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St., Iear Post-Office, MACON, GEORGIA
will please you and
good round value for
your money.
jOHK H. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
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VOii. XXIX.
PKRliY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAKCH 29, 1900.
NO. 13.
W. B. Fitzgerald. J. G. Fitzgerald.,
Big Creek Poultry Farm,
ELKO, GA.
Breeders of S. C. Brown Leghorns,
•Ri-u'k Langshans, Black Minorcas and
Pekin Bucks. Eggs at 81.60 for 15.
IF YOTJ WANT
Tiptop Insurance
©N TOMB UFI
Try a policy in .
Union Central
The
Cincinnati, Ohio.
I will be
to serve you.
T. N. WHITE, Agt.,
HATTIE, GA.
w. H. HARRIS,
DENTIST.
Successor te Dr. W. A. Blassengamc
OFFICE OVER DOW LAW BANK,
FORT VALLEY, ; GEORGIA.
Dr. H. "W* WALKER,
DENTIST.
Office, Union Dry Goods Co., Cherry st.
MACON GEORGIA.
c.z. McArthur,
DENTIST,
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Office over Slappey’s Drugstore.
White Plymouth Rocks,
AS GOOD AS THE BEST.
Eggs—W. P. Bock, Pekin Ducks and
Bronze Turkeys $1.00 per setting if you
call at
White Rock Poultry Farm,
Pekey, Geobgia.
Uarrar\ R. Mis,
* f Architect.
with
WILLIS F. DENNY.
Offices: 11 & 12 Commercial Bank Bldg.,
Macon, Ga.
M.. DuPBEE.
Attorney - at - Law,
Bybon, Ga.
Money to loan on Farm Bands.
J. R. SIMS,
OPERATIVE DENTIST.
Crown and Bridge Work.
Office Near Perry Hotel, Main' Street,
PERKY, GA.
W O. DAVIS,
. ATTOENEY-AT-LAW,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Having retired from military service
the practice of law is resumed.
Office in Masonic Building: up stairs
JT. DASHER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Pkbby, Ga.
Office inMasonic Building.
C. 0. DUNCAN. J. P. DUNCAN.
DUNCAN & DUNCAN,
PERRY, GEORGIA 1 . 1
We have made arrangements to nego
tiate loans on Fanning lands, at 8 par
cent, interest, in sums of $300.00 and up
wards, where security is first-class. '
Loans on Farms
AT 7 PER CENT.
* * 3
We are now able to negotiate loans
on fanning lands Promptly at sev
en per cent interest.
Security Loan and Aastract Co.,
370 Second at., Macon, Ga.
J. J. Cobb, T. B. West,
President. Secretary & Attorney.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
The House Republicans earned
the anger of the entire coun
try for their persistence in acting
contrary to “plain duty” in regard
to Porto Rico; the Republican Sen
ators will earn something worse,
than anger—utter contempt—if they
persist in their course of procrasti
nation and vacillation on the sab
ject. Said a prominent Democrat
ic Senator this morning: “It will
not satisfy the country for the Sen
ate to pass an act paying over to the
government of Porto Rico money
wrongfully collected from the citi
zens of that unfortunate island.
The Republicans do not seem to
realize that it is not a question of
robbing Peter to pay Paul, nor one
of the extent and burden of the
duties imposed, but a radical issue
between justice and injustice-and
that there is as much injustice in
delay aB in imposing a daty. The
memorial addressed to Congress
by the merchants of Porto Rico
makes this statement: “The fact
cannot be disputed that our people
are in sore distress. All commerce
is now hampered. The investment
of capital is stopped. Our farmers
have not the means to plant or to
gather crops. Building and im
proving are impeded. Capital re
fuses to come here for investment
in either manufacturing or agri
cultural pursuits, for the reason
that the sovereignty of the United
States over this island-his depriv
ed us of free trade with Spain and
with Cuba, which formerly took
our exports at fair prices and ena
bled ns to live. We now ask as a
right that free trade with the
United States be given us. We
ask bread as a right from our moth
er. Do not, we pray, give ns a
stone. We ask for an immediate
decision.’ It is at this moment
that the Republicans of the Senate,
confessedly from motives of politi
cal expediency, decide to debate
the tariff bill indefinitely, in the
hope of being able, in one or two
months, as the case may be,to reach
an agreement which will presrve
party unity, and worst of all, in or
der not to interfere with Senators
Aldrich and Platt (of Conecticut)
who are enjoying themselves on a
junketing trip to Cuba.”
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has just rendered a desis-
ion of considerable importance to
tbe country at large, though it ap
plies specifically to only one city.
