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CEDARTOWN STANDARD.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF CEDARTOWN AND POLK COUNTY.
VOLUME 14.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY IT, 1901.
NUMBER
NATIONAL CELEBRITIES
Declare Peruna to Be The Greatest Ca
tarrh Remedy of The Age.
ANOTHER lNTKIlfQSTING LETTER
Wm. Bradford Writes of l|ls
Stay in Now Orleans.
KATARRJ1
COLDS
COUGHS!
SORE-
GRIPPE
CROUP
HOARSE
NESS
Hon. M. C. Butler, ex-
Governor of South Caro
lina, In a letter from Washing
ton, D. C., says: "I can recom
mend Peruna tor dyspepsia and
stomach trouble. I have been
using your medicine for a short
period end I tee! very much re
lieved. It Is Indeed a wonderful
medicine, and besides, a great
tonic.”
U. S. Senator Stephen R.
Mallory, Pensacola, Fla., says:
••I have used your excellent rem
edy, Peruna, and can recommend
It both as a tonic and a safe ca
tarrh remedy.”
Hon. William Young
blood, Auditor for the Interior,
writes from Washington, D.C., to
Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O., as
follows: <‘Pve often heard of your
great medicine and have persuad
ed my wife, who has been much
of a sufferer from catarrh, to try
Peruna, and after using one bottle
she has wonderfully Improved. It
has proved all you have claimed
for It.”
Hon. Rufus B. Merchant,
Superintendent and Dis
bursing Officer, U. S. Post-
office, Washington, D. C., says:
«/ take pleasure In commending
your tonic, having taken a bottle
of Peruna with very beneficial re•
suits, it Is recommended Jo me
as a very excellent catarrh cure. **
Miss Mattie Lon West, who has been
the attractive guest of Rev. aud Mrs. J.
O. A. Radford tho last two weeks, re
turned to her home in Cedartown
Wednesday.—Monroe Tribune.
Working Night and Day
The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is Dr. King’s New
Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated
globule of health, that changes weak
ness into strength, listlessness into
energy, brain-fag into mental power.
They’re wonderful in building up tho
health. Only 25c per box. Sold by E.
Bradford. _
The main disadvantage about being
married is that a man never dares to
brag any more about what his ideal
woman is like.
Aching in the small of the back is an
indication of Bright's Disease. Tho
proper course in such cases is to take a
few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters. It
is an effective kidney remedy and bowel
regulator. T. F. Burbank.
It doesn’t take a girl long to get over
the idea that she is never going to let a
man puc his arm around her till after
they get married.
Beat Out
Ills Mont Pseful Dook.
First Passenger— What book has help
ed you most In life?
Second Passenger—The city directo
ry.
First Passenger—The city directory?
Second Passenger—Yes; Pm a bill
collector.—Syracuse Herald.
nf Hn
if an Increase
Pension.
A Mexican war veteran and prominent
editor writes: “Seeing tho advertise
ment of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, I am reminded
that as a soldier in Mexico in ’47 and
’48, I contracted Mexican diarrhoea and
this remedy has kept me from getting
increase in my pension,for on every re
newal a dose of it restores mo.” It is
unequalled as a quick cure for diar
rhoea and is pleasant and safe to take.
For sale by E. Bradford.
Papa—“You saw that big boy whip
ping tho little one, and you didn’t in
terfere? Suppose you had been that
little boy?” Bobbie—“I did think of
that, an’ was going to part ’em, but
then I happened to think, s’pose I was
the big boy? So I let ’em alone.”
Such little pills as DeWitt’s Tuttle
Early Risers are very easily taken, and
they are wonderfully effective in
cleansing the liver and bowels. E
Bradford. ___________
She—“You remember, dear, that five
hundred dollars you gave me the other
day to put in the bank?” He—“Good
gracious! You haven’t run through
with that, have you?” She (indig
nantly)—“Certainly not. I have nearly
fifty left.”
The most soothing, healing and an
tiseptic application ever devised is
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It re
lieves at once and cures piles, sores,
eczema and skin diseases. Beware of
imitations. E. Bradford.
