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JOHN H. HODGES, 'Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTUf?£,
#1-50 A TEAR IN AD
VOL. XXIX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA* THURSDAY, JULY 19,1900.
NO. 29.
W. B. Fitzgerald. J. G. Fitzgerald.
Big Creek Poultry Farm,
ELKO, GA.
Breeders of S. C. Brown Leghorn?,
Black Langslians, Black Minorcas and
Pekin Ducks. Eggs at $1.50 for 15.
" eggs for sale.
pit Games $1-50 per 15.
Cornish Indian Games $1.50 and $5.00
per 15.
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys $2.00 per 9.
EELDENVALE POULTEY YABDS,
E. L. Dennied, Dennard, Ga.
mcli22-2m
White Plymouth. Rocks,
AS GOOD AS THE BEST.
Eggs—W. P. Bock, Pekin Ducks and
Bronze Turkeys $1.00 per setting if you
call at
White Hock Poultry Farm,
Pebby, Geobgia.
CLEAN TOWELS.
SHARP RAZORS.
WHITE BARBER.
Will appreciate a call from yon.
JESSE DOLES,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Basement of Hams House.
w7H7HARRIsr'
DENTIST.
Successor to Br. AY. A. Blassengaiuc.
OFFICE OVER DOW LAW BANK,
l,'OUT VALLEY. : GEORGIA.
Dr. H. W- WALKER,
DENTIST.
Office, Union Dry Goods Co., Cherry st.
MACON GEORGIA.
Grz7McARTHXJR7
DENTIST,
l-’OItT VAIiLEY, GEORGIA.
Office over Slappey’s Drugstore.
Garrafl R. Ellis,
# m Arcljitecl.
with
WILLIS F. DENXY.
Offices : 11 & 12 Commercial Bank Bldg.,
Macon. Ga.
Y M. DuPBEE.
-J •
Attorney - at - Law,
Bxbon, Ga.
Money to loan on Farm La nils.
Condition of Cotton Crop.
Washington, July 10th.—The
monthly report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture
will show the average condition of
cotton on July 1 to have been
75.8, as compared with 82.5 last
month, 87.8 on July 1, 1899, 91.2
at the corresponding .date in 1898,
and a ten year average of 87.9.
The condition in the principal
states is reported as follows: North
Carolina 89, South Carolina 79,
Georgia, 74, Florida 78, Alabama
70, Mississippi 64, Louisiana 81,
Texas 78, Arkansas 78, Tennessee
76, Oklahoma 82, Indian Territo
ry 96.
While there was some improve
ment during June in North Caro
lina, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, which amounted to
three, seven, seven and twelve
points, respectively, there, was a
decline of six points in South Car
olina, seven in Louisiana, ten in
Tennessee, thirteen in Arkansas,
fifteen in Georgia, seventeen in
Alabama 'and twenty-one in Mis
sissippi. With the exception of
North Carolina, where the average
condition on July 1 was two
points above the mean of the Ju
ly averages in that, state for the
last ten years, and Indian Terri
tory, where the figures available
for comparison cover only three
years, the condition through the
entire cotton belt compares unfa
vorably with the ten year averag
es, Louisiana being seven, South
Carolina and Florida ten, Arkan
sas eleven, Tennesse twelve, Geor
gia thirteen, Alabama eighteen
and Mississippi twento-four points
' Aim High.
B. B. Lamb in The Mountaineer.
The marksman when he wishes
to hit an object at a Instance,
raises his sights or, if he does not
have adjustable sights, he elevates
the muzzle of his gun and sights
on a spot several inches above the
mark. Young men cannot begin
too early to fix their mark in life
and adjust their sights and work
for it. Without some fixed and
definite purpose to work for we
are apt to go wandering about do
ing very little gtod to others or to
ourselves.
Many of our great men. have
been men who in youth fixed their
mark at the top where it would
ever be a beacon to guide them to
their goal. Men of one thought
are usually considered stupid plod
ders, but nevertheless they are our
greatest men. The boy who can
grasp but one thought at a time
and stick to that until he has
thoroughly assimilated it is bound
to be heard from some time.
