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VOL. XXXV
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, G-A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1902.
New Way to Cure Hay.
Albany Herald.
The plan is to rake up the hay
as fast as it is cut and stack it to
a pole in staoks about half the
size of an ordinary old fashioned
fodder stack.
First get a supply of poles from
two to four inches in diameter
and about seven feet long. Pine
saplings are the best. Sharpen
one end of the pole and drive it
into the ground, taking care to lo
cate it on ground where water
will not stand after a rain. Drive
the poles down at'convenient dis
tances apart, and as fast as the
hay is cut and' raked up pile it
around the poles, using a pitch-
fork and throwing the hay over
the tops of the poles, letting it
hang loosely, forming a cone
shaped stack. Let the last deliv
ery from the fork consist of all
grass, and with this cap the stack.
This forms a weather shield for
the stack and will shed the rain.
Thus stacked the hay is left for
three weeks, or longer, if desired,
when it will be perectly cured and
ready for baling. In gathering
it for baling the most convenient
wry is to pull over the whole staok
and load it, pole and all,on a wag
on.
But doesn’t green hay thus
stacked heat or mould? one may
ask. It does not, When stacked
around the pole green there is
sufficient shrinkage during the
first twenty-four hours to afford
enough ventilation to prevent
heating, and the hay cures beau-,
tifully. We examined some staoks
that were put up three weeks ago,
and that have been rained on sev
eral times, and the hay was bright
and as free from mould" as if it
had bean cured under a shed.
Another thing' that we noticed
was that the peavines had not
shed the leaves.
This plan of curing hay seems
to be the cheapest and best of any
that has been tried by haymakers
in this region, and it has certain
ly been a success.
—
Col. Watterson calls attention
to the fact that the President’s
plan for curing the trust evil by
federal "control is not original
with him. John D. Rockefeller,
Mr. Archbold and H. H. Rogers
of the Standard Oil Company
months ago told the Industrial
Commission that federal control
was the proper remedy to be ap
plied. John W. Gates is another
advocate of national charters to
corporations. James B. Dill, the
trust lawyer, has expressed him
self along the same line. It ap
pears, therefore, that the Presi
dent is advocating precisely the
thing that the trust magnates
have recommended.—J3av News.
More frauds are creeping out
from the United States pension
office. It was a bad day for the
people when Commissioner Evans
was removed charged nominally
with nothing, but really with too
much honesty. It is estimated
that 1,600,000 men enlisted first
and last in the Union armies, but
recent pension legislation dias
brought to light the fact -that
1)701,904 pension claims have
been granted out of 2,825,411 ap
plications.
His Life In Peril.
A wise man who chose to pose,
as a fool ouoa eaid that “health is
thd primary duty of life.” Yet
the majority of us do not consid
er health a duty. It is a gift
from God, a piece of good luck,
what you will, anything but a re
quirement laid on mankind. We
exact of man that he be kind,
that he be honest. If he is not
either of these the more shame
to him; but if he _ is unhealthy
we count him unfortunate, and
let it go. It would be better to
regard health as a duty. We in
herit some of our trouble,' to be
sure, but Nature is on our side,
fighting for health, and most of
our illness is brought about by
our own indiscretion. Let us
shoulder the new responsibility.
We should live wisely and tem
perately in all things, neither
overeat nor overdrink; we should
keep away from intoxicants, and
above all we should not allow our
selves to worry about anything,
because that harms us physically
as well as mentally. We should
regard an act that is likely to in
terfere with our well-being with
as muon abhorance as we would a
lie or a theft, which is a blow to
character. This is the part of
wisdom ;it is also the part of mor\
als. If a man is sick he will more
easily yield to temptation; all the
moral and mental rests inevitably
on the physical, and with good
health to his aid one is able to face
with fortitude all the various prob-
lernsof J fife.—October Woman’s
Home Companion.
My patrons in Houston County are my references.
Ship me your Cotton.
C. B. WIKLIKGHAIVT, Cotton Factor,
^E&coe., G-eoxg'Ia,.
The Pursuit of Happiness.
All who run after the gilded
chariot of joy get covered with
dust, and are left limping along
the road quite bereft of that de
gree of comfort with which they
started on the mad race.
Yet sometimes, when the quest
for one’s own happiness is quite
out of mind, when one is absorbed
in making some one else happy,
down like a bird from the highest
heavens comes joy, and settles as
if,at home, in the heart that has
forgotten itself.
