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$1.50 a Year in Advance.
JOHN H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS
AND CULTURE,
VOL. XXX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901.
NO. 4.
Our $10 and
$12 Suits.
These stylish Suits are in Fancy Worsteds,
Blue and Black Cheviots* and the elegant
Gray Oxfords. You can’t do near so well ■
to-day anywhere else.
BURNETT & GOODMAN.
The New Store. 454 Third St.
MM0N, GA.
Great Stock-Taking Sale
—s OF
Shoes, Dry Goods, Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Millinery, Ladies’ Skirts,
Capes and Jackets.
IN PACT THIS IS THE STOEE WHERE YOU CAN
Shoes, Shoes.
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 be 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-taKing 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
for one-half the first of 'he season prices,. W r e have Plush
Capes from 85c. to f20.00*each.
Millinery.
We have just received two full lines of Drummers Samples, and
sell you Millinery or Millinery Furnishings at half what regular
inery Establishments are compelled to charge.
When you are in Macon come to see us. We will save you money
nything that yon have to buy.
4 & 416 Third St. MACON, GA.
Next Door to Roff Sims’ Oid Stand.
Now is the time to have
your JOB WORK done.
1 The Rome Journal is
wed to do it in a neat and artistic manfier dtreasona-
yrices, Satisfaction guaranteed, --
W&YQB WB WiiNK FoitfE &BDBMB.
A TWENTIETH CENTURY DREAM.
Written for the Home Joumtax.
In the beginning of the year
nineteen hundred and one I left
my home and went into a far coun
try. Home sick and weary to re
turned at the close of the year
nineteen hundeed and ninety-
nine, having been absent one hun
dred years.
I would not have known the
place had it not been for
few familia land-marks along the
way. Instead of the tall, white
columns of the old antebellum
mansion, my child hood’s home,
I saw a brown stone front. I tim
idly approached the door, rang
and was ushered into the drawing
room by a white servant in livery
Within all was elegance, not a
foot fall was heard on the velvet
carpet. Silken draperies every
where; on the walls hung famous
pictures by the old masters, on
the table were books by world re
nowned authors; among the books
I saw a paper, a political paper
evidently full of the live issues of
the day. I found that the paper
was published at Perry, Ga. This
must be the old Home Journal in
a new dress. From the columns of
this paper I learned that the
Democratic party was in power
and that a Georgia woman was
Vice-President of the United
States. I also learned that a girl
had just been elected to represent
Houston in the Legislature. Well,
that meant that the followers of
Susan B. Anthony had gained the
day and that woman had equal
rights with men to vote and hold
office.
I walked to the window and
looked out on the , paved streets,
lo! the little village where I had
lived had grown to be a city. On
every side were imposing build
ings, tall factories, etc. I could
hear the shriek of the steam-boats
whistle as they played up and
down the Ocmulgee river carrying
timber and produce.
I inquired of the owner of the
house who had now cornu in, about
my friends and relatives of long
ago; to my astonishment, they
were all dead. I felt myself a
veritable “Rip Van Winkle.”
I'learned in the course of the
conversation with my host, - that
they had no negro servants, had
been no negroes in the country
for years; their servants were all
foreigners.
Something rushed by the win
dow with the speed of the wind.
I inquired what it was. “An auto
mobile, of course.”
What! do you not use horses?
“oh yes, a few out in the coun
try. ’ ’I was startled by seeing a
huge something sailing through
the air, wonder upon wonders, I
was told that it was aa “air ship”
and that £ ‘aerial nivigation” was
the usual way of traveling for long
distances, although lopomotives
were still extensively used.
I looked at the people going
along the streets, they were of
enormous statue compared to what
I remembered of the people. I
asked the reason of their large
statue, “Athletics”. My brain
began to real, I was indeed in a
strange land.
I could not realize that this was
my childhood,s home. I missed
the old home-stead on the farm.
The moss grown well, where hung
the “Old Oaked Bucket.” I miss
ed the ’far off tinkie of the cow
bells, the whinney of the horses.
I longed for a sight of the loved
ones and the familiar faces of the
old darkeys. I oared not for the
“electric fans”, I sighed for the
shade of the old oak trees.
With all the splendor and im
provements of the close of the
twentieth century, I wanted the
old times.
The songs which floated across
the way from the lips of the pri-
madonha was not half so sweet to
me as the memory of the “Whip
poorwill’s” melody.
The city was suddenley lighted
up in a blaze' of electric glory, I
rubbed my eyes, It was a dream
and the sun was streaming in
through the window.
Beth Lorraine.
The Public Edits The Magazines.
