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THE DAWSON NEWS.
By E. L. RAINEY.
THE PRESIDENT GETS $383,000 A YEAR
The Salary_Paid Him Is a S# s
Part of What He Receives.
GETTING AROUND THE IAW
Many Things Come His Way at Pub
jic Expense That Other Men Pay
for Out of Their Pockets. Items
of semi-Private Nature That Are
{or His Benefit Ran Up Into Thou
«ands of Dollars.
WASHINGTON.—The president’s
ompensation—you must not say
“aqlary;” that would be disrespect
ful—is still up for consideration. It
is still uncertain whether it is to be
$lOO,OOO a year, $50,000 or $75,000.
At present it is $50,000. That is,
$50,000 is the popular idea of what
it is, for that is the salary specified
py law. But, as we all know, there
are ways of getting around the law
and even the constitution, for in the
historic words of a New York as
semblyman, ‘“What’s the constitution
petween friends?”’
The constitution provides that the
compensation of the president shall
not be increased or diminished for
any president during his incumbency,
and it further provides that the pres
ident shall not accept any emolu
ment. Last year, in spite of this
clear prohibition by the constitution,
congress voted President Roosevelt
$25,000 for traveling expenses, to be
used as he should see fit. The argu
ment was, of course, that it was not
“compensation,” neither ‘‘emolu
ment;”’ but so it was not only ar
gued but actually decided by the sec
retary of the treasury, Mr. Leslie M.
Shaw, I believe, that frog legs was
poultry.
What Other Men Have to Pay For.
Jt may interest the public to know
exactly what the president of the
U'nited States does get of the things
which other men have to pay for out
of their pockets. First, he gets the
$50,000, termed ‘‘compensation.”’
He need not spend any of that unless
he especially desires to, except for
the two items of food and clothes, of
which, when you come to look at it
as any sensible American ought to,
should not be more costly than the
food and clothes of the average
Anierican citizen. In fact, the presi
dent is in this respect somewhat like
the preacher is supposed to be in the
community—unfortunately supposed,
however, for the preacher—that is,
e has so many good things sent him
for his table that he does not need
a great deal of cash for that pur
bose. And the admiring and adver
tising American public would gladly,
and do, to a great extent send him
clothes, too; and not old -clothes
either, like those sent the preacher
sometimes, but bran new, spick and
span “'sto’ bought” clothes.
Generally and rightfull considered,
the president must buy clothes for
himself and his family and food for
his table. But that is about all of
his actual expenses, except of course,
the education of his children. The
white house is given him for his resi
dence, and last year an appropriation
01 §35,000 was voted for ‘“‘ordinary
'epairs of the white house and main
tenance.” No wonder Senator Bai
ley exclaimed: “Mark you, ‘“‘ordi
nary,’ What would it be if it were
¢Xiraordinary?” Mr. Bailey further
'vmarked that he quite agreed that
the president’s salary of $50,000 was
Out of all proportion to the amount
bent annually for “‘ordinary’’ repairs
on his house.
A Few Other Little Things.
_ Desides the appropriation of this
220,000 for fixing up the white house
lere was an additional $4,000 for
lmprovements on the white house
stounds. Congress appropriated also
$6.000 for fuel in the white house
@il the greenhouse and stables of
the president. And then the little
i of $9,000 was given the presi
‘ent for the care and maintenance of
‘e white house green nouse. That
s about $250 a day, every day in
'he yvear, for the mere matter of
owers. Senator Bailey made the
tilement that this would run two
“r three farms in his state. Then
e president gets the $25,000 for
raveling expenses. All these are
ATLANTA NIGH BEER GETS STRONGER;
STREET RAILWAY CO. ISSUES ORDER
ATLANTA.—The near beer saloon
4bpears to be going through a pro
cess of evolution, or, rather, it might
be called atavism, for its tendency is
backward toward the old-time arti
{ ]‘)'
First the city licensed and put re
“trictions upon it, then the state
taxed it, Now there is talk in At
inta of putting still further restric
''ons upon it, among them fixing the
Closing hour at 10 o’clock as in the
‘4Be of the barrooms before the days
of prohibition. At present they keep
“hen as late as they wish, often until
Dozjer ' ofher officials of the
e 333.5 most private
citizens, Musc' .| 9% their own
pocket, and are, of right, to be in
cluded in the amount of “‘compen
sation” the president gets. Includ-
Ing the first $50,000 it all amounts
to $129,000.
