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Newnan, Ga., Friday, April 6, 1888.
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.
There’s a beautiful land that lies to the west
Ol the far-famed valley of tearR,
Whore the griefs that are born are jealously
prest
To the hearts of sorrowful years,
And are borne with a noiseless, measureless
tread
IJown the valley, across the strand,
Straight on to the sea, where the barques of
the dead
Float by to the Beautiful Land.
The dip of the water is heard in the night,
And the griefH that iie on the sands
In their naked woe through the shimmering
light
Reach out their weird, shadowy hands,
And beckon the vessels to come to them there,
Ar.d call to the mystical band,
And drifts over the sea, toa welcoming air,
Blown soft from the Beautiful Land.
They glide in the wonderful silence of deal h,
With faces snow white, to the west.
And lily hands kissed by the spice-’aden
breath
That strays from the sweet land of rest.
They heed not a moan from the gray, misty
vale;
They see not a beckoning hand,
But sweetly they sleep in the barges a-sail
For the beautiful, rest-filled lund.
THE AUTHOR OF “BEN-HUR.’
How Qen. Lew Wallace Wrote His
Famous Book.
New York World.
In April, 1878, the writer was in the
golden age “when the years tire all sum
mers.” Iler happy lot it was to visit
Mrs. Lew Wallace in Crawfonlsville,
Ind., the home where the imaginary
child Ben-Hur was growing up. The
famous “chariot race was on” tit that
very time, and one might fancy it
would have destroyed the family peace
as thoroughly as the car of Juggernaut
crashing through the house; but not so,
for Gen. Wallace adds to his greatness
the supreme grace of being amiable at
home.
It is a pleasure to remember that dur
ing the week spent so near Ben-IIur
and tho “wife of his youth,” the sky
was not darkened by one impatient
word. The’crack of the chariot whip
Ls heard around the world in seven dif
ferent languages, but it never fell upon
those of his own household. The book
was dedicated to his lady, a royal of
fering, worn with every womanly grace
befitting it.
Gen. Wallace’s manner was so court
ly that the first half day the visitor
trembled and wished him away, that
she might enjoy the charming wife un
oppressed by his imperial presence.
But the gulf was bridged by his own
music. The next morning the house
fairly quaked as lie paced his study to
the tune of “(food Old Ortonville,” or
some other bulwark of the Methodist
hymn-book, roared so lustily that it
might have waked a mummy. At the
breakfast-table he said, with awful
stateliness, “Did you hear sounds of
melody from my room this morning ?
“Yes,” said the bashful maiden (who
still had the earache,) “but I should
call that bellow-dy.”
The singer stared an instant, not be
ing used to such plain English, then
burst into a laugh as merry as the
Cheeryble Brothers. The ice was brok
en, and behold, the waters beneath
were warm—the veriest fountain of life
and good cheer.
‘The Ben-Hur study had but few re
quirements forthis.easily satisfied man,
so he had chosen a little nook, as far
from the household sounds as possible,
and as barren of “modern convenien
ces” as a monk’s cell. The children of
his fancy needed no seats—they peo
pled the air—and lie occupied the only
chair in the room. All the rest of the
furniture stood on the four legs of a
fable—pens and paper heaped confus
edly on a big blotter, the New Testa
ment, Gfeikie’s “Life of Christ,” "Ivan-
hoe,” and a few reference books. The
door was always* shut for work, but
opened readily for play, and the visitor
usually knocked as she passed, and al
ways heard the cordial “Come in,” res
ponsive to her interruptions. Then he
would tilt back in his chair and pocket
his hands, like all other men, and laugh
and talk like precious few other men.
Often ho would read aloud what he had
just written, and ask if it would do in
’ way that would have flattered the
very elect, and which gave rise to the
:inr- s doubtful boast that she bad
He
helped 1 write Ben-Hur-that is, she had
hindered, but it was all the same, so
the author made her think.
This was courtesy, pure and simpL
and an example to less busy men.
wrote first on a slate to rub out i.
then on soft paper with a pencil,
patience in going over
same groun
to
the
of
His
and over the
d until he had brought it up j in romr
tall white figures sped with soundless
tread through the opalescent light they
appeared like spectres flying from hate
ful shadows.”
Gen. Wallace’s absent-mindedness is
a proverb in his family, which brings
down many a jibe on his head, and be
fore the laughter at his putting sugar
in his soft-boiled egg (two spoonfuls,)
had died down he might be seen just as
deliberately salting his coffee. This
quality might be one of heredity, if
certain wild legends pointing toward
his maternal grandfather are true.
