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■ CHICAGO-ILL. JOHC2V H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE. 01.60 a Year in Adv ance. yOL. XXXI. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, G-A., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1902. VALUE OP THE COTTON CROP. CATTLE RAISING in the SOUTH. Savannah News. In an article in the New York Herald an effort is made to show that by the rise that has taken place in the price of cotton since last October the cotton planters have benefited to the amount of $75,000,000. Of course that is an exaggerated statement. The increase has been about $10.25 a bale, and it is calculated that the planters have benefited to the ex tent of $7.50 a bale, counting the crop at 10,000,000 bales. It is a safe assertion that the bulk of the crop was marketed be fore there was much rise in the price. Of course, many planters held their cotton, but the number was small in comparison with the whole number. That the plant ers have benefited to the extent of $75,000,000 by the rise is purely a guess. It would be nearer the truth perhaps if it were stated that the rise had put $40,000,000 more in ther pockets would have had if the remained as it was in There is no longer that those who speculated on the basis of a 10,250,000 bale crop were fortunate while those who insisted on a 12.000,000 bale crop have lost fortunes. than they price had September, any doubt Making lb Pay. Atlanta Constitution. Taking occasion by the prevail ing high price of beef, The Phila delphia Press remarks that “the south has deprived itself of a A Sound Doctrine. Macon Telegraph. The court of last resort in New York, in affirming the conviction of anarchist Most and overruling his contention that the constitu large source of revenue by failing jtion gave him the right to publish Farm and Ranch. What agriculture needs is not more land,but larger crops on tne lands we have. No farmer knows the limits of possible productive ness of his land, for no matter how heavy the crops may have been, it is possible to increase the yield a little, or a little more. Average farming does not pay. The average farmer may continue to maintain the integrity of soul and body by smothering one and working the other beyond reason; but this is not even making a liv ing. It is continuing to* exist without adequate reason. It is easy enough to calculate the cost of and returns from any. given crop, and it will b§ found in all cases that there is no profit unless the yield of the crops is above average. To have larger orops, we must have better farming. Better farming does not mean more work, but better work, and better work meaus that the intel lect with all its acquired knowl edge must be employed. Sciatic Rheumatism Cured After Fourteen Years Of Suffering. “I have beed afflicted with sci atic rheumatism for fourteen years,” says Josh Edgar, of Ger mantown, Cal. “I was able to be around,but constantly suffered. I tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to try Cham berlain’s Pain Balm, which I did and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured, and I am happy to say it has not since re turned.” Why not use this lini ment a lid get well? It is for sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. to introduce the breeding of cat tie, and names several good rea sons why that industry among us should not be lost sight of. The Constitution has always urged the same policy upon the people of the south and only re cently pointed out how millions or acres of pasture and grazing lands in our south Atlantic states could be so employed with enor mous profit. In southwest Vir ginia to-day some of the finest cattle in the world are raised and shipped through Norfolk to Eu rope to supply a select trade that never quibbles about prices. Here in Georgia careful breeding and care in raising will produce beef cattle that will take blue ribbons in any food market of civilization. Our climate gives us advantages over the western rangfes that, add ed to the short hauls and low transportation costs, should give us larger returns upon the average run of cattle for home and for eign consumption than the wes tern raised can command. It has been shown in recent is sues of the Constitution that Georgia, for instance, only raises about 12 per cent of the beef that her people annually consume and even less "p eroou tages °f other meats. As The Philadelphia Press points out, our civilization are changing with the increase of our factories and foundries, and the consequent increase of a meet eating population. We will use more meats as these non-rural em ployments increase and we must either produce it or buy it of the western raiser at prices fixed by him or by the trust that may have him in its grip. Besides, the general raising of cattle in the south will make it a store house of supply to keep com petition active between the south and the west in that line of pro ducts and it will give country em ployment to many' thousands of negroes who are now steadily drifting from the fields to the purlieus of our cities. We are