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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16

| it over. | am not sure whether ii is
the Bible or Christianity that is de-
scribed. Not owning Webster / can
not verify, but the statement as to au-
thorship of Webster's fine passage /
give correctly. The last noble para
graph in his great speech ending the
Union now and forever, one and in
separable." etc, is made up of the
phrases of several other people, poets
etc. The late able and eloquent Henry
| W. Miller. who died in his prime I'm
! the time of the great war. told me of
this, and gave the varied authorship
of the several passages. / recall after
q half century but one-"Full high adj
vanced," which is from John Milton.
1t is very easy to be mistaken, when
confident, too. as to the authorship
of a most familiar quotation. Some
of the most famous often being assign
ed TO this or that writer still remain
in doubt. Take an interesting illus
tration, an old couplet extremely COM
mon
He that fights and runs away
May live TO fight another day
Probably nine men of reading In
every ten will say il is by Samuel
Butler and is found in his famous
poem "Hudibras." But there is no
known copy of this poem in which the
lines appear 1t has been attributed
to other writer's, Goldsmith among
them. But really after all that has
been written about the lines. and a
great deal is known of it. there is no
we'll attested authorship. James Ray.
who wrote a work on the Rebellion"
i'm Scotland and the battle of Culloden.
contains the lines, and it is the earliest
record that is thus far known. The
Bristol edition of Rays work is Of the
date of 1852. The lines given by Ray
run thus:
He that fights and runs away
May turn and fight another day
1t is certain that the lines We're not
in the first edition Of Bohn's edition Of
'Hudibras.'' The sentiment of the
lines is very old. The eminent Bishop
Demosthenes. the greatest of Greek
orators. said, lin apology for his own
escaping from n lost ZELDA man
that runs away may fight again The
Greek of Demonstenes is thus given:
given:
Amer pheugon kai palm
muchesstai."
1 have not Greek letters TO produce
exactly. In 1895. an English version
of the tSatyre Menippee" published In
1894, was this:
But ne lnat meth IN SOOu Tue
Perhaps may fight again."
Mr.. Bohn SAYS:
I'm the Latin Apotheyms. compiled
by Erasmus. and translated into Eng
lish by Nicholas Udall. in 1912. occur
the following lines, which are obvious
ly a metrical version of the saying of
Demosthenes-
That same man that Kenneth awaie,
MAZE again fight another dale"
Mr.. Bohne thinks that Sir James
Mennis wrote the familiar couplet as
il is now printed, in 1866, and appear
ed in the "Musarum Deliciae" in that
year
He that is in battle slain,
Can never rise TO fight again:
But he that fights and runs away,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16
ORIGIN OF OLD SAYINGS.
u DEVELOPMENT OF CAROLINA.
BY DIR. II. b. KINGSBURY.

I had thought for long time that
the great and famous John Wesley
master Of nine languages. who could
write Latin as he could use Engnsh IN
his correspondence. and VINO could
easily speak Greek colloquially, and
s who was at the great Oxford Univer-
sity more than ten years, was the au-
thor of the saying. that cleanliness
was next to goodness. / have some
recollection of correcting this errone-
Gus impression in some article / have
written within the last three years A
gentleman of education and high
standing in this community quite re-
Gently asked me as TO the real author
ship of the often quoted saying. / find
Mr. Wesley was not the author of IT,
but twice uses IL. Once in his SER
mon "On Dress the 92nd in his vol
umes of sermons. and again he quotes
IL in his journal of February 18th.
1ff2. He gives it as a quotation from
some one else. Lord Bacon in his IA
nous discussion of the Advancement
of Learning" has this: Cleanliness or
body was ever deemed to proceed from
a due reverence to God" But il is be-
lieved that the saying originated in
the remote past, and is said to be
found i'm the Hebrew fathers. A
Jews rabbit. Dr. a. S Bettethei traces
it 10 Phinehas ben Yair. who discuss
ing the doctrines of religion states
into what they are resolved-carefui-
ness. abStemirouSness, and finally
cleanliness into godliness.' or as
Bartlett says, literally. next to god
Illness. Let me mention here that the
strong old saw that blood is thicker
than water" which occurs in Sir Wal
ter Scott's great novel. Guy Manner
n o. &c rie h h1r& fo
an old proverb of nearly two centuries
before him. Daniel Webster uses
sayings freely that are not his own.
For instance, he says in q speech In
1912. of a sea of upturned faces
Again he says in one of his legal ar
guments: Fearful concentration OF
circumstances Scott wrote years be-
fore-"The happy combination OF for
tuitOns circumstance" Dickens also
wrote in "Orr Mutual Friend
"Fortuitous combination of circum-
stances. Scott in his poor Life of Ma
poleon. written in 1907. says-''The
sun never set on the immense en-
pire of Charles W of Spain. Capt.
John Smith, famous in English and
Virginia history. wrote two hundred
years ago and more-''Why should the
brave Spanish soldier brag the sun
never sets in the Spanish dominions.
Jul ever SiAIiICtH oft one part VI Ollitl
We have conquered for our King.
This gave TO Webster the keynote to
his splendid passage in a speech In
1894. about England's morning
drum-beat following the sum-" etc,
one of his most superb descriptive
passages. I get much of this from
Bartlett. a gifted. scholarly Presby-
terrain divine once told me that his
own father was a very gifted divine,
with fine style and rich range of in
formation. Webster knew him per-
sonally. In one of his speeches there
are some two pages presenting a very
fine outline of the Bible and its infiu
ence. Webster got this from the Pres
byterian Doctor and used it without a
hint of the true authorship. Thinking
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16
Difference in Sayings.

