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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-15

spoken against it, yet the petitioners
appear to have the better of the argu-
Nent. Every property owner in Han
cocks capital will be assessed to pay
for the work.
According to the figures of County
Surveyor Monger, the ditch will drain
3S,4OO acres of land. The surveyor and
his men are already at work making
estimates and placing stakes that will
show the amount of fall. The dredge
will begin its wrecking Of the poetic
Brandywine about six miles east of
Maxwell, Hancock county, and contin-
ue to the south county line, a distance
of more than twenty miles. Every
wagon bridge that crosses the stream
will have to be removed. 1t is possible
that only one bridge will be allowed to
remain during the progress Of the
wOrk-the Pennsylvania bridge east of
Greenfield, mentioned in Riley's poem.
1t is thought that the dredge will be
able to pass under it. The bridge ques-
ton is one of the strong points of dis
pute, as it is charged by the antidredge
adherents that the removal of the old
bridges will mean endless expense in
the construction of new ones. There
will be ten highway bridges and four
railroad bridges in the path Of the
dredge.
Another feature of the great task will
be the digging of arms for the main
ditch. 1t is proposed to drain eighty
five sections of land either with tribu-
taries or by the main ditch. One fea-
ture of the work that will lessen the
cost is the condition of the bed of the
Brandywine The dredge will encoun-
ter little grave! or stone. For the great
er part of the distance it will dig into
q black muck, the same as borders the
stream for miles on both sides 1t is
figured that, once the Brandywine is
Strengthened and deepened, the farm
ers owning marsh land will be able to
raise bountiful crops of corn. In its
present state it is practically worth
less. In the upland property is held in
Tie u1dIhGL at IL Jill S4%O " paw NA
acre; in the marshland the greater part
of it cannot be sold at any price, and
it is hopeful land indeed that brings
$50 an acre. The ditch will send the
marsh land up to a figure equal with
that on the higher level. During the
greater part of the year the land along
the Brandywine is covered with swamp
grasses, and even cattle cannot venture
upon it because of the danger of mire.
The county surveyor will report on
the probable cost of the work on Nov.
%, at which time the damages and
benefits will be fixed. If the weather
remains favorable and there is no other
legal obstacle to encounter, the work
of making the Brandywine cOmner-
cial waterway will begin this fall.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-15
HOW OTHERS SEE US.
AusGrian's Account of Noble Sim
Dlicity of the White House.

Aus2rtan'B Account OF noble SLIM
plicity of the White House.
A description by a foreigner of Pres
ident Roosevelt and the White House
was recently communicated to the vi
ennese public by Hofrat DR.. Jacob MI
nor, who is publishing the records of
his American travels in the columns of
the Neue Freie Presse Of Vienna.
1.-The White House in Washington"
says the court doctor, will always re
main something never to be forgotten,
not only on account of the honor paid
us by the president at our reception,
but also on account of it's noble SIM
plicity and the grand style in which 1t
Is furnished. 1t is the true pattern of
an American house, in which every
thing necessary is close at hand, but In
which there is nothing superfuous. And
with what simple formalities was our
reception by the president carried out
a somewhat numerous but noiseless
company of attendants in the ante
room and no police, no military! In
the reception room itself there was no
one present but we ourselves, the Wis
itors, introduced by the president and
vice president. Soon the doors open,
and Roosevelt appears between two CT
villains, evidently secretaries - adju-
tants, perhaps, l should say
"He, showed great animation in his
answer to the president of congress,
who first addressed him, leaning for
ward, with his right foot well advanc-
ed, gesticulating vivaciously and ar
ticulating his words sharply, almost
swapping his teeth together while
speaking The impression one at once
feels from him is that of some ele-
mental force of nature, and this feel
ing is increased when the ordinary
round Of visitors with it's accompany
ing handshakings is begun, something
corresponding to what is known in the
style of European courts as a cercle.
