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BLINDED BY PREJUDICE.
Solin’ Striking SituntionM Into Wltlcli
Well Informed Persons KreLd.
There is no end of witchcraft and de
ception. Ve%r ago persons suspected of
the “strange infatuation” were thrown
into the water—-ifguilty of witchcraft,
they would drown.
For many years the world was shocked
at such inhumanity of man to man, but
if we were to declare that people are j>er
secuted to-day quite as remorsely as
were the so-called witches of old, our
statements might be received with great
incredulity.
But it is a fact.
If you do not believe it, enter any one
of the schools of medical practice, and
attempt to use a preparation which the
code does not recognize, or even to
recommend indirectly any popular reme
dy, such, for instance, as Warner’s cele
brated kidney remedy, and then relate
your experience.
Then you'll admit the fact.
Let us be frank with you, reader. We
tell you that this is downright bigotry.
Merit demands and is entitled to recog
nition, wherever found. If geologists
tells us that diamonds must always be
found in sand, would you not be a fool,
if you found one in gravel, not to take it
and “realize” on it?
Your friends would call you foolish. *
The trouble with the doctors is that
they uan’t cure advanced diseases of cer
tain forms, and they know it. And yet
they will not allow the use of any outside
proprietary medicine, which they know
has cured the disease.
For instance:
Kidney disease has no marked individ
ual symptoms. It produces all sorts of
symptoms of the commonest diseases.
.Not being able to treat the disease itself
with success, the bigoted physician treats
these symptoms!
But what good does that do? In or
der to stop the freshet, you must stop
the flood. It won’t do to try brushing it
away with a broom. •
Dr. J. G. Holland, whom all the world
admired as a teacher of sense, wrote in
Scribner's Monthly: “It is a fact that
many of the best proprietary medicines
of the day are more successful than many
Ph ysicians, and most of them were first
discovered and used in actual medical
practice.”
Dr Hobson, of the Royal Navy of Eng
land, enthusiastically endorses Warner’s
safe cure, as indeed do many hundreds of
thousands all over the world. The late
Dr. Dio Lewis, who almost never used
medicines, commended it highly and said
if he had any kidney disease he would use
it.
This evidence is conclusive.
Paralysis, consumption, pneumonia,
apoplexy, heart disease, general debility,
rheumatism, till these common disorders
tire often only symptoms of kidney dis
ease. Instead of admitting their inabili
ity to cure this disorder, doctors give
their attention to the symptoms. If
they cure one, another comes, and finally
death takes the case out of their hands.
Then they disguise the fact that it is
bright’s disease of the kidneys and say
that death came from paralysis, apo
plexy, rheumatism, heart disease, blood
poisoning, or some other of the names of
the direct effects of kidney disease. They
are not the real disease itself.
We do not believe every advertisement
that we read. Borne people may perhaps
regard this article as an advertisement
and will not believe it, but we are candid
enough to say that we believe the par
ties above mentioned have proved their
case, and under such circumstances the
public is uuwise if it is long influenced by
adverse prejudice.
A Waltzing Waiter
>'rom the Chicago Journal.]
The other day 1 chanced into a State
street cafe where the waiters are ebony
tinted and the style oppressive. While
waiting 1 for the serving of my modest
ordor 1 spent the drollest qnaiterofan
hour ever put in outside a minstrel show,
and came to the conclusion that a man
need not expend $1..00 for a theater
ticket to witness a good comedy any
more than lie need make the same ex
penditure to get a glimpse of the trage
dies of life. The waiter who presided
over my table was seemingly possessed
of the spirit of metrical inward tune.
He advanced upon the laying of his
service in staccato time: he dimunendoed
on the water-jug and ereseendoed in
passing 1 the pickles. He dropped a nap
kin and turned about three times t >
establish the perfect time ol his interior
measure. He went down the room in a
succession of quarter notes, and returned
m hemi-demi-semi-quavers. At last
catching, my eye fixed upon him,
he struck a series ol brilliant, octaves
and fairly hummed about his work like
the measures of a Straus waltz in double
quick. He turned about twice every
time he changed - a plate, and pirouetted
around the table between courses.
Finally he opened the door for me to
depart, with a wild evolution of gymnas
tic strides that seemed like the closing
chords in a splendjd bravura. I gave
him a dime lor his* performance, and
am willing to duplicate it any day when
1 feel an approach of ‘‘blue devils’’ in the
air.
Countryman (to hotel clerk)—l reckon
you’ll have to give me another room,
mister, Clerk —What’s the matter with
tlie one you have? Countryman—The
sign says, “Don’t blow out the gas.’
an’by gosh. I can’t sleep with all that
light in the room.—New York Sun.
