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Banish the “Blues!”
If you have that depressed feeling it’s more than likely that your
bl ood is out of order—impoverished or poisoned.
There is only one thing that will alter your present condition—
that’s to restore your stomach to normal health and strength. For
n weak or diseased stomach cannot make good blood. If your
digestion is had your food will not make the good blood which
nourishes body, brain, heart and nerve.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
Stimulates
is purified,
you fed fit and
helpH the stomach to do its work naturally and properly,
the liver. The system is freed from poison. The blood
Every organ is rejuvenated. Instead of the “Blues,
strong, equal to any task or up to any pleasure.
This great remedy hies proved its worth year after year for over
forty years. Let it prove its worth to you. Sold by medicine dealers
in tablet or liquid form or send 50c for trial box by mail.
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The Herald and Advertiser
NEW NAN, BIRD AY, DEC. 18.
THE F O O L
TIhtc wore two men who trod thp way
The weary way of Iif«-
Thf path that ia hrinmed in by wot*.
And clumorinifH and atrifa;
The way wan roujfh; th«» way wan Ionic:
Ami many foil bi'Nldn,
Hut one wont Mtraiichtly on hia courne,
And held hia head in pride.
“They full?" “Why nhnuld I atop
To raise them tti their feet?
I.M not the buttle to the ntrorur.
The rare unto thu fleet?
Each iciM'a according to hia Htrenicth;
Some lead, nnd some are led
The tcoal la yet afar, far of!".
And I moat proaa ahead."
The other pnuaed to comfort thorn;
Whore Borrow wan he left the rIow
Of Hturdy cheerfulneaa;
And, In! he came unto the ifoul
With him that forired ahead.
And there an arucel with a book
Alternate wrote and read.
“We wait for you," the angel aiiid,
“In thi« our purudiao,
You twain are entered in the book
One aa a fool; one wlae."
The flrat man anid: "To win the goal
Alone him been my rule.”
Theseeond: "I never thought
Of that; Fain a fool,”
Vet, aa they stood, there came a proaa
Of thoae they left behind
They gave the nccond all their praise
Ah gentle, brave and kind;
They bore him in with aong and about
The wine man. ntnndimr by.
Turned t*» the angel; “Write again,”
He Haiti, “the fool wiih I.”
The Tragedy of the Useless
Christmas Gift.
Dorothy Dix in Atlanta Oeorgiun.
This is the lime of year when every
body's thoughts are turning toward
Christmas presents, anil every woman
is sitting up with a pencil and a piece
of paper and u wild-looking eye, asking
herself: What shall I give Mary and
Jane and Tom and Bob and Aunt Ellen
and Undo Harry and all the balance of
my friends and family?
To this woman and her name is Mrs.
Legion 1 would like to make one sug
gestion, and it is this: Clive something
useful. Don't waste a penny on silly
trumpery this Christmas, but make
every present, supply a need that would
cIbc be an aching want to the person
to whom you make a ChristmaH present.
This year times are hard. Thousands
of people who are ordinarily well-to-do
are in want. Other thousands have had
their incomes reduced. There is hardly
a person, save the millionaires, who
is not having to economize more than
usunl, and under such circumstances to
spend money for foolishness ia nothing
short of a crime.
The silly, useless, meaningless Christ
mas present is never a welcome gift at
any time. Who wants a flve-dollar
hand-painted Christmas card with a lot
of doggeral poetry printed in one cor
ner of it? Who wants a ribbon-be
decked celluloid atrocity whose purpose
is a fathomless mystery? Who wants
any of the myriad little flimsy silver
and near-silver trifles that clutter up a
dressing table or sideboard? Who wants
the embroidered and tinseled and velvet
nnd plush nnd satin what-you-may-call-
'ems with which our friends endow us
at Christmns, nnd which serve no
earthly purpose except as dust nnd
germ catchers?
For myself, 1 am never so impressed
with the fact that Christmas is, indeed-
the season of peace on earth nnd good
will toward men as when 1 observe the
noble nnd forgiving spirit with which
people accept tile junk that is donntod
them at Christmas. Otherwise they
would rise up and smite the giver,
hip and thigh, for having bestowed
upon them trash that is an insult to
their common sense and an outrage to
their tastes.
