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Great Victory for Democrats. JOH1N H« HODGrES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROCRESS AND CULTURE. #!.«*> a Tear in Adrimoe. vol. xxxr. PEKRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1902. NO. 44. SOLDIER, MAIDEN and FLOWER. “Sweetlienit.take this,” a soldier said, “Aud bid me a brave good-bye; It ruay befall'we ne’er shall meet, But love can never diel «Bo steadfast in thy troth to me, And then, whate’er my lot, Jly soul to God. my heart to thee; Sweetheart, forget me not. The maiden took the tiny flower And fed it with her tears; Lo, he who left her in that hour Game not in after years. Upon the field a demon rode Mid Bhower of flame and shot, While in the maiden,s heart abode The flow’r forget-me-not. And when he came not with the rest, From out those years of blood, Closely unto her widowed breast She pressed the withered bud. Oh, there is love, and there is pain— And there is peace, God wot; Aud these dear three do live again In sweet Forget-me-not. ‘Tis to his unmarked grave to-day That I should love to go— Whether he wore the blue or gray, What need that we should know? “He loved a woman,” let us say, Aud on that hallowed spot, To woman’s love' that lives for aye, We’ll strew Forget-me-not. Byron, Ga., Oct. 9,1902. A Good Policy for Farmers. m Harvie Jordon in Macon Telegraph. Discussing the eondifcions Jasper county, Mr. Jordon said: “My crops are good, equal to any I have ever raised. My cot ton crop was very good, and I have got it stored in a warehouse on my place. There are four ware houses at Montecello jamb full of cotton, and every bale of it is owned by the farmers who raised it-not a dollar owed on it. In additon to cotton stared in the warehouses, many farmers like myself store their cotton at home When the market price suits them they will haul it in and sell it, as I shall do,” “Cotton is our best crop, provi dec! it is not made to bear the en tire burden of the farm; in that event it is not. The farmer can eat his cotton. If he devotes his entire time and effort to raising nothing but cotton and buying his supplies—the things he can in the main produce on the farm, cotton raising will prove a losing business. On the other hand, the farmor that raises his wheat, corn, and meat on liis farm, and thus makes cotton a surplus crop, will find that he is engaged ill the safest business in the country. If he is out of debt and produces his living on the farm, no panic can ever carry him to the wall. “Diversified farming, if adopted as the ruling policy by Georgia farmers, will assure prosperous conditions in this state. This year our cotton will be worth in the neighborhood of $40,000,000 Of this sum the farmers will hayg to pay one-fourth, or approximate ly $10,000,000, for guano. By and by, if we do not diversify our crops more generally, the farm ers will pay one-third of the value of*the-cotton crop for guano. The diversification of the crops, there by giving back to the soil a’pay- ment in natural enrichnient..for what it* gives—and the raising of corn and other cereals, and the meat required to feed the family find help is proper and necessary iis a policy for the farmer to adopt I am glad to note a general awak ening on tlii3 line among the far mers of Georgia. . A Washington special to the Atlanta Constitution says: “There has beeii absolutely no effort on our part to make political capi tal out of the coal strike, and there will be none. All the po litical talk has come from the other side. Judging from its tone there seems to be a conviction in republican circles that the condi tions illustrated by the coal strike have made and are daily making a lot of votes for democratic can didates in all parts of the country. Some of their best politicians re gard the election of a democratic house a certainty, and in this con clusion we agree with them fully. Howevet, we are not counting our chickens yet; we will do that in November.” This prophecy of democratic victory was made today by Judge Jim Griggs, chairman of the dem ocratic national campaign com mittee. Judge Griggs has not been conducting a claim-every- thing-with confidence campaign. He has from the first been very cautious of his utterances. When he consented to take charge of the democratic fight he had little hope of victory and he made no claims. As the campaign pro- essed, bringing as it has advi ces of a confidential character from every congressional district and revealing at the same time the chaotic conditions in republi can ranks, he has taken heart and now makes his prediction of a democratic victory with an air of confidence that meaus something. As he talked Judge Griggs sat at his desk at headquarters in the Colonial hotel annex, where through the medium of a long dis tance telephone connection he is in daily—almost hourly—commu nication with branch headquar ters at the Hoffman house in New York and at the-old Inter-Ocean building in Chicago. Former Congressman Ben Cable, recog nized as one of the best democrat ic politiciaas of the west, is m charge of the western headquar ters, while Judge Griggs has been devoting much of his personal attention to the New York end. Thirty Tears’ Experience ^5,1 & . My patrons in Houston County are my references. • s N '' ? Ship me your Cotton. C. B. WILKINGHAM, Cotton Factor, Q-eorgriSL. A Fit Punishment. is The Crown Prince of Siam being entertained officially during his visit to this country, but his reception is nothing to compare with the gorgeous greeting accord ed Prince Henry of'Prussia. We are intensely republican in the ory, but somehow when it comes to entertaining royalty the im- portance_of the guest seems j|g ob literate our constitutional asser tion that all men are equal.