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JOHN'H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROCRESS AND CULTURE. #1.50 a, Year 111 Advance.
VOL. XXX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1J, 1901.
NO. 15,
kink in trouble.
Home Journal:
pear Sir—We don’t like to troub
le folks, an’ we am sorry we bother
ed you ’bout dat scription bizness.
We hope you ain’t been worried
m nch wid us. I tell you, boss, we
bin had er hard time. ’Bout all de
uiggertf up here is bin had de grip,
a n’ sum uv ’em is bin laid ter res’.
An’ ’bout de time de trees ’gun ter
sprout out, an’ we wuz thinkin’ ’bout
plantin’ com, it sot in ter rainin’ an*
it jes look like it gwine ter keep on
er rainin’; look like we won’t git no
corn planted dis year. Yes, boss, we
er havin’ er hard time certain.
sho is
One day week ’fo las’ de sun shine
out right smart, an’ we ’cided dat
de groun’ back over nex’ ter de Wil-
lenham place might sorter do ter
plow. So we koch up de mules an’
took de plows an’ went off over dar,
an’ de groun’ wuz mos’ too wet, but
we ’cided ter plow on anyhow. So
we got sorter straitened out, an’ by
dinner time we had right smart er
plowin’ dun. Way long after ’while
de bell rung fur dinner an’ we took
out de mules an’ went ter de house.
An’ we watered de mules an’ den -we
fed ’em. Den we went on ter de
house feelin’ right good ’bout de
prospecks. We jes’ sot right down
ter de table an’ sed grace; den we
went ter dumpin’ one thing an’ er-
nother in our plate. Now, boss, I’m
gwine ter tell you de truf fo’ de
Lord. Fo’ we had time ter eat er
moufel ob dat dinner we didn’t had
no appetite. Sump’n hapened what
wuz wuser den de grip, wuser den
all de rain what fell in de flood.
Boss, it’s de truf fo’ de Lord. De
develty sheriff run in ’on us an’ had
us ’rested fo’ we kud say scat. Well,
sir, I clean forgot dat dinner, an’ I
didn’t want no supper, an’ my appe
tite ain’t right yit. Well, boss, dis
wuz one skeered nigger, sho. But
atter while I got sorter calmed
down, an’ I say, Boss, what dis er
bout? I ain’t dun nuthin’. He ’low,
well, Romlis Williams dun got war-
ents fer all de nigers ’roun here
mos’. I say, Good God, dat so? He
say, yes, Romlis say you all bin er
skinnin’ an’ er crappin’ wid him.
Desso. But he say, now if you nig
ers kin git de white fokes ter go on
de bon’ I won’t take you ter jail; an’
dey will have ter bring you to court
Saddy week. Well, mos’ all de nig
ers got de white fokes on de bon*.
Ter see, boss, de white fokes dey
bledes ter git dese nigers out, ’cos
dey kain’t git er long widoutum.
Well’ hit wuz more’n er week fo’
court. We jes’ had er plenty ob time
ter git er good understandin’ all
’roun ’mong de witnesses. De white
fokes ’low de dev’lish nigers ain’t
gwine ter do nothin’ till atter de
court is all over; said how dey wuz
all ’moralized, an’ dey wuz, too.
Well, dat Saddy sho’ cum, an’ de
white fokes had ter go, ’cos dey wuz
on de bon’. An’ we had ter go, 'cos
Rpmlis dun sent de warent atter us.
An’ er whole lot er other nigers had
ter go ’cos dey wuz witnesses. An’
den de res’ ob de nigers ’cided dey
would go an’ see how de thing wuz
er cumin’ out. An’ some ob de nig
ers took dey dogs er long. So here
we went—nigers, mules, dogs an
white fokes, all gwine ter court,
Boss, you show ought ter seed us er
cornin’in. I don’t think you wuz at
home. I sorter looked roun’ er little
fer you ter tell you how I wuz spect-
in’ ter try ter settle up dat ’scription
fo’ long. Den dey wuz er nuther
time you ought ter been dar—wlien
de develty sheriff took us up in ter
de court fo’ de jeg, an’ dey took de
han’cuffs ofer Romlis an’ we gin ter
think dey wuz gwine ter turn de
Biger wild er loose right dar *mong
ns all. But dey didn’t, do. Dey
made him git up dar sorter side de
jeg, an’ went ter axin him ’bout de
skin an’ de crap bizness. He sed
how all us nigers bin er skinnin’ an*
er crappin’ wid him; he gay bn© ob
de nigers beat him out of some nick-
le or fifteen eents. Den, boss, yer
see our time cum. Dey put us up ter
swearin’, an’ you sho’ oughter hered
us sware de cross out. Den when
all de nigers got threw er swearin’,
an’ the lyars got threw er speakin’,
de jeg he sorfer raised back in his
big cheer an’ he say, “Well I sorter
bl’eve you nigers been er skinnin’
an’ er crappin’ wid Romlis, an’ beat
aim out uv his nickle er fifteen cents,
out dey ain’t got coroberations evi
dence.” I dunno who de man wuz; I
spec, do, it wuz some uv Romlis’
kinfokes. Anyhow, boss, he sed ’cos
he didn’t have his evidence he would
turn all us nigers er loose. But he
say ef we don’t stop- skinnin’ an’ er
crappin’ wid Romlis, fust an’ last
he’ll sho’ git us.
Well, jes’ as quick as we kud git
out de court house we struck fer
home, and on de way one niger say
ter me, look like de jeg wan ter bleve
Romlis fo’ all de res’ ob us. Jes’ so.