The funny things that happen to
other people are always serious when
they happen Co you.
A curious official regulation demands
that all the Id linen of the Ceylon hos
pitals shall he burned every three
months. A government ofllcinl comes
round on n periodic linen Inspection
and condemns holey sheets, towels, etc.,
to a fiery fate.
The Mother's Favorite.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is the
mother’s favorite. It is pleasant and
safe for children to take and it always
cures. It is intended especially for
coughs, colds, croup and whooping
cough, and is the best medicine made
for the diseases. There is not the least
danger in giving it to children, for it
contains no opium or other injurious
drug and may be given as confidently
to a babe as to an adult. For sale by
E. Bradford.
lie Coanted All flight.
“You've been In a fight,” said his
mother reprovingly.
“Oh. not much of n one,” answered
the boy.
“Did you count 100. as 1 told you.
when you felt your angry passions ris
ing?”
“Oh, sure,” returned tile boy. “1
counted 100 nil right, but I knocked
the other boy down first. It’s the only
lafe way.”—Chicago Post.
Persons who suffer from indigestion
can not expect to live long, because
they cannot eat the food required to
nourish the body, and the products of
the undigested foods they do eat poison
the blood. It is important to cure in
digestion ns soon as possible, and the
method of doing this is tojise the pre
paration known as Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure. It digests what you eat and re
stores all the digestive organs to per
fect health. E. Bradford.
It’s an easy matter to live in atllu-
ence if you have money enough to en
able you to do it.
Proiuiii
Woim
Chicago
Speaks.
Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice-
President Illinois Woman’s Alliance, in
speaking of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy, says: “I Buffered with
servere cold this winter which threat
ened to run into pnnemonia. I tried
different remedies but I seemed to grow
worse and the medicine upset my
stomach. A friend advised me to try
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and I
found it was pleasant to take and'it re
lieved me at once. I am now entirely
recovered, saved a doctor’s bill, time
and suffering, and I will never be with
out this splendid medicine again.” For
sale by E. Bradford.
New Orleans, Deo. 29th, 1900.
Dear Standard:—As I was going on
to say: You learned a long time ago,
perhaps,that thiB interesting old Ameri
can Hamburg(in similitude of situation)
was located at tho mouth of tho Missis
sippi river in tho state of Louisiana. You
oan look on your map and find it tlioro
now, if your map is a small one. But
maps are deceptive, when it comos to
details. Now Orleans is 107 miles up
tho river from its mouth. It is nearly
200 years old,and has about 300,000 peo
ple in it. I asked a portly old nativo
how the city’s name should bo pro
nounced. Ho said, “Well, if you are a
poor man you pronounce it Now Or
leans; if you are rioh, you say Nuor-
leans,” a two-syllabled word with a kind
of a hump-up-in-tbe-middle accont. Of
course, I had to adopt tho latter pro
nunciation.
Thoro arc so many various and inter
esting thingB to be seen and told in and
about New Orleans that one is abso
lutely embarrassed by the wealth of
material that lies iu such profusion
around him. And tho idea of working
it into a letter! Why, it would fill a
book, and a good big book at that. Not
only its physical features but the daily
routine of life among its people, is so
different from our North Georgia
oraoker ways that it might bo across
seas and continents from us. She has
thousands of population who were
born and raised here who are as help
less when it oomes to handling our
vernaonlar as if they had just landed
from rural France or Italy. If you
want to explore tho old French quarter
of the city—its most curious and inter
esting part to an untravolod backwoods
man—get your directions boforo you
leave Canal street, unless you oan
“parle vous Francais.” I tried first
without this precaution, and had to
grope my way ns best I could. Not
that they will refuse you aid—oh, no,
but they nre not able to impart infor
mation save in their own lingo. But
they try, yes, sir, and try hard—try all
over, in fnct. I was approaching what
I supposed to be the old Spanish Ca
thedral- an interesting landmark here
—so I stopped a dapper little gentle
man and pointing to the structure
asked if that was the Oathrednl. Hi
gathered from iny gesture, I suppose
that 1 was asking something about the
building and he went immediately into
a kind of articulatory convulsion, po
to speak, so great was his desire to
oblige me. lie talked with tongue,
eyes, face, head, both hands and arms
and most of hisbody. Findingdirectly
that he was making no headway in his
effort to penetrate the dense crust of
linguistic ignorance in which my mind
was encased, he stopped, looked help
less and undone, smiled regretfully,
bowed, waved me adieu, and passed on.
