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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE,
$1.50 A YEAR INAD VAIS OB.
VOL. XXIX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900.
NO. 32.
& 1, WILLINGHAM:
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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.,
Washington Letter.
Our Regular Correspondence.
Great Demand for Cotton.
[ What Makes an Issue Paramount?
The the forthcoming cotton’
New York "World.
The official determination of the ! cropwiUdemanda ^ price the 'What really makes a political
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sell goods at Macon prices. I solicit the patron
age of the community. Respectfully,
JOSIAH BASS.
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gold democrats not to put a tick
et in the field this fall, is a great
triumph for the democratic party.
is evident that nearly all
those who voted for Palmer and
Buckner in 1896, will this year
return to. their old allegiance
Some few democrats may vote for
McKinley, tgit they will nearly
all he men who supported
him in 1896 and not those who
put up a^ the half-way house in
that year. As everyone knows the
Palmer and Buckner movement
was engineered with the direct
intention of; getting votes for Mo
Kinley and not for its own ticket
Senator Palmer, himself, towards
the end of the campaign, advised
his supporters to vote for McKin
ley instead of for himself,, and his
appeal, coming from an alleged
democrat, was specious .enough to
lead away many men who would
never have yiesded to republican
repeesentations. This year there
will be no chance to Jepeat that
sort of thing. The leaders of this
faction, who have been continual
ly breaking into print with the
boastful claim that they are dem
ocrats, and that they cannot sup
port the party, can do so
no longer. They have shouted
it from the hustings whenever
they were favored with an audi
ence, and screamed it from the
street corners and in the market
places. With the disbandment of
their organization they are left
without distinct political entity,
and will be swallowed up in name
as well as in fact by the republi
can organization. This renders
them comparatively hamless, be
cause without even pretence to the
old name they cannot confuse the
public mind or deceive unthinking
people. In other words, the gold
democrats as an harassing factor
in national wolitics, have passed
out of existence. Prom now on
if they vote with the republicans
on the currency issue, they belong*
to the republican party, and 5
they vote with the democrats on
the issues of imperialism and
trust, they belong to the demo
cratic party. They have no party
of their own any longer. Mean
while, Mark Hanffa has. tried to
split the anti-imperialist in twain
by organizing the national party,
and so prevent the whole body
from endorsing Bryan. The new
party has apparently dropped
dead, however, and it seems at
present that its corpse will have
no effect.
The sympathy of the Adminis
tration for Great Britian has been
shown in several ways recently;
by the sending out, at government
expense, by the Bureau of Educa
tion, of pamphlets justfying the
British course in South Africa;
by the circulation by the Bureau
of Statistics of a letter • pointing
out the great trade advantages
that it is alleged that will accrue
to Americans by the destruction
of the Boer Republics; and by the
[sacrifice of the Porcupine gold
! mining reSion in Alaska to Cana
than.greed. This last fact has been
emphasized by the protest of the
miners there against their unwar
ranted handing over to Great
Britain. According to the terms
of the modus vivendi, negotiated
by Secretary Hay with such a
flourish of trumpets, this area,
dearly American, prospected and
developedjby Americans, and fill
ed with American mining camps,
was temporarily turned oyer to
Canada. Forming the hinterland
of the head of Lynn Canal, -it is
clearly within the ten marine
league limit which the British line
must follow, measured frem the
sinuosties of the coast, and which
was not only established by treaty
between Great Britain and Russia
in 1825, and again by treaty be-
tween the United States and Rus
sia in 1869, but had been, conced
ed as established and binding by
the British government through
all that time down to the meeting
of the Joint High Commission in
1896. The miners well call atten
tion to McKinley’s high-sounding
verbiage about “not yielding a
foot of the national domain in the
Philippines” and contrast them
with this surrender, in Alaska.
highest in years, is generally con- 18Sl l e Paramount—uppermost, su-
coneeded. The Houston Post, re- j P e * lor > dominating?
viewing the situation, states that I. Purely it is not simply calling
the supply of old cotton in the 1 . 80 111 party platform, m the
United States to-day is 30,000 P^ eS8 ° r u ?°^. tlie stum P- Coul <i
bales. The-amoiint visible in all j |i Democratice party, for exam-
parts of the world is only 1,008,- 1 P^ e ’ . ve ^ ie currency or
000 bales American, or a million anything^else the paramount is
bales less than were available for
consumption at this time last year
The million bales now on hand
are probably sufficient for four
week’s consumption. In order for
the supply to last until the new
crop begins to move it frill he ah
soiutely uecessary for many mills
to shut down or curtail their con
sumption.
