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P3SS> l 7; i - r | •TO HIV H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND, CULTURE. f — ikit VOL. XXI. THE NEEL SHOE GO. X3X^jLE3 <0=2*0 jEtS: Jos. N. NEEL, of Eads, Neel & Co.', John W! REID,] Jno. C. EADS, “ “ “ “ Walter F. HOUSER. The most popular Shoe Store in Maeo.;. Why? Because we have the Stock, the prettiest store, the most goods, the Lowest Prices. DON’T FAIL TO SEE US ON SHOES. " taa #«»»£ ora dfe 557 CHERRY STREET, ' wm PEKEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEOEGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBEK 17,1891. PRICE: TWO DOLLARS A Year. NO. 51, ^QTgtON -CARRY YOUR COTTON TO- /W. A,DAYIS&C O., Poplar St., - MACON, GA. Consignments on Through Bills Solicited. Being centrally located and in the very midst of the buyers, we possess advan tages not heretofore enjoyed. jWE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Furniture, - Best and Cheapest, 01 m INSTALLMENT. Parlor Suits, Climber Suits, Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables sites, Mattresses, Bureaus, etc. of all descriptions. Complete Endertuking Department. GKSO^GKE PAUL, \ PERRY, GEORGIA, Pur© Groceries! I desire to call attention to the fact that I have in Gore, next to the Bank A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK 0F| FANCY Ail FAMILY filQBIftlESs Fruits and Confectioneries, w Tobacco, Cigars, etc. mnisii Every Saturday. Mv Stock is FRESH and PURE, and prices very LOW. Patronage solicited. Agerl for the SINGES SEWING MACHINE. Full line of Fixtures and Oil on hand. J. M- NELSON, Perry. G-a. CROCKETTS IRON WORKS, ■ N • » |j Everything sold at spot Gash Prices. No Discounts to Middle Men lEfillHIi Ji ilili SIDE I GEORGIA WHR-KMEN. . Ask for, what you want. The price will be low; the work strictly first-class. J CROCKETT, Proprietor. for Infants and Ohiidren. “Castoriais so well adapted to children that I recommend it a3 superior to any prescription known to me. 1 * IX. A. Archer, M. B., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cares Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, truig Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di gestion, Without injurious medication. _ . _ . . , im ,-™rsal and I a For several years I have recommended “The use of ‘Castpria is sonmver^l an v 8 wa r‘Castoria,’ andshall always continue to 5fs merits so well known tnau ip seems » w P s28!S*S !RsS!! »™H i Late Pastor results.” Edwin F. Pardee, M. D., “ The Winthrop,” 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. The Centaur Compaot, 77 Murray Street, New York. . THE ONLY- EADS, NEEL & CO ONE - SUE is ibc lead! We wantyourtrade. >. Will make it to your interest. Come to see ns. Mr. WAL TER E. HOUSER will do the rest. -os 1 ss<acja.oc3>3M'.- % Ifl 552 & 554 CHERRT STREET, Wk ' ’ ® ^ijd^Ory for Pitcher’s Castoria. HOUSTON SCHOOL LAW. dental fee of not more than five dollars ($5.00) per scholastic year, or any part of a scholastic- year, to the superintendent, to be paid by each child resident of said county, who is engaged in the Btndy of any branch other than spelling, read ing, writing, English grammar and arithmetic, or who attends the schools established for a longer term than that fixed by the. 3tate School Commissioner for the pub lic term, or who attends said schools when the public school term is not beiDg taught, and said Board of Education is hereby au thorized, required and empowered to fix the time, or months or days said schools shall be free to those who study only the branches re quired now to be taught in the public schools of this State, and said Board is authorized and em powered to divide said free term in aDy way that it deems fit, and require the same taught at Such time or times as it considers bq^t, and NO child shall attend said schools (other than; during the free term) until said incidental fee is paid.” Here, in the technical phrases used in the above section is where the trouble arises with some who advocate the law under the inad vertent notion that all children who study only the primary branches, as enumerated above, are exempt from the payment of the contingent fund. Such chil dren are exempt only during the free term. The six words imme diately preceedipg the last, six words in the sixth section, which are explanitory words, and the ty pographer should have enclosed them in parenthesis, as we have done, fully explains and sets forth the object-arid meaning of the .au thor when he said: : “And NO child shall attend said schools (other than daring the free term) until said incidental fee is paich-’ This language cannot be so con strued to mean that none are re quired to- pay the contingent fee except those who are engaged in the study of the higher branches Tf we strike out the words “other than during the free term,” aud affix the words, “as herein pro vided,” to the close of the sixth section, theu it nu mean that all who study the primary branches will be exempt from the contingent fee. These six words, together with the contingent fee, will eithef suspend the country schools at the expiration of the public term in consequence of the fact that Dot enough of the children will be able to comply with the requirement to make, up thhe minimum number that may be fixed, or it will op press the poor widow and the very poor man. We are fully satisfied in our miud that the schools will he sus pended, for judging the future by the past, we know that the contin gent fee cannot