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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1891.
rODR ^MEMCAN SONGS.
TWO WERt WRITTEN IN BATTLE
AND TWO OURINQ PEACE.
On. of Them Averted a War — Th*
Source, 'pt Inaplntlon of the Pour
Writer.—Strange Fact About the Hu.le
of “ America "—Bow Key Composed
HI. Lyrlo.
The four great lyrics of our country
are “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,"
. “Hail Columbia," “The Star Spangled
Banner" and “America."
The first named was written by Tim
othy Dwight, ancestor of Timothy
Dwight, the present president of Yale
college. He wrote other patriotic an
thems, but “Columbia” is the only one
by which he became famous; Dwight
was a native of Massachusetts and a
graduate of Yale.
He studied law, intending to adopt it
as a profession, but there being a dearth
of chaplains in the Revolutionary army
he became one in Parson’s brigade of the
Connecticut line and served some time
there. It was during this service that
he composed the immortal song “Colum
bia,” which at once attracted general at
tention, and from the first became fa
mous.
It was composed without much
thought, the times being full of patriotic
feelings, which inspired the poet, and he
Is said to have expected no more than
passing fame for his production. It was
caught up, however, by the patriots, and
soon became known throughout the
struggling colonies. After tho war
Dwight went back to the pursuits inter
rupted by his entering the army, and
eventually became president of Yale
college, a position which lie held until
his death in 1817.
The uuthor of “Columbia" was a vol
uminous writer, turuijig out many ex
tended poems and books, but ull seem
to have been forgotten but tho great
lyric which he gave to his country dur
ing the struggle for freedom. It will
ever remain his monument.
A SONO THAT TOU).
The words and music of “Hail Colum
bia" were composed under the American
flag. Its author. Joseph Hopkinson, was
a native of Philadelphia and the son of
a signer of the Declaration of Independ
ence. Like the composer of “Colum
bia," he was the author of many other
things in prose and verse, but nothing
has come down to our day with any
fame but his national song.
“Hail Columbia" was written in the
summer of 1708, when we were having
complications with France which threat
ened to end in war. Hopkinson had an
actor friend named Fox, who was to
have a benefit at a theater, and it was
for him tbut the song was composed.
The music which accompanied the
song, and to which it is sung today, was
originally the “President’s March,”
which was written ten years before, on
the occasion of Washington’s visit to
New York, by a German orchestra lead
er named Fyles. “Hail Columbia’
sprang into sudden popularity, and it is
said to have averted the threatened war,
ns it incited national pride and roused
the whole country.
Joseph Hopkinson lived until 1843, fill
ing various imirartant offices and loved
by all for the great song he bad given to
his nation. He helped to revise the con
stitution of Pennsylvania, was a warm
friend of Joseph Bouapartc’s during the
ex-king’s sojourn in this country, and at
the time of his death was holding the
office of United States judge for the
eastern district of his native state.
IN8PIUKD by Battle smoke.
Of the many uational song writers
none have enjoyed more enduring fame
than the author of “The Star Spangled
Banner." It is perhaps tho greatest and
most popular of all our songs and lyrics.
It was composed amid tho roar of can
non and tlw bursting of bombs, and
seems to have sprung without effort from
the mind of its author. •
Francis Scott Key, the anthor, was a
prisoner in the hands of tho British when
the song was composed. He had gone
down the hay at Baltimore, then being
attacked by tho British !%et, for the pur
pose of securing tho releaso of a friend
who was held by the enemy. He carried
a message from President Madison ask
ing for tho prisoner’s release. The Brit
ish commander agreed to the request,
but told Key that he must be detained
during the attack. Key and his friends
were therefore held back, and it was
while they watched the terrific bombard
ment of Fort McHenry, now and then
losing sight of the flag that wared over
its ramparts, that ho wrote "The Star
Spangled Bonner," This took place in
1814.
When he was released Key took his
poem back to the city, where it was
speedily printed to the music of an old
English song, “Anacreon in Heaven,"
and In a short time was being sung all
over the country.
