The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, October 23, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI A Perdue 20dec07 THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIV. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908. NO. 4. UR! Four hundred barrels Flour, bought before the rise. We offer this lot, while it lasts, at wholesale prices. We have also a car-load of Bran and Shorts. COFFEE &.TOBACCO For the next thirty days we will sell S lbs. best BULK ROASTED COFFEE for SI. We have on hand 2,000 lbs. TOBACCO, and will make a run on this lot for the next thirty davs at WHOLESALE COST. SHOES. TELLING THE BEES. Out of tho house whore the slumborer lay Grandfather came one Rummer day, And under the pleasant orchard trees He spoke thus wi.se to the murmuring bees: “The clover-bloom that kissed her feet And the poaey-bed where she used to play Have honey store, but none so sweet As ere our little one went away: O bees, sing soft, and, bees, sing low, For she is gone who loved you so.” A wonder fell on the listening bees Under those pleasant orchard trees, And in their toil that summer day Ever their murmuring seemed to say: “Child, O child, the grass is cool, And the posies are waking to hear the song Of the bird that swings by the shaded pool, Waiting for one that tarrieth long.” ’Twas so they called to the little one then, As if to call her back again. O gentle bees, I have come to say That grandfather fell asleep to-day. And we know by the smile on grandfather’s face He has found his dear one’s biding-place; So. bees, sing soft, nnd, bees, sing low, As over the honey-fields you sweep— To the trees a-blooin and the flowers a-blow Sing of grandfather fast asleep; And ever beneath these orchard trees Find cheer and shelter, gentle bees. —[Eugene Field. We have as strong a line of Shoes as was ever offered in Newnan. They were bought direct from the shoemaker’s bench, and represent the very best productions in stylish and serviceable footwear. Our leaders in men’s everyday wear are “Dri Sox” and “Hickory Calf,” while “Americus” men’s FINE SHOES are unquestionably the best. For ladies, our “High Point” and “Dixie Girl” have few equals. None are superior. UNDERWEAR. Doubtless these cool mornings remind YOU that you’ll need some heavy LTiderwear, and WE wish to remind you that we have what you want at SI per suit. Nothing bet ter ever offered you at the price. Flower Pots All sizes; prompt delivery on telephone orders—201. A new line of Heating Stoves just received, and some of them are beauties. Coal Scuttles IS - inch 17 - inch Largest size, galvanized 45c. Medium size, galvanized 40c. Ordinary size, 16-inch galvanized 35c. Largest size, 18-inch ja panned 35c. Medium size, 17-inch ja panned 25c. Coal Vases, S3. Fire Sets. SI. Fire Shovels, 5c. to 25c. Coal Tongs, 20c. to 25c. See our SI Safety Razor. Kirby-Bohannon Hardware Company, ’Pohne 201 T. G. FARMER & CO. Governor-Elect Joseph M. Brown Thanks People for His Election. To the People of Georgia: It is my pleasure, as it is my duty, to express my profound thanks for the exalted honor which you. by your suffrages, conferred upon me, the Democratic nominee for Governor, on Oct. 7. This honor is established as being well nigh supreme, when it is borne in mind that Democrats, Populists and Republicans joined in the vote which spoke the mandate of our State. Hence, to the citizens of all parties who voted for me in the white prima ry ; to whose who supported my distin guished opponent in that primary, and who, later, obeyed the dictates of hon or with the behest of the primary, and to all other voters who cast their ini tial ballots for me in the election, I will say that in the administration of the high office to which you have called me, I shall know no faction, no party. And I will add that I shall not look with favor, nor with prejudice, upon any class. “Equal rights to all, special privileges to none, spec'al burdens upon none,” shall be my guiding motto. Recognizing that the will of the peo ple, as embodied in the statute law. is our rule of action, I shall enforce that will by the orderly methods it pre scribes. Recognizing that reason welds together while denunciation rives asun der, l shall pursue that course which my judgment teaches me tends to se curing a united citizenry. And let me urge you, my fellow-citizens, to join me in the resolution to put behind us the asperities of the past, to remember that we are Georgians, and that in Georgia’s weal is our common interest, our common joy. The necessity for this course is man ifest when we hold in mind how great a number of our fellow-citizens are out of employment, hence unable to secure for their families the plainest things needed for sustenance and comfort. 