He had gone but a few steps when he
suddenly wheeled and came back at
me, saying “Chuch! clinch 1 chuch!”
He had fished up from the depths of
his memory what was probably his
whole stock and store of English—the
one word, church, and seemed greatly
relieved and pleased when I flushed
him a gleam of intelligent comprehen
sion. And of all the queer names that
ever tortured a rustic tongue, they are
here. Speaking of names : Just across
the street in front of our lodgings,
an elegant brown stone front, lives E.
Christ; alongside him lives L. Christ;
J. Christ doesn’t seem to live here.
Architecturally the city is a kind of
olio of everything that has been built
for human habitation by the people of
England, France, Spain and Italy for
two or three centuries, apparently.
The queerest old jumbled up masses of
houses, the floors of no two rooms on
the same level, three steps up to the
one on your right, two steps down to
the next, balconies to all that are high
enough, old-time heavy solid shutters
for the street doors and windows with
heavy iron cross-bars and bolts to
fasten them, iron knockers to some of
the doors like you read of in old time
novels, arched tunnels lending back
into open paved courts or larger areas
with grass and trees and tropical plants
—these are a few of many reminders of
the mixed and alien origin of these
people. But it is not lacking in up-to-
date structures, both business and resi
dence. The new St. Charles Hotel is
said to have few superiors in elegance
and completeness of its equipment. It
is a feast for the eyes exteriorly ; in
teriorly it is a palace. That is to say,
I suppose it is a palace. I’ve not been
over familiar with the interior of
palaces of late, and may not be a lirst-
rate judge of such things. But if a
man owed me a palace and £were to
offer the St. Charles in liquidation of
the debt, I should close with him on
the spot. I’m not stopping there, ex
cept occasionally to smoke and rest my
tired bones on its luxurious upholstery,
and ruminate on the changes I will
make in its management when I be
come the proprietor. There’s a bell
boy, for instance, that sniggered when
l asked him how they sold cheroots.
I’ll fire him out before breakfast, see
if l don’t.
The centre of all things here is
Canal street — called Canal because
there is no canal in or about, but there
was once. Everything starts from
Canal and comes back there. Every
body goes to Canal street and spends
all the time lie or she can ppssibly
spare there, during holiday times at
least. It feems to be the pride and
glory of the city—its Broadway. It is
170 feet wide and hasn’t an inch to
spare. It is longer than you can re
collect. Its broad sidewalks—15 feet
—are full, uncomfortably full, every
lay in the week, except Sunday—then
they are jammed, till the theatres and
churches open at 7 to 8 p. m. This re-
the congestion some. I’ve heard
that New Orleans was run as a “wide-
open town.” This is a mistake. The
dry goods and hardware stores and a
few others close on Sundays. The
saloons close their front doors—that is,
some of them do, or put a screen in
front) of them. I’ve not been able to
learn why they do this. It certainly
not in restraint of trade. No, sir,
honey, not a bit!
But I didn’t get through with Canal
street, and wouldn’t if I were to fill
columns. Right through its centre
run five parallel street-car tracks, not
to mention switches and sidings and
crossings. And how the cars do chase
and corner and yelp at you with
their brass gongs,sometimes from both
sides at once, and another car on the
crossing in front of you. They fairly
hunt you in packs. And just as you
have cleared the last track, barely in
time, and feel that you enn relax and
tnke a full breath, here come a fresh
pack yammering at you from cross
streets ami you are put through your
gymnastics again. And instead of
asking your pardon by look or gesture
for frightening you nearly to death,
the motorman scowls at you wickedly
—because you escaped being run down,
I suppose. But the Crescent City cer
tainly is magnificently equipped with
street car service, all electric. And
its employees arc polite and obliging,
too—when they are not chasing you. I
counted over 50 cars in view on Canal
at one time ns I stood on the sidewalk.
