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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 4 4 ! of “White Star” and Barnesville Buggies. H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO. 4 4- 4 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 ful Newnan People. One kidney remedy never fails. Newnan people rely upon it. That remedy is Doan’s Kidney Pills. Newnan testimony proves it always reliable. A. G. W. Foster, living near North Jackson street, Newnan, Ga., says: “I would not take one hundred dollars for the good Doan’s Kidney Pills afforded me; in fact, I can say that they have made a new man out of me. Probably due to advanced age, my kidneys were badly out of order and caused such in tense pain through my loins that I could hardly get about. At night I was restless and unable to sleep and would arise m the morning tired and worn out. My general health was being gradually undermined and I was at a loss to know what to do. The kidney secretions were very scanty and quite frequent in action. When I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at Lee Bros’, drug store, I hardly thought that they would help me, as I had used so many reme dies without any benefit. T soon changed mv opinion of them, however, as I nad taken them only a short time when every symptom of my trouble was banished. I am now in tne best of health, considering my age, and only wish I could let every sufferer from kidney trouble know of the great value of Doan’s Kidney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—loan’s—and take no other.