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{• RI DAY, SEP. 10.
N E W N A
THE WIDOW’S WAY
Old Solomon wan wimc* in many way*.
But Un-r at * thing* h** couldn t und*
And unto him be honor and gr*»Ht pr*»»*
That confessed hit* ignorenre "'Thav
|fe did r ot know how ship* went in th
-Mr. Hot Thornton. Carrollton’s
! city engineer and superintendent of
construction, is building some of the
prettiest streets ever seen in this vil
lage. He has received a number of of-
I co. as tu mi Cor,cements az a mattur fer- of employment from neighboring | nothing is more important than the
I ov Emportants threw a case of neeces-
! of expression given us by Junius has
here found a rival: “Tu the rurial
Male Carrer: han to the pos moster
at Carriealtun. dear Sur i wush to hav
rny male sont me tu Forlorner, ga hurd
A Tactful Crescendo.
Harper's Weekly.
“In the Province of Holstein,” says
a traveler who spends a good deal of
his time abroad, "wheie, of course,
rp*fltli rrawlwd, how eagthe
in'* w»> with a rnaid «m a m>--"r>
hirr. he owned all this freely a:d fair.
A maW’a w-ay with a man ia alar, queer.
So aubtle that r.o man can fa*horn it.
H« may b« wise, but she. the little dear
Shackles his wisdom and confounds his w
But thcr** in nomething atrang'-r far than th
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And has him quite persuaded that the kiss
He give* h**r ts a new experience!
j ity, i concluded tu omit teechering fur
a while an take a small respight until
a more Convenient season. Yores fur
the perfeshun.. Ex Eye Zee.”
1 —If Cook makes good his claim to
discovering the North Pole it will
make Uncle Sam awful proud of his
j dominions. Like some huge colossus,
he will stand with one loot on Tera Del
Fuego and the other on the North Pule,
while he squirts tobacco juice in the
towns, hut avers he will finish this job \ breeding of superior cattle, the coun-
if it bankrupts the plan of salvation, try people are not only very thrifty,
or words to that effect. but exceedingly fond of their cows, as
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kennebrew, may be gathered from a characteristic
of Piedmont, have moved from that story current there.
"It appears that one farmer was
walking sadly down the road one day
when the village pastor met him.
” ‘Why so downcast, friend?’ asked
the pastor.
delightful spa to Carrollton.
A Kilowatt and What it Will Do.
Electric News.
Electricity is measured by the kilo
watt hour. The rates for buying cur
rent from the electric light plant for
Our Carrollton Correspondent
of his Asiatic colonies, (the Phil- power, light or heat, or for charging
“Believe me. I speak as my understanding in
struct* m*\ and as mine honesty puts it to utter
ance."—[Shake* peare.
—Has the North Pole been discover
ed? If so, what’s the use? It is an
easy matter for Dr. Cook to make this
claim, for it is practically certain that
no man will ever find his flag, or other
marks he says he planted on it. We
may be permitted to say, subjonctive-
ly: If Dr. Cook has discovered the
eyes
ippines,) and spanks the Mikado with
with his outstretched palm.
—Now. I,ord, that Thy servant hath
seen men flying through the air like
peekerwoods, and heaid them talk to
each other thousands of miles apart. !
and hath seen great Jove's thunder-
! holts harnessed to a factory shaft, do
ing servile labor, ard heard men’s
voices come out of canned cylinders,
and discs, let him depart in peace to j
the bosom of his fathers, for he’s out j
! of joint with an age in which men live |
in a trot.
the electric runabout, are always so
much for each kilowatt hour of elec
tricity consumed. This is just so
much Greek to the average man, and
if you tell him a kilowatt is one-and
one-third horse-power he will only get
a faint idea of what it is all about.
To explain the term needs, first, a
clear definition, and then a comparison.
Every one will understand that a cer
tain amount of force must be used to
drive electric current through a cir
cuit. This force is measured by volts;
thus we have 110-volt currents and
220-volt currents, the one expressing
Did you hear anybody say anything j ug j. t w ; ce t^e force of the other; but
nc '' about backbone/ Why, bless your eyes, quantity of current passing through
. “Little Joe” Brown has a spine like a a circuit depends upon the force and
shall look for some of the captains of Norwegian pine. He’s not the hand- the resigtance> a nd so the quantity is
*■ e somest man out of a band-box, but he s tX p resgec j a different term, viz.,
“amperes.”
