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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1910
Page
38
A scrapbook fragment from Adams Georgia Eagle features a humorous rustic sermon on comets, a wartime reminiscence, editor’s note about suffragettes, a rural song about weather, and a quip about trouble from a playful crowd. It blends local color with marginal editorial musings and a boggling parade of voices.
A rhythmic caution echoes about keeping balance and safety, warning readers to stay centered and avoid risky paths as the familiar consequences of the big stick are recalled. The verse invokes a persistent refrain urging steady course to sidestep harm or punishment.
Poetic fragment contrasts trouble and sunshine in a rural scene. References a watermelon patch and a door latch. Imagery emphasizes daybreak and daylight as thelight conundrum with cautionary folk wisdom. The speaker notes mixed fortunes and the paradox of easy access versus restraint.
A brief verse captures a man whistling as he walks, lifting spirits and prompting cheers. Neighbors hear the tune and shout hooray, embracing a hopeful mood as thunder breaks and the line ends with a call to keep whistling through troubles.
A woman recalls an old man’s sword hung in a cabin as a fatal symbol of three wars. In dark nights, footsteps, clanking, and red blade glow evoke ghosts of battles and dead heroes, chilling her and stirring memories of fate and haunting.
In a humorous reminiscence a Billville Editor admits keeping a heathen fund from a church collection by storing groceries, citing six sermons calling him the town’s biggest heathen. A choir member wrote a short verse urging brevity in church songs and prayers to spare sweltering congregants.
A village historian recalls a fable where a man sees Satan approaching and climbs a tree to escape. Satan torches the tree, it falls into a lake, the man cannot swim, and he pleads for rescue. Satan laughs, then saves him before walking off.
A tale of a jaybird who loved his voice and shrieked to outshine others. The villagers, thinking him mad, discover his voice is poor yet his feathers suit hot trimmings. They kill him and others like him, yet vain jaybirds still seek opera roles.
The Actors Fund Fair in New York drew heavy southern involvement with booths showcasing Georgia marble and Alabama banknotes and a large New Orleans display. Governor Albert W. Gilchrist of Florida visited, raising funds and attention as supporters praised southern participation and anticipated political impact for 1912.
Humorous yet grim scenes accompany Halley’s comet as southern readers react with superstition and mock alarms. In Wilkes County, white youths fire four large balloons over a Black community, causing alarm and a rush to church fields while similar stunts unfold in Atlanta. The piece notes the humor masks a prophetic warning about future intolerance as the tramp returns. The ad for K K K Flour closes the column.
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