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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
COLOMBIA NO SMALL AFFAIR.
Information About the South
American Republic.

1t is not generally known that the
United States of Colombia, leaving out
Panama, covers about as much space
as California and Texas combined. Co.
lombis proper has over ten times the
population OF Panama. There are
about 3,6O0,000 people left after Pana-
mas 100000 have seeded. According
to Harper's Weekly Bogota, it's eapi-
tai, has been called 1.-The Athens OF
South America" It's population is
125, 200; the national university is To-
Gated there and the city has an excel
lent library of $4,000 volumes. picture
gallery and observatory, and mum Der
of learned institutions. Twelve days
are required to get from the coast to
the capital One lands at Barranquil
la, at the mouth Of the Msgdalena riV-
err, goes up the river by steamer to
Honda-59i miles from the coast; then
by rail for % miles to La Dorado, BY
mule journey for IS miles to FactatiYa
and from there by rail again to Bogo-
ia, "a miles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
eIdHTEEN-FOOT PYTHON
Found in Heart or Louisville!
Residence District.

The discovery of rock python 10
feet long has terrified the negroes who
live in the vicinity of Thirteenth and
Magazine streets in Louisville, KY
The great snake was found under a
house almost frozen, but was alive. 1t
was taken to the saloon of Charles Hall
at Tenth and Magazine Estreets. 1t is
supposed that the snake escaped from
a show which occupied store room
lust west of the old Masonic Temple on
Jefferson street at the time OF the tire.
To have reached Magazine street 1t
would have had to travel through one
of the most thickly populated parts OF
the city, but no other explanation OF
it's presence can be made.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
IN ST. LOUIS JULY II.
Democrats Will Nominate Candi-
date for President.

The democratic national committee
has selected ST. Louis as the place for
holding the national convention.
The date fixed for the convention is
Wednesday, July 6, at II o'clock. Pre-
vious to the meeting of the committee
it seemed foregone conclusion that
Chicago would be selected as the place
of meeting, but political exigencies
entered into the situation and MAJOR
ity of the committee voted for ST..
Louis. Some hours previous to the
meeting of the committee there was
ocratic leaders that the convention in
Chicago might be subject to the infu.
ence of strong newspaper movement
in favor of some particular candidate.
Mr.. Knapp OF the ST. Louis Republic
limited at this in his speech, saying
that the convention, If held at st.
Louis, would be welcomed by an abso-
lutely fair press.
The committee meeting caused con-
siderable discussion of politics, and
the claims of various candidates were
advocated by their partisans, but moth
ing favoring any candidate appeared
IN the committee proceedings.
William j. BRYAN, when the commit
tee had concluded it's labors, appeared,
but his visit was without any apparent
political significance. He did not
come TO the hotel until the committee
had about concluded Its business. He
was warmly greeted by the members
of the committee. Mr.. Bryan also Wis
tied the house and senate. Practically
all Of the democrats and many of the
republicans met him in the lobby.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
AN ODD EXPERIMENT.
Come to Preaching and Get a
Gum Drop.

A preacher in Indiana has resorted
to an odd expedient to get people to
go to his church. He makes canvass
Of all houses in which there are chill
dren, carrying pockets full of candy.
The candy he distributes to the little
folks, promising them more if they
will bring their parents to church the
next Sunday. Queerly enough this
come ito preaching and get gum
drop" campaign is said to have proved
big success. Probably after while
we shall! have some preacher running
a scheme based on "Accept salvation
and get chrome, or years sub
scription to your favorite magazine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
TERRELL MAKES STATEMENT
He Defends the Book Commission
from an Attack.

Governor Terrell has given out an
interview answering the criticisms OF
the Augusta Chronicle.
After commenting on the magnitude
and difficulty of the task involved in
the selections of books the governor
says:
THE history advocated by The
Chronicle makes no mention ofJohn b.
Gordon or John Mcintosh Kell."
The governor says the selection OF
histories fair to the south is safe in
the hands of tho book commission.
Asked if the commission discussed
the insinuation in The Chronicle that
certain members OF the book acommis-
sion who bad opposition on the last
election and whose campaign fund was
subscribed to by certain book concerns
paid their political debts in awarding
the contract, the governor said:
1--WE did not. That insinuatiOn is TOO
absurd to be noticed.
The interview does not go into figures,
but deals with matters generally, say
ing the commission selected the best
books and at the lowest price possible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
PRAYED NINETEEN HOURS.
Religious Frenzy Strikes People
of West Virginia.

