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■ . „ .— . —— . TO SUBSCRIBERS. 'The News receives complaints each week from subscribers who fail to get this paper. Some of the complaints come from citizens of Newnan and others come trom elsewhere. Sometimes a subscrib er seems to think his name has been dropped from our subscrip tion l ; sts, or that the paper is not mailed to him regularly. This is not the case. The News’ list of subscribers is in type in this of fice and the system of mailing used makes it next to impossible tr; omit mailing the paper to every name on the lists each week. subscribers who fail to get The News regularly should inquire of their carrier or postmaster and en deavor to locate the trouble. The publisher of this paper wants every subscriber to get The News regularly and promptly; and we believe the postmasters and car riers desire to handle The News with accuracy and dispatch; so if you fail to get The News, mention the matter to carrier or postmas ter and an effort will be made to locate the cause. 28 Enforce the Vagrant Law. their sinister activities. The gin and maintaining the plant on one mills are not a cause; they are a hand and the selling price of the consequence. Eliminate their cli\ finished products on the other that enteles, and they will perish nat urally." The advice is good and timely. It is of the utmost importance now and at all times. It cannot be too forcibly emphasized, too frequently repeated or too prompt ly adopted by our municipil ad ministration.—Macon Telegraph. In Memory of Little Merrell. Agnes "It seems odd that, among all the remedies proposed in connec tion with the recent riots in At lanta, one finds next to nothing about the virtue and efficiency of a well-conceived and rigidly-enforced vagrant act," says the Washington Post in volunteering its "Advice to Georgia.’’ Evidently the Post has not read its copies of the Tel egraph as closely as it might have done. The Post continues as fol lows: "It is admitted on all hands that the criminal classes are composed largely of idle and vicious persons who have no legitimate occupation and who, therefore, subsist direct ly or indirectly by theft. A per fectly logical concomitant of this condition is the low rum shop with its companion school of degrada tion. Thus persistent idleness is furnished with congenial haunts and the criminal tendency is nour ished to fruition. “These phenomena are not pe culiar to the negro or to the South. The same causes produce exactly similar effects in white men and they operate as certainly in New England as in Georgia. It ap pears, however, that these condi tions are not permitted to flourish as rankly everywhere as in Atlanta, and since certain other communi ties have succeeded in reducing to a minimum the material and the stimulus of crime, there is reason to believe that Atlanta could, by resorting to like methods, achieve equally desirable consummations. Our Georgia friends, however, must not imagine that the remedy will be complete when the dives and gin mills and assorted 4 eac I- falls shall have been closed. They are calling loudly for this already, and seem to think that an ordi nance to such effect will put an end to all their woes. But we ad vise them to harbor no false hopes in this connection. It is not enough to nail up the front doors of the doggeries. It is necessary to dissipate their constituencies. So long as communities give asy lums to incurable loafers, so long will the latter find away to gratify their vicious appetites. To harbor these law-breakers is to put them in the path of crime. The only way to mitigate the affliction is to disperse its agencies. "What the South wants is no sectional ointment or prophylactic. The South needs what all the oth er sections need—protectiin against the lawless, the idle, the vicious, the criminal,whether black or white. Society has a right to defend itself. Society is under no obligation to furnish shelter, en tertainment and opportunity to its enemies. Enact vagrant laws—• without reference to race, color, or previous condition—make the vagrants move on or set them to hard work in the public service. There are roads to build. Make these parasites useful. At all events root them out of the neighborhood and put an end to Whereas, God in His providence, has taken away one of our little pupils, who had but recently be come a member of this, the First Baptist Sunday School; therefore, Resolved: That while we greatly miss this dear little girl, we bow in submission to Him'who is too wise to moke mistakes and too good to willingly hurt us—knowing that she has gone to live in that blessed home in the "Palace of God.” We are thankful for her pure little life, for we will always cherish the memory of her bright face and sweet manners. Her example of cheerful obedience is one we may well follow, for she seemed ever ready to receive instruction from her teacher. Though it makes our hearts ache to give up these, our little ones, yet when the dear Lord takes them away early in life they are saved from so much pain and temptation. "Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade. Death