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THE NEWNAN HERALD NEWNAN HERALD J Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, lS8t>. I Established 186b. I Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1916. \ NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1915 Vol. 50—No. 35 Farmers’ Supply Store We wish to thank our customers and friends for their loyal support and kindnesses shown us since we moved into our new store. We are now better prepared than ever to serve them. We have clean, commodious quarters and a new, clean stock of goods throughout. Plenty room to take care of our friends’ packages. Also, ample hitching grounds for stock, as well as for parking vehicles. Our line of shoes consists of the best work shoes made, as well as fine shoes and oxfords—all new stock. We buy direct from the manufacturer, get ting the best that can be bought for the money. We carry also a full line of staple dry goods. “Headlight” overalls we claim to be the best made, and we sell them. Work pants for men and boys. Everything to eat for man and beast. DeSoto flour, the very best for the price. Every sack guaranteed. Buy it and try it. Cuba Molasses. We buy in large lots the following articles, and can sell them at wholesale prices— Flour, Starch, Snuff, Soap, Soda, Tobacco, Tomatoes, (canned,) Lard, Matches, Coffee. Help out your feed bill by sowing peas and sor ghum. We have peas and sorghum seed for sale. Sorghum seed, Red Top, Orange and Amber. Scovil hoes, handle hoes, grain cradles, barbed wire, hog wire, poultry wire. Come to our store, rest here, store your bundles, and drink ice water with us. We will enjoy having you do this. I. G. FI ’Phone 147. Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets. Court Calendar. COWETA CIRCUIT. U0Ro7-CrtS ail ' JUd8< ’ : J ' R8nderTerrell ’ S °- A 8 pui!t fetht,r ~ Tllird In February and ber° Weta ~*" ir8t M,, ndaya in March and Septum. ^Heard—Third Mondays In March and Septem- | Mondays in April and October j P * irat Mondays in February and Aug j CITY COURT OF NEWNAN. Hor.’ A- Post ’ W. L. Stallings, Solio. j M ,nd ^ 9 tn Jan °-1 . Cive us a trial order on ;<\h printing. For Shoe and Har ness Repairing and NEW HARNESS go to A. J. BILLINGS 6 SPRING ST. Onlv high-class materials used in my work. BE A FRIEND TO MAN. There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran— But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. Let me live in a house by the side of the road. Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad— As good and as bad us I. I would not sit in the scorner’s seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban — Let me live in a house by the side of the road. And be a friend to man. I seo from my house by the side of the road— By the side of the highway of life— The men who press with the ardor of hopo- The men who are faint with the strife; But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears, (Both part of an infinite plan) — Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. OUR ATLANTA LETTER. Atlanta, Ga., May 25. —With his ad ministration of the affairs of Georgia nearly terminated, and only three weeks yet to run, Gov. John M. Slaton is probably the busiest man in the State. He and his official family at the capital are working overtime to turn the financial and other affairs of the commonwealth over to the incoming ad ministration in shipshape order. In his farewell message to the Legislature, which he has already begun to make notes on, he will not review briefly and concisely his administration and the work that has been done, but will make recommendations and suggestions for the future which, if carried out, will serve to put Georgia in an even stronger position than she now holds. During his administration Gov. Slaton has brought order out of chaos in the State’s financial affairs. The Georgia’s financial system is equal to that of any State in the Union. He found an anti quated and demoralized system of tax ation and a heavy deficit. He has put Georgia’s finances in better shape than they have ever been. He haB brought about and established a tax equalization law, wiped out the deficit, and at the same time has been able to cut the tax- rate one-half of 1 mill. To-day it is his expressed desire and purpose to leave every department with which he is con nected in the best possible shape, and to that end he is now working night and day. He goes out of office on the 26th of June. The formation and aim of a State wide organization in Georgia to piotect general b isiness inte-ests against radi cal and reactionary legislation are out lined in a statement made to-day by H. A. Dean, president of the organization, which is known as the Georgia Manu facturers’ Association. Mr. Dean re views the fact that legitimate business has been hampered and hurt in recent years by many so-called “remedial” measures, and Bays: “While the State of Georgia and