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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X L I V.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909.
NO. 45.
M Y It A B Y
The Galveston Storm.
DONE LAYING BY
Now Comes the Big Meeting, and
Here are Some Things You
are Certain to Need:
AYe 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.
Cotton Seed Meal and Bran always on hand.
A\ T e 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.
T. G, Farmer & Sons Co.
19 Court Square : : 6 and 8 IV. Washington
Telephone 147
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Semi - Annual
Stocktaking
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AA’e will begin our semi-annual stock-taking on
Aug. 23, and in order to reduce our stock of sum-
mer goods to make room for fall goods we will sell
at greatly reduced prices for’cash all Lawns,Dim
ities, summer Clothing, Slippers, low-quartered
Shoes, etc., and it will pay you to get our prices,
not only on these goods, but on everything i in the
m house. m
V The farmers are about through work for a*Q*
while, the prospects are good for a fine crop of cot
ton and a good price; so come and buy one of our
buggies—a “White Star” or a “Barnesville,” it
makes no difference, as both are good ones, and you
<8» will make no mistake in buying either. And per- rfjp
haps you will need a new wagon to haul your cot
ton to market. If so, we sell the best made—the
old reliable “W hite Hickory.” You know its repu
tation "the best wagon on the market to-day.”
A full and complete stock of heavy groceries— _
Hay, Corn, Bran, Alfacorn, Shorts, Flour, Salt,^fr
Oats, etc.
Sole agents for Chattanooga Plows.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
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Sleep, little one, in thy tiny bod;
A white star is hovering- overhead;
A bird flies west through the darkening day:
Sleep, little one, while I kneel and pray—
Mother of Jesus, thy tear
Never be mine for my baby dear.
A spirit waits at the door of dream,
With lips asmlle and with eyes agleatn
To lead thee into the woods that lie
Beyond the gates of the evening sky.
Mother of Jesus, roads ore wide;
Bring him back if he leave my side.
Go. Fly with him where the bird has flown
And see the field with the stars o’erstrewn:
And I will hide in my Land of Bliss
To bring thee home with a mournful kiss.
Mother of Jesus, thou dost know
Why it is that I love him so.
Daniel AVebster Again.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Some time ago The Advertiser called
attention to the interesting fact that
the birthday of Daniel Webster is now
an almost forgotten date, and that lit
tle attention is given it anywhere in
this country. We also spoke of him as
‘‘one of the greatest, if not really the
greatest, of American statesmen.”
Thereupon the Washington Cost thus
comments:
“Intellectually Webster is to our
country what Plato is to Greece and
what Bacon is to England—its greatest
mind; but he was not our greatest
statesman, except in debate. As a pol
itician he was far below Van Buren,
and as a law-giver he is not to be men
tioned in the same class with Alexan
der Hamilton or Henry Clay or Thomas
H. Benton ; and while he had a larger
intellect than Calhoun, the South Caro
linian had the finer mind for its extent
and the clearer vision for its horizon.
“But in forensic debate Webster is
first of Americans, and he is quoted as
authority more frequently and more
confidently than any other man who
ever sat in either House of Congress.
“It is a notable fact that Ben Hill,
the ablest man the South has sent to
the House or Senate since the War,
got the most of his politics from Dan
iel Webster.”
The Post doesn’t seem to agree with
our estimate of Webster’s statesman
ship, though it admits that he was
without a superior in debate. Noting
The Post’s comments, the Macon Tele
graph calls attention to the fact that
Webster, by his conservatism and his
devotion to the Constitution, lost caste
with many of his Northern admirers.
At one time he was looked on as the
pride and glory of New England espe
cially, and of most of the Northern
people generally, and was not without
hosts of loyal admirers and adherents
in the So«th.
But the abolition sentiment was en
veloping and overrunning the North in
the latter part of Webster’s life, and
he could not indorse the injustice and
intolerance of the leaders of that party.
In a speech in the Senate delivered
some time in 1850 he pointed out the
wrongful course the North was pursu
ing with regard to slavery, and appeal
ed to them to show fairness and toler
ance to their Southern brethren. In a
speech delivered at Capon Springs, Va.,
in 1851, he used these emphatic and
prophetic . words : “If the Northern
States refuse wilfully and deliberately
to carry into effect that part of the
Constitution which represents the re
storation of fugitive slaves and Con
gress provides no remedy, the South
would be no lorger bound to observe
the compact. (The Uniun.) A bargain
cannot be broken on one side and still
bind the other side.”
