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VITAL FORCE'
Disease germs arc on every hand. They arc in the very air
we breathe. A system “rim down" is a prey for them. One
must have vital force to withstand them. Vital force depends
on digestion -on whether or not food nourishes—on the
quality of blood coursing through the body.
DR. PIERCE’S
Golden Medical Discovery
Strengthens the weak stomach. Gives row! digestion. Enlivens the
sluggish liver. Foods the starved nerves. Again full health and strength
return. A general upbuilding enables the heart to puma like an engine
running in oil. The vital force is once more established to full power.
Year in and year out for over forty years this great health-restoring
remedy has been spreading throughout the entire world—because of its
ability to make the sick well and the weak strong. Don’t despair of
“being your old self again.” Give this vegetable remedy ft trial—Today
— Now. You will soon feel “like newagain. ” Sold in liquid or tablet form by
Druggists or trial box forfiOchymiiil. Write Dr. V. M.Pierce, Buffalo,N.Y.
Dr. Plrrce’mxrent lOOHpaare “Medical Adviser,”
cloth-bouad. sent (or 31 one-cent stamps.
he Herald and Advertiser
NEWNAN, FRIDAY, J U LY 11
MY IMIAYER.
I,nm l>«* trim cnnugli lo moot mrh honott ey«\
Y<A if u fri«*rul whom* nm r<iwi*il h flirt Imx lmon
undone,
rn«* for comfort wlmri* in truth thorn can
In* nmm,
Then lot nm graap his grupifuc Hand and kindly
He.
Ami if mv neighbor dot*# thorn* tliinga I tliink arn
111,
Let inr not judge! Who knowu what tangled
taunting skein
Fata may have woven to have moahetl Ida heart
in pain
Would I havo wnoothed the evil knot with half
his Skill?
Since I must play
prayer,
Though 1 may lone
face
Ix't. nm not acorn the weak who falter in the
rger;
Let nm la* merciful let nm play fair.
I Carolyn Reynolda.
the name of life.
, let me preHervi
thin in my
a Holding
Guillotine More Merciful Than
the Electric Chair.
Is the electric clmir more merciful
than the guillotine? asks the New York
Sun. Dn April 21, 191.'! a little over
h year ago-the three French motorcar
bandits were beheaded in Paris. From
the time the knife fell for the first time
until the third man was pronounced
dead just two minutes and thirty-live
seconds elapsed. The third man killed
at Sing Sing died approximately half
an hnur after the first was placed in
the chair.
The guillotine was adopted in France
as a substitute for the bungling process
of beheading with u sword. In New
York h few years ago the system of
legal hangings was abolished as a relic
of barbarism and the electric chair was
put into use. According to an American
who saw Soudy. Callemin and Monier
put. to death in Paris lust year it is seri
ously to be questioned if either the gal
lows or the chair is an improvement on
the guillot ine.
A murderer under death sentence in
Franco never knowH when he lies on his
prison cot at night whether he will live
to sen the sun rise again. An appeul
for clemency goes to the President au
tomatically when the ronvicted man is
sentenced. If the decision is unfavora
ble the news is carried to the prisoner
less than an hour before the time set
for the execution. The convict has had
no intimation of the day on which ho is
to meet death in the event of adverse
notion hy the President.
In Paris as nt Sing Sing the death in
strument works at sunrise. The law
directs that the execution shall take
place in u public street or on a square,
but in renlity the spectacle is as privato
ss if the guillotine were placed in the
jail yard. The guillotine is erected in a
wide parkway in the Boulevard Arugo,
just outside the walls of the Sante
prison and opposite tho gardens of a
former convent.
Only the holders of permits officials
and newspaper men may approach
within 200 yards of the scene, for the
street is closed to trattic and republican
guards and policemen hold the ap
proaches at the neighboring street in
tersections.
Deibler, the executioner, set up the
guillotine half an hour before sunrise
April 21 last year. Just at the appoint
ed time a black covered wagon in which
were the three doomed men arrived
from the prison after a rideof less than
u block. Without a second’s delay the
rear door of the van was opened and
out stepped a priest, one of the doomed
men being led just behind him.
