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NEWNAN HERALD N E 'V N A N , FRIDAY, JULY 9 T II K B K ST OF F K I I: N D Si . Th»*rr itri* no friend* Ilk*" old friend* [ n hr»l|> tin wil-li tin* loud That (ill muni hear who j nirney O'er life * uneven road. Ami whim uncnmjiiernri non - >\vs I ho weary hour* invent Tim kindly word* of old friend* Arp alwuy** found the limit Thar* am nn friend* Ilk** old friend* To mlm our fieum-nt four i When almdowu full nnd d’*^*iM*n Through life’* deellnlnjf y -n ^ And win'll our faltering loilntep* Approfch tin* irreiit divide • VVe'll long to Meet the old friend* Who wnit on the other nlde. THE ENGAGED GIRL. Kllori Adair in tin* Philadelphia l#*dlfer. When a man honors a Kiri by choos ing her out. of the whole wifio world as the one being with whom he desires to spend the rest of his natural life and when she accepts his proposal and be comes engaged to him, there are cer tain things which he has a right to ex pect from tier. They may not be many, they may not be difficult of accomplishment, but all the same if he haH any manliness in him at all he ought to see that these things he does get. The first of these is courtesy. It is a strange and rather dreadful thing that many women imagine that to he rude toward their fiances, to slight them publicly and to make fun of them to strangers are sure signs of feminine in dependence and smartness. 1 have known girls who were really crazy about their fiances, who thought thul the universe circled around them and whose whole hopes were centered in them, treat them in a manner that any living person would resent thoroughly. In private these girls showed the greatest affection and de votion. They were model sweethearts, k nd, loving, considerate, gentle. Hut in public they were rude, sharp-ton gued and thoroughly impertinent. '•-She doesn't mean all she says,” said un engaged man recently in speak ing of the girl of his heart. “Her bark is really worse than her bite, you know. Mary is a nervous sort of a girl and very sensitive. She is afraid that people will see how much she •really likes me. And ho she adopts that sharp don't care attitude when ever we go about together in public. Yes, of course, I feel it. Any man would. Hut I can’t get Mary to give it up. She thinks it is the right atti tude—to take before outsiders, ‘No girl should wear her heart on her sleeves, for all the world to see, she said to me only yesterday. Mary has the best heart in the world and I don’t] like to hurt her feelings by pointing out her rudeness to her. Yet all the same I would give a good deal if she were a little more considerate of me before her friends. A man hates to look a fool and that’s how I feel.” The man who allows himself to be treated in this way is laying up trou bles for himself. For he can rest as sured that if n woman is sharp-tongued before marriage, even though the dis play of sharpness is only in public, and that privately she he all that is desired, she will develop into a nagging, un pleasant person who will render his life thoroughly miserable. For she has failed dreadfully in the •courtesy and good feeling which are essential to a love affair. She is un worthy of a man’s love. No engaged man should tolerate dis courtesy on the part of his fiance. He should come to un understanding with her that any such display must cease or as an alternative that the engage ment must cease. She will soon muke her choice. The engaged man has a right to ex pect u certain proportion of his fiance’s time. While not giving up her own friends and her own former interests she should put. him first and to a certain extent bend her wishes to his. The ease frequently arises where both the man and the girl have been thoroughly spoiled by fond parents and families nil their lives and where neither wishes to mold his or her ways to those of the other. Things become dreadfully complicated nnd quarrels arise. Now the very essence of a happy en gagement is the spirit of "give and take.” The man must sacrifice his wishes sometimes to those of the girl— and the girl must he prepared to do likewise. "Won’t vou let us prove to you by one trial that’ there is no finish that will give you a lasting satisfaction like DAVIS' VARNISH STAIN in point of luster, beauty, hardness and. above all, wear? It is proclaimed the best by all who have used it for years. ASK YOUR DEALER. It is hard for a spoiled arid petted I daughter to consult her fiance on I matters in which she has formerly had sole Hay. Rut he has a right to expect that she will consult him und consult him she sometimes must if she wishes to keep his affection. The engaged man has a right to ex pect that th” girl who has promised to marry him will discard all her former love affairs and confine her affections to him alone. Strange as it may seem, hundreds of girls fail in this. They may be ex ceeding fond of their fiances, hut at tne same ttme they find occasional flirtations with other men both stimu lating and entertaining and they are loath to drop the old admirers out of the running. While there