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.JOHN H. IIODCiES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE,
VOL. XXVIII
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST f, 1899.
CALDER B.
Cotton
MMC9JT*. m.
Ship me your Cotton and get the best
returns. I g||e my business close per
sona! attention, and my reference is my
record in the." Cotton trade at Macon for
twenty-eight years.
Money to loan at 8 per cent per annum.
C. B. WILLINGHAM,
^v^sicorL, : : ’ O-eoxgriSL.
(Cotton Warehouse.
•T. T, MOORE.
W. F. HOLMES.
MOORE & HOLMES,
(Successors to Heabd & Moose)
Cotton Factors,
Ship us your Cotton.
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c Pmb b-me.
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Carpets, Mattings, Etc.
LAWN SWINGS and HAMMOCKS.
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in furnishing your homo
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Sheep vs. Dogs.
Argos.
The farmers of Georgia, voiced
by the rural press, are now indulg
ing in the regular annual discus
sion of the sheep-killiDg dog, and
we have been reading these discus
sions pretty liberally the past two
weeks. The Waycross Journal
sounds the key note of tbe situa
tion, when it says “Kill tbe dogs
and save tbe sheep.” And tbe
Waynesboro True Citizen express
es the opinion of nine-tenths of the
taxpayers of tbe state when lit en
dorses tbe dog killing plan thus:'
“That is tbe proper way to put it.
Let tbe people demand tbe dog law
this time and kuow tbe reason why
the demand is aorttomplied with, if
tbe people do Dot get it. There is
not 'an argument advanced why
worthless cars or any other kind of
dogs should not be taxed in lien of
the property they destroy which
yiplds reveuue.”
Editor E. N. Hancock, of the Sa
vannah News, is of the opinion
that “if a majority of the members
of the legislatnre held the same
views iu respect to worthless dogs
that Hod. J. R. McDonald, of
Ware county, does, they would be
worth more to Georgia than all
her gold-bearing lands are. It
would pay. tbe state to give Mr.
McDonald ~a big salary to canvass
the state on the importance of elect
ing to the legislatnre men who are
pledged to enact a law that would
result in the speedy death of ev'ry
sheep-killing dog.
We are satisfied that if all the
worthless dogs within tbe state’s
limits, were taxed out of existence,
the sheep-growing industry would
thrive wonderful y.
There was a time when Georgia
farmers made a great deal of mon
ey on wool and sheep, but they
don’t do it now. The reason is
that the wise men who are sent to
the legislature seem to think more
of dogs than of sheep. The sheep-
growing industry cannot thrive
where there are thousands of un
chained sheep-killing dogs. As a
rule such dogs are not good for aDy
purpose whatever. Why they are
permitted to live no one can ex
plain. But they do live and mul
tiply, and there are many people
who take great delight in them.
They seem to enjoy their fleas in
the day-time and their howling at
night.
But why should this sort of en
joyment be encouraged or even per
mitted, since it has so much to do
with keeping the farmers from bet
tering their material condition?
Isn’t it better that the worthless
car should goin order that we may
have the money producing sheep?
Instead of having a few scattered
flocks of sheep we ought to have
thousands of sheep here in Geor
gia. The wool-clip and the mut
ton ought to yield as much as cot
ton. Cannot Representative Mc
Donald gethiB fellow-legislators to
agree to the enactment of a strin
gent anti dog law ? If he could we
sure a grateful people would
contribute liberally to a monument
for him as a great public benefac
tor. after he had shuffled off this
mortal coil.
This may be put down as a con
census of the opinion of Georgia,
and of the Georgia farmer. Why
then don’t the legislature give us
a dog. law-?
The answer is easy. The politi
cians are stuck on the ’possum, and
-the ’posBnm dog.
“DeWitt’s Little- Early Risers
did me more good than all blood
medicines and other pills,” writes
Geo. H. Jacobs, of Thompson,
Conn. Prompt, pleasant, never
gripe,—they cure constipation,
aroase the torpid- liver to action
and give you clean blood, steady
nerves a clear brain and a healthy
appetite. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
In one county in Sonth Carolina
the taxable value of dogs is return
ed at $12,830, while the assessed
value of sheep and goats is only
BEFORE BOXING. $20L “It is this sort of thing,”
saysthe Birmingham News,“which
helps to keep tjie South poor.”
