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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X L I V.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 3, 1909|.
NO. 46.
BY
Now Comes the Big Meeting, and
Here are Some Things You
are Certain to Need:
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.
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-
xantecl solid leather, and are jwear-resisters.
Ice water always on tap.
T H E GOOD OLD 1. AND.
The g;ootl old land, the sweet old life.
Love lights the way of toil and strife.
Where’er the battle blares and blows.
Peace follows with her wreath of roses;—
The Rood old land, how sweet it lies
Before the hunger of our eyes.
The prood old land; ah, speak it well,
Each violet vale and brambled dell;
Its cities rippling- with each song;
Of steam and steel and happy throng:;
The toiling; land, the hope, the quoat,
The twilight and the dream of rest.
The good old land, the land we love—
God guard it still from storms above;
The waves may rock, the billows beat,
Clear breaks the dawn o’er vales sown sweet
With blooms of love where love blooms still
Beside the green gates of the hill.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.
Biographical Sketch of World’s Rich
est Man.
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T. G. Farmer & Sons Go.
19 Court Square :: 6 and 8 W. Washington
Telephone 147
Semi - Mmmai
Stocktaking
Sale
We 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 foHcash all Lawns,% Dim- {
ities, summer Clothing, Slippars, low-quartered
Shoes, etc., and it will pay you to get our prices,
not only on these goods, but on everything in the
house. I
The farmers are about through work for a *8*
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
will make no mistake in buying either. And per
haps you will need a new wagon to haul your cot
ton to market. If so, we sell the best made—the
old reliable “White 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, ^
Oats, etc.
Sole agents for Chattanooga Plows.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
John D. Rockefeller, heat! of the
Standard Oil Company and popularly
supposed to be the richest man in the
world, to-day celebrated his 70th birth
day. The following paragraphic review
of the personal characteristics and ca
reer of the oil king is based largely on
his own statements:
John Davison Rockefeller was born
in Richford, N. Y., July 8. 1S39, son of
William A. Rockefeller, a farmer, and
Eliza Davis Rockefeller.
He says he milked cows at 8 years of
age.
At 9 he bought coi'clvvood for the
home, and knew how to select the good
pieces.
At 12 he supervised the construction
of a brick house for his father. He
says it was a splendid experience.
He went to Cleveland, Ohio, when
he was 13.
He left school at 16.
His first position was as a clerk and
bookkeeper, in 1855. He got $50 for
four months’ work.
He declared that he didn’t mind the
amount of the salary. It was the posi
tion he wanted—the chance to prove
himself.
Was raised after working a year to
$25 a month.
Paid for his board and laundry from
his first job—and saved a little money.
Always gave something of his sav
ings to the church.
Always kept note of his earnings and
expenses.
Worked early and late ; says his work
was always a pleasure.
When he was 19 years old he asked
for $800 a year salary—and war re
fused.
Left his position, borrowed $2,000
without security, to commence a pro
duce commission business with a young
Englishman.
His first year’s profits were $2,200.
Borrowed more money and backed
one Samuel Andrews, who had devised
a new process to improve the quality
of oil, in a refinery.
His keenness and persistence rapidly
increased his business. Started another
refinery, and opened an oil-selling
house in New York.
It is asserted that he obtained his
first great advantage over competitors
by getting regular rebates from rail
roads.
By combining with other interests he
forced or bought out many smaller
companies, so that in 1872 he became
master of one-fifth of the refining bus
iness of the United States.
It is claimed that his business meth
ods with those who stood in his way
were pitiless and crushing, but those
who did as he wished invariably made
money.
His word in business or in private is
absolutely to he relied upon.
His gifts to his church grew greater
in proportion to his earning capacity.
When the independents pumped oil
over the mountains he faced a new
problem. He tried to crush them ; but,
failing, entered into an alliance.
In 1876 he combined all of his com
panies into one, and called it the Stan
dard Oil Company. It wa3 capitalized
at $1,000,000.
In 1882 he organized the Standard Oil
trust, which was dissolved in 1892;
and since then various companies have
been operated separately, but under
identical control.
