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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
ACCIDENT ON THE CENTRAL.
One Car DeraiIed and Yards of
Track Torn Up.

A double header freight on the Cen
trail of Georgia Railway met with an
accident about three.and half miles
this side of Smithville by which one
car was derailed and several hundred
yards of track torn up.
The accident was caused by q hot
box, which had become so heated that
the journal on the end Of the axle was
wrenched off, and when the car dropp'
ed on the rails the track was torn
up.
There were no casualties, but the
passenger trains were delayed several
hours.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE.
How a Florida Woman Is Making
a Comfortable Living.

A Florida woman who has planted a
third of an acre in pineapples is now in
enjoyment of a comfortable Lying.
Twenty-Five thousand young pineap.
pie plants make her reasonably sure
of ease ard luxury before great while
Most of the work of setting and ar
ranging the plants was done by her
own hands. The business has grown
sufficiently to enable her to employ a
strong man, who wears stout leggins
and canvas mittens to- gather the fruit
from the pineapple plants.
These pineapples are grown under
sheds, because they need great deal
of shade TO grow large, juicy and ten.
der fruit, which command a fancy
price in market.
What one woman has done other
women may do, and if there can be
good living made on pineapples in
Florida no Industrious woman need
feel as if threatened by the pOorhouse.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
DR.. LORENZ PUZZLED.
Can't Understand How Ameri-
cans Live on Such Rich Diet.

A Vienna dispatch says that DR..
Lorenz, of bloodless surgery fame, con-
tinues to express himself with such
enthusiasm about America and the
Americans that distinguished mem
bers of his profession probably will be
unable long to resist the temptation to
investigate this country for them
selves. They are already of DR.. Lor-
EMS mind respecting the beauty and
physical strength of the women OF the
United States, owing to the number
who visit Vienna every year. What
most excites their scientific interest is
DIR. Lorenz's statement that Americans
enjoy fair health on a diet that would
depopulate any other country.
"The pies, buildings, sauces and in
Vulnerable other dishes, most of which
are unhealthy in the extreme, partak-
en- of by old and young alike in Amer
lea, have caused me To WONDER" SAYS
| DR.. Lorenz, shat the people are not
physical aud constitutional wrecks"
The famous doctor purposes return
ing to the United States to discover
the secret of American immunity from
the usual penalty for emulating the
gastronomic habits of Ostriches and
goats, and other Viennese physicians
are planning q similar excursion for
/ the benefit of science.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
FAT SENATOR HEPBURN;
SLIM SENATOR ANKENY
NEW MEMBERS FROM IDAHO AND WASH
INGTON ARE CURIOsITIES.
One Is Immensely Fat, While the Other
Looks Like the Shadow of a Fence
Rail. Special Chairs to Be Made.

Rail. Special Chairs to Be Made.
Two of the most striking figures in
the senate will be w. B. Hepburn of
Idaho and Levi Ankeny of the state of
Washington when the next congress
convenes. Mr.. Hepburn is enormously
fat. Mr.. Ankeny is tall and very slen-
der. Mr.. Hepburn is feet 10 inches
high and weighs 329 pounds. Mr..
Ankeny is fees aud inches and
weighs 1856.
Mr., Hepburn has lived more in the
state of Washington than in Idaho,
and has made the bulk of his fortune
in the practice of law in that state and
keeps his principal law Office in Spo-
kane.
MIR. Ankeny has lived as much in
Idaho as in Washington, aud accumu-
lated his vast fortune mainly through
the vast mercantile trade he has built
up in Idaho after 40 years of effort.
Mr.. Hepburn is noted as one of the
gourmands of the Pacific coast region.
Mr.. Ankeny is noted as one of the
sparest eaters of the sane country.
1t is related by eve witnesses that
Mr.. Hepburn has been known to eat
five plates of soup, four dozen oysters,
three porterhouse steaks, half gallon
of ice cream and two pies at single
sitting, and that, too, after midnight,
to say nothing of the vegetables and
other Ceilings" that go with such a
meal. His girth is more than sixty
| inches; his chest measurement is about
the same.
There is no chair in the senate
chamber that Mr. Hepburn can sit In,
and Sergeant-at-Arms Randall will
soon be called upon to have the special
chair now occupied by Senator Mason
of Illinois enlarged to conform to the
more amplified avoirdupois of the gen.
tleman from Idaho.
Mr.. Ankeny is known as the Russell
Sage of the Pacific coast. He com
mands more ready cash than any other
capitalist in that region. He is the
chief stakeholder in more than twenty
banks scattered through Washington,
Idaho and Oregon, AMI in forty-eighl
hours could mass three million dollars
in any one of these banks to his own
credit.
Not the least interesting feature Of
the new senator from Washington is
that his name is not Ankeny, except
by adoption. He was christened
Johann Schmidt. THAI was his faith.
er's name. When his parents we're on
their way back TO Missouri from Ore
gon, while the future senator was a
baby, the father died of pneumonia,
The widow buried her husband on the
Nebraska prairie and continued on &c
Missouri. There she married pros
porous merchant, who adopted the
boy and bestowed upon him the odd
name he now bears.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
A BABY'S LONG JOURNEY.
travels Alone from Alabama, and
Is Not Met by Father.

