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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Major RANS0ME SUICIDES.
e,voUs PLANTER. FTNANCIER AND
orELIsT TAKES BIS OWN LIFE.
"a WAS Made Famous as q Figure in a
mel on the Streets of Blakely.
Morphine His Roure to Death.

NHuNNn fgN
Ae was
Duel on the Streets OF Hi"ke'y'
Morphine His Route to Death
1,1;o, ponsono who f.,r +bo
MAJOR Julian ~ ''e
mast twenty years mas llVeu quietly at
~ home in Vineville, suburb of
hos committed suic1de
A"yo'' NO. ~. 1T. !, e-....,
EariI III I'i7 n'"i ing iie '" 'S lou'u
dead sitting uprlShU III rocking chalr
in his bedroom. He had taken NOR
",:n, dnrino the night The hottie
P0'"0 ~ ..,,ia P..;s.-..
was Oh SILi"'i '"''0 ''"0 WHICH, ne
was seated fully dressed, ana beside
it was a note IN Whlch the suicide
stated that ne sought rest and had
gone to JON MS latber ana mother,
who were the only true friends he had
ever had.
MAJOR hans0lne was at one tlme one
0. the most wealthy painters IN the
state.
At the lIHle Oh ms ueaUh ne owned
atine plantation III harly county. he
was about sixty years Oh age. lie was
argey interested IN the Eagle and
Phoenix mills OF columbus. ana it is
;ald lost some SeVehty'hVe or hundred
thousand dollars by the failure OF that
@rporatloh'
tie belonged TO an exclusive type OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Mixing Patriotism and Cash.

The thirty fouIth Michigan volunteers
have applied for pensions to the number
of 394 This is mixing up patriotism
and cash very closely. One out of every
three of them want to be regarded as in
valds. The Spanish in few years, if
they shall look over our pension roll will
not be inclined to regard their marks
man ship without enthusiasm,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Bulk Meat &c. pound.

. boxes best Potash. . Ono
200 lbs best Soda 5c nomnd
cases Tomatoes to go att. SC a can
Best grated or shred Pine
,, apple ......-....... . zoe package
Best Baking Powders. ....... lie bon
Dol + A. Ruggles' Syrup
ltS Hhe.....,,...,.... N30c gallon
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
THEELEPHANT WASJUSrIFIABLE
His Keeper Tried to "Buuv'' Him and Was
Killed.

The DISPATCHES of few days ago
told how a "vicious elephant. RaJah, "
had killed his keeper, and Lis ninth VIC
tim, in Kansas town. There are, how
ever, two sides to the story, and the dis
patch dld not carry Rajah's side. 1t
seems that the keeper went into the AM
NAL tent drunk. He boasted Of his skill
as an animal tanner, and tried to make
the animals perform. He succeeded very
we'll with the lions and tigers, but when
he came to Rajah that big beast was
tired and hungry. He had performed his
days task, and wanted to be left alone
to eat his supper IN peace. But the
keeper wouldn't Ter hir. He bulIied Jh
elephant and jabbed b trunk with an
iron spike, and finally caught hold of the
trunk and began hammering it with his
fist kajah objected to any drunken
tool treating him in that manner, so he
twisted his arm off and then mashed the
life out of him with hIs knees. 1t was a
terrible death for the keeper, still one
cannot greatly blame the elephant
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
COMMITTED SUICIDE!

person VINO rails to trade with the Grocery is COMMITTING
d winter with It's chilling thing the MAST
NPh9 mat terrestrial hauther
nge out all things change High prices things OF the mast
me ne prices We quote below ought welcomed and annc II
ogre that we appreciate Spring its oveines Look
our uoqoe 3aIreIed bh loader loaded Prices and aimed
hc'e W. are sure to hit the bull
F pulled. CASH is WHAT WE WANT 9 'e 'He trigger
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Drink your Saltwater at
Farrar & Harris Soda Fount
and you will always get your
moneys worth.
NOAH RABY'S SECOND CENTURY,.
Celebrated His 127th Birthday in the Pis-
Getaway Poor House

