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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26. I0C0.
MOSQUITOES ANl» MALARIA.
Iloro, you, Amos,—
Ornory cus,,—
You sinfr nml bllo
All duy and night,
With poison lurking
In nil your working.
'J'hnt’s bad enough,
Hut whnt’n this stud
'1’lmt dnotoru say
About Ma-
La-
lll.ii
Being mixod up
In your poison oup?
Wo think It's no,
For wo nil know
That you’ro so moan
That you'd bo koon
To toto It’’round
And givo a pound
With ovory bito
To somo luckless wight.
Ho, Mr. Quito,
Wo’d have you know
That
Wo’ll mash you Hat
If wo only unn.
You’ro undor ban,
For your muslo’s bad
Ah can bo had;
Your bits Is worse,
Hut wo’ro inoro avorso
To mnlnrln—that’s worst,
You thing acoursodl
—THIS UUSTMSIS.
The Interstate' Fair in Atlanta
closes Saturday. Oedartown has
given it a liberal patronage.
Thoughtful fanners will sow
wheat, and raise peas and hay
next yoar. Everyone will plant
too much cotton, and a big crop
will drivo down the price to 5 or
6 cents.
There would bo just as much
sense in claiming that the hens
have stopped laying for fear of
Bryan’s oloction, as to claim that
McKinley—and not the shortness
of the crop—is entitled to the
credit for cotton bringing a
higher price this fall.
The new constitutional amend
ment just adopted, providing for
an extension of pension grants to
widows of Confederate soldiers,
will add largely to Georgia’s an
nual expense account. 'Our tax
rate is now, and will continue to
hoi more largely dependent upon
the amounts appropriated for
peusions and school funds than
anything else.
Gen. Clement A. Evans says
that, he will refuse re-election as
Commander-in-Chief of United
Confederate Veterans of Georgia
at theMinnuul reunion next month
in Augusta,and there is consider-
. able speculation ns to who his
successor will be. Strong pres
sure has been brought, to bear
upon Governor Candler, who was
ono of the bravest of the brave
among the wenrers of the gray,
hut he says that his,official duties
would prevent his acceptance.
Tint Standard wduld respectfully
place ui nomination ono of Polk’s
most prominent citizens, Hon. J.
O. Waddell, a gallant, veteran
who would wear the honor
worthily.
Hon. John Sherman, the great
republican statesman, diod Mon
daymorning in Washington. As
Congressman and Senator from
Ohio and ns Secretary of the
Treasury in the Hayes Cabinet,
no man in the republican party
has had more to do with shaping
the policy of tlmt party or influ
encing national legislation than
Mr. Sherman. President Mc
Kinley at first selected him as
Secretary of State in his Cabinet,
but very soon maneuvered suc
cessfully to secure his resigna
tion; and this fact, together with
bis failure to reach the Presiden
tial glial, embittered bis last days
toward the party whose cradle
he helped to rock. Mr. Sherman
was a man of great natural -abil
ity, but was lacking in magnetism
and personal popularity. That
he was a great statesman, not
even his bitterest enemies could
deny.
HON. JOHNW. MADDOX
WILL HPKAK AT THE BIG DEMO
ORATIQ RALLY
Saturday Morning at the Court
Hounr—There will ho Other
Speeches.
Saturday, Oct. 27th, will be it
big Democratic day all oyer these
United StatoB,
President W. It. Hcnrst, of the
National Association of Demo
cratic Clubs, is urranging for big
Democratic rallies everywhere
on that date.
The Bryan and Stevenson Club
of Polk County will co-operate
in this great demonstration, and
President J. It. Barton is arrang
ing for a large gathering at. the
Court House in Codurtown at
10.80 o’clock Saturday morning.
Hon. John W. Maddox, the
popular and able Congressman
from this district,will be on hand
to discuss the issues of the pres
ent national campaign. He is a
clear and forcible speakor, and
what ho says will be of general
interest.
Judge Maddox bus a host, of
friends in Polk, and there will be
a largo crowd out to bear him
Saturday morning.
Other good speakers will also
be on hand, and every Democrat
in the county who, can do so
should certainly be present.
President Barton announces
the following excellent list of
Vice Presidents of the Bryan and
Stevenson Club fpr the various
districts of the county, and they
are urged to help bring out a
large representation at the mass
meeting Saturday and at the polls
November Gth
Oedartown—J. H. Sanders.
Rookmart—L. J. Spinks.
Young’s—A. E. Young.
