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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-06
ACT NO. 8.


BY Mr.. Pcarce. House Bill No. 43.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 25d
of the Constitution Of the State of
Louisiana, relative to the removal of
the limitation on appropriations for
the Louisiana Industrial Institute, To-
Gated at Ruston, La, for maintenance
and support.
Section /. Be It resolved by the Gen.
eral Assembly Of the State Of Louisiana,
two-thirds Of all the members elected
to each House concurring. That Article
256 Of the Constitution Of the State of
Louisiana, be amended and re-enacted 80
as to read as follows:
Article 256. The Louisiana State Nor
NAL School established and located at
Natchitoches; the industrial Institute and
College Of Louisiana whose name is
hereby changed to the Louiiana Indus.
trial Institute, established and located
at Ruston, and the Southern University,
now established in the City of New Or.
leans, for the education Of persons of
color are hereby recognized; and the
General Assembly is directed to make
such appropriations from time to time
as may be necessary for the maintenance
and support and improvement Of these
institutions provided that the arpropria-
ton for the maintenance and support Of
the Southern University shall not exceed
ten thousand dollars per annum.
Section 2. Be It further resolved, etc.,
That said proposed amendment be sub
mitted to the electors Of the State Of
Louisiana for their approval or rejection,
as required BY Article 321 Of the Constit-
tuition Of the State Of Louisiana and the
general election AHs Ct this State, At the
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-10-06

Board, said Board Of Liquidation shall
sell said bonds in such amounts as II
may be requested so to do, by sealed pro
posals to the highest bidder, for not less
than par and accrued interest, after
thirty days advertisement Of such sale.
in one newspaper published in each Of
the cities Of New York, Chicago and New
Orleans.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, ETC..
That the proceeds Of all such sales b
held by the Board of Liquidation AMI
paid over on the warrant Of the Sew
erage and Water Board in the manner
and under the conditions provided 10
said Act No. 6 Of the extra session VI
1899, and the amendments thereof.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the proceeds Of said bonds shaI
be used exclusively for the completio.
Of the existing sewerage, water and
drainage systems Of the City Of New
Orleans, with these ez>eptions only:
(a) That II the said systems do not
require the expenditure for their compile.
ton Of the whole Of said proceeds, the
balance thereof shall be held BY the
Board Of Liquidation to the credit Of
the City Of New Orleans, to bs expended
by it for paving purposes, only:
lb) That when water and sewerage
systems are completed and their opera
ton is begun, the expenses Of the opera
ton Of said systems for not more than
thu Asat tvanty-kepr months thAfadf ,A.-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10

Dawson cannot afford to miss the
Southern and Gulf railroad, OF which
Mr.. ]. r. Mercer was elected vice
president at the recent organization
of the company.
The road will not only traverse
one of the richest countries OF the
entire south, but will put this sec
ton in close and direct contact with
the Panama canal. The following
from the cambridge Seach-Llght
will give some idea of the impor-
tance of the road:
Work on the Southwestern and
Gulf railroad will begin at an early
day, from either Dawson or Albany,
to some point on the gulf, probably
st. Andrews Bay
''The line will run through a rich
country, embracing one of the flnest
agricultural sections in the south,
and prolific of the finest timber pre-
serves.
LAS all eyes are directed to the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
WILL OPEN REMARKABLY
PRODUCTIVE TERRITORY
The New Railroad to the Gulf Will Run Through One
of the Richest Sections of the South Dawson
Cannot Afford to Be Asleep.

fortunes to be made in the eXpan-
sive and productive territory tribu-
tary to the Gulf of Mexico, especially
since the Panama canal is no longer
an irridescent dream, but a stern
reality, the country along this pro-
posed railroad route will soon be
filled up with a live and thrifty pop
ulation. The timber and turpentine
resources along its line would, alone,
guarantee it's profitable operation,
outside of it's varied agricultural GER
tainties.
"Col. w. M. Legg, who is at the
head of this great enterprise, is one
of the most expert and practical rail
road managers in the southern
states. Still in the forties, as age
goes, he has been identified with
some of the greatest railroad sys-
TENS in America, while all of the
other officials are the most practi-
cal sort of men.
Backed by a syndicate with I'M
limited capital, the road is bound to
be a success from the start. ="
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
LETTER TO J. w. HUCKABY.
Dawson, Ga.