North Pole, and has added 30,000 good |
square miles of icebergs to
Sam’s already overflowing domain, we
industry to procure a franchise on
aurora borealis, and no one is to have
a free squint at the aurora astral who
docs not put a nickel in the corporation
slot. What the hoi poloi want is free
lights from the North Pole. If Cook
ha»s planted the flag on the Pole, let
President Taft send Uncle Joe Cannon
up to pull the halyards and haul her
down. We don’t need the North Pole.
—Capt. Long continues his diary,
and gives a graphic account of the
3torming of Chepultepec:
Sept. 13.—The seige train has been
coming in slowly for the past week,
and finally these grim dogs of war are
placed for harking. The town is in
vested on all sides. Under the circum
stances, anyone hut a fool Mexican
commander would surrender without
being forced to do so by the usual
methods of a storming party. Each
company has been provided with hand
grenades. These are small bombs, to
be used by our men when we reach the
enemy’s fortified lines, on the Hupposi-
ti.an that they may not he readily
-ica'ied. or are stubbornly defended by
the ’greasers.’ The fuses are cut
short., lighted and thrown over the
ramparts among the enemy. A con
certed action of this kind has been
known to cause panic among the de
fenders Wo hope, at least, to make
them do considerable dodging while we
scale their works; for it is now certain
that we will have this disagreeable
task to perform. The ‘greasers’ ap
pear in deadly earnest. Their pickets
keep up a continual fusilade. Their
seige guns begun early this morning
to shell our batteries, which gallantly
responded. The consequence is an ar
tillery duel of terrific violence. Col
umns are beginning to move towards
cho outeirworks of Chepultepec. Skir-
mistaera are thrown forward to drive
tile enemy from the rocky fastnesses
without the lines. These tentacles of
tne army draw the fire of the ambus
caded enemy. A battery of a dozen
guns, situated on an eminence and
commanded by Capt. Braxton Bragg,
as 1 subsequently learned, poured a
tornado of grape into the Mexicans as
soon us the smoke of their guns dis
closed their position. This, with the
peppering that our heavy, skirmish
linos gave them, caused the enemy to
beat a hasty retreat. Once in plain
view Bragg’s gunners mowed them
down as they fled, and it was here that
Gen. Scott exclaimed: 'Give them a
little more grape, Capt, Bragg 1’ By
this time the battle had opened in
earnest, and the bursting shells and
the clatter of small arms was almost
deafening. The shouts of the Ameri-
sans could be distinguished above the
roar of battle. The capture of a Mex
ican battery by Col. Jefferson Davis’
Mississippians was a heroic spectacle.
The battery was located on a small
plateau. The earthworks, behind which
the vicious guns peeked from their
embrasures, was borne down upon by
Ihe columns of Davis’ regiment, whose
measured tread reminded one of a
dress parade evolution. The aim of the
Mexican gunners was fine. At each
discharge huge gaps were cut into our
intrepid columns. Tall, and towering
shove most of his comrades, Davis led
his men with a dash to the fortified
line. Reaching it, he was the first to
mount, closely followed I y his men.
Then a hand-to-hand struggle ensued.
Their guns becomming useless, the
Mexicans undertook to defend them
selves with swabs and such othr tilings
as they could lay hands upon. The Mis-
sisippians clubbed their guns over the
beads of the desperate Mexicans, final
ly driving them back and spiking their
guns. The enemy sullenly withdrew,
and were enfiladed by Gen. Persifer
Smith’s men. The engagement lasted
until nightfall. The cordon of the
American investing line closed in by ti
o’clock. Here and there a part of the
Mexican line remained intact, and a
sprightly fusilade was kept up. A con
centrated effort was made on these un
broken lines, which finally yielded. By
9 p. m. the American army was within
the walls of the city, and Gen. Santa
Anna, with his defeated army, was
falling back into the City of Mexico,
some three miles distant. It must he
admitted that the Mexicans fought des
perately. hut there is something in the
■greaser’s’ physical make-up that ren
ders him an inferior man-at-arms as
compared with the American soldier.