1 admit that the greatest burden upon my heart is the yearning desire to see these worthy ones, allied to us by blood and affection, again receiving good wages. This money, in enabling them to provide all the necessaries and a reasonable portion of the pleasures for their loved ones, would ultimately reach the grocers, the clothiers, the market gardeners, the farmers, etc., and thus better the condition of all classes of our State. Of course, no one man can effect this end; but by con cord and co-operation in the lines of justice and moderation we can assure capital and improve the status. Let us then, I repeat, put behind us the asperities of the past campaign, let us remember that Georgia’s wel fare is more to us than is the gratifica tion of factional grudges or personal ambitions; that magnanimity is the no blest of virtues as revenge is one of the basest of vices; that, as “a house di vided against itself shall fall,” so a State diyided into two hostile camps will fail to attain the social and econorn- coastal plain, the rolling hill country and the craggy mountains of our State, and hence with the needs of the inhab itants of each. I feel sure that when these visits are over I shall be confirmed in my present belief that a Georgian is a loyal Geor gian wherever one finds him; that South Georgia is ns great as North Georgia, and that Middle Georgia is as great as either of the other two. And I trust that all Georgians will judge me as feeling not a whit greater, men tally nor better mornlly, because I have been chosen as your Chief Executive; in other words, that I am only a plain man, hut burdened with a sense of re sponsibility that would crush me but for the fact that I have faith in God—I have faith in the people. I beg. therefore, that you will con sider that the object of these visits is not ostentatious display, but the free interchange of thought which comes from social acquaintanceship. This in terchange I shall seek with farmers, merchants, bankers, doctors and cler gymen—with men in all occupations np ranks. I feel sure that the better we know each other the more we will like each other, that suspicion and distrust emi grate from the spot where friendship settles; that confidence is the child of friendship; and that, led by the hands of confidence, we will move forward to gether in the highway which lends to greatest Georgia—Georgia which gives the pledge: “Equal protection, equal obligations, equal opportunities for all who place themselves under the aegis of my laws.” God grant that beneath the arch of our Constitution, upheld by the marble pillars, “Wisdom,“J’Justice, ” “Mod eration,” we shall clasp hands around the altar of a common devotion to our imperial State and to each other; for every man who, with honest heart, would build up Georgia is a Georgian’s brother. Your fellow-citizen, Joseph M. Brown. Marietta, Ga., Get. 14, 1908. The Man Who Pays. Dawson News. If there is any particular individual in this world who should have an extra star in his crown when he shuffles off this mortal coil and takes his seat with the saint* above we believe it is the n.an who, while toiling here below, paid his debts, as they came due, or at least made an honest effort to do Really we believe that debt-paying is going to be one of the requisites neces sary to pass St. Peter, and that many a “good citizen’’ whose record is full of flagrant lapses in this respect will have serious trouble getting in at the golden gate. Too many people go through life on the plan of letting the man they owe do the worrying. Too many of us are prone to become careless when our own sordid aims are in the balance, and we need a wholesome revival of the sacred ness of our obligations. There is some thing wrong in the make-up of the man who does not worry about his debts. Some individuals with means amply sufficient to pay what they owe prefer to invest their money and reap divi dends, or store it in a bank’s strong box, while their creditors' noses are held to the grindstone; others would pay if they had more money than they need, but feel under no obligations to retrench or stint themselves in order that the men they owe may be paid while others still will not pay at all— they do not contract debts with the in tention of paying them. The latter class are undesirable in all that the term implies. “The poor ye have always with you and misfortunes are liable to befall the man with the highest respect for hi obligations, rendering it impossible for him to pay his debts, but these form ic strength upon which enduring pros-j on | y a sma ]| percentage of the debtor perity must be based. j c [ asSi anc j an honest debtor’s inability In conclusion allow me to repeat the is never taken advantage of by an following declaration found in my let-(equally honest creditor. Amendments to the Constitution. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17.—For the first time since the present Constitution was adopted two amendments to that docu ment will he submitted to the people for ratification at a national election on Nov. 8. One of them is an important one. and from the way the wording will appear on the ballot may he con sidered by some to be more important than it really is. The foremost of the two proposed amendments is the one provided by the Legislature under the Foster hill, whereby the State is given authority to levy taxes for the payment of pen sions to practically all Confederate vet erans and their widows. These words will appear on the ballots: For payment of pensions to ex-Con- federate soldiers and the widows of ex- Confederate soldiers.” “Against payment of pensions to ex- Confederate soldiers and the widows of ex-Confederate soldiers.” The wording would lead one to be lieve that the question of straight pen sions was being submitted, and that he who votes against the proposed