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THE OLIVE BILE.
Mb. Editob: I recognize fully
sworn, as legislators, to support
the constitution, began to cast
around to see if this were true,
that the space which you can allow They found that five legislatures
me is limited, and that I can only I had met since the constitution was
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia—Houston County:
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of said county, granted at
the March term, 1890,1 will sell before
the court house door in said county, on
the 1st Tuesday in May next, between
tho legal hours of sale, the entire real es
tate belonging to the estate of Mrs. C.M.
Felder, late of said comity, deceased,
consisting of: . , ..
That two-story store house and lot sit
uated in the town of Perry, in said coun
ty on the north side of the p ublic square,
known as part of lot No. 2 in block J,
flouting 57 feet on Carroll street, and ex
tending back 105 feet- Ti-iat^ two-story,
7-room framed dwelling house and about
twelve acres of land , situated also in said
town of Ferry,, at the intersection of tho
Perry and Hayneville and Perry and
Houston Factory roads, being the
family residence of the said Mrs. C.
M. Felder in her life-time.
Also, that 572J4 acres, more or less, m
said county, lying on the Perry Branch
of the Southwestern Eailroad, five mdes
from Perry, Ga., known as the “Felder
Plantation,” being lot No. 66, containing
Sttff acres; 123% acres of the west end
of lot No. 61,123 K acres of west end or
lot No. 62, and 123^ acres of the west
end of lot No. 63, in the 9th district of
said county; save and except that 15 »-JU
acres of lot No. 61 sold to J. R. Hancock.
Terms cash. W. S. FELDER, Adm r.
HOUSTON SHERIFF'S SALE.'"
By virtue of a fi-fa issued at the October
term, 18S9, of tbe Superior Court of
Houston county, returnable to the Apnl
term, 1890, of said court,in favor of the
American Freehold Land and Mortgage
Co., of London, Limited, vs. B. W. Hart
ley,adm’r of Sam’!Arnold,dec d,I will sell
beforothe court bouse door in Perry, Ga.,
botweon tho legal hours of sale on the 1st
Tuesday in May next: Hie lands of Sam
uel Arnold, dec’d, inthe hands of R. W.
Hartley, adm’r, to be administered, to-
wit: Tho oast halt of lot No. 65 and the
north half of lot No. 67 in the 10th dis
trict ot said county,and being 202J4 acres
more or less. Levied on as_ the property
of defendent in fi-fa- This April 1st, 1890.
• M. L. COOPER, Sheriff.
HOUSTON SHERIFF’S SALE.
By virtue of a Justice Court fi-fa issued
at the Justice court held in and for the
■ 528th district G.M. of Houston county,
returnable to the January term 1890 of
said court, in favor of Abe Glass vs.
Charley Jesse, I will sell before the court
house door in Perry, Ga., the following
property, to-wit: One town lot in the town
of Fort Valley, containing }& of an acre
of land more or less; bounded on tlie
north by lot of Larkin James,east by 2nd
street, south by lot of Charlotte Marshall,
west by lot formerly owned by Toney Ca-
ter. Levied on as tho property of defend-
ont in fi-fa and turned over to me for
sale. This April 1st, 1890.
M. L. COOPER, Sheriff.
(Georgia—Houston County:
Mrs. Luoy.A. Wimberly, guardian of
Hattie A. Wimberly, minor, has applied
for leave to sell the land belonging to
said ward. ,,
This is therefore to cite oU persons con
cerned to appear at the May Term,
1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not be
Winess my official signature this April
3rd.1S90
JH HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
E. S. Wollons, administrator of the es
tate of John Tharp, of said county, de-
seabed, has aj^plied for dismission from
his trust:
This is therefore to* cite all persons con
cerned to appear at tho May term,
1890,of the court of Ordinary of saidcomi-
ty, and show cause, if, any they have, why
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outline my reasons for not sup
porting that measure. At first my
impression was in its favor. ■ My
hearty sympathy with its object
commended it strongly to my judg
ment
1 was aware that t£e railroad
commission had done a great deal
toward equalizing the burdens and
the benefits derived from railroads,
but 1, like many others in Georgia,
looked with alarm upon the recent
deal by which the Bichmond. Ter
minal Company had acquired con
trol of the Central of Georgia,
feared that this consolidation
would be able to successfully dejy
the commission, and bring back
some of the evils that existed prior
to the creation of the commission.
