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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-18
AFTER THREE BALLOTS AN
ADJOURNMENT is TAKEN
BEckHAM MEN ARE sANeuINE.

After three days of balloting with
out ielecting a United States Sena-
tor to succeed Senator James B. Nc
Creary, the General Assembly adj
journed Friday until Monday, without
taking a fourth ballot. Both the
Beckham and anti-Beckham men
seemed glad to be temporarily re-
lieved from the strain they have been
under during the past week.
Although it is yet young, this ses-
sioon of the Legislature, has not been
devoid Of unusual features.
The differences existing between
the two factions of the Democratic
party have brought about some siren
uous work on the part Of the active
members and the friends of both fac.
tons.
During the balIoting on Wednesday
Senator Wheeler Campbell, of Nc
Cracker county, arose to explain his
vote.
He said that he admired Mr.. Beck
ham as man and that if left to him.
self he believed he would do what he
thought to be right, but that he had
surrounded himself with influences
that were vicious and undemocratic.
Senator Con Linn, of Galloway,
asked Senator Campbell if he voted in
the primary when Gov. Beckham and
Senator McCreary were running for
the Democratic nomination for Sena-
tor.
Facing the questioner. Senator
Campbell said: "This is but the first
shaft of malevolence that l expect to
be heaped on my head by those who do
not think as 1 do" Senator Campbell,
after continuing at some length, voted
for Former Congressman Charles X.
Wheeler, of Paducah.
When Senator Albert Charlton, OF
Louisville, voted for Senator Camp
bell for Senator he was Kissed by a
number of people in the lobby.
THAT don't get you anything" said
the irate Senator turning to the lobby
and shaking his head defiantly.
On the second ballot Senator Tabb
created some surprise on the part of
the public by casting his vote for Gov.
Beckham.
Both the Beckham and anti-Beck-
ham men appear to be perfectly san
guine of victory.
The result of the first ballot was for
Gov. Beckham, sc; Gov. Bradley ga;
scattering, 6; not voting, 1; absent, 1,
necessary to a choice, So.
The result of this ballot had been
pretty well forecast during. the few
days which elapsed from the time Of
the assembling of the Legislature.
On Wednesday both bodies met in
Joint assembly and made a recapitula-
ton of the vote of the day before as
indicated above
A second ballot was taken, which
met with the same result
On Thursday the joint assembly
met gain and a ballot was taken
which resulted for Beckham, Sc; for
Bradley, GA; scattering. 5; not voting,
L. absent, 2. Still no choice.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-18
WANTS TO BE ASSISTANT ADJU.
TANT GENERAL.

Capt. r. G. McCracken, of Mullen
burg county. is an applicant for the
position of Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral under Gen P. P. Johnston.
Capt. Nicer; cken served FIVE years
in the Regular Army and is Spanish
War Veteran.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-18
BLAZE LAST NIGHT.

At $40 last night an alarm from
box % called the firemen TO the Bo-
hannah restaurant, on Broadway
street, where mattress had caught
fire. 1t was quickly extinguished
with nominal loss.
coRTELoU TO RETIRE.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-18

Dispatches from Washington City
state positively that Secretary of the
Treasury Geo. B. Cortelyou will soon
sever his connection with the Cabi-
net.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
RASPING THE EDITOR.
How an Irate Subscriber Vents His
Wrath on Newspaper Man.

How an Irate Subscriber Vents His
Wrath on Newspaper Man.
A country editor was made to
writhe in keenest humiliation of spir-
it on receipt of the following scath-
ing criticism by subscriber on the
conduct of his paper:
Deer Surf hereby offer my resig-
nashun as subscriber to your pa
pur, it bein' a pamphlet of such
small konsekence as not to benft
my family by takin' it. What you
need in your shete is branes an some
one to russell up news an rite eddy
toryals on sensebal tOpicks.
No menshion has ben made in
your paper of me butcherin pig
weighin $50 pounds, or of the gains
in the chickens out this way. You
stenjusly ignore the fact that the dry
rot is eatin things up out here an
say nOthin about Bill Simpsons dur
ham bull calf breakin it's legs fallin
down a well or of grandma Sipes
havin the sore leges.
Two important weddins here has
been utterly ignored by your Kol-
umns, an a two column obitchuary
writ by me on the deth of grandma
Henry was left out of your shete,
to say nothin of q alfabetical poem
beginning with "A is for andy an
also for Ark" writ by my darter.
This is why your shete is unpopular
here. If you don't want eddytoryals
from this place an amt goin to put
IN no news in your shete We don't
want said shete. Yourn in disgust.
HIRAM DOAKS.
p. S.-If you print that obitch-
nary in your next isoo [ may sub
skribe agin for your shete H. D.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
TALE OF MATRIMONIAL TANGLE.
Eighteen-Year-Old Boy Forced to
Marry Widow Upwards of Forty.

