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Gerald and fldcertiser.
NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 15.
W II E N A G R E A T
MAN I) I K K .
u to-day,
Thft Haifa aro hung Imlf-mant to-
Hut they’ll all 1><» high to-morrow!
Thi« in the big world’a cruel way
Ah! thin 1h how we Borrow!
A moment'h griff, a brief delay
From plow and field and furrow
The flag* are hung half-maat to-day,
Hut they’ll all be high to-morrow!
We mourn one hour, we paune to pray.
(Sad prayers that we must borrow!)
One little while we softly say
Poor words of pain and sorrow;
The flags arc* hung half-mast to-day .
Hut they’ll all he high to-morrow!
| Charlea Hanson To
Don’t think me grouchy, but I've
a kick coming. You know when a
thing goes wrong you must find some
one to Illume for its miscarriage. I’ve
tried to saddle my orthographical, ety
mological, syntactic! troubles first on
the proof-reader and then on the typo ;
but I have ut last come to the conclu
sion it is neither of these worthies who
mars my efforts at perspicuity, but it’s
that imp they keep about the office
commonly known as the ‘‘devil.” lie’s
the fellow who has been befuddling my
work. Here is his latest effort at pour
ing sand into my literary gudgeons:
Thinking I hud some little idea of Es-
culapius and the sign of his physic-
rnongering craft, I made use of the fol
lowing introductory remarks on the
spread of human ills, in a recent para
graph: “Since Esculapius obtained
his diploma as a pill-peddler, and the
cuduceus became the sign of the craft, ”
etc. That handy angel (the “devil”)
who does chores about the shop, and
dumps odds and ends into the Gehenna
box (known to the craft as the hell-
box, which I euphemise as aforewrit-
ten, for reasons.) has got a literary
maggot in his head, and essays to
“read proof.’’ In his effort he handed
me this good one—he called the ”‘ca-
duceus” the "cadences.” Well, when
reduced to its final analysis there is
hardly enough difference between them
to raise a rucus over. The caducous is
just a bundle of snakes and a pile of
wings and a cadence, a rythmical or
measured flow of movement, as in poe
try, music, oratory. I trust the indul
gent editor and a longsufl'ering (the
New Testament makes this one word ;
why not we?) public will bear with me
in my efTort to bolster my reputation
ns a philologist.
1 don’t know hut what St. Paul
was right when he alluded to the fact
(speaking of spiritual mysteries) that
a man must become as a babe and a
suckling before he can become eligible
to the exalted office of Christian. Hut,
bless your eyes! when he does get wise
to his calling, he’s a caution to the
heathen. From this idea I take my ’cue.
llad 1 let my Carrollton compatriots re
main in mental darkess as to the scin
tillations of wit and wisdom that ema
nate ftom the columns of The Herald
and Advertiser they’d not he wanting
to know “Why didn’t the correspond
ent of The Herald ami Advertiser cor
respond this week?” Editor, it ain’t no
use; they’ve got wise, and must have
it.
This is the youngest of our hanks;
but, considering her years, she is mak
ing surprising strides in commercial
progress. If her business increases for
a few years as it has for the past two.
it will be abreast with the best of
them. At a recent meeting of the di
rectors both the cashier, A. K. Snead,
and the assistant cashier, L. S. Sims,
were given a substantial raise in their
salaries — a deserved compliment to
their splendid efforts.
Pythhinisin is known throughout
the world us a leading esoteric order.
Carrollton claims to have the livest
body in Georgia. A recent demonstra
tion given of its virility, in conferring
a side degree, impresses me that the
Mystic Shriners might profit by attend
ing some of their seances. I’ve seen
both, and they are neck and neck as to
devilish ingenuity.
When a town is growing you can’t
disguise the fact. It’s as plain as put
ting a ten-pin trail in the trough at the
distal end of the alley. And as a sign
infallible that she has a plethora of
confidence that she is making broad her
limits, and is doing business on a more
pretentious scale than when she was in
knee-breeches, she purchases for her
police new uniforms. Carrollton has
risen to the dignity of this demand, and
our gendarmeries in their spick-and-
span-uniforms are as blue as gizzards,
and as active as—well, as a good )>olice-
man should be. Newnan, (addressingyou
aggregatedly) we have raised you one.
The public offices of this town have be-
in the year just passed and go forward,
reaching forth for grander achieve-
mehts stored in the unraveled skein of
1909.
—That beautiful nllumnium card
case hearing the name “Yaarab,” sent
me by Eugene V. Haynes & Co., jew
elers, Atlanta, is a most excellent re- 1
pository for one’s “annual.”
