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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 7.
A SONG OF CH EER-ALMOST.
I start tho Now Year with a cheer,
A challenge to tho world I fling;
My heart »hull havn no room for fenr.
With hour I'll make tho welkin ring;
No triflo shall discourage mo,
I’ll turn my hack on discontent;
With boundless valor I will—geo!
There comes tho landlord for tho rent!
The world Hhnll learn that I nm bravo,
I'll face whatever f***s inoy rise.
Nor deign to shrink from knight or knave,
Nor sloop to shame In any guise;
With "Honor" blazoned on rny shield
I strive to reach tho splendid iron I,
Thnro’e Jonei:! Where can I be concealed?—
I owe him for ten tonn of coal.
I’ll demomitrato that eournjro pays,
That only they who hope nro strong;
Him I will prulfio who merits prniHu,
And glnuncs* shall be in my hour,
Undaunted by—oh, curse the luck!
Behold tho bills the postman's brought!
It’s wasting time lo talk of pluck
And cheer and nil that tommyrot.
Plaintivencss a Quality of All Negro
Melodies.
St. Louis Globa Democrat
We ail in a gorgeous box of some
splendid theatre, amid a scene of life
and brilliant glitter, and hear the mar
velous voice of Patti ripple away on the
melody of “.Way Down Upon the S’wa
nee River,” is one thing, and to travel
through tho South when, suddenly with
a squeak from tho locomotive, one looks
from the window of a Pullman car and
sees for the first time in all his life the
clear, silent waterB of this stream, is
quite a different thing.
How many have seen tho Suwanee
river through the veil of sentiment and
song, under tho environment of the first-
named order, and how few, compara
tively, havo actually stood upon the
hanks of tho rivor itself, listened to the
soft, low- murmur of its meandering
waters, so clear, so beautiful and so
blue in eddy places, with trees bending
over its bosom, all festooned with long
wnving Spanish moss, which so nbounds
in the western regions of Florida!
Just how a river, a narrow, sand-bot
tomed, blue-watered river, which plays
so small a partin tho map of tho United
States bb does tho Suwanee, could over
huvo become so famous in this wide
world does seem strange to one when
he comes to think of it, nil because of
a mere song. But, after all, it has a
charm all its own, and tho average vis
itor will find under its spell that it will
linger witli surprising tenacity and grow
upon him like the shadow of some mys
terious fascination.
’’Wav down upon tho S’wnneo rlbbcr—
Far, far, away,
Dar’n wlmr my heart am turnin’ obbor;
Dnr'u where do ole folks Htuy.”
.No such ideal picture book songs as
this are over heard on the Suwanoo riv
er in real life unions it bo, now and then,
when some resident of this section
chooses to hum a fow lines of this same
song in a spirit much the same as that
of tho deacon in church who says
“Amen” when tho preacher has finished
the morning prayer—agreeing to wlmt
'the author of this immortal song has
■written.
But there nre songs along the Suwa-
neo river that nre characteristic and
unique in all their plaintive melody, pa
thos and humor. The negroes who are
found at work along tho river, either on
the little boats that haul timber up and
down from tho mills or phosphate from
the mines, or out in the lumber-camps
and fields aldng the river banks, seem
to be all given to song. They go about
their work in the morning with a song
and Bing all tho livolong day, crooning
some plaintive air in a monotonous
fashion or else joining a chorus where
there are several of them, and making
the woods around fairly roverberate
with the echoes of their camp-meeting
hymns, such as this:
South's Diversified Crops.
While it is true that the Southern
farmers have not given as much atten
tion to grain and other crops than cot
ton it would be a mistake to think that
the production of such diversified crops
has decreased. On the contrary, the
Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record shows
that this production has increased, and
the Record says “the inherent agricul
tural strength of the South has, perhaps,
been no more strikingly demonstrated
in recent years than in tho fact that
tho increase in value in the year just
closing over the value in 1908 of nine
crops grown in the South, is close to
$200,000,000. Of course, the greater
part of that increase is in tho value of
tho cotton crop, with the seed, in tho
face gf a short crop variously estimat
ed at from 10,000,000 bales to 11,000,-
000 bales. But, for the mind that has
difficulty in getting away from the im
pression that cotton absorbs the great
er portion of Southern farm energy the
significant point is that the crops in
the South—corn, tobacco, wheat, hay,
oats, Irish potatoes and rye—crops com
mon to tho whole country, show this
year an aggregate increase over 1908
of $32,112,534, (from $780,613,501 to
$821,726,095.)”
