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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
cuTHBERT's REDUCED RATE.
New Road Gives DawSon's Neigh
Dor Good Freight Advantages.

The reduced rates to Cuthbert over
the Georgia, Florida and Alabama
railroad, in connection with the boat
line from Mobile and Pensacola, is
proving great advantage TO Cuthbert
merchants and helpful to business con-
ditions, says dispatch from that
town. Since the rates have been in
effect this territory has been invaded
by representatives from Pensacola and
Mobile firms. The rates and their
prices have enabled them to sell goods
readily. This has not been very pleas
ant to firms in this territory who have
heretofore sold this trade, so for the
past two weeks they have been slash
ing prices SO as to run them out. tt e
Cuth bert merchants and customers are
in the meantime enjoying unusual
prices. Pensacola and Mobile state
that the rate and their prices are such
as will enable them to meet any prices
and that they are in the fight to the
finish. AS a result of these rates 1t II
quite likely that one or more Who'll, .
sale houses will soon be opened up IL
Cuth bert.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
Doctors Said He Would Not Live,

Peter Fry, Woodr uff, Pa, writes
"After doctoring for two years with
the best physicians in Waynesburg,
and still getting worse, the doctors
advised me If l had any business to
attend to had better attend to it at
once, as l could not possibly live an
other month. FoIey's Kidney Cure
was recommended to me by a friend,
and l Immediately sent my son to the
store for it, and after taking three
bottles | began to get better and con-
tinued to improve until | was entirely
we'll" HENDRICKS DRUG STORE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
Dawson Drug Co.

ask the readers of this paper who ar
suffering with indigestion or dYspep.
STA to call on them at once and get a
bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. II
you knew the value of this remedy
as we know it you would not suffer an
other day. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a
thorough digestant and tissue building
tonic as we'll. II is endorsed PERSONA
ly by hundreds of people whom it has
cured of indigestion, dyspepsia, palpi-
tation of the heart and stomach trOub-
les generally. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
digests what you eat. 1t is pleasant,
palatable and strengthening.
DAWSON DRUG Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
JAPA'NS RED CROSS.
Model Field and Military Hospit-
al of Mikado's Army.

The recent offer from America Of q
CORDS Of trained nurses who served in
American hospitals during the war
with Spain to come over and nurse
sick and wounded japanese soldiers in
the event Of war with Russia is highly
appreciated by the japanese people as
an evidence of American sympathy,
SAYS Eliza R. S. Scidmore, the Chicago
Tribune's Tokyo correspondent. 1t
would not be possible, however, for for
etgn nurses to be put to any use If
they were on the spot, as, aside from
their certain ignorance of the Japanese
language, Japan has the model field
and military hospital service of all
modern armies. 1t proved its efficiency
and practical superiority when work
ing side by side with the same service
arms Of the American, English, French,
Russian, German, Austrian and Ital-
ian forces at Tientsin and Picking in
1900. English and American official
reports assigned the japanese the palm
for thorough system and smooth work
ing, perfection of appointment and in
telligent detail.
Their hospital and medical service
was as smooth working and efficient in
the campaign of 1S94-95. 1t did not
break down during the rapid marches
up the Korean peninsula and across
Manchuria to Port Arthur and New
chwang There are schools for trained
nurses in every large city in Japan,
and in Tokyo the empress, as especial
patroness of the Red Cross hospital
and school, always presides at the an
nual meeting and gives the diplomas
to the white capped graduates. One Of
the imperial princesses has taken the
full course of training, and other court
ladies are as accomplished.
There are branch societies in each
province, and each year the annual
meeting is held at Tokyo, where 10000
members often gather at the great out
door session in UyenO park. One sees
the ribbon and insignia Of the order
worn everywhere these days, from the
Princesses Arisugana and Fushun1
who actively preside, down to the
elderly matrons and widows of the
provinces, to whom the function is an
event comparable to the great Feb
ruary sessions of the Daughters of the
American Revolution at Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
PRIMITIVE SAVAGES USED ELEVATORS
Also The Indians of South and Central America Have
for Centuries Used the Cotton Loom.

