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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
50th YEAR
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1914.
NO. 3
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.
T. G.
8
To The Farmers
We have in stock just two hundred bush
els of purple straw wheat. This wheat is se
lect seed, and we would like to get this wheat
started in Coweta county.
We also have Hasting’s 100-bushel seed
oats, Appier feed oats and Georgia rust-proof
oats.
A few bushels of Georgia rye and barley.
If we are going to change our way of farm
ing, now is the time to start. You can’t wait
until next April to make up your mind that
you are not going to plant the world in’ cot
ton. If you are going to plant oats, rye, bar
ley and wheat it is time to make a start.
H. C.
PHONE 58.
ECO.
PHONE 342
OCTOBER.
O, sun a and skies and clouds of June.
And (lowers ol’ June together.
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
When loud the bumblebee makes haste—
Belated, thriftiest* vagrant—
And golden-rod i« dying fast,
And laneB with grapes are fragrant.
When gentians roll their fringes tight
To save them for the morning.
Ami chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels ahining,
And redder still on old atone walla
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing.
And in the tielda still green and fair
Late aftermaths are growing:
When springs run low. and on the brooks
In idle golden freighting.
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods for winter waiting;
When comrades seek sweet country haunts
By twos and twos together.
And count like misers, hour by hour.
October's bright blue wcather-
O. suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together -
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather.
—I Helen Hunt Jackson.
The Last Kaiser.
IiOndon Tit-Bits.
“William, the second of the name,
will be the last king of Prussia; he will
have no other successors than a king of
Poland, a king of Saxony and a king of
Hanover.”
More than 600 years ago this prophe
cy was made by an obscure monk of
Mayence. Since then it has been handed
down from father to son, through the
centuries, until to-day it possesses a
startling significance. By plunging all
Europe into bloodshed William II, the
kaiser, must stand or fall by the issue.
The defeat of Germany will mean his
virtual disappearance as a world's dic
tator; it may even mean the disruption
of the German empire. Well may one
ask if bygone years will come true.
Other predictions made by this ancient
seer have proved amazingly correct.
The prophet mentions William I by
name, describes him as marching against
Austria from victory to victory be
tween “the earing and the harvesting
of barley,” and as having his murch of
triumph arrested in the very gates of
Vienna “by the word of a great em
peror.” A more accurate forecast of
the Austro-Prussian “seven days’ war”
in the summer of 1866 is inconceivable.
In that campaign, it will be remem
bered, Bismark checked his victorious
advance to Vienna because he believed
that the Emperor Napoleon Ill was
preparing to march his forces across
the Rhine in the Prussian rear.
Then the sedr foretells how within
four years (1870) a great army would
be mustered with deadly engines of war
and march eastward. “Woe,” he says,
“to the nation that has forsaken all
laws, human and divine, and will be
abandoned by the Lord of Hosts.” He
proceeds to picture the flight of Napo
leon III. before his enemies to a spot
near Sedan, and his disappearance,
never to return. Finally, after telling
of the complete resuscitation of France,
he concludes with the declaration quo-
ted above—the only prophecy which has
yet to be fulfilled.
No throne is so inseparably connected
with prophetic utterances of doom as
that which is now occupied by the kai
ser. In a long poem, written by a Bran
denburg monk, several hundred years
ago, it is foretold how the Hohenzol-
lerns came into possession of Branden
burg; how they were transformed from
electors into kings; and how they would
come to adopt the reformation. But
even more startling still than the pie-
dictions of the Mayence and Branden
burg monks is the story of the amazing
power of second sight displayed by an
old woman in the little village of Fiens-
berg. In 1849, William I. who was then
only the heir to the Prussian throne,
happened to pass through the village
and consulted her.
“What is to be my fate?” he asked.
“You will be crowned emperor of
Germany,” she replied; and, asked
when, made him write the date, (1849,)
and below the figures the same date in
a vertical column, telling him to add it
up thus:
1849
1
8
4
9
1871
It was in 1871 that he was acclaimed
emperor by the German princes in the
Hall of Mirrors.
“When shall I die?” was his second
question.
He was told to treat the date 1871 in
the same fashion, obtaining 1888, the
year of his death.
“When will the German empire end?”
was his final query. The same rule
gave 1918.
