The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-12-07
ARP MAKES A TOUR.
Taking 10 Seytral Of The Towns Of
The State,
AND OBSERVES MANY Things
As he Journeys Aiong-how Towns
Get Their Names Dull Towns And
Progressive Ones.

is OF Greek origin aid literally means
Tor a day" ard was applied 10 the
lives OF certain Insects Its meaning
has broadened and now II Is applet 10
life or fame CT wealth or happiness CT
anything that Is o. brief or uncertain
duration. l was Eliminating abou, this
because l have been down 10 barnes
Vile and Thomaston. .wo prosperous
towns, one In Pike and the other in
Upson county. I Inquired OF several
good citizens who MIR. Upson was acd
they could not tell. Finally IN old
gentleman said that he was n member
or the legislature from Oyle,horpt
county and was very great and good
man and died early. and the legis.s.
ture OF which he was a memnsr made
a new county and named Il for him.
But now there Ia rot one man in o
hundred In that county that knows
anything about him. I did no. find
any oody who knew what Ar. Thomas
TIE town was ramed for. Just SO ]
did not find anyone az Barnesville WHO
knew what Mr.. Pike that county was
named for. SO l had TO walt till I got
home and examined my books ahd !
learned that Zebulcn Pike was I great
soldier in the war o; lSl2-that before
that he explored the far west. and
was the first man to discover and
ascend that very high mountain which
| has ever since been called pixies
| Peak"
The town OF Zebulon took his Car s.
! tian name or rather his Jewish name,
! for Zebulon was the sixth son CT Jacob
and his descendants became sailors.
Nobody could tell me who Barnesville
was named for. Nobody cares veiy
much who any town or county was
named for. The present seems TO be
all that concerns us. and the historic
/ part will soon pass into Oblivion for
the old men are nearly all dead. Not
long ago l read how an Englishnlal
was walking about the beau;!frl GENE
! terry CT Gettysburg and met a conred-
crate veteran there and said 10 him.
These grand monuments and grave
stones will forever perpetuate The
memories of the brave men who fe,l.
but I fear your confederate dead will
soca pass into oblivion unless ycu
give them cemeteries and monuments
like these" NO." said the veteran
Ours will last as long as these, for
every stranger who comes here will
1 E5luEdily dSh tue SdUlc IutSliJh
you did: Who killed all these people
who are buried here?"
As l travel ever the south i can tel
prosperous town from a ,tasnan'
one by the wheels that are turning, 'ht
smoke stacks and the hum OF ma
chinery, OF the absence OF ali these
built in 1893, and has been added Il
in later years, and now Is erecting an
other with a home capital of sieo.e0u
Everywhere are visible the signs 0
progress and business activity. Th'
new hotel recently built by Mrs. Sans
wich is a gem Of beauty and remind
the traveller Of Florida and the tropics
All around are to be seen new resi-
dences of modern architecture. Tn
Barnesville is forging ahead aad SO J
Thomaston. for both have cotton mill
already and are building more. Thom
aston can boast OF having the oldes
cotton factory in Georgia for IL va
auditorium nearly completed is mar
vel OF Grecian beauty. An eicotri
plant lights the new hotel ald man
homes and will soon light he street
OF the little city. Mrs. Sandwich es
tablished this plant and owns IL. j-is
ponder il a moment. A woman Is tt
foremost factor in the advalc "a
gress of a newborn city. Nov IL the
will let her tear down the old antr
bellum court house and erect net
, one she will do Ii. But she can: vo;
when Is this fcssiii.erous relic OF
past age to be reformed. The dirti.s
: negro in this town has a vote In ss,2c'
Ing its ruler, while a widow who pay
! the highest tax is excluded. AL IL
, one Of the teachers in our publ
schools are women, but they have q
voice in anything except the p.IyiIsS
of teaching our children. The. Hard
wick bill is dead, and the maxim Is
| speak no i'll OF the dead, but bette
| bill would have been to place the ba
=, lot box just where the jury box Is ncy
( In every country there is commIssio
t OF honorable men who select The r,s
+ who are fit to serve on the Jury N
+, their names only are placed in IL
;, jury box. Men OF bad moral charact'
e or exceeding ignorance are oxc,ude
: We have known instances where ms
Of considerable wealth were exclude
because OF their notorious 7iccs.
Our Thanksgiving is oyer-we ha
a turkey that had been stail-fed, bi
my wife and / were invited - {. goc
, kind neignbor's and the girls to al
|. other neighbor's, and our turkey h:
. been respited. He has been goblin
all the day, but hears no reSDoni
from sneighooring coops. / would
sorry for turkeys IL they were sOrI
for themselves.
: We had a union Thanksgiving Sc
s vice in our town and a large corgi'
: CATION listened to Mr.. Bealers ell
/. quent discourse from the 1i7th Psain
God hath not dealt SO with al: cth'
nation" rs sketched our count:
l. from Columns. d:cxn and showed ,
!. that blessing and Icye had followed I
for 400 years. 1t was grand sermo
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.