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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
A SIMPLE REMEDY
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Make it up for Yourself from a
Specialists Formula.

We publish below the formula of
an expert stomach specialist, whose
fee for diagnosis and prescription is
$500.
Anyone is free to use this formula
and make the medicine up for him
self at home. 1t is said to be marvel
ously curative in severe cases of in
digestion and dyspepsia, especially
where there is an excess of gas on
the stomach. On the other hand, it is
free from harmful ingredients and
will not injure the most delicate us
sues. While immediate relief is to be
expected, it is recommended that the
treatment be continued for three
weeks in order to guarantee a COM
plete cure.
Get from your druggist p OF. So
dunn phosphate, OF. essence seal
mint. Take an s ounce " pint)
bottle with a good cork, fill it nearly
full of hot water; then put the u OF.
sodium phosphate in and add u tea.
spoonful of good baking soda. Let
stand until cool, and add l OF. es-
sence sealmint, and shake we'll Take
two teaspoOnfuls before each meal.
1t is said that nearly 80 per cent.
of all indigestion and dyspepsia is
due to fermentation of food in the
stomach. This prescription is de-
signed to cOunteract that, to stimu-
late the digestive secretions, and to
regulate the movements of the bow
els. Certainly, unless it possessed
remarkable virtue it would have been
impossible for the originator of it to
have won such high reputation in
his profession, for he uses it in nine
tenths of the cases that come before
him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
MONEY WASTED FOR POSTAGE.
Thousands of Dollars in Stamps
Thrown Away Every Year.


Thrown Away Every Year.
IF we waste other things the way
we do stamps" said a stamp clerk
the other day, I'VE Americans are
just about the most wasteful people
on the face of the earth.
''Umcle Sam is much. more than
half a million dollars in pocket ey-
cry year as a result of carelessness
in the use of stamps. The govern
ment never loses anything by such
careleSsnesS. and always gains.
How many stamps do you nut
loose In drawer of your desk or in
corner of your pocket-book and
never think of again until you come
across them, aged and torn, while
rummaglng about months later
Then they are tossed into the waste
| basket
Lots of people are careless about
putting stamps on envelopes and pa
| per wrappers. The result is that
often before the stamp has been can
celled it has fallen off and the letter
is held up at the other end of the
line until postage is paid.
"A great many more folks put on
too much postage. They slap on two
or three stamps to a package that re-
qulres only one. They are too busy
or too indolent to take the trouble
to have the package wtighed and
find out how much postage the pack
age requires.
IF too little postage is put on a
letter Uncle Sam simply holds it nm
at the other end until the postage
due has been paid. But if too much
Is put on Uncle Sam simply pockets
the excess to which he is not en-
titled and says nothing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
M.O-NA MEANS STOMACH
COMFORT.
1t Is of Special Value to Many Here
i'm Dawson.

1t Is of Special Value to Many Here
in Dawson.
A notable discovery, and one that
appeals especially to many here in
Dawson, is the combination of stom-
ach help in the Ai-o-na treatment
This preparation works wonders in
eases of indigestion or weak stom-
Rch..
1t acts directly upon the walls of
the stomach and bowels, strengthen
ing and stimulating them so that
they readily take care of the food
that is eaten without distress or sui
feTing.
So positive are the good effects
foEOwing tire use Mona THAI the
remedy is sold by Dawson Drug Co.
and Peoples Drug Store under ar
absolute guarantee to- refund the
money if it fails to cure. A 5O-eent
box of Mona will do the good the
stomach needs, which is simply to
make it do it's own work
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
500 MEN SMOKE AT CHURCH
There Were Pipes and Cigars and
Vaudeville and Straight Talk
by the Pastor.

