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An Average Man.
Bal timoro Ad vertiser.
An okl writer tells a . story of a
man who prided himself on his
great morality, and expected to
be saved by it, who was constant
ly saying: “I am doing pretty
well, on the whole; I sometimes
|jet mud and swear, but then I am
strictly honest; I work on Sun
day when I am particular busy,
but I give a good deal to the poor,
and I was never drunk in my-
life.” This man once hired a
canny Scotchman to build a fence
around his lot. and gave him very
particular directions us to his
work. In the evening, when the
Scotchman came in from his la
bor, the man said:
“Well, Jock, is the fence built,
and is it tight and strong?”
“I cannot sav that it is all
tight and strong,” replied Jock;
but it’s a good average fence,auy-
how. If some parts are a little
weak, others are extra strong. I
don’t know but I may have left
a gap here and there, a yard wide
or so; but then I made up for it
by doubling the number of rails
on each side of the gap. I dare
say that the cattle will find it a
very good fence, on the whole,and
will like it, though I cannot say
that it’s perfect.
“What!” cried the man, not
seeing the point; “do you tell me
that, you have built a fence around
my lot with weak places in it, and
gaps in it? Why, you might as
well have built no fence at all. If
there is one opening, or place
where an opening can' be made,
the cattle will bo sure to find it,
and will go through. Don’t you
know, man, that a fence must bo
perfect or it. is worthless?”
“I used to thing so,” said the
dry Scotchman; “but I hoar you
talk so much about average mat
ters with the Lord, seems to me
that wo might try it with the cat
tle. If an average fence won’t do
for them, I am afraid that an
average character won’t do in the?
Day of Judgment. When I was
on shipboard, and a storm was
driving us on the rocks, the cap
tain cried, ‘Let go the anchor!’
But the mate shouted back:
‘There’s a broken link in flip ga
ble.’ Did tho captain say when
he heard that, ‘No matter, it’s
only one link; tho rest, of the
chain is good; ninety-one of the
hundred links or strong; its aver
age is nigh; it only lacks one per
cent of being perfect; surely the
anchor ought to respect so excel
lent a chain, and not break away
from it? No, indeed. He shout
ed : ‘Get another chain 1’ ”
He knew that the chain with
one broken link was no chain at
all. That he might as well throw
the anchor overboard without any
cable as with a defective one. So
with ‘the anohor of souls. If
there is the least flaw in it the
cable is not safe.”
Wou’t Follow Atlvlce After Pay
ing; For It.
In a recent article a 'prominent
physician says, “It is next to im
possible for the physician to get
liis patients to carry out any pre-
saribed course of hygiene or diet
to the smallest extent; he has but
one resort left, namely, the drug
treatmeut.” When medicines are
used for chronic constipation, the
most mild and gentle obtainable,
suoh as Chamberlain’s Stomach &
Liver Tablets, should be employ
ed. Their use is not followed by
constipation, as they leave the
bowels in a natural and healthy
oondition. For sale by all dealers
in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
Not in ten years has there been
such a rush of immigrants into
this country as that shown- during
the first three months of the cur
rent year. Each month has
shown a large increase over the
corresponding month of last
year, the aggregate for the quar
ter approximating seventy-thou-
sands more immigrants than land
ed last year. These new comers,
having heard of the prosperity
in' the United States, have flock
ed over to participate in it.
Sound Kidneys—Perfect Health.
The use of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure
will produce both. Try a bottle and
be convinced. 50 cents at Cater’s
Drugstore.
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San Francisco has one saloon
for every 22 adult male inhabi
tants.
The Farmer And The Institute.
By William P. Perkins.
Every farmer, no matter in
what state or what section of the
county he may live,should be sure
to attend any farmers’ institute
within his reach. The farmer is
haudicapped by the forced isola
tion of his life, and every oppor
tunity for meeting with his fel
lows should be embraced, even if
it requires some effort and sacri
fice to accomplish this. A man
can do much solid thinking in sol
itude, but to develop his wits, to
be ready of speech, and to have
the narrowness of his ideas rubbed
out of him, he needs the intimate
association with other men, the
interchange of thought, the
spirited argument with other
minds.
The farmer co.n profit much by
the development of his social life,
for every man is in a natural way
a gregarious animal. He desires
company. This accounts for the
tremendous number of clubs,
lodges, etc., where man is wont to
meet man. The institute, the
grange and other agricultural so
cieties perform the functions of
a farmers’ club, and should be
patronized liberally Jiy farmers.
