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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. X LIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1914,
NO. 47
In
Our New
Quarters
We are now established in our new quarters
on the corner of Jefferson and Madison
streets, and extend a cordial invitation to our
friends to drop in and see us.
We are beginning now to replenish our
stocks in preparation for the fall trade, and
shall be “ready with the goods" to supply ev
erything in our line that may be needed.
We advise our friends to keep cool and not
get demoralized on account of the war in Eu
rope. Ours is a great Government, and will
provide means to take care of the South's
cotton crop. Be of good cheer. Everything
will turn out right in the end.
When You Want
The best goods, the quickest
service and the lowest
prices, give
J. T. SWINT
a trial order. If you try him
once, you’ll be sure to try
him again.
Fresh fish every Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
Telephone 54
SINCE SHE WENT HOME.
The twilight nhadowH linger longer here.
The winter days make grey the circling year.
For oven nummer wlnda are chill and drear-
Since nhe'went home.
Since she went home—
The robin’s note haB touched a minor strain.
The old glad songs repeat a sad refrain.
And laughter sobs with hidden, bitter pain
Since she went home.
Since she went home—
How still the empty rooms her presence blessed!
Untouched the pillow that her dear head pressed:
My mourning heart finds no place for rest—
Since she went home.
Sinco Hhe went home-
The long, long days have crept away like years.
The sunlight has been dimmed with doubts and
fears.
And the dark nights have wept in lonely tears—
Since she went home.
— I Robert J. Burdotte.
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That Marital Promise to Obey.
Dorothy Dix. in Atlanta Georfrian.
A young woman who is going to be
married asks me to define the meaning
of the word “obey” as it is U9ed in the
marriage ceremony.
She says that she is willing to swear
to be loyal, faithful and helpful to her
husband, but that she expects him to
defer to her wishes and judgment as
she expects to defer to his, and that she
has no intention of blindly obeying him,
so she hesitates to make a vow that
she cannot keep. Therefore, she wants
to know whether the word “obey” is
to be taken literally, or merely figura
tively, in the marriage service.
The word "obey” has no meaning
whatever in the marriage-service. It
is nothing but a lie, which should be
eliminated, for it forces a woman to
commit perjury at the most solemn
moment of her life, and at the moment
that she should most intend to keep the
vows that she is making.
When the modern girl swears at the
altar to “obey” the man she is marry
ing she has no notion whatever of do
ing so. Her heart may be running
over witli love for her husband; she
may be giving him a boundless devo
tion, and pledging him every service of
brain and hand, but the one thing that
she has no expectation whatever of do
ing is to obey him.
And the man knows this. Whatever
else he expects of his wife, he doesn't
expect obedience. He doesn't even
arrogate to himself the right to be a
master to her. She is neither a child
nor a slave to be ordered about and
subject to his commands.
Why should an intelligent wo
man, old enough to get married, be
made to promise to obey? If she has
not sense enough and sufficient judg
ment to know how to conduct her own
affairs, and what to do under the stress
of life, her place is not at a man’s side
in a household, but in some institute
for the feeble-minded.
If marriage is the right sort of a
marriage it is a partnership of a man and
a woman, who unite their fortunes and
lives, and establish a home. Each
partner has everything that he or she
has in the world invested in this ven
ture, and both should have the same
authority.
When two men go into partnership in
business there is no question of obeying
the other. They confer together; they
discuss ways and means together; each
yields certain points to the other, and
in this way they work out a harmoni
ous plan of action.
And this plan prevails in every house
hold that is a success. The wife re
spects her husband’s judgment and fol
lows his advice along certain lines. The
husband really admits that his wife’s
opinion on certain other lines is of
more value and weight than his, but
neither blindly obeys the other.
There is a theory that in the old days
when women were more subject to men
than they are at present, the word
“obey” in the marriage service literally
meant what it says, and when a woman
took that vow upon herself she intend
ed to keep it. I doubt this being true.
It has ever been the privilege of the
slave to deceive the master, and our
meek looking grandmothers probably
had their tongues in their cheeks, just
as much as we have, when they humbly
promised to obey the husband they
meant to hoodwink while they did as
they pleased.