With all the sincerity and earnest
ness of which I was capable, I ad
dressed myself to the stndy of this
question, which seemed to me to
be oE commanding importance.
The Olive bill may be said to
have originated in the Bichmond
Terminal deal, the most stupen
dous transaction in railroad prop
erty that had ever taken place in
our. state.
As I carefully and sincerely look
ed into tho matter then, I ask my
candid reader to sincerely consider
with me, the question now.,, What
is the bill? As originally intro
duced it embodied the following
paragraph of the constitution of
1877:
"The General Assembly shall have no power to
authorise any cosporation to buy shares or stock
In any other corporation, in this state or elsewhore,
or to make any contract or agreement whatever
with any such corporation, *hich may have tho ef
fect, or be intended to have the effect to defeat or
lessen competition in their respective.^business or
to enooorage monopoly, and aU such contracts or
agreements shall be illegal and void.
Of course no one could object to
voting for the constitution, if that
were necessary. But the legisla
ture did not need to vote merely
to ratify the constitution, for that
was already of much higher au
thority than the legislature itself;
so'that, so far, there was nothing
in the bill calling for action by the
legislature. But the bill, assum
ing that this clause of the constitu
tion was a command upon the leg
islature to do something, now
brings in its other provisions by
which it proposed to punish the
railroads for violating the provis
ions of the constitution.
It provided that whenever any
corporation, in the past or in the
future, had violated this clause of
the constitution, or should hereaf
ter violate it, the Attorney Gener
al should institute proceedings
against the corporation, and have
its ' charter forfeited. In other
words, according to the original
Olive bill,every corporation,wheth
er railroad, banking or manufactu
ring, which might buy, or which
may have already bought, stock in
another corporation in violation of
the Olive bill, was to be killed
outright; for the forfeiture of a
charter means the death of a cor
poration.
When conservative legislators
came to consider these heroic rem
edies for anticipated evils, when
they saw that to cure the patient
the bill sought to behead him,
when they realized what an enor
mous confiscation of the property
of Georgians, as well as others
holding railroad stock,was involved
in this bili, and how inevitably it
would cripple the railroads and
bring great inconvenience and de
lay to all people having dealings
with railroads, and plunge all bus
iness into a condition of utter
chaos, can it be wondered that
they paused to consider? They
did consider, and patiently, and I
believe with the utmost honesty.
They considered the clause of the
constitution I have quoted, and
they listened to the arguments of
the author of the bill and others of
its advocates. To the objection
that the bill would result in great
damage to all business and in con
fiscation of much property of wid
ows and orphans interested in rail
road stock, these Olive bill advo
cates answered: “The constitution
demands it, and you are hound to
support the constitution.” To the
objection that we should wait until
the combinations should seek to
oppress us, or until they put up
prices, or should begin to give ns
poor service, before we should
condemn them to death, the same
answer was given, “that the con
stitution commanded the legisla
ture to do this thing, to pass this
law, and that if legislators were
true to their oaths to support the
constitution, they would have to
support the Olive bill.”
