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1 7 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. . 1 ttIt.Hr*!/*tr!ytVrWlifUeWrtirMfIV *. *1 » Change in Library Hours. f»i i;s 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 Lemons as Medicine Their Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stomach, Bowels, Sidneys and Blood. 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