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fierald and .Hdwriiscr. NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JULY 30. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. T II K HOUSEFLIES. So<- tho city with ita flies;— Deadly flicB! Whut a world of sickness and of death 'Dip word implies! How they’re Kwnrming, Hwnrrning, Hwnrming, In the Hummer’a balmy air; I'very residence they’re storming, On the edibles they’re forming. And they leave deal h’s rnensaKe I here 1 With their specks, specks, Hperks, Typhoid germs, eonaumptkm 1leekn, And other dread diseases which most frequently nriHe From the flies, flies, flies, flies Flies, flies, flies From the filthy visitations of the flies. Alcohol: The Brain Destroyer. Two great German investigators, Kraepelin and Kurz, published, in 1900, the results of a series of careful ex periments in illustration of the persist ing influence of slight chronic alcoholic intoxication. The daily dose of alcohol decided on was eight grams (equivalent to two liters of beer), and this was taken before going to bed. The sub jects of the experiment were two med ical men, one of whom had been a teeto taler for years, while the other seldom took alcohol. The tests were the learn ing of figures, the adding up of sums, etc. Thejinfluence of these moderate doses of alcohol was found to be decided ly unfavorable. Mental aptitude slow ly, and then after some days more markedly decreased, the loss being in one case equal to twenty-five per cent, of the normal ability. Moreover, in one case at least, the unfavorable influence did not cease with the discontinuance of the alcohol. It was proved that even a very moderate dose of alcohol exerts its effects forjmore than twenty-four hours. Even those|phyBiologists who maintain that alcohol has foodjqualities, are agreed that it is a very expensive food, and that the same quantity of nutrition can be obtained in much safer and less cost ly ways. But, indeed, the question is largely academic, for men do not take alcohol for the sake of its power to build up tissue, but for the sake of its effect on the emotional tone of the mind. Al- coholic"drinks fare seldom taken for (heir taste alone. Alcohol is at once a kind of pseudo-stimulant and a depres sant. Hence some men, when in a merry mood, drink in order to check their shy ness and other worries and thus raise the sense of happiness to a higher pitch; but the majority drink because of the narcotizing influence of the drug. The troubled business man, tho woman left alone to face the petty details of domes tic drudgery, the overdriven profes sional man, the individual on whom some terrible calamity has fallen and who can see no way of escape from ruin- all these betake themselves to drink in order to drown their sorrows, to lose their personality for a brief period in oblivion. Alcohol is taken at first as a means of relief. The reason why this happens is that, in common with other agencies, such as morphia, cofcaine, and other kindred drugs, it can banish fear, worry, care; it can create a world peopled with the illusions of happiness. But at what a dread penalty! |For alcohol awakens a morbid appetite,fa pathological de sire. After a time this desire be comes dominant, thejforces of the will go down before it, and the drinker is then the victim of a disease. Power of Public Opinion. Omaha Be©. It is no longer “the public be damned," as one of the elder Vanderbilts once said. Up to recent times no one except public officials ever thought it worth their while to consider what the public thought of their doings and undertakings, and even this class heeded it in a per functory way. Next the men occupy ing semi-public positions felt the force of its pressure, and railroad and public service corporation Rediscovered the ne cessity, if not of yielding, of at least discounting it. Corporations which have to deal with the public everywhere are adopting the plan of giving publicity to their business formerly concealed. They have discovered that the people desire only what is fair, and that re strictions which have been unjust have gone on the statute-books through en forced popular ignorance, which they could have cured. The millenium has not arrived nor have these men told it all—only so much as the logic of conditions has impressed them as being necessary—yet the recognition of public opinion is growing and every day sees more light let in on the hitherto dark places. What is still more astonishing is the fact that men in private life, doing business on a large scale particularly, have found it desirable to reckon with this new-born force in civic life. 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 exeurs’on 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. “If you’d assume a more genial man- ter vou’d get along better in business.” “kot! 1 tried it once, and everybody 1 met wanted to borrow money.” Gradations in Drunkenness. Everybody’* Magazine. It is necessary to distinguish between alcoholism, chronic alcoholism, and dip somania. Acute alcoholism is simply drunk enness, a temporary poisoning of the brain. Chronic alcoholism is continuous poisoning of the brain, and is contract ed by the man who constantly drinks, or who from time to time gives way to excess for the sake of its pleasurable effects. Dipsomania, which is so often confounded with chronic alcoholism, is, according to the best students of the subject, to be distinguished from it. Many experts believe that dipsomania is one of the psychical equivalents of epilepsy. As it has been well put, “The drunkard is mad because he drinks: the dipsomaniac drinks because he is mad.” Krafft-Ebing says: “The dipsomaniac differs from