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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. $1.50 A TEAK INADVA3VC3E. VOL. XXIX. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900. NO. 40. 6 36 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. LETTER FROM PHILIPPINES. Noel Martin, Soldiering in the tJ. S. Army, Writes tor his Father at Fort Talley about Conditions on Panay Island. STRONG SHOE CO., MACON, GEORGIA, SOLE ACENTS FOR “QUEEN QUALITY,” the famous Ladies’ Shoes—all styles. “WALK OYER.” the best value in Men’s Shoes on the marlcei. .i00 .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 MACON, GEORGIA. CALDER B. WILLINGHAM, JR., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Crockery, Stoves, Lamps House- Furnishing Goods. MASON’S FRUIT JARS AND TEN SANS, TRIANGULAR, BLOCK, MACON, GA. GET OUR PRICES BEFOREIBUYING Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses, Seed Gotten Elevators, Engines, Boilers, {Saw Mills, Grist Mills, or ANYTHING in MACHINERY or MILL SUPPLY LINE. We Operate Machine Shops aniLFoundry; MALLARY BROS. MACHINERY CO., Mention this paper. MACON", GEORGIA. We have the accommodations at our 11114114X1 -lal »41* We snpply all 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, G, HARDISON WH15KFY C0„ 508 Poplar. Street, . MAOQN, Ga. ■Gardeners and Truck Growers VJ,u - SAV u£8iY M BY ( BUYiNQ \ SUMMER Genuine Bermuda Onion Seed and Sets, Valentin* and Refugee Beans, Matchless and Monet-Manee Tomato, Btc, Etc. • EVERYTH fNG FOR THE SUMMER AND FALL. GARDEN. - _ ONLY HIGH GRADE TESTED SEED OFFERED. ^ jy Largest Combined Seed and Nursery House In tt r South. . TIIB POMONA NTTR8BRIB8- 1 Address THE GRIFFING BROS. CO.. ( and EXCEL3IOE SEED FARMS. I Catalogue free. Jacksonville, Fla.y Dao, Panay I., P. I., July 27, 1900. I sent you two letters by the mail leaving here yesterday, and will try to write a few lines to go by the next mail. Mail from the States arrived at Capiz this morn ing, but it is impossible to state when it will reach us. The rainy season has set in and it is now an utter impossibility to travel by land. All transportation is by water, and as it takes a very heavy guard for the Kila Kolas, the Q. M. does not send them up very often. It is a three days’trip by water from Capiz to Dao. The boats are polled up the river by native boatmen. We anticipate trouble during the rainy season on account of this mode of trans portation, as the natives lie in ambush along the banks and fire on the boats. By the time the boys can disembark and get up the bank the natives have va moosed. Gharding these boats is a job that every one dreads, as they are absolutely defenseless for the time being. At the first shot the boatmen take to the river and our boys have to pole the boat to the bank; of course they are un der fire all the time. This has been a favorite mode of warfare with the insurgents in the past, and no doubt they will open in a few days. It is an impossibility for any one to form an opinion that is worth anything of the many tri als and troubles of a soldier’s life in the Philippines by a three' or four days’ observation of the sit uation as seen from the office of the military governor of the Phil ippine Islands, as some men have attempted. It makes me smile-to read about what this man and the other man has to say on the sub ject when he has been in only one place, Manila, for a few hours. Of course he is an authority on the question, as he has been on the ground and has observed the na tives and soldiers under all condi tions and circumstances. I read a piece in the Cincinnati Enquirer, written by a Boldier on Luzon, which said that “beno“ was called “tuba” on Panay. suppose this is accepted as a fact by the reading public of the United States. Now for the facts “Beno” is a very strong drink, water white; it is almost pure fu sil and anise oil. The natives use it in very small quantities, but the soldiers who drink it try to use it in the same manner and quantity that they would use whiskey, and it has a very had ef fect on them. A man under the influence of beno is crazy, and no other word will describe his con dition—his mind is gone. “Tuba” is the sap of the ebeoanut tree, and is to be classed iri-the same catalogue as -sweet; cider.It is collected about 7 a. m. and 7 p. m., and must be drank as soon as collected, as it ferments and turns to vinegar in about 6 hours. As Lieut. Pasco said-, “If a man could drink a barrel of it in an hour he might get drunk, but I doubt }t.” This is the drink the soldiers use at this station. The cost is 1 oentavo per glass (pint glass), which amounts to 5 cents American money for a gallon of tuba. Of course some of the boys are foolish enough to drink beno, but we have built a dark room and keep them in solitary confine ment on bread and water for four teen days, and a fine of 1 month’s pay, for each offense of beno drunkenness. ; There is almost no drunkenness now in the company. The natives are very temperate. After living in different parts .of this island for a year, I have seen only one native who was drunk. Sobriety is the only virtue I have been able to discover in. the Fili pinos. They are very hospitable, but cannot decide whether it is from courtesy or fear. The rice fields are now covered with about 12 inches of water,and it is a sight worth seeing to watch "the natives plow. They do not plow until the water is on the land, and then they hitch from 10 to 20 caribous together and drive them over the field. It certainly is odd to see a caribou