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flour than Igleheart’s Swans Down—the fionr’ijgjji ijjjiili'
that makes the whitest, sweetest bread and the finest^^jjj^ j
*cake and pastry ever baked. Soil and climate never combined to
1 produce choicer winter wheat than that from which this peerless 1
patent flour is milled.
is more economical than flours that eost Jess, because 'it makes better
food and more of it. Ask for it and notice the brand when buying.
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At Lowest Prices
THE TENTED FIELD, 5
or,
‘Reminiscences of the Late War”
From 1SG1 to 1865."
Written by an ex-Confederate Soldier.
a " d 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 PACKAGES
at WHOLESALE PRICES
: : : : Call and see me, or write. : : : -
JEt. Ti. UETHBRTOU,
456 Poplar Street. MACON, GA.
THE DIXIE SHOE AND CLOTHING GO’S
OUR
SHOES
are the best that
can be had for
the money. Re
member that ev
ery SHOE that
leaves our house
*is guaranteed to
give satisfaction,
or inouey refund
ed.
SPRING ATTRACTIONS
will interest prudent and|
economical buyers.
0ar $5.00 & $5.00 Saits
Still lead them all.
Boys’ and Children’s Cloth
ing at about half what you
will have to pay elsewhere.!
NERY
Every lady vis
iting Macon
should see onr
Millinery De
partment. Eve
rything new.styl
ish and cheap—
in fact not more
than half that
others charge
Hats trimmed to or-
der Avkilejyou 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.
SHOE AND CLOTHING CO.
dllHAW,
Cherry & Third Sts.,
PftWMSViMl.
MACON", GA.
M. C. BALKGOM, 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 thejwants of my
Customers. Thanking the public for fjieir patronage
in the past, and J promising my best efforts to
please m the future, I' am, respectfully,
C- EALZ:COM, -A.g'erLt,
MACON, GEORGIA.
BRICK,
LIME,
CEMENT,
MOULDINGS,
MANTELS,
NEWELS,
LATHS, SASH,
PLASTER, DOORS,
HAIR, BLINDS,
Pine and Cypress Shingles,
Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding
and Gable Ornaments.
LUMBER,—Green and Kiln Dried.
LATHE AND SCROLL WORK, - DRESSING ANDIMATCHING.
ALL KINDS WOODWORK ACCURATELY AND PROMPTLY DONE.
W>j are iu the business to stay, aod our prices are right. Compare
’em with Macon’s and see. Special prices on car lots.
EC. L. ZHI-A-IRIRJia <3z 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.
'T’SIjEPELOWE 37.
CHAPTER I.
In the early months of 1861, af
ter the tocsin of war had been
sounded, and the country had be
come aroused to the situation, and
the whole south was being rapidly
converted into a military encamp
ment, there was a man in the town
of Fort Valley, Houston county,
Ga., then in the bloom and vigor
of young manhood, who proposed
to raise and head a company to the
theatre of action. For the sake of
convenience, and for a better un
derstanding of this man hereafter,
we will now designate him as Cap
tain A, for, being a man above re
proach, and iu the enjoyment of
the individual confidence of the
people, he soon found himself at
the head of a full company of as
brave men as ever had the misfor
tune to sheathe a sword or trail a
musket. At this time patriotism
was on tiptoe, and the young men
who had thus volunteered became
restless and impatient at the seem
ing tardiness of Joseph Emmerson
Brown, then governor of Georgia,
in not calling them out and assign
ing them to duty. At that time
they believed that to whip the en
emy and set up and establish the
Confederate government would be
bat a breakfast task, and hence,
their impatience. They had not
had even a remote dream that a
contest to continue through four
years, pictured in all the grandeur
and horrors of real war, was loom
ing up before them.
in due time, however, gratifica
tion came; we were ordered to ren
dezvous at Atlanta, whither nine
other companies, from other sec
tions of the state, had been ordered
for the purpose of organizing the
Sixth Regiment of Georgia Volun
teers. This was during the latter
part of May. Preparations were
immediately made for our depart
ure. A silk flag of exquisite beauty
had been designed and wrought by
the deft fingers of the patriotic la
dies of Fort Valley. It was pre-
nted to us, on the day of our de
pasture, by one of Fort Valley’s
most accomplished young ladies
On behalf of the company it was
received by the ensign, who, in a
few well chosen words, assured the
fair donors that they would never
have occasion to feel ashamed of
tneir donation, and that its proud
furls should never trail in the dust.