Dear Sir: We shall feel obliged
if you write us how you came-out on
your first few jobs Devoe, as to gal
Ions expected and used.
Take job A. You made your
price, expecting to use 25 gallons
Devoe, and used Is. Job B. You
expected to use Is and used 10. And
tell us what paint you had used be-
fore. Of course, you Judge Devoe
by what you have used before.
Here's how a few came-out.
NJ A Thomas, painter, Lynchburg,
Va, writes: My first job with De-
voc, | estimated 81 gallons; it took
.25. Since then | have used nothing
else.
C B Edwards, Raleigh, N c, had
used 80 gallons paste paint on his
house, and bought 80 gallons De-
voc; A E Glenn, his painter, said it
wouldn't be enough. Had 16 gal
Ions left.
Mayor w w Carroll, Monticello,
Florida, writes: Painter estimated
35 gallons for my house; took 20
gallons DevOe.
Gilmore & Davis Co, contractors
and painters, Tallahassee, Florida,
say 2 gallons Devoe spreads as far
as 8 of any other paint they know,
and covers better.
S A Billiard, painter, Sanford,
Florida, estimated 10 gallons Devoe
for Odd Fellows and Masonic Halls;
they took 20 DevOe.
Jones & Rogers, Merkel, Texas,
estimated 10 gallons Devoe for Mr.
Pratt's house and bought 5 gallons
for first coat; it painted two coats.
Erb-Springall Co, San Antonio,
Texas, painted two houses same size
for D ] Woodward, one lead and
oil, the other Devoe. Devoe cost
So less for paint and labor.
Tom Masey's painter, Walnut
Springs, Texas, estimated for his
house 10 gallons DevOe; he had 4
left.
You see how it goes. Even the
best painters can't guess little
enough at first.
Yours truly
F w DEVOE & co
New York
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
"The Blood is The Life"

Science has never gone beyond the
above simple statement of scripture. But
it has Illuminated that statement and
given it meaning ever broadening with
the increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is "bad or impure it
is not alone the body which suffers
through disease. The brain is also
clouded, the mind and judgement are
effected, and many an evil deed or impure
thought may be directly traced to the
impurity of the blood. Foul, impure blood
can be made pure by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1t
enriches and puriies the blood thereby
curing, pimples, blotches, eruptions and
other cutaneous affections, as eczema,
letter. or salt-rheum, hives and other
manifestations of impure blood.
O o O o O o
In the cure of scrofulous swellingS, en-
larged glands, open eating ulcers, or old
sores. the Golden Medical Discovery y has
performed the most marvellous cures. In
cases of old sores, or open eating ulcers,
ii is well to apply to the open sores Dr..
Pierce's All-Healing Salve, which pos
sesses wonderful healing potency when
used as an application to the sores in con-
junction with the use of Golden Medical
Discovery as a blood cleansing consti-
tutional treatment. If your druggist
don't happen to have the "All-Healing
Salve" in stock, you can easily procure it
by inclosing ffty-fOur cents in postage
stamps to DIR. r. Y. Pierce, 663 Main ST.,
Buffalo. N. Y, and it will come to you by
return post. Most druggists keep it as
well as the rGolden Medical Discovery"
000 O O Q 30
You can't afford to accept any medicine
of aulkllOlCrl composition as substitute
for Golden Medical Discovery" which is
a medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION
having complete list of ingredients in
plain English on its bottle-wrapper, the
same being attested as correct under oath
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
LUMBER IS MUCH TOO HIGH
SCARCITY OF RESIDENCES IN
DAWSON is THUS EXPLAINED.
Property Owners Claim They Can't
Afford to Put Up Houses for
Rent at Present High
Cost of Material.

