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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15

THE prominence of Terrell's statesmen
continues to poster the Early County
News But The dear doctor finds himself
utterly unable to poster our statesmen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15

GOVERNOR ATKINSON says he is going
to try to find out how the states convicts
are treated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15


crate shall be deemed
wholesale dealers. .....
Each retail dealer in malt or
fermented liquors, per an
mum ...s.'' AVV'VV
Liquor dealers selling by the
bottles not less than 6's,
uer anpum. 100 90
Each drug store s-lling liqs
uors in quantities not less
than one pint or more than
AZ gallons, per annum.... l5O oe|
Each wholesale liquor dealer
selling A gallons and ups 80 -
wards, per annum. 49,. 2OO.OO
Each billiard or pool table
for profit or otherwise,
when connected with a sac
loon, per annum. ...... 20. w
Flying p" MES or jennies per
week. ..'...'' 70 w
Each restaurant per annum 10 w
Each boardig house enter
tanning transient, per an
mum. ... ..'...''' IL w
Each public boarding house
entertaining by the week
or month, per annum..... 10 w
Each public hotel. per annum 70 W
Each ten pin or boiling al.
ley, per annum. ....... 20 w
Each shooting gallery, per
annum. oO w
Each four horse day or
wagon, per annum. $50. 70 w
Each three horse dray or
wagon, per annum.... 70 w
Each two horse dray or
wagon, per annum..... ~ w
Each one horse dray or
wagon, per annum. So. 3 w
Each circus or other snow
exhibiting under canvass
per day. ............. 10 w
Each show exhibi ing under
tent, except size show
with circus, per day.. 30 90
Each licensed opera house
per aDnum. ......... 70
Each tran silent theatrical or
minstrel, juglers, magic
lantern and other like ex-
hibitions, when they do not
perform in licensed opera
house, per day ...... 5 90
master, per annum 800. $50 90
Itinerant traders, except
those who sell vehicles, not
less than So to $40 per
day.. ......,.......
Each lecturer charging for
same, except in licensed
opera house, shall pay
from SIS to S25 per day.
Each junk dealer, per an
mum. 25 90
Wheels of fortune and other
sporting devices, per day 100 90
Each dancing master or
mistress per annum. -. % co
Rach skating rink, per an
mum. 10 W.
All canvassers of books, ex-
cept the Bible and other
religious literature per
week.. w
Lady canvassers are not subs
ject to said license tax.
Each itinerant physician,
per annum. ............. 70 w
Each chiropodist, per annum 10 90
Eech professional horse trains
er, per annum ........... 10 90
Each guano dealer, per an
mum. .......s......., Z 0O
Each warehouse per annum Is 90
bank or banker per 80. 30 90
+" transie nt person selling
vehicles, per annum. 49,. 30 90
Each livery and iced stable
per annum 10 90
Each sale, feed and livery
stable per annum. Is 90
All stock dealers, persons or
firms in or outside of a Ii,
censed livery stable per
annum ................. Is 20
Each auctioneer of live stock
per annum. ............. Do w
Variety works, sh, blind
and door factory per annum 10 90
Each oil mill per annum -. 10 90
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15
THE S0U7ES GRoETA.

The rapid growth of the south IN
material way is shown by the following
from the Manufacturers Record: Duf,
ing the decade ending with 1900 the total
output of agriculture, manufactures anu
mining in the south will aggregate aoou'
$40. 900, DOC, 900 more than for the deoaae
ending with 1890, or, in other Words tnis
do AIDE will show an average increase IN
the total value OF all southern products
of about 500, 100000 year over the
preceding decade. This Looks like an
enormous gain, and so it is; but when we
contrast the vast increase in mlning'
manufacturing and agriculture in the
south since 1880 we can see that 1t does
not mean an overestimate."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15

DIR. HowARD's Early County News
should tote fair in this campaign. He
should quote us in full and correctly or
NOT ALI. Last week he altered and repro
produced just enough of paragraph
from this paper to put an entirely differ
ent construction upon what we
said, or the spirit in which we
said it, This is not like the dear
doctor, who has always been an open,
honest and brave adversary. A desperate
cause is no excuse for good man like
him to resort to such tactics now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT was elateo
the other day because he was able to cal
a few stewed oysters and not be distress
ed. Mr.. Vanderbilt for years has suffer
ed from acute dyspepsia, and has been
pleased enough when a bit OF cracker
and sip of matted milk did not bring
agony to him. The gentleman who told
of Mr.. Varderbilt's happiness over
stewed oysters remarked that they we're
as much a feast to him as great course
dinner and wines galore would be to a
tramp, and yet Mr.. Vanderbilt's wealth.
is certainly close to s1OO,O0O,OoO,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-15

30 cents and sioO SCOTT s BOVINE, Chemists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
MOUNTAIN SKETCHES.
NJ. Quad's Tale of the Tax Collector
Who Compromised.
THE TAXES HAD "RIZ" TO So
But Tom Hopkins and His Gun Pre-
cured the Old Rate.

