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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE,
#1.50 A YEAR INADVANCOB,
vol. XXIX.
HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1900.
NO. 35.
C, B
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.
The Republicans Uneasy.
STRONG SHOE C0„
MACON, GEORGIA.
SOLE AGENTS FOR
“QUEEN QUALITY,” the famous Ladies’ $3,00
Shoes—all styles.
Shoes
“WALK OVER ”
on the market.
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.
BROWN & JOHNSON,
I'flOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERIES m PLANTERS’SUPPLIES.
GET OIB PRICES BEFOKE PLACING
YOUR ORDER ELSEWHERE.
416 Poplar Street,
MACON, GEORGIA.
(L. S. WORSHAM’S OLD STAND.)
CAL9ER B. WILLINGHAM, JR,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Crockery, Stoves, Lamps*™ House-
Furnishing Goods.
MASO&’S FRUIT JARS AND TIN CANS.
TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GA.
G-omg Out off
CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK OF
Furniture, Housefurnishings,
’s Stoves
AT
75c. ON IK HUM, 75c.
In the course of a poitical ar
ticle Joseph Ohl wriets the At
lanta Constitution from Washing
ton :
“Republican managers and re
pudlican organs are pa akin,
strong effort to raise a score out
of the possibility Qf the democrats
capturing the : house of represent
atives. Every other day Chair-,
man Babcock, of the republican;
congregational committee, orVice
Chairman Overstreet gives out
some sort of a statement intended
to impress republicans with the
■extreme probability ’of their los
ing the house of representtaives
the usual, side issue to this state
ment being that the democrats
are bending all their energies
the capture of the house rather
than the presidency.
“These talks or statements are
very evidently made for the pur
pose Of assisting the campagn
managers in securing heaty con
tributions from the great interests
which hope for legislation for the
next congress. The republican
prophecies of sucsess in the pres
idential election have been
viciferous and overwhelming that
they have resulted in closing up
the pocketbooks of some of those
who have been expected to produce
it in large quanaties. In order to
offset this, Chairman Babcock and
his assistants have raised the,, cry
about the lower house.
“As a matter of fact, there
every indication that unless the
democrats capture the presidency
they will lose the house, and the
best politicians in the party
believe it woulp be better for such
a result to be brought aboutTThey
want to capture the presidency
and the house, and they believe
they have a fair chance for both
but" they do not see how it is pos
sible' for them to make necessary
gains unless the verdict in favor
of the democratic Ticket is so em
phatic as to carry through Mr
Bryan and the national ticket
“As for a special fight being
made for the control of the. lower
house, there is nothing of thejsort.
The congressional committee,of
which Mr. Richardson, of Tennes
see; is the head, is taking an
tive part in the campagn, just as
the cong.iesional committees al
ways have, and is doing excellent
work; but the national committee
is devoting its time to the campagn
for the national ticket and there
is not a Spot in the country where
the national ticket is to be sacri
ficed for congressional or local can
didates.
“From the standpoint of the
country at large, it would be, of
course, best for the democrats to
carry’the house; even if they lose
thepresidency; for a democratic
house would act as an ,'effective
stopper on republican extrav
agance* and ijie many republican
schemes which are contrary to the
best interests of the - people. But
from a political standpoint it
would be better for the democrat
ic party, if it loses; in tlii$_ year,s
presidential- contest, to let the re
publicans have full sway in all
branches of the government so
they may go ahead and complete
its record, which must event
ually result' in their overthrow,
With a republican president and
f; republican, senate, the control of
the house by the democrats would
mean nothing ‘more than divided
responsibility in republican leg-
islation.
‘Should you need anything in this line it will pay yon
handsomely to come to Macon while this great closing out
sale continues. Think of buying $50.00 worth of goods
for $37.50. It means to you a saving of 33J per cent profit.
The entire stock must be closed out by October 1st. So
come quick and get your sh^re.
a. T. .
THE EUKBHTUKE MAN,
"±5^± llalxll St., 3L£aoon., O-et-
■ACHlUSftl!
