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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL, XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1909.
NO. 10.
Old Friends Under New
Firm Name.
On Jan. i our old firm was reorganized
under the corporate name of T. G. FAR
MER & SONS CO., and many changes
have been found necessary in adjusting our
business methods to the new order of things.
Among others was the opening of a new set
of books. Going over our old books we dis
covered a number of unsettled accounts
These must be closed up in some shape, and
we therefore urge all parties who have been
neglectful about these matters to come for
ward at once and make settlement. Let’s be
gin the New Year by getting the “records
We will all feel better for it.
straight.”
THE WORLD GOES ON.
The world goes onward all the same.
’Mid palms of peace or battle flame:
One measure of just joy to me,
And one impartial share to thee;
We fitfht. we plan—our own dream seems
The first and last of all the dreams.
The highest and holiest nee l
Of life and land and time and deed;
NVe vanish—but the world goes on
Unto some unrisen dawn!
The v^orld goes onward all the while.
If we weep or if we smile;
We blow our bubble, chase our ray.
And have our little part to play;
The chance, the strife, the take and give,
Tito living and the letting live.
The coaling forth and going by
With winged Icarius to fly;
We fall, we fade, anil are undone.
But not the dawn and not the sun!
The world goes onward all the time.
With sob and sigh or song and rhyme:
We come and go and build our spire
And dream our dream of old desire:
We work and wait and rest and sleep,
And we are dust and mosses creep,
And all we did to make time sweet
Time treads in dust beneath its feet:
We halt, we pause, our flags are furled,
But ever onward goes the world!
The “ ’Possum Governors” of Geor
gia.
John Temple Graves in New York American.
When Mr. Taft visits Atlanta this
week he is to be entertained at a grand
banquet in the capital of Georgia,
which is to be the most interesting and
exciting social event in the history of
that strenuous and famous metropolis
of the South.
No pains nor expense has been spared
to make Mr. Taft exceedingly and over
whelmingly welcome to Atlanta. The
little pot has been put into the big pot;
the ingenuity of the people has given
wings to their hospitality, and they
T. G. FARMER & SONS CO.
The Pa^t Year Has Been a
Very Prosperous One
With us, which shows that giving the best
goods for the least money wins many friends.
This year, by buying in larger quantities,
we are able to give first-class goods at prices
even cheaper than many ask for inferior ones.
5,000 lbs Scooter Plows, all sizes.
i,ooo lbs. North Georgia Turners.
5 doz. Johnson & Roop Wings, *"£55.
i oo best Plow-stocks you ever saw.
50 common Plow-stocks.
350 cotton Collars.
50 leather Sweeny Collars.
100 pairs Traces.
50 Cook Stoves.
Make up your bill for your farming goods,
n
and call to see
can fill the bill.
us.
We have the goods, and
ment for the Republican President,
who carried two Congressional dis
tricts, twenty-six counties and three
wards in the capital city of the State
of Georgia.
Atlanta is full of famous chefs, bon
vivants, hosts and barbecue kings,
All of these have been brought into
serious council, and as a result the two
'grand and spectacular features of
the banquet in honor of the Presi-
ident-elect are now written down
the programme in the nature of
“ ’possum supper” with “persimmon
beer” and a “Merry Widow” punch,
the last being the latest of all the con
coctions with which Atlanta aspires to
tickle the palate and beguile the senses
of its guests of the present and its
guests of the yet to come.
But of all these the most famous and
far-reaching expression of Atlanta’s
and Georgia’s hospitality is found
the “ 'possum supper.”
The “ ’possum supper” has become
within the last two decades an imperial
and compelling force in the politics of
Georgia. Saving only the revolutionary
and prohibition Hoke Smith and the
just-elected Joe Brown, the two re
cent Governors of Georgia have been
distinctly and undeniably “ ’possum
Governors.” elected under the ” ’pos
sum regime,” and subject in all re
spects to the “ ’possum laws” of Geor
gia.
The author and finisher of the ” ’pos
sum faith” in Georgia politics is Col.
Harry Fisher, of Newnan.
Newnan itself is a town of 7,000,
forty miles from Atlanta; intensely
ambitious, imperturably audacious, and
permeated with politics from its court
house to its farthest suburb. Its in
habitants believe that, without regard
to popular votes and statutory enact
ment:., Newnan is the real capital of
Georgia, and that its political edicts
are more compelling than an engrossed
statute of the General Assembly.
Among the citizens of Newnan Col.
