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k POEM.
IW>ml * the Steatlnr of the Senior
Deoeenbor Sth, 1894,
**vrlty of Oohrgte.
*r PKI'.CY HOYLIC ADAMS.
SfaecOlim Mernitiisse Juv*bit.
Soar Friends! again the horologe of
time,
fuse AmotUer year has struck, with
o3etnn chime.
Ami rs salute It—pilgrims ou our
way—
As bene we pruse to celebrate this
day.
lie every land, In every clime and age,
Man's achievements are writ on his
tory’s page,
Brave, dauntless souls essay to do
aod dare
Ofgeod or ill—tbeir deeds are every
where.
The hold explorer cries: “Comrades!
onward go,
Through arctic seas, o’er desert fields
of snow,
Until, at last, the icebergs bid him
pause,
Hocan control, no longer, Nature’s
laws;
And jet he would with cold, expiring
breath,
Erect (mine trophy ef his light tvlth
sbiatti,
Hi* swnv huts rise—entomb his ghast
ly bones,
And dose beside a dark, rude cairn
of stones.
ThM the historic Muse has sung them
well,
The world’s great heart-throbs, as
they rose aud fell,
The warrloA’s meed, the tyrant’s lust
of power, I ' i
The hero’s laurels, greert but’ for an
hour,
Ambitious baos’.s, its lougi ng and its
strife,
44 Ail discords in the harmonies of
life.”
Vo snA memorial would we snatch
From fate,
To no false gods our lives be conse
crate;
Vo empty fame, lie dazzling meteor
gleams
Athwart the midnight of our youth-
Jul dreams, vj • <8
have ambition, but the
•port !
Of iritis fortune, oriuf servile court;
Vo wtuild bo bold, lot desperate or
rash,
la mimic warfare our swords clong
aud clash,
Our hopes are high, our aims have
worthy ends,
la sdl our contests, still we are good
friends.
Justice to all, to all generous praise,
Tamil who strive aud ltvo laborious
%ey dtyto -rT
-o*o AlmaMatiA 'great soti9 wha
arc gone,
(Our footsteps arc but echoes of their
owaj
Bequeathed to us this trite, but noble
tli ruth,
As inspiration for all struggling
youth,
•Honor and shame from no condition
rise,
Ac* well your part, there all the hon
or lies.”
Our willing feet now led through
learning'll mate,
la honor 'hen of these delightful
days,
A tear (Jiriaeirio so
4smi)ilii ■ üb. Of manhood yet to
be,
With reverent luuids, O Classmates 1
plant our trqe. , r
♦ a arr i* f
.Ihh ! i.
0,5% old Halls 1 ye hallowed walks!
ye trees!
Sweet harps that whisper to the pass
iug breeze,
l|otTety ear may catch lheir autumn
moan,
Worevery heartlhgj| plavnQvo under
tone.
T* us who hear if, day by day, its
.spell
t like the eity'a u'.glitwatch, “AH is
well I”
Thu* we again betako ourselves to
ri rest,
to fids own eqheHh'Cil rtook
and neat, w M
.Thj3-> Uly.talk lllw young homg-lov
■ > v| Jroo£ts ? ■ X *" f
Ox taste “tb • tol serenity of booxs.”
h fr#.*+ t'f-fT
'O, tfear old Town! whore beauty
riigns supreme,
The foster-home of many a peerless
<lllOOll,
from hill and dale tJicy come a joy
ous band, t' ™£“ F
The rose-biu^gttMeiT-Of ortr stfwtiy
Jand, . .
uuadsi and hearts reflecting
every goed,
Thecharm and grace of Georgia’s
womanhood.
Who sees tJjem one#, Love’s pilgrim
age 1* o’er,
A lotus-eater, he knows his home no
more. - -
Thrice happy town! what pilgrim old
can tail,
Without his saudal-shoon and scallop
shell,
Her century’s story ? names that adorn
Tbeir country’s history, which is but
their own.
Some nobler bard shall build her lof
ty rhyme.
The wit and wisdom of her vanished
time.
What scholarshipe! what courtly
manners dwell
In men like Church, like Brandy and
Waddell!
See Troup and Crawford, McDonald,
Gilmer shine!
The Lumpkins, Jackson and Jenkins
in tbeir prime! , .
The Conbs, Johnson, great Stephen,
and Ben Hill—
A mighty host whom we remember
slid.
I tread these streets which they once
trod, and where
l seem to breathe a tar diviner air.
What lender thoughts About this
secue arts#!
Like Mastered stars snjeweiUng the
skies!
What well known voices speak to us
and say,
“Though dead we live and are with
you this day.”
Xtoyc not hear them? dear mnemon
ics giv6n,
Descending on the suubeams down
from heaven 1
We will salute them, bid them wel
r toucher#,
As if wo touched their hands and felt
them near.
Alas! but tor a moment—“one by
one,
luto the land of shadows all are
gone.”
Fame hath enshrined them, and each
year she saves
Her saintly lilies to deck their honor
ed graves.