Cost of Material.
There is not a vacant residence in
Dawson, and every day there are APP
plications for homes that cannot be
supplied.
That Dawson needs more resi-
dences for rent has been recognized
and admitted for the longest"
People who contemplate coming
20 Dawson are prevented from doing
so by their inability to secure homes,
and there seems to be no probability
of this condition being remedied in
the near future.
Rents as they are now seem enor-
mously high to the man who has
to come across" with his monthly
or quarterly stipend. Five and six
room cottages which five years ago
rented for So and $40 a month are
now from S12 to SIS, and even at
that the landlords are said to be
barely breaking even.
The same conditions prevails in
Valdosta, and The Times OF that city
finds the explanation in the high
price of lumber and other building
material.
AS leading renting agent puts it
to the Times, a house which it now
costs from $4,000 to $4,000 to build
not counting the cost of the land
will rent for $500 to $500 a
month, according to location. On
top of this investment must come the
cost of repairs and taxes, showing a
meagre return indeed for the owner.
| The same real estate man stated
| that where a few years ago he could
hire a fairly good carpenter at from
| $1.25 to $3.50 a day, the same man
gets now from 1925 to $3.50 day.
The increased cost of lumber is prob
ably more than the advance in
wages, amounting to fully 33 1-3 per
cent over the prices of five years
ago. While for some weeks some
/ classes of lumber have declined, the
prices of building material, includ-
ing framing, flooring and ceiling,
have made little change. First-class
ceiling and flooring is selling right
along at from $500 to $21.0O per
! thousand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
FOR ALDERMAN.

To the Citizens of Dawson: 1 am candidate for
Alderman, subject to the city primary. I viii
apprecite the support of the public. and if elect
ed my effort shall be to upbuild Dawson. and to
further its prosperity on reasonable and con-
sentative lines. Respectfully, J. B. HAYES.
The following are candidates for Public School
Commissioners of Dawson and the support of
them in the city primary will be Appreciated
G NJ ROBERTS. J. A, HORSLEY.
LUCIUS LAMAR, J. G. PARKS.
j. r IRWIN. NJ. G.. EDWARDS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
Petition for Charter.

Georgia, Terrell County.-To the Superior
Court of said County: The petition of f. A.
Facer of Fulton county and 6. w. Dozler of Ter
rell county, all of said state, respectfully shows:
lst. That they desire for themselves. their as
sociates. successors ana assigns to become in
corporated under the name and style of The Ma
tional Single Leaf Hotel Register and Cabinet
Company of Dawson Ga. The period for which
petitioners ask to be incorporated is twenty
years with the privilege of renewal at the end Of
that time
2nd. The capital stock Of said corporation is
to be two thousand dollars, to be divided into
twenty shares Of the par value Of one hundred
dollars each. Petitioners ask the privilege OF
increasing same to the sum OF one hundred
thousand dollars from time to time, as the stock
holders may see fit. without the further order OF
the court; limiting the liability Of each stock
holder to the amount OF stock owned. All OF
said capital stock of two thousand dollars has
been paid in.
3rd. The object of the proposed corporation is
pecuniary gain and profit to its stockholders.
4th. Petitioners propose to manufacture, lease,
sell or operate a device known as a Single Leaf
Hotel Register and cabinet as an advertising
medium Also to do such acts and have such
powers as are appurtenant and belonging to SAID
line OF business, and which may pertain to or be
connected with the advertising business in any
capacity whatever; to buy, lease or contract for
spaces in BOOKS periodicals, newspapers. street
or railway cars steamboats, or anv other space or
spaces that can be used for advertising.
5th. The home office and place Of business Of
said corporation is to be Dawson, Ga. But petit
TONERS desire to locate branch offices and carry
on its business in any state in the United States
of America
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made body
corporate under the name and style aforesaid.
entitled to the rights. privileges and immunties
and subject to the liabilities fixed by the general
laws Of this state. This 18th day of September
1906. NJ. c. EDWARDS.
Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in Office Sept. Is 1906.
W :. DOZTER Clerk.
Georgia, Terrell County.-Clerk's Office. Terrell
Superior Court i hereby certify that the fore
going is a true coDy of the application filed in
my office for charter OF The National Single Leaf
Hotel Register and Cabinet Company. Witness
ms hand and official signature this 18th day of
September. 1906 w. s. DOZIER, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
ABadIy Burned Girl

or boy, man or woman, is quickly
out of pain if Bucklen's Arnica Salve
is applied promptly. G. J. WEIGH, OF
Tekonsha, Mich, says: I use it in
my family for cuts, sores and all
skin injuries, and find it perfect.
Quickest Pile cure known. Best
healing salve made. 25c at Dawson
Drug Cos.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
CITY SELLS PROPERTY.
Old Court House Lot and Couple
of Buildings.