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The soothing and healing prop
erties of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy, its pleasant taste and
promptand permanent cores, have
made it a great favorite with tbe
people everywhere. For sale by all
dealers.
Gelling on in the World.
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Detroit Free Press.
Dr. George F. Shrady, the emi
nent New York surgeon, formula
ted some of the maxims that he
has accumulated in his journey
through life, and pointed each one
with an anecdote.
“Getting on in the world,” said
the doctor, “is generally a matter
of brains, hard fighting and learn
ing the plain lessons of experience.
“But tbe man who happens to
have brains shouldn’t be puffed up
because he has them. It isn’t- be
cause of anything he has done that
he isn’t stupid. The clever man
who is conceited because of his
cleverness is like a certain watch
that hang in a row with a lot of
other watches in a jeweler’s win
dow! This watch kept much bet
ter time than the others. Every
one of them wa9 sometimes oat of
ordejr; now running, too fast and
now too slow, and the jeweler reg.
ulated'them all by this one watch.
After a while it fell into a state of
great conceit with itself, and to a
man who bad often regnlated his
timepiece by its hands, its ticking
seemed one day to sound exactly
like self praise.
“See how much better I am than
my fellows,’ its second-hand click,
ed out, sb it worked its bpsy way
its norron circle, ‘they are entire
ly untrustworthy; nnless some one
gives special attention to them you
can never learn the time of day
with certainty from their dialB.
But you can depend npon me/ lam
always right.’
“The man knew this, bat he
didn’t hear the infallible timepiece
praise itself, nevertheless, so he
opened its cases and read an en
graved name. The'timepiece bad
been put together by the most emi-
nent watchmaker in the whole
world.
“ -Click away at your own self
praise,’ said the man. ‘What yon
say about your qualities as a time
keeper is all qnite true. Bat the
credit is dae to your maker.’ ”
Tobacco Culture in Georgia.
The Central of Georgia Railway
is interesting itself in the effort to
induce a number of farmers in
South Georgia to tarn their atten
tion to tobacco culture, and Vice
President Egan is satisfied that
they are succeeding in this work.
He expects to see tobacco culture
in this state develop into an indus
try ofgreat importance. His proph
ecy is that a big tobacco manufac
tory will be established in Savan-.
nab at no distant date. South
west Georgia has already tested
this crop and found it to be r satis
factory. Tobacco gives good prom
ise of being one of the crops that is
to supplant cotton sooner or later
in Georgia.—Ex.
august; flower.
‘It is a surprising fact,” says
Prof. Houton, “that in my travels
in all parts of the world, for the
last ten years, I have met more
people having used Green's Aug
nst Flower than any other remedy,
for dyspepsia, deranged liver and
stomach, and for constipation. I
find for tourists and salesmen, or
for persons filling office positions,
where headaches and general bad
feelings from irregular habits ex
ist, that Green’s August Flower is
a grand remedy. It does not injure
the system by frequent use, and is
excellent for soar stomach and in
digestion.” Sample bottle pt Holtz
claw’s Drugstore.'
Sold by dealers in all civilized
countries.
Habit of Exaggeration.
“Through its emphasis of the
superlative our age is in danger of
losing all power to tell the truth,”
writes Rev. Newell Dwight Hillia,
D. D., of “The Diffnsion*of Happi
ness - Through Conversation,”, in
the August Ladies’Home Journal.
“The modern collegian has.reached
such a state of culture that the
positive and comparative degrees
are unknown. It is no longer poss
ible for th9 schoolgirl to find either
an adjective or an adverb to ex
press her ec3tacy of feeling. Ab
stinence and sobriety in speech
are rapidly passing away.
