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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. XLIV NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1909. NO. 44. DONE LAYING BY Now Comes the Big Meeting, and Here are Some Things You are Certain to Need: l We have good Flour at the right prices. Good Coffee at a good price. Shorts to start your pigs and hogs. A word to the wise is sufficient. Meat is very high and going higher. 'I Cotton Seed Meal and Bran always on hand. We have some Clothing and Pants we will sell at low prices. You will soon have to pull your fodder; then you will need a pair of “Gold Medal” Jeans Pants, and a pair of “DEW-PROOF” SHOES. Try a pair of “Stronger Than the Law;”—they will do the work. LADIES’ SHOES.—“High Point,” “Dixie Girl,” “Vir ginia Creeper.” These are popular priced Shoes, are war ranted solid leather, and are wear-resisters. Ice water always on tap. ART. The hen remarked to the muley cow As she cackled her dally lay, (That is, the hen cackled,) “It's funny how I’m Rood for an egg; a day. I’m a fool to do it. for what do I get? My food and my lodging. My! But the poodle Rets that—-he’s the household pet, And he has never laid a single egg yet— Not even when eggs are high." The muley cow remarked to the hen. As she mastered her cud, (That is, the cow did,) "Well, what then? Y’ou quit, and your name is mud. I’m pood for eipht pallons of milk each day. And I’m given my stable and grub; But the pnrrot pets that much, anyway — All she can gobble—and what does she pay? Not a dribble of milk, the uub!" But the hired man remarked to the pair, “You pet all that's cornin’ to you. The poodle does tricks, an’ the parrot kin swear, Which is better th’n you kin do. You’re necessary, but what’s the use Of bewailin’ your daily part? You’re bourgeois—-workings your only excuse; You can’t do nothin’ but just produce What them fellers does is Art!" T. G. Farmer & Sons Co. f 9 Court Square : : 6 and 3 W. Washington Telephone 147 ♦ * IT WILL PAY YOU * To get our prices before making your pur-fl* chases. While we do not quote prices, if you need anything in our stock we can make it to your interest to come to see us. We have no special sales days, but every day in the ^ year we have bargains, and if you want to spend your cash where your money will go a long way, we can prove to you that this is the best place to spend it. We make very attractive prices on all summer goods—Shoes, Lawns, Laces, Straw Hats, etc. Just received 2> dozen Finck’s union- made overalls, in every size. Mason’s Fruit Jars and Jelly Glasses. A full stock of Groceries on handball the time. Summer rates on all goods. V Come and trade with us. «§» H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO. O Would You Convict on Circumstantial Evidence ? Baltimore Sun. Under the above heading there ap pears in one of the New York Sun day papers a long story of a case in which an innocent man came near be ing hanged. But it is a curious illus tration of the confusion of thought that is so widely prevalent on this subject, that the point of the story has nothing to do with the question of convicting on circumstantial evidence. The cir cumstantial evidence against the ac cused in the case in question was not strong enough to secure conviction ; the finishing touch, the real thing that brought the innocent man to the verge of the gallows, was a false confession on the part of the actual criminal, which implicated the second man as a participant in the crime. On the day set for the execution of the two men the criminal solemnly declared that all that part of his confession which impli cated the other man was false. A re prieve was granted to the latter, and then fresh evidence was discovered which cleared him completely. To say that you will not convict on circumstantial evidence is about as sen sible as to say that you will not convict on the evidence of red-haired men, or that you will not convict on evidence given on a Friday. There is no method open to man that will make error im possible; you run some risk of error in accepting the testimony of eye-wit nesses; you run some risk of error in accepting the evidence of circum stances. To ask which involves the greater risk is something like asking which is the bigger, a piece of chalk or a piece of plaster. You have to look at the particular pieces before you can say anything about it. Some pieces of chalk are bigger than some pieces of plaster, and vice versa. The testimony of an eye-witness may be misleading because he is a liar, because he is care less, because his memory is treacher ous, or because he is a bad observer. Circumstantial evidence may be mis leading because there may possibly be some other explanation of the circum stances than that which seems to be the only one. How much possibility of each of these kinds of error there is, is a matter which nothing but the good sense of the man who considers the ev idence can determine. In one case there may be room for reasonable doubt in spite of very strong evidence resting on the direct observation of witnesses; in another case there may be no room for reasonable doubt, although all the evidence is of the kind usually called circumstantial. The question before a sensible man is not as to the kind of evidence, but as to its strength ; not as to any hard-and-fast classification, but as to the