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Royal Welsh Ladies Choir, Auditorium. Jan. 19, at 8 P. M
The Herald and Advertiser
NEWNAN, FRIDAY. JAN. 16.
A I* A I It OF LITTLE SHOES.
Th«**i> littIn nh'MM, I k*H*ji thorn mill;
I keep thorn now. nncl always will,
A place within my heart they till
Thin |»nir of little* thoeu.
Our litt lo tad, I ae<* him there,
HIh little fact*, ho frail nnd fair,
Th« minliifht on hi* golden hair •
Our little lad tonic tconc.
I keep them in the room where* ho
Wn« wont to play. ho ramlunH. free;
For they bring hack tin* punt to |ji»—
Thi» pair of little ahoca.
And ho a little whllo onch day
I go in there to k nee! nnd pray
To weep for him who went away —
Who wore these little ahoort.
—fHarry M. Dean.
After Christmas, What Then?
Major J. C. C. Slack In Auaruntn Chronicle.
Christmas Day has passed; let its
spirit abide!
The world of this day is not the world
of yesterday, nor will it be the world
of to-morrow. This is the birthday of
a new world. The world's exchanges
and clearing-houses are closed; the
world’s murts, that yesterday thronged
with crowds that jostled Bnd trampled
upon euch other in the mad rush for
gain, are abandoned; on this day the
clutch of greed is loosened and the hand
of giving is wide open; on this day the
toiler in shop and Held takes a rest, the
pupil lays aside his hooks, the Judge
dofTs his robes, the sentence of the law
is suspended, the halls of legislation are
closed; the Chief Executive turns from
afTairs of Stato. On this day wrongs
Buffered are forgotten and kindnesses
received are recalled; light shines in
the dark places; hope speaks good cheer
to the discouraged and lays u gentle
hand on despair nndbidM it lift its head;
plenty smiles in the home of want;
flowers blossom in the desert. On this
day the children come home ngain, the
broken family ties are reunited, old ago
joins in the pruttlo nnd piny of child
hood, nnd life is sweetened by the fra
grance of friendship. In cathedral and
church nnd chapel, nnd about family
altars, gifts more precious than gold
nnd frankincense and myrrh are brought
by pious hearts, with praise and thanks
giving, to the cradle of a child; the
whole world is akin and glsd.
What does it all mean? 1L is a birth
day, but every day is the anniversary
of a birth, and every birth is a momen
tous event, for it brings into life a hu
man body -the moat wonderful organ
ism ever fashioned by the plastic hand
of the Creator; a human mind that can
think the thoughts of God; a human
spirit that may live while God lives.
It moans that the star that shone in
the eastern sky on the first Christmas
Day has never gone down; that the an-
gels' song that rang out on thu Judean
pluins has never been silenced. It
means that on that day the divine came
down from heaven to earth, and was
made human that the human might be
lifted up from earth to heaven nnd
made divine. It means that He whose
birthday is celebrated lives after nine
teen hundred years have come ami gone,
and the kingdom He founded is an ever
lasting kingdom. It is humanity's trib
ute, not to a man, but to the Man —to
the Man of men.
It means that love is the greatest
power in heaven and on earth; that end
less life is but another name for per
fect love; that though the honest doubt
er may pause und the skeptic may scotT
deep down in the heart of humanity
there is recognition of the truth that
the tlrst Christmas morning brought to
earth heaven's best gift.
Yes, Christmas Day has passed, but
let the Christmas spirit abide, for the
need of it is among us and everywhere
around us There are the hungry to be
fed. the nnked to tie clothed, the sick
to be ministered to, the tempted to be
succored, the discouraged to be cheered.
The Jerusalem road to Jericho is yet
open and infested by thieves who are
willing to strip the traveler along iis
highway of hits garments; the race of
priest and vile, who passed by on the
othyr side, is not yet extinct; humanity
and helplessness, in plaintive cry, call
aloud for the good Samaritan.
Let us learn the true significance of
Christmay Day, and rent .' fiber that it
is better lo love than to hate, to bless
than to curse, to do right than wrong,
to minister than to he ministered unto.
Let us practice the gospel of the basin
and towel; let us learn there is joy and
luxury in doing good, and sorrow and
bitterness in doing wrong—that he who
wrongs another more wrongs himself.
