Newnan herald & advertiser. (Newnan, Ga.) 1909-1915, August 27, 1909, Image 1

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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. X L I V NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1909. NO. 48 DONE LAYING 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 ranted solid leather, and are .wear-resisters. Ice water always on tap. T. G. Farmer & Sons Go, 19 Court Square :: 6 and 8 W. Washington Telephone 147 Barb Wire and Nails. We have more nails now than we A have room for, and if you are building,^ ^ or intend to build soon, we can save you ^ money on the above articles. W e want to sell in the next i 5 days— * 10 Kegs 40’s, Wire Nails 15 Kegs 20’s, Wire Nails 15 Kegs 12’s, Wire Nails 40 Kegs 10’s, Wire Nails 35 Kegs 8’s, Wire Nails aft 8 Kegs 6’s, Wire Nails 5 Kegs 4’s, Wire Nails 25 Kegs 3’s, Wire Nails 5 Kegs 10’s, Finishing Nails 5 Kegs 8’s, Finishing Nails \\ e also have 30,000 lbs. Barb Wire —not wire that sells by the rod, but by jQi the pound—and is the best heavy 4-Ju V inch Barb Wire. ' ^ Get our prices on these goods, as well as on all others. * H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO. * 4» TESTING HIS LOVE. What can you do to prove your love- To Rhow your fond devotion? If some Hinall things you’re not above I think I have a notion. Will you. unlike most other men. Ho kind and sweet and steady. And not make awful comments when Your dinner is not ready? Will you take samples to the stores And match them withe ut swearing, And do tin* simple little chores That women find so wearing? Will you bent rugs if I desire Without unpleasant clashes, And rise to build the furnace lire And carry out the ashes? And even though you are in haste To got down to the station. Will you then button up my waist And show no irritation? 1 do think that you aim to please, And 1 do not wish to task you; So if you’ll just do things like those. It’s all that I shall ask you. The Ex-Governor and His Organ. Watson’s Jeffersonian. The tone of wrath which rings in the editorials of Hoke’s paper, the At lanta Journal, indicates that the per secution of the pale sufferer of the roller-chair is not being acclaimed as universally as had been expected. But who could reasonably have calculated upon the people of Georgia being hard hearted? How came any Atlanta poli tician to believe that the plain folks could be hoodwinked into indorsing gross injustice and cruel discrimina tion? Five Senators were appointed to in vestigate McLendon. Presumably the five men who were selected were in sympathy with Gov. Smith’s act in sus pending the Commissioner from office. But after meeting the persecuted man face to face and hearing him in his own defense, only one of them voted to uphold the Governor. By talk ing to them in the committee room, McLendon won over to his side four out of the five Senators who were to act as his judges. This significant fact carried conster nation to Mr. Hoke and his newspaper, and to the Senators who trot to Mr. Smith’s house and office to get their orders. Consequently, it was decided that when the report of the committee got back to the Senate it should be rail roaded through, without giving Ihe ac cused Commissioner the right to be heard in his own defense. Do the people of Georgia approve of that kind of thing? To deprive an offi- cia 1 of his place and salary, is to take away something equivalent to proper ty. To say nothing of the public dis grace put upon such an official, he is deprived of a source of revenue upon which lie may depend for the support of his family. Is it fair to do this without allowing the defendant to go before the jury and speak in his own behalf? Will the people of Georgia sanction such arbi trary and one-sided methods? Gov. Smith suspended McLendon for his refusal to give Atlanta jobbers special freight rates which would have enabled them t" invade the territory of Macon, Savannah, Griffin, Cordele, Rome and other towns. This invasion would not have meant lower prices for the people. It would have cut out other Georgia towns from their natural territory, but nothing more. To secure for Atlanta jobbers this unfair advan tage over the other towns of Georgia, Mr. Hoke Smith, as an attorney, had been paid a big fee. He lost his case before the Commission, and ought to have lost it. That started his intense dislike of Joseph M. Brown. The case upon which McLendon, Stevens and Hill passed adversely was precisely similar to the one Lawyer Smith lost. Those three Commissioners decided it just as the same issue had been decided on three separate occasions before. Was the decision right? It certainly was, unless we claim that the Atlanta jobbers are entitled to special favors. But if the decision was