room left for doubt in the mind of a man who has been confront ed with the evidence. A much more logical position than that of a man who will not convict on circumstantial evi dence would be that of a man who will not convict as long as there is room for any doubt—not any reasonable doubt, but any doubt at all. But, of course, to take that position would be to give practical immunity to crime. Crimi nals, except when they act on a sudden impulse, seldom place themselves in a position where the evidence against them is so overwhelming as such a rule would call for. We have to run an in finitesimal risk of injustice for the sake of securing the infinite benefits of law and order and security—yes, ye3, and of justice itself. If we refuse to convict criminals except in the rare cases when jurymen could feel that there was absolutely not the faintest possibility of error, all clever rogues would be practically given license to rob and forge and kill at pleasure. The rule of the law calling for conviction in all cases in which there is no reasona ble doubt of the guilt of the accused is absolutely requisite for the protection of society. The cases in which it leads to the conviction of an innocent man are so rare that one need not think of them any more than one thinks of the probability of being killed by a stroke of lightning to-morrow. And in the extremely rare cases where they do oc cur they are no more likely to occur on account of circumstantial evidence than on account of the direct testimony of witnesses. There are large classes of crimes in which circumstantial evi dence is thi only kind that is practical ly ever avdlable; to deny its efficiency is indeed t»> throw overboard the safe guards of iociety against every subtle form of cr'ine. That anybody does so is not to be/explained by his being more conscieiAious than other persons, but by his beidg less intelligent; for it is only want at intelligence that causes him to be i na.ware that all evidence is lia ble to ead to error, and that in the case of circumstantial evidence, as in any other i afcfc, the only thing to do is to measure the degree of the danger that the particular evidence before one may he misleading. When the degree of this danger is practically zero, it is the duty a man who has a proper sense f his responsibility to declare his ver dict accordingly. The Country Editor and His Trials. A SouU Carolina Editor. 1 have had a varied experience as newspaper correspondent and special reporter for daily papers, and some experience as editor on a daily paper. Besides, 1 have been editor of a week ly paper long enough to learn the trials and tribulations of the man who undertakes to properly conduct that kind of paper. Most people think that the editor of the weekly paper has nothing to do, that his life is an easy one. They nev er think to investigate the latter and learn the real tacts. His trials and tribulations are many, and his work heavy and grin ling. He must be edi tor, local reporter, business manager, husiness agent, soliciting all the time advertisements and subscriptions, and looking after every detail of the type setting and the making up of his paper. He must act the editor and play the "devil.” He must lie careful to write edito rials that will not offend any faction in his town or county, or any man or men of influence. At least, that is expected of him. If his paper contains an of fending editorial, or local article, the party offended will have his paper stopped. If he says a little more about one local advertiser than another, though what is said is just and right, oifense is given and there is a loss of advertising patronage. He has to sit, thiAk and ponder over all such matters. He cannot with a free mind sit down to his editorial table and dash off edi torial or local matter as he would like to. He is hound hand and foot and so cramped that he cannot do himself jus tice. It’s all right to write free laud atory articles by the column on church fairs, public entertainments and the like. His pay is a free ticket, handed out as if it were just so much money thrown away. He is beat out of all kinds of adver tising matters in which he hus not the slightest interest, but which he dare not refuse. Notices of this and that are sent to him to publish free in a manner indicating that an honor is be ing conferred Candidates who have been elected to office, and some who have been defeat ed, send long cards for publication, thanking the people for election or the vote received, and then claim that they owe nothing because their cards of an nouncement, worth ten dollars and costing five, have been published in his paper. Men who desire to carry on a person al controversy think that what they say ought to go in free, and get mad when pay is demanded. "Why,” they say, “we subscribe for your paper.” The subscription at best is $1.50, and the matter to be printed ranges anywhere from ten to fifty dol lars, yet for $1.50 the editor is expected to print all the matter. The typesetter and the "devil” are not angels and may be classed as very uncertain quan tities, except that those quantities give the editor very certain trouble from week to week. If a local event is over looked, those interested are sure to claim that the oversight was intention al. Town factions are very hard to deal with. Each keeps its eyes open and its ear to the