Although the extraordinary series of
predictions may appear to fail in this
important particular, one must remem
ber that the spark which has eventual
ly set Europe ablaze may be said to
have originated in the Balkan war of
1913. Again oi.e must ask: Are the
wonderful prophecies of the monk of
Mayence and the witch of Fiensberg to
be fulfilled in their entirety?
Even South Georgia is Turning
to Wheat.
Dawson News.
More wheat will be planted in Terrell
this fall than e«r before in the history
of the county. Many farmers who have
never until now seen the necessity of it
will have waving fields of the golden
grain next summer.
Hon. J. R. Mercer, the pioneer wheat-
grower of the county, and who some
years ago installed a roller flour mill
with a capacity pf 70 barrels a day on
his farm just bfeyond the limits of the
city for the purpose of encouraging the
farmers to grow wheat for their own
use, is still engaged in missionary work
along this line. He has ordered a car
load of the best variety of seed wheat,
which he will let the farmers of Terrell
and surrounding counties have at actual
cost to him. The wheat was bought in
Virginia.
Mr. Mercer has demonstrated that
wheat can be successfully grown here
for home use, and can give those who
intend to plant it valuable information
as to the kind of land and fertilizers to
get the beBt results.
From 80 acres of the poorest land on
his farm Mr. Mercer threshed 552 bush
els of wheat this year.
“Farmers who expect to raise wheat
should not sow on rich land,” Mr. Mer
cer says. “Turn, sub-soil, harrow and
plant on the highest, best-drained red
or still' land, without any fertilizer, by
Dec. 1. In March top dress with 200
pounds of guano, or in April 100 pounds
of top dressing or 75 pounds of nitrate
of soda. We have erred in planting
rich patches. The above plan will in
sure a profitable crop four years in five
and provide healthful bread rather than
commercial flour made from grain bulk-
heated. kiln-dried, bleached, dehearted,
etc. Why not, as we progress, hold to
some of the primitive methods of our
fathers—especially altfng the line of di
versified farming? It would tend to keep
down the ever-increasing cost of living,
which is bearing down upon us with a
vengeance.”
Pure Piffle.
Tlfton Gazette.
At the conference of the Southern
Governors and Congressmen in Wash
ington one man let the cat out of the
bag when he said that the cotton grow
ers represent one-third the population
of the country while the consumers
represent two-thirds.
Therefore, why legislate for the mi
nority?
There you have the real reason,
stripped of all superfluous verbiage.
We in the South are in the minority;
therefore the majority may fatten at
our expense.
But the cotton spinners and their
friends are in much a smaller minority
than the cotton growers; yet they have
been able to effectually block any legis
lation or government action to relieve
the cotton grower.
The people who were traveling in
Europe when the war broke out repre
sented one-thousandth part of our pop
ulation, yet it was no trouble to get
millions in gold, as scarce as gold was,
to hurry by special ship to their relief.
The people of Alaska are not even vo
ters, yet we spent millions buying rail
roads to develop their country. The
people of Mexico are not citizens and
pay no taxes at all, but money is plen
tiful and excuses numerous to spend
millions on them when we do not even
know what we are spending it for.
What miserable, pitiful piffle is this
talk about majority! If the same con
ditions now confronting the Southern
States confronted people of the North,
East, West or Middle States it would
be relieved within a week.
Five hundred and sixty-eight mosqui
toes, 109 potato beetles, 2,826 plant
lice, 100 chinch bugs, 89 grasshoppers,
12 squash bugs, 12 cut worms, 12 army
worms and 8 white grubs—all these,
says the State Game Warden of Ten
nessee, have been found in the stomach
of a common quail. “What, would that
bird and its mate have been worth to
you,” he asks, “if they had reared
their little brood on your farm?”
The interesting and truly appalling
menu shows that birds protect not only
crops and orchards, but also the health
of men and animals. Many of the in
sects they destroy are carriers of dis
ease. A bullbat, we are told, will de
vour a thousand mosquitoes in one twi
light; given due safety and encourage
ment, a family of bullbats should free
any neighborhood of mosquitoes and
prevent many cases of illness as well
as incalculable discomfort.
Positively Masters Croup.?
Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound
cuts the thick, choking mucous, and
clears away the phlegm. Opens up the
air passages and stops the hoarse cough.