Religious frenzy, the greatest the
state has ever known, has struck the
worshipers of Mount Vernon, W. Va.
Rev. E. Richardson, who has been
two weeks, arose to deliver his sermon
Monday evening at 7 o'clock. Before
he had half finished the congregation
were on their knees in prayer, while
the others ran about the church Civ
ing vent to their religious excite
ment.
Hours passed, and men, women and
children acted like wild. Midnight
came and the wonderful demonstration
continued, and repeatedly did the par
son attempt to adjourn the congrega-
tion without avail.
Daylight dawned on Mount Vernon
with tthe meeting still in progress.
Not until 2 o'clock in the afterpoon
did the meeting adjourn, none of the
audience having taken food or drink
| in the nineteen hours that the de mon
stration continued.
Some of the women present had to
be carried from the church owing to
weakness, and are vet at the homes Of
people near the church. Nothing like
it was ever before known in the histo-
ry of the state, and it is feared some
of the worshipers will lose their rea-
|
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
A PLUCKY MAN.
Without an Arm He Passes a
Written Examination.

At the examination of teachers at
Talladega, Alabama, last week, there
was a man by the name OF Horne, who
had lost both of his arms in dynamite
explosion. He went to Montgomery to
ascertain if there was any way by
which he could secure license to
teach without standing a written ex-
animation. and was informed he could
not-that the law was explicit on that
point. Nothing daunted he rugged a
continuance and attached it to the
stump of his arm with which he
manipulates pen and stood written
examination.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
THE COTTON OIL TRUST.
Southern Farmers Have an EIe-
plant of Their Own.

The southeasterners are yelling
about the northern trusts, but we've
got an elephant of our own. What are
we going to do with the cotton seed
buyers trust? A certain clan sets the
price on cotton seed and the farmers
have to take it. Are we going to take
our own medicine and then complain
because others take their own dose?
Where can we find suitable remedy?
Farm and Home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
BLIND TOM REAPPEARS.
MANY Times Reported Dead, Old
Man Is Heard in New York.

"Blind Tom, the musical phenom-
anon who was on the concert stage
when our grandmothers were bellies,
and exhibited his marvellous piano
nlaving and his childlike antics, APP
noared as the chief attraction at the
CIRCLE Theatre Tuesday night after a
long abscence from New York. In
presenting him to the audience his
manager referred to the many reports
Of his death swithin the last 30 years.
He said the first story of hisdsath was
printed in the New York newspapers
in 1879.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20

one Ot the most remarkable revers-
&c III business of a giant industry ever
'ecorueu was revealed in a statement
9uo"lng the earnings of the United
'''0'eS Steel Corporation for the last
quarter of 1903.
according TO the preliminary annual
.IporV OF The steel trust a sudden pa
SSls OF Its eSrulng power took place
'1e fourth q barter of the year, as a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
VIRTUAL BLOCK OF ROOSEVELT BOOM

A Washington dispatch says Presi-
dent Roosevelt's friends regard with
growing suspicion the delay of Senator
Hanna and Perry Heath, as chairman
and secretary respectively, in issuing
the call for the national convention,
and are growing frmer in the belief
previously expressed that Senator
Hanna intends to try to defeat Mr..
Roosevelt's nomination.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
$l7OOO,OOO LOSS TO THE STEEL TRUST

result of which net earnings fell from
q total of s32, 3O2. s21 in the September
quarter to $14, S45. O32 for the quarter
ending December 81.
The figures of the monthly earnings
show that the collapse in the iron ana
steel industry took place within pc
Rod of four months. From the height
Of prosperous boom the descent was
disastrously sudden.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20

In consequence the tension between
the Hanna and Roosevelt camps is get
ting tighter. The question is no long
er asked in presidential circles, "Will
Hanna run Roosevelt's campaign" It
is now:
''Will Hanna declare himself can
didate, since he is apparently deter
mined that he shall be regarded as an
anti. Roosevelt man."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
VITTERSOy ON THE CANAL
,rucsy EDITOR DISCUSSES PAsA'
-. NATTER IN vIGoH0US STYLE.
cav. I'VE Arc sstwlxt He'll aHd the lr0H
.,," Net Required to Say Amen
wh., President Opens lack-Pst.

