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- SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1823.
«Home Sweet Home” To Have Hundredth
Anniversary Celebration Tuesday, May, 8th;
Author’s Sweetheart Pretty Athens Maiden
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22 YEAR AVERAGE
187.7 Pounds Per Acre
Average Cotton Yield in
Georgia Over a Period
of 22 Years.
An average production of 187 7
pounds per acre and 1,752,137 bale?
per year of cotton for the pa^t
twenty-two years in Georgia, is an
nounced by officials of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture in the
first complete statistics on cotton
production covering a period since
1900 to be give nout. The report
Madison Plans
Poultry Meeting
MADISON', Ga.—A dairy and
poultry meeting will oe held here
next Tuesday wt which time ad-
dresse on these two Important In
dustries will be delivered by H. S
Mobley of the International Har
vester company, J. r. Bazemore,
Central of Georgia railroad, Elim
Ragsdale of the State Bureau of
Markets and W. C. McCoy of the
£tate College of Agriculture.
Lavonia Holds
Poultry Sale
NEW YORK COLORSCOPES
By MARY MARGARET McBRIDE
Find Man Who
Was Thought Dead
WASHINGTON, G.—R. W. Clink-
LAVONIA, Gu.—Ten thousand
pounds of chickens left here for
Philadelphia, Pa., In a car loaded
at the co-operative poultry sale
Friday. The farmers selling the
chickens received 43 cents pe*
pound for broilers and 22 cents
for hens.
New York City —Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the great advocate of spiritual
isnl, is at his favor
ite New York hotel
with fresh proof of
ectoplasm and -life
after death. I duly
Hartwell After
Home Building
HARTWELL. Gn..—Headed by o
subscription by W. E. Meredith for
$1,000 worth of stock business mer
f this city are organizing a Home
scales who wandered away from hlr Euilding Association through which
Wilkes county home several dayr | people who want to -erect homes
ago and for whom n county-wide [ and pny for them on the monthly
search was made for many day. | payment plan may do so by Joln-
has been located in Chester, S. C. j ing the association. "Pay for your
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By CHA8. E. MARTIN
On Tuesday, Mny 8, there will be
elebrated in different parts of the
•rid, especially In England, the
e hundredth anniversary of the
Irst singing of ^Ilome, Sweet
ome" the Immortal song written
John Howard Payne,
he song was first sung In an
pern, the libretto of which was
rrltteii by Payne, called "Anglolet-
changed by thq author to "The
aid of Mil:
PAYNE
h f event will bo observed. In
trooklyn, X. Y„ tor Instance, the
urtlvlnK on,. Of 1,000 "children"
ho sang "Home Sweet Home" nt
pageant in ono of the city’s
•arks 50 years ago are sought to
tain be assembled and slog the
>ng Tuesday.
'AYNE’S sweetheart
lived IN ATHENS
in' London nt the
Covent Garden
.theatre on May
8th, 1823. Lon
don Is to cele
brate the event
Tuesday with ex
ercises SPpnprl-
ite ’to the Inter
nationally known
song, probably'
the most touch-
big and most
•Hipulnr that will
iver be written oi
rung about the
home.
In America, too,
John Howard Payne, the author
•1 the song, had a close and af
fectionate connection with Athens.
L'iu Mary Elisa dreenhill Harden,
in Athens maid, Is said to have
the only true sweetheart
j*»yne ever had aii4^ to her he of •
*red his hand In marriage but rot
tarious reason* the romance never
culminated nt the altar.
The story goes that In 1823 Payne
^*<1 in America from Europe
financially embarrassed, "broke”
10 Put it in the parlance of today,
md secured a position with the
l^wmment In the.management of
Wlan affairs. About this time
“[• Cherokee tribes of % Georg!a were
tmntf trouble and young Payne
**• sent to the state In this con-
This mission brought Payne to
*»<ns. if,, had a letter of Intro
duction to Gfnernl 'Edward Harden.
