Program: Georgia day, February twelfth, 1908 [1908]

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O, He needed not stars, nor ribbons, nor a peerage to give him distinction; he had a nobility superior to them all. His name had already been given in charge of the epic poet and historic muse; and the untitled name of Oglethorpe will be the familiar household word of future generations, when the gilded aristocracy which then glittered in the beams of royalty shall be forgotten.
' For it is freedom's now and fame's -- One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die." C He purchased a title to glory by deeds of heroic benovolence.-- Stephen's History of Georgia.
W. B. MERRITT, State School Commissioner.

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STATE OP GEORGIA,
DEPARTMENT OE EDUCATION.
ATLANTA, GA., October i, 1907.
To my Fellozv-Teachers in the State of Georgia:
A most important feature of school work is the observance of special days which commemorate events that should be impressed upon the children and all our people. Many States now celebrate one day as their State Day. February twelfth, being the anniversary of the settlement of Georgia by Oglethorpe, is a fitting day for our State Day, and will be so observed.
For several years the Joseph Habersham Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution has given special encouragement to the celebration of this anniversary.
Georgia history, institutions, and resources should be duly considered in our course of study. A proper appreciation of our State will thus be inculcated, and special exercises, on a set day, commemorating the history and development of Georgia, to which friends and patrons should be invited, will aid in implanting a love of country which is essential to true citizenship.
The selections in this program are merely suggestive. Each teacher can make an individual program, if desired, and to aid in such work a list of books containing suitable material is included.
As Georgians we have reason to be proud of our great men, soldiers, statesmen, men of affairs, and orators. As Georgians we have reason to be proud of the physical resources and industrial development of the State. These two lines of thought --the biography of our great men, and the possibilities of industrial and commercial development--form the basis of this program.
Trusting that a special study of our State, her natural ad-

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vantages and her great citizens, will inspire the youth of Georgia to take an active and noble part in the industrial life and citizenship of the Empire State of the South, I am,
Very truly yours, W. B. MERRITT,
State School Commissioner.

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PROGRAM
1. Song. 2. Scripture Reading. 3. Patriotic Quotations. 4. Recitations. 5- Song. 6. Declamations. 7. Song. 8. Essays. 9. Song. 10. Address by Invited Speaker. 11. Miscellaneous Questions on Georgia. 12. Song.
ORIGIN OF THE OBSERVANCE OF GEORGIA DAY
By MISS NINA C. HORNADY
At a meeting of the Joseph Habersham Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, held January 5, 1901, at the Executive Mansion, Miss Hornady offered a resolution that February 12th be celebrated as the anniversary of the founding of Georgia. Miss Homady was appointed by the Regent, Mrs. William Lawson Peel, to act as Chairman of a State Committee whose duty it should be to see that the day was fittingly observed.
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general observance of the day, especially throughout the schools.
On February 2, 1901, at the regular meeting of the Chapter, the following resolutions, prepared by Mrs. Peel, were adopted, and ordered published in the daily papers:
"WHEREAS, at our meeting January 5, it was resolved upon a motion of Miss Hornady, to use our very best efforts to secure the recognition of February 12, the anniversary of the landing of Oglethorpe, as Georgia Day by all concerned in its glories, both past and present, and in its future welfare, and
"WHEREAS,, our efforts among teachers and schools have been crowned with abundant success, School Commissioner Glenn, at our request, having called attention to this subject in a circular letter, Mercer and other colleges having agreed to observe the day, and many demands coming to us from all over the State for Georgia flags and Oglethorpe's pictures, be it
"Resolved, That we hereby request all Georgians to assist us in impressing these great facts upon the minds of the youth of this State, viz.:
"1. The first steamer that ever crossed the Atlantic was the Savannah, which sailed from Savannah, Georgia.
"2. The first Sunday-school in the world was organized in Savannah fifty years before Robert Raikes' great movement in London.
"3. The first hymn-book in the world was written in Savannah and printed in Charleston.
"4. The first female college in the world was the Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga.
"5. The first cotton gin in the world was made by Eli Whitney at Augusta, Ga., at the suggestion of Mrs. Hillhouse, and the brush was invented and added by Mrs. Nathaniel Greene.
"6. The first orphan asylum was Bethesda Orphanage, nine miles from Savannah, Ga.

