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The North Georgia Conference. Atlanta Constitution. The north Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which meets in Atlanta November 19-24, has the distinction of being the largest annual conference in the world. This conference represents more than 100,000 members. It has 277 itenerant preachers and 367 local preachers. It owns 763 church buildings, whose value is more than $1,000,000, and has 181 parsonages, valued at $267,665. An annual conference is only an advisory body; it possesses no leg islative powers. The bishops and elders and pastors meet to confer as to the best interests of the church and its ministry. It trans acts a great volume of business. Besides the items of the support of preachers and presiding elders, the conference looks after and disburses for foreign missions, $20,000; for worn out pseachers and widows and orphans, $15,000; for home missions, $11,500; for church extension, $4,000; for ed ucation, $3,000 for bishops, $3,- 000; Sunday school mission mon ey, $2,000; raised on Children’s day, $649; raisedfor other objeots, $81,600; making a total of $142,- 000. There are 664 pastors, which in cludes elders and presidents and professors in church colleges and schools, besides 18 young preach ers on trial, and 44 lay delegates which makes a delibarative lrndy of 821 members. During the year three ministers ters have died—Rev. J. W. Baker, Rev. W. T. Hamilton and Rev. C. S. Owens, which is a small mortality to so large a body\ Five preachers will go to other fields for 1903 -Rev. E. R. Cook to Virginia, Rev. L. H. Harris to Tennessee, Rev. B. E.L. Timmons to south Georgia; Rev. Joseph Irons, Dr.R. J. Bigham to Nash ville Publication House. There will be some transfers back to Georgia—Rev. W. P. King from St. Louis, Rev. J. S. Jenkins from southwest Missouri, and probably Dr. I. S. Hopkins from Missouri; Dr. C. E, Dow nfall from south Georgia. Our Neighbors. Perhaps it were better for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood, [and to take care that we do not" misunderstand other peopleT It ought to give us pause at a time that each onejias a stock of cut-and-dried judg ments on his neighbors, and that the chances are that most of them are quite erroneous. What our neighbor is we may never know, but we may be pretty certain that he is not what we have im agined, and that many things we have thought of them are quite beside the mark. What he does we havs seen, but we have no idea what might have been his thoughts and intentions. The mere surface of his charac ter may be exposed, but of the esmplexity within we have not the faintest idea. People cram med with self-consciousuess and self-conceit are often praised as humble, while shy and reserved people are judged to be proud. Some whose whole life is one studied selfishness get the name of self- sacrifice, and other silent, heroic souls ar-e condemned for want of humanity.—Ex. Startling But True. ‘If every one knew what r , one grand medicine Dr. King’s New Life Pills is,’’ writes D. H. Turn er, Dempseytown, Penn., “you’d sell all you had in a day. Two weeks’ use has made a new man of me.” Infallible for constipa tion, stomach and liver troubles, "oc at Holtzclaw’s drug store. Savannah Nows. The constitutional amendment proposed by Senator Mitchell of the Twenty-fourth Distriot, to'en able counties, military districts, school districts and municipalities to establish . public sohools and maintain them by local taxation, is a good measure and ought to have the support of every friend of education in the General As sembly—and that ought to iu- clude the whole membership. We can never have an efficient public school system in the state, outside of the cities, until the people tax themselves locally for the support of sohools. The tax should not be heavy, of course, but enough to supplement the fund from the state treasury and extend the school term and im prove the school houses. It each district were required to duplicate by means of local tax ation the sum drawn from the state treasury, or even to raise a fund one-half the size, the schools would soon be in flourishing con dition ; and there would be prec ious few districts that failed tc qualify for their share of the state’s fund. Furthermore, the patrons of the school would take more interest in them. They would feel a proprietary pride iu the schools and exert every effort to improve them and see that the attendance was full. Better teach ers could be secured and better results achieved for all parties concerned. There would be very little if any objection to local tax ation for school purposes. The people do not mind contributing a dollar or two a year extra when they knosv it will be for the ben efit of lheir children and expend ed right at home where the results can be watched. Of Interest to Cotton Growers. The Scientifi American reports that a new industry has recently v-, QO ii started in Germany which been .