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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
WANTS 1T BACK.
A West Virginia Swain Sues for
Money He Spent Upon an In
constant Maiden.

A West Virginia man courted a girl
for two years, ana then she very inco..-
sidera:ely married anOtherfellow. The
rejected sutton has in consequence
brought suit against the bride and her
husband to recover the money hespent
treating her TO ice cream, oysters, can
DIV, etc. He has submitted an itemized
statement showing that in the twenty
four months he lavished upon the coy
and inconstant maiden the munihcent
sum of S2702 in the manner named.
This he asks the court order to be re-
turned to him. The brides lawyer,
looking over the bill, discovered that
the disappointed swain had charged
to the girl all the ice cream and oys-
tiers he had himself eaten while treat
ing her during the courtship days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
1000, 900 ACRES OF LAND
SECURED FOR COLONY.
SAID 1T WILL BE LOCATED ON BORDER
of TERRELL AND LEE COUNTIES.
Parties at the Head of the Movement
Have Been Busy Taking Options
Up0n Farms.

The Macon Telegraph prints the fol-
lowing special from Leesburg:
Parties who claim 10 have the power
to locate colonies are taking options in
this and surrounding counties, and it
is reported that about 100000 acres of
land has been secured for the purpose
and that large colony Will be located
shortly on the borders of Lee, Terrell
and Dougherty. II these plans mate
rialize it will be great boon to this
section, as under present conditions
the lands are turned over to negro
tenants and whore farm ought to
make three bales it now, by their
careless cultivation, produces one.
Some as fine lands as can be found
anywhere in Georgia are in this see
ton, and as the labor is growing
scarcer and scarcer each year as the
turpentine farms and other industries
take them off the big farms must of
necessity in the future be divided.
When this is done no finer agricultural
section will be found anywhere, and q
glorious era of prosperity will dawn
that has been impossible under past
conditions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
TO GET RID OF NEGRO VOTE.
This Is the Chief Question Before the
Convention in Alabama

The constitutional convention of Al
ALBANIA is now in session at Montgomery
in the hall of the house of represent
atives. There are several important
questions to be determined, the para
mount issue being the elimination of
the negro vote.
Among thee Their matters TO be con
sdered are Smaller counties for the
state an effort to eliminate local leg
islation from the work of the general
assembly, and school taxation.
There is much gossip regarding a
movement to urge the convention to
change the present two year term of
state house officials to four years.
Many prominent political thinkers
favor this change, and they have the
support of the leading newspapersHof
Alabama The idea is to do away with
so many elections.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
AN UNGRATEFUL CHURCH.
Suspended Pastor Because He Was I'm.
fortunate in Gambling for Its Members.

There is an ungrateful church con-
gregation in an Illinois town. The
church members, according &c the al
Legations, gave their pastor, GAe Rev.
Mr.. Harris, various sums of money to
invest for them in stocks, according to
his Judgment. Mr.. Harms had been
stock broker in Chicago before he
became preacher. In the aggregate
the sums placed in his hands amount,
ed TO 100000 He was to use his own
judgment in buying stocks. Cnfor-
tunately he gambled on the wrong side
and all of the money was lost in the re-
cent furry in Wall street. The mem
bers have now preferred charges
against him, and he has been suspend
ed from the ministry for six months.
Had he played the markets right he
would probably have been given a
trip to Europe by his appreciative par
isEiOners.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
Mr.. STEVENS TO THE FARMERS.

