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Official Organ of Henry County.
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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.
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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
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FERTILIZER COMPANY’S
Great Crop Producing
FERTILIZERS
FOR SALE BY
Henry County Supply Co.,
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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.
