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V\ ' •• r and the elegant do near so well Gray Oxfords. Yon can’t to-day anywhere else. Clothing, Millinery, Ladies’ Skirts, Capes and Jackets. IN FACT THIS IS THE STORE WHERE YOU CAN HODGKS, iPropr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE. ^1.50 a Year in Advnnce. VOL. XXX. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1901. NO. 2. Bryan and Cleveland. Our $12 Suits. These stylish Suits are in Fancy Worsteds, Blue and Black Cheviots, and Shoes, siioes, We sell on y the very best that are manufactured. Ev ery pair that leaves our store is guaranteed to give satis faction or money refunded. They go at Factory cost dur ing this stock-taking sale. Clothing. As complete a stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing as can he found in Georgia. All go at Manufac turers’ oost during the stock-taking sale. Dry Goods. This line we sell absolutely without profit. During the stocK-taxing sale hundreds of dollars worth of Dress Goods, Domestics, Notions and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods will he sold for muoh less than New York cost. Ladies’ Capes and Skirts or one-half the first of * he season prices. 3apes from 85c. to $20.00 each. We have Plush Millinery. We have just received two full lines of Drummers Samples, and can sell you Millinery or Millinery Furnishings at half what regular Millinery Establishments are compelled to charge. When you are in Macon come to see us. We will save you money °a anything that yon have to buy. 414 & 416 Third St. MACON, GA- Next Door to Roff Sims’ Old Stand. Now is the time to y have your JOB WORK done, 1 The Rome Journal is prepared to do it in a neat and artistic manner at reasona ble prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Albany Herald. Recent Washington dispatches brought a story from the Wash ington Post to the* effect that the Democratic National Committee is soon to meet in Washington for deliberation. The purpose of the meeting, as the story goes, will be to shelve Bryan as a possible can didate for the presidential nomi nation in 1904. We don’t know whether tnere is really anything in*the story or not. Mr. Charles A. Walsh, of Iowa, secretary of the Democrat ic National Committee, has seen fit and thought it proper to give out a dehial as to the reported purpose of the meeting. For one, we regard him as the ablest, purest and most consis tent Democrat leader in the coun try today, but it is. evident that the people of the country are not ready to make such a man presi dent. Those of us who take things political as we find them rather than as we would like to have them are therefore willing to give up Bryan as a president ial possibility. As a presidential candidate he has had his day, and practically Democrats who plan to beat the Republicans in 1904 will look for another candidate, re gardless. of what their honest ojnnion of Bryan may be. But in this January meeting of the National Democratic Commit tee intended to launch a boom for someboby else—Grover Cleveland, for instance,? Mr. Cleveland has recently loosed his tongue, after a sullen silence extending through two presidential campaigns, and the gratuitous advice which he has promulgated with great ostenta tion leads to the suspicion that he is yearning for another inning at the fleshpots. We are willing to give up Bry an, the honest man and incorrup tible, uncompromising tribune of the common people, but it must not be for the purpase of taking up Cleveland, the egotistical, sordid, unscrupulous worshiper of the golden calf. There are those in the party—but they are not among the loyal “rank and file”- who will want to bring out Cleve land as the presidential candidate in 1904, but they had as well talk about changing the course of the gulf channel or of eliminating the natural prejudice that exists be tween Anglo-Saxons and Etheopi- ans. Bryan has probably had his day as a presidental candidate. He will continue to be a factor in the politics of the country while he lives, however. Cleveland has had his day not only as a presidential candidate, but as a political fac tor ; for the rank and file of the party which honored him by twice electing him to the highest office in the country feel that he betrayed them and wrecked their it Girdles tlie Globe. The fame of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, as the best in the world, extends round the earth. It’s the one perfect healer of cuts, corns, burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, felons, aches, pains and all skin eruptions. Only infallible pile cure. 25c. a box at Holtz- claw’s Drugsqore. If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it c and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil and not by self-indulgence and indo lence. When a man gets to love work his life is a happy one. The merited reputatiop for cur ing piles, sores and skin diseases acqnired by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve has led to the making of worthless counterfeits. Be sure to get only DeWitt’s Salve. Holtz- claw’s Drugstore. Self-Respecting Farmers. Southirn Farm Magazine. It may be stated as an indispu table truth that no man ever suc ceeded at farmining who was ashamed of his crops. A man whose farm ia so poor or whose tillige is so bacF that his crops are worthless had better abandon his calling and get at something else. If his land is poor he should en rich it. If he neglects to work his crops well he is a failure already. There is an intense pleasure to the intelligent farmer to so direct the operation on his farm as to pro duce crops of which he will be proud. He then rejoices in his vocation. His mind is ever on the alert for new improvements either for fertilizing his soil or for culti vating his crops. Nor