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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1908.
NO. 50.
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SHE’S AWAY.
Yea, she’s away. You would not tfueaa
It from the way I’ve made my bed;
Nor could you know her absence by
The bird, for twice a day he’s fed.
The rubber plant is moist all the time;
I am attending: to her wishes:
And yet you’re sure that she’s away.
Because you see those dirty dishes.
Yes. she’s away. I’ve fed the cat,
I've even dusted all the chairs:
And though she is not here, you'll find
No burned-out matches on the stairs.
The sweet peas daily I have plucked,
That was but one of many wishes;
And yet there’s proof that she’s away-
Uehold that stack of dirty dishes!
Yes. she’s away. I’m “keeping bach,”
The curtains in the front are drawn:
Yet you’d not guess that I’m unbossed;
Three times a week I cut the lawn.
The ice each mom I carry in;
I change the water for the fishes: —
And yet her absence now is plain.
For I’m entirely out of dishes.
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He Eulogizes Davis.
Prof. Henry E. Shepherd in Baltimore Sun.
The two years extending from 1807
to 1809 are marked by the advent of a
group of men of light and leading such
as has rarely descended upon the world
in so brief a period Merely to suggest
few of the full welling fountain
heads of change that cast their radi
ance over these crowded years of glori
ous life, Robert E. Lee. Jefferson Da
vis, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Darwin,
William E. Gladstone, Abraham Lin
coln, were all born between the dawn
ing of 1807 and the close of 1809. To
the student of historic coincidences it
is suggestive to note that Jefferson Da
vis and Abraham Lincoln were both
born in Kentucky, at intervals of eight
months from each other—June 8, 1808,
Feb. 12, 1809—and that the natal day
of the Confederate chief falls on the
anniversary of Cold Harbor, June 3,
1864, the most brilliant of the victories
won by Lee over the vast and surging
host of Grant, when 10,000 Federal sol
diers lay prostrate in less than half an
hour before the deadly fire of the Con
federate army.
We assume on the part of the matur-
er readers of The Sun an acquaintance
with the essential or characteristic
events of Mr. Davis’ life, his education
at West Point, where R. E. Lee and
Joseph E. Johnston were his contempo
raries : his honorable record in the war
with Mexico; his early Congressional
services; his association with the cabi
net of President Pierce, 1853-57, as
Secretary of War, from which he
passed into the Senate, retiring upon
the secession of Mississippi, the State
of his adoption: the marvelous story
of his administration as the only Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy ; the
final overthrow, the capture, the unique
and fadeless infamy of his treatment
at Fortress Monroe; his ungracious re
lease when the charge of treason sank
under the weight of its own flagrant
absurdity ; his death in Deeember, 1889,
almost simultaneous with that of Rob
ert Browning. Such is a mere outline,
a faint suggestion of a character
some distinctive features, without
parallel in our national annals.
The pitiless rancor of partisan hate
has pursued the fame and memory of
Mr. Davis far beyond the grave, illus
trated by the comments of the North
ern press upon the occasion of the ded-
iaation of the monument at Richmond.
June 3, 1907. Malignity and acrimony,
unrelenting and untempered with the
lapse of years, have obscured the his
toric perception of the American peo
ple, if they have not resulted in abso
lute eclipse of judgment, with regard
to the motives, the ideals, the genius,
as well as the personal character of
the Confederate President. It is a sig
nificant fact that in not one of the text
books in current use in the schools of
Baltimore, allied to the South by every
bond and memory, social, material and
political, that centuries of historic com
munity can inspire, is there to be found
a single reference—even a remote allu
sion—to the prolonged and vicarious
tortures inflicted upon Mr. Davis by his
captors at Fortress Monroe; the lamp
that cast it3 fierce and relentless light
into his frail and delicate eyes, caus
ing an agony that baffles all power of
description ; the shackling with heavy
manacles; the inspection of his corres
pondence even with his own wife; the
crucifixion of the soul involved in the
vigorous revision of his most sacred ut
terances by his vulgar and insolent
jailers.
