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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XL VIII.
NEWNAN, GA.,
FRIDAY,
JULY 25, 1913.
NO. 43
Farmers’
Supply Store
Everything for the Farmer
You will always find at this store a full line of
everything needed on a well-regulated farm. We
carry feedstuffs, corn, oats, hay. Best ground
feeds—“Vim,” “Old Beck” and “Primo.” Also
bran, shorts and cotton seed meal.
For Forage Crops—
“Early Amber,” “Orange” and “Red-Top” sor
ghum seed; “Unknown” and speckled peas.
Flour—
“Obelisk” and “DeSoto” are the best grades of
flour, and we sell both. These flours are made
from soft winter wheat, and can always be de
pended on to make good, wholesome bread.
Every sack is guaranteed.
Syrup—
“Peacock” Georgia cane syrup is the best made.
Ask for this brand and take no other. If you do,
your syrup problem will be solved. We have the
“Peacock” syrup in barrels, half-barrels, and 5
and 10-gallon kegs. We also keep genuine Culpa
molasses.
Farm Tools—
Seovil hoes, Hyde cultivators, guano distributors
and cotton, planters.
Shoes—
The “Star” brand shoes are better. We have
them in work shoes, for men, women and boys;
also finer shoes and oxfords for dress.
A Cordial Invitation—
Winter has gone and spring is now with us. We
have moved the big stove and will put in ice wa
ter for the comfort and enjoyment of our friends
and customers; so when you come to town drop
in and see us. You are always welcome at this
store.
T. G. Farmer & Sons Co.
TELEPHONE 147.
ASK IRE PURE FOOD INSPECTOR
You would not ask Hal Fisher or Dan Manget
to sell you 10-4-4 fertilizer at a price they
would ask for an 8-2-2. When you buy mixed
feed be sure and see what is on the tag—not
only the analysis, but the ingredients. On
some you will find “oat feed,” which is only
a fancy name for oat hull. Oat hull has no
feeding value whatsoever. You insist on a
feed high in protein and fat, and low in fiber.
If you do this, you will get a pure feed. Note
the analysis of our PRIMO FEED—protein
11.5, fat 3.5, fiber 9.5.
McBride Grain & Feed Co.
For Sale in Nevvnan by H. C. Glover Co., H. C. Arnall
Mdse. Co., T. G. Farmer & Sons Co. and I. N. Orr Co.
On sale also at Grantville, Moreland, Sharpsburg, Turin
and Palmetto. Ask your dealer for “Primo Feed.”
xSfmrj/ttrlAO'«i/V
BUGGIES! BUGGIES!
$ A full line of the best makes. Best value for
the money. Light running, and built to stand
the wear. At Jack Powell’s old stand.
J. T. CARPENTER
How About Y6ur Home Water Supply?
IS IT PURE—PLENTIFUL—DEPENDABLE—ECONOMICAL?
Supply your home with all the pure, clear, sparklin? water you need—direct from well nr spring by the
Perry system. So water tank to collect slime, rr.'d and rust Coinp.esvtd air delivers fre.h water
under the pressure and in quontiUes you need. Autonu.t.c-economical in operation—easily !n»tal;e<l.
Water left in well until you need it—then drawn fresh. Call and get the Perry Book. Let uj explain
vio you lltt. merits of ahu ne* system of wrater supply. U *ii»: what you need. SoW oy
GOODDY & McELROY, 10 W. Washington st.
NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Not understood. Wo move nlonff asunder;
Our paths rcrow wider as the seasons creep
Along tho years; wo marvel and wo wonder
Why life is life. And then wo fall aBleep,
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false impressions,
And hug them closer as the years go by.
Till virtue often Beeins to us transgressions;
And thus mon rise ami fall, and live and die,
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted vision
Oft meaBuro giants by their narrow gauge;
Tho poisoned shafts of falsehood and derision
Are oft impelled’gainst those who mould tho
age,
Not understood.
Not understood, Tho secret springs of action,
Which lie beneath the surface and tho show,
Are disregarded; with self satisfaction
We judge our neighbors, and they go,
Not understood.
Not understood. How trifles often change us!
The thoughtless sentoncoor the fancied slight
Destroy long years of friendship and cstrnnge us,
And on our souls there falls a freezing blight,
Not understood.
Not understood. How often breiftils are aching
For lack of sympathy? Ah, day liy day
How many cheerless hearts nro breaking?
