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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.