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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4. 1904.
THE MACON TOMB
IUBLISHED HVERY MORNING AND
TWICE A WEEK hY Till: MACON
TELLGRAP11 EUBLISHING GQMPANY
6(,3 Ml'I DERRY STREET, MACON, GA.
C. R. PENDLETON,
PrcMlcal zuJ Manajer.
C. R. PFNDLETON. . ,
LOUIS PENDLETON.
WHAT 13 THE REMEDY?
The Telegraph 1 * earnaat proteet
• gainst lynch law haa been mlWly
crftlcl,e4 by no leas than two correa-
londenta whose letter* have been re-
rently printed In theze columna. Both
agree that lynch tow la bad, "but what
aro we to do about It?" both enquire.
The suggestion was made also that
editors of newspspers who live In the
towns and cities do not appreciate
tha danger that environs country life.
In regard to the drat enquiry, one
fact stands out. Lynching! have, not
checked assaults. If legal punlahment
Is not more alfsctlve In repressing
crime than Individual and' unlawful
vengence. then government Is a fall*
ure and anarchy la the proper thing—
a doctrine which we cannot subscribe
to. "What shall we do about It?"
On* thing can be done—and that thing
The Telegraph has been Inalatlng on
for aavaral years almost single-handed.'
We can establish a country police, or
patrol: a rural constabulary, such ns
thay have In England, and other coun
tries We can at least try It.
It la a mistake to suppose that the
editors of the city and town press do
not appreciate the dangers of country
life. It la a vivid realisation of the
exposed condition of many country
Woman that haa led to so much discus
s!»n of this question; a question that
has been dlacuased perhaps too much.
At a meeting onca of Southern pub
lishers the editor of The Telegraph
discussed privately with some of hla
brethren of th* press the propriety of
"cutting out" or at, least minimising
th* nswa features of these distur
bances. The newo editor on this
paper haa long had atandlng Instruc
tion* not to "feature," or parade In
great type criminal newt, particularly
of this specific character.
It Is urged that whan aasaulta caaae
Iyncl)lnge will cease; but during tha
Inst three or four yaor* a large ma
jority of lynchlngs were for other
causes. A* suggested by Mr. Dorman
yesterday a man haa a right to pro
tect Ms home: y«, with force and
arms and dynamite. If need be; but It
Is another thing, when, weeks after a
crime has been committed, after the
criminals have been nrreeted, tried,
convicted end sentenced to hang, for
n mob, over the protest of tha near,
eat relative, to assault a court house,
to override tha court Uaatf In session,
the sheriff and the militia, and to put
to death In a barbarous fashion, men
already under sentence of death. Bo
far aa the criminal wretches war*
concerned. It mattered little. It short
ened their miserable lives a very few
days, only; but the moat serious
offense was against th* atata—against
th* law—against organised society.
One false etep leads to another, and
'other. The Blateiboro affair led to
PRESIDENT DIAZ’ MESSAGE.
President Dtax of Mexico In his re
cent message i</ congress brought out
tome facta of which the people of the
United States are not fully aware. He
showed that, so far aa mining is con-
srned the recent annual average haa
been tl2.00« t 00« In gold, t07.000.000 m
stiver, and tl?.000,000 in copper. The
business of Mexico with the United
States Is constantly increaalng. The
astonishing statement Is made that
whereas In lt77 there were only 202
miloa of railroads In Mexico, there are
now lt.000 mile* In operation. This
la an Immense deal to have been ac-
rompllahed within twenty-seven years
—the period covering the accession of
Sen. Dlaa to the presidency. It Is fur
ther shown that Mexico has now a pop
ulation of 13,000,000 and that her prog
ress la'more rapid than any other of
the Lattn-Amerlcnr. states. When
Bias came Into office ho had to meet a
debt of 1130,000,000. That has been re
duced one-hnlt, so wise has been hla
administration. Diaz liaa been re
elected president for u tent) of six
yeura, but the people have created the
office of vice-president and elected a
man who will carry out hla policy
should the aged president succumb
during his new term. Mexico's future
to fur brighter now than It was when
grand old Juarez dreamed while laying
the foundations upon which hla suc
cessor. Diaz, has so splendidly built.
Those Atlanta counterfeiters made a
bad choice In chooalng the bill to Imi
tate. There I* only one gtnuloe "Buf
falo Bill"
Our Colonels are again In our midst.
The World's Fair Pike people kindly
allowed them to escape capture.
The saloon Issue In Augusta to like
ly to make a rough boueo for John B.
Corn pretty soon.
No, my son; the U. B. congress la not
a bigger thing than the Police Power
of a sovereign state—that la, not yet!
Next month will decide bow far the
Man with the Big Stick will go—and
where to!
After Augusta ehall have heard Tom
Watson she will be sorry ah* dodged
that prohibition campaign.
