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NKWNAN, F KI DAY, A PR. 10
APRIL LAND.
April luntl April land
Where tin. 1 bloom and bud expand
IntocrownHof pink and white
Star-dust Kathonxl from the niKhl,
Scattered an the soft winds blow
In a drift of Hprirurtime nnow
Ankle-deep alorur the way
Hedged by sweep of lilac spray.
April land April land
Through your hcmh’nt, hand in hand.
Kver drifting aide by Hide,
Life and Ixivo and Dreams abide
Life that known no weary years
Love that knowH no mint of tears
Dreams that know no end until
Night has crowned the Twilight Hill.
April land April land
Happy-hearted, roving band,
Kver on and on we drift
Where the dreary shadows lift
As the yellow sunshino weaves
t iurlands in the bloom and leaves
Neither Life nor I/ive forgets
Ankle-deep in violets.
[Grant hind Rice.
Out Carrollton Correspondent
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sty puts it to utter
ance.” IShakoHj
We stre pained to note that our
venerable friend. Uncle Hilly Jarboe,
in enjoying u rare-ripe cam? of rheuma
tism. He accepts the visitation with
philosophic resignation. It is soul-in
spiring to see him tussle with its acute
twinges, and hoar his modulated exe
crations against the patentee of that
muscle-and-bone-racking ailment.
The outcroppings of "the eternal
fitness of things'’ usually manifest
themselves in quarters in which they
may be expected and should prevail.
Our old friend and former messmate,
The Henry County Weekly, has finally
waked up to the idea of cutting its
octavo sheets asunder. ’Tis wise and
well. It saves the reader a lot of wor
ry. The general appearance of the
sheet this week has a more comely
semblance and the local columns,
laws-a-innssy! are away up in G. Stir
her again with your metamorphosis
pole, Bro. Johnson; it sho’ does good.
orgo Gray you cannot now beguile.
hie Ih an everlasting joy;
e wear a a fotir-by-Hix-incb smile
Ah he fondlca bin nine-pound boy.
- Did you over see an elk—none of
your beer-drinking, whiskey-absorbing,
night-pestering kind that wears a di
minutive hunch of antlers on the lapel
<>! his coat instead of his head;—he’s
110L the gazelle to whom I allude—hut
■one of those majestic 1,500-pound quads
that can stand flat-footed and eat the
leaves out of the top of a Lombardy
poplar. If you haven’t, you want to
see him. His antlers are frequently
live feet broad, and with more prongs
than a dead chestnut tree. (’apt. Lee
Mandeville has a couple of the largest
pair one weighing 42 and the other 1)7
pounds. The larger pair came from
Skowhegan, Mo., and the smaller .from
Portland, Ore.
Carrollton is fortunate in having a
"jam-up” lire department. it isn’t
always in good taste to compare your
belongings to those of another; but
when by so doing you give a mead of
praise and encouragement to your fire
department the men behind the hose -
you have done the proper thing. In
view of this declaration we may be
pardoned for saying there’s not anoth
er town in our class that can hold us a
candle in a tire-quenching contest. The
tire laddies had a fine chance Wednes
day night to illustrate their prowess as
tire-fighters. Doc New’s planing and
grist mill were ablaze before the alarm j
was given. The combustible nature I
of the planing department, (being j
filled with sawdust, shavings and dry j
lumber), made it a veritable tinder-1
box, and added fury to the flames.
When the hose cart dashed up to the
fire-plugs it was dollars to half-moon
cookies that the building would go up j
iu smoke. The flames were licking up
the exposed parts ot the building in a
most distressing manner. Amid the
lurid glare the curved lines of the sil-
ver-hued water issued from the nozzles
and began to smite the angty crest of
the flames. As the water shot upward
in three well-directed streams, the
stubborn blaze began to subside. Inch
by inch the flames were driven hack.
The boiler house had been one wild,
roaring sheet of flame. Above the din
of the excited throng the hissing steam
from the boilers gave warning to the
firemen that their superheated contents
might explode at any moment and hurl
them to kingdom come. But those de
voted men and boys, like the young
Frenchman—
"Who stood on tho burning dock
Rating goobers by tho peck,"
were oblivious of impending danger.
