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JOHCjy H. HODGES, Proprietor.
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DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS ANI* CULTURE.
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PRICE: $1.50 j\ YEAR IN ADYAIS CEE.
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10.1892.
NO. 45.
W. A.
IN THEIR NEW STORE, 514
MACON, GEORGIA.
J-TJST Jk-BOVE! ISTE'W E22:aiaiA2srC3-E BJLlsriS; BTJI31iIDI3SrC3-.
ALL NEIIT GOODS; NO OLD- STOCK.
W9 sell goods diaper than any house in Georgia. This is no bombast; it is cold, clear‘truth. It is our deliberate intention to undersell any house in this state. It is easy
to find out; only give us the opportunity. Not to take advantage of an offered opportunity is to lose it. if you lose one it shall be through no fault of ours. We would
impress upon the buyers of this section the value of comparison; see and price goods at other stores, get samples if you wish, then come and compare values and prices
with ours. We positively guarantee to save youmoney an anything, and stand back\of every thing we sell with another positive guarantee. W e don’t handle trash.
Ours is not a new house to the people of Middle Georgia. We have only moved into new quarters, the handsomest and best lighted in Macon. Sold every dollar’s worth
of the old stock; so only have new, freshaud fashionable goods to show, at prices guaranteed to be cheaper than you can buy old stock.
, DON’T FOFGET WHERE OUR NEW STORE IS. 514 CHERRY STREET, JUST ABOVE NEW EXCHANGF BANK BUILDING.
W. m DOODY GOMIEHITY, Maoor], Georgia.. '
J. T. Mookk.
"Willis F. Price. Jake Heard.
Willis F. Price X ۩.,
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Cotton.'. Factors.
MACON
GEORGIA^
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON IN STORE, AT
LOW RATE OF INTEREST.
SATISFACTION . 6UARANTEED.
CHARGES—50ets. PER BALE TO ONE AND ALL.
ml W. LEONARD^
DEALERS IN
516 Cherry st., Macon, Gergia.
EVERYTHING NEW,-GOODS FIRST-CLASS,—OUR GOODS
ARE SOLD STRICTLY ON THEIR MERITS—THEY
ARE WORTH EVERY CENT WE ASK FOR THEM.
S. :*£. MIL .Alt!).
E. L. BREWER.
HILLARD & BREWER,
(Successors to Geo. W. Case,)
MARBLE and GRANITE WORKS,
Importers of Fine Marble and Granite Monuments,
Fine Statuary a, Specialty-. IKON FENCING, COPING, Etc
d64 Plum Street, MACOIST, GEORGIA.
Having purchased the business of Geo. W. Case, we are prepared to furnish anj
thing in our line cheaper than has ever been known in Georgia. We will make
special prices to those wishing to purchase within the next (50 days.
Mr. C. N. PIERCE is with us, and will be glad to see and serve his friends, or
any customers, at any time. . : ■
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Best and Cheapest,
for cash or on installment.
Parlor Suits, Climber Suits, Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables
Safes, Mattresses, Bureaus, etc. of aU descriptions.
Complete Undertaking Department.
G-BORG-E ZP-A-TTL,
PERRY, - - GEORGIA,
CASTORIA
for infants and Children.
‘‘CMtorta Is 10 well adapted to children that
Ireconmendltassuperior.tg any prescription
known to me.” H. A. Attract, M. P.,
Ill So. Oxford St, BrodUyn, XT. T.
"The use of‘Castoria 1 is so universal and
Of *SP« re «¥ a£ *Sf^ 1 ^ ct > ee p Castoria
within easy reach.'
Castoria ernes Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation,
rruis Worms, gives sleep, and promotes dl-
Witfout injurious i
“ For several years X have recommended
gour i Castoria.’ andsMl^wa^c^tinueto
results.”
Eowik F. Bisdxx, 3L V n
“ Ihe Wlnthrop,” lath Street and 7th Ava,
Hew York City.
i Csssins Cokpaxt, 77 Mranav Stbeet, Hew To
TWO SIDES OF LIFE.
S. P. in New York Ledger.
There is a shady side of life,
And a sunny side as well,
And ’tis for every one to say
On which he’d choose to.dwell;
For every one unto himself
Commits a grievous sin,
Who bars the blessed sunshine out,
And shuts the shadows in.
