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'%WM PSIOB, $1.50* YSA 1 IN ADVANCE. Published Every Thursday Morning. Jno.H. lEODOSS, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, May 22. Two weeks more of the state cam paign. Claim a majority always, and work for everything in sight, is the nr otto of every active campaigner. During a campaign each man es- tiraates the strength of his favorite candidate as he hopes it will be. ' A cyclone at and around Goliad, Texas, last Friday killed ninety peo ple, injured about 100 and destroy ed much property. —-— An effort is being made to secure a part of the government exhibit now at Charleston for the Btate fair at Valdosta next Ootober. Another cotton mill company has been organized at Griffin, with a cash capital of $200,000, making five ootton factories in that city. Robert T. Baptist, a negro of Galway, N. Y., has given $1,000 to the oolored institute at Tuskeegee, Ala., to found a permanent sholar- ship, »"#■■©■ It now Beems almost certain that oongress will appropriate $125,000 for a new public building at Maoon, or for the enlargement of the pres ent building. &V-4 Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese min ister to the United States, will de liver the commencement address at the military college at Milledgeville next Wednesday. The Seaboard Airline railroad has purchased the East & West road, from Cartersville, Ga., to Pell City, Ala., and will complete the connec tion to Birmingham. T 8 Dr. J. L. M. Curry was the spe cial envoy of the United States at the ooronation of Alfonso XIII,King of Spain, and with the representa tives of other nations received a royal deooration. The state military enaompment for rifle praotioe will begin at Ma con on June 7th, and oontinue one week. Each company in the state will be required to send a team, not exceeding five men. Cuba is now among the independ ent republics of the world. Presi dent Palma was inaugurated at Ha vana Tuesday, May 20th, and United States control was formally relin quished. AH hail to the new re public. —■——»-»-«— East week the Virginia-Oarolina Company purchased the properties of five extensive fertilizer companies in Alabama, involving the payment of fully $1,000,000. Next year the farmers will sure-enough be “up against” the guano trust. The June number of the Woman’s Home Companion contains some un usually strong fiotion. Cyrus Towns end Brady, Albert Bigelow Paine, Julia Truitt Bishop and Angela Morgan are contributors, and their names promise a high quality of work. It. seems that the objection to Guerry in his canvass for the gov ernorship of Georgia is that he makes charges, not that the charges are untrue. If the charges are un true, they should be refuted; if true, Guerry is right in making them and Bhould be upheld. The young King of Spain, Alfon so XIII., was crowned with brilliant ceremonies last Friday at Madrid. On that day a plot to assassinate the king was frustrated by the arrest of six persons alleged to be parties to the conspiracy. Several dynamite cartridges were secured. Announcement has already been made to the state fair authorities at Valdosta that there will be at least six county exhibits at the fair next October. Work is to begin at once on the enlargement of the agricul tural building, giving space of 60x25 feet for more than fifty county and individual exhibits. The Closing Campaign. Just two weeks of the campaign for the nomination of Houston coun ty and state'officers remain, and it is practically certain that a large majority of the citizens have de cided for whom they will vote. So far as the candidates are di rectly responsible, we have heard of nothing improper in their efforts to secure suffrage in their behalf. We are told, however, that the candidates have been “pulled” to a greater extent by a few voters than over before. We use this slang word because it is more expressive than any other that occurs to us just now. Several of the candidates have been importuned for the loan of money to meet ah urgent necessity, or for money to repay expenditures made to secure votes for the candidate in question. It is said a man came to Perry several days ago and repre sented himself as a friend of every candidate he saw, asking each for money to be used in the campaign. We make this statement without any personal knowledge of any indi vidual that has engaged in the “pulling” process, but we desire to say that it is a most reprehensible practice, deserving severe condem nation. As before stated, , we are glad that comparatively few men have thus injected into the cam paign a feature that they would be ashamed to acknowledge as person al to themselves. If any candidate has used whis key or money to influence support, it has been done so secretly as to escape detection, and no suoh report has oome to our ears. For the county offices, including those for the legislature, there are 26 candidates, with no announce ment for the office of surveyor. There are fourteen offices to be filled. Thirteen candidates must be defeated. Besides these, the contest for the office of solicitor general of this Su perior court circuit has attracted more attention than some of the strictly county offices. Of the'three candidates, two must be defeated. Ohoioe rests with the people, and they are competent to choose,know ing the candidates as they do. Wnlt many the choice will be between friends. Whatever the result, there should be no ill-feeling or bitterness engen dered. The contest has been open, and the method of choice fair. The successful candidates may rightfully feel jubilant, but the defeated ones need'not feel humiliated in any de gree. In good feeling, with the measure of merit joined to personal friend ship, the honest choice will not be unjust, no person will be swindled and the county will be well served. 