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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
MONKFY, LAUGH
hIAKE A,— lfll‘p !uper
Atlanta’s & Prohibition Advice to
Savannah Is Amusing.
[AW IS FLAGRANTLY VIOLATED
jn Shade of the Capitol Beer Is
Openly Sold in Atlanta’s Old Bar
rooms. Brings Forcibly to Mind
the Old Saw About Sweeping Be
sore Ones Own Door. The Stran
scr in Town Is Provided For, Too.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The way some
eople in Atlanta are lashing them
eives into righteous rage over re
sorted conditions anent the prohibi
iion situation in Savannah is enough
to make the proverbial brass monkey
g 0 into laughing convulsions. The
old saw about sweeping before the
doors of home before making excur
sions to other places where the
proom may be needed is hardly ap
plicable to the situation; for condi
tions in Savannah are treated under
the vague designation ‘reported’”
while the trash around Atlanta’s
door is well-known.
Big a Joke as Savannah’s.
1t is believed that a fairly honest
effort has been made to enforce pro
hibition in the capital city of the
state, but the situation is almost as
hig a joke as it is ‘‘reported” to be
in Savannah. While the Gal in the
Fountain no longer looks down upon
the refreshing mint julep and you
can get nothing more stimulating
than buttermilk in the Kimball
House bhar the man who cannot sat
isfy a desire to ‘‘tank up” here at
any time must be a pretty slow in
dividual indeed. There are no places
where you may walk up to a bar
and order a cocktail or a whisky
sour, excepting, possibly, some of the
clubs, but as for opportunity to gaig¢
possession of the ingredients, or re
liable and satisfying substitutes
therefor, there are a plenty. Even
the most particular in the matter of
drinking may find surcease for the
demands of the most refined palate
if he possesses friends of average in
fluence and acquaintance.
Sold Under Shadow of Capitol.
There are several scores of places
right under the shadow of the state
capitol where one may walk up to a
counter and call for Blue Ribbon,
Budweiser, Peel, Schlitz, and most
any other brand of malt liquor and
be served without question or hesi
tation. The man behind the bar will
not even pretend that the liquid he
served you is a substitute for or im
itation of these well known brands
of refreshments; but on the contrary
it you avow the least suspicion he
will take offense, and if you insist,
perhaps, place before your gaze con
vincing specimen with the label un
detached. The only way in which
the well-known beers differ, so far
as the best cultivated tastes can de
termine, is in that they are served
minus the usual label, precaution be
ing taken to wash that appurtenance
from the bottle before the article is
made a matter of public sale.
Near Beer Now Is Funny.
These places are in operation un
der at least the partial license of the
city and the state governments. As
for selling substitutes for beer or
near beer, such an intimation would
be a joke. Beers reputed to contain
more than 5 per cent. of alcohol are
sold; and in fact one of the popular
brands does its work of intoxication
so well and so rapidly that it has
earned the title of ‘‘near whisky.”
Competition is so rife that one firm
sends to New York for its goods in
order to get a brand of suitable ap
pealing strength.
Inducements for the Drinker.
Comfortable seats and tables are
supplied for the customers who may
desire to linger, a feature not per
missible under the old system.
There are screens, when in the old
days there were none. There are
lunches served free, to enhance the
attractions, a feature abolished in
the old days. There is the same old
counter, the same old mirror, the
same old pictures, and the same old
¢verything, excepting spirituous liq
uors, even to the proprietor and the
White-aproned bartender as in the
old days. And all are in the same
old places, almost without exceptions,
formerly used.
Breweries Break Record.
Despite Atlanta’s position as the
moral preceptor of the state the
breweries, local and foreign, are do-
THE SENATE WANTS TO KNOW OF
ROOSEVELT HOW HE SPENT MONEY
WASHINGTON.—Without debate
and without reference to committee,
the senate passed a resolution pre
sented by Senator Foraker calling on
the secretary of the treasury for an
itemized statement of the expendi
ture of the $300,000 approved by
the act of March 1, 1899, to be ex
pended at the direction of the presi
dent as an emergency fund.
