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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
THE CRANE DANCE.
Where the SOubrettes Got Their Idea For
Speciality.

Where the SOubrettes Got Their idea For
a Speciality.
There is a dance called the crane
dance, which is popular at the vaude-
vile houses. At Lincoln park there is
real crane which does a crane dance,
and those who have seen its saltatorial
feats say the bird does it much better
than do the featherless, two legged ami
mails
No purely initiative dancing could
fail to gain by being an exact copy of
the performance of the long necked,
spindle legged sand hill crane. Its steps
are not only grotesque, but they are of
a kind to make the gravest onIooker lose
his dignity and laugh like a delighted
boy at the circus. This Lincoln park
bird at the outset of his dance is the
personifcation of dignity. When in the
days of his freedom he tripped it on his
native sand hills for the sole benefit of
his mate, he did so only in the spring
time, but now, in his lowly captive
state, he dances in and out of season if
the keeper who feeds him will but wave
HIS dl1uS anu ldh0 al dHhWdIu EJSD OF
two to give him encouragement.
The crane begins it's dance by showing
one long leg, with it's claw attachment,
straight out in front of his body. Then
he lowers it and draws it back slowly
until it is within an inch or two of the
ground. Then there is lightninglike
double shuttle, and the other leg is
pointed to the front. Then the dance
begins in earnest The wings are
stretched and beat the air in perfect
time to the movement of the feet, be
they going fast or slow. There is the
semblance Of a clog; then the sinuous
foot and body movement of the nautch
girl, and in a moment the whirl of the
dancing dervish, to be succeeded as a
finale by a sort of wild 'all hands
round" in which every feather of the
bird is alive, as it enters into the Joy of
the dance with an utter abandon. The
act of stopping is like the halt" of the
German soldier-sudden, stiff and in
slant. Then the crane marches away to
a corner with a still stately tread, but
with an eye which appears to reveal en-
barrassment Chicago Times Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

A Baltimore man who is suing for
divorce has filed as part of the rec
ords of his case some of his wlfe's bills,
which contain these among other
items Hat, 5000; notions, $50; chew
ing gum and tobacco, S24; brushes and
paints, SO; cologne, 1915; oysters, $50;
ice cream $7.75; cigarettes, $1.85."
These bills were contracted in a frac-
tion Of week. The showing is
enough to create strong sympathy for
the husband.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

Chicora, Pa, Herald" Richard Ven
sci reports One Minute Cough Cure the
greatest success of medical science. He
told us that it cured his whole family of
terrible coughs and colds, after all other
so called cures bad failed entirely. Mr..
Vensel said it assisted his children
through very bad siege of measels.
One Minute Cough Cure makes expecto-
ration very easy and rapid.
SALE-OAvIs DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

The New York Herald publishes a
story from Chicago to the effect that
there are 10000 persons in that city
who are actually starving and at the
same time suffering fortunes from
cold. Within comparatively few
miles from Chicago there is so much
corn in the cribs that it is a drug. 1t
cannot be sold, and is being burned in
the place Of coal, 1t seems reprOach
upon the organized charities of Chica-
go that there should be so much actual
want in the city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03
POPULAR ELECTION or JUDGES.


The following from the Macon Even
ing News fully comedies with the
views of THE NEWS as to how superior
court judges should be elected:
The esteemed Albany Herald says it
is willing to grant that the election of
superior court judges by the legislature
is not productive of the best possible
results, but asks would their election
by the people beany better? Since the
position is one that only lawyer can
fill why would it not be proper to leave
the selection to the lawyers of the dis
trict or circuit, suggests the Herald.
The objection to this plan is very
manifest. 1t would not do to place a
Judge on the bench who owes his posi-
tion to cetain lawyers who practice in
his courts. A similar objection APP
plies to the election of judge by the
people of his circuit alone. We have
to look no further than Tennessee to
find the iniquitous workings of a sys-
TEN which allows judges to promise
immunity to their supporters and
forces them to drag the ermine in the
mire of local politics in order to secure
election.
We have heard but one plan suggest
ed that seems to us to fill the require
ments of the situation entirely. This
plan not only recognizes the principle
of popular rule, but applies it in the
fullest sense, and, at the same time,
supplies Within itself those safeguards
which are the best guarantee of fair
and proper application of this princi-
pie.
This plan proposes the election of
the superior court judges by all the
qualified voters Of Georgia, the same
as we Will now vote for supreme court
justices. We are simply to ballot for
the judiciary as a whole, voting for
one judge in each district. The sue
Cessful judges are to rotate, so that no
Judge will hold court in the same cOun-
ty more than one time each year.
This, it seems to us, would further
remove the judiciary from politics. or
at least that form of politics that is
considered so communicating, than any
plan we have yet heard Of And at the
same time, it would necessarily insure
more impartial administration of JUS
tice than if the presiding judge were
hampered by local influences.
Georgia's judicial system is very
much in need of remodeling, and we
confidently believe that careful and
impartial study of the situation, with
out the interference of political mo-
tives, will result in some plan similar
to the above being accepted as the one
best suited to existing and probable
future conditions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