— Few men are blessed with better
neighbors and stepchildren than am I.
The latter cheer my drooping spirits
with the products of all vintages.
- Duty is one thing and skylarking
another, which remark reminds me that
Carroll county once had a sheriff whose
devotion to the demands of justice was
as unswervable as the fealty bestowed
upon glabrous-pated Ceasar by his fa
mous Tenth Legion. It was he who
withstood the attacks of an infuriated
populace that sought to lynch a prison
er in his charge. We know the rest.
This faithful officer was here (luring
volubility of my output of windjam
ming, it has caused me some good, val
uable time, and much earnest labor.
It has at least borne me evidences of
such success as to make me proud that
I have batted the two years of time
—It may be said without fear of suc
cessful contradiction that Capt. Jas.
B. Martin, a resident of this city, owi s
the most antiquated firearm this side of
the European continent. It has a well-
authenticated record of 423 years; id
thus engaged into a frazzle, and won | est, it was used by one of Richmond’s
the approbation of our local literati, halberdiers at the battle of Bosworth.
To each of those who have patiently - 1485—the field on which Richard III.
followed my mental meandeijings since ' was slain. The record shows that this
l began to trudge the slippery puth of
letters, I promise (if my right hand
loses not its cunning nor my poorly
stored mine of information becomes
not exhausted) to give them some lines
that will now and then cause them to
plow their locks with an Alwain comb.
infantryman was he who shot the
king’s war-horse from under him, on
which occasion King Richard shouted:
“A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a
horse!” At this period the gun was a
matchlock, which could be discharged
only by applying a match. It was soon
—Mr. John R. Adamson, the former a ft er converted into a fire-lock, or
efficient cashier of the Carrollton Bank,
has resigned that position and moved
to his farm near Rome. We wish him
I a prosperous future in his new home.
—It is mighty comforting now and
then to get the ear of a friend and dis-
the holidays, and I was thrown in his CU3S ^ mer '*" s all( l demerits of friends
company not a little. I found him gen
teel and companionable 'to a degree.
He is now an officer ut the Federal
prison near Atlanta, and a better one
Uncle Sam has not in his service. If
Fulton county would honor herself by
electing one of the most capable men
in Georgia as her sheriff she need not
go further than the Federal prison ;--
Joe Merrill is the man to whom I al
lude.
—“What you going to say, what you
going to do,” when you are invited to
a turkey dinner? Personally I am like
the eat in the fable; I have but one
shift, and not like the fox. who had
them by the score; -so when I received
an invitation to dine witn mine excel
lent friend, Brooklyn Broadnax, and his
charming wife, I did not cudgel my
brain for an excuse, but took a long,
soothing, appetizing draught of nepen
the and donned my best “bib and tuck
er” for the occasion. To make it
plain, the menu consisted of a stall-
fed gobbler, which kicked the beam at
25 pounds with its clothes off and inter
nal improvements removed. The gar
nishments that adorned the steaming
platter of baked turkey would have
made the mouth of a sybarite leak at
the corners, could he have seen that
tempting mound of “turkey doings.”
Without entering into details, I may
be permitted to say that the concomi
tants of that collation were on a scale
not less munificent than the dressed
gobbler. The occasion was rendered
more agreeable than it otherwise would
have been by the presence of other in
vited guests. These were my good
friends, Dr. and Mrs. II. R. Robinson
and their sons, Howard and Edward.
In compliment to my excellent hosts,
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Broadnax, I must
say that their hospitality was greatly
enjoyed, and that their splendid home
and home life are models of excellence—
the equal of any and surpassed by none.
May they live to have many happy re
turns of that grand Christmas festival.
—Carroll county is tickled to the
fainting point with her new traction
engine and its train of cars. It is a
complete success. The county and city
have done considerable macadamizing,
and find the traction engine and cars
indispensable. W. A. Neal & Sons, At
lanta, from whom this equipment was
purchased, have been quite active in
the good roads movement.
—That Christian gentleman, Col. W.
H. Daniel, has scores of friends in
Carroll who deplored his recent acci
dent, but now rejoice in his rapid
recovery. Some of the newspapers
convey the erroneous impression that
since his injury he has quit entirely the
service of Judge Adamson as private
secretary. It is true that he was una
ble to go to Washington this winter,
and recommended to Judge Adamson
that excellent young man and splendid
stenographer, Willis Davis, who will
attend to the correspondence in Wash
ington ; but Col. Daniel still retains
a considerable portion of the work,
such as he can do at home as well as in
Washington, including the distribution
of documents, plants, seeds, besides at
tending to a great deal of routine cor
respondence.