the habitual or ordinary drinker and the chronic drunkard in the strictly episodic character of his mania to drink,” The dipsomaniac is the victim of a periodic mental disturbance, which starts with a profound physical and mor al depression, and he is then forced to take alcohol in order to rid himself of his intolerable unrest. He often resists the inclination with all his power, and may even have no love of drink itself, but after a fearful struggle he is com pelled to give in, and then he may drink for days or even weeks. Suddenly the attack ends, the psychic storm blows it self out, the patient ceases to have any desire for spirits. Months may pass before a fresh attack comes on. Dip somania, up to the present time, has not been cured. Confinement in U home for nervous invalids, combined with medical treatment, is the only possible alleviation. Happily, however, genuine dipsomina, as compared with chronic alcoholism, is infrequent, and it is with chronic alcoholism that we are here con cerned. Slaves of the Petticoat. We all are here and slaving to make money to spend it on women—first on the girl, afterwards on the wife, writes a hardworking and somewhat gloomy newspaper man. If most men had their way they would dress as Apache In dians one small garment only. They would live like Apaches, too, hunting, fishing and taking sun baths, blit they cannot oppose society and civilization. You must fall in line, catcli step and keep up with the procession. You may say that you don’t care for money, or for riches, or for houses; that you are satisfied with health, a competence, a nice family, etc. But they’ll just make you fall in line and work like the rest of them for fine houses and automobiles and all the vainglorious things that fol low in the way of wealth. In Rome you must be a Roman. In America you must keep up will) the procession. If you don’t you’d better go abroad to Tur key or some soporific country where thought breeds habits of sleep and work begets distaste. Why do we build fine homes? For ourselves? Surely not. We could camp out along the Mississippi’s banks and be perfectly and deliriously happy. We build fine homes for women and the natural addenda of women, children. Why do we erect great office buildings? Because we like them and because they are ornamental? Surely not. They are mere subsidiaries to the home—places which men use to make money to keep the home. From beginning to end, from cradle to grave, the American man lives and works ami strives only to please American women. Acute foreign ob servers all instantly remark this, and comment upon it. We are slaves of the petticoat. That has been throughly and fully proven against us. NEEDFUL KNOWLEDGE. Newnan People Should Learn t.o De tect the Approach of Kid ney Disease. The symptoms of kidney trouble are so unmistakable that they leave no ground for doubt. Sick kidneys ex crete a thick, cloudy, offensive urine, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding. The back aches constantly, headaches and dizzy spells may occur, and the vic tim is often weighed down by a feeling of languor and fatigue. Neglect these warnings and there is danger of dropsy, Bright’s disease, or diabetes. Any one of these symptoms is warning enough to begin treating the kidneys at once. Delay often proves fatal. You can use no better remedy than Doan’s Kidney Pills. Here’s Newnan proof: F. W. Brown, machinist, IS Thomp son street, ewnan, Ga.. says: “Some months ago 1 was troubled a great deal by pains in the small of my back. Pro curing a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Lee Bros. ’ drug store, 1 used them ae- : cording to directions and was relieved in a few days, i have been in good health since.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 j cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United ' States. Remember the name—Doan’s—anc J take no other. ! He told his 12-year-old son to milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the pigs, hunt up the eggs, feed the calves, catch the colt and put him in the stable, cut j some wood, split the kindling, stir the I cream, pump fresh water into the creamery after supper, and be sure to j study his lessons before he went to bed. Then he went to the farmers’ club to discuss the question: “How to keep 1 the boy or. the farm.” No Personal Offense. Doctors differ, and lawyers, too— even clergymen can warm up in debate, but the mark of a real man—call him a “gentleman” if you choose—is his supe riority to petty feeling. A real man never takes away into his private life a grudge against the man with whom he has combatted in the open. The undis cerning onlooker stares like an owl when he sees the two previously antagonistic “legal lights” go off to lunch arm in arm after the verdict. The onlooker had thought they were so mad at each other they would mix up in the corridor, but they never do- at least, not gentlemen. When doctors get together socially they are just as nice as if they had never discussed whether it was curvature of the spine or only stomach ache. Minis ters will heatedly discuss some point in church polity, and when they part re member no more in a personal sense the words of their opponents. It’s the lit tle man who gets mad in an argument and keeps mad. Sometimes he goes home and nurses up a fine old grudge, which is only buried when it’s buried with him in his coffin. It’s the earmark of a proper gentleman that he doesn’t take personal offense at opposition to his views and plans. Unanswerable. New York Times. Mrs. Newthought, who is one of the sect that finds evil and no ills in life, has a maid who sleeps at her own home. One morning she failed to ma terialize, and