Dr. Smith’s beautiful ode “America”
was also adapted to an English air, that
of “God Save the Queen." Strange to
relate, this same melody answers for the
national song of the German empire.
Great Britain and Ireland, Bavaria,
Switzerland, Brunswick, Hanover, Nor
way, Prussia, Saxony, and does service
in the United States as “My Country,
’Tisof Thee.”
“America” has no stirring history sur
rounding its composition, it was com
posed in 1883, and was first sung at a
children’s celebration at tho Park Street
church, Boston, on the Fourth of July
the same year. Samuel Francis Smith,
it* author, is still living. He is a native
of Massachusetts, where he was bom in
1806. His famous missionary hymn,
“Th® Morning .Light I* Breaking," waa
written at the same time and place as
“America.” Dr. Smith has filled many
important stations in the church, and
has written voluminously, his contribu
tions embracing nearly every branch of
good literature.—New York Telegram.
UNDER THE H’ARTHSTANE.
"Brother, yoa bear your sorrow
With patience that paaaeth praise—
The lots of worldly possessions.
Just at your later days!
How do you bear It?” the neighbor prayed,
“There’® loro 'neath the lrartbstaDe!" the
old man said.
“Oh, love Is good, 1 grant you.
When seasoned enough with gold;
But love In a cottage**—lie shook his head—
“Is rhyming that will not hold!
Ixjre only can never lift your load
Of sorrow and labor on life’s late road.'
“Ay, ay!** the old man answered.
Hi* white head sturdily raised;
“When ye bao lived a’ my lifctamo
Ye’ll cry, *The Lord be praised!'
Whether o* good or ill shall fa'
If Love ’neath the U’arthstano surviv
ed a
“But you and your wife." urged the neigh
bor
“Your children under the sod"-
“Xao under the sod." the old man cried.
“Oood neighbor—gone to Hod*.
An’ what hae wo to do wi’ pain
When Love still glories the auld h’arth-
stane?"
“Your faith is past my knowing,"
The neighbor murmured low.
A spirit of awe and wonder
On his face, as ho rose to go.
“Ah, friend," the old man answer made,
**ta>ve 'neath the h’arthstauo is naught
afraid!"
—Jean Kate Ludlum in New York Ledger.
Why Don't They I'ropusc?
Why don’t the men propose?’' That
is the problem which ia agitating large
numbers of young women.
I don’t know,” replied one pretty
girl to whom I propounded the conun
drum. “Only they don’t Here 1 am in
my second year in society and I haven’t
had a single offer."
I wish to say that’ the young lady
whose remarks I am quoting is not only
pretty, but she is also of good family, of
first class jiosition, is highly educated
and accomplinlied, is positively known
to have brains and an amiable disposi
tion, and will posses a considerable for
tune. In short she is a gri-.K catch.
Not a single offer of marriage,*'
continued. “Not even a single av<
of love. I don't know what to make of
it, 1or I don't think 1 am wholly unat
tractive. I am not the only one.
course, some girls get married, but they
are very few compared to the vast limn
her of eligible young women in society
What is tho matter with the men? They
are perfectly willing to flirt all day lon^
but none of thorn apjiears to want to go
any further. There is something wrong
Is marriage, after all, a failure?*’-
Chicago Post.
£. P. FARBIS, Pres. BLOOM BROWN, Sec. a Treat. C. P PAYNE, M’g’r.
Americus Supply Co.,
Successor* to HABBI8 & PAYNE,
Fhunbere and Gas Fitters.
Machinery Supplies.
{ We are now in our new building in Artesian Block,
and ready for business.
A Full Line of Cooking Stoves and Ranges.
Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Snecialty.
Globe, Angle and Check Valves,
Te r ra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings.
Greneral Repair W ork
daei-ir TELEPHONE IVo 13.
ESTABLISHED 1867.
INCORPORATED 1890.
JAMES FRICKER & BRO.