The Louisville er-'0urnal
,ba following editorial on the
Panama canal situation
nrba long and short of the canal
, "a that the administration,
,;ro taken the bit in its mouth has
,.o tbe whip in its hand, and means
h,ok it through, willy niliy, and
.ho.a Of us who want both to get
.so canal and to be honest can either
stand aside and Let her CO. Gala
rber or make common cause with the
ST.anacontinental railway ring in oppo-
sitton, and in the event of beating the
treaty lose the canal
~Tbus literally we find ourselves be-
u;vt hell and the iron works. It Is a
Of he damned if we do and be
5~,red if we don't. The moral ac-
oouDtabiIities, however, rest on the
hrorcbs buster, who can be relied up"
70 Keen the ten commandments
liob,ed in the vestibule OF the white
borsa while riding Colombia across
tho way in the back Office of the state
department.
sin the face of such dilemma what
is Door girl to do? She might take
70 the woods. But, sooner or later,
she would have to come out for meat
and drink. The most virtuous damsel
nnst live. In the Olden time, when
converts we're provided for the devous
and the distressed, virtue was able to
sack her refuge within moated grange
and gable wall: but who shall rescue
bar from this terrible Teddy, who,
with honeyed words and pious phrases,
casts conscience to the winds and
would debauch the very grandmother
snnerior even of his own beloved order
Of the Holy Zebra!
"At least, we need be in no hurry.
We are not bound to say our catechism
according to the Quay-Addicks refoI m
ritual, nor to cry amen every time
the president opens Jackpot with
prayer.
"As democrats we are answerahle
for none of these things. Nothing
seems more certain than that the way
before the administration will be, and
every step OF it, beset by obstacles
8urmounted only by sheer force. Con-
Ceiyed in fraud, begun in brutality
and corruption, it will not only end in
ntamy, but every foot of the journey
will be attended by cruel sacrifices.
The ghosts of myriads OF murdered
Frenchmen haunt it. The cries OF
thousands OF living victims in French
homes despOiled and desolate echo
around It, The cold CLEAN in the eyes
Of the gray wolves of the senate-the
heartlesS applause of the organs OF the
stock gamblers of Paris-may bring
assurance to the self-confident, ambi-
tiOn-mad Napoleon broncho busters in
the White House"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
TEN DOLLARS A DAY.
But no Applicants Are Found for
These Jobs.

Several jobs at $40 per day for about
three hours work, in two shifts, are
going begging in New York. The JOBS
are in the caissons 100 feet under the
river, and there are no takers because
several men haye recently died in ag-
onv after having been confined in the
compressed air of the caissons for
short time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-01-20
A DAY IN JAIL; $1,000 FINE.

Sentence in New York.
Ex-Congressman Edward Fl. briggs
of Brooklyn has been sentenced to i'm
prisonmentfor one day in the Ray
mond street Jail and TO pay a fac of
81 900.
briggs was convicted of accepting
money while congressman elect for
securing a government contract for
the purchase of automatic cashiers
from the fraudulent Company for
the postoffice department..
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12
GOSSIP ABOUT FOLK
WHO ARE PROMINENT
IN THE MIMIC WORLD

John w. Thompson, who was here as
a member of the ben Hur" company,
opines that San Francisco is losing it's
Bohemia. II found many of my old
friends gone he said to the New York
Dramatic News, "and their places
taken by gentlemen of more pro-
nounced business ability. In fact, the
actors and newspaper men who used to
delight in being regarded as Bohemians
are things of the past. Money rules
the most everywhere and the stage and
newspaper office are no exception to
the rule Do l find fault with this
state of affairs? Net a bit of it
Without money a man is of little con-
sequence anywhere. and it is sign of
actors getting into line and saving in
stead of spending. There may not be
the same charm about the profession
of writer or actor, but facts are facts,
and the commercial spirit dominates
the artistic, which in my opinion is Of
much advantage to the latter.
In an interview Joseph jefferson re-
Gently reiterated his objections to an
endowed or national theater. The
question of securing the best players
he regarded as the-chief obstacle. On
this point he delivered himself thus:
"A good actor usually has the money
he needs to make artistic productions.
He has a desire. natural enough and
very human, of being at the head of the
...o.,rfca WHY should he stirrandar
this privilege and the profits and glory
of his work to go with number OF
others into q general group of play
ers? 1t would also be difficult for an
actor who has dominated his own en-
tertainments to subject himself to the
rule of another stage director. Then.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12
STRONG ATTRACTIONS
WILL BE OFFERED AT
THE LOCAL THEATERS

