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The Herald and Advertiser
NEWNAN. FRIDAY, DEC. 41
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Texas Business Man Says It’s
Time to Start Cotton Moving.
W. L. Sanford, vice-president of the
Roberts, Sanford <fe Taylor Company, of
Sherman, Texas, writes as follows of
the importance of starting the cotton
crop to market:
‘‘It is said that a farmer cannot
raise cotton at less than 10 cents per
pound, yet a great many thousand far
mers got rich, or at least indepen
dent, raising it at 7 cents per pound,
and that was when everything else
that he raised was sold at a very much
lower figure than ia ruling to-day, and
everything that he bought cost a great
deal more than to-day. Besides this, he
didn't get $7 per bale for seed, as he
gets to-day.
“We give you the following compari
sons:
“lie buys a hoe at .70 cents that used
to cost 75.
"Hejbuys a file at 15 cents that used
to cost 35.
“HeJbuyb n singletree at 35 cents
that used to cost 60.
“He buys a sweep at 8 cents that
used to cost 15 cents per pound.
“He buys a plier at 75 cents that
used to cost $2.
“He buys nails at 4 cents that used
to cost 10 cents per pound.
“He buys wire at 3J cents that used
to cost 10 cents per pound.
“He buys hames at 50 cents that
used to cost 75.
“He buys truces at 45 cents that
used to|cost 75.
"He buys plows and other imple
ments at'25 per cent, less than he used
to pay.
“He pays 50 cents for picking whcr i
he used to payi$l.
"He burrowsjmoney at 8 per cent, to
1(1 per cent.Jwhere he UBed to pay 12
per cent, and 15 per cent.
“He sella wheat at $1 that used to
sell at SO cents.
“He sells oats at 50 cents that used
to bring 18 contB.
“He sells corn at 75 cents that used
to bring 15 cents.
“He sells huy at $14 that used to bring
$4.
“Hejaells turkeys at $2.25 and some
times $4 thut used to bring (iO to 75
cents.
■‘Hejsells a horse at $150 to $225 that
used to sell from $60 to $100.
“When he was [confronted with the
above conditions he bought land on
time, cleared it, fenced it, raising cot
ton at 7 centsj'per pound. But, if in
deed he is tnuking less profit thiR year
than formerly,JtheJ same condition is
true with you, and with us, and with
the business world at large. He ought
to be a good sport. He ought to take his
loss*# just as'.i manfully and ns grace
fully as the rest of us are doing.
" While the ubove figures are not ab
solutely correct, nevertheless they are
accurate enough to demonstrate that
the farmer is getting the best of the
situation and is enjoying life while the
balance of us arejsweating blood. The
retail merchant owes it to himself, to
the jobber and to his;, bank to insist on
the furmersjselling; at least a part of
their cotton. A man has an unques
tioned right to speculate on his own
money, but he has no right to specu
late on the other fellow’s money. The
farmer has a right to hold his cotton
till doomsday if he does not owe any
thing: but he has no right whatever to
hold his cotton ‘to the financial em
barrassment of the supply merchant
who since spring ;has fed and clothed
his wife and children and furnished him
with the means with which to make
that cotton. It isjhnrd on the farmer
to be disappointed about the price which
he thought he was going to get, but it
is a whole lot harder on the supply mer-
ch int to go broke because the farmer
won’t sell i his cotton and pay his
honest debts. The conditions are not
half as hard on him as on the retail and
wholesale merchants, who are losing
hundreds and thousands of dollars be
cause the farmer, by holding his cotton,
has stopped the entire machinery of
business. Nor is it quite as hard on
him as on the thousands of hungry men
and women which] his bad business
judgment land rebellion at fate has
thrown out of employment and. in
the charity of the
Conversion and Prohibition.
SavAnnnh Prcita.
The conversion of ex-Gov. Malcolm
R. Patterson, of Tennessee, to a belief
in prohibition through his conversion to
a belief in Christ is a potent influence
on the side of temperance and temper
ance workers. Ex-Gov. Patterson dur
ing his political activities was a strong
foe to prohibition. He fought it with
great force and ability, but he fell into
the snares of alcoholism later, and in
turning to the religion of Jesus Christ
he became a most ardent and jmpas-
sioned worker for the cause of temper
ance. He announces himself now as fa
voring prohibition “in any form that
will either reduce or destroy the liquor
traffic.”
"I favor it personal-wide, town-wide,
State-wide, nation-wide and world
wide,” he says. While no one can
withhold from ex-Gov. Patterson
great admiration for his courage in
taking a stand so diametrically opposed
to his former teachings, we may yet
question both the effectiveness and wis
dom of such an extreme position.