The clouds may wear their saddest robes,
The sun refuse to smile,
And sorrow, with her troop of ills, -
May threaten ns the while;
But still the cheerful heart has power
A sunbeam to provide,
And only those whose souls are dark,
Dwell on life’s shady side.
Then Wear a happy heart, my friend,
And fix you faith above;
A heavenly Fatner may afflict,
But does it all in love.
And they who strive to do His will,
And read His word aright,
With songs of triumph on their lips,
Walk always in the light.
“When you receive this,” Clar- cert; they were not aware of yoar
ice wrote, “I shall have gone to my j return. You are quite well? I do
aunt for a time. You do not love I not find you so mnch changed as I
me, Bernard, and it is best for our expected.”
PLATED AND LOST.
A slight, pale-faced girl sat si
lently toying with a piece of nee
dlework on the low porch of her
mother’s house; a handsome young
man lay stretched at her feet. On
the lawn another young couple
were engaged in a game of cro
quet. The sun’s last gleam light
ed up Grace Munson’s face with a
halo of beauty, and Bernard Nor
ton looked at her with undisguised
admiration.
“There is nothing so lovely as a
lovely woman,” he said aloud.
The pale cheeks of Clarice Bar
ton flushed as she quickly glanced
at the speaker. It was the third
time within the hoar that he had
referred to her Cousin Grace's
beauty.
“Grace is indeed lovely,” she
said. “I would give half my life
to be as beautifnl.”
“And I would give half my for
tune to have you so.”
No sooner were the words utter
ed than Norton would have given
much to recall them; but he had
spoken unthinkingly. Clarice
shrank as though she had been
struck, arose quickly and went in
to tbe house.
“I am in a pretty fix, now!” Nor
ton muttered, as he arose and
walked across the lawn. “That was
a nice speech for a fellow to make
to the girl he expects to marry!
And Clarice is as proud as Lucifer,
highstrung as she is plain, and that
is saying a great deal, by Jove! I
never noticed her lack of beauty
so much before Grace came. A
pity one can’t find all things com
bined iu one woman! Wonder if I
ought to apologize? Oh, well, I’m
going away in ten days, and slip’ll
forgive and forget. Absence makes
the heart softer.” And with this
consoling thought he strolled on to
join Grace Munson, whose com
panion was just takiDg*his leave.
Grace was like a delicate flower
sparkling with the dew of morning.
She ha^L soft blue eyes, an exqui
site complexion and golden hair.
Altogether, she made a picture of
rare beauty, aud it was no wonder
Bernard NoTton found pleasure in
merely looking at her.
That evening Clarice did not ap
pear in the drawing room,and Nor
ton was free to devote kiBQself to
her lovely cousin. Mrs. Barton
observed his conduct with dis
pleasure; from the first she had
not approved of her daughter’s
suitor, and wondered what attrac
tion the careless, frivolous young
man held for her sensible Clarice.
Next morning a note was hand
ed Norton. Its contents fillled him
with mingled annoyance and relief.
engagement to end. Be happy in
your own way, and be very sure I
shall be in mine.”
That was all, and Bernard’s self
esteem was seriously wounded by
the epistle. But he consoled him
self with the thoaght that he was
now free to woo the charming
Grace, and at the end of the month
made a formal avowal of love to
her.
“I have loved you ever since we
met,” said he. “Clarice saw this
and generously set me free.” And
Grace, who had become very mnch
enamored of her handsome suitor,
gave him the answer he craved.
Two weeks later Mrs. Barton and
Clarice were on their way to Eu
rope, and Bernard was trying to
submit to tbe stern decree, of
Grace’s father.
“Yes, sir, you can marry my
daughter,” Air. Munson had said,
“if you love her well enough to wait
three years. I am opposed to ear-
ly marriages. No girl is fit for
wedlock before, she is twenty-one,
aud twenty-five is still better.”
It occurred to Bernard that be
was likely to spend the greater
part of his youth iu the capacity of
au “engaged man,” and he did not
improve in humor thereby.