Bidding adieu to friends, relatives
and sweethearts, the boys, in gray,
boarded the train, then in waiting,
and were soon being wheeled at
railroad speed in the direction of
Atlanta Upon reaching Atlanta
we met the other nine companies,
and on the day thereafter the regi
meat was oiganized, in which or
gauization our company was desig
uated “0,” it having, in the begin
ning, assumed the title, “Beaure
gard Volunteers.”
Having been thus organized, and
placed somewhat upon a war foot
ing, patriotism was again height
ened to its full stature, and a de
sire to meet the enemy was very
much in evidence; so much so that
some of the boys began again to
grumble at being held back, fear
ing that other troops might get
there first, whip the fight, pocket
honors and they be left in the
lurch. However, we were not kept
long in waiting; we soon found
ourselves decorated with knap
sacks, haversacks, caDteens, car
tridge boxes, and the veritable
musket, not Joe Brown’s pikes,
and the long train of cars which
ivas to bear us along the route to
onr place of destinatiqn palled oat
of Atlanta with its cargo of human
freight amid much eclat and wav
ing of handkerchiefs and shower
ing of boqnets, and emblematical
flowers.
As is common on such occasions,
much exhilaration was manifest,
and some hilarity, which latter, of-
course, had its origin in a bottle
neck secreted in the pocket of some
private, and not wholly unknown
to the officers, and language which
would not be tolerated in a Sunday
school room was soon being-in
dulged in, long and load, in one' of
the cars in which our company wbs
riding.
(TO BE CONTINUED )
Lessons of the Flowers.
j _ g3
j “Nothing teaches? us so much
! in this world as flowfers if we will
only watch them, understand the
messages they exhale, and profit
by them,” writes Edward W. Bok
in the April Ladies’ Home Jour
nal. “I wish everybody on this
earth mightjrlove flowers. Flow
ers can do so much for a mao or a
woman. No one can raise flowers,
live among them, lotfe them, and
not be better for their influence.
By their birth they show ns how,
out of things hard, out of disap
pointment and failure, by the
overcoming of obstacles and the
bending to difficult tasks, creep
forth the most beautiful
results. By their cultivation they
show how different natures need
different treatments. By the man
ner in which they refuse to thrive
near weeds they teach the clearest
lesson of human association, and
show that sin is an intrusion-in
this world. We learn the great
lesson that while the most gorgeons
flowers appeal to our admiration,
we love the fragrant ones the best,
Every lesson, every pleasure, we
can learn and derive from these
sileut messengers of the earth.
The flowers speak a universal lan
guage: they adapt themselves to
grave or gay. A flower is never
misunderstood. We associate flow-
ers with all the joyous seasons of
onr lives as well. Flowers often
speak to us when onr own words
seem powerless to express what we
really mean. They are the dainti
est bits of God’s handiwork. They
call to us to care for them: to love
them, rewarding ns with prodigal
ity when we respond to their beck
oning. Their message is Diviue
Like an April day, ‘shadow and
sunshine is life,’ Bat so the flow
ers grow, and ‘we coipe to June by
the way of March.’ ” ,✓
Georgia’s Convicts.
The Commissioners of Georgia
have leased the state convicts to
the following successful bidders
under the new law as follows, to go
into effect April, 1898:
Cruger& Pace, Albany, brick
yards, 40 at $102.
James M. Smith, Smithsonia, a
farm, 100at.$102.
Cauda Lumber Co., Worth coun
ty, sawmills, 200 at $102.
B. H. Heard, Heardmount, farm
100 at $101.
Baxter & Co., Brunswick, saw
mills, 100 at $101.
W. B. Lowe, agent, Atlanta, 700,
at $98.
Donaldson Lumber Co., Donald-
sonville, sawmills, 100 at $101.
Enterprise Lumber Co., Worth
county, sawmills, 150 at $101.
