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gtraM and ^ton-fag, IT THE HEWN AN fTOUSFHW CO. 8. W» MVERAT, RimIbvii OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CITT AND COUNTY SUBSCRIPTION PRICK. »1..".0 A YEAR. A PRINCE AND HI8 PRINCELY WORK. Read by Mias Pauliaa Paver at the Clos ing of College Temple, Dec. 18,1887. Harp nl '" heart, once mors I waken The sweetness of thy Numbering strain, And o er the Hudnc*8.s of our pnrting, Throw music's sweetness again. I II hang thee on no willow-hough. For careless winds to sweep thy string , But with affections’ pathos now s «>\ ‘‘Rise, my muse, on noblest wings!” • *h! who can nHk for notes of pleasure. My drooping harp, from chords like thine! Alas! the lark’s guy morning measure As 111 w’ould suit, ihe swan’s decline! <th! how shall I, who love, who bless thee, Hay onward to thy fiery car, When e’en my tones, as I caress thee, From pleasure’s strains areabsent far; But wake. If yet thy frame can borrow One breath of joy, oti. breathe for me. And show that strains all steeped In sorrow, May yet Inspired music be. Hpring, with thy never tiring wing. Up to the fount of all our love, And breathe from out thy every string, Great learning’s work is never o’er! Ciesar, with his Tenth Legion, Na poleon with his Old Guard, made the earth tremble, wasted nations, shook empires; but not a vestige of their j lower remains to tell the story. To day, I tell the story of a grander tri umph—a triumph of mind. Ctesar’* Tenth Legion has become a thing of the past, something only to be referred to. Napoleon’s Old Guard, before they would surrender, died; and brave though they were, all that remains of their bravery is a few pages in history; but the triumph of which I write shall never die. ‘•In the vears now past, two score,— It may be less, it may he more— A stranger came unto the door Oi one he’d never known before. Unknown to fortune an l to fame, Unheralded, witkout a name. But with a purpose high, because Poor was he in this world’s pelf, With no reliance but himself, Btruggling on, from year to year, The same grand object ever dear, He could not. fail, for ’tis true Success in life is ever due To corstant efliart; and the few Who reach Face’s proud steep. Must attain it step by step.” Our hero realized this, and with his heart in his work, devoted his life to the grandest scheme that one man with a heart full of love to the human race ever undertook to perfect—the ed ucation of woman. Unlike the majority of men, he real ized that though woman’s brain doesn t always weigh as much as man’s, yet, what it lacks in quantity it makes up in quality, for which belief we thank him. To prove what he believed, he estab lished College Temple, which has since become a household word. “As time rolled on, to him there came A reputation and a name, A name that’s worthy, great and good In all that makes true manhood.” For he took for his motto, “In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail!” Not in his own loved Northland did he establish this bless ing; but he left home, kindred, all, and gave to the city of Newnan that which gold can never repay. Now he retires, as a king from the council room, to his own special library or art gallery, and we Senior Sisters, his faithful attend ants, go with him, so that as he revisits the well-known, but to us intricate and hidden mysteries of art and science, we may catch the pearls and diamonds of thought and wisdom that hourly fall from his lips. And must College Temple cease to l>e College Temple to-day V No, no, *o! Were College Temple to be only a memory; these grand words from Father Ryan would comfort me: “A land without ruins is a land with out memories; a land without memo ries is a land without history. A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see, but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecra ted coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of heart and history. Crowns of roses fade, crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and crucifixions take deepest hold on humanity. The triumphs of might are transient—they pass and are forgotten; the sufferings of right are graven deepest on the chronicles of na tions.’’ But it is not to be only a mem ory, it is a glorious reality which, please God, shall never die ! Were it a thing that could be forgotten, we^uight have ample cause for the rising tear, but it is inwoven in the very lives of many of our noblest and best. It is the foun- tain-headof the many streams of peace, contentment, and happiness, that make our’land a land of virtue. Our Captain has given out commissions, by which other captains have made their grand companies; and like the worlds in their grand course, their own momentum bears them speeding along, giving warmth and life to other educational centres. Our President has created a deathless power. Let him see the fruit of his toils. For half a century, he has guid- , ed you: let him see the golden harvest, where he has so laboriously sown the jft-eeious seed. In moral or spiritual emergency, remember his watchword: “Quit you like men." Write his max im upon your hearts “We learn not for schools, but for life." Let him feel that the harvest of life is best: that though the flower was lovely, tilling with fragrance our whoh* community, the fruit is an Hoperian apple. upon which the imm >rr il soul itself cam feed. Better than the names of and of daughters is the grand patronymic Ids scholar# afl give to him. To our teachers here, we can only say 'adieu ! You, who have labored with us, striven with our faults; you who have watched with such eager care and pride* the development of our minds; who have spread flowers over the otherwise thorny paths of science; you are with us, to live and to die; your faces will still, in fancy, beckon us up the craggy peaks of knowledge. Our President’s voice will ever be the “Excelsior” that will lead us to scale Alpihe heights. If the future grants us any bays, to him we owe their vir tue. To Mrs. II. R. Kellogg, let us pay the rare compliment of being not only his partner in life, but his partner in ele gant attainments, artistic taste and ex ecutive ability. Dear Miss Annie, how we will miss her guiding hand ! She knows how we love her, though we have been such wayward children at times; hut we hope that’when she thinks of us in fu ture she will remember only our love, and forget the many fours in deport ment, and tardy marks. We thank her many, many times, for her goodness to us. And M rs. Wood roof, she has labored with us earnestly, and faithfully. We cannot thank her now. but we hope in the years to come she may receive her reward in seeing the girls that she taught become noble women. And Miss Myrtie,she shines in the gal axy of College Temple’s noble and tal ented teachers, who as she piloted the young minds over the shoals and quick sands of ignorance, made the way bright with her sweet songs. Our Art Department is well repre sented on our walls, but even more so in our hearts; and the sweet champion of the palette and brush has a snug corner in our hearts forevermore. Rut we cannot attempt to write what we feel about the teachers. There our hearts fail us, and we let the very silence testify what we feel. Harmony Hall, Harmony Hall ! — Shall I move in this hall no more as a pupil;—shall I not touch with pride my diploma in dear old Arcade Hall? It may not he ! “Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’ ” But the Prome thean flame has been kindled in our hearts, and change of hall, and even change of sky cannot affect our love. The Temple is in our hearts, it is incor porated in our very souls, and you can never hear it truly said, “The Temple is no more.” We will hand it down in tradition, till the very spot will be a trysting place to future generations, where the Socrates of Northern Geor gia held loving converse with his dis ciples. Many sweet forms that are now on ly “ashes of roses,” have plumed their wings from the Temple for the shining lands above. The dear schoolmate who used to*recite so sweetly the story of the “Pansies,” sweet Laura ! Could she foresee the tender bloom Of “pansies” round an early to*ab ? The beloved teacher, who one morn ing at the opening of school sang “Beulah Land,” with us, and who at noon of that day “Had reached the charming glory shore, Her heaven, her home forevermore.” I cannot help but lift Mv vision to the skies, And" watch the clouds, and wait the rift, Through which my hopes shall rise. I sing with a voice too low To be heard beyo*d to-day; In minor keys of n»y present woe, Ah! my songs shall pass away. To-morrow hears them not. To-morrow belongs to fame, My songs like the birds’will he forgot, And forgotten shall be my name. “Songs, march.”