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mmm. gP&H HB . JOHN H. HODGES, Proprifctor. DEVOTHD TO HOi • .. ■ --. -1.' : . , PROGRESS AND CULTURE. Dll XXI. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GKOKGJA-, THURSDAY, NOYEMBER 26, I89L. ■ ■■ • NO. 48. THE NEEL SHOE CO DIRECTORS: Jos. N. NEEL, of Eads, Neel & Co., John W. EE1D,’ Jno. C. EADS, “ “ “ “ "Wai/tee E. HOUSER. The most poptdar Shoo Store in Macon. Why? Because we have the Stock, the prettiest store, the most goods, the Lowest Prices. DON’T FAIL TO SEE US ON SHOES. “@8 wm mat mm v%fl 557 CHERRY STREET, Kmw$ S M, ~lmp your cottoYto ” W. B. & o; G. MACON, GEORGIA. On through bills of lading to Savannah, Ga., care of Union Compress, Macon Ga„ we can save to shippers from all points on the Georgia Southern and Flo Railroad and Macon and Birmingham Railroad, irom P • cant of freight rates. The only Firm in Macon that offers a Eebate from these Points. Freight agents in the territory named will give rates and shipping directions. Furniture, Best and Cllaeapest, FOR CASH OR OH INSTALLMENT. Parlor Suits, Climber Suits, Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables Safes, Mattresses, Bureaus, etc. of all descriptions. Complete Undertaking Department. GBORG-B PAUL, PERRY, GEORGIA, Faxe~Grocertesl I desire to call attention to the fact that I have in store, next to the A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF FANCY AMO FAMILY GROCERIES, Fruits and Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. My Stoek-te IHESH^uf PURE, and prices very LOW. Patronage solicited. f---—«r;rs,sasasgs:" "^Wtturs IRON wobksT . Stlifc ® ® Everything sold at spot Cash Prices. No Discounts to Middle Men ggy- Ask tor; what yon want. The price will be low; the work strictly first-class. __ E. CROCKETT, Proprietor. CASTORIA for Infants and Children; I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.” H. A An^ra, M. Dj. Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. x. “The use of 'ofea of iSSS^gationtoeudSFei^ Few amthe inteSlgeirt fi&es who <*.o cct beep Castona Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, di- Wttfotrtinjurious medication. “ For several years I have recom 5™??? - • * ’ and shall always continue to do so cs it has i results.” Edwin F. Pardes, SL “The Winthrop,’ 1 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. Company, 77 Murray Street, New Yobs. EADS, NEEL & CO THE OKX.X- 2IACO 3J3", Still in the Lead! NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKS. He was looking at a typo Piling letters in his stick, And each one seemed to fall in line So gracefully and slick. “That’s easy work,” he muttered, “I e’en could do it well, If I only had a chance, And could the boxes tell.” The typo bade him try his hand; O’erjoyed the stick he took— He set one line—it’s standing yet— ij, BeaRj jhissoRtoElooK. Bitter But Wholesome. BY HABTHA FaIEBAXKS BLASCHAED. Mrs. Hals had left the outside door slightly ajar. From behind the folds of the library portiere came the sounds of a conversation Katherine could hardly have avoid ed hearing. “I don’t see how, with his fastid iousness, he can endure boarding there,” said Mildred. “What I fail to understand is, how with her intellect, she can forego neatness to the degree she does,” added May. “Katherine is a good cook,” Mildred continued. “At least the results of her efforts in the culiua- ry line taste well. One who knows Katherine, however, feels a trifle uncertain concerning the possible stage an article may have passed through before reaching the table an entity.” Another voice—with a pained sensation Katherine recognized it as that of Helen Armour, the Hale girl s guest—interposed. “Now do you know, girls, I don’t believe I’ve given a thought to lit.r looks since our first meeting. Don’t you think her very enter taining? It seems to me she re members everything she has ever read. How at home she was among those foreign photographs 1 brought you! There doesn’t ap pear to be a topic of the day she isn’t familiar with. Don’t you re member how delightfully willing she was to sit down and play us that Schubert air we were discuss ing? I thought her just charming.” So she is, that way,” exclaimed Mildred. “Most of the time even I forget the rest. Perhaps that ac counts for Dr. Neale’s long stay. Her merits dim her faults.” “But didn’t she look extremely untidy coming up the walk just now? I couldn’t help speaking plainly. I hope you won’t think us too critical of our friend, Helen. Her heart is all right.” “That’s so,” said May Hale, “Katherine is true blue. We are very foud of her, indeed, Helen. ’ Katherine Orr stood waiting quietly ou the side steps, when Mrs. Hale brought her the recipe she had run over to borrow. She took the paper absently, and hur ried through the gate in the fence dividing the two homesteads. “So, that’s what they think of me,” she pondered, mechanically taking off the shabby bat she wore, and idly whirling it in her hand, as she swayed back and forth in the old kitchen rocker. Katherine Orr was a clear head ed young woman, and always weighed things. As her friends declared, it was strange that, being so well balanced, she seemed una ble to discern her greatest defect. But now she had begun to think “Is this true?” she deprecating- ly questioned. As she glanced with critical eye about the sunny kitch en she beheld affirmative evidence of her friends’ words. The hard pine floor needed