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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. Send 31 on.• -rent stamp. to pny ceil of m.tlinK only on '■ free cope of Dr. Plorce'fl Com mon Sense Medical Adviner, 1008 pom,-*, clollilxiiinri. Addreie Dr. V.3ft. Picrco, Buff ala. 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 T The above picture represents a PROSPERITY vhich uses an entirely new principle in collar-finishing, machine those popular turn-down collars can have no COLLAR MOULDER. When finished on this rough edges, and they also have extra tie space.BLThe collars last much longer, too. Let us Bhow you. & co -■ h^wUhLEW_NAN__.STE.AM- LAUNDRY.