Just about the sorriest tale of a
matrimonial tangle that has ap-
peared in the public prints recently
comes from Wilkesbarre. Pa, where
an 18-year-old boy was carried to
court to answer a charge of abandon
ing his wife and family. One of the
chief prosecuting witnesses was his
own father The youthful defend
ant sWore that his father had made
him drunk and then forced him TO
marry a widow upwards of forty
years old and the mother of eight
children, Of whom six were living.
The widow, it seems, was the
fathers step-sister, and he wanted
to make the boy support her. The
Judge very promptly DISCHARGED the
boy and told the district attorney to
take steps to have the marriage an
nulled. 1t is to be regretted that
there was no law under which the
father could be punished, first for
making his son drunk and then for
driving him into such a marriage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
eggs AND HEN WE SING Of
An Annual American Omelet as Big
as Manhattan Island.

Let us sing the praise of the great
American hen, who during the last
year may well have cackled with
pride over the production of nearly
800, 100000 dozens of eggs. Do
you realize what that means? de-
mands a writer
If instead of remaining quietly at
home in Iowa she had chosen to
demonstrate her powers to the uni
verse at large the hen might have
laid those eggs, each two inches
long, end to end in a continuous
chain reaching 238,S18 miles up to
the moon, back again and then more
than half way round the world for
good measure-a total of 492, 424
miles of eggs!
Furthermore, if those eggs had
been made into one omelet half an
inch thick that omelet would easily
have covered Manhattan Island, an
area of twenty-five square miles.
An old MOhammedan legand tells
that King Solomon used to travel
through the air with all his armies
on a wonderful flying carpet pro-
tected from the rays Of the sun by
the wings of a host of birds. Now,
according to the poultry census, there
are in the United States about $780,
100000 of chickens, guineas, fowls,
turkeys geese and ducks of the
poultry voting age, which is three
months or over. If required to fur
nish a moving canopy like that of
King Solomon the barnyard fowls
of this country, allowing only foot
of spread to each, could easily
shadow a space of ten square miles
Home Companion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
ENGLANOS AWFUL POVERTYTJ SMITH HAS 4 PARTY TIM
ATLANTA'S QUEER CITIZEN HAS
LAUNCHED ONE OF HIS OWN.
The Man Who Always Stands Up
for the Smith Family. Expects
to Draw Heavily From Tapp.


to Draw Heavily From Tapp.
| Colonel Jack Smith, one of At
lanta's most famous citizens and one
who has fought battles physical and
legal to preserve the integrity of the
Smith name, is determined to climb
into the presidential race himself.
With John Temple Graves, a former
Georgian, as candidate for vice-presi-
dent on the independence League
ticket, with Tom Watson as the can
didate of the populists, and Colonel
Sidney Tapp as the national leader
of the Radicals, Colonel Smith says
there is no reason why Georgia
should not have one more candidate.
So he will be that candidate, and he
has named his new party The Doc
dangs. The DOodang party was
launched at Palmetto Ca, where
Colonel Smith went to take part in
the exercises of the Whittier Club
With the formation of the new party
Colonel Jack Smith of Atlanta was
nominated for the presidency, and
DR.. Reuben Durrett OIL Palmetto as
his running mate.
Colonel Smith SAYS the DOOdang
platform is the real thing in the way
of first-class carpentering. He knows
because it was built according to
specifications by himself and his run
ming mate. Here are some notable
planks:
The new party demands that all
due bills be made legal tender, as
this alone will give financial re-
lief. Purity of whiskey is demand
ed, and the immediate abolition of
near beers and all limitations. Re-
duction of the tariff on diamonds.
radium, putty and pomegranates is
demanded. The aesthetic value of
vice is demanded, and citizens should
have the same inalienable rights in
choosing his habits as he has in
choosing his cigars.
The immediate squashIng of chew
ing gum is demanded More fun and
less labor is the paramount plank
and the one upon which the Dartv
expects to build up a great national
party, Pensions for pugilists. pOliti-
clans, parrots, monographs and other
public utilities is demanded. The
rights and wrongs Of women are de-
manded whenever she insists on
them The party is expected to draw
heavily from both Tapp and Preston,
the latter the socialist labor candi-
date.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
WATCHING FOR CHRIsT's STAR
Some Astronomers Consider Hallcy's
Comet, Soon Due. as Such.

