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The 11 of The Philippines. Valdosta Times. Have our people any real concep tion of the magnitude of the acqui sition involved in the $20,000,000 purchase of the Philippine Islands Iroca Spain? It is true, in the pur chase of the Louisiana territory, or the acquisition of New Mexico, Ari zona, California and Alaska, a wider •area may have been involved, but in point of area, combined with popu lation, productiveness, actual and possible, and far-reaching political problems, these earlier territorial ac quisitions were child’s play compar ed to the appropriation of the Phil ippines. Take* for example the territorial -■area. Confined to a dozen or two cnly of the larger and more habita ble islauds, they present a surface of eome 150,000 square miles, equal in -extent to all our states south of the Mason and Dixon line and east to lho Mississippi except the Virginias, Florida and Louisiana, while the ^population is about the same. Think -of such an addition at one Bwoop of ■adjacent domain to onr great repub lic. All Canada, or even Mexico, •would pale in comparison. Take for example the island of Mindanoa, by •no means the largest, and one of the .'least developed of the larger islands. .About as large as the state of Ohio, its entire soil is as rioh as that of •Java. The land onoe cleared, the limber paying a large profit on the ■work, it )B open for sugar and other •plantations that will more than ten- .fold inorense the present productions -of the island. The magnitude of the interest may be estimated froifi the fact that ...there in the islands still over fifty million acres of virgin timber, upon which only the first inroads have been made—the timber including (trees two hundred feet high and of- t ten four feet in diameter, consisting * df mahogony, sandal wood, eto., > noarly all of the most valued tier ber r an the world. In their present state the .islands support in luxurious ease rta population of some 10,000,000, What, will they not do when yield- ' ing to' the immense temptation they oner to American and other foreign • capital to develop them up* to some- i thing like their easy possibilities? In less than half a century fifty mil lions, instead of their present ten, ought to be a moderate estimate of .their population. Well may imagination stagger in ■ view of our national responsibilities involved in the management of such •a “colony.” Yet the burden is upon us, and there are grave doubts whether any one seriously believes ,dt will ever be laid down. England’s Heavy Expenses. " King Edward’s government finds ■itself facing a defioit of more than •'4225,000,<300 in the budgett for i.t902^1003. To meet this it is pro- vposed to increase the bitter burden cftaxation by imposing an import ■duty on wheat and flour and by a . loan of $150,000,000. r *This desire to tax wheat is alone r sufficient to enrage the oommon people, who,pay the war taxes, but, otaa iff to (increase -their anger over the ■ startling cost of the Boer conflict, as •■'given by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, there .■v«ame simultaneously newB. of fresh ■^battles in South Afrioa, with heavy losses to the British, and in one case m disaster. Sir Michael presented tfhe budget statement in the house <*f commons and gave the sources of . revenue as well as the objects of ex penditures. He said the Boer war in the last ^three years had cost $825,170,000. He estimated the grand total of ex penditures for the coming year at $965,545,000. On the present basis ■of taxation there was no way to raise more than $745,000,000, hence the absolute necessity of taxon the jneemaries of life.—Exchange. No JLoss of Time. “A Nigger State.” Macoa Telegraph From the standpoint of the impe rialist, a world-wide empire is a great and inspiring thing, but from the standpoint of the inhabitants of a distant province, who see their lo cal interests subordinated to the general interest, it may be more glo rious than convenient to be part of such an empire A majority of the people of the great island Continent wanted a “white Australia,” but the imperial interests of Great Britain ruled otherwise. Hence these angry tears of the Sidney Bulletin: “The alliance with Japan marks a further move in the process of con vincing the British empire into a nigger state. Somewhere about nine- tenths of the empire’s population is already black, brown or yellow. It has already threatened, in Disraeli’s time, to bring au avalancho of black soldiers down on white Europe. Its interests are becoming every day less white and