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JOHN HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE. &X.BO a Year in Advance.
VOL. XXXIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903.
NO. 38.
e. i. numiA
A Republican Split Probable.
...COTTON FACTOR...
MACOJN, GA.
Increased Expectation of Life.
Ootton Mills in the South.
By a liberal policy and honorable methods I have
built up che largest Cotton Commission business in Macon,
Georgia.
Ship me your Cotton and get the best ret urns.
Q. IB. ’WILLIZSTG-IKCA-IM:
w. a. DAyrs.
BEN. T. RAY.
&E0. H. LOWE.
W. A. DAVIS & CO.,
COTTO* FACTORS,
405 & 407 Poplar St. :: MACON, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY.
They are active, accommodating
and courteous.
Send them your Cotton. They are honest in their dealings
and wise in their judgment.
■W. DAVIS & OO.,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Washington Corrtespondence.
Out of;aJolear Delaware sky has
arisen a cloud 'which gives prom
ise of becoming a cyoldne, caus
ing havoc and disaster to the
Roosevelt popularity in that
state. Miss Hulda B. Todd, post
master, or must we say postmis
tress, at Greenwood, Delaware,
has been removed from offioe at
the behest of Senator Allee, the
Addioks representative in the
Senate and the consequences of
the removal promise to be dire.
According to the residents of
Greenwood, Mies Todd made a
thoroughly efficient postmaster
and according to Senator Ball
she haB been the best postmaster
Greenwood ever had. Neverthe
less, she was summarily dismiss
ed by Postmaster General Payne.
She came to Washington to learn
the ocoasiou of her dismissal af
ter a service that covered five
years and Mr, Payne told her
she was “pereodally obnoxious to
Senator Allee.’* Since then Post
master General Payne has
plained that by a mutual agree
ment Senator Ball was to con
trol the federal patronage for
New Castle county and Senator
Allee that for Kent and Sussex
counties. Miss Todd was an “anti-
Addicks republican” in Sussex
county and of course Senator Al
lee claimed the right to name her
successor. The anti-Addicks re
publicans have now appealed the
case to the President, asking if
the welfare of the Addioks ma
chine must be regarded as suffi
cient reason for dismissing an
efficient federal employee. If Mr
Roosevelt supports the Postmas
ter General he will incur the en
mity of all the anti-Addicks re
publicans, and of all the respect
able element in the community
If he reinstates Miss Todd, he
will incur the enmity of Addicks
In either case his action wiL
split the Delaware delegation to
the next republican national con
vention.
Another Negro Immigration Scheme
The Colored National Emigra
1 tion and Commercial Association
of Georgia have just concluded
two days’ rally at Valdosta. The
scheme of the association is
raise $100,000 to buy a ship
transport negroes to Liberia.
‘In that country,” said one
speaker, ‘‘the bread fruit trees
bear eleven times in one year.
If, however, we counted nothing
except its rubber production, Af
rica would be the richest country
in the world. But lately, dia
monds, rhbies and sappbiresjhave
been found in Liberia.”
The money is to be raised by
contributions of one dollar and
shares of stock at five dollars per
share, each share entitling the
holder to a trip to Liberia. Lib
eral contributions were received
and many shares of stock were
sold. This scheme looks almost
good as that worked by the
At the meeting of insurance act
uaries in New York recently sev
eral papers were read on a sub
ject which at first glance, appears
ta be paradoxical. It was with
relation to the matter of longevi
ty and the expectation of life,
and the testimony of several gen
tlemen, baoked by statistics, went
to show that during the century
reoently closed there had been a
considerable improvement in the
expectation of life; and yet peo
ple do not live longer than in the
aast. Otherwise stated, a greater
number of persona reach the age
of puberty than heretofore,
though they do not grow older
than the average of a hundred
vears ago. This, it was, stated,
is beoause of the better care chil
dren receive in the present ,dayi
beoause epidemios are now treat
ed more intelligently and suc
cessfully than ever before, and
beoause there has been a great ad
vanoe in medical science. Dur
ing the past forty years the per
centage of mortality from oer
tain diseases has decreased in i
very marked degree.
It thuB appears that the in
creased average of longevity,
while a faot capable of demon
stratum, is nevertheless some
thing of a delusion. It has to do
particularly with the weak, and
not with the strong. Fewer in
fants die and the lives of iuva
lids are prolonged by improved
surgical and hospital attentions.
