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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
LYDIA e. PIP0KHAM'S-
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

Mrs. Maggie Dinner, Of West
Union, S. C.,WriteS to Mrs. Pinkham:
F." 1 was greatly rundown in health
from weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia f. Pinkham' Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. 1t
not only restored me to perfect health,
but to my delight l am mother"
Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown,
KY, writes:
Il was very great sufferer from
female troubles, and my physician failed
to help me. Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound not only restored me
20 perfect health, but ara now proud
mother"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

TOT tnlTty years Lydla Z. Pink-
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, uIcera.
ton, tibroid tumors, irregularities.
periodic pains, backache, that bear.
iRg-down feeling, hatulency, indiges.
ton, dizziness nervous prostration
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
WORK ON PANAMA BIG DITCH
SOMETHING ABOUT ENORMOUS
AMOUNT OF 1T BEING DONE.
Three Million Cubic Yards of Earth
and Rock Moved in a Month.
4 Force OF 33. 600 Men.

Three Million Cubic Yards of Earth
and Rock Moved in a Month.
A Force of $4,000 Men.
''The building of an isthmian ca
nal, waterway that would unite
the waters of the Atlantic and the
waters of the Pacific, had been the
dream of nations for centuries. The
French, under Ferdinand de Les
seps, were the first to make a definite
attempt. but even that great engi-
neer, the creator of the Suez canal,
had underestimate the tremendous
difficulties of the enterprise, and af-
ter years of labor, after the expendi-
ture of many millions of money and
the sacrifice of many thousands Of
lives, they had to write failure across
their plans. 1t was reserved for the
United States to take up the gigantic
task, and the government of the
United States, in the brief space Of
four years, has wrought the miracle
for which the world waited for cen
turtles. Not that it is finished, for
the real work has just reached its
middle stage. The United States
officials realized that the first thing
10 do was to make the Isthmus of
Panama place where white men.
not natives of the tropical zone. and
not Injured to that climate. might
&ertook was the sanitation of thag
strip of country, and this in itself
was task so great that its perfect
accomplishment has called forth the
grateful admiration of the nations
Of the earth.
Nearly one hundred mammoth
steam shoVels are at work there;
there are unlOaders and spreaders
and track throwing machines: there |
are several hundred steam engines. |
and hundreds of trainloads of mate |
rial are handled every day. That !
little 80 miles of track, known as |
the Panama railroad, is about the |
busiest railroad on earth. Three |
thousand carpenters were at work |
for years building houses. There |
are more than 2,200 buildings OF !
every possible size and shape; TWEEN /!
tg-four different types of dwellings /
alone; office buildings, storehouses. |
hotels. magazines and What-not. |
There are four distinct water sys- |
TENS to supply not only the cities of !
Panama and Colon, but the entire /.
working force along the line Of the
canal. There are electric light /.
plants, railroad shops, ice factories /
great bakeries, and all the other utiI- /
tiles that are required to supply the /!
necessities of an army of $4,000, in |
Guiding employees and their fami- /
lies. There is an average working |
force of about 33 600 men. OF these /
1900 are for the Panama Railroad |
Company: on the canal there are at |
werk about 5000 Americans, be-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
tween 5000 and 1000 foreign labor

