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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.