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CURIOUS AND ANCIENT BELL GIVEN TO EMORY,
PRESENTED BY QUEEN VICTORIA.
Historic Old Bell Now Swings
the Belfry of This Famous
Methodist College
Although Emory college was found¬
ed in the year 1836, the bell that tells
the hours from the tower of Seney
Hall was hoary with age before
Emory’s first president was born.
Emory men who were in college pre¬
vious to the year when Seney Hall
was built, will remember the quaint
old bell that hung in the tower on
what is now' the site of Candler hall.
In size it is considerably more than
a man can span with his arms, some
three and a half feet high, and of en¬
ormous weight. In appearance it
very much resembles the old Liberty
bell and taking the place of the lat¬
ter’s famous crack is a chip larger
than a man’s hand cut from the low¬
er rim.
QUEER FIGURES CARVED.
Upon one side is carved in relief a
crucifix, while upon the other is a
figure supposedly representing the
Holy Virgin in an attitude of prayer.
Two inscriptions, one encircling the
bell near the top, the other near the
lower rim, also stand out in relief up¬
on its surface, while just below the
figure of the Virgin a smaller charac¬
ters as a third inscription.
The upper inscription, in a queer
mixture of Latin and Spanish, follows
“Auo de 1796 de gracia neustra senora
ora pro nobis.” The English con¬
struction of which is: “Year of grace
1796; our lady pray for us.” That
about the lower rim is: “Selizo,
siendo prior il Rp mro fr Eugenio
Gomes,” and is construed: “It (the
bell) was made, Friar Eugenia Gomez
being Pryor.” Below the figure of
the Virgin is the following: “Sonora
mi Boz con dulce melodya syrba de
culto ai dios y para el cyelo gya.
In English this is: “My sonorous
voice with sweet melody praises God
and guides to Heaven.”
It would seem then, that the date
given above is that when the inscrip¬
tion was put upon the bell, and not
when the bell was made, for the Friar
Gomez here mentioned might have
been prior many years previous to
1796.
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bell might have been .vast m the days
of the crv.ssc.er> or way have been
old when the •n.ghty ar-vad*
was hurled back drum the evascs of
the British Isles
Certain -,t •.* shw quauit rein* of »n
tiquity was serving .*:» purpose when
France was gaspiug tu the throes of
the mighty revolution that has caused
every throne in Europe to totter. Its
peals were reverberating through the
walls of an old Spanish monastery
when Napoleon Bonaparte was an
obscure islander, and later it saw the
career of his star from its rising up¬
on the plains of Italy to its setting
upon St. Helena. It was inexistence
when the Declaration of Independ¬
ence was a current topic and the con¬
stitution of a new world power was
an untried scheme. No one had ever
dreamed of Emory college, or that
Emory college should be the final
resting place of this remarkable old
bell. And could its history from the
date of its casting until it found its
way to its present location in the
tower of Seney Hall be raked from
the ashes of the ages, it would make
story more readable than the Arabian
Nights, and as wonderful as Aladin’s
lamp. All we know for certain of its
history follows:
In 1855 Dr. Alexander Means, third
president of the college, went to Eu¬
rope in search of the latest appliances
for the department of science. Though
modest and reticent, Dr. Means was
one of the most cultured men of his
day, having taken among others the
degrees, A. M., M. D., LL. D., and
was the only American of his time to
be made a fellow of the Royal Society
of Europe. It was on this trip that he
in some way obtained this old bell,
which during the war and commotions
of the times had found its way to
England.
Victoria was highly pleased when
she learned that Oxford had been
named after the great English institu¬
tion and the story usually credited is
that because of this fact the bell was
given Dr. Means by the queen herself,
to whom it is certain that he was
presented and who came to know him
very well, for it was she who confer¬
red upon him the degree F. R. S.
Of its earlier history practically no¬
thing is known, except that it once
swung within the tower of an old
Spanish monastery Where it was
made, or where it was used before
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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from its fastenings in the old monas¬
tery is more conjecture, substantiated
only by the legends and traditions
that are woven about its history.—
Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Shepherd’s Lot Sale.
On the first Tuesday in November
Mr. W. B. Shepherd w’ill offer a num¬
ber of valuable residence lots for sale.
The property all faces the city school
building and is considered the most
valuable lots obtainable in the city.