These were brave and truthful words,
flatly spoken, but they did much to
weaken Webster’s hold on the people of
his own section. His justification of
secession, if the North continued to vi
olate the Constitution and intrude on
the Constitutional rights of the South,
was a red rag shaken in the faces of
the abolitionists of the North and they
never forgave him. Secession is a ques
tion of the past; abolition did its work
and there’s an end to it; but the North
has not forgotten nor forgiven Webster
for his manful efforts to stop the tide
of malice and intolerance which was
sweeping everything before it. In the
words of The Telegraph :
“Webster patriotically desired to
ehe the violent manifestations of the
anti-uavery movement and thus to
save the Union, and it was largely due
to him that Clay’s measure, the com
promise of'l850, was accepted and tem
porarily sustained by the more conserv
ative elements in the North. But
while Webster’s position on this grave
question pleased the battling South and
endeared him to Stephens, Toombs,
Hill and othfeV Southern Whigs, he an
gered the abolitionists, disappointed
his own friends, and was never forgiv
en. In bravely standing by the Consti
tution in the face of the clamor of rad
icals and the less outspoken disapprov
al of the Northern masses, he virtual
ly brought his brilliant career to an end
and died two years later a disappointed
man.
“Even now the average Northern
historian will speak of Webster as a
man who, though of towering ability
and vast achievement, was at a crucial
moment found wanting All this rqay
possibly in a' measure account for the
slight notice taken of his recurring an-
I niversary. ”
I The following interesting description of the
torriflc storm which visited Galveston a fow days
affo was written by the 15-year-old daughter of
Mr. E. S. Daniel, of Palmetto, she heini? on a visit
to her brother, J. B. Daniel, at the time. |
Galyeston, Texas, July 21, 1909.
Dearf jHoniefolks:—I shall try to
write you some of my to-day’s expe
riences, although I don’t know when
the letter will reach you, as part of the
bridge which connects Galveston with
the mainland is gone; so of course the
trains eannot run.
Well, to tell the truth, we had a big
stornj out here this morning, which
would have caused many fatalities and
great property loss had it not been for
the protection afforded by the sea-wall.
It was the first severe test the wall had
had since it was built. Wish you could
have seen the waves. They were ter
rible. I never saw a mad sea before.
The water lacked only two feet of
reaching the top of the wall; but even
then the waves lashed over and filled
the streets to a depth ef two feet. It
was’t so had at first, so we took a car
and went out to see the gulf; but the
spray and wind were so fierce that we
positively couldn’t stand on our feet.
We got as wet as “drowned rats”
from the waves lapping over the top of
the wall. Botli Murdock’s and Break
ers’ bath-houses were swept out of ex
istence, besides three fishing-piers. It
was awfully rough for awhile, with
boards and rocks flying in every direc
tion.
When we reached home Perle (Britt’s
wife) was so frightened she didn’t
know what to do. Everybody was going
up town to the tall buildings for safety,
and the water was pouring into the
street at such a rate that we decided to
go down to the terminal to Britt’s office ;
hut when we reached there he had gone
home after us; so there we were—Britt
not knowing where we were, and it rain
ing so hard one could scarcely see how to
walk J besides, the wind was blowing
at the rate of a mile a minute. When
I started back home I had to wade
through water two feet deep. I reached
the corner where I caught a car, after
waiting for it in the rain and wind
about fifteen minutes.
It came at last and I started for
home, but only got as far as the street
car station, where the car got stranded
in the water, and there I was, five,
blocks from home, and my only chance
of getting there to start wading
through the water again.
When I at last reached home Britt
had just gone back to the terminal
station, having been told by the neigh
bors that we were there. So I was in
worse trouble than ever, for the cars
had stopped running, and I had to wade
a mile in the rain back to the termi
nal. When I reached there they had
gone to a more substantial building for
safety, so I just put out again and
found them in an electric theatre, with
Perle and Dorris (Britt’s baby), scared
out of a year’s growth. The broken
glass out of the windows was Hying in
every direction, and the theatre threat
ened to collapse every minute ; so we
struck out to wading again, in search
of a better place, and finally landed in
the Trust Building, where we stayed
until 3 o’clock, with not a mouthful to
eat. Dorris was about half sick, and
the cars were not running, so we
couldn’t get home. Britt tried to hire
a carriage to carry us, but the driver
charged $8, so he got a little grocery
wagon for $1.50, and here we went
through to sea.
