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Chas k Wickeraham
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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1909
NO. 36.
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11 Chicken Peed—we have it, and COR NO is the best.
11 Cotton Seed Meal, Shorts and Bran.
H Four thousand pounds best Compound Lard at best
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THANKSGIVING.
Thankful for God ami lhrht.
For life and love;
Thankful for Christ, and for HU might
That loads above.
Thankful for labor and the cares
That meet us on the way;
Thnnkful that with the thorns and snares.
Bloom roses of the May.
Thankful for more of joy than pain.
For the rose that hides the thorn;
Thankful that every day that’s slain
Gives promise of a morn.
Thankful for a world of good.
For more of right t han wrong:
Thankful for friends, for all things true.
For life, for love, for song.
THE CONFEDERATE REUNION.
Gen. Clement A. Evans, in Orders.
Takes Particular Notice of
Wirz Shaft and Restora
tion of Davis' Name
on Cabin Bridge.
New Orleans, La., May 30.—Gen.
Clement A. Evans, commander-in-chief
of the ITnited Confederate Veterans,
and those who are making plans for the
reunion which will be held in Memphis
on June 8, 9 and 10, are determined
that there shall be no grounds for the
charge that the old veterans them
selves have been slighted during the
festivities, or that social features at
the gathering have overshadowed the
parts played by the men whose careers
have made the reunion possible.
Memphis will make the treatment of
the old veterans and the hospitality
shown the men who fought the South’s
battles from 1861 to 1365 the principal
feature of the reunion of 1909, although
nothing will be lacking in the way of
elaborate entertainment for all who at
tend. The hospitality of the people of
Tennessee on former occasions has re
cently been the subject of several or
ders issued by the general commanding,
and to-night Gen. William E. Mickle,
adjutant-general and chief of staff, by
command of Gen. Evans, published
several orders touching upon what
would be expected of those who will
enjoy this hospitality, and laying down
certain restrictions. General Order
No. 14 says:
“As there prevails among the mem
bers of our federation a great deal of
uncertainty as to what provision will
be made by the Memphis reunion com
mittee for the enertainment of the
sponsors and maids of honor who may
be in attendance at the approaching re
union, the General commanding feels
that he should let those interested un
derstand exactly what will be done.
“The committee is very desirous that
there should be a large attendance of
sponsors and maids of honor from de
partments, divisions, brigades and
camps; and are determined to do ev
erything possible to render pleasant
the sojourn of all sponsors and maids
who come to Memphis, and shall see
that they are supplied with invitations
to the various balls and entertainments
that are given ; but the committee can
not attempt to meet the hotel expenses
of the two thousand who will be pres
ent, or provide them with escorts or
.carriages. These must be provided by
those who elect the young ladies to
these positions. Neither can the com
mittee allow them in the parade, even
though they supply themselves with
carriages, as the line must be made as
short as possible, that the old heroes,
for whose pleasure the reunions are
given, who are rapidly growing fewer
in number and feeble in body, may not
be shut out of the entire line of march.
The only provision that the reunion
committee will make will be to supply
hotel accommodations at the Peabody
Hotel (the general headquarters) for
one sponsor and one maid of honor
from general and department headquar
ters for June 8, 9 and 10; and furnish
carriages for them and for the sponsors
and maids from divisions in the pa
rade.”
Gen. Evans also takes official cogni
zance of the restoration of the name of
Jefferson Davis on the Cabin John
Bridge, near Washington, D. C., say
ing:
“The General commanding also takes
pleasure in expressing the satisfaction
he feels in announcing officially that
the name of Jefferson Davis has been
[restored to the tablet on ‘Cabin John
| Bridge.’ As Secretary of War of the
' United States Mr. Davis had been
| largely instrumental in constructing
j this aqueduct, and commemorating this
j feat his name, with others, had been
placed on the tablet; but during the
i War Between the States partisans
I caused it to be chiseled off. Mr. Davis
' being at that time the President of the
Confederate States. By this restora- j
tion an act of justice has been done to j
one of America’s greatest statesmen.