Gideon Wurdz says, Advice
is a commodity peddled by
your lawyer and given away
by your mother-in-ldw, but
impossible to dispose of
yourself. Famous as the one
thing w hich it is "More
blessed to give than to re-
ceiVe."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16

The Greensboro Life Insurance Company
says that at any time after three premiums have
been paid any of it's policies, the Company will,
often as requested, gladly send the INSURED state
ment showing the amount Of dividends his policy
has earned as well the total credits to the policy
The policyholder does not have TO wait until the
end Of the dividend period to find out, how much
money the Company is making for him.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
New Orleans Feels
Safe from the Plague

New. Orleans, July 81 Little
change was apparent in the fever
situation here today. A number
of new cases we're unoficially
reported to the board of health.
The campaign in the interest of
cistern screening continues, and
hundreds of gallons of oil are be-
ing placed in cutters and water
receptacles. The large major
ity of new cases and deaths con-
tiuue to be 10 the old infected
area below Cana1street, only four
of yesterdays II cases being
above Canal street.
The health authorities, while
freely admitting the situation to
be still serious, believe that the
disease can be controlled, the
opportunities for new infection
growing fewer as the area of
screened cisterns increases.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
Father and Two Sons !
Must Face the GdllOW.
FOR MURDER OF
CARTER CEIILDRE
Younger Son Sent to n
tertiary for Life By 4
MercifuI Jury.

Valdosta, Ga, July 20. -Pl
haps the most remarkable mi
der trials in the history Of 4
state came to a conclusion tI
morning at 11:55, when the ju
found verdict of guilty, will
out recommendation to mef
against ]. G. Rawlings, for acc
sorry before the fact, in the nd
der of Willie and Fannie q
Carter, two of the young childr
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Carter
The verdict against Rawlin
this mornings ends the case
far as the state is concerned
already Milton and Jesse I'm
lings have been found guil
without a recommendation
mercy, while Leonard RawlinI
the youngest boy, was fon|
guilty, but recommended To
mercy of the court, by the ja
ALT. Moore, the negro hired
the Rawlins to assist in the ca
mission of the crime, has n
been found guilty without
recommendation.
Never before in the histor
the state have a father and
three sons been before the 8
of justice on the charge Of d
der. Brothers have appea
time and again on joint ind
ments for murder, but this
the first time where an old
and his three young boys, d
10, II and Is, were indicted M
found guilty.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
Railroad Commission
Roasted to a Eli
Representative Knight, Of 4
rien, Makes a Red Hid
Speech in House.

During the consideration
the general appropriation
favorably reported by the
preparation committee, Mr.. u
of Burke, chairman, in the :
mittee of the whole house of
resentatives Monday morn
Mr.. Knight, of Berrien coul
raised objection to paying
Georgia railroad commissiol
a salary of $4,000 per annum.
offered an amendment to-
crease their compensation,
ST., 900, and made a short spe
in advocacy of the change, chi
ing that the members of the 9
mission have been overpaid
have rendered no services to
people of the state.
It is a railroad commits
in all truth" asserted Mr.. Knl
with much force. The "a
bers give their services entiI
for the benefit of the railrl
They do not watch after
guard the interests of the
pie whom they serve.
II mean no reflection on +
o, B. Stevens. recently appolE
by the governor. He will q
power1ess to render assist
to the people as has been H
Pope Brown, who tried
couldn't. His hands have
tied.
so help me God, gentlsg
this com mission is serYii
railroads and not the pee
their services are "a
more than ST, 900 per q
thing at all =
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
Fitzgerald, Georgia,
Built by Old Soldiers
Northerners Started the City, Which Now
Has Over 5000 Inhabitants and Gets
Nearly a Half Million Annually
In Pension Money.