a thorough oiling, the windows show ing decided lack of care, the rusty iron sink and the copper pump mottled with green, assumed new aspects in Katherine’s quickened sight. She sighed as she turned • from the room to herself. The indigo blue wrapper spotted with dust and water, the dingy, hands, the long, irregular line of black show ing on her arm as the loose sleeve was pushed up, were all silent, but eloquent messengers to Katherine’ thought. There was no doubt that she had a fault that needed eradica ting. But a general ovf-rturn meant endless talk and wonder • among those very friends who most eager ly desired such a change. The un tidy habits had grown upon her slowly. In the same almost im percepTble manner they must be put away. She could understand now why it was that the one boarder she wished to. keep to eke out her own and her invalid mother’s small income was always in a state of go green lawn, its wide veranda, its: large, sunny room3, seemed a de lightful abode, scanned superfici ally; but there was an atmosphere about it that proved unhealthful to every new comer. Katherine felt the oppressiveness of it to-day. As boy and girl, Katherine Orr and Donald Neale had fought against each other for first rank at school. Whichever won, the other took the defeat good naturedly. It was a great disappointment to them both when Donald joined the freshman class at Harvard, that the death of Katherine’s father left her without sufficient means to enter the Annex. Katherine bore the deprivation bravely, determined that if not by one .way then by auothersbe would match Donald’s attainments. Well, she had succeeded in part, but had it not been at a cost? She had neglected her house work and disregarded her appear ance, to study, think, and write. She was what the world calls a cultured woman. Was she, in truth, a refined one? Katherine had cour age, to answer that qnastiou aright. She saw “the little rift within the lute.” It is not necessary to enter into a minute account of Katherine Orr’s reform. In the dark, unseen corners of her home she begun. Day after cay, week after week, she worked. For one pair of hands it was a long, laborious process to renovate the old house. Soap, sand, .water, and a willing disposi tion can work wonders, however. Attention to details at the start saved many a tired feeling later. . Plenty of baths and fresh air could not fail to produce then- beautifying bodily effects. A ready needle fud a washtub are valuable ctors iu keeping one’s working appai el iu presentable condition. It was a long time—years—be fore she could say confidently there, had been a complete change, or feel assured there were no reason able grounds of criticism in her regime. Three years later Helen Armour was again at her friends, the Hales. “Oh Mildred! who is that splen did looking woman coming Up the walk?” she eagerly asked, the moruing after her arrival. “That? That’s Katherine Orr— Katherine Neale, I mean. You remember her, don’t you? “Katherine Orr! Why, yes, remember her well; but hasn’t she changed greatly?” Helen doubt- ully replied: “Changed? Perhaps; I haven’t thought about it. We see her daily, you know. Possibly t you notice more.” She certainly has changed, and for the better,” Helen emphatical ly responded. “And so she really married that nice Dr. Neale?” “Of course,” exclaimed May half iudignantly. “We always knew she would.” “Did you? Why, I thought—” but on consideration Helen kept her thought to herself. Who wants an invitation to ‘a feast of reason and a flow of soul?’ In other words, who wishes to take tea with the Neales to-morrow night?” Katherine gaily querried, as she came into the library. Helen came forward to shake hands cordially. “From my re membrance of other feasts of rea son, I, for one will strain every nerve to be there,” she 'merrily said. lea? Tea at Katherine’s? That means Nectar! Ambrosia! Olym pus!” May melodramatically in terrupted. “We’ll wash the dish es, Katherine,” she- added in a stage whisper. “I’d like to see your vandal hands laid on Katherine Neale’s dishes, May Hale. You know you’d never do them to suit her. She’s very particular, that Katherine Neale,” Mildred explained to Helen. Katherine’s eyes shone. “You made me so, girls,” she said. “We? Now what do you mean Katherine?” Katherine told them .of the con versation she heard so long ago. It was hard discipline, girls j but it did me good. The medicine was bitter but wholesome. Helen leaned forward and touch ed Katherine’s hand, caressingly. “We rise by the things that are under our feet,” she gently quoted. “But, oh, Katherine,” cried Mildred; “it was cruel of us. We would not say such a thing now.' “You could not, truly,” was the quiet response. And. Katherine Was, as she felt, THE COTTON OUTLOOK. Atlanta Constitution. ' Avoided Unpleasant Argument. i The World's Temperance Congress. Chilli Cry for P itcher ’ s Castoria - ie Qrr homestead, with its Under the new conditions of fi nance, commerce and industry, the successful farmer finds it necessa ry to adopt business methods and conduct his affairs according to business principles. Last year onr farmers held back their enormous cotton crop, but prices steadily declined. This year thev have gone to the other ex treme, and the rapid marketing of their staple has forced prices.down below the cost of production. There is a time when it is to the producer’s interest to hold his cot ton, and close