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Official Organ of Honry County.
M'Donough, Ga., Feb. 26, 1915
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Change is the common daily lot
of mortals. Even ourselves are
undergoing a constant change.
But when we look upon the
war-swept and devastated fields
of Europe to-day, either with our
own eyes or through these of the
writer of the news dispatches,
what a fearful sight do we behold:
What were once fair and flower
ing fields, wearing their verdure
and their smooth rolling surfaces
as a goodly garment, have now
thrown off this, vesture and stand
bare and starving as giants whose
bones stare through their shining
flesh less covering.
And the hand of man, with in
trenching irons and monster ex
plosives, has wrought all this
change.
And over what seems an illimi
table area are heaped up in
mounds masses of mangled men,
which their fellows surviving are
too busy to burn or to bury; and
in and out among these mounds of
the dead masses are massed the
living lines, for miles and miles
here, there, and everywhere. All
life seems mobilized for the sole
purpose of making more corpses
of men.
And we Know that there is no
name which better fits this prac
tice than national and internation
al suicide.
Now Germany, who has made
fair Poland and Belgium to appear
as the fleshless skeleton of a
starving giant, at last begins to
know hunger and see the impend
ing horror of the fate she has
meted out to others.
England also knows that only
the sea can bring her such succor
as will save her from similar star
vation.
So both these great countries
look to those “flying islands of
the night/' with their crops ol
grain and foodstuffs, coming from
the great land of the west, and
America, who has launched these
fertile islands from her friendly
shores, says to the world: “will
you in vour envy and your greed
destroy and sink in the sea this
my offering for your sustenance,
rather than risk your neighbor’s
securing it to appease his hunger?”
None can behold al' this desola
tion without contrasting it with all
the glory that was before this
great war began, and a sense of
the vast change seizes the behold
er.
Then he looks upon the other
nations of the world who are not
at war and sees how they have
felt its shock and still shake be
neath the tremor. Like one vast
network of wires of communict
tian connecting all nations into
one and stretching over our heads
along the way, the winds in the
wires wail so woefully that one
nation must hear the great com
motion stirring any other nation
in the worid.
r*nd the listener of the wordless
wn .s contrasts this with the mel
oJv formerly heard there, when
the sweetest songsters of the air
percned upon the same wires and
•carolled of peace.
And the heart sighs at the
change.
But the business man may not
note or care when the ache ve
il,eats of ages of art are destroy
ed i.i a single stroKe, or when
men are murdered by the tens of
•housands, or if other tens of
thousands go by the slower way
(ft starvation and privation; so
lohg as his business structure
stands stable and secure.
And, in his arrogance, .he has
thought all wisdom Itis and that
this structure could n ,! be shaken,
much less razed to the ground.
Now tie asks, where is lus busi
ness. Has anything ever erected
so thoroughly topuled as our once
vaunted business system!
And the business man marvels
and is dazed at such change.
Then the inner circle of busi
ness which makes and unmakes
values in a moment is accustomed
to even momentary changes. So
much has his dealings been in
changes that he has named lus
place of conducting suer, business
the 'change.
But even this class is now “run
ning to fro,” consulting the pow
ers that be, and back again to
'change to behold such a state of
things as never was before, until
he is ahnost ready to pull down
the structure upon himself; but at
last Me flees the place, runs into
the street and would forget the
vast change.
And evervwhere, in our busi
ness, in our fortunes, in our live-,
we see change.
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
So it seems that we can find
nothing that is stable and that
“Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories
pass away;
Change and decay in all around I
see.”
And tens of thousands who had
heretofore been so engrossed vith
the fading facts of earth that they
forgot the one and only eternal
Fact, now brought to their knees,
cry out from the depths of a con
victed soul:
“O Thou who changest not,
Help of the helpless,
Abide with me”
t Growing Children
frequently need a food tonic and tissue
builder for their good health.
Olive Oil
JV£*£!sZ Emulsion
containing Uypophotphitca
is the prescription for this.
The McDonough Drug Co.
Miss Blake Bu m i visiting in
Atlanta.
Use the Newspaper.
If a member ofyour family died,
would you print the obituary on a
billboard? If your wife entertain
ed, wouid you send an account of
it to the theater program man?
If you were to enlarge your busi
ness, wouid you advertise in a
hotel register? If you were going
to have a wedding in your family,
would you get out a handlii ?
You would send such items to a
newspaper, wouldn’t you? Ttun
why don’t you put your advertise
ment in a newspaper? Every man
who uses a biliooard is adding to
nature faking, i'ne newspapeis
build your town.
A minister in a small town, who
probably had tile usual difficulty
in getting lus salary alter he had
worked hard to earn it, just be
fore
Held auuiesseu his congregation
as follows: “D. i o lends, yuu
uOn’l love ... o' ills, you don’t
pay my s o >. .)i don’t love
one a..uu.. j. caus acre are no
euiliiv >, id uod iii’t want
OU uec s obody eS. No. ,
. rein . appoint' d
cnapiai lenliary in
ms si.i. . .s wine my iast
Sunua u i . i-i. i .via preach
from tin . o o prepare a
placet* yo ~ r which the
chotr win ‘M et Ale there.’ ”
NEW SPRING GOODS
1 • i
We have now ready for your inspection full
- id*. ■ 1 i
lines of ginghams, percals, madras, chambricr, chev
iots, suitings, linens, Ripplettes, colored and broven
linens, Galateas, voils, crepes, silks, messelines, Fon
gees, etc. We also have complete stock of childrens
and Misses dresses at 25c to SI.OO. Our new spring
slippers are in and are ready for your inspection.
