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2 THE MACON NEWS. ESTABLISHED 1884. NEWS PRINTING COMPANY. PUBLISHERS. R. L. McKENNEY. Business Mgr TOM W. LOYLESS. Editor. THE EVENING NEWS will be delivered Sy carrier or mail, per year. $5.00; per VMk, 10 cents. THE NEWS will be for sale on trains. Correspondence on live •objects solicited. Real name of writer should accompany same. Subscriptions payable in advance. Failure to receive taper should be reported to the business office. Address all communications to THE NEWS. fftces: Corner Second and Cherry Streets. Cotton Acreage 1898 In an important letter, under date of January It/th, Latham, Alexander & <x>., probably the most honest and reliable cot ton experts in this country, take occasion to give the farmers of the South some sound advice. The purpose of the letter 13 to warn Southern plairtera against overproduction, and an argument is presented that cannot fail to impress every intelligent person, in handling this subject in its broadest phase, and, at ‘the same time, in the most practical way, Latham, Alexander & Co. say: “it seems to us that the most vitally inHM>rtant lesson for the South to learn is that over-production of cotton Is seriously harmful to the material prosperity of that section. "Whatever share the merchants and planters of the South are to have in the revival of business and general prosperity of the country, now apparently well start ed, will depend upon the profit that is •niaxle in the production of cotton, a crop worth $300,000,000. “The total crop of 1896-96 was 7,157,346 Kales, and it was sold al the average price of 8.09 cents per ix>und, or $40.82 per bale acording to the record of exports and the official (figures of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. The planters that year made largo food crops, and when the planting season the next year began, they were fortified with every requisite to pro duce cotton cheaply. “Last year the total crop was 8,757,964 hales, and the average price was 7.42 cents per pound, or $37.40 per bale, the crop yielding, perhaps, a larger net profit than for many years, because planters had few supplies to buy. "The success resulting from the con servative policy which was pursued these two years did not induce planters to ad here to that line of action; on the con trary, they increased their purchases of fertilizers this year, and many of them drifted back almost to the all-cotton prin ciple, and planted the largest cottou acre age ever known, hoping that the world ■would pay remunerative prices for the staple, no matter how large the supply. The disastrous result of over-planting this year is already clearly shown by com parison with last year, when the acreage devoted to cotton was decidedly less. Last year the amount of cotton marketed to January Ist was 6,398.192 bales, the average price realized was 7.53 cents per pound, $37.97 per bale, or $242,939,350. This year 7,260,033 bales were marketed to January Ist. the average price realized was 6.05 cents per pound, $30.49 per bale, or $221,358,406. “The planters shipped to market 861,841 bales of cotton more by January Ist this year than last, and received for them $21,580,944 less money. In other words, owing to the lower price, induced by over production, the people of the South have lost on cotton shipped to market by Jan uary Ist this year, the total value of 861,- 841 boles, namely, $32,724,102, and $21.- 580.944 besides, making a grand total of $54,305,046. "To further illustrate the ruinous effect of over-planting, we make the following •summary of crops and prices: 1893- crop 7.549.817 bales, average price 7.69. proceeds $292,932,899. 1894- crop 9,901,251 boles, average price 5.79. proceeds $258.918,504. 1895- crop 7,157,346 bales, average price 8.09, proceeds $292,234,437. 