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Entered at the Pont Office at Gray
Ga.. uh aeeondela.Hemail matter,
Official Groan ok the County.
Published Every *Ti:itHflr>AY
Si-nsntirrro.v Ptuch. $1.
Kveu the candidal- s are out of
the mud.
Where n man’s wife i«, there
Ins surplus
Tho Mbcoii Fair opens October,
£ 1 th, for ten day*. Wait for it.
Lay not lip treasures on earth—
for your wife will get it and buy
r: no ruiment.
President Roosevelt should stay
away from New Orleads—what
New Orleans wants is a frost.
“AI! the world’s a stage,” and
there are hut precious few good
actors on it.
“Don’t give up the ship,” says
Sheehan to Tammany. Whoever
heard of n politician giving up
anything.
♦ —*
Buckskin Ben, with his compa¬
ny >>f sharpshooters, trickriden-
and musicians, has been engaged
tor the Macon Fair.
The reformers rhould not lor
get the babies when preaching
about the ‘crying necessities" ol
these times.
Brethren, it wasn’t our plan t>
have the hank next, door to ouI
sanctum—it was the irony ol
fate.
Those people who are making a
new map of the state should not
forget that Atlanta is yet ii.
Georgia
Baseball is over but. it wont h>
Tong before the highball and foot¬
ball will come along and make uj
for lost time,
A Zetiia, 0,, news item tells ol
a young lady of that town win
recently “married a newspaper
man and a man of wealth” She
ought to he indicted tor bigamy.
Tom Dixon’s “Clansman” lias
been dramatized and is drawing
esowded houses. But the publir
will stand for anything these
days.
The Chinese buyout of American
goods got alfing all right until
it tackled Standard Oil. The
heathen may rage but wo see theii
finish.
Tho California Arrow, tlm air¬
ship that, flies over the city in a
circle, and gm« wherever directed
by the aeronaut, will bo one ol
the chief attractions at the Macon
Fair,
— —
According to the Atlanta Jour¬
nal and Constitution tho only
flung lacking for their respective
candidates is a motion to make d
(Unanimous.
The Atlanta Constitution says
three out of every five babies born
in New York City are Irish, We
cun beat that, Four out of fiv
born in this neck of the woods
are Democrats.
Those who want tospo what tin
savages of tho l’hilipin-s lank
like will have a chance of seeing
This tho Igurmtes tribe at the Macon dog. Fair.
is the that, eats
A man advertising a feeding
bottle in the New York Sun says:
“When the baby is done
it must be unscrewed and lgid in
a cool pluce under tho hydrant-
if the baby does not thrive on
fresh milk it should bp boiled. 11
Howie may be several kinds of
a fool l-ut the law he r«cent
handed down in Zom that
man should be allowed to marry
until he is able to support u wifo
js anything but foolish.
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Few York thieves and burglars
should qpit the vulgar praotice of
knocking people on the head
adopt the practice of the
York Lib* Equitable and certain
pther insurance companies. '
The two big Smiths, Hoke and
Jim. haye stated positively that
they w'Ii address the thousands
C emit lit* that will assemble in:
Macon cm Bmith Dm*. October '
2dth. dur-ng the Macon Fuir.
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One of tlie best features in the
amusement ime at the M-aopn
Pan n. Creation. I Ins illustrates,
ninf^ton/ilr wan 1 A V"' 1 ''' ijit* . M"’! ele-:
ment in acUon, the Garden ,g'
Eden, {.}jea the with peopling A.lsra of and the Eve world. and j !
.
Colton “Looks Good” to Us
\Ve believed Inst spring when
it wus decided to cut down
acreage that cotton would ». II for
more money than it was then
bringing. Inasmuch as the acre¬
age cut was followed by eundr
j unlavorable conditions through
out tilt) cotton belt, thereby fur-
ther curtailing the crop, what
I wa* then nmrnlv a belief upon
i lhe part, of g.-uthertiera generally,
' developed into a certainty, at ' 1
1 farmers and businr ss men are i o
reaping tho benefit Ol belli
prices.
But considering the certain
snortage of the crop, and toe
world's needs, it, seems certain
that c»tt>m will go very,
higher before the 1900 crop is
toad*’.
\\ e do not. think 12 1-2 cent
high enough, and regard Jb cent
as a very rensonuhh expectation
for good grade cotton.
