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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
He WAS ONCE HANGED.D|NES PIGS AND CATS:
FORMER DAWSON MAN LIVES
AFTER UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE
STORY OF HIS CLOSE CALL
Rev. MIR. Mann Was Strung Up by
Federal Soldiers on Charge of
BONG Confederate Spy.

While in Albany the other day
Rev, J. T. Mann of Fitzgerald told
The Herald most interesting story
about being hanged by a mob of fed
eral soldiers at Barrancas, Fla, on
the charge of being a confederate
spy.
Mr.. Mann was a resident of Daw-
son during the war, but enlisted in
the confederate army at New Or
leans. He is now retired minister
of the gospel on account of throat
trouble.
Yes, it is true that I have been
hanged" said Mr.. Mann. For the
purpose of blowing up a magazine
had entered the union army at
Barrancas, Fla, and had formed a
strong friendship with one of the
sergeants. l secretly ran the hands
of the sergeant's watch up one hour
and a half, leaving the tent at really
II o'clock and not near 1 o'clock,
as the sergeant thought. At once
made vain attempt to blow up the
magazine and was later captured.
THE soldiers, without any formal
trial. put a rope around my neck
and suspended me in the air, with
the evident intention of choking me
to death.
after I had hung there until
had become unconscious the friendly
sergeant, who had just learned that
was being hanged, came running,
saying: You are hanging the
wrong man, for this fellow was in
my tent last night until l o'clock
and the attempt to blow up the mag
azine was made before that time.
This saved me, and | was taken
down, given restoratives, and
brought back to life. OF course, my
running up the sergeant's watch
hands had fooled him.
THAT is about the whole story of
how l was hanged and why l am
alive today"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
ARE AMONG GUESTS OF HONOR
AT A SWELL DINNER.
FOUR.FOOTED ARISTOCRATS
A Chicago Society Leader Has
Eclipsed All the ECcentricitieS
of the Freakish Rich.

Al Chicago dispatch says that Mrs.
Minnie Fiske-G Griffin, one of the fash
ionable of the Lake Shore district,
has outdistanced the unique eccen-
tricities of Mr.. Harry Lehr as ban
quet-giver. She has entertained
pigs at dinner. They were pigs of
the fourfooted variety. The pigs,
whose ancestry is unimpeachable,
dating back to a pork nobility that
included no packers in it's collateral
branches, were among the guests of
honor at a dinner where only the
humans were the people of no i'm
portance. Mrs. Griffin's magnificent
homie, at TIA Foster street, was ex-
quisitely decorated for the occasion,
and the daintily spread table, with
it's silver and delicate china, was laid
for twenty
Ten of the guests were a pink
nosed pig attired in a large blue
bow; brown and white guinea pig,
wearing a smile; game cock of high
degree whose occasional remarks
were loudly applauded; pink-eyed
rabbit with a powder puff tail; a
pouter pigeon that chatted all the
evening; a chameleon, Boston ter
rier, white Angora cat, and a gray
squirrel.
When Mrs. Griffin's invitations
were sent out each of the recipients
was notified that none would be ad-
mitted unless escorted by pet ami
NAL Carriages and automobiles de-
posted Fashions Zoo at the door,
and introductions were made in the
great reception hall. Here every
body exhibited the most delightful
manners till the Boston bull and the
lady AngOra were presented. The
Montague and Capulet feuds in the
two families overcame all claims of
elegance, and for time Mrs. Grit
fms bric-a-brac seemed doomed.
When the pair were separated the
bulls bloody nose and the AngOra's
missing locks testified to the earnest
ness of their mutual regard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
PURE FOOD LAW KNOCKS
OUT MANY OLD DELUSIONS
NEGRO ARCHITECT SUCCEEDS.
w. $. Pittman's Plans for Race
Building at jamestown.