There are some invidious people who
are disposed to dispute the claim that
John Sherman is great fnancier.
His accumulation of 100000 on a
$4,000 salary eloquently refutes the
SANDER, thinks the New Orleans
States.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

The amazing statement is officially
made that nearly oneIn every ten pc :
sons in the great city of Chicago is
suffering from the lack of food. Three
months agot his starving city gave Nc
Kinley a majority of $1,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

j. IL. Deveaux, negro politician of
Brunswick, is a candidate.for internal
revenue collector. THIS is only one of
the attendant evils of republicanism.
Those erstwhile democrats who are
aiding to establish the republican par
ty in power should have their atten-
ton called to this not infrequently.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

Associate Justice Brewer has located
the abiding place of the spirit of re-
sentiment. 1t somewhere in the neigh
borhood of the pistol pocket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

In speaking of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, Messrs. Daugherty Bros, Indiana,
Pa, say; eve know of many our Gus
toners who have used it for rheuma.
tism, and they all praise it highly We
sell more of it than Of any other house
hold liniment." For sale at q and SO
cents per bottle by Farrar " Farrar,
druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

A hornets nest usually contains from
800 to 400 perfect males and females
and an indefinite number of workers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

The earliest use Of weights is attrib-
uted to Pheidon, king of Argos, 985
B. c.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

All the diHerent forms of skin troub-
les, from chapped hands to eczema and
indOlent ulcers, can be readily cured by
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great
pile cure. SALE-DAyIS DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

That the pension system of Georgia
eeds overhauling, as has long been
contended by this paper, no stronger
argument is needed than this: Last
week check went out from the pen
sion bureau at Atlanta to the widow
of a confederate veteran who is worth
$4,000. Near her lives her sister, who
owns nothing more than her little
home, worth no more than 81 600 yet
the poorer sister has to pay taxes out
of her poverty to help her rich sister.
The Savannah News thinks that it is
altogether likely that those Twiggs
county lynchers had in mind delay in
the case of Mrs. Mobiles and Gus Fam
bles when they went to Jacksonville
the other night and took the law into
their own hands. The white murder
ess and her negro accomplish COM
mitted their fendish crime months
and months ago; they were tried and
convicted, but are apparently still as
far away as ever from paying the pen
atty Of their crime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

A Georgia editor has perpetrated
this at the expense of dead friend
and subscriber: "Poor Jim Brown
slung his earthly garments on limb
and swan the river yesterday. He
didn't stand back because the water
was cold, but plunged right in, rose
smiling and struck for the other shore,
where the angels were waiting for
him with finer suit than he had ever
worn in this life. Jim was poor
man, but he had his subscription to
is home paper paid up, and he got
lere in good shape"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

The town of KokOmo, Ind, boasts
a genius in business who will no doubt
one day be a millionaire. He is sew
ing machine agent, and recently he
called at the home of a woman to sell
her machine. She saw him coming
and started to the door in huff to tell
him to be gone, In passing an open
fireplace her dress caught fire, and in
a second she was in danger of burning
to death. The agent dropped the ma
chine, caught up a rug, wrapped it
around her and succeeded in smother
ing the fame before it had done her
any harm. While she was still wrapp-
el in the rug the agent began; mad
anne, ermit me to mention that | am
selling the very best make of sewing
machine in the world -" The up
shot was that before the rug was UNI
wrapped the agent had sold the ma
chine, and was happy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