“It is the public that edits a
magazines,” writes Edward Bok
in the January Ladies’ Home
Journal. “The editor simply ed
its the public’s thought as it
comes to him for expression
through his magazine. In the
manner in which he presents that
thought he may stamp his person
ality upon it, and so we know that
there is an individuality behind
the printed page. But the thought
remains that of the public, wheth
er edited by the editor in manu
script or expressed with his own
pen. He remains simply a medi
um placed in control of a channel
of expression. That channel rep
resents certain principles, and
those principles become what is
called the policy of a magazine
This policy determines whether
certain questions shall be diecuss-
ed in the affirmative or the nega
tive, or whether the questions are
important enough to be discussed
at all. For instance, the Ladies’
Home Journal believes in every
thing that will make a woman’s
life simpler, more restful and
more cheerful. That is its policy
because it is the principle of its
conductors—that principle being
based upon observation, experi
ence and conviction. On this pol
icy the magazine either ignores
altogether or opposes anything
which its conductors are convinc
ed, for well-grounded reasons, will
complicate the lives of women or
make them restless, and therefore
less happy. Such a policy, one
might say, is the backbone
magazine. Upon it it rests,
this it reflects in its opinions
of a
and
A good joke is told on a certain
minister of the gospel who likes to
trade horses by way of recreation.
By some means the preacher came
into possession of a horse that
wouldn’t pull at all when he came
to a hill. The parson found
purchaser, who inquired particu
larly as to age, condition and
qualities of the parson’s steed.
At last he asked if he was a tried
puller. “It would do your soul
good to see him pull,” was the en
thusiastic reply. The trade was
made, and in a few days the own
er came back and claimed the par
son had misrepresented the qual
ities of the animal. “I told you
it would do your soul good to see
him pull. ’ ’ The purchaser saw the
point and dropped the subject.
Brought Good Fortune.
A small item in his own paper
lately brought amazing good for
tune to Editor Chris. Reitter, of
the Saginaw (Mich.) Post and
ZeituDg. He and his family had
the Grip in its worst form. Their
doctor did them no good. Then
he read that Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs,
and Colds was a guaranteed cure
for La Grippe and all Throat and
Lung troubles; tried it and says:
“Three bottles cured the whole
family. No other medicine on
earth equals it.” Only 50c and
$1.00 at Holtzclaw’s Drug store.
WOMAN'S MANUFACTURS.
The Journan published in the
interest of the manufactures of
Manchester, England, is count
ing on a great and cheap cotton
crop, this year. It is possible for
the farmers of the south to order
it otherwise. It is to their inter
est to do so. Will they?
Stop the Cough andWorks off the Cold
Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No Cure,
No Pay. Price 25 cents.
One of the many novel and in
teresting features of the Pan-
American Exposition at Buffalo
next summer, will be an extensive
exhibition of woman’s manufac
tures. The general public little
realizes the extent and importance
of this class of industries. It has
been made apparent to the Board
of Women Managers of the Expo
sition, however, by the numerous
applications from prospective ex
hibitors.
One woman makes rugs and has
built up quite an industry. 3h
keeps a large number of wives and
daughters.of New England far
mers busy with her work. Anoth
er manufactures artistic jewel set
tings, another exqusite thing is
pottery, another carved and deco
rative leather goods, etc. In fact
the woman’s manufactures are so
many that it would require much
space to enumerate them all.
The Committee on Applied
Arts of the Board of Women Man-.
agers has arranged to establish in
the Manufactures and Liberal
Arts Building a commodious booth
in which articles manufactured by
women me be exhibited at a nom
inal cost to the exhibitors, and
arrangements will be made under
which orders may be taken for ar
ticles like those displayed.
A London dispatch to the New
"York Herald says: Thirty .years
ago George Johnston, millionaire
“Laird of the Fife Isle estate,”
near Dundee, vowed that no man
should ever see his face again.
He kept his vow. Now he is dead.
Never once in all that time did he
set foot across the threshold of
the dilapidated manor house. A
maid who cooked his scanty meals
never saw him. She would ring
a bell and withdraw. Only then
would Johnston come ont' of his
den. He was never married, and
his fortune, computed at five mill
ions. is said to go to his nephew,
Lieut. Maekgill Crichton, of the
Seaforth Highlanders, now serv
ing in the Soudan.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for aDy case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure.
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 & Tbuax,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Mabyin,
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
Here is an estimate of the chick
en crop: There are about 850,000,-
000 chickens in the United States.
They produce each year about 14,-
000,000,000 eggs, which represents
$175,000,000. Besides, $160,000,-
000 worth of poultry is eatenin the
country during the-year, and the
value of the living hens, at 20/
apiece, is fiigured at $150,000,000.
Thus, the hen stands for about
$855,000,000 in the yearly econo
mies of the United States.
This season there is a large
death rate among children from
croup and lung troubles. Prompt
action will save the little ones
from these terrible diseases. We
know of nothing so certain to give
instant relief as One Minute
Cough Cure. It can also be relied
upon in grippe and all throat and
lung troubles of adults. Pleasant
to take. H. M. Hoitzclaw’s Drug
store.