The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, May 12, 1899, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text« THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER. VOL. XXX!IV NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1899 NO. 31. RAW AS Ho Torture Equal to tire Itching and Burning of Tills Fearful Disease. bot much attention is often paid to the urst symptoms of Eczema, but it is not long before the little redness begins to itch and burn. This is but the beginning, and will lead to suffering and torture almost unen durable. It is a common inistnke to regard a roughness and redness of the skin as merely a local irritation ; it is but an indica- .... , , . t* on °f tt humor in the blood—of terrible Eczema—which is more than skin-deep, and can not be reached by local appli cations of ointments, snlveB, etc., applied to the surfuca. The disease itself, the real cause, of the trouble, is in the blood, although all suffering is produced through the skin; the only way to reach the disease, therefore, is through the blood. ° Mr. Phil T. Jones, of Mixersville, Ind., writes: “I had Eczema thirty years, nnd after n great deal of treatment my leg was so raw and sore that it gave me constant pain. It finally broke into a running sore, and began to spread and grow worse. For the past live or six years I have suffered untold agony and had given up all hope of ever being free from the disease, as I have been treated by some of the best physicians and have taken many blood medicines, all in vain. With little faith left I began to take S. S. S., and it apparently made the Eczema worse, but I knew that this was the way the remedy got rid of the poison. Continuing S. 8. S., the sore healed up entirely, the skin became clear and smooth, nnd I was cured perfectly.” —■ - - - Eczema is an obstinate disease and can not be cured by a remedy whioh it only • tonic. Swift’s Specific— S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD —is superior to other blood remedies because it cures diseases which they oan not reach. It goee to the bottom—to the cause of the disease—and will cure the worst case of Eczema, no matter what other treatment has failed. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed to be free from potash, mercury or any other mineral, and never fails to cure Eczema, Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison, Cancer, Tetter, Rheumatism, Open Sores, Ulcers, Boils, etc. Insist upon S. S. S.; nothing can take its place. < • Books on these diseases will be mailed free to any address by Swift Spa* ride Company, Atlanta, Georgia. We have now the largest stock of Groceries and Provisions, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, etc., that we have ever carried. Special inducements on Flour and Tobacco. Genuine Cuban Molasses. Everything needed ir. the home and on the farm. We make special efforts to supply the needs of the farmers. We Want Your Cash Trade! We Want Your Time Trade! Buy "International” Stock and Chicken Powders —best in the world. Prevents cholera in hogs and •chickens. Price 25c., 50c., and $1.00. Give us your trade and we pledge our best en deavors to please you. Arnall & Farmer Mdse Co., Greenville St., Newnan, Ga. Tops, Cushions and Backs, To order, or repaired and made good as new. Fifteen years’ experience. Only best material used. Prices reason able. In the room formerly occupied by John M. Martin as a tin shop—three doors above old stand. A specialty of Storm Aprons. The size] that I make can be adjusted to any dash. Harness re-paired. F. W. CRANE. Formerly with Newnan Buggy Co. IF WE.DIDNJ’T HAVE TO EAT. I.ife would lie an easy matter If we didn’t have to eat. If we never had to utter. * "Won’t you pass the bread and butter, Likewise push along that platter Full of meal?" Yes, if food were obsolete Life would be a jolly treat, if we didn't shine or shower, Old or young, ’bout every hour— Have to eat, eat, eat, eat. eat. eat — ’Twoiild lie jolly if we didn't have toeat. We eon Id save a lot of money If we didn’t'lmvo to eat. Could cease our busy buying, baking, broiling, chewing, frying; Life would then he O, so sunny And complete: ' And we wouldn’t fear to greet Every grocer in tlie street If we didn’t—man and woman. Every hungry, helpless human— Have to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat— We'd save money if we didn't have toeat. All our worry would be over If we didn't have to eat. Would the butcher, linker, grocer (let our lmrd-earneddollars'.’ No, sir. We would then lie right in clover Cool nnd sweet. Want and hunger we could client, And we’d get there with both feet, If we didn’t—poor ami wealthy, Halt or nimble, sick or healthy— Ilnvc to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. cat — We would gel there if we didn’t have to eat. THE NEGRO QUESTION. Suggested by the Recent Lynching of Sam Holt. John J. Ingalls In New York Journal. It is evident, that the abolition of slavery has not settled the negro question. Lincoln’s emancipation proclama tion did not free the slave. He wears heavier chains in liberty than those he wore in servitude. Enfranchisement was one of those political blunders that is worse than a crime. It has been a curse instead of a blessing, and after thirty years of bloody tumult, the race problem re mains the most portentous menace of our civilization. The horrible tragedy at Newnan shocks the conscience of mankind, but up to a certain point the action of the mob is intelligible. There are some crimes for which statutory penalties, the verdicts of juries, the sentences of judges, are in adequate. The violation of women is one of them. It is worse than murder, because the victim is condemned to living death. It destroys the family and the home, which are the foundation of the State. The law fines and imprisons the adulterer, the’seducer, the ravisher; but public opinion condemns him to death. If the husband, the father, the brother slays the invader of the home, though it is technically mur der, the jury acquits and the people say “amen.” Whoever shot Saxton in Canton, the public verdict is that he received bis deserts. This is the unwritten law of the Anglo-Saxon race, to which we be long. La Rochefoucauld, the French novelist, says with equal truth and cynicism that it is easy to endnre the misfortunes of our friends with forti tude. . We condemn the faults and sins of others with the same equanimity and composure. It is not difficult to denounce the butchery of Sam Holt as a hideous crime against humanity, a blood thirsty and sickening atrocity, a dis grace to American civilization. The execration is deserved. No condemnation can be too severe. But no judgment of the people of Georgia is just that neglects to confess that there are many Northern communities where similar crimes have been, and would be similarly avenged, less the barbaric details, or that omits to take into consideration the environment, or which forgets that Massachusetts and New York are equally responsible with Georgia and South Carolina for the presence of the African race and the existence of human slavery on this continent. Lynch law, from the humanitarian point of view, admits neither of de fense nor apology, but civilization is largely to blame for its decrees. Justice is tardy. In 1896 there were 10,652 homicides in the United States and 122 legal executions. Communities become fatigued with crime triumphant through the law’s delay, the obstacles interpose! by | knavish attorneys, the escape of no- j torious felons by trivial technicalities. J Then society becomes elemental, and | mobs and vigilance committees enact J the rude equity of the noose, the bul let, the fagot and the stake. Thus California, Montana and other regions have taken the law into their own hands and executed ruffians, malefactors, gamblers and murderers ; who threatened social order. I It is the instinct of self-preserva- | tion which is nature’s first law. Mobs seldom make mistakes. They generally burn or hang the right man. That Sam Holt, having split the head of his employer with an axe, and ravished the wife by the side of her dying husband, should be killed by the neighbors in sudden frenzy for revenge is easily to be understood. Wlmt is inexplicable is the brutal, fiendish truculence nnd ferocity of the incident, the mutilation of the wretched victim and tiie partition of the carcass into treasured souvenirs of a consecrated evout. Northern nnd Southern notions about curios, bric-a-brac nnd bijouterie materially differ. But after nil there is room for the suspicion that with the best of us civ ilization is superficial—like beauty, only skiq deep; that culture is a var nish; education n veneer; refinement nil enamel; even religion a lacquer, which do not change the inherent qualities of man. Napoleon said that if the epidermis of n Russian was scratched, under neath was a Tartar. So somewhere beneath the cuticle of the scholar and the gentleman will be found the im pulses nnd passions of the savage nnd the brute—the tiger’s claws and the beak of the vulture. Psychologically, the most extraor dinary phenomenon in the lamentable social condition of the South is the change in the character of the negro. In slavery felonious assaults on white women by the blacks were not known. During the war the defenseless fami lies of the planters were left in charge of the slaves, while their masters were absent doing battle to make their bondage perpetual. They were docile, loyal and faithful to their trust. Servile outbreaks would have disbanded the Confederate armies. Freedom appears to have released the brutish instincts of their barbaric ancestry. Not all, but an increasing number, exhibit an uncontrollable mania for lust nnd blood. It seems like retribution. For cen turies the miserable victims of slavery were subjected to the passionH of their masters. The hour of vengeance has come. It is an illustration of the inexorable law of nature and of mor als, that whatsoever a man soweth that also shall he reap. Deplorable as are the murders and lynch!tigs of the blacks in the South, they bring us face to face with the fact that there is no future for the negro in this country except political