'But in adaition to this amount for
private use there are other items of
a semi-private nature. In the first
place there is an item of $25,000 for
“contingent expenses of the executive
lofli(‘e, including stationery therefor,
as well as record books, telegrams,
telephones, hooks for library, furni
ture and carpets for offices, horses,
carriages, harness, automobiles, ex
penses of stable including labor, and
miscellaneous items, to be expended
in the discretion of the president.”
It can be easily imagined how a lib
eral constructionist such as our pres
ent president is construes “in the
discretion of the president.” So we
may add that item to the $129,000
appropriated for things which other
men pay for out of their pockets.
Most of Them Personal.
None of these items have to do
with the official duties of the presi
dent, except, of course, that part of
the contingent fund he uses for sta
tionery, record books, telegrams, etc.,
and the carriages and automobiles
properly used for official purposes by
himself and his official helpers.
For the official staff of the presi
dent congress appropriated last year
$69,920. There are a number of oth
er items not mentioned, such as $2,-
000 for printing invitations and that
sort of thing, electricity and lighting
of the office and white house grounds,
laundry, etc.. In all it has been fig
ured out by one republican congress
man, Mr. Madden of Illinois, that
congress is appropriating for the
president’s use, personal and official,
the sum of $383,000 annually. Oth
ers, who do net include a number
of items for strictly official duties by
the president and his staff of secre
‘taries, figure out the total of $229,-
000.
| Now it is proposed, and the senate
has actually voted, to give the next
president straight “‘compensation,”
‘besides the perquisites mentioned
above, of $lOO,OOO, instead of $50,-
000 as at present, leaving out the
one perquisite which it is practically
admitted is unconstiutional, that of
$25,000 for traveling expenses. This
would be in realiity an increase of
only $z25,v00.
AN ENGLISH VILLAGE WHERK
THEY ARE PHYSICAL GI
ANTS AND “SHE IS liT.”
LONDON.—There is one place in
the British Isle where the motto
“ThHe hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world” falls flat, and that
is in Llangwn, a little oyster village
on a estuary of the great harbor of
Milford Haven, for in Llangwn it is
the man that rocks the cradle.
When you speak of Llangwn you
mean the Llangwn woman. It is
she who goes out fishing; it is she
who, quaintly dressed in a short
homespun skirt, felt hat and red
shawl, and with a donkey pannier,
hawks her oysters and fish round
the countryside, and it is she who
holds the purse and dresses the fam
ily including her man. She holds
her sway by the moral suasion of
physical force. |
She is a match for a ’varsity row
ing Blue in points, any waterman in
strength and any fisherman ’round
the coast of four nations in dogged
ness against wind and tide, in un
dauntedness in a high sea, or in net
handling. Mentally she is quite up
to the times. Llangwn has banished
the public house, and there are many
Llangwn women awaiting old age
pensions.
Needless to say she is a Liberal.
Her life is severe ana spartan. Her
religion is of the breed of that of
Cromwell’s Ironsides. The Llangwn
man is somewhere in the back
ground. He is a domestic animal.
He has not even a claim to his own
name. He is ‘“Mary Palmer’s man,”
or ‘“‘Bessie Liewellin's son.”
There is no off-hand talf of ‘“The
wife’” or ‘the missus” in Llangyn.
It would appear that Llangwn is the
Utopia of the suffragists. Not so,
however. The women of Llangwn
have not the slightest need for the
vote. Their men have it, which is
quite enough. ,
after midnight, though it is unlawful
for minors to enter them, nor are
they allowed to keep open on Sun
day.
The Georgia Railway and Electric
Company of Atlanta has put them in
the same category with the saloons
of the old day, and has issued an or
der forbidding its employes to enter
them in uniform on pain of dismis
sal.
In the meantime the beer gets
stronger and the free lunch better,
and it begins to look as if the old
days were gradually but surely com
ing back.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1909.
