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VOL. XXXJ.
Country and City Boys.
PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1902.
NO. GO.
V
It is an admitted fact that the
majority of the Americans who
have made their mark in the
world, whether in politics or mil
itary life, in the professions, or
in the world of business -and in
dustry, have been country-bred-
that isr, their early lives were
spent either on a farm or in the
smaller towns and villages, where
life,is semi-rural, to say the least.
To this the answer* has been
that the tremendous increase of
urban population,* as compared
with rural, began not more than a
generation ngo ; and that the ma
jority of the people living outside
of great cities accounts for the
difference. The most of the pop
ulation being rural, the majority
of those who have reached omi
nence as men of affairs would
necesssarily^come from the conn
try instead of the towns
The answer of the champions
of the country bred, boy to this is
thot he, being born in a farming
community, lived his childhood
and boyhood days in the open air;
he knit his muscles and built up a
sturdy frame by rural toil; that a
sound min'd needs a souud body,'
and the latter being secured by
his rural life he entered upon the
struggle of business or profession
al life with a better physical and
mental equipment than his com
petitor whose life was bound by a
citiys horizon.
Now comes John Gilmer Speed
with the declaration that of the
men who. have achieved promi
nence and high influence in affairs
of state, the country boys ‘are at
least twenty to one over the city
lads. But he gives a different—
or perhaps we should say an addi
tional— reason for this. He sets-
fourth the paradox that a country
boy’s lack of opportunity is the
best equipment for the serious af
fairs of life. He adds the para
dox on-the other side that the
greatest hindrance the city lad
has is the plentitu.de of opportu
nities, which bespt him when
young and surround him when he
begins his serious life work.
His explanation of these para
doxes is that for the city bred boy
everything is made as easy as pos
sible. Reared in the feverish
rush of city life, ( where great
things are happening daily, he
comes to • despise the small
things, which, like the indivual
bricks in a house, go to the up
building of a character and a ca
reer. He has no taste and little
regard for the small things of
life ; yet it is these small things
which are the. units he should use
in the upbuilding of the structure
of his career.
Enthusiasm he believes to be
the spur to endeavor as Veil as the
spice of life. When the country
boy, seeking a career, comes to a
city, he. is filled with enthusiasm.
Those things which the city boy
views with a cynic’s eye as trivial,
lie views as novelties. Whatever
he finds to do comes to him with
the spice of novelty, apd he feels
that in doing them that he is ac
complishing not only something
interesting but valuable. His
tastes have not been spoiled by
undue gratification. He ap
proaches each days task with zest,
while his city cousin wonders,
“what is the use?” Hence he
succeeds.—Toledo Blade.
The Pride of Heroes. .
Many soldiers in the last war wrote
to say tha,t for scratches, bruises,
cuts, wounds, corns, sore feet and
stiff joints^ Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is
the best/in the world. Same for
burns, scalds, boils, ulcers, skin erup
tions and piles. It cures or no pay.
Only 25/c at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
Charles T. Yerkts is said to claim
that £ien are merely in their appren
ticeship until they are forty, and
thatjfifty is the ripe age of the bus
iness/ man.
Southern Education Board.
You can first visit the school
and see that the house is clean be
fore the session opens; that there
are enough seats and hooks, or
nails, for hats, wraps, and lunch
baskets; that there is a pail for
water, drinking vessels,basin, tow
els, aud soap: that the yard is
clean, and some shrubs aud trees
planted, with vines to Bcreen out
buildings. If the yard is muddy,
and especially if it te the red
mud, be sure to have a walk made,
and a few boards will help a great
deal. Place on the wall one or
more good pictures. Copies of
the world’s master- pieces can be
had for a penny each, and large
pictures from'five to twenty-five
ernts each. But do not degrade
the school footn by .filling it with
trash; better a perfectly clean,
bare room than one filled with
tawdry decorations covered with
dust. Start a library. I have
been in many comfortable homes
where the only books were a few
old school-book^, the Bible and
the Almanac, and it is no wonder
that we have suffered at the hands
of the historiang when this is
true. Help the teacher by aiding
in and arranging for sopial even
ings aud entertainments at the
school-house. Visit the school
and interest others in doing so.,
The women of the State can do j
for the schobl houses a work?;
simi!^ to that which they havef
done for every church, and the!
hopes of all good women will be|
realized just in proportion to the?
rational development and steady;
pi'ogress of the civilizing work off
churches and schools.—Mrs. C. D.
Mclver, in . an address to North
Carolina Federation of Women’s
Clubs,
At the. Cabinet meeting last
Friday, says the Washington cor
respondence of the Pliilidilphia
Record, Secretary Hay, who is
the most dignified of men, told a
story of an experience he had
when he went to New York last
week. He was taking his coffee
and roll in the station restaurant
In Jersey City, when a large red-
faced man, who was not at all im
pressed by dignity, nudged the
Secretary of State with a vigei^
ous elbow, and pointing to the
sugar, said: “Say, sport, ferry
over the confectionery, will you?”
Saved At Grave’s Brink.
“I knew I would long ago have
been in my grave,” writes Mrs.
S. H. Newsom, of Ducatur, Ala.,
“if ,-it had not been for Electric
Bitters. For three years I suf
fered untold agony from the worst
forms of Indigestion, Water-
brash, Stomach and Bowel Dis-
pepsia. But this excellent medi
cine did me a world of good.
Since using it I can eat heartily
and have gained 35 pounds.” For
Indigestion, Loss of Appetite,
Stomach,Liver and Kidney troub
les Electric Bit'ters are a positive,
guaranteed cure. Only 50c at Dr.
Holtzclaw’s Drug-store.
It is expected that the guard at
the tomb of the late Presideut
McKinley will shortly be placed
on the basis of a regular army
post. TJhere are sixty-five men,
detailed on guardat the cemetary
and dispensary and hospital
facilities have been provided for^
them. > ' j
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There are 102 centurians in i
Connaught,\ Ireland, and 1,160,
persons over 90 years of age.
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