It holds that the system of rate
making under which one place is
given much lower rates than anoth
er competitive point, is utterly un
reasonable. The town asking re
lief is Danville, Va., and the ac
tion is directed against the South
ern Railway. The commission
says, in part: “The development
of the Southern Railway into a
great system, through codsolida-
tion and improvement of worthless
properties, ris a legitimate enter
prise which has benefittedthe whole
territory affected thereby ;and while
they conceived and executed it have
no right to exact a return upon an
extravagant capitalization, whatev
er has honestly and in good faith
gone into the enterprise, should be
protected. Bat the people living
in such territory are also entitled
to protection, and the Southern
Railway, by virtue of the fact that
it has obtained' possession of and
now controls the avenues of com
munication by rail between the
city of Danville and the outside
world, has no right to deprive that
community of the competitive ad
vantages which the enterprise of
its citizens, in nue way or another,
has secured, and upon the strength
of which business conditions have
grown up; it must recognize the
geographical position and the com •
mercial importance of the city of
Danville.”
Loans negotiated on improved
farms, at lowest market rates#? and on
most liberal terms.
Business of fifteen years standing.
Sore than three million dollars in
loans negotiated. Facilities unsur
passed. HOWARD M. SMITH,
Bo. 814 Second St.. ' Macon, Ga-
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Lewis On the Currency Bill.
Ron. E B. Lewis, our immedi
ate representative in congress, has
spoken qftener during this session
than heretofore, and he attracts
earnest attention every time. Dur
ing the debate on the currency bill
in the House last week, he being
requested by Mr. Richardsou, the
democrattc leader, to open the de
bate in opposition to the bill, he
delivered an able speech. Of the
speech, the correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution said:
“Mr. Lewis claimed that the
main reason for this funding of the
bonded interest bearing debt of
$850,000,000 that could be paid un
der thirty years was for the pur
pose of solidifying the national
banks as a part of the government.
He charged that the national banks
dictated this feature of the bill
and that- the great bond issue was
intended for them alone. Mr. Lew
is said enthusiastically that the
funding of the nnmatured debt in
dicated to him strongly that the
republicans had grave fears that-
the democratic party would be suc
cessful at tbe coming election ana
would be in power at the maturity
of these bonds, and that the demo
crate instead of fastenig an interest
bearing debt on the American peo
ple for thirty years would under
take to pay the debt, stop the in
terest and relieve the people of the
burden.
“Mr. Lewis went on to outline
the six distinct features of the bill
first, to establish the gold standard;
second, to give authority to the
secretary of the treasury; third,
create a division of issue and re
demption; fourth to fund the pub
lic debt; fifth delegate all power
of issuing all money to national
banks, and, sixth, to make a dis
honest declaration in favor of in
ternational bimetalism. He char
acterized the sixth feature of the
bill as a farce; said it was hot made
in honesty and sincerity, but was
a subterfuge to catch the unsus
pecting voter. Mr. Lewis made a
strong and interesting speech and
at the request of members on the
democratic side his time was ex
tended. He was warmly applaud
ed and at the conclusion of his
speech many of his democratic col
leagues went to his seat and con
gratulated him.”
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Horife Comsnmptlon oC Colton.
An interesting development or
the cotton situation in Georgia has
been presented in a news story
fromColnmbusin which it is shown
that western Georgia will soon
cease to export the staple, and will
be compelled to, import cotton from
other places.
The 75,000 spindles now in op
eratiou in Columbus will soon be
increased to 100,000,’ and a con
sumption of 30,000 bales of cotton
will be increased to 6U,000. But a
few miles up the river West Point
has large cotton mills in operation,
cutting off a possible supply from
that direction, while to tbe east
stands Griffin, likewise bidding for
all in sight. Mills at Newnan, La-
Grange, Thomaston, and other
pluses, also join in the work of
consumption, to which must be ad
ded Atlanta. Thus thr time is in
sight when the local mill men will
oust the shipper, and the conse
quence will be an increased price
to the farmer. for his product.
The erection of a textile machin
ery plant in Atlanta will facilitate
this line of industry, and convert
our idle people into happy wage-
earners. Through this means cit
ies and farms as'well will be built
dp, and prosperity will be ground
ed upon something tangible which
cannot disappear over night.
What has been successfully ac
complished in South Carolina is
rapidly becoming a fact in Geor
gia as well.—Atlanta Constitution.
Banker Routs a Robber.
J. R. Garrison, cashier of the
bank of Thornville, Ohio, had been
robbed of health by serious- lung
trouble until he tried Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption
Then he wrote: “It is the best
medicine I ever used-for a severe
colcf or a bad case of lung trouble.
I always keep a bottle on hand.”
Don’t suffer with Coughs, Colds, or
any Throat, Chest or Lang trouble
when yon can be cured so easily.