1896- crop 8,757.964 bales, average price 7.42, proceeds $327,547,854. “It will be seen that in 1893-94 a crop of 7,549,617 bales sold for $4,014,395 more than the large crop of 9,901,251 bales the ■next, year: in ’895-96 a crop of only 7.157,- 346 bales brought $3,315,933 more than the 9,901,251 crop, and that the crop of 8,787,- 954 bales last year brought $38,629,350 more than was received for 9,901,251 bales marketed in 1594-95. "Such Incontestable facts show what enormous losses the South has sustained by over-production, a.nd are sufficient to cause a radical change in planting opera tions. “It is conceded on every hand that the price thus far received for this year's crop has yielded no profit to the planter, nnd even though more than two-thirds of the crop has been sold to this date, prices ar? even yet below the cost of production. “On account of the large crop and low prices resulting therefrom, it is of vital importance, not only to the South, but the whole country, that the cotton acreage for next year be materially reduced, in order to advance the price of the greatest staple product of the United States to a paying basis. "If the planters of the South suffer loss, the people of the whole country must share in it. The South cannot stand another cotton crop of same dimensions as this year’s, without bringing about disaster and bankruptcy to planters and handlers of cotton, and relative harm to the general mercantile interest of that section. The price of cotton is more readily influenced by the inexorable law of supply and de mand than any other article of commerce, for no commodity is so sensitive to fluc tuations, and when a superabundance is hanging over the market, cotton trade in ali its branches is adversely affected. "Cotton raising in 'this country is vir tually a monopoly—two-thirds of the en tire production each year is readily taken by buyers in foreign countries, and the planters in the South are justly entitled to a fair remuneration for their labor. An over-supply is the only reason why they have to sell 6.000.000 to 7.000.000 bales of cotton to foreign spinners, without profit. "The cotton crop can and should be made the most profitable in this country. It is wholly the planter’s fault that such is not the case, as the figures in this letter charly show. “The cotton interest of every' kind, everywhere, would prefer an advancing market to a declining one, good prices to poor ones, because trade in all of its ram ifications is quickened thereby. Even the consumers of cotton goods 3re so slightly affected by nut advance of even two or three cents per pound in the raw material that they are not unwilling that the plant er be well paid for his labor. But. if the planting interests of the South continue to increase cotton acreage year after year, continual loss is inevitable. “The mere fact that a large crop has been planted affects the price adversely at once, and continues to affect it until the crop has been marketed, and if the planters of the South would determine to largely reduce the acreage, a favorable in fluence upon prices and the cotton trade of the world would at once become appa rent. By the systematic and co-operative action between the merchants and plant ers the cotton crop must be kept within reasonable trade demands or else destroy the most valuable source of profit to the mercantile and agricultural interest of the South. For the good of all concerned, it would be infinitely better any year to make a million bales less cotton than half a million bales more than necessary. "The metertai welfare of the South is more dependent upon her cotton crop than upon all other sources of income com bined, and it is entirely with thfe planters and cotton commission merchants to de termine whether the value of this crop shall from year to year be a source of an nually increasing profit or a source of dis appointment and loss.” What is Macon Going to Do? An article elsewhere in today’s News calls the attention of the people of Macon to a matter vitally affeceting the City (Hospital—an institution in whose welfare we are all concerned. The article shows that the hospital is in danger of losing the proposed annex, all though the lukewarmness of Macon’s citizens. As is well known, Mr. T. B. Gresham, of Baltimore, has offered to build, as a memorial to his father, an an nex to cost from $7,900 to SIO,OOO. He places only one condition on this very mu nificent gift, and this, it seems to us. Is a very reasonable one. The present hospital building. It ap pears, is now mortgaged for the sum of $3,500, and, as a sensible business man, Mr. Gresham does not care to spend from $7,000 to SIO,OOO more on the property un til it has been freed from debt. He sim ply asks that the mortgage on the present hospital building be removed, and when this is done he will more than double the value of the property, and make of the in stitution such a hospital as Macon