The city of Dawson disposed of
some of it's property at public sale
Tuesday,
The lot on which the old court
house stood before it was torn down
recently was bid in by Judge }. b.
Pickett at 1878. The lot fronts
Johnson street, and is large enough
for two small store rooms.
Mr.. C. T. Lowrey bought the old
fire department building corner OF
Lee and Stonewall streets for $40,
and Mr.. G. R. Cannon paid $50 for
the old council chamber building
that stands on the same lot.
Both of these buildings will have
to be moved by the purchasers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10

Stop. reflect, and you will prefer
getting in the bus.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following are candidates subject to the mu-
ncipal primary Oh October II:
FOR MAYOR:
FRANK NASWORTHY.
FOR ALDERMEN:
J. c. HOLLINGSWORTH
J. \. SHIELDS.
W. \. MCLAIN.
This ticket is pledged to conservative and
con9mcal administration of the city govern
meut and your support is earnestly solicited
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
WEBSTER CITIZEN DEAD.

County Commissioner Robert King
Dies from an Injury.
Mr.. Robert King, a well-known
citizen and a member of the board
of county commissioners of Webster
county, died a few nights ago.
Mr.. Kings death, perhaps, re-
suited from a broken limb sustained
in a fall from his porch a few days
before. He was II years of age,
and leaves a wife and three grown
children
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10

All of the swell things in ladies'
plaid belts are now being SHOWN
McLain Bros. & Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
FOR MAYOR.

am a candidate for Mayor Of Dawson, subject
to the usual white primary. Your support is
respectfully solicited. R. R. MARLIN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-10
An Awful Cough Cured.

1.-TWO years ago our little girl had
touch of pneumonia, which left her
with an awful cough. She had spells
of coughing, just like one with the
whooping cough, and some thought
she would not get well at all. We
got a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, which acted like a charm.
She stopped coughing and got stout
and fat" writes Mrs. ORC Bussard,
Brubaker. III. This remedy is for
sale by Dawson Drug Co.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
The Eaotism of Genius.

Richard Mansfeld's just appreciation
of his own talents is sometimes rather
forcibly impressed upon his fellow-act-
ors. At the production of a recent
play Mansfield was personally super
intending the rehearsals. The leading
woman had difficult part which she
could not do to the star actors Salts
faction. His voice came ominously
from the darkness OF the wings, Miss
K, go over that part again. The
actress repeated her lines.
Again. relentlessly said Mans
field. Once more the actress nervous
ly went through the part
Then a firm stride was heard and
Mr.. Mansfield stood in the center of
the stage, hands clasped, eyes upturn-
ed, his voice booming in deep chest
tones:
Good heavens, would there had
been given to this woman a little of
the intelligence that was so bountiful-
ly bestowed upon mel"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
George Washington's Hatchets:

George Washington's hatchets and
Saint Valentines cakes tell their own
story, and the illustrations will aid one
IN making and arranging them. Mix
and sift two cupfuls of -four and half
cupful of brown sugar. Add half
cupful of butter and the yolk of two
eggs and work, using the hands until
smooth. Toss on slightly Toured
board, roll to one third of an inch in
thickness and cut in Ratchet shapes.
using sharp pointed knife, being
guided by a soft cardboard pattern
previously prepared. Place candied
cherry on each Ratchet, and brush
over with the white of egg slightly
beaten and diluted with two teaspoon
fuls of water. Place on a tin sheet
and bake in slow oven until delicate
ly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Home Com
panion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
AN UBIQUITOUS MERGER.

New York World-Thomas F. Ryan
and August Belmont, having arranged
to kill all traction competition in
Manhattan and the Bronx, and to cap
italize the corpse for an additional
S108,000, 900, graciously announce that
they are now ready to bid upon new.
subways.
No new subway franchises should
be given to them. The line must be
drawn somewhere short of the abso-
lutte subsection of New York to the
will of one man-for the sum total of
Ryan plus Belmont is and will be
Ryan.
Upon the financial side alone these
men, their predecessors and their as
sociates have already cost the city
millions and millions of dollars In
Guiding the underlying stocks and
bonds the traction capitalization of
Manhattan and the Bronx will be with
the new issue over $500,000,000. The
actual cost of all the properties except
the Subway, which the city built and
paid for, is between $S0,000,000 and
$90,000,000. The mere difference be-
tween cost and capitalization is more
than S400,000,000. The people of New
York are taxed to pay interest upon
lit.
That sum represents $40 unjustly
taken from each man. woman and
child in the boroughs. 1t represents
500 from each family. The trolley,
elevated and Subway fnaciers are
levying on every family of their vic
Tins an unjust tax upon $500 at an
average of per cent, or S35 year,
for no service rendered. The city's
own tax rate is about s1.50 on each
s100 of personal property, most of
which escapes The traction monopo-
lists are practically assessing every
family of New York on s2,933 of per-
sonal property at the city's rate of
taxation, and there is no escape. They
can collect the tax with unfailing reg
ularity.
That s35 wrenched from each aver
age family every year in excess of
| fair profit on the actual investment
means the difference between three
cent and a five-cent fare for two adults
of that family going daily to and from
their work and for one child going to
and from school five days each week.
1t means the practical addition of al
| most So a month to the family rent.
The merger is in its plan and in its
inevitable consequences a crime
against New York. What will the city
| do about it?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
The Toes Passage.

