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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 §§ IME. 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, •\ 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. ml PLOW GOODS.—Hames, traces, collars, best 'and heaviest single plow-stocks, bridles, breeching, and lines. We sell the Hutcheson plow-lines, i SHOES.—Best work shoes for men, women and children. t ' I 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. 4$ 19 Court Square : : 6 and 8 W. Washington eiephone 1Q7 = ■ y '?V: ml : :OME ON NOW AND ;et a good buggy. m t , i > 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. I. > ’Phones 58 and 342. 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?”