be paid except by a very few in the country—not by enough to secure the continuation of the schools for a longer term than that fixed by the State School Commissioner for the public term, but suppose that the schools should not be suspended as we predict, will the poor widows or the poor man’s children receive any benefit of the schools? No. Why? Be cause they cannot pay the contin gent fee. Will they lose anything? Yes. How? Simply from the fact that the widow has a little pony worth $100, a cbw and calf worth $25, a sow and pig, with a few shotes worth $25, the house and culinary furniture, including the cot, (not “cat,” us the compositor made us say in our last article) worth $50, aggregating $200. Up on this amount she is required to pay the ad valorem tax, five mills of one per cent, which is $1. The poor man who runs a two-pony vegetable farm pays $1.50 tax. This is 8 clear loss to them, from the simple fact that their ehijdren cannot enter the schools. The question now arises, who gets thb widow’s dollar? We_ an swer, the $2,000 man gets it. How? He pays $10 sd vajoreig tax, §ends four children to school, and pays $20 contingent fee, aggregating $30. His children attends school Editor Home Journal,- Dear Sir:— Please allow us space enough to farther criticise the Houston School law now under considera tion. We claim that the great desider atum should be the formulation of some plau by which the schools could be built up, supported and maintained for a longer term than that now prescribed by the State law, and that the great pre-essen tialtoself government—the edu cation of the people, would natur ally follow as the ultimatum; and thus accomplish the indispensable object. The law reminds us very forci bly of a child of whom we once heard: It was a nice little girl, And she had a little curl That hung straight down her for’ad, When she was good, She was very good indeed* And when she was bad, she was horrid. We now propose to criticise in detail those horrid points of the law more closely than we did in our former article. The subject is one that requires deep thought, and our motives should be to elevate our children, and if their mental faculties will admit of it, to sit them upon a pin nacle of fame. We have been charged that our “Spirit” (mo tives) ran too high upon the one hand, and that our- argument ran too deep upon the other hand. Wo have not got time to stop here for a moment, either to vin dicate ourselves or impugn the mo tives of others, lest it would de- trViet the minds of the people from the great importance of the subject matter! We will say this much, however, that we do not think that our motives have ascended above the pinnacle, or our thoughts have decended below the bottom. First, We will notice the insur mountable difficulty that may re sult iu the appointing of a super intendent, or' in the transaction of any business that may come before the Board of Education in conse- queuce of the construction of the law. “Section 2. Be it further enacted that the Board of Education of Houston county shall consist of fourteen members, and that seven members of said Board shall con stitute a quoram for the transac tion of business, etc. ’ Now we have under the law two legal quornnls in the same organ ized body, aud each are vested with plenipotence, and is in order for the transaction of any business that may devolve upon them. Each of these quorums have the power to appoint a superintendent and to fix the amount of his bond. Quo rum No. 1 appoints Mr. A for su perintendent, and fixes the amount of his bond in the sum of $500. This is in perfect keeping with the law, aud there is no power that is authorized .to change it Mr. A makes the bond, quorum No. 1 ac cepts it, he is now ready to enter into the functions of his office. Quorum No. 2 does not think that Mr. A is a proficient man, and Is not satisfied by any means with the amount of his bond, from the sim ple fact that the peoples’ money is placed in jeopardy, hence, they proceed to appoint Mr. B for su perintendent, and fixes the amount of his bond iu the sum of $36,000. Mr. B makes the bond, and quo rum No. 2 accepts it, he jg now vested with plenipotence and as fully qualified to enter into the functions of his office as Mr. A is. “Section 5. And said Board shall have all the rights and powers other than those mentioned- that the County Board of Education in. this State now have, and such oth er rights and powers not mention, ed as may be necessary in carry ing out the provisions of this act.” Under this last mentioned pro vision, each quorum have all the powers vested in the government to aid them in carrying out the provisions of this act. Here is a legally constituted deadlock, with no provision made to effect an am icable adjustment of the difficulty. What now? Will some one of the advocates of the law be so kind as to inform ns as to what coarse may be pursued? Did anybody ever hear of two quorums in .one body before? Why not have con stituted ten for a quorum? This would have been business like, and would have obviated the possibility of such an insurmount able difficulty, and would not-have displayed such great weakness in the construction of the law. geetion 6 provides for an “jnpi- government, does this not tend to plentocracy? Is not this emulating the exemplifications of the general government? the scepter of whic-h in former years was held out and the poor man had to but touch arid live; now it is moulded into an iron heel of