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JOHN H. HODGES, Propr. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. 01.60 a Year in Advance.
VOL. XXXIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1903.
NO. 48
CL
MAM,
...COTTON FACTOR
III
MACON, GA.
By a liberal policy and honorable methods I have
built up the largest Cotton Commission business in Macon,
Georgia.
Ship me your Cotton and get the best returns.
QB/WILLimHAM
PICTTJRE FRAMES.
Pictures and Art Goods of All Kinds.
I carry the largest and most oomplete stock of goods in the
south. Our work is the best and prices the most reasonable.
Special Attention to Mail Orders.
•w. 1-4. “W"ZIL
107 Cotton Avenue.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Macon, Georgia.
HOME COMFORT
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is best promoted by being well provided with
Furniture, Carpets, Shades, Etc.
of the best grades and most attractive styles.
It is also necessary aiid desirable that there be
v- v '/ ■. ■ i . ■: . V ' , • (1
Stoves, Lamps, Pictures,
and kindred articles of House and Kitchen Furnishing?.
All these and n^ore are sold in the latest styles And at
correct prices by the
W. O. SHEFTALL,| President.
458 Poplar St.,
MACON, GA,
Pure, clean seed wheat will make you
better wheat and more of it, and we will
get more wheat to grind or more to buy.
We will clean your wheat free, give
you screenings and all.
We are selling Blue Stem Tennessee
Seed Wheat at cost.
ITalley Roller Mills,
Against Race Discrimination.
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Bariumah News, ... -viV^^vipJ
Represntafcive Morrell'of Penn
sylvania is the latest candidate
for notoriety. He has introduced
a bill into the House making it
an offense, punishable by a fine
of $5,000, for common carriers to
ride separate oars for either
white or colored passengers.. No
doubt his bill will be talked about
a great deal, and he will have the
satisfaction of seeing his name in
the newspapers often. That, prob
ably, is what He desires. He
doubtless knowB that his bill
hasn’t any chance of becoming a
law. While there is no law in any
of the northern States requiring
oominon carriers to provide sepa
rate cars for negroes, it is a safe
statement that there is a growing
sentiment in favor of suoh a law
in many of them. The sentiment
is already so strong in some parts
of the north in favor of separat
ing the races in railroad cars that
a law providing for such separa
tion would be heartily approved,
and this sentiment is bound to in
crease in all those parts of that
section in which the negro popu
lation is increasing.
It would be folly for oongreBS to
enaot a law against public senti
ment. It wouldn’t be enforced.
The way to increase raoe sent!
ment is to try to legislate it out
of existence. The more legislation
there is in regard to it the strong
er it will become.
Mr. Morrell, instead 1 of doing
the negroes a service, has done
them an injury, and the injury
will become more pronounced if
lie undertakes to make a vigorous
fight for his bill. Agitation of
questions growing out of race dif
ferences only increases race prej
udioe.
Of course the Morrell bill is
aimed at those southern states
which have enacted laws provid
ing for separate cars for negroes.
We have no doubt that if half the
population of Pennsylvania were
negroes Mr. Morrell would intro
duce a bill to compel railroad
companies to provide separate
cars for them. But as there are
comparatively few negroes in his
state, he probably thinks he is
doing something that will in
crease his popularity with his
constituents.
But if he really wants to dp
something for the negro why
doesn’t he introduce a bill mak
ing it an offense for any labor or
ganization to deny membership
to a negro? If he tfere to do that
he might help 1 the negro to earp a
living in his state, and ttiu&‘ open
the way for negro migration|to
Pennsylvania. That, however
would be touching horil.e pr.eju
dices a little too strongly. Mr
Morrell prefers to legislate for
negroes in some other state.
A Pennsylvania judge has decid
ed that the award of the anthracite
strike commission is not binding in
law on either miners or operators;
and that compliance with the terms
of the award is merely a “matter of
honor between the two parties.” It
is a matter worthy of note that the
miners abide by the commission’s
findings and the coal operators re
fuse to do so.
Harris Mfg. Co., Props.
Fort Valley, Georgia
WE SELL
Everything to build with, from bride to shingles, inside and
outside. Can save you money on lumber, sash, doors,
blinds and building material of all kinds.
HARRIS MANUFACTURING CO.
On Keeping Christmas.
Christmas has been so long as?
sociated in the popular mind
with the exohanging of gifts that
we have lost somewhat the real
meaning of these gifts, which are,
indeed, only intended as symbols
of love and good-will. Only to
children do we give with that
freedom and spontaneity which
makes the gift more precious to
the giver than to the recipient.
To get as much as possible of
this real old Christmas spirit to
ward one’s fellows should be the
engaging business of every one.
We must be good to somebody on
Christmas Day, and after buying
toys for the children no one thing
occurs to us that is so easy to ao*
complish and so full of results as
taking a little thought for the
lonely. Christmas is a festival
of the family. But how many
among pur acquaintances are
there who have no families; how
many excellent old baohelors and
lonely old ladies! We do not
mean the poor—there are plenty
of philanthropists to look after
them, and they are usually well
blessed with families; but a man
may be as rich as Croesus, and
yet "if he have no place to eat but
a hotel he is poorer at Christmas
than an Irishman with six chil
dren and only money enough for
one meal. He belongs to a class
which may well be an objeot of
your solioitude. Perhaps they
oould buy you out thrioe over, but
you have a home and they have
not. Be good to them—ask the
lonely man to dinner. It is not
for the dinner’s sake, but the
spirit in which you make them
guests at your house, and these
lonely people will bless you. And
when they have told a story at
your board, and dandled the chil
dren (if by good luck you have
any), and sat about the fire in
the evening, how much oheered
and bettered they will go away;
how it will warm their hearts to
feel that somebody cared enough
for them to ask them to be mem
bers of a family even for a day.