Grace was an acknowledged
belle,and for a time he was pleased
at her success. But there was a
secret bitterness underlying his
pleasure, for he saw little of his
betrothed except in society’s whirl
pool. There would be no change
in this state of affairs until their
time of probation ended, and feel
ing in a false position lie conclu
ded to spend the remaining year
in travel.
When he bade Grace good-bye,
he was struek with the fact. that
she looked mnch older than she
did at the time of their engage
ment. Two years of dissipation
had left their mark upon her deli-
cate .beauty.
“Be careful, Grace,” he said.
“Keep some of your roses for me
until I claim yon.”
He said nothing of her fidelity;
he was only afraid that she might
lose the beauty he worshipped.
Grace was sorry to lose her lov
er; she felt desolate for a whole
day, aud cried herself to sleep the
first night But Bernard wrote her
charming letters of his travels, and
she soon forgot her grief. She sent
him in return the briefest notes,
for tbe charming Grace did not ex
cel as a correspondent Bat' one
glance at the porcelain picture- he
carried, consoled him for that
“A fellow can endure weak, in
sipid letters,” he thought, “better
than the sight of a plain face across
his table three times a day.”
Bernard loitered here and there,
then made his way slowly back.
He was in no haste to-reach Chi-
cago'nntil a few Weeks before -the
time appointed for his marriage,
which was to take place in early
antnmu. One morning in July he
rang the bell of the Mnnson man
sion and sent up his card to the la
dies. There was a step-on the
stair, the trail of a garment, and a
woman entered—a woman of medi-
height, with a beautifully
rounded figure and a face of daz
zling brilliancy. She approached
Bernard and cordially extended her
hand.
“I came down to make your wel
come a litfle less inhospitable, Mr.
Horton,” she said. My aunt and
cousin are unfortunately at a con-
He looked at the charming speak
er in mate wonder.
“I beg pardon—I—I—” he be
gan.
Her face was a ripple of smiles
as she regarded him, waiting for
him to proceed.
“Is it possible I am so changed
that yon do not know me? Have
three years aged Clarice Barton so
much?”- . ,
For the first time in his life Ber
nard Norton lost his composure.
He sank into a chair with an ejac
ulation of wonder.
“Clarice Barton!” cried he.
“Why it does not seem possible!
When did you return?”
“Nearly two months ago,” Miss
Barton replied with her well-bred
composure, as she gracefully seat
ed herself. “My dear mother died
in Rome last winter; Europe was
unendurable after that, so'-I came
back to America.”
“But you are so changed!” Ber
nard murmured, after expressing
regret at her loss.
Miss Barton smiled sadly.
“The years change us all,” she
said; “they leave their mark.”
“Oh, it is not that!” he hastened
to say. “You look not a day older
than when I last saw yon; but—
pardon my boldness—you are won
derfully improved.”
“I am like my mother’s people,”
Clarice answered quietly. “They
all mature late; aud the climate of
Italy, where I remained most of
the time, was very beneficial to
me. I hope to return in the course
of a few months.”
They fell to talking of their
travels, and 12 o’clock struck be
fore Norton thought they had been
chatting twenty minutes. At that
moment the hall door clanged and
steps cametoward them. He arose
to his feet.
“Impossible!” be said, looking
at his watch. “I cannot have been
here an hour. Really—”
'What he would have said re
mained unspoken, for Mrs. Mnn
son and Grace appeared in the
doorway. His betrpthed was very
decomingly dressed, bat so faded
that she seemed like the ghost of
her former self. Three years of
society had done their work. The
cheeks had lost their bloom, the
nose was sharpened and the beau
tiful eyes lacked lustre. As she
stood beside Clarice for a moment
she seemed utterly eclipsed by her
once plain consin.
The meeting of the lovers was
constrained, and Bernard took his
departure, promising to call the
next day, which he did. Grace in
formed him that he must wait pa
tiently for two more weeks before
he could see her often, as^sbe had
engagements for every hour.
“But yon and Clarice can con
sole each other,” she said. “It will
be pleasant to compare notes of
travel.”
Bernard was not slow to avail
himself of this opportunity, and
for two bright, brief weeks he
walked, talked, drove andachatted
with the charming woman whom
he had once slighted. What a
blind fool he had been! It was
Clarice he loved— Clarice he had
always loved. She was the boy’s
fancy and tbe man’s ideal. It was
this cultured, interesting woman
who suited him, and not the faded,
frivolous Grace. He -grew mad
with pain and rage as he realized
his position.
