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THERE 15 NO PAPER LIKE TH^ HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE.
VOL. V.
CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY:. FEBRUARY 21 1902.
NO. 6.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Pays Loving Tribute
to Army Comrade “Old Hock. 1 '
A LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC ENGLISHMAN
An Unintentional Error Corrected.
William Suggest* Wholesome
Bocks Suitable For Young
People to Read.
Of course—of course it was Tom
Moore. How came I to say Burns
wrote that pretty ballad beginning,
“And I know by the smoke that so
gracefully curled?" I knew better and
the editor should have corrected it, for
he knew better, too. What Is an editor
for if he does not correct a "lapsus
pennae" like that? But I am glad I
made the mistake, for it has brought
me three letters and a postal kindly
correcting me, and proves that the
people who read the old-time authors
are not all dead. The last line of that
verse always reminds me of a good old
man, a comrade, Captain John Hock-
enhull, an Englishman by birth, but a
Georgia rebel who used to recite peo-
try for us around the camp flites In
1802 and 1863. We called him “Old
Hock" and everybody loved him for
l^e was a cockney and dropped the h’s
where he should not, and vice versa.
There is always a charm In broken
English and to murder the king’s Eng
lish Is no great ofTense. “Old Hock”
knew a good deal of Tom Moore and
Burns and Hood and Campbell and it
was a treat to hear him say:
“The ’eart that is ’umble might ’ope
for It ’ore.". . ,
He knew that other sweet ballad of
Annie Crawford:
"Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn
Is breaking,
The horn of the hunter Is heard on
the hill.”
And he always said “The ’orn of the
’unter is ’eard on the ’ill.” The “Ex
ile of Erin,” which he called the “Hex-
ile of Herin,” was another of his fa
vorites. He learned these poems from
hts sweetheart while he was an ap
prentice in London—an orphan boy
bound for Beven years to a hard mas
ter, a brewer, and his daily service
was to carry the jars of malt from the
cellar up a flight of stone steps to the
floor above. He never had a kind
word from his master, and one day
he tripped and broke a jar and was
bitterly abused for it, and told that
he had forfeited the 20 pounds that ho
was to get when his term was out. He
wai^then 18 and had yet three years
to toll at his hard, monotonous work.
That night he poured oht his heart to
the girl he loved and declared he would
knew w’t freedom was before and you
Hamerlcans ’av no idea w’at a bless
ing it is. The good woman w’ere I
boarded and her daughter were so kind
and gentle to me that I would ’av
'ugged them if I dared, but I thought
all of the time of the girl I had left
behind me, and it nerved me to good,
’onest work and the contractor soon
raised my wages, and In six months I
'ad a ’undred dollars In bank and got
a good man to send It to another good
man In Ne.w York, and he found the
same captain I came hover with and
he took It to my sweetheart, and while
I was every day looking for a letter,
she took me by surprise one morning
and brought the letter with her, and
we just fell In to heach hother’s harms
like-like-like-major, hexcuse me now,
I must go and look hafter my ’oss.”
He had named his fine mare Emma,
so that he could call her Hemma, 1
reckon. But we made him finish the
story afterwards and tell how one good
friend volunteered to go after the li
cense, and another after the preacher,
and his landlady and her daughter
baked some cake and got up a hextra
supper and they were married that
night at her ’ouse, and all he remem-t
bers about what the preacher said
was “wnorn uou 'am joined togetucr,
lot no man put hasunder.” “Old Hock”
was a patriot, a good, honest and true
man. His neighbors at his home in
Dawson county all loved and honored
him, and there was no| a man in his
regiment (the Eleventh Georgia) more
beloved by the men that he fed, for l>e
was chosen their commissary early in
the war, and you know it Is so natural
to love those who feed you well. When
rations were short he would travel all
night to secure supplies, and the boys
knew that If “Old Hock” couldn’t get
what they wanted nobedy could. But
in course of time the old man £ot sick
nnd wanted to go home, GtBsv^offlcors
had got furloughs, but he had never
asked for one. He went to bed and
sent for me and told me he was sick
