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fierald and fldwiiscr, NEWNAN, FRIDAY, J I: N E 4 . j money or supplies to a laborer has no recourse at law, if the laborer should see fit at any time to desert him and seek pastures new. Official Organ of Coweta County. Jar E. Brown. Thus. s. Parrott. BROWN * PARROTT. Editors and Puhusiierr. COTTON ACRE ACE ASH CONDI TION. According to an estimate made by I.atham, Alexander Co., of New York, based on 3.900 replies received from correspondents in the cotton- growing belt up to May 25, the total decrease in the cotton acreage this year is 4.7 per cent., or 1,570,985 acres less than last year. The reduction in (Jeorgia is 147,300 acres, or 3 per cent, as compared with last year. Comment ing on the outlook for the coining crop Latham, Alexander & Co. say; “Thu normal tendency to increase the cotton acreage from year to year has been checked this season by the determination to increase the acreage in small grains, due to the high prices prevailing for all kinds of provisions. This is less apparent in Texas, where the droughty conditions prevented ear ly planting of grain. “The reports to us complain general ly of the low temperatures extending well into May, retarding the growth of the plant and causing irregular stands; and the protracted wet weather has in terfered with the cultivation, so that grassy conditions prevail. “In Texas the crop is late, owing to the absence of moisture early in the season and the late germination of the seed; but beneficial rains finally cov ered the cotton-producing section of the State, causing marked improve ment. “'The continued excessive rainfall in the central belt makes the present out look gloomy for that section, and may cause some abandonment of acreage. “The spread of the boll weevil to the lower Mississippi Valley has caused apprehension and curtailment of cotton acreage in that section. “Dry, forcing weather is necessary to promote the growth of the plant and permit proper cultivation." Discussing crop conditions as he has observed them in going over the State, Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson describes the situation in Georgia as follows: “The unusually cool nights which prevailed during May undoubtedly had the effect of stunting the growth of cotton, and this is a condition which has prevailed not alone in the higher altitudes, but throughout the entire State. Recent rains, too, have caused a heavy growth of grass, which has materially interfered with farm work. Altogether, there is no doubt in my mind that the cotton crop will be short this year, with better prices for the farmer. This opinion is based not alone on the weather ; there are other grounds for it, chief of which is the reduced acreage as a result ol the more widespread planting of grain crops. Georgia has some of the finest grain crops thi> State has ever known. There is no question that increased grain pro duction has withdrawn somewhat from the attention generally given to cot- ion.” Judge Adamson’s speech in Congress a few days ago on the tariff question might have been “one of the ablest de livered during that historic debate,” and “for keenness of analysis and soundness of logic could not be sur passed,” to the minds of those who in dorse everything that the Judge may door say; but his position when it comes to voting lacks a great deal of being in the interest of the masses, who. by their votes, allow him to feed at their expense.—LaUrange Graphic. The foregoing ill-tempered (ling at Congressman Adamson is as unjust as it is undeserved. No member of the Georgia delegation stands higher in Congress, or has served the people more faithfully. Indeed, it is stating the simple truth to say that not within the recollection of the present genera tion has the Fourth district had an abler or more popular Representative, or one who accomplished more for the district and the State. Moreover, if he ever cast a vote in Congress that was not “in the interest of the masses.” we have seen no record of it. If The Graphic has grounds for its insinuation it should produce the record, and not resort to inuendo to create an impres sion which cannot be verified by proof. F. S. Perhaps The Graphic has a candidate whom it would like to match against Judge Adamson in the campaign next spring. If so, trot him out and let us see what sire hat he At the recent annual meeting of the Alabama State Bankers’ Association, held at Mobile, VV. 1’. G. Harding, a lending banker of Birmingham, said he could see no reason why the season for marketing cotton might not be extend ed over a period of nine to ten months, instead of being congested into three or four months. The banks, he ar gued. can finance the holding of cotton for slower and more profitable market ing. The customary rush of cotton to market, he said, is not so necessary now as has been the case in former years, because of better warehouse facilities for holding the crop. He gave credit to the Farmers’ Union for the development of the warehouse plan. A difference of 2c. a pound in the price of cotton, he added, made a difference of $12,000,000 a year in the money cir culation of Alabama alone. “If it were only known,” says an Alabama editor, “how it pains us to write the obituary of a subscriber who passes ‘over the river’ owing us sev eral dollars, we do not believe a single one of them would die until he settled up. This newspaper business is a mighty solemn thing.” A bill has been introduced in Con gress to increase the pay of rural mail carriers. It provides that after July 1. 