In England, where the single golo
standard has long prevailed, ne lall IN
the value Of farm lands has oeeh so
great as to be almost startling. 1t Is
alleged that there are farms with n an
hours ride of London which are ue-
serted. Land which fifteen years ago
commanded $50 an acre was sold re-
Gently for $45 per acre. There are
farms which few years ago brought
good incomes that are now offered to
tenants free if they will pay the taxes.
tits no unusual thing for farms to be
sold for one-tenth of what was freely
offered for them twenty years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

ELY'S CREAM BALM is a positive cure,
Apply into the nostrils. 1t lis quickly absorbed ~
cents at Druggists or by mail samples lOC 1 G p
ELY BROTHERS, Sc Warren St.s New IofA'''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-02-03

) The Minnesota legislature has before
ita b. which deserves to be passed.
# m~ oh. bits the sending of flowers or
otho, Ia. kens Of admiration to con-
demu, al fe Ions or to persons awaiting
trialu DO VI charge which amounts to
felony The re are in nearly every
6i+v umbel of giddy, gushing,
woak-ynjp.led We men who delight in
atouorinp attepti, On upon murderers,
burglars and Other CRIMINALS, 1t Is
the intG ntion of the fr, amer ol Uhe Min
nesota bill to- proven, 'o0lI "onlen
from making fools of the observes
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15

The Canon City Record (Cal.) of recent
date, publishes a sketch and portraits of
the Republican candidates for county
of1ces, and among others we find the fol-
lowing sketch Of one of our East Ten
nessee boys who has earned his honors
in that country by n straightforward
manly course. Mr.. Hawkins, the gentle,
man referred to, is a brother of our
toWnsman and e%x-Sherin, J.I. Hawkins:
The next Sheriff OF Fremont County
was born in Johnson County, Tennessee.
1893. There he received a good common
school education and early in life learned
the honest trade of the blacksmith. By
this trade he has ever since earned n
good livelihood. In 1888 he came to Colo
RADIO and opened a blacksmith shop at
Coal Creek, which was a prosperous
mining town at that time. He has ever
since been a resident of Coal Creek, where
he has the respect and admiration of all,
without regard to party or politics. He
has never been a can lidate for any office
though he was electsd without his con
to be a member Of the school board
of Coal Greek. aud later Justice of the
Peace. He isl IT a politician and knows
little of the was of the political world.
lie is not a political gangster who seeks
the office of Sheriff to further any such
pernicious Interests. He is naught but
an honest hborer, one who has by hard
work and thrift raised himself and fam
lily to a higher plane than the average of
his class. He is the kind Of man that
honest men admire and seek to reward,
that the noble ONE of Fremont
County should openly support. Mr..
Hawkins seeks the office of Sheriff be-
it is an honor, and the writer can
assure his more than two thousand sup
that aftei his election no one
need blush to own his name as the one
thew helped to eject.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
JOnesbOrO High School Notos

On last Monday evening the teachers
responded to the invitation of Prof. and
occasion.
Alto O'Clock supper was announced
ana all repaired to the dining room to
spend quite a while in ENJOYING the
most aellclous assortment of "good
After spending two hours in the par.
LOT enjoying a pleasant conversation.
all returned home feeling indebted to
Prof, and Mrs. Sheriff. for one of the
ple'santest social occasions of the
seasol. "0
Both students and teachers are al
ready arranging for Il pleasant Christ
mas vacation.
we are sorry that Naomi White, a
SlXth grade student, is unable TO be in
scno0l on accornt of her health.
hoot' owens spent Sunday at his
home on Nolachucky River.
Miss Lula Smith was a welcome Wis.
ltor on the hill one day last week.
we are all getting very anxious for
the Christmas vacation,
for a few days.
ment last week. VI
we, the school, are going to make an
ealoII TO purchase a carpet for the stage
OF our auditorium. We need this yeTv
lluch. Any assistance will be gladly
The University of Tennessee has kind
~ volunteered to send their University
magazine to oar reading room. This i
quite a handsome nd~instructiye NTara.
zine. ""6"-
The room of the fifth and sixth grades
USED TO have the name of being the
worst room in the school. We are clad il
no longer has that reputation. II Is now
one OF the most orderly and studious
rooms of the school. Much praise is
que Prof. Waller and the Students of
dhis room for the splendid work they
Prof. Sheriff. offers a dollar TO the
students who will secure by Christmas
the greatest number of books for orr
Library. The students are WORKING
hard for the dollar. If any n has
BOOKS to give to u library thew would
be appreciated very much at this time.
The seventh grade will take quarterly
examination next week.
Master Niles Warlick was visiting on
the hill last Friday.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
FREE HILL.