The committee on awards of the
jamestown Exposition has accepted
the designs of William Sidney Pitt
man, graduate of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, for the Administration Build
ing of the Jamestown Negro Devel-
opment and Exposition Company,
which is to have charge of the ne
gro exhibit at the exposition Ne
groes are to have exclusive charge of
the exhibit, for which the United
States government has appropriated
100000.
The building is to be of colonial
design, with an extended colonial
porch with four massive columns.
The exterior walls are to be of peb-
BILE dash plaster work finished in
natural cement color.
The building will be of two sto-
ries, the first containing $4,000
square feet of exhibit space and the
second being primarily intended for
an auditorium, with seating ca
pacity of 5000.
The architect whose plans have
been accepted began his studies at
Tuskegee in the wheelwright work
school. He showed such ability for
architectural drawing and designing
that Washington and others per-
suaded him to stay at the institution
and take an advanced course in
architecture.
Washington and several of the ex-
ecutive officers of Tuskegee advanced
him the money to complete a three
year course at Drexel Institute in
Philadelphia, Pa. Pittman was
graduated with honors from the in
stitute and returned to Tuskegee as
architect,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
NO MORE ARTIFICIAL COLORING
NATTER IN FOOD AND DRINK.
NEW LAW NOW IN EFFECT
Red Lemonade and Green Candy
Things of the Past. The Bright
Red Cherry in the Seductive
Cocktail Even to Become
a Reminiscence.
a "Reminiscences.

No more are we to have the red
circus lemonade or the bright cher
ries in the seductive cocktail. Green
candy is to become thing of the
past, and sawdust will be missing
from the breakfast foods.
Unto the pure all things are
pure, but unto them that are de-
filed, is nothing pure. !"
Beginning on January / all things
in the food and drink line are to
be pure, provided the new pure food
law which went into effect on that
day accomplishes the ends sought by
those who framed it, Ignorance
will not be tolerated as an excuse
for violating the new lay. If there
is any manufacturer or dealer
throughout the length and breadth
of the land who is not familiar with
its provisions it is not the fault
of the government. For weeks the
agricultural department has been
busy mailing the new regulation to
those interested in the new law.
The main provisions of the law
have been discussed so much since
the measure was enacted last spring
as to have become generally famil-
lar to the public. The regulations
as to adulteration affect all drugs
and medicines as well as food ar
ticles
Factories will be required to be
open at all times for inspection
Labels must not in any way misrep-
resent the products to which they
are attached. Artificial coloring
matter in food and drink will be
! largely done away with
The government is preparing for
the stTictest enforcement of the law.
Federal inspectors will be kept busy
buying samples in the open market,
to be tested and analysed The only
way the retail dealer can hope to
escape the penalty of the law is to
be able to show that the manufac-
turer or wholesale merchant gave
him guaranty that the articles con-
formed with the regulations. Then
it will be up to the manufacturer
or wholesale merchant to explain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
ENLIGHTENMENT FIGURES.
Fourteen Million Dollars of Thefts
the Past Year.

Fourteen Million Dollars of Thefts
the Past Year.
The total of embezzlements and
kindred thefts for 1906 amounts to
$14,739,653, about $5,000,000 more
than last year. OF this total $10,-
745,387 was stolen by officials other
than postofice employees, $22,585 by
the latter, $379,571 by agents,
$248,100 from loan associations,
$223,687 by means of forgeries. and
the other defalcations, amounting to
$1,428,969, were so varied in their
nature that they must be classed as
miscellaneous. The comparison with
last year is not so much to the dis
credit of this year when it is re-
membered that more than 10000
600 of the money embeZzled was
taken by three men-one in Chica-
go, one in Philadelphia and one in
Cuba, the agent of a New York
house. In each of these three cases
the figures represent the total OF
many years of stealing which was
discovered only this year. 1t is un-
fair to charge it all against the year
1906.-Chicago Tribune.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
WHO WILL DARE TAKE
THE PRESIDENTS PART?
Roosevelt Wants Republican Champion in His Bout Witt
Foraker When Brownsville Affair Comes Up None
of the Elieibles Anxious to Tackle the Ohoan.