Dr. Broughton thinks better of the
"passive reslstere" in London than of
the active-sort he found In Albany, da.
If Dr. Harper to made a Bed Eagle,
why not take it for granted that Rock
efeller Is a Golden Ragle?
Cartooning the court la quite Atlan
taeeque. but will hnrdly help any good
cause to success.
Teddy would give a fiver gladly to
know which sholl the November Joker
Is under.
Uncle Joe Cannon has now become
the Interlocutor of the Republican cairf-
patgn minstrels. ,
Carrie Nation will soon be pushing
Ihe late George Francis Train for tho
Jull record.
fcannda wants reciprocity all right—
with the handle of the Jug on her side
of the line.
THE ORIENTAL TRADH.
The biinlneWH men of the Pacific slope
are aroused fully to the Importance of
the oriental trad a. There are now
elxteer. linen of steamships operating
between, the eastern nnjl western
shores of the Pacific and more are In
course nt organisation. There nre
building lit present two of the largest
ships ever undertaken, each with a
displacement of 31.000 Iona Those
•hlpa will lie over twlco ns great as I Mr straw Ha t, now will you he good
any warship evor launched. It to said I s|!ll qll | t 7
that each vessel will curry a cargo I _
equal to that of a train seven miles Now to the season for college mop
long. heads to go scouring the ball Held.
Tho effect of this enterprise will be I 1 ~
to cause a diversification of western I The nepubllcans wish Parkers let-
industries. It la evident that the peo- | ter had been tho one ''that never came,
pie of the slope believe there will be aVHRAQE COTTON GROWER
Increasing demand for American pro-
ducts In tho future, no matter what Bo)) vyeevil or No Boll Weevil, Thore
the result of the Russo-Japanese war I Must bo a Change In tho Profits
may be. The increase In exportation Mado by Him.
from Beeltto, Ban Francisco and other To the Editor of The Telegraph: It
Pacific port* has been enormous during I may be several year* before the real
th* last two or three years. A very I Influence of tho boll weevil upon cot
largo amount of cotton now goes that I ton culture In Amerlcn can be correctly
way. When the Panama canal shall 1 determined. Granting that thin the
be opened to traffic 'Competition for most dangerous of all Insect* that ln-
the oriental trad, will he very strong ulrij 1 up on "a certain degree
as between the Southern nnd the Wes. nn(J nnge lumu(1 e (as we know It
tern states. Each section will be etlmu- hua In Texas) It to reasonable to antic-
latod to develop Its producing capacity. I tpato that It will in time extend to the
It Is. manifestly, In anticipation of this whole offa of cotton growing within
new condition that such great Invest- ,h »t latitudinal section.
It may bo three or It may bo five
ments are now made by tha Western n bef0 re authonomous grandlt—
® r * th# conitructlon of mammoth I - ran( j n8mn for a weevil trifling only
*hl|i* to bo engaged In the merchnnt lt( appearance—ehall have so en-
inurlne. | larged lta "habitat" as to work tho
destruction In Georgia cotton Helds that
FOREIGN COTTON SPINNERS. I u t a now doing In those of far-off
The Telegraph hopes the Macon Texas. Why not? Unless there
Chamber of Commerce will, st It. "'*l* r * nC#
„ and anticipating their ultt-
mate permanent prosperity— rc “
ward of fanning.
But what we started out to say was
that whether the boll weevil gave this
section of tho cotton country a com
plete go by or whether in the course
of three or five years came in upon ms
a la Mexico and demanded as some re
turn for hit, destroying presence nine
out of every ten bolls that formed upon
a cotton plant—In either condition or
emergency, the ‘reduction of the area
devoted to cotton Is just as Imperative.
Even If cotton were not to fall below
9% cent* in the next ten years there
is just as much necessity for reducing
tho area an if It were known now that
no higher price than 7 cents would be
realized In the next twenty years.
Thirty years ago the average yield
of tint cotton per acre In Georgia was
165 pounds, except In an occasional'
season now and then.
Though a thousand pounds of lint
cotton can easily be made on the best
Georgia soil, there is only ft small per
cent, of the arable acreage capable of
such a yield. Unsatisfying us It may
ho, we must argue on the basis of av
erages. Lots of men of intelligence < r
bleared with good land ftre making
their bale to the acre, but when tho
record of the state shows that some
thing like threo millions of acres were
planted in cotton thin or any year and
tho total crop gathered amounted
something like 7CO.OOO bales, we find
that the per acre average is about one-
fourth of a bole. It must follow, of
course, that if a good many acres have
yielded ft bale or more there must have
been thousands of acres that did not
yield tho tenth of a bale.
At 1# cents per pound the 130 pounds
of cotton avert sod brings $13 gross.
