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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
A VERSATILE GENIUS.
Knew Geography by Heart, Yet
Died at Florence, s. c.

James M. Caldwell, who is said to
have known the geography of the
United States by heart and to have
| travelled most of it by wagon and foot
before the day of railroads, died at the
Central hotel in Florence, S. c., where
he had been cleark for nearly quar-
ter of century.
Doc" as he was familarly known
to the travelling public, was che most
popular hotel man in South Carolina.
He was born in Newbern, N. c., sixty
FIVE years ago, and was indeed versa
tile genius. He frsG went TO Florence
about twenty-three yaars ago, and up
to that time had been decidedly "a
bird of passage" Before going to
Florence he was said to have been a
peddler of patent medicines, owner of
several side shows, advance agent for
nearly all of the big circuses, and a
fact but recently known, on several oc-
casions had made successful balloon
ascensions. He began work as clerk
at the Central hotel over twenty years
ago and held the same position at the
time of his death, "Doc" was cOnsid-
cred one OF the best informed and
most universally popular hotel men in
the country.
Caldwell was a man who spoke little
of his past life and little is known of
his relatives, except that his father
lives in Chicago. He was a devoted
husband and survived his wife not
quite two months. He leaves no chill
dreD
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29

"Oficial Examiner of the Waste
Basket"-such is the title conferred on
two women at the treasury. Nor is the
title vain one. The women are class
ed as experts, and their duties are
recorded important.
From 9 to o'clock each day, except
Sunday, they may De found in the
basement of the big and dirty gray
brown building wherein Uncle Sans
sinews of commerce and war, peace
and prosperity are kept. Hour by
hour they carefully go through big
piles OF waste paper dumped out for
their critical inspection from the ca
pacious maws of the hundreds of bas-
kets which are supposed to catch the
litter of officials and clerks from Secre-
tary Shaw down, 1t is the word ''sup.
posed" that gives these women en-
ployment. Too often a document or
paper of value slips inadvertently into
the waste baskets, and were it not for
the watchful eyes of these women
would find its way into the fiery fur
mace of destruction.
People have been won't to joke about
the ridiculous titles that certain gov
eminent officials wear, and in popu-
lar farce of few years ago there Was
a character who styled himself the Off
cial cleaner of government cuspidors.
But there are, in fact, two official eX-
aminers of waste baskets in the treas
ury department.
The necessity of employees of this
kind will be realized at once, when it
is known that drafts, vouchers and
bonds worth anywhere from 81 up to
$4,000 and even more, are handed
about and sent from one room to an
other as though they were of no more
value than so much cambria. Free
quently the carelessness of a messen-
ger permits one of these slips of paper,
representing many hundreds, and even
thousands, of dollars, to fall into a
waste basket. A sudden gust of wind
may carry bond from chiefs desk
and toss it into the same receptable,
while hurried official may tear in
half draft for large sum of money
and throw the pieces into the basket.
Until the adoption of the present svs
tenn of examining the contents of these
baskets at the end of each day all mis-
haps of this sort was past immediate
correction. While they did not always
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
DID NOT SEE CIRCUS
Town Would Not Allow Negro
Employees to Enter.

The town of Linton, in the state of
Indiana, denied itself the pleasure of
seeing circus the other day. Linton,
like most mining towns, was all agog
when it learned that the circus was
coming, and young and old got their
haif-dollar handy to exchange for the
pasteboar0s that would gain for them
entrance into the big tent. Then the
information got out that there were a
number of negro employees with the
circus. Linton, Ind, does not like the
brother in black, and will not permit
one to enter the incorporated limits.
A delegation of Linton citizens met the
circus twenty miles from town ana ask
ed the managers of it if it was, true
that there were negroes with the
show. 1t was. The show people
were told that the blacks could not
enter Linton; that the circus would be
welcome if it would leave its negroes
outside the town and pick them up
afterwards. The show people explain
ed that the colored help was necessary
to making the performance come off
smoothly; that the canvassmena cooks,
hostlers drivers, walters, ETC., were
essential to the running of the organi-
zatioh. But Linton was firm, so the
circus had to skip the town. And yet
the north reads the south lectures on
It's hostility to the colored man.-Sa-
vannah News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
NO COTTON BOIL WEEVIL EAST OF TEXAS
Government Experts SCOTS the Story that the insects e
the FIeecy Staple the Alabama Fields