is this peculiar to farming A man to succeed in any thing must take a pride in it. It must occupy his best thoughts and en> e-rgies. His inquiries and reading must be directed to the gathering of fresh knowledge upon the sub ject. He must feel that it is his vo cation for life. Failures more often come from a want of de cision of character than from a want of knowledge or en ergy, and a want of decis ion comes from a want of pride A young man reads law, for in stance, but when he comes to the hard work of studying his cases and preparing for trial he loses the proud consciousness of diffi culties surmounted and of the crown of honor which awaits him, and dwells only on the hardships of his chosen profession. He grows tired of it and takes no pride in unraveling the intricacies of the cases submitted to him. Such a man cannot succeed at law. A young farmer begins what at the time he thinks his life-work will be, but the hot suns of sum mer or the low price of produce or the effect of some devastatin storm change his mind and he begins to regret his choice. Such men can not succeed in life. They lack fixedness of purpose and resolu tion to surmount difficulties. The lawyer, to succeed, must glory in the difficulty of his work, for in overcoming difficulties he is molding his character and mind to a higher standard of work. A farmer should take a deep pride in succeeding in spite of all ad verse influences and circumstan ces. A young man is reported that last spring had his first planting of corn eaten np by the cut-worms. He planted again and a disas- trons flood swept over his fields and distroyed his crop. The third time he planted late in June, and he has macfe one of the largest corn crops in the. country. This young man’s character has deriv ed great benefit from his misfor tunes. It has been strengthened,’ and hereafter he will never strike sail to a calamity. The moral effect of success up on character is as great as the ef fect of failure, but in a contrary- direction. Success strengthens the will; failure weakens it. Suc cess inspires confidence; failure destroys it. Success elevates; fail ure depresses. Success knows no failure; failure knows Uo success. Pride a in calling is the surest guarantee of succes. We should like to see all our farmers taking a pride in their business. This pride is exhibited in good bams and good fences, in well kept grounds, in the appearance of stock and in the excellence of the crops. In whatever a farmer takes the greatest pride, in that he will make the greatest success, wheth er it; be his crops or his stock, his fence or his hnnses. It is said that pride goes before a fall, but this is the pride of vanity and not the pride of merit. Sow Are 'Coer Kidneys t Dr. Hobbs’ Sparapus Pills cure all Sidney ills. Sam ple free- Add. Sterling Bemedy Co., Chicago or N. 7. The Twentieth Century Woman. “We are twentieth century wo men at last, with the dower of privilege and responsibility which enriches women in this wonderful era, and I have no hesitation in declaring that we are more fortu nate than any of our predeces sors,” writes Margaret E. Sangs- ter, in the January Ladies’ Home Journal. ‘ ‘ Our grandmothers an d great-grandmothers were handi capped in their girlhood byathpu- sand prejudices and cast-iron tra ditional rules, from which we are emancipated. They had neither our wide field of activity nor our immunity from nervous irritation. The heroines of the past took cold if exposed to a.shower; they could not walk over a frosty meadow be cause of their thin kid shoes, and came into the house muddy and bedraggled after a morning’s tramp, which we would take with out the slightest inconvenience in our short skirts and thick boots.” Foreigners Beware. The case was one of assault, and the magistrate, fearing that it might be the. beginning of another out break of Hooliganism, was inclined to be severe, says London Answers. ‘‘For the second time,” he said, addressing the prisoner, “you are charged with assaulting your neigh bor. The evidence shows that you deliberately and without any appa rent canse whatever struck the com plainant with your clenched fist.” “Faith, yer honor,” cried Pat, “if Oi did he struck me back agin!” “But he only did so in self-de fense,” said the judge. “An’ 1 what about me?” asked Pat. “All about you,” answered the judge, “is that you are found guilty and must therefore keep the peace toward all Her Majesty’s subjects for twelve months.” “Well, then,” roared Pat, as he left the court, “Heaven help the first forriner Oi meet. How’s This? We offer Oue Hundred Dollars Reward for aDy case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ca tarrh Care. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honora ble in all business transactions and financially able to carry oat any obligations made by their firm. West&Truax, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O. Warding, Rinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimoni als free. Hall’s Family Pills are the best Among the 600,000,000 passen gers carried only 206 persons lost their lives on steamboat vessels within the jurisdiction of the Uni ted States during .the last fiscal year, of which 44 were passengers and 162 members of the crews. During the same year there were 38B boiler explosions on land which killed 298 persons • and wounded 456 others.- When threatened by pneumonia or any other lung trouble, prompt relief is necessary, as it is danger ous to delay. We would suggest that One Minute Cough Cure be taken as soon as indications of hav ing taken cold are noticed. It cures quickly and its early use prevents consumption. Holtzclaw’s Drug store. In the United States there die 1, 513,510 more men than women, but in nine states and the district of Columbia there are 260,000 more women than men.