Many of us may never reach the
point at which we have placed our
ideal, for the mind reaches out
and grasps what the body cannot
perform, but we can work "towards
the mark and perfect ourselves to
the best of our ability. Don’t be
content to stay at the bottom
We have all heard the statement
that a boy can make of himself
whatever he wills to be, or, what
he determines to be, that he will
be.
Let us be careful and not let
our mark get covered up, or lose
sight of it. When we run up
against adverse circumstances, let
below their respective ten-year av- -j| be an incentive to help us back
J. B. SIMS,
OPERATIVE ,V DENTIST.
Crown and Bridge Work.
Office Near Perry Hotel, Main Street,
PERRY, GA.
\\T C. DAVIS,
»V . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Having retiroil from niilitarj' service,
tho practice of law is resumed.
Office in Masonic Building: up stairs
J) jTdashekv
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Perbx, Ga.
LITOliieo inMasonic Building.
C. C. DUNCAN. J. P. DUNOAN.
DUNCAN & DUNCAN,
PKRBY, GEORGIA.
We have made arrangements to nego
tiate loans on Farming lands, at 8 per
cent, interest,in sums of $300.00 and up
wards, where security is first-class.
jX£02sTE31T
To lend on mortgage at 8 percent-.
No Commissions Charged.
If you borrow $1,000 you receive
81 000 You furnish abstract, pay
for recording, inspecting fees and
stamps. Apply to
L. S. T0UNSLEY,
Attorney-at-Law, Perry, Ga.
~ MONEY. “
Loans negotiated on improved
farms, at lowest market rates, and on
most liberal terms.
Business of fifteen years standing:
Hore than three million dollars in
loans negotiated. Facilities unsur
passed. HOWARD 32. S32ITH,
No. 814 Second St.. Macon, Ga.
erages.
Not only was the condition on
July 1 for the cotton region as a
whole the lowest July condition
on record, but in Georgia, Flori
da, Alabama and Mississippi it
was the lowest in the entire peri
od of thirty-four years for which
records are available, while in
Tennessee it was the lowest with
one exception, and in South Caro
lina, Texas ana Arkansas the low
est with two exceptions in the
same period of thirty-four years.
Excessive rains, drowning out
of the crop, followed by an ex
traordinary growth of grass and
weeds, are reported from almost
every state, and the gravity of the
situation is greatly increased by
the general scarcity of labor. In
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,'
Alabama, Louisiana and Texas
considerable areas will have to be
abandoned.
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Atlanta Constitution.
A train dispatcher who attend
ed the recent convention of his
craft organization in Atlanta told
a good story, and a snake story at
that, in line with his employment
By way of preface, it might not
be amiss to .say that the story,
unlike some of this class, is not
Munchausen.
“One hot June afternoon four
years ago,” said he, “while I was
fingering the key at the little sta
tion of Adair, in the Cherokee na
tion of the Indian Territyry, the
wires took a kink and I was not
able to communicate with the
agent at Yinita. A lineman was
sent to discover the cause of the
trouble, and pending its adjust
ment a passenger train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
way was held a few minutes past
its schedule. The lineman came
back with a snake in a bad state
of preservation hanging across a
stick. He had found the reptile,
which was of a climbing specie
peculiar to that .country, a few
feet from the top of a telegraph
pole, banging by its tail to the top
wire. .It had crawled up the pole,
wound its tail around the top wire
and then twisted the lower part of
its-body around the bottom wire.
After having bung there for some
time it was burned to death by
the electric current, but still hung
to the"wires. Not only did it be
come a -fixture, but it formed a
circuit, and when a message was
passed along its body, the message
was returned by the lower wire to
the sender.”
where we can see our way clear
and then spur us onward with re
newed energy that we may reach
the goal of our ambition more
than conquerer, with the assur
ance that we have done our best
White Man Turned Yellow.
Great consternation was felt by
the friends of M. A. Hogarty of
Lexington, Ky., when they saw he
was turning yellow. His skin
slowly changed color, also his eyes,
and he suffered terribly. His
malady was Yellow Jaundice. He
was treated by the best doctors,
but without benefit. Then he was
advised to try Electric Bitters,
the wonderful Stomach and Liver
remedy, and he writes: “After
taking two bottles I was wholly
cured.” A trial proves its match
less merit for all Stomach, I»iver
and Kidney troubles. Only 50c.