mbre black, brown and yellow. And this is where fur ther trouble for white Australia looms ahead. To Britain it doesn’t matter a straw if Australia is over run by Asiatics, and turns black or brown.” The loyalty to the empire on the part of the average British colonial has been proven in innumerable ways, but the clashing of imperial and provincial interests seems des tined to lead to dismemberment and the independence of such parts at loast as Australia, New Zealand and Canada, countries inhabited almost entirely by white men of the Anglo- Saxon race, and not, as in other in stances, by a few hundred English men and millions of the “dark, sul len peoples” inclosed by Britain’s “far-flung battle line.” The War Tax Reductions. I have sold Chamberlain’s Colic, ^Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy years, and would rather be -•ssxt nf coffee and sugar than it. I a-ssid five bottles of it yesterday to tffereshers that could go no far- rtber, and they are at work again t^iis morning—-H. R. Phelps, .Plymouth, Oklahoma. As will be l by the above the threshers s .able to keep on with their ’'. without losing a single day’s . You should keep a bottle jp Remedy in your home' For sale by all dealers’ in Perry r.vr-.. IU T tAirit: Warren & Lowe; Byron. Henry A. Rucker, collector of in ternal revenue for the northern dis trict of Georgia, has received from Washington instructions calling his attention to the recent aot of con gress -epealing the war revenue «/•(. Under the terms of the new mil the tax on everything which was levied ; at the outbreak of the Won ish-Amerioan war is taken of! witu the exception of that on mixed flour. Taxes which are reduced by the bill are merely made what they were be fore the passage of the war revenue aet. Under the repealing act the spe cial taxes on brokers, bankers, pro prietors of theators, circuses, public exhibitions, bowling alloys and bil liard rooms, dealers in leaf tobacco, manufactured tobacco and cigars are taken off. The stamp taxes on in struments, papers, documents of de livery or transfers of stock and sales and agreements of sale, or agree ments to sell stock, products or mer chandise included in schedule A are taken off. The taxes on wines under sohedule B are taken off. The stamp tax on seats in parlor and palace oars is taden off. The tax on fermented liquors is reduced to $1 per barrel, the tax on snuff and tobacco to 6 cents per pound and the tax on- cigarettes weighing more than 3 pounds per thousand is reduced to $3 per thou sand. A drawback will be allowed on all unbroken packages of stroking and manufactured tobacco and snuff in the hands of manufacturers and dealers July 1, when the act be comes effective. How to Fight the Trusts, Dangerous If Neglected. Burns, cuts and other wounds often fail to heal properly if neg- leoted and become troublesome sores. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve prevents such consequences. Even where delay has aggrevated the injury DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Siilve effeots a cure. “I had a running sore on my leg thirty years,” says H. C. Hartly, Yan- keotown, Ind. “After using many remedies, I tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes healed the sore.” Cures all skin diseas- Piles yield to it at once. Be- Atlanta Constitution, The recent antics of some of the trusts, notably the beef trust, in raising the prices of meats, foods and other necessaries of life, are ereating almost universal in dignation against those master pieces of republican creation. Even the grave and reverend sen ators and agile representatives who formed the phalanx of pro tection around the American cow and freed her from the competi tion of the oleomargarine mills, are now kicking like tick-bitten steers at the size of their sure- thing-butter bills 1 In many of the newspapers and in many localities folks are busy devising schemes to beat the trusts. Some communities have resolved to “eat no flesh while the world standeth,” unless the trust falls back to reasonable prices. Others advise the boycott policy against all articles controlled and enhanced in prices by the trusts. But we fear that species of repris al will not work all right. If meat is too high we can of course do without our steak and substitute fi9h, fowl and eggs. If butter is too costly, we can fall back on machine butter without X-i. <3D, GROOERJES AMD COTCJN’X'R.’Y PRODUCE. Cor, Second and Poplar Sts., MACON, QA, es ware of counterfeits. Iioltzclaw’s being finnicky and asking it to wear a mask. Or we can resort to gravy and sopl Possibly