speaking, but a slight improvement
upon it.
We should never have had the Pan
ANA hat but for the quick-fingered In
dams of the Isthmus of Panama. Even
today their secret process for season.
ing the grass blades used in weaving
these hats remains unrivaled. Basket
makers of the same region make bask-
cts which will hold water without
leaking invention which is
quite beyond US.
Felting was invented by Polynesian
sayages, and brought by the Hawaiian
natives to perfection we have never
excelled. They not only made cover
ings for their houses and blankets out
of felU, but by pounding the inner
bark of certain trees succeeded in pro-
ducing soft and comfortable seamless
garments of this material, such as
sleeveless cloaks and coats.
Mortar was made by the people of
Tahiti when our ancestors were shiv-
ering in holes in the rocks. They dived
into the sea, brought up great Jumps
of coral, burned them in pits, using
wood as fuel, and mixed the lime they
got in this fashion with sharp sand
and water. With this mixture the
ingenious savage plastered the walls
and floor of mis- house, and better
mortar could not be obtained.
Another purely savage invention,
which is perhaps the most familiar
object of modern life, is the tobacco
pipe-not only the common clay, which
the North American Indian moulded
centuries ago out of the red sandstone
of Colorado, but the wooden pipe, the
prototype of the everyday briar.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
Only Believers In the Choir,

Archbishop FARLEY of the Catholic
diocese of New York, has issued an
order to the effect that no Jews, inf
dels or protested unbellevers shall be
employed in the choirs of the churches
in the diocese. This step is said to
have been taken in accordance with
the recently expressed wishes of the
Pope with respect TO church music.
The order will not apply against
Protestants. In several of the church
es in New York city the organists are
Jews. Their positions will be vacated
by the order.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
JAS. Q. PARKS
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR At law,

Will practice in all the courts, both
State and Federal. Prompt and
careful attention given to the interests
of every client who may put business
into my hands. l make speciality Of
preparing all Kinds of legal papers,
such as wills, deeds. bonds and con-
tracts. examining and abstracting IL
ties ;aIso commercial law and collect
IONS. Office in brick building west
of the old Court House.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20

The first knife was, of course, hlnt
fake. and the earliest spoon SHELL
to which primitive man learned IN the
coursa If AGES to fasteu a handle OF
wood, says London Answers
Such articles as these, together with
hammers. axes and needles, are easily
recoppized as having come down to US
direct from savagery. 1t is, however,
more startling to find that such COM
paratively modern invention as the
lift has been used for ages by tribes
whom we designate as savages. The
application of the principle of the
modern vertical lift may be seen today
among the bee hunters of the Island
of Timor.
To get at a honeycomb seventy feet
overhead with nothing between 1t and
the ground but a smooth and branch
less trunk seems at first sight impossl-
BILE without ladders or ropes. 1t Is
simple matter to the PolYnesian. he
cuts a few yards from the tough stem
of a creeper and forms of it a bush
rope, and with this he makes loop
around the trunk and his body. Jerk
ing the loop little above his head he
leans back and begins walking up, his
bare feet pressed against the trunk
Repeating the operation he gradually
gains the top. The whole ascent is
made without exhausting the use of
muscle by utilizing the principle of
friction.
Cotton weaving has done more for
Great Britain within the last century
than any one other industry. The In
dams of Central and South America
have for centuries past used loom so
elaborate that ours is, comparatively
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
w. ii. GURR,
AttOrney.at.LaW.

Office in Brick Building next to Old
Court House. Prompt attention will
be gwen to all business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
EXPRESS Thought by Gesture.

In Naples gesture often taxes the
place of words, not only with lazza-
roni, but even with princes. King
Ferdinand, on his return to Naples
after the revolt of 1921, addressed his
subjects in gestures. He reproached
them, admonished them and finally
pardoned Them, sending them away
satisfied without having articulated ID
single word,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Ten
Years of STANDING.

81 wish to say few words in praise
Chamberlain Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy" saws Mrs. Matte
Burge of MartinsYille, Va. II suffered
from chronic diarrhOea for ten years,
and during that time tried various
medicines without any permanent re-
lief. Last summer one of my children
was taken with cholera morbus, and
procured a bottle of this remedy,
two doses were required to give her
entire relief. | then decided to try
the medicine myself, and did not use
all of one bottle before was well, and
| have never since been troubled with
that complaint. One cannot say too
much in favor OF that wonderful medi-
cine" This remedy is for sale by
Dawson Drug Co., Dawson: Williford
& Co., ParrOtt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-20
HIGHLY ENDORSED.

