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of the United Items of Interest, States, The coronation of King Ed ward will be the great event of this year. ♦ A man’s fool friends are his worst enemies—if they were only aware of it. The unselfish man is so v.ery, very scarce now-a-days. It is a great pity,but it is true. When a man resigns an office these days it is because he sees something better on the outside. The expected increase in the world’s visible coffee supply this sfeason is estimated at one million bags. It is possible in some cases to assist the prdcfss of seasoning by dissolving the sap of wood by im mersion. Minnesota has made wife deser tion a felony, and the first con viction under the new law was re cently made. It is stated upon good authority that there are now 2,000 active Mormon proselyters scattered widely over the world. In the early machines electrici ty was generated by turning a large glass wheel which rubbed' against a silken band of cloth. Explorers have • approached within 2B8 miles of the North Pole, but the nearest approach to the South Pole has been 772 miles. In the West the rural delivery mail box is fast coming to rival the railroad switch target as a mark for every foolish owndr of a firearm to Shoot at. A single brewery in Munich uses 118 railway freight cars ofits own, besides 28 belonging to the state. Other breweries have 148, 52, 80, 100, 86, etc. Russia’s Asiatic possessions are, three times as large as the British, but have only 25,000,000 people, as compared with 297,000,000 un der British rule. It has been found that perhaps the main reason why tuberculosis advances so rapidly at Hong Kong is that in most cases it is compli cated with malaria. Far away from civilization ges ture-language is still extant in Australia. Some of the tribes possess an excellent code that is almost as efficient as the spoken language. Great Britain, with her colo nise, owns nearly one-half of‘the total tonnago belonging to the marine of 40 nations, or 14,000,- 000 to ns out of a total of twenty- nine million, Young Australia got its first sight of snow in the beginning of August last, when for the first time in about 60 years a fall took place in the populated parts of South Austrailia. , Chicago outclasses all other large cities in the number of deaths by railroad accidents. Its total for the. census year is 880, while the combined total for nine other big cities is only 486. The mining of phosphate rock is now one of the important in dustries in Florida and South Carolina, and it amounts to 1,- 500.000 tons a year, valued at $5,- 860.000 at the point of produc tion. Colorado and Iowa having re stored the death penalty for mur der,there are now only four states in which the death penalty is not inflicted —Wisconsin', Michigan, Maine and Rhode Island. The strongest known wood is said to be lancewood. Its tensile strength per square inch is 28,- 000 pounds—that it is to say, that weight is required to tear asunder a piece of it one inch square. BEDROOM SUITES, PARLOR SUITES, DINING TABLES, SIDEBOARDS, CHAIRS BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, SPRINGS, WINDOW SHADES AND POLES, BABY CARRIAGES,’ETC., You can save money at 9 Paul’s Furniture Store. A complete line of COFFIFS and CASKETS always on hand. You Cannot Drown an Ant. It is a singular fact, recently dem onstrated by experiments made by French scientists, that you cannot drown an ant. The purpose of the experiments was to determine how long insects would be able to resist asphyxiation after they had been submerged in water. An ant immersed in water dou bles itself up and becomes absolute ly inert, but upon being restored to the air conies to life in a period varying with the length of its im mersion. After a ducking of six or eight hours it requires half an hour to come to and three-quarters of an hour to recover when the submer sion .has been continuous for twen ty-four hours. A Profilablfi Bnvcstmem. “I was troubled for about seven years with my stomach and in bed half my time,” s iys E. Dem- ick, Somerville. Ind. "I spent about $1,000 and never could get anything to help me until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have taken a few bottles and am entire ly well.” You don’t live by what you eat, but by what you digest and assimilate. If your stomach dosen’t. digest your food you are really starving. Kodol Dyspep sia Cure does the stomach's work by digesting the food. You don’t have to diet. Eat all you want. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures all stomach ' troubles. Holtzclaw’s drugstore. GEORGE “PAUL. • Perry, Ga ** null J. U, CAwUOCi j Oil UO fixing the United States firmly in the first place among the world’s producers. Next to this the most interesting feature of the produc tion of 1900 was the marked in? crease in value compared with the increase in tonnage. The produc tion in 1900 was 269,881,827 short tons, valued at $306,891,364, the increase over 1899 being more than 16,000,000 tons in amount and more than $50,000,000 in value. The advance in value of bitum inous coal was unprecedented, the average price per ton having ad vanced from 87 cents in 1899 to $1,04 in 1900. Fully 95 per cent, of the total coke production in 1900 of 20,558- 848 short tons, an increase of 864,779 tons over 1899 was taken from the Apalachian fields, which embrace the great coking regions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama, Virginia and Tennes see. For Infants and Children if.iTUiufM - f*fiit ,1,1.,;.;. ii. 1 iii;.;• Mu;b\iiu'• i>..u 1.1111.i•.