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’N» /MH PRICE, *1.50 A YEAR, IN ,- t,,' Ks,' Rv. r-r»' ■ 'em Published Every Thursday Morning. ,Tno.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, March 5. Wednesday, March 4th, the 57th congress expired by Btatute of limit ation. It is declared by authority that the poaoh crop of north Georgia waB killed by the late February freeze. Though the Cox College property at College Park, Ga., will bo sold in May, the school will be continued. It is reported from Atlanta that there will be on encamptment of Georgia state troops at Griffin this year. Cobh planting will be in order throughout Routh Georgia within the next few days, the woother per mitting. Indications now warrant the dec laration that Houston county will be in positive evidence at the state fair next October, Gov. Terrell suffered from a troublesome attaek of lagrippe last week, and was confined to his bed all day Saturday. An extra session of the seuate is expected to ratify the Cuban and canal treaties, which were retarded ' by party politics. Judge Henky B. Thompkinb, one of the moBt prominent jurists of Georgia, died at his home in Atlan ta last Thursday. If tho price of cotton futures in creases in sympathy with the price of spot cotton, the temptation to southorn speculators will be to sell. If there must be republican legis lation to defeat, or prevent, the in iquities Of trust monopoly aud ex tortion, such duty will never be per formed. Four new battleships for the Uni ted States navy wilh bs constructed by authority of a bill passed last Thursday, the ships to cost about $3,000,000 each. Fire in Cincinnati lust Thursday destroyed property to the value of over two million ' dollars, including four largo office buildings and other structures and contents. Mb. J. J. Amabon, for fifteen years a member of the Bibb oounty board of commissioners of roads and reve nue, died at his home near Macon laBt Sunday. Ho was about 72 years old. Db. J. W. RcIdebts has resigned the presidency of* Wesleyan Female College, to take effeot at the oloso of the present college term. Ill health is given as the cause of the resigna tion. Last week a firm of New York grain brokersjflooded the south with letters advising the people to “buy May corn." Last Saturday the price of May oorn declined materially in Chicago. Nine acres of land belonging to a negro was sold for $2,280 to Geo. W. Vanderbilt last week. The land adjoined Biltmore, the magnificent farm of Mr. Vanderbilt near Ashe ville, N. O. An easy victory ts not in store for the winner of the first prize for county displays at the next Georgia state fair, but that will only make the contest more determined and the prize more valuable. Count Boni Castelane, the Frenoh husband of an American heiress, has publicly de'olared in favor of a polit ical alliance between the United States and France—“the two great est democracies defying the com bined monarchies of Europe.” A protest has been filed against permitting Senator-elect Reed Smoot from taking his seat in the U. S. senate as a senator from Utah, It to alleged in this protest that Smoot is a polygamist in belief and in prac tice, and that, he now has more than ore wife, contrary to law. Fair Sentiment Strong. Prosperity. A It is safe to say a majority of the progressive farmers of Houston oounty are in favor of having a county fair next fall, to be followed by a county exhibit at the state fair. The suggested meeting at Perry last Monday was not largely attend ed, but it was made evident that the proposed fair can bo arranged*. It has been suggested that a stock company fair association bo organized, the stock shares to bo fixed at a figure low .enough for all to become members. Just now, the proposition is that every person in the county who fa vors the proposition will talk about it, consider the subject thoroughly, aud be prepared to take positive ac tion when the organization meeting is held at Perry on the first Monday in April next—the first day of the Superior court term. Whenever two or more farmers are together, let them talk about the proposed fair, discuss ways and means, and what they can preduoe for exhibition. In each of tho fourteen districts of the county there could be an in formal canvass by one or more of the progressive farmers, a canvass not only to ascertain who will join heartily in the movement, aB to be coming stockholders and exhibitors, but as to what and how much oan be counted on in the line of exhib its. There should be not only liber al exhibits of all farm orops usually cultivated, but there should be arti cles that oan be produoed, but have not been regular crops. There should also bo all manufactured products, and natural growths, woods, etc. It had been our opinion that the organization meeting should be held earlier than April, but between now and then the farmers will bo espe cially busy preparing and planting, and it would be difficult to induce any considerable number to attend a meeting. During court many from 11 each district .will necessarily oome to Perry, and the meeting can bo conveniently held before the open ing of court on the first Monday,, or at tho noon rocoss. With the proposition thoroughly discussed, and a considerable num ber with their minds fully made up, but a short while will be suffi cient to perfect the organization and arrange the outline of the necessary work. It is our opinion that the place of holding the county fair need not be considered