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JOHN H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE, $1.50 A YEAR INADFANCB. vol. XXIX. PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900. NO. 51. Oi Washington Letter. 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. pOR WINTER WEAR. High-Cut, heavy top sole Lace Shoes, good as a boot. Eor Men, $2.50 to $3.00. For Ladies, Peb. Grain Button, O. S. toe, $1.50. Children’s School Shoes, Glove Calf, Button, $1 to $1.50. Felt Slippers are very comfortahle. For Men and Ladies. CLISBY &c MoKAY, MACON, GEORGIA. TO PARTICULAR DRESSERS; We have done onr best to collect an assortment of Suits and Furnishings tills Fall to satisfy you in every detail. In fact, we have bought the highest Don’t let grade of goods that money could secure, these facts slip your memory when you get ready to buy your Winter outfit. We can make you look ,‘TAILOR-MADE” in every FEATURE from a TIE to an OVERCOAT, and our prices WON’T “JAR” your pocketbook. 519 Cherry Sti Macon, Ga. If You Want Anything m BEDROOM «DITES k rARMR B SDIT|S bEBoAEf) ^ oHAms DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES, SHADES BEDSTEADS, MATTRESSES, SPRINGS, WINDOW AND POLES, BABY CARRIAGES, ETC., You can save money at Paul’s Furniture Store. A complete line of COFFINS and CASKETS always on hand. G-EORGE PAUL, Perry, Ga. TH MAGQN’S FASHION STORE, We have the most Up-to-Date Ladies’ Outfitting Department in Middle' Georgia; Ev^#thing Keady-tO-Wear. Besides all high-grade. mer^ : chandise: • If yon buy from As; | WE GUARANTEE eveiytliiiig- to be. satisfactory or refund your moiiey. SAMPLE ORDERS.;. Will receive prompt and careful attention. Call on us wheir in Macon. WE PAY THE EXPRESS On all cash orders of $5,000 and over—except oh heavy do- 1 mestics. McOALL’S BAZAER PATTERNS, 10c. . .- None Belfer. ' and15c. Everything Marked in Plain Figures, and the Same Low Price to Everybody. 552 and 554 CHERRY STREET, MACON, GA. Onr Eegolar Correspondence. The President’s message submit ted to Congress on opening day has all the characteristic brilliancy of a market report. It is a rehash pf what has been published again and again in the newspapers and nowhere rises above the level of hack’work. Moreover, having been written by the President himself and sent to Congres in manuscript, it did not have the benefit of revision after being in print and in consequence is in many respects turgid and its meaning obscure. Most of the message is devoted to China, but nothing new is stated. On Fi nances the President says the sur plus last year was over §79,000,000 and he therefore recommends that taxation be reduced by $30,000,- 000, with the evident expecta tion—which is sure to be justified by facts—that Congress will con trive to spend the balance. He recomends action to suppress bad trnsts but suggests that there are. others not so bad. He urges the passage of a bill to encourage shipping but even he cannot en dorse the Hanna-Payne. monstros ity now pending in Congress, and therefore he avoids any specifica tions as to the sort of bill that he favors. He urges the adoption of the Hay-Pauncefote 'surrender, which,- if '.not amended, will pledge the word of the United States to permit free passage of the canal to its enemies in time' of war. He concludes with an apostrophe to peace, which reads moBt strangely, considering the condition of af fairs in the Philippines. The army bill has passed the House, giving the President an army of 50,000, which,, in his discretion, he may increase to 100,000. The Democrats, made no attempt to prevent its passage, knowing it to be useless. The discussion of the Hay- Pauncefote treaty in. executive session in the Senate has shed new light on the subject and has shown more plainly than before how ab solute is tbe surrender of Secreta ry Hay .to the wishes of Great Britain. What is probably tbe most out rageous bill of its kind ever pro posed was reported favorably by the House Civil Service Commit tee by snap action sometime ago and will soon come up for consid eration in the House. The bill is simple enough on its face, and un til its provisions are explained, Would seem reasonable enough. It provides that all veterans, for whatever cause they left the ser vice,. shall have priorty of ap pointment-and. promotion'/;Jin all graAqs pf-the .Civil Service, no master how much more useful aud able others may -be. The-vicibiis- ness of the bill lies'in its disregard of the State apportionments: in making appointments and-propor tions. At present, government clerkships are apportioned-among the States according to tli'e-if pop ulation. That is to sayy/ eaeh State has whatis called its- quota of appointments. When ; Vacan cies occur in’a State’s quota they are filled by examinations held in that State. This new b-ilUdisre- gards this-plap. of apportionment. For instance, if there is a vacancy for apportionment or promotion in Louisiana’s quota, and a' Union veteran from Maine who served for three months in the war wants it, he-will get it without regard to fitness.* The bill should be enti tled an act to give all the offices to the G. A. R. and to the north President McKinley and Secre tary Gage are letting it be known that they are very much opposed to the proposition adopted by the House Committee on Ways and Means to cut. down the war taxes by .