-Charles Adamson, jr.. West Point’s
textile expert, was at home for the
holidays. Come again, lad, and leave
us a hank of your hair.
—Mr. Wales Ayeoek spent two or
three weeks in Washington before the
holidays, acting as temporary private
secretary to our esteemed friend and
Congressman, Judge Adamson. It may
he truthfully said that no Congressman
had a better private secretary during
Wales’ brief term of service.
—Robt. Fitts, jr., spent the holidays
with Newnan friends and relatives.
—“Labor omnia vincit improbus.”
Latin is a dead language, and for this
reason tombstone scribblers think it an
appropriate tongue for epitaphs, and
come so numerous and large the City the likl> . There is little or no excuse
Council has promoted that worthy sen-
egambian, Tol Davis, from brevet jan
itor to first rank, with full pay and al
lowances.
—The holidays were more or less
punctuated and ornamented by gay
throngs of young people, who attended
a series of balls given by the Carroll
ton Cotillion Club. The scintillations
of beauty and the giddy maxes of the
waltz, both are charms that the terpsi-
choreanly inclined cannot well resist.
—Let us profit by the mistakes made
for my using it. except that the rascal
who wrote my text was able to put
in Latin a more forcible and laconic ex
pression of an idea that I desire to use
than could I in English, to-wit: “Stub
born labor conquers all things.” For a
couple of years 1 have written two or
three pages weekly for your patient
readers, and if you have survived the
ordeal of reading it, it is not my fault!
I have made it as nerve-racking' as my
puny command of the language would
allow. Notwithstanding the malignant
new and old. It is so pleasant to assai
their weak points, and then exclaim:
“What a pity!” While engaged in a
seance of this kind be sure of your
ground. Know the relations that exist
(if any) between your auditor and the
person or persons being discussed ; then
you may hash his or her reputation to
suit the demands of gossip. On a cer
tain occasion a lady friend of the wii-
ter, (Mrs. X.,) who was educated in
Griffin, was discussing with him old
friends and acquaintances who resided
there in her school days. It soon be
came obvious to the writer that she
knew most people who resided there.
After making numerous inquiries about
this one, that one, and the other, she
asked: “Did you know Miss Mollie
D.?” Rising equal to the demands of
the query, she gave him some good,
warm information about her and anoth
er girl’s mental caliber as school chil
dren.. “Yes,” said she, ”1 knew her
well; she and Mattie M. were consid
ered two of the brightest girls in
school, but it was a notorious fact that
neither of them could do an example in
long division, and I do not believe eith
er of them knew the multiplication ta
ble.” The writer was amused no lit
tle at this recital, but did not venture
to make his informant wise to the fact
that one of them had subsequently be
come the wife of the Carrollton corres
pondent of The Herald and Advertiser.
For the enlightenment of the lady (she
will get wise when she reads this) we
beg to remark that this correspond
ent’s wife has demonstrated her ability
to teach her children the multiplication
table, and so easy was long division
that she taught it to them with one
hand tied behind. It is the remark of
the neighborhood that she has raised a
bevy of intellectual giants.
--I made a recent call on the newly-
installed county officers, and found
them as busy as the proverbial “bee in
a tar bucket.” The Ordinary, Judge
W. J. Millican, “sat to the saw like a
veteran scribe,” and Mr. D. F. Pierce,
Clerk of the Superior Court, has dem
onstrated a wonderful adaptability at
pan-handling his patrons for coin ; Hon.
G. P. Braswell, the one-in-the-hill Com
missioner of Roads and Revenues, takes
to his work like duckies to water.
While not hankering for a job of trans
lating to glory any unfortunate “bad
man” by the hemp route, l could dis
cern, from the cut of his jib, that
Sheriff W. A. Garrett was not the man
to let a hemp-ripe culprit escape the
noose, or to refuse his pro rata costs.
It is conceded that, as a Tax Collector,
Pack Kingsberry made them come
down with “the dust”; but it is said
by those who know him that Matt Grif
fin, the new Collector, is one of the
finest dime-chasers now in the tithe
gathering business. For judicial acu
men Judge Jim Beall can give his con
freres cards and spades.
- Dr. Homer Boatright, one of Geor
gia’s brightest young physicians, is
taking a post-graduate course in New
York City. He will remain with these
Eastern Brobdigians two or three
months.
—Misfortune is the common lot of
man. It enters alike the palace of the
prince and the hovel of the peasant.
