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FOUR
'SICH.
\HOOKWORMS AND
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THE MUSIC OF THE FARM,
(The Jeffersonian)
There is perhaps nowhere such a
variety of music as one will find on
the farm. If the farmers’ boys and
girls had the proper appreciation of
it, would there be as many people
leaving the country as we read about
every day?
But back to the music on the farm.
The Sylvania Telephone puts it'like
; .this: .
“If you like music and pretty
pictures, you can have them at
; your will by getting up early on
the farm and listening to the songs
of the birds and all the signs and
sounds of nature’s resurrection.
You can* hear the chickens, the
cows and the hogs—the neighing
horses as tne farmer comes with
their feed. You can hear the
voices at the lot, as the boys or.
the hired hands draw water for
the stock and make ready for the
day. Then, as the first long gol
den lance of. light strikes down
across the silent fields, you can
see all the life and bustle of an
other opening day. And all of it
is sweet, and bringeth peace and
joy, as .we find out sometimes
when we have left it and pine for
it again.”
Everything in the above is all right,
but the Macon Telegraph hardly con
siders the hog a poetic figure. Maybe
not, but in the grand symphony it is
possible that the harshness of his voice •'
is necessary in-order to preserve the i
poetic unities. At any rate the hog j
is necessary on the farm and there j
is no use trying to suppress his music. ]
there were millions of “live” things.
; Then we just knew that he was an
■ unmitigated liar. Everybody was down
, on him. There wasn’t a man Tn our
whole community who did not say that
the thing was impossible. If there
were millions of wriggling, twisting,
writhing things in a drop of water,
we’d see ’em. Everybody knew that,
even in Thompson.
So, it came to pass that when Cald
well published a pamphlet to prove
that negroes have no souls, he went
into the fire once too often. They
turned him out of the church, and he
moved away.
Therefore,. as I was saying, about
this hookworm business, I don’t want
to have any row with the enthusias
tic believers in “this here” new theory;
but I want to be shown, you under
stand.
Breeds of cattle will “run out.” A
stock of hogs will “run out.” A breed
of dogs will “run out.” We are just
animals, you know; and it is likely
that where poor people, or rich peo
ple, confine themselves to the same
“settlement,” generation after genera
tion, never going twenty miles from
home, intermarrying among them
selves, and never crossing with other
blood, the breed “runs out.” The 2,-
000,000 poor whites referred to are
very ignorant and destitute. Often
they have malaria all the time. They
suffer from insufficient clothing. Their
food is scanty and without variety.
They take every kind of weather; they
work or idle about in wet clothes;
they have no knowledge of sanitation;
they don’t know how to live. The
frying-pan gives them sour belch, col
ic, “heartburn,
I’m not hunting for trouble with
the doctors. They are a mighty smart
set of men. Some of them are level-:
headed and some of them are cranks
—same as editors, lawyers, preachers
and Smithsonian Institute officials.
Part of the medical fraternity claim
that 2,000,000 “poor white trash” in
the South are no account, trifling, not
worth the powder and lead it would
take to kill ’em—because of the hook
worm. But here comes Dr. Bloom
field, of Athens, Ga., contending that
the sons of rich parents also have, in
their insides, the same kind of para
site.
So, you can see for yourself, how
I am bothered. I am like the old jus
tice of the peace: if both sides insist
upon offering testimony, and both
plaintiff and defendant want to be
heard through their lawyers, I get
confused. In emergencies of that kind
it is best to throw heads and tails,
It saves a
CO., ^Proprietors
.Associate Editor
OFFICIAL ORGAN
of &&&Dhed Sfa+es Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern Division, North-
ern District of ' Georgia.
Terms of Subscription:
Entered at the Dalton, Ga., Postofflce for
transmission through the mails as second-
class matter.
it whiskey ad-
nea of a quas-
and decide accordingly,
world of trouble.
Now as to this hookworm business
—what are we to do? They have al
ready loaded us up with so many mil
lions of germs, bacilli, gonococci, and
parasites—some on the outside of us,
and others doing their level best to
get inside 1 —that it’s a wonder that any
body ever lives to have grandchildren.
I remember the first time we
Thomson people ever were told that,
there were numberless living creatures
in every drop of water. He was a
vertlsements.'ij
tlonablc. natur<
hava no entry
Since our last issue Taft have came
and went from Georgia.
Maybe Bishop Candler will recom
mend colca-cola for the hookworm.