ground to try to figure out to which side the paper is leaning. Let a country editor use all possible dili gence to steer between the two and his efforts will fail. The best plan ir matter of that kind is to hew to che line, and then the editor will he re spected. Otherwise he will find him self between the devil and the deep sea. In the local social field no one must lie overlooked and each must be put on a par with the other. The posi tion of a country editor is a hard one and a thankless one, and one that this writer does not care to assume again. His experience has been sufficient to show him that. Shake Into Your Shoes Ailen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nervous feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions and makes walk ing easy. Try it to-day. Sold every where. Sample FREE. Address, Al len S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The Inspiration of Purpose. Circle Magazine. Purpose gives new meaning to life. It shows the only real reason for living is living for something. It is the as sertion of our kingship over conditions, our mastery over self, our glory in fighting for the right at close range and fighting to the end. Purpose makes man a crusader, glorying in his effort to attain the cross of some high ideal where tho inspiration and glow of the struggle are greater than the mere crown of victory. Purpose makes man hi a own second creator, and by it lie can make himself what he will. He can choose his own realm; he can live contentedly in the mud of low desires like a lizard, or sweep boldly high in tho pure, bracing air of noble ideals like an eagle right fully claiming the mountain tops as its own. Purpose transforms the common places of life; it strengthens the mind to meet obstacles and to he undaunted by them as u hardy swimmer glories in the battle with waves and opposing cur rents. Purpose gives man ever new and progressive elntions of his possibilities. It means consecration, living at our best for the sake of what is best; it means dedicating self to something higher than self. All true purpose must in the ultimate analysis be unsel fish. It can never find its finality in mere acquisition for self. This may he ambition, but not high purpose. Purpose at its best must be above and beyond us, like the polar star that guides and inspires the compass of the mariner. The world needs, more than talent, genius, wealth or power, men of mighty purpose, men consecra ted to daily living in the inspiring illu mination of an ideal; men who make each day count directly for something real, who face each day’s sunset with new harvests of good for those around them and for the world. The great thing in life is not in real izing a purpose, but in lighting for it. if we feel the possibilities of a great work looming up large before us and impelling us to action, it is our duty to consecrate ourselves to it. Failure in a great work is nobler than success in a petty one that is beneath our maxi mum of possibility. We have nothing to do with results; they do not belong to us anyway. It is our duty to do our best bravely, and rest in the sweet comfort of this fact alone. Waste of the Farmer. Now York Sun. It would lie well for the country if several millions of our fellow-citizens could see the economic situation as clearly and appreciate it as sanely as does Mr. Geo. T. Powell, whose letter on "The Farmers’ Wastefulness” we pub lished on June 11. Mr. Powell declares that "the mast urgent problem before our nation to-day is not the tariff, but the prevention of the great wasteful ness in agricultural methods that oc curs everywhere in the United States, and tho dissemination of scientific in formation that shall lead to soil resto ration and improvement.” The propo sition is irrefutable. Responsible authorities have estima ted the amount of the food hi 11 of the American people at a little more than $12,000,000,000 a year. That both the first cost and the retail price of most of the articles on the list could be re duced there can be no question. As the Sun has asseverated and as Mr. Powell declares, very few of our farmers have even a vague notion of the cost of their products. The makers of farm imple ments, of clothing, hats, shoes, furni ture and other articles bought by far mers know to the fraction of a cent the cost of their merchandise. There are and there can be no wasteful or haphazard methods in manufacturing or in commercial business. Tflu inevi table penalty of indifference to cost, in those lines is failure. Except in rare instances no other methods are follow ed on the farm. In that industry it is not the producer upon whom the penal ty falls. The consumer pays for the waste, indifference, and ignorance of the producer. Because of sundry legends handed down from generation to generation there is a general belief that a far mer’s life is one of arduous and poorly requited toil. Much of that belief is ut ter nonsense. The average farmer works harder to-day than does the av erage man in any other line of indus try. His reward is determined chiefly by the intelligence which he applies to his operations. Grand Master Davis Outlines His Pol icy. Rome, Ga., July 23.