and if he didn’t get a furlough- he be
lieved he would get' sicker and perhaps
die away from ’ome. I suspected that
he was homesick, but he looked »lck
and I sent up his application. The ar
my had been for some days sweltering
in the hot summer’s sun not far from
Richmond. The application was
ferred to headquarters at Richmond
and 1 took it in to the proper official
who glanced at-At.-.apd said: "Impor
tant movement*: Are dally expected
and all furloufu to go home are strict
ly prohibited. Tl)e best I can do is
run away and go to Annerlcij
first sail vessel that left the
he would make some money
send It to
come to
marry and
ised. Wltl
came. He
sad story a
and they took him a
ty
his
ie mate,
night
and hid him down in the hold of the
vessel until the good ship had weighed
anchor and was- tar out to sea. “Old
Hock” told It all to us one cold night
at Manassas and how sad and sweet
was his last kiss, his last embrace, his
last good bye. He choked up sometimes
and the tears glistened In his eyes,
but it wss a pretty story, and Dickens.,
could have built upon It and made a
tender romance. This was away .back
da the forties - whoa our state was
building the Weeteru and Atlantic rail
road and wanted laborers add had gent
a man to Hew To* ■■ to hire immi
grants as ,
den. “Old
a day, , but
Atlanta and
where he did his
he did not feel
r a Sbakesp
captain to Farmvllle for
There was an army hos-
.vllle, which was only 30
:h of Richmond, where sick
fere sent to rest and be treat-
eir ailments. And so he in-
upon it Farmville, and in the
ink said thirty days. Suddenly
;ht struck me that could not
I knew that ’’old Hock’s” pcst-
6 in Georgia was named Farmvllle.
pped Into a hotel and took a pen
quickly added “Ga.” to the word.
I knew that this wae risky and ras
cally, but told him to get ready to j
leave next morning. How quickly ho
brightened up and how thankful he
was to me. He went home on that
pass and came back in due time, re
newed and recovered. He said the
conductor looked ’ard at him and at
the pass, but let him go. by the hos
pital and then he felt eafe. I knew
if I had told him what I had done he
couldn't face the music and tell a lie.
After the war his people sent him to
the legislature and my people sent me
there,too, and we rejoiced to get to
Halifax,” by Mrs. Muloch, and "Ten
Thousand a Year,” by Warren. Buy
"The Vicar of Wakofleld" for the sake
of the hermit. Of course our own au
thors should not be neglected, such as
some of Irving's works and Haw
thorne and Longfellow and Bryant.
Buy Halleck for his “Marco Bozaris”
If nothing else. There are two text
books by Miss Rutherford, of Athens,
Ga., the cultured principal o? Lucy
Cobb Institute, that should be in ev
ery respectable household. One Is
English authors and the other Is Amer
ican authors. Both together make a
good library and are always ready for
reference. I had rather give up any
two other books than those. “The
Fisherman’s Prayer,” by Jean Ingelow,
In the first named, is worth twice the
cost of the book. Now most of these
bool<B can be bought nicely bound at
prices from 50 cents to $1. But there
are hundreds of gQtid books by such
authors as Mrs. Austin and Charlotte
Bronte and Mrs. Hermans-, Mrs. Si
gourney and Others. I name only a
few to fit the slender purses of our
young people. Yop can now buy the
plays of Shakespeare separately for a
small cost, and so I would get “Ham
let,” "Macbeth,” “Fomeo and Juliet”
and “Merchant of Venice.” When you
are able by all mcaSis get a Cyclope
dia of biography, po that you can
turn to the interesting sketches of any
great man or woman,.such as Galllleo,
Mozart, Handel, Raphael, Beethoven,
Audubon, Linnaeus uind hundreds of
otherB. But don't crlgvd your youthful
mind with modern goVels. They are
made to sell—that’s ’^11.™-B111 Arp, In
Atlanta Ct “ "
oyd county, Ga.,
FAVOR OF DI
^ v
Antl-Barrcom
ttnuty, Ca.,'
of 187
In the election in
Tuesday the dispensary people won
by a majority of only 187.
After all the turmoil and excitement
attending a fierce and spirited contest,
the city Is quiet and no signs of any
disorder or any evidences of a public
celebration over the victory.
The election was conducted quietly
and orderly and with the exception of
a slight flstcuff affair at the court
house when the court room was crowd
ed with voters near the closing hour,
no disorder of any kind occurred.
The dispensary people take the re
sult calmly and even express some sur
prise that the majority was not larger.
