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THE [ERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1909.
NO. 14.
New Year Greeting
BACK TO THE FARM.
Back to the farm
Where the bob-white still is calling:
Ah in remembered dawnintrs when youth and
i wimv boy*.
Driving: the cattle where the meadow brook is
brawling:
Her immemorial wandering fears and joys I
Ncwnai, Ga., Jan. 1, 1909.
MY DEAR SIR:-
With all the disappointments and
trials that may have beei our lot the past
year, we still have much \o be thankful for.
We now wish to thank you most sincerely for
the part you contributed tpwards^making 1908
the most successful year's business that we
have ever had, and again solicit'your patron
age for the future, assuring you that we will
put forth our best efforts to serve you even
better the coming year.
Thanking you again for your many fa
vors, and wishing you a happy and prosperous
New Year, we remain
Sincerely yours,
T. G. FARMER & SONS CO.
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Heating Stoves.
The most complete line in New-
nan. Prices from SI.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, 2oc. 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 Hu. * Plow Lines.
Three dozen Boy v»<fgons.
Thirty - five Pistols — all
good and bad.
Oliver Chilled Plows.
If you don’t see what you want,
call for it.
kinds,
Kirby-Bohannon Hardware
Company, ’Pohne 201
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Home to the farm for the deep green calms of
Hummer,
Life of the open furrow, life of the waving
grain—
Leaving the painted world of masquerade and
mummer
Just for the sense of earth and ripening again.
glint
Down in the hayfteld where scythes
through the clover:
Lusty blood a-throbbing in the splendor of the
noon—
Lying ’mid the haycocks us castling clouds pass
over,
Hearing insect lovers a-piping out of tuno.
OfT to the wood lot where briar bloom runs riot
Presidential Popular Vote.
Mncon Telegraph.
The analysis of the Presidential pop
ular vote shows that despite the vast
advantage of the party in power of an
organization of officeholders and of pe
cuniarily interested grafters, pension
ers and favored classes generally, 6,-
393,182 of the voters of the country
registered themselves in favor of en
trusting the Democratic party with the
control of government against 7,637,676
in favor of maintaining the entrenched
party in power, a difference of only 1,-
244,494.
Who can doubt but that the free, un-
And wary forest creature no hunters snore i trammeled and unbought sentiment of
deceives. . . , , |
Virgin growth beguiling the solemn-hearted
quiet
With songs of winter fires n-ripple through
the leaves.
Out in the dews with the spider at his shuttle—
In that half-dreaming hour that awukes the
whippoorwill
And sets the nighthawk darting sinister and
subtle,
E’er the full moon complacent loiters o’er the
hill.
Back to the farm!
With the friendly brute for neighbor.
Where youth and Nature beckon, the tryst
who would not keep?
Back to the luxury of rest that follows labor.
Back to the primal joys of hunger and of sleep l
[Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi in Scribner's.
the COUhtry is In favor of a change of
We Never Know.
Milwaukee Journal.
A man was being driven by a friend
through an avenue in a California city.
As they were admiring the rich homes
surrounded by palms and pepper trees,
luxuriant shrubbery and flowers, the
friend turned to the man and said:
"Every house in that row has its trag
edy."
We never know.
If we knew, we should not envy ; we
should be far gentler in our judgments.
We do not know the sorrowing heart,
or perhaps the silent endurance of phy
sical pain, that lies back of the cold,
repressed manner of our friend.
We do not see the tragedy of disap-
party administration, in view of such a pointed hopes and ambitions in the face
To Standardize Cotton Grades.
Washington, Dec. 27.—Definite steps
towards the standardization of the
different grades of cotton will be
undertaken in this city shortly by a
committee of the leading cotton men
of this country and Europe in co-op
eration with the experts of the bureau
of plant industry of the Department of
Agriculture, and the proposed meeting
will be held in January. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson is now engaged
in selecting the committee of cotton
experts.
The proposed standardization of the
various grades of cotton, which already
has been making splendid progress, has
been undertaken in accordance with i
provision of the last agricultural ap
propriation act requiring "the Secreta
ry of Agriculture, through the bureau
of plant industry, to establish a stand
ard for the different grades of cotton,
calling to his assistance for that pur
pose expert cotton classifiers, by fix
ing a standard of nine different grades,
to be designated middling fair, strict
good middling, good middling, strict
middling, low middling, strict good, or
dinary and good ordinary, which shall
be the official standard of cotton class
ifications. These standards are to be
prepared in practical form and fur
nished unon request to any person, the
cost to be paid when delivered by the
person requesting the standard.