GET OUR PRIQES BEFORE /BtiYiNG
Cotton
Gins,
Cotton
Presses,
Elevators,
Engines,
Boilers,
Saw
Mills,
Grist
Mills,
or ANYTHING in MACHINERY or MIL.L SUPPLY LINE.
We Operate Machine Shops and Foundry.
mallart pros, machinery
MAOON> GEORGIA.
Sleuth
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
HoltzclawV drug store.
The Price is Bising
When we purchased 10,000,BOO
Filipinos from Spain the price
paid was $2 a head. This did not
sound large, but has proven really
extortionate. It is turning out
that all we got for our $20,000*000
was the “right (?)” to Trill and
conquer the people for whom we
traded'.
The Filipinos have already cost
us many times $20,000,000 and
and will cost us many hundreds
of millions more ‘ before we can
convince ihem that they have
right to be free.
Spain found us such an easy
mark when the treaty of Paris-was
was negotiated that she has raised
the price per capita of the inhab
itants of the islands which she
held out when our unsuspecting
commissioners supposed that they
were buying the entire Philipine
archipelago. Two of these islands
for which we have recently paid
$100,000 have together a popula
tion of about 8,000 which makes
the price we pay for their people
something like $12 a head
This is a big jump from the $2
a head we paid tjvo years ago. Pos-
ssbiy Spain made the price’ very
low then because we took a big lot
Or it may be that the administra-
tiom has become so infatuated
with the ownership of Oriental
islands and their inhabitants
that it is willing to pay six times
as. much apiece for the latter as
it was two years ago.—Atlanta
Journal.
“Dare To Be a Daniel.’’
New Variety of Corn.
The Adyhrtiser has run across a
new variety of corn that has
stumped’every 'farfoer to. whom
wie have shown.it. It grows the
same as any other corn, with the
exception that evey grain has a
shuck on it, and the tassel ©4. it
resembles head's of wheat and has
some twenty strands a foot long,
each head containing somehudred
or more grains of corn, each grain
encased in a shuck. We propose
putting it on exibition 'at the
Macon Street Fair, andif wedont’
take the cakeTThe blue ribbon and
several gold medals, it will certain
ly not be the corn’s fault.- In the
language, of Col. Mulberry Sellers,
we’ve found a gold mine, if corn
shucks have a market value.-^Mad
ison Advertises;
The sou of a president of one of-
one of our most prominept East
ern colleges was about leaving his
native town for Paris to enter upon
a special course in surgery.
As he-was bidding a friend good
bye, his betrothed obeying a sud
den imqulse, whispered, as her
parting word: “Charley, dare.to be
a Daniel!”
“Only that old saw?” said h§,
while a look of disappointment
shadowed his face.
“That only, Charley, hut it may
mean much to you,” was her
answer.
The bearer of a letter of intro
ductiontoa distinguished noble
man and scientist in Paris,
young American was received with
marked.kindness.
In a few days the recipient of an
inyitatation to a banpnet at the
counts residence, at which were
present'some of the savants
the city.
During process of the feast the
host, filling his ruby tinted glass
(an examqle which his guests fol
lowed), proposed a toast “to the
wives, daughters and sweethearts
of America,” to which he invited
a response from his youthful guest
What followed can best be told
in the young man’s own words
Mother,” he wrote, “for
moment I was in an agony of tre
pidation. I would rather have
faced a canuon. All had risen
and in the hand of each was a cup
of wine, which I had been pledged
from my childhood not to ‘touch
taste, nor handle.’ My head
swain.' Suddenly I heard the
words: ‘Dare to' be a Dauiel
They shot through my head like
an electric flash. Instantly my
resolutionjwas taken. I touched
my white glass—a servant filled
it with water, j Rising, I said
well as I could for the great lump
In my throat: I beg • leave- to say
that,to the typical wife, daughter
aud sweetheart of America, the
purity of ttls, nature’s own’bever-
age, illustrates the lives they aim
to'lead and the dangers which they
seek to avoid. Permit me to use
it in their names.’ ^Following the
example of Count B.', every white
Not A Task.