At night when they are brilliantly
lighted and the lights shining through
their many-colored transoms this little
army of cava, moving rapidly in many
directions, is an inspiring sight. The
tracks are so level and smooth that you
easily imagine you are looking at
a fleet of illumined bonts maneuvering
on water.
Cars and boats and water bring me
to a fellow I must tell you about. I’ve
never seen him and don’t know his
name, but he deserves renown. He has
wasted more fine opportunities for
causing llrst-class,soul-harrowing rail
road accidents than any man I ever
heard of. 1 told you in a former letter
about crossing Lake Pontchartrain on
a trestle 8 miles long. This lake, by
the way, doesn’t get its name in the
papers as often as it deserves. It
covers over 700 square miles of earth’s
surface—a right smart pond, you see.
Being a navigable body of wuter the
railroad is required by law to maintain
a draw-span and to keep it open all the
time save when trains are passing over.
r
Royal
t Absolutely 'Pure
Baking
Powder
Absolutely 'Pure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
l PAKINO POWDER C
and feed little fishes.
Evidently that man cares nothing
for fame. But lie as richly deserves it
as does the man who “carried the mes
sage to Garcia.”
And uncle Dick Gammon is dead!
Peace to his ashes I He was an honest,
noble-hearted old fellow, and I shall
miss him sorely if it is permitted to
me to dwell again in the Valley of
Cedars. Only last Saturday he held
my hand long and firmly in his good
honest grnsp as h^.bade me an almost
affectionate good-bye. I know his
kindly adieus and good wishes were
sincere, and there was a touch of
moisture in both our eyes when we
parted. For the last quarter of a
century our friendship had been un
broken, our intercourse cordial and
mutually pleasant. I think we each
more than suspected that our next
meeting would be on another shore,
but neither had any thought, 1 suppose,
that he would be the first to cross over.
He was the picture of robust, healthy
old-manhood and bore promise of many
years of serene old age. He has been
a great sufferer at times for many
years, but his robust constitution
would pull him through. But the last
pull comes to all, and for all is unavail
ing. Death is perhaps kinder than we
think, after all, especially when it
comes after we have sucked all the
richest and most savory juices from
the fruit of life. ItH coming may be
rough, even tempestuous, but when all
is over old mother earth takes us back
to her cool, quiet, restful bosom, where
the storms of life can neither disturb
nor distress us more. The man who
dies at 50 or 00 is not entitled to all
our sympathy; the one who goes on to
70 or 80 often more deserves it. I hope
Undo Dick’s journey across the dark
river was calm and serene. Again,
peace to his ashes, and unruffled, eter
nal peace to his honest old soul! lb
was a diamond in the rough, but i
diamond just tho same. Wanderer.
Red Hot From The Gun
Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman,
of Newark, Mich,, in tlio Civil War. It
caused horrible Ulcers that no treat
ment helped for 20 years. Then Buck
Ion’s Arioa ’ Salve cured him. Cures
Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure
on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure guaran
teed. Sold by E. Bradford, druggist.
Men climb the hill like small boys
pulling their sleds after them,and they
go down hill like the boys with their
sleds under them.
DIRECTORY.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, L. S. Led hotter.
Mayor pro tern., C. W. Smith.
Clerk, J. C. Walkor.
Treasurer, B. A. FI to.
Councilman: J.A. Liddell, B.A. Fite,
T. J. Grllfin, A. R. Gollghtly and C. W.
Smith.
CK Board of Ilealth-Dr. J.A. Liddell.
Ch. Stroot Com.—A. It. Gollghtly.
Cemetery Commissioner, T. J. (Trillin.
Marshal, J. M. Jolloy.
Supt. Water and Lights, A. B. Slade.
City Attorney, J. K. Davis.
