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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909,
NO. 39.
TAKE WARNING!
II All stock feed is high, and going higher. Everybody
-should sow Sorghum and Peas. In Sorghum seed we have
“EARLY AMBER,” “ORANGE” and “RED TOP.”
Try some of our Alfalfa ground feed,
and better than Corn or Oats.
It is cheaper
II We have a fresh stock of International Stock and
Poultry Powders.
• Medicated Sait Brick—the best physic for rundown
•stock. Takes the place of salt, and is always ready, as
you only have to place the brick in your horse-trough.
i; Chicken Feed—we have it, and CORNO is the best.
11 Cotton Seed Meal, Shorts and Bran.
1 Four thousand pounds best Compound Lard at best
,price.
T. Q. FARMER
& SONS CO
T H K FA R M ER F K EDS THEM A LL
The politician talks and talk.*,
The actor plays his part;
The soldier urlitters on parade.
The voldsmith plies his art;
The scientist pursues his vrerma
O’er the terrestrial ball;
The sailor navigates his ship —
But the farmer feeds them all.
The preacher pounds the pulpit desk.
The broker reads the tape;
The tailor euts and sews his cloth
To tit the human shape:
The dames of fashion dress in silk.
Go forth to dance ©r call.
Or drive, or dance, or promenade,
But the farmer feeds them all.
The workman wields his shining tools.
The merchant shows his wares;
The aeronaut above the clouds
A dizzy journey dares:
But art and science soon would fade.
And commerce dead would fall.
If the fanner ceased to reap and sow.
For the farmer feeds them all.
THE MERCHANT’S DUTY.
Now is the time and this is the place to buy one.
We call your attention to the many new and hand
some designs shown, all of which we can recommend
as the latest styles in the vehicular line.
Our stock is now complete with Top Buggies,
^^Runabouts, etc., fitted with either steel or rubber
V tires. Our motto is to furnish the trade with the
| best Buggies that can be produced for the least
j money, and the success which lias followed our ef-
I forts, as evidenced by the large yearly increase of
3 our business, we believe enables us to serve your
best interest in offering you the most up-to-date
^1 line of Buggies in the trade, and at the most attrac-
j tive prices, considering the superior quality of the
work.
Having just finished our new Buggy emporium,
I we are in better position than ever before to take
j care of our customers. Come in and see our stock
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of “White Star” and Barnesville Buggies.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
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Is the day of the country merchant
over?
It would almost seem so. This will be
a truth and fact, we fear, before long
unless the country merchant awakens
and rises to the full responsibility of
his position. Unless he awakens to
the conditions which are surrounding
him he cannot fail to see that his ser
vices will not be long required, except
as an accommodation to those few who
cannot and do not pay cash tor their
merchandise. This is no phantasy—no
exaggerated statement. It is a condi
tion of the not far distant future, made
as plain as plain can be by the events
which are gradually—yes. rapidly tak
ing place.
The Home Trade Journal wants to
stress upon the merchant that he can
accomplish nothing by joining the nu
merous so-called merchants' organiza
tions which, while claiming to give
him aid and protection in upholding
certain rules and prices, always have
as their ultimatum the collection of
dues and the creating of soft snaps for
certain individuals. These combina
tions can do the merchant no good.
Only that combination which affects
the material and physical the business
interests of the whole community—can
either afford him any profit or any ad
vancement along the line of his busi
ness pursuit.
One of the greatest drawbacks to
business improvement in any communi
ty is a lack of confidence and moral
support between one business man and
the other, and more especially between
the merchant and the newspapers.
In the first place, the merchant does
not look upon his advertisements as a
matter of business, but generally as a
matter of tribute. " And it requires a
great deal of solicitation in many in
stances on the part of the newspaper
man or his agent to secure an advertis
ing contract— a contract which the
merchant should be more than pleased
to execute.
On the part of the editor there should
he a constant drumming into his read
ers’ minds the gospel of home trade-
home dealing home patronage. This,
in brief, is a condition which must be
brought, about amicably, and until this
condition does exist—until the mer
chant and the editor work harmonious
ly hand in hand for the upbuilding of a
community, that community will con
tinue to lose its trade to the Mail Or
der Houses. If the merchant who now
is so indifferent to conditions, who in
so many instances has grown to accept
the inevitable, but knew how readily,
how easily the overthrow of the mail
order business could be accomplished,
he would not accept defeat so easily.
