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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
SUPREME JUSTICES GOWNS.
Our Early statesmen's Task in Selecting
Court Dress.

Ex-President Harrison tells of the
contention ere tied over the question of
an appropriate curt dress for the JUS
tees of tie federal supreme court in the
January Ladies' Home Journal. "Wben
the constitutional organic ltion of the
court had been settled and the high du-
ty of selecting the justices had been per-
formed by Washington" he says, 1.-THE
smaller, but not wholly unimportant,
questi0 of court dress doomed up, and
much agitated and divided the minds Of
our public men. Shall the justices wear
gowns? And If yea, tue gown of
scholar, of the Roman senator, or of the
priest? Shall they wear the wig of Eng
lish justices? Jefferson and Hamilton,
who had differed so widely in their
views as to the frame of the constitu.
ton, were again in opposition upon
these questions relating t millinery and
hair dressing. Jefferson was against.
any needless official apparel, but if the
gown was to carry he said: 'Fol Heav--
ems sake discard the monstrous wig
which makes the English judges look
like rats peeping through punches of
oakum.' Hamilton was for the English
wig with the English gown, but against
the inverted wool-sack termed wig
The English gown was taken and the
wig left, and / am sure that the. flowing
black silk gown still worn by the JUS
tees helps to preserve in the court room
that dignity and sense of solemnity
which should characterize the place Of
judgment"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
A MORAL AWAKENING NEEDED,
A Former Dawson Minister Preaching on
the Right Line in Savannah.

the Right Line in Savannah.
We like the following from the Savan
nah News. 1t is timely and on the
right line, and we are gratifiod to learn
from it that Rev. A, M. Williams, a
former pastor of the Dawson Methodist
church, now pastor of one of the Savan-
nah churches, is still preaching on the
right line: "In his sermon at Wesley
Monumental church on Sunday night
the Rev. Mr.. Williams asserted that the
prevailing discomfort is misdirected:
that the desire for gain of worldly pos
sessions is principally the basis of it, and
that in the scramble for offices, riches
and the like the moral side of human
nature is not receiving the attention it
| should. He is right. There needs to be
moral awakening in this country; in
this section of the puntry. A glance
through the files of the newspapers for
one week Tor for a month, or two months
for that matter), will show that the
local and Geographic columns are filed
with reports of murders, burglaries, de-
falcations, fOrgeries, frauds, embpzzle-
ments after trust, rapes, Iyuchings,
burnings, and all manner of crimil a
actions, The papers will show also that
criminals very frequently escape from
the consequences of their crime without
more than momentary Inconvenience
The reports will show that people with
I pull may rmmit forgeries or get into
drunken brawl and commit murder.
yet enjoy all the freedom that is enjoyed
by those who lead correct lives. There
needs to be revival of character and
respect for law and high citize nship."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
A MEAN MAN.
A Tombstone from Over the Crave of a
Poor Woman Sold in North Georgia.


Poor Woman Sold in North Georgia.
We have heard of man being mean
enough to steal the money off of dead
PERSONS eyes, but it seems that mean
er one than that has been found, if the
following clipping, taken from the
Gainesville Tribune, is to be believed:
'The constable of Byram's district sold
at public outcry last week the tombstone
from over the grave of poor woman,
to satisfy an old outstanding Fl ia. Some
few present at the sale made up a small
sum within few cents of what the
tombstone brought) and asked that it be
accepted and othe tombstone be allowed
to stand. But the plaintaiff in fl ia per-
sisted in having it moved. In few
years such creditors will stand around
the dead remains of an insolvent and
fight for his shroud or go down into the
grave for it, Macawber was doubtless
never pursued by less relentless cred
itor."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
GIGANTIC ANTARCTIC ICEBERGs.
Some Are Thirty Miles Long and Nearly
Three Thousand Feet Thick.

