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PAG® EIGHT
POOR HOUSE NAN.
Did you say you wished to see uie?
Sir, step in.
: Tliis is a cheerless place;
Byt you’re heartily welcome all the
same,
To be poor Ls no disgrace.
Have been here long? 0, yes, sir,
’Tis thirty winters gone
Since poor Jim took to the wicked war
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And left me here all alone.
Jim was my son
Anct^a likelier lad you’d never wish
to see
TQ1 evil counsels won
bis heart and lead him away from
me
’Tis the old, sad and pitiful story .sir,
Of the devil’s winding stair;
And men go down and down and down
In darkness and despair.
Tossing about like ships at sea
With helm and anchor lost.
And on through the singing waves
Not caring to count the cost.
I doubt some time if our Saviour sees.
He seems so far away;
The souls he loved and died for
Are drifting, drifting astray.
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In deed ’tls little wonder, sir,
When a woman shrinks and cries—
When the life bloods of a ruin’s altar
Is calling to the skies.
Small wonder If her own heart feels
Each sacrificed blow;
For isn’t each life a part of hers?
Each pain her hurt and woe?
Read |
all records of crime and shame—
’Tis bitter, sadly true;
Whin manliness and honor die
There some woman's heart dies, too.
Thejj when I hear folks talk
So prettily and fine
Of alcohol as a needful food
Of the moderate use of wine.
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How the world could do without it,
There clearly was no use to try
But for a man to drink it,
Or let it alone, as his own free will
might say.
That to use it, but not abuse it - '
Was the proper thing to do;
How I wish they’d let Old Poor House
. Nan
Preach her little sermon too.
For I would give them scences in a
woman’s life
That would make their pulses stir,
For I was a drunkard’s child and wife,
Ah! a drunkard’s mother, sir.
I could tell of childish terror
Of childish tears and pains—
Of the cruel blows from a father’s
hands
When rum had crazed his brain
He always said he would drink his fill
Or let it alone as well;
Perhaps he might, for he was killed one
| night—
In a brawl in a grog shop hell.
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I would tell of years of loveless toll
The drunkard’s child has passed;
But Just one gleam of sun shine
Too beautiful to last.
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When I married Tom I thought for
sure
I’d have nothing else to fear—
That life would be ail right at last
The wprld seemed full of cheer.
But he took to moderate drinking.
Allowed ’twas a harmless thing;
So the'arrow sped and my bird of hope
Came down with a broken wing.
Tom was only a moderate drinker.
Ah! sir, do you bear in mind
How the plodding tortoise in the race
Left the leaping hare behind
’Twas because he held right on and on,
Steady and true if slow and
That’s the way I’m thinking
The moderate drinkers go.
Step oter step, day after day
With sleepless, tireless pace,
While the toper some times looks be
nind
And farrles in the race.
Ah, hedvily the well worn path,
Poor 'Tom walked day by day;
For mj» heart strings clung about his
path
And Wangled up the way.
The days were dark and friends were
gbne,
Life dragged on full slow;
Childre* came like reapers
To a harvest of want and woe.
Two of them died and I was glad
When they lay before me dead;
I had grown so waaiy of thfir cries—
Their pitiful cries for bread.
. There came a time when my heart was
stone. c .■ ■ * ■ ■ :.-.r.
I could neither hope . jt V*
nor pray,
Poor Tom lay out on the Potters field,
My boy had gone astray. V
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My boy who had been my idol
While like hounds athirst for blood;
Between my breaking heart and him,
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And lured him on with pleasant words,
His pleasures aud his wine;
Ah, God have pity on other hurts,
As hurt and bruised as mine.
There were whispers of evil doing,
Of dishonors aud of shame
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That I cannot bear to think of now,
And would not dare to name
There were hiding away from the light
of day,
And creeping about at night;
A hurried word of parting,
Then a criminal’* stealthly flight,
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His lips were white wlth .reaiorsh and
fright
When he gave me a good-bye kiss;
And I’ve never seen my poor lost boy
From that day to this.
