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THE NEWNAN HERALD St;\VNAN HERALD .(Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September i ; tahlished ItooO. I Consolidated with Newnan News Junuury, 1 i> 15. \ 1H8C. i NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. Vol. 52—Mo. 7 FARMERS’ Supply Store It was with many doubts and fears that we all started in to make this crop. Both the mer chant and farmer had to go strong on faith—faith in each other. We have struggled up to this good hour, and now see that we have been greatly blessed. Hope, too, we can sec better times ahead for us all. We have stocked our store with the things that our customers need, and at the lowest prices cash can command. We are still headquarters for supplies for the farm and home. We want to mention especially the following articles you will need— “Star Brand” Shoes Are Better. See us on shoes for the entire family. Work Shirts, Undershirts, Work Pants, etc. Also, bagging and ties. Special prices to ginners. Georgia Seed Rye, Barley, Wheat and Oats. Flour, Flour, Flour! “Desoto” is the best Flour for the money that you can buy. Old-fashioned Cuba Molasses. ANSWER E I> PRAYE R S . 1 prayed for riehea, and achieved Kuceeah: All thut I touched turned into jtold. AlfiM* My cares were Rroater. and my peace less, When that wi?h onme to puss. 1 prayed for glory, and I heard my name Sung by nwoet children and by hoary men; But, ah! the hurta, the hurt* that come with/nmc! I wub not happy then. 1 prayed for love, and hud my soul'a detdro; Through quivering heart and body and through brain There awept the tlunu* of its devouring lire. And there the scars remain. I prayed for a contented mind. At length Great light upon my darkened spirit bund; Great peace fell on me also, and grent strength; Oh! had that prayer been first. Come to see us. You are Hitch your mules and horses in and store your bundles with us. always welcome, our wagon yard 1. G. FI ’Phone 147. YOURS TO PLEASE, Corner Madison and Jefferson Streets. ^flBii;fiiLktvinm(imiiitiuimnHHiiiiiiiiiiiiHuuHiuim;uifui!nmmnmRiniinuimitiii!tnuuiiMum(niMiiHuiiuitiiuiH;i»!iUiiiiiinHmiiiuiutiiiiiiiHiiMmiiuiiimiiuuHiiHiHiatRuiiuuim!itiimP!: You Eat The Best? Why punish your stomach by eating inferior food when THE BEST is just as ECONOMICAL? Every careful housewife knows that THE BEST in foodstuffs costs no more than the poorer grades of goods, for the very same reason that THE BEST has VERY LITTLE or NO WASTE, and therefore lasts longer than the inferior article that is sold for a cent or so less. My'stock of Groceries is new, clean, well-assorted, and comprises the very best and purest goods that money will buy. I give careful attention to all orders, my prices are reasonable, and I deliver promptly. Try me with an order and let me show you. I am grateful for the generous patronage given me since I opened for business on my own account, and a continu ance of these favors will be much appreciated. Jas. M. Wadsworth West Side Court Square ***** ''"'S'>OTwraaiiuwiW!i nmiomflurnmiiMuiiturmuiiniiiihiii; T. S. PARROTT Insurance—All Branches fapresenting Fire Association, of Philadelphia Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York American Surety Co., of New York Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N. J. 14 1-2 Greenuille st., Ouer H. C. Glover Co. History of Split Between Baptists Savannah, Ga., Nov. ‘1.—As the Prim itive Baptists open a three-day conven tion in Savannah to-day. Geo. S. Car gill, Esq., one of them, prepared the following brief history of the church for the Morning News as a matter of news and information: The oldest Baptist church in the South is the First church of Charleston, S. C., organized in 1082. From this church, which contained among its mem bers such illustrious names as Gen. James Screven, of Revolutionary fame, came many missionaries into Georgia, among them Nicholas Bedgewood, who was employed at Mr. Whitfield’s or phanage near Savannah, where it Ib said the first Baptist communion ser vice in this State was held. The first Baptist church in Georgia was constituted in what is now Colum bia county, and took the Indian name Kiokee. Daniel Marshall, of Virginia, and Edmund Bottafield, of Charleeton, S. C., were among the early preachers. Edmund Bottafield was a native of En gland. He emigrated to Charleston, and, becoming deeply concerned in the matter of religion, was converted and baptized. The First Baptist church of Savannah was constituted in the year 1800, and its first pastor was Elder Henry Hoi combe, who was afterwards pastor of the First Baptist church of Philadel phia. Another of the early preachers was Hon. Joseph Clay, a Judge of the United States District Court for this district, who became converted while on the bench, and, receiving a call to the higher work of the ministry, resigned the Judgeship. The churches along the Savannah riv er were