The Record further shows that “be
tween 1900 and 1909 there were in
creases in all seven of these crops ex
cept rye. The value of corn more than
doubled, increasing from $234,648,000
to $557,869,000, and that of Irish po
tatoes more than doubled, increasing
from $10,254,000 to $24,596,000. In
that period the value of tobacco in
creased from $40,193,000 to $72,670,000;
of wheat, from $68,205,000 to $71,431,-
000, and of oats from $30,271,000 to
$38,576,000.”
Still, a greater increase in the pro
duction of corn, tobacco, wheat, hay,
oats, Irish potatoes and rye will help
the farmer to independence even if at
tho expense of less cotton.
and
evil
Joe' look over yondor what I boo—
Angola bid mo ter coma—
Soo two angels callin’ at me—
Angela bid mo tor cornu.
Kino an' Bhino, mourner.
KIbo an* nhine, mourner,
KIbo an* ahlno, mourner.
Fur do ungola bid mo to come.
Courage For the New Year.
Have the courage to start right
keep right.
Havo the courage to turn from
and to cling to that which is good.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fushion in all things.
Havo the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to discharge a debt
while you have the money in your pock
et.
Have the courage to obey your con
science at the risk of being ridiculed
by m'en.
Have the courage to own you are poor,
and thu3 disarm poverty of its sharpest
sting.
Havo the courage to wear thick bootH
in winter, and insist upon your wife
and daughter doing the same.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak to a friend
in a “seedy” coat, oven though you are
in company with a rich one, and richly
attired.
Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary you should do so,
and to hold your tongue when it is pru
dent you should do so.
Have the courage to show your re
spect for honesty in whatever guise it
appears; and your contempt for dishon
esty and duplicity, by whomsoever ex
hibited.
Have tho courage to “cut” the most
agreeable acquaintance you have when
you are convinced he lacks principle.
A friend should bear with a friend’s
infirmities, but not with his vices.”
Have the courage to stand by your
convictions, be both courteous and firm,
making no compromise with evil, not
turning into by and forbidden paths;
choose the right, reject the wrong; be
good and do good and then you will have
a Happy New Year.
How their rich, mellow voices do melt
away in the distance as they join in
this sweet old air, and how the plain
tive strain seems to die away upon the
singing waters of the famed river!
And when they get to the chorus, how
they swing around at their work and
bear down on tho loud pedal of their
voices and throw a genuine jubilee vigor
of camp-meeting into the song! If they
are cutting logs for the suw-mill nigh
at hand, they are apt to swing their
axes in full time with the measure of
tho song, and this gives it all the more
interest and peculiar charm.
One of the lively jig songs that are
often heard in the lumber and phosphate
camps along the Suwanee river runs
something like this:
Jaybird up do sugar tToo,
Sparrow on do groun',
Jaybird shako do augur down.
Spurrow paas hit eroun*.
Shoo, ladies, shoo.
Shoo, ladies, shoo,
Shoo, Indies, shoo, my gnl.
r Hill.
I'm boun' for Sugar 1
Five conta in my pocket change.
Ton conta in my bill;
If times don’t git no bettah hoah
I’m boun’ for Sugar Hill,
Etc., etc.
Arctic Cotton Plant.
The Circle Magazine.
The climax of nature’s irony in the
arctic is the cotton plant. Wherever
cotton blooms, declares the. miner, ice
is not far below. One may trudge for
miles through fields of cotton, the
white, silky tops swaying defiantly in
the arctic breeze. The blossom is silky,
dainty, illusive as the down of our own
yellow dandelion. From the beginning
of June on until August the tundra is
white with the cotton plant. Unlike
the cotton of the Southern States, the
fiber is short and soft, having more of
tlie texture of silk than of cotton.
The cotton plant will in all probabili
ty some day bo the means of develop
ing an Alaskan industry giving employ
ment to thousands. To-day, however,
the cotton fields are purely decorative
—a splendid sweep of immaculate bloom
in a timberless landscape guarded by
hills ever hung in veils of deepest pur
ple. In great bouquets it is occasional
ly met in a miner’s shack, while not a
fow housewives gather the cotton for
pillow filling.
Throughout the cotton fields flowers
bloom in abnormal splendor, as becomes
a country in which the sun shines con
tinuously during summer’s voluptuous
reign. It is an intoxicating joy for the
flower-hunter to gather great armfuls
of purple larkspur, blue-bells, monk’s
head, primroses, sweet peas, beautiful
purple and red asters large as the most
cultivated, lilies of the valley, baby
breath, yellow arrow, sage rose, pink
and white arctic geranium, crimson
rhododendrons and giant fireweed, all
growing on the hillsides. To enumer
ate further is to reproduce a florist’s
catalogue.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is a
very valuable medicine for throat and
lung troubles, quickly relieves and
cures painful breathing and a danger
ously sounding cough which indicates
congested lungs. Sold by all dealers.