Mrs. Leslie Carter. in David Belas-
cos new play 'Du Barry" promises to
break box-office records at the Grand
Opera house. The advance sale of seats
for the opening week, commencing to-
morrow evening. presages a crowded
house at each performance, including
the Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
Since her last appearance here, three
years ago, when she played "Zaza" at
the Columbia Theater Mrs. Carter is
said to have continued the advance
ment that has been so remarkable ever
since her debut. The supporting COM
pany includes a number of well-known
clever people.
e. ii. Sothernis vehicle this year is
THE Proud Prince" by Justin Hunt
ly Mccarthy, author of IF 1 Were
King" and the new play is said to be
superior in every element of dramatic
strength to its predecessor in the Soth-
ern repertoire. Mr.. Sothern's engage
ment, commencing tomorrow evening
at the Columbia Theater, will be his
last in this city as an Individual star
as he plays Shakespeare next season
with Julia Marlowe.
"Charley's Aunt" than which no
funnier farce was ever written, will be
the Alcazar's offering this week. 1t is
one of the very few English laugh
makers that has retained popularity
in this country.
great war drama, will be started on a
weeks run this evening at the Cali
fornia Theater by the Oliver Morosco
Company, an organization which has
already won strong local favoritism.
At the Central Theater tomorrow
night there will be a revival of Bouci-
cault's time -honored drama of the
ante-bellum South, "The Octoroon. :"
An elaborate scenic production is
promised.
Sergeant Kitty" will hold the Tivoli
stage another week. since it's OPEN
ing production the piece has been con-
siderably enlivened by the introduc-
ton of interpolated humor by the
comedians, and now it is really an en-
joyable performance, bookishly as we'll
as musically.
August, Weston and company, COM
edy jugglers, are the headIiners of this
weeks bill at the Orpheum. Other new
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12
KATE CONDON, THE SINGER, IN VARIOUS POSES

acts are Eddie Heron, Madge Doug
lass and Will L. White in a one-act
farce, the Romani Trio, musical artists,
and Fosters educated dog.
~. S" is retained at Fischer's. and
the radium girls have made quite a
hit. Edna Aug and the other clever
people are constantly injecting new
stuff" and improving the humor of
the piece.
New people to open at the Chutes
tomorrow night are Russell Brandow
and Stella Wiley, colored entertainers,
and Harry Green, singer and mono
logist.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12

as Alan-a-Dale," 1 said, speaking with
the voice of one who has observed, "the
TivoH will resound with greeting most
cordial Then the congregation will sit
back and closely attend to your per-
formance. If they are pleased by it,
you will be notified by a demonstration
that will surely warm the cookies of
your heart, as they say in the land Of
your forbears. But if. on the other
hand, you fail TO come up to the eXpec-
tation created by the advertisements
for my fellow townsmen have not yet
completely lost faith in the veracity of
the advance announcements-you will
quickly wish you had Cancelled before
you signed. No, there will be no Kisses,
but a silence so clammy that you would
welcome a hiss or two to break it.
After the first night, however, the 81
lence will not be so oppressive, because
there will be fewer people to make it,"
Il think your meaning is grasped, y
said> Miss Condor. : THE newspapers
and the billboards send a congregation
of minded first-nighters and then
it's me to do the rest-warm them up or
freeze them out"
You have grasped it," I said.
after giving me an encouraging re-
ception, to show there's no ill-feeling
to begin with, the people will settle
back IN their seats, the men with arms
folded and the women with hands
crossed in laps. Then they will fix
their optics upon yours truly and say
to themselves: Now we've done our
duty: we hope she'll make good If
their hope is realized -
you wouldn't swap Eddy street for
Broadway"
And if they are frozen -"
You will believe all you have ever
heard, and decide it wasn't half>enough,
about the provincialism. the boorish-
ness, the injustice, the wild and
woolly -"
mo. / won't. I'll just say to myself:
Katherine, your jump to the center
may have been premature, after all.
You pleased New York and Chicago,
my dear, but they don't monopolize the
music culture of this big nation. You
must remember, Katherine, that San
Francisco has heard all the big singers
that New York and Chicago has had
and that the people of San Francisco
are qualified by experience to identify
good singing when they hear it. Then
/ would say -
"Then you could say. without prevari-
eating, that San Francisco didn't care
who you were, where you came from
or what your preceding fame amounted
to. but treated you strictly in accord
ance with your artistic merits as
measured by the San Francisco stand
ard"
Gould I say that also? Thank you.
Well, after saying that 1 would
say -
Would you really say. in the un-
likely event Of frost. all that you have
already said you would say?"
Certainly. Why not?"
"Then you ARE an exceptional stage
woman, and Charlie Stri- is an ex-
traordinary press agent. <Au revoir.'
why this haste?"
Il want to buy drink for Charlie
Strine while his conscientious mood is
on" JAMES c. CRAWFORD.
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10
DIRECT TO THE GATES
OF THE WORLDS FAIR.

