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The Newnan News
Isaued Every Friday.
J. T. FAIN, Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATE. $1.00 PER YEAR.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COWETA COUNTY.
’Phone No. 20.
OFFICE UP STAIRS IN THE WILCOXON BLD 6
Newnan wants a Chautauqua
this year. l’leasc remember that
anrl help the cause along when
you are called upon to do so.
Again we recall the fact that, in
his Columbus speech, Clark prom
ised to meet Hoke in some more
joint debates. Where is Clark?
The people of Newnan are man
ifesting more interest in the Chau
tauqua this year than was evidenc
ed last year at this date. That
means that Newnan wants a Chau
tauqua this year.
Again we are assured by his de
luded followers that Uncle .leems
Smith, ol Oglethorpe, will take
the stump soon The next day al
ter the primary Uncle Jecms will
feel like taking to the woods.
The people of Lad range are
asking the three railroads that en
ter that city to erect a union pas
senger station. It is high time
the Atlanta and West Point and
Central railroads were getting
busy with the erection of that
union passenger station in New
nan.
Some of the Clark Howell news
lapers in South Georgia are get
ting red in the face and hot under
tneir collars trying to boost Col.
Hstill for the governorship, but
their efforts are vain. The Moke
Smith voters in South Georgia
can't be cajoled into supporting
the genial Colonel this time.
most before the telegraph instru- his trade, and the "sleeping sick-
ments had clicked the first bul- ness” becomes fatal,
letins of the disaster the people The young man who is starting
began organizing the work of re- out in life endeavors to see haw
lief, and before the full nature of much salary he can get with the
the calamity was known relief least amount of work and the least
‘train after relief train was being possible attention to his employ-
hurt icd across the continent with ers’ interests, until suddenly he
great cargoes of food and clothing discovers that his career has been
for lhe hungry and the homeless, brought to a termination. He is
The purse strings of the rich anrl left at liberty to indulge his
poor alike were unloosened, and "sleeping sickness" to his heart’s
from every quarter of the country content.
money and food were donated. No intelligent student of social
Confronted h> such generosity as anrl economic conditions has any
this the pessimist must stand sil- sympathy with that mad race for
ent, and he who constantly insists wealth and power which exhausts
that the world is growing worse, is every vital faculty and makes men
answered by a million generous old with overwork and worry be
ads. Our common humanity is fore they reach the noon of life,
more than a sentiment—it is a but there is a vast middle ground
fact. The stranger of yesterday between that and this "sleeping
is the neighbor of today, brought sickness” which is infinitely more
into close communion with ns by fatal In the meantime it is well
ties of commerce and of common to remember that
interests. Great calamities like
the one that fell upon San Fran
cisco—Chicago, Johnstown, Gal
veston—have their bright side, for
they show that the brotherhood of
••If is not rank nor wealth nor state,
Hut git-up-Aiid'Kit that makes men
Ktent.”
—The Atlanta Georgian.
man is nearer realization today “This, Too, Will Pass Away.”
than it was yesterday. America ___
is not too busy to mourn with the History tells us of an Eastern
stricken city by the Golden Gate, king who wore a ring in which
not too busy to give all that
necessary, or that money can buy,
to aid the unfortunates. And
with every contribution goes a
wealth of sympathy more precious
than money. San Francisco is in
a sad plight, but the rest of the
country is made better by her mis
fortune, for it provided another
opportunity for the exercise ot
good will and brotherly love that
knits men closer together and
makes the old world a better place
in which to live.—The Commoner.
The Sleeping Sickness.
The Macon Telegraph finds fault
with 1 loke Smith and his campaign
lor governor because he is Ire
quenlly referred to as "the peo
pie’s candidate." The Ielcgragh
strenuously objects to the people
taking a hand in the election of a
governor, l! Hoke Smith were
labeled “milroad candidate” or
"whiskey candidate he would he
hehl m high favor by the Tele-
graph.
Professor Robert Koch, the dis
tinguished German scientist, re
cently delivered a most interest
ing lecture on the “sleeping sick
ness,” which, he says, is killing off
the inhabitants on the west coast
of Africa by thousands every year.
