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JOHIt 11 HOP&ES » DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE. 01.00 a Tear in Advance. 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. SMITH’S NERVE RESTORER. This medicine is guaranteed to cure all cases of Nervous Prostration caused by overwork. It is a true Nerve Ionic and restores Nervous Vitality or Loss of Manhood. It will not only relieve these nervous troubles and weaknesses, but will restore them to full vigor aud man- hood. Guaranteed, bold by Dr. R. L. 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. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of W. A. DAVIS. BEN. T. RAY. GEO. ftT LOWE. W. A. DAVIS & CO, COTTON FACTORS. 405-407 Poplar St. MACOJST, GEORGIA BEST SALESMEN IN THE OITY. They are active, accommodating and courteous. Scud them your cotton; they are honest in thfir dealings a^d wise in their judgement. "W\ -A.-* DAVIS CO., ♦ MACON, GEORGIA. . —_ New Store! New Goods! i| WF' 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. ' - ' , N.V' - _ CALDiER B. WILLINGHAM, JR., Triangular Block. @ MACON, GEORGIA