This is the fund out of which de
ing more than in the last year of the
lbarroom days.
ior‘%fiers that would intoxicate an ox
oo Lourg openly as in Berlin,
but” TH ™ ie*s & ter of whiskey some
little tribute of hypocrisy is paid to
the law, However, it can be had at
most any time and in most any quan
tity. Within a few minutes’ walk
of police headquarters are three
blind tigers where various brands
of whiskey, ranging from ‘‘Lewis 66"
downwards, may be secured in bot
tled form by most any one not an
officer. Two of these places have
been in operation virtually since the
present law went into effect. There
are numerous others in various sec
tions of the city.
The Stranger in Town Fixed.
A stranger comes to town. An ac
quaintance gives him a card to a
club, where he finds everything carte
blanc. Conventions meet here and
delegates are given “open house’” at
one or more of the clubs, and it may
be taken as a fact, written down in
no spirit of eriticism, that none goes
thirsty because of inability to ob
tain refreshments. '
“STATE-WIDERS” TAKE TENN. i
By a Vote of 62 to 36 the Legislature
Passed “Dry” Bill. '
The bill to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquor in Tennessee has‘
passed the lower house of the gen
eral assembly. Fifty votes is a ma
jority. Twenty-two republicans voted
for and one against the measure.
The senate had previously passed the
bill by a big majority. |
The bill provides that prohibition
shall become effective July 1, 1909.
The battle attending the passage
of the bill was probably the fiercest
ever known in the Tennessee house
of representativs. The local option
or administration forces contested
every inch of the ground. Amend
ment after amendment was present
ed, and promptly voted down by
about the same majority as that
given the bill on final passage. A
great outpour of oratory came from
bhoth sides. .
HUDSON WAS FINED $l,OOO.
Judge Crisp Put a Heavy Fine on an
Americus “Tiger.”
One thousand dollars, together
with costs, was the maximum penalty
imposed by Judge Crisp of the city
court of Americus upon a plea of
guilty of violation of the prohibition
law.
Affidavits of physicians and citi
zens relative to the impaired health
of the defendant, W. B. Hudson,
alone prevented an altogether differ
ent sentence, opinion being that im
prisonment might be attended with
serious consequences.
Judge Crisp announced that upon
another conviction such plea would
be unavailing and imprisonment
would be imposed. The fine was
paid.
WOMAN AND SERPENT.
Modern Fashion Seems to Have
Reconciled Them.
Has the world-old enmity between
woman and the serpent been buried,
and has woman taken her ancient
foe to her bosom as model, pet and
adornment? Has she discovered that
there are many qualities in the crawl
ing creature worth emulating be
sides its wisdom, and is she pressing
them into service?
The craze for long, clinging gar
ments so tight that a wiggle has to
be substituted for a walk, has scarce
ly reached its height for all the
fashion magazines predict that gowns
are to become even more tight and
figures more serpentine. From Paris
comes the news that snakes and liz
ards, harmless but alive, are the mod
ish pets of the hour. This is not
a whim of that gay world of ac
tresses and professional beauties who
seize any means to attract attention,
but it is said that in many a fash
ionable boudoir of the most ex
clusive precincts of aristocracy and
wealtk there is a glass box contain
ing ‘“Lizette” and ‘‘Nanon,” instead
of the satin dog basket that has held
the place of honor for so many years.
In a recent Paris letter it is re
lated that the beautiful Duchess
d'Uzes, one of the smartest of the
old regime, has two fine specimens
of native snakes that were sent her
from Africa. Mrs. Harry Lehr fol
lows the fashion to the extent of
wearing a curiously enamelled snake
bracelet that seems almost alive.
The very newest importations and
creations in the exclusive shops in
clude many specimens of the snake
tribe utilized as necklaces, brace
lets, rings, purses, combs and even
garters.
tectives were paid $15,000 for their
gservices in investigating the Browns
ville affair. : i
SPENT $14,000 ON GOOD ROADS.