The average bunch of Christmas
presents does not contain three things
that its recipient would not gladly
chuck into the garbage can if he or she
The hardest task that any of us ever
have to do is to look grateful and ap
preciative at Christmas and write the
proper note of thanks; and the reason
of this is that you would be more than
human if it didn’t make you mad to
contemplate this sinful waste of money
that your friends have fooled away on
things for which you have no use and
no place for, and to think how many
things that you needed and were dying
to have you could have bought with the
price.
We are really in the frame of mind
of a young man who once showed me a
couple of hundred of silly presents he
had received from girls, and who after
sadly inquiring of me what I supposed
most of the things were intended for,
remarked: "Gee! I’d trade the whole
lot off for one good pair of socks. ”
This sort of foolish and useless
Christmas buying is bad at any time,
b ut in this particular year of war and
woe it is absolutely inexcusable. So I
say to the woman who is making out
her Christmas list: Apply the Golden
Rule to your Christmas shopping. Buy
nothing that you do not know to be
useful and that you would not like to
have Homebody present to you.
So far as your women friends are
concerned, just remember that no wo
man was ever supplied with handker
chiefs, or silk stockings, or lingerie, or
towels, or table napery, or, for that
matter, table accessories.
Give young girls things to wear,
hats, or slippers, or gowns, as many
and as fine as your purse allows, but.
nothing from a l’aris frock to an arti
ficial flower over goes amiss that goes
to a girl.
Instead of giving a dinky lot of fool
ishness to each of the various members
of a household, lump your money and
make a gift to the fumily of some
needed piece of furniture that will be
a comfort to them for years to come.
Just remember what your friends need
and send that to them. Personally,
the most enjoyable Christmas present I
over got was a gorgeous lot of cooking
utensils. Don’t be afraid tosend boxes
of fancy groceries. That will always
bo an acceptable present as long as
there is an appetite left in the world.
And when you can’t think of any
thing especially appropriate to give to
an individual, just send a check. That
is always received with paeans of grat
itude, especially by children, who find
a double excitement in a Christmas
gift of money, because it gives them
the thrill of going shopping and buying
just what they want.
Wo are always hearing at Christmas
that it is more blessed to give than to
receive. The reason of that is because
we don't have to have around us the
junk we bestow on others. We can
make it both blessed to give and to re
ceive if we push along the useful
Christmas gift idea.
In taking revenge, a man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing it over,
he is superior.
Some men who claim to have all the
horse sense in the neighborhood fre
quently make asses of themselves.
Stop Buying Expensive
Cough Remedies
Make the Best at Home
Money spent for the old style, ready-
made cough syrups in bottles holding
only 12 to 24 ounces is very largely
wasted, because rno3t of them are com
posed principally of sugar and water.
Yet you have to pay the same price as
if it was all medicine. Stop wasting
, . , , , this money. You can make a better
had the courage to do it. \ et this lot of j rnedieine at home at one-lifth
silly rubbish has cost many dollars, good
money that would have bought dozens
of useful articles, needed articles, that
would have made the person to whom
they were given more comfortable, en
abled him or her to be better dressed,
nnd caused him or her to overflow with
perpeiuil gratitude toward the giver,
. and that's the tragedy of the Christ
mas gift.
Of course, there are a lot of people
who will say that it robs n Christmas
gift of its poetry and idealism to make
it prait'cal. Rats! The affection that
expresses itself in taking cognizance of
our needs and trying to supply them
appeals a lot more to us than does the l hold,
hifalutin sentimentality that manifests
the cost. Merely go to John R. Cates
Drug Co.’s and ask for 2 ounces (50c.
worth) of Schitfmann’s Concentrated
Expectorant. Mix- this with one pint
of granulated sugar and one-half pint
of boiling water, which makes a full
pint, (10 ounces). This new, simple,
pleasant remedy is guaranteed to re
lieve the worst cough or cold. Also
excellent for Bronchial Asthma, Bron
chitis, croup hoarseness and whooping
cough. One bottle will make enough
home-made cough medicine to probablv
last the whole family the entire winter.
Children line it, it is so pleasant to
take, and it positively contains no chlo
roform, opium, morphine or other nar
cotics, as do most cough mixtures. Keep
it on hand in case of emergency and
stop each cough before it gets a firm
The above druggist has been au
thorized to return the money in every
,, , .. , , , , single case where it does not give per-
ltself in useless beautiful and symbolic | satisfaction or is not found the
terms—that aends u». for example. $25,
wor:h of American Beauty roses when
best remedy ever used. Absolutely no
risk is run in buying this remedy un-
—- ■ — ,ran>.na a • regular preacnonoa.
