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NEWNAN HERALD NKWNAN, FRIDAY, J I' N E 25. CLOSING THE HOOK. 1 hlV Hih»***1 th«* door on Douh': ! will iro by what li*ht I cun ftnd. A "'I hold up my hand* and r<’-» h th#*ui oul To t h»* alifnmor of »#od In th#» Hut V. ami i all: "I am Thin#*, though I gropo and * tumble and fall, I nerve; and Thy *«*rvanl I* kind. I hnv#» clo»od thadnor on Fear; ||n ha * |lvi*#l with m» too long. If hi w«rc to break forth and r«i»M*r I ahould lift mv #*y#*n and l«#ok at the *ky And plug aloud and run lightly by. lie will never follow h aong. I have eloaed mv eynn on Gloom; Hi* houH*. ha* too narrow a view, I mud nook for mv aoul a wider room. With window- to open and lot tn the sun. And radiant lamp* when th«* day I* done. And lh** br»** /oof the world blowing through. I Irene I*. McKa#'hmn. Tm- trairedy „f the ••Titanic" mover) What Would YOU Think ? their consternation and pity. Our hearts LtGr>ni{e G r«,.hic. Our sensibilities had DON’T GO CRAZY. Brann’a Irnnoelaaf. Don't go crazy. Apparently the whole world is on the verite of insanity. Josh Billings was right. He said the time would come when it would be nec essary to lock up sane people to pro tect them from the insane. That hour is lurking around the corner. France, Germany, Russia, Austria and England suddenly went mud last sum mer, and have since been trying to ri val each other in the number of people they can kill and the amount of proper ty they can destroy. Mothers are weeping to-day as they never wept in all history. Achievements of centuries in art, architecture, progress, morals, religion and ethicH are crumbling to dust.. The pride and Mower of the nations at war are dying on the firing lines. We hear of awful atrocities, but all acts of war are deeda of madmen. The demon of discord and destruction seemH to have escaped from hell. To avoid a worse fate at the hands of Japan, China was compelled the other day to surrender her independence us a nation. Her fate is Bealed. Mexico is bathed in fratricidal blood. Portugal is in the throes of crimson revolution. Italy is wild with blood-lust, and is now cutting throats and getting throats cut. Spain is outwardly aerene, hut inward ly a seething caldron, Small nations of the world tremble for their lives. The United States is the only great nation that has kept its head, but the sinking of the “Lusitania’' nearly swept Uncle Sam from his feet. The danger is not past. A shimmer from the naked sword of Mars ran like a (lash of lightning all over the land. Only the deaf failed to hear the hoarse growl of the dogs of war as they Btraincd at their leash. The tragedy of the “Lusitania” brought the grim messenger of Mars to our very doors. Terrible as it was, contpured to the crime of war itself, it was like a drop of water compared to the ocean. The blame rests jointly on England, America und Germany. Having been warned, the victims must share in the responsibility. In taking them through the war zone they not only risked their lives, but nearly plunged this nation into war with Germany. It would be folly to try to fix the en tire blame for this tragedy upon any one nation. Whatever and whoever caused the war is responsible. England holds that she was within her rights when she inaugurated her starvation crusade against the enemy Germany maintains that she had a right in self- defense to inaugurate her submarine war upon British commerce. The Uni ted States claims that Germany has no right in her war with England to at tack American ships and destroy Amer ican lives. Gertnuny retorts that the ship carrying American citizens also carried munitions of war for the allies sullicient to destroy 20,Oik) German lives. And there the matter stands, each nation justified in its own eyes. Some think that England invited the destruction of the "Lusitania" so as to force America to enter the war against Germany. 1 doubt it. Others hold that Germany sunk the ship for the purpose of forcing the United States into the fray, knowing that we could not injure her greatly in open war, and it might interfere with our sales of supplies to the allies. Only the future can solve this riddle. Sinking the “Lusitania” was a deed of unspeakable horror. Such bloody acts unmask the god of war and reveal a countenance devoid of pity, a soul of hate, and a heart of adamant. What cares he for the death of a few non- combatants, while rivers of blood How on a thousand mile battle-line? What is the suffering of a few bereaved ones in America to the agony of millions upon •millions of mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts in Europe and Asia? Should we go to war, this hell of human woe would be increased and intensified be yond the power of the imagination to conceive. Sinking the "Lusitania” filled the American people with horror and fury. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove’s The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the •well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. | were tender then, not become calloused by scenes of cru elty and stories of wholesale slaughter. Our feelings were shared by the na- ! tions now at war. The heart of human ity is one. The d.-ath of Balder, in the old Norse myths, was not more sad and tragic than the death of humm sympathy. Hardening of human hearts is war's cruel crime. Since the terrible war started man kind has become used to horror, indif ferent t" sorrow, familiar with cruelty. Rapine and murder, pillage and plunder have become next door neighbors. Death greets us from the front page of every newspaper. At every meal he chats with us across the table. Should this war last three years, God only knows to what red hells the souls of nations might stray. “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Now is the time to be SANE. Not since the fiery eruptions that threw up the Rocky Mountains, the Andes and Alps, has this old earth experienced such convulsions as now shake her from center to circumference. They presage the end of an era, and either the com ing of stygian darkness or a new dawn. Let the republic of Washington, Jef ferson and Lincoln stand firm, her face to the sun and her back to the Dark Ages. In this