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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
Why take JOhnSOn'S
Chill 6 Fever Tonic?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case
OfFeVer in ONEDAY.
YELLOW FEVER IN ATLANTA.
A Refugee from Mobile Stricken With the
Dread Disease.

A Refugee from Mobile Stricken With the
Dread Disease.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sep-. pa very
mild Gaze of yellow fever was reported
to the board of health yesterday from 119
Auburn avenue by DR.. T. D. Longino.
The person is Carrie Fleming, 14-year-
old girl from Mobile, and the house has
been placed under strict quarantine.
The young girl came to Atlanta from
Mobile with her father and mother and
several other refugees, all of whom stopp-
ed at the same boarding house. The
board of health does not consider that
there is the least danger of any AtlaDtian
or other individuals not exposed in in
fected cities contracting the disease.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
ONE OF TWO WAYS

The bladder was created for one pur-
pose, namely, receptacle for the urine,
and as such it is nOtliable to any form of
disease except by one of two ways. The
first way is from imperfect action of the
kidneys. The second way is from care
less local treatment of other diseases.
CHIEF CAUSE.
Unhealthy urine from unhealthy kid
neys is the chief cause of bladder troub-
les. SO the womb, like the bladder, was
created FOR enc purpose, and if not doc
tOred too much is not liable to wea kness
or disease, except in rare cases. 1t is
situated back of and very close to the
bladder, therefore any pam, disease or
inconvenience manifested in the kidneys,
back, bladder or urinary passage is often,
by mistake, attributed to female weak
ness or womb trouble of some sort. The
error is easily made and may be as east
lY avoided, To find out correctly set
your urine aside for twenty-four hours
a sediment or settling indicates kidney
or bladder trouble. The mild and extra
ordinary effect Of Dr.. Gilmer's Swamp
Root, the great kidney and bladder rem.
edy, is soon realized. If you need a
medicine you should have the best. At
druggists 30 cents and one dollar. You
may have a sample bottle and pamphlet
both sent free by mail. Mention THE
News and send your address to DR.. Gill
mer u Co., Binghamton, n. Y. The
prOprietOrs of This paper guarantee the
genuineness of this offer
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
Needed in tho AIusenln .

From the Macon County Citizen.
A man in Morgan county, who has
succeeded in making tramps work.
ought to be PIT in a museum, but he
IS likely 70 he put in the penItentiary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
EIGHT Al A SdOT.
Haddock Seems to BE Very Handy with
Gun,

iahdOCh see his TO fSe very HANDY with "A
Gun.
From the Early County News.
News reaches us that Mr. John Had
dock shot seven turpentine negroes near
Damascus Monday afternoon. The par.
tIculars, as we hear them, are as follows:
Mr.. Haddo3k is the woods-rider for a
turpentine firm near Damascus. On Mon
day morning a number Of negroes failed
TO put in their appearance and g to
work as usual. Mr.. HaddOck then set
about to ascertain the cause of their
n1n-appearance, and Monday afternoon
found about eighteen of them engaged in
caro- playing. Some words were exChapp-
ed which led to his being attacked by the
whole gang With a gun, loaded with
small Shot, he shot seven-four of them.
1T '7 supposed, fatally, though none have
f't died. The others fed. During the
shooting one negro was shot in the chin
by duD.her
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
The Bee wan Escape.

from the sparta Ishmaelite
the gubernatorial bee is said TO have
maze a nest in the bonnet Of Mayor Col
'lrr OF Atlanta. Just why, the bee could
not tell you to save his wings,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
MOTHERS FRIEND

MY wife suffered more in ten min.
utes with either of her other two chill.
dren than she did altogether with no.,
last, having previously used four bot.
ties of Mothers Friend Il il !.
blessing to any one expecting to be-.
come a MOTHER, ;" says customer
HENDERSON DALE, Carmi, Illinois
OF Druggists at 81 90, or sent by mail on recent
of price. Write for book containing testimoniaI,
and valuable information for all Mothers, free
The Bradfeld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ca
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

said: 81 never kept company with but
two men in my life, and as neither Of
them had spunk enough to ask me to
marry him 1 got Disguised" We may
be pardoned, says the Savannah News,
for doubling that two failures would
disgust the modern young lady.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29
SOME SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS.