wrong, why puinsh only one of the three Commis sioners who made it? Why single out the roller-chair invalid for sacrifice, and leave Warner Hill and Obadiah Stevens in office? The Legislature has no moral right to try the McLendon suspension case on any other ground than that named by Gov. Smith. The order of suspen sion is the indictment. As to the sale of the Athens bonds, there is no law against it. I think there should be. If such a law is made, and a Commissioner violates it—punish him by dismissal and otherwise. But a thing which is not now forbid den by law ought not to he punished as a crime. I have known Guyt McLendon twen ty-nine years, and I never in all that time heard anybody say that he v/as notan honest man. He has always and universally been regarded as a gentle man. lie has been the hardest worker or. the Railroad Commission. The good it has done is largely due to him. Had I been in bis place I would have ruled against those Atlanta jobbers, just as he did. I would have tried to get a fair and equal reduction for all the towns of Georgia, as demanded in the Macon platform. And white I think it highly improper for Railway Commissioners to he deal ing in railroad securities of any kind, there isn’t a particle of evidence that the State was injured by the Athens bond deal, or that it had a blessed thing to do with the decision for which Gov. Smith ordered the Commissioner out of office. In fact, Mr. Smith declares that he did not know of the transaction in bonds at the time he lynched McLendon. But he and his newspaper and his Senators justify the lynching by putting the bond matter in evidence. It is the same as though the grand jury should indict a man for stealing cotton and the petit jury should con vict him of arson -which the grand jury had not heard of when they brought in the true bill for the larceny of the cotton. The Habit of Kindness. Orison S. Marrien in Suocosa Magazine. A large part of our unkindness is sheer thoughtlessness. Few people mean to be unkind. In fact, most peo ple are. kindly disposed toward others, and would be glad to help them ; but they simply do not think. They are so intent upon their own affairs, their minds are so focused upon themselves, that all thought of others or their needs are crowded out. There is no other thing which will give greater satisfaction than the forming of a kindly habit, the. habit of holding a kindly spirit toward ev erybody, and of cheering and encour aging others. ff we persist in this habit it will drive but all petty little jealousies, all moroseness and gloom, envy and sel fishness, everything that would serious ly mar our lives. If we hold the right mental attitude, sow the right mental seeds, sow the right thoughts, we should get the right habits. What u splendid opening there is in the cheering up business for all sorts of people ! Everybody ought to he in it, and especially at Christmas time. It is the grandest occupation in the world. See what a harvest it brings of satisfaction, joy and helpfulness! In addition to all this, it is a real money-maker, for it increases one’s powe *, of efficiency, wonderfully. It keeps life’s machinery lubricated so that it runs more harmoniously, and consequently can turn out a great in crease of product. How many good things this kindly spirit brings to us, and how many un pleasant things it keeps away from us! No efforts we ever make can bring such splendid returns as the endeavor to scatter flowers as we go along, to plant roses instead of thorns; no in vestment will pay such fat dividends as the firm effort put into kind words and kindly acts, the effort to radiate a kindly spirit toward every living crea ture. Do not be discouraged, even if the people you try to help and encourage are ungrateful and unresponsive. You will be enlarged by your own shining, by your effort's to help others, just as is the life of the one who is not always enriched, even if the love is not appre ciated or returned. Such efForts can never be lost, no matter how coldly they may be received. No one can honestly try to help another in vain. He is sure to be a larger, richer man him self for the effort. The Effect of Catnip. Now York Post. What does catnip do for a cat? My family of cats and kittens beg for it. After a small dose they cut up all Horts of shines and didoes. Their antics are as good as any circus. First they relax. Then they stretch flat out on their sides and roll over in a happy delirium. They jump Jim Crow, waltz on their eyebrows, spin on their tails, turn somersaults, cavort, box, wrestle, race over the house like mad, and finally fall asleep. A package of dried cat nip costs 5 cents. You can have $1 worth of fun out of it at any time. Borne dogs will eat it and go into raptures. Any animal eating it be comes good-natured while the effect lasts. Catnip, or catnep, is a corruption of catmint, [t is an officinal herb, the bo tanical name being "nepeta cataria.” The leaves and tops are a stimulant and tonic. They are a carminative- calm and soothing. They cause an in crease of perspiration and are pre scribed with success as an ernmena- gogue. Some discerning cats prefer the plant dried. It smells and tastes like well-cured hay, with a slight sugges tion of tobacco. [ have often wondered whv men should not smoke it in a pure state, or mix it with tobacco. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen’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. Bold every where. Sample FREE. Address, Al len S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. History of the Chicken. Bulletin 150 Kansas Kxpi'rimont Station. To one who is familiar with the dif ferent types of chickens to be found in a poultry-show room it seems almost incredible that these varieties should have descended from one parent source, it is, however, thought by sci entists that all domestic chickens have been bred from a single species of a jungle fowl of India. This wild chicken is smaller than the common varieties and is colored in a manner similar to the black-breasted game breed. The habits of this bird are like those of the quail and prairie chicken, both of which belong to the same zoological family. From its natural home in India tho chicken spread Doth East and West. Chinese poultry culture is ancient. In China, as well as India, the chief care seems to have been to breed very large fowls, and from these countries all the large, heavily feathered breeds have been imported. Poultry is also known to have been bred in the early Babylonian and Egyp tian periods. Here, however, t.he pro gress was in a different line from that of China. Artificial incubation was early developed and the selection was for birds that produced eggs continual ly, rather than for those that laid few er eggs and brooded in the natural manner. The Egyptian type of chicken spread to the countries bordering on the Med iterranean, and from Southern Europe our non-setting breed of fowls have been imported. Throughout the coun tries of Northern Europe minor differ ences were developed. The French chickens were selected for the quality of the meat, while in Poland the pecu liar top-knotted breed is supposed to have been formed. The chief point to be noted in all European poultry is that it differs from Asiatic poultry in being smaller, lighter feathered, quick er maturing, of greater egg-producing capacity, less disposed to become broody and more active than the Asiat ic fowl. The early American hens were of European origin, but of no fixed breeds. About 1H40 Italian chickens began to be improved. These, with stock from Spain, have been bred for fixed types of form nnd color, and constitute our Mediterranean or non-setting breeds of the present day. Boon after the im portation of Italian chickens a chance importation was made from Southeast ern Asia. These Asiatic chickens were quite different from anything yet seen, and further importation followed. Poultry breeding soon became the fashion, and the first poultry show waH held in Boston in the early fifties. The Asiatic fowls imported were gray or yellowish red in color, and were va riously known us the Brahmapootras, Cochin-Chinas and Shanghais, With the rapid development of poultry breeding there came a desire to pro duce new varieties. Every conceivable form of cross-breeding was rcBorted to. The great majority of breeds and vari eties as they exist to-day are the re sult of crosses followed by a few years of selection for the desired form and color. Many of our common breeds still give us occasional individuals that resemble some of the types from which the breed was formed. The exact his tory of the formation of the American or mixed breeds is in dispute, but it is certain that they have been formed from n complex mixing of blood from both European and Asiatic sources. Thus we see that the fundamental traits of our modern breeds are the re sults of centuries of development along certain fixed lines. “I can’t keep the visitors from com ing up,” said the office boy, dejectedly. ’’When I say you’re out they don’t be lieve me. They say they must see you. ” “Well,” said the editor, "just tell them that’s what they all say. I don't care how you check them, hut I must have quietness.” That afternoon there called at the office a lady with hard features and an acid expression. She wanted to see the editor, and the boy assured her that it was impossible. “But [ must see him!” she protest ed. “I’m his wife!” “That’s what they all say,” replied the boy. That is why he found himself on the floor, with