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Seri®® 01. II No 27"•
THE NEW TEMPLE
OF JUSTICE.
Interesting Dedicatory Exercises
Opening up Bartow’s
MAGNIFICENT NEW BUILDING.
ipeechesand Papers by Prominent
Men— Large Gathering of
Citizens and Ladles.
The dedicatory exercises open
ing the new court house just pre
ceding the commencement of the
business of the superior court last
Monday morning were deeply in
teresting.
A sense of pride was depicted in
each face in the large gathering
that faced the row of dignitaries
lined up iti the judge’s stand to
tell of the great work that had
been done and much about court
and legal matters past and present,
There was quite a sprinkling of
ladles in the assemblage.
Facing them were: A. M. Foute,
Judge of the city court, J. M. Neel,
ex-judge of city court; F. M. Ford,
mayor of Cartersville; T. W. Mil
ner, ex-judge superior court; A.
W. Fite, judge superior court; Rev.
Sain P. Jones, the distinguished
evangalist; Rev. H. C. White,
pastor Presbyterian church; Hon.
John W. Akin, representative and
ex-judge city court: L. B. Mat
thews, ex-chairman board of com
missioners; John S. Leake, present
chairman board of commissioners.
Mr. Menkee, the photographer,
took a picture of the group in the
judge’s stand. <
The exercises began at 10:30
o’clock. In opening them, Judge
Fite said the court house had been
completed and paid for except
$3,000, which was in the treasury.
A friend had said the Lord had a
hand in it, and had shown the peo
ple they could, bear tins nuraen
even in a bad crop year. He said
the court house was ours to keep,
ours to occupy, and £bove all to
dedicate to Almighty God. The
absence of Maj. Smith was noted
with regret.
The local quartette sang “My
Country ’Tis of Thee,” beautifully
and impressively, after which there
was prayer by Rev. Sam P. Jones
Judge Milner read a paper on
“Court House,” that was full of
interesting facts about legal men
and affairs in the county’s history.
It is a most excellent paper but
too lengthy for publication here.
Rather than synoysize it will pub
lish in full in our next issue.
Judge A. M. Foute read the fol
lowing paper on
THE BUILDING.
If our fathers of seventy years
ago, had known then what they
learned in the sixties, this magnifi
cent stretch of territory known
now as Bartow county, would never
have been called Cass county.
Lewis Cass, of Michigan, for
whom this county was originally
named, was at one time governor
of his state. He was twice defeat
ed for the presidency.
His views on slavery were in
consistent and were determined by
a view to what would be popular
with those whose favor he sought.
For a time he supported the slave
holding party, but in 1861 he de
termined that slavery was wrong,
and became an ardent supporter
the dominant party, and this caus
ed a change of sentiment on our
s 'de, as we shall see. This county
was organized as Cass in 1832.'
Cassville was incorporated and
tnade the county site in 1833, (the
year the stars fell.)
And this was the status until the
general assembly, by act assented
to Dec. 6, 1861, changed the name
from Cass to Bartow, in honor of
that intrepid, patriot soldier,
Francis S. Bartow', who fell on the
bloody plains of the first Manassas
ia 1861.
Of the ten counties in the United
States, named for the Michigan
aian, none other was changed. In
deed, no other change of county
aames, traceable to similiar causes,
occurred any where in the United
States.
So anomalous was this proceed
tag and so indicative of the force
an d strength of southern senti
ment, that it was the prime factor
leading up to the burning of the
county town three years later. The
town and the court house being
thus destroyed, resulted in the
location of the county site where
THE NEWS AND COURANT.
we have it today.
For a time the courts were held
in the Baptist church at Cassville,
Judge Dawson A, Walker presid
ing. Then in the hall over the
store room now occupied by 7 Judge
Martin Collins, at the corner of
Main street and the square, then
in the more pretentious building
where we have suffered for lo these
many years.
1 bus by gradation we have
come up from the church court
house in 1865, by way of the corner
and the old court house, until, in
1 9°3. we have reached this mag
nificent temple.
All honor to the county authori
ties and to every other person and
to every other influence, culminat
ing 111 this splendid result.
Begun in Oct, 1901, completed
in Jan. 1903. 108 feet long from
east to west, 78 feet deep, fronting
on Market street, and reaching
120 feet toward the clouds.
Composite order of architecture,
with massive columns of the Corin
thian order, with chapiters of
exquisite workmanship, lending a
grace and beauty to the superstruc
ture as enduring as the solid stone
in which they are chiselled.