We have uttered many warnings
against planting too large an acreage OF
cotton. OF course no warning which is
unheeded by the majority of planters
can result in immediate good; but the
repeated exhortations on this line have
been sent forth with the hope of some
day bringing about among southern
planters such cooperation as will de-
liver them from their present thraldom
to INSCRIPTIONS spectators.
But encouraging progress is evidenced
by the rapidly increasing number OF
those who raise sufficient home supplies
to make them independent of the west
ern corn crib and western pork and beef.
On many a farm the well-stored smoke
house and commodious barn filed with
the in. gathering from the fertile fields
bears testimony to the thrift and enter
prise of the owner, whose PRIDE 1t IS 10
point out to the visitor at his hospitable
home not only his fields of snowy cot
ton, but also his broad acres Of corn,
wheat, oats and other grains, the luxu-
RANT grass or pea vines just ready Tor
the hay maker, his garden planted with
many kinds of vegetables suggestive OF
varied and wholesome fare, and his pas
ture beautifed by carefully reared stock
of the finest breeds.
AS the proprietor of an estate like this
sits at sunset on some little spot OF eIe-
waited ground, with delighted eye ne
views the landscape DER. and to his ear
there comes the distant music OF the
tinkling bells as his lowing herds wind
slowly DER the lea" Then, as he turns
his footstep homeward and hears as he
draws nigh, the cheerful song OF his
wife and the merry voices OF his chill
dren, he knows there are loving eyes
that will greet him at the door and look
brighter for his coming.
Diversity your crops; practice econ
omy and thrift; make every cultivated
acre pay. Then, even though your farm
NAV now be small and an humble cot
tage your home, the day may come
when competence will reward your la
bors. With fertile fields and an attrac-
tive home. there will BE no trouble
about keeping your ambitious boys on
the farm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
MUST GIVE IN.
England Finds Out at Late Day
How Serious Is the Canal
Question.

A Londol dispatch says it is per-
s.stently reported in diplomatic circles
that the British foreign Office is grad
ually changing its attitude regarding
the .Nicaraguan canal question.
1T is said to have been consistently
misled by the attitude of Ambassador
Choate, who is inclined to minimize
the serious attitude assumed by the
United States senate.
Recent advices received from LORD
Pauncefote, however. have brought
Lord Lansdowne to the conclusion that
England must give way upon several
points if she desires to maintain friend
lv relations with the United States.
This is the real reason for Lofd
Pauncefote's projected return home on
leave of absence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

IL these early days Of May most Of the
corn has been planted, and now care must
be taken TO give it proper cultivation.
Early working, so that no grass or nox;
ious weeds may hinder the growth Of
rhe tender stalks, is the essential thing
for the expected harvest. Good ana
faith :ul W ork now and careful supervi
sion of tie hands employed will give
your corn good start, and the same
kind of work persevered i'll TO the end
will, with favorable seasons. secure
paying creep
Pant Peas Now.
Now is she time to plant your peas,
between the rows of corn, or, if you
have land to spare and prefer it, in a
field apart. Our soil produces no better
crop 1t enriches the land on which it
grows; the succulent peas afford excel
lent food for stock and also for the ia
BILE. besides the pea vine makes an ex-
cellent hay when it has been properly
cured and housed.
Cotton.
Every farmer in Georgia knows that
cotton must have plenty of sunshine
and must be so managed as net to over
task the land by requiring SO much OF
its strength for the stalk that there will
not be enough left to nourish the fruit
The plants must not be allowed to
come up too close together, for i'll that
case there will be too much shade and
too much of the plant will run to stalk
Be sure to clean out the cotton well,
thinning out SO that the young plants
NAV be from Is inches to feet apart in
the drill, being controlled as regards
distance by the fertility of the land.
OF course the intelligent farmers ex-
perience, obtained by years of careful
planting and attention, will greatly aid
him in his decision as TO the proper dis
lance.
The great thing to be desired is that
the stalks when grown shall barely
meet in the row. Then the plants will
be in condition to secure the strength
of the land for the fruit, and the av.
erage production to the acre will be in
creased.
O. Il. STEVENS, Commissioner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
THE COMPTROLLER SUSTAINED.
Attorney General Says Farmers Must Pay
Tax on GuanO.

Comptroller-General Wright has re-
ceived from Attorney-General Terrell
an opinion relative to the legality of
imposing tax upon fertilizers held,by
farmers on March Is, the day desig-
mated for making returns of all classes
of property for taxation. The opinion
of the attorney-generali is that all fer
filters held by farmers on that day
are subject to taxation, and in support
of his position gives an opinion OF the
supreme court that covers this ques-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

A Job, w. Va, special says To be
crushed to death in the embrace of a
nonstrous black bear and their bodies
after ward mangled and partly devour-
ed was the fate that befell the three
children of Z. p. Porterfield, a noun
taineer, residing twelve miles from
this place. The remains were found
Yesterday by a searching party which
had been out since Sunday. The party
included Juo. Weldon, a Maryland hun
ter. who, within few minutes after
the discovery of the bodies, shot and
killed a bear in a neighboring thicket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
THREE CHILDREN EATEN BY BLACK BEAR.