Lee county, according to the re
port filed the first of the year, spent
on roads and bridges last year
slightly over $14,000. It is intended
to improve the roads very fast an
other year, as much of the work
will be merely repair and surfacing.
DAWSON, GA.,, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1909.
PITY POOR MILLIONAIRES!
ONLY TEN OF THEM LEFT!
And Six of the Ten Are Women. Why, Just Think,
Thomas F. Ryan Has Only a Pittance of $lOO,-
000, According to His Tax Returns.
NEW YORK.—Only ten million
aires are left in New York ctiy, ac
cording to tentative personal assess
ments on the tax books for 1909,
and one of these is a new name.
While the number of men in the
millionaire class is decreasing year
after year the number of women is
increasing steadily, and this year
contains six names.
The ten millionaires are: An
drew Carnegie, $5,000,000; William
K. Vanderbilt, $1,000,000; John D.
Rockefeller, $2,500,000; Clifferd V.
QUEER DIVORGE REASONS
ONE WOMAN'S HUSBAND WOULD
NOT TALK; ANOTHER’S MADE
A NOISE EATING SOUP.
While Georgia is beginning to go
some as a divorce center there has
never yet been an allegation to the
fact that one or the other party
failed to talk enough. Generally
it is the very opposite, and too much
gab of an unpleasant nature is re
corded in the bill of pleadings for &
separation hereabouts.
San Francisco, however, comes
forward with a peculiar case in which
silence is assigned as the reason for
a separation. The mother of Fan
chon Lewis was the appellant in this
case, and the divorce was granted on
the following plea: |
“I would have suffered his abuse
without a word of complaint; I would
have listened to his insulting accu
sations without a sigh of protest; I
would have ignored all the other in
dignities, even to the point of let
ting him beat me if he only would
have opened his mouth to say some
thing.
‘‘Silence is terrible. For weeks at
a stretch he would say nothing. He
would sit for hours in the room with
us, sulking and speechless. He
would come and go..without a word
of greeting, without even a look of
recognition. And it was more than
I or any other woman could endure.”
It seems that the good woman’s
husband refused to speak to her for
some act she committed that he did
not like. Just why the lady went
weeks and weeks without conversa
tion when she could easily have dis
cussed the demerits of one neighbor
with another we cannot understand.
She could have joined any woman’s
club and thereby secured so much
talk that her husband’s speech would
never have been missed.
For fear that future women might
be placed in the same inconsolable
condition it might be just as weil,
while hubby is beaming, to have his
voice canned and then she could sub
mit to his silence in merry contempt
of his gloomy mood.
On the same day that this ’Frisco
union was destroyed a Mrs. Leider
of St. Louis also asked for and se
cured a divorce on novel grounds.
At Wesleyan College she had
learned all of the niceties of table
manners, and to put a proper value
upon the use of the fork, the spoon
and the knife. In her pitiful tale of
woe she recites that ‘‘consequently
the sight of a person eating with a
knife or the sound of soup gurgling
into the mouth, or the blowing of
one's nose at the meals or the im
bibing of liquids or semi-liquids by
the power of suction are sources of
excruciating pain and annoyance to
her.” Her husband, she stated in her
petition, *‘bends over his soup plate
with his head until his beard almost
dips into the soup and from the time
of lifting the first spoonful to his
lips until the last drop is drained
makes a noise akin to that of a saw
i)’
WILL: TAKE FOUR YEARS.
Debris of the Ruined City of Messina
Cannot Be Cleared in Less Time,
A Rome dispatch says the bom
bardment of the ruins of Messina
are being delayed so that no living
person will meet death from the ar
tillery fire.
The Italian senate has decided that
it will take four years to clear away
the debris at Messina.
The soldiers are suffering great
privations at Reggio and Messina,
and are saving the chicken bones to
prevent starvation.
It is now definitely ascertained
that the city of Messina shall be re
built, although a new site may be
chosen.
