About The herald and advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1887-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1908)
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*