What- does It co~t to make this 130
pounds, or what does a pound cost?
Thin question was very widely and in
telligently dipcusaed some years ngo
In the Southern Farm and Cultivator.
We preserved the discussion too well
and cannot lay hands upon It now, but
we remember distinctly that there
were very few that made or could
make cotton for a less expenditure than
cents per pound. Some it cost more
than this. Some few claimed that they
had raised if for lean than 5. hut their
conditions and management were ex
ceptional.^
Cotton cannot be raised any cheaper
In Georgia today than It could do
twenty-five years jigo except by those
who have adopted better methods of
culture based on the use of Improved
implements.
As the soil has steadily declined ft:
fertility and labor has declined in effi
ciency nnd the cost of many things
used by the farm In higher, then the
reason ran be found for this statement.
Grant that a farmer can grow cotton
: an actual expense of only 6 cents
per pound and thatdie gets a clean net
corn second in importance—a crop j
made with little work and requiring j
the land but d few months and always i
Allowing a bumua crop such as peas
to go with it, there is little excuse for
our soils growing poorer merely from
the crops taken from them. If we will
only protect them from washing and
give back to the soil all refuse of the
crops—the stalks, peavlnes, etc., and
further keep stock from trampling the
fields in wet weather, the actual loss
of plant food will be very little any one
year. And then with our ability to
bow down our fields to certain clover
or grain crops In the fall to catch and
hold any elements of plant food that
become soluble during the winter
that otherwise might be leached Into
the sub-soll. With these advantages
Wt are better able to keep our soils up
to a standard condition than the far
mers of the cold North with their short
summers and long winters and their
more exhausting crops, usually.
In this respect we are blessed beyond
most countries and we should take full
advantage of the blessing.
S. A. COOK.
“How 1 Wonder What You Aral”
BONAIRE. Ga.. Oct. 3.—To the Edi
tor of The Telegraph: On the night
of October 1st between half past seven
and half past nine, our household ob
served an unfiRual phenohena In a
bright eastern star.
It was flr3t visible, then Invisible.
In ten seconds it would fade entirely
away then come suddenly forth. Some
time a light glow would indicate where
the star had been, then again the sky
all around would be entirely dark. It
appeared and disappeared at Irregular
Intervals, varying from one or two
minutes to a half hour, it also made
jumping movements of a foot or more
In first one direction then another. By
ten o'clock It had become permanently
bright. Earlier In the evening of Oct.
2nd the same star with its peculiar
movements were visible but was soon
obscured by ruin clouds.
Will you please observe for your
self, tJ V titranrre phenomena, and give
in urtlclo of explanation.
•Respectfully.
C. II. THOMPSON.
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I take care to have ray clothes
well made.
hard Chesterfield to his son.
You will have the
best-made ready-to-
wear clothes if they
bear this label
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Makers * newy°rk
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ARCHITECT
Offices: 4, 5 and 6 Ellis Bldg..
Cherry st., Cotton ave. and First st.
Phone 239 Macon. Ga.
ARCHITECTS.
{J Equal to fine cuStom-made
in all but price. ^ The makers*
guarantee, and ours, with
every garment. Q We are
Exclusive Agents in this city.
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& MOORE
The Up-to-date Clothiers 420 3d ST.
P. E. DENNIS, Architect.
568 Cherry st., Macon, Ga.
Twenty years experience and suc
cessful practice.
OCULIST AND AURI8T.
DR. MAURY M. STAPLER.
Oculist and Aurist.
Office. 55G Cherry Street,
Day 'Phone, 2271. Night ’Phone 3053.
DR. J. H. SHORTER.
Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat.
Cherry and Second Street*.
•Phone 972. office. Residence, 3073.
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& Kern ....
Architects,
C73 CHERRY ST MACON. GA.
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COLLECTIONS AND INVESTMENTS
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. , ..... i wo must count upon Its brlnx eo.
session today, extend a cordial invl- Th| , , tlHct WM eeveral years In
tstlon lo lb* International spinners to r<t nchln, central Texas In dleentrous
visit Macon. The resolution that they I forco from northern Mexico,
visit tho Bouth was offered by » Ms- It Is sale to say there haa been no
con citizen at the recent bankers' con- I !»*■ t° ,h e farmtrsof Oeorxla this year
VnrV nn.l M.sor. hi... (IM th. WeeVfl. Ttl.rO hUVS b»en HU-
y.ntlon In Now York and Macon bus- mermI| atanni raltril h „e there
Ineas men should ratify It today. We concern | ng lt tMl rail but there to w
have no doubt they will do ao and do pr oof that the genuine boll weevil ex
It enthusiastically. Other clllee sre j tots. In large or email numbers. In any
otlng'of thono nrgroci. near Mr" I °n ,ho <t ul vlve » n<1 *?* sending out Georgia county. If there Is, we sre
.in's own horn# who had been | Invitations. Macon should not bo lag. " nr * *" *' v "' v n orn ” on “
to red to be Innocent by the court. i(( lIIV w( ...........
