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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1908.
NO. 38.
FARMERS,
ATTENTION!
Here is what you can find at
T. G. Farmer & Co/s—
things you now need
on the farm.
Hardware
Guano Distributors, Cotton Planters, Scovil
Hoes, Handle Hoes, “Little Joe” Harrows, Barb
Wire.
Groceries and
Feed Stuffs
1,500 pounds Tobacco, different grades, at
low prices. Georgia Cane Syrup in 5 and 10-
gallon cans, and 35-gallon barrels. Pure Wheat
Bran, Cotton Seed Meal, International Stock
Powders—saves feed for horses, mules and cows,
and makes your hens lay more eggs. It also
prevents cholera. Your money refunded, if it
does not give results.
Sorghum Seed, to sow for forage.
T. G. FARMER & CO.
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Hammocks
We have a big line, and can make
specially low prices.
Screen Windows
A new shipment of screen win
dows and doors just received.
Roofing
The best asphalt roofing only
$2.25 per square.
Garden Hose
Garden Hose only 8c. per foot.
Freezers
Two of the best makes, and as
cheap as the cheapest.
Cutlery
A big line of pocket knives just
received. This line consists
of some of the best pat
terns we have ever
had.
Fruit Jars
The celebrated “Globe” fruit jars
—enough for everybody. The
old-time Mason fruit jars
in half-gallons and
quarts.
.Jelly glasses in one-half and one-
third pints.
Extra Mason jar taps.
Kirby-Bohannon Hardware'Co,
MONARCH OF EVERYTHING.
Who is the Kinff?
The Monarch over everything?
The despot Lord
Whose slightest word
Sends every vassal hurrying?
Whose menials fear to whisper, lest
They should disturb the royal rest;
Who’s begged and wheeled to beguile,
Whom all obey,
And none may dare to say him nay.
Who, from his throne.
Rules all his own
From Kitchen-land to Parlorville,
From Morningvale to Sleepy hill;
Who m>ds an autocratic crown
From Pantryburg to Attictown;
Who can coerce, compel, command
From Cribville up to Shouldorlaud;
Who lords it over every guest.
Who reins from Hall to Cedar Chest,
From Gable3 East to Windows West,
And all the way to Mother’s Breast?
The Baby!
Who is the Czar?
The Ruler of all things that are?
With tyrant might
By day and night.
And even as brilliant as a star?
So far from all that’s low or base
That Heaven still lingers in his face;
Who, from the arms of maid or nurse,
Holds sway over all a universe;
Whose diadem
That luminous and lustrous gem,
The Orb of Love;
Whose velvet glove
Covers the iron hand of war,
An undisputed conqueror;
Who laughs, and brings the rising sun;
Who frowns—and lo! the day is done;
Who sleeps, anti lays the knightly head
Upon the royal trundle bed;
Idol of every fearful breath,
Prince of the Land of Hopo and Faith,
Lord of Love, without alloy,
King of the Realm of Boundless Joy?
The Baby.
Joe Terrell Believes in Predestina
tion.
Atlanta Cor. Savannah Press.
Atlanta, Ga., June 13.—One public
man in Georgia looms up with in
creased prominence by reason of the re
cent election—Joseph M. Terrell. Sit
ting in the background, saying little,
apparently not doing much, unknown
in the campaign except to those in
close touch with the same, no person
contributed more to Mr. Brown’s re
markable success than Gov. Smith’s
predecessor in office. Only once did
Mr. Terrell say anything publicly,, and
that was two nights preceding the pri
mary, when the incentive was great
and the results important. At the Bi
jou, the first public political gathering
he had attended since his own race for
Governor six years ago, he was given
an unexpected ovation—one that forced
him to the front of the platform. And
in a fifteen-minute talk he made what
is generally characterized the best
speech of his life. That one address
meant hundreds of votes for Mr. Brown
in Fulton county, and probably thous
j ands throughout the State, as it was
published in the papers the following
I morning.
The one public speech was but an iota
of all that Gov. Terrell contributed to
the strangest political incident in the
State’s history. He was in close touch
with Brown’s campaign from the very
beginning, giving his cool, calm advice,
by which many pitfalls were avoided
adding his exceptional knowledge of
political conditions; bringing to Mr
Brown’s aid his strong personal follow
ing, the strongest probably of any
Georgian—all the time making the
campaign one of strength, dignity and
conservatism.