Months ago the Post gave the
facts and figures to show that the
world would be confronted with
something akin to a cotton famine
this summer. Prices have been
advaneed to 10 cents a pound on
account of the great scarcity of
the staple, spinners are using
every hale of their reserves, and
the whole world is now looking
forward to the next crop.
The greatest anxiety • is mam
fested as to the outlook, and news
of a shower in Texas is as of much
importance in the commercial
world today as is information in
regard to the latest Chinese out
break.
Never before in the history of
the cotton trade has the world
been so dependent upon a crop
that is now merely acj. its first
stage of development. Think of
the trade being bare of olp cotton
off September 1, light stocks of
cotton goods at all milling points
and the the supply of the raw sta
pie for the ensuing twelve months
still in nature’s care I Imagine
how easily the withering blasts
of the sun, unusual down-pours of
rain, depredation of insects,
other ills to whicq the cotton
plant is so susceptible, could cur
tail this prospective supply.
Nothing less than a United
States crop of 11,000,000 bales
will he fully sufficient for the
world’s needs the coming season
To get this Texas must produce
3.000. 000 and other Southern
States 8,000,000 bales.. It is hard
ly possible that either group will
furnish such a yield. Just at
present the indications are for
total crop in the neighborhood of
10.000. 000 bales.
A yield larger than that ought
to bring at least 9 cents a pound
unless there should be some great
disaster in commercial and finan
cial circles that is not now in the
range of probabilities.
The farmer should bear in mind
this year that cotton is scarce the
world over, and that every bale he
produces will be worth a good
price. Too much of it cannot
come forward in August and Sep
tember, but after October 1st it
should be marketed slowly and
judiciously in order that the buy
ers may not have the advantage of
heavy receipts with which to de
press prices. —
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
anteed. Trial bottles free at
Holtzclaw’s drug store.
Subscribe for The' Home Jonrnal
The Baldwin county grand jury
has made the following, recom
mendation : “We recommend that
the act known as the dog law-be
so amended by the. next Georgia
legislature as to appropriate 50
per cent of the dog taxes collect
ed under said act to the support
of the Georgia - Pasteur Institute,
for the treatment of hydrophobia,
etc., and we urge that our repre
sentative and senator use their
vote and influence to this end.”
The federal department of agri
culture it is said, is now giving its
attentionto the propagation ofdrag
on flies as a means of getting rid
of the < mosquito pest. The idea
is to raise dragon flies wherever
mosquitoes abound, and let the
insect hawks keep down the pests
by praying on them.
It Helped Win Battles.
Twenty-nine officers and men
wrote from the front to say that
for scratches, bruises, cuts,wounds,
sore feet and stiff joints Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve is the best in the
world. Same for bums, skin erup
tions and piles. 25 cents a box.
Cure guaranteed. Sold by H. M.
Holtzclaw, Draggist.
If you can’t find a job, go
and make one, young man. Jobs
don’t float around in the air with
fifty and seventy-five dollar sala
ries attached, A man has to work"
like blazes to get a job nowadays,
and if he expects to keep it he
must continue to work just that
way.—Exchange.
The quicker you stop a cough or
cold the less danger there will be
of fatal lung trouble. One Min
ute Cough Cure is the only harm
less remedy that gives immediate
results. You will like it, Holtz
claw’s Drugstore.
sue in 1860, when the one thing
the people were thinking about
and talking about was the ex
tension of slavery?
Could anything except the suc
cessful prosecution of the war for
the Union have been made the
paramount issue in 1864? In 1876
could the Republicans have made
the-acquisition of San Domingo
or anything else the paramonnt
issue when the people were de
manding and Mr. Tilden was rep
resenting Reform in the adminis
tration of the government?