Some Astronomers Consider Hallcy's
Comet, Soon Due. as Such.
Astronomers throughout the world
are greatly interested in the expected
temperance of the famous HALEY
comet and are specializing as to
when it will fash across the heavens.
Just at present this brilliant star is
rushing from somewhere in iuimita-
bic space toward the sun.
At Rochester University Prof.
Howard Minchin is not behind his
ellow-astronomers in watching for
the expected visitor, although he
holds the opinion that the comet will
not appear until the fall of 1910,
if it follows previous periodic appear
ances. 1t last appeared in 1915, be-
fore the Introduction of present as
Economical Instruments, and much is
TO depend on a view now with mod
ern instruments and modern astron-
Omers.
Another viewpoint is that the
comet, or star, is supposed to be the
same star of Bethlehem which guild
ed the wise men to the stable in
which Christ was born. The exact
identity of the comet with the star
of Bethlehem has not, however, been
established, and remains a matter OF
! controversy between scientists. Pro
{ fessor HALEY discovered the comet
in 1851. ...
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
GRIM STORIES THAT ARE TOLD
IN LONDON DAILY PAPERS.
Queen Makes Personal Appeal to
Persons of Wealth to Assist
the Sufferers.

Grim stories of the most terrible
poverty in London have been told in
the papers during the last few days.
and these tales are so shocking that
Queen Alexandra from Denmark has
sent a personal appeal to many per-
sons of wealth there to come to the
assistance of the sufferers. At
Bethnal Green, in the heart of East
End, were recounted some particu-
lars of the awful struggles with
gnawing hunger which a poor work
man out of employment and his wife
waged for many weeks.
The husband, George Hammers
ley, had died suddenly when a weak
ened blood vessel in his brain burst
just as he was handing over to one
Of the children the last coins in the
house that a cup of hot tea might
be ready for the mother in the street
The little one was told to get a
cents worth of tea, a cents worth
OF sugar and a cents worth of milk.
Thus the last money went.
The widow asked the coroner to
help ner that her husbands body
might not be buried in the potters
field, and was given $3.50 with the
instruction that she must use it for
food for herself and the children.
For weeks the family had lived on
S1.75 a week, of which 1925 was
spent for rent, leaving so cents for
the support of a family of seven.
Michael OLeary, a Iaborer, was
ARRESTED to taking a piece of bacon
when his wife and three children
were starving and had not tasted
food for four days. The police cor
roborated his story, and the magis-
trate moved to tears and said he
could not pass sentence upon him.
At WorkingtOn the poverty is so
great that several babies died be-
cause their starving mothers were
unable to suckle them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28

II have been somewhat costive
but Doan's Regulets gave Just the
results desired. They act mildly and
regulate the bowels perfectly
George p. Krause. sos Walnut Ave
AtoOna, Pa
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
LOST HUSBANDS ASHES.
The Valise in Which She Carried
Them Was Stolen.

A small casket containing the
ashes of her dead husband has been
lost by Mrs. Frances J. Hollis of
schenectady, n Y. It was in her
yalise that was shipped to Richmond
ma but went astray. The key to
the casket was worn by the wife
around her neck. Five years ago
Mrs. Hollis was married in Paris
She and her husband both dreaded
the thought of their bodies lying in
graves after death, and they made a
compact that the body of the one who
died first should be cremated and the
ashes kept in the possession of the
survivor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
Woman Interrupts Political snoa,,o,

A well dressed woman interruntod
political speaker recently by con-
tnually coughing. If she had talyon
Foley $ Honey and Tar it would have
cured her cough quickly and evneIlod
the cold from her system. The a ,eJ1
uine Foley's Honey and Tar contoin.
no opiates, and is in a yellow necl,
age Refuse substitutes. Dawson
Drug CO. and Peoples Drug Stora
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
Howl
Gain Flesh

Persons have been known to
gain a pOunda dayby takingan
ounce of Scott S Emulsion. 1t
is strange, but it often happens.
Somehow the ounce produces
the pound; it seems to start
the digestive machinery going
properly, so that the patient is
able to digest and absorb his
ordinary food which he could
not do before, and that is the
way the gain is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health; if you
have not got it you can get it
by taking
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
NATIONS CROP WEALTH
Some Statistics Which Show
Where the Country Stands.
FIGURES GO INTO MILLIONS