The fact in itself is triviai. but it is mo
mentous in significance. It emphasizes
the truth that our countrymen will rec
ognize worth ; that Mr. Davis, who was
thoroughly Southern in his sentiments,
can be truly valued by those who were
once his enemies, and that he was act
uated by lofty motives and conceptions
of duty, as were other statesmen and
soldiers of the Confederacy.
“It is possible that this desirable re
sult would never have been reached
had not our glorious women taken the
matter in hand and pushed it to com
pletion. The Confederated Southern
Memorial Association started the work
in 1907, and Mrs. J. Enders Robinson,
of Richmond, and Mrs. W. J. Behan, of
New Orleans, assisted by the IJ. D. C.
and kindred organizations, have the
thanks of all Confederates for the ac
complishment of this work.”
Another order issued by Adjutant-
General Mickle at the headquarters of
the Confederate Veterans Saturday
quotes Gen. Evans as follows;
“The General commanding announces
that the Georgia Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, ever
ready to defend the honor of all who
discharged with fidelity the civil and
military duties upon which they were
honorably engaged in the Confederate
service^ has made the vindication just
ly duyCapt. Henry Wirz, commandant
of the Andersonville prison, by erect
ing at Andersonville. Gu., a handsome
monument to his memory, witli suita
ble i^eriptions, and dedicating it with
impressive ceremonies on the 12th of
May, 1009. The justice due Capt. Wirz
has been tenderly done by this noble
band of Southern women, with full
knowledge of his innocence of the
charges made against him.”
Taft * Tribute to Southern Valor.
Macon Bvenir.n News.
Nothing truer, more generous or
more just could be asked of a Northern
man, leven though President of the
whole'people, than the tribute paid to
Southern valor by Mr. Taft in his
speech at Petersburg, Va., at the un
veiling of a monument to Northern sol
diers. President Taft said;
“Wi) stand here in the center of the
bloodiest and most critical operations
of the last year of the Civil War. only
a few miles distant from that dramatic
scene at Appomattox between Grant
and Lee which marked the great quali
ties of the heart and soul of each, and
which was the real end of the terrific
struggle between the two sections.
“Here in and about Petersburg, the
outworts of Richmond, the home of the
Confederacy, were carried on those be
sieging operations begun late in the
sp^ing of 1864 and continued with the
courage and the tenacity of purpose
chdcactiatic of the Federal commander
for nearly a year, a.pd resisted with
the bravery and strategy and wealth of
expedient of the Confederate leader,
until the forces of the South, worn out
by the constant assaults and the inces
sant hammering, were compelled to
yield to the greater numbers and the
resources of the North.
“In the time which has passed,” the
President continued, “the bitterness of
the internecine struggle has passed
away and we now treasure as a com
mon heritage of the country the brav
ery and the valor of both sides in that
controversy. The army of the Poto
mac, under Grant and Meade, was sec
onded and supported by a generous gov
ernment. It was hardly so with the
Confederate forces. Scantily clothed,
rarely on more than half rations and
for considerable periods reduced to an
allowance of bacon and meal hardly
sufficient to sustain life the long win
ter through, their shivering infantry
manned the ever - extending siege
works against the vigorous assaults of
the Union army until their depleted
ranks were no longer equal to the de
fense, and they gave up a contest which
by any other soldiers but the tried and
seasoned veterans of the army of
Northern Virginia would long before
have been abandoned.”
There have been other Republican
Presidents before him who have praised
the South’s heroism in the great war
in figures of speech and flowery phrase,
but none of them said anything finer
than this, because it is the bedrock, ab
solute truth, that could only be spoken
at the risk of giving offense to the vic
tors, the glory of whose triumph was
outpointed by the Southerners in their
defeat.