The guillotine was fewer than half a
dozen steps away. An attendant
walked on each side of the victim, each
clutching an arm. These officials gave
the prisoner a shove and he pitched for
ward. The plank which formed a plat
form just in front of the machine
sprang up automatically to meet the
body and his body plunged unerringly
into the groove. At that instant Dieb-
lcr touched the button, the knife, sus
pended beneath a heavy weight, fell
ami —all was over.
The knife was honed to such a high
degree and moved with such incredible , .
rapidity that for a second or two no
blood flowed. In that brief moment
two men stationed at one side of the
plank on which the body toy pushed the
body into a long basket, a third slapped
the lid down and another closed the lid
down on the basket into which the head
had fallen. Yet another attendant with
an immense sponge gave attention to
In the two minutes and thirty-live
seconds the first man was led to the
machine and forfeited his life the knife
was sponged and raised, the second
man was led out to his death, attention
was given to the knife again and the
third man was brought forth and paid
the penalty.
Repeated applications of the current
were required before some of the men
electrocuted last month in Bing Sing
were pronounced dead. In the case of
the guillotine’s victim there is neither
delay nor the slightest chance that tho
knife will falter in the performance of
its deadly function, even for an instant.
The condemned man's wrists are tied
behind him, little time is given him to
suffer mental agony, for he is bound in
no straps and there are no electrodes to
put in place. And the witness of an
execution by guillotine is neither
shocked nor brutalized.
A Maker af Songs.
Who was Stephens Collins Foster? In
a room filled with Americans of this
generation how many could say? Very
few—perhaps none.
An ironic commentary on the familiar
Buying that “if a man were permitted
to make all the ballads, he need not
ca.-e who should make the laws of a
nation. ”
Foster made the ballads of his co> T?
try songs that after the half cent' ry
since his death are not yet dead. S roe
of them may never die while Ame ca
is America. Certainly there is life til
in “Down on the Suwaneo River,” r,‘
more correctly speaking, “The ( Id
Folks at Home,” and “The Old Ken
tucky Home.” Foster’s sentimental
songs, once “the rage” have not sur
vived except in the memory of Foster’s
generation. The excessive sentimen
tality of his period and tho doggerel
character of tho verse have been too
much for what merit such popular
songs as “Como Where My Love Hies
Dreaming” and “Nellie Bly”claim. And
yet his place in American music will be
secure, for his work was really indige
nous and characteristic. A musical
critic says that “he possessed an ex
tremely fertile melodic vein which in a
musicully more cultivated environment,
in an atmosphere like that of Vienna in
the eighteenth century, would have re
fined into the sort of genius that was
Schubert’s.”
In Pittsburg, where he was born, a
monument has been erected to Foster,
and a public spirited citizen, Mr. Park,
has bought tho Foster homestead for a
public memorial, so he is not without
honor in his own city, but his name has
not lasted like his most famous songs.
Perhaps both will regain a wider know
ledge when the “ragtime” craze has
faded away.
A Perfect Cathartic.
There is sure and wholesome action
in every dose of Foley’s Cathartic Tab
lets. They cleanse, with never a gripe
or pain. Chronic cases of constipation
find them invaluable. Stout people are
relieved of that bleated, congested feel
ing, so uncomfortable, especially in hot
weather. They keep your liver busy.
For sale by all dealers.
“What is a phenomenon?” asked one
workman of another.
“It’s like this. Suppose you were to
go out into the country and see a
field of thistles growing.”
“Yes.”
“Well, that would not be a phenom
enon.”
“No, that's quite clear,” agreed the
other man.
“But suppose you were to see a lark
singing away up in the sky”
“Yes.”
“Well, that would not be a phenome
non.”
“No, that also seems clear.”
“But imagine there is a bull in the
field.”
“Yes.”
“Even that would not lie a phenom
enon."
“No."
“But, now, Bill, look here. Sup
pose you saw that bull sitting on them
thistles whistling like a lark well,
that would be a phenomenon."
What Kind of Mind Food Are
You Giving Your Family.
Piwreiwlve Farmer.
One big fact our Southern farmers
are waking up to, but they are not
waking up to it half as fast as they
ought. This fact ia, that if 'here is
anything in the world you can't afford
to be “cheap” about, it is your intellec
tual food.
