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jOHX H. HODGES, T»ropr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #l.SO a Year in Advance.
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1901,
NO. 7.
A MEMORY.
A Day Dream Indulged in by Dedeebe.
Written for the Home 7 Journal.
What fateful mood is this which
possesses me? lam being trans
ported hither and thither without
volition. I see men and condi
tions that are, perhaps, not allow
ed to others. I see, first, the old
Evergreen Cemetery. _ A strange
company and small it is. No weep
ing mother or sister has followed
to its last resting-place, the body
of our beloved “Ret Hulsey, the
first victim of the fearful small
pox that scourges the community..
‘‘He died well,” they said. May
fie rest in peace. Swiftly I am
transported. In the far West I
find the White and the Britt
“boys,” now middle-aged and
men of affairs. Bock to old Geor
gia I am hurried, and amid the
councils of the city of Rome I find
Mulford Pepper, the honest May
or of the city. “Way down upon
the Suannee River,” I find But-
tler and Leo Pritchett, hunters
now of the saurian, as they were
Nimrods in the other days. Now
I am a boy again in old Perry, as
we follow the form of our beloved
Cornelius Norwood to old Ever
green. A princely fellow, and lov
able character, I see many mourn
ing. Now youth is verging into
manhood, and Napoleon David
“ falls on sleep.” The spirit
takes me again, and I travel to
the hills of Tennessee, to look on
the grave where sleeps “Gene”
Jobson; sweet spirited Gene, as
true friend as man ever had. Now
I am home again. I see men with
beards on their faces, but they are
the “boys” still. Some of them
are married to the sweet-hearts
who so proudly watched them
drill in the other days. John
Brown has “gone on” tome years
before, and now comes the news
that Cornelius has been foully
murdered. As his death was vio
lent, we all breathe a prayer that
his “end may be peace.” Sadly
again we follow Tom Cox, who
has fallen just in the pride of a
young manhood. Surely the spir
it of my dream has a sad mood,
for I find myself again, first in
far away Texas, where he points
out the grave of Jake Riley. I am
constrained to write “poor Jake,”
the butt of many a ridicule, but a
friend and comrade: now again to
Florida, and I am shown where
fell John Gordon. Dear old John,
how much he was loved. Way
ward and fretful at times, he had
in him a “heart of gold,” which
the Great Artisan, may we hope,
will one day fashion into a “crown
of rejoicing.”
Now I am again amid familiar
scenes, and the dream spirit in a
happier mood, for I am talking
with the “boys” of the days of
the “golden long ago.” Charlie
Hodges is in Washington, D. C.,
serving Uncle Sam in the civil
service; Charlie Brown and Jack
Ragin are merchandising in Hawk-
insville; the Clark boys are men
of affairs, and John Collier is
“somewhere’\in the great “Gate
City” of Georgia; the King boys t
(sons of the Presbyterian preach
er) are in another city, and our
own inimitable Jo- (King), as
Klf King was wont to call him, is
an honored citizen of Eastman.
Kow another shadow falls athwart
the brightness of the picture, as I
hear the sad details of the death
self; the sweet tenor that we often
heard raised in song, was mingled
with the gibberish of the - imbecile.
How sad 1 nay, all hearts saddened
as his life passed from among us.
But here is old Perry again, and
Fanny Gresham Branch, the
“fountain of youth,” with its le
gend, and the “boys” have not
grown older, just changed a little.
I stop by the way and chat with
one o f aldermanic proportions. It;
is “Bob” now “Major” Holtz-:
claw. Down the street I see a lit- 1
tie man, with iron- gray
OUR GOLD PRODUCT.
tache and hair, it is John Hodges,
for years the able editor of the
the Home Journal, and the pro
moter of many good enterprises.
Ben Holtzclaw is here, too, and he
says John Swift is doing well in
Atlanta, and John Jobson is with
a leading jewelry firm in Macon.
I see, as I stand on the street, an-
The course of legislatisn during
mous- the past quarter of a century has
other figure, and I do not seem to producing states come California,
stimulated gold production all
over the world and it has doubled
in the'-United States. Leslie’s
Weekly says:
“Colorado stands first in the
production of both the precious
metals, its output last year aggre
gating $28,500,000 gold and $20,-
292,000 silver. Next in the gold
able to locate him. Time and the
cares of this world have whitened
this “boy’s” hair. Ah, he^smiles
at me and now, I know him ; it is
Miller Gordon, changed much, it
is true, to some, but the same old
Miller. John David is a Houston
county farmer. But here comes
one down the street with measur
ed tread, head uplifted, “eyes to
the front,” just as of yore. Who
would not know him?It’s “Bote”,
our old captain, now familiarly
called “Doc”, for he has long
since laid aside the sword for the
scalpel, and like a good physician,
he is healing instead of making
wounds.
