Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-02-26
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fusion of Southern courtesy. For
example, the business man who
stops long enough in his pursuits
to treat you with the courtesy due
stranger, who directs you to
places of note and objects of in
terest, and who assures you in his
cordial manner that 1t is no trou-
BILE, you have afforded him
pleasure, etc, when you are pro-
fuse in your apologies for having
detained him.
This beautiful city has census
population of ninety thousand.
1t is city of school houses,
churches and a Kelley institute.
At the crossing of Marietta and
Seely streets stands the Grady
monument, an object of interest
to every tourist. This monument
consists of a massive pedestal, sur
mounted by heroic statue of the
lamented Southron. Whether
the features are good or not we
are unable to Judge. One said
they were life-like, another insist
ed there WAS not the slightest re-
semblance. One thing we can see
for ourselves is, that the clothes
do not fit; the pants bag at the
knees and the coat is too large.
Upon the front face of the pedes-
tai OF this monument we find this
inscription;
Henry W. Grady,
Journalist, Orator, Patriot,
Editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
Born in Athens, Ga. May "a, 1850,
Died in Atlanta, Dec. %, 1889.
Graduated at the State University.
He never sought or held public
Office"
A queer inscription that last,
and while reading it we think
perhaps that is why he was SO
much the idol of the people, for
idol he certainly was. A view of
another side, however, reveals the
secret: "When be died he was lit
orally loving a natiol into peace.
The people of Atlanta have an
eye to rendering all parts of the
city attractive, Quite removed
from the Grady monument, on
Capitol avenue, g street that tries
to outrival Peach Tree street,
stands the home of Sam Small.
An unassuming, three story brick
structure-far more unassuming,
indeed, than the individual who
resides therein. What Gospel
Ridge strove at one time to be to
Kirksville, Peach Tree street is
to this city. One gentleman said
that unpoetical as was the name,
it was quite the thing to reside on
its shady boundaries. 1t gives
one quite an air of distinction and
some of them believe that to be
born thereon, one has no need to
be born again.
The capitol is unpretentlous but
substantial. 1t is built of Geor-
gian marble and stones, a fact that
the watchmen in charge never
allows to pass unmentioned. A
stroll through the building i'm
presses one with the variety of
Georgia's wealth in this particular
direction. Some of the marbles
used for interior decoration and
finishing, are delicate enough in
their coloring to rival the Mexican
onyx. Their use gives a pleasing
effect to the structure. A circular
stairway of two hundred and twen-
ty-two steps leads to the top of
the dome. 4 tiresome climb, but
the view obtained amply rewards
the toll that "to that summit led" ="
Stone mountain, Kenesaw, and
where the battle was fought" all
are distinctly visible. In the
main corridor of the capitol S ands
the marble monument that was
erected by the citizens Of Atlanta
to the memory of Ben Hill, whose
tragic death was watched by a
sympathetic nation This monu-
ment was removed from the open
air because of the Injuries it was
sustaining from the weather. The
statue that surmounts it is life size
and, unlike the one that surmounts
the Grady monument, is consider
ed by all life like. Upon the var
ious faces of the pedestal are In
scribed extracts from his address,
es. One characteristic of his
views is:
"We are in the house of our
fathers, our bothers are our COM
panions, and we are home to stay,
thank God. Amnesty speech,
'76.
Another. "The union under the
constitution knows no section but
does know all the states. Speech
IN the U. S. Senate June IL, '79.