other States in the South generally have not suffered by the aggressions of other organized bod ies in propagating their theories of right in industrial management to the extent that States in the North and West have, yet thp same forces that have made such inroads in the shaping of po litical sentiment favorable to their schemes in other States are now invad ing every territory where labor is em ployed and becoming organized in one cohesive mass, with an iron will to dic tate their terms of employment, and even to have their judgment sanctioned and enforced through statutes. Through the medium of an association, where the manufacturers of the State are or ganized and can work jointly to thwart inimical legislation, proper defense may be afforded the rights of business and capital, and in no other way can the manufacturer hope to secure it. If individually or in a collective way he does not do his part toward defending his own rights, he will neglect a sacred obligation to the community itself, as the latter cannot enjoy the success if the management of its industries is forcibly taken from those best fitted to conduct them.” Southern newspapers who have be come interested in conditions in Pana ma have learned that the U. S. Gov ernment is paying its Government- owned Panama railroad $2.77 for each ton of mail carried a mile. The aston ishment occasioned by this revelation may be understood in the light of the f et that Georgia’s Western & Atlantic railroad and other private roads in this country receive only about 10 cents per ton for each mile. For a long time past the railroads have been begging Con gress to take official notice of the grave injustice that the Postoffice De partment is doing them in furnishing insufficient compensation for carrying the mails. Even at that, they are not asking for an advance in mail pav rates, but are simply asking that they be paid for all the mail they actually carry, in cluding the parcels post, which has in flicted a terrible burden upon them. Their indignation in this part of the country is necessarily increased, in the light of the revelations of dispropor tionate extravagance practiced in Pan ama in the payment of the railroad which the Government itself owns. This is the story of how a Georgia terrapin came back after twenty-five years. One day in 1890 Harry Lee Jar vis was atrelling over his plantation near Varnell Station, above Atlanta, and encountered a highland tortoise — or what ia commonly known as a terra pin. Mr. Jarvis was accompanied by Mr. W. H. Prater, a prominent planter of that section. Mr. Prater did what quite a number of celebrated men have done before—he carved his initials and the year on the unresisting terrapin's lid, and let him go. And the terrapin last week did what quite a number of now celebrated tortoises have done—he came back. Yesterday Mr. Prater was directing the clearing of a ditch on his own farm, and one of the workmen picked up a terrapin with the initials W. H. P. and the year 1890 carved on its shell. Mr. Prater says the terrapin did not seem to have grown much, but looked aa hale and healthy as when they first met. The rwtognition which prominent Georgians have received under the Wil son Administration includes no appoint ment which wilt be learned with more genuine interest than that now an nounced of Shirley A. Baker, of Jeaup, who haa been commissioned to repre sent’. Uncle Sam in far-off: Alaska, where ho .will be chief inspector of fish eries for the U. S. Fish Commission. Mr. Baker spent a few days in Atlanta last week, and now on his way to Alas ka to assume his new duties. The ap pointment was secured through the in fluence of Hon. Wm. J. Harris, of Georgia, who is now U. S. Federal Trade Commissioner. The Georgia Weekly Press Associa tion meeting this year will be held in Eastman, in July. State-wide interest is keen, and the prospects are for one of the largest crowds in the organiza tion’s history. The roller skating fad has taken hold of Atlanta again, reviving the scene of ten years ago when everybody who wasn’t crippled wanted to skate. Venice is Feeling War Most Keenly. Venice, perhaps of all the cities in Italy, ia feeling the war most keenly. At the height of the sfiriqg season in normal years there would be from 12,- 000 to 13,000 touriBts here. But to day there are not a hundred in the whole city. Hotels with from two to three hundred rooms are absolutely empty; some are indeed closed up. The piazza of St. Mark is deserted, and there are no strangers to feed the pigeons. The Grand Canal, which ought to be black with gondolas, has no other traffic but the two-cent steam boats. The gondoliers are literally starving. Nearly all of them have been compelled even to pawn the fa miliar brass horses which decorate their gondolas, though all they can raise on them is six lira—a dollar and twenty cents. The storekeepers are in no better plight, dependent as they are almost