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Ordinary’s Offico
THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XiilV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1008.
NO. 10.
FLOUR!
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 8 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.
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.
'<\\K ),, ■■■%&$$/■'■
Heating Stoves.
The most complete line in New-
nan. Prices from $1.50 to $15.
Cook Stoves.
Fifty new ones just in, and the
prices are the lowest we have of
fered in two years.
Axes.
Thirty-five dozen Kelly’s best
Axes. The quality of these can’t
be improved. They are the best.
Hardware.
10 dozen Coal Scuttles, 25c. to
40c. each.
20,000 Bolts. Can furnish any
length. 1,000 Plow Bolts. Have
them for nearly all plows.
400 Cotton Collars. Can fit your
mule.
400 pairs Hutcheson Plow Lines.
Three dozen Boy Wagons.
Thirty-five Pistols — all kinds,
good and bad.
Oliver Chilled Plows.
If you don’t see what you want,
call for it.
Kirby-Bohannon Hardware
Company, ’Pohne 201
TO AGE.
Welcome, old friend 1 These many years
Have we lived door by door;
The fates have laid aside their shears
Perhaps for some few more.
I was indocilo at an nse
When better boys were taught.
But thou at length hast made me sage.
If I tun sage in aught.
Little I know from other men.
Too little they from me;
But thou hast pointed well the pen
That writes these lines to thee.
Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope-
One vile, the other vain;
One’s scourge, thq other telescope—
I shall not see again.
Rather what lies before my feet
My notice shall engage;
He who hath brav’d youth’s dizzy heat
Dreads not the frost of age.
—[Walter Savage Landor.
Faults Pointed Out in Our Public
School System.
Atlanta Georgian.
A girl—who is neither brilliant nor
dull, and who is*no wiser nor more se
rious and sedate than other girls of her
age—looked up from her school book
the other night. Her brow was fur
rowed with hard study and the corners
of her mouth were drawn with perplex
ity, when she asked, “What does this
mean!’’ Then she read from her book :
On this subject extreme opinions
have been held, skeptics and unbeliev
ers on the one hand, and Christians with
a leaven of antinomianism on the other,
maintaining the entire independence of
virtue or piety.’’
The head of the household—on the
male side—to whom the question was
put, stammered in confusion and played
for time. He had been to college in his
earlier days, and then, anyway, it does
not befit the head of the household
on the male side—to display a symp
tom of human ignorance in the pres
ence of the younger members. But
evasion for long was impossible, and he
gave it up, confessing he did not know
what the sentence meant. The dic
tionary and encyclopedia were called
into service, and, after a while, the
sentence was translated.
A page or two further on in this
book, Peabody’s “Moral Philosophy,”
was this gem of transparent English:
Virtue is one and indivisible in its
principle and essence, yet in its exter
nal manifestations presenting widely
different aspects, and eliciting a cor
responding diversity in specific traits
of character.”
That is the sort of meat that is fed
to the minds of girls in the third grade
of Atlanta's high school. There are
about ninety in the grade ; the average
age of the girls is perhaps a little
short of 17.
On the particular evening when the
hidden meaning of the before-men
tioned phrases was deciphered, the
young lady’s lesson comprised seven
pages of the same sort of stuff. In ad
dition there were tasks in French, En
glish, geometry, spelling and what-not.
It is to be doubted if any conscientious
girl in the class acquired that 'night
anything from her lessons more helpful
or more uplifting than a headache.
Dr. Peabody doubtless was a very
able scholar and a gentleman. He was
a professor in the theological school of
Harvard University. His text book on
“Moral Philosophy” professes, on its
title page, to be “for colleges and high
schools,” but its phraseology indicates
that it was intended for use only by
advanced college students of mature
mind.
To a 17-year-old girl, whose dresses
reach her shoe-tops, it must be an
abyss of disheartening depth.
When a girl is 17 she is at an age of
such importance that her future may
be said to depend upon it. Her tastes
are in way of being decided for a life
time; it is about then that the decision
is made—silently, secretly, involuntari
ly and without her knowing it—wheth
er she shall be a thoughtful, healthy-
minded, broad-minded woman or an un
thinking, unambitious, unhelpful wo
man. Education of the right sort is at
this time accepted or rejected.