We Produce More Corn Than Al
Other Countries of the World
Combined, and One-Fifth of Al
the Wheat. Some Exports.
The United States annually pro
duces more corn than all other coun.
tries of the world ombined-2,9 27,-
100000 out of 3,888,OOe,OOO bush
els.
The United States annually pro-
duces more wheat than any other
country in the world-634,O00,O 900
out of 3,1O8.OO0.0OO bushels.
The United States annually ex-
ports more wheat -four than all the
other countries of the world COM
bined-15, 100000 out of 2G,0O0,000
bushels.
The United States annually ex-
ports more wheat, including wheat
-four, than any other country in the
world-146,0 100000 out of 646,000,-
600 bushels.
The United States annually pro-
duces more oats than any other coun-
try in the world-754,O00,0 600 out of
3,582, 100000 bushels.
The United States is the third
largest annual producer of barley in
the world, 1853, 100000 bushels
only 100000 bushels less than
Germany with Russia leading.
The United States annually pro-
duces more cotton than all the other
countries of the worlds, 100000
out of 20,000.000 bales. and also ex-
ports more cotton than does all the
rest of the world-9, 100000 out of
100000 bales.
The United States annually ex-
ports more COttOnseed oil than all the
other countries of the world COM
bined AZ, 100000 out of 100000
gallons
The United States annually pro-
duces more tobacco than any other
country in the world-69O.0O0,OO
out of 201.000,000 pounds.
The United States annually pro-
duces more wayseed than anv other
country in the WORLDS .00O. GOO out
of 87,000.000 bushels.
The United States annually pro-
duces more hops tuan any other
country IN the world-57 600. 900 out
of 211, 100000 mounds.
The United States annually ex-
ports more Oilcake and oilcake meal
than any other country in the world
-2.063,00O,000 out of 4,913,OOO,-
600 pounds.
The United States annually ex-
ports more rosin than all the other
countries of the world-717.OOO.OO
out of S46,000,O00 pounds.
The United States annually ex-
ports more spirits of turpent'ne than
all the other countries OF the world
100000 out of 24,000.0OO gal
Ions.
The United States has more (22.-
244.446) dairy cows than any other
country in the world more horses.
23,O00,532; more mules. 4.O56,399;
more swine, 57976.361: and Tex
cent British India) more cattle. 73.-
246573.
Among our other great crops may
be mentioned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28
A FOUR FOOT WATERMELON.
n Washington Farmer Has Grown
LARGEST One EVcr known.


The largest melon ever grown, so
far as can be ascertained, has been
raised by Skies Young on his irri-
gated farm near Yakima, Wash. He
carried the big melon to town to
have it photographed beside his 20
year-old daughter
The melon is more than four feet
long and is three feet through at it's
biggest diameter. It's weight is 1876
pounds. 1t will be shipped to an
eastern city to be used in advertising
purposes for the irrigated regions
of Washington.
Young says he raised the specimen
by careful attention and by a method
which he does not care to disclose
until he has tested it next season.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-29
Col cummins to Retire.

The Army and Navy Journal Of June
20 has the followings
"Col Albert s. Cummings. coast ar,
tillery, q. S. A., who retires July TO-
1908, upon his own application, is q
native OF Michigan and graduate Of
the Z. $. M. A., class Of 1878. when
he was assigned as second leuten-
ant to the 4th artillery. During his
service he was on duty in the seventies
at different posts in California, and
while on frontier duty at Camp Robin.
son, Neb,, in 1876, took part in the
Powder river expedition. He has sery-
ed a. professor Of military science and
tactics at the university Of Vermont
and at Forts Adams, Monroe, Warren,
Mcpherson, Governors island and other
posts. He served as A. d. G. TO Major
General Kruger part Of 1896 and 'o7, and
as a captain in the 4th artillery in 1898
took in the campaign against Santiago,
Cuba with siege artillery, and in the
bombardment and surrender OF that
city lie served in the Philippine cam.
paign az lieutenant colonel and colonel
81 the 9th u. S. volunteers in 1880 to
1901 He is a graduate of the U. S. ar
tillery school, class of 1854, and reach
ed the grade Of colonel January rs,
1907 He would not have retired for age
until July 10, 1915,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-29
MANY WOMEN HURT IN rIP-ovER
Were Members of Party Of Club wom-
en- Attending Convention in Bos-