some Free Hillites are somewhat in
terested in Judge CampbelPs revival
that commences in Jonesboro this week.
with two Jurors from the Twelfth Dis
trlct 1t may be expected that some law
breakers will be attended to. Some
reckless boys have been disturbing the
peace and dignity of the meeting folks
attending Hale's Chapel. If all good and
law abiding people should determine to
ma out the guilty persons, this pistol
shooting along the road from night
meetings would stop; some school child
ren and even road hands have been so
Ill pred as to annoy any and every per-
son passing, regardless Of all sex, An
example will be made of some one vet.
The special call session of Loafers' GLORY
Will cuss and discuss the ways and
means of stopping the small bows from
throwing stones at the telephone glass
insulators. Sheriff Pritchett's hotel will
become the home of some of these little
heathens before they are much older,
unless they reform somewhat. Isaac
King, Jr., Of Sullivan County. takes TO
wife one of R~ockingham's f~airest; Miss
lda Jackson becomes Mrs. King bv the
ceremony OF Esq. j. II. Sanders Sunday.
the eth. Miss Annis j. Hale, teaching
IN the Tenth District of this county. will
give a pay concert in her school room To
raise money to finish paying for their
DeIl. }. w. Snider has been suffering at
times from heart trouble; DR.. $. has beer
treating him incidentally The plowman
mas set up his familiar music of gee, wo,
nav. Chas. Harrison, is building his
mousse before he brings her home; some
OF our young men who have calico on
the brain would do well to pattern after
Charles example. Our court No. | is
now transact.ng business for Uncle
sam n Knoxville. We feel highly
pleased over the fact that we have men
mat Uncle Sam needs to carry on his
| guess we will have to call
on the ~worshipful County Court TO give
us another election for Magistrate: we
hear OF three good and lawful men, more |
or less, who wish to fill ESQ. Gresham's
oIIce-one Democrat and two Republic
Sans' alu we are expecting the gouger
from Il side TO declare he is in Tho
night. Now, boys, look up your tax re-
ceipts and think not to say to the election
Judges, we have not been assessed for
time; soon the Assessor will call
On you; no sell out, boys, this time, for
they can't shove the Doodle. Rev. Eden
mas been conducting a series of meetings
Hale's Chapel let the good work con.
Jlnue until the boys leave their guns at
OF nights. Surely in a district
where there are five churches and four
'chool houses we should have less mis-
met and moro good, sound morals. 1t
strikes me that the hanging Of Simms
Mays was not moralizing on the
people. Good drinking water has
been greatly needed both for man and
)east on the north side, ever the river
low dont need bridging at all. 1t is ru.
hoTed mat Mcintosh and Sanders have
eclnded their trade ON the old Hale
II DHALE.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
How to Prevent Pneumonia

At this time of the year a cold is very
easily contracted, and if left to run its
course without the aid of some reliable
cough medicine is liable to result IN
that dread disease. pneumonia. We
know of no better remedy to cure a
cough or cold than Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. We have used it quite
extensively and it has ALWAYS given
entire satisfaction .-Olagah, Ind. Ter.
Chief.
This is the only remedy that is known
to be a certain preventive of pneumo.
MIA, Among the many thousands who
have used it for colds and the grip,
we have never yet learned of a single
case having resulted in pneumonia.
Persons who have weak lungs or have
reason to fear an attack of pneumonia,
should keep the remedy at hand. The
and 90 cent sizes for sale by F. E
Britton, Druggist.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
DOVES MILLS.

