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JO HIV EE. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #1.00 a Year ixi Advauce.
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PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GrA., THURSDAY, JULY 1(5, 1903.
NO. 291
The greatest of! all Southern Seaside Resorts. Having added many
improvements to the already splendid accommodations,
Lady Bugs vs Scale.
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Is better able than ever to take care ot the ever increasing
that will this year flock to that popular resort. The rates,
$2.50 pei* liay and $12.50 to $15.00 per Week,
are in reach of all; Special rates to large parties. •
THE PULASKI HOUSE is the best and most convenieui
at which to stop while in Savannah.
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crowds
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The Democracy Is No Derelict.
-DEALER IN-
State Entomologist W. M. Scott,
who, in. addition to inspecting
the various brohards of the state
and keeping in touoh with all the
fruit growers of Georgia, is ex
pected to kill all the bugs which
might injure the fruit interests,
has been' violating the law to
some extent of late, by raising,
aotually raising, a colony of bugs
down near Marshallville. But it
must be stated that the bugs are
of the kind that will destroy the
San Jose scale, a dreaded disease
among peach trees and if the
plans of the entomologist meet
with success he will be a hero in
the eyes of the orchard owners.
About a year ago the United
States government presented Mr.
Scott with twenty small inseots
known as the Asiatio Lady Bug.
It was said to be an insect, im
ported from Asia by the United
States department of agriculture
and was guaranteed to kill San
Jose scale rapidly, provided of
oourse, there were a sufficient
number of bugs. They were dis
covered by one of the government
entomologists several years ago
and by being very careful he man
aged to bring several pairs to this
country. These pairs multiplied
and last year the government fur
nished several of the southern
states with twenty bugs each.
Entomologist Scott determined
to try the scheme and he took the
bugs sent him to Marshallville,
placed them iii a wire cage built
around a peaohtree which was in
fected with the San Jose scale,
and now. the state of Georgia
owns some 40,000 of.the scale
killers. Mr. Scott is very , proud
of his colony and says he will in a
short time be enabled to furnish
every fruit grower in. Georgia a
supply. Where the bugs have had
an opportunity to get after scale
they have almost annihilated it
and it is believed that if the mul
tiplication of the insects contin
ues, the San Jose scale will be ef
fectually checked in Georgia be
fore many years.
For v some time past the scale
has been playing havoc with the
peachtrees in the state and thous
ands of trees have been complete
ly killed or dug up as the result
of the dreaded disease. Since
the a.ppearanoe of th.e bug from
Asia, however, strong hopes have
arisen with Entomologist Scott
and he now dreams of the time
when he will find it necessary to
begin an extermination of the
bugs instead of the scale. Tjie
bugs are said to be much better
for the San Jose scale than the
kerosene spray and all other rem
edies combined, and now that the
colony of insects is in such a
thriving condition Mr. Scott,-who
usually wears a large smile, now
has a larger one than ever before,
and in fact he has been in such a
jolly humor for the past two
months that his friends at the
capital are wondering if he hasn’t
been willed two or three million
dollars by some distant- relative.
Expensive Economy.
Atlanta Constitution. A man who was too economical
In the current number of The to take his home paper sent his
little boy to borrow the copy of
Forum is the quarterly review of
politics from the pen of Mr..Hen
ry Litphfleld West, now the dem
ocratic member of the board of
commissioners of the District of
Columbia. Mr. West is a trained
and accomplished journalist who
knows Washington and the cur-
rents of national politics that are
confluent at the oapital as well as
any man in the country. He ip
also a careful observer and a pru
dent commeutator.
We are disposed, however, to
disagree with his present oharao-
terizatiou of the democratic par
ty as “an army without a general,
a ship without a captain.” It is
not diffiodlt to imagine that con
dition aiid, if we remember party
history accurately, it has. often
been said of the democracy in
times past. But it is a thoroughly
mistaken view. The democratic
party has never had a political
boss or master. Leaders it has
had, whether more or less compe
tent, in both houses o* congress,
either when it had majorities or
was the opposition minority. One
prime practice that differentiates
it from the republican party is its
steady refusal to recognize any
man’s right, beoause of his per
sonality or opinions, to be in him
self the democratic party. It is a
party of equal citizens and not of
boss-servitors.
If it appears to others as it does
to Mr. West, “like an army with
out a general,”, it is beoause that
one of many possible generals in
its ranks has not yet been com
missioned to command the army.
The army is all right. The gen
eral will be on hand when he is
needed That, time is not now,
because the plan of campaign
must precede the assignment of a
commander.
