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Cheaper Gas for London.

The gas supply of London is now being investigated by committee of the Board of Trade, and one of the questions on which it will be called to pass is the lowering of the candle pow CT of the gas and the consequent cheapening of price. It is stated that in London about eight-tenths of the gas is used for heating and' cooking, for gas engines and for illumination in connection with incandescent man. ties. For such purposes only a blue or heating flame is required and there is no need of the gas. being enriched so as to furnish luminous flame, upon whose brightness the amount of light emitted by an ordinary burner de- pends.
 It has accordingly been suggested that all the old burners should be dis carded and the use of incandescent mantles be made compulsory in all cases. In this way it would be possi- ble to reduce materially the cost of gas to the consumer and increase it's use still more for power and domestic heating and lighting. In this connec- ton there has been demand in Lon don for more durable mantles for lights of ordinary size and for incan. descent lamps of smaller candle power and approximately diminished con- sumption of gas.-Harper's Weekly.
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Small Families in America.

According to Professor Vierkandt, a German sociologist, the question whether American race superiority can make itself felt in the world at large depends on the size of American fami- lies. "He notes," Berlin dispatch says, "a tendency which discourages large families because of the standard of comfort required" No observing person will deny that there is such q tendency in this country. The Ameri- cans like children, but they hesitate to become responsible for the welfare and comfort of large families. Four chil- dren in family are unusual; six make a big family nowadays, and eight in vite the imputation of reckless prodi- golity. If Europe is safe from an American invasion until American families grow bigger, it can rest easy in its mind.
 At present the tendency seems to be the other way. They say that the French are growing more peaceable. nore thrifty, and richer. They are not invaders nowadays in commerce, and they are less and less disposed to az. gressive war. They have no spare population. So it may be with us. American families can ill spare their sons for foreign service, either mill tary or commercial. There are too few of them born.-Harper's Weekly.
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Gpencer and Beecher.

The recent death of the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer, recalls the only visit he ever made to America, a brief journey in 1882. On that occa- sion banquet was given in New York in his honor. Henry Ward Beecher was one of the after-dinner speakers.
 q am asked" said Mir. Beecher, "how reconcile Spencer with theol- ogy. I don't.
 "A man who has bald-headed dea- con watching everything he does, or gold-spectacled lawyer-not fat one" looking at MT. Bristow), "but long, lean, lank one" Cooking at Mir. Evarts) -"can't afford to talk Spencerism from the pulpit.
 "It is to be borne in mind that when a man is driving team of fractious horses that are just all he can manage anyhow, he is not in state of mind to discuss questions with his wife by his side, who is undertaking to bring up delicate domestic matters"
 It had been said that MT. Spencer had no sense of humor, but he joined heartily in the merriment which MT. Beecher's speech provoked.
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The Cautious Riley.

A friend of James Whitcomb Riley tells a story of an encounter with the bachelor poet once had with a woman reporter. The energetic young wom- an, after strenuous effort, had finally caught MT. Riley at the telephone. This is the conversation that followed:
 'Is this Mir. Riley?"
 "Yes. That is Miss -"
 Miss Jones, of the Courier-Journal. I've been trying all day to get an in. terview with you, MT. Riley"
 'Ah, would it were now a view in. stead of an interview" said the poet, gallantly.
 "Oh. thanks! How long will you re- main in Louisville, Mir. Riley?"
 "Only short time"
 "Is your wife with you?"
 "No, ma'am, she is not"
 "Where is she, may I ask?" "You may ask, my dear Miss Jones. but find 1t very difficult to answer. am in absolute ignorance as to her whereabouts. For aught know to the contrary, she may right now be at the other end of this telephone. Kan sas City Journal.
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Huns Instead of Negroes.