MRS, Elizabeth Denton, n of the old
est ladies of our district, died last Satnr-
day at the home Of Thomas Harvey. Mrs
Denton leaves a large posterity to mourn
the loss of their beloved senior. on
christmas eve there will be an enter
talnment at Bethesda. The invitation
says come, look and live. The PRAYER
meeting at Union seems to be increasing
Doth IN interest and in number. s. w.
Murray, Il worthy Superintendent,
was visiting the schools of the Eighth
District last week. Mr.. Murray is show
ing himself to be a good leader in the
cause of education. Mrs. w. p, Kyker
and family, of Mayberry, are callers ON
Cherokee. Candidates are becoming Wis
lble to the naked eye. Some of whom
we have heard of and seer are Chas. :
Mason, for County Court Clerk, and f..
I. Watts, for Sheriff. Mr.. Mason is a
business man., a gentleman and a loyal
Republican. The Republicans certainly
owe him their undivided support. The
same praise and qualification nav be an
Piled to Mr.. Watts. IL these aspirants
are nominated, OF which there is no
douot, as to their nomination, their cleo
tlon Will be n landslide in August. The
nrst Sunday Miss Fanny Hufine and
David Slower were made one matrimoni-
any May this union be one of perpetual
harmony all through life that thew NAV
have the pleasure Of living together, and
when eternity finds them in its posses.
sion, may their love wax stronger as the
years roll on. And still there are others
almost pursuaded, but not ready to mar
ry. May they hustle, while it is called
today, lest h night cometh when there
VIII be nc marrying nor giving in mar
riage. BACCUTs
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
An InlOnndel Rnnnrt

Some days since a report was put in
circulation in this place against the
character OF a young man, who came to
Jonesboro with the Warden Troupe. but
who did not leave with them. In order
to ascertain something as to his reputa-
ton at home we wrote the editor of the
of the Mount Airy News, a paper pub
lished in the town where the Young
man was raised, and the following let
ter was received by us last Friday.
Other persons in Jonesboro have re.
ceived letters Of the same purport.
MOUNT AIRY, n. G., Dec. 8. 1897.
Mr.: Frank l.. Fornshell-Sir:
Mr.. II. G. Galloway was highly re-
spected here three or four months AGO
when he lived in Mount Airy. If he is
not o. X. | must say / don't know if,
His father is one of our best and wealth
lest citizens. If Mr., Galloway has gone
wrong" any way it must have occurred
since he left here wi h a troupe.
respectfully, ". J. LOWERY.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
BABY's SMOOTH, FAIR SKIN
A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter

A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter
Tells all about Her Troubles when
Baby Broke out with S~crofula Sores.
cat the age Of two months, my baby
began to have sores break out on his right
cheek. We used all the external APP
plications that we could think or hear of,
to no avail. The sores spread all over one
side of his face. We consulted a physi-
clan and tried his medicine, and in a week
the sore was gone. But to my surprise in
two weeks move another scrolulous look
ing sore G!gearod ON baby's arm. 1t
grew worse and worse, and when he was
three months old, l began giving him
Hoods Sarsaparilla. l also took Hoods
Saraaparilla, and before the first bottle
was finished, the sores were welland have
never returned. He is now four years old,
but he has never had any sign of those
scrofulous sores since he was cured by
Hoods Sarsaparil!G, for which feel very
grateful. My boy owes his good health
and smooth, fair skin TO this great med
icine." MRS. s. S. WRoTEN, Farming
ton, Delaware. Get only Hoods.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15

The enemies Of the Government have
all along contended that the present
protective tariff would not yield sutIi-
Gent revenue to meet the expenses of
the country, overlook the fact that the
receipts for the fourth month of the
operation of the new law were $6,OOO,OOO
greater than that of the first month,
WIN the assurance that they will con
tnue to increase from now on.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-12-15
These are the Salt of tllo Earth

Among those who came in Monday
n added a bit of encouragement to The
printer were Joseph Booth, MAY Day,
Elijah Hylton, Gladstone, d. NJ. Clovd'
Grookshanhs, DR.. L. Shipley, Keeblers
y Road. Such are the salt of the earth,
n we wish there were more of them,
While we are thankful to those above
mentioned we could have felt more
grateful If many more whom we saw on
the street who owe us, had come up and
made it possible for us to have included
names in the above roll of honor,