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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
$1.50 A. TEAR DVADVAKCOE.
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VOL. XXVII
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14,189-8.
NO. 15.
At Lowest Prices
I Sell
and PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
My stock is new, and I propose to merit patronage.
Knowing the needs of the people in this line, I am pre
pared to sell to the advantage of my customers.
I sell directly to planters in
UNBROKEN PACKACES
at WHOLESALE PRICES-
: : : : Call and see me, or write. : : : -
Tt. HL. UETHERTOIT,
456 Poplar Street. MACON, GA.
THE DIXIE SHOE AND CLOTHIHD GO'S
OUR
SHOES
are the beat that
can be had for
the money. Re
member that ev
ery SHOE that
leaves onr house
is guaranteed to
give satisfaction,
or money refund
ed.
SPUES G ATTRACTIONS
will interest prudent and
economical buyers.
0ar $5.00 5 $5.00 Saits
Still lead them all.
Boys’ ancl Children’s Cloth-,
ing at about half what you|
will have to pay elsewhere.'
MILLI
NERY
Every lady vis
iting Macon
should see oar
Millinery De
partment. Eve-
rything new,styl
ish bd3 cheap—
in fact not more
than half that
others charge.
Hats trimmed to or
der while you'wait.
Dry Goods of Every Description.
Dress Goods, White Goods, Domestics, Cottonades, Etc.
There’s no house in Georgia that
will attempt to match our prices.
THE DIXIE SHOE AND CLOTHING CO,,
Cor. Cherry & Third Sts.,
MACOK, GA.
M. €. BALKCOM, Ag’t.,
308 Third st. (near postoffice), MACON, GA.,
-DEALER in-
Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Woodenware
Farming Implements, Plow and Wagon Gear, &c.
I am better prepared every way to|supply the^wants of my
customers. Thanking the public for their patronage
in the past, and* promising my best efforts to
please in the future, I am, respectfully,
!Lv£- O. BALZCOM, ■A.g'en.t*
MACON, GEORGIA.
'mmz.
WE! SEEF* V-
BRICK, LATHS, SASH, MOULDINGS,
LIME, PLASTER, DOORS, MANTELS,
CEMENT, HAIR, BLINDS, NEWELS,
Pine and Cypress Shingles,
Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding
and Gable Ornaments.
LUMBER,—Green and Kiln Dried.
LATHE AND SCROLL WORK. - DRESSING ANDIMATCH1NG.
ALL*KINDS WOODWORK ACCURATELY.AND PROMPTLY DONE.
We are in the business to stay, and OUR prices are right.. Compare
’em with Macon’s and see. Special prices on car lots.
IEE- Hj- HARRIS CO.,
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Sole Agents for Anniston Cement Lime.
N. B.—If it’s made of wood, we have it or will make it.
'P'BrsIiSI'ECOKrB 37.
One Cup
of Flour
is sufficient to make pastry for one pieS
The pastry will look better, taste better^
be better, when the flour is Igleheart’s'
Swans Down. Every kind of-food made 1 '
of flour—pastry, cake, bread—will belighter,N
whiter, more nutritious, if made of
IGLEHEART’S SWANS DOWN'
Flour. The king of patent flours, made from the''
choicest winter wheat; prepared with the greatest 1
care by the best milling process known to man. 1
See that the brand oh the next floor youbuy is “ Igleheart Bros. Swans Down.”
IGLEHEART BROS., Evansville, Indiana.
Some Nevers.
Written for the Home Jocrxal.
I have lived in cities 8Dd towns
abont three score years, and have
Dever been inside of a male college
building.
I have carried corn to mill, and
for three years of the war-time was
monnted, but from boyhood until
now have never been on a male’s
back A man named Hart lived in
Perry aDd owoed a jackass, about
the year 1843. I monnted the don
key ooe day, and was dismounted
with surprising suddenness.
I have never been a member of
any secret society, and from the
ontside not one of them appears to
be worth while. Some of them im
press me unfavorably. Others do
not impress me.
I have not been entirely without
money at any time daring the past
thirty years, but I have never kept
a bank account, although I have
owned bank stock, and Lave presi
ded one time at a stockholders’
meeting.
