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THE CO UR ANT AMERICAN.
VOL. XIX.
11l arp on
I HIKS MID DOCS.
I Change of Name for Cartersville
| Might Be
IpPROPHIATE TO CONDITIONS.
■ jors that Jar the Senses and No
if oemeay Seemlr.glv at Hand.
I what Must We Do?
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I “Beware of dogs,” saith the apos-
I] It is a wonder that he dident
■jd “and hogs” for he was and Jew
■nd had no love for them. In fact,
■•hen the devils were cast out they
Book refuge in swine, and ran down
■nto the sea. I wish we had some
■evils and a sea around here—we
Kave got the swine. Why not
Ime our town hogtovvn or dog-
■ oV vn or hog-dogtown or porko-
Jolis or canineana or some name
■hat would advertise its principal
Business. The outside public ought
K know what we are doing on
■these lines. There are more pigs
in pens and more dogs out of pens
|iu this town than in any town of
■its size in the state. The open
■grove in front of my house is a
|dog park, a dog bah ground,where
■the canines of all kinds and colors
■love to congregate.
■‘•For in this town more dog* are found
■ Than ever you did see,
■ Mongrel, puppy, whelp and bound
■ And dogs of low degree.”
I That’s doggerel but its true.
■ Almost every afternoon can be
■ seen from our veranda three black
■ dogs, two red dogs, four spotted
■ dogs, one blue dog, one yaller dog
■ and several flees with occasional
■ visitors of other breeds, such as
I pointers that never point and set
iters that never set, but they are
very fine flea breeders and scratch
amazin. Nearly every white man
and boy in town has one or more
that follows him around or lies
loose in his piazza or store or of
fice and scratches fleas with un
broken diligence. Every nigger
has one or more that sneak around
for a living by day and by night.
Sometimes a lady can hardly get
into the postoffice for dogs, and if
a man kicks one out of his way the
owner of the impertinent brute is
offended. He thinks we ought to
take our hats off and say “good
morning, dog.” Walter Akerman
has a card iii the postoffice to pro
mote public cleanliness, but the
dog can’t rea .i it. He ought to put
up another in dog latin. My dog
matic opinion is that a dog who
does not stay at home is not fit to
be a dog. He is a doggoned nui
sance and ought to be abated. The
dog star rages for 40 days, but
these sublinary dogs afflict us all
the year round. Why can’t we
have a dog ordinance passed? I
have two aogs. One is 17 years
old and draws a pension. He never
leaves home. He is deaf and near
ly blind and has lost his bark. We
heep him for auld latig syne, for
he was always a gentleman dog, an
aristocrat and devoted to the chil
dren. fhe other is a yaller purp
half grown, half shepherd, half
ound, half caucassian, half nig
ffer, and the other half just dog.
e carries off the children’s shoes
and hats and dolls and chews them
U P - is not grown but can
stand on his hind legs and sneak a
biscuit off the shelf. He is a tramp
an plays with the other tramp
°gs in the grove and escorts them
otne and comes back when he gets
“‘5 aud wili not pay tax on him,
ad now notify all the nabors to
L Ck ilu > stone him, stick him,
fnoothun or cut his tail off just
T™. h,s ears. I shall disown
u disinherit him. Before long
2c /s going to cost me 50 cents —
or strychnine and 25 for dray
tu . Ultdl bogs, pigs and swine
Den! r , ais ed in pens. There are
ar n D l^ree .sides of us, and they
doer!- oCCu Pi e d. The scent of a
nicr S "onderful but the scent of a
of 1S ran kest compound
fend f Ulous sm ells that ever of
forced nost . rds - We have been
rand ? retue from the front ve
noon and PeCia - ly lare in tbe after
dews mat at ior tbe evening
more i ke the odor more thicker,
Cctr/, t? ' Cobe would *y
\Ve , an . f . iy an °P en window,
and spend l ° Ur nabors t 0 call
mayor that we mvite the
take tea ~d ; lo Uncil t 0 cotne U P and
J Us some evening and
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 28, 1900.
have the tea tables set in the front
piazza. But maybe some of them
have hog pens of their own and
have got acclimated and become
immuues. The doctors tell me
that a man can snuffle up his own
hog pen until he rather likes it.
The dollars outweigh the scents.
Those merchants up Main street
can’t smell rotten cabbage nor
ditch water nor odor de Afrique.
They have got used to it and the
scent of a tube rose would knock
’em down.