Harry Fisher is easily the "most prin-
cipalist”—a genial, gallant bon vivant
and host, breathing hospitality, radiant
in good cheer, boundless in liberality
and enterpTise, an incomparable politi
cian—and as deaf as a post. But no
natural limitation, nor any providen
tial affliction, can curb or restrain the
buoyant and irrepressible enterprise of
Col. Harry Fisher—railroad man, fer
tilizer magnate, friend of corporations
and friend of everybody.
Col. Harry Fisher is the ’possum
king of Georgia. It is his successful
and resistless hand that has guided the
politics of Georgia for two decades
along the 'possum path to victory.
Twelve years ago, when Georgia's
politics were in a formative state,
with a progressive oragnization within
the ranks of the dominant party, Col.
gia, and when the ’possum (or the hun
dred ’possums) had their full effect upon
the constitution and the by-laws of
Georgia’s politicians Harry Fisher and
his friends deftly guided the conversa
tion to the State campaign, and along
the lines of easy fellowship which fol
lows a grand gastronomy the 'possum
feast resolved itself into a caucus
which nominated the Governor, the
Sttte House officers, the Judges. Su-
pl4me and Superior, and the Solicitors-
fidneral of the State of Georgia.
Forth from the feast went the fes
tive crew to the primaries and to victo
ry. William Y. Atkinson was the first
“■'possum Governor” of Georgia, and
his regime is looked back upon to-day
mg the glorious gastronomic and
litical annals of the Empire Slate.
Peace and fellowship, plenty of pros
perity, politics and fatness for the
good ^fellows and corporations, main
tained without excessive oppression
to the people, was the first-’possum ad
ministration under Harry Fisher, the
possum Warwick” of Georgia, and
is looked upon to this day as the Au
gustan era of the commonwealth.
When, in the fulness of time and the
limit of tenure. Gov. Atkinson went
out of office into the valley of the
shadow another ’possum supper was
he'd in Newnan, and out of it emerged
Joseph Meriwether Terrell as the sec
ond ’possum Governor of Georgia to
two terms of successful and popular
administration, which rivaled—if they
did not exceed—the mellow glories of
the first.
These two administrations have gone
down into Georgia history as the full
est, the mellowest, the friendliest, the
most complacent and the most golden
of the old-fashioned polities of Georgia.
When the people, under the concep
tion of their sovereign rights, rose re
bellious against the ” ’possum re
gime,” Hoke Smith, his party’s re
former, led and won the first anti-’pos-
sum Governorship of the present dec
ade.
Jos. M. Brown, just elected, is a
nondescript in the ’possum realm.
Friendly to the ’possum regime,
and elected in part by the ’possum
cohorts “of the Cracker State, he is
not so well defined in his gifts and
graces as a gourmand and a con-
1. ' iseur. He has been an object of
anxiety and debate, but this present
fur'ous ’possum rally under Harry
I .liner's indomitable leadership is the
first fuir indication that Joe Brown has
himself become a ’possum Governor
in Georgia’s politics.
Be it remarked, incidentally, that the
“ ’possum regime” was in a large
measure a railroad regime, and that
under it corporations expected the ful
ness and fatness which distinguish the
adipose animal of the Georgia woods.
And it is under these auspices and un
der this gastronomic benediction of fat
ness and of co-operate friendliness that
the new President of the United States
makes his first martial entrance into
the Georgia which he hopes to win for
himself and the Republican party.
’Possum and ’taters are the funda
mentals of the feast. Persimmon beer
is its congenial beverage, and to those
who do not know persimmon beer we
shall have to stretch our descriptive
faculties for a separate and a longer
strain at another time.
Prohibition Georgia adds to this
groaning board of the delicacies of the
season another new and startling fea
ture in the Merry Widow punch. Atlan
ta is a prohibition town. The Governor
is a prohibitionist. The new mayor is
a “prohi,” too. The President-elect
covers with his majestic front two-
thirds of a water wagon all by himself.
Wherefore, cocktails and champagne
mu3t give place to persimmon beer and
Merry Widow punch.
This, then, is the battle array with
which the modern Atlanta sets out to
meet and capture the President-elect.
If no one else has cautioned Mr. Tatt
as to the meat on which our new Caesar
must feed to grow so great in Southern
hearts. The American gives him fair
warning here. The majentic anatomy
which has struggled with the bills of
fare of Cuba and the I’hillippines, which
has tackled the tamales of Panama
and touched the gastronomy of a tour
around the world, must brace its diges
tion for a new ordeal which will test
disaster. And, most of all. he should
keep close to Col. Harry Fisher, whose
counsel is never wanting and whose
hands never lack to supply those se
creted liquids which in a temperance
town enable the statesman’s stomach
and the statesman’s food to keep on
pleasant terms witli one another.