the first to be established Georgia, but as the tide of immigration moved southward and westward live and prosperous churches wore estab lished throughout the State. Many the early preachers came into Georgia from Virginia and the Carolinas, but the old Charleston church seems to have furnished the greater number. There were no missionary societies in those days, and although the churcheB and associations sometimes raised funds for local missionary work, there were no missionary boards such as exist to day, and as to sending missionaries into foreign lands, that was a thing unheard of until some years after the Revolu tionary War. Still the Baptist cause grew and prospered, and wielded a wide influ ence throughout the country. But as the churches increased and grew in wealth and numbers there arose preach ers more ambitious than the pastors of colonial times, and many new move ments were inaugurated to cause the church to grow more and more. Theo logical schools were established, mis sionary and tract societies formed, and plans were laid to join in the great mis sionary movement started in England to send the “gospel” into all the world. So persistent were the demands of these zealous missionary workers and so bold their efforts to line up the churches behind their visionary plans for evangelizing the world that many of the more conservative brethren saw a tendency to depart from the simple or der of the ancient church, and were not willing to join the movement. For a number of years it was an open question among the Baptists, and mis sionary agents were permitted to travel among all the churches; but as the movement spread the brethren contend ing for the older order of things saw the breach between them and their ar dent missionary brethren widening, so they concluded that the only way to preserve the primitive order was to sever all connection with the modern missionary system and all who persist ed in fostering it upon the churches. This brought about the division between what is now known as the Missionary and the Primitive or Old School Bap tists, and ever since that time each side has maintained a separate organi zation, each contending for its particu lar views on the questions in contro versy. In some of the churches there was no division—each church following its own particular lead, some going one way and some another. The old church in Savannah, as well as the church in Charleston, became affiliated with the missionary party; and it was not until the year 1895 that another church of the Primitive order was established in Savannah. It Should Be Written. Mnoon Nowb. Thirty years ago there died the most picturesque character, and in some re spects the greatest man, Georgia has ever produced. He was the leonine Robert Toombs. “No satisfactory life of Toombs has ever been written; Rome day I may try my hand at it,” says ThoB. E. Watson, in an essay written eight or ten years ago. As Watson enjoyed a personal ac quaintance with ToombB and is proba bly better versed in Georgia political history than any other citizen of this State, he is the historian who could best perpetuate Toombs in letters. Al ready he has contributed much remin iscence on this famous Georgian, but that does not take the place of a study of the life of the orator and statesman, who by the sheer force of hiB individual ity cauaed Georgia to secede from the Union. ToombB suggests Webster, and yet, as a Northern editor said of him in 1876, he had "a brightness and versa tility vastly surpassing that of the ponderous New Englander. ” His pow erful oratorical gifts, personal habits and physical appearance also bring to mind Mirabeau; but nowhere in histo ry is his real counterpart to bo found There was only one Toombs, and there will never be another. Toombs, Stephens and Hill constitu ted the great political triumvirate of Georgia, but the latter two were com pletely overshadowed by him when he was in his prime. It was Toombs who fired the State with the idea of seces sion. It was Toombs who should have been President of the Confederacy, and would have been but for an unfortunate incident in Montgomery. It was Toombs —for what Georgians particularly re member him, and are indebted to him — who dominated the Constitutional Convention of 1877, and gave Georgia a Constitution that is to-day nearly with out change. Until his death Toombs was powerful and interesting. Even in his declining years he was one of the greatest and certainly one of the moat successful lawyers of the State. Ah Ben Hill said "His head was right and his heart was true” until the very last, in matters of law and government. The proper place of Toombs in the history of Georgia and in the record of his day and time should bo established in literature, for the delectation and in struction of future Georgians, before it is too late. The News hopes that Mr Watson, with his wonderful capacity as a historical