Jbjmlneru Athens* citizen, mem-
wr of the Board of Trustees - of
Miss Evelyn Harden Jackson of
Athens and copied In her "Souve
nir" of "Home Sweet Home.”
In part Payne wrote: .... "I
a conscious of my unworthiness
of the boon I deslro from you, and
cannot, dare not, nsk you to give
a decisive answer In my favor now.
Only permit me to hope that at
some future time I mny have the
happiness of believing my affec
tions returned, but at tho same
t»me I conjure you to remember hi
making up your decision that It Is
your power to moke raj happy
miserable."
I have nothing to offer
you but a devoted heart and hand;
htwever, be assured, Madame,
whatever your decision may be,
present wishes for your happiness
a,id future welfare shall, bo the
st' of my heart. ' I have felt it
tenha! to my peace of mind that
1 should inform you cf tho state
f. my feelings satisfied that that
r jotted down the notes ns best I
could. It was that air that sug
gested the words of ."Home Sweet
lion
A man named Bishop was pro
ducing the opera that Payno was
prejmrlng and sent tho words to
him and it was Bishop who knew
the air well, who ndapted tho music
to the words.
Union college has erected
morlul in marble to the memory of
shows that the average acreage per Mr. Clinkscales became despondent ! home with the rent,” Is the slogan
year for the period was 4,666,238.
Considerable significance is at
tached to the figure® by college
officials and those mterestea in the
coming cotton crop. The complete
tabic oy years loliows
Year
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
Acreage Bales
. 3,378,016 1.256,901
. 4,006,199 1,373.857
. 3.863,542 1,476,834
. 4.088,844 1,305.844
. 4,227,188 1,962,890
. 3,738.703 1,726,272
_ 4.610,000 1,632,702
„ 4,774,000 1,860,323
1908 4.848,000 1,977,050
1909 4,883.000 1,850,125
1910 4,873,000 1,612,178
1911 .! - .. 5,504,000 2,794,295
1912 5.335,000 1,812,778
1913 6,318,000 2,346,237
1914 6.433,000 2,723,094
1915 .. .. — 4,825.000 1,937,730
1916 .. .. .. 5,277,000 1,852,104
1917 5,178.000 1,884,000
1918 6.341,000 2,122,000
1919 5,220,000 1,660,000
1920 4.990,000 1,415,000
1921 4,172,000 787,000
1922 3,600,000 732,000
Poultry Meeting
For Hartwell
HARTWELL On.,.—Poultry and
dairy exports from the Stnte De
partment of Agriculture and State
College of Agriculture Will addresr
fanners of Hart county hero- next
* Monday. W. C. McCoy of tho
State College, Elmo Ragsdale of th<
ntatc Bureau of Mnrkets, J. B.
Shields of the L. W. Rogers com
pany, Atlanta, and others wll
speak cn the possibilities of poul
try raising and dnflrylngr* Hnrt
county recently shipped a car load
l’ayne while many other shrines to iof chickens receiving over 94.000
the author have been erected in
this country and only recently
Rtitgers college Is said to havt
paid $30,000 for tho original manu
script -of the song. Union college
also claims to have the original
manuscript.
llowe.ver, It Is believed that these
not the true manuscripts. The
original has always been said to
have been left in London by the
author and lost years ago. Otheri
say it was burled with him. No
am! your nmlableness of heart will Jboelyvprobably knows,
plcnd my excuse.” . | Payne died in Tunis where ho was
"I Intrent you to reply to this! serving as U. 8. consul, on April
letter, If but one word. . , , .** loth, 1853. After thirty years from
.Signed, Itho date of hbr death the rcmalm
"Your very humble and devoted j were exhumed and' brought tc
admirer, } America and now rest peacefully
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.” j in Ouk H1U Cemetery at Georgo-
I town, D. C.
HARDEN HOME THE SONG WILL,
STANDING
The Harden home Is still Standing
on Hancock avenuo and Is occu
pied by Miss Jackson and Mrs.
