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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

There was famous cat at Christ.
church. This was the common room
cat. This room was of course sacred
to dons, but when a man took his
bachelors, his tutor generally asked
him to wine in the common room
There, If he were lucky, he might hear
Osborne Gordon come out with some
of his wit and wisdom. He might also
view q process which attested both the
agility OF the cat and the agility of the
human subject. Above the fireplace
was a mantelpiece, and above the man
telpiece a bust of the venerable DR.
Busby and above the bust bracket
on the wall The don would stand be
fore the fireplace, and with dexterous
jerk would toss up biscuit which
would alight on the bracket.
Pussy would bound to the mantel
piece, then to the bald head of the ven
cradle Busby, and finally to the brack
ct. 1t was cleverly done, both by cat
and don, but the chief credit of the
gymnastie feat was supposed to remain
with the cat. There was one man of
long standing who was very fond Of
mice, which used to reside In his peck
cts and run freely about his clothes.
Any person in the pursuit OF natural
history would he pardoned in the col
Iege which owned Frank auckland as q
student, whose remarkable perform
ances that way will long be tradition
at Oxford. Temple Bar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

According to en- Arab legend grass
hoppers were human beings In an age
long before the MUSES.. When the
MUSES. came and song appeared they
were ravished with delight, and, sing
ing always, never thought of eating or
drinking, until at last, in their forget.
fulness, they died. And now they live
again as grasshoppers, and this is the
return the MUSES. make to them for
their devotion to music.
They hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, but are always singing from
the moment they are born. Never eat
ing or drinking except when they 20 to
destroy the crops of some person or
persons who have offended the gods of
music, they soon die and straightway
go and inform the MUSES. in heaven
who has honored them on earth, that
person getting his share of the good
things when he goes to the world be-
yond. st, Louis Republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

The negroes of the southern states
and in the West Indies, where the men
and women are in the habit of carry
ing heavy burdens balanced on thei,
heads. have the shoulders of gods and
goddesses, and they walk erect. with a
graceful swing straight from the hips.
and not from the knees, rs 80 many
hurrying, worrying city folk do. Their
heads are well up, their arms are nat
urally disposed of. and are not a nuts
ance to them.
The society people have seen the dig
nifty Of labor in this particular. and
many girls are put through a similar
course of training in order to cure them
of round shoulders, and give them a
commanding carriage, and teach then,
to walk and not waddle or shuttle into
drawing room. Some Of the hauteur
OF New York's 400 may also be thus
iereditarily accounted for. Their
noses are held so far above the heads
Of the plebeian masses because a gen
GRAFTON ago their ancestors were carry
ing bricks, and the habit of looking
skyward has been transmitted. Detroit
Free Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

Alas, too often an admonition of a
mother to her child. The poor innocent
has probably inherited catarrh andis not
responsible for its sore and filthy nostrila.
Did you know that soft thin skin lining
the nostrils, called the mucous mem
brane, extends all over the body. Every
organ in the system and every oritice at
the surface has this thin delicate lining
as a protector. So you see what fix
the body is thrown into when the mu-
cOus membrane becomes iTritated and in
famed by constant friction with poison
Gus matter in the blood. Catarrh, leu
currhea and piles result frequently from
this condition of affairs. These diseases
arc mere symptoms of impoverished
blood. Now b. b. b. or Botanic Blood
Balm, will. by enriching the blood, cause
all such symptoms to disappear. Give
it trial.
Henry Reeves, Shellman, Ga, writes:
ANY man or woman who is suffering
from piles and will not use Botanic
Blood Balm is fool, and it takes me to
tell them so, for i have suffered two
i years with bleeding piles and B. d. B.
relieved me at once
\ JJ. Hardy, Toccoa, Ga, writes: 81
b. b. is quick cure for catarrh. Tires
bottles cured me. ] had been troubled
several years.
James w. Lancaster, Hswkinsville
Ca, writes: My wife was in bad heaisl
} for eight years. Five doctors and 4
! many on more different patent medicine
had done her no good, Six bottles of y
In.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
High Priced Metals,

