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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19

Competition in bidding for mail con
tracts, particularly in rural districts,
is fast becoming a matter of history
according to postofice officials. For
merly, Uncle Sam found carriers for
many of the smaller routes for practi-
cally nothing, but in nearly every such
case the man who holds the job nova
DAYS receives a more or less adequate
compensation. Under the old regime,
the most extraordinary condition of
affairs often existed. For instance, the
mail carrier at Lake Charles, La, was
under a contract for four years to pay
to the government the sum of $50 a
year for carrying the mails by steamer
distance of fifty-five miles three
times each week, the value to the car
rier being found, Of course, liz the U.sl-
ness standing which he derived from
the service. This contract has just
ended, and the new incumbent is to
receive a salary of $4,000 a year for
doing just the same work that cost his
predecessor $50 annually, A still more
curious instance of the old order is
found in the case of West Bridgeton,
VT. where the carrier, for going twelve
times a week to Woodstock, six miles
away, received the princely sum of one
cent each year for his services. His
successor now receives $500, A for
mer carrier of Freedom, n, H., also dis
tinguished himself by carrying the
mails several miles daily for two and
a half mills year, The job now pays
$3.50. Altogether, Uncle Sans letter
carriers are coming into newer and
better conditions.
The superintendent of schools in
Georgia town, with a salary of $1,000
pc. year. has just resigned after nine
years service to accept a better posi-
ton elsewhere. In conversation with
a friend he stated that during the nine
wears. with no other source of income
than his salary, he had accumulated
and was taking away with him $4,000.
He had not speculated. Just saved.
His total income for nine years was
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
ARE NO LATCH-KEYS FOR
YOUTH IN SAN MARINO
Midget Republic Furnishes Doctors Who Tell Tales Puts
in Prison People Who Swear, and Fines Bogus
Nobernen for "Usurping Esteem"

dentist who received his title of Duke
in this manner.
The spirit Of caste and other most
undemocratic traditions prevail.
The executive power is in the hands
of two Captains.Regent, elected in
April and October by the Council of
Sixty; one of them must always be a
noblenan and the other a burgess-a
plain citizen.
All legislative power is vested La the
Council of Sixty, which governs the
State in truly paternal style This
Council of Sixty is composed of twenty
mobiles, twenty burgesses and twenty
eountrymen or peasants.
Whenever a vacancy is caused by
deah, the remaining councillors elect a
successor.
When the history of the movement
for national unity in Italy during the
nineteenth century is considered, the
existence today of San Marino as an
independent republic is little short of
marvellous Small wonder that the SUI
perstitious Italians should look upon
the survival of the Oldest and smallest
Of republics as a miracle.
Strange Freak of Freedom"
But, explain it as one may, by a
miracle or otherwise, this strange
freak of freedom remains, in this year
of grace, 1906, a close oligarchy with
medieval laws and constitution.
San MarinO was founded about the
middle Of the third century by a Dali
NATHAN peasant named Marinus. Lit
lie, however, is known concerning the
republics history previous to 885, the
date Of the first authentic document
relating to the town Of San Marine.
IN 1897, Bonaparte with unusual
nagnanimity, refrained from anneXing
Get echantillon de republique" chat
sample Of a republic). Napoleon prob
ably was unaware of the aristocratic
nature of the oigarchy which then
ruled and still rules the republic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
THIS MAN PAYS UNCLE SAM FOR
THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING FOR HIM

$4,000 Allowing for interest, it
meant that he had lived for nine years,
supporting wife and one child, on
$4,000, or about $3.50 per week for
each member of the family, which in
cluded rent clothes and food.
If the standard of living determines
the standard OF wages, the argument
against immigration based on the fear
that foreign standards are menace to
American labor must fall fat before
such record as quoted above Even
in the foreign quarter the cost of liv-
ing will average as high if not higher
than this.
A leading journal says of this man;
Here is an educated man, whose
living in any community is Of no
value to the tradesman. With a con
tinuous diet of insufficient and gener
ally unnutritious food, because cheap,
the physical deterioration of such peo-
pie is marked in themselves, and es-
pecially in their children, who, lacking
energy, become the spindle-shanked
dyspeptics that sit on and obstruct the
wheels of progress.
"At what point does a stingy man
become a menace to the community"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
TO CUT COTTON; NOT PICK 1T
Progressive Planters Advocate Cut
ting the Plant and Harvesting
1t Like Wheat.

