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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
DOVER DOINGS.
What Is Going on in and Around
the Fourth District Village.


Our old friend, Hon. D. r. Stewart
of Randolph, passed through our burg
yesterday en- route to Dawson to visit
his wife, who has been quite sick
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. j.
NJ. Griggs.
Clever Jim Thornton, whom every
body in these parts knows, decided on
Saturday last to lay aside the business
cares with which a drummer has to
contend and refresh himself by trying
his hand on the feathery tribe. spar
rows, l dove, l field lark, rice bird, l
yellow hammer, rabbit and duck
were the results of his days hunt.
We insist upon it that our friends
keep US posted on all items of interest
to the general public. We expect for
these items to appear regularly unless
proyidentially hindered, but we are
closely confined to our business and
have but little time to hunt up news.
If any of your people are sick, die or
get married we want to know it. If
any of your relatives or friends from a
distant part of the country come to Wis
it you, let US know it. In short, if you
know Of anything that will be of gen.
eral interest let US have it. The edi-
tor will appreciate it and it will be a
pleasure to US to write it up.
We could hardly write these items
without at least mentioning the sad
death of Col. A. Hood of Cuthbert,
which occurred at his home on Sunday
night of last week. Arthur Hood was
man of integrity and more than or
binary ability. For many years he was
warm personal friend of ours, and we
mourn with his grief-stricken family
in their bereavement. In his death
not only Cuth bert and Randolph coun-
ty, but all of south west Georgia loses
an able lawyer and one of her most
influential citizens.
Mrs. c. B. Phillips and little chill
dren visited the family of MIR. J. B.
Phillips, near Cuthbert. last Friday.
On their return they were accompanied
by little Miss Mamie Phillips, who had
been spending a couple of weeks with
her grandparents.
We are agents for The DAWSON
NEWS and can take your subscription
and receipt you for same. We can
also take your order for any other pa
per or magazine published at publish
er's prices.
We are,glad to learn that the family
of Mr.. D. w. Collier, several of whom
have been quite sick, are all much bet
ter at this writing.
We understand there was pleasant
musical gathering at the home of Mr..
D. w. Bryant on Sunday evening last.
Messrs. J. A. and r. l.. Fulton OF
Dawson we're the guests of Mr.. W. w.
Lees family Sunday.
We are sorry to hear that little
Marcellus Bryant is quite sick at this
writing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Has Gone To Augusta.

Mr.. George Best left last week for
Augusta, where he went to accept q
position as telegraph operator with
the Georgia railroad. Mr.. Best, who
is brother of Mr.. A. j. Best, the
chief operator in Dawon, has been ii
the office here several months, and
made many acquaintance and friend:
who congratulate him upon securing
the responsible position he has gone
to accept.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Death of Little Harvey Oxford.

Harvey, the little six-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Oxford of near
Sardis, died Thursday after short ill
ness and the remains were inferred at
New Bethel Friday, Rev. II. L.
Crumbley feelingly performing the
last sad rites. The bereaved parents
have the sympathy of their many
friends in their sorrow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Nav Move TO Dawson.

The News learns that Mr.. G. Willis
has sold his interest in the firm OF
Willis & Cole to his partner and is
thinking of moving to Dawson. Mr.
Willis lived for years in Terrell,
and his many friends in and around
Dawson would be glad to see him
ret,lrn here
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06

Their promptness and their pleasant
effects make DeWitt's Little Early
Risers most popular little pills where
ever they are known. They are sim
Div perfect for liver and bowel trOub
les. DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
COTTON SEED STOLEN.
A Wagon Load of Them Hauled
from Col. Dick Gays Farm.

DOVER, March 4.-Captaih l.. ID.
Gay, the manager of the large planta-
tion of Colonel L. D. Gay near this
place. had a load of cotton seed stolen
from his place on Friday night, and he
was quite busy Saturday tracing them
up. We learn that he found them late
SATURDAY. afternoon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Notice..

I have bought R. J. Anthony's shop
and solicit your patronage in plumb
ing. tin and bicycle work. Work is
guaranteed to be first class in every
respect and prices as low as any COM
petitor's. w. l.. MILLER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
CALLAHAN GETS DUD MINIS
The Young Criminal Has Been
Carried to the Changing.

bud Minis, the young white boy who
was recently convicted in the city
court of stealing goods from the Cen
trail railroad depot, has been carried
to the changing to serve his sentence
of twelve months.
He left here Friday, in company OF
an officer, for Callahan's camp in Ear
ly county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06

Are you restless at night, and har-
raised by bad cough? Use Ballard s
Horehound Syrup: it will secure you
sound sleep. and effect prompt and
radical cure. Price p and SOC.
DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
A Real Estate Transaction.

Mr.. l.. Crouch has bought the old
Hatcher stables on north Main street,
which have been unoccupied for some
time. 1t is understood that the price
paid was $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06

Prof. Ivison, of Homecoming, Md,
suffered terribly from neuralgia of the
stomach and indigestion for thirt cen
years and after the doctors failed to
cure him they fed him on morphine.
A friend advised the use of kodOl
Dyspepsia Cure and after taking few
bottles of it he says, sit has cured me
entirely. l can't say too much for Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure" 1t digests what
YOU eat. DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Do you suffer from lumbago, rheuma-

Do you suffer from lumbagO, rheuma-
tism or swollen muscles? If so, pro-
cure at once a bottle of Pain Killer
and follow the printed directions. The
relief is instantaneous as we'll as last
ing. No necessity to suffer when a
remedy such as Pain-Killer is to be
had. Sixty years of success speaks for
itself. Avoid substitutes, there is but
one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis. Price
25c and soc,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06

Don't irritate your lungs with a
stubborn cough when a pleasant and
effective remedy may be found in
Billiards. Horehound Syrup. Price,
d and soc. DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
SprIng Opening.

The spring SAMPLES for Phillips, the
tailor, for ladies tailor made garments
have arrived, his opening occurring
yesterday and today. He is being assist
ed by his wife. who arrived in the city
yesterday from Albany. He will take
pleasure in submitting to the inspec-
ton of the ladies of the city choice
collection of fabrics and fashio plates
illustrating the latest spring styles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Bliss Triumph.

20 barrels eastern seed potatoes just
received. We guarantee every peck
we sell. r. o. WHITCHARD & Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06
Notice to the Public.

Mr.. F. P. Allen is in charge of my
watch repairing department, which is
guarantee that all who favor NE with
their work will get it executed in the
most skilled manner known to the
trade. j. +. ALLEN, JR.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-03-06

desire to invite my old friends and
customers to bring or send me their
work when their watches, clocks or
ewing machines need repairing.
+. p. ALLEN.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
A FALL SMOKE COLUMN.

During the burning of the Standard
Oil company's tanks at Bayonne, N. j.,
in July, 1900, an immense column of
smoke, shaped at the top like an UNI
brella, rose into the air, where very lit
tie wind was stirring, to an elevation,
measured by triangulation, of 13,411
feet, or more than two miles and a half.
Above the column white clouds formed
in an otherwise cloudless sky, and re-
NAMED visible for two days, the fire
continuing to burn and the smoke to
rise. After the explosion of a gas oil
tank flames shot up to a height of 5000
feet, and the heat radiated from them
was felt at a distance Of a mile and
three-quarters, where it was more no
tlceable than close to the fire.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
H PREVENTION OF SKIN DISEASES.

THE PREVENTION OF SKIN DISEASES.
Diseases of the skin result from a
great variety of causes. but as the
study of them progresses, more and
more are found to be due to the ac-
ton of some parasitic microbe. Ring
worm, acne, boils, c~arbuncles, certain
forms of eczema, BARRIERS itch, and
many other affections are undoubtedly
caused by the presence and growth in
the skin of certain microbes. These
differ in the different affections, but all
of them must be brought from with
out in the first instance, and be de-
posted in the skin, before the par
t1eular disease can be produced.
lit is not always possible to deter
mine how the germ of the disease is
carried to the skin, but very often,
probably in the great majority OF
cases, the infection occurs in the toilet.
1t is a curious fact that we are never
so careless regarding the transmission
of dirt from N person to another
for that issreally what infection is-as
we are in the process by which we try
" AIdhO ourselves Cl0dus
The common use by a number OF
persons of the same piece of soap, rest
ing often in a dirty dish, of towels,
and of hair. brushes and combs, is one
of the best possible methods of trans
hitting skin diseases. Children are
doubtless more careless in this respect
than their elders-the school wash
room is a capital clearing house for
microbes, and loathsome animal para
sites as well-but one need only look
n the wash-room of any hotel, even
the most pretentious, to be convinced
that the grown man has but little more
hyg1enic sense than his son.
Another place where diseases of the
skin and scalp are freely dispensed is
the average barber shop. Hair brush
es, combs, s~cissors-more than all, the
patent hair clipper-shaving brushes,
razors, cups and soap, towels-often
only mangled, and not boiled or even
washed-sponges, powderpuffs, stick
pomade, and last, but not least in their
offending, the hands of the barber,
may all become vehicles to distribute
disease.
But there is perhaps as great need of
reform in the home as in public places.
Each member of the family should
have soap, towel, hair brush, and every
article of the toilet for his exclusive
use as absolutely as he has his tooth
brush; and his toothbrush should rest
upon its own dish, OR, better still,
hang by itself, and not share a dish
with n or half a dozen others.
This necessity of individuality in the
toilet should be impressed by precept
and by example upon every child from
the very beginning, for the practice of
perfect cleanliness may not only pre-
vent some disagreeable skin eruption,
but also more serious disease.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

a curved wooden bar. which serves to
raise the scales up directly behind the
bar SO that the blade may engage be-
meath the elevated free edge and re-
move them without tearing the flesh,
the scales being deposited on the blade
as the cleaner is pushed along with
the hand. Set screws are provided for
adjusting the angle of the blade in re-
lation to the Frame and the blade may
be slipped out for cleaning purposes.
IN use the fish is grasped in. one hand
the scaler plowed across it with
the other, or the fish may be laid on a
nat surface if more convenient.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
BEHAVING LIKE ALAnY.

A little girl from an East End slunl
was invited with others to a charity
West End of London. In the course of
the meal the little maiden startled her
hostess by propounding the query:
Does your husband drink?'
why, no." replied the astonished
lady of the house.
After a moments pause the minia-
ture querist proceeded with the equally
~beWildering q%uestions:
How much coal do you burn? What
is your husbands salary? Has he any
bad habits?"
BY this time the presiding genius of
the table felt called upon to ask her
humble guest what made her ask such
strange questions.
Well" was the innocent reply,
mother told me to behave like a lady,
n when ladies call at our house they
always ask mother those questions
Spare Moments.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
HEAT FROM THE STARS.

From experiments made at the YER
kes observatory with an extremely
delicate radiometer, Prof. E. F. Mich
OILS has determined the relative inten-
sity of the heat radiated to the earth
from the stars Vega and Acturus and
the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Ac-
turus gives a little more than one ten
millioneth Of the heat of a candle
placed at a distance of one meter.
Jupiter gives more than twice as much
heat as Acturus does. Although Vega
and Acturus are equal in the brilliance
OF their light, the latter gives twice as
much heat as the former. Vega is
-blue-white and Acturus yellowish, or
reddish, in color. The heat radiation
of Saturn is less than one-sixth as
great as that of Jupiter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
FORGOT HER PART.

From the London Spare Moments: A
well-known countess vas
to speak at a costers' gathering in the
East End recently, so the little daugh-
ter OF one of the costers-a flower SELL
er-was deputed to present the count
ess on her arrival with a beautiful bou-
quet.
The evening arrived, with an enthu-
slastic audience in the hall, and pres
emily the countess was announced.
The little girl, who had been coached
as to what to say. walked along the
platform to where her ladyship stood,
and In her confusion ~convulsed every
n with laughter by shouting out:
Ere yer are, mum. Only a penny a
bunch-market bunch fer a penny"
The countess smiled, accepted the
flowers, and the child got the penny.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

The improvement in the appearance
of railroad grounds during the last few
years has been more noticeable this
summer than ever before. Cutting the
grass around the stations, keeping the
borders trimmed, planting flowers and
caring for them-these are things
which most of the railroads used to
permit the station agents to do if they
would; but the corporations themselves
gave little thought and no money to
lit. Now the roads themselves are
doing the work, on a larger scale and
systematically. The Improvement is
general throughout the east and is
making rapid progress in the west to
the pleasure of those who travel and
the benefit of the towns in which the
stations are situated.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
DEEP SEA REASONING.

The mermaid who had always CON
tended with much warmth that Rear
Admiral Sampson would come out of
the controversy with flying colors, was
pressed for a reason for her great con-
fdence.
why cont o see, if the worst
m to the worst" said she, "Mr.
Sampson can easily prove an alibi."
The deep-sea reasoning of a mermaid
makes all the knowledge of the an
clients look like driveling idiocy.-New
York Marine Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

fling his Judicial Ermine, you are
fined 81 for contempt of Court"
AS the Poor Unfortunate stepped up
to The Captains Office, an Old Farmer
was observed to leave the Back Seat
ard hobble into the Foreground waving
a ten Dollar bill in his hand.
What brings you to the bar of this
Honorable Court, i%nterrupting the
Course of Justice?" cried out His Hon
or with great severity. fixing his SUI
preme Court gaze upon the White
Haired Figure before him.
Only trying to Settle up" was the
old fellows Cheerful Reply; same as
that young Teller yander. Reckon he
amt got any more Contempt for this.
ere Court than | hev.''
Moral: Don't Crawl under the Can
vas, but pay at the Entrance.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
HYDROGEN AS AN 1LLUM1NASr.

The production of oxygen and hydro
gen on an industrial scale by the de-
composition of water with e~lectrolytic
apparatus in Germany has led to the
suggestion that hydrogen thus pro-
duced may find a wide field of employ
ment as a lighting agent. 1t is now used
for initiating military balloons. For
lighting purposes it is compressed in
steel cylinders. With a proper burner
it is said to be a cheaper illuminant
than acetylene, the relative cost for
equal Illuminating power being as Is
for hydrogen to SO for ~acetyIene.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

Let me tell the story" pleaded the
detective. The truth is bad enough
without having it exaggerated. It hap
pened a good many years ago, and I
supposed 1t had been forgotten. / have
certainly bought enough cigars to bury
1t ten foot deep. Soon after | was taken
on a beat and put in plain clothes a.
rather bold burglary was committed.
the dragnet was thrown out and orders
were issued to the police to arrest every
suspicious character in s4ght. / was
young and ambitious, and it looked
like my chance. l struck a clew at once
n was hot on the scent when I sud-
denly found myself in the hands of a.
green cop who had joined the force
only the week before.
'Aisy, now said he, tightening his
clutch on my collar; yes come along
with me-
In vain did | tell MIN who l was
and show my star to prove it. All he
said was:
I'm too old a bur-rd to be caught
with thot kind of chaff. Me orders are
to artist all suspicious char >acters. Yez
have crime stamped on your face. Come
along, now, or Oill be after cluhbln-
yez.'
There was nothing to do, of course,
but to go with him to the station. What
brand do you smoke ?"-Detroit FREQ
Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

A professional burglar in Berlin
found a new and original way of add
ing to the ordinary profits of his pro-
fession. After each burglary he sent
a full account of it to one of the daily
newspapers, and for this he received
payment in the usual way. But he tried
the plan once too often. The editor
became suspicious and gave informa-
ton to the police, who soon found
how this amateur reporter was able to
beat all rivals in the way of early in
formation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
GOOD LUCK FOR THE GIRLS.

When the subject of bulldogs was
reached, the Major took a hand, or
rather, he monopolized the conversa-
tfon. The Major" was Sam e. Little
of near Newburg, Ind, and he gained
his sobriquet as an Indian fighter and
frontiersman.
You can talk about your fighters
and your fierce beasts, but | had a
couple of genuine English bulls that
beat them all. Why, when / came to
figure it down those dogs cost me a
fortune in incidentals alone. They
We're so NEAR that they wouldn't let
anybody come in the yard. Every time
wanted a pound of coffee, I'd have to
go after it or hire somebody on The
place to make the trip. Those dogs
wouldn't allow the grocer to come in
the neighborhood. And as for the ba-
ker and butcher, they avoided my
place as If it was a pesthouse.
But that wasn't a circumstance to
what they did to the young fellows
who came to see my girls, Or, rather,
the ones that wanted to come. I had
- 0NAo' AhOJ WOiG dlA pICLLy duu at
tractive, but somehow there weren't
any fellows hanging around my place.
| believe that one fellow did come once,
but one of the dogs got him as he went
over the fence on the return trip and
he did the mantel act three times a
day for two weeks. But to see those
girls at a party or a dance you would
think from the way the fellows took on
that there wasn't another girl in the
state.
"One day the two dogs got in a fight.
Both of them had these kind of teeth
that project over their jaws, and when
C they got a hold it took thunder
to part them. Well they both got a
mold that day, and as the sky was
clear the hired hand took an ak. We
buried them together. And don't you
know that the next night there were
MALT a dozen buggies hitched in front
or the gate. And it kept on that way
until about six months ago, when the
last OF the quintet was married. And
I'M thanking Providence that it didn't
thunder. Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
CURIosIr1Es OF THE COCO TREE.

The cultivation of coco, says a writer
in the Scientific American, is at pres
ent an inviting agricultural pursuit in
Trinidad and parts of Venezuela. The
COCO tree cannot withstand strong sun
shine and the young plants have to be
shaded by banana or plaintain trees.
and later, when they attain their
growth, by tall trees known as i'm
mortels," or the mother of the COCO"
These make a kind of canopy over the
entire plantation. The fruit of the COCO
tree is a pod, resembling a cucumber,
and growing on the trunk or large
branches, where it looks as though
it were artifcially attached" The seeds
are like large, thick Lima beans en-
bedded in pulp. These form the COCO
beans of commerce. The processes of
curing and drying require much at
tention.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
LIQUID OXYGEN FOR BALLooN1srs.

The %balloonist has long used hydro
gen to enable him to ascend into the
upper regions of air, and now efforts
are being made to furnish him with
oxygen, to prevent asphyxiation when
he has risen too high to breathe with
ease. The use of oxygen carried in
rubber bags for this purpose has not
proved satisfactory, and the French
savant, L. Cailletet, proposes to substi-
tute liquid oxygen, contained in a
small bottle and allowed to vaporize as
needed. The oxygen is breathed by
means of a. mask fitting over the nose
and mouth, and the apparatus is SO
arranged that air, in any desired pro-
portion, can be admitted at the same
time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF D1AMoNDs.

Gustave lie Bon finds a striking dit.
ference in the phosphorescence Of Bra
lillian diamonds and those from the
Cape. The former, which are noted for
the liveliness of their light, and which
have become quite rare of late, exhibit
a brilliant phosphorescence after being
exposed to the radiation OF a magne-
SUM ribbon, while Cape diamonds, in
similar circumstances, show very little
or no phosphorescence. This is thought
to be a means of detecting diamonds
falsely offered as Brazilian gems.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

bands are the same
as ''solid rubber
type" ~vulcanized
together at HI
base, and so con-
structed that they
permit the use of a
cushion base for the
accompanying rub
Der die. The date
bands are made of.
finest rubber that
can be procured
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

On a recent Sunday a thousand
members of a Roman Catholic congre-
cation in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania,
signed a pledge of total abstinence
from intoxicating drinks. The priest
who preached the sermon of the oc-
casian said: "a blow has this day
been struck for temperance that will
be heard round the world" The Com
panion is glad to help on the reverb
Grafton.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-11-07

: The United States navy continues to
increase. A statement by Rear-Ad-
miral Bowles, chief of construction, re-
Gently issued, shows that there are
now building, or under contract, nine
cruisers, four monitors, sixteen tor
pedo-boat ~destroyers, ten torpedo
boats and seven submarine torpedo
boats. At this rate the old song will
soon have to be amended to read:
"Britain-and her daughter-rule the
waves"