Only here it is not merely case OF a
question put by the audience giver
and a more or less sensible answer re-
turned by the person receiving the au-
dience. A very animated conversation
is often developed, into which the pres
ident draws those who stand around
him or the adjutants by his side. Very
soon he is heard laughing a bit too
loudly; now he gives a man a hearty
clap on the shoulder that is almost
audible; then again he brings his hands
together with a smack There is moth
ing in the way of majesty about him;
one feels that he lets himself go com
pletely and then again remarks that
behind this almost savage nature force
is concealed a consummdte diplOmatist.
The president addressed me with a
foreign accent, but said, in faultlessly
correct German, I don't speak word
of German, it is true, but read Ger
man a great deal and like German po-
ptr-v bevond anything'
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SOUTHERN MERCHANTS OPPOSE "PARCELS POST
Would Mail Shopping Cheap Would Hurt Retail Trade
Cow Through the Mail.

and many portions of the continent.
It's introduction and passage by the
national congress would mean that
freight shipments of various sorts of
goods be practically made by mail
and at mail rates. In Germany, where
the system obtains, it is even possibl o
to mail live animals, and there was a
recent instance of a live COW being
sent through the mails. The argument
advanced by the merchants is that
such a system would make mail shop
ping so cheap that it would tend to
discourage and greatly hurt the bust
ness of the retailers in all but metro
politan cities.
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The retail merchants of Dawson and
other southern cities are protesting
against the passage of the proposed
"parcels post" bill, which will be in
PRODUCED in the next national congress.
Representatives of the National Retail
Grocers' Association are now touring
the state of Alabama in vigorous eff
forts to incite the merchants of that
commonwealth against the projected
measure.
They will also tour Georgia and
other southern states before congress
meets.
The "parcels post" bill is at present
in operation in England and Germany
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-15

Nature needs only a Little Early
Risers now and then to keep the bow
els clean, the liver active, and the
system free from bile, headaches, con-
tipation, etc. The famous little pills,
"Early Risers, are pleasant in effect
and perfect in action. They never
0ripe or sicken, but tone and strength
en- the liver and kidneys. Sold by
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-15
NOTES OF THE RAILWAY.

What is claimed will be one OF the
longest and highest viaducts construct
ed in the United States is to be built
by the Indianapolis Southern Railway
company on it's new indianapolis line
near Bloomfield, Ind, says the Chicago
Chronicle. The structure will have
maximum height Of 175 feet and
length of $500 feet. Engineers Of the
Illinois Central consumed three months
in trying to get a route through the
district that would escape ravine,
but the big viaduct was the only. way
out Of the difficulty 1t is expected
that the work VIII consume six months,
and the cost will be 100000. This will
be the biggest engineering work on
the new road, which will connect In
dianapolis with the main line OF the
Illinois Central railroad at Swift City.
A quaint incident Of the British as
sociation's recent train journey to Blu
luwayo was the behavior Of some os-
triches at Mochun station, which stalk
ed with stately gait along the train,
peeping In at the windows, but disdain'
ing the offered dainties.
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upon any form of amusement simply be-
cause of tradition. Those amusements in
which there is af element of brutality. OF
cruelty to animals or OF riotous luxury
are wrong. Those which may be carried on
In the presence and with the sanction OF
good women and good men, which involve
no harm to any one and which young peo-
pie, and older ones, too may enjoy. are all
right We would not send our young peo-
PIE unchaperoned 10 a public ball Far be
II from any parent who values the welfare
Oh ms child In this world and the next TO
let MIN enter the precincts OF a gambling
room. Ihere are amusements on which the
devil has sets his ineradicable stsmn hut
why object, as some conscientious peop,e
do, to a home dance or a school dance or
any Pheasant party where innocent amuse-
ment rules the hour? There is nothing OBJ
3ectionable in fun, good humor and a happy
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have been of a somewhat peripatetic nature,
and the whole family has never yet been
housed under the same roof. Many build
!nss in various parts of the city have at
different times afforded shelter for branches
of the city administration The District has
been a great mover" judging from the
records But so far as can be learned the
changes IN location have never been for
the same reason that sometimes actuates
private families, namely. that it is cheaper
to move than pay rent" On the contrary,
she District has spent many thousands of
dollars for rental of buildings belonging to
individuals and companies When the new
pendlture of revenues for rental will prac-
tiCally cease.