■L_ offers considerable prospects aud possibilities, i. e., the wood-pulp or cellulose tissues made by the Pateutspiunerel Actiengesellschaft at Altdamm near Stettin. The spinning of wood-pulp or cellu lose is the patented invention cf Gustav Turk, manager of the cel lulose works at Walsun on the Rhine, and the well-known inven tor, Dr. Carl Kellner of Vienna. If it is taken into consideration that the process itself is con siderably cheaper than the usual method of making yarn; that even the shortest animal or vege table fibers can thereby be easily spun into yarn, and that the price of the best quality of wood-pulp is only about one-third of that of ordinary cotton, the advantages and possibilities of this process are evident. Doubtless yarn made according to this process will in the future replace to a considera ble extent woolen, linen, cotton and especially jute yarns, partic ularly in •the cheaper grades of tissues, and for such tissues where pliability aud handsome color are of main importance.—Macon Tel egraph. . — r w A Startling surprise. A very few could believe in looking at A. T. Hoadley, a heal thy, robust blacksmith of Til- den, Ind., that for ten years he suffered such tortures from. Rheu matism as few could eudure and live. But a wonderful change followed his taking Electric Bit ters. “Two bottles wholly cured me,” he writes, “and I have not felt a twinge in over a year.” They regulate the Kidneys, puri fy the blood and cure Rheuma tism, Neuralgia, Nervousness, im prove digestion and give perfect health. Try them. Only 50cts. at Holtzclaw’s drug store. Subscribe for ThS Home Joubnat.. M y patrons in Houston County are my references. Ship me your Cotton. C. B. WILLINGHAM, Cotton Factor, Macor., Q-eosgrieu.' Some Good from the Goal Strike. The persons who are continually pointing out to us lessons that may be gleaned from every calam ity are rather tiresome as a rule, but occasionally an exposition of good in apparent evil is pardon able, and suoh an occasion pre sents itself in regard to the re cent coal famine. In the South we suffered none of the ill-effeots of the shortage in the coal supply; bub • in the North, East and West the depri vation was no joking matter, it being absolutely impossible for the poor to oblain fuel of kind It was then that the and well-to-do learnecT the meaning of brotherly love, with one acoord they oame to rescue of those less fortunately placed than themselves and knew the great joy that can come from sharing with others the blessings enjoyed by themselves. Jt is safe to say that the charitablb attitude assumed in this time of general trouble became a fixed habit that will continue to bear fruit in the future. Incidentally the . coal strike brought, about several other de sirable things. It taught the in calculable folly of waste, and the desirability of practicing economy in the use of fuel, when such economy means houses less in tensely hot and therefore infinite ly more heal thy .-Augusta Herald. any rich true for the —That the greatest gold fields the world has ever known are in the Amur river country in eastern Siberia is the opinion of E. B. McGowan, a mining expert who has just returned from a 12,000 mile trip of exploration through the Asiatic possessions of Russia. The Russians, he said, took out $20,000,000 of gold last year from the placer deposits and have not yet begun to work the quartz. The rmhing methods of the Rus sians are verg crude, Mr McOow- man says, and do not compare with American methods. A Louisville woman has- been drawing four pensions from the government as the widow of four soldiers who served in the civil war. She has made no conceal ment of the facts, and no fraud is charged against her, as each pen sion was granted in accordence with law. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay Price, 25 cents There are some 15,000 China men in Cuba, and since the island became independent there is no law to prevent them going there from China or elsewhere. C ASTO R IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of W. A. DAVIS. BEN. T. RAY. GEO. H, LOWE. J W. A. DAVIS & BUTTON FACTORS. :: MACOJST, GEORGIA 405-407 Poplar St . BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY. They are active, accommodating’ and courteous. Send them your cotton; they are honest in th dr dealings and wise in their judgement. v "W. IS CO., MACON, GEORGIA. either need a Stove or a Range? If ™ ^ ^ so, I can fill your order and guaran tee to do it satisfactorily. I carry a complete line of Best made in\ United States)y National Steel Ranges ( Excelsior Stoves and Ranges, N ew Enterprise Stoves, Grand Oak toves ( 7-15 inch oven with full"l list of- furniture, $8.50.J >7# My fall stock of Crockery arid Housefurnisuings is even moie complete than it has been heretofore. Triangular Block. j j,, 'j MACON, GEORG-