Compared with some of the metals
gold is cheap commodity 1t is worth
$40 pound, troy; platinum is worth
S13O and silver about Sl2. Nickel Is
quoted at sixty cents per pound, and
aluminium at So If some of the above
figures seem high what will we say
when told that barium is quoted at
1915 per troy pound and calcium al
81, 5000 But ceriun is more costly
still, being seldom sold for less than
$500 per ounce. Chromium brings the
same and didyInium but fraction less.
being worth 81, 900 per pound in any
market in the world.
1t is said that the combined wealth
of the Vanderbilts would buy 1923 tons
of pure gold, but that enormous amount
would only purchase wagon load of
gallium, that rare metal being worth
$3.50 per ounce st. Louis Republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

Everybody is familiar with the specta-
Gle Of two women in street car endeav-
oring to pay one another's fare, but it re-
manned for an energetic Brooklyn CON
ductor the other day TO take the matter
in his own hands and straighten out the
snarl. Asusual, when the two were seat
ed each plunged for her purse, which re-
ceptacles were brought out with mutual
protests. No. got out her coin, a dime,
saying complacently, Its all ready, nv
dear But No. 2 had quarter which
she really wanted changed" Soft went
ON while theconductor stood before them
waiting for some decision None came
and he grew impatient. He counted out
some change in each hand. Let me
have your dime, please, he said to No.
/, and she obediently handed it over.
Then he put out his hand to No. 2, who
gave him her quarter, not understanding
what was coming Then quickly to No.
he handed nickel. and to No. twenty
cents in change before either OF the wo-
men discovered his intention and walked
off to the platform muttering something
that probably would not look well in
print. New York Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
FLUTES OF THE PYRAMIDS.
Played 5000 Years After Burial The
Show That Egyptians Had Our Scale.

Played 5000 Years After Burial They
Show That Egyptians Had Our Scale.
A number of eminent musicians were
invited to listen to highly interesting
lecture delivered to the Royal academy
students by Mr.. T. L. Southgate upon
ancient Egyptian musical instruments
in general, and upon the double pipes
recently discovered by Mr.. Flinders Pc
trie in the tomb at Kahun in particu-
lar. From the fact that the flutes
shown in the frescoes were of various
lengths, Mr. Southgate conjectured that
the Egyptians almost from the time Of
Moses must have had knowledge of
some sort of harmony, while as in one
of the frescoes seven flute performers
were simultaneously playing, an eighth
had what he whimsically described as
fifty bars rest"
Still more interesting was the exhibi-
ton of the actual flutes discovered in
the lady's sarcophagus at Kahun, and
indisputably dating before the time of
King David of Israel Performed upon
land the task of playing these archaic
instruments is now most difficulty by
Mr. J. Finn, they yesterday gave prac-
tically the exact notes of our diatonic
scale, thus proving in every sense of
the term to actual demonstration that
our scale was known to the Egyptians
many centuries before the Greeks, from
whom it had enormously been sup
posed we borrowed it.
No attempt was made to perform
upon the double flute. and indeed if
ever the two were played together the
art is now lost. But upon copy of
one of these ancient flutes Mr. Finn
performed very ancient funeral drgc
entitled THE Song of Sonus." The
tone of these instruments, we may add,
in no way resembles that of the flutes
today. 1t to certain extent recalls
the drone of the bagpipe, although one
prominent musician yesterday irrever-
emily likened it to the sonnd of the
small tooth comb and tissue paper of
childhood's days.
Many other copies of ancient instru-
ments were tried, among them Il
replica of a flute discovered two years
ago by French savanD, with eleven
holes, the approximate date being 1875
B. Chat is to say, during the period
that the Israelites were still in Egypt.
To stop" eleven holes in flute would
seem to demand that one of the hands
should have an extra finger, but Mr..
Finn after many trials has succeeded
in doing it, and the notes given were
practically those of our chromatic
scale From these and other facts Mr..
Southgate in the peroration to his very
valuable lecture commended that the
tonality of the ancient Egyptians was
the source of our own music, and
certainly none of the musicians present
were willing to contradict a doctrine
which seems quite feasible. London
News
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
They Couldn't See the Joke.