amend ment might be considered as opposing pensions for any veterans or their wid ows. This is not the case, as the amend ment merely extends the pensioning authority of the State Legislature. It does not affect present pensions, nor add any new ones, hut gives the Gen eral Assembly authority to do the lat ter by wholesale. Under the Constitution ns it is at present, no pensions may be paid ex cept to injured or indigent Confederate veterans or their widows. Neither can a pension be paid to the widow of a veteran if, since her veteran-husband’s death, she has married a second time. Indigency has been construed to be akin to pauperism, and the good friends of the old defenders of the South have long claimed that to make it a re quirement of pensions is placing an un due indignity on the veterans. The Foster amendment, if approved and it will be approved—permits the payment of pensions to old soldiers, or their widows, who may not be worth more than $1,500, or have an annual in come of more thnn $300. It also per mits the payment of pensions to the widows of veterans who became wid ows by reason of any marriage con tracted before 1870, and to any widow whose husband was killed in the Civil War, but who later married a surviving veteran who has since died. Some claim that owing to the ad vanced age and growing casualties among the class affected by the law that even if put into full operation by the General Assembly the pension bud get will not be materially increased. Others hold that if the plan were put into force next year, the increased pen sion list brought about would add i million dollars to the present pension fund. The second amendment which is to be submitted increases the taxing au thority of counties. If approved, taxes may be levied for police and sanitary purposes. All the county police sys tems of the State are at present provi ded by subterfuge, the officers being paid as road inspectors. Doctor Says Death is Painless. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a celebrated physician, writes an article of surpass ing interest on “The Curiosities of Sleep’’ in the October American Maga zine. He tells why shoes feel tight in the morning, why one curls up for a nap, why one grows drowsy in a stuffy room, why great men recuperate quick ly, and why various other interesting things are true. On the subject of the painlessness of death, he says: “This apposition between death and sleep does not, however, destroy one consoling analogy which has been drawn between them, and that is that they are both painlesB, and cause nei ther fear nor anxiety by their approach. It is one of the most merciful things in nature that the overwhelming majority of the poisons which destroy life, whether they be those of infectious dis eases or those which are elaborated from the body’s own waste products, act ns narcotics and abolish conscious ness long before the end comes. While death is not in any sense analogous to sleep, it resembles it to the extent that it is in the vast majority of instances not only not painless, but welcome. Pain-racked and fever-scorched patients long for death as the wearied toiler longs for sleep. The fear of death which has been so enormously exploit ed in dramatic literature, sacred and otherwise, is almost without existence in sickness. Most of our patients have lost it completely bj* the time they have become seriously ill. “While many of the processes which lead to death are painful, death itself is painless, natural, like the fading of a flower or the falling of a leaf. Out- dear ones drift out on the ebbing tide of life without fear, without pain, without regret, save for those they leave behind. When Death comes close enough so that we can see the eyes be hind the mask, his face becomes aS welcome as that of his’twin brother,’ Sleep.” Andy McTavish was "no feelin’ juist weel,” so he went to the doctor and stated his complaints. “What do you drink?” demanded the medico. “Whuskey.” “How much?” “Maybe a bottle a day.’’ “Do you smoke?” “Yes.” “How much?” “Two ounces a day. ” “Well, you give up whiskey and to bacco altogether. ” Andy took up his Cap and in three steps reached the door. “Andy,” called the doctor, "you have not paid for my advice!” “Ahm no’ takin’ It,” snapped Andy as he shut the door behind him. ter to the people, published April 10: "Between the date of my choice in the primary and the date of m.v inau guration it will be my endeavor to visit as many counties as possible in every quarter of our State, for the purpose of conferring with all classes of our What an impetus would be given to business, how many sleepless nights, and how many failures would be avoid ed if every man in Georgia made a firm resolve to-morrow morning to pay what he owes, as far as it lay in his power. fellow-citizens as to the best methods I Millions of debts would be discharged, to be adopted for the rehabilitation of credit and confidence restored, and we our industries, the strengthening of. ,. , our farming interests and ail others in 1 wou ( immeasurably happier, and which our home people—our own blood ( none any poorer. and bone—may again become partner-) Almost every business man in every in prosperity. . . .. . .. . „ , i town and city in the country has felt In accordance with this promise, 11 the blight