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TMJS &OJHJB JeVSMiH. PRICE, $1.50 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. PnMUhed Ev®ry. Thursday Horning. no.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, October 28. Thr Georgia legislature is in ses sion. Thr state fair at Valdosta will open next Wednesday. A "loaded” man and a loaded pis tol make a dangerous combination. The Southern Cultivator is the best agricultural paper for southern farmers. Stove manufacturers have agreed to advance the price of their prod ucts 10 per cent. A ten-story building will soon be ereotod in Savannah, jointly by two banking corporations of that oity. Can it be that the Rough-Rider president has ridden rough-shod over the political aspirations of Sen ator Hanna? An acre of land that will not yield enough to pay expenses of cultiva tion and reasonable interest on $10 is not worth Cultivating. Columbus is making great prepa rations for the entertainment of the Confederate veterans during,the re union there on Gdtober 28th and : Senator Hannah is evidently not in the game to settle the Penn sylvania coal strike. Perhaps he was lost in the shuffle before the deal was fixed.* • V The Atlantio, Valdosta and West ern railroad has beeome a part of the Georgia Southern and Florida, the transfer having been completed [last week. Perhaps the present silenoe of Marcus Aurelius Hanna is the hush ., triad precedes a storm. If so, there Va hot aud dusty times in store for the republican party. •, Quarantine aga'nst Cuba has . been removed earlier than usual this ■year by the government at Wash ington, on account of. the continued absence of yellow fever. Profit comes easiest to that far- 1 •ner whose constant effort is .to in* •Tease the producing capacity of his Utid, rather than to him who in Teases the number of acres oultiva- ed. Boyd, Knioht & Co., Valdosta, Ga., will give a handsome cook ;«tove to the lady of Georgia or Florida who guesses nearest the number of paid admissions to the utate fair at Valdosta. Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Bailway Company, is also president of the Georgia Southern A’Florida, and yet they say the Southern does not in any manner control the G. S. & F. Dr. Aohklus H. Mitchell, the >ldest graduate of the Georgia ■> ate University, celebrated his »th birthday at his home in Afch- is on Wednesday of last week, Oc- •ber I5th. He graduated in 1827, 75 years ago. Political Duty. On the first Tuesday ip November next, the 4th day of the month, rep resentatives in the 58th congress .will be ejected in all the states of the Unidn. ; ^ ]; ' The present congress is republi can by a considerable majority, but the indications now are that the democrats will elect a majority of the next congress. ! In most of the states there are some districts in which the contest will be close, and of course the in terest felt will induce a full vote. In Georgia, however, a different condition prevails, and' the eleven democratic candidates nominated by primary vote last May will have no opposition in the election. This fact does not lessen the duty of all democrats to Vote. It should be a pride to Georgia democrats to elect their nominees by a vote as large as that east on nomination day. In the third district our represen tative was nominated without oppo sition, aud we owe it 4o him and the party that a large vote should be polled on November 4th. ■ ;• In writing to the Home Journal editor about tiekets and the eleotibn several days ago, Mr. Lewis said: "As I am the only one to be voted for and having no opposition, .it is natnral to expeot apathy on the part of the people. Therefore urge that they turn out on Novemher 4th, and I shall hope to get a good vote from your splendid county, and through out the district. On >just such an occasion Mr. Crisp, my predecessor, was elected to cpngress bv a 'smtp vote. He was afterward handicap ped by this, republicans claiming that he was uot entitled to his seat bn suoh an insignificant vote. Let! this not occur again.” Mr, Lewis is right. 'He arid' the other Georgia candidates deserve the full democratic vote of their re- 1 speotive districts. Time and and again republicans in congress have taunted southern demooratio congressmen with lin ing been eleoted by exceed iritis small votes. On several occnsi ^ this faot has formed the basis nf $ ■ forts to roduee the southern • cratio representation in congress t>y means of regulating the -representa tion in. accordance with the votes oast at the election. Of course there oould be np jus tice in this, bnt our-.political pride should impel us to the performance of political duty, and thereby avoid the charge that our supremacy had been attained by intimidation, and other fraud. The cost of. the election must be; paid, be the vote small oriarge, and a heavy vote eosts no more than a light vote per precinct. Lot the third district, and Geor gia, poll a vote of Which we?-may be pro.ud. A special from Wilkesbatre, Pa., to the Atlanta Journal says the loss es occasioned, by the eoal strike for 23 weeks aggregated a total ofj $142,600,000, as follows: iLoss in! strikers’ wages, $28,700,0QQ; em ployes other than strikers, $6,900,- 000; to business men in ;atrike re gion, $16,000,000; to business men; outside the region, $10,300,000; cost: of coal and iron police, $2;300,000;! cost of maintaining non-union men, $650,000; troops, $850,000; damage to mines and machinery, $6,500,000.-; At Hamlet, N, C;, a compress and 2,400 bales of cotton were destroy- ud by fire last Sunday. J. M. Wil son of Clarksville, Ga., bookkeeper of compress company, attempted, to xtinguish the fire and was qauglit . y the flames and burned to death. V vV Republicans will attempt to attaoh political significance to the fact that President Roosevelt and,other re publicans have been - persistent in their efforts to settle the anthraoite coal strike. But wait, and see if the minors don’t get the little end of the arbitrators’ decision. . Columbus, its business enterprise and industrial growth,was thorough ly and attractively illustrated in a special edition of the Enquirer-Sun last Sunday. Each of the thirty-six pages of the speoial edition is a genii < f editorial science and t.vnnwvmrW- < f editorial science and typograyh i aal art. Congratulations ate due the paper and the city.' 