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"7. The first ship captured during the Revolutionary war was a British sloop at Savannah; captured by Joseph Habersham and Commodore Bowen. Be it
"Resolved, further, That the press of the State be urged to take up this subject for us in every way and impress it upon our people lest we forget our great history; and that all ministers throughout Georgia, inasmuch as the colony of Georgia was a benevolent and philanthropic enterprise, which, by the grace of God, has been permitted to lead the thoughts of the world in so much that was for His honor and glory, and for the advancement of the human race, are hereby requested to give such direction in their discourse on Sunday, February 10, along these lines, as they may feel the subject merits."
In 1902 a committee composed of the Chairman, Miss Hornady, and Mrs. Allen D. Candler, Mrs. Joseph M. Terrell, Mrs. Luther Stephens, Mrs. Henry Collier, Mrs. J. Edgar Hunnicutt and Miss Jennie Mobley worked faithfully to secure a more general observance of the day than in 1901.
Mrs. Mary Brown Connally had, on February 12, 1901, presented to each city school in Atlanta an engraved portrait of her father, our War Governor, Joseph E. Brown. In 1902 Mrs. Hoke Smith honored the day by presenting a similar gift, the picture of her distinguished father, Gen. T. R. R. Cobb, a martyr to the Southern cause.
The day was beautifully and appropriately observed in all the schools, but noticeably at the Boys' High School.
At the Capitol beautiful and impressive exercises were held. Mrs. Burwell Pope had the hall of the House of Representatives lavishly decorated with the Georgia flags. At this meeting the legal adviser of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Hon. Edmund W. Martin, presided, introducing to the distinguished audience, which numbered representatives from all patriotic societies, first, Bishop Candler, and afterwards Dr. Landrum, chaplain of the Joseph Habersham Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. Their addresses were beyond praise.

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The benediction was impressively pronounced by Rev. Father Gunn.
The day is now an established one. It remains for the future to decide whether is shall carry out the purpose for which it was inaugurated: to awaken in every Georgian a deeper love for his native State, a greater desire to become acquainted with her glorious history, and a steady purpose to emulate the unselfish patriotism of her heroes, and to carry out in every detail of life her motto: "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."
--Program for Georgia Day.

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I would I had the power of presenting with the brevity which becomes an occasion like this a worthy ideal of Georgia, the land of my love! But not as she lies upon the map, stretching from the mountains to the ocean, dear as she must be to her sons in all her variegated features; in her mountains and her valleys, in her rivers and her cataracts, in her bare red hills and her broad fields of rustling corn and of cotton snowy white; in her vast primeval forests that roll back in softer cadence the majestic music of the melancholy sea, and last, but least, in our own beautiful but modest Savannah, smiling sweetly through her veil of perennial and yet of diversified green. It is not the Georgia of the map I would invoke before you to-night. I would conjure up if I could the Georgia of the soul--majestic ideal of a sovereign State, at once the mother and the queen of a gallant people--Georgia as she first pressed her foot upon these western shores and beckoned hitherward from the elder world the poor but the virtuous, the oppressed but the upright, the unfortunate but the honorable; adopting for herself a sentiment far nobler than all the armorial bearings of "starred and spangled courts where low-born baseness wafts