The office of the first mayor of the city
of Washington, Robert Brent, appears to
have been on the north side of south G.
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his heart he is a bit ashamed of himself
and he hopes that some other fellow will
offer his seat. If no other fellow does he
may rise and offer 1t with an appearance
of temper which makes 1t more unpleasant
for the woman than If he had kept his seat.
For this is one of the things that happen
when woman becomes a woman and
Brother rather than a woman and a sister.
However, she can put SO many solid adj
vantages to the account of her ranging
alongside that she endures such slight
drawbacks; although she does not IKE
them. but illogical to the last desires chiv-
airy as well as equality, which is contra
diction in terms. I never knew of any
woman except one--and she was an Amer
lean journalist, and was, believe playing
to the gallery of her English sisters-who
did not desire that seat in the railway car
riage Which is to say that woman would
still eat her cake and have it.
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Songs and Their Writers.
I'M The New BEDFORD Standard.


How the popular song dies past all resur-
rection is emphasized by the notice of the
death in Providence of Samuel y. Mitchell
who was the author OF some OF the most
widely known in their day. We sunrosa
that not one in one thousand OF the youra,
people who greet with avfdity IN. nau
songs of this day ever heard of Touch the
Harp Gently, MY Pretty Louise" and YET
IL had sale in this country of more than
four million copies, to say nothing of its
immense popularity in England. That must
have been thirty or forty years ago Mr.
Mitchell wrote Sadie Ray for popular
minstrel performer, and It was sung and
whistled and tnsn-tummed on PIANOS in
every nook and corner of this country Most
of the copies long since Went into the ASH
barrels. and The rest are In the attlos. Look
at the titles OF some of Mr. MitchelIs nnnsf
popular songs: Dear Sunny DAYS OF the
Past, Dance Me, Papa on Your Knee ;,
Amber Tresses Tied In Blue" The Lane
That Led TO School" My Love Sleeps
Under the Daisies, " Speak TO Me I[tndiv ;,
Little Bright Eyes at the Window Mag
gle With the Soft Brown Hair" our Com
rades Meath the Sod THE Sunny smile
of My Darling Sleeping in Deaths Camp
ing Ground. I'VE Deck Their Graves Alike
To-day" when My Love Comes Home to
Me-, Put My Little Shoes Away" There
are persons who recall them, but for the
most part their singing days are over, and
ragtime is more to the taste of the younger
generation. Mr.. Mitchells verses were
largely of the saccharine type that was af-
fected by the tenor soloist of the negro
company, the choruses lending
themselves effectively to the pianissimo rep
etition by the entire troupe, and they thrilled
many and many a susceptible heart. AS
poetry they were not, of course. pretentious.
Their author never dreamed that they were.
They did give innocent pleasure TO thou
sands of persons. and when they had served
their purpose, they were pushed aside By
the incoming Of q new school.
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corner or at the post Office than by his
own father. This is not because his father
does not love him, but simply because he
and his father do not stand on the same
plane; they are too far apart in years.
pursuits and sympathy TO speak the same
language.
Fathers fall into habit of snubbing
their growing boys. They forget that they
were boys themselves, or they do the thing,
SO to speak, on principle; feeling that they
are submitting their boys early to harden
ing process, which Will make life easier Tor
them by and by.
Boys do furtively many. things in which
there would be little harm If they were
done openly For example, the unwise
parent Eliminates a decree that his son
shall not play cards. The boy apparently
obeys. Nevertheless, he is entirely ia
miliar with knaves and trumps and aces
and all the nomenclature of CARDS; he plays
whist and euchre, and whatever other game
there may be, but he plays 1t in the barn
or away from home, or III some house or
which his father does not know the eX-
istence. When boys go wrong. nine times
out of ten the reason is that they have been
living a double life. They have been de-
ceving their parents In the ways open to
boys-sman ways, it is true, but neverthe-
less ways that lead downward Deceit fur
nishes a. very insecure foundation for sue
cess in life. as 1t necessarily undermines
good morals and lowers boys whole ideal.