Except daring the war I never
owned a horse, and Steve Fordham
intimated sub-officially that he was
not mine. The government did not
dispossess me, however. I traded
him for assorted victuals.
I have never been superintend
ent of a Sunday School. It is im
portant, not only to have sense
enough, bat to have the particular
kind of sense enough. The place
of a teacher seems to tit me better.
I have owned two silver watches
One of them was received in set
tlement of an account, and the
watchmaker said repairs would
cost more than the watch was
worth. I gave it to a boy. The
other was a Christmas present, and
is valued veiy highly.
Twenty years ago I engaged in a
newspaper disagreement with an
esteemed citizen of Perry, who
failed to identify me. He charac
terized the unknown as a smoker
of Havana cigars, nnd wearer of
kid gloves. I do not smoke at all,
and have never bought a pair of
kid gloves for myself.
Many vile words have proceeded
out of my mouth, but I nave never
called a baby a kid.
JlMSON.
When the Duke of Wellington
was fighting in Spain there were
two horses which had always dra wn
tbesame gun, side by side,in many
battles. At last one was killed,and
and tte other, on having his food
brought as usual, refused to eat,
bat he turned his head lound to
look for his old friend,and neighed
many times as if to call him. All
care was in vain. There were oth
er horses near him, but he would
not notice them; and be soon died,
not having once tasted food since
his former companion was killed.
—Exchange.
If Tou Wish to Be Well
Yon must fortify yonr system
against the attacks of disease.
Your blood must be kept pure,
your stomach and digestive organs
in order, your appetite good.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the medi
cine to build you up, purity aud
enrich yonr blood and give you
strength. It creates an appetite
and gives digestive power.
Hood’3 Pills are the favorite
family cathartic, easy to take, easy
to operate.
“Floating bogs” are found in the
Lake of the Woods and other wa
ters of Minnesota. The bogs nour
ish a large number of plants,
shrubs, and even small trees, as
well as little animals. They drift
about with the winds, aDd some
times get caught m sheltered coves,
where they remain and become fix
ed to the bottom:
A torpid liver robs yon of ambi
tion and destroys your health. De-
Witt’s Little Early Risers cleanse
the liyer, cure constipation aud all
stomach and liver troubles. Coop
er’s Drugstore.
Four hundred years ago only
seven metals were known. Now
there are fifty-onp, thirty of which
have been discovered within the
present century.
An Uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
the symptoms of no two cases agree. It is
therefore most difficult to make a correct
diagnosis. No matter how severe, or under
what disguisedyspepsia attacks you. Browns’
Iron Bitters will cure it Invaluable In all
diseases'of the stomach, blood and nerves.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Honston County and Perry.
By J. C. In Macon Telegraph.
. Houston county is a republic
within itself. Within its borders
are the towns of Perry, Fort Yal-
ley, HendersoD, Byron, Powers-
ville, Wellston, Kathleen, Elko,
Grovama, Tivola, Hattie, Dunbar,
Myrtle, and DenuarcL He who rep
resents this splendid connty should
feel honored.
This Honston is a great connty.
It was settled by the best people
from middle Georgia and the Caro
lines. It is the central figure of a
group of historical names—bound
ed by Crawford, Bibb, Pulaski,
Twiggs, Macou and Dooly, each of
which is a history within itself.
Our counties and towns were large
ly named for our illustrious heroes,
thus perpetuating the memories
of those who had fallen in their
countriy’s service or distinguished
themselves in her civic battles.
The name of Houston often occurs
in our state annals when Georgia
was governed by trustees under
the royal government. Sir Pat
rick Houston was prominent under
the royal government, and one of
the counsellors when John Rey
nolds was governor of Georgia.
Houston county was named for
John Houston, son of Sir Patrick
Houston. John Honston was so
zealous an advocate of the colonies
he was one of the first to draft
resolutions for revolt. In 1775 he
was one of the representatives to
the congress in Philadelphia, and
was active in the congress of 1776,
and in 1778 was elected governor
oj Georgia, aud in 1784 was again
elected governor.