Twas toi1ing along the mountain trail
with knapsack on my back when over
taken by a man on mule. He asked
where was going, and when replied
that had been directed to stop for the
night at Hopkins cabin he said:
II am jest gwine up to Tom s place
myself, and we'll jog along together. /
hev to see Tom about his taxes
Chow are taxes assessed up here in
the mountains?'' asked after awhile.
ooh, kinder so SO. -
Nothing more was said until we reach
ed the cabin. Mr.. Hopkins was cutting
fire wood in the back yard, and he came
around and welcomed us and queried of
the man with me:
''Waal, Sam, what brings you up this
way?"
Cum to see about yo'r taxes, Tom. -
''Shool How ar taxes this y'ar?"
"Waal, Tom, taxes is up 1eetle, I'm
sorry to say %
Chow much up?''
"Yo' dun paid 81 last var, believer
Sc Bout 81
''And they've riz up to about SO
this var
"shool Sam Davis, who riz up them
taxes ON me?''
''The state bod, I reckon -
"And whar mought the state bod
be at?''
Nashville, I take it
"Shool Jest wait a minit.''
He entered the house for moment
and then reappeared with long barrel
ed rife and dropped the butt on the
ground as he said:
''Sam, amt gWino to stand no Ii1
up in taxes! Thar's no call fur it. I've
got that 81 right yere in the house, but
dun doan' pay no mo-. What yo' gwine
to do about it?''
"Won't yo' pay no MOI"
''Not blamed cent !''
"And yo' doan' keer bout the state
b'od?''
mot biti''
"And yo'n shoot befo' yo' pay any
mop
"Sure toI''
"Waal, then, reckon I'll take along
that 81 and call it squar', and if the
state bod doan' like it they kin cum
arter the rest. How's Pete Small on
taxes this y'ar?''
pete won't pay cent. ;"
"And ole man Harper?"
''Him g waitin fur yo' with a gun -
81 see. WAL, I won It bother 'em, I
reckon. Bring out that 81, Tom, and
take receipt, and if you hev any con
juice handy might be coaxed to wet
up the roof Of my mouth 70
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
GROWTH OF OUR NAVY.
Ytriking Contrast Between the Old
Ships and the New.
he GIANT BATTLESHIP IOWA.
How She Compares with GSe Penn"
syIvan1a, the Pride of the Navy Six
" Years ARO-The Steamship TOrPe-
do Boats of To-day.

On March % will be launched at
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia the
first class battleship Iowa, the fourth of
her kind to be added to our navy. About
60 years ago there slid from the ways
near where the Iowa now rests gallant
ship that for time was queen of the
waves This was the old ship of the
line Pennsy lvania. She was the finest
example of a wooden warship ever built
by this government, and at the time of
her launching it was expected that she
would continue to be an imposing mem
Der of our feet for at least half a GEN.
tury.
But what changes there have been in
naval warfare since those days, and
what a ridiculous figure the old Penn
sylvania would cut now if she should
engage one of our modern floating fight
ing monsters of the deep-the Iowa, for
instancel
Nevertheless she was an imposing
sight when she first threw open her
ports and spread all her canvas to the
breeze. No nation on the globe then
possessed a craft that she could not have
met in equal combat. She was of wood
throughout, with a water line length of
80 feet, beam of So feet, and her
keel would touch bottom in less than 20
feet of water. Her sides were of good,
solid oak, ranging in thickness from IS
inches at her spar deck to 80 inches at
hsr water line, and they were proof
against any guns afioat at the distance
of a mile.
From out these wooden walls peered
the mouths of 100 muzzle loading,
smoothbore guns, ranged one above the
other in three banks, which made her
look like a vast floating checkerboard-
Sixteen of these were inch she'll guns,
the heaviest of the day. and the others
were 80 FOUNDER carronades.
Even England had at that time no
ship that could have lived long under
such a broadside as could have been
poured out from those guns.
Above her decks her mainmast tower
ed heavenward 80 feet and on this aud
her two other sticks she could spread
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17