These happily remind us of the
old south, the dear old south, with
her splendid homes and luxurious
appointments, of ante helium
times.
The general exterior 7 design is
in harmony with these, reflecting
credit on the architects who plan
ned and upon the builders who
wrought.
Glorious old Bartow, the best
county in the best state in the best
section of God’s good country, and
now, though she was a little slow
in joining the procession, she has
the be t county court house in
good old Georgia.
Let us preserve it in its present
beauty, both in its interior and
exterior, handing it down unim
paired to those who shall soon take
our places here.
And let us paint upon these
walls, wisdom, justice and modera
tion, and in this temple may the
scales of justice be always held in
eqUIpuUSK, iiuu u&*jr a.m aja
be tempered with mercy.
Bartow made illustrious by her
statesmen, philosophers and preach-
ers.
She did her duty in war and has
acted well her part in the piping
times of peace.
She sent her full quota of volun
teers including two generals to the
armies of the confederacy, who
illustrated her on every field of
blood from Manassas to Appomat
tox and from Fort Donelson to
Bentonville.
In conclusion, let those grounds,
naturally adopted, be beautified.
Turn the work over to the wo
men of the county, which will in
sure it well done, and when the
work is done erect in the two most
beautiful spots, two monuments,
one dedicated to the confederate
vetefans, the other to the women
of Bartow county, in war and
peace.
Judge J. M. Neel read a paper
on Records of the County which
will be published next week.
Hon. John W. Akin then made
a speech that was .par excellence
one of the finest bits of oratory
ever listened to by a Bartow county
audience. The finished orator was
at his best. The unusual difficul
ties of extemporaneous speaking
were as but moss under his feei to
be easily trod, with faultless dic
tion, with every word in place and
not a tinge of superfluity he told
of the grandeur of favored Bartow
county’s belongings. He drew a
refreshing picture of her riches,
not alone in her soil, her moun
tains and valleys, her adoptabili
ties to varied agricultural products,
but alike in her minerals, her
scenery and, above all her men.
There never was a time when she
did not have at least one man of
note. We have erected a monu
ment, and some one had said, A
land without -monuments was a
laud without memories and a land
without biemories was a land with-
out hope.
Rev. Sam P. Jones gave one of
his characteristic good talks, full
of good wisdom and sense. His
speech was given much applause.
He said nothing that had been
done had made him feel prouder
than the completion of the mag
nificent new building. It was the
best court house in the state; he
had been over forty-four states and
had seldom observed such a beauti
ful or convenient building. For
the kickers he advised that they
get “one of these modern kicking
machines,, and back up to it and
let it do the kicking; he didn’t
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903.
want the walls marred by the prints
of the heels of a jackass. He said
we were a great people and ought
to stand up and shake hands with
ourselves. He asked for Judge
Matthews a vote of thanks and
said “all who want to thank Sam
Jones for his speech and Judge
Matthews for his fidelity, stand
up,” and the entire assemblage
rose.x
Mayor Ford spoke of the long
discussion over the court house,
and said it was now closed for all
time, and in behalf of Citizens ex
pressed gratitude for the erection
of the fine structure.
Judge L. B. Matthews who as
chairman of the board of commis
sioners has watched every phase of
the work and eyed with scrutiuy
every minute detail, said, with an
air, marking satisfaction for the
triumph, that the building was
built without bonds and paid for.
He bore no malice to any opposing
the movement and hoped there was
none felt toward him.
When voluntary talks were call
ed for Hon James H. Gilreath
said he was on the jury when court
\\as held at the corner of Maui
and the square on the east side
when the old court house question
was considered and opposed the
location selected. He had in late
years favored a uew structure on
every grand jury he was on con
sidering the question. The recom
mendation was for $30,000, they
had gone beyond that, which sored
him, but he now didn’t regret it. if
it did cost him a little extra. Judge
Milner and others had referred to
distinguished men of the past, but
we have some now about as illus
trious as any other set of men.
Col. C. M. Jones, who was
chairman of the commission of
plan and construction, said he was
proud he figured in the move.
Rome had her $70,000, Dekalb her
$60,000 building, but this was the
best in the state, Bartow county
people could live longer and die
happier ttian any other people.
The quartette sang “Suwanee
River,” afterwards the “Doxology”
was sung by all and the benedic
wnarT K*r I? wr W
The foflowing excellent paper
by Maj. Smith was read with clear
annunciation, grace of expression
and w’ith fine effect by Mr. Conyers
Fite:
PAPER BY MAJ. C. H. SMITH.