The story carries its own moral and
conveys its own lesson. In the retro
spect of the past it stands out ir, its
appalling hideousness; age cannot dim
its horror or wither its infamy. That
which the shaping spirit of imagination
strove to realise and portray through
the medium of the drama, was illustra
ted in the cell of the Confederate Pres-
the martyr, as well as the champion,
to be found in the annals of contem
porary ages.
The relentless gravitation of our na
tional development for at least four de
cades has seen the creature supplant
the creator, until not only the sover
eignty, but even the autonomy of the
States has faded like the baseless fab
ric of a vision and left no trace behind.
Such is the logical outcome of the fail
ure of the Southern Confederacy to per
petuate its existence—an autocratic ex
ecutive, an abject Legislature, a sub
servant judiciary. It is no over
wrought fantasy of rhetoric to affirm
that the American republic entered
upon the downward slope to death with
the coming of Appomattox.
If we contemplate Mr. Davis apart
from his political career and his politi
cal convictions, he may be justly ac
corded a place in the foremost files of
fame. No rational mind will, at this
stage, impeach his purity of motive,
or challenge the intense sincerity ^of
his constitutional creed. More than
this, the range of his intellect was ma
jestic and all-embracing in its nature.
He seemed at least to approach the
Baconian ideal, and take all human
knowledge for his province. In the
accuracy and the comprehensiveness of
his acquirements he has no peer among
American statesmen save Thomas Jet
ferson. His mind was endowed with a
faculty of assimilation that was truly
Shakespearean. Science, literature
art, history, jurisprudence, all had
been absorbed in minute detail by his
masterful, receptive power.
As an illustration of his rare versa
tility of intellect, and the affluence of
his knowledge, I recall my last conver
sation with him, which occurred at the
home of a friend in Baltimore. The
subject of discussion was the most ef
fective method of teaching the English
language in our higher forms of educa
tion. With the subtlest discrimination
he ranged over every feature of the
complex problem ; one would have been
inclined to suspect that the world-worn
stftesman had bestowed no small meas
ur* of his genius and labor upon the
scientific elucidation of his ^mother
tongue.
Bryan Starts on Speaking Tour
Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 6.—William
Bryan left here at 4 o'clock to-day over
the Rock Island railroad for Chicago,
and thus began a three-weeks’ cam
paign tour which will carry him into
the Middle West, the Eastern States,
and back through the West into South
Dakota before returning home.
Perhaps no recent news afforded the
Democratic candidate for President
much interest as the announcement
that Mr. Taft proposed making a cam
paign tour. Mr. Bryan regarded his
opponent’s decision as a distinct vindi
cation of his course in the present as
well as his two previous campaigns,
when he tracked over the country and
delivered political speeches. When
asked if he had any comment to make
on the subject, Mr. Bryan said :
“Well, I am getting a great deal of
consolation out of the way the Presi
dent and Mr. Taft have been doing. I
used to be called hard names because I
advocated an income tax, and now the
income tax has been indorsed by the
l'resident and Mr. Taft. I .used to be
bitterly denounced because I favored
railroad regulation. Now the Presi
dent and Mr. Taft have brought that
reform into popularity and I am no
longer considered dangerous. I used to
get a good deal of criticism because I
favored tariff reform, but now tariff
reform has become so urgent that Mr.
Taft is willing to have a special session
called immediately after inauguration
to act on the subject. It used to be
that when I talked about independence
for the Philippines. I was told that the
American flag never came down when
it once went up. Now we have a Re
publican candidate for President who
believes that the Philippines must ulti
mately have independence.
“But I have reason to rejoice over
the fact that some of the things I have
done are now viewed in a more favora
ble light. When I secured some phono
graphic records in order that I might
discuss political questions before more
people, the Republican papers ridi
culed me, and called it undignified, but
Mr. Taft has lifted the phonograph to
an equal eminence by talking into it
birnself.
