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PRICE, 11.60 A TEAS, IN ADVANCE.
Pttbll»h«d Every Thursday Horning.
Jno.H’. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, June 25.
The Georgia Teachers’ Associa
tion is in convention on Cumberland
Island.
There will be a “whole lot” of
people who will need corn next w in
ter and Bpring. v
The cotton mills recently destroy
ed by a storm at Gainesville will
soon be rebuilt.
Georgia, farmers will do well to
increase their corn crops if they
have any- lands not already planted.
The government reports the con
dition of the o. tton crop on May
26bh as nearly 18 per cent below the
average of the last ten years.
It now appears that the frauds
being uncovered in the postoffioe
department &fiect the official con
duct of the republican administra
tion as a whole.
An Atlanta man, says the Consti
tution, has gome to Colombia, South
Amerisa, to “lend the Atlanta spir
it,” and the Panama canal project is
at last surely fixed.
Up to last Saturday night 116
carloads of Georgia peaches and
plums had passed through Macon,
via the Central railroad. On Satur
day there were 18 cars.
After a loss of $1,800,000 in wag
es, the strike of the textile workers
at Lowell, Mass., has cpme to an
end, without gaining the inorease in
wages contended for.
From Belgrade it is reported that
King Peter has promoted several of
the officers who participated in the
recent assassination of King Alex
ander andl Queen Draga of Servia:
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Several carloads of peaohes will
be shipped from this oountry to
London this season, for which re
frigerated space has been engaged
on one of the large trans-Atlantio
steamers.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman
of South Carolina was placed on tri
al at Columbia last Monday for the
murder of Editor Gonzales lasjb Jan
uary. The defense asked for a ohange
of venue.
The annual re-union of Dooly
county Confederate veterans will be
at Unadilla this year, on Saturday,
July 4th. C. O. Duncan, formerly
of Perry, is ohairman of the barbe-
oue oommittee.
Whatever the price of ootton may
be next winter and spring, it will
not be sufficient to buy western oorn
for southern farmers and leave any
profit in the pockets of the afare-
said southern farmers.
In offering premiums to ihe
amount of $20,000, the managers of
the Georgia state fair will oause to
be made the most comprehensive
agricultural and industrial exposi
tion ever seen in the state.
A Japanese expert, who has been
ongaged in experimental rice farm
ing in Texap, has decided to organ
ize a colony of 100 Japanese rioe
farmers along the line of the South
ern Pacific railroad in that state.
In a recent interview Senator
Hanna declared that he would not
be a candidate for the vice presiden
cy, and that he would not aocept the
nomination should it be offered him
by the republican national conven
tion. '
* The commissioners of Bibb coun
ty have endorsed the bill of Repre
sentative Felder, introduced at the
last session of the legislature, pro
of felony
vi’ding for the working I v
convicts upon public roads and
works.
In a sermon last Sunday Rev. L.
G. Broughton severely critioised the
morality of faoulty and students of
the Georgia School of Technology.
In reply ^President Hall and several
of the professors declare with em
phasis that the charges are without
foundation.
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Unlawful Peonage.
Recently more than one hundred
indiotments have been returned to
the U. S. District court of Alabama
against persons alleged to have been
guilty of peonage.
The offense is that of illegally re
straining the liberty of any person
through force, threats or any other
unlawful means.
In the district court at Macon last
week three white men of a middle
Georgia county were indicted for
the same offense,
The circumstances of the Georgia
case were, briefly, as follows; The
negro held had been convicted in
state oourt of a misdemeanor, and
his fine had been paid by one of the
farmers in question. Later th6 ne
gro violated the oontraot and quit
working for the farmer who had
paid his fine. He was pursued, cap
tured and forced to return to the
farm of the man with whom he had
contracted to work.
Just how far-reading this decis
ion to enforce the law on this line
will be cannot be told now, but it
will certainly exercise considerable
influence in the practice of paying
the fines of misdemeanor convicts.
Throughout this section of the
state comparati\ely few negro men
oonvioted of misdemeanor offenses
ever go to the ohuingang, their fines
being paid by farmers or other bus
iness men who need their services.
Our people do not wish to violate
law, but they think they should be
in Borne degree protected when they
pay the fines and make labor con
tracts with convicts, relieving them
of ohaingang sentence. The fine
paid amounts to the payment of
wages in advance, and the contract
should not bo legally construed one
sided! in favor of the “paid-out”
criminal.
Just how muoh a farmer may do
to hold a hired convict under oon
traot does not appear, but Judge
Speer has declared that liberty must
not be restrained by foroe or fear,
nor a man under contract so forced
or constrained to work against hia
will.
It appears that there is no proteb-
tion for those who hire and pay in
advance other than the integrity of
the hireling, or his financial respon
sibility. Both elements beings alto
gether lacking, the risk iB great.
Perhaps there will be material de
crease in the number of convict fines
paid hereafter.
If it is peonage for an individual
to restrain the liberty of a hired
oonviot, wby U it not also peonage
for a corporation to do the same
thing by means of an organized con-
vict camp?i
To us it Seems that the question
is exceedingly, broad, and that the
state nor a county can enforce the
labor of convicts in lieu of fines ex
cept through their legally appointed
officials. If an individual who pays
the fine of a convict cannot force
the payment of that fine in labor,
under oontraot, then it would seem
illegal for the state or county to
delegate that power to any corpora
tion or firm.
Perhaps there is something for
the legislature to do along this line.