Cd'aWay fOOr House.
Noah Raby has just celebrated another
birthday in the poor house at Piscata-
way, New Jersey. He says it was the
l27Ih anniversary of his coming into the
world. The old man received conoratu-
lations firm the other inmates of the in
stitutlon, and was also visited by farm.
ers aud their families, who make his
birthday the occasion OF an annual visit
kaby told the~same story which he has
repeated every year about bis life. He
says he was born in Gates Court House.
n. G., on April, l772. His Iatber was
Andrew Bass, a full bic, ded Indian.
while his mother was Morning Raby. He
retained her name, he says, as he liked
her best. His eyesght is very poor, but
otherwise he says he feels first rate. Raby
sm kes every day. and says he has done
SO since be was years old.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Atthe season of the wear when pnt

At the season of the year when pneu-
monia, Ia grippe, sore throat, coughs,
colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troub-
les are to be guarded against, nothing
SIS fine substitute, will eanswer the
purpose or is Just as good" as One
Minute Cough Cure. That is the one
infallible remedy for all lung. throat or
bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously
upon having it II something else is
offered you. sALE-DAvIs DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

Pe-ru-na works tremendously with
nature to eject the tubercles from the
lungs. and works so successfully that
if there is a cure for consumption
Pe-ru-na is the remedy.
Read this letter from Mrs. Fl. A.
Tvner. of Four Oaks. n. c., about her
daughter, Mrs L. Keene. She says:
Pe-yu-na Med1ctne Co., Colam5@s,O @.
DEAR s1Rs:-"My daughter had every
symptom of consunption-suppression
Of menses, night sweats and great ema-
citation. She was so low that none of
our neighbors thought she could live.
In May Mr.. c. r. Adams of this place,
who had taken Pe-ru-na, told me if
ANYTHING would help her Pe-ru-na
would. / got bottle of it and some
rock candy and began giving it to her.
During the first few days she was SO
weak She could only take a half tea
snoonful at time, but / gave it to
her as often as she could bear it. In
less than a week she could walk two
hundred yards and back without rest
ing; she kept getting stronger, and in
twelve months she seemed to be as we'll
as She ever was in her life. / feel, and SO
does every one that knew about her
sickness, that Pe-ru-na saved her life.
NV daughters name is Mrs.N z. Keene.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

Dr. SawJer's Little Wide Awake Pills
give purity OF BLOOD and vigor Of thought
by perfectly regulating the bowels and
cure bilousness, inactive liver aud cons
>ALE-DAVIs DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
lle Rain Tree of FerrO Island.

ee in island of Ferro is one of the larg-
ceyed 'ne Canary group, and it has re-
knnJ - name on account of it's iron
yrsos, sou, through which no river or
lg o'n Io"S. 10 the midst of the island
he i 'o"S tree known as the raining
y, tn9 leaves of which are long and
Mn, e "' II continues in constant verdure
ars c w ana summer, and the branches
tspeJI'oeJI with cloud which is never
n@Stn9.'' out, resolving itself into a
yerv c1.' causes to fall from it's leaves a
Is,ern,s, water in such abundance that
ale hn ~S placed at its foot to receive it
's' empty Ladies Home Journal,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

In almost every neighborhod there is
some one whose life has been saved by
Chamberlain Cole, Cholera and Diar>
rhoea Remedy, or who has been cured of
chronic diarrhoea by the use of that
medicine. Such persons make point
of telling of it whenever opportunity Of
ters, hoping that It may oe the means of
saving other lives. FARRAR d HARRIS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

0oo bars best Laundry Soap. Sc bar
. cases best Lump Starch. .4c pound
y boxes best Parlor Matches zoe
POI good Rice to go quick. SC 10.
z ool GrIts, nice and fresh. 21sc 10
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
Stick. Candy Sc. 10.