Sun.
Why No One Has Ever Seen the
New York American.
No one has ever seen the sun. Now,
don’t laugh at this sweeping assertion;
don’t say you have seen it thousands
of times, for you haven’ seen it once.
That no one has ever seen the sun is a
cold scientific fact, and the reason is
this:
What wo see shining in the sky is
tho sun’s atmosphere, a glowing mass
of blazing gases which surrounds the
sun itself to a depth of thousands of
miles. What is inside these blazing
envelopes we do not know; the most
learned astronomers can only tell us
that there is a nucleus which is infinite
ly hotter than the fiercest of fiery fur
naces and that it occupies about nine-
tenths of the total mass which we see.
So, when you look at the sun you see
only the gases and the flames that en
velop it.
It is not impossible to express the
marvelous power of the sun’s heat, but
we can admit without shame that it is
impossible to comprehend it. The heat
emitted by the sun in each second is
equal to'that which would result from
the combustion of eleven quadrillions,
six hundred thousand millions of tons
of coal burning at the same time.
This same heat would boil per hour
seven hundred thousand millions of
cubic miles of water at the temperature
of ice.
Attempt to understand this! As well
might the ant attempt to drink the
ocean!
Some Bed-room Don’ts.
Don’t cover your head with bed
clothes. Cover should be light, but
warm.
Don’t sleep in too cold a room. From
55 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit is about
the right temperature.
Don’t fill your bedroom with knick-
knacks and draperies. Have it as plain,
clean and dust free as possible.
Don’t expose the pillows to the sun,
as it draws the oil out of the feathers.
The bed and bedding should be given a
daily sunbath, but in a direct current
of air.
Don’t he in the same position all
night; turn from one side to the other,
Don't doze all evening, but if you
are tired give in to it and go to bed.
Don’t go to bed with a sensation of
hunger. Take any light, simple food
you wish that agrees with you.
Don’t go to bed with cold feet. See
to it that your feet are warm before
you get into bed.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy never
disappoints those who use it for obsti
nate coughs, colds and irritation of the
throat and lungs. It stands unrivalled
as a remedy for all throat and lung dis-
Sold by all dealers.
BUGGIES AND HARNESS
THE BEST MONEY WILL BUY
The Whip deal is still on hand.
Middle Busters and One-horse Turners, (steel
beams,) two of the be$t plows ever put in a field. -t
Come to see me; am always at home.
JACK POWELL.
Marbury’s Furniture Store
DEALER IN
FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS
19 Greenville street, Neuman, Ga.
one and all,
We have
We take this method of thanking our friends,
for the many favors shown us during the past year
appreciated your valued patronage, and assure you that our
aim has been to please you, and to give you the very best
values for the price paid. In buying our Furniture for your
needs we endeavor to get the best;, both as to finish and con
struction, that money will buy, and for the year nineteen
■hundred and ten our efforts will still be to give you the
best values to be had in the Furniture line. Your continued
patronage will be vastly appreciated, and no pains will be
spared on our part to make you a satisfied customer,of ours.
Wishing you, one and all, a happy and prosperous New
Year, we are, Yours very truly,
J. N. MARBURY.
for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irregularities.
Foley’s Kidney Pills purify the blood, restore lost vitality and vigor. Refuse substitutes.
SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Questions.
“Pa,” inquired a small boy on the
Oakland boat, “what’s a simoon?”
’Huh,” grunted the man, without
looking from his paper. “Simoon’s
sandstorm on the desert, dreaded by
travelers.”
“And, pa, what’s a honeymoon?”
“Honeymoon’s a rice storm on a
a train, enjoyed by travelers.”
"Then a honeymoon’s something like
a simoon, ain't it, pa?”
“Guess so; keep quiet; don’t ask so
many fool questions; look at the sea
gulls.”
‘But ain’t they a good deal alike,
pa—simoons and honeymoons?”
“Ugh-huh, both full of hotair. Most
honeymoons become simoons in a few
years. When the honey’s gone the
sigh’s left.”
“Pa, were you ever in a honey
moon?”
“Percy, if you don't stop pestering
me with questions I’ll never bring you
over to the city again.”
“Well, ma said she had a honey
moon, and it was like a dream, and all
the rest of it’s been a nightmare.”
Too Much Independence.
Now York Sun.
A French riding master who has been
teaching in a New York riding acade
my for two years announced his inten
tion the other day of returning to
France.
