The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-05-14
independent as the winds that blow IN
all it's preferences.

country is keener sighted or has
! finer sense of wit and humor.
RIVAL grave diggers in Fleming, ~
| Y, are engaged in such fierce compe-
tition that they are now watching the
doors of the sick and securing ourIai
nermits in advance of the demise OF the
patient. One party is even said to De
sending business cards to families In
which there is illness. Burlals are
going on with neatness and dispatch,
and at cut rates in Fleming. NOW is
the time TO die there.
COLONEL NESBITT'S declaration
that cotton can be prOtitaolY raised
in Georgia for SO cents pound Is
haunting him very unpleasantly, and
like Banquo's ghost refuses to down.
1t is reasonable to suppose that the
farmers of the state who have way
of thinking for themselves will refuse
to vote for the man who gave their
chief industry such rap.
The board of prison commissioners
are the latest TO get whack or two
from Mr.. Query. He charges them
with disposing of the states convlcts
for speculative purposes, and other
bad things The number OF people
who believe this is not big enough to
elect governor.
REALLY, that was a very pertinent
suggestion made by Senator Carmack
! 70 the republic ans in the United States
senate anent the race problem in the
south: "You cannot help US by de-
nurciatlon; the best thing you can do
is to keep your mouths shut and let
us alone"
DIR. Fl. MOTLEY of Atlanta, the
we'll known manufacturer of proprle-
tary medicines, is dead. He had an
enviable reputation amongst the pa
pers of the state as being an advertiser
who never failed to settle his bills
promptly when due.
! The country has lost a galaxy OF
famous public men by death within the
past few days The grim reaper has
harvested the lives of Rev. Dewitt
Talmage, Admiral Sampson, Arch
bishop Corrigan, Potter Palmer and
Paul Leicester Ford.
SENATOR MCLAURIN, seeing that
the people of South Carolina would re-
pudiate him in the coming election,
has publicly Withdrawn from the dem
ocratic party. 1t is merely the pass
ing of political renegade.
THE state campaign is getting lively
enough for anyone, it would seem
The air is full of charges ana counter
charges, and the cussin' match at long
taw between the candidates goes meri-
! ly on.
IT cannot longer be doubted that
the charge against the American
troops in the Philippines are true
The Eagle droops his head in shame.
It's really pitiful To witness the stu
pendous effort of the arrogant repuo-
lican majority in the house to extrl-
cate itself from the middle OF that Fill
.pinO tangle.
/ QUEEN WILHELMINA of Holland is
better, an | everybody is correspond
ingly elsd, for the young regent is uni
versally popular.
THE republicans in the senate got
old man Ben Tillman walked up again
Thursday. and we're sorry when it was
too late.
A TEXAS woman has run away from
the father OF her fourteen children.
No other cause is assigned.
If the housekeepers of the country
could vote wouldn't the beef trust
catch it?
WILLIE WAILIE ASTOR is to be
made a peer of the English realm.
oh, pshaw
THE Darien Gazette suggests that
the water cure be tried on the old
topers.
IF MIR. Terrell isn't governor IL
won't be Mr.. Guerry's fault.
HoBsoN, alleged hero, has the
tongue trouble also.
DAWSON S cotton factory is prscti'
: cally certainty.
DON'T Dawson grow
Sent Him to Congress.
$50 you are going to keep Bill Has
ker in congress-" I'VE are. ans er.
ed Farmer Corntassel, according 70
the Washington Star. I'VE don't
: want him around here He was &c
2 slick that he didn't give anybody a
+ show in boss trade or anythin' else,
I. not nd IL