The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946, January 31, 1901, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextCEDAR TOWN STANDARD. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF CEDARTOWN AND POLK COUNTY. VOLUME CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 31, 1901. NUMBER GOLDS AND CATARRH Peruna is a Sure Cure. A Most Excellent Family Remedy. MR. HARRY M. STEVENS, MIDLAND REACH, L. I. Mr. Harry M. 8tevciis t M Idland Beaoh, L. I., New York, proprietor of “ Tho Richmond” Hotel pays of Peruna: **It gives me pleasure to testify to the value of Peruna, I have used it for years and have fopnd it to be a most excellent family remedy. For colds, catarrh and similar ills, It is unsurpassed." Mrs. C. E. Lon I?, box 214, Atwood, Colorado, in a recent letter to Dr. Hart man, says the following: “We can never thank yon enough for the change yonhavo made In our little one's health. Before she began taking your Peruna and rock candy she suf fered everything in the way of coughs colds and croup, but now she has been taking your medicino a montji, not quite one bottle full, and she is as well and strong as she has ever been in her life. Has not had the croup once since she began taking it, and when sho has a little cold a few doses of Peruna fixes her out all right." Mrs Nellie Courier, 14 Center avenue, Norwalk, Conn.,- writos: ‘‘Peruna ban done wonders for my boy. 1 ouiuiot praiso it enough. I think It Is the medicino on earth ; let me tell why I think so : My son ha? been atilieted with catarrh since In- baby live months old, so that for years I had to watch him all night long, and keep his mouth open so lu could breathe, as ho could not breath* through his nose, lie has always boon very delicate. “Since he commenced taking tho Pe runa I can go to bed and sleep all night. breathe through his nose any way he lies, and all that hawking and spitting is gone. My boy is us well today as when he left off taking it, and he only took ono bottle.'* T. T. Lieiittllen, a prominent young lawyer of Washington, I). C., and broth of W.G. Lien- alien, in the U. S. document room, has taken Peruna for catarrh and speaks of its ef ficacy in the fol lowing words. Mr. Lion alien lays: “I am happy to write you that I am cured of what I thought, as well as my dootors, an everlasting case of catarrh,and take pleasure in say ing that Peruna has done it all." Any one who wishes perfect health must be entirely tree from catarrh. Catarrh Is well-nigh uni versal; almost omnipresent. Pe runa Is the only absolute safe guard known. A cold Is the be ginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, Is to cheat ca tarrh out of Its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but pre vents It. Every household should be supplied with this great rem edy for coughs, colds, etc. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio,* for a free book on catarrh. FltOM THE LONE STAR STA’I I A well developed case of smell pox is i reported from Aragbn. Mr. Frank Jones went out to see the party reported having ft, and he says it is the worst case that he has seen in years. There is very little fear of • it spreading.— Rockmart Slate. A Powder Mill Explosion removes everything in sight; so do drastio mineral pills, but both are mighty dangerous. Don’t dynamite the delicate machinery of yonr body with oalomel, croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King’s New Life Pills, which are gentle as a summer breeze, do the work perfectly. Cures headache, con stipation. Only 25o, at E. Bradford’s drug store. Parson—“Don’t you know, little boy, it's wrong to play baseball on Sunday?” Freddy—“Yes, sir; but our club ain’t got*the money to run golf-links.” A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks. Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice- President Illinois Woman’s Alliance, in speaking of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, says: “I suffered with n servere cold this winter whioh threat ened to run into pnuemonia. I tried different remedies but I seemed to grow worso 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 pow 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. Teeth resemble verbs; they are regu lar, irregular and defective. FC Corsets Male American Beauties. We have them in all styles and shapes to fit every figure, and every \ corset is sold under this most T\ liberal warrant— ‘Money refunded after four weeks’ trial if corset is r.ot satisfactory.” Look for this Trade Mark on inside of corset and on box. KALAMAZOO CORSET ~0. Sole Makers* Kalamazoo, Mich, FOR SALE BY A. O- COBB. AN EASY GOING BEAR. PhotmrraiililnK n Ills Grlsily In lh« YelluWKtonc Park. I said to my cowboy friend, "Do you knoiv this bear?” He replied: “Wool, 1 reckon 1 do. That’s the old grizzly. lie’s the big gest b’nr In the park. lie generally minds his own business, but he ain’t scared o’ nothin, an today, you sec. he’s been scruppiu. so lie’s liable to be ugly.” ‘‘I would like to take his picture.” said I, “and if you will help me I am willing to take some chances on It.” “All right,” said he. with a grin. "I’ll stand by on the horse, an If Ue charges you I’ll charge him, an I kin knock him down once, but 1 can’t do It twice. You better have your tree picked out.” The grizzly came on, and 1 snapped him at 40 yards, then again at 20 yards, and still ho came quietly to ward me. I sat down on the garbage and made ready—IS yards—10 yards— 12 yards—8 yards, and still he came, while tho pitch of Johnny’s protests kept rising proportionately. Finally at five yards he stopped and swung his huge bearded head to one side to see what was making that aggravat ing row In the tree top, giving me a profile view, and I snapped the camera. At the click lie turned on me with a thunderous g-r-o-w-1, and I sot still and trembling, wondering If ray last moment End come. For n second he glared at me, and 1 could note the lit tle green electric lamp lu each of his eyes. Then he slowly turned mid pick ed up a large tomato can. “Goodness.” I thought, “is lie going to throw that at me?” But lie delib erately licked It out. dropped It and took another, paying thenceforth no heed whatever either to me or to John ny. evidently considering us equally beneath his notice.—E. Seton-Thomp- son iu Scribner's. Such little pills as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are very easily taken, and they are wonderlully effective in cleansing the liver and bowels. E. Bradford. Oar Race Fop Money. “If It is not true that we Americans regard money making ns the work for which life was given to us. why. when we have millions, do we go on strug gling to make more millions and more?” writes “An American Mother" in The Ladles’ Home Journal. "It Is not so with the older races. The London tradesman at middle age shuts his shop, buys nn acre In the suburbs and lives on a small Income or spends the rest of his life in losing It In poultry or fancy gardening. The German or Frenchman seldom works when past GO. He gives his lost years to some study or bobby-music, a microscope, or It may he dominos. You meet him and Ida wife. Jolly, shrewd Intelligent, jogging all over Europe, Baedeker In hand. They tell you they ‘have n cu riosity to s-ve this fine world before they go out of it.’ ” The small pox cases at Mr. William Simpson's mill have recovered and been dismissed. Mr. Jack Whitehead went ont Tuesday and fumigated tho house —Rockmart Slate. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob life of joy. Buoklen’s Arnica SalvCj oures them; also Old, Running am Fever Sores, Uloers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Outs, Bruises Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aohos. Only 25 ots. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by E Bradford Druggist. “Your wife has such a terribly tired look, old man!” “Yes, tomorrow night it will be hor turn to entertain the Don’t Worry Club, to which she belongs.” Statu op Ohio, City op Tolbdo, I hh# I.ijcas county J Frank J. Chknry make* oath that he is tl senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney St ci doing business in the city of Toledo, county ai state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay t! Hum of ONE HUNDRF.D DOLLAR for each m every case of catarrh that cannot b: cured I the use of Hall’a ca nrfh cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. worn to before me and aubacribed in mv pres ence. This 6th day of December. A. D., 1886. . —A* A. w - GLEASON | heal. 7 Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure 1h taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CIIF.NF.Y *t CO., Toledo O. Sold by Druggists, 7c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. “How naturally the leading muu died iu the fifth act.” “Yes, he did that part so well that it was a pity he didn’t do it in tho first.” Beat Out of ait Increase of His Pension. A Mexican war veteran and prominent editor writes: “Seeing the 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 me.” It is unequalled as a quick cure for diar rhoea and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by E. Bradford. Towne—“That was a rather disrepu table-looking man you just spoke to.” Browne—“Sir ! That was my brother.” “Oh! beg pardon; I might have known that.” • 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 tocure in digestion as soon as possible, and the method of doing thin is to use 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. When you see a lovesick couple coo ing like a pair of turtle doves tLe chances are that it will prove to bo a mock turtle. San Antonio, Tex., Jan. II, 