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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLV.l
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1910.
NO. 23
Flour Season
Now is the time to buy your flour. We have
: ' kept our eye on the market, and bought heavily be
fore the rise. Therefore, we can sell you flour at
the right prices, either for Cash or on T
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THE TELEPHONE GIRL.
Tho telephone urlrl attn still In her chair
And listens to voices from everywhere.
She hears all the gossip, she hears all the news,
She knows who is happy and who hns the bluoa;
She knows all our sorrows, she knows all our joys,
Sho known every girl who is chasing tho boys.
She knows of our troubles, Bho knows of our strife,
She knows every man who talks mean to his wife.
She knows every time you are out with the boys,
She hears tho excuses each follow employs,
She knows every woman who has a dark past, 1
She knows every man who’s inclined to bo' fast,
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If the telephone girl told half that she known
It would turn our friends into bitterest foes;
She could sow a small wind that would soon be a
gale,
Engulf as in trouble and land us in jail.
She could let go a story which, gnining in force.
Would cause half your wives to sue for dlvoroo.
Sho could get all our churches mixed up in fights,
And turn our days into sorrowing nights.
In fact, she could keep tho whole town in a stew
If she told a tenth part of tne things she knew.
Say, but doesn’t it make your head whirl
When you think what you owe to the Telephone
Girl?
HEAVY STOCK GEORGIA RIBBON CANE
YRUP.—In $ and 10-gallon cans and half-barrels,
e have the best syrup that can be bought.
SEED OATS.—Texas Rust Proof Oats. 90-
ay Burt Oats.
FEEDSTUFF.—Alfalfa corn, ground feed "feed
oats, corn, hay, bran and shorts—all bought in'“car
load lots.
COFFEE.'—The best bulk roasted coffee, and
nore of it for your money than you can get any
where.
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PLOW GOODS.—Hames, traces, collars, best
'and heaviest single plow-stocks, bridles, breeching,
and lines. We sell the Hutcheson plow-lines,
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SHOES.—Best work shoes for men, women
and children.
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IN FACT, we are prepared in every way to sup
ply. all needs for man or beast for making your
crops. Would be.,glad to have you call and get our
prices both cash and on time.
T. G. Farmer <& Sons Co.
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Qet a Barnesville or White
Star, as you may prefer.
Have ^ust received two car
loads of these buggies, and
we hardly have room for
so many. In this lot we
have anything you need in
the buggy line. Also a
complete stock of harness
of all kinds. CNow is the
time for a new White Hick
ory wagon Get one now
and begin farming right.
This is the best wagon for
all purposes on the market.
CSee us before buying a
buggy, wagon or harness.
We will take pleasure in
showing our line to you;
H. C. ARNALL MDSE. CO.
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IV
Case of Jefferson Davis in the Fed
eral Cabinet.
New Orleans Picayune.
For some months past, in the Boston
Atlantic Monthly, there have been pub
lished extracts from the diary kept by
Hon. Gideon Welles, who was Secreta
ry of the Navy in the Cabinets of Pres
idents Lincoln and Johnson, giving in
brief, terse language narratives and
expressions of opinions as to what oc
curred in the Cabinet meetings during
the War Between the States, and the
subsequent reconstruction period in the
Southern States. The diary is in the
possession of Mr. Edgar T. Welles, son
of the old secretary, and the selections
offered for publication were made by
the son.
It should be noted that the members
of the Lincoln Cabinet at the time of
his death, and retained by President
Johnson, were as follows:
W. H. Seward, of New York, Secre
tary of State; Hugh McCulloch, of In
diana, Secretary of the Treasury; E.
M. Stanton, of Pennsylvania, Secretary
of War; Gideon Welles, of Connecticut,
Secretary of the Navy; William Denni
son, of Ohio, Postmaster-General;
James Speed, of Kentucky, Attorney-
General, and James Harlan, of Iowa,
Secretary of the Interior. The special
incident here called to attention, as
treated in the diary, was as to what
treatment should be accorded Jefferson
Davis, who had been captured, and was
in Fortress Monroe. The day of the
Cabinet meeting was July 21,1865, just
four years from the famous Confeder
ate victory at Manassas, or Bull Run,
Mr. Welles declared the day to be very
warm. President Johnson sought ex
pressions from the Cabinet ministers as
to what should be done with the cap
tured Confederate chief.