Let us he kind in our speech. Words
degrade or ennoble; they hurt or they
heal; they blister und burn like fire or
comfort and cure like ointment; they
are like the poison of asps or the elixir
of life.
Let us learn that a kindness or a
courtesy, a friendly word or a smile,
may heal a wounded spirit and bind up
a broken heart—may rekindle in the
ashes of a smothered hope the flame of
a holy purpose and bring back to life a
dead soul.
Lei us learn not to cherish the memo
ry of an injury or a alight, and not to
forget a courtesy or a kindness. Let us
cultivate the charity that envieth not;
that vaunteth not itself; that is not
puffed up; that doth not behave itself
unseemly; that thinketh no evil; that
never faileth; that abideth when proph
ecies shall fail, and tongues shall cease,
and wisdom shall vanish.
Let every day in the calendar of life
bo in spirit a Christmas Day.
Last Surviving Lieut.-General of
Confederacy Passes Away.
Munfordville, Ky., Jan. 9.—The body
of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who
died at his home, “Glen Lily,” near
here laBt night, will be conveyed by
special train to-morrow to Frankfort
for burial. The widow, relatives and
about twenty close friends of the fami
ly will accompany the remains of the
luHt surviving lieutenant-general of the
Confederate army from this city to the
State Capital.
Gen. Buckner’s death was due to the
infirmities of age. Mrs. Buckner und the
General's only surviving child, Lieut.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., U. S. A.,
who is stationed nt Fort Thomas, were
at his bedside when the end cume.
The General was in his ninety-first
your. Ho was a graduate of West Point,
hud boon a member of the United States
army for ten years, was u veteran of
the Mexican war, for four years was
Governor of Kentucky, and in 1896 was
a candidate for Vice-President of the
United States on the Gold Democratic
ticket, headed by Palmer.
STRUGGLE FOR PROPERTY.
Chicugo, Jan. 9.—The death of Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner last night at
Munfordville, Ky., recalls his struggle
hero after the close of the War Be
tween the States to recoup his fortune.
Before the war, in which he attained
the rank of lieutenant-general in the
Confederate army, Gen. Buckner owned
property in what is now the heart of
Chicago’s business district. To avoid
confiscation at the outbreak of tho war
he deeded it to a brother-law, who
served in the Federal army.
His hrother-in-law, who was mortally
wounded, left a will restoring the prop
erty to Gen. Buckner. Title was not
perfected, however, until after a long
and expensive litigation. A building
was then erected on tho property, and
later the General sold it for $500,000.
During the litigation over the Chica
go property it was said Gen. U. S.
Grant, a classmate at West Point, of
fered Gen. Buckner his private purse,
in the early eighties, when Gen. Grant
met with financial reverses in New
York, Gen. Buckner hastened to ten
der his assistance.
IT'S A MISTAKE
Made by Many Newnan Residents
Many people in a misguided effort to
get rid of kidney backache, rely on
plasters, liniments and other make
shifts. The tight treatment is kidney
I treatment and a remarkably recotn-
i mended kidney medicine is Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Newnan is no exception.
The proof is at your very door. The
| following i- an experience typical of
the work of Doan's Kidney Pills in
Newnan.
11. W. Jannings. 7S Murray St.. New
nan, Ga., says; "For several years 1
was subject to attacks of kidney trouble,
coming on after l caught cold or ex
erted mvself. At such times the k..
ney secretions were irregular in passage
and 1 had such acute pains that it w. s
hardjor me to do any work that obliged
me to stoop. Since 1 learned of Doan’s
Kidney Pids. 1 have never failed toget
relief through their use.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 5;
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
Now York, sole agents for the Unitea
States.
Remember the name—Doan's—an
take no other.
Love is responsible for most of the
happiness and unhappiness in this world.
Supremacy of America in Cotton
is Threatened.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 1.—Warning
that American supremacy in cotton
commerce may be wreBted by foreign
countries unless this Government avails
itself of the full measure of its re
sources, has been submitted to the
House Committee on Rivers and Har
bors in advocacy of tho pending bill for
an immediate appropriation of $12,000,-
000 as tho firBt installment of the $48,-
000,000 proposed by the Mississippi Riv
er Commission for preventing floods on
the Mississippi.