He .walked into the parlor one
afternoon, where Clarice was play
ing softly.
“Do not let me disturb you,” he
said, as she half rose from the pi
ano. “I am in a mood to have my
savage soul soothed by music. Are
the ladies out?”
“I think so,” answered Clarice.
“I have j'ust returned from my
walk and have not seen them.
She played on softly, her dark,
dreamy eyes fixed on space. Ber
nard looked at her with a brooding
passion. Suddenly be crossed over
to where she sat.
“Clarice!” he cried, “my own
Clarice, I cannot be longer silent!
I love you—I have always loved
you. . Years ago you cast me off
for a foolish wbim and I tried to
content myself by forming other
ties. I know now that I have nev
er forgotton you. Clarice take me
back again!"
His voice was trembing with
emotion; but she stood coldly re
garding him, and her voice was
very hard as she said:
“My Norton,I cannot excuse this
behavior. I loved yon once very
dearly, but you made me ashamed
of that love aud I cast it out. 1
have for three years thought of
you as my cousin’s betrothed, al
most her husband, aud you insult
both her and .me by your conduct.
I supposed you knew that I am to
be married as soon as my term of
mourning expires. Allow me to
pass.”
She swept by him like a quean.
The alcove curtains parted and
Grace stood before him.
“I have heard all,” she said,
“Go, and never let me see your
face again.”
She dropped the shining solitaire
which she had worn so long into
his hand and pointed towards the
door. With bowed head be left
her presence and went down the.
marble steps for the last time. He
had played for each in tarn and
lost both.
The Waste of War.
Jnst now the world is at peace,
or at least the civilized world is
more quiet than for a ' hundred
years.
From 1793 to 1815, the Napol
eonic wars prevailed.
In 1828 there was war between
Russia and Turkey.
In 1830-1840, civil war prevailed
in Spain and Portugal.
From 1830 to 1847, war was car
ried on between France and Alge
ria.
From 1854 to 1856 there was
war between England and France
and Russia.
From 1861 to 1865, civil war pre
vailed in America.
In 1866 Prussia and Austria
were in conflict.
In 1866 France was at war in
Mexico.
In 1870-71, France and Ger
many were at war.
In 1876 and 1877 Russia and
Turkey were at war.
In this century of conflict the
loss in men is estimated at 4,140,
000, not counting the almost un
ending conflicts in Sooth America.
In the Franco-German war Mul-
hall estimates the losses of both
Nations in killed, died of wounds,
died of sickness, and disabled, at
371,752; German, 133, 751; French,
238,000.
Of these numbers, 107,000 were
killed or died of wonnds; 60,000
died of sickness; 205,000 were dis
abled.
The same authority thus esti
mates tbe losses in killed and
wounded at the different periods
of the conflict.
Battles. French.
Woerth 32,000
Marsle Tour..26,000
Gravelotte.... 28,600
Paris 30,000
Orleans, etc... 76,500
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need
no special mention. 'All who have
nsed Electric Bitters sing the same
song of praise.—A purer medicine
does not exist and it is gnaranteed
to do all that is claimed. Electric
Bitters will cure diseases of the
Liver and Kidneys, will remove
Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and
other affections caused by impure
blood.—Will drive Malaria from
the system and prevent as well as
cure all Malarial fevers.—For cure
of Headache, Constipation and In
digestion try Electric Bitters.—
Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or
money refanded.—Price 50c. and
$1.00 per bottle at Holtzclaw &
Gilbert’s Drugstore, Perry, Ga.
A Pittsburg physician explains
how the worm gets into the chest
nut. When the nut is still green
au insect comes along, and hunt
ing a warm place in which to have
its eggs hatched, lights upon the
green chestnut and stings it. At
the same time it deposits some of
its eggs in the opening thus made.
The chestnut begins to ripen and
at the same time the eggs are
hatching. The insect selects chest
nuts as a place for depositing its
eggs as being the best adapted
place by instinct. The floury mat
ter in the chestnut tarns to sngar
and sngar contain^ carbon which
produces heat
BROWN’S 'iRON BITTERS
Cores Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala
ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Phyri-
dans recommend iL All dealers sell iL Genuine
Now is the time to subscribe for
your county paper.