The storming of the castle of Chepul
tepec was assigned to Gen. Pillow,
who carried it at the point of the bay
onet. The army is wild with enthusi
asm. We know this is the last of an
organized resistance to our arms. It
may now he said that Mexico has been
uorquered, and in a few months we
will all return to our homes.”
The following note was picked up
an the street by th# writer. 1 reproduce
its contents to show that the elegance
firmer than the casemated rock of Gi-
bralter. He s playing no favorites^ Now the efficiency of the current de-
among his wealthy and influential sup- j p en( j s upon both force and quantity, and
porters, as was shown when he refused , tQ eX p re3H ths efficiency or united ac-
to pardon Billy Mitchell, of Ihomas t j on we multiply the force by the quan-
county, though importuned to do so by j —^at j S) V olts by the amperes
hosts of his own warm and influential
supporters. Occasionally Georgians
may be counted upon to do a boss job
of folly, but let them alone and they’ll
get right. Didn’t they come across in
good shape when they gave us Joe
Brown for Governor? Yea, verily;
he’s the real "Arm and Hammer”
brand!
—I have just finished putting In Car
rollton’s meter system, thanks to the
industrious white laborer. Much
against my inclination I began the
work with negroes. After one day
they struck for higher wages. I ig
nored their demand, and advertised for
white labor. 1 succeeded beyond my
wildest hopes. The white men did my
work well and expeditiously. It was
thought it would take upwards of three
months to do the work, yet it was ac
complished inside of thirty days. Day
by day, the white men did twice the
amount of work the negroes had done,
and without the least trouble. These
worthless negro vagabonds lie around
the towns, and, like the dog in the
manger, they’ll neither work nor allow
industrious white men to do public
work, because of their apparent will
ingness to take all the jobs that come
along. The town authorities should
give the cart-drivers’ and street
hands’ places to white men. There
are hundreds of industrious young
white men who would be glad of an op
portunity t >earn a dollar a day. Do
this, and enforce the vagrancy laws
against the idle and vicious negroes
and force them hack on the farms,
where they belong. 1 here and now de
sire to thank those excellent white
men who helped me accomplish a task
the negroes had undertaken to thwart.
May our authorities see their own and
the white man’s interest, and employ
no other labor than white men about
the city. May heaven prosper the will
ing, working white man!
—Miss Eva Thomasson is spending
the week with friends and relatives in
F'ayetteville.
—Mr. I. L. Cheney was the guest of
homefolks this week.
Our excellent principal of the city
schools, Mr. H. B. Adams, and his
family have returned from a six-
weeks’ visit to Nashville, Tenn., and
points in North Georgia.
—Mr. M. M. Bradley has returned
from the Eastern markets, where for
the past two weeks he has been select
ing and purchasing a fall stock of
goods for his firm.
—The public schools resumed Mon
day. An excellent corps of teachers
are in charge, and under the superb
guidance of Brof. H. B. Adams the pu
pils are sure to forge ahead in the
acquirement of knowledge.
—Capt. L. P. Mandeville has re
turned from a trip to Galveston, Tex.
—That excellent and wideawake mer
chant, Tom Merrell, has just returned
from Cincinnati, where he has pur
chased a large line of fall goods. It
goes without saying that he is one of
the sprightliest merchants in Western
Georgia.
— "St, Peter sat by the celestial gate;
The lock was rusty ami the key was dull,”
but his wideawake namesake, Peter
Lewis, of Temple, has made a hotel
move. He has quitted Temple, and -is
now in charge of the Southland Hotel
here. Mr. Lewis is a hotel man of
wide experience, and gives his guests
the “fat of the land.”
—Dr. Stephen Harris, of Valdosta,
has been the guest of his father, Judge
S. W. Harris, for the past ten days.
—It was a trash-mover, a new-
ground soaker, and a chicken-drowner
—the shower that hit this town Mon
day.
and express the result in watts. Thus
110 volts multiplied by 5 amperes is 560
watts, or 220-volts multiplied by 5 am
peres is 1100 watts. A kilowatt is, of
course, 1000 watts, which is the equiv
alent of about 1 1-3 horse-power.
In charging a battery the lighting
company’s hill is for the use of so many
watts for so many hours—thus, 1000
watts for 10 hours would be charged as
10 kilowatt hours, which, at b cents a
kilowatt hour, would be 50 cents, a
charge that seems little enough for 10
hours’ use of 1 1-3 horse-power.