It may be however that there is
a difference between a white man’s
pig pen and one of African scent
and descent owing to race color
and previous condition. If the pen
is mightier than the sword then a
niggers pig pen is mightier than
half a dozen swords. It is as hor
rible as cologne. I mean the city
of Cologne where Coleridge says
he “counted two a id seventy dif
ferent stenches and several stinks.”
He dident like Cologne and wrote
of it:
“Tlie river Rhine it is well known,
Doth wash the city ot Coiogue,
Hut tell me pray what power divine
Has ever washed the river Rhine.”
Onr new' marshal has been vigi
lant and diligent and ordered a
general cleaning up of my nabors’
pig pens, but it dident last three
days. They have other perfume
factories besides pig pens, and the
odors mix and reach to our olfac
tories as bad as ever. The 72
stenches have come back and bring
with them microbes and bacteria
and 15th amendment odors all com
bined.
Dr. Calhoun says that these
odors are unhealthy aud produce
disease and that he now has a pa
tient, a woman, who is seriously
ill, and he told her it was hog pen
effluvia and asked why she dident
report it to the city marshal, and
she said she was afraid it would
make her nabors mad. Avery
clever citizen who lives right in
the heart of town boasted to me
how much fat pork he raised every
year on his own lot and that he
had enough shoats fattening now
to bring him fifty dollars, and they
hadent cost him a cent. One of his
nabors told me that those shoats
cost his family a good many scents
every night. When will this thing
stop? You can’t find a hog pen in
Marietta nor Rome nor Dalton nor
any other decent town. Why don’t
the city fathers stop it for public
decency? Why don’t the doctors
stop it for sanitary reasons—why—
Biel Arp.
P. S:—Mr. Wofford told me that
the dogs ruined an acie of fine
wheat for him. They played tag
in it every night and at last he
baited taem with strychnine and
killed nine in a week. Hogs,
dogs,bogs, fogs, grogs, clogs, frogs
andpollywogs have a bad ending.
B. A.
RESIDENCE BURNED.
Home of Mr. W. C. Goode Burned to
the Ground In Day Time.
The residence of Mr. W. C.
Goode, in the southern part of
town, was burned to the ground
last Friday morning about eleven
o’clock.
Mrs. Goode was cooking pre
serves, on the stove, and noticed a
quantity of smoke issuing from the
ceiling around the stove flue. She
stepped out into the yard and told
Mr. Goode, who had just come in
from the field, that the house was
on fire.
By this time the blaze had bro
ken through the shingles and
spread rapidly over the house. Mr.
Goode tried to extinguish the
flames with water, but finding that
he could do no good, set to work to
save his furniture, and succeeded
in getting out a good p trt of it,
though some of it was lost in the
flames. ,
The house was owned by Mrs.
Pinkerton, and was a total loss.
A TRIP TO COLD MOUNTAIN-
The Last ot the Series of Summer
Sermons on Cool Subjects.
Next Suuday night at the Bap
tist church the pastor, Rev. A. W.
Bealer, will preach the last of the
scries of summer sermons on cool
subjects. The subject of the dis
course will be “A Trip to Cold
Mountain.”
At the morning service Mr.
Bealer’s subject will be “The who,
when, where and how of public
worship.” This will be a sermon
for all of those who ought to at
tend church. If there are any
such in Bartow county they are
cordially invited to be present. All
strangers in the city, those who
worship in the park and the train
committee, are cordially invited to
attend these services.
PETTITS CREEK
FARMERS' CLUB.
Annual Picnic Held at Mrs- Mary
D Freeman’s-
A MOST PLEASANT OCCASION.
Elexant Spread Under the Grand
Old Oaks Which Shade the
Beautiful Lawn.
The Pettit’s Creek Farmers’ Club
held their annual picnic at the
home of Mrs. Mary D. Freeman
last Friday aud a more delightlul
day was never spent by a picnic
party.
The Pettit’s Creek Club is prob
ably the oldest farmers club in this
section of Georgia, and it has been
their custom since its organization
to hold an annual picnic where the
members and their families and in
vited guests may assemble and
spend a day together for social en
joyment.
The home of Mrs. Freeman,
which is about six miles from Car
tersville, on the Tennessee road, is
an ideal place for an occasion of
this kind, and the selection of a lo
cation for the annual picnic could
not have been better. The expan
sive lawn shaded by massive oaks
of the original forest, with the
house located about the center of
the grove forms a pretty and invit
ing picture.
