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DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE AND especially glad to seive you xxxii. i 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. Every facility for transacting a general Banking Business. . -* _ „ , the Place but ' Staple Groceries, Stock Feed, Farm Supplies, etc.,* V 1 11 r is where the stock is complete, the goods of best, quality and the prices right. 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. GOODS GUARANTEED TO BE AS REPRESENTED. T, E. MERRITT, 451, 453 & 465 Third St. 559 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. ■ V ■ . % % - ■■ 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 DO TOD either need a Stove or a Range? gif- so, I can fill your order and guaran tee to do it satisfactorily. I carry a complete line of 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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