Perry, the capital of Houston,
takes its name from Commodore
Perry, one of the most gallant of all
our naval officers. Oliver Hazard
Perry was born at Newport, Rhode
Island, August, 1785, and being
early destined for the navy, he en
tered the service in 1798, as mid
shipman, on board the sloop-of-war
General Greene, then commanded
by his father, Christopher Ray
mond Perry. In 1812 he was or
dered to command the flotilla of
gun boats stationed in the harbor
of New York; he disliked the irk
some work of skulking about har
bors, and rivers, aDd at his request
was transferred to Sackelt’s Har
bor, Lake Ontario. He was de
tached by Commodore Channcey
to take command of the squadron
on Lake Erie. In 1813 Capt. Per
ry had opportunity to test his skill
and bravery. He had a fleet of
nine vessels, the Lawrence, his
own ship, and the Niagara, by Capt.
Elliott, having twenty guns each;
the other seven one or two guns
each. The British fleet, comman
ded by Commodore Barclay, was
better manned and bad sixty-four
guns. The hostile squadrons ap
proached each other in mute watch
fulness aud terrible tranquility.
The enemy’s guns were of longer
range, and the Lawrence was badly
cut up, the enemy directing a con
centrated tire on Commodore Per
ry’s ship, rendering it a mere
wreck, her deck covered with the
dead. Perry siezed his flag and
boarded the Niagara and made
signal for close action. So terri
ble was the fight,.Commodore Bar
clay, who had seen service and
been wounded in the great battle
of Trafalgar, surrendered bis fleet.
The individual prowess of Commo
dore Perry, his daring, his pres
ence of mind, his dauntless valor,
now form one of the most roman
tic stories of American naval war
fare. His dispatch read: “We
have met the enemy and they are
ours.”
After such a hero is Perry named.
Houston is great in the annals of
Georgia, in peace and in war, and
Perry, the beautiful town, is splen
did in the achievement of a noble
citizenry, who are cultured, refined,
and whose gentility bespeak their
noble birth.
Train Held Until the Hen Laid
An Egg.
There is no better known local
character in Lancaster than Jim
Dillon, and he has as many friends
as any man in Garrard county,
says the Louisville Post. His in
timates call him “Old Crow.”
“The other day,” said he to a
party of friends, “1 boarded a train
on a little jerkwater railroad that
runs through a near-by territory,
to go over to a neighboring town.
You know this line doesn’t claim a
speed equal to the Empire State
express, and the friends of tbe
officers say they are satisfied if
the road can clear $2 a day. On
the occasion I refer to the wind-
burner was nearing my destination
when it came to a dead standstill.
I stack my head out of tbe window
to learn the cause of the stop, and
saw the conductor tAlkiog to an
old woman with bonnet and shawl
and Sunday toggery on and a
small basket in band.
“Being curious to know the im
port of the dialogue between the
two, I went forward and learned
that the woman bad (lagged the
the train for the purpose of getting
on board and going on to ‘town’ to
sell a dozen eggs. She told the
conductor, however, that she had
only eleven in the basket at that
moment, bat that an old blue hen
of hers, then on the nest, was
momentarily expected to lay the
egg necessary to complete the doz
en; that it would be a great accom
modation if he wonld bold his
train until this should occur, as it
would be a pity to proceed to mar
ket with fewer than a dozen eggs.
The conductor consented, and then
our wait began.
“Finally, after the lapse of about
twenty minutes, a furious cackling
was heard near the woman’s shan
ty. A moment later a bine ben
fluttered into view, followed by
the old lady, who came running
toward the cars, smiling and hold
ing aloft in triumph the coveted
egg. She placed it while it was
yet warm iu the basket with the
others, thanked the condnotor and
clamored aboard. Then the train
again got under way.”
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the
pnblic to know of one concern in
the land who are not a r raid to be
generous to the needy aDd suffer
ing. The proprietors of Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, have given
awn, over ten millions trial bot
tles of this great medicine and
have the satisfaction of knowing
it has absolutely cared thousands
of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bron
chitis, Hoarseness and all disea
ses of the Throat, Chest and Langs
are surely cured byit. Call on
Hobzelaw & Gilbert, Druggis f s
and get a trial bottle free, regular
size 50c. and SL Every bottle
guaranteed, or price refunded.
