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YOL. XXXT.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, OA., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1902.
NO. 21.
PRESENT DAY CONDITIONS.
The young practical man of to
day working at the bench or coun
ter, to whom the fair goddess,
Fortune, has not' yet beckoned,
may be disposed to conclude that
it is impossible to start business
in this age. There is something
in that. It is, no doubt, infinite
ly more difficult to start a new
business of any kind to-day than
it was. But it is only a difference
in form, not in substance. It is
infinitely easier for a young prac
tical man of ability to obtain an
interest in existing firms than it
has ever been. The doors have not
closed upon ability; on the con
trary, they swing easier upon
their hinges. Capital is not re
quisite. Family influence, as be
fore, passes for nothing. Real
ability, the capacity for doing
things, never was so eagerly
searched for as now, and never
commanded such rewards.
The law whioh concentrates the
leading industries and commer
cial, mercantile and financial af
fairs in a few great factories or
firms contains within itself an
other law not less imperious
These vast concerns cannot be suc
cessfully conducted by salaried
employes. No great business of
any kind can score an unusually
brilliant and permanent success
which is not in the hands of prac
tical men pecuniarily interested
in its results. It has been usees
sary for me to watch closely most
of my life the Operations of great
establishments owned by hun
dreds of absent capitalists, and
conducted by salaried officers.Con
trusted with these I believe that
the partnership conducted by men
vitally interested and owning the
works will make satisfactory divi
dends when the corporation is em
barrassed and scarcely knows up
on which side the balance is to be
at the end of a year’s opera
tions.
The great dry goods houses that
interest their most capable men
in the profits of each department
succeed, when those fail that en
deavor to work with salaried men
only. Even in the management
of our great hotels, it is found
wise to take into partnership the
principal men. In every branch
of business this law is at work
and concerns are prosperous, gen
erally speaking, just in proportion
as they succeed in interesting in
the profits a larger and larger
proportion of their ablest work
ers. Co-operation in this form is
fast coming in all great establish
ments.
The manufacturing business
that does not have practical man
ufacturing partners had better
supply the omission without de
lay, and probably the very men
required are the bright young me
chanics who have distinguished
themselves while working for a
few dollars per day or the youths
from the polytechnic school.—
Andrew Carnegie’s “The Empire
of Business.”
PALESTINE FOR THE JEWS.
Old Soldier’s Experience.
-M. M. Austin, a civil war veter-
en, of Winchester, Tnd., writes:
“My wife was sick a long time in
spite of good doctor’s treatment,
but was wholy cured by Dr.King’s
New Life Pills, which worked
wonders for her health.” They
always do. Try them. Only 25c
at Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
A thing is never worth while
doing if it does not do us some
distinct good, if it does not make
us better* whether spiritually,
mentally or 'physically. —Ladies’
Home Journal.
Macon sews.
It is said upon Jewish authori
ty, that the Jews scattered over
the world Jwill soon begin negoti
ations to buy Palestine, and that
once more *they will inhabit the
famous birth-place of their race.
Only a few years ago the Holy
Land was untouched by the haucl
of modern progress; and it was
averred, that if one of the Proph
ets had returned to earth, he
could have looked upon the scenes
of his earthly career and been
able to recognize them. But
American progress has been at
work lately, and in a few years of
the “rapid improvement” that is
being carried on now the country
will have lost its oriental charac
ter. The railroad from Joppa to
Jerusalem was the wedge that en
tered the Holy Land, and now the
railroads are running up and
down the valley of the Jordan.
The sigh of the wind among the
olive leaves is drowned in the
clang-clang of the trolly car, and
the electric light has dimmed
the moon light, shining on the
ripples of Kedron.