Characteristic Even In Her Dretuns.
A lady who is known to be ap ex
tremist in many of her views gravely
told tho following dream over the coffee
tho other morning to the great nmnse
meat of her husband and some friends,
who declared it essentially feminine and
characteristic of her sex.
She dryamed that she bad died, nnd
in the interval before tho freed spirit
made Its way heavenward she was an
nnseen observer and listener to all that
took place in the room in which the
poor clay she had so recently inhabited
lay. She was touched with tho devotion
of her mother, who, like Mary of old
was always first and last beside the laxly,
soon to find sepulture, also intensely in
terested in the arguments for or against
cremation (this having been her own
pet theory), which her friends held forth
in the presence of her disembodied spirit,
and longing to depart with the celestial
throng awaiting l|er. yet mortified nnd
thrilled on the threshold of heaven by
the fact that, graven on her casket plate,
her ago was given as forty-nine instead
of thirty-two.—Utica Herald.
Bo Women or Fashion. Cliengef
In an apothecary’s window ih New
York is a heap of the vinaigrettes that
were ill use /our or more yeurs ago. They
are of cut glass, from twelvo to fourteen
inches long, ap inch thick, and of the
weight of a policemnn's night stick.
They are eloqnent of tho eccentricities of
fashion, for whereas women paid many
dollnrs to pet ono only the other day,
to sjieak, no lady would carry one the
length of :m avenue block today Cor five
times as much money. The same moral
is pointed by a picture that was famous
sixteen years ago. It is Artlinr Lmnley'
sketch of two rival schools meeting on
Fifth avenue. Thebeantyof the school
girls in that picture gavo tho picture
great eclat. Today the girls look like
dreadful guys. Their queer hats, their
waterfalls and their balloon skim con
demn tho work ns a picture of something
preposterous.—San Francisco Argonaut
Oltl Cities of Enroll, disusing.
Said a woman returned from a trip
abroad, which was by no means her
first: "I have discovered that the his
toric monotony of even European life
can change. When 1 first saw Ghent,
ten or a dozen years ago, it was a pic
turesque walled city; now 1 find that
much of its wall has gone Into its fine
quays. So with Bruges, which all guide
books used to delight to remind you had
not had a house built within its limit*
for an extraordinary length of time—a
hundred and fifty years at least. I was
there recently to discover some marked
changes—some almost modern houses
and others, altered in n manner which
has done away witli a degree of tiieir de
licious antiquity."—New York Times •
B* Hi. Non* or tho Symptom..
Maud—Does Jock play football much?
i, Agnes—I don't know. Why?
Maud- I never see him walk lame.—
Epoch,
Uninflammable Piyiw, *»d Woodwork.
If the laundress would add to her prep
aration of starch a solution of the phos
phate of nnunoiiia (about four ounces to
the quart of water) before dipping cur
tains, underclothing nnd dresses there
in, and drying them, she will render
theifi uninflammable. If in opera bouses
or theaters the enrtains, flies, and even
fie woodwork are impregnated with
till* phosphate of ammonia they will be
proof against catching fire; they wtll
only char 'when flame is applied to
them.—Exchange..
I hare just returned from New York,
where I purchased a very large stock of
DIAMONDS
NEfWSJEfFM. Iff BUMS.
tullis & McLendon
DEALERS IN
STOVES AND
Best Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material
A gents, for tbe Celebrated HARVEST STOVES and GRATES.
Agents for tbe Celebrated Wheeler A Wilson Sewing Machine.
Bugeyes armWagons
WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS*
SADDLERY AND HARNESS* CROGKERY’AND GLASSWARE
AND A SPECIAL LINE OF CUTLERY, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE, ETC
We specially Invite tbe trading publlo to call and examine our goods
and prices. We beep tbe best, as well ae the obeapest goods In this
market, and will give our oustomen the value of tbelr money.
nov9s<kwlv
PASSENGER SCHEDULE
SUWANEEJR1VER ROUTE TO FLORIDA,
Taking Effect March M, 1891. Standard Time, 00th Meridian.
