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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1915)
THC Henry County Weekly FRANK HKAGAN. Mnoi •Sorteredfti «•«! MrOi.rorp fts Second-Cia*:- 1 ii) IllH* .Advertising iif»fcns furnishwl oti Aiipli »«lon. Official Organ of Henry County. \T >nonr»iurVj fin April 9!t I ( MF> The Child Who Died But Lives in Memory. !t v/as always the fairest, tin •tiild who died when yet a child. Parents’* hearts look back upon ,ts short life, regarding them selves as less fortunate than Abi a Ham, m that they did give up the acfiild, come to equal Abraham in their spirit of resignation. So ■Memory erects its altar of sacrifice -md the young brief life which was there offered up seems in recollection dearer than all other .•children who lived. So many of us of the South feel ras we approach our Memorial Day :.snd begin to think the thoughts inspired by all which such day means. Even on a warm day we shiver nt the sight of a person all wrap ped in furs. A picture of the arc tic regions and a polar bear or two added to the landscape, or ieescape, will give us a chill. The mother bemoaned her fate of hav ing against her wall to give a son io a sailor’s life. Her friend was 'shown the son’s room and, point ing to a picture upon the wall, where the boy would see it as iie fell to sleep or awoke each day, Jie replied, “You sent your son to with that picture.” We become like the things which we behold, if we but gaze long enough. If you would have the holiest love of government because that ■government is the purest and the noblest, we can hut point you to si memory. But the memory is as truly alive today as reality itself. We were not born until the Con federacy had for more than a de ride ceased to exist as a visible being among the nations of’the world. But there is coursing through our veins the blood which is dateless and which is the blood iif a citizen of that glorious past md of its matchless nation, reared in love of home and maintained during its brief life in wisdom and purity. As it exists in memory, it is our nation just as much as it is yours, vou grizzled heroes who of fered your lives to establish it and staked everything but honor to preserved:; though of course it Ttas cost us no such price, or rather you have prepaid the price for us. We would contemplate this rshort-b'ved government and be hold it long and often, that our lives might come at last to reflect its own matchless majesty and harmonious proportions. Finding in this spectre of a past structure the embodiment of the love and patriotism of earth’s loftiest and purest characters, we would grow to be like these foun ders and builders of an institution too great for fact and destined soon to leave the darkness of ma terial form and retire to the brighter clearness of a spiritual conception, a dream heaven-born and so soon to heaven returning as to home, like the tired-out child returning from the brief period ot play to its mother’s arms for the rest of home and the solace of the home heart. Glori us and pure as a babe this government rose and as unsullied a id illustrious did it fall. We of the younger years are recreant indeed to a sacred trust, unworthy of a legacy of wealth beyond measure or count, and do shame tin* blond of our hero sires, if we do not keep burning upon the altars of memory the sacred fires of a sacrificial love and rev erence for those high principles fashioned into a government whose life was for but a day but whose light shines for aye and shall ever be a beacon across the tides of time, directing other and later ships of state into safe voy ages. Counts. Do you appreciate rhythm? Is your soul so attuned to harmoni ous sounds that music always thrills it through and your body sways with its beat? Ormajbe you feel the inspiration hut you are of that calmer type which is equally inspired by the “concord of sweet soundsVbut fives no outward evidence of being moved by it. * But the point is, does music makes its appeal to you and so open up another world into which no other power can bring you ? There are many of us w ho can not “keep time” to any music, though loving music intensely Those who have had the duty of instructing others in drills and marches have long realized this fact and profited by the knowl edge. We were reminded of the fact as we witnessed the beautiful drills on the school grounds dur ing the School Fair. Lips moved in unison with the movement of the dumb bells and Indian clubs and to the timed beat of the beau tiful music. So those who could not for a moment get in swing lo music alone will move perfectly with each other to the count of one, two, three. We do not know tlm philosophy of this. We do not know how anybody, it