OLD TIME KAI LHOADINO.
From tlu* Hartford, Conn., Time*.]
On May 11, 1840, the first passenger
train was run over the Hartford and
New Haven Railroad from Hart/ord. At
that time the New Haven terminus of the
road was at Belle dock, where connection
was made with the New York steamers.
The train mentioned consisted of a small
engine, a baggage car and a passenger
car, which was not heated in any manner.
The passenger car was a curious affair.
A platform inclosed by a railing ran
completely around the car, and upon this
platform all persons who wished to
smoke or who were not as neat about
their persons as the conductor thought
proper, were obliged to stand and were
transported at reduced rates. Avery
interesting passenger record, now in pos
session of Treasurer Fleetwood, of the
Consolidated Railroad Company, shows
that for several mouths after the first
train ran over the road no tickets were
sold, either on the train or at the sta
tions. The train was in charge of a con
ductor whose duties were to start the
train and direct the train hands. All
fares were collected by a man employed
expressly for this purpose. His name
was V. Reynolds. The record shows that
for months one train from Hartford to
New Haven daily was sufficient to ac
commodate the traveling public.
Mr. Reynolds was required to ascer
tain the name of each passenger and
record it, together with the amount of
fare collected, in a book provided him for
the purpose. The record shows that on
the first regular trip from Hartford to
New Haven Mr. Alcott rode to Meriden
and Mr. Smith paid his fare to New York.
No other passenger s were on the train.
Neither the first names nor the resi
dences of passengers are given, but sev
eral times the record says: “Collected
from Mr. Negro on outside, sl.” “Col
lected from Mr. Irishman outside, ft.”
Similar entries occur frequently in the
book, and the inference is that no colored
person was allowed to occupy a seat in
the car, and that laborers were treated
in like manner. The fare from Hartford
to New Haven was $1.50, and the fare
from Hartford to New York via steamer
from New Haven was $3.50. The first
train from New Haven to Hertford
carried twenty-nine passengers, which
included “Mr. Irishman on the outside.”
The total amount collected was $50.12.
The total amount of fares collected dur
ing the first month the road was in op
eration was $1548.02%. The general of
fices of the company were located at
Hartford, and Daniel Buck was President.
What “Peculiar” Means.
Applied to Hood's Sarsaparilla, the
word Peculiar is of great importance.
It means that Hood’s Sarsaparilla is
different, from other preparation* in
many vital points, which make it a
thoroughly honest and reliable medicine.
It is Peculiar, in a strictly medicinal
sense, first, -in the combination of re
medial agents used; second, in the pro
portion in which they are prepared;
third, in the process by which the active
curative properties of the medicine are
secured. Study these points well. They
mean volumes. They make Hood's Sar
saparilla Peculiar in its curative powers,
as it accomplishes wonderiul cures hith
erto unknown, and which give to Hood’s
Sarsaparilla a clear right to the title of
“The greatest blood purifier ever dis
covered.” jan 13-1 m
GETTING THE WORTH OF THAT HAM.
From the Paterson New Jersey Press ]
“John, have you charged that ham?”
asked a grocer of Ills clerk a few morn
ings since.
“What hum?” was the question in an
swer,
“The ham that was sold about ten
minutes ago.”
“1 did not know that a ham had been
sold. 1 did not sell any.”
“Well, 1 did and I don’t remember to
whom I sold it. Do you not remember?”
“This is the first 1 knew of any ham be
ing sold.”
The grocer thought he had lost the
price ot a ham. Not so with the clerk.
He looked over the list of orders and
tried to remember the persons that had
been in the store that morning. Then he
charged the ham to every one of those
persons,-seventeen in all.
The proprietor raised the clerk’s wages
and took a drink.
Doth anxiously watched the result. Of
the seventeen persons to whom the ham
had been charged just four did the kick
ing act; the rest paid their bills without
further inquiry, so the grocer got paid
thirteen times for the ham.
An 1 ss, ntial Provision.
Father, it is as essential for you to
provide a safeguard agajust. that night
fiend to your children, croup, as to their
hunger. Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
S,weet Gum and Mullein will cure croup,
'Roughs and colds.
A Boston newspaper man had in his
office a lad in whom he had taken an in
terest. The lad a short time since aston
ished his employer by submitting to him
a manuscript. It was a short dramatic
sketch. The newspaper man thought it
pretty bad, and said so. The lad, noth
ing daunted, took the piece to an Irish
delineator then playing at the Howard,
who *ead it and offered to try it for a
week, and if it were available to buy it
for S2OO. In due time the S2OO was
forthcoming. The newspaper man sim
ply cocked his eye at ironical fate and
thought ot his own play that had storm
ed managerial offices in vain.
