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. -...v DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE. #1.00 a Year to Advance. 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 — —^ j There are 102 centurians in i Connaught,\ Ireland, and 1,160, persons over 90 years of age. :-l-O-O-O— CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Bears the Signature of My patrons in Houston County are my references. # 'Si , . Ship me your Cotton. Gv B. WILLIN' SHAM, Cotton Factor, <3-eoxg>ia,. Hotel Arcadia, NEXT DOOR TO ACADEMY OP MUSIC, 663 MULBERIlY ST. MACON, GEORGIA. Rates, $2.00 Per Day. A HOME-LIKE HOTEL Special attention given to Transient Trade. 4)t § YOU CAN REAfi AIL THE NEW COCKS At a nominal oost by joining COLEMAN’S CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Fifty cents per month, $8.00 for six months, or $5.00 for twelve months . Write for new List of Books and further particulars. I also handle a Complete line of BOOKS ASIB STATIONARY, nud give special attention to Mail Orders, T. 308 Second Street. MACON, GA. ’ _ r OF THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION UPON TOTAL PORf BECElteTS OF COTTON 1st SEPT., 1902, TO lOth JAN., 1903. OONTE3T OB-OSSE*©'. OEIOECSVI3Basis,, 9902. To the one Making thO exact, or.the nearest to 'ih3.exac,t, estimate of the receipts of cotton AT ALL UNITED STATES PORTS' from Copt, H 1902, to January IQ, 1903 • v .,...$6';COO Toth© next nearest estimate To the soconc! next nearest To the five next nearest To the ten next noarest To tjie fifteen next nearest To the twonty next nearest •••••• • To the fifty next nearest To the one hundred ryaarest .$300 bncfcft 200 eaeft-- I bo each- 50 oach' 2,OOQ fl.OQO (I 3 GO SAGCO L6CO LOGO 10 ©rich— 5,00 6 oac!')' b’OO For distribution among thoso estimates (not taking any of fc’Vo above 203 prizes) com- Ingwithln 1,000 bales either way of the exact figures 816,000 $2,500 9 I 7,500 .Should the exact figures have been given during the content prior to 3opt. let there was offered to the successful estimate, If rnado boforo then'.., 2,500 Grand total..... i $20,000 CondMioms off Soavdmg Estimates hi WMb ffilssmimyih $2© S> D&Q ©omiest. fl] Send Q1.25 for WEEKLY CONSTITUTION and 6CNNY SOUTH, both ono yonr, and uoad two estimates lu this contest—that la one estimate for the SUNNY SOUTH and another estimate for THE CONSTITUTION. • [2] Send SI.00 for WEEKLY CONSTITUTION pneyear and with It ono osilmnto in the oonte*:. ' [8] fiend 50o for SUNNY SOUTH one year and with It ouo estimate in tho content. [4] Send 50c for one estimate alono In the eonte'ot if you don’t want a subscription, or If ypu wish to mako a number of estimates on this basis you may send TH ootlmatoo for every ONE DOL LAR forwarded at the came time estimates aro cont. tfas marly os TEN ostimato3 aro sont at tho same time, without subscription, the sender may forward them w! :h only dollars--this spe cial discount being offered only to estimates of ten. A postal card receipt will be cent for each estimate so recolvod. Whore subscriptions arebent the arrival of the papor itself is cm acknowledge- mentthatyour estimate has bean rocelvod ahd carefully recorded. [8] The money and the subscription »od In* estimate-must como In tbo sums envelope every tune. TUe csttraute, the money und tho subscrip tion go together. This rule is positive. "* [6] No estimate must be mailed I*t#r then December 31at, 1902, ' / £7] In ease of a tie upon any prise estimate, th« money will be equally divided. BLANK FOB $1.00 HID THREE ESTIMATES, WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTION. (To be chanced If seoeerlptlont and estimates both ore sept,) PUBLISHERS CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ok. Enter THREE estimate, for me, for tl.oo enclosed. In your current contest as follows: 1st Upon Total Port Receipts September i, 1902, to January 10.1903. 2d 3d STATISTICS OP I.AST SEVEN CROPS. THE PORT RECEIPTS for tho past few years, from Sep tember I through the first tea days of January, are given to aid you in malting an Intelli gent estimate in this contest. It is not necessary to itemize your estimate,' give it in ons plain sum expressed In figure* only; let them mean just what you mean to say. Total Port Cotton Year- Fame. Postoffice. State NOTE-If you wish only ONE estimate In the contest, send PIFTY CENTS and fill out only ono §lanks.Ifyoa wish TEN estlmatesintneoontestsendTHRBKDOIjIjARS and write your: own line of figures Irrouwteh to eubsoribotoTHE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION©! SUNNY SOUTH, or both, ns above oflere'd, mate remittance lndloated and send estimates FREE—one estimate lor each yearly subscription, or two for tho combination, changing this coupon accordingly and enclose with remittance, Receipt* from Soot. I to January 10. t... 3,862,186 . ... &,139,272 . .. 8,081,253 .... 6,166,283 .... 4.207 865 . ,-i 4,804,814 6.137,810 Address ait orders to..n 1898-6..,. .. 1896- 7.. .. 1897- 98.. .. 1898- 9..'. .. 1899- 1900.. 1900- 01.. .. 1901- 02.. .. Secretary Hester, of: the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, will furnish the official figures to decide this nontest, ' Bon’t forget, every subscrip tion for yourself or your friends will entitle you to an estimate in the great $20,000 content. ATLANTA, GAm