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fierald_aml Advertiser. NliWNAN, FRIDAY, SK I’ Papa and Christmas. Now Orleans State*. •I According to a news story in one of Good News for the Hungry. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR One Hundred Million Railroad Ties a Year. In the construction of new stork and for renewals, the steam and street rail roads used in 1906 over 100.000,000 cross-ties. The average price paid was 48 cents per tie. Approximately three- fourths of the ties were hewed and one-fourth sawed. Oak. the chief wood used for ties, furnishes more than 44 per cent., near ly one-half of the whole number, while Southern pine, which ranks second, contributes about one-sixth. Douglas fir and cedar, the next two, with two proximately equal quantities, supply less than one-fifteenth apiece. Chest nut, cypress. Western pine, tamarack, hemlock and redwood are all of impor tance, hut no one of them furnishes more than a small proportion. Oak and Southern pine stand highest in both total and average value: the average value of each is 51 cents. Chestnut ranks next, followed by ce dar. Hemlock, at 28 cents, is the cheapest tie reported. More than three-fourths of all the ties are hewed; and with every wood from which ties are made, except Douglas tir and Western pine, the the New York papers, a youthful Goth- amite on Christmas morn stood on the porch of his home and joyously ex claimed: “Hurrah for papa.’’ Good boy. Noble sentiment. It is to be hoped hereafter that on Christmas morning the whole country will ring with cries of “Hurrah for papa," be cause he really deserves it. I he truth is he is the factor who is responsible for ninety-five per cent, of the happi ness and gayety of the time. The sac rifices which he is often compelled to make in order that others may be hap py are often forgotten and sometimes not known to anyone except nimself. lie may not on Christmas feel either gav or inclined to festivity, but as a producer of gayety papa is an unquali fied success, but as a lule is lost sight of entirely in the excitement and the din of the merry-making. The New York boy who gave utter ance to such timely and ringing senti ments, not only set a glorious example for all the other boys in the country, but probably appreciated the fact that papa is the modern Atlas upon whose shoulders rests the burden of Christ mas festivity, which he bears calmly and without complaint; hence he ought to get a hurrah if nothing else in rec ognition of duty well performed. And it is safe to say that the average papa would be mightily pleased if he gut such an unexpected tribute on Christ- Outing. Many middle-aged women who are rather stout but young and fresh-iook- ing diet with the idea of improving their appearance. They lose a few pounds, but their faces become hag gard and wrinkled. In pronounced obe- j 28-29. sity, the most effective remedy is ex ercise, gradually made vigorous, sup plemented by a change of diet, but never by semi-starvation. The Coming Veterans’ Reunion. j Athens Banner. The people of Athens are looking forward with great pleasure to the ap proaching reunion of the Confederate Veterans of the Georgia Division, which will be held in this city Sept. The interest of the people is being manifested by an increase in the activ ities of the citizens in making all nec essary preparations for the entertain- Statistics have shown the great val- ment of the guests of that occasion. number of hewed ties is greater than | the number of sawed. About ten mas morning. It would please him far^ times as many Douglas fir ties are | more than a handkerchief case that he sawed as are hewed. Of the oak ties j cannot drill himself to use or a pair of a little over one-sixth and of the | slippers which fit nobody except the Southern pine ties less than one-third j cook, are sawed. In contrast to the Southern i pine is the Western pine, of which more than one-half the ties are sawed. In general, when lumber has a rela Papa is a great institution, especial ly about Christmas time, and if any body has a robust hurrah coming to him. he is undoubtedly the man, a fact tively low value the proportion of which has at last been discovered by sawed ties increases, because the mar ket for ties is always active, while that for lumber is frequently sluggish. All W’estern species are affected by this condition, for stumpage is abund ant and its value relatively low. Ten per cent, of the ties purchased were treated with preservatives either before they were purchased or at the treating plant of the railroad company. the exceedingly bright boy in New York. Let us hope that next Christ mas morning the whole country will in dulge in a grand and ringing “Hurrah for papa!” It has been due the “old man” for a long time, and would cheer him greatly. Resolutions of Respect. It has pleased God, in His infinite midst At least ten railroad companies are op- wisdom, to take from our midst and erating their own plants for the pres- j church our beloved sister, Mrs. E. J. ervation of their construction material. | Bradley, who departed this life Aug. Of the many forms in which wood is j 1909. She was born Dec. 11. 