Daid Swing once expressed the
fear that through excess in the
use of adjectives our generation
would lose all sense of proportion
and symmetry in the statement of
facts. He noted that the adjectives
.most loved by oar age are in them
selves gross exaggerations. In
studying the history of language he
found-that very early men began
to say ‘that tbe sun went down iu a
bed of gold; tbe moon turned all
things to silver! the eye darted
forth flames; tbe face was brighter
than the sun,’ Having used such
expressions for twenty years man
awakens to find himself a habitual
liar. We must also note that the
modern school of wit does not deal
in the pure, delicate humor of 3yd
ney Smith or Charles Lamb, but
for its effects depends upon gross
exaggerations and word-pilings.
Thus, not only the playground and
school-room, but the papers and
books also, through extravagances,
are teaching men to strain langnage
to the very uttermost. In liters
tare that style is best which has
most abstinence, forswearing ad
jectives and adverbs, and dealing
in the simplicities. That charac
ter also is finest which is simple,
and founded on frankness and
trnthfulness.”
HOE I
368 2nd Street, MACON, GA.
Children’s Shoes
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The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that sci
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Hall’s Catarrh Care is the only
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Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
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thereby, destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up
tbe constitution and assisting na
ture in doing its work. The pro
prietors have so much faith io its
curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list
of Testimonials.
Address. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O.
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Hall’s Family Pills are tbe best.
12 dozen Children’s Slippers in Pat. Calf, Tan and CCa
Black, laced and with bows, 5 to 8, - - wwlf
Former price $1.00 to $1.25.
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Black, laced and with bows, 8J to 11, - - Dull
Former price $1.00 to $1.25.
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Black, laced and with bows, 11J to 2, - - |
Former price $1.00 to $1.50.
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MACON", GA.
IF’Irxe ClxaxDQ.'ber Setts,
lE^IrLe Lamps,
Pine G-lasswaie,
ETotion-s a-rad. Crodszersr-
Galyanized Ii f on Buckets 15c.
5c. and 10c. Counters.
Do yon read The Houston Home Journal? If you
do cut this out and bring to The Fair Store. Will give you
an Aluminum Thimble. Only one of these coupons to a
customer.
As I am going out of the PAINT and OIL
business, I will sell Paints, Linseed Oil, Ma
chine Oil and Neats Foot Oil cheaper than>
any house in Macon. Respectfully,
Si. C. BAtKCOBi
Third Street, Near Post-Office,
MACON, GA.
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ill rnmnu.
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1 present penitentiary lease, it
, will pay the state of Georgia
The
seems,
a better profit than the old lease.
The first three months of the new
lease have yielded to the state over
$50,000. The same rate of increase
would bring to the state $200,000
foj the year, while the old lease
only yielded $25,000 for the eame
length of time.
In Diarrhoea Dr. M. A. Sim
mons Liver Medicine is invaluable.
It gives^Tone to the Stomach, Aids
Digestion and Assists Nature in
carrying off all Imparities. Holtz
claw’s Drugstore.
A newly married editor gets off
the following: “What is tbe differ
ence between a honeycomb, a hon
eymoon and a pretty girl?- A hon
eycomb is a small cell, a honey
moon is a big sell, a pretty girl is
a damsel.”—Ex.
Quickly cure constipation and
rebuild and invigorate the entire
system—nevergripenor nausea-e—
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers.
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
More than fifty cotton mills sre
now nnder constraction iu the
South. They will represent an in
vestment of $1,500,000, and addi
tion of 700,000 spindles to the 3,-
670,000 previously in operation.
Forty Southern cotton mills are
enlarging their capacity and will
add 400,000 new spindles to the
sam of those * already at work.
Most of the new mills will make
finer lines of goods than the aver
age mill now operating inthe South.
Tbe number of hosiery and knit
ting mills are rapidly increasing.
;
Irritating stings, bites, scratch
es, wounds and cuts are soothed
and healed by DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve—a sure and safe ap
plication for tortnred flesh. Be
ware of counterfeits. Holizdaw’s
Drugstore.
Suits made for divers now have
a telephone attachment by which
the submerged person can comma
nicate with his assistants above
the surface of the water. This im
provement greaily lessens the dan
ger of deep sea diving.
:
For Headache caused moat like
ly by a Disordered Stomach, ac
companied, by Constipation, nse
Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medi
cine. Holtzfiaw’s Drugstore.
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