A baby girl reached Americas a few
uays ago aboard the Central train,
having travelled entirely alone from an
alabama town nearly $50 miles dis
amt She could give no information
dOout herself except that "papa is
COmlng to meet me.' But the father
'alne not, aud pending his arrival the
'ay traveller is being cared for at the
uOne of Lieutenant Cobb of the police
department..
paper trunk check pinned to her
niue Jacket furnished no information
eyond the fact that she came from
'lFee Notch, Ala, a village near
Montgomery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
FRUIT WAS INJURED.
Reports from MarshallviIIe Say 50
Per Cent of Buds Are Killed.

A special from Marshallville says q
definite estimate of the damage to fruit
buds cannot be made for several days
yet.
MIR. Rumph and several OF the larger
fruit growers think after examination
that an average of 80 per cent of the
buds were killed.
Elberta, Bell and some other varie'
ties are killed worse than others. In
orchards on sandy lands q large pei
cent of buds are killed.
Had there been few more days Of
warm weather the sudden change tc
the blizzard would have been as de-
structive as four years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
NO ROOM FOR HIM THERE.
White Man With Negro Wife
Made to Leave Athens.

A white man giving his name as
William Hayes will have reason to re-
member Athens. He appeared there
companied by negro woman, who
he said was his wife. He said he mar
ried the woman at Abbeville, S. c.,
and he went to Athens to get work
The police authorities offered him
work on the rock pile or 30 minutes TO
get out of Athens. He took the latter
alternative.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
NEWS FROM THE B. & B.
Bill Providing for Construction
of Bridge introduced.

A bill providing for the construction
of bridge across the Chattah oOchee
river at or near Eufaula by the Bruins
wick and Birmingham Railroad Co.
has been introduced in the Alabama
legislature. BY the terms of the bill
the bridge must be begun within one
wear after it's passage and finished
within three years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-25
KILLED BY HIS COMPANION.
a Terrible Accident Occurs Near
Fort Gaines.

at a bird shooting near Fl. Gaines
., a'I Thursday morning James Speight,
" years old, son of w. NJ. Speight,
vas accidentally killed by Morris
oFeene, the is year old son of w. J.
Greene.
ne two boys were special friends,
-uo lett together. Both families are
-Iong the Oldest and most respectable
% the county.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
STRANGE BAR0METERS.

1t was to be a great military parade,
and Harold had been promisedeto go. Of
ficers and soldiers galore, and one real
live general. were to be there-and now
the very morning it was to come off, the
weather never looked more threatening
Great clouds in the west were hurrying
"to catch hold of hand" -Uncle Toms
way OF expressing it-and If it raincd
'twould spoil all the fun.
Many times before breakfast Harold
went to the door and peeped out, serious
look on his troubled face that almost
amounted to what grandma often called
~ having given-it-up' expression.
DO you think, grandpa, twill RAIN
he asked. going to the she'd where his
grandfather Nichols was grinding the ak
"Why-bless me, I hardly think IT.
Suppose we go 10 the barn, and see what
the baroIncters say
THE barometers,' exclaimed Harold
wonderingly "In the barn-no barome-
tors are there"
NO? Suppose We seer and his grand
father, with a mysterious lock. laid down
his battle-ground AK and started for the
barn.
Are they new" asked Harold. doubt
fully.
Not especially-some have been hatch
cd over two years.
'.Hatched- barometers,'
Yes. indeed every one of them! How
else could We obtain our hens
Hons
Certainly, Now let's sec. Here they
are-and not one of them oiling herself
No: no rain today You'll see the parade
right enough; all the barometers say SOL
II don't see how You can tell from tie
hens" and Harold looked incredulously
AT The flock before him.
THEY re not oiling themselves, ex-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
A BIBLICAL ACROSTlC.