entirely upon the touristB. Most of them are unable to pay their rents, and the landlords, with the help of the banks, are carrying them over until better times. Venice has no trades and industries except in articles of luxury such as laces, leather goods and fine glass ware. All these are entirely at a standstill. Distress among the working classes is widespread. Even in normal times the poverty in Venice is extraordina rily great; some authorities indeed as sert that one-fourth of the whole popu lation are paupers. During the past month there have been food riots. The director of the United States mint in Philadelphia, Mr. Landis, has just resigned after serving for twelve years. In commenting on the fabulous wealth that haa passed through his hands Mr. Landis states that it con sisted of $11,000,000 in cents, $19,000,- 000 in nickels, $60,500,000 in silver dol lars, halves, quarters and dimes, and $872,000,000 in gold. The entire coin age totals $462,500,000. To give one a better idea of the quantity of this bulk, Mr. Landis said it would tax the capa city of 68$ cars of twelve tons each. It would be impossible to haul this vast sum with fewer than eleven lo comotives, which would mean that each would have to pull about sixty- three cars. These cars in one train would extend about ten miles. There was exactly $415,000,000 in coin and gold bullion in the mint when Mr. Landis turned it over to his successor. The largest amount at the mint at anv one time in the last twelve yearB was $452,- 000,000. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic i3 equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the laver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. Rights End When War Begins. Review of Rev town. Just now England is in quite the same state of mind towards what she regards as the unspeakably wicked Prussians as early in the last century she exhibited towards Napoleon as the exponent of militarism. There is the same determination to crush the Ger man empire that there then was to de stroy that of Napoleon. There is the same disposition to regard the cause of England as so unassailable in its virtue as to justify a good deal of disregard of the rights of neutrals. But the analo gy is not one to be followed too com pletely. The people of the United States are not feeling themselves af fronted in any quarter, are not exasper ated, have not suffered any intended in jury or wrong from any of the govern ments at war, have no grievances to avenge, and will not drift into a bellig erent attitude merely because of inter ference with neutral commerce in the British and German waters that are strewn with mines and infested by sub marines. War is so deperate a recourse when the foremost powers of the world are engaged in it that what we call “rights” cease to exist, and nothing is likely to be considered except in terms of war power. Germany’s plea for invading Belgium wan “necessity.” England's plea for interfering with neutral com merce ia of exactly the same kind, and ia put upon the same ground. Germany did not mean to touch the hair of a sin gle Belgian citizen, nor to take so much as a loaf of bread without paying full value. In the German view, Belgium’s vast mistake lay in standing up for “rights” when a great war had broken out, in the presence of which rights dis appear because the appeal has been made to force. In its very nature, war ia the denial of rightB of all kinds, pri vate and public. When two small na tions are at war, it is true that the rights of neutralB are respected. But this is not because the neutrals have rights, but because they have power. When, however, great nations are at war, the rights of neutrals are less likely to be regarded, unless the neu trals have both the power and the dis position to translate their rights into terms of force. Whooping Cough. “About a year ago my three hoys had whooping cough and I found Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy the only one that would relieve their coughing and whooping spells. 1 continued this treat ment and was surprised to find that it cured the disease in a very short time,” writes Mrs. Archie Dalrymple, Crooks- ville, Ohio. For sale by all dealers. Man as the Peacock. Montgomery Advertiser. The Birmingham Age-Herald abomi nates Bartorial peacockage. It believes the present styles in men’s clothing are little less than "sensational.” Taking note of of an interview with a Birmingham man just back from New York, where he saw men dreHsed in a way that disgusted him, the Age-Herald says: “Going further, one is much in clined to exclaim, ‘more power to hirn,’ and to affix an enthusiastic ‘amen’ to the utterances. The Birmingham pa per deplores the monkey-like character so much in evidence among men—some young, some old—who array themselves in novelty patterns of skin-tight fitting, becuffed trousers, corset-fitting coat, and a hiatus of from four to six inches