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Temper and Tongue. A London merchant had a dispnte with a Quaker about a bill. The merchant said he would go to law about it; the Quaker tried all means to keep him from doing so. One morning the Quaker resolved to make a last attempt, and he called at the merchant’s home and asked the servant if his master was at home. The merchant heard him, and knowing his voice, called from the stairs, “Tell the rascal I am not at home.” The Quaker looking up ac him, calmly said, “Well, friend, God grant thee a .better mind.” The merchant was struck with the meek ness of the reply, and he looked into the disputed bill and found that the Quaker was right and he was wrong. He called to see him, and after con fessing his error, he said: “I have one question to ask you: How were you able so often to bear my abuse with patience?” “Friend,” said the Qiuaker, “I will tell thee. I had once as bad a temper as thou hast. I knew that to yield to this temper was sinful, and I found that it was unwise. J noticed that men in a passion spoke loud, and I thought that if I could control my voice I should keep my passion. I have, therefore, made it a rale never to let my voice rise above a certain key, and by carefully observing this rule, I have, by God’s help, mastered my temper.—Exchange. Wise or Otherwise. Sweet Potato Flour. Things to Forget. If you would increase your happi ness and prolong your life, forget your neighbor’s faults. Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the temptations. Forget the fault-find ing and give a little thought to the cause which provoked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends and only remember the good points which make you fond of them. For get all personal quarrels or histories you may have heard by accident, and which, if repeated, would seem a thousand times worse than they are. Blot out as far as possible all the disagreeables of life; they will come, but will grow larger when you remember them, and the constant •thought of the acts of meanness, or, worse still, malice, will tend to make you more familiar with them. Ob literate everything disagreeable from yesterday; start out with a clean sheet for to-day, and write upon it for sweet memory’s sake only those things which are lovely and lovable. —The Trumpeter. Between the ages of fifteen and forty-five, the time when woman hood begins and motherhood ends, it is estimated that the aggregate term of woman’s suffering is ten years. Ten years out of thirty! One third of the best part of a woman’s life sacrificed! Think of the enor mous loss of time! But time is not iall that is lost. Those years of suf fering steal the bloom from the cheeks, the brightness from the eyes, the fairness from the form. They write their record in many a crease and wrinkle. What a boon, then, to •women, is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre scription. It promotes perfect reg ularity c dries up debilitating drains, heals ulceration, cures female weak ness, and establishes the delicate womanly organs in vigorous and permanent health. No other medi cine can do for woman what is done by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion. Money will not buy food for a hungry heart. A true man scorns pleasure that gives others pain. Conscience makes more bluffers than it does cowards. The man who isn’t true to the world isn’t true to himself. Ignorance occas : onally borrows garments and poses as wisdom. Use the fewest possible words when you have anything to say. Good talkers are plentiful but good listeners are hard to find. No man can be a successful miser unless he is lost to all sense of shame. Nature supplies a man with char acter, but he must furnish his own reputation. Lots of good people would go wi’ong if they didn’t fear punish ment. The troubles we expect are" sel dom as black as their shadows indi cate. A woman’s curiosity will go at least three times as far as her pin money. The failure of one man is often the beginning of another man’s suc cess. Too many men like to stand around and grunt while some other man lifts. A gentleman doesn’t forget his manners the moment he opens his own door. Little Classics. man Two-inch ice will sustain a or properly spaced infantry, says Science Siftings; four-inch ice will carry a man on horseback, or caval ry, or light gims; six-inch ice, heavy field guns, such as eighty-pounders; eight-inch ice, a battery or artillery, with carriages and horses, but not over 1,000 pounds per square foot on sledges, and ten-inch ice sustains an army or an innumerable multi tude. On fifteen-inch ice a railway could be built, and two-feet ice will stand'the impact of a loaded railway carriage after a sixty-foot fall. . — 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’s drugstore. Subscribe for the Home Journal. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Coutaiu Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when en tering it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, act ing directlv upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in To ledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by drug- gis.s, price 75c. per bottle. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. A girl cannot too sedulously guard her mother, nor too gently bear with her, if the mother have reached a pe riod where she is more easily wearied than formerly, and where little things vex her. To some of us there come days when our hearts are heavy be cause we were not so sweet and lov ing as we might have been, and God alone can help us when this realiza tion comes too late.—Margaret E. Sangster in the April Ladies’ Home Journal, Yon Know What You Are Taking When you take Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic because the for mula is plainly printed , on every lottle showing that it is simply ‘ron and Quinine in a tasteless orm. No pure, no pay. Price 50c. Of the hundreds of thousands of passengers carried by British ships in »1899, only 116 lost their lives through shipwreck. CASTOR IA • For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hove Always Bought Bears the Signature of The American Flour Manufactur ing Company of Vineland, N. J., has just been incorporated with a capi- , talization of $1,000,000, for the mak- j ing of flour from sweet potatoes, j The company was organized by I H. S. Morris, a member of whose ‘ family invented and procured a pat ent on the process of converting sweet potatoes into flour, which is of a bright golden yellow, and has a sweet taste which is very pleasant. The Vineland mill is said to be the first in the country to manufac ture flour out of sweet potatoes, and the farmers there are jubilant, as a ready home market for their big crops is now assured. Education is the apprenticeship of life.—Willmot. Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.—Bovee. Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift. Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.—-Browning. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.—Shakespeare. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.—Wendell Phillips. Earth is here so kind; just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.—Douglass Jerrold. After all we must come back to the old truism: that men and women are like water; they always find their true level. And where you live hap piest, that is your level. Tiiere’s pol luted water, and there’s clear water. Bui one law is inexorable; the closer you get to Nature, the truest and simplest thing there is because it is closest to God, the clearer always will you find the water.—April La dies’ Home Journal. •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 COMMONER, Issued Weekly, William J. Bryan, Editor and Publishrr, Lincoln, Nebraska Terms—Payable in Advance. One Tear $1.00 Six Months .60 Three Months 35 Stable Copy 07 No travelin canvassers are employed. Terms for local agents will be sent upon application. All money should be sent by P. O. order, Express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks or stamps. We club with The ronimonpr. mm AND ENCYCLOPEDIA. c4 Statistical e Voktme of Facts and Figures Containing Cher 600 Pages* OVER 1,000 TOPICS. OVER io,ooo PACTS. SPECIAL FEATURES* The census of *900. National and State elec tion returns. Four centuries of American prog ress. Political record of *900 (conventions and platforms). American rulein the Philippines. N e w govern ments of Porto Rico and Ha waii. Polar exploration in *900. Conclusion of the South African war. Pan-American Exposition of *90*. China—Its present con dition and status among nations. Roster of general officers of the Regular U. S. Army, *789—1900. I A Political Register. I that every patriot and voter ought to know. Cotton and Mules. MOORE <Ss IHIOLLdllES, ^ 5 COTTON FACTORS, gjgfilfe MACON, CA. - |g& Besides condueting a Cotton Warehouse on the most favorable terms to farmers, we handle at all times . . . . , THE BEST KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE ...Mules and Horses... Our prices are reasonable, and every animal is guar- antesd to be as represented in condition and qualities. Willingham Sash and Door Co. -DEALERS IN- Mantels, Paint, Lumber, Lime, Cement, Builders’ Hardware, Etc ■No. 457 Third Street, Macon, Ga. 9 : THIRD . THIRD AND POPLAR. SHINHOLSER’S. AND POPLAR. When you come to Macon call at my repository and see the most complete line of Vehicles ever , shown in Macon, including every size in FARM WAGOffS from one to aix-horse. In pleasure vehicles everything from a Road Cart at $17.50 to the most handsome Rubber-Tired Victoria at $750 00. \2E> : ds, Postpaid to any address. THE WORLD, PnUizer BUttgii Jfea> In Automobiles: “Locomobiles’ 7 for two and. four passengers; “Auto- rettes” for one passenger. Our Locomobiles are guaran teed to run from ten to fifteen miles per hour oh country roads,regardless of hills or sand,at a cost of 1 cent per mile. When you need anything on wheels write or call. THIRD AND POPLAR. 51 THIRD AND POPLAR. 5 Agt- I am better prepared than ever to supply your wants in Hardware, Stoves, Cutlery, Tinware. WOODENWARE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, it©. I buy goods for spot cash, and therefore I sell as low,"a; anybody in Macon. 308 THIRD STREET. NEAR POSTOFFICE.