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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. #1.50 A TTEAJEt INADYANGE. VOL. XXIX. PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1900. NO. 37. ■It) Itttwiil' 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 GO., MACON, GEORGIA, SOLE AGENTS FOR “QUEEN QUALITY,” the famous Ladies' $3.00 Shoes—all styles. “WALK OVER.” the best value in Men's $3.50 Shoes on the markei. We carry always in slock a complete assortment of everything that is new and good in footwear. Mail orders promptly attended to. Washington Letter. STRONG SHOE CO.. MACOJN, GEORGIA. BROWN & JOHNSON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERIES AND PLANTERS’ SUPPLIES. GET OUR PEICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER ELSEWHERE. 416 Poplar Street, MACON, GEORGIA, (L. S. WORSHAM’S OLD STAND.) .' CALDER B. WILLINGHAM, JR., Wholesale and Retail Ijealer in Crockery, Stoves, Lamps U> House- Furnishing' Goods. MASON’S FRUIT JARS AND TIN CANS. TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GA. Going Out of Business. CLOSINC OUT ENTIRE STOCK OF Furniture, Honsefurnishings, Buck’s Stoves and Ranges AT 75c. ON THE DOLLAR. 75c. Should you need anything in this line it will pay you 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 33f per cent profit. The entire stock must be closed out by October 1st. So come quick and get your share. cl tl c^-jLJEtJDtnn>r 7 THE FURNITURE MAN, TZb-ird. St., H^Ea-corL, <3-a,. Kngines, Boilers, GET OUR PRICES BEFORE8BUYING (Litton (fit, Cotton Presses, I £ Mills, Grist Mills, Seed Gotten Elevators, Saw or ANYTHING in MACHINERY or MILL SUPPLY LINE. We Operate Machine Shops and Foundry; MALLARY BROS. MACHINERY CO., Mention this paper. MAO ON, GEORGIA. Our Regular Correspondence. The most stirring fight inaugu rated by Ihe democrats in the east for twenty-five years has begun. Mr. Bryan is to make a dash through West Virginia, and will deliver, first and last, no less than twenty speeches in that state. Branch headquarters of the Na tional Committee, fully equipped for business and manned by ex perienced political managers, will be opened in New York. The Hon. Wiliam J. Stone, of Missouri, one of the most sagacious politicians in the country, will have general charge of the New York headquar ters, and will be assisted by Cam- pan, of Michigan; Guffey, of Penn sylvania, and Richardson of Ten nessee. These managers will also personally direct the campaign in Maryland, 1 Delaware, and West Virginia, and it is confidently be lieved that jjhey will carry these states, representing seventeen votes, for Bryan and Stevenson. They will closely examine the ground in Connecticut and New Jersey, and, if there is any chance to make a .successful fight in these two states, no effort will be spared to do so. There is a story, old but never theless good, which tells how a certain washerwoman brought suit against another of that trade for the value of a tub, which was said to have been injured or des troyed by the other. The woman who was sued made a triple an swer ; First she said, the tub was broken when she borrowed it; sec ond, it was all right when she re turned it; and third, she never had the old thing, anyhow. The mor al of this story lies in its applica tion. The republicans assert that it is unpatriotic and treasonable forjthe democrats to oppose imper ialism ; second, that whatever he may have done in regard to Porto Rico, the President’s acts in China show that the party no longer fa vors imperialism, and third, that there “ aint never been any sucha thing” as imperialism- How they /reconcile these three statements is not to pe comprehended even by the rank and file of their own par ty. But, then, there is no neces sity for the rank and file of the re publican party to comprehend this or any thing else. Hanna and the other leaders give them an- inspir ed gospel, which they aretobelieve and act upon by faith alone. Of all the preposterous things that the republicans have aserted and still assert, the most preposterous, in the eyes of fair-minded men here, is the dogma that the acts of the President in regard to foreign affairs are to >be taken as those of the country and are not tobe crit icised. In times of grave nation al peril, it is the first duty of the citizen to support the government, but to say that the war against the Filipinos involves a military peril to this country is to speak non- senecse. To say that' this