Antiocli—0. W. Peek.
Esom llill—J. E. Pennington.
Hampton’s- 0. A. Wood.
Blooming Grove—W. H. Mansell.
Lake Creek—Willis Reynulds.
Vlsh—W. J. Lawson.
Buncombe—U. McGregor.
Browning’s—J. W. Kimball.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
The Georgia Legislature assem
bled at the Cupitol yesterday in
Atlanta, and was organized by
the oloction of Hon. Clnrk How
ell, of Fulton, President of the
Semite, and Hon. Johli D. Lit
tle, of Muscogee, Speaker of the
House.
• Our Senator, Hon. Win. E.
Spinks, of Dallas, is one of the
able members of that body, and
with bis commanding appear
ance and general equipment, for
legislation, will at once become
a leader in the Senate Chamber.
Polk’s clever Representative,
Hon. John B. Ayers, 1^ nicely
quartered in the city and well
seated in tile House,and his good,
common sense and conservatism
will’mark him as one of the safe
legislators of that. body. He lias
already attracted considerable
attention as the successor to ex-
Congressmun R. W. Everett, who
was Polk’s Representative in the
Inst General Assembly.
Every loyal Democrat, and
every personal friend of Hon.
John W. Maddox, regardless of
party, should be certain to come
out. oil November Oth and help
swell the size of his majority for
re-election to the sent in Congress
he so ably fills.
Speaking of methods of adver
tising, an exchange says with
truth that “the dodger,Bine times
out of ten, stops at the front
door, while the newspaper finds
its way to the dining room or
parlor and enters right into the
bosom of the family.”
Alabama has a population of
1,828,097 under the present cen
sus, which is an increase of 315,-
080, or 20.8 per cent, over the
enumeration of ’90. Her land
area is 51,540 square miles, or an
average of 35.4 persons to the
square mile.. She lias only three
cities with over 25,000 popula
tion, nine with over 5,000, and
thirty.two with over 2,000 peo
ple. Cleburne and Lawrence
counties are the only two out of
sixty-six in the state whose pop
ulation lias decreased in ten
years.
FRUIT CULTURE IN POLK.
Raising Peaches, Grapes anil Straw-
berries a Profitable Industry.
Polk oounty raises not only cotton,
wheat and oorn, bnt tho hills scattered
over her territory oould bo made to
blossom and fruit like tho now cele
brated frnit farms of Middlo and South
Georgia.
Already largo areas of North Georgia
aro doyoted to the famous Elborta
peach, and grapes and strawberries aro
receiving more attention than over in
our history. Along tho lino of tho O.
It. & S.road from Romo to Chattanooga,
thoro was a rogular "strawberry train"
last fall running daily daring tbo season.
The frnit industry along thiB road
alono approaohod tbo hundred thou-
sands of dollars.
What is true of othor near-by sco-
tions, Is equally truo of Polk county,
and another season should not pass
without thousands of frnit trees and
plants boing planted all ovor the hills
about Cedar Valley. Thoro nro thou
sands of aoros out in tho Lindsey coal
ing grounds, ont on tho hills west cf
Codartown, and sonth of tho oity 'to-
wards Young’s Station that would pay
bandsomoly in frnlts and borries, but
aro praotioally useless for otbor crops.
A fow gentlemen aro realizing tbo
valuo of this diversity of onr crops and
liavo started the movement.
Mr. D. J. Lowry, tho onorgotio mcr-
ohant, has found timo from his town
business to bogin tho oiilturo of fruit
and borries, and has pluntod on his up
land farm on tho Prior's Station road
west of tho oity a beautiful Elbertn or-
oliard. Ho has now 700 trocB two years
old, and thoy should bear noxt season.
Ho is going to plant between these
trees strawberry slips, and between tho
two orops bo will ooin monoy on bis
investment.
Mr. John T. Prior lias on bis up
land farm near Prior’s Station now
ovor 5,000 Elborta trees, many of whioh
will bear next season, and it is bis pur
pose now to plant 5,000 additional
trocs in his big Elborta orohard.
Mr. Abo VanDovandor has an or
ohard of 2,000 Elbortas on tho old
Dntoh Green farm near Bonediot's
that will bo throo yoars old noxt soason,
and he should markot a nioo quantity
of poaohes. Thoro aro a number of
smaller orohards in tho oounty—many
just starting—and The Standard hopes
to obroniolo a big InoroaBo from yoar
to year in this coming industry.