Probably ex-Gov. Patterson himself
realizes that no conversion is of any ac
count which is not sincere. Who can
doubt that this enthusiastic follower of
Christ realizes that so far as any use
or good could ever reach him, it had
necessarily to come from an incentive
from the soul’s self? Temperance can
no more be imposed upon a citizen by
law than can Christianity be attained
through formal obedience to imposed
forms.
Nation-wide prohibition is a dream of
the temperance workers which comes
in conflict with a great human truth.
“Personal-wide” is one proposition,
but “nation-wide” is another. The
personal-wide prohibition is self-im
posed. So, in a measure, is town-wide
and State-wide prohibition, but when
the nation undertakes to impose absti
nence upon communities and States it
at once violates the principles of con
version. The people must choose for
themselves about such things. They
can no more be changed into sober and
temperate people by national mandates
than a man can be converted to a relig
ion without making his own choice.
Best for Kidneys—Says Doctor.
Dr. J. T. R. Neal, Greenville, S. C.,
suys that in his 30 years of experience
he has found no preparation for the kid
neys equal to Foley’s Kidney Pills. In
50c. and $1 sizes. Best you can buy for
backache, rheumatism, kidney and blad
der ailments. For sale by all dealers.
How to Use Lime.
Progressive Farmer.
The inquiries which come to The Pro
gressive Farmer indicate that many of
our readers do not understand the rea
sons why lime is applied to the soil and
the part it playH in crop production.
For instance, the two following are
typical of a large number of inquiries
received:
“If 1 apply 600 or 700 pounds of lime
on wheat and oats, and no fertilizer,
may I expect the same results as if
fertilizer had been used?”
“Which is the best for oats, ground
phosphate rock or ground limestone?”
It is not quite correct to state that
lime is not a fertilizer, for on some
soils, nnd especially for some crops,
lime may be needed as a plant food, or
fertilizer. It is, however, quite safe to
state that ground limestone will not
take the place of ground phosphate
rock, or other carrier of phosphorus, if
the soil needs phosphorus. In short,
lime will not take the place of the
plant foods, nitrogen, phosphorus and
pottassium generally found in fertiliz
ers, although lime may aid in making
these plant foods already in the soil
more readily and more largely availa
ble for feeding the crops. To the ex
tent that lime increases the amounts of
these plant foods available for feeding
the crop, it may be said to take the
place of fertilizers, so far as present
needs are concerned; but because of
this fact, lime may be a means of de
creasing the supply rf plant foods left
in the soil; in other words, lime
properly used may be a means for
creasing rather than increasing
fertility of the soil.
Lime has many good effects on
soil, but its most important function is
probably for making sour soils “sweet’
or suitable places for bacteria to live
and thrive. The use of lime is, there
fore, generally most profitable in con
nection with the growing of legumes,
although it may also pay in connection
with other crops.
But lime should not be used instead
of nitrogen a^d phosphorus-bearing
fertilizers, but rather in addition to
them.
im
de-
the
the
many cases,
world.”
For the maintenance of the Govern
ment, Congress has appropriated $31,-
000,000 more than was appropriated
last year. Of the increase, $7,000,000
goes to the postal] service. Therefore,
nearly seven-eights of the charge of
Democratic extravagance is contained
in this postal increase. Aside from the
Urge yearly growth of general postal
business, which always involves an in
crease in cost of operation, the postal
service now includes the parcel post,
which now entails the handling of 250,-
000,000 parcels during the current fiscal
year.
Whenever You Need n General Tonic
Tuke Grove's
The Old Stnndnrd Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesofQL'IMNE
and IRON. It acts on the I.iver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.
John Galsworth’s Great Word Pic
ture of “The Glories of War.’’
“The glories of war!”
Courage, devotion, endurance, con
tempt of death! These are glories that
the unmartial may not deride. Verily,
even the humblest of brave soldiers is
a hero, for all that his heroism coins
the misery of others; but what does the
soldier know, see, feel, of the real
"glories of war?” That knowledge is
confined to readers of newspapers and
books. The pressman, the romancer,
the historian can with glowing pen call
up in the reader a feeling that war is
glorious; that there is something in it
self desirable and to be admired in that
licensed murder, arson, robbery we call
war. Glorious war! Every penny thrill
of each reader of the newspaper, every
spasm of each one who sees armed men
passing or hears the fifes and drums, is
manufactured out of blood and groans,
wrung out of the torments of the hu
man heart and the torture of human
llesh.
When I read in the paper of some
glorious charge and the great slaughter
of the enemy, 1 feel a thrill through
every fibre. It is grand, it is splendid!
1 take a deep breath of joy, almost of
rapture. Grand, splendid! That there
should be lying, with their faces hag
gard to the stars, hundreds, thousands
of men like myself, better men than
myself! Hundreds, thousands, who
loved life as much as I, felt -pain as
much as I; whose women loved them
as much as mine love me! Grand, splen
did! 1 hat the blood should be oozing
from them into grass that once smelled
as sweet to them as it does to me!
