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THE NEWNAN HERALD NEWNAN HERALD ' Consolidated with Coweta Advertisor September, lss>. ' Established 18*>6. i Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. » NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1915. Vol. 50—No. 33 Don’t Thresh Your Oats If you will bring your corn in shuck, and oats in sheaves, we will grind them together, adding molasses to make feed dustless and palatable for stock. This will give you as good a feed as can be made from grain, and at same time utilize every pound of your products. You will increase your feed some thing like 28 per cent., after expenses are paid, you furnishing bags. If you are out of corn, bring your oats, as this by itself will make a good feed. For your information will say that your oats must be thoroughly cured. “^If your merchant does not handle our feed you can buy direct from us at the following prices: McBRIDE GROUND MOLASSES FEED, $1.60 per 100 lbs. McBRIDE ALFALFA MOLASSES FEED, $1.70 per 100 lbs. Very truly yours, McBride Grain and Feed Co. MAY-DAY. The daisies peep from every field. And violets sweet their odor yield; And purple blossom paints the thorn. And streams reflect the blnsh of morn; Then lads and lasses, all be gay. For this is Nature’s holiday. Let busy labor drop his flail, Nor woodsman’s axe a tree assail: The ox shall cease its neck to bow. And clodden yield to rest the plough. Behold the lark in ether float. While rapture swells the liquid note; What warbles he, with merry cheer? “Let love and pleasure rule the year.” Lo! Sol looks down with radiant eye. And throws a smile around his sky. Embracing hill and vale and stream. And warming Nature with his beam, The insect tribes in myriads pour. And kiss with zephyr every flower; Shall these our icy hearts reprove. And tell us what are foes to love? Then lads and lasses all. be gay. For this is Nature’s holiday. —John Walcott. The Need for Standard Cotton Ware houses. Washington, May 4.— The cotton warehouses already in existence are ample in aggregate storare capacity, according to a recent survey made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to store as much of the crop as there is any need for, b ’t they ate poorly dis tributed. The best are not available to the farmer, and the charges of the others are higher than he is disposed to piy. These factB complicate the financ ing of the crop, end are largely respon sible for keeping so many cotton far mers under the blight of the credit system. A better system of ware houses would do much to help the situ ation. Cotton, according to the Government specialists, is considered the very best collaferal, and bankers and business men in general are willing to lend money on it at lower interest than on "real estate. An essential condition is, however, that the cotton be properly stored and insured. At the present, though thia is very rarely done. The farmers are accustomed to dispose of their crop at the earliest possible mo ment and in the nearest town. Much of the crop, if not all of it, is frequent ly pledged in advance, in order to ob tain supplies for the farmer. Even when the price drops as low as it did in the fall of 1914, the need of imme diate cash induces the farmer to sell most of his cotton. If thia is not done much of the crop is left insufficiently pro tected and suffers wbat is known to the trade as “country damage.” • On the other hand, it is pointed out on a new publication of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture that an ade quate warehouse system would enable the farmers to store their co ton at prices lower than those charged for the same service now, because the in surance rates on cotton stored in a standard' warehouse would be much lower than at the present time. Since cotton is regarded generally as safe collateral, the merchant would be will ing to extend time to the farmer if ware house receipts were deposited with him as colliteral. The local bank would take these receipts from the merchant as further accommodation, and the larger bank, from which the lo :al bank has in all probability obtained the loan, would also extend time. In this way the crop could be marketed grad tally and prices stabilized in consequence. Moreover, such a system would tend to free the farmers, especially those cf the tenant class, from the endless chain of debt. It would not, of course, end at once or completely the credit system, by which the supply merchant sometimes obtains interest of from 25 to 35 cents on a dollar’s worth of sup plies. If, however, such cotton as was absolutely necessary to settle accounts was stored and economy in living prac ticed, many of the more determined growers should in the course of two or three years be able to place themselves on a cash basis. At the present time the best ware- hou’es have been put up by factories and mills for their own use, and are of no service to the farmer. The owners of small warehouses in which the far