'At the Hague recently there was; an arbitration court to consider the. claim of the United States against! Mexico for a: large sum ,'bf mbIney called "The Pius Fund,” The. claim of the United States was sus tained, and ^ithin the ; ensuing eight months Mexico will! pay $1,- ,4^0,682.27, and thereafter annually;- a certain sum urit.il the entire claim has been'paid. It is reported from Mexico that the government of that republic will abide by the awarS^ v ! It is now said that J. Pierpont 1 Morgan is well pleased with the' commission appointed by President; Roose\elr to arbitrate,- the coal ; strike. It is further declared that, the names of ' the commissioners. Were furnished the president by Mr. Morgan. If this be true, the miners will not be in it, to any material ex tent. ' . An effort is now being made to combine the saw mill industries of Arkansas, Louisiana,Mississippi and Tennessee into one organization, the ‘‘Hardwood Manufacturers’ Associa tion of the United States.” A Potent Crime Factor. Of the 29 cases on the criminal calendar of Houston Superior court, carrying -firearms^ was the founda tion of 1^; nearly fifiy per cent. Of the four murder cases, three were due to the fact that each of the defendants hud a pistol conceal ed in his pocket. In the other case the defendant was out hunting with a gun. In one of these murder cases there- were two indictments against’ the defendant other than that for murder. Of the eight oth er cases dtie to carrying concealed weapons, it was developed in the trials that the difficulty in each in stance was due entirely to the con cealed pistol. It was a remarkable fact that in every case, except one, the defehdant claimed that the shooting was accidental. This record is alarming, but it is scarcely exceptional. In fact, it is true that in every section of this state, and others where there are many negroes, a large proportion of the criminal cases in the courts are based upon: the unlawful praetice of carrying concealed pistols. It is known also that: all the. shooting scrapes among negroes do, not get into oourb. • r , Almost without exception the idle and vicious residents of all commu nities carry pistols concealed, and by reason of this fact they are impu dent, reckless and dangerous. Some good men have criticised the law against carrying concealed weapons as'one infringing upon per sonal rights, but in view of the in crease of crimb l dirfectiy due to this habit, there shoUld be none to con- demn-the-'ldw,'-but all should use their best efforts Jto have the law enr forced strictly. v Matty judges arid other prominent citizens-have "condemned the pistol carrying ' practice in unmeasured - terms, arid it Should he stopped. Exeept as a wriapoti of protection against burglars and other depreda tors of the horiie and its surround ings, there is no - need for a pistol Concealed in a person’s pocket, pn, liio highway or elsewhere, it ever H- lnces a carelessness of danger that !y becomes an incentive to- law lessness of a grave character. If the law as it is cannot prevent the vicious from carrying concealed pistols, then there should be a more stringent law. Our representatives should give this nirf&btier careful ; consideration during the session just now begun. i , V, • • - —: :—n—— j . , A damage suit that had been in court twenty years, Mrs. J. O. Chris tian vs. the Columbus & Rome Rail- road Cq,, was oouoluded in tne Su perior court at Columbus las Thurs day, the jury rendering a verdict for $20,000 iri favor of the plaintiff. An agent of the railroad had killed the husband of the plaintiff while transacting business for the railroad. ■ •*—•——O— It was reported iri New York last ek that i Secretary Shaw had bought $16,000,000 of 4 per cent gov^nl^ient ^ondsl Tlioro i8 more C«t«frfti r Tn this section of the ico.uutry than all other.. psoases put. together, ana until the last feSv years was suppGseuto be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by“ constantly failing to cure -y}fbi 1 ncaU^atme.u,ii >; pnftpppnced it. Tnpurable. science has proven catarrh to bo ’a constitu- tiohal’diseas^'ahdthefefore'requires ccnfetitu- tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh’ Cure, manu factured by F. J.'Chphey & Co.. Toledo’, Ohio, is the only considtutiohal oure on the. matl?ot it is taken internally in doses from iO drops to a teaspooriful. It acts directly on the blood and mucus suriaces of the system. They offer one huudred dollars for any ;caso. itfales to cure. $end tpy circulars stncl J#stirhouials. uixidress. ■ iri Sold by Druggists, iTSStc-v- Hall’s Family Filis are the best. ' & CO., Toledo, O. MQNEY. h'-rAIiotoxai. . neg-otiated on improvad forma, at lowest market rataa, and on most Ubi$a|;£ermB. < Bushioss jjf g$teop yearn standing. ^^ ’“'ola dhllars ua SEore than tf loans ne«-*tiated. passed. Maqon, Gaw Sti’fj W’lie’ri'yi;. Plants. Tl<e iai’f est stock in t lie Wt>ri<l. Scariy^OO varieties. v ' -vr:> ■: . - AU the clioico, -lugttdoua kinds.for the .i v arioy J^irket-.., Also Ship ping Yafleti'6s." 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MACON, GEORGIA. >JHE ONLY WAY TO GET GOOD SHOES is to buy them where only good shoes are for sale.. This store buys only the best shoes that are made. Buys them in such quantities that our orders are sought after by the best facto ries; "and buying best means helling best. • Here’s one instance to show you how we can serve you best in MEN’S SHOES, A genuinp Par Vici Shoe in lace or button, me- dium weight, hand sewed, with rock oak soles ; a very striking and dressy shoe GIVE US A CALL. Strong Slioe Store, J. R. HOLMES, Prop’r. MACON, GEORGIA A Fleaeur© to a® •; r! f; - V;.‘ When clothes of the right sort are obtaina ble at the right figures . They must fifcf be well tailored and wear well. Our Clothing will meet your approval; made in a. variety of patterns to select from, E. CHEEK K 410 ■ ThIbd Street. MACO^, G^