Secretary Seward, who spoke first,
favored a trial before a military com
mission. Dennison, who followed Sew
ard, was in favor of a military commis
sion, if treason, murder and other such
crimes could be proved, but unless proof
was clear beyond • a peradventure, he
would have him tried for treason be
fore the highest court. The diary con
tinues: '
“McCulloch would prefer, if there is
to be a trial, that it should be in the
courts, but was decidedly against any
trial at present—would postpone the
whole subject.
“Stanton was for a trial by the courts
for treason, the highest of crimes, and
by the Constitution only the courts
could try him for that offense. Other
wise he would say a military commis
sion. For all other offenses he ,would
arraign him before the military com
mission. Subsequently, after examin
ing the Constitution, he retracted the
remark that the Constitution made it
imperative that the trial for treason
should be in the civil courts, yet he did
lot withdraw the preference he had
expressed.
“I was emphatically for the civil
court and an arraignment for treason—
for an early institution of proceedings
—and was willing the trial should take
place in Virginia. If our laws or sys
tem were defective, it was well to bring
them to a test. I had no doubt he was
guilty of treason, and believed he would
be committed wherever tried.
“Harlan would not try him before a
civil court unless satisfied there would
be a conviction. If there was a doubt,
he wanted a military commission. He
thought it would be much better to
pardon Davis at once than to have him
tried and not convicted. Such a result,
he believed, would be most calamitous.
He would, therefore (rather), than run
that risk, prefer a military court.
“Speed was for h civil tribunal and
fot a trial for treason; but until tho re
bellion was entirely suppressed he
doubted if there could be a trial fur
treason. Davis is now a prisoner oi
war,’ and is entitled to all the rights of
oeiligerenus, etc. I inquired if Davis
-vas not arrested and a reward offereu
for him and paid by our government, ab
tor Other criminals.
“Tne question of counsel and the in
stiiuiiuu of proceedings was discussed,
in ora.i to pst the sense of eucti of
Ui«t-men» -er... Lhe President thought it
■veil to ha. e tne matter presented in a
distinct f«i m..
‘fSew-iu promptly proposed that Jef
ferson Davis should be tried for trea
son, assassination, murdsr, conspiring
to burn cities, etc., by a military com
mission. The question was bo pufeT
Seward and Harlan voting for it—the
others against, with the exception of
The President asked my opin-
told him I did not like the form
h the question wss put. I would
im tried for military offenses by
ry court, but for civil offenses I
wanted the civil courts. I thought he
should bo tried for treason, and it
aeetoed to me that the question before
us Bhould be the crime and then the
court. The others assented, and the
question put was, shall J. D. be tried
for treason? There was a unanimous re
sponse in the affirmative. Then the
question as to the court. Dennison
moved a civil court—all but Seward and
Harlan were in the affirmative. They
were in the negative.”
_ The above statement of what oc
curred in President Johnson’s Cabinet as
to the charges upon which Jefferson
Davis was to be tried and by what tri
bunal is made by one of the high offi-
.cials participating, having been writ
ten in his diary at -the time or immedi
ately afterward, and is of extreme im
portance.
If Mr. DaviB had been tried by a mil
itary commission upon a charge of con
spiracy to secure the assassination of
President Lincoln, the trial would have
been held at once, and no more evi
dence would have been required to con
vict him than was had in the trial and
conviction of MrB. Surratt. Fortunate
ly) a great majority of the Cabinet was
in favor of trying him for ’ treason in
the civil court, and there was no such
thing as railroading the case. There
was no opportunity for the intervention
of arbitrary and despotic militarism.
Judicial methods must take their course,
An indictment for treason must be had;
evidence must be sought aud formula
ted, and, above all, treason as the
crime had to be defined and determined.
Therefore time was required. It was
on July 21, 1865, that this decision was
made to try the Confederate chief in
the United- States civil courts of trea
son. On May 8, 1866, Mr. Davis was
indicted for treason by a grand jury of
the United States District Court sit
ting at Norfolk, the charge of complic
ity in the murder of President Lincoln
having been dropped. On May 17, 1867,
Mj\ Davis was brought into court at
Richmond on a writ of habeas corpus
sued out by his counsel, and the gov
ernment of the United States not being
ready for trial, the prisoner was ad
mitted to bail on a bond for $100,000,
signed by Horace Greeley and other
Northern and Southern personages. In
December, 1868, all charges against
Mr. Davis were dismissed, and he was
discharged from all obligations to the
court.