He is peculiarly a man of reserved
force. He lives in the background of
himself, and the casual observer fails to
see the big heart buttoned up within,
the laughter carried in his sleeves and
the inexhaustible industry in his pock
ets. Bead the record of what he has
accomplished in the fields of battle, di
plomacy, art and literature, and you
see how great his energy is, though
every trace of it is suppressed some
how as lie goes about his daily duties
with less bluster and hurry-scurry than
the ordinary man takes to get his one
talent buried in the ground. So he al
ways had time for household matters,
and could and did minister to them as
well as lie could and did minister plen-
potentiate. His wife said one day:
“Lew, the little bantam hen has
hatched her family.”
“Has she?” said he. “How many ?”
with as much interest as if they were
American eagles. And when she asked
him to “go and take her off,” lie went
and could be seen stooping down before
the nest, handling the tiny hair-spring
chickens tenderly enough to suit even
the fussy bit of a mother. If those
chicks knew who it was that set them
up housekeeping they would all have
grown up peacocks.
Gen. Wallace is fond of writing out
under the forest trees that surround his
house, and the bantams used to settle
on his shoulder and knee and eat out of
his hand as he sat there alone with his
own creations.
Through all that visit fun carried the
day and part of the night, too, for each
evening brought a party in some
friend’s house, and Ben-Hur was ruth
lessly dragged from his chariot and car
ried off to every one of them. He went
not “as a schoolboy to his book,” more
over—nay, he flocked with the magpies
and jaybirds as if he had been of their
feather, and many a time (Mi. Beecher
to the contrary notwithstanding) the
eagle was heard to cackle. To be sure,
he would often forget the sport, and
we would see he was sailing the ether
of 1,800 years agone, but some one
would bring him down with a jocular
lasso, and he never failed to fall with
his smile on top.
He carries but two signs of his years
about him (he was born in Brookville,
Indiana, April 10, 1827). His hair has
reached that uncompromising spicy
mixture called pepper and salt, and
then the spectacles—he is a sad victim
to them—they and he play at a perpet
ual game of hide and seek ! Of course,
he never remembers where he put them
nor what their favorite hiding-places
are, and after overhauling everything
within reach he ousts them from am
bush on top of his head or in his hand.
They worry him quite out of his wits,
and I have seen liim while in the mazes
of his admirable lecture on Turkey, be
fore a crowded house, begin that piti
ful search with his hands, feeling for
them all over the lecture field. Ho is
so used to depending upon his wife to
supply all his little personal needs that
in the spectacle case—which is the only
one she cannot fill—he finds himself en
tirely at sea. She is his secretary, al
manac and memorandum, and a wife in
the highest sense of that high word.
One of her favorite sayings is, “To
work for those I love is my chief joy.”
She and four sisters were brought up
by a Quaker mother to the wholesome
old belief that its “wicked to be idle,”
and her well ordered home shows the
precept in hourly practice. In all their
tastes, Ben-Hur and she are as one,
and although fame has written his name
in every language that has a literature,
he. can never outgrow Mrs. Wallace.
In appearance Gen. Wallace is—but
the ante-mortem inquests should draw
the line at this point. If the subject is
not handsome, it is embarrassing if
not dangerous to say so, and if he reads
in a newspaper that he is, it would turn
the head of the noblest Roman of them
all. His father, Governor Wallace, was
called the handsomest man iu Indiana.
His mother died in his childhood, but
her name lives in Esther, the daughter
of Simonides.
We will never have a true biography
i of him. Whoever might undertake it
! should be a Garfield in arms, and Ir-
■ ring in scholarship, and a It alter Scott
mce. and as no one but himself
declare its author a man of unmatched
genius, who, under an inspiration be
yond our comprehension, has pictured
the only Divine hero that ever dwelt
among men. Emily Meigs Ripley.
R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO.,
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
A Troublesome Staple.
G’otton is the most troublesome sta
ple of the world’s commerce. From
the hour of picking until it passes out
of the loom as a fabric it is susceptible
of a million changes, each one of which
affects its value on the market. A bale
of cotton is so sensitive to heat and
moisture that the weight varies even-
minute of the day, as you will find by
actual experiment. On this account
buyers and sellers are styled “weigh-j
ers,” but whose duties are something j
more than recording weights or check- j .
of receipts. On their judgment the j fH
in
value of a shipment or consignment
can be diminished or increased by
several hundred dollars; hence fac
tories arc always careful to place only
their clearest-headed and most relia
ble men at the scales. A daub of mud
at one corner of a bale may justify re
bates with one package, while on an
other the sellers’ representative would
not consent to any deductions. The
deleterious effectsof exposure to weath
er can be estimated at a glance by a
skillful man, but nevertheless the pro
cess of weighing is accompanied by
more frequent content than any other
part of the business. Then you must
remember that if any crooked work
has been done, a bale of cotton can be
traced from the mill through a hun
dred hands until you finally reach the
planter who sold it in the first place.