1 Conservative
men who
adopted. They did not find that
any one of these legislatures had
construed the constitution to mean
that an Olive bill, or a bill to for
feit charters must be passed. They
found that these five previous leg
islatures had passed laws regula
ting railroads, and they had passed
laws to carry out what they under-
stood to be the policy of the con
stitution in regard to regulating
railroads. These legislators, donbt-
less, thought they were true to
their oaths when they created the
commission to regulate rates of
railroads, when they passed laws
against discriminations and re
bates, and other injustice on the
part of the roads against the peo
ple. These previous legislatures
acted under a clause of the consti
tution telling what the legislature
should do. I refer to paragraph 1
of the same section of the consti
tution, as follows:
The power and authority ot regulating
railroad freight and paassenger tariff,
preventing unjust discrimination and
requiring reasonable and just rates of
freight and passenger tariff, are hereby
conferred upon the General Assembly,
whose duty it .shall be to pass laws from
time to time to regulate freight and pas
senger tariff, to prohibit unjust discrimi
nation on tho various railroads of the
state, and to prohibit said roads from
charging other than juBt and reasonable
rates, and enforce tbe same by adequate
penalties.”
Now, if the reader will kindly compare
the language of this paragraph with the
other paragraph first quoted, he will find
that the first quoted says nothing about
what the legislature should do, or what
would be its duty to do, but on the
contrary what it should not do, what it
should “have no power to” do, namely,
“to authorize any corporation to buy
shares, etc.”
And yet this paragraph, which simply
provided what the legislature should not
do, was urged, and is constantly urged as
a command upon the legislature to do
something, to-wit: to pass a bill that wiH
forfeit charters with all the disastrous
consequences. It in true that this para
graph says that “all such contracts er
agreements shall be void” but it does not
say that the legislature need do anything
about it. The constitution itself is the
very highest law, and it says itself that
they are void, and any court will so con
strue them when the case is made in
court. The courts had before the consti
tution of 1877 already declared that un
less the legislature granted special
authority to a corporation to buy shares
in a competing corporation, such con
tracts were void.
See the case of Collins vs. Central rail-
roadin 4Dth volume of reports of Supreme
court of Georgia. In that case General
Toombs represented Collins, and suc
ceeded in having a contract of that sort
set aside by the court because the Cen
tral road had no authority granted in its
charter to buy shares in a competing
road, and General Toombs who was a
member of the constitutional convention
of 1877, had it put into the constitution
that no such authority should ever go
into any charter. And he did so in order
to keep all charters of railroads in this
respect like the Central charter. The
penalty of making any such anti-compe
tition contracts was to be—what? Not a
forfeiture of charter, nor. a killing of the
corporation, not confusion and anarchy,
but simply that the contract should be
void, and that any stockholder could go
into the courts like Collins had done, and
have the contract declared void as Toombs
had done for Collins. Besides all this,
there wrs this further fact: La this Bame
convention that drafted this constitution
of 1877, there was proprosed a measure
that contained the principle of the Olive
bill, and after full discussion it was over
whelmingly voted down. This was a
proposition made that “any one or more
citizens of this state, is his or her name,
or in the name of the state may institute
proceedings to enquire into violations of
the, charter of railroads or other corpora
tions of this state and to forfeit the char
ters of the same.” The full discussion
and the action of the convention appears
in the published proceedings of the con
vention. The argument used against it
in the convention, and which is published
in its proceedings, is identical with the
argument used against the practical wis
dom of the Olive bill, that it would pro
duce endless confusion, stimulate a spirit
of blackmailing against the corporations,
etc.
The argument, then, that the constitu
tion required the legislature to pass the
Olive bill is met, fully met, by these con
siderations: 1st, the language of the
paragraph urged, does not say what the
legislature shall do, but what it shall not
do. 2nd, General Toombs, who was the
strongest factor in aH this part of the
this language to prevent the legislature
from giving larger powers to railroads.
3rd, the convention that framed the con
stitution itself considered the principle
of the Olive hill and refused to adoptit.
But it is urged, after the argument of a
constitutional requirement is exhausted,
that nevertheless, even if not required,
there is nothing in the constitution pre
venting the passage of the bilL On this
point there is difference of opinion. Per
sonally I bdieve the bill is unconstitu
tional, and that it would be so declared
by the highest courts, but I have no space
for this argument, further than to say the
bill takes property away from people,
forfeits or confiscates property in a man
ner contrary to the very fundamental
principles of all constitutional govern-
had mente.