Dr. Fierce's “Pleasant Purgative
Pellets” cleanse and purify the blood and
relieve the digestive organs.
PLUCY JOE BROWN.
Hl* Periodical Trip* to Dahlonega to Sell
the Comntoditie* of Life.
Drthlontjra Signal.]
1837 —Joe Brown, a poor country lad.
1888—United States Senator and mil
lionaire.
What a change fifty years will brings
and what encouragement the poor and
uneducated boy has if he will only do
right and shun the wrong!
A small bit of the history of Senator
Joe Brown's life is probably unknown to
some of the Signal readers, and was
picked up b3* a Signal man in one of his
strolls for news.
Dropping into the store of Mr. A, G.
Wimpy, probably the oldest merchant in
Georgia, he gave us this item: Along
in 1838 and after, when Mr. Wimpy
was doing business at his present stand,
the father of Senator Brown lived with
his large family in Canada district, Union
county. He was a poor farmer with a
large family to maintain, and the duty
devolved upon his son Joe to bring pro
duce here for sale, this being the nearest
and best market, and with the money
thus made buy the necessaries of the
family. When it came time for the visits
here Joe would saddle the only horse,
and with pails of butter in a sack, a string
of chickens thrown over his horse and
several baskets of eggs, the now great
“Uncle Joseph” would come here and dis
pose of his stock of goods, usually selling
them to Mr. Wimpy and in return he
would buy whatever the family needed,
and without tarrying or idling around,
go back to his home. Mr. Wimpy says
that many a dollar’s worth of these
things has he bought from the then
young and gaunt looking Joe Brown.
Young Joe was always regarded as a
shrewd young man, but little did any one
suspect that he would become one of the
foremost men of the South.
Borne years later young Joe’s father
moved to the upper part of this county,
on the Etowah river, and as Joe’s thirst
for an education had to be satisfied he
was sent to a high school in Pendleton,
B. C. After going there some time one of
his uncles saw in him great promises and
sent him to a college in New York, where
he graduated. He came back to Georgia
and from then on his success was mar
velous and the once poor country l.ad
who rode many miles to dispose of his
produce, in a few years rose to riches and
eminence.
The Senator often says that those days
were the r§ost pleasant ones of his life
time.
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How to Cure Rheumatism.
Maj. B. S. White, of Barnesville, Mary
land, had suffered from rheumatism in
the right shoulder for sixteen years. The
disease was complicated with indiges*-
tion and dyspepsia. He consulted sev
eral physicians and used various patent
medicines without permanent relief.
Relatives finally persuaded him to try a
course of B. B. B. As to the result he
writes as follows: “After using six large
bottles I was entirely well. The medi
cine got at the root of the disease and
eradicated it. With the disappearance
of the rJ&umatism also went the indiges
tion and d.\ spepsia. I havegladly recom
mended your B. B. B. to my neighbors
and countrymen, because I am convinced
of its efficacy, it having cured me in spite
of all prejudice.”
Rev. R. M. Pickens, the venerable Presi
dent of the Methodist Protestant Church
Of Bouth Carolina, some years ago was
attacked by neuralgic rheumatism, ac
companied by erysipelas. He suffered
great pain. His appetite failed him and
his heart became affected. He used a
great many kinds of medicine, but noth
ing gave relief. Finally hev was persuaded
to try the Swift Bpecific. In a letter
written from Greenville, President Pick
ens says: “I noticed a decided improve
ment while taking the first bottle. I
continued its use until I had taken about
one dozen bottles, when 1 found myself
sound .and well again, with no sign of
disease left except a stiffness in my hand,
a result of the erysipelas. While taking
the medicine 1 gained on an average two
pounds of flesh per week. I think S. S.
B. a valuable medicine, and 1 frequently
recommend it to 1113’ friends.”
Rev. O. W. Winkfield, of linion Point,
Ga., suffered 9 terribly for twelve years
from articular and sciatic rheumatism.
Up consulted numerous pli3’sicians and
tried all sorts of medicine. Finally he
began taking the Swift Specific as a for
lorn hope, and by its use he was en
tirely restored. He writes: “I feel like a
newinqn. 1 cannot attribute my miracu
lous and perfect cure to anything but the
Swift Specific. I know that it alone
cured me, for nothing else had done me
any good for twelve years. I owe 1113’
restoration and strength for labor and
religous duties alone to this grand reme
dy, and gladly make this statement for
the benefit of all sufferers from this most
torturing disease —rheumatism.”