between trousers and shoe top, the same evidently being intended to give ample display to the white silk hosiery. “That of itself is bad enough, but when by way of climax there is added one of those rear-bowed tall hats with narrow brim—the same being pulled down over the ears of the wearer— no matter hov much we may believe in personal liberty we cannot refrain from saying that such an outlandish make up is un-American and altogether too- Some time since a little girl who lived in a rural community appeared at the back door of a neighbor’s house with a small basket in her hand. “Mrs. Smith,” said she, as the neighbor answered her timid knock, “mother wants to know if you won’t please lend her a dozen eggs. She wants to put them under a hen.” “Hut them under a hen?” was the wondering rejoinder of the neighbor, “I didn’t know that you had a hen!” “We havent," was the frank re joinder of the little girl. "Wearegoing to borrow the hen from Mrs. Brown.” REMARKABLE CASE of Mrs. HAM Declares Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Saved Her Life j and Sanity. Shamrock, Mo.— “ I feel it my duty to tell the public the condition of my health before using your medicine. I had falling, inflamma tion and congestion, female weakness, pains in both sides, backaches and bear ing down pains, was Bhort o f memory, nervous, impatient, passed sleepless nights, and had neither strength nor energy. There was always a fear and dread in my mind, I had cold, nervous, weak spells, hot flashes over my body. I had a place in my right sido that was so sore that I could hardly bear the weight of my clothes. I tried medicines end doctors, but they did me little good, and I never expected to get out again. I got Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier, and I cer tainly would have been in grave or in an asylum if your medicines had not saved me. But now I can work all day, sleep well at night, eat anything I want, have no hot flashes or weak, nervous spells. All pains, aches, fears and dreads are gone, my house, children and hushand are no longer neglected, as I am almost entirely free of the bad symptoms I had before taking your remedies, and all is pleasure and happiness in my home. Mrs. Josie Ham, R..F, D. 1, Box 22, Shamrock, Missouri. If you want special advice write Lydia E. Pinkliam Medicine Co., (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Professional Cards. DR. SAM BRADSHAW OSTEOPATH 306-307 Atlanta National Bank Building. At lanta, Ga. Atlanta 'phone—Main. 3901; Duca- tur 'phono, 268. W. L. WOODROOF, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office 11 Mi Greenville street. Residence 9 Perry itreet. Office 'phone 401; renidence ’phone 461. D. A. HANEY, PHYSICIAN ANDSURGEON. Offer* hto profeHuional Hurvico to tho people of Newnan, and will anHwerall callu town or coun ty. Office in tho June* Building, E. Broad Street. Office and renidence 'phone 289. THOS. J. JONES, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on E. Broad ntreet, near public nquare. Roflldence 9 Jefferson street. T. B. DAVIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office—Sanitarium building. Office 'phone 6—1 call; residence’phone 5- 2 calls. W. A. TURNER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to surgery und diHcauea jf women. Office 2-1 W. Broad street. 'Phone 230 F. I. WELCH, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office No, 9 Temple avenue, opposite public school building. 'Phone 231. THOS. G. FARMER, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW Will give cureful and prompt attention to all I tgal businens entrusted co rne. Money to loan. Office in court-houue. utterly-too-too. “What this country needs is more real men with red blood in their veins, and whiskers instead of fuzz on their faces. These be progressive, aggres sive, devil-take-the-hind-most days, and there is little room in this work-aday world for Algernon and others of that type.” _ A Sick Headache. Mrs. A. L. Luckie, East Rochester, N. Y., was a victim of sick headache and despondency, caused by a badly weakened and debilitated condition of her stomach, when she began taking Chamberlain’s Tablets. She says: “I found them pleasant to take, also mild and effective. In a few weeks’ time I was restored to my former good health.” For Bale by all dealers. The first time a young man falls in love he wonders what struck him, To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. SO cents vwvwwww, Atlanta and West Point RAILROAD COMPANY ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS AT NEWNAN, GA. EFFECTIVE NOV. 1, 1914. Subject to change ami typographical error*. No. 36 ... 7:25 a. m. 19 7 :5U a. m. No 18 9:46 a. m. No. 88 3:17 p. m. No 20 ... 6:35 p.in No No 42 ,.. € ;43 a. m No 38 13:40 a. in No 40 12:62 p.m. No. 17 5:12 p.m. No. 41 . 7:20 p.m. No. 37 0:23 p. m. No. 36 10:28 p. in. All train* daily. Odd number*, southbound; even numbers, north bound.