In every case thus far an examination
OF the insects have shown them to be
SAMPLES of weevils of other varieties
which are we'll known to the entomol-
oeist and which are not harmful to
cotton.
The season has not yet advanced far
enough for DR.. Howard toventure any
predictions as to the extent of the dam
ace that will probably be done by the
weevil in the infected districts in
Texas this year. He is receiving re-
ports from time to time from his agents
who are conducting experiments on
Texas plantations. The most inter
esting report thus far received is one
hearing out the theories of the depart
ment as to the greater vitality OF cot
ton grown from northern seed. One
of the experimental tracts near Vic
torla, Tex, was completely overlooked
after the cotton plants were well grown
and the plants were covered with silt.
After the food subsidized these plants
continued to grow, while all the cotton
outside of the experimental tract that
had been overlooked was killed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29

result in the actual loss of the face
Talue of each paper, thay invariably
caused great deal of trouble and an
nOyance. Banks that ordered ship
ments OF notes failed to get their mon
ey until weeks after the time it should
have been delivered. Then again, the
disappearance of an important draft
or voucher created more or less suspi.
cion as to the honesty of employees and
kept the treasurer in constant hot
water. Now most of this trouble is
avoided through the skill of the lynx
eyed examiners, who examine every
article that goes into the basket.
There is wellregulated system for
handling this work. Every basket in
the building is numbered, a tag telling
in what room and to what clerk it be-
longs. Each employee has two such
baskets, which are used on alternate
days. One set is examined one day
and the other set is looked over the
following day. The baskets are
brought into the examiners room ex-
actly as they are LETT by the clerks.
The general orders throughout the
department are that no scrap of paper
shall be thrown into a basket without
being first torn in halves. So the ex-
aminers are on the lookout for official
documents and especially papers that
have not been torn All papers of this
description are laid aside after first
being labeled with the number of the
basket from which they were taken.
1t frequently happens that much of
| the stuff picked out in this way is
of no value, but not long ago one of
the women engaged on thisword found
a $4,000 United States bond.
1t is the duty of the charwomen co
give causual glance through waste
baskets before they are carried to the
room of the examiners. A few weeks
ago the chief clerk of the department
threw into his basket WORTHLESS sir
cular which was folded in the shape of
/ an official document He failed to dis
/ figure it and the next morning he was
somewhat mystifed to find the paper
on his desk again. He tOOssed it into
the basket a second time, but the next
morning it was on his desk as usual
A third time the process was repeated
and the chief clerk finally learned that
the faithful charwoman was Mcpherson
who persistently rescued the document
that he was anxious to get rid Of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29

Dr. L. o. Howard, chief of the
'ofeau of entomology in the depart
~snt of agriculture, at Washington
"h refuses to believe that the Mexi'
80 DOLL weeyil mas passed the borders
Texas and is to be found east of the
AlSslssippi river.
"nen his attention had been called
an account that has been widely
'uollshed in the southern states of the
'uioitlon of samples of the boil weevil
Ou plantation Is miles south of
'u'9omery, Ala, he said that he
s'conhdent that there had been some
r's'aKe about the matter. This exhi-
h nun was made at a meeting of the
.4Ders Association of Alabama at
'somery, Ala, on July Is, and
1'e VINO saw the insects do not seem
aSYe entertained any doubt as TO
VI being genuine Mexican boil
wis DR.. Howard has received
~erous samples of weevils from Ala
"a aud other cotton states east of
!, mississippi which the senders have
'''eQ 10 be the Mexican boil weeviL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
In Critical Moments.