He stated that certain localities
had been liteially depopulated by
this drowsy malady, caused, he
declared, by the bite or sting of a
lly which inhabits that part of the
world.
this talismanic sentence was en
graved: “This, too, will pass
away." Philosopher that he was,
he offered a reward for one who
would devise a maxim which would
equally apply to any circumstance
in which he found himself, and
such was the motto which a wise
man gave him.
Surely the sage who devised the
phrase fulfilled the injunction laid
upon him, and gave his master a
sentiment which would find a re
sponsive echo in the royal heart
whether the passing moment might
be grave or gay. Imagination
riots in the splendor which pre
vailed in oriental courts while vet
the world was young and gold and
silver and precious stones shone
m the rich profusion of the earth's
imperial prime.
It was a day when the fables of
Aladdin became maferialized and
rosy dreams assumed concrete
reality. The fields, the orchards
and the populous woods gave up
their choicest products to supply
the groaning boards around which
the satraps sat and drank the royal
health. A splendor unspeakable
The Macon 'Telegraph continues
to make a ridiculous spectacle of
itself by proclaiming that H ike
Smith and Tom Watson have
formed a combination to wreck
the Democratic party in this State.
The Telegraph does not believe
half of the rot and nonsense it tries
to force into the minds of Georgia
voters; and while it makes a great
show of neutrality in this cant
paign, the Telegraph is exhausting
itself in the effort to promote
Clark Howell’s candidacy for gov
ernor.
T he professor docs not suggest
any remedy except the burning of suffused the throne where king-
the underbrush, which is the ship by divine right maintained an
habitat of the fly. undisputed sway. Egyptian baya-
We have no desire to be flip- Acres and tawny dancing girls
pant on the subject, but, with all from further India mingled with
due respect to the distinguished the fairer faces from Cashmere
The Howell organs throughout
the northern and middle sections
of the State are now busily and
earnestly engaged in playing in
the Russell key. They seem to
have picked Dick as the strongest
“also-ran” in the field and are mak
ing a mighty effort to use him as
a catspaw for Howell. 1 hey are
putting him up to tight Hoke
Smith in middle and north Geor
gia, playing him up for joint de
bates with Smith, and are using
him as a general utility man and
shield tor their candidate. Dicky
looks small enough to men who
know him, but his antics in this
campaign are not calculated to
raise him in the estimation of the
people of Georgia.
scientist, it is nothing new that
men are dying by thousands every
year from the "sleeping sickness,”
.uni whole sections ot country are
going to the bow-wows from this
cause.
The fact is, that it is one of the
most generally prevalent maladies
in the world—this same sleeping
sickness. We fancy that the germ
or the worm or the tly that prop
agates it is nurtured in eiderdown
and ostermor quite as often as it
is bred in the underbrush of the
African forests. It is confined to
no particular land or clime, and it
is about as fatal in one country as
it is in another. Hurtling the un
dergrowth may be a good means
of preventing it, but "burning the
wind,” in the language of the
street, is a much more effective
way of accomplishing this end.
and all combined to make the royal
court the seat anil center of cos
mopolitan comeliness.
Subjected nations sent their
sturdiest youths to swell the re
sistless armies of the king and in
to his coffers poured "all gems in
sparkling showers.”
Around him he had gathered
everything that heart could pos
sibly desire, and yet in this opul
ence there were times when his
royal heart was troubled. The
vanity of human affairs, the evan
escence of material things were
tacts to which he could not shut
his eyes.
But in these momentary moods
of melancholy and despair, when
gnawing griefs made mockery of
his imperial state, and darkest
cloud "turned forth its silver lin
ing in the night” and over all, in
heaven and thp king ot kings, as
eastern fulsomeness defined his
title and estate, this ever-timely
phrase, adaptable to every chang
ing hour, shone like the warning
words which burned on Belshaz
zar's wall, "This, too, will pass
away.”