1836, used, ties are fourth in cost, sawed I which made her i3 years of age at the lumber being first, firewood second and ! time of her death. She was the (laugh shingles and laths third. It has been calculated that the amount of wood used each year in ties is equivalent to the product of 600,00) acres of forest, and that to maintain every tie in the track two trees must be growing. With nearly 300.000 miles of railroad trackage and approximately 2,800 ties to the mile, there are over 800,000,000 ties constantly subject to wear and de cay. The railroads report that in the form of ties cedar lasts eleven years, i cypress ten years, and redwood nine j years. These woods, however, lack the j desired weight and hardness, and. what, is more important, they are not availa ble in the region of the trunk lines of the Central and Eastern States. When it is considered, then, that the service of the longest-lived tie timbers in gen eral use- chestnut, white oak, tama rack, spruce, and Douglas fir is but seven years, while with some, as the black oak, it is but four years, where as a treated tie with equipment to les sen wear will last fifteen years, it is apparent how much the railroads can save if preservative treatment of ties is universally adopted. The saving in the drain upon the forests is of even more moment. The Real Farmer. Yorkvillo (S. C.) Enquirer. A wise old merchant ( f Yorkville. the late M. Strauss, used to tell lus clerks: “It does not require a sales man to sell a plug of tobacco. Ain body can do that. The sale is already made, in fae.. The customer merely calls for th > tobacco and the salesman only takes the money. The real sales-1 man is the man who can take up a use ful article about which the customer! knows nothing, point out its merits and ! its value and make a sale.” There is lots of valuable food for! thought in this observation, which can be applied with equal propriety to va rious other lines of endeavor. It does i not take a farmer, for instance, to! raise ten bushels of corn on fresh, new ground. Anybody can do that. The real farmer goes in for making from forty to sixty bushels of corn on com paratively poor land, and he does not think of stopping there. After raising the corn he goes in for saving and util izing every penny of value that conies with the crop. The corn, fodder, shucks or cover, to hand, he does not want to sell them as raw materials, if instead he can put them through horses, mules, cows, hogs and pigs, and thus derive still greater value from them. The real faimer makes every move on the theorv ib-it he is in the business for life, and along with products that are directlv exchangeable for money values, he looks out for tilings that promise value in the future The po.- sibilities open to the farmer—any far mer—are limited only by his industry, -perseveranee and capabilities. It's awfully hard for a genius to keep his name on the pay-roll. ter of Jas. P. Askew, and married W. Bradley on Nov. 6. 1856. Was the mother of four children :-three sons survive her. She united with the Bap tist church in early girlhood, later moving her membership to the First Baptist church, Newnan, 6a., and lived a consistent member until the day of her death. She was a good and j fond mother, a consecrated Christian ! worker, a true friend, a loving neigh bor, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to the sick and needy. Her life was an example of devotion to the Master’s cause, and her faithful con duct an inspiration to those who knew her. As a church we regret to lose her presence, and wish to express our ap predation of the intluence which lives after her. We pray God’s comfort upon the members of tier family and upon her friends, and in the same petition we ask for lives of similar faithfulness and consecration. Resolved, That the above be in scribed on our minute book, spread upon the minutes of our Woman’s Mis sionary Society, and also ask that the same be printed in The Herald and Advertiser and Newnan News. Mrs. Mary Buchanan, Mrs. 1. N. Orr, Mrs. .1. H. Simms, Committee. ue of abundant food. Dr. J. Robert son. an eminent surgeon of England, has remarked that the families of working people when well fed main tained their health surprisingly, even while living in cellars, and he observed that during four years of prosperity the number of fever cases admitted to the Manchester House of Recovery j were 421 a year, while in two pinching years 1,207 cases a year were admitted. The ultimate effect of curtailing the food supply is to weaken the stomach so that it cannot digest what it once could easily digest. Thus the source from which our energy is derived is weakened, to our great detriment. Now, as man is really stronger than his stomach and as good digestion waits on appetite and health on both, should we not rather seek to strength en the stomach by giving it exercise than to enfeeble it by dieting? Loss of weight is the first symptom of failing health: and cutting the food supply invariably causes loss of weight. To develop strong muscles we train them gradually to do strong work. Iri the same way we can, by judicious care, accustom even a weak stomach to digest hearty meals. But we cannot do this by forcing into the stomach more food than it calls for; we must first create the need of a greater quantity by a proper amount of bodily exercise. Of all cures for dyspepsia, with its ac companying languor, exercise is the best cure of all. Rev. Dr. George Bailey, pastor of the Western Presbyterian church of Washington, declared in an address to an open air mission meeting: “We are rapidly becoming a nation of boarders. There is too little of home life; we lose sight of our families; we are not in close touch with our parents. An orator has said that there is not a man who will not answer the call to arms in defense of his home. But who will shoulder a musket to defend his board ing-house? There is something inde scribably beautiful about the word ‘home,’ with all of the associations it calls to mind.” Prof. Brander Matthews, the bril liant writer and teacher, was discuss ing literary quaintness at Columbia. In illustration of the quaint he said: “A little girl I know was very bad one day. She was so bad that, other correction failing, her mother took her to her room to whip her. “During the proceeding the little girl’s older brother opened the door and was about to enter. But in her prone position across her mother’s knee the little girl twisted her head and said, severely : “ ‘Eddie, go out! Can’t you see we’re busy !’ ” It is safe to say that practically every home in Athens is open to the visiting veterans, at least all except those where circumstances forbid entertain ing anyone. There is no disposition on the part of the people to hold back from entertaining the old soldiers; on the other hand, as fast as the canvass ing committee gets around the number of homes secured for the entertain ment of the veterans increases. Miss Passay — “The idea of Mr. Hoimley asking me if I couldn’t learn to love Him !” Miss Sharpe—“Why not? One is nev er too old to learn.” The Dentist—“Now, Johnny, brace up. It’ll be all over in a minute.” Johnny—“Yes, but—gee, think of that minute!” Tardiness is the prime creator in any school. It creates discontent and dis respect. Plenty of sand will enable the en gine to advance at every revolution of the drivers. Obedience is the first of the seven school virtues; and it begins at home. You can’t always judge the dinner by the price. CURES . SKIN DISEASES There is an evaporation from the body going on continually, day and night, through the pores and glands of the skin. This is nature's way of maintaining the proper temperature of our systems and preserving the soft ness and flexibility of the skin, and so long as the blood is free from impur ities no trouble will result. When, however, the blood from any cause becomes infected with humors and acids, these too must be expelled, and coming in contact with the delicate fibres and tissues with which the skin is so abundantly supplied they produce irritation and inflammation, and the effect is shown by Eczema, Acne, Tetter, and skin affections of various kinds. These impurities and humors get into the blood through a deranged or inactive condition of the system ; the members whose duty it is to carry off the waste and refuse matter of the body fail to properly perform their work, and this impure, fermenting matter is left in the system to be absorbed by the blood. The skin is not only affected by poisons generated within the system, but poisons from without, such as Poison Oak, Poison Ivy, Nettle Rash, etc., enter through the open pores and glands, and so thor oughly do they become rooted in the blood "that they are ever present, or return at certain seasons of each year to torment the sufferer. Salves, washes, lotions, etc., cannot cure skin diseases. True, such treatment re lieves some of the itching and dis comfort, and aids in keeping the skin clean, but it does not reach the real cause, and at best can be only palli ating and soothing. A thorough cleansing of the blood is the only certain cure for skin diseases. S. S. S., a gentle acting, safe blood purifier, made entirely of vegetable ingredients- of the forest and field, is the proper treatment. S. S. S. goes down into the circulation, and neutralizes the acids and humors, thoroughly cleansing and purifying the blood, and curing skin affections of every kind. It supplies to the blood the fresh, nutritive qualities necessary to sustain the skin and all other parts of the body, and rids the blood of any and all poisons. S. S. S. cures Eczema, Tetter, Acne, Salt Rheum, Poison Oak and Ivy, Nettle Rash, and all other skin troubles, and cures them permanently by removing every trace of the cause from the blood. Special book on Skin Diseases and any medical advice desired furnished free to all who write. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GAJ I have used your S. S. S. t spring and fall, for the past two years, with the result that it entirely relieved me of a form of Eczema which my doctor was unable to cure. My arms, lower limbs, and, in fact, the biggest portion of my whole body was affected, and when I first began S. S. S. the itching, etc., was worse, but I continued the remedy with the result that the dry, itching eruption en tirely disappeared. I think a great deal of your medicine, and have recommended it to others with good results. It is the best blood medicine made, and I can conscientiously recommend it for the cure of all blood and skin affections. CHAS. HORSTMAN. Wheeling, W. Va. When 6-year-old Oliver returned from his first day at Sunday-school his fath er asKed him what they had told him, whereupon Oliver related as best he could the miracle of the loaves and fishes. His father suggested that the story was a rather hard one to believe and asked the ooy what he thought about it, hut Oliver evaded the ques tion. The next morning, however, the two were alone at breakfast. “Father,” said the boy suddenly and solemnly. “Well,” answered his father. “I didn’t believe that story about the loaves and fishes ye.