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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. X L I V NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909 NO. 50. DONE LAYING BY Now Comes the Big Meeting, and Here are Some Things You are Certain to Need: We have good Flour at the rigid 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 Jwear-resisters. Ice water always on tap. L 1 T T L E N E W L O V E . Oh, little* new Love, come Ink** my hand, There’s a white moon over the lea, And 1 know a way where the roses sway And a path where there’s none to see. "Hut how do you know tin* way wo wo?” Said little new Love to me. Oh, little new Love, I’ve a Won! to say That’s as tender as word may he, And a tale to repeat that is old and sweet And as true as eternity. “But why do you tell this tale so well?” Said little new Love to me. Oh, little now Love, when Spring is fair And the heart of a man beats high, Each maid may learn in her own sweet turn The secret of "how” and "why,” But the dust must stay over yesterday, To little new Love said 1. I Theodosia Garrison. An Editorial Tirade. under the law, and his ringing manner of voicing his opinions on that line, has given encouragement to Judges, jurors and others in all parts of the State. It is the fact that the Governor "hit the bull’s eye” in no uncertain manner is what caused The Journal’s onslaught. Those who have watched its columns for three or four years were not sur prised—though they smile at its antics, 7. G. Farmer & Sons Co. I 9 Court Square :: 6 and 8 IV. Washington Telephone 147 So use more bagging and ties, for every little bit helps. We have in ^tock the fol lowing articles that we can <£, save you money on: One Three cars Bagging One car New Ties One car Pure Wheal Shorts car Dalton Bran -best in the worid Georgia Rye in sacks 4 4 And a few bushels of Barley and Wheat. Just received a shipment of Quaker Chicken Feed and Alfacorn. Anything in Case Goods that you buy by the case we will sell you at wholesale cost. See us before buying, for we can save you money, since we carry everything in stock. You cannot miss the place. Look for the big store. H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO. 4 Atlanta Cor. Macon Telegraph. Atlanta, Oh., Sept. 3.— The editorial in the Atlanta Journal of this morning entitled "The Cheap Hosannas of the Claque,” caused a smile all oVer At lanta, if not throughout the State. It was so much like The Journal—so full of its brutal methods of dealing with matters that excite its jealousy— that it caused only a smile. The tirade was aimed at Gov. Brown, because, forsooth, hundreds of people through out the State—and other States, from Maryland to Teaxs— had approved his course in dealing with two recent ap plicants for executive clemency. Though Gov. Brown’s decision in both cases was given with the clearness of a judicial opinion, and though the spir it of both was so exalted as to wring tributes from friends and opponents alike, The Journal tries to make it ap pear that a comparison with some for mer pardons has been suggested. It is only in The Journal’s own conscious ness that such a comparison has been made. The Journal applies the word ‘‘dema gogue’’ to the Governor because he has been complimented upon his decision. It refers to the "little coterie of boot lickers” who are "slopping over,” and it uses many other high-sounding phrases to snow its own feelings in the matter. The Journal probably does not know that half, or more, of the let ters and telegrams of congratulation that have reached the Governor’s desk came from former supporters of Gov. Smith and from avowed "opponents” of Gov. Brown in the late campaign. Probably the first telephone message to reach him came from The Journal office —not from the controlling spirit, however. It was a message of con gratulation. The Journal makes much of the Gov ernor’s refusal to send Mitchell, the Thomas county man, to the State farm, and says the Governor had no right to send him to the prison farm. The public here fully understands what is the matter with The Journal. The Journal said during the cam paign that Mr. Brown was weak, easi ly influenced, and that if he were elected somebody would hold the reins. He is demonstrating daily how little The Journal knew of him, or rather how willingly it would misrepresent him to earrv its purpose, and this is where the shoe pinches. Instead of being weak, Gov. Brown has proven to be a giant in strength; instead of being dominated by “influ ences,” he has shown that he has a mind of his own, and that it is his own level-headed conservatism and common sense that is dominating affairs with which the executive has to deal. There are many instances daily of the Governor’s strength of character, and his high conception of duty, as well as his total disregard for political expediency. If he had been