Attorneys for the liquor men of
Rome do not look upon the contest as
closed. They stated Tuesday night
that they had fought the measure from
its Inception all through the legisla
ture and before the people and would
continue to do so, and that they re
garded Tuesday's defeat simply as one
feature of the campaign. They inti
mated that the measure adopted by
the legislature would be fought on con
stitutional grounds and that they hoped
to knock It out.
The bill provides for a change to
take effect the first of April. A promi
nent Roman remarked that if the
measure was carried Into effect he
thought the result would work incal
culable Injury to the best Interests of
Rome.
The returns from the country dis
tricts show neither side to have any
advantage from the city of Rome. The
county gives the dispensary advocates
a majority of 187.
It Is estimated that between $5,000
and $S,000 has changed hands as the
OLD SISTER STONE
RELEASED AT LAST
Brigands Get Their Money
and Give Up Captive.
REV. TSIEKA UNDER SUSPICION
Husband of Miss Stone’s Compan
ion Is Thought Bs in League
With the Abductors.
September 3 last, and she has been
handed over in good health to the
dragoman of the American legation*
It was announced recently that the
Turkish authorities suspected Rev.
Tsilka of complicity In the abduction
of the missionaries.
The companion of Miss Ston
Mme. K. S. Tsilka, a Bulgaria
TALKED OF DEPOT.
The Temps (Paris newspaper) pub
lishes a dispatch from Constantinople
which announces that Miss Ellen M.
Stone has been released fly the brig-
, , , , ,, , meeting of the commission in the st
ands who have held her captive since* . ,
t’pmnnn that thin nnHnn wnw tnkf»n.
Legislative Commission Ralway
Officials Hold Two Fruitless
Conferences in Atlanta.
Members of the Georgia state depot
commission and representatives of the
railroads entering Atlanta held two
conferences In Governor Candler’s of
fice Wednesday. The sum total re
sult of the conference was* the decis
ion on the part of the depot commis
sion to employ a competent architect
or civil engineer of national reputa
tion to Investigate the state's terminal
property in Atlanta and prepare
ground plans for a suitable and ade
quate union passenger station.
The discussion between the. railroad
officials and the commission lasted
all the morning, and It was at the
ternoon that this action was taken.
Under the resolution adopted, Gov
ernor Candler will enter into corre
spondence at once with various ar-
cflttects and civil engineers of nation
al prominence, asking them to submit
prqposals (or preliminary work such
as Is desired, and when their replies
; are received another meeting of the
was ^j commission will be called.
wo ' I The resolution adopted contemplates
man, wife of Mr. Tsilka, a Macedonian preparation simply of ground
teacher of Samakov. Mlss_ ; Stope, pi a ns, or plans designed to Bhow
while traveling with Mme. Tslllcki and >, whether or not sufficient track room
a party of about-flfteen friendem-was,., f 0r a union station can be secured on
captured by brigands in the dlgtrlct'tj present site. When an engineer
or Salonika, September 3. ^ . .! or architect has been secured, which
Since that time vigorous eltortB have W 1J1 probably be within the next ten
been ma^° by the United States gov-* ,j avs or two weeks at latest, he will
ernment and by missionaries to obtalag be ai
HAT SAVE MINDER'S NECK.
gather again every night and rehearse
the soul-stirring times that we had In result of the election,
old Virginia. 1
From time to time I receive good,
earnest letters from the young folks—
girls ac4 boys—asking what books to
~ * and where to get them. One
1 today from a young miss who is
a country school. She says
Pardon Board Will lie Asked to Coin-
mate Sentence or Murderer.
Judge W. H. Felton and Solicitor
. . .. . General Brunson, of Bibb county. Ga.,
go to College, for she is too haTe aeked the pardon board to com.
mt ® Uador ^ lBder> * hentence to life
■a wants toknow wlyatjttooks to This will cause little
to improve her mind. Well, If I j because when the Georgia
*“ poor to buy some'good ancy-
sspeare,
Tom Moore,
r, Campbell,
sworth and
vels such as
- and “Anne
"‘>f
1 Son” and “Da- w
a there Is “John pj
£,-1
supreme court expressed the wish that
jury had recommended mercy of
t It has been understood that
the court officials
and ask the
neck.
It
tive.
m
take,It up
e Minder’s
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the release of the captives. Tbl-brlg-
ends demanded a ransom of *5,000
ft) pounds, but tmly $72,1
_ "theranjikh
"as paid over to the brigands
February C by M. Gargiulo, chief of
the American legation, Constantinople,
and W. W. Peet, treasurer of the
American mission at Constantinople,
who met the brigands on the road to
the Pondrome monastery.