tyranny, which is placed upon his neck and is crushing him into the earth. Will the people think of these idlings until the first Tuesday in ^January next? Observer. Echeconnee, Dec. 7,1891. DEMOCRATIC REFORMS. five months qttyef tliun during the public term, costing him but. SL50 per month per pupil, or cents per diem, just about what the State pays. You see now*that the $2,000 man gets the poor widow’s dollar and tfap tws-pony renter’s; dollar and fifty cents, with whiph to help to pay for.the education of his children. Is this equalization of taxation? Is not. this/oppress ing the poor? Now, since educa tion is the great preessential to self Circumstances Alter Cases. ‘I want to ask your advice about a novel |I am writing,” she confi dently remarked to a bookseller the other day. “I shall be happy to give it.” “The hero of my story is wound ed in battle and comes home with his arm in a sling.” “That’s good.” “My heroine meets him with great joy, and he clasps her in his arms.” “Perfectly proper; I’d do it my self.” “Yes, but don’t' you see one of his arms is in a sling? How could he clasp her?” “That’s so. Aud you have de cided he must come wounded?” “He must.” “And she must be clasped?” “She ought to be.” “Yes, that’s so; but you must look out for the critics. How would it do for her to clasp him?” “Wouldn’t it look immodest?” “Not under the circumstances; and you can add a foot note that the joy of seeing him carried her off her balance for a moment. Yes, let her clasp and take the conse quences. If you get the right kind of covers on a book yon needn’t care much about what is inside.” “Very well, my heroine shall clasp; I thanx you: good day.”— [Loudon Tid-Bits. No one doubts that Dr. Catarrh Remedy really cures Ca tarrh, whether the disease be re cent or of long standing, because the makers of it clinch their faith in it with a $500 guarantee, which isn’t a mere newspaper guarantee, but “on call” in a moment. That moment is when- you prove that its makers can’t cure you. The reason for their faith is this; Dr. Sage’s remedy has proved itself the right cure for niuety-nine out of one hundred cases of Catarhh in the Head, and the World’s Dispensary Medical Association can afford to take the risk of you being the one hundredth. The only question is—are you willing to make the test, if the makers are willing to take the risk? If so, the rest is easy. Yon pay your druggist 50 cents and the trial begins. If you’re wanting the $500 you’ll get something better—a cure! Arithmetic and Dresses. Teacher—“If your mother had twenty-five yards of stuff, and made a dress requiring but eight een yards, how much would she have left?” Little Girl—“Mamma caD’t make her own dresses. She has tried often, and they are always either too “Teacher—“Suppose she sent it to a dressmaker, how much would the dressmaker send back?” Little Girl—“Depends on which dressmaker ghc sent it to. Some don't send back any.” Teacher (impatiently)—“Sup pose she sent it to an honest one?”, Little Girl—“Some of the hon- estest ones cat things to waste so that there is never anything left, no matter how much you send ■’em.”—[Street & Smith Good News, • —*-*-* There is an “Ohio Beauty” cher ry tree in the old Bassford orchard in Brown’s Valley, CaL, which bears from 11,000 to 12,000 pounds of fruit every year. The tree is so large that a scaffolding has to be bnilt around it so that the eherries cau be picket! ■ A Safe Investment. Is one which is guaranteed to bring yon satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return pur chase price. On this safe plan you can buy from our advertised Drug- gist a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It is guaranteed Ho bring relief in every case,-when used for any affection of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such ag Consumption, Inflammation of Lungs, Brochitis, Asthama, Whooping Cough, Croup, etc,, can always be depended upon. . Trial bottles free at Holtzolaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore. Greenesboro Herald-Journal. The Herald-Journal has steadily maintained that whatever reforms the farmers believe are necessary to their prosperity, these reforms can be best procured through the democratic organization. In thefirst place, the democratic party, as an organization, has con tended for many of the political re forms now demanded by the farm ers. It has as steadily called at tention to the injustice and oppres sions of the class Jaws enacted by the general government, and has sought, at all times, to prev/nt and to reform them. The record of the democratic party is clear on these principles. That it has failed to accomplish these principles has been due to the power of the mon ied men who staud at the back of the republican party, and who, by intimidation and by corruption have prevented the masses of the east and west from co-operating with the democrats, and thereby over throwing the reign of favoriteism which has made them rich. The trueness of the democratic princi ples are best proved by the fact that no defeat has been so over whelming as to crush out hope or to strangle the ardor of the party. Out of each defeat the national or ganization has emerged stronger and more hopeful and more tena ciously attached to these princi ples. . This unconquerable spirit has never faltered iu the work of education, and the fact that the farmers of the west, as well as the wage earners aDd laborers of the north and east, have become con scious of the political