Your nation may have art, poetry
and science, all the refinements of civ
ilized life, ail the comforts and safe
guards that human ingenuity can devise ;
but if it lose this spirit of personal and
local independence, it is doomed, and
deserves its doom. As President Cleve
land has well said, it is not the busi
ness of a government to support its
people, but the duty of the people
to support their government; and
once to lose sight of this vital truth
is as rlangerous as to trifle with
some stealthy narcotic poison. Of the
two opposite perils which have perpet
ually threatened the welfare of politi
cal society—anarchy on the one hand,
loss of self-government on the other -
Jefferson was right in maintaining that
tne latter is really the more to be
dreaded because its beginnings are so
terribly insidious.—John Fisk.
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Boys Need Protection.
Dublin Courier*DiHpatch.
Progressive Dublin is sadly behind
the times in some respects.
We have made material advancement
along many lines, but there is yet
something we have not attended to.
There is here an urgent need for a
Young Men’s Christian Association
building, which we have not yet erect
ed.
It is natural for young men to desire
some place where they can have recre
ation, can enjoy innocent games, where
they can meet and mingle freely with
one another, can lounge, rest and read.
The association of young men with
each other is necessary to their exist
ence. When a place is provided where
these young men can meet in an atmos
phere that is wholesome and where all
forms of vice are burred, a great step
forward will he made.
Club life is the bane of the existence
of young men. In clubs they are
taught to gamble, drink and generally
follow the wayr of the world. If some
thing better is not provided, they will
join the first club that is organized, it
matters little what it is.
It has been found in cities that the
Y. M. C. A. is the best auxiliary that
society can have outside the church. It
provides a home tor the boys and young
men, where they are sure of congenial
companions and where the wickedness
of the world cannot enter.
Those who know say that Y. M. C.
A.’s pay a better dividend on the in
vestment than any other building of
like character. The merchant is sure
of better service from his clerks, the
banker feels safer regarding the money
handled by his bookkkeeper, fathers
and mothers spend many less anxious
moments regarding their boys, minis
ters find a greater help in leading
boys to a better life, and society reaps
a big reward in that better citizens are
made of those who are later to take
the place in the world of those who
now manage the affairs of church and
State.
Recently in Jacksonville, Fla., a bus
iness man investigated the good done
by the Y. M. C. A. and donated $5,000
towards the erection of a building in
that city. He continued his investiga
tions and later voluntarily contributed
$5,000 additional. In the modern Y.
M. C. A. buildings there is a reading
room, athletic department, assembly
hall, sleeping quarters, dining room,
and other necessary adjuncts to the
care and comfort of boys and young
men.
That Newnan needs such a building
all must admit. What is needed is for
some one or some set of men to take
the initiative and raise the money with
which to erect and equip the building.
What is every one’s business, is no
one’s business. That is the reason a
start has not been made.
Good Morning
John L. Hunter in Notions
Did you ever stop to think for a few
minutes of the power of a cheery “good
morning?”
What is going on in the lives and
hearts of the people around you, you
are not likely to know much about, and
you never can estimate the amount of
good that a bright, snappy, cheery
"good morning” of your3 will do as
you come to your work day after day.
Not many people wear their hearts
| on their sleeves, and you can never tell
where the aches are and where the
! next break is going to be. You never
lean tell how down-in-the-mouth, how
j lonesome, how cheerless may be the
j one along beside you. Remember,
| though, that it is the way you say it
in the look that is on your face when
you say it. It may be the hand-clasp
that goes along with it that makes it
possible for “good morning” to save
some person hours of despondency.
When you come to your work in the
morning let hope ami sunshine flow
through your face and through your
voice and upbuild the other fellow’s
courage. Let people know that you
have got barrels of faith in them and
they will return it to you a thousand
fold. Let others see and believe, what
ever is the condition of the clouds, that
you can be sunny inside, that you can
carry sunshine, and that you can give
sunshine toothers. Don’t he slow about
it, either.
Give the word and the hand that
means inspiration.
Summer Excursion Rates to Tybee,
Central of Georgia Railway will sell
ten-day tickets Newnan to Tybee and
return, every Saturday, May 27 to
August 21, 1909, inclusive, at rate of
$10.
Summer excursion tickets will also
be on sale to principal resorts in the
United States and Canada.
For further information call on G. T.
Stocks, ticket agent, or address J. C.
Haile, general passenger agent, Savan
nah, Ga.
