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iwaM and fldPfflitcr, NEW NAN, FRIDAY, SEP. 17. S E P T E M B E It. Thr golden-rod iH yellow, A ml the corn iH turning brown; The treee in apple orchards With fruit are hanging down. The gontian’fl blue»t fringes Are curling in the huh; In dusty penis the milkweed It« hidden silk has spun. The sod go a flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook; And asters hy the brookHide Make asters in the brook. From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies. Our Carrollton Correspondent C. M. S. b — —■ "Believe me, I speak as my understanding in- struets me, and as mine honesty puts it to utter ance.’’- I Shakespeare. Capt. Loiik concludes his diary : "Oct. 10, 1847. It was a grand event when wo made our triumphal entry into the capital of the Montezumas the ^rand old City of Mexico. Though we have strict orders not to molest the natives, cither in person or property, it would amuse you to see the swagger ing deportment of the American soldier ns he parades the streets of the Mexi can capital. One would think, to ob serve his antics, that he is the all-con quering Caesar himself. It is generally known that an American soldier has a fine opinion of himself; but since we put Santa Anna out of business he thinks (judging from his actions) that he owns Mexico, Central and South America. We now have but little to do. There are continual rumors of peace. From indications here I can see no use of prolonging the struggle. There is no organized resistance to our arms, though the guerillas are quite active. They are regarded now as a kind of banditti, who, when caught, are shot without the form of trial. Our command lias been chasing these pred atory scoundrels over hill and dale for the past month, but, like the red fox, they are long-winded and not easily caught. The city just now is quite gay. The young epauletted officers — and older ones too, for that matter- are strutting about the city in new regimentals. The grand dames of the 4>W Mexican regime are giving quite a number of fetes and balls, and there being no greasers here, they must per force invite American officers. The native women of the capital are tho prettiest 1 have seen since my advent into Mexico, and 1 have seen many good lookers in different parts of the re public. It appears that the women arc beginning to make a virtue of neces sity that is, they recognize that their armies have been beaten at every point—and they, by blandishments and cajolery, are making the American of ficers think they are becoming recon ciled to our presence. That is good tactics as well as common sense. It is no infrequent thing to see gaily dressed ollicers and native ladies gal loping hither and thither about the city a spectacle that would make Ameri can wives and Mexican husbands and fathers a little sore could they witness it. it is well, since our gallant officers have led such a strenuous life, to let them have I he pleasure of ladies’ soci ety. We of the rank and file have many little tete-a-tetes with the bourgeois element of the fair sex. it almost makes one reconciled to being at war in a strange land. it. will soon end with us. One can’t eat his pic and have pie. We hear that peace has been declared. Then we must bid adieu to the sylph like forms, dark eyes and raven tresses of the sweet Mexican senorita. "May 1, ISIS. After a six-months’ rceupancy we set sail to-day for New Orleans or Mobile. The boys are just howling with joy at the idea of return ing home. We are now at Vera Cruz, the best port on the Mexican coast— one that does three-fourths of the ship ping for the republic. "May 2. We weighed anchor this morning, and now our transport, the ‘Dolphin,’ is a dozen or more miles from the Mexican shore. Adieu to the land of the Montezumas and the sweet Mexican beauties. May it soon become rehabilitated, and her beauties renew fond vows with absent husbands and lovers. May the indulgent gods grant us propitious winds to waft us to home and loved ones.’’ If there is one country newspaper above another that challenges my ad miration for its tout ensemble it’s the Griffin News and Sun. Its editor, Col. Douglas (Ressner, is on the qui vive for all manner of news—such "hot stuff” as causes the public to rise and take niontal observations. His animadver sions on the political situation are con- jeded by all who enjov Haying a polit ical adversary as the quintessence of euuhemised invective. His patron saint, Junius, would be awful proud of his disciple could he but read some of the cal lid th ; ngs said by this manipulator of latter-day English — this editorial sleuth who camps on the trail of "the Divinely Called One,” and other heroes of the Macon platform. Though a bach elor, inured to the hardships of a bed for one, he is a gushing admirer of sin gle and disunited femininity, as may be seen by many odes and sonnets "written to his mistress’ eyebrows” which appear in his excellent sheet. Tiiis is wise and well, provided he car ries them to a logical conclusion. The Colonel believes in the eternal, gram matical, rhetorical and linguistic fit ness of things. This brings us to the milk in the monkey’s face. In the last issue of his weekly edition this remark able malformation of a French sen tence appeared: "Epenge pour la bain.” Knowing the Colonel to be au iait on his Gallic, I’m sure the compos itor marred the word "eponge” and made it “epenge,” which word can’t f»e found in anybody’s dictionary. —Private interests usually suffer vhen corporate demands are made upon the individual. This was clearly shewn when Hon. L. C. Mandeville was on the eve of building a $40,000 hotel on the vacant lot formerly occupied by the old Southland Hotel. Mr. Mandeville— good, easy man that he is—allowed a bunch of capitalists to dissuade him from his laudable purpose of building a hotel. Bernard Bass has taken advan tage of this delay in building a hotel and hM put up a first-class hosteiry on Newnan street, where he feeds the hungry hundreds. His cuisine is pre sided over by an educated Hottentot who beats the Jews on fixing good eats and drinks. His Mocha-Java blend cof fee is the finest north of New Orleans, and his porter-house steaks dissolve into a loblolly in the feeder’s mouth. —After spending a couple of weeks among his Coweta friends and rela tives, Capt. Jim Martin has retuned to his former haunts of peace and pleas- I ure. He says since his return he feels | as did the parrot that belonged to a I circus and was sold to a private family. The bird became moody and sullen, and would not talk. Christmas came, and with it the holiday festivities, and among others a big gang of fantastic riders. On seeing these the bird began to laugh. And when they cavorted over the premises, running their horses hither and yan, Polly shouted, “By jing, home again!” Capt. Martin is home again to his friends! —Messrs. Joe Ramey, Morris Spon- cler, El Carpenter and Jim Brewster were in this metropolis Sunday on an auto jaunt. The lads happened to the ill luck of having a tire to retire from active service. Failing to get it repair ed, they returned to Newnan on the evening train and came back Monday, (Hubor Day,) and after laboring with the machine some three or four hours, got her in walking order. They pulled for home in the afternoon. The auto’s a fust skeeter, but she ain’t as safe as a yoke of oxen. -Mr. A. P McKown, of Douglas, spent the early part of the week with his daughter, Mrs. Allen Beddinglield. - Miss Vannie Phillips has returned from a month’s visit to Jetferson, Ga. —After spending the summer with their grandmother, Mrs. Jennie B. Smith, Miss Adolph Covington and Master Clay Covington returned to At lanta Tuesday. - Mrs. W. A. Thornton has returned home, after a week's visit to Newnan. Mr. M. M. Bradley has returned from the East, where he purchased a super!) stock of dry goods lor his house. — At Le Petit Trianon, her beautiful home on Rue Dixie, Madame Holder- ness, consort of Hon. Sidney llolder- ness, entertained most pleasantly the Matrons’ Domino Club Friday morning. The better to enjoy the balmy Septem ber breezes the guests were received and entertained on the elegantly col- onaded portico. When the games were over a delightful salad course was served. —The following delegates will repre sent McDaniel-Curtis Camp, U. C. V., at the Confederate reunion in Athens on Sept. 28-29: S. W. Harris, G. W. Muse, .1. C. Russell, C. W. Worley and W. L. Craven. For tlie benefit of entomologists 1 will give a story told me by Mose Kiser of a cross between the chinch and spi der. Mose is a saw-mill man, and, like most of his calling, has “roughed it” in tlie piney woods. “My saw-mill,” said Mose, “was cutting lumber in Flint Corner of Carroll county. It was 14 miles from anywhere or anybody. It was what you might call a godlonesome camp. The force consisted of myself, Buck Dyer, the sawyer, Jitn Dolan, en gineer, and a dozen nigger loggers and otfbearers. A couple of rude shacks alforded shelter for us—one for the ‘coons’ and the other for white