CITY SCHOOL HOARD.
J. S. Stubbs, Chairman; J. H. Dodds,
Secy; E. B. Russell, Tress; W.H.Shillott,
W. C. Bunn, R. A. Adams, W. K.
■'ielder, J. W. Judkins. J. E. Good.
Superintendent, Prof. H. I.. Sewell.
POLK SUPERIOR COURT.
Judge, C. G. Janes.
Solicitor General, W. T. Roberts, oi
Donglassville.
Clerk, W. C. Knight.
Official Stenographer, U. M. Nicholes.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Commissioners, D. M. Russell, T. H.
Adams, B. F. Johnson.
Ordinary, A. D. Hogg.
Clerk, W. C. Knight.
Sheri!!, John Hutchings.
Deputy Sheriff, J. F. Carmichiel and
J, E, Dompsey.
fax Receiver, M. E. McCormick.
Tax Collector, W. A. Calhoun.
Treasurer, J. M. Hamrick.
Coroner, J. O. Crabb.
Surveyor, S. A. Hunt.
County School Commissioner, J. E.
Houseal.
COUNTY SCHOOL HOARD.
M. V. B. Ake, Ohm; A. D. Hogg, A. H.
McBryde, J. K. Davis, J. S. King.
CHURCHES.
Methodist, Rev. T. It. McCarty.
Baptist, Rev. C. K. Henderson.
Presbyterian,
Episcopal,
Services evory Sunday morning and
evening; Sunday school 9.80 a. m.
Prayermeeting every Wednesday even
ing.
BOARD OF TRADE.
President, J. S. Stubbs.
Vice Presidents, W. F. Hall aud J. E.
Good.
Secretary, E. B. Russell.
Treasurer, II. N. VanDevander.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chief, Chas. V. Wood; 1st Asst. Chief,
J. H. Philpot; 2d Asst., Holmes .Smith;
Sec’y, E. W. Collins; Tress., John Jud
kins'.
Fire Co. No. l.-Capt., F. W. Wood
Pres., J. K. Davis; Sec’y, J. C. Walker;
Troas., ,f. E. Judkins.
Fire Co. No. 2.- Capt.,Hughes Robeits;
Brest., Joe Langford; Hoc-Trees ,Holmes
Smith.
SECRET FRATERNITl EH.
Caledonia Lodge, No. 121, F. and A
M., W.K. Fielder, W.M., J. Hutchings’
S. W., B. F.Sims, J. W., Clias. Beasley,
Sec’y *1. F. Burbank, Treas. Meets 1st
And 3d Friday evenings iu oach month.
Adoniram Chanter, No. 11, R. A. M.
W, G. England, II. 1*., W. R. Beck, K.,
J. W. Judkins, Sec’y., T. F. Burbank,
Troas. Meets 2d and 4th Friday evon-
When threatened by pneumonia
nny other lung trouble,prompt relief is
necessary, as it is dangerous to delay
We would suggest that One Minute
Cough Cure be taken as soon as indiea
tions of having taken cold are noticed
It cures quickly and its early use pre
vents consumption. E, Bradford.
Right there is where my man comes
in. He and his family live in a little
hut away out there on the edge of the
marsh, no other habitation in sight-
nothing but the lake and the trestle
and the marsh to be seen. Get the
picture in your mind. His business is
to close the span for trains to pass over
and then open it, so boats can pass,and
leave It open till the next train is due.
Over this trestle pass trains—1 don’t
know how many—every day and every
night, rain or shine, year in and year
out,—and that yawning hiatus always
open ready to swallow them into the
deeps nnd never leave a single one of
either crew or passengers to tell the
tale. Suppose you were approaching
that open draw some cold, dark, rainy,
stormy night, say about 2 a. in. Your
train is howling along 30 or 40 miles
an hour and you are expecting to be
home tomorrow. You are lying there
in your snug berth in a Pullmnn
dreaming of home and wife and little
ones and what a glad reunion is just
ahead of you. All at once there is a
lurch, a plunge nnd the icy waters are
roaring into your car. With faint
hope of saving yourself you spring up,
bump your head against the berth
above you and—awake! Ain’t you glau,
oh, so glad, that it was all a dream!
