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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1903.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
OATTLE RAISING IN LOWNDES.
Special Correspondence,
By singularly clever tactics
Senator Quay has placed the re
publican senators who are oppos
ed to Statehood in a most diffi
cult position. He has secured
the attachment of the Omnibus
Statehood bill to the Agricultural
appropriation bill and predicts
its similar attachment to the sun
dry civil and the Posfcoffico appro
priation bills. The administra-
tratiou senators have already-,
countenanced the attachment cf
the General Staff bill to the Mili
tary Appropriation bill and have
thus established, at this session of
Congress, a precedent along simi
lar lines. Having accomplished
this, Mr. Quay has announced
that he will not further press the
Statehood bill on the floor of the
Senate and thus the republicans
are afforded an opportunity of
demonstrating the sincerity of
their desire to enact anti-trust
legislation.
When the agricultural appro
priation bill comes up for a pas
sage a point of order will be
doubtless raised. Mr. Qtiay will
cite numerous precedents for his
action and if the question is per
mitted to come to a vote the
Statehood majority will deoide in
his favor. .The only remaining
hope, of the republicans in pre
venting the passage of the State
hood bill lies in their ability to
talk on the point of order alluded
to until the end of the session.
As this, would defeat regular ap
propriation bills it would necessi
tate an extra session of Congress.
The republicans declare their in
tention of taking that step if they
cannot otherwise block the Stater
hood campaign, but the pro-
Statehood senators declare they
. are bluffing and a compromise is
in the air.
Not- since 1897 hafs there been
such hope of recapturing popular
favor among the democrats as
there is to-day. ' Presentgindica-
tions are that’the republicans in
Congress will fail, in - every in
stance, to carry out the will of the
people. No effective anti-trust
legislation will be passed. The
Cuban treaty will be left unrati
fied,, and every other really impor
tant measure will,in the judgment
of the democratic leaders, be left
undone. Under these circum
stances it is naturally argued by
the democrats that the people will
turn to them. The President is
rapidly losing his popularity all
over the country and his oppo
nents in his own party are con
tributing to that end. In the
south he has made blunder after
blunder in his dealings with the
negroes, and it is doubtful if he
would carry his own state today,
as he has lost the confidence of
the business interests of the coun
try. The democrats in Washing-
ton are jubilant and say that
with a strong nominee they are
certain to win in 1904. The
names of Judge Alton B. Parker
of New York and Senator-elect
Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland
are most often heard in this con
nection, although it is yet too ear
ly to.make predictions.
Valdosta, Ga., Jan. 81.—There
is a strong probability that a large
cattle ranch will be established
near Valdosta before very long. {
Dr. P. Philips of Texas, who is a
large cattle raiser of that state
and who has had exhibits at the
state fair here for two years, was
in the city to-day on his way to
Arcadia, Fla., with a large ship
ment. He says that he has been
negotiating for about eighteen
thousand acres of land near Val-
desta and it is probable tJhat he
will start a large cattle farm near
here.
In talking about this section as
a cattle raising country, he said :
“I believe south Georgia and
Florida are the greatest cattle
raising countries in the world.
They have everything tha,| is need
ed fr>r the successful conduct of
such an industry, and it is cheap
er than it can be found anywhere
else. If the Western cattle raiser
can pay $100 an acre for land, be
sides building houses to protect
his cattle from the blizzards, why
should he not be able to make
more money in a section which
lias just as good ranges, much
cheaper land and a climate that
makes houses almost unnecessary.
“I have been coming to tnis
section for four years,” he con
tinued, “and I am more impress
ed ou every visit. I am really
carried away with the possibilities
of this section in this particular
line. I -raise cattle for export
mostly, and._the shipping here
might be against me, but I am
not sure that the local market
would not more than make up
the difference.”
The e.attle industry has attract
ed miich. .attention ^lately,,
there are more of the finer grades
of cattle in this section than ever
before.
SOUTH’S GRAIN STATISTICS.
The Southern Farm Magazine
of Baltimore has compiled from
official reports of the government
the statistics of the grain crops of
the Sbuth in 1902. The total val-
Arra nging to Burn Water.
At the end of last year the to
tal length of all the railroads in
Europe was : 180,653 miles as
against 198,787 miles in the Uni
ted States. Germany had. 36,800
miles of railroads, followed next
by Russia with 85,210, miles,
France with 30,120 miles, Aus
tria-Hungary with 26,000 miles,
while Great Britain occupied but
the fifth place, with 24,700 miles
— :
Better begin building up the
system and purifying the blood
this iponth. ’Twill save you “that
tirep feeling” in the spring. Ra
mon’s Tonic Regulator is the best
“toner up” you’ll find. It is a
boon to wornout, rundown people.