Three members of the Episcopal ccsa-
gress sat in u corner of the Lafayette
writing room talking over some i1npor
tant subject. All were men ranging
from 90 to e5 years, all were dressed in
black, and the face of each wore look
OF intense interest. Those who noticed
these gentlemen were aware that they
were discussing some important church
question, and nobody heard what they
said but one young man who appeared
to have fallen asleep in a chair near by
As he half opened his eyes the western
bishop gravely said:
Gentlemen, wish to ask question"
The others drew nearer as the bishop.
carefully adjusting his spectacles, con-
tinued; Gentlemen, why is grim death
like tin can tied to dogs tailg'
A silence ensued. The two clergymen
thus addressed unused for while and
then shook their heads. ''aive it mp"
teev I'D.
IN q smile spread over the bishops
facaNA ne added, Grim death is like
tin efs@.stied to dogs tail because it's
bound 70 pup" Then he burst into .
roar OF laughter, and the others made
feeble efforts TO join him and appreciate
the joke.
Late that evening the three met again
IN the Lafayette corridor, and the bishop,
little embarrassed, said: "Gentlemen.
told that story wrong this afternoon.
What really meant was this: Grim
death is like tin can tied to dogs tail
because IT'S bound to occur-not to a
pup"
The others laughed this trip. -Phila-
dolphin Prees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
EXT RAoR0lNARY HOSPITALITY.
sheltering a Guest Who Was Known I.
BE A fer the Hnat,s LIZ


Be After the Hosts Life.
A writer on Afridi feuds in The Cal
cutta Englishman narrates the follow
ing incident, which, he says, is unique
even in the Afridi annals. and shows
that the laws of hospitality can be
stretched bit too far at times without
much advantage to the host. "A
certain Faiz Taleb Khan had made en-.
emies of certain chiefkains who planned
his murder. A man named Muhamad
Var, Nasiri Ghilzai, who had murder
ed some nineteen or twenty persons by
treachery, was found willing to under
take the business, if he was paid the
sum OF l, 100 rupees, and was presented
with a shawl likewise. This being
agreed to, he left the Jelallabad valley
and started for the Khyber. A friend
of Faiz Talab Khan, being informed of
the plot, wrote to him and gave all de
tails es to the appearance of the man
who had consented to murder him for
consultation.
Strange to state MuhaInad Var ap-
peared at Faiz Talab Khans gate and
claimed shelter and hospitality Just as
the letter arrived warning Faiz Talab
against the assassin The letter was
carefully read, and the descriptive roll
conned, compared and found to suit
the man who had just claimed shelter.
taiz Talab's retainers were for killing
the man at once, or at all events turn
ing him away for good; but their inas-
ter would not hear of it, and after care
fully searching the man to find out
whether he had any arms concealed
about his person he was allowed to en-.
ter the fort, FaiZ Talab declaring that
they could not murder their own guest
or turn away from their doors hungry
man who had solicited their hospitality.
The man was most carefully searched
every morning, and was told that he
was never to leave the inclosure or
ascend the platform on tire tower, from
which he could get down into the omen
and he was warned that IL he was ever
seen there he would be killed at once.
For thirteen days this game went on
without any damage TO any one. How
ever, mullah, who taught Faiz Ia
labs sons, was bribed, and through
him pistol was conveyed to Muhalnad
Var, and date fixed for him to make
the attempt on Faiz Talab Khan On
the fourteenth night of the strange
guests stay at his fort Faiz Talab was
reused and heard man moving about
the platform of the tower, and asked.
who it was, Muhauad Var said It was
he, and that, being very thirsty, he was
searching for some water. Faix TaJab
Khan got up, and as he went to the
man and bent down to fill cup of
wather he was shot in the back by the
ueacherous guest, who used the pistol
and scrambling down the wall was
soon under the shelter of Feroz Khan's
roof, and thence he soon fed to Jel
lallaba and ultimately toward Cabul
He was captured, and the news was
sent to Bostan Khan, brother to Faiz
Talab Khan, who proceeded at once to
Cabul The murderer was then handed
over to Bostan Khan, who took him
outside the city and cut him into
Dippes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