en- ship while she was still miles away
and hull down ON the horizon
But what would happen if the wood
en- ships were allowed to come alongside
and pepper away with first one broad
side and then another? Why, the Iowa
could calmly stand and take it, for the
shot would rattle as harmlessly off her
armored sides as if they had been but
peas falling on tin pan. Then, when
the time came for the slaughter, the
Iowa could let loose an explosive shell
from one of her six Founders, and one
of the attacking force would be instantly
reduced to a mass of burning splinters
and tangled rigging.
If another method should be chosen,
from any one of the Iowa's five tubes
torpedo could be discharged, carrying
1870 pounds of explosive gun cotton and
speeding on its errand of destruction at
the rate of 80 miles an hour. No vessel,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
coming to an Understanding.

had sat down on rock beside the
mount tain trail to rest when man came
out of the bushes opposite with keg on
his shoulder. There was no question OF
his being a moonshiner, or of the key
being full of whisky which he was car
rying off to dispose of. He was taken
aback at seeing me, and as he put down
the keg he had very ugly look on his
face.
who be yo'?'' he demanded after
looking me over.
GA traveller. !"
"Whar' yo' a-gittin tor"
/ ''Going over into North Carolina.
tWhat yo' doin yere?''
I'm resting for a few minutes. Your
name is Lucas, isn't it?'
''No, sab. -
Don't you live in the cabin back
there?''
mo, sab. -
"Oh, thought you did. Istopped
there to get light for my pipe, and the
woman told me that her husband was
out after 'possums. see you have one
there, and so 1 thought your name was
Lucas. -
Stranger, d'yo call that possum?''
asked the man as he pointed to the key.
I'm rather near sighted, but it looks
to me like a 'possum and fat one at
that Can't be woodchuck?''
mo
81 thought not. Well, must be 60
ing. I hope you may kill three or four
more fat 'possums during the day.
stranger" said the man as he look
ed at me in a curious way, chew yo'
bin long is these mountings?"
About three weeks. -
''Seen anything but 'possums?"
Nothing but 'possums, sir. and I
shan't go telling around that saw any
of them
He put out his hand for a shake and
as I started off he winked his left eye
and said:
might see fox or coon occasional
~, but make 'possums a stiddy thing
and nobody up yere won't trubble yo'. -
M. Quad in Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
IN OLD MIssINsTPPI.

Original Order for Aaron Burr's Ar
rest Unearthed in the state Capitol.
JACKSON, Miss, March 17.-In remov-
ing the books, papers and documents
from the old library floor on the third
story of the capitol, to lessen the burden
on the old building. the following order
for the arrest of Colonel Aaron Burr
was found:
Headquarters. General Order. Feb. 10,
1S07-Sir: Yon will without delay take
measures to apprehend the person of
Aaron Burr and all persons supposed to
be in his party, wherever they may be
found within your territory, and have
them confined under strong military
guard until further orders. To effect
this end you are authorized to call on
any portion of the militia within your
country, and to act in respects in such
manner as in your opinion circumstances
may require. ROBERT WILLIAMS.
The outside cover of these papers con-
tains the following endorsement. "Gene-
raj Order. Headquarters, Feb 10, 1907
From Governor Robert Williams, COVER
nor of the territory of Mississippi, to
arrest Colonel Aaron Burr, late vice
president of the United States, for trea-
sen, etc, etc. :"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17