How many noble spirits pass awny
Not understood?
Oh. God! that mon would soo a littlo clearer,
Or judge less harshly where they cannot soo;
Oil. God! that men would draw u little nearer
To one another—they’d ho neuror Then
And understood. —[YV. Mahon.
TAX INEQUALITIES.
Macon Telegraph.
Tax equalization is a groat problem
that can be and ought to be worked
out—at least upon a more -satisfactory
basis than the present "pass the hat”
system.
Only thirty-nine counties in Georgia
pay into the State Treasury more mpn-
ey than they draw out for pensions and
schools. These thirty-nine pay in ex
cess nearly $800,000, as follows:
-S
Appling $ 2,889
Ben Hill .. 5,202
Berrien 4,602
Bibb.. 63,685
Brooks 16,985
Bulloch 465
Charlton 863
Chatham 107,144
Clarke 28.812
Clinch 2.817
.TolT Davis S 1,091
Lee 1,085
Lowndes 6,762
Mitchell 3,969
Morgan 2,993
Muscogee 77,383
Pierco 2,311
Polk 2,917
Richmond 57,117
Rockdale 346
Sumter...... 3,405
Tattnall 592
Terrell 180
Thomas •• 5.826
Tift. 7.318
Toombs 1.990
Ware 12,841
Whitfield 3,076
Crisp 278
Dado 1,715
Decatur 7,051
DeKalb 6.600
Dougherty 15,888
Early 3,360
Effingham 630
Floyd 24,783
Fulton 262,555
Glynn 15,163
Irwin- 2,731 Total $764,658
This is a startling revelation. The
figures are based on the taxes received
and the amounts paid out for the year
1910. We are indebted for this compila
tion to "The Home and Farmstead” of
Athens. The work was done by “The
Georgia Club,” students of industry,
taken from official records.
Another interesting and instructive
table gives the ranks of counties ac
cording to the average tax return value
of land per acre compared with the
census valuation, as follows:
76. Houston 6,40
77. Toombs 5,46
78. Worth 6.48
79. Dougherty 5.53
80. Madison 5.69
81. Johnson 5 62
82. Lee 5.65
83. Cherokee 5 69
84. Putnam 5.92
86. Irwin 5.98
86. Pulaski 6.02
87. Ben Hill 6.03
88. Stephens 6.08
89. Banks 0,09
90. Colquitt 6,20
91. Greene 6.24
92. Miller 0.25
93. Butts 6.28
94. Emanuel 0.32
96. Dodge 5.35
96. Fayette 6.44
97. Pike 0.44
98. Turner 0.40
99. Early 0.52
100. Wilcox 0.Q0
101. Mitchell fl.55
17.28
13.37
13 29
13.99
22.90
12.39
12.84
9.83
11.46
19.97
18.29
15.88
18.64
18.70
14.87
15.43
8.79
25.35
15.82
12.92
26.51
15.61
17.91
12.06
14.91
16.13
12.43
26.96
10.22
11,08
21.56
20.22
13.21
21.85
15.94
12.39
25.57
18.69
21.16
14.60
14,55
22.08
12.47
14.85
20.61
28.66
17.95
17.88
17.59
30.00
18.5 J
13.38
18.09
19.95
9.49
20.32
14.16
16.94
16.66
28.14
13.77
19.85
4.27
4.26
24.74
36.40
13.38
34.36
16.20
23.28
72.62
Tax
value
per
acre.
Census
value
per
acre.
1.
Echols
...$ 1.39
$ 2.94
2
Gilmer
... 1.76
4.59
3.
Clinch
... 1.86
3.48
4.
Bryan
... 2.14
4 81
5.
Wilkinson
... 2 23
5.68
6.
Charlton
... 2.39
2.81
7.
Union
... 2.41
4.75
8.
Fannin
... 2.48
4 54
9.
Burke
... 2.70
12.21
JO.
Chattahoochee ...
... 2 73
7.02
11.
Twiggs
..'. 2 73
10.86
12.
Lumpkin
... 2.86
4.4!)
13.
Rabun
... 2 89
6.04
14.
Coffee
.. 2 90
8.55
15.
Liberty
... 2.92
6.24
16.
Talbot
... 2 95
7.36
17. Taylor
... 3 01
6 no
18.
Screven
... 3.07
12.96
19.
Lincoln
... '3.08
11.89
20.
Effingham
.. 3.1g
5.43
21.