9 fa iin ii ■ i mmJrnmmrnm m i IT" mm ■ John JB\ Gaynor and B. D. Greene were parties with Captain Carter in the frauds committed against the United States in river improvements at Savannah. Carter is serving sen tence, but for several months these men ha\e been fugitives from jus tice at Quebec, Canada. Efforts to seoure them by extradition failed, but on Wednesday of last week a warrant for their arrest was secured at Montreal, and it was successfully executed by a Canada officer in con junction with U. S. officers. Gaynor and Greene are now in custoday at Quebec awaiting the outcome of legal proceedings. District Attorney Marion Erwin of Macon planned the capture. In the Georgia state convention, to be field in Atlanta in July, there will bo 85$ delegates, and 176 votes will be necessary to nominate. Each county is entitled to twice the num ber of delegates as it has represen tatives in the legislature. Of the 137 counties, six will have six dele gates eaoh, twenty-six will have four delegates each, and 105 will have two delegates each. By districts the delegation will be: First distrtct 32; second, 36; third, 32; fourth, 30: fifth, 24; sixth, 26; seventh, 34; eighth, 28; ninth, 40; tenth, 28; eleventh, 40. The Next House. As a consequence of the artistic game of politics that has occupied the attention of the members of the “House of Representatives especially, and all politicians generally, Bince the opening of the present session of congress, the democrats hope to make material gains in the elections next fall. Generally the republicans are shrewder politicians than the demo crats, being more unscrupulous, but they have been on the defensive since the last presidential election, and have not met the arguments of their opponents frith convincing logic. Republican selfishness and disre gard for the rights of the people have become more apparent than heretofore, and the people are talk ing as well as thinking. .Republican saheming, however, makes democratic success more diffi cult by obstacles raised by congress expressly for that purpose. On this line the Macon Telegraph says: “In calculating the make-up of the Fifty-eighth congress, it is well to recollect that independently of the expected turn of the tide, the republicans will make gains as a re sult of the new apportionment of members. There will be an increase of twenty-nine members in the next House over the present House, ten of whom will be elected by southern states and nineteen by northern states. Colorado is the only north- state with an increased representa tion which gave its vote to Bryan, but West Virginia, a southern re publican state, offsetts Colorado with a similar increase. The republican states, therefore, will have an in creased representation of nineteen, to an increased representation of ten in democratic states. This will give the republicans an advantage of nine tu start with. “The expected democratic turn of the tide must dispose of this new nine as well as the present majority. The indications are that it will do so.” Gov. J eft Davis, of Arkansas, who recently pardoned a negro criminal on condition that he would go to Massachusetts and stay there, is pleased with the experiment. He now says he is going to send as many negroes as he can to New England, and hopes the'other south ern states will join him in the enter prise. We second the motion, but a howl of protest will soon come from that “land of refuge.” The dispatches tell us that Dr. J. I/, M. Curry, our envoy to the coro nation of Aiphonso XIII. in Madrid, has been placed ou practically the same footing as foreign princes of the blood, and is treated with great er honor than other extraordinary envoys, with the exception of the envoy of France. He has a house to himself, servants, a French cook and a royal carriage, with a coach man and footman in the royal livery, whereas the other envoys are lodged at hotels. Now, won’t the yellow journals grit their teeth and growl! —Maoon Telegraph. ■ - ■. -- Rev. A. J. Beck has retired from the contest for the office of state school' commissioner, leaving three candidates in the field: Commis sioner G. R. Glenn, Dr. Mark John son of Baldwin, and Commissioner W. B. Merritt of Lowndes. ^ • The Georgia Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias was in session at Valdosta Tuesday and Wednesday. Laxative Chocolates cure chronic constipation and liver trouble. Pleas ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar anteed, at Cater’s Drugstore. ■——- - »—<>-—♦ fcow Rates via Central of Georgia Railway. Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Atlanta, Ga., May 27-29, 1902. One fare for the round trip (minimum rate 50'cts) from all ticket stations in Georgia. Tickets on sale for afternoon trains May 26, all trains May 27, and for trains scheduled to arrive at Atlanta during forenoon of May 28, with fi nal return limit May 30, 1902. Georgia State Educational Asso ciation, Tybee, Ga., June 19-21, 1902. Tickets one fare for round trip (minimum rate 50 cents) from all ticket stations in Georgia. Tick ets on sale June 17, 18, 19, with fi nal return limit June 23, 1902. For further information ask the tioket agent. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a const! tu-' tional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall’s^catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors nave so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. OHKNY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75. Hall's Family Fills are the best. TO MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES Mmm Warn Mamma* The best on the market. I also sell Reapers, Binders, Mowers, Bakes; in fact all of D. M. Osborne’s Harvesting Machinery, and Harrows of every description. I make the best Flour and Meal on the market. If you want anything I sell, write me and I’ll come to see you. A. J. HOUSER, Eva, Ga. Houston People who Need Shoes are hereby notified that Mr. J. Henry King is again with the STRONG SHOE CO., 368 Second Street, MACON, GA.. where he will be glad to see and serve his friends. Mam dunam will receive prompt and careml attention. WE PROPOSE TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR Good and Stylish Shoes. In style, quality and price we propose to give satisfaction in Shoes for Men, Women and Children. If the kind or size you want is not in our stock, we’ll take your order and have it promptly and satisfactorily filled. KNOX HYGIENIC SHOES FOR MEN, The Shoes for Comfort, furnished to order. Unequaled for comfort, as they are made to fit the feet. If you want SOLID COMFORT in Shoes, get a pair at the SEIFERT SHOE STORE, FORT VALLEY, GEORQIA. We Are Ready With our Spring ill) of CLOTHING. Everything New. Send us your orders or call to see us.