On the metal roof above the boilers,
sputtering and breathing annihilation,
the heroic firemen fought their nozzles
to the extinction of the flames. When
they began the unequal fight it ap
peared to be a forlorn hope, but with
that grim, dauntless determination out
of which heroes spring, the building
was saved. The main edifice, the mill
house, with its excellent equipment,
was but little damaged. The boiler-
room and planing-mill were partly
eviscerated by the flames. Mr. New
estimates his loss at $1,000. No in
surance. As a parting word to the
firemen I desire to say: Young gentle
men, I have been present at many
fires; I have seen firemen scale totter
ing walls, with imminent peril to both
life and limb; I have seen them rescu
ing at the peril of their own lives those
of helpless women and children, but
the exigency of these situations de
manded heroic action. You have dem
onstrated by your actions that you
are capable of executing any demand
that may be made upon you as firemen.
Your skill and coolness commend you
to your fellow-citizens as being worthy
of their warmest praise. We are proud
of you, and trust that an indulgent
heaven may protect you in the dis
charge of your duties.
—Judge Frank Reagan, of McDon
ough, who is of counsel in a suit in Car-
roll Superior Court, lias been in at
tendance on court the major portion of
the week. As a matter of course he
called upon his venerable fellow-citi
zen -even he who inditeth tflese lines.
The presentation of his views before
the court caused the wiseacres to sit
up and take notice. And the court
bailiff said as as he heard his "wise
saw and modern instances:” “A Dan
iel, a Daniel come to judgment.”
- First at the plow, wheel-horses to
the wheelbarrow, and students in the
school-room, the A. & M. boys found it
easy to knock the hosiery off the Car
rollton baseball nine Thursday after
noon. Not satisfied with this achieve
ment, the A. &. M. high school boys
met Carrollton’s best public school
debaters the same evening at the pub
lic school building and discussed the
question: “Shall the Georgia Legisla
ture Pass a Compulsory Education
Law?” The A. & M. boys took the
affirmative, and won in a canter. The
arguments were good on both sides.
—It’s a measly shame that a nice
old language like the English must go
a-borrowing so many words from a
language as meager in verbiage as
the French. Our dictionaries show
about three times more words than does
the Lexicon de '1 Acadamie Francats.
Then why is it we go a-borrowing?
The answer is our lexicographers in
corporate ail manner of foolish and
foreign words, and frequently have a
dozen words for the same idea. Now,
there’s Jim Atwell, rich as the English
language is, would be without a name
for his hash-mill if the French had
not lent him the word "restaurant.”
This reminds me that Jim*. the best
restaurateur in Western Georgia, is a
lad of infinite tact and skill, and is
living slap up to his opportunities. He
has a restaurant that he sets on the
square, and another on wheels with
which he chases the crowds. It’s a
new idea here, and we may expect to
see these portable hasheries “skeeting”
up and down the road constantly.
—The Christian and pagan Easter
festivals blend, oh, so harmoniously.
-The word "baby” seems to have
no etymology. Perhaps it may be
found in Eden, where it was coined to
designate an infant. Primarily, with
us, baby signifies a suckling—sec
ondarily, the youngest of the family,
and tertiarily, one’s wife or sweet
heart. There are other meanings
which would be extraneous to my pur
pose of illustration; hence 1 shall not
give them. Judge Adamson came home
on a short visit Saturday to see his
"babies. ”
Mr. E. M. Bass left Monday for
the "City of Brotherly Love.’’ I guess
some of you students of divinity think
he went to the New Jerusalem. Not
so; not yet. He went to the metropo
lis of that Yankee State that always
gives the biggest Republican majori
ties—the town that Billy Penn built,
ami the one that old Ben Franklin
p:ii ited red in his rowdy days. Don’t
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The most highly refined and healthful
of baking’ powders. Its constant use
in almost every American household,
its sales all over the world, attest its
wonderful popularity and usefulness.
recognize her yet? Then you don’t de
serve the information. Both you and
the town will do as well without it. j!
—There are many auxiliaries unto
j the salvation of the souls of men. In
S the soul-saving process, as exemplified
by the several creeds, the Word comes
first; then come the expounders of
the Word, the sons of Levi; and next
in importance is the beautiful influence
exerted upon the unsaved wretches of
earth by the sweet daughters of Eve.
They are the bases upon which the me
andering process of regeneration is
formed, and the keystone of its perpet
uation: and last, but not least in the
plan of salvation, are auguries, har
bingers, portents, presages, and the
Evil One’s own batch of wizards—
witches, ghosts and goblins, which ap
pear to us in many questionable forms.