vANIA.
cloud of snowy canvas of over two acres
in extent. She must have been sight
to gladden. the eye of a sailor as, with
every stitch, from mainsail to to gallant
stud 'nsails set and drawing, she bowled
along in a ten knot breeze, her sides
a-swell as if with conscious dignity and
her bluff bows breaking the waves in
naughty disdain.
Such was the pride of our navy in
1887.
How different is the pride of the
white squadron of 1896, the battleship
Iowa.
She will stretch her long white bulk
along the water for $50 feet, thing of
steel and iron, massive, yet swift enough
to run round and round the old Pennsyl-
vania were she afoat today and sailing
at her best gait. She is a ponderous
mass of II, 410 tons, yet she will draw
one foot less water than the Pennsyl-
vania with oaly $500 tons displacement.
Instead of the towering masts there are
the two smokestacks and the steel turret
which holds up the fighting top. In
place of the great expanse of canvas
there is hidden, deep down in the hold,
two monster triple expansion steam en-
eines, each revolving a ponderous pro-
peller, either one of which can send the
great ship blowing through the water at
a rate never equaled by the Pennsyl-
vania, even when she was seudding I'M
der bare poles before hurricane.
Then compare the batteries of the two
ships. Where the Pennsylvania had 100
guns the Iowa has but Is. Only Is guns,
but of what awful power Compared
with them the old smooth bores are but
popguns. Just reflect what fearful en-
gines of death are held in leash behind
those glistening steel Sides Four of
them in the two large turrets, peering
out through Is inch walls of hardened
steel, are IL inch breechloading rifles,
firing combined mass of 8 400 pounds
of tempered steel as against the 2,20C
pound cast iron broadside of the older
craft. Every time these great guns belch
forth 1,700 pounds of power are burned.
Then look at those four smaller tur-
rets. In each of them are two eight
inch rifles, which can discharge shells
of $50 pounds each, capable Of penetrat-
ing eight inches of steel after they have
sped for two miles over the water. The
eight inch she'll guns on the old ship
had a possible range of one msSe, and at
close quarters could hurl their So pound
projectiles with sufficient force to pene-
trate fve-eighths of an inch of mild
steel, about enough to dent the Iowa's
armor.
Imagine a whole feet of old time
wooden ships like the Pennsylvania en-
gaging even one modern battleship like
the Iowa. Surprising the Iowa should
allow them to come within fighting
range. That means about 200 yards. It
would be merely a matter of allow
ance, for from any one of the Iowa's
guns could be hurled a mass of steel
that would search out and sink wood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17

TIE Abilene Chronicle probably voices
the sentiment of a majority of the Re-
publicans in the Fifth district in the fol-
lowing editorial utterance:
The utter insincerity and cowardliness
of the average politician is hard to IN
derstand. The Concordia convention
adopted unanimously resolution en-
dorsing Mr. Calderhead's work in con-
gress when the truth is that fully two
thirds of the delegates were opposed to
his financial views, being the friends of
silver while Calderhead has been an I'M
compromising advocate of single gold
standard.
We believe that convention did wrong
in endorsing Mr.. Calderhead, who should
have been censured instead and inform
ed that unless he gets in line with his
constituents on the silver question he
cannot hope to win. Mr. Calderhead
will not have old John Davis to run
against this year. In '94 he had a
picnic but this year he will find himself
with fight on his hands and q host of
Republicans ready to scratch him and
vote for his opponent should he chance
TO be a well-balanced and reputable
man who lie right on the silver question,
which will be the paramount issue in
this neck O. the woods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
KANSAS GIRL HONORED.

Miss COburn, Daughter of IF. ID. CO.
burn, Given q Chair in Iowa State
College.
From the Kansas City Times.
Miss Gertrude Coburn has received
telegram from the president of the Iowa
State Agricultural college announcing
that she has been unanimously elected
to the chair of domestic economy in that
institution at salary of $1,000 per year.
Miss Coburn is a Kansas-born girl,
graduate of the State Agricultural COL
lege, and a daughter of Secretary F. D.
Coburn of the state department of agri-
culture.
For four years siHce her graduation
she has occupied like position in the
Stout Manual Training school at Memo
monte, Wis, and declined a reelection.
Miss Coburn was not an applicant for
the Iowa position. Her new duties are
awaiting her. and she will take up the
worzabout March 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17

DIXIE LEES town, otherwise known
as Wichita, is quite angered because the
STATE JOURNAL has called attention to
the fact that Dixie Lee and the rednosed
gentry run the town instead of the de-
cent people in it, and the Beacon franti-
cally announces that Dixie Lee is not
there. No, she isn't, but she has sent
her fifteen painted creatures on in ad-
vance, under the care of Dixie Lees
sister and her place is running in full
blast" right under the noses of the Wich-
itans. 1t may be impossible to keep
such people out of town, but Wichita
is the first city on earth that permits
them to run the town, and champions
their class in its principal daily paper.
Phew! The trouble with Wichita is that
she doesn't know when she's making an
indecent exposure of herself, to the dis
gust of the rest of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
UNITED STATES BATrLEsH1p IOWA.