The snO wall of each year adds
! a new stratum to this ice-cap, which is
as distinguisLable to the eye as the an
nual accretion of forest tree" writes
General A. w. Greedy, U. S. A., describ-
ing in the January Ladies' Home jour
nal 'What There Is at the South Pole"
"Thus in centuries have accu nulated on
Antarctica these SHOWS, which, by pro-
cesses of pressure, thawing and regela-
ton, have. formed an icecap that in
places exceeds three thousand feet in
thickness. Through the action of yari-
Gus forces-that of contraction and ex-
pansion by changing temperature being,
perhaps, the most potent-this ice cap
creeps steadily seward and projects ir-
to the ocean a perpendicular front from
one thousand to two thousand feet in
Height. The temperature of the sea
water being about twenty-five degrees,
the fresh water ice remains unwasted,
and the ice water barrier plows the
ocean bed until through flotation in
deep water disruption occurs, AMI the
tabular berg is formed. These bergs
are of size that long taxed the belief of
men, but it is now well established that
bergs two miles square and one thous-
and feet in thickness are not rar others
are as large as thirty miles in length and
some nearly three thousand feet IN
thickness, their perpendicular, sun
wasted sides rising from two hundred to
four hundred feet above the sea-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
THOUSANDS STARVING DAILY.
Condition Of People in Central India Is
Fearful.

A press dispatch from Calcutta says
ExJudge Goodridge has written letter
to The Englishman, newspaper of this
city, saying that every day thousands of
persons are dying from starvation in the
central provinces of India.
He declares that the government ar
engagements to cope with the situation
are entirely inadequate, and that the
famine is now beyond control.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06

Here is pointer for any of readers
who may be troubled with paralysis.
Mr.. Il. NJ. Frye, prominent merchant
OF Boquet, Westmoreland County, Pa,
says one of his customers who had
walked with crutch for two years, ow-
ing to partial paralysis, was cured by US.
ing Chamberlain Pair Balm. The man
is fully recovered and is now working in
the mines. 1t is for. sale by Farrar &
Farrar, druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06

The length of life may be increased by
lessening It's dangers. The majority of
people die from lung tronbles. These
may be averted by promptly using One
Minute Cough Cure.
SALE-DAvIs DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
TOfbbett Signs With E;+n

ght Fits ss n IA signed articles agreeing 70
gst. u Texas is engineering the %l0, cOn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
ON TO GEORGIA.
Home Seekers Wend Their Way Toward
the Empire State,

Near Sparta, Ca, DIR. o. G.. Pope has
purchased fifteen hundred acres Of land
on which to locate colony of Armeni-
ans, who have recently arrived in this
country. The tract will be divided into
small holdings and the migrants will
cultivate fruits and vegetables mainly,
though dairying and other purs will
be engaged in.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06
NEWS NOTES.

Uncle Sam appears to be getting in a
belligerent mood, and he is warning Ger
many not to tread on his coat-tail.
The old gentleman is real frisky.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06

Volunteers are being organized in
many cities to fight for Cuba.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06

lure, b nan, T. be well if your blood i =,
gOod bea i you may have pure blood = "a Ia
Illa. '" ny taking Hoods Sarso ",u
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-01-06

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho
have woman suffrage.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
The Political Handkerchief.

There has just been sold by auction in France the complete set of all old newspaper which was probably unique It was called the Mouchoir de Poche Politique (Political Pocket Handker- chief and was published in 1881.
 The proprietors hit upon the idea of printing it on cheap cotton stuff for the uurr"se of ev"di"@ tho high paDe~ 3rtv The complete collection consisted of IA uumbers-just a gross of pocket band kerchiefs-for it is evident from the title thG6 the publishers believed the newspaper would serve two purposes.
 The price was pence-3 shillings per dozen-not high price to pay for news, articles, theatrical criticisms and 8 pocket handkerchief combined.
 Unfortunately the cotton required too much ink, and the scheme had to be abandoned. London Globe.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
4 Strange Experiment Made In a ZoOIog.
 ical Garden.

