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farald and Advertiser. 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 Relic I H|X nine hon< V understanding in- 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 U/WCgNfrPoWDtiq 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 Garment 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. T. G. FARMER & SONS CO. 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