>1 ■. ; * Ti u? ,i 11 riTTiTTi n liifii ir ■!> i n 1 Hi <1 iTtTrrjVtiTPTU. 1 n 1 HftTiin Kim inTTniTl \ i U AV&gefoble Prcparatioufor As similating (lie Food andileg dia ling fife Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Diges I ion .Cheer(ul- olfn aadResi'.Contains neither Opiura.Koirtenc nork&ierai. I<IOT AiV.C O TIC, Autf.’.iiU <TiKW<* v s/ix.<}\wia * l /LtvuslU. Saltf — fj tiVtf * V Ibfxmmwrt, - lit fw&U&Sxfy .* htiite/r/iwt. rtotwi The citizens of Moultrie, Ga., and vicinity have organized the “Colquitt County Tobacco Com pany,” with a capital of $1,500 and the privilege of increasing to $15,000. The company will hire an expert,build barns and aware- house and give instructions to farmers who plant tobacco. J. G. James was elected superinten dent and will at once begin prep aration for planting a bed to sup ply plants to those who will en gage in the business,—Exchange. fr-O-4 A Georgia farmer with a plenty of corn to sell at a dollar a bushel wouldn’t need to take any great stock in the price of cotton. The truth contained in that proposi tion suggests a farm policy which would make the Georgia farmers absolute masters of the provision markets of the state and prosper ous beyond, precedent.—Sparta Iahmaelite. Apcifiv! Pcmciiy fVCons%&- fion, Sour S tc unac k, D.i arrima Worms ,Ci>i m $uio$[k Pcvcrislv OF Ul.'SEf?’, Ytc iimito Signature of NEW "YORK. Prompt attention given to repairing Engines and all Machinery. Model fjp'd Pettern Work a specialty. Full stock of Pipe and Steam Fix tures always on hand. Kittofter Bolting. Write for what you want. aaspS? exact copy or wrapper, THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY; Anthonie Mchiiio Works, J. W. AMT HO INK, i'rop’r., FORT VALLEY, GA At Greatly Reduced Prices. Fifty new Upright Pianos will ciose out at greatly reduced prices within the next,few weeks. Among them such celebrated makes us Stein way, Sohmer & Co,, Kranich & Bach, Stultz & Bauer, Bush & Gests, Lester and Royal. Call at once and secure one of these bargains P. A. GUTT’ENGERGER & CO., 452 Second st., Macon, Ga, Each day,of the week is observ ed as the Sabbath by some nation. The first day of the' week is our Christian Sunday; Monday is the sacred day of the Greeks; Tues day is the holy day of the Per sians; Wednesday ’of the Assy rians ; Thursday of the Egyptians, Friday of the Turks and Saturday of the Jews. Isaacs |;ate, 413 Third Street, MACON. GEORGIA. Regular Meals 25c, Bill of Fare to Ordei • cfoPYKir.KV When Filipinos outwit the U. S. troops we call it treachery. In the days whon the colonies were fighting for liberty, as the Filipi nos are now doing, and surprised the British, we called it patriot ism and bravery. A great change has come over the spirit of our dreams in this country.—Ex. populak prices. Prompt and Efficient Service E. ISAACS, Proprietor. Is what 3 7 ou do every time you buy your Child Worth Millions. “My child is worth millions to me,” says Mrs.Mary Bird of Har risburg, Pa,, “yeti would have lost her by croup had I not pur chased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure. “One Minute Cough Cure is sure cure for coughs,croup and throat lung troubles. An ab solutely safe cough cure which acts immediately. The youngest child caii take it with entire safe ty. The little ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should have a bottle of One Minutq. Cough Cure handy. At this season es pecially it may be needed sudden ly; Holtzclaw’s Drugstore; The largest stock in the world. Nearly lOO varieties. All the choice, luscious kinds for the Garden and Fancy Market. Also Ship ping Varieties. Also Dewberries, Aspar- agril, Rhubarb, Grape Vines, etc. Our 4.20 page manual, free to buyers, enables everybody to grow them with access and profit. All plants packed to carry across the continent fresh as when dug. Illustrated catalogue free. Specify if you want cat alogue of Shipping Varieties or Fancy Garden kinds. 0 CONTINENTAL PLANT CO., Strawberry Specialists, KlTTJlELli, N. C. He says, “I was telling my.troub- les to a lady friend, who said: ‘Chambtrlain’s Colic,Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in condition for the party.’ I bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating that two doses cured me and enabled me to have a good time at the party.” ’Mr. Snell is : ’.-siclout of Summer Hill, N. Y. Li.,: - • rf-uiedy is for sale by all deal ers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, By ron . and all kinds of mill work and builders supples from our superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that they get a superior grade of lumber and irorkma rdn'p in their line at lower prices than thel van *;et elsewhe e. JOB NEATLY HJX'EJC'UTTUD AT THIS OFFICE Phone (87 FORT VALLEY, ©A, Subscribe for the Home Journal