But just as sure as the sun rises the
day is dawning when, unless the mer
chant and the editor of our country
towns work hand in hand and preach
and spread and agitate this doctrine of
home trading, which is the salvation of
their community, they will find their
towns rleprived of their retail business
and they become mere figure-heads and
no longer factors in the business world.
All the preaching that can be done
about the loyalty of people purchasing
their supplies at home will be of little
or no avail so long as merchants do not
convince the people that the home mer
chants can and will sell articles equal
in quality, equal in price, to those fur
nished by the Mail Order Houses.
When, however, the merchants do arise
and show the people of a community im
mediately surrounding them, or near
by, that they can do, that they are do
ing, and that they will do, as well by j
the customer as the Mail Order proposi- j
tiori; when they make this known to
the people through the columns of the
home newspapers, through meetings,
through every available channel, then
the Mail Order Houses may tremble
for their future. Until then the Mai!
Order Houses will be safe and their
business will increase.
If the country merchant expects to
check the growing tendency of Mail Or
der buying he mu3t be ever on the alert
for every idea, plan or proposition
which will bring him in closer contact
with his customers.
He must look more to the welfare,
the needs and comforts of his custo
mers; he must not only make the town
more attractive, but he mu3t provide
some means for taking care of that
customer as well as amusing him, and
everything he does to this end he does
toward contributing to his own profit.
Life.
Are not the victories of life worth its
struggles? Are not its pleasures worth
its sacrifices? Who would not. cross
swords with adversity to win the jew
eled hand of fortune? Who would not
dare the desert wastes of death in bat
tles of the day for the joy of the even
ing around the hearthsione of home,
w.here the vestal virtues burn and
where 'confiding innocence gives wel
come With heaving bosom and tender
arms? i
John Howard Payne touched the ten-
derest chord that vibrates in the great
throbbing heart of all mankind when he
gave to the world the song of "Home,
Sweet Home," for to the old it is one
blessed shrine of precious memories;
to the young it rings with laughter and
echoes with song, and breathes the
name of mother to the disconsolate
the vestibule of heaven.
After all, is it not glorious to live and
face "the storms that rise dark o’er
the way,” for the angel of light hangs
a rainbow on the bosom of the darkest
cloud, and when the angry furies of
the tempest rush out from its vapory
vaults they harness their thunder-shod
steeds to the chariot winds, does not
the spirit of love whisper on the Gali
lee of every troubled heart, "Peace, be
still.’’
The world is an open volume of the
beautiful, fragrant with dreams of
God. There is a poem in the garden
where the tulips drink the dew, and the
crimson poppies blow ; there is a love-
song in the woodland, where the wild
dowers bloom; there is music in the
meadow, when the chorus of a thousand
larks on thrilling wing is tangled with
the passion-song of the bob-o-link in
the purple of the dawn. Nature paints
her pictures alike upon the brain of the
peasant and the king, and happiness
knocks at every door. Wealth cannot
buy contentment; it is God’s gift to
the humble and the poor; it does not.
dwell in palaces. The svveetest song
birds do not sing above the clouds, nor
do they build their nests among the
crags. I would rather be a dove in the
wr.i'fu of dreams and dy clo-'-e to the
meadow and the streams than to be a
vulture among the Alps, preying upon
the helpless and innocent.
The greatest lesson of life is the les
son of contentment. We all have as
much trouble as we can hear, hut heav
en despises the miserable wretch who
unloads his woes wherever he goes, and
crucifies humanity with the story of his
misfortunes. Let us remember that
life is not real, it is only the symbol of
reality ; it is the shallow of the sub
stance, and its rapturous dreams are
the prophecies of immortality.
Explorations in Arizona.
Detroit News-Tribune.
Scientists of the Smithsonian Insti
tution at Washington are excavating,
restoring and placing on exhibition,
down on the desert plains of Arizona,
the homes of a prehistoric people who
lived; there once upon a time. An at
tempt will be made to show how an
empire of people lived, irrigating their
lands centuries ago, much as our Gov
ernment is doing to-day.