In John Ashton's Curious Creatures
in Zoology" occurs this description OF
whales: 40,
Whales In those days had square
heads all set with prickles and sharp
and long horns round about like /.
tree rooted up by the roots; they are
10 or II cubits long. very black, and
with huge eyes, the compass whereof
is 8 or 10 cubits The apple of the eye
is one cubit and is red and fiery color
ed, which in the dark night appears to
fishermen affair off as a burning fire
having hairs like goose feathers. thick
and long like n beard hanging down. &"
This is from CLAUS Magnus, a compe
tent and able falsifier. He describes
the event of the picture, and says that
men take sleeping whale for an
island, and all goes well until the sail
ors get their fire started and the kettle
to boiling. This makes the whale hot,
and he goes for the ship and crawls up
on it and sinks it, or else he dives
under it and browns everybody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

In Kansas we had buffalo meat most
OF the time, and that was a great
change for us. The rump steak is
juicy and requires little basting, while
buffalo tongues, which were such a
rare treat in the markets of the eastern
cities, were then to be had in abundance
with us
1t is remarkable how Injuries that
are unheeded In the midst Of plenty
will impress themselves in our minds
for years and years if they come to us
in the midst of dcprivations. We
rarely had small game, except the few
ducks that came to the pools formed
by heavy rains on the prairie in the
autumn; but | remember those, and
the prairie chickens of Kansas, and the
plover of Dakota, as if | had never
tasted birds before or since. Mrs Gus
ter's Book.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14


A Bridgeport Conn mechanic has
invented Il new method of adjusting
propeliers for ocean steamers. II con,
sists of three great horizontal shafts
lying parallel to each other. and ex-
tending outward from the stern of the
vessel. To each shaft three blade
screw propeller is attached. the central
or middle one being, in area, just twice
that of the other two propellers With
in the vessel the three shafts are joined
transversely with strong rods, and have
clamps attached so that one or all can
be instantly detached if necessary. A
triple expansion engine of 4yreat power
is to run each shaft. The inventor
claims his system will give a more uni
form motion and with the same horse
power exerted by the engines will give
far greater results.
Another important point with the in
vention is the many resources 1t pos
sesses in the case of breakdown.
When at sea the breaking of shaft or
part of an engine is often q serious mat
ter In this device there are nine com
binations which can be made to run
the ship. This may be better under
stood by saying that the three engines
and the three shafts must each be brok
en- or disabled to put the ship In a help
less condition. If one or even two shafts
should break the combined horse pow
err of the three engines can be thrown
upon or applied to the remaining shaft.
and the speed be not greatly diminish
ed. Should one or two engines break
down the remaining engine can still
run one, two or three propellers -Bos
ton Transcript.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14


John Ashton in his book on zoology
says that the gentleman with one eye
is the Cyclops that Pliny tells about.
1t is limited that the CycIopses were
miners whose lamps on their hats were
mistaken for eyes A good many of
the whoppers of antiquity arose from
the reporter giving only one look before
he came back to the office and wrote
up his stuff But the anthropophagi
that had only one foot, and that so big
that they could lie on their backs and
use their feet for umbrellas are clear,
pure inventions. the same as the stories
about Chicago girls feet. The public
ought to be and the same is hereby
warned against any and all such decep-
tons
A gentleman named Megasthenes told
the people Of his day that there were
folks in India that live only by smell
ing apples and died Immediately some
body ate an onion and breathed on
them. This is also probably a cam
paign document. Chicago Tribune.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
CAncerOus Eczema.

For many years have been sorely af-
fiicted with Eczema on my face. The
eruption was in large splotches, and Can
cerous nature. had treatment from a
number Of experienced physicians, with
little or no benefit, and only of tempo
rary nature. After other treatments
had failed bought seven bottles of
s. S. S. from Messrs. Tennille and Hol-
land, of Troy, Ala, and 1t cured me. /
feel like new man, my painful troubles
and apprehension is all gone, and now
at sixty years of age ] am once more re-
stored to health, and it is due entirely to
s. $. S. My Post Office is Orion, pike
County, Ala.
HIRAM THwEATr.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free,
SWIFT SPECIFIC Co,
Atlanta. Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
A Tough Job.

Minister'S Wife Cooking up from the
paper)-The ideal A minister in Mich
igan has brought a bill of $500 against
an estate for preaching the funeral ser.
mon of wealthy citizen there. What
in the world did he make such charge
fort
Good Minister (wearily)-I presume
it was TO satisfy his conscience.-New
York Weekly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
logging His Memory.