Every sensible man knows nowadays
that the mind counts for more than the
body, the brain more than the belly;
and yet ninety farmers in every hun
dred who wouldn’t think of starving
themselves of body-food, stomach-food,
muscle-food, are nevertheless starving
themselves of brain-food, mind-food,
intellectual food.
Many a fond father and mother who
would work their finger nails off rather
than see their boy feed his nody on
hunes^ind crumbs and scraps, will never
theless feed that same boy’s mind on
the mustiest, rankest, rottenest bran-
and-chaff sort of mind-food that they
can find in the shape of a newspaper.
“But 1 got this paper so cheap!” they
will tell you. “Three whole years for
a dollar, with a map or a pair of spec
tacles or a fountain pen thrown in
free!” How can a mind so slander hiB
own brain, his own mind! How can he
insinuate that it is worth so little as to
deserve no better food than some cheap
journal thrown in with a free fountain
pen or a buggy whip!
Suppose some agent should come to
you and say: “I understand you have
been eating good wheat flour costing
$fi a barrel, and feeding your children
the same high-priced stuff. Why, sir,
that’s too expensive. You can’t afford
it. Why here’s a mixture of bran and
spoiled corn meal, and I’ll sell you three
barrels for $5 and throw in a fountain
pen free!” you wouldn’t take two min
utes, we suspect, to Bhow that man the
door.
And yet, although food for the mind
is just as important as food for the
body, there are farmers in every
neighborhood in the South who refuse
to use their own heads in selecting
their reading matter, but let some
slick-tongued agent palm off on them
whatever cheap, spoiled, unwholesome,
unhelpful bran-and-chaff mixture of in
tellectual food he chooses to throw in
with some fake premium that, in most
cases, isn’t much better than the paper
it goea with.
Here is what we need to say to far
mers all over the South: You are not
a pauper in dealing with your mind.
You don't buy the cheapest stuff' you
can find to feed your body with; then
don’t buy the cheapest stuff you can
find to feed your mind with. If you
arc buying mind-food for yourself, you
insult your own brain by intimating it
deserves no better food; while in the
case of one’s boys and girls, doesn't a
man deserve prison stripes just as much
if he deliberately starves his children's
minds as he would if he deliberately
starved their bodies?
The Old-Time Neighbor.
The Chicago Tribune is inquiring
what has become of the old-time neigh
bor,” and the St. Paul Pioneer-Press
remarks that the old-time neighbor has
passed into tradition. This leads one
of our valued exchanges to say—
“Not so, brothers.
“In a thousand country towns all
sorrow with the unfortunate, rejoice
with the favored, mourn with them that
mourn. One housewife runs over to
the neighbors to borrow a cup of flour
when the exigencies of baking have
caught her with a depleted flour bin.
The sick have flowers and attention,
and volunteers to ‘set up’ with them.
Those who celebrate birthday or wed
ding anniversaries have ‘surprise
parties’ come in on them, bringing re
freshments and neighborly cheer.
“And in the country — bless you!
If you think the old-time neigh
bor has ‘passed,’ just have central con
nect you with a country line and listen
to the neighbors talk.
“No, thank the Lord, the ‘neighbors’
has not passed into the limbo of for
gotten things — not yet. His cheery
word is daily in our ears. Whether he
knows it or not, he is practicing real
Christianity, the highest teaching of
Nazarene.
"It makes us glad we do not live in a
city like Chicago, where the homely
virtues are to a great extent crowded
out and forgotten.
“The country town is a pretty good
place in which to live after all.”
OMETHING NEW
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria.enriches the blood,and builds upthesys-
tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c
Tho best thirty with which to feather
your own nest is cash down.
— ^ — - .
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic beeause it cotitah.a the
Last Leap Year I did not want to em
barrass my best girl to make her pro
pose to me, so asked her to be my wife,
and she said, “I would rather be ex
cused,” and I, like an idiot, excused
her. But I got even with the girl. I
married her mother. Then my father
married the girl. Now I don’t know
who I am. When I married the girl's
mother the girl became my daughter
and when my father married my daugh
ter he is my son. When my father mar
ried my daughter she was my mother. If
my father is my son and my daughter
is my .mother, who in thunder am 1?