At the present time there is a great
diversity in the method and practice of
grading cotton, as no definite standard
exists.
in order to secure the most reliable
information as to the present accepted
grades, the ;Secretary of Argiculture
has secured from authoritative sources
in the United States sets of grades,
which are now held under seal for ex
amination by the special committee of
exnerts.
"It is nroDOsed to base the new offi
cial standards on the old more or less
heterogeneous standards of the cotton
exchanges, departing therefrom only
insofar as will be necessary to secure
uniformity,” said Prof. B. T. Gallo
way, chief of the bureau of plant in
dustry to-day.
"At a later date it is hoped that the
official standards will be elaborated,
without alteration of their fundamental
character, so as to be much more use
ful than any such standards have been
in the past.
"It is not too much to say that we
can now see clearly the possibility, by
technical examination of the cotton
fibre of this country, of so improving
the classification that all interested in
the cotton industry will be materially
benefited.”
result?
What reason is there to despair of a
party or to question its usefulness that
can marshal such a splendid minority in
protest, under such circumstances,
against governmental abuse? Who Can
doubt but that it is due to this potent
expression of the conscience of the
country that the party in power is even
now showing some evidence of a neces
sity for calling a halt in its wild orgy
of corruption and profligacy, and of as
suming the virtue it has not of paying
some respect to the wrongs of the peo
ple?
The figures show that despite the dis
advantages under which the Democra
cy labored, with five subsidiary parties
hanging oh its Hanks and hampering it
in the race for the Presidential goal, it
was practically the only party which
made gains in the popular voting, hav
ing scored a gain of 1,315,211 votes of
the total gains of 1,341,531 over the
popular vote in the preceding Presiden
tial election. The figures show a gain
for Taft of a pitiful 14,190 votes over
Roosevelt in 1904, as against the nearly
million and a half votes gained by Bry
an over Parker. As for the other al
leged parties, they each and all show
dwindling totals, except the Socialist
party, which did not in all command* a
half million vot is. The five subsidiary
parties in all foot up only 801,381 votes,
the Populist, the Prohibition and the
Socialist Labor parties displaying di
minished totals, and the new Independ
ence party scoring only a pitiful 83,186
votes out of the nearly fifteen millions
total •
of the man who asks for a Job
We do not comprehend the unspoken
pleading for love and patience in the
apparently incorrigible child whose at
titude defies us.
We do not know the shame and de
spair of the drunkard nor the brave
fight which he makes in his moments of
freedom, when hope springs up anew in
his breast.
We never behold the secret sorrow
of the girl who has given herself to
shnme when the purity of her woman
hood asserts itself, and when with bur
ied face and bitter tears she sits in the
presence of her God.
We seldom realize the heriosrn of the
old man who is forced to earn his bread
in extreme age, facing pain and weari
ness, daily toil, the passing of his
strength, and the grim presence of
death.
We never know until we, too, have
suffered; until sorrow, pain, mortifica
tion and defeat have claimed us for
their own.
If in the battle we some time reach
that place of divine compassion and
understanding of the hearts of others,
where we would never willingly cause
another pain, and would gladly help a
fellow-being in his hour of need, let us
be thankful that it has been given us to
belong to the great brotherhood of
those who suffer.
American Stuffing Habit.
Ufa,
The American has three national
stuffing days Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, and one a week—on Sunday.
The people who live in the cities, and
who can afford it, stuff themselves con
tinuously. Not satisfied with eating us
much as they can hold under normal
conditions, they drink cocktails before
hand to stimulate their appetites, and
wines and whiskies in between to stir
up the jaded stomach to renewed exer
tions.
An American square meal is a gastro-
nomieal horror. Its secret purpose, dis
guised by fine linen, delicate china, and
nimble service, is in reality a
“gorge,” differing only in its hypocrit
ical refinements and the strength of
the actors from the prehistoric orgies
of the Angles and the Saxons.
But it is on Thanksgiving and Christ
mas that the American makes his su
preme effort.
