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if ■ Wmm mumlM IjSAWI JOHN H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. $1.50 a Year in Advance. TOL. XXXIII. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1903. NO. 23* *%■ ft The greatest of all Southern Seaside Besorts. Having added many improvements to the already splendid accommodations, HOTEL TYBEE Is better able than ever to take care of the ever increasing crowds that will this year flock to that popular resort. The rates, $2.50 per Day and $12.50 to $15.00 per Week, are in reach of all. Speoial rates to large parties. THE PULASKI HOUSE is the best and most convenieui place at which to stop while in Savannah. CHAS. F. GRAHAM, Proprietor. YOU GAN READ ALL THE NEW BOOKS At a nominal cost by joining COLEMAN’S CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Fifty oents per month, $3.00 for six months, or $5.00 for'twelve months. Write for new List of Books and farther particulars. JJP I also handle a Complete line of BOOKS AND ^STATIONARY, and give speoial attention to Mail Orders, My Houston County Friends are Invited to Call When In MacoN. T. A. COLEMAN, 308 Second Street, MACON, CA. m. C. BALESM $ Agt. -DEALER IN- Hardware, Stoves, Cutlery, Sues, Pistols Tinware, Woodenware, Farming Implements, Etc. 363 Third St. (Near Post Office) MACON, GA Our Great Hoard of Gold. ValdoBta Times. Nearly one thousand, three hun dred tons of gold lie to-day in the vaults of the treasury of the Uni ted States,—the greatest hoard of yellow metal ever gathered in the history of the world. Four hun dred tons of this gold are piled, like bags of salt, within the four walls of the sub-treasury in Wall Street, New York. Outside the treasury hoard, there is in circu lation through the country a near ly e^ual amount of gold coin, making more than two thousand, five hundred tons of gold in the United States, bearing the im print of the eagle. The value of this coin is more than one billion, two hundred and sixty million dollars, says Frank Fayaufc in Sucoess. One of the remarkable things about this gold is that, despite the fact of its forming one half of the country’s circulating money, it is rarely seen iu the course of ordinary business. One may live in New York or Chicago or San Francisco without seeing a single gold coin for a year. This is in striking contrast to conditions abroad, where gold is everybody’s coin. The gold sovereign of Eng land is aB current as the five-dol- ! ar silver certificate of this coun try. There, a man with a small income may not have a piece of paper money [The five-pound Bank of England note is the smallest,] in his hands for months. What becomes of all our American gold? The mines Colorado,(California, Alaska, And if nice work, low prices, courteous treatment and all round fair dealing mean anything to you we expect to have it OO.UB TO' SZE2ZEZ "CT.S and examine our line of Vehicles, Harness, Mowers, Rakes Binders and all kinds of Harvesting Machinery, Gasoline Engines and Wind Mills. Repair Work. We have the best equipped repair shop in the state, anc. our work and prices are sure to please you. Fainting. We paint more buggies and wagons than all other shops in the county combined. We must give satisfaction or we could not hold the trade as we do. Hay Presses. We are the originators and sole manufacturers of the RAPID FIRE HA Y PRESS, the cheapest and best on the market. If you buy a hay press without seeing'this one you may regret it. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. The,. Williams Buggy Co., ^Eaooru O-a,. and other gold produoing regions of the West add eighty million dollars a year to our hoard of gold, and three-fourths of this output goes to the rnintB. The yearly coinage of gold actually approaches in value the entire circulation of silver dollars. The treasury holds in trust, against outstanding gold certificates, four hundred million dollars in gold coin. These gold certificates range from twenty dollars to ten thous and dollars. They are issued from the treasury iu exchange for gold coin or bullion, aud are just as good as gold. The English man wears his pockets out carry ing gold coin around with him; the American prefers to have his money in the form of represents tive paper that can be folded com pactly in his waistcoat pocket. In the sub-treasury at New York, re cently, I picked up a handful of gold certificates of the value of three million; six hundred thous and dollars; the bundle could be stowed away in one’s hip pocket but it represented seven tons of gold. Stored in the vaults of the building at the time was a hoard of gold coin of the value of two hundred million dollars. In one vault no larger than the bedroom of a New York flat, was an aggre gate ofjseventy-eight million dol lars in gold. This was stored in little white bags stowed away in scores, of steel boxes, covering the four walls of the vault from floor to ceiling. Every box was sealed and some of the seals were dated several years back. The first thought, at sight of this gold hoard, is that it is idle money but it should be recalled that all of it is in circulation by proxy in the form of gold certificates. Acreage in Farms. Macon Telegraph. The Georgia farmer oooupies, owns and cares for a large pro portion cf the land in this state. The same observation iB true rela tive to the eutire oountry. He who feeds the world is still the great factor of oommeroe, the land owner of the oivilized globe. Upon him rests the responsibility for the physical existence of hu manity. It is often a matter of wonderment how all these count less hordes of higher and lower animals are supplied with the staff of life. The statistics we shall quote answer the question. In the United States in 1900 thero were 6,787,872 farms, repre senting 888,691,774 acres. The improved laud aggregated 414,498- 487, unimproved 424,098,287. The average number of acres to the farm, 146.2. The value of all farm property was $20,489,901,- 164. The number of farms in Geor