upon being questioned as to the cause of her absence gave as an excuse that her father was very sick with the rheumatism of the heart. “But, Mary,” exclaimd her mistress, “there is no such thing as rheumatism. Your father only thinks he is ill.” “Yes. mum,” agreed Mary. Several days later Mary again failed to put in an appearance. The follow ing morning she took up her duties as usual, hut gave no excuse. As an open ing to a reprimand her mistress said: “I suppose it was your father again, Mary. Does he still think he is ill?” “Oh, no, mum,” said Mary, wearily. “He thinks now he’s dead. We are goin’ to bury him to-morrer. ” Small boys are not always as sym pathetic as their relatives wish, hut, on the other hand, they are seldom as heartless as they sometimes appear. “Why are you crying so, Tommy?” inquired one of the boy’s aunts who found her small nephew seated on the doorstep, lifting up his voice in loud wails. “Thcb-baby fell d-downstairs!” blub bered Tommy. “Oh, that’s too bad,” said the aunt, stepping over him and opening the door. “I do hope the little dear was not much hurt!” “S-she’s only hurt a little!” wailed Tommy. “But Dorothy s-saw her fall, while I’d gone to the grocery! 1 never s-see anything!” The result of the latest census taken on the Island if Cuba, under the super vision of the National Government, shows the population of Cuba, including all of the provinces, to be 2,048,980, of which number 69.72 per cent, are ne groes. According to the above figures nearly every third person walking the streets of Havana or any of the other cities and towns is a negro, and there are almost 7,000 more negro women on the island than males of the same race. Of the proportion of males and females of the mulatto race, which is put down in the census as “mixed, ” there is a still larger preponderance of females, there being exactly 18,775 more mulat- tresses than mulattoes. Many people who have fairly good lawns run the grass out by the way they treat it. They allow,it to grow up tall and then mow it off and x - ake off the cut grass, thus constantly exhausting the soil. The best thing for the lawn in spring is a good dressing of raw bone meal. Then run the lawn-mower as often as the grass gets tall enough for it to bite, and then let the cut grass lie. It will soon disappear, and will be con stantly thickening the sod with material to hold moisture, while if the grass is allowed to grow tall, there will be too much to leave. In growing weather the lawn-mower should be run once a week.—Progressive Farmer. “Your honor, ” said Moman Prulett, the criminal lawyer, “since reports and modern law are not sufficient to con vince you, let me read this section from Blackstone, the father of the common law and an undoubted authority. He sup ports my contention precisely.” “You had as well sit down, Mr. Prulett; I have decided the point against you,” replied the court; “you need not cite more cases. I have overruled your demurrer, and do not care to hear you read the section." “I know you have, your honor, I know you have,” sar castically said the redoubtable lawyer. “I know it, but I just wanted to show the court what a fool Blackstone was.” Father (who is always trying to teach his son how to act while at the table) — "Weil, John, you see, when I have fin ished eating I always leave the table.’’ John -“Yes, sir; and that is about all you do leave. ” “Dickey,” said his mother, “when you divided those five caramels with your sister did you give her three?” "No, ma’am. 1 thought they would not come out even, so I ate one ’fore I began to divide. ” A Postmaster’s Report. The following is a verbatim copy of the first report made to Postmaster- General Cortelyou by a newly-appoint ed postmaster in a rural district of North Carolina : “Muster Jorge Cortelyou, President of the United States—Dear sir been required by the instructions of the post office to report quarterly I now fulfill that pleasant duty by reporting as toi lers : The harvestin has been goin on purty wel and most of the naburs have got ther cutting about dun, wheet is hardly a average crop on rollin Ians corn is yellerish and wont cut morn ten booshils to the aker the health of the community is only torrerably meesels and cholry has broken out in a bought 2 and a half miles frome her, thar air a powful awaken on the subject of relig- on in the Potta naburhod and many soles are bein made to know thar sins forgiven. Miss nancy Micks a neer r,a- bur had a new baby but he is a poor scraggy little fellow and won’t live half bis days. This is about all i know and have to report the present quarter give my respects to MISS Corteloyu and subscribe myself yours trooly,” etc. In one of the city’s outlying sections is an old resident whose homestead is still rustic enough for the maintenance of a cow, a few chickens and other ac companiments of real country life, says the New York Post. The owner, in summer time, likes to invite city chil dren—the sons and daughters of friends —to visit him. A recent guest was a small girl whose previous experience had been confined largely to the con stricted areas of Manhattan, but she evi dently was averse to displaying her igno rance of life in the open. When the host was showing her the little farm and its attractions she assumed a know-it-all attitude. The cow, the chickens—every thing was glimpsed with apparent un concern or studied indifference. And later, at the dinner table, when the visitor saw a bowl of honey, she said pat ronizingly: “Ah, I see you keep a bee.” For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.