My mother's mother (which is my
wife) must be my grandmother, and I
being my grandmother's husband, I am
my own grandfather.
If you would strike a man favorably
don't aim at his pocketbook.
Severe Attack of Colic Cured.
E. E. Cross, who travels in Virginia
and other Southern States, was taken
suddenly and severely ill with colie.
At the first store he came to the mer
chant recommended Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Two doses of it cured him. No o»e
should leave home on a journey without
a bottle of this preparation. Sold by
all dealers.
Some time ago there waB a homicide
case in a Western court in which there
was considerable doubt as to the guilt
of the accused. The trial Judge seemed
to share the popular belief.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” said he, in
concluding his charge, “if the evidence
in your mind shows that pneumonia was
the cause of the man’s death you can
not convict the prisoner.”
Whereat the jury retired and in ten
miqutes the constable returned and pre
sented himself before the Judge.
“Your honor,” he remarked, “the
gentlemen of the jury want some infor
mation.
“On what point of evidence?” asked
the Judge.
“None, your honor,” was the rejoin
der of the constable. “They want to
know how to spell pneumonia.”
The season of bad roads is on again.
What have the farmers in your com
munity done about dragging the roads?
What have they done about substituting
wide tires for narrow tires? We know
one county where it is now proposed to
levy a tax on all lumber wagons or
livery stable wagons that use narrow
tires. The idea is a good one.
QUIT TAKING RISKY CALOMEL.
Here is a vegetable tonic that is far
better for you to take than the danger-
oub drug and poison called calomel. Ycu
can never tell when calomel is going to
“get you.” That’s the worst thing
about taking so uncertain and danger
ous a drug for constipation and liver
trouble. Calomel is liable to salivate
you or “knock you out” for at least a
day the very next time you try it.
John R. Cates Drug Co. have the
mild vegetable remedy that successful
ly takes the place of calomel. This
remedy is Dodson’s Liver Tone, a very
pleasant-tasting liquid that gives quick
but gentle relief from constipation, tor
pid or “Jazy” liver.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is fully guaran
teed, and if you buy a large bottle for
fifty cents and it does not entirely sat
isfy you, the drug store where you
bought it will promptly give you your
money back with a smile.
Dodson’s is fine for both children and
grown people.
No man is so selfish as to keep all his
popularity to himself.
COULD
SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT
And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin- beheve 1
, taken it.
cent Was Unable to Attend to
would have died if I hadn’t
Any of Her Housework.
the knife, though to the watchers in well known tonic propertiesof QUININE
the semi darkness this seemed unneceB an ^ nets on the Liver, Drives
sary.
I out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 ceuts.
Pleasant Hill, N. C.—"I suffered for
three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, “and the third and
last time, was my worst.
I had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could not do any of my
housework.
I also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when one of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, 1
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
I was certainly in a dreadful state of j
After I began taking Cardui, I was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re
lieved me entirely.
I fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, I felt like an
other person altogether.”
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle
acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
improves the appetite, tones up the ner
vous system, and helps to make pale,
I sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy.
Cardui has helped more than a million
weak women, during the past 50 years.
It will surely do for you, what it has
done for them. Try Cardui today.
Automatic Oil Cook Stove. No wicks; no leaky valves; easy to keep
clean ; quick to heat.
Same as ga3 stove, and much cheaper to operate. They are selling.
Come in ancl let us.you show.
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The above picture represents a PROSPERITY COLLAR MOULDER,
which uses an entirely new principle in collar-finishing. When finished on this
machine those popular turn-down collars can have no rough edges, and they
also have extra tie space. The collars last much longer, too. Let us show you.
NEWNAN STEAM LAUNDRY
. ... 1 . . . . . i Wr\U to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladles’ Ad-
health, When l finally decided to try ' visory Dept.. Chattanooga. Tenn., tor Special In-
^ i _ . . . _ , , , ! ttructiomi on your case and 64-pare book. ’’Home
Cardui. the woman S tonic, and I firmly I Treatment for Women," sent ia plain wrapper. ,h3
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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
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