is no reason why the en gaged girl should discard her male friends and their society, there is every reason why she Hhould discard those of the number who seek to make love to her. Her fiance has a right to demand that she shall do this and if she values his affection at all, the sooner she complies with his wishes in the matter the better for herself. The Tyranny of the Present. Youth'* Companion. We are all creatures of moods. Even the strongest have their moments of unaccountable depression as of unac countable gayety— moments when it takes immense effort to perform the ordinary actions of life, and an effort still more immense to believe that they are worth performing. Very strong, healthy, well balanced men get the grippe, and, like the child wh has been denied a toy, see the world all black and empty. The present is enormous in its hold on ua, and trival circumstances have m/mentary but overwhelming signifi cance. A full day, a heavy fog, a close south wind—especially when we wanted sunshine— seem to take the sparkle even out of our thoughts, seem to make what we hoped would be solid pleasure "stale, fiat and unpalatable.” No man was more constitutionally op timistic than Emerson; few men were less visited by the powers of melan choly und darkness; yet even Emerson could write of the "vast debility” that some of us know bo well as shattering and undermining all courage and all hope. A great help at such times is a wise use of the imagination. Imagination is a bad master, hut a significant servant. Always to he dreaming of what we might, do means little done; always to he dreaming of things we might have done breeds not satisfaction, but discontent. Rut the other side of it is the constant realization that things might be worse than they are, that they have been bet ter, and will lie better again. Imagin ation is tile surest and best protector against the tyranny of the present. When everything goes wrong and you feel discouraged, or in the still worse moods when nothing has really gone wrong, and you know it, and yet the tears come, and you have no hope and no vigor and no energy, try to make even a little use of that faithful helper, imagination. Remember that you have felt so before and have ceased to feel so, have even looked hack witli gay contempt on such un warranted misery. With the imagina tion of" pleasant things and sure de lights to come as a guide and comforter slip away from the clutch of the tyran nous present. Like many other mon sters, it is more easily tricked and dodged than openly combatted. The New French Spirit. Cleveland Plain Denier. The French of to-day are the most serious people of Europe. The tradi tional effervescence of the Gallic character has vanished. Every French man lias come to look upon the work of France as his own work; and he knows that France is fighting for her life. There is an utter absence of bombast or bluster. The French statesmen, the French military commanders and the French soldiers are refraining from all braggart expressions of confidence. A nation which has always appeared to outsiders as partially intoxicated has become suddenly the soberest of States. Gravity, even solmenity, marks the mien of the Frenchman of to-day. If he talks of the war he talks calmly. There is no rancor and no menace in his attitude toward his enemy. He sings no songs of hate. He makes no threat of what he will do if he wins, nor does he bemoan the fate he will suffer if he loses. It is possible that the change which has come over the French people will have some permanent effect on the French character. For one thing, the nation will probably never go hack to absinthe. A great ordeal in a nation’s life may well leave a lasting influence, as a simi lar experience would change the char acter of an individual. Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "About two years ago 1 had a severe attack of diarrhoea which lasted for over a week,” writes W. C. Jones, Buford, N. D. "I became so weak that 1 could not stand upright. A druggist recommended Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The first dose relieved me and within two days 1 was as well as ever.” Ob tainable everywhere. Some people are vain because of their imperfections. Legend of the Cherokee Rose. Atlanta Georgian. State-wide interest is centered on the Cherokee rose, since the City Federa tion indorsed trial flower for 'he State llowe’. And it will he of interest to the club women who hav<- indorsed the flow er to know a romantic story concerning the Cherokee rose, along with the leg end of the flower. The first story of the Cherokee rose was printed by a well known Atlanta club woman in a volume >'f verses called ‘Th j L?gemi of the Cnerokee Rose,” in 1^87- The w riter was about to oe widowed. She had obligations to meet, and no one to meet them with her or for her. in a moment of desperation 9he turned to a poor little talent she had —a talent all uncultivated, as is the wild rose that made the theme of her verses—and af ter hard work to find a publisher, and harder work to raise the money to