tween 5000 and 1000 foreign labor
ers, and the balance negro laborers.
las to excavation, first. 100000
cubic yards of earth and rock a
month was thought to be great work;
then excavating 100000 was
thought to be wonderful; next, g.
100000 month was reached, and
now the slogan is that 100000
month must be reached. Has any
one an idea what 100000 cubic
yards means? 1t is a larger bulk
than the greatest of the Egyptian
pyramids Three million cubic yards
of dirt, if hauled by two-hOrse wa
gon teams, would make string OF
teams, with foot space between
them, more than 5000 miles long.
THE Suck canal was ten years
building, between 1859 and 1869.
1t is about 100 miles long and cost
nearly 500, 100000. We are dig
ging a Suez canal every year, count
ing by excavation. The sanitary de-
partment cuts and burns or removes
IS 100000 square yards of brush a
year, drains 100000 square yards
of swamp lands, keeps up 100000
feet of bitches, and fumigates 49,
100000 square feet OF living quar-
ters.
LAS to the cost The United
States paid the French Panama Ca
nal Company $40,000,000, and the
Panama government $1O,0O0,000.
1t authorized an expenditure OF
for the construction of
the canal. The total amount expend-
ed up to date, including the $50 |
600, GOO. is $145,000,000. The last
act carried for next |
years expenses $29,1770O0. The
total appropriations made to date |
are $170, Therefore, |
within the original total of $780, !
100000 there are left not quite |
S25, 100000. 1t is now supposed that |
the canal will cost altogether about !
$500 100000 No doubt there are |
men who will cry out that this is a |
sheer waste of money. The same |
kind of men ridiculed the Suez ca
nal in its beginning as chimerical |
but it has paid from IL to !
II per cent on the investment, and |
here need be no fear that in this
respect history will not repeat itself
n the case of the Panama canal. A
careful estimate, based on facts,
shows an income of 100000, 900 |
Turing the first ten-year period of
he canals operation.
What the Panama canal Will !
mean to the world in the way OF
distances in the matter Of
and the consequent
saving of time and expense in the /
way of coal consumption and freight
costs. may be realized when it is
stated that the whole distance from
New York to San Francisco around /
Cape Horn is 10, 600 miles. Thro0gh |
he Panama canal the distance VIII /
De only 5000 miles, a saving OF g.
100 miles, distance equal to two
and half times across the United !
States. When the battleship Oregon
made her famous trip from San T..
Francisco to Santiago Il took her
3ixty-six days. IL the canal had been
quilt she could have made the trip |,
n fifteen days-less than One-fourth
If the time The canal will prOba-
Jly be opened by July /, 1914"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
LEPER is NOT TO Be MOVED
John Early Is Likely to Remain in
the District of Columbia
Some Time,

A Washington dispatch says the
published story that John Early, the
leper, would be disposed of by the
federal government by transporting
him to the leper colony at Molokai,
in the Hawaiian Islands, was denied
ION all sides
The district health officer has re-
.ceiYed no word of such a plan, and
George B. Mcclellan, Washington
representative of the Honolulu Cham
Der of Commerce. said that the Mo-
lokai leper colony is purely a local
institution, and that the United
States government would have no
authority to send patients there.
The real decision now rests with
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou,
to whom the case was referrai by
the department of justice, and until
his return to the city nothing definite
can be learned.
Mr.. Mcclellan said the number of
lepers in the Hawaiian Islands is con-
stantly diminishing and that every
effort is being made by the local au-
thorities to protect themselves from
a spread of the disease or from an
increase in the burden on the inhabi-
tants Occasioned by the necessity of
isolating those afflicted with the
trouble. He said that the local au-
thOTities would unquestionably re-
fuse to take over an alien patient,
and that that refusal would end the
matter.
AS no state on which Early has the
least claim will consent to receive
him it is doubtful if anything can be
done toward removing him from the
district, where his presence appears
to be causing no uneasiness 1t was
recalled that an attempt was once
made to return to his West Virginia
home leper found in the District of
Columbia. That state refused to al
low the train bringing him to stop
and the unfortunate patient was car
Tied from one place to another until
he died in a box car.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11
IMPORTANCE OF SEED CORN.
A Prize Ear at the Corn Exposition
Sold for $3.50.

The one grand sweepstakes year
of corn at the National Corn EXPOSE
ton at Chicago last year sold for
$250. To the farmer the difference
between good seed and bad means
profit in the bank or another year
or nose to the grindstone. OF 1878
ears of corn sold on the Chicago
Board of Trade last June 1892
more than half-were low grade. :"
The corn-belt farmer should be
ashamed of this. The American corn
crop has so degenerated that the
breakfast food manufacturers lack
raw material. 1t is all a matter of
good seed. County and state fairs
give $4,000 in prizes for fast trot-
ting horses, and $40 for ears of corn.
The National Corn Exposition, to be
held at Omaha Dec. 9-19, will give
a $1,000 prize for the best bushel
of corn-seventy ears-and a $410
prize for the best>twenty ears. Good
seed corn that has vitality to resist
disease and drought, rich in the oils
and protein that make the layers of
lean in bacon. 1t takes as much
land and hoe wear, as much horse
sweat and elbow grease to grow poor
corn as the best.-Exchange
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11