’MR. BRYAN DEEPLY REGRETS IT
His Daughter Who 1s Suing for a
. Divorce Married Against His Will.
| The ola adage, “marry in haste
land repent at leisure,” obtrudes it
;self upon the mind in connection
. with the filing of a divorce petition
by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt. Miss
'Bryan was known as a spirited girl,
of beauty and mental parts. She
'imagined that she loved the artist.
Her father opposed the match. He
‘said she had better wait and see.
But the girl, impetuous and head
'strong, thought she already knew
iwhat she wanted and how she want
ed it, and she wanted to marry the
artist right then. Against the riper
t wisdom of her parents, therefore,
she “took the bit between her teeth”
jand ran away, so to speak. But af
iter a time came the disillusionment.
She found that her idol had feet
(of clay. She became discontented,
then unhappy, and finally miserable
!in the thralldom into which she had
' bound herself. The only way out
iwas through the door of the divorce
Icourt, and she has appealed to be
{permitted to depart by that way. The
incident must be deeply regretted
by Mr. Bryan, her father, who is an
ardent religionist.
ATTRACTING ATTENTION.
‘“Little Joe” Is a Different Sort From
the Average Politician.
The fact that ‘Litle Joe’’ Brown
is a different sort from the average
politician is attracting attention. Mr.
Brown is studying his constituency
after the election to find out what
the people want him to do. Gen
erally speaking the officeseeker stud
ies his people before the election, to
ascertain what he can promise them,
and after the election they see noth
ing more of him until he becomes a
candidate again. The Brown plan is
one that has much to commend it.
Man Just Out of the Georgia Penitentiary Visits Associ
ated Charities and Reels Off Some Interesting Talk.
ATLANTA.—‘““Good morning. I'm
recently out of the penitentiary. I
want work. But I can’t get it. I'm
trying to make good again, but—O,
well, what chance will society give a
man, anyhow?”’
- It was a middle-aged, keen-eyed
man who spoke. He stood midway
{the office of Secretary Logan of the
Associated Charities. His clothes
were growing seedy, but they were
brushed with care, and his hands
were very clean. An unusually sharp
and experienced eye would possibly
have noted that under his clothes
was a well fed body, a very well fed
body. He threw the most cynical
tone imaginable into his voice as he
continued—
‘“What’s the use, anyway? Here I
am just out from jail. I’'ve sworn
I'd not conceal that. I've sworn to
tell the truth, even if I starve at it.
I've paid my debt to society., But
there’s no place in the world for the
man who tells the truth. If every
body should begin telling the truth
about himself and the people he
knows this civilization you're so
proud of would tumble and crash be
fore sunset.”
Secretary Logan leaned forward in
his chair and spat out the end of a
cigar. Of all the unique types of hu
manity he had handled never had
he seen this man’s like. He talked
like a Socialist or a student of Bern
ard Shaw.
Honest Because It's Funny.
“If that’s so,” said the secretary,
““‘what makes you so fond of telling
the truth?’”
‘“‘Because,” answered the man, ‘it
seems so funny, so ridiculously ironi
cal to set out to make an absolutely
honest living.”
“I should judge that you are ed
ucated,” said Mr. Logan.
“What of it?”’ he retorted, ‘‘that
means nothing. I once took a foolish
pride and a vain sort of satisfaction
in telling people I'd seen better days,
and came of good family and all that
sort of rot. But of course they
thought I was handing them the
same old jolly that common pan
handlers the earth over have been
using for hundreds of years.
“lI decided I wouldn’t make a fool
of myself in that particular manner
any more. Of course everybody has
to make some sort of a fool of him
'se]f. But I'll at least choose the sort
’of fool I'll be. And so I'm the fool
of truth and honesty.”
~ “Well, you are a sour one, sure
enough,” thought the secretary.
Then he said aloud:
‘‘Have you any money at all?”
The man drew back.
“Don’t think I've come here to
beg,” he said sharply. “I’'m not that
common sort. Yes, I've got money.
I have 30 cents.”
He seemed to relish the sarcasm of
what he said.
“I didn’t come here beause I
thought youd help me,”” he went on.