How New System of Cotton Cul
ture Brings Increased Yields.
Photographs which show in detail
why the new system of cotton culture
recommended bv the United States
Department of Agriculture pro
duces earlier and increased crops are
contained in a new circular entitled
“Single-Stalk Cotton Culture.” Both
of these publications may lie had for
the asking by interested cotton-grow
ers. While Farmers' Bulletin No. 601
gives detailed explanation of the meth
od, the publication contains photographs
of plants in the field showing in detail
the development of the new system of
culture and the results secured in actu
al practice, in California, Texas and
Virginia. These demonstrate the meth
ods of procedure under the new system
of culture and its value to the farmer.
A concrete demonstration is given of
how single-stalk plants may be grown
close together in the rows and yet have
less crowding than with widely-spaced
large plants and numerous vegetative
branches. One illustration shows Egyp
tian cotton growing in California with
the vegetative branches almost entire
ly suppressed. Here the lower fruiting
branches have developed and have pro
duced an early crop. These plants are
shown only ahout one foot apart, but
Could have been left still closer togeth
er without injurious crowding. Duran
go cotton is shown growing in Texas
and Virginia. The photographs show
the complete suppression of vegetative
branches by the new method of thin
ning and the single-stalk plants stand
ing about 8 inches apart, with the re
sult that the rate of flowering shows
an advantage of 42 per cent, in favor of
the single-stalk rows over the open
spaced rows, while the average yield cf
the single-stalk rows is 58 per cent,
better.
The general result of the new system
is to secure an earlier production of
flowers and bolls. When the new and
old systems are compared by applying
them to alternate rows there are strik
ing differences of behavior. The ad
vantage is greatest, of course, under
extreme conditions where the season of
production is shortened by drought, ear
ly frost, or the ravages of the boll wee
vil. The rate of flowering of rows of
single-stalk plants, as shown by daily
counts early in the season, lias been
found to average far above that of the
intervening rows of larger, many-
stalked plants, the differences some
times amounting to from 40 to 60 per
cent. At the end of the season corres
pondingly increased yields are obtained
from the single-stalk rows, in some
cases over 50 per cent.
The new circular is issued now so
that it may be in the hands of all cot
ton-growers who may wish to read it
during the winter and be ready to put
the new system into practice next
spring. Write to the Department for
B. P. I. Circular 1130.
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 Kidney
Pills, and Foley’s Cathartic Tablets.
For sala in your town by all druggists.
The Mother in Sickness.
We think the most pathetic passage
in the bible ia the description of the
lad who went out to the harvest field of
Shunen and got sunstruck. Throwing
his hands to his temples he cried out,
“Oh, my head, my head!” and they
said, "Carry him to his mother.” And
then the record is: “He sat on her
knees until noon and then died.”
It is an awful thing to be ill away
from home in a strange hotel—once in
a while men coming to look at you
holding their hands over their mouths
for fear they will catch the contagion
How roughly they will turn you in bed!
How loudly they will talk! How you
long for the gentle ministries of home!
We knew one such who went away
from one of the brightest of homes for
several weeks’ business absence in
the West. A telegram came at mid
night that he was on his deathbed, far
away from home. By express train
the wife and daughter went westward,
but they went too late. He feared not
to die, but he was in an agony to live
until his family got there. He tried to
bribe the doctor to make him live until
his family got there. He said, “I am
willing to die, but not alone.” But the
pulse fluttered, the eyes closed and the
heart stopped. The express trains met
in the midnight —wife and daughter go
ing westward —lifeless remains of hus
band and father coming eastward. Oh,
it was a sad, pitiful spectacle.
When we are sick, we want to bfe
sick at home. When the time comes
for us to die, we want to die at home.
The room may be humble, and the faces
that look into ours may be very plain,
but who cares for that? Living hands
to bathe the temples. Loving voices to
speak good cheer. Loving lips to read
the comforting promises of Jesus.
Is love an asset or a liability?
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesofQUININE
and IRON. It acts on the I.iver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Catch Up With Yourself.
We are accustomed to the desire to
catch up with Mrs. Jones socially, or
Mr. Brown financially, or some one
else intellectually, but the idea of
catching up with one’s self is new to
most people.
And yet the fact that some people
never catch up with themselves is the
cause of their loss of self-respect, and
their loss of self-respect is an anti
dote to success, either in business or
socially. Lack of self-respect means
failure in life.
