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MACON.
GEORGIA,
Jo&tfjV&L Silver AgainDiscussed.
PRICE, Si,50 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE.
PuMlshed Every Thursday Morning.
J no. H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, February 6.
This warm rain this week suggests
spring time.
It Beeroa\hat the growing ten
dency of Bpeoifio education is to
learn how to make money.
There is as much need of practi
cal education for farmers as for pro
fessional men and artisans.
Germane is friendly in truth to
those nations only that will not in
terfere with Germany’s, plans.
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Arrangements are now progress
ing for the enlargement of the cot
ton mills at HawkinBVille to double
t.heir present capacity.
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A lemon tree three years old,three
feet high and now bearing fruit is a
curiosity in the yard of Oapt. J. H.
Martin at Hawkinsville.
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A snow slide from a mountain
wreoked a mining camp and killed
three men near Park Oily, Utah, on
Wednesday of last week.
In the Kausos legislature a resolu
tion has been introduced to so amend
the election laws as to disfranchise
all the negroes of that state.
Rev. Sam Small has canceled his >
editarial agreement with the Atlanta
Constitution, and has become secre
tary of a company organized to de
velop oil mills iq Texas.,
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Judge Emory Speer will be ap
pointed judge of the United States
circuit oourt of the southern circuit
when Judge McCormick of Texas
retires,as report says he will soon do.
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It is believed by many observing
men in the third district that Hon.
Dudley M. Hughes of Twiggs, pres
ident o{ the Georgia State Agricul
tural sooiety, will be a candidate for
oongress when the next campaign
opens. 7
At Griffin Wednesday afternoon
of last week the Superior court
grand jury created a sensation by
embracing in their preBent^iqutB a
strong condemnation of ctgu play
ing in Booiety where prizes are of
fered.
In the oity of Maoon there are
many oases of small pox, but the au
thorities are using great care and
skill to isolate all oases and prevent
ah epidemic. It is said the pest
house, about two miles from the
city, is full.
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From the Macon correspondence
of the Atlanta Constitution we learn
that Col. John R. Cooper is prepar
ing to be a candidate for oongress
when the next campaign opens in
the sixth district. Hon. C. L Bart
lett has been eleoted four, times.
~The oounty superintendent of pub-
lio instruction at Gainesville, Fja.,
last week deolaied that Booker
Washington would not be permitted
to speak at the meeting of oounty
superintendents of the Btate, though
he had been incited to do so,by the
state superintendent.
Hon. Lew Ankeny, the new U. S.
senator elected last week by the
Washington legislature, is a million
aire, as are nearly all the senators,
old and new. If there are to be sen
atorial qualities superior to the pos
session of rnuoh money, eleotion by
the people must be provided for.
As the senate will not favor a law
providing for the election of U. S.
senators by direct vote of the peo
ple, the several states can do as the
democrats of Georgia have done, ^n
.Georgia we vote for U. S. senator in
the democratic state primary, and
the legislators are bound to ratify
that vote.
Although the last presidential
eleotion was accepted as a settle
ment of the democratic demand for
the free and unlimited coinage of
Bilver at a fixed ratio, it seems that
the status of silver as a money met
al is not settled.
Since the gold standard has been
arranged, accepted and used in the
United States and all the leading
commercial nations, the prioe of sil
ver has very much depreciated, and
the industry of silver mining has
been depressed, This condition does
not suit those countries where much
silver is produced, and again the
question is being forced upon this
government.
In this connection our Washing
ton correspondent writes as follows:
"President Roosevelts message to
congress, transmitted last week, con
stitutes a most remarkable recogni
tion of some of the monetary theo
ries advanced by Mr. Bryan. Ac-'
companding the president’s commu
nication were notes received from
Mexico and China requesting the
United States to join with them in
ao international movement to estab
lish a standard for silver, the depre
dation and fluctuation of whioh was
causing untold loss to the countries
named and to the Philippines and
French and British oolonies. In
view of the fact that demonitization
has resulted in so serious a deprecia
tion of silver, it iB suggested that
that the ratio now be fixed at 32 to
1. The president requests tbajb he
be empowered to take the steps sug
gested. He has also requested that
congress authorize the appointment
of three commissioner* to meet with
commissioners from the countries
named and an effort will be made to
enlist the oo-operation of Great Brit
ain and France.
"Addressing himself to the sub
ject of the proposed plan, a leading
member of the senate, and one who
has most vigorously opposed every
theory advanced by Mr."Bryan, said
to your correspondent: ‘On its a hr
face the plan appeals to me. If we
were to insist on a gold basis in the
Philippines and it were to-become
neoessary for all the silver using
countries to follow suit, it would
certainly prove a severe strain on
the gold supply of the world and
would probably result in an appre
ciation of our own currency. Of
course, this is not a soheme for a
silver standard, but for a gold stan
dard with practical birnetalism. The
gold would lie the yard stick by
which the Bilver would be measured.