Military permits are needed now
to walk through the ruins of the de
vastated cities, and a strict guard
is maintained to prevent looting.
Intermittent earthquake shocks
continue to alarm the people in the
danger zone, and many prefer camp
ing in the fields to risking death in
their homes.
Brokaw, $1,500,000; Mrs. Russell
Sage, $5,000,000; Lilla Gilbert, $l,-
500,000; Alice G. Vanderbilt, $l,-
000,000; Countess Szechenyi, $l,-
000,000; Ida A. Flagler, $2,000,000.
Total, $22,000,000.
Practically all of the names of
men of wealth in the financial, pro
tessional and business circles have
been eliminated for one cause and
another. Thomas F. Ryan, head of
the Metropolitan, is down at $lOO,-
000. William W. Astor is down for
but $5,000.
MR. TAFT WILL HAVE TO FACE
QUESTION OF NEGROES IN
OFFICE IN SOUTH.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Not any
southern enemy or mischief maker
in particular, but just ‘“‘the Fates”
have fixed it so that about the first
thing Judge Taft will have before
him after he becomes president is
the opportunity of showing whether
or not he will insist on the appoint
ment of negroes to responsible offices
in the south over the protests of the
people who have to do business with
them. He is going to have the ques
tion put to him right straight and in
such a way that there will be but
two answers, ‘‘yes’” or ‘“no.”
The question will come up the day
he becomes president in determining
what is to be done with the postmas
tership at Florence, S. C. Joshua
Wilson, a negro, is the present post
master, holding office by appointment
of President Roosevelt, who appoint
ed him five years ago over the earn
est and united protest of the people
of Florence who were chiefly~ con
cerned and affected. Wilson’s term
expired last January, when President
Roosevelt, over another and a louder
protest, re-appointed him. The sen
ate did not confirm the appointment,
however. Wilson served on under a
recess appointment and is serving
vet. This week the president again
sent his name to the senate. The
senate is not going to confirm him
during the administration of Presi
dent Roosevelt, and when Judge Taft
becomes president a strong effort
will be made to have a white man
appointed.
Wilson is a perfectly harmless and
inoffensive negro. He is a retired
preacher, an old man, having the
only omne necessary qualification for
the office, that of being black. Judge
Taft will, therefore, have to decide
the question of whether color is to
outweigh all other considerations in
making s uthern appointments.
THREE WANT IT.
A Warm Fight Is on for the Cuth
bert Postmastership.
The Leader says the postoffice sit
uation in Cuthbert is becoming more
complicated and interesting.
Mrs. A. B. Bussey, who has filled
the position of postmistress for sev
eral years very efficiently, is an ap
plicant for re-appointment.
Mr. Chas. Taunton, formerly chief
of police and a prominent citizen,
wants the office. He is a recent re
publican convert.
The latest entry is Mr. H. J.
Knowles, a life-long republican. He
moved to this county from the north
west eleven or twelve years ago, and
has been engaged in farming, fruit
raising and dairying. He has been
in Washington, and is said to have
the backing of the congressmen and
senators from his former state.
Mrs. Bussey's term will expire on
February Ist, and the matter will
probably be decided very soon.
“A FAITHFUL OFFICER.” :
Says Anti-Saloon Organ of Mayor
Dick Marlin.
Under the above caption the Geor
gia Issue, the organ of the state anti
saloon league, said in its last issue:
‘“‘Hon. R. R. Marlin, Dawson’s new
ly installed mayor, proposes to show
no quarter to persons connected with
the illegal handling or selling of in
toxicating liquors in that city, as was
evidenced by his decisions in several
recent cases which were heard and
determined im the mayor’'s court.”
SHOULD BE PRESERVED.
Science Throws a New Light on
Swamp Lands.
Swamp science is more profound
than is popularly supposed. There is
a widespread idea that swamps, pure
ly as such, are disease breeding. But
this the swamp experts pronounce to
be simply prejudice. They state that
no non-alluvial swamp can be ob
jected to on hygienic grounds.