Some politicians, in discussing the
convict question, are very urgent that
the conyicts shall not be made to labor
in such way as to bring them in COM
petition with free labor. This is all
very good aud we'll so far as it is use
full and practicable, says the Macon
Telegraph. But it is proposed to avoid
this by working the 1000 convicts on
an immense farm, or several Of them,
producing corn, oats, wheat, potatoes,
cotton, vegetables, etc. Hon. Calvin
bitch of Brooks county makes
the point that this would Drlng them
in competition with farmers, and he
might have added farm labor. In his
speech before the penltentiary COM
mittee and printed in the Telegraph
he said:
cit has been suggested by some that
the state purchase one or two large
farms and work the convicts on them
for the purpose of raising vegetables
for the lunatic asylum and the other
state institutions. In my opinion
there are two very serious objections to
this plan. In the first place, can take
twenty-five to thirty cOnvicts and raise
more vegetables than all the eleemose-
nary institutions of the state combined
can consume. When you stop to con-
slder that you can raise from eight to
ten thousand head of cabbage on an
acre, from two to four hundred bushels
of potatoes and other things in pro-
portion, and that one convict can tend
from ten to twenty acres of land, you
will see that the proposition is not
only unreasonable but ridiculous.
can take the four thousand cOnvIcts of
Georgia and raise more vegetables than
would be required to furnish soup and
potlicker to the Chinese empire. Some
OF you say that all of the farm products
that were not consumed in this way
could be put on the market and sold. If
there was proposition made to manu-
facture buggies, wagons, shoes and the
like you would meet the proposition
with the argument that it would be
bringing convict labor in competition
with free labor. Why shouldn't the
poor farmers of Georgia be entitled to
as much protection as the manufacture
er? am opposed to this scheme be-
cause it would be bringing the farm
products of convict labor in competI-
ton with the farm products of the
farmers of this state"
There is something in what Mr..
Hitch says. Even vegetables grown
for consumption in the lunatic asylum
would come in competition with gar
deners and garden laborers. Let the
Legislature do what seems best with the
convicts, disregarding This or that
sentiment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

THE penitentiary committees of the
senate and house, which met in Allan
ia with a flourish of trumpets last
week to solve the convict question and
arrange for prison reform, did moth
ing because of the widely varying
views Of the members. They could not
agree, and finally adjourned after ap-
pointing a subcommittee to draft a
bill and have it IN readiness for intro
duction when the legislature meets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

iHE oIdestoId maid in the world. il
Is claimed, lives in Seymour, Ind. She
Was lol years old last week. TaIkipo
TO newspaper man with regard to her
age and why she never married. she
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

THE McDuffie Journal thinks that
Neil, the so-caIled cotton expert of
New Orleans, has inflicted more injury
upon the south than all the epidemics
of a century. Mob violence of any
kind is of course very wrong, but if the
cotton planters of the south should
take a notion to treat Neill to a coat of
tar and lint cotton there are lots Of
people who would decline TO weep.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

THE Albany Herald says they are
imaginary people who have been accus-
ed of having taken an idea that crimi-
nails should be furnished with feather
beds and carpets and chicken pie.
Perhaps so. But these people are no
more imaginary than are large por-
tions of the accounts so graphically
told of cruelties and barbarities to
helpless convicts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

IL telegram sent to the New York
Herald by request Senator Bacon
discusses briefly the appointment of
negroes to Office in the south. He looks
at itrather as social question, and
one in which the highest intelligence
and discrimination Of the negro him
self becomes interested Senator Ba-
con says that the appointment of col
ored men to office in the south will Ger
tainly lead to race antagonisms and es-
arrangements which would otherwise
not exist. Such appointments are of
small benefit to the few negroes thus
appointed, and are of very great in
jury to the masses of the negroes in the
III feeling engendered between them
and the whites, upon whose friend
ship they are wholly dependent. SEN
ator Bacon's letter is especially inter-
esting to the people Of the south just
at this time, and throws a new light
upon the subject under discussion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