“And now my greatest sin is to be
made a virtue by imitation. Surely,
limitation is the sincerest form of flat
tery.’ When I went out campaigning
ir, 1896 and 1900 they said it was dem
agogic to run around over the country
hunting for votes. Now it is eminent
ly proper since Mr. Taft is going to
do it, and;i hope the Republican pa
pers will make due apologies. They
said in 1896 and 1900 that I was scared
when I made speeches from the rear
Bryan Rally Turned Out to Ee
Hoke Smith Hurrah.
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 5.—Hisses given
the name of Joseph M. Brown, Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, at the
Rryan rally here last night, and the
studious care which Gov. Smith evi
dently took to avoid committing him
self to the State ticket, were the cause
of no little discussion in the hotel lob
bies Saturday.
Were it not for the fact that the
young men who promoted the meeting
incapable of such an action and
were thoroughly honest and sincere in
their purpose to promote harmony, one
could easily believe that the meeting
was packed in the interest of the pres
ent State administration. Despite their
care to avoid all factionalism, several
things beyond their power to prevent,
but which in large part made the meet
ing non-effective, except possibly to in
crease bitterness, cropped out.
The meeting was gotten up by the
Young Men’s Democratic League of
Fulton county, for the commendable
purpose of strengthening sentiment in
favor of the national Democratic tick
et. Hewlette A. Hall, chairman of the
State committee, presided. Col. Eb T
Williams, candidate for elector from
the State-at-large, and Clark Howell,
national committeeman, both support
ers of Mr. Brown in the recent State
campaign, were the first speakers.
Neither mentioned Mr. Brown’s
name, and each referred in terms com
plimentary to Gov. Smith, who was
present. C. W. Bernhardt, who was
Smith supporter, followed, and made
no reference to State matters.
Senator A. S. Clay was the first and
only one to mention the name of the
gubernatorial candidate, and he did so
in one of his characteristic periods,
rendered in emphasizing his Democracy.
“I was against the nomination of
Mr. Bryan,” ha declared, “but now I
am for him. I voted for Gov. Smith
in the primary, but in the general elec
tion I am going to vote and work for
Joseph M. Brown.”
From the bulk of the audience this
remark was greeted with applause
hue an appreciable part received it with
jeers and hisses, conduct which nothing
the speaker had said justified.
One was reminded of Hoke Smith
meetings during the recent campaign
when the Governor arose. It was clear
that the crowd was made up, in large
part, of hU partisans. During the ova
tion there were jeering references to
the candidate who had defeated him
all of which he received with dignified
bows and smiles.
“I came here to-night to pledge my
support to the national nominee,” he
declared in opening, or words to that
effect. Some say that he even gave
emphasis to the word “national, ” as
he wanted it understood that such was
his sole and only purpose.
He made no reference to the State
ticket, and when he sat down and the
meeting closed there was more ap
plause for him and continued jeering
for his opponent, all of which seemed
to please him much.
A half dozen or more members of
the audience seemed to take pride in
repeating, in loud tones, sentences ta
ken or paraphrased from the editorials
or cartoons dealing with Mr. Brown
that appeared recently in the Atlanta
Journal, such as “Where is my Wan
dering Brown To-night?”
While the supporters of Mr. Brown,
who Joined heartily in the meeting for
the purpose of trying to aid the na
tional ticket, do not believe the promo
ters were|in any waylto blame, they do
feel that more harmony would have
been produced had not several thingB
occurred.
Although the Governor was not ex
pected to make a Joe Brown speech,
even his best friends declare that in
the face of the demonstration of his
supporters and the almost insulting ref
erences made about Brown in the crowd
he could not have done less than to
have expressed himself in some way
with reference to his opponent.
One of his strongest local supporters
declared that in the face of such con
duct he was no longer the political
friend of the Governor.
It was reported that special invita
tions were sent out by the members of
the Fulton County Hoke Smith Club to
attend the meeting.
Have We Progressed in Medical
and Surgical Research ?
Walter E. Hadwen, M. D.. in London Abolitioniat.
