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, J ° H1V Ht ‘ HO]D<GJ - Ei ®» P’ropr. DEMOTED TO plE INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CUILtURE.. $1.50 a Year in Advance. yOL. XXXI. PERKY, 'HOUSTON' COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902. NO.- 7- Refused to Validate Ticket. Evening Post, Charleston, S. C. A case agaiust the Charleston Joint Agency, which was referred to Magistrate Levy this morning, (Jan. 15, 1902,) established a precedent relative to scalped tick ets which the traveling public would do well to heed. When the purchaser of a straight ticket attempts to dispose of it, and the railroads spot the transaction and confiscate the ticket, the original purchaser has no redress and can not force the authorities to sur render his tickets. W. D Kirk, a traveling man, came to Charleston from New York on a Pennsylvania ticket. When he arrived here he deposit ed his ticket with a scalper and instructed him to sell it. The broker sold the ticket, but when the man who bought it appeared at the Joint Agency to have it validated, it was promptly held up. The victim returned to the broker and demanded the return of his money. The broker sum moned Mr. Kirk and told him the story of the trade. Mr. Kirk re funded the man who had failed to hoodwink the vigilant officials of the Agency, and then went himself to the agency and de manded that the ticket in ques tion be restored to him on the ground that lie was the original purchaser and had not disposed of it. He was informed that his futile effort to sell the ticket nullified his claims to it. It is a rule of the Agency that a ticket presented by anyone for valida tion other than the original pur chaser, shall be confiscated. Mr. Kirk did not present his ticket for validation in person and the Agency officials got next to him. When the Agency declined to surrender the ticket to Mr. Kirk, ho procured a warrant for the ar rest of the officials, charging them with the larceny of a ticket Magistrate Levy dismissed the case after hearing the complain ant’s statement,- not even deom ing it necessary to take the evi dence which the Agency was pre pared to offer. Her Collar Aids The Doctor. The Pressure For Pensions. of Macon Telegrepli. 1 Savannah News. “Yes, I know. Another cold,” An interesting question is that said the doctor. “I do not know relating to pensions. We do not what medical men would do if it refer to pensions for soldiers in were not for you women.” j past wars and their widows, but And he turned to the creature. to the pensions that are beiing furs and wraps, smiled one of granted to persons in civil life, his appreciative 3miles and con-, Those holding government offices tinued: under civil service rules want a “Remove your boa, please. Do! pension system adopted. Of you realaize that the high collars! course there is not a general that women wear around their J movement in that direction, bub necks are responsible for nearly j tnere are indications that the all the colds that \ r our sex gets? It is so. “Winter and summer alike you will insist upon wrapping tip your delicate necks in high silk, velvet, cloth, linen or chiffon covering. If it be not this way, it is a yard or more of ribbon tightly drawn about the neck and naturally the neck gets tender and over-seusi- tive from the fancy bandages and swathing that are forever about it. With the first draught there is a cough. My advice to you as friend and physician is to go straight home, and when you cure this cold throw away you ribbons and other neck traps. Leave the neck bare. Never mind what the other women do. “You will find your health much improved if you give your neck a chance to get acquainted with the natural order of things. My advice does not apply to you alone.” Fanning That is Farming. It will take 176 votes in con vention to nominate a candidate for governor of Georgia, that he ing a majority of the total vote With only two candidates in the race one of them would necessari ly be nominated on the first bal lot, but with three and perhaps four candidates, all good men, the problem how to get 176 votes preseuts difficulties that make it absurd for any candidate to claim that he is certain to be nomina ted, or for his friends to claim it for him. Nobody is going to'have a walkover and the winner will heave a great sigh of relief at the finish.—Eatonton Messenger. Mr. Wheeler GotRid Of His Rheu matism. “During the winter of 1898 was so lame in my joints, in fact all ovei: my body, that I could hardly hobble around, when bought a bottle of Chamberlain’ Pain Balm. From the first ap plication I began to get well, and was cured and have worked stead ily all the year.—R. Wheeler Northwood, N. Y. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren. & Lowe Byron. It used to be that the people left Havana in the summer if they could afford it, in order to avoid death by yellow fever. Last summer the city was a delightful place to live in, and there were but thirty cases of yellow fever They have some pretty large farms in South Carolina. Think of a steam plow running fifty-five furrows at a time covering breadth of forty feet. The best record of such a plow is seventy- five acres in four hours and forty- five minutes, the circumference of the field being five miles. In order to set ourselves right with possible doubters who have never toyed with anything more preten tious than a double-shovel or cultivator, we may add that this statement is not made on the strength of personal observation. The average capacity of the steam plow is 110 acres a day, and it takes the place of seventy mules. The sjime engine of fifty horse power drew a combined harvester and thresher, which out, threshed and sacked 1,000 acres of wheat in\one day. We may add that we were not present when this was done. The daily allowance of fuel for this engine is twelve barrels of crude petroleum, The farmer who owns it is not a Popu list.