a champion of the president in this
matter must be a republican. Mr..
Roosevelt never under any circum-
stances enjoys any other kind of a
"champeen. Senator Spooner is the
one to whom the presidents hosts
have been looking. The Wisconsin
senator was at the white house a
long time a day or two ago. He
has been there several times of late.
But he is as yet noncommittal. He
SHES off a little, saying that while
he is in sympathy with the spirit
in which the president acted with the
idea that something ought to have
been done, he is yet rather dubious
about the constitutional" right or
the legal right, or some such
thing, of the president to discharge
a whole battalion for the crime or
the alleged crime of few.
1t may be that the giant debater
from Wisconsin does not particularly
uduheI dlIcI d CldllCC w hlOHhCJ
with the subtle works of the Fire
Alarm. He feels, as many another
republican does just now, that there
is buzz saw in there somewhere,
and the man from Ohio is a rather
risky man to have hold of the crank.
La Toilette on the Watch.
There's a man who sits far across
the senate chamber, beyond where
the democrats list, with a high pom
padour and a tragedian's brow, and
a smile which is pleasant only to
those who are out of danger His
name is LaFollette, and his chief job
in the senate, where he seems to
have many jobs, is to watch Sena-
tor Spooner. Those will be disap-
pointed who are expecting Spooner
to get much mixed up in this thing.
The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge is
there, of course, and the telephone
is only a few steps behind him in
the cloak-room. To him the king
can do no wrong, and everybody is
liar whom the king deHghteth to
call a liar. The Hon. Henry Cabot
will not be alone, though, on the re-
publican side. The president has too
much pie to slice up not to have
handy friends whenever he is in need
of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09

The question is being asked in
Washington, who is going to answer
Mr.. Fire Alarm Foraker and take
the presidents part on the floor of
the senate?
Senator Culberson of Texas is
much interested, and it can safely be
said that he has all available facts
at his command. AS his colleague,
Senator Bailey, said of him last year,
II have never known my colleague,
in all our long association, both here
and at home in Texas, to enter any
engagement for which he was not
fulIv prepared" And Roosevelt
himself has been credited with say
ing that Texas has in the senate one
Senator and one detective, the latter
being Culberson. But Mr.. Culber-
son does not care to enter this fight
directly. Like all the other demo-
Gratis he had rather stand aside and
let the republicans fight it out among
themselves. He makes the state
ment that he has a number OF facts
in connection with the shooting
nm" of Brownsville which have not
vet been given to the public at this
end of the line.
RaiIey VIII Have Something to Say.
The senior Texas senator has also
been comforting with Secretary Taft
ahout the matter. He says he will
likely have something to say when
the Foraker resolution calling for
congressional investigation comes up
in the senate, but while he declares
with emphasis that the president is
Individually right, he is not to be the
snacia1 champion of the president.
Senator Bailey, Mr.. Culberson'
iunior colleague, is expected back
early in the year, and if he comes
no TOO if is understood, will have
something to say. OF course, Till
nan will get into it, though what
bo will say can hardly yet be fore
told He doubtless doesn't know
himself although he has already de-
oIorad 10 some of his western au-
dionces that the president had no
riobt TO dismiss the whole negro
battalion.
president Wants a Republican.
THE man to be the right kind OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
MONUMENT TO THE POTATO.
Germany Rears a Shaft to Man Who
Introduced the Tubers There.