The original Olive hill, being met by
plain common sense considerations such
as I have sketched, was much modified,
but it was never presented in a slipae that
was^not subject to tbe same objections. If
started out to forfeit charters, andit kept
on forfeiting charters to the end. The
last shape in which it was presented pro
vided for a somewhat more lingering
death for the railroad,but it had the death
penalty in it, aH the same. It was also
retroactive, to be applied to railroad and
corporation contracts of the past as well
as tiie future, and in addition it brought
inthe new feature of aHowing any body,
whether interested or not, in the road,
whether he shipped over it, or propelled
over it .or not, to start suits against the
roads and gradually badger the life out
of them, and finally complete the execu
tion by a forfeiture of their charters. I
regret, Mr. Editor, that so large a subject
has to be discussed in as limited a space.
It is at first a puzzling question, and, it
involves intricate and profound questions
of practical economy as well as of law j
and it cannot properly be considered
without patient investigation. A few
general and sweeping views of the advan
tages of competition and the tyrany of
monopoly will not suffice to determine
the wisdom of a radical and extreme
measure such as the Olive bill is admitted
to be by its-warmest supporters.
It cannot be denied that railroads are
one of the greatest factors of our wealth,
and that to oripple the railroads would
be a calamity to every industry in our
fair country. It cannot be denied that
every mile of railroad built in Georgia is
that much permanent addition to its pro
dnetive wealth. Now, can it be denied
that in the main railroads are being con
trolled. There may here and there crop
ont irregularities or abuses, but that they
are in the hands of the law, and that they
can be and will be controlled cannot be
doubted. But it would seem tbe part of
wisdom to control them without taking
their corporate life.
Again, if the Olive bill should ever be
a wise measure, it csrtainly is not wise to
make it a law now. Although it was pre
dicted that the Richmond Terminal deal
would prevent future railroad building,
see how many independent lines are now
being built in Georgia. The Georgia
Southern road through our county is
being extended to Birmingham, the Co
lumbus Southern, the Marietta and North
Georgia extension and other important
independent lines are being built, and
built too, as every one knows, with for
eign capital. Every one who has been
to New York to negotiate for'money for
railroads agrees that the Olive biH, if
passed, would have largely stopped the
lending of money for raiiroad building
in Georgia, and that the very fact that
such an extreme measure was pendng
greatly embarrassed the procurement of
money for constructing Georgia rail
roads.
If the Olive bill is to be a wise measure
at any time it certainly will be better to
wait until we-get aH the railroads we
need.
Now, Mr. Editor, I have been able
within a reasonable space only to give a
very brief synopsis of some of the consid
erations that made this question a very
difficult one, and that influenced us in
the face of a very whirlwind of buHdozing
by such newspapers as had espoused the
Olive biH, and by men who claimed to be
the only patriots in the legislature, to
vote our honest convictions thatitwaB
better “to bear the iHs we have than fly to
those we know not of,” espedaHy when
the latter seemed to ns even greater by
far than the former. We were sure that
it was wiser to try our new laws that we
passed for enlarging the controlling pow
ers of onr railroad commission, and see if
thin would not he adequate to the needs
of the times. We were assured by the
venerable and honored chairman of the
commission, Major CampbeU WaUace,
who has been the bulwark of the people
and the terror of railroads of Georgia,
that the commission would control effect-
uaUy if the enlarged powers were given,
and we gladly gave the powers asked
for. Major Wallace stated frankly and
openly that there was no need for the
OHve bUl, and that it would result in great
disturbance and barm. No one doubted
his honesty, and no weU posted man
could question his experience and knowl
edge of railroad matters.
Whenever we could, Houston’s repre
sentatives voted for competition among
railroads, and for lnrger control of rail
roads by the state-. We voted, on the
state road lease matter, that the road
should not he leased to any competing
line, on the ground that if this road
should be kept independent the state
could never be botttled up, and out state
commission could always control tbe
whole situation. We fought earnestly on
this line, because we thought it a practi
cable way of fighting combinations, in
which there was to be no forfeiting of
charters and disturbance of aU the cur
rents of business.