From the Tar Heel State.
Knott, Hennesee &Co., Brindleton, N.
C., write that Huckleberry Cordial
stills better, with every satisfaction, for
bowel troubles and children teething,
and commend it to every mother, the
physician of the home.
H
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The verdict returned by a Western
coroner’s jury in the case of a man who
hanged himself by his suspenders to
the bed post is said to be: “The de
ceased came to his death by coming
home drunk and mistaking himself for
his pants.”
Many of the good things of this life
are sorrowfully let alone on account of
Dyspepsia. Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets
will cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Constipation ; sold on a positive guar
antee at 25 and 50 cents, by W. P.
Broom, Newnan, Ga.
“What kind of boys go to heaven ?”
asked a Sunday school superintendent.
“Dead boys!” shouted a new scholar,
who had been brought in from the
street.
Is Consumption Incurable?
Bead the following: Mr. C. H. Mor
ris, Newark, Ark., says: “Was down
with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an Ineura-
tive Consumptive. Began taking Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump
tion^ am now on my third bottle, and
am able to oversee the work on my
farm. It is the finest medicine ever
made.”
Jessie Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says: “Had it not been for Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption I
would have died of Lung Troubles.
Was given up by the doctors. Am now
in best of health.” Try it. Sample bot
tles free at A. J. Lyndon’s Drug Store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
Honor is like an island, rugged and
without a landing place ; we can never
more re-enter when we are once out
side of it.
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A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON HAND AT LOW PRICES.
R. E>. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEWNAN. GA.
J. H. Reynolds,
President.
Hamilton Yancey,
Secretary.
ROME
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FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY,
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CAPITAL STOCK, $103,400.
A home company. Management conserv
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Its directory composed of eminently suc
cessful business men; backed by more than
one million dollars capital.
H. C. FISHER & CO., Agents, Newnan,
Ga.
NO MORE EYE-GLASSES,
NO
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This remedy is becoming so well
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all diseases of the Liv.-r and Kidneys,
will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum
and other affections caused by impure
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Constipation and Indigestion try Elec
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and §1.00 per bottle at Lyndon’s Drug
Store.
For sale, also, by J. L. Aske w, Pal
metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville.
MORE
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A Certain, Safe and Effective Remedy for
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The worst that can possibly be 9aid
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by A. J. Lyndon.
For sale,* also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
metto: G. W. Clower, Grantville.
Have a reserve force that will
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! Save the Children. They are espe-
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CURES TEAK DROPS, GRANULATION, STYLE
tumors, red eyes, matted eye lash
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Also, equally efficacious when used in other
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inflammation exists, MITCHELL S SALVE
may be used to advantage. Sold by all Drug
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* A GREAT YEAR
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us. Every person of mtelhgence desirw keep
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better way to do so than to subscribe lor
Souare house pronounced it the
" 1 “ - ,-or offered him.
The Original Wins.
C. F. Simmons, St. Louis, Prop’r
M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. Ust’d
tS-p, in the U. S. Court defeats J.
H. Zeilin, Prop’r A. Q. Simmons Liv
er Regulator, Hst'd by Zeilin 1S6S.
M. A. S. L. M. has for 47 rears
The Macon Telegraph.
Tts news facilities are unsurpassed by any papei
in the South. In addition to the fullest As-oci
ated Press dispatches, it has special . co U® sp °^ t
ence by wire and letter from all important
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‘ During the present session of Congress Wasn
in-ton will be the most important and most in
wresting news centre m the “untry.
Washington Correspondence of the Telegrapn 1
the very best that can be had. . . . . t „ t
Its regular correspondent furnishes the
news and gossip in full dispatches. Frequent
speefal “etfers from Hon. Amos J. Cummings
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Carpenter, and W. A. Croffut, three of the best
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The Telegraph is a Democratic Tariff Reform
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We have for sale a quantity of first-class
printing material, comprising the ent ire out
fit formerly used in printing the Newnan
Herald, as well as type, stones, chases, and
numerous other appurtenances belonging to
the old Herald Job Office. Most of the mate
rial is in excellent, condition and will be sold
from 50 to 75 per cent, below foundry prices.
The following list contains the leading ar
ticles:
i Campbell Press, in good
repair.
250 lbs. Brevier.
150 lbs. Minion,
50 lbs. Pica.