Mr. Shepherd will sell them at auc¬
tion and no doubt there will be a
great demand for them.
The lots are well located and will
make nice places for homes for any
one looking for a place to build.
About The Cotton Crop.
Editors The Covington News.
My Dear Sirs:—The best way for
you to get rid of me is to handcuff,
side track or chain me to a tree. I
come to you with this article to pro¬
tect the farmers and all other trades.
I am at this time south of Newton
county, looking at crops in other sec¬
tions. The farmers feed the whole
world from the pauper to the king,
receiving poor pay for his labor.
When will he learn to plant right?
We realize the worth of a short crop.
Let us continue to make short ones.
We will get more money from 10,000,
000 bales than 18,000,000 if we will
plant right.
Some friend asks how we should
plant, and the question is easily an¬
swered. Let every farmer, white or
black, next year put half of his crop
in corn, wheat, oats, meat, peas and
potatoes, and the other half in cotton.
You will get 10,000,000 which will sell
for from 18 to 20 cents and have home
made supplies. We will stop trade
with the West. Let them keep their
adulterated food that is bringing a
fearful disease among us, which we
call pellagra, bringing death to our
lovely southland.
May God help and teach the farm¬
ers to plant right.
Uncle John Roquemore.
Mansfield, Ga.
—FOR SALE—A good Edison phon¬
ograph, with fifty fine records, a large
horn and stand. Will sell cheap. Call
or write to—Miss Clara Elliott, Ox¬
ford, Ga. 2t.
Orphan’s Day at Midway.
The Orphan’s Day exercises were
held at the church in Midway Sunday
afternoon and were very appropriate
and rendered in a most pleasant and
entertaining manner.
The amount received for the home
at Decatur was $51.75 which is consid¬
ered good. The program was well
prepared and those who attended pro¬
nounced it the best ever held at that
church.
The Midway church is one of the j
livest in the Oxford district and the
members are all among the city’s i
most consecrated Christians. The
program of Sunday afternoon showed
in a marked degree the interests these
good people take in the things they
do in that church.
How Georgia Has Been Favored This
Year.
The government crop estimates for
for the entire country, which were
published last week again show how
Georgia has been favored by Provi¬
dence this year In the matter of pro¬
ducing good crops. The various cot¬
ton reports issued up to this time
have shown how Georgia was favored
with a fair crop when almost all other
states showed a heavy shortage.
This last report indicates that in corn
production also Georgia and South
Carolina have been equally favored.
The report shows that the corn
crop of Georgia is the best in the
country. It averages 87 per cent of
perfect, against 84 last year and an
average 82 for the last ten years. Be¬
sides Georgia there are but three
other states which show a better crop
than last year, Louisianna, 84, Ken¬
tucky 82, and South Carolina 81. The
average for the whole country is only
73.8, against 79.2 for the ten year
average, which shows that while in
Georgia and South Carolina the corn
crop is far above the average, over
almost the entire country the corn
crop is short.
This further shows that our farmers
will be in far better condition than
they were last year. With cotton
selling for the highest price in thirty
years, and with an extra fine corn
crop supplemented by the finest hay
yield ever gathered, the farmers can
begin next year in a condition better
than this generation has ever exper¬
ienced. This gives the assurance
that the prosperity wave which has
now fairly set in will not be tempor¬
ary but lasting.
A good time ahead for Glorious Old
Georgia.—Augusta Herald.
G. W. AUbritton J. j Wjlks
From Milledgeville, Ga. tv rrom Atlanta,i . .
Farmers — Real Estate
Investment Co.
Valdosta, Ga.
Notice to Enterprising People Middle and North
If you wish to make an i nves
ment that will pay you from 30 to
per cent annually, in the garden spi ]
of Georgia, where you can raise f ro
10 to 20 bales of cotton to the pl 0 ,
all toes, the corn, and peanuts, hay sugar cane, pot]
peas, more than can
consumed on the farm and where heall
is perfectly good, this kind of an ii
vestment will suit you.
For information call on us at oi
home office at Valdosta, Ga., or at tl
Macon Fair Grounds, or in Atlanta,
the Automobile Races as we will fun
a representative at each place.
Youre to serve,
Farmers Real Estate & Mm
Company
G. W. ALLBRITTON, Manager.