But the hale and strong do not
attain greater age. Indeed, there
is room for a reasonable doubt
that the strong of the period live
as long as did their
of a hundred years
was less food adulteration* fewer
stuffy and ill ventilated flats and
less high-pressure living when
our great-grandfathers were grow
ing up and in their prime than
there are, to-day. In their day
the order was the survival of the
fittest, and those who survived
were sturdy specimens. Since
their time there has been no in
crease in the vitality of sound
and healthy adults. What im
provement has been made has in
ured to the benefit of the weak,
according to the statements made
before the actuaries. There can
not be two opinions with respect
to the humaneness of the evolu*
tion; but has the race been im
proved? Is the average not now
relatively weaker, instead of
stronger?
as
Hanna slave pension sharks, re
marks the Thomasville times.
A Boy’s Wild Ride For Life,
The Williams Buggy Co.
^££1©©ill
With family around expecting
him to die, and a son riding for
life, 18 miles, to get Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown,
of Leesville, Ind., endured death’s
agonies from asthma; but this
wonderful medicine gave instant
relief and soon cured him. He
writes: ‘‘I now sleep soundly ev'
ery night.” Like marvelous cures
of Consumption, Pneumonia,
Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and
Grip prove its matchless merit
for all Throat and Lung troubles.
Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00.
Trial bottles free at Holtzclaw’s
drug store.
The latest Postoffice Depart
ment scandal has to do with
smugging Cuban cigars. Super
intendent Kempuer of the regis
try system is charged with having
carried on an extensive cigar bus
iness through the medium of the
registered mails, and with using
his official position to cover his
operations. The story goes that
Kempuer sold smuggled cigars to
a dozen or more officials of the
Washington city postoffice and of
the department.
Savannah New*,
The statistics furnished by-
Henry G. Hester, superintendent
of the New Orleans Cotton Ex
change, in his annual report,
show that there is a steady in-
ore.ase in the number of cotton
mills in the South, and of course
in the consumption of ootyon.
The consumption last year—-that
is the year ending Aug. 81 last—
would have been 100,000 to 150,*
000 bales greater had oonditione
been normal, that is if the mills
had been able to get ootton at a
price that would have left them
a margin of profit. As it was,
the number of bales consumed by
them was 2,000,729. That was
62,758 baljes more than they con
sumed the previous year, and
879,798 more than they consum
ed the year before that.
The foregoing of course refers
only to American ootton. South
ern mills used considerable Egyp
tian cotton, a little over 14,000
bales, so that their total con
sumption for the year was 2,014,-
587 bales. During the same pe
riod the mills of the North con
sumed 1,967,685 bales of Ameri
can ootton and 180,874 of Egyp
tian, making a total of 2,098,000
bales, a few bales more than were
consumed in the South.
But the increase in consump
tion in the South is best shown
by comparing the consumption ot
last year with that for the yea*
ending August 81, 1890. In that
year the Southern consumption
was 540,894, an increase in thir
teen years of nearly 1,500,000
bales, or, as Mr. Hester puts it*
foreparents I ‘‘thirteen yearsjago the North took
ago. There 76.7 per oerit. of the cotton orop
and the South 28.8 per cent.
To-day the percentages are: North
49.58 and the South 50.12.”
The number of cotton millsm
the South has been increasing;
right along, The total number
.astyear was 740, as against 716
the year before and 688 the year
before that.
The number of bales consumed
in South Carolina’s mills last
year was greater than that con
sumed in the mills of any other
Southern state, being 618,276
Dales. North Carolina came next
with 551,802 bales, and Georgia
third with 425,699 bales. Ala
bama consumed 211,804 bales*
but in no other Southern state
did consumption reach 50,000
bales.
At the rate at which the South
is forging ahead in cotton manu
facturing, it will not be many
years before she will be manufac
turing the bulk of her cotton
crop. There is no doubt that.she
can manufacture cheaper than
can the North or any foreign
country. It as not a matter of
wonder therefore that her cotton
manufacturing industry is having,
a malvelo us development.
The editor of the Thomasville
Times is offering $500 worth of
prizes as an inducement for sub
scribers. But how a fellow with
that much money can be content
ed to fool away his time running
a newspaper is something we
can’t understand.—-Ex.
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Stomach Troubles.
“I have been troubled with my
stomach for the past four years,”
says D, L. Beach, of Clover Nook
Farm, Greenfield, Mass. ‘‘A few
days ago I was induced to buy a
box of Chamberlain’s Stomach &
Liver Tablets. I have taken part
of them and feel a great deal bet
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What is Life?
In the last analysis nobody
knows, but we do know that it is
under strict law. Abuse that law
even slightly, pain results. Irreg
ular living means derangement of
the organs, resulting in constipa
tion, headache or liver trouble.
Dr. King’s New Life Pills quickly
re-adjust this. They are gentle,
yet thorough. Only 25c at Holtz
claw’s Drugstore.
A queer assault case’was heard
in a New York court the other
day when a negro said that a man
had assaulted him, and'the man
said that the negro had attacked
him and then butted dotfn a door
with his head. The judge called
the case off, and said that if the
negro had beaten the door, in he
had been punished enough.
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