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"THE GLORIES NF GEORGIA
JEFF M’LENDON DELIVERS AN EL
OQUENT ADDRESS.
Spoke Before the Mitan School, in Telfair
. County, On the Occasion of Its
Closing Exercises.
In response to an invitation DProfessor
J. D. McLendon, whc is teachiug at In
wood, delivered an address before the
Milan school, in Telfair county, on the
occasion of its closing exercises. Pro
fessor McLendon’s subject was ‘‘Geor
gla,”’ and so ably and eloquently was it
Landled that the speech was published
in the Mcßae KEaterprise., Professor
McLendon is a brother to Rev. H. R.
McLendon of Dawson, and has taught
several schools in Terrell county.
Below is the address in full, THE
News reproducing it by request:
It is with due appreciation that I
have the privilege and Lonor of respond
ing to an invitation ot your teacher here
to make vou an address s preliminary 1
to the exercises of the evening, As it
would be improper for me to usurp over
five minutes on this scheduled o:cason
I shail present you with the subject of
HGeorgia,”’ for it includes within its pur
port all the facis necessary to assure you
of a warm welcome to Milan and to the
@xchibition.
As for me Georgia is the state of my
nativity, and I love every fout of. her
goil from Rabun to Decatur, and from
where the Oconee lazily takes her rise
to where she bequeaths her waters to be
slashed in fury upon the turbulent wa
ters or a restless sea. Ilove old Georgia
because she is great, grand and glorious;
1 love her because 1 can’t help it. I love
to live in Georgia becausa it was upon
her gentle bosom that I was reared to
man’s estate, and never yet have I at
her hands been treated ill. The lips of
her mornings have ever kissed my wak
ing life, and the bosom of her night has
ever pillowed my soul to restin sweet
repose. The voice of her music, which
rings from every woodland, field and
dale, has ever made for me a world of
joys, caressed and kissed as if from
heaven. Yonder half-orbed moon that
pours silver from the east has ever
soothed the worid of sorrows and de
livered my passports to Morpheus, where
tired minds and weary feet might be
wafted recaperatively through the balmy
breezes of slumberland. I know of n)
sweeter state; long for no sweeter home,
By every reposing fountain of her val
leys, by every rippling brooklet of her
meadows, in every shady nook of her
glens, and on every solitary dale that
Jies within her boundry have I ever,
from my infavey, found a warm and
tender greeting. |
The contentment I receive as a resalt
of knowing I am a Georgian is like some |
unseen etherial ocean, whose silver surf
breaks forever in song; forever breaks
on yvaliey, hill and craig in ten thousand
symphonies. To me there is a melody
in every sunbeam, a sunbeam in every
melody; there is a flower in every song,
aloye song in every flower. There is a
sonnet io every gurgling fountain, a
hymn in every brimming river, andi an
-anthem in every tossing billow. I will
love to live in Georgia even after my
hair shall have been touched with the ‘
frost of age and the deep furrows of time
-shall have caressed my aged face. |
I would rather live in Georgia, be
neath her elms and oaks, in communion
with her humming bees and splashing
wwaler, with health and ambition, and in
‘grasping distance ot the resources which
she offers, than to be a Vanderbilt in
habiting a barren mountain, lving and
dining in a palace hail, and having the
sweetest slippered-fret .maidens whis
pering songs of love, I repeat it, that I
love to live in George. I love to live
here where the sweetest maidens dwell,
I love to listen to the rumbling breezes
that echo the gentleness of their hearts,
Ilove to cateh a glimpse of the beams of
heaven that demoustrate their kindness |
The sympathies and friendships of
Georgia’s people are as warm as lhel
southern sunshine. I even love the
woodlands and mead ws and f rests and
swamps of old Georgia, for there I can
stand where daffodils and pansies bend
ap”. smile to rippling waves. There |
¢’ a gently recline myself in the shadowy
folds of some fleecy cioud or laughing
wiliow, and admire the blooms of the
incensa-breathing bowers. To me Geor
gia's woodlands are a paradise, her fur
rowed fields an eden. When the god
<ess of night, with her ebon-hued wan
tle hovers over our universe in these
self-same forests you can hear the hunt
er’s horn and the deep-mouthed pack of
fox hounds open loud aad wild far in
the ringing woods. and it is iike the
music of a hundred chiming bells. On
the furrowed fields you can at noon
tide hear the ~hoopee of the laborer
and the mirthful babble of happy voices
ringing in the swelling tide of pleasure.