Dogs are wonderful for their intelli-
gence, and owners of dogs are perhaps
equally wonderful for their faith and
versatility. Every one of them has
new story. Here is the latest:
1.-THE other day" says Mr.. Gordon,
II forgot to give Bruno his dinner, and
in my preoccupation paid no attention
to him when he began to beg for it.
HE went away at last and was
gone for some time. Then he came in
from the garden bringing something in
his mouth. And what do you think it
was2 A sprig of forget-me-notl"-
Youths Companion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

The muscular power Of some insects
is simply enormous. A French ento-
mologist had a pet beetle that could lift
$50 times his own weight. If the human
species were as strong in comparison a
large sized man could lift freight en-
CINE from the track and carry it 200
miles between sun up and sun down
St. Louis Republic
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
The Cos, ofa Pun.

mo, | can't see any fun in playing
on words said the man in the bic
macintosh gloonfily "A pun once
cost me 500. 900. How was itY"
You needn't gather round me. 1t
isn't much Of a story. A fat old aunt
had come to visit u.s. They told me to
go in the parlor and pay my respects.
l was a very smart young man. |
went in and told her in CHEEKY, off
hand way that | had come in to make
my obeisance to my obese aunt.
That's all there Is Of it. ''But how
about the $10O,00Or 'sSAe left 1t Il
her other nephew - Chiesgo Tribune
Parents don't mean to Re unkind 4
their chiikren, but they are when tn
fail 10 occasionally fail to i've them Dr
Ill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

O'Callahan- Bedadl | want a sham.
rock fer badge. Wherell get won
O'Bryan Scenic artist wild
me. I'm maxim sham rocks every week
OF me loife, Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

Phillipsburg is overrun with tramps
of most peculiar species. One of them
walked off with a hand mirror, hair
brush and can opener a few days
ago.-Bethlehem Pa. Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

Policeman 1Ielping injured driver of
ruined dogcart to his feet What in
sane idea induced you to turn out to
the left instead of to the right1
Injured Anglomaniac-lt' English,
you know. Kate Fields Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

The Arabs have no ''hello!' in their
language. The nearest they come to
it is to throw stone and hit man in
the back, and then ask him as be turns
around, Does it please heaven to give
you good health this norningT'-De-
troit Free Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
wouidn ..y., t4..nNl.n starel

Globular lightning can be produced
with so called statical electricity, OBJ.
tanned from an influence machine. Two
thin brass wire points from the poles of
a powerful machine being held at a Ger
tain distance from the opposite sides of
an insulated plate of mica. ebonite,
glass or the like, there appear small red
luminous balls, which move about, now
quickly, now slowly, and are sometimes
still. Even better effects were had with
a glass or paper disk which had been
sprayed with parafiine. Small quaint.
ties of liquid or dust seem to be the car
riers Of the light. A slight air current
makes the spherules disappear with hiss
ing noise. New York Journal
!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14
BROKEN OUT |

How often do we see this on the face
Of chiIdreHand alas, Of people who other
wise ale healthy: What causes it? Bad
Blood. Tie thought is terrible; tin
trouble is verse. No ordinary help cai
remove it. ID requires something IN
tsual. 10 not tssAs cheap sarsaparilla
or Ilood purifiers. You must have som
thing that has proven it, power il bot
Europe and America. General Whea'
croft Nelson, Of London, says; "M
experience in the English army, as wei
IS ii America, convinces me that rO'hiRq
so thoroughly purifa5 the food. or add
10 the health, vigor arl lse, g l.
Aclef's English Blood lti:i'."
Iris graz.d Elixir is sofa = 4 'uggi3-1
Ia al parcs C. America. = Is a COOL
pure. Lc1est medicine. IT, i. to-day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

Seundings in the Black Sea show that
beyond depth Of feet the water is
so impregnated with sulphureted hydro
gen gas emanating from decaying ami
NAL and vegetable matter that living
organisms are not found there
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

The remedy needed for severe case Of
nasal catarh is Old Saul's Catarrh Cure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-01-14

In the case of the acutely sick vis-
itors are commonly an evil. Asa rule,
they remain too long, and weary the
patient with untimely talk. 1t should
never be forgotten that one of the main
conditions of recovery is complete quiet.
The question of the admission of visit
ors should be left absolutely to the de-
cision Of the physician and the good
sense of the nurse.