If cards attract lad, do not hedge them
with a prohibition. but let him play openly
at home. They will be less charming If not
The first necessity is that parents and
children should be mutually confidential
and responsive. President Roosevelt has
uttered many wise counsels to this nation,
but no spoken word of his has been more
potential than the example he has set of
living with his childrGen fully as he
can sharing their pleasures and their sports
and being one with them in their various
undertakings. Probably the President is
the busiest man in the land. What he does
other fathers IN some measure may do.
In deciding what books boy or girl may
read the question arises whether so much
care may not be taken that they will read
nothing at all. Instead of resolving that
the children shall read no books which have
not been previously read by their parents.
why not make selections on broader lines?
Provide literally that which is good. Set
aside certain sum. even If it cost you self
denial for subscriptions to interesting
papers and magazines. Keep sensational
stuff and gross fiction out of the house. It
is chaff and life Is too short to be ehoked
with chaff. Your growing child intel
1ectually and spiritually, should be fed on
wheat. There are weekly papers and
monthly magazines for the young which
have sustained the highest reputation and
maintained the highest standards for thirty
years or more You read them yourselves
In childhood and they are not less fascinat-
ing to the children Of today. Let the boy
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used a part OF the Morrison building a
house on ID street near 9Th, a part of the
present District building, and later the de-
partmcnt was removed TO its present To-
cation on c street near AZ street
1t Is expected that the business of the
municipality will be transacted with great
er facility when the new District building
Is finished and all the branches of the
local government are brought together in
one structure. The new building has been
planned with sufficient space for all of the
departments, and allowance has been made
Tor increases in the volume of business of
each department. It will probably be many
years before additions to the new struc-
ture viii be necessary, notwithstanding the
pIstrict Is growing rapidly and the official
business of the city is Increasing prono~-
tionately.
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Home Pleasures for
the Young Folks
by MARGARET e. sANGSTER.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.,

49, URING the years when children
u are growing up, under the watch
ful care of father and mother.
great deal of discrimination must
be used as to their associations,
tta,r daily reading and their amusements.
no tbe observer who looks on from the out
eide and sometimes sees a good deal more
of family life than the family itself notices,
notbinp is more extraordinary than the fact
that parents often know very little about
their children. Each generation IN Ger
tain sense fights its own battles, solves It's
own problems and has its own atmosphere
The point of view of the father approach,
ing middle age is so different from that
of his boy of sixteen or eighteen that the
two have little IN common and are not In
sympathy one with the other.
Parents make so much Of authority dur
ing their childrens earlier years that the
children sometimes cease to trust them, re-
serve their confidence and live their little
lives in a world alien to that of the adult.
Even mothers, who are the natural conf
dartes of their sons and daughters. do not
always know very much about The inner
lives of these young creatures who have
the world before them. One often hears a
girl say. II could not ask my mother
about this or that. she would not UNDER
stand = a hoy Is very often muGh more
influenced by the fellow he meets at the
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message, but somehow the members got
wind of his mission, and when the police
reached the scene of distribution the con-
science-strcken relic hunters had returned
or were returning with their plumber, and
the affair had assumed more of the an
pearance of donation party than the
differing bee that was in full blast when
the faithful messenger left for help.
"One of the members, however, who was
found fiagrante delictu' was a well-known
local politician, who had slipped down his
trousers leg one of the official feather
busters which, like Byron's feelings he
had to return it, but he became the butt
of the newspaper testers of the time, and
the subject of the derisive nom-de-plume
which viii ever distinguish the last phase
of the suffrage times which many of our
citizens recall
!:
The police department, another branch
of the municipal government, has occu-
pied many buildings in various parts of
the city. The first headquarters of this
department was in the scale house at
Center market, and next portion of the
city hall was utilized to house the de-
partment. The old central guard house on
Louisiana avenue between 9Th and 10th
streets was used as the police headquar-
tiers in $780, and several changes of loca
ton were made up TO 1879 when the police
occupied the building at the northwest cor
ner of AZ street and Pennsylvania avenue,
which is now used as the bar room of
hotel In 1895 the department moved to
the building at 464 Louisiana avenue, and
few years later the department moved
to it's present location.