At 16 he had $10; at 17, $100; at 19,
$500; at 23, $1,500; at 26, $5,000; at
31, $300,000; at 34, $1,200,000; at 44,
$26,000,000; at 54,
70 his fortune is
than $700,000,000.
otfice he is as difficult to see as is
emperor of Japan.
His houses are unostentatious,
habits are truly simple. He lives like
any well-to-do middle-class man.
His income is larger than the com
bined incomes of all the sovereigns of
Europe.
He has kept lobbyists at the capital
and has influenced legislation through
agents for years, and yet -
Had he been ambitious for personal
power the evils which he might have
worked with his great wealth on the
destinies of any nation are incalcula
ble.
He has developed markets all over
the world.
His company carts oil from door to
door in Germany and Portugal and oth
er countries, as it does in America.
He never speculates—he deals only
with those things which other people
have proved sure.
His great principle in business : “Pay
a profit to nobody.”
His great principle in religion : The
Golden Rule.
He has genius for detail, and at the
same time a Napoleonic sense of big
and vital factors.
His corporations employ 1,500,000
men, women and children.
He plays golf for exercise.
He was an old man at 60, hut through
care, careful diet and exercise, is a
young man at 70.
Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink.
He is a moral man, of blameless pri
vate life.
He has small, keen, steel-blue, rest
less eyes.
He has a wide, thin-lipped, restless
mouth, seamed at the corners with
lines of repression and tenacity.
His face is rather ruddy, not lined
hut crevassed with long, deep seams.
His shoulders are somewhat stooped
and his body is long and out of propor
tion to the length of his legs.
He has no eyebrows, his head is ab
solutely hairless and he wears an iron-
gray wig. His speech is low, deliber
ate, agreeable, and has something of
the rythmic cadence of a preacher.'
His old acquaintances describe him
as a “cautious, soft-footed, low-spoken,
secretive man ”
How Fire Hurts the Field.
Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer.
Of course, the greatest loss sustained
through the burning of vegetable mat
ter which should be mixed with the
soil, is the loss of the humus-forming
materials; but the actual loss in plant
food is also worthy of serious consider
ation. The phosphorus and potassium
contained in the vegetable matter are
not destroyed by burning, for these
mineral plant foods remain in the
ashes; but the nitrogen which our soils
need most is driven off into the air and
lost. We repeat that the greatest loss
is the destruction of the humus-forming
materials, but let us 3ee just what the
loss of nitrogen amounts to when a ton
of crabgrass, broom sedge, or corn
stalks is burned. If the material
burned be Japan clover or other le
gumes, the loss of nitrogen is much
greater. A ton of crabgrass hay con
tains about 22 pounds of nitrogen, and
this is worth 20 cents a pound, which
gives it a value of $4.40. A ton of crab
grass hay, and frequently much more
than a ton of crabgrass and other ma
terials equally rich in nitrogen, is often
burned off each acre. Thus, for each
acre we burn over, we may easily de
stroy $4.40 worth of the very plant
food oor soils need most.
We are slow to accept such state
ments as facts, because the plowing
under of these materials does not give
immediate evidence of any such value
to be obtained from the plowing under
of such quantity of corn stover or crab
grass. That is, more benefit to the first
succeeding crop would he obtained
from the application of $4 worth of
cotton seed meal than from plowing
under a ton of cornstalks. This is un
doubtedly so, hut the effects of plowing
under humus-forming materials are not
alone measured bty the nitrogen they
contain, and are not limited to the first
year. It is this working for immediate
$150,000,000; and at I results alone that has brought our soils
estimated at more jthat degree of infertility represented
| by an average yield of 200 pounds of
The Impossible.
Here is a striking parable by Miss E.
Fox Howard, which we take from the
"Friends’ Fellowship Papers:”
“A dog tried to open a door. He
scratched it, threw himself against it,
struggled to get his nose under it and
burrow his way out, hut at last he de
cided that the door would not open and
never could open, so he lay down be
fore it and went, to sleep.
"A child was watching the dog, and
he laughed and turned the handle
with his small fingers, and the door
was open. Then lie took a hook, and,
sitting on the floor, turned over the
leaves one by one and gazed at the
queer black marks one by one upon
them without knowing what they
meant, for he was a very little child
and he could not read. As there were
no pictures to be found he tossed the
hook away.