1911, carriers on routes more than 24 miles in length shall be paid at the rate of $37.50 per mile per annum for the first 24 miles, and $18.57 per annum for each additional mile. The Georgia Division of the Far mers’ Union will meet in annual ses sion at Macon on July 22, 23 and 24. In an opinion handed down a few days ago the Court of Appeals held that a farm laborer who jumps his contract while working out a debt due his land lord or employei cannot be prosecuted for cheating and swindling. In the case under review the defendant signed a contract to work for plaintiff, after persuading the plaintiff fliis employer) to pay a debt for him. He worked sev eral months, and then “jumped” his contract, still owing the original debt, and an additional sum beside- for sup plies advanced. The laborer was prose cuted and convicted in the lower court for cheating and swindling, whereupon defendant carried the ease to the Court of Appeals, with the result stated above. The Court of Appeals held that the judgment of the lower court was repugnant to the Constitution of the State and of the United States, and to the Federal law against peonage as well. In view of the foregoing decis ion it would seem that the landlord who may be so indiscreet as to advance Tart Call Down for a Griffin News paper. A few days since Mrs. S. T. Allyn, an aged woman of this city, was tried on a writ of lunacy and found to be a fit subject for the asylum. The evi dence brought out at the trial showed that the unfortunate woman had been demented for nearly a year; that she was subject to convulsions, and requir ed t lie constant care and attention of her husband, the old couple being in straitened circumstances and unable to employ a nurse; that strict watchful ness was necessary to prevent the wo man from doing injury to herself, etc. It was upon this statement of facts, corroborated in the main by the testi mony of her physician, that Mrs. Allyn was committed to the institution for the insane. Sunday morning Mrs. Al lyn was sent to Milledgeville, being accompanied by Mr. Marcus Thurman and a colored female attendant. Be fore leaving Newnan her physician, Dr. G. W. Peddy. administered a seda tive to ward off a threatened convul sion. and she remained under the ef fects of this potion for several hours. She was in a stupor when Griffin was reached, and while waiting at that point for the southbound train on the Central road her condition was observed by a reporter for the Griffin News and Sun, who gave ouc the following sensa tional report in Tuesday’s issue of that paper “People who had occasion to visit the railway station in Griffin Sunday morn ing witnessed one of the saddest scenes that has ever been noted here the car rying of a dying woman to the State asylum at Milledgeville. A poor, de mented lady. Mrs. Allyn by name, who was very ill. perfectly helpless and not capable of harming a single soul, was brought down on the 8:20 train from Newnan in this condition, placed on the 9:20 Central train and carried to Mil ledgeville. She was lying on a cot and was apparently unconscious, not notic ing the noise of several trains or those who looked upon her prostrate form. She was placed on trucks and in the hot sun, while those in charge waited for the train here. Many people saw this woman, and expressed pity and in dignation that the authorities in any countv in Georgia should permit such inhumane treatment of its people. She was a very aged lady, whose head was white with the frosts of many winters, and whose cheek was pale with ill ness. She was placed on the train at Newnan, and it is presumed that she was sent from Coweta county. Col. Lloyd Cleveland, a prominent citizen of Griffin, said to a News and Sun re porter that such a sight made his blood boil with indignation, and that to send a woman in that condition to the asy lum was a disgrace to the State of Georgia.’’ A complete answer to the foregoing is contained in a statement which Judge L. A. Perdue, Ordinary of Coweta county, has furnished The Herald and Advertiser, and which is printed be low “While it is sad under any circum stances to send people to the asylum, it is possibly more so in the case of an aged and afflicted woman: yet the law makes provision for them, just as it does for younger people. Mrs. Allyn has been demented for nearly a year, and recently grew much worse - -so much so that it was necessary to have her watched and guarded all the while. Every effort was made to have her rea- | son restored, but she steadily grew 1 worse, and it became necessary to have j her sent to the asylum, her husband j swearing out the papers in the case. Dr. G. W. Peddy, of Newnan. her fam ily physician for nearly twenty years, was the physician on the jury that tried Mrs. Allyn, and it was by his con- ~ent and advice that she was sent away, he well knowing her condition, mentally and physically. The jury, regularly empanneled, was composed of as good and upright citizens as we have in Coweta county, and they, after hearing the evidence, found a verdict which committed Mrs. Allyn to the asylum as being of unsound mind. Mrs. Allyn was carried to the asylum by Mr. Marcus Thurman, an upright, so ber, honorable citizen of Coweta, and we took the precaution to send along with him an old negro woman to wait on Mrs. Allyn and see that she was properly cared for. Therefore, the statement that Mrs. Allvn was not cared for, or wa3 neglected, we believe to bo absolutely false. This maudlin sentimentality, even though indorsed by such an authority as Hon. Llovd Cleveland, is the veriest bosh. The hu band of Mrs. Allyn. the judge who swore the jury, the jury that tried the case, and the honorable, venerable physician who attended her and who was a juror on the case, are all well satisfied, as is our worthy Sheriff, in whose charge Mrs. Allyn was placed after her trial, and who had her con veyed to the asylum. The officials, and all concerned, feel no compunctions of conscience for dereliction of duty in this matter, the criticisms of the Grif fin newspaper to the contrary notwith standing. ” Card