pay the initial fee for getting the book on the press, she set out her little signal of distress, in as huppy vein and as at tractive manner as the time suggested. The book was released from the press the day the handsome young husband died. The legend is a pretty one, and the flower is one of the loveliest of all the gifts of the field and forest. Orig inally the Cherokee rose was unknown to other States than Georgia. That was when the Cherokee Indians roamed the forests and mountains of Georgia. Growing over the wigwam of a Chero kee chief before the white man took up a residence in the State wts a rose vine, all blossomy and fragrant, and it was from that vine in North Georgia that the daughter of the chief broke a twig and carried it with her to Florida when she left her tri ie for love of a Seminole brave. There, in the Land of Flowers, she planted her rose vine and it grew. Beneaths it snowy blossoms she lived and died with her Seminole lover. It is therefore appropriate that this flwoer be made the State flower, and the Legislature will be asked to make it so. Beauty Mors than Skin Deep. A beautiful Woman always has good digestion. If your digestion is faulty, Chamberlain’s Tablets will do you good. Obtainable everywhere. The Negro Problem. It has remained for a publication is sued on the other side of the imiginary line dividing the North from the South to deliver one of the best arguments against Northern people attempting to solve the negro problem in the South. This publication is Yankee Doodle, pub lished in Michigan City, Indiana, and the writer of the article referred to appears to have a very clear concep tion of the situation that obtains in the Southern States. Here is what he says: "Don’t try to solve the Southern ne gro problem you men of the North. It is already solved, and the negro is in better snape, morally, physically and financially, down below the Mason and Dixon line than he is in the North. We took the ‘salvation of the negro’ upon us, only to find we don’t know him. It isn’t a matter of prejudice on the part of the Northern people. It is just plain ignorance of what is re quired in a task that was entirely self- imposed. As a rule, the poorest of all American negioes are found in the North. They are generally exiles from the sunny land of kindliness and under standing. They have generally' come North because they were intolerable in the South. The South does much to give the negro a show. The Southern peo ple are kind to the negro, for they under stand them. The negro keeps his place. He is never offensive, andhe is a loyal, kindly, affectionate individual, who is always respectful. Within a decade there will be race riots in most of the cities of the North. For a great truth is coming home to the unthinking.” It's difficult to convince a woman that gambling is wrong if her hustiand keeps ahead of the game. Boost Your Neighbors. The Progreaivo Farmer. H'-re is a little rule which will help you and help your neighbors; In speak ing about your neighbors t ut the good word last. Don’t say "Neighbor Jones is public-spirited, I'll admit, hut he is mighty high tempered." Say "Neigh bor Jones is high tempered, of conrse, but he is a man who is helping ihe neighborhood forward." Don’t say, "Tom Brown is a hard-working fellow’ and good-hearted, I reckon, but he has been mighty low down, wild and drink ing. Instead, say, "Tom Brown got pretty low once, wild and drinking, hut now he's a hardworking, good-hearted citizen." In other words, wind up with the emphasis on the good trait rather than the had one. Or better still, when you hear some body’s name mentioned and it's on the tip of your tongue to refer to some blunder or failing you know about, just try choking it down a few times, leav ing it unsaid, and see if you don’t feel better inside. The next time go a little further and try speaking of some good deed he has done instead of mentioning the time he made a mistake (even though you yourself have never made any mistakes), and see if you won’t feel happier still. If the farmers in any neighborhood will begin to boost one another’s good deeds, they will soon find themselves in a better neighborhood than ever before —and the fine part about it ra that by adapting this method, they will find themselves living in a better neighbor hood without having to move from where they are! Sell Some Land to Good, Wbite Neighbors. The Progressive Farmer. All over the South there are thou sands of men who are keeping them selves and their families in virtual want holding onto more land than they need or can profitably manage. Moreover, by trying to keep to themselves land enough for three or four thrifty fami lies—or maybe very much more than this —these men are depriving them selves and their loved ones of needed fellowship and comradeship. We mean by this that they are keeping the neighborhood so sparsely settled that there cannot be the friendship, fellow ship and happy social life there ought to be, nor can churches, schools, libra ries, clubs, co-operative societies, etc., at anything like