11)01. Dkar Htandaud :— If your office has not been demolished by a mob of irate subscribers for publishing the nonde script material l have sent you, nnd you are willing to still further test their pntience nnd forbearance, here’s another batch. Remember, please, that I have to jot down these things hurriedly and wherever I happen tube, mainly in hotel offices ami reading- rooms with unaccustomed noises ami confusion all around; and, further more, that they are Just 11 “running fire” of impressions made on an un traveled rustic by a first view of this great, growing nnd wonderful West. After passing New Orleans coming this way, everything seems to swell nnd bulge and expand—big rivers, big plantations, lug plains, big ranches, big herds of cattle, big snakes, big liars, big everything,—In fact, even big-hearted, hospitnbie, noble people lots of 'em. New^Orlenns has the biggest and best land-lpcked harbor in the world— a section of the Mississippi river 150 miles long nnd from two to three thou sand yards wide. Iler sewers were all on the surface, just open gutters, and as the ground upon whioh the city is built is nearly level, they were slug gish, nasty, slow-moving nnd ill- smelling. For years and years there seemed to be no relief possible, the waters of the river and lake being so near a level with tho top of the ground. But modern engineering and modern millions (fifteen of them) are solving the problem of giving her an under-ground system the equal of that of any city. There are so many inter esting things to be said about New Orleans that It is hard to get off from there, but I must hurry on west. There’s plenty more out here. We have spent the two weeks we have been in Texas at or near various small towns between here and the Gulf coast,Jinalnly nt, Beeville and Corpus ChriRti. These are two county cites of two of the largest and richest counties in Southwestern Texas,Bee and Neues- ces.‘ If I were asked what special feature of this country most impressed me, I should unhesitatingly say its wealth of fertile soil; if asked what character istic of ^its people struck me with greatest force, 1 should say their lack of appreciation of this magnificent domain. It is difficult for an Eastern man to understand how this can be. The soil of these two counties, and of others around there, will average bet ter than the best farm in Polk county. It is nearly all a rich, dark,deep,sandy loam, with some of the black waxy land, the richest of all but not so pleasant to work. It will produce from 800 to 2000 pounds of seed cotton per acre, depending upon seasons, lo cution and cultivation, without an ounce of fertilizer of any kind. 1 am told that not a sack of guano has ever been sold to a farmer in either county. Home has been tried on the State Ex periment farm near Beeville, to which 1 will recur later on, perhaps. And yet, but little more than five per cent of this incomparable soil is in cultiva tion ! And plenty of it can he had at from $3.50 to $10 per acre. That seems paradoxical, doesn’t it ? That a man would sell an acre of land for $10 which will produce, without fertilizer, a bale of cotton or 10 bushels of corn is a statement that strains orn?’s credulity. It did mine, and it was only when I had been here long enough to become fuirly well acquainted and to tulk to numbers of well-informed people that I was able to swallow it. There are several causes that contribute to this state of affairs. They have had rail roads in these counties but a compara tively short while,and not near enough of them yet. Then there is such an immense amount of this land—so much more of it than can be worked by all the men here. And in the years ’1)8 and ’09 they had terrible drouths. A well-digger to whom I was talking on this subject said the land got dry to a great depth. When asked how deep,he said, “Well, the deepest well I dug in those years was about 80 feet, and it was dusty all the way down l” I’m afraid that man w r as deprived of Sun day school privileges in his youth. But if I had to put into one word the* chief obstacle to agricultural develop ment here, and perhaps more potential than all others combined, I should say “Cow.” To the old Texan, as to the Egyptian of old, she is a veritable god dess, but in a much more real and ma terial sense. The Egyptian made a graven image of her and built her a costly temple; the Texan dedicates to her an empire, vast, rich and resource ful beyond the power of my limited vocabulary to describe. The'Egyptian devoted to her service a priesthood and an elaborate formula for worship; the Texan lays an embi rgo upon all that this vast realm contains and lays it at her feet. For her statutes by the hun- ncres, lie will say, dcprecatingly, “Only 1,000 or J,200,” us if lie didn’t remember exactly—it was hardly worth inquiring