Thera is monoy in it, and big monoy I
Tho town of Tallapoosa sold Cedar-
town pooplo grapes this yoar by tbo
wagon load, wbon oar own farmers
should bo raising ovory kind of fruits
and vegetables for tbo oonsnmption of
onr rapidly inoreaBing population.
Baiso hero ovorything our laborors
oat! Onr largo army of wage-oarnors
will oonsumo everything of a fruit and
vegetable nature. Have our thought
ful farmors not soon tbo profit in a di
versity of orops, and will thoy mix it
noxt yenr with old King Cotton?
THE POLK COUNTY BAPTIST AS
SOCIATION.
Great is Oak Grove and greataro her
people 1 The Association renoheil the
high-water mark. We Imve had none
better. The attendance, enthusiasm
and work, made full the sense of
brotherhood and business. Thu hospi
tality was superb. For three days and
nights the people kept on feeding the
Association. At home and at church,
tile entertainment nod the victuals
were unsurpassed. There Inis been no
richer laden table than for three days
was set for all. Blessed Is the fellow
ship of saints.
The preaching was of a very high
order. It made one proud of his own
to hear it. No one ever saw better or
der at any Association. Tho young
people were ndmirable, and the older
ones felt happy. Every one heard and
Me nnd gavfi.
The work pf Sunday Schools and
Missions is increasing.
The Association numbers 1800 nnd
more. It began ten years ago with
nine oliurches, and now lias nineteen.
Four churches were ndded this year.
Twenty-live Baptist ohurolies are ill
Folk county. These should assimilate
nnd develop all the raw material.
The publio collection on Sunday was
$58, and was given to build n church
in Eastview. The State Board will
give $100 nnd the church shall be built.
Brethren, come over and help us.
We are looking for a still greater
Association next year at Shiloh.
Everyone who failed to go to Oak
Grove this year missed a grent chance
of fellowship and work. If you have
a (lag, brethren, you ought to Jsliow it
at the yearly gathering. Let every
one always bring a full purse nnd a full
dinner pail, and consecrate both to the
Lord and Ilis people.
We invite other denominations to
visit us to see how we do it and to learn
how.
Begin now to organize for the next
great Association at Shiloh.
C. K. U.
Col. W. J. Harris, private secretay to
Senator Clay, passed through from Ce-
dartown yesterday on his wuy to At
lanta. Mr. Harris is one of the most
popular young men in North Georgia,
and is well up in polities, local, state
and national. He is hopeful of Bryan’s
eleotion.—Cartesvillo News, 24th.
BI6 BARGAINS
\ nsr
FINE FURNITURE!
By buying my Furniture in Car=Load Lots for Spot
Cash, I secure every possible Discount, and will
COME TO ME FOR BIG BARGAINS IN
PARLOR and BED-ROOM SETS,
DiningRoom, Hall’KitchenFurniture,
STOVES!
Carpets, Rugs, Mattings,
BLANKETS, COVERLETS.
— - J. S. CULLINS.
Hon. John B. Ayors, member of
logislnturo from Polk oounty, passed
through yostorday on route to Atlanta
to tako up his duties ns legislator. Mr.
Ayers is a blaok-smith of good sonso,
anil the fact that he defeated Ex-Con
gressman B. \V. Evorott is ovidenoo
that ho must bo a man of ability. His
oaroor will bo watohod with much in
terest.—Oartorsvillo Nows, 24th.
M»IIFE
The father? T<
Gone for the r
doctor. The
mother? Alone
with her suffer
ing child.
Will the doc
tor neverA
come ?^
When there
‘ is Croup in
; the house
you can’t
get the doc
tor quick enough. It’s
too dangerous to wait.
Don’t make such a mis
take again; it may cost
a life. Always keep on
hand a dollar bottle of
It cures the croup at
once. Then when any
one in the family comes
down with a hard cold ►.
or cough a few doses of
the Pectoral will cut
short the attack at once.
A 25 cent bottle will cure
a miserable cold ; the 50c.
size is better for a cold
that has been hanging on.
Keep the dollar size on band.
“About 25 years ago I camo near
dying with consumption, but was
cured with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
since which time I have kept Ayer’s
medicines in the house and recom
mend them to all my friends.'*
C. D. Mathewson,
Jan. 10,1599. Bristol, Yt. ^
Write the Doctor. If you have any
complaint whatever and desire the
best medical advice, write the doctor
freely. Address
Dr. J. C. Ayek, Lowell, Mass.
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