First National, with $4,000 cap.
ital, $4,000 surplus, and $225, 900
deposits; the Exchange Bank,
with $4,000 capital, $4,000 sur
plus and 100000 deposits, and
the Home Savings Bank, with
SIS, 900 capital and $4,000 de-
posits. There are all kinds of
secret societies. Other institu-
tons include a So, 900 city hall, a
$4,000 stone postofice building,
two chemical engines and hook
and-ladder company, five vo1un-
teer fire companies, good cornet
band, the best baseball team in
Southern Georgia, three up-to-
date restaurants, two wholesale
groceries, each with a capital of
$50, 900, two tailoring establish
ments, six fine drug stores, two
book sto. es, 20 brick and stone
business stores, good brick and
8 tone walks, three first-c1ass
newspapers, the Enterprise, the
Citizen and People, four meat
markets, three white barber
shops one newspaper for negroes,
the Advance, one grist mill, two
Grand Army posts, one Woman's
Relief Corps, owning a fine hall
in the center of the business dis
trict, one U. V. U. camp in
f1ourishing condition. One Blue
and Gray organization, four mill
linery stores, one candy factory,
three bottling works, six real
estate firms, a fine opera-house,
two bakeries, two steam laun-
dries. two racket stores, three
secondhand stores, two tin shops,
three farm-im p1ementand bicycle
dealers, four blacksmith shops,
three photograph studios, all in a
supply center for a territory
running Is miles in any direction
from the city. The town site
containing 1.2OO acres, fitted for
a city of 100000 inhabitants.
Fitzgerald claims the most rap
i'd growth of any new town in the
New South in nine years and it
has furnished abundant proof for
its very modest assertion. They
extend a warm welcome 10 new
corners, Northerners from al
most every state in the Union
come here to spend the winter.
J. A. BURDIcK,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
From the Buffalo, IN. Y.,) Express.


Fitzgerald, Ca, July 14.-One
of the most interesting towns in
America is Fitzgerald. It is sit
uated little south of the middle
Of the state of Georgia, in Irwin
county. The population is large.
1y composed of the veterans of
the War for the Union.
Fitzgerald was started by a
Northern man bearing that name.
A few other energetic men ac-
|companied him. They settled in
a large pine district. He bought
several thousand acres, put up
sawmills, mapped out town and
organized a colony. To become
a mem Der of this colony required
the payment of $40, which entitl-
ed the applicant to a residence
lot; $40 furnished one lot for a
business shop. Now, in about
nine years, Fitzgerald has pop
ulation of over 5000, and so large
is the percentage of pensioners
here, that between $3.50, 600 and
100000 in pensions comes to
Fitzgerald annually.
The town from its infa ncy has
fourished independently of its
surroundings, and clearly po-
-sesses greatadvantages over 9TH
er Georgia towns. Yet, I gain
information that other towns are
prospecting. which is attributed
to general season of business
prosperity, especially in the man
ufacturing interests, which are
increasing throughout the South.
Agricultural conditions, however,
are improving and agriculture
carried on in much larger scale
than before. The native South
erner tells me that South Georgia
was full of dead and no-account
towns until 1895, when the people
woke up apd began benefiting by
Fitzgera1d's business methods
and speed. The soil and climate
are capable of raising two crops
a year except cotton. One acre,
on an average, will raise one bale
of cotton. The Industrious ne
groes are employed by the cotton
farmers, and also in gardening.
Fitzgerald now has four rail-
roads; one road connecting with
the boats on the Ocumu1gee riv-
err, about twelve miles from the
city. The assessed valuation of
the place is $1,7O0,0O0. There
are thirteen churches and fine
graded public-school system, en-
ploying fourteen teachers and
one superintendent, and with free
textbooks to all pupils. There
is tourist hotel with us rooms,
four other hotels and a good sys-
tenn of water works and an cleo
tric-light plant owned by the city,
costing over $4,000, a telephone
system connecting with other
towns, Is retail groceries, four
hardware stores, nine dry.goods
stores, a 100000 cotton mill,
$40, 900 cotton and seed oil mill,
two planning mills and woodwork
ing establishments, a I'll Fl C ia |
stone works, one ice factory, a
a foundry and machine shop.
There are ten lawyers, three
dentists, twelve physicians, four
cotton warehouses, one cotton
compress. one sanitarium, three
jewelers., three fine banks-the
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01
Roanoke Ghost
Gains NOtOriety
Gets Its Name In the Papers
and Then Evaporates, as
a Good Spirit Should.