came with kindly care; The opening bud to Heaven convoyed, And bade it blossom there.” Resolved: That we extend to this father and mother our most heartfelt sympathy and commend them to Him who feels deeply for them and will bind'up their broken hearts. Resolved: That a copy of these proceedings be spread on the min utes of the Sunday School and a copy be given to the family of our little sister. IIeR Sunday School Teacher and Class. the manufacturer draws his profit If oil, meal and hulls are high in price it follows that seed should also be high and when the opposite is true in one case it should, ac cording to the regular laws of trade, be true in the other. Hulls and meal especially have been high dur ing the present year. The price of seed was kept down during the flush of last season, but as the sup ply diminished the price went up. To the outside observer it seems that this advance was used simply as a cloak of an excuse under which the price of hulls and meal was forced up just at the time the farmer was to buy his fertilizer and the feeder was in most urgent need of more food materials. The farm er had to pay fancy prices for his fertilizer to feed this year’s crop. It is bat right that he demand a good price right now for his seed from which his high priced ferti lizer will be made next spring. It is the prjee for which seed will be quoted next March whether any are sold then or not that will fix the price of your next year’s fer tilizer. Taking everything into consideration seed are worth more than thirteen dollars per ton, and the farmers should set. a minimum price on seed and refuse outright to sell a seed until the minimum is covered. What this minimum should be is as yet an opeo ques tion. However, for the time be ing. it seems that sixteen dollars per ton is small enough price for seed, I therefore urge that as the low water mark in the price of this year’s cotton seed crop. The farmers can control this phase of the business if they de sire.—The Cotton Journal. Policeman Gets $50 Reward. A Word About the Negro Problem. The recent riots in Atlanta cul minated in an exodus of negroes out of the city. Whether it will prove a lawless element in country districts or a better class leaving for safety, is the question. The farmers find difficulty in se curing labor to harvest their crops, and the servant problem confronts the entire country. It should be the duty of the Stammer to Yournelf. To the ninny correspondents who have written Inquiries and suggestions as to a cure for stammering we may state that tills Is not a medical bu reau. This writer gave Ills own meth od of curing Ills own particular nerv ous disorder, whleli Is probably shared by nuiuy of his fellow meu. Let It be repented In answer to many who seem to have seeu the problem and missed the solution. Consume your own smoke, if you must stammer, try to stammer to yourself. When you have tut-tutted and gur-gurreil suffi ciently to yourself, you will lie ready with the word. It Is quite astonishing how soon the Inaudible stammer be comes unnecessary and the word Is whipped out! Hut there arc some men who bug a stammer—stammering nl- wu.vs in the right place—lifting curi osity to tiptoe in the listener. Charles Lamb stammered, but always In the right place, as when lie went to buy cheese (the story may be quite untrue). The shopman offered to send It home. Lamb Inspected It. Then lie asked for a bit of string. “I think." bo said, “I could l-l l-l-ond It home." — London Spectator. Not n Clothes !•«•*. I’eggle Newton had been a faithful household drudge for years, ntul had not grumbled much when her wages were occasionally passed ovor. But ns time went on, and her salary fell more nnd more Into nrreur, she ventured to nsk for something "on account." ' “Why, haven't I paid you your wnges lately, Peg? How cnreless of mo,” her mlBtress said. "Pm sorry I have no money In the house Just now, but here’B a smart eloak tlint I’ve erased to wear, nnd which Is only n woo bit out of fashion. You'll tnko It In Hern of wnges. won’t you?" "No, itm'nm, I’m sure 1 shan't," said Teg, wrntlifully eying the faded old cloak. "A peg I may be by name, but I won't be the sort of peg that people hnng castoff clothes on—not If I know It."—London Answers. Oltl tVhint Terms. The following passage Is from the Adventurer, No. :)!>, March (1, 175.'!: "On Sunday last a terrible lire broke out at Lady Brag's, occasioned by the following accident: Mrs. Overall, the housekeeper, having lost three rubbers at whist running without bolding a swabber (notwithstanding she lmd changed chairs, furzeil the curds and or dered Jenuny, the footboy, to Hit cross legged for good luck), grew out of ull patience nnd, taking up the devil's books, ns she called them, thing them Into the fire, and tlm llumes spread to the steward’s room." Swnbbcrs are the aeo of hearts, tho knave of clubs and the ace and the deuce of trumps at whist. To furz or fuzz Is to sbutllo the cards very care fully or to change the pack.