Tout their eyes, which delighted in sun
light and beauty as much as mine,
should be glazing fast with death;
their mouths, that mothers and wives
and children are aching to kiss again,
Bhould be twisted into gaps of horror!
Grand, splendid! That other men, no
more savage than myself, should have
strown them there! Grand, splendid!
That in thousands of far-off houses wo
men, children, and old men will soon lie
quivering with anguished memories of
those lying there dead.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy—The
Mother’s Favorite.
“1 give Chamberlain’s Cough Rem
edy to my children when they have
colds or cough,” writes Mrs. Verne
Shaffer, Vandergrift, Fa. “It always
helps them and is far superior to any
other cough medicine I have used, i
advise anyone in need of such a medi
cine to give it a trial.” For sale by
all dealers.
Mrs. McClain's Experience With
Croup.
“When my boy, Ray, was small he
| was subject to croup, and 1 was al
ways alarmed at such times. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy proved far better
than any other for this trouble, it al
ways relieved him quickly. 1 am ntver
without it m the house, for 1 know ii is
a positive cure for croup," uriles Mrs.
W. R. McClain, Biairsville, Pa. For
sale by all dealers.
If we know a man to be a knave w«
can defend ourselves in dealing with
him, but a fool is not so easily under
stood.
Many an ill-natured wife has devel
oped into a good-natured widow.
Cares Old Sores, Ollier Beneaies Won’t Curl
l hr *-crst canes, no matter of how Ions standing,
art- cured by the wonderful, old reliable Hr.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves
4'am and Heals at the same tune. 25c, 50c. |L0o.
Southern Women Poor Linguists.
The difficulties experienced by the
Americans abroad who were caught
there by the war, were largely in
creased by their inability to speak
foreign languages. For instance, in
France no one can telephone or cable
telegraph except in French, and it was
very embarrassing for Americans who
do not speak French. In Germany no
one could mail a letter except written
in German, which probably cut short a
great deal of correspondence.
As a matter of fact, there are no
women in the world that are such poor
linguists as Americans, and especially
Southerners.
All educated English girls are taught
French and generally one or two other
languages as well. Almost every well
educated Northern girl or woman at
least speaks French fluently, but the
average Southern girl has only the very
light acquaintance she gets at school
with the language, and could not gen
erally hold a very animated conversa
tion, as about all she knows is to ask:
“Have you seen the boots of the shoe
maker’s sister?” or words to that effect.
It is hard to understand why Southern
women only are so lacking in this re
spect. for no woman should eonsid r
herself well educated who can only
speak English.
Most well-bred foreigners speak four
and five languages, and they must think
the Americans are terribly provincial
when they can only speak in one lan
guage—their own. A knowledge of
French is necessary even to understand
the books one reads, the pictures one
sees, for French phrases come all the
time in art and literature, and to hear a
girl who has graduated from college
stumble over some simple French
phrase and speak with the hopeless
American accent that most schoolgirls,
who are taught by Americans, acquire
—is indeed not calculated to give a
hearer a high opinion of the culture of
the Southern women.
Checks Croup Instantly.
You know croup is dangerous And
you ought to know, too, the sense of
security that comes from having Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound in the house.
It cuts the thick mucus and clears away
the phlegm, stops the strangling cough
and gives easy breathing and quiet
sleep. Every user is a friend. Sold by
all dealers.
eggs
“How will you have your
cooked?” asked ihe waiter.
“Make any difference in the cost of
'em'.”' inquired the cautious customer
with the brimless hat and the ragged
beard.
"No. ’’
‘Then cook them on the top of a
slice of ham,” said the customer,
greatly relieved.
in 6 to 14 Days
refund money if PAZO
Piles C jred
Your druggist will ^
OINTMENT fails to cure any case oi Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days.
The hrst apphcaiiuu gives Ea*c and Rest. 50c.
The Cotton Problem is a Lesson
to the South.
The sad predictment in which the
South finds itself in consequence of the
stagnation in the cotton market should
teach this section of the country a
Bound, if costly, lesson—namely, the
value of diversification of crops. The
South is largely a one-crop country.
Cotton is the universal product. When
it yields well and the market is good,
the planters reap a rich reward. But
frost and drouth often come in to vex
them, and, as in this year, some cir
cumstance over which the South has
no control knocks the bottom out of the
cotton market, with the result that the
whole cotton belt is prostrated.
Diversification of crops is the one
remedy for the disease from which the
South is suffering. The land is gener
ally fertile, the seasons are long, and
there is absolutely no good reason why
it should not resort to stock-raising, to
fruit and truck farming, and to the pro
duction of corn, alfalfa, oats, and the
like. By doing so the South will save
itself from the terrific setback to its
prosperity and development such as it
is experiencing this year.