But since it has invaded the household
of my esteemed friend, Capt. Thos.
S. Parrott, and taken a devoted wife
and mother, l beg to assure him of
my most profound sympathy. I. trust
his grief may be assuaged in some
measure by the little one who is left as
a bond of that union thus rudely broken.
May the sustaining grace of Him who
“doeth all things well” attend him in
his hour of sore affliction.
—I regret to chronicle a painful acci
dent that befell Messrs. E. C. Blalock
and Virgil Vines by the falling of a
scaffold on which they were at work
painting a sign. Their injuries were
painful, but not serious.
. -- The following is a list of officers
of the Carroll County Masonic Conven
tion. which will meet in August: J. D.
Hamrick, W. M. ; J. R. F. Brown, S.
W.; Jas. Beall, J. W.; R. F. Hyatt,
Secretary and Treasurer; J. W. Gober,
Chaplain; D. H. Hamrick, S. D.; M.
L. Moore, J. D. ; Wm. Freel, S. S.: G.
W. Burnett, J. S.; J. Z. Bedingfield,
Tyler.
—Hon. H. W. Long is spending a
month with Alabama friends.
—Mr. C. R. Turner, of Atlanta, was
in the city Saturday and Sunday.
flint and steel, and was borne in Crom
well’s campaign against Charles I. by
Edward Bowen, a fusileer in the cele
brated “Ironsides,” Col. Tomlinson s
regiment. The gun was bequeathed by
this soldier to his son, Horatio, who
soon afterwards immigrated to Ameri
ca. bringing this weapon with him. He
served in Virginia with Braddock and
Washington, and barely escaped with
his life at the massacre of Braddock's
men by the French and Indians. The
gun descended as an heirloom to Hora
tio C. Bowen, a descendant of this grim
warrior. Horatio C. fought with Gen.
Jackson at New Orleans. It was he
who sent the leaden missile into the
brain of the intrepid Gen. Packenham.
He was publicly thanked by Gen. Jack-
son for the heroic part he took in the
battle. Congress awarded him a gold
medal, and had a Government engraver
to inscribe the name of Horatio C.
Bowen on the barrel of the gun; also
the part he took in that great battle.
The gun has since furnished meat for
four generations, as it was used by the
early settlers for huntnig deer, bear
and turkey. The family set great store
by this old weapon. In the percussion
era of gun-making it was converted into
that type. Could the old death-dealer
talk it could unfold some stirring
tales.
Always Keeps a Bottle in the
House.
“About ten days before Christmas I
got my hand hurt so badly that I had
to stop work right in the busy time of
the year,” says Mr. Milton Wheeler,
2100 Morris Ave.. Birmingham, Ala.
“At first I thought I would have to
have my hand taken off, but someone
told me to get a bottle of Sloan’s Lini
ment and that would do the work. The
Liniment cured my hand and I gladly
recommend it to everyone.”
Mr. J. E. Matthews, proprietor of
St. James Hotel, Corning, Ark., says:
“My finger was greatly inflamed from
a fish sting and doctors pronounced jt
blood poisoning. I used several appli
cations of Sloan’s Liniment and it cured"
me all right. I will always keep a bot
tle of Sloan’s Liniment in my house.”
Mr. J. P. Evans of Mt. Airy, Ga.,
says: “After being afflicted for three
years with rheumatism, I used Sloan’s
Liniment, and was cured sound and
well, and am glad to say I haven’t been
troubled with rheumatism since. My
leg was badlv swollen from my hip to
my knee. One-half a bottle took the
pain and swelling out.”
“I suppose that you carry a memen
to of some sort in that locket of
yours?”
“Yes: it is a lock of my husband’s
hair. ”
“But your husband is still alive!”
“Yes, but his hair is all gone.”
HAD QUIT WORK
READY TO 6IYE UP IN OESPAIR
Restored to Health By Vinol
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younger, and am able to attend to my
work again as usual.” Job Jeavons,
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The reason Vlnol is so successful in
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blood-making and body-building ele
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Vinol Is unexcelled as a strength
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A Happy and Prosperous New Yeai
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AND LADIES,
Who want first-class Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Mules or Horses.
We sell them every day in the year—Sundays excepted—and each and
all must be as represented, or your money will be refunded.
A big lot of steel beam Middle Busters and two-horse Turners—the
best money can buy. I wish to call special attention to my steel-beam
one-horse Turner—the queen of the field. Every farmer should have
at least one to each mule. ■
You all know me, and know where I stay. Come to see me; I m al
ways at home.
JACK POWELL.