Rev. Walker Lewis, the well-known
Methodist minister, writes: II have
used DR.. Mozley's Lemon Elixir in my
family with very beneficial results. It's
an admirable medicine and excellent as
a tonic and liver regulator"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
k..~ar-~qr-..-~ar-.s-~af-.
THE IMMORTALITY OF
WASHINGTON'S NAME


army, and in some statue or tablet in
nearly every town known to the thir-
teen colonies, and in the hundreds of
towns and great cities that are now
the centers of prosperous communities
in what were then unknown lands.
Here are some answers from little
school children when they were asked
the question Who was George Wash
ington?" He was a great general
who whipped the British He was
the first president He was a good
man, who fought for his country" He
was the father of his country" He
was a brave man who said that this
country should be free" He was the
greatest man. and Lincoln comes
next" So it went, as the question
was put to a score of children, and
from not one came an answer that
showed ignorance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

engineer, was suffocated only about
200 feet from the air-shaft proves how
deadly the fredamp was, and he was
not injured by the explosion, and had
been in the mine only two hours. But
Taylor turned aside into an entry. Had
he remained in the main gangway,
where there was some circulation of
air, he might have been living to-day.
Had Coma in his crawling the half
mile turned aside but once and EN-
tered one of the entries he would have
been a dead man.
COMA was asked to describe the
horror of the sensation. He said:
mo; there wasn't any horror. l
just knew the only way to get out of
that mine was by the main shaft.
don't know that 1 felt anything but
sick. OF course, knew that the mine
was wrecked. 1 even knew, when
reached the shaft, that my father and
brother were way back in the last
room. even thought of crawling back
after them, but 1 was tired out. I
couldn't crawl any further, and so
lay down where 1 could get some air."
The hump which COMA crawled
over, and which nearly cost his life,
was later discovered by the rescuers
about a thousand feet from the shaft.
1t proved to be a cave-in where the
explosion had spent is force and had
turned and gone up the main shaft,
schooling the cage and the mule to
the top above the tipple, throwing
them to one side hundred feet or
more. If COMA could have told his
story to the rescuers as he told it later
the miners could have entered the
main gangway fearlessly and might
have saved some of the men in the
furthest part of the mine entries from
death.
1t was taken for granted that COMA
was at the shaft at the time of the
explosion. The bodies found near
where Coma was lying when he was
rescued were torn into fragments. The
exploring parties all stopped at the
cave-in. If COMA had been properly
INTERCEPTED the mine would have
been entered long before it was, as
COMA said he would have been will
ing, if able. to have crawled back
again into the last chamber to look
for his father and brother.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
THREE
CARDINAL
POINTS
BLOOD
health
HAPPINESS

It is fact that, with impover-
;shed or unhealthy condition of the
blood, suffering, i'll health and un-
happiness must result.
Rich, Red. Radiant Blood means
to the possessor splendid health,
and health means happiness to the
vast extent physical condition may
exert its influence.
Do you suffer from nervousness,
weakness, brain flag, loss of energy,
a sluggish, tired body, with little,
if any, ambition and Vitality Do
you feel that you must have rest
and are.unequal to your daily tasks
and responsibilities Does your
body ache and pain all over from
lack of circulation and proper nu-
trition2 Does your system need
to be built up and held theref If
these and similar conditions exist,
speedy relief and permanent cure
are within your reach.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Definitions illustrated.