Ah, none r buttt mother can tell you, sir,
How-a Woman’s heart will ache '
With the grief that comes for a sinning
heart, ’ >
. And tfie grief fof a lost one’s sake.
And the feet she has trained to walk
Have gone so far astray; .*
And the lips grown bold with curses
That she taught to sing and pray.
Ah ! a child may fear, a wife may weep,
Rut none other
Seems half so sorrowful fo me
As 1 icing a drunkard’s mother.
They tell me that down in the vilest^
dens . <
Of cities, crimes and mirk,
There are men with the hearts of
Angels doing the angels’ work.
They win hack the lost -and- strftying,
They help the weak to stand;
By the power of the loving Word*.
And the help of God’s right hand.
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Often and often the dear Lord knows
I’ve knelt and prayed to Him
That some where, "some time ’twould ;
happen,
They’d find and save my Jim.-.
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GEORGIA RAILWAY & POWER CO.
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will be paid for injujietJotL^olJFnltbn^ evidence Superior^Court, arrest or ho wife,; r" -.1'- f.v/ ... J
of the order of of any person w makes to any; -.;v «V
mother, or other female member of the family of any employee, any threat of personal vio¬
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J lence toward such employee or any member of his family for the purpose of intimidating him
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will he paid for ;eyideii^e reciting ip the^arreat and conviction, or judgment for contempt of
the order of injunction of Fulton Superior Court, of any person who commits any him from personal the I
violence upon any employee of this company for the purpose of intimidating
poles, wirea or other property of this company. /- •/ *- f ft v>
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of the order of injunction of Fulton Superior Court, of any person who makes any threat of if
personal violence toward .^jiy employee of this conipjany tor the purpose of intimidating him -il
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from the proper discharge of his duty. ■i
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APPROVED: » y By W*:
P. S. ARKWRIGHT; President. Vice-Pres. and Operating Mgr.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916.
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Yoifll say ’Qs a poor old woman’s w r
But when I /prayed 5 Wlsf ’flight;
Right over your Eastern window
There shone,.a wonderful light;
Hits.* J.v.oj il.e. ... Cif'
east , ways tt. looked.that way to me,
AnjLPUt. of the -light there fell
The softeSU Voice I "ver -heard, '
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And th^e^e.Abe. ivordak
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«•' ' went arid sin; °* ‘ ” °
k ri seeks 1 ills fathe^ open, door/ .
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Have the loving voice and the helping
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B'ronjghr bark mj? wandering son?
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Did you kiss me and call me mother
And fold me to your breast?
-Or IsHi- orih of thoke iti^Rflting dreams
That come to mock me of my rest ?
No. no, thank God ’tis a dream come
true,
I can die for He has saved my boy;
And the poor old heart that has lived
on grief
Was broken at last by joy.
SHIP EXEMPTION AMEND
. _ MEJNT AN OPiJN DOOR.
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Atlanta, Ga., October 9th,.—Atlanta
lawyers.-are discussing with a great
4 leal of intebesl the tremendous pos¬
sibilities contained in the ship exemp¬
tion amendment to the constitution of
the «iute width will be voted on by
the people in the forthcoming general
election.- -
This amendment, submitted to tbe
people by the last legislature, author¬
ize^ the,- legislature Gf^orgia-owned to exempt from
taxation ! ally ships ex¬
clusively engaged In the foreign trade.
Lawyers who have examined the pro
tne 4 regfslltnre exetcise the authority
which it carries, then every ship-own¬
ing corporation in the United States
could, finder the laws' of llie "state
ghrtTthe fed^faf constitution, procure
a Charter iii; peorgia. establish its
tega% domieiy »this state, and there¬
by. secure exemption from taxes on all
iti ships in the foreign trade. In
other words, instead of being an ex
ps in foreign
de Georgians,
the act could be used for the benefit
of any and -at) owners.
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