—I give command, “Keep faithful watch and true,” The records of our Temple grand “Have now no guards save you.” My ballads mark ye well, “Thrice holy is your trust. Go. halt where the Muses' altars fell, Rest arms and guard their dust.” “And the songs, in stately rhyme. And with softly sounding tread, Go forth to watch for a time, a time, Over our Deathless Dead.” He has a hundred, hundred homes. In as manv hearts, I ween, And the tears that flow from our eyes to- Keep College Temple green. “Would we had a tribute ample, An offering worthy College Temple; Worthy him, its honor-id head, Who a life o( toil has led, And the knowledge seeking fed; Sacrificing time and wealth, And even now the boon of health; Giving all his powers of mind For the Interests of mankind. Grand old man! your work Is blest, A nd grateful hearts to-day attest The truth of all we’ve said. May Heaven's blessings, richly shed, Settle on thine honored head. And to those who stand to-day Shining lights, in bright array, Chasing ignorance away— Ignorance that, like a pall. Mind and conscience both enthrall— We to them all honor give. May the life that they shall live Be blest of God. and. to the end, Angelt bright their steps attend. The generations, as they rise. Virtue and truth shall ever prize. Your good work will live forever, And, life’s fitful fever over. When you reach tha shining river, Life immortal then shall be Yours through all eternity. Vow, my sad, sad task is done— When o'q earth our race is run. And at last the victory won. May purest joys known in Heaven. To you. to each, to all be given.” OUR NEW YEAR’S GREETING! COTTON SEED MEAL! day We have now on hand the following New Year attractions, which are offered to the trade at the lowest living prices, ei ther for cash or on time— . * 1500 bushels Texas Rust-Proof Oats. 150 barrels New Orleans Syrup, (new crop.) 60 barrels Standard Granulated Sugar, in barrels and half barrels. Choice Leaf Lard, in tierces, tubs and buckets. Fresh lot Mackerel, (No. i) in quarter-barrels. Fresh lot White Fish, in 25-lb. packages. 200 barrels Flour, (all grades) from “Family” to “Finest Patent.” 25,000 pounds C. R. Sides. 10 tierces Magnolia Hams and Shoulders. A large assortment of Plow Hoes, Plow Gear, Stocks, etc. Boots for ditching and field work at the “Bay State Shoe House.” Every pair guaranteed. Remember, the BAY STATE SHOE is the best in the market, and we sell them exclusively. Try one pair and you will be satisfied with no other. We offer for sale Cotton Seed Meal, or would exchange for Seed where parties desire to do so. At present prices of Meal and Seed, thirty bushels of the latter would pay for sufficient Meal to manufacture one ton of Guano—requiring, in addi tion, the proper proportions of the cheaper ingredients—Acid Phosphate and Kainit. We give below reports as to results obtained from Meal, properly composted. Hon. J. T. Henderson, in his report of the Soil-Test of Fer tilizers, conducted under the direction of the State Chemist at Athens, Ga., says the object of the experiment was— “To te#t the result of fertilizing with a cheap composted fertilizer compared with equal quantities of high-priced commercial fertilizers. A compost was i made ot the following substances in the relative proportion named, viz: Acid Phosphate 1250 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal 500 lbs. Kainit 250 lbs. ! “This was a | fertilizers, A. 1 four sections, whose at;ea was each one-half acre. ras applied on one portion of the plat side by side with three standard A. B, and C\ each at the rate of .‘$00 lbs. per acre. The plat contained RESULTS IN SEED COTTON: Compost, Standard Fertilizer, A. “ “ B, “ “ C, No Manure, S90) lb. per acre. 7954 9484 803] 455 ECONOMIC RESULT PER ACRE COMPARED WITH NO MANURE: HARDAWAY & HUNTER. j Probably the youngest baby ever in 1 the union depot was there yesterday tmorning. The child is a little negro girl, and was born on the West Point railroad, about twenty miles south of , Atlanta. The train was running for ty miles an hour, but when it reached the city at 6:15, both mother and child were doing well. The woman. Katie Maxwell and husband. John Maxwell, were returning from Laurens county, Ala., to their old home near Torino. To cap the climax, the parents decided that it was best not to stop in Atlanta. I and promptly at 7:40. about two hours after the baby was born, they left on ’ the Air Line for Too oa. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA—Cowkta County: All persons having d< - 11 dsaga Inst the es tate of Henri Martin, Sr., late < -i'said county, deceased. nr.- hereby n<■ ■!ri.