With a suddenness almost startling,
manufacture has taken Southern labor
away from agriculture. Consequently,
says the Southern Farm Magazine,
men have been set to thinking out
machines, not so much to supplant
muscle as to do the work for which
muscle has become less and less avail.
able.
The progress that has been made
was shown last month by test of five
different cane leaders in Louisiana in
the presence of numDer of sugar
planters, who were so we'll satisfied
with the results that they had diff
Guilty in deciding which of at least
three Of the machines was preferable
One of these loaded 3,400 pounds Of
cane in five minutes and Sc seconds;
another two tons Of cane in six min
utes and IS seconds, and the third
two tons in five minutes and As sec
onds. One mule is the power needed
to operate the leaders, though one Of
them is arranged so that gasoline
engine may be used.
All these machines, as we'll as the
new cotton harvesters, cling to the
idea of substituting a machine for
muscle in the actual picking of cotton.
But it is believed that the real solution
of the problem will not be reached I'M
til the idea of picking cotton at all in
the fields is given up. The advanced
cotton growers advocate cutting the
plants entire and harvesting them by
machinery just as wheat is harvested.
The plants will then be threshed and
ginned. This idea involves changes
in the methods Of planting cotton and
in the handling Of the growing plants
which may appear radical at first
glance. but which it is believed are
practicable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
ELECTION OF JUDGES.
State Committee Fixes Oct. 3 as Date
for Nominating Three.

state Committee Fixes Oct. 3 as Date
for Nominating Three.
The state democratic executive com
mittee has met in Atlanta and decided
that October 3, the day of the general
election, should be the date for vot-
ing for the Judges for the court Of
appeals.
The majority rule is ignored, and a
plurality will be sufficient to elect.
Separate ballot boxes will be pro-
vided, bat the same managers and
clerks will act.
Candidates must file a statement OF
the money spent by them in their cam
paign, and their names will not APP
pear on the baIlets unless this is
done.
There are about twenty candidates
for the three places.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19

See our beautiful line of para
soils. They are the best in the
city for the price.
When in need of Rugs, Art
Squares, Curtains, Shades, Fur
niture, don't forget we handle
them and will appreciate your
trade.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
TYNER's DYSPEPSIA REMEDY.
Many Have Dyspepsia and Don't
Know 1t


Know 1t
Do you belch up wind? Taste your
food after eating? See specks before
your eyes? Are you pale and bag
gard Does your heart hutter? Are
you dizzy? Do you have pains in
side or back? Risings on the skin ?
Are you low spirited? Is there a
sour taste? Breath bad? If so you
have dyspepsia, and it is danger
Gus condition. Don't delay, but take
Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy. 1t is
made for just such troubles and symp-
toms. Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy
removes acids from the stomach,
strengthens weak stOmachs, helps di-
gest your food. Sold by druggists,
SOC. a bottle. Money refunded if it
fails to cure. Medical advice and cir
cular free by writing to Tyner Rene
dY Co., Augusta, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
A SENSIBLE HEIRESS.
Prefers a Real Man to a Titled Lord
for Husband,

RfeIerS a 1teaI MAN TO a 1ICIcu IIOrU
for Husband.
Miss Margaret Livingston Chanler
of New York, great granddaughter of
John Jacob Astor and an heiress to
millions, is young woman to whom
the country will take off its hat. Pos
sessing both beauty ard riches. it was
hers to choose whether she would wed
a society young man or just a man.
She chose the man. Her selection is
a orker in a New York newspaper
Office. a young chap Of brains and en-
ergy, but no fortune, He doesn't care
three stra#s for society" but is de-
voted to high ideals and working for
humanity. Miss Chanler admired him
for his intellectual qualities, and did
not care pin whether he had bank
account or not. She will have a bet
ter husband than could have possibly
been purchased in the matrimonial
markets of European nobility, and he
will have wife worthy Of mans
devotion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19

