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By a Pupil of Uuion Academy, The two continents, or grand divisions of North and South America, together, are known ns America, it being so called from Amercicns Vespuius, the man who wrote the first description of it after it was discovered. North America is north and a little west of South America. Th^y consti tute what we call the New Worijg, in preference to Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, because they were the last to be discovered. North Atnorica is larger than South America, but they are shaped somewhat alike; both be ing wide in the north and taper ing toward the south. Each has very high mountains in the wes tern part, lower mountains in the eastern, and a central plain be tween tjiem. The Isthmus of Pan ama connects these two • conti nents. As North America is our native country, I suppose a more defi nite description should given of it. A great part of the western half of North America is a mountain ous region, consisting of the New Yorker: From a source eminently respectable and trust worthy, l am advised that the real reason John D. Rockefeller is op posing anti-trust legislation is a fear Test congress might impair his fortune and therebv be com Not unlike some other great men, Chief Justioe Marshall gave little attention to dress or to per sonal pulchritude, although his face was unusually handsome. A story is told of a young man who C. R. Mann, Pres, had" recently removed to Rich- 3E»33 XY.!E«.Xl.''S”, R. L. Cater, Y. Pres. L. F. Cater, Cashier pelled to cut down his benefac-1 mond. This new comer saw in tions and gifts for the education-! the market a rusty-lookmg old al and missionary work. He is : mau making his way slowiy only worth about $1,000,000,000, through the entrance and walking and it would be very distressing up to him abruptly, asked him it if congress should do anything to he would like to make a nmepence reduce his income, which amounts hv carrying a turkey home for to only $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 j him. The old man quietly took a year. Mr. Rockefeller looks the turkey and walked behind the upon his vast fortune rb a trust i newly arrived citizen without a given him for the elevation of word, until the latter had reached Directors—F. M. Houser, L. M. Paul, A. A, Smouk, J. N. Tuttle, C. R. Maun L. F. Cater, R. L. Cater. Every facility for transacting a general Banking Business, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Madre, Cascade, and the Coast Ranges. The eastern part is also mountainous, but its moun tains are not near so high, so wide, or so long as they are in the western part. Both these mountain regions yield different kinds of ore; some of which are gold, silver, iron, copper and coal. There is a great plain between the mountain region the east and the one on the west, which is known as the Central Plain of North America. It is drained by three large rivers; namely: the Mississippi, Nelson, and Macken zie. The Mississippi being the lar gest. This plain is a fine farmiug land. North America is crossed by the oool and warm belts of heat. The extreme northern part ex tends into the cold belt, and the extreme southern part into the hot belt. * The Andes mountains are in the western part of South Ameri ca and there are lower mountains on the eastern side. There is also a plain between these mountains, as in North America, and is drain ed by the Orinoco, Amazon, and Panama rivers, the Amazon being the largest river in South Ameri ca, and also .the largest in the world. The northern part of South America is in the hot belt, the middle part in the oool or warm, and the southern part in the cold. There is'very much difference between America to-day and about four hundred years ago, or about the time Columbus discov ered it. A great improvement has been made. A large trade is carried on in nearly all parts of America and between it and sev eral other countries. The rail road, 'which leads to the many different parts of the two conti nents, is one of the greatest helps in carrying on trade. The Isthmus of Panama is only about thirty miles wide. It has a railroad across it. They are try ing to separate the two continents by digging a canal across the isth mus, which, if they can do, will be a great benefit to ships. It will save the ships, when going from one ocean to another, from going the long way around by the south ern end of South America. ♦ A Mother’s Recommendation. I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy fora number of years and have no hesitancy in saying that it is the best remedy for - coughs, colds aad croup I have ever used in my family. I have not words to express my confi dence in this remedy.—Mrs. J. A. Moore, North Star, Mich. For sale by all druggists. mamdndi After having spent fiftj years separating maukind from its money he intends to devote the remaining ten years of his al lotted years to redistributing the cash. He has planned this work mi a broad and gonerous scale and it grieves him to the heart to feel that congress might in its blind ness and incapacity interfere with the com^um(nation.