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THE NEWNAN HERALD
NEWNAN HERALD j Consolidated with Cowote Advertiser September, 1880.1
Established 1860. I Consolidated with Newnan Nows January, 1916. 1
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 7, 1916.
Vol. 51—No. 15
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GREETINGS TO OUR FRIENDS:
Your past business has materially
benefited us. Your confidence has en
couraged’ us. Your friendship has in
spired and strenghened us.
To continue to merit your [favor
and esteem is our promise, which goes
to you with our good wishes for your
happiness and prosperity through 1916.
Hoping the New Year will bring to
you and yours that which your heart
holds dear, is our sincere wish.
1
T, G. Farmer & Sons
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CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE FROM
Griffin 10 A. m. 7:17 P. M.
i uruiui iu vn a.
\; Chattanooga 1:43 P.M.
•Cetiartown 0:41A.M.
Columbus 9:40 a M.
6:35 p. M.
ANOTHER YE AR .
Another year passed over—atone,
Hope beaming with the now:
Thds move we o i—forever on,
The many and the few:
The many ot our childhood's days
Growing fewer, one by one,
Till death, in duel with each life.
Proclaims the last ts done.
Another year—the buried past
Lies on its silent gravo;
The stream of life flows over on,
As wave leaps into wave;
Anothor yoar-nhl who can toll
What memories it may bring
Of lonoly heart and toarful eye.
And hopo bereft of wing?
Another yoar-the curfew rings;
Past cover up each coal:
Tho old year dies, the old year dies.
The bells its requlom toll;
A pilgrim year has reached ltd shrine,
Tho air with incenso glows;
Tho spirit of another year
Comoa forth from long repose 1
Another year, with tears and joys,
To form an arch of love;
Another year to toil with hope.
And seek for rest abovo;
Another year wirtged on its way—
Eternity the goal;
Another year—peace in its train—
Peace to each parting soul I
—[Thomas O'Hagan.
DEPART FOR
Griffin G:4/> A. M. 1:40 p. M.
Chattanooga 11:00 A. m.
Cedartown 7:20 p. M.
Columbus.......... 7166 A. U. 5:15 p.m
The Old Year Dies.
Columbus Enquiror-Sun.
When the evening’s sun withdraws
his laBt lingering rays and retires to
rest behind the western hills; when the
shadows deepen until the twilight is
gone, and night spreads her sable
mantle over all the earth; when the
stars peep from the blue archway of
the sky, and the nightbirds are sing
ing their evening song, it ■ will be for
the last time in the good year of our
Lord 1916. For even now we stand,
aB it were, in the presence of a new
born year. The gild of the golden
west will scarcely have faded ere the
pink of a new morn and a new year
will begin to tint the east, and then in
the glory and beauty of promise will
come again the god of day, shedding
his light and warmth upon mankind.
There is something of pathos and
sadness, something akin to grief, in the
contemplation of the departure of the
old year. When the bells toll as it
dies, and finally night’s mid-hour is
struck, we feel that we have lost some
thing of a friend; that something has
gone out of our lives that will not come
again, and we fain would recall it, if
but for a season.
But time waits for no man. It
flits by as a winged thing, resting
neither here nor there nor anywhere,
not even for the briefest period. There
is no halting in its flight and no calling
it back after it has gone. And there
fore we experience that feeling of
Badness and regret that comes to us
when we contemplate the passing of
friends. We are powerless to stay
this passing, and we feel our weakness
all the more.
But while we pause to drop a tear
and heave a sigh over the death of the
old year—something we cannot really
feel, and yet know that an intangi
ble, indefinite something is slipping
from our lives—we catch the herald of
the new-born year. For the echo of the
bells that have tolled the sad requiem of
thedeparted has scarcely ceased to rever
berate ere the tone is changed from
one of sadness to one of joy as they
ring in the new.
The year that is upon the eve of its
departure to keep company with all
the other years that have gone before,
has seen its joys pnd its sorrows. Some
have rejoiced with exceeding gladness,
while others have grieved with great
grief. It has been so during all the
years, from the time when the morn
ing stars sang together to this good
hour, for the years, as they go, in this
respect are much the same. One year
differeth from another year but little
in the Sum total of years.
The New Year always is a time for
retrospection, for introspection and for
meditation. It is the time when most
people cast up accounts with themselves
and endeavor to ascertain whether the
balance is in their favor or against
them, and the time when, if they ever
intend to do so, they endeavor to make
improvements one way or another.