From Prof. Astin. To Whom it May Concern : The re port that I am going to move away form Newnan is not true. Last fall I was offered an organ at Cleveland, ()., and two weeks ago I had a similar offer from Brooklyn, N. Y. J showed the offers to some people, who perhaps spoke of them to others, and it may be that in this way the report got out. I will teach here next year, but will take only twenty scholars. I could get six ty just as easy as twenty. My class will be formed in the next ten days, and 1 will take those only who have tal ent and will practice. Respectfully, Chas. Astin. Newnan. Ga. t June 3d. Potts <$: Parks Newnan’s Leading Dress Goods House. New Advertisements. Deafness Cannot be Cured. By local applications, as they cannot reach thedis- eased portions of the ear. There ia only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, anti when it is entire ly closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube re stored to it.-, normal condition, hearing: will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing hut an inllamed con dition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh' that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 76c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. Notice of First Meeting of Creditors. In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. No. 2460. In the matter of T. A. Manning. Bankrupt: To the creditors of the above-named person, of Newnan, in the county of Coweta and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the Mist day of May. A. D., 1909, the said person was duly ad judicated bankrupt, and that the first meeting of creditors will be held at my oflice in Newnan. Ga., on the 12th day of June, A. D.. 1900. at 9 o’clock in the forenoon, at which time ail the creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business jus rnuy properly come before iaid meeting. R. O. JONES, Keferee in Bankruptcy. Newnan. Ga., June 2, 1909. ‘American Lady” Corsets fit and satisfy. Fifteen new models now instock, de signed to suit the latest vogue in dress, and a shape for every figure. WHY WE LEAD IN THE SALE OF CORSETS We realize that a corset is a most important factor effecting a lady’s appearance. We buy for all heights and figures. We try and sell the models for such figures as they were designed to fit as best we can, judging by experience and directions given by the manufacturers. CONSIDER YOUR FIGURE And buy corsets in length to correspond. We have short, medium, long and extra long designs. Some extra long hips, with high or low bust. Good appearance, comfort, pleasure and health are yours if you wear “American Lady” Corsets. ‘ ‘ YV e Lead in the Sale of Corsets’’ POTTS Sz NEWNAN, .- - - PARKS GEORGIA Saler & McKoy The Difference In our business meth ods and the weather is: It will, of course, Stop Raining, But we will never stop offering up - to - date styles and unusually good values in men’s Shoes, Hats and (dent’s Furnishings. We want your pat ronage, which you will find to your interest to give us. Safer £ McKoy Gents' Furnishings AT Marbury’s Furniture Ju^t a Word or Two About t Store J J J t }PICTURE FRAMESi J i t f t t t i a t i $ t ? t i } %%%%%%%%%%'%%%%%% We are prepared to execute this work for you in the most artistic style, as we have every facility in the way of machines of the newest type, and we cer tainly have the moldings. Large new stock just received. Bring us your pic tures to frame, and we guarantee to please you, both as to quality of work, price, and promptness in executing every order left with us. C.New and beau tiful FURNITURE arriving daily. We are showing some handsome goods in our line, and the prices are low. Our second prize was drawn for Saturday, May 29, and No. 2711 was the lucky number. Bring it in and we will give you a handsome Parlor Table. On Saturday, June 5, we will draw for third prize— a Reed Rocker. Prizes will be drawn for a second time every two weeks, when numbers first drawn have not been presented. CUome to see us. We can save you some money, and give you the cleanest goods to be found in the city. Very truly yours, J. IN. MARBURY Day’Phone Night’Phone TO MY FRIENDS. I have moved my Shoe Shop to 19 E. Broad street, where I shall be glad to serve my friends and patrons promptly when they need any work in my line. I use none but best materials, do hon est work, and charge reasonable prices. Try me. G. C. PITMAN. IS i i In point of goods and ser vice and for reasonable cost you will find this store is ALWAYS RIGHT Medicines to give right results must be right. Euy medicines here and you get all the ad vantages of care in selecting the drugs and filling the pre scriptions — no matter how simple or how complex—that all our customers have de pended on for so many years. They find us right—so will you. REESE DRUG COMPANY Prescription Druggists, to Greenville Street NEWNAN, GA. PRESER VING C Make Your Preserving a Pleas ure Rather Than a Task C (Jet one of our Oil Stoves and do your can ning under the shade trees. JELLY GLASSES FRUIT JARS WAX STRINGS SEALING WAX TIN FRUIT CANS FRUIT JAR RUBBERS PRESERVING KETTLES PORCELAIN LINED JAR CAPS Buy Them While the tyock is Complete. Johnson Hardware Co. Telephone HI. Newnan, Ga. DR.KING’S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Stop That Cough. If you are indebted to The Herald and Advertiser for subscription settle up. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Mrs. Lucy Pinson North, guardian of Ellen Pin son. having applied to the Court of Ordinary of said county for letters of dismission from her said trust, all persons concerned are required to show cause in said Court by the first Monday in June next, if any they can, why said ap plication should not be granted. This May 3. 1909. Prs. fee. $3. L. A. PERDUE. Ordinary. BILIOUSNESS BITTERS and wdneya