Boston, June 27.--Four Massachusetts
women, three of them from Maiden,
we're injured when tallyho tipped
over on Bath road, Newport, yesterday
afternoon.
The women, members Of the party
of womens clubs which were having an
excursion, were;
Mrs. Eva J. Flynn of Maiden, seri.
ously injured.
Miss Mabel Benjamin of Maiden.
Airs. Charles N, Peabody Of 03 Haw.
thorn street, Maiden.
Mrs. Davenport Of Watertown.
The women are at the Newport hos
Pital
A party Of IA Of the exeuraionists
had been on long tallyho ride on
Ocean drive, and shortly after / o'clock
we're going swiftly down Bath road on
their way to olambake on Saston's
Beach
The left forward wheel Of the tally,
10 suddenly caught Ia an electric cur
track and broke off.
The vehicle crashed over throwing
all the women to the ground The four
who were injured fell under the 9TH
trs and were unconscious when the rest
picked themselves up.
Dr. Eeroyd was called and the injured
taken at once TO the hospital.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-29
THE THAMES.
The Lower and Upper Reaches Of Eng
lands Royal River.

The charm of the Thames, as of Eng
land, is the fusion Of shadowy past
with an actual present. The mere
name Of the royal river summons up
ghostly pageants Of state, dropping
down from Windsor to Chelsea or White
hall; its music murmurs through all
English poetry--this "Silver-footed
Thames" this eSweet Thames" which
runs SO softly in the immortal bridal
song. Down all its two hundred flowing
miles from Thames Head to the
Nore--it is an open scroll of history and
legend, which he may read who will. In
deed it is pleasant--"in barge with
branches beautifed drife there like
the old poet.
Where the upper Thames flows l do
not know that much has changed. To.
day the waterway belongs to democ
racy. On bank holidays, even on sun
days, it is swarmed over by Kipps and
his friends; but there are many aristo,
cratic miles and river luxury has never
been higher nor more accomplished. How
many river clubs there are | know not;
ror can you count the house-boats, the
bungalows, the teahouse boats, the
score and one luxurious features of
river life. Within the last ten years
the Thames has taken on a great deal
of the Old-World air of pagneantry.
Those were the days Of tents and pic
tiee-and in memory ] seen myself
trudging with hampers and bottles while
(notably one who is now another'sl
laughed unkindly. Now You lunch at
a club, now you pull up at a teahouse
boat; now everything is done for you
and YOU merely pay. But one thing has
not changed. the most beautiful portion
& the river is the seven miles from
Naidenhead to NARROW Locke-From
Che Woodlands Of Taplow, Cliveden
Eedsor to the Quarry woods.-From
Vance Thompson, in The Outing Maya
zine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-29
rRouBLE wIrH eYpsY BAND.
People Of Stamford Engage in Lively
Controversy.

Bennington June 20. Stamford is
quiet little Vermont town, about five
miles north Of North Adams, but that
quietude was broken Saturday when.
several Of the inhabitants of the town
had exciting experiences with band
ci Brazilian gypsies, who attempted to
set up camp within the borders of the
town. The band consisted OF about 20
men and women and 10 children, the
youngest Of whom was but three days
old. When the gypsies reached STAN
ford, after going through North Adams
from WilIiamstown, they released 10
horses in the pasture OF Edward Ward
we'll Mfr. Wardwell offered objections
to this caper on the part Of the happy
tourist band but this was to no avail
He presented his grievance to Sheriff
Morrissey, the guardian of the peace
Of the law-loving Vermont village, and
he IN turn delegated Constable seegar
ID 70 to the gypsy camp with some men
He did 50, and was met with such an
afTrontery of resistance on the part of
The gypsies that he was forced to re-
treat, taking with him at he did SO two
valuable horses, the property Of the in
truders.
These were held IN pound at the
Paradise house until the gypsies acquies
aed and agreed to settle for the trouble
they had heaped upon the Stamford
people. 1t is understood that Stamford
man By the name of Sanford had a
unique experience with one of the wom-
en-, She was reading his fortune on the
lines of his hand, and at the same time
stealtbly extracted SO from his coat
pocket. Daniel Morrissey had tus
sic with one Of the fomen members Of
The band in his store. She came into
the store with the three.days-od baby,
and he experienced considerable diff
Guilty in getting her to take the baby
out with her, as she demonstrated dis
position to leave it there.