The gasping, strangling fight for breath
gives way to quiet breathing and peace
ful sleep. Harold Berg, Mass, Mich.,
writes: “We give Foley's Ilonev and
Tar to our children for croup anti it al
ways acts quickly.” For sale by all
dealers.
“Something- Will Drop.”
Columbus En<iuiror*Sun.
The Dothan (Ala.) Eagle has been fig
uring on the situation and announces its
conclusions as follows —
“When the banker refuses to loan
money to the farmer who plants more
than half a crop of cotton, and when
the supply merchant, the guano mer
chant, the red wagon merchant, refuse
to sell to the man who plants more than
half a crop of cotton, you’ll hear some
thing drop—and it won’t be the price
of cotton, either.”
When this condition comes to pass we
believe, with The Eagle, that “you'll
hear something drop.”
But, when will the banker, the sup
ply merchant, the guano man and the
others mentioned refuse to lend money
to farmers under the conditions stated?
That is the question.
Heretofore the supply men have re
fused to make advances to the farmer
upon which to make a crop unless he
would raise cotton. Cotton has been
the chief money crop of this section,
and they have required the farmer to
whom they have made advances to raise
cotton with which to pay for what they
have been getting. The landowner has
wanted cotton for rent; the banker has
wanted cotton for the money he has
loaned; the supply merchant has want
ed cotton for the provisions he has ad
vanced, and the guano man lias wanted
cotton for the fertilizer he has sold.
Now, have these men, to whom the
small farmer, must of necessity go for
help, decided to make a change? How
many of them does The Eagle know
who are ready to take other crops in
rent and other crops in payment for
supplies, etc,?
It is for them to say whether or not
there shall be diversification of crops,
so far as the small farmer is concerned,
and the small farmer plays a very con
spicuous part in the total production of
cotton. The small farmer is helpless;
he muBt do as those upon whom he is
dependent say for him to do. If he does
not, they will nut make the advances he
must have upon which to grow a crop.
Cotton Seed Business Injured By
the War.
Atlanta Constitution.
Word has been received from Wash
ington by I’. D. McCarloy, president of
the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association
of Georgia, that the British govern
ment, in its patrol of- European com
merce, is interfering with the ship
ments of cotton seed oil, cotton seed
meal and cotton Heed cake from the
South to the neutral countries of Hol
land, Denmark and Italy. This will
have the ell'eet of greatly reducing the
already small market for these products
abroad.
At the beginning of the war, when
all European commerce was abruptly
terminated, the congestion of cotton
seed products greatly reduced the de
mand, and as a result the price of cot
ton seed went to a new low level.
Later on there came a demand, origi
nating in the neutral countries men
tioned above, which for a time afforded
an outlet for cotton seed oil and cotton
seed products. With the elimination of
this demand practically all export busi
ness will be shut olT and oil mills will
have to depend upon local consumption
to handle their output.
With the halt of shipments abroad,
which is disastrously affecting the price
of cotton seed, it is expected that fur
ther reductions in the price of seed will
follow, bringing a still greater hard
ship upon the farmers and producers of
cotton and cotton seed in the South.
“Please Stop My—” What?
Literary World.
“l'lease stop my-” What?
"Times are hard, money is scarce,
business is dull.Jretrenchment is a duty.
Please stop my —
Whiskey?
“Oh, no; times are not hard enough
for that yet. But there is something
else that costs me a large amount of
money every year, which I wish to save.
Please stop my—
Tobacco, cigars and snuff ?
“No, no; not these; but I must re
trench somewhere. Please stop my—
Ribbons, jewels, ornaments, trink
ets?
“Not at all. i’ride must be fostered
evon if times are hard; but I believe I
can see a way to ell'eet quite a saving
in another direction. Please stop my—”
“Tea, coffee, and needlegs and un
healthy luxuries?
“No, no, no; not these. I cannot
think of such a sacrifice. I must con
sider something else. Ah! I have it
now. My weekly paper costs me five
cents a week; I must save that. Please
stop my—paper; that will carry me ea
sily. I believe in retrenchment and
economy.”
How To Give Quinine To Children.