A few more Brooms to close
out at 10, Is and 20 cents.
case Pie Peaches, pound
can, worth loo. Toe only
1874 pounds Best Lard .. 81 oniy
: cases Maccaroni, per package. +. 1Oc
GOOD Smoking and Chewing
Tobacco, per plug .......... SC
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

Big bottle Machine Oil. .5 Sc only
Large Wash Pan-best tin sc only
Large Metal Dipper worth
10 cents 5oopIy
A good Sitter. .......l. 80 oniy
Good half gallon Bucket . I0c
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

lie family tha5 keeps on hand and
.>gS occasionally the celebrated Pmckly
-'>I DI'JeIS Is always well regulated
family. SArE-0Avrs nprc Cn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

css an l5'uauon made regular and pain
led W. PANS in sides, hips and limbs
tablets simmons Squaw Vine Wine or
SALE DAVIS llRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19
're'ty Picture MOudings.

aoaI5ipnoo'ce assortment of pretty picture
aade nn SS Just received, and will be
"P cheap. Call and see.
lHE VARIETY WORKS Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-04-19

Most cases of
death from con-
sumption are
the direct result
of neglected ca
tarrh.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

One of the most literally patronized
Of the Pennsylvania many passenger
trains is the st. Louis express, which
leaves the Broad street station each
afternoon at 4:30 O'clock The regular
gate for the train is No. IA, but at this
season of the year the rushAof people
to get aboard is SO great III becomes
necessary to open two gares. No. 10
being the nearest, it is the one selected.
The saunterer happened to be in the
station the other afternoon when> the
gates were thrown open. Instantly
there was a rush for No. IA and the
crowd became jammed around it for a
distance Of 80 feet in each direction.
Gate No. 10 was practically neglected.
This way for the St Louis express -
called out the ticket puncher at the
gate. "This way for the st. Louis ex-
press"
But, although his voice was good and
loud, none of the passengers who were
struggling around No. IA seemed to
hear it. Out of probably 100 well
dressed, intelligent men and women
the saunterer saw but three leave the
pushing throng around No. IA and pass
through No. IS. He asked the gate
man why it was.
Don't know" was his answer, Eek
cept it's superstition. Afraid to start
on journey by passing through a gate
with Is as it's number. suppose. It's
this Wav avaTv time and will no I
guess, as long as the number on the
gate is left as it is. believe that the
most of the people would rather miss
their train, if it came to that, than take
chances with their superstitious fears.
Funny, isn't Philadelphia Inquir-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

"One Of my friends was accustomed
TO grant shelter to number of garden
spiders under a vacant varanda and to
watch their habits. One day sharp
storm broke out. and the wind ragged so
furiously through the garden that the
spiders suffered damage from it, al
though sheltered by the veranda The
mainyards of one of these webs, as the
sailors would call them, were broken
so that the web was blown hither and
thither, like a slack sail In a storm.
"The spider made no fresh threads,
but tried to help itself in another way.
1t let itself down to the ground by a
thread and crawled to a place where
lay some splintered pieces of wooden
fence, thrown down by the storm. 1t
fastened a thread to one of the bits Of
wood, turned back with it and hung it
with a strong thread to the lower part
Of it's nest, about five feet from the
ground. The performance was won
derful one. for the weight of the wood
sufficed to keep the nest toierably firm,
while 1t was yet light enough to yield
to the wind and SO prevent further in
jury. The piece of wood was about 211a
inches long and as thick as a goose
quill
ION the following day a careless
servant knocked her head against the
wood, and it fell down. But in the
course of few hours the spider mend
ed her web, broke the supporting
thread in two and let the wood fall to
the ground. Our Animal Friends.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

The fer-de-lance Is found on the IS
lands Of Martinique and Santa Lucia,
where the natives counterfeit its virus
with a decoction of jungle hemlocks
and the basis of its grewsome reputa-
don seems to be the fact that 1t does
not warn the intruders of it's haunts,
after the manner of the cobra or the
rattlesnake, but iattens its coils and,
with slightly vibrating tail, awaits
events
If the unsuspecting traveller should
show no sign of hostile intent, he may
be allowed to pass unframed within
two yards Of the coiled matadore, but
closer approach Is apt to be construed
as challenge, and the vivoron, sud-
denly rearing its ugly head. may scare
the trespasser into some motion of self
defense may lift his foot or brand
ish his stick in a menacing manner. If
he does, he is lost The lower coils will
expand, bringing the business end,
neck and all, a few feet nearer; the
head points" like leveled rifle. then.
darts forward with electric swiftness,
guided by an unerring instinct for the
selection of the least protected parts Of
the body.
And the vindictive brute is ready to
repeat it's bite For moment it rears
back, trembling with excitement, and,
if felled by blow of it's victims stick,
will snap away savagely at stumps and
stones or even, like wounded pam
Their, at it's own body.-Popular Science
Monthly
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18
HOW Care Kills.

