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artwmwmcq^,' JOHN H- HODSBS, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND BmIw. 01.SO u Tenr in Advance VOL. XXXI. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1902. NO. 12. Not Good Politics. Savannah News. It seems, according to Washing ton dispatches, that Senator Han na was a factor in preventing Mies Alice Roosevelt from visiting England on the occasion of the coronation of King Edward. The President had about made up his mind to let his daughter accom pany the family of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, one of the special envoys appointed to repreesnt this coun try at the coronation, notwith standing the fact that Senator Hanna and other Republican leaders had told the Presiden that it would not be good politics to permit her to do so. The Presi dent laughed at the idea that the presence of his daughter at the coronation in a private capacity could have any effect on the po litical fortunes of himself or his party. Senator Hanna, however, had a way of convincing him that lie was mistaken. He bundled together about five hundred let ters from prominent Republicans in various parts 1 of the country, in each of which it was pointed out that the visit would be a mis take from a political stand-point, and sent them to the President. They seemed to have the effect of making the President see the sit uation as Senator Hanna saw it. He decided that his daughter could uot go, and sent her on a visit to Havana instead. It did not require a great amount of political acumen to see that.it would be possible to make a great deal of political capital out of a visit of the President’s daughter to England to witness the coronation ceremonies. In fact, when the. visit was proposed it was said in a number of papers that it would be a mistake from the stand-point of politics.Doubt less the President had the idea that his daughter would not be taken notice of officially, and that therefore her visit would not be an incident that would attract the attention of the British Gov eminent or the newspapers. It is certain that the newspapers would have noticed it, and Miss Roose velt could not have escaped a cer* tain amount of publicity. In fact, when it became known that the President’s daughter was in Lon don, it is probable that her pres ence would have been noticed of ficially for political reasons, if for no other. Anyway, the fact that the President permitted his daughter to cross the ocean to witness the coronation of a king would have.been made much of in this country. It is probable that the President acted wisely in can celling the visit. Senator Hanna acted of course as the Chairman of the Republican National Com mittee.' In that capacity, if in no other, he still has influence at the White House. Working 24 Hours A Day. There is no rest for those tire less little workers—Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Millions are. al ways busy, curing Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Biliousness, Fever and Ague. They banish Sick Head ache, drive out Malaria. Never gripe or * weaken. Small, taste nice, work wonders. Try them 25c at Holtclaw’s Drugstore. The Virginia Constitutional Convention has been in session nine months, and the date of ad journment is still not in sight. It has been impossible to « reach an agreement with respect to the franchise question. From pres ent indications the convention will round out a year before finishes its labors. * To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cu,re. E. W. Grove’s signature on each box,25c. The First Woman Ever Photographed The Foo System In County Admin istration. Nowadays, when the principal business of photographers is mak ing portraits of women, and when being photographed is one of a woman’s chief pleasures, it is in teresting to know that the first woman who ever sat before a cam era died at Hasting last month. This lady was Dorothy Catherine Draper. In 1889, shortly after Daguerre’s announcement of his discovery of'tlie action of sun light on silver, her brother, the distinguished John W. Draper, af terward president of New York University’s medical college, made some experiments with a camera with his sister for a sub ject. In order that the impres sion might be clearer her face was dusted with a fine white powder'. This picture, the result of the first experiment, is still in existence, and is owned by Lord Herschel’s heirs in England. Many other men have alleged that they were first in applying Daguerre’s dis covery, but these claims are not well founded. Miss Draper’s likeness and the date it bears have been accepted as final proof that to her brother belongs the honor of being the first man to photo graph a woman, and to her the distinction of being the first wo man ever photographed.