Something like an American Pompeii
is destined to result frim the excava
tions and restorations. It is thought
that, in the annals of a race that has
disappeared, buildings like the Casa
Grande were the strongholds of stub
born chiefs, who held out for perhaps
hundreds of years after their followers
had perished at the hands of conquer
ors. It seems to be definitely estab
lished that the Pima Indians are the
descendants of the ancient people.
Great quantities of pottery have
been unearthed in the Casa Grande, in
cluding water vessels much like those
in use among the Pima tribe of to-day.
The Pima living in the vicinity of the
ruins have legends of a great chief
who dwelt at the Casa Grande with his
two daughters. The stories handed
down tell how the mountain tribes of
Indians descended upon the penile of
the valley, arid after a struggle lasting
scores of years eventually subdued
them.
The Casa Grande is supposed to he
the last stronghold to fall to the invad
ing red men.
WESTON, Ocean-to Ocean Walker,
Said recently: "When you feel down
and out. feel there is no use living,
just take your bad thoughts with you
and walk them off. Before you have
walked a mile things will look rosier.
Just trv it.’’ Have you noticed the in
crease in walking of late in every com
munity? Many attribute it to the com
fort which Allen’s Foot-Ease, the anti
septic powder to be shaken into the
shoes, gives to the millions now using
it. As Weston has said, "It has real
merit.”
Although a cyclone carries every
thing before it, a lot of ruin is left be
hind.
A Hero Producer.
Baltimore Sun.
The high opinion of the Virginia Mil
itary Institute expressed by Major-
General J. Franklin Bell, of the Uni
ted States army, is entirely justified
by the educational work of that fa
tuous academy. The occasion was the
presentation of a flag to the corps of
cadets in Washington Wednesday. This
Hag was the gift, of the alumni of the
institute residing in New York and is
an exact reproduction of the banner
which the cadets carried at the famous
battle of New Market in the Civil War.
Gen. Bell was selected to make the
presentation, and in the course of his
remarks he said : "We have a way in
the army of arriving at a classification
of young officers bv discussing their
education and training. Of course, we
look for the West Point graduate, hut
when it comes to picking out one from
the other—West Point or Virginia Mili
tary Institute — it makes no differ
ence.” With these words Gen. Bell un
furled the Hag, a banner of white silk,
hearing on one side a portrait of Wash
ington and on the other the coat-of-
arms of Virginia. The course of study
at the Virginia academy is about as
thorough as that at West Point, and
the same high standard of truthful
ness, honor and patriotism is main
tained. The only advantages which
West Point possesses are those neces
sarily due to greater pecuniary re
sources. But the Virginia Military In
stitute, as well as the University of
Virginia, has proved that a great en
dowment, however desirable, is not ab
solutely essential to great achievement
and the maintenance of a high stand
ard and repute. The banner which was
carried in the New Market fight, and of
which the one presented by the New
York alumni through Gen. Bell, is a
copy, was carried by as gallant a party
of hoys as ever did honor to any coun
try. They were only young hoys, but
when they were ordered out to meet
the veteran soldiers of the North who
were invading their State they acquit
ted themselves like men and the brav
est of the brave. It was an occasion
unique in the history of this country
and an exhibition of heroism which
should he held in remembrance.
The South After 1910.
WaHhintft.on Post.
There is no section of the country
gaining so rapidly in population and
wealth as the South. It contains ev
erything to make it the wealthiest sec
tion of the globe in soil, climate and
natural resources, and its people are
displaying an energy never surpassed
by any people. The fifteen Southern
States, for 1890 to 1900, gained nine
members of the House of Representa
tives, while the twenty-nine States of
the North gained only nineteen, and
since 1900 the South has been filling up
with population much faster than it
ever did before. So it is probable the
gain under the census of 1910 will
equal, if not surpass, thal of the
North. There is no State of the South
that cannot sustain a much larger pop
ulation than it now contains; there.is
no crowding there as yet, while some
of the Northern States are getting
pretty full. It is not probable the
South will ever equal the North in
population, because the area of the
North is so much greater, but the dif
ference between the two sections that
has existed almost from the foundation
of the Government in respect to popu
lation will he greatly lessened.