infamies of a class administered government, is due to the repeated warnings and educational work of the national democratic party. And now that the people are aroused on the de mands which • this party has long contended for, the democratic is the best organization through which to obtain these reforms. The leaders of the farmers them selves are coming to thig opinion. Col. L. S- Livingston, prerident of the Georgia State Alliance, ex presses these views, and shows that the organization of a Third party will result inevitably in defeat. Aud Col. Livingston is right, and the democratic press of the coun try has held these views all along. For a party to win on reform prin ciples the south must be carried solid. The democratic party is the organization that can do this, and the democracy cannot do it unless all idea of a third organization is cast away. A third party might carry a few states, or as Ool. Liv ingston puts it, a few isolated dis tricts. These states would not be sufficient to give viotory to the new organization, but their loss to the democracy would be sufficient to cause its defeat, and the conse quent victory of the republican class organization. The farmers should not close their eyes to these facts. They do not wish to court defeat, and a dis ruption of the democratic organi zation means that. They wish vic tory and the triumph of reform principles. Is it not plain that victory can most certainly be>ob- tained by maintaining the demo cratic organization iu the south in tact, and pushing the" campaign vigorously in the west, as well as the east, on reform principles in 1892? * Why Should I Sign The Pledge? Mrs.S. M. I. Henry, “I’m not a drunkard.” “I don’t drink anything to speak People are Careless-About Names. 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 the 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. Jt takes the lead of all Tooth Washes, and is beneficial to the teeth, and not injurious, as are many of the cheap tooth washes now on the market. Sold an* 1 war ranted by L A Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga. The new National Library build ing, now in coarse of erection in Washington, will cast $6,000,000. There ate thirty-three arches on the four sides of the building, and it is proposed to ornament the ki y- stones of these arches with repre- setative heads of the raoes of man kind. Id Africa there are said to be 500 missionaries, 400,000 converts, and about 25,000 a year being convert ed. During the past five years there have h.eeu more“than 2.00 martyrs in Africa. For pain in the stomache, colic aDd cholera morbus there is noth ing better than Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy. For sale by Rp|tzalaw & 1 Subscribe for the Home Jour^l (filbert. Berry, Ga',‘ of.” “If I want a drink I take it; if cftm’t I let it alone.” “I never take so much that I don’t know what I am about.” ‘I can drink little or much; it never hurts me.” “I can drink or let it alone. “Why should I sign the pledge?” Because— 1. Yon don’t want to be a drunk ard. I never found a man that did and the disappointment of men who wake up and find themselves drunkards is' something too terri ble to take the slightest chance on and a pledge of total abstinence taken and kept will turn any man woman from the path of the drunkard, and the shame to which it leads. A deliberate promise is the strongest tether with which any man cau bind a good purpose. You have a purpose to be sober, relia ble, pure; then bind the habits of your life to it with a solemn prom ise to abstain forever from all in toxicating liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and you are safe from that danger. 2 You should sign the pledge and stop all use of intoxicating drink, because if yon drink it ever so moderately you are in danger. The subtle poisou of alcohol has just one way with human blood and nerves and brain, aud if you take one glass to-day of light wine, the chances are ten to one that you will die a drupkard. You will follow in the road that is filled up with drunkards, who all begin with the first glass, which opened the gate to all that has followed of shame aud sorrow. 3. You should sigu the pledge, even if you never touched a drop of alcoholic drink, that your name and influence may be on the right side of the question. If you have a boy, or girl, that you may lead your child iu the right way. As a citizen, for the sake of the tempt ed aud weak who need the strength which would come to them from your name on the plsdge; as a member of society, that the social world may sooner adopt the fash ion of purity; as a man, that every other man aud woman may know just where you stand, and that no one shall dare call your position in question. “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor drink wine, or any thing whereby thy brother stnm- bleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”—Rom. 14:21. As it is the “little foxes” that “gnaw the vines,” making great havoc, so it is the little points which indicate high breeding. One of these small indices of wide j reaching significance is an ability, intuitive or acquired, to pronounce persons’ names correctly. It needs only the attentive listening at the moment of introduction, or, if that opportunity is not successful, it is easy to inquire of a third party, or frankly appeal to' the person him self and be righted once for all. To persist iu miscalling one con veys to the mind of that person one of two things—either that