Congressman Charles H. Gros-
venor of Ohio draws a pension of
$30 per month for disabilities re
ceived during the time of war. He
carries two insurance policies up
on his life for $10,000 each. If he
wa3 so badly injured daring the
time of the wai* as to be entitled to
receive a pension, how did he
manage to pass the insurance ex
amination? The New York Times
suggests teat either the United
Staes government or the the life
insurance companies have been
fooled in this case.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell aud completely de
range the whole system when en
tering it through the macous sur
faces. Sach articles should Dever
be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you caD possibly derive
from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cum,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercu
ry, aDd is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mu
ous snrfaces of the system. In
buying Hall’s Catarrh Care be sure
you get the genuine. It is taken
internally, and made in Toledo, O.,
by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimoni
als free. Sold by druggists, price
75c. per bottle.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Liberia is the only more or less
civilized country where clocks are
entirely dispensed with. The bud
rises exactly at 6 a. m. and sets at 6
p. m. throughout tbe year, and is
vertically overhead at noon.
Thirty-five years make a genera
tion. That is how long Adolph
Fisher, of ZaDesville, O , suffered
from piles. He was curpd by us
ing three boxes of DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. Cooper’s Drugstore.
The b ittled beer of England re
quires nearly seventy thousand
ton8 of corks anDnally.—Ex.
For Infants and Children,
Elevated Sentiments.
There were no seats unoccupied
when Jones and Mrs. Jones en
tered the car, says the Criterion.
They clang to straps.
“How times have chang’edl” he
remarked bitterly. “Why, when
I was young a lady never need
stand in a car where there were
gentlemen sitting.”
“Never fnind,” said Mrs. Jones
soothingly, “I don’t care, I’m will
ing to stand.”
“Even if you are,” Jones went
od, “no true gentleman ever occu
pied a seat when a lady is—’
Two people arose and left the
car just then.
“There are two seats,” said Mrs.
Jones.
They secured them. No sooner
were they seated, than several la
dies entered the car and claDg to
the straps.
“You were sayiDg—” said Mrs.
Jones to her husband, inquiringly.
“Nothing of auy consequence,
Jones replied, and turned to gaze
earnestly out of the window.
Strange that one’s sentiments
are so much loftier while standing
up than while sitting down!
I was reading an advertisement
of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the Wor
cester Enterprise recently, which
leads me to write this. I can truth
fully say I never nsed any remedy
equal to it for colic and diarrhoea
I Dever had to use more than one
or two doses to enre the worst
case with myself or children.
—W. A. Stboud, Popomoke City,
Md. For Bale by Holtzclaw &
Gilbert.
GETTING READY
Every expectant mother hai
a trying ordeal to face. If she does not
get ready for
there is no telling
what may happen.
Child-birth is fall
of uncertainties if
Nature is not given proper assistance.
Mother’s Friend
is the beet help you ™ use at thh Mmn.
It is a liniment, and when regularly ap
plied several months before baby cornea
it makes the advent easy and nearly pain-
It relieves and prevents •• morning
sickness,” relaxes the overstrained mus
cles, relieves the distended feeling, short
ens labor,-makes recovery rapid and cer
tain without any dangerous after-effects.
Mother’s Friend is good for only one
purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of
One dollar per bottle at aU drag stores, cr
sent by express on receipt ot price.
Fbeb Books, containing valuable informa
tion for women, will be sent to any mill ism
upon application to
THE BSADP1BLO REGULATOR CO.,
iW.nl« flO.
OASTOHTA.
BRING US YOUR JOB WORK. SATIS
FACTION GUARANTEED.
$7.50
READY
For Your Inspection
ELEGANT FITTING
$15.00
$8.50
SPRING SUITS.
$18.00
Made of EleganT Ma-
$10.00
terials, Choice De
signs, Excellant Work
manship, Artistic
Cut, Style and Finish.
$20.00
$12.00
Nobby Hats,
Beautiful Neckwear
$25.00
Fine Shirts.
Prompt Attention given to Mail Orders.
S/5 Cherry Sr. Ha con, Ca.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
/, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyamtis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has home and does now 5^ 0Ti ever U
hear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” which has teen•
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought ^ on the
and has the signature of wrap
per. No one has authority front me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President * ^ .
March 8,1897. Qeze**~**Z ,p.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of yonr child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The End Yon Have Always Bought” j
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF
Insist on Having
The'Kind That Never Failed Yon.
THECEKTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. MEW YORK CITY.