Most of us at more or less frequent
intervals make a heap of good resolu
tions, and most of us see those same
resolutions dwindle into nothing. Who
can say that our self-respect does not
dwindle with the resolutions. Perhaps
they aren't very large resolutions. That,
however, seems to have been all the
more reason fur making them quickly
and breaking them equally as fast.
Some of the self promises most fre
quently broken are those of answering
so many letters to-morrow or this
week, of practicing so many hours
on the piano, of doing a certain amount
of some kind of work. And the pity of
it is that we slip back, back, and still
further back, without once thinking of
catching up, of “making up arrears.”
If you are weak on self-promise3, if
you would regain self-respect, if you
would have success, have a certain
time each week for the making up of
arrears, and endeavor to do in those
hours some of the things you included
in self-promises during the week and
never did. A holiday which isn’t filled
with other engagements is just the kind
of a time for “arrears.” Do catch up
with yourself!
DECIDE YOURSELF
The Opportunity is Here, Backed by
Testimony.
Don’t take our word for it,
Don’t depend on a stranger's state
ment.
Read Newnan indorsements.
Read the statement of Newnan citi
zens.
And decide for yourself.
Here is one case of it:
W. T. Lazenby, 64 Wesley St., New
nan, Ga., says: “The secretions from
my kidneys passed too frequently and
I suffered from my back. I tried many
remedies, but they all failed to help
me until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills
from the Le° Drug Co. One box of
this remedy relieved me. My opinion
of Doan’s Kidney Pills is just as high
to-day as it was some years ago, when
1 indorsed them. I have not been both
ered by kidney complaint since.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Lazenby had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Alike in the world of nature and the
realm of human conduct, the things
called little count for more in the sum
of good or evil than the things acknowl
edged as great. Statistics would prob
ably show that the ravages of the gyp
sy moth and other parasites that feed
on the products of garden, field and for
est, exceed the ruin wrought by cy
clones and earthquakes. We are more
likely to be killed by microbes than de
voured by lions. The soldier may be in
greater danger from the neglect of san
itary precautions than from bullets of
the enemy. Some people are terrified
at the approach of a thunderstorm, and
do not breathe freely until the danger
is past. Others would rather forego
the pleasure of foreign travel than
brave the perils of an ocean voyage.
Yet poor ventilation numbers more vic
tims than the lightning, and insufficient
drainage than the tempests that strew
the shore with wrecks.—Universalist
Leader.
“Brown, do you know the lady across
the street?” asked Smith.
“Let me see,” replied Brown, “she
certainly looks familiar. That’s my
wife’s dress, my daughter’s hat, my
mother-in-law’s parasol. Why, yes’
That’s our cook.”
One is not apt to be married to his
task unless he is love with it.
A DEEP
SEATED GOUGH
And Sore Lungs Were Over
come by Vinol—Mr.
man’s Statement of Facts
Follows:
Camden, N. J.—“ I had a deep seated
cough, a run-down system and my lungs
were awfully weak and sore. I am an
electrician by occupation and my cough
kept me awake nights so I thought at
times I would have to give up. I tried
everything everybody suggested and
had taken so much medicine I was dis
gusted.
“ One evening I read about Vinol and
decided to give it a trial. Soon I noticed
an improvement. I kept on taking it
and today I am a well man. The sore
ness is all gone from my lungs, I do no
have any cough and have gained fifi.-er
pounds in weight and I am telling i
friends that Vinol did it.” —Fi: 1
Hillman, Camden, N. J.
It is the curative, tissue-building ’
fluence of cods’ livers aided by the bfo<
making, strength creating properties
tonic iron, contained in Vinol, that ma
it so successful in Mr. Hillman’s cas
We ask every person in this vicinit
suffering from weak lungs, chroni
coughs, or a run-down condition of tht
system to try a bottle of Vinol on our
guarantee to return your monev if
fails to help you.
Cole’s 3-row Oat and Wheat Dril
_ mwM ..
It la com- f be granted. Thi* D«c,
Does the work of three men and three horses. Plants oats,
wheat, rye, barley, peas, peanuts, sorghum or any small grain.
We have only a small number of these machines left. Farmers
are buying them this season. ’Phone your order in at once.
JOHNSON HARDWARE CO.
TELEPHONE 81, NEWNAN, GA.
n
Our New
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.
S
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The above picture represents a PROSPERITY
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COLLAR MOULDER.
When finished on this
rough edges, and they
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