The Republican Protective Tariff
League is vigorously conducting a
“campaign of education.” In fact
there has been no “let up” in their
efforts to convince the voters that a
protective tariff is a good thing.
The latest proposition is a request
for names of young men who will be
voters for the first time in 1904. It
is the purpose of the league to place
in the hands of the young men re
ferred to such literature $s ipay in
fluence them to vote for the repub
lican nominee for president next
year. As with all promoters of re
publicanism, this tariff league is anx
ious to Becure republican votes, rath
er than to promote any principle or
policy for the benefit of the people.
Republican votes is what they are
after, with the knqwledge that re
publican success will mean a contin
uation of the enormous profits that
come to monopolist manufacturers
through a high protective tariff.
“Grafting” is the new name for
a species of official fraud that seems
to have been popular with postoffice
officials at Washington who made
contracts for mail bags, boxes, looks
and other, articles used by the de
partment These officials contracted
at large prices and received a con
siderable percentage of the amount
paid. Verily, it seems that the re
publican party contains a large per
cent of grafters.
MANY DE8IRE TO ATTEND THE
8T. LOUIS WORLD’S FAIR AS
THE QUESTS OF THE
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JOURNAL.
Do you want to attend the ‘World’s fair?
From the Immense number of estimates
being received each day to The Journal's
contest, one would naturally conclude
that the answer of eyery Individual
wpuld be In the affirmative. All are nat
urally very anxious to go, but some are
unable. The Journal has come to their
rescue. Forty people are going to the
groat exposition as Its guests. ©
Will you be one of the forty?
In accordance with Its past spirit of
liberality, on May 10th, The Journal an
nounced for the first time that 40 free
trips to the St. Louis World’s fair, each
consisting of a first-class -ticket from At
lanta to St. Louis and return and $50 for
expenses, would be given to this number
of Its subscribers, 20 of these tftps to Its
subscribers In Atlanta and Fulton county
and 20 outside of Fulton county.
It is not necessary to pay in advance to
be entitled to estimate in this contest,
Bach subscriber who has paid In advance
Is entitled to as many estimates as the
length of time subscription is paid In ad
vance from May 10th. The first 40 near
est correct estimates will receive these
free trlpB. It Is therefore important that
you send In your estimate at once. Be
sure you have the carrier sign the cou
pon each time you pay him 10 or 12 cents,
If the paper is delivered by carrier, or if
the paper Is received by mall, fhd you
send In your renewal don’t forget to send
In estimates.
The contest closes at midnight April 1,
1904, and the gates will open May 1st
While the estimates received last may
be the successful ones, it Is better to send
In estimates at once, and keep sending,
as the first 40 nearest correct estimates
will rocclve the trips. It costs absolutely
nothing to enter, the contest. Bstimates
cannot be bought for any prlce^and as no
one will know the number of ^admissions
to the St. Louis World's fair until after
the opening day, every one has an equal
chance.
Excursion Rates to Various Points
Via Central of Ga, Railway.
Account occasions specified bilow,
excursions tickets will be sold to
points named at the low rates
shown: \
Annual Meeting, Georgia Bar As
sociation, Tallulah Falls, July 3-4,
1903. Rate one fare, plus 25 cents,
round trip, from all ticket stations
in Georgia. Tickets on sale July 1
and 2, final return limit July 6,1903.
Monteagle Bible School, Moitea-
gle, Tenn., July 1 to Aug. 30, 1903.
Rate one fare, plus 25 cents, round
trip, from all ticket stations on Cen
tral of, Georgia Railway. Tickets on
sale June 30 to July 2, inclusive, al
so July 22, 23, 25, final return limit
Aug. 31, with privilege of extension
of fiual limit to Oct. 21, 1903.
National Educational Association,
Boston, Mass , July 6 to 10, 1903.
Very low rates for this occasion from
all ticket stations on Central of Ga.
Railway via all rail, also via Savan
nah and Steamship lines. Meals and
berth are furnished without charge
aboard ships on tickets reading via
Savannah and Steamship lines. A
sea trip is very enjoyable and bene
ficial at this season of the year.
Representative J. Adam Bede
of Minnesota has just been in Wash
ington and, like every Minnesotian,
has brought with him cause for un
rest on the part of the republicans.
He sayp “the people of Minnesota
are seriously thinking of the great
benefit they would derive from re
ciprocity with Canada. The busi
ness interests of the state have or
ganized a league with that end in
view. Minnesota is turning’to di
versified farming. The Canadian
farmers are wheat growers. We can
sell them their butter, eggs, cheese,
fruits and various other products.”
Mr. Bede’s announcement caused a
bad quarter of an hour to the Presi
dent. He too favors reciprocity,
but his experience with the Cuban
treaty has taught him a lesson, and
he will make no more attempts to
seoure the ratification of a republi
can oongress for a reciprocity treaty.
—Oqp Washington Correspondence.
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State of Ohio, Oity of Toledo )
Lucas County. j
Frank J. henet makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
doing business in the city of Toledo, county and
state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DODLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be oured
by the use of Hall’s CatarbhOure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
. x. W. Gleason,
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Notary Public.
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acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
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Address. F. J.CHENS & CO., Toledo, O.
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The teacher asked Miss
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digestion ? |
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The Ready-to-Serve Cereal
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Boy BIS and Healthy.
“My little4)oy was very sick and would
not take any nourishment. 1 got a package
of ‘Force* and fed him on it, and am pleased
tojsay he la thriving. I will now put hir *
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side any hoy of his age, as he Is big and i
healthy. All I feed him on is ‘ Force.*
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