Elbert Hubbard says people who are
not up on a thing are usually down
on it.
Literature is said to be looking up.
The Rome Tribune-Herald thinks at
the aeroplanists.
A SENSIBLE GIRL.
Miss Katharine Wright, sister of
the famous brothers of that name,
has returned to her school in
Dayton, Ohio, after honors enough
in Europe to turn the head of
many a girl. She has been re
ceived with marked attention by >
tthe King of England, the King and
Queen of Spain and the Emperor
and Empress of Germany, the last
named pronouncing her “charm
ing.” Luncheons, dinners and
other regal entertainments were
given in her honor. Yet Miss
Wright has quietly gone back to'
her work, declaring that teaching
is her greatest pleasure in life.
Evidently the same good-stuff is in
her that has made her brothers
what they are. She furnishes a
pleasing and welcome contrast to
the rich American girl who buys
a worthless and dissipated noble
man in order to forward her
scheme of butting her way into
aristocratic European society.—
Macon Telegraph.
Indeed is Miss Wright a sensible;
oman, and also an exceptional one.
When humanity learns the impor-
and constipation. The
way they, cook victuals, generally,
would ruin the stomach of a mogul
engine.
. Science brings them no uplift. Pro
gress passes them by. If they farm,
they have mortgaged the crop before
it matures.
If they send their children to the
town school, they soon have to take
them away because of some financial
demand which they cannot meet If
they enter the children at the Sunday
school, the child is told that it must
bring a penny every Sunday. If it
fails to do so, it is given the cold
shoulder. The child reports to the
parents, and they stop it from going
to Sunday school.
If the parents go to church, they
feel-uncomfortable, because they are
not dressed so well as the others.
And to cap the climax, the tactless
minister may preach a sermon in
which he scores everybody who will
not contribute toward furnishing the
heathen with free medicines, free doc
tors, free surgeons, free boarding
schools, free school books, free tuition
and much else.
The misguided minister refuses to
learn that he is doing a cruel, unnat
ural thing—and soon the man. in the
shabby clothes,
Cobb county captured first prize at
the state fair. South Georgia papers
will please copy.
the Thomson depot Well, we were
accustomed to swallowing all that the
preachers said, and we swallowed the
story about the cat-squirrels.
Secondly, he claimed
The taxpayers of Dalton are not
getting a square deal, as a result of
bad government
there
were cows in Tennessee which gave
six gallons of milk a day. Now, at
that time (it was just after the war
in which we fatigued ourselves whip
ping the Yankees) our cows were of
the “old Brindle” sort. They had
“wolves” in their backs; their horns
.... if Epsom salts will cure the hook
worm, it must be that Rockefeller con
trols the market of the drug.
W E choose to sell you clothes of such supreme style and
splendid worth, such sure-enough satisfaction—to estab
lish such cordial, square deal relations one with another
—that no other place will seem your “home-store.”
We want you to buy and keep on buying here—for the value-
results you get.
That means guarding your interests in everything you buy—
standing back of the goods after you have bought.
Our clothes are the kind on which we can build that sort of
lasting friendship. They’re made by
Taft spoke of Ty Cobb as a distin
guished Georgian. What must he
think of the mighty Honus?
The Macon Telegraph wants to know
(where the hookworm was when it
took five Yankees to whip one South
erner?
Luther Burbank says that if we paid
4io more attention to our plants than
we do to our children we would now!
be living in a jungle of weeds.
So far as a popular ran is concerned
we believe the hookworm disease is
entirely too commonplace to ever rank
with appendicitis or pellagra.
You’ll find in the new styles of these famous clothes the advance
ideas of fashion—distinctive worth of fabric and tailoring that
tells in the afterwear. '
It’s easy to select the right garment when none are wrong.
The Manufacturers’ Record refers to
the Rockefeller hookworm contribution
as an instrument for “inoculating the
south with the hookworm of mendi
cancy.”
not able to furnish
foreign missionaries with big salaries,
elegant
luxurious house-boats,
homes (one for winter and the other
for summer), quits going to church.
did you say? Well,
The recent trade edition of the Car-
tersville News was the biggest and
best paper ever issued in Gartersville.
a nooKworm of far greater menace
than those just now engaging the at
tention of our people.
Joy comes from work and serving.
Selfishness, hoarding, and the thought
that makes for aloofness from the
world are the things that produce sor
row, disease and death.