would be proud of, by the girt which he has so generously offered. He natuarlly feels that if the people of Macon properly appreciate this institution, they would not be slow to comply with these terms. But he has been disappoint ed in Chis. Although considerable time has elapsed since Mr. Gresham’s offer was made, only one donation has been offered for the.purpose of 'paying off the $3,500 mortgage. This donation comes from Mr. J. Dannenberg, one of Macon’s wealthiest and most public spirited citizens. Mr. Danneberg, upon hearing of Mr. Gresham’s proposition, promptly offered SSOO to the hospital directors. No one else seems to have caught the inspiration, however, and Mr. Dannenberg stands 'alone as the only citizen of Macon whois generous and public spirited enough to give up any considerable sum of money for such a commendable purpose. 'Al though there arc citizens of Macon, some of them officers of the Hospital Associa tion, who arc as well able as Mr. Dannen berg to make such a generous donation, not one of them has 'as yet opened bls heart to such an extent. The people of Macon, as a whole, have given most liberally to the hospital and have well patronized every undertaking for the benefit of that institution, so that the man of average means cannot be ex pected to do much more in this direction. There seems but one way to raise that $3,500 mortgage, and that is for some of Macon’s wealthiest men to do as Mr. Da.n nenberg has done. We can name a half dozen men who could assist Mr. Dannen berg to cancel this mortgage before night, and never miss what it will cost them to do it. 'lt does seem that ordinary patriot ism and town pride would prompt some of 'them to do the right thing just at this vital juncture. The Woman’s Paper._ Says the Chattanooga News: "The afternoon paper is the chief wo man’s paper; it Is the women chiefly who read advertisements; therefore the after noon paper is the best medium for adver tisers. The more up to date 'the town, the better 1s this fact appreciated, and the phenomenal growth of the afternoon papers in the great cities of the country proves this fact. As our own merchants catch on to the ways of the metropolitan business men, they advertise more and more in The News.” As in Chattanooga and elsewhere — where the merchants arc keeping pace with the times —so it is in Slacon. The News is the woman’s paper in Ma con. They look for it, they read it, they patronize the merchants who advertise in it. They take an interest in it. because it makes a specialty of news that is in teresting to women. And because, too, it. reaches them at an hour when they have time for reading; not when 'they ate so busy with household cares or with the business of shopping or calling that they can only scan it hurriedly. They read it carefully, and the result is seen in the responses which all intelligent advertisers receive from the ads. which they plant in The News. To the friendly interest of the women of Macon, The News attributes the greater measure of its success. We commend the following from the Washington Post to those hair-brained egotists who vainly imagine that because the Democratic party refuses to accept their doctrines it is doomed to destruction. Says the Post: "There is no imminent probability of the demise of either of the two old parties. If the Democratic party had been destined to an early dissolution, it would have gone hence long ago. The Republicans used to call their victories “'Democratic funerals,” but the “unterri'fied,” inspite of the fights of its factions in 1860, and Its long series of defeats following that disastrous year, never lost its courage or lets its hope grow dim. Even when the only man it had elected to the presidency since 1856 man aged to get up another factional fight and led off many of the old leaders and their followers, the party possessed such vital ity that it polled the largest vote in its history.” The following from the Monroe Adver tiser, Mr. Berner’s home paper, looks sus picious. The Advertiser, in reproducing an editorial endorsing Mr. Berner for the governorship says: "While the state press, in voicing the sentiment of the peo ple of Georgia, is calling for a strong m.