It was most fortunate for the United
States that the decision was made to
try Mr. Davis by a civil instead of a
military tribunal. If he had been done
to an ignominious death by a military
commission, it would have inflicted on
the name and fame of the world’s
greatest republic a blot of shame and
disgrace that could never have been ef
faced or condoned.
She Had Beit of the Argument.
San Antonio (Tex.) Special.
How to get a piano away from a wo
man in this city without getting his
own or the skin of his deputies perfor
ated with buckshot is a problem that is
confronting Sheriff B. D. Lindsey. A
piano firm making a business of Bolling
pianos oh the pay-every-month plan, it
appears, sold one of its joy boxes some
time ago to a woman with a keen busi
ness instinct. After paying a few in
stallments the purchaser moved away
from the city, not though without sell
ing the piano to another woman. In
duo time the change of provisional
ownership was discovered by tho firm
and an effort made to recover it. This
proving of no avail the law had to he
l.ivoked.
The woman now guarding tho piano
with a shotgun has from her point of
view a good claim upon it, for all that
anything that the nine points required.
She can prove that she paid the former
owner for the piano and as she ex
presses it, she doesn’t care whether the
firm was paid or not. Theories about a
sound title of possession being necessa
ry before a valid transfer could be
made, do not attract her.
When the sheriff and his underlings
came to her door with a warrant for
the surrender of the property they were
politely but firmly informed that the
piano would not be given up. To back
up her decision in the matter the wo
man produced an ugly looking shotgun
and dissertated considerably on what a
good shot she was.
Reason, argument, cajolery, bull
dozing, threats—nothing, in fact, has
so far had any effect upon the mind of
the woman, and she still holds her fort
ress with a determination that seems
unshakable. In the meantime a deputy
sheriff stands on outpost duty, the
agent of the firm walks up and down
the street, the moving van has become
a permanent fixture in the neighbor
hood and from the house sounds merri
ly the tinkle of the cause of all the
trouble.
Whether strategy or force will ulti
mately be used to bring tho woman to
terms is still a matter of debate.
The Poorhouse.
Macon Telegraph.
The idea of winding up your career in
the poorhouse is naturally disagreeable,
and you won’t consider it seriously.
Most people consider it more dignified
to die in jail than to die in the poor
house. A may be in the cooler and still
have something to Bay in his own de
fense, He may have the blue prints
and specifications to show that he is a
martyr, the victim of designing people
who couldn’t rest or enjoy their victuals
until they saw him rotting in a dun
geon. But when you go to the poor-
house, and have to ask your friends to
address you in care of the superintend
ent, you are a self-confessed failure,
and nothing that you can gay will do
you any good. Many of the Jolly Good
Fellows who are having such a rattling
time nowadays will be in the poorhouse
in a few years. Nothing is too rich for
them now. They spend their money
with a shovel and life is a merry-go-
ruund, and the band is playing "We
Won’t Go Home Till Morning.” In a
few years a lot of them will be at the
county farm, drinking rainwater and
eating vitrified bread, and sleeping on
elm mattresses. In every poorhouse
there is at least one of the Jolly Good
Fellows. He sits out by the pump, and
thinks of the bully old days when he
set ’em up to the crowd, and sang glad
songs, arid threw his change at the bar-
keep. And as he thinks he bites pieces
out of his tongue and groans until he
sounds like a windmill that hasn't been
oiled in six months. If you are headed
lor (he poorhouse, try and have your
self sidetracked.
Pneumonia follows a cold but never
follows the use <>C Foleys Honey and
Tut'v.i.ich scops the cough, heals the
iii.igs and expels the cold from the
system. Sold by all druggists.
Pot Luck With Ambasiador.
Louisville Times.
Congressman Longworth, discussing
at a dinner in Cincinnati the project for
the Government ownership of suitable
buildings for American embassies
abroad, said:
"For an ambasBadoi; to be poor and
poorly housed is no disgrace. It is,
however, inconvenient. It makes one
feel as Lowell felt after his return to
Cambridge from his very successful am
bassadorship in London.
“One day Lowell met in Boston an
English peer who had been a great
friend of his abroad, and he invited the
peer out to Cambridge for dinner.
About this he had some misgivings, for
he lived very simply, keeping only one
servant. He oven went so far as to say,
as the horse-car jangled Cambridge-
ward:
“ ‘You know, Lord Blank, we are
very simple people, Mrs. Lowell and I.’