It is well for such a time to come
into the lives of all. If we make no
effort to improve it is certain there will
be no improvement.
This time is now at hand. What
shall we do? Everyone must answer
for himself.
We passed a little 3-year girl the
other day, when she accosted us
follows; “See the beautiful flowers
am gathering; ain’t they beautiful?’’
All about her were noxious weeds,
stick and stubble, but she was glean
ing out from among them the early
wild violet, to her beautiful, and nox-
iouB things were left unnoticed. How
much better and different life would
seem if we, like the little girl, would
just gather the beautiful things—things
pure and lovely—and not dwell or
think on the dark and impure and dis
torted blotches of life; for as a man
thinketh, so is he.
Constipation and Indigestion,
“I have used Chamberlain’s Tablets
and must say they are the best I have
ever used for constipation and indiges
tion. My wife also used them for in
digestion and they did her good,’
writes Eugene 3. Knight, Wilmington,
N. C. Obtainable everywhere,
The Flight of Time.
Anniston (Ain.) Star.
In his anguish Job said: “My days
are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and are spent without hope.”
The death of a year always brings to
us a realization of the merciless flight
of time; but, unlike Job, we should not
be hopeless.
The death of each succeeding year
witnesses the-burial of many hopes and
ideals, but to the wise the burial of
one hope makes room for a better one.
There is cause for gratitude in the
thought that everyone may start in the
new year with a new ambition, with a
clearer vision, and with a foundation of
knowledge acquired from the experi
ence of other years.
What if the visions of youth have
been blurred by time, and the high
ideals of early manhood toppled to the
dust of a too materialistic world? This
rough old world wbb ever a scoffer at
good and at truth, and the fact that
ybu find people blase and cynical is no
reason why you should follow their ex
ample.
True courage will keep a man from
being' embittered by the loss of his
ideals and the scoffing of the world.
To a man who is battling in a good
cause, a knock-down blow is only added
incentive to fight.
The'new year lies before you. What
are you going to do with it? If it is true
that “we take no note of time but from
its loss,” then we Bhould be careful not
to lose any, or to waste any. But what
are you going to do with the year that
lies before you? Are you going to sit
supinely down and regret that you were
unable to accomplish your ambitions of
last year? Are you going to drift along
with the tide and have next New
Year’s day reproach you with having
accomplished nothing?
Or are you going to profit by the los
sons of previous years? Are you going
to make another Btart—more vigorous,
more determined this time—to do some
good in the world, not for yourself
alone, but for the world at large; to
make some life happier, and to make
yourself ready for “that bourne from
whence no, traveler returns,” toward
which Father Time is so relentlessly
hurrying you?
Make it Pay Up Week.
Griffin Nowb and Sun.
Why not make the first week in Jan
uary “Pay Up Week” for this town
and this community?
Why can’t we all make the rounds
and pay up all of our bills, or pay at
leaBt as much as possible on each one
of them?
Why can’t we make this a town
where credits are a pleasure, and
where bad debts and slow pay and in
difference are unknown?
We would all feel better, and the
people we pay would feel even still bet
ter, and they would then be able to pay
what they owe.
Bills have to be paid some time or
other, and the beginning of a new year
is an opportune time to wipe them out
and start with a clean slate. But if al
lowed to run they will drag along from
month to month and in the end every
body will be wishing everybody else
wouldn’t be so everlastingly slow about
paying what they owe.
The man who pays his bills promptly
and starts the new year free from debt
can always get credit when he wants
it, and he won’t have to go hunting
around for an indorser. His face and
his word will be good enough for any
business house.
But the fellow who allows his bills to
run indefinitely and is indifferent to the
needs of his. creditors is an unsafe risk
at best, and his reputation for honesty
and reliability does not improve with
age.
This is a pretty good town, and our
people are generally good on the pay,
but we can make it bettor if we want
to.
Let’s all pay up I /
NEWNAN’S REPLY
Newnan Accepts the Evidence and
Many Newnan Readers Will
Profit by it.
Which is the more weighty proof-
a few words from a Newnan resident,
whom we know and respect, or vol
umes from strangers in distant towns?
There can be only one reply.
Mrs. W. H. Sewell, Spence Avo.,
Newnan, says: "1 suffered so from my
back that I could not get up when I
was down. I was alwayB in misery
and was so sore and lame that I could
not do any work. I got up in the morn
ing feeling more tired than the night
before. HeadacheB nearly drove me
mad and the kidney secretions caused
me much annoyance. I used Doan’s
Kidney Pills, procured from J. F. Lee
Drug Co., and they relieved the pains
in my back and put my kidneys in good
order. When I have any signs of kid
ney trouble now, I always use Doan’s
Kidney Pills, and they relieve me.”