■ >t To render in their demands to the u::-l- rslim-sl. according to law: and ah persons indent- d t<- said es tate are reouired to mak - immediate pay ment. This December 9, 1#>7. srsAX i. vVirrix. H. A. M \RTIX, Printer's fee. . Executors: THE PLACE TO GET THE MOST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY IS AT J. R. HERRING’S! I lay down the broad proposition that I can sell, and am actually selling, goods cheaper than any house in town, and am prepared to sustain this proposition with irrefragable proof. Observe the following, as a starter— Will sell all-wool Jeans for 30c. per yard. Ten.cents is all I ask for the best Dress Gingham. Dress Checks at 71-2 cents. There is no such bargain in town as my 50c. reinforced lin en bosom Shirt. My stock of Gent’s Furnishing Goods can’t be beat, either for style or selectness. CLOTHING. I am somewhat overstocked on Clothing and am determin ed to unload. Am now selling good, stylish suits* 15 per cent, lower than any house in town. It ‘looks ruinous, but time flies, and L don’t propose to let the season fly away and leave me with piles and piles of winter clothing on hand. Not if I can help it. Overcoats are going the same way. SHOES. I have the best assortment of Mens’, Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes in town, both in fine and low grades. Everything down. Will sell a tip-top Shoe for $2.50 that has never sold for less than $2.75 heretofore. A splendid Brogan Shoe for $1.15. Even- pair of Frank D. Weyldman’s fine Shoes sold upon an absolute guarantee. An attractive assortment of Hats, all shapes, shades, sizes and prices. * • * I have the goods and are bound to sell them. Don’t forget this when you make up your mind to buy. ' It means a great deal. - • GROCERIES. Am selling Flour lower than anybody. For the present I can quote different grades as follows: Good, $4.50 per bar rel: Fine. $5.00; Better. $5.50; Best. $6.00. In fact, I have everything in the-Grocerv line, and am selling at rock bot tom prices. I am not trying to excite your curiosity, merely; a:n anx ious, to do vou good. He that pbndereth these facts will surely be profited. Try me J. R. HERRING. Salesmen—W. T. Daniel and L. H. Hill. Cost of Value of PER ACRE. e Fertilizer. Product. Gain. Loss. No Manure, Compost, Standard Guano, A, “ “ B, “ “ C, 8 0 00 3 10 6 00 6 00 6 00 810 20 35 62 31 82 57 94 34 54 8 0 00 14 32 7 52 13 74 10 34 8 0 00 “The mixture described above produces better results than the average of the three fertilizers used in competition with it. As it costs about half as much as tnese it is much more profitable,” Special prices made to clubs, and full directions given for mixing the compost. McBRIDE & CO., Newnan, Ga. jy* We would caution our customers against mixing and selling this compost, unless the State inspection fee of 50 cents per ton is paid. There is no law, however, to prevent a farmer from manufacturing fertilizers for use on his own laud. ARNALD, BURDETT & CO. OFFER FOR SALE Cotton Seed Meal, Acid Phosphate and Kainit, on time or for cash, or exchange for Cotton Seed. NEW, ASTONISHINGLY NEW! DIRECT FROM NEW YORK! I have just returned from New York with a stock of FINE DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, — ' assortment, qu odds the most STEDS, LADIES’ GOODS, BLACK GOODS, etc., ever offered to the trade i» this city, which an examination will verify. In FINE DRESS GOODS I can offer a handsome line of Black Silks, $1 25 per yard and upward. Same goods would cost in Atlanta $2 50 and $3 00. Tri- cos and Greys, (different, shades.) Ladies’ Cloths, (different shades.) Black Goods, 25c to $1 50. Cashmeres, 20c to $1 50. In TRIMMINGS I can furnish Silk Astrakhan, in all shades. Beaded Trim mings, in sets and by the piece. Velvets in all shades, brocaded and plain. Silk Braids for trimming. A complete line of BUTTONS, for Fine Dress Goods, suitable for all shades and grades. JERSEYS, all grades and styles, 75<- to *2 50. An elegant line of LADIES’ CLOAKS, ranging all the way from tl to $39. I have a handsome lot of LADIES’ SHOES, the best in the market, without exception. I can sell a No. 1 Ladies’ Shoe, neat and dressy, for $2 50. The.very best nand-made Shoe, all size#, *4 50. A full line of MISSES’ and CHILDREN’S SPRING-HEEL SHOES, all sizes. A large lot of LADIES’, MISSES’, CHILDREN’S and INFANT’S HOSI ERY, all sizes and qualities, fromlOc to $1 per pair. jyl will undersell Atlanta or quit business. I MEAN EXACTLY WHAT I SAY. Try me. E. S. BUCHANAN. NEW HARDWARE AND SEED STORE, GREENVILLE ST., NEWNAN, GA. GUNS, PISTOLS, POWDER, SHOT, LEAD. FIXE RAZORS, KNIVES, OLD DOMIN ION STEEL NAILS, WAGON AND BUGGY TIRES, WAGO S D BUGGY TIMBERS, STOVES, HOLLOW- WARE, GRATES. SHOVELS AND TONGS, ORATX SC'O'OPS, 'HARNESS AND ENGINE (til, SOLID STEEL AXES, PLANES, CHISELS, SAWS, AUGERS, HAMMERS, CORN SHF.LLERS, STRAW CUTTERS, BELTING. ROPES, TWINES. AND A COMPLETE LINE OF SMALL All WARES. FIELD AND GARDEN SEED. A. POPE. M c CLENDON & CO., PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND BINDERS, NEWNAN, GA.