“I don’t expect anybody to help me,
because I'm just out of jail. My face
is in half a dozen different rogue
galleries. I came here simply be
cause a man who happened—heaven
knows why-—to give me a dollar and
asked me to come and see you, and
I had .to promise him I would.”
All this while Mr. Logan had been
"HARRI” DIDN'T ENTHUSE
Those Atlantans Who Expected It
of Him Were Disappointed.
BUT LIKED HIM JUST THE SAME
The ‘“Atlanta Spirit” Germ Did Not
Sieze Hold of the Railroad Wiz
zard. Could Not Be Pierced by
Marthaville Enthusiasm, Before
Which Every Other Prominent Cit
izen, Including Presidents and
Presidents-Elect, Had Fallen.
ATLANTA.—Those who expected
the ‘Atlanta spirit” germ to seize
Edward H. Harriman and make that
wizzard of the transportation world
enthuse on the occasion of his visit
here were sadly disappointed. Not
that the visitor was not impressed
nor that he proved unsociable
or that "he didn’t like. Atlanta
and her effusive citizens. It was
just simply the business calm and
serenity which surround the form
and protect the personality of the
little giant of finance. He could not
be pierced by Atlanta enthusiasm, be
fore which practically every promi
nent visitor to this enterprising city,
from ‘President-Elect Taft down, has
fallen.
Dressed in a plain business suit,
cloaked in a heavy gray overcoat,
Mr. Harriman allowed himself to be
whirled around the city in churning
automobiles, with leading citizens be
side, in front of and behind him to
point out every place of interest and
“‘orate’”” on the city’s great advant
ages. He rode, heard and saw.
watching the man before him. He
observed two facts: First, that the
stranger was ruddy cheeked, well fed
and without a line of care or anx
iety about his eyes; second, that he
declined to say where he had ever
worked or sought work. These ques
tions would not ordinarily be asked
him by the average busy office man
he would apply to. He observed also
that when the question of money
arose the man stoutly repudiated any
suggestion of a gift, but immediate
ly impressed the statement that he
had only 30 cents to his name. Put
ting these things together the secre
tary made up his mind that he had
struck the most original adventurer
he had ever seen. Here was an indi
vidual, he declared, who represented
himself as being a reformed convict
whom society was trying to thrust
back into the underworld, but who
probably had never been in a prison
or committed any penal crime; a
picturesque pessimist.
The secretary gave him meal tick
ets for a day and assured him he
could get him a job if he would re
turn in three or four hors. Up to
the present time, however, he hasn't
come back.
The man gave his name as John
Corkbit.
DIED FROM A CARBUNCLE.
Mr. George Rives of Lee County Suc
cumbs After Suffering Three Weeks.
The remains of Mr. George Rives,
accompanied by his brother and sis
ter, Mr. A. P. Rives and Miss Mattie
Rives, of Springvale, and two cous
ins, Messrs. J. F. and I. P. Cocke,
of Dawson, were brought here Mon
day on the cannon ball train from
his home in Lee county and carried
%to the residence of his cousin, Mr. J.
E. Martin, where funeral services
were held at 2 o’clock in the after
noon, conducted by Kev. J. E. Seals,
the interment being in the Western
cemetery.
Mr. Rives, as our older citizens
know, was born in Cuthbert, being
the son of Rev. and Mrs. Robert
Rives, and was a citizen of Randolph
until some fifteen or twenty years
ago, since which time he has lived
in Lee county. Some two or three
weeks ago he was attacked with a
carbuncle, which terminated fatally
Sunday morning after ten days'of
intense suffering. Had he lived un
til May he would have been 51 years
old. Joining the church in early
youth his life has been lived among
us, his failures and successes are
known to those who knew him best
and loved him most. We knew him
as a clever, genial, good-hearted gen
tlemar, and are informed that his
accounts, both with ‘God and man,
were satisfactorily arranged before
the end came.—Cuthbert Leader.
LITTLE JOE HAS BEEN KISSED.
Young Lady Teacher in Brunswick
Smacked Him Good-Bye.
When Governor Joe Brown left
Brunswick for Jesup he was kissed
at the station in the presence of a
large crowd by Miss Mildred Thomp
son, one of the teachers in the Bruns
wick public schools.
