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VOL. XXX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1901.
NO. 12,
A SCHOOL COMPOSITION.
XHS BOOK X LIKE BEST.
Greater Than The Government.
perry Public School—by Sue Wellons,Irregular.
After carefully thinking over
the list of books I have read, it
gtrikes me that “St Elmo” is the
best for manv reasons.
First, the moral character of
the book. There is not an im
pure word or thought between the
lids. There is nothing that the
most refined and cultured cannot
read and enjoy. Next,the diversity
of character, drawn so dramatic
ally, would lead one to think the
writer had a very keen perception
of the heart and brain. Edna
Pearl Earl as a child was beauti
ful. Her devotion and faith are
so pure the young reader has a de
lire to be like her. The great sor
row of the child over the death of
her grand-father stirs the deepest
feelings of the heart, and One
feels that one is walking on holy
ground when she kisses the dear
old face and realizes that death
has entered the cottage. _
Then comes the beautiful lan
guage. The pen pictures of scen
ery and situation. Every word
seems to have been chosen with
the utmost care, and put before
the reader as a sparkling gem of
thought to elevate and inspire.
The pen pictures of nature are
especially fine. One almost sees
the setting sun, the crimson
clouds, and the shinning stars in
the far away blue. The gifted
writer speaks not only to the
heart, but she charms the intel
lect, she stirs the emotions to
higher ideas of life in its different
phases.
Some may say the characters
are oyer-drawn. I think not. Ed-
pure Christiam character
na s
stands out in bold relief against
the back-ground of St Elmo’s
blackened, sinful life. Who
would not admire the Christian
courage, patience and faith of Ed
na?
Who would not stand in rever
ence before the grand old minis
ter, who had gone down into the
valley of sorrow, and then climed
to the mount of Faith, Hope and
Charity? No, not over-drawn.
The character of St Elmo was
drawn by a master hand. Who
would like to be like him? And
yet there must have been left a
spark of the once noble manhood.
Edna’s pure Christian life first,
and then love fanned to life a
blaze of consecration the world
thought dead.
I like this book for its literary
merit and its purity of thought.
I admire the writer, for she is a
Georgia woman and she speaks to
the Southern heart. .
Atlanta Constitution.
That business combination may
even become greater than the gov
ernment itself is shown by thepig-
ures of the new steel trust. Thus
it is told that—
The newly organized United
States Steel Corporation takes in
companies owning seventy-eight
blast furnances, 149 steel works
and six finishing plants. This in
cludes bar mills, structural steel
and plate mills, tinplate works,
sheet mills and wire rod and wire
nails mills.
The annual capacity in finish
ing material is about 9,000,000.
tons.
The company owns Lake Supe
rior iron mines, which produced
last year nearly 11,000,000 tons
of ore.
It has 19,809 coke ovens, 70,-
880 acres of coal lands and about
30,000 acres of surface lands in
the coal region.
Its lake fleet will number sixty-
six vessels.
When the Rockefeller ore and
vessel interest is absorbed, which,
it is said, will probably be done
laber^the iron ore capacity will be
increased about 2,000,000 tons a
year and the number of lak& ves
sels by fifty-nine, making 125
large ore carriers in all.
A conservative estimate of the
number of men employed by the
company’s various interests puts
it at 125,000.
The capacity of the consolida
tion’s seventy-eight blast furna
ces is upward of 6.500,000 tons of
pig iron a year, or half the pig
iron output of the United States
in 1900.
When two or three such corpo
rations as this get together they
will be able to command treasur
ies and armies.
Inauguration Aftermath.
Overreached Himself.
Prof. Ivison, of Lonaconing,
Md., suffered terribly from neu
ralgia of the stomach and indi
gestion for thirteen years and af
ter the doctors failed to cure him
they fed him on morphine. A
friend advised the use of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure and after ^taking a
few bottles of it he says, “It has
cured me entirely. I can’t say
too much for Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure.” It digests what you eat.
H. M. Holtzclaw.
The rc ceipts from the sale of
tickets to the inaugural ball, sup
per and concert, it is said, will
foot up a total of about $1,000
above the coat of the preparations
for the occasion. This extra $1> _
000 will be donated to charities
in the District of Columbia. It
requires some pretty shrewd finan
ciering to make such a great pub
lic fnuction pay for itself.—Sa
vannah News.