Madame Tsilka was educated at the
Northfleld seminary. At the time of
receiving her American training and
asked to prepare these preliminary
plans as speedily as possible, and
when they are ready it is cont_^
with
education she was Miss Stephemaora, gjtion made by the state. Principal
Bulgarian,
Having been converted in childhood
to the Christian belief, she came to
America after having refused to mar
ry the man of her parents’ choosing.
Dr. Dwight L. Moody, becoming inter
ested in her welfare, found a place for
her in his school. Having finished her
training at that institution, Bhe be
came a trained nurse. While engaged
In her professional duties in the Adi-
rondacks, she became acquainted with
Mr. Tsilka, a Macedonian, who had
also been educated In the United
States. At that period be was prepar
ing tor work as an American mission
ary. Soon after the completion of
their training the couple married
and went to Bulgaria, whither they at
once entered upon missionary work.
Miss Stone is one of the missiona
ries of the American board of foreign
missions. She has been attached to
the Salonika mission since 1878. She
was born at Roxbury, Mass., and her
home is in Chelsea, Mass., where her
mother resides.
BROTH Kit AVENGES MISTER.
Pumps Lead Into Man Who Won In
Breach of Promise Case.
William O. Shipp, charged with
breach of promise by Bessie E. Wal
ker, was tried in chambers in Norfolk,
Va., Tuesday morning by Police Jus
tice Taylor. .
The plaintiff failed to prove that
Shipp promised to marry her. Shipp
was discharged.
Tuesday afternoon Levi Walker, 20
years old, a brother of Miss Bessie
Walker, walked up to Shipp and some
of his friends who stood talking to
gether and opened Are upon them. He
fired five shots, two of these struck
8hipp and one struck Walter J. Gray.
Both men fell and both are believed
to ba mortally wounded.
Application has been filed In Chat
tanooga to Incorporate the Interstate
Oil and Oss Company with $250,000
capital to bore for oil and gas In the
vicinity. The incorporators are C. C.
Bills. P. S. Griffith, Joe W. Clift, B.^W.
Sparks and C. Manning Ellis.
to have another confer^
f rmlr0a3 officials, tft^wn
matter can be properly discussed, and,
perhaps, a definite conclusion reached.
The necessity for the employment of
such Rn architect grows out of the
fact that several of the railroads do
not believe an adequate station can be
constructed on the state’s property.
They said they must be satisfied that
this can be done before they are will
ing to give their assent to the propo-
among those taking this stand are the
Southern and the Central of Georgia.
RAILltpAJJi CHANGES HANDS.
Tennessee Central Trustees R U y 11m
Nashville and Knoxville.
The sale of the Nashville and Knox
ville railroad to the Tennessee Cer* J
tral has been consummated, 1
to a telegram received at
from President Shepley, of the
Trust Company, of St Louis.
The message says that a payment of
$00,000 has been made, and that all
the Nashville and Knoxville securities
have passed into the hands of Tennes
see Central trustees.
The Nashville and Knoxville runs
from Monterey to Lebanon, a distance
of 110 miles, and is the essential link
in the proposed Tennessee Central sys
tem.
CAUSED ItY BROKEN KAIL.
Engines Wrecked Causing Death of
One Man and Injury of Five.
As the result of a broken rail at 3:21
Wednesday morning one man was kill
ed and five Injured on the Columbus,’
Sandusky and Hocking railroad near
the Nelson avenue crossing at Shep
ards. a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
William Smith, the man killed, was
the engineer on one of the locomotives
of a double-header that left the city
about 3 a. m., and his watch stopped
at 3:21, showing tUe time when the
fatal craah came.
■0LD8 TO ORIGIN AL FIGURES.
Georgia Cotton Crop Estimate Gives
By Commissioner Nieves*.
The Georgia department of agricul
ture sticks to its estimate of 1,SO®,000
bales for the st&tiPs cotton crop, de
spite the assertion in many quarters
that It will reach 1,600,000. or 1,-
600,000 bales, or thereabouts.
It was last August that Commission
er O. B. Stevens gave out an estimate
that thefiGeorgia crop would not go
over 1,800,000 bales.
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