the lady sitting on his neck and smacking his head with a ruler, and that is why there is a new boy wanted there. A florist of Philadelphia was one day making the rounds of his properties near that city when he was approached by a young man who applied to him for work. "I am very sorry,” said the florist, “but I have all the help I need; I have nothing for you to do.” “Sir,” said the young man with a poilte bow, “if you only knew how lit tle work it would take to occupy me!” Women’s Kisses Not Deceitful. Hhiladolphin Record, Of all things, men pretend to most despise the kisses of women—the kisses, that is, which they give each other. Now, are women greater sin ners in this respect than men? The lat ter (to quote their own words) scoff loudly at the “Judas-like” kiss which women give each other when they meet; but what difference is there in that and the handshake with which a dozen times a day men greet others for whom they have a great contempt and dislike? “But we don’t; meet them if we can help it,” is their excuse. Just as if a woman runs after peo ple she does not like ! It is easy enough for a man to slip out of his club or res taurant or cross the street in order to avoid an insufferable braggart or bore, tint could his wife rise and abruptly take leave of her hostess at an “at home,” for instance, because a girl who copies her hats has entered the room? If she did her husband's discourse on politeness, as soon as he heard of it, would last an hour. When a woman’s opinion is asked about a hat, dress or newly-furnished drawing-room, she sweetly smiles, and —unless it is a very intimate friend who questions her -admires and praises it, even though she is mentally pro nouncing it hideous. It is not any business of hers, and 9!) per cent, of the questioners quite expect a favorable reply. Men call this hypocrisy. But have you ever known a man to refuse a cheap cigar because “I really can’t stand them, old man, they’re too awful?” Isn’t he usually “off' color” or “seedy ’ just then? Only the other day such a critical hubby was proven the veriest weather cock. “I am going to take tea with Mrs. Calvert this afternoon,” said his wife, rising from the breakfast table. “Isn’t it a nuisance? 1 would much rather stay at home.” Her spouse smiled—the lofty Hmile of one who is above deceit. “Then stay at home,” he said. “Why on earth couldn’t you have been honest when she invited you, Molly, and have told her that you did not cure about it?” Molly looked doubtful. "I thought perhaps I ought to go. You said the other day that, Mr. Calvert — ” “Oh, the Calverts! 1 did not catch trie name. Yes, go there by all means,” was the hasty interruption. “But I detest them all.” “Never mind that. Thu Calvert firm gave us their first good order last week, and they must not be offended.” Let men scoff' as they will, if we were all to drop our masks for a day, and be as weary, abrupt, irritable and candid as we liked, every lawyer in the country would lie driven to deatli with work on the morrow. It is the oil of pleasant speeches and bright smiles that makes tho world slip smoothly round. Bo, as it is all in tho way of the business of life for men and women to use that oil, let tho for mer be just, and atop the parrot-like cry that women are deceitful. Viewing the Corpse. Lippincott’H Magazine. The corpse was neatly composed within a plain coffin, standing in tho main room, where were gathered the relatives and such of the neighbors as could find space. The dignified and sol emn “funeral air” was over all; they sat hushed in breathless silence. The preacher arose. It was just at this juncture that there entered a long, lanky, sunburnt native, full-rigged in Bunday clothes and squeaky shoes. The undertaker tried to head him off, the preacher frowned and others made signs and gestures that were unmistakable. But despite these the late comer stulked over to stand for a moment beside the bier, then crowded hack into a seat. “It’s a hot day, ain’t it?” he said in tones that could be heard out in the kitchen, as he sat down and mopped his brow. The man addressed flushed with em barrassment and made frantic “hush!” signs with his lips; but, nothing abashed, the lanky one continued: “Quite a right smart lot o’ folks out, ain’t there?” The man by his side was purple in the face now, but the rustic- one was oblivious to surroundings, and he went on: "Seen Bill?” turning his thumb in the direction of the casket. Another nod of resignation from the listener. Then the grand finale: "Looks like h—11. don’t he?” "Your father is in politics,” said the stranger, “is he not.?” “Yeh,” replied the boy, “but mom thinks he’s gittin’ cured of it.” “How do you mean?” “Why, his stummick has gune back on him an’ he can’t drink like he us- ter.”