about anyway, there being so little of it. You have heard about “magnificent distances,” doubtless. Well, they are here, lots of them. They are a native product—indigenous to the soil, as it were. It is a hundred miles to nearly any place you want to go in Texas, or further. I suppose that is why the Texan, mounted, always goes in a gallop. He has to, if lie is over to get there in time. He does, anyway, and the horse understands this so well that he starts in a gallop without introduc tory remarks. Eight hundred miles across the state in one direction. This doesn’t sound so big,but if you benr in mind that 800 miles will carry you from Florida to Lake Michigan, or from Atlanta to New York, or from meet the requirements. I mn tolil that! Bayainah clear across Georgia, Ala- it is no uncommon occurrence for one 1 baina, Mississippi and Louisiana to dred have been enacted and amended and are enforced with a zeal and en ergy and thoroughness that attaches to no other laws in their code. For her it is lawful to bisect the highways of the country with frequent and incon venient gates connecting barb-wire fences. For her the swelling tide of human emigrants, that looks with longing, hungry eyes upon her fertile pastures, is daifimed up and held hack for years. When she travels the trains on which she rides have the right of way over all others. If the President of tho United States were passing through Texas on a special it would have to take a side-track if it met a train-load of cattle. And they move in train-loads, not single train-loads but whole gangs of trains, one after another, miles of them-so many, in fact, that the resources of a large sys tem are often taxed to their utmost to of these cattle barons to order 500 to 1000 stock cars to take his maturing surplus to market. And the demands of a man who has that much business to offer must be met if possible. And when once entrained they must be landed at the great slaughter-houses of the Northwest as quickly as it is possi ble for steam to transport them. So everything is kept out of the way, and on they fly. These old ranchmen are a race to themselves. They live in a different atmosphere of thought from the com mon herd of humanity — something like that of our wealthiest planters and slave-owners before the war. They are usually big of body and broad-minded, hospitable and well- informed, especially on matters per taining to their business. If he old man, he hns lived a very lonely, isolated life the greater part of it and seen many hardships and dangers, and is Inclined to be silent and retrospec tive. But if you can decoy him into a conversation he will entertain y well. But be sure, ns you value his good opinion, thnt you say nothing intimating that you think his goddei must coine off her perch,that she must abandon the fertile plains of the coftst country and retire to the high and arid lands of the interior. The more thoughtful of them see this already nnd are gradually preparing for it, but the old slave-holder was not mjre jeal ous and sensitive nbout his “peculiar institution” than is the Texas cattle baron, nor more intolerant of any in terference with his “rights.” But there is nothing any more certain, in my judgment, than that these surpass ingly fertile plains of Southwestern Texas must pnss from the dominion of the cow to that of the plow. If a North-Georgian, without know ing nnything of the situation here nnd the ways and thoughts of the people should*he informed that he had in Merited or otherwise become the owner of a thousand acres of this land, every acre of which was richer than the best acre in Polk county, lie would feel rich, wouldn’t he? He would feel like he was one of the important men of the nntion, and that his opinions nnd wishes’should in some sense be de ferred to,as he had heretofore deferred to others more fortunate than himself. He’d feel sorry for his poor neighbor with only 40 acres of rocky hill-side and a houseful of children to raise and educate if possible. He’d be strongly inclined to tell him to “come on and go to Texas with me, and I’ll give you 10 or 50 acres of sure-enough land.” Rut let this 1000-acre magnate come to Texas and settle on his broad acres. He’ll feel grand enough for a day or two, till he learns that his neighbor on the south of him has 20,000 acres, the one on the north 30,000 acres,he on the east 50,000 and he on the west 75,000 acres! How he will shrink nnd shrivel and feel little and insignificant! And when he discovers a little later thnt his paltry thousand acres was a little gratuity thrown by one of these Cow Kings to a faithful herdsman who had been disabled in his service, much ns an old faithful ex-slave was given a few acres to put a cabin on by his former master, then is his cup of humiliation full! He is half inclined to