Price 60c., at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy -got
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the aa . e that
Mrs. Sewell bad. Foater-Milburn Co.,
Prbp8., Buffalo, N. Y.
Sixty-nine Lynchings in 1915.
Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 1.—An annual
record of all lynchings in the United
States haB been furnished by Monroe
N. Work, head of the division of re
cords and researches of the Tuskegee
Institute, who aided Dr. Booker T.
Washington to compile these records
during the past Beveral yearn.
According to' this record there have
been, during the year juat dosed, sixty-
nine lynchings. Of those lynched fifty-
five were negroes and fourteen were
whitea. This is six more negroes and
eleven more whites than were put to
death by moba in 1914, when the record
forty-nine negroes and three
whitea. Included in the record are
three women. In Bt least four instances
it later developed that the persons put
to death were innocent of the offense
charged. Eighteen, or more than 'one-
fourth of the total lynchingB, occurred
in Georgia.
Only eleven (ten negroes and one
white,) of those put to death were
charged with rape. Other offenses and
the number lynched were: Murder, 17,
(five whites and twelve negroes;) kill
ing officers of the law, 9, (three whites
and six negroes;) wounding officers of
the law, 3; clubbing officers of the law,
a family of four, (father, aon and two
daughters;) poisoning mules, 3; steal
ing hogs, 2, (white;) disregarding
warning of night riders, 2, (white;) in
sulting women, 3; entering women’s
rooms, 2; wounding a man, 2; stealing
meat, 1; burglary, 2; robbery, 1; loot
ing, 1; stealing cotton, 1; charged with
Btealing a cow, 1; furnishing ammuni
tion to man resisting arrest, 2; beating
wife and child, 1, (white;) charged
with being accessory to burning barn,
1.
Lynchings occurred in the following
States: Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 5; Flor
ida, 6; Georgia, 18; Illinois, 1; Ken
tucky, 6; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, 9
Missouri, 2; Ohio, 1; Oklahoma, 3
South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 2; Texas,
6; Virginia, 1.
Pastor Forestalls Express Wagon,
Columbus Enquiror-Sun.
This was a busy delivery day with
the express company. It also happen
ed to be calling day with an enterpris
ing pastor of the community whoso
heart was bubbling over with good will
Hence the tragedy.
In a certain home in this city the ar
rival of a certain package from Jack
sonville was hourly awaited. It wbb
probably needed for medicinal purposes,
strictly, as the good housewife is quite
an ardent church member. On the
other hand, the theoretical head of the
household is not quite so strict in his
ideas on certain subjects.
The family was thus in a state of
preparedness, as it were, and just at
that moment the door bell rang. At
that same moment a wagon, although
not on express wagon, chanced to stop at
the gate. The little boy of the family
ran to the door and came face to face
with the minister, who was fairly beam
ing good cheer and good will. In his
hand he bore a package, an oblong
package, a Christmas remembrance,
for he is very fond of the members of
his flock.
There was the man; there was the
package; there was the wagon—the
happy chain of evidence was complete,
Just then the lady advanced to the
door, and as she did so her young son
ran up to her and cried enthusiastically
“Mammal mammal The whiskey’s
come!”
Women of Sedentary Habits.
Women who get but little exercise
are likely to be troubled with constipa
tion and indigestion, and they will find
Chamberlain's Tablets highly beneficial.
Not so good as a three or four mile walk
every day, but very much better than
to allow the bowels to remain in a
constipated condition. They are easy
and pleasant to take and moBt agree
able in effect. Obtainable everywhere.
The Kansas story of how the farmers
put beer kegs instead of wheels on
their binders, in order to harvest in
wet weather this year, recalls to the
Lawrenee Gazette the old story that
was often told in the days when prohi
bition was young in Kansas. There
was a law that permitted the sale of
liquor for medical, mechanical and
scientific purposes. A farmer came in
on t day and offered to purchase a gal
lon of stuff from the local druggist’s
book, in wmen all sales and tho pur
poses for which the liquor was to bn
used must be recorded.
"What are you going to use it for—
medical, mechanical or scientific pur
poses?” asked the drug clerk.
“You might as well put it down as
mechanical,” responded the farmer,
“I’m goin’ to have a barn-raisin.' ”
“I hear you are naving a ‘Take It
Back’ campaign in this town.”
