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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIV. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1908. NO. 8. FLOUR! Four hundred barrels Flour, boughtfbefore 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 $1. We have on hand 2,000 lbs. TOBACCO, and will make a run on this lot for the next thirty days at WHOLESALE COST. SHOES. THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY. If 1 could only find the road, Tim road to yesterday, I’d ease my heart of many a load That burdens it to-day— Recall the words ho harsh, unkind, Kiss clean the stabs 1 mode when blind, Plant love for hate—if 1 could find The road to yesterday. The road to yesterday 1 The road to yesterday! Unlock, O blessed antfel tfuide, My niyrht of sleep, and open wide The gates that intervene and hido The road to yesterday l Repentant turn and walk again The road to yesterdny 1 Rewrite the page with cleaner pen, And wipe out yesterday. With wiser heart I would retrace The stains of sin, nnd wrong efface; My tortured soul seeks means of grace To re-live yesterday, O angel, show me, pray, The road to yesterday! .With precious blood the way was bought; I’ve found the blessed boon I sought; To-morrow shall be happier wrought Than was my yesterday. —LW. N, Hull. FOR AN INLAND WATERWAY, 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 Underwear, and WE wish to remind you that we have what you want at $1 per suit. Nothing bet ter ever offered you at the price. T. G. FARMER & CO FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS' WORTH OF Oliver Chilled Plows. We are now sole agents for the famous Oliver chilled line of plows, and can fill your orders for either plows or repairs. No. 20 Steel Beam Plows, $11. No. 19 Steel Beam Plows, $10.50. No. 13 Steel Beam Plows, $9.75. No. 10 Steel Beam Plows, $8.50. No. G. S. S. Steel Beam Plows, $5.50. No. O. Z. Steel Beam Middle- Busters, $9.75. No. 20 Oliver Chilled Points, 35c. No. 19 Oliver Chilled Points, 35c. No. C Oliver Chilled Points. 35c. No. 13 Oliver Chilled Points, 35c. No. 10 Oliver Chilled Points, 30c. No. O. Z. Oliver Chilled Middle- Buster Points, 35c. No. Z Oliver Chilled Middla-Bus- ter Points, 35c. No. O. S. S. Oliver Chilled Points, 25c. Kirby-Bohannon Hardware Company, ’Pohne 201 Hon. S. E. Leigh Makes Eloquent Speech at Columbus Convention. Columbus Enquirer-Sun, 10th inst. One of the most eloquent addresses heard in Columbus in a long time was the beautiful oration delivered by Hon. S. E. Leigh, of Coweta county, re sponding on behalf of the Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Association, and his own county in particular, to the ad dresses of welcome that had been de livered by Mayor Browne and Presi dent Loewenherz, of the Columbus Board of Trade. Mr. Leigh said : “Mr. Chairman: On behalf of the representatives from my county and other delegates to this convention we thank you for the cordial welcome ex tended us by his honor, the mayor of your city, and the president of your board of trade. Be assured that we ap preciate the kind words of greeting, the hearty reception given us, and the generous welcome to your homes and to the hospitality of your city. On stepping from the train, the first thing that attracted my attention was ‘Wel come to the delegates to the Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Convention.’ Your welcome, in its unbounded generosity, reminds me of Henry Watterson’s wel come to the Presdential party visiting Louisville: Said he: ‘We turn over to you our houses and our horses, and there is the jug, and the sugar and the ice and the mint. We even surrender to you the hip-pocket playthings with which we are wont sometimes to amuse ourselves. And if you can’t make yourselves at home and pass the time pleasantly, may the good Lord have mercy on your souls.’ ‘Mr. Chairman, the pleasure is ours in being the guests of such generous hosts. We congratulate ourselves on having the opportunity of visiting your city and witnessing its marvelous growth. As a mnufacturing center it has become the Lowell of the South, the Manchester of the New World. It is appropriately called the ‘Electric City.’ You have harnessed the spark ling waters of the silvery Chattahoo chee as they come rushing and leap ing— “ 'Out of the hit's of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall; They hurry a^ain to reach the plain. Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock and together again; Downward the voices of Duty call, Downward to toil and be mixed with the main, The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn, And A myriad of flowers mortally yearn. And the lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o’er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall.’ “The mighty forces stored up in these rushing waters are utilized in lighting your city and in furnishing motive power for your mills and factories, as with busy hum of whirling spindles and revolving wheels, they make merry music to gladden the hearts of the sons of toil. After doing your bidding they hurry on in their joyous course down ward to the main, hearing upon their bosom the commerce of your city to en rich the nations even beyond the sea. “Mr. Chairman, we are here to-day to pledge you, and through you the peo- country. ‘The Great Middle West will control the trade of the entire west coast of South America,’ says the Hon. John Barrett, director of the Interna tional Bureau of American Republics, ‘when the Panama canal is completed, provided a deep waterway from the Lakes to the Cull is ecnitruoted. Oth erwise it will he Japan, Germany and England that will exercise commercial swny over this vast empire to be open ed up.’ “For the same reason we favor the Gulf Coast Inland Waterway. No mat ter where the terminal points may be, no matter if it miss our State, if built on Southern soil it will benefit our Souther,n country. For a stronger reft- sor weEfavor deepening and improving the dfettahoochee. It Hows through our Sttite, it is in our district, it is near my own home. Of course, if prac ticably, 1 would have the Chattahoo chee opened up to navigation as high up as Coweta. But it can’t he done without interfering with your power plants and dams, and we don’t want to do that. If you will pardon me quoting a Methodist preacher, ‘The Chattahoo chee is the dammedest river that 1 ever saw.’ “It requires no prophetic vision to see a bright future for the city of Co lumbus. Situated at the head of navi gation on the Chattahoochee, with the Gulf Coast Inland Waterway connect ing the Apalachicola with New Orleans and Galveston—soon, we hope, to be built—with the Prnama canal con necting the Atlantic and Pacific, soon ta be completed, your city will have water communication with every country on the globe. She may become a real port of entry and not merely in name, as is the case with the Capital City of our State. It is not extrava gant exaggeration to affirm that at no distafit day she will rivnl the great sea port towns of the South Atlantic and Gulf States, as she already not only rivals but surpasses them nil in natur al and artistic beauty. “If not trespassing too far upon the time and patience of the convention, permit me to say that, living far in land and with no navigable river near me, I know nothing of the advantages of cheap water transportation—noth ing of the blessings of navigation that has br'OUght wealth and influence not only to nations, but to individuals- ex cept as it comes to me through history and observation. But history is replete with examples. From the earliest ages down to the present time, we find that the maritime nations of the earth have been dominant in the alfairs of the world. The most populous and opulent cities of the world have grown up on the sea coast or the banks of nuviga- ble rivers hard by. Babylon on the Euphrates. Rome on the Tiber, Car thage on the Mediterranean, Athens on the Aegan, Sidon and Tyre on the Med iterranean, all owed their commercial and political supremacy to the domina tion of the seas. One nation after an other attained to power and went down before the all-conquering march of civ ilization, until the star of empire rose on the coast of Britain. Rome was the mistress of the world. Julius Caesar, with his veteran legions flushed with victory, crossed the English Channel, invaded Britain, and laid upon the banks of the Thames the foundation of the city of London, destined to become the mart of all nations—the metropolis of the world. “But the scepter of power, wealth, and influence has been transferred from the sea-girt shores of Old Eng land to the wave-washed coast of New England and the New World. On Man hattan Island, in the first half of the seventeenth century, the enterprising Dutch traddV.s established a trading- post that soon grew into a city that not only rivaled, hut has already eclipsed all the greatness and glory of the past achievements of the world. New York earth - the navigable streams. But it is often practicable to divert the stream from its course by means of canals, or artifi cial channels, and thus turn the current of trade into new channels to enrich ourselves. Our ancestors were quick to realize and avail themselves of this advantage. The first quarter of the last century marked the inception of an en terprise to which New York is largely indebted for her commercial suprema cy—the cutting of a waterway from the Hudson river to the Great Lakes. The Erie canal, begun July 4. 