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Newnan, Ga., Friday, March 23,1888.
WHY PEOPLE DIE.
Physician Who Does Not Believe
That Death is a Necessity.
Dr. Wm. A. Hammond.
People die through their ignorance of
the laws which govern their existence,
and also for their inability or indispo
sition to obey those laws with which
they are acquainted. We are told in
the first chapter of Genesis that before
Adam ate the forbidden fruit the life
of man was to be eternal, but -with the
acquisition of the knowledge of good
and evil, death became his portion. It
seems to me that it would be more in
accordance with the actual state of af
fairs at the present time to believe that
death came through his loss of knowl
edge, rather than from his obtaining it,
for now he loses his life not through an
excess of knowledge, but through an
excess of ignorance.
I do not see that there is any physi
ological reason why even at the present
day man should die. Prom aknowledge
of the causes of diseases greater than
that possessed fifty years ago, and
from the advance of medical science
leading to better methods of treating
the deviations from the normal stan
dard of health to which we are subject,
the life of a generation has within the
period mentioned been lengthened
from five to six years. That is, the av
erage man, instead of living thirty
years, as he did fifty years ago, now
lives thirty-six. Looking at the ques
tion from this standpoint only, it will
be seen that it is merely a question of
time when his life will be extended to
thousands of years, and that with an
eternity of time his life also will be
eternal.
Let us take one aspect of the subject
and we 6hall not, I think, fail to per
ceive that when we thoroughly under
stand it, and are willing to live in ac
cordance with its' requirements, death,
unless by accident, will cease to exist.
We know that this life is continued
through the death of the various atoms
of the several tissues that enter the
composition of the body. His organs
are kept in action by force, and this
force results, as does all other force,
from the metamorphosis of matter.
Thus, to obtain heat we burn wood or
coal, and ashes and gases are evolved
in the process; to generate electricity
we convert zinc or some cither metal
into a salt, through the action of an
acid, and electricity is set free. In the
body the brain, the heart, the liver, the
muscles, all act through the destruc
tion, or rather alteration, of the sub
stance of- which they are composed.
With ; every, thought that emanates
\ from'‘the. brain, with every, emotion
which‘it feels, with every;, perception
which it experiences, a certain portion
of the central tissue is broken down in
to simpler substances and through va
rious-channels is execrated through the
body-,. With every pulsation that the
heart .makes some part of the organ,
small though it may be in amount, is
destroyed and is cast out of the system
to make room for new substance. With
every contraction of a muscle, no mat
ter how small, from the effort required
to wield the heaviest kind of sledge
hammer to that necessary to lift a pin
or to crack a finger, or to wink an eye
lid, muscular tissue dies, and being no
longer fitted for the purposes for which
it was formed, is taken up by the veins,
and like that coming from the brain,
and the heart, and the lungs, and the
stomach, and all the other organs which
serve the purposes of the body, is got
ten rid of through the kidneys, and
the skin, and the respiration, to be re
formed outside of the system into
other substances, which, in their turn,
make the food by w hich the body is
again nourished.
The food that man takes into his
stomach ought to be of such quantity
and quality as would exactly repair the
losses which, through the action of the
several organs, his body is to undergo.
If it is excessive in either of these di
rections, or if it is deficient, disease of
some kind will certainly be the result.
If he knew enough to be able to adjust
his daily food to the expected daily re
quirements of his system, disease could
never ensue through the exhaustion
of any of his vital organs. A large ma
jority of the morbid affections to which
he is subject are due to a lack of this
knowledge.
.Suppose, for instance, that a man on
rising in the morning should say to
in his calculations, and that the food
taken is neither too great nor too little,
but exactly compensates the antici
pated losses, the death of each cell in
the brain or the heart or the muscles,
etc., will be followed by the birth of a
new cell, which will take its place and
assume its functions. Gout, rheuma
tism, liver and kidney diseases, heart
affections, softening and other destruc
tive disorders of the brain, the various
morbid conditions to which the diges
tive organs are subject, would be im
possible except through the action of
some external force, such as swallowing
sulphuric acid, or a blow on the head,
ora stab with a knife, which would
come clearly within the class of acci
dents, and of course many of these
would be avoidable.
