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: ~^~~ : tiMiriiTnrnr>'iTir»iiHiiiniii i - — 1 — —:\js!$Xr i Helen Keller’s First Earnings. What Men Heed Wives For, There is a pretty story in eonnec-! ' It is not to sweep the house, and tion with the series of articles which | make the beds, and darn the socks, Helen Keller, the wonderful blind a>,rl ~ ■ girl, has written for The Ladies’, Home Journal, telling about her; own life from infancy <o the present! day. She always has shrunk from the publicity which follows success ful literary work, and it was with great difficulty that she was per suaded to take up the task of pre senting her own autobiography. She had, however, set her heart on own ing an island in Halifax harbor for a summer b^me, and in a spirit of fun the editor of The Journal offered to buy it for her, or to provide the means to buy it. When the work of writing appeared especially irksome Miss Keller was reminded of her de sire to become a land-holder, and it spurred her on. Just before Christ mas she completed the first chapter of her marvelous story; and on Christmas morning she motived from her publishers a check for a‘ good round sum. Her delight may be imagined, for this was the first money of any account which she had ever earned. “It is a fairy tale come true,” she said. Whether she will really carry out her plan to buy the island remains to be soen. For the Complexion. The complexion always suffers from biliousness or coustipatiou. Unless the bowels are kept open the impu rities from the body appear in the form of unsightly eruptions. De- Witt’s Little Early Risers keep the liver and bowels in healthy condition and remove the cause of such troub les. 0. E. Hooper of Albany, Ga., says; “I took DeWibtfs Little Early Risers for biliousness. They were just what I needed, f am feeling better now than in years.” Never gripe or distress. Safe, thorough and gentle. The very best pills. Hollzclaw’B Drugstore. *--0-4 — An instrument bas been perfected by a Jamestown, N. Y., man for sig naling between trains on the same railway track. It is based on the wireless telegraph principle, and sig‘ nals automatically when two trains are within 2,000 feet of each other. It also indicates in which direction each of the two is running, or if one of them is standing still on the track. and cook the meals, chiefly that a man wants a wife. If this is all he wants, hired servants can do it cheaper than a wife. If this is all, when a young mau calls to see a la dy send him iuto the pantry to taste the bread and cakes she has made; send him to inspect the needle-work and bed-making; or put a broom in to her hands and send him to wit ness its use. Such things are im portant, and the wise young man will quietly look after them. But what the true man most wants of a wife is her companionship, sympa thy and love. The way of life has many dreary places iu it, and man needs a companion to go with him. A mau is sonietimes overtaken by misfortunes; he meets with failure and defeat; trials and temptations beset himjand he needs one to stand by him and sympathize. He has some stern battles to fight with poverty, with enemies and with sin, and he needs a woman that, while he puts his arm around her and feels that he has something to fight for, will help him fight; who will put her lips to his ear aud whisper words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart new inspirations. All through life—through storm and through Bunshine, conflict and vic tory; through adverse and favorable winds—man needs a womau’s love. The heart yearns for it. A sister’s and a mother’s love will hardly sup ply the need. Yet many seek for nothing further than success in housework. Justly enough, half of these get nothing more.' The other half, surprised above measure, ob tain more than they sought. Their wives surprise them by bringing a nobler idea of marriage, and disclos ing a treasury of courage, sympathy and love.—Our Home. ALmanA Am ENCYCLOPEDIA A STATISTICAL VOLUME OF . . Over 10,000 Facts and Figures Containing Over 600 Pages Special Features. I rUHIonalres of tbo United States; Parti culars About Three Thousand American magnates. Organized Labor; Strength of the Labor Unions. The Trusts. United States Census. New Census ofEuropeanCountries. The Nicaragua Canal and the Hay-Paunce- fote Treaties With Great Britain. The Re- §| lattoss of Cuba With the United States. The Conference of Ameri can Republics at the City of Mexico. The Anarchist Statistics of . This Country and Europe. Progress of Serial Navigation in 1901; The New York municipal Election of 1901. Agriculture. Manufactures. Hortality. ^ FACTS ABOUT POLITICS. THE BOOK THAT BELONGS IN EVERY OFFICE AND IN EVERY HOME OF EVERY AMERICAN. Where Pearls are Found. Old geographies make the Persian gulf the seat of the pearl industry, but now many beautiful pearls are found in different parts of America. In the Mississippi river and its trib utaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin quite a number of people are en gaged in fishing for the mussels 4u which the pearls are found. It is said one pearl is found in every ten mussels fished from the water. | The fisherman does not worry about thii He keeps the shells, and takes them to the button factory, where there is always a demand, for, as you know, boys and girls use up a good many buttons in the course of a year, and no one ever knows what becomes of them. A floating button factory built on a boat travels up and down the Mississippi. It stops at a place long enough to use up all the shellB and then goes on where there is an other mussel bed, or where the fish ermen accumulate a heap. Some of the pearls are very valuable and have been sold for as large a price as $50,000. An Express Package. “What is its value?” asked an ex press agent in a Broadway office of a keen-eyed customer who had handed him a package to be sent to a western city. The man addressed did not answer at once, but glanced at a printed card on the wall that reads, “Always state the value of your shipment.” “If I state the value, will your company pay me that amount in case the package is lost?” asked the man in his turn. “Certainly not,unless that is prov ed to be its value,” remarked the agent. “If I state the value, oan I prove a greater value if it is lost?” “You will have to ask a lawyer that question,” replied the agent. “That isn’t necessary, for I hap pen to know the law,” said the ship per. “Your company is trying to establish an unfair rule, because it works only one way. You are right when • you say that my statement cannot bind you, for in case of loss you can prove the value, but my statement would bind me, for the court would say that I was ‘estop ped’ by my declaration as to tbe value. “If a shipper should undervalue his shipment, thinking that thereby he would reduce the charges, he would have to stand by his state ment, and your notice is calculated to make him do that very thing. Yon can mark my shipment ‘No val ue stated,’ and then if we meet in the courts it will be on an equal footing.”