The warning, voiced by B. F. Bush,
president of the Missouri Pacific rail
road, sets forth that the principal Euro
pean countries are spending millions of
dollars in fostering cotton culture in
their colonies; that the English premier
recently had a bill passed appropriating
$15,000,000 for experimenting in grow
ing cotton in the Soudan to make the
English spinner independent of the Uni
ted States Bupply.
Mr. Bush asserted, however, that the
United States, “if alive to its opportu
nities,” had nothing to fear, and that
the nation should hasten to the rescue
of the South by meeting the control of
the Mississippi as a national problem.
He added that levee protection for
the alluvial lands in the Mississippi del
ta would add 15,000,000 acres of fertile,
wealth-producing area, whose cultiva
tion in cotton, sugar cane or diversified
crops would yield many millions of dol
lars annually.
Investigation of the life, history and
habits of the parasites of the cotton
boll weevil in a more thorough and com
prehensive way than ever before, is
proposed by Secretary of Agriculture
Houston. He wants more funds appro
priated with which to employ experts
on this work in order to undertake a
“community experiment” in controll
ing the boll weevil. Up to now practi
cally all of the efforts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture have been confined
to assisting individual planters.
The efforts of the new corps of ex
perts would be devoted to a study of the
boll weevil at the different steps in the
control of the weevil, the picking of the
squares of the cotton plant, encourage
ment of the parasites, destruction of
the cotton plants in the field, and to de
termining where the efficiency of each
step might be increased by some varia
tion or new process. Rotation in crops,
changes in the system of handling cot
ton, and planting the cotton wider apart,
have helped in the fight against the
weevil, which has caused millions of
dollars of loss; but its ravages still con
tinue, and no varieties of cotton are im
mune.
Do you begin to cough at night, just
when you hope to sleep? Do you have a
tickling throat that keeps you awake?
Just take Foley’s Honey and Tar Com
pound. It will check the cough and stop
the tickling sensation at once. Does
not upset the stomach; is best for chil
dren and grown people. J. F. Lee Drug
Co.
Passing Strange!
Home and Farmstead.
In 1912 the money and solvent debts
returned for taxation by the entire
State of Georgia amounted to $50,534,-
000.
For the week ending Nov. 29 the bank
clearings of Atlanta amounted to $51,-
309,000.
That is to Bay, the money and the va
rious money-equivalents passing through
the banks of a single city in Georgia in
a single month equaled all the property
of this kind returned for taxation in the
entire State!
Also, the State Bank Examiner re
ports $136,000,000 on deposit in the
banks of Georgia, or nearly three times
the amount of money and all other evi
dences of debt returned for taxation.
Also, there are $450,000,000 of insur
ance in the State upon buildings and
merchandise.
It is more than four times the value
of all the city and town property on the
tax books of the State; more than ten
times our taxable wealth in cotton fac
tories, stocks and bonds; and more than
ten times the value of all the merchan
dise in Georgia. It is two and a half
times the tax value of all the improved
lund of Georgia.
Is it any wonder that State Tax Com
missioner Hart says that not one-sev
enth of the wealth of Georgia is on our
tax books?
Chronic Constipation Cured.
“Five years ago l had the worst case
I of chronic constipation 1 ever knew of,
land Chamberlain's Tablets cured me,”
! writes S. F. Fish, Brooklyn, Mich. For
j sale by all dealers.
The following definition of a knocker,
found in a Western exchange, is the
best description of this community pest
i that we have seen —
| “After God finished the rattlesnake,
ihe toad and the vampire He had some
awful substances 1-ft, witn which he
; made a knocker. A knocker is a two-
legged anim*l with a corkscrew soul,
a water sugged bra n und a combination
backbone of jelly and glue. Where
other people have the.r hearts he car-
. ries a festering tumor. When the
knocker corn' s down the street honest
men turn their backs, angels in heaven
take refuge behind their harps, and the
devil bar-locks the gates of hell.”
To Prevent Blood Poisoning
apply nt once the wonderful old reliable DR.
PORTER’S ANTISEPTIC HEADING OIL. a sur
gical dressing that relieves iiiia and heal* at
the same time. Not a liuimeiit. -5c. 50c. 51.00.