Transcending Mr. Brown’s elation
greater and deeper than the joy of any
other of Mr. Brown’s friends, was Joe
Terrell’s quiet, undemonstrative satis
faction over the result; for it probably
meant more to him than to any other
single person—it meant that he had
come into his own. Above all things
the primary of last Thursday week was
an indorsement of the Terrell adminis
tration, now approved and long admit
ted as one of the best the State has
known. And the way the former Gov
ernor waited, answering none of the
many criticisms made during the latter
part of his term of office, trusting with
dignified silence the negligent disdain
of the incomers, knowing that time at
least would illustrate the truth was
such that now convinces all of his true
greatness.
Joseph M. Terrell is now among the
foremost public men in Geroiga. He
has been signally honored, severely
censured, cruelly bemeaned, but, still
in his prime, he looms forth, after a
short retirement, as the still most vital
force in Georgia politics. He is only
forty-six years old, and more than
twenty of them have been spent in ac
tive politics. Born in Meriwether coun
ty, he entered the House of Represen
tatives when barely past his teens. In
the House and Senate he was identified
with much important legislation; one
of the most notable and far-reaching
being the local option law—the first
move towards prohibition made in
Georgia—which he supported vigorous
ly.
A remarkable feature of Mr. Ter
rell’s personality is that he is nearly
always able to make friends of his en
emies. He has been opposed in his
many races (none of which he ever
lost) by men who, in possibly every in
stance, iater became his bosom friends.
In 1894 he a became candidate for At
torney-General, being opposed by Col.
F. H. Saffold, of Emanuel county, the
latter being the Populist nominee. The
contest was bitter, but no two public
men in Georgia are closer to-day than
Saffold and Terrell.
Mr. Terrell entered State official life
with the W. Y. Atkinson administra
tion, serving through it and that of
Candler, meaning in all four terms or
eight yeats, as Attorney-General.
He became a candidate for the guber
natorial nomination in 1902, and found
himself pitted against Dupont Guerry,
of Macon, and Cot. J. H. Estill, of Sa
vannah. He won easily over both, get
ting a second nomination without being
opposed.
Gov. Terrell was probably the only
Chief Executive since the war, or may
be in the history of the State, who was
able to redeem every campaign pledge
made, not that the others didn’t try
to, but in redeeming pledges a Legisla
ture has to be taken into account.
Terrell promised if elected to im
prove and enlarge the public school
system of the State, to advance the
cause of higher education, to establish
a system of agricultural colleges, to
obtain a franchise tax law, and to re
duce the tax rate.
The appropriations for public schools
were nearly doubled ; large increases
were given the University of Georgia
and its branches, the School of Technol
ogy in Atlanta and the North Georgia
Agricultural College at Dahlonega, and
the two normal schools at Athens and
Milledgeville, reached their present
high state of development while he was
in office.
Pensions to Confederate veterans and
their widows were increased all along
the line. A franchise tax act was got
ten through the General Assembly, and
by means of it a quarter of a million
dollars in additional taxes is now being
collected from the railroads and other
utility corporations.
The crowning effort of the Terrell
administration, because of which
Chancellor Barrow of the State Uni
versity has classed Terrell as the
greatest Governor Georgia ever had,
was the establishment of eleven agri
cultural colleges throughout the State,
with a great central school at Athens.
This one move, a millionaire philan
thropist of the North wrote, placed
Georgia ahead of every State in the
Union in educational progress. It was
the fulfillment of the leading plunk in
Terrell’s platform.
The establishment and oganization of
these schools were specimens of master
statecraft. The Connor bill, which pro
vided them, appropriated only $100,0C0
for the central school at Athens. Not
one i J l .ar was. given towards buying
the necessary land and erecting build
ings for any of the district establish
ments ; yet each of the schools is now
in successful operation, with plants
worth nearly a half million dollars.
The matter was left to the citizens of
the districts, and by personal appeals
Gov. Terrell obtained gifts sufficient to
place the schools on a working basis.
The plan of allowing each school to be
established at the place which bid high
est for it not only provided the needed
funds, but removed the dangerous possi
bility of serious and injurious contro
versies arising over their location.
Gov. Terrell served the State for a
longer period than any Governor since
the present Constitution was adopted.
During his latter term the Legislature
changed its time of meeting from No
vember to June, to better suit the con
venience of the farmer contingency.