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perfume to pride;" taking for her escutcheon the sentiment: Poverty and virtue! Toil and be honest!
When the winter of our discontent was resting heavily, gloomily upon us; at the holiest hour of the mysterious midnight, a vision of surpassing lovliness rose before me: Georgia, my native State, with manacled limbs and disheveled locks and tears streaming from weary eyes, bent over a mangled form which she clasped', though with convulsed and fettered arms, to her bosom. And as I gazed the features of the bloodstained soldier rapidly changed. First, I saw Bartow and then I saw Gallie and then I saw Cobb, and there was Walker and Willis and Lamar; more rapid than light itself successively flashed out the wan but intrepid features of her countless scores of dying heroes, and she pressed them close to her bosom and closer still and yet more close until, behold! she had pressed them all right into her heart! And quickly, as it were, in the twinkling of an eye, the fetters had fallen from her beautiful limbs and the tears were dried upon her lovely cheeks and the wonted fires had returned to her flashing eyes and she was all of Georgia again; an equal among equals in a union of Confederate sovereignties. Yes! the Georgia of Oglethorpe. the Georgia of 1776, the Georgia of i860, is the Georgia of to-day; is Georgia now, with her own peculiar memories and her own peculiar hopes, her own historic and heroic names and her own loyal sons, and devoted daughters; rich in resources intrepid in soul, defiant of wrong as ever she was. God save her! God save our liege sovereign, God bless Georgia, our beloved queen! God save our only queen!"--General Henry R. Jackson, in Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.

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Upon our great State's seal is tound The Georgia coat-of-arms;
And we will build it here to-day And show you all its charms.
A firm foundation must we have For Georgia's pillars three;
A tiny platform resting here That all its form may see.
Here on the left this pillar stands, And bears upon its column
A curving banner with the won Wisdom--injunction solemn.
And on the right, of equal heigh Another column stands;
\nother curving banner, too, Moderation, it commands.
A central pillar lifts just here Its lovely fluted height,
And Justice crossing o'er its front, The other two unite.

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Above these pillars this cross-piece Is laid to hold secure
The pillars three and rightly bear This arch of style so pure.
And see upon that arch's span The one word, Constitution!
Supported by the pillars three, It will not see pollution.
And that it well may guarded be, A soldier stands just here
To represent our martial skill-- He must not feel a fear.
And now our coat-of-arms complete, Must mean to us so much,
That sure its threefold mandate, The hearts of all must touch.

O, let us ever, ever strive In quiet moderation,
Justice and wisdom at our side, To serve our State and nation. --Program for Georgia Day.

THE CHILDREN'S SONG
By RUDYARD KIPLING
Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be, When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race.
Father in Heaven who lovest all, Oh help Thy children when they call; That they may build from age to age, An unclefiled heritage!

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Teach us to bear the yoke in youth. With steadfastness and careful truth; That in our time. Thy Grace may give The truth whereby the Nations live.

Teach us to rule.ourselves alway, Controlled and cleanly night and day: That we may bring, if need arise, Xo maimed-or worthless sacrifice.
Teach us to look in all our ends, On Thee for judge, and not our friends; That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed By fear or labour of the crowd.
Teach us the Strength that cannot seek. By deed or thought, to hurt the weak ; That, under Thee, we may possess Man's strength to comfort man's distress.
Teach us Delight in simple things, And Mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men 'neath the sun!
Land of our Birth, our Faith, our Pride, For whose dear sake our fathers died; O Motherland, we pledge to thee, Head, heart, and hand through the years to be!

SONG OF THE GEORGIAN
Nor Cavalier nor Puritan Singly within his rich veins ran;
But the Moravian's innocence, The high Salzburgher's fortitude (Strong to endure his fortunes rude)
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The spirit which from Wesley sprung (Religion's ancient miracle
Which like to Love, is ever young), The stamp of Whitfield's oracles.
The Highlander's undaunted heart Alight with proudly glowing fires-- These were the Georgian's mighty sires!
These still to him their force impart.