When the temporary Commission
ers' form of government was instituted in
1874 the Commissioners had their head
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have his own weekly paper, coming to him
through the mail, the girl her own maya
zine with her name on its cover. If there
is no good free library near you, pay for
ticket In your boys name in the nearest
town library. and feel certain that the
usual good censorship is keeping out the
chan.
Encourage talk about what is read in the
family and at the table.
II you value the highest development pos
sibie for your son and daughter, see that
of our English Bible. The Billie is too
much overlooked in this day 1t is foun-
tain of beautiful English, a guide to pure
ethics. and the one book which no one can
afford to neglect.
The question is somewhat more compli
Gated when it presents itself as having to
do with associations. Naturally we all wish
to keep on good terms with our neighbors.
Few things are more embarrassing than
to show neighbor that you do not care
to have your boy friendly with his. What
ever fault we may find with children.
we are extremely quick to resent criticisms
of them by other people.
The obvious remedy for an association
which may be disadvantageous is to bring
it into the full-orbed focus of home life and
light. Let the home be free to the boy and
his friends. Let him feel that he may in
evening, and let father and mother be
present and take part in whatever is going
on. To live with our children and with
their friends is to safeguard them against
evil companions. Nor need we be phari-
saieal, for
There is much good in the worst Of u.s.
And much bad in the best Of us,
That 1t little behooyes any of US
To talk about the rest of u.s.
Young people demand entertainment You
cannot put old heads on young shoulders.
nor should you desire to do so. What you
and / need to 90 is to keep an even bal
auce. to adjust work and play, to remem-
Der that recreation is as rightful a thing
as labor. but that excessive devotion to
a amusement leads to wasteful dissipation
hoy who can never spend quiet even
ing at homo girl who Graves continual
excitement 81 In peril of losing the best
that can be gwen him or her and of making
shipwreck, Notwithstanding the fairest OPP
portunities.
People are always asking about amuse-
TO do that2 Is It sinful to go here, or go
there? And there is an inherited tendency
In most of us TO put premium upon
asceticism per sc. Somehow or other we
fancy that there is great virtue In wearing
a haircloth shirt, and keeping frequent fast
DAYS and denying ourselves innocent pleas
ure But no pleasure that is innocent de-
prives any one and ban nesd not Be Laid
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7VHE revolution in the social rela-
tions between men and women
has come gradually, almost I'M
perceptibly. yet it has occurred
within a very short space of m e..
People need not be very far advanced III
their forties TO rememger when girls were
as timid and conventional as Jane Austen
heroines II they had discarded the short
WASTED frocks with the low neoks ana
the sinners with white silk stockings, yet
they preserved under their sacques with
paniers over quilted petticoats. under their
Langtry Jerseys hearts as mild and maid
emily as those far-away damsels. That was
the time when no properly brought up girl
would drive In hanson. feed at res
taurant or drink glass of nnocuous
sherry. The heroine who first climbed on
top of a bus deserves 10 have her name
recorded In history.
IL was time when men had their diver
stons to then selves, when cards and racing
were masculine mysteries TO the mother as
well as the daughter: when croquet, with
its genteel exposure Of q tdsSe-ed boot was
not yet quite gone out OF fashion. Inc
women of those days must have been as
mysterious to the men as the men were
TO them. L..
were gone out of fashion, yet II was a
charming thing in woman 10 pc deilcate:
Drinking vinegar was yet Whispered OF
among school girls as a desirable aid TO
the complexion. in which the color OF health
was a miIkmaid vulgarty. ! myself have
known what IL was to sit with backDoafd
in class Girls wept and tainted OF easy
provocation. To he sure. tight iacing,
which is now an eecentricity. was then a
commonplace. 4 girl shrieked over many
things over a black beetle, a mouse, a
COW Her novel reading was circumscribed.
Many mothers of daughters tabooed' every
thing but The Heir of Redclyffe. That
all the world danced the waltz was some
thing Of a violent contradiction.