EVEcltler Lowe, relatives of the
Hardens and is preserved almost
as It was In days when the roman
tic courtship of tho beautiful Har
den maiden and the famous author
of "Home Sweet Home" was in
Its sweetest setting.
John Howard Payno was the
sixth child of William Payne and
the place' of his birth Is in doubt
but It seema that he wns born at
33 Pearl street. New York City, on
June 9th. 1791 of splendid parent
age. His father was n school
teacher and his mother the daugh
ter of a Jewish resident of East
Hampton, L. I., named Isaacs. Hlr
early years were spent here and
there' and at various trade? and
businesses. He published a paper
he was a clerk, he was a student
at Union college and at the age
ot 18 turned actor and then later
writer and publisher. It Is said
that he was always too popular to
succeed an'd one writer savs that
"Life betrayed him with her kiss.”
He was the author of many plays.
£ co„^7.r B wU, ? n.o. the «... MAjJWWrjg
z p^ssssi v c h o e „.ri; he "Hom:
^ * l,h *»<• Ath.„.- „.r. n„d It
this Athens' girl and
'®«’ht hor hand ft* Is shown by a
tfr now in the possession of
the song the first year.
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WAS WRITTEN
IN PARIS
Many different stories have been
told as to why Payne came to
write the song and others have ll
that he was penniless at tho time
and wrote It In a driving storm
on a scrap of paper under ;the light
of a lamp post.
These stories have been dis
credited by other writers and from
an autobiography of his Ufo by
Oabrlel 'Harrison, printed In 1885,
tho following is given as a direct
quotation from the author: "I
first heard tho air In Italy. One
beautiful morning I was strolling
alone amid some delightful scenery
my attention was arrested by the
sweet voice of a peasant girl who
was carrying a basket laden with
flowers and vegetables Tllir
plaintive air she thrilled with so
■ c Str
much sweetness and simplicity that
the melody at once caught my
fancy, i accosted h^r, and after
a few moments conversation I
asked for the name of the *>ng.
which she could not give me, but
having some slight knowledge of
music myself, barely enough for
the purpose, 1 •: h " *”
repeat the air, which she did, while
LltfE FOREVER
This briefly is the story of John
Howard Payne, author of that sonc
that will never die, and which is as
follows:
Mid pleasures and palaces, though
wo may roam,
Be It ever so humble, there Is no
place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to
hallow us there.
Which, seek through the world. If
. ne’er met with elsewhere.
CHORUS: ’ _
Home, home sweet, sweet home.
There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
I gaze on the moon as I trace the
drear wild.
And feci that my parent now think
of her child;
She looks on the moon from our
own cottage door,
Through woodbines “whose frag
rance shall cheer me no more.
An exile from home, splendor daz
zles In vain,
Oh, give mo my lowly thatched
cottage again;
The birds singing gayly, that came
nt my call.
Give ine then, with the peace of
mind, dearer than all.
How sweet ’tis to set *neath a fond
father’s smile
And the cares of a mother to soothe
and beguile.
Let others delight mid new pleas
ures to roam.
But give, oh give me the pleasures
of home. v
To thee I’ll return overburdened
•with care,
The heart’s dearest solace will
smile on us there
No more from that cottage again
shall I roam.
Be it ever so humble, there’s no
place like home.
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for the ear.
wnen his house burned.
«if the association.
wns irom tne financiers, pointed cut
the shiniest and most imposing car of
. all, presided over by two sober-liv : ; 1
wish he might have and pompous jchaufTcurs. -
the convincing set- it,” he bade rae, “J. P. Morgan?! Sefc.
that backp-cver since tha Wall street
explosion, it’s been made of bullet
proof steel. BGlshcvik insurance!”
ting for expounding
his theories that his
beautiful coun
try place in Sussex,
England, affords.