The earliest records of surgery are
found in the Hindu writings. Susruta
describes more than 100 surgical instru
ments made of steel. They were to
have good handles, firm points, were to
be well polished, sharp enough to di
vide a hair; and such were their views
of asceptism (which is supposed to be
an entirely modem idea) that those
early writings demanded that the in
struments were to be perfectly clean
and kept'in a flannel box. Splints,
bandages, catheters, syringes, specolae,
lancets of various shapes—in fact, most
of the instruments used in modern sur
gery—were in use at least 3,000 years
ago.
Fractures were diagnosed as they are
now. Dislocations were reduced in sim
ilar fashion. Wounds were classified
just as at present. Cuts were sewn
and iron particles were drawn out of
wounds by magnets. We could have
given no points in the treatment of in
flammation. Poulticing and fomenting
were done just as we do now. Ampu
tations were performed in spite of the
bleeding, which was stopped by the ap
plication of boiling oil or pitch. Tu
mors and glands were cut out. Dropsy
and hydrocele were tapped with a
trocar, and even ruptures operated
upon. Abdominal operations were per
formed, and even stones removed from
internal organs. Cataract was ex
tracted from the eye, and even artifi
cial noses were made by taking por
tions of skin from the adjoining
cheek. Some of the most intricate op
erations in obstetrics, which are the
pride of the modern surgeon, were per
formed by these ancient peoples long
ere the dawn of the Christian era.
As the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
chaplain of the United States Senate,
was walking along a Boston street last
summer, in company with a friend, he
was suddenly accosted most familiarly
and affectionately by a woman who,
without further warning, proceeded to
throw her arms around his neck and
kiss him on both cheeks.
Then followed a brief conversation-
gushing on the woman’s part, guarded
on Dr. Hale’s, who confined himself to
discreet inquiries as to the welfare of
the woman’s family : were they well?
—and living in the same place?—and so
forth.
Finally the woman tore herself away,
and the venerable.divine turned to his
companion;
"I should have been glad to introduce
you, but I did not know the lady’s
name,” he said, with his gentle smile.
To tell the truth,” he added reflect
ively, “I didn’t even know I had a
kissing acquaintance with her.”
^ _ „ „ I end of a train, and I was, and the re-
ident at Fortress Monroe with a perfec-1 suits showed that I hack reason to be. I
tion far transcending the wildest have been wondering where this expla-
dreams of the artistic fancy. Here, if
ever in the tragedy of human history,
was Prometheus chained to the rock,
the vulture gnawing at his vilals. Yet
in the revealing light of this centennial
^year the whirligig of time is fast
bringing its revenges. The streams of
tendency that dominate our political
evolution, constitute the most far-
reaching and effective vindication of
the man and the cause of which he was
nation would be given when Mr. Taft
starts out. and whether the rule will be
the same with him that it was with
me.
“It is hard for us to keep our pat
ents from being infringed on this year.
1 am afraid they will try to raise a
campaign funu by popular contribution
next. ”
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“Well, you are no longer poor and
struggling.”
“You’re only half right. We are
rich, but still struggling. My wife has
the society craze. ”
The elderly matron with the bundles
who was journeying to a point in Wis
consin and occupied a seat near the
middle of the car, had fallen asleep.
On the seat in front of her sat a little
boy. The brakeman opened the door of
the car and called out the name of the
station the train was approaching.
The elderly woman roused herself with
a jerk.
“Where are we, Bobby?” she asked.
“I don’t know, grandma,” answered
the little boy.
“Didn’t the brakeman say something
Just now?”
“No. He just stuck his head inside
the door and sneezed.”
"Help me with these things, Bob
by!” she exclaimed, hurriedly. “This
is Oshkosh. It’s where we get off.”
WOMEN’S WOES.
Newnan Women Are Finding Relief
at Last.*
It does seem that women have more
than a fair share of the aches and pains
that afflict humanity; they must “keep
up,” must attend to duties in spite of
aching backs, or headaches, dizzy spells,
bearing-down pains; they must stoop
over, when to stoop means torture.
They must walk and bend and work
with racking pains and many aches
from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more
suffering than other organ of the body.
Keep the kidneys well and health is ea
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claims made lor them.”
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