$40,000,000 per year. A re duction of $30,000,000. was recom mended by the 5 president .and this would have been easily ar ranged had- it* not - been for . the brewers. But the cut 'Of nearly $10,000,000 in the tax on their product, is the; rub. However, -this will stand, whatever else has to be taxed to make up the differ ence. Engineer Was Too Faithful. The Spirit of Giving. This is the story of a mean man, 1 Marietta journal, says the New York Mail and Ex-; One of the most beautiful mis press. He may not be the mean-; toms engrafted on the Christmas- est on record, but he carries e very j tide is the spirit of giving to fair brand of close-fistedness. He'friends and the loved ones who has a contract to supply a certain | are within the inner circle of our amount of crushed- stone. The lives, says the Rome Tribune. It A Keen Clear Brain. Your best feelings, your social position or business success depend largely on the perfect action of ybnr Stomach and Liver. Dr. King’s New Life Pills giverincreas- ed strength, a keen, clear brain, high ambition. A 25 cent box will make you feel like a new be ing. Sold by H. M. Holtzclaw Druggist. It is said that Col. Teddy Roose velt. vice-president-elect, is going to want to sit in the cabinet. When Teddy gets to be vice-president he is going to be heard from all along the line. machine he used conld turn out all the work he could get by running eight hours a day. The mean man had an engineer who was a genius. The genius went to his employer one day and said he thought he could make some improvements in that ma chine so it would do more work in less time. The genius was paid by the month. He worked on the machine for several days, taking it apart and putting it together again. When reconstructed, it proved to have greater efficiency than before, so much so, that it did the same amount of work in one minute and a half what. it used to take four and a half to do. The mean man, however, could get no more contracts than be fore. He could fill all his orders by running about three hours day. The mean man then went to the genius and said: “See here, Henry, I’ve been paying you by the month, but there isn’t as much -work as there used to be, not enough to keep busy. I shall have to pay you by the hour after_this.” Henry demurred. He had been too faithful, but lie didn’t think that ought to reduce his earnings over one-half. His employer was firm, however, and Henry resign ed. Sientific Farming. The Nashville American brings out a timelj' truth when, it says that farming is no more to be carried on as it was a 100 or twen ty-five years ago than manufactu ring, banking insurance or ri ning a wholesale grocery house is to be carried on as it was twenty- five or 100 years - ago. Conduct any of these businesses as they were done then, and they will go iuto bankruptcy in six months. Why, then, expect farming to be carried on now as then? Every thing else has progressed, why not farming, too, the foundation on which all other business rests? Does it now show the wonderful vitality of the calling that it has furnished a living to thousands, when in so many instances it has been- conducted exactly as it was fifty years ago? And does it not show what great profits await those who take it up scientifically as a business and manage it with the same watchfulness as success ful commercial enterprises, t managed?—Albany Herald. The North pole is the suggestive title of the ice skating palace mjptiiltained in Paris during the last'summer. Here the skaters had a clear, straight a way. The ice wasLproduced by means of a rietwrirk containing 200,000 feet of due-inch _ pipe, through which the refrigerating medium, chlor ide -of calcium, was circulated. The pond had an iron bottom, pro- reeded by cement and cork, to tender it non-conducting of heat. A Woman’s Awful Peril. “There is only one chance to save your life and that is through an operation” were the startling words heard by Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge, Wis., from her doctor after he had vainly tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach trouble, and yellow jaun dice. Gall stories had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then Bhe began to use Electric Bitters which wholly cured her. It’s a wonderful Stomach, Liver and Kidney remedy. Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite. Try it. " Only 50/. Guaranteed. For sale by H. M. Holtzclaw, druggist. “The three-inch wooden type on the'front page of an afternoon pa per caused consternation in the dry goods and paper districts on Monday afternoon, Dec. 3,”, says the New York-Press.A .newsboy thought ‘message’ spelled ‘massa cre,’ and up and down Broadway, between Duane and Worth streets, lunged stridently: ‘Massacre o’ th’ President! President’s ‘mas sacre ! ’ Many a man’s heart leap ed into his throat at the* sound.” seems singularly appropriate that the anniversary of the Nativity should be made a season to tender these testimonials of affection’s unstudied esteem. But unhappily for humanity and for the preservation of the joy of this holy season, we are drifting away from all that makes it dear. We are letting the ex travagancies of the age creep into onr Christian giving t° de stroy its tender significance. We give beyond our means. We are not content to remember with some simple and inexpensive gift “Is this costly enough?” is the question, and no thought of the thrill of delight the recipient may feel to be thus in your heart. How often now do we hear. “Well, Christmas is nearly here and I do dread it! I have so many presents to make that it is a bur den beyond my means to buy them. Yet I cannot fail to re member all my friends and rela tives, for they would think me selfish, and the gift must not be cheap, for they would deem me niggardly.” It is all wrong, and a tendency that is surely killing the sweet ness and tenderness of the day when heart, mind and soul should kneel in adoration. Give with in your means. Remember with something useful. Do not feel like giving is a duty, for all the beauty of the deed is destroyed in so doing. Give because love im pels, and with such a motive rea son will sway your expenditure After all, it is the spirit m which we give. If you are right thinking,,you will feel the con- OLD SCHOOL BOOKS BeagFit, Se.H aijd ErxGfyafigecL Full Line Houston County Books. MeUvoy Book * - . i and Stationery Co. i 572 CHERRY ST., MACON, GEORGIA. Robert McCrary.