Webster
3.23
8.29
22. Appling
... 3.25
6.11
23.
Marion
... 3.26
5.10
24.
Wayne
... 3.34
5.41
25.
Glascock
... 3 39
8 28
26.
JaBper
... 3.39
16.22
27.
Towns
... 3.41
6.52
28.
Jenkins
... 3.46
13 28
29.
Crawford
... 3 52
7.38
30.
Dawson
... 3.56
7.40
31.
Quitman
... 3.61
8.58
32.
Harris
... 3.87
11.18
33.
White
... 3 72
8,00
34.
Heard
... 3.73
10.91
35.
Jones
... 3.73
9.14
36.
Stewart
... 3.74
8.90
37.
Baker
... 3 90
8.73
38.
Pierce
... 3 98
6.88
39.
Jeff Davis
... 4.00
7.50
40.
Decatur
... 4.04
10.43
41.
Habersham
... 4 07
12 21
42. Oglethorpe
... 4 16
17.43
43.
Pickens
... 4.20
6 29
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
62.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69,
70.
71
72.
73.
74
75.
Jefferson 4 84
Upson 4.37
McDuffie 4.44
Warren 4.50
Taliaferro 4.51
McIntosh 4 57
Troup 4 58
Wilkes 4 60
Baldwin 4.72
Grady, 4.75
Ware 4.76
Randolph....'..,.... 4 80
Monroe 4.81
Columbia 4 82
Hancock 4 86
Clay 4.87
Macon 4 88
Meriwether 4 90
Hart 4.92
Lowndes 4 99
Elbert 4.99
Schley 4 99
Bulloch 4.04
Murray 5.09
Washington 5 09
Montgomery 5.15
Laurens 5 19
Calhoun 5.20
Telfair 5 20
Berrien 5 24
Tattnall 5 25
Dade 5.29
14 11
10.02
10.09
12.40
14 65
7.78
34 00
17 09
9 22
11.24
5.85
13 82
11.93
11.48
10.26
13 38
11 67
17.75
29.05
12 22
20 24
7 62
21 69
7 35
11 60
13 90
15 38
13.02
10 41
10 10
13 57
8 12
102. Catoosa 6.69
103. Oconee 6.74
104. -Haralson 0.77
105. Paulding 6.79
106. Terrell 6.80
107. Coweta 6.89
108. Thomas 6.91
109. Henry 7.02
110. Walker 7.33
111. Douglas 7.46
112. Walton 7.46
113. .Dooly 7.53
114. Morgan 7.66
116. Brooks 7.88
116. Forsyth 7.88
117. Newton 7.89
118. Chattooga 8.08
119. Hall 8.09
120. Campbell 8.13
121. Franklin 8.15
122. Crisp 8.22
123. (Tift 8.34
124. Carroll 8.35
126. Jackson 8.36
126. Gwinnett 8,37
127. Gordon 8.39
128. Milton 8.71
129. Sumter 8.71
130. Whitfield 8.89
131. Spalding 8.99
132. -Polk 9.30
133. Bartow 9.70
134. iRockdale 9.92
135. Clayton 10.35
136. Floyd 10.49
137. Cobb 11.87
138. Glynn 11.97
139. Camden 13.84
140. Chatham 14.69
141. .Clarke 17.11
142. Muscogee 17.65
143. DeKalb 19.87
144. Richmond 23.33
145. Bibb 30.45
146. Fulton 47.90
It will be seen that Hart county, for
instance, returns her lands for leas
than one-sixth of the census value,
while Camden returns her’s for nearly
three and three-quarter times the cen
sus value. What greater evidence could
be produced to illustrate the crudity of
our tax system.' The Camden county
farmer is paying State tax twenty
times greater than the farmer in Hart,
and yet both are drawing more out of
the State Treasury than they are pay
ing into it. Tho Camden county far
mer is paying seven times more than
the Clarke county farmer, and yet
Clarke as a whole pays into the State
Treasury $28,812 more than she draws
out.
Of course lands are more or less val
uable, according to richness or poverty
of the soil, according to location with
reference to public roadB, railroads and
towns or cities, and with reference nlBO
to timber and “waste” land, swamps,
etc. But no considerations of these
kinds could account for the fearfully
and wonderfully made figures ubove,
taken from the records.
It is up to the legislature.
A Word to Fathers.
We have read a story of a little boy
who, when he wanted a now Huit of
clothes, begged his mother to ask his
father if he might have it. The moth
er suggested that the boy might ask
for himself.
