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JOURNAL. JOHTS XX. HODGES, Propr, DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. £X.SO a, Year in Advance. VOL. XXX. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8.1901 NO. 32. Introducing American Methods in England. Scientific American. The immense workshop that the British branch of the West- inghouse Engineering and Manu facturing Company are having erected at Manchester js rapidly approaching completion. ^Vhen in working order it will be a busy hive of British indu9ty, giving employment to some 6,000 peo ple. Americans will control the business for the first few months, and will then be succeeded by En glish engineers who at present are being initiated into American business methods at Pittsburg. The works cover 40 acres of ground and are divided into sev en departments. The machine shop covers eight arses. Prom the north end of this shop to the south end of the power house there is a single stretch of roof 1,- 135 feet in length by 427 feet in width. The steel and iron foun dries each cover nearly six acres; while the brass and malleable iron each cover approximately four acres. There is also a fine six-story block of offices with a frontage of 250 feet. The building contains 15,000 tons ,of work, which has cast $90 a ton, and 9.000,000 feet of timber. The elec tricity will at first be generated by steam power, but this will be subsequently supplanted by gas engines. All through the grounds culverts are laid for the cables for the transmission of power throughout the various depart ments. The buildings alone are costing §4,500,000, and the plant to be installed will represent an other $2,000,000. The location of the factory is ideal. It stands on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, so that the vessels can preceed up to the very doors of the factory, which will result in great economy in handling the goods, while the Bridgewater Ca nal, which also runs alongside, will enable coal to be purchased and delivered at the factory very cheaply; and it is in close connec tion with the principal railroads of the country. When completed it will be one of the largest engi neering factories in Great Britain. The Doweger Empress Freder ick, mother of the German Kai- sss, is again critticalJy ill at Kronberg, Prussia, and grave fears for her are felt by the peo ple of the empire, bv whom she is greatly beloved. It will be re membered that when the Em press’ mother, Queen Victoria, was dying, she herself was too ill to be able to go to England. Her present critical illness is supposed to be a reoccurance of the old l {rouble. The Empress Frederick is the oldest sister of King Ed- i ward. Don’t be satisfied with tempo- Jry relief from indigestion. Ko- «°1 Dyspepsia Cure permanently a ml completely removes the com plaint. It relieves permanently 'because it allows the tired stom- ach perfect rest. Dieting won’t Ie st the stomach. Nature receiv- t J; 8 supplies from the food we eat. the sensible way to help the ^onmck is to use Kodol Dyspep- Sla Cure, which digests what you ®at and can’t help but do you good. ^he stories which the papers Publish, of sudden fortunes made . 7 the turn of the market tend to grease the rage for speculation, be stories of the fortunes lost not bo often heard, because j*°ple do not talk about their los- freely as they do about ltl eir winnings Cure A Cold In One Day ^Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab- .. .• .-All druggists refund the mon: .j it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s Mature is on each box. 25/. The Broom Com Industry. Dawson News. H. C. Hardy has started a new industry near Richland in the raising of broom corn. He is now cutting his crop on what is the largest field of broom corn in this section. Mr. Hardy has all his crop sold to a factory in the south. Nearly all the broom fac tories in the south at present get their broom corn in the west. Speaking of hi3 crop Mr. Hardy says: “The raising of broom corn is a new industry in the south. The average product per acre is 500 pounds of brush. When the soil is fins as much as 1,000 pounds can be raised. As there is no sub stitute for broom corn brush it is always in demand. It is a crop that does best where native corn grows best, requiring the same fertilizing. It does best in bot tom lands. In planting it the rows should be three or four feet apart. It can be planted in hills two to three feet apart, with five or six in the hill. If drilled the stalks should be four or five inch es apart, or what is better chop ont with a No. 2 hoe, leaving three or four in a bunch. Cultivate the same as corn, but be careful not to cover the small plants. The time for harvest in this section (southwest Georgia) is in July. Market prices range from 5 to 8 cents per pound. The seed is fine feed for chickens. Mixed with oats it is fine feed for stock. Cat tle and hogs will thrive on it.” ; <4-0-0- Won Without Trying. High Prices for Negro Labor. j •• — < r-.—. A minister was oqp day walking on a lone road, and, to his aston ishment, he saw a crowd of boys sitting in front of a ring with a small dog in the center, says the London Leader. When he came up to them he put to them the following question: “What are you doing to the dog?” One little boy said: “Whoever tells the biggest lie wins the dog.” “Oh,” raid the minister, “I am surprised at you little boys; for when I was like you I never told lies.” There was a silence for a while until one of the boys shouted:— “Hand him up the dog!” —Sa vannah Morming News. Here are the presumably official figures for population in several countries: China, 95 to the square mile; Spain 96; the Unit ed States, 21; France, 186; Ger many, 26B; Italy, 289; United Kingdom, 8B9; Holland, 411: Belgium, 572. It is said that the most densely populated patch of ground in the world is one of the tenement blocks in New York, where there are 10,000 inhabi tants. To Save Her Child From frightful disfigurement Mrs. Nannie Galleger, of La- Grange, Ga., applied Bucklen s Arnica Salve to great sores on her head and face, and writes its quick cure exceeded all her hopes, it works wonders in Sores, Bruis es, Skin Eruptions, Cuts, Burns Scalds and Piles. 