"GOING bOUTH.
2 15 pm
8 15 p m
0 80pm
7 W
10 45 am
11 00 a m
1 66 pm
8 2a p in
4 54 pm
0 53 pi
Lv Atlas ia....
Ar Macon....*
Lv Macon
Ar..« Cordele....
Ar Tlfion
Ar Valdosta.;.... A*
Ar ..Lake City Lv
Ar.\.... I ........Jacksonville.. Lv
GOING NORTH.
Ar iu oo pi
Lv 6 10 p t
.Ar
i 16 a mill) 10 p mi Ar Palatku.
12 01 pml
9 66 a pi
7 do a m
10 05 a fni |Ar .
... 8t. AugustI*
WATCHES
at price* that will enable us to sell
lower than ever before. Our stock is
Immense, assortment complete, prices
lower than any one. Call and see for
yourselves before buying.
C. A. FRICKER,
President.-
4O9 JACKSON ST„ AMERICUS, GA,
(Barlow Block.) <
Americus Iron Works,
BUILDERS OF
Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins,
Presses, Feeders and Condensers, Saw and Grist Mills,
Shingle Machines, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Boiler
Feeders, Valves, Jets, Etc.
Shaftings, Hangers, Boxes and Pulleys
fl@“Special attention given to repairing all kinds of
Machinery. Telephone 79.
Saw Mill Man, Attention!
Are you lu need of machinery of any description? If so, write ue your wants,
statiDg just wh»t you desire and we will make you low prices, Our special bust-
ness Is heavy machinery such as
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOOD-WORIING MACHINERY,
and for firshclaas machinery, wo defy comp
H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S celebrated ’’
titlon. We are general agent* for
1-worklng machines, and oan dls-
’Farmi
count factory prices. Be sure to write for circular of "Farmers’ Favorite” eaw
mill; it is the best on tho market Second-hand machinery conetantly on bond.
Write for prices and see If we cannot save you money.
Perkins Machinery Company,
67 SOOTH BROAD STREET,
Haatioi fa* Times WhenjYou Write.
ATLANTA, GA.
Juno24-d&wljear
J. HENRY FREEMAN,
413 COTTON AVE.,
Contractor* and * Builder.
Estimate*cheerfully tarnished. Also dealer la Bulldtnf Material.,
Wall Papers, etc.; Leads, Oils and Averill Mixed Paints, the best in
the worl. .. Call and seo me when you need anything in my line.
W. H. R. SCHROEDER,
Woden, from whom we have the name
Wednesday, was a prince of high stand
ing Bmong the Saxons. His image wa*
prayed to for victory. On the third day
after each succeeding sun worship tbe
old Baxons spent hours invoking the
blessings of Woden.
(Bnceesaor to Bcbroeder * Strickland,)
724 Cotton Avenue. AMERICUS, GA.
Hannf&ctnrer of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron |Vare, Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Tin and Iron Roofing, Hot Ah Heating Etc, Iron Smoke Stacks.
Exhaust Piping for Saw Mills t Specialty.
Connection nerth bound and *ou h bound Is mad* In itacon with trains of Central
and E. T. V. &. G. railroads.
A. C. KNAPP. J.T.HOGE, L.J. HARRIS,
Traffic Mannger Genera fas* fnjr«r A gent. Ticket Agent,
HENRY BURNH, C T. and P. A.No 610 Mnlbe.ry 8t. Union Depot.
Mncon. Ga.
C. C. RODER, Jr..Soliciting A gent. 0 Kimball Block. Atlanta, Ga.
L. C. CONOVA, C.T.A. R. T. RICH A ltD, Agent, Union Depot. W.P.LAWSHE,T.PJ
Palatka, Fin.
Agent, 08 West Bay Ht., Jacksonville, Fla,
JAMES MENZIER,Houtho«stern 1
C. C. HAWKINS.
GaO.. LOVING
HAWINS & LOVING,
-ssFurnitare, Baby Carriages, Refrigerators,
METALIC CASES, CASKETS AND COFFINS.