Happiness is never touched by
the hand thar reaches out for it
too eagerlv, It flies into some
hand opei\ to give, not stretched
out to receive.
The angels always appear unex
pectedly, as did the angel who
sat by the tomb when Mary visit
ed it at dawn. Going out to
mourn, she.was met by unimag
inable joy.
How often does the long-antici
pated feast turn out to be a fam
ine, gaiety having fled from the
house overborne by much ponder
ous preparation.
He who seeks happiness for its
own sake shall lose it, and he
who loses happipess for another’s
sake shall find it, even in the
hour when he thinks it is gone
from him forever, and is content
to have it so,—Woman’s Home
Companion.
Local School Taxation.
Atlanta Constitution.
One of the great educational is
sues that is being discussed in
Georgia i^ that of local taxation
for sohool purposes. It will be
brought to the direct attention of
the legislature by Hon. Hoke
Smith, who was asked to do so by
Jthe county superintendents of ed
ucation during their recent ses
sion in Atjhens. This movement
is backed by the practically unan
imous sentiment of the educators
of the state. What the people
will have to say about it remains
to be seen.
At present a county cannot levy
a local tax for school purposes
without a vote of two*thirds of
the qualified voters assenting
thereto. This makes it extreme
ly hard to get such measures
through. The advooates of looal
taxation maintain that it brings
the people of a county nearer to
their schools and makes them
take a deeper interest in them. It
also provides more money with
which the schools can be run lon
ger and more effectively.
It is desired that the legislature
so change the law relative to rais
ing money for school purposes as
to place it within the reach of a
majority of the community to
say whether they shall be taxed
for this purpose. The enactment
of a law of this kind will do muoh
to benefit the schools throughout
the state.
“I just seemed to have gone all
to pieces,” writes Alfred Bee, of
Welfare, Tex., billiousness and a
lame back had made life a bur
den. I couldn’t eat or sleep and
felt almost too worn out to work
when I began to use Electric Bit
ters, but they worked wonders.
Now I sleep like a top, can eat
anything, have gained in strength
and enjoy hard work.”—Tlmy
give vigorus health and new life
to weak, sickly, run-down people.
W T,:y them. Only 50c at Holtz-
claw’s drugstore.
The people have a right to the
privilege of education, and it is
the duty of the State to guard
and maintain that right. The
strength of every community is
dependent upon the average of
the intelligence of that commu
nity, and this intelligence is de
pendent upon the education of the
entire mass and not of the few.
—Charles Brantley Aycock, Gov
ernor of North Carolina.
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nervous troubles and weaknesses, but
will restore them to full vigor aud man-
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Cater.
Are the American people be
coming more careless with res
pect to perional safety, or do they
go in such a rush that they have
not the time to look out for their
lives and limbs? According to
the Insurance Press nearly 9 per
cent, of all the deaths in the
United States last juar were dn s
to accident. This is twice, the
percentage of deaths from old age,
and is a greater percentage than
the deaths from any specific dis
ease with the exception of con
sumption, pneumonia and “heart
failure.—Ex.
Out of Death’s Jaws.
“When death seemed very near
from a severe stdmach and liver
trouble, that I had suffered with
for years,” writes P. Muse, Dur
ham, N. C., “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.
•»»-*
A Philadelphia preacher of the
name of Woolston is the latest
prophet to fix the time of the
endiug of the world. Within
twenty years, he says, the gospel
will have been preached to all the
world and to every creature, and
then will come the final collapse.
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COTTON FACTORS.
405-407 Poplar St.
MACOJST, GEORGIA
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MY STOCK OF
Furniture, Coffins, Caskets,
UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES,
is new, choice and complete. I buy direct from the faotories,
and sell on a small margin of profit.
WHEELER & WILSON, and NEW ROME
Sewing Machines.
I can please you in goods and prices. Come to see me. \\
Mb. 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.
Masonic
Building'.
if 1 , o. Perry,
Georgia,
SO VOTT either ne ed 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
Best made in\
United States )y
National Steel Ranges (
Excelsior Stoves and Ranges,
New Enterprise Stoves,
Grand Oak Stoves (iJoMSitar»|l
My fall stock of Crockery and Housefurnisnings is even
more complete than it has been heretofore.
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CALDiER B. WILLINGHAM, JR.,
Triangular Block.
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MACON, GEORGIA