—New York Herald. Having a Hun on [ STANDARD AMERICAN ANNUAL Prico ^5 CtS. | AT ALL NEWSDEALERS. THE WORLD Pulitzer Bldg., New York The above described bo- k j • A this office to every Homy:. Jocjhnai, subscrib er who pays i$1.50 strictly in advance. BRING IJS YOUR JOB f ORK, SATIS FACTION GUARANEETD. C li a m b urlai a Cough Remedy. Between the hours of eleven o’clock a. in. aud closing time at night on Jan. 25th, 1901, A. F. Clark, druggist, Glade Springs, Va., sold twelve bottles of Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy. _ He says “I never handled a medicine that sold better or gave better satisfaction to my customers.” This Remedy has been iu general use in Virginia for many years and the people there are well ac quainted with its excellent quali ties. Many of them have tesfci fied to the remarkable cures which it has effected. When you need a good, reliable medicine for a cough or cold, or attack of the -grip, use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and you are certain to be i ban pleased- with, the quick ou cu which it affords. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. For HOLIDAYS and dors promptly filled, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. T, A. COLEMAN, Bookseller and Stationer, ■\ 803 Second Street, MA€OM, ©A The 6a. Poultry OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION. Subscription Price 50c, a Year. -ADD RES 8- The great sixteen-inch gun, in tended for the New York harbor de fenses, has been completed and will be tested at the Sandy Hook prov ing grounds shortly. It is the larg est gun ever constructed in this country, and in all probability it is the largest that will ever be con structed, since extremely large guns are not in as high favor as they were several years ago. Rapidity of fire rather than size ahd weight of pro jectile is now depended upon to do execution upon an enemy. The new gun is a few inches less than fifty feet long and weighs 300,000 pounds. The projectile to be fired from it g five feet and four inches in length. It was the original intention of the government to make about thirty of the sixteen-inch guns, but the proj ect has been dropped. There are now 60,000 colored in habitants in New York city, and the excess of colored women over color ed men as shown by the last federal census is 6,000. The overwhelming majority are not natives of this city or state, but come from the south. The great bulk of icolored residents of the oity of New York come from Virginia, Maryland,-North and South Carolina, Georgia and Missouri. Mis sissippi, in which colored residents predominate, has sent only 366 col ored persons to New York, Texas 713, and Alabama 636. The increase of colored population, however, is only through immigration; for though the birth rate is fairly high, the colored death rate is unduly so. A Helpless Child. A weak and puny child is badly handicapped in the battle of life. It is isolated from the healthy enjoyments of its little fellow-be ings. It cannot partake either of their play or their sturdy work and progress in the world; its whole life is embittered by inca pacity and weakness. Any woman who expects to be come a mother ought to know svhat Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre scription will do both for her own health and safety during her time of trial and also to insure her in bequeathing a fair measure of health and strength to the pros pective little one. The cremation of the body of the late Dr. Robert Grimes of Cheyenne revealed the bullet received by him at the Meeker massacre, where he distinguished himself, as in many other Indian engagements, as “Fighting Bob, the Doctor.” Then it was thought that the wound would be fatal, but Dr. Grimes re covered, and for twenty years, car ried the missile which the surgeons were unable to locate. The lead bul let weighed more than the ashes of the deceased. When you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth you may know that you need a dose of Chamber Iain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse your stomach, im prove your appetite and make you feel like a new man. They are easy to take, being sugar coated,and pleas ant in effect. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. The Herald FRElj $1.60 striotly in ndvanc GA. POULTRY HEKALD, PERRY GEORGIA. one year to every Home Journal subscriber who pajs sinWaMn-wWHi Subscribe for the Home Journal The Augusta Chronicale states a fact and then asks a pertinent ques tion in the following: “The newspa- pervis called on -to help every interest in the community, but does every in terest in the commuiiity think about helping to support the newspapers?.” (1) For Infanta and Chff&W The Kind Yoii Navf* AVegetaUe PrepaMlioirl.hr As similating IheFoomuidltefjula- 1 ling tire Stomachs aiulBorveis of iiiSSU i Mi V))n : mi: Promotes Digestion,CheerfuF ness and Resl.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT >IARC OTIC. /Xfttf&iit Sud>‘ MkSwom * fMuiU Stott— * /■ixsurhmi - . f U li&npjfeltt/.' UuitM Jh'/cf lirtubyituvi «<•'«« A perfect Remedy forConsfyvi- b.on, Sour Sloawch.Diarrhoca Wcr ms tfmrwsions .Mvensh- ncus cure Los© of Bleep. tu: simile Signature of assmosm NEW YORK. KEEP POSTED CONCERNING: — Houston Comity Affairs BY READING HOME JOURNAL. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. > ; ; / ■ < ; ‘ • We strive to make the paper a welcome visitor to ever household, thereby deserving patronage. Snbscription Price Liberal reduction for cash bne year in advance. Subscribe now. JNOuH.. HODGES. editor and' jgljrag PERltr. (xA.