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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLV.I
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1910.
NO. 18.
Annual Ten-day Sale
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Embroideries, Laces and White Goods
It has been our custom for a number of years to hold an annual opening sale about Feb. 1 of
Embroideries, Laces and White Goods, and in observance of this custom we take pleasure in an
nouncing our annual sale for 1910 to begin on Monday, Jan. 31, and continue for Ten Days.
This will be a veritable value feast, the like of which Newnan has not seen before, and ladies
who miss the sale will have cause for regret, as it is our purpose to make this the biggest, be^t and
mosft interesting display of its kind that we have ever shown. It will not be a sale of odds and
ends and rag-tag remnants carried over from la^t season, as many dealers usually advertise at this
time of year. On the contrary, the entire ^tock consists only of high-class goods—all new, stylish
and correct. And when we tell you that these are exceptionally good values, we mean just what
we say, as our buyer went into the market months ago and bought enormous quantities. This
was before prices went skyward; therefore, we are prepared not only to show the largest and most
complete assortment of these goods to be found in Newnan, but we are in a position to guarantee
prices. Indeed, the bargains we offer cannot be duplicated here.
Remember, this grand opening sale begins Monday, Jan. 31, and lasts Ten Days Only. The
ladies of Newnan and surrounding country are cordially invited to call and inspedt our display.
H. C. GLOVER COMPANY
Just a Starter for 110
We ask the people of Coweta and adjoining counties
to come in and make our place headquarters for this year.
We have a large store, it is filled with the best goods,
and these goods are sold at the lowest prices.
We invite your attention to our large Grocery room,
where you will find the largest stock of Groceries and Feed-
stuffs in the city. Have just received a car-load of Syrup,
and can sell you a barrel at a low price. Prices range from
18 to 50 cents per gallon, and can be bought by single gal
lon or 5 and 10-gallon kegs, and 25 and 50-gallon barrels.
FLOUR, FLOUR.
Five hundred barrels of Flour in the house--any kind
you want, and every sack guaranteed. It will pay you to
investigate our prices on this lot, as we have 1,000 barrels
to be shipped Feb. 1; so we must make room for this big
shipment.
We have the best horse feed known—Alfacorn. Try a
sack and be convinced.
Have in stock a complete line of Plows—any kind—
and everything that goes with a plow. Now is the time to
get a Chattanooga Plow.
Get our prices on Barbed Wire. The heaviest 4-inch
Wire at 3c. per pound. This Wire will run 15 feet to the
pound. One car-load only at this price.
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
’Phones 58 and 342
“THE GENERAL OF VIRGINIA.”
The General of Virginia—in shape and Bhade of
gray
He rides along the road of rose that dreams of
yesterday;
A stately, courtly figure of spiritual grace and
clmrm,
The epaulet on his shoulder and the chevron on
his arm:
The General of Virginia—
That name the old slaves knew
When sweethearts dwelt in Richmond
And the hearts of war were true I
"Howcum yo’ call ’im dlfT’unt?—dat’s what his
name ter me:
Do Gincrul uv Virginny, dat alius meant Marse
Lee!"
Thus at Time’s reverent motion the old slave
stands to tell
The story of life’s old respect in days of life’s old
spoil;—
The General of Virginia.
Of all the world, ho goes,
A shadow on a steed of mist
’ In phantoni lands of rose! ,
Ah, gray shape riding yonder, and true sword
drawn no more,
The green lies sweet upon the hills that flowed
with Southern gore,
And in hearts green with love and trust and truth
•They keep the red rose of your dream still frejh
as dreams of youth:
The General of Virginia,
How solemn and how still
The glades that at his onset shook '
Ever at his bugle’s trill I
LEE • AS A COMMANDER.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Picayune prints a collection of
expressions by Confederate military of
ficers giving their opinions as to who
was the greatest of the Confederate
army commanders. The reports were
made to United States Senator Culber
son, of Texas.
As was to be expected, a great ma
jority of those interrogated gave their
verdict for Gen. R. E. Lee, with Stone
wall Jackson in second place. Albert
Sidney Johnson fell on the battlefield
early in April, 1862, in the midst of vic
tory, so early that his untimely death
cut off a career that promised to rank
far up to the front, and while Beaure
gard, Forrest,. J. E. B. Stuart and Joe
Johnston received high praise, the votes
recorded place Lee and Jackson at the
head.
This is the judgment pronounced by
the greatest military critics of the civ
ilized nations, and while all the Confed-
ate commanders rendered all the ser
vice of which they were capable, and
have been embalmed in Southern grat
itude, it is beyond question that Rob
ert E. Lee fought more pitched battles,
always against great odds, and gained
more victories than any other command
er, and although foiled on occasions in
some great enterprise, he was never
beaten, but on retiring from an assault
he was allowed to do so without being
disturbed, his enemy being only too glad
to see him- go. When the advance
wave of his army broke on the Federal
fortifications at Gettysburg on July 3,
1863, the Federal soldiers, who, under
the gallant Hancoek, were barely able
to withstand the shock of Pickett's
charge, made no' attempt when the
wave rolled back to follow and convert
a repulse into a victory; they had been
too nearly beaten, and were too glad to
have been able to hold their ground to
leave it for any purpose. The entire
Federal host held iti breath and waited
for what might happen. Meade was
severely rebuked from Washington for
not following and capturing Lee and his
retreating army, but he knew the cen
sure was undeserved. The capture of
Lee was reserved for Gen. Grant, who
nearly two years later, with largely
more than one hundred thousand men,
surrounded at Appomattox the great
soldier and the Army of Northern Vir
ginia, reduced to little more than ten
thousand. Not. even the fabulous he
roes of the fairy tales of remotest an
tiquity were able to maintain them
selves against the enormous odds of ten
to one. .