1 rices muv and probably will
tluctuate around present selling
prices for quite a w hile; but the
pressure lose 11 is the one and
ly reason that keeps prices down
Tho mail who is able to
his Cotton will not make a
take by so doing this year.
Every condition, throughout.
the world, is favorable to incn in
>*d consumption of cotton fabrics,
The end of the Japan-se-Itos-
sian conflict in Manchuria will be
followed by a notable revival
ill the arts and industries 0 f
pcjacG, and cotton is bound b> bn
largely a beneficiary of this era of
good times.
flic* beliefs expressed above pro
those of tile shrewdest cotton
in this • country—their , ,, real i'ir beliefs
it mutters.not whether they a i t ,
it present on the “bull” or j
“bear” aide of the market—lor
b« it remembered, the “bears'
are only that until they have
gobbled up the bud of the crop,
when they do all they can to send
prices higher.
Daniel J Sully more than any
other man living has helped to
keep up.lhe price of cotton, even
'hough he final ty lost out and
was forced into bankruptcy; and
now that Im once more finds him
self in position to re-enter the
market, wo predict that ho will
make things very interesting for
tho bears. Under the caption,
*‘Conditions Unparalled,” Sully
says:
“i’o this indisputable fact more
than any other is due the rise in
prices of cotton from 7 cools to 11
s,
, Tnuse same conditions now
growing and multiplying in force
day after day, will cause inevita¬
bly much higher prices.
Never in tlffe history of the cot¬
ton trade were conditions so
precedented as they aro at
present lime.
History fails to relate such mar¬
velous prosperity as now encircles whole
world. the spindles throughout the
Not a spindle idle.
Not a spindle but whose capac¬
ity is gold for one year in advance
at prosperity prices.
N-d a pound of yarn, not a yard
of cloth from immediate delivery
except at medium prices.
72.1 condition does not give
sufficient fluvor of Abundance to
warrant much congratulations,
except it. may assist the exporter
who is short and committed !>•
the extent of 4,000,000 bales for
September, October and Novem¬
ber shipment, but if So it will be
at the expense of the American
spinner —Every ha’e of Am»n-
pound oi : c.!uo,i ,, iuiofield n.2
ed or unpicked, will not meet the
exacting requirements of the
world s spindles for the coming
•canon. ’—Dublin Tiines
Hokv Hinitli (lave (Hor
giitns tiov mini ,*nt I’la-
c«*s which i*aiil fliem
over 8*200,000
Yea rly.
Congressional Information Bu¬
reau, Bond Building,
\\ ashington, Sept. 18th, 05.
The opposition hlundered when
they chat gw I Hoke Bniith with
special favoritism to negro-s in
his appointments when Sscretary
!of the Interior.
Passing ov-'r the con$(»icuous
inaccuracy of their statosments
applied to individuai eas. s,
their allegations as a whole
utterly discredited by the full
of tho Interior admiuistra-! department. J
during Mr. Smiths
011 *
I was Mr. Smith’s ^ private s >c*
r 'tnry during the first half of
as Secretary of the Jute-!
'
rior.
The interior deportment is tho
biggest business office in tho U. S. !
lt has ln , t tilB patf , llt ofikv . the!
«- , burean Ui0 ,, T Iudu i- b , "i ■
I )onsi0n * ‘"
rettU : the public lands department,
the geological survey, the census - I
bureau, the educational depart-,
tm-nt. and when Mr. tSmitn was
Secretary it also had the Pacific
rfti Iruada. Each of these depart-
m.nts had a commissioner and a
dii. ctor in charge.
There were over 14,000 pe.-ploi
I employed in these various branch-
! o"s of the interior department.
| j j )(i great inajo 2 'ty of LL<- we
under the c\\ il Bv ^ rvjoe. T or up-
ip-iinlments came from tin civil
i v i oo forn m on ( , and they were
promoted and rurUmud on tie
t fifliciaj record*. i id tb promo.
>, r id ik w ef f’ inauL* b\
tin. co 9|f and director!
of t i various ails.
Tho ficgi ies nontioned by J |(
A t biota t -listituti-'ii as
cli ricul positions wi civil k r-
vice clerks who went into tiio eer-
vice before Mr. Smith became ! ( „
| re I arv >>f the interior.