25c. Cure guar anteed . Soldby H. M. Holtzclaw, druggist. — Late census returns. Bhow that there are six American million aires who have become natural ized Britishers. It pleases them and it pleases the United States; whether it pleases the British is another thing. • o t* Mrs H. S. Allpot, Johnstown, Pa., sayff, “Our little girl almost strangled to death with croup. The doctors said she couldn t live but she was instantly relieved _ by One Minute Cough Cure-Holtz- claw’s drugstore. Subscribe for the Home Journal Tif ton Gazette. A movement is on foot among the manufacturers of naval stores to form an organization for mu- tal benefit and (protection. It is | a movement which the Gazette ! hopes will speedily materialize and that it will embrace every producer By an agreement between the naval stores producers and the yellow pine lumber manufactur ers, it would be possible to remedy au evil that just now is a curse to the yellow pine belt, and that is, the excessive prices paid for negro labor. At present, it is unfortunately true that the prices paid for the lowest grade of this labor is not only more than it is worth, but more than the producers can af ford. Among the manufacturers of both lumber and naval stores are men who will pay almost any price to get labor from another op erator, and the result of this com- petion has been an advance in wages far beyond what the profits of the manufacturer warrants. This excessive price, instead of having the effect of increasing the supply of labor,is steadily decreas ing it. An average negro of the lower class only wants what is nec essary to sustain life. This he se cures with two or three days labor per week, and the balance of the time he remains idle,a menace to the public good. As a consequence, the towns, depots, low resort sand excursion trains are crowded with idle negroes, while the manufac turers work is left undone for lack of labor, the farmer’s cotton is un cultivated and even the railroads find it dificult to secure labor for their section work. These thousands of idle negroes are, as even the same number and class of white men would be, a menace to sociaty, law and order. Naval store and lumber manu facturers need an uniform scale of prices for the lower class of labor. Such a scale would be of great ben efit to them and the country at large. ■*»•*. The long drought in the West has been broken at last, copious rains having fallen over a large area of country where a burning sun has been parching all forms of vegitation for forty days. The corn crop is saved in Iowa, though there will not be a full yield. The late corn in Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and the Dakotas is safe, and there will be a big crop of late hay and forage. The total loss to the states affected by the drought is estimated to have been nearly $200,000,000.—Ex. WHEN IN MACON Call on the pioneer Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher, Their Secret is Out. All Sadieville, Ky., was curious to learn the cause of the vast dif ference improvement in the health of Mrs. S. P. Whittaker, who had for a long time endured untold suffering from a chronic bronchial trouble. “It is all due to Dr. King’s New Discovery,” writes her husband. “It complete ly cured her and also cured our little grand daughter of a severe attack of Whooping Cough.” It positively cures Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Bronchitis, all Throat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tles free at Holtzclaw’s drugstore. The negroes are begining to re alize that they are not wanted at the north and that there even the right to work for a living is deni ed them. The negro is all right so long as he remains in tht South, bnt he nrast not cross the line and presume to enter into competion with the white laborer at the north. -4 Stop the Cough and Work off the Cold. Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. - . », ,V Mail Orders filled with care. I 1 ®!@ 414 & 416 Third St., MACON, GA. MACON'S GREATEST BARGAIN STORE. The Place Where You Can Buy Everything that You Need to Wear at Prices from 25 to 50 Per Cent Cheap er Than Others Will Sell it to You. We sell more Shoes than most any reg ular shoe hous5 in Macon. Why do we do this? Simply because we SELL NONE BUT THE BEST, and guarantee every pair that leaves our house to give satisfac tory wear or refund your money. Men’s Shoes from 98c. to $5.00. Ladies’ Shoes from 65c. to $3.50. Children’s Shoes, 25c. to $1.50. Ladies* Slippers, 25c. to $2.00. Children’s Slippers, 35c. to $1.50. Why not/give us your Shoe trade and save 25 to 50 per cent on every pair of Shoes needed in yonr fam ily? f1 ]rk-fhinIn this line we i^ioming;. CAN AND D0 EXCEL any clothing store in Ma con. Our Clothing is well made, it fits, it is durable, it bolds its color, and is 25 to 50 per cent cheaper tbau most clothing stores can af ford to sell you the same quality of goods. Mens Suits, $3.00 to $12.50 Youths Suits, $2.00 to $ 8 00. Childrens Suits, 65c. to $ 4 00 Boys Knee Pants, 15c to 85c The largest and most complete line of Extra Pants for men in the state, 49c to $5 00 the pair. Extra Coats and Extra Vests to fit and please any man in Houston county. Dry Goods. Yes, we sell everything in the Dry Goods Line-Dress Goods, Percales, Lawns, Dimities, Calicoes, Sheetings, Shirtings, Checks, Cottonades, Tickings, Bleachings, No tions of every description, and our prices are right; this you wiil acknowledge after you have seen us, Straw Hats. t \ v e e g " e a a 7. est line of Straw Hats to be found in Macon for Men, Boys and Chil dren—10c. to $1.00 each. If you want a Straw Hat come to ns. Millinery. “l^ r 8 e t half. We do not want regular Millinery prices. Here yon can select yonr Hat and trimmings and have it trimmed while yon wait. This department is upstairs, and yon can be suited. Sailors 10c. to $1.00. O URS is the most complete store in Macon, and the only one where yon can buy everything that yon need to wear. Come and see ns. KESSLER BROS. GIVE US A 1BIAL ORDER