officer of which wos u whit* “f'nners are dependent upon tho South ih.re sre two highly Interesting suh-
for their staple and although they are I jecis—the lloll Weevil and the "Nitre,
endeavoring to encourage cotton pro- ] gen-flxlng Bacteria." It to » truism of
ductlon In other parts of the earth, philosophy that It to the unexpected
It Is well that they ahouhl be ullowed, I that la always happening,
by periwm, Investigation, ,o discover £*h.d £?££%£
whd ha. been accomplished In this O „ r . rroduc „ on of c0 „ on nn
veglon sitter a hundred years and mare I ra tabltehed fnct that the cotton grnw-
of study, energy and careful outlive- I ere here sml there wore producing
lion. If It took the Amerlcen planter more cotton than the world stood In
over a century to develop tbs art Into I >'*-? of. Cotton went down to », 3 or
Its fruition how long will ll require for * .'V'.'L. J* ! hn ,* 7 or * c * nt *
. . ni. i u.'.i. might be for a period of yonre the ex
experimentalists In South Air ten H „ mU prlc ^ th(l { , h , (>1 rmer
produce enough cotton to maks the WOU | d rac.iv. for his cotton crop. It
output a competitive factor In the | looked very discouraging to the cotton
market? . | farmer, especially to the one who had
tho strong conviction that farming
Where will the thing end, 17 wo do
not retoe our voices and point out the
rapid Strides we see tdnklng towards
nnarchy? Wt must repress the law
less white as well as the lawless black,
M' inwhlle we kanw of no bettor step
to words protection of the Innocent, end
repression of th* vicious than to e*
tabliMi a rural police.
A ni xro ltuptlst nsnot'lntlon st Amsr-
hu- SI 1 a similar IkhU lit Atlanta
have adopted strong resolutions
dcmnlng erlmo and pledging the eup-
port of tho belter :i of n. i... p
put It down. They doubt tho exist
cur. of "before-day clubs," hut If they
• xl«t thiijr feel It their duty to itcclety
"to condemn and expose such clubs.'
They conclude: "We Implore tha p.i
t.slice, the charity and the co-oper.n
tlon eg good white people of the Bouth
in our struggle."
We t> gbtd to see these expressions
f ion organized religious bod!...,t among
the i.ex roes, because we feel that after
e'.l the real wqpk of putting an and to
..••suits must begin and be worked out
l y them. They have begun th# work
i one too soon. They need to address
more to this unde
; i the rupprtsalon of lyuchlnas.
ns la thetr responsibility; theoth
white man’s task.
profit of I cents a pound (35.20 per
acre) how noon will the average
former, producing the average crop of
the country, gain a fair competency ut
farming?
We know that,(he negro tenant to not
the only "average farmer producing
tho average crop,” though he may form
Ihe bulk of the class.
Boll weevil or no bpll weevil, there .*
to bo a great change In Southern farm
ing In the next twenty yearn. Land
that cannot produce 250 pounds of lint
cotton without fertilizing will ceaze to
ho planted In ootton. 'Such land will
be devoted to* pasture or meadow.
Our farmers are learning that "aver
age" soli wilt produce ?10 worth nf
hay easier than It will 35 worth of
cotton. S. A. COOK.
No telling what a dny will bring
forth. The above wag written Satur-
day. October 1. In the news columns
of The Telegraph Sunday morning ap
pears the following
"COVINGTON, Ga.. Oct. 1.—The
genuine Mexican boll weevil has with
out doubt been found In Newton coun
ty. C. P. Lee. a well-to-do farmer of
Walton courtly, r ttear the lino of New
ton. went out Into his farm und col
lected o bottle full of the Insects and
brought them to Covington. With
mlacrosonpe they were compared with
Ihe specimens dent down by State En-
tornnloglst Newell and no difference
could be detected. The fact Is, Mr.
Lee says 11 has played havoc with hla
cotton crop. The Insect was found a
early ns June, hut hlz friends laughed
at him for thinking It wns the boll
weevil.”
This to a fair eynopala of the dis
patch. We take tt to he authentic.
This,to Ihe first claim of real damage
thnt we remember to have seen.
Surely the bo|| weevil must be In
Oeorgla—perhaps in more places than
one, and If no It will be a fnlr subject
of debate tbla winter. "Whut will the
farmers do with It—what will he da
about It?”