subjection and social ostracism. History teaches that a superior and an inferior race cannot exist upon terms of equality under the same gov ernment. The weaker will go to the wall. The prejudice against the Afri can is stronger, if possible, in the North than in the South. The reason why the negro is not violently sup pressed in Massachusetts and New York is because he is not in the way of the white man. He is not numer ous enough to canse trouble. The butchery of Baker and his fam - ily at Lake City makes the blood run cold, but no Administration would, dare appoint a negro postmaster in Boston, and no. village in Pennsylva nia or Ohio wonld submit to negro domination. There is no town in the North whore the neighborhood of the negro does not depress rents and de preciate the value of property. This cleavage between the races is com plete. Booker Washington, one of the ablest of his blood, writes that the cure for these desolating conditions is education. This is a patent medicine, not the prescription of a physician. Fred Douglass, who was great be cause he had a white father rather than because he had a black mother, believed the races would ultimately blend and coalesce and that thus con flict would disappear. The impossible remedy would be worse than the disease, for the strong race imparts to the weak only its de fects and its vices. So far as education goes,Mr. Wash ington knows better than any one else that no colored man in the South can ever be educated enough or made rich enough or respectable enough to be received by any white man except on the kitchen porch or in the barn yard. Education intensifies instead of mit igating the difficulties and dangers of the situation. By education the negro is lifted from his own environment into competition with the white race, and in the rivalry he must inevitably go down. By education he becomes more bitterly conscious of the injus tice of which he is the innocent vic tim. He will eventually insist upon the restoration of the political and civil rights of which he has been de prived. He will resent the insolence of caste and demand reparation for the infamies of destiny. “Fagots and Fiends." New York Verdict. There be people of shallowness, and imprints piore nervous than wise, who wax hysterical over the Georgia burning of the brnte Holt. These Bhuddering folk nnd pnpers nre most ly of the North. The Verdict is no fireworshipper. It has no religion of the torch; is no apostle of stake and fagot. But it is moved to warn a Nortli, pouring forth unthinking de cision, that it doesn’t much know what it’s talking about. It is ever fraught with danger ns an exercise when one section undertakes to ren der judgment concerning the actB of another. Tip North doesn’t know the Southerns condition. Let the South manumits own affairs. It will never go far^astray. There’s no more brutality—n'ynore of narrowness, no mhre hatred* of the blacks, among the whites of the South than among the whites of the North. Indeed, the black man is better understood in the South. He is there better housed, better fed, better worked nnd better liked than in the North. He is neith er the subject of general cruelty nor is his lot made difficult. Still, North ern Horror must needB click its teeth over such particular blazing instances as that occasion of pine-billet and •kerosene the other day. If some in nocent, milk-pure negro hnd been burned there would rise but one opin ion. But to judge of a result, one Bhould ever keep ids eye on the cause. There’s a saying that a crow can count two. Those who are fur nishing present, livid condemnation of the Newnan burning should at least have a counting capacity equal to a crow’s. While remembering the punishment, recall the crime. It is evening. This black hell-thing—to call him “negro” would be to disgrace Africa—creeping within swing, buries the nxe to the eye in the brain of the unsuspicious husband nnd father. The child, wrenched from its mother’s embrace, iB dashed to the floor. The mothor, seized, hurled down in the blood of the father and husband, is outraged. This is the story. Does it much matter as a sentimentality how the earth is purged of such a stain ns Holt? Whether the method of his wiping out be halter, bullet, knife or brand, there isn’t from any stand point of humanity pity for the criminal wortii a word! If you must think of this swart Caliban, fire-eaten, tugging at his chain of death, keep also before you the picture of that poor woman, doubly his victim, who must go racked and horror-whipped of memory through every awful day of her exis tence. And there’s another thing to know: The purpose of punishment is to deter. The dangorous among Southern negroes are of an unreacha ble ignorance that the North, never seeing, never understands. Arrest, try and punish your criminal by usual methods of law. Ninety-nine out of every one hundred of the black felons to be reached would never hear nor know. And if they did, it would fail of effect. Meet the case with the Newnan treatment, however, and the news flies. “They get the word.” Every sable miscreant reads his