Fitzgerald, G., July 31.--The
neigh borhood known here as
Roanoke, about mile from town,
is very much excited over the APP
pearance of a supposed ghost.
1t made it's appearance for the
first time last Sunday night in the
family of H. Sharp. 1t gave an
exhibition that thoroughly alarm
ed the family. It appeared in
the kitchen and fairly made the
house ring with music from a
dish pan.
Mrs. Sharp appeared on the
scene and his ghostship disap-
peared as if by magic. On leav-
ing the room the music again
commenced. This time Mrs.
Sharp returned with the same re-
suit. She thought to bride Mr..
Ghost so she left a piece of mon
ey on the table and left the room.
Again the dish pan danced about
and the dishes ratified as though
an earthquake had taken place.
Mr.. Ghost did not accept the
price offered for his departure,
but walked about the place. On
approaching it, it disappeared
and would bob up at a distance.
Shooting at it had no effect what
ever.
Monday night crowds of peo-
pie visited the place from the
neigh borhood and the city. Some
claimed to have seen it at dis
lance. From the waist upit was
dressed in white. At times it
seems to be floating in the air
near the ground. Again itwould
lean against a tree or fence.
Sometimes it would appear as
though approaching the parties,
but before getting in speaking
distance it would disappear to
bob up at some other point.
1t has only visited the Sharp
family, but is claimed that sew
eral neighbors have seen it.
A lady from the north died in
the neighborhood about year
ago and her husband disposed of
their household effects and re-
turned to the north. Among the
things sold was this dish pan that
has played the leading role 10 this
story and has caused this family
much worry and fright. 1t is
thought by some that this pan
should be buried at the grave of
the deceased and then the spirit
will confne his ghostship to the
graveyard where he properly be-
longs.
The above story was sent in
by the Fitzgerald correspondent
of the Atlanta Journal, and is
a fairly accurate statement of
the story related by some of the
citizens of Roanoke. However,
the ghost(?) is said to have taken
it's departure and the family
which so unceremoniously vacat-
ed the haunted house has moved
back home, so our citizens will
feel justified in letting the spook
take much needed rest.
To the seashore Thursday
August 18th, 1905 via Atlantic &
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-08-01

To the seashore Thursday
August 18th, 1905 via Atlantic &
Birmingham Railway. See large
flyers for rates and schedule.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24

on every hand, while they have been
too busy to get a chicken around the
fields for dinner. This writer, who
ruefnlly states as a fact that on a re-
cent visit to Dakota he was unable to
secure more than fourteen birds in
n day, announces that the prairie
chicken has been exterminated by the
farmers boys hunting them before the
open season. The chances are that
there are not ten per cent of the farm
houses in this county where prairie
chicken has been served at two meals
this year. There is unquestionably a
sentiment growing among the farmers
that a man, just because he goes to
the county treasurer's Office and pays
ten dollars license and buys a brand
new hunting suit at the hardware
store, is not necessarily the owner Of
the farmer'stields and fully warranted
in reproving his boys for possible in
roads upon the chickens.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24
Corn Contest in Lincoln co.

It's discouraging to hear a good
farmer say: "My corr isn't good
enough for an exhibit, still he is the
very man that should get into the
contest with ''both feet" He is the
man who should take advantage of
corn contest education and learn how
to raise as good corn as the best.
Few will have corn that will score
over 80, and fewer still will have an
earthat will go IS, but we are hoping
to see n a at least that will score
100. So far as we know at present
there will be corn from Eden, Canton.
Brooklyn and Lincoln townships that
will crowd the hundred mark, and
the Leader has a prize for the farm
er who has an ear of corr on exhibit
that will score one hundred points,
which represents a perfect ear.
The following score card will help
many to determine what kind of corn
the select for the contest, and be sure
to remember that a white cob cuts
down the total:
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24
The Long Expected Came

We have all expected for months
that a frightful prairie fire was likely
to come with the next gale to sweep
from the north, but what was every
body's business to provide against was
nobody's particular matter to attend
to. So each farmer, short Of help and
with more work crowding than he
could dispose of, took his chances,
thinking it would possibly visit dis
aster on the other fellow and pass him
by. Last week witnessed the most
destructive prairie fires that ever
swept the county. One came out Of
North Dakota on Tuesday, crossing
Palmyra and Osceolo, going into
Frederick township. The following
day another, starting in Carlisle town
ship, was blown by a strong wind to
within a few miles Of this city. Each
fire destroyed a school. house and vast
quantities of hay and winter pasture.
The regions traversed by these fires
are thinly settled, mainly devoted to
stock raising. The townships of Lam
sing, Shelby, Detroit and Claremont lie
open to equally destructive conflagar-
ations, awaiting a spark from a loco
motive or a match from a careless
PERSONS hand.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24
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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24
THE NEW YORK WORLD
THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION
Read Wherever the English
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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-11-24
FARM NEWS and FARM LOBE
Misft Weather
GEO. b. DAILY

The year that is drawing to a close,
from the weather point Of view, has
teen decidedly a freekish one. We
had I April weather in March and
March weather in April. And for the
first three weeks of November, what
ever we may have from now till the
end, we enjoyed ideal October wealth
er, while we can recall with a shiver
the snowstorms and hard freezes Of
October. The plows for weeks could
go at daylight. no waiting for the
crust to soften. But on the whole the
capricious year has been throughout
the nation generally one long to be re-
membered as being,most beautiful.