Tempted of poverty, their hands Wrenched from no hapless Chief his lands--
That session of the soil obtained, By honorable treaty won. Left no distressful tribe undone,
No blood its wholesome annals stained. And when the red'ning mist of death
On Tomochichi's weary eyes Fell thickly, he, with quiet breath,
Besought the grave his soul would prize-- "Bury me," said the dying king,
Among my white friends where the waves, Savannah's feet forever laves, The last kind boon your love can bring." What nobler monument shall tell How Georgia's oaths inviolate dwell? What great seal of well-earned praise Shall lie on Oglethorpe, whose dreams Begot reality which gleams A star on which a god might gaze! Oh, hero and philanthropist, Unspotted in a spotted world, What selfless thoughts thy hopes unfurled! Thy life with thine ideals kept tryst. And we whose cheeks must flush with pride Whene'er past days our minds divide From present cares, do we guard well

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Our glorious inheritance ? Do our own ideals advance, Do faith and purity compel The death of all iniquity ? Oh, Justice, Moderation , make Your trinity with Wisdom--break The grasp of greed unfalteringly. Keep our young manhood brave and pure; Gay-hearted, on its lips a song-- ' But ready to redeem each wrong By virtue conquering evermore.
So shall the title "Georgian" be Of life's best worth true guarantee;
And they, the peerless Dead, may turn Untroubled on us their deep eyes, And see our noble cities rise
Cleansed of all foulness. May we burn With generous ardor to exceed
The golden acts of history, Since our fair State is blessed indeed
By beauty's sweet supremacy. May this ambition through us flame--
That of our men the world shall say. "Trust ye the stranger here to-day. Because he bears a Georgian name. " -Clinton Dangerfield, in Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.
HENRY W. GRADY
True hearted friend of all true friendliness. Brother of all true brotherhoods!--Thy hand And its late pressure now we understand Most fully, as it falls thus gestureless, And silence lulls thee into sweet excess

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Of sleep. Sleep thou content!--Thy loved southland Is swept with tears, as rain in sunshine; and Through all the frozen North our eyes confess Like sorrow--seeing still the princely sign Set on thy lifted brow, and the rapt light Of the dark, melancholy eyes-- Thrilled with the music of those lips o>f thine, And yet the fire thereof that lights the night With the white splendor of thy prophecies.
--James Whitcombe Riley.

THE RED OLD HILLS OF GEORGIA
HENRY R. JACKSON
'The red old hills of Georgia So bold and bare and bleak.
Their memory fills my spirit With thoughts I cannot speak.
They have no robe of verdue, Stript naked to the blast;
And yet of all the varied earth I love them best at last.
The red old hills of Georgia! My heart is on them now;
Where fed from golden streamlets, Oconee's waters flow!
I love them with devotion. Though washed so bleak and bare;
How can my spirit e'er forget The wamn hearts dwelling there?

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I love them for the living-- The generous, kind, and gay ;
And for the dead who slumber Within their breast of clay.
T love them for the bounty Which cheers the social hearth ;
I love them for their rosy girls, The fairest on the earth.

The red old hills of Georgia! Where, where upon the face
Of earth is freedom's spirit More bright in any race ?--
In Switzerland and Scotland Each patriot breast it fills
But sure it blazes brighter yet Among our Georgia hills!

And where, upon their surface. Is heart to feeling dead ?--
And when has needy stranger Gone from those hills unfe ; ?
There bravery and kindness Fore aye go hand in hand.
Upon your washed and naked hills, "My own. my native land!"

The red old hills of Georgia! I never can forget;
Amid life's joys and sorrows. My heart is on them yet;--
And when my course is ended. When life her web has wove.
Oh! may 1 then, beneath those lill Lie close to them I love!