—John P. Davis, Grand Master of Georgia Odd Fellows, has just sent out an addreas outlining the policy of his administration. Grand Master Davis suggests that the policy of his administration will be one of education within the ranks, and of recognizing the position of each sub ordinate officer, giving to him the hon ors his position is entitled to. Says the address; "I have no criti cism to make of the former administra tions. It has been my pleasure to give to each and every one since my mem bership in the order my hearty co-op eration and help, and each will possi bly far exceed this one. But new con ditions must be met.” The suggestion is made that when appeals to any one of the 19 district deputies of the order are made, that they he referred to the Noble Grand of the local lodge. The proper course, in his judgment, is for the local lodges first to pass on all matters. A strict compliance with the forms of the or der is urged on all of the members. The Grand Master will not appoint a regular State organizer-instructor, as has been the custom in the past, but the work will he left to the division deputies. These are expected to visit each lodge of the order during the year, and also such places as now have no Odd Fellows’ lodge, hut where one should be established. Expenses and per diem will be paid the district dep uties. but they are urged to incur no expense unnecessarily. In closing. Judge Davis says: "Rise above the level of human selfishness, sidetrack confusion, smooth out rough places, dig up no’thing, bury all differ ences, and do all the good you can, with as little harm.” An old negro was asleep on the train out of Griffin the other day, mouth open andsnoring, when acommeroial traveler emptied a quinine capsule on his tongue. The old darkey awakened, began to spit around and called for the conductor, saying: “Boss, is there a doctor on this here train?” "I don’t know,” said the conductor. “Are you sick?” “Yes, sir, I sho’ is sick, I sho’ is sick, I sho’ is sick.” “What is the matter with you?” “Idunno, sir, but it taste like I done busted my gall.” “I’ve moved to the country now, and planted a garden.” “Anything coming up?” “Sure. My wife’s family is coming up to spend the summer.” “Do you know what I wish?” asked the woman who hates to see things penned up. “I wish there could be a real farm near New York, a farm with barnyards, orchards, and meadow brooks. Then l wish that every morn ing this summer there could be trains filled with little children from the crowded tenements running right out to this farm. I wish those children could pile out. run in the grass, hunt eggs, fish in the brook, and do all the things that children ought to do in the summer. Then after a supper of good bread and milk, Tong about Band Man time, the train could carry them back home. That would beat any play ground in the heart of the city. It could be done if the right persons and the money met. Once I saw a little lame chap, a mere baby of three, 30 pale and weak that older hoys had to carry him pick-a-back. He was taken out into real country. I saw him in just ten days, and his cheeks were rosy and he had the strength to toddle around by himself and to climb over benches and to laugh and to shout. Money that gives a stunted child strength to laugh is money well spent.” When a woman will eat onions it’s sign she is married. That our Amnrfcan forests abound in plants which possess the most valuable medicinal virtues is abundantly attested by scores of the most eminent medical writers and teachers. Even the untu tored Indians bad discovered the useful ness of many native plants before the advent of tho white race. This informa tion, imparted freely to the whites, led tho latter to continue investigations uritii to-day we have a rich assortment of most valuable American medicinal roots. Dr. Pierce believes that our American for- eats alibuml In most valuable medicinal roots foi\ tho cuhiqff most obstinate and fatal dls- :s, If we^wohi^properly Investigate them; of this conviction, he poliHe'wlth prld cujes ofTonwl hv l|is " 1 iuldim Medical Dis covery." which ha> proven .Itself to he the most ' ' ' ' — men i lllclenr sliimai-li lnn1c. liver Invlaor- ator. heart tunic and regulator, and blood cIeauser known to medical science. Dyspep sia. or Indigestion, torpid rTverTYunctlonul and even valvular and other affections of the heart yield to Its curatlvo action. Tho reason why It cures theso and many other affections. Is clearly shown In a little book of extracts from tho standard medical works which Is mailed /rce to any address by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of liuffalo, N. Y.. to all sending request for tho same. ^ Not less marvelous. In tho unparalleled cures It is constantly making of woman's many peculiar affections, weaknesses and distressing dcritmic merits. is Dr. Pierce’s FavorltoNPrescrlpUdts^as Is amply attested by thousands of^u^ijUmusMestlmonials con- jYirafeful paTTmiili who have been __ "1 mv-L'ia. ant after many other advertised medicines, and physicians had failed. Both the above mentioned medicines aru wholly made up from tho glyceric extracts of native, medicinal roots. The processes em ployed In their manufacture were original with Dr. Pierce, and they are carried on by skilled chemists ami pharmacists with the aid of apparatus and appliances specially designed and built for this purpose. Both medicines are entirely free from alcohol ami all other harmful, habit-forming drugs. \ full list of their Ingredient* U printed ou each bottle-wrapper.