Germany Rears Shaft to Man Who
Introduced the Tubers There.
If ever / get rich enough to pre-
sent the city of New York with a
monument | am going to give a copy
of one I saw in Germany this sum-
mer, says a New Yorker who travels
That is the most sensible thing in
the staue line | ever saw. 1t is a
monument to potatoes. 1t is certain
ly unique. The upper part consists
of a statue to Sir Francis Drake,
who is revered for having introduced
the plant into Europe. This, as well
as the pedestal, is draped with gar
lands of the potato vine with the
full-grown tubers intact. On the pc
destal are inscriptions. The first
side sets forth that the above figure
is Sir Francis; the second explains
in words of highest praise what a
blessing the potato has been to man
kind; the third records that the
statue is the gift of a certain An
drew Frederick, Of Strasburg; the
fourth contains the names of the
erectOrs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
STATE TO HUNT WOLVES.
Michigan VIII Import Hounds to
Drive Them Out.


Because of the havoc wrought
throughout the upper peninsula in
Michigan by wolves during the past
two or three years, farmers and
sportsmen have become alarmed.
Great inroads are being made in
iocks of sheep and the deer of the
wooded sections
State Game Warden Charles H.
Chapman has determined to hunt the
animals Systematically with Siberian
wolf hounds. He has taken the mat
ter up with a view to importing
dogs if they cannot be procured in
this country.
The campaign for the destruction
of the wolves will be inaugurated as
soon as possible. Thousands of
wolves are today roaming the coun-
try south of Lake Superior. Their
bowls fill the woods at night Hun
dreds of sheep have been killed by
them within the past year.
Deer are slaughtered by thousands,
annually, by these denizens of the
woods, although bounties varying
in different counties all the way from
$25 to $40 per head are freely Of
fered Being of a most wary ma
ture, it is extremely difficult to kill
the wolves, no that they are increas-
ing in numbers rapidly.
Siberian wolf hounds, it is claimed,
will kill the wolves rapidly if they
are introduced in sufficient numbers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
FALLING SKIRT HELD TRAIN.
The Excuse Turned in BY Gallant
Conductor for Late Train.

The Excuse Turned in BY Gallant
Conductor for Late Train.
When Conductor Stiles of the
West Jersey and Seashore railroad
made up his report Thursday night,
says a Millville, n. j., dispatch, he
was compelled to explain that wo-
mans falling skirt had delayed his
train three minutes in that city.
1t was this way: Stiles train was
about to pull away from the sta
ton in response to his shout Of
Bod" when he caught sight of a
woman hurrying along toward the
station. She was stepping lively, all
right, but at a critical moment some
thing happened. A hook or some
thing gave way and an underskirt
ioggled about her heels.
Stiles looked the other way and
told the unhappy woman to retire to
the ladies room and make repairs.
He held the train, watch in hand
during the mandatory process and
decided to tell the whole truth about
it in his report. There is nothing
in the roads rules covering the point
and old railroaders are wondering
what is to be done about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
POVERTY AND WEALTH
IN STRIKING CONTR ACT
APOLOGIZED TO KANSAS.
hlhg OF England Came Around All
Right When Called.
From the Washington Post

NAAS W rloLlIlS ION POST.
IL is not generally known that
the state of Kansas once, through it's
state legislature, demanded and re-
celVed' without the aid of the fed
eral government an apology from
the king of England" said John H.
Sanburn of Hill City, Kan.
1t happened at the time of the
death of Queen Victoria" Mr.. San
burn continued. THE legislature
was in session, and when the news
OF the queens death appeared in
the newspapers a member from one
OF the western counties arose at his
seat and introduced a resolution of
sympathy, which was passed.
In due time the formal express
sion of sympathy was forwarded to
King Edward. It's Acknowledgement
is what raised the ire of the loyal
Kansans, some of whom had ex-
pressed in the debate their doubt
as to the propriety of sending an ex-
preston of sympathy at all.
The acknowledgment was hand
somely engraved, being the exact
form which was sent out by the
crown in reply to expressions from
the British colonies, and contained
such expressions as My lieges, and
My people.
It's reading before the legislative
body of the state was followed by
great excitement Objection was
made at once to the wording of the
communication and a resolution was
passed asking for an explanation
This was forwarded to England, and
soon d note was received in which it
was explained that a mistake had
been made, and that the King was
really very grateful to the legisla-
tors of Kansas for the sympathy
Thus the incident was closed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09