susceptible to "influences” the appeals that were made in the Mitchell ease would have swept him off his feet. They all came from his faction, and his warm political friends made the strongest of them. Hundreds of wo men wrote appeals, and many appeared in person. A weak Governor, under the circumstances, would have caved under this influence, and might have signed the pardon—even adding, "This is the happiest day,” etc. During a hard-fought contest for an appointment to one of the Solicitor ships, some time ago, Gov. Brown was beseiged on all sides by men who en deavored to dictate what would be “good politics.” "You can’t afford to do so and so.” they would say. An leading politician went to him with a letter from another political leader, urging the Governor to appoint a cer tain applicant, as not to do so would be “bad politics.” The Governor rose from his seat and, placing his hand upon the shoulder of the caller, said with much emphasis: ‘‘Let me tell you something. When it comes to straight politics I will play with most any of ’em, but when the judiciary is involved, I arr, going to cut politics out. If the courts of Georgia ever become political machines it will not be through any act of mine.” It is this spirit that has characterized all of Gov. Brown’s acts in dealing with pardons, appointments of Judges and Solicitors, and with all matters involving the effectiveness of the courts. His love of law and order, his devotion to the rights of all classes Pay Your Debts. Elberton Star. As the fall season approaches, and as we have talked on many questions con cerning the fall business, we wish to make a few suggestions to those who owe money—in debt to these very same business men and merchants. Do as the Good Book says: “Owe no man anything but to love one another: for he that loveth another has fulfilled the law.’’--Romans, 13-8. Now listen : If you have made a good crop and Providence has smiled upon you, pay what you owe. It is wrong to eat meat and bread furnished by your merchant and then not pay him. It makes no difference if you think you paid too much for the provisions; in fact, you should have raised your own meat and bread at home—but you don’t and you therefore should pay for these out of the first money you obtain after selling your cotton. The Star loves the farmers and is willing and ready at any time to do anything it can to advance their in terests, but we also love and admire the merchants of our town and commu nity. Without them we could not exist. In the darkest hour of our business ca reer these merchants—Elberton mer chants—have stayed by us. If we are worth anything financially, they are responsible for it. These merchants have borrowed mon ey from the local hanks to carry you over the summer while you were mak ing your crop. The local hanks bor rowed the money from the New York banks. To settle with the big banks, the merchants have to settle with the little banks, and the farmers have to settle with the merchants in order for them to meet their obligations. The money system of America may not be just, the credit system is an abomination, hut we are responsible for it, and therefore should meet our obligations, whether we acted with good business judgment or not. The merchants are not to blame. Neither are you individually. The con ditions exist, and the best, we can do is to be honest and pay up all along the line. All of us are friends and neighbors many of us are related by ties of blood. Our interests, therefore, arc mutual and if one prospers all will feel the benefit. Owe no man anything, hut love one another. Be honest. The Laborer Worthy of His Hire. Codartown Standard. It is a great mistake sometimes a very expensive one—for a community to expect her public servants to work without something like adequate com pensation, There should be enough pa triotism among public officials to make a willingness to serve at reasonable re muneration, but the people should also be patriotic enough to pay for what they get. Wo have especially in mind at this time those officials who were left high and dry when the convict lease system was knocked out by the Georgia Leg islature. There used to be good money in the offices of Solicitor, Sheriff and Clerk, but there is pretty poor picking in them now that the revenue from the convicts i? no longer available, They | can now receive no compensation for what they do in criminal cases except as the fines are made to cover the costs. While it would Beam that, as a general rule, all who violate the law should he made to pay at least as much as it costs the county to try them, as a matter of fact it is not always deemed best to do so by the Judges. Under the new law, counties that do not work their convicts get absolutely nothing from those who are put to work on the roads elsewhere, and the Solicitor, Sheriff and Clerk have to do their work for