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fieraU and Advertiser. NKWNAN, FRIDAY, JULY 9. A D n E A M . A ilronrn, dear love, I have, of wh**re A -nilirur i land riaos fair From out an azure sea. A H|.rinK-t imu isle. till tureen ami pale. With pearl-pink bloRHoma. like ti veil Thrown over bush ami tree. Upon wIiom aliimmerintf ilver and . With happy heirt and elinnitur hand Ami wandering nirnleu led JoyotiH we walk, Hpolll»«*und lhe while Hy the oft beauty <»f the ide Our happiness complete. And love, inch an the angels bear Shines in your face, so pure, so fair It in and while we kiss, At heaven's very gate W" j eem! Ah. would that I might alway dream Such bloused dream ns this! I Josephine Kiehardso stru ta ni", an 1 a mine honesty puts it to utter ance " | ShakesfM'ttrH, In the following diary, written by a veteran of the Mexican War, lion. Benjamin M. Long, who was a mem ber of Capt. W. T. Wolford’a company. 1st U. S. Dragoons, will lie found some recitals which are remarkably thrilling which facts are stranger than fiction. Mr Long subsequently became a cap- taii in the Confederate army, and a braver, better soldier never fought un der t he "stars and liars "July 9, 1840. War is on with Mex ico. Without a declaration of war (Jen. Ampudia, of the Mexican army, crossed the itio Cramie in April, at the head of a large force, and attacked a detach ment of sixty Americans, most of well. Plenty to eat, and drill four j unruly and scratched things I did not hours daily. There seems to be no j intend to say when I began this item; whom were killed and the remainder captured. 1 President, Polk has called for JO,000 volunteers to avenge the in sult and repay the ‘greasers’ in kind. Capt. Wolford is recruiting his compa ny here. Carroll is promised a lieuten- antey. The war spirit has fired the hearts of our young men, and if the same feeling dominates other sections of the country, the President would ha\ no trouble to raise half a million volunteers. Those are the Carroll county boys who are going to Mexico to win glory and a broader domain: Lieut. W 10. Curtis, (afterwards a colonel in the Confederate army,) J. C. Ashley, Vince Holley, J. W. Benson, I. C. Benson, Matthew Ksterwood, Ike Weir, II. N. Weir, S. Carter, Writ. Wil kin:- Win. Parr, John Long, Jot 11oI - •onil»o, Nal Abercrombie and B. M. Long. A line lot of patriotic hoys. July 17. We are now aboard the U. S. transport 'Dolphin’ at Mobile. The inarch to this place was very severe on both men and horses, caused hy both being unseasoned to the demands ot war We sail to-morrow on the schoon er for Vera Crux, (True Cross.) "Aug. 2. At sea. We are now plowing the placid bosom of the Gulf, making from three to four knots an hour. Out of sight of land for several days. It makes one feel that he is a very small atom to know there's noth ing Itetween him and the 'hereafter' hut. a few boards and beams. "Aug. If We have had the devil’s own luck for the past two days. A hur ricane struck us on the morning of the Ith and swept our spars away. The ninstlvsH craft was driven hither and thither at the mercy of the winds and waves for more than a day. Each 'moment we expected her to lie swamp ed. The men, sailors as well as sol dier:. had not lived up to their Sunday- school opportunities, and their relig ious training was ordinarily out of har mony witli the Apostles’ Creed, and when the danger became imminent they made some line impromptu appeals to tiie Throne of Grace. Their frantic sup plications to high heaven would have been ludicrous hut. for the impending doom that threatened them. The tur bulent sea caused the ship to roll help lessly on its angry bosom. The pumps were manned and every endeavor made to keep the hulk afloat. Despair seemed to settle upon all. Finally one desperate wretch bethought him of the commissary, where was stored a nuin tier of casks of rum. and he shouted 'Since we are to be drowned like rats m a tub. let us die drunk as lords I’ A rush was made for the store-room, and in » i incredibly short time the heads were knocked out of several barrels of liquor The men. apparently frenzied with fear, drank the fiery spirits like water, i'andetnonium then began its reign. The pumps were abandoned, and the vessel allowed to flounder in the trough of the sea. The men sang and danced, made ribald jests, and drank toasts to each other. Suddenly tin 1 ship’s bottom was felt to grate on something and the huge hull trembled. She became grounded on a sand-bar, and the beating waves caused her to reel like a drunken man. Some hundreds of feet from the vessel was descried a small island, denuded of all vegetation, it proved to he St. Joseph’s island, a God forsaken spot where nothing pros pered save sand flies, sand crabs, tid dlers, (a small crab,) and sea turtles, which came ashore to deposit their eggs