of bad debts; it is the mill- expent, within the next eight months, 8 t 0 ne about the neck of industrial pros- to visit as many as I can of our people, perity. No man has the right to take in the rural districts as well as in the ^is neighbor’s substance without ren- cities and towns, from the marshes of , Bering value received. In truth, the the Okefenokee to the peaks of the noblest work of God is an honest man. Blue Ridge, from the Savannah river to the Chattahoochee. If by this course [ can do naught else, I can at least shake hands and exchange cordial greetings with the sterling men, the golden-hearted women and the bright eyed boys and girls of Georgia, and I can co-ordinately acquaint myelf with the varying characteristics of the Bees Laxative Cough Syrup recom mended by mothers for young and old is prompt relief for coughs, colds, croup, hoarseness, whooping cough. Gently laxative and pleasant to take. Guaranteed. Should be kept in every household. Huffaker Drug Co. Graft often goes about disguised as a business opportunity. The Unselfish Bachelor. Life. Bachelors are principally cultivated in all large cities. They live in bache lor apartments and bungalows. They can be seen during the day in counting houses and on the golf links, and in the evening at dinner parties and poker games. Bachelors at one time were easily caught with almost any kind of bait and they swallowed bait, hook, sinker and all, often at the first throw. Now, however, they are becoming much more wary, and hide in the depths of their bachelor apartments or in deep pool-rooms, from which they cannot be lured. They are gregarious in their habits, running in schools, but they stand by one another, and it is very unusual to find a solitary one. Occasionally, how ever, a more foolish and over-confident specimen will poke his nose into a summer resort—when he is promptly landed. Bachelors are in reality the bulwark of the nation. By not getting married they do not raise families. Families, as we know, are constantly consuming our natural resources. Bachelors are, therefore, really providing more natur al resources for the few. Their con duct, it will be seen, is thus quite un selfish. Are You Bilious ? If you are sallow, have headache, dizziness, loss of appetite, and feel badly generally, you should use a good aperient and liver regulator. St. Jo seph’s Liver Regulator has for many years relieved these ailments. It is carefully prepared and is believed by the many people who use it to be the best medicine of its kind on the mar ket. It is made in both liquid and pow dered form. Druggists and general deal ers sell it; liquid 50 cents a bottle; powdered, in tin boxes, 25 cents box, or five boxes for $1. The World’s Greatest Automobile Race—Savannah, Ga., Nov. 20. THE RACE. The Grand Prize Race of the Auto mobile Club of America, with the co operation of the city of Savannah. This club has control of international racing contests in America, represent ing the foreign clubs of Europe. It is the largest, wealthiest and most influ ential club of automobile owners in America. The Savannah race will cor respond to the Grand Prix Race of France. The race will comprise 15 laps or 400.68 miles. A grandstand seating 15,000 people will accommodate the en thusiasts. The course will be patroled by State troops and special police. The fastest racing machines of America and Europe will compete. A telephone system will be installed, keeping ev eryone seated on the grandstand ad vised of the exact location of the cars, and the time made by the drivers. The most reckless and daring drivers of the United States and Europe will handle the racers. The prize will be a $5,000 gold cup, and the winning drivers will receive large cash prizes. It will be the greatest race ever held in America or Europe. If you want to get thrilled, see this race on Nov. 26. THE COURSE. Drivers of international fame have pronounced the Savannah course the safest and fastest in the world. Great speed is possible because of the superi or physical condition of the road, the many straightaway stretches, the ab sence of hills and the few turns, which are banked for safety and speed. An other feature that is wholly of Savan nah initiation is the guarding of the course by State troops during the pro gress of races. No railroad track is crossed, and danger is largely elimina ted by the safeguards which have been devised by the co-operation of the coun ty authorities and the Savannah Auto mobile Association. The course is 26.73 miles in length. Savannah is spending over $49,000 putting the roads in shape, and building new roads to lengthen the course and eliminate some of the turns. The course will be oiled to keep down the dust and make it faster. TRANSPORTATION. The Central ot Georgia railway will offer superior facilities for transport ing the people to and from Savannah. Special cars and special trains, if re quired, will be operated. For schedules of trains, rates, etc., consult your lo cal agent. The fare from Newnan for the round trip is $9.80. Tickets on sale Nov. 21-25, and for trains scheduled to arrive at Savannah before noon Nov. 26. Re turn limit Nov. 30, 1908.

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The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909, October 23, 1908, Image 1