4 Strange Experiment Made In a ZooIog-
 ical Garden.
 A violinist was playing various airs before the cages of the animals. The bow, which had been passing backward and forward half drowsily, took up a gait that would have distanced one of the deer in the pen by the buffaloes' yard. Then there was a transformation scene in the home of the lioness as rap i'd and as complete as that of the tune. The cubs went into ecstaCies. They roll ed about, jumped, fell over one another,
 --a ---- .f.--s -rr----'- --os7T7T0hpUt body, and danced unrebuked on her head. They ceased their tantTums only with the ceasing or the music.
 Then they gathered st the front bars of the cage again and silently and pa thetically pleaded for more. Their plea was successful, and in response to the delicate fattery conveyed by their man. ner the player gave the lullaby once more. They simply sat and listened to it as silently as they had at the first. The transition to the jig music was once more made speedily. The first note of the lively air had barely left the vio- lin before its riotous contagion had once more caught the cubs. They rol- licked and rolled about and stopped on- ly when the professor, fearing to tire their little limbs, took his bow from his fiddle and told them they had danced enough for debutantes.
 The hyena is an uncanny brute. His very appearance goes a great way to- ward bearing out charges of graveyard robbery brought against him, He has no music in his soul nor room for any. Sweet sounds are to him so antipodal to everything in his nature that they in- spire him with nothing but fear, and the most abject fear at that. When Pro- lessor Baker tried to interest the two skulking hyenas in his performance on the violin, they began trembling visibly at the first notes utterance, and then as the music swelled they sought the far thermost side of their prison and tried their best to squeeze their ungainly bod ies through the bars to escape the mel ody. y.-Philadelphia Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
Diet and Hair.

The relation of the diet to the hair has been tested by good authority. A diet consisting of beef, starchy materi. als and milk causes atrophy of the roots and falling of the hair. Probably no ar ticle of diet nourishes the hair so well as oats. A bald headed Scotchman who takes his porridge regularly is rarity The poorest diet for the hair is milk It is claimed that the loss of hair as the result of fever is largely due to the habit of feeding the patient almost ex- clusively on milk diet, and it will be interesting to note the cases where those having fine heads of hair are known to live principally upon vegetable and grain foods
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
KIDNEY TROUBLES
Cured by Lydia B. Pinkham's
 Vegetable Compound.

"I have been a greatsufferer from Kidney trouble; painSin muscles, joints, back and shoulders ;-feet would swell. l also had womb troubles and leucorr- hsa. After using Lydia E. Pinlzham's Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier and Liver Pillss I felt like a new wo- man. My kidneys are now in perfect condition. ."-MRs. MAGGIE PoTTs, 3s4 Kaufman St., Philadelphia, Pa.
 My system was entirely run down, and I suffered with terrible backache in the small of my back, and could hardly stand upright. had no ap- petite. Since taking, Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound, I have gained fifteen pounds, and I look better than I ever looked before. "-- MRS. E. F. MORTON, 1O43 Hopkins St., Cincinnati, Ohio.
 LnLIANCRIPPEN, Box77, St. Andrews Bay, Fla, says:-'' Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, had suffered many years with kidney trouble. The pains in my back and shoulders were terrible. My menstrual tiOn became irregular, and l was troubled with leucorrhOea. Twas g-ovv- in~ vArv weak beDan the use of Mrs. A A.-44--s.---4 a uly0L-Lue, ana the first . He relieved the pain in Iny back ald regulated the menses. It relieved tho pain quickly and cured the disease.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
4 Story of the Petersburg Mine.

General Horace Porter tells the fol- lowing anecdote of the explosion of the Petersburg mine in his Campaigning With Grant" in The Century: A sur geOn told Us d story, one of the many echoes of the mine affair, about a pris- oner who had been dug out of the crater and carried to enc of our field hospitals. Although his eyes were bunged and his face covered with bruises, he was in an astonishingly amiable frame of mind and looked like pu0ilistic hero of the prize ring coming up smiling ill tho twenty y-seyenth round. He said: "I'u jest bet you that after this I'll be the most unpopular man iu my regiment
 You see, 1 appeared to get started a lit gle earlier than the other boys that had taken passage with Iue aboard ,Ii..V yoI- canO, and as 1 was comin down l met the rest of 'em a-goin up, and they looked as if they had kind O soured on me and yelled after me, 'Stragglerr
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
CrematIon In England.