in the sand. "Aug. 20. Have been on the island for eighteen days. Brought all the stores ashore, which appear to he am ple for four or five months. The horses were forced overboard, and the intelli gent brutes made a bee line for the is land, all swimming to it without acci dent. Among the ship's cargo were a hundred or so tents, which were landed and erected on a small plateau a few hundred feet from shore. These raised, we began to make the best of a bad sit uation. Capt. Wolford assumed com mand and soon had garrison discipline established among the men. The rum was brought ashore, put under guard and used as medicine. We were threat ened with a water famine, there being no fresh water on the island, and our supply from the ship being exhausted. The captain of the 'Dolphin,' Jaques Sazerae, a native of Martinique, ad vised that the tarpaulins and oilcloths be spread out at night in such a manner as to catch and hold the dew. which fell heavily. By using all means at our command, enough was procured in this way for both man and beast. The rainy season now began and our water supply was ample, it being caught on tarpaulin canvas, etc. “Sept. 3—The horses are looking ,-hance to leave thi:- desolate spot. Have seen no one from the outside world since we were stranded. Have plenty offish, turtle and turtle’s eggs. These monsters come ashore at night to lay their eggs. A couple of men seize a big fellow, weighing 300 or 400 lbs., and floum c him upon his hack, where he lies until hauled to camp. Our sup ply of turtle flesh is greatly relished by the men. The soup made from it is delicious. "Oct. 8. We hailed a transport this morning bound for New Orleans, mak ing known our distress. If nothing be tides will have a boat here in a week or ten days. “Oct. 20.—The ‘Ann Chase,’ a Mis sissippi river boat, was sent us on the 1 sth. We are now heading for Vera Cruz, with a fine prospect of landing in the next two or three days. The 'Ann Chase’ was named for the wife of Con sul Chase, who was besieged in the American Consulate at Tampeca. The gallant woman, seeing that herself, husband and a few other Americans were cut. off from their fiiends, raised a distress signal, which was seen by a U. S. man-of-war lying in the harbor. A lieutenant and sixty marines were landed. They charged and routed the Mexicans, bringing away the consul, his wife and other Americans. This story is well authenticated. We are anxious to chastise those perfidious ras cals for their maltreatment of the gal lant lady. “Oct. 26. -Land ahoy! 1 feel as I imagine did the great antedeluvian navigator, Noah, who saved seed tor the subsequent propagation of a drowned world, when he beheld the dry land from his dockyard on the crest of Araraat. Behold the lovely range of mountains, whose blue outlines rise be yond the spires, domes and fortified walls of Vera Cruz! These mountains doubtless invited the restless spirit of Cortez to draw near unto them and build the city of the True Cross in its land-locked harbor. O, fanatical zealot of the Romish church, who carried the sword of conquest in one hand and the crucifix in the other, your city has grown to be a marvel of beauty! As we sail into port, the bay is flecked with small craft, flitting hither and thither, while under the grim guns of San Juan de Ulna lie a number of Uncle Sam’s men-of-war, and ‘Old Glory’ lazily fan ning the breeze with her semi-limp folds. 1 grow a little sentimental, but debarking will remind me that my horse and accouterments need some thing more than an effort at metaphor making. There’ll doubtless be hot work tor us beyond the mountains in the chapparal and canyon,” etc. As the diary is somewhat voluminous, and increases in interest as he chases Mexican soldiers and guerillas over their native mountains. I shall contin ue to give it to the readers of The H. & A. until I have rehearsed his numer ous adventures—crossing the Pedragal, assaulting a convoy, capturing a pay master’s strong-box with thousand's-of shining Mexican dollars, succoring bis wounded comrades, storming t'he- heights of Chapultepec, and numerous' other adventures, will prove an inter esting interlarder for our local columns. -That excellent institution of learn ing. Bowdon College, has worthily be stowed upon Rev. Wilfiaim W. Roop the title of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Roop is considered one of the most scholarly pulpit orators in Western Georgia one who has ever exerted his splendid ef forts in behalf of the morn! and relig ious uplifting of his fellows-. Mr. .las. J. Atwell. Carrol (ton’s popular restauranter, spent Wednesday with tiie family of his brother. Mr. Claude Upshaw, at Bremen. Mr Lewis Sims, teller of She Citi zens Bank, planned a Fourth of July outing in Atlanta. He took neither ti reworks nor firewater with him;—that town is