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Solid Oak Bedroom Suits, Bevel Glass,
Sale Price, $13.99.
89 Other Styles at prices in proportion.
Bedsteads, full size, $1.99.
Iron Bedsteads, big enough for two, $2.49.
Oak Chairs, Sale price, 34c each.
Prices.
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Solid Oak Extension Tables, $3.99.
Bureaus, big drive. $4.49.
Bed Springs, $1.29 and upwards.
Mattresses, full size, $1.49 and upwards.
Cooking Stoves, Southern-made, $4.99.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1901.
The President is dead!
to Hie President !
Uni
Cull and pay your subscription
to Tint Standahd while attend
ins court.
Mrs. Grady, widow of the Into
Henry W. Grady,died in Atlanta
last Sunday.
THE PRESIDENT DEAD! |
Mr. McKinley Passed Away Early
Saturday Morning.
ROOSEVELT NOW PRESIDENT.
He Announces That He Will Carry Out the Policies
of His Predecessor.
The cup of joy which was be
This is certainly a “united
country”—united in tears at the
death of the President.
The anarchist wants to abolish
all government and all jaw, and
is accordingly entitled to none of
the benefits of either.
The big strike of the Amal
gamated Association of Iron
workers against the United]
States Steel OmnpauyVis at an
end, the strikers losing through-]
out. President Shatter seemed
to have an amalgamated associa
tion of very foolish notions in
his conduct of the strike, which
was foredoomed to failure from
the start.
When Senator Platt, of New
York, side-tracked Mr. Roosevelt
from a second term as Governor
of that state by securing bis
nomination as Vice President, he
little thought that Mr. McKinley
would pass away with little more
than half a year expired on his
second term as President, and
Mr. Roosevelt would succeed to
that high olliee.
ing pressed to grateful lips last
week was soon rudely snatched
iiwnv and shattered.
The good news that President
McKinley would recover from the
bullet of the anarchist assassin
iroved “too good to he true,” for
change for the worse came
speedily and dissolution soon
followed.
The condition of the distin
uislicd patient seemed so satis
factory last Thursday morning
that his physicians gave him solid
food, despite the fact that the
hot through his stomach had had
less than a week in which to
heal. From this time he grew
rapidly worse, and death came
to his relief at 2.IS a. m. Satur
day. The autopsy showed the
cause of the death to be
grene, which followed the entire
path of the wound, and which
some of the physicians think may
teachings of his tribe the Nation
owes its present grief and loss,
and in his act we trust the anar
chists have brought destruction
upon themselves and that they
will be extirpated—root and
branch—from those United States.
The Nation mourns, but “not
as one without hope.” The Pres
ident is dead, but American
institutions still live, and the
Vice President, upon whose
boulders the mantle of responsi
bility now falls, is a man of high
character and marked ability.
PHKSIDKXT ROOSKVKLT.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt took
the oath of office Saturday, after
visiting the bier of the dead
President and paying his respects
to Mrs, McKinley.
Mr. Roosevelt has had a most
remarkable career, one success
closely following another, until
today at the ago of only forty-
three he is the acknowledged
head of the Nation.
He is a descendant of one of
New York’s oldest and best
Dutch families, and his mother
was of Georgia birth, a member
of tho prominent nnte-bellun
family of Bullochs. He trails
formed himself from a sickly hoy
into sturdy manhood by “rough
ing it” on a Western ranch;
served with distinction as the
head of New York City’s great
have been caused by the bullet
having been poisoned, llis re-j
'mains were taken Monday from
Buffalo to Washington, where]
they lay in state for a day at thojum
Capitol, and were taken Tuesday {jus
night to the President’s old home'
it Canton, <>.. where they will
interred today.
President McKinley’s death
was that of the Christian hero.
During his dying hours he softly
chanted parts of the hymn.
Nearer, my God, to Thee.”
And among his last audible ut
terances were these words otj
farewell : “Good-bye. All, good
bye. It is God’s way. llis will
be done.”
['lie entire Nation—in fact, all
the nations of the earth—weep
it liis bier, for a good and great
man has passed away in the
prime of his usefulness.
History may or may not accord
to William McKinley a rank
one of our greatest Presidents, 1
for time alone can enable a just
estimate to be placed upon the
events for which his administra
tion is responsible, hut he will
ever he remembered as probably
the most personally popular Chief
Executive we have ever had,—a
true American, broad in his
views and patriotic in his inten
tions, n man who had the confi
dence of the business interest
id' the country, and who honestly
sought for the welfare of the
people.
llis death is a calamity to th
Nation, and has brought with
sudden shock a realization of the
horrible possibilities for evil in- .
our midst. While three Presi-*l ,ol,ce department; was Assistant
I,ANI> VALUATIONS.
Iii calling attention last week
to the valuation of lands in
Browning’s district as shown by
the tax digest, Tim Standard was
misinformed as to the rate in that
district.