The meal is usunlly served in the
middle of the day, when the vitality is
supposed to be at its height. A goodly
number of relatives and visitors having
arrived, the table is surrounded, and
the ghastly ceremony proceeds.
If there are children—and this fre
quently happens—they are goaded on
by their superiors to eat until they can
not swallow any more, and if a child
has unusual abilities at the stuffing
process, his attainments become the
target for the delicate and subtle wit
of the entire company. After every
one has eaten to the point of exhaus
tion, pies and cakes are then brought
on, and disposed of in a sort of coma,
after which long cigars are lighted and
the air reeks with all sorts of poisons.
Inhaling this air for some hours, and
exchanging ejaculatory remarks about
the weather and the football game, the
guests then boisterously depart, declar
ing that they have had "the time of
their lives."
These two dn.vs were originally set
apart, one of them as a day of fasting
and thanksgiving, and the other to com
memorate the fact that we are a Chris
tian people.
Let those Democrats who will join in
the sinister disparagement of their par
ty. The rank and file have no reason
but to be proud of its showing in the
last election, and optimistic of its suc
cess under wise leadership in the next
election.
Costliest Railroad in America.
New York World.
Regarded by engineers as a marvel
of construction is the Spokane. Port
land and Seattle railway, 123 miles, the
most direct line between SDokane and
Portland, winch will be completed Jan.
1, 1909. The road, built jointly by the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
systems, is the most expensive in
America.
The line will permit of longer trains
being hauled over it than any other
road in the country. There are no
sharp curvatures, the greatest being 3
degrees, and as a result one locomotive
can pull from Spokane to Portland as
many cars as it can start on level
ground. This is expected to set new
records for heavy loading.
Twenty miles of line between Pasco
and Kahlotus cost $5,000,000 or $250.-
000 a mile, while a mile of road along
the bluffs overhanging Snake river in
volved an expenditure of $500,000. To
survey and build this part of the line,
which follows the Columbia river, men
were suspended over the cliffs with
ropes, but while there were many nar
row escapes, not a life was lost, nor
was anyone seriously injured.
Journalism With a Conscience.
American Press.
We hear a great deal about the pre
vention of crime by newspaper expos
ure. There is much truth in it, but
there is another side to the question.
The transgressor may be entitled to no
consideration, and the public might be
benefited by showing him up in print,
but what of the innocent sufferers, his
relatives and friends? Are they en
titled to no consideration? Evidently
none, according to the practice of met
ropolitan journalism.
Outside of the great centers of popu
lation, it is different. In the smaller
towns, humanity is permitted a voice
in the sanctum. There, newspapers do
not make merchandise of sorrow, or
traffic in blood and tears. A sensation
is not worth more than the approval of
a good conscience.
A case in point comes up just now.
A young man whose father had occu
pied a prominent position in a city of
100,000, committed suicide in a distant
State. The misguided youth himself
was not entitled to much considera
tion. He had done more to break the
hearts of his parents than did Absalom.
He had forfeited the esteem of his
friends and associates by a succession
of dishonorable deeds, and had been
false to every trust.
The papers in his native city might
have had a sensational story of his sui
cide. They might have told how he
jested about it to his friends, saying:
I think I will take my little four
ounces of chloral and knock on the gate
and ask for my crown. I wouldn’t mind
it so much were it not for the prospect
of carrying a harp about with me
throughout the rest of eternity.”
This and similar details to the extent
of two columns would have been good
for a large number of extra copies in a
city of a hundred thousand. But the
papers of his native city refrained
from publishing it. They contented
themselves with the facts briefly told,
throwing the mantle of charity over
the rash act.
This is not the sort of journalism that
sells the largest number of papers, but
it is something better.
Anger Wrecks the System.
O. S. Mnreden in Success Mtupulnu.
It is well known that a violent fit of
temper affects the heart instantly, and
paychophysicists have discovered the
presence of poison in the blood immedi
ately after such outbursts. This ex
plains why we feel so depressed, ex
hausted, and nervous after any storm
of passion—worry, jealousy or revenge
—has swept through the mind. It has
left in its wake vicious mental poison
and other harmful secretions in the
brain and blood.
There is no constitution so strong but
it will ultimately succomb to the con
stant racking and twisting of the nerve
centers caused by an uncontrolled tem
per. Every time you become angry you
reverse all of the normal mental and
physical processes. Everything in you
rebels against passion storms: every
mental faculty protests against their
abuse.
