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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-02-05

quickly absorbed it gives relief at orce,
ELY'S CREAM BALI
is acknowledged to be the most thorough
cure for Nasal Catarrh, Gold in the Head
and Hay Fever of all remedies. 1t opens
and cleanses the nasal passages, allays
pain and inflammation, heals the sores,
protects the membrane from colds, re-.
stores the senses of taste and SMELL
Price SOC. at Druggists or by mail.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren Street, New York.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-02-05
G00DF0R EVERYBODY

and everyone needs it at all times of the
year. Malaria is always about, and the
only preventive and relief is to keep the
Liver active. You must help the Liver bit.
and the best helper is the Old Friend. SIM.
MONS LIVER REGULATOR, the RED z.
j. Mr.. {. Himrod, of Lancaster. Ohio.
says: SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR
broke case of Malarial Fever of three
years standing for me, and less than
one bottle did the business. / shall use
1t when in need, and recommend it,"
Be sure that you get it. Always look for
the RED Z on the package. And don't
forget the word REGULATOR. It is SIM
MONS LIVER REGULATOR, and there is
only one, and every one who takes it is
sure to be benefited. THE BENEFIT IS
ALL IN THE REMEDY. Take it also for
Biliousness and Sick Headache; both are
caused by sluggish Liver.
~ H. Zeilin q Co., PhiladeHphia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-02-05

RamOn's Liver pills & 1.ric p.Ea..
are are, ne rerfect Treatment for Const;patio,
ana biliousness. 6eS- One pill dose
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-02-05

q. L. Chambers, Dawson, Ga.
Paper hanging and decorating. Full
line latest designs in paper. All work
guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
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with a sword. and the two-horned hat. His
yearly board costs him two hundred dol
lars, and he is charged twenty dollars for
the damages 1t Is supposed that he will do
to the building AS these are never item
lied. it is the immemorial practice of first
year students to Immediately break all the
windows of the freshmen students imme-
diately on their. arrival. The student or his
family must 3yide pocket money and
board him duri4xsthe vacation.
The students ne awakened in the morn
ing at o'clocEAharp, to the sound of the
drum. The priI44ple of French hygiene de-
mands that all Akeir work. as far as posi-
Bile. shall be de on an empty stomach.
So they go directly from dormitory to
study hall, where they prepare their classes
from $50 till $780, Then only, two hours
and a half after rising they are given the
lightest kind of a European breakfast-dry
bread and milk, or lukewarEa soup, with
perhaps cafe auklaft on holidays Even
this is supposedsfo make walk of diges-
ton necessary until they are called to
class at 8 o'clock. ,-,.s..---
Tie effect Of this regime frequently lasts
students through their life. One of my
friends who has been out of the Polytech-
nique for ten years, still adheres to the fol-
lowing morning hours: He rises at am,
makes himself q cup Of tea at am, eats
nothing with it but the smallest dry crust,
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HOW DUFFY STOLE A JAIL,
The Extraordinary Achievement TIL
Enabled Him to Serve His Friend,