Again, let us imagine that man knew
just to what extent his animal appe
tites should be gratified; that he had
ascertained definitely to what extent,
if at all, alcohol and tobacco, and other
stimulants and sedatives, should be
used; that his knowledge in regard to
clothing were perfect; that he had ac
quired complete information of the
manner in which his house should be
built, and heated, and ventilated, and
otherwise made sanitarily perfect; that
cookery had become one of the exact
sciences; that he was able to avoid the
effects of heat and cold and moisture;
that, in a word, he had nothing to
learn in regard to the best way of liv -
himself from all
exceptionally solemn life compact
made by the wedded pair; and it gives
the best promise of happiness to all.
We are fast banishing ostentatious and
costly funerals; let us speedily banish
ostentatious, costly, and vulgar wed
dings.
Femininity.
Philadelphia Record.
It has been universally admitted
that woman’s chief charm is feminini-
tv, and it is likewise certain that femi
ninity, as a prominent characteristic of
American women, at least, is declining.
The women who, by force of inclina
tion, or circumstances, have become
bread-winners, and struggle shoulder
to shoulder with their brothers, may
be pardoned for catching a certain
manliness and independence of man
ner. The feeling of self-assurance will
crop out and show itself on the exte
rior. Higher education, too, especially
co-education, may have its influence.
The girl who studies the same lessons
and recites to the same teacher in a
class mainly made up of boys, may be
expected to gain, in a measure, the
same assurance as a woman who fights
for bread and butter on an equal foot
ing with man. This may be particular
ly expected if the girl should stand at
the head of the class, as is often the
case.
Hut just why the girl who, tenderly
watched and guarded, educated in
books just enough to pass muster, and
accomplished to the utmost of her ca
pacity, with the one idea of captivat
ing an eligible party to a marriage,
should discard the charm of femininity
and become, or assume to become, de
cidedly masculine in her tastes and
manners, is a little more difficult to un
derstand. We all know this sort of
girl. She arrays herself in conspicuous
fashion; her self-possession is astound
ing; reserve she has not; in the pres
ence of gentlemen, or her elders, she is
always to the fore; she bets at the
races, plays pool or billiards at the wa
tering places, and in public is as manly
as her sex will permit her to be. Her
petticoats are her only hold upon wo
manhood. She is what the men call
“horsy.” They all like her. She cop
ies their slang, even to the verge of
profanity, and is always ready for a
lark, the more harum-scarum and the
more closely it treads on the heels of
impropriety the greater zest it has for
her. Yet this same girl would be
shocked if she could know exactly the
position in which her antics place her,
Luckily for her self-esteem, she can
not see herself as others see her.
There is another kind of girl—the
girl with ideas. She attracts another
class of men, who admire her genius,
her wit, her self-possession. There is
nothing giddy or what might be called
even mildly fast about her. But she is
gifted in the way of opinions, and as
serts them like a man. She is a terror
among lesser lights. Both men and
women of mediocre calibre fear her
and steer clear of her. She is not fem
inine.
It is clear that the self-assertive,
manly women are in the majority, and
that femininity is having a sorry time
of it. Some writers on this subject
have laid the blame at the doors of the
tailor-made suit, which robs a woman
of all flowing, graceful lines and gener
al fluffiness. There may be something
in it. The severity of the style of gown
may impart somewhat of its character
istics to the demeanor of the wearer.
If the tailor make the man, does he not
also make the woman ? If this be the
case, the sooner the wheel of fashion
shall turn backward the better.
But there is another consideration
The increasing disinclination of our
young men to marry worries fond
mammas with daughters on their
hands, and is a problem which they
have been unable to satisfactorily
solve. The most popular reason ad
vanced is that women are extravagant,
expensive luxuries, in which the aver
age man hesitates to indulge. In some
cases this may be true, but iu the ma-
.. . jority it is rank nonsense. The men of
battle of life and its unknown vicissi- i he period may think the “horsy” girl
Brae* Up.
You are feeling depressed, your ap-
g itite is poor, you are bothered with
eadache, are’fldgetty, nervous, and
f enerally out of sorts, and want _ to
race up. Brace up, but not with stim
ulants, spring medicines, or bitters,
which have for their basis very cheap,
bad whisky, and which stimulates you
for an hour, and then leaves you in
worse condition than before. What
you want is an alterative that will puri
fy your blood, start healthy action of
Liver and Kidneys, restore your vitality
and give renewed health and strength.