Locksmiths are forbidden to sell
latch-keys to young men in this, the
smallest republic on earth, and, it is
claimed, the oldest among States -
more than a thousand years of age.
Nobody is permitted to play game
of chance either in public or in pri-
Vate.
This latter regulation is a silent re-
buke to Monaco the smallest Of prin-
cipalities Though Monte Carlo is 2J9
miles away to the west as the crow
flies, the echo Of the unrestrained
gambling there is heard here. This
tiny republic is very proud Of having
resisted numerous temptations in the
way of rich offers for gaming conces-
sions.
Yet Monaco with q permanent popu-
lation of 10000, has more than mil
lion visitors every year, while San Ma
rinO, wholly inclosed in the Kingdom
of Italy, only nine miles from Rimini.
and sixty from Florence, has few OF
none.
Fines are prescribed here for doc
tors, chemists or bloodle,,ers who re
veal professional secrets, for disturb
ers of Roman Catholic services (but
not those of heretics), and for "usur-
patton of public esteem" by assuming
titles.
Imprisonment for from one to three
months is imposed for profanely using
the name of the Deity or of the Holy
Virgin, or cursing the founder Of the
republic.
To write or speak in favor of dis
solving the Council is punishable by
ten years penal servitude.
Special licenses are required for
growing tobacco, keeping she-goats, 60
ing up in balloons or climbing the
town walls.
A dozen republics the size of San
Marine could be put in New York City
without crowding.
The capital" the village of San Ma
rino, is perched on sheer rock more
than 1000 feet above the sea level and
the four or five other villages are built
on the craggy sides of the mountain.
All told, there are some eleven thou
sand people.
One part of the town is wholly taken
up by the residences of the mobiles, the
remainder of the capital being rele-
gated to the burgesses and peasants.
The principal public building is the
Government Palace, which contains
the throne of the Captains-Regent, and
among other pictures a portrait of
George Washington, with the inscrip-
ton
ain honor of the founder of the
greatest of republics, this portrait was
donated by the citizens of the oldest of
republics"
Not the least interesting sight in
San Marine is to see the national ar
nv on parade. The entire army con-
sists of 124 men. Some of the uni
forms, with cooked hats and plumes.
are magnificent, and every man struts
about with as ferocious and self-satis-
fed an expression as any Prussian
veteran. Honorary rank in this army
with the right to wear the uniform is
as easily obtained as are titles OF
nobility.
Some Americans Got Titles Here.
Various titles of nobility are con-
ferred by the government of the re-
public A few American citizens have
been given handles 70 their names
by the republic, among them being
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19

No one would buy a sailboat with
sails that could not be reefed. There
is always that possibility of a little
too much wind that makes a cautious
man afraid to go unprovided. The
thinking man, whose stomach some
times goes back on him, provides for
his stomach by keeping a bottle of
KodOl For Dyspepsia within reach.
Ko1Ol digests whatyou eat and restores
the stomach to the condition to prop
erly perform its functions. Sold by
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
LIKES PENITENTIARY GRUB.
Zebra Whose Time Was Up Climbed
Back Into Pen and Fell in Line.

Zebra Whose Time Was Up Climbed
Back Into Pen and Fell in Line.
A Nashville, Tenn, dispatch says:
Last night Robert Jenkins, colored,
crawied over the high walls surround
ing the state prison, secured striped
suit of clothes and fell in line for his
breakfast. After eating he fell in line
again and went to work in the foun-
dry before he was discovered. Jen-
kins was sent up for grand larcency,
and after serving his term was dis
charged on August l. He explained
his action as follows:
II get better grub to eat in here, ;"
said Bob. "Where I been boardin'
dey puts de butter clean ercross on
de other side of de table and de lam
lady DIDN'T gimme :but two biscuits.
Out here at de pen Capn. Sol doan
hol' back nuthln' ter eat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19

For the ladies we have the
Drew-Selby line of footgear in
many lasts and all sizes. For
durability and style they are
worth twice what we ask. There
are none better.
Our dress goods line is replete
with all late styles and weaves.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
STEEL TRUST EXTORTION

