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JOHN H. HODGES, Propr, DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
•50 a Year in Advance.
VOL. XXXL
Some South African Figures.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902.
NO. |4.
Atlanta Constitution.
From the beginning of the war
in South Africa to its end 75,480 i
British officers and men were sent j
home invalids. This raised the i
total of casualties iu the South
African field force to the astound
ing total of 97,447.
These figures must not, howev
er, be taken a9 > representing tho
pennant reduction of the British
military forces through the war,
a large proportion of those in
valided went home on account of
disease subsequently recovered-
and were able to rejoin the service.
But the net loss was heavy
,enough.
A tabulated statement of casu
alties reported from the begin
ning of the war lip to the time
peace was declared has been is
sued by the war office in London,
From this some highly interest
ing facts about the war may be
deduced. The table gives the
names of thirty-four battles in
which 18,097 British officers and
soldiers were killed or wounded.
Some of these battles lasted sev-
ereal days, the thirty-fouf battles
covering altogether a period of
sixty-three days of fighting. The
average killed and wounded per
day of this fighting is, therefore,
214. In the numerous scouts and
skirmishes not included in the
thirty-four battles, 15,496 British
offiers and men were killed and
wounded. The total killed for
the war was 5,774, the total
wounded 22,829, There has been
no official statement of the losses
of the Boers, but an unofficial re
port from South Africa states they
lost but 8,700 men. Military ex
perts believe this is less fefean their
losses, but there is no doubt their
loss was far less than that “of the
British, as their fighting was al
most always done under cover,
while the British had to face them
in the open.
A study of the official figures
leaves no possible doubt of the
bravery of the British officers?
They may be open to criticism for
having displayed a laok of acu
men and military sense in some
instances, but there can be no
doubt of the personal courage
the individual officers. The
port shows that, in proportion
the number of officers and men
engaged, there were nearly twice
as many officers killed and wound
ed as enlisted men. This was very
much the case with the American
forces in the Cuban campaign
and also very much the case
amongst the confederate officers
in the civil war.
of
re-
to
A Rockdale county negro, over
65 years of age, applied, ihe other
day, to the ordinary-of that coun
ty for a license to marry the sev
enth time. He had married six
times and said he was ready for
the seventh heaven. The woman
he was to marry had outlived six
husbands. The old man remark
ed: “It’s gwine to be‘nip and
tuck ’twixt us ez to which buries
tother.”
Just Look at Her.
Whence came that sprightly
step, faultless skin, rich, rosy
complexion, smiling face. She
looks good, feels good. Here’s
her secret. She uses Dr. King’s
New Life Pills. Result—all or
gans active, digestion good, no
headaches, no chance for “blues.”
Ly them yourself. Only 25c at
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
Uncle Sam wants a hen to lay
an egg every day for the geologi
cal survey department. No hen
that goes on a strike need apply
for the job.
Healthy Kidneys Mean Long Life.
U you want to restore your kidneys
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Negroes In Michigan.
In Macon, Ga. last week, Dr. J.
H. Reynolds of Adriau, Michigan,
was taking observations relative
to the meetiug of the Farmers’
National congress next October.
While discussing the city and
surrouuding county, and relative
farming conditions with a Tele
graph reporter, the question was
asked:
“Have you any negroo labor?
Replying, Dr. Reynolds said :
“In Adrian, a town of 11,000
popiilation, we have ninety negro
families. You never find a negro
in the country. They all go to
the city and cling together. Of
the ninety families in Adrian,
five of them are self supporting.