The Extraordinary Achievement That
Enabled Him to Serve His Friends.
From the Kansas City Star.
This Is the narrative of Duffys theft of a
Jail and the prisoners therein. Mr.. Duffy,
from the core of the nations intellect; bal
loonlst, manfish, tourist and orator, had
found friend who had INDUCED him to the
extent of the following items, to wit: Three
drinks, one supper, one cigar. This story
was his payment therefor. He unbuttoned
his vest, for he had consumed a large, thick
steak, two dishes of potatoes, two platefuls
OF bread, two cups Of coffee, three large,
heavy flannel cakes and glass of milk.
Ihrue oratory and me gintlemanly in
stincts often lead me into pleasant fields
and the company of conjanal companions"
ne began. Il oncet committed most shame
full larceny in the state of Indianny. l
was tourin' with a friend. an we had jour-
neyed as far as Jay county. Now we can't
tell me that the people of county with
such name can cope with set of brains
from Boston. We had reached the town of
Portland. Me friend committed the indis-
erection OF becoming hungry an was arrest
ed. 1 brought me intellect to bear upon the
sitooatiOn, an kept well fed an free. Now,
Portland was the county safe, an the Jail
had recently been burned to the ground.
The sheriff therefore KEEP his prisoners in
a box car down on the railroad thrack, the
same bein' loaned by conservative COM
pany, the which didn't want the prisoners
beatin' their way on its trains. Me friend
was dumped into this Jail; me an me intil-
lict stayed on the outside.
Il agitated me thinker all day, and by
nightfall had planned the deliverance Of
me friend an his fellow incarcerates. At
supper tonne the gyard went away home,
leavin' his lantern by the thrack side. 1t
was me intintion to pry the door Off the
car, an was lookin about fer pry whin
I heard a train comm. Me intillict was
equeal to the emergency. took the guards
lantern an tagged the train, which was of
the way freight species, the hardest of all
fer tourist to travel under. The train
stopped an the conductor says kind O inn
pedint Ike: 'What'n'll die shtop this train
fer?' Me friend says I, this car is bound
fer Tif1in, Ohio, an me instructions was to
shtop yez an hitch 1t on to yer train He
grumbled good deal, but hitched the car
on, me hangin' to the brake beam. 1t was
along about 3 o'clock in the mornin' when
we crossed the Ohio loine an shtopped at
a station. I crawled out, broke open the
Jail door wild q couplin' pin, an all me
laddybucks came forth, free as the air.
An that's how I stole the jail in Indianny
My, but I'm dry
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MALARIA AND RHEUMATISM
From the Journal, Wilmington. Ohio.


On one Of the fertile farms of the rich OLio
valley seven miles from Wilmington. tho county
-. -. |,.S. -. -, ~ v
seat VI clinton county ohio' ana put snort dis
lance from the small town of Melvin, their post
Office in a cozy little country home resides Jobn
A,r,smI,b ana b,s ,r,f. N,i,,i. ~
~ ~ N' '
iew days since representative OF the Journal
drove out to Melvin to see them. In the coIr SO
Of tho converSatio, Mrs A detailed ,l,a facts -
hr rro
nei CURE.
Last july, said she, IRON undue exposure in
my work about the farm L contracted psalarial
49, on, ,o,,,;.,,, a., r..a -. a.. a,
~ au '.,, an. u hio 81. III
ness greatly. could not throw IL on, ana al
though constantly attended by local physicians
tinucd to grow worse In September I caught n
severe cold ,vh,c, ,ro.,I,- ,oo.s,a - -
-, ~ eio"'s i'teaseu my o'het
trcuhies' and taking to my bed there lay for
me Dths. The rheumatism grew more aggravated.
and for eight long weeks prior to last Christ,naa
T ras nerfaotI, ho,r,o.. ,,,,. Ill. 49, a., -,
-, ~ az -. n.ipese' ~! nuns oe'o" 'he hip~