-t ?rday,” continued the chili in a quiet, confidential tone, "but 1 didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to start an argument.” A traveling man was riding in the smoking car of an express train, read ing his paper, when a man rushed in from the car behind the smoker evi dently in great agitation, and said: “Has anybody in this car any whiskey? A woman in the car behind has faint ed.” Instantly dozens of flasks were produced. The man who had asked for it picked out the largest one. drew the cork and put the bottle to his lips. With a long and satisfied sigh, he handed it back and remarked: “That did me a lot of good. I needed it, for it always makes me feel so queer to see a woman faint.”—National Food Mag azine. Kind I.adv—“So you are an old sol dier? How thrilling! Tell me what was the narrowest escape you ever had. ” Dusty Rhoades—“Well. mum. oncet I win transferred from a recipient jest •■vo days before it wuz ordered to the Fillerpeens!” “You’ve been courting me now for a number of years, George,” remaiked a girl to a young man, “and l want to make a little leap-year proposal.” “I—1 am not in a position to m—mar ry just yet,” stammered the youth; “but—” “Who said anything about marri age?” interrupted the girl. “I was go ing to propose that you stop coming here and give somebody else a chance.” —Stand by your town. Not a dollar invested there but some good comes of it. There is no family like one’s own family, there is no wife like one’s own wife, there should be no town like one’s own town, where we live, edu cate our children, on whose streets our babies play and where we may some day sleep. Let the newspaper stand by the town, and let the business men stand by the newspaper, and let us make our town as famous as possible. The minister had just been giving the class a lesson on the prodigal son. At the finish, to test what attention had been paid to the teaching, he asked: “Who was sorry that the prodignl had returned?” The most forward youngster in the class answered breathlessly: “The fatted calf.” AFTER DOCTORS FAILED Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound Cured Her. Willimantic, Conn.—“For five years I suffered untold agony from female troubles, causing backache, irregulari ties, dizziness and nervous prostra tion. It was impossible for me to walk upstairs without stopping on the way. I tried three differ ent doctors and each told me some thing different. I received no benefit from any of them, but seemed to suf fer more. The last doctor said noth ing would restore J my health. I began taking Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound to see what it would do, and I am restored to my natural health.’’—Mrs. Etta Donovan, Box 299, Willimantic, Conn. The success of Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra tion. For thirty years Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills, and suffering women owe it to themselves to at least give this medicine a trial. Proof is abundant that it has cured thousands of others, and why should it not cure you? DISPLAYS AND EX HIBITS WANTED The Fourth District A. & M. School Fair Association desire all persons who contemplate making exhibits at the Fair to be held at the A. & M. School on Oct. 5, 6, 7 and 8 to communicate the fact to the Secretary. Exhibits of all kinds of Vegetables, Fruits, Feed- stuffs, Animals, Minerals, etc., wanted. For premium list and further information address B. B. THOMASSON, Secretary, CARROLLTON, - - - GA. Excursion Fares via Central of Georgia Railway Company, To Valdosta. Ga., and return—Account Grand Lodge Supreme Circle of Benevolence of United States, to be held Sept. 28 Oct. 4. 1909. To Los Angeles, Calif.. Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash.. San Francisco, Calif.. San Diego, Calif.—Account Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposition and various other special occasions. For full information in regard to rates, dates of sale, limits, schedules, etc., apply to nearest ticket agent. A little girl was asked to define a frog. “A frog,” said she with childish volubility, “is a great big green bug, with its mouth always open, and it’s always standing up in front and sitting down behind.” Little Willie—“Say, pa. what is an infant industry?” Pa—“It is usually a trust, my son, that grabs everything in sight, just as l a baby does.” New Advertisements PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Clean.*c« and beautifies the hair. Promote* a luxuriant growth. Never Fail* to Restore Gray Jlrir to its Youthful Color. Cure.* *<'a:p disease* & hair tailing. 30c, and $I,t» - at Druggists Electric Bitters Succeed when everything else fails. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist’s counter. Newnan Hardware Co. Seasonable Goods Garden Hose Freezers, Lawn Mowers Screen Doors Screen Windows Fruit Jars Preserving Kettles Milk Coolers Jar Rubbers Jelly Glasses Tin Fruit Cans Blue, White and Gray Enameled Ware We are right here with the goods. ’Phone us your order. Newnan Hardware Co., GREENVILLE STREET, Telephone 148. Orange, Amber and Red Top Sorghum Seed WE HAVE RECEIVED LARGE MENTS OE EACH VARIETY. RECLEANED, WITHOUT TRASH. SEE US BEFORE BUYING. WE’LL i SAVE YOU MONEY. AHarge quantity of Unknown Peas for sale. M. C. Farmer & Company SHIP- NICE, A Wheel Of f Or any of the numberless mis haps that occur to the best of vehicles in consequence, of bad roads, or careless driving can be repaired in the best manner, durably and efficient at E. R. Dent’s repair shops. Our work always gives thorough satisfaction, as the testimony of our former pat rons shows. W e also make tl best buggy sold in Newnan E. R. DENT