supposed to furnish all the “hot stuff” one may call for. —Mr. lack Keith, of Newnan, was in the city Tuesday under the tutelage of Newt Power, Carrollton’s champion horse-trader. Miss Annie Jackson has as her guest this week Miss Mae Mitchell, of Bowdon. Miss Cora Boatright, of Bremen, visited friends here Wednesday. Capt. Jim Martin had the p/easure the other day of greeting his former comrade-in-arms, Silas A. Walker, who “(it, hied and died” with him »t Ba ker's Creek, Vicksburg, an 1 Jonesboro. The old heroes had a pleasant time re counting the many hair-breadth escapes that befell them by flood and tieki. Mrs. R. Lee Sharpe is visiting her sister in the mountains of North Caro lina, where she will spend the summer. —Mrs. J. L. Young has returned from Tallapoosa, where she has been spending several days. After wrestling with Carrollton humidity and heat Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Perry have departed these plains for Tallulah Falls in quest of cooler weath it was my purpose to tell you that Ellis Smith has handed in the first bou ,Jtt of cotton blooms. He’s a good farmer, and will raise enough cotton this year to make 200,000 double blank* ! eta. Misses Kathleen and Cleo Almand, of Washington, Ga., are guests of their [ aunt. Mrs. J. L. Vaughn. - Our popular County Commissioner, Bro. Braswell, is doing some excellent work on the public roads. There is some talk of building a macadam road from Carrollton to Temple and putting on a line of autos. Should the move ment take definite shape Commissioner Braswell will put the road through in short order. He has been visiting Tem ple and Villa Rica the past week, pos sibly for the purpose of maturing plans for the immediate furtherance of the work. Miss Irene Bass, who has been on a visit to Borden-Wheeler Springs, re turned Saturday. —Mr. C. B. Simonton has returned from Borden-Wheeler Springs. The good church people of Carroll ton appear to have his satanic majes ty, the Devil, on the run. They have been chasing him in and around the corners for a month or more, judging from the excellent meetings that have been held and are being held. Maybe it won’t he best to run him clean off’, for most of us are not exactly ready for the reign of the millenium. -We regretfully announce the death of Mrs. Chas. L. Walker, an estimable Christian lady of this city, who depart ed this life last Saturday. The Herald and Advertiser tenders sympathy and condolence to the bereaved husband and children. —Roy Power spent Sunday in New nan. -Col. Mike L. Covington, of Atlanta, spent Sunday with the family of Mrs. Jennie B. Smith. Mrs. Katrina Kiepper, of Birming ham. Ala., was the recent guest of her sister, Mrs. J. T. Young. We hail with pleasure the return of Mr. John M. Butler, who has been making Atlanta his home. Mias Daisy Harris returned Wed nesday from Piedmont, Ala 1 ., where she has been spending the week with the family of Rev. Geo. D. Harris, her father. -Messrs. R. J. Gailhreath and L. K. Smith made a business* trip to Cedar- town his week. -Prof. H. I?. Adams;, our popular superintendent; of schools, accompanied' hy his family, wvii spend the summer' fair Nashville, Term. Newnan has another new railroad assured her—from that city to Frank lin. This will leave her trading terri tory west of town no bigger than a pis mire’.* nest. If she gets any trade for the future it must come from w ithin her own borders, through manufactur ing enterprises. Well,, now that she’s got. her hunch of stichu and ties,, may she have- them ami joy follow. In point of population Carroll is tiie ninth county in the State. Eight others have more population, hut their black wos-'l crop is four rimes as great as o urs. of white line. ” — Bro. prior to Carroll has the finest chance "hill billies” south of “the er. —Mr. A. O. Williams is visiting Ten nessee relatives. -This is a big country, with a varie ty of climates. Texas has sold her “tirst bale” of cotton for $1.20 a pound, receiving for it $4Su. Here, in Carroll, we think we are doing bully if we can show a good healthy "square.” Now, this word “square,” as applied to cotton, causes me to pause, scratch my locks and cogitate why such a misnomer should have ever crept into our rich vernacular. Bless your agro nomic soul, that embryonic cotton boll is not square, but is a triangular forma tion. Well, a lot of things are called "out of their names, ” to-wit: A man who says he doesn’t moisten his internal improvements with liquor is called a prohibitionist. Do the facts in his case warrant his title? My pencil became Bttrson is training his voice entering the campaign for Commissioner of Agriculture. He has a beautiful 1 campaign jimswinger coat. —Sam Boykin is a good boy, and can’t help it; hut that brother of his from Tampa. Fla., lays over the good points that adorn his reputation