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THURSDAY AFTERNOON
The Abandonment
of Country Homes.
A. B. Pope, m Atlanta News.
The panic of the early nineties
brought with it a series of disasters
to the cotton growers of the south
111 judged methods of farming had
for half a generation, been shaping
eveuts toward a crisis. The crisis
came with the fall in the price
of cotton, from eight cents to five
in a ■single season. This was at
tended with loss of credit, debt,
and that widespread business
prostration that follows in the
wake of a contraction of the
currency.
Then began a hegira from coutry
homes,turning a steady stream of
migration toward the towns,
and greatly augmenting their
population in a brief space of
time. Comfortable homes were
abandoned. Fertile fields were
surrendered to pine and
broomsedge. Stately mansions of
ante-bellum days stood deserted
along every southern highway,turn
ed over to negro occupants, or to
the tenantry of bats and owls, the
unique social life which once
held sway within their walls silent
forever. Within the space of
eighteen months the population
of many factory communities had
reached an increase of from fifty
to one hundred per cent.
'lhe dispirited farmers of
the south were looking in every
direction save the right one, for
the retrievement of their broken
fortunes. One thought seemed
never to have come to them —
that the instrument of their
downfall and crucifixion might,
through saner methods of agricul
ture, become the agent of their
redemption. A self-indulgent
despair had seized them that im
pelled them to flee, panic-stricken,
from the scene of their failure,
and to obliterate all reminders of
the errors of past.
This rapid withdrawal of the ru
ral population greatly multiplied
the inconveniences and increased
the perils of country life. White
settlements were located at great
distances from each other. Along
the roads that led to the country
school house were unfrequented
localities, though which the timid
and defenseless might well hesitate
to pass. For a bove every southern
girl and woman there hung, and
does hang, the dark shadow of
RAH BLOOD,
RAD COMPLEXION.
The skin is the seat of an almost end
less variety of diseases. They are known
•by various names, but are all due to the
same cause, acid and other poisons in
the blood that irritate and interfere with
the proper action of the skin.
To have a smooth, soft skin, free from
all eruptions, the blood must be kept pure
and healthy. The many preparations of
arsenic and potash and the large number
of face powders and lotions generally
used in this class of diseases cover up
for a short time, but cannot remove per
manently the ugly blotches and the red,
disfiguring pimples.
Eternal vigilance la the price
of a beautiful complexion
when such remedies are relied on.
Mr. H. T. Shobe, 2704 Lucas Avenue, St. Louis,
Mo., says : ‘‘My daughter was afflicted for years
with a disfiguring eruption on her face, which
resisted all treatment. She was takeu to two
celebrated health springs, but received no bene
fit. Many medicines were prescribed, but with
out result, until we decided to try S. S. S., and by
the time the first bottle was finished the eruption
began to disappear. A dozen bottles cured her
completely and left her skin perfectly smooth.
Bhe is now seventeen years old, and not a sign of
the embarrassing disease has ever returned."
S. S. S. is a positive, unfailing cure for
the worst forms of skin troubles. It is
the greatest of all blood purifiers, and the
only one guaranteed purely vegetable.
Bad blood makes bad complexions.
purifies and invigo
rates the old and
makes new, rich blood
h. i3l that nourishes the
WHr Bw body and keeps the
jlrin active and healthy and in proper
condition to perform its part towards
carrying off the impurities from the body.
If you have Eczema, Tetter, Acne, Salt
Rheum, Psoriasis, or your skin is rough
and pimplv, send for our book on Blood
and Skin Diseases and write our physi
cians about your case. No charge what
ever for this service.
SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY. ATLANTA. QA.
that peril, bred by thelpresence of
a race whose salient characterise
is a growiug teudency to nameless
and unendurable crime.
Yet there are those more direct
ly involved in this shifting of res
idence from country to town. • To
the old it means the breaking of
many ties, necessarily sacred, and
the surrender of long settled views
and habits, when, by reason of ad
vancing age, readjustment is im
possible. To tbe better classes
among them it involves also the
complete disintegration, in the
near future, of that regime of
southern social life, some traces of
which remain to us a cherished
relic of the old south.
To the young the results of the
change are even more tragic.
Theirs is the doubtful exchange of
the healthful social environmeut
of the country for the feverish, ar
tificial life of the city. Comiug
without knowledge or experience,
from the simple walks of country
life, many of them fall an easy
prey to the temptations that meet
them in the gilded Babylons to
which they have drifted, Caught
iu the whirl of dissipations that
are new and strange to them, they
are carried to swift destruction.
The harvesting of recruits from re
spectable homes, to swell the ranks
of the lost iu the centers of popu
lation and pleasure, goes steadily
on. Each country community is
sending its annual quota of fair
young victims, to feed the altars of
those Molochs of the barroom and
the brothel.