“ ‘Oh,’ said the Earl, ‘I love simplic
ity.’
“This remark fortified and comforted
Lowell. It kept up his fortitude even
when Mrs. Lowell informed him, when
he got home, that there was nothing
for dinner but creamed fish. But his
spirits must have sunk a little when he
essayed to help the simplicity-loving
peer to the only dish, and the latter
said, politely!
" ’If Mrs, Lowell will pardon me, L
think I will omit the fish course.’ ”
Drunken Father Struck by Women.
New York, Feb. 28.—More than a
dozen women centered attention on a
shabbily clad man who wbb walking
unsteadily in Eighth avenue, near For
ty-fifth street, yesterday afternoon.
They took pity on a small boy who was
being dragged along by the man.
The boy had no hat or coat and looked
as if he had been crying. One of the
women Baw the man take him into a
saloon. She waited until the two camo
out and then she advanced on the man.
You are a fine specimen to have
charge of a little boy!” shesaid. “Can’t
you see he is cold and hungry?”
“That’a none of your business,” said
the man. “This is my son and I guess
he’ll go whore his father want's him
to.”
“He will, will he?” asked the woman
ns she reached for the man’s collar.
Other women who had watched the
scene closed in, and in a jiffy the man
was a storm center. Women struck
him in the face, shook him and finally
backed him into a hallway, where they
hammered him till he cried for mercy.
Then one woman went looking fora
policeman, while the others hold the
man, occasionally hitting him to con
vince him an attempt to escape would
be useless. While they waited for the
policeman they made the man take off
his coat and put it on the boy.
Policeman Uliman arrested the man
who said he was Michael Dorcey, a lab
orer, of No. 806 West 116th street. The
three-year-old son of the man was sent
to the Children’s Society, and all the
women said they would appear in court
to testify against the man they had
punished.
Oapt. Bogardus Again Hits the Bull's
Eye.
This world famous rifle shot who
holds the championship record of 100
pigeons in 100 consecutive shots is living
in Lincoln, Ill. Recently interviewed,
ho says: “I have suffered a long tjpio
with kidney and bladder trouble and
and have used several well known kid
ney medicines nil of which gave me no
relief until I started taking Foley’s
Kidney Pills. Before I used Foley’B
Kidney Pills 1 was subjected to severe
backache and pains in my kidneys with
suppression and oftentimes a cloudy
voiding. While upon arising in tho
morning I would get dull headaches.
Now I nave taken three bottles of Fo
ley’s Kidney Pills and feel 100 per cent
better, I am never bothered with my
kidneys or bladder and once more feel
like my own self. All this I owe solely
to Foley's Kidney Pills and always re
commend them to my fellow sufferers.”
Sold by all druggists.
Reader—"Hollo, Bill! How are you?”
Joque Smith—“Aw, I was feeling
punk and I’vo been taking big doses of
iron lately.”
Reader—"Is that so? Well, I’ve boen
noticing that your jokes were rather
rusty for the past week and wondered
what web the matter.”
A HARD STRUGGLE
Many a Newnan Ojtteen Binds the
Struggle Hard,
With a back constantly aching,
With distressing urihary disorders,
Daily existence is but a struggle.
No need to keep it up.
Doan’s Kidney Pills will cure you.
Newnan people indorse this claim:
Mrs. M. E. Smith, 12 First street,
Newnan, Ga., says: “Doan’s Kidney
Pills are certainly a fine remedy, and I
willingly indor •• them. For eight
years kidnev I’ m i distressed me. It
began will s and occasional
pain in rn> .id steadily grew
more severe uni „ developed into a
constant dull aching through this re
gion. I could not rest comfortably at
night and would awake in the morning
tired and depressed. Dizzy spells
always annoyed me; in fact, 1 felt very
badly. A friend recently advised me
to take Doan’s Kidney Pills, and pro
curing a box at Lee Bros’, drug store,
I began their use. They helped me at
unce, and I fully believe that a contin
ued use will permanently remove every
■symptom of my complaint.”
For Bale by all dealers. Price 60
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unitea
states.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
take no other.
He—“I notice the Harrison-Joneses
write their name with a hyphen now.
Wonder what that’s for?”
She—“Don’t you know, you silly,
that next to money, there’s nothing
like a hyphen to get one into society?”