No other state in christendom has a
broader field upon which che noble sen
timents of the soul are allow-d to stroll,
In no kingdom or principality have the
sweet charities of the heart a purer field
upon which to play. As eternal as the
skies are the principles upon which she
is founded, for they were created with
heaven. As lorg as her limpid, laugh
iog springs continue to gurgle just so
long will she be great and grard and
glorious. In every landscape you can
See an image of her goodness, and on
every fast flying meteor you can see the
reflections of her charity, Here our
CASTORTIA.
Soars the 2 The Kind You Have Always Bought
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highways lead to fortune. fame and
glory ; our cradles are blessed, our tombs
revered. For us the white bosom of
heaven heaves with loye, and ian cur
every murmuring stream the birds bathe.
In every forest isle the dryads dance,
and the vast.cemetery of the past unveils
l itself, that its records may be as a lamp
unto ouar feet.
Oh, sweet old Georgia! May thy foot.
prints never be washed fiom (I{e‘ sands
of time, Let thy trailing love still trail,
and thy waving victories still wave.
Continue, O, state, to cover our heads
with they calm, enduring wing, O, thou
modesty in Georgia’s skies, continue to
illuminate hke a river ot stars, l:ke_ a
gulf of suns, and thy good deeds will
sparkle like a Sahara of diamonds, Let
thy wings cling to us er qrystal airs,
and bear us up ever, O Georgia, as calm
ly as a vessel of thought is borne away
on its own sweet sumier seas. |
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wonderful medicine ever put on the mar
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whbere all otLers fail. We keep it.
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AN AUTOMATIC TRIGGER.
Mr. Fox's ]nvm)fi.on Increases the Utility
of the Krag-Jorrensen Rifle.
| A successful test of the automatio trig
ger invented by Mr. Ausley Fox, a
youhig Baltimorean, was made at Fort
McHenry recently in the presence of a
number of spectators. The trigger was
applied to a regular United States Krag-
Jorgensen rifie, and more than 50 shots
were fired by Mr. Fox and the soldiers ‘
present. The rifle worked perfectly and
demonstrated the advantages claimed
for the trigger by the inventor.
In this invention the trigger is anto
matically forced into engagement with
the hammer by contact with the slid
ing bolt, and it thus does away with
the sear springs and sears which have
hitherto been considered indispensable
in this class of firearms. The sears
and sear springs are small parts. Mr.
Fox’s improvement renders the arms to
which it is applied less liable to break
age, makes the mechanieal parts more
positive in action, lessens the cost of
manufacture and increases the general
utility of the arm. Mr. Fox is the in-,
ventor also of the Fox hammerless shot
gun, which is claimed to be much sim
pler in mechanism than guns hergtofore
madg.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
NEWS AND VIEWS,
When a marriage takes place in Chi.-
na the wedding’party enter the temple
aand light a quantity of fireworks, in
cluding a number of crackers. This is
supposed to wake the‘‘great joss” trom
his sleep, The priest repeats the ser
vice at express !speed, the .bride and
bridegrocm take two little glasses (f
wine and are then declared man and
wife.
The Central railroad bas published a
list of fruit and melon growers along
its line of road, together with the acre
age planted in melons and the number
of bearing peach, pearjand plum trees.
1t shows 5,236 acres in melons, 1,983, -
450 bearing peach, 67,000 pear and
51,200 plum trees.
A Kansas woman is suing her hus
band for divorce and other man for
breach of promise at the same time
Iln matrimonial matters they move
with cyclonic speed out in Kansas.
The two critical times in a woman’s
life are the times which make the girl a
woman, and the woman 3 mother. At
these times Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scriptior i 8 of incalculable value. It
strengthens and invigorates the organs
distinctly feminine, promotes regularity
of the functions,allays irritation and in
flammation, checks unnataral, exhaust.
ing drains, and puts the whole delicate
organism into perfect condition. Al
most all the ills of womankind are traze
able to some form of what is known as
‘“female complaint.” There are not
three cases in a hundred of woman’s
peculiar diseases that Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription will not cure.
OW are the chil
drenthissummer?
Are they doing
well? Do they
get all the benefit they
should from their food?
Are their cheeks and lips
of good color? And are
' they hearty and robust in
every way?
If not, then give them
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Scott’s Emulsion
of cod liver oil with hypo
phospbites. .
It never fails to build
up delicate boys and %irls.
It gives them more flesh
and better blood.
It is just so with the
baby also. A little Scott’s
Emulsion, three or four
times a day, will make
the thin baby plump and
?rosperous. It
urnishes the
youn%body with
just the material
necessary for
growing bones
and nerves.
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-~ MORE ABOUT DEWEY.
How He Refased to Die From an Opara
tion on His Liver..