The New York World says;
‘Perhaps on the whole the best
maxim of the late Collis P. Hunt
ington was:
‘Dont wajbch the clock’
No matter how prompt and
diligent he may be, success is not
for him if he makes of his labor
a task. And the fact that most
men do make a task of,their labor
is the explanation of the vast pre
ponderance of partial and com
plete failures. How often is a
man’s success due fully as much
to. the neglect and carelessness
aed incapacity of his fellow-
workers as to his own assiduity
and intelligent persistence?”
w.
BEX T. RAT.
' EDWIN S. DAVIS.
W. A. DAVIS &
COTTON FACTORS,
CO.,
405 & 407 Poplae St.,
MACOJ5T, GEORGIA.
glass was instantly raised and
the toast drunk.”—New Voice.
A Story With a Moral.
It would appear from official
statements’ that “benevolent
assimilation” is one of the most
expensive things the United States
ever undertook. According to
these statements the trouble in the
Philippines “all over” has c3st the
United States 2,895 American
lives and $186,678,000. Perhaps
it would pe better to let up on
“benevolent assimilation” for a
while- and and give our “plain
duty 5 .’ a chance.—Savannah News'.
The quicker you stop a cough or
cold the less danger there will be
of fatal lung trouble; 0ne Min
ute Congh Cure is the only harm
less remedy that gives immediate
results. - You will like it. Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore. -
Sow An Tour Kidney* I
on tliis paper.
Dr. Hobfct’ Sparapu Pill* cnreaU kidney 111*, aim.
pie free. Add. Sterllns Remedy Co., Chicago or N. Y.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will he
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 Gatarrh 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 ofr
fer one Hundred Dollars for any
case that it; fails to 1 cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address. F. J. Cheney & Co., To
ledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’sFaimly Pills are the best
Two farmers were once discuss
ing their local paper. One thought
it had too many advertisements
in it. The other replied: “In
my opinion the advertisements are
far from being the least valuabl
part of it. I look them over care
fully and save at least five times
the subscription ;cost of the^paper
each week through the business
advantages I get from them.”
Said the other: “I believe you
are right—I know , that they pay
me well, and rather think it is not
good taste to find fault with the
adver tisements after all.”
It pays any man with a family
to take a good local paper for the
sake of ^ the advertisements
nothing- more. And if business
men fail to give farmers a chance
to read advertisements in the.local
paper, they are all blind to their
interests to say the least of it.
“You never trade with me,
said a business man to a prosper
ous farmer. ‘You haye never asked
me and I never go where 4 am not
invited; I might not be welcome,"
was the reply.—Nashville, N. C.,
Graphic.
Twelve hundred Italians of the
Second Assembley district, New
Yoik,and members of the Dauiel
Yaleati Association, raised' an! ex
ceedingly handsome ,Bryan and
Stevqnson bbnner last week in front
of their headquarters.. The banner
is 30x40Yeet and the jportraits of
the candidates are particulary good,
having bee'npainted by LonisDio-
rni, who came over from Italy espe
cially to paint this banner.
Statisticians have figured it out
that the ice crop of Maine was
Svorth as much as the hay crop;
that the 3,000,000 tons of ice an
nually gathered on the Hudson
River yields a larger profit than
does California’s yearly output of
gold, and that the ice crop of the
United States (25,000,000 tons at
an average price of $4 per ton)
is worth more than the entire pro
duct of the country of the pre-
cions metals, which last year
amounted in value to about $96,-
000,000.
That Throbbing Headache
Would quickly leave you, if you
used Dr. King’s New Life Pills
Thousands of sufferers have proved
their matchless merit for sick and
nervous headaches. They make
pure blood and build up your
health. Only 25 cents. Money
back if not cured. Sold by H. M.
Holtzclaw, Druggist.
To The-Deaf.
A rich lady; cured of her deaf
ness and noisesin the head by Dr.
Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums,
gave $10,000 to' his Instate,: so
that debf people unable to pro
cure the Ear Brums may have
them;free.' Addrbss No: 1474. The
Nicolson Institute, 780 Eighth
a "V
It is said a beggars’ league in
St. Petersburg mutilates children
and cripples, them to aronse sym
pathy from the benevolent when
they are sent to, beg in pnblic pla
ces. The chief of tbis gang, who is
a wealthy mail and has posed as a
philanthropist, receives 75 1 per
eent.of the money begged by the'
unfortunates. ✓
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¥e are headquarters for high priees and full weights.
We charge only 50 cents per hale for handling cotton. We
make liberal advances to our customers at- lowest possible
rates, whether they have cotton in store or not. Onr first
duty is to our customers, and we give them absolutely loy
al service. We respectfully solicit your cotton.
BOUGHT, SOLD AYD EXCHANGED.
FULL LINE HOUSTON COUNTY BOOKS.
McEVOY BOOK
AND -STATIONERY GO.
572 CHERRY ST.,
MACON, GEORGIA.
SAM 31 AYER.
W. B. WATTS.
mmm m
COTTON FACTORS,
r
MACON, GA.
Advances made to farmers at low rates
« of interest.
WE DO A STRICT COMMISSION BUSINESS.
Shipments Solicited.
Mayer & Watts, Macon, Ga.
Teach Children Economy in Little
# Things.
Teach children not to waste tri
fles which they often throw away
without thought, and which if saved
might be of use to ..others if not to
themselves. Wrapping paper, pieces
of twine, odds and ends of various
kinds may do service a second time
if put away- until the need for them
arises. The habit of economy is one
that ought to be cultivated, for care
ful saving makes lavish giving possi
ble. Hoarding is not a vice of. child
hood, nor should it be encouraged,
but the wise husbanding of resources
for future expenditure is a valuable
lesson that cannot be learned too
earlv.—Ladies’ Home Journal. -
THE FAIR STORE,
U08 Cherry Street,
MACON, GA.
If our looking-glasses tell us ’un
palatable truths, we may always see
ourselves at our best in the mirror
of loving and friendly eyes. Let us.
at least study how to keep pur hearts
warm, to preserve as much sunshine
as we may, and often count up what
treasures we have gamefed' dHrihg.
the days of privilege.' The warmth
in our own hearts will depend upon
our power to warm those of others;
•Ladies’ Home Journal;-
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 oflDeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve couldn’t. sell their
worthless 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.
-Fine Quality of
DISHES.
Fine Quality of
Glassware.
Largest Dealer in
IN MACON.
SPOONS,
* Knives and Forks,
Silverware, &c.
’ Prices Bight. One Price. .
am S^CXT’EC.
Judge Hickman of Saline coun
ty, Kansas^thinks that he has dis-
cevered a new cure for rheumatism
which has loug been a tenant to
his right knee. While he was asleep
in a hammock two bees crawled
up .the leg of. his trousers and
stung him in the spot named.
Since then he has been free from
his old enemy, and he thanks the
bees for relief
“That’s Eciema that makes your arm so red
and Itchy. This Watt’s Eczema Ointment -win
cure it. it cures Tetter, filngworm and all
sorts of skin diseases, and only oosts £5 casts a
hos. All the drug stores seU It, and lots ol
people use It. The Taylor and Psefc Drug'Co;,
It will surprise you to,, experi
ence the benefit obtained by using
the daintv and famous little nills
The good we do, whether in
practical activity or simply in righ t
thinking, is all of it, in some meas
nre,usefal to those around us. But
it is no less useful to ourselves,and
even from that, point of view, we
cannot do too. muefoof it.
In Macon, make it.’
told by K.
Sold by R. L. CATER, Druggist, Perry. Ga:
-a by constipa-
iiKieted for twenty
tlon with which I to „
yara- ,lP a ?, cr ° ss you- CAS CARETS In the
town of Newell, Ia-v and never found anything
1 ~ m entirely free from
piles and feel like a new man. ■■
CL He Kina, 1411 Jones st. f Sioux City, ii
All buildings belonging to the
Chinese ^government are -yellow,
and it is a capital offense^ for any
private person to nse that color on
SeverSiWen.WealemSr Gripe*®
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