As the oldest member of the
legal profession residing in your
midst, I was pleased to be invited
to participate with you in some
cerimonies as a dedication of this
magnificent temple of justice. The
beauty of it is for the eye, that
home of the soul wiiich the poet
Addison declares is the most won
derful and most useful of all our
sences. The Ancients called the
sun the eye of God and the Savior
said “the light of the body is the
eye.” Even the delicious charm
of music that thrills the ear while
it lasts has to give way to the
pleasures of bight, which are con
tinuous, and hence that expression
of Madam De Stael who said that
beautiful architecture was like
frozen music. The idea is pretty
but incomprehensible for if the
grandest string of Mendleshon or
Bethoven were suddenly stopped
and clothed in ice they would give
no pleasure either to our eyes or
ears. But classic architecture will
live for centuries to charm and
comfort our eyes and through them
our most heavenly emotions. The
poet John Keatts wrote a hundred
years ago that “A thing of beauty
is a joy forever,” whether it be a
pearl, a diamond, a cathedral or a
mountain whose high top is capped
with the snow' of ages, Things of
beauty are not only pleasing to the
eye, but elevating and refining to
our emotional nature. The pale
settlers of the pinev woods, who
never see anything but pines and
sand and salamandoes, would no
doubt take on new life and a live
lier ambition if suddenly transplat
ed to a region where hills and
valleys and fast flowing streams
abounded.
I have felt the grateful influence
of this beautiful structure. For
six months while confined to my
room, I have w r atched it day by
day as it rose upward and outward
into form and beauty, and I feel
grateful to the architect who de
signed it and the commissioners
who dared to accept and execute
the plan, and to th superintendent
who has so faithfully watched it’s
construction from it’s base to it s
shining dome. I feel sure that it’s
influence will be exalting and re
fining upon the whole community
and it will be the pride of our peo
ple, whether rich or poor, to take
the stranger there, as the Jews
took the stranger to Solomon’s
temple.
This much for the beauty of it.
It’s most important mission, how
ever, is one of duty to administer
the law according to our seal, with
wisdom justice and moderation.
Yes justice, as Jefferson said in
his first inaugr and equal and exact
justice to all men of whatever state
or persuasion religious or political,
and hence the humblest citizen of
this county is an integral part of
the courts that assemble here.
What wonderous changes have
come over the enviroments of hold
ing courts and administering the
law. What would King John
think, were lie suddenly called
from bis grave to preside in this
court room, where the humblest
juryman had more power than
himself. He was a diplomatic king
and as the crown owned all the
law, the Barons were his tenants
and who were burdened with his
exactions and demanded a reform.
The time was the 15th day of June
(my birth day) 600 years ago and
the place was at the Runimede,
where after many days conference
he acceded to their demands and
signed the Magna Charta which
included the writ of Habeas Corpus.
Uutil then there was no fixed time
or place to hold court. The king
held it where he pleased and the
plaintiffs generally ourrendered
their cause rather than make long
journeys in the pursuit of justice.
My friends, this temple is not
only one of justice, but of peace,
and peace hath her victories more
renowned than war. Ben Franklin
said “there was never a good war
tior bad peace.” The difference
between a peaceful administrator
of the law aud a military govern
ment is awful to contemplate. In
1862 while camped near Manas
sas, two soldiers from a company
known as the Louisana Tigers
were arrested about two o’clock for
resisting and beating their Ist
Lieut. They were known to be
desperate and very bad A
court martial was immediately
ordered by General Joe Johnston.
They Mgjgjyied at three o’clock
mailed to be shot and they were
shot at four o’clock. They knelt
down and crossed their hand while
a prayer was held and a priest
held a crucifix before them. Twelve
men stood thirty yaids away, each
with a gun, half of them loaded,
the other half with no cartridge
and only a cap, so that no soldier
knew that he fired the fatal shot.
That military law may never be
repeated in our land, and may our
judge and the lawyers and the
officers of the court, as well as oui
jurymen be taught in this beauti
ful temple to value the blessings of
peace. In the olden times the Jews
had their cities of refuge, and so
this place should be the refuge
from wrong and oppression to all
of our people. The fear of it, the
respect of it, and the security it
gives to person and property,
should satisfy every one that it is
worth what it has cost.
BY HER OWN HA NO
Mrs. Marv Benedict of Athens KlK
ed|H ers elf.