1817, ami completed the 28th of October, 1825. made New York City the gateway to the commerce of half a continent. The canal extends from Albany, on the Hudson, to DulTalo, on Lake Erie, n distance of 352 miles. It cost seven nnd a half millions, hut it has paid for itself many times over. It reduced the freightage time between its termini from twenty to ten days, nnd the pas senger time to three nnd a half days It reduced freights at once from $100 a ton to $10. and finally to $3. It made Central New York, at that time large ly uninhabited, a district of potential empire, with settlers flocking in; se cured for New York City the domina tion of the American scabonrd, and created or solidified the prosperity of the remarkable line of cities that sprang up in its pathway along the beautiful vulley of the Mohawk. “The Illinois and Michigan canal con nects the Missouri system with the Great Lakes, and through the Welland canal with the St. Lawrence. “The Ohio Falls canal is a short, but very important one, rendering possible the continuous navigation of the Ohio river. “There are divers other barge or boat canals in the United States of more or lesB importance, but I will not trespass upon your time by describ ing them. “Among the great ship canals of the world, the most important aro the Suez and the Panama. The Suez connects the Mediterranean and the Red seas, and is about 100 miles long. It reduces the distance between Western Europe and India nearly 4,000 miles. It is un derstood that a waterway communica tion wus established between the two seas ns early as 600 years before the Christian era, and was continued in use for about 1400 years, after which it was abandoned. The present oanal was cut by Ferdinand de Lesseps. the French engineer. “The Panama cnnal connects the At lantic and Pacific. The route extends from the six-fathom line in Colon har bor on the Atlantic, to the six-fathom line off the city of Panama on the Pa cific coast. It will be 49 miles long, and will cost about $800,000,000 when com pleted. It will render the United States impregnable to any force that can be brought against her. “Once more, Mr. Chairman, allow me to express my hearty thanks for the generous welcome to the hospitali ties of your city.” and Congressman Rufus E. Lester, of Georgia, had worked on the matter for fifteen years, was the South able to get lo per cent, of the appropriations for river and harbor improvement, hut that it was due to their efforts that the South was slowly coming into her own, and he hoped that as time went on this section would receive her deserts in this respect. He thought that by per sistent effort this would be accomplish ed. He stated that ho was a patriotic citizen, that he was broad in his views, hut that he wanted what was coming to him. “That is the sort of patriot I am,” said the Judge, and the senti ment seemed to strike the audience with a good deal of force. Again Judge Adamson referred to the matter of welcome to the conven tion. He said that he wanted to wel come it to the best city in the best dis trict in the world--the best to live in, the best to represent, the best to farm in, the best to manufacture in, the best to merchandise in, und the best to die in; “for”, said the Judge, “when one dies here he is less likely to take cold on account of the change of climate when he goes to heaven.” Judge Adumson again assured the convention of his hearty indorsement of the objects it seeks to attain, and pledged his elforts in this behalf. He closed his remarks amid a storm of ap plause and hand-clapping. pie of Columbus, our hearty co-opera tion in any enterprise that looks to the I City is the richest city advancement and development of our metropolis of .the greatest republic on resources, and to the upbuilding of our the globe. Nature arid man have made State and section. ^ Every canal that is cut. every river that is rendered navi gable. every harbor that is deepened and made safe to shipping, every fac- her the main portal of the foreign com merce of the United States. Within her harbor floats the shins of all nations, paying rich tribute to this empress of tory that is established, every enter- j the seas. Golden argosies from every prise that is set on foot anywhere | country under the sun and from the j v/ithin our domain, adds to the wealth far-off islands of the sea, enter her port and greatness and glory of our common freighted with richer treasure than the 1 country. While my patriotism is broad fabled wealth of the Incas—than all enough to cover every foot of soil over the gold and precious stories of Ophir. which the American flag floats in proud j Through her gates each year pours a triumph to day, yet I am selfish enough steady stream of the oppressed and to covet the best for my own State and i downtrodden of other countries, the section. Should Congress, in carrying I poor and needy, aggregating in the put the suggestion of the President for I year 1907 over a million and a quarter a systematic ar.d vigorous improvement [ people, seeking homes in this land of of all the inland waterways of our i plenty, and the protection of our laws country, make an annual appropriation that guarantee equal rights to all. of fifty million dollars, we want as | From Maine all around to Alaska our JUDGE ADAMSON ALSO ADDRESSES CON VENTION. President Craft presented Judge Ad amson to the audience, and he was giv en quite an ovation. "I’m really Berry that I arrived as early as I did.” said Congressman Ad amson. ”1 did not know that I was ex pected to make a speech. Mr. Swift wrote me to he here and l consented to come. Mr. Swift had put me down, so I thought, to maku an informal ad dress.” Judge Adamson said, however, that it gave him great pleasure to wel come the