Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

/ • : - SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1823. «Home Sweet Home” To Have Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Tuesday, May, 8th; Author’s Sweetheart Pretty Athens Maiden n*c / //vMAJW .4a Vy^UQ^jw^.. .Hu — (vu^L ££« cfyrv**. XrmA * %/**<**' 5C~ /Ho <44 (A»ha , 7 <9m yv/ia^ <44. CzA£^s^t<iS*A*tt,&fa?yruSy *" (lf±4JLC+%.0/Cr*\. (+£y, 1 1,752,137 BALES IS 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 Jix ":;\*ht„ 1> re n :i?e ri L m, i , „:p , i i r t jd nf 'crM.';j ,ome - Swwt ,,ome ” Thc »■*«"«■**«.»»he 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. Thornton’s Dinner 50c Sicken soup Boast Chicken Dressing Tu rolp Salad Radishes Cucumbers and Spring Onion, Fried Squasli Irish Potatoes MuUins and Biscuit# Hretri Apple Pio Coffee, Tea or Milk 50 Cents Supper 50c f 'bichen and Dressing HotBUcuiU Potato 8aUd Peadea and Cream Tea Milk 50 Cents • Coffee, 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. Bond Salesman An established conserva tive Investment house, un- lerwriters of first mortgage bonds on real estate, wish to obtain the services of an ’sporiencedi resident sales man who Is well connected ■nd has developed a clientele. For the right men we have an attractive proposition. Alt correspondence treated In strict confidence and return ed If requested. Address P. O. Box 2060, Atlanta, Ga. 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 HARNESS REPAIRING We Repair Suit Cases and Leather Goods. We Make Dog Collars. Dog Harness, Goat and Pony Harness, Men’s Leather Belts. GRIFFETH IMPLEMENT COMPANY Droad Street Athena, Georgia ~r~ Plcnty of Money to Lend on Real Estate Commission 3 per cent, over $1,000; 10 per cent, up to $1,000. HUBERT M. RYLEE Law offices Phone 1576. ' 405 Holman Bldg. Athens, Georgia PURE AND SPARKLING NATURE’S BEST REMEDY No other water ha, the wonderful taste, the Invigorating fool ing that It leave, after each glan full—It’s delightful, yea It-o— LINTON SPRINGS WATER Drink It All Year -Round—But Eepeeially In Soring and gum- mar—PHONE 00 Linton Springs Water Company Office Broad Street ... 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! — ENROLLS YOU Have you investigated the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan by which thousands of families all over te country are finding, it easy to buy te Ford Car they have always wanted? * If not, go to the nearest Ford-dealer at once and ask him for full details of this plan, which provides a simple and easy way of becoming a Ford owner. You owe it to yourself to get the facts—they will interest you. Ford iMotor Company Detroit, Michigan C. Come In and Let Us Give You Full Particulars A. TRUSSELL MOTOR COMPANY Depository for Ford Weekly Purchase Plan Payments National Bank of Athens ■ - • .. . '• . t ■’ T