The Atlanta Coi 1 1 tut ion ended
■ several paragraphs of its editorial
'with the statement “from the of-
, flea I records, interior depart*
nlo>'t.” To tin; casual observer it
-
might have been Mipjesed that
\ tin y were quoting Ironi the ro-
cords of the ini> rior department,
j Not me line of what they printed
| wa quoted from the records of
tin- interior d *:
John L. *r .c s a del k j n
| tho civ.I service for several years
! before Mr. -smith was Secretary -
and the records show that he re-
no promotion during Mr.
! Bmttli’n service us Secretary. II
1 " >'»*> , received , a promotion , ,i
w ; o,,1<l , - lwn froni coiimus-
siiwior of pension# an<l not iron)
tin- Secretary of the /ntefior.
Nic Mitcli- li.is shown by the
re0 o r «I» of the interior department
to nave . , been , clerk , .
a c.vi service
t.vo years piyor to the time that
Mr Smith was made secretary, and
received no promotion during
Mr. Smith’s service as secretary.
I have no idea that Mr, Smitl
knew that either of them was con¬
nected with tlu interior depart-
ment.
Mr. Smith made four persona!
appointments of negroes Tboy
were negro men who had worked j
for him in Atlanta.
Cornelius King, so
of us the son-in-hiiv of
Turner, lmd married a second
time. His second wife was
daughter of the nurse vvli bad
nursed several of Mr.
children. Re had also been Mr.
SiniLh'e pm tor at his law offices
m Atlanta, and I know that tin
appointment was given Coi'iioiin-
King for tli-go reasons, coupled
with the fact that he had lived
until h was twenty-one among
tho Cherokee Indian-', and e hi ;,j
:i 11 I he posit ion we! J.
The’ large majority of changes
in positions and appointment 0 , ex¬
cept where the appointments were
presidential appointments, were
controlled by tho commissioners
or directors of Ilio bureaus. • The
presidential appointments were
f-*uJ ly made by the Secretary of
[] 1(J interior
There were 2,082 appointments
lll:ui( ‘ during the adtnisistration
of Secretary Smith, and part of
ilioso were by the civil service
commission.
There were something over 100
negroes appointed, but all of
them were, to messengers’ or
borers’ places, and to all of their
" ,,r! ; ;utJCh<,<1 ^ rvic,,
! he .arm' majority of them were
appoint-d cither by the chief clerk
of tho department or by heads ol
the bureaus.
A number of the negroes were
at the i istanoo of the
Democratic congressmen, There
were a number of negroes given
places at the instance of Georgia
congressmen,.
There wore about forty
ted from tho District of Columbia
so |,,jy because the work had to bo
p. me. It. was menial work tuul
negroes, as a rule, alone could be
f om „i suited to it.
The pay given to the negroes
asms largo to tin Georgians, bill
then ' t should bo remembered
that an ordinary driver gets
to $00 p-*r month in Washington '
and tho prices for the work
tho acts of Congress.
White men and women from
Georgia were given greater reo.ig-
U J. government. ' VI r
Smith personally secured a large
uumher of appointments for them
Tlio salary roll of while men
Dorn t’-eorgda appointed bv him
was over $200,OX* a year. He gave
noSit jons , - ’—
f :om CeorzU. Mr. Sin*th
»*riticis«'d by repree^ntfttiyi *S from i
other sections for the mrge nuiu-
k.„. f those appointments He
Kt “ Itt * I ticism without,flinch-
n((d J' j plied liiat Georgia
not. before his administration had
a f rmr eiiance, and that h was
g.iiug t - do what he could to even '
up thmgs. lr 1 iU
*" u ’ r ' !i ' r "
nv>r ’ in ci«. uui , information , about
y v . ovg ' , a ..pjv.intnv-ntf.
Ci.avde N. Bennetts,
Jn Atlanta Journal. 1
Clirittl Luis anil t lit* Ba’ltt.
Ul. m Colliers Weekly.