It is enough to make all the old Mis- sissippi River men who have passed away and gone to their reward stir in the tomb could they know that Hun- garians are to be substituted for ne- groes as roustabouts on the river. This shatters the last tradition. We can not imagine these silent, taciturn lit- tie men of Central Europe making the moonlight nights vocal with their min- strelsy on the lower deck, or scram- bling with each other for nickels thrown by sportive passengers.
 Nor shall we believe that the. mate dare unwind that panorama of pie turesque profanity at his long, waver- ing, undulating line of roustabouts as they move from deck to shore with the cargo. The darky roustabout hears these objurgations with joyous and appreciative ear and welcomes burst of originality in it by rolling the whites of his eyes eXpressively at his fellows, or, if it is particularly nov ing, by loud "Yah, yah, yah" that is reward enough for the obiurgator. What will the Hungarian care for the expletive wit that 'stirs the responsive negro heart so deeply? He will not un- derstand it and if he did his percep- tion of the humor of swearing is not of the open and ready nature of that of the sons of Ham. He would get mad about it. Everything is changing on the river. The passengers are not the same, the boats are smaller, the table fare is sadly scant and MXury has long since departed.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Unreasonable.

A gentleman entertaines some wis itors at his home one evening. When the guests were ready to depart a storm had arisen outside. The host furnished one of the guests with an umbrella, the recipient of which was profuse in his assertions that he would return it on the morrow. The mor- row came, but the umbrella did not. Some time elapsed, when one rainy day as the owner of the umbrella was walking on the street he espied his um- brella in the hands of the person who had borrowed it. He immediately walked over to him and said:
 "Glad to see you. I need my um- brella."
 His chagrin may be imagined when the offender insisted:
 "You can't nave it today; it's rain- ing!'
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Not an Engaging People.

If the description of the Philippines given by writer in geographical publication is anywhere near correct those accustomed to the ways of Amer jeans will be in no haste to emigrate to that quarter of the globe inhabited by them. If tine Caucasian, or the na- tive, for that matter, would avoid cholera and dysentery, he must either boil or preferably distill all drinking water, and the government maintains a distilling plant in Manila for the benefit of the government employees. The slim diet of rice and vegetables which suffices for the native will not sustain the American, who must eke out subsistence on canned goods and frozen meat from Australia or Chi cago.
 As there are but half dozen milch cows in all Manila, condensed milk and canned cream must be used. Rents are almost prohibitive. Huts of four rooms, built of nipa, rent for $36 American money month, the annual rent being more than twice the cost of the building. Everything that the American wants and must have is ex. traordinarily dear, and the mere cost of bare subsistence is at an unim. aginable altitude. Manila is evidently not the place for the poor adventurer, because there are many places in this country where food is relatively cheap, the climate good and work at high wages plentiful. The man with capi- tai may find opportunities in the Phil ippines, but the man with capital can find an opportunity anywhere.
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A Congressman's Apt Retort.

Nothing cleverer in the way of witty retort has been heard lately than the bon mot credited to Representative Homo, of Chicago, whose labors in Congress in behalf of the decayiny lake commerce of the city have won for him many friends.
 Thinking to puzzle him, another rep. resentative button-holed him in the cloak-room of the house the other day and said:
 "See here, Jim; how can you con- sent to lower yourself by all this un- derground work you are doing"
 (Meaning his bill for lowering the tunnels.)
 "Lower myself?" instantly replied MT. Homo. "Lower? Do you think, sir, am doing it for hire?"
 After this palpable hit the other rep resentative had nothing to say.
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No More Orphans.

Bishop Potter admitted at dinner the other night that he had fallen into the habit of asking his wife what he should speak about if called upon at any public function.
 My wife told me this evening"" he said, "that she would like to have me correct rumor that has been going around to the effect that she intended to give up her house to an orphan asylum.
 ."'Tell the guests at dinner, If you say anything she bade me, that 1t is not so. have already taken in one orphan, and I do not propose to admit any more into my house, if I can help it."
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Completely Surrounded.

