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JOHIV H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #1.50 a Ye ax* in Advance.
YOL. XXXT.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.
NO. 23.
HOUSES BUILT UPON THE SAND.
WHEN TO MARRY.
ENGAGEMENT WITH PATIENCE.
Valdosta Times.
Much has been said of the au
dacity of man in building his
home in spots so dangerous as
the slopes of Mont Pelee have
proved themselves to be. Yet,
says the Providence Journal, all
history affords illustrations of the
forgetfulness with which the race
erects its dwelling places on the
sites of the most dreadful catas
trophes.
Vesuvius still smokes over
peaceful Naples. Lisbon rises,
beautiful and imposing, where a
“convulsiou of nature” once
brought unutterable fright and
desolation. The Japanese still
crowd the coasts of their tide-
swept islands and the Chinese
huddle along the banks of the Ho-
ang-Ho. It is not two years since
Galveston was overwhelmed by
flood, yet a new Galveston is be
ing built cn the dangerous site of
the wreckage and the people of the
city are ready to take their chan
ces of a simila disaster in the fu
ture. There is absolutely,nothing
to prevent a second tidal wave
from the Gulf, yet the city pur
sues its daily task, apparently
unafraid.
Men in hazardous enterprises
continue in them, because they
offer something more than a liv
ing wage. Manufacturing pro
cesses that require the constant
inhalation of noxious gases or dan
gerous dusts pay high prices for
labor and have no difficulty in ob
taining recruits. We live in un
sanitary houses, with death and
disease staring at us from every
corner, and yet shudder at the
fine audacity of peopls who are
willing to spend their days be
neath the curling smoak of a long-
smouldering volcano' 1 . ...
The fact is that in the less
healthy districts of the crowded
cities of the United States, where
ventilation is bad and drainage
deficient and disease germs are
abundant, a man is exposed to
greater risks than the dwellers on
the islands of the West Indies.
Oil in Georgia.
Capt. A. F. Lucas, discoverer
of the Beaumont, Texas, oil wells,
former Austrian army officer and
wealth prospector, is quietly at
work in Georgia, and has reason
to believe that he will strike
gushers as valuable as those in
Texas.
Capt. Lucas is at Folkston, in
Charlton county, and if all goes
well, will make the tests early
next week that will determine
whether his judgment on the sub
ject of oil lands has gone astray.
So certain is he that the soil
around Folkston is oil land that
he has leased in the neighborhood
20,000 acres and has ordered ma
chinery to be used in boring the
trial wells.
Folkston is about twenty miles
from the Okeefeenokee swamp
and attracted the attention of the
Texas oil king some time ago. He
went to the place without disclos
ing his identity and went quietly
to work looking over the gronnd
That he discovered satisfactory
figns of oil is shown by the fact
that he closed a lease for the land
and ordered the necessary ina
chinery shipped at once.—Morn
ing News,
At what age should a man mar
ry? The anther of that clever
book, “How to be Happy, Though
Married,” was asked this question
the other day, and replied that
it all depends upon the man, says
the Philadelphia Times. “Some
men are more fitted for matrimo
ny at 25 than others are at 85. 'if
marriage, however, be postponed
after this last figure a man is
likely to get into what may be
called the habits of celibacy-,from
which, as from other bad habits,
it is hard to break away. In this
habit of celibacy he will continue
until he is about 60 years of age,
when a great desire will come over
him to try what matrimony is
like just before he dies, and he
will propose right and left to
everything in petticoats, until at
laBt be picked up, not for him
self, but for his money or for his
position,or because someone is tir
ed of being called‘Miss”and wants
the novel sensation of writing
‘Mrs,’ before her name.
“An old man told a friend that
he wanted to marry before he
died, if only to have some one to
close his eyes. ‘Perhaps,’ sug
gested the friend, ‘you will get
some one who will open them. ’It
is not natural for a young girl to
wish to marry an old man. A
father said to his daughter: “Now
when it is time for you to marry I
won’t allow you to throw your
self away on one of the frivolous
young follows I see around.I shall
select for you a staid, sensible,
middle-age man. What do you
Bay to a man about 50 years of
age?”
“Well, father, replied the girl,
‘if it is just the same to you; I
should prefer two of 25.’
“Perhaps the best advice ,one
could give a young man in this
matter is to say: “Wait until
you cannot wait any longer.’
‘Wait, that is to say, until she—
that not impossible she—comes
with a smile so sweet and manner
so gracious thaD you cannot wait
any longer, then marry, and you
may be happy ever after 1 As to
the age at which women should
marry, I am afraid of burning
my fingers with that question. All
I 'shall say is that if some women
are not worth looking at after
80 years of age there are quiet as
many not worth speaking to be
fore it. Let a man please him*
self, but let him not marry either
ajchild or an old woman.”
Augusta Herald.