Wise people have long been aware
that care killed cat" but it has been
left to the x rays to explain how and
why. DR.. Fritz LANCE of Munich has
turned his fiuorescent screen upon the
stomach Of happy and contented cat
and has seen the process of digestion
going on as 1t should in all well regu-
lated stomachs. Then he has introduced
care and irritation into the feline mind
by placing live mouse just beyond
reach and has seen digestion stopped
thereby.
The Society For the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals may cry out on be-
half Of the cat, or the mouse, or both.
but the lesson against worrying is as
complete as any Christian Scientist
could desire. Worrying stops digestion,
causes dyspepsia, retards all the nor
NAL physical processes and demoralizes
both body and mind. 1t wastes the
forces of life, destroying the tissues
without accomplishing anything. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18
Tactful Me.senrer Bov.

zone of the beautiful traits in the
make up of Washington messenger
boys" said railroad man who lives
in Washington, sis their tactfulness" /
think otherwise. They are chock full
of and loaded down with tact-with
the copper on. To illustrate:
my wife went over to New York a
few weeks ago to attend the bedside
of a seriously i'll relative, who was not
expected to live. This morning was
sitting in my office, wondering why
hadn't got letter from her by the first
mail, when tousle headed messenger
boy joggled open the door.
'Where'll | find de office O. Mr..
-| he asked, mentioning my name
Right here, son. said l. You're
talking to him.
Well said the kid. measuring me
up, with the probable expectation that
I'd do stage back fall. I've got a
death message fer you, an they tole
me at tn Office that it was important
Nice, mild, tactful way of putting
it, wasn't it? He just left it up to me
to wonder, while l was ripping the en-
velope open. whether the message an-
nounced the death of our aged relative
or the decease of my wife. 1t happen
ed to be the former, but / am inclined
to believe that that boy would have
been just a bit better pleased had it
been the latter. Washington Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18


Perhaps the most interesting scheme
for the recovery Of waste silver at the
local mint is that applied to the uten-
sis Of the melting gang. The big iron
stirring rods, the clippers, the strainers
and the ladies that come in contact
with the molten metal are laid aside at
intervals and sent down stairs. They
are covered with what looks like brown
rust, but is really oxidixed silver.
Suppose, to digress a moment. one
desired to get a coat Of paint off the
outside of a house. In such event the
plan Of scraping away the house and
leaving the shell of paint standing
would be regarded as somewhat eccen-
tric, yet that is substantially the meth
cd adopted at the mint. The imple-
ments are placed in baths of sulphuric
acid, which attacks the iron or steel,
but leaves the silver untouched. Little
by little a strainer, for instance, will
entirely disappear.
That is to say, the original strainer
disappears and leaves in its place hol-
low silver counterpart, delicate as an
eggshell. They are very curious, these
fragile casts. Their surface is sort of
natural filigree, honeycombed with in
Vulnerable fantastic perforations. The
reproduction of a bolt or screw is some
times as perfect as an electrotype, but
they are hurried remorselessly back to
the crucible and thus pursue their cy-
Gle until at last they find their Karma
in minted coin.-New Orleans Times
Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

Before a battle In former times the
priests solemnly devoted to the gods
the whole of the hostile army then in
sight, and, If possible, no man of it
was left alive. A writer in The Nine
teenth Century says that when Her
mann decoyed the great host of Varus
into the forest depths all the Romans
that escaped death In the battle were
captured and led intQ the dark recess
es, where every man of them was sac
rificed upon hastily erected affairs.
Latham, in his edition of Tacitus,
quotes six contemporary authorities to
show that this practice of concluding
a victory with human sacrifices was
customary among our Teutonic ances-
tors. Some crucified their prisoners,
others hung them up to trees for arch.
cry practice, but In general captive
was either slain on the spot or else re-
served to be sacrificed to the gods
Even when the progress of agriculture
Induced them to keep a majority of
the prisoners alive to be slaves they
appeased the gods for this indignity
by increasing the fortunes inflicted on
the small remainder.
Gibbon describes how, before the
blazing altar, every hundredth mans
arms were hacked off him and, before
his eyes, thrown into the flames. All
that red Indian would have done
last century was freely practiced by
our ancestors of II centuries ago. And
the highest ideal of a man then in
Guided, as a duty, dark cruelty and
grewsome revenge against all his enc
mics
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