—Ex change. Atlanta Journal. The New York Sun grows ex ceeding wroth over the declara tion of Mr. Bryau that theHieu who “form trusts to rob the peo ple should be put into stripes.” Senator Foraker has also been grievously offonded by this re mark and retorts that they who propose such a thing should be made to wear stripes themselves. Now, what is there wrong" about Mr, Bryan’s advocaoy of stripeB for “those who form trusts to rob the people?” He simply propos es to enforce the law. The Sherman act provides ex actly the punishment that Mr. Bryan would like to see imposed where the evidence is sufficient. It would be well for the country if those in authority had some thing like Mr. Bryan’s view of the proper method of applying the anti-trust law. Ex-Ssnator Edmunds said a few days ago that the main reason why the trusts are not checked lies not in defects of the laws against them, but in the faot that the executive aud judicial officers of the government are deficient either in the ability or the will to enforce those laws. - The remark that has brought down upon Mr. Bryan the con demnation of the Now York Sun, Senator Foraker and other apolo v gists of the trusts is one of the best things we have ever seen •from that gentleman. He believes in the Mikado’s “object all sublime to make the punishment fit the crime.” W. A. DAVIS. BEN. T. RAY. GEO. H. LOWE. W. A. DAVIS & CO., COTTON FACTORS. 405-407 Poplar St. MACON, GEORGIA BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY. They are "active, accpmmodating and courteous. Send them your cotton; they are honest in thiir dealings and wise In their judgement. ■W. -A.. IDu^TTXS CO., MACON, GEORGIA. Out of Death’s Jaws. '‘When death seemed very near from a severe stomach and liver trouble, that I had suffered with f°r years,” writes P. Muse. Dur- ham, N. C., “Dr. Kings’ New Life Pills saved my life and gave • per fect health.” Best pills oh earth and! only 25c at .Holtzclan s Drug store. Subscribe for the Koaie Journal Goes Like Hot Cakes. “The fastest selling. article I have in my store,” writes drug gist C. T, Smith, of Davis, Ky., “is Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung diseases, who could get no help from doctors or any other reme dy.” Mothers rely on it, . best physicians prescribe it. Satisfac tion guaranteed or refund price. Trial bottles free, Regular sizes, 50c and $1.00 at Holtclaw’s drug store. “Getting a wife at from $2 to $5 through a matrimonial agency is certainly cheaper than the old, slow method of buying theater tickets, boxes of candy, etc.” says the Chicago News. Somebody in the East started a newspaper paragraph about the fine apple orchard owned by Fos ter Udell of Brockport, N. Y.. from which he this jmar sold $15,- 000 worth of fruit. Comes now a Western editor and tells -of an orchard near Leavenworth, Kan., owned by Judge Wellhouse. Jhe orchard covers 15,000 acres and the judge’s profit this year will run up to $35,000. He has already sold about 50,000 bushels of fruit. Ex-President Cleveland has giv en out some more advice to the democracy, and tells what, in his opinion, must be done to increase democratic representation in con gress. What, as the Albany Her ald says, the real democrats would like ,to know is whether Mr. Cleveland votes the democrat ic ticket.—Dawson News. ITT e i^ ier Stove or a Range? If i& g 0 ,1 can fill yoiir order and guaran tee to do it satisfactorily. I carry a complete line of To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brorno Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. ,E. W, Grove’s signature on eaclfbox.25c. National Steel'iRanges (uJiUsttos), Excelsior Stoves and Ranges, New Enterprise Stoves, '. Laxative Chocolates cure chronic constipation and liver trouble. Pleas ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar anteed, at Cater’s Drugstore. The gold fields of Western Au stralia are the largest'in the world. They cover 824,000 square miles. The total value of negro prop erty in this state is $15,188,069, CAST0R4A For Infants and Children. Ills Kind You Hava Always Bough: Bears the Signaturehof Grand Oak Stoves ( 7—15 inch oven with fuiri list of furniture, $8.50.J My fall stock of Crockery and Honsefurnisuings is even moie complete than it lias been heretofore. fi ALDER* Triangular Block. \ MACCXN, GEORGIA