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VOL. XXXL
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, G-A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1902.
NO. 43.
Judge Griggs as a Leader.
Atlanta Constitution.
The present, campaign of the
congressional democratic com
mittee has been one of the most
thorough-going and promising
that the party has experienced in
many years. At first the repub
licau experts were disposed, to be
frcetious over the election to the
chairmanship of the committee
of a Georgia craoker congressman
who had not previously won his
spurs as a national political lead
er. For the moment they forgot
that Georgia has always been one
of the foremost schools of states
manship in the south - and that
the craoker alwaya plays politics
for keeps 1 l
Since the campaign opened the
republicans; and, sooth to say,
many national democrats, have
bee awakened to the fact that
a James Fitz James has crossed
the track of the roystering repub
lican Rhoderick Dhu 1 Congress
man Griggs took up his*work with
an understanding and an aggres-
Bion that could not be mistaken
or under-estimated. The repub
lican committee opposing him
have found that whichever way it
turns Grtggs has anticipated
them. They find themselves put
everywhere on the defensive, and
already they begin to feel -the
rocking of the earth beneath their
feet.
At this stage of the oampaign
it really seems inevitable that the
democrats will win a majority of
the members of the next house of
ropresentaives and will thus be
enabled, not to complete legisla
tion, but to defeat such as may
be republican and bad. and to in
vite proposals that will indicate
to the people the programme of
the democracy.
In that event no man can be
regarded as ^mrthier of recogni
tion as the legitimate leader of
the party than Congressman
Griggs, who organized and fought
the battle to. a Vigorous finish.
He will become in the -house, as
as in the district, the logical suc
cessor of the lamented ex-Speaker
Charles Frederick Crisp. And in
the van of the party no man in
sight will offer safer guarantees
of loyalty, fidelity to duty and
wisdom in leadership than Con
gressman Griggs. He is a strong
man for public affairs and stands
four-square as a democrat of the
true-blue order.
We believe the foremost men of
the party think as we have writ
ten and that when the hour ar
rives. to designate the party lead
er in congress, whether to preside
for a majority or be spokesman
for a powerful minority, the
name of our gallant Georgian,
Judge Griggs, will lead all the
reBt.
Where the Dove’Was.
Mrj. Shattock of the Signa*
Corps tells an amusing story of
an old time, “religious ,, revival”
meeting at liegro church, near Sa
vannah, says the Kansas City
Journal. In order that the re
vival spirit might be quickened
it was arrauged that the preacher
should give a signal when he
thought the desired excitement
was highest and from the autic,
through a hole cut in the ceiling
direotly over the pulpit, the sex--
ton was to shove down a pure
white dove, whose flight around
the church and over the.heads of
the audience was expected to have
an inspiring effect and, as far as
emotional excitement was con
cerned, to cap the climax. All
went well at the start; the ohuroh
was paoked; the preacher’s text
was “In the form of a dove,” and
as he piled up his eloquent peri
ods the excitement was strong.
Then the opportune moment ar
rived —the'.signal-was given—and
the packed audience was scared
out of its wits on looking up to
the ceiling and beholding a cat,
with a clothes line around its
middle, yowling and spitting,
being slowly lowered over the
preacher’s head. The preacher
called out to the sexton in the
attic: “Whar’s de dove? And
the sexton’s voice came down
through the ceiling opening so
you could hear it a block: “In
side de cat 1”
um. eotim
My patrons in Houston County are my references.
j ;• ., Ship me your Cotton.
Cii 33. WILiLINGH AN4, Cotton Factor,
b^Eacon, Q-eoxg-isu
The New York newswapers con
tinue to to take a deep interest in
Mr.PierpointJMorgan’s order of
50,000 tons of British coal, to be
brought to New York at once.
One of them alleges that it has
discovered that the order has
been placed with the Scotch Unit
ed Collieries Company, and that
the cost of the Coal laid down in
New York will be $6 P er ton.
The same paper has a Lundon ca
ble which Says by “ordering the
coal from the Scotch company,
Mr. Morgau will do a good stroke
of business, for J. S. Morgan &
Co. are the financial sponsers of
the company, having recently un
derwritten its capital of £1.000,-
000, and an order for 50,000 tons
would clean up the Scotch compa
ny^ stock of coal at a handsome
profit- and and impart a boom to
the company’s stock.”
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.
It will be a Stayer.
‘‘I see,” observed the man with
incandescent nose, according to
the Baltimore American, “that a
big corset trust has been form
ed.”
“Somebody will be squeezed
pretty badly’before it is in oper
ation long,” suggested the man
with the haggard eye.
“Well put in the person with
the foot ball hair, “I don’t think
we ought to object to suoh a trust.
