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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1914.
NO. 31
Most Men Know
Pretty well the advantage of ready clothes;
you’ve only to slip into one of our
Hart Schaffner & IHarx
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Suits to appreciate more than ever the luxury of ready ser
vice. You see the fabrics made up ready to wear; you save
the time and annoyance of try-ons; you get what you want
when you want it; you can see how the suit looks on you—
fit, drape and all. You buy a sure thing.
Made by Hart Schaffner & Marx means that each one
of these benefits is brought to its best possibility; it means
you get the service of the best tailors in the world; the cre
ations of the most skillful designing, and the finest qualities
that can be had.
Here at this store you’ll see the most fashionable models
in the blue-and-white, black-and-white, and gray-and-white
chalk stripes; you’ll find a big selection in hair lines; grey
checks, shepherd plaids, club checks, and every new weave
and coloring that’s good.
You’ll be sure to like the variety here, you’ll like our
idea of a sure thing—it means hundred per cent satisfaction.
Come in to-day; we y ll be glad to show you
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The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx good clothes
Too Much Soil Stimulant.
Macon Telegraph.
Commercial fertilizers for the soil are
'ery much like stimulants for the human
system. When the habit is formed of
renewing the strength of the land by
the use of fertilizers the requirement
ecomes greater and greater all the
time. Stimulants are all right if proper-
> applied and used in connection with
other methods—natural methods, too—
t at are adapted for keeping up the soil.
en cann °t live by bread or meat alone,
a . ma n who depends upon artificial
stimulants for his strength, energy and
productive power will soon find his
strength and energy gone and his body
? easy prey of all the ills that human
hte is heir to.
1 he same thing is true of the soil.
e best land can be easily ruined by
e excessive use of commercial fer-
• lzers unless other measures are adopt
ed to keep up its strength. Where fer-
1 !* e * 8 are depended upon entirely the
S 1 becomes the breeding place of
Rerms and bacteria that bring disease
0 the crops. The natural way of re-
D'- v. ing the soil is to diversify and ro-
•j? 1 cr op3 and let the land rest.
ne old Jewish idea was to let the land
re ^ one year in seven, so that it would
M ega,n the elements which it had given
U P m prducing crops.
In the South, where cotton is our
f no 'pal crop, the farmers have neg-
t( 'I the planting of leguminous crops
rf a rnea p 8 of keeping up the fertility
• e soil. The mad race to raise cot-
m \ear after year on the same land,
1 never a change, has caused the
-irmers to forget all about the effect
1 the one-crop system was having
upon their lands. They realized that
more fertilizer was needed each suc
ceeding season, and that new diseases
were constantly breaking out in the
crops, but they did not stop to reason
why. Like the confirmed drunkard,
“they never blamed the booze” for
their ills.
At this season of the year the South
ern farmers ought to plant cowpeas on
every spot of land about their farms,
even if there is no intention of gather
ing them. The cowpea is regarded as
one of the most valuable leguminous
plants. It is quick to grow, flourishes
everywhere, supplies nitrogen to the
soil, and puts the land in good physical
condition. The chief object in planting
cowpeas is to return to the soil the
store of nitrogen which has been taken
out by other plapts. The vines make
good hay, but are more valuable when
turned under, as they increase the
drouth-resisting quality of the soil.
It is a long-established fact that soil
without humus is not a productive soil.
The soil may have abundance of plant
food, but unless the humus is there its
productive power is poor and uncertain.
The cowpea, like all leguminous plants,
possesses the power of gathering ni
trogen from the air and storing it away
in the soil. The secret of good farm
ing is in alternating those plants which
get nitrogen from the air and those
which take it from the soil.
If the farmers would study these
things they would find it much easier to
reduce their fertilizer bills, and at the
same time add to the real productive
ness of the soil. When God gave us a
soil and climate capable of producing
such an endless variety of products
He expected the “talents” to be used,
and those farmers who conform to the
laws which He made will find their
avocation beset with the fewest diffi
culties.
Our War With Mexico Sixty-Odd
Years Ago.
Savannah News.
It was sixty-eight years ago this
week that the war between the United
States and Mexico, which ended less
than two years later with the treaty of
Gaudaloupe Hildago, began. The first
encounter between troops of the two
nations occurred on April 25, 1846, not
far from the site of Brownsville, Tex.
Capt. W. J. Hardee, who was born in
Savannah and was in charge of the
Confederate defenders of Savannah as
Sherman approached the city in 1864,
was captured by the Mexicans in that
fight. The command to which he was
attached was outnumbered nearly 10 to
1.
The war consisted of two distinct
campaigns, or activities in two distinct
areas. Gen. Taylor, who began the
fighting, pushed southwe3tward from
the Gulf coast near what is now Brown-
ville, fighting the battles of Palo Alto,
Itesaca de la Palma, Monterey and
Buena Vista. The northern campaign
was over before the southern campaign,
which started at Vera Cruz and ended
at Mexico City, began. The navy dur
ing the war was of value in escorting
troops to Vera Cruz and in the work of
blockading other ports. A number of
vessels took part in the siege of Vera
Cruz, one steamer being under com
mand of Josiah Tattnall, also born near
Savannah and afterwards famoua for
his saying, "Blood is thicker than]
water,” for his work with the "Mcr-
rimac” in the War Between the States,
and for the part he played in the de- j
fense of Savannah. He was wounded I
at Tuxapan. Henry R. Jackson com
manded the First Georgia Regiment of i
volunteers in the war.
General Winfield Scott consumed
twenty days in the capture of Vera
Cruz, in March, 1847. Tampico did not
figure in the war news very much. In
nearly every battle of both campaigns
the American forces were outnumbered.
The total number of regulars in the
United States Army was 21,506, and of
volunteers 22,027. Gen. Taylor’s north
ern campaign lasted ten months, that
of Gen. Scott ending with the occupa
tion of Mexico City, a few days more
than six months. The northern cam
paign resulted in the election of Zachrv
Taylor as President of the United
States in 1848. Four years later Gen.
Scott was a candidate for the Presi
dency, but was defeated.
If the present Mexican situation
should result in war historians will be in
terested in parallels between the move
ments of the American army and navy
in this contest and that nearly three-
quarters of a century ago. Politicians
will, no doubt, wonder whether it will
make any army officer's name so prom
inent and himself so popular that he
will be elected to the Presidency. They
will remember that the war with
Mexico, the War Between the States
and the war with Spain 3ent army men
to the White House.
A nice thing about having only one
bad habit ia you can spend ao much
more money on it.
Our Southern Friends are Proud of Mexican Mustang Liniment
because it has saved them from so much suffering. It soothes
and relieves pain soon as applied. Is made of oils, without
any Alcohol and cannot burn of (Sting the flesh. Hundreds
of people write us that Mustang
Liniment cured them when all
other remedies failed.
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ustang
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The Great Family Remedy for
Sore Throat, Colds,
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Mules, Horses,
Cattle, Sheep,
and Fowl.
Since / 848 the forcmor,t
‘Pain C j(/:licucr of the South.
$ —————
Price 25c., 50c. asd $1 a bottle.
Take this to your dealer and say you want
Mexican Mustang Liniment.