An Atlantic City dispatch to the
New York World says: Five hun
dred men packed the new Mems
church Sunday night and pulled CT
gars and pipes furnished by the Rev.
Sydney Goodman during the sermon,
which was sandwiched between a
special entertainment also provided
by the pastor of new ideas.
Moving pictures, stereopticon
views illustrating the parallels, and
singing by professionals who volun-
teered from beach front cafes and
theatres made up the remainder of
the programme.
God never looks on a man as
down and OUT" declared DR.. Good
man; there is more God than devil
in every man, and it is only necessa-
ry to give him the proper opportuni-
ty to bring it out"
The audience appl&uded wildly.
The Mems church, for which spe-
.cial quarters have been made in a
new parish hall alongside the church
of which Dr. Goodman is assistant
rector, is two weeks old, and prom
ises to equal in popularity the Mems
Club, another creation of DR.. Good
man, which has 1000 members from
all walks of life.
The meeting hall has stage on
which there is piano, and the con-
tributions taken up pay for cigars,
pipes and tobacco. Conservative
members of the big church who at
first objected to the smoking and the
entertainment have been won over
by the success of the idea. and larger
quarters Will probably be obtaMled
to accommodate the crowds drawn
by the novel methods.
Bankers and bar-tenders, prOrni-
nent business men and labOrers rub
elbows at every service.
The happy minister claims that he
WIFI have an audience that will fiji
the largest hall in the city at tire
services which are to be conducted
every Sunday night
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
PAID $4,000, BUT STAYS BLIND.
Two Women Sharpers Swindle an
Afflicted Woman.

Mrs. Leonora Pierce, aged r9, and
Miss Greyta Fulner, % years, have
been arrested in Denver on the
charge of having obtained nearly
$4,000 from Mrs Harriet Grove of
Dillon, Mont, 81 years old and Blind,
by falsely inducing her to believe
they were restoring her sight by
means of spirituaIistic treatment.
Mrs. Pierce was introduced to- Mrs
Grove by spiritualist about a year
ago, and later Miss Fulmer was in
trOduced as Mrs. Pierce's assistant.
They would talk with Mrs. Grove for
hours at a time, convincing her that
her eyesight was returning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
INCOMEAND OUTGO PROBLEM
APPROPRIATIONS MADE ON BA-
SIS OF INCREASED VALUES.
Returns Are Showing Big Slump, and
to Make Both Ends Meet Is Ques-
ton That viii Confront State.

Returns Are Showing Big Slump, and
to Make Both Ends Meet Is Cues
ton That Will Confront State.
Capitol officials are seriously dis
cussing the problem that they insist
is going to confront Georgia next
year of how to make both ends meet
or in other words how to make the
states income balance with it's eX-
penditures.
Appropriations for 1908 and 1909
were made last summer by the pres
ent legislature on the basis of a
comfortable increase in the state S
taxable property for both years. In
1907 there was the largest single
years increase in returns the state
has ever known. Prosperity ran
high, or seemed to, and there was
no apparent reason why the increase
should not continue.
Accordingly the legislature went
ahead and appropriated not on a
basis of known income, but upon a
basis of prospects. For example,
public schools were given S2,OOO,OOO
for 1908 and $2,250,OJO for 1909,
although the annual appropriation
prior to that time had never exceed
ed $1,800,O00, including school in
come from every possible source.
There was likewise an increase in
number of other appropriations.
When Governor Smith went into
Office he found he had to raise the
tax rate to the constitutional limit
of S mills in order to meet the ex-
penses for 1907, and upon the basis
of the largest returns the state had
ever known. Not only that, but
he had to get the legislature
to pass a bill making the pay
ment of pensions to confed-
crate veterans quarterly instead of
in an annual lump sum, a step which
he declared necessary in order to
enable the state to meet it's obliga-
tions accruing early in the year
And now to cap the climax, follow
ing the panic, tax returns have begun
to fall off wholesale as compared
with last year. There is every indi-
cation that instead of an increase
this year the total returns will show
a marked decrease-a poor prospect
for raising sufficient income to pay
debts created upon the basis of a
hoped-for growth in returns.
Tax returns from the large corpor-
atoms now reaching the controller
general are showing a falling off as
with last year of anywhere
from 10 to 40 per cent, and all the
received leads to the
belief that there will be considera-
bic reductions, though probably not
so large, in the general property re-
turns,
The constitution does not permit a
higher tax rate than mills. Con-
sequentIy, unless the legislature
should see fit to trim some of the
it has made, the bal
ancing of expenditures with income
during the next year or two at least
promises to be problem that will
remain unsofved.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
IS CHRISTIANITY DECAYING =?
SCI ASKS A BAPTIST EXPOUNDER
OF THE FAITH.
All Denominations Experience Losses
in Members, and New York City
Takes Lead With a Million.