The Northwest had to learn its les
son in similar fashion. Instead of cot
ton, wheat was the staple product of
that section. But drouth and frost and
falling markets taught the people the
foolishness of putting all their eggs in
one basket, and we witness now a wide
movement in the Northwest to diversi
fy crops, to the immense benefit of the
farmers and their land.
This—And Five Cents !
Don’t Miss This. Cut out this slip,
enclose five cents to Foley & Co., Chi
cago, Ill., writing your name and ad
dress clearly. You will receive in re
turn a free trial package containing
Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, for
coughs, colds and croup, Foley’s ICidmy
Pills, and Foley's Cathartic Tablets.
For sale in your town by all druggists.
A Rash Conclusion.
‘Then I am to understand that this
is your final answer, Miss Stubbles?”
“My final answer. ”
“Nothing can move you?"
“Nothing.”
“Then my life wifi be a lonely one
and my fate a harsh one, for my uncle
with whom I lived has just died and
left me—”
“That fact somewhat alters the case,
Henry. I cannot be harsh to one who
has sustained such recent bereavement.
If I could believe that you are sin
cere—’’
“Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!”
“You have certainly made an im
pression on my heart. Give me time
to think of it.”
“How long?”
“After all, why think of it, Henry?
I am yours.”
“Oh, Genevieve!”
”Do not squeeze me so hard, Henry.
Your poor uncle! Was he long ill?”
“Three days.”
“It is too bad. You say he left
you-’’
“Yes; he has left me.”
“How much?”
"How much? I said he had left me.
He had nothing else to leave. I am
alone in the penniless world, but with
you by my side—why, she’s fainted!”
The world's greatest financier is the
farmer’s wife. She is one of those
every-day heroines. Her daily invest
ments exceed in shrewdness the
clever transactions of Wall Street, and
no business concern or corporation,
however ably officered, has approached
her in economy. She is the nation’s
ablest trader, and her transactions
more nearly reflect the progress and
prosperity of the country than the re
ports of clearing-houses.
Some men court, then marry, then go
to court again.
Reduction of Fords
Buyers to Share in Profits
Lower prices on Ford cars effective from Aug. I,
1914, to Aug. 1, 1915, and guaranteed against any
reduction during that time:
Touring’Car .§490
Runabout 440
Town Car 690
F. O. B. Detroit, all ears fully equipped.
(In the United States of America only.)
Further, we will be able to obtain the maximum efficiency in
our factory production, and the minimum cost in our pur
chasing and sales departments if we can reach an output of
300,000 cars between the above dates.
And should we reach this production, we agree to pay as the
buyer’s share front $40 to $60 per car (on or about Aug. l,
1915, ) to every retail buyer who purchases a new Ford car
between Aug. 1, 1914, and Aug. 1, 1915.
For further particulars regarding-these low prices and profit-
sharing plan, see the
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Insurance—All Branches
Fire Association, of Philadelphia
Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New Yorh
American Surety Co., of New Yorh
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
of Newark, N. J.
14 1-2 Greenville st., Ouer H. C. Glover Co.
Fpolishes^
BUGGIES! BUGGIES! *
A full line of the best makes. Best value foi
the money. Light running, and built to stand
the wear. At Jack Powell’s old stand.
J. T. CARPENTER
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
All creditors of the estate of Peter B. Murphey,
late of Coweta county. Ga., deceased, are hereby
notified to render in their demands to the under
signed according to law; and all persona inuebted
to said estate are required to make immediate
payment. Present claims and make payment to
H. H North, Newnan. Ga. This Nov. 6, 1914. Pra.
fee. $3.75. PAULINE B. MURPHEY.
W. J. MURPHEY.
H. H. NORTH.
Executors.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Notice is hereby given to all creditors of the es
tate of Mrs. Frances Mv Doran, late of said coun
ty. deceased, to render in an occount of their de
mands to me within the time prescribed by law.
properly made out: and all persons indebted to
said decea.-ed are hereby requested to make imm-
diate payment to the undersigned. This Nov. 2,
1914. Prs. fee, S3 75.
MRS. MARY LANDERS.
Administratrix of Frances M. Doran, dec’d.
(Posiotlice R. F. D. 1. McCollum. Ga.)
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA—Coweta County:
Notice is hereby given to all creditors of the es
tate of Dr. J. W. Hogg, late of said county,
deceased. to render in an account of their demands
to the undersigned within the time prescribed by
law. properly made out; and all persons indebted
to said estate are hereby requested to make imme
diate payment. This Oct. 23.1914. Prs. fee. $3.75.
MRS. MAGGIE P. HOGG. Administratrix.
Laundry*Lists for sale heie.