oe'ns us IL larei!Aed ana having no use OF them
whatever. / could help myself in any way
and was not able even TO turn over I'm he'd miles.
my husband %. -. -, -. - =, -, -
M,;;s ~, ~ ho'Ie one Use came ana turned me.
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unless they are already bachelors of science
of the French university. But this does not
help them, and they have to stand up with
the others to be questioned in their pre-
paratory studies, while their fathers and
mothers sit behind them in the hall, listen
ing and trembling for their success.
In point of fact, great number do not
succeed. The school can receive only two
hundred and fifty new students at most
each year. On account Of the difficulties Of
this entrance examination. there are num-
bers Of private schools having for their
special object to prepare for 1t. There are
few bachelors of science from the univer-
sity who do not take at least one full year
of special preparation before facing the Or
deal. They have no time to lose, Cor no
one can enter the school later than his
twenty-first year, not completed.
Two. thirds of the candidates and fully
one-half of those finally admitted come
from the state colleges of Paris itself. The
rest have been educated in religious schools
or privately, or come up from the state
schools of the provinces. 1t Is this predom-
nance Of Paris, so it is said, which has al
ways kept the Polytechniuue on the side Of
the revolution and the republic. The army
officers have often been accused of a liking
for king or emperor; but the Polytechnic
students have helped in every revolution
from 1880 down.
Uniforms for the Students.
The student enters in his civil dress. The
first operation he has to undergo is to get
into his uniform. This, with the rest Of the
necessary ''trousseau," will cost him from
one hundred and forty to one hundred and
sixty dollars. The officer on service makes
sure that his beard and hair have the reg
ulation cut before passing him over to the
tailor, shoemaker and linen keeper. The
student Is at once furnished with all he is
supposed to need for his entire stay Of two
years: 1t is his business to take care Of 1t.
There is one uniform for the interior Of the
school, and the tradition is that the stu
dent need take little care of it.
On the contrary, he must give the great
est attention to his uniform for the out
side. The latter has two rows Of buttons
on the coat, with black velvet collar Gin
side which a white collar appears), a belt
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From the London It'd Bits.
A we!l-known bishop, who takes promi-
nent interest in everything affecting the
working classes, wishing to judge for him
self what a journey in workman's car
rage was like, took a ticket and joined the
miscellaneous crowd which fills these trains
on the Great Eastern railway.
After a most undignified struggle for
seat he found himself damned in between
a navy, smoking a strong black pipe, on
his right, and an artist in house painting,
smelling strongly of his craft and carefully
balancing a can of green paint, on his left
hand. The good bishop, apprehensive for
the safe balance of this can and nauseated
by the very unpleasant odors arising. was
also very much shocked by the bad Ian
guage which garnished the conversation of
his neighbors.
After particularly strong expression
from the NAVY, the bishop, touching him
gently, inquired:
MY good man, please tell me where you
learn the language you have just made use
Of"
The navy replied. with suspicion of
pride in his tone:
Learn it, guv'nor? You can't learn it!
It's gift!'
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A REMARKABLE HoLD-uP.
A Detective Tells q Story Of q Hold.
y Is Up Not I'm the Bills.