50 lbs. English.
50 fonts Newspaper Display-
Type.
25 select fonts Job Type.
8 fonts Combination Border,
Flourishes, etc.
Imposing Stones, Chases,
Type Stands and Racks. ■
The Campbell Press here offered is the same
upon which The Herald and Advertis
er is now printed and has been recently over
hauled and put ir, good repair. It is sold sim
ply to make room for a larger and faster press,
Address NEWNAN PUBLI8HING CO.
Newnan, Ga.
Ui PISO’S CURE FOR
1
CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. „ E3
Beat Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use Q
in time. Sold by druggists.
^ CONSUMPTION “
I believe Piso’B Cure
for Consumption saved
hit life.—A. H. Dowell,
Editor Enquirer. Eden-
ton, N. C., April 23,1887.
OFFICE & BAM FIJMITIJRE & FIXTURES.
Ask for Illustrated Pamphlet.
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Wholesale Distributing Dep’t for the South.
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AND
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The best Cough Medi
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Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
By all druggists. 25c.
PISO’S CURE FOR
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
CONSUMPTION
ARBUCKLES’
100
name on a package of COFFEE is a
guarantee of excellence-
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Ben-Hur du-Utis uite over. won.
,,1,1 tlativljcn m tvpro '■>' '' .
;todays* rtcM, :tor an a ■
with jus! the tight.color, i
scribe acertaitt tmmi. ^
found it ^ ,Ul \ \ V , =
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authority,’and, „o douLt. d’Waed
in her next production.
word in the
and
next
dtli. This is t’.b'
x of its future. It must
e a popular book. * It ?!
“or its sacred
for u- thrillingiurrMivo'
i:> tklhieition of ch*»ra
their eloquence of >!•>'<•; -b
filial qnd mat
■ pictures <
. and land,
enty-tive th u
face ind
always
be read
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need
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. the
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the
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Nrwnan. February 11. 18R7.
TAX RECEIVER'S NOTICE.
FIRST ROUND.
O
ti
nts.
COFFEE is kept in all first-class
stores from the Atlantic to the Pacino
11:11
u-
but v.
er
opal in
iy,
hen I
for its philosophies, and every year for j
its marvelous setting forth of the dual j
character of our Lord the Christ, i his:
‘ ' book, and it ;
* A it. v. T B. Reams, Pasior
O b\CT :rc-, Adams.Tcnn., writes: "I
’I should have been dead but
r your Genuine M. A. Sim-
F——gx mens Liver Medicine. I ir.ve
1 r rv. lines had to subs:; u.«
1 j fi f7jS i “y-C-tn’s stuff’ irryour Modi
1 pCi’ir* f Cine, but it don’t answer the
} l ■> i F-rpose.”
| • ' :cr - '
{ Fir. vveda package of ■vourLivcr
.\ Ji edicine, and have used halt 01 it.
It works like a charm. I want no
Liver Regulator and cer-
20 more cl Zeilin’s mixture.
Wo find this J.-VA1 of ? r,rfdb V t!;e. is tin A-.-nt heart o£ the
la .1 u. - every L hr:
B “ reh !SbpS tU8 thiw
moon came up,
will beat on in every Christian iauu and j
Give your children a watch
and learn them to be prompt
( at school, at meals, at business,
at study, etc. It is a lesson of
oreat necessity. You can get
these watches at Avery’s from
§2 50 up.
is ner-fr goer-.
Always 1
sealed Cdt
I will be at the following places at the times
below mentioned, fort.he purpose of receiving
returns of State ae,i county taxes, to-wit:
sharpsburg, Monday, April 2d, A. M.
Turin, Monday, April 2d, v. M.
Newnan, Tuesday, April :?d.
Haralson. Wednesday, April 1th.
Seuoia. Thursday, April 5th.
Cranford's Mill, Friday, April 6th.
liyram's Court Ground, -Saturday,April 7th.
V onus’s Tanyard, Monday, April 9th.
Gr.intville, Tuesday, April 16th.
Kirby’s Store, Wedne day. April 11th.
Kandy, Thursday, April !2th.
Panther Creek Court Ground. Friday, April
Hurricane Court Ground, Saturday, April
14th, a.m. J J-FARMER,
Tax Receiver.
THOMAS J. JONES.
Respectfully otters h:« services to the people
in Newnan and vicinity. Office on Depot
street. K. H. Barnes’ old jewelry office. Res
idence on Depot street, third building east of
A. A- W. P. depot.
SEND FOR C/RCULARS*
AU kinds of Legal Blanks for sale by
McClendon .£ Co., Nett nan, Ga.
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