But I hear that drum again,
“Rat-tat-tat,” The “Peny Rifles”
are assembling. Many of the boys
look familiar, but it is merely a
resemblance; I do not know them.
“Well wife,” I remark, as I
awake, “I have had a wonderfnl
dream as I sat here, but I must
get ready for the prayer meeting
services to night.” And as I stand
that night amid the worshippers,
the dream spirit plays me one
more prank, *nd in the preacher I
recognize the little fellow who so
eagerly “fell in” at the bottom
of the line, trying to be a faithful
“soldier of the cross.” And as
wife and I “talked it all over”
that night, we breathed a quite
prayer that if we meet no more
on earth, may we all meet “in
the sweet bye and bye 1 ’ ’
November 9th, 1898.
A Bi® Crop Sure.
From indications the earth and
fence corners, garden spots and
potato patches are going to.be put
in cotton this year. And if it is
done woe be unto the farmers next
fall, when cotton sells for 5 cents
a pound. McKinley prosperity
won’t be here then, but the land
will be filled with sighs and
groans and lamentations, and the
blistering mortgage will again -be
spread on the farms and crops.
But then, such is the waywardness
of this wicked and preserve gen
eration. No amount of experience
teaches us anything.—Marietta
Journal.
—'O-O'fe- : — —
Had To Conquer Or Die.
“I was just abobt gone,” writes
Mrs. Rosa Richardson, of Laurel
Springs, N. C., “I had consump
tion so bad that the best doctors
said I could not live more than a
month, but I began to use Dr.
King’s New Discovery and was
wholly cured by seven bottles and
am now stout and well.” It’s an
unrivaled life-saver in Consump
tion, Pneumonia, La Grippe and
Bronchitis; infallible for Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, Croup
or Whooping Cough. Guaranteed
bottles .50c and $1.00. Trial bot
tles free at H. M. Holtzclaw s drug
store. .
Children in the big cities do not
get a very intimate knowledge of
“animated nature.” The Chicago
Journal says that seventy-eight
children were recently polled at a
“fat stock show.” Only eight had
seen a cow before, four had seen a
hog, six had seen a sheep.
T0o Cure A Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails t° cure. E. W.
Grove’s signature is on each box.
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with $14,877,000; Alaska, with
$7,771,000; South Dakota, $6,617,-
000, and Montana, $5,126,000.
The greatest silver state next to
Colorado is Montana, which last
year produced $16,750,000 worth.
Utah, with $9,500,000; Idaho,
with $4,500,000, and Arizona,
with $4,250,000, were the other
great silver states. The gold out
put of the United States last year
was over twice that of silver, the
figures standing $79,322,000 of the
former and $36,363,000 of the lat
ter. We paid $7,500,000 to Rus
sia in 1867 for Alaska, which was
considerably less, than Alaska’s
output of gold last year.”
In the course of time the law of
demand and supply will readjust
the ratios of value between gold
and silver, and we may yet see
surrounding changes in the atti
tude of publicists toward the two
metals.—Atlanta News.
$IOO Bewar<8, $100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cum known to the medi
cal fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure is taten internally,
acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the sys
tem, thereby destroying the foun
dation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers, that they of
fer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address, F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
One of our merchants remarked
a few days ago that he intended to
begin saving money by putting
away one cent the first day, two
the second and thus continue to
double the amount each day. He
then made a calculation for thir
ty days’ savings and found that
on the last day of the month the
amount for that day would be
over $5,000,000. He has given up
the idea of saving money at that
rate.—Sandersville Progress.
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Recent experiments shoy that
all classes of food may be com
pletely digested by a preparation
called Kodol Dyspepsi^ Cure,
which absolutely digests what you
eat. As it is the only combination
of all the natural digestahts ever
devised, the demand for it has be
come enormous. It has never fail
ed to cure the very worst cases of
indigestion, and it always gives
instant relief. Holtzc aw’s Drug
store.
Some of the cod lines used in
the fishing industry measure 7,000
fathoms long, or about eight ordi
nary miles, hsving 4,680 hooks,
the whole costing, in some cases,
£200 or £300.
The Best Prescription for Malaria,
Chills and Fever is a bottle of
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
It is simply iron and quinine in a
tasteless form. No cure—no pay.
Price 50c.
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:OF:-
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AT AND LESS THAN NEW YORK COST
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here everything that you need to wear. You cannot afford
to miss seeing us when yon come to Macon.
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414 and 416 Third Street,
MACON, GA.
U. B.—We have bought the stock of Mr. M. Elkin at
about 25 cents on the dollar, and from this stock yon can
get staple goods for almost nothing.
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