The children were Mary, aged 3;
Willie, aged 3, and Henry, aged Z.
Shortly after noon Sunday they left
home to gather flowers in clearing
near home. Nothing more is known.
but it is supposed that they wandered
into the woods, ano becoming LOST con-
tinued on their way until they were
oyertaken by the bear in the forest
three miles from their parents home.
The bear feasted off all three of the
bodies. The bones of the children had
been crushed like straws. and the sesn
stripped of with teeth and claws.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
|MlILPOX COVERS
N EXTENSIVE AREA.
Ns1TERED ABOUT in MANY STATES
FDOy MAINE TO CALIFORNIA.
Some Places Report a High Death Rate
From the Disease, But in GeOr-
gaN Is a Mild Type.

SMALLPOX seems to be raging pretty
nne6 all oser the country from Maine
Ito California In nearly every state
\ 10 the union in fact. cases OF the dis
ease are reported. Many localities ana
towns try to conceal the tact that they
have the disease in their midst, while
other: have taken the bull by the
horns and are enforcing compulsory
R:ciaation.
Iaedisease has taken such a hold in
several localities that government aid
fas been invoked and some very hi. h
authorities claim that it cannot be
Ahecked unless compulsory vaccina-
Nf0ai is enforced wherever it appears.
Il Is said that most Of those who evade
accaati0n in places where the dis
&ae appears are more than apt TO be
#Ecien down by it before it Is stamp
out.
lis little singular that while the
sease does not appear to be confined
my one class or locality it is much
oe severe in some sections than in
leFs' A number of places re ort a
s. slCeath rate from the disease. while
"'N the cases in Georgia and Ala
ua nave been of a mild type which
81 FIus readily in treatment, except in
'SS Where ignorant negroes attic npt
VOnceal tuntil it is too late for them
oe properly treated.
p smallpox is so much worse IN
'7' UAan IN summer the expel is
~ .nat every possible effort should
-%ue VAe present summer to crush
'n' uisease. Unless this is done
'9areo that the epidemic may
'rD' 10 something serious when cold
a a'4vP comes again. especially as the
wv area covers such a wide sec
Of the country.
OIuln00s, this state, the inspec-
-'' : cases quarantined.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

suit. The factions fought on after they
had forgotten why they had fought a'
all. While organized warfare is no"
over. an occasional fight yet comes
over the patch on those trousers anu d
man or two is killed. A county as Dls
as Rhode Island is still bitterly dlViu-
ed on the subject. In race Tor 'ne
legislature not long ago the fued was
the sole issue. And, without KNOWING
it. perhaps, a mountaineer carried tn"'
patch like a flag to victory, and SAT un'
der it at tle capital-making laws ioi
the rest Of the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
THE CATTLE QUARANTINE.
An Expert Sent to Assist Georgia
Department.

DR.. w. p. Ellenberger of the United
States department of agriculture, as
signed to Georgia, has arrived in At
lanta and had a conference with the
officials of the state agricultural de-
partment.
DR.. Ellenberger has been ordered to
Georgia to assist the state agricultural
people in their cattle quarantine work,
and will have temporary headquarters
at Blue Ridge, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
LIGHTNING KILLS MULES.
Farmer Stanley of Clay County
Is the Loser.

A Fort Gaines dispatch says Mr. T.
A. Stanley, farmer residing seven
miles north of that town, had three
mules killed by lightning.
Fourteen negro workmen and his
hrother MIR. Russell Stanley, had
taxen shelter from the rain ina vacant
house near the river, and four mules
rore bitcbed at a corner of the house
whom lightning struck them. Mr.. Stan
~, was within few feet of the mules
a. the time and received a severe
hook None of the negroes were hurt'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
flCH ON PANTS CAUSED 30 YEARS OF WAR.

stucs +Ias to John Fox, Jr.. who is a
r. is +h. and ought to know, no.
|er.is, .ne foed SO common, so old,
ktuel,v and so deadly as in the
Of his in fountains. The following is
/ We Years ''ratlons about thir-
nsrblss ago g two boys were play
lfberland rive. 'ne road along the
kY NOME ,il'er-down in the Ken
la Of b 'alns' One had a patch on
l. fun Of !, .lOuSers. The other boy
b went b ~ and the boy with the
|''y Years Of local T vs,' r mis- fat father.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
Can Tax Its Own Property.