I’ve a well-disposed man in my mind’s
eye who has escaped the ministerial
lasso which brings much people into
the Good Shepherd’s fold ; he has suc
ceeded in running the spiritual gaunt
let between tho W. C. T. U. and the
Salvation Army, whose duty it is to
lead such an one to the portals of the
"strait and narrow way.” He has
(until recently) escaped all of these
beneficent influences, and appeared to
be "floating on the surface of the occa
sion and trusting to the sublimity of
luck.” lie’s a good man, physically;
the best blacksmith in his ward; a fine
judge of all the decoctions made of
fruit, grain or chemicals; but the fear
of the Lord, as we understand the
dominating influence of that fear,
abided not with him until a few days
ago. It sometimes happened that he
got on a "jag” of greater or less pro
portions, in the which he was usually
governed by the phases of the rnoon. If
the moon got full, so did he; and in
this wise he adjusted his habits to the
moon’s schedule. In those periods of
happy-go-lucky obfuscation he now and
then went up against the blue-coated
Philistines—the city’s men-at-arms.
There would he no clash—just a settle
ment; that, was all. One day last
week he was sitting on a nail keg in
front of his stithy, comfortably full,
and with no thought to bother his mind
--unless it was the troublous question
why the "blind tiger” changes his lair
so often—when, lo ! there appeared on
the quarter-deck of the horizon a flock
of aquatic fowl of divers hues—ringed,
striped and speckled, black and white.
The leader of the flock gave the shrill
’’honk” of the wild goose, but his fol
lowers were a conglomerate mass of
coots, cranes, ducks, geese and loons.
As they winged their way northward,,
flying near the eaith. a looney loon
took aim at the man on the keg and
butted him in the provision basket.
Before the bird could resume its flight
the man seized it with both hands.
The bird 1 bit, butted, kicked and
scratched its captor like a tomcat.
When the power of speech returned
(for the loon had knocked it out of
him on the first round) he yelled to his
striker to come and help him turn the
"critter" loose. The assistant iron-
smasher brought a hamper basket, un
der which the fowl was finally pris
oned. A crowd 1 gathered around the
basket, and it was agreed that none of
them had ever before seen a bird like
this one. The man took the bird’s con
duct seriously. He thought it was a
sign of bad luck. Strid he; “1 guess
the black devil haa been sent to warn
me that I’m near my row’s end.”
Fearing th® bird might prove an un
lucky keepsake, he took it to the
nigh-beer stand and swapped it for a
measure of the saffron foam of which
he stood sadly in need, as bis nerves
were completely unstrung. He reached
home moody and silent. His good
wife asked what his trouble was. He
explained in a few words how the loon
had been sent by some unknown agency
to warn him to* flee the wrath to come.
"Really, ’Liza,said the badly pes
tered man," whab do you think it all
means?” The wife shook her head
ominously, and said in low guarded
tones, "Old man. I think it means
something awful. You know the hens
have been a-crowin’, the squinchowls
a-hollerin’, and the whipperwills
a-callin, ’ and: puttin’ the poker in the
fire hain’t done no good. Laws-a-mas-
sy ! it almost makes my hair stand on
end when I wake up at night and hear
old Towse howlin’ like he was the chief
mourner at a funeral. It all means
somethin’ terrible.” This bit of uncom
forting information sent the black
smith to bed with fear and trembling.
He now felt sure the loon was sent to
him as a warning to divorce himself
from dram. He has joined the prohibi
tionists, and may be seen next Sunday
sitting on the mourners’ bench. The
man who will not hearken to solemn
warnings like this is not long for the
| world.
— Miss Helen Brown spent the past
week in Newnan.
—We are pleased to note the return
of Mr. John M. Jackson, who has been
a patient at St. Joseph's Infirmary, At
lanta.
—Miss Minnie Coleman, of Palmetto,
was the guest of homefolks Sunday.
—Mr. T. E. Kirk, of Temple, gave
his Carrollton friends the distal end of
a delightful paw Monday.
—Mrs. Bernard A. Chambers and lit
tle son. Louis, spent the week with
homefolks at Summerville.
—Mr. J. W. Barrow, of the classic
Tw 90 te<
JACK POWELL
Who is always at home, 32 Spring Street,
Has This to Say:
Before you buy a Wagon, Buggy, Carriage, Surrey, or anything
in the vehicle or harness line, give me chance at you. You will not be
asked to buy on reputation alone. Point by point, I will show you
wherein my well established lines excel. You do not want to buy a ve
hicle every season. You want to be sure of your investment. Then
come where “all coons don’t look alike.” Each vehicle here has a dis
tinctiveness and an individuality of its own, and is sold upon its own
merits. The "cheap Western johns” are sold as "cheap johns.”