Only 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottles
free at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
- Au Idaho tramp who was-injur
ed on a railroad train while steal
ing,a ride, has brought suit for.
damages, alleging that his,mishap
was due to the negligence of the
company’s employes He says that
although they knew where he was,
and that -he ought to have been
put off, they did not put him off.
To secure the original witch ha
zel salve, ask for DeWitt’s Witch
Ty “operation >was performed; but] Hazel Salve, well known bsa cer-
he cased himself with Backlen’s
Arnica Salve, the beet in the
A. R. De Fluent, editor of the
Journal, Doylestown, Ohio, suffer
ed for a number of years fiom
rheumatism iu his right shoulder
and side'. He says: “My right arm
at times was entirely useless. I
tried Chamberlain’s. Pain -Balmr
and was surprised to recaive re
lief almost immediately. The Pain
Balm has been a constant compan
ion of mine ever since and it never
fails. For sale bv al 1 dealers.:
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Man in the exercise bf hie free
agency, is too prone to do wrong
or make blunders and then lay it
upon Providence. And so too, upon
the other hand, is he prone, when
he succeeds in bis undertakings,-'
to assume a relationship with
Providence which be does not in
fact bear. The one is slandering
Providence, and the other is phari-
seeism. ' , : ~
He Fooled The Surgeons.
• All doctors told Renick Hamil
ton, ot. West Jefferson, Q., after
suffering 18 months from Rectal
Fistula, he would die unless a cost-
The Spirit of Pessimism.
Atlanta Constitution.
It is amusing to watch -the wail
that periodically-ascends from cer
tain quarters to the effect that
crime and evil is increasing, and
.that the world is' not as good as it
was some years ago._ Such lamen
tations are to be expected, perhaps,
but they are wholly illogical.
We veoture the assertion that
the world today is no worse than
it has been in any period of its
history. On every side is is heard
the cry that so called “waves of
crime” are increasing and the peo
ple nowadays affect not to ’be sur
prised when a trusted citizen goes
wrong and it develops that he is
short in bis accounts or acensed of
one of tbe many crimes catalogued
in the daily newspapers. No, they
are only surprised that more such
instances are not reported, and sigh
for the good old times when one
could hobnob with one’s friends
free from the fear that the man
who tamiliarly robbed bis elbow
jnight tbe next night be resting be
hind the bars on a charge of felony,
of that his name might be smirch
ed by some of the countless offenses
which have found place in our dic
tionary of criminology.
And yet, when we glance over
the pages ofrecorded history, there
are evidences that at various stages
the world has been more, wicked
and more reckless in its public or
back-parlor behavior than at the
present time. For every crime of
today we have some wilder-blood
ier or more hideous parallel! in
past years. For every bit iff reli
gious hypocrisy dr persecution,
sharp practice or illustrations of
merci 1 essn esa and crnel ty, we have
chronicles of duplicate deeds -qust
as shamefa! add inexcusable- as
those committed in our times. The
only difference is that in past ages
while crime was just as prevalent
and rampant- it was more obscure,
from the fact that newspapers,
steam and the telegraph had l-not
begun to report it broadcast, And
that while a tragedy might be' a
sensation in a small village, for an
average man’s lifetime, the tale
seldom' traveled further than a ra
dins of a hundred miles from its
original point. :-
Another fruitful "factor to the
delusion that evil is increasing is
that we now call old crimes by
new names and call by their prop
er titles offenses that were in time
past overlooked, misnamed or
counted as the privelege of the
man rich enough to pay for them,
unscrupulous enough to commit
them or powerful enough to pro
tect himself agaiost their conse
quences.’ A little dispassionate re
flection will convince anyone that
these assertions are more than
mere theories and bear the im
press of truth.
Taking tbe opposite view, it
seems probable that good is in
creasing and is gradually winning
dominance over its antithesis. We
seldom or never hear of the noble
actions which are a part of the
lives of many of the people whom
you pass on yonr way to bnsiness
every day. There is ho .earthly
record kept of the soul wreuching
sacrifices made in order that truth
and right may prevail, and could
we look into the souls of our neigh
bora, we should doubtless find
there the history of good done and
sin resisted which would more than
offset the discouraging annals of
crime and evil which daily obtrude
themselves on our notice. It is
wisest never to indulge the spirit
of pessimism. We may rest as
sured that hnman nature is no
worse than it was a few centuries
ago, and that the future is just as
reassuring.
. Will Help the South.
1 The Southern Industrial conven
tion to be held in. Chattanooga in
May will be one of the most impor
tant meetings ever held in the
south on a similar occasion, Chat
tanooga is making preparations to
entertain a large number of dele
gates, and it is expected that every
line of southern industry and trade
will be well represented.