The club is composed of fifteen
members, all sterling and pro
gressive farmers, and an invitation
to their annual picnic is always
eagerly accepted. There were sev
eral hundred people present on
this occasion and it was a jolly and
congenial crowd. The children
romped and played games on the
lawn, the young people danced
and talked and sang, while the
elder ones looked on and enjoyed
the entrancing scene.
The dinner was spread at noon
upon long tables on the lawn and
the good things brought forth from
the numerous baskets, which had
been prepared by the ladies of the
club, formed an elegant aud tempt
ing repast which was greatly en
joyed.
In the afternoon Judge Akin
introduced Rev. A. W. Bealer in a
few well-timed remarks, and Mr.
Bealer made an interesting and en
tertaining talk.
Several young ladies entertained
the party with recitations, songs
and music, and altogether it was a
day long to be remembered by the
large number present.
THEY MEET FRANK STANTON,
To Miss Kitty Conyers Will be Dedi
cated a Poem Soon.
On a recent visit to Atlanta,
while little Misses Kitty and Bes
sie Conyers being shown over
the Constitution building by friends,
they were invited into the sanctum
of Frank L. Stanton, the poet.
Nothing could have pleased the
children more, as they are both
great admirers ot his and know
many of his short poems. Being
requested by Mr. Stanton, they re
cited several of his pieces, which so
pleased him that he presented them
with a book of his poems, and
promised to dedicate an especial
poem some day soon in his Con
stitution column to Kitty, telling
her to “watch out now.”
The little girls continued their
pleasure trip and sight seeing, but
nothing during the day so pleased
them as this little incident.
AN IMPORTANT CASE-
Judge Fite Goes to Atlanta to Hear
Argument Today.
Judge A. W. Fite will go dow
to Atlanta today to hear the case f
the State of Georgia vs Southei..
Railway which involves the title to
the right of way to the six or seven
miles of track where the Southern
railway runs parallel with the
Western and Atlantic railroad just
south of Dalton.
The state contends that the right
of way belongs to the state and
that the Southern railway should
pay rental for the use of the ground
while the Southern railway con
tends that it has a right to the use
of the ground upon which the track
is laid without paying rent,
Judge Fite goes to Atlanta for
the accomodation of the lawyers
engaged in the case and will hear
the law and the facts at the state
library. The case will consume
three or four days.
MANGLED UNDER
CAR WHEELS.
Awful Fate of Young Will Gammon,
of Rome-
AFTER SWINGING FREIGHT CAR
He Jumps to the Ground and Falls
Beneath the Wheels Which Run
Over Bosh Leas.
Young Will Gammon, of Rome,
met with a tragic death last Fri
day.
A base ball club composed of
young men of some of the best
families of Rome, of ages ranging
along about seventeen and calling
themselves the Rome Juniors, came
over to Cartersville to play a se
ries of three games with the youn
ger ball players here. The first
two games were played Thursday
afternoon, the Rome boys winning,
and Friday morning the Carters
ville boys being the victors. The
rub game was to have been played
Friday afternoon. The Rome and
the Cartersville boys had got real
chummy, and while on the way to
the grounds that afternoon some
of the reckless and daring of our
boys proposed to the Rome boys
that as a freight train was passing
that would go by the grounds they
swing on and jump off, thus saving
the walk. Several Cartersville
boys swung the Gain at the cross
ing about the E. & W. depot and
also two of the Rome boys, one of
whom was Will Gammon. The
speed of the train had increased
considerably by the time it reached
the Willterson crossing nearly 400
yards away, and here the boys all
jumped off. They had swung to
the ladders on the sides of the
ffight cars, Some of the boys were
whirled around violently as they
jumped, one turning a summer
sault. Young Gammon spun
around like a top as he hit the lit
tle bridge at the crossing. It had
been raining and the bridge was
slippery. The youth’s feet shot
under the car and in an instant the
ponderous wheels went grinding
over his legs. Jim Baker, a Car
tersville boy, was near by and
jumping rescue, pulled him
from under the train. The boys
who were walking to the grounds
saw him fall and went quickly
to where he was and as soon
as possible the two doctors, Dr.
Calhoun and Dr. Griffin, were with
him. He was carried to the Bar
tow house. It was found both
legs were terribly mangled, the
left one being mangled higher up
and mashed to a pulp. Young
Gammon bore his injuries heroical
ly, talking with the other boys
around him until the physicians
reached him.
A telephone message was sent
to his father in Rome and the re
quest came that amputation of the
limbs be postponed, as the father
and Dr. Battey wished to come
over on a special. The special
could not be arranged for, so the
young man’s mother, with his
brother, Prof. Montague Gammon,
and Dr. Battey came over on the
regular train reaching here at 5:47.