we could, now that the weather is warmer and the frost out of the ground, buck the leather trust by going barefooted. But what about the clothing trust? Ah, there’s the rub 1 Seriously, however, there is but one effectual way known unto men by which the trusts can be dealt with properly and successfully. That way is ready to the hand of every anti-trust citizen in the na tion. Let him vote for the dem ocratic party, whose creed is eter nal enmity to the trusts, monopo lies and grafts of every order. Elect a democratic president and congress to break up the tariff bounties that create and fatten the trusts and let a free people have competition and the iiving prices that follow l The triumph of democracy will be the downfall of trusts 1 Won’t Follow Advice Alter Pay ing For It. In a recent article a prominent physician says, “It is next, to im possible for the physician to get. his patients to carry out any pre- snribed course of hygiene or diet to the smallest extent; he has but one resort left, namely, the drug treatment/.’ When medicines are used for chronic constipation, the most mild and gentle obtainable, such as Chamberlain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets, should be employ ed. Their use is not followed by constipation, us they leave the bowels in a natural and healthy condition. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. A GOOD PLACE. Notice is, hereby given to ladies and gentlemen who visit Macon that Mrs. W. H. Houser is now runuing a first- elass Boarding House at 755> Cherry St. which, is very near the business center of the oity, and she will be pleased to serve them meals at 25c. each. GEORGIA—Houston County. ’ L. L. Barker, administrator of estate of W. M. Barker, deceased, has applied for dismission from said trust. This i s therefore to oite alii persons con* oerne.1 to appear at the May term, 1902, of the court of Ordinary of said oounty, and show-cause,if any they have, who said application should not be granted. Witness mv official signature this February 3, 1902. SA.M. T. HURST, Ordinary. AGENCY FOR THa ALffi BTEBK wmomsE cot mutilate, but does efficiently turn cattle, horses, 2 hogs .and pigs. Made of large, strong wires, heavily galvanized. Amply provides for expansion and contrac tion. Only Best Bessemer steel wires used, always of uniform quality. Never goes throng no matter how great a strain is put on it. Does E^ERY ROD OF AMER8CAN FENCE! GUARANTEED by the manufacturers. Call and wee it. Can show you*ho^vT lLwillTeave you money and fence your fields so they will stay ffenced. All TOT WOT US! WE SELL Harvesting Machinery, Disc Plows, Harrows, Hay Presses, Buggies, Wagons, Harness, . Whips, Laprobes, &c. We ian quote you some mighty low prices now. A big lot Second-Hand Buggies at your own price. THE WILLIAMS BUGGY COMPANY, MACON, GEORGIA. GEORGIA— Houston Count*. C. O. Duncan, Exeoutor estate of Mrs. A. A.' Havis, deceased, has applied for dismission from said trust. Drugstore. There is no question that the sur est and sanest influence that can come into the life of man or woman is that which is brought therein by a child.—Ladies’ Home Journal. Stops the Cougli and Works of £ the Cold. ; Laxative Brouio Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay. Brice, 25 cents. This is therefore to cite all persons con cerned to appear at the May term, 1902, of the court of Ordinary of said county and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. Witness my official signature this April 7,1902. BAM. T. HURST, Ordinary. GEORGIA. Houston County. Notice is hereby (given that I have filed my application with the Ordinary of said oounty for an order for distribu tion in kind of the residue of the estate of W. S. King now remaining in the hands of Mrs. Fannie King, as executrix, and W. A. King, as executor; and that said application will be heard at the reg ular term pf the court of Ordinary for nft-I ATI fVtO Ilf C. H UHN, DEALER IN SPORTING GOODS, Bicycles, Baseball Goods., Fishir.g Tackle, Guns, Ristols, etc. Hand some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools. Repairing of Guns, Bicycles, Etc. 520 MULBERRY ST. • - MACON, GEORGIA Xwtfe ftetltati wbB MHBi At $1.50, $1.75 $2 and $3 j.er Gallon, DIRECT TO COflbUMER, SAYESG MIDDLEMENS 5 PROFITS. All Express Charges paid by me on all packages of TWO GALLONS or more. Terms, cash with oriJeb. Semi your order and write for ©escriplive Circular off Wines and Brandies, i References, the Commecial Agesscics, or any Merchant Here, Y '• .• •. . ’ • "r., r.'.gi -- - ... ...... . . ...\ j. H. WOOLLEY, Cherryville. N, C.