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AMERICA
Dr. Van Dyke's Additional Verses to the National Hymn
In a recent number of "The Interior," Prof. Henry van Dyke, '73, has an article giving the stanzas modified so to be more clearly national, that he proposed last spring as additions to the national hymn, America.
"Our American hymn,"' Dr. van Dyke says, "by Rev. Samuel F. Smith, formal and old-fashioned as it is in its cadence and imagery, is right in its outburst of national affection:--
" T love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills. Like that above.'
"Who that has ever lived in New England can fail to remember and feel the charm of that landscape, with it gentle wildness, its cool, friendly woodlands, its bright little rivers, its white churches crowning the hilltops?
"But we need also other stanzas to express the inexhaustible riches of the sublime and beautiful, the broad and varied natural enchantments of all America. Let us sing the familiar and well-loved verses which comes from the East; but let us sing also'of the North and the West and the South, the Great Lakes, the wide forests, the vast prairies, and the blooming savannahs:--
"I love thine inland seas, Thy groves and giant trees. Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons deep. Thy mountains wild and steep, All thy domains:

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"Thy silver Eastern strands, Thy Golden Gate that stands Fronting the West; Thy flowery Southland fair, Thy sweet and crystal air,-- O land beyond compare, Thee I love best! "

FLAG OF GEORGIA
O, flag of Georgia, bright and fair! To-day thy praises fill the air! Whene'er that flag its colors shows 'Neath southern suns or northern snows, The blood within us quicker flows!
Behold the red, the white, the blue! Each has a meaning clear and true. The red is Valor, never cowed; The blue is justice, level-browed: The white to Purity is vowed.
--Program for Georgia Day.

THE HOME-COMING SONG
By MARTHA LOCKETT AVARY
We're coming back to the old red hills. We're coming, coming home!
The valleys green and the silver rills Thev're calling us to come!

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The sea upon the low coasl plays, A-rippling, "come again!"
The gray moss from the live oak sways To echo the refrain.

From Nlckajack to Tyl.ce Light, St. Simon Sound to Rome,
From lowly dell to Lookout heights, 'flu-steam cars whistle: "Home!"

o. Empire State, O, Mother State, We're coming, coming home,
No land for us so dear, so great. We're coming, coming home!

From where the Mississippi flows, And from the Rio Grande,
From Great Lakes and Alaska snows, We come at thy command !

We're coming from the frozen North. We're coming, coming home!
We're coming back to our sunny South. We're coming, coming home!

From California's golden sands, We're coming, coming home!
From Florida's fair coral strands, We're coming, coming home!
From arctic ice, from tropic fire, We're coming, coming home!
To the dear land of our heart's desire. We're coming, coming home!
The cowboy comes, the sailor comes. We're coming, coming home!
The soldier comes with a beating drum. We're all a-coming home!

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Finance's, labor's captains come, And scholars with degrees,
And great men from the East and West, And men from over seas.

And wide-flung is the Mother's door, We're coming, coming home!
With welcome for us, rich or poor, We're coming, coming home!

And from her chimneys 'gainst the blue Of heaven the gray smoke curls.
Arising from the heartstone true, The flag of home unfurls.

The mocking-bird, how sweet he sings: "Come home, come home, come home!"
Bob White's call in the forest rings A-bidding us come home!

The mild winds in the Georgia pines They gently murmur "Come!"
The scuppernongs and rhuscadines Hang on the vines at home.

Our children's children, come along! With us, come home, come home!
A-singing glad the homing-song. We're coming, coming home!
The " 'possum and potatoes" cooked, We're coming, coming home!
The mountain trout for us is hooked, We're coming, coming home!
Chicken, shote and turkey, too, Enough for large and least;
Corn pones and cakes for me and you; The Mother's spread a feast!

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Some biggest watermelons wait, Of fruit she's kept a store,
She's garlanded the Southland's gate To welcome us once more!
O land of cotton, hay and corn, The peach, the grape, the pear,
The jasmine and the rose adorn Our Mother for her Fair!
O land of rivers broad and strong, We're coming, coming home!
O land of love and the poet's song. We're coming, coming home!

The rushing Chattahoochee cries: "O Georgians, come ye home!"
Ocmulgee sobs, Oconee sighs: "Children, 'tis time to come!"

The beaut}- of Toccoa calls : \\ e're coming, coming home !
The grandeur of Tallulah falls, All's calling us to come!

Old Yonah storms : "We wait for you!" Nacoochee breathes, "We wait!"
And fair and goodly, grand and true. Stands mother at the gate.