"Ny child was burned terribly
about The face, neck and chest. /
.appIied DIT. Thomas Electric Oil
The pain ceased and the child sank
into a restful sleep. Mrs. Nancy
NJ. Hanson. uamburg. y. Y.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing. Doan's Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. Why
suffer? All druggists sell it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-11-11

How many American women in
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic derange-
ment this happiness is denied them
Every woman interested III this
subject should know that prepare
ton for healthy maternity is
accomplished bv the use of
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23

for the sort of an acquaintance with 2
man who cannot be mean and little. as
the candidacy of William Howard TAFT
for president has given us an opportunity
to make.
II is splendid to see that sort OF mag
nanimity asserting itself in opposition to
the small, mean doctrine that everything
Is fair in politics, and It is doubly fine
and admirable as coming from a man who
has displayed not a hint of liberation for
or sympathy with the tendencies in Sen
ator Foraker that have wrought his un.
doing.
Mr.. Taft, wholly on the ground OF prin'
ciple and public policy, has made a fair,
open fight on Foraker. He came out vic
tor in a battle that involved not a single
ingredient of personal opposition on his
side. 1t was known quite as certainly when
Hearst disclosed the correspondence be-
tween Senator Foraker and Mr.. Archbold
Of the Standard OIL company, as It Is known
now, that the humiliation of the Ohio sen
stor would cause no qualification to MT.
Taft. 1t is not in him to feel any s~atisfac-
ton over the disgrace OF an adversary. He
is not cast in that mold. He is too big and
fine to harbor such a petty sentiment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23
Personal NOTES.

Some Of the spellbinders on the stump
this season talk as though they maintain
private sraveyards for the burial Of repu-
tations.
The New York railroads killing 18 more
people last year than in the preceding
twelve months. on a greatly reduced vol
ume of business, looks as II they were
bound TO make a record somehow.
Justice Harlan Of the United States SUI
preme court is the owner Of perhaps one Of
the most valuable cats in this county,
known as the sacred cat which was
secured in Burmah and Is said to be
worth $500.
Sven Anders Hedin, the explorer, who
started in 1906 from Chinese Turkestan on
a journey through Tibet, and concerning
whose whereabouts there was great anX-
iety for many months, has arrived al Simla
He will be the guest Of Lord Mimic the
viceroy OF India, for ten days, when he
will proceed TO his home In Stockholm.
Twenty members Of the choir Of the
fashionable Woodlawn Park Methodist
Episcopal church at Chicago left the choir
loft last Sunday at the beginning of the
service because Mrs, Alta Establishments
the new leader. wore a big hat, heavy
with plumes, despite the objection Of the
other women singers TO wearing hats al all.
The oldest graduate OF Union college, DR.,
George W. Clarke Of New York City, Is
dead in his ninety-second year. He was
for many years a teacher, founding a pri-
vate school In ls45 that was attended by
many boys who became well known men
in the big city. DR.. Clarke began teaching
IN a public school and one Of his early
uuuiis was Roscoe Conkling.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23