The United States supreme court has
sustained the supreme court OF Georgia
in the decision that city can levy tax
on It's own property when that proper
ty is leased TO another corporation or
individuals. The case in question was
carried up from Savannah.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
ONLY Six Ahead Of GaOrgla.

While there are one million cotton
spindles in operation in Georgia, there
is profitable room for many more Only
six states operate more spindles than.
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
The psst Prescription for Malaria.

ch;,,s and Fever is a bottle OF Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. It Is simply
,,'on and ouinine in a tasteless form.
No cure-no pay. Price 5Oc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
Hard On Poor Atlanta.

Rev. J. L. White of the Second bap-
list church in Atlanta, and who Is 10
deliver an address at the close OF the
schools in Dawson tomorrow, has Gre
ated an immense sensation by chafg-
ing that Atlanta society women are
addicted to whisky drinking.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
/ '''N San Chews Much Tobacco.

H. o, Z, of tobacco in the
H.. Is Is now about 725, 900, 600
b. h., winch about one-half is con-
,or,o5 ''' own people and one-half
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

You are much more liable TO dis
ease when yOur liver and bowels do
not act properly. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers remove the cause Of dis
ease DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
You Know What You Are Taking

when you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic, because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle, show
ing that is simply Iron and Quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure. no pay. sec
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

The least in quantity and most III
quality describes Dewitt Little Ear
" Risers, the famous pills for consul
patton, and liver complaints.
DAWSON DRUG 90.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29
@ONLY 4 PARTIAL INDEX
TO OUR STORE SELLINGS.

500 assorted Japanese fans, and kind, each. 2Ac
Big lot gloria umbrellas for only 35c
Big lot odds and ends in baby caps. and each
Ask to our 75c and $500 silks for .....Ioc yd
JUST PICKED UP.
II pairs ladies' fine kid button shoes worth $2.5o
anywhere on earth, as long as they last. Sis
prs womens calf button Shoes worth I5o for CSC pr
Big lot Of ladies nice handkerchiefS worth 10 and
IS cents sc each
Lot ladies and childrens hose
Box of silk ribbons, assorted oolors, 4 and inches
wide for only yd
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-29

international Harness OH at Fulton's.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-05

but the advancement of knowledge. the
relief Of human suffering and the eleva-
ton of a department of medicine which
has long lain fallow." Further on in his
speech he said:
Union with one of the great medical
bodies is essential to our life and power
as society. The time has arrived when
we must consummate that union. It Is
for you to decide whether it Is best to
maintain an Independent association and
attach ourselves to the medical congress,
or by organizing a section upon rectal
diseases in the A. M. A, become merged
into this great body. In considering the
subject, we must weigh the facts. If we
Join the congress our annual meetings
will be limited to the members of this
society, whether they be held in Wash
ington or elsewhere; whereas, if we
unite with the A. M. A, we will have a
larger membership and be brought in
closer contact with the general profess
sion from whom we have much to learn
and to whom we have many debts to
pay. There is no doubt of our ability
to maintain our society in either event,
but what we want from our members is
enthusiastic interest and not perfume
tory attendance. We want to edu-
cate the profession up to the fact that
there is more in protology than they
believe"
Two sessions of the society will be
held today, at the last one of which
will be considered the recommendations
made by the president. Several other
papers will be read and officers for the
ensuing year will be elected.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-05