yon are too careless to take the tronble to get the name right, or that the in dividual who bears it is not of suf ficient consequence for you to do so. Either opinion lays you open to the imputation of imperfect breed ing, which it is foolish to so need lessly invite. Many persons address a married woman by her maiden name long after any excuse for the blunder, if snch ever existed, has passed, and similarly address a twice-mar ried woman by her widowed title, fault that may be still more seri ous and embarrassing under some circumstances. The same people, or the same sort of people, insist on confound ing names of nearly similar sound or spelling. It is very annoying to Mrs. Smith to be called Mrs. Smythe, and vice versa; and Mrs. John dislikes heartily to be ad dressed as Mrs. Johns. Frequent ly to the initiated the difference in the letter of a nairie signifies much, which case to put the letter where it does not belong raises the act from a blunder to an offense. TWO PAIRS OF SHOES IN ONE. propagated by the innumerable mi crobes, germs, etc., which fill the air we breathe and the water- we drink, there can be no question. The microbes altack the human body and breed poison in many shapes. Recent experiments read before the congress of surgeons at Berlin leave no doubt that the way to clear the system of these germs is to force them out. through the pores of the skin. S. S. S. does this in the most efficient way. It cleans them out entirely, and the poison as well. Mr. F. Z. Nelson, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Fremont, Nebraska, suffered for years with Scrofula, and it continued to grow worse in spite of all treatment. Fi nally, four bottles of Swift’s Spe cific cured him. He writes: “Words are inadequate to express my grat itude and favorable- opinion of Swift’s Specific.” Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis eases mailed free. Swift’s Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. The juice of the papaw has long been known to have the remarka ble property of softening the flesh, aud the leaves are often used by natives of tropical America for wrapping around meat to render it tender. Dr. Mortimer Granville believes that this property will prove of great value in the treat ment of cancer. He has studied the matter for a considerable time,, and has convinced himself that the juice, or its active principles,would prove an effective solvent of cancer tissue when need with some other substance, such, for instate, as periodohymethoxyehinolin. Everybody knows that the con ditions for health are not favorable when the stomach, liver and bow els are disordered. In such cases, headache, inc|iges?ion an( j cons ti_ pqftqn are'the insult; for all which ailments the proper remedy Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. A novelty in the shoe manufac turing line is of English invention, and consists of a removable sole and top lift, which can be changed when worn without consulting the cobbler. The feature of the invention is said to be a metal plate rivited to the bottom of the shoe when last ed. The sole,in the shape of a tap sole, is provided with a stitched welt. Under the welt is a thin band or strip of metal which slides under the edges of the plate rivet ed on the bottom of the shoe. The shank is of steel, japanned black, and the joint end of the half sole is countersunk to fit under the shank, where it is fastened and held in place by two screws. The top piece of the heel is fastened in by three screws. It is proposed to make shoes by this method, and furnish an extra pair of soles and top-lifts with each pair of shoes, as well as make the soles for sale separately. Any one can take oat the screws when the first soles are worn and slip on a new pair of soles, which, itis Slid, are finished better and look better than the work of the ordinary cob bler. —Rhoeboth Sunday Journal. The laws of health are taught in the schools, but not in a way to fce of much practical benefit, and are never illustrated by living exam ples, which in many cases might easily be done. If some scholar who had just contracted a cold, was brought .before the school, so that all could hear the dry, loud cough, and know its significance; see the thin white coating on the tongue, and later, as the cold developed, see the profuse watery expectora tion and thin ivatery discharge from the nose, not one of them would ever forget what the first symptoms of a cold were. The scholar should then be given Cham berlain s Cough Remedy freely, that all might see that even«a se vere cold could be cured in one or two days, or at least greatly miti gated, when properly treated as soon as the first symptoms appear. Ibis remedy is famous for its cures of coughs, colds and croup. Itis made especially for these diseases, and is the most prompt and most reliable medicine known for the' purpose. .50 cent bottles for sale bv Holzelaw & Gilbert, druggists Perry, Ga.. r««o Frank Booth, of Watkinsville, Ga., has in his possession a water moccasin with two distinct heads, four eyes and shows his torgee from both heads at. the same time. It was eaptnred on Barber creek by Bud Carter. The snake is a small one, hut is a lively little rep tile. Oh! how I dislike to see my hair getting so gray. Sav, do you know iK at 75 cents invested in one bottle Beggs’ Hair Renewer will not only restore the color but give it a rich, glossy appearance? Try one hottle. Sold and warranted 1 A^Felder, Druggist, Perry, Ga INDISTIMlfgp