as- far as a tablecloth does a deyiie. The Tampa brother. Dr. J. T., is an excel lent physician, and but few of his pa tients have hail their measures taken for a white slab and domic; A local', paper reports that Col.. W. D. Hamrick was in Washington recent ly to ascertain whether or not Senator Steve Clay’s- seat would lit him. If it does, we are going to help him take it away from the junior Senator. Of the two men, Billie Hamrick the best lawyer, and would make a lallapalula law-giver. Bill’s made in the same mould as Andrew Jackson;—if they don’t do right he’ll bust ’’em. By the extraordinary contortions o-J her neck, he concluded that she was trying to get a glimpse of the hack of her new blouse; by the tense’lines and scintillating flash about her lips he con cluded that her mouth was full of pins. “Uraph—goof — sufF — wuff — sh — spoge,” she asked. “Quite so, my deal,” he agreed. “ It looks very nice.” “Ouff—wuff—so—gis—ph -mf — ugh ght?” she next remarked. “Perhaps it would look better if you did that,” he nodded; “but it fits very nicely as it is.” She gasped and emptied the pins into her hands. “I've asked you twice to raise the blinds so that I can get more light, James.” she exclaimed. “Can’t you understand plain English?” Excursion Fares via Central of Georgia Railway Company. Albany, Ga.. and return—Account District Grand Lodge No. 8, G. U. O, O. F., to be held August 10-13. 1.968, Ticket's on sale from points, in Georgia. To Black Mountain, N. C., and return — Account Montreal Chautauqua and Religious Assemblies, to be held July 15-August 31. 1909. To'lLoa Angeles, Calif.. Portland, Ore., Beattie, Wash.. San Francisco, Califl.. San Diego, Calif.—Account Alaska - Yukon-Pacific Exposition and various other special occasions. T'i'Monteagle and. Sewanee, Tenn.. and return — Account Mission Week (iWi'Uets and Gilbert Lectures) to be held .July 1-16, 1909; Monteagle Bible School, to he held July 17-29, 1909 : Monteagle Sunday-school in stitute and Musical Festival, to be j held July 311-Au.gust 15, 1909. i To Nashville. Tenn.. and return—Ac-j count Peabodv College Summer School for Teachers and Vanderbilt I Bihlical Institute, to he held June I '.(-August 4, 1909-. ( To Nashville. Tenn.. and return—Ac-I count Peabody College Summer j School tor Teachers and Vander bilt Biblical Institute, to be held j June 9-August 4, 1909. To- Asheville, N. C., and return.- Ac count Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. biennial meeting, to be held July 12-20, 1909. Tc,Aliens, Ga., and return.—Account summer school. University of Georgia, to be heid June 2t5-July 17, 1900. TJ Knoxville, Tenn.. and return. Ac count Summer School of the South, to be heid June 22-July 30, 1909. For full information in regard to. rates, dates of sale, limits, schedules, etc., apply So nearest ticket agent. A traveler stopped at a hotel i» Greenland, where the nights are six months long, and, as he registered asked a question of the clerk. “What time do you have breakfast?’ ’ "From half-past March to a quarter of May. ” Poets are born—therefore, parents must be to blame. When Rubbers Become Necessary, And your shoes pinch, Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes, is just the thing to use. Try it tor breaking in New Shoes. Sold ev erywhere, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Don’t accept any substitute. Bond Sale—July 15,1909 School Improvement 5 Per Cent. Bonds of the City of Newnan, Georgia. These bonds will be in denominations of $1,000 each, dated July 1, 1909, interest payable in Janu ary and July of each year, and mature as follows: $2,000 in 1912, and $2,000 biennially thereafter un til the issue is paid, making the last bond due in 1916. These bonds are not redeemable before maturi ty. * The bonded indebtedness of the City of New nan is $121,000, including this issue. The taxable values inl90S were $3,000,000:—esti mated real value, $6,000,000. The city owns all of its public utilities, and a conservative estimate of the value of the city’s property is $165,000. Population, (estimated) 6,000, Interest payable at City Treasurer’s office, or at Fourth National Bank, New York. Certified check for $200 must accompany all bids. E. L). FOUSE, Clerk. BY THE SEA WHERE OCEAN BREEZES BLOW. EXCURSION RATES VIA (entral* Georgia railway QUICK AND CONVENIENT SCHEDULES. SPLENDID SERVICE FROM PLACES IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA. ASK YOUR NEAREST TICKET AGENT FOR TOTAL RATES. SCHEDULES. ETC. ABSOLUTELY That you take no chances— not the slightest—when you bring that valued picture to us to be framed. You are not only positive of perfect workmanship, but you are certain of the kind of moulding that will harmon ize perfectly with your pic ture. A new shipment of moulding just received. A trial order solicited. Scroggin Furniture Company