Such a medicine you will find in Elec
tric Bitters, and only 50 cents a bottle
at A. J. Lyndon’s Drug Store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Glower, Grantville.
NEW NAN, GA.
FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE:
- AT PRICES—
THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE.
Any kind of an honest job is better
than no job at all.
ing, so as to preserve
morbific diseases—supposing all this
(and I admit that it is not very likely
that he will for ages and ages acquire
the most God-like omniscience neces
sary) death would be impossible, and
the eternal life, to which we are told
he was born, would then be his.
From a consideration of these points
we perceive that people die
First—From ignorance of all the
laws of life.
Second—From willfulness in not
obeying the laws they know.
Extravagance in Weddings.
Philadelphia Times.
Next to the ostenatious and costly
display that is so often witnessed at
funerals, the ostentatious and costly
display of modern weddings is the most
inexcusable. The number of weddings
is largely diminished every year by the
common custom of costly display, and,
in addition to the serious hindrance to
timely marriages, it is a pernicious and
steadily growing evil.
There is nothing that is more beauti
ful on wedding occasions than refined
and elegant simplicity, while the os
tentatious display, so common these
times, always border strongly on vul
garity and is exhibited in its most offen
sive qualities. It begins with the vul
gar gaze and description of the bri
dal trousseau; continues with cost
ly presents for exhibition and publici
ty, and ends with all the pomp and
ceremony that can be commanded to
attract the attention and inspire the
gossip of the multitude.
If any doubt the correctness of this
criticism of ostentatious weddings, let
them recall the two which most con
vulsed social circles in New York 'with
in the last few years. The most costly
trousseau and most dazzling gifts and
most elaborate newspaper report of any
New York weddings, are now memor
able only as they recall the death, in a
felon’s cell, of the central figure of
one of them, and the scandal that soon
separated the bride and groom of the
other. They exhibited in all the vul
gar grandeur of purchased social po
sition the gross vulgarity and extrava
gance in weddings, and should teach
all to shun even the semblance of cost
ly ostentation that seeks notice at the
cost of modest elegance.
There is another reason that argues
strongly against ostentatious and cost
ly marriages. It is the unwholesome
lesson it teaches all newly-married
couples. Even if they have what ap
pears to be ample wealth, in possession
or prospect, such costly exhibitions are
calculated to unfit them for the great
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale
by A. J. Lyndon.
For sale, also, by .T. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Glower, Grantville.
£cgal Icotices.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County: *
C. A. and J. P. Russell, administrator of .las.
Russell, late of said county, deceased, having
applied lor letters of dismission from their said
trust, all persons concerned are required to
show cause in said Court by the first Monday
in June next, if any they can. why said ap
plication should not be granted This March
], 1888. \V. H. PERSONS,
Prs. fee, $5.00. Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County :
H. J. Lasseter, administrator of J. M. S.
Smith, late of said county, deceased, having
applied for letters of dismission from his said
trust, all persons concerned are required to
show cause ip said Court by the first Monday
in May next, if any they can, why said appli
cation should not be granted. This February
22, 1S8S. VV. H. PERSONS,
Prs. fee, .$5.00. Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
C. A. Bolton, executor of Peter Owens, late
of said county, deceased, having applied to
the Court of Ordinary of said county for let
ters of dismission from his said trust, all per
sons concerned are required to show cause in
this Court by the first Monday in April
next, if any they can, why said application
should not be granted. Thispersons 188S "
Prs. fee, $5.<I0. ’ * Ordinary.
Big stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and
Cherry, and Imitation suites.
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 to $125.00.
Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times,
day. t
THOMPSON BROS.,
NEWNAN, GA.
night
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FURNITURE!
Application for Year’s Support
GEORGIA—Coavkta County:
The return of the appraisers setting apart
twelve months’ support, to the widow of
Judge Suggs, deceased, having been filed in
my office; all pe-sons concerned are cited to
show cause by the second day of April, 388s,
why said application for t welve months’ sup
port, should not be granted. This March 1,
ls8S. \V. H. PERSONS,
. Prs. fee, $8.00. Ordinary.
tudes. It is not at all urfeommon now
to see ifi want and misery the woman
who only a few years ago before was
petted and flattered as a bride with
every surrounding of luxury, and the
responsibility for the misfortune rests
largely upon those who started the
bride out. upon the perilous voyage
without the anchor of a common-sense
knowledge of the practical duties of
life.