Rfpans Tabules: one gives relief.
German.
11,000
16,200
20,100
13,300
57,400
Total.
43,000
42,200
48,600
43,300
133,900
Total....193,000 118,000 311.000
The improvement in war weap
ons is thns stated: The Germans
in the war of 1870-71 fired 400
shots to every person killed, where
as, in the American war, it took
740 shots to kill a man.
War costs more in life; peace
costs more in expense. The Ger
man army is not killing anybody
now, but it cost in 1889 to main
tain it 18,840,000 pounds, or $95,-
000,000. The appropriation for the
army of the United States is one
fourth of this snm, or $24000,000.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
What Your Great Grandmother Did.
She hetcheled the flax and card
ed the wool, and wove the linen,
and span thA tow, and made the
clothes for her husband and ten
children. She made batter and
cheese, she dipped'tallow candles,
to light the house at night, and
she cooked all the food for her
household by an open fire-place
and a brick oven. Yes; when she
was forty years of age, she was al
ready an old lady whose best days
were over. Her shoulders were
bent and her joints enlarged by
hard work, and she wore spec
tacles and a cap. Her great grand
daughter, with all the modern con
veniences for comfort, refinement
and luxury, may be as charming
and attractive at rorty-five as at
twenty. Especially is this true if
she preserves her health and beau
ty by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Fa
vorite Prescription, which wards
off all female ailments and irregu
larities, cares them if they already
exist, keeps the life current health-
It is estimated that daring the
busy season in London, when the
fashionable set are not away, $10,-
0Q0 worth of cream and $150,000
worth of milk are consumed daily.
Fish, flies " and caterpillars,
though frozen solid, retain life,
because their constrnction admits
of frost expansion withoat disrup
tion; a freezing temperature only
results to them in torpor.
Some idea^jf the insect exhibit
at the world’s fair may be gleamed
from a recent official .announce
ment from Pennsylvania, which
says that that state alone will send
150,000 mounted butterflies.
Residents of Elm Grove, W.
Ya., had a census taken last year
and gave oat as the actual results
these fignres: Males over 21 years
of age, 148: males under 21 years,
148; females over 16 years, 148;
females under 16 years, 148.
The Russians call the grip Chi
nese catarrh, the Germans call it
the Russian pest, the Italians
named it the German disease, the
French call it the Italian fever
and the Spanish catarrh. The
Italians invented the term inflnen- .
za in the seventeenth century, and
attributed the disease to the influ
ence of certain planets
A bothered Michigan clergyman
asks the Springfield Republican
whether a word cannot be coined
to designate, the performance of
the marriage corremony. “If I say
‘I married Miss So-and-so,' ” says
he, “it is liable to the constrnction
that I am now her husband.”
“Marrifed” is the new verb he
suggests, ‘I marrified Miss Brown.’
According to the San Francisco
Argonaut, Judge Glegerich, of the
Superior Conrt of New York—
may his tribe increase—recently
put to an applicant for naturaliza
tion an Austrian, the query:
“Which would yon fight for in a
war between Austria and the
United States?” “Austria”’ said
the would-be citizen. “Go back
there!” replied the judge, as he
tore up the man’s declaration-
A new mineral, not nnlike asbes
tos in its properties, has been dis
covered in immense deposits in
the United States of Columbia.
It is stated to be tb a color of am
ber, perfectly transperant and in
combustible. Experiments indicate
that it will be of great value for
making bank note paper and ns a
fire-proofing material. A white
varnish has been extracted from
it.—Brooklyn Citizen.
A man in Riverside, Cal., a
urging that city to go into tbe
frnit-growing business to raise
money for paving their streets.
He has figured it out that, if the
city would plant English walnut
or seedling orange trees for street
trees, in fifteen years in the case of
the walnuts, or ten years in the
case of the oranges, the froit from
tbe trees would pay all the expen
ses of street work and inprovemenf.
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Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter’
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qnired. It is guaranteed to give
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woman of middle age to retain the! For sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert,
freshness of girlhood upon brow! i 7 L
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