Yes, Miss Wright is a sensible wo
man. She is a model, and her action
should be held up in the schoolrooms
of this country as a monument to her
sense, and as a means of eradicating
the foolish notion that work is only
for those who can’t live without it.
Now it is said Epsom salts will cure
the hookworm. If this is so how much
better calomel, blue mass and castor
oil will do the job will not here be set
down.
Hookworms,
maybe so; but I resent the imputation
that they are peculiar to us: and let
me tell you something:
With your neglect of our own hu
man “run-outs,” the debris of our
march onward, the flotsam and jetsam
troubled ocean, the
The treasury department has
reached the decision that dolls are
dolls and not toys, thereby lifting a
mighty load off the minds of Ameri
cans.
journalism. It is chuck full of adver
tising-and good reading matter.
9,11 and 15 Hamilton St.
Dalton, Georgia
of humanity’s
wreckage .with which the Tawless do
ings of the kings of high finance have
littered and encumbered the beach—
you are filling the souls of millions in
America-with the passions of hell.
With this everlasting yawp for peo
ple in foreign lands, who are not more
illiterate, irreligious or needy than
millions, of your white brothers and sis
ters, here at home, YOU ARE DOING
THE CAUSE OF CHRIST INCALCU
LABLE HARM!
Hookworms? “Man’s inhumanity to
man” is the most devilish Of.,all hook
worms.
The automobile edition of the At
lanta Constitution,
issued last Sun
day, so far as we have noticed, con
tained the greatest number ’ of pages
ever issued by a southern newspaper.
It consisted of 104 pages.
Bishop Candler says Rockefeller
“would purge our brains of ignorance
and our bowels of worms.” Let us
hope he will also purge the fat bishop
of some of his spleen and prejudice.
IMPURE WATER THE CAUSE.
STROKE OF PARALYSIS
CAME TO PEDESTRIAN
a short time. *
Other business of importance to the
association was transacted; and a
meeting will be held some time next
week to dispose of the business of the
year just passed.
Dalton has no waterworks to boast 30 >
of, and a supply to be ashamed of, and 111
a quality that unfiltered resembles the . we
sluggish waters of Mill creek. $6
The United States Marine Hospital Wi
surgeons, who have been studying pel- i®
lagra at Peoria, HU, have reached the TI
conclusion that the disease is not w
caused by bad Indian corn, but by tk
IMPURE WATER, and that corn and ca
other starchy foo<js merely aggravate
the symptoms. +-
How important it is to have a pure +
supply of water surely is known of +
all. We have had poor supply arid +
poor quality nearly all summer and
fall. The water, because of inadequate
filtering capacity, has been coming to
the consumers muddy and murky. The
supply is absolutely inadequate. The
business people have suffered greatly
on account of dust. They pay taxes
and licenses to do business, and yet
they receive from the waterworks
indifference and promises. The peo- i*
pie can correct this state of affairs s <
if they will. They can build water- ls
works to meet the demands of a grow- P 1
ing city like Dalton. They can get
away from entangling alliances, own
and operate their own plant, give
the consumers a square deal and pure
water, and make good friends of a
great many good people in this city
who are more or less all the time
criss-cross—mostly the latter.
“Sir Thomas Lipton seems to be
lieve that the Lot cup ought to be
filled with tea,” says the Savannah
Press. Well, coming as the sugges
tion does, from an old salt, we’re will
ing.
Old Man Fell to Ground in Front of
‘ Cannon’s.
Church There.
Quite a little flurry .of excitement
was caused here Monday afternoon
about four-thirty o’clock, when an old
man was seen to reel and fall in front
of the Cannon building.
A crowd quickly gathered, and after
the fallen man. had been examined .by
a physician it was seen that he had
suffered a light stroke of paralysis.
He was carried to the Stacy house
where he was worked oyer for some
time. He regained consciousness
when the police were searching in his
grip to find out something about him.
When he was able to talk he stated
that he was without iany near rela
tives and was on his way to Murphy,
N. C., to visit a friend. He gave his
name as Joe Farley and his home
as Idaho. He saidhis money had
given out and he stopped in Dalton
to break his long trip and to work
long enough to secure money for the
balance of his journey. The old man
is upwards of eighty years of age, ac
cording to his statement.
CITYCOURT TO MEET
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22
The scientific name for the hook
worm disease is “uncinariasis.” Looks
like it might become very popular
among uppertendom, but as we cannot
pronounce it we don’t know how it
sounds.