The difference between decisions,
illusions and Authorizations was thus
stated by a doctor at a trial which
took place at Cincinnati: If man
thinks he can drink all the whisky he
can hold without being affected by it.
that is a delusion; if he tries it some
evening, and on the way home sees q
lamp post and thinks it is a ghost.
that is an Illusion; if he finally gets
home and in removing his shoes i'm
AGNES they are full of snakes, that is q
hallucination.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

MY brother. That was just when I
started to crawl OFT of the room. l
got notion they had gotten out some
how 1 yelled several times, but it
made me sick; then closed my mouth
and kept my nose down to the rails.
sometimes in the water. l know my
nose often rubbed the ground.
didn't feel a bit hurt. l didn't know 1
was burned. 1 felt awful tired, espe-
cially after 1 got over that hump.
Il suppose 1 crawled half a mile
when the air seemed to smell better.
But 1 couldn't see a thing. 1 have
often been down in a mine without
light. but my eyes got used to it and
1 could see the mine walls, but 1 did
not know 1 was blind.
Say, won't you lift this bandage
up so 1 can see?" the poor fellow
asked, a question he put to everyone
who approached him Coma went on
with his story, after being told that
by and by the doctor would lift the
bandage.
1T couldn't have taken me an hour
to crawl from the last room to the
shaft. I remember lying there some
time when heard a noise above me.
1 heard someone call. l cried, Here,
herei Helpi help l heard footsteps
cracking near me. 1 heard two men
talking. They grabbed me and bund-
led me into the bucket, and soon 1
was hoisted up. Say, my burns didn't
bother me in the mine, but when 1
reached the top of the shaft and the
cold air hit me 1 thought a million
needles were being prodded into my
face, hands, head and neck. Then l
knew 1 had been roasted, all right"
COMA had been in the mine from
SIS a. m. until o'clock that evening.
He figured that he had been there only
one hour, but that must have been the
period of his Inconsistencies. 1t is
probable that lie lay unconscious in
the chamber where he fell until about 4
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
TRULY THE DARK. CONTINENT.
European Matters Find Africa to Be
We'll Named.

The price of colonization in Africa
is heavy one, both in life and treas
ure. Every European power which has
African possessions pays it. The his
tory of British interests in the great
continent is bloody practically from
the beginning, and it is still being
written red in Sonaliland; France has
had her troubles in Algeria. and is
constantly finding fresh ones to the
south and along the Morocco frontier;
one of the most dreadful episodes in
Italian history was worked out in Abb
yssinia few years ago; Portugal has
had many conflicts with the natives;
Belgium has the disgrace of the Congo
atrocities, and now comes Germany
with an uprising of blacks that threat
ems to overshadow anything of the
kind that has occurred in Africa Sure
ly that vast territory was aptly named
the Dark Continent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Half Unconscious He
Cropped Where In
Stinct Drew Him
to Safety.
How Selwyn M. Taylor
Died in the Deadly
GeS of the After
damp.

Only one man escaped alive from
the Harwick, Pa, mine explosion, by
which 120 lives were lost He has had
an enormous appetite for pound cake
and beer since his resurrection.
Adolph COMA, nearing his 25th year, is
the lucky fellow. He does not realize
the full sense of his fortune, at least
he did not betray any exultation or
any wonderment at the fact that his
body was not rent asunder as were
his companions in the Harwick mine.
Coma has not seen daylight yet Since
being brought up from the mine his
eyes have been bandaged. He has
frequently pleaded to be permitted to
see, but the doctors do not know that
he ever will regain his sight.
Coma can talk freely and eat heart
lily. When seen by a correspondent
he was lying on a bed in boarding
house not far from the Harwick mine,
where he had been brought from the
little schoolhouse, later turned into
morgue. While at the schoolhouse he
lay on a pile of straw in the corner,
watched over by women from the vii
lage and the schoolteacher. Miss Flor
ence Miller. He speaks English aid
has been a subject of the emperor of
Austria.
Speaking of his experience in the
mine, he said:
81 was working with my father and
my brother in the farthest entry. 1t
could not have been long after 8
O'Clock in the morning when l saw
flash of light and heard a terrible
noise. That was the explosion.
thought 1 was struck by something,
fnlI fn no of O
room. After the explosion everything
got quiet, except that 1 could hear
pieces of coal and slate dropping, and
there was a terrible odor. l don't re-
member how long lay on the floor.
when l came to my senses l knew
that l ought to get out of the mine. /
knew the way to the shaft, as we were
working in the last entry and our
room was the end of the main gang
way, about half a mile from the shaft.
1 started to crawl on my hands and
knees 1 could feel the shovels, picks
and cars i crawled over, and kept
my hands on the main rails so as to
guide me, so 1 would not get into any
of the side entries. 1 remembered one
place where l lad to crawl over big
pile of coal before reaching the shaft.
l could scarcely squeeze through, but
1 wriggled my way out. That almost
finished me, as l could scarcely
breathe when 1 got over that pile.
Every once in while my hands
and feet would slip on something.
knew it was bodies of dead miners, be-
cause l could feel the clothing ard
| flesh. Do you know, l never thought
of that until now. Once, while crawl
| ing out, l thought of my father and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
BOTH GOVERNOR AND AUTHOR.
Pennsylvania Executive Offers OPP
portunities to Critics.