And what a handicap education is
given at this time of acceptance or re
jection, when 100 pages of Peabody's
“Moral Philosophy” are thrown at the
heads of girls in one month’s time, and
it is ordered that they be learned and
recited by rote!
It may occur to the reader of this
that the matter of lessons in Pea
body’s “Moral Philosophy” is picayun-
ish. Then listen:
Col. Charles W. Earned, of the mili
tary academy at West Point, this fall
examined more than 300 pupils, 90 per
cent, of whom were drawn from our
public schools all over the country. He
reports that 84 per cent, of them arc
failures, both physically and mentally.
And he asks, “What does an educational
system amount to that shows this per
centage of indifference in its output?”
In all likelihood the trouble is the at
tempt of school boards to have pupils
get a smattering of everything;
result they learn nothing in particular
—least of all how to think. f
The receipt ia: Mixup a little
French, a little English, a little physi
ology, a little moral philosophy, a lit
tle geometry, stir it with threats of
bad report-card, season with a few
tears, and cook for six hours in class—
then you. have a fine dish to set before
■a king—or a school book agent, either.
If it were not for the inherent
strength and vitality and determination
that does not yield easily, our Ameri
can boys and girls would find the public
school system an uwful barrier to suc
cess.
The evil, of course, is not without
exceptions. There doubtless are in
many cities fine public schools—schools
competently managed and conducted on
sensible and scientific plans.
The system in Atlanta is doubtless
above thu average of the country at
large.
But it has its faults—and serious
faults have no place in the education of
our boys and girls.
The teacher who administered 100
pages of Peabody’s “Moral Philoso
phy” in a month to ninety-odd 17-year-
old girls was very likley obeying orders
over which she had no control. The
curriculum was laid down for her.
Peabody’s “Moral Philosophy” is
doubtless a very fine text-book—for
college students.
It Is just placed in the wrong pew.
The fault—assuming it is a fault-
lies with those who selected the hooks
—presumably the board of education.
And this ia just one of a number of
absurdities.
Another: Every eighth grade pupil
has to purchase a text-book on agri
culture. (Eighth grade pupils average
14 years of age.) The book is read
aloud in class-room for a month, then
the subject is dropped. Just why ag
riculture is foisted on 14-year old chil
dren is at first glance a puzzler. But
as Mr. Post Bagely observes, “there’s
a reason.” Perhaps.
The basic trouble with our public
schools is that there is too much poli
tics and too much incompetence in their
management.
The Georgian seeks not to set itself
up as a pedagogical authority; in this
instance it is only calling to the atten
tion of the people of the city—and they
pay the freight—a very serious mat
ter.
In so doing The Georgian is violating
a precedent. It has been deemed
unthinkable thing to criticize a city’s
public school system.
But when the board of education
does its work in executive session, by
what other means thnn editorial
pressi«»fi of opinion can the public know
what it is doing?
Stop and Think.
Kind Words.
“Let’s stop and plan awhile. I be
lieve we can save ourselves a little
work.”
The old man stood looking at a large
rock they were trying to move. Hi
companion in the work, a brawny
young fellow, wanted to get his shoul
der right down to the stone and lift it
by main strength out of its bed. It
chafed him to think he must be always
“planning” how to do things an easier
way. He had strength, and to spare.
He waited, however, and the old man
laid his plans. By getting a small
piece of rock for a fulcrum, he took
the iron bar and with his own hands
lifted the stone which he and the young
man might have strained hard without
loading any other way.
I have learned that it pays to do a
little head work,” the old farmer said.
You can save your strength and live
longer. Always stop and think out
the best way to do hard Jobs.”
Stop and think !
Are you wasting strength without
reason? Many young men and women
are. You will hear them boast: “I
sat up last night working at my books
till after midnight,” as if that were
matter to be proud of. Still others
tire their bodies unnecessarily doing
feats that never will bring back any
thing of good.
Wasted strength of mind or body is
worse than wasted gold. The gold we
may win again ; the strength may never
e regained. The saddest spectacle in
all the world is a man or Avoman whose
health is exhausted prematurely.