But what a kilowatt hour is worth
may be judged by what it will do.
Thus a kilowatt hour, figures an engi
neer of the General Electric Co., will
light twenty 16-candle power incandes
cent lamps or two standard arc lamps
for one hour; it will pump 100 gallons
of water to a height of 25 feet; com
press 470 cubic feet of free air into 100
pounds; drive an ordinary passenger
elevator 15 feet; print 2500 circulars
on a 15x21 job press, or 100 sheets on a
32x47 cylinder press; run a sewing ma
chine for 2 hours; supply air for a
church organ for one service ; mix 2 1-2
cubic yards ol concrete; heat a two-
pint chafing dish for four hours; mix
sufficient dough for 150 loaves of bread ;
grind 600 pounds of coffee; it will
drive a runabout 4 1-2 miles or a three-
ton truck one mile.
If your colored cook fails to mate
rialize one of these bright autumn days
just play the soft pedal on the family
cook stove yourself, for she has proba
bly gone to Kansas. A Taylor street
family was thus galvanized yesterday,
the kitchen mechanic having lit out for
the wild and woolly West, where chit
terlings grow in festoons upon the
shade trees and a living can be made
without working. It is said that a num
ber of Americus negroes are interested
in the emigration movement, while
black bunches are going from other
towns as well. They have no idea
what they will do in Kansas, or why
they wish to go there, but probably the
same roseate picture that carried so
many Americus negroes to California
a year ago is being painted by Kansas
artists. Nearly all of the California
contingent are again back in dear old
Georgia, and in a few weeks the bunch
now hiking to Kansas will be counting
the crossties on the way back to the
cotton patches and melon fields of this
favored • land. —Americus Times-Re
corder.
A young lady living in Atlanta visit
ed the home of her fiance in New Or
leans. On her return home an old ne
gro “mammy,” long in the service of
the family and consequently privileged
to put the question, asKed :
“Honey, when is you goin’ to git
married?”
The engagement not having been an
nounced, the Atlanta girl smilingly re
plied :
“Indeed, I can’t say, auntie. Per
haps I shall never marry.”
The old woman’s jaw fell, and rest
ing her hands on her hips and looking
at her "mistess” from the corners of
her eyes, replied sympathetically :
“Ain’t dat a pity, now !” And then
after a moment’s reflection she added:
"But dey do say dat ole maids is de
happiest critters dey is, once dey quits
strugglin’.”
*• ‘I have a sad errand, pastor,’ re
plied the farmer. ’Farmer Henriks’
cow is dead in m.v pasture, and J am on
my way to tell him. ’
“ ‘A hard task, indeed.’
“ ‘You may well say so, pastor; but
I shall break it to him gently.’
“ ‘And how will you do that?’
” ‘Oh, I shall tell him firsc that it is
his father who is dead; and then, hav- |
ing opened the way for sadder news !
still, I shall tell him that it is not his
father but the cow!’ ”
It seems that in a “quiet little game” j
in Reno an unsophisticated stranger j
saw the dealer deal himst’f four aces. ;
He sidled over to a player opposite the
dealer and whispered to him that the j
dealer had four aces.
“Well, what’s that to you?” de- i
manded the player.
“I am trying to tell you because. I
thought that you ought to know,” an
swered the rubber-neck. “I saw him
deal himself four aces.”
“Say, mister, you had better get out
of here,” answered the player. “You
don’t understand this game. What if
he did deal himself four aces? Ain’t it
his deal?”
TRUTHFUL REPORTS.
Newnan Hoads Them With Uncom
mon Interest.
A Newnan citizen tells his experience
in the following statement. No better
evidence than this can be had. The
truthful reports of friends and neigh
bors is the best proof in the world.
Read and be convinced:
Mrs. A. M. Askew, 25 Willcoxon St.,
Newnan, Ga., says; “I cannot hesitate
to recommend so valuable a remedy as
Doan's Kidney Pills. For a long time
my daughter, eleven years of age, was
annoyed by the imperfect action of the
kidneys. The secretions were much too
frequent and at times caused a burning
sensation during passage. One box of
Doan’s Kidney Pills, which were pro
cured at Lee Bros’, drug store, entirely
corrected the difficulty and there has
been no return of it since.”
F'or sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
take no other.