The increased and steady demand
for silver would probably prevent
further depreciation pf the value of
that metal, which is seriously affect
ing all. silver using and producing
countries As great producers of sil
ver, we are of course vitally interest
ed in anything which can be done
for silver. J hope and believe that
the scheme will be found practica
ble and that all the silver using
countries and all countries having
silver using oolonies will agree on
establishing the value of silver on a
basis of 32 to 1.’ ”
Farmers Should Have Their Share.
Frequently the declaration is made
that this is an utilitarian age, and
certain it is that in education the
tendency toward practical instruc
tion Along all lines is growing. To
learn how to do, as well as how to
think, seems to be the increasing
purpose.
In this, as in all lines of organized
effort, our farmers, the largest class
of Southern citizenry, have received
the smallest share of state aid. They
deserve and are entitled to their full
quota and justice demands that they
receive it.
For many years there has been in
Georgia an;"agricultural college” re
ceiving staid aid annually, but until
last year there was not in that col
lege any course of agricultural in
struction save lectures. Even now
that course is not what the name of
the college implies. Our legislators
should see to it that there shall be a
cessation of this fraud, and that in
truth this institution must be an up-
to-date technical 'school of agricul
ture where the students will be
taughttfot only the theory but the
practice of farming.
Recently it was announced m this
connection that there would be this
year one farmers’ institute in
eaoh senatorial district in Georgia.
That is well, and it is earnestly de
sired that these institutes will be
liberally attended. As the name im
plies, these institutes are a sort of
agricultural school, but they are also
expererince meetings in a large
measure. Of course/they do not em
brace the actual work of plowing,
planting, cultivating and harvesting,
but experienced men tell how these
things are donejto the best advant
age. All farmers cannot attend these
district institutes, but they can be
made the uuoleus for the establish
ment of other and permanent insti
tutes in every county in the state.
At these the farmers, their wives,
sons and daughters can meet regu
larly and exchange expediences and
opinions along all lines of farming,
gardening and home management.
Those most successful can tell how
they gained success, and the others
will learn. In fact.gevery one-who
attends with a desire for improve
ment will have that desire gratified
in some:degree. On Bocial lines also
much good will be accomplished.
In former years such meetings, ac
complished much good iff Houston,
and in other counties the good ex-
amaple continues exercising its be
neficent influence.
Beyond doubt fanners’ institutes
are excellent promoters of progres
sive and profitable farming.
At Gainesville last Sunday Miss
Eva Thompson came near being
burned in a carious way. She Vas
kneeling on the hearth wiping her
hair with a cloth, when four cellu
loid combs caught fire irom .the heat
of the grate. Her hair was consid
erably burned before the fire was ex
tinguished by her brother,Who press
ed a paper closely about her bead.
District Attorney Marion Erwin
of the U. S. Distriot court of the
Southern distriot of Georgia is men
tioned as the probable judge of that
oourt in case Judge Speer is promo
ted to the oirouit court of appeals.
It hfjd been reported that President
Roosevelt had declared that the oan-
didaoy of a demoorat would be con
sidered, and in this connection the
name of Judge A. L. Miller has been
mentioned. While Judge Miller is
the equal of any lawyer in the state
in ability and practical knowledge of
law, it is not’at all probable that a
republican president would appoint
a demoorat over, a competent repub
lican. it would not be good policy
for Georgia democrats to ask the ap
pointment for any demoorat.
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Germany has^again blocked the
proceedings at Washington to*settle
the financial differences between the
European allies and Venezuela. Mr.
Bowen, as the representative of Ven
ezuela, had agreed to devote a cer
tain portion of the port reoeipts to
the payment of her debts, This was
at first thought to he satisfactory,
but Germany insisted that England,
Germany and Italy, by whom coer
cive measures had been used, should
be given preference over Franoe, the
United States and others that had
not reported to force. This was be
yond the authority of Mr.' Bowen,
and a break in the proceedings en-
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure doafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Knstaohiau Tube. When this tube gets inflam
ed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it -s entirely closed deafness
is the result, and unless the inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored to its nor
mal condition, hearing will be destroyed forev
er, nine oases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
whioh is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
caso of Deafness (oaused by catarrh) that can
not he cure d by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
Address. F. J. CKKNY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, T6.
Hall’s Family Pills are tne best.
WARREN’D. NOTTINGHAM.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
355 THIRD ST. MAOON, GA.
Will praotice in the several courts,
Federal and Stnte.
Speoial attention given to oauses in
the courts of thid circuit.
H. A. MATHEWS. A. C. RILEY.
MATHEWS & RILEY,
' ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
PORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
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Security Bonds furnished.
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JEWCLEB,
Perry, Ga.
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a moment,
While we tell you about our immense stock of Shoes,
that is now brim full of good things. ’Twould pay
you tOrf investigate a few of the Specials for this week.
One item, for instance: Men’s High-grade Enameled
Bals worth $6.00, as long as they last 01 Ijr
tor-.*'. vTflfcOl
5 per cent, discount to all
users of Periodical Tickets.
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Proprietor.
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