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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. XLV.I NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1910. NO. 18. Annual Ten-day Sale QF 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. A Traveling Salesman, H. F. 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