People do odd things at critical
moments. In fire at Marshall. Mo-,
last week, T. B. Gill, a book dealer,
whose store was in danger, rushed
outdoors carrying nothing but a box of
matches. Being asked what he meant
to do with them, be said he rescued
them to prevent them from becoming
ignitted. 1t turned out that he had 100
boxes more in the store, which, in his
excitement. he had forgotten. A few
days ago cyclone struck a farm in
Atchison county, Mo. The family
were aroused, and, thoroughly fright
ened, began grabbing whatever was
closest and most worth saving, and
rushing downstairs with it. When
the excitement partly subsidized 1t was
discovered that one good old woman
had come down in her night dress
carrying in one hand an unlignted
kerosene lamp and in the other a cup
of water that she had beside her bed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29

The general judiciary committee OF
the house had up four bills and one res
olution all of them looking to set
Element of certain claims held by the
state against land lots 10 and 100 IN
various districts in fifteen counties,
located in the southern section of the
state, says an Atlanta press dispatch.
Hon. S. G. McLendou of Thomas APP
peared before the committee in behalf
of the owners of several lots in Thomas
county. Mr.. McLendon argued that
the lots that lie was interested in stood
in class by themselves, that the re-
cords showed that they were sold by
authority of acts passed by the legisla-
ture, and that by authority of later
acts the sheriff of Thomas county was
paid by the state for conducting the
sale. He said that while there was no
evidence by which he could show that
the state got the money, the presump-
ton was that the state did get it, or
else the Legislature would not have
passed an act authorizing the treasurer
to paw the sheriff for his services in
conducting the sale. He said that he
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
HAD TO REVEAL SEX.
Court Case Caused Ray to Show
That He Was a Woman.

A criminal trial revealed the sex of
Miss Willie, Ray, the Young woman
who succeeded in passing herself off
for a man in Prentiss county Mississip.
pi, for eight years. Jim Gatlin, far
mer of the neighborhood, was arrest
ed ard placed on trial for assault and
battery on William Ray.
The testimony was conclusive. Rays
eyes were blackened and his face badly
cut. A verdict of guilty seemed prob
able when Gatlin threw himself on
the mercy of the jury with a plea. al
ways strong in the south, that Ray
had been too intimate with Gatlin s
wife, and be had assaulted him on
that account.
Ray was not non plused, but met the
charge by declaring and proving that
he was a woman. Gatlin was bound
over to the circuit court under bond.
Miss Ray is giving the Boonville au'
thorities much annoyance by insisting
on going back to trousers. After her
appearance in the Gatlin case she was
arrested, but there is no law in Miss
issippi forbdding woman from mas
oueradiny as a man. NShe was releas-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
LEGISLATURE TAKES Up LAND LOT TROUBLE
General Committee Formulate Plan Settle the
pue Fairness State Claimants.

could find nothing in the office Of the
secretary of state showing that the
state had parted with her title to the
lands in question.
He wanted the committee to recon-
mend the passage of a bill or resolu-
ton that the state make deed to the
claimants of these lots, and the ac-
count closed in this way. The COM
mittee, however, would not hear to
this plan. ATTORNEYS Cults, Haygood
and Cheney who, sometime ago, made
an arrangement with Governor Ter
rell to bring suit against the occupants
of the two hundred or more lots claims
ed by the state, were on hand looking
after their interests in the matter, and
Acknowledgement Hart was there reps
.resenLing the state.
After much discussion the committee.
decided to take all of the bills and res
olutions and from them formulate a
substitute that would provide that the
governor and encouragement settle
the states claims against the lands III
dispute with equal fairness Ia the
claimants and to the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
A SAD RECESSION
How Fast Living Wrecked a
Promising Life.

A few years ago there appeared in
Atlanta before the Virginia society,
as orator of the celebration of Lees
birthday, a brilliant. handsome and
engaging young man whose Scotch
Virginian name was the perfect Gre
Dental of sturdy stock and genteel
breeding. His address was gem of
patriotic and eulogistic oratory and
the honors, public and social, paid him
were richly earned.
Tempted by his ambition to excel in
legal and political spheres he left his
Virginia home and excellent prospects
to go to New York. There he made
reputation and progress rapidly. He
became favorlte political orator, a
delegate to national conventions and
assistant district attorney of New
York. And then the tide began to
turn. His popularity dra gged him into
associations that soon Slapped his NOR
al stamina and undermined the worthy
ambitions of his youth. He has PROV
ed the truth that it is "easy to descend
to Avernus, i" for the New York news
papers tell the pitiless story of his
degradation into drunkenness and the
loss of place, friends and future. The
charming orator who thrilled Atlanta
a few years ago is today in the alcohol
ic ward of a New York hospital with
ing IN the horrors of delirium ire
mems. All. the pity and the warning
of it all!-Atlanta Constitution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
SON KILLED FATHER.
Young Rickerson of Near BOst.
wick Defends His Mother.