That is all Christmas is for—to
show other people that we love
them, and to learn and be cheer
ed by the thought that there are
people who care about us. The
unattached people scrape along
after a fashion during the year,
but at the holiday season they
are in a cold world, and then, if
ever, do they crave the thing
which never comes truly into
their lives; and you, if you have
a home—only a little'One—share
it on Chrismas Day with some
friends who have none.—Deoem-
bet Woman’s Home Companion.
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Considerable speculation is be
ing indulged in ae to the identity
of the western millionaire who is
paying $5,000 for an'ear, which is
being taken from another man’s
head and grafted onto his own.
The surgical operation is some
thing wonderful, and yet it fails
to attract as much interest as the
mysterious stranger and the man
ner in which he lost his ear.
The Turn of the Tide.
Macon Tele graph.
Some observers think that the
turn of the industrial tide is
marked by the uotioea of reduc
tions in wages posted in the Fall
River, Mass., mills last week.
The textile manufacturers, being
influenced on the one hand by
the slaok demand and on the oth
er by the recent advantage in raw
ootton, have concerted a return
on November 28 to the wage rates
irevailing previous to March,
902; Another factor is found
in the alleged oiroumstanoes that
the 28,000 operatives affected re
ceive 10 ter oeut. more than 'is
paid at Lowell or elsewhere.
Mills at New Bedford and in
Rhode Island will follow the ex
ample of the Fall River mills, it
is stated, as the conditions to be
met are pretty general. The move
ment seems to be in some sort a
Btep in the industrial reaction
whioh observers of eoonomio facts
think at hand. There is,it is held,
a slackening of aotivity in many
lines! Among, other evidences
may be cited the closing of works
and curtailment of production in
iron and steel industries, the di
minished output of textiles, the
partial suspension of building op
erations, the ebbing of the tide of
immigration, the return of alien
laborers to Europe and the wide:
spread retrenchment of expendi
ture.
Suoh a turn of the industrial
tide will be regretted by all who
wish to see the whole country
prosperous. But the feeling or
regret will iu many cases Be ac
companied by a lively ouriosity
to know how Republican leaders
will explain the matter. A party
that has olaimed to be,the author
of the generous rains and bounti
ful crops of the past few years is
in duty bound to. go to the rescue
ojf the textile manufacturers of
New England and their employ
ees. If not; the why not must be
explained.
The alleged ruin wrought by
the last Democratic administra
tion 1 is too far away in the past
to serve either as a scare-crow or
as a scape-goat. Really, it looks
as if the Republicans are going to
arrive at their wit’s end long be
fore they have satisfied anxious
inquirers. They can not escape
responsibility. * It is too Me now
for them to plead that prosperity
comes' in waves, and that the
wave must recede before it can
rise again, and that all this is in
dependent of parties or of pol itics.
Sue a Democratic philosophers as
ventured to point out this fact
during Mr. Cleveland’s last ad
ministration were covered with
ridicule by those who must now
explain why Republican-made
prosperity is on the decline. The
explanation will be awaited with
interest.
Revolution Imminent.
A sure sign' of approaching re?
volt and serious trouble'in y^ar
system is nervousness, sleepless
ness or stomach upsets. , Electric
Bitters will quickly dismember
the troublesome causes. It never
fails to tone the stomach, regulate
the kidneys and bowels, stimulate
the liver and clarify the blood.
Run-down systems benefit partic
ularly and Jill the usual attending
aches vanish under its searching
and thorough effectiveness. .Elec
tric Bitters is only 50c, and that
is refunded if It don’t give perfect
satisfaction. Guaranteed. Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore^ ,
How to Prevent Croup;
It will be good news to mothers
of small ohildren to learn that
croup can be prevented. The first
sign of croup is. hoarseness. A day
or two before the attack the child
beoohies hoarse. This is soon fol
lowed by a peculiar rough cough.
Give Chamberlain’s Cough Reme
dy as soon as the child becomes
hoarse, or even after the rough
cough appears, and it will dispel
all symptoms of croup. In this
way all danger and anxiety may
be avoided. This remedy is used
by many thousands of mothers
and has never been known to fail.
It is, in fact, the only remedy
that can always be depended upon
and that is pleasant and safe to
take. For sale by all druggists.
Snbaori.be for The Home Joubnaj*.
A Costly Mistake,
Blunders .are sometimes very
expensive. Occasionally life it
self is the price of a mistake, but
you’ll never be wrong if-you take
Dr. King’s New Life Pills for
Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache,
Liver or Bowel trouble*. They
are gentle yet thorough. 25c, at
Holtzclaw’s Drug Store.
Dr, Robert Stordy, a govern
ment veterinary surgeon.in Brit
ish East Africa, has been making
experiments in the domestication
and training of the zebra, in a
huge inclosure Uaivasha. A
German officer recently brought
down thirty zebras to German
East Africa for export to Germa
ny. It is said that fer many pur
poses the zebra, if properly train
ed, is far better than the horse
and mule.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Broino Quiuine Tablets. All
druggists return d the money if it fails to cure
E. WT Gboyk’s signature is oa each box. 26c