Anyway, the chap who thinks he
knowH it all doesn’t know a lot of
things that is said of him behind his
back.
A Bad Practice.
Elborton Star.
The practice of "paying negroes out
of trouble” is dangerous to society.
Ofttimes, beenuse a negro is a “good
hand ” responsible white men go be
fore the court officers and pay his fine,
after bargaining with the culprit to
work it out on the farm.
If a negro (or white man) commits a
crime and is brought before the bar of
justice and proved to he guilty of what
he is charged with, he should be sent
to the chaingang and not allowed to
go free, and sooner or later commit
some other crime.
The courts too often impose sen
tences of fines when they should be
penitentiary sentences. Sorry, low-
down, worthless negroes and white
men should be placed in confinement
and made to work.
Negroes often boast of the fact that
they cannot be sent to the chaingang,
as “the white folks will pay them
out.” Such a state of affairs should
not he allowed to exist in any commu
nity.
One negro can shoot another and as
soon us he is arrested he sends for his
“white boss,” who employs a lawyer
and instructs him to look after the ne
gro’s case. The negro promises to
work for the white man if he is cleared
in the courts.
In many instances, when the case is
called in court the negro pleads guilty
of a misdemeanor; the Judge fines him
so much and costs; the white man pays
the fine and the negro goes to work for
him. In nine cases out of ten he com
mits another crime before he works out
his fine.
It would be far better to let the land
“lay out” than for its owner to com
pel a community to be worried and
bothered with a “jail bird.”
This question is worthy of serious
consideration by the Judges and Solici
tors over the State.
The Star believes in meting out jus
tice both to the whites and blacks. But
if more criminals were sent to the
chaingang instead of being “paid out"
there would be less crime committed in
Georgia.
Impose chaingang sentences intead
of fines.
Put the guilty on the roads and free
the innocent.
That is justice, and that is all any
fair-minded man could ask for.
Pussy Helps.
RochoHter Herald.
For some time past a large maltese
cat, which appeared to be an outcast,
has taken up its abode in the ham on
Oscar Willard’s premises, which are
rented by James Rogers. Mr. Rogers
keeps a valuable horse in this barn,
and for several weeks he has noticed
this large cat wua on very friendly
terms with the horse. It was a com
mon occurrence when he cume to the
barn every morning to find the cat
perched on the horse's back, sound
asleep.
Yesterday morning Mr. Rogers was
awakened at an early hour by a noise
on the outside of the door, and upon
opening it in came the cat. It would
not eat a mouthful of anything, and
continually pulled at Mr. Rogers'
trousers and kept running toward the
door. Its strange actions caused Mr.
Rogers to go to the barn, headed by
the faithful animal. There he found
that his horse had been loose in the
barn, and, after doing sonsiderable
damage, had fallen and become wedged
down, and nearly exhausted by efforts
to rise. After the horse had been
helped to its feet the cat made one leap
and was on the horse’s back, purring
and acting in every way as if satisfied
with its noble deed.
MAKES RAPID HEADWAY.
Add This Fact to Your Store of
Knowledge.
Kidney disease advances so rapidly
that many a person is firmly in its grasp
before aware of its progress. Prompt
attention should lie given the slightest
symptom of kidney disorder. If there
is a dull pain in the back, headache,
dizzy spells ora tired, worn-out feeling,
or if the urine is dark, foul-smelling, ir
regular and attended with pain, procure
a good kidney remedy at once.
Your townspeople recommend Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Read the statement of
this Newnan citizen:
C. L. Baker, 112 Jackson St., New
nan, Ga., says: “Riding over rough
roads has been a severe strain on my
kidneys, and as a result I suffered off
and on for years fr >m a dull aching in
iny back. The kidney secretions were
also disordered and from this l realized
that my kidneys were in an unhealthy
condition. A short time ago 1 learned
about Doan’s Kidney Pills and procur
ing a box at Peniston’s drug store 1
began their use. They relieved me
promptly and I am sure it will not be
long before every symptom of kidney
trouble will be banished from my sys
tem.”
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