Jerusalem is fast being modern
ized. It seems a pity that one
quaint old world spot might not
be untouched by the modern
times that we could see it always
just as it was when Jesus walked
its streets. But progress will not
have it so. Electric lights, tele
phones, telegraphs and railroads
now belong to up-to-date Jerusa
lem. One can ride around to his
toric places in trolly cars, which
add to the conveniences of sight
seers, while detracting somewhat
from the charm that hovers over
Bethany, Bethlehem, The Sea * of
Galilee, Nazereth, and all the
“land where the Master trod 1”
The Jews are very much inter
ested in the movement to secure
control of the once fertile valleys
of their ancient home. Should
they do so, it would not be long
before the Wandering Jew would
turn his face homeward, from
every clime, and the riches of these
descendants of the patriach fath
ers would revolutionize Palestine
sure enough.
The Holy Land would one e
more be the home of the Jews,
“flowing with milk and honey,”
as in days of old!
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All Eyes On Texas.
Great is Texas. Her vast cot
ton crops and. marvelous oil dis
coveries amaze the world. Now
follows the startling statement of
the wonderful work at Cisco, Tex.,
of Dr. Kings New Discovery for
consumption. “My wife contract-
a severe lung trouble,” writes edi
tor J. J. Eager, “which caused a
most Gbstinate cough and finally
resulted in profuse hemorrhages,
but she has been completely cured
by Dr. King’s New Discovery."
It’s positively guaranteed for
Coughs, Colds and all Throat and
Lung troubles. 50c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free at Holtzclaw’s
drugstore.
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Not Troubled By The Trusts.
“How does the Beef Trust af
fect you?” some one asked Broth-
Dickey.
“Hit don’t tech me,” was the
reply—not even in the spar’ribs.
Es fer me, I is what you call ‘a
philosophy,’ en I kin live on fish,
en chickes, en eggs, en collards;
en de water-millin’s season is ez
dost ter me ez a man I owe Mon
ey ter—so dost dat I kin hear de
juice a-droppin’ in my dreams!”
WHY NOT R AISE OUR OWN BEEF.
Augusta Herald.
The increasing high price of
beef that makes it an almost un
attainable luxury to the working
classes, and the difficulty of ob
taining beef at any price from
the South, should encourage, as
the enterprise has never before?
been encouraged, the raising of
beef cattle in Georgia for home
consumption.
As has been frequently asserted
through the columns of the state
press, we have every natural facil
ity for raising cattle, and there is
no reason why we should not se
cure beef first hand superior to
that which has to be shipped such
great distances.
Many of our farmers are going
into the fruit-growing business, so
many that the thousands of car
loads of peaches they rraiee during
a successful season fail to sell for
enough to bring in a very gener
ous profit for *bhe small grower,
whose returns are hardly more
than enough to cover the heavy
annual expenses, the amount of
whioli only peach-growers them
selves can comprehend. The out
lay necessary for beef-oattle rais
ing can hardly be very much
greater, while the diseases that
attack the animals are not nearly
many as those attacking the trees,
and the slighest change in atmos
pheric Conditions is not nearly so
disastrous to animal as to plant
life.
What our farmers want to do is
to learn to be more independent,
and not think that because their
neighbor’s success lies in one di
rection their own necessarily lies
exclusively, there. Never before
in the world’s history has then
been so great a demand for diver
sity of industries, and of all
things grown and raised, and the
wise man is he who will ocoupy
himself not with what everybody
else is doing, but with that the
world wants done speedily and
well.
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Cater.
The railroads have declared that
they do not want old men and
even at 35 a man has outlived his
youthfulness. This is bad enough,
but now comes the cry from the
Methodist Episcopal conference
iu the state of New York that the
church is being lumbered up with
old men and that congregations
demand young preachers. It is
hard now to get them to take a
veteran. This is a new applica
tion of the age limit and when it
attacks the very pulpit itself what
are we going to do?—Ex.
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Even where delay has aggravated
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running sore on my leg thirty
years,” says H. 0. Hartly, Yan-
keetown, Ind. “After using many
remedies, I tried DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. A few boxes healed
the sore.” Curas all skin diseas-
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ware of counterfeits.
Drugstore.
Holtzclaw ! s
The spring clean-up of gold in
the Klondike is estimated at $80,-
000,000, which will be a very com
fortable addition to the world’s
supply of the yellow metal. This
clean up will be the greatest in
the history of that artic gold field
and indicates that it will furnish
a permanent source of supply.
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