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.XOHJV H. HODGES, I»ropr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
'81.50 a Year in Advance.
VOL. XXX.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2*2,1901.
WASHINGTON LET TEE.
Our Regular Correspondense.
The efforts of the United States
Civil Service Retirement Associa-.
tion to secure legislation whereby
the first steps in a civil pension
list can be taken, have not been
relaxed. Within the last few days,
the Association has issued a circu
lar to government employees out
side of Washington, askings their
support for its plan, which in-
volves the establishment of a fund
by forced contributions from the
salaries of employes, without ex
pense to the Government, but un
der the management and control
of congress. The circular states:
“We do not contemplate and do
not favor a civil pension list
maintained by the Government,”
such an assertion being, of course,
necessary to enable the scheme to
have any chance of life. After
ward will be time enough to seek
Government appropriations to aid-
in the work by citing the cases of
England, France and other Europ
ean countries where civil servants,
as they are called, have the bene
fit of pensions and a retired list
like the soldiers and officers of our
army and navy.
The republican papers, which
are so indignant beccause of the
effort of South Carolina democrats
to persuade Senator McLaurin to
resign the seat in the Senate to
which he was elected by the party
whose principles he now antagon
izes, should read the history of
the early days of the country.
Nearly a hundred years ago, John
Quincy Adams was censured by
his people in almost exactly the
same way and, as a consequence,
he promptly resigned. His first
serious break with his party was
occosioned by his approval of Jef
ferson’s purchase of Louisiana,
but a much more serious differ
ence arose over the embargo which
preceded the war of 1842- Sena
tor Adams tried to persuade the
federalists of Boston to hold a
meeting and pledge their support
to the Government in any meas
ure, however serious, that it might
see fit to adopt to curb the inso
lence of Great Britain. Massa
chusetts, howeverj like some other
states, was not any too patriotic
where its pocket was imperiled,
and the result was that the Mas
sachusetts legislature at once nam
ed a Mr. Lloyd to succeed Senator
’ Adams, a proceeding that was in
tended and accepted as an insult.
Mr. Adams instantly resigned,and
Mr. Lloyd was chosen to fill out
the remainder of his term also.
The impression prevails here
that Great Britain, owing to the
milk and water tactics of the State
Department, does not realize that
there is real danger lurking in the
Nicaraguan canal questionjust
as she failed to realize that it was
lurking in the Venezuelan boun
ty qu stion until President Cleve-
. land forced her to back down.
England, it is known, really cares
nothing about the canal, but her
statesmen cannot refrain from
trying to score worthless diplmat-
ic victories, without real gain to
themselves and with real danger
lo the friendship of the United
^totes. Diplomacy that relies up-
°n quibbles and hair-splitting to
achieve it3 results rately accom
plishes substantial results. Un
questionably there is a large body
°t Americans who are suspicious
^hen Great Britain seeks to ob-
tain anything from: the United
States through the channels of di
plomacy. This suspicion will van-
^hwhen British statesmen act on
business principles.
As to a Souththem Canidate.
REMEDY FOS TRUSTS.
New York World.
In spite of the prematureness of The
all discussion as to Presidential thing
^ure. Then rest easy and have no
fear. The child will be... all right
p a little while. It never fails.
Peasant to take, always safe .sure
aud almost instantanepus in ef-
ec t- Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
canditates in 1904, many news pa
pers and leaders are ^debating the
question of nominating a South
ern Democrat. Even Mr. Bryan
has said that the nation is now—
especially since the Spanish war—
thoroughly assured of the loyalty
and national patriotism of the
Southern people, and is convinced
that the South has many leaders
who would adorn the White House
and do credit to the nation in
such position.
Some of the Southern papers
intimate that “Barkis is willin’,”
and a few urge that, it is time for
the South to assert its weight in
the councils of the party. But
the Florida Times-LTnion dissents
totally frc*m the view. It declares
that the South has no leader of its
own about whom the party as a
whole could gather. “An Andrew
Jackson could win a national vic
tory for the Democracy, though
he came from the South,” it says,
and asks, “Have we a Jackson?”
A conversational echo might as-
swer, “No more than the North
has a Tilden.”
But the further objection is rec
ognized that “the South has no
pivotal State,” and it is also urged
that “business abhor&sudden and
radical changes such as a South-,
ern President and Democratic ma
jority in Congress must bring
about, and that therefore business
would antagonize a Southern can
didate much nlore deeply and
strongly than a Democratic lead
er from the West or East.”
Our Southern contemporary has
at least.the frankness of its faith,
and it will hardly be denied that
there is some reason in its conclu
sions.
A Pen Picture of Hope.
Beyond this beautiful and rip
pling stream, just over the edge
of the grassy knolf, there blossoms
a rare and richly scented flower.
They tell us that it is so rarely
beautiful that it may have blush
ed to life at the touch of an an
gle’s kiss, and caught its rosy
flush from a burning star. Be
yond the pathless -mountains that
lift their blue peaks in the fading
distance they tell .us there is a
charming valley that drinks the
diamond dew of morning and
bathes in the liquid sunbeams,
clad in. a verdure, of everlasting
green and dotted all over with'
flowers of every hue and shade.
Beyond the blue waves of the
pathless oceau they tell us there
is a clime from which the mellow
sunlight of spring never departs,
that is laden with the songs of
birds of notes akd plumage, and
peace, ease and plenty rule the
lifes of a people who never heard
of war or pestilence. Beyond the
curtains of darkness that hang
over this gloomy night there
dwells a picture of morning, a
picture of fresh new life—that
teems to wake and move and
breathe away the mists, and they
tell us its foreground is hope and
its back ground is pleasure. Be
yond the aches and struggles*, the
fears, the disappointments, the
bitter trials and the wearing la
bors of Time we are taught is an
Eternity whose higher possibilities
give promise to calmer hours and
sweeter rest.—Ex.