*n for governor the following clipping from Meldrim Guidon and reproduced by the Atlanta Journal will be of interest to thousands of Georgia Democrats who have heard Mr. Berner defending principles of pure Democracy, and who have watched the career of this champion of the people in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of Georgia. He has the sup port of no ring in Georgia but when it comes to the people. Bob Berner’s courage and fidelity finds ample recognition.” The Telfair Enterprise says: “Hon. O. B. Stevens should be the next commis sioner of agriculture. He is honest, fear less and magnanimous and withal compe tent. The Democracy of the state owe him much for his manly retibement from the congressional race in the Second con gressional district several years ago. The Enterprise remembers his magnanimous course in this particular instance. We are for Hon. O. B. Stevens, without solici tation from him or his friends. Sense of justice to a manly man prompts us to make this announcement. We say this without casting any disparagement on the present incumbent who Has. no doubt, faithfully discharged the duties of his office.” The demonstration in Paris, and ail France, indeed, over the Dreyfus case grows more intense, and is marked by mob violence in many places directed against the Jews. The London Spectator says this affair Is “the most important question be fore Europe today,” by reason of the con sequences of a possible revelation of the base treachery of certain chiefs of the army who made a scapegoat of Dreyfus to save themselves. It is quite evident that there can be no peace until the public Is allowed to see on what evidence Drey fus was convicted. There may be a revo lution over It before the end. Nat Goodwin’s wife gets a divorce and $75 a week alimony. And Mr. Goodwin gets—Miss Maxine Elliott, notes the At lanta Journal. But ho can probably af ford it, as Maxine will earn her own liv ing. and. perhaps, help him support his other wife. Four thousand and three hundred di vorce suits were brought in. Michigan last year. It Is evident that the people of Michigan have practically repealed one of God’s laws. Speaker Reed U fighting the river and harbor bill for this year. He thinks Uncle Sam should not engage to pay out $48,000,- 000 usxil he is certain of having the cash. Is this one of the Speaker’s little pleasant ries at the expense of the Dingley bill? In India there are 80.000 widows under the age of nine years. India seems to be getting a surplus of widows since the abolishment of her ancient custom. Mr. Candler will announce his candidacy tomorrow. Isn’t he a little late with it? The Atlanta Constitution has scored a dear "scoop” on him. The supreme court of Massachusetts Is wrestling with the question as to what constitues a Democrat. At last this vexed question is to be settled. Prize fighting, of course, is indefensible, but pugilism woudn't be so bad if it could be devocalized, thinks the Chicago Times- Herald. The people must crush the trusts or the trusts will crush the people, is the way the St. Louis Post-Dispatch puts it. It will take a man like Your Uncle Lon to 'extract the bumptiousness out of the Hon. Tom Felder, of Fulton. It now apears that Hon. Buck Hinrich sen wasn’t even offered autonomy, notes the Chicago Times-Hera Id. The Dublin Dispatch is first to climb into the DuPignon baud wagon. But there’s room for a few more. What’s getting the matter with Czar Reed? He failed to choke off a red-hot Cuban debate yesterday. And now Representative Clark, of Mis souri refuses to accept the autonomy scheme. The Democrats in Congress are work ing the Cuban bluff for all it is worth. CASTOTTTA. /J _ . :ir.iio —'-—isos guitar's x' s CW P 3: We? EDITORIAL POT-POURI. ON THE SAFE SIDE. “I guess,” said Maud, thoughtfully, “that I won’t play anything but classical music hereafter." • "But a great many people don’t play it,” replied Mamie. “I know it, but they have to say it’s good, because they don’t know whether I make mistakes or not.”—Washington Star. OFTEN THE CASE. Benevolent Gentleman (pointing a moral to village school children) —Now why do I take ail the trouble to leave my home and come over here and speak to you thus? Can any boy tell me? Bright Child (innocently)—Please, sur, p’raps yer likes to hear yerself talk, sur.— Tid-Bits. THEORY AND PRACTICE. Mme. Twecdledee (principal of great dramatic school) —I was so sorry I could not be present at your debut last night. Did you follow my advice and hold your powers in check during the earlier acts, so as to reserve yourself for the grand cli max in the fourth act? New Society Actress —Y-e-s. Mme T.