Now, Mi- Editor, one word in conclu-
mon. We were uninstrnctkd and without
any expression of views by the alliance on
this subject, and we followed our best
judgement, which we etiH think was cor
rect. I have no feeling against any man
whose views differ from mine on this sub
ject. 1 am glad to note since beginning
ieis letter, however, that the executive
committee of the state alliance in formu
lating a policy with reference to railroad
legislation, steer clear of the dangerous
OHve bfll, and say that the constitution
should be enforced by enlargingthe pow
ers of the state and of the interstate rail
road commission. See the report of the
select committee consisting of L. F. Liv
ingstone, A. F. Pope andA. C. Brown and
its endorsement by the executive commit-
tee, published in dafly papers April 2nd,
1890. With this platform my views aie
in harmony, and onr votes wfll uniformly
show that we were upon that side of the
fight.
H. A. Mathews.
- The Cause of Depression.
Cotton Mills in Cotton Fields.
Atlanta Constitution-
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
The' lines of the tariff fight are. Judge A. A. Gunby, of Ouachita,
becoming more and more com-1 Louisana, recently made a strong
pact. Each day tliat passes illns-' plea for home manufactures before
trates to the farmers and wage; the agricultural society of. his
earners that the system of protect-; state.
ive tariff is largely, if hot wholly, ! He called attention to the fact
responsible for the depression of
the agricultural interests of the
country,- and for the equal de
pression of wages.
One of .the strongest arguments
in favor of tariff reform came from
Senate? Yoorhees, of Indiana, re
cently* He showed that protect
ive tariff had its origin in the war
which gave license to avarice, fol
lowed by a legislation which dou
bled the public debt, and estab
lished a high protective taxation.
He detailed the low prices for
farm produce at present prevail
ing, and said the time would come
when the farmer would look on the
proposition to tax him and his wife
and children for the protection of
other people besides himself, as he
would look on a law of congress to
establish the army worm and wee
vil in his wheat; to infect his cat
tle with murrain and his hogs
with cholera. Every pretense of
a home'market for the farmer was
fraud, and every pretense of taxing
wheat and oats and potatoes for his
benefit was a cheat and a sham,
It was ajnotorious and self-evident
truth that the tariff, as it now
stood, increased the farmers ex
pense account from 35 to 100 per
cent, on every implement of indus
try with which he toiled, and last
year binding twine had been .en
hanced to eighteen cents a pound
by tbe tariff and twine trust. He
did not believe that the hands of a
farmer would touch a republican
ticket at the next presidential elec
tion.
He quoted recent publications
to show the remarkable decadence
of agriculture in New England,
and the decline of land values
there and in the north and west,
and the heavy mortgaging of real
estate.”
“He proposed as a remedy for
these evils: Eirst, tariff reform;
second, a full supply of legal ten
der money; third, the free coinage
of silver; fourth, the suppression,
by law, of gambling in futures;
fifth, a liberel policy of pensions.”
Such facts as these, are convinc
ing and they are increasing the
number of adherents to the Demo
cratic principles. The fight must
be pushed upon these lines and an
overwhelming Democratic victory
is bound to follow.
There have been only nine
deaths in the town of Wadley
since it was laid out in 1875.
My wife for several years had
been an invalid and slowly grew
worse. I tried doctors, but their
skill failed. A neighbor recom
mended Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla
and her health began to mend at
once. She weighs fifteen pounds
more than she did four months
ago, and feels quite strong and
vi ell—-G. W. Srain, Canton, O.
They are telling in Vienna of a
female member of the family of a
diplomat who, at a recent gather
ing, asked the papal, nuncio to let
her look at the diamond cross he
wore on his neck, and then placing
it about her own neck went to see
the effect in a mirror before she
returned it. The jewel is regarded
as a sacred emblem by all Catho
lics, and they were horrified.
that cotton manufacturing has .en
riched a hundred mighty cities in
Great Britain. England exports
more than 100,000,000 yards of cot
ton cloth a day. Over §500,000,000
are invested in the industry, and
millions of people are supported
by it Yet, most of of their
ravr material has to be obtained
from the distant South. It is al
most incredible that it is possible
for a country so far removed from
our cotton fields to take the lead in
manufacturing our products. This
is folly that should be corrected.