- Mr. Rocke feller only wants to leave his heirs $900,000,000. The hoofs and horns .and bristles he is entirely willing to give to the poor and needy. He had a headache when lie sent those telegraphic orders to his senators in congress to hold up hostile legislation. But for that fact he might have framed his orders in more gentle language, but when the public learns of that headache it will forgive him, knowing the purity of his motive and his innate kindliness of spirit. his own gate. “Catch!” said the young man, tossing a ninepenoe to his hire ling. The old mau caught the nine- pence, and as he turned to walk away a gentleman passing bowed deferentially "to him. “Who is that shabby old fel low?” asked the turkey buyer. “The chief justice of the United States,” was„the reply. “Impossible!” stammered the blunderer. “Why did he bring the turkey—why—” . “To teach you a lesson in good breediug,” interrupted the gentle man. “He will give the money away before he gets hotre, but I have no diubt he is enjoying the |nk| you have so condescendingly given him.” -Lippinoott’s Maga zine. * i Charles A. Dana’s Logic. They tell a goo.d story of Charles A. Dana—says a writer in the At lantic—how Dana once summon ed a boy reporter and said, “To morrow you write up the yacht race.” “But,” said the lad, “I don’t know how, I’m a Nebraskan. I only came here last night, sir, and I haven’t so much as seeu New York harbor yet. As for yachts —why, I never saw a yacht in my lifel” “Just the reason I sent for you, my boy 1 You’ll write a story that people can read; youTl picture the thing; you’ll write with en thusiasm because it’s all new to you.” Sane logic I The poetry of the sea has always been written by landsmen; it always will be. The barrack-room ballads are best sung by a gentle civilian. The inside of anything is clearest seeu by au erstwhile outsider. Mr. Bryce, not Mr. Lodge, writes “The American Commonwealth.” Emerson, not Carlyle, writes “En glish traits.” Mysterious Circumstance. One was pale and sallow and the other fresh'and rosy. Whence the difference? She who is blush ing with health uses Dr. King’s New Life Pills to maintain it. By gently arousing the. lazy organs they compel good digestion and head off constipation. Try them. Only 25c at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore A bill introduced into the Utah Legislature makes the first Mon day in October a legal holiday, to be known as “Health Day.” On that day it is. made compulsory for every person in the state to clean and disinfect thoroughly dwellings, stores, theaters, public halls, of all kinds, and, in fact, every building of any kind used by the people. Cut this out and take it to any drugstore and get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, the best physic. They cleanse and invigorate the atom ach, improve the appetite and reg ulate the bowels. Regular size 25c per box. A Story About Schwab. Charles M. Schwab when he was a boy attended the village school of Loretta, Pa., and in Loretta they still tell the story of young Schwab and the brick, says the Pittsburg Gazette. It seems that the schoolmaster was an ardent geologist. He had ordered one day that each of the children bring to school a specimen of some sort, and these specimens he would designate and desoribe one by one. Accordingly on the appointed day a great armload of stones were brought to the little ouilding, but young Schwab’s contribution to the armload was a bijoken brick. In due oourse the master took up the specimens. “This,” he said, “is a piece o feldspar from the crossroaos “This is a piece of marl from the meadpw. “This is a piece of argillaceous sandstone from the quarry. “And this,” he thundered, tak ing up the broken brick, ’•'this iB a piece of impudenco from Char lie Schwab.” Staple Groceries, Stock Feed, Farm Supplies, ef,c., I l is where the stock is complete, the goods of best quality and the ' prices right. MY STORE IS OF THAT KIND. I invite the farmers of Houston county, and other readers of the Home Journal, to give me a share of their patronage. GOODS GUARANTEED TO BE AS REPRESENTED T. E. MERRITT, Mm 451, 453 & 456 Third St. MACON, GA. ■s. as® .jWm Cherry. Macon, Ca. Better Than Gold. “I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and ner vous debility,” writes F. J. Green of Lancaster, N. H. “No remedy helped me until I began using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicines ever used. They have also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splendid ^or female trou bles; that they are a grand tonic and incinerator for weak and run* down women. No other medicine can take its place in our family.” Try them. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed. .Holtzclaw’s Drugstore ♦♦♦ Eight per cent, of the popula tion of this country is still illiter ate. In Germany only one per cent, of illiterates exists, and in Bavaria, Baden, Wurtenberg and Scandinavia there are no totally uneducated people. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Everything Goes! 4 i 1 Our winter stock of Fine Dress Goods, Trimmings, Cloaks, etc/, will bp sold for cash at reduced prices. None better in the city. MESSRS. FRAME M. HOUSER, AND §§ T. BEALL are with us, and 'will be especially glad, to seive their Houston friends. Don’t wait, but call at once. JLjJlljOkD-tliJtv. vZ), 559 CHERRY STREET. .MACON. GEORGIA 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 Best made in A United States, J National Steel Ranges ( Excelsior Stoves and Ranges, New Enterprise Stoves, Grand Oak Stoves My fall stock of Crockery and Housefurnisnings is moie complete than it has been heretofore. even CALDER B. WILLINGHAM Triangular Block. MACON, GEORG— 'im '0 i-v&U', Hi mm