PRnR I MNKIh the trade-mark name (riven to an
improved Uuinine. It la a Taaieleaa Syrup, pleaa-
ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take it and never know It is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who caunot
take ordinary Quinine. Does not nnusente nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
it the next time you need Quinine (or any pur
pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The
name P£BRlI,lMg is blown in bottle. 25 cents.
To Have Home-Made Flour.
Macon Telegraph.
Reports have come from Sumter
county and other counties near here
that there will be much wheat planted
this year and that a flour mill will be
put up near Americus to convert wheat
into flour. This is good news. It means
that many farmers are going to raise
their own wheat supply. And it means
that the people who are fortunate
enough to get hold of some of this
home-made flour are going to have bet
ter and more wholesome bread than
they have been having.
There ought to be a flour mill in ev
ery county in Georgia and there ought
to be enough wheat raised on Georgia
farms to supply the people of the State
with all the flour they will use.
At the present time not less than two
million barrels of flour are sold in Geor
gia annually. Ninety per cent of it is
not even made in the Southern States.
It all comes from “way up yonder” and
the money that we pay for it goes to
keep company with the millions we
send to pay for meat, corn, hay, horses,
mules and other products that we oaght
to raise in Georgia.
Americus and Sumter county are to
be congratulated that they are to have
home-made flour next, year. It means
better bread for the people, more mon
ey kept at home, less acreage in cotton
and more profit from that crop next,
year.
We hope that Sumter's example will
be followed all over the State.
“Yer Cain’t Beat Georgia.”
Washington Cor. Now York Sun.
Representative Heflin, of Alabama,
was one of Oscar W. Underwood’s cam
paigners. On the last night of the fight
a Hobson supporter shouted at Heflin:
“Hoke Smith was two years on the
job and got a regional reserve bank for
Atlanta. Oscar with 20 years on the
job gets nothing for Birmingham. How
about it?”
"That’s the very question I wanted
you to ask,” roared Mr. Heflin in reply.
“Here are the facts: President WilBon
practiced law in Atlanta when ho was a
young man. Mrs. Wilson was a Geor
gia girl, lie courted her in Georgia.
He married her in Georgia. His chil
dren were born in Georgia. And now
one of them is engaged to bo married
to the Secretary of the Treasury, who
is chairman of the committee that fixed
those banks, and he was born in Geor
gia. Now, how in the devil can you beat
that combination?”
"Yer cain’t,” shouted the crowd.
Blazing the Way For Cash Sys
tem.
Worth County Local.
The current issue of the Moultrie Ob
server carries a prominent announce
ment to the effect thut after the first
of November that paper will be sent to
subscribers who have paid in advance.
We have been doing this since the
first of last October, and since that
time have beer, getting some real mon
ey subscriptions. Before that date we
gave pianos, sewing machines, suits of
furniture, etc., to encourage subreri-
bers to pay up, with the result that we
carried about two thousand subscribers
on our list, but the net amount of
money after paying for premiums was
very small.
We can put The Observer on notice
that its subscription list will he cut off.
but whai it will lack in numbers will
be made up in net cash sales. We
have found it gives satisfaction to all
those who homstly expect to pay any
way, and it has proven satisfactory to
thiH office eminently.
Tom was very careful of the truth;
punctilious, in fact. Bo when he got
married and the minister asked him,
“Well, Tom, I suppose you feel you
got the best wife in the world?” Tom
replied:
“1 think, sir, she is God’s handiwork,
but I shouldn’t say she is His master
piece.”
MUST BELIEVE IT
When Well-Known Newnan People
Tell It So Plainly.
When public indorsement is made
by a representative citizen of Newnan
the proof is positive. You must believe
it. Read this testimony. Every suf
ferer of kidney backache, every man,
woman or child with kidney trouble,
will do well to read the following:
Mrs. .). T. Holmes, 20 Fair St., New
nan, Ga., says: “My back ached ter
ribly and I was bothered by dizzy spells
and a kidney weakness. I was
treated at a mineral spring and tried
several kidney remedies, but I was not
helped until I procured Doan’s Kidney
Pills from the Lee Drug Co. They did
such good work that I advise other
kidney sufferers to try them. I have
not had need of a kidney remedy since
and I am glad to confirm my former
indorsement of Doun’s Kidney Pills.”
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don’t sim
ply ask fora kidney remedy—get Doan s
Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs.
Holmes had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.