The truth which served that
ancient king, who long since
"passed away,” remains as vital at
the present hour as in that olden
time. The plustic wisdom which
applied to all the varying fortunes
of a potentate conforms as readily
to all the needs which mark our
humbler lives. The dark days
come when verily it seems that all
the Ishmael world has set its hand
against us and all our ways are
strewn with stones and thorns—
days with
"Fain of anguish, doubt, despair,
Fain of darkness everywhere,
And seeking light in vain.”
Hut through the enfolding gioom
and above the angry tumult of
“envy, malice and all uncharitable-
ness”—above the dismal mono-
tones of sinister fortune and un
toward fate, there comes, like a
voice upon the waters of Galilee,
the tranquilizing assurance that,
"This, too, will pass away”
Scenes and conditions change.
Heyonu the Alps we find a sun
nier Italy. The corn and wine of
plenty supplant the Sodom apples
that turned to ashes on our lips.
Our fortunes prosper and with
them grows our self-esteem. We
scorn the ladder by which we
climb—the bridge that carried us
over. Perhaps in our exultation
we pass with more or less averted
glance the old-tirne friends who
have not kept pace with the fever
ish progress of the world. The
claims of charity fall unheeded on
our ears and, like the plutocrat of
the parable, we build new barns.
The inebriation of success goes
alike to head and heart. vVe for
get the slave who rode on the
triumphal chariot of the Roman,
whispering the wholesome warn
ing, "Remember, Scipio, thou art
a man.”
Hut in such an hour the eastern
maxim comes to mind with chas
tening force and timeliness. Soft
though the accents be, it speaks in
thunder tones, teaching anew on
the one hand that "he who hunibl-
| eth himself shall be exalted" and
on the other that “pride goeth be
fore a fall and a haughty spirit be
fore destruction.”
We discover—let us hope in
ample time—that whatever may
be oiir environment, “That, too,
will pass away,”—The Georgian.
ROUS AND PARKS
WE SELL
Oxfords and Shoes
25c to 50c per pair
off at this sale : : :
One Thousand Pairs
Ladies’ Oxfords and Slippers go on sale SAT
URDAY, APRIL 14th.
$3.00
$2.50
We please the young and old
in style, quality and price.
$2.00
$3.50
Krippendorf, Dittmann, Colonial and High Art
Shoes are sold only by
POTTS 6 PARKS
Phone|109 Bay Street Newnan, Ga.
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Change in Library Hours.
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Our Common Humanity.
Only tor a moment did America
stand appalleflrUAt the great disas
ter that has DOTmen San Francisco.
Only a moment, and then it has
tened to extend aid to the stricken
city, and in the work America has
shown again the truth of the say
ing that “one touch of nature
makes the whole world kin.” Al-
The fact is, that this is getting scribed in characters of living
to be a very busy world. Science light, his inward eye could read,
and invention are devising so many "This, too, will pass away."
means by which competition is Gaunt famine and the visitations
stimulated that the tnan who of war and flood and flame might
wants to keep abreast of the times ravage his domains from boundary
has little leisure to indulge in the to farthest boundary .vague rumors
"sleeping sickness." He must of the secret dagger and the poi-
rise up in the morning with the soiled cup might haunt his nightly
milkman and the lark, gird his dreams and trouble his waking
loins with energy and health and hours, but in the tranquil moments
keep "everlastingly at it,” until when buoyancy recalled the motto
long after the sun goes down. For, of the sage, a voice ot angel com-
verily, the next best man is mighty fort whispered to his heart, “This,
close behind him. too, will pass away,"
The merchant who pursues old And when at last the lowering
and antiquated ideas is affected clouds were shot with shafts of
After May 1st, Library hours
will liv it to 1”, a. ill.; to <), p.in.;
Tuesday and Friday evenings, 7
to ft, p. in. 4
Mrs. I>. B. Woodrool’,Libr’n.
with this "sleeping sickness." He
languidly watches his competitors
going into the markets for the
latest novelties and then advertis-
light, and sunshine, like a benedic
tion, fell on all his realm; when
satraps bowed and servile subjects
laid oblations at hisfett and adula-
ing them in an attractive manner, tion filled his willing ear; when
until some fine day he wakes up everything conspired to make him
to the realization that he is losingi feel that he was indeed the son of
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