hour of destiny let Presi dent Wilsot* make his name immortal tiy guiding our nation with honor in the glorious paths of peace. War at Twenty Miles. New York World. The French estimate of the distance from which the Germans dropped shells in Dunkirk ia 23 J miles. Fire at such a range has long been a topic of popular interest as a possibility. It is now a fact. Traveling swifter than a idle ball a shot fired at such range is nearly two minutes on its way. At 45 degrees ele vation it rises more than two miles above the loftiest mountain, higher than man can mount in a balloon and live, before it begins to descend. The fire that wrecked the Antwerp forts was delivered with much more ac curate aim, almost vertical, at fairly short range. The great guns of war ships cannot be elevated more than 15 degrees. This is one reason why the al lies landed armies at the Dardanelles. Plunging fire from batteries at closer runge should he more effective against Turkish forts than the big guns of the “Queen Elizabeth." No warship could shell New York from a distance at sea equaling the range of land artillery. It is hard to hit a small mark at half a mile, and harder to hit a big one at twenty miles. The Germans are prob ably satisfied without having accom plished a military object with the mor al effect of their feat—and there is al ways a chance that a great shell may hit a vital spot. Our army experts say that a range of thirty miles is possible with present-day ordn .nee. Thus Con stantinople might be bombarded from the shore of the Black Sea, Trieste from Italian soil, Cueta from Gibraltar, Sar dinia from Corsica, Dover from Calais. This is why the German shots at Dun kirk were heard around the world. Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This is a remedy that every family should be provided with, especially dur ing the summer months. Think of the pain and suffering that must be en dured when medicine must be sent for before relief can be obtained. This remedy is thoroughly reliablp. Ask anyone who has used it. Obtainable everywhere. An Editor’s Commission. What would you think of a fellow who refuses to subscribe for your paper, and then brings you an article to publish in which he alone is interested? What would you think of a fellow who wants you to mention his name every time he goes anywhere, and then refuses to subscribe for your paper? What would you think of a fellow who wants you to give considerable prominence to his lodge meetings, and then refuses to subscribe for your paper? What would you think of a fellow who accepts your paper for a year, and when you send him a statement he re fuses to take your paper from the post- office? What would you think of a fellow who accepts your paper, and when you meet him and remind him that he is in arrears, he tells you to stop the paper, but does not offer to pay for it? What would you think of a fellow who calls at the office every week to get a copy of your paper, and who never offers to pay for it, and when you ask him to subscribe he refuses to do so? What would you think of a fellow who tries to get all the free advertis ing he can hut never offers to support the newspaper that gives the free ad vertising? My friends, some of you belong to this class. The world does not know who you are, but the editor knows. If the world were to know just exactly how you treat your newspaper, you would feel humiliated. That is the reason you do not feet exactly right when you come face to face with the editor. To Sleep Well in Summer. Slight inflammation of the bronchial tubes causes a distressing cough and makes refreshing sleep impossible. Fo ley's Honey and Tar Co pound covers raw, inflamed, irritated surfaces with a soothing, healing coating and stops that annoying tickling, relieving the racking, tiring cough. Take this splen did cough medicine with you on summer trips. It is good for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial affections and la grippe rhs. - - - cough J. F. Lee Drug Co. Litchfield till.) Newa-Herald. Not long ago a man came into this office und stopped his paper because he said it wds always printing a lot of things about the same people, and he was sick of it. Now, when something goes wrong with the country the Government ap- ! points a commission to investigate [ and find out what is the matter. So I we appointed a commission consist- i ing of ourseives to investigate this man. We just followed the man’s ca reer ever since we knew him. The first thing that happened to that man was that he was born, but he had nothing to do with it. However, we mentioned him, although his parents were entitled to the credit. When he was in his early twenties he got married. We men tioned that, including the name of the bride, the preacher, etc.; in fact, we mentioned everything but the preach er's fee, which was not worth men tioning. We never mentioned the fact that he never won any premiums at the county fair, because he never exhibited anything. We never mentioned his name in the list of committees, because he never attended anything. We never mentioned his name in the list of do nors, because he never donated any thing. We certainly have been treating this man shamefully, but we will agree to run a nice obituary when the time comes. 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 I 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. 50 cents Peal of the WeddinglBells. •Baltimore Sun. Now comes lovely, love-laden June— the month of blushing brides, and—well, the bridegrooms are usually still more crimson of face, unless they are chalk- white with fear. “In the spring a young man’s"—you know the rest—and in June he moat of ten gets his ideal—or whatever you may call her. Why the poet should have limited those spring “thoughts of love" to the mere masculine is not quite clear, unless he meant to infer that a young girl’s “fancy" turned se riously in the same direction all through the year. But let the scoffers scoff. However comical “love’s young dream" may seem at times to the oldsters, it is, af ter all, the sweetest and realest thing in life and the most appealing. It is the one real glimpse of heaven that we poor earthworms get here below, and poor indeed ia he or she who has never known its joy. Sometimes the dream fades into a drab reality or worse. Its esetasy is at best but transient. Men find they have not married the angels they supposed, and the brides soon discover that their liege lords are not the noble supermen they thought them. But love, albeit saner and less idyllic, persists in a vast majority of American homes, and love is the greatest fact in human experience—the greatest gift vouchsafed to man from high heaven. Let the wedding bells ring out! Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Curl The worst cases, no matter of how lorn* standing, are cured hy the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and ilcals at the same time, 25c, 60c, $L00. A GEORGIA WOMAN’S ADVICE. FOR CATARRH AND BRONCHITIS. Savannah, Ga.— "After a severe at tack of malarial fever I contracted a cold which resulted in a catarrhal sore throat and bronchitis. I used various kinds of cough and cold remedies which upset my stomach, but did not reach the seat of my trouble. I acted upon tbe advice of a visitor and began to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, with very remarkable results. Tbe soothing action of the first bottle on my throat and the good it did my cough encouraged me so much that I did not stop its use until I had taken a second, which fully cured the cough and other troubles besides giving me strength, as I was in need of a tonic | to enable me to recover from the effect i of the chills and fever." — Mrs. I, Fitzgerald, 414 35th Street, West, Savanuah, Ga. The best time to cure a cough is when it starts. Ordinarily, a few doses of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical ) Discovery will cure a cough at the beginning. But even when the cough is deep-seated and the body is wasted by emaciation, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will in most cases effect a permanent cure. Get Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery to-day from any medicine dealer; it is a powerful blood purifier, so pene trating that it even gets at the im pure deposits in the joints and carries them out of the system. Depend upon this grand remedy to give you the kind of blood that makes the skin clear, the ntind alert, the vision keener, and puts ambition and energy into the entire body. You will not be disappointed. For free advice or free booklet on blood, write Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. In sickness and health—send for the People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor. A book of 1008 pages. Send 3 dimes to Dr. Pierce, invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Newspaper Courage. Once in a while somebody gets the idea that the reason the local paper does not report every scandal that comes to public knowledge is because the publisher is afraid. That’s not the reason. The reputable newspaper—especially in the small town, where everyone s neighbor to everyone else—takes no delight in giving putlicity to those that have brought disgrace to some family or heartache to some wife or mother. It is much more pleasant to record the good things that happen; to tell about the good things that tend to make life endurable, and that uplift and do not tear down; that bring joy instead of sorrow, pride instead of pain. So, if you don’t always find in the home paper the delectable bit of gos sip that would doubtless make “good reading,” and if you are inclined to blame the editor because he doesn't al ways print all the news, consider that some home has had enough worry over unfortunate happenings, and that the gossips and tale-bearets and scandal mongers of the community can, and will gladly and ghoulishly, give suf ficient publicity to the details to satisfy the lowest tastes. Incidentally, it might be remarked here, moBt complaints on this score come from people who now, or in the past, have bad some things in their own lives they were very glad were not given newspaper publicity. There come times, of course, when it is the definite business of the local newspaper to speak right out in meet ing; to tell what happened; to give open publicity to conditions that are a reproach to a community, and for which the light of publicity seems in deed the only cure. Tolerance does not mean a lack of courage. Let’s not gouge other carving out our fortunes. people while There Is No Question but that indigestion and the distressed feeling which always goes with it caa be promptly relieved by taking a Dyspepsia Tablet before and after each meal. 25c a box. John R. Cates Drug Co, * STOMACH TROUBLE FOR FIVE YEARS Majority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, But One Helped Him to Recovery. Pomeroyton, Ky.—In interesting ad vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes writes as follows: “I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at times, that I thought surely I would die. 1 tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep, taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, although I did not have any confidence in it I have now been taking Black-Draught for three months, and it has cured me— haven’t had those awful sick headaches since I began using it. I am so thankful for what Black- Draught has done for me.” Thedford’s Black-Draught has been found a very valuable medicine for de rangements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet sureiy. It can be freely used by young and old, and should be and all my friends, except one, thought I kept in every family chest would die. He advised me to try Thedford’s Black-Draught, and quit Get a package today. Only a quarter. )-« Automatic Oil Cook Stove See our new automatic oil cook stove. Y'ou will want it when you see it. No wicks to keep clean. Burners close up to oven will heat hotter, cook quicker. See demonstration of cooking going on in our window now. When passing ask to see the new stove. JOHNSON HARDWARE CO. TELEPHONE 81, NEWNAN, GA. 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 shoos 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. IG. 'Phone 147. & Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets. T. S. 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