When the cotton factories of Man
Chester, Leeds, Bradford, Notting
ham, Glasgow and Paisley shall
have been transferred to our own
fields, then the South will be the
industrial center of the world.
The judge goes on to show how
manufacturing benefits the farm
ers by affording markets for all
their products. Even the farmers
of the west do not have to burn
their corn when they live near dis
tilleries. Manufacturing enter
prises also afford occupation for
the surplus labor of agricultural
regions, thus preventing the occu
pation of agriculture from becom
ing over-crowded. They increase
the demand for land and raise its
value. They improve the roads,
school houses and public institu
tions, and make people more intel
ligent and industrious.
The speaker said:
“In this connection I wish to
call your particular attention to the
report of the statisetiian in the lat
ter part of the commissioner of ag
riculture, for 1884 On page‘474
of that report you find a treatment
of the subject that ‘other industries
increase farm values,’ and a dia
gram given which establishes this
hypothesis: ‘Values in agriculture
are enhanced by increase of non-
agricultural popolation.’ This is
shown to particularly apply to the
price of farm lands, it being high
est where the smallest per cent, of
the population is engaged in farm
ing, and lowest where where the
largest per cent of the people are
agriculturists.- The same law ap
plies to the wages of farm labor
ers. They are enhanced by the
diversification of industries. It is
so the world, over. Where agri
culture is the only calling, as in
Hindoostan, Cuba and some other
countries, the laborer’s wages are
least remunerative.”
Judge Gunby told his hearers
that it was only necessary to glance
at Georgia’s progress in cotton
manufacturing to see that it was in
the power of every Southern state
to revolutionize the old industrial
policy. Where a .community is
not able to build a factory north
ern capital can be obtained, but ir
point of fact, whenever there is an
opening for manufacturing the
home people are able to raise the
needful money, if they will unite
and go to work in earnest.
It is to be hoped that Judge
Gunby’s address will have a wide
circulation in the southwest. It
is on the right line.
Postal Card Units. ■
. The New York Herald reminds
its readers that there is an act
congress making it a criminal of
fense to mail a postal card con
taining matter of-a “libelous, scur
rilous, defamatory or threatening
character, calculated and obvious
ly intended to reflect injuriously
upon the character or conduct of
another.” The penalty is a fine
not exceeding §5,000, or imprison
ment of not more than five years,
or both fine and imprisonment.
Several queer cases have oc
curred under this statute. A St.
Louis man sent this postal to
customer:
“Please call and settle account,
which is long past due, and for
which our collector has called sev
eral times.”
No reply was made, and m a
few days the following postal card
was sent:
“Yoojowe us §1.80. We have
called several times for same. If
not paid at once we shall place
same with our law agency far col
lection.”
The. merchant was indicted.
When the case was tried the
United States district court held
that the first card was all right,
but the sending of the second vio
lated the law, because it contained
a threat to sue, which was “both
calculated and intended to humil
iate and injure the person address
ed in public estimation. Of the
first card the judge said:
“The language employed is not
of a threatening character, and, in
my opinion, no jury would be war
ranted in finding, in view of its con
tents, that it was obviously intend
ed by tbe writer to reflect inju
riously on the character or con
duct of the person addressed, or to
injure or degrade him in the eyes
of the public.
It is true that it contains a de
mand for the payment ’of a debt,
and says that it is long past due,
and that a collector has called sev
eral times, but it is couched in re
spectful terms and no intent is ap
parent to pat it in such form as to
attract public notice, or to make it
offensive to tbe person addressed.”
Business men will have to con
form to the law, and there is noth
ing in it that should be objection
able.
