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m 'Avg «!**» Herald . M HERALD ) Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1880. t 'Established 1800. (Consolidated with Newnan News January, 1915. I NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921 Vol. 56—No. 34 _r T C- A M n S F TrH F S and should bo kept out of vouch ol’ the SKI 7 S AN U AZr i o n n o ^ Yes> gir> thnt , s wliat n kilowatt is, The lights were low. nnd John and Zoo, In cold nnd'wintry weather, Upon the sofa side by side ■Were sitting close together— Llkethis. ’But father came upon the scene, And, followed close by mother, i3aw John at one end of the lounge, While Zoe was at the other— Like This. The man who served as oflicial hang man when Mrs. Surratt and her fellow- martyrs were executed in Washington in 1865, charged with conspiracy to assns siunte Abraham Lincoln, died tho other day at Jackson, Mich. His name was Christian Rath, and he was a. German, of course. For this valiant service lie was given the rank of lieutenant-colo i-1. Whv he should have boon permitted to live' so long is one of the strange mercies of Providence that is hard to under stand. “Have you ever heard a political demagogue advise people along safe and sane lines?” asks the Commerce Ob server, and answers its own question thus: “Ho, and you never will. Their advice is generally of tho kind that prejudices one class of people against another, makes the laborer believe he is getting the worst of ' it, and stuffs the farmer with the notion that alhough ho feeds the world the politicians at Wash ington and the Wall street money devils have their heels on his lieek.” ‘The world never moved so fast as now,” says the Southern Telephone News. “We have ice on the Fourth o.f July; spring vegetables on Christmas Day; we'buy'.our straw hats in February, and our:felt:hats in August; we get our Sunday 'paper on Saturday night, and our magazines a month ahead of time. If we call a man in San Francisco from New York he hears our voice about four hours before we speak; and if someone in Japan sends us~a cablegram tomorrow wo get'it today;” Upon the theory that misery loves company, tlie Georgia farmer who is mooning and.moaning ovor the low price of cotton, the ravages of the boll weevil, and other misfortunes, might find some comfort in reviewing the series of dis asters which befell this Kansas farmer- “His liorse-went deackand his mule went lame, And he 'last-his cow in a poker gnme, And a cyclone came on a winter duy And blew thejliopse. where he Uved-'nway; *** d>h,en.aiv : effrtliquak'S , ‘(mlnd when that "was gone And swallowed the ground that his house stooi 1 on; Then the tax collector, ho came nrouiid And (charged him up with the hole in the ground.” Numerous absurdities were charged to blundering officialdom at Washington during the war period, one grotesque ex ample described by a Boston paper ■‘taking the cake,”_as the saying goes. ■It seems that in 1917 Dr. Willard A. Paul, a well-known physician and human itarian of that city and member of the Association to Abolish War, proposed to have printed without note or comment the Sermon on the Mount, and distribute it widely throughout the country as a protest against war. Before doing so however, as a matter of caution he noti fied the Department of Justice at Wash ington 6f his' intention, and in due season wr<s officially andl solemnly informed that “such a procedure would be re garded as pro-German, and could -not have the sanction of the department, etc. Gan you ‘beat,it? if you know what 1 menu.” Needless to say, his auditors felt relieved by this Illuminating explanation, nnd, although a bit dnzed, turned away apparently satisfied. Those who have tried it say that to cat spaghetti gracefully is an rirt that can be acquired only after much prac tice. We feol sure this opinion will bo. concurred in. by a Newnan man who hail his first experience with this vermicular form of diet while on a visit to New Orleans a few weeks ago. Dropping in at one 'of the numerous cafes one finds at almost every turn in that quaint old ei'y, and, seized with the notion that he would like to frivol with some novelty the eating line, ho ordered n helpin’ of spaghetti. When the waitress set the dish before him ho began operations by lifting several strands of the sinuous morsel with a fork nnd transferring it to his mouth. Then tho fun began. With loose ends of tho spaghetti dangling over his chin, and ■ long strands still an chored in the quivering mass in the dish, he blurted out to the waitress: “Here, glub, glub—‘ ‘ how do you ’ ’— glob, glob—“eat' this here stuff?” Aw, you don’t eat it, ’ ’ was tho pert re ply, “you ketch it by the tail, give it a sling, and jes ’ wollop it down ‘Tho Sixty-seventh Congress is in ees- th 11 ’ we s,ia11 now see the Hon. , ° 8 - “• Watson will perform the mira cles of which he preached throughout Georgia last year,” observes Editor ,? T r ;r an ' °*. the Talbotton New Era. if he doesn’t, thousands of Georgians who have always stuck to him will be greatly disappointed.” Editor “Pat’ “riffin, of the Bainbridge Post-Searcli- l Bht, also evinces some curiosity upon the sublet. “ Golly!” says