A Detective Tells q Story Of q Hold.
= Up Not I'm the Bills.
''This story I see going the rounds Of
the newspapers about a gang out west
scheming to hold up a train with Wander
derbilt. Depew and other rich meat on
1t, remarked a detective to a Star
porter. reminds me Of one similar that
occurred in my bailiwick when was work.
ing in California
las to how?" questioned the reporter
"A chap out there came to me Just as
the fellow did in the case of this detective
and said he was one of gang that was
goirg to hold up train with lot of
frisco millionaircs aboard. but that as /
had been friend to him when he needed
1t, which was true, or he would have then
been wearing the stripes. he was going to
the chance of my life, and at once began
operations to thwart the robbers. 1 told
the chap to go ahead and help the gang
get ready for the train, and that when ii
drop. and that he had better keep in a safe
place or it might be him along with the
others. The train left Frisco one night
at 8 o'clock and / was informed that the
fold-up was to take place in a lonesome
spot about an hour out Of Frisco. had
carload of armed men ready.
las We struck the dangerous place was
pretty nervous and SO was everybody else
but we meant business, and braced up with
drink or two for whatever work We
might have. 1t came at last with a light
on the track, where a man stood swinging
lantern. and the train pulled up. AS it
stopped there was a volley of half dozen
shots poured into the train from the woods
near the track, which my men responded
to On the spot, much to my chagrin, for
L had wanted the robbers to board us,
where we could have them in good shoot
ing position. My men were green, though,
or at least most Of them were, and they
were SO ratified by the volIey that they
forgot what they were doing and banged
away.
Nothing was left then but to give chase,
which we did for a few hundred yards
through the woods, but they got away in
the dark, and we found nothing except
as we came back to the train my friend,
the informer. Him We found lying in
half to death. We took him in, and rs
the train pulled out 1 explained his part
In the affair and the millionaires were so
pleased with his heroic conduct in saving
them that they made up pony purse of
$l,JOO and presented 1t to him on the spot
and offered him railroad job where he
might have a chance to lead a new life.
He TOOK the money and the job, and
the next time l saw him he was in Jail a:
Sacramento with bullet hole IN him.
Before he quit living, however, he told me
with laugh that the hold-up was fake
from start to finish, and that his wife did
the shooting from the woods with a re-
voiver and ran away IS fast as she could.
They figured that the rich men would make
up some Eort OF purse, and if they didn't
get more than hundred dollars it would
have repaid them amply for all their ox-
peDse and trouble. AS for the risk, there
wasn't arys I was glad nobody heard
the scoundrel tell his story, for it made
had been away from California for five
years."
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When young couple runs away to get
married half the world says: "How
Romantic!" the other half says: "How
silly!" But you can't tell either way
until the honeymoon is over When
this young couple get settled down to the
regular hunl-drum of life, they'll manage
all right and find solid happiness in any
case, If they have good hearts and sound
health. All depends on that
It's wonderful how much health has to
do with married Happiness. Sickness af-
fects the temper. You can't be happy
nor make others happy if you're ailing.
When you find yourself irritable, easily
worried, beginning to rundown" it's
because your blood is getting poor. You
need richer blood and more Of it. Your
blood-rnaking organs need to be vitalized
by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. 1t imparts new power to produce
an abundance of the healthy, red corpus
cles, and gives you a fresh supply of
pure, rich blood. It's blood-creator !:
It is for everyone whose blood is impure
or in poor, rundown condition. It
prevents the germs of disease from get
ting hold on your system. Even after
disease is settled on you, it is driven out
by the blood-creating properties of the
Discovery" 1t is perfect cure for
general and nervous debility, catarrh,
malaria, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula and
every form of blood disease. It isn't
called a consumption-cure but even con-
sumption, Which has its roots in the
blood-is driven out by the "Golden
Medical Discovery" if taken in time.
The Discovery is the prescription
of one of the most eminent physicians
and medical writer's in this country.
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though with much greater variety. and fur
nlSh lifelong career to the young French
man.
These young students of the Polytechnic
School Immediately on their admittance to
the establishment are provided with
military-lIke uniform to wear. From the
start they have the illusion of belonging to
the government service. They have al
ready their pride, their traditions and their
esprit de corps The sole riches of the late
President Carnot came from his having
been a successful student of this school.
1t sent him up to the special school of
bridges and highways where the govern
ment took him to preside over the roads of
Savoy, a position which warranted him in
marrying a well-to-do wife. Marcel Pre-
vost, the author of Les Demi-Vierges, in
spite of the success of his novels, is wise
the Polytechnique won for him as director
of the government tobacco factory in Lille.
Emile Henry turned anarchist, and so came
to have his head cut off, because he had
failed in the entrance examination into the
school after Paris. had educated him in her
colleges for eight years.
Examination Inevitable.
The Polytechnic School is so important
that it is Independent of all the other
branches Of the State University. 1t &C
cepts no examinations but its own, and
these are public. 1t is not under the min
lister of public instruction, but depends
directly from the ministry of war, al
though by far the greater number of its
students engage in some branch Of civil
engineering. The school Is also under real
military discipline, with a colonel in COM
mand, and with squad of drummers to
call the students out of bed and to their
various exercises. Few students present
themselves for the entrance examination
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Every parent looks forward to getting his
child into some government service; and
the government has made something like
our civil service out of every work for pub
lie utility. whether military or civil, that
goes on in the country. So this government
school prepares, during two years Of Sc
rious mathematical studies, hundreds of
students who are to go up to the special
schools fitting them to be engineers of
mines, of highways and bridges. inspectors
Of the government tobacco factories, of
gunpowder and saltpeter. of photography,
Of naval construction, officers of the artil-
lery, of the army engineer corps, of naval
artillery, Of the navy. and of the navy COM
missariat. All these employments and Of
fees are under government control. are en-
tered from government schools which cor
respond to our West Point and Annapolis,
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The Mariners Grave.