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—
Make a living; but remember
that there is one thing better than
making a living—making a life.
Democratic Hope Growing.
Our Washington Correspondence.
Feeling in this city, and in the
east generally, in .regard to the
democratic platform seems to have
shifted as rapidly as it did in
Kansas City when the crisis came
There is no denying that when
the news was first flashed here
that Bryan had dominated the
convention and had forced the
delegates to endorse silver against
the wishes of a majority of them,
fjie democrats in this city felt dis
heartened. Twenty-four hours la-
ter they realized that Bryan was
right, and that any faintest meas
ure that could be twisted into a
retreat from silver would have
damaged the party more than any
possible affirmation. They real
ized that any hesitancy would ex
pose Bryan to a charge of dema
gogism and to that of longing for
victory at any price, which would
be fearfully damaging in the cam
paign. They realized, too, that it
would not be wise, politically, to
risk alienating any of the six and
a half million votes cast for the
ticket in 1896 in the hope of gain
ing a few hundred thousand cast
for the gold democratic ticket in
that year. In short, by Friday
morning democrats here had made
up their minds that Bryan had
saved the party from a frightful
mistake into which they had been
nearly allured by the gold men.
To re-affirm the silver plank and
then to subordinate it to imperi
alism is now considered the stroke'
of a master mind, and it is believ
ed that the party’s chances of suc
cess this fall have been improved
tremendously by the action.
A gentleman recently cured of
dyspepsia gave the following ap
propriate rendering of Burns’ fa
mous blessing : “Some have meat
and can not eat, and some have
none that want it; but we have
meat and we can eat,—Kodol Dysr
pepsia Cure be thanked.” This
preparation will digest what you
eat. It instantly relieves and
radically cures indigestion and all
stomach disorders. Holtzclaw’s
Drugstore.
The Chicago Tribune figures out
the expense of celebrating the
“Glorious Fourth” as being 16’
persons killed, 726 injured, and
the loss of property $74,325. The
toy cannon claimed 87 victims,
the skyrocket 39, firearms 152,
powder explosions 159, and fire
crackers 266. This is a costly bill
for celebrating an event which in
tended to bring peace .
To The Deni'.
A rich lady, cured of her deaf
ness and noises in the head by Dr.
Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums,
gave $10,000 to his Institute, so
that deaf people unable to procure
the'Ear Drams may have them
free. Address No. 1474. -The Nic-
olson Institute, 780 Eighth Ave
nue, New York.
Too Tense Mental Application.
Atlanta Constitution.
“This young man,” said the'
eminent insanity specialist, con
ducting the inquiring philanthro
pist through the wards of the asy
lum, stopping before the peep
hole of a cell in the tower, “is a
pitiable example of the* result to
one of a supersensitive nervous
temperament of too tense mental
application to an intellectual pur
suit. In .no department of brain
culture is the strain more danger
ous than in the professional belles-
lettres, particularly in imaginative
composition. Many of our most
gifted litterateurs, as you are
doubtless aware, have suffered an
eclipse of reason when in the hey-
dey of their powers, or in the pre
cocity of talent’s spring. A judi
cious diversion of the subjective
consciousness through a healthy
interest in the objective and a
proper " amount of physical exer
cise, might have averted the dire
catastrophe. Sentimental natures
goaded to the danger line of
thought expansion by headlong
ambition and a passion to find ar
tistic expression, frequently come
thus to grief.”
The inquiring philanthropist no
ticed that the intellectual maniac
had in his aerie cell a huge paste
board telescope pointed at the
ceiling, whereon the heavenly bod
ies were rudely painted and
wherefrom a paper airship depend
ed. Other toy instruments of as
tronomical and meteorological sci
ence were profusely scattered over
the floor. The blighted literary
genius was bending over a scratch
pad, too engrossed in what he was
writing to look up.