Nothing seemed to escape his ears
or his eyes, but precious little es
caped his lips, and that little consist
ed of pleasant inconsequentials. The
entertainment wound up by a visit
to the Candler building, which, by
the way, is always intended to con
stitute the grand, overpowering cli
max to the entourage of every prom
inent visitor. He was taken to the
roof of Atlanta’s king of skyscrap
ers, and the day being remarkably
clear was shown and lectured upon
everything in, about and around At
lanta.
Had Seen 'Em Before.
Although appreciating the magni
ficent structure and the enterprise
that it stanas as sponsor for no
‘‘ahs” of astonishment were let loose,
and it took no expert to see that the
visitor had gazed from tall buildings
before.
Asa G. Candler, president of the
chamber of commerce, acted as chief
conductor and pointed out the things
that might interest.
“From that hill over there Sher
man fired the first shell into Atlanta,
and just to the right of there Me-
Pherson fell,” spoke Mr. Candler,
and something more than the placid
interest formerly shown cropped out
in Mr. Harriman’'s countenance. It
seemed to appeal to the soldier part
of his character; to his talent for
fighting, and he asked many ques
tions. He asked many questions
about many things, but all seemed
intended solely to break the monoto
ny of listening.
Mr. Harriman showed unusual in
terest in every bhox car, every bit of
track discernible in the far distance,
every bit of rising smoke, which.
prompted inquiries about the rail
roads entering the town.
Seeing the road-bed of the Atlan
ta, Birmingham and Atlantic rising
many feet above the ground as it
winds its way into the city he stopp
ed and made inquiry about the for
mation of the company.
“I presume it was built largely by
Atlanta capital,” he remarked.
And then his conductors seemed,
somewhat embarrassed.
‘“No; it was financed by an Atlanta
man, but almost wholly eastesssssssss
man, but almot wholly eastern capi
tal,”” spoke up Mayor Maddox.
Despite the fact that he wouldn't
discuss his plans and wouldn’t catch
the enthusiasm of his entertainers
Mr. Harriman made a splendid im
pression here, and left the business
men with whom he came in contant
feeling friendly toward him.
“I came south to get some sun
shine,” he declared, ““and I have got
ten it and am going back home.”
|
iA RUSH TO GET FREEDOM
? »
1150 CONVICTS WANT PARDONS,
I AND BUSY TIME IS AHEAD
OF PRISON COMMISSION.
l The state of unrest in the peni
tentiary produced by the agitation
of last year, and the fact that recent
investigations have led to a larger
‘number of pardons than usual, has
!stirred the convicts to renewed ef
)forts to secure their freedom by
‘legal means ‘and, as a result, the
state prison commission is confront
§ed by an extraordinary number of
applicants for pardon and parole.
} No less than 150 new applications
for clemency have been filed with the
commission for hearing at the Feb
ruary meeting. Some of these are
for pardon while others are for pa
role under the law about to be put
into operation. For the reason that
different conditions are attached to
the parole law from those applying
to pardons and commutations the
commission has delayed putting it
into general operation until it can‘
send out eirculars giving full infor
mation regarding it. There has as
yet been only one case of parole, and
that was of a young girl taken from,
the state reformatory and placed
with a good family.
As the commission will be busy
until February 4th considering offers
of land for the mew prison farm, it
will not reach these clemency appli
cations until the latter part of next
week, and owing to the unusnal
number of them it will take practi
cally all the month to dispose of
them. I
The frequent pardons and commu
tations of late have encouraged other
convicts to seek clemency, and the
change in the prison system, which
goes into effect April Ist, will have
the tendency still further to increasel
the list.
3 MEN EAT 675 OYSTERS, 22 POUNDS
OF STEAK, 10 PIES AND 31 ROLLS
NEW YORK.—Three members of
the Manhattan Fat Men’s Club who
are in training for the forthcoming
annual championship eating contest
met yesterday at No. 244 East Third
street to settle a private wager of
$5O as to which of the trio could
get outside of the most food. Here
is what they consumed.
Ex-Alderman Frank J. Dotzler,
who weighs 380 pounds: 275 oys
ters, 812 pounds of steak, 12 rolls,
11 cups of coffee, 3 large pies.