observers c£ the sit uation are satisfied that now is the time to resort to that policy. Too many of onr farmers • and merchants are misled by the pre dictions as to cotton telegraphed from New York. These reports appear in the news columns of the press, and it is taken for granted that they are reliable. The fact is, they are frequently the work of speculators who send them out to aid their speculative schemes. Just at present the speculators are trying to make it appear that this year’s crop is exceptionally large, but it is the opinion of southern experts that the crop is very far short of last year’s' output. Un fortunately, however, the rapid marketing of the crop has played into the hands of the speculators, and has caused their estimates to be generally accepted. The only thing that will help producers now is to hold cotton back. If it must be sold in order to pay off indebt edness, it is all right, and this we advise every farmer to do, but ev eryone who is independent enough to afford it, should hold his cotton until the era of low prices is over. It has been suggested that if the southern farmers would buy 10,- 000,000 bales for future delivery, and plant no cotton next year, they would be masters of the situation. Cotton would rise to war-time prices, and the south would make hundreds of millions clear profit— more than production would yield in fifteen or twenty years. We have never favored speculation in futures, but _ it is plain that this suggestion, somewhat modified, is full of tempting possibilities. Sup pose our farmers, through the alli ance, should purchase 5,000‘000 bales for delivery next summer, and plant only enough seed to make a crop of 4,000,000 or 5,000,- 000 bales? As soon as the facts were known the bears would be stampeded and cottou would ad vance to prices that would yield producers a handsome profit. The southern planters have reached a point where self-preser vation is the supreme question. They cannot go on selling cotton at 1 or 2 cents below the cost of pro duction. Their lack of prosperity effects everj industry, every line of business and every class in the south. With united action it is possible to materially improve the situation It is not practicable to plant no cotton, but it is practicable to re duce production to the extent of 25 per cent.,and if this is done next year the south will realize a splen did price for her great staple and the <vhole southern country would prosper as it has not for years. It is. time for our farmers to take a strictly business view of the cot ton industry . Let them begin their work of self-protection by holding back their cotton, provided always, that their debts are paid. Then let them get together in their alli ance meetings and plan their line of action next year. In the mean time, they will do well to warn their neighbors against cotton predictions sent out from New York in the interests of the specu lators who control the market. A great religious revival is sweeping over Northern - New Brunswick. It is said to be une qualed in the history of the prov inces. - Pronounced Hopeless, YetSaved. From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E. Heard, of Groton, S. D., we quote: “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my Lungs, cough set in and finally terminated Consumption. Four doctors gave me np, saying I could live but a short time. I- gave myself up to my Saviour, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent “It’s been pretty .warm this week, hasn’t it?” remarked the thin man with the prescription, leaning up against the counter in Wilfert s drug store last night, according to the Cincinnati Commercial Ga zette. “Warm?” spat the fellow with the cigar; “why, I thought it was cool! You don’t have any hot weather around here anyway.” “We don’t?” asked the druggist, interrogatively, doubting. “Nup. Yon ought to try a hot spell in Prattville, Ari. Have to tie a wet sponge over your month when you go out in the middle of the day, to keep the hot air from cracking the enamel on your teeth and blistering your tongue. It gets hot down there, I tell yon.” “Bat. land alive, man, if you had ever been in Texas with the United States survey you wouldn’t speak of a little thing like that,” quietly whispered the pale customer from John street. “The summer I was there on duty there were three ice houses burned down.” “Catch from the heat of the sun?” asked the druggist. - “Well, not exactly, for you see the flames broke out at the bottom. It- weis a clear case; the ice had caught fire from spontaneous com bustion.” A deep silence rested over the group for a few moments, while all the champions collected their nerves. Then the commuter from Sedamsville, who had just stopped in on his way down to the train, remarked casually: “I have seen a little hot weather myself in my time, but the hottest I ever saw was in Mexico. We had three Louisiana darkies with ns, and they could stand a good deal of hot weather. On one of the hottest days it became neces sary to have some outdoor work done, and these fellows, of course, were sent out to do it. Before they started the chief of the workmen warned them not to drink any cold water before going out, as it was dangerous. They hadn’t been out side twenty minutes before we heard two or three loud toots as of a railroad whistle, and the whole party hopped up to see the train pass. But the chief looked up with horrified