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JOHN H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS: PROCRESS
AND CULTURE. #1 ■SO it Year in Advance.
VOL. XXXT.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1902.
NO. UK
Sericulture In Georgia.
Atkraba Constitution.
Silk can be produced in Geor
gia. The intention of the found
ers of the colony was to make it a
silk-producing province, and for
nearly fifty years the people on
the oolonjal farms produced Mul
berry trees and shipped cocoons
to Europe in large quanities. The
first seal of the colony had upon
it the device of silkworms work
ing on cocoons and the motto:
•‘Non sibi, sed aliis.” General
Oglethorpe, speaking of the in
dustry of Georgia, saidj “It must
be a weak hand indeed that can
not earn bread where silkworms
and white mulberry trees are so
plentiful.”
It was the coming of cotton and
negro slaves that dwarfed the silk
culture of^the colony and finally
extinguished it. But this is the
same Georgia as to soil, climate
and possibilities as in the primi
tive days, and what was dune suc
cessfully then eau once more be
successfully done under better
conditions and surer profit.
The silk industry has grown
enormously in late years in the
United, States and we are now
sending abroad to France, Italy
and Japan $50,000,000 annually
for raw silk for use in our silk in
dustries. But the department of
agriculture at Washington has
seriously taken up this subject
and is preparing to foster the ed
ucation and skill necessary to pro
duce raw silk in this country and
save to our own people that .$50,-
000,000 annually.
Miss Kelly, of Charleston, who
spent six years in Europe study
ing every detail of sericulture, has
been appointed to look into the
facilities for establishing the in
dustry in the Carolinas. She is
now preparing two monographs-—
one on the culture of the .silk
worm and one on the culture of
the mulberry tree—which will
shortly be issued for public distri
bution, She and all the other ex
perts of the department are en
thusiastic in the belief that. Vir
ginia, the Carolinas and Georgia
might easily be encouraged to
produce all the raw silk needed
by the factories in this country.
The work is easy and mterest-
ing, ^an be looked after by the
women and children of the farm,
and'each of them can, with proper
dilligence and skill, raise from $50
to $60 worth of cocoons every sea
son This would add a most wel
come sum to the family treasur
ies of thousands of farmers in
Georgia.
The subject is one. worthy the
attention of our state department
of agriculture. It can readily get
in touch with the movements be
ing made by the national bureau
and thus secure to our enterpris
ing farmers in Georgia some of
the first and richest benefits of
this uew and important indus
try.
America’s Famous Beauties
Look with horror on Skin Erup
tions, Blotches, Sores, Pimples.
They don’t have them, nor will
any one, who uses Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve. It glorifies the face.
Eczema or Salt Rheum vanish be
fore it. It cures sole lips, chap
ped hands, chilblains. Infallible
for Piles. 25c at Holtzclaw’s
drugstore.
A Lecture and a Laugh.
St. Louis Republic.
With a gravity that does not
entirely conceal the amused relish
of the situation which pomnfcs its
comment the Baltimore Sun in a
recent issue rebukes Northern peo
ple for a prejudice against the ne
gro which amounts to proscriptive
drawing of the color line.
The Baltimore newspaper -is im
pelled to this action by several re
cent instances of Northern uu-
willingness to associate with those
who have even the slightest taint
of African blood. In Boston-, it
says, ihe doors of a trades union
have just been closed to all black-
facpd workmen. At the North
western University in Chicago a
young colored woman who had en
tered the school was turned out
into the street. When it was de-
finately ascertained that she had
negro blood she was expelled. At
Evansville, Ind., all the children
of a certain public school left the
room when a very dark-complex
ioned girl came iu as a pupil.They
returned, content, when it was
satisfactorily proved that she was
of French descent aud free of any
taint of negro blood.
“It is really painful,” says the
Sun, “tc note the existence of
such prejudice in the minds of
our Northern brethren. It will
be well for brunette girls, when
they enter the public schools in
the North, to use some land of
complexion powder.” And so in
this vein, the Maryland newspa
per proceeds to get its fun out of
the incidents mentioned. It must
be confessed that the provocation
for joking is somewhat exception
al. The south has been compell
ed to listen to so much lecturing
of the same sort from .the North
that a turning of the table, is re
freshing indeed.
: \
Over Million Draw Pensions.
The United States pension list
has passed the 1,000,000 mark.
The annual report of Commission
er Ware, jvhich will be made pub
lic for the annual .encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic,
will show that at the end of the
last fiscal year ended June 30 last
the pension rolls lacked 554 names
of being 1,000,000. During July,
however, 2,051 names were added
to the list, bringing the total to
1,001,497.
