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-ippl » T-3 *■•*>*«* PSIOS, $1.50 A YSAR, IE ADVANCE. Fubllslied Every Thursday Morning. Farm Labor in Houston. From all sections of the county I we are informed that there are not enough farm laborers to supply the | demand. Of eaurse there are many farmers who have all the “hands” Colonial Government Expensive. Democracy is correctly opposed to colonial government, because it is directly antagonistic to; our federal constitution and the principles for which our forefathers fought in the they need, but in every neighbor-' revolutionary war. j-no.H.noDGES. Editor and Publisher j hood there are some farmers who; There are other reasons for oppo- j have been “short” of labor since the sition to colonial government, and beginning of the year.- j one of these is given by our Wash- Were we to judge by the number. ington correspondent, as follows: L...... . . . n nn j of negroes who come to Perry every j “Judging from an article by Rob- file °at the office oE^>or Washinsrton cor- Satoday afternoon, we wonld un-j ert T. Hill, who has made a careful respondent, E. G, Siggers, 918 F. Street, hesitatingly say there ought not to;study of the subject, Porto Rico __ _ — ’ 1 n ” u ~ may "well shrink from being kept un der a permanent colonial govern ment, as the islands of the West In Perry, Thursday, May 28. i’eapuuuDui;, T\ n N. W., Washington, D. C. be any scarcity of labor. But wd have learned to our dis gust that a large number of negroes in a community does not always mean an equally large number of farm laborers. On the other hand, A thousand bales of cotton were J we have learned that there is an in- destroyed by fire in Selma, Ala., last creasingly large number of negroes Seven new railroads are now in course of construction in North Car olina. in Houston whose purpose seemingly j is to work no more than is absolute ly necessary to earn enough to eat and wear. It seems, therefore, that the scar city is because of the disinclination to work, and their unreliability, rath er than an actual lack of numbers. 'Recently this writer has been pro- | voked by negroes promising to work, and then failing without excuse or I notice. In several instances these violations of promise were by ne groes who had been regarded as re- I liable. Rumor says the Brunswick & Bir- If this conditions continues, our mingham railroad will be built farmers will have to protect them- through Eufaiila Ala., citizens of selves against the lack of farm la- that city having subscribed $80,000. borers, and their unreliability. The method may be the use of labor-sav- Thursday. In West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio an earthquake shock was dis-1 tinctly felt last Thursday, It is said that $8,000 was recent ly paid for 32 English Berkshire | pigs for Vanderbilt’s farm at Bilt- more, N. C. Southern farmers will not realize a full measure of profit in their bus- j mess until they utilize the labor-sav-j ing implements at their command. in g plows, planters, cotton choppers, cultivators, etc., or it may be through a change in the system of farming. At any rate, the shiftless, unrelia ble negro should not be permitted to jeopardize the farming interests. - — 1 I Confederates in Northern Graves. From New York it is reported that a rival of the Morgan steel trust is j in process of formation. The capital of the new combine is said to be i $200,000,000. The manufacturers of cotton duck have joined forces by means of a big corporation with millions of capital, and several Georgia mills are in the On this subject our Washington combination. | correspondent says: “The war department has awarded While there are one million cot- I contracts for the removal of the ton spindles in operation in Georgia, Confederate dead from the cemetery there is profitable room for many at the Soldiers’Home and other lo- more. Only six states operate more cal graveyards to the National Cem spindles than Georgia. The new building of the New York Stock Exchange will be built of G-eorgia marble, and this material is gaining popularity steadily be- cause of its superior durability and j pj 0 ^ beauty. etery at Arlington, where they will be grouped on a beautiful plot of acres. The graves will be arranged within a circle surrounding a mound upon which will be placed flowers and shrubbery, the remainder of the being planted with similar Atlanta political agitators say Georgia’s public property fund will be the basis of the chief issue in the next Georgia campaign, and that Hon. Dupont Guerry will be a can didate for governor. The late speculation panic in the New York stock exchange caused many failures in London, England, in Washington and other cities of the United States. Only the “small fry” suffered fatally in New York. There should be some process of the government that would squeeze all the “water” out of the great man ufacturing and commercial stock companies. Then the immense pow er of great combines would be ma terially curtailed. , Cuba’s convention delegates to the United States report to the conven tion in favor of the demands of this country concerning the relations be tween the United States and Cuba, as set forth in the Platt amendment adopted at the last session of con- growth, including, trees native to Southern soil. A bill appropriating the money necessary for the removal of the bodies was passed by congress some time ago and the work would have been carried out last fall, had it not been for some opposition that was aroused in the South. Accord ingly, the removal was postponed for several months, to allow time for the list of the dead to be published in the South with the statement that if the friends of any particular person desired to take their dead elsewhere, they would be at liberty to do so.” Two companies of Georgia state troops will go to Andersonville on national decoration day, May 30tb, and co-operate with the sheriff of Sumter caunty in preventing disor der. For many years it has been the custom of rowdy negroes to go there in large numbers on this day, and engage in all manner of disorder,but good order will be maintained this year. Several northern governors will deliver addresses. dies, beautiful and healthy and fer tile as they are, have been reducec almost to absolute ruin by that sort of management. As Mr. Hill points out, there are eight European colo nial governments in the