ATLANTA has invited all OF the yell
low fever refugees to sojourn within
her borders. Once there she will lock
the gates and proceed to take the CEN
sus, thinks the Americas Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

VHE Douglas Breeze is making
threats and telling what the gold dem
Ocrats will do if any gentleman is de-
feated for the democratic gubernatorlal
nomination just because he is d goldite.
1t is barely possible for any considera-
bic number of oddities to do worse
than they did in the last election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

The visible stock of Georgia cotton
is said to be off forty per cent, the sup
ply showing a decrease Of $4,000 bales
against an increase Of $4,000 for the
same week last year.
The Sparta Ishmaelite observes that
the mills and the factories continue to
"open" at the wrong end. As the
right sort of an opener Mckinley isn't
a success.
ONE dollar wheat and five and a half
cents cotton Will hardly cause sensible
southern men to yell for Mckinley and
the gold standard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

THE Swainsboro Pine Forest nomi-
mates Mayor Bob Moye of Cuthbert for
governor. And why not? Few are
better qualified and none are cleverer.
We are going to ride Bob's boom.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

The idea now is to defeat the $50
cent per pound" packers over the Chill
coot pass by "condensing beef into
tablets" By this means fellow can
put a four-year-old steer into his coat
tail pocket and march right along.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

A MRS. ROBINSON in New York sold
her husband to a widow named Gray
for $25, and then wept because he
didn't display any regret at leaving
her. Women are curiously lnconsist-
ent,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-09-29

"Only nervous" is a sure indication
that the blood is not pure. Hoods Sar-
saparilla purifies the blood and cures
nervousness.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26
ITO BE CoNTTNUED.J
MUSICIANS WHIMS.
Most of Them Are Daft About Some
Things.

Most of Them Are Daft About Some
Things.
l am tickled to know that Wagner
was an exact and expensive dresser,
and that Beethoven was sloven with
an old coat and slippers trodden down
at the heels, says the Contemporary
Review. 1t interests me to hear that
Paganini always carried shirt in his
fiddle case because he sweated so pro-
fusely over his solos that he had to
change between his parts If he played
twice. l even care to learn that Men
delssohn was perfect child about
pastry, which he could never resist and
which he always ate Especially cherry
pie) and which always disagreed with
him, that Schumann injured his third
finger by tying it back to his wrist
with a string because he hoped to
make it more supple-it ended, how
ever, in his almost losing the use of
it; that Bulow got up In the night to
play over passages which he thought
he was likely to play inaccurately at
his prodigious recitals. When Thral-
berg was at the height of his fame
he wouldn't even carry an umbrella
for fear of it cramping the muscles of
his hand; Malibran loved nothing SO
much as romping with Mocheles' chill
dren on the floor; Paganini was SO
stingy that he would stand up under
shelter in the rain and keep a whole
opera house full waiting sooner than
call cab. Prof. Ella told me he found
him one day crouching under the
Arcade in Regent street and that he
gave this artless explanation. Hack
ney coaches" he said, Gin London were
so expensive" and this when he had
doubled the prices at the opera house
where he played and was rolling in
money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26
A Good, Big School,

The biggest public school that has
been on this planet since Adam was a
boy is now in full blast; the scholars
are hungry, poor, despairing, ragged,
mad all over; but they are being edu-
Gated at rate to make your eyes hang
out. The miller cannot grind with the
water that has passed. And the men
plutocracy. swindled out of their votes
in 1896 can't be cheated again in 1898.
The fiuttering flags of despair, pendaM
beneath their coat tails, will remind
them of how they were played for
suckers" They have had enough.
Don't despair. God rules and the peo-
pie begin to think. There are a great
many fools, but they do not constitute
the entire population. Take possession
of the government. How? Work
among your neighbors. Spread Popu-
list literature all around you. A little
leaven leaveneth a great mass. Work
as you never worked before-for homa,
country and ivilizatitn.-Ignatius
Donnelly in Representative.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26