Baltimore, Jan. 8. —Mrs. Mary
Benedict, 34 years old, shot and
instantly killed herself to-day at
the home of her brother-in-law, Dr.
Frank Martin, in this city.
Since the disappearance of her
husband, John Benedict, from
Athens, Ga., three years ago last
May, Mrs. Benedict’s mind had
been affected. She had been treat
ed in sanitariums in Ph ladelphia
and Watkins Glen, N. Y., and was
thought to have been cured A
year ago she was brought to Balti
more.
Her nervous trouble became
more pronounced a week ago and
arrangement had been made to take
her to a sanitarium in Philadelphia
to-day. It was while dressing for
this trip that the fatal shot was
fired.
John C. Benedict, a well-known
business man of Athens, Ga., her
husband, mysteriously disappeared,
and has never been heard of. Mr.
Benedict started from Athens on a
business trip through the northern
part of Georgia and South Carolina.
He was last seen on the porch of a
hotel at Greenville. The authori
ties of Georgia and South Carolina
who endeavored to find some trace
of the missing merchant, concluded
that he had been murdered and
that his murderers had destroyed
his horse and buggy in order to
leave no clue for the officers.
OABTOniA.
Bears the /f Tl Kind YOU Haiti AIW3/S BoUgM
SOCIAL AND
FEMININE TOPICS
CARRIE GAUSiEU JOKES.
EVEN.
“Now ef dat fir’ don’t git up’ll
shout’fo long, I aiut got nuffin mo’
ter say,” and as Uncle Ned bows
“he-self” out of the parlor, his
good natured mouth alternates
from lines of jet to flashes of pearl.
Left to himself, a man of fashion
crosses the room, leans his beau
against a mirrored mantle, ana
leisurely watches a breath of a
flame, climb thro’ “de kinlin” and
stagger over a back log that crack
les and pops ’til Uncle Ned’s proh
ecy comes true, and sends somebody
to cooler quarters to think and spec
ulate. With lazy swagger he backs
himself into a great armchair, and
takes up the golden thread of the
evening’s dream.
The old fashioned southern room
hung with pictures and looped with
laced, here, there and every place
into cozy corners —is a woman’s
thought and a lover’s theme—
where a couch blushes crimson in
its curtained home and the picture
of a face seems to smile—sweet
stories float back to the fellow who
watches the fire touigut.
Time flies, and the fire settles
down to a steady blaze. “By Jove!”
as he looks at his watch—l’ve been
here half an hour.” Foi a moment
he figets in his seat, then goes back
to the subject of his meditations.
This time in a corner just over the
way, a hanging garden floats in
perfumed breezes, while ’raid its
vine-clad hills a couple wonder —
man and wife—happy with one
another, lulled to dreaming with
sentimental songs of drowsy birds.
And then, as the night wind whis
tled over the wet marshes, and
dead leaves rattle against the win
dow panes, the garden vanishes,
and he thinks he hears his children
crying ior shelter and tor bread.
The backlog burns into ashes and
door openS'kAu a traruv.i
comes through. As he rises to
meet her, she says with a pretty
smile, “Jack, this is one time I
have not kept you waiting—isn’t
it?”
“Waiting! Why, my darling,
since I came tonight I have wooed
and won you, lived in Paradise and
‘set up’ with our ‘brats’ ” She
blushed and he gets even.
The author of the above is to be
guessed at. While he may be the
first one bold enough (and not bold
either for he wishes his name with
held) to come into print, he is not
the first one by any means to have
a cause for upbraiding, nor do all
the waiting escorts find the “Uncle
Ned” and the blazing fire. More
generally, it is the cold room, and
the shivers which send the wait
ing escorts hands into his overcoat
pocket, numb, and he compresses
his lips to drown the chatter of
teeth. He does not expand into
halcyon dreams by the coziness of
the fire, but rather, goes with a
spasmodic jerk into the realm of
hobgobblins and the unearthily
terrors of the night mare, and when
the rustle of silk is at last heard
on the landing and the pitter patter
of little feet down the steps, what a
mighty contortion of muscles be
fore the mental camera in the effort
to “now look pretty please.” The
bewitching face peeps in at the
door, encircled in all the fluffy,
flimy becomingness of fascinator
so innocent, so happy in the antic
ipation of the evening. She the
perpetrator of cruelty to any one?
Never! Like Rosalind “By this
hand it will not kill a fly.” How
could such a bundle of dimples and
daintiness commit such an act.