KIRBY-BOHANNON
HARDWARE CO.
— For-
The best Window and
Door Screens, with
correct prices.
Hammocks at actual
cost.
Fresh Turnip Seed
just received.
Mason and “Light
ning” Fruit Jars
for all fruits.
J. H. McKOY.
REAL ESTATE AND RENT
ING AGENT.
FOR SALE.
New 5-room cottage, Second avenue;
price $1,500.
"-room house, Second avenue; rents
for $10. Price $1,250.
8-room house, large lot, Greenville
street. Price $4,500.
6-room house, Second avenue.
75 acres, 3 miles of Newnan, with
two dwellings. Price $2,000.
100 acres, near Welcome; rents for
six bales cotton; good improvements.
Price $2,700.
150 acres, near Welcome; rents for
eight bales cotton. Price $3,300.
33 acres, near Newnan. Price $1,650.
FOR RENT.
8- room house, large lot, Greenville
street; $15.
9- room house, LaGrange street; $20.
See me if you want to buy a house
and lot or farm, or rent a house.
J. H. McKOY
’Phone 260.
Jelly Glasses in two
s w I n T
ANNOUNCES THIS WEEK
THAT HE is constantly receiving fresh consignments of staple and
fancy groceries, fresh country produce, vegetables, fruits, chickens,
butter and eggs.
Since the recent decline we are selling full patent flour at $1.75
for 50 lbs. The same flour sold at $2.25 per sack four weeks ago.
Our stock of canned goods includes everything dainty and desira
ble in this line, and are guaranteed first-class in every respect.
If you have not already done so be sure to try a pound of “Swint’s
Special Blend” coffee.
Fresh shipment of pickles, olives, olive oil, cooking oil, Durkee’s
Salad' Dressing, cranberry sauce, and anything in the way of eatables
that you may call for.
Telephone Fifty-four
Professional Cards.
T. E. SHEFFIELD, M. D.,
Raymond, Ga.
General practitioner. Calls attended promptly
day or night.
If You Are a Trifle Sensitive
About the size of your shoes, it’s
some satisfaction to know that many
people can wear shoes a size smaller by
sprinkling Allen’s F'oot-Ease into them.
Just the thing for Patent Leather
Shoes, and for breaking in New Shoes.
Sold everywhere, 25c.
G is the initial of man’s must laud
able aspirationgreat, good and God
like.
THOS. G. FARMER. JR.,
Attorney-at-Law.
Will give careful and prompt attention to all
legal business entrusted to me. Collections a
specialty.
Office over H. C. Arnall Mdse. Co.’s.
DR. M. S. ARCHER,
Luther sville, Ga.
All calls promptly filled, day or night. Diseases
of children a specialty.
THOS. J. JONES,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office on Hancock street, near publio square,
Residence next door to Virginia House.
DR. F. I. WELCH,
Physician.
Office No. 9 Temple avenue, opposite public
school building. 'Phone 2d4.
DR. T. B. DAVIS,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office—Sanatorium building. Office ’phone 5 1
call; residence ’phone 5—2 calls.
W. A. TURNER,
Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given to surgery and diseases
of women. Office 19 l j Spring street, ’Phone 230
K.
W. STARR,
Dentist.
All kinds of dental work. Patronage of the pub
lic solicited. Office over Newnan Banking Co.
Kesidence ’phone 142.
P. Woodroof,
President.
D. P. Woodroof,
Vice-President.
P. L. Woodroof,
Sec’y and Treas.
WOODROOF SUPPLY CO.
Comes before the people of Newnan and surrounding country with
an entirely new and seleetTstock of goods, consisting of Groceries,
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and all kinds of Farmers’ Hardware.
Everything in stock is first-class, has been bought ^for cash, and
discounts taken on all bills. We are therefore prepared to give
the best goods at the lowest prices, and this, coupled with cour
teous treatment and prompt delivery, we feel sure will bring to us
our share of custom. We would thank all our friends to call and
give us a chance. C.A fresh supply of Orange and Amber Sorg^
hum Seed just received.
WOODROOF SFPPI V CO.
AT THE OLD BRADLEY-BANKS COMPANY CORNER.
DR.KING’S NEW DISCOVERY
Will Surely Stop That Cough.
JQucklen’s Arnica Salve
The Best Salve In The World.