until the association has been organized and the plans ar ranged, then the question of con venience and the measure of co-op erative spirit displayed may be al lowed to influence the decision. Just here we will say that the Jones County Fair Association has earned handsome dividends for its stockholders by holding three suc cessive oounty fairs in three years. Houston county can do as well. Former Houston fairs received great praise from all visitors, and we oan do better than ever before. If our farmers and o ther business men do the best they can, Houston’s fair next fall will be the best county fair evor seen in Georgia, and tyill win the first premium at the state fair. Commissioner Stevens warns the farmers- of Georgia that the ad\ ance in the price of cotton to 10 cents is only a speculators’ soheme to induce the planting of an extra large crop this spring. With a considerable in r crease in the acreage devoted to cot ton, the prise would surely decline below the profit point about the time the farmers will be obliged to sell next fall. Gen. John B. Gordon has recover ed from his attaok of illness on the train near Jackson, Miss., one day last week. It is said he will perma nently retire from the lecture plat form when he completes hiB- Texas tour, whioh includes about half a dozen engagements, and that from Texas he will go to Miami, Fla., near whioh place he has a farm. Some things are hard to know and easy to disremember. Nowa days when you read in the city newspapers an item on the subject of prosperity you can’t tell whether it’s a tergiversation or an ambigui ty. What you read and what you observe do not coincide. It is some what this wise. A young man was tipsy. He held in his hand a silver coin, which be scrutinized intently for a time, and proposed to bet the same that no one of the party could make a correct drawing of it on pa per. He said again and again,“mind you now, it has two shapes.” He meant that the two sides of the coin should appear iu the drawing, or he would olaim the stakes. The two Bhapes of our great pros perity have not been accurately sketched by any of the artists. Per haps acouracy isn’t art. What is prosperity anyhow? It interests a man whether he knows or not. What others Bay about it is interest ing also. Those who say most—the leading newspapers for instance— seem to be generators of the gas whereby booms are inflated. What they Bay somehow sounds like an advertisement. They seem also to entertain the superstitious belief that if a thing is deolared, it will come to pass. Sometimes this is not true. A certain river has been navigable on paper for seventeen years, and to-day its largest craft carries two men and the entoh of a trotline. Again as to what is said and the animus of it. It will be noticed that in support of the proposition that prosperity prevails, the newspapers cite the great and growing olearing house exchanges. On the other hand, they do not in anywise refer to the volume of loans. And where fore? Almost no one at all, outside of the bauks, knows the details of clearing house operations. No one therefore is prepared to criticise or controvert the specious argument. Without any useless explanation, it may be declared in positive terms that clearing house exchanges do not indicate the volume of actual business. Everybody knows some thing about loans and what they in dicate. They indicate that a few have money and multitudes need it. Perhaps need is about as poor a sign of prosperity as can be named. It seems to seme of us that nothing Hok. John T. Boiffeuillett has resigned the position of ohief of po lice at Macon, and has re-entered journalism as chief editor of the Macon Evening News. He is good wherever he undertakas business, and is especially good in editorial work. We most cordially welcome his return to active journalism. War between Russia and Turkay is quite probable in the very near future, say reports from Europe. short of ultra optimism can believe a genuine prosperity operates that all departments of its business with borrowed capital. If this optimism should be incarnated there would be one more strenuous fool on the teeming earth. He would be rec ognized at once as a promoter. However much the foolB may annoy themselves and their fellows, they must be tolerated. If they should be removed, what wide expanses of solitude there would be in the world. Velvet, Edward Farmer of Grunderville, Texas, writes to the World’s Fair management: “I have a bottle 127 years old. It was made by Adams & Jefferson in Pennsylvania, A. D. 1776. It has the picture of General Washington on one side and the American eagle on the other. It is a large whiskey flask. It was bought by one of my great-grandfathers and has been handed down to me.” He offers it for exhibition. Ready to Accommodate All Who Need A rumor from New York last week declared that the Central of Georgia Railway system would soon be un der control of the Rock Island Rail way Go,. Coupled with this came the rumor that the Southern, Rock Island, ’Frisco and Santa Fe sys tems would be merged under one general management. Georgia’s production of leading farm products in 1902 is estimated as follows: Cotton, 1,400,000 bales; in bushels, corn, 36,093,979; wheat, 1,707,186; oats, 2,930,644; rye, 119,- 789; potatoes, 605,470; hay, 605,470 tons. State of Ohio, City of Toledo Lucas County. bb Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. 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