Butts County GaArchives News.....Four Of A Kind September 10, 1896
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Jackson Argus – Week Of September 10, 1896 September 10, 1896
On Saturday afternoon we were strolling along in front of the Carmichael Co.’s
big store and our attention was attracted to four men sitting out on the
sidewalk.   Here are their names and they were sitting in the order as their
names come:

T. J. Lane, J. J. Barnes, Mr. Respess and Judge Harkness.    While we do not
know their ages yet we venture the assertion that they were sitting in order of
their age, Mr. Lane being the youngest, while Judge Harkness was the oldest.  
Now if we have done any one of these an injustice by making him younger than the
other or others, we are ready to make correction.

If it seldom that you see four old men (they have no objection to being called
old) sitting down with each other pleasantly chatting away the hours of their
riper years.   They have lived over two generations.

Many, younger than themselves have they seen come and go.   How we would like to
know all of their experiences in the roughs and ills and sweetness of a long and
well spent life.   What respect should gray hair command when worn in honor? 
Gray hairs which adorn the brow of the righteous are not the insignias of old
age but simply the crowning of ripe and perennial youth.




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