Marriages are occasions when friends
love to exhibit their affection for the
bride and groom, and it is eminently
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
All persons having demands against the es
tate of Cortes Lazenby, late of said county,
deceased, are hereby notified to render in
their demands to the undersigned, according
to law; and all persons indebted to said es
tate are required to make immediate pay
ment. This 10th day of February, 1888.
T. G. DlUK^ON,
Administrator Cortes Lazenby, dec’d.
Printer’s fee, $3.00.
Administratrix’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Under and by virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of Coweta county, Ga., I. as ad
ministratrix on the estate ol John it. Sim>,
late of said county, deceased, will sell to the
highest bidder for cash, between the legal
hours of sale, on the First Tuesday in April,
1883. betore the Court-house door in the city
of Newnan, in said county, nine shares of the
capital stock of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company. Sold as the property of
said estate. This March 1st, 1888. Prs.fee $3.18.
BARTOW SIMS,
Administratrix of John R. Sims.
I buy and sell more FL T RNITURE than all the dealers in
Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I
buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices:
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00. .
A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. :
A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. ]
A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50. j
A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50.
A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00.
A Strong Walnut Plat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00.
A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.,
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
By virtue of an order from the Ordinary ol
said countv, will be sold on the First Tuesday
in April next, before the Court-house door in
said county, between tbe legal hours of sale,
to the highest and best bidder, for cash, the
remainder interest in the sixty acres of land
in the northeast corner of lot of land number
one hundred and eleven, in the original
Eighth, present Cedar Creek district of said
county, bounded as follows: Commencing at
the north west corner of said lot, running south
twenty chains, thence east thirty chains,
thence north twenty chains, thence to be
ginning point twenty chains, the same be
ing the dower lands set apart to Amanda
Moigan, widow of John Morgan, deceased.
Sale made to pay debts of the estate. -This
March 1st, 1888. E- W. MORGAN,
Prs. fee, $1.41. Adin’r John Morgan.
HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH,
36 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET,
ATLANTA, GA.
-DEALERS IN-
jolly fun, but they do not want to mar
ry her. The men of brain like a set-to
with a woman of opinions, but they do
not want it for breakfast, dinner and
supper. The student knows that al
gebra and isms are not worth a cent to
keep household machinery in good
running order. No! Every mother’s
son of them will pick out for a wife
the clinging, modest, womanly woman
who will be content to shine by reflect
Sheriff’s Sales for April.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Will be sold before the Court-house door in
Newnan, said county, within the legal hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in April, 1888,
the foil .wing described property, to-wit:
One house and lot in the eastern part of the
city of Newnan, in “Chalk Level,” bounded
south by Jake Rutledge, north by Harriet
Walker, east by Oliver Craw and west bv
Maria Street, containing one half acre of land
more or less. Levied on as the propert y of Pan!
Wilkinson to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the
Justice Court. 6-ifith District G. M.,in favor ol
Frank E. Block vs. said Paul Wilkinson.
Levy made and returned to me by J. T.
Holmes, L. C. Prs. t'-e $3.15.
Also, at the same time and place,one store
house and lot. lying and being in the town ol
Haralson. 1393d District G. M.. said county,
containing 17 rods of land, more or less, and
bounded on the east and south by agio
and west and north by Wm Taylor, being
the store-house wherein defendant, G. D.