—London Notes nnd Queries. LEGAL BLANKS Of all kinds are on sale at The News office. The stock includes snch blanks as are used by attorneys, justices of the peace and con stables, as well as all blanks in daily use by business men. All forms are those in gen eral use in Coweta and adjoining counties. All blanks are printed on first-class paper, and, from a typographical standpoint, they are not sur passed by the blanks furnished by any printer in the State. The News will be pleased to receive or ders for legal blanks and all orders will be promptly filled. Mail orders will receive prompt attention. This office is always pre pared to make special blanks to order on short notice. We Guarantee ’Em! Winter time will hooii hqhere with its rain am} slcot, ami traveling in an open buggy- will'her. very disagreeable. Why not call on us ami get a comfortable, light-running top buggy? : MADE IN NEWNAN We put on rubber .tires. MERCK & DENT Buggy Builders. Policeman C. S. Fincannon went down to Milledgeville last Friday to deliver J. L. Britt to the au thorities at the State Prison Farm. Britt is a one-armed white man and was a "trusty” at the farm, He had served four years and ele ven months of a fWe year sentence when, for some unaccountable rea son, he decided to escape. He se cured keys, released four other prisoners, and the five made their escape. After being free about ten days, Britt came to Newnan, en route to Alabama, He,came here in the night and asked Policeman .Fincannon to find a place where he could sleep. The policeman carried him to the city prison. The] by men whose brutal instincts arc Why llnlu Clouds Art* lllnrk. The color of a cloud depends on tho manner In which the sunlight falls upon It nnd tho position of tho observer. It will bo noticed that high clouds are al ways whlto or light In color, and this Is because tho light by which they nro seen Is reflected from tho under surfneo by tho nuinhorlcHH dropH of molsturo press and the people to encourage w l'* c * 1 R° t° form the cloud. Honvy r” 1 .... , rain clouds, on the other hand, are protection to the law-abiding, hon-j f oun ,i much nearer the earth, and so est negro, and to approve any sys-1 the light falls on thorn more directly tem of legislation that empowers 1 from above, giving a silver lining to tho , . cloud, though tho undersurface np- the courts in the law s delay in p 0(irH Mark owing to the complete ro- Lawlessness I a deplorable flection and absorption of the light by tho upper layers. Been from ubovo by an observer In n Imlloon, the blackest rain clouds appear of the most dazzllug- ly brilliant white. TennlM nnd Lawn Trunin. Then* are thousands who Imagine next morning, a description of the escapes from the prison farm led to his indentification and deten tion. Policeman Fincannon received the reward of $50 offered for Britt’s capture. It is probable that Britt will now get about 20 years in prison tor escaping and aiding other prisoners to escape from the prison farm. dealing with fiends and mob-violence is result of any crime; and it is not always prompted by a spirit to avenge the wrongs committed on others, but often it is the unbrid led, unlicensed passion to commit tfnit tennis and lawn tennis arc Idontl- • „r „ u cal. In America tennis, tho mother crimes under the shadow of a mob. . , . ’ game, Is alwayH known as court ten nis, whereas ljiwn tennis Is gener ally known ns "tennis.” Tho games are 1n many respects very dif ferent. The court, which In lawn tennis is open, In tennis Is closed at the back and sides hy the walls, and almost Invurlably above hy a roof. There Is n considerable amount of pluy off the back and side walls. The halls arc harder than lawn tennis hallH, be ing, In fact, of the consistency of cricket balls. Hence the ruckets are heavier and the gut Is thicker.—Fry’s Where you find Shield Brand Shoes it is a safe place to trade, because they are sold by reliable merchants everywhere. Be sure to ask for Kiser’s King $3.50 Shoe for men, and you will get your money's worth. Made in 37 styles and all the popular Leathers, Patent Colt, Vici. Gun Metal, Box Calf, etc. M. C. Kiser Company Manufaeturmn ATLANTA, GEORGIA 8tyl. 575. Pst. Colt Itluchar. Value of Cotton Seed. Let us take it for granted that the normal cotton crop tor the South is eleven million bales of five hundred pounds each. Also that average cotton thirds itself. It is now plain that our crop gf cotton seed will amount to five hundred thousand tons. At thir teen dollars per ton, which is the price we understand oil men are offering farmers tor seed the seed from the average crop has a cash value of seventy-one and a half million dollars. Each dollar put on to the selling price of a ton of seed means an increase of five and a half million dollars to the farm ers of the South. The oil man buys seed for the purpose of separating them into meal, oil, hulls and linters. These in turn are to be put upon the market and sold. It is from the difference in the cost of the raw teed, and the expense of running only held in check by the iron hand of the law upon them as in dividuals. There can be no separation of the races—for this generation at least. The one is dependent upon the other, and particularly so in the