The bill was vetoed by Terrell, as it
increased his last term of office eight
months. He took the position that his
election had been for two years, and
by no act of his own would he extend
the honor conferred by the people. It
was passed over his veto.
When Terrell entered office the tax
rate was 5.20 mills. When he went out
of office it was 4.80 mills, and in the
matter of appropriations for the public
good his administration had been more
munificent than any of the others. In
order that his work might be lasting,
he obtained an amendment to the Con
stitution limiting the tax rate to 5 mills,
and not until it is repealed can official
extravagance place any heavier burden
on the people of the State.
The name of Joe Terrell, as he is fa
miliarly known, figured with no little
prominence in the campaign of two
years ago. Nothing harsh enough to
bring from him a reply was said,
though some bitter wails were uttered.
He bided his time—and it has come
even sooner than he himself had ex
pected.
Terrell may be Senator before many
years. He is already spoken of as a
candidate four years hence. He is no
candidate now. He is a favorite of
the fates, but he never gambles upon
the future. He lives in the present.
“I believe in predestination,” he
said the other day, ‘‘what is going to
happen will happen. We cannot change
it.”
Every Woman Will Be Interested.
If you have pains in the back. Urina
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want a certain, pleasant herb cure for
woman’s ills, try Mother Gray’s Aus
tral ian-Leaf. It is a safe and never-
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mail 50 cts. Sample package FREE.
Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy,
N. Y.
Speculation on the Work of the
Next Legislature.
Atlunta, Ga.', June 13.—In ten days
the last session of the present Legisla
ture will begin, and there is no little
interest in what the present lawma
kers may do. There is no doubt that
the result of the recent primary will
have some effect on the policy of the
legislative body, but to what extent
cannot be told until they have begun
the session.
It is without question that Gov.
Smith will be unable to wield the influ
ence he employed during the last session
to secure the adoption of administra
tion measures. Many of the legislators
will naturally wonder as to just what
is the administration, in view of the
fact that Mr. Brown will be the Gov
ernor when the next Legislature meets.
Whether Gov. Smith will endeavor to
get any more of his measures through
or not is not known, but it is not be
lieved that there will be any specific
change of policy on his part. He is
now busily engaged preparing his mes
sage, and in it, it is believed, he will
call upon the General Assembly to en
deavor to carry out the reform policy
upon which the administration was vo
ted in two yeurs ago.
The matter in which there is most
general interest is the one relating to
the Governor-elect’s removal from the
Railroad Commission in August of last
year. Many claim that it is legally in
cumbent upon the Governor to report
his reasons for making the move
question, but only a few hold that it is
necessary for him to defend his course
further than is done in the report.
There will be a stir over Brown’s re
moval, whether the former Commis
sioner desires it or not. If it gets be
fore the House in no other way, it will
come up on a bill appropriating money
to pay for the six weeks’ interval be
tween his removal and the expiration
of his term. Many of Mr. Brown’s
friends throughout the State are urg
ing him not to pursue an aggressive
policy in the matter, and to let it drop.
It is not improbable that he will pur
sue that policy.
Early in the session the convict ques
tion will come up, and this will proba
bly be the biggest matter passed upon.
It is necessary for the Legislature to
dispose of it, as present leases and
present laws providing for the disposi
tion of prisoners expire with the pres
ent year.
“Under the present law all State con
victs serving less than five-year terms
are given to the counties to be worked
upon the roads. The others are leased
to private parties, being worked under
the supervision of officers of the State
It is one of the biggest questions be
fore the State to-day, and it will per
haps be many yeurs before it is per
manently settled. A committee ap
pointed from both branches of the Gen
eral Assembly last year has been mak
ing investigations all the year. It
headed by Representative Holder, of
Jackson, and Senator Brock, of Dade.
The committee will submit a report,
the contents of which are unknown. It
is said that they are inclined to contin
ue the present arrangement, modifying
it to increase the road-workers so as to
include ten-year men. If such were
adopted it would reduce the number of
leasable convicts almost half.
Intermixed with the convict question
it that of the Western and Atlantic ex
tension to the sea, for which is a bill,
introduced by Representative Hooper
Alexander, of DeKalb, almost at the
head of the calendar. Many of the leg
islators will favor working the con
victs on this enterprise. There is little
prospect, however, of any definite step
toward extendiing the State Road to
the sea being taken this year.