The old, well-established and reliable Southern makes are sold on
their real worth, and they compel admiration—first, because they
look so good; and, second, because they wear so well and, last so
long. That’s the kind Jack Powell sells. He guarantees that there
are no better Buggies or Wagons in the whole world. They are
RIGHT in every detail. All lumber used in their manufacture is air
seasoned, and all iron and steel carefully Inspected and tested.
I have a rubber tiring machine, and rubber-tire my own buggies.
I use the Kelly Springfield tire—a tire that has no "past” to live down.
It is the most numerously demanded rubber tire because people re
member—not because they forget.
Come in and let me show you what a really good Buggy and Wag
on is. Each and every vehicle sold MUST BE AS REPRESENTED, or
your money will be refunded.
ONLY EXCLUSIVE BUGGY AND WAGON
REPOSITORY IN NEWNAN.
t>s§ 90 te* t0 '
hamlet of Bowdon, was in town Tues
day.
—Mrs. Lula Davis, of Sand Hill',,
was the guest of Carrollton iriends
Monday and Tuesday.
—Mr. J. C. Russelil, Carrol Eton’s
wild varmint fancier, has just received
a pair of wildcats from his son,. G.. A.,,
who is touring the wilds of Arizona,
and other sections of the "wild and*
woolly West.” The cats are in fine
fettle for shredding a dog with their
four-inch claws, which they keep*
trimmed to briar-edge keenness. Jim,,
the big brindle piewler, is a native of
Arizona. Nothing is more toothsome
to him than a few joints of cactus,, the
herb on which he browsed in. his home
precinct. Bill, the other cat,, a cherry-
colored son of Satan, was formrly ae
citizen-at-large of Wyoming. This cat’s
peculiar color and the stylish cut of his
tail lends him rather a distinguished
appearance. Out of the abundance of
caution their ma’s clipped their tails
to keep the buffaloes from stepping on
them. This is a style that the domes
ticated feline might adopt and save his
caudal adornment many a mashing.
G. A. will send, his pa a couple of
Rocky Mountain rams next week. This
will give Bro. Russell the finest me
nagerie in the county.
To celebrate Easter and tl’je Easter
cold wave 1 drew my angel harness out
of my locker where they had. lain
for the last six. months awaiting As
cension Day, and arrayed myself in
them to exhibit to my Newnan friends
how an exile from New Jerusalem
looks. I was greatly admired while
the cold was working on my proud,
manly form. 1 didn’t exactly freeze,
but the cold left me a souvenir—a cold
in my head. Alas, "pride goeth before
a fall.”
—Mr. H. G. Lowrey, of Birmingham,
is visiting his father. Major N. N.
Lowrey, who has been quite sick for a
month or more.
Mrs. Eula Rowland entertained at
a spend-the-day party on the 1st inst.,
in compliment to Mrs. L. A. Grayson,
of Mobile.
—Miss Corinne Wright, who has been
visiting Mrs. S. C. Kytle, has returned
to her home in Rosebud, Texas, accom
panied by Perdue Kytle.
—That excellent "jint-setter” and
placebo manipulator. Dr. Theo Davis,
of Newnan, was called to the bedside
of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
P. Travis last week, the little fellow
being critically ill with diphtheria.
Breathing had almost ceased, and the
sufferer was nearing a stale of collapse.
Dr. Davis inserted a breathing-tube
into the little one’s throat, which gave
immediate relief. At this writing the
child’s chances for recovery are good.
Buy the
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That Wears.
Construction is as important as
style or fabric. You get the best in
our “CURLEE” Pants. Each gar
ment has the correct style, high
quality, perfect fit and big value that
have made the “Curlee” a “repeater”
wherever shown
We also carry a full line of the cele
brated “Clansman,” “Americas” and
“Jefferson” brands of oxlords.
•i Remember, we are always prepared
to supply your wants in heavy gro
ceries, either for cash or on time.
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CENTRAL OF
GEORGIA RAILWAY
CO.
CURRENT SCHEDULES.
ARRIVE FROM
Griffin 11 :10 a. m.
Chattanooga 1:40 p.m.
Cedartown. ex. Sun. 6:39 a. m.
Cedartown, Sun.onlyT :',*7 a. m.
Columbus 9:05 a.m.
DEPART FOR
Griffin 1:40 P.M.
UliP-M. Griffin, ex. Sunday 6:39 a.m.
Griffin. Sunday only 7:27 A. M.
Chattanooga 11:10a.m.
, Cedartown 7:17 p.m.
6:3oP. M. Columbus 7:40 a.m.
5:15 P. M