Mr. Blue belter is a thrifty ba
ker. A couple of years ago he
conceived the idea of increasing
his profits on doughnuts and crul
lers by making the holes larger in
those dainties. Ever since then
until two months ago he has been
chuckling over his shrewdness.
Then suddenly he had a misgiv
ing. Perhaps in making the hole
larger it required more dough to
go around it.
For his peace of mind he must
demonstrate it. He did so, and
to his horror he discovered that
for years he had been giving more
doughnut for the money than he
had before.
Every since the dreadful discov
ery he has been a changed man,
brooding over his loss and fiigur-
ing on a scheme to make holed
doughnuts with little dough. He
has finally fallen into melancho
lia, atod his family.and friends are
apprehensive that he may go in
sane.
A Horrible Outbreak
“Of large sores on my little
daughter’s head developed into a
case of scald head,” writet C. D.
Isbill of Morgantown, Tenn., but
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve complete
ly cured her. It’s a guaranteed
cure for Eczema, Tetter, Salt
Rheum, Pimples, Sores, Ulcers
andPileB. Only 25 cents at H,
M. Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
The Barnesville dispensary has
been ordered closed and the debt
of $8,000 which is now hanging
over the city for liquors purchas
ed for the dispensary and which
has been fought on the ground of
its being and illegal obligation,
has been ordered paid.
On March 9th our Washington
Correspondent wrote as follows
concerning certain incidents con
nected with the Inaugural cere
monies of March 4th:
“The Inauguration is over.
Aside from the actual inaugural
ceremonies, the most oonspicuous
points in connection with it were
the rain, the beautiful ball anc.
the rowdyism of the Pennsylva
nia troops. “The finest weather
ever experienced at an inaugura
tion” had been promised by
Chief Moore of the Weather Bu
reau, but nevertheless there was £
down pour that made things most
unpleasant for the President and
for the crowds on the stand at the
Capitol, for those on the stands
along the route of the procession
and for the troops in line. It wil
no longer be proper for the weath
er bureau to cast aspersions on the
lowly ground hog, after making
so utter a mistake only twelve
hours before the time for fulfill
ment. The ball was beautiful
It was held in the Pension Office,
which was decorated under the su
pervision of eminent architects.
The cost to the Government is
estimated by Commissioner Evans
at about $30,000, mostly in sala
ries, the clerks having been given
a week’s extra holiday in order to
let th^ building be available
“The Pension Office,” says Mr
Evans, “ought never again to be
used for an inaugural ball. The
business of the bureau is too im
portant to be interfered with, even
in degree, for such a reason. It
would probably no 4 t pay the Gov
ernment to erect a building espec
ially for inaugural balls, but in
the erection of future Government
structures, some provision should
be made for functions of this
kind.” The Pennsylvania troops
played the rowdy to perfection
There were 9,000 of them here,
more than one-fourth of the en
tire force in line in the parade
They were furnished with mat
tresses in the corridors of the
State, War and Navy buildings,
where also on the top floor the
Porto Ricans were quartered. The
latter conducted themselves with
dignity and left little offensive
evidence of their stay in the build
ing. . The Pensylvanians, howev
er, quartered in the .lower floors,
were careless, and left the build
ing in a filthy condition. It took
a force of fifty charwomen all day
long to clean two floors which
they occupied. Fortunately, they
did comparaitively little damage
inside the- building, the rougher
element contenting themselves
apparently with riots in the
streets, where they created a ver
itable reign of terror in the disrep^
utable quarter of the town. On
two occasions they fought pitched
battles with the police, tried to
murder a colored officer and loot
ed numbers of shops and fruit
stands. Their conduct was mere
ly a renewal of that of eight years
ago, when their state had to ap
propriate to pay for the damage
done by them.
Like Oliver Twist, children ask
for more when given One Minute
Cough Cure. Mothers endorse it
highly for croup. It quickly cures
all coughs and colds and every
throat and lung trouble. It is a
specific for grippe and asthma,and
has long been a well known reme
dy for whooping cough. Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore.
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.
When you are billious, use those
famous little pills known as De-
Witt’s Little Early Risers to
cleanse the liver and bowels. They
! never gripe. H. M. Holtzclaw’s
{Drugstore.
Four states, Colorado, Illinois,
Lonisian and Massachusetts, have
passed a law making it unlawful
to sell cocaine without the pre
scription of a licensed physician.
Stop the Cough andWor&s off the Cold
Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No Cure,
No Pay. Price 25 cents.
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