At any rate, the independent, intel
ligent girl of to-day is not going to
give blind obedience to any man just
because he is her husband. She hails
from Missouri, and has to be shown
that his way is a better way than hers,
his judgment clearer than her own, be
fore she accepts it.
The old idea that it was necessary for
woman to venerate her husband as
an oracle to prove her affection for him
is an exploded myth. A man does not
necessarily have to he a Solomon in or
der to be lovable. Indeed, many of the
most sympathetic, agreeable and fas
cinating men in the world are in no
danger of setting the river on fire with
their brilliancy, and they have wabbly
enough judgments.
In many a family the wife is the
clear-headed one wno runs things, and
she does it without loss of dignity to
her husband or loss of affection for him.
In the face of the actual conditions of
modern society it is absurd that wo
men should still be made to promise to
•‘obey” the men they marry when
neither the wom'-n intend to do it nor
the men expect them to do it.
The Cotton Market.
Savannah Nows.
There is a market for cotton. The
domestic mills are offering ten cents for
it. In fact, they are actually buying in
the interior a little at that price. But
cotton is worth more than that. If it
were not for the wnr in Europe the
cotton exchanges would be open and it
is safe to say that cotton would be sell
ing for at least 12 cents. It sold in Liv
erpool the other day at 111 cents.
There is no good reason why the far
mers should be in haste to sell—no good
reason why they should rush it to mar
ket. In a little while the exchanges will
be open and there will be ships to carry
cotton to the European markets —at
least to the markets of England, France
and perhaps Russia. These markets,
together with the domestic market and
the markets of the Orient, will take all
the cotton that will bo forced to sale
by maturing obligations of cotton far
mers and to meet necessary expenaes
of harvesting and marketing, thus pre
venting a slump in the price.
There is no doubt that the domestic
mills intend to get the cotton just ai
cheaply as they can. It is pure bus!
ness with them. They are not influenced
in the least by sentiment. Of course,
they regret the war in Europe, but as
it favors them, they propose to make
the most of whatever advantage it of
fers them, even though the cotton pro
ducers are losers.
When the cotton exchanges are opened
the price will be made largely by them
It is well understood that the present
cotton crop isn’t a large one—a little
more than 13,000,(100 bales, according to
the Department of Agriculture. It isn’t
large enough to force the price below
what it was when the war in Europe
broke out, and if it were not for that
war the price, in all probability, would
be about what it was a month or so ago.
The closing of the cotton exchanges
practically gave the millB the whip
hand. It enables them to put their own
price on the cotton that hast to be sold
by farmers who are pressed for money
for expenses and to meet obligations.
Those who insist that the future mar
ket is inimical to the interests of the
producer and friendly to those of the
millB have a chance now to question the
correctness of their contention.
The price, there are good reasons for
thinking, will advance now that the
Senate has passed the bill admitting
foreign ships to American registry.
The warring nations of Europe are call
ing for our wheat. They must have it
or starve. If wheat can get into the
ports of Europe cotton can. Of that
there is no reasonable doubt. There is
almost as much need for cotton by En
gland, France, Germany and other Eu
ropean nations as there is for wheat,
since the poor cannot buy bread with
out money and the cotton factory popu
lations have no way to earn money
with which to buy bread if the mills
are without cotton. So, jt is pretty
safe to assume, looking at the whole
situation just as it is, that the mills
will not get a great deal of cotton at 10
cents a pound.
The Guilty Kaiser.
Mnron Tolugniph.
If war is hell, there is a single and
related term that fittingly describes the
man who is wilfully responsible for a
continent-desolating struggle that might
have been avoided. That man is Kai
ser Wilhelm, the so-called “war lord”
and megalomaniac in the palace at
Potsdam.
After this man had hastily declared
war on Russia and secretly perfected
plans for an unannounced invasion of
France, he exhorted his people in a pub
lic speech to “go to church and pray
God to help our gallant array to show
our enemies what it means to provoke
Germany.” Russia and France had
provoked” Germany by a hurried pre
paration for a war which the kaiser's
significant acts and unreasonable de
mands hnd made inevitable.