The secretary of the association,
Mr. N. F. Thompson, says the indi
cations for a successful meeting
are very encouraging. The pro
gram, which will extend over a pe
riod of four days, beginning May
8th, is-in course, of preparation.
Tbe papers and discussions will
give a gre&t deal of information
aboat southern industries and the
advantages of the south as a field
for the investment of capital,
• Secretary Thompson says that,
if met in the proper spirit, Phila
delphia capitalists alone will in
vest millions of dollars in develop
ing the resources of the south.
Capitalists- from other eastern cit
ies are also ready to invest their
money in southern enterprises Mr.
Thompson believes that many mill
ions of dollars will be invested in
tbe south in the next few years,
as a direct result of the work of
Southern Industrial Association.
The convention will certainly prove
an excellent advertisement for the
south, and the importance of the
Chattanooga meeting can hardly
be overestimated.
Price Redced One Half.
“Georgia" Ed ncation,” the popu
lar school paper published in At
lanta by Miss S. Y. Jewett, has
just celebrated the first anniversa
ry of its birthay by redacing the
subscription price from $1.00 to
50c. It i3 announced that ar
rangements have been made to
publish daring the year articles
from a large number of the
leading school men of Georgia, as
well 8S such prominent national
educators as Dr. Wm. T. Harris,
‘Dr. J. L M. Curry aud others.
Personal and local school newB
will continue a special feature of
the paper. The other departments
will be kept up to-a high standard.
Question Answered.
Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers
and grandmothers never thought
of using anything else for Indiges
tion or Biliousness. Doctors were
scarce, and they seldom heard of
Appendicitis, -Nervons Prostration
or Heart failure, etc. They used
August Mower to clean out the
system and stop fermentation of
undigested food, regulate the~ ac
tion of the liver, stimulate the ner
vous and organic action of the sys
tem, and that 13 all they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches
and other aches. You only need a
few doses of Green’s August Flow
er, in liquid form, to make you sat
isfied there is nothing sferious the
matter with you. Sample bottles
at Holtzclaw s Drug Store.
tain cure.for piles and skin diseas
es Beware of worthless counter-
Worid. Surest Pile cure on Eirtfa. feits. They Are dangerous. Holtz-
25c a box at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore, 1 claw’s Drugs-ore.
The exports from this country
in February reached the enormous
total of §119,765,762, which is 25
per cent, larger than in any previ-
eus-February, and only $15,000,000
less than the exports for the entire
fiscal year' of 1850.
M. B. Smith, Bntternnt, Mich.,
"says, “DeWitt’s Little Early Ris
ers are the very best pills I ever
used for costiveness, liver and bow
el troubles.” Hbltzclan’s Drugstore
State of Ohio, City of Toledo / _
Lucas County. J
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is the senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and
that the said firm will pay the sum
of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for bach and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 6th
day of December, A.- D. 1886.
) A. W. Gleason,
SEAI ' l Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. v Send for testimonials,
free. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
g@“Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
'• _ — 1 ———
Do not permit the children to
form the habit of disputing and
quarreling with each other. It may
be prevented, like other bad hab
its, by watchfulness, particularly if
the training is begun when the
children are very young. Separa
tion is the best punishment,"break
ing up the play and taking away
the cause of the dispute. Children
are social" beings and do mot like to
play alone. They dislike solitude,
and if they find it is invariably the
result of quarreling they will take
pains to be more amiable so as not’
to be forced into it.—April Ladies’
Home Journal.
Wm. Orr, Newark, O., says, “We
never feel safe without One Min
ute Cough Care in the house. It
saved my little boy’s life when he
had the pneumonia. We think it
is the best medicine made.” It
cares coughs and all lung diseases.
Pleasant to take, harmless and
gives immediate rersults. Holtz
claw’s Drugstore.
Mrs. PattersoD, daughter of An
drew Johnson,-the President, is to
donate land for a park to surround
the grave of her father at Green
ville, Teno., and asks that the na
tional government assume control
of the park. '
A scientist says the earth is sink
ing at the rate uf three inches a
year. This may account for the
anxiety of some people to get pos
session of it- before it dwindles
away. '
Beauty Is Blood Deap.
Clean blood means-a clean *kin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean .yonr blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and. driving all im-
! purities from tbe body. Begin to-day to
. banish pimples, boils, blotches/ blackheads,
! and that sickly bilious complexion'by taking
■ Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents.: All 'ding-
pats, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
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MACON, GEORGIA,
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We carry always in stock a complete assortment
- of everything that is new and good in footwear.
Mail orders promptly attended to.
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We carry the largest stock of any firm in the
state, do the best wor, and sell at living prices.
Mail orders solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed.
When in Macon he sure to call at our store.
W. Lamar Williams,
422 Second St., Macon, Ga.
. M, 6. 8AJLKC0M,
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