mere suggestion of my fathers death.
In a certain way he had his wish,
though the pattern of his grave was diff
ferent, and his coffin a more spacious
one than was meant in his expression.
He died when l was Z years of age.
On a dark night, during sudden and
raging storm, while helping to reef the
maintopgallant sail, he lost his hold,
and slipped into the grave of the At
lantic. AS the wild waves received and
closed over him, plotting him out OF
the world forever and ever, perhaps a
vision came upon him of his wife and
child in their little cottage at Brixton'
frightened by the mementos of his
love; and perhaps, in the midst OF his
brief agony, it brought spark of COM
fort to him.
l was a sailor before my fathers
death, and the manner of his death did
not brighten me. 1t was a proper
sailors death, thought in my childish
way, and l was proud of my father for
dying it, and proud Of myself for being
such a sailors son. Sometimes of a
night, when l was abed, would put a
shell to my ear, and, with my eyes
closed, 1 would see my father floating
down to the bottom of the sea, where
he would lie with CHEEKY and smiling
face, among beautiful sea-weed and
coral and shells of pearl. l never In
these fancies saw him with any but a
cheerful and smiling face. Really,
had been a sailor in my heart from my
cradle upward. do not know whether
this came from innate love or from edu-
cation; but 1 do know that, whether
l was bred or born to it, I loved the
sea with a deep and passionate love.
Never have l forgotten the first time
l saw it. 1t stretched before me calm
and vast, and over the water line in
the distance lay the wonders which
should one day see. They were hidden
from me now, but the time would
come. I was silent from joy. That is
the world, thought my world, in
which / shall live and be a sailor, like
my father. l regarded the land as of
the very smallest consequence; it oc-
cupied but an insignificant position in
the universe according to my reckon
ing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26

always dressed sailor fashion. haven't
the slightest doubt, judging from
the impressions l gathered, that the
children in the neighborhood regarded
me as something particularly marvel
Gus, and that no high-admiral, how
ever fine and grand his cooked hat and
sword and gold laced clothes might be,
would have held higher position in
their estimation than young Amos Bee
| croft.
l could not have been more than 6
years of age when found myself stand
ing on the outskirts of crowd of peo-
pie gathered together in a street near
that in which l lived. How l came
there do not know; but there l was,
spectator of the scene. 1t was vio-
lent crowd, and loud and angry words
were being used. The people were
gathered about an open street door,
and from what could understand with
my childish mind, family were being
turned out of their house in conse-
| quence Of owing some money which
they were unable to pay. Their furni-
ture had been seized and sold, and
they were being bundled into the
streets. The sympathies of the crowd
were with them, as is invariably the
case on such occasions, crowds being
always composed Of poor people; and
oaths and threats were flung at the
man to whom the money was owing,
and who had in this way enforced his
claim. l heard his name. 1t was
bruce. Presently the crowd divided
and by some means was in the CEN
ter of it, standing by the two men who
played the principal parts. The face
Of one Of these men was white and
pinched and livid, as though with fear
and malice; the face Of the other was
convulsed with passion, and blood was
trickling down it. Instinctively, child as
was, knew which was the wronged
man, and which the wronger, and
their faces became indelibly stamped
upon my memory. The name of the
wronger, also, would never have been
forgotten by me, even If in afterdays /
had not cause to remember it. l ran
home, in terror of it and him, and
told the story to my mother with tears
and sobs.
Mr.. bruce was money-lender in
our neighborhood. When he died, his
son inherited his business. The name
was over his office, and l never saw
it in my boyish days without its bring
ing before me the faces of two men,
one white and livid, the other con-
vulsed with bitter passion, and with
the blood trucking down it, and l in
variably hated the one and SYM
pathized with the other.
Up to certain period in my life I
met this son but once. He was man,
md l was man. Perhaps he was
three or four years older than / was
stood with my hand On our little
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26

