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J OHN EC. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROCRESS AND CULTURE.
PRICE: $1.50 X TEAR EV ADVANCE.
VOL. XXI.
■ PERRY,HOUSTONCflUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17.1892.
NO. 46-
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A. DOODY COMPA
NY,
IN THEIR NEW STORE, 514 CHERRY STREET, MACON, GEORGIA.
vTTTST ABOVE USTETW ZEIXaiEIALJSra-E! BJLITK; ~RTTTT i~OT~EsTG--
ALL NEW GOODS; NO OLD STOCK.
Wa sell goods chaper than any house in Georgia. This is no bombast; it is cold, clear truth.- Itis 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 cf 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, mid 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 he cheaper than you can buy old stock.
DON’T FOFGET WHERE OUR NEW STORE IS. 514 CHERRY STREET, JUST ABOVE NEW EXCHANGF BANE BUILDING.
W. A DOODY GOMIRHITY, MaGori, Georgia.
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J.T. Moore. IN SPITE OF HIMSELF.
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Cotton.'. Factors.
MACON
GEORGIA-
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON IN STORE, AT
LOW RATE OF INTEREST.
BY HELEN FOREST GRAVES.
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E. G. & 0. W, LEONARD,
DEALERS IN
Hit®!
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.
N..3kf. HILLARD.
E. L. BREWER.
HILLARD & BREWER,
(Successors to Geo. W. Case,)
MARBLE and GRANITE WORKS,
Importers of Fine M&rble and Granite Monuments,
Fine Statuary » Specialty. IKON FENCING, COPING, Etc
464 Plum Street! MACOjST, 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 willj)e glad to see and serve his friends, or
any customers, at any time.
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New York City.
Tbs Cxsxaub Cokpant, 77 Mpbray Stheet, Nkw Yohx.
“Mattie! Mattie! did you take
that huckleberry pie out. of the
oven ?”
“Yes, Aunt Add.”
“And the cup custards—you
didn’t forget the cup custards?”
“They’re all right, Aunt Ann.”
‘Mattie!” in an accent one de
gree shriller than nsual.
“Yes! What is it?”
“There’s a tramp coming up the
back garden path. Send him about
bis business.”
“Yes, Aunt Ann.”
Mattie Vernor went valiantly to
the b ick door, prepared to do bat
tle, glancing this way and that as
she did so, to make sure that there
was plenty of boiling water on the
stove, and 'that the broom was
handy, in case of. need.
“Well,” said Mattie to herself,
eyeing the mass of rags on the
doorstep, “you are a tramp. No.
body could possibly mistake you
for anything else. What do you
want?” she added aloud.
“Gould yon spare me an old
shirt, young lady, or a suit of
clothes? I’m in great need-
“That’s what you all say!” crisp
ly interrupted Mattie. “I'm sure I
don’t know where you get all Your
rags and tatters from. You’re just
from an hospital, i suppose; that’s
the next chapter.”
But even as she spoke her wo
manly heart melted within her at
the sight of the tired, pale face,the
wretched garb.
“No,” said he, with a sigh, “I’m
not from the hospital.”
He was turning away, when she
recalled him.
“Wait a minute,” said she. “I’ll
go see what I can find.”
Bolting the door unceremonious
ly in -his face, she went to a store
room opening out of the unused
best parlor.
“I don’t care!” said Mattie, ar
guing with herself with a certain
fierce impatience. “Uncle Job’s
things have lain here, of no use to
anybody, ever since he died. That
poor fellow may as well have them,
I suppose.”
She came back presently with a
compact little bundle under her
arm.
“There! ’ she said, flinging it out
of the window, “take it and be
gone! For,” she added to herself,
“if Aunt Aun should find ont I’d
been giving away any of Uncle
Job’s old traps—Why, goodness
me! he’s eaten up the huckleberry
pie and the three cup custards
that I left to cool on the battery
window-ledge! Here, give me back
those clothes! You shan't have so
much as a rag! You don’t deserve
them!”
She had unbolted tbe doorassbe
spoke, and, with a quick, light
movement, caught up the bundle
before the stranger could possess
himself of it.
“I’m very sorry,” he said peni
tently, “but I was desperately hun
gry, and I didn’t stop to consider”’
“Didn’t stop to consider,” in
dignantly repeated Matty. “No, I
should think not You are a thief!
Do you hear tbat? Notonly a vag
abond, but a thief! And I should
think a great able-bodied scamp
like yon would be ashamed to go
begging and stealing aronnd the
country. There!”