—Americas Recorder. The great beauty about Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is in its certainty to cure Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Headache and Stomach Trobles, Sold by drug gists. Working Overtime. Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers—Dr King’s New Life Pills. Millions are always at work,night and day curing Indigestion, Billiousness Constipation, Sick Headache, and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe sure. Only 25c at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. America leads in the matter of women practicing medicine. The first was Elizabeth Blackwell,who graduated as physician in 1849 Three years later there were six in Philadelphia. In 1889 there were 8,000 women doctors in the United States; in 1896 there were 4,555, and now there are probably 6,000, some of whom have a i^ry lucrative practice. When you lack energy, do not relish your food, feel dull and stupid after eating, all you need is a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets. They will make you feel like a new man and give you an appetite like a bear. For sale by all dealers in Perry, War ren & Lowe, Byron. time is not distant when there will be. Then there are school teachers. They are already pen sioned in some localities and also firemen and policemen. When the pension itch once gets to be epidemic there is no telling what limits it may reach before is is checked. It is worthy of notice that the New York papers are beginiug to complain of the police pension burden in that city. It* amounts now to more than $1,000,000 a year. It was only a little while ago that it was not more than $250,000. It is said that there are now 1,000 or more of the cit y’s policemen in receipt of pen sions. At the rate at which the number is increasing it will not be long before the pensioners will greatly outnumber the active men on the force. It is a safe prediction that un less there is a great change in public sentiment the number of pensioners in this country before the present century is half gone will be so large that the pension charge will be one of the biggest items in the budgets of cities, counties, states and the nation. It is the easiest thing in the world to begin the pensioning of incapables of any class of work ers. At first only a few of of the very deserving are pensioned Gradually the list is increased un til it includes about everybody that can get on it by any possible means. * There is no more reason why those who serve the city, or the state, or the general govern ment should be pensioned than there is that those who are em ployed by firms or corporations should be. They get good sala ries and if they do not choose to put by a part of their earnings for old age they ought to take the consequences. The pension sys tern is pregnant with evils and promises to become extremely troublesome. Had To Conquer Or Die, “I was just about gone,” writes Mrs. Rosa Richardson, of Laurel Springs, N. C., “I had Consump tion so bad that the best doctors said I could not live more than a month, but I began to use Dr, King’s New Discovery and was wholly cured by seven bottles.and am now stout and well.” It’s an unrivaled life-saver in Consump tion, Pneumonia, La Grippe and Bronchitis; infallible for Coughs Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, Croup or Whooping Cough. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial hot ties free at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore A Russian naval surgeon at Cached to the Baltic sea fleet, has been experimenting with an ap paratns for taking photograps of the sea floor at any depth, and it is reported with much .success that reliable records of submarine life may be reckoned among our available sources of biological knowledge. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of F. C. Benson. : : : 408 3rd St. W. G. Middlebrooks. THE MACON SHOE CO. Wish to announce to their many friends and customers that they are through with the repairs on their store and are able to show The Most Complete Line of Shoes to be found anywhere. Call and in spect our stock. Make our Store Headquarters While in Town. W. F. Houser. : : : 408 3rd St. : : R, L. Fermenter. Wedding Presents, Holiday Presents, Fancy Goods, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry in splendid variety, Spectacles, Eye- Glasses. Our line of goods is choice in style and quality, and prices are right. ' EYES TESTED WITHOUT CHARGE. Repair Work to suit all customers. You may go farther and fare worse. Give us a Trial. FORT VALLEY, GA, C. HUHN, DEALER IN SPORTING GOODS.: Bicycles, Baseball Goods, Fishing Tackle, Guns, lhstols, etc. Hand some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools. \ / Repairing of Guns, Bicycles, Etc. 520 MULBERRY ST. * - MACON, GEORGIA THEY’LL PLEASE ANY MAN. . No matter how exacting he may be, our new Suits will come up to his expectations. Our prices range from $7.50 to $25.00 and we feel assured that we can save you from $2.50 to $5.00 on your suit. -o-ssrxoir CLOTSIXaiTa- CO. CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES. 40 Third Street. M.ACOJN, G GIVE US A 1IIML Ml DEE.