ments; more than twice as many as an
officer of engineers or Of ordnance, and
nearly twice as many as an officer OF the
signal corps. The effect of this discrim-
pay Of medical officers but must result
in lessening the efficiency of the corps
by repeiling men of spirit and worth
IN every war known to history the
exceeded these due to battle. At no
time has bygienic science been 80 re-
sourceful as at present in prevent
ing disease. A law which falls to
give to armies, either in peace or in
war, the fullest protection by the appIi-
cation of the latest scientific develop
ments at the hands of specially trained
medical men is unjust to the soldier and
to the medical profession.
I'm view Of these facts the army re-
organization law OF the last congress
was inexplicable and inexcusable It,
however, forces itself upon our consid-
Grafton from another standpoint. Ply
sicians are citizens of the republic. AS
litically and officially the equals of any
other element of the body polite There
Is no station to which they may not at
tain; there is no distinction of which
they may not be the recipients. Their
rights are of manhood origin and their
prerogatiVes are inherent. They are in
very fact peers of the realm and tho
peers Of any peers of any realm. When
the status OF any number of physicians
in their representative relationship to So
ciety Is lowered. the status of the med
zeal profession in general is menaced in
corresponding degree. When the con-
greSS, by enactment of law degradeS
relatively the status of an important
body Of medical men, engaged in the pub
lie service, 1t strikes at the status OF
every physician in the country. 1t be-
comes, therefore. the duty of every Nom
Der of the medical profession, jealous OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-05
TWO SOCIAL FUNCTIONS.
Receptions for the Women Attend
ing the Convention

Mrs. A. H. Wilder and Mrs. E. Viii
liers Appleby gave a large reception yes
terday afternoon, from 4 to at their
home on Summit avenue, in honor of the
visiting physicians and their wives
Over 400 people called during the receiv-
ing hours. The various rooms were
handsomely decorated with punches OF
cut flowers and palms. Receiving with
Mrs. Wilder and Mrs Appleby were Mrs
Hisey, of Denver, Col; Mrs. A. J. Stone
Mrs. Ritchic, Mrs. Il. J. Abbott, Mrs G.
A. Wheaton, Mrs. T. E. Smith The ush
ers were Mrs G L. Greene, Mrs. Archie
bald McLaren, Mrs. Burnside Foster
Mrs A c. Heath, Mrs. A. r. Colvin and
Mrs. ~ j. Gillette. Others assisting were
Mrs William Davis, Mrs f. w. Van
Slyke Mrs. Howard Lancaster, Miss
Beaumont, Miss Spencer and Miss
CIougn. Mrs. J. F.. Schadle poured coffee
and Mrs ]. F. Fulton cut the ice Mrs
Wilder and Mrs. Spencer had charge Of
the frappe bowls.
Mr. ard Mrs L. A Abbott placed their
home on Ashland avenue at the disposal
of the women physicians of St. Paul and
Minneapolis VINO received the visiting
women physicians last evening from
until II. Receiving with Mr.. and Mrs
Abbott were DR.. Austen Pine, DIR. Mabel
Austen, DIR. Jeanette McLaTen, DR. Wal
rath st. Paul; and DR. Mary MILESTONE
of Minneapolis. During the evening DIR
Mary Pullman Jacob, of New York, made
a brief address.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-05
DR.. c. A. WHEATON
MAY BE PRESIDENT
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disease, and the real time to cure it was
before it really had a hold on the patient,
or before it came
DR.. Love was of the same opinion. saw
ing the disease could be detected by the
rigid abdominal muscles on the right
side and other infallible signs, and he
thought it well to have an operation after
the disturbance had subsidized in order to
prevent recurrence of the maIady.
What the patient needed at the very
first he said, is absolute rest and quiet,
plenty of sleep and saline solution, the
ice bag, diet, time, starvation and the
mercy of Almighty God.
DR.. William Bailey, of Louisville,
thought that when the disease is dis
covered, e. surgeon should be in attend
ance, and he doubted II it is ever too
early or late for an operation Drs. Lilly.
Mcconnell and Frank Warner favored
operations under proper conditions and
DR.. o. F. House, Of Cleveland, said that.
while he had never seen a, case where an
operation was had too early, he had
seen them where it was too late
Both Drs. Kelsey, of Minneapolis, anG
w. Finley of Altoona, Pa, favored
operations before the disease reached al
acute state and they thought the ad.
Vantages to be had by a city physician
We're not necessary, as the intelligent
physician, if called upon, could operate
on Il kitchen table, with only the knife
and plenty OF hot water out Oh the
kitchen stove as accessories, besides tn
formulas.
DR.. J. B. McElroy read a vaIuabl
paper on Some Phases of Malaria"