we give you an acrostic this morning
and nope you will all work it out. 1t will
make You hunt up your Bibles and study
Them See how many will send in the
correct answer:
My first is beautiful mountain of Pal
estfne. Psalms cxxXiii, 2.
Second is man of whom we know two
great things. Genesis V, 22-24.
Third is a grandson of Methusalah.
Genesis v. 60
Fourth is an ancestress Of our Savior.
Joshua ii, 3.
Fifth is time OF life having great priv
fleges and responsibilities. Ecclesiastes
xi. g.
Sixth Is one of the names of our Saw
Tor Isaiah TX. 6.
Seventh is a judge Of Israel who achiev-
ed a wonderful victory. Judges vii, T.
Eighth is a noted woman buried at
Bethlehem. Genesis xxxv, 9.
Ninth is the city from which the great
missionaries started. Acts xiii. !.
Tenth IS the only woman judge Of the
Israelltes Judges ", 4.
Eleventh is a time we can never recall.
Psalms xc 4.
the rame Of one who loved The NeekiH
Constitution, of whom you have heard
many times
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

planned grandpa Haven't you seen hens
rub their bills over their feathers some.
times? Each one has an old sack, and
when it is about to rain, they take oil on
their bills from their sacks and rub 1T
over the feathers, so they'll shed water.
You see, that's why l call them my ba-
rometers."
but do their weather predictions al
ways come true grandpa for Harold
was still doubtful.
mot always; but I'd give more for
what my feathered baromcters tell me
than for many d new tangled weather IN
Gicator that you bay
Il guess grandpa, the hens are weather
prophets this morning. See, the sun
coming out"'
And so wiz the parade-see if it
doesn't" laughed grandpa, gaily.
And it did And, strange as 1t may
seem. Harold's thoughts all that forenoon
were divided between the columns vf
marching soldiers and the strange hem
barometers at home.
ADFLBERT +. CALDWELL.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

look back over the past year and see
any good that we have accomplished
.rave we helped any poor sinner out of
the paths of sin and told them OF u
Loving Savior? Have we said cheerful
Have We done anything for fallen hui
1:ianity? Have We won any stars in our
crowns?
can truly say for myself that I car
not realize one particle of good that
have done but one thing l do realize IS
nv weakness. | would be pleased to
receive flower seed or cuttings from the
cousins l will try to send something
in return to all. Would like correspond
ence from Tennessee and Florida. VITA
rncl love to Aunt Susie and best wishes
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
Refer Than Spanking.

Spanking does not cure children Of he'd
wetting. If it did there woaid be few
children that would do it. There is r.
constitutional cause for this. Mrs NJ
Summers, box 4o4. Notre Dame Ind.
will send her home treatment 10 any
mother. She asks no money. Write her
today if your children trouble You "a
this way. Don't blame The child The
chances are it can't help It.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
Yellnw Fever at Laredo.

Laredo, Tex. September 24.-Notwiih-
standing the strict quarantine which ll-
redo has enforced against Monterey all
Nuevo Laredo because yellow fever
known to exist in both cities, two casef
hnNa develnned here
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Henry Merritt Mary. Ala. 10 cents
Mrs NJ. NJ. Unthanks. sr:celand. md,
10 cents.
Mrs Hattie L. Whiteside Keysvlle
Va 10 cents
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