Probably only small fraction those who read the
Steel
company have declared dividend OF IN the
preferred stock and per cent the common stock
realized its full significance.
This dividend the first in three years declared
stock and II Is based the Steel Trusts
six months The dividend enough
appearance but that does alter the fact that the
combine OF the most scandalously inflated
and most outrageousy protected corporations in the
country
II the product OF Carnegies clever manipulation
which made him OF the richest in the worlds
history The common stock s5Os 200 900 and
izaton OF actual capital much made pos
protection OF as cent. which the Dngey
tariff bill gives it's produce.
In the the earnings OF the Steel Trust
all OF which OF the pockets Of
American people II has aside and
probation s5s0O000; for special improvements and
placements s2500,000 and large for construction
and the purchase of additional property. Five million
dollars It is TO distribute in the form OF dividends
Every citizen of the United States has interest In
operations of this fruit Of high protection It's
dongs special abroad, for the trusts
prices foreign lands honest and not like those
charged consumers exorbitant.
Steel Trust sells Liverpool at the rate OF s2l
the products for which II charges American
purchasers s2s These products Americans
Is because the demand imperative that the
is able TO profit OF se,oo00oo In single
Perhaps the not toy be blamed for
making the most OF their peculiar and special opportun
Doubtless safe breaking TO be legazed bank
Where blame the Republican party
the Dngiey tariff and which maintains II in
giving Steel legal warrant and protection
in It's practice OF extortion.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND.

There is a short crop OF blueberries
this year on the Maine fields, and this
means a great loss TO a great many
people. Instead of the usual income
OF 5000 there will be only a little over
$1,000 for the many pickers to divide
among them.
ST Adams, VT, Messenger: A minnow
OF considerable size Is on exhibition in
"A glass Jar In the store OF A. B. Yam.
dow OF Essex Junction. Horatio Read,
while delivering ice, in breaking one OF
the large cakes found the minnow en-
bedded In the solid mass The piece
containing the specimen was carefully
broken of and placed In water. When
the ice dissolved the fish began to
swim
w. c. Benson of Camden, Me-. is rails
ing tobacco plants this year One of
them was broken of the other day and
on measuring the leaves were found TO
be Ia by "a inches. There were several
leaves Of these measurements. Mr..
Benson's crop Of six plants Is doing
finely.
THE Ark" is at Indian Neck, Conn.
IL is a ship on land. the remains OF the
Jenny Lind OF Sag Harbor, which was
wrecked near where The Ark" Is now.
At the time the vessel was some 40 feet
from shore, but the shore grew 10 the
ship. which now serves the purpose or
a restaurant.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
ANOTHER TOLEDO
MARVEL

Toledo broke the American record
few weeks ago by putting behind iron
bars the first batch OF criminal conspira-
tors In restraint OF trade. Another claim
on renown is now offered by the town
which Golden Rule" Jones and Prose-
cutor weisenheimer have made famous.
Congress appropriated 100000 for the site
OF a federal building there. which has just
been acquired by the treasury department
at a cost OF $4,000 less than the amount
set aside for tthe purpose. The surplus
has actually been returned 10 the treas
ury. When the managers of Speaker Can
mons pork barrel hear OF this they may
not recover from the shock. IL Is an un-
heard of thing for owners OF real estate
to accept less from the government than
has been apportioned to them by the
representative of the district, through the
Indulgence of the committee on pork. The
precedent is so vicious, from the grafters
point of view, that some steps may be
taken TO call the purchase off and punish
the seller who has dared 10 take only
something like what his property ~
worth instead OF going into conspiracy
with other owners and gouging the gov
ernment out of the last dollar appropria-
ted.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
BANK DISCRIMINATION.