Well, I laughed all the way home,
thinking how funny we looked sitting
up in that dinky little wagon. We at
last reached home in safety, and after
it was all over we went out to the
beach to see how conditions were there.
I have never seen so much debris in
one place before. The waves had
washed up immense trees ori the boule
vard. All of the iron railing was
washed from the top of the wall. The
tide is still high, but was worse be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock. The wind was
so strung that it carried one lady near
ly over the wall, when two men caught
her.
This was the most exciting experi
ence I ever had. Every one thought I
would be ready to pull out for Georgia
on the first train, but it did not dimin
ish my love for Galveston in the least.
With much love, Mary Daniel.
Don’t he afraid to do your duty be
cause someone ridicules or opposes you.
A man who has opinions of his own ard
the courage to advocate them will l.e
sure to have opposition in this world,
because he runs across or contrary to
other people’s opinions; but just keep
right ahead if your cause is right and
your conscience clear. Don’t worry
about what other people say ; life is too
short for that. Some will abuse you
through envy, others for want of
principle, and some because they hon
estly differ from you ; but if you keep
right on openly, manfully and intelli
gently, and with your proper dignity
of character, honesty of purpose and
self-respect, those who differ from you
will respect your opinions.
The Young Lawyer.
Gen. John S. Wise gives some good
advice to young lawyers in the Circle
Magazine:
“No man can know, when he starts
out,” writes Gen. Wise, "what sort of
law he is going to get, and no man
without practice ought to refuse any
case he can get, if it is reputable. The
affairs of life are intermingled with
each other like crabs in a basket. One
may lift out the smallest crab and find
it hung to the largest. So of law.
Some of the best cases I ever had arose
from little matters which, when they
came to me, seemed almost too insig
nificant to bother with. And I have
learned as much law from little eases
as from large ones.
“Soon after I came to the bar a
druggist had a fight with a man who
kicked his dog, and I defended iiim.
Out of that ten-dollar matter came
large business. Not long afterward
two men caught an Arctic seal and made
money showing the animal, until they
quarreled. Then I was called in and I
had a receiver appointed for the seal.
In that case I learned enough of the of
fice duties of receivers to make me a
pretty good lawyer on that subject, and
it brought from totally unexpected di
rections a large amount of business.
“So never despise little eases if you
have not large ones to occupy you—is
my maxim to this day. It would be
more emphatically so if I were younger
and more dependent.
“When a young fellow first appears
in court he cannot he too careful in
creating the impression that he does
not think he knows much. The Judges
are busy and impatient, and the law
yers are hired to throw an adversary
down and rub sand in his eyes if they
can.
“An old lawyer touseling a young
one is, as a rule, as merciless as a cat
tossing a mouse, and enjoys it in much
the same way. If he delays in giving
the finishing blow it is because he
knows he has the victim at his mercy.
“So, young fellow, when your time
comes go at your business in a ginger
ly fashion at the start. No matter
how much you know or how bright you
are, remember you are still an amateur
pitted against a professional, and act
so modestly and deferentially that the
old brutes may have their bowels of
compassion stirred toward you. Do not
invite assaults. You little dream how
hard the old fellows can hit. Wait un
til you are toughened up a bit. You
will get tough pretty soon.
What is Legal Tender ?
Washington Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
“[ venture to say that not one bank
er in a hundred, and not a single mem
ber of the Senate or House, can tell you
accurately what parts of the United
States currency are legal tender and
what not legal tender, ” was the sur
prising statement of a Treasury official
the other day. “Learned Senators,
who are devising a new currency sys
tem, would have to resort to the laws
in order to find out just exactly what
is meant by this term.
“A great many people know that the
definition of legal tender is one of a
character which by law a debtor may
require his creditor to receive in pay
ment, In the absence of u special
agreement. But when it comes to stat
ing just what money is legal tender,
you will find the bankers all at sea.
“Gold certificates are not a legal ten
der, hut are receivable for customs,
taxes, and all public debts. Silver cer
tificates are not a legal tender. Neither
are national bank notes. They are re
ceivable, however, in payment of
taxes, excises, public lands and all oth
er dues to the United States, except
duties on imports. Trude dollars and
fractional currency are not legal ten
der. Fractional currency is receivable
for postage and revenue stamps and
also in payment of any dues to the Uni
ted States leHS than $5, except duties
on imports. Foreign gold and silver
coins are not legal tender.