Life has many a hard place. When
we come to them there is a temptation
to rush on and be done with the tiling
that worries us. Now is the time to
(top and think. Jt may be the very
worst thing in the world to rush on
without giving due time to careful con
sideration. That was a wise man who
said: ,,
“1 never decide an important matter
until I have slept over it.”
If we would all do that we would
save ourselves many a heartache.
Broken bodies are terrible; broken
hearts are worse. Think twice before
you act once. Life is too sweet, love
too precious, to be sacrificed unreason
ably. Stop ar.d think.
Ashamed of Father and Mother.
"I’m just ashamed of father and
mother when we have company.
Father will eat with his knife, and
pours his tea out in his saucer. And
mother has n hnbit I simply can’t
bi’onk her of. She blows her food to
cool it.”
This was the plaint of a young
woman, made to one of her intimates.
She had recently graduated at n
fashionable boarding school. By moans
of close economy and stinting them
selves of mnny comfort* tho parents
hud kept their daughter at the expen
sive school for several years.
Now she was ashamed of them !
And they so proud of her!
Of course, father and mother really
ought to be a little more careful in
conforming to their daughter’s usages.
They ought not to mortify hor by their
old-style ways. They should regard
the particularly refined tastes and ac
quired accomplishments of their edu
cated girl.
But you see—
Father and mother are growing some
what forgetful in their old days. Sure,
they want to make things pleasant for
Muriel, and they take very good na-
turedly her hint* ubout table man
ners. And they try. But they lapse.
It is pathetic to note futher’s costernn-
tion when he unwittingly pours his
coffee in the saucer to cool—right when
guests are at the table. And once he
tried to pour his coffeo back in the
cup, but his old hand trembled, and
he spilled it over the tablecloth.
Mother made fewer mistakes, though.
Mother formed that habit of blowing
on her food back in the day* when the
daughter was at school and mother had
to hurry with household things. And
father found the knife more conven
ient those days. He was obliged to
bolt his food and got back to his work
in order to get money to pay daugh
ter’s school bills.
Those were the duys of short dinners.
And now—
Well, how could they have known
that a fine education would give their
girl ways that were not their ways, or
that it would put their daughter above
them, so that in her superiority she
would come to look down upon them,
or that in their sacrifice they wore
piling up scorn of their old-fashioned
lives?
It is fervently to be hoped they have
not discovered all this.
Educated!
If the girl is actually ashamed of her
parents she has not got the A B C of
an education. Education is designed to
make a woman more womanly, not to
put her on a pedestal above hey own
flesh and blood. That father literally
sweat blood to pay the daughter’s ex
penses ; that mother has died a hundred
times in agony and suspense over the
girl who is now ashamed of her.
This is An Easy Test.
Sprinkle Allen’s Foot-Ease in one
shoe and not in the other, and notice
the difference. Just the thing when
rubbers or overshoes become necessary,
and your shoes seem to pinch. Sold ev
erywhere, 25c, Don’t accept any sub
stitute.
Budded Pecans On to Hickories.
Americus Times-Rocordcr.
Many people are following with in
terest the experiments made by Mr,
H. W. Smithwick, in buddding pecan
trees on hickory trees, at his home on
Brooklyn Heights.
Mr. Smithwick decided last year that
several years of time might be saved
in pecan culture by budding the pecans
on the hickory trees which abound in
this section. Last summer he budded
quite a number, nnd this summer is de
voting his Bpare time to a continuance
of the work.
The results so far have been highly
satisfactory. The pecans have taken a
strong hold on the hickories and are
growing luxuriantly. It looks some
whut peculiar to see the pecan growing
on the top of a hickory twenty-five
feet or more in the air, hut there they
are, putting out new growth right
along and flourishing apparently better
than much older stock planted in the
ground.
Mr. Smithv/ick is confident of the
success of the experiment and feels
satisfied that he will bo able to soon
demonstrate that years of time in the
raising of pecans can be saved by thi
process. Inasmuch us hickory trees
are verv abundant in this section hi
success will be of more than ordinary
interest to land owners. It is not im
probable that Mr. Smithwick will also
endeavor to cross the hickory and the
pecan and see if a new species of nut
cannot be obtained that will possess
the qualities of each in some degree
One day a minister was passing down
the street in Scranton, where he
sided. He was seen by some hangers-on
at a public house, which he was up
preaching, and one of the numbe
railed to him arid said:
‘“We have a dispute here of some
importance, and would like you to de
cide. It is in relation to the age of the
devil. Can you tell us how old he is?