Gov. Pennypacker of Pennsylvania
is the author of a preface written for
a fac simile of The Chronicles of Ma
than Ben Saddi,'' a collection of colo
NAL satires on the University of Penn
sylvania. The chronicles are written
in Biblical phrase and are in imita-
ton of some English writings which
appeared in 1740. The book for which
Gov. Pennypacker has written a pref
ace will be published at the expense
of the Philobiblon club, a Philadelphia
organization for the study of rare
books and manuscripts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Thinks Russia Must Back Down.

DIR. Kios-aburo Futami, dis
tinguished engineer from the kyoto
imperial university, Japan, has ar
rived in this country to make spe-
cial study of American engineering
works, especially bridges After
spending some time in Eastern cities
he will come to Chicago and will re-
turn to his home by way of the Pacific
ocean. DIR. Futami was in this country
once before. He does not believe that
Japan and Russia will fight. but thinks
the latter will yield in time to prevent
hOStilities.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
IN DAYS OF OLD.
Sal. Lake City, as Seen by Eastern
Tourists

tell of an experience he had some time
ago while making. a tour of the West
He was accompanied by Mrs. Proctor
and some fifteen or twenty other men
and women. The party made a stop at
Salt Lake City and the senator and his
wife went for a walk about the place,
half a dozen ladies following them
That morning large party of tour
lists from the East had arrived there
and some of them caught sight of Mr..
Proctor and his friends. Said one of
the tourists in a stage whisper:
There's an old mormon out for q
walk with his wives. l wonder if he
has any more."-Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
self-saerifiee Extraordinary.

Mayor Hays, Comptroller Larkin
and Treasurer Frauenheim of Pitts
burg have been stricken of the pay
roll at their own request. The cause
Is that the appropriation for salaries
has been exhausted. But for the self
denial mentioned a number of clerks
could have been obliged to accept re-
iuced salaries By the time this
months pay rolls are ready new ap-
preparations viii be available.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

American Who Wen Victoria Cross.
William Seeley of Stoughton, Mass,
is the only American who ever wore
the Victoria cross, an honor dearly
priced by all British subjects. Mr..
Seeley was on board a British vessel
at Simoneski, Japan, in 1864, and
saved the life of the ships captain.
for which service he received the deo
GRAFTON. which he highly prizes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
YOUNG MAN MUST SAVE.
Stringent Provisions Made in Will OF
ST. Louis Father.

ST. Louis Father.
Lewis Bierman, president of a St
Louis real estate company, died re-
Gently leaving an estate valued at
about 100000. His son, Lewis F..
Bierman, apparently had been liv-
ing too extensively, for deceased
makes provision in his will that the
young man shall be paid $1,000 after
a certain time, that amount to be in
creased to $4,000 provided that the
SON in the meantime shall have saved
$40 per month out of the salary he is
now receiving. This saving must be
deposited monthly with a trust COM
pany.-Chicago Chronicle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
WHEN Joe" WAS UNKIND.
Matinee Girls Rebuked by the Only
Rip Van Wrinkle.

Wdtfucc GIFTS hSpUNcO py CTIS 0nIy
Rip Van Wrinkle.
Once after a matinee Joseph JEFF
ferson was persuaded to take behind
the scenes several pretty girls who
had just watched his portrayal of Rip
Van Wrinkle from a box. "Oh, Mr..
Jefferson!" exclaimed the prettiest of
the girls, while he was showing them
around, I'VE enjoyed your performance
SO much; but, do you know, we could
hardly hear word you said" The
comedian smiled good humoredly.
well, 1 should say that was strange"
replied he, for I distinctly heard
every word you young ladies uttered!"