face, and crying, ‘I knew it!’ hurriedly picked up a basket and a shovel and broke for the door.” ‘Why, what was the matter?” asked the crowd, as the narrator paused to light his cigar, noncha lantly. Oh, those darkies had sneaked around to the back porch and dis obeyed orders by taking a drink, so the minute they got in the sun the intense heat began generating steam just as in an engine boiler. About the time there was a pres sure of thirty or forty pounds on the poor deyils opened their mouths and the escaping steam whistled, just like a railroad en gine,out of their mouths and noses. By the time we got to them they had burst!” “What was the basket and shov el for?” “Tj gather up the scattered re mains,” was the solemn reply, as the Sedamsville man walked out. “I don’t like to make trouble,' apologetically said the John street man, “but if that fellow had stay ed here I’d have had to call him a liar.” What is more disgusting to a re fined person than to see a dirty, tartar-covered set of teeth, and there is no excuse for having tbe teeth in this condition when you can get a bottle of Sexafroo for 75 cents, which in a short space of time will change them to a pearly white. It takes the lead of all Tooth Washes, and i3 beneficial to the teeth) and not injurious, as are many of the cheap tooth washes now on the market. Sold am 1 war ranted by L A Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga. A Dakota paper tells the latest corn story. It says a farmer raised 1,000 bushels of popcorn and stored it in a barn. The barn caught oh fife, the corn began to pop, and filled a ten-acre field. An old mare in a neighboring pasture had defective eyesight, saw the corn, thought-it was snow, and lay down and froze to death- The Glasgow (Scotland)Reform- er referring to the action of the National Temperance Society in calling a World’s Temperance Con gress, to be held in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition, says: “The American Temparance Un ion has done a notable thing. It has called a World’s Congress of temperance men for 1893, and it has asked, and will]; doubtless re ceive, a hearty and extensive re sponse to its invitation. There have been Congresses more or less world-wide in their character, at intervals in the history of the tem perance movement, and they have proved of immense benefit to the cause in many ways. We cannot help thinking, however, that the one now projected by our Ameri- brethren will, on various ac counts, prove of deeper interest, and more beneficial in its results, than any of its predecessors. It may seem a long way ahead to 1893, but it indicates a determina tion to secure the fullest possible representation of every nationality and every organization on the en tire globe. Many who have to consider the question of traveling thousands of miles, and being ab sent from home for possibly two or three months at a stretch, re quire to lay theii plans and. make their arrangements far in advance, and will not consider the date as unnecessarily distant. There will be much to discuss bearing on all the aspects of the question, and by the best intellect that the move ment has enlisted. Without doubt the influence of such a gathering will be fruitful in results to the whole world. We venture to ex press an earnest hope that Scot land will be well represented on the occasion. It has always borne worthy part in the great temper ance enterprise, and it will not, we are sure, be behind on this great occasion.” At a meeting of the Executive Committee of Friend’s Union for Philanthropic Labor, held at Sea Girt, N. J., the following was unan imously adopted: “L Friend’s Union for Philan thropic Labor, representing New York, Baltimore, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, Yearly Meetings, heartily approves the holding of a World’s Temperance Congress in Chicago at the time of the Colum bian Exposition as arranged by the National Temperance Society, connection with the World’s Congress Auxiliary, and will ap point delegates thereto. “II. We observe with much re gret and apprehension the stall widely prevalent use of intoxicants, the increased and increasing pro duction of distilled and fermented liquors, the many and ominous combinations of distillers, brewers and saloon-keepers in national, state and local organizations, and we would urge united and vigorous effort on the part of all friends of temperance to discourage injurious social drinking usages, and for the entire suppression of the manufac ture and sale of all alcoholic liq uors for beverage purposea” An honest Swede tells his story in plain but unmistakable language for the benefit of the public. “One of my children took a severe cold and got the croup. I gave her a tea- spoonfal of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, and five minutes later I gave her one more. By this time she had to cough up the gathering in her throat Then she went to sleep and slept fifteen minutes.— Then she got up and vomited,went back to bed and slept good for the balance of the night She got the croup the second night and I gave her the same remedy with the same good results. I write this because I thought there might be some one in the same need and not know the true merits of tbiB wonderful med icine.” Charles A. Thompseen Des Moines, Iowa. 50 cent bottles for sEile by Holtzclaw & Gilbert Many old soldiers, who contracted chronic diarrhoea while in the ser- ones above. My husband was ad- yj c6j have since been permanently VnQPfl' tn Uftfl I )l\ Kmi? 8 NfiW - T)lS- C it Lit in situation.