Thus terminating her lecture
with a very expressive outburst,
Mattie once more shut the door in
the poor, tired face, and resumed
her occupation of ironing out Aunt • to the foot of old Deacon Joblev’e
Ann’s Sunday lace cap. I gravestone, whence the man res-
Matty! Matty!” called the old I cued it with prompt dispatch—
woman from above stairs, where
she was turning over the contents
of a big cedarwood chest.
“Yes, Aunt Ann!”
“Did you send the fellow pack
ing?”
“Yes, I did.”
“That’s right,” Chuckled Aunt
she vanished back into the wood
path and was seen no more.
Half an hour later, Squire Som
erset, examining a pile of law pa-
pera in his office, was startled by
the sndden appearance of a tall
figure in his doorway.
“Nothing for yon, my man-r-go
gentle, mournful way, “you’re speaker crisp on the result
right. It’s the same person. Huck.
Ann. These strolling beggars are , along!” said he curtly, without
getting to be a perfect nuisance
hereabouts.”
But as Matty fluted the borders
of lane with a quick, efficient hand,
thinking the while what she should
do to replace the missing pie in
time for Annt Ann’s dinner, a
softer mood came over her
“Poor wretch!” she mnrmnred
to herself. “Perhaps he was hun
gry. He certainly did look pale
and tired, and his rags were dread
ful. I wish I hadn’t snatched those
clothes back. It wasn’t real nice
and ladylike of me, now I come to
think of it. I wish—” all of a sud
den, Mattie Vernor made up her
mind as she hung Aunt Ann’s lace
cap on the nail of the window.
She set her rosy lips together; her
eyes glistened determination.
Down through the golden gleam
of the rippling rye field went a lit
tle curving path close tothe stone
wall, crossing the brook on a nar
row plank, and often losing; itself
in a wooded copse, joined the main
road close to a peaceful, willow
shaded graveyard.
Here, ten minutes afterward,
Mattie Vernor came upon the tired
tramp sitting on the stone wall.
Oh, here you are!” said she. “I
thought I should overtake yon if I
took the short-cut. I’ve brought
you a tin of coffee and some sand
wiches and a piece of home-baked
ginger-bread. I’m sorry I spoke
so cross to you; bnt, yon see, I was'
vexed to seethe dinner pie gone,
and tbe cup costards, too. And
here are the clothes. I’m afraid
you need them very mneb.
Thank you,” said the man, de
jectedly. “Yon see, I haven’t al
ways—”
Oh, never mind all that!,’ inter
rupted Mattie, imperiously. “I
know about ‘having seen better
days,’ and that sort of thing. Bat
yon really onght to be a little more
particular about the truth.”
Unconsionsly Mattie had fallen
into the air that she adopted when
she was hatanging her Sunday
school class. Her bright eyes
sparkled;- she emphasized each
point by tapping her foot on the
ground and lifting her berry-stain
ed forefinger in the air.
“Yes, bnt—”
“Yon should go to work,” said
the girl. “Yon can’t expect always
to be tramping about the country.
It will end, sooner or later, in tbe
county jail, and you are too smart
looking a man to bring np like
that.”
The man, eatiug his bread and
meat and drinking his coffee, lis
tened meekly nntil-she stopped for
sheer lack of breath.
“Yes,” said he, with a sigh; “but
yon see, I’m not a tramp. Oh, I
know appearances are against me!”
as Mattie’s glance reverted to his
wretched tatters; “but I really am
not a tramp. Yon set—”
The sound of approaching wag
on wheels startled the girL
looking up.
“That’s always the way,” sighed
a resigned voice. “It’B ‘Move on!’
wherever I go. Bnt I’ve ‘moved
on’ jnst about far enough, old
man!”
And he perched himself compos
edly upon the office desk.
The squire stared.
“The voice,’’said he, “is the voice
of Frank Atherton, and the coun
tenance also beareth witness there
to. Bnt the faded cordnroys and
velveteen coat are the corduroys
and coat of old Job Vernor, who
died two years agy. Old fellow,”
(clasping him cordially by both
hands) “yonr’e welcome! Where
on earth did you drop from? For,
not to disguise the trnth—I hon
estly did take you for a tramp.”
" “I meant to give yon a surprise,
said Mr. Atherton, still in the
same accent of melacholy compos
are. “And Iv-’e every reason to
think that I have succeeded.
•left Wyndale to walk to Glen’s
Falls, and a mile or so below here
the river meandering through the
woods looked so enticing that
ventured on a batb, jnst at sunrise,
Unfortunately, however, I was not
the earliest bird going. Some
deep-dyed villain, while I was dis
porting in the lncid element, stole
my clothes, leaving a mass of dirty,
rags hehind. Then I was a tramp
in spite of myself, and such a lect
ure I got from a pretty maiden at
a farmhonse on the road! How-
she gave me something to
leberry pie, you know—cup Cos
tards.”