In union is strength,*and one of
the chief reasons why it is so hard
to get farmers to unite and pull
in unison and harmony is because
of the issolation and independence
of their various lives. Let farm
ers meet oftener, talk thing over,
and understand and realize the
actual community of their inter
ests, and much good will result.
The farmers’ institute is growing
better and better, more and more
practical every year, and should
receive the support of every live
farmer in this country. It is the
best kind of institution in which
to learn of the farmers’ successes
and failuro3, achievements and
losses, and conquests over adverse
circumstances. The subject of
agriculture is too deep and broad
for any man to know it all. One
must profit by other men’s exp*-n-
ence. It is costly business to lear.i
everything by the light on on ■’«
own individual experience.
foolish to make mistake after m is*
take, costly blunders that some
other man has made and can warn
his fellows against. It is the prov
ince of the institute to post farm
ers on all practical subjects, to
help them in every reasonable
way to moot the fierce competition
of the times, to equip them for
their life work.
The girl is the mother of the
woman just as “the boy is the fa
ther of the man.” The period
when the womanly functions be
gin is one to be carefully watched
and considered. Irregularity or
derangement at this time may be
promptly met and cured by the
use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription. But neglected at this
critical period may entail years
of future suffering. “Favorite
Prescription” acts directly upon
the womanly organs giving, them
perfect vigor and abundant vital
ity. It removes the obstructions
to health and happiness, and de
livers womanhood from the cruel
bondage of “fomale weakness.”
You pay the postage, Dr.
Pierce gives you the book. The
People’s Common Sense Medical
Adviser, 1008 pages, 700 illustra
tions is sent free on receipt of
stamps to defray cost of mailing
only. Send 21 one-cent stamps
for the paper bound book, or 81
stamps for cloth bound. Address
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Chicago is credited with the
greatest per capita ice consump
tion of any city in the world, the
average being a little over one
ton per person per annum. Oth
er large cities do not average more
than from oue-half to three-quar
ters of a ton.
The war tax repeal bill, it is
estimated, will reduce the reve
nues $70,000,000 per year. The
taxes come off on July 1st, next,
except the tax on tea, which is
retained until January 1st, 1903.
The tea tax raises about $4,000,-
000.
This signature is on every box ot the genuine
i Laxative Bromo*Quinine Tablets i
the remedy that enrea o cold in one dny
Gets $35,000 a Year.
Oscar Futz, of Valdez, Alaska,;
who was recently awarded for an - i
other period for four years the
contract for carrying the United
States mails from Valdez to Eagle,
is the best paid mail carrier in the
world. For this contract with the
government he receives $35,000 a
year for making two trips per
month between the points, a dis
tance of 413 miles, or uearly $1,-
500 for each trip. The mail car
rier is limited to 800 pounds, and
consists generally of letters only,
newspapers and the more bulky
articles being carried, however,
when the mail is unusually light.
Postoffice department officials
say, however,that the sum paid to
him is reasonable when it is con
sidered that he makes his trip by
dog sled, and that he has the most
dangerous route of any mail car
rier in the world. His 24 trips a
year keep him busy most of the
time, and he practically takes his
life in his hands every time he
starts out on his solitary journey.
Futz has the finest team of dogs in
that far northern country, and
some of his trips are mnde in re
cord time.
.He has been given up for dead
many times by residents of Veldez
and Eagle, but so far he has al
ways managed to reach the end of
his journey, although sometimes
overdue and occasionally much
battered up. He has fallen down
precipices, been mixed up in aval
anches, has been starved, frost
bitten, frozen and injured but is
still drawing his $85,000 a year
from the government and says he
expects to continue making his
adventurous trips until ‘snowed
under.”
This is the way a Missourian
confessed at a camp-meeting. He
was pressed hard to repent and at
last gor, up. “Dear friends,” said
Bill, “I feel/the spirit moving me
to talk and tell what a bad man I
have been, but I can’t do it while
1 '>t» aland jury is in session.”
“ .'he Lord will forgive you,”
- .Miifci.ffl the preacher. “I guess
. i:io’b all right,” said Bill, “but
lie ain’t on the grand jury.”
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The inventor of the famous
Gatling gun lias turned his in
ventive genius from the field of
war into more peaceful paths,and
has invented a plow operated by
a gasoline motor, which he pro
poses showing at'the world’s fair.