writer and as an admirer of Toombs, will yet “try his hand at it.” •*18068 Robt. E. Lee Next to Na poleon. Richmond Times-Dlaputch. Sitting in his dressing - room last night Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson related an incident which will doubt less warm the hearts of Southern men toward a soldier who is now serving En gland "somewhere in France.” The groat actor was speaking of the South and its leudors, particularly dur ing the War Between the States, and he expressed the reverential admira tion that he had always felt for Gen. Robert E Lee, saying that he had read much about Gen. Lee, and had learned much more from metnbors of his fami ly. ‘It will interest you. 1 think," he said, "to know what Gen. Sir John French thinks of Leo. Just before the wur—the present war—wo wero lunch ing together. Naturally, the conversa tion drifted to fighting, and then to the great fighters. Sir John ban decided opinions about the famous generals of history, and 1 was profoundly inter- esated in hearing his views. We Bpoke of your war and of its leaders. 1 had known some of the Fed eral gonerala in later years —notably Gen. Sherman—and, as 1 have said, I knew quite well several members of Gen. Lee’s family, and I knew Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie, sc that while he knew the man as a pro fessional soldier, I knew them in i more intimate way. “Finally I said, ‘Sir John, just where do you place Lee among the generals of history?’ “He did not hesitate—and I remem ber particularly how ho shot his chin forward and hit the words out: 'Where do I place Lee? 1 place him next to Na poleon, sir!’ ” Prices For “Puffs.” The editor of nn Eastern paper has grown peevish. He haa been pestered so much by people desiring free “puffs'' that he facetiously refers to himself as the "Peerless Prince of Puff Purvey ors.” He thinks he has done enough for social queens, ministers who are looking for free advertising, people who have legislative fads they wish to push, and organizations which want free publicity. So ho has evolved the fol lowing scale of prices for puffs: For telling the public that a man is a successful citizen when everybody knows thnt he is us lazy ua a hired man, $2.70 Referring to a deceased citizen as one who iH mourned by the entire com munity, when he will only he missed by the poker circle, $10.12. Referring to one as a boro and a man of courage and one who will Htand by hia honest convictions, wliun everybody knowB that he is a moral coward and would sell out for IK) cents, $6.21. Referring to some gallivantin' fe male ns an estimuhle lady whom it is a pleasure to meet and know, when every man in town would sooner see Satan coming, $8.10. Calling an ordinary pulpit orator an eminent divine, 60 cents. Sending a doughty sinner to heaven. $5. Referring to a deceased merchant who never advertised in his home paper as a progressive citizon, $-1.99. Lambasting the daylights out of de mon rum at the request of the local prohibition committee, $6 77. Ditto for the prohibitionists at the roiuest of the local "wet” committee. $6.77. Chamberlain's Tablets. This is a medicine intended especially for stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation. It is meeting with much success and rapidly gaining in favor and popularity. Our Military. New York Commercial. The War Department haB taken stock of the resources of American factories now engaged in making war materials and it appears that the productive ca pacity of the country in that direction has been increased a thousand per cent within a year. Within two mon'hs the largest army we would possibly need could be armed and equipped with evf ry thing necessary except the heavier classes of artillery, and the facilities for turning out big guns are ample for our r< quirements; but big guns cannot be built in a day. The whole country is taking an interest in the training camp at Plattsburg. N. Y., where civil ians are being trained in the duties of army ofli :ers. Educated and prac.ical men can learn fast, and this is no idle holiday. We can turn out arms, ammunition and other equipment us fast as we can recruit and train volunteers. Our sup ply system was formerly our weakest point, b it that has been made adequate at the expense of European belliger ents, and wo can step in and requisition everything should an emergency de velop, Officers we also lack, but the Plattsburg experiment proves that the right class of men is available. B/ or ganizing in time of peace we can cer tainly protect our shores frona invasion, and nobody contemplates the possibility of raising a large army for foreign ser vice of an aggressive character. It will not cost much to make arrangements with steel mills and machine Bhops whereby they will always be ready to turn out war materials at short notice. To know what to do is the chief thing. Made Over Again. Mrs. Jennie Miner, Davidson, Ind. writes: “I can truthfully say Foley’s Cathartic Tablets are the best I ever used. They are so mild in action. I feel like I have been made over again. Good health haa no greater enemy than constipation. Foley’s Cathartic Tablets keep the stomach sweet, liver active, bowels regular, and banishes bilious ness, sick headache, sour stomach. Stout persons welcome the light, free feeling they give. J. F. Lee Drug Co. Beware of Choap Substitutes. In these dayH of keen competition it is important that the public should see that they gel Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and not take substitutes sold for the sake of extra profit. Chamber lain's Cough Remedy has stood the test and been approved for more thun forty years. Obtainable everywhere. A Pew in the Old Church. The groat artist. Turner, kept on his easel a handful of precious stones of beautiful colors. For a half hour each morning he would ait silently and gaze at those glorious tints. He said he did this to keep his color-sense acute. If the artist’s eye. needed this inlluenco to keep its color-sense toned up, surely the human soul needs the tonic in fluence of spiritual worship. What is the cloud that Iooiub over every man’s path every day? Not sorrow, not poverty, not sickness, not business re verses. The cloud that looms over evory path is temptation. Some time ago a man who had not been in a church for fnany years, secured a pow in his old church, and is now one of its reg ular attendants. Some one asked him his reaaon. He said, “I have a grow ing family of sons and daughters. I have been watching my boys with some anxiety. I am alarmed at what I read in the daily papers about the ways of the world, the ease with which men under temptation go down like reedB in the wind, the frequency with which husbands and wives break up their homeB. I am convinced there is only one place to bring up a family of chil dren, and that is in the church?" Who will question that father’s judgment? He does not want his sons to grow up without moral anchorage; he does not want his daughters to marry IhoBe who will play fast and loose with honor; and he knows that the church with its worship is the place where ideals are burnished up, where the dust is cleansed from the soul’s wings, where false standards are corrected. Cured Boy of Croup. Nothing frightens a mother more than the loud,- hoarse cough of croup. The labored breathing, atrangling, choking and gasping for breath call for instant acllon. Mrs. T Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis., says: “Foley’s Honey and Tar cured my boy of a Herioua attack of croup after other remedies had failed I recommend it to every one, as we know from our own experience that it is a wonderful remedy for coughs, colds, croup and whooping coagh.” It clears air passages, soothes and heals. J. F. Lee Drug Co. Lake Erie produces more fish to the square mile than any other body in the world. The meanest man in the world is the fellow who introduces two strangers and then walks off, loaving thorn to get away from each other the best they can. GOOD NEWS. Many Newnan Readers Have Heard it and Profited Thereby. “Good news travels fast,” and bud back sufferers in New-un are glad to learn where relief mnv lie fou-d. Many a lame, weak and aching back is hail no more, thanks to Doan’s Kidney pil'H. Our citizens are telling the good news of their experience with this tested remedy. Here is an example worth reading: Mrs. J. M. Crowe, trained nurse, 20 Salhide street, Newnan, hiivh; 1 huve seen Doan’s Kidney Pills used with sueh good results that I always recom mend them to anyone I hear complain Ing of kidney trouble and they always prove beneficial. I co'aider them a medicine of merit mid don’t hesitate to recummend them to anyone troubled by any symptoms of kidnuv complaint, such as bsckachu, headache, dizziness or irregular passages of the kidney secretions.” Price F>0c., at all dealers. Dont sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney I’illH -the same that Mrs. Crowe recommends. Foster- Milburn Co , Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Dyspepsia] Tablets will relieve your indigestion. Many people in tbis town have used them and we have yet to hoar of a case where they have failed. We know the for mula. Bold only by us—25c a box. John R. Cates Drug Co. FEA THER BEDS For a limited time we will sell one Feather Bed weighing 36 pounds and one pair of pillows weighing 6 pounds all for $10 cash with order, f. o. b. Covington, Ga. NEW feathers only. * Best A. C. A ticking. If beds are not as advertised we refund your money. In business over 4 years our best advertisement. Order to day. Reference Bank of Newton County Send your orders to the oldest bed com pany in Georgia. DIXIE FEATHER BED CO. Covington, Ga. For Shoe and Har ness Repairing and NEW HARNESS frfj tO A. J. BILLINGS 6 SPRING ST. Only high-class materials used in my work.