And let Mr. Taft beware lest, going
to Atlanta to divide the South, Atlan
ta’s bil of fare in the wee sma' hours
may divide the President.
New Governor Faces a Problem.
Atlanta Cor. Macon Telegraph.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 0.—It is probable
that one of the first acts of Gov. Jos.
M. Brown—when it may be so writ
ten properly—will be to employ one of
the best accountants obtainable to in
vestigate and report on the condition of
the State's finances and the virtues and
shortcomings of the State’s financial
system.
Mr. Brown lias not expressed any
purpose to that effect, but his friends
will probably urge it upon him, and it
will be about the only possible way by
which he can start his administration
on a clearly defined basis. The inves
tigation will not be n a le, if made at
all, because of suspicions, as it is Geor
gia’s pride that her alfairs have almost
without exception been free of graft
or intentional wrongdoing when ad
ministrated by Georgians. But the
financial system of this State is such a
complicated, contradictory affair that
none less than an expert will be able to
drnw a line between the old and the
new administration. Income is derived
from such a variety of sources, and is
distributed by such a various number
of absurd methods, that the condition
of the State’s finances will invariably
be an indeterminable problem until
some saner and more business-lfke sys
tem is adopted. Mr. Brown may have
opportunity to write his name beside
that of his father on the scroll of offi
cials who wielded sound business judg
ment by bringing about some needed
reforms in that regard.
Standing committed to constructive
policies, it is said that Mr. Brown is
already giving this matter some atten
tion and will urge in his first message
to the Legislature some changes of law
which may bring order out of confu
sion.
Friends of the present administration
say that it has lived above water and
will go out with the State in as good
condition, financially, as it was when
taken in charge. Those of the opposing
faction declare that a large deficit will
exist—a deficit proper, due to unpaid
obligations and an exhausted treasury ;
and a deficit prospective, due to
creased obligations without an increase
of revenue. The obtainable figures may
be used—or juggled—to prove either
claim. Therefore, it will require an ex
pert to wade through the records of
the past several years to determine
to who is right.
• The abolition of saloons, and the
loss of the 3210,000 that was re
ceived in revenue from them; the abo
lition of the convict lease system, and
the loss of the $200,000 revenue derived
therefrom ; the lack of appreciable in
crease from ad valorem taxation for
1909; the increase in appropriations
without practically any additions to the
sources of revenue—combine to add new
financial problems to those of long
standing.
For many years the school appropria
tions have not been distributed until
long overdue. During the past month
nearly 311,000,000 of the appropriation
for 1908 has been sent out. and more is
yet to be distributed. And during the
Firmness of Cotton.
New York, Jan. 8.—Quite as distinct
ly as at any time for weeks past the
firmness of the cotton market has
stood out as its dominant trait, and this
firmness is traceable not to specula
tion, which, aside from Wall street’s
persistent buying, is remarkably small,
but to an enormous absorption of cot
ton by the mills of the world.
The movement of cotton into sight
thus far this season, it is true, is
roughly 2,000,000 bales larger than
during the same time last year, but on
the other hand spinners’ takings are
about l,100,u00 larger than during a
like period last season. Incidentally it
may he observed that the exports thus
far have exceeded the total for the
same time in 1907-8 by 725,000 bates.
Speculation, sluggish outside of Wall
street and under the ban at the South,
may for the most part disregard the
opinion of stock exchange houses that
“Cotton is the cheapest thing in the
list.” But spinners do not. Some of
them are sold ahead to next winter.
Some, indeed, are sold so well ahead that
they are buying October at the current
discount of about $1.50 a bale, thereby
getting even cheaper cotton than they
can for earlier delivery and also saving
carrying charges. Others are buying
with avidity at the Suoth. Further
more prices for the actual cotton are
firm.
Futures do not advance much, but
efforts during the past week to depress
their value have been futile. There has
actually been a moderate net advance.
The big spinners’ takings, the big'con-
sumption. in a word, is the sheet an
chor of the market. Even Liverpool is
dropping its scepticism as it notes the
recent large increase in its spot sales
—at times 12,000 to 15,000 bales a day
—and the more cheerful trade reports
from Manchester coincident with the
rapidly rising price of silver and ap
parently more settled conditions in In
dia. Cotton is considered cheap by al
most everybody. This, with the big
consumption, is the secret of the cau
tion with which bears approach the
market. Middling upland cotton here
is only OJc. per pound, No. 2 red winter
wheat is selling at equal to about 18j)e.
per pound, corn at nearly 11c. and oats
at fully 17c. That looks strange to
many. Cotton for the most part lacks
speculative support, aside from what it
gets from Wall street.