Floyd, sold goods during the year 1887. Lov
ed li'dft. N O man wants to be know n iea on ast e property of G.D.I loj d to satisfj
cu „° ■ , , , , , vion . w i a fi.fa. issued from the Justice Court, 1393d Dis-
as Mrs. So-and-so S husband. \ieweu tr j Ct M , it: favor of Howard Mannfac-tur-
himself: “To-day I have to read ten proper for them to do so; but it can be
pages of ‘Blaekstone’s Commentaries,’ ! done, and very much better done, with
ten pages of ‘Don Quixote, to walk eve r y regard for modesty and elegance..
three miles and a half, to pay a visit of I The idea that parents must lavish
half an hour's duration to my grand- money on a bridal trousseau that they
mother, and to take my sweetheart to , cannot afford, or that friends must gi\e
the theater, where t shall spend two j presents that they cannot afford be-
hours. To do this I require (taking out cause of the possible criticism of idle or
his pencil and memorandum boofc as he ■ malicious gossips, is the one that should
speaks) so much carbon, so much nitre- be banished from every wedding occa-
gen. giving of. course, the exact weight sion. To honest recipients some of the
of these several elementary substances, poorest gifts in money value would be
l can get these precise quantities from most cherished, but if exhibited to vul-
of bread, four ounces of | gar gaze and criticism they 7 would be
regarded as a con fession of either pov
erty or meanness, and such display
ever exhibits a greater or less degree of
vulgarity.
Modest, refined, elegant weddings
may be had in families of the humblest
means, and modesty and
should be the charm of every marriage
occasion. It misleads no bride or groom
eight ounces
eggs, eight ounces of beef, six. ounces
of potatoes, four ounces of fish, a half
pint of beef soup, eight ounces of water
and eight ounces of strong coffee, to
make them go a little farther than they
otherwise would. In case I have any
extraordinary demands upon me for
mental or physical exeition, I shall
have to add to fhese substances others
which will compensate for the increased j in the first step of married life
loss.
in this light alone, is it not worth while
for the girls of the period to cultivate
the womanly characteristic of feminin
ity V
Their Business Booming.
Probably no one thing has caused
such a general revival of trade at A. J.
Lyndon's Drug Store as the giving
awav to customers of so many free
trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discov
ery, for Consumption. Their trade is
simply enormous in this very valuable ,
article, from the fact that it always
cures and never disappoints. Coughs.
Colds, Asthma, Croup, ami all throat
and lung diseases quickly cured. You
can test it before buying by getting a
trial bottle free; large size ti. Every
bottle warranted.
For sale, also, by .T. L. Askew, Pal
metto: G. W. Clower. Grantville.
; Company vs. said G. D. Floyd. Levy made
and returned to me by M. JTindsman L.
C. This March 1st, 1888. Prs. fee,$1.35.
GEO. H. CARMIC-VL, Sheriff.
Stoves, Heating Stoves,
Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves,
Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for
everybody, Ranges, Furnaces, Marbelized
Iron and Slate Mantels, Maliogony, Walnut,
Cherry, Oak and Ash
Mantels, Tile Hearth. Tile
Facings and Vestibule Tile, Plain
Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim
med Grates. Just received, a beautiful line of
Brass Fenders, Andirons,
Fire Sets, Coal Vases, Coal
Ilods and Tin Toilet Sets, that in
quantity, quality and designs cannot be sur
passed in the city, Gas Fixtures, Chandeliers
and Pendants, Plumbers,
and Steam Fitters, Supplies, Water
Closets, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Rubber Hose,
Brass Goods, Steam Cocks and Gauges, Tin ‘Plate,
Block and Galvanized Sheet
Iron, Wrought Iron Pipe for steam.
gas and water. Practical Plumbers, Steam
Heaters and Gas Fitters, Architectural Galvanized
Iron Workers and Tin Roofers.
Agts. for Knowles’ Steam Pumps, Dunning’s
Boilers, Morris V Taskers Wrought Iron Pipe for
steam, gas and water, Climax Gas Machines.
yf^Plnns qnd specifications furnished on application.
Call and examine our stock ol - write i or price list and circular. You will re
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poses no honest friend to criticism for
Now suppose that he is exactly right j humble gifts; it harmonizes with
A Birmingham protection paper says
that the proposed reduction of the duty
refinement i on pig iron will not effect the iron in
terests of its region. Of course not.
No one is green enough to think foreign
pig iron would reach Birmingham, or
any market supplied by Birmingham,
even if the duty was entirely repealed.'
the j —Atlanta Journal.
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Perfumes hie Breath.
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Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed,
Onions, Feathers,*Cabbage
Dressed and Live Poultry. Meat, Flour.
Laid, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese,
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS Ol- PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and nromnt ,, , , _ ,
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Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman.
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