The ancient Ghebers rose up with the
sun,
And looking eastward, prayed : “Glo
rious Oue!
t Thou god ol light sad life! we bow ts
Thee,
Great igg of Earth and Heaven’s
inflßutfty.
Type of our youth t immortal in Its
prime,
When hope ami faith and joy seem
half divine.
If we have sorrows, they but come
and go,
Lika tender shadows flit o’er sun
lit snow.
With Homer’s heroes see Venus yoke
J her doves.
And Ovid is the mouthpiece of oiir
loves.
What great deed* wait us in the dis
taut days I
What wealth, what honors and un
stinted praise I
All things are possible; for our de
sires
Are but the fuel of our furnaao fires.
And so ws strive, until our race i*
run,
The battle fought, the victory lost or
won.
When others follow, t* do as we hpve
doi,e - /iU) I i j
worn bv misfortunes
din-,
His ionf ami full of rhanlieod’s
smouldering Are,
Hard by the Scaen gate, sat down on
ff , Trtiy’s fi,.
Hi fated walls,-to watch his valiant
boys,
Far down the plain, tee God-like
Hsctcw rise!
His bossy si4eul and spear-head tench
the **>
While ton ail abent him brave
Aiti(lns'iireße. | i %,
Ami heroes fall in bloody wilderness.
The old man groaus—lie cannot help—
he, cries,
“Alone mvjlcctor must fight until he
dies*
Not thus our ‘Priam unto us appears.
Looking frtjm Uie of his
* 'ye'srs f 5
On hit dear boys, putting their armor
• on, • r ,
To ‘fight tedUe, Which has Mere
' “begun.
Ills voting, he knows no
word like fail.
For time has not yet pierced his coat
of mail,
He plans tlio battle, he lavs tho siege
with cjm’o,
Then looking up to Heaven, brCathCs
■* -a ftraydv ? Jl
For onr sucoes^— then grasps hi* sword
And leads its on where stubborn foes
withstand.
His gelicrals see where we need re
lic^
And march at once to succor their
* old chief.
Tim combat lasts, till giant Ignijr.
ance fells /
Then lend our paeans ring throe S'*
college halls.
leal! no names—lhe Muse’s trembling
string
In diapason all their names shall
sing;
Yet one there is above tno others
towers,
In age and service whom I would
crown with fiowers.
See that old man,t with sunny locks
and beard ?
How many youlli have loved as well
rs feared I
Back thlrtv years, he was already
gray—
Our fathers’ Ngotor and our own to
day.
Dear teachers all, and worthy of all
praise,
They shall live with us to our dim
old d*y.
Peace be to them ; the calm, sweet
peace of heaven,
By Christ unto ilia dear Apostles
given.
We pray, dear Lord! grant them a
rich bequest—
A crown of glory and eternal rest 1
There is a legend—two young kings
onco fought
About an island their old fathers
bought.
Worn out, at last, by war’s consum
ing rage,
They leave their quarrel to a hoary
sage;
And this his verdict: “War at once
must cease, y
As fit memento of a lasting perAe.
On yonder island, seen from both
your lands,
A green, young tree plant ye with
Kingly hands;
So long as ye belli see it, let It tell
Of this* day’s deed: Remember aud
farewell.”
In fifty years, the two young Kings
are old,
In fifty more, their sons are dust and
mold:
Yet those, who wield the sceptre, still
can see
The Summer glory #f that peaceful
tree.
five hundred years! Tho tree itself
NqCffSw-thi. legend lives In
stead.
And now, my Classmates! Let ua
plant onr tree,
A type of nobler wisdom yet to be.
Here ends our contest, hero our youth
ful strife
No longer worthy of the.scholar's life.
Here boyhood ends, hero alt its tollies
cease.
And manhood araokes the calumet of
peace.
Thus I salute ye! Face to face we
stand,
And clasp each other warmly by tho
hand.
Lot each to the other, till life shall
end,
Like old Achates, ptoto himself a
frleud.
As this world judges, all will net sue*
ceed, 1 , j
Some souls must sutler and tome
hearts must bleed.
Not every tree wo know thaf bcarcth
■ fruit, pi | rjf
Yet evory life may be ©f good-repule.
If we bo bold, virtuous, bravo and
true,
Each on* will find what thing he best
can do.
Our furrowed fields must hare both
sun ami rain,
If we would repp the harvest’s golden
grain.
Do thy best always; and when life is
o'er,
Tfehave net failed, for no man can do
more.
i,: ‘ChanoeMor Molb
{Prof. Rutherford.
There was never before so complete
a stock of confectionery and toy store
In this place than that of Ware A Pa
rautha.
MM—OdNwi i
Tile largest and Choicest lot of con
fectioneries and toys ever brought to
Washington at the store of Ware &
Parantha, at the poat office.
_i ■ .
Call early aud often at the store of
Wane & Parantha if ytou warft plain
and fttifey candies, raisins, dales, figa,
bananas, applcs 4 oranges, ami all sea
sonable fruits, at remarkably lew
figures.