men. As we had a good deal of timber, and were likely to be there for the winter, we nailed tine shack up so it would turn the wind and rain. There’s where our trouble began. Any fellow can tell you chinches do well in a logging camp where weatherboarding and the like is used. It ain’t no use describing to a suffering martyr how a chinch can use his ripsaw; but you fellows who know nothing of their keen bills and diabolic ways will have something to anchor be hind your eyebrows when you know the joys that come to a well-bitten tenant of a logging shack. Nobody can tell you how these musk bugs find their way into the woods, but they get there all the same. We soon had a fine chance of them sticking around in the chinks, and it didn’t take an expert bug-driver to see that they were get ting all the good chewing that was coming to them. They were real fat and sporty, and when you’d fondle them they’d fling oil a perfume that was a cross between a billy goat and a polecat. Our bedding seemed to be headquarters for most of them. We took a day off and slaughtered every innocent infesting the bedding. Then the question came up as to how we’d keep them off the beds. We fell upon the project of putting a ring of syrup around the beds. For soma time this put the bugs on short rations. They got busy. It wasn’t long before the beds and clothing were chock full of them. We caught some of the latest arrivals and examined their feet, but there were no syrup stains on them ; so it was clear to our minds that they did not cross Molasses Creek, (as the boys called the cordons.) We noticed that the chinches w'ere a little larger and a bit more potbellied, like a spider; their boring machine was larger, and their bite more painful. We tumbled. The chinches had crossed with the spi ders, which put a rope factory behind their mongrel legs. This new bug climbed upon the ceiling and, fastening his cob to it, let himself down on his rope ladder to our bed3. It was like Jacob’s ladder;—the chinches and half- chinches glided up and down it all night. When we made the discovery we gave it up. Although it was mid night, we burnt the shacks and took to the woods. No human flesh could stand the combination drill of a spider and a chinch, so we burnt them out of house and home.” This story has the earmarks of truthfulness, and we re gret Mose did not save a sample of his new-fangled bug for inspection. —Genial Jack Travis, our popular County School Commissioner, accompa nied by Mrs. Travis, were the guests of Newnan friends Tuesday. —Miss Christine Fitts has returned to Bessie Tift College to attend the fall session. —Miss Minnie Lou Culpepper, of Ensley, Ala., was the guest of Miss Ev elyn Brown last week. —Rev. W. E. Dozier is visiting his aged mother in South Carolina, who is reported seriously ill. On account of his absence there was no preaching at the Presbyterian church last Sabbath. —The City Court has been in session the past week. Quite a number of criminal cases were tried and a large number of convictions resulted. —The disciples of Esculapius are be coming thicker in Carrollton than bear tracks about the north pole. The latest arrival, who comes to take a slice of the professional pie, is Dr. B. H. Brock. Welcome, Doc! Stick your scalpel in'your boot-leg, a bunch of pills in your pocket, grab your aramenta- rium, and give the ailing ones what they need. —The Heart and Dice Club were de lightfully entertained Friday afternoon by little Miss Lillie Hale. —The sa-fa-la-do-ra-me devotees had the time of their lives at Whitesburg Sunday. The warblers gathered from far and near, and the dulcet reverbera tions made the crossties wiggle and the rails quiver. Let the same good old song echo down the aisles of Time: "It’s the old ship of Zion, hallelujah! hallelujah !” —Mrs. Robt. Jackson and Mrs. D. F. New were the guests Tuesday of Mrs. Eph Powell, at Turin. --Mias Mvrtice Camp, who has been the summer guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. Y. Blalock, has returned to her home in Houston, Tex. She will spend a week in Newnan en passant. —Those charming young Washing tonians, Madanioiselles Cleo and Kath leen Almon, who conduced so great ly to the social gaiety of Carroll ton while spending the summer with their aunt, Mrs. H. R. Robinson, and other relatives, departed Monday for home. —Miss Claire Holmes, of Newnan, is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Glenn Holmes. —The horse-swapping brigade were in town Tuesday a thousand strong. Some fine equine ruins were the sub