The others live upon the charity
of the city. The city government
has to supply them with flour and
coal in winter. I was mayor last
year, and I was urged to give the
negro men work on the streets in
the summer, so they could make
enough to live on throug the win
ter. We gave them work, paying
$1.50 a day to every one of them,
old and young, but when the win
ter came they were as helpless and
poverty stricken as ever. The
barrooms had all of their money
as fast as they made it. We find
that a negro would rather run an
erraud for 10 cents spot cash in
his hand with which to supply
some immediate craving than to
have the promise of a big sum of
money to be paid at night, after a
task requiring several hours has
been imposed. They seem to be
unable to meet the responsibilities
of life. I engage one to day to
do a piece of work to-morrow, but
by tomorrow he has forgotten all
about it, or else has changed his
mind. I never hear from him any
mure. He will always promise,
but he never remembers his prom
ise. Ws have, reached the Conclu
sion that the negro has the vices
of all the races, *He is absolutely
worthless to us as a citizen.”
“Vengeance Is Mine.”
Was there ever a human wrong
that was not paid for by the an
guish of a human heart? It is
doubtful, extremely doubtful.You
may be guilty of a wrong today,
and the world may never know,
says the Columbus Enquirer-Sun,
but to-morrow, as surely as God’s
bright sun gilds the East, “the
man within the breast will assail
you with stings of scorpions and
the curses of ravish truth.” You
know not what shape the penalty
will take; you know not when the
payment shall be demanded, but,
verily you shall not escape. Scorn
this aspect of evil if you will, but
by the changeless and unchange
able laws of nature and nature’s
God, the^day of retribution will
come, for it is written “the way of
the transgressor is hard,” yea,
forever hard. What there is be
yond the coffin’s lid is not. given
to man to know, but he is the
blindest of all the blind fools in
the world who fancies that all his
sins will go unpunished until death
ends the race of life. We cannot
deal in speculations beyond the
grave,but we do know that a great
price is paid for the wrong we do
while we yet find this earth our
abiding place. We may wince and
cringe and whine like a cur, but
from it there is no escape. I may
do a wrong, if so the Godjof heav
en will not suffer that wrong to go
unpunished; but you should not
draw the garment of rignteousness
around your immaculate person
as a shield, for, by the justice tof
the Prince of Justice, you shall
not escape the just wrath of the
avenging God, if you do wrong.
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Thirty Years’ Experience
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n^stcorL, Q-eoxg'ist.
The Educational Revival.
Southern Educational Notes,
There is being awakened a wide
spread interest in education.
Throughout the country the at
tention of the people is being
called to this great matter. The
condition of our schools, secular
and denominational,is being look
ed carefully into, and large plans
for their improvement are being,
projected. Specially do the
schools in the rural regions call
for immediate and thoughtful at
tention. Our scheme of public
school education in the country,
in many places,is scarcely worthy
the name, and are hardly more
than exouses for schools, says the
Baptist Union. With miserable
houses, only the most simple and
crude apparatus, poorly equipped
teachers, only a few months in
session, and with inadequate di
rection and superintendance, it is
quite impossible to have such
schools as the time demands.
It is high time our people were
moved in this matter. Public
schools have come to stay, and
they must be made adequate to
the great work committed to them,
The best, men in the country
should be made superintendents
and school commissioners, and
should give themselves with great
seriousness|and industry to tho
charge of the duties of his office.
The best men in the community
should deem it an honor to be
permitted to serve on the school
board. Fewer and better houses
should be secured, trained and
mature teachers employed, and
more months occupied.
These things our people should
demand and continue to demand
until they are secured. Let it be
understood that our schools are
not simply to furnish employment
to the favorite daughters of a
neighborhood, but a place for
honest and hard work on the part
of men and women that have been
highly and thoroughly trained for
their life work. Let our people
be stirred to serious thought and
action in these things, and not
take it for granted that things are
bound to remain as they are.
Speak out in meeting whenever
things are not what they ought to
be. It is right of an honest tax
payer to get the best for his mon
ey, and no where is it so impor
tant to get the best as in our pub
lic schools.
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy has a
world-wide reputation for its
cures. It never fails, and is pleas
ing and safe to take. For sale by
all dealers in Perry, Warren &
Lowe, Byron.
South Carolina has 95,000 voters
and it is said that fully 2,000 of
them are candidates.
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