Gen. Lee came prominently into the
war arena of the Confederacy on June
26, 1862, when he opened an attack, al
most under the walls of Richmond, upon
Gen. McClellan's great army. The peo
ple of Virginia had seen their army en
gaged in almost continual retreat. Now
they were to see it in almost constant
advance; it waB only to make a fresh
forward movement and another tre
mendous attach. Until the final aban
donment of Richmond, in April, 1866,
there was no such thing as retreat by
Lee’s army with the intention of never
returning. For four yeare it oscillated
regularly back and forth between Rich
mond and the Potomac river, and every
successive attempt by the Northern
forces to capture the Confederate Cap
ital was defeated, and the broken and
beaten armies of the enemy were suc
cessively driven back to defend their
own Capital.
Gen. Lee was placed in command of
the Army of Northern Virginia on June
2,1862, to Bucceed Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, who had been wounded in the abor
tive attack on McClellan at Seven Pines.
A great Federal army had been per
mitted to advance to the very walls of
Richmond, and the prospect was that
unless some real resistance were made
the Confederate Capital would 'fall into
his hands. Gen. Lee, on whom the com
mand had devolved, was as entirely un
known to his army as he was to the
people at large, and there was nothing,
so far as they knew, on which to base
any confidence.
But Lee had not been in command ten
days when he startled the enemy and
the world by the most brilliant exploit
of sending Stuart with a cavalry force
to make a complete circuit of McClel
lan’s army, cutting his communications
and destroying his depots of supplies in
the rear. This raised Lee high in pub
lic esteem as well as In tj|e confidence
of the army, and when, on June 26, he
began the seven days of battle that
were to sweep McClellan from his tri
umphant position and drive him under
cover of his gunboats in James river,
Gen. Lee’s great career was fully
launched.
Gen. McClellan’s title of “The Young
Napoleon,” and his position as Com
mander of the great army that was des
tined for the capture of Richmond and
the ending of the war, were both for
feited, and successively Gen. Pope, who
boasted that he had only seen the backs
of his enemies and never their faces,
was quickly followed by Burnside, and
he by “Fighting Joe” Hooker, and he
by Meade, and he, finally, by Grant, all
having failed to beat Lee and to end
the war. The time came when with
their great armies the Federal com
manders did not dare to attack. They
waited for Lee with his smaller force
to take the initiative, and in the case of
Hooker, who did not advance in the
open, but hid his army in the dense
forest of the wilderness region of Vir
ginia, his vastly superior numbers did
not avail to save him from a tremend
ous defeat, his right having been at
tacked and frightfully defeated and
routed by Stonewall Jackson, who laid
down his life after inaugurating the
splendid victory at Chancellorsville,
having been sacrificed by random shots
in the darkness of the night from his
own men.
Well did Gen. Lee say at the death of
Stonewall Jackson that he had lost his
right hand, for just two months after
Chancellorsville, through lack of Jack-
son’s presence and grand genius and
tremendous fighting ability, Lee’s at
tack on Gettysburg failed. The last
great battle, or Beries of battleB, (for
the movement commenced on May 6,
and ended on June 12, 1864,) fought by
Lee was in thefamouB Wilderness cam
paign against Grant.
This greatest of the Northern com
manders seemed to dread to meet Lee
in the open, and he began his advance
on Richmond by way of the Wilderness.
It was in the gloomy fastnesses of that
tangled jungle that the moat deadly
struggle, which lasted for days, oc
curred. Grant had for that campaign
118,000 effective men, while Lee had
64,000. At the end, after the beginning
of June, Grant’s losses were 7,620
killed, 38,342 wounded, and 8,967 cap
tured or missing, making a grand total
of 64,929, nearly the equal of Leo'B en
tire force, while Lee’s losses have never
been completely stated.
After that Grant began the siege of
Petersburg and virtually of Richmond,
and while at various times desperate
assaults were made upon the fortifica
tions by both sides, the siege continued
from June 12,1864, to April, 1865, when
the Army of Northern Virginia, worn
to a fragment, abandoned the Capital
it had bo long held intact from hostile
capture, and after a week of retreat
and fighting, yielded to the overwhelm
ing force of numbers and ceaBed to be
the invincible organization it had been
for four years.
As for the Confederate commanders,
none made a record approaching that
of Lee. There can be no question of
that, and while friends love to imag
ine what this one or that one might
have done if conditions had been differ
ent, such speculation must be wholly
disregarded. Every man must be
judged upon his record, and there is no
other.
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at times I could scarcely carry my
grips. After using one bottle of Foley’s
Kidney Pills I have been entirely re
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“Pulsutilla, I’ve been coming to see
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“Quit and give some other young
man a chance, Mr. Slocum? Thanks; so
do I. Don’t stumble over the rug in the
hall as you go out, Mr. Slocum. ’
When Rubbers Become Necessary
And your shoes pinch, Allen’s Foot-Ease,
a powder to be shaken into the - shoes,
is just the thing to use. Try it for
Breaking in New Shoes. Sola every
where, 25c. Don’t accept any substi
tute.