convention to the “best city in the best district in the United Stales.” He said he hoped to be able to persuade Congress to make an ap propriation of one hundred million dol lars for waterway improvement in this section instead of fifty millions. He said he would do this even if he had to forego the dreams of empire; even if he had to forego the pleasure of doing something that every republican gov ernment under the sun opposed -that of maintaining colonies in another world. “I am in favor of waterways.” de clared Judge Adamson with great earn estness. “I want to begin at the ocean and go up each river.” lie said by do ing this certainly we should have an outlet from the ocean as far up the riv er as we go, while should we begin in the mountains we might never get to the sea. He said he was in favor of beginning where nature had made the start. He was very much in favor of opening the Chattahoochee river; he wanted it opened as far up as Atlanta. He said that he would not quarrel with his friend Brantley, nor with his friend Burnett. He said that when he got the Chattahoochee opened to Atlanta, then Let the South Come to the Front. Philadelphia Rocord. The comments of Southern Demo cratic newspapers on the result of the election indicutes a perception of the fact that the States which contribute the main strength of the Democratic party should have a main say in declar ing its policies and naming its candi dates. The South has been too long satisfied to maintain an attitude of looking on. It is time to take hold of the helm and do the steering. The Ueocrd did what it could be fore the meeting of the Denver conven tion to persuade Southern leaders to go to the front and give a solid support to a candidate of their choice. Whether they should name a Northern or a Southern candidate was deemed of mi nor importance. Southern dominance at the outstart of the contest for the Presidency was necessary to Democrat ic solidification. This pleading was un availing, because it was urged by Southern leaders that the nomination of a Southern candidate, no matter what his qualifications, would kindle afresh the smouldering embers of sec tional animosity, and that Southern dictation of a Northern candidate would he offensive to either the radical or the conservative wing of the party at the North. As a consequence the South waited and deferred action. The result is disclosed in what is now ad mitted to have been practically true. Bryan curried the South, but lost the North and West. The vote demonstrates that ho wusreally weaker than his par ty. His splendid campaigning did not avail. He has the admiration but not the confidence of his countrymen. The South has been too modest and deferent. It should now take the lead and call on the North to follow it back into the main road, from which the par ty has sometimes wandered in the pur suit of delusive and impracticable poli cies. large a slice of it as possible to come to j coast is dotted with thriving cities, and ; he would be willing for Mr. Burnett to Georgia, for the improvement of the I our shores indented with landlocked Chattahoochee and other rivers of the harbors in which ride our battleships State. We favor a deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. It will bring capital to the South, and will help to develop the almost inex haustible resources of our Southern that bid defiance to the navies of the world. “But all cities are not blessed with harbors, and it is not practicable for us all to live on the sea coast or on come over and connect with it. and he would not mind Congressman Brantley digging his canal to Brunswick. But he was first and foremost for the Chatta hoochee. Judge Adamson said that not until Congressman Bankhead, of Alabama, WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO. Their Unceasing Work Keeps Us Strong and Healthy. All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure mutter daily. When un healthy some part of this impure mat ter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms--pain iri the back, headache, nervousness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout, grav el, disorders of the eyesight and hear ing, dizziness, irregular heart, debili ty, drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kidneys. C. L. Baker, 112 Jackson St., New nan, Ga., says: “Riding over rough roads has been a severe strain on my kidneys and as a result I suffered off and on for years fnm a dull aching in my hack. The kidney secretions were also disordered and from this I realized that my kidneys were in an unhealthy condition. A short time ago I learned about Doan’s Kidney Bills and procur ing a box. at Peniston’s drug store I began their *use. They relieved me promptly and 1 am sure it will not be long before every symptom of kidney trouble will he banished from my sys tem.” For Bale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. The Suitor—“Johnny, your parlor clock is an nour fast.” The Kid Brother—“I know it. But don’t tell sister so.” The Suitor—“Why not?” The Kid Brother—” Because she thinks that you don’t know it.”