‘I know my business from A to Z,”
he said, “but I haven’t had luck with
my pupils here. It is the hardest thing
in the world to teach an American girl
to ride.”
“That is strange,” remarked an ac
quaintance. “American girls are grace
ful and they don't know what fear is.”
That is just the trouble,” the
Frenchman explained. “It is because
they are not afraid that they don’t
learn to ride properly. A girl of any
other nationality on earth is too timid
to go her own gait. Through fear she
obeys the riding master implicitly and
in time becomes a perfect horsewoman,
hut the American girl, because she
doesn’t fear horse, man or the devil,
dashes away lickety split, and in the
end brings discredit upon the best rid
ing master.”
The music to this song is much in the
fashion of tho common negro songs,
lively and plaintive.
There is that in all negro songs that
is yet full of pathos and plaintive
melody, shaking and soul-stirring jig
songs.
Pneumonia Follows a Cold
but never follows the use of Foley's
A Traveling Salesman,
H. F. Beers, 617-7th Ave., Peoria, Ill.,
Honey and Tar, which stops the cough,
heals the lungs, and expels the cold
from your Bystem. Sold by all drug
gists. j"'
l
writes: "1 have been troubled for some
time with kidney trouble, so severely
at times I could scarcely carry my
grips. After using one bottle of Foley’s
Kidney Pills I have been entirely re
lieved, and cheerfully recommend them
to all.” Foley’s Kidney Pills are heal
ing and antiseptic and will restore
health and strength. Sold by all drug
gists.
J oke in a funny pa
le an after-dinner
speech two hours long so as to get it
otf in the middle of it.
He (rhapsodically) — “I adore every
thing that is grand, exquisite, supe
rior. I love the peerless, the serene,
the perfect in life.”
She (blushing coyly) —“Oh, George,
how can I refuse you when youtput it
so beautifully?”
"Good Things to Eat”
It is a dangerous thing to take a
cough medicine containing opiates that
merely stifle your cough instead of cur
ing it. Foley’s Honey and Tar loosens
and cures tne cough and expels the
poisonous germs, thus preventing pneu
monia and consumption. Refuse sub
stitutes and take only the genuine Fo
ley’s Honey and Tar in the yellow pack
age. Sold by ail druggists.
“I'm doin’ me best with the fire,
sir,” said the janitor at the door of
Gailey’s office one cold morning, “but
I’m afraid I can’t make it very warm
for you. You see, sir’’—
“Never mind,” feverishly replied
Gailey, who had been out all night.
“My wife will be here shortly, I ex
pect.”
That’s all we carry. 'Whether it’s a
staple. like sugar, or a fancy table deli
cacy, like Imported cheese, we have •
ami its a quality absolutely dependable.
Every product that enters this sur
must stand rigid examination. •
Each article is chosen from man.
brands offered, bee se it has proved
its superior merit. •
Each brand competes for preference,
and none gains n place on our shelves
if it fails to measure up to our high
standard of quality.
One of the recent successful contest
ants for representation in our line is
ELECTA
COFFEE
a smooth and dainty blend
of selected, highland grown beaus—Hie
market's choicest.
The Electa process of slow-cooking and
dry-curing preserves the genuine conec
flavor ana improves it.
In using Elocta Coffee you are sure of
the finest quality—a satisiac^on that in
itself would make Electa worth more
than other coffees.
Compare it with any you ever drank
before. You'll like the rousing flavor
and the glorious aroma.
T. L. Camp, Newnan, Ga.
We want to sell you your Christmas Candies and
Fruits. We keep the best in the market.
Come to our place of business and see this beautiful
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR PIANO, which will be given
away.
We serve Oysters, Game, (in season,) and the best 25-
cent and 35-cent Meals in the city.
We handle the best Cigars and Tobaccos;' and give
you a chance at this beautiful antique oak $400 Piano with
every 25-cent purchase.
Coweta Cafe
SOUTH SIDE COURT SQUARE.
CENTRAL OF
GEORGIA RAILWAY
CO.
CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE FROM
Griffin 11:10 A. M.
Chattanooga 1:40 p. m.
Cedartown, ex. 8un 6:39 a. m.
Cedar town, Sun.only7:27 A. M.
Columbus 9:05 a.m.
7:17 p. M.
6:35 p.m.
DEPART FOR
Griffin l :40 p. m.
Griffin, ex. Sunday 6::» a. m.
Grifflh, Sunday only 7:27 a. m.
Chattanooga 11 :i0 a. m.
Cedartown........ 7:17 p. m.
Columbus 7:49 a. M.
5:15 p. M