Where flowers bloom and wild birds sing, We're coming, coming home!
Like homing birds we're on the wing. We're coming, coming home!

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LIFE'S MIRROR
There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true;
Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your life will flow, And strength in your utmost needs;
Have faith and a score of hearts will show Their faith in your work and deeds.
Give truth, and your gifts will he paid in kind, And a song, a song will meet;
And the smile which is sweet will surely find A smile that is just as sweet.
Give pity and sorrow to those who mourn, You will gather in flowers again,
The scattered seeds from your thought outborne, Though the sowing seemed in vain.
GEORGIA
(One hundred and seventy-six years ago.)
Here shall we rest, Upon the welcome breast Of our new mother; Here each is brother To every other; Here is no tyrant king, ' No sting Of keen oppression ; here

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We worship without fear, And work without the dread Of sore injustice; unafraid We hold our own Opinions sacred, each alone Amendable to conscience pure; Here, all secure In freedom, we shall give Our hearts to brighter hopes, and live And love, serene, On these savannahs green.

Gainesville, Ga.

-D. G. Bickers.

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(Today.)
Through the long struggle of the years, Through patriots' blood and laborers' sweat and human tears,
Of all the ones who love her, Through fight with loneliness, and wild, Fierce, stern adversities, this sturdy, earnest child
Had e'er God's smile above her.
Through strife with others of her kind, Stripped, sore, and haggard, but unconquered, clear of mind
And stout of heart and steady In purposes and hopes, she grew-- More valiant virtues of the old are in the new--
For larger things now ready.
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First for the truth and beauty,

First in her manhood, clean and strong,

First in her loyalty to right against the wrong

First in her love for duty.

D. G. Bickers.

Gainesville, Ga.

THE GOOD OLD GEORGIA LAND

You may tell me of the countries Where the vine and olive grow,
Of the blue of distant mountains, Of the myrtles at the door,
Of the music of the fountains, Of the songs of nightingales,
Of the crystal lakes that ripple 'Neath the shade of purple sails.
You may tell me of the beauties, Of the world, and seek to roam,
You may rove at fancy's calling, But I love the scenes at home,
Where the porch is tangled over, With the morning glory vines ;
And the grass is set in blossom 'Neath the =V>ad<^w of the pines.
If the nightingale is siugmg-- If the song would bid you roam,
There is yet a sweeter singer-- In the mocking bird at home.
In the land of blooming roses, In the dear old Georgia land,
Where the Spring and Summer linger Through the winter hand in hand.

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There can be no fairer region Than the land the suns have blest,
There can be no better country, Than the one I love the best.
From the snowy crests of Rabun, Where Tallulah's waters win
Mimic rainbows from the tempest, To the flowered fields of Glynn;
From Decatur's broad savannahs, As the Christmas roses fade,
Modest violets are springing On the snowy hills of Dade.

There can be no fairer region Than the land the suns have blessed;

There can be no better country,

Than the one I love the best.

You may seek your lands of pleasure-- You may seek your palace grand--

But I'd rather have a cabin

In my dear old Georgia land.

Leesburg, Ga.

--C. H. Beesley.

CUMBERLAND
By MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM

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O Cumberland, sweet Cumberland, Thou placid land of summer calms,
Love-dream of summery slumberland, Where chant the waves their softest psalms;

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In thy sun-burnished panoply The gentlest wind around'thee sweep,
Beneath heaven's azure canopy, The silvery circlet of the deep.

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The long low stretch of mottled sands, The spectral dunes that guard the beach,
The hungering billows--boisterous bands Of bold marauders--upward reach
To break thy barriers, and to claim Thee for their captive queen once more;
And each hath carved his barbarous name In hieroglyphics on the shore.
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Among the woodlands, twilight dim, The shrouded ghosts of history glide,
Breathing some legendary hymn Through grey salt marshes spreading wide,
Where sombre mantled cedars brood, And listlessly repeat again
To whispering reeds, in tones subdued, The wild hexameters of the main.

