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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #1.50 A YEAH INADVANCE. - ' — J . . ' VOL. XXIX. PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1900. NO. 31. 1 'wmuwmm< COTTON FACTOR, ' MACON, GA. Money to loan to responsible farmers at a low rate of interest. My connection with the cotton mills of Macon gives me advantages unsurpassed in handling cotton consigned to me, and I solicit your shipments. C. B. WILLINGHAM. STRONG SHOE CO., MACON, GEORGIA. Washington Letter. Flatetring Conditions. Our Begular Correspondence. Telegraph, July 20. The Republicans are a good j Mr. Ed Jordan of Dawson pass- deal worried over their lack of ed through Macon yesterday en SOLE AGENTS FOR Shoes- ‘QUEM QUALITY,” -all styles. the famous Ladies’ $3.00 “WALK OYER.” Shoes on, the marlcei. the best value in Men’s $3.50 We carry always in slock a complete assortment of everything that is new and good in footwear. Mail orders promptly attended to. STRONG SHOE CO.. MACON, GEORGIA. R. R. HOLSENBECK & CO., —DEALERS. IN— Ladies’ Misses’ 11 Gents’ Boys’ 561 CHERRY STREET, <3-eorg:Ia,. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Mew'Store! Hew PRICES TO SUIT EVERYBODY! I hn\e just opened a nice line of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES in the Eeagin Building at. . . WELLSIO|§r, With Mr. W. B. Stafford as manager, and. will sell goods at Macon prices. I solicit the patron age of the community. ' Respectfully, • JOSIAH BASS. MANKIND MUST EAT DRINK and SLEEP- We have the accommodations at our ^ ' aiif JkflASf t»• " BAB» We supply nil the Best Brands of WHISKIES, BRANDIES AND WINES. HOME MADE CORN WHISKEY a Specialty. JUG ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. MEALS 25 cents. BEDS 25 cents. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. ■ THE H. 8, HARDISON WHISKBV 508 Poplar ^Street. MACON, Ga. THE DADDY Hundreds of ctxres effected by the use of our Tonic and Blood Purifier, wheie all other remedies have failed. V- ■„ .... 0 > 1 a&o _ W offer 3100 for airy case of Erysipelas, Eczema, SyphiUs, Scrqtnla, Uid Sore or Blood Poison or any kind we eauunt cure. A purely vegetable specific for all diseases of the blood, and for menstrual irregularities it has no equal. FREE. FREE. - FREE- FREE. In order to obtain the name and address of each purchaser of H H. H. Blood Purifier, for 30 days we present each one with the ac companying coupon, good for 25 cents at any Drugstore. If your druggist fails to supply you, send coupon to us with 75 cents and we will send you a bottle prepaid. Write for booklets. TO ALL DRUGGISTS: March 15th,*4900. Bor thirty days from date you are au thorized to accept this coupon in pay ment of 25c on each bottle of H. H. H. Blood Purifier sold. • Onlyone coupon to apply on each dottle, and only when toe \purchaser is written on spaces designated 9Rn“ im H.H, H.00MPAHY, Harannllvillo, Ga. Address- Return Coupons to Borne Office'for Payment. All Coupons good-until June 15th. ^ B C0MPA yy. HOLTZCLAW’S DRUGSTORE, Perry. Ga, campaign funds. A number of leading men on the campaign com mittees have been out upon po litical foraging expeditions, and it is hinted that they, have not met with the success Which they expected, or which they thought was really necessary. Certain sources of campaign funds which have been tapped before and have flowed freely, have this summer given forth at best but a meagre and attenuated stream, not suffi cient in volume to furnish the de sired motor power to turn the wheels of the machine. There have been complaints among the leaders of an indifference on the part of many whilom contributors, which, they feel, smacks of base ingratitude. The trusts and man ufacturers who are flourishing un der the Dingley bill are loath, in many instances, it is said, to ren der due thanks to the party which made their prosperity possible. Seeing no immediate prospect of a repeal of that act, they are in dined to withhold their contribu tions and to lose interest in the campaign. The banks also hav ing received much desired financial legislation, and believing it is se cure fot sometime to come, are backward in putting up the cash for political purposes. Altogeth er, it is probable that the reptib lican managers may be forced to call upon the individual workers