A Pennsylvania inventor of the
name of Montgomery announces
that he has discovered how to util
ize water as fuel, after working on
the problem for more than twen
ty years. Twenty-five years ago,
he says, he discovered that per
fect heat is derived from the com
bustion of one part of oxygen
with two parts of hydrogen, forced
into contact by means of a com
pound blowpipe. “Now it hap
pens,” he says, “that water is
composed'ofthese tyro elements in
that exact proportion.” That be
ing true, it occurred to him,
Why should not water be the
perfect fuel?” With that basis
to work on, he gave more than
twenty years to the solution of
the problem, which he says he
has now arrived at. The water is
poured into a tube connecting
with a burner in the base of. a
stove, and in a few moments a
white and a very hot flame is pro
duced, All of this is very inter
esting, and “important if true.”
But there is a kind of Keeley mo
tor suggestion about it.—Sav.
News.
ues are as follows: j
Bushels. Value,
CJoru 502,487,609 $276,55o,894
Wheat...... 48,872,127 38,069,619
Rye 1,852,892 975,514
Oats 60,178,672 20,252,205
In addition to grain, the South
raised 21,897,655 bushels of Irish
potatoes, valued at $14,116,169;
8,905,423 tons of hay, valued at
$46,784,706; 680,258,898 pounds
of tobacco, valued at $68,843,025,
The total for these three items
added to the total for grain makes
$466,545,192, or, approximately,
about one-half of the total value
of the agricultural products of
the South. In this report no men
tion is made of th« cotton crop, of
sweet potatoes—the yield of which
in the South is much larger than
the yield of Irish potatoes—of su
gar, rice and fruit crops. These
figuVes show that the grain crop of
the South—corn, wheat, oats and
rye—is about the same in value
as an average cotton crop, but the
growth of diversified farming in
the South promises within a few
years to make the value of these
crops much laiger than that of
cotton.
Macon Firm Buys Georgia Hay.
“We have not bought this sea
son a pound of hay raised outside
of Georgia,” said Mr. Morris Wa
terman, of Waterman & Co., yes
terday.
“We made up our minds to b
our hay at home. We let the far
mers know of our determination
and they’"took" advantage""of it.
Not only that, the Georgia far
mers are learning that hay is c
valuable money crop.
“We use a carload a week and
pay from$ 12 to 16 a ton for it. We
are satisfied with it, our horses
and mules thrive on it, and we
are prepared to baok up the prop
osition that all the hay used in
Georgia caii be raised here, and
should be.”
Discussing the hay proposition
Postmaster Edwards related the
experience of a Washington coun
ty man. He fertilized one aore
with stable manure broad-casted
and then some remnants of guano
broad-casted, harrowed the land
and rolled it. He harvested from
the one acre four tons of crab
grass hay worth $15 per tou. It
was a by crop, raised after the
main crop had been gathered.—
Macon Telegraph.
O. R. Mann, Pres.
IX A R.ivi.H.’Y',, Ci-A.
R. L. CJathr, Y. Pree.
L. F. Cater, Cashier
Directors—F. M. Houser, L. M. Paul, A. A. Smoak, J. N. Tuttle, O. R. Mann
L. F. Cater, R. L. Cater.
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MY STORK, IS OF THAT KIND.
X invite the farmers of Houston county, and other readers
pf the Home Journal, to give me a share
of their patronage.
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E. MERRITT,
451, 453 & 465 Third St.
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Cherry.
MACON, GA.
Macon,
Ga.
Everything Goes!
Our winter stock of Fine Dress Goods, Trimmings,
Cloaks,' etc., will be sold for cash at reduced prices.
None better in the city.
MESSRS. FRAME M. HOUSER,
R. T. BEALL
The scratch of a pin may cause
the loss of a limb or even death
when blood poisoning results from
an injury. All danger of this may
be avoided, however, by prompt
ly applying Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm. It is an antiseptic and
quick healing liniment for cuts,
bruises and burns. For sale by
all druggists.
In the last thirty years the pop
ulation of Germany has increased
40 per cent; that of France 2 per
cent; ffihat of United Kingdom 30
per cent., and that of the United
States 100 per cent.
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To (Dure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Brqmo Quinine
Tablets. AlMlruggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E . W.
Grove’s signature on-each box.25c.
are with us, and will' be
their Houston friends.’'
A New York man has establish
ed an excellent precedent allong
the lines of cheerful giving. He
donated $70,000 to his home town
for a public library, and then
went right ahead and established
a fund of $100,000 for its support.
This strikes the Cleveland Plain
Dealer as a great improvement
over the Carnegie system with the
string attachment.
Mysterious Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow and
the other fresh and rosy. Whence
the difference? She who is blush
ing with health uses Dr. King’s
New Life Pills to maintain it. By
gently arousing the lazy organs
they compel good digestion and
head off constipation. Try them.
Only 25c at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore
The tongue of a 70-foot whale
has been known to yield as much
as a ton of oil.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hava Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Don’t wait, but call at once.
LESSER’
S,
559 CHERRY &TREET.
MACON. GEORGIA
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either need a Stove or a Range? gif-
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National Steel Ranges (u^edT
Excelsior Stoves and Ranges,
New Enterprise Stoves,
Grand Oak Stoves
My fall stock of Crockery and Housefurmsnings is even
moie complete than it.has been heretofore.
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