PRACTICAL. HINTS
To Those Contemplating the
Purchase
OF A PIANO.
You can buy a Piano from S150 upward. Let
us know how much you care to Invest, and we will
give the full value of your money.
The best instruments are suporior in all res
pects, and if desired must be paid for. Theie
no alternative.
What are you willing to pay?
We would suggest the following to aid yon:
WEBER PIANOS.
The favorite Piano of the world's great singers,
Patti and Nilsson. Positive evenness of scale, sus
ceptibility of action, freedom from metallic tone,
and extraordinary durability, characterizes this
world famous piano.
EVERETT PIANOS.
■An honest piano at an honest price,’* or in oth
er words, a strictly first-class piano within the
reach of those of moderate means.
The Everett Piano took the higheBt award at the
recent Georgia State Fair for superior tone, per
fect action, and elegance in design and flniah.
The victory was complete, though the Everett
came in competition with most of the best known
Pianos of the world-
HARVARD PIANOS.
The summit of superiority in a low price ptano.
Tbe great parlor favorite ou account of its not
being high-priced and shoddy, but low-priced and
reliable. Full Cabinet and Grand;Size.
ALL HONOR AND GLORY TO GEORGIA!
The first of the southern states to invent and man
ufacture a Piano! And greater the honor and dis
tinction when it can bewhown that the
GEORGIA MADE PIANO
has improvements which no other piano haa or
can use.
A PERFECT SOFT PEDiL.
So constructed that it can be applied and held in
position for any length of time without continued
pressure of the foot. With this wonderful Soft
Pedal arrangement the tone of the Piano is so
txeatly reduced that a person practicing can
scarcely be heard outside of the room. Worth its
weight in gold to persons of nervous temporament.
DUPLEX TOUCH.
A simple improvement which enables the per
former to change the action from light to heavy;
the object of which is to strengthen weak fingers
and wrists. Some persons can never become good
performers on account of weak fingers and wrists.
The Cooper Plano fthe Georgia Piano] has solved
tne problem in its duplex touch. No other piano
possesses these great improvements. In tone the
Cooper is grand, every note being clear as a bell.
We handle in our business pianos of nine differ
ent makes, and organs of five different makes.
Write for catalogues of different manufacturers.
Call oh or address.
GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE,
553 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga.
N. B.—Our Pianos took all premiums at the State
Fair of 1889. Pianos represented by other f
took not a single premium. Merit will tell!
MONEY TO LOAN.
In sums o£ §300.00 and upwards, to be
secured by first liens on improved farms.
Longtime, low rates and easy payments.
Apply to C. O. DUNCAN,
Nov. 20tb, 1889.—tf Perry* Ga.
MONEY LOANS
On Houston farms procured at the low
est possible rates of interest. As low, if
not lower than the lowest. Apply to
W. D. Nottingham,
tf Macon. Ga,
Attorney atLaw,
Perry, ... Ga.
"WiH practice in aU the Courts of
this cirrcuit.
The Fire of Disease is Always
Driven from tlie System by
Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.)
A sure Liver medicine, strengthening;
invigorating. W.W.6’.
Do you feel that the terrible fire
of Blood Poison is consuming you?
—that the poisonous virus is vitia
ting and corrupting your physical
system?—that it is invading your
moral nature and stunning your
aspirations for manliness and do
mestic happiness? Does the hide
ous nightmare face yon night and
day that you are a victim of .this
monster which has been on the
warpath for five centuries, scourg
ing the human race by the thou
sands and tens of thousands, and
which is regarded and acknowl
edged by many learned men to he
incurable? Then we say, come to
us and we will cure you. Turn
your back on all tbe old worn-out
poisons, as mercury, potash', arse
nic and like compounds so ruinous
to health, and take S. S. S., which
we assert does cure, and we are
prepared to prove it.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
Swift Specific Co.,
Wasting away, growing thinner
every day. Poor child. You need
Dr. Bull’s "Worm Destroyers and
you would soon grow fat and
hearty. Mama, get her some.