If the next census should show the
increase of population in the South
which it is thought it will show after
1910, that’ section will have a much
larger proportion of the members of
the House than it now has, and will
exert a wider influence than at pres
ent. The probabilities are that Texas
will equal Ohio in representation.
Georgia will surpass Massachusetts and
Alabama equal Indiana. It is probable
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio will
each lose one or more of its Represen
tatives by the next apportionment, and
Illinois will not more than hold its
own, hut Texas, Georgia, Missouri and
Alabama will gain very materially.
Taken altogether, the outlook for the
South under the coming census is ex
ceedingly bright and promising.
At 29 he thought fate was making a
special effort to keep him down.
At 35 he thought he might have done
great things if his wife hail not been
such a handicap.
At 40 he believed he would have been
a great man if his uhildren had not
made it necessary for him to cling to
the sure things.
At 50 he was positive that there was
a conspiracy against him on the part of
his fellow-men.
At 60 he felt that if he could have
been 35 again nothing could have
stopped him.
At 70 he began to believe that he had
failed because of a lack of courage and
ability to make the most of his oppor
tunities.
At 80 he was almost sure of it.
Keep the Girls in the Country Homes.
Autftmtn Horald.
Much has been said and written in
the way of advice to keep the boys on
the farm, hut little thought has been
given the girls. Yet it is a fact that
not only to the hoys hut to the girls
also the city is an attraction that
draws, and in every city may not only
be found hoys who have left the old
homestead in the country, with its
strong shelter, but also the girls.
It is risky enough for a young man
to come to the city, a stranger. Unac
quainted with city ways, he is cruelly
beset hy the many temptations which
in alluring form will meet him, and be
fore which so many fall. But tenfold
worse is it for girls. A hoy may make
a misstep and retrace it: fora girl this
is almost impossible. One false step
will almost surely lead to others, until
the fatal line is passed beyond which a
happy future is not to he found.
Fathers and mothers in their country
homes may not realize this. They may
not know the burden of care that rests
on the hearts of parents in the cities,
who are trying to steer their children
safely through the breakers which line
the pathway of young manhood and
young womanhood in the city. Could
they hut realize this they would try to
hold the hoys on the farm, and they
would not under any circumstances let
a daughter come to the city among
strangers to work in any capacity, un
less they came themselves to supply
her with a home ami its protection.
City life may look very attractive in
the view that those take of it who cun
see only its outward and most, attrac
tive side. But all is not gold that glit
ters, and that which glitters most of
ten is the greatest sham. While un
doubtedly there are opportunities in
the city which the country does not af
ford, and girls as well as hoys may
succeed, there are risks in the city and
temptations to lead astray which are
not to he feared in the country.
And to these the inexperienced youth
should not be exposed without the pro
tection of parental care, and certainly
not the girls.
Won a Great Treat.
Hurpor’a Wookly,
A very recent Secretary of State one
day looked up from his dusk and sud
denly asked:
“Do you speak Spanish, Mr. Jones?”
“No, sir, I am sorry to say I do
not,” the clerk addressed replied re
gretfully.
“Too had, too had!” t{ie Secretary
commented, and turned again to his
papers.
The clerk had visions of an offered
appointment as Secretary of Legation
at Madrid, and that very night set dili
gently to work to acquire the language
of the Dons, and with unusual success.
Two months later he ventured to sug
gest :
"Mr. Secretary, a short while ago
you asked me if I was familiar with
Spanish. At that time I was not, hut
I have since mastered it.”
"Indeed? Very good,” the Secretary
said. "Have you become really profi-
cient in the language in this short
time?”
"It seemed to come easy—I suppose
that accounts for it, sir,” the clerk
modestly admitted.
‘‘Excellent!” the Secretary said.
"You have a treat in store for yourself.
Now you can read Don Quixote in the
original!”
"Vot’s der dilfrunce betwin capital
und labor?”
“Capital don’t, haf ter labor, und la
bor don’t haf der capital.”
WELL DESERVED.
The Praise That Comes From Thank
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