thoroughly convinced that we sould have a great revival of cattle, sheep and hog raising in the hills and plains of the great south. the anarchistic article for which he was tried, says: “The constitution does not give to a citizen a right to murder,nor does it give him the right to ad vise the commission of that crime by others. What it does permit is liberty of action only’ - to the extent that such liberty does not interfere with or deprive others of an equal right.” Liberty to do what is right and just, but not license to do what is wrong and hurtful. That is sound doctrine. It is quite common for people to get mixed up on the two propo sitions—liberty and license — which are as wide apart as the poles. The liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the sanctity and authority of the pulpit are too often perveted into evil uses by those who hide behind the civ il and sacred right to do what right and just and good. is The Only Way. When young Alfonso of Spam is crowned on May 17 it will be with the title of “King of Spain, Castile, the Two .Sicilies, Jerusa lem, Gibraltar, the East and West Indies,” etc. While it is true that some of the possessions enumerated have slipped away from the Spanish crown, Spanish pride will not permit of their be ingeliminated from his title. Old Soldier’s Experience. M. M. Austin, a civil war veter en, of Winchester, Ind., writes: “My wife was sick a long time in spite of good doctor’s treatment, but was wholy cured by Dr.King’s New Life Pills, which worked wonders for her health.” They always do. Try them. Only 25c at Holtzclaw’s drugstore. The Southern Farm Magazine is entirely correct when it says : “Now and then an invention in education is offered. It is at first supposed to be something entirely new. Investigation, however, shows that it offers no chance of reform, which must begin by placing the best teachers, and, consequently, the most expensive teachers, in the primary grades.” There is no solution of the problem of right education ex cept through competent teachers, men and women of good sense, strong characters, culture and re finement. And the best of these must be placed in the schools where the masses of children are —in the primary schools. Cost money? Of course it will. But what else is our money for except for the good of our children? All Eyes On Texas. Great is Texas . Her vast cot: ton crops and marvelous oil dis coveries amaze the world. Now follows the startling statement of the wonderful work at Cisco, Tex., of Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption. “My wife contract- a severe lung trouble,” writes edi tor J. J. Eager, “which caused a most obstinate cough and finally resulted in profuse hemorrhages, but she has been completely cured by! Dr. King’s New Discovery.” It’s positivelv guaranteed for Coughs, Colds" and all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c and $1,00. Trial bottles free at drugstore. Like a Drowning Man. “Five years ago a disease the doctors called dyspepsia took such hold of me that I could scarcely go,” writes Geo. S, Marsh, well- known attorney of Nocona, Tex. “I took quantities of pepsin and other medicines but nothing help ed me. As a drowning man grabs at a straw I grabbed at Kodol. I felt an improvement at once and after a few bottles am sound and well.” Kodol is the only prepa ration which exactly reproduces the natural digestive juices and consequently is-the only one which digests any good food and cures any form of stomach trouble. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. School Commissioner Williams of New York is opposed to women as school teachers. _ He 3ays they do not make teaching a profes sion, but follow the business tem porarily and then get married. But what proportion of the male teachers take up teaching as a life business? Do not most of them look to teaching as a step ping stone to something better. Ex. The difference of color between green tea and black tea depends on the fact that the first is ob tained from the leaves dried as soon as they are gathered, while Holtzclaw’s! in the case of the black tea the ' leaves are allowed to ferment be fore drying. Black tea, therefore, contains much less tannin than green. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on each box.25c. Subscribe for the Home Journal. In 1900 there were in the Unit ed States 372 boiler explosions, by which 268 persons were killed and 520 wounded. In Great Brit ain during the same period only 24 persons were killed and 65 wounded by boiler explosions. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of For HOLIDAYS and aU other days. Mall or ders prompdy filled, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. T. A. COLEMAN, Bookseller and. Stationer-, 808 Seoond Street, MACON, GA OXFORDS. Men’s Oxfords, . $2.001 to $5.50 Ladies’ Oxfords, 1.00 (( 3.60 Boys’ Oxfords, 1.25 2.00 . Misses Sandals, 1.00 2.00 Child’s Sandals, 80c. <( 1.25 Infants’ Sandals, 50c. <( 1.00 /a these Oxfords in all leathers and we can please you. MACON SHOE OO. 408 3rd Street. 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