for contributions, or to assess the government employees. The lat ter is unpleasant, as it is in viola tion of law, and, while it will sure ly go unpunished, would yet get into the newspapers and might cost the. party dear. The .former on the other hand, is likely to make the individual mad, and cost the party this support. It is announced that a large campaign fnnd is necessary this - fall, to pay for the distribution of “campaign literature.” The Republican Congressional Committee in this city is anxious ly studying the perturbations in the German vote, which are now beginning to manifest themselves as a result of the records and plat forms of the two parties. Especi ally is this true t>f the middle west, where a comparatively small “flop” by the Germans would throw the victory to Bryan. These Western Germans seemed to have been greatly prejudiced by the speech of Secretary Root, wherein he predicted that a war with Ger many was inevitable, and whose theats against that country were soon followed up by similar out cries from Senator Lodge, who not only is the administration’s mouthpiece upon the floor of the Senate, but was also permanent chairman of the Republican Na tional Convention, an evidence of the confidence reposed in him by the party managers. The result of the study of the situation is not encouraging for the republicans' Not only has Dr. L. W. Habercom, who is perhaps the most influen tial German in the country, and who conducted the German press bureau for McKinley four years ago, declared for Bryan, but he has now accepted similar work for the democrats this year. Fur ther there have already been many fections among the German news papers of the country, especially those of the west, where imperial ism is admittedly the great issue and silver is not dreaded as it is in parts of the east. Farm Labor. Trade at Home. The New York Freeman’s Jour nal says: “It is perhaps not gen erally known that the gold and silver money of .this country at the present time is on the ratio of 16 to 1. It is strange that the op ponents of this ratio in both par ties have never, during the present anti-silver administration, sug gested'a change of ratie. It has been the law of the land since 1884 And yet during all the years of the republican party in power no republican or gold democrat has ever had the courage to propose a bill to congress changing this law. The objection of the opponents of the ratio is not really to the ratio of 16 to 1,'bnt to free coinage of silver at any ratior.” Prevented A Tragedy. .Timely information given Mrs. George Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, saved two lives. A. fright ful cough had long kept her awake every night. She had tried many remedies and doctors but steadily grew worse until urged to try Dr King’s New Discovery. One bot tle wholly cured her; and she writes, this marvelous medicine also cured Mr. Long of a severe at tack of Pneumonia. Such cures are positive proof of its power to cure all thorat,chest and lung trou bles. Only 50c and $1.00. Guar- Trial bottles free at route to New York, where he goes on business. A large party of southwest Georgia merchants went on ahead of Mr. Jordon several days ago to purchase t their fall stock of goods. “Down our way things are look ing prosperous,” said Mr. Jordan, and all of the merchants feel able to go where they please to buy their fall stock. I don’t think I remember the time whep that sec tion of the country wngin better condition. The fruit man have been turning loose a la^ge sum of money, and the past season of successful cotton growing and good prices has put a different as pect on business in that section The railroads evidently feel the stimulus lent to business, and when I left Dawson there was-a surveying party there to map out a.line of road from Dawson down into the lower part of the stats The road has bean long in contem plation, but not until this year have any definite steps been taken “It is my opinion that this fall will see the best conditions in Southwest Georgia that have ever prevailed. The farmers will diver sify. their crops, vote the Demo cratic ticket and content them- salves withthe providence of God.’ Hogs Help in the Crops. The other day Mr. John Gunn of Randolph county, was in the field where one of his negro ten ants was plowing when he saw coming along a drove of hogs “Whosa hogs are those?” masked Mr. Gunn. “They’re mine,” was the reply. “Why haven’t you got them in the pasture?”, “I lets ’em stay in here on er purpose. Endurin’ er de wet weather dem hawgs follow berhine me and when I plows up er tuff er grass dey eats it up. Dey been er heap er help ter me in tendin’ mer crop ’cause its been rainin’ so much yon couldn,t do nothin’ ter grass but set it out ergin when you plowed it up, less’n you had hawgs ter eat it. I speck I’d er had ter turnt out sumer mer .-.-cotton ef dem hawgs hadn’t er hope me tend it. If I jes’ had er passel er geese ter keep der grass eat dost till I could strike hit wid mer plow and hawgs I’d sho keep mer crap clean, rain or Bhine.” Verily, the unusual season calls for unusual methods in cultiva ting crops.—Exchange. 090- A Postman’s Big Burden of Maga zines. A Washington postman has been made weary of his job by the La dies’ Home Journal. The reason is that on the twenty-fifth of each month he is compelled to make a special round over his route to de liver that magazine to subscribers. He is almost completely submerg ed by journals, their aggregate weight exceeding forty pounds. The bulky burden precludes his carrying any other mail matter. The Washington post-office reports that the monthly consignment of Journals in that city is “the big gest-lot of one publication ever sent from our post-office.” To The Deaf. A rich lady, cured of her deaf ness and noises in the head by Dr. Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums, gave $10,000 to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 1474. The Nic- olson Institute, 780 Eighth Ave nue, New York. During the past year 98 cotton mills were located in the south North Carolina*is credited with 25, South Carolina with 16, Georgia with 20, Alabama’with 14, Missis sippi with 6, Louisiana with 8, Texas with 5, Virginia, Maryland and Tennessee with 1 each. Macon Telegraph. I Marietta Journal. In some sections of Georgia thej If the merchants, farmers and labor question has become a seri- all consumers in general would ous problem with the farmers, but realize the force of the above Mr. W. J. Willis .of Walden, who caption, it would do much to pro- attended the wheat convention, mote the prosperity and encour- and who, is said raises more cotton age the. thrift of all classes, to the acre than perhaps any oth- Why trade at home? To answer er farmer in Bibb county, said to this question, in detail, would re- a Telegraph reporter during the quire a prolix essay on the mutual convention: “This labor ques- relations of individuals and class- tion is becoming serious with me es in the organism of society, and I shall have to change my Briefly stated, the advantages of crop, and I know of nothing that trading at home are: will pay ine'better than wheat.” 1. You see what you get and It is evident that Mr. Willis get what yon want, means that farm labor, which in 2. If your purchase fails to Georgia is composed largely of the meet your requirements you can negro, is becoming difficult to etchange it for something that maintain and on that account he will suit you. will have to change his crop from 8. Money spent at home stays cotton, which requires the maxi- at home and inflates the local cur-: mum of cultivation, and there- rency. fore the greatest amount of labor, 4. An honest merchant will to wheat and other grain crops, handle only honest goods and will wqich repuire the least cultivation always endeavor to please an hon- and the least amount of labor. est customer. Since the farm work began in I 5. When you purchase the the early spring our correspondents wares of a first-class merchant, he from many sections of the state, will bestir himself to trade-with especially in the middle and south- you when yon have anything to ern portions have complained that sell, the farmers were scarce of labor, 6. The difference in the local and the negroes were constantly price and the foreign price of an leaving the farms to engage in article is generally offset by ex- public works,” as they call it, press or freight charges, such as lumber and turpentine op- 7. If you are displeased with erations. This movement has been an article purchased by catalogue more marked during the present in Atlanta or elsewhere, to return year