nothing, getting fees only when fines are paid in cash, and even then having them cut down fre- quotly through the tender-heartedness of Judges. There may have been a time when the office of Solicitor-General was too protfiable in Georgia in fact, it is a very good office yet in the counties hav ing large cities, where the criminal business is heavy and the Judges gen erally do not hesitate in imposing fines; hut in the average ‘‘country county” throughout the State the of fice has been badly crippled in revenue. The Sheriffs never have received enough of the costs in proportion to the amount and character of their work, as far as the smaller counties are con cerned, and that office is also hard hit. The Clerks, of course, have civil busi ness with which to help maintain their ofiice, but it has suffered greatly through the change in the law. The truth of the matter is that in the furore over the abolition of the convict lease system, the matter of compensation for these officials did not and could not receive the proper amount of attention, and the matter was left for subsequent adjustment. The Standard has long been a believ er in the salary system for the pay ment of public officials, and is now in favor of it more than ever since the former fees of these officers have beep so greatly diminished, Face the Sunshine. Which way are you facing? There are many flowers more beau tiful than the sunflower, arid yet there is one thing we always love about this homely plant. It always looks straight up into the light of the sun. Look at it in the morning. Then its bright yellow blossom is lifted to ward the east, as if it were waiting for the sunshine to warm it and open its petals a bit wider than they ever have been opened before. As the sun slowly wheels up towards the noonday, and then on down into the western sky, the sunflower keeps on turning, turn ing, till at last the hills shut out the light of day, and then it goes to sleep. Life, beauty, glory, are in the light of the sun. Is there not something beautiful in the way the sunflower keeps its face always up into the sun? Why is it that frowns come into your face and mine sometimes? You know that it is so. How apt we are to get out of patience and hastily say things we ought not. and for which we are sorry afterwards ! Ah, you know why it is. We have fogotten to look up where our sunlight is, and where there ought to be glory of beauty and the shine of love, only the shadow falls. But you and I want the sunshine in our faces and in our lives. Every day we feel that longing. We are not quite happy unless we feel that those we meat see in us something to lose. There is just one way we may be sure the heaven-light is in our hearts, and that is by looking up to Him. Small Kenneth was celebrating the anniversary of his birth. ‘‘How old are you?” asked a neighbor. “I'm four,” replied Kenneth, ‘‘and I’m glad of it. I was getting awfully tired of being three all the time.” One day when his sister Eloise, aged five, told him a certain man who lived near them was dead, he said: "What is it to be dead?” After a few minutes’ hesitation she said: “To be dead, well—that’s when you are all in.” Big Concern Starts Soon. Atlanta Georgian. By the latter part of next October the great cement plant of the Piedmont Portland Cement and Lime Co., at Da- vitte, Polk county, Ga., will be in full operation, turning out its daily quota of 550 barrels of high-grade Portland cement and 300 barrels of lime. A quarter of a million dollars has al ready been invested in this plant and property, $05,000 in the most approved type of cement working machinery having been installed within the last six months. Capitalized at $41)0,000, with every dollar’s worth of stock sub scribed and some of the best men in the South behind it, located in a region pronounced by experts to be second to none on earth in the quality of raw material, the big Atlanta company is expected speedily to assume a com manding position among the cement factors of the Southern StateH. At a recent meeting held in the At lanta offices of the company, in the Austell building, .1. C. Bass, of Car rollton, was elected president, while the hoard of directors elected at the same meeting is composed of men well- known in Atlanta and throughout the State for sterling business qualifica tions arid successful careers in the world of finance and commerce. The revised directorate of the compa ny is now as follows: J. C. Bass, Carrollton: C. W. Wood, Carrollton; D. F. New, Carrollton; E. I,. Connell, Temple; Walter Sims, Bir mingham; W. G. T.vus, Milner; E. S. McDowell, Griffin; A. A. Barge, New- nan; E. L. McGee, Rome; E. C. Les ter, (secretary), Atlanta; M. C. Mor ris, Atlanta; W. E. Jenkins, Atlanta; D. A. Thompson, Covington; A. A. Camp. Winder; H. J. Copeland, Mc Donough. Every Woman Will Be Interested. If vou have pains in the back, Urina ry, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb cure for woman’s ills, try Mother Cray’s Aus- tralian-Leaf. It is a safe and never- failing regulator. At druggists or by mail 50c. Sample package FREE. Ad dress. The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. The Manacles on Jefferson Davis. Mobile, Ain., Sept. 2.