The Dismal swamp is said to be
free from malaria. Even the dark
water of such swamps is drinkable
and credited with special virtues by
some authorities. Now that it is con
ceded that malaria is spread by mos
quitoes even the muddy coastal
swamps, always reputed ‘‘malaria,”
have been robbed of most of their
terrors.
Most swamps, Dr. Roland Harper
thinks, should be preserved, because
they are so well adapted to for
estation, because they protect the
sources of streams, because they are
refuges for wild game and rare plants
and, lastly, for their beauty. It has
been stated that there is no evidence
in literature that the beauty of nat
ural scenery, even of mountains, was
fully appreciated anywhere up to a
century or two ago.
Even yet few people can see beauty
in a swamp, and many regard them
with aversion, but they will probably
be appreciated more hereafter than
they are now. Nature undefiled is
said always to be beautiful. And
swamps become repulsive to the na
ture lover only when they are partly
drained or contaminated with rub
bish or sewage.
UNCLE JOE CAUSED A STIR.
His Remark Had Members Searching
the Scriptures.
The house of representatives at
Washington received something of a
shock the other day. Towards the
end of the day’s sitting Minority
Leader Williams made some objec
tion to the Speaker’s interpretation
of the rules. “So far as the chair
is concerned,’” said Speaker Cannon,
“the rules are like the grace of God.”
Instantly there was a buzzing in the
chamber. What did the Speaker
mean? What was the grace of God
like? The members asked each oth
er the question, but none could an
swer satisfactorily. They all knew
that the idea was a religious one, and
suspected that Mr. Cannon must have
got it out of the Bible. Pages were
sent scurrying to the library for
copies of the Bible, and members de
voted themselves for a time to a
search for the reason why the rules
were like the grace of God. Finally
one particularly bright member de
cided that it was because divine grace
and the rules covered all men alike,
And so they let it go at that.
CAR CONTAINED CELESTIALS.
It Was Supposed to Be Loaded With
a Consignment of Furniture.
Six Chinamen, smuggled in a Tex
as and Pacific railway freight car,
were arrested at Fort Worth, Texas,
soon after a train arrived from El
Paso. The car was supposed to con
tain furniture. J. C. Anderson, the
consignee, was placed in custody,
charged with smuggling. The orient
als came from China through Mexi
co to Kl Paso, and were en route to
eastern states.
A $lO,OOO SWAN DINNER.
Most Gorgeous Entertainment in New
York’s History.
The appointment of Count John
Bernstoff as German ambassador 'to
this country recalls the famous swan
dinner which was given in a New
York restaurant in the early 'Bos by
the late Mr. Luckemeyer, his father
in-law. The gentleman was a
wealthy importer, and he received
from the United States government
the sum of $lO,OOO as a refund of
excessive auties exacted from him on
importations. He dedicated this sum
to a gastronomic monument, and
never in the history of New York
restaurants has such a gorgeous en
tertainment for a limited number of
guests been rivalled. Seventy-two
friends were asked. There was one
table covered with flowers, excepting
a space in the center, left for a lake,
and a border around the table for the
plates. This lake was an oval pond,
30 feet in length by nearly the width
of the table, enclosed by a delicate
golden wire network reaching from
table to ceiling, making the whole
one grand cage. In the lake swam
four swans, brought from Central
Park, surrounded by high banks of
flowers, which prevented them from
splashing the water on the table.
Golden cages with canaries were
hung from the ceiling, and the entire
room was one mass of flowers. It
was a dinner at which all the most
fashionable women of that day were
present. The menu was done in gold
and was long and elaborate, after the
fashion of that period. The hors
d'oeuvre was timable a la Conde,
and there were two soups, a releve,
three entrees, a sorbet, truffled chick
ens and saddle of mutton for the
roasts, two vegetables, a number of
sweets and ices.