Extremes do meet—sometimes. The without cotton was no farming at all.
author of " T hr 8lrenuoua l.lfe” to to [ Tho_ bare Idea of making good cotton
entertain «t the White House the
llior of "Tile Simple Life.” Perhaps* a I foci's Jabber "
utntiig event to casting Its shadow bo- To lh , ulnl0 , t d t,h,s r "„ M farmer
fore him. • (the unoxrectcHt happened. Cotton
loomed up on tho aunlit horizon of a
land produco hay chilled him to tha
morrow. "All chlld'a pluy based upon
Mother Earth Degerves Batter Cara.
To tha Editor of Tha Telegraph: —
To the young men whoae Ufe'a work
is to be farming there can be few
subjects more Important than the one
of improving or even maintaining th«
quality of hi* arable land—the land
that he cultivates yearly In some crop
or another—whether devoted to fruit,
to truck-crop* to ordinary staple
'osta « masher $\M In Atlanta to I more promlalng state of nffalra. H
redeem one of hla notes to a pretty Uo not remember how long lt now has I crop* or** to* pastures or* meadows!
Georgia girl. flHIl It should h«vt been •**)<•• lhe haa ruled at 10 This land Is the farmers capital. It
xa-x-.s iwulv. month! on the rack.ntle CCRtt do know that ...—.
Worth twelve months on the rock-plle. , t hu> conllnued |onf tnoufh t0 flVf ^
to boot. I new impetus to cotton growing and
long enough no doubt to check that
MORE STAMP TAXE8!
The September treasury statement
shows that for the first three months
of the present fiscal year—July, Au*
*u»t and September—there eras a de
ficit of S17.tC4,S5$. Secretary Bhaw,
who holds the treasury portfolio, has
admitted that the year's deficit would
be greater than his estimate of $2$,-
•M,0#0 made a year ago. la a speech
m Philadelphia Senator Knox, former
ly a member of the Roosevelt cabinet.
V'fl*d the deficit, whereat the Record
remarks:
Ar.d vst last night Mr. Kaos saM that
the “att^’ I on the Republican j *rtjr for
1 treaeury defiett" h»4 been "m
w**t by th«* t>rv#M.-nt that it
_ war deluding anybody gup.
dadett! The tn aaury MatetnenU
r'. « the acteal thing every month. And
., Ratini lean eo;,grr-Mn«n from lt.--t«m
-a>b llui i :■ party urUi have ll. retmiw"'*
tii* **.• ' irai< If it *hatt retain the
I i.ii»H
• . if,?- r..r t • ;?.»i igtntti lerream In our
ext" .1 turra
Rt'»mp t M on th' Philippine ec-
Governor Rat*, doesn’t think s for- s;»lrlt of inquiry that was prevailing In
sign embassy underling should be al- the mind of many farmers how to carry
lowed to run over Massachusetts laws I °n a more rntlonnl nnd more profitable
with tmpunacy and treat her courts with aa little cotton as pos-
with contumacy. Wt, to "the stuff." | ‘ ^., n „ I0 „ nt . B „„ , uoh
a price assured for a minder of years,
there Is not much promise of prosperity
A. Lincoln who said "prosper
Ity breeds tyrants," but Teddy has cut | to th* .smuiT'Snusr who” uTognlled
Lincoln's saying* out ot modern Re-1 Into making cotton production
publican philosophy.
Secretary Tall Insists upon cam
paigning against extending the Declar
ation of' Independence to tho Philip
pines.
Id I net It to
through Juds*. I's.kr
chief consideration. With cotton at .
and . centa It la Impossible fur him
to make any veal progress It to certain.
Will the mere difference* of 3 or 2 cents
make any great difference In his clr-
rumstuncea? U can be easily figured
out A hundred dollars added to *
Uncle Joe Cannon Is careering over I ^t ln |T«^noT , i^counte^ta ,> much , M
the country In the endeavor to keep the Indicating a decided progress In pros-
speaker's chair from eliding from un- pertly when It relates to a South-
dor him. | « r « farmer's family. A hundred dot
lore stands for the difference In value
The bronco-bust ere of the West ere I °* bales of cotton at l. and I cento
eusplctottlng that Teddy has been thor- r “P«Gvely. If the one price to no!
hi, broken to Ihe Wall .tree! red- ’'T'VJ'.T , of
I <Rhei indicate much more? When sp-
1 aggregate of ten million
bale* the illff.rcn.v nmke* a tremen*
di>u* »howinjr. but when divide.! Into
respective unit* ther* la no gr*:it
Improvement in the family wealth and
I'e. The difference would not
buy the mule that would be needed to
»nv*ct a ~ouc.hor** N farmer Inti
wo-borve" one. Certainly, "every
Itle help*,- but the suggestion Is
maollug when cited In any argurr
here It '» attempted to show w
n IgnU fatuus the fleecy staple r
nd doe* prove to very many farmer*
Babcock has developed l conspicu
ous case of hair-trigger mouth,
telyou ought to fit it out with a
lock.