than perhaps any year previ- it inflates the price to such an ex- ous, from the fact that the high- tent that the bargain feature is er prices for lumber and spirits overcome by incidental charges, turpentine have given unusual im- 8. An up-to-date merchant will petus to those enterprises, there- not make his prices stilted beyond by creating a large demand for la- a reasonable margin of profit bor. Lastly, it promotes a mutual Then, the enactmeut of strin- dependency among all avocations, gent laws in recent years by the and thus destroys individualism Carolinas to prevent negro expor-1 and class strife, tation from those states, whence Georgia had hitherto drawn its greatest supply of labor, has cur tailed that source, and the only I It would take the pen of a Ma- resort left to an increasing de- caulay, says the Augusta Chrorii- mtmd with lumber and turpen-1 cle, to sum up, “in a pomp of tine men was the Georgia farm purple words” and with panoram- negro. ic glory, the marvels of the Chi- Another tendency which has in- nese empire. From various sources creased with • the years with the we may, in unpicturesque phrase country negro is to move to town, I group some of these prodigies, there to subsist' pn the few odd As to size, China is much larger jobs that come to • hand. Many than, this country and twenty-four farmers find 'it necessary to send I times larger than Germany. It their wagons to the towns on Mon- 4,400 miles of coast and mil- day morning to get laborers to work | lions of cities, towns and villages, out tbeir crops dring buusy sea- J The Buffalo Times reminds us sons, ever with the understand- that, “before Israel was called irig that they must likewise be re-1 ®§ypt, China was a civilized pow- turned to town on Saturday. I er.’’ From the time of Abraham Whether the negro is simply China has had a settled form of imitating the example of his constitutional government. It white neighbor in quitting the lif t g its hoary head over.the grave country and moving to town, or I y^rds of departed empires. The whether he is impelled by a'desire I Chinese had firearms in the reign to keep out of the sun and make Edward I,, engraving 1,000. B. his living in the shade and by IC., made coins 1,100 B C., invent- questionable methods it matters e< ^ compass 2,634 B. C. They not. The fact that he- has left I ma(ie paper A. D. 150, and used the farm is the same. gunpowder and arms about the But the exodus of labor from commencement of the Christian the farm is likely to be only tern-1 era * Before Columbus discovered W. B. Fitzgerald. J. G. Fitzgerald. Big Creek Poultry Farm, ELKO, GA. Breeders of S. C- Brown Leghorns, Black Langshans, Black Minorcas and Pekin Ducks. Egos at $1.50 fur 15. White Plymouth Rocks, AS GOOD M THE BEST. Eggs—W. P. B-wk. IVkin Ducks and Bronze Turkeys SI 00 per setting if yon. call at White Rock Poultry Farm, Pebbt, Geobgia. CLEAN TOWELS. SHARP RAZORS. WHITE BARBER. Will appreciii'e n call from you. JESSE DOLES, Fort Valley, Ga. Basement of Harris House. Facts About China. The south now has mills which manufacture 1,600,000 bales of cotton annually. This must give bur New England friends the dry grins. And new mills are being built and projected almost every where in the south—Bainbridge Democrat. For bums, injuries, piles and skin diseases use DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is the original. Counterfeits may be offered. Use -only DeWitt’s. Holtzclaw’s Drug store. anteed. Marshallville, 6a. Holtzclaw’s drug store. porary. According to best author- America the Chinese had a grand ities, in a few years more the lnm- canal 1,200 miles long. The great her and turpentine business in I wall of 1,500 miles was built 220 Georgia will be a thing of the past. B. C. When Isaiah foretold the A few years added to that will downfall of Babylon the Chinese wipe the timber out of Florida, were engaged in their present pur- Alabama and Mississippi, and suits of agriculture, commerce and this being gone, the labor that is literature. Its enormous popula- now employed in timber enterpris- tion can be imagined by the state- es will be compelled to return to m ent that there are twice as many the farms. Chinese as there are people in the In the meantime there need be I continents. no sacrificing of farm lands or That Throbbins Headache farming interests. The solution L r T ““* T .