“The following are legal tender, in
all that the term means:
“Gold coins of the United States,
standard silver dollars, subsidiary sil
ver coins, minor coins of copper,
bronze or copper nickels up to twenty-
five cents, United States notes or
greenbacks, demand Treasury notes,
Treasury notes of 1890, Columbian half-
dollars and Columbian quarters. Sub
sidiary silver coin, including Columbian
half-dollars arid quarters, are legal ten
der up to $10. ”
Summer Excursion Rates to Tybee.
Central of Georgia Railway will sell
ten-day tickets Newnari to Tybee and
return, every Saturday, May 27 to
August 21, 1909, inclusive, at rate of
$10.
Summer excursion 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.
Flour by any other name would smell
as wheat—to the shorts.
Retribution Comes.
Columhua Enquirer-Sun.
It sounds strange, hut the fact re
mains that the hot-bed of abolition in
ante-bellum days is up in arms, so to
speak, against the negro. Burlington,
Vt., one of the northernmost cities of
New England, is confronted with a
question similar to that which disturbed
the peace of Brownsville, Texas, and
the people are acting not unlike their
brethren of the South. The trouble
was caused by the decision of the Gov
ernment to quarter twelve hundred ne
gro cavalrymen at Ft. Ethan Allan,
three miles from that city. According
to a dispatch from Burlington, white
people have refused to eat in restau
rants with the nergoes, and citizens of
Burlington and Winooski are demand
ing separate cars for whites and blacks
on the trolley road "Jim Crow” cars,
as they are called in the South. The
first trouble started at Winooski, a lit
tle town a mile from the fort, with
1,400 inhabitants. Winooski, while offi
cially a dry town, is supplied with two
or three kitchen “cubbies,” and the col
ored soldiers are in the habit of visit
ing them.
The dispatch further says that
“there lias been trouble enough al
ready with only a portion of the color
ed regiment here, and the natives are
becoming alarmed over the prospect of
what may result with the whole de
tachment in town. The race prejudice
has already extended to the restau
rants, cafes, moving picture houses,
and even the country papers are clam
oring for the soldiers to lie moved. This
is the first time in the history of New
England when colored troops have been
stationed within its borders.
It would appear that the day of retri
bution is coming to the people of New
England, They have abused the South
ern people all these years for no more
than they themselves are doing even
now.
Too Easy.
Tit-rutd.
“I huve arranged everything.”
As she looked up trustingly into his
eyes, the young and beautiful girl’s
hand stole confidingly into that of her
astonished lover.
“ Every thing !” he exclaimed.
"Yes, dear. I went frankly to fath
er and told him the whole story, how
we first met, who you are, and, in
deed, all the circumstances; and he
made not the slightest objection. Then
I went to mother and told her the same
thing, and she said that she was very
glad. So, dear, there is nothing more
to worry about. ”
He looked at her vaguely.
“Didn’t you tell me,” he said hoarse
ly, “that your father would probably
get mad at the first mention of our
love, and try to throw me downstairs?”
“I think I intimated something like
that. ”
“And didn't you tell me that your
mother would probably go off into hys
terics anrl refuse positively ever to let
me enter the house again?”
“Something of the sort, dearest.”
“And didn’t you give me to under
stand that we would probably have to
meet clandestinely, and that, in all
probability we would have to elope and
take the chances afterward of the old
folks’ forgiveness?”
She smiled winningly.
“Yes, dear; hut just think of it. It
has been arranged so nicely, without
one of my forebodings coming true.
Indeed, I may say that father and
mother are both delighted. Now, the
only question is when to fix the wed
ding day. ”
But the young man shook his head.
“I’m awfully sorry to disappoint
you,” he said, “but I guess I'd better
go home and think this over. Every
thing seems too easy.”
You must not say ‘‘as silly as a
goose” any more, for naturalists have
been studying this animal of late years,
and they have come to the conclusion
that she is the wisest Old bird going.
She never quarrels without cause:
she sees danger before ahy other fowl;
she has more courage than the rooster;
she is far braver than the gobbler, and
if given a fair show, she can beat off
the fox.
A flock of geese squatted around the
barnyard at night is a much greater
protection than the watchdog. They
are light sleepers, and will give the
alarm the instant they see a stranger
moving about.
So, in future say, “As wise as a
goose,” and give her all credit.
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 try 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.”