—l’m so glad! And didn’t the au dience go perfectly wild over that grand climacteric scene in the fourth act? New Actress (sadly)—They went before the fourth act—all of them.—New York Weekly. “Why, Jim. what did you shoot that man for?” “To avoid trouble. I knew we’d be quarrelin’ if we kept on, and I hate a row.” "I told her that I would lay the world at her feet.” What did she say?” She said that if I was that athletic 1 onght to be travelling with a show.” “No; I never take the newspaper home: I’ve a family of grown up daughters, you know.” Papers too full of crime, eh?” "No. Too full of bargain sales” —Truth. Mrs. Angell—How do you like the new minister? Mrs. Goodwill—l don’t know yet. I have not met his wife. —Chicago News. A woman never feels as if she got a room clean unless she has arranged the furni ture differently.—New York Press. Tbs he- /? . F’-’ia - -■"* Ison a <■ wrapper. ALL OVER THE WORLD. The Chinese surnames come first instead of last. Telegraphers earn an average of S4BO a year In China. The ballet is said to have been invented by the Duchess of Maine, in Paris. The use of coal for home-heating is not near so general in Europe as in this coun try. In China books are read backward and the footnotes .are made on the top of the page. Catharine de Medici was a strong par tisan of the ballet when she first saw it in Rome. Dancing came first of all the public arts. It antedates music, singing and sculpture. The Rothschilds have acquired a vast copper deposit in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The number of wild birds in London is increasing. The most notable addition is to the starlings. The commerce of Uruguay is declining gradually, having in a year shown a di minution of $2,000,000. Saw dust and other refuse of saw mills is converted into calcium carbide by chem ical processes. The Indians in Mexico, who operate in a crude way in the gold placers only work when in pressing need of money. The triangular bridge at Croyland, Lin colnshire, is the oldest bridge in England, and one of the greatest curiosities. A Demon Contagious Blood Poison is cutting down human beings by the thousand. It is an awful affliction. Doctors have all sorts of theories about it that they learned at college, but they fail miserably when they try to cure it. Every sufferer should know, be fore he seeks professional help, that he will be given mercury and other poisons, which never did, never will and never can effect a cure. / h ° / shcß,d hLt d/ that V Swift’s II I Specific (S. S. S.) is purely veg e table and is his only hope. It will go to the root l>f the trouble and purify the blood— make it rich, red and healthy—stop the eating sores forever—stop the hair from falling out—drive the ter rible disease completely away. Free books on the disease and its treat- Wk ment can be had by writing to the Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. •_ MACON NEWS FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21 1898. POWDER Absolutely Pure - ■ —* I ENGLISH WIFE-BEATERS. The English wife-beater and abuser docs | not have to pay expensively for his pleas ure. These are some of his offenses and the fines imposed by justice: For throwing fire irons at the head of his wife, 50c. For beating his wife on the head with a piece of wood two months after marriage $1.25. For beating his wife several times,, kick- | ing her repeatedly, tearing her hair out, trying to strangle her and knocking her down, $1.50. For throwing his wife in the fire and badly burning her. $1.50. For trying to cut his wife’s throat, blacking her eye, striking her in the breast, throwing a cup of hot tea in her face, after having boxed her ears, $5. For blacking both his wife’s eyes and cutting her head open with an ax, $lO. For thoroughly thrashing his wife, so that she lay in a disabled condition for weeks, sls. SCIENGE AND THE DELUGE. The latest scientific attempt at an expla nation of the deluge comes from Warren ’ Pierce, of Newjort, R. I. He first quoted Darwin, who said of exterminated species and ginera: “The mind is irresistably hur ried into the belief of some great catastro phe; but thus to destrop animals so widely scattered we must shake the entire frame work of the globe.” Mr. Pierce does not believe that the del uge was a flood in the ordinary acceptance of 'the term, but an invasion of the sea, the results of earthquakes and new land for mations. These new land formations not only caused a flood, but by the change of gravity, possibly shiflfer the earth’s axes, removed the tropics into polar regions and marked the earth with the evidences of the glacial epoch, .whic hare now found in the temperate zone of North America. Flies, Kiles. t'liesi Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles when all other Ointments have failed. It absorbs the tumors, allays the Itching at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant re lief. Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment is prepared only for Piles and Itching of the private parts, and nothing else. Every box Is warranted. Sold by druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price, 50c. and 51.00 per box. WILLIAMS M’F’G. CO., Prop’s., Cleveland. O. Academy of Music. Tuesday, Jan. 25. Manola === Mason. [Marion] [John] Presenting the operatic comedy, “FRIEND FRITZ.” Twenty-one delightful musical numbers, t Charming music, dainty dances, pictur esque stage settings, pretty costumes. Prices 25c., 50c., 75c. and sl. Sale opens at Harry L. Jones Co. Monday. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. Matinee and night. ( ROLAND REED, Acompanied by MISS ISADORE RUSH, Presenting at the matinee the Brilliant Comedy, i “THE WRONG MR. WRIGHT.” By George A. Broadhurst. Evening, Mr. Reed’s latest success, “A MAN OF IDEAS.” By Sydney Rosenfeld. You Can Afford to Patronize Home Industry When you get the best work and the low est prices by doing so. I ask no concession in my favor. I sim ply offer you the best work for the least money. A comparison is all I ask. W. H. Schatzman Builder and Repairer of Buggies, Wagons, Carriages Everything that can be dene by any wheelright or blacksmith. Buggy and carriage painting a specialty. (rESOLAA \ONsI 11 FORf IQS- Lst I Will/ /BUY NO w r^i>^op Starling With Hew Resolutions, o At New Y’ear’s men generally resolve to be economical. Sometimes they will even wear ready-made clothing, thinking it is a saving of money. But it is merely sacri ficing appearances. We give the best goods the mills produce, cut in the most ap proved style and tailored in the best fash ion at the lowest price possible. GEO. P. BURDICK & CO., Importing Tailors. PULLMAN CAR LINE OBOi BETWEEN • Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or Louisville and" Chicago and THE NORTHWEST. Pullman Buffet Sleepers on night trains. Parlor chairs and dining cars ’ on day trains. The Monon trains make the fastest time between the Southern . winter resorts and the summer resorts of the Northwest. W. H. McDOEL, V. P. & G. M. | FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., Chicago, HL I For further particulars address ' R. W. GLADING, Gen. Ag*. Tkomawijte* fik HV■■■"RL A ■ ■ 1 Em Cold Cure cures colds In the bead, colds on the lungs, old colds, new colds and obstinate colds, and all terms of grip. Stops sneezing, discharces from the nose and eyes, prevents catarrh, diphtheria, pneumonia, and all throat and lung troubles. These pleasant little pellets are absolutely harmless, have saved thousands of lives and prevented much sick ness. The Munyon Remedy Company prepare a separate cure for each disease. At all druggists— -25 cents a viaL If you need medical advice write Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch Street, Philadelphia. It is absolutely free. PUTZEL’S VAUDEVILLE. Every Night. The best artists of the Vaudeville stage iu new songs dances and comic sketches. THE RESTAURANT Is now prepared to serve all the season’s delicacies. Feed and Sale STABLES. Comer Tiilffl and Poplar Sts. Regular shipments of farm, road, car riage and saddle horses each week. Honest dealing and courteous trea imen’ has ever been our record. We know what a good horse is and w* are careful to handle no other kind. Large, well ventilated stalls in our feet" stable. Stock carefully attended to. George H. Dolvin & Co. “Our word is our guarantee.” WE HAVE— -500 Bottles Rockand Rye For coughs and colds that will close out at 40 and 75c per bottle. H. J. LAMAR & SONS. Cherry Street. You Cant Lose Us. We are not running any Dissolution or Closing Ont Sale but we are selling the cheap est picture frames. If you want first class work go to headquarters. Lamar Williams, Picture Frames anu Hit Goods, 116 Second Street. D. A. KEATS NG. General Undertaker and Embalmer, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes; hears? and carriages furnished to all funerals in and out of the city. Undertaker’s telephone 467. Re»i dence telephone 468. 