Dr. S. M. Brickner, president of the Society of the Genesee, tells story of Oliver Herford, who was surrounded by number of his friends in draw ing-room in London, when another friend approached him and said:
 q see, Mir. Herford, you are sur rounded by your coterie.
 "Yes," responded MT. Herford; "by my coterie, and my vestry and pantry as well."-New York Times.
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I Rememper.

l remember, 1 remember,
 The farm where l was born; Where my father used to wake me
 At the first faint gleam of morn. But things are altered since that time, Those good old days have fled, And at the hour used to rise
 I'm seeking now my bed. remember, I remember,
 How l milked the lowing kline And conveyed some slight refreshment To score of hungry swine. And yet this handling of fat stock
 Was q prophetic start; l make my living handling stocks
 In Wall streets busy mart. 1 remember, I remember,
 The OK team red and white With which tramped the meadow,
 From morning until night. But muscles I developed then,
 They come in handy still, When l must walk behind and push
 My auto up the hill. l remember, I remember,
 The hoe used to swing Among the countless hosts of weeds
 That came to life each spring. To swing the golf club and replace
 The turf I dig up now Keeps me about as busy as
 The hoe did then, trow. 1 remember, remember,
 The fir trees dark and high; 1 used to think their slender tops
 Were close against the sky, 1 work in skyscraper now,
 But still 'tis little joy To know I'm higher up in life
 Than when l was boy. New York Sun.
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Benefits of Fruit.

Feeling of heaviness and despondency vanish with the eating of fruit Ex- cess of meat will disorganize the sys- tenn, and uric acid will be stored up. But sharp fruit pulps come in contact with the flesh, and the acids counter act each other, so that the body re- ceives only benefit.
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Theory and Practice.

"What we want," said the political au. . tocrat, lis long pull, d strong pull and a pull all together"
 And grasping the limb of the million aire candidate just north of the ankle, the deed was soon did.
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Seems Plausible.

She-I wonder why a little apple caus- ed Adams downfall?
 He-Oh, probably because the banana peel hadn't been discovered then.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
A ONCE THRIVING CITY DESERTED
When Mining Discovered the South Town
Sites Were ReckssIy Selected by Land Sharks, and Many
Fields by Planting Boom Cities Them.

An unusual thing happened not long
ago. A newspaper article was pub
lished to the effect that the once
thriving town of Hamburg, S. c., would
be declared dead and the unused
streets sold by the state. One is ac-
customed, says the Washington Post,
to read such items as this: Doodle
vile is prosperous and rapidly grow
ing town, situated on the banks Of
Fence rail creek, in the most progress
i've and enlighted section of the coun-
try" But to read of deserted village
in so young country as the United
States is like listening ito voice from
the old world lamenting the decline of
a proud city.
Strange as it may seem, though,
Hamburg is not the only forsaken town
in the country. There is Cardiff, in
Tennessee. 1t is situated on the Gin
cinati Southern railway. The tourist
en- route to Florida is astonished to
behold about daybreak on the morning
following his departure from Cincin-
natl small-sized city in the midst of
a corn field. There is an enormous
hotel building, big depot, several
large brick buildings and q belt line
railroad. But there is not soul in
the place. The train does not even
whistle when passing the station,
from which the incandescent globes
have never been removed. Inquiry as
to the cause of all this will bring ready
replies from the conductor. Ten or
twelve years ago there was wonder
full boom in the coal and mining re-
gions of the south. AS result town
sites were recklessly selected by land
sharks, and the honest ones who took
too rosy view of the future. Cardiff
was one of these.
Prior to 1892 Cardiff was a cornfeld,
the property of an honest old Tennes.
see farmer, who was too conservative
to become excited over the boom. One
fine day, however, he was accosted by
a well dressed stranger, who offered
what to him was a small fortune for
this field. Two weeks before he would
have sold it gladly for 81 per acre. The
trade was closed at once. the field be-
coming the property of an English
American corporation, whose members
proceeded at once with the task of
booming. Streets were laid off and
graded through the field and the land
cut up and numbered into lots. A belt
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
MOST TALKED OF FARM in WORLD
Pennsylvania Has Wealthy and Famous from Fiji
Land His Farm and Methods Have Attracted
the Attention of the Agricultural Department.

best dairy stock, their milk is pure
and rich and brings the highest price.
The result is that the most money to
the acre made in the dairying business
in our country is made on this little
tract of land.
One of the experts of the agricultur-
al department has estimated that full
account of Mr.. Dietrich's management
and methods would be worth $40, 900, 900
to the dairy interests of the land. The
agents of the department have recon-
mended to the secretary of agricultur
that the sum of $4,000 year be paid to
Mr.. Dietrich to enable him to run his
place as a model farm.
He would have the profits of the place
as usual, and the extra money would
compensate him for the time required
to explain everything to visitors.
Intelligent study, good sense and
hard work have made this little farm
what it is. The first thing to be done
was to enrich it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30