Federal Court Business Causes Change
of -Date.
lady said after we had sold her a nice
bill, that she would rather trade in
Dalton than Chattanooga. We sell her
often and we like such appreciative
customers.
The November term of city court,
the last that will be held by the court
as it will be a thing of the past with
the opening of 1910, will convene at
the court house Monday, November
22, instead of the third Monday of the
-month as is customary.
Judge Glenn makes this announce
ment so the people interested aanj
make their arrangements accordingly.
The rtaccn foi this change of dates
is because Judge .Glenn and a num
ber of the attorneys will be busy in
federal court at Rome during the third
week of November. 1
The November term will contain _
f ew cases of any great interest, and 1 curred last Friday,
will be devoted mainly to clearing thej Saturday Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Craig
dockets as far as possible to make' and children went to Ridgedale to at-
ready for the death of the court on tend the funeral which was conducted
January 1, 1910. * there Saturday afternoon.
EDITORIAL POTPOURI. < +
If organized baseball knows when
it’s well off, Uncle Joe Cannon will, in
some way, be prevented from buying
that franchise in the Central league;
or he’ll soon have baseball where he
has congress.
Wrong.
Tom Watson thinks the authori
ty of Federal judges should be
curbed. But he has^attacked the
.State of "Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J.- Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and . every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1886.
(Seal.) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
'Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti
pation.
OF MRS. R. C. CRAIG
They are now talking about calling
the 1884-5 legislature back in extra-'
ordinary session. Gentlemen, go slow.
The-people might start a riot if more
than one legislative session should be
held in one year.
The reformers had bad luck all over
the country last week. Philadelphia,
Cincinnati and San Francisco sat down
.on them hard. The trouble with' latter
day Teformers is that they get worse
than what they are trying to reform.
BOARD OF- DIRECTORS OF
FAIR ASSOCIATION
LITTLE ;CHILD FALLS;
BREAKS COLLAR BONE
Forced Into Exile.
Wm. Upchurch, of Glen Oak, Okla.,
was an exile from home. -Mountain
air, he thought, would cure a frightful
lungracking cough that had defied all
remedies for two years. After six
months he returned, death dogging hfg
steps. “Then I began to use Dr.
King’s New Discovery,” he writes,
“and after taking six bottles I am as
well as ever.” It saves thousands
yearly from desperate lung diseases.
Infallible for Coughs and Colds, it. dis
pels Hoarseness and Sore Throats.
Cures Grip, Bronchitis, Hemorrhages,
Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough. 60c
and $1.00; trial bottle free; guaranteed
by Fincher & Nichols.
Held Interesting Meeting Last Satur
day Morning.
The national conference on pellagra
^ gathered at Columbia, S. C., last week,
.decided that corn whiskey causes pel
lagra; but it is extremely doubtful if
’ this will cause any noticeable decline
. in the consumption of this dainty
dish.
Taft “fell in love with Macon.” Won
der if Mrs. Taft will be jealous?
Annie Laurie McCutchen Was Pain
fully Hurt.
The executive committee of the
County Fair Association held an in
teresting meeting at the Dalton Buggy
Company last Saturday morning at
ten o’clock, the meeting being called
by President Puryear.
The object of the meeting was to
see about fixing the race track. A
committee was appointed to investi
gate the amount of work to be done,
to interest the automobilists of the
city in the movement and make a
report at a meeting to be held within
Mr. Hearst says he doesn’t want to
be mayor of New York. The majority
of New Yorkers are the same way.
Annie Laurie, the bright little'daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. McCutchen,
fell from a bed and broke her collar
bone last Monday evening just after
dark.
A physician was summoned, and,
after the bone was set, the little girl
got relief from the pain. At present
she is getting-on nicely, and will be
out with her young friends again with
in a short time.
The Macon Telegraph’s four-column
cut of President Taft in the Thurs
day issue led one . to- believe that
the picture from which it was made
had been taken in the dark and the
photographer had forgotten to touch
of the flashlight powder.
The negro is accused of bringing
the hookworm from Africa. Thus again
is the rule of retributive justice dem
onstrated. It is, of course, a punish
ment to fit the crime of slavery, as the
hookworm is said to do no harm to
the negro.
Mr. H. E. Nichol received the 42-
piece dinner set given away by Eaton
& Coffey Co., last Saturday night.
FOR RENT—9-room house on North
Depot street. Apply to C. D. Mc
Cutchen. 2t