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How The Tariff Aids The Trusts. The Commoner. A recent number of the Hard ware Dealer’s Magazine contains an interesting comment on the methods of the'wire nail trust. It says: “A statement which recently emanatad from Pittsburg has at tracted some attention and com ment among hardware men. The points that were sought to be made were as follows: In 1891:1 there were produced in the Unitec States. 7,418*475 kegs of wire nails These cost the consumers $1.81per keg. There were exported during the same year 807,194 kegs, at about $1.55 per keg, the foreign er paying a higher price than the home customer. These same nails sold at $1.11 per kegg on ah aver age during 1894. “During the last year there were manufactured 7,599,522 kegs at an average price of $2.57 to the domestic buyers. In the mean time, 752,781 kegs were exported, at about $1.40 per keg. The American customers of the steel wire nail makers paid about $17,- 596,124.87, for the balance of the manufactured nails (about 6,846, 741 kegs). Had the American consumers been privileged to buy at the quotations granted the foreign buyers, the Americans would have saved about $8,010,- 686.97 on their purchase.” More than eight millions of dollars! This measures the extor tion practiced upon the hard-ware merchant, but this must be in creased by the merchant’s profit, if his profit is estimated upon s percentage basis, before it meas ures the extortion practiced upon the consumer. And yet some are so devoted to a protective tariff as not to protest against import duties which en ables trusts to sell at home for a high price while they sell abroad at a low price. It is a characteristic of Amer ican politics that no sooner had Maj. McKinley been inducted in to office on Monday than the par ty leaders, who had gathered at the Capital, began discussing his successor four years hence. While they did not decide who was the “coming man”, it is alleged that the majority inclined towards Sen ator Fairbanks of Indiana, wit® Gov. Odell of New York a close second, for the Republican nomi nation. Oddly enough, but few of the political astrologers seem ed to consider Roosevelt as a se rious proposition. — — ' Some few years ago several hun dred people settled on a Minneso ta river, organized and incorpora ted, a village to be known as Reed’s Landing, voted bonds! for public improvements, issued the bonds, sold them to Russell Sage, got the money, and later left the settle ment. The .village corporation was dissolved, for the lack of in habitants, and Mr. Sage was left in the lurch. He is now petition- ‘ ing to the Legislature to make the lands on which the village former ly stood good for the bonds. Prof. Ivison, of Lonaconing, Md., suffered terribly from neu ralgia of the stomach and indi gestion for thirteen years and af ter the doctors failed to cure him they fed him on morphine. A friend advised the use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and after taking a few bottles of it ho says, “It has cured me entirely. I can’t say too much for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. ” It digests what you eat. H. M. Holtzclaw. A Fair Exchange. .—. Mocon Telegraph- According to the New York Evening Post, “there are signs that the immigration of Northern families to the South, "which has been notably large for the past five or six years, will be larger this vear. Western states contri bute as much to this flow south ward as do the Eastern states. In the past six years the Illinois Cen tral railroad has located fully 15, 000 persons from the West along its line in the South, selling them good lands at low prices and on Shott And Nott The story of these gentlemen and their duel—a famous one for merly—is revived, and the tale is thus repeated: A duel was lately fought in Tex as by Alexander Shott and John S. Nott. Not was shot, and Shott was not. In this case it is better to be Shott than Nott. There was a rumor that Nott was not shot, out Shott avows that he was not, which proves either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or that Nott was shot notwith standing. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott, or as accidents with fire arms are frequent, it may be pos sible that the shot Shott shot shot Shott himself, when the whole af fair would resolve- itself into its original element, and Shott would oe shot and Nott would be not. We think, however, that the shot Shott shot shot, not Shott. but Nott. Anyway it is hard to tell who was shot. Conld Xot Report Golf. When the amateur golf championship was played at Wheaton in 1S97 there was but one Chicago newspaper man who had the remotest conception of what the game was. Accordingly, the newspapers, with the exception of the Chicago Tribune, agreed to syndicate the work and put it all in this one man’s hands. The Tribune refused to enter the combination and depended upon the exertions of a member of its own staff. But the Tribune reporter speedily realized lus helplessness- and appealed to his brother of the syndicate for aid. The latter obligingly handed over his copy, and the Tribune man set to work to make a few minor changes so that its kinship'to the original should evening he met his generous bene factor and told him of the changes he had made. “In particular, the account of the play at the sixth hole between Porgan and Douglas. You said that ‘Porgan rimmed the cup for a half.’ Well, you know, old chap, that Porgan is a bank er down town and a big man, while Douglas is just one of those Scotch men. It sgemed to me rather cheap to have Forgan doing that sort of thing for a half, so I just made it read that ‘Forgan rimmed the cup with Douglas for a hundred/’’—Washington Capital. easy terms; while probably 8,000 Inot be too apparent Later in the. others from the Northwest have settled in ; Georgia. Largely through the influx of Northern farmers, agriculture is broaden ing in the South, a much greater variety of crops being raised. In ducements to emigration are the fertility of the land and its cheap ness, the mild climate in con trast with the severe winters of the North, and the opportunity of raising early fruit and vegatables for the liberal Nothern market. Some sacial and political changes may follow this emigration, but none are visable as yet, competent observers say. — After a short stay in the south the newcomers are no more favorably inclined towards the, negro than are Southern whites.” This is a welcome movement, almost as welcome as the drifting of negroes northward. The one movement is made the more possible by and completes the other. More negro emigrants for the North and more Northern white emigrants for the South will result in vast improvements and benefit for this section. Ants That Fight Spiders. Few more wonderful adaptations are seen in the whole round of nature than the webs spiders spin to entrap the wary ant. They are not high hung, lacy affairs, caressing every breeze, but low set, silken tubes stretched in the grass, the crevices of rock or about tree roots. Ants of every size creep heedlessly, into them. The spiders eat them with relish, but occasionally 4 a. very little spider and a very big ant engage in a duel to the death. I-f the spider can bite, the ant can sting, and does it with a right good will. The spider does not try to get rid of such an ant as he does of a wasp or bee too strong to be safely attacked. Such an insect, which threatens destruction to the web, is often cut out of it by the web builders. , The entangling cables are not loosed, but the web rays neatly snipped in two, first those underneath and at the very last the highest fila ment- Often the letting go of such a_ captive means destruction to half the nest. But some spiders are wiser than some people. They know not merely when they have enough, but when they have too much. For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Bears the Signature of Lord Wolseley, the comman der-in-chief of the British army, complains that he has been made only a figurehead, and he doesn’t like it. Gen. Miles, the general- in-cQmmand of the United States army, is in a position to send him sympathy and condolence. Miles knows how it is himself. State of Ohio, City of Toledo ) Lucas County. ) Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cim>. Frank, J.‘Cheney. Sworn to before me and; sub scribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1876. (JUS i A. W. Gleason, ( ^^3 Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in- teenally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the s system. Send for testimonials,- free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA. c£ Statistical c Dotume of Fads and Figures Containing Over 600 Pages* 1,000 TOPICS. OVER 10,000 FACTS. 2*a slL*n to S> sf25 Like Oliver Twist, children ask for more when given One Minute Gough Cure. Mothers endorse it highly for croup. It quickly cures all coughs and colds and every throat and lung trouble. It" is a specific for grippe and asthma,and has long been a well known reme dy for whooping cough. Holtz- claw’s Drugstore. vAv Subscribe for the Home Journal. A Mr. Hostetter chartered a special train at Montgomery the other day to carry him to Tboin- asville, 211 miles away. There was no special reason for Mr. Hos tetler’s hurry, but he had a'pock etful of money made by selling people stomach bitters, "and did not mind a little matter of a few hundred dollars. The Best Prescription foie Malaria, Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. SPECIAL FEATURES* The census of I960. National and State elec tion returns. Four centuries of American prog ress, Political record of 1900 (conventions and platforms), American rulein the Philippines. New.i govern ments of Porto Rico and Ha waii, Polar exploration in 1900. Conclusion of the South African war. Pan-American Exposition of 1901. China—Its present con dition and status among nations. Roster of general officers of the Regular U, S. Army, 1789—1900. A Political Register. Facts that every patriot! and voter ought to know, f taL | Postpaid to any address. THE WORLD, Putitzer Bldg., New York* BRING US YOUR JOB WORK. SATIS- FACTION GUARANEETD. Price 5ds Willingham Sash and Door Co., -DEALERS in- Mantels, Paint, Lumber, Lime, Cement, A Builders’ Hardware, Etc No. gfl Third Street, Macon, 43a. Beagili, Sold agd Exchanged. 572 CHERRY ST,. MACON, CEORCIA 469 Third st. 469 Third st. NEW CENTURY REPOSITORY. 1©01 IF'iru.sla.. 1©©1 Stales. 1©01 I£cLea.s llxro-u.g'la.o-u.t. JVEBYTHING IN VEHICLES FROM A ROAD CART OR BICYCLE to an AUTOMOBILE. MACON, GA. 469 Agt. I am better prepared than ever to supply your wants WOOBEWARE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, J11 mm, jgHKu, m I buy goods for spot cash, and therefore I sell as low’aS anybody m Macon. - 308 THIRD STREET, NEAR POSTOFFICE. - Aft k