While the postofice appropriation
bill was.under discussion, in animated
debate Mr.. Rixey of Virginia declared
that no effort had been made by the
department to better the star route
service, and inquired why there was
80 much difference in the pay of rural
carriers and star route carriers.
"Because, interiected Mr.. Griggs
of Georgia. a member of the commit
tee, "the rural free delivery service
has grown into a vast political ma
chine" Star route carriers, he as
serted, received very much less pay.
Mr.. Maddox of Georgia maintained
that until the rural service was estab-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
HEARST HAS BOSTON PAPER.
Governors and Mayors Write
CongratulatOry Letters.

The launching of a new paper by
VIM. r. Hearst is told of as follows by
the Associated Press in a dispatch
from Boston:
1.-THE first edition of daily news
paper established by William r. Hearst
appeared in this city today under the
name sHearst's Boston American and
New York Journal Today's edition
comprised twenty-four pages of adyer-
Using and reading matter presented
in a STYLE similar TO that OF Mr..
Hearst's New York'paper. The press
es of the new paper were started by
Governor Bates of Massachusetts, and
congratulatory letters from Governor
Bates, Governor Hill of Maine, Gov
ernor Garvin of Rhode island and
Mayor Collins of Boston occupied
prominent places in the paper"
What's this! Governors and mayors
giving countenance to Hearst paper!
impossible! And in aesthetic. cultured,
virtuous and puritanical Boston! Will
wonders never cease? Ah!fellow coun-
trymen, Hearst is great ''joke".
From Rhode Island to California they
are laughing about him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30

line and side tracks, hotel building,
depot, brick stores and few dwellings,
were erected. After much advertising
a sale of lots was held, but the sale did
not "pan out" quite as the promoters
bad expected. The promoters of two
neig b boring boom towns contrived to
have sale of lots on the same day.
Cardiff was doomed from the start be-
cause the two rival towns were better
situated. The result was that after an
exciting life of eight months the town
dwindl ed. One year after the date OF
iGs founding it was completely desert
ed. The fine hotel, the handsome de-
pot, the brick buildings, the side
tracks and the belt line were COM
plete loss, and many of those who
entered into the enterprise in the hope
of reaping fortune came near being
beggared by the collapse.
Cardiff, named after Cardiff in
Wales, the birthplace of one of the
directors of the wildcat land company,
was again cOrnheld.
The only person who was benefited
by the boom was the Tennessee farmer,
who didn't blieve in no such doin's."
He had horse sense enough to retain a
firm hold on the money'ne had received
for his cornfeld. When the town was
abandoned he leased the field again,
but by the terms of his agreement he
was Obliged to let the buildings stand.
The streets OF the town were once
more ploughed up. From the fate of
Cardiff the saying arose in the mining
section of the south that many good
corr fields have been ruined by plant
ing boom towns on them"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30

The American griculturist called
Mention about year ago to clergy
pan named j. D. Dietrich, who lived
pear Philadelphia and was doing won
lefS with fifteen acres of land.
4 The little farm came into his posses
oh oy inheritance about twenty years
SFgo' 1t was so worn out that when he
f7''ed In the cottage and instal led a
FOrSe and two cows in the barn he had
- BUY hay for the animals. The land
you'd not produce the garden stuff
you nay that he required.
Mr. Dietrich has been so wonderful
J successful in reclaiming his land
lat he Is at present the most talked
foOut farmer in the country. AL, the
agricultural papers have taken him
he cannot supply the demand for
l'ulSeI1 as speaker at farmers insti.
u'es' and to cap the climax the agri-
|ulural department at Washington
pow desires to devote whole bulletin
= Ills farm and methods.
he Is getting more advertising than
7 comfortable. His place is overrun
''n visitors, and they interfere with
his work.
Ii MS opinion if the government or
puy other responsible agency wishes
Il" 10 conduct This place as a model
"'Hn Tor educational purposes that is
Nc vnlng; but if he is to continue to
ID MS place as a private enterprise
wants to give more of his time to
80 personal affairs and less to the
F'0IIc' and the agricultural depart
uVnI admits that this is perfectly reas-
Dnable,
lis hiteen-acre farm is prominently
- the country because there is no
,'u5f fifteen acres in the land devoted
: Tue dairy industry that is making
% much money.
larry iarms usually have large acre
80 "uu cattle men think they must
ave at least three or four acres to the
\ but here is place where less
h =" uIIeen acres can be devoted to the
''s.ock' for the buildings and garden
1. '1're some ground, and yet this lit.
I. pace raises everything required
h., ,Ie support of from thirtY-two to
'9-n'e cows and two horses the
~ COWS or horses in the land are
''s' cared for. The cows are of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
PNEUMONIA A FAD.
A Doctor Explains Its Alleged
Prevalence in New York.