Jack Grossman, who weighs 315
pounds: 190 oysters, 12 pounds of
steak, 9 rolls, 10 cups of coffee, 3
large pies.
VOL. 27.---NO. 19.
]
71,000 MEN PROPOSED
Advertised for a Husband and
~ Found an Army of Suitors.
IS THANKFUL TO THE PRESS
|
Answers Came From All Over the
World, and Girl Calmly Went
‘ Through the List. Finally Select
i ed a Few, and Then Her Choice
\ Narrowed Down to the Happy Man.
% Another Convincing Proof That
Advertising Pays.
' BOYD, Wis.—Miss Frances Living
stone is pleasantly occupied in that
i—~to the feminine mind— most de
lightful task of superintending the
building of her trousseau. And it’s
%all because of her faith in the theorw
that everybody of one sex has some
body of another sex waiting around
for him or her—some place.
Miss Livingstone fiddled around
her home town of Boyd until one day
she made up her mind she wanted
to get married. Now, of course,
there were unmarried men in and
about Boyd, and perhaps they were
marriageable, and manageable, and
even agreeable. But they did not
suit Miss Livingstone, and still con
fident that somewhere the voice of;
love was calling for her she resolved
to meet the call at least half way.
‘ That’s the reason she advertised.
‘And that’s the reason she got 1,000
proposals. And that’s the reason she
is rather jubilant over having proved,
80 conclusively her idea that it's
easy to find your mate if you go at
it in the right way. And that’s the
reason Miss Livingstone today,
smiled happily, and told how it all
happened.
“I have the press to thank for reg
ceiving so many proposals,’”’ she said.
“When 1 put my advertisement for
a husband in the local paper I really
didn’t expect to get more than a
dozen names. And I don’t suppose
I would had not the papers through
out the world seized upon the ad
vertisement as an item of news.
Why, papers not only all over the
United States but in Mexico, Cana
da and even Europe became inter
ested in my quest. To them I owe
the honor of having been the first
woman in history to have received a
thousand proposals.
“At first the answers came in
slowly, and I made a point of an
swering tpem promptly, but soon the
proposals arrived in such geat num
bers that I was almost overwhelmed.
It was proposed that I engage a pri
vate secertary, but as the subject
was a matter of the heart I had
an innate objection to this course. I
decided, therefore, not to answer any
more of the proposals and await the
time. when the missives would cease
coming.
| “For three months the proposals
were received with great regularity.
Finally, when they had reached the
1,000 mark, I began the work of
classification and elimination. Those
’I looked upon with favor received an
swers and they in turn wrote again
Ito me. By this method I came to the
conclusion that Louis Struvnez came
lthe nearest to being my ideal. I
wrote to him to come to Boyd and
meet me. The fact that we decided
the next day to apply for a marriage
license ought to prove that our love
Ewas mutual.”
1 BUTTON FOUND IN HIS HEART.
Doctors Make Strange Discoveries in
Autopsy on a Body.
A Denver, Col., dispatch says:
An autopsy performed on the body
of Fred Pomplitz, who was sixty
seven years old, revealed a black
vest button embedded in the heart
over the right auricle. Dr. W. G.
Mudd and Dr. J. P. Hamill made the
autopsy: This was not all, for they
found in the spleen of this same per
son a piece of rock two inches in
diameter, one-eighth of an inch
thick and an eighth of an inch wide.
The doctors’ theory is that he
swallowed the button by accident,
that it stuck in the.bronchial tubes
and by a process of ulceration was
carried into the vena cava. The
“rock” in the spleen was caused by
salt concretion from the blood.
Jack Probst, who weighs 320
pounds: 190 oyesters, 12 pounds of
steak, 10 rolls, 6 cups of coffee, 4
large pies. v
Peter Balvado, the referee, award
ed the $5O to Dotzler, who had hard
work pushing the money in his ves¢t
pocket. :
A dozen other members of the club
who wer present as watchers got so
interested in the contest that their
mouths opened and shut automati
cally as the trio ate. Finally they
began to howl for some food for
themselves.
“It’s all gone,” said Valvado. With
loud cries the twelve rushed out te
a restaurant.