To Save Her Child
From frightful disfigurement
Mrs. Nannie . Galleger, of La-
Grange, Ga.,
Atlanta News.
above heading is some-
ol a misnomer, for trusts
have their economic advantages,
but the words are used for the
sake of brevity. The remedy for
the abuse of power by trust would
be a more correct, expression of
the idea. The Cincinnati Inquir
er, which is owned by John R.
McLean, supposedlya presidential
poesibility on the democratic side,
has this to say on the subject:
“The only remedy the people
have against Mr. Morgtin, if he is
an evil, is, to get after him
through the ballot box.. 'This
sounds like an old story, of course.
Jhe people have been told thous
ands of times that the great con
servator of tneir rights and liber
ties is the voting power, and they
do not always see immediate re
suits. *11 the same, if their sal
vation is not in the ballot box,
where is it? Mr. Morgan is not a
candidate for office, and no good
citizen wants to. throw him down
and violently take from him that
which he has acquired, but the
monopolies and trusts which
build up immense private for
tunes are the results, largely, of
vicious legislation. The men who
vote in congress to give the advan
tage in tariff legislation to the mo
nopolies ought to be relegated to
private life. How to get at the
trusts has been the grave problem
for several years. How should
monopolies be discouraged with
out injuring great enterprises
which require -large capitaliza
tion? The tariff’s the thing.
The^ncongruities of the tariff do
more than all else, probably, to
promote those trusts and combi
nations which are injurious to the
people. The barons may cry out
against it, but congress will prob
ably have to take hold of the
whole tariff question in - earnest
at the session which will begin on
the first Monday in December.”
Mr. Morgan, in this case is used
as the personification of the pow
er and methods of the trusts, in
asmuch. as ’he has officiated as
godfather to the most important
of them.
; The Inquirer is on the right
line, but is not specific. The
simple and effective remedy is to
place on the free list every prod
uct of American industry. that is
produced by factories controlled
bv trusts.
The Toledo (Ohio) Bee says
there are many things about peo
ple that the newspapers don’t
know, and a great many that they
know but don’t publish. There
are also many things about a news
paper that some people dont know.
One thing many men do not seem
to get through their heads is that
a newspaper is not run on the
line of friendship, nor a medium
through which an editor may
abuse his enemies and protect his
friends. The newspaper that per
mits such prostitution^ of its col
umns cannot retain public confi
dence, for it then becomes a par
tial judge, and a prejudiced advo
cate.
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Their Secret is Out.
All Sadieville. Ky., was curious
to learn the cause of the vast dif-„
ference improvement in the
health of Mrs. S. P. Whittaker,
who had for a long time endured
untold suffering /from a chronic
bronchial trouble. “It is all due
to Dr. King’s New Discovery,”
writes her husband. ^‘It complete^
ly cured her and also cured our
little grand daughter of a severe
attack of Whooping Cough.” It
positively cures Coughs, Colds,
LaGrippe, Bronchitis, all Throat
and* Lung troubles. Guaranteed
bottles hOc and $1.00. Trial bot-
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druggist.
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C. B. WILLINGHAM,
COTTON FACTOR,
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MACON, GA.
Money to loan to responsible farmers
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at a low rate of interest.
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My connection with the cotton mills of Macon
gives mfe advantages unsurpassed in handling
cotton consigned to me, and I solicit your
shipmients..
C. B. WILLINGHAM.
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111 MRQ
414 & 416 Third St., MACON, G A.
STORE.
jThe Place Where Y6u Can Buy Everything that You Need
to Wear at Prices from 25 to 50 Per Cent Cheap- .
er Than Others Will Sell it to You.
Shoes. Irlr^freg- Clothing. _
ular shoe boose in Macon. Why 1 EXCEL any clothing store in Ma-
do we do this? Simply because we I con * 0 Qr Clothing is well made, it
SELL NONE BOT THE BEST, «per^eoVctt
and guarantee every pair that
leaves onr house to give satisfac
tory wear or refund vonr money.
Men’s Shoes from 98c.-to $5.00.
Ladies’ Shoes from 65c. to $3.50.
Childreh’s Shoes, 25c. to $1.50.
Ladies* Slippers, 25c. to $2 00.
Children’s Slippers, 35c. to $150.
Why not give us your Shoe trade
and save 25 to 50 per cent on every
pair of Shoes needed in your fam-
ily?
thau most clothing stores can af
ford to sell you the same quality
of goods.
Mens Saits, $3.00 to $12.50
Youths Suite, $2.00 to $ 8.00
Childrens Suits, 65c. to $ 400
Boys Knee Pants, 15c to 85c
The largest and most complete line
of Extra Pants for men in the state,
49c to $5 00 the 4 pair.
Extra Coats.and Extra Vests to
fit and please, any man in Houston
cbnnty.
Dry Goods.
Yes, we sell everything in the Dry Goods Line—-Dress
Goods, Percales, Lawns r Dimities, Calicoes^ Sheetings,
ShirHngs, Checks, Cottonades, Tickings, Bleachings, No
tions of every description, and our prices are right; this
you wi«l acknowledge after you have seen us,
Straw Hats.
We have
the great
est line of Straw Hats to be found
in Macon for Men, Boys and Chil
dren—10c. to $1.00 each. .If you
want a Straw Hat come to us.
Millinery.
This is where
you save just
half. W© do not want regular Millinery
prices. Here you can select your Hat and
trimmings and have it trimmed while you
wait. This department is upstairs, and
you can be suited. Sailors 10c. to $1.00.
URS is the most complete store in Macon, and the only one
where you can buy everything that you need to wear.
Come and see us. V *
KESSLER BROS.
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