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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. ✓ • .... ;— 7 - ;-u ¥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*® ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... ; jjjgjjggg£| zn . NO-TO-BAC