The above bids indicate the
amount bid per head per annum
All bids iD which parties desiring
them desired to work convicts on
tnrpentiue farms were rejected, as
the commissioners saw that this
kind of work would necessitate a
larger number of guards, and these
being paid for by the state, the net
rental would be cut down in con
sequence. The convicts are leased
for a term of five years. The bid
of W. B. Lowe for 700 convicts at
the rate of $98 per head per annum
is believed to be a syndicate bid,
in which several parties are inter
ested. Mr. Lowe is the president
of one of the present penitentiary
companies and is the only original
lessee now living.—Ex.
What War Has Cost.
How It Happened.
Aunt Cherry Mallory was recent
ly put on the witness stand to tell
what she knew about the annihila
tion of a hog by a passenger loco
motive. After being sworn she
was asked by the lawyer if she
saw the train kill the hog.
“Yes,” she said, “I sped it.”
“Well,” said the lawyer, “tell
the court, in as few words as possi
ble, how it happened.”
“I kin do dat in a mighty few
words,” said Aunt Cherry, clear
ing her throat, and, with one eye
on the lawyer and one on the
judge, she said: “Hit jus’ tooted
and tuck ’im.”—Ex.
I was reading an advertisement
of Chamberlain’s Colie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the Wor
cester Enterprise recently, whieh
Yellow Jaundice Cured.
Suffering humanity should be
supplied with every means possi
ble for its relief. It is with pleas
ure we publish the following:
“This is to certify that I was a
terrible sufferer from Yellow Jaun
dice for over six mouths and was
treated by some of the best physi
cians in onr city and all to no avail.
Dr. Bell, our druggist, recommen
ded Electric Bitters, and after tak-
iug two bottles I was entirely
cured. I now take great pleasure
id recommending them to any per
son suffering with this terrible
malady. I am gratefully yours,
M. A. Hogarty, Lexington, Ky.”
Sold by Holtzclaw & Gilbert
Druggists.
Southern men are playing quite
a conspicuous part iD the present
crisis, notes the Birmingham News.
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee is a
Virginian. Several of the officers
of the ill-fated Maine were South
erners. Commodore W. S. Schley,
who commands the flying squad
ron at Hampton Roads, is a na
tive of Maryland, and “Fighting
Bob” Evans, who has just been
placed in charge of the battleship
Iowa, was born in Virginia.
Some Naval Facts.
Here are a few naval points that
may be known to many, but prob
ably not to all of our readers: The
biggest guns in the navy are forty-
nine feet long, big enough for a
man to crawl into, four feet in di
ameter, at their largest part, and
weigh 135,900 pounds or therea
bouts. Some of the guns can fire
a shot twelve miles, farther than a
man can see, for the guns are
aimed and sighted by machinery.
The powder is brown and in
chuncks the size of a caramel. A
charge for the biggest gun weighs
500 pounds and is hoisted to the
breech by a derrick, the powder
being sewed up in burlap bags.
A big battleship has on board
an electric plant capable of light
ing a town of five thousand inhabi
tants. The fastest vessel in the
navy arejthe torpedo boats Porter
and, Dupont, each of which can
travel 27.5 knots an hoar.
The Iowa weighs nearly twelve
thousand tons, und as twenty tons
is the average load of a freight
car and twelve cars is a good load
for a locomotive eugiue, it would
take fifty locomotives to haul the
great steel structure. A captain
in the navy rauks with a colonel
in the army. The oldest iron ves
sel is the Michigan, built in 1844.
We have theonlyram—theKatah-
din.
While all this war talk is going
on, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, it
isftvorth while to sum up what war
has cost man, and then figure out
“if the game is worth the candle.”
It is estimated that since history
began 40,000,000 lives have been
lost through war every 100 years.
Allowing thirty centuries to have
passed away since history bpgan to-
take definite shape in Asia we
have a grand total of 1,200,000,000
dead men as a result of mere differ
ence of opinion. To most minds
the significance of these figures is
not at once apparent. Placing the
dead side by side, and allowing
two feet of space for each, the line
would be 454,454^ miles long.
Such a line would reach from the
earth to the moon, around it and
half way back again. A railroad
train, traveling at the rate of 60
miles an hour, without a stop,
would be in sight - of it 315 days
and 15f hours. Allowing the im
agination to work freely upon this
fact for a brief period might have
some infinence upon even the
most belligerently inclined.
Social Gayeties.
