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Tas Sojkx Jbvsmm PRICE, $1.604) YEAR, IN ADVANCE. PuMlihed Every Thursday Morning. no.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, October 16. A burning question the coal strike has beoome. The Georgia legislature will con vene next Wednesday. Congressmen will be elected Nov. 4th—the first Wednesday. At Valdosta the Georgia state fair will open on October 29th,- one week from next Monday. At Atlanta the interstate fair has been in successful progress since Wednesday of last week. Every Georgia farmer Bliould sell each year beef cattle in proportion to the acres he cultivates. Broad as the needs of humanity is the mind of man, and as expan sive as the necessities of the uni verse. Georgia farms make prosperous farmers when they supply in full, and more, the produots needed on these farbs. The farmers in the national con gress at Macon last week adopted a resolution in opposition to the ship subsidy scheme. The National Farmers* Congress at Macon last week was one of the most beneficial, meetings held in Georgia this year. 1— Editor W. R. Hearst, of the New York Journal, is the democratic nominee for oongress in the ninth distriot of New York, It is not the volume of farm prod uots that makes prosperous farmers, but the exoess in value of produots over expenses of production. ►«-* A convention of Georgia mayors assembled in Atlanta last Tuesday 1 >rning, Mayor Bridges Smith of Alncon was elected president of the 0 invention. At Maoon last week the agricul tural display was a revelation to the farmers from the north, east and vest who attended the Farmers’ National Congress. In Atlanta there is a preacher, itev. John F, Bahler, who claims hat a new pair of eyes are growing n the sockets from which his first eyes were removed several years ago, r~ - During the Confederate veterans’ '•minion at Columbus on October :JSch and 29th there will be special brigade reunions—Anderson’s, Ben dings’, Cook’s, Colquitt’s, Evans’ and Semms’, and all veterans of >,hese brigades are urged to be pres ent. At the conclusion of the Farmers’ National Congress in Macon last veek, the premiums for agricultural ixhibits were awarded as follows: 1st to Jones county,.. $400; 2nd to Bibb county, $200; 3rd to Laurens •.•Vanty, $400. Lumsden’s hay pal- >1 o was a marvel to all visitors. Counterfeit silver dollars are be ing circulated in China and the Philippine Islands. This money is > i silver and of standard weightjand f he profit is nearly 100 per cent, the difference between the bullion and chf coin value. It is believed many of these dollars were made in San Francisco. The United States senate already .intrso many railroad magnates that it has been impossible to secure the passage of a law giving the inter state commerce comission power to protect the public from extortionate rates and gross discriminations. We <lo not need any senators of that kind.—The Commoner. Senator Dolliver of Iowa says trusts are not hurtful to individual enterprise, and that “evidence is ac cumulating from which the doom of trusts can be foretold.” It may be th at trusts will in time fall by rea son of their own top-heavy weight, but the people now feel their hurt ful influence and would escape it. The Friend of Our Enemy. “You cannot be a friend of that man, and be my friend at the same time.” This declaration was made to the writer by a friend with reference to another friend, between whom and the speaker there was personal en mity. Our reply convinced him that he was in error, and he withdrew the assertion. In social affairs, with personal ap plication, such a position is untena ble, else each distinct community throughout the world would con tinually embrace ah active feud, and the citizens would be divided into factions, each at positive enmity against the other. In religion, morality and politics, however, it is a fact that the friend of our enemy cannot be our friend. In religious affairs, he who would serve the Master cannot be a boon companion of the irreligious, or an associate in the doings of him who scoffs at religion, and repudiates the teachings of the Book that is the guide of all who acknowledge the supremacy of the Creator, and be lieve there is an eternal life in the great hereafter. In morality, he who wpuld estab lish and maintain a character above reproach, cannot be on terms of in timate friendship with one whose life is in antagonism to all that is true and virtuous. In politics he cannot be our friend (in an impersonal sense) who is seek ing to accomplish that which is un- juBt, incorreot or impolitic. Our form of government has de veloped the fact that the best medi um through which to secure best re sults is that of political, parties. Now, the chief contention of the two dom inant parties are in positive antago nism. At this juncture the demo cratic party contends that trusts are extremely hurtful to the general inv terests of the country, and that their power for evil should be destroyed. In this connection, it is claimed that, a revision of the tariff duties pin'-'' on imports will in a large meas i afford the relief desired. By leaders of the republican jyr. ty it is declared that we have reasonable complaint against the “so-called” trusts, and that there should be no revision of the tariff. Recently President Roosevelt has declared in public speeches that there may be need to check the growing power of trusts. In this connection it is declared that J. Pierpout Morgan, the great est exemplar of trust power, iB dis pleased with the attitude af Presi dent Roosevelt, and has said that he must not be elected president in 