If Christ : r l)g should vote
! dl,t y •> 0' a. at the poll*, they
1 *oold iurrv every election,
I do it with f*nsc\ They would
•very cl«an candidate in the Unit
d Stab s, and defeat every soiled
>110. Th. it prodigious
a .mid be quickly r-uliz-d and
ognized and afterwards
would - nclenn candidates
>01 any ticket and gruft would
cense. No clmrcli
. can be found in the country
would elect men of foul
to be 11 s shepherd t treasurer,
and eupurint indents of its Sun-
j da v-schools. Li would bo revolt-
eil , at . the uh , • it ■, would , , i
! hmcIi an > lec..on an insult to oo
Yet every christiai congregation
in the country elects foul men
Public office, while quite
that tliisal c> is an open and
“berate insult . to n jod, who
>vo and does not
the phiciiiK of the liberties and
"d. being ol His children in the
hands of infamous men. h is
Christian congregations tlu.it are
responsible for tho filing of our
public offices with criminals,
th« t-us »■»«..>> , n itu.r hat th-y could
t><event it. it they rdrnse ^to co it.
hoy coltKl fu- vnut it without 01 -
ganizing a league, without tram-
»>6 « platform, without making
any speeches or passing any reso¬
lutions—in a word, without con¬
cert of any kind, They could ac¬
complish it by each individual
voting for God at tho polls, that
is to say, voting for the candi-
d’ate whom God won id approve.
Gan a man imagine such a thing
as God br ing a republican <,r a
democrat, and voting for acrimi-
"•'lorn blackguard merely bt-
-ause parly loyalty required it'
Then can we imagine that a man
can improve upon God’s attitute
in this matter, and by help of
professional politiciansinvent a
better p I icy ? God has no poli¬
ties btil el .unliness and honesty,
and it is good enough for men,
Anuin’s second duty is to his
hiniUy. Tuer was a time when
t clergyman’s duty to bis ftiraih
'''*■ <iuii* d him to bo his eongrega-
' 11,11 's political slave, and vote hi--
'-ongregutimi’s ticket in order to
siif.*ginml the food and shelter bis
wife and children. But that time
lias gone by. We have the secret
ballot now, and a clergyman can
vote for God. IF can also plead
with his congregation to do the
Perhaps- We cannot be sure.
The congregation would probably
inquire whom he was going to
vote for; and il he stood upon his
manhood and answered that they
had no Christian right, which
the same as saying, no moral
right, and, of course, no legal
right, to ask the question, it is I
conceivable, not to sav certain,
that they would dismiss him, and
bo much offended at his propos
ing to be a man as well as a cler-
gyntan.
'SmiUicrn L?v© " Stock
a,Hl ( :i >,n i mny
ot \aldosta, Ga.
has an interesting proposition to
make a good man for work in this
field. Work to begin immediate-
.y.
Unless you are a man who can
DO things, and mean business,
don’t write the Company.
Agents are coining money, as
we have the insurance the people
want and there’s i.o competition,
-o*
For Sale.
Three hundred and
acres i -f lami in Jones county
Lewiston, through which the Con-
tral , of Georgia railroad ii runs, A .
lii vO location , . f for poach , orchard, , j ■
Price five dollars per aero.
Bex L. Jones, )
S- pt. 26th, 190o. MuCwii, Ga,
LONG LOANS
NEGOTIATED ON
y I ill T'fl VPfl •» -*-i H rlFl]] T I rlllr^ J
llil ijl U I UU i ill 111 Jjliliud
-AT-
Lowesl t . Current ri ,n Rates. -
Twenty years experience in the
business.
HOWARD M. SMITH.
8! 1 Second &t., Mac in, Or i
Oxttii Fur Salo.
1 h f° «*"" -
am onunog tor bale. Will
fur reasonable price.
W A Tut am e
Wayside. R F D.
; Excursion Kates Via C<-n-
tml ot Georgia Kail way*
| To Athens and return.
Rates for individuals, one fare
plus 2bets for the round trip.
Minimum rat 50ct whole tick-
eta, 2Cots halves. F >r military
companies and bass bunds in
form, tw v nr r»i<ir- oii me tick¬
et, one cent per mile in each dt-
ruction. Tickets on, sal* October
Br<t, 4th, bill, and (jilt, Huai limit
Oct. T. 1905.
T ,ir Atlanta, Ga.
Rates for indiviib. one first
class fen plu- (ibc which includes
udn issioii t-> Fair grounds. Half
I rates for children of five and
der twelve ears of ago.
nitim rates 1 for adults and 50c
for children. For military corn-
; ai id ra bands in
form, ’ twenty 3 cr more on one
.. , cent mile ..
i tu.-KRt, otici; per pi rcnp-
j{ (1 j,, each direction.
Isold from points in Georgia Oet >-
' her 8 to 20, inclusive, except th.it
I no tickets will be sold for trains
arming in Atlanta on Sundays.
I From points outside of Georgia
will be sold October 9th, and 19
inly. Final limit of all tickets
25th.
i’o the Macon Fair.