Once upon a time there lived IN
Leavenworth the late Len T. Smith,
whom all old timers remember, and
General Powell Clayton. Smith was
In New York one day when he was ap-
preached by chap who said he had
on the string a rich friend from Cuba,
who was anxious to start big faro
game and wanted him to deal for
him. He proposed to Smith that he
would take up the offer Smith should
tackle the game and he would cooper
ate with Smith, so that together they
could rob the Cuban of $4,000
Smith sent up stairs for Clayton and
told him what the gambler had pro-
posed. All three started out to see the
Cuban, and they found him surround
ed by everything refreshing that mon
ey could buy. Smith and Clayton ate
and drank and drove and went to the
theater and had all sorts of fun at the
Cuban's expense for three of four
days, all the time having under con-
sideration the proposed conspiracy.
Finally, when they were through
with their business in New York, they
thanked the gamblers for their hos
pitality and suggested that they look
for suckers elsewhere than from
among frontiersmen from Kansas. 1t
was estimated that the gamblers spent
at least $1,000 entertaining their in
tended victims.-Kansas City Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18
Fish as Fighters.

The inhabitants of Cochin China and
Siam have known the fighting capacity
of savage little fish for many years,
and have long been in the habit of
making matches between those owned
by different men, just as Mexicans
match gamecocks and some Americans
and Englishmen bull pups. When a
match is made the parties to it having
laid their bets bring their specimens
of the fierce little Beta pugnax in
globes of water. Both are put into one
globe and without moments hesita-
ton they fly at each other and do not
cease fighting until one of the COM
batants is killed by the other.
1t is only year or two since speci-
mems of this fish were brought to
Paris, but now many are owned in
Paris, and it is said that the. demand
for good specimens is constantly on the
increase. They are beautifully spotted
with red and blue and would attract
attention in any aquarium by their
cOlors alone. The savage nature be-
hind the beauty would hardly be sus-
pected.-Chicago Inter Ocean
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

The following story is told of how
Thomas B. Reed was admitted to the
bar In California: Mr. Reed was being
examined as to his qualifications for
the law along with several companions
The question "Was the legal tender
act, in your opinion, constitutional"
was asked of the candidate sitting next
to Mr., Reed. The young man hesitated,
as well he might, for even the justices
of the supreme court had spent many
weary days hearing arguments on that
particular question, and after once de-
Gliding that it was unconstitutional aft
erward reversed their decision While
the young man hesitated, the judge
turned to Mr.. Reed, saying, What do
you think, Mr.. Reed-was the act con
stitutionalY'
cit was" replied Mr. Reed, without
moments hesitation.
Very good" was the reply; you are
admitted to the bar. Any man who can
answer offhand a question that Is still
puzzling the supreme court of the Unit
ed States is certainly pre-eminently
qualified to practice law before this
court. "-W Washington Letter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

You can't get site for house cheaper
by taking a whole lot.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18
A silent Rebuke.

A curly haired small boy sat in a
Fourteenth street car just at the time
of the day when the cars are most
crowded on Thursday afternoon. A
worn looking woman, evidently his
mother, sat beside him. At Fifteenth
street a particularly buxom woman of
middle age crowded into the car. There
was no seat for her, and she stood glar-
ing at the boy. Later her displeasure
vented itself in words, and she express
ed herself freely to the woman who
stood next her about women who let
their children occupy seats while ladies
are standing The worn looking wom-
an flushed, but made no move to have
the boy surrender his seat. The buxom
woman still glared and still expressed
herself with extreme frankness. The
boy sat still. At N street the mother
rang the bell. AS the car stopped she
put her arms around the boy and lifted
him to his feet, half carrying him to
the door.
won't you take this seat?' she said
to the buxom woman. Il am Just tax
ing him home from the hospital"
And as the car rolled on the buxom
woman looked warmer than the wealth
er warranted.-Washington Post.