THE NUMBER OF LYNCHINGS WAS
MORE THAN DOUBLED LAST YEAR
Notwithstanding the fact that law
and order leagues have become num
erous throughout the south, even in
smaller cities, law and order appears
to have gotten a setback in 1908,
there being 100 lynchings during the
past year as against 51 in the previ
ous year; 66 in 1905, and 87 in 1904.
In 1903 there wer 104. The num
ber had been decreased simce 1903
until the year 1908 came in.
VOL. 27--NO .17
Secretary Wilson Expects Every
Vine to Do Its Full Duty.
O ——eennet)
In Checking the Tendency Toward
Suicide in This Important Tuber.
Two Hundred and Seventy-Five
Million Bushles Not Near Enough
to Satisfy the American Appetite.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson expects every
American potato vine to do its full
duty. Furthermore he proposes te
do all in his power to check the ten
dency towards suicide which is de
veloping in this humble but most im
portant tuber.
Mr. Wilson has discovered that we
now raise something like 275,000,-
000 bushels of potatoes, which is not
nearly enough to satisfy the Ameri
can appetite. It is therefore neces
sary to depend In some measure on
the pauper potatoes of Europe to
make up the deficiency.
It is this fact Mr. Wilson proposes
to do. He plans to encourage farm
ers and market gardeners in the east
to pay more attention to potatoes,
to improve their methods of potato
raising. He wants them to use bet
ter seed and to cultivate the land
more carefully. Experts will take
this matter up with market gardeners
near the great centers of population
and will instruct them. The govern
ment will import better varieties for
seed purposes from Kurope, and ex
perts of the department of agricul
ture are at work developing improv
ed varieties. To some extent dis
eases of potatoes are responsible for
the decreasing yield. Efforts are be
ing made to develop varieties that
will resist disease more perfectly.
Another difficulty is that most farm
ers raise potatoes irregularly, plant
ing heavy when the price is high, and
thus flooding the market, and then
planting but a few when the price
declines.
BACON TOUCHED UP TEDDY.
Objects to Usurpation of Authority
by the President.
Senator Bacon introduced in the
senate a resolution declaring that
every public document in the files of
any department of the government
relating to any subject over which
congress has control shall be sub
ject to the inspection of members
of the senate.
Taking the floor to speak to his
own resolution Mr. Bacon said that
it was of especial importance be
cause of the recent message of the
president in which he stated he had
directed the attorney-general to give
information as to what he had done
in the bringing of a suit against the
United States Steel Corporation for
its absorption of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company.
Complaining that the language of
the president in his Steel Corporation
message had not been distinguished
by its extreme courtesy Mr. Bacon
proceeded:
“This is the first time that the de
nial of the right of the senate has
ever been made in such unlimited
and emphatic language as that now
employed by the president.”
Roosevelt not Square, Says Hale.
Senator Hale expressed the opin
ion that the president had not taken
a square ground upon the right of
congress to direct the transmission
of papers by the heads of depart
ments.
“I do not,” said Mr. Hale, “know
that that right has been questioned,
and I hope it never will be.”
Mr. Bacon said that the president
did not stop at questioning the sen
ate’s reasons for its inquiries, but
that he had said that the heads of
executive departments were subject
to the constitution, to the laws passed
by congress and to the direction of
the president of the United States,
and to no other direction whatever.
Broad as Language Can Make It.
“That,” said Mr. Bacon, ‘“is as
broad as human language can make
.
“Does the senator think from that
language that the president has com
mitted himself to the proposition
that congress eannot call upon the
head of a department for informa
tion and for papers and documents
in a department?’” inquired Sena
tor Hale, who added:
“I hope the president has not com
mitted himself to that proposition.”
Of the 100 lynchings last year 97
occurred in the south and 3 in the
north. Georgia scored 16 of them,
which fact is to be deplored. Seven
whites were lynched in the country,
and 93 negroes.
GRACHFUL AND UNGRACEFUL.
About the most graceful thing in
the world is woman, and the most
ungraceful thing is a bachelor hold
ing a baby. s