Mr. W. F. Daley, Advertising Agent of
the Rrooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes:
“Inflammatory rheumatism swelled my
legs and arms to twice their natural
size. I suffered excruciating pain. Your
wonderful S. S. S. made a complete cure."
Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the
Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer,
Atlanta, Ga., writes:* “I have fully tested
the virtues of Swift's Specific, both as a
rheumatism cure and a tonic. It has
done even more than its proprietors
claim for it."
Treatise 011 Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. Thk Swift Specific Cos.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
First Citizen —“I see that there is a red
flag out just around the corner from
your house.” Second Citizen (alarmed)
—“What! a red flag?” First Citizen—
“ Yes: a case of smallpox, I hear.” Se
cond Citizen (relieved) —“Oh, smallpox.
My wife has just got back from the
country, and 1 was afraid it might be an
auction.”—The Epoch.
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The Exposition Did It,
Is how Mr. O. C. Johnson, of Beloit, Wis.,
(’Xpresses how he found out ivnat Tay
lor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Muillein was, and how efficacious it
is curing coughs, colds and croup.
Thn Corn mere lal Christian.
Editors Courant-Ambrscan : Through
the frieml of “A Devotee,” I learn that
hit* questions were asked in no bitterness
nor with any intention of injuring me,
I therefore ask a small space in your pa
j>er to explain myself and most humbly
leg pardon, and take back anything 1
said that was calculated to offend.
Now for the explanation. 1 will take
two men, “A” and ‘‘B.’’ “A” represents
the commercial Christian. He does right
for the hope of reward, or in other words
if he does not he will go to hell or miss
heaven. But for that he sees no use of
churches or a righteous life. So he vir
tually says to God 1 will give you my
prayers and keep y&ur commandments if
you will keep me out of hell and carry
me.to heaven. .It is a trader a bargain
or sale. His conduct is selfish, being in-
Such a man will be moral just
so long ami no longer than his morality
is consistent with the gratification of
self. Whether that is right or wrong, it
is a commercial transaction.
“B” does right from consideration of
love for the right, of devotion of the
whole soul to truth, purity, justice and
all the higher ideals of manly character,
acts from the spring of inexhaustible
force and power, the spring of love,
and his morality is not incidental, but
the very essence of his life and being his
morality is lived, regardless of any
celestial considerations of any kind, and
purely from a sentiment of consideration
and devotion to an ideal God. From
this the highest type of morality, he
grows into the spiritual. When the life
is lived in the presence of the thought
and sentiment of its relations to God,
of aspiration for communion with him,
of regard for his law, and veneration for
his person. This we call the spiritual
realm. The very essence of this life is
love, love to God as the supreme beauti
ful and lovable object of the souls aspi
ration and devotion. Now that is all I
meant and am surprised that any. other
construction was placed upon it.
Sorrowfully yours,
V. M. Ti mlin.
Over-Worked Women.
For “worn-out,” “run-down,” debili
tated school teachers, milliners, seam
stresses, housekeepers, and over-worked
women generally, I)r. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription is the best of all restorative
tonics. It is not a “Cure-all,” but ad
mirably fulfills a singleness of purpose,
being a most potent Specific for all those
Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar
to women. It is a powerful, general as
well as uterine, tonic and nervine, and
imparts vigor and strength to the whole
system. It promptly cures weakness.of
stomach, indigestion, bloating, weak
back, nervous prostration, debility and
sleeplessness, in either sex. Favorite
Prescription is sold by druggists under
our positive guarantee. See wrapper
around bottle. Price $ 1.00 a bottle, or
six bottles for $5.00.
A large treatise on Diseases of Women,
profusely illustrated with colored plates
and numerous wood-cuts, sent for ten
cents in stamps. Address, World’s Dis
pensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. V.
No More of the B*-ll Hope
The bell rope running from end to end
of the passenger train and attached to
an alarm bell in the locomotive cab has
been superseded by an automatic train
air signal on the Cleveland and Pitts
burg road. The new signal is a Westing
house patent, and consists of the follow
ing: On the locomotives, a reducing
valve in the main reservoir, with an
auxiliary reservoir with diaphragm
valve attached, while in the cab directly
in front of the boiler, is a small whistle.
The cars are fitted up with a signal valve,
to which is attached a cord extending
through the car and made fast at each
end, and the cars are not coupled with
the cords. The connection betiveen the
engine and cars is made through a line
of pipe and couplings running parallel
with the brake-pipe, but nearer the cen
ter of line of the car and lower down.