The report of the council of the Gre. nation Society of England for lo9O shows'that l37 cremations were carried out at Woking during the year as com pared with I5O in 1895. The decrease is not important, as the figures for 1856 still show a material advance on any previous year, 1895 excepted. The fol lowing table of the cremations at "ok- ing from the commencement Of opera tions will show the growing popularity of the disposal of bodies by incineration; 1899 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1898 I8 a 9 l04 lOl Go l'o L0'
 It has to be remembered that three crematories are now open in England and Scotland besides that belonging 10 the society at St Johns, near Woklng namely, at Manchester, where 52 ere nations took place during lS9o; at Glasgow, where there were II crema- tions, and at Liverpool, where crema- tions have been performed.-Westmln- ster Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
A Hopeless Case.

Carlyle was terribly bored by the per sistent optimism of his friend Emerson.
 said. "that l would try Co cure hIm, sU uUOA Asss.- - the lowest parts of London and showed him all that was going on there This done, l turned to him, saying. And noo, man, dye believe ia thC 1CeTil noo?' Oh. nor he replied. All these people seem to me only parts of the great machine, and on the whole ] think they are doing their work very satisfactorily. Then" continued the sage. ''I took him doun to the hoose O commons, where they put us under the gallery. There I showed him 'ae chiel getting up after anither and leeing and leeing.' Then turned to him and said, And moo, man, dye believe in the dee yil noo?' He made me, however, just the same answer as before, and I then gave him up in despair. '"
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24
HOW FEAR WAS HANIsHEp.
George Kennau's Method for Over coming His Natural Timidity.

George Kennan's Method for Over
 coming His Natural Timidity.
 ''When I was 17 or IS years of age" said MT. Kennan, Il went as a tele- graph operator to Cincinnati. I had become so morbid and miserable by that time that 1 said to myself one day, I'm going to put an end to this state of affairs here and now. If I'm afraid of anything I'll conquer my fear of 1t or die. If I'm a coward might as well be dead, because can never feel any self-respect or have any happiness in life. and I'd rather get killed trying to do something that I'm afraid to do that to live in this way. was at that time working at night anu had to go home from the ofnce between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning. It was during the civil war, and Cln- cinnad was more lawless city than 1t has ever been since. Street roDDerles and murders were of daily occurrence, and all of the night men in our once carried weapons as a matter or course. bought a revolver, and commenced course of experiments upon myseh. When finished my night worK al tne office, instead of going directly nome through well-nghted and patroleo streets, I directed my steps to the slums and explored the worst haunts of vice and crime in the city. lf there was 9 dark, marrow. cutthroat alley down by the river that ] felt afraid to so tL.4VHsa at rra. hour or the night I clenched my taafb oool,oa my Tevol- yer and went through it-sometimes twice in succession. If I read in the morning papers that man had been robbed or murdered on a certain street l went to that street the next night. 1 explored the dark river banks, hung around low drinking dives and the resorts of thieves and other criminals. and made it an invariable rule to do at all hazards the thing that thought l might be afraid to do. Of course l had all sorts of experiences and adVen- lures. One night 1 saw a man attacked by a highwayman and knocked down with slungshOt, just across the street. l ran to his assistance, frightened away the robbers, and picked him up from the gutter in state of unconsciousneSs. Another night, after 2 o'clock, I saw a mans throat cut, down by the river and a ghastly sight 1t was, but all though somewhat shaken 1 did not be- come faint nor sick. Every time 1 went through a street that 1 believed to be dangerous, or had any startling experience. I felt an accession of self respect.
 Tn less that three months had sat- isfied myself that while I did feel fear l was not so much daunted by any undertaking but could do it If willed to do it, and then I began to feel better.
 Soon after this time I went on my first expedition to Siberia, and there, in almost daily struggles with difficult ties, dangers and sufferings of all sorts, finally lost the fear of being afraid . which had poisoned the happiness of my boyhood. ."-Atlantic Monthly.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24