It was merely a chance remark
oaught in a crowd of passers-by,
but it afforded much food for
thought.
“What are you going to do to
morrow?” some one asked.
“I have an engagement with
Patience for the whole day,” was
the reply.
How well it would be for all of
us if we oould and would make an
engagement with Patience for the
whble summer.
There is probably nothing mor6
conducive to heat and general
discomfort than fretfulness and
impatience and never is it so difft*
cult to be calm and collected and
superior to all signs of irritation
than when the murcury coquets
with the hundredth degrree of
temperature.
We have a long hot summer be
How To Avoid Trouble.
Now is the time to provide your
self and family, with a bottle of
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost
certain to be needed before the
summer is over, and if procured
now may save you a trip to town
in the night qt in your busiest
season. It is everywhere admit
ted to be the most successful med
icine in use for bowel complaints
both for children and adults. No
' mily can afford to be without
it. For sale by all dealers in Per
ry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
An Englishman recently asked
an up-to-date American this
question: ‘ ‘ What would you peo
pie in the United States do if we
landed an army of 250,000 Brit
ish soldiers on your shores to
day?” The American replied
caimly: “We’d bury them to
morrow.”—Thomasville Times
Enterprise.
My little son had an attack of
whooping cough and was threat
ened with pneumonia; but for
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy we
would have had a serious time of
it. It also saved him from sever
al severe attacks of croup.—H. J
Strickfaden, editor World Her
ald, Fair Haven, Wash. For sale
by all dealers in Perry, Warren
& Lowe, Byron.
many other summers far i
disagreeable than this one is
to be. The burning days and the
restless nights stretching between
the first of June and the first of
October, we are tempted to think
interminable, but with only a lit
pass pleasantly enough. Yes, Pa
tience is a most desirable ac
quaintance at this season.
What the Factories Do.
are manufacturing States;
richest cities are manufactfa
cities. The richest communil
not the one which produces
most crude material suitable
manufacture, but the one w!
converts that material into s
there is a demand. Tlie South
produces annually about '9,000,000
bales of cotton, worth in round
numbers about $800,000,000. A
bale of this cotton converted into
ordinary cotton goods should be
worth three times as much as the
raw lint. That would make the
cotton crop worth $900,000,000
instead of $800,000,000.—Wil
mington Morning Star.
A Rich Beggar.
There died in New York city a
day or two ago an aged beggar
who for ten years had been osten
sibly peddling pencils but really
begging around the Grand Cen
tral depot and in the Murray Hill
district. When he began begging,
according to the information, he
was actually a pauper, but when
he died he was the owner of prop
erty valued at $10,000 besides
having a neat little bank account.
When one doles out almstd a pro
fessional beggar on the streets
there is no assurance that the
money is not going to one much
better off in this world’s goods
than the giver.—Ex.
Most of us can sympathize with
the man who,upon being told that
He was mistaken, his tooth was
not aching, it was only his imagi
nation, requested the dentist to
pull out his imagination, then. If
imagination mades us miserable,
it is just about as bad as reality
— Ex.
A number of counties have al
ready announced their intention
of making exhibits at the state
fair. Valdosta is hustling for the
success of the fair, and it prom
ises to be the biggest and best
thing of the kind ever held in the
state.
Stops the Cowgh and Works off
tfiie Gold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
No pay. Price, 25 centB.
The peope who are perfectly
satisfied with themselves are the
ones who make the photographers
rich.
SMITH’S NERVE RESTORER.
This medicine is guaranteed to cure
all cases of Nervous Prostration caused
by overwork. It is a true Nerve Tonic
and restores Nervous Vitality or Loss of
Manhood. It will not only relieve these
nervous troubles and weaknesses, but-|
will restore them to full vigor and man
hood. Guaranteed. Sold by Dr. It. L.
Cater.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Tlw Kind Yoa Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
For HOLIDAYS and aM other days,
ders promp'ly filled.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
or-
OKFORbs
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$2.00 to $5.50
Men’s Oxfords,
Ladies’ Oxfords,
1.00 “ 3.60
Boys’ Oxfords,
1.25 “ 2.00
Misses Sandals,
1.00 “ 2.00
Child’s Sandals,
80c. “ 1.25
Infants’ Sandals,
50c. “ 1.00
We have these Oxfords in
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alljfteathers
and we can please you.
MACON SHOE CO.
408 3rd Street.
T. A. COLEMAN,
Bookseller and Stationer,
80S Second Stkeet, MACON, GA
Men’s Spring and
Summer Suits.
Our Suits are garments of surpassing excellence,
well worthy of a place in any man’s wardrobe.
They are made of the most fashionable fabrics by
skilled tailors, producing stylish suits which fit
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410 Third Street. MACON, GEORGIA
Weber, Brown, Russell and Thophill Wagons cheaper
than you ever bought them before, to make room and re
duce storage and insurance.
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