to
them.
Poisons in Cosmetics.
I seems to be tbe fasbion-for
young ladies with pimples and
blotches on their faces to qiake ex
periments with various cosmetics.
Madam Piffypaffy advertises her
foreign-named compound, com
posed of a combination of poison/
ons mineral substances that dead
en and burden the delicate sub
stances of tbe skin. The tonic,
strengthening and .health-giving
effects of Swift’s Specific (S.S. S.)
permit nature to work her trill in
this respect, as thousands of la-*
dies, both yonng and old, have dis
covered., The cheapest and most
beantifnl complexions depend on
health and vigor. It is the office
of Swift’s Specific (Si S. S.) to
give vigor and tone and health to
the system, and In this way tq give
lustre to the eye and roses to the
cheeks. . -
The eagerness displayed by the
HjHHHIi public at Paris, France, to snb-
lan, Hooker, Meade, Burnside, - cr ^ 9 to new treasury loan af-
fords a striking demonstration,
thinks the New York Tribune, of
the popular confidence in the pres
ent Frehch government. Rich and
poor appear to have straggled with
one another for the privilege of
lending their money tq the admin
istration, vast crowds having even
gone so far as to pass the entire
night out in the snow -before the *
doors of the Ministry of Finance,
so as to be on hand in good time —
to subscribe. The eagerness thus
shown by the people of every class
to intrust their savings to the gov
ernment furnishes the strongest
evidencjLof the public conviction '
of its stability, honesty and
strength.
From the source of the Missouri
to the mouth of the Mississippi the
distance is 4,194'miles. The lower
Mississippi from the mouth of the
Missouri to theGulf"
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