seems, will readily count with the same rapidity with every other person, though inca pable of acting together merely to music, and we do not care. Some times we imagine that il is due to the power of the human vo ce, the first music maker in history. But th is drilling by counts has a great lesson for us in every ef fort and every walk in life. In the great world of affairs there are the same counts as in the drill or march. In life only the deeds done together count. It is the rhythm of co operation running through every upward and onward step of a people in city or state which ac complishes the perfect melody of success. When shall we grasp this lesson that our single and isolated erforts for reform or constructive im provements can but come to noth ing, that we mu t act and do as one if we accomplish. Our city could almost in a night grow and advance more than it has in the past decade if only tiie dreams and aspirations for its greatness which fill the hearts of many of us were only harmonized and then, united, translated inlo one deed of all. Shall we awake, not from our dteams, but in and with our dreams and together build them into a glorious and concrete re ality. Miss Marv Fears, of Hampton, and Misses Rnby Bran nan and Inez Harrell, of Stockbridge, were the we k-end guesls of Miss Eunice C Ha wav Mrs. Chas T. Ze hrv is expected home this we. Ic from Tampa, Fla. Mrs li >h H •we 1 ! will accompany her m tl.t r and the? will visit at at Columbus on their way home. ABERPEEN-ANGUS crosses are ; making good. . About a year ago we put in service an Aberdeen- Angus hull with our native cows. If there are any doubting “Thomases” around we would be glad they would take a good look at some of these crosses 'al though quite young] and note how thick, lofv-set, round, compact, fine in bone, soft hair, mellow skin, rich color, and fine head. Keep a close watch on these young: calves and watch how rapidly they grow and fatten. The sire of these calves trained "as high as eighty-eight (88) pounds in thirty days—and I was not trying to fatten him. 1 say watch these crosses when they get old enough to put on the grass and ? e them shed their baby coats and put on a line glossy “dress suit" and round up into the “Ideal” cattle. I have in service now one of ihe very best bulls that can -be found. He is right closely related to the best the breed has ever produced —and “blood will tell ” It will more than pay any man to his cows to this animal and have coming along a “Black Brigade” that wLi turn dollars and pleasure your way f when the price of cotton is low. J. O. RUTHERFORD, HAMPTON. GEORGIA. A GOOD ROOF LENGTHENS THE LIFE OF YOUR BUILDING. No roofing is superior to Galvanized Iron. We have a car load of the best grade of Galvanized Iron Roofing. * Let us ha /e your orders. Planters Warehouse <sc Lumber Company McDonough, Ga. Inspect the Battle Fields. Not by going to them, but by bringing them to you. We have secured a limited num ber of copies of a 32 page War Atlas of Europe, with detail maps in colors of each country. While our supply i.tsts, we make you the following offers: . 1. We will sell you the Atlas for 25 Cents. Postpaid for 27 cents. Stamps will be accepted. 2. To all who, by the payment of not less tnan one dollar, pay up their subscription to a date not prior to January 1, 1916, we shall give the Atlas tree. If you wish it mailed, add 2 cents in money or stamps for postage. 3. To all others, who make pay ments on subscription in any amount, we shall give the Atlas for the additional sum of fifteen cents. It to be mailed send 17 cents additional. Be on time and secure this in teresting and valuable work of information. Offer no. 2 is good’fonly to those who send or bring the pay ment to us and does not apply to those to whom a collector has to be sent. Mrs R. < \ Col > and Miss Martha Cole of tinftin, were the guest* of Mrs. E vi. S:ni h Thursday, Mt>s Cole remaining over for a few' days’ visit to Miss Flora Neat, making many friends here who hope for another early visit. Mrs. Lilah D. Copeland is visit ing her sisteis in G.ithn. Mrs. Florence ti .rpor and M r s Cora Knott are the guests of rela tives iu Atlanta this week. PORTER », t ' T FERTILIZER COMPANY’S Great Crop Producing FERTILIZERS FOR SALE BY Henry County Supply Co., * + • McDonough, Georgia. THIS IS UNSOLICITED Mrs. Baker, of Hapeville, Ala., says: “One bottle of DR. PRATHER’S COUGH SYRUP relieved me more than any cough medicine I have used in fifteen years. ’’ Dr. Prather’s Cough Salve will give just as satisfactory results. Try these and convince your self vou are getting the BEST FOR YOUR MONEY. For sale by Horton Drug Company and dealers at McDonough, 6a., manufactured by PRATHER DRUG CO. Girard, Ala.