Uncle Grover ta preparing a penato
Will recall the ex- I pin for Teddy that wilt take all
woodcock "when I Interrogation curve* out of hie political
anatomy.
If the caar pent Kuropatkln to Man
churls because be waa ait active fellow, I who m^gn'fy th
then tbe osar made no mistake l **tw#ea « and it cents cotton
during capacity to decline even a little
every year which of courae It would
do If a crop were taken from It an
nually and nothing given back to the
•oil. The very beet aril would ulti
mately be worn out under auch treat
ment. The reason why we havo so
much worn out land In the South to
day Is because of our mUerable tenant
system. The tenant without guidance
or control is concerned only with what
be can take from the land. He will
bestow no labor on returning anything
to It To be sure the Southern land
lord la the slave of conditions that
grew out of a sudden change In hi*
relations to the farm laborer. There
hae not been time yet to develop a
tenant system reasonable and Just to
the land. In time we will have auch
as prevail In older countries where
the tenant U compelled to do hla part
In maintaining a certain normal con
dition of fertility of the Und he rente.
Here our tenants are constantly chang
ing—that la the large majority of them.
Few of them stay on the same farm 10
or even & years and the moat of them
are very Ignorant and thriftiest. With
out supervision they are liable to ml
moat ruin the heat poll in a few years
—plowing it when too wet. burning off
all vegetable matter, allowing gullies
to start and widen.
For the reason given and for one or
two others there is no coyntry in the
world perhaps where the Und la treat
ed with eo little z-onslderatfon
In the Bouth. We cannot expect Ignor
ant tenants to treat land aa lt should
be treated. It la only the Intelligent
owner of It that U itkrir to do *ny
port of kU duty fn this respect.
With cottoa aa the chief crop on
- •i ,, '-rn farm—« arop :••«* exh • .mu *•
than any other tuple ^rop—and *.u
The betting on the election Is not as
heavy as usual. The genuine eportlng
man regards a horse race as easier to
guess than an election.—Washington
Evening Star.
A new use for trading stamps has
been found In Philadelphia. A Sunday
school In thnt city gives, them out for
regularity of attendance. This ,1s put
ting a premium on godliness.—Provi
dence Journal.
Tho Increasing number of fatal ac
cidents upon our railways calls for
more than passing comment. "Nobody
to blame," is a pica that should not be
accepted, for In nearly all caeca these
catastrophes ore preventable/—New
York Herald.
Country Life In America chows by
figures that lt would coat $4,600 now
to build a hour,© which could have been
built for $2,800 in 1897. That publica
tion la apt to lose the subscriptions of
Professor Wright and Secretary Shaw,
In the opinion of the Washington Post
—Albany Argus.
The membership of the American
house of representatives has 238 law
yers out of u total of $67. The house of
commons, on tho other hand, has oqly
129 lawyers out of a total of 870. while
the French chamber shows an attend
ance of 189 lawyers In a total of 684.—
Duluth News-Tribune.
Russia's most valuable public serv
ant just at this time la a man who is
rarely ever heard of outside of his own
country. He la Prince Hllkof, who. for
nearly a year, under extraordinary dif
ficulties. has managed to keep the sha
ky Siberian railroad In fairly good
working order.—Richmond Tlmcs-DIs-
patch.
While Bishop Potter waa earnestly
and eloquently denouncing divorce to
the general council of the. diocese of
New York, the other day, his brother,
Mr. James'Brown Potter, who was di
vorced a few years ngo. was taking to
himself another wife at Richmond,
while the original Mrs. Potter la adorn
ing the stage.—Charleston Poat
Judge Parker fink* the partisan In
the patriot and confidently appeals to
nil with a faith in their rectitude aa
absolute as hla conviction of their in
telligent realization of the purity of his
own spirit and purpose. Hla are noble,
simple, arousing words which should
find a response in the hearts and minds
of hla countrymen.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Cortelyou'a gum-shoe method of do
ing campaign business at national
headquarters la becoming a trifle wea
rying to some of the older politicians
of the brass band order, and one of
their number la reported to have ex
pressed the wlah that "some human
being would get a human Jag on and
come up here and break some of the
furniture."—Portland Eastern Argus.
The automobile has won Its crown
ing glory. The arrest In Massachusetts
of an attache of the British embassy
for scorching and the Imposition of a
fine on him therefor, ss well ss for con
tempt of court brings up the nice ques
tlon of the Immunity of diplomatic ser
vants for sdjudlcstlon. Less Important
Incidents than this hsve made a world
International trouble.—Pittsburg
Times.
Omaha are having a hard time. The
white workmen will not let them live
In the town, and so they are housed
In the packing buildings. The man
agers of the plants say they are too
good workmen to let go.