A careful review of the valua
tions as shown by the digest for
every district in Polk county
makes an interesting disclosure
of land valuations. Tho price
varies as the distance from Ce-
lartown increases, and very
clearly demonstrates the fact that
as farming lands are nearer the
best markets and are most easy
of access their values increase.
Property owners have this year
put these valuations on their
amis by districts per acre :—
Browning’s if!!, Fish $3.50,
Seventeenth $4, Blooming Grove
$4.50, Lake Creek $5.50, Antioch
$0, Young’s $0.50,Esom Hill $5.05,
Rockmart $7.12,Cedartown $0.50,
Buncombe $5.10, Aragon $10.78.
Hie anarchist assassin who at
tempts the life of the President
>f our Nation, does not strike at
tho individual but at the govern
ment and at every citizen. Hence
the crime should be made pun
ishable as treason. for it is treu
ni in one of its most dangerous
forms.
The newspapers of the country
are congratulating Hon. Clark
i , , , , ■ .... wSecretarv of the Navy, resigning
dents and each time one of thefl,, . organize thel^°"’ e ^ on U' s promotion to the
Rough Riders” for our war witlif l' l,si . tirms <’ f president and editor-
in-chief of the Atlanta Con.Jli-
host-have been stricken down^'f P°“*i on .
by assassins’ bullets within tlio« 1 U( \ ers 01 Bin-chief of the Atb
past thirty-six years tins assassi--^ Govcrnor o{ New jtution, he having ac.p.ired a con-
'us d'Lh i°. r !i fr01 " ! he 01tl , lers '“fl York, and would have been r e-| trollil 'S interest in the Constitu-
diabolical motive. Lincoln“ e ] ec tod but for his nominationltion. Mr. Howell’s rise from re-
|\\asshotbv a misguided fanatic ud election as Vice President. Bporter to chief editor has been a
at the close of a bitter civil con
flict, and the hand of Booth in-?,him an excellent Chief £xecu-;
dieted upon the South a heavier§ tive > au(1 1,0 lias the ; ll0 P es and
scourge than that of war. Gnr-jrP™ 3 "*/ 8 °. f the ^T’ , re - ard
a ,, , , - sless of party or section, for Ins wise
field was shot by Guiteau, a half-ij laU( Ri n „ 0 f R le reins of office,
crazed,disappointed office-seeker. Si He lias urged all the members of
But Czolgosz, the assassin of| President McKinley’s CabinetL
President McKinlev, is an au-f'° retai " tlleir portfolios, and
archist and for 'the hrinirin.r| ,,as announced hls intention of , , .... .. . ~ ~— r '“‘
, ' , , , ^ ^ {following the course of public ,L RS still higher political honors
a lout ot anarchy he fired theip 0 ii 0V mapped out by his mar- >» store for this able and popular
fatal shot. To the dam liable! tyred predecessor.
-j llis experience should makeofgbrilliant record in journalism
si 1 :'”’ an , e , x '' e ! 1 5" t .iil hi i?Lii. Xe,,u :® a,ul the Constitution will score
still greater achievements under
less of party or section,for his'wise ^' s l eaders hip. llis army of
friends and admirers are expect-
a greater usefulness along
'the lines of his already brilliant
career, believing that Geor:
Democrat.
STATE SCHOOL ELNIl.
The public school system of
Georgia was established in 1871,
and the state appropriated $174,-
107 for its maintenance that
year.
The amount of tho state fund
for public schools has steadily
grown, until the sum of $1,505,-
127 will be spent this year for the
common schools of Georgia. This
fund is derived from a direct tax
levy of $800,000, the poll tax of
$250,014, one-half rental of W.
A A. road of $210,001), the liquor
licenses of $182,848, hire of stnte
convicts of $81,207, fees for oil
and fertilizer inspections, shows,
and Georgia road dividends.
Last year there were (100,870
children of school age in Georgia.
Of this large number, only -184,-
386 children were enrolled at
both common and local schools,
with an average attendance of
only 204,284 in the common
schools. The children were
taught in 7,850 schools, with
0,002 teachers. The state paid
$1,452,620 for this education, and
$423,287 were paid by local taxa
tion for local systems in addition.
Col. W. A. Hemphill, who lias
been president and business
manager of the Atlanta Oonsti-
titution for twenty-five years,
has sold his holdings in that great
paper and will soon retire from
active business. llis passing
from tlie stage of Georgia jour
nalism removes the last of a trio
of distinguished figures—Howell,
Grady and Hemphill—from the
leadership of the South’s greatest
newspaper since the civil war.
lie has been an active business
man, a leader in the state’s
broadest development and a con
spicuous exemplar of splendid
citizenship in private and public
life. Hosts of friends throughout
Georgia wish his remaining years
to be as peaceful and prosperous
as they have been successful and
helpful in the past. /
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