The fact appears not TO be generally
known that financial Institutions extend
courtesy toward each other by accord
ing messengers bearing notes, drafts or
checks precedence In line at paying tell.
ers' windows regardless OF the time of
day or the rush OF business An unusual
ly long waiting list was In evidence at
the withdrawal window OF bank near
Union square the other afternoon, when,
a few minutes before closing hour, 3
o'clock. n dapper youth elbowed right OF
way for himself at the same moment
taking from his coat pocket the conven-
tional foot long document receptacle
chained TO his belt A couple of impa-
tient men on the line registered vigor..
Gus protests. but that was all the good
IL did them.-New York Press.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
A CASE OF IMITATION

Incited patriotic demonstration In this
OF the OF the remains Of Paul
OF Great Britain has decided TO do
thing quite brilliant along the line good
Engshmen found sepuchre in foreign lands.
famous that Richard Soeur de Lion. King
o England who fate benttng one of his becose
kind while nghting in France and who buried In the
abbey of Fonevrau Saumur In the valley of the
Loire,
n common belief that Richards tomb and that
Henry England who buried in the abbey,
long desecrated and destroyed but inasmuch
British taken formal steps
French republic the restoration OF the
bones Richard Hearted his native land It
that least part of Richards dust still exists.
will able grow enthusiastic this hero of the
Crusades SO terrible fighter he that Turkish and
Arab mothers even after lapse many centuries.
frighten children when disobedient trouble
with his name.
fighter Richard a bad English
man. his life spent In his native country
practically only he have had for IL
during his reign II most abominaby to sup
port his foreign
VIII along this line that the historic
gratitude OF England will poured forth IL Richards
bcnes are brought Possibly the English people
will express gratitude for the foundation he Of
lion laid for the imperial taxation Of this
twentieth century
Richard said that he habtuated
Engishmen surrendering farhing they could be
up that they have lost their perfect
taxability.
on a basis the English nation hail with Joy
repatriation OF the remains OF Richard Occur de Lion
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02

many who go canoeing The slightest failure to
properly trim" the craft in calm waters means an
upset while in eddes and swift currents only the
expert is safe for moment, and he only in knowing
how to swim if occasion for it arises suddenly.
That peculiar person who rocks the boat is
beyond the reach of appeal or reason He is simply
fool. All that can be done in his case is TO warn
others against him. In the case of one who safes
his taste for folly by rocking boat and escapes
with his life it would be ustihable the part Pf
those whom he mperiled to attempt to beat senSe
into him with a convenient oar. Frequently he Y
himself the victim OF his own folly, and in THAI
instance the incident is strictly retrbutive.
Nevertheless such incidents perturbng
Usually il is the boat rocker who escapes, and in
cases of drowning due to his reckessness he should
be held to answer for homicide.
No doubt with every possible precaution taken
there will still be disasters OH the water, but pru-
dence and intelligence will avert many of them.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
TALK 1T OVER
WITH YOUR WIFE

There are thousands OF families home
less. or living in poverty ard wrstched-
ness today. who could have been living
I'm comfort. in good homes. II the hus-
bands had confded their business AFFAIRS
to their wives.
Women are very much better judges OF
human nature than men. They can detect
rascalty, deception. and insincerity more
quickly.
| know business men who would never
think of employing a manager OF super
intendent. or a man for any other I'M
portant position. or OF choosing parl-
ner. without managing in some way 10
have their wives meet the man and get
a chance to estimate him, TO read him'
They invite the man, whom they are con-
s,dering for an important position, 10
their home for dinner, or TO spend sun
day. before deciding. They want the ad-
vantage of that marvellous feminine IN
stinct which goes so directly and uner-
ringly 10 its mark.
| have known OF several instances wnere
n wife had cautioned her husband against
having anything to do with man with
whom he was thinking OF going into busi-
ness. but the husband ignored the wife
opinion as silly. and disregarded her ad-
vice TO his great sorrow later as the man
turned out exactly as the wife had pre-
dicted ed-"Success Magazine"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-02
SCHEME OF A LOVER.

London had recently a novelty in a
breach OF promise suit or at any rate
in the evidence introduced The young
people, having arranged to get mar
ried exactly 110 weeks from their en-
gagement, kept tally of the time by
threading 10 squares of cardboard on
piece of string and taking one off
and throwing IL away every Sunday
evening This is decided improve
ment upon the schoolboy's plan OF the
number OF days to the holidays. with
one day crossed out every night. Incl
dentally IL may help the assessment OF
damages II a breach results. In this
instance ninety-nine squares had been
removed when all was over, and 1926
was claimed and awarded.