"I would,” said the boy, “but I
don’t feel well enough acquainted with
him.”
There is. a sharp reproof to the fath
er in the reply of the son. Many a
father keeps his children so at a dis
tance from him that they never feel
confidentially and lovingly acquainted
with him. They feel that he is a sort
of monarch in the family. They fee)
no familiarity with him. They fear
him and respect him, and even love him
Borne-for children cannot help loving,
some, everybody about them; but they
seldom get near enough to feel intimate
with him. They seldom go to hirn with
their little wants and trials. They ap
proach him through tho mother. They
tell her everything. They have a high
way to her heart on which they go in
and out with perfect freedom. In this
keeping-off plan fathers are to blame.
Children should not be held off. Let
them come near.
It Cures While You Walk.
Use Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic
powder to he shaken into the shoes.
It instantly takes the sting out of
cores, itching feet, ingrowing nails,
arid Minions. It’s the greatest com
fort discovery of the age. Allan's
Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes
feel easy. Ladies can wear shoes one
size smaller after using. It is a cer
tain relief for sweating, callous and
swollen, tender, aching feet. Try it
re day Sold everywhere, 25c. trial
package free. Address, Allen S
Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Egypt’s Cotton Baling Lesson to
Americans.
Washington, D, C., July 3.—Methods
of baling, sampling and markoting cot
ton lint in Egypt nmy be studied with
profit by American cotton producers,
both by way of teaching to buvo waste
and by way of exhibiting tho excessive
charges of middle men, is tho conclu
sion reached by J. S. WilliamB and
Clnronco Ousloy, tho sub-committee of
the American commission to invostigato
and study agricultural credit and co
operation, whoso report on their study
of tho production and markoting of
Egyptian cotton has just been published
as a Senate document. Egypt, howev
er, they found, can olTer to tho United
States no instruction whatever in skill,
science or othur element of economy or
efficiency in cotton production, nor does
that country constitute nny menace of
overproduction.
Summarizing their investigation
briefly, they say:
‘‘Egypt, with her 1,500,000 to 2,000,-
000 bales of cheaply produced but dear
ly sold cotton, admonishes American
growers to improve their methods of
cultivation and markoting in order to
reduce the cost of production.
“Tho proprietors of largo Egyptian
estates, representing 74 to 10 por cent,
of tho crop, are in a position to co-op
erate and render powerful aid in main
taining fair prices for their commodi
ties, and those prices will tend to steady
the prices of American cotton if our
producers do not commit tho folly of
producing more than tho world will
take at profitable values, and if tho
cotton States will establish a Bystom of
State regulated warehouses which will
enable the farmors to store thoir cot
ton and secure choap money upon ware
house receipts, whereby they may sell
the crop gradually over a period of sev
eral months, instead of forcing it upon
tho market, as they do now, within two
or three months.
“These proprietors and the British
Egyptian Department of Agriculture
promise hearty co-oporation in estab
lishing a system of accurate reports of
cotton consumption.”
Concluding, the sub-committee states
there is a vital relation between Egyp
tian and American cotton production
which should bo cultivated in amity
and mutuality by every possible official
and co-operative endeavor. They state
that tho result of their investigation
was threefold, and in each respect tho
situation is well worth careful consider
ation.
First, Egypt’s cost of production in
the ratio to tho value of her commodity
is much lower than America’s.
Secondly, Egypt’s output varies but
littlo from year to year, and is capable
of but Blight expansion, and is there
fore a more or Jess fixed factor of great
economical potentiality.
Thirdly, an influential and predomi
nating group of largo planters aro in
cordial sympathy with America’s pur
pose to establish a more intelligent sys
tem of marketing.
“Wo have reason to hopo that Egypt
will join in any effort tho cotton Statos
may initiate to establish an interstate
and international bureau of cotton in
telligence for tho promotion of more
efficient production and more economi
cal marketing. In this connection we
earnestly recommend that the principal
cotton States of the Union create tho
office of cotton commissioner, and that
Huch commissioners togothor constitute
themselves as a bureau of cotton in
formation, with special reference to
consumption and tho extended use of
cotton goods, and that other cotton-
growing countries bo invited to have
representation in such bureau to tho
end that intelligent information may bo
furnished tho producers for their guid
ance in adjusting supply to demand,
and that the demand for our great Hta
pie product may be stimulated.