For the best canned goods of all
kludsetOl fljb tVarq *& Z’arftdtha.
Tey* in the greatest variety and all
fhc uoW’ltics in tys at thq store of
■ Ware & Parantha, at the pokt office.
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TheCxntuby Cos., Now York. N. Y.
Write to N. E. Ware, Sharon, Gi.
for terms of his Business Institute,
45-3 m.
SMITHS’ WOli aiK..ls the
best. 11-lyn
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Tits name of Major John F. An
drews is respectfully announced as a
candidate for tho office of Treasurer
of Wilkes county.
The undersigned respectfully an
nounces himself a candidate for of
fice of Tax Collector at the ensuing
election. Wm. K. Smith.
—-T —sf —
I. respectfully atiuottncc myself a
candidate for the officoof Tax Receiv
er. In the past 1 haveoudeavored to
make an efficient and accommodating
officer. How well I sucecededjet the
record say. Botce Fhklf.x.
I hereby respectfully announce to
the voters of Wilkes county that I m
a candidate for the office to Tax Re
ceivercr, and solicit their support.
G. C- Sxf.K.
The name of F. L. SAYER is res
pectfully announced as a candidate
for the office of Tex Receiver.
The name of G B Bunch.is respedf
firtly announced as a candidate for
County Treasurer
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
BY Yir.TtTE mi *rdr from tb Court of Odina
ry of Og’otborr* county, will be wW befor*
tue Court bon mi door in Lexington, between legal
horn sof wile, oa the tint Tutseday ia Jenua y
nect. a tract of lend in Wilke* county, near the
line of Oglethorpe, containing one hundred end
flft /-three* here*., more or leos, end wijo : nicg Una*
o; N D Arnold, Tom Arnold end other*. Sold M
the propel ty of the estate of 8 C Arnold. Terms
cash. Pec, 2, 13*4. W T BHOOU3, Adm’r.
CATCH OH TO THIS !
AND
LOOK HERE NOW.
TEN MINUTES IS NOT A LONG TIME, BUT IS SUFFICIENT
FOR ME TO CONVINCE YOU THAT
MY PRICES ARE A
TERROR
TO MY COMPETITORS.
j-nr ustame,
T. Burwell Green,
Means Good Goods at tho Lowest Prices. That my prices are so low i*
a surprise to ail wh# visit p*y store, and will result In your
INVESTIGATION,
ADMIRATION,
NEGOTIATION,
GRATIFICATION.
A PRIZE WILL BE SECURED, BECAUSE AN
Investigation
Of My Bargains will Excito your
A-dmiration
Ami Lead to a
]NT egotiation
And Result la Your Immense
Gratification.
Now is the time to buy. My stock is on the market regaeifless of cost.
Bargains every day at
T BUR WELL GREEN’S.
“ T
Next Monday Night
GRAND EXHIBITION
of * - -r“
AT
KEimY COHDES.
THE 'LADIES ARE SPECIALLY INVITED.
You would be surprised to knew
how many delicious things a little
money will buy at the store of Ware
A Parantha.
Fork over what you owe and with
cash. Buy your goods of T. Burwcll
Green.
Goods at panic prices at T. Bur
weli Green'*.
• Keep your eyes my stock for
bargains. T. Burwell Green.
Head the town in low prices. T.
Burwell Green.
A fresh lot of the choicest sweet
crackers just received at the store of
WareA Parantha.
Headquarters for Santa Claus at
tho confectionery of Ware A Paran
tha. Their stipply of toys is unsur-
passed.
Make the children happy with a
small outlay of money b/ calling at
the eonfcctionery of Ware A Parantha.
■ mm —-
For pure candies of every descrip
tion call at Ware A ParantM’a.
For the finest Frcuch candies of
evejry flavor known to the confection
er's art, call aj JVyrc A Parantha'*.
JJoWuften do we hear of the sud
den fatal termination of a case of croup
when a young life might have been
saved by the prompt use of Ayer’
Cherry Pectoral! Be wise in time, and
keep a bottle of it on hand, ready for
instant use.
Notice by the Tax Collector.
W. It. Smith, T C. Wilkts County,
I fathinylon, Oa.
Dear Sib: Sheriffs who sell prop
erty at public outcry in thoir unoffi
cial capacity are subject to the lax
imposed by law upon auctioneers. All
persons who |scll property at public
outcry other than for themselves are
also subject to this law. Yours Re
spectfully, Wm. A. Wrioht,
49-lm Comptroller General.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7,1884.
m g/g/mumm
When you want genuine Rodgers
silverware at lower prices than eTer
before in Washington call on W. T.
Johnson. Every price of goods war
sranted.
Crockery A Glass ware. China &
Fancy goods at W. T. Johnson.
A large new line of Fancy Tea A
Chamber Sets at W. T. Johnson
v
Trot Board of Education will pay
teachers of public schools on Dec.
loth at the court house.
48-31 F. Sntrsox, C. S. C.
E. E. PARSONS.
TDELSTTA.X. OFFICE
rp-sl-Am*,
In the Wynn Building: