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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07

One of the most responsible positions
in the practical management OF the
United States Navy is the Paymaster's
Office. Only men Of great executive and
clerical ability can fill such position.
Such man is the Hon. William A. Col
lier, Assistant Paymaster of the United
States Navy. In a recent letter OF his
to DIR. Hartman he says:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Is, 1899.
have taken Pc. ru-na and take pleas
ure in recommending it to those needing
first-class tonic, feeling assured that it
will do all that is claimed for it.
Yours truly, VIM. A. Collier.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07
LIMITS OF SEED VITALITY.
No Truth in Stories Of termination After
Thousands of Years.

"The statement is frequently made
in the popular press" said Professor
l.. H. Pammel, government bOtanlst
that seeds have retained their vitality
for a long time. Thus it is stated that
wheat under some conditions has pre-
served its vitality for 30 or 100 years
1t has Frequently been stated that
wheat taken from Egyptian monu-
ments terminated, but in not single
case is this germination authenticated
Not a single grain taken from an an
cient Egyptian sarcophagus and soWn
by various persons has ever been
known to terminate, and the cOndi'
tons for preserving the seed in these
Egyptian monuments are better than
In the soil. They are protected from the
air and variations of temperature. The
experiment which has been most talk
ed Of is that of the Count of Sternberg
at Prague. He had received the grains
from a trustworthy traveller, who told
him that they were taken from
sarcophagus. 1t Is said that two OF
these seeds terminated, but it is we'll
known fact that impOstures are per
petrated by the people who dispose of
these seeds. In some cases they have
even stripped corn or maize into these
sarcophagi.
MANY experiments have been made,
not only in this country, but in Europe,
to determine the vitality Of various
grain seeds. Thus, barley retains its
vitality better than any other cereal,
and this is said to retain its vitality
from eight to ten years. In the case
Of wheat 90 to 100 per cent terminates
in from one to four years; in five to
seven years, 80 to 81 per cent. In the
case of rye the percentage Of germina-
ton in five years dropped to SO per
cent; in seven years, SO per cent; nine
years, Is per cent. In the case Of corn,
| made some experiments few years
ago to determine the vitality and found
that corn which was kept In tightly
closed vessels at the age Of 20 years
had lost all it's power Of termination.
, Experiments also indicate that corn
kept even a few years became largely
deteriorated and lost much Of its pow
er Of termination. Even grass seeds
which have been buried at some depth
in the soil and in vessels tightly sealed
failed to terminate after a dozen OF
| Is years."-Chicago Chronicle.
G.. Fl. Appleton, Justice of Peace
Clarksburg n. g., says, "DeWitt's Lit
tie Early Risers are the best pills made
| for constipation. We use no others.
| Quickly cure all liver and bowe
| troubles. DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07
.euove the surface.

.cuove the surface.
Then the fishes begin to leap. Here
one launches himself straight out Of the
water-500 pounds of glorious life-to-
ward the sky, to crash back into the
sea with faillike blow OF sides and
tail that makes the ocean echo. Az
other and another rises and falls back.
Soon the scene is as If the abysses Of
the sea were spouting their inhabit-
ants, for hundreds Of immense silver
flashing fishes rise everywhere at once
within the net.
But now a new element enters.
Long, narrow fishing boats push into
the Enclosure. In them stand brown
men with lances and spears and big
knives dashed to poles. Then begins a
fight that is terrible to see. The men
thrust madly into the struggling mass
es Of fishes. The fishes leap and roll and
dive and leap again, hammering the
sea with tails that churn like the
screws of steamships and whiten the
waves with foam. Before many min
utes boats and men are drenched with
bloody water. The surface Of the
ocean is red. Out Of the smoking
spray peer faces now and then that are
dabbled with blood till they look
scarcely human.
Now and then man slips AID falls
among the harried fishes. Then there
are loud screams from his companions
and cries of supplication from him as
he calls to his patron saint, for it is no
Joke to fall among those mighty bodies
that are dashing around in their death
throes.
So the fight continues till in that in
closed space of sea there is not fish
alive. Every boat is half full Of water
and loaded down with living silver,
where the slim, piratical bodies Of the
beautiful fishes lie. The inhabitants of
the towns near the scene Of this fishing
make a fete day Of the arrival of the
funny, for it means food and employ
ment for many hundreds of men, Wom-
en- and children. The fish Is a favorite
article Of food, especially when sailed,
and the roe is a great delicacy, which
brings fancy prices. The tunnies that
are caught off the Italian coasts have
to be passed through the custom house
when they are landed, like any other
merchandise and the streets there pre-
sent a strange appearance then, for on
all sides are wheelbarrows full Of the
| shapely, monstrous creatures.-NeW
York Press.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07
AN EXAMP lie OF NERVE.
Warden McCIaughry'S Experience With an
Almost Escaped Prisoner.
FORK Press.

Speaking Of nerve" said one of the
detectives at headquarters, reminds
me of Chief McClaughry Of Chicago.
He used to be warden at the state pen
itentiary down in Joliet, and he had
the reputation Of being the coolest man
in Illinois. He was as shifty as any of
the men he had to handle and as quick
and calm about it as a regular Sherlock
Holmes Nothing could feaze him.
zone day McClaughry was sitting in
his office at just about the time the
men were being marched back to their
cells from work. He was alone. There
was a sound behind him, and, whirling
round, he saw a convict who had pass
ed the guard in some way creeping to-
ward him with an ugly looking iron
bar in his hand.
"'Don't you stirv the man whisper
ed. I'm going to get out Of this if /
have to kill you to do it,
"'Oh, McClaughry said, 4 thought
you were going tomorrow! The man
stared at McClaughry and grunted,
'Wot? McClaughry simply looked at
ulLu as thouSh he uiuu Soi0 III uNh ANA
said: They sent up your dismissal pa
pers this afternoon, that's all. You've
been such a model prisoner all the
time that they decided to commute
your sentence. You can go all right
enough if you want to. You're not my
prisoner any more. If you want to see
your papers-why, think-they're here
in-in the drawer And before the
poor fool could lift the bar to strike
McClaughry had snapped revolver
out of the desk and leveled it at his
head."-New York Sun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07

To put the brake on the wagon going
down the hill is help to the horse,
when the wagon is heavily loaded. But
what driver wo1ld think of applying the
brake to loaded wagon going up the
hill? If be did, his sensible horses
would probaly balk. Many man is in
the condition of pulling load up hill
with the brake set against him. When
his stomach is out of order, and the al
lied organs of digestion and nutrition
impaired in their functions, friction is
set up which has to be overcome in adj
dition to the performance of daily du>
ties. A foul stomach makes a foggy
brain, and the man with disordered
stomach has often to groue his way
through the days business like a manxin
a fog. He forge appointments. Prob
lens seem presented 10 his mind wrong
end to-" This condition is entirely rem
edied by the use of Dr. Pierce's Col
Gen Medical Discovery. 1t puts the
stomach and digestive and nutritiYe
system into a condition of perfect health
and gives clear brain, a steady hand
and light step for the days duties.
When constipation clogs the channels of
the body, DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
Will work an effectual cure of that dsas-
tr us disease. So x5
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07

Ten tn Volunteer
regiment, stationed
at Macon, Ca, in a
recent letter to DR..
H a r t m an from
Washington, D. c.,
says: 81 t h i n k
there is no better
medicine on earth
than your Pe-ru-na
for catarrh. 1t has
surely cured me. 1t
would take a vol
% I'll Ill
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07

Of Pe-ru-na: al think there is no better
medicine on earth than Pe-ru-na, for
catarrh. It has cured me. 1t would
take volume to tell you all the good ID
has done me. Pe-ru-na is the best ca"
tarrh cure on earth, and I know, for
have tried nearly all of them. Respect
fully, Buck f. Iaylor'"
Major Algernon A. MADISON, of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-07

Sergeant Buck Taylor, New York City.
Sergeant Buck Taylor, one of the
famous Rough Riders, is personal
friend of Governor Roosevelt, Of New
York. He accompanied Governor Roose-
gelt on his great stumping tour through
upper New York state. He was pro-
noted through gallantry in the field
during the late war.
The Sergeant has the following to say
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11
A Revolver Stampede.

An amusing incident in connection
with the last senatorial contest has
just come to light. 1t was revealed
to me not long since by a republican
member Of the last legislature, who
said, ut is useless for Mr.. Thompson
to deny that he entered into a combi-
nation with the populists to elect him
senator or the condition that he
would forswear allegiance to the re-
publican party. Although a republic
can member. 1 was 10 the combina-
tion myself and had agreed TO vote
for Mr.. Thompson for senator, and
against Mr.. Hayward, il the populist
vote could be secured. All arrange
ments were made; some of us were
waiting in an ante room at the capi.
tOl for the time when We should 90 in
and cast our vote for Mr.. Thompson.
Captain Fisher of Cbadron was
among the number. The captain re-
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11
Divided Command.

Each detachment of the army ad-
vancing on Pekin is accompanied by
ommander-in-chief. The words are
a contradiction Of terms and the &C
tual operations of an army command
ed by as many men as there are divis-
ioAs must be disastrous. The Ameri-
.ean troops are on the right Of che ad-
Vance, their TANKS will be in cOmmu-
nicatiOn with the German and British
forces. Every evening the generals
hold a consultation, when the plan Of
operations for the following day is
aureed upon. Each officer is informed
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11

we'll educated. their birthdays bril-
liantly celebrated. and the family's in.
come devoted to their culture and rec.
reatiOn. The only circumstances in
which a Chinese woman can revenge
herself upon fate and custom are en-
jOyed at the expense of another wO-
man-her daughter-in law. A bride
groOm's invariable custom is to take his
bride home. where she is the flag Of
her mOther-in law, who beats her and
destroys her self-respect, il she have
any so long from birth, by calling her
names, and by emptying Chinese Bill.
lingsgate upon her day after day.
1t was discovered long ago that
Cinnamon liked little feet. so they
doubled the girl babies toes under and
bound them tightly so they would not
grow. The torture is exquisite ard
the little girls are beaten when they
cry. They learn to hang their little
bundles of feet over the edge Of the
bed. so that circulation may be dead
ened and their torture decreased.
What mercy may missionaries or
any foreigners expect from heather
who have so little pity for their own
baby daughters who insist upon this
terrible torture. from century to CEN
fury. because they prefer small feet?
Nothing but shot and shell can bring
these people into the kingdom Of ci Vi
lizatiOn. Missionaries work at dis
advantage against such before Christ
barbarism as this. Immense sums
are expended to Christianize one
Chinaman. The process is too slow,
too expensive, and the result is I'M
satisfactory. The Chinese believe
that their civilization, a civilization
in which one female in three attempts
suicide, is the highest and best in the
world. Europeans and Americans are
barbarianS, and missionaries from Eu-
rope or America are regarded with
the contempt we feel for the medicine
man Of the Indians. Gentleness and
demonstration are played out in
China. We must show them that we
Can shoot straighter than they can,
and are willing to take quick and
complete vengeance for any slain
American citizens. The beginning
Of the bad boys reformation and edut
cation in the old country district
school was that moment when THE
young pedagogue knocked him OWN
for insubOrdination. The Chinese
will only begin to appreciate that we
can teach them new religion. Utter
allure and a new agriculture and
new mechanical development when
we have knocked them down gOtd and
hard and they are still dazesl and
weak from the blow landed by Giviliz.
alton. After that they'll be teaGhable
enough. and learn to do busi ness,
build railroads and modern ships and
boats. BY no other or more gentle
process can the women of China take
their places in the world as human
beings. Not that America fully &C
knOwledges woman's born share Of
things yet, but because Of the efforts
of a few brave women who shrunk from
but were not deferred by riIdicule, we
have the advantage Of our cousins of
China, though we still come into the
world unwelcome and remain in it to
the end handicapped by prejudice.
= =
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11

i~ewsPAPGf EuxLous
Lincoln includes state university.
and in the suburbs Of Lincoln there
are two colleges. The influence Of
educational institutions is said to be
very penetrating and stimulating.
So? But there is a limit, as every
ocean, no matter how large, has
shores. An evening papers editorial
columns recently contained this pic
turesque il puzzling metaphor: "If
Mr.. Campbell has any friends left
they should take him to one side and
tell him kindly, bnt firmly. that il he
continues his absurd attempt to get
his name before the public by keeping
up his open letter-writing 10 Bryan.
they will be forced to take the only
steps remaining open" Steps that re-
main open. as the writer himself
might say, are exotic here. We have
not yet learned to recognize an open
step when we see il or hear it or
smell il.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11