Alas,” thought the inquiring
philanthropist, as the eminent in
sanity specialist paused for breath
this brilliant but unfortunate
young man must have been an un
derstudy of Jules Verne, and
doubtless now be is engaged in
writing an imaginative novel with
some such title as “The Unheard
of Adventures of the Air Vikings
of the Twenty-first Century in the
Mountains of the Moon.” He de
served a better fate, from his
looks.”
“He,” said the eminent insani
ty specialist, discontinuing respi
ration, “was a weather reporter on
a metropolitan newspaper.”
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Getting the Greatest Good from Books
‘Summer reading is often large
ly composed of fiction, and if we
choose good novels and bright,
wholesome short stories, we are
not wasting our time, although
every one of these long summer
days ought to give us a return in
something besides entertainment
and amusement,” writes Marga
ret E. Sangster, in the July La
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that most girls would be the gain
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or biography,, or travels, or essays,
and devoting a portion of their
time to it each morning or each
afternoon successively, keeping a
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dhy. , If, added to this, each girl
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There is more Catarrh in this
section of the .country than all
other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pro
nounced* it a local disease, and
prescribed local remedies, and by
constantly failing to cure with lo
cal treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven Ca
tarrh to be a. constitutional dis
ease, and therefore requires con
stitutional treatment. Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is
the only constitutional cure on
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Send for circulars and testimoni
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HalTsFaioily Hillaiare the best
Bryan is' the “goblin” of the
trusts, and Mark Hanna .scares
them into contributing to the re
publican campaign fund by tell
ing them the Nebraskan will get
them if they don’t watch out.
Criticism. 1
Marietta Journal.
“H we were a little more tender
one to another, how much sweeter,
brighter the world would seetn!
and sweeter and brighter to both
ourselves and those who. engage
our kindness and long suffering.
How much misery grows out of
needless misunderstandings and
needless criticisms! It is not that
men are more full of faults than -
of good; but that we have not
eyes te see, nor hearts to echo, the
good in them.”
It has been said that talk is
cheap; it may be said with equal
propriety, that criticism is cheap- j
er. Those who indulge in this |
cheap commodity should remem- !
ber it is, like all cheap- material, !
not worth much. To be
ed of the abundance
ness of criticism one has but to
keep his ears open at home and
abroad-anywhere, everwhere, crit
icisms of speech, dress, actions,
motives and character. *
To be sure a,criticism- may be
just now and then; but more of
ten unjust and unwise. It requires,
however, only a sober thought to
see that it is the critic who makes
little or no advance, while criti
cised are gradually plodding up
the hill of progress. One of the
hard things to him who is climb
ing the hill of progress is that he
has to pull too many up by bis
coat-tail. Were the critic doing
mnch else than criticising, his
criticisms would, by others, be
heaped upon his own head.
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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Gold Production.
The recent reports from South
Africa justify the expectation that
gold-mining in that most product
ive gold field in the world will be
resumed shortly. The experts es
timate that the gold production
of the world in 1900 would have
been fully $400,000,000 but for
the temporary cessation in South
Africa, due to the war, and they
estimate that it will certainly
reach $350,000,000, and probably
exceed .that sum, for the present
year. This will be, even in the
face of the temporary suspension
of mining in South Africa, a
marked increase over 1899, when
the total was $315,000,000. This
will make the production of the
decade over $2,200,000,000, and
for the half-century - more than
$6,000,000,000. It is a remarka
ble fact, and one which is scarcely
realized by the public, that the
gold production of the last half-
century. has been more than twice
as great as that of the 350 years
prior to the discovery of gold in
California.
It Saved His Leg.
P. A. Danforth of LaGrange,
Ga,, suffered for six months with
a frightful running sore on his
leg; but writes that Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve wholly cured it in five
days. For ulcers, wounds, piles,
it’s the best salve in the world.
Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents.
Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw, druggist.
It is said that- 125 cotton mills
are in operation ip Mexico and
that these consumed about 60,-
000,000 pounds of cotton, mnch
of which is imported from the
Upifced States. Thus the move
ment of Gptton mills to the South
extends even beyond our own bor
ders.
For burns, injuries, piles and
skin diseases use DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. It is the original.
Counterfeits may be offered. Use
only DeWitt’s. Holtzclaw’s Drug
store.
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