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1914
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N EWN A N , GEORGIA
Character of a Mason.
In the Farmer’s Almanac for 1823,
published at Andover, Mass., the fol
lowing article was 'printed under the
above heading:
"The real Freemason is distinguished
from the rest of mankind by the uni
form, unrestrained rectitude of his con
duct. Other men are honest in the fear
of punishment which the law might in
flict; they are religious in expectation
of being rewarded, or in dread of the
devil in the next world. A Freemason
would be just if there were no laws,
human or divine, except those which
are written in the heart by the finger
of his Creator.
"In every clime, under every relig
ion, he is the same. He kneels before
the universal throne of God in grati
tude for His blessings he has received,
and in humble solicitation for his fu
ture protectien. He venerates the good
men of all religions. He disturbs not
the religion of others. He restrains his
passions, because they cannot be in
dulged without injuring his neighbor or
himself. He gives no offense, because
h» does not choose to be offended. He
contracts no debts which he is not cer
tain that he can discharge, because he
is honest upon principle. He never ut
ters a falsehood, because it is cowardly
and infinitely beneath the dignity of a
Free and Accepted Mason.”
Sneffels, Col. A. J. Walsh was
badly done up with rheumatism, and
sent for Foley’s Kidney Pills, which
was the only thing that would cure
him. Geo. Potter, of Pontiac, Mo., was
down on his back with kidney and blad
der trouble and Foley's Kidney Pills
made him well and able to work. It is
a splendid medicine and always helps.
Just try it. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
Already they were speaking with the
easy freedom of old friends and telling
each other the story of their respective
lives. Finally the talk turned to rela
tives.
"I suppose,” said she, perhaps a lit
tle too curiously, "that you have a few
poor relatives. It is usually”
“None that I know,” he hastily in
terjected.
"I see,” she responded with a smile
of intelligence; “now many rich ones
have you?”
“None that know me,” just as
promptly admitted the young man.
“There is a man who makes his mon
ey by foul means,” whispered the
Cheerful Idiot
“What is he? A crook?” asked the
Old Fogy.
“No, he’s a poultry dealer,” replied
the Cheerful Idiot.
RUN-DOWN WOMEN
iat relieves nam and heals
Not a liuimeiit. -5c. 50c. $1.(
Find Health in a Simple Tonic.
Ilow many women do you know
■who are perfectly well, strong and
healthy as a woman should be? They
may not be sick enough, to lie in bed
—but they are run-down, thin, nerv
ous. tired and devitalized.
Women are so active nowadays,
nnd so much is expected of them,
that they constantly overdo and suf
fer from headache, backache, nervous-
1 ness and kindred ills.
I Such women need Vlnol, our deli
cious cod liver and Iron tonic with
out oil which will create an appetite,
tone up the digestive organs, make
, pure blood and create strength.
Mrs. Walter Price, Biloxi, Miss.,
says; “I was In a run-down condition
for months, I had taken several medi
cines but they seemed to do me no
good. Finally Vinol was recommend
ed, and from the first bottle I began
to improve until I am strong and well
as ever.”
Try a bottle of Vlnol with the un
derstanding that your money will be
returned If It doee not help you.
P. S.—For pimples and blotches try
our Saxo Salve. We guarantee it
JOHN It. CATES DRUG CO., Newnan
New Year
GREET I SGI
The year just closed has been a hard
one in some respects; but most farmers
throughout this section raised abundant
food and forage crops, and, while the
cotton crop fell below our expectations,
the price obtained for the staple went
far toward evening up the shortage in
yield. All things considered, the new
year opens promisingly, and we would
be ungrateful not to feel thankful for
the blessings vouchsafed us. Deeply
sensible of these blessings, therefore, and
appreciating to the utmost the favors
shown us in the past, we send to our
friends and patrons, one and all, warm
greetings and sincere wishes for a happy
and prosperous New Year. It shall be
our pleasure to serve them with the
same liberality and promptness during
1914 that have characterized our deal
ings in former years, and extend them a
cordial invitation to continue to make
our store their headquarters, assuring
each and every one a warm welcome.
I. G.
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T. S. PARROTT
Insurance—All Branches
Representing
Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York
American Surety Co., of New York
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenville st., Over H. C. Glover Co.
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