up to his belly in mud and water dragging a plow. The rice is planted by nearly naked men and women— single spears, or blades, are set out. Imagine- planting a field of opts by transplanting from the bed to the field , single plants A persistent rumor says that we are to be sent to China. If this proves to be true, I ithink- it -will be a stepping stone toward being ordered to the States. I cannot write about many things that have come to my no tice since being here, but when I come home I can tell you much that will prove to be interesting. MAILING-A MAGAZINE. MB. BRYAN ON THE HOME. \ IW. A. DAVIS. BEX T. RAY. EDWIX S. DAVIS. Eighteen men, aided by the' Hon - Wm- J Bryan’s recent ut- fastest mail appliances, are kept France»on the home and civihza- on a rush every-month getting The, tiou follows: . . . Ladies’ Home Journal off to its l 1 my idea of what civili- subscribers. The first shipments | nation should be. I want to see if are started about the middle of it is your idea. . Some people say each month, and from that time until the twenty-fifth the maga zines pour out of the Journal’s publishing, office by the two-horse- dray load; On the twenty-fifth of each month every Journal has reached its destination, and work in the mailing department slack ens for a few days. Some idea of the tremendous size of the Jour nal’s subscription list may be gained when-it is known that for ty tons of mailing type are requir ed to set up the names of subscri bers. There are three-quarters of a ton of each numeral, and it re quires twenty thousand galleys to accommodate the subscribers’ names in type. This stock would equip six or eight large daily news papers. As many as sixty-five compositors are employed setting the names of the Journal's sub- scribeers in type—printers enough pastage paid by i nal approximate $75,000 a year. A Frank Statement. It is not often that a northern paper has any regard for the truth when it has occasion to speak of the race question in the south, but the Chicago Herald is an ex ception to the rule. That paper is frank enough to say: “Forty years ago the negro was a slave; to-day he is a problem. The south disenfranchises him and lynches him; the north lynches him and buys his franchise. Of the two the north uses him the worse. The south understands the nqjijro better than the north, and, on the whole, treats him better. It at least gives him what he most needs—employment, and gives it freely. But his chances in the north grow fewer every year.” _ A Nlglit of Terror. “Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave General Burn ham of Machias, Me., when the doctors said she would die from Pneumonia before morning,” writes Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, who at tended her that fearful night, but she begged for Dr..King’s New Dis covery,- which had more than'once saved her life, and cured heir of Consumption. After taking, she slept all night. Further use en tirely cured her.” This marvel lous medicine is guaranteed to cure all Throat, Chest and Lung Diseases. Only 50e and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Holtzclaw’s drug store. This is not Galveston’s first in undation, according to the New York World. In 1857, when it was a village, the Gulf and bay joined and buried it under water ten feet deep for several bonrs. In 1867, it was almost entirely submerged, the water being Bix feet deep in Mechanic street, the business highway. In 1871 it was visited twice and was completely flooded each time. Id 1878, again in 1875 and again in 1886 Gulf and bay met over it; The storm of 1875 tore off and bore away one end of the island. 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 what 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. that we democrats are enemies of property. It is not true. I have a home. I hope I may some time have a better one. I would that every head of a family had a home, aud the better the home the hap pier would I be. “I want property to be the reward of industry, and I want every cit izen to be secure in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his toil. “I do not envy the rich.- I am not desirous of pulling them down. I want a civilization that makes every poor man hope to be better off and relieves the rich man of the fear that his children will be trampled upon if they ever be come poor. (Applause.) I want a civilization that embraces with in its benefits every deserving member of society. I do not want a civilization that will prevent a man from riding in a carriage, and I want a civilization that, gives hope to the driver of the carriage as well as to the man who rides in it. (Applause.) I want a civilization that gives hope to the girl who works in the kitchen as well as to the one who sits in the parlor. (Great ap plause.) “I want a civilization that makes life worth living to every human being. And when I speak thus I am not an unselfish man. I am selfish. I do not know what may be my life in the years to come. I do not know what will be the lot of my children, and if dared to favor a system that help ed the few at the expense, of the many, my children might be among the many who would suf fer rather than among the few who would profit by the law.” (Applause.) W. A. DAVIS & COTTON 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. Our first duty is to our customers, and we give them absolutely loy al service. We respectfully solicit your cotton. Old School Books Beagfit, Sold arid Exchanged. Full Line Houston County Books. McEvoy Book and Stationery Co. Deafness Cannot be Cared by local applications, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by con stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eus tachian Tube. Wben this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is Jhe result, and unless the in flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi tion-of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dol lars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J.. Cheney & Co., Toledo, G. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best . A young couple had just be come engaged and had talked over arrangements for the wedding, and he was about to depart when she suddenly said: Oh, George, I forgot to tell you something 1 What is that, dearest? asked the young man. I ought to have told you before that I am a somnanbu- list, she said. Oh, that don’t make any difference, he answered; am a Presbyterian; I will go with you one time- and you will go with me the next. Worltlng Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing .that ever was made .is Dr. Eng’s New Life Pills. These pills, change weakness into strength, listiessness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They’re won derful in building up the health. Only 25c per box. - Sold by H. M: Holtzclaw. A grave containing the remains of a person who died sixteen years ago of smallpox, was opened in the churchyard of a Middle Tennes see village, a few weeks ago, and one or more, of the men who made the excavation have since been at tacked by the dreaded eruptive fever. The germs had been pre served in the" tomb all those yearn. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are prompt, palatable, pleasant, pow erful, purifying little pills. Holtz claw’s Drugstore. rKMiiyit A Shocking Calamity. “Lately befell a railroad labor er,” writes Dr. A. Kellett, of Wil iford, Ark. “His foot was badly crushed, but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve quickly cured him. It’s sim ply wonderful for Burns, Boils, Piles, and all skin eruptions. It’s the world’s champion healer. Gore guaranteed. 25o. Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw. If the democrats can’t lick the republicans this time, they will have the satisfaction of - licking revenue stamps the rest of their natural lives. That should be some incentive to action. If the road to a man’s heart is through his stomach or his pocket, surely the licking of-stamps should be an in centive to action.—Marietta Jour nal. - The most dainty and. effective pills made are .DeWitt’s Little Eafly Risers. They are unequaled for all-liver and bowel troubles. Never gripe. Holtzclaw’s Drug store. In New York city there is max imum density of 1,000 residents to the acre, which is more than double that of the most congested, cities of Europe. _ To prevent consumption, quick ly erre throat and lung troubles witn' One Minute Cough Cure. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. 572 CHERRY ST., MACON, GEORGIA. SAM MAYER. W. B. WATTS. MAYER & WATT CATION FACTORS, MC 0m GA. Advances made to farmers at low rates of interest. WE DO A STRICT COMMISSION BUSINESS. Shipments Solicited. Mayer & Watts, Macon, Ga. BROWN & JOHNSON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERIES AND PLANTERS’ SUPPLIES. GET OUR.PRICES BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER ELSEWHERE. 416 Poplar Street, MACON, GEORGIA. (L. S. WORSHAM’S OLD STAND.) THE FAIR STORE, 008 Ohearry Street. MACON, GA. Fine Quality of SDZSSSS. Fine Quality of Olasswaxe. Largest Dealer in I Digests what you eat. It-artificially digests the food and aids Nature la strengthening and recon* structing the exhausted -digestive or* .cans. It is the latestdiscovereddigeat- ant anditonic. „r-No_ .other preparation cah/approach it in efficiency. It in* stSriflyrelieves and.permanently cores IIV MACON^ SPOONS, Knives and Forks, Silverware, &c. Prices Bight. One Price. ies. x*. If yon haven't a regular, healthy movement of the bowels every day, you're sick, or will be. Keep your and be well. Force, in the shape of : or pill poison, is dangerous- The dest, most perfect way of keeping the and clean Is to take . violent Kwels clear 3 Flea«int. Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c, 50c- Write for free sample, and booklet on health. Address Chicago. Montreal, Stw York. 322a KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN PATENTS *“”„®s h ' s j FREE _ MB feetillu «tters strictly co SI66ERS, Patent Dyspepsia Cure aU other results of imperfect digestion. pm all size. 1 Prepared by E. C. DeWITT a OO. Chicago. - ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY | Notice in “ Inventive Age Book “How to obtain Patents” | Charge* moderate. No fee tin patent is secured. ’ Letters strictly confidential. Address. ’ E. 6. SIGQERS, Patent Ltmjet, Washington, D. C. * DAHLONEGA, GA. - A college education iri the reach of all. A. B., B. S., Normal and Business Man’s courses. ...Good Laboratories; Healthful, invigorating climate: military discipline; pood moral and' religions influences. Cheapest board in the state;;abundance of country produce; expenses from $75 to $150 a year; board in dormitories or private families. Special licerise course for teachers; full faculty of nine; all un der the control of the University. A col lege preparatory class. Co-edncation of sexes. The instirntion founded especial ly for students of limited means. Send for catalogue to the President, Jos. S. Stewabt, A. M. BRING US YOUR JOB WORK. SATIS FACTION GUARANEETD, H