Near Bostwick, Ca, Neal Rickerson
who was for many years a resident of
Madison, was shot Monday night by
his son, Ed Rickerson, and died Tues
day afternoon, says press dispatch
from Madison.
RickersOn was ad vised to make an
antemortem statement. He complete
ly exonerated his son from all blame,
saying that liquor was the cause of il
all. Ed Rickerson stated that his faith
err was drunk and had knocked his
mother down and threatened to kill
the whole family. Neal was flourish
a big knife. A pistol was lying in the
room and the two men started for it
simultaneously. In the scramble for
the eapon it was discharged, the
bullet entering the abdomen of the
father.
The dead mans wife and mother
corroborate this statement.
Mr.. Rickerson seemed very penitent
prior to his death, and said if God
would let him live he would never
drink another drop of liquor. He was
fortv-eight years oil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
MAY FACE JUDGE SPEER.
Another Effort to Bring Gaynor
and Green from Canada.

The case of the United States for the
eXEradition from Canada of John F.
Gaynor and w. B. Greene came up
this morning before the privy council,
on the petition of the United States for
leave to appeal, says dispatch from
London. Sir Edward Clarke, for the
petitioners, presented the case. CCun-
sci, instructed by Charles Russell, for
the respondents, said important law
points were involved. The respon-
dents not only welcomed but were
anxious to have the matter finally dis
posed of, though they did not admit
the statements alleged in the petition.
The lord chancellor granted leave to
appeal.
A cablegram received at Washing
ton from Mr.. MacMaster, Canadian
counsel for the United States IN the
Greene and Gaynor case, announced
the granting of the leave to appeal.
While it is not possible to state ac-
curately the immediate effect of the
judgement of the priYy council, it is
regarded as notable victory for the
United States. The case will now go
up on appeal, for deliberate consider
alton of all the questions involved,
from the decision of the single Cana
dian judge to the privy council of Eng.
land. The final result of the surrender
of Greene and Gaynor by the Canadian
authorities is foreshadowed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
Gresn PineappIe Juice Poison

The juice of the green pineapple is
accredited in Java, the Philippines
and throughout the far east generally
with being blood poison of most
deadly nature. Health" mentions IL.
as the substance with which the Ma.
lays poison their kreeses and daggers.
and as the "ingernail" poison former
ly in use among aborigine Javanese
women almost universally These wo>
men cultivated nail on each hand to
a long, sharp point, and the least
scratch from one OF these was certain
death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
BIG MONEY In BROOM CORR.
THIS IMPORTANT CROP HAS RECEIvEn,
BUT LITTLE ATTENTION IN SOUTH.
There is a Broom Factory in Dawson,
Creating Good Home Market for
fhn Nrndunf
the Product.

broom corn as a money crop has re-
ceiYed very little attention in the
, south notwithstanding the facts that
there is good profit in the crop and the,
southern soil and climate are suited to-
1t. The ordinary price is about $50.
per ton, though on several occasions
within the past few years the price has.
bounded up to $40 per ton for first
class stock. A fair Weld is one ton to.
three acres, so it will be seen that it is
far better money producer than cot
ton at ordinary prices. The cause of
the great fluctuations in prices is TO be
found in the fact that the broom corn
output of the country is not large,
hence it can be cornered or otherwise
manipulated with more ease than any
other crop.
The federal department of agricul-
ture has just published an exhaustive.
pamphlet on the cultivation OF broom
corn Farmers Bulletin No. ia de-
signed for the purpose of instructine
those farmers who desire to add this
product to their money crops. The Sc.
lection of seed, planting, cultivating.
i harvesting, curing, baling and market
ing are discussed at length, so that one.
without previous knowledge of the,
subject ought to do fairly well with the,
first seasons crop.
Broom corn belongs to the grass
family and TO she same species as do
sorghum and Kafr corn. Climate and
soil are the leading factors that deter
mine whether broom corn can be prof.
itably grown in any locality. Any soil
that is sufficiently fertil to grow corn
is sufficiently fertile for broom corn.
The plant is tropical, and does it's
best in warm, sunny climate where
there is sufficient moisture'in the early
part of the growing season to produce
a strong rapid growth. Warm, dry
weather should prevail at harvest
| time, in order that the brush may res
tain its color. From two to three
months of growing weather are all
! that is needed. 1t would seem from
this brief outline OF the requisites that
broom corn ought to do very well In
deed in Georgia. In this product as
in most others, quality rather than
quantity should be striven for. Fine
broom corn always finds ready mar
ket at good figures, while poor stock is
drug on the market except at times
of great scarcity when the factories
are compelled to work up anything
they can get.
There is broom factory in Dawson,
which insures home market for all
broom corn that could be grown by
Terrell county farmers. If there is
more raised than the local factory can
consume, there is always a ready mar
ket for the product, and we wonld like
to see the farmers experiment with
broom corn culture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
ROMANCE OF SICK ROOM.
.,ov MAN BROUGHT TO HEALTH AND
HAPPINESS BY PRETTY NURSE.
,,,oss That Almost Proved Fatal to
D,oI W. Maqette Won for Him
a Beautiful Wife.