The couplings are united and separated
in the same manner as the air-brake
couplings. The new signal is a great
improvement over the old. The con
ductor has the train at his entire com
mand. Should a train break in two
while running there is no dangerous bell
rope to slash right and left through the
car. Should the coupling become loose
or the air connections imperfect the
engineer is warned by a continuous
blowing of the whistle.
Ail Untimely Deatli.
An untimelydeath so often follows neg
lect of a slight cough or cold. If Tay
lor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein is taken in time it will prevent
any evil results. It cures coughs, colds
and consumption.
An aged and wealthy gentleman of
Americus, Ga., died not long ago, and
his family clad his body in the finest
garments that could be bought, and
buried it ip a S3OO coffin. Recently it
was discovered' that the coffin had been
dug up. the body taken out and stripped
of its clothes, and then buried again by
the thieves, who stole everything but the
corpse.
A January Thaw
is* both disagreeable and unhealthy. The
sudden change often causes sickness.
Good digestion, regular bowels, and a
clear head resist the debilitating effects
of a thaw. Paine s Celery Compound is
the only medicine that gives ali three.
Irate neighbor—See here, Mr. Blank,
I got tired of having old tin cans thrown
into mv yard, and this morning 1 went
to your house and gave your wife a
piece of my mind. Mr. Blank—Well!
well! I knew you were no slouch, but 1
didn’t suppose you were such a dare
devil as that. —Omaha World.
FIELD SEEDS!
Rye,
Barley,
Orchard Grass,
Red Top,
Blue Grass,
Timothy,
Clover, &c.
AT BOTTOM PRICES
-* ■
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“BY~
DAVID W. CUHEY,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST,
Broad St. Cor. Howard, ROME, GA.
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of which we have the latest and most unique design.
We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully,
PEACOCK <& VEAL,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
JOHN T. NORRIS,
Real Estate and Fire Insurance,
(U^ST^VIE-S.)
First Door South. *of Howard’s Bank.
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"THE HOWARD BANK,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Does a General Ranking Business. Deposits received, subject to check. Exchange bough-*n :
sold. Collections made in all p;irt> of the United States. Di.-counts desirable paper. A); accom-
consistent with saiei v extended to its customers.
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ELYS Catarrh
Cl c “apis
Heals the Sores, gi|
Restores thellL^
Senses of Taste
and Smell. usjU
TRY the
CATARRH
is a disease of the mucuous membrane, generally
originating in the nasal passages and maintain
ing its stronghold in the head. From this point
it sends forth a poisonous virus into the stomach
and through the digestive organs, corrupting the
blood and producing other troublesome and
dangerous symptoms.
A particle is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at druggists; by mail,
registered, >0 cents. ELY BROTHERS. 235
Greenwich St., New York.
It !•
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name on a r?eka"c c ■ .s ;
guarantee of ex.cel.ollo3.
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Ah - y
COFFEE is kept i:\ r'.l
stores irum vhc Atlantic zo uo
COFFEE
is never good when exposed to the air.
Always buy this brand in hermetically
sealed ONE POUND PACKAGES.
facts you can bet on.
That the oldest and largest tobacoo factory in tin
•world is in J ersey City, N„ J
r. ; this factory makes the popular and work*,
famed Climax Plug, the acknowledged stand
ard for first-class chewing tobacco.
That this factory was established as long ago am
That iastyear (ißß6)it made and sold theenor™.
‘ quantity of .7,98*28° to. at ■*-
sand tons of tobacco.
That this was more than one-severEh erf
bacco made in the United States notwith
standing that there were 966 factories at work.
That in the last si years this f**ory has helped
support the United States Government to the
extent of over Forty-four million seven hun
dred thousand dollars ($44,700,000x10) paid
into the U. S. Treasury in Internal Revenue
Taxes.
That the pay-roll of this factory is about siycv
000,00 per year or $20,000.00 per week.
That this factory employs about 3,390 operative*.
That this factory makes such a wonderfully good
chew in Climax Plug that many other factories
fiave tried to imitate it in vain, and in despair
now try to attract custom by offering larger
pieces of inferior goods for the same price.
That this factory nevertheless continues to increase
its business every year.
Ifcjst this factory belongs to and is operated by
Yours, very truly,
P. LORILLARD A CO-
Jo3an T.Owea;
Real Estate & Life & Fire lusnraiiet
A3-BITT,
The interest of patrons carefully cor>' ,it
erms reasonable.