gia was 224.691 in 1900. There were 141,866 white farmers and 82,822 colored, three Indian and one Mongolian. The white races cultivated 68.1 per oent. of the farms, while the other races tilled 86.9. The land, improvements aud buildings were worth $188,- 870,120. Without buildings, the and aud improvements were val ued at $138,616,480. The N total valuation of all farm property is placed at $228,874,687. Imple meuts and machinery used by our farmers were worth $9,804,010, while the live stock would have brought the owners $85,200,507. The average number of acres per farm in Georgia during 1900 was 117.5. The percentage of im proved land is given as 40.2, while the land surface improved was 28.1. The average value of land and improvements, $616; build ings, $199; implements and ma chinery, $44.p0; live stock, $167. The average expenditures for la bor per farm, $82.00; fertilizers, $26.00. The figures quoted piaoe Geor gia among the leading states of the South relative to agricultural values. The showing, while cred itable as; a whole, is not so large as it might be. There remains many possibilities with the farm er and his possessions in this state. Virginia leads us by large margin in the value of all its farm property, including build ings, implements and live stock. Georgia is larger in acreage than Virginia, but the latter state is much older, and really Georgia’s mother. But the farmers are ag gressive and we expect great things from them by the next ceusus repprt. “I have been troubled for some time with indigestion and sour stomach,” says Mrs. Sarah W Curtis, of Lee, Mass., “and have been taking Chamberlain’s Stom ach and Liver Tablets which have helped me very much so that now I can eat many things that before I could not.” If you have any trouble with your stomach why not take these Tablets and get well? For sale by all druggists. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have prov ed their matchless merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They make pure blood and build up yoqr health. Ouly 25/, money back if not cured. Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw, druggist. — To be glad of life because it gives yau a chance to love and to work and to piay and to look up at the stars ; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not content ed with yourself until you have made the best of them—to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and every day of Christ—these are the little guide- posts on the path to peace.—Ex. Perry Oolored School. Written For The Rome Journal. I have never met a set of chil dren to win my love any sooner than those of the Perry school. The ouly fault I found was that- the people failed to visit us as I wished, as visits of parents seem, to inspire the children. I had the pleasure cf the visits made by Revs. P. L. Brown, J. J. Hollis* and Elder McOomb. Of course a few people oame out. Prof. G* W. Smith, the County School Commissioner’s call caused a great aspiration among my pupils. The trustee board did all they could to protect me, my assistant- and pupils and the sohool ground. They are planning to build a house in whioh to teach, which, when completed, will be an honor to both county Board of Educa tion and the oolored people of Perry and vicinity. On May 22nd the sohool olosed with about 75. After a few test problems, questions iu history, grammar, aud physiology. Rev. P. L. Brown made a speech nam- iug a few of my graduates, as they stopped going to school and sat first on the streets and then on bank of the creek. As Henrietta Culler gave a nice cake to the teachers, all weut home to dinner.' All returned, and after a song or two the following said speech es : Mattie Lou Davis, Alice Lew is, Nora Harrison, Mary Jones,. Willie Ragan, Johnnie Jefferson,. Mary Culler, Ada Wimberly, Lau ra May Jackson, Annie Jaokson, Victoria Rollins, Laurence Lew is, Dan Duffy, Oscar Whiohard* Jimmie Fanu, Eddie Miller*,. George Dixou and Clarence Cul ler. We had a duett by Alice LewiB and Mattie Lou DaviB, All enjoyed the singing. After a short talk of advice to* the ohildren by the teaohers, and a few corroborative remarks from, the pastor, the song 66, “God be*' with you until we meet again.’ | was sung, and a shaking of hander ill u sorrowful goodbye took piaoe between teachers and pupils. The pupils ^reseut said iu words and: quick rising that they want me? again next year. R. G. P. Conyers, Teacher. Worst of All Experiences. . Can anything be worse than to feel that every minute will be your last? Such was the experi ence of Mrs. S H. Newsom, Deca tur, Ala. “For three years” she writes, “I endured insufferable pain from indigestion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death seem ed inevitable when doctors and all remedies failed. At length I was induced to try Eleotrio Bit ters and the result was miracu lous. I improved at once and now I am completely recovered.”' For Liver, Kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles, Electric Bitters i» the only medicine. Only 50/* It’s guaranteed by Druggists. Holtzclaw’s Drug Store. wm Subscribe for the Home Journal Outs, Bruises and Burns Healed. Quickly Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is an antiseptic liniment, and when ap plied to cuts, bruises and burns, caiises them to heal without ma turation and much more quickly than by the usual treatment. For sale by ali druggists. No doubt the landlords of St* Louis will get their rates adjusted ou a rational basis by the time- the exposition really opens. A Chicago hotel keeper, who hast been giving his St. Louis brethren advice, explains what a rational basis is. Says he: “A hotel keep er should never charge a man more than he has about him. The* expert proprietor sizes up a man’& pile and then leaves a few dollars leeway. That was the rule in Chi cago ten years ago, and it worked admirably.”. C ASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Havo Always Bought Bears the Signature of * ' ill 1 mm mm m im