At the end of the last fiscal
year the number on the rolls ex
ceeded all previous records, and
with the July addition it has
passed the prediction 'made by
those who have opposed pension
legislation. Pensions growing out
of the Spauish-American war have
had a great deal to do with the
increase, although the number of
actually pensioned is small in pro
portion to the entire number of
men—something like 800,000—
who served in that war.
A circle one hundred miles in
diameter, with Guthrie, O. T., as
its center, would, according to a
Western railroad contractor,mark
the most active railroad build
ing section in the world. With
in that area more than one-thou
sand miles 6f road are now being
built.
If You Suffer from. Kidney Troubles
Use Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Noth
ing like it. for 'diseased kidneys
cents, at Cater’^Drugstore.
50
Numberless are the stories which
go to show tnat an Englishman
finds it almost impossible to see
an American joke, George H.
Daniels, general passenger agent
of the New York Central, is re
sponsible for a late specimen. It
is of an American who told an
Englishman that he dreamed he
^as dead, but the heat woke him
up. “Aw, by Jove,” said John
Bull,“you must have tremendous
ly hot weather iu your country if
it wakes a fellah out of his
sleep.”
Out of Death’s Jaws.
“When death seemed very near
from a severe stomach and liver
trouble, that I had suffered with
for years,” writes P. Muse, Dur
ham, N. Cg “Dr. Kings’ New Life
Pills saved my life and gave per
fect health.” Best pills on earth
and only 25c at Holtzclaw’s drug
store.
My patrons in Houston County are my references.
Ship me your Cotton.
C. B. 'WTBLiINGHAM, Cotton Factor,
■Lv*CsLO©iini.j> C3~0
Keep Young.
The middle-aged woman nee'ds
to keep a sharp lookout upon her
self, There is danger of standing
still mentally^ of leaning at thir
ty or forty upon very brittle opin
ions and ideas formed at twenty
years of age. Too many girls
stop short in their education when
they leave school. Life is one
loug course of education. It is
never wise to adopt the notion
that one can stop learning. Every
day has its lessons.
Men “stay young” longer than
women. Perhaps it is because a
man twenty-one years old knows
that he kuows nothing, in the
world’s opinion anyway. He is
just preparing to run a race over
a course untried by his feet,though
trodden by millions of others. He
steadies himself, looks about him,
and reflects that if he is to keep
in the race he must hii ( ve his eyes
wide open all'the time, and learn
how to run as he goes.
The young women usually con
siders that with her college diplo
ma in hand strenuous mental ap
plication and effort comas to an
end. With the young man school
and college are preparations only
for the activities and achieve
ments of maturity. The phenom
enally brilliant undergraduate is
seldom heard of again—-man or
woman. Too early “development
is not a favorable augury. The
great school is the school of life,
with a course of study covering
three-score years and ’ ten. It is
those who are recognized forces
during the last half of this.school
ing who are of account iu the
world.-September Woman’s Home
Companion.
Goes Like Hot Cakes.
“The fastest selling article I
have in my store,” writes drug
gist C. T. Smith, of Davis;- Kyi,
“is Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
beoause it always cures. In my
six years of sales it has never
failed. I have known it to save
sufferers from Throat and Lung
diseases, who could get no help
from doctors or any other reme
dy.” Mothers rely on it, best
physicians prescribe it. Satisfac
tion guaranteed or refund price.
Trial bottles free, Regular sizes,
50c and $1.00 at Holtclaw’s drug
store.
■
“The problem of popular edu-
ucation is one that presses most
heavily upon us. There is no
measure that we now think of
that would more directly and
sensibly benefit the South than
this one, and we hope it will be
pressed in season and out of sea-r,
son until it is realized in law an a
in fact”—Atlanta Constituiion.
w. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. RAY.
GEO. H. LOWEL
W. A. DAVIS & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS-".
405-407 Poplar St.
MACON, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE OITY
They are active,
and courteous.
accommodating
Send them your cottony they are honest in thjir dealings
and wise in their judgement.
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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New Store! New Goodsl
MY STOCK OF
Furniture, Coffins, Caskets*
UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES,
is new, choice and complete. I buy direct from the factories,
and sell on a small margin of profit. *
Sewing Machines.
I can please you ih goods and prices. Come to see me.
Mr. J, R. Fudge is with me and will devote special
attention to/the Sewing Machine department—will
carry a Machine to your home and permit a trial be
fore you purchase. - u
masonic TTl Q A Perry,
Building. * " * C
DO YOU
either need a Stove or a Range? If
so, I can fill your order and guaran
tee to do it satisfactorily. I carry a complete line of
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
National Steel Ranges (unlr&tt!"
Excelsior Stoves and Ranges,
New Enterprise Stoves,
Grand Oak Stoves
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My fall stock of Crockery and Housefurnisnings is even,
moie complete than it has been heretofore.
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Triangular Block.
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