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4*. V. jOHX H. HODGES, T»ropr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #l.SO a Year in Advance. \rOL. XXX. 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. 25/. y l ' Hi - 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. ^o-*> 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. Subscribe for The Home Journal. Come and see THE BEST SUIT in Macon. Burnett & Goodman, 154 THIRD STREET. KESSLER BROS., 414 & 416 Third St. MACON, GA. Gf63t CLOSE-OUT Sale :OF:- Winter Clothing, Winter Shoes, Heavy-Weight Dry Goods, Overcoats, Mclntoshes, &c.—in fact every article of WINTER ROODS in our store must pe sold within thd next six weeks. We have to have the room. There's $20,000 worth of it. You ask how are we going to sell all ihese goods in so short a time. Well, we know how Jto do it. Make the prices right-—that moves ’em. From to-day every article in our store wi 1 be sold AT AND LESS THAN NEW YORK COST until our Entire Stock of Cold-Weather Goods is sold. And remember that this stock is one of the most staple in the city of Macon, consisting of Dry Goods, Shoes, Cloth ing, Hats, Millinery, Motions, &e. In fact you can find here everything that you need to wear. You cannot afford to miss seeing us when yon come to Macon. mm 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. JOB WORK Now is the time to ham your JOB WORK The Rome J< prepared to do it in a neat and artistic manner at r Me prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Warns Ws Wma Fqwb @bbbb§. . E- ■ ' BSH ■Rr