Well I say we dun got out all right
now an’ it ain’t cost de white fokes
much, so we jes’ won’t talk. ’Bout
dat time one er de white men he
come sailin’ by an’ he say to me, an’
yer don’t know er ace fum er jack?
an’ I say, in cose I don’t. Yer see
it’s dis er way: When de niger gits
koch up like dat fo’ de jeg an’ de
develty sheriff an’ all dem lyars, he
gits skeered an’ he jes’ kain’t know
de ace fum .de jack. But I must
close, boss; de crap is gittin’ bad
berhind. Your sarvint,
Kink.
Morgan’s Railway Combination.
At last we are assured by scien
tific authority that the stuff that
dreams are made of has been dis
covered; and it’s all so simple when
one knows about it. Dr. Bergson
of Paris is. the iconoclast who has
smashed the pretty theory of dreams
invented by poets, artists and musi
cians. The circulation of the blood
in the retina, and the pressure of the
eyelids upon the optic nerve, he says,
cause color sensation. The colors as
sume phantom shapes which stir the
memory; and that Js what dreams
are made of.
Either Joe Terrell, Pope Brown,
Fleming duBignon, Seab Wright,
Clark Howell, W. A. Hemphill, Por
ter King, Dupont Guerry, Thos. G.
Lawson, Sam Inman, Henry G. Tur
ner, Seaton Grantland, W. J. Kin
caid, or some other good man, will
be governor nf Georgia next time.
This is official. Let aspiring politi
cians and perspiring newspapers take
this pointer and get on the winning
side. Nothing charged for this, gen
tlemen.—Monroe Advertiser.
New York World.
Alter waiting for two years for the
proper moment, J. Pierpont Morgan
has plumped his Panama canal
scheme at the president and the
president is nibbling at the bait.
In order to complete his transpor
tation projects Morgan wants to
to build the Panama canal.
He has had a company to bring
that about for some time. Now he
thinks the opportunity has arrived.
He will have Hutin, the Frenchman,
removed from the presidency of the
Panama Canal Company, will take
over the French concession of $40,-
000,000, will give this government
any privileges it may want, and asks
in return the absolute killing of the
Nicaragua canal scheme to be built
by government capital.
Besides, Mr. Morgan knows that
at the Pacific end of the canal he
wants to build there is a great de
posit of anthracite coal and some
valuable gold, and these incidental
advantages have not escaped him,
“It won’t cost the government a
cent,” said Mr. Morgan to President
McKinley. “It will be good politics
not to tie the country up to an ex
penditure of $200,000,000 for a ca
nal.”
The proposition submitted to the
president is that an American syndi
cate be permitted to complete the
Panama canal. No foreigners will
be represented in the company.
Nothing but American money will be
used. The work will be expedited
to the utmost. Congress will have
the right to enact such legislation
as will reserve to the United States
full control in time of war, general
supervision in time of peace, low
rates to the passage cf government
vessels and such other regulations
as will give the government all the
advantages arising from actual own
ership.
The political end of the proposi
tion is this: The president has been
shown that the initial appropriation
for beginning the building of the
Nicaraguan canal would be no less
than $30,000,000 for the first year
and a fixed charge appropriation of
$20,000,000 per annum for the next
ten years. The enormous expendi
tures authorized by the last congress
have brought the treasury within
sight of a deficit. The appropria
tions of the next congress will be
equally heavy and the likelihood of
a deficit vastly augmented.
•
Job Couldn’t Have Stood It
If he’d had Itching Piles.
They’re terribly annoying; but
Bucklen’s Arnica salve will cure
the worst case of Piles on earth.
It has cured thousands. For in
juries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions
it’s the best salve in the world.
Price 25/ a box. Cure guaran
teed. Sold by druggists,
General Evans, commander of the
Georgia division of the United Con
federate Veterans, wants to carry
500 pretty girls to the Memphis re
union. The General is very fond of
pretty girls (and who isn’t), and is
very anxious to have Georgia well
represented.
Whose Girl Are You?
Do you ever have the headache
so you can’t go to the theatre with
him‘< > Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
cures headache, and if you take it
according to directions you can pre
vent its return. Sold by druggists.
A Raging, Roaring Flood
Washed down a telegraph line
which Chas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon,
la., had to repair. “Standing
waist deep in icy water,” he
writes, “gave me a terrible cold
and cough. It grew worse daily.
Finally the best doctors in Oak
land, Neb., Sioux City and Oma
ha said I had consumption and
could not live. Then I began us
ing Dr. King’s New Discovery and
was wholly cured by six bottles.”
Positively guaranteed for coughs,
colds and all throat and lung
troubles. Price 50c. and $1.00..
Trial bottles free at Holtzclaw’s
Drugstore.
“How many stops has your or
gan?” asked the curious neighbor.
«Three,” sadly answered the father
of Hie musical family; “breakfast,
dinner and supper."
Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure a cold in one day. No Cure,
No Pay. Price 25 cents.
An interesting matter, from a sci
entific point of view, in connection
with the death of the Queen is the
distance at which the sound of fir
ing was heard when the fleet saluted
as the body was conveyed from
Cowes to Portsmouth. Letters in
the English journals of science show
that the sounds of the guns were
heard in several places at a distance
of 84 miles, and that at a distance of
60 miles the concussions were suffi
ciently intent to shake windows.
According to an eidumge. the lat-
eat style in hair dressing for worn®
is to mate it look as though it hadn tT
been combed in weeks.
The lingering cough following
grippe calls for One Minute Cough
Cure. For all throat and lung
troubles this is the only harmless
remedy that gives immediate re
sults. Prevents consumption.
Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
He who drinks the health of ev
erybody drinks away his own.
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