THE toes must CO." said a fashion
able bootmaker excitedly. "All must
go but the big one. Nasty. weak lit
tie things, what good are they, any
way?
I'VE no longer consider them in
making boots. To us the foot is a
long, slim shape, ending in point,
the big toe. We allow no room for
the other toes. If they want to enter
they must scrunch themselves together
like pressed dried apples. They must
double themselves up, one on the
other horribly.
They do so, and in consequence
they yearly become weaker and thin
ner and smaller.
"The toes are being crowded out
Soon only the big toe will be left"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
A Literary Diet.

n Literary Diet.
When literary appetite
Has got so bad it can't be worse.
Then give their stomach something
light
Try Swinburne's Predigested Verse.
If much distressed with pains and
aches,
And suffering in ev'ry nerve,
Eat Ella Wheeler Wilcox Flakes
Just add some water hot, and serve.
Or, II you're sad and you would laugh,
Or free yourself from cynic scott,
Then Austin Dobson's Tasteless Chaff
Compels the smile that won't come
off.
When with the blues, in lassitude
OF discomfort, you chew the cud;
Eat Wallace Twins All-Day Food
1t builds you up; it makes red blood
At night as turn and toss you may
All slumberless as long hours
creep,
Try Alfred Austin's Granu1es-they
Produce most refreshing sleep.
When Duty's call your patience tries,
And irritates as it grows louder,
If to emergencies you'd rise,
Use Rudyard Kipling's Baking Pow
der.
Wood Levette Wilson in the Read
er for February.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-02-22
A Wonderful Remedy.

AT the police court in Shanghai re-
Gently said the officer of an Oriental
steamer, "a curious object was hanoed
I'D to the judge for inspection. 1t was
contained in a square yellow box, and
resembled nothing more than piece
of black wax. 1t weighed about two
ounces and the policeman who had
charge of the case with which it was
connected explained TO the court that
it was Chinese medicine compounded
of monkeys toenails boiled down and
hardened by being buried underground
for number of years. The piece pro.
duced was worth S125, and had been
stolen from a native apothecary's shop
sport on the public, says the Brooklyn
Eagle.
1t has been no easy task to train
the big birds. They are by nature
stupid, untractable lot, prone to take
fright at their own shadows and ready
to strike out blindly with their great
feet at the mere suspicion OF danger.
By unlimited patience, however, the
meaning of the harness has been
beaten into the stupid heads of the
birds, and once the ostrich is hitched
to a racing sulky it is not dlmcult to
manage him.
The only way it has been found pos
'sible to harness the ostrich is first to
blindfold him. No matter how many
times he has gone through the same
struggle he will resist the efforts to
harness him with all his great
strength and unwieldy weapons of de-
Tense. To begin with, therefore, the
attendants draw over the birds eye a
black hood The hood is pulled down
on the neck. leaving only a hole
through which the beak protrudes
When this hood is on the bird in
stantly becomes as quiet as a lamb,
although up 10 the moment of the
darkening of his sight he will fight
like an enraged tiger When the hood
is on and the ostrich stands meek and
still the trainer drags the shafts of
the sulky to their place and straps
the bird to the vehicle Then he slips
the harness over the ostrichs bill and
the bird stands ready for the race.
The hood may then be withdrawn, for
these racing ostriches stand still
when the harness is fixed, they prob
ably having grasped, even with their
limited intelligence, the idea that it
is exercise time, welcome relief
from the confinement of the pen. r,