South. Here is a mutual un derstanding. The negro is natu rally an agricultural people, and Mugaaine, thjir faithful service during the four year’s struggle, is unparalell- e4,in history. Serving with un failing loyalty the masters of their bondage, giving no voice of exul tation for the . people who toaf. ud Sentiment. It is a singular fact that In propor tion to the wealth of melody of a na tion so does its emotional side develop. Itemarkable Instances of tbls are to be found In the United Kingdom. In were ^co^and, Ireland and Wales, countries , .i-i , ... rich in national songs, the omotlonal then contending for the principles Mtnn , „ Btrong , n Englan<1( wh *re of their emancipation—no cases of the melodies, if sweet, at any rate are assault were ever charged to them, not toucMn * an,J appealing, »onti- , , , ment is alight. -Liverpool Courier. no crimes against helpless women j , and childreu. * < The History of Moo. Let the guilty be punished I The ecclesiastical authorltlea divide speedily and that without mercy; the history of man into six ages: First, but in punishing the innocent, we tTom Adam to Noah; second, from punish ourselves as citizens, our i Noah t0 A-hrahara; third, from Abra- State and Christian civilization. Palmetto, G a - Mrs. S. M. D. 1 ham to David; fourth, from David to the Babylonish captivity; flfth, from the captivity of Judah to the birth of i Christ; sixth, from the birth of Christ to the end of the world. Standing Rock. (Last Week’s Letter.) Irby Coats has a new boarder at his house. It is a girl. Mamie and Tommie McCullough spent Saturday night and Hnnday in Newnan Hewlette Hunter and sister,Miss Mary Kate, Misses Maude and Lois Entrekin, of near Senoia; Wilber Morgan, of New nan, attended the all-day singing at Brox. Mrs. 8. A. Entrekin is still in feeble health. Typhoid. By boiling all the water and steriliz ing all the milk and thoroughly cook ing all the vegetables and killing all the flies the average person may be come fairly Immune from typhoid fe ver. Envy In the Garden. "I have done nothing but blush all day,’’ complained the rose, "and still that idiot of a poet goes on talking of tbs modest violet, as If there were sot others." Dodson. (LbhI Work's Letter.) Prof. J. Cleveland Dukes, of Happy Valley, went to enter school at Mcroer University last week. Rev. W. S. Gaines tilled his appoint ment at Andrew Chapel last Sunday. There was an ioe cream supper ut the home of Mrs. E. O. Reid hist Thursday night. There was another on Saturday night at the home of .Ylr. and Mrs. M. R. Moore. The singing given last Humlay night by Miss Annie Newton was muoh en joyed hy all present. Miss Jimmie Look, of Fairburn.ls visiting Miss Alice Hyde. There will be a singing at Andrew Chapel next second Sunday evening. Miss .Janie Bob Collins, who has l>eon visiting in this community, has returned to.her home in South Georgia. There will he services at Liberty church next Huuday. Everybody is in vited. U "/ The telephone line being built from Mr. Joe Hutoheson’s to Newnan, is ex pected to be completed iu a few days. Mrs. Martha Carmical and Mrs. Alioe Sewell, who have been visiting relatives near Hand Hill, returned home Sunday. Mrs. Amanda Haines visited Mrs. T. A. Sewell last Sunday. A. L. Sewell has purchased Ins fath er’s interest in tho gin located at Sew ell’s mill. Mr. Millard Jackson, of Sargent, will | he united in marriage next Thursday af ternoon to Miss Houseworth, of Carroll county. Until Christmas, Mr. pud Mrs. Wal ter Cruise will live in the house with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dukes. Rev. E. T. Garter aud daughter,'Miss Mary, speuc last Friday night with Dr. Leu Sewell and family. The next meeting of our Club will be with Miss Sam Austin, liOtli pmx. Mr. Bob Smith and Miss Rebin Bri- liter were united In marriage July 2llrd. Tho marriage was kept a secret until the Kith Inst. Dan Uelgh, a well known negro in this community, who resided on Hon. S. E. Leigh’s plantation, died last Sat urday night. Welcome. Week’s Letter.) Owing to the sonroity of hands, there has been but little oottou picked. Rev. F. J. Amis tilled hldkegular ap pointment at Providence Saturday and Sunday, preaching fine sermons both days. He was unanimously oalled to the care ot the church for next year, and aooepted, pinch to the delight of the oommunlty. A. B. McKoy lmd three hogs killed last Wednesday night by lightning. Miss Sarah Hopson has returned to her home in Grantville, after spending a week with Miss Viola Newman, Miss Ethel Copeland left Sunday for Wldtesburg, whore she will euter Hut- ohesou College. X. O. Newman has a very slok ohild. The Misses Morris visited at Rev. F. J. Amis’ Sunday. Herschel Post and Mouroe Talley, of Grantville, and Allen Crain and Oliver Davis, of Newnan, were visitors at Wel come Inst Sunday. Mrs. 0. M. Amis and children, of Newnan, are visiting relatives here thin week. , ... . 'V Mis< Pearl Newman and LnttitfvDeh-- nis visited at Clem Saturday aud Sun day. ' Mr. Youug Dial and his fathor. of Bartow, Fla., are visiting relatives and friends here. Miss Sallie Stephens is on the aiok list. 1 It m