will print your next one. | think this one
ought to have been printed; but VIII
have my own letter to watch for now Tor
a few weeks and suppose it fails to APP
pear, but / come out the roll, Will
any one lament for me? No. indeed; those
old, selfish boys would laugh at my luck
Where is that cousin who wrote from
Mollborn, n. c.. and said for us to guess
at his sex. Well, III say this: II you
are not one of those selfish, pettish boys.
you are 'tomboy,' for no good girl
meither any good boy) would throw Off
on the girls as you did. If The girls are
not brave enough to look out for them
selves and take their part, what will be-
come of us. I'd like to know? And
as for the crticizing if some one don
act as critic what a time poor. dear Aunt
Susie would have with YOU boys. ON,
those boys, they seem TO think they hold
an important place in life. anyway, and
even boast That the girls could not make
out without them. The very idea. Well.
girls, let them think It and now | wonder
how they would make out without the
girls? O girls, boys are becoming a1v-
| fully sclf-conceitcd, aren't they? Just
quit paying any attention to tHelr
'whims' for while and see how they
will cool l."
fAlic Whitaker Roberta. Ga~-Dear
Junior; If Aunt Susie will permit me
I will give few of my thoughts on
"Educatian.' Education is fact that
should be conceded TO by every boy and
girl in our country As God has given
Us an intellect above all other beings
we should all try to get IN education
and he of some use to the beautiful
world God has given us to live in. We
| should strive to accomplish such things
that when our work here on earth is
done we will X conten Al with the fact
| that we have played our part well in the
| worlds advancement, and that We have
promise OF greater. reward in heaven.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Juniors what are some of your favor
lite amusements? I will tell you mine,
hut you must promise not to laugh at me,
for some OF my chums think | display
very undignihed taste. | love books
and children from the tiny little babe
M to the large children. 7 must conclude
now before dear Aunt Susie gets the
broom stick after me like my old black
Aunt Susan does. Love for the jun
Tors and may showers Of blessings fall
around Aunt Susie.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

wendell" Falkner. Ala.-Dear Junior:
1t is quite a treat to have the pleasure
of writing to your bright and very inter
esting page this beautiful September
morning while all nature seems to be
mourning from some cause. | know not
what ii is | don't even hear the chirp
of the crickcts in the grass out i'll the
field. Nature must be bidding farewell to
old summer as she is fast dying, and
making room for autumn with her coiors
of rcd and gold. Although I am not
fluent writer | will write a few words
about Success in Life. This is rather
a large subject for me. but will do The
best | can. The grea test hindrance to
success in life with the majority of the
people is their wanting to drift with the
tide instead OF going against it. Look
around and you will see the average per-
doing only what is necessary for
moment and never think of the future.
No goal in view: no effort to climb higher
in his calling. There are many other eX-
ceptions. but this is the condition of many
persons. Young man. push your business.
Don't let your business push YOU; II you
do you will make failure sure. There
is a stumbling block with some people.
Their business has to push them If
they would stop for a moment and think
and then reverse the thing they would
be much more successful in life. All the
work that YOU do more than You are
compelled to do is pushing The differ
ence in the amount of work done by the
'pusher'' and the person who is pushed
may be very little but it is the difference
between success ana failure. 1t is tie
little extra Worl. that counts. Make
high your aim and work toward Your
You cannot reach high position without
work If you will 60 ahead and push
your business you will have success in
life. Wishing Aunt Susie and all the
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Stroller Todd, Oakland. Ga-Dear Jun
Tor: thought would step in and rep
resent my state, and tell the cousins some
thing of il, instead of taking a subject
Its greatest length from north TO south
is 42o miles: It's greatest width from east
30 WeS, 20 mics .9 81 Is area Ir $4,000
founded February, 1888, by James Ed
ward Oglethorpe. The first orphanage
that was built In America was built bv
George White6eld In I74l. about ten
miles from savannah. 1t was named
Bethesda, meaning "a house of mercy"
Georgia ranks ninth in size in the United
States. Its geographical center is TWEEN
ty miles below Macon. Mount Enotah IN
Towns county. 4.7s~ feet high. Is the tall
est peak in the state There are rich
mines In the northern parts There are
large beds of coal and iron Rich mines
Of gold, silver, copper, lead marble, be-
sides other minerals. manganese, kaolin.
asbestos, mica, soapstone; also diamond,
ruby. amethyst and opal. Stone noun
tain, In De<alb county. is the largest
mass of rock in the world
Atlanta, the capital, is its largest city.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE.