When Judge Taft comes to Nebraska
on his tour Of the west he will be
among friends. His former visits to
the state have established him here
and the people know him. Nebraska
had the distinguished honor of being
the first state in the union to formally
declare for william Howard Taft as a
nominee for the Office Of president OF
the United States, and the example OF
Nebraska as a state unquestionably in
the Roosevelt ranks was potent in
shaping the course of events that cul-
minated in the triumph of Taft and
the principles he stands for at the Chi
cago convention. The conditions that
surrounded the affairs of Nebraska at
the time the republicans of the state
through their convention declared
themselves as being unanimously in
favor of Taft's nomination still pre-
vail. It is a militant spirit that domi-
mates the republican party in this
state.
The reforms that have been brought
about in national affairs under the adj
ministration of President Roosevelt,
and which will be continued under the
administration of President Taft, are
dear to Nebraskans. They have con-
tended for them for years and have
enacted state laws to bring them about
and as pioneers in the general move
ment they are not ready at this time
to take a backward step by registering
their vote in favor of a %pretender. Mr..
Bryan's party in Nebraska, while it
was in power, undertook nothing and
achieved nothing in the way of per-
manent reform. All the reform legis-
lation that is now crystallized on the
statute books and upheld by the courts
of the state has been achieved by the
republican party solely and without
the assistance, and often in the face of
the opposition, of the elements that are
aligned in the support of Bryan.
Mr.. Taft will find the republicans Of
Nebraska thoroughly in earnest in
their determination to maintain their
advanced stand on the great questions
that arise between the people and the
interests" He will find a cordial
welcome in this state and may enter 1t
vote of Nebraska in November and the
vote of the state in the electoral college
later.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23
OKLAHOMA CREDIT MARX.

Doubtless most of the criticism that
has been directed at the Oklahoma
constitution and the laws passed by the
first session of the legislature of the
new state was justified, but the state
has one law that might we'll be used
as a model in older states. In a meas
ure dealing with the regulation of the
sale and use of firearms appears this
wise and sane provision:
1t shall be unlawful for any person to
point any pistol or any other deadly
weapon, whether loaded or not, at any
other person or persons, either in anger or
otherwise.
This. we believe, is the first case on
record in which legislative punishment
is provided for the "didn't-know-it-
w~as-loaded" humorist who has been
going through the world since the in
vention of gunpowder, scattering his
jokes and obituary notices. Poking a
gun at a person has never been looked
upon as a joke in Oklahoma, and the
man who INDUCED in that pastime, I'M
less his gun was loaded and his trigger
finger active, has seldom been inter-
ested in the subsequent proceedings,
but the new state has taken a long step
toward reducing the number of deaths
due to accidental shootings.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23
4 SURPRISING TELEGRAM.

Mr.. j. F. Merrill of Kansas City has
supplied the public with a real ensa-
ton. Politicians elsewhere have been
more or less active in citing the rec
ord to show that Mr.. Bryan. has
changed front on many important
questions, abandoned paTamounts to
suit the place and occasion and left
burning, living Issues on the doorstep
of the political poorhouse, but Mr..
Merrill is the only person to show
that Mr.. Bryan entertained the thought
of abandoning the business of running
for the presidency on the democratic
ticket. Mr.. Merrill was a devoted
Bryan follower in 1896 and in 1900.
When the returns we're known, late
on that November night in 1900 when
Mr.. McKinley's election was assured,
Mr.. Merrill sent a telegram, filled with
words of sympathy, hope and sorrow to
William jennings Bryan. He received
a reply from Mr.. Bryan in these sor-
rowing n sorrowful words:
Thank you for your. telegram of condol-
ence. The defeat was a severe one; you
all did nobly. I cannot conscientiously ask
the party to consider me again for the
presidency. L led them to defeat four years
ago and that ought to be enough for any
one man.
The country will be disposed to
agree with Mr.. Bryan that two defeats
Ought TO be enough for any one man."
but that will not explain his appear
ance for the third knockout, in face of
his telegram to Mr.. Merrill. Still, Mr..
Bryan has become something of an ex-
pert recently in Juggling with mere
words and resorting to technicalities
of language in explaining his changed
views and positions. In that way he
can easily explain that his third nomi-
nation does not in any manner conflict
with his attitude as shown in the Mer.
rill telegram. 1t will be noticed that
in the Merrill message Mr.. Bryan said:
Il can not conscientiously ask the
party to consider me again for the
presidency" He may explain that by
showing that he did not ask the party
"conscientiously" to nominate him.
That would let him out on n techni-
cality, and if that is not enough he
may go further and show that he did
not TASK" the party to nominate him,
but ordered the party to do so. That
would clear him on both counts of the
indictment. MIR. Bryan has been on
the range too long to be caught with
a language lariat.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23
COMFORTABLE.
i. NJ. Lewis 4