It is said the plow, which is a
gang of discs, can be operated at
a cost of $2 per day and that it
will do the work of thirty men
and eighty horses.
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No Loss of Time.
I have sold Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
for years, and would rather be
out of coffee and sugar than it. I
sold five bottles of it yesterday to
threshers that could go no far
ther, and they are at work again
this morning—H. R. Phelps,
Plymouth, Oklahoma. As will be
seen by the above the threshers
were able to keep on with their
work without losing a single day’s
time. You should keep a bottle
of this Remedy in your home.
For sale by all,dealers in Perry,
Warren & Lowe, Byron.
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The average republican congress
man is anxious to adjourn and go
home to explain his shortcom
ings.
A GOOD PLACE.
Notice is lieiebv given to ladies and
gentlemen who visit Macon that Mrs.
W. H. Houser ia now running a first-
class Boarding House at 755 Cherry St.
which is very near the busicees center
of the city, and she will be pleased to
serve them meals at 25c. each.
THE COMMONER;
(Mr. Bryan’s Paper.)
The Commoner has attained within
six months from date of the first issue a
circulation of 100,000 copies, a record
probably never equaled in the history of
American periodical literature. The
unparalleled growth of this paper de
monstrates that there ie room in the
newspaper fields for a national paper de
voted to the discussiou of political,
economic, and social problems. To the
columns of the Commoner Mr. Bryan
contributes his best efforts ;and his views
of political events as they arise from
time to time can not fail to interest those
who study public questions.
The Commoner’s regular subeription
price is $1.00 per year. We have arrang
ed with Mr. Bryan whereby we oan fur
nish his paper and Home Journal to
gether for oni year for $1.90. The reg
ular subscription price of the two pa-
ners when suboribed for separately is
$5$0. ' -
ABB TOT
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WITH TOf
WE SELL
Harvesting Machinery,
Disc Plows,
Barrows,
Hay Presses,
Buggies,
Wagons,
Harness,
Whips,
Laprobes, &c.
We san quote you some
mighty low prices now.
A big lot Second-Hand Buggies
at your own price.
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THE WILLIAMS HUSSY COMPANY,
MACON, GEORGIA.
tho moneylfnot
as represented,
MIIlfSM® IFF
For many yonra we have sold our Whisklcsnnd Cigars to Wholesalers only
and our brand 1 : are profer-ort by them, as they aro superior to all othors. In
ovd.'rtoslvathoC'cnsumertHa benefit of the largo profits of Dealer and
Middleman, wo have decided to now sell dlroct to tho Consumer our Most
I’opul n r Brands cMVhlsk^M aid^CIgrure^irt jfvBUY
With ovo-v quart bottle oi our famous SO year o'd Qnoen CitrClub PuroRyc
nna ono box of our justly colobratod gennfnn Cuban llaudMiado loo clear
Havana Cuban Specials,we will glvo ABSOLUTELY FREE onooi tho hand
somest open faeo, extra hoavy niokol Gent's Wstehts made.(no litdys) stain
wind and set, gonulno Amorlcnn movomont and case, host timekeeper on
earth, does not tarnish snd will last a llfotlmo. 1 extra flno Vienna Meor-
schaum I’luo, 1 genuine Meerschaum Clgor Holder, 1'genuine Meerschaum
tto , .
All jewelry heavily 14k gold platod. All thoso 14 pieces with one box of our
famous Cuban Specials aud'ono quart bottloof our famoue 10 your old Queen
City Club Furo Ryo cannot bo bought for less than 412.00. Wo soil the
Whiskey and Olgara In-ffSMl V ©| , 5 C. 0. D. with prlvilagoof ex
cluding thu 14 prices for ML I *$<3s<J!f amlnntlon, while Whiskey
nndCIgarsolonocostmorothanwo ask for tho entlro lot. Our Whiskey Is
an Absolutely Pnro 10 year old Ryo and our Cigars gennlne Cuban band.
msde,elear Havana,made In our own f netory. Thoso cigars are far better
than anything evor advertised beforo. Wo Gnarnntoe tho goods and refund . m., , ' ,"u
An ExtraPromlum of an elegant Pockotknlfa with two blades, 1 cork-screw, 1 cigar cutter'Mia
glass cutter, If 43.97 is sent In ndvnnco with order. Goods sent In plain packogs. Write nor
. - ... * ■- Order to-day.
■wholosalo Prlco Lists of Liquors and Cigars. Rosponstblo agents wanted. Order today.
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