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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. the his 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. Many Women Praise This Remedy. If you have pain in the hack, Urina- . , , . ry, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want He is frugal almost to penuriousness a cert ain, pleasant herb cure for wo man’s ills, try Mother Gray’s Autra- lian-Leaf. It is a safe and never-failing regulator. At druggists or by mail 50c. Sample package FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. 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.”