Beneath the grim old beacon tower
They made his last straight bed,
The gray and grizzled slope below,
The ocean wide Outspread.
There might he see the ships slip in
And out across the bar,
. And down the night the warming light
Fling its recurrcIt star.
There might he hear the harping wind
Retune its ancient strain,
And that sublime musician, sea,
Intone its joy and pain.
There might his sleep be long and deep,
From time and tide withdrawn;
Above, the sea-gull's silvery wing
Until the last red dawn.
CLINTON SCOLLARD
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ON the Household Words.

from the ItOuSelOlu NOruS
A pitman entering a public house in
Newcastle, where an old man was seated
near the fire, accosted him with the GUS
tomary salutation Of Guide mornin'." The
old man, however, paid no attention, and
the pitman repeated his salute in a louder
voice. This time his lungs had effect; the
old man raised himself up, and taking from
a capacious pocket trumpet of peculiar
construction, put it to his ear. Our honest
pitman stood amazed; but after waiting
with the most anxious expectation for some
moments while no sound came, he exclaim-
ed with a disappointed air: NAY, man, it
Wilma dea; thou Gamma play wi thy lug
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year, and each one is assisted by an adju-
tant. They are also charged with the gym
nastic exercises, for which the officers of
the fire companies Of Paris are brought in.
Then there are lessons in fencing. All of
these physical exercises are compulsory,
but the student, If he wishes, may engage
in horseback riding and in learning to
dance in special schools outside the estab-
lishment.
The days out of the students are not very
numerous. Each week they can leave the
establishment on Wednesday after the 2
o'clock dinner. On Sunday. when there is
no grand review on hand, they may go out
from Z in the morning, without their break
fast, Of course. They must be back by 10
o'clock at night on ordinary occasions. A
special theater permission Is sometimes CIV
en-, which lasts until half after midnight.
After the first examination of the year, in
February, there is a vacation of fifteen
days. After the second, at the end OF july,
there is two months. During the year the
students are from time to time taken to
visit scientific and Industrial establishments
and even are exercised at military marches
across country. The object throughout is to
treat these young men like schoolhoys who
and the tradition of the Polytechnic has it
that the first years students shall conduct
themselves in such a way as to mislead the
despised freshmen into many boyish follies
and little vanities.
A Students Holiday.
According to the jokes Of the older stu
dents, the first .'sortie" of a freshman is
about as follows: The morning breaks, and
he has whole day before him in the city
of Paris to air his new uniform and to COM
nit innumerable debauches. His earliest oc-
cupation is to hurry out of the school and
cross the street r. celebrated wine and to-
bacco shop-tha4apf "the mother Leblanc
and treat -him9S& to a dish of branded
prunes and pAbkage Of cigarettes. Then
not being used t6fiavigating his two-horned
hat, and being slightly excited by the
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ROentEenizcd.
From Vanity

FrOm VaHlty.
She time. 1 3 m.)-"Where have you been
until this late hour?''
He-"I had a customer from the west,
who detained me talking business"
When he had fallen asleep she applied a
cathode ray to his bald spot. Three queens
and pair Of fcurs-and double jack
pot" she exclaimed
Quickly investigating the contents of his
pockets she resumed her place on the bed,
with the remark:
Just as I expected, the other man must
have held that hand-but wait until morn
ingr
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Time for Digestion.

Time for Digestion.
1t is only at o'clock that dinner. the
first solid meal. is served. The food is
simple, but abundant. From that time I'M
til 5 pm. there is no question of work. 1t
is the students recreation time, in which
they may chat amuse themselves, smoke,
engage in gymnastic exercises, read novels
or sleep: All this has to be done inside the
establishment, however, for students arc
not allowed outside of bounds on common
days. If a student undertakes to work
during this time Of digestion the officer in
charge urgently demonstrates, unless it is
near the time of the examinations.
AT o'clock work begins again, and now
goes on unbroken up till 9. This is the
time when the students draw or make up
for lost time in their literature and history;
and there are supplementary courses in the
sciences. At o'clock at night supper is
served, from which the students go straight
to bed. At 10 o'clock all the lights are out.
The students of each year have four prn-
cipal professors-one for mathematical
analysis and calculus, one for mechanics,
one for physics and another for chemistry.
Then In the first year they study perspec-
draughtsmanship; and in the second year
they have course of astronomy. In all
these studies Especial examinations are
held. and the STUDENTS, on leaving the in
stitution, are ranked according to the
marks which they have received in them.
Altogether, each student has eighteen ex
aminations to pass each year. There are
other very excellent courses in architectu-
raj design, in the military art, in history
and literature. and there are exercises in
French essay writing. But all these count
little for the place the student aims to OBJ
tain on the lists and which determine his
order of promotion in the public service.
Physical Exercises.
Special army captains are detailed. under
the title of inspectors of studies" to in
struct the students in military maneuvers.
There are eight of these. four for each