ALL THREE OF OUR MILLINERY LADIES ARE
IN ATLANTA TAKING IN THE
MILLINERY OPENINGS.
They will also go through the millinery lines of the
most noted millinery houses of New York, Baltimore,
St. Louis, and Chicago.
We contemplate showing the most complete
stock of spring millinery ever shown here and at
prices that will be very pleasing to our customers.
T. A. SLOAN & CO.
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McDonough, = Georgia.
The Price The Builders Pay.
The man or woman who devotes
his or her life to the elevation of
their fellows; to making the paths
of their people easier, their lot
more endurable; to surround
them with those things that ele
vate and refine, must expect op
position. They must endure mis
representation, because they will
be misunderstood: ignorance can
not understand wisdom nor un
coulhness understand culture.
Perhaps they who work for their
fellows’ weal may even be perse
cuted. But because of this must
they falter and lose heart? Nay:
did He who set the example for ail
who loved Him to follow hesitate,
evtn when the greatest tri d of all
confronted Him.
The history of civilization is
written in the blood of sacrifice.
None can build except th y bring
bricks and straw; for bi id s, the
inflexible will be accomplish; and
straw the devotion of unselfish
ness to duty.
! There is no higher khal than
the elevation of our fellow crea
tures; to make them happier by
making them better; to teach
them content by showing them
the high things of life, that de
pend not on wealth nor environ
ment.
It is one of the noblest works of
life to teach children to love the
things that make them noble of
mind, pure of heatt and unselfish
i t principle; that point out to
1 them the things that are nearest
to nature and therefore nearest t
Gu This is building cturactei;
it is building men and women
who are the highest typ l of Amer
ican citizens beeauv tney are
God fearing and ■ in*‘'-living;
teat are refined bee their
hearts, the well spr .. <• . ira
nter, are pure.
In euild charaete tne
of the most oiscour.. :i. gs
is the opposition or . om
parents. It is hard .«, ■ • re
member that had tn :• had
the advantages we s . ,;ive
the child, present effor , not
be necessary. The opposition
comes from net understanding,
and failure to understand is be
cause the work being done now
was not done earlier —because
they cannot understand. To be
misunderstood and misrepresent
ed is only a small price to pay for
the glorious privilege of character
building ana citizen-making. For
the right to leave on the higher
civilizati n of a future day the im
press of ycur work hi re and no v;
a work in which you build the'
future by training the child.
And generations to come will
look back on your work and call
it good. Men and women of to
morrow who are the children of
today will treasure your name
and call it blessed. And in the
radiance of the stars of the crown
of reward you will forget that
sometimes the way was hard and
the spirit vexed.
For, verily; the reward is many
times worth the price that the
builders must pay. —Tifton Gaz
ette.
Many People In This Town
never really enjoyed a meal until
we advised them to take a
Dyspepsia
JVgSSsS Tablet
before and after each meal. Sold only
by us —25c a box.
V
The McDonough Drug Co.
Round About News.
Mr. J. W. Thurman attended
quarterly meeting at Stockbrdge
Saturday.
Misses Ola and Fairy Cool;
spent Monday nig and Tuesday
with Mr and Mrs hu >n Clark.
Mrs B. Y. V and two
daughters spent v with her
parents, Mr. an : W. Wal
den.
Mr. and Mr rson are
entertaining a it their
home.
Mrs. Walt 1 .sister,
Miss Algeiie i through
tins section S
Mr. Tom He * >f Atlanta,
dined with Mi. irrett one
l *
day iast week.
Mrs. B. W Walden visited rela
tives in McDonough several days
last week.
Messrs. William Crurnbley and
J 'hn Moss vere in our communi
• ty Saturday night.
Mi ;s May Jarrett visited her
cousin, Miss Clyde Jarrett, Satur
day’.
Master Claude Walden visited
his sister, Mrs B. Y. White, Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mays visited
relatives near Flakf’s mill Satur
day night and Sunday. t
Mr. B. W. Walden spent Satur
day and Thursiay in McDonough.
Little Marguerite Barr has been
sick for the last few days, but we
hope for her a speedy recovery.
Mr. Otto White visited Mr.
George Walden Saturday night.*
Wonder what young man is go
ing to get a new “one hundred
dollar buggy whip,”
Mr. Ben has returned
from a visit to his sister in Murry
Cross, Ala,
“Fairy Fay.”
MAKE YOUR OWN f
Spain r!
101' will SAVE
56 CIS. PER CAL
THIS fS HOW
rals. L.OLM. Semi
id Real Paint sg.4g
Is. Linseed Oil
x with it at
ated cost of 2.^0
jals. Paint for SIO.BO
j $ 1.54 per gal.
_ The L & M. SKMI-V?IWn
REAL PAINT IS P!I*K Riutc .Yin
fINC «RUKSrn*oa thehist known
paiut materials lor years.
Use a gallon out of any you
buy and if not the best paint
made, then return the paint
and get all your ment"" buck.
Copeland Turn* r Merc. <V>.
McDonough, - tjporcria
Mr. Tom Wall went to Atlanta
Mondav.
Mrs. T. A. Sloan spent Tuesday
in Atla ita.