There are 318,979.604,000 ways of
playing the first four moves on each
side of a chessboard, yet Harry N.
Plllrfbury has played against ns many
as twenty-two different boards at one
nnd the same time without seeing a
single board and has won a large ma
jority of the games.
W. H. Boyer, a Portland musician,
says his dog, a fine spaniel, committed
suicide because he was shut up in the
kitchen Instead of being taken out a*
usual for a walk. At any rate, when
Mr. Boyer returned, there lay "Brown
boy" dead, with his nose against an
open gas jet In the kitchen-stove.
This conversation waa overheard on
a train recently by x & Boston Poat
writer: "Well, what do you think of
our climate in New England?" "Well,
was tho reply, "as near ns I can inake
out I find that Instead of four season*
you have but two, nine months of win
ter nnd three month^ of 'late In the
fall.’ ”
Efforts are being made in Paris to
hnve some Important street in the
heart of the city named ufter Zola.
It Is also purposed to celebrate the
second anniversary of his death on
October 1 with a meeting at the Place
do la Republlquo and n grand proces
sion, which many associations of work
ingmen and others have been invited
to join.
The Marquis de Segonac, who made
a name for himself by his explorations
In Morocco, has been chosen as tho
head of the Comlte du Mnroc, which
Is charged with the task of making
a map of the Insurrectionary region
in that country and Investigating its
resources and its political and religi
ous conditions. There Is already a
fund of over 830,000 for this purpose,
contributed In part by the Geographic
Society of Paris and other French as
sociation*.
LUTHER WILLIAMS,
Fiduciary and Collecting Agent, In
vestments, Ac. . , _
Accounts of professional men and oth
ers kept postea, collections made, prompt
statements and remittances. Money left
with me safely Invested. Office 408 Sec
ond st., rear Clisby's Shoe Store.
DANCING CLASSES
MISSES BLACKSHEAR,
Juvenile and Adult classes. Fall
opening Oct. 4. Phone 2527.
MISS ANNA SMITH, Teacher.
OSTEOPATHY
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
GABRIEL R. SOLOMON,
Civil Engineer,
Plans, Estimates, Surveys,
For Water Power Development, Sew
ers, and Water Works. De6d Lines Re
established, Land Divided. Maps.
568 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
Office Phone 962—Residence Phone’169
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
L
Wm. B. Birch. Benj. J. Dasher.
BIRCH & DASHER,
Attorneys at Law.
Special attention to deeds and ab
stracts. American KuVl. Bank Bldg.
DENTISTRY.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Satan own* In fee simple one landed
estate In Finland, it having been willed
to him by Its deceased owner, Lara
Hullariene. Repeated attempts
break the will have failed.
The treasurer of the United States
on May 6. 1WI, redeemed two half-cent
pieces. This is the first time In the
history of the country that any such
coins have been presented for redemp
tion. §
According to the Glotnale d'lUlia the
Pope has derided to purchase & motor
car for use In the shady groves of the
Vatican garden* in place of the tra-
dttlonal light carriage drawn by fun
ereral-looking horses.
A Birmingham Jewelry firm is mid
to be engaged upon the manufacture
of a magnificent cigar case for the
Bhah of Persia. On the top are por
traits of the Shah's eight sons. The
total coat will reach nearly II&.0M.
An immense panoramic picture
the battle of Waterloo is being painted
In Part* by M. Joseph van Driest'
1!.' has in the rough sketch or 1
battle WJH men. English a
y • • * ‘ ••»- «•* ot all tar
ton ri.arvlz-r*.
The Japanese strike breakers
Sir William Vernon-Harcourt,
The late Rt. Hon. Sir William George
Granville Venables Vernon, M. P., LL.
D., F. R. S.. was among the most nota
ble figures of English politics during
the Victorian period. He was the sec
ond son of the Rev. William Vernon-
Harcourt and grandson of a former
archbishop of York, was born October
14, 1827. He was educated at Trinity
Collego. Cambridge, and was called to
the bar at the Inner Temple in 1854.