before me. had no idea who he was
never having seen him to know him
His shadow falling across my path
caused me to look down upon him.
could do that was taller than he. A
thin, inquisitive face was that face Of
his, with eyes that were bright, bu'
had no softness in them. He could moi
have been ashamed of his face, for II
was perfectly smoth and hairless
Mine, on the contrary, had plenty Of
hair upon it.
Good evening, neighbor," said he
That was a claim to a kinship ir
friendliness.
Good evening"" said I, scarcely
looking at him.
"a fine evening"" was his next OBJ
servation.
1t happened not to be fine evening
and l remarked that he talked like
barber. He accepted my correction
good humoredly.
Not being a sailor" said he, 81
don't know the signs Of the weather
as well as you."
"You know when it rains, sup
pose," l said, with wave of my hand
for a slight mist was falling.
"Ah, yes, indeed" he replied, in
tone of surprise, looking up as though
he were only now aware of the fall
ing mist. you have been long time
away"
had been absent on long voyage
and had been home but few days
nodded, Eyes, a long time" an6
would have left him, but that he seem
ed to have something more he wished
to say.
"You have been to Africa, hear?'
Eyes, to Africa, and other coasts"
1--WE read" said he, that gold 1!
dug lip there by the savages."
That's So"
"And feathers, worth their weigh
in gold?"
81 don't know about their value
Feathers are got there"
"And pearls in other places, ant
coral?"
That's So"
"And you've been to those places.
cay"
His bright eyes that had no softnesi
in them cleaned still more brightly
and eagerly, but still it was in hest
tating tone-as though he were sus
II oh 20 ya ady n
him-that he continued his question:
ing:
Have you got any?" asked he.
ANY what?"
Feathers and bits of coral and thai
like"
laughed at him.
give enough to do" said I, without
bothering my head about such things
Besides, they're out of my reach"
"Out of your reach! he repeated.
cay. 1t takes money to buy them
He chuckled, and rubbed his hands
"And you've no money!"
Not more than l know what to dc
with. Have your"
At this question of mine he gave his
body such remarkable screw, that II
appeared to me as though all in one
moment he was buttoning himself w
from top to toe.
"Pve got a little" said he, with a
slow twisting of his fingers, "and I'm
fond of turning it over-turning il
over"
WELL" said I, with another laugh
turn it over"
"In trade, I mean. I'd like to buy
some of them pearls and feathers and
coral"
Easily enough done If you're &c
flush of money. Go out there"
81 can't spare the time. Couldn't
you bring home some?"
"I'll tell you what l could bring
home"
Eyes, yes; what?"
what do you say to mermaid?''
"a mermaid" he cried, excitedly.
"It would do to exhibit. Can you get
one?"
ITO mn royTfyuen
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26
CHAPTER II.

T Is not to be Won
dered at that l had
such ideas, for my
inclination Tor the
was fostered and
encouraged in every
conceivable way. I
was the sailor pet
of the neighbor-
hood, and from
the time l remem-
bered myself | was
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26

In Kentucky travellers say general
store is usually kept by a colonel. This
is true in the major portion of the
state, If private information can be re-
lied upon.- -Somervills Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-26
CHAPTER /.

cottage at Brixton,
situated in a lane
behind the broad
highway. At that
time there were
three of us; Bee
croft, Mariner;
Mary Beecroft, his
wife; and 1, Amos.
their son. Brixton
then was not what
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-08
Healthy. EappY Children.

are Ga5zA whose mothers have been,
and ara, healthy. The best iutentioned
woman in the world will fail short of
her DUTY to her children if she is WCr-
ried WITH weakness and sickness. Most
Ill irritable women are sick women
Most AL melancholy, listless languld
women ara sick women. Every woman
who wiM take the trouble to notice. Will
find that at certain periods she is ner-
vous, cross, irritable and despcndar'ss.
Any irregularity makes the conditions
worse Even a weHl woman is less
anna bic than usual at these times.
Wihiat can be expected from a sick
woman? When every movement is a
dreary drag, when the nerves are all On
edge in sympathy with the particular
ones affected-when 1t Seems tina. death
we're very much preferable TO living
what can woman do for children
then?
It is every womans duty to be wH!l
and healthy There is no reason Wlhv
she should be otherwise if only she villa
take proper care of herself and take
DR.. Pierce's Fayprite Prescription When
she needs it, This celebrated remedy
has been used in the Inyald's Hotel
and Surgica! institute ait Buffalo. n.
Y, Of which DR.. Pierce is chief consult
ing physician and specialist. for over so
years Thousands of women aave been
cured by a.