“Bnt—” hesitated Mattie, in a
bewildered manner.
“You see, yon wouldn’t allow me
to explain,” reasoned he. “Yon
were determined I should be a
The election of Cleveland and
Stevenson by so large a majority
brings happiness to millions of
American people. It demonstrates
the omnipotence of honesty. All
the vast fund contributed by the
monopolists and tariff barons of
„ , . . , the country for the purpose of de
ramp. con n ge any innings | iH^jg n g (jj e f ratic hise has proven
EQUALIZATION NECESSARY.
eat, between her pieces of advice,
also this wardrobe, and when the
express delivers my trank I shall
be all right—Richard will be him
self again!”
“She gave you those clothes?”
“She did.”.
“Then,” said Squire Somerset,
slapping the table until the legal
documents flew in every direction
over tbe floor, “yon’ve been lec
tured by Mattie Vernor, the pretti
est girl in town —old Job’s niece,
and the owner of a pair of snperb
black eyes and the best farm in
Warren county!”
“Yes,” mournfully acceded Ath
erton. “She told me * that I ought
to gqMio work, and then threatened
nlejwith the county jail, and finally
•bless her dear little heart!—
ended up by giving me—this.'
He produced from the pocket of
Uncle Job Vernor’s trousers a sil
ver quarter.
Tbe squire grinned broadly.
“Here comes the express deliv
ery with your box,” said he. “And
a good thing for yon, Atherton, for
my wife is going to have a tennis
party here this afternoon, and Mat
tie Vernor is the champion player.
Yon can handle a racquet, can’t
you, old man?” ■
“Rather,” said Mr. Atherton.
Mattie Vernor came to the ten
nis party in pale pink albatross,
cat after a semi-inascnline fashion
that was eminently calculated to
Oh, I dare say!” said she. “But
I really can’t stay any longer talk-! dn ve any one mad.
ing. I must get back. Here’s a Bnt when Mrs. Somerset pre-
quarter for you. Mind yon don’t ^ er ^°. Atherton, fro™
spend it for beer.’
And flinging tbe coin towards
him—it missed its aim and rolled
New York, she changed color and
started a little.
“Yes,” sail Mr. Atherton, in his
then, bat now’s my time. Please,
may I make an unprejudiced state
ment?” *
Mattie listened to bis explana
tion, coloring like a rose.
She wonld like to have ran away,
bnt she had not sufficient moral
courage to do so.
“And I gave yon Uncle Job’s
old clothes," said she, wringing her
hands in despair.
“Yon never can know how ac
ceptable they were,” avowed Ath
erton.
“And some bread-and-beef sand
wiches!” ^ 0
“Ambrosia and nectar couldn’t
have tasted better. And the enp-
custards—don’t forget the cup-cns-
tards and tbe huckleberry pie. I
was so indescribably bnngry, Miss
Vernor.” —
“And the quarter of a dollar
my last qaarter! You’ll give me
back that qaarter, Mr. Atherton?”
said Mattie, with a spice of her
old mischief.
“Never!” said Atherton. “I’ll
part with that silver coin only with
my life.”
Matty dropped her head.
“How I did lecture youl” said
she. “How insolent I must have
appeared!
“Not in the least,” said Ather
ton. “Your advice was exactly
suited to the occasion, if only I
had been a tramp, bnt I wasn’t.”
“We are waiting to play, Mat.
tie!” cried Mrs. Somerset.
“Come On, Atherton!” bawled
his host. “Do you mean to keep
us waiting all day?”
“Please,” whispered Mattie catch
iDg up her racquet, “will yon for
give me?”
“A thousand times over!” Ather
ton answered.
George,” said Mrs. Somerset
that night, when Mattie Vernor
was gone and Atherton had bid
them good night, “oar gaest and
dear little Mattie seemed very
mnch taken with each other. He’s
rich, and onght to have a wife, and
Mattie is each a darling! Only
suppose they should fall in love!”
'I wonder,” said Mr. Somerset,
solemnly, “if the woman ever was
bora who wasn’t a tboroagh-going
match-maker.”—Saturday night.