coarseness from vaudeville perform
ance, so that their own dignity and
that Of their profession may be raised
and not continually lowered, as at
present. Their constitution asserts
that they are not organized to fight
capital or the trust, but 1t is at the
same time an agreement to make sac
rifices and be loyal to the association,
whatever may be the result OF It's peri
Odical deliberations. Actresses and
all women performers seem to be ex.
cluded, as they are from the Elks.
II publication and ascension on the
stepping stones Of their dead selves
to better things Is the real object Of
the organization, wOman's natural
aspirations towards the good. the true,
and the beautiful, might be useful.
On the other hand. IL the real object
is a strike or a combination to raise
wages, the men cannot conduct sue
cessful strike without the aid Of the
women. for the vaudeville is two
thirds female.
The prospectus, or constitution, is
published In the Dramatic MirrSs and
signed by one hunHzet. and fifty we'll
known c:aahes. IL is very laudable
object; only a vaudeville audience
will not stand too much refining.
Men and women go to a continuous
performance because ii is cheap and
because 1t anuses them. They like
hOrse-play between the Irishman and
the Dutchman, who smash each other
over the face or nail each other to the
floor with real nail and a real ham,
mer. Audiences laugh to exhaustion
when man runs of the stage with
Ratchet stuck into what appears to
be his shoulder blades. 1t is doubt
full IL at first more refined comedy
will draw the crowds. Eventually,
the public taste being elevated by the
actors, the audiences will respond to
a finer satire. but the material, as it
is, will take long time to refine.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11

OucS WIN Will uOJ see Tue puTpic sudu-
Ows. because the chrome makers have
not put them in their parlor orna-
ments, but the school has corrected
the eyesight Of great many.
In literature IL is evident that the
chrome workers who paint life, not as
it is, but as those who have seen other
PICTURES OF life want to see it, are still
rewarded with an audience.
Every new country has to pass
through period Of being traduced by
those who are willing to describe 1t
and its Inhabitants as the geograph-
ically distant fancy it is. The most
accomplished and most alert people in
the world live in Nebraska. The nov
elists picture us as an illiterate. pro-
fame, half-starved. but withal kindly
people whose crops are entirely burnt
up by the sun and wind without relief
Of rain every year. They send the
heroic, gaunt young homesteader back
to his parents in Illinois or Iowa,
after he has buried his wife. innocent,
yellowed haired little girl, on the
prairieS without mound or a head
stone to mark the spot for lear the
coyotes will dig IN, tine bOdy-coyotes,
according to Mrs. Peattie and Miss
French Octave Thanet) and others
being. Just as fierce, blOod-thirsty and
onpOsed to the peaceful settlement Of
Nebraska as Providence. History, as
opposed to fiction. records that Ne
braska has fewer crop failures and
raises larger amount Of produce to
the acre, than any other state in the
Union. The rate at which settlers
who have come into the state in a
movers wagon with their whole prop
erty either pulling the schooner" or
following it, have grown rich is very
rapid. 1t is true that an occasional
man Of the sort that poets and maya
zine stOry-tellers love to write about.
a man leaning on hoe or pillow or
anything tall enough to lean on in his
vicinity, writes to his folks in Illinois
or Indiana to come get him or send
him his fare home. Women-writers
like this sort of man and this stu.
alton. They like to flutter about a
PROSTATE figure and say" the poor
thingw Their sympathies are near
the surface and ordinary life does not
make demand enough upon their en-
dowment. So cowardly murderers re-
ceive bouquets and Nebraska gets
black eye, that fertile soil and sun
and rain enough TO mature the great
est crop on earth does not deserve.
Wherever the shiftleSs man with
tendency to lean on hoes or trees,
locates, he is sure to fail. The fasci-
nations Of new country have drawn
many idle adventures INTO it. They
have settled 10 Nebraska, leaned on
things for season or two, then gone
back where their tOwnspeOple and
relatives had begun to straighten
themselves Of their burden. Their
doleful tale Of an uhresponsive, sun
baked soil is their only excuse for
The tattle reaches the
lady nOvelist's ears. she listens, as she
has learned TO listen for copy. Per-
haps his laziness has plaintive, dreamy
eyes and his tale about the yellow
haired baby, the coyotes and all the
rest turns into copy and he into a
martyr as he talks. Nevertheless the
the cOlOring and the compO-
sition are all wrong.
- -
Vaudeville Revolt.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11