uo i,Ioess that almost destroyed the
81 Paul w. Magette finally won
wife SAYS the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Yesterday morning he married Miss
Clara '. Gown, the trained nurse who
,.;stered to him while he lay so i'll
=. ,rriI and it was their wedding
s.+ brought to light the prettiest lit
10 romance imaginable
~ ~ toll the story properly one must
aooL, to the time when Mr.. Magette
-. taken sick. This was in Valdosta,
-hora Mr.. Magette was living at the
.;ao heing engaged in the cotton seed
y, business there. He was very sick
indeed. =,
Now Mr.. Magette was a bachelor and
40 doctors who came several times
nah dav to bend anxious glances at
.5oir patient decided that he
mns+ have feminine care, else he
morId never recover $50 one of the
,ootors sounded him on the question
shaving trained nurse and he at
length consented.
The eIated medical men at once tele-
,ronbed to Atlanta and Miss Clara V.
Gavin promptly responded, taking the
A,.t train for Valdosta. Once there she
oriotIv entered the sick room, her
glo.sv nurses costume seeming to ra-
aiote lioht in the sick room and her
apft fingers dispelling the confusion
that before had rel IN I'd sup 'eme. And
the patient-sick as he was, smiled
bappiy. for the very sight of this
pretty vision in white, moving noise
lessly about the room, was medicine
z to him.
When she smoothed the pillow un-
n der his head or her hand just touched
his aching brow. or indeed, when she
4 administered some blasting potion
+ 1t was the same-the sick man was
4 happy as lark despite his suffering.
As his health came slowly back he
& found himself fOundering more deeply
10 love each dav than he was the day
& before and when the nurse took her
departure at the end of two weeks
Paul Magette knew that he loved her
and had made up his mind to ask for
y her hand in marriage.
His first occupation after leaving his
bed was to build up his strength again
and for this purpose he went on visit
to his mother in Virginia, where he
remained several weeks. In the mean
lime he had sold his interests In Val
dOsta and bought a turpentine manu-
factory near Pensacola, Fla, and when
be left Virginia his destination was
Pensacoa-but he stopped oyer in At
lanta and, it is very probable, he call
ed several times on Miss Gown. At
any rate he was a very happy man
when be arrived in Florida to take
charge of his new business and he ex-
planned his unwonted gaiety by saying
ne was soon to marry.
Several days ago he and his brother
came to Atlanta and the wedding was
arranged for yesterday morning. Mr..
Magette met Miss Gown at a down
own hoted and, with his brother, the
Two went to the residence of Rev. d.
u Phillips, on Central avenue, about
IV3O o'clock in the morning and so the
very pretty little romance came to a
very happy ending.
Mrs. Margette's girlhood home was
w. Carmel, S. c., but she has been
t'ing in atlanta for seven years. She
la' many friends IN both cities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29
GOVERNMENT WASTE BASKET EXAMINERS
two Women Employed the Treasury Department
Whose Business 1t Is to Look for Bonds Other
Valuable Papers Careessly Thrown Away.

From the philadelphia Press
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-07-29

r,e illness that almost destroyed the
pauI w. Magette finally won
-, wife, says the Atlanta Constitu'
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