I spent a day with
Sir Arthur anti Lady
Doyle at their home last summer. A.I-i
ter lunch, which consisted of several the sales girl, busy with a pile of
Lips”, “No,* she answers him:smart-
helpings, (for Sir Arthur, anyway), of
doing, Lady
Doyle and I sat before a blazing tire
in the cozy, booklincd study, while the
author, a ruddy, country-bronzed man
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... shabby, friendly tweeds and golf
stockings, stood on the hearth rug and
talked on hie favorite theme. We were
just discussing in the most casual way
, fairies and the likelihood of there being
yachting in Heaven, when suddenly
the door was pushed open and Denis,
one of the Doyle boys, came in. His
mother asked him what he had been
doing. He told her quite happily that
Kingsley had been playing football
with him in the garden.
Kingsley is Sir Arthur's oldest son
who was 1 illed during the war.
'He ofttn comes to us iri the gar
den,” Denis assured me earnestly.
In the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge
stands the queerest inn in the world.
It's the bare lower floor of a tenement,
run by a bearded man wearing a red
bandana and a-piratical glare, and its
ordr-night lodgers are hurdy-gurdies—
most of those that play on New York
streets all day.
Just at sunset, a medley of wheezy
grinding rises above the clamor of the
bridge and a strange procession rounds
the corner—the hurdy-gurdies are be
ing brought home
to bed. Blind men,
lame meh and men
whose only disability
is age, tow most of
:tn, but occasion
ally a be-shawled
Italian woman trudges along with the
others. School children, dancing hap
pily to the beloved “Three O’clock in
the Morning', bring up the rear of the
procession and linger curiously while
the owners have a concert for them
selves, trying out old op^ra favorites
or new popular bits like “Fancy
Nancy Clancy**, “Peggy Dear”, or
“You ve Got to See Mama Every Night
or You Can't See Mama at AJl”, before
tucking their treasures tenderly into
their nests.
Beside the tow'/cd Municipal Build
ing that stanus guard over -the big
city*s administrative activities, there's
a street travelled daily by hundreds of
luxurious limousines. Wall-street-
bound with cargoes of correctly-clad
morning
bankers and broker;-.
my 1 friend the traffic c • . who-
amiable Irish smile during tlie year
reaps a large 1tar*ett of i lTniilliaiiM
bills from the financiers, pointed
You don’t know by the r-.und
whether its the zoo or a musir -v re
these days. **Have you ‘Snakes Hips’?”
the inclined-to-be-gay young man asks
* :h a pile df “Hot
. <vcr» him smart
ly, “but I have a
fresh supply of-Iiecs
Knees’. Like some
of those?" AW usu
ally he would, for
whether the junaic
note in giant? has en
couraged the rirens fail in music o
vise versa, o: whether it’, on! , anoth
manifestation of this inter, stir:
younger generation, the licit seller, ii
popular songdom just now hear a:.i
mal-slang titles.
In subway and street, you comp upon
them, lips.inoving, eye, vacant, talking
to themselves. They are not .crazy,
only lonesome. They have come here
from Nebraska and Missouri, Nevada
end Seattle to make their fortunes.
had no friend, in New York at the
start and somehow they haven't got
acquainted at quickly a, they thought
they would. Homesick, discouraged, 1
they have nobody to whom they may
confide their troubles, so they begin
rfe has opened a soul clinic fc.
icncfit and invited them to use him
for a safety valve. -Also he has or
ganized a Lonesome Club where they
may meet friendly folk.
Mrs. Janet Singh, New York woman
who started her artistic career painting
funnv faces on balloons, is now ex
hibiting to friends some vari-colorc«l
heads on boards that she says she
“thought” into existence.
“I sat looking at the floor and the
faces began to appear,” Mrs. Singh
explains. "The more I sat and looked
and thought, the
clearer they became.
At first I was the
only person who
could sec them, but
I sat and thought
and looked * -some
more and presently they were v» il»lc
to everybody 1”
Mrs. Singh wouldn’t tell where this
weird painting occurred because she
admitted that she sawed her pictures
ght out of the floor and she was
fraid the owner of the house might
prove unartistic enough to object!
—
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