Coming down to the campaign
of 1896, did not Mr. McKinley in
his letter of acceptance and in his
earlier speeches seek to make the
tariff as a remedy for hard times
again the paramount issue* And
was he not compelled to take up
free coinage at 16 to 1 because
one* party presented it as a pana
cea for calamity and the other
party opposed it as a menace of
greater disaster?
This year the Democratic plat
form declares that “the burning
issue of imperialism, which in
volves the very existence of the
Republic, is the paramount issue
of the campaign.” The Demo
cratic candidate announces that
he shall be governed by this dec 7
laration and that “imperialism
will be the only question dealt
with at length in my speech jjf.
acceptance ”
On the other hand, Repblican
campaigners who have talked with
the President came from their con
sultation saying that “the domi
nant issues in the campaign will
be prosperity, and standing by
the flag, or upholding the Presi
dent’s diplomatic policy,” which
they regard as the same thing
When politicians disagree who
shall decide? Must it not, as al
ways, be the people? The cam
paign is not yet fairly begun. It
is .quite a time to November
Many things n\ay happen before
the hesitating voters decide what
is really “THE paramount is
sue.” And yet in the nature of
things is there any question supe
rior to that which involves the in
tegrity of our republican institu
tions, fidelity to the Declaration
of Independence and the mainten
ance in all its parts of the Con
stitution?
Won Her Wager.
y.V. Cor., Telegraph, July 28.
A romantic little story is con
nected with a pretty young socie
ty lady of Atlanta, who wishes
her name withheld for the present,
who came d<5wn to Fort Valley the
first of the peach season. She
came on a wager. Friends of the
young lady in the Gate City bet
her she would not come down and
pack peaches during the entire
season. She asserted she would.
The stakes went to $350 and she
came. Arriving she found dffi-
culty in securing a team to ride to
the orchard and so she walkeid two
miles in the hot sun to the Hale-
Georgia packing house.
Here she remained,’ boarding at
the farm hotel and rivalling expe
rienced paokers in her steady
work. She had little to say to
any one and her extraordinarily
quiet demeanor attracted atten
tion to something mysteriously
interesting in the .case. Yester
day she left for home to claim-her
wager and the story leaked out.
The Great Trusts.
Congress and twenty-nine of the
states have passed laws expressly
designed and constructed to pro
hibit trusts; nevertheless, they
flourish and multiply as if there
were nothing against them. The
Saturday Evening Post has been
gathering some statistics with res
pect to trusts, -and finds that
within recent years trusts have
been formed in this country with
capital aggregating seven thous
and millions of dollars. In the
number there are thirty corpora
tions which are capitalized at
$50,000,000 or more each. These
thirty are credited with capital
amonnting to two and one-third
billions of dollars. There are 400
corporations in the list of trusts.
The Post says: “The entire gener
al stock of money of all kinds in
the United States, gold, silver,
notes and certificates, amounts
to adout $2,700,000,000; so that
if all the 400 combines in the list
should try to turn their cash, they
would use up every penuy of the
nation’s money and then have only
about 40 per cent, of their de
mands. Indeed, the thirty corpo
rations mentioned would use up
nearly all our cash.” This gives
Some idea of the enormous propor
tions to which the trusts have
grown, in the face of the mass of
legislation aimed especially *. at
them.
THE FAIR STORE,
008 Cherry Street,
MACON,GA.
Fine Q iality of
DIS22SS.
Fine Quality of
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UOTIOUS
IN MACON.
SPOONS
Knives and Forks,
Silverware, &c.
Prices Ri,;hl. One Price.
F. SMITH.
W. H. HARRIS,
DENTIST.
.Successor to Dr. W. A. Blassengame.
' OFFICE OVER DOW LAW BANK,
FORT VALLEY. : GEORGIA.
Deeds Are Not Stamped.
Atlanta Journal.
The internal revenue depart
ment here has found out that
number of deeds to property are
being given and recorded in the
clerks’ offices that do not bear
revenue stamps as required by
law. It is said that the clerks of
the various counties do not state
in the records whether or not the
stampe are affixed to the deeds.
The United States authorities
cannot force anyone to use the
stamps, nor can they force the
clerks to record the -fact whether
or not the stamps are used, but
deeds not so stamped will not be
recognized in any United States
court; nor will the deed from the
county clerk’s office be recognized
in case the deed is lost, unless the
record expressly states that the
revenue stamps were affixed to the
deed as required by law.
The authorities at Washington
have written the revenue depart
ment here to put the public on
notice that deeds would not be
recognized in the -United -States
courts in cases similar to the fore
going.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers-of this paper will he
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded diseaseJ;hat 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
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.
Hall’s Family Pills arejtbe best
The blue-ribbon “3?ool” election
bet has been made in Detroit.
Williams agrees if Bryan is elect
ed to support Stebbins’ mother-
in-law for life. Stebbins agrees
if McKinley is elected to twist the
tail of Williams’ mule daily for
three weeks, unless permanently
disabled-before the expiration of
that period of time.
The prospects is said to be good
for Texas to harvest this year the
largest crop of Pecans in her his
tory. The trees are reported lit
erally loaded with nuts. The pe
can industry is assuming consid
erable proportions in Mississippi,
also, and in that state the out-
lokk is said to be excellent.—Sa
vannah News.
flow An Yonr KMiejsf
The wolf in the fable put on
sheep’s clothing because if he
traveled on his own reputation he
couldn’t accomplish his purpose.
Counterfeiters of DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve couldn’t sell their
frorthless salves on their merits,
so they put them in boxes and
wrappers like DeWitt’s. Look out
for them. Take only DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve. It cures piles
and all skin diseases. Holtzclaw’s
Drugstore.
The census of the state of Geor
gia will probably go far beyond
the 2,000,000 mark. The census
of the state in 1890 showed 1,873-,
353 people, which was an increase It 'will surprise you to experi-
of 10 per cent over the census of! ence the benefit obtained by using
1880. If the same rate prevails | the dainty and famous little pills
this time the population of Geor- i known as DeWitt’s Little Early
gia will be about 2,500,000 as a re- j Kisers. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore,
suit of the census recently. i , .
! Life seems to he made .up of ar-
Xo The Deaf. dent desires and vain regrets. .
A rich lady, .cured of her deaf- ~ ~ -
ness and noises in the head by Dr. ■
Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums, j
gave $10,000 to his Instute, $o :
that deaf people unable to pro
cure the Ear- Drums may have
them free. Address No. 1474. The
Nicolson Institute, 780 Eighth
Avenue, New York.
Dr. H. W- W ALER.
DENTIST.
Office, Union Dry Hoods Co., Cherry st.
' MACON GEORGIA.
o. z. McArthur,
DENTIST,
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Office over Slappey’s Drugstore.
Q ML. DuPREE.
Attokney - at - Law,
Bybox, Ga.
Money to loan on Farm Lands.
J. R. SIMS,
OPERATIVE DENTIST.
Crown and Bridge Work.
Office Near Perry Hotel, Main Street.
PERRY, GA.
C. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Having retired from military service,
the practice of law is resumed.
Office in Masonic Building: up stairs
jg .T- DASHER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LA W,
Pebby, Ga.
^“Office inMasonic Building.
W.
C. C. DUNCAN. J. P. DUNCAN.
DUNCAN & DUNCAN.
PERRY, GEORGIA.
We have made ax-angements to nego
tiate loans on Farming lands, at 8 per
cent, interest, in snms of $30U.ff0 and up
wards, where security is first-class.
MONEY'
To lend on mortgage at 8 per cent.
Yo Commissions Charged.
If you borrow $1,000 you receive
$1 000. You furnish abstract, pay
for recording, inspecting fees and
stamps. Apply to
Lr. S. TODNSLEY,
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 dollara In
loans negotiated. Facilities unsor-
■ed. HOWARD M. SMITH,
No. 814 Second St.. Macon. Ga.
bowels dear ai
For Infants and Children.
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:or.ifyou
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PATENT.
Over31 yeafSerperience. Address '"
•R.S.SA.B. LACEY, Patent Solicitors,
Washington, D. C.
Mention ihis/paper when you write.
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Bemedies. Have cored
many thousand eases
called hopcleas. In tea
days at least two-thirds of all symptoms remov-
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