editor jriffin, who would have thought that • tton would not be selling! at 40c. a pound by now! Ain’t, Watson Senator? id we not hear the old Pops say to the voters last year, ‘You jhst wait till Tom gets to Washington, and darned if he non t show ’em how to run things’ ” tl Talbot county is not more an half as large as Coweta, and has a u ' sljr limited income from m S. r 80urc . e8 . she has adopted a plan dealing with moonshiners, bootleggers ljl_ , 1 2 u . < Jf. traffickers in general that is bnr >K results. The County Com- oners of that county have printed l ° tlce U1 the Talbotton New Era of- witli'® ?. rew ard of $50 fon^the arrest nrnmfc , to convict of every person inn i;^ CtU 7 lnc °. r selling liquor, or hav- Possession; and in the ■onr « 8 .J ts captured and the parties Bre arrc sted, the county will 'aiiil Sin / 0T tl |e arrest of the principal at tj, Y?, r , eac l* additional party caught Plan We commend this Coweta ° t ier liquor-infested counties— oweta among them. ‘ ‘ TnS, ln D ‘looht about anything ask Franhi« „ , yant - (His right name is “Tolw’i , arion * bu t everybody eallB him wattV’ for 8hort -> “What is a kilo- within 80 *J'eone asked the other day responsive 1 ” 8 * 10 * ° f the a "‘* ever watt’sn Mge - “Why—er a kiln ed gravelv- 1 ° WBt T t ; yotI k “ow, ” he answer- out like a has a habit of swelling vessei. In' 1 /-,* t° f 't" 1 ' !e *” & P ' nt coo ' c ' n K At a recent meeting of the Friday Lunch Club the different speakers on the program were warned by the chair man not to mention “hard times;” that one of the objects of these gatherings was to get the business Tnen of the town together and by jollying each other try to shako off the ‘ ‘ blues. ’ ’ Tom Goodnun opened the symposium with one of his breezy, optimistic talks, concluding with the heartening assurance that Newnan had seen worse times than we are now experiencing, and would pull through all right, and so forth and so oil. He was followed by Dr. Rembort G. Smith, who in his sweet, gentle way reminded his hearers that these adversities were a part of life; that they came upon the just as well as the unjust, and should be borne with becoming fortitude; that wo should have faith and patience, nnd in the fullness of time tho temporary re verses which now weighed upon our spirits would be turned into blessings, etc., etc. Mayor Kiimard diffused a few rays of sunshine by saying that Newnan as a municipality was in fine shape, financially and otherwise; that the city was blessed in many ways, had nothing to fear from any cause, and, with earn of his characteristic windmill gestures, concluded with the fiery declaration that Newnan was. the best town in Georgia, find lie'didn ’t care who heard ’him say Dan Boone omitted a few-(comfort ing observations on the situation in gen eral, saying that all wo need do was to stand loyally together, aB Newnan had always done, aiid the future would tako care of itself,etc. When the speakers appointed for tho evening had finished the chairman caught Duke Colo’s eye and askod if lie couldn’t say something that would contribute to the salubrious- ncssj>{' the occasion. Now, Duke''is the happiest after-dinner sneaker that wo know of, and no gathering of homo people is complete without him. He is never caught off his feet, and his ready flow of wit has been a source of delight to many a goodly company in times past. Thus importuned, Duke rose slowly, and, after surveying, the assembled guests with a solemnity unusual with him, said: “I have listened with interest and some anxiety to the remarks of tho gentlemen who preceded me, in the hope that I might extract a modicum of com fort from their praiseworthy efforts to dispel the gloom which seems to have settled upon the country—especially tho business part of it—but-I am frank to say that I have not been comforted ns much as I could have wished. I am directly interested in one enterprise of more or less magnitude, indirectly in some others^ and am constrained to say that I feel somewhat like the man who, ■having committed a capital offense and been duly sentenced for his crime, was being carted off to the gallows by the sheriff. As it* happened, the ( route to the place of execution led past the little cabin in which the man had lived before he fell into the toils of the law. As the grusome cortege was passing the house his wifo ran out and called to her husband; ‘ Bill, before you git off tell me whar I shall plant them turnips—behind the garden or down back of tho cow- pen?’ Bill east a languid eye toward his wife and replied dejectedly, ‘Now, Mandy, you can plant ‘ em whar you durn please; I’m feelin’ sorter down hearted this mornin ’. ’ I am doing tho best I can to keep my spirits up,” con cluded the speaker, “but in spite of everything must admit that I feel ‘sorter downhearted THE SOFT JOB. Soft jobs make soft pcoplo. Wo gain strength by overcoming forces thnt resist us. Things that come easy never add anything to our powers.. Men find, qs they look back, that it was ib solving the hard problems that they developed tho ability to handle the big job that came their way later. It’s tho principle of tho. carpenter s sandpaper. If soft things took tho roughnoss off the board and transformed it into a smooth, polished desk top, furniture makers would use velvet instead, of sand paper. . If soft materials put a fine cutting odgo on a dull knife, the grinder would use rubber instead of an emery wheel. : Things come easy to the jellyfish. All ho has to do ib to Heat along in the cur rent of the ocean tides nnd absorb the 1 , food around him. But ho never develops a backbone. Beforo an enemy ho is help- loss. ■ A rich man’s son may be given a job. in his father’s establishment! but. unless he really knuckles down to work he will novor develop initiative, executive abUF ty, power of decision. . There have been thousands of English; statesmen, blit none accomplished more for the British Empire than Disraeli, Queen Victoria’s prime minister. He, was a Jew, nnd to attain that office Dis raeli was obliged to combat distrust, rid icule, envy and prejudice. Overcoming these handicaps gave hiih' strength. He was one of the outstand ing characters in English history. W. W. Maxwoll, ail associate of Thtja Edison, ndvises all young men to start their business career by house-to-house . soliciting. ’ • • •• 1 - Meeting rebuffs and sharpening his wits against the arguments of hundreds of persons will produce moral fibre that will' stand him in good- Stead throughout life, Mr. Maxwell says. The point .is this: The trying, disagreeable things that’ confront us every dny^nro the sandpaper, dllfi emery wheels of life. They tvegr the roughnoss off our in experience, sharpen our mental powers, fit us to cope! with harder problems, and’, j enable us to handle bigger rosponsibil ities. To remember this will help us to see our jobs in the right light. Wo are all inclined to feol, at times, that our job is the most exasperating in the world. It has more difficult angles, more unpleasant features than any we know of. We sigii for a softer borth. But if, instead of Booking to 'avoid difficulties, we mot them boldly, wo would soon find oursol.yos growing in n way that would grently increase. .* OYT earning power.-... '. " : ' O ■ ft But these pretty, new Ging ham, Voile and Organdie Dresses, with their low prices, make up for the finest sort of argument for those wanting a pretty dress for 5.95 to 12.50. Why worry with the making when such dresses can be had for SO little ? Pretty styles, good materials, well-made. 5.95 to 12.50 jj 1 I I 0 A All Coats and Suits now V2 price jj FIVE HUNDRED NEGROES Wtl.L SAIL FOR LIBERIA. Baltimore, May 10.—About 500 Amer ican negroes,* including many leaders of •the race, • will- sail from this port for Liberia on Dec. 3, according to plans of tho Amoricnn African Tourist Com pany, returning, after a 45-dny trip, on Jan. 17 of next year. The tour is being organized in co-oper ation with the president of Liberia and the National Baptist Convention (color ed), the officers of the company (being some. of the moHt responsible iiogro loaders of the country. Tho trip is un der tlie supervision of some white pooplo of Baltimore who hove taken a sympa thetic interest in negro problems. The purpose of the tour is to got a large number of American negro loaders personally acquainted with Liberia, to know tile country's civilization, resources and possibilities; then to return to America and toll the . American negroes that Liberia is a country with American standards of living and American oppor tunities. Besides the tourists | it is possible that about 150 negro farmers will be takon on the same boat to Liberia for settle ment, carrying with them their farming Implements. » the - .”* * v -- "" j, cuuBiu u> frequently 1°^’ an,i ’ like the latter, ® n the job, whether^you'a^^nKlinni^nr ° f fellowahi P a* 1 ' 1 treat him as you would *1®^ a ^t “isThaU^tLg PWggr-. The preacher may save safe thing for**' 0 tl0 - use * but is not a an own cousin to the baby to ploy with, “Yes, sir,” said the village grocer, “I take the big weeklies to keep track of the world’s affairs, and the big city dnilies to keep posted on what Is going on in this country. ’ ’ “But, don’t you take your home pa per?” asked the drummer. “Nope.” “But you certainly ought to feel in terested in local affairs.” “Oh, I know everything that goes on. My wife belongs to the woman’s club and three societies, one of my daughters works in the millinery' shop, and the other is In. the delivery window at the postoffice, ” Liquor causes more trouble in this coun ty than all other agencies combined, and the sooner every community realizes ever that a good revenue officer is their best friend, the "better it will be for the county. The revenue officer helps to clothe and feed the little children; he saves the old father, mother and wife much trouble; he makes any community safer to five in. Give him the gjad hand you from Tiell hereafter, bat the revenue officer helps save you from helf here on earth.—Banks Comity Journal. -o When you see a man talking into a telephone transmitter with the silly grin of an imbecile op. his face, and rolling his eyes like n "calf with the colic, it’s a safe bet that he’s talking to Mb lady friend.—Conyers Times. 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