The democrats of the nation p,re
determined to make a fight next
year to win. They fgel that the
country needs a change of admin
istration., Their 'inspiration is
not greed for office, for the demo
crats are accustomed to .living
without offices, but they sincerely
aspire to better the government
by winning the next fight in th^
interest of all the people as
against the party and policies that
have fastened upon the nation
trusts, the money power and offi
cial corruptions of multiform ras
cality.
The present disposition of dem
ocrats is to find out what the re
publicans would like them to do
and then hot do it. It< will he
time enough after the trend of
the next congress is learned to
talk about the kind of campaign
the party will make and the gen
eral needed for the army through
the fight, We do not think our
republican,friends will have rea
son,to complain when we reveal
to them the plan of our campaign
and the man who is to lead.it
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362 Third St. (Near Cherry Street) MACON, GA
During the nineteenth century
London grew from a city of 800,-
000 people to one of 6,500;000—
that is, increased eight-fold. New
York increased from 60,000 to 3,-
500,000—nearly sixty-fold. Lon
don is how increasing 17 per cent
in a decade and New York 35 per
cent,, or twice, as fast. If this
rate should hold good for fifty
years more New York would have
over 15,000,000- population and be
1,000,000 ahead of London.
lis neighbor. In his haste* the
boy ran over a four dollar stand'
of bees and in ten minutes looked
like a “summer squash.” His
cries readied his father, who ran
to his assistance, and failing to
see a barbed-wire fence, rah into
it, and breaking it down, cut a
handf nil of flesh from his an at
omy and ruined a four dollar pair
of pants.
I’Ke old cow. taking advantage
of the gap in the fenoe, got into
the corn field and ruined herself
eatiug green corn. Hearing the
racket, his wife ran out, upsetting
a four gallon churn full of cream
into a basket of kittens, drowning
the whole floolc. In her hurry
she dropped a seven dollar pair of
false teeth.
The baby, left alone, orawled
through the spilled milk into the
parlor and ruined a twenty dollar
carpet. During the excitement
the oldest daughter ran away
with 1 the hired man, the d/>g
broke up eleven setting hens, and
the calves got out and chewed the
tails off of four fine thoroughbred
colts. And he had no insurance.
—Selected.,
A Monopolist Method.
Claus Spreckles, the sugar king,
has just made a Sau Francisco
capitalist pay $6,000,000 for be
ing “sassy.” The qapitaliet iia
president of a gas and electric
company. Smoke from the com
pany’s plant annoyed Mr. Spreck
les, and he went to the president
and asked him to abate the nui
sance. The president was ex
tremely curt to Mr. Spreckles:
Tp avenge himself for the affront
put. upon him Spreckles establish
ed a rival gas and electric plant,
at a cost of $4,000,000 and began
cutting fates. Prices were
brought down to one-quarter
what they were when-the old com
pany had the monopoly. At
length the man who had been'
“sassy” went to Mr. Spreckles
and begged for quarter. Spreck
les terms were to be bought out
at the price of $6,000,000, whioh
were agreed to.—Exchange.
A mammoth loaf of bread, six
hundred times the size of a regu
lar five cent loaf, and in the mak-,
ing of which, aiyentire barrel of.
flour will be us<k1, will'be seep in
Mississippi’s exhibit at the
World’s Fair. Harry Mansfield
of Moss Point will be the creator,
and has ordered the construction
of an especial bake oven, designed
by himself for the baking of this
giant loaf.
No man or woman in the state
will hesitate to speak well of
ChWmberiain’s Stomach and Liv-
er/'T&|>lef>s after once -trying them.
They always produce a pleasant
m f the bowels, improve
and strengthen the
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it. It is everywhere admitted to
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only one that never fails. It is
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No Pity Shown.
“For years fate was after me
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terrible case of piles, causing 24
tumors. When all failed Buck-
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For Infants and Children.
The
A German phemist removes the
poisonous nicotine from tobacco
by steeping the leaves before they
are made up, in a solution of tan
nic acid, which combines with
the nicotine and forms a substance
quite inactive and harmless. In
order to increase the flavor of the
tobacco it is then treated with a
decoction of margoram. The fla
vor of the tobacco prepared as
above described differs in no way
from that of ordinary tobacco.
• .
The largest tree in Oregon was
felled recently to be'sent as a cu
riosity to the World’s Fair, It is
the Aberdeen spruce, and stood
nearly 800 feet high, 40 • feet
around and 118 feet frqm the
ground to the first limb. Its age,
is calculated at 440 years, being a
good sized treo when Columbus
discovered the land - that was af
terward called America.
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