The doctors here saw the young
man’s condition was critical and ex
pressed the belief that he would
die under the nervous shock re
ceived, in which opinion they were
correct and Dr. Battey agreed with
them. The operation was aban
doned with the hope that possibly
he could be brought through the
shock. The local doctors admin
istered nitroglycerine to keep the
young man alive.
The physicians and relatives
and friends could only await de
velopments.
The young man’s mind began to
wander before his mother arrived.
He never recognized her after she
came. He died at 8 o’clock.
Mrs- Sam Jones evinced an anx
ious interest in the young man as
soon as the accident occurred. As
soon as the body was dressed she
made the request that it be carried
to her home, which request was
granted, the mother and brother
accompanying The remains were
carried to Rome on the 10 o’clock
train Saturday.
Will Gammon was 17 years of
age and was the son of M. J. A.
Gammon, a retired clothing mer
chant of Rome. He was a manly
young fellow, of fine moral char
acter, and was popular with all
w.io knew him. He played second
base in the first of the match
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games here aud pitched in the se
cond. He was pronounced the
handsomest boy on the team.
A singular fatality seems to at
tach to the family of which he was
a member. He had a sister hor
ribly burned and a brother, Von
Gammon, lost his life from injur
ies received in a football game in
Atlanta in 1897.
Speaking of the arrival tf the
remains in Rome the Tribune says:
“The remains of young Will
Gammon, who died in Cartersville
Friday night, were brought home
yesterday morning at 11130 o’clock
over the Rome railroad.
“The train stopped in front of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gammon’s
home at the foot of Third avenue.
The young boys composing the
Rome junior baseball team, and of
which the dead lad had been a
member, bore the silent form of
their companion from the car to
the grief-stricken home.
“Through the rose-embowered
yard and under the grateful shad
ows of the great trees they walked
with bowed heads and saddened ;
hearts bearing the casket wherein I
lay the still and tranquil body of
he who had gloried in this beauti
ful home only a few brief hours
before.
“It was a sorrowful home coming
for the mother, father, brother and
sisters, and few can understand
their terrible anguish. It was so
akin to that awful tragedy of three
three years ago, when Von Gam
mon, strong, beautiful ar.d brave
j|n his splendid young manhood, j
was brought to the same home, j
cold and voiceless in death.”
An Ignorant Boy.
“I think it would be a good plan
to send Willie up into the country
for a month,’’ suggested Willie’s
father. “He has never been on a
farm, and it would be rather a
novel experience for him.”
“No, you dou’t,” interrupted
Willie. “I’m not going anywhere
where they have thrashing mach
ines. It’s bad enough when it’s
done by hand.” —Exchange.
A Railroad With No Tunnels-
The new trans-Siberian railway,
when compete, is to be the safest,
cheapest, and most comfortable in
the world. The safety of the Man
churian line is due to the flatness
of the regions traversed, not a sin
gle tunnel being necessary between
the Ural and the Amour; that is to
say, from one end of Siberia to the
other.
HERE IS AN APPEAL.
A Lady Would Have Sweet Mem-
I ones Still Clintf to Old Ruins.
i The Courant American has re
ceived the following from one of
its lady readers:
“I see that the Cooper iron
works is .-old You know the lack
1 of revere nee for the past that char
acterizes some people,- and it is pro
bable that tli ■ owners will pull
down ail the old ruins and Stacks;
nay, perhaps even the Cooper
monument itself, for they would
rather the honors of the place
I should attach to their own names.
“We all know' the legends of
this place, and how it is said that
no couple can visit it and come back
unengaged. Hence the many ma
neuvers of my sex to get a young
man to go riding with us there.
What refuge or offensive scheme
would be left us if they took away
the old ruins! It would make me,
for one, very sad to see destroyed
the ruins amid which we stioiled,
and sitting on the rocks of which
my hu c band first said those sweet
words so dear to every woman’s
heart. It was in the window of
the old mill building. Many hearts
will beat faster at the thought of
this same building.
“Can’t you publish an editorial
on it, or put in my humble appeal
—this letter —and stir up our peo
ple on it. I’m sure every man and
woman in our town or county w-ill
sign a petition to the owners to
leave all the old stacks and ruins.
They could do this and never miss
the space or interfere with their
making of the •almighty dollar.’
Let us preserve the old landmarks
and the romance and traditions of
our fair county. Let us make a
plea for the ruins even if the alien
possess the lands of our faihers.”
“Very sincerely,
“A Reader.’’
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