On other grounds, also, the sub
ject commands the attention of
thoughtful men. A distinguish
ing characteristic of the southern
man is his individualism. He
habitually minds his own business
and leaves that of other people
alone. This is the fruit of his
comparative social isolation —an
isolation that stops short of mor
bidness on the one hand, and se
cures the ends of intellectual pri
vacy on the other. This renders
him not less but more of a patriot.
The tap-root of patriotism is an
attachment to definite localities
that bound the sum total of one’s
worldly interests —an attachment
so sacred that it is absolved forev
er from all suspicion of mercenary
or egotistic motives. And who so
apt to feel this as the man who
sits under his own fine and fig
tree, and learns to love with a ten
derness that passeth words the
place where his dead are buried,
the scene of his toil and conflicts,
the rocks and hills that form the
external scenery of his home, fa
miliar to him as the faces of his
wife and children. By so much as
a man loses himself in the com
mon herd, merging his identitv in
to that of the community or state,
by so much does he surrender the
highest incentives to patriotic fer
vor and devotion.
There is also the high ethical as
pect of the question. A people
reared in town will never become
great. Beginning at the top, they
will inevitably sink toward the
bottom. The influences that teud
to tall, rugged manhood and noble
womanhood are not bred in abun
dance behind city walls. The
crowded centers of population do
not furnish for us the highest safe
guards to civilization. Their
tierce competitions, their ceaseless
warfare of contending interests,
their herding together of a miscel
laneous humanity, the self-indul
gence that eats the heart out of
true manhood, and side by side
with it the struggle for existence,
desperate and piteous, that turns
every metropolitan arena into a
field of tragic warfare —these are
not the elements that breed depth
of soul or wideness of vision.
Princely human character is not
a mushroom of the hot house, but
THE NEWS-HERALD.
a lignum vitae of the forest, re
quiring the ministry of solitude,
and the free air of the hills for its
complete development. Our civi
lization was not cradeled in luxu
ry, or nurished amid the atmos
phere "of the shifting throngs; but
in the solitude of forest wastes, or
under the roof of the lonely squat
ter’s cabiu where brewed the ele
ments that have given to its blood
whatever of iron it possesses.
The men from whom has come
the moral and intellectual force
that has built and sustained this
republic have been for the most
part men who have reared close to
the heart of nature, their veins fed
from the fountains of pure air,
wholesome food, and a healthy so
cial and moral life, meu who grew
strong felling the forests aud till
ing the soil, who learned courage
from battling with nature’s hos
tile forces, patience from the state
ly march of the stars in their
courses, aud reverence from the
high companionship of the uni
verse.
The industrial reform that will
bring largest blessing to the south
in the near future, will be that
which is born of a truer agricultu
ral science, aud which, having re
stored the supremacy of our one
marketable commodity, will re
people the deserted homes, and
build again the waste places of
this fair southern section.
OLD SOLDIER’S EXPERIENCE.
M M. Austin, a civil war vet
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“My wife was sick a long time in
spite of good doctor’s treatment
but was wholly cured by Dr.
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ed wonders for her health.” They
always do. Try them. Only 25c
at A. M. Winn & Son’s.
It is a blessed thing, indeed,
says Jean Ingelow, that none of
us can take our rubbish to another
world; for, if we could, some of
the many mansions would be little
better than lumber rooms.
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The blood is constantly being
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of the best blood purifier. Price
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drug store.
The art of putting men in the
right places is the highest in the
science of government, but that
of finding places for the disconten
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Shop in north side
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W. R. DEXTER,
FUNERAL DIRECTOR,
Lawrenceville, - - Ga.
DR. MEL. T, JOHNSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
Will attend all calls day or night. Office at
Bagwell’* drug store, residence on Mechanic
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SALT RHEUM CURED BY
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Slight Skin Eruptions are a Warning of Something STore Serlona to Conn
The Only Safe Way le to Heed the Warning. Johnaton’e Sarsaparilla
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Nature, In her efforts to correct mistakes, which mistakes have come from
•areless living, or it may be from ancestors, shoots out pimples, blotches and
other imperfections on the skin, as a warning that more serious troubles (per
haps tumors, cancers, erysipelas or pulmonary diseases) are certain to follow if
you neglect to heed the warning ana correct the mistakes.
Many a lingering, painful disease and many an early death has been avoided
limply because these notes of warning have been heeded and the blood kept
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and ears, and then on my whole body. 1 was perfectly raw with it. What I
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Lawrenceville, Ga.
in Cain {building. Calls answered
day or night.
DR. A. M. WINN,
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
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J. A. PERRY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Lawrenceville, : : Ga.
Office over G. W. & A. P. Cain's Stor 3.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Lawrenceville, Ga.
Office upstairs in the new Tanner building.
Will practice In all the courts, Careful at
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DENTIST,
Lawrenceville, - - Ga.
Office upstairs in the new Tanner building.
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Office hours—BaT m. to sp. m.
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Norcross, - - - - Ga.
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Office near the depot. Chronic diseases a spe
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PHYSICIAN AND SUREEON,
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