All Denominations Experience Losses
in Members, and New York City
Takes Lead With Million.
The pastor of the Fifth Avenue
BAPTIST church, New York city, Rev.
DR.. Charles f. Aked, who came to its
direction from a London pulpit, in
his sermon Sunday said;
When | first came to this great
city of New York, the center of en-
pire, it's broad avenues thrOnged
with eager, strenuous crowds, pulsat-
ing with energy and hope, l saw the
bouyancy of American people. |
learned of their hope and endeavor
and electric activity Now ! yant to
learn the signs of the times. What
is the condition of christianity in
New York? When l interview my
parshioners, and they are among the
most representative in the city, l
find the spirit of religious depres-
sion very unlike the spirit of abound
ing enterprise in business, in manu-
featuring, in engineering and con-
stTuctiOn.
Some Big Losses.
To turn to that mighty religious
organization, the Catholic church, to
which over 100000 New Workers
give fealty, even there the losses are
heavy. / think the church is doing
a magnificent work, but with all it's
enthusiasm and rallying force it does
not nor ever did hold it's own in this !
city or in the nation at large. There |
are about 100000 Catholics in |
continental United States. Now in |
our immigration for 90 years back |
no less than 100000 were Catho- |
lies. If all remained loyal to it's te-
nets they would number 100000 |
now instead of 100000.
The Protestants have lost ground !
too, When--the filling up of the coun- !
try is counted Our own denomina-
ton, the Baptist, reflects the general |
trend. The increase among the Ban |
lists OF America has been equal to !
only one-fourth of the birth rate !
among us, proving that three out of |
tour OF our Baptist population have |
fallen away from us. We have in
this city 10000 Baptists. If we held |
all that was coming to us we should |
nave had at least 10000. All the |
christian churches in city and coun-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
Valued Same as Gold

b. G. Stewart, a merchant of Ce-
dar View, Miss says: tell my Gus
toners when they buy a box of Dr
Kings New Life Pills they get the
worth of that much gold in weight
II afflicted with constipation. malaria
or 0lllousness." Sold under guaran-
tee by Dawson Drug Co. 25 cents
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27
Terrible to Contemplate.

Uncle HardaCre-I believe in gov
eminent ownership of all mon0pol
lies, especially the railroads.
Uncle Backache-T dunno bout
that Ever stop to think what the
conductors d be like if they had the
hull army and navy backin' 'em up?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-27

Insist upon DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. There are substitutes, but
there is only one original. Tt is heal
ing, soothing and cooling, and is, es-
pecially good for piles. Sold by Daw-
son Drug Co.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
A Surprise For St. KiIda.

The inhabitants of the lonely isle OF
st. Kilda were astonlshed one winter
some years ago at the appearance OF a
great blood red, conical object floating
on the wild Atlantic pillows to the
westward Of the isle. With much diff
Guilty the derelict was brought to shore,
and as the st. Kildans had never be-
fore seen such a queer looking thing
and could make no guess as to Its pur-
pose or place in the scale of created
things they INDUCED In wild visions
Of its valuable nature. But when the
factor came across on his yearly visit
from the neighboring but distant Is
land Of Great Britain he Identified II
as q great iron buoy which. 1t SUISSE
quently appeared, had broken away
from its moorings in New York narbor
and drifted in the gulf stream across
the Atlantic. 1t had taken two years
In the passage.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
Swiss Naval Wars.

References to the Swiss navy are
usually jocular, but 1t is none the less
a fact that ships of war once foated
and even fought on the waters OF the
lake of Geneva. The great feet was
that Of the Duke Of Savoy, who at the
beginning of the fourteenth century
maintained number OF war galieys
armed with rams and protected ny
turrets and propelled by q crew OF
oarsmen varying In number from faf-
ty to seventy-two. These vesseis DE.
sieged versoix and even blocKadea
Geneva. But Geneva also had neet
which helped In the capture OF Cnilon
In 1886, and when the Bernese an
nexed the canton of Vaud they, TOO,
had their fiotilla. Their largest Vessei
was the Great Bear. with GA oarslhel'
6 guns and $50 fighting men.
minister Gazette.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
IMPORTANT REGULATIONS