405 Cotton Avenue.
Night calif for coffins at night attended to by G. O. Loving, at residence west side Brown
street. Burial robes always on band. may 23*1 y.
DUNLAP HATS.
THE LATEST STYLES AND SHAPES.
ARTHUR RYLANDER,
Corner Lamar and Jackson St
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA—BURTS!! County.
To the Honorable Hupenor Court of said
County;
The petition of Jus. T. Cotner. R. L. Sulll*
van, Luther C. Bell. O. .?. Hcnnetdef, P. O.
CieMg.H.i*. Hogle.v.W. E. Murphey and W. p.
Wallis, citizen* of city of Americus, Hun-tei
County. Ge r«U, and others, respectfully
show**th their desire for themselves, ta elr
associates and *u censors, to be Incorporated
under the corporate name and style of tbe
Americus Jewelry Company.”
Tbe principal office, piece of business and
residence of said company,shall be In Ameri
cas, Buinter County, Georgia, where a ma
jority of board of directors shall reside at all
limes; but petitioners prey for privilege of
transacting business anywhere In or outside
of the Mtate of Georgia. If the Board of Dlrec
01 nit? nwio w, uuiifgin, *■ mu iwuiu ,»s wiivu-
tors should desire audit is the interest of said
company to do so. The capital stock of said
company shall be Fifteen Thousand (116.000)
Doll irs, to be divided Into shares of One
Hundred Dollars each: bu- petitioners pray
for tbe privilege of becinning buslneis when
10per cent of said capital stock !■ paid In and
pray for the privilege of Increasing said capi
tal stock from time to time. In olw—**
iui .kick iruin NnmitfHimiu.wai.nni.
board of Dire, tore, u occasion and bu<ln«*>
may demand to *n amount not to excewl On.
Hundred Tliouiand Dollar*.
Th.object or tholrnssoclnt’onl.pecuniary
aln and profit, tar It. .h»rehold*re and th«
-u.lneMthey propose to conduct, 1. mat of
buying, selling, repairing or manufacturing,
watch.., clock, and Jew.lry of all kind*,
Silver anil plated ware, alio music! In. Iru
brtcabrac, glassware, walking canes, um
brella. and cutlery and. all other artlole*
of mcrchandlK usually Sept In lewelry and
mn.lcal Instrument hoUK.. and petitioner.
pray for tb. privilege of renting or Icing law. To ctabll
y of the article, a. aforMOld. or thatmay-
kept In Jewelry or musical ln.irom.nt
hounwr wll ume for cash nr on tbe Install
ment plan, nr dl.pora of same a* may b* to
Interest of ull company. 1’ctltloncre also
pray for privilege to borrow money for cor
poral. purpovw. and Mcnra the tains by
mortgage, trust deed or otbcrwlre,upon ny
oralfof It. corporate ptopertp; to msW'
note*, account*, to buy bold, Improve, .*1,
Ice and rent real or pcnonal property for
corporate purpoocs, and dispose of any rani
or perronal property beld by raid company
forcash, or on Installment., to anbeoribeto
orown stock In other companies If director.
•hould think It to tbe Interest of said Corn
ell, ururamero, woramco, ssu nil uturr
person* foreondnctlngoald butlnam. Peti
tioner, pray for the privilege to mak.and
pany as may be nmasary and proper, not trn* extract from tbe Record *br Charter,
fmjonj^Wi^wtt^h^mw^^^jOTgft^lio thisKUtdayofAnrH, 18,1. h
nans
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tract and be contracted with, to have inch
other powers and to do such other nets ns
ere customary nnd proper, to carry out the
Intent, desiznaod purpose of mid corpora
tion. Petitioner* pray to be incorporated
for the fall Urm of twenty (20) year*, with
privilege of renewal at the expiration of said
term according to law.