It was Germany’s sanction that en
couraged Austria to begin a war for
the annexation of Servia; it was Ger
many that issued an imperious ultima
tum to Russia to cease her precaution
ary mobilization; it was Germany that
insolently demanded of France a con
fession of what she expected to do in
case her cruel enemy of 1870 engaged
her Russia ally in war; it was Germa
ny that thon promptly declared war on
Russia and invaded France without for
mal notice. Germany was the aggres
sor from the outset, and yet the war-
lusting kaiser tells his people to pray
that God may help a ruthless fighting
machine teach the nations what it
means to "provoke” Germany.
One is almost tempted to say that if
the Emperor of Germany is not com
pelled to sue for peace on hiB knees,
there is no longer any room for poetic
justice in this world.
Throughout his reign the kaiser has
oppressed his own people in order to
perfect a gigantic military machine.
Throughout his reign he has watched
eagerly for the opportunity which he
has now forced. Gladly would he fill
the world with mourning if by so doing
he could gain undisputed ascendancy in
Europe, llow can the disinterested ob
server do other than hope that his mil
itary machine will fail him? I’ossihle
Russian schemes of torritorial expan
sion in Europe deservo scant sympathy
even though Russia has been wilfully
“provoked,” but who can look unmoved
on the spectacle of France fighting for
life —for her very national existence?
History will deal kindly with the Gor
man people in general, hut it will speak
unpleasant truths about the domineer
ing Prussians, and it will find not even
a thin veil with which to cover the
moral nakedness of the self-seeking,
war-lusting Kaiser Wilhelm.
Wise Forbearance at Washington
Macon Telegraph.
There will be fewer sneers at the ex
pense of President Wilson’s "watching
and waiting” Mexicans policy now that
we contemplate the madneBS of all
Europe at war and behold a continent
filled with terror and mourning. Al
though at the outset there was not a
single principle involved worthy of the
name.
There has never been a sufficient
reason for war on Mexico by the
United States, but at any moment
since the assassination of President
Madero a better pretext could have
been found than that seized by Austria
in order to begin a war for the annexa
tion of Servia—the act which lighted
the llame now burning throughout
Europe.
While the President’s pacific inter
vention in Mexico transcended the
limits authorized by the Monroe doc
trine and unquestionably would have
precipitated hostilities had Mexico been
a stronger power, he resolutely set his
face against actual war from first to
last, and for this the men of all parties
and opinions may now well praise and
thank him. To his derided policy of
“watching waiting” is due the wel
come and most gratifying fact that the
United States, alone among all the
great powers of the western world, is
not now at war.
The Oase of L, L. Cantelou.
The case of L. L. Cantelou, Claredon,
Texas, is similar to that of many
others who have used Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
He says, “After trying a doctor for
several months, and using different
kinds of medicine for my wife who had
been troubled with severe bowel com
plaint for several months, I bought a
2f>c. bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
using the second bottle she was entire
ly cured.” For sale by all dealers.
It’s a Smile that Wins.
Pictorial Review.
The trolly-car was well filled with
people—tired people. Women who had
been shopping, men who had been
working—their nerves on edge from
hours of relentless effort and the dis
appointments of the day. Some tried
to bury their feelings in evening pa
pers, some stared blankly into space.
The heaviness of the unventilated car
rested on them all. Life was a dreary,
sordid thing.
At the next stop, the last passenger
to enter was a woman carrying a baby.
The crowd shoved and the baby whim
pered. The mother shook her just a
little and the whimper turned into a
wail. The men frowned behind their
papers or glared above the sheet. Those
who had no papers scowled at the mother
for daring to travel with a child during
the rush hour.
And then the miracle! A motherly-
looking woman with a bunch of gay
roses in her hut snapped her fingers at
the baby and smiled. The baby Btopped
crying. The motherly person tried it
again. Thrn time both her eyes and
lips smiled and she nodded her head
until the flowers on her hat danced.