Still there stands the man, strong
substantial evidence, not able to
speak from sheer cold.
Mrs. J. W. Jones’ on Satur
day afternoon, the formal intro
duction of her guest, Miss Cassily,
of St. Louis was an affair of sweet
simplicity quite appropriate to the
young girlish guest of honor, yet
withal a beautiful little affair. The
most noticeable feature was that
the guests came promptly, but they
almost forgot to go, so cheerful
were the surrounding. Little Miss
Lucy Vail Jones with Master
Quillian Jones’ and received the
cards at the door wffiile Miss Persis
Hall was usher in the hall. There
were few extra touches needed
since the home had been so liber
ally treated with holiday green
and wreaths. In the sitting room
Old Series—22d Year
where at tete-a tete table, a delic
ious salad course was served.
Mr. Jones with her brother, Dr.
W. E. Quillian and her guest of
honor received the guests in the
parlor and it was here that Miss
Cassily’s remarkably sweet and
soulful voice was heard at inter
vals. She is a gifted musician, be
ing a pianist and organist of ability
and upon this occasion she render
ed quite a number of selections,
delighting all present.
Miss Bessie Sproull, of Anniston
was the attractive guest of Mrs.
Walter Akerman a few days last
week.
Mrs. C. A. Trevitt left last week
for a month’s visit to friends in
Atlanta.
And how about it? Two men’s
clubs in New York City include
tea drinking among their afternoon
pleasures. Has the spinster been
robbed of her last bit of sovereign
ity.
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Bartow County’s Strongest Finan
cial Institution Elects Officers.
The regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the First
National Bank, according to law
was held at their banking house
last Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock.
The showing made by the insti
tution was not only pleasing to the
officers and directors, who deserve
to be congratulated for their able
management for the past year, but
places the bank where it is the
county’s strongest financial insti
tution, with resources abundantly
ahle to aid and foster any legiti
mate industry or business.
With a capital and surplus of
nearly $60,000.00, the best finan
cial connections, $184,000 deposits,
under supervision of the United
States government, and managed
by successful men, makes it a safe
depository for your money, and an
aid to patrons for legitimate needs.
The directors elected are J. W.
Vaughan, J.R. Wikle, J. H. Viv-
L,. b. M Ulliui u adru gjiil. c - I
with J. W. Vaughan, president; J.
R. Wikle, vice-president; J. H.
Vivjon, cashier; and Jos. Calhonn,
assistant cashier, they solicit the
business of all, consistent with the
souud rules of banking, and an
nounce to the public they had
plenty of money to loan on goxl
approved security.
OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES.
Entire Audience In Theater Almost
Asphyxiated.
Chicago, Jan. 13.—A special to The
Tribune from St. Mary's, W. Va., says:
“Nearly the entire gallery audience
at the Auditorium theater as well as
the members of the company on the
stage, were overcome by the fumes of
natural gas here last night during a
performance. Two of the actresses
are at the hotel with only slight
chances of recovery. Many of the
spectators in the balcony and gallery
were overcome as they sat in their
seats and had to be carried outside,
where, however, they soon recovered.
The theater is heated and lighted by
natural gas, and an overflow of uncon
sumed gas caused the trouble.
FREEZE IN FLORIDA.
Tampa Reports Temperature of Three
Degrees Above Zero.
Tampa, Fla., Jan. 13. —Freezing
temperature was recorded here last
night, the thermometer 1 ’ng 30 de
grees above.
Ice was reported in the surrounding
territory, but no damage of any con
sequence was caused.
At Jacksonville 27 degrees above
was the lowest temperature registered,
fruit trees and vegetables escaping
without injury.
Wireless Telephone Next.
New York, Jan. 13. —In addition to
his work in connection with perfecting
his system of wireless telegraphy, Mr.
Marconi is now interested in a wire
less telephone idea, according to a,
dispatch to The Herald from North
Sydney, C. B, He is working on>
a portable wireless telephone appara- 1
tus, by which a person can communi
cate for a considerable distance away j
with his home or with other persona
supplied with silimar apparatus.
Anthracite Takes Big Jump.
Chicago, Jan. 13.—The wholesale |
price of anthracite coal has been ad- j
vanced $3 at one jump. The increase j
makes the present wholesale price
$11.50 a ton. Dealer® could give no
particular reason for the in price
further than the “condition of the mar
ket.” ** They declare the supply of
hal’d coal is still small and that there
is little prospect of more for soma
time.