„ Heartacfte suggested.by Mr. Willis—to change | , ^ ea 7 e ^22’ the crop and plant those products ® New Life Pills that will require less labor, and Thousands of sufferers have proved which have been demonstrated as] their matchless merit for sick and highly profitable on Georgia lands nervous headaches. They make is Swell worthy the attention Q f pmeblood and build up your Georgia farmers. i health : 0nl 7 2o $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to' learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to .cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be ing a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giv ing the patient strength by build ing up the conttitution and assist ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they of fer one.Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. Cheney & Co., To ledo, O. Sold by-druggists, 75c. HaU’s Family Pills are the best j Among other signs indicating ! fVi<1 mon*ia inoono if. lv»o Vmnn It is estimated that the produc tive capacity- of the labor-saving machinery in the United States is now equal to a hard-working pop ulation of 400,000. One Minute "cough Cure is the ! that ama J}’ is insa fe hBs . been only harmless remedy that pro- ; recently discovered by specialists duces immediate results. Try it. JA nervous disorders that Trregu- Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. :lar eyebrows, are entxtleclto con sideration. Subscribe for The Home Journal Sow An Tow Kidney. I Dr. Hobb.* 8par«n« PlUi rare mil kldMy Ills. Sam ple free- Add. 8tanW aemed j Co, Chl<m*o or N.Y. cents. Money back if not cured. Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw,* Druggist. According to an exchange, there are jrwo farmers in north Georgia named, respectively, Day and Sun day, who are neighbors. Mr. Day is the father of seven girls, while Mr. Sunday has an equal number of sons. Four of the sons have married Days, and another is en gaged, so it now appears that “ev ery Day will be Sunday bye and bye.” It has been demonstrated by ex perience that consumption can be prevented by the early use of One Minute Cough Cure. - This is the favorite remedy for coughs, colds, croup, asthma, grippe and all throat.and lung troubles. Cures quickly. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. “Frinds are always ridy to push ye up,” said the janitor philoso pher, “but viry few av them, will put a fither bid under ye whm ye fall.”—Chicago News. ’ .e ToniA. tTto Kind Yon Haw AIwpBwett W. H- HARRIS, DENTIST. Successor to Br. IV. A. Blasseugame. OFFICE OVfiB DOW DAW BANE, FORT VALLEY. GEORGIA. Dr. H. W- W.ALER. DENTIST. Office, Union Dry Goods Co., Cherry st. MACON GEORGIA. c. z. mcarthur, DENTIST, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA. Office over Slappey’s Drugstore. G. M - DuPBEE. Attorney - at - Law, By30N, Ga. Money to loan on Farm Lands. J. R. SIMS, OPERATIVE T. DENTIST, Crown and Bridge Work. Office Near Perry Hotel, Main Street, PERRY, GA. DAVIS. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, PERRY, GEORGIA. Having retired from military service, the practice of law is resumed. Office in Masonic Building: up stairs g J. DASHER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Pebbt, Ga. ^“Office inMasonic Building. W C. C JDUNCAN. J.P. DUNCAN. [jUNCAN & DUNCAN. tiPFQiMm'S-ar-Ma w PERRY, GEORGIA. We have made avangements to nego tiate loans on Farming lands, at 8 per cent, interest, in sums of $300.00 and up wards, where security is first-class. iMioisnErsr To lend on mortgage at 8 percent. Xo Commissions Charged. If yon borrow §1,000 yon receive $1 000. You famish abstract, pay for recording, , inspecting fees and stampp. Apply to L. S. T0UNSLEY, Attorney-at-Law, Perry, Ga. MONEY. Loans negotiated on improved farms, at lowest market rates, and on most liberal terms. Business of fifteen years standing. More than three million dollars in loans negotiated. Facilities unsur passed. HOWARD M. SMITH, Ho. 814 Second St.. Macon. Ga.' '■Isnflferedtlietortarea of (lie s.imuA with protruding piles brought on by eonstlps- Mon with whloh I was afflicted tor twenty years. Iran across your CASOARETS In the i own of Newell, la., and never found anythin? to equal them. 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