The expression of the baby’s face
changed from surprise and curiosity to
open delight. It waved its hands. It
talked in eloquent "goos” and “gur
gles” to the nodding flowers. The
peevish expression vanished from the
mother’s face and maternal pride ap
peared in its stead. Those who had no
papers yielded frankly to the baby’s
conversational charm and their neigh
bors began to peer interestedly around
the corner of their pages. By the time
the baby was going through futile con
tortions to reach the nodding roses the
entire mental atmosphere of the car
had been sweetened.
And this miracle was wrought by a
smile!
“Papa,” said little May, who had
just been chastised for disobedience, “I
wish you had never married into our
family.”
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Rob Burdetto.
My dear boy, men have fought, bled
and died, but not for beer.
Men liked tea, my boy, but they hurled
it into the sea in the name of liberty 1
and they died rather than drink it until
they made it frep. It seemed to be
worth fighting for, and the best men in
the world fought for it.
The history of the United States is
incomplete with the tea left out. As
well might the historian omit Faneuil
Hall and Bunker Hill as tea. But there
is no story of heroism or patriotism
with rum for its hero.
The battles of the world, my son, have
been fought for grander things than free
whiBkey. The heroes who fall in the
struggle for rum, fall shot in the neck,
and their martyrdom is clouded by
haunting phantoms of the jimjams.
Whiskey makes men fight, it is true,
but they usually fight other drunken
men.
The champion of beer does not stand
in the temple of fame; he stands in the
police court.
Honor never has the delirium tremens.
Glory does not wear a red nose, and
fame blows a horn, but never takes
one.
I do not know one good thing about a
saloon. It is an evil that has not one
redeeming thing in all its history to
commend it to good men. It breaks
the laws of God and man; it desecrates
the Sabbath; it profanes the name of
religion; it defiles public order; it tram
ples under foot the tenderest feelings of
humanity; it is a moral pestilence that
blights the very atmosphere of town
and country; it is a stain upon honeBty:
a blur upon purity; a clog upon progress;
a check upon the nobler impulses; it is
an incentive to falsehood, deceit and
crime.
Search through the history of this
hateful thing, and find one page over
which some mother can bow her grate
ful head and thank God for all the sa
loon did for her boy. There is no such
record. All fits history is written in
tears and blood, with smears of shame
and stains of crim6, and dark blots of
disgrace.
Mrs. Ives had entertained her bridge
club, and as she had to prepare con
siderable food, having gotten her hand
in, sho decided to invite a few people,
to whom she was indebted, for the
next evening.
She made out her list of guests and
sent her little daughter Eleanor to de
liver the invitations. Eleanor's first
stop wbh At Mrs. Jordan's. She gave
the invitation and as she was about to
depart, Mrs. Jordan said:
“Why, Eleanor, I’m afraid your
mother is undertaking too much after
having had the bridge club last even
ing.”
“Oh, 1 guess not,” replied the child,
“I heard her toll father this morning
there was stuff enough left for three
parties.”
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dealers.
In live minutes a 150-ton bridge was
moved out and replaced by a 760-ton
bridge on the Lehigh Valley railroad
here, It took exactly two minutes and
fifty seconds to roll the new one into
place. Traffic was not interfered with,
the time chosen for the bridge moving
having been carefully planned in rela
tion to the movement of trainB. The
new bridge, which is a double-tracked
Bingle span structure over 100 feet
long, wus already fitted with a bal
lasted track laid on a concrete founda
tion, and as soon as it was in place
it waH only necessary to join the rails
to make ready for the passage of trains.
The steel spans are 10 feet deep and
rest on rockers, bo that trains passing
immediately afterward were able to
travel at full speed, as if there were
no bridge there.
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You Are Shown a Way Out.
There can be no reason why any reader
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Mrs. J. B. Bridges, 614 W. Solomon
St., Griflln, Ga., says: “I suffered a
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pains through the small of my back and
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was bothered by the kidney secretions,
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were restored to a normal condition.
I haven’t suffered from kidney com
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some years ago.”
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