1904. It is further said that if the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt by the republicans cannot be prevented, then his (Morgan’s) friends, mean ing friends of the trusts, must help the democrats to nominate and elect “a safe man like Cleveland;” Here comes the illustration. If Mr. Cleveland is a friend of the corporate power represented by J'. Pierpout Morgan and his associate trust magnates, he cannot be a friend of democracy. Verily, in this connection, tl*e po- lilical friend of our political enemy cannot be our political friend. If Mr. Cleveland is acceptable to Mr. Morgan, he canflfot be a true democrat. He who would serve democracy, cannot be a political friend of corpo rate power and greed. Several hundred thousand tons of coal have recently been bought in England, Scotland, Wales, Ger many and other European countries for use in the Uiiited States, to sup ply the shortage caused by the strike in the anthracite region. Much of this purchase is coal that was shipped from this country to Europe before the strike began, and while there was a surplus ready for the market. It was reported last week that J. Pierpout Morgan- had purchased 50,000 tons of coal in England for the poor people in New York city. A later report says the coal will not be given to the poor, but sold prac tically at cost, after ocean freight has been paid. The ships bringing the coal belong to Morgan’s combine. Rev. W. J. Holtzolaw,;,pastor of the Perry Baptist church two years ago, is conducting revival services at Jones Avenue Baptist church, Atlanta, Ga., of whioh church he is how pastor. Cotton Census. Mr. Herman L. Harris, of Fort Valley; has been appointed a local special agent of the census office to collect cotton ginring statistics for Houston county, and we join the government in urging, the ginners to give Mr. Harris their hearty sup port and co-operacion, thus enabling him to mnke prompt and accurate returns. We would impress upon the ginners the fact that this agent is a sworn officer of the government, and that their reports are forwarded as given to him directly to the cen sus office, at Washington, without passing through the hands of any middlemen. The information given is held as strictly confidential, and the operations of individual ginners are not divulged. Upon the joint co-operation of the cotton growers, ginners and local agent must de pend the success of the census office in this inquiry, and its ability to render this great service to the southern people and to all interest ed in the cotton staple. The census office has demonstra ted in three annual reports the fact that the ginners are the only relia ble source of information as to the volume of the annual cotton crop. This is very complimentary to the ginners, who, no doubt, will feel a pride in sustaining the reputation earned. In recognition of this interest shown by the ginners, and of a gen eral demand for more frequent re ports through this source, congress, in the act creating a permanent cen sus office; provided for the collec tion and publication of these statis tics at intervals during the ginning season. For the crop of 1902 the office will issue three reports: the first two will cover the quantity of cotton ginned up to and including Ootober 18 and December 13, re spectively; and the final report will cover the total quantity ginned from the growth of 1902. The statistics for the October re port will be collected during the voek beginning with Monday, Oo- r 20, and ginners should keep - u h records as will enable them to ’• • ush promptly the required infor mation. These returns will be tab ulated, and the result published within one week from their receipt at Washington. Ootton statistics collected through the commercial system, however ac curately compiled, fall short of the demand of the producer and manu facturer—first, in that as they cover the quantity of cotton marketed be tween September 1 of one year and August 31 of the following, they are not statistics of a crop grown in any one year; and second, in the liability to error involved in statistics so compiled. Nothing short of official reports, made sufficiently early 4o form a basis of prices, will entirely satisfy the cotton grower or manu facturer. It is gratifying to know that the south has the assistance and co-operation of the government in bringing about the result they desire—an undertaking the success of which now depends upon the cot ton growers and ginners themselves. The crown prince of Siam, Chow- pa Maha Vajiravudk, is in the Uni ted States. At a dinner given in his honor at Washington by the Sia mese minister last Sunday evening, several members of the president’s cabinet and other U. S. officials were present. People of Perry and vicinity can’t go to Macon by rail and return the same day, except \ia the G. S. & F. road. By this route they must go six miles,, more or less, by private conveyance. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all-other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies,and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. 3cience has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops toja teaspoonful. It acts directly on the, blood and mucus suriaces of the system. They offer one huudred dollars for any casj itfales to cure. Semi for circulars and testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Loans negotiated on improved market rates, and on Business of fifteen years standing. Kore than three million dollars in loans nqes&iated. Facilities unsur passed. HOWARD M. SMITH, Ho. 814 >e<—St.. Macon, Gja. 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