own fate in the flare and glare of that burning. There is impossibility in es timating the extent of such a check. Yet it is sure and safe to say that the Newnan punishment will prevent, not one, but many outrages of similar kind, and save the honor and the life of more than one who otherwise would become a prey to black lust and lechery. Northern opinion need not, therefore, overflow its banks at this juncture. Regions, like individuals, are fairly safe with their own affairs, and a South wants no guardian. Bet ter that a thousand such as Holt burn at the stake, than that one like his victim go shame-lashed and sorrow- haunted to her grave. “A word to the wise is sufficient,” and a word from t£e wise should be sufficient; but you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. The oft-re peated experience of trustworthy persons may be taken for knowledge. Mr. W. M. Terry says Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives better satisfac tion than any other in the market. He has been in the drug business at Elkton, Ky., for twelve years; lias sold hundreds of bottles of this reme dy and nearly all other cough medi cines manufactured, which shows conclusively that Chamberlain’s is the most satisfactory to the people, and is the best. For sale by Holt’s Drug Store. Don’t try to climb over a barb-wire fence on crutches. Booty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. C'aaearets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Casearets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. The Next Census. Youth's Companion. The primary purpose of the Gov ernment in connting the people, which the Constitution requires to b« done once in ten years, is to ascer tain how many Representatives in Congress shall be apportioned to each State. Until n first census could bo taken the Constitution itself specified the number of Representatives allowed to each of the thirteen States. Vir ginia was nRBfgued ten members, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were allowed eight each, New York and Maryland six each, and the other States were grnnted representation in tlio same arbitrary manner. The total membership of the first House of Representatives was 65. The apportionment tinned on the first census, Hint of 1790, allowed one Representative for every ,28,000 peo ple, as near as the division could be made. On that basis the member ship of the House became 105. By the next census, ten years later, using the same “unit of population,” the number nf Representatives was In creased to 141. Since that time it has been neces sary with every new census to allow a larger population to each district, and nlso, with the exception of one decade, to enlarge the membership of the House. A part of the increase was by the admission of new States. There are now about 357 men in the House, and'each Congressional dis trict is made to contain as near 173,- 901 souls, by the census of 1890, as is possible. The forthcoming census in 1900 will, as usual, make a new apportion ment necessary. The population of the United States, which was 62,622,- 250 in 1800, will lie, it Is estimated,, from 74,000,000 to 76,000,000, not in cluding our new possessions. It is not desirable to have the House of Representatives made much larger if its efficiency ns a legislative body is to be maintained. Hence, the increase of population will prob ably mnke necessary an enlargement of the Congressional district—perhaps an increaso to 200,000—which would be six times the population of the original unit of apportionment. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. . Tiik Bust Sai.vh in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Balt Rheum, Fever Sorer, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Pilea or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or monejr refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by G. R. Bradley. “What kind of a tenant is he?” asked the prospective landlord. “Well,” replied the landlord, who knew him of old, “if the house is a new one, he will be all right for the first year, but the next he will want it entirely rebuilt.” A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D.: “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set in and final ly terminated in Consumption, Four doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump tion, Coughs and Colds. I gave it » trial; took in all eight bottles. It has cured me, and, thank God, I am saved and now a well and healthy woman.” Trial bottles free at G. R. Bradley's and Reese’s Drug Store. Regular size 50c. and (1. Guaranteed or price re funded. “Give me liberty,” bowled the Fil ipino, as he brandished his bow and arrow, “or give me death.” “Acting under ins^uctions from my government,” replied the Amer ican trooper, turning the crank of his Gatling, “I will endeavor to give you both.” Spain’s Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, } Spain, spends his winters at Aiken, S. C. 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The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, May 12, 1899, Image 1