“Yen," admitted the Flunkville citi
zen. “Have you borrowed something
that you failed to return?”
“Oh, no. I vant to see a man who
called me < liar about thrpe years ago.”
Two Christmas Tragedies
Heard County.
Franklin Nowb and Banner, 31st alt.
As a result of a misguided Christmas
celebration Heard county woke up Sun
day morning last to learn of two kill
ings.
Saturday night Mr. J. S. Vines, who
has resided in Franklin much of his time
for the past several years, went to a
party at Mr. Grover Cook’s. He was con
siderably under the influence of whiskey,
and, being rather unruly, Marshal Gus
Lipford attempted to get him away,
when Vines defied him with an unsight
ly dagger of huge dimensions. He was
taken away by other friends, and it
was thought no trouble would then
arise. A little later, however, Vines
reappeared in the midBt of the gathered
young people and made for the mar
shal with the knife. Finding himself
cornered, with no way of escape, Mr.
Lipford drew his pistol and fired a shot
into the approaching man’s breast, fol
lowing with two additional shots before
Vines fell to the floor. The wounded
man was carried to his room at the
Paschal House, where he died shortly
afterward.
Mrs. Estelle Anderson, of Atlanta,
and Mr. S. R. Pollard, of Temple,
daughter and cousin of deceased, ar
rived Sunday, and the body was buried
in Franklin cemetery late Sunday af
ternoon, after servioeB by Dr. W. S.
Trent.
Tho alfair was a most unfortunate
one, and would not have occurred but
for the fact that Mr. Vines was drink
ing.
On tho same night Mr. Tom Helton
was killed near Ridley. It is said that
he left his home early in the night with
a negro in search of whiskey. Next
morning he was found near the road
with a bullet hole in the back of his
head, and the negro had disappeared.
An inquest was ordered, but we under
stand it only Btarted its investigations
and adjourned over until Monday next.
Six-Year-Old Had Croup.
“I have a little girl 6 years old who
haB a great deal of trouble with croup,”
writes W. E. Curry, of Evansville, Ind.
”1 have used Foley’s Honey and Tar,
obtaining instant relief for her. My
wife and I also use it and will say it is
the bese cure for a bad cold, cough,
throat trouble and croup that I ever
saw.” Those terrible coughs that seem
to tear one to pieces yield to Foley’s
Honey and Tar. J. F. Lee Drug Co.
War to Continue.
Albany Herald.
There is a practical certainty [that
the world conflict, which has been in
progress for seventeen months, will
continue far iDto 1916, and possibly en
tirely through tho year. Despite the
tremendous sacrifice of life and proper
ty already made, the faint peace glim
mers that now and then appear prom
ise nothing definite. Both sides are
marshalling new armies, turning out
vast new stores of munitions, and ar
ranging fresh war credits. A year and
a half has been too short a time to ex
haust the reserve power of either side.
The central powers and the entente
allies are as one in claiming that they
ore still able to command ample re
sources for the further prosecution of
the war, and both are probably stating
the truth, broadly speaking.
It is going to be another year of war
and rumors of war. The world has be
come in a measure accustomed to the
sad spectacle, but there will not fail to
be a world-wide yearning for the re
turn of peace.
The Gist of It.
“Last December I had a Very severe
cold and was nearly down sick in bed.
I bought two bottles of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and it wasohly a few days
until I was completely restored to
health,” writes O. J. Metcalf, Weather-
by. Mo. If you would know the value
of this remedy, ask any one who has
used it. Obtainable everywhere.
The saddest person in all the world is
the callow youth, juat going into long
trousers, who gave a present, bought
with all hia money, to the girl of his
heart's burning desire, and—did not
even receive a post-card from her.—
Macon News.
“All the fools ara not dead yet,”
said the sarcastic man.
“What’s the matter with you?”
asked the simple one. “Aren’t you
feeling well?”
MRS. CLAYTON’S LETTER
..To Run-Down Nervous Women
Louisville, Ky.—“I was a nervous
wreck; and in a weak, run-down con
dition when a friend asked me to. try
Vino); I did so, and as a result-I have
gained in health and strength. I think
Vinol is the best medicine in the world'
for a nervous, weak, run-dovm system 1
and for elderly people.”—Mrs. W. C.
Clayton, Louisville, Ky.
Vinol is a delicious cod liver and iron
tonic without oil, guaranteed to over
come all run-down, weak, devitalized
conditions and for chronic coughs, colds’
and bronchitis.
JOHN K. CATES DOUG CO.. Newnan. Ga.