—March Woman’s Home Componion. How Helen Keller Writes. Not one person in ten thousand of those who will read Helen Kel ler’s own story of her life, when it begins in an early issue of The Ladie’s Home Journal, will • have the least conception of the amount of hard work required to write the story. Frst of all Miss Keller puts down her ideas “in Braille,” as the blind express it; that is to say, iu. the symtenv of “points” raised on paper by means of a stylus and slate • de vised to aid the blind; these points” being read afterward by passing the sensitive fingers over them. When all this Braille work has been. completed, Miss Keller goes to her typewriter and uses these notes as a guide to the rewriting of the story. As soon as a page of matter is typewritten it is, so to speak, lost to Miss Keller, who has to depend upon her faithful teacher, Miss Sullivan, to repeat it to her by spelling out each sentence by means of the hands. It is a te dious task, especially ay some of the pages have to be read again and again, with changes here and there, before Miss Keller is satis fied. Then, when the proofs are sent .to her, all this slow process of spelling word after word has to be gone through once more, so that each word* that Helen Kel ler writes goes through her fingers at least five times. It will be a 'satisfaction to everybody to know that the publishers of the Journal have recognized in a substaiitial manner the extraordinary ability and patience which Miss Keller has shown in her work. Augusta Herald. For some time there has been a growing movement in the more populous counties in Georgia to reduce its county administration to a salary basis, just as the ad ministration of its municipal gov ernment. In Fulton . county, where the capital of the state is located,it is estimated that the fees of the clerk of Superior court reach $50,000 a year, the sheriff, $40,- 000, and so on in proportion. It is given out that the ordinary of Chatham county, in Savannah, spent $10,000 in campaign expen ses in the last election to secure the office, which necessarily must be highly remunerative, otherwise such an outlay would be a bad bargain. In our sister state of Alabama, a business men’s movement is on foot to put this question before the people of Birmingham and Jefferson. It is charged in Bir mingham that the fees of the sheriff of that county reach $50,* 000 a year, and the Age-Herald calls for an investigation by the grand jury, so that the facts may be known and the people be given an opportunity to decide whether fees shall be continued or reasona ble salaries paid for the future.As one business man puts it in Bir mingham, “I have always been opposed to the fee system. If it is true that there are county offi cials who are receiving more than $59,000 a year, then I think it an outrage that such conditions should be allowed to exist. Why, that is as much as the president of the United States receives and more than five times what the governor of the state receives.’ Help Your Town. A writer in an exchange has a lengthy screed bn the subject: “Help your town.” In part he says: Another way to help your town is to do all you can to beau tify it. Beautify your own prop erty all you can and then do all you can to help beautify the streets. Be friendly to everybody and courteous to strangers. Your civility will help make good im pressions and will be carried away and cherished. Never forget that you are a part of . the town and that your deportment helps to make up the stranger’s estimate of the place. Sell all you can and buy. all you can at home. Every dollar that is sent or carried away from the town makes it that much poorer. ' Night Was Her Terror. ‘I would cough nearly all night Air© Ton Satisfied With the Shoes that you have been getting? If you are, you will be better satisfied if you will try a pair of ISTew styles now on sale. All leathers— Kid, Patent Kid or Russian Calf. Oxfords or High Cuts. Call on or send your orders to Tli© Macon Shoe Co. llcKAY, it Lagrippc Quickly Cured. “In the winter . of 1898 and 1899 I was taken down with a se vere attack of what is called La Grippe,” says F. L. Hewett, a prominent druggist of Winfield, III. “The only medicine I used was two bottles of Chamberlain’s Ceugh Remedy. It broke up the cold and stopped the coughing like magic, and I have never since been troubled with Grippe.” Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon to break up a severe cold and ward off any threatened attack of pneu monia. It is pleasant to take, too, which makes it the most desira ble and one of >the most popular preparations in use for’these ail ments. For sale by all dealers in Peary, Warren & Lowe, Byron. long,” writes Mrs. Chas. Apple- gate, of Alexandre, Ind.; “and could hardly get any sleep.. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery wholly cured me and I gaiued 58 pounds.” It’s absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe', Bron chitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c and. $1.00. Trial bottles free at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. TAILOR, IMZacon. ©■©,., MAKES ALE THE ABLE Tailor-Made Clothes WoLN BY THE DBESST of Central and Southern Ga. Artistic and High-Grade Work. Fashionable and Reasonable,."Fabrics. OTallor/ &00 JjS<bconcl Sfc.f MACON, C3-A.. C. HUH N, DEALER IN SPORTING GOODS.: Bicycles, Baseball Goods, Fishing Tackle, Guns, Pistols, ere. Hand some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery* Mechanics’ Tools. Repairing of Guns, 520 MULBERRY ST. T== Bicycles, Etc. MACON, GEORGIA HE. L.-B ABFIB3LD, -GROCERIES A]N» 00XJN , TR.'Y 'I?]R01>XJ0^3.— Cor, Second arid Poplar Sts., MAC50N* C a * mEMCV WOR THE Alt ' 8TEBK woven,wise If one has a cool room, where the air can be kept moist during the daytime when the sun is strong, one may be able to grow violets in the house. But in a hot room failure is a foregone conclu sion .—Feb.Ladies’ Home Journai. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. 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