via the Minneapolis and st. Louis
Railroad. The only line with station
opposite main entrance to the grounds.
Two through trains daily with Pull
man Sleepers, free reclining chair cars
and elegant new dining cars. Lowest
excursion rates. Season ticket, $3.50;
sixty-day ticket, $21.85; hfteen-day
ticket, 1920. Seven-day coach excur-
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

Mrs. Asllum-"Tm surprised to find
you looking for another servant
though you engaged one yesterday"
Mrs. Hiram Offen-"Oh! She's a lady's
maid. She merely waits ON me. I'm
looking for another one to wait on
her."
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10
VISIT THE OLD FOLKS.

On September 6, 10, 20, q and Oc-
tober II the Minneapolis & st. Louis
r. R. will run their annual "Home-
visitors excursions to Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky, and round trip tickets
will be sold at very low rates with
limit thirty days for return.
Call on agents for particulars, or ad-
dress A. B. Cutb, g. P. & T. A., Min
neapolis, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

Mildred, what brings that young
man to the house so often" Well,
his mothers stepfather married Sec
ond cousin of my fathers great aunt.
We're trying to figure out what rela-
ton that makes him to me, and that
can't be done in one evening"
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

CATHOLIC BOOK STORE.
Standard Catholic Book Store, 81 4th
st. S., second floor. Books and Re-
ligious Articles.
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

"'rwenty minutes for refreshmentsm
said the guard, as he passed down the
platform. The little girl with the
blackberry jam on her chin, hailed
him. You needn't stop the train On
our account" She said timidly, we're
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

Boarding School for Girls
TO parents seeking high homelke boarding their
daughters this institution claims 1t
delightfully."- situated
the beautiful Mississippi Its study
hensve are embraced in the following departments
AN ELEMENTARY DEPARTMENT, offering
AN ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
sh
Freshman college
uar elective Special advantages afforded
Of languages Bookkeeping shorthand end peng also offered
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC modelled
In the Offering
composition.
A DEPARTMENT OF ELOCUTION PHYSICAL CULTURE.
thorough finished
literature repertoire platform physical
excellent gymnasium equipped by
dd by experienced instructor heathfu and corrective
cses prescribed to all students Of the Seminary.
AN ART drawing painting
life and Nfe and In china decorating.
DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY anodng
details Of systematic and refined housekeeping r.
Careful attention
training
relations existing
phere
Seminary
An addition number
boarding the q
The fall term will begin September ~.
application to
4 }{lsat44 Is DIREOTRHSa
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

Clara-1 have such a horror Of
growing old.
Maud (sweetly)-I should think you
would have got over it by this time.
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

sion tickets at $500, on sale August
Is and % and September II and 26.
Call on agents for Guide" to the
Fair, information in regard to hotels,
ETC., or address, A. B. QUITS, G. p.
& T. A., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1904-09-10

The Irish Standard is
published . every Sat-
urday at Isl Fourth
St. South, Minneapolis.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-26

said that the quail is useful for farm
er, and told how many worms and
things were found in one quail s
stomach.
Now, I know that in almost any
normal human stomach that had been
hungry you might find five or six
quajis after one little luncheon, but
who would ever suppose that you would
ever find fifty-nine cut worms and thir-
teen caterpillars in the stomach of just
one small not bird like quail? I'm go
ing to get some quails the very next
time l go to Sherry's. and bring them
out here to my garden, for 1 do hate
to pick off bugs.
Those Agricultural DEPARTMENT re-
ports are just full of good things.
don't see why one of them shouldn't
be dramatized some time. New York
Sun.