Of the route his column must travel,
the part it shall play in the opera
tions and the point where he must
effect q junction with the other forces.
The plan may work, but Waterloo was
only more conspicuous demOnstra-
tion Of the uncertainties of divided
command. Waterloo, on both sides,
was a series Of accidents, unforeseen
and unprepared for. Military men in
Washington are opposed to the plan,
though Secretary Root and President
Mckinley are said to approve it.
- -
A Rustie Cavalier.
Musty stories of how the boy with
bent pin and the hickory pole
caught more fish than the man in the
golf suit carrying jOinted pole and a
book Of flies. or Of how the pale. shrink
ing young man, bullied by six feet OF
red-eyed Drawn. turns out to be the
champion welter-weight Of Hoboken
and smasEes the bully all 20 pieces.
are common enough in the newspa-
pers. They appeal to very large
class Of people (whO fiatter themselves
they are rough but ready, uncut and
unpublished, but really great find for
somebody. Magazines are a cut above
newspapers, as a rule. and magazine
publishers are not in the habit of pand-
ering to the universal egotism by using
the worn out surprise effects, just re-
ferred to. In "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
a Nebraska story, by George Boards
ley, printed in the August McClurefs,
Bobby Grant. pOpulist candidate for
the legislature, and swearing horribly,
with the evidences of refinement alb
sent both from his dress and his face,
is lowered by the author with a
delicacy of thought. a generosity Of
action and QuixOtic chivalry that
recalls the days when knighthood was
in flower. 1t is. of course, not illpos-
sible that man may at the same time
be a gentleman, who scOrns appear
anceS, who swears like a pirate and
whose table manners remind one Of
saNages squatted around black pot
full Of boiled dog. But a gentleman
IFS more frequently dressed with due
regard to the customs and conve-
nance of the day, he has fine feeling
for the niceties Of language and is
not adjectively limited to Damn. The
Objectionable feature of this story is
that it hints that all the real gentle
men and true cavaliers in Nebraska,
are uncultivated, profane men, men
with hearts Of gold, with breeches
stuffed into their boots and with
whiskers streaked with egg and tobac-
co juice. Such are the Nebraska gen.
tlemen heretofore presented by the
magazine writer's, who have not de-
served to live i'm Nebraska-they have
made such slanderous copy out of it.
"Cavalleria Rusticana" is of no partic-
ular distinction, literary or otherwise.
1t is mentioned here only because it
is another instance Of the inability Of
writer's 20 tell the truth about Ne
braska. Eastern people who publish
magazines, and who read them, have
preconceived and unverified ideas
about this state and these stories are
written to crafty their prophetic
souls and in spite of truth. If sketch
were written in plein air of Nebraska
men and women, their homes, and
culture as they are, the publisher
might decide that it lacked local COL
or, even as the impressionistS' outdoor
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-11
Vaudeville s Revolt.

Theatrical managers who have
joined the trust which lately reduced
the salaries CT stars are Informed by
the White Rats of America that this
association Of vaudeville performers
traits is stars spelled backward). pro-
fesses no enmity towards the manage.
ment Of the continuous performance
houses. Their ostensible and perhaps
their real purpose is to eliminate
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1900-06-01
Sale of Farming Lands.

NJ. J. Fraser, of Moody county,
has purchased from the Farmers
bank a quarter section in Twin
Brooks township, and hasalread I
moved on the place.
Herring Chrisman, of Mapleton,
Ia, senior member of the law
firm of Chrisman & Chrisman of
that city, has also purchased
from the Farmers bank about 400
acres in Stockholm, Twin Brooks,
and Osceola townships. He also
purchased section 25 in Mazeppa
township, and the Smith farm
in Twin Brooks. The junior
member Of the firm has purchas
ed section Of land in Stockholm
township. These gentlemen ex-
pect to improve all Of these lands,
and will make valuable additions
to Grant county.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1900-06-01

At the home of the brides mother in Mibank
on Sunday, May 27th, by Rev. Chas n Fitch,
Mr.. Ray W Bailey and Miss Minnie NJ Ester
lerly, all Of Milbank, s.. d.
Mr.. Bailey is well known to
our people as the proprietor of
one of the city drug stores and
as a young man of exemplary
character, who since early boy
hood passed his years in Mil
bank, while the bride is a most
estimaDle young lady, with a
large circle of friends, and she
has for a number Of years past
acted as clerk in the Mittelstaedt
store. The kindest wishes of
a large circle of friends will
be with Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey in
their new relation.