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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 ■ ,. A- V ■ :.\W, • A - 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. - ’%usl. -i,... ’ * ■