A little boy asked for a bottle
of “get up iD the morning as fast
as yon can,” the druggist recog
nized a household name for “De
Witt.s Little Early Risers,” and
gave him a bottle of those famous
little pills for constipation, sick
headHcfap, liver and stomach tron
bles. Cooper’s Drugstore.
The length of the coast line of
the United States, according to the
Coast Survey,-is 5,715 miles, em
bracing 2,341 miles on the Atlautic
leads me to write this, lean troth ocean, 1,556 on the Golf of Maxi
mally say I never used any remedy co, and 1,810 oa the Pacific ocean.
equal to it for colic and diarrhoea j . —-—-
I never had to use more than one) Children like it, it saves their
or two doses to core the worst .lives. We meau One Minute Congh
case with myself or children. j Cure, the infallible remedy for
An Old Idea.
Every day strengthens the belief of emi
nent physician* that impure blood is the
cause of the. majority of onr diseases.
Twenty-five years ago this theory was used
HBH . _ - - - -r, , 1 , ,, , as a basis for the formula of Browns’ Iron
—W. A. STROUD, Popomoke City, [coughs,, colds, croups, brohcbius, Bittern. The many remarkable cores effected
Md. For sale by Holtzclaw & grippe, and all throat and long hy this famous old household remedy are
Gilbert. . : ; Iteoobtes. Ooopfr’s Dr.ig.torf. ' rtdS’ffaSS:
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de
range the whole system when en-
teiingit through the mneous sur
faces. Snch articles should uever
be used except ou prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the
damage thpy will do is ten fold to
the good yon can possibly derive
from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure,,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercu
ry, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of tbe system. In
buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure 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.
If dry ropes are soaked for four
days in a bath contaiog 20 grains
of sulphate of copper to a quart of
water, they will be preserved for a
considerable time from tbe attacks
of animal parasites and rot.
Tbirty-five years make a genera
tion. That is how long Adolph
Fisher, of Zanesville, O., suffered
from piles. He was cured by us
ing three boxes of DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Sal ve. Cooper’s Drugstore.
Difficulties Removed.
‘My father, my brother and my
self were all troubled with loss of
appetite and took Hood’s Sarsapa
rilJa with great benefit. I have
suffered for years with eruptions,
but since taking Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla I have had no trouble of this
kind. It has also cured me of in
digestion.” Ernest N. Jennings,
Bogart, Georgia.
Hood’s Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, head
ache.
To be ■
when one ought to be
asleep. To eat sweets i
and salads when the*
Stomach craves the
simplest food or none
at all To langh
when one wants to I
cry. All this and 4
much more
society de
mands of her
strain
on the
nerves
of deli
cate
men l
The
headaches.
the
The
Is it any
Wonder
that they
break
down?
dreadful
The
pains Jn
andloink
blues, All
snch symptoms in
dicate serious de
rangements of the
delicate female or
ganism, and must
be overcome at
once. Remove the
cause. Strengthen
exhausted nature.«
Bradfield’s Female Regulator
is the standard remedy for the weaknesses
and irregularities peculiar to women.
Bradfield’s Regulator is not a mysterious
mixture of mythical origin, but a stand
ard remedy compounded in accordance
with scientific principles from approved
vegetable medical materials. Bradfield’s
Regulator is endorsed by physicians who
have examined it, and has been in suc
cessful use over a quarter of a century. It
is sold by druggists at one dollar a bottle.
Perfect Health for Women” mailed
free upon application.
THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO.,
OASTOXUA.
BRING US YOUR JOB WORK. SATIS
FACTION GURANTEED.
$10.00
$12.00
READY
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ELEGANT FITTING
Made of EleganT Ma
terials, Choice De
signs, Exeellant Work
manship, Artistic
Cut, Style and Finish.
$18.00
$20.00
Nobby Hats,
Beautiful Neckwearj $25.00
Fine Shirts.
1
Prompt Attention given to Mail Orders.
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exact eoproF -wrapper.
Castaria is put up in one-size battles only.. It
Is not soli in balk. Don’t allow anyone to sell
yon anything else on the plea or promise thst it
is “jnst as good” and “will answer every pur
pose." AS** See that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A.
Sheftc- >> -
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XXVII
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21. 1898.
NO. 16.
HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
$1,50 A YEAR IN ADTAjNCE.