Receipts at the ports and interior
towns show some decrease. Ninety per
cent, of American cotton spindles are
in operation. In certain large New
England mills some departments are
running overtime. Liverpool has been
undergoing straddles by buying March,
May and July here. Some large spot
interests, though they have sold July
and October, have at times bought
March and Mav freely. Other spot in
terests have covered sales of July. New
England mills are good buyers at the
South. So is Europe.
MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST.
The Awful Toll Collected by Con
sumption.
If people could only understand that
Catarrh is un internal scrofula—that
nothing applied externally does much
good—they would not need to be warned
so often about this fatal disease,
which, when neglected, invariably end
up in Consumption, at the cost of mil
lions of lives every year. Yet catarrh is
easily cured if the right treatment is
employed.
Catarrh is caused by germs in the
blood which circulate throughout the
entire system. External remedies give
past year school money has been ban- J but temporary ease. Although the ef-
Kirby - Bohannon Hardware Co.,
Telephone 201.
Fisher, some four months in advance of the largest powers of brain and stom-
the State convention, announced a 'pos
sum supper in the city of Newnan.
Col. Fisher was the host. Every prom
inent politician friendly to his friends
was a guest. Georgia ’possum was the
ach to resist or to assimilate the new
and startling hospitality of the capital
of Georgia.
Whe the next President hitches his
water wagon to the capital in Atlanta
piece de resistance at the board. Cock- land invades that banquet hall both his
tails and champagne were the insepara
ble accompaniments to a ’possum sup
per in those days, and these it was that
won the politics uf the Empire State.
When these condiments meet and min
gle within the mortal and political
anatomy of a Georgia politician he be
comes the pliant tool and the inevitable
follower of the man or men who feed
him.
Around this marsupial feast Harry
Fisher gathered the ambitious of Geor-
political principles and his digestive or
gans must prepare for a strain out of
which he must emerge either as his
own man or as Georgia’s captive to the
end of time.
As a reformer he should consult with
Hoke Smith, that he “eat not wisely
nor too well.” As the high priest
of the party of Privilege and Protec
tion, he would do well to discover the
methods by which Atkinson’s regime
and Terrell's reign avoided political
died with greater promptness than ever
before. This was because pensions
were paid quarterly. They must lie
paid this year before May 1, which
means, perhaps, that when the new ad
ministration comes in the $2,250,000
school appropriation for 1909 will all he
unpaid. Little money will be collected
before taxes begin coming in next De
cember. and the present prospects are
that the teachers will have to wait a
year for their wages. Besides that, the
extra $250,000 more than the present
year’s school budget must be account
ed for.
Whether a deficit, properly speaking,
shall exist or not, the next administra
tion will, without any doubt, find >* de
pleted treasury, with many unpaid ob
ligations to face. The tax rate has
reached the constitutional limit of 5
mills. Some outside means of raising
revenue must be found, and a special
tax has already been placed on about
everything that supplies an excuse for
such.
Mr. Brown and his administration
must face the dilemma, and if the new
Governor is able to bring the State
Treasury out of its intricate maze and
places it upon a sound, high business
basis where all who look may see, his
name will be written down among the
State’s greatest Governors.
Don’t accuse the old hen of working
the shell game because the egg is bad.
fects are often seen in the form of pim
ples, rash, eczema or dry, scaly skin,
the trouble is internal, and can never
be cured by external remedies.
The only way to cure Catarrh is by
employing a medicine which is absorbed
and carried by the blood to all parts of
the system, so that the mucous mem
brane or internal lining of the body is
thoroughly medicated, soothed, disin
fected of germ matter, and the sore
ness healed.
We have a remedy prepared from the
prescription of a physician who fot
thirty years studied and made catarrh
a specialty and whose record of success
was a cure in every case wnere his
treatment was followed as prescribed.
That remedy is Rexall Mucu-Tone. We
are so positive that it will cure catarrh
in all its various forms, whether acute
or chronic, that we promise to return
every penny paid us for the medicine in
every case where it fails to cure or for
any reason does not satisfy the user. ~
We want you to try Rexall Mucu-
Tone on our recommendation and guar
antee. We are right here where you
live, and you do not contract any obli
gation or risk when you try Rexall
Mucu-Tone on our guarantee. We have
Rexall Mucu-Tone in two sizes. The
prices are 50c. and $1. Very often the
50c. size effects a cure. Of course, in
chronic cases a longer treatment is nec
essary. The average in such instances
is time $1 bottles. The Holt & Cates
Co., Newnan, Ga.