—“I was a great sufferer from female troubles \\ liich caused a weakness and broken down condition of the system. I read so much of \v!i:ii l.vdia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound had done for other suffering women I felt sure it would help me. and l must say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all left me. I grew stronger,and within three months 1 was a perfectly well woman. “I want this letter made public to show' the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound."—Mrs. John G. Moldan, 2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. Thousands of unsolicited and genu ine testimonials like tlie above prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those dis tressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt Hie ability of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Piiiklmm. at Lynn, Mass. Shew ill treat your letter as strictly confidential. For UO years she lias been helping sielc women in this way, free of charge. Don’t hesitate — write at once. No old sore exists merely because the flesh is diseased at that partic ular'spot; if this were true simple cleanliness and local applications would heal them. Whenever a sore or ulcer refuses to heal readily, the blood is at. faulf this vital fluid is filled with impurities and poisons which are being constantly discharged into the place, feeding it with noxious matter and irritating and inflaming the nerves and tissues so the sore cannot heal. These impurities in the blood may be the remains of some constitutional trouble, the effect of a debilitating spell of sickness leaving disease germs in the system or the absorption by the blood of the fcmieuted refuse matter which tiie bodily channels of waste have failed to remove. Again the cause mav be hereditary, the diseased blood of ancestry being banded down to posterity • but whatever the cause, the fact that the sore will not heal shows {he necessity for the very best constitutional treatment. There is nothing that causes more worry and anxiety than an old sore which resists treatment Every symptom suggests pollution ' and disease—the discharge, the red, angry looking flesh, the pain and in flammation, and the discoloration of surrounding parts, all show that deep down in the blood there are morbid and dangerous forces at work, con stantly creating poisons which may in tiie end lead to Cancer. Local applications are valuable only for tlieir cleansing and antiseptic effects; they do not reach the blood, where the real cause is located, and can therefore have no real curative worth. S. ,S. S. heals old sores by going down to the fountain-head of the trouble and driving out the poison-producing germs and morbid matters which are . , . . . keeping the ulcer open. It removes every particle of impurity from the cir culation and makes this life-stream pure, fresh and health-sustaining. Then as new rich blood is carried to the place the healing begins, all discharge ceases ’the inflammation leaves, new tissue and healthy flesh are formed, and soon the sore or ulcer is well. S. S. S. is the greatest of all blood puri fiers and finest of tonics, just what is needed ill the treatment, and in addi tion to curing the sore will build up and strengthen every part of the system. Special book on .Sores and Ulcers and anv medical advice desired furnished free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA) GA. I want to recommend S. S. S. to any who are in need of a blood purifier,and especially as a remedy for sores and obstinate ulcers. I n 1877 I had my leg badly cut on the sharp edge of a barrel, and having on a blue woolen stocking the place was badly poisoned from the dye. A great sore formed and for years no one knows what I suffered with the place. I tried, it seemed to me, everything I had ever heard of, but I got no relief and I thought I would have to go through life with an angry, discharging sore on my leg. At last I began the use of S. S. S., and it was but a short time until I saw that the place was improving. I continued it until it removed all the poison from my blood and made a complete and permanent cure of the sore. JNO. ELLIS. 250 Navy Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. It if* specially suited to this purpose because of the extra weight and quality of the felt used in its manufacture, and it takes tho sainc insurance «« metal or slate. Further unanswerable proof of the general all-round superiority of Vulcanite Roofing, is the fact that it took first prize at tho Georgia State Fair: at tne Alabama Agricultural Fair; at the Mississippi Agri cultural Fuir, and the Alabama State Fair. Don’t use any other roofing until you write us. investigating the economy and superiority oi Uiu» rooting;. R. 0. COLE MEG, C0„ , Newnan, Ga. Newnan Hardware Co. Seasonable Goods Garden Hose Freezers, Lawn Mowers Screen Doors Screen Windows Fruit J ars Preserving Kettles Milk Coolers Jar Rubbers Jelly Glasses Tin Fruit Cans Blue, White and Gray Enameled Ware We are right here with the goods. ’Phone us your order. Newnan Hardware Co., GREENVILLE STREET, Telephone 148. New Aauernsetmrus PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Clfiri.f i„d Orange, Amber and Red Top Sorghum Seed WE HAVE RECEIVED LARGE SHIP MENTS OF EACH VARIETY. NICE, RECLEANED, WITHOUT TRASH. SEE US BEFORE BUYING. WE’LL SAVE YOU MONEY. Ajlarge quantity of Unknown Peas for sale. M. C. Farmer & Company A Wheel Off COPVR iCHT Or any of the numberless mis haps that occur to the best of vehicles in consequence, of bad roads, or careless driving can be repaired in the best manner, durably and efficient at E. R. Dent's repair shops. Our work always gives thorough satisfaction, as the testimony of our former pat rons shows. We also make tho best buggy sold in Newnan. E. R. DENT