Addie Kate Faulkner Monticello Ca
Dear Junior: I have long been tempted
to write to The Constitution. Cousins,
don't you hope Aunt Susies eyes are
better. l certainly do wish | could see
Aunt Susie l was in Atlanta in June,
but didn't have long to stay; was on my
way to Rockmart.
| will be 2 the 10th of October and
want all of the cousins to write. Best
wishes TO all.
Sue Horne, Wisaclky. S. C.-Dear Jul
nior: Often have / thought of chatting
with you Juniors. l am the eldest
Of twelve children-the oldest at home.
| mean. l haven't been blessed with
a college education. so please don't laugh
a a poorly composed letter We live on
the bank of Black river in a beautiful
oak grove, in the southern part of Lee
county. Bishopville is our county seat.
We country folks down here have pleas
ant times. We have good schools. Sev-
eral churches are near. Our young men
are noted for Their pietN. and cur girls
for their dignity. in fact. we have law
abiding people. Girls, ! have noticed
for quiir a while how you are abusing
the boys. / don't think that Is right.
Girls il we wilt try to be a little more
pleasant at home-lyelp our dean old
gray-haired mother a little more. we
would not have time to find fault
think if you will greet each one Of the
dear ones every morning with a pleasant
smile you will be happy all the day.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Irene Bennett, DeLand Fla.,-Dear
Junior: will describe this place. De-
Land is a town of two thousand five
hundred inhabitants. 1t is a great winter
resort for tourists and health-seekers and
it is the county seat of Volusia county.
1t is situated three miles from the St.
Johns river and 20 miles from the At
lantic ocean. There are three large
hotels and several large boarding houses;
seven churches. three photograph gal
leries and a starch and cigar factory and
a great many stores and shops. The
club house and grounds are situated 2
miles from here Six miles west of here
is the famous DeLeon springs, where
there are beautiful picnic grounds, a
grand pavilion for da cing and springs for
bathing and excursions are run there
from all parts of the state Goodby
for this tiLc.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Isabella Hires. Newhorne, n. C
Dear Junior Wonder what you all are
dong-chatting as usual? I know you
all through our page and my, wouldn't
it be nice to know each one personally.
| want to say a few words about
"Friendshlp." Friendship is one of the
fairest flowers of earth It's fragrance
and beauty have something OF heaven in
them. It belongs to the noblest part
of human life and nature. 1t grows
in all social conditions. 1t blooms I'M
der the skies of the tropics and on the
slopes of the northern His. And wher
ever it is found, 1t has a charm
Life is brighter and happier because
of true friendship
What more dismal fate could befall
anyone than to be friendless?
Washington irving says. Sweet is the
memory of distant friends. Like the
mellow rays of the declining sun. it falls
tendcrly, yet sadly on the heart
friendly. 1t can not be all on one side,
never expect more than you are willing
to give.
Fair weather friends are not Of much
account When trouble overtakes You
and the heart breaks in the great griefS
and rerplexities that assail YOU the
o. for n frlend-one that understands
your SORROWS.
Happy are those who can give it and
hap7y are those who receive it.
How many Of the cousins love to read.
I am sa.rewhat Of a book worm. I've
Just finished reading THE Road to
Frontenac," also "Blennerhasset. |
like them splendidly
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28

Erfie Bell Swain, Reeves. Ga.-Dear
Junior; am 10 years old. I
help mamma all summer am
going back 70 school at cave Spring
Tuesday morning. Am in fifth grade
ard have been IN school five years
am mute had pneumonia ana con
seSuon Of brain when le months old
ana lost my hearing. have blue eyes
and golden hair ] am always anxious
TO get homo in June We have 50 much
nice fruit melons and canteloupes
hen In September l am always anxious
to get back to school to see my schoo.-
mates and teachers and study my les
sons would like for you to visit our
institution. My home is on the South
ern railroad and near the OostanauIa
river There is one church. depot ana
shree stores here. e have good water
and GOOD land. Farmers raise almost
everything here My papa is farmer
and fruit grower. I have sweet. lit
tIc curlH-hcaded brother. His name is
old. '''9