Kates for individuals, one fare
plus 75c for the round trip, which
includes adini-sii n to the fuir
grounds, fr< m all points within
the state of Georgia, also from
Opi Idea, Montgomery, Andalusia,
Ozark, Florida and immediate
points in Alabama, Half rates
rates for c.rildren of five and un¬
der twelve years of age. Mini
mum rates $1 whole tickets 50cls
for children. For military com¬
panies and brass bands in uniform
twenty or more on one ticket, one
cent per mile per capita in each
direction* From points in Geor¬
gia tickets on sale October 28rd.
to November 2nd. Except that
no tickets will be sold on Sunday
October 29th. From points in
Alabama tickets will be sold Oc¬
tober 22nd, to Nov 2nd. Final of
all these tickets Nov 0 Apply to
agent.
CITATION.
GEORGIA. Jones county.
Notice is hereby given that Win T
Gordon, guardian of Thomas A Gor¬
don, minor, lias applied to me for
leave to so Ii all (lit- land belonging to
said minor for the purpose of mainte¬
nance and education Said applica¬
tion will be heard at the regular term
•>f (lie court of Ordinary for said
county to be lickl on the first Mon¬
day in October 1905. This Sept,
(iti:, 1905. It H Bonseii, Ordinary.
CITATION.
GEORGIA. Jour.- County*
c it Kell..", administrator upon the
estate of Mattie I.ou Keliar, late of
an.I comity, decease..!, Having made
application to me in due form for
Icav.i to soli till' ; ">d • state of Mat tie
Lou Keliar. Noiiep is hereby given
to .»!• i in.lies cone:•: m d that said ais
l-lieiiliui will be pa sod upon at Use
regubir (arm of tin- court of Ordinary
-aid county, to be held on the first
mda v in Get -her. 1995.
This Sept. GfIi, 1905.
II if Bonxkk, Ordinary.
J| || j I V J DO
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Denial Parlors
Are tho largest and best
equipped Dental OtRces m
Georgia. teeth
If you wan’t your
Filled, Crowned or Bridded
bv F7xi>prt. dentists, who are
Specialists, cal I at
DR. LANIER'S
American Dental Parlors
PRICES LOW.
WORK GUARANTEED
—TERMS SPOT CASH—
(»18 Cherry Street, Macon.
BRANCH OFETCE t
ATLANTA,. GA.
o-
, P rake , bomnofovme 0 f „ and ,, have
vour teetn , , extracted without
l, . '° sI . '^' ... !9 P"".' .
LUMBER
FOR
C. W. or Mrs. S.T.B.-agg.
THE WORLD'S BEST BABY MEDICINE
■-•j. r»a. 2 Scts.- 50 c-ta./ 4 ZZ DRUGGISTS _ .
& •r
th R 'h
V
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PLEASANT-HARM LESS-EFFECTIVE
All Bowel QQ'rnf>\zi\ril&-TELTHIfVG'TRO<JBl-ES-WriteforjrreeBo<)k'fei B*by ease.coFma<^n
Do I3o WIIlLIMIM AM )
Go Lion Factor,
Macon J Georgia.
By liberal policy and honorable lil¬ thoda I have built up
a
tho largest Cotton Commission business in Macon, Georgia.
Sliij) me your cotton and
<*et Id best returns.
0. B. WILLINGHAM.
WALTER A. WOOD MOWING
MACHINE,
As well as a full line of
Agricultural Implements.
-We are distributing agents for--
PITTSBURG STEEL FENCE,
The Best and Cheapest for Field or Garden. Cheaper and bet¬
ter than rail or lumber.
Get our prices. See our fence.
D - TD H H
HARDWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
317 and 8,9 Third Street, MACON, GA
EL.
0
xjgggaswB
On account of having to move October 1 st
to 509 and 5 1 1 Cherry Street, we will oiler
special inducements to our trade.
WILL GIVE YOU A BIG DISCOUNT
FOR CASH ONLY.
Our Stock isNew; Up-to Date
Have you seen the New Weaves m CLO
THING? Come at once, you will be pleased.
JONES & TODD,
406, Third Street Macon, Ga.
H H .J GO
FOR
D CD ■n c-<q ana tod OD c-<
IN
JONESCOUNTY
Waiting Your Inspection in the
NOW BEING SHOWN BY
K L Cheek <fe Co.
410 Third St. Macon, Ga.