522 Mulberry street. Marr.® G" SWoobWawS W. A? ONGS CATON’S IZITALIZEH Cures general or special debility, wakeful ness, spermatorhoßa, emissions, impotency. naresis, e'ic. Corrects functional disorders, caused by errors or excesses, quickly restoring Lost Manhood in older young ; giving vitror and Strength w here former weakness prevailed. Con venient package, simple, effectual, and legitimate. Cure is Quick ano Thorough.? Don't te deceived by imitations: insist on CATON’S Vitalizers. Sent sealed if your drug gist does not have it. Price $1 per pkge, 6 for 55, with written guarantee of complete cure. Information, references, etc., free and confidential. Send US statement of case and 25 cis. for a week’s trial treatment. One only sent to each person. CATON MEO. CO.. BOSTON, MAS*. Style and Fit is a man's first consideration when he is about to buy a suit. Price is the next. We have studied both very close, and we are prepared to make you a first-class stylish suit for $22.50. You couldn’t do better with a clothier. _ s . DRESS LOOSELY. Short breathers are short livers. They rob their bodies of vitality by taking too short breaths, and thus not thoroughly pu rifying the blood, which is the life of the i body. Fresh air is the life of the blod. Blood is only liquid flesh. One who does not breathe deeply of fresh air must die soon er, other things being equal, than one who does. Dress loosely, move quickly, breathe deeply and do moderate running and jump j ing rope exercise every day, and live and sleep in well ventilated rooms. The simplest and best indoor and out door breathing exercise to increase the depth and slowness of each inspiration is this: Take a dozen deep slow breat-hs a dozen times a day. Morning and night practice this exercise while lying on the back with the knees bent. Be sure to breathe softly and slowly. Syphon the air in until all parts of the lungs are brimful—lower, middle and up per. If you do not dress loosely you can not breathe deeply. UNION SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY. MACON, GA. Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent. J. W. Cabaniss, President: 3. S. Dunlap vice-president; C. M. Orr, cashier; D. M Nelligan, accountant. Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $30,004 Interest paid on deposits. Deposit you) savings and they will be increased bv in terest compounded semi-annually. THE EXCHANGE BANK Os Macon, Ga. Capital $500,000.01 Surplus 150,000.0 f J. W. Cabaniss, President. S. S. Dunlap, Vice-President, C. M. Orr, Cashier. Liberal to its customers, accommodating to the public, and prudent in its manage ment, this bank solicits deposits and other business in its line. DIRECTORS. W. R. Rogers, L. W. Hunt, Joseph Dan nenberg, R. E. Park, S. S. Dunlap, J. W Cabaniss, H. J. Lamar, Jr., A. D. Sche field, W. M. Gordon. ESTABLISHED 1«««. R. H. PLANT. CHAS. D. HURT Cashier. I. C. PLANT’S SON, BANKER, MACON, GA. A general banking business transact#* md all consistent cortesies cheerfully ex tended to patrons. Certificates of deposit issued bearing interest. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON, GA. The accounts of banks, corporation* firms and individuals received upon th* most favorable terms consistent with con servatlve banking. A share of your bus Iness respectfully solicited. R. H. PLANT, President. George H. Plant, Vice-President. W. W. Wrigley, Cashier. E. Y. MALLARY, J. J. COBB, President. Cashier. Commercial and Savings Bank, 370 Second Street. A general banking business transacted. Courteous and liberal treatment to all. Interest paid on accounts in savings de partment, compounded semi-annually. Safety deposit boxes in our new burglar proof vault for rent, $5 and upward per year. Southern Loan and Trust Company of Georgia. MACON - GEORGIA. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, 860,000.00 J. S. SCOFIELD, Pres. Jos. W. PALMER, Vlce-Pres. F. O. SCHOFIELD, Treasurer. STEED & WIMBERLY, Attorney* Offers investors carefully selected Firs! Mortgage Bonds, yielding 6 and 7 per cent interest, payable semi-annually. These mortgage loans are legal invest ment for the funds of Trustees, Guardian* and others desiring a security which it non-fluctuating in value, and which yield) the greatest income consistent with Ab solute safety. Acts as Executor, Trustee, Guardian Transacts a General Trust Business. LAWYERS. HULL, HARRIS & BIRCH, Attorneys at Law, Masonic Building 566 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga. Will do general practice in state and fed eral courts. PHYSICIANS. DR. A. MOODY BURT. Office over Sol Hoge’s drug store, 572 Mul berry street. 'Phon 60. Hours: 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 and 4:30 to 5:30 p. m. Residence 452 College street. ’Phone 728. DR. J. H SHORTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, over Sol Hoge’s, corner Mulberry and Second streets. DR, C H PEETE, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, 370 Second St Phone 462. E. G. Ferguson, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Office and residence 256 Second street, opposite Pierpont He - '<-• DR J J SUBERS 1897 Permanently Located. In the specialties venereal, Lost En ergy restored, Female Irregularities and Poison Oak. Cure guaranteed. Address, in confidence, with stamp, 511 Fourth Street, Macon. Ga. Dr. M. Marion Apfel, Physician and Surgeon. John C. Eads & Co. Building. Phone 811. Bicycles and Typewriters. New and second hand for sale or rent. Factory man in charge of repair department. J. W. Shinholser, , .Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street. . ’ .. ■ ; i Marion Harland’s! Idea of it: | ! > : "Sorof years ago t sketched the crest of the average Amer- £ . jRz lean t..r.i housewife. It wish bare, bony urm. brandishing I 0 raking frying pan.”—Makiom Harland. < ( That was in the time when the frying pan was always S ’• filled with lani. Before healthy shortening and frying • ()' / ? were made easy with Cottolcne. Before Marion J 11 / J Harland declared that © !| //A COTTOLONE I ( jr purer, more healthful and £ ! I jr economical than lard.” 2 | : JjjynjF Genuine Cottolene is sold everywhere In one to ten pound j I I i . yellow tins, with onr trade-marks—“Cbttoterw"and *teer’» V XXA'ls'iAyjN Iy 2 Aead fn cotto»-ptant u real?.—on every tin. Not guaran- s < 9 < , teed If sold in any other way. Made only by \ A'"'LtX ’• a - T © I I THE N. K. FAIRSANK COMPANY. 1 I • j j Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Montreal. © Don't Fume XS'ISI and blow if the stove won’t -MiJJ draw. Perhaps its an old lone, or perhaps the con- J struction is bad. We are 1 VS showing a fine line I of krV' Stoves, Ranges and z/* as and Oil Heaters of U'' this seasons design. Many important improvements have been made which in- creases the heat, reduces the consumption of coal and makes these stoves much more convenient than their predecessors. And improved methods of manufacturing has reduced the cost. Don’t buy until you have seen these. Florida Gull Coast Hotels ON Plant System. TAMPA, FLA.— Tampa, Bay Hotel, Now Open. D. P. HATHAWAY, Manager. PORT TAMPA, FLA. — The Inn, Now Open. J. H. EURDICK, Manager. WINTER PARK, FLA.— The Seminole, Open Jan. 17 A. B. DICK, Manager. OCALA, FLA. — The Ocala House, Now Open P. F. BROWN, Manager. BELLEAIR, FLA.— The Belleview. Open Jan. 17 W. A. BARRON, Manager. PUNTA GORDA, FLA—The Punta Gorda Hotel, Open Jan. 17 F. H. ABBOTT, Manager. FORT MYERS, FLA.— The Fort Myers Hotel. Open Jan. 17 F. H. ABBOTT, Manager. KISSIMMEE, FLA.— The Kissimmee Hotel, Onen Jan. 3 1,. E. BULXOCK Manager. Send to each manager as to rates and rooms and to the undersigned as to rail way or steamship rates, or sleeping car lines and times cards. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga Don’t be Selfish While buying a coat, blow yourself and put one on the HOUSE. It needs it. I will take pleasure in coating your house inside or outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at moderate prices. G. W. LINGO, 6801 cnerru st. _________ MACON, GA. LOOK, LOOK! _ The Best and Purest. M. O’HARA, COTTON AVENUE. COAL! " - s LANDLORDS! Do you know that we are the only exclusive rental agents in Ma con. No other departments. If you are not satisfied with your in come give us a trial. A. J. McAfee, Jr., &"Co. 357 Third Street. Prepare for Winter. Window Glass, Mantels and Grates. Can furnish any size or parts broken. Call before cold weather comes. T. C. BURKE. a I