war, accompanied as it is with the claim that the President and Con gress may govern a people with out their consdrit and the territo ries of the United States without constitutional restraint, ought not to be discussed by ' the ; people, is to deny them'the right to pass on a vital issue, affecting the charac ter of their government. It is idle to claim on-behalf of the ad ministration exemption from crit icism. That this might prolong the struggle was one of the ob vious risks of a war that was not undertaken for natioual defense. It is ridiculous to charge the inev itable consequences of this war to those who from the outset have denied its necessity and pointed out its perils. The Confederacy’s Dissolution. “In all Southland there is, per haps, no more interesting" house than is to be seen in the quaint, aristocratic, flowery little town of Washington, in Wilkes County, Georgia,” writes Mrs. Thaddeus Horton, of “Romances of Some Southern Homes,”in the Septem ber Ladies’ Home Journal. “It is known far and wide as Heard House, taking its name from .Ste phen Heard, the first settler of Washington, later a Governor of Georgia, who reaohed there after a- long journey from Virginia onNew Year’s' Day, 1774. He- camped his family on the spot where Heard House now stands, where after wards he built a fort of defense against the Indians. The first dwelling erected on the ground, however, was a large, wooden ■tructure, known aB the Tavern of Captain John Williamson, whose girls were famous Georgia beauties courted by half the young squires in the state. “In 1865, just prior to the cap ture of Jefferson Davis, what is known as the last Cabinet meeti- ing of the Confederacy occurred in Heard House. The room in which ■ the discouraged Cabinet ministers sat is at the rear, of the second story, andhas never since been used. For many months what little money the Confedera cy had was kept in the old bank vaults on the lower • floor. The vaults is there to-day, and is do mg duty as a milk and butter clos et. Mrs. Mulligan, who at pres ent occupies the house, is a decen- dant of the original Heard family. ’ Says Bryan Will Win. It Troubled The Customer. The Bravery of Woman was grandly shown by Mrs. John Dowling, of Butler, Pa., in a three years’ struggle with a malignant stomach trouble that caused dis tressing attacks of nausea and in digestion. All remedies failed to relieve her until she tried Electric Bitters. After taking 'it two months, she.wrote: “I am now wholly cured and can eat any thing. It is truly a grand tonic for the whole system, as I gained in weight and feel much stronger since using it.” It aids digestion, cures dyspepsia, improves appe tite, gives new life. Only 50 cts. Guaranteed at Holtzclaw’s Drug Store. “A funny thing occurred here the other day,” said a barber as he was putting the finishing touch on a Saturday evening hair cut “A fellow came in to be shaved who was somewhat under the influ ence of intoxicants. He took his place in the chair and all proceed ed well till I haU shaved one side of his' face when he stopped me. “‘Hold on, ’ he cried, ‘I want this thing ’splained.’ “I asked him what was the mat ter and he replied: ‘There’s a fly on my cheek, and you have shaved the lather and whiskers off, but the fly did not move. Now, what’s the matter with him? “I told him there was no fly on him, but he pointed to the mirror and said, ‘You think I cant see him. I ain’t so very drunk that I can’t see a fly. “I turned to the glass and there stood the fly on the mirror and in such a position that f^om my cus tomer’s range of vision it seemed to be on his cheek. He afterwards said that he had felt that fly tick ling him all the time and wonder ed flow I could shave under it and not cut its legs off.” In nothing else as in the world we habitually use in the common talk of daily life do we show so plainly our degree of refinement, our culture or the lack of it, and the plane on which our thoughts move. It is therefore worth our while, do you not see, to take some pains with our conversation, not in such a way as to make us seem stiff and pedantic, but to recognize the fact that here, as in other departments of life and lear ning, it is training that tells in results.—September Ladies’Home Joumrl. A Tattnall county farmer who has been experimenting with to bacco growing claims that he will get $540 from a three acre crop this year, and that it has not cost him over $72 to grow it; Mr. Ol iver claims that he has reduced the cost of growing tobacco by keep ing about 25 turkeys to the ucre. To prevent consumption, quick ly cure throat and lung troubles with One Minute Cough Cure. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. To Cor* Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOeorSa. If C C. C. Xail to curt, druggists refund money. The progressive nations of the world are the/great food consum ing nations. Good food well di gested gives strength. If you can not digest all you eat, you need Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests wha,t you eat. You need not diet yourself. It contains all of the di- gestants, combined with the best known tonics and reconstructives. It. will even digest all classes of food in a bottle. No other prepa ration will do this. It instantly' relieves and quickly cures all stomach troubles. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. Macon News. Hon. Roland Ellis, who arrived from New York last night (Sept. 4th) said that Bryan would un doubtedly carry New York. Mr. Ellis says that Bryan will carry New York city, or Greater New York, by 120,000 majority. Everything and everybody up there is for Bryan. Every block has'from one to two Bryan ban ners floating out across the street, and every election district has meeting halls and in these are held two meetings a day, one at noon and one at night, and sever al speeches are made at these meetings. Mr. Ellis addressed one of these meetings, and he says that in it was represented all classes of peo ple, and he is saticfied that they were all for Bryan. “Why, every democrat in New York city is claiming that Bryan will carry the state, and some of them are backing their opinion with the cash,” said Mr. Ellis, “and more than that, they claim that Indiana will go democratic this year, and Kentucky and Ma ryland have been, reclaimed. I tell you, all through my trip I have heard nothing but Bryan, and the chance for his election is brighter than I could ever picture It. I was in a club room there one day and there was' in the soom about twenty-five or thirty men, every one of whom voted for Mc Kinley the last time, but this time every one of them is for Bryan.” Mr. Ellis, while always an en thusiastic .Bryau man, is more confident of democratic success this year than lie has been before. He says that it is simply wonder ful the way the people are flock ing to the standard of Mr. Bryan, and unless he is very much mista ken the gentleman from Nebraska will be elected in November by a good sized majority. w. a. nAVis. BEN T. RAT. EDWIN S. DAVIB. w. A. DAVIS & GGTTON FACTORS, CO., 405 & 407 Poplar St., # MACON, GEORGIA. We are headquarters for high priees and full weights. We charge only 50 cents per bale 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. Old School Books Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Full Line Houston County Books. McEvoy Book and Stationery Co. 572 CHERRY ST., MACON, GEORGIA. SAM MAYER. W. B. WATTS. The census returns, so far as computed, indicate that the pop ulation of the United States is just about what was estimated, 75,000,000. Of this population, however, 33 per cent, lives in towns and cities having more than 8,000 inhabitants, whereas the census of 1890 showed only 29 per cent, dwelling in towns. This looks as if the United States would soon have to abandon the task of feeding the world for want of food producers; and yet there are few abandoned farms. The relative increase in town dwellers may not detract from the actual number of dwellers on farms.— Philadelphia Ledger. “Since the passage of the Ding- ley Tariff Act,” says the Phila delphia Record, “no les than six- hundred in dustrial trusts to con trol production, prices and wages of labor have been organized and the work of creating these monop olies is still going on. The re publican platform makes profess ion of great hostility to the trusts, yet it declares for the Dingley tar iff, which serves merely to shel ter the trusts while they prey up on the masses of American con- The Democrat managers have decided to make a hard fight for four eastern states—New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Ma ryland. They will also wage hot campaigns in all of the doubtful districts of Pennsylvania. The outlook is that the beef will bring higher prices next year than it has in several years. How many head of cattle will South Geoegia have to put on the market when the higher price comes? Among recent acquisitions to the republican party a Memphis paper notes the following: Gener al Apathy, Colonel Bored, Major Worried and Captain T. Feeling. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are prompt, palatable, pleasant, pow erful,purifying little pills. Holtz claw’s Drugstore. Ho>v’e Tills! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned,have known F. J. Cheney the last 15 years,and believe him perfectly honroable in all business transactions and fi nancially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truan,' Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. Price 75c. per bottle, Sold by all-.drug- gists. Hall’s Family Fills are the best MAYm 4 fill: COTTON FACTORS, MACON, GA. Advances made to farmers at low rates of interest. WE DO A STRICT COMMISSION BUSINESS. Shipments Solicited,. Mayer & Watts, Macon, Ga. PUNGENT POINTS Made by Mr. Bryan in His Notifica tion Speech. Force can defend a right, but force has never yet created a right. It is not necessary to own peo- yle in order to trade with them. The highest obligation of this nation is to be true to itself. A war of conquest is as unwise as it is unrighteous. If there is poison in the blood of the hand it will ultimately reach the heart. There is no place in our system of government for the deposit of arbitrary and irresponsible power. The command, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” has no gatling gun attachment. The destiny of this republic is in the hands of its own people— upon the success of the experiment here rests the hope of humanity. Love, not force, was the .weapon of the Nazarene; sacrifice for oth ers, not the exploitation of them, was his method of reaching the human heart. THE FAIR STORE, 008 Cherry Street, MACON, GA. Fine Quality of DISHES. Fine Quality of A train on the Ulster & Dela ware Railway was stopped recen tly on account of the caterpillars which collected on the tracks in sufficient numbers to stop the train by the lubrication of the rails, which resulted from the crushing-of their bodies under the wheels. Acoording to the Rail way Review it is necessary for men to sit upon the cowcather and keep away the obstructions by holding brooms on the rails. 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 Instute, so 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? Kducat. Tone Bov.li With Caicsrate. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. It C. C. C, tall, druggists refund money. There is no telling to what ex tent the imperialist policy,.of the administration is; going tq in crease the pension rolls. Already the applications for pensiohs on account of the, Spanish war are more in.,, number than the men who saw actual fighting service in- that war. The war in the Philip pines, will furnish, probably, twice as many more, and even that will not end it. A vote for McKinley will be a vote in favor of still in creasing this colossal expenditure. —Savannah News. According to a Washington spe cial to the New York Herald,there are approximately 75,578,000 per sons in -he United States, accord^ ing to the count of the Federal census. Sufficient progress has been made to enable the total population of the country to be estimated with reasonable accura cy. .The population in 1890, ac cording to the census of that year, was 62,622,250. jf This shows aii increase during the decade of 12,- 955,750, or about 30 per cent. Ca-lsussrwaiice. Largest Dealer in nsroTiozhTS IN MACON. SPOONS, Knives and Forks, Silverware, &c. Prices Right. One Price. ZE3- SIMIX'DIEX. A Powder Mill Explosion Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral pills, but both are mighty dangerous. No 'need to dynamite your body when Dr. King’s New Life Pills do the work so easily and perfectly. Cures Headache, Constipation. Only 25 cents at Holtzelaw’s Drugstore. “That;? Besema that makes yonr arm bo red and Itchy. This Watt’s Eczema Ointment wfll cure It. It cures Tetter, Ringworm and all sorts of skin diseases, and only oosts 25 coats o hoi. All the drug stores sell It, and lots ol people use It. The Taylor and Ptek Drug Co.i la M»oon, make It.” Sold'byR. L; CATER, Druggist, Perry. Ga:' “For six years I was a victim of d ensla in Its worst form. I could eat noth' milk toast, and at timet my stomach 1 ^hdnand “ - began taking not retain and digest even than Last Mteehi ing CASCARETS and since Omn i ever was lnzny l David H. Mubpht, Newark, O. CURE CONSTIPATION. ... m NO-TQ-BAC SWdSSffiftS&SSSr -'7 V