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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. ELEOTRO-GALVAWC! BELT will cure all your Ablie.a and' Pains; Dyspep sia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia a ml all Ner vous Troubles;. Heart, Stumucli, Liver Hrul Kidney Disord -rs, and the many oamelelsjiils which afflict ns. 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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. Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw, druggist. — 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.” Satr An Your Kldityi« Dr. Hobb«‘ Sparagui PlUjcareall kidney Bli. Sam- plofroe. Add. M i.. Chicago or N.Y. Subscribe for the Home Journal 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 dies’ Home Journal. “I fancy that most girls would be the gain ers by keeping on hand a good, strong book, a volume of history, or biography,, or travels, or essays, and devoting a portion of their time to it each morning or each afternoon successively, keeping a bookmark at the place where they, break off and moving it on day by dhy. , If, added to this, each girl would k3ep near her a little blank memorandum book in which she should enter dates, copy passages which impress her as worth re membering, or write her own com ments on what she reads, she wodld gain an incalculable store of men tal wealth by the summer’s end.” 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 the market. It is taken internal ly in doses from 10 drops to a tea- spoonful, It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimoni als. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co'., Toledo,. O. 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. STRONG SHOE CO.. MACON, GEORGIA. SOLE AGENTS FOR “QUEEN QUALITY,” the famous ladies’ $3.00 Shoes—all styles. “WALE OYER.” Shoes on the marlcei. the- lest value in Men’s $3.50 We carry always in slock a complete i ‘ment of everything that is new and good in •> (wear. Mni! orders promptly attended to. j/ HlrtLC/llcWj f ______ STRONG SHOE CO.. MACON, GEORGIA. R. R. HOLSENBECK & CO, 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. -DEALERS IN— Ladies’ . Misses’ 561 CHERRY STREET, Gents? Boys’ C3-eoxg*Ia,- MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. PRICES TO SUIT EVERYBODY! I ha\ e jusi opened a nice line of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES in the Eeagin Building at. » ■WELLS1 Oi£T, With Mr. W. 11. Stafford as manager, and will sell goods at Macon prices. I solicit the patron age of the community. Respectfully, JQSXAH BASS. We have the accommodations at our We supply all the Best Brands of WHISKIES, BRANDIES AND WINES. HOME MADE CORN WHISKEY a Specialty. . JUG ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTiON. MEALS 25 cents. BEDS 25 cents. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. THE H, G, tipi WHISIF? C0„ 508 Poplar Street, MACON, Ga. Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of any invention will promptly receive our opinion free concerning the patent ability of same. “How to obtain a patent” sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. Patents taken out through us receive special notice, without charge,in The Patent Record, an illustrated and widely circulated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, g VECTOR J. EVANS & CO., '■ (Patent Attorneys,) Evans'Building, - WASHINGTON, D. C. For Infants and Children. Tbs Kind You Bears the Signature of do away with all the hot discomfort of former baking days, save yourself work and bother and do your baking in less time, at less expense, by using a Blue Flame Burns the cheapest fuel that’s sold with’ abso lute safety, without causing dirt or grease, smoke or smell. Sold wherever stoves are sold—made in vari ous sizes. If your dealer does not have them, write fo STANDARD OIL COMPANY.