“But a boy picked up the hook and
laughed and read page after page of a
wonderful fairy tale. Then he went to
school and puzzled his head over a sum
which had to he brought to the class
that morning. Try as he might the
sum would not prove, and the boy said:
‘ l can’t do it. I’m sure it can’t he done.
There must be a mistake in the book.’
“But the pupil’s teacher laughed,
and, taking the blotted exercise hook
from the boy, quickly worked out and
proved the sum. Then he turned to his
own studies and went into the labora
tory, for he was learning chemistry.
All the morning he labored among the
gases and the acids, hut lie could not
get the right combinations and only
succeeded in making a loud explosion.
‘It’s all rubbish to say that potash and
carbon form putassium, ’ he said. ‘They
simply explode, and 1 defy anyone to
say they don’t.’
"But the master, who had heard the
noise, came and took it into his own
hands, and soon the metal was drop
ping from the condenser. After school
was over the master, who was getting
to be an old man, sat in his study read
ing a paper on modern scientific
thought. As lie read his brow dark
ened, and at last he flung it down and
said: ‘It is a monstrous idea. How
can the creation of the world have ta
ken millions of years? The good old
Bible account of the six days of crea
tion is good enough for me.’ And he
wrote an angry letter of remonstrance
to the great professor who hud sent
him the paper.
“But the professor only smiled, for
he was a geologist and had read the
message of the rocks. He himself, one
of the deepest thinkers of the day, sat
late into the night among his hooks,
trying to tit some newly discovered
laws of physics into his schemes of
things and to bring his mind nearer to
a solution of the great why ol’ the uni
verse. At last he bowed his head and
said: ‘It is impossible. Facts are too
conflicting. I cannot explain them, and
1 doubt if there is any explanation.’
“Just beyond the limit of our own
understanding lies the impossible.”
The Liquor Fight in Ohio.
Hugh C. Weir in the Circle Magazine.
The Anti-Saloon League went into
politics as a veteran political organiza
tion, and the total of its votes in the
first campaign stunned the brewers
much as a cyclone would have done.
For the first time in years their sneers
vanished and the “peanut politicians,”
who had been lolling in the shadow of
their might, scampered like frightened
sheep to the camp of the new David
who had appeared in the field.
The saloon keepers and the brewers
were frightened, plainly and painfully
so, and in their fright they said and did
things which fanned the fire of public
resentment yet higher. For instance,
at a meeting of the State liquor dealers
at YVirtlnvoin Hall, in Columbus at a
time when the attendants carelessly
left (lie doors open one of the dele
gates,. in a paper on ‘‘How to Build up
the Saloon Business,” said crisply:
"The success of our business is de
pendent largely upon the creation of
appetite for drink. Men who drink li
quor, like others, will die, and if there
is no new appetite created our counters
will be empty, as will be our coffers.
Tiie open field for the creation of
appetite is among the boys. After men
are grown and their habits are formed
they rarely ever change in this regard.
It will he needful, therefore, that mis
sionary work be done among the boys,
and 1 make the suggestion, gentlemen,
that nickels expended in treats to the
boys now will return in dollars to your
tills after the appetite has been
formed. Above all things create appe
tite.”
The reformers who fought the li
quor traffic in the futile years that
were past had hurled their forces
against the saloon from the outside and
endeavored to work inward. The Anti-
Saloon League, combining wisdom with
enthusiasm, gathered its forces on the
inside, within the walls of tne enemy’s
stronghold, and threw its strength out
ward.
It was a contest reduced to the blunt
principle of fighting lire with fire. The
organization won at the polls because
it met politics witli politics. But this
was merely a starting-point, a canter
for the circle. Beyond the polls was
the Legislature, and the highly paid,
highly trained lobby of the brewers and
distillers. Against its wiles the League
throw a similar organization, hut with
this difference- the latter was work
ing for principles, the former for dol
lars.
*
He says his success is due to the
training he had at home and his willing!
ness to work.