Two acts passed by the Legisla-
ture of 1908, the one an act entl-
tied:
Gan act to prevent the manufac-
ture of sale of adulterated, mis-
branded, poisonous or deleterious
foods or liquors, and to repeal an
act to prevent the sale of adulterat-
ed and mis-brandcd feeds in the
State of Virginia"
The other:
"An act concerning the appoint
fment of a Dairy and Food Commits
sioner within the Department OF
Agriculture and immigration and
imposing penalties for its VIOLA
ton"
These acts are intended to regu-
late the sale of food products for
man and beast, and have for their
purpose the protection of the con-
sumner from adulterated, mis-brand-
ed, impure and unwholesome foods,
and the guarding against imposl-
ton by the INSCRIPTIONS manufac-
turer or dealer in the sale of feed
ing stuffs for cattle, and to give to
the consuming public the assurance
that it is receiving that for which
it pays.
Provision is also made for in
spection of diaries, bakeries and ice
cream establishments, the purpose
being to protect consumers from
unsanitary conditions which might
exist about such places.
The execution of these laws has
been placed with the Dairy and
Food Commissioner, whose office is
in Richmond, Va.
The law provides for the pay
ment of a tax or license fee by the
manufacturer or dealer offering for
sale in the State feeding stuffs, con-
ditional foods and cattle powders
for cattle, and a license fee for
creameries, diaries; milk stations,
etc., doing business in the State,
and provides penalties for failure to
comply with it's provisions, it is,
therefore, suggested that all deal
ers and manufacturers of food pro-
ducts and cattle feeds, condiment-
al feeds and cattle powders, and
proprietors of diaries, ETC., acquaint
themselves with the provisions of
these statutes, copies Of which can be
had from the office of State Dairy
and Food Commissioner, Rich
mond, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
THE MYSTERY or SLEEP.
No Man Knows When the Moment OF
Inconsistencies Comes.

No Man Knows When the Moment OF
Inconsistencies Comes.
There is a remarkable fact connected
with sleep which must not be over
looked. This sleep Of human being,
f we are not too busy to attend to the
natter, always evokes certain feeling
If awe. Go into room where a per-
son is sleeping, and 1t Is difficult to
resist the sense that one Is in the pres
ence of the central mystery of exist
ence. People who remember how con-
stantly they see old Jones asleep In
the club library will smile at this, but
look quietly and alone even at old
Jones and the sense of mystery will
soon develop.
1t is no good to say that sleep Is only
moving" because 1t looks like death.
The person who is breathing so loudly
as to take away all thought Of death
causes the sense Of awe quite as easily
as the silent sleeper who hardly seems
to breathe.
We see death seldom, but were 1t
more familiar we doubt If a corpse
would inspire so much awe as the I'M
conscious and sleeping fgure-a smH-
ing, irresponsible doll, flesh and blood,
but doll to whom in a second may
be called proud, active, controlling
consciousness which will ride his bodi-
ly and his mental horse with a hand
Of iron, which will force that body to
endure toll and misery and will make
that mind, now wandering in paths or
fantastic folly, grapple with some great
problem or throw all its force into tho
ruling, the saving or the destruction
Of mankind. The corpse Is only SO
much bone, muscle and tissue; the
sleeping body is the house which a
quick and eager master has only left
for an hour or so.
Let any one who thinks sleep Is not
mystery try to observe In himself
the process by which sleep comes and
to notice how and when and under
what conditions he loses consciousness.
He will, of course, utterly fail to put
his finger on the moment Of sleep COM
ing, but in striving to get as close as
he can to the phenomena Of sleep he
will realize how great is the mystery
which he Is trying to fathom.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
MURDERED bY ITALIANS