When the result of the battle at Ma
nilla became known, the extraordinary
interest that was developed in the hero
of it was indicated by stories about Ad
miral Dewey which were printed in the
anewspapers not cnly of the United
States, but of Europe. It was known
that Dewey had undergone a very seri
ous operation a ¥ew years ago, and a
correspondent of the Birmingham Post
in England has this to say about it:
*“I dare say the citizens of the United
States generally are not aware how very
near they came to losing Admiral Dew
ey early in 1883 and that the fact of
his being still alive is, humanly speak
ing, largely due to the clever surgery
of Inspector General of Hospitals J. N.
Dick, R. N. (late medical director gen
eral of the navy), and Drs. Fitzgerald
and Yeo, R. N., surgeons of Malta na
val hospital at that time. In February,
1883, I was a patient there ; another was
Admiral Dewey, then in command of
the United States corvet Juniata. He
suffered from abscess of the liver in a
very compiex form and was not expect
ed to survive an oneration to which he
bad to submf. The yarn we heard was
that when about to undergo it the last
words he murmured before he became
quite under the influence of the anwms
thetic were, ‘l’ve made up my mind.
and I won’t die,” and he didn’t, to the
general astonishment. After he became
convalescent I wusecd sometimes to push
him about the hospital gardensin a
bath chair, and on cne occasion I re
member his saying to me (apropes of
the operation), ‘You know I've got a
wife and children depending on me at
home, and I couldn’t afford to die just
then.’ I know that the doctorssaid that
nothing but his extraordinary determi
nation pulled him through, and that |
they never had a pluckier patient.”’ |
LIVELY TIME IN COURT.
Woman With a Temper at the Bottom of
the Trouble,
Au Odum, Ga., special says: The
county site of this county was in the
greatest excitement last Friday and Sat
urday that it has had since the negro
riot some years ago.
There was a conglomeration of war
rants issued, ranging from an ordinary
peace warrant to the crime of forgery.
There were over twenty warrants issued
in less than twenty-four hours. It ap
pears that nearly all of the citizens of
Waynesville district became involved in
a general dispute and they decided to go
to Jesup, where legal authority could be
convenient,
It appears that Barney Lyons and Mrs.
Carrie Hendrix were the centre of at
traction the entire time. Mrs, Hendrix,
it appears, is not well thought of, and
Lyons tried to get a stopping place for
her while in town, but failed, even being
refused by his brother. It appears that
Lyons induced the woman to swear out
warran’ after warrant against some of
the most prominent citizens of that dis
trict. This came near causing serious
trouble between bim and William Wig
gins, a merchant of Waynesville, The
climax was fully reached on the second
day of the trials, when Mrs. Hendrix as
saulted James Harper, Sr., with an um
brella. It was a terrific battle for sev
eral minutes, and it looked as though
sume one would peither have whiskers
or hair if it should last long. 'The wo
man was a good match for the old gen
tleman, who is about 73 years old.
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UP-TO-DATE,
Before 30 love to a man is a dream;
after that aye a nightmare. Love to a
womab under 20 18 a recreation; after
that it 18 a business.
Wher a man begins to go down hill he
finds that the law of gravitation and the
encouragement of his friends help kim
along,
Long hair may be a sign of the poetic
temperament in a man. Often it's an
iadication of economy. ‘
Women always own from one to a
dozen cook-books, but they continue to
cook things the same old way,
Any man will believe in avd stand up
for you if you flatter bim judiciously,
When a man of merit wins everyb dy
else a tributes it to his goud luck.
The biggest fish stories come in bot
tles,
Could Not Understand It.
It is related of an Irish recruit on
sentry duty at Chickamauga, one
night, that he challenged a figure in
the darkmess with the usval “Who
goes there?” The reply, ‘“‘The officer
of the day,’”” was something he was not
prepared for, so he responded, “Then,
phat the divil are yez doin’ out here at
night?”
A stomach full of undigested food is
about as unhealthy a mass as one can
well imagine.
What can be done with it?
There it s%ays. It won’t digest. I
churns up, ferments and decays; becomes
poisonous (a 8 all putrid matter does) Ind
causes great pain and deep-seated dis
orders.
Ja order to change all this take Shak
er Digestive Cordial,
It stops fermentation and decay at
ogco, 80 that no more poisons are creat
ed.
It clears the stomach of poisons al
ready there. It helps it to turn the tood
that reroains into healtbful, nourish
ment, It strengthens the stomach f .
the next meal.
Here is the whole philosophv and cu «
of indgestion in a few words. Awnd
what’s more, it's all true.. Try it,
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