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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 j! • ' 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. .—— 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. —: < 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