You don’t mind that knot you raised
on your head a bit, do you? But if
that lonely man should forget, if he
should sleep a minute too long, it
might not be a dream, and he and his
lake would achieve an immortality of
fame through the head-line horrors of
every newspaper in the land. And you
would ga to the bottom of the lake
HATS ON OR OFF?
One RpmiiocI In Which Northern anil
Southern Men Differ.
According to tlie etiquette of the day,
It Is not requisite that a man shall re
move his hat in the presence of a i
an In a public thoroughfure or convey
once. Nobody thinks of a man’s going
bareheaded Iu a street car or a railroad
car or a cab because be is In the com
pany of women. The elevator of
business building or of n hotel Is ci
taluly a public conveyance, and the
corridor of a business building or hotel
is certainly a public thoroughfare,
go, in our opinion, courtesy toward the
fair sex docs not require a man t
move his lmt In either place because
there happens to be n woman present.
Having said, however, that courtesy
does not require the removal of a man’:
bat under the circumstances recounted,
we do not mean to disparage in the
slightest degree the chivalrous intent
of the man who docs rcA’jve bis bead
covering. If you feel that you ought
to take off your but In on elevator, do
so. If you are uncomfortable with It
on, get It off at once. These things nr.
largely matters of comfort. Iu New
York men keep tlielr hats on w
persistence tba‘t Is somewhat shocking
to the southerner.
If the man In Gotham has any doubt
about whether he should have b!s bat
In his hand or on Ills bead, you will uot
find It In his hand. Lie takes ns much
rope as the law will give him. On the
contrary, it has not been very long
since it was the proper thing
Charleston for a gentleman to stand
with his head uncovered during all the
time he was conversing with a lady
even If he met her In the street, and
there may he, for all we know, hun'
dreds of stately South Cnrojiulans who
observe that pretty but unhygienic cus
tom to this very day. Virginia, it will
he observed, Is about half way between
Charleston and New York. — Norfolk
Landmark
fed,
Idl
'edar Valley Council, No. 18811, Royal
Arcanum, W. C. Bunn, Regent, R. H.
March man V. R., E. R Russell, C., L.
9. Ledbetter, Sec’y, J. O. Crabb, Col.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Cedartown. 1075th district, J.A. Bur
dette, 3d Tuesday; J.A. Wilson, N. P.
Young’s, 12*8d district, W. T. Loe,
4th Saturday, J. B. Jones, N. P.
Rockmart, 1072d district, LG. Bullock,
4tli Monday; W. N. Strange; N. P.
Fisk, 1074th district, L. Y. Jackson,
4th Friday; J. M. McKinney, N. P.
Blooming Grove, 1469th district, VV P
Ray, 2d Saturday; Abijah Watson,N P.
Esom Hill, 1079th district, W. A.
Hackney, 1st Saturday; J. N. Torrence,
N. Y.
Hampton's, 1070th district, T.J.Demp
sey, 2d Saturday, L. Sutherlin, N. P
Buncombe, 1073d district, B.B.Bishop,
4th Saturday. M. M. Jones, N. P.
Browning’s, 1447th district, H. H.
Tibbitts, 4th Saturday. N. V. Parris,
N. P.
Antioch, 1518th district, Thos.Wright,
2d Saturday; W. II. Morgan, N. P.
Lake Creek, 1570th district, John A.
Tucker, J. P., 2d Tuesday; W. J. Brown,
N. I\
FCCorsets
Make
American Beauties.
We have them
in all styles and
shapes to fit every
figure, and every
vcorset is sold
under this most
liberal warrant—
“Money refunded after four
weeks’ trial if corset is not
satisfactory.”
Look for this
Trade Mark on
inside of corset
and on box. * 'iy?
KALAMAZOO CORSET €0.
Sole Makers. Kalamazoo, Mich.
FOR SALE BY
A. C. COBB.