And petitioner* will•Ter^pray^etc.^^
rttlllonew' Attorney.
Filed In office this 8th day of April, 1801.
J. H. ALLKf,
Clerk B. C. B. C. ua.
I hereby certify that the above la a, traa
•street from the record of charters of Sum
ter court. This 8lh April 1891,
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
I would be pleased to give you estimates on your Tin, Iron and Cornice work. I guaran*
all work to be first-class fa every particular. Ridging, Cresting and Finals furnished on short
ice. I also do Heavy Iron Work from 14 to 27, Roofing, Guttaring, Spouting, etc.
JTCALL AND GST HT ESTIMATES AND GIVE ME A TRIAL..^f
DB. F. A. THOMAS,
Physician and Surgeon.
Will do a general practice ia tUe city
and vicinity. He will be found at
his office when not profeasionally en
gaged. Will keep slate on office door.
Office: Second floor, Artesian Block.
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA—Sumteu County;
To the Huperior Court of Bald County:
The petition of O. R. Whitley,M. B. ramp-
be'l. Jiinirs L. Mont^niery, Linton I'oowr,
J. T. W orthnm. R. H. Chase, L. B. I«ltt»*r
nnd W. U. Cooke, or said county, rcNiu-ri-
fully show that they have aFsoolAted them
selves together and dralre for themneive*,
» Ik*
made a body politic, with tho rtaht «>r huc-
cession under the corporate nnniu of the
‘Amcrlcns strain Laundry com puny."
The object of said corporation ts for tx*cu-
nlsty gain and profit for Um Hinn-holm i>,
tha particular DustnrsHto becarilKlt
ami the particular .business to beenrrh <1 on
Is that or a general laundry, the wanning huh
ironing of nlothcs of every and nil charuch-r
and description, nnd such bu*ln«>
imial and iucldent to a laundry.
— **-* “ >ushall
e jO-l \
exceeding
twenty-live thousand doltarn f (md enrh stor k -
holder to bo lti Uvunlly liable to thu extent
or liU unpaid subsorlpitoh of said enpltnf
stock. Tho niaco of busint*4 nnd prluotpui
office of said corporation will ho in the « l y
of Americus, said county.
rotltlouera for tboiu«mvca and assoc hit o«
pray that under the corporate name afore-
said, they inay bo Incorporated on 1 made a
body politic for the full term of twenty
years with theprivilegeof renewalnt the ex-
pirailonorthst Hire, antfto km and enjoy
the following rights and privileges, to-, ft:
Tho right to sue and bo sued, plead and h«-
Impleaded, to contract and be contracted
with, to use a common seal and adopt by
laws, rule* and regulations binding on Its
stockholders for tho government of Itsstook-
holdeia and officers not Inconsistent with
law. To establish branch houses In any
county In this Btatc or outside of tills State. -
To borrow money tor corpora NnoaNjM
■
bUsh^re!
Btatc or o
secure the same by mortfare or’wvst deed
or otherwise upon any or all of its corpora e
p WS!i.. bold, own, ua. anti enjoy si)
property, real and paraonal, a. may no nec-
cusry lor the tmniactlon orit. raid l,u»ine«,
and to bn, m.ebtn.ry to can y on their said
bnunen, and to appoint all nlllcer. and
agenta for th*manage . entolltsbu.lne.a.
to employ ,.|e<m.n, workmen nndalintiirr
K reon» neoetrary to carry on tho .aldimxi-
M.and to hare and enjoy all other right*,
power, and privilege neceraary to carry out
theMbJ.etaor.ald corporation confcrrrcd by
taw upon corporation, of llko character by
tbelaw.orOeorgia
JAS. DODSON A 80 V,
. Petitioner.’ Attorney*-
Filed In omce April 2>, pel.
J?H. Al.I.ax, Clerk.
I certify] the above and fbreglvl ng to b
, Aunt, Clerk 8. c.
For salo by tho DAVENPORT DRUG
COMPANY Americas, Ga.
H the best known remedy
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