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And Dungeness, grim Dungeness-- Gray memory of a golden dream--
Where medieval loveliness, With modern luxury is the theme;
Plantation days are vanished, but Among you brambly sedges gleam
The walls of many a crumbly hut, Reminders of the old regime.

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A lowly mound where sleeps some slave In hearing of the restful sea;
Hard by the stone that marks the grave Of gallant Lighthorse Harry Lee!
The bondsman's chain is broken now, His labor and his longings o'er;
Around the chieftain's laureled brow The storm of battle bursts no more.

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In contemplative attitude The moss-draped oaks stand silent there-
Veiled sisters of the cloistered wood, With reverent heads low-bowed in prayer;
And many a soft "Our Father" sighs, And low "Hail Mary," sad and sweet,
As some faint wailing zephyr, dies Among the violets at their feet.

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Progress Notes
In 1880 Georgia's total population was 1,542,180. In 1900 it was 2,229,660.
In 1880 property of all kinds returned for taxation was valued at $251,424,651. In 1907 the total valuation was $576,031,905.
In 1880 the value of farming land in Georgia was $90,493,822. City real estate, $49,007,286. In 1906 the value of land was $159,455,040. City realty, $154,775,636.
In 1880 the school population of Georgia was 433,444. In 1903 (last census) it was 703,133.
In 1880 the enrollment in the public schools was 238,533. In 1906 the enrollment was 516,268.
In 1880 Georgia appropriated for her common schools $150,789. The appropriation for 1908 is $2,000,000.
In 1880 there were very few if any commercial fruit trees grown in Georgia. Now there are more than 16,000,000 peach trees, about 12,000,000 of which are bearing. The estimated value of the average peach crop is $4,000,000.
In 1904 Georgia produced 1,992,757 bales of cotton, 40,000,000 bushels of corn, 6,000,000 bushels of wheat, 8,000,000 bushels of oats and 6,000,000 bushels of sweet potatoes.
The agricultural and horticultural products of Georgia combined in 1905 approximated in value $160,000,000.
Georgia's mineral output approximates $6,000,000 annually.

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Subjects for Essays

Who is Greatest Among the Sons of Georgia, and Why I Think So.
The most important event connected with the life of : Joseph E. Brown, Howell Cobb, Thomas R. R. Cobb, William H. Crawford, John Forsyth, John B. Gordon, Benjamin H. Hill, L. Q. C. Lamar, A. H. Stephens, Robert Toombs, George M. Troup, William L. Yancey.
Short sketches of the life and works of the following Georgia authors: Charles H. Smith, Henry W. Grady, Sidney Lanier, H. R. Jackson, Richard M. Johnson, Augustus B. Longstreet and others.
Mineral Springs of Georgia. Artesian Wells of Georgia. The Water Power of our State. Our Manufacturing Interests. The Agricultural Interests of the Agricultural State. Our Timber Supply and its Value. Railroads in Georgia. Good Roads. Mail Facilities of the State. Our Banks. Education in Georgia--Elementary, High School, College. Political Divisions and Population of Georgia. Georgia as a Whole. The History of My County. The History of My Town. Principal Cities and Towns of Georgia. Tallulah Falls.

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Reference Books for Georgia Day

Advantages of Georgia (Issued by the Department of Agriculture).
Georgia, the Empire State of the South (Issued by the Agricultural Department.)

Evans' History of Georgia.

Smith's History of Georgia. Reminiscences of Famous (Franklin-Turner Co.)

Georgians,

Lucian

Knight

Southern Literature, (B. F. Johnson Co.)

Program for Georgia Day, (Lester Book Co.)

Stories of Georgia, Harris.

History Stories of Georgia, Chappell.

Stories of Georgia, Massey and Wood. The South in History and Literature, Mildred Rutherford, (Franklin-Turner Co.) Frye's Higher Geography--Georgia Supplement.

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