- -John A. Reid. scions glow of a worthy act; the recipient is right thinking, he or she will not stop to ask the cost, but will remember only the affection; which lends priceless value to the gift. Catarrh Cannot be Cncrd with Local Applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the dis ease. Catarrh is a blood or con stitutional disease, an'd in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, aud acts direct ly on the blood and mucous sur faces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine. It was pre scribed by one of the best physi cians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect comcination of the two ingredi ents is what produces such won derful results in curing catarrh Send for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best The United States consul at Magdeburg, Germany, describes an electrical farm operated Germany in which the power for generating the electric current was derived from a stream whose waters were dammed to secure the necessary fall to turn a large tur bine wheel. Nearly all the farm machinery, including pumps, har vesters, feed cutters,- threshing machines, churns and plows, were operated by the electricity thus generated, which was conducted to all parts of the farm on over head wires. The most effective little liver pills made are DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. They never gripe. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. When the stomach is tired out it must have a rest, but -we can’t lire without food. Kodol Dyspep sia Cure “digests what you eat” so that you can eat all the good food you want while it is restoring the digestive organs to health... It is the only preparation that digests all kind of food. H. M. Holtz claw’s Drugstore. Help is needed at once when person’s life is in danger. A neg lected cough or cold may soon be come serious and should be stop ped at once._ One Minute Gough Cure quickly cures coughs and colds and the worst cases of croup, bronchitis, grippe and othe throat and lung troubles. H. M. Holtz claw’s Drugstore. An odd instance of death from fright occurred at Fall River, Mass., the, other day. A woman imagined that she had swallowed her false teeth, and that a surgi cal operation would be necessary. She could not be convinced to the contrary, and died of the shock of fright. To Core Constipation Forever* Take Cascare ts Candy Cathartic. 10c or Sc. H C. C. C. fall to core, druggists refund money. To Core A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s .signature is on eaeh box. 25/. Obw Storg. Our stock is now complete, consisting of a large and choice selection of Watches, Diamonds, Clocks, Cut Glass, Statuary and Silver Novelties, and everything usually found in a first-class Jewelry Store. Now is the time to select your Holiday, Wedding and Birthday Presents. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. MCRARY JEWELRY COMPANY, 320 Second St., MACON, GA. -Taking Sale —: OF s- Shoes, Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Millinery, Ladies’ Skirts, Capes and Jackets. IN FACT THIS IS THE STORE WHERE YOU CAN Shoes, Shoes. We sell on" y the very best that are manufactured. Ev ery pair that leaves our store is guaranteed to give satis faction or money refunded. They go at Factory cost dur ing this stock-takingQsale. Clothing 1 . As complete a stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing as can be found in Georgia. All go at Manufac turers’ oost during the stock-taking: sale. Dry Goods. This line we sell absolut ely without profit. During the stocK-taKing sale hundreds of dollars worth of Dress Goods, Domestics, Notions and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods will be sold for mush less than New York cost. Ladies’ Capes and Skirts for one-half the first of ’he season prices. Gapes from 85c. to $20.00 each. We have Plush Millinery. We have just received two foil lines of Drummers’ Samples, and can sell yon Millinery or Millinery Fnrnishings at half what regular Millinery Establishments are compelled to charge. When yon are in Macon come to see ns. We will save you money on anything that yon have to bny. BROS. 414 & 416 Third St. MACON, GA. ' ‘ Next Door to Roff Sims’ Old Stand. Garden- ESPECIALLY SELECTED ADAPTED FOR S0UTHERN PLANTING. ...... [ Refugee and .Valentine Beans, Genuine I Bermuda 0nion Seed, GrifHcg’s Stzcces- } sion Cabbage. Matchless and Money- j Maker Tomatoes,' etc., ete. -' s -and Field Seed For lafrists and Children. The Kisd You Han Always Bought [ complete stock of Fresh Field and Garden Seed Always on Hand. ONLY CAREFULLY TESTED SEED SENT OUT. Subscribe for The Hour Journal. EXCELSIOR SEED FARMS, THE GRIFFING BROTHERS COMPANY, | P. O. Box 533 B. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 537*Catalogue free upon application.