mer can store hit cotton are usually losing money on the investment, largely because of poor construction and cor respondingly high rates of insurance. The Government investigators present a number of interesting statistics to show that in many cases it is actually more expensive to put up and operate an interior warehouse than one of stan dard design. For example, in Georgia and North Carolina tne insurance rate is reduced about 80 per cent, by the use of sprinklers. Unquestionably, says the report, a great saving could be ef fected by the erection and proper equip ment of modern warehouses. Assum ing the annual crop to be 16,000,000 bales, a sufficient number of such ware houses could be constructed and equipped with automatic sprinklers for $64,000,000 or less. If all of thia crop were to be stored for six onths the saving in insurance alone would be ap proximately $7,000,000. As a matter of fact many of the existing ware houses could be remodeled satisfactori ly- The bulletin does not attempt to give any details of an ideal warehouse sys tem, and there are many difficulties in the way of the establishment of such. It does, however, assert that improve ment in this respect will do much to make cotton growing a more stable industry. Whooping Cough. “About a year ago my three boys had whooping cough and I found Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy the only one that would relieve their coughing and whooping spells. I continued this treat ment and was surprised to find that it currdthe disease in a very short time,” writes Mrs. Archie Dalrymple, Crooks- ville, Ohio. For sale by all dealers. A Fable. Fountain Inn (S. C.) Tribune. Once upon a time a certain man in South Carolina forgot to pay any por tion of his pastor’s salary. Near the end of the year an officer of the church waited upon him an I made remarks to the effect that the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. The man flatly refused to be cheerful. “I won’t pay a cent,” he declared Btoully. “Not a cent. That preacher hasn’t been to see me this year.” When the matter was reported, as such matters are, the preacher, as preachers will, felt that he had fallen short of his duty, and took the blame upon himself. But he determined that, should he be spared for another year’s work, he would call upon his offended brother, who thus yearned for his so ciety. Accordingly he made it convenient to call four times during the following year. Still the man paid nothing, and at the close of tie year officers of the church waited upon him again. “Not a cent,” he declared. “Not a cent. I’ve boarded that preacher and his horse enough o make up my share of his salary.” And the moral is, of course, that it’s a long, long way to Tipperary, and the conductor can’t collect fare unless yo ir heart’s right. Sick headache, biliousness, piles and had breath are usually caused by inac tive bowels. Get a box of Itexall Orderlies. They act gently and effec tively. Sold only by us at 10 cents. John R- C*tM Drug Cw. Great German Port Now Desolate. A vivid picture of Hamburg and its fine harbor in war times is given by the Tagliche Rundschan, of Amsterdam. In normal times it is one of the busiest seaports in the world, the commerce laden ships thronging the docks and the broad face of the Elbe, funnelH brook ing, sirens shrieking, machinery creak ing, life swarming around the wharves and storage houses. Now, however, says the writer, the harbor of Hamburg is desolate. The gulls search in vain for their food, the thickest fogs call forth no warning sig nals, the cold spring sunshine falls on no smoke or rushing steam, the gates of the great bonded stores are closed, ami grass grows in the (lagged courts. In the pre-war days all roads led to the harbor; now these roads are deso late, and only a wanderer here and there denotes that some isolated indi vidual still takes an interest in the vast area of the harbor. Wherever one looks the hulls of huge vessels and their gaunt smokestacks are seen thick Bteel cah.es fastening them to anchors in the Elbe mud or to the shore. Not a flag or pennant flutters from their masts, no passenger or sea man gazes over their sides, no call comes from an officer on th . bridge. Here and there you see an old sailor on deck as caretaker. His younger com panions are all away at the war. It is sad to look at those giant hulks, with the paint peeling off them. You look at their names and are sorrowful. Over there is a magnificent South American liner, an imposing CoIobbub with her three funnels. There was a time when she proudly sailed down the Elbe to the ocean, her hands playing and thousands on shore waving her rheir adieus. Now she lies still as the grave, fastened immovably by her iron chains. On the other side of the river at Kuhwarder lie the eerried ranks of the Hamburg American liners, tier on tier of them, their Hides scraped and un sightly. We are told that they are all that managed to got home in time. In other great docks and