Throughout Christendom, in all
probability, most people celebrated
Christmas on Dec %. But there are
still a goodly number of devout per-
sons in the mountains Of Georgia,
the two Carolinas, Tennessee and
Kentucky to whom the real Christ
mas does not come until Jan. ..
That is "old Christmas" the day on
the midnight of which the cows get
down on all-fours and the sheep and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
"OLD CHRISTMAS" WAS CELEBRATED SUNDAY
Many of Georgia. the carOnas and
see Have Not Accepted Christmas Day

goats make obeisances and are sup
posed to be saying their prayers.
When the calendar was changed,
many years ago, Christmas was adj
vanced to Dec. 25, but there are still
families in the country who adhere
to the old calendar for religious pur-
poses, and in such families "oId
Christmas" was observed Sunday
with even greater fervor than the
new date.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09

The latest development of the
competition for deposits is bank
on wheels.
II is a New York idea, of course
aAo Is run by the all-night bank on
'liIh avenue. The wheels are on an
automobile, the center of which Is
Dig safe. The automobile BANK
''aIls out just before o'clock, ana
makes the rounds of its customers
among retail stores and day restau-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
HAS WEEVIL JUMPED RIVER?
Search Has Been Begun for the In
sect in Mississippi.

sect III NIS9i'NiPP''
Search to determine whether the
boil weevil has crossed the Mlssls-
sippi river from Louisiana INTO Ihe
state of Mississippi is being MADE IN
the vicinity of Natchez by ofhclals
of the state crop pest commission
At the beginning of the year II was
announced by government experts
that the weevil would probably
make it's first crossing of the Mis-
sissippi this fall, as it was agreed
that the river would prove no barrier
TO the pests eastward progress Re-
cent cold weather, however, has re-
tarded the migration and the present
search is conducted under the nope
that the weevil may be found still
confined to the western side OF the
river.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09
A BANK ON WHEELS IS THE VERY LATEST
Is New York Idea and Begins Making Rounds 0,
-. ud continues Until One in the Morning

rants Then about 8 it makes the
rounds of the theaters, picking up
the receipts for the night that the
manager does not wish to leave IN
his own safe. The last trip IS ABOUT
+ M. to the all-night restaurants
20 Gather in the receipts from the
after-theater supper crowd.
Headache is one of the colnLi o1ri
oct nroducts of corn that the asIl-
c,'ltpral books do not mention.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-09

question being champion of the president in
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-10-25
A Certain Cure for CrOup-Used
for 10 Years without a Failure.

Mr.. W. G. Bot, Star City, Ind,
hardware merchant, is enthusiastic in
his praise OF Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. His children have all been
subject TO Group and he has used this
remedy for the past ten years, and
though they much feared the Group,
but this remedy never failed to effect
a speedy cure. He has recommended
it to friends and neighbors and all
who have used it say that it is I'M
equaled for crop and whooping cough.
For sale by all medicine dealers.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-10-25

The statement Of the Bank Of
Aberdeen which appears elsewhere,
exhibits a healthy condition Of that
old reliable banking house and
speaks well for the management Of
its business affairs. The resources
are $3.50, 727.11, while its surplus
earnings amount to s25, 10000 and
undivided profits S19, 380,36, on a
capital Of so, 10000. The stock
Of that bank is worth money
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-10-25

Henry E. Jones, Of Tampa, Florida,
writes: 4 can thank God for my pres
ent health, due to Foley. kidney
Cure | tried doctors and all kind OF
kidney cures, bud nothing did me
much good till took Foley's Kidney
Cure Four bottles cured me, and ]
have no more pain in my back and
shoulders. / am 81 years old, ana sui
fered long, but thanks 20 Foley 5 hid
ney Cure | am well and can walk and
enjoy myself 1t is a pleasure TO rec
ommend it to those needing a kidney
medicine. Sold by J. /. Shell < Go.