If people only realized what havoc
indulgence in hot temper plays in their
delicate nervous structure, if they
could only see with the physical eyes
the damage done, as they can see what
follows in the wake of a tornado, they
would not dare to get angry.
When the brain cells are overheated
from a fit of temper their efficiency is
seriously impaired, if not absolutely
ruined. The presence of the anger pois
on, the shock to the nervous system, is
what makes the victim so exhausted
and demoralized after loss of self-con
trol.
“Cupid the Surgeon.”
Chicnsro Dispatch to Now York World.
“Cupid the Surgeon.” or what might
be more definitely entitled "Practical
Love-Making,-” Unhook on the, mys
teries of the tender passion, just sent
forth by Herman Lee MeaderS.
He says love is no longer a game of
chance, hut an exact science. You
need not be handsome, rich or fascina
ting to win. All that is required is to
assimilate the rules as you would so
many pink pills—and she is yours.
Be it known, in the first place, that
all women fall into four classes—or at
least Mr. Menders says they do- -the
conceited, the sentimental, the merce
nary and the blase. The immediate
thing for one to do is to decide in which
category his beloved belongs.
"Give flattery to the conceited wo
man,” says the author, “promises of
eternal fidelity to the sentimental one,
precious gifts to the mercenary one,
sensational thrills to her who is tor
mented with ennui.”
Here are some of the rules of love-
making, as revised by Mr. Menders’
and some of the new philosophy and
wisdom that illuminate the rules:
“If I were allowed to give hut two
words of advice they would be ‘pa
tience’ and ‘perserverance.’
“The man who never parleys over
cab fare, who never scans the price on
a wine list or a menu, and who hiber
nates when he’s broke, carries an in
fallible amulet against feminine criti-
He Stopped Tooting.
A certain Ne\y York automobilist
visited a secluded locality at the open
ing of the hunting season. In a narrow
road he came up behind a ramshackle
country wagon, pulled by one horse.
He couldn’t pass with his machine, so
he tooted his horn vociferously as a
signal to the driver to pull to one side.
The horse began to dance and prance
and the more the horn tooted the higher
he jumped, fflvt between leaps,
turned aroun<-and signalled the autoist
to stop tootinj*.
"Get out of the road, then, - ’ yelled
that individual, grinning and redoubling
his horn solo.
The driver, holding his frightened
cism.
"Kemember that in the final balance
a woman is always a woman.”
DON’T EXPERIMENT.
You Will Make No Mistake if You
Follow This Newnan Citizen's
Advice..
Never neglect your kidneys.
If you have pain in the back, urinary
disorders, dizziness arid nervousness,
it’s time to act and no time to experi
ment. These are all symptoms of kid
ney trouble, and you should seek a rem
edy which is known to cure the kidneys.
Doan’s Kidney Pills is the remedy to
use. No need to experiment. It has
cured many stubborn cases in Newnan.
Follow the advice of a Newnan citizen
and be cured vourself.
William T. Lazenby, 64 Wesley
street, Newnan, Ga., says: "I think
nag with one hand, reached under the | very highly of Doan’s Kidney Pills, and
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,
sad your shoes seem to pinch. Sold ev
erywhere, 25c. Don’t accept any sub-
1 stitute.
seat, pulled out a shotgun, snapped the
breech open and shoved in a shell.
"Now, stop tootin’, dang ye!" he
shouted, pointing the gun right at the
motorist.
The tooting stopped and the wagon
cruwled along at a snail’s pace for
miles, while a vanquished motorist
crawled along behind, searching his
memory for new things he’d like to
call that farmer—and didn’t dare.
your socie-
"What is the object of
ty?” *
"You wish the truth.?”
“Why, yes.”
“To get our names in the papers as
often as possible.”
consider them an excellent remedy for
kidney complaint. Before using them,
I had suffered from kidney trouble for
several years, during which time I
tried many remedies without receiving
any benefit. My back ached a great
deal, and I was always annoyed by the
excessive action of the kidney secre
tions. The contents of one box of
Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Lee
Bros’, drug store, gave me immediate
relief.”
For sale 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.
A man gets back at his best friend
when he kicks himself.
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