small group of islands composing the Lesser An tilles. Each of these groups, with the average area of an American county, has an administrative esfab lishment. as large as that of an American state, and each official draws a salary from two to five times as great as that paid the av erage American public servant. The expenses and. revenue of Jamaica, for instance, are exactly the same as those of the state of Texas, which has seventy times the area and five times the population of this British dependency. The population anc wealth of the islands are not snffi cient to support more than one small and efficient administrative force, but they are taxed to support eight governments, for places must be made for political favorites anci younger sons who cannot be cared for in their native lands. Porto Ri co has already had a taste of this the result being evident already in the misery that exists there.” Weather conditions now do not warrant such effusions as th« follow ing, written last week by a Hollins head correspondent of The Home Journal: .“Poets, philosophers and their kin, like a little nonsense now and then. Our Uncle Sam certainly has a large bureau for ever so many to view, and they seem to have seen the same thing for the last three weeks when they looked in the south side of the mirror, and that was fair to-night and. to-morrow.’ It almost makes one wish that ojar very dear uncle had no place to store his garments,and then he or his servants wouldn’t have occasion to look at that bureau and mirror, so much.” Many women have been re- proaced for living for the sole ob ject of entertaining. No one doubts that such an aim is petty and narrowings but it is equally certain that it is a woman’s duty to understand The Art of Enter taining, and this forms the sub ject of an attractive and useful article by Lady Jeune in The Cosmopolitan for May. Fifty thousand machinists, chief ly in the east and middle west, quit work on a strike last Monday. They demanded a nine-hour day with the same pay as had been given for ten hours, and among other things an agreement to submit future differ ences to arbitration. From the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News we learn that “Hon. G. Y. Gross of Wilcox county will be in I On Tuesday of next week the old members of the Adelphean and Phi- lomathean societies of Wesleyan Fe male College will meet in reunion at the college, and a most interesting program will be presented. Wednes day evening the visitors will be giv- the next race for congress from the •third district. He is the present J on a reception by the Macon mem- " ‘ bers of the societies. All old mem bers who desire to attend are re quested to write to Mrs. J. B. Ccbb, Macon, Ga. ^representative of Wilcox, and is one of that county’s wealthiest and most influential citizens.” The United States Supreme court has sustained the Supreme court of Georgia in the decision that a city can levy tax on its own property when that property is leased to an other corporation, or individuals. The case in question was carried up from Savannah. For the ten months just passed, the exports from the United States doubled the imports in value. In the month of April the total value of the expvots was $120,780,590, while the imports amounted to $76,750,381. With such a balance in our favor, there doesn’t seem to be any need for a protective tariff. „ We have received a copy of the United Confederate Veterans March, composed by Theo H. Nortlirup and} Thursday, on account of - the se published by O. K. Houck & Co., of nous illness of his wife. She ia re- Memphis, Tehn., especially- for the | covering, though it whs expected on reunion next week. Competent (nit- j Friday and Saturday that she could ics commend this march as superior &ot live, music, admirably adapted to the President McKinley discontinued I his tour of the west at San Francisco purpose of its creation, and destined to become quite popular. % Organization vs organization seems to be the strike case. The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., was formally dedica ted last Monday. Citizens of nearly every country of the world were in the parade. Andrew Carnegie has donated £2,- 000,000 to the universities in Scot land. —Mr. Josiah Bass, one of Hous ton’s prominent citizens, writes as follows: “After trying various remedies, without obtaining any benefit, I was cured sound and well by Mncalee Chill Stop. It is the best remedy in.existence for chills, fever and malaria.” Every bottle guaranteed. It costs you nothing if it fails to cure. Sold by drug gists at 50 cts. Manufactured by H. J. Lamar & Sons, Macon, Ga GEORGIA, Houston County. A. D. Skellie, administrator of the es tate of J. G. Visseher,.deceased, has ap plied for. dismission, from said trust. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to appear at the Angnst term, 1901, of the court of Ordinary of said county and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. Winess my official signature this May 6,1901. SAM T. HURST, Ordinary. FASHIONABLE OLOTHlNS F0R MEN MS B0YS. SPRING 1901. We are ready with our complete stock of Spring. Suits from .... Clothing for $7.50 to $25.00. Orders by mail carefully filled and satisfaction guaranteed. Jno. C. Eads Co., MACON, GA. It’s Foolish to take chances with an un certainty. It’s wise to inves tigate where everything is in your favor. Our store pro- uides she best clothing you can have, at the best prices you could find. There is ev ery reason why yon should in vestigate and be safe in the inspection. BURNETT & GOODMAN, Third Street, Macon, Ga. CALDER B. WILLINGHAM, JR., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Crockery, Stoves, Lamps AND House- Furnishing Goods. A COMPLETE LINE OF CRINAWARE TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GA. Hitting the Nail on the Head Is what you do every time you buy your Lumber, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Blinds, Trimmings and all kinds of mill work and builders supples from our superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that :hey get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship in their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere. . X-l- Phone 187. T31JLRTIIS <Sc FORT VALLEY, GA. -7 Sash and boor Co.. -DEALERS IN- Mantels, Paint, Lumber, Lime, Cement, Builders’ Hardware, Etc NO. 457 Third Street. Macon, Ga. : - A*-i ■?, -