—[Exchange. vised to get Dr. King’s New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. 1 gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles; it has cured me, and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman.” Trial oottles free at Holtzclaw & Gil- mistress of the j berfis Drugstore, regular size, -50c. andSLOO. cured of it by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy*— for sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert, Perry, Ga. There are only twenty hearses in Buffalo. One day recently every one of them was in use, and at the same hour. Antoinette Sterling, the famous singer, once attended a Quaker meeting in England, and. after prolonged silence on the part of everybody, she - rose and sang, “Rest in the Lord.” At the close of the service one of tbe elders ap proached her and said: “Thee knowest, sister, that it is against the rules, but if the Lord telleth thee to sing thee must.” How fearful those blotches look on your face! Are you aware that one bottle of Begg’s Blood Purifier and Blood Maker will not only re move them, but cleanse your blood so that they will not appear again? Sold and warranted by L. A. Fel der, Druggist, Perry, Ga. MISS LIBERTY STILL LIVES. Chicago Herald. Philadelphians familiar with the story or “Miss Liberty,” as they term the young lady whose profile was taken as the model for the jss upon the silver dollar, read with surprise recently that the picture “represents the feat ures of a once living, breathing! beautiful American woman,” says Philadelphia paper. That “Miss Liberty” is beauti ful, no one would question, but the imputation that she was no longer in the flesh all her friends were ready to deny. The young lady is Miss Anna W. Williams, teather of kinder garten philosophy in the Girls’ Normal School, Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets. At the time Miss Williams’ classic feat ures attracted the attention of the mint engraver she was principal of the girls’ school at the House of Refuge. Her profile was then considered to be the most perfect of any wo man’s in Philadelphia. It was with great difficulty, however, that she was prevailed upon to give sittings to the artist, and only upon the condition that her identity should never be revealed would Miss Wil liams consent to have her likeness indellibly stamped upon the hearts of the people—for it is said the dollar is nearest the average Amer ican heart. But it was impossible to keep the secret long, and soon after the dollars were put in circu lation the young woman’s identity also became known. The story that the engraver had put too much of his own soul into the work that he fairly worshipped his ideal, and that the romance ended as it always*does when two hearts beat as one, was the produc tion of a romantic imagination. Miss Williams continued to teach at the House of Refuge until a few years ago, when she obtained the position at the girls’ normal school which she now so Eicceptably fills. NO HABITATION. There can be no habitation in the blood or body for poisonous microbes when Swift’s Specific en ters the system. It changes the character of the blood so that the germs must either perish or get out, and of course they leave. S. S. S. also forces out the poison which the microbes have left behind. If there is a sore.br ulcer the poison eomes out through that, otherwise through the skin. “Having suffered much from contagious blood poisoD,after using half a dozen bottles of Swift’s Spe cific, I was restored to perfect health, and all eruptive sores dis appeared. You are at liberty to make any use of my statement that you wish—J. Cbosby Bybon, 208 Third Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.” Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis eases mailed free. Swift’s Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. James Thorn, the village barber of Lambertville, Conn., has just completed a novel fishing line. It is composed entirely of women’s hair, of every color and shade. Whenever a customer with partic ularly long hair would come to have her hair dressed he would beg of her a few silken threads, which he would carefully lay away and work up at his leisure. Wild horses are sociable in char acter, and protect themselves against carnivorous beasts byherd- ing together in large numbers. In face of any great danger, such as storms and fires, they unite in still larger bodies, probably from a sentiment akin to the human one at similar crises. How many people know that Mount Vernon was so named in honor of Admiral Edward Vernon, of the British navy, the conquerer of Porto Bello, in whose unsuccess ful expedition against Carta, gena Lawrence Washington, George’s elder brother, sailed as a midship man? *' There are 40,000 women study- in the various colleges in erica. And yet, marvels the New York Commercial Advertiser, it is only 25 years since the first college in the land was opened to women. m Subscribe for the Hoke Journal lilggll Oh! how I dislike to see my hair getting so gray. Say, do you know that 75 cents invested in one bottle of Beggs’ Hair Renewer will not only restore the color but give it a rich, glossy appearance? Try one bottle. Sold and warranted by L A Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga. Subscribe for the Home Jo