boy. See here, Juma" (to Juma, who Is
 supporting his back. "be very gentle,
 take cartridge out of my belt, put 1t
 in the rife ** so; now %
 .,,,,,,. mind my arm now. give me the rifle ln my right hand and come between my legs so- stoop very low down, like that. Now I'm going to rest the rife on your shoul- der and take aim. Keep very still. I won't hurt you keep still I'll aim just below the brute's eyes" GA minute pause. Bangi Doctor falls back fainting. Lion stretches out
 his head three times with spasmodic
 upward movement, the tail and the limbs-all but the crippled onp-stlffpr 'trg- claws stand out rom their sheaths and beast dies)
 "Iuma, is that you? Water. how delicious. more-and on my forehead so what a brick you are! Upon my word, I'd like to leave you something, Juma. You must tell them that I said so, you know, for sticking by me. God bless you! Is the lion dead" (The sObbing boy mods "Yes."O Well, then, 1 must die too. Pm enough of a doctor to know that. Don't cry. Tell them l bore it like man. But it's beastly hard! Who'd have thought my days shooting would have ended like this?' (Whimpers.) "Beastly hard. I'm so young. and Eve done so well up to now and there's mother. Who will break it to her? She'll never get over it *" and Lily and, damn it all. I can't even send them messages! How can one tell such things to a black boy? S'pose Pm dying primarily from the shock ]" know Pm dying some how-ean't raise my head to look < Mother! MotherI What rot to. go on like that, as if it could do any good! Now, lis ten. Inc ndirini amai, ndi miongo. I've Oh, God! How can I tell him? It's all slipping away from me. For the blood Is the life. Where have I heard that? That blood Is the life : slipping away-slip- ping away must be in boat, 1t is so soothing; up and down, up and down; so restful" (Sighs gently. Dies .)-Sir H. H. Johnston, in the Sat- urday RevieT
The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-24

E IS young doctor and a SIT.
 T geon on board one of the smaI,
 A A gunboats placed on a great Af. rican lake. Fresh-colored still, tbonob slightly tanned by exposure to the lake winds, with merry, Irish eyes of blue gray, a sQuare-cut jaw and obstinate chin, a long upper lip, little wbiskar at the temples and short wiry black brown hair. Like many men of his class. he Is potential Darwin. and. having no means to travel and study natural history, has entered the navy ss sn seOn. He has landed on the shores or L-te takefor days shooting, hoping to ges sn elephant at least. but meantime conisnt u sruuy surUrrus. Let us in imagination enter bis mind. see through his eyes what he saw and lay bare lIs thoughts.
 Grass! g. forest of grass, with stout. knotted stems six or eight feet high. and abundant leaves starting from ey- cry joint. Each stem ends in a droop- Ing plume of ripened seed. AS the doctor forces his way through the tan. gled herbage and cane-like stalks the seeds shower down upon him, each one steadied in it's descent by it's long feath- cry stipule. The seeds are sharp point ed and barbed at the ends, so they pierce their way through his khaki clothing easily and scratch the per spring flesh beneath. This raises to exasperation the discomfort already felt to be well-nigh unbeara ble, for the doctors face is now the color of raw beef from the stifling heat and the frightful exertion of forcing his way through such 2 thicket of grass, and bis hands are scratched and cut by contact with the raZor-edged leaves His Terai hat is constantly being dragged off his head and 1t Is all he can do to carry his gun and elbow his way through the obstructing herbage, pro- tecting his face as we'll as possible with the left hand. So he is in an ill tenn per and cannot stop to notice the weav- extraordinary stick insects (exactly stimulating stalks of grass and the green, leaf-like mantises which throng the dense brake on either side. He Is after bigger game. The most expe- rienced of his boys pioneers him through the stifiing grass jungle, anoth- CT boy with second rifle follows be- hind. The idea Is elephants" ele- plants having been reported hereabout the previous day, when suddenly they have reached q space where the grass is little drier, little less dense) the pioneer ''boy" comes doubling back on als master 1vicii every ges.ura s-. press i've of "Hdsh!" The doctor stops, mops hls boiling face (thankful for the mo