along stretches of quay are the tall, graceful masts of the sailing ships, dry for"Hts of them— dead forests without a sign of life. Watch Your Children Often children do not let parents know they ore constipated. They fear some thing distasteful. They will like Itexall Orderlies—a nnld laxative that tastes like su&c. Sold only by us, 10 oeuts. John It CotM Drug Co. Women on the Jury. M. WickofT, in Birmingham Agc-Huruld. “Just to think, to be on a jury,” said one woman to another at a recent trial. “Wouldn’t it be awful?” And she looked pityingly at the twelve faces in the jury box. “Oh, I don’t know as it would,” re plied the other, cautiously transferring her chewing gum to the other side of her mouth. “There wouldn’t be the work to do, and you would get paid regular, and — ” "But think of having to bn locked up all the time,” objected the first. "I’d be just wild not to be allowed to go downtown or anything; and. good ness! why, they won’t let you Hee any body or talk about it a bit, or even read a paper! I don’t see how they can tell what is going on in court unless they read the paper. I never can. Of course, regular lawyers know what it all means, but just ordinary people don’t.” “But, of course, you wouldn't send anybody to jail for life or anything like that, if he was married, for what would his wife and children do? So you don’t have to pay much attention to what they are saying. I’d rather know right away as soon as I saw the man whether he did or not, and after you’ve once made up your mind you can kind of rest, you know.” “But think of being shut up with all thoBo women for a week! Wouldn't you just want to scratch their eyes out? My, but I hate them! I’m just that inde pendent, you know, that I wouldn't have them snooping around to see how much powder I was using, and whether I put up my hair nights, or whether it was naturally curly!” “But they go to a hotel for their meals, and don't have to pay a cent. I just love hotel cooking, don’t you? And then not having to pay for it! Of course, when you are in the room you are supposed to be talking over the thingB that they have said about the man, but you could get lots of ideas from those other women about clothes and things. I think it would be awfully broadening.” “And when it was necessary, you know the forewoman could juBt tap her pencil on the table and say. ‘Now, girls, we must really get to work and find out what we are going to decide to do about that man,’ ’’ put in the other with an anticipatory smile. “I know we would acquit this one on account of his wife's devotion to him.” "That’s all right for the public,” granted the would-be jury woman with some skepticism, “but I’ll just wager that they fight like cats and dogs at their home.” “That, my dear,” Baid the other amusedly, “is just a sample of the way we would disagree in the jury room. ” Alabama and Washington are fol lowing the Texas idea and erecting cot tages for the teachers of the rural schools. The idea is to do away with the old and never satisfactory plan of “hoarding around,” a relic of pioneer days. In Texas the school directors erect these cottage near the school- house and one county has six of them. In one town the citizens bought the land and erected the house by public subscription. This place has six acres of land around it. In other places the teacherH have five or six room cottages, live together on the co-operative plan and hire a woman to do the housework. Texas has over one hundred teacher’s cottages. The plan gives the teachers a chance fur privacy and a touch of home life that is lacking under the sys tem in vogue in other places. It is likely that the plan will continue to ex tend until there is a teacher’s cottage in every school district. CAN YOU DOUBT IT? When the Proof Can Be so Easily Investigated. When so many grateful citizens of Newnan testify to benefits derived from Bonn's Kidney Pills can you doubt the evidence? The proof is not far away—it is aimost at your door. Read what a resident of Newnan says about Doan’s Kidney Pills. Can you demand more convincing testimony? Mrs. M. Tompkins, 43 W. Washing ton street, Newnan, Ga., says: "The worst trouble I had was a dull ache in the small of my back. I tired easily, especially in the morning. I had fre quent headaches, little objects floated before my eyes and at times I became dizzy. ' Colds settled on my kidneyH, making my hack worse. I used Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Murray’s Drug & Book Co., and they soon re lieved the pains in my back and the other symptoms of kidney trouble dis appeared. Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t Bim- ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Tompkins had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. _______ Invigorating to tha Palo and Sickly The Old Btaadard general *t*en£thening tonic, GUOVI'fi TABTALM** chiU TONIC, drive* out Malayia.wieh— the Wood and Um 11 da opt be ay- tmm. A true Wain. For adafte and afciLdron* 90q