UNITED STATES BATT1ESH1P IOWA.
past or present, could stand in the path
of that awful missile and survive the
shock. A wooden ship would vanish at
its touch like soap bubble pricked with
q pencil
But if the Iowa's captain wanted to
save powder and still destroy the oppos-
ing feet it could be done as easily. From
his position in the coming tower he
could send the word down into the en-
CINE rooms, ''Stand by to ram. " This
order would be followed by an instant
activity below decks. The massive ma
chinery would begin to move, slowly at
first, but quicker and quicker until,
driven by an energy of II, 900 horse
power, the two 16 foot screws were
churning the water aft at the rate of
112 revolutions minute, forcing the
great ship forward at a speed Of 16 knots
an hour. To stand in her way means to
take blow of 100, 600 tons from her
murderous ram, before which the tough
est armor must break and crumple like
paper. What chance would the wooden
ships stand of resisting such an on
s1aught?
In the days of the old Pennsylv
sea fighting was a picturesque kind of
warfare, with it's hand to hand strug
giles on decks slippery with blood. To-
day it has become grim contest of sci
ence where death has long arm. Where
formerly the captain stood in the midst
of his officers, inspiring the crow to
brave and valorous deeds, now he goes
into action sheltered in the steel citadel
of his coming tower. where speaking
tubes and electric bells enable him to
direct the fighting of the ship. There is
no wild enthusiasm, no shouting, no
dash of the boardefs with cutlasses in
their hands; the engines of death on a
modern battleship are handled with &C.
curacy by noiseless mechanism. Cool,
deliberate courage instead of reckless,
dashing bravado, is needed.
The most silent and destructive craft
of all the additions to our new navy is
now being built in secret. This is to be
a submarine torpedo boat, a still hunter
of the sea. She is to be little, cigar
shaped craft, only "a feet in length, but
she will be able to steal up on a big bat
tleship, many times her size, approach
her in broad daylight and blow her to de-
struction without the slightest warning.
This boat will go out scouting for an
enemy. When she has sighted her huge
prey, she will steam within safe distance
and then dive like duck until she is
from 60 to rs feet under water, safe
from any shot that might be sent after
her. Then from her submarine vantage
point she will launch Whitehead tor
pedo of sufficient explosive force to shake
a mountain.
By means of a three foot extension
turret this boat can be wholly submerged
and keep on her course at the rate of
eight miles an hour, herself invisible,
but holding the enemy in view all the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
Balloon Veterans.

The survivors of the 169 persons who
left Paris in balloons during the siege
have just formed themselves into So
ciety. No fewer than Sc balloons left
the besieged city, carrying in their cars
not only these 1859 persons, but $1,000,
600 letters and 363 pigeons, which were
intended to return to Paris with dis
patches, and two boxes of dynamite
Fifty-two of these balloons fell in
France, in Belgium, in Holland. 2
in Prussia, and in Norway, and were
lost at sea. Eighteen of the balloons fell
within the enemy's lines. Of these
were captured by the enemy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-17
HOW nKTNLEY STANDS.

The money plank adopted by the Ohio
convention is said to have been written
by Major Mckinley himself. If this is
true, it is probably about what will be
found in the national platform if he
should receive the nomination. It Is an
utterance on the question which can be
construed to mean anything or nothing.
What it really indicates is an intention
on the part of the Mckinley wing of the
Republican party to remand the question
to the congressional districts. 1t means
that if elected to the presidency on such
a platform N Mckinley will be free to fol-
low the wishes of the people as voiced
by congress.
If a congress shall be elected that will
pass free coinage of silver bill Major
Mckinley has paved the way to afixing
his signature to ii, in this financial
plank. If it shall conclude to take any
action whatever on the money question,
as the president elected on this kind of
a declaration, Major Mckinley could
give such action his sanction without
leaving room for anybody to say that he
violated a party pledge, for this Ohio
money plank is so constructed as to fit
any case.
Republicans, in the states known to
favor silver, are showing their satisfac-
ton with this kind of declaration by
electing Mckinley delegates, but in the
east they are beginning to rebel and de-
clare that the eastern states will not &C.
cept such platform They insist on an
uncompromising gold standard declara-
ton, and are not willing to take their
chances, with the western Republicans,
on the verdict of the people as expressed
in the congressional elections next No
vember.
It is always a confession of weakness
to fear the people. Major Mckinley
has made it evident that he wishes to be
considered as satisfied with any kind of
financial legislation which congress may
submit for his approval.