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ineffectual, and the plain, practi
cal; independent people of the
United States have asserted their
rights and again taken control of
their government. The defeat-of
Harrison removes a dark clond
from our horison. The threat of
the force bill had a tendency to
paralyze bar industries and domes
tic commerce. Capital, always tim
id, wonld not seek investment in
the south when there was the pros-
post of tbe passage of a law which
would disturb and disrupt existing
conditions here. Cleveland’s elec
tion dispels this clond, and we may
now hope for a restoration of con
fidence and a renewal of business
prosperity.
Cleveland’s election means that
the people want a redaction of tax
ation. The republican policy of
high and proscriptive tariff has
been demonstrated to tbe people
as most injurious to every interest,
and they want no more of it If
we have the senate, and it looks as
though we might have it, the dem
ocratic party will enact such a tar
iff law as will raise an ample fond
for the economical administration
of the government, and at the same
time cheapen to the people all the
necessaries of life. If we cannot
increase to the cotton producer the
price of what he makes, we can in
crease the pnrehasing power of
what he gets for his crop, and thus
greatly benefit him. This is true
of every other industry in the
country. All will be benefited by
a redaction of . the tariff, and a cor
rection of its inequalities.
The election of Cleveland means
an honest and economical adminis
tration of oar affairs, *all classes,
the high and thejow, the rich and
the poor can feel, and in their
hearts do feel that with Cleveland
as president their every interest,
so far as in him lies, will be com
pletely and thoroughly protected.'
Tbe people have “come to their
own again.” Government by and
for the people has been restored
and those who obtained power by
questionable means four years ago
have been relegated to tbe rear.
We all rejoice, we are happy, and
we all feel a greater admiration
for onr neighbors and onr friends
today than we felt before the elec
tion. I have visited many states
daring the campaign and on my
return home believed we were go
ing to win, bnt I did not know by
how large a majority that desira
ble result wonld be attained. We
had the strongest candidates in the
cowntry. They stood on a plat
form which met the approval of
the people, and onr campaign has
been magnificently managed. Lo
cally we have rooted onr adversa-
Ripans Tabulei: pleasant laxative.
ries, too. The third party was in
Georgia insignificant in numbers,
bnt practically there was a "fusion
between it and tbe republicans, so
that we had to contend against the
combined strength of both. The
republican managers in Georgia
had printed upon their tickets in
each district the names of the third
party erndidate for congress This
was a practical endorsement of
snch candidate by the republicans,
and the colored people ganerally
• voted tbe ticket as it was received
from headquarters.
Oglethorpe Echo.
A strong effort will be made dur
ing the present session of tbe leg
islature to have the law creating
boards of tax equalizers iD each
county of the state repealed. It is
rather strange to ns that this law
has proven so universally unpopu
lar* with the people generally.
While the workings of the law have
proven unsatisfactory and brought
about mnch dissention, we do not
believe this is chargeable to the
law within itself, bnt rather in a
great measure to a misconstruction
or misapplication of it.
It is apparent and admitted that
some meaDs of equalizing taxes is
necessary, and it was the intention
of the law creating boards of equal
izers to meet that necessity. This
is as apparent in he matter of real
estate as in the matter of personal
property. Go to onr fax book and
numbers of cases can be found of
discrepancies in the values pat up
on lands where really very little if
any exists. There should be some
remedy for this evil, which Id its
last analysis is injustice practiced
by the unscrupulous upon the
more honest. The law under dis
cussion was intended to reach such
cases. If it has not, it is more be
cause of the bad administration of
the law than the law itself.
Another object of the law was
to cause personal property in the
shape of notes, bonds, monies, etc.,
to be given in for taxation. This
purpose it seems has bean almost
universally ignored by the boards
of equalizers. It is a good pur
pose, and if the presentlaw cannot
carry it ont some other should be
enacted that can. We recognize
the difficulty any law will meet
with in reaching property that is
stored away in safes aDd yaults—
no law can reach it all—but some
law that will make it the dnty of
certain appointed citizens to see
that snob property is returned for
taxation will .be far more apt to
cause snch to be done than' onr old
laws which left the matter entirely
with the owner to return it.
Therefore, without discussing
the merits of the present law, we
hold that there should be a law
with like pnrposes on onr statutes.
There should be some means of
more equally dividing the burdens
of taxation than onr old laws af
forded. They did very well in the
good old times when every man
was honest, and all truthful, bnt it %
iB with shame we say that in this
respect the present is not altogeth
er like the past.
We are gratified that the matter
will be brought np for discussion
in the legisletnre. We hope snch
discussion will either bring about
a more satisfactory administration
of ; the law as it now stands, or
cause some other and better law to
be enacted in its stead. At all
events, let something be done that
will meet the existing necessity for
jnst equalization of taxes, and
more honest returns of property
for taxation.
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