“Gentlemen.” said the old minister
with dignity, “you must keep your own
family records.”
You can’t shut up the book agent
when he starts to speak volumes.
Adding to the “Solid South.”
Snvnnnah Proas.
The State of Texas is harboring a
little slip in the southwestern corner
which wants to be cut off. The dis-
•ntisfied territory is five times as large
as Maryland, including El I^aso as its
chief city, with boundless mines. The
land of Pecos has quicksilver and iron
and silver nnd a climate which is per
petual spring. Its population is
largely Mexican and in the last twenty-
five years has increased about twenty-
five hundred per cent. It is rich and
rapidly developing.
History tolls that wherr Texa9 was
admitted to the Union the American
Congress accepted it on condition that
Texas was to divide herself into five
States whenever it should please her to
do so. If in the future the people of
the Lone Star State should determine to
exercise thiB right, it would make the
South, if it remained solid, even more
of a political factor than it is at
present. The Baltimore Sun Buys it
would add eight Democratic Senators
to Congress and add at least eight votes
to the Electoral College.
The area of Texas is so great that it
may be sliced (into five pieces and none
of these pieces would be of contempti
ble size. Out of the map of Texas there
may be clipped about 260 States ae large
as the sovereign and mighty State of
Rhode Islupd, and if it weredivided into
five States, each of the five would be
large enough to make 50 Rhode Islands
und still havo some left over for patches.
Out of the State of Texas a good cutter
can carve 35 States as big as Massachu
setts, and if Texas is divided into five
States each one would be aeven times
as largo as the Bay State, or as large
ns Ohio nnd Maryland combined, and
the population of each one of the five,
f there should be an equal division.
would bo as groat as that of the State
of Maine.
An Appeal to Boys.
nv A CIQAKETTE.
Boys, follow me!
What will I do for you if you will let
me lead you? I will take every noble
purpose out of your life. I will create
in you a desire for the lower things of
life. I will make you so dull and stu
pid that you will bo called a blockhead.
I will prevent you from holding any
position of trust and honor.
I will introduce you to the people
who later will fill the Jails und peni
tentiaries of this lund. I will open for
you the doors of the saloon and gam
bling house, and 1 will leave you in
some penitentiary or insane asylum, a
despised pauper and a physical wreck.
You need not take my word for this.
Ask any drunkard how he started, and
he will tell you I gave him the desire
for strong drink. Ask the keeper of an
insane asylum why so many men are
Boending miserable lives there, and he
will tell you thnt many of them are
there because I weakened their minds.
ABk the men behind iron bars at the
penitentiary how they came to be
there, and many of them will tell you
that they would be respected citizens
if they had never Joined my ranks.
Boys, this is mv creed. Will you fol
low me! I will do exactly aa I have
promised. I have never failed.
I had to walk the floor all night
with the babv. Can you think of any
thing worse than £hat?”
“Yes; you might have married out in
Greenland, where the nights are six
months long.”
When a woman has a good figure,
she looks disappointed if other women
don’t look as if they thought so too.
WOMAN’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
river, 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 Dian other organ of tho body.
Keep the kidneys well and health is ea
sily m .intainod. Read of a remedy for
kidneys only, that helps and cures the
kidneys, and is indorsed by people you
know.
Mrs. Mary E. Philips, 26 Salbide ave.,
Newnan, Ga., says: “I have been using-
Doan’s Kidney Pills off and on for sev
eral months and have received the best
of results. For three years my kidneys
were in a disordered condition and
caused my back to be bo weak that at
times I was helpless as a child. The
kidney secretions were also irregular in
action, and if allowed to stand, con
tained much sediment. When I heard
about Doan’s Kidney Pills, I immedi
ately bought a box at Lee Bros.’ drug
store, and can say that I never took a
remedy that brought more satisfactory
results. My kidney complaint disap
peared in a short time ana my health
improved in every way. I know that
Doan’s Kidney Pills act up to all the
claims made for them.’’ %
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Ca.. kafiliUo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the nams— Doan’*—oed
take no other*