j. NJ. Lewis in Houston Post.
There's so much to be thankful for
That we are bound to be
Plum thankful when Thanksgiving comes
Thankful that you and me
Are llvin'; leastwise you will be
Plum thankful you are, and
I'll be thankful for my ownself
That am still on hand.
l got ketched out when night come on
The other night, / did,
And the old moon was big around
AS any kettle lid;
Twas the first time l had been out
By moonlight for so long
l felt hike hoppin' on the fence
An trillin' forth a n
! did, yes, sir! the moon looked down.
And branches gently stirred
Till all of It got in my blood
And l felt like a bird!
Felt plum romantic, it's a fact;
l may be gittin' old
But I just wished, an wished l had
Some sweet girls hand to hold.
An ] am thankful 1 could feel
A touch OF that old Joy
That felt in the long ago,
A girl be-jiggered boy,
| tell We they amt nothin' in
The world so good to do
AS to feel you're lovin' some girl
An she's a-lovin' YOU
And so whoever whips the fight
7 think that I'll survive:
The world will still be full OF love
n I'll still be alive;
There. still be greens and bacon and
Corn pone, potlicker, too,
And babies to hide by the gate
At night an holler Boo"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23
STANDARD OIL POLITICS.

While the source of Mr.. Hearst's in
formation concerning prominent poll
~iticians who have become more or less
closely identified with the interests Of
the Standard Oil company may not be
clear, and while some of his differences
from known facts may be exaggerated,
his exposures leave no doubt OF the
Standards very keen concern in ma
tional politics or it's apparent deter
mination to punish the republican party
for President Roosevelt's course in
prosecuting the Oil trust cases in Illi-
nois and Missouri.
Ever since the $29, 100000 fine was
imposed against the Standard Oil trust
by Judge Lands in the federal court
at Chicago, the oil magnates have been
busily engaged in making political
warfare upon Mr.. Roosevelt n the
champions OF Mr.. Roosevelt's policies,
but the effect of this fight has been
spoiled, so far as the democrats are
concerned, by the discovery that the
men most deeply concerned in the ex-
posures ara democrats. It will be re-
membered that Senator Bailey, a shin
ing light in the councils of the Bryan
ties, got into trouble which threatened
his political life through his connec-
tion with the Standard oil company in
Texas. In Pennsylvania. Colonel Cuff
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23

fey is the recognized leader Of the
Standard Oil company's political ma
chine. II is true that Colonel Guffey
was denounced by Mr.. Bryan at Den
yer. but the warfare against him in
Pennsylvania has been stopped. at Mr..
Bryan's direction. and Guffey is now a
leading democrat again.
Governor Haskell OF Oklahoma, who
has been made a sort of general man
aser Of the Bryan campaign in the
west, appears to have been pretty
thoroughly tarred with the Standard
Oil stick, although he has answered
the charges by calling Mr.. Hearst a
liar. In Illinois, Roger Sullivan has
long been the head of the Gas trust
and closely identified with Standard
Oil interests. He was read out of the
party several times by Mr.. Bryan but
has been taken back, forgiven and
placed at the head of the table once
more. In New York, Pat McCarren,
acknowledgedly the chosen manager
Of Standard Oil interests in the politi-
cal affairs Of the metropolis, has been
made chief adviser of Mr.. Bryan in
the state campaign.
These men are leaders In the fight
that is being made against Mr.. Taft
and against the republican admins
tration at Washingto 1t begins to
look very much as though the Stand
ard Oil trust a really taking the
general management of the democratic
ca mnaiPn.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23

lone of the greatest questions of
this campaign" says James S. Sher-
man, lis what Mr. Bryan would do If
elected?" Mr.. Sherman is needlessly
alarmed. Colonel Watterson has as
sured the American people that there
would be no danger in electing Bryan,
as he would be powerless to secure the
enactment of any of his freak schemes
into law so long as the United States
senate remains republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-23

Judge Howard talks like a man who
is dazed. He probably has not yet
recovered thoroughly from the shock
of his encounter with the check book.
1t is hoped that he will soon return to
his usual b~uoyancy of spirit, for the
campaign will lose much of it's merri-
ment if Judge Howard is not in his
usual form.