ject of many dickerings. Ye who have not seen a Carrollton first Tuesday’s horse-swapping demonstration should take a day off and see the sights. —Mr. Geo. H. West visited Atlanta Sunday, where he spent the day in at tendance on Mrs. West, who is a pa tient at St. Joseph’s Infirmary. —The A. & M. School had a splendid opening Tuesday. Quite a number of celebrities in the educational line were present. A couple of gold cash prizes were offered to students by Hon. L. C. Mandeville for the best student’s re cord the eusuing scholastic year. - The city public scools opened Mon day with an unprecedentedly large at tendance. Addresses were made by preachers, pedagogues and other pro fessional men. The prospects of the schools were never brighter. Teach ers were on hand with sleeves rolled up for business. The “licking boss” likewise was in evidence with his suave smile, which, on occasion, means a hot time for the unreinforced bosom of the youthful recalcitrant’s pantaloons. Mr. L. C. Mandeville, philanthropist, al truist and patron of all good works, will give prizes to students who make the best school record the ensuing school term. First prize, $10 in gold; second prize, $5 in gold. —The Jews have opened an excellent clothing store near the postoflice. Let the gentle Gentile now give good mon ey to the Lord's anointed for raiment wherewith to bedeck himself. 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. Easy money is the hardest to keep. All High-Class HIGH-CLASS HORSES HIGH-CLASS MULES HIGH-CLASS BUGGIES HIGH-CLASS HARNESS COME TO SEE ME. I’M ALWAYS AT HOME. Jack; Powell Great reductions in prices on all stock through July and August. We must make room for fall stock, which is now arriving daily. We will make it to your interest to buy now. Our porch goods, chairs, set tees, porch rugs, and fibre rush furniture, to close out cheap. Large stock of the handsomest din ng-room furniture to be seen. We can save you money on rugs, art-squares, etc. Don’t buy before seeing us. The lucky number for fifth prize drawing on Saturday, June 19, was 2729. Bring in the ticket. We are going to offer some interesting inducements to buyers. We frame pictures in the best possible manner, and guarantee every job to please. Thanking you for past favors and soliciting a continuance of same, we are Y ours very truly, Marbury s Furniture Store 19 Greenville street New Advertisements PAHKER’S HAIR BALSAM CleATirra ami beautifies the ha!r. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Hover Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling, and $ 1 ,i h » at Druggis* - 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. Public Sale of Valuable Campbell County Lands. GEORGIA—Carroll County : By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of Carroll county. Ga.. granted at the November term, 1908, of said Court, will be sold before the court-house door at Fairburn, Ga.. during the le gal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Novem ber, 1909, to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing real estate, to-wit: A certain plantation in the Eighth district of t Campbell county, Ga.. known as the Music place, i consisting of S25 acres, more or less. Each lot 1 and fractional part of lot will be sold separately. ; Sold as the property of Jethro Jones, late of j Carroll county. Ga., deceased. This Sept. 10,1909. W. T. JONES, Administrator. To the Debtors and Creditors of E. Dominick & Co,, of Turin, Ga, m You are hereby notified that I have purchased the interest of Henry Dominick, deceased, in all the assets of the firm. All persons holding claims against the firm will present them to me for pay ment. and all persons owing the firm will call and settle with me. This Sept. 1, 1909. E. DOMINICK. TO THE CITIZENS OF NEWNAN Reese Drug Co. have in their P° ss “j'° t " what can be honestly termed a ,, . humanity, and they will prove it the opportunity. Go to their store >ou are troubled with Rheumatism. »n any form. Eczema or Sa’t Klu um Buy a bo tie of Irish Liniment, follow djr«c ^ found on page three of the little • . goes with the hort le, give it a lair then if Gilhooley’s Irish Liniment relieve you. to your entire sa ^ 8 X a 5Jf l ' Sll , back to the Reese Drug Co., tell ■ and they will, on your word., pay * ^es amount of money you paid them, the ailments mentioned, please se - tie book about a burn or sprain, n . niove soreness and stop Neuralgi instantly. , . vour This leaves the matter entirely m > hands. SOLOMONS & CO., Savannah State Distributors.