A New York physician says it is an
error to suppose that in New York
"pneumonia is raging; 1t is merely the
rage" Asked to explain, he said the
disease had become fashionable; that
people insist on having pneumonia"
when as matter of fact they have
nothing more than colds. TO please
them the doctors let them think they
are very i'll, since to tell them the
truth would cause the patient TO call
them quacks. Besides, "pneumonia"
is good for a better fee than bad
cold.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
HAS GROWN INTO VAST POLITICAL MACHINE
Declares Briggs Rural Free Delivery Service
Georgia Members Very Critical.

tablished and put in operation the de-
partment made no effort to better the
star route service at all But for the
rural service, he said, the department
would be running one-eyed mule or
a Texas pony all over the country, and
no member of congress would admit TO
a foreigner that that was United States
mail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30

Kidney complaint kills more people
than any other disease. This is due
to the disease being so insidious that
it gets good hold on the system be-
fore it is recognized. Foley's Kidney
Cure will prevent the development of
this fatal disease if taken in time.
KENDRICK' IS DRUG STORE.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-30
A CosSACK WATCH STATION IN MANCHURIA.

Some time Russia having heard that bands of japanese were
railroad
will be motto
La Junta tribune., 1904-01-09
se,,es . shs,i~s ssss.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT on
N Friday. January =. tsA. .t the hour of !.
O'Clock moon, si th. north door q the c..Iss
boa>p IL. la Junta. Colo. ] ~ill ell st public
auction to the highest bidder, andss and hy
yirtu~ 81 . special execution. dirrctins = lien
forrrio~ur- whereby am dir~Srt~d Ia make the
sua, of si6. Judgment and costs and cost OF
aid sale, said ex-eui.oo havinx i..nsd cat
Of the county court of Osero county. Colorado.
s,a the .lth dsy ~ b,cemirr. 1867. under
d.cr,- rendered Deembrr 9. 1874 in the cssr
there p-odins entitl-d }. ~. Aet'lain, X. O.
AeCiain. III hct'lsin and NJ y. D-an. co-
partn~rs under the name and style of Thr
AsnEabols Lumber COMPANY, plaintiffs s.. J..
n. Trrnt. administrator. and y. kavlins. Jr..
ds-fendant-. the following de.rrih-d propssty,
tD-wit: The oa~ story frame building situated
os the following dn~rrihs-f rial c-tatr In Osero
county. Colorado, trwit; Comm~ncins st the
snath~~ss corser At -ssrsSon r. township Il.
-putk Of rsngr "A ~--t. running thence east
s5os feet thence north En.i feet u the right of
~ay Of the Missouri Pacific railroad. thence
running .loax the -outh line of said risht-of-
~ny in . .s,uth westerly direction sn1 feet to q
foint cG feet north of the place of f-einnins.
thefs-- running south 56 f--t To the place of
ls-sinninx. said building bring situated about
one half mile from the town of Oiney. Oterv
county, Colorado. said building will fe .cld
in.ier.nd~nt of the land ur"n which IL is
situated.
Da,c.i q, L.. Jun,s. Colorado. D,o-mh-r ,sth.
GEORGE BARR. sheriff.
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