—The Rev. .1. W, Kaye, an Episcopal minister of North Broad street, Philadelphia, who guarded Jefferson Davis in Fortress Monroe after the fall of the Confedera cy, and was present when manacles were placed on him, gives an aocount of the affair said to have never been made public before, Mr, Kayo is on his way home from the Pacific coast. "1 never would speak of my connec tion with tills matter.” said Mr. Kaye, "except that 1 want to keep history straight and to exonerate Gen. Miles from the charge that the Southern peo ple have made against him, that he was to blame for tiie indignity that was heaped upon the lea’der of the Confed eracy. "Gen. Miles had no more to do with the putting of irons on Jefferson Davis than 1 had, and I was nothing hut a lieutenant. Charles A. Dana, who was Assistant decretory of War under Stan ton, came to Fortress Monroe and ex amined the prison and the way in which Mr. Davis was kept, and on his return to Washington Gen. Miles re ceived orders to put irons on the distin guished prisoner, and there was noth ing else for him to do hut to obey or ders.” Mr. Kaye gave a graphic description of the manacling of the great chief tain. ”! had charge of the detail that went to Mr. Davis’ cell to put the irons on him,” continued Mr. Kaye. “Mr. Davis knew that not a man in the par ty was acting from his own wishes, but nevertheless he resisted strongly and cried out that he would rather die than submit. "Mr. Davis was thrown on his back on the cot in his coll and the black smith welded the iron on his hands and on his ankles, and not until this was done did the prisoner break down. He threw himself on his bed and cried like a baby and begged for a gun to shoot himself, and there was not a single sol dier in the detail hut that felt lie would give his own life to shield this man from the ordeal through which he was passing. ‘‘The irons were kept on Mr. Davis only a few days,” said Mr. Kaye, "and after that he was allowed many privi leges. He wiih allowed to receive gifts, and it was then not many days before his wife was allowed to see hirn. We all knew Unit it was a mistake to put irons on Mr. Davis, hut there was nothing cIhc to do hut to obey orders from the Department.” America Leads the World, It has been proven that a map |n the United States has a working power twice ns great as the German or Frenchman, three times that of the Austrian, and five limes that of the Italian. America ranks first place to day among the manufacturing nations of the world and produces moro than the combined output ot her greatest competitors. A few years ago this coun try ranked fourth in t.he list, hut to-day she grows twelve million dollars rich er with every setting sun. 8 “To-day,” says an English newspa per, ‘‘many a foreigner sits down to his breakfast made of cereal manufac tured in Niagara Falls; a beefsteak from Omaha; a slice of bacon from the Mohawk Valley; and his bread from wheat ground in Minneapolis. On his way to his office he can ride in a car made in New York, propelled by ma chinery made in Schenectady, over a railroad constructed by American en gineers and largely of American mate rials. On reaching his office he sits in a chair made in Chicago; before a roll-top desk made in Buffalo; his let ters are written on a typewriter made in Syracuse; he signs them with a New York fountain pen and dries them with sheets of blotting paper from New England ; the letters are put away in files made in Grand Rapids. Look ing over his evening paper he reads of the placing in American shipyards of orders for American battleships for European and Asiatic nations.” Money, no doubt, is a power, but a power of well defined limits. It will purchase plenty, hut not peace. It will furnish your table with luxuries, hut not with an appetite to enjoy them. It will surround your sick bed with physicians, hut not restore your sickly frame. It will encompass you with a cloud of flatteries, hut never procure you one true friend. It bribes for you into silence the tongues of accusing men, but not accusing conscience. It will pay some debts, but not the lar gest one—your debt to the law of God. It will relieve many fears, but not those of guilt—the terrors that crown the brow of death. He stands as grim and terrible by the dying bed of wealth as by the pallet of the poorest beggar, whom pitiless riches has thrust from her door. Gladness is appreciated: only those who know wnat aadnoas is. by Esau sold his birthright for a meso of pottage. Boys are cheaper; they take a cigarette.