“We are confident that such a bureau
would operate as a practical insurance
against either over-production or under
production, and yet prevent abnormally
high prices, to the injury and hardship
of consumers.
“Egypt’s comparatively low cost of
production, notwithstanding her anti
quated method of cultivation, her heavy
expense of conversion from seed cotton
to spinablo lint, is a matter of serious
concern to America, for Egypt is able
under present conditions to produce her
superior quality of cotton, worth 18 to
20 cents a pound, at about 12R cents a
pound, compared with American cost of
10 to 12 cents a pound, worth now 11 to
124 cents,” they state,
“American cotton-growers must face
the fact that the Egyptian crop is pro
duced at a cost approximately no great
er than American cost, and yet the
Egyptian cotton, by reason of superior
quality, sells for about 6 cents a pound
more. In other words, a decline of 3
cents a pound below the current market
price would still leave a fair profit to
Egyptiun producers and would not
cause any reduction in the Egyptian
output, while such a decline would car
ry tho American cotton below tho cost
of production, and wo know from sad
experience how difficult it is under
present methods and conditions of ten
ant farming in the United States toad-
just supply to demand. Therefore it
behooves American cotton-growers to
reduce tho.cost of production by more
intensive cultivation, by the use and de
velopment of the varieties of superior
staple, and especially by eliminating
tho waste and graft in American meth
ods of sampling, baling and markoting.
“But while Egypt is somewhat of a
menace in respect to her low cost of
production, we aro gratified to bo able
to report a sympathetic attitude upon
the part of representative and influen
tial Egyptian planters and tho British
advisory administration of Egypt in re
spect to all tho marketing problems
which concern tho producers of both
countries alike, and especially with re
spect to securing accurate information
concerning cotton consumption.”
—- ■ ——- - -■
W. J. Bryan on Immortality.
If tho Father deigns to touch with
divine power tho cold and pulseless
heart of tho buried acorn and make it
hurst forth from its prison walls, will
Ho leave neglected in tho earth tho
soul of man, mado in tho image of his
Creator? If He stoops to give the rose
bush, whoso withered blossoms float
upon the winter breeze, tho sweet as
surance of unothor springtime, will Ho
refuse words of hopo to tho sons of
mon when tho frostB of winter come?
If matter, mute and inanimate, though
changed by tho forces of nature into a
multitude of forms, can novor die, will
tho spirit of mnn suffer annihilation
when it hus paid a brief visit like a
royal guoBt to thib tenement of clay?
No; I am as sure that thero is another
lifo as I am that I live to-day!
In Cairo I secured a fow grains of
wheat that had slumbered for more
than three thousand years in an Egyp
tian tomb. Ab I looked at them this
thought came into my mind: If one of
thoso grains had boon planted on the
banks of tho' Nile the year after it
grow, and all its lineal descendants
planted and replanted from that time
until now, its progeny would to-day be
sufficiently numerous to feed the teem
ing world. There is in tho grain of
wheat an invisible something which has
the power to discard the body that we
see, and from earth and air fashion a
now body bo much like tho old ono that
wo cannot toll tho ono from tho other.
If this invisible germ of life in the
grain of wheat cun thus pass unim
paired through threo thousand years to
rosurrection, I shull not doubt that my
soul haB power to clothe itself with a
body suited to its new existence when
this ourthly frame has crumbled into
dust,
Thero wero friendships the war could
not sever. A kind feeling existed be
tween tho Confederate and Union grad
uates of West Point, who had been
friends before tho war. An exhibition
of this was mado at tho time of the
birth of Con. Pickett’s first baby. Mrs.
Pickett, telling tho story in her book,
“The Heart of a Soldier,” says: "On
the occasion of my son’s birth bonfires
were lighted in celebration all along
Pickett’s lino. Grant saw them and
sent scouts to learn the cause. When
they reported he said to Gon. Ingalls:
Haven’t we some kindling on this Bide
of tho lines? Why don’t we strike a
light for young Pickett?’ In a little
while bonfires wore flaming from the
Federal lino. A-fow days later there
was taken through tho lineB a baby’s
silver service, engraved: ‘To George
E. Pickett, jr., from his father’s
friends, U. S. Grant, Rufus IngallB,
George Suckley.’ ”
“Wharfo you didn’t preambulate to
our camp-meetin’ las’ week, Aunt Ca-
line?”
“Lawd, chile, I luv’d to went, but I
found de gwine so hard it was onpossi-
ble fur me to came.”
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