He says his business associates al
ways implicitly trusted him.
lint cotton and 15 bushels of corn per
acre. No land ever became suddenly
unproductive ; nor can a depleted soil be
economically built up to a high degree
| of fertility in one or two years. From
He claims that the greatest happi
r.ess that has come to him has been
identifying himself with Christianity.
He has given millions to the church.
He has given $85,000,000 to educa
tion, science and charity.
He gave $35,000,000 to the New York
Educational Board, the largest single
gift ever made.
.! these facts we should learn that farm
ing lands for this year’s results exclu
sively, while . sometimes necessary, if
persisted in is certain to lead to soil
depletion and finally to agricultural
and financial bankruptcy.
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in his personal expenditures.
He is accessible, unostentatious, and
friendly at his church ; he will speak
to or shake the hand of anyone. In hia
Case of Pellagra Near LaGrange.
LaGrantfe Graphic.
It is reported on good authority thut
there is a case of the dread pellagra a
few miles above LaGrange. A well-
known lady of Harrisonville communi
ty has been suffering for weeks from a
peculiar disease which baffled those in
attendance, and which has proven to he
a case of poison from damaged corn
meal. It is said that the treatment
she is undergoing fur pellagra is prov
ing beneficial and it is hoped that she
will soon recover.
This disease has become very com
mon throughout the United States,
especially in the North. A press dis
patch from Georgetown, Miss., says:
“B. E. Wolf, a well-known citizen of
this place, is suffering from what all
physicians who have seen him pro
nounce pellagra. The disease, accord
ing to reports of doctors, is becoming
common in this section. It is claimed
to he caused by the use of Western
meal. ”
“Western meal” explains it. We
have before referred to this new dis
ease, and ic does seem that the boards
of trade and corn exchanges of this
country should be getting busy be
fore such reports should convince many
people that corn bread really was hurt
ful, and thus seriously damage one of
our great crops.
In this instance “Western meal” is
mentioned. And yet the public is still
not advised as to how many canal boats
it has been hauled in, nor how old or
musty the grain was from which the
meal was made. Such facts should be
investigated and given the public, and
especially in foreign countries where
corn bread is beginning to be used.
In this country it is well-known that
corn bread is not only “healthy,” but
one of the favorite and very best of
dishes. As we have before said, were
this not true, the Southern States
would have long since been well-nigh
depopulated.
The Negro Workman and the White.
Raloiffh (N. C,) ProtfroHHlve Farmer.
It is useless to deny, however, that
race antipathy did play its part in the
Georgia railroad strike, and it is hard
ly worth while to shut our eyes to the
fact that it will probably figure in
many industrial difficulties in the fu
ture, unless humap nature changes rad
ically. It is very important, there
fore, for the South to know the truth
about the effect of the negro’s pres
ence and industry upon the white
man’s prosperity. That the negro, as
he has lived heretofore, has been a tre
mendous Industrial handicap to the
South no rightly-informed man, we be
lieve, will deny. Ignorant labor is
a curse to any community, and the ne
gro’s low standard of living has lower
ed the income of the white laborer who
has had to compete with him, and the
reduced income of both has injuriously
affected every professional and busi
ness man in the South. To increase
the intelligence, the earning power, of
any man will help the community, and to
train the negro to greater skill and ef-
fficiency will help the South. A trained,
efficient negro will not, of course, help
the community so much as a trained,
efficient white man of even the same
degree of intelligence, because we have
a dual civilization in the South, and the
negro’s income goes largely to support
and benefit the negro’s half of that
dual civilization and increasingly so,
perhaps. As negro wealth increases,
negroes will begin to patronize their
own stores, banks, factories, etc., as
well as their own schools and churches.
Still the negro who is trained to do _
good work is going to help the commu
nity far more than the nergo who is
idle or who is too ignorant to earn
more than half what he should.
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 v/alk 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 he shaken into the
shoes, gives to the millions now using
it. As Weston has said, ‘‘It has real
merit.”
“What kind of a career have you
mapped out for your boy Josh?”
“I’m going to make a lawyer of
him,” answered Farmer CorntosseL
“He’s got an unconquerable fancy fur
tendin’ to other folks’ business, an’ he
1 might as well git paid fur it.”