more than a half-dye ing rate. Think about it and see if it wouldn’t be a good idea if half the farmers in your neighborhood would cut their farms in two, sell the other half of the acreage to thrifty white farmers, and then all join together to have the most progres sive neighborhood possible. Many a present land owner would not only get more happiness out of life than ever before, hut under the changed condi tions would find the remaining half of his real estate worth as much as the whole acreage will ever be worth in a backward, sparsely settled community. Traveling Man’s Experience. In summer of 1888 I had a very severe attack of cholera morbus. Two physi cians worked over me from four a. m. to fi p. m. without giving me any re lief and then told me they did not ex pect me to live; thatx I had best tele graph for my family. Instead of doing so, I gave the hotel porter fifty cents and told him to buy me a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy, and take no substitute. I took a double dose according to di rections and went to sleep after the second dose. At five o’clock the next morning I was called by my order and took a train for my next stopping point, a well man but feeling rather shaky from the severity of the attack,” writes H. W. Ireland, Louisville, Ky. Obtainable everywhere. Sick headache, biliousness, piles and bad breath are usually caused by inac tive bowels. Get a box of Rexall Orderlies. They act gently and effec tively. Sold only by us at 10 cents. John R. Cates Drug Co. HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE ODORLESS REFRIGERATORS We Have Them. One-piece board, no seams to leak, air ventilation is fine, circu lation is perfect; enameled provi sion chamber, steel shelves, just the size you want. 1,000 rods 26-inch wire fence. This is the universal wire fence, a standard fence heavily galvaniz ed. Our cash price, 23c rod. 8-quart blue enameled water pail that sells regularly at 75c, at 45c. Ball Mason fruit jars—Don’t be deceived, get the best. Pints 65c, quarts 75c, 1-2 gallon $1 dozen. Easy Seal fruit jars—Glass top, easy for anyone to remove tops, abso- solutely the best on the market. Pints 85c, quarts $1, 1-2 gallons $1.35 dozen, Thick, fresh red gum rubbers, 10c or 3 for 25c. Good dark gray rubbers at 5c dozen. JOHNSON HARDWARE CO. TELEPHONE 81, NEWNAN, GA. After Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.—In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows: "I suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, 1 could only sit up for a little while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, I would have set ere pains in my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treat ment relieved me for a while, but I was soon confined to my bed again. After ] that, nothing seemed to do me any good. | 1 had gotten so weak I could not stand, and I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and I com menced taking it. From the very first dose, 1 could tell it was helping me. I can now walk two miles without its tiring me, and am doing all my work.” If you are all run down from womanly troubles, don’t give up in despair. Try Cardui, the woman’s tonic. It has helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of continuous success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardui for years. He knows what it will do. Ask him. He will recom mend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Me4idne Co.. Lade*' Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga. Tenn., for Special Instructions on your case and 64-page book. Bom* Treatment for Women.” sent in slain wraooor. !•£* Grandma’s Telephone Visits G RANDMA SMITH is a sprightly old lady who likes to keep in touch with things. In the next town lives another dear old lady who was Grandma’s school mate, and of whom she is very fond. It is impossible for the two old ladies to do much visiting, but every day they call each ; other up on the telephone and have the 1 most delightful chats. No one gets more comfort and pleasure i outof the family telephnoethan Grandma. When you telephone—smile SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ^PERFECTION QilCbokStove is the greatest modern improvement for the average kitchen. They are just as easy to operate and clean as any stove made. They are absolutely safe and any ordinary cook can get perfect results from them. The “New Perfection” Oil Cook Stove has every device that makes for perfect cooking and saves money, time, labor and temper. Every woman should have this stove in her kitchen. No Soot No Smoke No Ashes No Dirt No Odor Darden-Camp HdwCo and B. H Kirby Hdw. Co., Newnan, Ga. gans\ die Hardware Co.. Hogansville, Ga. Writs for Booklet STANDARD OIL CO., - ATLANTA, GA, ^ incorporated m Kentucky. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY CO. CURRENT SCHEDULES. ARRIVE FROM Griffin 10:57 A. a. Chattanooga 1:43 p. m Cetlartown 6:43 a.m. Columbus 9 -40 a m 7:17 p. m. 6:35 p. m. DEPARTFOR Griffin 6:45 A. M. Chattanooga 11 ;o'J A. 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