When, in December, 1868, Mr. Glad
stone came Into power as the chief
of the administration, he took his sent
In parliament as representative of Ox
ford. It was not long before he gave
the house a taste of his qunlity. Hla
maiden speech was In opposition to the
proposition to abrogate the statute of
Queen Anne which requires thnt min
isters of the crown when they- take of
fice should vacate their seats and offer
themselves for re-election. That speech,
with Its ponderous learning and bril
liant wit. made his name. It was in
November, 187$, that he was appointed
solicitor general, a position In which
he was never destined to exercise the
duties of the office, for on the reassem
bling of parliament in the following
February Mr. Gladstone, without any
warning dissolved the assembly. Ver-
non-Harcourt received his knight
hood; but he rould not free his mind
frofn the Impression that his chief was
Jealous of him, and In public and pri
vate he let it be known that he believ
ed the dissolution had been studiously
contrived for the purpose of destroying
the caree.* of a formidable rival. It was
rumored that Sir WllUam was averse
to Mr. Gladstone's resumption of the
Liberal leadership In 1$80. However
this may. be., he became home secretary
when the government wos formed. At
this time it fell to him to pilot toe
Irish crimes act through the houeo of
commons against the fierce opposition
of Mr. Parnell and the Irish members,
a task which he accomplished with
brilliancy. In 1185 he stood alone by
Mr. Gladstone, and. despite Insults, cal
umny, abuse and even social humilia
tion*, he cheerfully bore the brunt of
b*ttle. He resumed the place of chan
cellor of the exchequer In 1802, the
same poat he had held during the pi e-
vtous Gladstone administration. When,
on Mr. Gladstone's retirement. It was
not Blr William but Lord Rosebery
who was selected for the post of prime
minister, the public marveled. fo»* the
party which affect* to detplre imperial
England, noble birth, wealth, station.
Intellect—In short everything which
differentiates the "classes" from the
DRS. J. M. & R. HOLMES MASON,
Dentists.
864 Second st Phone 724.
DR. ADDIEL M. JACKSON, Dentist
Office on second floor Commercial
Bank Building, Triangular Block. Tel
ephone 53C.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DR. J. J. SUBER3.
Permanently located. In tho special
ties venereal. Lost enorgy restored.
Female Irregularities and poison oak;
cure guaranteed. Address in confi
dence, with stamp, 610 Fourth street,
Macon, Go.
Dr. Cha*. H. Hall. Dr. Thoa. H. Hall
Office, 010 Mulberry st
Residence, 607 College st. .
Telephones: Office, 922; residence. 69.
Office hours: 8:30 to >; 12 to 1:20} 6 to (.
OPTICIAN8.
EYES TESTED FREE.
G. G. COFFY,
Graduate Optician. 65S Cherry st
GEORGIA TITLE & GUARANTY CO.
L B. ENGLISH. Pro*. J. J. COBB. Sec,
T. B. WEST. Atty.
"masses"—had rushed Into the inns of
a leader who combined ail these great
and secretly adored qualities to the
exclusion of the man who had always
attached an almost undue Importance
to th# frothy clamor of democracy. Sir
William was married twice. In 1859 to
Lady Theresa Lewi*, widow of 8ir
George Cornwall Lewis, and aunt of
the Earl of Clarendon, and. In U7€ to
Mrs. Ives, daughter of John Lathrop
Motley, United States minister to the
; Netherlands and to Great Britain. L<
Is Vernon Harcourt. the oldest non and
heir of Sir WlllUm. waa in New York
when be was Informed of tha illneaa
Ms father. He sailed last Tuesday and
was in’midocean when bis father died.
ABSTRACTS.
CONTRACTING AND BUILDING.
Bibb county for the fiscal year 1964-1905,
sre Itemized ss follows:
General expense $ 52,443.89
Roff Homo M,706.89
Hoad* . 30.706.58
Pauper* 5,434.46
Court House 4.040.34
Bridges 4.040.34
Jail i 8.0S4.68
Superior court 4,666.57
8upertor Court Jury.. 4.040.34
City Court lf.100.8S
City Court Jury 8.030.25 .
Public Works 404.0$
Ordinary’s Jury 404.03
Coroners Jury 404.03
Schools 49,999.20
Total $190.52$.4S
And, whereas, the county tax to be re
ceived from the railroads during the fiscal
year Is estimated st eighteen thousand
dollars fiu.ooo.oo), which amount shall
be credited to the general expense ap
propriation. thus leaving a balance of
one hundred and sevrtuy-two thousand
five hundred and twenty-two dollars and
forty-eight cents ($17$.522.4S) to ba raised
by taxation. It Is. therefore.
Ordered. That there shall be assessed
upon the tax returns of 1904 twenty mill
ion two hundred and on* thousand six
hundred and ninety-five dollars <120.-
$01.695.00). and collected by tax collec
tor for county purposes, county taxes
amounting in the natn-gate of eight and
fifty-four one hundredth mills on the dol
lar. to be appropriated as follows:
General Expense 001.70H
Roff Home <MV),63
Rnads AJI.SI
Pauper* 000.27
Court Haase ................... .0*0.20
Bridges 000.20
Jail ooa.40
F uperlor Court 000.13
Superior Court Jury 090.20
City Court 0*0.50
City Court Jury .000,15
Pnbitr Works .000.02
Ordinary'# Jury frxi.r.2
Coroners Jury *90.02
flchools .002.4745
Total 008.54
A true extract from the minutes or the
P.ihb County Corrmirslonet*, r,f date of
September 6th. IM
m. C. DAVIS, Citrfe.