One man murdered ahothef seria
ously injured was the result Of
peaceable citizens trying to quiet a
drunken mob of Italians at Spruce
last Sunday afternoon about five
o'clock. The particulars as we
learn them are as follows:
A number of Italians working for
the West Virginia Spruce Lumber
Co., at Spruce, this county, receiv-
ed quantity of whiskey Saturday
and took it to- their camp for a
Sunday spree as is their usual Gus
tom. Late in the afternoon the
foreigners got in a fight among
themselves and Joe Hannah, sup
erintendent Of the works, went
among them trying to get them
quiet. Several of them became en-
ragged at Mr.. Hannah and followed
him to the Office some distance
away. The Italian entered the
office and on account of his abusive
language was elected by Mr.. Han
nah. The italian became infuriat-
ed and rushed at Mr.. Hannah with
club and struck at his head, the
blow being warded off but the Ital-
| ian followed him on in the office
and made several attempts to kill
him with a knife. Had it not been
for assistance Hannah would
no doubt have been killed. The
door was closed and secured and
the Italian bound hand and foot.
Several other Italians on the out
side began demolishing the
Office. Hannah attempted to use
his gun on the foreigners but it was
an automatic weapon and he did
not know how to work it. About
this time Walter Avis, another
employe of the company, came on
the scene and was set upon by six
or eight foreigners with clubs and
before help could arrive they had
beaten his head to a pulp. Death
was almost instantaneous. Three
of the assailants were captured
at Mingo the following morning and
one was captured near Boyer Mon
day evening. One of the principles
was still at large up to the time OF
going to press, but is somewhere in
the woods between Greenbank and
Dunmore. The eight who were
captured were brought to jail here
Tuesday evening and have been in
dicted for murder in the first de-
gree. Their case will probably come
up this afternoon. Feeling is very
high over the attrocious act of the
foreigners and they will not likely
escape the gallows.
Young Avis was a son of c. L.
Avis, of Alta, Greehbrier county,
and was about "a years of age. He
had been in the employ of the West
Virginia Spruce Lumber Co. about
three years and was one of the
most popular young men in the
employ of the company.-Marlin-
ton M essenger.
|
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12

The bill passed by the last Con-
gress prohibiting labor by children
under fourteen years of age and
imposing a penalty on those who
employ them, is a mischievous bill,
and the entire argument of it is
that parents do not know how to
raise their children, and the infer
ence is that there is not enough
race suicide. 1t is really meas
ure for the promotion of vagrancy,
although it is all done in the name
of reform and morality. Senti-
mentalism and hysteria are all too
evident in recent legislation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
NEW POSTAL LAW

A newspaper publisher has re-
Gently brought suit against 45 men
who would not pay their subscrip-
tons, obtaining judgment in each
claim, and of those % made affida-
Wit that they owned no more than
the law allowed, thus preventing
attachment. Then under the deci-
sion of the supreme court they were
arrested for petit larceny and
bound over in the sum of $500
each. All but six gave bond, while
six went to Jail. The new postal
law makes it larceny to take a pa
per and refuse to pay for it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12

Banks in which funds of the gov
eminent are deposited must hereaf-
ter pay interest for the use OF such
funds, under the terms of the new
currency law. An exception is
made in the case Of those national
banking associations designated as
regular depositaries, in which gov
ernment funds are placed strictly
for use in the governments own
expenses. The rate of interest
chargeable is to be not less than
/ per cent, and as much more as
the Secretary of the Treasury may
deem proper. For the present,
however, the probable rate OF in
terest will be per cent. a year. In
the banks designated as regular de-
positaries the government deposits
funds to carry on necessary eXpen-
ditures of the government in vari-
Gus parts of the country.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-12
This ID The saasen d year when

This ID The seasea d yeae when
The Highlahder's peace flows As q
river and his content1hent abounds
as the waves of the sea. The only
concern that he feels is that OF pity
and sympathy for the sweltering,
painting masses elsewhere, and he
grieves because his little mountain
world is not big enough for, and &C
cessible to all. Summer in the
mountains! Could it be made
perpetual, none would ever leave
and all would want to come! The
mountain air is purer, clearer, and
freer; the springs are cooler; the
grass grows greener; the cattle get
sleeker; the bird song is sweeter;
every mountain breeze is ladened
with fragrance of the wild honey
suckle and rhododendron; there is
soft, whispering melody in the
ripple and purl of the mountain
stream. Yes, summer in the noun
tains of Highland is akin to para.
disc, and where happiness and con
tentment are wanting, either the
liver is torpid or the conscience
troubled.