The question of a tax on dogs
will be a live issue this year.
Tb» Lame Walk.
Pitful indeed is the condition of
those who are confined-to their beds
chairs unable to walk. How
gratefu all such must feel when
they recover from their helpless
ness. B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
Balm) has made more than one
lame person happy.
Mrs. Emma Griffiths, Unitia,
Tenn., writes: “My little boy had
scrofula so bad his knee3 were
drawn up and his knees stiff,
Atlanta, Ga. were born.”
rived no benefit from, medicines
until I tried B. B. B. After using
it a short time only, he can walk
and has no pain. I shall continue
its use.”
Mirtle M. Tanner, Boonville,
Ind., writes: “I had blood poison
from birth. Knots on my limbs
were as lare as hen’s eggs. Doc
tors said I would be a cripple, but
B. B. B. has cured me sound and
well. I shall ever praise the day
the men who invented Blood Balm
During the debate on the Mills
bill Mr. McKinley displayed in the
House of Representatives a suit
of all-wool clothes made in this
country which he said cost only
This same suit of clothes be
came famous in the presidential
campaign as evidence that the tar
iff has cheapened the price of
clothing in the United States.
Mr. Fred W. Smith has made a
careful analysis of the production
of Mr. McKinley’s §10 suit, and
the result is published in the New
York Evening Post Mr. Smith'
proves that if we had free wool
snch a suit could be made for
§498, or less than half the price
of which Mr.Kinley boasted as a
proof of the tariff’s beneficence.
The man who votes for a tax on
wool votes to make the clothing of
the masses dear.
Attorney at Law,
Judge of Houston County Court,
Pebby, Geoegia.
WiH practice in all the Courts of this
Circuit except the County Court.
J. L. Hardeman, W. D. Nottingham.
HAEDEHAN & NOTTINGHAH,
Attorneys at Law,
Macon, ... Geoegia.
Wfll practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office 306 Second Street.
A proposition to aid young
French authors by having an an
nual state competition for the best
works, to be submitted to a jury,
aud io have these best works pub
lished at the expense of the state,
is exciting much criticism in
France. About one-half of the
popular authors are in favor of it,
and a great many express them
selves as decidedly against it
The young" authors themselves do
not appear to care for such state
intervention.
Z. SIMS,
JD EIT TIST,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
EfOffice on Main street, lately occu-
; tied by Dr. W. M. Havis.
. first-class work. Prices moderate. Pat-
ronage solicited. ap!281y
DENTIST ,
Perry, Georgia.
Office on Main Street, King house.
A noted Kansas City family
consists of six brothers, whose
names are as follows: Jack
Frost, Winter Frost, White Frost,
Cold Frost, Early Frost and Snow
Frost.
is coivsinnpxioN ikccrabi.e;
Read the following: Mr. C. H.
Morris, Newark, Ark., says: “Was
down with Abscess of Lungs, and
friends and physicians pronounced
me an Incurable Consumptive.
Began taking Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, am now
on my third bottle, and able to
oversee the work on my farm. It
and he could not walk. He de- is the finest medicine ever made. :
Jessie Middleware Decatur, Ohio,
says: “Had it not been for Dr.
King’s New Discover}- for Con
sumption I would have died of
Lung Troubles. Was given up by
doctors. Am now in best of health.”
Try it. Sample bottles free at
Holtzelaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore.
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Tbe sweet orange was first
brought from China to Europe by
tbe Portugese in the year 1547.
Sick Headache and are in
separable. Try it.
IF YOU WMT
FIRST-CLASS
GROCERIES,
Domestic DryGoods,
Hats, Shoes,
CONFECTIONERIES,
Fruits in Season, Ci
gars, Tobacco, Etc.
Examine my stock before purchasing.
Besides a fuH stock ot
STANDARD GOODS,
I will always have on hand some
Specialties,
at remarkably low figures.
Lookout for changes in this ad
vertisement.
S.L. SPEIGHT,
PERRY, GA.
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