abandon the dratted little patch and go back to Georgia. And as for dividing it with thnt.poor neighbor, why he’d see him dead first. In fact, how could he spare an inch of it, and live? This may all sound like wild and im probable silliness to write, but it isn’t. It lacks very little of being history, or biography. It is amusing to note the answer of one of these small land-owners with only a thousand or two acres to the question, “How much land have you?” Especially is this true if a sure-enough ranchman is in ear-shot. “Oh, I’ve only a small pasture—just a little bit of a place over here in Live Oak county,” with careless jerk of his thumb over his shoulder like it was only a mile or so out. It is probably 80 or 10. If pressed for an answer iu Texas,'you get a better idea of its wide-reaching distances. I wanted to go to Brownsville and saw by the map that a railroad ran to a little place ailed Alice near there, as 1 thought, but inquiry revealed that it required three days and two nights of steady stage riding to get there from Alice. I didn’t go. I am so full of admiration for the soil and climate—and people too,so far as I have had opportunity to know them—that I am afraid to trust myself to giv£ details now. Yon would all awoar that I had hired myself out as a sort of literary bureau to an emigrant agency. But I may give yon a dose later whon I oool off. In a general way, I will say that tho strip of Texas coast lands lying within a hun dred miles of tho Gulf i6, by the very nature of things, io be tho early market garden for all tho vast area of rich and habitable lands lying betwoon tho Mis sissippi river and the Rookies, includ ing ten or a dozen of the biggest states •in the Union. They hnvo nowhere elso to go for early vegetables except to Southern California, whioh is barred by the statute of distance. The remainder of the Gulf and South Atlantic eoast never has and never can supply the eastern demand for “truok” when proper transportation facilities are sup plied. The Texas “trucker” has no com petitor in soil,and while he suffers more from drouth ho suffors less from frost. Another “big card” of this south western part of the state is its olimate. J have only tested, of oourse, but a woo bit of it, and that of tho very worst they have, they toll me, and yet I am scaroely less enthusiastic about it than about the soil. I have worn my over coat only on party of four days out of the twenty I have boon bore, and neod scarcely have worn it at all if I had been well. Speaking of this to a lady from Ohio, who has been here five years, she replied, “Why, Doctor, if you think this is fine, you should stay and spend a summer hero and learn what real fine weather is. I can’t de scribe it to you; you must experience it in person if you would know how de lightful it is. The temperature is high, but the Gulf breeze is steady and con stant, and faithful,and you do not suffer with boat.” Don’t yon think I had best stay and sample it? Apropos of Toxan climate, somebody has said that when you leave home in this state you should always oarry your overcoat, your umbrolla and a palm-leaf fan, for it was nncortain which of tho three you would noed, and you might need all three iu tho oourse of a few hours. I had an experience that demonstrated tho wisdom of the sug gestion. I left tho hotel for a walk down the beach at Corpus Chrieti. It was a warm, soft, balmy, voluptuous spring-like atmosphere, so much so that I took off my coat and carried it on my arm. When about a mile down the bay a cool gust from tho north struck me and I put on my coat, bnt walked on, the wind being to my baok. Directly the wind become stronger and cooler, and heavy dark clouds rose up. I turned and hurried back, but not soon enough. Before I could reach shelter the rain came and wet me. I had gone off without ooat, fan or umbrella and had needed all three in little more than an hour. Gov. Bob Taylor tells an anecdote of a Texas man driving along with a two-horse team, one horse fulls dead from over-heat and bbforo tho driver could get the dead horse extri cated from ^rqgon and harness, a “norther” came along and froze tho other one stiff. The chunges are sudden, but they are not frequent and the norther does not last long. It is welcomed by Texans, for it usually brings rain,and thoy want lots of ruin. Wo are going to push on into the far ther West tomorrow. Our next stop will be at El Paso. Wm. Bradford. Aohing in the small of the back is an indication of Bright’s Disease. Tin proper course in such cases is to take a few doses of Prickly Asli Bitters. It is an effective kidney remedy and bowel regulator. T. F. Burbank.

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The Cedartown standard. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1889-1946, January 31, 1901, Image 1