In view of the fact that $350,000 of
the public school fund is raised from
convict hire, and that $200,**00 of the
fund has bec:n taken away by the pro
hibition law, the convict lease question
becomes one of no little moment.
There are many bills on the Senate
and House calendar which were not
reached during the last session. The
two most important relate to the aboli
tion of free passes and against lobby
ing. The first has been virtually put
into effect by order of the Railroad
Commission, and the last will probably
be passed. There may be some kind of
legislation with reference to free
passes.
The present administration will prob
ably exert itself to get an anti-lobby
ing bill through, in order that it may
receive the credit for the same. The
incoming administration is committed
to such legislation, and the friends of
the future administration in the pres
ent House will be at a disadvantage in
opposing it, should they desire to do
ing Superior Court judgments final in
cases involving $300 or less.
The first work of the Senate will be
to choose a President to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. John W.
Akin, of Bartow. There will probably
be several candidates, but it is gener
ally predicted here now that Senator J.
J. Flynt, of Spalding, will be success
ful.
Four Representatives have died since
the last session closed—Williams, of
Laurens; Neel, of Bartow; Way, of
Pulaski; Galloway, of Jackson. Their
places have been filled.
Hon. Boykin Wright, of Augusta,
will bring his second term in the House
to a close with a fight for more strin
gent election laws. Several of his bills
have been passed, but others are pend
ing. He will not return to the Legisla
ture.
The Record of Southern Statesmen
for Honesty.
Kansas City Post.
As a matter of history and to refresh
the minds of those who may have for
gotten the circumstance, it is well to
recall the dignified passage at arms be
tween two most distinguished United
States Senators shortly after the na
tional election of 1860. Senator Wil
liam H. Seward, of New York, boasted
in the Senate that the reins of Govern
ment were about to be handed over to
the Republican party, a party com
posed almost wholly of Northern peo
ple, and that the sceptre of power was
to be taken from the proud and haugh
ty South. Senator Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi, in the course of a spirited,
high-class and erudite reply, said:
“Do not forget, it can never be for
gotten, it is written on the brightest
pages of human history, that we. the
slaveholders of the South, took our
country in her infancy, and after rul
ing her for sixty out of seventy years
of her existence, we now surrender her
to you without one stain upon her hon
or, boundless in wealth, incalculable in
her strength, the wonder and admira
tion of the world. Time will show
what you will do with her, but no time
will ever diminish our glory or your
responsibility.”
This was so palpably and undeniably
true that no answer was attempted,
and the debate closed and the session
adjourned.
It would be hard to find in the entire
North a man so intensely partisan in
his Republicanism as to assert that in
cas6 a Southern Democrat were elected
President there would be the slightest
danger of scandal or dishonesty in the
public service. Even the Northern pa
pers concede the absolute honesty and
high conception of public duty of the
Southerner when in office, and all the
world knows his ability to handle ques
tions of great pith and moment in the
realms of diplomacy and upon the tent
ed field.
Many small bills are on the calen
dars, like the one from the Represen
tative of Clay county making the office
of Pension Commissioner elective in
stead of appointive, and one from Rep
resentative McIntyre, of Thomas, rnak-
Make the Children Happy.
O. S. Mard«n in Success Mugazine.
We have all seen children who have
had no childhood. The fun-loving ele
ment has been crushed out of them.
They have been repressed and forbid
den to do this and that so long that
they have lost the faculty of having a
good time. We see these little old men
and women everywhere.
Children should be kept children as
long as possible. What has responsi
bility, seriousness, or sadness to do
with childhood? We always feel indig
nant, as well as sad, when we see evi
dences of maturity, over-serious care,
or anxiety, in a child’s face, for we
know some one has sinned somewhere.
The little ones should be kept stran
gers to anxious care, reflective
thoughts, and subjective moods. Their
lives should be kept light, bright, buoy
ant, cheerful, full of sunshine, joy and
gladness. They should be encouraged
to laugh and to play and to romp to
their heart’s content. The serious side
of life will come only too quickly, do
what we may to prolong childhood.
One of the most unfortunate things I
know of is tiie home that is not illumi
nated by at least one cheerful, bright,
sunny young face, that does not ring
with the persistent laughter and merry
voice of a child.
No man or woman is perfectly nor
mal who is distressed or vexed by the
playing of children. There was some
thing wrong in your bringing up if it
annoys you to see children romping,
playing, and having a good time.
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life
It’s not much use for an empty
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