We know that anything that can
get near to a woman’s heart is
not wholly bad.”
“But,” protested the individ
ual with the pessemitic mustache,
“it is not an’ economical combi
nation. Everything it. makes
goes to waist.”
00h I don’t know,” answered
the man with the incandescent
nose, “ you will find that the
corset trust is going to get things
in good shape after a while.”
“Anyhow,” weakly suggested
a common person who had been
listening, “it may be depended
upon to present a straight front
to all opposition.’,
However, let us leave th© ulti-
mate final discussion of this octo
pus to some of the numerous con
gresses.
According to the Telegraph,
Macon has forty manufacturing
plants, the products of which
amount to $25,000,000 a year
These plants pay out annually to
they employes $1,500,000. Ma
con’s prosperity is largely due to
her manufacturing industries and
she is to be cogratulated upon
the splendid progress she is mak
in g along this ,line.
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His Life In Peril.
“I just seemed to have gone all
. J) irrrit.ca Alfrfid Bfia. of
A Ton of Cantaloupe Seeds.
From the Albany Herald.
Mr. C. Li .,Hall has returned
from Rocky Ford, Col., where he.
went some time ago to purchase
oantaloupe seed for a number of
growers in this county.
Rocky Ford is the home of tBV
celebrated cantaloupe that bears
that name. The seed.are in great
demand by cantdlQtipe growers in
all sections of the country, amTit
is an easy matter to secure pack
ages with the “geuine Rooky
Ford” brand. But growers in
this part of the country have
learned that there are many un
reliable seed-men at Rooky Ford,
and that it is next to impossible
to securejthe best oantaloupe see d
by the^usual methods of] corres -
pondence.
In order to avoid the possibili
ty of being hoodwinked next sea
son Mr. Hall deoided to go to
Rocky Ford. He soon found that
the growers were “on to the
make,” and ever ready to soil the
inferior grades of seed to unsus
pecting buyers. Even by being
on the ground Mr. Hall found it
no easy matter to get the artiole
lie wanted, but was finally suc
cessful. He saw the seed which
he purchased properly paoked, la-
bled and turned over to tha rail
road, consigued to Albany. He
bought 2,000 pounds of the seed
and as a result it is expected that
the finest cantaloupes ever raised
in Georgia will be grown in
Dougherty county next season.
A baby is an important person
age. He is the prince of wails;
an inhabitant of Lapland; the
noon day crawler; the midnight
bawler;the only precious .posses
sion that never excites envy; a
key that openes the hearts of all
classes, poor and rioh alike, in all
countries; a stranger with a re
markable cheek that enters the
house without a stitch on his
back, and is received with open
arms by every one.-—Ex.
—
America’s Famous Beauties
Look with horror on Skin Erup
tions, Blotches, Sores,. Pimples.
They don’t have them, nor will
any ohe, who uses Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve. It glorifies the face.
Eczema or Salt Rheum vanish be
fore it. It cures sore lips, chap
ped hands, chilblains. Infallible
for Piles'. e)K "
drugstore.
to pieces,” writes Alfred Bee,
Welfare, Tex., billiodsness and
lame back had made life a bur
den. I couldn’t eat or sleep and
felt almost too worn out to work
when I began to use Electric Bit
ters, but they worked wonders.
Now I sleep like a top, can eat
anything, have gained m strength
and enjoy hard work. They
give vigorus health and new lit®
to weak, sickly, run-down people.
Try them. Only 50c at Holtz-
claw’s drugstore.
405-407 Poplar St.
W. A. DAVIS.
BEN. T. RAY.
GEO. H. LOWE.
. A. DAVIS & CO.,
MAGOtf, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY-
They are active, accommodating
and courteous.
Send them your cotton; they dreShonest in th )ir dealings
and wise in their judgement.
WV-A-. CO*,
— MACON, GEORGIA. -
25c at Holtzclaw’s
W. F. HOUSER.
W. G MIDDLBBROOKS.
The best $3.50 Men’s and $3.00 Ladies’
Shoe on earth. Latest styles and all the
leathers. Once worn always worn. .
MACON SHOE CO.
408 Third St., MACON, GA.
F. 0. BENSON
tee to
either need a Stove or a Range? If
I A Vr w go, I can fill your order and guaran-
do it satisfactorily. I carry a complete line of
One of the most elaborately
decorated pyivate buildings which
the G. A. R. parade passed last
week, in*Washington, had across
the front a great banner contain
ing the legend, “Welcome Com
rades 1 ” It is an undertaker’s-es-
tablishment, and the proprietor
is an ex Confederate soldier.
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Excelsior Stoves and Ranges,
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